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Contents Departments 5 | Editor’s Desk 6 | Current An elusive black hole discovered ◆ the brandrelationship connection ◆ a teacher finds her swing on the Seacoast ◆ and much more 64 | Class Notes Joan Ferrini-Mundy ’75, ’77G, ’80G Patrick Sweeney ’89

92 | In Memoriam Ronald Shaw ’63 Madelyn “Molly” Bowen Connelly ’84 Christine Loeber ’91

UNH MUSEUM COLLECTION, GIFT OF CHET GADZINSKI ’53

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18 | Family Man James W. Dean Jr. brings impeccable academic credentials to his new role as UNH’s 20th president.

But it might be Dean’s strong family ties that best explain why he is the perfect fit for UNH.

26 | The Campaign That Could To some, $275 million seemed like a long shot.

Propelled by the generosity and vision of thousands of Wildcats, CELEBRATE 150 raised more than $300 million — a historic effort that will help write UNH’s bright future.

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WELCOME TO WILDCAT COUNTRY More than 3,000 members of the class of 2022, hailing from 37 states and 13 countries, launched their UNH adventures during first-year move-in on Aug. 24.

Editor-in-Chief Kristin Waterfield Duisberg Art Director and Designer Valerie Lester Designer and Illustrator Loren Marple ’13 Class Notes Editor Jennifer Saunders

Contributing and Staff Writers Jennifer Crompton ’82 Karen Hammond ’64 Debbie Kane Dave Moore Robbin Ray ’82 Jody Record ’95 Jennifer Saunders Contributing and Staff Photographers Ryan Donnell Jeremy Gasowski Valerie Lester Loren Marple ’13 Alex Nguyen ’19 Lisa Nugent Scott Ripley Michele Stapleton David Vogt

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For his profile on James W. “Jim” Dean Jr., writer Jim Graham says it was easy to find great character references for UNH’s new president. But the one that stood out?

Teddy Hagen, Dean’s two-year-old grandson.

The warm, joyful relationship Teddy and his granddad share typifies the closeness that Jim Dean and his wife, Jan Dean, nurture in their family. It also reflects Dean’s passion for encouraging young people. Graham, manager of UNH leadership communications, joined UNH in 2008 after more than 20 years as a New Hampshire journalist.

Early mornings and on weekends, he can be found mountain biking, hiking and Nordic skiing, often with his wife, their two future Wildcats, ages 14 and 16, and their Alaskan malamute, Toko.

Publication Board of Directors James W. Dean Jr. President, University of New Hampshire Debbie Dutton Vice President, Advancement Mica Stark ’96 Associate Vice President, Communications and Public Affairs Susan Entz ’08G Associate Vice President, Alumni Association Patrick Closson ’95 President, UNH Alumni Association

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Laura Chisholm stepped into her current role as the brand manager for advancement just as CELEBRATE 150: The Campaign for UNH was going public. She’s been excited to be part of a historic undertaking at the university and is, of course, thrilled that it was so successful. “Working on portions of the campaign report in this issue really brought home for me the impact that donors have at the individual and institutional level,” she says. The parent of a 2017 COLA graduate, Chisholm proudly played her part in helping the college make the leaderboard for participation in this year’s (603) Challenge.

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pages we have here to tell every humid afternoons. The Deans’ story behind this $308 million, unflagging good cheer surely reflect the 21 years they spent in Wildcat-world-wide effort, but I trust we have done more than North Carolina, but I suspect is indicative also of how easily they merely scratch the surface.

As you know, when we manage heat in other forms. redesigned UNH Magazine I took a decidedly more active in 2016, we eliminated the role on the issue’s CELEBRATE 150 wrapup, as Laura Chisholm “View from T-Hall” in favor of this column. The intent was and I worked together to bring always to leave this space you the stories of the largest open to other voices, and with and most successful fundraisa new president in T-Hall, it ing campaign in UNH’s history. may well be time to deliver on When I started at UNH 10 that premise. In a future issue, years ago, this campaign — the you can expect to hear from university’s first truly public President Dean directly. For fundraising effort — was a now, however, I hope you enjoy mere glimmer on the horizon. hearing about him.

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or this issue’s feature story introducing UNH’s 20th president, James W. Dean Jr., I had the easy part. As manager of leadership communications, it made sense for Jim Graham to cover the story, just as he did our farewell to 19th president Mark Huddleston. I got to serve as Jim’s cheering section as he wrote and revised, making his way through a wealth of material uniformly extolling President Dean’s virtues as a leader and individual to find the beating heart of his story.

I later got to sit with President Dean and his wife, Jan, as photographer Jeremy Gasowski shot the images that grace our cover and the story spreads. It’s hard to tell from the photos, but our shoot took place on one of the summer’s hottest and most

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Current A Hungry Hole Serendipity, data serve up compelling clues in the search for a hard-to-identify black hole

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ike a sneaky late-night snacker whose midnight munchies are exposed by a missing slice of pizza, an elusive type of black hole has recently been discovered by space scientists — thanks to the disappearance of a nearby star. Astrophysicists have long suspected that our universe is home to intermediate-mass black holes, but their existence has proven considerably harder to document than their small and super-massive counterparts. In June, UNH Space Science Center research assistant professor Dacheng Lin published a paper in Nature Astronomy that provides the strongest evidence to date that these middle-of-the-road black holes do exist, based on data captured as one devoured a star that encountered its gravitational field.

A black hole is a region of space with such strong gravitational pull that nothing — not even electromagnetic radiation such as light — can escape from inside it. Because no light can get out, black holes are invisible, and they can be “seen” only by documenting their effect on surrounding objects. Beginning in October 2003, Lin used satellite imagery to measure an enormous radiation flare that decayed over the course of a decade in exactly the manner that would be expected of a star being consumed by an intermediate-mass black hole. Earlier research — including Lin’s own work — had pointed toward similar events, but they were either caught too far into the star’s destruction to provide reliable data or were too far away for available instruments to measure accurately.

“We feel very lucky to have spotted this object with a significant amount of high-quality data, which helps us pinpoint the mass of the black hole and understand the nature of this spectacular event,” Lin says.

Lin and his fellow space scientists have worked hard to find mid-sized black holes because confirmation of their existence is important in astrophysics. “But there are very, very few that we know of,” he says, “because they are normally unbelievably quiet and very hard to detect, and energy bursts from encountering stars being shredded happen so rarely.”

The combination of luck and persistence that led to finding this particular intermediate-mass black hole suggests to Lin and his colleagues that there could be many more out there, lurking dormant in galaxies across the universe. Finding them is a matter of the stars lining up just right. ² —Robbin Ray ’82

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SUSTAINABILITY RULES Add the Sierra Club to another ranking organization to offer praise for UNH. This one is pretty cool: the grassroots environmental group has named the university No. 2 out of 269 on its 2018 Cool Schools list. That’s a jump of 19 spots from 2017. The ranking recognizes UNH’s national leadership in sustainability and commitment to protecting the environment, addressing climate issues and encouraging environmental responsibility through such actions as using 100-percent renewable energy to power our main campus, composting 25,000 pounds of dining hall food waste each month and being the largest provider of public transit in the state.

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SWING TIME Rye teacher’s year-long project is about more than building boats

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here is a rowing term in the book “The Boys in The Boat,” the 2013 Daniel James Brown best-seller about the Depressionera University of Washington crew team, that stuck with Robin Ellwood ’85, ’93G, ’13G: swing. It referred to moments on the water when the rowers, a rag-tag group of underdogs who won a national championship and a gold medal at the 1936 Olympics in Nazi Germany, worked in near-perfect synchronization, propelling

their boat faster and more Finding smoothly than they had imagined possible.

Her “I was inspired by the idea of ‘finding your swing,’” says Ellwood, who earned her undergraduate degree in zoology and both a master’s degree and a doctorate in education and heads up the STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and Award for Excellence in Mathematics mathematics) program at Rye Junior and Science Teaching, Ellwood had High in Rye, New been wanting to build boats with her Hampshire. So students for years. “It’s been gnawing inspired, in at me for a while,” she says. “I knew fact, that she the potential but needed the school to and other staff buy in, literally and figuratively.” members That buy-in came with “Finding Your created a project-based learning Swing.” Throughout the 2017–18 school year, the theme was used unit to explore across the curriculum in math, scihow individuals and ence, art, music and social studies groups find their swing for a number of student challenges. “in life, in performance, in Additionally, the entire school read a everything,” she says. For young-adult-readers version of “The Ellwood’s students, that meant Boys in the Boat,” and each grade level building their own boats. spent a trimester — 14 to 16 weeks — A 26-year Rye teaching veteran and building a pair of rowboats by hand. the recipient of a 2016 Presidential

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ndrew Shapiro ’21 is no stranger to world records. As a junior in high school, he set three for the number of pullups completed in various time intervals. But Shapiro knew he could do better, and this summer, he did.

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19 hours, with 7,370 in 12 hours and 5,373 in eight hours. The standing 24-hour record for pullups, according to Guinness, had been 7,600.

“The root of the inspiration was wanting to see how far I could push the limits and how far I can push myself without breaking,” the UNH sophomore says.

Shapiro began training during his freshman year, but, he says, “My classes took priority. I wanted to attend UNH because it has an

awesome marine biology program that is connected to the Shoals Marine Laboratory.” At home in Virginia for the summer, he could focus on his training. “When I trained for the records the first time, I had little knowledge or experience with it,” he says. “Training this time around has been a lot more productive because I have a better idea of how to take care of my body and prevent injury.”

His first attempt was part of his high school’s fundraiser for the American

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USA. In Poland. Michalak and her rowing par tner A shley Johnson traveled to Poznan for the World Rowing Under-23 Championships in July.

“Poland was crazy. In a way, it was just another body of water, another race, another day, but really it was so much more. I

While the supplies came in the form of a kit, Ellwood says the boats were “built from the bottom up, literally.” There were three different models, which got bigger with each grade: sixth graders built 8-foot boats, seventh graders, 10-foot boats, and eighth graders built 17-foot boats. The oars were all made from scratch.

The year-long project was documented on Ellwood’s website, Finding Your Swing, where students can be seen in the school’s basement workshop using drills and routers, applying fiberglass, epoxy, paint and varnish, and creating the oars from cypress boards. Members of the UNH crew team visited the school and talked with students about their rowing experiences, sharing video clips, stories and their thoughts about how their participation in the sport helped them find their swing on multiple levels. Rye resident Dan

wasn’t just competing for my school or club but the entire United States of A merica,” Michalak says. While the pair didn’t come away with any medals, Michalak, who will row for Syracuse University as a grad student in the fall, calls the experience “invaluable.” 

Brown, author of “The Da Vinci Code” (and no relation to Daniel James Brown), also spoke with students about how he found his swing.

Then came the test. During the culmination of the year-long “Finding Your Swing” project in May, Ellwood and her colleagues put on an event they dubbed the 2018 Rye Rowing Regatta at Rye Harbor. And while the day included three grade-specific boat races, Ellwood says the emphasis wasn’t on winning or losing.

“We learned a lot about perseverance and working together. Every single student had a hand in this project,” she says. As to whether she had any concerns about how the boats would perform, Ellwood says, “We had so much epoxy on those boats, I knew there was no way they were going to sink. They were solid.” ² — Jody Record ’95

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SYDNEY MICHALAK ’18 has a “how I spent my summer vacation” story that’s hard to top: Not long after commencement, the mechanical engineering major and four-year UNH crew team member competed in her first- ever world rowing championship. W ith Te am

GETTING THEIR MONEY’S WORTH As if students didn’t have enough good reasons to attend UNH — 200-plus majors, 11 schools and colleges, more than 250 clubs — Money magazine has gone and ranked the university among the top 100 of its Best Colleges for Your Money 2018.

Based on data gathered from the U.S. Department of Education, Peterson’s and PayScale.com, the rankings consider such factors as graduation rates, quality of education, tuition charges, family borrowing and alumni earnings.

According to Money’s calculations, about 77 percent of UNH students finish within six years — that’s 15 percent higher than schools with a similar student body.

Cancer Society while his father was battling cancer. “After I set the records and the news story got out, people from all around the country donated to my Relay for Life team,” Shapiro says.

The best part? His father beat the disease.

This time around, Shapiro raised money for the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, an international marine wildlife conservation group. “I am a marine biology major who has always looked up to their efforts,” he says. “I figured I could probably inspire people to do some good and help out the Sea Shepherds.” ² — Jennifer L. Saunders

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Something to Crow About 1. What are the other two breeds of state chickens?

Historic Hubbard chicken named N.H.’s official state poultry

2. What is the Vermont state flavor?

3. How many states have milk as their state drink?

4. What state has a state question, “red or green?”

5. What state has an official rock song?

7. What is Pennsylvania’s state toy?

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8. What three states have an official state neckwear?

9. Only one state has an official state pastry; which one?

10. What state has an official meal?

11. What state’s gemstone is technically an animal?

12. What state has an official tug-of-war?

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outh Carolina has a state spider. Montana has a state lullaby and Vermont a state flavor. Four states have wild turkeys as their game bird. Only Delaware and Rhode Island have chickens — or had, until now. On June 18, New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu signed a bill designating the New Hampshire Red, a chicken bred to withstand hard winters, as the state’s official poultry.

The measure was approved by the State Legislature in April at the urging of fourth-graders at the Canaan Elementary School. Teacher Ian Henry ’14, ’15G worked with his students to create the bill at the urging of Rep. Tim Josephson, whose daughter is in the class.

“When it was presented on the House floor, my class then had the special privilege of attending the session,” Henry says. “They were able to take part in the whole legislative process.”

A lush chestnut color, the New Hampshire Red was developed by brothers Oliver ’21, Austin ’25

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and Leslie Hubbard ’27, whose commitment to education led them throughout the years to contribute millions of dollars to UNH. Their gifts have funded scholarships as well as new programs, strengthening the university's reputation for excellence in teaching, research and public service.

The disease-resistant New Hampshire Red helped the trio grow their Walpole, New Hampshire, family farm into one of the largest poultry operations in the Northeast.

With a focus on research and development, the brothers applied advanced poultry genetics and modern management techniques to develop a superior breeding stock that provided more meat and egg protein efficiently and at lower cost. By 1974, when the business was acquired by pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co., Hubbard Farms had become a worldwide success, operating in more than 50 countries. ² —Jody Record ’95

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ou like Coke and Starbucks. Your partner likes Pepsi and Dunkin’ Donuts. Does it matter?

More than you might think, according to Danielle Brick, assistant professor of marketing at UNH’s Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics.

“Most people aren’t aware that brands and consumer behavior can influence your relationship and vice versa,” Brick explains. “In fact, these two things can even influence how happy you are.”

While the roles that religion, gender and family composition play in close relationships have long been studied, Brick’s research, which focuses on consumer behavior, is a relatively new line of inquiry — and one that’s yielding some provocative results. In one study, which looked at the correlation between brand preferences and happiness in romantic relationships, she found that brand compatibility, or preferring the same brands, can influence happiness more than other traditional forms of compatibility.

“We use brands every day,” Brick says. “Think about what toothpaste you use, what brand of coffee you like, what car you drive, even which toilet paper you use. Couples make hundreds, sometimes thousands, of brand decisions, and if you repeatedly fall on the ‘losing side’ of the

argument, you’re going to be less happy.”

In a different study, Brick highlights a phenomenon she terms oppositional brand choice — an individual’s impulse to choose a brand other than their partner’s known preference as a way to express relationship frustration: You’re mad at your partner, so you buy Scott tissues instead of her preferred Kleenex. Interestingly, Brick finds that oppositional brand choice is more commonly employed in relationships in which there is a power imbalance, and then by the partner who holds less power. And while the strategy may appear passive-aggressive, she says, it seems to work.

Brick’s research also raises questions for industry (to what extent, for example, should firms care if consumers are using their brands out of spite, because they ‘have’ to, or because they actually want to?), but the fundamental goal is to understand the factors that influence consumer wellbeing — and by extension, overall wellbeing.

“High-quality close relationships are predictive of many important outcomes such as mortality, depression and wellbeing,” she says. “It becomes important to understand what factors may influence relationships, including consumer behavior, brands and brand choices.” ²

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Do Relationships Run on Dunkin’?

PATHWAY TO COLSA In August, UNH’s College of Life Sciences and Agriculture and the Community College System of New Hampshire signed a first-of-its-kind agreement that creates a pathway for students to transfer from any of the state’s seven community colleges into any of COLSA’s 10 life sciences programs.

The new agreement prescreens some 43 biology courses, 10 chemistry courses, 15 physics courses and 19 math courses to ensure that classes taken at the state’s community colleges are equal in scope and difficulty to the same classes at UNH — which is expected to facilitate transfers’ success and ability to graduate on time. The same articulation model will soon expand to the community colleges and UNH’s College of Liberal Arts.

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KUDOS FOR ATHLETICS For the fifth year in a row, UNH earned the top spot among America East athletic teams in the 2017–18 Learfield Directors Cup Division I rankings. Billed as the crowning achievement in college athletics, the Learfield Cup quantifies academic institutions’ success across their entire athletic program by assigning points to individual teams' NCAA finish in up to 19 sports. UNH’s teams amassed a school-record 325 points to finish 71st overall, shattering the university’s previous best total of 260.5. One athlete singlehandedly earned 20 percent of UNH’s total — Elinor Purrier ’18, whose three track and field All-America finishes netted 65 points.

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aybe he’s gotten used to fielding questions about what it’s like to work with an elite athlete. Or maybe it just comes naturally to him, talking about the larger goal, the greater purpose.

Either way, when you ask UNH’s Robert Hoppler about coaching running standout Elinor Purrier ’18, he goes back and forth between ‘she’ and ‘team’ in a cadence that makes you know it’s what he believes: the 11-time All-American was one piece of a whole.

That came in part, Hoppler says, as Purrier immersed herself with her teammates, two of whom were similarly swiftfooted: Anne Twombly ’15, a 2015 All-American, and Laura Rose Donegan ’17, a three-time All-American.

“Having them all on campus at the same time was amazing.

Elle spent time with them and it became more of a group effort,” Hoppler says. “Early in her career, it was good to

have that balance, so it wasn’t just about her.”

Now in his 18th season as head coach of the women’s cross-country team, Hoppler says that he knew Purrier was talented when he recruited her, but he had no idea how good she would end up being. “Initially it was about her developing as an athlete,” he recalls. “That happened very quickly.”

Purrier qualified for the finals in the women's indoor mile at the NCAA championships four times before finally winning earlier this year. She was a freshman the first time she made the cut.

“She was on the line with some of the best runners in the world,” Hoppler says. “At that point, she didn’t have a lot of training. Watching her at the meet, I was thinking, ‘This kid is special. She has talent.’ After that it became an expansion of that talent.’’

While Hoppler says he spent many additional hours with Purrier, his coaching basics were the same as those employed with all his athletes regarding confidence, self-awareness, staying healthy and learning from disappointments. The last of these was a skill

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ead football coach Sean McDonnell ’78 has a reputation for attracting uncommon talent to Durham, but nothing quite like his recent backyard guests. In July, a pair of Mississippi kites — a species of small

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hawk rarely seen north of Virginia — took up residence in a tall pine in McDonnell’s yard, where they hatched a singleton chick.

McDonnell and his wife Jenny Sheehan became aware of the birds after

Sheehan approached a group of people with binoculars who had gathered at the end of their driveway. “They said, ‘Oh my God, it’s this very rare bird that belongs down south, and we think it had a baby and it’s in

your backyard,’” Sheehan says. According to the New Hampshire Audubon Society, Mississippi kites’ typical habitat is the region that spans from Texas to South Carolina, with rare sightings as far north as the mid-Atlantic region.

The nest in the McDonnell/Sheehan backyard, one of three

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Purrier honed after making it to the NCAA championships 10 times (a combination of indoor and outdoor track events and cross-country) without coming away with a victory.

“Initially she was just happy to be there, but probably after the fourth or fifth time she didn’t win, it got a little disappointing,” Hoppler says. “That became a challenge: learning from disappointment so she could improve the next time. I give her a lot credit for not getting discouraged.”

Hoppler also worked with the Vermont native on crafting a program, discussing tactics and creating a race plan. “In sports psychology, that’s something you’re working on all the time,” Hoppler says.

“We had lots of discussions about her success, her failings, how to improve.

There’s a lot more to it than just lacing them up, putting them on the line and saying, ‘Okay, go for it.’”

Coaching Purrier didn’t take his time away from the other runners, Hoppler says, because

in New Hampshire, drew more than 100 birdwatchers, including a group of ornithology students from Cornell University. But the hawks’ hosts may be the birds’ biggest fans of all. “The first thing Sean would say is, ‘Did you see the birds today? How are they? Where’s the baby?

Is he out of the nest?’

her schedule typically ramped up during the post-season championship period, after the majority of the team’s season ended. What’s more, he adds, she inspired her teammates, and they inspired her.

“These kids go out and run 50, 60 miles a week, 50 weeks a year. In snow, heat — they’re running. That creates a special attachment,” Hoppler says. “They become incredibly close.

You can use that as way to build a team and make people stronger.

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“The main focus is on graduating empowered, strong, motivated young women . . .

…AND ACADEMICS Learfield wasn't UNH's only exceptional program performance for the 2017-18 school year.

A league-high 80 percent of all UNH student-athletes — 158 students, representing eight of UNH's 11 winter and spring athletic teams and including 20 individuals who earned a perfect 4.0 GPA — were named to the America East Winter/Spring Academic Honor Roll. Led by the women's lacrosse team's average GPA of 3.51, UNH set a new America East GPA high-water mark of 3.35, breaking its own record of 3.31, set just last year.

. . . We spend a lot of time on that.” empowered, strong, motivated young women. We spend a lot of time on that,” Hoppler adds. “That’s what I’m most proud of. The byproduct is, they run well. If I had changed my approach with Elle, knowing she’d be gone in five years — what would I do now?” ² —Jody Record ’95

It was kind of like we were raising a new kid,” Sheehan recalls.

The kites departed in September after their chick fledged, but experts say they’re likely to return next summer. Mississippi kites mate for life and return to the same nest year after year. ²

— Jennifer Crompton ’82, adapted from wmur.com

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Small Town, Big Oil The Untold Story of the Women Who Took on the Richest Man in the World — And Won David W. Moore, Diversion Books, Mar. 2018

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LOST CARSON CITY Peter Mires ’79, The History Press, June 2018

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This Bright Beauty Emily Cavanagh ’99 Lake Union Publishing, Mar. 2018

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ranci and Lottie may be identical twins, but they’re very different people. After years of taking

care of Lottie, who suffers from bipolar disorder, Franci moves across the country — only to be pulled back when Lottie gets into an accident and is unable to care for either herself or the infant daughter Franci didn’t know her sister had. As Lottie unravels, Franci learns a secret her twin has kept since childhood that has the power to reframe the duo’s entire relationship and potentially change the answer to a compelling question: who has been protecting whom all these years?

Ash & Embers Thank Your Lucky Stars Sherrie Flick ’89, Autumn House Press, Sep. 2018 From a woman sharing mixed drinks with a taxidermized deer head to a cowboy photographer down on his luck, Flick’s second collection of short stories serves up love and loss, longing and heartbreak, and cruelty and tenderness in poetic images.

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MINDING THEIR BALANCE The class of 2022 should be well prepped for the rigors of UNH — they all were assigned homework before the semester even began. It wasn’t your typical summer reading assignment, however; “The Mindful TwentySomething,” by Dr. Holly Rogers, is used as a tool to help students maintain balance during the rigors of college life. Ted Kirkpatrick, senior vice provost for student life and dean of students, along with many UNH faculty and staff members, heard the psychiatrist speak at UNH in 2017.

Rogers, who teaches mindfulness at Duke University, is one of the developers of Koru Mindfulness, an evidence-based mindfulness training program for collegeage adults.

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Faculty Updates Wayne Jones, dean of the College of Engineering and Physical Sciences (CEPS) since July 2017, was named interim provost and vice president of academic affairs in May, replacing outgoing provost Nancy Targett.

A chemist with a strong track record in collaborative excellence and smart energy, Jones joined UNH from Binghamton University, State University of New York, where he was professor and chair in the department of chemistry, founding director of the Center for Learning and Teaching and founder of the Go Green Institute, which encourages middle school students to pursue careers in science and engineering.

Replacing Jones as interim dean in CEPS is former associate dean Chuck Zercher, who first served as CEPS’ interim dean in 2016.

Prior to that appointment, he had been the associate dean for academic affairs since 2014.

Zercher was chairman of the chemistry department from 2010 to 2013. He was awarded the Outstanding Assistant Professor Award in 1996 and was promoted to professor in 2003.

An award-winning scholar and teacher and a 17-year member of UNH’s sociology department, Michele Dillon has been named the interim dean of the College of Liberal Arts (COLA) for the 2018-19 academic year. Dillon, who was nominated by her peers in COLA following the departure of former dean Heidi Bostic, served as chair of the department of sociology for six years. She also served as a faculty fellow in the office of the senior vice provost for engagement and faculty development, a role in which she served as faculty chair of the university’s new faculty orientation program, chair of Pathway to Professorship and co-chair of the Writing Academy for faculty.

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in professional social science organizations,” says interim Provost Wayne Jones. “I know that she will be an outstanding advocate for the liberal arts and humanities, which is so important for UNH.” Monica Chiu has been named interim associate vice president for community, equity and diversity. A professor of English and a COLA Excellence in Teaching Award recipient, her past leadership roles include serving as co-chair of the President’s Commission on the Status of People of Color, chair of the English department’s diversity committee and director of the University Honors Program (2008–2011).

Chiu has won campus-wide and regional awards for her commitment to diversity, including the President's Excellence Through Diversity Faculty Award (2008) and the Social Justice Award for Faculty Groups, recognizing her Ford Foundation-supported work on diversity and pedagogy (2007).

Kerryellen Vroman, associate professor of occupational therapy in the College of Health and Human Services, is the new associate vice provost for international programs. She was appointed interim vice provost for international programs in 2016.

Associate professor of history Nicoletta (Nicky) Gullace has been named director of the Discovery Program, and Catherine Peebles will head the University Honors Program. Peebles is a principal lecturer in humanities and director of the Master of Arts in liberal studies program.

At the UNH School of Law, John Greabe has been named director of The Warren B. Rudman Center for Justice, Leadership and Public Service, a position previously held by professor of law Jordan Budd, who is returning to teaching.

Prior to becoming a full-time law professor, Greabe spent 17 years working for the federal judiciary.

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eddy Hagen can claim some credit for the one, non-negotiable item any university would have to offer if it wanted to add James W. “Jim” Dean Jr. to its short list of candidates for a new president: A

nearby airport with direct flights to Raleigh, North Carolina.

Flying nonstop would make it easier for Teddy to visit the man he loves to play “horsey” with. The one who sings “Sweet Baby James” to lull him

to sleep. The tall man with the cheerful laugh, warm hugs and big heart who can calm Teddy’s wickedest meltdown.

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At left and above: Jan and Jim Dean in North Carolina with their grandchildren, Madi Ruth and Teddy Hagen, and at the April wedding of their daughter Bridget Dean Wamsley. At right, President Dean immerses himself in the UNH Cooperative Extension Lakes Lay Monitoring Program at Lake Winnipesaukee.

presidential inauguration during homecoming on Oct. 12.

“I’m his biggest fan. And I know it sounds sort of cliché, but I can honestly say that my dad is my best friend,” says Bridget Wamsley, the Deans’ younger daughter and a global marketing executive for Cisco Systems.

“To this day, if there’s anything, any challenge or any situation I want to talk and nanny, Jim and Jan Dean. So does his sister, Madi Ruth, 4. As do the Deans’ about, professional or personal, I know two adult daughters, Noelle Dean Hagen (Teddy and Madi Ruth’s mom) and Bridget Wamsley, and their extended families, all of whom live in the Raleigh area. I can call him up, day or night, and he’ll be there for me.”

“I told Jan I wouldn’t consider any place that didn’t have a direct flight,” says Jim Bridget was a competitive dancer Dean, who was announced in April as the 20th president of the University of New growing up and, like her dad, she also Hampshire. “Why make it any harder to see them?” played the clarinet and soccer. Despite Dean brings more than 30 years of higher education experience to UNH, and a demanding work schedule, Jim Dean his impeccable credentials reveal a respected leader who earned promotions made it a priority to be there whenever across three universities, along with an appointment as a program director at the she or her sister took to the field or National Science Foundation. Most recently, he served as executive vice chancelstage. Today, Bridget can still hear her lor and provost at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he joined the faculty in 1997. He wrote two books about organization and management, and dad’s distinctive cheer rising above the crowd at her soccer games, always will soon publish a third, aimed at helping businesses and higher education instiencouraging her to do her best: “Look tutions work together more effectively. They’re credentials that put him in rare up, Bridget! Look for the assist!” company in public higher education.

Not, “Shoot!” Not, “Go for the goal!”

But if you really want to know who the new UNH president is, it comes down But, “Look for the assist!” to this: Jim Dean is a family guy. And you can expect to see his extended family Anyone who’s spent time at youth visiting campus and exploring New Hampshire via direct flights beginning with the 20

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“You go through a lot of changes in your life and throughout your career, but you only have one family.”

sporting events can tell you it’s not a cheer you’d expect from a parent, especially one like Jim Dean, who played soccer as an undergrad at Catholic University — and as a striker, or goalscorer, no less. But encouraging his children toward teamwork, urging them to see the entire field and to look for goals that might be a few, well-placed passes away, gets to the heart of Dean’s style as a parent, mentor and leader.

Like her sister, Noelle cherishes the lessons he continues to share with her and, now, with her two children.

“I promised myself I wouldn’t get choked up when I started talking about him,” says Noelle, a marketing consultant with DuPont, who then pauses to catch her breath. “I could tell you so many great stories about my dad, but the best way to sum it up is this: He is seriously the most humble, genuine, fun and compassionate person you could ever hope to meet.” 

Toward the end of the reception, someone asked Dean for his thoughts about leaving his longtime home in North Carolina. Dean’s blue eyes softened. He smiled, and thought a moment. And the old ballroom seemed to brighten as he spoke about being a proud grandfather, father and friend.

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A JOYFUL CHAOS Talk with Jim Dean for very long, and you get the sense that in the high-pressure, multi-tasking culture of higher education leadership, his family is a refuge, a warm and joyfully chaotic touchstone that offers comforting perspective at the end of even the most trying days.

“You go through a lot of changes in your life and throughout your career, but you only have one family. So, I try to keep that in mind,” says Dean, who grew up in the suburbs of Washington D.C., studied psychology at D.C.’s Catholic University and met his wife of 37 years while earning his doctorate in organizational behavior from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Dean’s father worked for the federal government, managing affordable housing projects for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The job provided a modest, middle-class lifestyle, and his dad’s stories about the challenges of working in a large bureaucracy sparked young Jim Dean’s interest in how big organizations get things done.

When he was first introduced to the UNH community at a reception in Huddleston Hall in April, Dean fielded plenty of questions about the big challenges he’ll face: issues around diversity, inclusion and equity; the budget; state support; research; student access and affordability; faculty relations; and strategic planning.

Dean was well prepared, having fielded such questions many times. (Answer: It’s far too early to detail any initiatives Dean may direct. But he is listening, and learning everything he can about UNH and New Hampshire.)

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gardener, was scrambling to get their Chapel Hill home ready for the local garden club’s annual tour.

Jim Dean described their family’s frequent, busy and noisy multi-generational get-togethers as sort of a heaven on Earth.

Jan Dean agrees, and she laughs when asked what it’s like to be around the Dean family’s gatherings.

“If we go out to a restaurant, we’re the loud table,” she says. “We’re loud, but we’re also really fun and just really enjoy being together and meeting new people, too … In fact, a lot times the people around us end up joining us by the end.”

UNH’s presidential search was kept confidential to attract the strongest pool of applicants.

And although the 21-member search committee expected robust interest, John Small ’76, chair of the search committee and the University System of New Hampshire (USNH) board of trustees, says the quality and diversity were astounding.

“All I can say is that we were very, very impressed,” Small says. “It was incredibly gratifying, really. Because while we all know and love UNH, it was great to realize that so many incredibly talented people — including some highly accomplished and innovative leaders — look at UNH to be a real prize among public universities.”

And why shouldn’t they? During President Mark Huddleston’s 11-year tenure, UNH built an enviable record of achievements: Increases

“To join a flagship public research university like this is an incredible opportunity.

I’m deeply honored and grateful, I really am.”

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f they get a break before starting a new job, most people might take a vacation, tackle some overdue house projects or just sleep in. In the weeks between leaving Chapel Hill and moving to Durham, Jim Dean finished writing a book.

That may not be surprising for an accomplished professor and administrator who’s devoted his career to studying and teaching organizational behavior. What is, though, is the refreshingly

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frank approach that Dean’s book takes to exploring the intersection of higher education and business.

Free of academic jargon, it reads like a sensible guidebook, aimed at helping businesses, philanthropists and state lawmakers to better understand higher education institutions and to work more closely and effectively with them. Dean is co-writing the book, titled “Inside Universities,” with Debbie Clarke and expects it to be published in 2019.

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of empathy for business leaders who wade into the sometimes befuddling world of academia.

“Businesses are tempted to see (universities) as badly run businesses,” Dean writes, “with costs that are too high, decisions that take too long, and no clear sense of their objectives.”

Throughout Dean’s career, business leaders have asked him questions about higher ed such as, “When faculty members act out, why don’t you simply

fire them?” “Are research grants like earmarks, so you don’t have to compete for them?” And, “Why isn’t growth a priority for universities, as it is for businesses?” The book could almost be titled, “Businesses Are From Mars, Universities Are From Venus.”

While businesses and higher ed may speak different languages, Dean wants business leaders to understand that American universities have a long track record of success

in educating generations of talented citizens and workers, enriching the nation’s culture, and delivering research that solves major social and technical challenges, starts businesses and builds economies. Experience matters, he says. “Not everything that drives you crazy about universities should drive you crazy,” Dean writes.

“There are good reasons for some practices that initially seem strange.”

The book is also aimed at philanthropists, business

leaders who move into careers in higher education, state lawmakers overseeing university budgets and capital requests, and consulting firms and others who work with both businesses and universities.

“The American system of higher education is the most successful in the world . . .You can use this book to explore why this approach has been successful, as well as its limits,” Dean concludes. 

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in student enrollments and national rankings. New schools of law, business, public policy and marine science. An expanded campus in Manchester. The new Wildcat Stadium. New business partnerships.

And the historic CELEBRATE 150 fundraising campaign, which launched a host of strategic initiatives, particularly in the area of student support.

“In a lot of ways, they’re really stepping into an ideal situation,” says Nathaniel Stafford ’18G, who earned a Ph.D. in psychology in May and who served on the search committee. “For the right person, this is a terrific opportunity.” 

eflecting more than 30 years in higher education, Jim Dean’s resume shows a leader who’s thrived amid the big issues confronting America’s public universities. Ask colleagues about his accomplishments, however, and they won’t hesitate to tell you that Dean’s character is the most important aspect of his many successes.

On learning that Dean was leaving UNC, Julia Krause, executive director of UNC’s Kenan-Flagler Business School, wrote him a long letter, thanking him for the life lessons he imparted about integrity, trust, empathy and intellect. “I have always been impressed that you not only research and teach organizational behavior, but also live the principles of good leadership every day.”

Dean, she says, is a great listener; someone who asks great questions and who actively seeks out different perspectives. Dean, she and other colleagues agree, is a team-builder who trusts faculty and staff, and who encourages innovative thinkers and solutions.

“Coming into the academy from the private sector, I had a lot to learn. I couldn’t have had a better, more patient and more utterly gracious mentor than Jim Dean,” says Martin H. Brinkely, named dean of the UNC School of Law in 2015 after more than 20 years in corporate law.

After interviewing UNC colleagues about his leadership style, the UNC Gazette concluded, “In his tenure as provost, Dean showed a consistent pattern of dealing with problems by diving deep into organization and process to see how things work, measuring and communicating the results, and then making changes to improve outcomes. Throughout, he maintained his polite and gracious demeanor and was recognized for being calm under pressure.”

A GENTLEMAN-LEADER With about 15,000 students, UNH is roughly half the size of UNC, which enrolls more than 29,000. That was a major draw for Dean. UNH’s smaller size, he says, along with New Hampshire’s much smaller population (1.3 million compared with more than 10 million in North Carolina) and geographic size makes it easier to know people, to meet face-to-face, to travel to every corner of the state and to accomplish things more quickly.

“It struck me going through the process that you can make a real difference in a state like this,” Dean says. “To join a flagship public research university like this is an incredible opportunity. I’m deeply honored and grateful, I really am.”

So, what made Dean stand out in what John Small describes as a stellar field?

New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu interviewed four finalists one-on-one at his State House office, and was impressed with Dean’s genuine desire to understand how UNH can work more closely with the state’s businesses and communities. Sununu says he was “struck by his thoughtful approach, experience and understanding of the need for the president of the state’s flagship public university to build relationships with businesses as well as the state’s leadership and its residents.”

Search committee members, ranging from students and staff to USNH board members and Chancellor Todd Leach, are remarkably consistent in their assessment of Dean’s character, echoing impressions such as, “genuine,” “authentic,” “trustworthy,” “open-minded” and “curious.”

“What really sold me on Jim is that he was genuinely interested in us and who we are. He wasn’t one of these people who comes in and only talks about himself,” says Charlie French ’08, who leads the community and economic development program for UNH Cooperative Extension.

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questions. It was a great conversation, almost like he was interviewing us as much as we were interviewing him.”

French was also impressed that Dean has worked at every level of higher education, rising from an assistant professor at Penn State to a tenured faculty member, dean and executive vice chancellor and provost at UNC. In an interview with Seacoast Media Group following his introduction, Dean allowed as how faculty members often take a dim view of administration. “Yet here I am. I went from faculty member to associate dean to senior associate dean to provost and now a president.

“It’s easy to tell if someone is giving you answers that were scripted, or if they’re really being genuine and from the heart.

Jim Dean spoke from the heart.”

Dean has already been a visible presence on the Durham campus, hosting faculty and staff at a summer ice cream social (above) and welcoming students at pre-orientation move-in (left).

North Carolina, Dean earned praise for his dedication to promoting diversity, exemplified in his hiring practices (he hired seven new deans) and his work with student groups. When it was announced he would leave UNC, he was praised for his collegiality, openness, warmth and compassion, and for his commitment to helping students from diverse backgrounds, especially first-generation and low-income students.

“Diversity and inclusion are really at the heart of what a public university is about,” Deans says. “So, if a university is not welcoming or doesn’t feel welcoming to all groups of people, then it's really not doing its job. Obviously, this isn’t a unique problem here in New Hampshire. We faced it at UNC Chapel Hill as well. And you could go across the country and every university has that challenge.”

Dean also earns high marks for the character he brings to managing people, building teams and mentoring those who report to him day-to-day.

“Perhaps the highest compliment I can give [President] Dean is that he

would make a superb nurse,” says Nilda (Nena) Peragallo Montano, dean of the UNC School of Nursing. “He is a gentleman-leader, holding his impeccable standards in easy equilibrium with his compassion for those he leads.”

Nathaniel Stafford, the doctoral graduate who served on the search committee, isn’t surprised that the USNH board of trustees voted unanimously in favor of Dean’s appointment.

“To make it into the top few finalists, for me, I had to feel like the responses to my questions had to be genuine,” says Stafford. “It’s easy to tell if someone is giving you answers that were scripted, or if they’re really being genuine and from the heart. Jim Dean spoke from the heart.”

Speaking from the heart comes naturally for Jim Dean. Not surprising for a man who puts his family first.

After all, what else would you expect from someone who, despite all his professional accomplishments, defines his greatest moments in life in the joyful chaos of a busy family, including those games of “horsey” with Teddy? ª

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(You) see as you go up the ranks the importance of the work that gets done.

You see the challenges.”

At his introduction, Dean also stressed that he’s committed to being accessible to students, and invited them to send him their ideas for keeping a dialogue going. Sure enough, just a week into the job, Dean received an email introduction from Tyler Anderson ’19, a senior majoring in sociology and the historian for the UNH student senate. Dean wrote Anderson back within a few hours — and invited him to have dinner, that night. The two met at Durham’s Three Chimneys Inn, and Anderson came away impressed.

“As a student, I’m very enthusiastic,” Anderson says. “It’s really impressive that he’s making the effort to be as public as possible and to hear as many perspectives as possible, right from the start.”

Student perspectives will be especially important as Dean engages in ongoing efforts to improve UNH’s campus climate, which has been in the spotlight since a number of high-profile racial incidents in 2017. In

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What better time to celebrate history — or to make history?”

—Mark W. Huddleston, 19th president of the University of New Hampshire

Two years after its public launch in September 2016 — and seven years after quietly getting underway in 2011 — CELEBRATE 150: The Campaign for UNH has become a milestone in UNH history. When the campaign closed on June 30, 2018, it had surpassed its $275 million goal by 12 percent, with nearly $308 million in outright gifts and pledges raised from almost 45,000 alumni, parents, faculty, staff, students and friends.

In the years and months of planning that led up to the campaign, no one was even dreaming about this kind of success, but it was clear that the time was right to launch UNH’s first public campaign. As then-President Mark W. Huddleston noted at the start of the public phase, which coincided with UNH’s sesquicentennial anniversary, “This is really the first time in a very long time that we’ve had all the pieces in place — the people, the culture, the data — to launch a campaign. The 150th anniversary seemed like a propitious time to hit the button. We have wonderful students and faculty, and so much great work is being done here. What better time to celebrate history — or to make history?”

“A group of Foundation board members had ambitions and really wanted to swing hard,” adds Lynn Wiatrowski ’81, who served as a campaign committee co-chair along with fellow Foundation board members Marcy Carsey ’66 and Dana Hamel ’88P. “UNH had the right leadership, the right vision and the right support in place. Mark Huddleston prioritized philanthropy and set the tone for collaboration, and the very generous gift from Peter Paul [for Paul College] created a launching pad, if you will, for us to begin what became a historic campaign.”

The committee partnered with UNH’s advancement division and with consultants to determine the campaign’s scope and to set a goal, identifying five areas where additional funding would have the greatest impact at the

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university. The top priority was to raise new funds for need-based and merit scholarships that both attract academically talented undergraduates and allow any qualified student to attend UNH and graduate without incurring crippling debt. Another priority was to raise funds in support of academic and other programs that complement the classroom experience and prepare students for success after college.

Because an outstanding faculty is at the core of our success as a national public research university, a third area of focus was support for endowed positions and

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other funding that can attract and retain talent and inspire innovation within UNH’s colleges, schools and centers.

A fourth priority was funding new construction and thoughtful stewardship of existing buildings to meet the need for high-quality facilities on UNH campuses.

*These numbers represent actual totals for unique donors and gifts. Gift and donor counts for the priority-specific sections that follow do not add up to these numbers, as many donors made multiple gifts to different purposes, and others made single gifts split among multiple purposes.

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A final priority was support for research and innovation at UNH, where every day, in keeping with our mission as a public research university, faculty and students pursue solutions at every scale for addressing the world’s greatest challenges.

Another important objective of the campaign was to invite generations of Wildcats and other friends of UNH to partner in building the university’s future and to illustrate the pow er they have, through philanthropic investments of every size, to make a difference on a grand scale. Early projections of what the campaign could raise suggested a goal of $150-175 million would be possible, but potentially a stretch.

Based upon some early successes, the UNH Foundation board set an ambitious initial goal of $250 million when the campaign went public in 2016, then quickly increased that to $275 million.

The campaign surpassed that number in October 2017, eight months before its close. The rest is history.

L OYA L L E A D E R S

CELEBRATE 150: The Campaign for UNH was conceived and shepherded to success by a campaign steering committee made up of extraordinarily dedicated current and former members of the Foundation board of directors. UNH is grateful for their leadership.

Dana Hamel ’88P, co-chair Marcy Carsey ’66, co-chair Lynn Wiatrowski ’81, co-chair

A breakdown of the campaign results tells a story of how tens of thousands of individuals who believe in UNH came together not only to create this bright moment but also to light the way forward for UNH. Within that story are countless others that demonstrate the lasting impact of CELEBRATE 150: The Campaign for UNH through the lives and work of students, faculty and staff members who have benefitted from such inspired generosity. Some of them are featured in the pages that follow. Thousands more are unfolding on our campuses every day.

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ANNUAL GIVING

$36.6 MILLION 42,650 DONORS 114 ,6 6 8 G I F T S

One for one and one for all: Wildcats love The (603) Challenge A truly successful campaign never ends. Rather, it is so effective at uniting a community in addressing needs and aspiring to new ambitions that it becomes a sustaining force long into the future.

Annual gifts are at the heart of sustainable giving at UNH. During the seven years of CELEBRATE 150, 42,650 annual donors made gifts totaling more than $36.5 million, which represents the campaign's largest gift. Many chose to give during The (603) Challenge — an annual, online tour de force that UNH alumni, faculty, staff, parents and friends have wholeheartedly embraced during the four years of its existence.

The challenge uses a combination of time limits, underwriter-provided matching and bonus funds, realtime reporting, coordinated marketing and grassroots fundraising to stir up excitement and not a little bit of competitive spirit. Since its inception, the number of donors during each challenge period has more than doubled, from 2,057 donors in 2015 to 5,115 donors in 2018. The amount raised increased threefold during the same period, from $273,289 to $854,310.

Support from underwriters who have backed the challenge and made it possible has grown from $100,000 to more than $351,000 over the four years.

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The results speak for themselves. But what does The (603) Challenge mean beyond dollars and cents?

“The culture of philanthropy that has blossomed at UNH as a result of the challenge will set us up for continued success,” says Jackie Peterson, director of annual giving. The challenge highlights the impact that individual donors, by making even modest gifts to the areas they care about most, can have on a wide range of UNH programs. Between 2015 and 2018, the number of unique funds to which donors have directed (603) Challenge giving has grown from 138 to 223.

“Annual giving support for specific areas across the university helps make the UNH experience exceptional,” Peterson says. Without this donor-directed philanthropy, could UNH students still get a great education from a talented faculty? “Sure,” says Peterson, “but the current use funds that help provide better equipment or fund research and other experiential learning opportunities make all the difference.” On the other side of the equation, the challenge has

inspired programs across the university to engage with their constituents and keep them connected to the great work happening at UNH. Paul College has used funds raised through the challenge to expand its first-year experience program and to build a fund for helping students take advantage of quality internship opportunities. The NH Notables, a campus a cappella group, raised funds to create an album, and the Wildcat Marching Band raised funds to purchase new instruments.

Dimond Library will use challenge funds to replace furniture

and charging stations, and UNH Global created scholarships for students to study abroad and an emergency fund for international students at UNH. For Peterson, one of the most meaningful aspects of The (603) Challenge is the UNH pride on display from faculty and staff who rally people to support them and donors who share their support and reach out to peers to join them. “It’s really neat if you are connected to UNH to scroll through your social media feed and see so much UNH pride for so many areas in such a short period of time,” she says.

moa.unh ...Your generosity allows us to continue to collect, preserve, exhibit, and educate UNH students, faculty, staff and our surrounding community. ...

unhcsie We met our goal!

HUGE thank you to our #unh603 supporters! Your gift helps @unhstudents like these gain real-world, high-impact experiential learning opportunities!

Thank you!

Pictured here is 2028 MFA graduate Ron Prigat with his thesis work.

nepassage Cloe is so excited it’s #unh603 NEP hat day! Look for fun pics in our stories all day. Don’t forget to donate to NEP to support all of our programs.

“I chose to donate to UNH field hockey because being a part of the team shaped me into who I am today. I am blessed to have teammates who turned into lifelong friends, and coaches who taught me discipline, hard work and teamwork. I wouldn't trade those four years for anything. GO CATS!”

unhpaulcollege “You can repay me by giving back when you are able to.”

—Peter T. Paul ’67 Peter has made his #UNH603 gift. Have you?

UNH.EDU/603

unhgraduateschool The #UNH603 Challenge has begun! Please join us in supporting the UNH Graduate School during this important campaign.

Last year we had almost 50 donors. Help us exceed that number!

—Casey Pohlmeyer ’14

“I am delighted to help UNH and am pleased that my donation, which feels modest, has attracted so many other donors and has helped raise so much money for the university.

I plan to continue supporting UNH!” —Birgitte Flanders ’80G (603) Challenge underwriter

unhskiteam Last day of the #unh603. Looking for a strong finish! #gunsouttonguesout #yipyip #livelovelaugh

“It’s really neat if you are connected to UNH to scroll through your social media feed and see so much UNH pride for so many areas in such a short period of time.”

— Jackie Peterson, director of annual giving

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Hamel Scholar Paige Balcom ’16 was one of three undergrads to launch Project OASIS, a small-scale aquaponics system that grows vegetables symbiotically with fish — and without soil — in even the most geographically challenging areas.

STUDENT SUPPORT

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Making UNH the university of choice Paige Balcom could have gone just about anywhere for college.

The Zabkar triplets — Erica, Julia and Raymond — weren’t sure they could afford to attend college at all. That all four — and thousands of students like them — ended up at UNH is thanks in large part to scholarship opportunities that were made possible

by CELEBRATE 150.

Balcom ’16, a mechanical engineering major from Londonderry, New Hampshire, earned a full ride to UNH as a Presidential Scholar and recipient of a Hamel Scholarship. The university’s most prestigious scholarship program, the Hamel Scholars and Scholarship program was created by UNH parent and donor Dana Hamel to keep New Hampshire’s most promising students in state for college — and ideally, for the long haul as contributors to the state’s intellectual and economic prosperity.

“The biggest benefit of a scholarship, as opposed to other forms of giving, is that it opens up vistas to students,” Hamel says. “But then the life of the scholarship is their life …Even buildings don’t [necessarily] last as long as the young people who will be alive and active and go on to contribute to society.”

For Balcom, the vistas made possible by her scholarships included Germany, Wales, Uganda, China

and Peru — places where she studied, conducted research and presented academic work during her undergraduate years.

For Erica, Julia and Raymond Zabkar ’20, who matriculated to UNH in the fall of 2017, one of the most important vistas that CELEBRATE 150 has made possible is the inside of a dorm room.

Homeschooled by their mother in Milton, New Hampshire, with two older siblings already in college, the Zabkars knew affording college would be a challenge. “When I received my acceptance letter from Paul College, it was bittersweet, because I knew it would be a great education and provide more opportunities than attending community college, but I didn’t think we would be able to afford it,” recalls Raymond, who’d assumed he’d finish an associate’s degree at Great Bay Community College, where he, Erica and Julia had all earned college credits during

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When we found out about the Granite Guarantee, you could have knocked me over with a feather.

In fact, you could have knocked us all over.”

—Raymond Zabkar ’20

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high school. Erica applied for some 25 scholarships, and all three siblings assumed that, wherever they ended up, they would commute, as covering the difference between whatever grants they received and the cost of tuition would strain their parents’ limited resources.

And then, in early 2017, UNH announced the Granite Guarantee: a program to bridge the gap between the cost of in-state tuition and the sum of all federal and state aid for Pell-eligible New Hampshire students, which was made possible by the success of CELEBRATE 150. “When we found out about the Granite Guarantee, you could have knocked me over with a feather,” Raymond says. “In fact, you could have knocked us all over.” The program completely changed what UNH looked like for the Zabkars. Not only did it allow all three siblings to enroll tuition-free, it also made it possible for their parents to afford room and board so they could live on campus and take advantage of the full college experience.

Across the seven years of CELEBRATE 150, the need for scholarship support for students resonated with donors, who gave more to this area of the campaign than to any other. Indeed, alumni and friends raised $117.8 million dollars from more than 22,000 gifts to provide scholarships and other forms of aid to UNH students.

Vice President for University Advancement Debbie Dutton, for one, is unsurprised.

“For years now, the cost of college has been rising out of proportion to cost-of-living increases across the country, making paying for college a tremendous — and in many cases, impossible — burden for families,” Dutton says. “Student support is a place our donors recognized they could make a concrete difference, and they stepped up with tremendous generosity. The individual scholarships and broad scholarship initiatives we’ve been able to establish thanks to this generosity are changing the landscape for UNH students and for the state of New Hampshire by putting a UNH education within reach, making UNH the university of choice and increasing odds that talent will stay in the state.”

Left: Erica, Julia and Raymond Zabkar enrolled at UNH in fall 2017 as members of the first class of Granite Guarantee recipients. Right: Students meet N.H. Gov. Chris Sununu at a recent Hamel Scholars luncheon.

The Hamel Scholars and Scholarships AN INVESTMENT IN NEW HAMPSHIRE’S FUTURE

One of UNH’s most generous supporters, Dana Hamel has given more than $21 million to fund the Hamel Scholars and Scholarship Program, including a $5 million gift made earlier this year to increase the number of scholarships available to students. Since welcoming its first seven scholars in fall 2008, the Hamel program has helped fund the UNH educations of more than 200 talented undergraduates — including 43 members of the Class of 2022, the program’s largest cohort to date.

For Hamel, a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Business School, the decision to create the program was an easy one. He sees UNH as New Hampshire’s greatest asset, and a program that encourages the state’s best and brightest students to enroll in their state school as a roadmap for its long-term prosperity.

“Education is one of the most effective investments out there,” says the retired businessman and philanthropist. “You get 60-plus years of return on it.”

For many of the high-achieving students who are offered Hamel scholarships — typically valedictorians, salutatorians and those ranked among the top 10 students in their high school classes — the program is often what tips the balance in favor

of UNH over another school. “The Hamel Scholarship was a big part of my decision to attend UNH,” says Rumney, New Hampshire, native Sean Harris ’20, who matriculated to UNH as the reigning champion of the New Hampshire/Vermont division of the National History Bee. “I felt special, and I felt wanted.”

For others, the program makes a UNH education financially feasible.

“I was very excited to have been chosen for such a prestigious scholarship,” says Brianna Judkins ’21. “It made it financially possible for me to attend UNH and I will forever be thankful for that.” A nursing major from Franklin, New Hampshire, Judkins sees herself delivering on Hamel’s hope that the scholars who attend UNH in his name remain in the Granite State to benefit its citizens and economy after they graduate. “I hope to be a nurse practitioner right here in my home state of New Hampshire,” she says. “I hope to be making a difference in the lives of children.”

While the Hamel program does not require that scholarship recipients stay in New Hampshire, many do stay in the state — or return after graduate school or Fall 2018

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Before I received this scholarship, it was looking like I was not going to be able to attend a fouryear university.”

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—Dustin Moore ’19 Biomedical science major from Berlin, New Hampshire

work experience elsewhere. A significant proportion of Hamel Scholars have gone on to careers in health care, business and engineering. And while it’s too soon to say whether the Hamel cohort will fulfill the program founder’s vision for the future of the Granite State, Hamel himself is confident that real and tangible benefits will accrue to UNH. “Eventually, these students will give back to UNH, and they’ll help build a culture of philanthropy that will make UNH even stronger in the long run,” he says. “So, a program like this can really make a long, lasting difference.”

Debbie Dutton says it’s hard to overstate the impact of Hamel’s gift — or of the program to the university itself. “While we’ve been fortunate in the past to have a number of generous scholarship programs that provided support for talented students with and without financial need,” she says, “the Hamel Scholars and Scholarship Program brought that to a level we hadn’t experienced before.” UNH’s largest and broadest scholarship program, the Hamel initiative cuts across all Durham colleges and majors, and emphasizes not only academic achievement but also civic and community engagement.

The Rydin Family Scholarships SUPPORTING N.H.’S NORTH COUNTRY

More than a decade ago, Craig ’73 and Linda Labnon ’71 Rydin created the Rydin Family Scholarships to provide support to students coming to UNH from Berlin High School in New Hampshire’s North Country who otherwise might not be able to afford the full four-year experience. In 2017, they committed an additional $1 million to the program to double the size of the award Rydin Scholarship recipients receive. Both Berlin High alumni themselves, the Rydins say growing their program with a gift to CELEBRATE 150: The Campaign for UNH was the perfect way to pay tribute to the two institutions that provided the foundations for their own success.

Each year, need-based scholarships are awarded to up to 20 qualified graduates of Berlin High School, which includes students from Berlin and the surrounding towns of Milan, Dummer and Erroll. Like the Hamel Scholars and Scholarship Program, the Rydin Family Scholarships’ focus on New Hampshire students is deliberate. While the Rydins view their North Country roots as an integral part of their success (the former CEO of Yankee Candle Company in Avon, Connecticut, Craig is the operating partner at LNK Partners, and Linda worked at Continental Forest Industries and the New England Association of Schools and Colleges), recent U.S. Census Bureau statistics indicate that only 10 percent of adults in Berlin have a college education, and many students come from single-parent households where that parent works multiple jobs to make ends meet. For many recipients, the Rydin Family Scholarship has been a key factor in their ability to attend UNH. Dustin Moore ’19, a biomedical science major from Berlin who hopes to go on to medical school, counts himself among those for whom that is the case. “Before I received this scholarship, it was looking like I was not going to be able to attend a four-year university,” Moore says. “But with it I found my home at UNH. This scholarship changed everything for me, and I will always credit the Rydins for taking part in any future successes I achieve in my life.”

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IN THEIR WORDS

Craig and Linda Rydin say sentiments like Moore’s are the reason they chose to support UNH and CELEBRATE 150 by increasing the size of their scholarship fund.

“We get thank you letters from students who have received these scholarships and they’re always appreciative, but what’s really moving to us is that they each have really great stories about what UNH has done to make their lives different,” Craig Rydin says. “We know we’re not the only reason these students are able to attend UNH, but those letters really sparked our interest in increasing our investment in these young people. We’re hoping that we are elevating the opportunities available to those students with this gift.”

The Granite Guarantee I N C R E A S I N G AC C E S S A N D A F F O R DA B I L I T Y

If broad scholarship support was the number-one priority of CELEBRATE 150: The Campaign for UNH, then putting a UNH education in the hands of every qualified New Hampshire student who would still fall short of being able to afford a college education, even with a financial aid award, was the dream. In early 2017 that dream became a reality when then-President Mark Huddleston introduced The Granite Guarantee: a bold new program that ensured that all full-time, first-year New Hampshire students receiving federal Pell grants would pay no tuition to attend UNH. In fall 2017, 414 first-year students matriculated to the university’s

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The pace of giving to UNH escalated significantly during CELEBRATE 150. Based on returns during the three previous years, advancement leaders anticipated raising $20 million during the campaign’s first year. In fact, gifts in FY12 totaled $23.4 million. By the end of the campaign, the average annual total of cash and pledges received was $41.6 million.

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Durham and Manchester campuses under the program. Another 386 joined them this fall.

In simplest terms, the Granite Guarantee bridges the gap between the total amount of a Pell-eligible New Hampshire student’s total financial aid package and the cost of in-state tuition.

The commitment remains in place for four years, provided recipients are enrolled full-time, remain Pell-eligible and make satisfactory progress toward their degrees.

Victoria Dutcher, UNH vice president for enrollment management, says it’s the broad success of CELEBRATE 150 that has made the program possible, in what amounts to a virtuous cycle of sorts.

“Every year, the university offers financial aid to students who qualify, drawing from a finite pool of operating resources that also support a range of other financial needs across the university,” Dutcher explains. “The campaign’s success in raising funds not only for student aid but also for those other ongoing needs effectively freed up a larger amount of operating resources for need-based aid, making it possible for us to guarantee our incoming group of Pell-eligible New Hampshire first-year students that the university would cover the difference between their federal aid and the cost of in-state tuition.” It is a reflection of CELEBRATE 150’s success that the university is confident it can sustain the program, the first of its kind in the country, going forward.

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[Donor support] allowed an 18-year-old from South Africa to travel halfway across the world to become not only a better athlete but a better person. I have built lifelong friendships with both staff and my fellow teammates.”

—Oneida Cooper ’15, UNH swimming and diving

My gift is celebrating the impact UNH has on the world. It has been the most meaningful experience of my life, and I want to give back so others can share that experience.”

—John Swenson ’84

UNH provided me an incredible education that was affordable.

I'm grateful for the financial aid I received as well as the small classes and support that the Honors Program provided. This gift is made in gratitude for my experience at UNH.” —Jennifer Latham ’90

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In addition to serving current students, the new CaPS hub is an impressive tour stop for prospective students, a central entry point for employers who want to recruit UNH graduates and a gateway for alumni to engage with UNH as mentors, panelists, advisors and employers.

PROGRAM SUPPORT

$115 .7 M I L L ION 3 7, 3 7 6 D O N O R S 99,540 GIFTS

Delivering excellence UNH delivers on its mission as a flagship public research university through strong academic and co-curricular programs. These are where talent, facilities and resources come together, allowing students and faculty to understand issues and create change through education, research and its applications, and outreach.

Outstanding programs not only help students develop the knowledge, skills and experience that lead to professional and lifelong success after UNH. They also build and burnish UNH’s reputation and foster meaningful partnerships across the state as well as on a national and global stage.

It’s no surprise, then, that support for UNH programs during the campaign made up nearly 40 percent, or $115.7 million, of the $307.9 million total — second only to support for student scholarships and aid. Hundreds of UNH programs have benefitted from campaign gifts of every size directed toward them and will continue to do so. In some cases, especially significant campaign gifts have been transformational.

Coaching, Connecting and Championing Students T H E N E W FAC E O F C A R E E R A N D PROFESSIONAL SUCCESS (CaPS)

Alyssa Ware ’18 first learned about the Nashoba Learning Group, a school for children and adults with

autism, at a UNH career fair. Soon after listing it on the university’s online job portal as one of the top 10 places she wanted to work, she was invited for an interview and fell in love with the school, which is located in Bedford, Massachusetts. Now, her degree in human development and family studies in hand, she is working there full-time. Ware says the diverse classes she took at UNH and her semester-long internship at the UNH Child Study and Development Center helped push her toward her current field. She advises other students to learn about themselves and about possible careers by exploring new territory at UNH. Ware could be channeling UNH’s Office of Career and Professional Success (CaPS). Two and a half years after re-launching what used to be UNH’s central career services unit, CaPS is wholeheartedly embracing — and advancing — its goal of establishing career and professional success as a hallmark of a UNH education.

With funding from the institution and from significant gifts made during CELEBRATE 150, the way in which UNH supports students as they prepare for life

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78 percent of students in the class of 2017 completed at least one internship — a rate that’s 19 percent higher than the national average.

—2018 First-Destination Survey after college has been transformed from the inside out. “Our work is critical and urgent, as the future of our students has never been so uncertain,” says Trudy Van Zee, who became CaPS’ associate vice provost in January 2017.

The transformation began in 2015 with an in-depth assessment of career services at UNH. The university established a CaPS advisory board, filled new leadership positions (including Van Zee’s) and built up a team of 24 experienced professionals who brought specialized focus in employer relations, internship opportunities and student outreach — and vastly improved the organization’s counselor-student ratio. A gift from UNH Foundation board member Karen

The College of Life Sciences and Agriculture (COLSA) boasts UNH’s first endowed college-based career center, the St. Martin Career Exploration Office, established with a gift from Christine St. Martin Carberry ’82. A long-time mentor to COLSA students and a member of the university’s governing board, Carberry also created the COLSA internships and Career Transitions Fund to promote the kinds of experiential learning opportunities that can broaden students’ awareness of available careers for those with a degree in the sciences.

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Johnson ’84 and husband Jim Broderick and a grant from UNH advancement provided critical support for the transition to CaPs, and a $2.5 million gift from the estate of longtime university librarian Robert Morin ’64 funded the much-needed renovation of Hood House, which now houses the CaPS central office, classrooms, meeting spaces and interview rooms.

Funding for broadcast video and other technology to support virtual interviews, online networking and streaming content, which allows CaPS to reach a much larger audience, was provided by a technology grant from the Fidelity Foundation.

From this central location, CaPS organizes university-wide career and internship fairs, resume days, campus recruiting and other events, and makes a wide range of resources available to students. In addition to the central office, there are college- specific career centers, where teams work with students and employers on industryand major-specific opportunities and resources, and with faculty and staff to integrate CaPS into the life of each college. “We believe in partnerships, in working across campus to get everyone behind our mission and for them to play a role in the career preparedness of our students,” says Van Zee. CaPS teams offer one-on-one counseling sessions and organize classroom presentations, industry symposiums, career competency workshops, alumni panels and more. There’s also an employer relations team, headed by Raina Sarvaiya, focused on outreach to potential employers, using customized tools to connect specific students to specific companies.

Deborah Kinghorn, a theatre and dance professor in the College of Liberal Arts who spearheads the college’s new theatre-style interview preparedness workshop, says the old model — students dropping in at the career counseling office to work on a resume — doesn’t work. “This one is for the 21st century,” she says. “With faculty, alumni and CaPS — and companies that really want our students — students are surrounded by a team and supported by it. They feel it and they like it.”

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Engineering student Tirthadeep “Tito” Das ’18 meets with CaPS counselor Stephanie Banks in one of the new interview rooms in Hood House.

From Institute to School C A R S E Y S C H O O L E X PA N D S U N H ’ S PUBLIC POLICY FOOTPRINT

“The mission of public policy isn’t just about the mechanics of government budgets, paved streets and public education,” explains Michael Ettlinger, founding director of the Carsey School of Public Policy at UNH. “It’s about the value of making society stronger and people’s lives better.”

The same desire to create positive change in society inspired Emmy-Award winning television producer Marcy Peterson Carsey ’66 to make generous gifts that established an eponymous public policy institute at UNH in 2004 and expanded it in 2013 into a school that pursues unbiased, rigorous research and practical, real-world solutions. When she announced her $20 million gift in 2013 — the second-largest single gift in UNH history — Carsey noted that, “In the spirit of what a public research university does, investing in initiatives that take place in a school like UNH is just a wonderful community-centered and student-centered thing to do.”

Ettlinger says public policy is critically important to areas

as diverse as the environment, social issues, poverty, the economy, jobs and health. It’s a broad portfolio of influence, and since transitioning from an institute, the Carsey School is producing both the research that informs public policy and the practitioners who will act on it.

Each year, the school publishes some 40 original applied research briefs and reports covering everything from Hispanic birth rates to rural poverty trends to climate change and land-use trends, and these in turn form the basis of thousands of stories in the popular media. The school also helps amplify research from other areas of UNH by bringing it to an audience outside academia. “The Carsey School punches way above its weight in terms of media,” Ettlinger says.

“Becoming a school has broadened Carsey’s role at the university and allowed us to expand our areas of research and influence.”

Carsey has also expanded longstanding programs such as the Vulnerable Families Research Program; which studies how families are faring economically, with particular attention to trends in child poverty rates, social safety net usage, and making work pay; and New Hampshire Listens,

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a civic engagement initiative that received an American Civic Collaboration Award, a Civvy, in 2017 for its efforts to strengthen communities. Since 2014, the school’s Center for Impact Finance, which is focused on addressing U.S. income equality, has partnered with the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington D.C. to convene the annual financial innovation roundtable and select one or two of its proposed projects for further development.

For Ettlinger and others, equally important as Carsey’s work conducting research and developing real-world solutions to problems is its mission to educate the next generation of policymakers who will put those solutions in place. Marcy Carsey’s 2013 gift enabled the Carsey School to absorb the master’s in community development program from the College of Liberal Arts and to add two other programs — a master’s in public administration and a master’s in public policy — that provide the academic grounding and real-world experiences that prepare students to be practitioners.

The mission of public policy isn’t just about the mechanics of government budgets, paved streets and public education. It’s about the value of making society stronger and people’s lives better.”

—Michael Ettlinger, founding director of the Carsey School of Public Policy Jit Banerjee ’17G is one such student. Through the master’s in public policy program, Banerjee developed an operations consulting company, Aquinput, to help farmers in Bangladesh manage the financial transition from rice to shrimp crops. Banerjee’s idea took first place in the student track of the 2016 NH Social Venture Innovation Challenge, an idea-stage competition that is a signature program of the joint-Carsey/Paul College Center for Social Innovation and Enterprise (CSIE). He also participated in the 2017 Social Innovation Internship program, a CSIE program that places undergraduate and graduate students in summer internships at socially innovative businesses and non-profits.

Ilona Drew’s experience with Carsey’s Social Sector Franchising Initiative, an “accelerator” that connects aspiring social entrepreneurs with successful commercial franchising mentors, likewise drew a solid line between policy concepts and practice. Drew ’14, ’17G conducted field research with one of three franchises that are part of a Carsey/CSIE pilot study, Jibu, a growing network of locally owned businesses that sell “radically affordable” drinking water to underserved people living in Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda.

On the ground in Uganda, Drew saw firsthand the transformation of women who had once spent their entire days procuring water but were now free to work and pursue other activities.

“Harnessing the commercial business model and using it to create good in the world is exciting,” says Bill Maddocks, a clinical faculty member at the Carsey School who directs the Social Sector Franchising Initiative. “We’re the only such center in the U.S. doing this.”

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Short on Coast; Deep in Ocean Sciences GIFTS TO UNH MARINE LABS HELP STRONG PROGRAMS

Cam Carbone ’20 is drawn to water. After injuries derailed his dreams of a Division 1 hockey career, he found himself exploring ocean engineering programs and choosing UNH’s.

Someday, he’d like to be living close to the water and working with it in some way. But for now, the native of Sterling, Massachusetts, is taking a semester off to spend five weeks aboard the S.S. Healey, the U.S. Coast Guard’s largest icebreaker, to install UNH-designed sub-surface moorings under arctic ice in the Beaufort Sea. Ocean acousticians will use data from sonar mounted on the moorings to map the underside of the ice as part of the Office of Naval Research Stratified Ocean Dynamics of the Arctic initiative. At the invitation of Dale Chayes, an affiliate professor with UNH’s Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping, Carbone spent much of his summer in the university’s Jere A. Chase Marine Laboratory building frames for mounting the sonar and conducting underwater acoustic tests in one of the lab’s tanks.

“Many of the world’s grand challenges relate to assuring

availability of clean energy and water and planning for the impact of extreme events and population pressures at our shoreline,” says Diane Foster, professor of mechanical engineering and director of UNH’s ocean engineering program.

“Scientists from different disciplines need to come together to work on these complex problems.” Enter ocean engineers. At UNH, they are using acoustics to locate underwater deposits of oil and gas and to map the vastly uncharted ocean floor. They are designing structures and autonomous vehicles that can withstand the wind, waves and currents of an ocean environment. They are finding ways to locate and safely recover underwater munitions left behind in military testing and training. And thanks to donor support, they have one of the world’s best facilities for advancing their work and training the next generation of ocean engineers.

A lead gift of $3 million from an anonymous donor funded the 2017 expansion of the Chase Marine Lab. According to Foster, the expansion has allowed UNH’s ocean engineering programs to grow and flourish. “We have opportunities to build and design instruments in ways we’d never realized before,” she says. “Students are more engaged in classrooms that were designed for collaboration and flipped instruction.” Four new research labs, a teaching lab and a

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Jit Banerjee ’17G started Aquinput, a consulting company that helps Bangladeshi farmers manage the financial transition from rice to shrimp farming, as a student in the UNH Carsey School of Public Policy’s master’s in public policy program.

Clockwise from top left: The 2017 expansion of Chase Marine Laboratories added new lab and classroom space for the undergraduate programs. The lab’s wave tank is a valuable resource for UNH and other researchers. Cam Carbone ’20 spent five weeks in the Caribbean aboard the NOAA Pisces as a Marine Advanced Technology Education (MATE) intern. Emily Ray ’20 takes samples from Crystal Lake on Appledore Island.

We have opportunities to build and design instruments in ways we’d never realized before. Students are more engaged in classrooms that were designed for collaboration and flipped instruction.”

—Diane Foster, professor of mechanical engineering and director of UNH’s ocean engineering program J. Morgan ’84 and Tara Rutman have provided significant support for summer research internships and marine biology scholarships at SML to make these experiences more affordable for students. Their most recent gift also expanded the lab’s artist-in-residence program.

Emily Ray ’20, a marine estuarine and freshwater biology major at UNH, is a double beneficiary of the Rutmans’ generosity. The Cincinnati, Ohio, native came to UNH with a strong interest in studying shark behavior but working in professor Jim Haney’s lab opened her eyes to a different kind of marine research. Haney studies cyanobacteria in freshwater lakes. Ray received a Rutman scholarship to take a marine biology underwater research class at SML the summer after her freshman year. Last summer, Ray spent another 10 weeks at the lab as a paid aquatic ecology intern studying Crystal Lake, one of the few permanent, standing bodies of fresh water on the Isles of Shoals. Living on a field station in beautiful surroundings, being immersed in science and exposed to different projects run by researchers from all over the country were big bonuses for Ray. But her small-world moment came when her team discovered cyanobacteria in Crystal Lake. Airborne toxins from cyanobacteria blooms have been linked to health problems and disease in humans, and Ray is intrigued by how this actually happens. To find out, she’s considering medical school and a research career.

Jude Blake ’77 is helping to ensure the kinds of opportunities Ray had at SML are available to other students well into the future. In 2017, she pledged $8 million of her estate to UNH in honor of now-retired UNH president Mark W. Huddleston. A portion of the gift will support student programs at SML.

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project team space have transformed the working environment for Foster and her colleagues, too. “This is an incredibly productive research center and the new space allows us to be better at what we do,” says Foster.

Researchers can process samples in the lab that they used to have to send away, for example, and they can collaborate more easily. With large, garage-style doors in each lab, it’s also easier for the public to see and understand the work that happens in Chase, which welcomes about 5,000 visitors each year.

UNH is one of few universities in the country and the only one in northern New England to offer undergraduate and graduate degrees in ocean engineering. Its program ranks among the top 10 in the nation. “Having had master’s and Ph.D. programs for more than 20 years, developing the undergraduate program allowed us to leverage a tremendous research strength for a closer connection to the broader university missions,” says Foster.

Shoals Marine Laboratory (SML) also contributes to UNH’s high profile in ocean and marine research and education and benefitted from donor support during the campaign. Located on Appledore Island off the coast of Maine and New Hampshire and jointly operated by UNH and Cornell University, it is the nation’s first and largest undergraduate marine laboratory.

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The airy atrium at the heart of the Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics is a gathering space for students from colleges across the university.

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Creating spaces that inspire achievement The clean brick and granite facade of Paul College, rising against the downward slope of Garrison Avenue. The solid form of Wildcat Stadium, emerging from the leafy backdrop of College Woods. Among two of the most prominent landmarks of UNH’s Durham campus, these buildings also represent the most visible evidence of the success of CELEBRATE 150.

But their real power, and that of the other new and expanded facilities for teaching, research and engaging in UNH’s 360-degree experience made possible by the campaign, is as a foundation for inspiring and building the type of excellence that will continue to elevate UNH. High-tech classrooms and expansive meeting spaces that encourage teamwork and collaborative problem-solving. New lab spaces for cutting-edge research. Athletic facilities that allow the university’s student-athletes to compete at a higher level. As Winston Churchill once put it: “We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.”

There’s something satisfyingly tangible about making a gift that will help bring to life a physical space. Some 1,399 donors made gifts totaling $43.9 million to

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The Peter T. Paul College A BUSINESS SCHOOL FOR TOMORROW’S BUSINESS LEADERS

It’s the house that Peter built — with a little help from more than 300 of his fellow alumni, friends of the university and corporate partners who believed in the future of business education at UNH. When philanthropist and entrepreneur Peter T. Paul ’67 pledged $25 million in 2008, the largest single gift in UNH history, to provide funding for the construction of a new business school, he set it up as a challenge: UNH needed to raise additional funds in order to make the school a reality. The need for a new facility was clear: McConnell Hall, home to the then-Whittemore School of Business and

The 115,000-square-foot Paul College is twice the size of the McConnell Hall space that formerly housed UNH’s business programs.

Enrollment in the university’s business college has skyrocketed, increasing by more than 35 percent since Paul opened in 2013.

Economics, was not only in need of extensive renovations, but was already beyond capacity for the school’s burgeoning business programs. While the school was known for producing outstanding talent in both its undergrad and graduate programs, undergraduate enrollment was capped at 1,700, and many well-qualified students were being turned away due to space constraints. Group work — a hallmark of business programs — often took place in dorm rooms, and there was no executive development suite where members of the local business community could gather or take classes.

Innovation in the classroom was hampered by a lack of adequate technology, and the physical space was a disincentive to prospective faculty members.

J. Morgan Rutman ’84, who majored in economics and finance and spent a decade-plus in New York and California working as a hedge fund manager, was one of the many alumni who rose to Paul’s challenge with a gift of at least $100,000. “From a philanthropic standpoint, the Paul College project is one of the most important things the university has done in the past 20 years,” says Rutman, who has worked with Paul College’s Wall Street residency program as well as the Atkins student investment club and made a gift of $200,000 to support the new building.

“If the goal had been simply to build a facility, that would have been one thing.

But it was clear from the start that there was a shared vision to elevate UNH’s business program along every dimension, and it was exciting to have the opportunity to help reimagine a place that really helped shape my life.”

At 115,000 square feet, the Paul College that opened in April 2013 is twice the size of McConnell Hall, four soaring stories of blondwood and glass that include more than 1,000 seats in 16 wired classrooms, 28 breakout rooms with flat screen TVs, a 208-seat auditorium, a state-of-the-art commercial kitchen-cum-hospitality-classroom, and an open atrium where students from across the university congregate.

But the transformation has indeed gone beyond mere bricks and mortar.

Enrollment in the college’s business

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CELEBRATE 150 in support of capital projects that included the state-of-the-art John Olson Advanced Manufacturing Center, which recently opened on the west edge of the Durham campus; construction of a new wing on the Jere A. Chase Marine Laboratory that supports both a recently created bachelor’s degree in ocean engineering and faculty research; and renovations to iconic Hamilton Smith Hall — as well as Paul College and Wildcat Stadium. Their generosity has not only changed the physical landscape of the university, it’s also helped to reframe the educational experience for today’s — and tomorrow’s — Wildcats.

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programs has skyrocketed, increasing by more than 35 percent during the past five years. The college cracked Bloomberg Businessweek’s rankings of top 100 business schools for the first time in 2016, and its online and part-time MBA programs have landed in U.S. News and World Report’s top 100 for the past two years.

And then there are the programs, and the scholarship initiatives that support them. In 2015, Peter Paul added a scholarship program to the college that bears his name, donating an additional $5 million to provide $5,000 awards to as many as 36 Paul Scholars every year.

Rutman and his wife, Tara, partnered with the Jane and Daniel Och Family Foundation on a $3 million gift that in part supports Paul College’s efforts to attract more women of diverse backgrounds into business and economics education. Paul’s First-year Innovation and Research Experience, or FIRE, program, which divides students into teams of 20 to 25 for a year-long problem-solving exercise with alumni and peer mentors from the junior and senior classes, will graduate its first cohort in 2019 and has become a model for first-year student experience programs across the university.

Paul himself couldn’t be more proud of the college that bears his name.

“When I think of where we started, and where we are now, it’s truly astonishing,” he says. “It’s been an honor to play such a large role in such a profound transformation.”

GROWING THE UNH ENDOWMENT

At the start of CELEBRATE 150, the UNH endowment value was $236.6 million. During the campaign, generous donors created 237 new endowed funds, bringing the total from 909 to 1,146 funds. The market value of UNH’s endowed funds grew 63 percent during the campaign, while distributing $106.6 million to UNH. The UNH endowment totals $387.0 million as of June 30, 2018.

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If the goal had been simply to build a facility, that would have been one thing. But it was clear from the start that there was a shared vision to elevate UNH’s business program along every dimension.”

—J. Morgan Rutman ’84, member of the UNH Foundation board of directors

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Top left and bottom right: In its first two years, Wildcat Stadium hosted two commencements, 12 home games for the UNH football team and a wide range of other events. Top right: The Watkins Center for Student-Athlete Excellence, opened in 2015, gives student-athletes a place to study and work at the Field House. Below left: Two anonymous grants made through the Eleanor and Clarence Prevo Fund at the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation enabled UNH to break ground in August on a new soccer and lacrosse complex adjacent to Wildcat Stadium. The grants, amplified by gifts from a small group of alumni, will allow for the completion of the first phase of the $3.5 million privately funded project, which will benefit local youth programs as well as UNH’s top-ranked men’s and women’s soccer and women’s lacrosse teams.

So Much More than Sports T H E M A N Y FAC E S O F W I L D C AT S TA D I U M

In the two years it’s been open, Wildcat Stadium has hosted Durham’s first 4th of July fireworks show in more than two decades, one America East track and field championship, one New Hampshire high school football championship, two N.H. Special Olympics, two UNH commencements, 12 home games for the UNH football team, eight home games for women’s lacrosse and 14 home games for the UNH men’s soccer team, including a first-ever home NCAA tournament contest.

Announced in 2014 and anchored with more than $5 million in private funds through CELEBRATE 150, the $25 million facility was intended from the outset to serve more than just the university’s football program. Much like the Whittemore Center, which is home to the UNH hockey teams but also hosts the university’s honors convocations, high school hockey practices and games, university concerts and a range of community events, Director of Athletics Marty Scarano and then-President Mark Huddleston long stressed that the facility would be used for multiple purposes and would benefit the entire state of New Hampshire.

“It is truly a multi-use facility benefitting students, alumni, fans and the community,” Scarano says, noting that, beyond game days, the facility sees steady use as a practice venue for football, both men’s and women’s soccer, women’s lacrosse and men’s and women’s track and field. The amenities of the stadium itself — a four-level structure that nearly triples the seating capacity of the former Cowell Stadium — speaks to that end. There’s the Service Credit Union Victory Club — an exclusive indoor space made possible by a $750,000 gift from Service Credit Union — for football fans who want a premium experience, and 14 concession windows that serve fan- and family-friendly foods. Forty-two ADA-accessible seats each come with dedicated companion seats, and there are ramps and elevators for stadium access. “While this is designed to deliver a great football experience, it was also designed to support a variety of other audiences and interests,” Scarano says.

That particular mission was one that resonated with donors, 16 of whom stepped up with gifts of $100,000 or more to meet the $5 million private funding threshold. Tom Arrix ’86 and his family donated $1 million to the project. A Wildcat All-American lacrosse player, Arrix says Scarano’s description of the stadium as a “front porch” for the university as a whole inspired and spoke to him. “For both athletes and the larger student community, high-quality athletic facilities are an essential piece of the college experience,” says the former Facebook executive and cofounder of Adjacency Partners. “For me and my family, contributing to the Wildcat Stadium project represented a unique opportunity to help dramatically enhance a key piece of UNH’s overall brand.”

Emphasizing the Student in Student-Athlete T H E WAT K I N S C E N T E R F O R S T U D E N T- AT H L E T E E X C E L L E N C E

If the main reading room in the Watkins Center for Student-Athlete Excellence gives you Dimond Library deja vu, that isn’t coincidence: the space on the second floor of the Field House, a dedicated facility for

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student-athletes to focus on academics between games and practices, trips to the weight room and treatments in the athletic training room, was designed with serious study in mind. A key piece of the university’s emphasis on student-athlete excellence, the facility boasts space for 72 students in the main study room, a breakout room for small group study, and offices for academic support staff, life skills staff, advisers and tutors.

Funded entirely with private donations, the $1.9 million center opened in 2015, replacing a small space on the lower level of the Field House that student-athletes referred to affectionately — or not — as “the pit.”

“The center was the number-one priority for student-athlete support when the athletics steering committee sat down several years ago to talk about athletic initiatives for CELEBRATE 150,” says Joanne Maldari, associate athletic director for academic support. “We’re tremendously grateful to the Watkins Family Foundation for providing the lead gift for the facility and to the alumni and friends of the university who shared our vision for the center and responded with generous additional gifts.” It’s perhaps no coincidence that, since the facility opened, UNH has claimed three of the last four America East Academic Cups.

More than 500 students compete as members of UNH’s 20 Division 1 athletic teams each year, committing upwards of 30 hours of conditioning, practice and competition time each week to their inherently demanding college schedules. As volleyball player Madison Lightfoot ’16 noted at the Watkins Center’s opening, the facility represents an extension of the dedication UNH Athletics staff members show to student athletes and underscores the extent to which donors, too, are invested in their success.

Manufacturing a Competitive Advantage T H E J O H N T. O L S O N A D VA N C E D M A N U FAC T U R I N G C E N T E R

For the past decade, the most visible sign of John Olson’s support of UNH has been the campuswide emergency notification system he donated to his alma mater in 2007. The class of 1957 alumnus, who had previously established one of the College of Engineering and Physical Sciences’ most generous need-based endowments, happened to be the president of Whelen Engineering, a company that manufactured mass notification systems, and in the immediate aftermath of a tragic mass shooting at Virginia Tech, it was something both he and UNH administrators agreed would make the Durham campus safer. Now, his name is on a campus

Since football player Todd Walker’s tragic death at age 20, killed protecting a female friend from an armed assailant during a spring break trip home to Colorado in 2011, Wildcats have kept the ebullient, redheaded wide receiver’s memory alive through an annual individual sportsmanship award and the team motto, “What would Todd do?” — a question players ask themselves and one another as a reminder to hold themselves to the highest personal standards. Years after the last of Walker’s Wildcat teammates graduated, the phrase — and its acronym, WWTD — lives on as a daily reminder thanks to a generous gift from Walker’s parents, Mark and Pam, to create Walker Way. A plaza that leads from the football locker room in the Field House out to the field at Wildcat

Stadium, Walker Way is entered through a small lobby featuring a life-sized etched silhouette of Walker in his number 80 uniform. There’s a large photo of Walker and a memorial plaque, and the letters “WWTD” are inscribed above the door. And it’s not just the Field House entrance that bears the mark of the Walkers’ generosity.

Together with Mary Ann and Nick Vailas, the parents of Todd’s friends and former teammates Jimmy ’13 and Andy ’14 Vailas, the Walkers made a gift to name the Wildcat Stadium coaches tunnel, the entrance through which Sean McDonnell ’78, his staff and other VIPs take to the field.

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Michael Locke ’18 performs a visual inspection of an industrial robotic arm at the John Olson Advanced Manufacturing Center. Locke was the first employee hired at the state-of-the-art facility, where he’ll work while pursuing his master’s degree in mechanical engineering.

feature that will give UNH an advantage in the highly competitive field of manufacturing: the John Olson Advanced Manufacturing Center.

Opened in June, the center is the result of a $5.3 million CELEBRATE 150 gift from Whelen owner George W. Whelen IV in honor of Olson, who retired in 2016 after 40 years at the helm of the company. Located on the aptly named Technology Drive at the west end of the Durham campus, the Olson Center focuses on high-precision machining, light materials, flexible electronics and so-called Industry 4.0

— cyber-physical systems and cloud and cognitive computing. The work that takes place there gives CEPS students interdisciplinary experiential learning opportunities even as it helps the state meet the demand for workers in advanced manufacturing, its leading economic sector.

Wayne Jones, interim provost and former dean of CEPS, says the center — and the gift that brought it into being — is a terrific investment in the university’s future.

“It’s been exciting to witness the center’s evolution from an idea to something that is going to be a magnet for UNH and for New Hampshire as a whole,” he says.

Olson passed away on Aug. 2, but was on hand for the opening of his namesake center. At the celebration, he said that having his career recognized in such an enduring and innovative manner by a company he joined more than six decades earlier was humbling. “It pleases me to see that UNH students now have a facility where they can help develop the manufacturing of tomorrow,” he said at the time.

“None of this would have been possible without the Whelen family.”

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Attracting outstanding faculty members who inspire students What’s the connection between a sustainable, racially equitable food system in New England and UNH? As of earlier this year, it’s two newly appointed professors, and the CELEBRATE 150 gift to the university’s

Durham resident and philanthropist Tom Haas established the Thomas W. Haas Professorship in Sustainable Food Systems through the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation in 2013 to advance the mission of Food Solutions New England (FSNE), a regional, collaborative network based at UNH dedicated to advancing a sustainable food system in New England that is increasingly self-reliant. Haas noted at the time that the Sustainability Institute was already a leader on multiple fronts and intended the gift to propel its academic and practice-based pursuits in the field of sustainable food systems. Joanne Burke, a UNH clinical associate professor of nutrition, was the first to hold the Haas Professorship.

In February, Curtis Ogden and Karen Spiller were named Burke’s joint successors — and, as prominent national leaders in food systems sustainability and social justice, the first “community practitioners” to hold the position.

With a background in health and equity-focused initiatives, Spiller’s emphasis as a Haas professor is on

connecting the work of FSNE — particularly its racial equity work — to UNH students, faculty and staff through lectures, workshops, and collaborative scholarship.

Ogden brings a background in education and the intersection of racial justice and environmental sustainability to the role.

“As ‘Professors of Practice,’ Karen and Curtis bring unique community and practitioner perspectives into the UNH sustainable learning community,” says Sustainability Institute Founding Executive Director Tom Kelly. “Their appointment is a wonderful example of how enlightened philanthropy, visionary programming and practitioner talent can come together to serve not just UNH but the greater region.”

The Thomas W. Haas Professorship in Sustainable Food Systems was one of several new faculty positions made possible by the generosity of donors who understand that named and endowed positions enable UNH

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Sustainability Institute that makes their positions possible.

Inaugural Josephine A. Lamprey Professor Cameron Wake ’93G leads a research program that investigates climate and environmental change through the analysis of ice cores and instrumental data, assessing the impact of climate change in New England and reconstructing climate change from ice cores recovered from glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau and in the Arctic. He also serves as director of Climate Solutions New England, providing leadership to engage the UNH community in efforts to pursue a sustainable energy future through emissions reduction policies, practices, research and education.

The Josephine A. Lamprey Fellowship in Climate and Sustainability Lamprey, a retired businesswoman and North Hampton, New Hampshire, native, was inspired in part by the work of climate researcher and associate professor Cameron Wake ’93G to establish the professorship Wake now holds. Established in 2012 as a five-year fellowship, the professorship is one prong of Lamprey’s climate- and sustainabilityfocused philanthropy at UNH. She also supports climate fellows in the UNH Sustainability Institute, the green grid at the UNH/Cornell Shoals Marine Laboratory and social innovation programs at the university’s Carsey School of Public Policy.

Climate change is a topic of personal importance to her. “I live on the ocean, so I can tell you about the devastation on the beach,” she says. “The high tides are higher; they’re more ferocious and causing major erosion.

And the low tides are much lower.”

to attract and retain the kind of talent that opens doors to new possibilities for students.

“Endowed professorships make it possible for universities to attract, retain and honor talented faculty members, and the financial security these positions provide ensures the continuity of critical intellectual efforts and areas of academic expertise that will literally change the world,” says Troy Finn, UNH university advancement associate vice president for development. “Endowed professorships are the highest honor faculty members can receive, and a truly impactful gift for universities in allowing them to compete for scholars who are in high demand. We’re truly grateful to the alumni and friends of UNH who have placed their trust in the future of UNH this way.”

Joining Tom Haas on the list of those who have done so are Josephine Lamprey, who established the Josephine A. Lamprey Professorship in Climate and Sustainability; and Brian Peters ’77 and his wife Ann-Frances ’78, who created the John and H. Irene Peters Professorship in Education to

honor Brian’s parents and his own deep and abiding ties to UNH. Before he succumbed to a heart attack at the age of 48, it was John Peters’ dying wish that his sons both earn a college education. Not only did both Brian and Douglas go on to graduate from UNH, so did their mother, Irene, who enrolled as a 39-year-old freshman shortly after her husband’s death and earned both a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a master’s degree in education. For Brian Peters, endowing a professorship in education seemed like the most fitting way to honor his father’s wish, his mother’s achievements and the UNH professors in the College of Liberal Arts who taught him how to think critically, write clearly and apply theory to facts and facts to theory.

“UNH is much more than the common thread of my family’s story,” he says. “Rather, UNH is the very foundation upon and around which my family’s life was reconstructed and built, and which today sustains our immediate and extended family in the lives we are very privileged to lead.”

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Building springboards for the future When Andrew DeMeo ’18 came up with an idea for a business he suspected might really have legs — or wings, as the case may be — he knew just where to take it: the Peter T. Paul

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Entrepreneurship Center.

The heart of ideas, innovation and entrepreneurship at UNH, the ECenter was established in 2016 with a generous gift from Peter T. Paul ’67 as an independent, co-curricular, cross-college resource providing programs, mentorship and financial support to students who have business ideas they want to pursue outside of an academic context. Just two years into its existence, the ECenter has already been recognized internationally as an outstanding emerging entrepreneurship center and launched both its successful (and also donor-funded) i2 Passport Program to encourage undergraduate students to engage in a variety of innovation and entrepreneurship activities around the Durham campus and an Idea and Innovation Society for first-year students. It’s also helped dozens of students turn promising ideas they brought to or developed at UNH into viable business enterprises — many with revenue and investor interest.

In DeMeo’s case, the idea was a CSA-style beekeeping operation that would allow Seacoast N.H.-area customers to purchase shares in honeybee hives located on nearby farms in what amounted to an ecological winwin-win. DeMeo and his partner, Jessica Waters, would maintain the hives; customers would have their own raw, local honey without the responsibility of owning and

caring for bees; and both the farms, which rely on honeybees to pollinate their crops, and the local bee populations would thrive. With support from ECenter Executive Director Ian Grant, DeMeo and Waters developed a business model for Half-Acre Beekeeping that took first place in UNH’s 2017 Social Venture Innovation Challenge (SVIC). They used the prize money they earned to launch their business earlier this year and sold out their hive shares almost immediately. Now, thanks to an ECenter connection to Planet Fitness CEO Chris Rondeau ’94, DeMeo has some ideas for franchising the enterprise.

Andy’s story is typical to the extent that there is no typical story for the types of students we mentor and the types of ideas they bring.”

—Ian Grant, executive director of the ECenter

Given UNH’s top national standing in sustainability, it comes as no surprise that many donors were inspired to support research initiatives related to a range of sustainability-related efforts. Large gifts to the university’s seagrass monitoring program and the regional estuaries partnership, the Sustainability Institute climate fellows program and Food Solutions New England, among others, will continue to support student and faculty research into addressing our region’s most pressing questions about climate change and its impact on the ecosystem.

For some 35 years, research professor of natural resources and marine science Fred Short has been monitoring the quality and density of a type of seagrass known as eelgrass in New Hampshire’s Great Bay, a reliable indicator of the bay’s overall health. Durham philanthropist Tom Haas’ gift to establish the UNH Seagrass Gift Fund supports SeagrassNet — a global seagrass monitoring program that Short directs. Based at UNH, SeagrassNet has 38 sites in 15 countries.

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Creating springboards for the future is a widely shared vision when it comes to research and innovation at UNH, and donors to CELEBRATE 150 responded generously to fund a variety of initiatives. Not only are some these projects changing how students learn, many of them have far-reaching implications for changing lives in New Hampshire and around the world, in keeping with UNH’s mission as a public research university. With large gifts in the areas of sustainability, interdisciplinary sciences and a number of projects that harken back to UNH’s agricultural roots, 502 donors stepped up with gifts totaling $23.7 million.

Peggy Stockwell Cole ’72 returned to UNH to finish her degree in sociology after starting a family, but imagines she might have majored in neuroscience — an interdisciplinary program housed in both the College of Liberal Arts and the College of Life Sciences and Agriculture — if she were a student today. It’s one of the reasons she and her husband Bob jumped at the chance to fund faculty research through the establishment of the Cole Neuroscience and Behavior Faculty Research Fund when the then-new program was launched in 2010, 62

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and subsequently expanded their gift in support of CELEBRATE 150.

“Thanks to Peggy and Bob’s support, our faculty in both colleges are able to gather the data they need to pursue funding at the national level, which will continue to raise the profile and visibility of our program,” says Jon Wraith, dean of the College of Life Sciences and Agriculture. “ We are incredibly grateful to them for their foresight and for providing UNH with an opportunity to position itself strongly within this emerging field.”

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“Andy’s story is typical to the extent that there is no typical story for the types of students we mentor and the types of ideas they bring,” says Grant, who notes that DeMeo graduated from the College of Life Sciences and Agriculture — proof positive that UNH’s undergraduate entrepreneurs hail from all corners of campus. And while ECentermentored projects have earned top honors in the last two cycles of both the SVIC and the Paul College Holloway Prize Competition, Grant emphasizes that the end game is about much more than just winning. “The ECenter helps students become better problem-solvers and shows them that entrepreneurship is a career path. It’s not about a line-item on their resume; it’s about creating a springboard for their future that works in lock-step with the academics they receive from their colleges.”

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We were asking ourselves: ‘How far can faith leap?’ If you watch what happened here, it’s pretty apparent now that faith doesn’t leap at all; she gets us to leap.”

—Mike Pilot ’84, member of the UNH Foundation board of directors

Thank you for believing in UNH’s mission and helping create a foundation of support to sustain the university into the future.

Our entire community is stronger for what we have accomplished together through CELEBRATE 150. Tomorrow’s UNH will be bolder still.

What lies beneath our past and future success remains the same: a fervent belief in the value of

higher education. An uncommon commitment to our students’ success. A deep desire to make progress against pressing societal and environmental problems.

There is still much work to be done. And working together, we will discover the power to create possibilities beyond what we can imagine today.

Thank you for bringing us to the edge of possible.

C E L EB R AT E 150: T he C am pai gn for U NH

LOREN MARPLE ’13 / UNH

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Fred Engelhardt 1937 – 1944

In 1941, at the request of the faculty, President Fred Engelhardt organized six committees and charged them with the responsibility of formulating a "New Hampshire Charter" that would describe the roles of the faculty beyond the rules and regulations covered in the Faculty Handbook. The university also began to emphasize off–campus programs, organizing all adult education and off-campus activities under a single director in the General Extension Service.

Nancy Bryant on behalf of Lonnie (Eleanor) Gould Bryant, 56A Blossomcrest Road, Lexington, MA 02421; bryantnab@yahoo.com; (781) 863-5537

I’m sorry to report on the deaths of two class members. Charles R. Balch passed away on Dec. 4, 2017, in Lyme, NH. He worked for Dartmouth College at the Hanover Inn for 35 years before retiring in 1980.

Charles is survived by his wife of 74 years, Mertie, as well as a daughter, son, seven grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. Russell Emery Thompson died Jan. 15 in Charleston, SC. During World War II, he served as an officer in the Marine Corps. Russell held advanced degrees from Tufts and the University of South Carolina and was a professor of mathematics at the Citadel for 38 years. Russell was predeceased by his wife Laurie and a grandson and is survived by a son, daughter, grandson and great-grandson. I was pleased to receive a wonderful letter from Robert O. Kimball of Hernando, FL. He wrote about World War II: “Immediately after graduation, with a commission from the advanced ROTC program, I was ordered to go to the Infantry School at Ft. Benning, GA. Assignment to a basic training camp for draftees followed. About a year later came a move to the newly being formed 94th Inf. Div. This led to more training of recruits until we were ready for combat in France, Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany. Somehow I got out in one piece.” Bob wrote of his career: “Four and a half years after graduation, I was back at UNH, this time as an instructor of mathematics. This led to 39 years of teaching, graduate work, promotions until retirement in 1985 at the rank of associate professor with emeritus status.” Bob went on to write, “My wife Nina and I had known each other since 1941 during my time in Georgia. Our lives had taken different paths, but we kept in touch. In 1983, both widowed, we married and have had almost 35 years of joy, happiness and devotion together. Can’t ask for more than that.” Thank you, Bob, for sharing your beautiful outlook on life! We’d love to hear from more classmates and their families ◆

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We received word that Dagfrid Holm-Hansen Church passed away peacefully on Nov. 9, 2017, surrounded by her loving family. She was an educator and research scientist, avid tennis player and birder and loved gardening, shelling, butterflies, travel, hiking and spending time with her family. Survivors include four daughters, three grandchildren, one great-grandchild and three siblings.

Dancer and choreographer Mary Jane Marr Wolbers passed away in April at the age of 95.

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Ruth Dickson Griffin died peacefully at Grafton County Nursing Home in North Haverhill, NH, on Feb. 1. She was a first-grade teacher, artist, skier, golfer and tennis player. She and her husband Fred loved nature.

Survivors include her four daughters and one daughterin-law. Our condolences to the family and friends of our deceased classmates. ◆

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Mary Jane Marr Wolbers, 95, of Temple, NH, passed away at her home on April 14. Mary Jane received her B.A. degree from UNH and a master’s in dance from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1949. She was a dancer, dance educator, choreographer and dance consultant. On state, national and international levels, she was a leader in liturgical (sacred) dance, creative dance for children and dance therapy. She was predeceased by her husband, Charles P. Wolbers. Survivors include their four children, Charles Jr., George, Marian and Vivian, and their spouses, as well as nine grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. ◆

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We have sadly learned of the passing of several classmates. Constance V. Estes Chase passed away peacefully at home in Florida on Jan. 5 with loved ones by her side. At UNH, where she met her husband of 74 years, David Gordon Chase ’43, she was a member of Mask and Dagger, Alpha Chi Omega and the Mortar Board Society. Survivors include her husband, children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Evelyn “Evie” Downs Green died peacefully on Feb. 4 in Atlanta, GA, surrounded by her family. She was a teacher and loved to travel and visit family. Evie is remembered as a quiet, loving, compassionate soul who loved literature.

Survivors include her six children, 10 grandchildren and one great-grandchild. William M. Foss passed away on March 11. He proudly served during WWII in Pearl Harbor and the South Pacific. After graduation he went on to receive advanced degrees and worked as a research chemist, holding many U.S. patents. He was a faithful member of First Baptist Church in Mountain Home, AR, and enjoyed working with Upward Basketball. Survivors include his children, grandchildren and extended family and friends. ◆

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There will always be a big place in my heart for UNH. It’s the place where I met my forever friends and my future husband.

Although I live in Chicago, I have stayed connected with the UNH community through its recently retired Pathways mentorship program.

I was paired with undergraduate students to provide guidance, answer questions and prepare them for real-world job situations. As a Chicago public schools speech-language pathologist, I was able to offer a slightly different perspective for the mentees I worked with through monthly one-on-one Skype engagements that often consisted of mock interviews, help with academic coursework and tips for graduate school and post-graduate work. It was exciting and heartwarming to watch my students achieve their individual goals, which included but were not limited to overcoming personal hardships, graduating summa cum laude, completing master’s degrees, and landing dream jobs.

Now, I am helping to test the pilot program for UNH’s new online community, Wildcat Connections. This system makes it easy to build professional relationships, expand career networks and provide support and advice to undergraduate students. I’m excited to continue to be a part of the UNH community through the opportunity that Wildcat Connections has created.”  EXPAND YOUR UNH NETWORK AND CONNECT WITH OTHER ALUMNI AND STUDENTS AT wildcatconnections.unh.edu

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10 | Boston Welcome: Business & Beer, Boston, MA 12–13 | Homecoming Weekend, Durham 13 | Graduate Student Senate Reunion, Durham 27 | Seacoast Network Fall at the Farm, Dover, NH

Nov 1 | Atlanta Alumni Reception Atlanta, GA 7 | Boston Executive Forum Boston, MA 15 | FL Southwest Coast Alumni Network Annual Fall Cruise, Sarasota, FL 29 | Washington D.C. Executive Forum, Washington D.C. 29 | NYC Holiday Party, New York City

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by her husband Alexandros and is survived by her nieces and nephews. ◆

Several alumni from the 1940s traveled home to Durham for Reunion Weekend on June 1–3. Pictured are Betty MacAskill Shea ’48, Joan Garland Metcalfe ’48, Harold “Hack” Jordan ’49, Donald Bent ’48 (holding sign), Barbara Conner French ’48, Stuart Eynon ’49 and Joan Boodey Lamson ’49. Others present at the combined 70th Reunion of the Classes 1947, 1948 and 1949 were Leonard “Lenny” Sawyer ’47, Jean Perkins McCullough-Spiller ’47, Arline Karpinski Marro ’48 and Phyllis Karpinski Martin ’49.

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Edgar “Eddie” Card passed away on Feb. 13. He played varsity football, basketball and baseball, and after graduation, he went on to earn his master’s degree at Syracuse. His professional career in education spanned 22 years, followed by a career with Pepin Distributing that culminated with seven years as executive vice president. He had a passion for sports and for people and was a member of many organizations. Survivors include his loving wife Joan, daughter and grandsons.

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After World War II, the GI Bill brought waves of new students and the lack of space on campus was described as “painful.” As thenPresident Harold Stoke explained to the faculty, whereas college enrollment in the country had experienced an eight-fold growth since 1900, the university had grown 30-fold.

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Sadly, we received word of the loss of three classmates. Evelyn Persis Cass Turner passed away on Nov. 13, 2017. She married the late Russell Turner, the love of her life, in 1950, and excelled at playing jazz piano, tailoring, knitting, needlepoint, cooking, skiing, golf and figure skating. Survivors include her two daughters and several extended family members. Beryle Stimson Hammond passed away on Jan. 22 in Greenfield, MA. She and her late husband Eugene were married for 56 years. She taught home economics at Pioneer Valley Regional School until her retirement in 1986 and was Massachusetts Teacher of the Year in 1978. Survivors include her cousins, nieces and nephews. Thomai Fassas Sinopoulos passed away on Jan. 29 in Salem, NH. After graduating from UNH, she received an advanced degree and taught high school chemistry and science. She was predeceased

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PO Box 2656, Kennebunkport, ME 04046, Jeanperkins25@gmail.com

Going back to campus on Reunion Weekend was both nostalgic and rewarding. On Friday, June 1, my daughter Carol Dickinson ’81 drove me to Durham for the alumni luncheon at the MUB. It was a festive occasion, beautifully done with most classes represented. Unfortunately, the only other member of our class besides myself was the ever-faithful Leonard Sawyer, who came over from Plymouth, NH, with his son. We joined in with other members of the ’40s and even recognized some familiar faces from the past! It was a special treat to meet and greet outgoing President Mark Huddleston, whose outstanding leadership has brought UNH to its highest level ever. He will be greatly missed after 11 years of distinguished service. One sad note to report was the news of the passing of Doris Swift this past January.

Doris married Gordon “Swifty” Swift in 1946 and they lived in Kensington, NH, until his death in 2014. Doris was a devoted teacher, beloved to generations of New Hampshire students. She taught high school home economics in Hampton and Epping and later started her own kindergarten while continuing her own education in early childhood and learning disabilities, helping children for over 20 years. Doris loved music and was very involved in singing with the Exeter musical community and playing violin with the Phillips Exeter Academy Orchestra along with her daughters. She is survived by her two daughters, two grandsons and a sister. If you have any news you wish to share, please let me hear from you. ◆

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Elizabeth M. Shea

11 Boulder Brook Drive #4 Exeter, NH 03833

Singing “New Hampshire. Alma Mater” at our 70th Reunion was a special thrill. Luncheon, sponsored by congenial President Mark Huddleston, was enjoyed by the following: Don Bent, Joan Garland Metcalfe, Leonard Sawyer ’47, Jean Spiller McCullough-Perkins ’47, Joan Boodey Lamson ’49, Barbara Conner French, Phyllis Karpinski Martin ’49, Hack Jordan ’49, Wanda and Stu Eynon ’49 and yours truly. The UNH Reunion Committee arranged exceptionally diverse weekend activities, including a new College Woods guided walk, a picnic with pep rally and the Wildcat Academy for Alumni at Hamilton Smith classrooms. Heartfelt sympathy goes to the families and friends of the following classmates: Beverly Black Lopes, 91, of Danbury, CT, passed away Dec. 5, 2017. Born and raised in Gloucester, MA, she became an education major at UNH, joined Alpha Xi Delta and married Richard Lopes, also of Gloucester, who predeceased her in 2010. As the wife of an Air Force officer, she shared an adventurous life with her family, changing schools and moving every few years from one assignment to another across the country. Survived by two daughters and one son, Bev had five grandchildren

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and six great-grandchildren. Lt. Col. Masse Bloomfield, USAF-Ret., 94, died on Dec. 1, 2017, in Canoga Park, CA. He is survived by his wife Fay, two daughters and four grandchildren. Jacqueline Crawford Holland, 93, died Dec. 30, 2017, in Denver, CO. Born in Tilton, NH, the fifth of nine children, she received her bachelor’s summa cum laude and then attended Claremont College Graduate School in California, where she met her husband Henry.

Their common interest in politics and social justice shaped their lives. They traveled to Nova Scotia for training in the cooperative movement and to the Dominican Republic to help establish farming cooperatives. She is survived by her husband of 67 years, four daughters, a brother, two sisters, seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Norma “Nicky” Nickerson Taft Rohrs, 92, passed away Jan. 7. A proud UNH graduate and member of Theta Upsilon, Nicky met her husband Nate on campus. They summered in Megansett, MA, where they raced Cape Cod Knockabouts. From Marblehead, they joined the Boston Yacht Club and cruised on their ketch from Maine to Cape Cod. Upon moving to Vero Beach, FL, she became a hospital volunteer, played bridge and water sports. Nate died in 1978.

In 1984, she married Robert Rohrs, who died in 1998.

She is survived by three sons, nine grandchildren, 11 great-grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews.

On Dec. 26, 2016, Kay Gould Rick of Pittsburgh, PA, departed this Earth. Her husband Robert predeceased her. Survivors are a daughter, two sons and five grandchildren. Dale Grimm, 88, of Wildwood, IL, died Aug. 16, 2014. He graduated magna cum laude and later served in the Army on Okinawa during post-war occupation.

After his discharge, he moved to Uniontown, PA, where he met and married Stella Galla. He was a chemist with Allied Mills and took charge of the corporate research laboratory in Illinois, retiring in 1993. He is survived by his wife of 60 years, daughter, son and three grandchildren.

A 66-year resident of Atkinson, NH, Martin Feuer, 96, died at his home on March 23. He received his degree in forestry, was captain of the lacrosse team and was also a proud member of Alpha Gamma Rho. A member of the civil air patrol during WWII and a highly decorated Army Air Corps officer, he served as a glider pilot during the Normandy invasion. He was employed by the NH Water Works for 20 years and founded Feuer Lumber in Atkinson, operating it for 33 years before retiring. He is survived by his wife of 70 years, Eleanor, and their three sons, four grandchildren and many nieces and nephews.

Theodore “Ted” Natti, 95, of Pembroke, NH, died on March 29 at home with family by his side. The son of Finnish immigrants. He was born in Gloucester, MA, and was the last surviving sibling of 12. Enlisting in the Naval Air Corps in 1942, he received his aviator wings and served with the Atlantic Fleet as a torpedo-bomber pilot. He graduated with a degree in forestry and went on to Yale for a master’s degree. In 1950, Ted started work with the U.S. Forest Service in the White Mountains, became chief of forest management for 150,000 acres of state-owned lands and was appointed director of forests and lands in 1967 until his retirement. Surviving are his wife of 66 years, Elizabeth, and their three children, five grandsons and two greats. ◆

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Some alums attending Reunion Weekend 2018 escaped the early June heat with a guided walk through College Woods led by UNH land-use coordinator Steve Eisenhaure ’93, ’06G, who pauses here at the Paul Bunyan Pine, the biggest tree on campus.

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Joan Boodey Lamson

51 Lamson Lane New London, NH 03257 unhjblamson@gmail.com

We raised the 1947, 1948 and 1949 banners high as we led the Reunion Weekend Class March. The returning classmates for their 70th were Lenny Sawyer ’47, class president, and Jean Spiller McCullough-Perkins ’47, class secretary, Elizabeth “Betty” MacAskill Shea ’48, class secretary, Don Bent ’48, Joan Garland Metcalfe ’48, Barbara Conner French ’48, Stuart Eynon, Phyllis Karpinski Martin, Harold Jordan and me, your Class of ’49 secretary. The highlight for us at the delicious luncheon was the announcement that ’49er Stu Eynon was establishing a generous scholarship to deserving UNH forestry majors starting this year. We were all pleased and proud of Stu. Stu’s forestry major prepared him for a career in gas leak detection for the family-owned Heath Consultant Company with which he developed methods and techniques still used today. He became a senior vice president of Heath in the U.S. and president of Heath Canada and remains on the company’s board of directors after 70 years. Stu and K.V. Dey ’48 were roommates and best friends at Kappa Sigma, and after graduation, they married — during the same year — the Caswell sisters, Patricia “Trisha” and Mary “Mimi.” On the second week of the Eynons’ honeymoon in Switzerland, the Deys — also avid skiers — joined them, and that was the beginning of years of the two families with two Eynon kids, three Dey kids, at least two dogs and various friends, skiing, hiking and camping together. Every 4th of July since the kids were toddlers, the Eynons joined the Deys and Caswells in Christmas Cove, ME, for the annual family gathering. All three families were represented there this July 4, 2018. Sadly, Mimi Eynon died in 1996 and K.V. Dey died in 2008. Stu married Wanda, an estate planning attorney, in 1998. Stu is 96, and Wanda is helping to keep him “young at heart” in looks and actions. I remember with delight the Kappa Sigma serenading — in harmony — at around 2 a.m. under the attic gable windows of the third floor where we Alpha Xi girls slept under heavy down comforters while K.V. Dey tap-danced on a

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Though budget deficits were the first problem that Arthur Adams confronted as president, the issue of academic freedom was the most pressing challenge he faced. A series of incidents on campus brought the university criticism by the Manchester Union Leader, which reported that several student groups had tried to get communist speakers on campus and accused two faculty members of being communists.

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small wooden stage carried by Stu and other fraternity brothers to our front door. I’m sure they made other sorority and dorm girls happy, too! The alumni office received some sad news: Frank Eugene Marsh, 98, passed away on May 17. After graduation, Frank went on to receive a doctorate and taught in Manchester, VT, Hanover, NH, and Boston, MA, serving as professor and dean in the College of Education at Northeastern University from 1956 to 1984. He is remembered as “a kind, gentle, intelligent man who tried to do something positive for someone else every day.” ◆

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Harriet Forkey ’54 has formed a committee to plan the “Fabulous Fifties” joint reunion for 2019, which will include the classes of 1950 through 1959. The Alumni Association is very supportive of this idea and really wants to celebrate joint reunions by the decade after the 60th. Barbara Newell has offered to represent the Class of 1950 on this committee. The 2018 Golden Wildcat Luncheon was the beginning of Reunion — 1951 Weekend this past June. Classmates attending were Richard Brouillard, Ferris Saad, Phyllis Killiam-Abell and Jack Smith. Thanks to all who responded to my “Dues and News Letter” that was sent out in February.

Due to space limitation, some of the notes will appear in the winter edition of UNH Magazine. John Hubbard and Carol are still happy, living in Walpole, NH, and enjoying their grandchild. They will be celebrating their 63rd wedding anniversary in September. Congratulations! Ferris Saad notes that he has enjoyed his second season at Wildcat Stadium and seeing friends from the old stadium. The replay screen at the end of the field is a great addition. Jack Gamble, still in Gainesville, FL, reports lots of excitement as he moves into the 90s, keeping up with the many activities of his grandchildren who Robert Chandler live nearby. Valmore Langevin reports that 2017 was 1950 – 1954 a period of adjustment for him. He is now a widower After serving as dean of since his wife passed in December 2016 after 64 years the College of Agriculture of marriage. He keeps busy, going on trips with a group and director of the at the retirement community where he now lives in Agricultural Experiment Westminster, MD. Sam Belanger has retired and is Station, Robert Chandler living in a golf community in Williamsburg, VA, with three was unanimously 18-hole courses. Sam, can I assume you are a golfer? chosen by a committee He and wife Ellie will celebrate their 65th anniversary of trustees and faculty this year. Congratulations! Donald Caverly is now living representatives to with his daughter Susan and her husband in Wappinger succeed Arthur Adams, Falls, NY. Don enjoys watching all of the Boston sports becoming the first president to be chosen teams and also being a part of a busy family. Joyce Fish from UNH's own faculty writes that she has moved to a lifecare community in and administrators.

Mitchelllville, MD, to be close to her daughter who lives Though his tenure was in DC. It is an active community with many retired State brief, Chandler oversaw Department folks. Roger Van de Meulebroecke wrote the formation of the he was looking forward to his 90th birthday in July. He student senate, the first and his wife are planning to join the Pentagon Ski Club Ph.D. programs and the skiing trip to Snowbird, VT, in March. He still tries to keep installation of the New up with his 11 grandchildren, who all enjoy skiing. Good Hampshire Beta chapter luck, Roger. Leslie Tallarico notes that he has reached of Phi Beta Kappa.

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his 93rd birthday and now has two great-grandchildren.

Les has been retired 40 years from the USDA Soil Conservation Service. He notes that his wife of 62 years, Phyllis Pettingill ’52, passed away in 2012. They spent many years travelling overseas. On a sad note, Jack Smith, who wrote this column and had most ably served as the class of 1950 correspondent for the past several years, died in early September, just as the magazine was going to press. One of Jack’s final acts as class representative was to send a check for $3,000, representing your annual dues contributions, to the UNH Foundation to add to the Class of 1950 Scholarship Fund. He’ll be remembered with a “Memoriam” in the winter magazine. ◆

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Woe is me — the news gets scarcer — so I’m depending on Janet “Jan” Sanderson Anderson searching the Concord area. I was and still am in Connecticut with my daughter since December. I had a luncheon in April with Pam and Gretchen, daughters of Chris Winslow ’50. This is the second year we’ve done it. Mt. Washington Valley lost another stalwart citizen following the loss of Chet Lucy ’50: John Cannell ’50, whose Intervale motel and country store were at the vista facing Mt. Washington and the Presidential Range. Did you know that view is the second-most photographed view in the world? John was very active in baseball and ended up as a statewide umpire, basketball referee and local historian. He also served on town and sports committees. He passed in April and is dearly missed. Beverly Lessard Hoover’s husband John has also passed through the pearly gates. He was a delight. Bev lives in the Charleston, SC, area after their retirement from the big time. The alumni office also received the sad news that Priscilla Hartwell Hansen passed away on April 27. In June, there was a Red Blazer luncheon in Concord where Jan, Mary Lou Gilman Sawyer and Mary Beth Crouch Robinson met to play catchup on news and gossip.

Mary Lou was in her summer place to have some New Hampshire air help clean out the Florida air! Sadly, Mary Beth’s husband Edwin “Win” Robinson passed away this spring and is sorely missed. Jan’s news: Bill Haubrich and wife Jane ’52 and the Grants still live in the Concord Heights, while Doris Lunneau is still on the other side of town. Phil Yeaton still entertains the Pembroke Academy group at the Grappone Center in Concord. Jan, meanwhile, reports she is watching the building of a new home to get away from the horrendous traffic on Route 3. Until next time, go UNH! ◆

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The ever-expanding campus was busy with alumni activity on June 1 when the Fabulous Fifties Committee met to work on next year’s reunion, which now includes all the 1950s classes and has the university’s enthusiastic endorsement. Note that the first day of the reunion, May 31, will be on a Friday with a full schedule of activities planned for those of you who can only stay a day. But the reunion will continue through Saturday, ending on Sunday. Disabilities, walking problems and health issues are being considerately considered. So, stay strong, take your pills and let’s meet in Durham!

It’s going to be fun! Classmates at this year’s June 1 Wildcat Luncheon included Jere Lundholm, Sally Jobes Sutherland, Jean Stockwell Strong, Joan Comolli Barnes and yours truly. The sad news department: After a 16-month battle with myelodysplastic syndrome, Phyllis Johnson VanSiclen died on May 29. She and husband Harry had moved in February

Mark your calendars, 1950s graduates: Harriet Forkey ’54 is leading the charge to plan a “Fabulous Fifties” celebration for UNH members of the classes of 1950–1959 during Reunion Weekend 2019. Come celebrate an eventful decade that saw UNH’s first PhD programs and Phi Beta Kappa graduates, the dedication of Dimond Library, the opening of the MUB — and much more!

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from Boothbay Harbor, ME, to an assisted living facility in Ridgefield, CT, to be nearer family. Phyllis was an English literature major. Dr. James Skillings, who had a dental practice for many years in Andover, MA, died March 14. An ATO, he majored in bacteriology. After serving in the Air Force as a first lieutenant, he studied dentistry at McGill. During his career, he was a clinical instructor in dentistry at Tufts, a member of the MA Dental Society and the American Academy of Dental Science and was a fellow of both the American College and the International College of Dentists. Jim was known for believing that most dogs are the only ones in the world who can do no wrong and was seldom seen without the family’s Gordon setter. Priscilla Allen Mather, who transferred from Smith to UNH, where she met and married Bruce Mather, died Feb. 24 in Truro, MA. She travelled as an Army officer’s wife during his many assignments, and she and Bruce raised two sons. A graduate of the Thompson School, Ted Putnam of Charlestown, NH, died Jan. 30. He was a lifelong dairy farmer and enjoyed growing crops and working forestland. A Charlestown selectman for nine years, he was also a director of Yankee Farm Credit and the NH Electric Co-op and a member of the NH Timberland Association. After earning a bachelor’s in English, David Ladd of North Andover, MA, who died Dec. 5, 2017, served in the Air Force for three years as a first lieutenant. His varied work experience at

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Carlton “Bim” Allen, passed away on Dec. 15. Bim had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease but had remained in many ways the “kindhearted, easygoing” personality many of his classmates would remember. A gifted athlete, Bim played football and later lacrosse for UNH — as well as tennis, despite having never picked up a tennis racket before college.

He also ran cross country and blazed trails as the first UNH student to speak at a UNH graduation. He loved UNH and remained in touch with many classmates and teammates over the years. While we surely can’t do him the same justice that former class secretary Ruthie Maynard — who spoke with Bim and Tuni regularly before she passed away shortly before Bim — would have, we offer our deepest condolences to his family and class. John “Jack” H. Jacobsmeyer Jr., retired major general of the Air Force, passed away on May 24. After graduating with a bachelor’s in electrical engineering and as a distinguished military graduate of the ROTC program, he entered active duty with an assignment to missile and flight testing. He served 29 years as an air force officer, including serving in Saigon during the Vietnam War supervising combat communications. The last nine years of his career were spent with the North American Air Defense Command and as vice director of the Defense Communications Agency. His awards include the Legion of Merit and the Distinguished Service Medal. After retiring in 1981, he settled in Northwood, NH, in a now 232-year-old farmhouse to operate Spring Run Farm, provided defense consulting services and supported town affairs, including as selectman and water district commissioner. He is remembered as “a man with many more projects to accomplish than could ever be finished, and he would have had it no other way.” Survivors include his wife Patricia McDonough Jacobsmeyer ’54, brother William and children Joanne ’79, Jay, Susan ’83, John Henry III ’86, grandchildren and great-grandchild. ◆

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Minute Maid in Florida, United Fruit, K & E Advertising and the William Underwood Co. led to his career as president, CEO and chairman of the board of Wiggins Airways. Since his years in the Air Force, his passion for flying had never stopped. Missing classmates: Does anyone know the whereabouts of Allbon Austin, Alan Stevens, Charles Ayers, Barbara Holteen Smith, Charles Blackwood, Leonard Scott, Joan Gurich Bowen, Allen Price, William Brady, L. Lee Parker, Ann Crompton Carberry, James Owen, Donald Carignan, Flora Andrews O’Connor or Beatrice Newell Carman? If so, please let me know or notify the alumni office. Many thanks. ◆

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21 Melody Terrace Dover, NH 03820, (603) 343-2364 clark603@yahoo.com

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Please keep us informed of any changes of address, email or phone so we can update you on our big reunion in 2019! Phys-ed major Jean Swett Sickles wrote that she found the curriculum meaningful and the instruction outstanding at UNH. It served her purpose for her career teaching physical education and coaching various teams in CT, TX, MA and ME. She currently continues to busy herself with athletic endeavors. She has enjoyed biking on many trails across the U.S., the most exciting being a three-day excursion in Moab on the White Rim Trail. She has also gathered a group of ladies to join her

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on two bike trips, which included camping, hiking and biking. Tennis became a favorite summer pastime after her husband Porter built a clay tennis court in1965 on their summer camp property. It did not take long to develop a pool of tennis players to schedule matches and make new friends. UNH gave her the courage and confidence to entice others to take part in a healthy lifestyle. John Hood passed away in Lakewood, NJ, Sept.

25, 2017. He was an economics major and a member of Sigma Beta, Outing Club, Blue Circle, Band and Glee Club. He served as an artillery officer in the Army and earned a master’s degree at UDenver. His career was in the transportation industry. Roger Saunders wrote that he and wife Addie had taken a five-day walking tour of Old Quebec City during the summer with Road Scholar, which was founded by a couple of UNH faculty members years ago! Jean Davis Lear passed away Oct. 16, 2017. She majored in accounting and was family service coordinator at Lackland AFB while her husband of 63 years, Robert Lear, was serving in the Air Force. After moving to Claremont, NH, she worked as branch secretary for the General Adjustment Bureau and served as trustee for the Fiske Free Library. She is survived by Robert. Edward Rollins passed away on Oct. 20, 2017, in Laconia, NH. He completed the applied agriculture program at Thompson School and for 34 years was a hardworking, self-employed egg farmer in Contoocook. He is survived by two daughters and grandchildren. Recently, I had a mini-reunion with fellow Theta U’s Betty Duffett Horton, Polly Harris Salter and Marge Kenyon Salathe. Polly’s daughter

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Paula, who joined us, was very patient as she listened to some of our stories of crazy fun times in our room on the fourth floor of Smith and senior year at Theta U. John Burpee passed away in November 2017. He was a member of Scabbard & Blade, the football team and winter and spring track teams and was co-chair of the Mil Arts Ball. He later earned a master’s in psychology at UNH. He was a captain in the Army, served in Germany and eventually worked for L.L. Bean in several positions.

I have been in touch with Pat Gonyer Chaisson, who said she had read in an earlier magazine about her fellow music majors Nancy Paulsen Winsor and Ed Madden as well as Ed’s wife Kathy. She also remembers Dick Schmigle, Paul Amico and Bill Colella. Sadly, Bill died in December 2017 at his home in Chelmsford, MA, and was predeceased by his wife Gail Shawcross. Pat’s husband Dick died in July 2016. He did not attend UNH, but they were both charter members of the UNH Parents Club: Their son Dan, son-in-law Joe and granddaughter Jacqui are UNH grads. She has five children and nine grands, some of whom live in the area. Pat enjoyed the recent reunion and hopes to see many classmates next year! Also from Pat, word that Sara Jane Cummings Corson passed away. She was a music major and member of Concert Choir and Voice Ensemble. She was a teacher and choral director in Northboro, MA, where she met and married Lloyd Corson, also a music teacher, accomplished pianist and organist. They later moved to North Conway, continuing their music careers. She is survived by Lloyd, a daughter and two granddaughters. Jean Gilmore Miller wrote that her husband Tom died in February 2017. Jean tried to spend that winter at their home in Castine, ME, but eventually purchased a home in Fountain Lakes, AZ, where she spends seven months with summers in Castine. In Arizona, she sees Kathy and Ed Madden and is enjoying reconnecting with fellow UNHers! It was great to see so many classmates at Reunion on Friday, June 1! Those who I saw at our class meeting were Marge Kenyon Salathe, Bob Schroeder, Betty Duffett Horton, Lee Perkins, Connie Miltimore Best, Joyce Hiller, Deb Atherton Atwood, Bob Sampson, Val Wilcox England, Pat Gonyer Chaisson and, of course, Harriet Forkey. (I hope I didn’t overlook anyone!) Let’s make Reunion 2019 great! You can help by contacting UNH friends you haven’t seen at past events and asking them to join us for a great event.

Contact me if you need address info. Go Wildcats! ◆

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Marge and Bill Johnston

May – Nov.: 40502 Lenox Park Dr. Novi, MI 48377, (248) 859-4084 Dec. – Apr.: 4940 Westchester Court #3703, Naples, Florida 34105 (239) 213-0140; margej34@gmail.com

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Hi Classmates! We hope you all have enjoyed a beautiful summer and fall season. Just before going to press, we received an update from the Reunion Committee for our Fabulous ’50s Reunion in 2019. Their last meeting was June 1. Len and Penny Siter Willie were our 1955 class representatives. Chan Sanborn and wife Ann

and Lorna Kimball were still returning from Florida and could not make the gathering. The date for this exciting event is May 31 to June 2, 2019. You will be receiving information and a phone call or two. Please plan to attend! This should be a marvelous time to meet and greet fellow classmates and college friends. There will be a group of ’55ers going to Durham for the UNHColgate football game on Sept. 8. Marilyn ’58 and Tom Tracy are coordinating the event. We have received the following obituary notices listed in alphabetical order: John “Jack” W. Bone died Feb. 11 in Dorchester, MA. He received his bachelor’s and master’s in education from UNH and was a principal in Londonderry, NH, and Westford, MA. Norris S. Cowen died April 29 in Conway, SC, and was originally from Keene, NH. Arthur Gamash died Nov. 28, 2017, in Port Angeles, WA, and was originally from Nashua, NH. Eleanor Killam died New Year’s Day 2018 in Springfield, MA. She was originally from Whitefield, NH, and received her bachelor’s and master’s degree from UNH and a doctorate from Yale. A great mathematician, she taught at UMass for 31 years. Frank B. Pinney died Dec. 10, 2017. He was born in Montpelier, VT, raised in Portsmouth, NH, and graduated from UNH and RPI. Gerald O. Rheault died March 26 in Manchester, NH. After two years in the Army, he was a stockbroker with Morgan Stanley for 30 years. Herbert G. Schurian died June 26, 2016, in Melrose, MA. Corrine E. Stevens, who was born and raised in Rockland, died Dec. 22, 2017, in Falmouth, MA. At the Southwest Florida UNH Alumni Luncheon on Feb. 7, a group of sad alumni said goodbye to President Mark Huddleston. He and his wife Emma Bricker were presented with lots of gifts and tributes. We will miss him as our 19th president of UNH, serving from 2008 until June 2018, the longest-serving president in UNH’s 151-year history. Wonderful job, Mark! We would love to hear news from you, and you have our permission to stick up reminders to yourselves with the dates for our 2019 reunion. At our age, we all need lots of reminding! ◆

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5 Timber Lane, Unit 213 Exeter, NH 03833 joanholroyd@gmail.com

Eldon L. Johnson 1955 – 1961

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At his own request, there was no formal inauguration of Eldon Johnson as the university’s 10th president.

A strong advocate of public higher education, Johnson oversaw a substantial increase in salaries for teaching and research faculty and a five-fold increase in federal research funding.

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I am writing this in June, as a much-needed overnight shower is clearing away for another bright and summery day with the promise of more to come! As classmates have not provided any news for this letter, I will fill you in on yesterday’s happy event attended by six Chi Omega sisters. We met for lunch at Wentworth-by-the-Sea to celebrate a visit from Carolyn “Cal” Foshay Opie of Cambria, CA. Also attending were Jane Bradley Harrington, Anne Seidler Russell, Barbara Entwistle White and Shirley Gibson Geoffrion. We had much catching-up to do, especially since several of us had not seen Cal since graduation. With so many years to cover, each of us had family events to share. Of course, reminiscing about life on campus in the ’50s had us all chuckling, Must say, for a group of octogenarians, we are still hale and hearty, pursuing activities such as fitness, golf, tennis, swimming and/or boating and sailing.

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As you’re all aware, our joint class reunion is less than a year away! Hope we can surpass attendance records — at least those of recent years. The weekend will offer a very broad choice of activities. For those who haven’t seen the campus in a while, a tour will be a must. Your classmates want to know your news, so please email or write to the address above. ◆

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Nancy Glowacki

117 Woodbridge Drive Hendersonville, NC 28739 (828) 606-5201 jonaglowacki@morrisbb.net

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Dear classmates and friends: “Life is fragile and short and worth all the loving presence we can bring to it” — Rebecca Kushins. We are mindful that we can cherish the past, embrace the present and plan for the future.

How are we all doing with that? Remember that classmates and friends from UNH are a link to, and a support for, these phases. Reach out! At the recent Reunion Weekend in June, four classmates from 1957 showed up as a link to the rest of us: Class President Fritz Armstrong, Jim and Carly Hellen and David Bowles.

Thank you! Ira Carmen, living in Cortlandt Manor, NY, wrote he had visited the Tom Brady Sports Therapy Center in Foxboro, MA, to receive instruction in the Brady “pliability” training method. He also provided schooling for the staff in the fitness regimen of a competitive 83-year-old distance runner: himself. He’s been on the

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roads for 42 years and stands #1 among his age peers in the mid-Hudson Valley. Way to go, Ira! In this “moment,” I am in Hendersonville, NC, recording some 60-plus songs I’ve written and performed from 1980 ongoing.

This combines vocal and piano, a legacy of poems (lyrics) and music for my family. It’s a challenge and a lot of fun!

Better late than never! We honor the passing of several classmates. Edward E. Hazen Jr., PhD, Dec. 5, 2017, in College Station, TX; Barbara Fox Duffy on Feb. 1 in Cedarburg, WI; William “Bill” G. Hooper, March 7 in New Boston, NH, and Robert James Kearney on March 18 in Moscow, ID. Each person left an amazing legacy of their individual life journeys, their families and all that they achieved and loved doing. Send your news and ideas! Find an excuse to visit campus for a reacquainting connection! Save the Date: May 31 to June 2, 2019 for a Fabulous ’50s Reunion for all alumni who graduated from UNH during the 1950s! ◆

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Peggy Ann Shea

100 Tennyson Ave. Nashua, NH 03062 peggy.shea@alumni.unh.edu

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Our 60th class reunion was held the first weekend of June, and everyone had a chance to catch up and revisit the campus. From the comments I heard, it seems that everyone enjoyed themselves with the class march, luncheon, lobster bake, picnic and various tours on the busy schedule. The highlight for most

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of us was the class dinner on Saturday hosted at the home of Mary Ann and David Chase on Durham Point Road. A display of class memorabilia at the Chases’ home even included one of those infamous beanies! A poignant memorial service was led by Jim Twaddle in remembrance of the 276 known class members who are no longer with us. The names of those members were listed on pamphlets available to all attendees. The memorial service was followed by an informal class picture and dinner. Class members who attended the various activities included Lois Jesseman Armstrong, Richard Aronson, Deborah Duke Burnham, Caryl Slanetz Carle, David and Mary Ann Stone Chase, Janice Walker Church, Susan Craig Hastings, William Hazen, Frank and Mary Todt Johnson, Bob and Bobbie Lachance Juster, Roland Lajoie, Patricia Reilly Langs, Doug and Nancy Linscott MacKenzie, John McDowell, William Nelson, Channing Philbrick, William Randle, John and Jane Brown Rasmussen, John Root, Ellen Kelly Schulten, Thayer Shafer,

Lyn Kuntz Slanetz, Charles Swanson, Stephen Tompkins, James Twaddle, Vangel Zissi and myself. I tried to get updated information from many of the class members but had to settle for information promised to be forthcoming for future newsletters. Bill Nelson, our president, said he has continued to travel to various countries. John Root and his wife Gail are leaving for a Road Scholar trip to Ireland this summer. In other news, Doug Cowie wrote that when he left UNH he received a teaching fellowship at Rutgers while earning a master’s in mathematics. He taught and worked in applied mathematics until he retired in 2006 and now lives in Portland, ME. Rod Dyer wrote that he had to be out of the state at the time of the reunion but “would not trade those memories for the world.” He has retired as active chairman of the Bank of NH but is still practicing law as a senior partner of Wescott Law. Marlen Mapes has been extremely active singing in two choirs and was going to be participating in a July 4 Cantata with the Myrtle Beach, SC, All-City Choir. She is very active with her church and with the Calabash Lions Club. Several of our classmates have passed away recently. Louis Bergeron of Rochester, NH, and Palmetto, FL, had an extremely active life: initially marketing representative for Fireman’s Fund Insurance Co., then president, treasurer and owner of Bergeron Insurance Agency, Inc., in Rochester, serving in the NH State Senate for 10 years and then serving as commissioner of the NH Insurance Department for an additional 10 years and many other activities associated with insurance company organizations and banks in Rochester and Boston.

Pierre Victor Brunelle of Port Orange, FL, passed

Peggy Ann Shea ‘58 received an honorary doctorate from the College of Engineering and Physical Sciences at UNH’s 2018 commencement in May. In the weeks leading up to her 60th reunion, Shea was honored for her lifetime of research. Among her scientific achievements, she developed the geomagnetic cutoff rigidity tables that are the international standard used by NASA and the FAA to determine radiation exposure of astronauts and airline crews in flight.

— 1958 away in February. Retiring as a colonel in the Army, he was qualified to fly fixed-wing multiengine aircraft and helicopters and served two combat tours in Vietnam.

Pierre received many military awards and decorations during his distinguished career, including the Legion of Merit, two Bronze Stars and two Meritorious Service Medals. George I. French of St. Simons Island, GA, passed away in January. He was a computer programmer with his own consulting firm specializing in small IBM mainframe systems. He spent most of his life in Amesbury, MA, and was very active in local organizations. Richard Penwell Gleason of Osterville, MA, excelled as a three-sport athlete when at UNH and was elected to the UNH 100 Club Athletic Hall of Fame in 1999. Dick taught history at Barnstable High School where he coached various sports. He was also active in his community through government, religion and education. Mary Coolidge Hastings Kaupin of Enfield, CT, and Wellfleet, MA, earned a master’s degree from the Teachers College, Columbia University, and taught for more than 20 years. She was active in local and national teachers’ associations as well as other community groups in Enfield. John Reynolds of Sanford, ME, worked for the U.S. Forest Service and for many years at Western Electric in human resources. He also served as chief of police in Lyman, NH. Finally, on a happy note, I was extremely proud to receive an honorary doctorate from the UNH College of Engineering and Physical Sciences at the May graduation ceremony in Durham for my lifetime research on the interplay between cosmic rays, solar particles and the Earth’s magnetic field. See photo above! ◆

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Diane “Dini” Woods

Riverwoods, 7 Riverwoods Drive #D207, Exeter, NH 03833 dianewoods21@comcast.net

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Did not receive any news for this edition. So, my own news — hogging the space! — is that I came back in June from a marvelous Adriatic, Ionian and Aegean seas trip on a small, very comfortable 50-passenger vessel, traveling and visiting sites/sights along the

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Dalmatian-Croatian Coast, from Split all the way to Greece, including Corfu, Delphi and Athens. Many amazing sights and fascinating history. After the 14-day tour with Grand Circle, my traveling friend and I went on to spend five delightful days in Santorini, the volcanic island in Greece with an awful lot of charm and ancient history. Wow! I managed to walk two to three miles a day over pretty rough terrain and really surprised myself! I feel in good shape to tackle life back here at RiverWoods, the excellent CCRC where I have lived for the past year. I am enjoying life here and have taken up among other things, collage-making. Also, I am enjoying a very stimulating poetry group. Hey! Do you realize that we have a 60th reunion coming up in 2019? To be specific, May 31 to June 2. So, where do you stand with this? Do you think you want to attend? Do you have suggestions? I have suggested that we may wish to have a gathering/meeting that describes what is going on with the undergraduate research program that we have been supporting with our 50th Reunion class gift. I would love to hear your thoughts and so would our reunion facilitator, Corena Garnas, if you would care to call her at (603) 862-4875. By the way, the average attendance at UNH 60th reunions is 40 people including guests. Can we do better than that? I get that I live very close to Durham, which is not the case for most of you, and that travel can be difficult and even challenging, but if our Norwegian classmates can make it — and I think they are planning on it! — how about you? ◆

Massachusetts historian and trial lawyer Mark Bodanza recently published a book about Lou D’Allesandro, who has served as a New Hampshire state senator since 1998. Based on interviews and personal conversations, “Lou D’Allesandro: Lion of the New Hampshire Senate: Thoughts for Presidential Hopefuls” touches on the challenges and opportunities of Estelle “Stella” Belanger D’Alessandro’s Landry 315 Chickory Trail early years and Mullica Hill, NJ 08062 shines a light stella.landry@alumni.unh.edu on his long and successful To begin with, and most importantly, the Class of 1960 careers in both joins with the UNH community in thanking President politics and Mark Huddleston, who retired in June, for his 11 years higher educaof devoted service to the university. I met President tion in New Hampshire.

Huddleston at two alumni receptions in the Philadelphia Congratulations area, and his enthusiasm for the university’s success on the was truly forthcoming. In a conversation with Henry well-deserved “Butch” Roy, he informed me that he, John Haslam, honor, Sen. D’Allesandro!

Ted Sobozenski and Peter Davis visit with Peter

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Smilikis regularly, and he mentioned that he is in good spirits. Sam Paul left a message with my husband saying that his and Sally Anthony Paul’s grandson, Nicholas Paul, completed his freshman year at UNH. He enjoyed his first year — especially his grandparents visiting him and bringing him to Newick’s. He is now looking forward to beginning his sophomore year in September. I received an email from Martha Taylor of Saco, ME, in February telling me that Kay Angelides Bournakel had passed away in January. I remember Kay well as we both lived in Scott Hall. She majored in art, an area for which she had both passion and talent. Martha is fine and is still busy with her many activities. She will enjoy her return trips to Bedford and Nashua in her new Buick and is looking forward to a 2020 reunion. Although these following names appeared in the spring issue’s “In Memoriam” section, I will provide additional information.

Paul S. Raymond of Keene, NH, died on Dec. 5, 2017.

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on Dec. 10, 2017, in Salem, NH, where she and Wallace, her husband of 62 years, raised their four sons. Nancy had been very active in the Salem community. She also served in the NH Legislature for two terms. Charles Sibley of Worcester, MA, passed away on Dec. 11, 2017. He served in the Korean War before attending UNH. Later, he completed Navy Officer Candidate School and saw two tours of duty in Vietnam, receiving a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart. Kenneth C. Bowlen of Barrington, NH, died on Dec. 12, 2017, following a brief illness. He majored in political science and spent 38 years as an educator, retiring from the Portsmouth schools. Jeremy L. Pendleton Sr. of Webster, NH, died peacefully in his sleep on Dec. 28, 2017. Jerry graduated with a dairy science degree. He served for many years on the board of directors of the Hopkinton State Fair Association. His favorite destination was Daytona Beach, FL, especially during bike week, where he enjoyed meeting and befriending many people. And finally, as I am writing this newsletter, it is early June in southern New Jersey where we are enjoying native asparagus and fresh strawberries. We especially are looking forward to the corn, tomatoes, peaches, blueberries and other wonderful produce from this Garden State. ◆

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Pat Gagne Coolidge

P.O. Box 736 Rollinsford, NH 03869 pat.coolidge@alumni.unh.edu

In April, Massachusetts historian, trial lawyer and writer Mark Bodanza published a book about Lou D’Allesandro, who has served as a New Hampshire state senator since 1998. Based on interviews and personal conversations, “Lou D’Allesandro: Lion of the New Hampshire Senate: Thoughts for Presidential Hopefuls” touches on the challenges and opportunities of D’Alessandro’s early years and shines a light on his long and successful careers in both politics and higher education in New Hampshire. The book is available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble and at markbodanza.com.

Lou has just filed for reelection and has served for 20 years, becoming dean of the Senate. Congratulations on the well-deserved honor, Senator D’Allesandro!

Sadly, Forrest “Woody” Haselton who resided in Ogunquit, ME, and Vero Beach, FL, passed away at home on May 18, surrounded by his family. Woody graduated with a degree in political science and then served in the Air Force before beginning a career at Sears and Roebuck that would include becoming retail president. He served on the boards of Quaker State/ Pennzoil and The Boy Scouts of America and also volunteered for The United Way Foundation. He is survived by his wife, children and grandchildren. ◆

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Judy Dawkins Kennedy

34 Timber Ridge Rd. Alton Bay, NH 03810, 603-875-5979 nfkjakttlc.net

Carol Flood Richardson, Jean Rumazza Twombly and I, Judy Dawkins Kennedy, enjoyed the Class of 1963’s 55th reunion. The wonderful, warm sunny day made the trip to Appledore, Isle of Shoals a delight.

The hosts were very welcoming and informative. The

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renovated Hamilton Smith Building is a goldmine of electronically enhanced learning. The murals in the large rooms are spectacularly restored and were not seen at all when we were there. Carol and I led the ’62 contingent in the alumni parade to lunch. Jean Ann, Carol and I enjoyed the clam-lobster dinner at the twoyear-old Hamel Recreation Center beside the beautiful renovated outdoor pool. At the Class of 1963’s dinner in the Whittemore Center’s Skybox Lounge, Doug ’64 and Stella ’63 Scamman’s grandson David was our waiter. He did an exceptional job. It is always a treat to meet more friends at the reunion for our spouses, Jim Twombly ’63 and Nelson Kennedy ’63, the year after ours. Please send or call in news! ◆

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Alice Miller Batchelor

110 Dillingham Ave., #301 Falmouth, MA 02540, (508) 548-2221; a.m.batchelor@alumni.unh.edu

A surprise hit me when I read the Spring 2018 issue of UNH Magazine. On page 63, in an article “Back to the Farm,” I saw a picture of … myself. Whoa! Not me, but she sure looked like I did 10 years ago, which is how much younger she is than me: Lorraine Stuart Merrill ’73, of Stratham, NH, could be my double. I emailed her to tell her so and sent an (old) picture for her to compare. She asked if I knew Doug ’64 and Stella Emanuel Scamman of Stratham, and I was able to tell her I had just been in touch with them. They still farm, are restoring a 1750-era barn — one of three — on their property and are involved in Seacoast political organizations and the Stratham Historical Society, and Doug with the Exeter YMCA. They couldn’t be with us for our 55th Reunion due to a calendar conflict. Jack and Pam Edsall Stewart of Jasper, AR, are reluctantly edging up on their “after-goals” retirement. They’ve been deeply involved with Buffalo National River Partners and were featured in that organization’s spring newsletter. Gerald Mark still owns Caring Gifts at 18 North Main Street in Concord, NH. After 30 years involved with the Freese Brothers Band, he has hung up his trumpet and also retired from teaching music in the Concord Union School District. Grandchildren, biking, hiking and frequent attendance at UNH jazz concerts keep him entertained. Very sadly, another musical era has ended: Ron Shaw of our beloved classmate duo The Shaw Brothers passed away April 1. Susan Robinson Long and I have been in touch with his twin, Rick, who lives in the Seacoast area. Our class has also lost Donald H. Babcock Jr., who died Feb. 20 in Randolph, VT. I’ve been purging “old stuff” and rather than throw away some undergraduate issues of “Cat Tales,” one containing something written by Cedric Stanley Flower of Charlton, MA, I contacted him, and he was glad to receive them. ◆

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Polly Ashton Daniels

3190 N. State Route 89A Sedona, AZ 86336 polly.daniels@alumni.unh.edu

³ 55TH REUNION ◆ MAY 31 – JUN 2, 2019 ³ That time again! Do I “dread” receiving word from the class notes editor that a column will be due? You nailed it: I do! Only because I’ve got so very little to tell any

of you about anything! In my mind I threaten to “make it all up” or use a very old column to see if anyone notices! Thankfully, there are always those who have a deep love for travel and just “do it!” Anne Thomson is one of those folks who has any number of countries under her belt or stuffed in her backpack. Her most recent excursion was to Hawaii — she had been there before, but one prior to that was to Peru to visit Lima, Cusco, Yucay and, of course, The Lost City of The Incas: Machu Picchu. Anne visited markets to learn about Peru’s 3,000 varieties of potatoes, 400 varieties of chilis and 30 types of corn, wandered through museums and traveled to fishing communities and the Catacombs of San Francisco, viewed the Southern Cross as seen in the heavens above the Sacred Valley and visited the salt mines, artisan markets and even succeeded in weaving a little basket. Aside from learning to make ceviche and tippling a few pisco sours, she took a deep breath and sampled cuy, better known as guinea pig. I know all this ’cuz I went with her! We would both highly recommend any trip under the auspices of Road Scholar. A good read is the book “The Story of Elderhostel,” which ultimately became Road Scholar. You will learn that the programs were created at your alma mater in 1975 under the leadership of then-UNH President Eugene Mills. Sally Broman Curran wrote to let us know of the passing of her husband and our classmate, Ron Curran. “Sadly, I write to tell you that Ron died after a brief illness on June 20,” she writes, adding, “Our days at UNH were happy.” Paul Larkin sent a note to the magazine after learning of the passing of James “Jim” Rich on Dec. 2, 2017. “Jim Rich was a gifted athlete and an outstanding student in the engineering school. He had a successful career in investment and real estate as well as other pursuits. Jim was inducted to the UNH sports hall of fame in 2004,” Paul writes, adding, “He still is among basketball leaders in scoring and rebounding records at UNH in the days when freshman could not play varsity sports. After his senior season, he was mentioned as an All-Academic basketball player by the NCAA. To me and others that played with Jim, he was beyond just a terrific player: He was a good friend, a great teammate, a gentleman, a great parent to his two boys and a first-class representative of the class of 1964 and our university.” Here’s hoping you will send me your travel news! Out of the country, across the U.S. or in your home state. Stay well! ◆

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President John McConnell was just two months into his job when U.S. congressman Louis Wyman called on the university board of trustees to fire professor Gwynne Daggett for allegedly promoting communist ideas to student members of the Youth Peace Fellowship.

Warned by campus faculty union president and economics professor Sam Rosen that firing Professor Daggett would be viewed as a violation of academic freedom, McConnell and the trustees took no action against Daggett, though they did for a time withhold a pay raise.

Jacqueline Flynn Thompson

PO Box 302, 197 Cross Hill Road Wilmot, NH 03287 thompson2004@tds.net

Sadly, the news in this column tells of the deaths of our classmates. Nancy Gates Smith died on Dec.13, 2017. She retired from the Connecticut River Bank after 47 years. She lived in Charlestown, NH. Nancy Linda Dodge passed away on Jan. 20 after battling cancer. She earned an MLS at Simmons College and became an academic librarian at St Michael’s College and NH Vocational Technical College at Portsmouth/Stratham. She became fascinated with genealogy and in researching her ancestors. Richard Ahrendt died on Feb. 4 at his home in Homewood, IL. Dick played baseball and basketball at

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In the 1970s, President Thomas Bonner proposed having two publications, a magazine that would be devoted to articles about teaching and research and a tabloid newspaper that would feature alumni news and class letters, the magazine being published one month and the tabloid the next.

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UNH. He was proud of his selection in 2004 to the UNH Athletic Hall of Fame and the “Legends” club. Dick was signed to a baseball contract by the Chicago Cubs, which was followed by a career in marketing and in executive positions. John Clifford, DMD, passed away peacefully on Feb. 17 at his home in Rye Beach after a brief illness. He completed his DMD at Tufts University. John established his dental practice in Portsmouth, where he practiced family dentistry until retiring in 2001. Sharon Avis Newsky of South Berwick, ME, died on Feb. 27 after an eight-month battle with melanoma. She established New Sky Greenhouses in Durham, which became one of the largest wholesale bedding plant growers in New England. Sharon was also an artist. Bruce Hansen passed away on March 23 in Haverhill, MA. After graduation, he enlisted in the Army and served in Panama, becoming a paratrooper. Bruce also began Hansen’s Christmas Tree Farm in his home town. He was a hydrologist with the U.S. Geological Survey for over 40 years and was an avid model train enthusiast. Janet I. Jones of Portsmouth died March 24 in Fort Walton Beach, FL. She became a mental health counselor and worked for the Department of Defense for 24 years, retiring in 1997.

In her retirement, Janet worked in multiple forums promoting wellness, empowerment, cultural identity awareness, social justice, multiculturalism and world peace initiatives. We send our sincere condolences to all the families and friends of our deceased classmates. Please send good news to me for the winter edition. ◆

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Diane Deering

921 Deerwander Rd. Hollis Center, ME 04042 dndeering@yahoo.com

Greetings! We’re pleased that our 50th inspired the following notes from classmates. George Donatello writes from Venice, FL, where he loves his golf and playing his guitar at nursing homes and memory units with songs we loved at UNH. Married 51 years to his love Mary Lou Walsh, he and Mary have two children and eight grandkids. He fondly remembers his good football team under Joe Yukica and Bill Bowes — and the dim lights, sagging floors and dirt floors of their locker rooms — and afterglow at Theta Chi. Wayne Murray ’68 graduated from BU Law in 1972, and is still working at Deloitte Tax LLP in DC, where he specializes in spinoffs.

Five years ago, he took up mountain climbing and has mountaineered in the Himalayas of Nepal, Mt Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, Mt Aconcagua in South America and our American West! He reports the view from a lonely summit on a clear day is transforming! Al Laraway ’68 credits me with introducing him to his future wife, Nancy Truesdell ’70 who lived in Devine Hall with me. Al and I were hosts at Huddleston dining room when I informed him that Nancy was asking about him. They recently celebrated their 49th anniversary, have two children and reside in The Villages, FL. On a sad note, we report the death of classmate David A Basque of Tarpon Springs FL. David graduated with a degree in psychology followed by a master’s in counseling from Fitchburg State.

He retired from his adjunct supervisor position in the

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Angela M. Piper

509 Weston Place DeBary, FL 32713 angelapiper28@gmail.com

For all of us who were there, Reunion Weekend 2018 was a very fun time. We attended classes and lectures on a variety of topics, feasted on Foster’s Clambake, toured the fraternity houses — but even more exciting were the connections we made with old friends and the new friends we met. There were about 80 of our classmates and spouses there who ate and danced Saturday night. Many thanks for a great job go out the fabulous reunion committee: Class Vice President Ron Bickford, Karolina Bodner, Jill Feldman Brandt, Priscilla Coffin, Michael Corbett, Chuck Doleac, Bill Esty, Sue Keener, Bruce McAdam, Donna Cheney McAdam, John Rodat, Jan Sheen and Mary Ellen Wright. They made sure we were all calling friends and spreading the excitement about our 50th Reunion. There are a few people who came to reunion for the first time and are very glad they did. It is so unbelievable that we have been out that long, and now some of our grandchildren are old enough to be attending UNH. To top it off, the reunion committee had a Golden Granite printed, and we thank everyone who contributed information. It is very interesting to see the pictures of each of us: 1968 graduation picture and the now pictures. I forgot to send anything for it, so I’ll add a little here: Class Secretary Angie Piper is still enjoying retirement in Florida. I play lots of tennis but have recently added golf to my activity list. I make lots of quilts and even work in a small quilt shop two days a week as well as teaching some classes on quilting and sewing. Once in a while, I ride the bike out of the garage, but the days of 25 miles a morning are probably gone. Kudos to Jeff Hatch who still seems to fit that in! Now the big request: Not being on Facebook or any other social media, I am not aware of any of your adventures and activities. So, I plead with you all to send a note via email, maybe even a letter in the mailbox — real mailbox — would be wonderful. Some of you even live nearby in Florida, and I bet many of you are connected to an alumni group. Send mail, call, visit!

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Jim DesRochers

1433 19th Ave. Phoenix, AZ 85009 jim.desrochers@icloud.com

³ 50TH REUNION ◆ MAY 31 – JUN 2, 2019 ³ The alumni office was notified that Randy Mudge received the 2018 Clinton Sheer Award from the New Hampshire Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIANH). The award honors New Hampshire architects for their commitment to the community and for design that exemplifies excellence at the highest level. Randy’s firm, Randall T. Mudge & Associates Architects, is located in Lyme, NH. After graduating with a fine arts degree with our class, Randy went on

to receive degrees in architecture at Montana State and Yale. Early in his career, he worked for Cesar Pelli, assisting with the design and development for the renovation and expansion of the Museum of Modern Art in NYC. Many of his projects in New Hampshire’s Upper Valley have won AIANH awards, including Dartmouth Hitchcock’s Child Care Center and Dartmouth College’s Corey Ford Rugby Clubhouse. He’s also won a New Hampshire Preservation Alliance Award for rehabilitation work on the state’s library. ◆

Stanley Plodzik ’69, ’73G shared this photo of himself with his son Jon ’89 and grandson Kevin ’18 at Kevin’s Jan Harayda graduation in 10 North Section St., #105 May. Stan was Fairhope, AL 36532 among the first haraydajan@alumni.unh.edu 13 students to Our 50th Reunion is less than two years away! A few graduate from UNH’s then-new of us have started working with the alumni relations nursing program staff to make this our best reunion ever, and we need in 1969 and your help. Please email me if you’d like to serve on the served for 24 committee or work on any aspect of the June 5-7, 2020, years as chief nurse and vice weekend. We need volunteers to help with any or all of president of a variety of tasks, such as planning the events, reaching patient services out to people who might attend, raising money for our at Portsmouth class gift and preparing a Golden Granite booklet with Regional updates on classmates and photos of our UNH days.

Hospital. Jon served as Don Waterman sent a great note that, he said, “I’ve UNH’s director been planning to send for the past 10 years.” Don chose of dining for UNH after attending Boys State in Durham in high school. several years After getting a degree in animal science, he worked on and is now food service director his family farm, then as a property manager for a comfor Dartmouth pany that oversaw affordable housing and later as a loan College. Kevin officer at the Wells River Savings Bank in Wells River, VT. earned a degree He retired in 2015, and his handsome post-and-beam in finance and barn found a new home on Martha’s Vineyard. (You can accounting from Paul College and see it at marthasvineyardagriculturalsociety.org under is working for the heading “The Property.”) Don and his wife, Judi, the GW Group, have three children and nine grandchildren, and they’ve the private taken some memorable trips — most recently to the wealth advisory division of Grand Canyon. Don has also reconnected with UNH Ameriprise, in classmates including Steve Gioia and Bill Cray, and he Newton, MA. noted, “Together, we have either attended Phi Kappa “We are forever Theta reunions and/or hiked in the White Mountains.” grateful for the He ended with a happy thought: “In looking back over education that UNH provided the past 50 years, I feel fortunate that my short week for all three of at Boys State in 1965 along with a degree from UNH us for both preshelped shape a successful career.” Mike Franz and ent and future his wife love their new life in Montevideo and recently successes,” Stan says. received permanent residency status in Uruguay, “a

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lovely little country that is democratic and socially aware.” Mike wrote, “If you are interested in retiring to a foreign country, consider Uruguay … es muy tranquilo!”

We are sad to say that five classmates have died: Mary Colligan Enos, sister of Shirley Colligan Surgent ’73, Linda L. Frailey, Jane Horne, Thomas Lindsay and Bruce Reynolds. They had wonderfully full lives, so please search online for their obituaries if you’d like to know more than this space allows us to report. ◆

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Eugene Mills was the second UNH president to be promoted from within the UNH faculty. In the face of deep budget cuts, he was able to maintain and improve academic programs across the university, in part thanks to his support of a then-new focus on fundraising, and oversaw the expansion of the College of Engineering and UNH’s designation as a Sea Grant university.

Debbi Martin Fuller

276 River St. Langdon, NH 03602 (603) 835-6753 debbifuller3@gmail.com

James Zoller writes that his third book of poems, “Ash & Embers” was published in March by Cascade Books.

His first two books were “Living on the Flood Plain” and “Simple Clutter.” James is a professor of English and writing at Houghton College in New York. Dudley B. Killam Jr. passed away at the age of 70 in La Canada, CA, in December. He received his degrees in chemistry and mathematics from UNH and also held a master’s from Rochester Institute of Technology and studied meteorology at Texas A&M. He served 30 years in the Air Force, retiring with the rank of colonel. He worked at the jet propulsion laboratory and then in mission success and special projects. He and his wife Jennifer, also a retired Air Force major, had two children, Emily and Daniel. If anyone wants to make a donation in his honor, he requested that donations be sent to the International Waldenstrom’s Macroglobulinemia Foundation, which supports research into his wife’s rare form of lymphoma.

Melissa Lynn, who graduated with a bachelor’s in philosophy, died in December. She was an Army veteran who established a support group and meeting home for gender-variant persons in Waltham, MA, at a time when gender variance was little understood. She contributed much to the LGBTQ community and was asked to speak at Harvard Medical School as well as at many conferences in the U.S. and abroad. Richard E Olson also died in December. He earned his degree in English from UNH, served in the Navy during Vietnam and worked 35 years for IBM. He enjoyed cross-stitching and traveling and was a kind and patient friend, husband and father.

Dwight Alan Robie, who passed away on Feb. 28, worked for UNH Cooperative Extension as an educator for Merrimack County and as a salesman for Blue Seal Feeds across New England for 20 years. His last job was as a sales clerk for Fogg’s Hardware in Woodsville, NH. Dwight loved the outdoors, hunting, fishing, softball and dairy shows. He and his wife Deborah had a son, a daughter and four grandchildren. Barton R. Chamberlain of Wilmington, NC, passed away on March 15. He worked for the Walt Disney Company and lived in Florida until 2013, when he moved to Oak Island, NC. While there, he made many friends, worked in his garden, cared for his cats, went to the beach, rode in his convertible and worked on his master gardener’s certification. He loved supporting the Florida State Seminoles and the Tarheels of UNC, where his daughter attended school. Your faithful secretary will be traveling on a bucket-list trip to Alaska at the end of the month of May. Will tell you more about it next time! Until then, please write so I have more to publish than these lovely but sad obituaries. A lot of us are still out there doing stuff; I want to hear about it before rather than after. ◆

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Joyce Dube Stephens

33 Spruce Lane Dover, NH 03820 joycedube@comcast.net

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Susan Ackles Alimi

48 Fairview Drive Fryeburg, ME 04037 alimi@alumni.unh.edu

Robb Dimmick is program director for the nonprofit group Stages of Freedom in Providence, RI. “My passion is teaching both theater and jazz to urban youth as ways for them to connect to their personal identity and heritage and getting a sense of who they are.” Ron Goodspeed retired from Exeter Hospital after a career in community relations and physician recruitment. His knowledge of the local health system has been instrumental in selecting doctors who are a good fit. Ron and his wife Donna ’75 plan to travel. Steven Hurd and his hiking companion Bella recently finished climbing all 48 4,000-footers in the White Mountains. Steven is director of cardiopulmonary services at North Country Hospital in Newport, Vermont. Scott W. Murray was sworn in as U.S. attorney for New Hampshire. He has been a prosecutor throughout his legal career and was elected attorney for Merrimack County in 2010. Doug Purinton was elected into the South Carolina Track and Cross Country Coaches Hall of Fame. He’s still teaching and coaching high school in Spartanburg, SC, after 35 years. Sadly, James “Jimmy” Armour died Dec. 11, 2017. He had a decades-long career at the Marlboro Country Club and the American Legion. He also taught an afterschool culinary program at Assabet Valley. Jimmy loved vacationing with family on the Cape, Lake George and Hampton Beach. Ann Carol Schaldenbrand passed away Dec. 31. She worked many years as a registered nurse. Ann loved the coast and collecting sea glass and anything antique. Her favorite time was spent with family. Nancy Jean Schneider passed away March 10. For 27 years at the University of Maine Nancy taught courses in composition and technical and grant writing. Nancy’s quiet intelligence and joie de vivre will be missed by family and friends. Corylee Spiro also died March 10. She had an eye for art and a passion to travel, working for American Airlines since 1977. She published a humorous book about the airlines entitled “Cabin Pressure” in 1989. Gregory Tracy died recently. He had served in the military and, since 1984, had a dental practice in Manchester and Goffstown, NH. Amy Wales died Jan. 16. In 2011, she moved to Martha’s Vineyard to be close to family. She was an artist and a lifelong equestrian — a talented rider, instructor and horse trainer. ◆

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Lois Kelly

lkelly@foghound.com

This issue’s 1977 update is sad, full of our classmates who have died — and who led full and interesting lives. How is it possible that we are 20-years-old in our minds, yet of the age where our bodies start to betray us? Doug Cole of Johnsburg, NY, died following a

Alumni Profile By Jody Record ’95

² Full Circle “A president’s job is to watch for good ideas and help drive them forward, so I will be doing a lot of listening to help us go where we want to go.”

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ometimes when we look back, where we end up can seem obvious, even when we’re not sure we were charting a direct course the whole time.

Take Joan Ferrini-Mundy ’75, ’77G, ’80G, the newly elected president of the University of Maine. While she arrives at Orono from her role as chief operating officer of the National Science Foundation, this next phase of her career brings her around to where she started, at a state university.

Ferrini-Mundy joined the UNH faculty in 1983, after earning her doctoral degree in mathematics education three years earlier. During her 16-year tenure with the university, in addition to heading up the master of science for teachers program, the New Hampshire native was “on loan” to the National Science Foundation from 1989 to 1991 and to the National Research Council from 1995 to 1999.

A similar arrangement occurred with Michigan State University, where, from 1999 to 2010, Ferrini-Mundy taught and served as associate dean for science and mathematics education. She was on leave with the NSF from 2007 to 2010 and began working full-time with the federal agency in 2011. She was named the 21st president of the University of Maine in April and returned to her academic roots on July 1.

“I’m excited to be at a university again,” says Ferrini-Mundy. “I have a pretty good sense of the wonderful strengths of this university; there is a very good strategic plan in place. A president’s job is to watch for

good ideas and help drive them forward, so I will be doing a lot of listening to help us go where we want to go.”

Past leadership positions in academia and with the National Science Foundation helped FerriniMundy hone the skills that have brought her to her role as a university president. A national leader in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) education, she worked on a strategic plan that improved the government’s investment in those areas.

While working toward her doctorate at UNH, Ferrini-Mundy taught at St. Paul's School in Concord and discovered how much she enjoyed teaching mathematics — something she still calls one of her greatest joys. (Her daughter is a fourthgrade math teacher and Ferrini-Mundy says she loves talking math with her.)

Her first job after earning her doctorate was at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts. “I really loved that, too. It was very different, being at a small liberal arts school, but it was wonderful. Actually, I have been very happy and challenged in every job I’ve had,” she says.

“UNH provided really good grounding,” FerriniMundy adds. “The faculty was so terrific. Such a great math department — everyone was so committed. It was such a good foundation.”

That foundation contributed to what FerriniMundy calls a “pretty traditional” career path, which has been shaped by people and circumstances that “came up” along the way. Now, being at a university, she looks forward to being among students and faculty again.

“It’s exciting to think about working with faculty in a university setting rather than being one step away as you are with grants,” she says of her time at NSF. “I am also committed to the research mission of the university and its goal to help serve the prosperity of the state of Maine.”

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nine-year battle with lung cancer. An active member of the UNH Outing Club, Doug was devoted to the environment throughout his life. He helped start an adaptive Outward Bound program for troubled youth, was a charter member of the Lower Adirondack Search and Rescue and lived his dream in his custom-built, sustainable home that was almost entirely off the grid. Karen McAfee-Bromley of New Bedford, MA, died last November after declining health issues with Alzheimer’s and dementia. For more than 25 years, she served as head zookeeper at the Buttonwood Park Zoo. Karen was a member of Battery B 1st R.I. Light Artillery for 31 years and was past president of the Department of Rhode Island Auxiliary to the Sons of Union Veterans.

Ronald Smith of Maynard, MA, died in February after a long career with defense contractor Raytheon. In addition to work and family, Ronald had a passion for music and playing the trumpet. He was a member of the Trinity Brass Quartet, Atlantic Wind Symphony and he Concord Band. How are you living your one and precious life? What are you involved with that is bringing joy and meaning to your life? Please share what you’re up to with all of us from 1977. Let’s inspire one another by sharing our interests, adventures, passions and pursuits.

In my commitment to growing wiser and wilder, I just started classes at Rhode Island School of Design. I’m the one without tattoos or imaginative piercings. Look forward to hearing from you! ◆

Steven Hurd ’76 and his hiking companion Bella were honored at the AMC 4,000-Footer Club Annual Meeting with completion certificates for climbing all 48 peaks. “It took us three years to complete this quest,” Hurd says, adding, “We continue to hike, and this summer we hope to complete the remaining 90-mile section of Vermont’s Long Trail, which we haven’t hiked yet.”

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The 40th Reunion for our class was held on a beautiful weekend in June in Durham on our favorite campus.

Dining, dancing and tours throughout the university were some of the highlighted events, along with some old-fashioned socializing with lifetime friends. Tracey Ann Smith said it was fun to reminisce about the good times and the embarrassing times. She said it felt like nothing had changed, especially when everyone was dancing like it was 1978 again. Randy Schroeder spoke at the class dinner and had fun posting pictures on our class Facebook page. So, since there is a UNH Class of 1978 Facebook page, we might as well keep it going.

Look it up and join! Thanks to all who worked hard to make this reunion a success. Mike Markaverich lost his vision as a child, but he says he was meant to educate people what it is to live without sight in a visual world.

Mike started playing piano in elementary school, played his first gig in high school and decided in college that he should be a music student. Mike received his master’s from UNH. He has played a in a variety of venues and has taught at State College of Florida. He says that technology has helped him by playing the music and books he loves. Joe Reilly retired from the banking industry after a 40-year career that ranged from teller to chief operating officer to president and CEO of various institutions throughout New Hampshire. Although he retired last December with no predetermined path, he perceives his retirement as an opportunity for a new chapter in his career and was hoping to leverage his skills with a

Doug Purinton ’76 was recently honored with election into the South Carolina Track and CrossCountry Coaches Hall of Fame.

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Chris Engel

268 Washington Ave. Chatham, NJ 07928 cengie@aol.com

³ 40TH REUNION ◆ MAY 31 – JUN 2, 2019 ³ Join the “UNH Class of 1979” group on Facebook for more information. Mike Nikitas wrote a nice note: “At the end of 2017, after 36 years in the TV and radio news business as an anchor and reporter, mainly in San Francisco and Boston, I left to open my own communications business based in Windham, NH.” Mike received his bachelor’s degree in political science. He writes that he has four children, “the youngest a UNH student.” On a sad note, Amy Coffin McKiniss passed away in December 2017. Amy had taught in the special education department at Portsmouth High School and is survived by her husband, David McKinniss ’01G. ◆

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Anne M. Getchell

P.O. Box 2211 Conway, NH 03818 agetch@alumni.unh.edu

Not much new to report, so be sure to send news for your class! People do like to hear what we are up to. I received a piece from The Portsmouth Herald written

by Marion Blair Kelley. She was an English major and has four grown sons and lives in Lee, NH, with her husband. A couple of excerpts from the article: “Roads are meant to be traveled together if you are in love.

Roads are meant to be traveled alone if you are young and adventurous.” She then wrote about a road trip to California for her son’s wedding. “You are marrying someone who you will have to drive with for the rest of your life. Perhaps my wedding blessing for all young couples should be: You are married now … may your driving styles mesh and be compatible. And may you long keep driving together, one road at a time.” Good friend and fellow classmate Margo Gray and I reconnected this past spring. She is the owner of Trinity Alps Resort in California. My son Samuel was in need of some work in between his winter job at Big Sky in Montana and his summer job with the U.S. Forest Service in Leavenworth, WA. He worked for a couple of weeks clearing brush and all. Not sure if she shared any of our college stories with him — probably best not! ◆

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Caroline McKee Anderson

P.O. Box 3082 Bourne, MA 02532 caroline@gregandcaroline.net

Sharon Cuddy McManus is director of professional development at Northern Essex Community College in Haverhill/Lawrence, MA. She received her master’s in education. in May 2017 from Merrimack College.

She lives in Danvers with her husband Jack and sons Patrick and Kevin. They recently bought a home in my hometown on the Cape — looking forward to reconnecting! Sharon studied in Valencia the same year I was in Dijon. I visited my good friend Carol Merlini Symonds that year, and it was magnificent. So, now let’s hear

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from more of you who studied in Valencia! Elizabeth Hilpman has joined the 20-member board of directors of the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation.

Berkshire Taconic is a major funder of nonprofit organizations in its four-county region. Elizabeth joined Barlow Partners in January 2001 as chief investment officer and a partner of the firm. She has more than 30 years of investment management experience, including the Commonfund, Dartmouth College and Global Asset Management. She serves on the investment committees of the UNH Foundation, the Maine Community Foundation and the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, NY. She and her husband Bryon Tucker live in Norfolk and NYC. Bryant Burns lives in San Diego, CA, with his four daughters, ages 15 to 25. He has his own company turning “contacts into contracts” for certified small businesses focused on DOD cybersecurity. He also handles VIP security for major athletic and music events. He reports that he caught a 56-pound king salmon on the Kenai last July.

John Mello recently completed serving as immediate past-president and board member of the Appraisal Institute, Massachusetts/Rhode Island Chapter. John is a professionally designated SRA member of the Chicago-based Appraisal Institute. In 2015, John retired after serving for 22 years as a seven-term elected assessor and chairman of the Rochester, MA, Board of Assessors. Prior to beginning a private appraisal practice in 1990, John pursued a 15-year career in international financial management, which began with serving in the Peace Corps in Mali, West Africa, from 1974-76. He and his wife Margo live in Rochester, MA. Gen. Lori Robinson spoke to more than 140 members from the 337th Air Control Squadron in January. She shared some of her experiences in the air battle manager career field and leadership and then took questions from attendees. Wendy Sue McKinnon of North Haverhill died unexpectedly on March 6. She was a former certified firefighter with the Jefferson Fire Department and the Lancaster Fire Department and Ambulance Service. She had a long banking career and joined the Woodsville Guaranty Savings Bank in the early 2000s, where she served as loan processor. She is survived by her husband Jim and extended family. Karin Cooke, a longtime resident of Exeter, died on Sept. 10, 2017.

After graduation, she opened her own business, From Here to There, specializing in shipping antiques around the world. Most recently, Karin combined her passions for nature, plants and the arts to embrace the craft of pressing flowers. She is survived by her husband Rick Forshay, son Christian Cooke and stepchildren Abigail and Ben Forshay. Mark Hines of Westford, MA, died on March 11. He received his doctorate with our class and worked at UNH for many years before moving to Alaska in 1995 to take a faculty position in the biology department at the University of Alaska Anchorage. In 2002, he joined the faculty at UMass Lowell and later became chair of the department for 10 years and dean of the Kennedy College of Sciences for four years. He is survived by his wife Elaine, daughter Sarah, son David and stepsons Erik and Adam Gabrielson. We send our deepest condolences to the families and friends of Wendy, Karin and Mark. ◆

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Julie Lake Butterfield

j.butterfield@alumni.unh.edu

My husband Michael ’83 and I had a great time at the combined ’82, ’83, ’84 June Reunion Weekend in Durham. Although our class didn’t have a huge turnout, it was great to see many old friends from our days as students. From our class, it was great to see Paul Mitchell, Tom Torr, Sandy Wingate, April Telles and all our classmates who attended. Shout out to the very special people at the alumni center who worked tirelessly to put on a spectacular weekend of events for everyone attending. I was fortunate to attend the tour of the Thompson Hall clock tower and sign my name and class year next to names of people who had been students almost 100 years ago. The new and improved Hamilton Smith Hall was open for touring, and the restored murals in the two front classrooms were breathtaking. The two murals were a 1940s WPA project depicting life in New Hampshire at that time and were covered up until the recent renovations. Through the generosity of Peter Paul ’67, they have been completely restored, and anyone who visits the university should plan on viewing them … especially if you had a class in Ham Smith! Classmates in the news include Nancy Walsh, who was recently appointed CFO of Pier One Imports, Inc. Nancy has served much of her career in leadership positions within the retail industry.

Laura Favinger was named chief administrative officer for the Insurance Information Institute. Previous to this position, Laura was the senior vice president and head of government and industry affairs for Zurich North America. Gregg Mikolaities, the co-founder of Appledore Engineering, has created the new consulting firm August Consulting, located here in New Hampshire.

Appledore Engineering is responsible for many projects throughout the seacoast, including many schools, hospitals and student housing at UNH. Gregg’s new venture will focus on his 35 years as a civil engineering consultant and his ability to cultivate effective building project teams for his clients. Congratulations to these very talented alumni. ◆

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Many from the classes of 1982– 83–84 met for Reunion Weekend, including (from top): Julie Lake Butterfield ’82 and Mike Butterfield ’83; Carol Waisgerber Seidel ’84, Robin Peters Schell ’84 and Mary Ellen Graff ’85; and Theresa Redmond Stevens ’83, Mary Ellen Graff ’85 and Hilary Branch ’84.

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Hello, Class of ’83! We missed a lot of you at the reunion in June. The weather was terrific; the events were interesting and educational; the food was great, and I want to thank Corena Garnas and her team for coordinating a truly wonderful combined ’82, ’83 and ’84 Reunion Weekend. It was so much fun to catch up with everyone — Chris Avery, Bert Freedman, Wendy Gilday, Margaret Gourley, Steve Lavallee, Sam Lush, Larry McGrath ’82, Debbie Metcalfe, Paul Mitchell ’82, Robbin Ray ’82, Chris Russell, Robin Schell ’84, Tom Torr ’82, Leslie Schmidt Voss and Weston Waugh ’82. We also had a mini Freshman Camp reunion on Friday night at the Browne Center — a yeah crew to Sue Jackson, Bob DeGroot, Joan Cullen ’82 and Ernie Jenness ’82. Apologies to anyone I missed!

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Evelyn Handler wasn’t only the first woman to become president of UNH — she was also the first woman to preside over any land-grant university in the United States.

When she left in 1983 to become president of Brandeis University, $15 million in federal funds had been secured for the construction of a science and engineering research center in Morse Hall and the Honors Program had been established.

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Some 500 alumni from the mid-1940s to 2008 returned to campus the weekend of June 1–3 to enjoy picnics and lobster bakes, campus tours and faculty lectures that transported them back to their undergraduate days at the celebration of UNH Reunion 2018.

“It was a wonderful weekend filled with great activities, but the most exciting part was connecting with old and new friends and classmates,” says Angela Piper ’68 of her class’ 50th anniversary.

Did you graduate in the 1950s, 1964, 1969, 1979, 1994 or 2009? Mark your calendar now for Reunion Weekend 2019, which will take place May 31–June 2.

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A group of 1982 alumni were among those who gathered at Reunion Weekend in June for the combined 1982–83–84 celebration.

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President Gordon Haaland was in office when the women’s lacrosse team shocked second-ranked U. Maryland 6–5 to claim UNH’s first NCAA team national championship. In 1989, the UNH Foundation was established under his leadership, organizing fundraising activities in a central office and generating a meaningful increase in private support.

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David G. Miller is an Air Force veteran, serving from 1977 to 1981, who then attended UNH, where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering as well as a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology. David was a project engineer with Weston and Sampson Engineers and then joined Manchester Water Works, where he is currently the deputy director of water supply. He was recently elected president of the New England Water Works Association, the region’s largest and oldest not-for-profit organization for water works professionals. Suzanne Buck graduated from UNH with a dual major in dairy management and occupational education and has a hard time remembering when agriculture was not a part of her life. In her role as the executive director of Vermont Future Farmers of America (FFA), Suzanne works with students and is active with current trends and directional shifts that are a part of farming in Vermont. Suzanne was awarded the Honorary American Degree at the 90th Annual FFA National Convention in Indianapolis in October. She was selected for providing exceptional service to agriculture and the FFA program by motivating their students to explore and experience success in the fields of agricultural science. Congratulations to Suzanne! Alison Quirk was appointed to the board of directors of Legg Mason, a global asset management firm. Alison began her career at Boston Financial Data Services and went on to serve as senior vice president of human resources for Liberty Financial Companies.

She then joined State Street Corporation in 2002 as senior vice president of the Deutsche Global Services Integration Team. She became the executive vice president of Global Human Services from 2010 until her retirement in 2017. Lisa Anderson was employed as the senior residential mortgage underwriter for St. Mary’s Bank in Manchester, NH, prior to joining the Holy Rosary Credit Union as their mortgage operations manager. Her career within many different financial roles over the past 20 years in lending and management will ensure that the credit union members will have the best possible experience. Thomas Frangione has joined Archer Daniels Midland Animal Nutrition, a division of ADM, as an industry expert. He will serve as a national account manager, focusing on ADM’s animal nutrition dairy business. Prior to joining ADM, Thomas led a team of sales managers at Merck Animal Health overseeing the sale of Merck cattle products to producers, farmers and veterinarians. Brian D’Alessandro passed away suddenly in December 2017. For many years, he was employed with Kingsway Arms Nursing Center, and later for the NY State Department of Taxation and Finance, from which he retired. He enjoyed volunteering at Sunnyview Rehabilitation Hospital, gardening and working on his artwork. He is survived by Bette-Jean, his wife of 34 years. Brian Butler died in March after fighting an almost two-year battle with brain cancer. He started Introbotix Corporation, a manufacturing business in the wired board industry that utilized his knowledge and

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passion for mechanical, electrical and robotic engineering. He loved many outdoor sports but felt his true calling was to give of himself by volunteering, participating and supporting Christian-based organizations. He leaves his wife of 26 years, Christine Greil Butler ’84, and their sons Daniel, 21, and Ben, 19. Our thoughts are with our classmates’ families in this time of loss. ◆

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Robin Peters Schell

5 Ashley Drive, Amesbury, MA 01913 rschell@jjwpr.com text: 603-770-3607

I enjoyed attending our Tri-Class Reunion with the classes of ’83 and ’82 on June 2. A big thank-you to the UNH Alumni staff for helping to put it together. A shoutout to Mitch Dugan ’82 for donating the DJ so we could dance to ’80s tunes under the tent on the T-Hall lawn.

Considering it was an “off” year for the ’84 gang, we did have some of our folks turn out: It was nice to see Scott and Rae Ann Hoyt Chrane, Greg Wolters, Bob and Pam Goudreault Perreault — Bob owns a dentistry practice in Atkinson, NH — Hilary Branch, my old Young Drive roomie who is a pediatrician for Bay State Health in Springfield, MA, and brought Theresa Redmond Stevens ’83 to our dinner table, Carol Waisgerber Seidel and Karen Johnson, a lawyer with Ropes and Gray and member of the Hingham Board of Selectmen.

Also attending from ’84 was Edna Hutchins, who is a children’s librarian in Cranston, RI. Heads up Class of ’84: Next year is our 35th Reunion. Time to start thinking about a class scholarship! I heard from Anne O’Neill Garceau: She is living in the DC area and working at the USDA on the What We Eat in America Survey, the nutrition portion of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. This national data is used by scientists and policymakers all over the U.S. and the world.

Great stuff, Anne! She keeps in regular touch with Lani Wong, Donna Gibbons and Dawna Destefano DeRosa. Please send me your news. ◆

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Stephanie Creane King

93 Channing Rd. Belmont, MA 02478 s.king@alumni.unh.edu

Shout out to Paul Bradley on his induction into the Cooperative Hall of Fame. Paul serves as president of ROC USA, and this honor is bestowed on those who have made heroic contributions in support of the cooperative form of enterprise. Congratulations as well to Kelly Blackburn, who recently was appointed clinical and regulatory strategist at LogicBio Therapeutics, Inc. In addition to her UNH degree, she has an MHA from Quinnipiac University. Special recognition is in order for Christine Hounsell, who recently stepped away from her role as executive director of Sole City Dance in Somersworth, NH. After a dance career that has spanned close to 50 years, she plans to remain involved with the organization but in lesser role. Condolences to the family of Steven C. Ward, who passed away in December. At the time of his death he was professor of sociology at Western Connecticut State University.

Steven is survived by his wife and three daughters.

Todd R. Buchanan passed away in January of this year

Alumni Profile By Debbie Kane

² Using Fear to Fuel Change in the World to thrive, not just survive.” Instead of avoiding his feelings around fear, he wanted to understand them, confront them, and use them to his advantage.

Recognizing, and capitalizing on, our fear response can help us reach our highest potential in whatever we want to achieve, Sweeney believes. The physical and mental changes that happen when our amygdala — the part of the brain that controls reactions to potentially threatening situations — is activated are like a high-octane boost. “You have the world’s most power-enhancing drug coursing through your body,” he says. “You can either run or use it to your advantage and really change things in your life.”

Sweeney follows his own advice. Eschewing a return to the corporate world in the wake of his successful cancer treatment, he’s now a full-time adventurer. Once afraid of flying, he earned his commercial pilot’s license and now competes in acrobatics. He founded ODIN Air Productions, producing outdoor and adventure documentaries, and is the first person to attempt cycling the Seven Summits, the highest peaks on each of the seven continents. This summer, Sweeney’s four-person cycling team, Fat Chance, won the open-mixed division of the grueling 3,029-mile Race Across America from Oceanside, California, to Annapolis, Maryland. Sweeney is also a sought-after speaker, working with companies like Google, eBay and Intel to help employees tap into their courage and entrepreneurship. Through his Fear Institute, he works with CEOs and executive teams to generate breakthroughs. He’s also working on a television series about his adventures, and his book, “Fear as Fuel,” about the psychology behind fear and how to use it constructively, comes out in January 2019.

Advising people to “scare themselves at least once a week,” Sweeney believes that courage is the ultimate solution to many social problems. “One of my favorite quotes is by Gandhi: ‘The enemy is fear. We think it is hate, but it is really fear,’” Sweeney says. “When you learn how to deal with fear, your life changes. I can’t think of a better way to transform the world.” ² Fall 2018

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t’s 6 a.m. but Patrick J. Sweeney ’89 is awake and ready to go. Speaking from Colorado, where he’s training for his eighth Leadville 100 — a 100-mile mountain bike race through the Rocky Mountains — between sips of coffee, Sweeney recounts his transformation from insecure teen to elite athlete, then tech entrepreneur to extreme adventurer.

His motivation? Fear.

“People can use fear as fuel to propel them through their challenges, whether it’s at work or out in the world,” he says. “My mission is to teach people courage.”

It’s difficult to imagine that Sweeney, amiable and confident, has ever been afraid of anything. The son of Irish immigrants, he grew up in Belmont, Massachusetts, in a family with little money. “I was afraid of everything — rejection, abandonment,” he says. “I coped by playing sports. I thought it would give me significance.” Sweeney arrived at UNH as a successful high school Nordic skier, but he struggled to make the college team. UNH crew coaches Lawrence Smith and Chris Allsopp convinced him he was better suited to rowing, and they were right: competing for UNH, he won the Jefferson Dad Vail Regatta, the largest collegiate race in the country, in a four-man boat, went on to compete for the U.S. in the World Cup, and participated in two Olympic trials in the single scull, finishing 14th in 1992 and 2nd in 1996.

But athletic accomplishments weren’t enough. After receiving an MBA from the University of Virginia, Sweeney went on to found three technology companies. He had just started his second when he was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia at age 35. “The doctor asked if my affairs were in order,” he remembers. “It was a wakeup call.”

Sweeney was accustomed to fighting, but after he conquered his illness, he wanted to do more. He believed the fear that drove him most of his life had pushed him to an unhealthy edge. “When I was sick, I met people who defined themselves by their diseases,” he says. “I wanted

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in Hudson, OH. Following his passion for the hospitality industry, he was very successful in multiple ventures and was a pioneer in the farm-to-table concept. ◆

In this U.S. Navy photo, Capt.

Matthew Case ’89, right, assumes command of Naval Hospital Jacksonville, FL, the Navy’s thirdlargest medical treatment facility, from Capt.

David Collins during a changeof-command ceremony on March 16. “I’m honored to take command of Naval Hospital Jacksonville. I look forward to maintaining the momentum created by Capt.

Collins and continuing to move us forward,” Case said at the event.

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The university marked its centennial in Durham during the presidency of Dale Nitzchke.

The milestone was celebrated with a yearlong program of events titled "From the Plow to the Stars: A Century of Discovery, 1893 – 1993.”

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Tina Napolitano Savoia

5 Samuel Path Natick, MA 01760 savoia@comcast.net

Greetings, everyone. Hope you all had a wonderful summer. I had the opportunity to catch up with a couple of old and dear friends recently— Ed Damphousse and Craig Dikeman. They both are still the same great guys that we all knew from our days at UNH — neither have changed a bit! Ed and his wife Lori Eberly Damphousse live in Marshfield, MA. Ed is the director of business development at Stateside Construction Group in Andover, MA. Both of their kids are out of the house, so they spend a lot of time biking and being outdoors. Craig and his wife Kim live in Pepperell, MA. Craig is the manager of materials procurement at Eversource Energy and spends his time between his Westwood, MA, and Connecticut offices. Craig and Kim also have a home in Vermont and spend a lot of time there on weekends skiing, hiking and playing golf. On May 19, I was a proud attendee at the 148th Commencement of the University of New Hampshire.

Our son Nick — our oldest — graduated from Peter T. Paul College with a degree in business administration and finance. Nick will be starting his career as a firstyear analyst at Sun Trust Robinson Humphrey in Atlanta, GA. He will look back on his four years at UNH as fondly as I do, having made wonderful friends and learning so much. UNH did a great job of preparing him for the next phase of his life. Shawn Gorman, ’89, chairman at LL Bean, was this year’s speaker at commencement. He told the graduates to go out there and lead an “adventure-filled life.” Great advice from a man who has had such a successful career. Please remember to send along your news. I would love to hear from you about yourselves and any of our classmates! ◆

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The alumni office received an announcement that Capt.

Matthew Case assumed command of Naval Hospital Jacksonville on March 16. The hospital is the Navy’s third largest medical treatment facility, comprised of a hospital and five branch health clinics across Florida and Georgia. Matthew previously served as executive officer of Naval Medical Center Portsmouth. A native of New Hampshire, he was commissioned as a Medical Service Corps officer in 1994. ◆

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Amy French

2709 44th Ave SW Seattle, WA 98116-2408

The MEMIC Group recently announced the promotion of Kristen Wintle to director, compensation and benefits. Kristen, who joined MEMIC more than 20 years ago as a human resources coordinator and became payroll administrator in 2002, received her bachelor’s in hotel/business administration and minored in sociology.

Colleen Brennan Devine received an achievement award for “Innovative Leadership Securing Services to Marginalized Youth” from the American Occupational Therapy Association. Charles “Chip” Kelly was named the head coach for the UCLA Bruins last fall. Previously, he was NFL head coach with the Philadelphia Eagles from 2013-15 and with the San Francisco 49ers in 2016.

Before coaching in the NFL, he was the head coach of the Oregon Ducks from 2009 to 2012, leading the program to four consecutive BCS bowl game appearances, including the 2011 BCS National Championship Game.

At UNH, he played defensive back for the Wildcats football team. Since I live in Seattle, I rarely have the opportunity to make it back to campus but did swing through UNH for a quick college-scouting visit in January. The Hamel Recreation Center stood out since it was brand

Beth D. Simpson-Robie

P.O. Box 434 Kennebunk, ME 04043 bgsrobie@alumni.unh.edu

This year marks the 30th anniversary of our graduation from the university. Please join the UNH Class of 1988 Facebook page for updates on gatherings that will occur Homecoming Weekend, October 12-14. Hope to see many of you! Denise Gavel Iafolla and Mike Iafolla’s daughter Abbie and my son Forrest both graduated from Kennebunk High School this past Sunday. Abbie is off to Boston College in the fall to study English and Spanish; Forrest is off to Plymouth State University to study electromechanical technology and robotics. Denise and I are forming an informal “empty-nesters support/celebration group” here in Kennebunk/Kennebunkport. Please let us know if you are in the area and want to join us! ◆

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David L. Gray

131 Holmes Ave. Darien, CT 06820 david.gray@alumni.unh.edu

CHRISTOPHER FRENCH ’90 has been appointed as legal counsel to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the United States Department of Defense with the grade of Rear Admiral (Lower Half).

After graduating from UNH with a degree in history, French was commissioned through the Navy Judge Advocate General (JAG) Corps student program in 1992. He went on to earn a JD from Villanova in 1993 and a Master of Laws from Georgetown in 2004 and joins the Office of the Legal Counsel to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff as an accomplished legal professional with multiple decorations and commendations.

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Class of 1992 alumna and 2014 UNH commencement speaker Jennifer Lee has been named chief creative officer for Walt Disney Animation Studios, the studio with which she directed the Academy Award-winning 2013 animated smash hit “Frozen.” In announcing Lee’s new role, Walt Disney Studios chairman Alan Horn described her and colleague Pete Docter, the new head of Pixar, as “two of the most gifted filmmakers and storytellers I’ve ever had the pleasure to work with . . .

Jenn, in bringing her bold vision to the boundary-breaking ‘Frozen,’ has helped infuse Disney Animation with a new and exciting perspective.” — 1992

new — to me — and so close to my freshman and sophomore dorms, Congreve and Scott Hall. The MUB was very reminiscent in some ways but surprised me with a high-end food court and lounge with gigantic beanbag chairs. With a light dusting of snow, the campus was bustling with students and brought back warm memories! Have a wonderful autumn! ◆

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Christina Ayers Quinlan

406 S. Columbia St. Naperville, IL 60540 chris.a.quinlan@gmail.com

John Posthumus, a renowned technology and intellectual property lawyer who received his JD with our class, has joined Am Law 100 firm Polsinelli as a shareholder in the firm’s national intellectual property department.

Sue Foley Vadeboncoeur is teaching third grade at the Daniel J. Bakie School in Kingston, NH. Prior to that, she was teaching in Hampstead and Hampton Falls and Methuen, MA. After UNH, Sue received her master’s in education from University of Lowell. Michael Vadeboncoeur is a global market development manager with Thermo Fisher Scientific Anatomical Pathology Division in Portsmouth, NH. Michael has been with Thermo Fisher for 18 years. Michael’s product responsibilities include microscope slides, cover slips and microscope slide printing instrumentation for the clinical and research markets. Sue stayed at home to raise their three children for many years before going back to teaching. Sue and Michael have been residing in Brentwood, NH, since 2005. Joe Faro is working on developing Tuscan Village, a 170-acre retail-residential-commercial project on the grounds of the former Rockingham Park racetrack. The property will feature hotels, housing, restaurants, medical offices, entertainment venues and retail space. Joe is the owner of Tuscan Kitchen and Market, with four locations in Salem and Portsmouth, NH, and in Boston and Burlington, MA. ◆

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Melissa Langbein

744 Johns Rd. Blue Bell, PA 19422 m.l.langbein@alumni.unh.edu

Christine Oskar-Poisson ’93G received her doctorate in education from New England College on May 12. She is an assistant professor of education at New England College. Additionally, Christine and husband Jim Poisson will be celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary this October. After eight years as assistant vice president and dean of admissions at NYU, Shawn Abbott is now vice provost for admissions, financial aid and enrollment management at Temple University.

Christopher Ellis has joined Dewberry, a privately held professional services firm, in its Bloomfield, NJ, office as a geotechnical senior project manager. Prior to joining

Dewberry, he spent many years working for an international engineering and architecture consulting firm.

Christopher earned his degree in civil engineering with our class and a master’s degree in geotechnical engineering from UNH in 1996. Congrats classmates! ◆

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Caryn Crotty Eldridge

83 Lionel Road North Brentford, London, tw8 9qz caryn@eldridges.net

Please send in your news! I can be found on Facebook (Caryn Crotty Eldridge), Twitter (@twosprites) and via the email above. We would love to hear about Reunion for those that went — what you have been up to in the last 25 years or even in the last month. As for me, I’m sweltering in England in the heatwave in an almost zero-aircon country, waiting for the kids to be done with school — July 6 and 11 for my girls, July 20 for others — and watching the World Cup (oh the national schadenfreude when Germany was eliminated). Jay Goss and I had a quick catch-up on social media after commiserating on missing Reunion this time. He’s living in North Carolina with wife Katie, has two young boys and works in medical sales for Medtronic selling cardiac pacemakers and defibrillators. Jay is keeping busy with mountain biking, whitewater kayaking, mountaineering and camping and says, “I keep in touch with old friends from Phi Kappa Theta — Jeff Moulton, Bob Weaver ’94, Nick Davies ’96, Brian Zinck, Mark Sherwood — and from Congreve Hall and The Coops Apartments, Pat Kenny ’94, Lauren Abbott Kenny, Mike White ’97.” Lauren Abbott Kenny was the organizer for a meetup at the Gaslight in Portsmouth and is keen to continue to try and get people from ’93 together. Sydney Baker is living in Center Conway, NH, and recently joined the CPA firm of Leone, McDonnell & Roberts. John H. Rossmeisl, professor of neurology and neurosurgery and associate head of the department of small animal clinical sciences in the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine at Virginia Tech, has been named the Dr. and Mrs. Dorsey Taylor Mahin Professor. John has been a member of the faculty since 2003, and his research, which has been dedicated to the development of new therapies for malignant brain tumors, “is helping both veterinary and human patients, and he is considered to be among the top researchers in the world in the area of canine neuro-oncology,” the college noted in a media release.

Christine Loeber was executive director of the Pathway Home, a nonprofit post-traumatic stress disorder program at the Veterans Home of California-Yountville in the Napa Valley wine region, where she was killed in March by an Army veteran. After graduation from UNH with her BA in communication, she obtained a master’s in social work and went to work for the VA, where she wanted to make sure younger vets would be welcome and treated

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During President Joan Leitzel’s tenure, the university worked to be more responsive to the needs of New Hampshire businesses. Leitzel believed that providing a quality, well-educated workforce was UNH’s first priority, and building partnerships with the state’s businesses and citizens was central to her administration. The university wrapped up its first-ever capital campaign under her leadership, a $100 million effort that concluded two years ahead of schedule.

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Proving that UNH bonds are strong, Jamie

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Lavigne ’02

sent a photo taken in College Woods from Homecoming Weekend.

Four of those photographed flew in from Colorado and one from Florida, while the other two drove from Massachusetts and Vermont.

Pictured with Lavigne are Dana Fritschi ’02, Walid Hamzi ’03G, Jamie, Brook Lockwood ’01, Blake Ciperski ’03, Danielle Leboeuf ’02 and Kate Hamzi ’02.

Kate and Walid, who met at UNH, are married.

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Ann Weaver Hart 2002 – 2006

The university unveiled its first piece of public art during Ann Weaver Hart’s presidency — the 850-pound bronze Wildcat statue that stands just off Main Street at the corner of Memorial Field. Today the Wildcat statue is a touchstone for many students’ UNH experience — they rub its nose for good luck their first week on campus, and pose on and around it in their caps and gowns when they graduate.

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Join the “UNH Class of 1994” group on Facebook for more information. Kimberly O’Brien Root was named editor of The Health Journal, a health and lifestyle magazine based in Williamsburg, VA. She lives in Hampton, VA, with her husband and their two children. ◆

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Tammy Ross

22 St. Ann’s Ave Peabody, MA 01960 tross8573@yahoo.com

Greetings! I hope everyone reading this is having a great 2018! I heard from Shelagh Newton Michaud, who recently passed the Rhode Island Bar exam — her third one! She joined the labor and employment department of Nixon Peabody’s Providence office and works with clients in Rhode Island, Massachusetts and New Hampshire. She and husband Michael Michaud ’96 live in North Kingstown, RI, with their two children and rescue pup. In other news, Holly Jewkes is the deputy forest supervisor of the Willamette National Forest in Oregon. Before that, she was a district ranger of the Deschutes National Forest. Earlier this year, she was also serving as acting forest supervisor on the Idaho Panhandle National Forests. In her spare time, she enjoys running and spending time with family, friends and her dogs. Please send your news. ◆

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26 Rockwood Heights Rd. Manchester, MA 01944 m.opal@alumni.unh.edu

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Congrats to our fellow classmates who have recently started new positions. Amy DiRamio has been named executive program director of behavioral health at Northern Rivers Family of Services. She joined the organization in 2007 and oversees centers in Albany and Schenectady, NY. Katy Phillips is now the assistant director of athletics and the head coach of the varsity girls’ lacrosse team at Shady Side Academy. Prior to this role, she worked at Robert Morris University as head coach of the school’s Division 1 lacrosse program and was named Northeast Conference Coach of the Year in 2011. She is the owner of Pittsburg Premier Lacrosse Club and 3 Rivers Lacrosse. Please send your news! ◆

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Elizabeth Merrill Sanborn

2082 Pequawket Trail Hiram, ME 04041 esanborn@alumni.unh.edu

Congratulations to Anne Bramblett, who has served as the director of the West Pittston Library, PA, for the past eight years, for her new position as the managing librarian of the Austin Public Library, TX. The alumni office recently learned that the Dover, NH, School District spotlighted the work of Mike Romps, who received his

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graduate degree with our class. A second-grade teacher, Mike offers a camp to all students at the school twice a year at no charge. As a gesture of appreciation, many parents donated toward the purchase of special glasses for Romps, prompting a video on the district’s YouTube channel. Please send your news! ◆

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Abby Severance Gillis

19 Chase Street Woburn MA 01801 agillis716@alumni.unh.edu

Congratulations are in order for our fellow classmates on their career accomplishments. In February, Linda Anason displayed her one-woman-show “Media Circus” at Exeter Town Hall. Her 200-piece exhibit, a response to current social and political issues, reflects the artist’s platform to, in her words, “report the world” while simultaneously aiming to understand and display empathy for the plight of others. Additionally, two of our classmates, Alison B. Davis and Anna Hopf Moskov, have been recognized among the New Hampshire Union Leader’s 40 Under 40. Alison is currently a nurse practitioner in the cardiomyopathy program at New England Heart and Vascular Institute, Catholic Medical Center, and is also the Northern New England Cardiovascular Team representative for the American College of Cardiology. Anna is director of advancement at The Derryfield School in Manchester, spearheading fundraising and community outreach for the school. I look forward to receiving more great news from you all! ◆

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Ryan Walls

ryanjameswalls@gmail.com

Andre “AJ” Bahou, who graduated from UNH Law with our class, recently announced the opening of his Nashville, TN, firm, Bahou Miller PLLC. Meredith Leavitt Coffin and her husband Dan, with daughter Cecilia and son Leavitt, welcomed their youngest child Amos into the world in March. Meredith and her family live in Candia, NH, and she teaches eighth-grade science in Stratham. After many years at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Jessie Schlosser Smith has recently joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as director, open space programming. She also recently completed her master’s degree in public humanities at Brown University. Sasha Didier Swift lives with her husband Billy, dog Grover and cat George in Seaside, CA. She is the assistant event manager at the Sunset Cultural Center, the Monterey Peninsula’s Premier Performing Arts Facility in Carmel, CA. She will be training for her eighth half-marathon in the fall and enjoys kayaking with her husband in search of otters.

After graduating, Jason Tarkin moved to London, UK, to attend medical school, where he currently lives with his wife Miriam and his 15-month-old daughter Beatrice. Having recently completed a doctorate at the University of Cambridge, he is currently a clinical lecturer in cardiology at the National Heart & Lung Institute at Hammersmith Hospital. My husband Arrash and I moved from New York City to Oakland, CA, in

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I encourage anyone from the class of 2003 to send updates on your family, career or exciting milestones to share with classmates. ◆

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Victoria Reed

vemacgowan@yahoo.com

Gina Ricciardelli recently accepted a new position in clinical research oncology at AstraZeneca. She works from home and travels frequently. Gina lives in Enfield, NH, where she still skis and hikes with her yellow Labrador. ◆

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Megan Stevener

mstevener@gmail.com

Corey Grout writes, “I recently discovered that at my job in Boston, I work with two other UNH alumni.”

Corey, Ben Carignan ’12 and Stephen Brand ’17 all work at Approach International Student Center, a private language school for adult students. Jonathan Wise, who received his JD with our class, has joined Greenberg Traurig’s Philadelphia, PA, office. He is of counsel in the firm’s intellectual property and technology practice. ◆

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Amy Neal has joined the emergency department at Cheshire Medical Center. After graduating with our class, Amy went on to receive her master’s degree from UNH Manchester in 2014. Hayley Holmes Breagy has been appointed director of consumer engagement at ZipLine, a private-label debt payment technology platform. Hayley went on to receive her MBA at Paul College after graduating with our class. Benjamin Ford, who went on to Vanderbilt University Law School after graduating summa cum laude with our class, is a partner at Verrill Dana, where he focuses his practice on all aspects of international maritime and employment law. Thomas “Tucker” Peterson, head coach of the recently reborn Mount St. Joseph football program in Vermont, was featured in a January article from the Rutland Herald. ◆

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Michael Antosh

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Matt Vaughan was named president of contract research at Battelle, a research and development company based in Columbus, OH. Before this position, Matt worked at Leidos as a senior vice president, BAE systems and as legislative director for former U.S. Congressman Charles Bass. Janet Cho was recently promoted to shareholder at LeClairRyan, a law firm based in Virginia. She specializes in intellectual property.

Corey Graham has now played 11 years in the National Football League, winning two Super Bowl Titles — 2012 with Baltimore and last year with Philadelphia. A defensive back by position, he was also selected to the Pro Bowl in 2011. Amy Desmond was recently hired as the laboratory manager for Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital in Lebanon, NH. She previously worked for Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center as a laboratory section manager and for the Mayo Clinic’s Mayo Medical Laboratories New England. She received a master’s degree in medical laboratory science at UMass Lowell after graduating from UNH. Finally, one member of our class has passed away recently. Kevin McCarthy passed away in February after a 12-year battle with addiction. He lived in Portland, ME, and is survived by his parents, two brothers and many friends. ◆

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Nicholas L. Meli ’09 and Kelci C. Flowers were married on May 5 in Atlanta, GA. Other Wildcats in attendance included Stephen Meli ’04, Peter Carpenter ’07, Eric Motta ’08, Matthew Paster ’08, Quincy Devine ’08, Bryan McCue ’10 and Brigid Ramsden ’21. Kelci is a psychologist at the Atlanta VA Hospital, and Nicholas recently started business school at Emory University’s Goizueta Business School.

Alexandra Covucci

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Hey Class of 2008! Can you believe it’s already been 10 years since our graduation from UNH? I can still so vividly remember walking the campus, as though parts of our college days are lodged in my bones. I’m sure we’ve all come such a long way in the past decade — let’s see what your fellow classmates have been up to!

Megan Godin performs as a member of the ensemble of the national touring production of “The Wizard of Oz,” which comes to the Boston Opera House in January. Congratulations to Michael Parsons, who was promoted to partnership in law firm Haynes and Boone.

Parsons is a member of the Intellectual Property Practice Group in the Richardson, TX, and Palo Alto, CA, offices.

Big congratulations to Tyler Walker, who won two silver medals at the Paralympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea. “It’s unreal. It’s been a really long journey to get here,” he said in an NBCOlympics.com interview after his second run. “It’s been a lifelong dream.” Walker lives and trains in Aspen, CO, but continues to frequent Franconia, NH, where his parents still live. Martha DeFlorio Moegelin is the co-proprietor of Made Floral, a full-service floral design company in one of the hottest business hubs in metro Detroit, MI. She and her husband moved to Michigan in 2014 after a job opportunity arose, and today they’re the creative duo behind the growing and bustling floral shop. With great sadness, the family of Tanner Z. Nolin announced his sudden passing at his home in Deland, FL, on Nov. 12, 2017, at the age of 35. He is lovingly remembered by his wife Jamie, their daughter Lily and the rest of their family. He is remembered as a smart, witty person who always had a pun up his sleeve and for his huge bear hugs, love of games and especially his love of music. Class of 2008, I hope you’re all walking your path with intention and appreciation. I hope you slow down enough to recognize yourselves and each other, and I hope you take inventory of what lights you up in this life. Keep sending your updates. We love to hear them. ◆

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Join the “UNH Class of 2009” group on Facebook for more information. Kristin Adelmeyer has joined Carroll Health Group Primary Care as a certified nurse practitioner. Mark LaFrance has been named a New England principal for HTS, the largest independent commercial HVAC manufacturer representative in North America. He will lead the company’s continued growth in New England. Molly Cowan, who received her master’s degree with our class, was elected to the Board of Selectmen in Exeter, NH, in March. Matthew Rivet has been promoted to principal at Altman Vilandrie & Company, advising the company’s telecommunications, media and technology sector and private equity clients.

M. Joseph Clement, who graduated from UNH Law with our class, has been elected to partnership with the firm of Wisler Pearlstine in Blue Bell, PA. Adam LaRock, also a UNH Law graduate, has been elected director at Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox. Sadly, Andrea M. Sayers Ange, who received her master’s degree in public administration with our class, passed away on Jan. 6 in Haverhill, MA. She had been employed as the library media specialist and teaching director of library services at Campbell High School in Litchfield, NH, and was a 2012 recipient of the School Librarian of the Year Award. Survivors include her husband James, three daughters, sisters, stepsisters and grandchildren. Our condolences to her friends and family. ◆

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Dino Vasso’s work as defensive quality control and assistant defensive back coach with the Philadelphia Eagles was featured in a January report by the Delaware County Daily Times. Abigail Taylor and Trent Beachy were married on Nov. 11, 2017, in Colorado. After UNH, Abigail graduated from Regis University School of Pharmacy and is employed by Good Samaritan Medical Center. A feature in Vermont’s Newport Daily Express spotlights Jennifer Barrett’s dedication in her role as state’s attorney. Jennifer graduated from UNH Law with our class. Courtney Rose Hickson, who also graduated from UNH Law with our class, passed away on Feb. 8 following an automobile accident. She worked for the Massachusetts Department of Telecommunications and Cable and was active in politics in her community of Chelsea, MA. She is survived by her parents Ralph and Cynthia Jenkins Hickson, uncle, aunts and cousins. Natalie Felch Imperato passed away on Dec. 24, 2017, at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, MA. She received her bachelor’s degree in microbiology and lab sciences with our class and after graduation was employed by Scripps Institute in San Diego, CA, doing cancer research and was recently working as a beauty consultant for Mary K Cosmetics. Survivors include her husband Alex, parents Richard and Lorraine Felch, siblings, aunts, uncles and cousins. Our condolences to the family and friends of our two classmates. ◆

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Bria Oneglia

bwf9@wildcats.unh.edu

The alumni office received word from Verrill Dana that the firm has welcomed Robert Hover, who graduated from UNH Law with our class, as a patent attorney.

Robert’s practice is in intellectual property and information technology, with a particular focus on patent prosecution and IP portfolio management in a variety of technology areas, including green energy, medical devices, aviation, electronics and software. ◆

2013 |

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On Oct. 7, 2017, Mike Germaske '12 and Kristen Morin '12 were married in Portsmouth, NH. They had their reception at Abenaqui Country Club in Rye with 30 Wildcats in attendance.

New Hampshire Business Review recently ran a feature on Alex Freid, one of the organizers of Trash to Treasure at UNH, who has founded Post Landfill Action Network in Dover, NH. David Ryan, who received his education specialist degree with our class, has been named superintendent of SAU 16 in New Hampshire. Jackie Marinoff was featured in a Foster’s Daily Democrat article about her work toward becoming a veterinary pathologist. ◆

company. Steve Earys, who received his doctorate with our class, was featured in a Kennebec Journal article about his work with the Gulf of Maine Research Institute’s Trawl to Table programs. Neil H. Kessler, who also received his doctorate with our class, was appointed as a director at Moro Corporation, a construction products and services. company. ◆

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³ 5TH REUNION ◆ MAY 31 – JUN 2, 2019 ³ Join the “University of New Hampshire Class of 2014” group on Facebook for more information. ◆

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Becca Graves has been inducted into the Bishop Fenwick High School Athletics Hall of Fame. While at UNH, Becca was named to the 2015 America East Academic Team for lacrosse. Dr. Jocelyn Caple, who received her MBA with our class, is chief medical officer at Frisbie Memorial Hospital in Rochester, NH, and was named its interim president and CEO in February. ◆

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Dalton Crossan was signed by the NFL’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers in February. Air Force National Guard Airman First Class Kayla Orner graduated from basic military training at Joint Base Dan Antonio-Lackland, TX, in January. David Harris performed as a special guest with The Novel Jazz for the ensemble’s first concert of the season in February in Damariscotta, ME. Abigail Kaplan’s work as the new food service director and nutritionist for the Seabrook School District was featured in a December article from the Portsmouth Herald. Also in December, Lauren Allen performed the role of the Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker with Ballet Misha, a Manchester-based professional dance

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Gino Sergio was featured in an article from the Taunton Daily Gazette about his new restaurant, The Greyhound Tavern, in Bridgewater, MA. Sydney Baker has joined the certified public accounting firm of Leone, McDonnell & Roberts as a staff accountant in the Wolfeboro and North Conway, NH, offices. ◆

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bright shall thy mem’ry be Ronald Bruce Shaw ’63 He helped teach the world to sing.

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o a generation of Wildcats, Ron Shaw ’63 was a famous folk singer, one half of a duo of handsome brothers who sang at UNH fraternity parties and later went on to perform on the national stage. But to his daughter Jessica ’93, Ron was simply Pa. “I knew from a young age that he was well-known, and that what he did for a living was different from my other friends’ fathers, but I didn’t understand the vast history or the impact he and his music had on people until many years later," she says.

Growing up with identical twin Rick ’63 in North Conway, New Hampshire, music was part of Ron’s life from early childhood. As young boys, the pair learned from their father how to play the ukulele and harmonize cowboy songs. At UNH, Ron and Rick teamed up with some classmates and performed first as The Windjammers and later The Tradewinds — a quintet with which they won the first National Inter-Collegiate Music Competition, in 1962. Spurred by that success, they released an album, and put their studies on hold to take their act on the road as The Brandywine Singers, performing at some 350 colleges, state fairs and nightclubs throughout the United States and Canada.

After earning their degrees, Ron and his brother followed separate paths for a time. While Rick served in Vietnam, Ron spent two years with the Pozo-Seco Singers, taught music in the Oyster River

Faculty and Staff 1940s Diana Dickey Koski ’41H former Vice President, UNH Foundation Feb. 13, 2018, Chambersburg, Pa.

Dorothy Tuttle Ellison ’40 Feb. 12, 2018, Dover, N.H. Elizabeth Dillon Redshaw ’40 April 5, 2018, St. Paul, Minn.

Angelo V. Boy Professor Emeritus of Education June 16, 2018, Durham, N.H.

Charles W. Craig ’41 Jan. 25, 2018, Scarborough, Maine Dagfrid Holm-Hansen Church ’42 Nov. 9, 2017, Conway, S.C.

William A. Condon Professor Emeritus of Animal Science April 28, 2018, Barrington, N.H.

1930s Irvin Q. Bruce ’37 Sept. 22, 2017, Deland, Fla. Constance MacNaughton Blanton ’38 Aug. 5, 2017, Melbourne, Fla.

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Evelyn Downs Green ’44 Feb. 4, 2018, Athens, Ga.

Barbara Bratt Wolfe ’46 March 5, 2018, Tendoy, Idaho

Norma Bake Jervis ’48 March 21, 2018, Exeter, N.H.

Rosario C. Locicero ’49 March 8, 2018, Milford, N.H.

Shirley Spector Levine ’44 April 20, 2018, Portland, Maine

Virginia Skinner Evans ’47 Jan. 9, 2017, Sarasota, Fla.

Theodore Natti ’48 March 28, 2018, Pembroke, N.H.

Frank E. Marsh Jr. ’49G May 17, 2018, Hoover, Ala.

Lilly Carlson Marlatt ’44 March 12, 2017, Charlottesville, Va.

Doris Pierce Swift ’47 Jan. 28, 2018, Dover, N.H.

Pearl Lewis Alberts ’49 April 28, 2017, Newton, Mass.

Jean Farrar Munn ’49 March 26, 2018, Lebanon, N.H.

Grace Thayer Taylor ’47 Dec. 6, 2017, Canterbury, N.H.

Harriett Hammond Bailey ’49 April 25, 2018, Concord, N.H.

Shirley M. O’Neil ’49 Jan. 31, 2018, Farmville, Va.

Robert J. Cronin ’48 Dec. 2, 2017, Seattle, Wa.

Robert F. Brown ’49 March 5, 2018, Bellevue, Wa.

Margaret Badger Prior ’49 Dec. 18, 2017, Portland, Maine

Martin M. Feuer ’48 March 23, 2018, Atkinson, N.H.

Caroline Porter Cross ’49 April 15, 2018, York, S.C.

Mary Knight Sarsfield ’49 May 11, 2018, San Jose, Calif.

Patricia Barrows Gates ’48 Jan. 7, 2018, Raleigh, N.C.

Kenneth G. Elkins ’49 April 9, 2017, Hull, Mass.

Edmund J. Savoie ’49G Oct. 20, 2017, Lancaster, N.H.

Gilbert R. Gredler ’48 Sept. 10, 2017, Columbia, S.C.

Edward J. Hujsak ’49 Feb. 25, 2018, La Jolla, Calif.

H Robert Weisman ’49 March 15, 2018, Nashua, N.H.

Lucy Heafield Hall ’48 Feb. 8, 2018, Franconia, N.H.

Margaret Reid Johnson ’49 Feb. 7, 2018, Hartford, Conn.

Lucy Hauslein Jache ’48 Sept. 10, 2017, Marietta, Ohio

Mary Chisholm Kellum ’49 May 5, 2018, Cambridge, Ohio

Catherine Guyer Osberg ’44 Jan. 21, 2017, Raleigh, N.C. Leo H. Storey ’44 Oct. 4, 2017, Bayonet Point, Fla.

Ruth Dickson Griffin ’42 Feb. 1, 2018, Franconia, N.H.

Mary Small Whelan ’44 April 23, 2018, Glendale, Ariz.

Mary Marr Wolbers ’43 April 14, 2018, Temple, N.H.

Edgar A. Card ’45 Feb. 13, 2018, Saint Peterburg, Fla.

Jean Agnew Bigelow ’44 Feb. 20, 2018, Medfield, Mass.

Anne Penniman MacLeod ’46 March 7, 2018, Groveland, Mass.

Warren M. Foss Sr. ’44, ’50G March 11, 2018, Mountain Home, Ark.

Thomai Fassas Sinopoulos ’46 Jan. 29, 2018, North Andover, Mass.

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School District, toured as a solo act and opened for Janis Joplin at UNH. With Rick’s return in 1968, the duo became The Shaw Brothers, the name under which they would go on to record multiple albums; perform on American Bandstand, The Tonight Show, ABC Wide World of Entertainment and more; and collaborate with artists and entertainers including Don McLean, John Denver, Johnny Cash, Judy Collins, Dionne Warwick and Johnny Mathis.

In 1971, The Shaw Brothers were invited to join The Hillside Singers, a group assembled to turn the Coca-Cola jingle “I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing” into a mainstream hit. The song reached number 13 on the Billboard chart that year and remains the duo’s best-known collaboration, but it was their love of New Hampshire and particularly the White Mountains in which they were raised that left the most enduring mark on their music.

“He was very proud of growing up in the White Mountains, and he enjoyed showing me all the places he frequented when he was young,” says Jessica, Ron’s only child with former wife Pamela Holmes Shaw ’64. Having learned to ski with the famous Austrian instructor Hannes Schneider at North Conway’s Mt. Cranmore, Ron introduced his daughter to the sport at the same mountain at age 11. He also took her canoeing on the Saco River and showed her his beloved Camp Huckins in West Ossipee, where he spent many happy summers as a camper and counselor with Rick.

Their musical career may have taken The Shaw Brothers around the world, but one of the duo’s favorite venues was Portsmouth’s Prescott Park, where they performed for 22 straight summers in front of enormous crowds. In the early 1980s, Gov. Hugh Gallen named The Shaw Brothers “New Hampshire’s Musical Ambassadors to the World,” and in 1983 their song “New Hampshire Naturally” was named an official state song.

1950s Richard O. Adams ’50, ’51G March 10, 2018, Rochester, N.H.

In Memoriam

“My father was fortunate to have been able to travel quite extensively in his life, and he always encouraged me to do the same,” Jessica says. “My curiosity for the world and my deep love for music are definitely to his credit.” Jessica recalls that when she first went to Europe after college, her father helped design an itinerary of places to see while also surprising her with a ticket to see “The Mousetrap” in England — and a reminder to get one of the theatre’s “special ice cream sandwiches.”

Despite living most of his life on stage, Jessica recalls her father, who passed away on April 1 at the age of 77, as a soft-spoken and private man. He enjoyed spending time with his grandchildren, Keegan Landry ’18 and Emma Landry ’20, as well as with his longtime companion, Sallie Macintosh. Grandson Keegan was the third generation of his family to join Sigma Beta fraternity, following in the footsteps of his father Matthew Landry ’93, his grandfather Ron and great-uncle Rick. Keegan fondly remembers when the trio surprised him by attending his Sigma Beta induction ceremony several years ago, saying, “It was a special moment for all of us”— and a sweet encore to the many memories Ron and Rick forged, launching their remarkable career in the same space more than five decades earlier. ² — Karen Hammond ’64

Madelyn “Molly” Bowen Connelly ’84 Mother of 12, midwife, therapist and educator.

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olly Connelly did it all and did it all well. She co-founded the Lakes Region Daycare Center in Gilford, New Hampshire, while raising her own seven sons and five daughters. She taught catechism classes in her church and facilitated childbirth classes for 5,000 couples. She delivered many of her 12 children at home and,

John R. Cannell ’50 Feb. 10, 2018, Fort Myers, Fla.

William H. Ryan Jr. ’50 March 5, 2018, Kingwood, Texas

Patricia Kling Lambert ’51 April 5, 2018, Exeter, N.H.

Mary Jane Kenney Christy ’50 Oct. 1, 2017, Manchester, N.H.

Blanche Fontaine St. John ’50 Nov. 29, 2017, Claremont, N.H.

Richard E. Cole ’50 April 3, 2018, Concord, N.H.

Richard P. Stearns ’50 March 21, 2017, Cleveland, Ohio

Frederick L. Langevin Jr. ’51, ’53G April 18, 2018, Concord, N.H.

Alan G. Deale ’50 Jan. 29, 2018, Charleston Lake, Ont.

David W. Beasley ’51 Feb. 8, 2017, Salinas, Calif.

Nancy Priest Eckfeldt ’50 Feb. 7, 2018, Kennebunkport, Maine Donald A. Kemp ’50 May 27, 2018, Kingston, N.H. Muriel L. Kiley ’50 April 15, 2017, Naples, Fla. Chester B. Lucy ’50 Jan. 28, 2018, North Conway, N.H. Roger C. Quimby ’50 March 3, 2018, Concord, N.H.

Doris Woodward Chaplin ’51 Nov. 8, 2017, Hanover, Mass.

Roland J. Couture ’51 Oct. 5, 2017, Shelton, Conn.

Edward R. Duffy ’51 May 17, 2018, Gainesville, Va. Carol Thomas Gibbs ’51 April 5, 2018, Ogden, Utah Priscilla Hartwell Hansen ’51 April 27, 2018, Nashua, N.H. Norman B. Holden Sr. ’51 Feb. 15, 2018, Franklin, Va.

working as a midwife, “caught” more than 1,000 babies for other women. She preferred the term “caught” for her role in the births because she felt that laboring mothers deserved the credit for the hard work of delivery.

But Molly was just getting started. She graduated from UNH at age 45, opened a private therapy practice, taught parenting classes and was an adjunct faculty member in the UNH department of family studies for 20 years. “My mum loved teaching at UNH,” says her daughter Shelagh. Her affection was reciprocated by the many students who honored her at her retirement party in 2016.

Among those who gathered to wish her well was Andrew Minigan ’14, one of her teaching assistants, who remembers Molly’s class as a mini-UNH community.

“Whenever anything big happened on campus, Molly’s class was a space for building community and constructive discussion that led to action or cathartic inaction,” he says. She emphasized the importance of reflection, notes Andrew, and taking time out of a busy day simply to breathe. She was also eminently practical. Andrew is among the many students who fondly remember how on the last day of the semester, after leading the class in chanting and deep breathing, Molly would send her male and female students alike on their way with instructions to do daily Kegel exercises.

Caitlin Connelly Cooper ‘09, Molly’s granddaughter and another of her teaching assistants, says that working with her grandmother Charles S. Black Ret. ’52 July 17, 2017, New Smyrna Beach, Fla. Natalie Woodward Chapin ’52 May 15, 2018, Augusta, Maine

Peter E. Campbell ’53 March 6, 2017, Orange City, Fla.

Charles H. Avery ’54 April 16, 2018, Jametown, N.Y.

Wilfred E. Chartrand Jr. ’53 May 19, 2017, Saint Paul, Minn.

Charles M. Blair ’54 Feb. 1, 2018, Charleston, N.C.

Robert J. Evans ’53G April 20, 2018, West Lebanon, N.H.

Charles I. Despres ’54 March 15, 2018, Pompano Beach, Fla.

Kenneth R. Marshall ’51 April 3, 2018, Concord, N.H.

Victor E. Fournier ’52 Feb. 18, 2018, Laconia, N.H.

Robert P. Ordway ’51 May 8, 2018, Meza, Ariz.

Harmon H. Guptill ’52 April 20, 2018, Dover, N.H.

Edwin H. Robinson ’51 Feb. 7, 2018, Concord, N.H.

John H. Jacobsmeyer Jr. ’52 May 24, 2018, Northwood, N.H.

John W. O’Donnell ’53 Aug. 28, 2017, Colorado Springs, Colo.

Robert W. Shaw ’51 May 23, 2018, Colebrook, N.H.

Nicholas G. Kalipolites ’52 March 14, 2018, Manchester, N.H.

Robert B. Piper Ret. ’53 April 20, 2018, Sandpoint, Idaho

Nancy Lovejoy Hunter ’54 May 23, 2017, Redding, Calif.

Jean Nulton Silver ’51, ’72G April 29, 2018, Rutland, Vt.

Herbert R. Langer ’52 April 3, 2018, Manchester, N.H.

Ted H. Putnam ’53 Jan. 30, 2018, Charlestown, N.H.

Constance A. Ketchum ’54 Feb. 5, 2018, Laconia, N.H.

Laura Whippie Sullivan ’51 March 22, 2018, Peterborough, N.H.

Charles A. MacKenzie ’52 May 10, 2018, Sandwich, Mass.

James W. Skillings Sr. ’53 March 14, 2018, Bedford, N.H.

Richard A. Moore ’54 Feb. 17, 2018, Kennebunk, Maine

Barbara Galbraith Woods ’52 May 2, 2017, Enfield, Conn.

Paul F. Amico Sr. ’54, ’93 April 7, 2018, Danvers, Mass.

Nancy Holt Talbot ’54, ’58G Feb. 20, 2018, North Reading, Mass.

Priscilla Allen Mather ’53 Feb. 24, 2018, Truro, Mass.

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Ernest F. Haselton ’54 Jan. 27, 2018, Warwick, R.I. Ronald W. Hill ’54 May 3, 2018, New London, N.H.

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Harold C. Albin Jr. ’55 April 11, 2018, Jacksonville, Fla.

Pierre V. Brunelle Ret. ’58 Feb. 4, 2018, Port Orange, Fla.

Ruth Bullock Seidel ’60 March 13, 2017, Exeter, N.H.

Joseph M. Sussman ’63G March 20, 2018, Boston, Mass.

Donna Ward Batchelder ’67 Feb. 12, 2018, Florence, Ky.

John W. Bone ’55, ’68G Feb. 11, 2018, Dorchester, Mass.

Robert J. Irzyk ’58 Nov. 6, 2017, Dunstable, Mass.

Hartley D. Town ’60 March 9, 2018, Freeport, Maine

Marcia Peck Hodsdon ’64 March 2, 2018, Wakefield, N.H.

Peter G. Brown ’67 April 3, 2018, Ossipee, N.H.

Eleanor Killam ’55, ’56G Jan. 1, 2018, Springfield, Mass.

Robert A. Jacobson ’58 May 4, 2018, Portsmouth, N.H.

Ronald K. Brown ’61 Oct. 7, 2017 Concord, N.H.

Suzanne Drake Thompson ’64 April 22, 2018, Annapolis, Md.

Norman J. Burgess ’67 Feb. 18, 2018, Ayer, Mass.

Gerald O. Rheault ’55 March 26, 2018, Manchester, N.H.

Charles P. Liberty ’58 April 17, 2018, Yarmouth Port, Mass.

Carl D. Erickson ’61, ’68G Nov. 2, 2017, El Paso, Texas

Charles E. Welner ’64G Dec. 25, 2017, Sebring, Fla.

William J. Homicki ’67 Aug. 5, 2017, Longmeadow, Mass.

Michael H. Gianni ’61G Aug. 4, 2017, Burlington, Vt.

Richard W. Ahrendt ’65 Feb. 4, 2018, Homewood, Il.

Mary F. Menner ’67G April 4, 2018, Bedford, N.H.

John P. Griffith ’61 Feb. 9, 2018, Wilton, N.H.

Bruce C. Bacon ’65, ’89G Dec. 30, 2017, Rochester, N.H.

James E. Peckrul ’67 Aug. 24, 2017, Remus, Mich.

Forrest R. Haselton ’61 May 18, 2018, Vero Beach, Fla.

Max H. Buzzell ’65 Jan. 8, 2017, Cranston, R.I.

Robert B. Abbott ’68 April 13, 2018, Loudon, N.H.

Eugene W. Nute Ret. ’61 March 25, 2018, Clearwater, Fla.

John J. Clifford ’65 Feb. 17, 2018, Rye Beach, N.H.

Thomas G. Bourn ’68 May 19, 2018, Saunderstown, R.I.

Douglas H. Gordon ’62 June 7, 2017, Thornton, Colo.

Bruce P. Hansen ’65 March 23, 2018, Haverhill, Mass.

Robert E. Thurston ’62 Dec. 12, 2017, Land O Lakes, Fla.

Janet Simpson Jones ’65, ’73G March 24, 2018, Portsmouth, N.H.

Robert H. Ciullo ’68G March 11, 2018, Kennebunk, Maine

Vilma Grube Walton ’62G, ’65G May 13, 2018, Northborough, Mass.

Malcolm W. MacDonald ’65 Sept. 29, 2017, Middletown, R.I.

Carol Newman Corwin ’56 May 3, 2018, New London, N.H.

John H. Reynolds ’58 March 19, 2018, Sanford, Maine

Eleanor Monson Davenport ’56 Feb. 19, 2018, Tallahassee, Fla.

Carole Taylor Schanley ’58 April 9, 2018, Beverly, Mass.

Norma D. Jenks ’56 March 26, 2018, Marysville, Calif.

Kenneth P. Cammett ’59 March 8, 2018, Rancho Cordova, Calif.

James R. Perry Ret. ’56 April 16, 2018, Lebanon, N.H.

Cynthia Perkins Keller ’59 April 28, 2018, Manchester, N.H.

Kenneth V. Cote ’57 Jan. 22, 2018, Foley, Ala.

Granville S. Knox Jr. ’59 April 10, 2018, Newington, N.H.

Barbara Fox Duffy ’57 Feb. 1, 2018 Cedarburg, Wis.

Carroll G. Matthews Jr. ’59 May 4, 2018, Ocala, Fla.

Gerald C. Hardy ’57 April 25, 2018, Manchester, Conn.

Edward G. Strain ’59 Feb. 7, 2018, Palm Harbor, Fla.

Virginia Holden-Norberg ’57 April 8, 2018, Peabody, Mass.

Robert D. Taatjes ’59 April 12, 2018, Milton, N.H.

William G. Hooper ’57 March 7, 2018, New Boston, N.H.

Geraldine Philpot Sylvester ’69 Aug. 23, 2017, Dover, N.H.

1970s Jane Dunham Aghajanian ’70 April 2, 2018, Quincy, Mass.

Mary Colligan Enos ’70 Feb. 13, 2018, Port Orange, Fla.

Robert C. Gardner ’68G April 5, 2018, Fairhaven, Mass.

Linda Lounder Frailey ’70 Jan. 20, 2018, Westmoreland, N.H.

Dana E. Hull ’68 March 26, 2018, Wakefield, N.H.

Jane Kidney Horne ’70 March 4, 2018, Falmouth, Maine

Robert J. Hylander ’68G March 17, 2018, Ellsworth, Maine

Bruce A. Reynolds ’70 March 28, 2018, Meredith, N.H.

William E. Kraus Jr. ’68 May 5, 2018, Topeka, Ks.

Andrea Weidner ’70G Oct. 28, 2017, Mendham, N.J.

John W. Dougherty ’63 March 3, 2018, Hackettstown, N.J.

Corinne Deluca Grise ’66G March 10, 2018, Pensacola, Fla.

Barton R. Chamberlain ’71 March 15, 2018, Oak Island, N.C.

David W. Gagen ’63 Feb. 24, 2017, Frisco, Texas

John W. Halperin ’66G March 1, 2018, Poway, Calif.

Roland Labrie ’68, ’89G March 7, 2018, Cape Neddick, Maine

Marcia Madden Heist ’66 Jan. 1, 2017, Brookline, Mass.

Dean W. Osgood ’57 May 6, 2018, Lebanon, N.H.

Ronald L. Aveni ’60 May 6, 2018, Milford, N.H.

Robert E. Pelkie ’57 March 27, 2018, Laconia, N.H.

John M. Berry ’60 March 3, 2018, Canterbury, N.H.

Robert E. Moyer ’63G March 10, 2018, Spring Township, Pa.

Edwin A. Walkey ’57 Feb. 28, 2018, Windham, N.H.

Howard E. Bouldry Jr. ’60 Oct. 9, 2017, Chester, N.H.

Daniel J. Mullen ’63 March 22, 2018, Aurora, Colo.

Ralph M. Batchelder Jr. ’58 Sept. 13, 2017, Sarasota, Fla.

Kay Angelides Bournakel ’60 Jan. 31, 2018, Yarmouth, Maine

Elizabeth Barnes Pistey ’63 April 4, 2018, Boscawen, N.H.

Louis E. Bergeron ’58 Jan. 31, 2018, Bradenton, Fla.

Duane R. Martin Sr. ’60 Jan. 21, 2018, Denver, Colo.

Ronald B. Shaw ’63 April 1, 2018, Portsmouth, N.H.

taught her patience, compassion and responsibility. ”I will always be grateful for our special bond and time together,” says Caitlin. “She always said she was the lucky one, but she was wrong. It was me.”

Another granddaughter, Molly Riehs ’18, learned as a freshman that her grandmother was a campus legend. “I made more connections by being the beloved Molly Connelly’s granddaughter than any other RA/orientation/club signup combined,” she says.

Despite her busy family and professional life, Molly found time for hobbies and friends, says Shelagh. With William, her husband of 60 years, she planted more than 1,000 flowers every spring and enjoyed hosting tours and parties in her award-winning gardens.

She reigned as “Queen” of her local branch of the Red Hat Society.

Molly accomplished all she set out to do by being extraordinarily organized. Shelagh recalls that growing up with 11 siblings was “controlled chaos” that functioned thanks to her mother’s detailed chore list and the expectation that everyone would do his or her part.

The large family got by without an automatic dishwasher, but they didn’t need one. “We had 12 live dishwashers,” Shelagh says.

Molly’s energy was boundless and she often slept just four or five hours a night, says Shelagh, who recalls once waking up at 2 a.m. to find her mother hanging wallpaper. No matter how busy things got, Molly’s philosophy was that there was always room for one more in the Connelly household. The children’s friends were always welcome, especially those going through a tough time and needing a place to stay. Molly kept that open-door policy virtually up until her death last Nov. 2 at the age of 78. “Being a mother, midwife and professor defined my mother’s values,” says Shelagh.

When Molly counseled pregnant couples, she asked them to write the story of their own births. In her UNH classes she had

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Paul W. Stanton Jr. ’65 March 1, 2018, Littleton, Colo.

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Keith S. Bond ’63G July 21, 2017, Fall Village, Conn.

Cynthia Shepard McAlpine ’57 Jan. 1, 2018, Canoga Park, Calif.

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Thomas I. McDowell ’69 Sept. 25, 2017, Madill, Okla.

Donald H. Babcock Jr. ’63 Feb. 20, 2018, Swampscott, Mass.

Floyd G. Timson ’59 March 6, 2018, Princeton, W.Va.

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Sharon Barr Newsky ’65 Feb. 27, 2018 South Berwick, Maine

Robert J. Kearney ’57, ’59G March 18, 2018, Moscow, Idaho

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Geraldine A. Phelps ’66, ’77G Feb. 13, 2018, Webster, N.H. Charles D. Tousley ’66G Feb. 1, 2018, Keene, N.H. George P. Ugarte ’66 May 9, 2017, Santa Ana, Calif.

David B. Washburn ’66 April 10, 2018, Lyme, N.H.

Roy C. Lewis ’68G Jan. 30, 2018, Gorham, Maine Dennis C. McAllister ’68 May 3, 2018, Sitka, Alaska Clarence J. Pinette ’68G Dec. 21, 2017, Ocala, Fla. Denise Gilmore Willis ’68 Feb. 23, 2018, Greenville, Wis. Philip G. Cummings ’69 April 8, 2018, Somersworth, N.H.

Mariella Crowe ’71G May 18, 2018, Wilkes Barre, Pa. Pauline Stimson Green ’71 Sept. 29, 2017, Wolfeboro, N.H. Edward B. Hatfield ’71G July 25, 2017, Freedom, N.H. Clyde F. McKay III ’71, ’74G May 27, 2018, Beverly, Mass.

David G. Phillips ’71G, ’76G May 12, 2018, Pottstown, Pa. Dwight A. Robie ’71 Feb. 28, 2018, Bath, N.H.

students consider how they wanted to be remembered at the end of their lives and compose their own obituaries. All of her interests had a common theme that she thought everyone should contemplate, says Shelagh: “What does it mean to be human?”

Soon, students and other UNH visitors will be able to contemplate that question on a granite bench installed in Molly’s memory near the Health and Wellness Center. There’s plenty of room for a group — the bench is a dozen feet long; one foot for each of Molly’s 12 children. ² — Karen Hammond ’64

Christine Loeber ’91 She made a difference.

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n avid reader and a writer, Christine Loeber ’91 counted among her favorite stories the parable of the boy and the starfish.

Taken from a book called “The Star Thrower,” it tells the tale of an older man on a beach, watching as a young boy tosses starfish that have washed ashore back into the ocean to keep them alive. When the older man questions whether the boy thinks he can really make a difference — there are thousands of starfish, after all, and only one of him — he responds by smiling, throwing another starfish into the water, and saying, “I bet it made a difference to that one.”

As executive director of The Pathway Home, a California program for veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder, it would have been easy for Christine to become like the older man in the parable, overwhelmed by the facility’s many patients and their complicated needs.

But ask her mother, Marie, and she was very clearly the young boy, unfailingly committed to making a difference, one veteran at a time.

When she died on March 9, one of three Pathway administrators

In Memoriam Peter A. Stahl ’71G Feb. 27, 2018, Longmeadow, Mass.

William E. Carey ’74 Feb. 3, 2018, Conway, N.H.

Corylee J. Spiro ’76 March 10, 2018, New York, N.Y.

Janet Jepson Lord ’80 Oct. 22, 2017, Exeter, N.H.

Sara Scudder Allen ’72G, ’78G Feb. 9, 2018, Unity, N.H.

Vincent H. Conaway ’74 March 24, 2018, Altoona, Wis.

Harley D. Swanson ’76JD April 10, 2018, Oceano, Calif.

Maria A. Russell ’80 Nov. 28, 2017, Durham, N.H.

Dennis B. Burcal ’72 June 16, 2017, Long Beach, Calif.

Jeffrey C. England ’74 May 12, 2018, Exeter, N.H.

Amy Wales ’76 Jan. 16, 2018, Edgartown, Mass.

Lucien C. Burleaud ’72 April 8, 2018, Paris, Texas

John B. Hartwell ’74 April 11, 2017, Bushkill, Pa.

Carol Whyte Dustin ’77 May 22, 2018, Lebanon, N.H.

Karin Cooke ’81 Sept. 10, 2017, New Braintree, Mass.

Jeffrey A. Klitzner ’84 Feb. 20, 2018, Danbury, N.H.

Joseph P. Churchill III ’72 Nov. 15, 2017, Lexington, Mass.

Roger D. Lemelin ’74 March 30, 2018, Barrington, N.H.

Nancy Richardson Langlois ’77 March 4, 2018, Wolfeboro, N.H.

Mark E. Hines ’81G March 11, 2018, Westford, Mass.

William G. Poland ’84 Aug. 18, 2017, Claremont, N.H.

Patricia Perkins Gurtner ’72 Jan. 7, 2018, Concord, N.H.

Joan Lorenz McAbee ’74, ’94JD April 7, 2018, York, Maine

William F. Pforte Jr. ’77 June 24, 2017, Cambridge, Mass.

An Renhult Kane ’81 May 5, 2018, Truro, Mass.

Carol S. Pringle ’84 Sept. 28, 2017, York, Maine

Barbara Gould Lemay ’72 Feb. 24, 2017, Rochester, N.H.

Stephen H. Russell ’74G April 27, 2018, Hinesburg, Vt.

Ronald C. Smith Jr. ’77 Feb. 15, 2018, Maynard, Mass.

Judith Lydiard Kinley ’81 April 18, 2018, Brattleboro, Vt.

Michele Morin Ringrose ’84 April 8, 2018, Port Saint Lucie, Fla.

Frederick C. Pearson III ’72G Aug. 19, 2017, Newmarket, N.H.

Christopher D. Stone ’74 May 24, 2018, Lebanon, N.H.

Mary H. Warren ’77 Jan. 10, 2017, Durham, N.H.

Marie C. Landroche ’81JD April 18, 2017, Gilford, N.H.

Christine Vornberger Arata ’85 March 18, 2018, Kingston, N.H.

Robert A. Marden ’81JD Oct. 29, 2017, Waterville, N.H.

Jeffrey L. Metzger ’86G, ’91G Aug. 26, 2017, Loudon, N.H.

Wendy Allin McKinnon ’81 March 6, 2018, North Haverhill, N.H.

James J. Fiore ’87 Feb. 20, 2018, Magnolia, Del.

Paul A. Smith Jr. ’72 Feb. 14, 2018, Marlborough, Mass.

Richard G. Arsenault ’73 April 25, 2017, Dover, N.H. Frank W. Atwood Jr. ’73 Feb. 21, 2018, Vero Beach, Fla. Frank J. Barnes ’73G Sept. 15, 2017, Rye, N.H. L. Rene Bergeron ’73 Jan. 29, 2018, Portsmouth, N.H. James G. Blake ’73 Feb. 23, 2018, Freedom, N.H. Neal C. Clark ’73 Jan. 6, 2018, Peterborough, N.H. Richard J. Latti ’73 May 6, 2018, Keene, N.H. Richard F. Lieke Jr. ’73G Sept. 1, 2017, Portland, Maine Donald L. Spicer ’73G Jan. 31, 2018, Miamisburg, Ohio Warren E. Watson ’73 May 27, 2018, Augusta, Maine Gerald S. Blanchard Sr. ’74 May 20, 2018, Manchester, N.H.

Sally Wennberg Vaughn ’74, ’79G March 8, 2018, Portsmouth, N.H. Donald M. Wisniewski ’74 May 23, 2018, Lower Burrell, Pa. John M. Burke ’75G June 11, 2017, Plymouth, Mass.

Kathryn Walmsley Fincher ’75, ’80G Feb. 12, 2018, Nashua, N.H. Stephen G. Fritch ’75 April 28, 2018, Gloucester, Mass.

Anne M. Murray-Nestelberger ’75 Feb. 10, 2018, Weymouth, Mass.

Robert E. Richards ’75 April 28, 2018, Glimanton Ironworks, N.H. Dennis Pizzimenti ’76JD July 17, 2017, Bow, N.H. Nancy Robichaud Schneider ’76 March 10, 2018, Skowhegan, Maine

Erthalder E. Westover ’77 May 2, 2018, Bow, N.H. Kevin E. Wood ’77 May 17, 2018, Panama City, Fla. Douglas C. Chandler ’78 April 23, 2018, Dunbarton, N.H. Michael J. O’Leary ’78G April 8, 2018, Boca Raton, Fla. Ruth Goss Power ’78 March 18, 2018, Canterbury, N.H. Lois Faulkner Smith ’78G Jan. 14, 2018, Hudson, Fla. Jeffrey S. Straw ’78 Feb. 22, 2018, Manchester, N.H. Bruce R. Thompson ’78 May 9, 2018, Hampton, Conn.

Mary Coellner Barker ’79 March 12, 2018, Exeter, N.H. Louis A. Monti ’79 Dec. 3, 2017, Brunswick, Ga.

1980s Carla Guyeski Decker ’80 Dec. 14, 2017, Beverly Hills, Fla.

killed by an individual who had recently been removed from the program, her family and friends were devastated — but unsurprised that she was at work on what had been her day off, or that she had died alongside those who had been most involved in that veteran’s care.

Christine grew up in Easton, Massachusetts, with a younger sister, Michelle, and an expansive circle of friends that grew to include her classmates and Delta Zeta sorority sisters at UNH. “Christine was one of those people everyone wanted to be around,” says Kimberly Chenard ’92, who lived with Christine in an off-campus apartment after both women transferred to UNH from other colleges. “She had such a natural ability to pull people together. She was incredibly fun and positive and made everyone who knew her feel like they were her best friend.”

After graduating in 1991 with a degree in communications, Christine took a job with the New England Sports Network (NESN), but soon realized that helping others — and veterans in particular — was her calling. She spent five years working for Boston Health Care for the Homeless (BHCHP) and in 2004 enrolled at the Boston College School of Social Work. Her father, Donald, recalls that when she left NESN, he told her it was a mistake; NESN was going to be a big company. “She told me, ‘Dad, I want to help people,’” Donald says.

After earning her MSW, Christine began working with veterans at the VA in Brockton, Massachusetts, focusing on trauma and substance abuse among female veterans. It was there that the running, hiking and cycling enthusiast earned her yoga-teaching credentials and began incorporating yoga as a tool for coping with trauma into her counseling work. She moved to California in 2013 to work at the VA in Palo Alto and in 2016 was recruited to join The Pathway Home.

R. Scott White ’81 May 15, 2018, Nashua, N.H. Thomas D. Ball ’82 May 2, 2018, Manchester, N.H. Sophie A. Giorato ’82 Feb. 7, 2018, Portsmouth, N.H. Brian D. Butler ’83 March 11, 2018, Albuquerque, N.M. Linda A. Mackey ’83 May 14, 2018, Manchester, N.H. Kenneth R. Nielsen ’83JD April 9, 2018, Myrtle Beach, S.C. Bernice Callahan Stucker ’83G April 3, 2017, Somersworth, N.H. Johnathan S. Birdsall ’84 March 11, 2018, Plaistow, N.H. Paul P. Caron ’84G Jan. 30, 2017, Albany, N.Y.

Barbara Rumpf Stevens ’93 Jan. 11, 2018, Dundedin, Fla.

Madelyn “Molly”Bowen Connelly ’84, ’85G Nov. 2, 2017, Gilford, N.H.

Marianne Bucklin ’94 May 18, 2018, Concord, N.H.

Timothy D. Hamilton ’84 Feb. 11, 2018, Pacific Beach, Calif.

Stephen R. Dunn ’94 Feb. 24, 2018, Lowell, Mass.

Ralph Suozzo ’94 March 4, 2018, Bedford, N.H. Michael V. Busby ’96 March 6, 2018, Methuen, Mass.

Benjamin J. Nadeau ’96 Jan. 23, 2018, Hudson, N.H. Christopher F. Butterworth ’97, ’00G Feb. 16, 2018, La Grande, Ore. Anthony H. Palmer ’97G Sept. 2, 2017, Dover, N.H.

2000s

Deborah Gelinas Lavoie ’87 May 10, 2018, Manchester, N.H.

Justin J. Benito ’03 April 28, 2018, Hartford, Conn.

Thomas G. Liddy ’87G April 9, 2018, Hampton, N.H.

Jonathon D. Drake ’04, ’06G May 23, 2018, Alton, N.H.

Janis B. Steele ’87G March 9, 2018, Belmont, Mass.

Thomas A. Krawczyk ’04 Feb. 18, 2018, New Durham, N.H.

1990s

Janet E. Wright ’04G April 6, 2018, Quincy, Mass.

Patrick J. Driscoll ’90G May 9, 2018, Biddeford, Maine

Kevin R. McCarthy ’07 Feb. 23, 2018, Portland, Maine

Judith H. Smyjunas ’90 May 2, 2018, Leesburg, IN

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Nancy Pearce Turner ’91 March 1, 2018, Keene, N.H.

Courtney R. Hickson ’11JD Feb. 7, 2018, Chelsea, Mass.

Terrence J. McCarthy ’92 March 24, 2018, Malden, Mass.

Gregory S. Poggi ’13 May 9, 2018, Hampstead, N.H.

Linda Johnson ’93G April 9, 2018, Rye, N.H.

Colleen M. Gorman ’14 April 26, 2018, Colebrook, N.H.

Christine M. Loeber ’93 March 9, 2018, Yountville, Calif.

A residential program for service members deployed after 9/11, Pathway provides counseling as well as education and job training for veterans struggling with the transition back to the civilian world.

Sandra Woodford, an Army veteran who occasionally worked with Christine at a crafts center across the street from Pathway, remembers her as, “delightful, intelligent, outgoing, charming and very dedicated to the veterans — sentiments echoed by those who knew her at BHCHP, Boston College, and elsewhere. “She was really a wonderful critical thinker,” says BHCHP CEO Barry Bock. “You were really struck by what a good human being she was.”

The extensive media coverage that followed Christine’s death and that of her colleagues Jennifer Gray Golick and Jennifer Gonzales Shushereba emphasized that she died doing what she loved. Her mother takes comfort in remembering the joy Christine experienced in all dimensions of her life — not just her work. “She loved to laugh,” Marie says. “She loved music, movies and poetry.

She was incredibly kind.”

For a memorial service held in Easton shortly after her death, Christine’s family included her favorite quote, by the 13th century Persian poet and mystic Rumi, on the back of the program. Written in Christine’s handwriting, the passage reads, “Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.” ² — Kristin Waterfield Duisberg

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he windstorm that took down all but the base of one of the Durham campus’ towering trees in spring 2017 didn’t spell the end for the old eastern white pine. Instead, UNH campus planning and housing staffers reached out to Mainebased chainsaw carving artist Tim Pickett to turn the 15-foot eyesore, located on the northeast side of the campus on a triangle of grass behind Scott Hall, into a new piece of public art. Constrained by the height and diameter of the stump, Pickett considered design options that included a rearing wildcat and UNH benefactor Ben Thompson

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before settling on a quintessential — if anachronistic — symbol of academia: a curving quill pen and bottle of ink clutched by pair of hands. Pickett set to work shortly after the end of the 2017–18 school year and finished up in time for the first 2018–19 students’ arrival in August. Made possible by the Coe-Hall Endowment, which is dedicated to campus beautification projects, the sculpture is the first piece of campus art to be created in situ — and just the latest example of the university’s creative approach to sustainable, renewable living.

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