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Sowing Success: UNHInnovation gets big ideas out in the world. | 48 Game Changer: Football-related head injuries are making national headlines. So is Erik Swartzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s idea for preventing them. | 34

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Fleet Footed: track standout Elinor Purrier ’17 set a nationbest NCAA time in the mile at Boston University’s David Hemery Valentine Invitational on Feb. 12. p. 27

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Contents Tackling Football’s CONCUSSION CRISIS Better helmets? Tougher rules? Kinesiology professor Erik Swartz turned a different direction altogether to take on one of sports’ most pressing issues.

34 The Beer Boom Local brewing is big business — and UNH alums are behind some of the biggest names in the region.

Departments 5 | Editor’s Letter 7 | Letters 10 | Current multi-trophic aquaculture ◆ Paul College FIRE Program ◆ new books by T.D. Thornton ’90 and history professor Ellen Fitzpatrick ◆ Advance Manufacturing Center gift ◆ and more

40 Inspiring Invention From pumpkin seeds to polymers, UNHInnovation helps faculty, staff and students turn their bright ideas into marketable products.

54 | Class Notes June Gong Chin ’58 Ted Eynon ’85 Bob Lord ’99

77 | In Memoriam Marion James ’40 Ralph “Tim” Craig ’54 Jonathan Kellogg ’70

80 | Parting Shot

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UNH Editor-in-Chief Kristin Waterﬁeld Duisberg Art Director and Designer Valerie Lester Contributing and Staff Writers Tracey Bentley Larry Clow ’12G Karen Hammond ’64 Beth Potier Jody Record ’95 Jennifer Saunders Contributing and Staff Photographers Jeremy Gasowski Scott Ripley Bill Truslow

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Contributors Writer Larry Clow ’12G is a sucker for stories about serendipity — and that made reporting on UNHInnovation a pleasant surprise. “I’m always fascinated by stories about UNH’s agricultural roots, but never suspected UNHInnovation’s work, with its emphasis on technology and entrepreneurship, would harken back to those roots,” he says. Also surprising: the office is responsible for one of UNH’s many pop culture ties. Clow lives in southern Maine and edits The Sound, a weekly paper based in the N.H. Seacoast. He’s planning on watching 2014’s “Godzilla” again, this time looking for UNH’s stealth cameo appearance.

Jody Record ’95 was a Bud Light girl before she learned just how tasty a craft brew could be. Hints of vanilla and juniper berries? Notes of banana, peach and pear? Chocolate malt? Who knew? Apparently all the alumni beer brewers featured in this issue. And the bonus takeaway from doing the story was discovering the culture these microbreweries are creating. “It’s a redo of the old neighborhood bar,” she says. Record is a staff member who writes for UNH Magazine and other publications and is trying to finish her first novel in her free time.

Publication Board of Directors Mark W. Huddleston President, University of New Hampshire Debbie Dutton Vice President, Advancement Joel Seligman Chief Communications Ofﬁcer Susan Entz ’08G Associate Vice President, Alumni Association Robert McGrath ’96 President, UNH Alumni Association Bridget Finnegan Creative Director

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The first “UNH Magazine,” The New Hampshire State Alumnus, was printed in 1922 (at top left). The publication has gone through multiple metamorphoses over the past century!

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HOME COURT: For the second year in a row, the menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball team hosted a first-round America East conference playoff game, delivering a 56-51 win over Binghamton University at Lundholm Gymnasium March 2. The team closed out a 19-12 season with its second-straight trip to the AE playoff semifinals, falling to UVM in Burlington, Vt., on March 8.

SAVE THE DATE September 30–October 2, 2016 The University of New Hampshire has inspired innovation and transformed lives for 150 years. Help us celebrate this success during Homecoming weekend as we launch CELEBRATE 150: The Campaign for UNH.

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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 • 7 p.m. • WHITTEMORE CENTER

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don’t know if you noticed, but we’ve changed a couple things about UNH Magazine. There’s the new masthead, the new “Current” section, the newly integrated “Alumni News” and “Class Notes” sections — in fact, it might be easier to talk about what hasn’t changed. We understand: Change, even when it’s for the better, can be disorienting. The changes we’ve made here reflect countless hours of research regarding alumni magazine best practices, the input of UNH leadership groups on and off campus, and the feedback many of you provided in the magazine survey we conducted in winter 2013 –14. We hope they also reflect our love for UNH, our passion for good storytelling and engaging design and our desire to create a UNH Magazine that truly represents this great university and its alumni. It’s no accident that we chose the theme of “innovation” to introduce this new-look UNH Magazine. In its many shapes and forms, innovation — the creation of a new method, product or way of looking at something — drives every aspect of life at UNH. In our features, you’ll read about the way kinesiology professor Erik Swartz is taking a dramatically different approach to the thorny issue of sports-related head injuries, and how local alumni are helping to drive the booming craft beer industry. You’ll also see the mannner in which innovation and intellectual discovery go hand in hand — and sometimes lead to real-world products that benefit individuals well beyond UNH and the Granite State. Approaching my third anniversary with UNH Magazine just as UNH celebrates its milestone 150th birthday, I have taken on the prospect of changing this flagship publication with sincere admiration for its previous incarnations (which, as page 2 illustrates, are more numerous than you may have realized). Fan of the new class notes format? Something you miss? Good or bad, I’d love to hear from you.

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A Life of Service

fter reading the fall edition of UNH Magazine, I was both impressed and interested that so many alumni have gone into public service, assuming high-level positions in the legislative and executive branches of both state and federal government. I am curious if any alumni have done so in any foreign governments. While I spent over thirty years in Connecticut state government, at the age of 56, I returned to the country of my birth, Latvia, where I was elected a member of Parliament (1998–2010) and was the People Party's candidate for president. I assumed various positions, including chairwoman of the foreign affairs committee. For a time, I was deputy foreign minister and deputy speaker of the parliamentary assembly of the council of Europe. My education, both at Tufts University and UNH, as well as experience in American democracy, enabled me to help Latvia achieve membership in the EU and NATO, as well as work with politicians, especially women, in emerging democracies. My call to public service is best summarized by a piece I wrote for the JFK Library project, “An Idea Lives Forever,” which can be found on their website: “On November 22, 1963, I was a 21 year old junior at Tufts University, sitting in a Greek art and archeology class, when a somber-faced department head came in and asked us all to stand and observe a moment of silence at the death of President John F. Kennedy. The tragic days of numbing disbelief, however, were followed by an overwhelming interest in President Kennedy, his speeches, policies and most important, his call to public service, as a result of which, I spent over thirty years of my life working in Connecticut state government.

However, it was not until 1998, when I returned to the country of my birth, Latvia, and was elected to Parliament, that President Kennedy’s legacy became an integral part of my political life. Tucked away in my suitcase as I headed to Latvia was President Kennedy’s book — “Profiles in Courage” — a reminder to a woman from one political culture trying to make it in a very different political culture, to always place the common good above narrow party interests. President Kennedy’s ideas gave me the courage to raise my lone hand, out of 350 party members, against our party leader, an oligarch, intent on making a political comeback. President Kennedy’s legacy prompted me to vote against corrupt and incompetent party candidates for public office, and speak out publicly against abuses of power and conflicts of interest. While my independence did not endear me to party leaders, it did give me credibility in the voting public and internationally, where I conscientiously tried to bring President Kennedy’s ideas of democracy, peaceful diplomacy and good governance to women politicians throughout the Middle East and the Balkans. In interviews, I have always described myself as a product of the Kennedy years, committed to the public good. I feel truly privileged and honored to have realized his call to service not just in words, but in concrete deeds as a Member of Parliament in Latvia.” Vaira Zervins Paegle ’67G, South Windsor, Conn.

Third time’s the charm?

was amused by the flurry of letters correcting your usage of the Medal of Honor. It is certainly not a Presidential medal, but neither is it a Congressional one. It is the Medal

of Honor, pure and simple. It is almost invariably presented by the President of the United States, “in the name of the Congress,” which explains the confusion attending its name. There are actually three versions of the Medal, one each for the Army, Navy (including Marines and Coast Guard), and Air Force. Of roughly forty million American veterans, only about 3,500 have received the Medal, nearly half awarded during the Civil War, and very many of the more recent ones awarded posthumously. Daniel Ford ’54, Durham, N.H.

Despite the good intentions of several readers who wrote in to correct your incorrectly identifying the Medal of Honor as the “Presidential Medal of Honor,” the label “Congressional Medal of Honor” is also incorrect. The award is approved by Congress and presented by the president, but it is simply, “the Medal of Honor.” Mike T. Eastman ’72, ’79G LTC (Ret), US Army, Kansas City, Mo.

Concerning the recent article about the Medal of Honor for Ryan Pitts ’13 and letters from alumni in the most recent issue, I wish to respectfully disagree with both letter writers and the UNH associate dean. Referring to reliable sources on the internet, it is the Medal of Honor, awarded by the president in the name of the U.S. Congress. Because the medal is presented in the name of Congress, it is often referred to as the Congressional Medal of Honor. However, the official name is the Medal of Honor. My compliments on another fine issue of our alumni magazine! William D. Tighe ’61, New London, N.H.

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ROCKET SCIENCE: A thermal vacuum chamber in Morse Hall allows researchers in UNH’s Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space (EOS) to test small satellite payloads built at the EOS Space Science Center. UNHbuilt components have flown on more than 20 satellite missions to date, including the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)-led 2015 Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission and the 2016 Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites-R series project, a joint endeavor between NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA).

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Pier to Plate UNH Steelhead Trout Are Making a Splash

s the rapidly warming Gulf of Maine contributes to the dwindling supply of fish fry favorites like cod, fishermen also suffer, their catch limits and livelihoods curtailed considerably. An innovative aquaculture project from New Hampshire Sea Grant and UNH Cooperative Extension aims to provide supplementary yearround income to New England fishermen and deliver sustainable seafood to dinner tables throughout the region. At the mouth of New Hampshire’s estuarine Piscataqua River, salmon-like steelhead trout grow within nets suspended from a UNH-designed raft, which is surrounded by lines of mussels and sugar kelp. Called integrated

What people are most drawn to is the fact that it’s raised in New Hampshire, as opposed to trout or salmon from Norway or Iceland or Chile. — Michael Chambers, research scientist, UNH and New Hampshire Sea Grant

multi-trophic aquaculture, this method addresses a key concern of aquaculture — concentrated fish waste — by tapping the bio-filtering mussels and kelp to remove excess nitrogen from the water. “Because this method is environmentally sustainable, it’s easier for fishermen to obtain permits,” says Michael Chambers, aquaculture specialist with UNH’s School of Marine Science and Ocean Engineering, who’s working with local fishermen and entrepreneurs on the project. And the harvest is delicious as well as sustainable: One Portsmouth restaurateur calls the UNH steelhead trout “legendary” in culinary circles. ² — Beth Potier STEELHEAD TROUT, BLUE MUSSELS AND SUGAR KELP ARE BEING RAISED IN A SINGLE PLATFORM AT THE MOUTH OF N.H.’S PISCATAQUA RIVER.

Anyone looking at the seafood landscape anywhere in the world right now has to accept the idea that responsible aquaculture is the key to sustainable seafood.

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TRAILBLAZER: Diane Silva Pimentel, assistant professor of education, is examining how gender plays into female students’ decision to study engineering. Pimentel conducted interviews with 27 women about their experiences as undergraduate engineering majors at UNH. In a recent lecture entitled “Gender Matters: Female Student Perspectives and Experiences Related to the Study of Engineering,” Pimentel discussed her research, which is being presented this spring at the American Educational Research Association Conference.“There are all types of women in engineering,” Pimentel says, adding that if the dialogue around women in the field reflected that reality, “more girls would consider pursuing careers in engineering.”

CONNECTED: IOL student workers test technologies that enable you to connect your phone, laptop and car to the internet.

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THE IOL MAKES ITS MOVE Relocating a lab that serves the world’s telecom industry was no small feat

hirty-thousand feet of Ethernet cable and special anti-static carpeting. Hundreds of computers and 50-plus server racks. The UNH InterOperability Laboratory (IOL) may have moved less than 2.5 miles from Technology Drive to its new location in downtown Durham, but that doesn’t mean relocating this top testing facility for data and networking communications projects was an easy task. Working with local businesses and Fortune 500 12

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firms like Cisco, Dell, Hewlett Packard and At&T, the IOL helps determine that products not only work but also meet specified standards and can be used together, testing technologies that enable you to connect your phone, laptop and car to the internet, for example. IOL senior engineer Lincoln Lavoie worked for more than two years with the developer of Madbury Commons, the lab’s new Madbury Road address, to have the space purpose-built to meet the IOL’s needs — including more energy-efficient climate control and

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GOING VIRAL: A UNH-produced video that shows clinical associate professor of occupational therapy Therese Willkomm in action, teaching her students how to create simple assistive devices out of recycled campaign signs, has recorded almost 500,000 views on Facebook, including almost 6,000 likes and 1,700 shares. Though Willkomm’s innovative accessories—an iPad holder and a hands-free cellphone device—were front and center, the video’s 800-plus comments make clear the OT professor herself is a major draw, including gems like, “Therese is my Yoda,” and “best professor I’ve had the honor of learning under!”

dedicated areas for the IOL’s sensitive equipment, additional training areas for students and visitors, dedicated space for equipment with ample power, cooling and noise isolation and increased energy efficiency. The new location also provides improved accessibility for the IOL’s involvement with UNH tech camps for middle- and high school students and for the IOL’s 125 undergraduate and graduate student employees. Lavoie and Mara Bernazzani, communications coordinator for the IOL, describe the new facility

as a win-win for employees, Durham and UNH. The IOL hosts hundreds of industry professionals and students from across the globe every year, so Durham businesses will also see more visitors, and IOL employees will work in surroundings designed specifically for the work they do. UNH students gain “real-world, hands-on experience,” Bernazzani notes, with the IOL reporting 99-percent job placement for its student employees. “I’ve never had a student not get a job,” Lavoie adds. ² — Jennifer Saunders Spring 2016

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Recognizing the Risks, Knowing the Resources Kognito expands UNH’s “community of care”

magine the entire student body of a small liberal arts college — 1,300 undergraduates — lost to suicide. Now imagine that same tragic loss taking place not just once, but year after year. That’s the sobering reality facing higher education: suicide is the second-leading cause of death among

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college students across the nation, with an average of 1,300 young men and women between the ages of 18 and 22 taking their lives each year. This reality, coupled with the sense of unease that has grown on campuses in the wake of high-profile murder-suicides like the 2007 Virginia Tech shooting, in which a student killed 32 people

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and wounded many others before However, she explains, that is taking his own life, have strengthened exactly what happened. “Some stuthe bond between colleges and coundents have self-identified as needing seling centers committed to turning counseling and other mental health serthe tide of such tragedies. vices while taking the training. Others Here at UNH, Counseling Center were able to recognize the need to director David M.J. Cross and intervene with close friends who were assistant director of outreach and in life-threatening situations,” she says. assessment Sean Moundas are Last year, Moundas secured a threeleading efforts to increase prevenyear grant through the Substance tion programming with an innovative Abuse and Mental Health Services application that engages students, Administration to expand the use faculty and staff. Called Kognito, of the At Risk training module, the program is an interactive, which has been offered at avatar-based online training UNH since 2013. Thanks program that suppleto the grant, members ments the face-to-face of the UNH commuwork the Counseling nity now have Center, Behavioral access to additional Intervention Team and programs that address UNH’s diverse suicide specific populations prevention committee are through Kognito’s Veterans doing on campus. on Campus, LGBTQ on Campus Through a variety of role-play and Family of Heroes modules. scenarios, Kognito helps students and Amid these ongoing efforts, faculty learn the signs that a student students have formed a new group, may be at risk of serious psychologStop the Stigma: Let’s Talk, aimed at ical distress. Kognito also offers tips fighting the secrecy and shame too on how to help individuals and guidoften associated with mental illness. ance on when to refer them to the Looking to the year ahead, Moundas Counseling Center. says that in addition to increased In the At Risk module for faculty and participation in Kognito by faculty, staff staff, for example, participants meet and students alike, “I’d love to see a professor who has identified five the student group thrive.” Cross adds students in his class about whom he that he hopes Kognito will result in has specific concerns. Participants “more eyes and ears in our community” “interview” these avatar students, knowing what the signs are and who examine indicators each student might to call if a student is at risk. be at risk and choose the most approAs Horne sums it up, “Putting this priate responses for each student’s training in front of students has reaped needs. tremendous benefits if even one Susan Horne, visiting assistant person was helped. It is perhaps the professor of decision sciences at the most important impact I have had in Peter T. Paul College of Business and my three years at UNH.” Economics, has offered Kognito trainThe Counseling Center staff hopes ing modules as extra credit to students more UNH students, faculty and staff in each of the 16 courses she has will access the Kognito program and taught over the past four semesters. take part in the training. It is open to all “I thought it might be helpful to members of the UNH community with students at some point in their lives to an active UNH email address. ² have had this training while in college,” — Jennifer Saunders she says. “I never dreamed that it would directly impact the lives of To learn more about Kognito, visit students while they were still at UNH.” unh.edu/counseling-center/kognito.

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IN HIS GRANDFATHER’S FOOTSTEPS: Arun Ghandi, grandson of Indian civil rights leader Mahatma Ghandi, visited the Durham campus in early March and spoke to a packed Granite State Room as part of the MUB Current Issues Lecture Series. Ghandi, who travels internationally, sharing his late grandfather’s teachings, offered personal anecdotes and Mahatma Ghandi’s concept of productive anger: “My grandfather said anger is like electricity. It is just as powerful and just as useful, but only if we use it intelligently.”

FROM UNH TO THE UN: Jamie Nolan, UNH associate vice president for community, equity and diversity, spent a week in March at the United Nations headquarters in New York City as a delegate to that organization’s Commission on the Status of Women. Nolan was selected to represent the Earth Child Institute and the program Women, War and What They Fed The Children, which focuses on women who live or have lived in the midst of war and its aftermath.

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“The fair was awesome! There were definitely enough companies to provide interest for all types of students. It really depended on the students themselves to make the best use of this terrific resource.” — COLSA senior 16

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MEET & GREET: More than 180 potential employers and some 650 students converged on the Whittemore Center March 2 for the 2016 Spring Career and Internship Fair. Dressed to impress, students brought their resumes and elevator pitches and met face-to-face with representatives of companies ranging from Manchester nonprofit Alpha Loft to Verizon Communications.

“I thought it was a great opportunity to meet companies from the area. Everyone I talked to was very interesting and I learned a lot. I feel more comfortable if I were to go to an interview.” — CEPS sophomore Spring 2016

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Catching FIRE at Paul College New program inspires students, faculty and alumni

t’s the typical business networking reception. Food and drinks. High-top tables. Entrepreneurs and executives, dressed in business casual for an afterwork gathering, signing in and writing out their nametags — the extroverts immediately connecting, while others break into conversations more slowly. However, these are not the leaders of corporations and nonprofits — at least not yet. They’re first-year students at the Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics learning skills that will be essential to their success in the business world. The “mocktail” networking event was just one example of the types of activities students take part in through FIRE, the First-year Innovation and

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A group of FIRE students spent their spring break in Washington, D.C., where they met with alums in a variety of industries and saw the value of a UNH business degree in action.

Research Experience. This brand new program, which builds upon the college’s longstanding peer-advising program, is already exceeding expectations. FIRE’s mission is “to build a community of engaged student learners who value academic excellence, intellectual, personal and professional development, inclusion and ethical conduct.” As Neil Niman, associate dean of academic programs, explains, FIRE does that by helping firstyear students successfully transition to college and experience what Paul College and UNH have to offer. Paul’s first-year class is divided into teams of 20 to 25 students that undertake a yearlong, game-like experience, with alumni and peer mentors from the junior and senior classes as their guides. Their goal, in addition to creating a business plan aimed at solving a complex real-world problem, is to develop

habits that will set them up for success at UNH and in the paths they follow after graduation, Niman says. FIRE students work with UNH and Paul College alumni volunteers from the classes of 1971 through 2014 from such varied corporations and organizations as GE, Salesforce, Liberty Mutual, Direct Capital, Fidelity and the Portsmouth Music Hall. Peter T. Paul ’67 provided funding support toward the program’s first year: “Without his help and generosity, I’m not sure it

“Getting your degree shows us you have the ability to learn and we can invest in you.” — Kevin Blafkin ’99

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“successful Paul College graduates need to be well-rounded, with a broader perspective, looking beyond their courses in business and economics to understand problems and positively affect change.” — Sean Stewart ’13 UNH Paul FIRE morning research meeting.

“Don’t define yourself by one thing, keep your eyes open.” — Anne Marie Wemmlinger ’87, Ritz Carlton

Stu Damon ’78 hosts students at The Walrus Oyster & Ale House at National Harbor.

DELICIOUS DISTINCTIONS The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently recognized UNH Dining for its food recovery program. Part of the EPA’s Sustainable Materials Management Program, the Food Recovery Challenge hailed UNH Dining’s composting efforts, which kept almost 212 tons of food waste out of landfills in 2014 alone. UNH was the only campus in the state to receive an achievement certificate for keeping 50 percent or more of its food waste out of landfills. Meanwhile, Holloway Commons and Stillings Hall earned two-star certification from the Green Restaurant Association after undergoing a 51-step assessment on factors including energy use, disposal practices, food procurement, pollution reduction and water conservation.

would have gotten off the ground,” Niman says. The FIRE teams are working to solve problems separate from their academic classes, Niman explains, so grades are not on the line as students delve into either “Colonizing Mars,” “Living Virtually,” “Powering the Northeast,” “Prolonging Life” or “Surviving Extreme Weather.” “We chose big ideas that lend themselves to multiple approaches with foundations in science and technology, broad implications for society, political consequences and economic factors,” Niman says. Sean Stewart ’13, FIRE’s program coordinator, knows he would have benefited from the program as a student. “It helps students get involved right from the start,” he says. FIRE has an interdisciplinary component, Stewart adds, “because successful Paul College graduates need to be wellrounded, with a broader perspective, looking beyond their courses in business and economics to understand problems and positively affect change.” Dot Sheehan ’71 agrees. As the founder and president of Operation Hat Trick, the UNH-based organization that supports recovery-focused initiatives for wounded veterans through the sale of licensed hats, she knows firsthand how an innovative idea can make a difference. “Operation Hat Trick is a nonprofit, but it is also a brand,” she explains. “Our primary purpose is to help people. By combining love of country with love of sports, teams and schools, we created a unique business model and applied it to a societal need that is not going away.” Sheehan also brings stories of what these young veterans, some of whom are not much older than her FIRE students , are experiencing. “You can succeed helping people,” Sheehan says. “I want to send students that message now.” Mentor Rob Drouin ’07 says he’s gotten back as much as he’s given. “Motivating students to see that what their professors and career professionals are telling them is very real and applicable is a worthwhile venture for both parties,” he says. “These students will one day be my colleagues.” An IT professional, Drouin became an adviser for FIRE in part, he explains, Spring 2016

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because UNH “was the springboard for me and my career, and I feel a sense of pride and accountability for the future of students that come from the university. Alumni who enjoyed their time at UNH are eager to give back.” Working in higher education, mentor Sarah Sceery ’11, a gift officer at Merrimack College, knows the importance of alumni involvement. “I’m proud to be a part of what UNH is doing,” she says. “FIRE is an impactful and important program. It is creating the foundation for students to be successful and make a difference.” All three alumni advisers praised the caliber of Paul College’s students. Kate Aiken ’19 and Ryan Anastasi ’19 are among FIRE’s “Igniters,” first-year students nominated by their peers to serve as a student advisory group. “FIRE is an outstanding program

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that has really made me feel at home are necessary to complement the at UNH,” Aiken says. “ The Great Hall academic aspect of a student’s growth is my living room, and I always see a with a lesson in professionalism and familiar face passing through.” career-oriented teachings.” Anastasi enjoys the program’s game Thanks to FIRE, Aiken predicts that, components. “FIRE rewards us for “the Class of 2019 will be the most attending new events and joining stucollectively engaged group the college dent organizations, and that is a major has seen.” ² — Jennifer Saunders benefit for us,” he says, adding he has also learned practical skills, such as creating a LinkedIn profile “to build those connections that are vital in the professional world.” Brian Finney ’16, head peer adviser, says FIRE is providing students with unique opportunities for personal development and learning real-world skills. “Mentorship is huge,” he says of success in college and in the business world. “I think the first-year students are building a stronger network with each other through FIRE, and the benefits will just continue from there.” Mentor Drouin says FIRE meets Touring the luxury suite with a need that no classroom can. Sylvie Balenger ’84 at The Four “Academics is one piece of what makes Seasons Hotel, DC. a student successful. These programs

From the West

Law Continues to Climb National Rankings

he University of New Hampshire’s School of Law continues its climb up U.S. News and World Report’s list of top 100 law schools, released in March as part of its 2017 edition of America’s Best Graduate Schools. UNH Law came in at number 82, moving up five spots from its previous ranking. The school has jumped a remarkable 60 spots in the last four years. The school continues to shine in the area of intellectual property law, achieving a top-10 ranking in this specialty for the twenty-fifth consecutive year. For 2017, the school is ranked fifth in the country for IP law, bested only by programs at The University of California-Berkeley, Stanford, New York University and George Washington University.

“We continue to pride ourselves on the caliber of students we enroll and the high-quality legal education we provide,” says interim dean Jordan Budd, noting the school’s innovative curriculum, new Sports and Entertainment Law Institute and Health Law and Policy Program. “Our practice-based approach to instruction prepares our graduates for immediate success in the competitive job market.” According to a 2015 American Bar Association employment survey, 89.6 percent of UNH Law graduates are employed within nine months of graduation, putting the school among the top five schools in New England for bar-required job placement. ² — Keith Testa

SOCIAL MEDIA MAVEN: His Durham “Deflategate” course may be over, but UNH Law professor Michael McCann remains a national go-to on a wide range of sports-law-related matters, including Patriots’ quarterback Tom Brady’s ongoing appeal. From popular coverage of American Crime Story’s “The People versus OJ Simpson” to the $55 million decision awarded to sportscaster Erin Andrews in her Marriott Hotel stalking case, McCann has been tapped by news outlets from Sports Illustrated to People Magazine to provide his perspective and analysis. Small wonder he was recently named to SportsBusiness Journal/ SportsBusiness Daily’s list of “must follows” for social media.

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athways programs aren’t a new idea—for the past several years, UNH has had agreements in place with a number of New Hampshire community colleges to allow their associate’s degree-earning students to apply their credits to a bachelor’s program at UNH. But a new Public Pathways Program launched in February takes the concept a step further, tailoring community college students’ experience to match specific programs at UNH Manchester. Under many dual-admissions initiatives, only a portion of a student’s community college credits will transfer to his or her bachelor’s work. By providing a detailed path for each student’s two-year community college experience that lines up with a particular

four-year program at UNHM, the Public Pathways Program ensures the maximum transfer of credits—and hopefully, a more structured experience for students. “We talk more and more about pathways, but I really think they are becoming highways,” says Manchester Community College president Susan Huard. “UNH Manchester has shown us the way.” Huard sees the program as the start of a vibrant partnership between UNHM and the community college system, and one that will continue to grow as the institutions work together. “Our job now is to keep those pathways moving forward and make it a very common thing that happens for students.” ² — Kassidy Taylor Spring 2016

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NEW APPOINTMENTS WINTER WONDERLAND: The winter of 2016 may not have delivered much by way of snow, but that didn’t stop bestcollegevalues. org from naming UNH its “most beautiful college in winter.” Beating out classic New England beauties including Harvard University, the University of Vermont and Middlebury College, UNH was hailed for the “2,600 acres of woodlands, forests and fields “ that surround the Durham campus, as well as all three campuses’ proximity to the White Mountains and the Lakes Region.

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In September, the University of Delaware’s acting president will become UNH’s next provost and vice president for academic affairs. Nancy Targett brings more than a decade of experience as dean of Delaware’s College of Earth, Ocean and Environment and director of Delaware Sea Grant and is a nationally recognized expert on ocean issues. During her Delaware tenure she led the development of two cross-university majors, supported the creation of multiple partnerships to enhance cultural exchange and enhancement and fostered the development of a university-wide entrepreneurial innovation ecosystem. Of the university’s senior academic administrative role, UNH president Mark Huddleston says, “Nancy brings an enormous breadth of experience. I am confident she is the person to strengthen the quality of our academic and research programs as we enhance UNH’s profile as a toptier research university.” Targett earned her doctorate in oceanography at the University of Maine, her master’s in marine sciences at the University of Miami and her undergraduate degree at the University of Pittsburgh. At UNH, she will take over for P.T. Vasudevan, who has served as interim provost since May 2015 and will return to his position as senior vice provost for academic affairs.

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Baylor University administrator Heidi Bostic will assume leadership of the College of Liberal Arts in June, following the retirement of longtime COLA dean Kenneth Fuld. Bostic is currently the inaugural director of interdisciplinary programs for Baylor’s College of Arts and Sciences and chair of the department of modern languages and cultures, the college’s largest academic department. P.T. Vasudevan describes Bostic as talented scholar and leader who has great experience fostering relationships between the humanities and STEM disciplines. “Her no-nonsense approach and leadership experience will serve the college and the university well and help us to develop the strategic partnerships we need to expand career opportunities for students and to enhance the college’s teaching and research portfolios.” Bostic will begin her role this summer following more than six years at Baylor as well as positions at Michigan Technological University, Concordia College in Minnesota and Minnesota State University. In 2015, she was awarded the higher education administrator of the year award from the Texas Foreign Language Association and was recently appointed to a three-year term on the Modern Language Association’s Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession.

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NEW APPOINTMENTS Following his decision to step down from the deanship of UNH Law when his interim appointment ends next year, Jordan Budd has been named executive director of the school’s Warren B. Rudman Center for Justice, Leadership and Public Service, replacing Richard Ashooh ’86. Budd began a three-year term as interim dean in June 2014, and will hold his two roles simultaneously as a national search for the next dean is conducted. Prior to his interim role, he served as the law school’s associate dean for academic affairs and spent more than a decade in public service. “I am thrilled to have the opportunity to help move the Rudman Center forward as we redouble our efforts to prepare students to enter public service,” Budd says. “That renewed focus will help us better serve our students and embody the spirit of Senator Rudman’s distinguished career.” Budd assumed the Rudman Center role on March 18, at the end of Ashooh’s six-month interim appointment.

FIRST FOLIO: A rare volume that holds 36 of William Shakespeare’s 38 plays will be on exhibit at Manchester’s Currier Museum of Art through May 1 as part of a celebration marking the 400th anniversary of the Bards’ death on April 23, 1616. Known as the First Folio, the book on display in Manchester is one of 82 copies held by the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. , which owns more than one-third of the 233 known First Folios in existence today. The Folger’s holdings will tour all 50 states as well as Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico this year. Thanks to a joint sponsorship with UNH, the Currier Museum claims bragging rights as the only site in New Hampshire to display this historic work.

In February, UNH alumnus Michael Decelle ’81 became dean of UNH’s Manchester campus, taking over the post from interim dean J. Michael Hickey ’73. Formerly the president and CEO of CrossFiber, a venture-funded startup company in San Diego, Decelle brings valuable entrepreneur experience and leadership skills to the university’s urban campus, which emphasizes experiential learning and community engagement. Praising the extraordinary development in new programs and partnerships that has taken place during Hickey’s term, P.T. Vasudevan says he’s looking forward to seeing Decelle continue the good work. “Mike is an experienced engineer with skills that will be invaluable in addressing New Hampshire’s workforce needs and will enable our students to make valuable contributions to the economic future of the state,” he says. A New Hampshire native, Decelle followed his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering with a master’s degree in the same field from Cornell University. His career has included positions at Bell Laboratories and Lucent Technologies and he has led five venture-funded technology companies, three of which were university spinoffs.

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HOLLOWAY OPENING: What has 350 seats and opened in January? The new dining area at Holloway Commons, which provides increased seating, improved traffic flow and enhanced accessibility throughout the building with an expanded footprint toward the MUB. The project began in May 2015 and was completed in time to welcome students returning from the semester break.

Conroy, at left, with Rwandan colleague Aurore Ugirabe (and a curious calf!). Conroy and Ugirabe visited dairy farms in northern Rwanda’s Musanze district as part of a research project to examine feeding challenges at dairy operations in the area.

FROM DOWNTON TO DURHAM: British actor Jim Carter, best known for his role as the redoubtable butler Mr. Carson on the Masterpiece Theatre series “Downton Abbey,” stopped by the UNH Media Relations broadcast studio Feb. 16. Carter was in the seacoast area for WandAid, an organization he helped form that supports victims of natural disasters and political upheaval with humanitarian aid as well as magic performances that promote psychological recovery.

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FULBRIGHT AWARDS Drew Conroy, professor of applied animal science at the Thompson School, is in Rwanda with his family during the spring semester through his second Fulbright Scholar Award, while his son, Ross Conroy ’17, is studying there through a Boren scholarship. Conroy is teaching at Nyagatare, Rwanda, which “is also where most of the pastoralists are and also the largest wildlife park,” he explains. For two decades, Conroy has “consulted, assisted with workshops related to oxen and draft animal power, done research with ◆

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pastoralists and farmers using oxen and taught in Africa during summers and sabbaticals.” • John “Jack” Resch, professor of history and program coordinator of humanities at UNH Manchester, has received his third Fulbright award. He is in Japan this spring to teach American history at the University of Ryukyus while also looking into exchange opportunities for both students and faculty. Previously, he traveled to both Hungary and China through the Fulbright program.

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INNOVATIVE EXPLORATIONS SELFIE SUPERSTAR: Elizabeth Girard ’16 appeared on a panel of Republican women interviewed by ABC News political commentator Cokie Roberts on Feb. 6. The senior theatre and dance major caught the network’s attention after a photo of her posing for a selfie with candidate Ben Carson went up on the UNH homepage last fall.

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Valentini Kalargyrou, associate professor of hospitality management, is in Tel Aviv, Israel, this spring through a UNH Center for International Education grant. She is working on a project at Blackout, a restaurant where patrons are served their meals in the dark, gathering data from employers, employees and guests. Kalargyrou explains, “This is the second paper of a new area of research on social entrepreneurship and disability initiatives in the hospitality industry.” • Subrena Smith, assistant professor of philosophy, has received a 2016–17 Center for Humanities Faculty Research Fellowship for her research, “Developmental Systems Theory and Beyond,” which will be an interdisciplinary project involving philosophy, biology and psychology. Smith will evaluate the theory’s strengths and weaknesses. • Summer Cook, assistant professor of exercise physiology, is traveling to Murdoch University in Perth, Australia, to work with an exercise physiologist to develop a fall-prevention program in a retirement village. “This is a new collaboration that will result in publications from the work completed on this trip,” she explains, adding, “It could also lead to future studies and student exchanges between UNH and Murdoch University.”

Cook, at right, with a student researcher and a local strength study participant.

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Beyond Carbon Reduce your nitrogen footprint Eat differently. Food production accounts for 75 percent of the average person’s nitrogen footprint. To reduce that, choose foods produced on more sustainable farms. And step away from the steak: A diet heavy in protein — animal protein in particular — is nitrogenintensive, and the production of beef releases more nitrogen into the environment than other animal protein, like chicken.

Eat it all! Cutting down on food waste reduces the amount of food that needs to be produced. In the U.S., about 30 percent of food is wasted.

Power down. Because burning fossil fuels is a major source of reactive nitrogen, reducing energy consumption will reduce your nitrogen — as well as your carbon — footprint.

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Another Look at Youth Group Abuse

rom the Boy Scouts of America to the Catholic Church, youth service organizations have come under fire in recent years for what has appeared to be an alarming prevalence of child abuse cases, causing some to speculate about these groups’ safety. Do youth organizations pose a particular risk for abuse because the individuals who staff them aren’t sufficiently supervised? Do these groups attract people with abusive inclinations? A study led by UNH’s David Finkelhor to address these questions was published by JAMA Pediatrics in February with some interesting results: the rate of abuse among children and adolescents by individuals in organizations that serve youth, including schools and recreational groups, was low compared with rates of abuse by family members and other adults. Combining data from three national telephone surveys of 13,052 children up to age 17, Finkelhor worked with colleagues at UNH’s Crimes Against Children Research Center and at Sewanee, the University of the South to calculate prevalence rates for youth organization-related abuse. He then compared those rates with those for family and non-family, non-youth organization related abuse. At less than one percent (0.8 percent) over respondents’ lifetimes, the reported rate of abuse in youth organization settings was dwarfed by the 11.4 percent rate reported in family settings as well as the 5.9 percent rate for non-family, non-youth organizations. Finkelhor cautions that, while the rate is quite low, absolute cases of youth service setting abuses ranging from verbal aggression to physical and sexual assault do indeed exist, and merit continued prevention efforts. At the same time, he hopes the results of the study will help allay some of the anxiety that has been created by a small number of highly publicized youth organization-based cases, which may be deterring families from making use of excellent and affordable childcare resources. — Kristin Waterfield Duisberg

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s nitrogen the new carbon? It fertilizes crops that feed the world, but reactive nitrogen is also a pollutant that contributes to a cascade of environmental and human health problems such as smog, coastal “dead zones” and climate change. And while reactive nitrogen occurs naturally, human creation of the element has increased six-fold since 1940. To understand how our consumption of food and energy releases nitrogen into the environment, Alley Leach, a Ph.D. student in the natural resources and Earth systems science program, is applying a nitrogen “footprint” model she developed while at the University of Virginia to calculate UNH’s institution-wide nitrogen impact. Part of the first cohort of universities using this tool, UNH is also integrating the nitrogen footprint into the Campus Carbon Calculator, a tool developed by the UNH Sustainability Institute and used by thousands of institutions around the world. “Most carbon footprint reduction strategies will also reduce the nitrogen footprint, which is a win-win for sustainability,” says Leach, who studies with University Professor John Aber.

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Dick Umile ’72 tallied his 1,000th game as men’s ice hockey head coach at the Whittemore Center on Feb. 13. While the Wildcats didn’t mark the occasion with a win, the team did rally from a two-goal deficit to tie Hockey East rival University of Vermont 2-2.

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The men’s and women’s ski teams finished 10th at the National Collegiate Men’s and Women’s Skiing Championships in Steamboat Springs, Colo., on March 12. It was the team’s 25th top-10 finish in 34 years under ski coordinator and Nordic head coach Cory Schwartz ’82.

Catch Her If You Can: Running against professional and collegiate runners at Boston University’s David Hemery Valentine Invitational on Feb. 12, track standout Elinor Purrier ’17 set a nation-best NCAA time in the mile, breaking the tape in a scorching 4 minutes, 29.71 seconds. Purrier finished fourth overall, behind three professional runners, and was the first collegiate finisher

by almost four seconds. She went on to compete at the 20166 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships in Birmingham, Ala., on March 12, finishing third with a time of 4:38.42. Purrier’s performance was the best NCAA championship finish in the UNH running program’s history. She also is the only track athlete to have earned All-American status for both indoor and outdoor seasons. Spring 2016

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My Adventures with Your Money T.D. Thornton ’90, St. Martin’s Press

efore there was Bernie Madoff or Lou Perlman there was George Graham Rice, the so-called Jackal of Wall Street. In My Adventures With Your Money: George Graham Rice and the Golden Age of the Con Artist, T. D. Thornton ’90 sets the story of one of the most famous early 20th century con men against the backdrop of the ascendancy of American greed and an era obsessed with get-rich-quick schemes. In the early 1900s, Rice made stock market manipulations valued at billions in today’s dollars by inventing fictitious boom towns in Death Valley and flagrantly exaggerating worthless mining claims throughout the West. As a shameless racetrack hustler, he cultivated a national following of 100,000 daily subscribers who paid for the privilege of being tipped to bet on hopeless nags. In Manhattan’s financial district he sparked riots by perfecting the art of “bucket shop” trading with the sole purpose of bilking the public blind. In My Adventures With Your Money, Thornton gives the readers a real-life version of “The Sting“ with an unsavory and yet charming anti-hero at its center. Tim Keefe: A Biography of the Hall of Fame Pitcher and Player-Rights Advocate

The Highest Glass Ceiling: Women’s Quest for the American Presidency

Charlie Bevis ’75, McFarland Press

Ellen Fitzpatrick, Harvard University Press Lost and Found Andrew Merton, Accents Publishing, Hillary Clinton may be making history in her bid for the American presidency, but she’s not the first woman to run for the United State’s highest office. That distinction goes to Victoria Woodhull, an early leader of the suffrage movement who launched an unsuccessful bid for the Oval Office in 1872. Durham professor of history Ellen Fitzpatrick’s new book, The Highest Glass Ceiling, tells the story of Woodhull as well as Margaret Chase Smith (1964) and Shirley Chisholm (1972), who each challenged persistent gender-based barriers in their quest for the White House. Detailing the myriad forms of influence, opposition and intrigue these three women faced, Fitzpatrick provides excellent and timely context for Clinton’s current presidential race.

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Durham Emeritus English professor Andrew Merton masterfully condenses his life into potent, brilliantly composed, minimalist snapshots in this collection of biographical poems. Chronologically arranged, delicately layered, and driven by savage honesty and subtle tenderness, Lost and Found is an intense meditation on love, loss, loneliness, and the meaning of one’s existence.

One of the greatest pitchers of the 19th century, Tim Keefe was an ardent believer in an artisan work ethic that was becoming outmoded in burgeoning industrial America. Charlie Bevis ’75 tells the tale of baseball’s “master craftsman,” who compiled 342 career victories during a 14-season major league career.

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Finding a Way to Play: The Pioneering Spirit of Women in Basketball Joanne Lannin ’73, Portlandia Press

Picturing Class: Lewis W. Hine Photographs Child Labor in New England Robert Macieski, University of Massachusetts Press

rom newsies in Connecticut to sardine canners in Maine, social photographer Hine traveled through the region in the early 1900s, photographing working-class children for the National Child Labor Committee. In Picturing Class, UNH Manchester history professor Macieski explores the social and cultural production of Hine’s photographs and the social reproduction of his subjects.

The Vow

Felicty Goodrich ’08, Lake Union Press

n The Vow, Felicity Goodrich charts the relationship between Anna, a devoutly Catholic girl who lives in rural Poland, and her village priest, Szymon, as they cling to one another for support against the violence of the world around them in the waning days of World War II.

In Finding A Way to Play, former UNH basketball player Joanne Lannin ’73 highlights women who have gone to great lengths to play the game, from pioneers who played despite concerns about risks to health and femininity to minorities who endured racial discrimination or hid their identities for fear of being denied the chance to play or coach.

Wolf’s Mouth John Smolens ’82, Michigan State University Press

ohn Smolens ’82 sheds light on one of World War II’s forgotten stories — a brutal prison camp in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula — in Wolf’s Mouth, which follows Italian officer and POW captain Francesco Verdi from North Africa through Michigan’s north woods and to a new life in Detroit, where he struggles to leave the past behind him.

Whiskey, Etc.

Sherrie Flick ’89, Queen’s Ferry Press

A paperboy seduced over a glass of milk. A dinner prepared for a dead man. Stained coffee cups, curled-up dogs and canoes snug in their sheds. In Whiskey, Etc., a collection of short-short stories by Sherrie Flick ’89, it’s the particulars that draw you closer to a muddled loneliness housed behind cozy facades.

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A Place to Innovate the Manufacturing of Tomorrow Whelen Engineering honors John Olson ’57 with a gift to UNH and the Granite State

The Olson Center will focus on high-precision machining, light materials and flexible electronics. A win-win for UNH and New Hampshire, it will give the university’s engineering students experiential learning opportunities even as it helps the state meet the demand for workers in advanced manufacturing, its leading economic sector. In addition, the Olson Center will provide state and regional companies with the chance to partner with CEPS faculty and students to develop innovative manufacturing solutions. “In the sciences and engineering, we are constantly searching for a way to slow the export of UNH-educated students to other states, and the Olson Center gives us a competitive advantage to retain talented engineers and scientists,” says CEPS dean Sam Mukasa ’77. For his part, Olson says having his career recognized in such a generous and enduring manner is an honor. “It pleases me to see that UNH students are now going to have a facility where they can tinker and innovate the manufacturing of tomorrow.” ² — Kristin Waterfield Duisberg

ANNIE CARD/NEW HAMPSHIRE BUSINESS REVIEW

helen Engineering president John Olson ’57 has always kept a low profile when it comes to his support of UNH. The benefactor behind one of the College of Engineering and Physical Sciences’ most generous need-based endowments as well as one of the Durham campus’ more visible gifts — the 2007 installation of a campuswide emergency notification system — Olson has long been quick to redirect the spotlight from his personal contributions to those of his company, one of the state’s most successful manufacturing enterprises. This fall, however, it will become a little bit harder for the mechanical engineering grad to stay under the radar, as UNH opens the John Olson Advanced Manufacturing Center on the west edge of the Durham campus. A center within CEPS, the Olson Center is the result of a $5.3 million gift from Whelen Engineering owner George W. Whelen IV in honor of his company’s longtime leader, who is retiring this year after a 40-year run as president.

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STAR TREATMENT: Johnson Theatre was a space transformed when MSNBC descended on the Durham campus to prepare for a nationally televised debate between Democratic presidential hopefuls Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders on Feb. 4. Seats to the event were limited, but students across campus gathered for viewing parties—and some got a taste of the action at Holloway Commons’ Piscataqua Room or the Huddleston Hall ballroom, which served as a makeshift press filing room and post-debate broadcast “spin room,” respectively.

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Game Changer The best method of preventing head injuries in football just might involve taking helmets off

eads up! Eyes up! Step in, step in! On a crisp fall afternoon, a dozen UNH football players in blue practice jerseys line up across from safeties coach Scott James, who steadies a rectangular blocking dummy with an outstretched hand. One by one, as head football coach Sean McDonnell ’78 barks commands — go, go go! Run through your feet! Keep that head out of it! — the players launch themselves at the dummies, wrapping their arms around the lifesized forms and pulling them to the ground. As each player takes his turn,

he executes a balletic roll or two before he releases the dummy, then pops to his feet and trots to the back of the line to do it again. It’s an unremarkable drill, save for one remarkable detail: not one of the players is wearing a helmet. For the two most recent seasons, while UNH’s Wildcats were racking up `wins and extending their appearance in the playoffs to a Football Championship Subdivision (FCS)-best 12-straight seasons, they were also participating in some novel research under the direction of kinesiology professor Erik Swartz. Twice a week, 50 of the team’s 90-odd players would report to the Spring 2016

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athletic training room prior to practice to have a head-impact sensor, a patch roughly the size and shape of a Band-Aid, taped in place just behind their right ears. At a predetermined point during practice — a twoplus hour stretch of strength, agility and cardiac conditioning drills that unfold with military precision and intensity — they would peel off from the rest of the squad for a five-minute series of exercises that involved tackling into an upright pad or a teammate holding a padded shield. Half of the players would remove their helmets and shoulder pads for these exercises; half of them would keep them on. At the end of practice, those 50 players

would return to the athletic training room to have their sensors removed and the data they contained — the frequency, location, linear and rotational acceleration and duration of every impact they had sustained over the course of the afternoon — recorded. “It’s called helmetless tackling training, or HUTT™,” says Swartz, the acronym a nod to the call quarterbacks make before the snap on every offensive play. “The concept is relatively simple. We wanted to see if removing the helmet would compel players to adjust their tackling technique in such a way that they would sustain fewer head impacts, not just during the drills, but also when they put the helmet back on.” With enough time and muscle memory, Swartz hoped, even just 10 minutes a week of helmetless practice would translate into a reduction in the incidence of concussions and other head and spine injuries.

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or the past decade or so, concerns about head trauma have loomed large over football in the United States, propelled by highly publicized stories like that of Junior Seau, a San Diego Chargers linebacker whose depression and suicide at the age of 43 were linked to chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, a type of brain trauma associated with repetitive impacts. While football is hardly the only sport in which there is a high risk of concussion-related brain injury (indeed, CTE was first known as dementia pugilistica — fighter’s dementia — for the way “punch-drunk” boxers would stagger through punishing rounds in the ring), football players can start experiencing head-jarring contact as early as age eight, and by the time they are playing at the college level may sustain more than 1,000 serious hits in a single season. From the Pop Warner level on up, the push has come to make football safer, from more rules and penalties

around what constitutes safe play to Sitting in his football memorabilquicker and more stringent concussion ia-strewn office in the Field House, diagnosis protocols to ever-more highMcDonnell recalls that first conversatech equipment designed to absorb tion with Swartz with a smile. “It made head impact. These measures are me a little nervous at first,” he admits. important, Swartz says, but he was “The whole idea of sending my players struck that none directly addressed into contact without helmets. How the fundamental issue: the behaviors was that going to work, just practically that lead to head impacts. (In fact, he speaking, how were we going to incornotes, “safer” equipment can actually porate it into our regular routine?” But contribute to the problem as players McDonnell trusted Swartz, and the develop a false sense of security concept made sense to him; he was around the protection provided by their confident it would make sense to his helmets.) To get at that root issue of players, too. “They’re all very aware player behavior, Swartz came up with of the concussion issue, and nobody an idea that was at once obvious and wants to get benched or out of the utterly counterintuitive: take away the game altogether because of a head helmets and see how players adapt injury. And it turned out that what Erik their tackling style to compensate. He had in mind wasn’t some big departure applied for and received one of seven from our regular training. It was more $500,000 “Head Health Challenge II” about tweaking of some of the tackling research grants from the NFL, Under work we were doing already.” Armour and General Electric, and in McDonnell and safeties coach spring 2014, he approached McDonnell James worked with Swartz to marry about piloting HUTT™ with his team. the kinesiology professor’s concept Spring 2016

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with real-world football drills, and though, he didn’t get any concussions Swartz joined the team for the spring at all, because he was using better practice season to familiarize the technique and keeping his head out of players with the exercises. Because contact. That to me is absolutely huge.” it was a two-year study, only players Huge is a word many people have who would be sophomores or juniors used to describe Swartz’s findings. The for the fall 2014 season were eligible; study was published in the December 50 of those eligible players were ran2015 Journal of Athletic Training and domly assigned to either the study (hel- quickly picked up by news outlets metless) or control (helmeted) group, across the country, including the assignments they would keep for the Washington Post, New York Times, duration of the study. All 50 players Sports Illustrated and Al Jazeera wore the impact-recording sensors for America television. In December alone every practice and game. Swartz estimates he gave some 10 The results were unequivocal. By interviews to at least as many media the end of the 2014 football season, organizations about HUTT™ and his Swartz observed a decrease in head preliminary findings and received impacts of almost 30 percent among countless invitations to present the the cohort of players who participated information at professional meetings. in the helmetless drills — not just in Recalling the seemingly endless string practices, but in competitive play. At of phone calls he took and video-ready the same time, those players’ perforsoundbites he delivered, the mild-manmance on the field remained the same nered kinesiology professor smiles and or improved, even as the squad earned shrugs. “I spent an hour on the phone its first-ever FCS first place ranking with [football legend] John Madden and advanced for the second straight when I was a finalist for the Head year to the semi-finals of the division Health Challenge grant — that prepared championship. me for just about anything. I think the If there was any skepticism among attention all boils down to the simple the players about Swartz’s project, their fact that this is the first study out there doubts were soon put to rest. Daniel to really focus on changing behavior to Rowe ’16, a starting safety and one mitigate risk rather than finding ways to of the Wildcat defensive line’s most accommodate it.” prolific tacklers, was in the study group. “At first, tackling without a helmet didn’t seem like the best idea, FROM THE SCRUM but you pretty quickly figure out that it forces you to use “ imple fact” or no, the study itself better technique and is a significant departure from keep your head out of the academic questions that have the contact zone,” he defined Swartz’s UNH career to this says. “I definitely point; he’s spent the majority of his became a better tack15-plus years in New Hampshire Hall ler after participating in looking at equipment safety. He’s the HUTT™ study.” published multiple studies exploring “Danny’s tackling safe ways to remove helmets and actually improved,” pads from athletes with cervical spine McDonnell confirms. “This or head injuries and presented the is a player who had gotten NFL with a prototype for quick-release concussions his sophomore shoulder pads for injured players. As a season, before we started Erik’s member of the NFL’s Head, Neck and study. His junior and senior years, Spine Safety Equipment and Rules

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magnitude of the issue and the strong positive correlation between HUTT™ and head safety, it might seem like an obvious next step to push for the broadest implementation possible, from Pop Warner right through the pros. But Swartz and McDonnell say it’s critical to proceed with caution. For one thing, players have to be skilled at a certain level to execute helmetless drills safely (“The last thing you want,” says McDonnell, “is to have your players out for a couple games because they cracked heads or someone wound up with a broken nose because he didn’t have the body control to do the drills the right way”); for another, coaches have to understand how to teach them correctly. Swartz is developing a written manual and video for HUTT™, which he used last fall with four New Hampshire high school football programs participating in the research: Bedford, Exeter, Dover and Pinkerton Academy. Swartz and McDonnell teamed up to run a one-day clinic on campus for the participating programs; some of McDonnell’s players demonstrated the drills. “It would be irresponsible to roll this out at the youth level without

studying it first,” Swartz says. “There are some real physical and cognitive developmental issues that need to be taken into consideration before you ask younger players to go into contact without protection.” Even at the high school level, Swartz notes, the players are spending 10 minutes on the drills McDonnell’s players covered in five. Assuming favorable outcomes from the high school study, Swartz envisions a broader New Hampshire rollout for HUTT™, and a commercial version of the program as early as the end of this year. Back on campus, McDonnell says he will continue to run the HUTT™ drills with his players, even though the study came to its effective conclusion with the Wildcats’ FCS playoff first-round loss at home at the end of November. “That was an emotional moment for me,” Swartz admits. “It was the end of the season, the end of a truly great collaboration between academics and athletics and the end of something I’d been working toward for almost 10 years.” The end, yes, but perhaps also the start of a minor revolution that will help make one of America’s best-loved pastimes significantly safer. ª Spring 2016

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Subcommittee, his research was central to the league’s 2014 ban on the use of overbuilt facemasks. But the HUTT™ study is also a natural extension of one of Swartz’s personal interests: rugby, a sport he began playing in graduate school in Ohio and continued after coming to UNH with the Seacoast Rugby League. “The helmet issue is something that’s been on my mind for a long time,” he says. In rugby, there is no shortage of intense physical contact and tackling, but because rugby players don’t wear helmets, their takedown technique emphasizes keeping their heads out of contact. “It’s not that there aren’t any head injuries or concussions,” Swartz says, “but the incidence of head-first impacts is much lower than what you find in football, for an equally or even more violent sport. In football, head impacts have been accepted as part of the game, and even glorified as a measure of players’ toughness, quite frankly. My experience playing rugby got me wondering if it really had to be that way.” With his year-one results now out in the world, Swartz is not the only one asking that question. Given the

n 1999, when Peter Beauregard ’00 won over a sullen coworker with one of his homebrewed six-packs, the thought occurred to him that he might have happened upon something that could be his future.

Beauregard’s interest in beermaking had

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professor casually mentioned homebrewing.

Not long after, Beauregard was walking by a homebrew supply store that he’d passed many times before. This time, he went in. “I bought a kit and took it back to my apartment and started brewing in the basement,” Beauregard says. “After I graduated and got a ‘real job’ I had the money to start buying equipment.” Fifteen years later, Beauregard left his job at a software company to open Stoneface Brewing Co. in Newington, New Hamsphire. So, future arrived. He clearly was not alone. From 2008 to 2014, the number of craft breweries in the U.S. more than doubled, and a surprising number of UNH alumni have contributed to the boom. While homebrewing appears to be a shared starting point, there are other commonalities that led them to open their own breweries,

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like the desire to be inventive — to taste a beer and be instantly swept up in the idea of how to make it better. And the chance to do it their way, whether that means brewing with gruits instead of hops or adding flavors that often describe fine wines or using five kinds of hops for just one beer. Then there is the aspect that personifies craft breweries: making beer in small batches, locally, often in old warehouses, on farms and in abandoned garages or in strip malls and industrial parks. In other words, it’s about much more than drinking beer.

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Newington, New Hampshire, 436 Shattuck Way

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perfect his recipe for an India pale ale (IPA) when he struck upon what would later become Stoneface’s signature beer. In 2013, that recipe won the IPA category at the Boston Homebrew Competition. By then, Beauregard

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and fellow homebrew enthusiast and Stoneface cofounder Erol Moe had already been talking about leaving their high-tech jobs to go into business together. “We wanted to be a self-funded nanobrewery but it just wasn’t feasible,” says Beauregard, a communication major at UNH. “The goal was to jump in with both feet and make a run at it.” That run has turned out to be a strong one. Housed in an industrial building just off the Spaulding Turnpike, Stoneface Brewing Co. produced its first commercial batch in January 2014. Today Stoneface beers are distributed throughout much of northern New England. IPAs account for 65 percent of the production, although Beauregard says they are always experimenting. Smaller batches — one-offs — are served in the taproom that’s adjacent to the brewery. During the first year of business, Stoneface (the name is a nod to the Granite State’s now-fallen Old Man of the Mountain) made 800

barrels of beer; 2016 production should hit 4,000 barrels. And still, Beauregard says, he is always looking to do better. “I’m never really happy with any of our beers. I’m always critical of the taste, defining what it is that makes it ours,” Beauregard says. “I don’t think about it from the recipe-for-a-secretsauce perspective. It’s more about the process. Any brewer can taste a beer and say ‘I can get something close to this’ but it won’t be the same. It’s the little changes.” He compares the appeal of craft beer to his love of indie bands. “A lot of people find smaller bands more interesting,” Beauregard says. “When you and I and only a few other people know the band, you feel pretty cool. It’s the same with beer. You like drinking something that not everyone else is drinking.”

Idle Hands Craft Ales

Malden, Massachusetts, 89 Commercial Street

HRISTOPHER Tkach ’96 is another brewer whose

award-winning home recipes encouraged him to start his own company. When Idle Hands Craft Ales opened in Everett, Massachusetts, it was with a one-and-a-half barrel system that Tkach had cobbled together himself. This spring, the microbrewery moves to Malden with a 15-barrel system and three times the square footage of its old location. There, customers will be able to relax in a spacious taproom, enjoying samplings and beers by the glass and filling growlers to go. Idle Hands beers can also be found in area bars, restaurants and retail stores.

“Anyone that homebrews has a fantasy that they will open their own brewery some day,” Tkach says, admitting the brewing bug bit him hard. With a degree in civil engineering, he contends it satisfies his engineering and artist sides. “I get that itch scratched.” Tkach has a preference for traditional Belgian and German-style beers with a twist. He likes the way they enhance the flavors of various foods. “Brewing is very much scientific. There are steps that need to be followed but it comes down to creating, like a chef, combining flavors to come up with the end product,” Tkach says. “That said, I never saw the need to add a lot of unusual ingredients to my beers. I focused on a specific style. It’s how I grew up brewing. I want my beer to taste like beer.” The yeast strains he uses for his Belgian beers have spicy characteristics that can mimic pepper or coriander. Idle Hands’ Triplication, for example, has a spiciness balanced by flavors of bananas, peaches and pears. “People want to try something unique — something that not everyone can get their hands on,” Tkach says. “There is also an appeal in a place that creates community spaces where they can sit, have beer and talk with their neighbor.”

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Earth Eagle Brewings

Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 165 High Street

EORGE “Butch” Heilshorn ’83

was a longtime high school guidance counselor when he and his brother-in-law Alex McDonald opened Earth Eagle Brewings in 2012. Two years later, Heilshorn quit his day job to make beer full time. Half of those beers are gruits, brewed with herbs like anise seed and sweet gale, heather and juniper berries, mugwart and yarrow. The Portsmouth nanobrewery also is known for its IPAs, porters and stouts. “I’ve always been a beer geek —I’m really fascinated with different types of beer,” Heilshorn says. McDonald shared that fascination. Heilshorn’s herbalist wife, April O’Keefe, guides their penchant for the uncommon along with forager Jenna Darcy, who scavenges local fields and forests to find plants for Earth Eagle brews.

“The herbs are pretty much off the map,” says Heilshorn, who has a bachelor’s degree in business from UNH. “On any given day you never know what you will find here. That model of not knowing what’s on the menu appeals to me. It’s like, ‘feed me. Take my palate for a ride.’” Earth Eagle opened offering tastings and growlers. They have since added food, cocktails and live music. The brewpub makes two barrels of beer at a time and brews three to four times a week. Small batches allow for greater experimentation. There are also meat beers, flavored with smoked moose, bear, pig or boar. 44

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And the name? Heilshorn says it was “I haven’t been able to confirm that inspired by a flock of wild turkeys he but it worked,” Heilshorn says, adding, and McDonald happened upon one day. “Every beer, every ingredient, every McDonald told him Native Americans piece of equipment in here has a story called them Earth eagles. to tell.”

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Newburyport Brewing Co.

HRIS Webb ’92, ’01G used a Venn

diagram to help him find his future. The entries in his three overlapping circles — what he loved, what he’s good at and what the market would bear — led to the idea for the Newburyport Brewing Co., the first brewery in Massachusetts to distribute craft beer in cans. Gaining a partner for the business took no more than announcing his intentions to his friend Bill Fisher. “I told him about my idea and he said ‘I’m in,’” Webb says of a conversation the neighbors had a few years ago. When Webb told his father about his plans, former UNH professor of psychology Dwight Webb said his son needed to meet his beer-loving loan officer, Mike Robinson. “Bill and I had been aggressively brewing a good beer but we knew quickly we needed a brew master,” Webb says. “Mike had been homebrewing in his basement for 17 years. He’s a savant.” When they offered Robinson the job of head brewer, Webb recalls, he said, “I’ve been waiting for someone to come discover me.” Newburyport Brewery opened in an industrial park on New Pasture Road in 2013 and brewed its first beer on Valentine’s Day. By August, they were sold out. In 2014, annual production doubled to 10,000 barrels, elevating the outfit’s status to a regional craft brewery.

Ninety-nine percent of Newburyport Brewing products are shipped throughout New Hampshire and Massachusetts. (Delta Airlines carries their pale ale on the Northeast regional shuttle). Their offerings, which they only distribute in cans or kegs, include Newburyport Pale Ale, Green Head IPA and Plum Island Belgian White. The brewery has a 1,000-square-foot taproom with live music Thursdays through Saturdays. They also host outdoor music festivals and have an online music series. Of the competition, Webb says there is room for all. What’s more, beer makers are willing to help each other, sharing advice and encouragement. “Everyone is very friendly even though it is a competitive marketplace. Maybe it’s about the little guy going up against the big guy,” Webb says, adding, “People who start breweries love beer and want to be part of this American craft beer revolution.”

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Liars’ Bench Beer Co.

Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 459 Islington Street #4

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Nielsen and Dagan Migirditch, both 2008 graduates, when they landed on the name Liars’ Bench for the nanobrewery they’re opening in Portsmouth. It speaks, they say, to the interest people have in coming together over a beer and sharing a story or two. Nielsen, who has a master’s in physical education and health, learned the brewing business at Magnolia Gastropub and Brewery in San Francisco. Since retuning to New Hampshire in 2015, he has been honing his skills at Smuttynose Brewery Co. Migirditch, an English major, has a history in the restaurant business capped by his current position as general manager of the Franklin Oyster House in Portsmouth. Liars’ Bench Brewery Co., located in an Islington Street building that once stored plumbing supplies, will have a brewing capacity of 280 barrels a year (with room to grow to 700 barrels), a tasting area, bar and beer garden. “More and more people are willing to spend money on beer. It’s a creative outlet; they like to taste new things,” Nielsen says. “It’s progressive.”

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Migirditch relates the allure of craft brews to an edible art gallery. “You go in and see what they created and you want to share that,” he says, adding that having multiple places to do that is good for everyone. “You wouldn’t go out and have three dinners but you might go out and have three beers. So, someone might come here and have a couple and then go somewhere else.” Adds Nielsen, “People really like the appeal of one-offs — the idea that the beer they’re drinking may only be available for a single day.” And while he, too, enjoys the taste, drinking beer is also a means of research. “Every beer I drink, I analyze — what’s the flavor, how did it get there, what do I love and why,” Nielsen says. “That will help us nail down our own flavors. That’s why they call it craft.”

Portsmouth, New Hampshire , Bartlett Street

Great Rhythm Brewing Co.

There’s a New Minor Brewing

REAT Rhythm Brewing Co. has been

making beer for nearly four years, first in Massachusetts and then at Smuttynose Brewery Co. in Hampton. This spring, owners Scott ’07 and Kristen ’03 Thornton will move their brewing and bottling business to an old fish processing plant on Bartlett Street and begin serving their brews on site. Scott Thornton worked as a commercial beer maker for eight years before he started brewing his own recipes in 2012. Since then the nanobrewery has been making between 1,000 and 2,000 barrels a year, selling them through five New Hampshire wholesalers. The move to Portsmouth’s West End will allow Great Rhythm to become a destination brewery with a tasting room and a beer garden overlooking tidal waters that feed the North Mill Pond. The company’s name pays tribute to the couple’s love of music. Beer names like Resonation Pale Ale and Amplified Amber Ale exemplify their philosophy of “living life to the fullest with great friends, great music and great craft beer.” Great Rhythm makes low ABV (alcohol by

volume) beers that offer accentuated flavors without bitterness. “We thought, if you’re at a music show, what’s a beer you could enjoy — have three or four, say — and still be able to have a good time?” Thornton explains. He uses spreadsheets to track recipe calculations so he’ll know how much malt will produce how much wort, for example, or to measure things like sugar content. And he also relies on taste. “You develop a palate,” says Thornton, who majored in English. “Hops change year to year. Different varieties are going to give you different results. Year round, we’re trying to stay consistent. That’s one of the challenges.” Another one, which has been met, was finding a location walkable and bikeable to downtown Portsmouth. That’s another facet of the craft brewery owners’ values, being accessible to their customers. Thornton likens that thinking to the rise of the slow food movement. “People want to know where their beer comes from just like their food. They want to drink local,” he says. “There is a great community aspect to making beer.” ª Spring 2016

The joke that some people make about college students majoring in beer takes on a different tone when you consider all the craft breweries that have opened around the country in recent years. In New Hampshire alone, the number nearly doubled between 2014 and 2015. Add to that momentum the College of Life Sciences and Agriculture’s plan to offer a new minor in brewing starting in 2017 and the kidding goes, well, flat. While the curriculum is still in development, it will include topics such as the art and science of brewing, fermentation science and technology, ingredients, agronomics and sourcing and brewing production. What’s more, students will have access to an analytical testing lab and a pilot brewery, both expected to open in early 2017. Currently only a handful of laboratories around the country provide testing services to the beer industry, and none are in New England. Both the College of Life Sciences and Agriculture and UNH Cooperative Extension will also explore opportunities to support the brewing industry by growing varieties of winter wheat, oats, rye and other crops suited to the state’s growing conditions. Now, who says you can’t have your beer and brew it, too?

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Serendipity’s Springboard Some great ideas have a place in the wider world. UNHInnovation can help them get there BY L ARRY CLOW ’12G

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magine this: It’s a Sunday night and you’re at home. You’ve whittled your to-do list down to one item — all that’s left to do is clean up the dinner dishes. You load the dishwasher and, pleased with your productivity, decide to treat yourself. A movie is in order — in fact, it’s the perfect night for a monster movie. You sprawl on the couch, pull out your phone, and search Amazon for 2014’s “Godzilla,” the one with Bryan Cranston from “Breaking Bad.” This, you think, is perfect: a slice of domesticity that couldn’t be farther away from the buzz of activity at UNH.

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What UNHI is looking for is, in a sense, serendipity: matching up ideas, processes, devices, companies, curricula and everything else developed at UNH with an array of users across the globe. Formerly known as the Office for Research Partnerships and Commercialization, UNHI went through something of a metamorphosis two years ago, Sedam says. What emerged was a department focused not just on traditional intellectual property licensing but on matching up university services with the private sector and helping start-ups founded at the university to successfully launch. Before UNHI, the university “didn’t really have the other pieces of the

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puzzle,” Sedam says. “What would lead to the creation of an idea, how would you incetivize an idea, how would you get the faculty to even know they have a (commercial) idea? Invention is serendipitous, and part of our objective was to get faculty to understand when serendipity is about to happen.” That moment can happen in thousands of ways. Maybe it’s talking with a New Hampshire company that needs a scanning electron microscope for a project and renting out the equipment for a short time. Or maybe it’s licensing one of plant biology professor J. Brent Loy’s new squash varieties to a seed company. The idea, Sedam says, is to get as many UNH-derived ideas out into the world as possible. “We don’t necessarily focus on money; we focus on use. If we maximize the use and there’s money to be made, great, we’ll make some money. But if you try to maximize the financial return, you may get some money but you may not have anybody ever use the idea — and which one has a bigger effect on the world?”

ashing the dishes, using your phone and even that big-budget monster movie: there’s a little bit of UNH in all of them. That’s thanks to UNHInnovation (UNHI), the campus department that promotes, manages and advocates for the intellectual property created by the university’s students, faculty and staff. Or, as Marc Sedam, associate vice provost of innovation and new ventures and UNHI’s managing director, says, UNHI takes all the great ideas created at the university and makes sure they’re put to use in the wider world. That’s how polymers from itaconic acid, developed by the New Hampshire-based start-up company Itaconix Corporation, co-founded by then-materials science associate professor Yvon Durant, wound up in your dishwashing detergent. And it’s why major wireless companies use internet protocol tests verified at the InterOperability Lab to keep your cell phone working. And it’s how the firstof-its-kind map of the Mariana Trench, developed by the University’s Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping, made a cameo appearance in “Godzilla.”

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“If you think of the university as an in-bound entity — we take in students, take in funding, take in faculty — (UNHI) is the place that’s 100 percent externally-focused,” Sedam says. “We’re pushing our ideas out to the market, engaging with the business community and engaging with the needs of the state. Our job is always looking outwards.”

Marc Sedam is hired as executive director of ORPC

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“Commercialization is important to get (ideas) into broader hands … but what we’re getting out there is a highly valuable innovation that’s based on expertise and the years of research that’ve gone into creating it. If you just freely release some of these innovations, that value can get diluted very quickly as people make improvements that aren’t evidence-based or researchbased,” Emanuel says. Licensing helps keep the university’s research ecosystem thriving. It disseminates the hard work and years of research done by faculty, staff and students. That, in turn, increases the university’s reputation and prompts more companies to license ideas from UNH, recruit students or partner with alumni on new ventures. The results ripple out in ways big and small, impacting the New England region and the world. “I love Brent Loy’s story,” Emanuel says. “His research really solves problems and meets needs for New England growers, but his pumpkin and squash varieties are sold throughout the world. That’s a really impactful story, particularly for a land-grant institution. … And the outputs are really delicious.”

licensing director UNHI Dot Sheehan ’71, Operation Hat Trick started as a fundraiser for wounded veterans, selling UNH-branded hats locally and donating the proceeds, along with the hats themselves, to veterans recovering from head injuries at VA medical centers. Operation Hat Trick proved to be popular — it became an annual event and, in its peak year at UNH, raised some $3,000. When Sedam arrived at the university in 2010, though, he saw the potential for something more. “It was a start-up to me. It was totally scalable and it was a big idea,” he says. Other universities were taking notice, too — they wanted to run their own OHT fundraisers, but the logistics were difficult. The solution turned out to be simple. OHT became a non-profit and licensed logos and trademarks from the university, which it then in turn licensed to other universities, retailers like Wal-Mart and sports organizations like the National Hockey League and NASCAR. Last year, OHT had $3.2 million in retail sales and worked with some 275 licensees. The proceeds go to wounded veterans, helping pay for life-changing projects of every size. OHT was an early supporter of former Army Staff Sgt. Travis Mills’ efforts

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to open a camp in Maine for veterans with disabilities; it also paid for a custom-made bow for a veteran who recovered from his injuries through an archery program. “You do something like that, and the money doesn’t matter. You honestly help people in a legitimate way,” Sedam says.

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A return to roots UNHI moved into its new home in the Madbury Commons building in downtown Durham in early 2016. The location is purposeful — Sedam says it’s an example of how UNHI connects the university with the town, the state, the region and the world.

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The future of innovation at UNH might look something like Operation Hat Trick: an idea born and nurtured at the university and then sent out to change the world. For Ian Grant, there are countless other start-up opportunities similar to OHT in the worldwide university community, from new businesses founded on campus to alumni taking over and expanding an existing business across the globe. Grant is the director of the Peter T. Paul Entrepreneurship Center — its mission, he says, is to help students, faculty, staff and alumni realize that they’ve got a great idea for a company and provide them with the tools to launch a successful business. The ECenter, as Grant calls it, is a sort of microcosm of UNHI’s larger efforts. Through its Wildcatalysts program and its partnership with Alpha Loft, the ECenter offers workshops, meet-ups and mentoring sessions for students, faculty and staff who are

ready to launch a new company. It also offers two 10-week “business boot camp” sessions for start-up founders and is the place to go if you’re looking for an angel investor or need advice on a business plan. Faculty, alumni and students “have a trusted source internally that has their best interests at heart,” Grant says. But more than that, Grant says the ECenter’s mission is to cement a culture of entrepreneurship on campus. It’s not just start-up companies and venture capital — it’s an attitude and a skillset, one that empowers students to notice a problem, identify it and come up with a series of potential solutions. Entrepreneurship crosses disciplines, according to Grant. It’s a skill that’s just as valuable for artists as it is for software engineers. “It’s a tool that every student should leave UNH with in his or her toolbox; you need it no matter what you do,” he says.

“We’ve got the talent here and we’ve created an environment where people can work on those ideas,” he says. “This is a great first step, but it’s not the end; it’s the beginning. We’re going to create ideas that are going to change the world, but they start small and need to grow. We have limited space, and that’s intentional. Our objective is to get things started.” The emphasis on technology, licenses and start-ups may sound far from the university’s traditional mission, but Sedam sees it as a return to the ideas that UNH and other landgrant institutions were founded on. When the Morrill Act created land-grant universities in 1862, “it wasn’t a knowledge play; it was an economic development play,” Sedam says. The country was expanding and agriculture was giving way to the industrial revolution. Land-grant universities were there to give people the knowledge and tools they needed to prosper. “Now, all we’re doing is replacing plows with patents and cows with copyrights. We’re saying the same thing: How do we get those ideas out into the world and make things better?” Sedam says. “We’re paying homage to our founding and our roots but in a very 21st century way.” ª

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Dan Sweet

275 Piscassic Road Newfields, NH 03856 (603) 773-9250

It was 75 years ago that my twin brother, Harold, and I began as freshmen as members of the class of 1940. We were joined by two other sets of twins: Franklin and Francis Ayer and Raymond and Regis O’Connor. At that time, all freshmen were required to wear beanie hats to identify them as first-year students. We numbered about 427 then, and today we have about 70 living, but I hear from very few of you with news for this letter. Over the holidays, I received news from Nelson Bennett, Ralph Blaine and John Hooper, who sent Christmas cards. Sadly, Nelson died not long after I heard from him, on January 29, at the ripe old age of 101. As many of you know, he lived a remarkable life as "ski instructor to the stars," hitting the slopes himself well into his late 90s! Ralph left our class to join the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD. He retired as a commander and is now living in Dover, NH. John also left our class for the U.S. Naval Academy. He retired as a captain and lives in Ormond Beach, FL. Speaking of Florida, I’m sorry to say I was not be able to attend the February meeting and lunch at the Florida South West Alumni group, which I have attended for the last 10 years. Please let me hear from you with any news for the next issue of the magazine. ◆

From 1909 to 1971, UNH freshmen were required to wear a beanie to “promote a sense of class spirit.” The length of time the beanies had to be worn varied from year to year. Usually by Thanksgiving or after the first football victory (whichever came first), the beanies were no longer required. — 1940

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Nancy Bryant on behalf of Lonnie

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

I received a letter from Harold A. Webster of Holderness, NH, expressing an interest in having a class reunion this year, saying, “it is hard to believe that 2016 will be our 75th reunion.” Please write, call or email me if you’re interested in getting together to celebrate this milestone event. In October 2015, while attending the “celebration of life” service of Homer H. Hamlin Jr. ’48, I met Carolyn Hamlin Story’s daughter Jane, who said that her mother is doing very well. We have just received late notice of the loss of two classmates and send our sympathies to their friends and families. Herbert E. Glines died on Dec. 10, 2012, in Whitefield, NH. He served in the Army during World War II. After the war, he received his EdD from Columbia University. Herbert taught mathematics for more than 30 years and served for many years as the athletic director at the University of Bridgeport. Upon retirement, he moved to Whitefield, where he enjoyed golfing, fishing, cross-country skiing and square dancing. He also volunteered at Weeks Medical Center in

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Lancaster and served on their board of directors. Herbert was predeceased by two sons, Kenneth and Eugene, and is survived by his wife Anne, his son Thomas, five grandchildren and a great-granddaughter. Richard Ellery Palmer passed away on Nov. 18, 2014, in Raleigh, NC. He worked as a welder at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard before serving in the Army Air Corps during World War II and receiving several medals, including the Distinguished Flying Cross. Dick worked as a senior technician for Frost Garage for 14 years and as a shop foreman for Flexhaust Company for 25 years in Amesbury, MA. He was a member of the Wingold Grange and Gideon Lodge. He enjoyed carpentry and electrical and plumbing work and built most of his home himself. Dick was predeceased by his wife of 64 years, Ruth Baker ’38, and is survived by his son Frederick, two grandchildren, five great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandson. Please let me know if you’re interested in getting together for a 75th class reunion! My mom would have loved organizing such an event, so I will do all I can to help coordinate it in her honor! ◆

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Mary Louise Hancock

33 Washington St. Concord, NH 03301 mlhdeerisland@gmail.com

From Concord, Marion Stevenson Frost and I wish you a Happy New Year of healthy days. We are being much visited by presidential candidates touting their virtues and abilities. May the best woman win! Although some of the following are late news, they have only recently come to our attention. Ellsworth Whitaker died Jan. 9, 2015. After graduation, he enlisted in the Army and proudly served for more than three years during WWII. He was honorably discharged with the rank of first lieutenant. He was a resident of Reading, MA, for more than 50 years. He is survived by two daughters and one son as well as many grandchildren and great-grandchildren. We lost Eleanor Atkinson Woodbury on July 19, 2015. Eleanor moved to upstate New York to attend medical school at the University of Rochester and she lived in the Rochester, NY, area for the remainder of her life. She practiced medicine from l946 to l985 as a resident and senior attending physician at Strong Memorial Hospital, then in private practice. Eleanor is survived by one son. She was preceded in death by two sons and her husband. Eleanor established the Atkinson-Woodbury Scholarship Fund to aid students attending UNH. You may make contributions to the fund care of the UNH Foundation, 9 Edgewood Road, Durham, NH 03824. Virginia Hough died July 2l, 2015. Virginia majored in music at UNH and got a master’s in music from Columbia University in l956. In l961,

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Virginia completed a sixth-year program in music at the University of Connecticut. After teaching for 10 years in New Hampshire, she spent the next 25 years in Bristol, CT, where she continued to teach music. During those years, she was active in her profession, serving on the Connecticut Music Educators Association and adjudicator for the Connecticut and Massachusetts All-State Chorus Auditions. Eleanor was active in her church and historical society and volunteered for many activities to aid the needy and homeless. She had a lifelong interest in travel, played golf well into her later years and had an avid interest in many sports. Virginia was predeceased by three brothers. She was a devoted aunt and is survived by six nieces and nephews and many grand- and great-grand nieces and nephews. Let me hear from you when you feel so inclined. In the meantime, be of good cheer. ◆

Found in the university archives: a marker from Lewis Field, taken as a memento at the end of the football team’s undefeated 1942 season. Despite losing many of its star players to the war effort—as well as coach George Sauer, who enlisted in the Navy— the Wildcats outscored opponents 101 to 46 in a total of six contests, averaging 16 points per game.

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As I write this column, the date reminds me that this year will be the 70th anniversary of our graduation! Hope you are all doing well. We have lost several classmates this past year. Our vice-president, Dick Starke of Brunswick, ME, died in Sept. 2015. With his degree in agriculture, he worked for poultry-breeding farms in New England. He relocated to Europe to oversee the building of poultry farms there. Upon returning to this country, he oversaw the construction of new hatcheries in the east, including in New Hampshire. Dick retired in 1989 to his home on the water in Brunswick, and remained very active in the natural world and traveling. He was also active in planning and attending our class reunions. He is survived by his wife of 69 years, Eliza, four children, nine grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren. Virginia “Jinny” Parker died in July of 2015 in Newport, NH. She had a 35-year teaching career from Kents Hill School in Maine to Staples High School in Westport, CT. At Staples for 26 years, Jinny coached field hockey, basketball, softball and track and field. Her teams won several state titles. She co-authored a book on track and field. She received state and national recognition, including hall-of-fame awards. She retired to her home in Newport, where she was inducted into another hall of fame and served two terms as library trustee. She visited England and Scotland several times. Her survivors include many nieces and nephews. Genevieve “Gen” Clark died in Brunswick, ME, on Aug. 10, 2015. She was employed for many years as a teacher of geography and social studies in Framingham, MA. Gen retired in 1984 and moved to Brunswick in 1992, where she was active in the Brunswick Historical Society, the Mid-Coast Chamber Orchestra and several other groups concerned with preservation and environmental issues. She traveled to many European countries. Elizabeth “Betty” Newell Evans of Lexington, VA, passed away on Oct. 22, 2015. She was a native resident of Waynesboro, VA, where she and her husband raised seven children. She was fond of travel, an excellent bridge player and a skilled knitter. She was active in community life at Kendall Retirement Community. ◆

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Class Notes Editor

UNH Magazine, 15 Strafford Ave Durham, NH 03824 classnotes.editor@unh.edu

Lucille Larrakee Worcester writes, “Where are all my Alpha Chi and Xi Delta friends? I’m in my tenth year of a happy old age at Kendal at Granville, OH. My daughter Joy and her husband Jack (Hire) live in this lovely town — both daughters graduated from Denison University — and many retired professors are also here at Kendal. Joy is a voice and piano teacher and is director of a 40-voice youth choir at the Granville Presbyterian Church. They have often toured New England, giving concerts and participating in church services. Other daughter Debbie (Woodard) lives in Bloomington, MN. She works at the American Academy of Neurology in Minneapolis. We go every year or so to the Worcester Place in Hollis, NH. The grandchildren who work in big cities often spend R&R weekends at this 270-year-old homestead. And speaking of grands, I finally became a great-grandmother — beautiful brilliant boy, of course. Let’s have more news!” ◆

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Elizabeth M. Shea

P.O. Box 1975 Exeter, NH 03833

On this bleak Martin Luther King weekend, let us pause in remembrance of the following dearly departed classmates: William Ruel died Oct. 1 at his home in Portsmouth, NH. He was the first oral surgeon to live in New Hampshire’s seacoast area, maintaining his dentistry practice for almost 40 years. Bill leaves his wife Teresa Catherine Breen Ruel, seven children, fifteen grandchildren and one great grandson. Barbara Lohn Joslin of Charleston, SC, died Aug. 28. Married to Robert A. Joslin, she was active in Planned Parenthood of America, joined the fight to bring down the Confederate flag from the SC statehouse in 2000, and raised eight children. Sheldon Prescott passed away at Brookdale Spruce Woods in Durham on Oct. 4. Shelly was a Durham selectman, building inspector & organizer of Durham Day Picnics as well as a long-time “chain gang” official for UNH home football games. Heartfelt sympathy goes to Shelly’s wife of 68 years, Phyllis Barr ’47, daughter Sue Levy ’80, son-in-law Don Levy and two grandsons. Elizabeth Newell Evans died on Oct. 22 at Kendal Retirement Community, Lexington, VA. Fond of travel, known as an excellent bridge player and skilled knitter, she raised seven children and later welcomed seven grandchildren and three greats. John Henry Romani passed away in Ann Arbor, MI, on July 8. He grew up in Milford and after service in World War II, attended UNH, receiving his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in government. He earned his PhD in political science from the University of Michigan and held a faculty appointment at Michigan’s School of Public Health for more than 30 years. He is survived by his wife, Michigan sociology professor Barbara Anderson, two sons, a step-daughter and three granddaughters. Homer H. Hamlin of Langdon Place, Dover, NH, died Sept.13. A successful insurance businessman, he belonged to Rotary International, North Conway Country Club

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and Lakewood Country Club in Naples, FL. He married Romaine Chaffee in 1945 and together they raised four children, who gave them eight grandchildren and nine great-grands. Elizabeth Bowles Ward of Springfield, VT, died July 18. She received a nursing diploma from Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital, Hanover, and a bachelor’s degree from UNH. Predeceased by Thomas E. Ward, she is survived by two daughters and a son as well as five grandchildren. Theodore “Ted” Finnegan died at Brookdale Spruce Wood in Durham on July 28. Born in Dover, he attended local schools and became the Army Air Corps’ youngest pilot in the Aleutian Islands, North Pacific at age 19. He met Elizabeth “Betty” Collins ’48 on the steps of Hamilton Smith Hall. They were married for 67 years and produced eight children, who blessed them with 14 grandchildren and two greats. He taught history at a number of NH colleges after completing a master’s degree in history at UNH and a PhD in military history at the University of Denver. Phyllis A. Clark of East Washington passed away peacefully at Woodlawn Care Center, Newport, NH, on Sept. 15. She majored in biology at UNH, where she met her husband, Russell Clark, with whom she raised four children. Should you wish to honor the lives of our classmates, the Ruel family suggests performing an act of kindness for someone in need. Afterwards, please do drop me a line! ◆

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Joan Boodey Lamson

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

Picture this original Christmas card: On the cover are the nine planets of our solar system in color against a black sky. Above them are the words, “Eight of nine planets are not habitable.” Inside, above a picture of our planet Earth, the words are, “Let’s not ruin this one.” Ed Hujsak’s card makes a meaningful statement about climate change. On Christmas Day with my daughter and son-in-law, Cindy Lamson ’73 and Ted Siegler ’73, on their farm in Vermont, it was 60 degrees. We all donned Hawaiian shirts and leis from one of her “party bags” and played a hilarious game of croquet. Grandson Devon set an up-hill course, and, as you know, croquet balls are round! But, we had better all take this unusual weather seriously, before it is too late. Lawrence Kapiloff, whom I wrote about two years ago when his family gave him a big birthday party when he reached 90 on September 30, 2013, passed away last October in Keene. Last July I received a happy letter from Lois Gibbons Douglas. “I have always had a traveling bug, so being a teacher gave me a chance to do that.” Lois taught in the Newburyport, MA, area, Washington state, a year in Germany and at the International School in Geneva, Switzerland, for two years, where she had a “fantastic time skiing with a Swiss ski club. Then, I finally settled down to marriage and a family.” She is now back in Newburyport enjoying family, grandchildren and friends. Claire Rouillard Gorman, who was born in Claremont, NH, married her ’49er love, Joe Gorman, in 1950 and then brought up their three children in Claremont, died last September. Claire taught several generations of Claremont students general math and

algebra. Later, she “cherished her trips with Joe to Antigua.” Claire will be greatly missed by her three married children, four married grandchildren and five great-grandkids as well as many friends and former students in Claremont. Don Bent ’48, “New London’s Town Father,” was given a big celebration by his three UNH children when he reached 90 in November. ◆

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Jack Smith, interim secretary

38 Drake Lane Scarborough, Maine 04107 jsmit26@aol.com

Class secretary Joan Boodey Lamson and family took advantage of an unseasonably warm Christmas Day to play croquet, trading coats and hats for Hawaiian shirts and leis.

Many alums returned to Durham for Homecoming Weekend, Oct. 2 – 4, to enjoy tailgating at Boulder Field and to watch “The Cats” win the football game against Elon. About 16,000 tickets were sold; however, many never made it from Boulder Field to Cowell Stadium — but always a fun weekend. And now for some news resulting from the 2015 “Dues and News” letter. Ken Cressey retired from the aerospace industry 18 years ago and spends time volunteering at two Glendale, CA, area hospitals, the public library and the Burbank airport. Val Langevin, while on vacation in Naples, FL, visited with the Brouillards and also Roger and Polly Wood — staying connected is always a good thing. Jack Gamble reports the passing of wife Ursala in January 2015. Jack competes in the Senior Games — biking, shot, discus — and also the Masters Track and Field events. Bob Belford is still enjoying life on his horse farm in Virginia and having fun with his grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Joe Hobbs retired from Pratt and Whitney 30 years ago and is still playing golf. Way to go, Joe. The Rev. Alan Deale and wife divide their time between Ontario, Canada, and New London, NH. Alan stays connected with classmate Carlton Bradford, who owned the Kearsarge Bookshelf in town. And Len Emond fishes in Alaska during the summer while visiting with his son Chris and his family. He enjoys eating salmon and bear while there — sounds pretty healthy. Chauncey Newell writes that he is still living in Erie, PA, and stays in contact with classmate Bill Bergeron. Roger Wood, class treasurer, has sent $3,000 to the UNH Foundation to be added to the Class of 1950 Endowed Scholarship Fund. The funds were from dues accumulated over the last few years. Thank you all for taking the time to send news in response to class president Dick Brouillard’s spring 2015 “News and Dues” letter. And please remember, you can always send news to me anytime at the address or email below. And now, our sincere condolences and prayers to the families of our classmates listed in the “In Memoriam” pages. ◆

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Anne Schultz Cotter

PO Box 33 Intervale, NH 03854 anne.cotter.nh@gmail.com

Dear classmates, business first: starting now, Jan Anderson will be joining me as secretary. She does the searching and channeling of news, I do the writing — I hope (tablet behaving or my brain drain ceasing). This letter has been difficult as I have been at my daughter's house in Connecticut since Christmas, recuperating from an infected wound. I had plans to continue to

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Colorado for a visit with family, which unfortunately did not take place. The fact that we do not receive dues or donations has almost depleted our source of news, but we encourage you to look at the back of the magazine to check the obits. We had a nice letter and donation from Dick Dussault, whose wife, Terry Carbonneau, died last September. Dick had been Terry’s caregiver for the past four years as she suffered from inclusion body myositis, a muscle-destroying disease in same family as muscular dystrophy. In the next class letter, we will be reporting information from the Foundation about the state of our finances, including donations like Dick Dussault’s, as well as letters of appreciation from the scholarship awardees whom our funds cover! ◆

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Hi Dear Mates: I chatted with Bim and Tuni Allen and they received a card from Sean Thoel, who graciously and enthusiastically thanked our class for supporting him with his education in the UNH IROP program. He is in Russia doing research. IROP is the program that our class gave to UNH for our 50th reunion gift, and we have backed many students. With sadness in my heart, I must report our classmates who have died: James Lewis Colombo passed away on June 26, 2015, in Scottsboro, AL; Edith Swindlehurst Bartlett Rumrill died in September 2015 in New London, NH, and Herbert R. Dickson died on Oct. 14, 2015, in Burlington, VT. My thoughts and prayers are with their loved ones. Charlie Daunt is becoming a cruise aficionado. Just this year, he and his partner have been to Alaska, Bermuda and twice to different parts of the Caribbean. Charlie went to Charles Forsaith’s grandson’s wedding. The two Charleses were roommates the four years at UNH. Great memories! Had a nice letter from James P. Kelley. Jim and his wife, Marlys, live in the Surfside Beach section of Nantucket Island. There, he was a teacher, principal and FBI agent and then superintendent of schools. Jim was a Navy lieutenant commander (LCDR) in WWII and marches every Memorial Day in uniform. Bradford Noyes just started to receive the magazine, and I thank him for writing me. He also was a LCDR, serving in the Navy until 1974. Bradford and his wife, June, entered the dog world, boarding, grooming, breeding and showing for 30 years. They have many animals on their 20 acres in Virginia. Vincent Luti's seconnd book, “18th Century Gravestone Carvers,” was published recently. He cycles about 2,000 miles a year.

Sean Thoel, who graciously and enthusiastically thanked the Class of 1952 for supporting him with his education in the UNH IROP program, is in Russia doing research. — 1952

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Wow! William P. Adams and wife Louise are active in their community. His back problem has caused him to give up their motor home travel, but they can still go on cruises. Ed Douglas and wife, Pat, enjoy life at Friendship Village of Dublin, OH. Ed plays golf and volunteers at the hospital. They have 10 great-grandchildren. Wow again! That's the end of my news. Please send me a message about YOU! May God bless you and all our troops! ◆

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Ann Merrow Burghardt

411 Wentworth Hill Road Center Sandwich, NH 03227 alces1@myfairpoint.net

Congratulations to Charlie Eager and Jeannette Cagel of Nokomis, FL, who married in August while vacationing in Lincoln, NH. After Lorraine Washburn Osborne retired from law practice, she and husband George moved to Florida, where they lived for several years, but have moved to Marietta, GA, to be near family. Says Lorraine, “I was so happy to arrange a reunion lunch with Marlene Lebow, my best friend and roommate in college, in Sarasota. We had a grand visit.” She notes their time together turned out to be all the more precious as Marlene passed away shortly after that visit. “Would be happy to hear from classmates and chums of the past,” Lorraine writes. Shirley Smith Cohen of Hollis, NH, died Dec. 12, 2015. Shirley taught physical education in elementary and high schools in Cohasset, MA, and Nashua, NH. She and her husband, Joe, lived in Hollis, where she taught swimming and served on several boards. Lovertia “Dee” Chase Grant, formerly of Durham, died July 1, 2015. She and Art Grant were married in 1951, and they and their family returned to Durham in 1963. She completed her degree in 1968. Dee edited and published a community newsletter, was an aide in the Oyster River schools and served on the Durham Planning Board among many other activities. The Grants moved to the Concord HavenwoodHeritage Heights retirement community in 2009. Jean Stockwell Strong told me of the Jan. 12, 2016, death of Mary “Polly” Perley Reed, formerly of Londonderry, NH. After UNH, where she was in Theta U and active on many campus committees, she was an occupational therapist with the Derry Visiting Nurse Association for many years. She also restarted the Girl Scouts in Londonderry, was a library trustee, a supervisor of the checklist for 25 years and served on civic committees. Jean said she had visited Polly at a Manchester nursing home just two weeks before Polly died. Patricia Berry Barker continues to travel to mineral and gem club and show activities and also spent two weeks in England this past summer. “Lots under way on campus,” writes Jere Lundholm, “with a new athletic stadium, a major expansion of Hamel Recreation Center, a new outdoor pool with heat and lights, an expansion of Holloway Commons and a major reconstruction of Hamilton Smith.” ◆

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Nancy Evans Burns

nancyburns@gmail.com

54ites, hello! Can’t believe 61-plus are behind us. Hopefully I can help keep the ’54 class news rolling along as did Dan Ford for so many years. And those before him, too! Thank you. Now the “more from ’54” slogan continues. Congratulations to all who have contributed in the ways most appropriate and meaningful to you. Kudos to Harriet Forkey and the board for their loyalty and hard work. I have seen Deb Atherton Atwood most recently and had a fun tour of her home. Mostly, I just love to talk with her. I’m really skinny on face-toface time with classmates. Lee Perkins’ voice over the phone and that’s about it. My overall enthusiasm has not waned for the “Wildcat University.” My grandson Keon Burns ’18 wears number 4 on the UNH basketball team, and I have attended numerous games. Being back on campus, I see all the changes, and they are great! “Our” school continues to make us proud because of its continued improvements and successes. Looking forward to hearing from you, which at this stage will necessarily include notices of classmates passing on. William Henry Milne of Contoocook, NH, passed away March 10, 2015. He earned an MA in education from UNH in 1954. A WW II veteran, he served in the Army Signal Corps. He was a social studies teacher and principal at Hopkinton High School and then worked for the New Hampshire Department of Education on the voucher project and school lunch program. Donald E. Gould from Andover, NH, passed away on March 16, 2015. He earned a BS from UNH and was a chemical engineer specializing in packaging at Union Carbide Corporation. He holds patents for plastics technologies. Raymond Ovila LaRoche of Hudson, NH, died March 28, 2015. As a career officer in the Army, he was a French translator of South Vietnamese officers touring the U.S. prior to the Vietnam War. He served in the Korean War and completed two tours in the Vietnam War. He was past commander of the American Legion in Hudson, NH, past officer of VFW post in Nashua, NH, and a member of the Military Officers Association of America. John G. Leahy of South Portland, ME, died on April 27, 2015. He was an active and contributing member of the UNH Alumni Association. Discharged from the Army in 1957, he had a 12-year career with NCR. He transitioned to real estate until retirement in 1995. He was a lifetime member of the Elks and president of JC’s. Ara Mantanian of Irvington, NY, died on May, 7, 2015. He graduated from UNH and then earned his doctorate in education from Columbia University. He was an innovator in the field of teaching techniques for use with learning-disabled students. Phyllis Branz Ainspan died on June 14, 2015. She graduated with a major in government and minor in education and history. After receiving a master’s in guidance from SUNY University at Albany she became an assistant professor in education and of student teachers in social studies there. Achille R. Van de Meulebroecke of Alton, NH, died on June 28, 2015. He earned a BS in civil engineering and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Army. He served in Germany and rose to the rank of first lieutenant and served as Company A

“Lots under way on campus, with a new athletic stadium, a major expansion of Hamel Recreation Center, a new outdoor pool with heat and lights, an expansion of Holloway Commons and a major reconstruction of Hamilton Smith.” — 1953

commander. He had a longtime career with the Federal Highway Commission, which culminated with an assignment overseeing operations in Saudi Arabia for the Deptartment of Transportation. Van became a graduate student advisor with the Technology Transfer Group within UNH’s engineering department upon retirement. Dennis Joseph Comolli of Dover, NH, and Naples, FL, died Aug. 29, 2015. He graduated ROTC from UNH as the cadet colonel in 1954 and served in the Air Force as a navigator stationed at Otis Air Force Base on Cape Cod, MA. He taught biology and physiology at Falmouth High School, where he was also the girls’ tennis team coach. He was a football and basketball referee as well as a baseball umpire. Ellen Quinn Hylen of Needham, MA, died on Sept. 14, 2015. She worked for Liberty Mutual

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Insurance Company of Boston, MA, for more than 30 years, retiring as assistant vice president. Robert R. Chauvette of Indianapolis, IN, died Sept. 28, 2015. He graduated from UNH with both his BS and MS degrees. He was employed for 31 years in the organic chemicals research division of Eli Lilly and Company. William H. Sweet of Enfield Center, NH, died on Oct. 25, 2015. At UNH he was a member of Alpha Gamma Rho and earned his degree in engineering. He served in the Army in Germany for three years and returned to New Hampshire to begin his engineering career, which culminated with a position at Split Ball Bearing in Lebanon, NH. He was a member of the Upper Valley Investment Club and served as president, secretary and treasurer at the Jericho Community Club of Norwich, VT. Peace to all, and keep our longtime memories! ◆

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Marge and Bill Johnston

4940 Westchester Ct., Unit 3703 Naples, FL 34105 (239) 213-0140

Hi Everyone! Happy New Year. I hope your holidays were memorable and joyous. UNH snowbirds are enjoying warmer climes here in Naples, FL, including Lorna Kimball, Chan and Ann Sanborn, Jack and Pat Weeks, Marge and Bill Johnston, and John Everson, Carmen and Harry Beaudin and Lynn and Roger Grimshaw in the Venice area. We are looking forward to joining other alumni at the South West Florida Alumni Luncheon in Venice on Feb. 6 and also the Red Sox Exhibition Game at Jet Blue Park in Ft. Myers on March 28. UNH is really well represented by lots of different classes at this game. In class news, on Sept. 25, 2015, at the Gerry Friel Memorial Golf Tournament at the Links, in South Berwick, ME, Billy Pappas was honored for his contribution to UNH basketball. Helping him celebrate were wife Toni and classmates Len Wiley, Victor Azzi, Louis Georgopolis, Chan Sanborn, Bill Lacey and Ann Russell. The Reunion Committee received notes from Roger Parker, Art Valecenti, Tom Tracy and wife Marilyn ’58 and Jim and Paula (Cyphert) Shira about how much fun they had at our 60th. We have also received notification that the following classmates have passed away: Carolyn Lowe Conway on May 10, 2015, Paul Frost Bascom on June 3, 2015, Richard H. Gagne on July 7, 2015, Lt. Col (Ret.) Robert “Bob” Chase on Aug. 11, 2015 and Robert C. Wyman, Sr., on Oct. 18, 2015. In closing, here is a pearl of wisdom I recently received as an email. A lovely lady named Regina Brett, an octogenarian-plus-10, wrote in an article in The Plain Dealer, a Cleveland, OH, newspaper, “If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else’s, we’d grab ours back.” Until next time, good health to all, and feel free to send us any news you might want to share.◆

Billy Pappas was honored for his contributions to UNH basketball at the Gerry Friel Memorial Golf Tournament last September. Pappas is considered one of the finest athletes in UNH history. — 1955

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Joan Holroyd

5 Timber Lane, Apt. 213 Exeter, NH 03833 joanholroyd_zing@alumni.unh.edu

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will be held on that Saturday morning. In the afternoon, we’ll have a chance to tour the campus; if you haven't been back in 10 years or more, you’ll be very surprised at all the changes and additions. More information will be forthcoming once you’ve responded. “The more the merrier” we are hoping! Turning to the inevitable sad news, the first obituary is that of Betty Vandersluis, who received a BA in psychology with our class. She served as guidance counselor, psychologist and as a professor at Franklin Pierce University. Betty summered on Block Island, RI, every year since 1934 and retired to Fitzwilliam, NH, nearly 20 years ago. A lifelong avid scenic photographer, she sold many photos that later became postcards. In June we lost classmate Sherman (Bunky) Newton of Portsmouth, NH, the former owner/ operator of the Kearsarge Hotel. He was a member of Kappa Sigma fraternity. His major passion was golf, enjoying membership in the Portsmouth Country Club as well as the Wentworth in Newcastle, NH. Bunky was also a loyal member of the Pull and Be Damned boating organization. He served as past president of the NH Senior Golf League and was active in both the Portsmouth Rotary Club and Propeller Club. Chi Omega sisters mourn the passing of our house president, Elizabeth (Betsy) Johnson McDermith, whose husband of 58 years, Clark '55, predeceased her. You may remember them as Pepcats. Betsy hailed from Branford, CT, and received a BS in biology from UNH. As an Air Force wife, she lived in several states as well as Germany and Japan. Retiring to Denmark, ME, in 1978, they renovated their 1842 homestead and had large and prolific gardens as well as raising sheep and chickens and operating a roadside farm stand. Betsy volunteered at the town library, worked on various Lions Club projects and served on several civic committees. She was recognized for her original cross-stitch and rug-hooking designs. Betsy is survived by her three sons and seven grandchildren. Lastly, Charles J. Dalzell ’57 of Charleston, NH, also died in August 2015. Charlie was a retired electrical engineer and was active in community service projects. As a member of two Masonic Lodges, he served these organizations as past master and deputy grand master. The family includes three children and six grandchildren. His wife Lois (Wood) Dalzell died in 1987. Classmates: Hoping to see you at our reunion in June! Until then, please send your news.◆

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Mary Lou Parkhurst Lavallee

25 Thornton Way, #110 Brunswick, ME 04011 princespoint@gmail.com

I want to start this new chapter of 1957 Class Notes with sincere thanks to Ann Garside Perkins, who has so ably kept the ’57 news network flowing for many recent years. And please, folks, help keep our notes active by sending a few words this way every once in a while. I was hoping for a deluge of news at Christmastime, but apparently many of you cut back on notes or suffered computer meltdowns, as I did. A really upbeat card from Betty Lunt Knowles told of their delight in having various members of their Australian family — daughter, husband and three beautiful granddaughters — in the U.S. for much of 2015, participating in various career

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The Reluctant Beauty Queen BY JODY RECORD ’95

he first beauty pageant that June Gong Chin ’58 won earned her $500, a portable TV, a transistor radio and 25 pounds of Chinese sausage. Her title: Miss Chinatown New York 1957. A sausage maker was one of the pageant sponsors. Chin had been a reluctant entrant. All she’d wanted was a weekend in New York City with her sister Lillian Gong, a medical researcher at NYU. But Gong’s friends persuaded Chin to enter, going so far as to buy her a plane ticket when she said she couldn’t stay because she had to drive back to UNH to get to class on time.

“School was my priority,” Chin says. It was October; she remembers because it was Double Ten Day, or National Day, the holiday that celebrates the founding of the People’s Republic of China, held annually on Oct. 10. Chin was wearing a cheongsam (a short Chinese dress with a slit up the side) and borrowed high heels. “It was freezing standing up on that stage,” she says. “They interviewed us in Chinese and found out mine was lacking. Being the third of three daughters, my dear parents gave me the Chinese name Jun Tai, which means ‘turn next child into a son.’ As a result, in the Chinese interview, responding with my Chinese name resulted in a roar of laughter.” The daughter of Chinese immigrants, Chin was born and raised in Miami. Two of her siblings became doctors, another an attorney and the other, a teacher. Chin, a home economics major, planned on teaching. “My father always stressed the importance of education,” Chin says. A scholarship made UNH affordable but there was a secondary reason Chin decided to come to Durham. It was the chance to make her own way. “I was the youngest of five siblings whose exceptional trails pioneered new heights,” she says. “From kindergarten to senior high school, teachers asked me, ‘June, are you going to be as outstanding as your sisters and brother?’” A popular student, Chin was class secretary her freshman, sophomore and senior years and a member of Alpha Chi Omega. She was named Miss Freshman of 1955 and was the varsity football queen in 1956. The following year, she was first runner up in the 1957 Miss New Hampshire contest and tied for Miss Congeniality. “So get this, here’s this Chinese girl from a little town in Miami and she’s first runner up, Miss New Hampshire 1957? Me? Really? I couldn’t believe it,” Chin says. In 1958, again at the urging of others, Chin entered the first-ever Miss Chinatown USA competition—and

won. Up until then, the pageant had been limited to young women from San Francisco, where the pageant was held. That year, however, the Chinese Chamber of Commerce decided to open the contest to women from all over the country. Chin’s argument against entering because she’d miss classes was lost when she learned the contest was taking place in February, during winter break. For the talent segment of the pageant, Chin, who was president of the UNH dance club, performed a modern dance to George Shearing’s “A Foggy Day in London Town.” She also had to answer questions in English and Chinese. (There was no swimsuit competition.) After graduating that June, Chin traveled around the country and represented the United States abroad in the Far East. Settling in San Francisco, Chin spent two years working at the California Food Research Institute before marrying Poo Quong Chin, a prominent structural engineer and president and CEO of Chin & Hensolt Engineers, the company behind San Francisco’s TransAmerica Pyramid and Candlestick Park. Once their two daughters were grown, Chin went on to have a second career as an interior decorator. “It always tickles me to think about; I never would have entered a contest in my life,” Chin says. “It was so serendipitous. Here’s this little girl who only went to New Hampshire to go to school and all this happened.” ² Spring 2016

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“I am forever grateful for the Class of 1958 Endowed Scholarship. It has truly made a positive impact on my life; I could never express my full appreciation in words.” — Amber M. Brooks ’15 in a letter to the Class of 1958

and educational programs. I also bumped into Debbie Willman Pierce and Art for a brief but unexpected pre-Christmas chat and hug. Her sister lives nearby. I’ve also received a few obits from the alumni office. At our esteemed ages, that seems to be the predominant news. Charles J. Dalzell of Charlestown, NH, died on August 14, 2015. After graduation, he served in the Air Force and then as an electrical engineer for Jones & Lamson and for 25 years at Valley Regional Hospital. He is survived by three children and six grandchildren. James A. Shea of Nashua, NH, died on September 19, 2015. After 12 years in the Air Force, he spent his civilian career in the Department of Defense Investigative Service. He is survived by his wife, children, grandchildren and great-grandson. Betty Vandersluis, who died on May 8, 2015, received her MA with our class. She was a longtime psychology faculty member at Franklin Pierce College and taught at several high schools and colleges in this country and Australia. Our sincere condolences to family and friends of these fellow alums and perhaps to unknown others. And for a little brighter information to wrap up this issue, I want to thank Jim Hellen for forwarding the annual reports of our two class endowment funds. Greatly abbreviated, I can say that our funds awarded four scholarships last year, with emphasis on the Class of 1957 Fund for the Center for International Education, established at our 40th reunion. You'll be hearing more from us as we head toward yet another reunion — our 60th! — but for now, please hold the dates of June 5 – 7, 2017. ◆

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Peggy Ann Shea

100 Tennyson Ave. Nashua, NH 03062 peggy.shea@alumni.unh.edu or sssrc@msn.com

We have received a heartfelt letter of appreciation from Amber M. Brooks ’15, who was a recipient of our Class of 1958 Endowed Scholarship. Her letter reads, in part, “I am so thankful that I was fortunate enough to receive an academic scholarship for the 2014 – 2015 academic year. I am so honored to be the recipient of the Class of 1958 Endowed Scholarship; I would like to thank you immensely for your support. The rising cost of higher education can be overwhelming at times, and

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this generous scholarship has helped me a great deal. I am a first-generation college student, and I grew up in Claremont, NH. My experience at the University of New Hampshire has surpassed all my expectations. I am a psychology major, minoring in both justice studies and sociology. I have spent the past six years wanting to go to graduate school to become a clinical psychologist, and it was not until this year that I realized my interests had changed. I now plan to pursue a career in justice studies. I have not made any definite plans, but I do know my end goal is to find a job that allows me to expand my mind, use my knowledge and help me grow professionally. I am forever grateful for the Class of 1958 Endowed Scholarship. It has truly made a positive impact on my life; I could never express my full appreciation in words. Thank you so much for your time and support.” I will post the entire letter on the Class Notes website. Letters such as these really show the impact of our scholarship fund. Lacking any other news, I will add some news of my own. My husband and I completed our automobile trip from NH to Alaska in early September, travelling more than 16,000 miles. One of many highlights was watching a bear catching salmon in British Columbia. We now have many memories and photographs. In October we were each invited to present a scientific talk at an international scientific conference in Honolulu, HI. My talk was on geomagnetic cutoff rigidities, a subject I became interested in while in graduate school at UNH. Even though officially “retired,” I am still pursuing my scientific interests. ◆

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Estelle “Stella” Belanger Landry

315 Chickory Trail Mullica Hill, NJ 08062 stella.landry@alumni.unh.edu

Here it is mid-January and no snow in southern New Jersey as of yet. New Hampshire has little or no snow as well. But according to family and friends, the landscape has been covered by presidential candidates. Friends and family are keeping me abreast of the happenings. I am sure many of you remember when aspiring young candidate, John F. Kennedy, visited UNH in his quest for the presidency. This past fall, my husband and I, along with our daughter and her husband, Martha and Patrick Duffey, members of the class of 1993, and their three children, attended the UNH/University of Delaware football game. We tailgated and joined with other UNHers who were there and also met parents of current football players. We now look forward to attending the UNH/ Villanova game next fall. The alumni office sent me the following obituaries: Robert Lamothe passed away in July 2015. Bob or Bobby, as we knew him, lettered in football and lacrosse and was named to the All-New England lacrosse team in 1960. After his honorable discharge as a second lieutenant in the Army, he began a career in commercial aviation with United Airlines that lasted more than three decades. In later years, he spent winter months in Sarasota, FL, where he enjoyed golfing, and moved back to Sun City permanently in 2013. Allen W. Milbury died Aug. 11, 2015, in Aurora, UT. Allen served in the Army during the Korean War. After UNH, he went on to receive his MS, EdS and PhD in education from Indiana University. He founded and directed the

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Pat Gagne Coolidge

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

Hello, classmates. Lou D’Allesandro is serving in his ninth term as a member of the New Hampshire State Senate and has been elected vice-chairman of the New England Higher Education Board as well as serving as chairman of the board of Members First Credit Union. Lou also attended the first graduation ceremony of the American University of Madaba (AUM), held in Amman, Jordan, on Sept. 19, 2015, and delivered the commencement address. Lou said, “It was wonderful to see so many young people seizing the opportunity to enhance not only their own lives by obtaining a quality higher education but to also embrace the university’s mission to foster a brighter, more peaceful future for their region. Education truly is the key to their future.” There are 1,700 students representing 31 countries enrolled at AUM, a private, nonprofit institution that promotes ethical responsibility, social cohesion, mutual respect, hospitality, democracy and peace. Four years ago, Lou cosponsored legislation that authorized AUM to confer degrees upon its graduates as an international affiliate institution of higher education in the state of New Hampshire. Thank you, Lou and Pat, for sending in your note, and thank you to Sally Crowley Conlon ’60, who sent a note about Clarke Conlon. “It is with great sadness that I send notice of Clarke’s passing on August 5, 2015, from brain cancer. He had wonderful memories of UNH, lacrosse with Whoop Snively and the guys at Lambda Chi. In our 55 years of marriage, we raised four children and traveled extensively in both the Army and our retirement.” Our condolences, Sally. Condolences also go out to the families of David Torr of Dover, NH, who died on Aug. 27, and Mary Casazza Hohenner of Maryland, who died on May 24, 2015. ◆

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Judy Dawkins Kennedy

34 Timber Ridge Rd. Alton Bay, NH 03810; (603) 875-5979; jak@alumni.unh.edu

May Boucher Reed and George took a 10-day trip to visit May’s cousins from Walpole, NH, now in Lolo, MT.

“It was wonderful to see so many young people seizing the opportunity to enhance not only their own lives by obtaining a quality higher education but to also embrace the university’s mission to foster a brighter, more peaceful future for their region. Education truly is the key to their future.” — Lou D’Allesandro ’61

While there, Philip and Dawn Nichols Fraser — whom Sondra Mariaschin Leff, now living in Israel, and May introduced to each other 51 years ago — spent the weekend with them. The six of them enjoyed many activities. “It was wonderful to see them as if there was no lapse of time.” Casey Call of Sequim, WA, has been retired for 15 years from NASA, where he flew experimental aircraft. He traveled all over the world during his NASA career. He and his wife Michelle just celebrated their 43rd anniversary. They enjoy visiting family around the country but love living in the Northwest. They spend a third of the year on Kauai, HI, their favorite island. He is still a Red Sox and Patriots fan. Paul A Richardson of Alton Bay, NH, passed away peacefully at home on Dec. 5, 2015, after a seven-year battle with cancer. He earned a degree in mechanical engineering from UNH. As a second lieutenant in the Air Force, he designed and integrated weapons in fighter aircraft at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, OH. He moved with his family to Gaithersburg, MD, where he designed and integrated the Navy’s underwater launched missiles in Poseidon and Trident submarines at Vitro Corp. He remained active in the Air Force Reserve for 20 years, retiring as a lieutenant colonel in 1987. He and Carol Flood Richardson retired in 1994 to New Hampshire, where he became active serving on the Alton Beach Committee and the Alton Milfoil Committee, was a water tester on Lake Winnipesaukee for the Lay Lakes monitoring program sponsored by UNH and helped at the NH Boat Museum’s youth boat building project. He enjoyed UNH alumni activities and cheering for his UNH football team. He and Carol celebrated their 54th wedding anniversary in June 2015. He will be buried at Arlington National Cemetery. ◆

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Sam Allen ’65 (center) has volunteered at Baywood Hospital in Mesa, AZ, since 2013 to honor the memory of his late wife, Gerry. He was recognized with the hospital’s “Healthcare Heroes” award in 2014. — 1965

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instructional technology program at the Universty of Southern Maine. Harvey B. Schow of Manchester, NH, passed away in August 2015. He worked for the Coast Guard, where he developed and patented the Sim-UWelder training tool, which he later marketed. In later years, he worked for the Manchester NH Mental Health Ventures Vocational Services. He was also very involved with ham radio communications. He was a professional musician playing the saxophone and clarinet with local groups. Ernest Ashford, Jr., died Sept. 19 at his home in Cherokee Village, AR. After retiring as a lieutenant in the Army, he worked as chief executive officer of a credit union in Memphis, TN. Charles M. Harrington died on October l7, 2015, in Lebanon, NH, after a lengthy battle with Parkinson’s disease. He worked his entire career for what is now National Grid, retiring from New England Power Co. He was an EMT and served for nine years with the Enfield F.A.S.T. Squad. ◆

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Alice Miller Batchelor

37 Rydal Mount Drive Falmouth, MA 02540; (508) 548-2221 a.m.batchelor@alumni.unh.edu

I aimed for “Ns” and “Os” this time, but also reached some “spinoffs.” Paul Normandeau of Dummeston, VT, is retired after 35 years in the real estate business. He and Jo Jean raised two boys, have two granddaughters and enjoy sailing in the Virgin Islands. Paul inquired about William (Bill) Trentini of Sackville, New Brunswick. Bill taught microbiology for 15 years at Mt. Allison University — many Rhodes Scholars — but for his most recent 15 years, he has been a studio potter. He and Linda have one daughter who lives and works in Toronto. Phyllis Gartrell Oliver and David live in Bakersfield, CA, having lived in Greece for six years, as he works in Seattle for a Greek fishing company. In Greece, Phyllis taught art to adults — she still teaches — and toured ancient cities. The Olivers have one college-age grandchild who lives with them; they enjoy their mountain getaway. Phyllis inquired about Marianna (Pooky) Clover Fowler, who responded to my inquiry by email that she and Chip ’61 have been in Mountain View, CA, since 1967 and both have been retired now for 12-plus years. They golf, travel and enjoy Stanford athletic events and time with their grandchildren. They hope to travel east for Chip’s 55th reunion in June. A shoulder injury kept Gerald P. Lunderville from our 50th reunion, but he has hopes for our 60th. He lives in Long Beach, CA, and lectures to seniors and others groups on the lives of U.S. presidents. He is continuing his own education in art history and geology, with fond memories of such at UNH. Patricia M. Owen lives in Ormond Beach, FL. She was just back from two weeks in Dubai, where her daughter lives, and just after we spoke, I saw news of that Dubai hotel fire! She and Edward have been married 51 years and are avid golfers. Patricia inquired about her U-mate, Betsy Horne Youngren. Betsy lives in Ballwin, MO, two miles north of recent flooding! Widowed and retired from teaching high school math, she enjoys having her children nearby. Sadly, we have too many death notices to report here; see the “In Memoriam” section. ◆

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CLASS OF 1966: Come back to UNH June 3–5 to celebrate your 50th reunion!

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Polly Ashton Daniels

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

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the end of the war and goes through 1953. The book includes local politics of the times, along with interviews with a few Korean veterans. Twelve ’64 Chi Omegas landed in Sedona this last September, staying at The Briar Patch Inn. Some took the Pink Jeep Tour to Grand Canyon; others shopped, viewed the area sights and checked out area restaurants. A wee bit of wine was consumed during their stay! Anne Thomson — we hiked the backcountry of Yellowstone last August — retired from education, having been a teacher and principal, in 2013. She has spent the past two years enjoying the freedom to do what she wishes when she wishes! Frances (Frannie) Mann Batchelder of Vermont continues to teach part-time and enjoys cooking for her family each evening. No rest for the weary: She was “allowed” to cook for all while here! Cathie Parry McHugh is a full-time resident of Florida. She and her husband each play golf and tennis. Priscilla Burtt retired four years ago and now enjoys travelling to visit family in Miami, FL, and Denver, CO. It was so very good to see and spend some time with my college roommate of two years, Linda Flint Wentzell. Mary Jane Johnson Hass will celebrate 30 years as a representative for Thayer Coggin High End Furniture. Chris Riley Millar and I exchanged knitting patterns, and everyone present contributed to noting their favorite books read within the last year. These close friends for eons have travelled together to some new destination every year, gathering from all over the country. Kathy Zagarra came the distance from her home in Spain. Dedication, loyalty and lots of love! A terrific “gaggle of gals!” Our condolences go to the family of Malcolm Currier of Manchester, NH, who passed away on August 17, 2015. There are a few of you — and you know who you are! — who haven’t had the chance to write any notes for me. Maybe for the next column? ◆

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Jacqueline Flynn Thompson

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

Sam Allen’s wife Gerry died in 2009 after battling cancer. To honor Gerry and her memory, he has volunteered on the Baywood Hospital Campus in Mesa, AZ, since 2013, donating more than 500 hours helping guide patients through cancer and cardiac surgery recovery. In 2014, he received the Healthcare Heroes Award from the Medical Center. Thank you, Ralph Young, for spending time perusing the Golden Granite we received at our 50th reunion for some “special memories” provided by classmates. Bill Batchelder, Edward “Ty” Peabody and Wayne Vennard remember being members of the ice hockey team that opened Snively Arena; Sharon Welch Dean was pushed up the greased flagpole to try to retrieve the freshman beanie — she came close! Ron Dimock, Jr., and Catherine “Kay” Kuzminski recall they had exceptional professors at UNH; Sally Currier and Sandra Roscoe Lewis will always remember the carillon playing at noon, and David Grimes mentions that the man in the van on Main Street served the best steamed franks — his were always covered with mustard and onions! Independent scholar Kate Spindell Hays, residing in Toronto, Ontario, recalls that her experience at Freshman Camp in 1961 got her “hooked” on

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involvement in the camp for the next three years. She and Sam Cady were co-directors in 1964. Sam is an artist who resides in Friendship, ME; Ralph Young had the pleasure of viewing several of his works in museums and galleries in Rockland, ME, last summer when he and his wife, Judy Corbett Young, were cruising on the Maine coast. Bob King spent time with musical groups, including ones from the Durham area. Marsha Haartz Omand played on the first women’s varsity intercollegiate lacrosse team. The day she graduated, she began to teach and coach! She said her UNH physical education curriculum was excellent. Kay Lawrence Ruma remembers fondly her junior year abroad in Germany, 1963 – 64. Debbie Mitchell Schall values her friends made in Phi Mu sorority who still “reunion” every year. Ralph Young remembers being inspired and motivated walking through the ravine from East Hall daily to class his freshman year. I remember the first panty raid! ◆

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Lynda Brearley

791 Harrington Lake Dr. North Venice, FL 34293 lbrearey@gmail.com

It’s hard to believe, but in June, we’ll be celebrating our 50th reunion! Mark your calendar, and plan on coming back to UNH June 3 – 5. The reunion committee has put together a terrific program — campus tours, class march, class gift, lobster bake, class dinner, memorabilia, beautiful prints of T-Hall, faculty alumni panel, Golden Granite, class memorial service and tours, activities, favors and special presentations — starting on Friday and continuing through Sunday. For all who have registered, we look forward to seeing you. If you have not yet registered, it’s not too late. The reunion committee heartily encourages you to join with us in the celebration and participate in the various activities. For more information, take a look at the reunion website link at unhconnect.unh.edu. From that website, just highlight “Events” and select “Reunions” from the drop-down menu for the most current information. You can also check out the Class of 1966 Facebook page and view the Marcia Peterson Carsey reunion invitation there. Our reunion committee has set an overall class gift goal of $1.2 million and created a Class of 1966 Scholarship Endowment. Already, more than one-third of our classmates have contributed, and we are at almost 90 percent of our goal! Please join with fellow classmates to achieve or exceed our gift goal — it is not too late! All gifts and pledges received through June will be counted toward our class gift. One of the most popular reunion items will be the “Golden Granite,” as it is a commemorative journal recalling our years at UNH and our families, careers and achievements since graduating. All members of the Class of 1966 attending Reunion Weekend will receive a copy. For those who are unable to attend Reunion Weekend, copies will be available for purchase at a cost of $15 each. Make sure you fill out the “Golden Granite” forms that were sent to you or complete them online at unhconnect.unh.edu/GoldenGranite2016. Additional photos — including any you want of yourself — may also be emailed to reunion.weekend@unh.edu or mailed to Lisa Guerrero, 9 Edgewood Road, Durham, NH 03824. Our class favor will be Thompson Hall prints created

Ralph Young remembers being inspired and motivated walking through the ravine from East Hall daily to class his freshman year. The late Rogelio Casas, a Spanish literature and philosophy professor who taught at UNH from 1952 to 1987, was likewise inspired. The accomplished painter’s works included “A Winter Scene— UNH Ravine.”

especially for our 50th reunion as seen through the eyes of artist J.A. Kendall, the master of “sepia pen and ink wash drawings.” If you cannot attend but would like to purchase a T-Hall drawing, please go to the Class of 1966 Facebook page for more information. The memorial service on Reunion Weekend gives us a chance to remember and celebrate former classmates. The invocation will be presented by Jonathan Tetherly, and solos will be shared throughout the service. Brief reflections will be given and readers will then read the names of deceased classmates in alphabetical order while their pictures are shown on a screen. The cycle of presentation will continue until all names have been read. All readers are either members of the reunion committee or spouses of deceased 1966 classmates. This is a once-in-a-lifetime experience, so don’t miss it. We’re looking forward to seeing you there! ◆

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Diane Deering

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

— 1965

Warm greetings to all! Plans are now underway for our 50th reunion, so save the weekend of June 5 – 7, 2017, to reminisce with classmates and friends in Durham. An email has been sent out with an update and a request for volunteers. You can keep up with the reunion plans via the “Class of 1967 Facebook Group.” We welcomed Jim Tebbtts of Manchester, NH, to our committee. Jim has marched with the 1967 sign at every reunion Saturday! The Rev. Ruth Rolland Oduor has ministered to several Methodist churches north of Boston, MA, while her husband Ralph, a retired chemist and lawyer from the Gillette Company, is active in the church conference. Winter months are spent in Florida and Aruba, while Maine camping trips are enjoyed with grandkids in the summer. “Rootie” is one of our Jessie Doe mates! Congratulations to Douglas Lyons, who has received the Susan Colgate Cleveland Medal for Distinguished Service from Colby-Sawyer College, the college’s highest honor. Doug joined the college in 1989 and served as vice president of finance and administration. Word has been received of the death of Dr. Charles Austin Lowe

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in Mansfield Center, CT, who received his MA from UNH after Bowdoin College and before his PhD from Carnegie Mellon. Dr. Lowe served as a University of Connecticut professor for 42 years in the psychology department. On a trip to the President George W. Bush childhood home in Midland, TX, last fall, we received a tour from Paul St Hilaire, the home's executive director. Paul hails from Berlin, NH, and, after military service, graduated from UNH in 1974. To all our Florida retirees, remember to join us at the southwest chapter’s newly established east coast chapter events! ◆

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Dave Austin ’74 I’m a business consultant, golf teacher, life skills coach, cancer survivor and Renaissance man of the polymath variety.

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Angela M. Piper

1349 S. Prairie Circle Deltona, FL 32725 angelapiper28@gmail.com

Hello from sunny Florida! I did visit New Hampshire and Maine this last August when my younger son got married, and it is still as beautiful as I remember. We just returned from a cruise to the Caribbean on Celebrity and have another cruise planned for March, which will include two quilting days at sea while visiting the Caribbean on the other days. I will be one of the instructors for the quilting portion of the cruise. Here is a bit of news that a few of you have sent, but I would like to hear from more of you. Donna and Bruce McAdam enjoy working part time in education with teens. They have recently traveled to Russia, South Africa and Morocco. Last November, they did their third volunteer trip with Global Volunteers, teaching in St Lucia. Summers find them in Scarborough, ME, enjoying the coastal life with their family. It has been 40 years since we have heard from Weston Cook, Jr., who is now in Laurinburg, NC. Since departing UNH, he married, went on active duty with the Army — bringing the family all over the world — spent four years teaching history at West Point and retired as a lieutenant colonel with a doctorate in history from Georgetown. Now he is getting ready to retire from 22 years as a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. I am very short on news lately and would like some old fashioned news from you on email, as I am not on any social media platforms. Remember that we have a 50th reunion coming up, and I expect to hear that some of you in the Durham area will step forward to plan the event. Please contact the alumni office and offer your time and talent to the Class of 1968. ◆

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Jan Harayda

10 North Section St., #105 Fairhope, AL 36532 haraydajan@alumni.unh.edu

John and Diane Wright Foley have appeared in many news stories since their son Jim was kidnapped in Syria in 2012 and later executed, but none has offered a more eloquent overview of their experiences than Lawrence Wright’s “Five Hostages” in the July 6, 2015, issue of The New Yorker. In one poignant scene, the article quotes the Foleys’ parish priest, who rushed to their house after Jim’s death: “Diane came and hugged me and said, ‘Father, please pray for me that I don’t become bitter. I don’t want to hate.’” The article, which you can find online, also mentions Michael Kelly ’79,

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the first American journalist killed in the war in Iraq. Jim Fiore’s name was inadvertently omitted from the list of classmates at our 45th reunion in Durham in June. (Did I miss anyone else? Please let me know.) After the reunion, Jim caught up with Kurt Volherbst ’69 when the UNH football team traveled to the New York state capital and came home with a 24–14 victory over the University at Albany. Actor Laurie Folkes appeared on Showtime’s Nurse Jackie. The best way to learn about his film and TV spots before they air is to follow him on Facebook. We are so sorry that our class has lost several more members. They include Gary Nelson Chamberlin, who spent much of his military career in Europe after taking part in the ROTC program at UNH, and Neil Francis McKeown, who had a long career with the Central Intelligence Agency. Those of us who worked for The New Hampshire mourn the loss of our beloved colleague, former editor-in-chief Jonathan Kellogg. Jon died soon after retiring as executive editor of the Waterbury, CT, Republican-American. He had also been managing editor of Maine’s Portland Press Herald and the northern New England bureau chief for the Associated Press, its youngest bureau chief in history at the time he was hired. You can read more in his “In Memoriam” tribute that starts on p. 78. ◆

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Debbi Martin Fuller

276 River St. Langdon, NH 03602 debbifuller3@gmail.com

Well, since no one has sent me anything, we don’t have a column this time! All I can tell you to keep you entertained is that I went to Germany this December to visit my old Pan Am haunts. I went to Frankfurt with about 50 of my former flying buddies, and we ate at the same restaurant where we used to eat about twice a month for 10-plus years. You can go home! It was exactly the same. The owner looked like he hadn’t aged a day, and he even remembered my order: dry white wine and a schweinshaxe! Tell me of your adventures for the next column! ◆

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Paul R. Bergeron

bergeronpaulr@gmail.com

We were saddened to learn of the loss of Janice L. (Spreadbury) Lovejoy, 65, of Westborough, MA, recently. As a teenager, Janice studied in Spain and graduated from the Universida deNavarra in 1967. When she returned to the United States, she attended UNH, graduating with a BA in secondary education. Janice would later earn her master of education in language arts from Worcester State College, an executive MBA from Anna Marie College, and a master’s in human development and psychology from Harvard University. Janice spent most of her life working as a therapist and counselor, most recently at Island Counseling Center in Worcester, MA. Pauline “Elizabeth” Scarborough, 80, passed away in her home in Mishawaka, IN, last fall after a long battle with cancer. Elizabeth earned her BA in psychology in 1956 from Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, TX, her MA in psychology from UNH in 1966 and her PhD in history of psychology at UNH in 1972.

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She taught at Northern Illinois University, the State University in New York and in 1991 became dean of liberal arts and sciences at Indiana University South Bend and held the position of interim vice chancellor of academia affairs before retirement in 2000. Elizabeth coauthored books with Laurel Furumoto and is particularly remembered for the book “Untold Lives: The First Generation of American Psychologists.” In happier news, Lou Ureneck has been named the 2015 – 16 Eleftherios Venizelos Chair in Modern Greek Studies at the American College of Greece in Athens. The distinction follows his publication of “Smyrna, September 1922,” a book about the American rescue of refugees from the city of Smyrna, Turkey (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2015). Originally released as “The Great Fire” in its hardback edition, it has been renamed in paperback. As holder of the chair, Ureneck will deliver the school's annual Venizelos lecture. Lou lives in Brookline, MA, where he teaches at Boston University ◆

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Joyce Dube Stephens

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

Ruth Zax of Henniker, NH, has retired from Child and Family Services after 40 years. She began working there in 1975 as part of the advocacy team, which is known today as the New Hampshire Children's Lobby. In 1983, Ruth was appointed to the position of director of development. Sadly, obituaries are the only other news for our class: Joseph “Joe” Charles Beland of Durham, NH, spent his career at Liberty Mutual of Portsmouth. He established a summer soccer clinic that provided financial assistance for children in need. Joe also discreetly supported direct-impact charities to help underprivileged children not only during the holidays but throughout the year. Edward William Daley of Pittsfield, MA, taught at Pittsfield High School for 32 years, and in addition to his teaching duties, he served both as the school and district athletic director. He created and oversaw the SIDE, or Students Involved in Drug Education, program. Over the years, Edward taught courses at the former Bishop Memorial Nursing School and chemistry at Berkshire Community College. James M. Duffy of Litchfield, NH, will be remembered for his many years as a guidance counselor at the Gilbert H. Hood Middle School in Derry, NH, and also in Bedford, NH. Jim became an adjunct sociology and psychology instructor at Manchester Community College and Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU), where he was named Adjunct Faculty Member of the Year several times. ◆

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Susan Ackles Alimi

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

Sadly, several classmates passed away recently. Eileen Roderer Corrow taught high school in Vermont. In Madbury, NH, she was active in her community, serving on numerous boards and committees. Eileen was an accomplished artist and a lifelong student of history. Jeffrey Covill was a longtime Phoenix, AZ,

businessman. He loved the ocean and fishing and sailing trips. Enjoying music all his life, Jeff both played and collected guitars. Joan Barbara Laughton graduated from UNH and, later, the University of Alaska. She opened a creative arts studio in Anchorage and later the “Rose Garden Studio” in Maine. Joan is remembered as a loving mother. Theresa L. Pierce was a high school teacher in Lawrence, MA, and Hudson, NH, and the assistant director of the Manchester Skill Center, now the School of Technology. An accomplished textile and interior designer, Theresa enjoyed traveling, entertaining and refurbishing homes with her husband. John Sexton was a business developer at J.F. Sexton Company and worked in business development at DeWolfe and later at Russound, headquartered in Newmarket, NH. Active in his community, John served as the president of Big Brothers Big Sisters. ◆

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Brig. Gen. Carolyn Protzmann recently retired after 36 years with the New Hampshire Air National Guard. — 1977

Gary Pheasant

1099 Lanier Blvd. Atlanta, GA 30306 pheasant@alumni.unh.edu

Brigadier General Carolyn Protzmann, New Hampshire Air National Guard (NHANG) assistant adjutant general, retired after 36 years of service in the Air Force and Air National Guard. As commander of the NHANG, she was responsible for the command, control and operations plans and programs for more than 1,000 personnel located at Pease Air National Guard Base. We salute and thank you, Brig. Gen. Protzmann, for your service to NHANG and our country. Jody Jellison, a plant biologist and pathologist and longtime leader of agricultural research and extension programs, has been named director of the Center for Agriculture, Food and the Environment at UMass Amherst. Jody is a noted research scientist and has published more than 100 reviewed scholarly publications and four patents. She has worked internationally in Japan, Sweden, Chile and Germany. Jody holds a PhD from Oregon State University, with postdoctoral work from Harvard University. Catherine Anne Smith, of Jackson, WY, passed away on Aug. 2, 2015. We send our condolences to her family and friends. Additionally, we just received word of the passing of Bethany Keans, originally of Rochester, NH, on Dec. 18, 2015. After graduating from UNH, Beth lived most of her adult life in Lyndonville, VT. She got her master’s degree in reading education from the University of Vermont. Most of her life was spent working with individuals with developmental disabilities and special needs. For close to 12 years, she was the primary caregiver for a young man with cerebral palsy and autism who lived with her. She devoted her life to him and ensured that he lived a meaningful and fulfilled life. Although she was not his mother legally, in all other ways, she was. She is survived by Martin Keans, Stephany Keans ’80 and Eleftheria Keans, stepmother Sandra Keans, who was a UNH grad, and several nieces and nephews. ◆

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Carol Scagnelli Edmonds

75 Wire Rd. Merrimack, NH 03054 c.edmonds@alumni.unh.edu

Paul Martin died July 2015 at the home of his sister. He received bachelor’s degree in English and psychology and one master’s degree from UNH as well as a second master’s from the University of Chicago. He was employed as an elementary school guidance counselor in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Peter Roberts received his MBA from the Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics. Throughout his career, he has worked in cities from Boston, MA, to London, UK, starting in commercial lending and retiring as a general partner in Longworth Venture Partners. He is currently a venture partner in CommonAngels Ventures, which provides company-building experience to early-stage businesses. Since retiring, he has traveled extensively, gotten a pilot’s license and refurbished historic houses. Dr. Susan Langlois is the new dean of arts and sciences at Rivier University and will oversee academic programming. Prior to joining Rivier, she worked at Marian Court College, Springfield College, Endicott College and Elma College. Her expertise includes program development, institution accreditation and assessment of student learning outcomes. Her career reflects a commitment to the transformational role of the liberal arts in higher education. ◆

Paul College grad Garrett Ilg, senior vice president and head of worldwide enterprise sales and field operations at Adobe Systems, Inc., has been named to the Association for the Advancement of Collegiate Schools of Business’ first “100 AACSB Influential Leaders” list. — 1983

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Anne M. Getchell

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

Kathleen Drew Roth moved to San Diego, CA, shortly after graduation and is currently working as the business support manager at WD-40 in its cycling subsidiary, WD-40 BIKE. Cycling has been her passion since moving to California, so she said it’s great to work in the industry. She married a fellow cycling club member, Dave Roth, and celebrated 20 years of marriage in October 2015. Granite Bank in New Hampshire welcomes Carol Estes as vice president/commercial loan officer in the bank’s Portsmouth office. Please send news; your classmates want to know what you are up to! ◆

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On March 19, U.S. Air Force General Lori Robinson was selected by President Barack Obama as the next head of the U.S. military's Northern Command, which provides command and control of Department of Defense homeland defense efforts and coordinates defense support of civil authorities. The position, which is subject to Senate confirmation, is one of the most senior in the U.S. military and would make Robinson—who now leads U.S. air forces in the Pacific—the top general overseeing activities in North America. Assuming Senate confirmation, Robinson will become the first woman to head a U.S. combatant command. ◆

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Ilene H. Segal, DVM 245 Warren Drive Norfolk, MA 02056 ihsdvm@aol.com

Hello fellow UNHers! This is what’s new: The Association for the Advancement of Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), the global accrediting body for business schools, has recognized our classmate Garrett Ilg as one of the first 100 AACSB Influential Leaders. Garrett graduated from UNH’s Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics. He currently serves as senior vice president and head of worldwide enterprise sales and field operations at Adobe Systems, Inc., where he directs go-to-market initiatives for Adobe’s marketing, creative and document cloud business groups, with a focus on enterprise solutions. Thomas Robinson, president and CEO of AACSB International, said AACSB “is honored to celebrate Ilg as a representation of how business school alumni have positively influenced society, as well as the management education industries past, present and promising future.” Congratulations Garrett! Michael Hunter emailed me with an update. Michael and his wife Karen Klick met at UNH in 1981 and married in 1991. Karen was employed in human services as a case manager and as a consultant while raising their children. She currently works for Dream Dinners and belongs to the Women’s Caucus for Art and the Craftworkers Guild. Michael worked for Austin Gordon Design and then started his own firm, Kinotec, Inc., where he provided machine design consulting for many years. He now owns H6 Systems, Inc., and designs high-power transmitters for the Army and Navy. He was awarded a patent for a high speed O-ring inserter. He also published his first novel, “Earth Unraveled,” under the pseudonym Rath Dalton. Karen and Michael live in Bedford with their two sons.Virginia Cammerer Baron Murphy passed away on May 14, 2015. Virginia worked as a systems programmer for Beneficial Corporation in Peapack, NJ, for 20 years, retiring in 2003 to spend more time with her son. She volunteered at the Chester Food Bank in Chester, NJ, for many years and treasured all the friendships she made during that time. Upon moving to Durham, CT, in 2013, she became a congregant of Notre Dame Parish and served as a Eucharistic minister. Virginia leaves her husband Bill, her son Chris, and many relatives and friends who will miss her. We extend our condolences to her family. ◆

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Robin Schell

5 Ashley Drive Amesbury, MA 01913 rschell@jjwpr.com

It was fun to be up at Homecoming this year and be a part of the Butterfield/Kerkhoff tailgate in October. In addition to attracting many from the UNH Class of 2016 — my son Tucker and all his friends — we got to visit with a whole bunch of UNHers from the class of ’82: Tom Torr and his wife Lisa, Dana Rosengard and Paul Mitchell to name a few. I finally caught up with UNH ’84 classmate Sara (Melick) Donahue, who also happens to be a classmate from Needham High School ’80. She and husband Kevin live in Franklin, MA. Sara is a dental assistant at the private practice of Donald McLellan in Westwood,

LEFT: © BJORN BAUER / BELOW: DYLAN HAGEN

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Making Meier Skis BY TRACEY BENTLEY

aze across the American West today and you’ll likely see the results of a two-decades long insult to the landscape: jagged gray forests of tree trunks. They’re all that’s left of the iconic pines that covered the mountains before a voracious insect destroyed some 60 million acres of forests from New Mexico to British Columbia. When the pine beetle embarked on its destructive march through the Rockies in 1996, Ted Eynon ’85 was working for an energy services consulting firm out of Houston. Twenty years and a bunch of career success later, he’s the co-owner of one of North America’s fastest-growing craft ski companies, Meier Skis, and he’s turning some of those downed forests into downhill gold. In Glenwood Springs, Colo., Eynon and the Meier Skis team use beetle-kill pine, along with locally sourced aspen, to turn out handmade skis and snowboards, essentially recycling a resource that otherwise might not have been put to use while keeping materials and production local. It’s an eco-friendly approach that’s at the heart of the company’s mission. “The closer you can keep materials to the source of production, the more sustainable it is,” says Eynon, who, as UNH student body vice president spearheaded the effort to start a campus shuttle service that, in the years since he graduated, has grown into the Wildcat Transit system. With high-grade aspen at their core, Meier skis have a lot of spring and flex, while also being “super strong, super bomber,” Eynon says. Rather than toxic lacquers, Meier applies only a clear topsheet to its skis, letting the natural wood and workmanship show through. “It’s amazing how many people are drawn to our skis because of their beauty,” he says. The company has won awards from Freeskier Magazine and Skiing Magazine.

ColoradoBiz Magazine recently named Meier Skis as one of the state’s top manufacturers, and at its Snow Show in 2013, SnowSports Industries honored the company for “promoting sustainable treatment of beetle-kill wood in the western U.S.” Eynon runs the company, and on any given day the business administration and economics major touches every aspect of it — from finance, customer service, marketing and production to design and research and development. He says growing a software business from scratch was the professional grist for his current adventure. Before Meier, he co-owned MapFrame, a software company that made mobile-based field automation mapping software used by 22 of the 25 largest utilities in North America. GE acquired MapFrame in 2008, but by then Eynon had mastered “the blocking and tackling of growing a business systematically … finding out what your customers want and crafting a product that meets their needs.” He went on to head up sales for GE’s global utility and communications software portfolio, traveling around the world and back several times before setting his sights on something closer to home. To Meier, he brings deep business experience and a longstanding love of the sport. He grew up skiing at Mittersal and Cannon, where his father, Stuart Eynon ’49, was a ski instructor for four decades. (At 93, his father still skis, but today he wears Meier Skis.) Eynon says a common theme among Meier devotees is passion. “They catch the first chair, and whether they’re hucking off 40 foot cliffs or spending all day on the blues, they do it with a big smile on their face. That’s our customer base.” ² Spring 2016

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MA. Her twins Emily and Kyle graduated from UNH in 2015, Emily with a nursing degree and Kyle with a major in sports management. Her other son, Troy, is a junior majoring in biology at Villanova. Continuing with the Needham theme. I spoke with Anne O’Neill Garceau, also a Needham High graduate, who is now living in Washington, DC. Her husband Gary is on the Federal Reserve Board, and she has a son, Max, who graduated from Berklee College of Music and is pursuing a music career in Nashville, TN. Her daughter Danielle graduated from Stonehill College and is currently getting her PhD in plant biology at the University of California, Riverside. I recently heard from Kathleen Laplante, who just published her first book, a memoir called “Unraveling My Father’s Suicide.” Her father took his life on her 21st birthday while she was attending UNH. The book is a candid account of her struggles and eventual attainment of peace through her faith journey. The book is available via Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Sadly, Brian Burns passed away on March 30, 2015, and leaves behind his wife Ellen and children Caitlin, Brendan and Christopher. Gifts in his memory can be made to the American Heart Association via honor.americanheart.org/goto/brianpburns. Please send your news to me. ◆

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Keryn Bernard-Kriegl ’89 I became executive director at the NH Children’s Trust, and serve on the Prevent Child Abuse America Chapter Network Executive Council.

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Adam W. Barrett ’89 An excellent liberal arts education ultimately launched my career in legal education.

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Happy New Year 2016 — hard to believe, but even harder to believe is that this marks 30 years since our graduation! Kudos to Vicki J. Gordon, MBA, on her promotion to senior vice president and chief internal auditor at Unum Group. She has had a varied career with Unum that spans more than three decades. Congratulations are also in order for Rich Ashooh, who spent six months as interim director for the Warren B. Rudman Center for Justice, Leadership and Public Policy at the UNH Law School. He was working at BAE Systems as director of strategy and planning before taking this new role. The Rudman Center opened in 2013. Kevin M. Cuff has been appointed by Gov. Charlie Baker to be deputy commissioner of banks for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In September 2015, Roberta “Bobbi” Kyle was promoted to associate vice president for continuing education and dean of graduate studies at Worcester State University. She joined Worcester State University in 2008 as associate dean of graduate and continuing education. She lives in Worcester with her 11-year-old daughter Lilly, who was adopted from Nepal in 2005. ◆

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Greetings everyone! I hope 2016 has started off well for you all. In some news from our classmates, George Alley has recently been appointed as the executive director of Thermal Belt Outreach Ministry in Columbus, NC. Previously, George had been the owner and CEO of Foothills Crawlspace, a business he recently sold. Theresa Hand has recently been named

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as the dean of the School of Health Sciences at the Sage Colleges in Albany, NY. Theresa joined the faculty there in 1993 as a clinical instructor in the occupational therapy program and became chair of the program in 2008 and program director in 2010. The Securities and Exchange Commission recently announced that William Royer has been named the new head of the examination program in the Atlanta region, as associate director. He joined the SEC in 2013 as an assistant director in the Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations, Office of Chief Counsel. Brian Kowalski of Moorestown, NJ, has recently been named interim associate general counsel at Stockton University. He previously was a partner in the business department of Capehart & Scatchard in Mount Laurel, NJ. Sadly, in other news, James Warren, formerly of Claremont, NH, and most recently of Nashua, passed away last summer. He had been a software engineer at TYKO in Massachusetts and is survived by his life partner, Dorothy, and his two sons. That is all the news I have for now. Please send me any updates you have. I would love to hear from you! ◆

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Beth D. Simpson-Robie

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

Happy New Year 2016! Beth Rumson Witham and her husband Leon of 28 years live in Connecticut. They have two sons, 22 and 16. Beth is an accountant by trade; however, she does a great deal of work with the nonprofit Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR). She is a regent at her local chapter and state chapter and also has a national assignment. Beth has received numerous awards for her work from the state and national DAR. Through her extensive genealogy work, Beth learned that she has descendants from both the Pilgrims and the American Revolution. She is often willing to help others with their family tree. Karen DiConza Andreas has been named the national advisory board for the Poynter Institute, a global leader in journalism education and a strategy center that stands for uncompromising excellence in journalism, media and 21st-century public discourse. She is the regional publisher for North of Boston Media Group, which publishes four daily newspapers, four weekly newspapers and eight community magazines in Massachusetts and Southern New Hampshire. She was named the 2014 Publisher of the Year by Editor & Publisher, the industry’s leading trade publication and was also recognized with the AntiDefamation League’s 2014 Leadership Award and the prestigious Judith Brown Award from the New England Society of Newspaper Editors. The Judith Brown award “recognizes the accomplishments and pioneering spirit of an outstanding woman in journalism from the six-state region.” Christine Martin has been named assistant superintendent for elementary education in Manchester. Christine will focus on curriculum and programs for the students attending kindergarten through fifth grade. Most recently, she was the Webster Elementary School principal. She began her career in education in 1988 as music teacher and chorale director at what was then Hillsdale Junior High School. The alumni office sends word of the death of Mary Rae Sirois in June 2015 at

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Colonial Poplin Rehabilitation Center in Fremont, NH. She suffered for many years with a debilitating disease before her passing. Mary Rae was a social worker for the Division of Social Services in Lowell, MA, for many years prior to her retirement. A memorable quote in her obit from The Eagle Tribune of Lawrence, MA, reads, “If wealth is measured by the love, support and friendship of others, then Mary-Rae was truly a rich person and will be missed and remembered by many.” ◆

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Christina Ayers Quinlan

2316 Beauport Dr. Naperville, IL 60564 c.a.quinlan@alumni.unh.edu

East Carolina University theatre professor Gregory Funaro’s latest novel, “Alistair Grim’s Odd Aquaticum,” the second book in tDisney-Hyperion’s Odditorium series, was published in January. His first children’s novel, “Alistair Grim’s Odditorium,” was published by Disney-Hyperion in January 2015. Kimberley A. Niles was elected to the board of directors of Katahdin Bankshares Corporation in October 2015. Kimberley is the managing director and chief financial officer for Constant Energy Capital Management, an investment capital management company in Portland, ME, and is founder and consultant for VC CFO Services, LLC, a financial consulting firm in Scarborough, ME, that provides interim chief financial officer services for companies as well as financial support services for start-up opportunities and venture firms. Kristian Svindland is still living in Laconia, NH, and running his business, HROplus. He is also the general manager of the Winnipesaukee Muskrats of the New England Collegiate Baseball League, a summer woodbat league. The Muskrats play their games at Robbie Mills Park in Laconia, June through mid-August.◆

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Michael Opal

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

Congratulations to Dan Somma, who has recently been appointed Coast Guard commander managing safety, security and environmental protection missions for a four-state region around Lake Michigan. Before this latest assignment, he was part of a Coast Guard team that won the Department of Homeland Security Secretary’s Award for Exceptional Service. They prepared a ship for the Syrian chemical weapons destruction, and by using this ship, the U.S. avoided ground involvement in Syria and saved significant taxpayer dollars.◆

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seven years as a natural resources extension specialist for the UNH Cooperative Extension. Carol Moore-Whitney, who earned her BSN at UNH, is the new full-time lactation consultant at Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital, where she has worked as a nurse for 29 years. Carol and her family live in East Burke, VT. Congratulations to Ann Marie, David and Carol, and best wishes in your new positions! On a sad note, we learned that Donna J. Cronin of East Kingston, NH, died on Oct. 17, 2014, at the age of 69. She is survived by her husband, two daughters, three siblings and several nieces and nephews.◆

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Dan Somma @dan_somma 9 Dec 2015 Proud to be a part of the LCS-5 Commissioning ceremony. USS Milwaukee, fair winds and following seas

Michael Walsh

607 Atwood Drive Downingtown, PA, 19533 michaelwalsh@alumni.unh.edu

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Lauralee Jarvis Rausch was recently promoted to executive in charge of production at Renegade 83, which produces the television show “Naked & Afraid.” Lauralee’s current project is “Fit to Fat to Fit,” which premiered January 2016 on A&E. Please send me your news. ◆

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Bobby Graham

bobby_graham@condenast.com

Class of 1997, 2016 is going to be the year for us all to reconnect. Please keep sending me your updates — jobs, friends, family, kids, travels, pictures and anything else you want to share. I’ve heard from a few of you, so here goes. Kim Bechtold Baena is living in Austin, TX, with her husband and four children. Dave Emanuel was named Durham, NH, assistant fire chief in 2015. Emanuel started his fire service experience in the Stratham Fire Explorer program in 1986 and joined the Durham Fire Department as a call firefighter in 1991 while a student at UNH. He received a BS in business administration and civil engineering and became a career firefighter in 1997. He resides in Stratham with his wife and three children. Scott Mahoney was appointed to the positions of interim president, CEO and CFO for Jayhawk Energy, Inc. on Oct. 1, 2015. He began his career in oil and gas working for XOG Operating, LLC

Dave Emanuel ’97 was named the Durham fire department’s assistant fire chief last year. (Check out the Wildcat decal on the back of his truck!) — 1997

Tammy Ross

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

Ann Marie French of Johnson City, TN, has been promoted to director of strategy for The Corporate Image (TCI), an integrated communications firm headquartered in Bristol, TN. David Falkenham has become the first-ever forest manager at Paul Smith's College in upstate New York. Previously, David spent

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California weddings! At left, Kate Tracy ’05 and Taylor Tracey ’05 were married on the July 4 in Sebastapol, Calif. At right, Kasey Dutra ’05 married Duncan Ley Memorial Day weekend in San Francisco. Congrats, ’Cats!

The University of New Hampshire has purchased the ATO fraternity house at 66 Main Street. Prior to the transfer of ownership, thirty members held a reunion on the lawn of their historic building. The brothers represented members from the classes of 1960 to 1967. In addition, they were joined by guests from Chi O, Alpha Xi and Alpha Chi. Dick Lamontagne and Bill Bowley played music from the 60's, and Walt Ayre’s 1964 Mustang convertible was on display. Sadly, the house has now been demolished to make way for future use. That means the front porch can no longer be a venue for watching freshmen girls as they walk by on their way to Town & Campus.

▼ Not to be outdone, a group of Chi O’s from the late 70s and early 80s gathered at the house of Gene Allen Miller ’78. From left: Dana Burney Swist’ 78, Pam Dey ’ 81, Gene Miller ’78, Megan Dignan Garnsey ’79, Diane Otis Keleher ’80 and Debbie Rogers Pratt ’79.

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less “recovered” English major than he’d like to think, Lord wrote about his experiences for PARMA’s blog: It was an incredibly exciting and energizing experience indeed to hear the Cuban musicians perform and record not only what was on the page but what was in their heads, hands and hearts as well. What I heard during my week in the studios and concert halls was a true collaboration, the real idea of musical and artistic interaction, in which composition and composer and performer and team come together to create something fresh and beautiful…. Music is music and musicians are musicians, we all speak the same language and delight in the same things at our core — the smiles and the laughs are the same whether you are in Portsmouth or New York or Havana or Moscow or Prague. Lord will be returning to Havana for another round of recordings this year, and the work that came out of the November trip will be released soon. To learn more about Lord’s work, visit parmarecordings.com

and Geronimo Holding Corporation in Midland, TX. Prior to this, he spent 13 years in corporate and investment banking with JP Morgan Chase, Key Bank, Wells Fargo and ING. Scott is a CFA and also holds an International MBA from Thunderbird, Class of 2000. Betsy Stewart Melevsky lives in Scarborough, ME, with two children: Hope, age 8, and Peter, age 5. She has been teaching kindergarten for 10 years in Yarmouth, ME. As for me, I’ve been living in New York City for last 18 years. I’m the advertising director, international fashion for GQ (parent company Conde Nast) and was named GQ’s Sales Person of the Year for 2015. ◆

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Hello members of the class of 1998. Dr Lisa Hilpl has joined Dr David Ward’s practice in Woonsocket, VT, as a dental associate. She received her DMD at Tufts School of Dental Medicine and her BS from the Peter T. Paul School of Business and Economics. Her career to date has included consulting for healthcare facilities and hospitals throughout New England. In 2009 she won the National Marketing Web Award for her work in communications with the development of an online educational media site. She is a member of the American Dental Association and a volunteer for the Dartmouth Hitchcock Hospital Cheshire Smiles dental care program. Kris Tucker also has a new job. The Lake County Board of Commissioners selected him to be county administrator. At UNH he studied government science, environmental

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science, tech writing and cultural anthropology. Before taking this position, he worked in the fields of finance, real estate and environmental protection. Congrats to our classmates starting new positions. Please send me news about what is going on in your life! ◆

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Hello fellow alumni! I have a request for you. Are you on Facebook? If so, please consider joining our UNH Class of 2001 Alumni page. Right now there are only 173 members, which is too few! Congratulations to Shannon Nolan, Hunking School’s new principal. Shannon assumes her new role at the Haverhill, MA, school after spending years teaching both regular and special education in the Triton Regional School District. She also has experience in the district’s behavioral program and as a data coach, and she was most recently the assistant principal for Salisbury Elementary School. Mary Morin Carlin was diagnosed with Stage 1 breast cancer in 2015, but the former Miss New Hampshire found a way to use her story to inspire other women. She started an online community called “Fighting Fabulously” with former contestant Shanna ClarkePinet. Mary also organized several events during the month of October, which is Breast Cancer Awareness month, including a Pink & Beautiful fundraising event and a breast cancer walk. We wish Mary the very best and applaud her efforts to reach out to other patients! Kristy Gross Moloney and husband Ronan recently

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ob Lord ’99 describes himself as a “recovering English major,” but he’s also a producer, composer, bassist — and the chief executive officer of Hampton, N.H.-based PARMA Recordings LLC. Lord launched PARMA more than seven years ago, in 2008, to provide a new outlet for contemporary classical, jazz and experimental music in New England. The company today serves as a parent to five labels and releases an average of six to eight recordings each month — primarily orchestral, chamber, choral or commercial. Named one of Musical America’s 2015 top-30 “key influencers,” Lord says he favors forward-thinking composers who “smash the walls of genre and create ground-breaking new sounds while keeping one foot firmly rooted in tradition.” A bit of a groundbreaker himself, last November, he traveled to Cuba with a number of composers to record their works with Cuban musicians — less than a year after President Obama loosened restrictions governing travel to that country that have been in place since the 1960 trade embargo. Perhaps a

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the wedding, we moved to Peachtree City, GA. We also welcomed our son, Ryu Okamoto, on August 26, 2014.” Congratulations, Danielle! ◆

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We have many births to celebrate this season. Lisa Paul Retey and her husband Paul welcomed their first son, Kal Thomas, on May 16, 2015. Kal joins his three older sisters Chloe, Lily and Abby. Jenna McLean Cecot and her husband Josh welcomed their daughter, Ella Betty, on Sept. 14, 2015. Their son Bennett is enjoying his new role as big brother. Neil Richardson and his wife Kristen have also added to their family. Abigail Michele, born on Nov. 3, 2015, joins big brother Owen. Starting their family, Kara Townley Barbera and husband Tommy welcomed a daughter, Avellina Jean. Congrats to all the parents and older siblings! In career news, John P. Rancourt has been promoted to Staff II at the accounting and professional services firm Tyler, Simms & St. Sauveur, CPAs, P.C. He has been working with the firm since 2013. Congratulations on the promotion! ◆

Jessica Erickson married Bryan Spadt in February 2015 at St. Matthew Roman Catholic Church in Conshohocken, PA. Jessica is an environmental engineer with AECOM, and Bryan is a mechanical engineer with Boeing. They live in Conshohocken and honeymooned in Aruba. Nicholas Thede is an insurance recovery litigator with Ball Janik, which is a law firm with headquarters in Portland, OR. Nicholas has previously worked at an insurance coverage law firm in Portland, as a litigation associate and as an intellectual property attorney. And now, some sad news: Deborah Zarembo passed away in August 2015 at the age of 61 after a long battle with early onset dementia. She lived in Madbury, NH, was a certified public accountant and worked as tax director for Heidelberg-Harris and the University System of New Hampshire. She was also active in her church choir, on town boards in Madbury and in soil and water conservation. ◆

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Kasey Dutra married Duncan Ley during Memorial Day Weekend 2015 at the General's Residence in San Francisco, CA. Taylor Tracy and Kate Berlin Tracy tied the knot on the Fourth of July in Sebastapol, CA. Be sure to check out the photos of both happy couples on p. 72. ◆

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Danielle (Ferrara) Okamoto writes, “I married Kazu Okamoto ’13G on July 29, 2013, in Las Galeras, Dominican Republic, in a small ceremony on the beach followed by a week of adventure activities. Weeks after

wapnil Bhatia ’10G, a research engineering professor at Boston University, is part of a team recently rewarded a $10 million grant by the National Science Foundation for their synthetic biology research. The so-called Living Computing Project aims to create a toolbox of carefully measured and

catalogued biological parts that can be used to engineer organisms with predictable results. These parts will allow the synthetic biology field as a whole — a discipline that takes snippets of DNA and combines them in novel ways to produce defined behavioral characteristics in organisms — to better understand

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Hey Class of 2008ers! I hope you’re all doing well and following your passions wherever they may lead. Things on my end have been rather exciting: I’ve been moving around with my girlfriend, raising my first puppy — first pup as an adult, I mean — starting my own online business and really diving into the world of entrepreneurship. I’ve traveled extensively this year, and I’ve been fortunate to make close connections with people from all over the world. Let’s see what you’ve all been up to! Cailin Mateleska is currently the 2016 artist-in-residence fellow for Boston-based nonprofit, Arts Bridge Inc. Her fellowship will bring her to the Middle East for six months in an effort to connect Israeli and Palestinian teens together through art. A big congratulations to Brittany (Mulla) McGovern, who married Stephen McGovern on Aug.

what computing principles can be applied repeatedly and reliably to its work. At UNH, Bhatia earned his PhD in computer science, working with professor Radim Bartos on a range of research subjects in the broad area of computer networks and data communications. After UNH, he spent a postdoctoral

year at California’s Palo Alto Research Center, where he shifted the focus of his research to computational aspects of synthetic biology. The BU Living Computing Project team, comprising four BU researchers including Bhatia, will partner with colleagues at MIT over the course of the five-year grant.

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Crystal Tully ’06 I’m serving as policy advisor/counsel to the Chairman of the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, Innovation and the Internet. The hands-on experience I gained at UNH helped me land my first job in Washington that has since led me to a successful career in telecommunications law and public policy.

Mary Boggis ’08 After graduation, I spent a year in Boston working for a non-profit called Bottom Line as a college counselor. I am now back at UNH at the University Advising and Career Center, working as an academic adviser for first- and second-year undeclared students in the College of Liberal Arts.

15, 2015, in New Orleans, LA. Brittany is the executive director for the French Quarter Business Association, which assists in the development and success of business in the French Quarter while protecting the integrity of the historic and cultural district. Congratulations are also in order for Jim Sachetta and Lauren Finnigan (now Sachetta!) who were married on Sept. 5, 2015, in Goshen, VT. The two lovebirds met during their senior year at UNH and have been together ever since! Jim and Lauren are both currently living and working in Boston, MA, and are on the hunt for a new house. Keep the congratulations going for Sarah Bassett and Levi Theriault ’09, who were married on Sept. 12, 2015, at The Grandview Ballroom in Somersworth, NH, with several UNH alumni in attendance. And finally, one more: Congratulations to Lauren Melby and Zachary Gersonn-Nieder, who were married on May 24, 2015, in a ceremony at Longlook Farm in Sanbornton, NH. The couple honeymooned in Quebec City and currently live in Cambridge, MA. Lots of exciting news from the Class of 2008, and I am excited to hear more! Whether you’ve recently gotten married, changed jobs or purchased a one-way ticket to a faraway land, we want to hear about it! Whatever it is — no matter how big or small — it’s always exciting for us to see what you’re up to. Shoot me an email at apo2@alumni.unh.edu, and I’ll feature you in the next Class Notes! Be well, stay happy and take care of yourself. ◆

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Congratulations to Jordan Anderson and Hannah (O’Rourke) Anderson who were married on Sept. 9, 2015, at the Three Chimneys Inn in Durham, NH. They were joined by many UNH alumni to help celebrate! Jordan and Hannah currently reside in Dover, NH, with their dog, Brady. Please keep sending your updates as we love to hear what you are all up to! ◆

2012 | Dan Bourque ’14 I’m working as a project engineer for Tishman Construction Corporation, a large construction company (part of AECOM, a Fortune 500 company) in Boston, but I will be leaving for basic training soon with the Army National Guard.

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Adam Dipippo, a graduate of the UNH Manchester biological science program, was recently hired as an oncology pharmacy resident at the prestigious University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, TX. Adam and his wife Victoria are both UNH Manchester graduates and were very active on campus. Adam went on to earn a doctorate in pharmacology from MPCHS University-Manchester, formerly known as the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. ◆

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bright shall thy mem’ry be Marion James ’40 Inspiring professor, intrepid traveler and art collector

rofessor Marion James’s teaching specialty was the history of ancient Greece and Rome, but her scholarly interests spanned the centuries to modern times. After earning both an MA and a PhD from Radcliffe College, she taught at Wheaton College before accepting a position in the history department her alma mater. Recognizing early on that the world was changing in dramatic ways, she encouraged UNH’s history faculty to move toward a more global approach that focused not just on Europe and North America but also included Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Oceania, says her former colleague, emeritus history professor Douglas L. Wheeler. “Some faculty in the department resisted this change,” says Wheeler. James quietly but firmly persisted, and World History soon became part of the UNH history curriculum. James served on many department and university committees, and as chair of the history department in the 1960s. She is thought to have been the first woman to chair a department in the College of Liberal Arts. James was instrumental in starting an honors program at UNH and considered its establishment one of her proudest accomplishments. As a teacher James was organized, demanding, and inspiring says Mary Moore ’62. “There was always a detailed outline on the board. That was good because she lectured so quickly that your fingers were numb at the end of class.” James’s courses encouraged Moore to earn her own PhD in Greek and Roman archeology and the two women kept in touch over the years. A fearless traveler at a time when it was unusual for women to venture alone to far-flung places, James visited Egypt, Syria, Iran, India and Afghanistan, beginning in the 1960s. “Marion traveled through the Khyber Pass on a bus by herself,” Moore recalls, “and across Russia on the Trans-Siberian Railway.” As she explored the world, James amassed an impressive art collection, which she enjoyed discussing at the popular dinner parties she hosted in her Durham home. When she retired in 1986 after 30 years, she was one of UNH’s first female faculty members to have achieved the rank of full professor. In retirement James devoted herself to her many interests, including a continuing role at UNH. She served on the University System of New Hampshire Board of Trustees, and as a board member and eventual president of the University Art Gallery (now the UNH Museum of Art).

James died on Sept. 21, 2015, at age 97, bequeathing her extensive art collection to the UNH Museum of Art. The only child of the late UNH chemistry professor Charles James, for whom James Hall is named, Marion never married and had no children. For several summers she enjoyed visits from a cousin from England. With his passing many years ago, it is believed she left no survivors. ² Ralph B. “Tim” Craig, Jr. ’54 Gifted in both music and sports, he was also the consummate gentleman.

im Craig’s degree in mechanical engineering served him well when he joined the Army after graduation and invented an innovative way to repair broken tank tracks in the field. After leaving the military, he brought his skills to General Electric before joining Craig Supply Co, Inc., his family’s business. Under his leadership the company grew to be the largest laundry and dry cleaning equipment wholesaler in New England. Tim worked hard at his business, and always with integrity. His daughter Amy’90 remembers that her father “always tried to live by the Golden Rule and treat people with respect, and he taught his children to do the same.” With his first wife, Merle, Craig raised daughters Leslie Craig Hartley and Amy and son Steve. He helped his second wife, Ginger, raise her sons, Scott and Alex, and delighted in his 10 grandchildren. Interested in music and sports throughout his life, in prep school at Mt. Hermon Craig sang in a choral group. “He had a beautiful tenor voice and was very popular,” says his sister Susan Craig Hastings ’58. “I went through the women’s division of Mt. Hermon known as ’Tim Craig’s sister.’ He was a wonderful dancer and all my friends wanted to dance with him.” At UNH Craig was a member of the Salamanders, an all-male octet that sang at other colleges and for UNH alumni clubs. He was also an All-American lacrosse player — who impressed teammate Kent Keith ’55 with his ability. “Most of us didn’t know what a lacrosse stick was until we came to UNH,” Keith says. A talented tennis player, Craig later coached local players and continued to play spirited matches near his home in Hilton Head, South Carolina, after he and Ginger retired. The Craig family have long been ardent supporters of UNH, beginning with Tim’s father, Ralph B. “Sam” Craig, Sr., who established the Craig Family Scholarship awarded annually to a scholar-athlete. Tim helped found Friends of UNH Hockey, and took a special interest

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Faculty and Staff Barbara A. Arrington, former dean, College of Health and Human Services Aug. 29, 2015, Durham, N.H. Changsheng Li, research professor UNH Institute for Earth, Oceans and Space Oct. 18, 2015, Lee, N.H. Calvin R. Massey, Daniel Webster Distinguished Professor, UNH Law Sept. 23, 2015, Concord, N.H. Neil B. Vroman, associate dean, College of Health and Human Services Jan. 6, 2015, Dover, N.H. Robert M. Zsigray,emeritus professor of microbiology Feb. 1, 2016, Barrington, N.H.

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John J. Callaghan ’42 Sept. 19, 2015, Moody, Maine

N. Elizabeth Newell Evans ’46 Oct. 22, 2015, Lexington, Va.

Max L. Jenness ’49 Dec. 6, 2015, Meredith, N.H.

Joseph J. Loch ’51 Nov. 30, 2015, Exeter, N.H.

Dennis J. Comolli ’54 Aug. 29, 2015, Dover, N.H.

Virginia Hough ’42 July 21, 2015, Lebanon, N.H.

John C. Gavin ’46 April 10, 2015, Glastonbeury, Conn.

Lawrence Kapiloff ’49 Oct. 14, 2015, Keene, N.H.

George Metalious ’51, ’61G Dec. 31, 2015, Rye, N.H.

Ralph B. Craig, Jr. ’54, ’59G Dec. 8, 2015, Hilton Head, S.C.

Ellsworth F. Whitaker ’42 Jan. 9, 2015, Reading, Mass.

Gerald D. Gordon ’46 Oct. 26, 2015, Falls Church, Va.

John R. McAuliffe ’49 Nov. 19, 2015, Gilford, N.H.

Mary Anne Hearn Moosher ’51 Sept. 7, 2015, Vero Beach, Fla.

David W. Fraser ’54 Sept. 10, 2015, Chatham, Mass.

Wesley E. Boles Jr. ’43 Aug. 20, 2015, Mobile, Ala.

Roberta Shine Kunin ’46 Nov. 9, 2015, Madison, Wis.

Ann Dalton Murray ’49 Jan. 14, 2016, Salt Lake City, Utah

Robert I. Travis ’51 Nov. 4, 2015, Chester, N.H.

Ellen Quinn Hylen ’54 Sept. 14, 2015, Needham, Mass.

James T. Demopoulos ’43 Nov. 14, 2015, Dover, N.H.

Richard I. Stark ’46 Sept. 22, 2015, Brunswick, Maine

Victor E. Taylor ’49 Sept. 27, 2015, West Warwick, RI

Theofolus P. Tsacoumis ’51 Dec. 1, 2015, Washington, DC

Bradford S. Sterl ’54 Nov. 6, 2015, Ogunquit, Maine

Chester P. Kulesza ’43 June 1, 2015, Newport, N.H.

Jane Elgar Englert ’47 Aug. 4, 2015, Carmel, Ind.

Richard E. Welsh ’51 Dec. 17, 2015, Kensington, N.H.

William H. Sweet ’54 Oct. 21, 2015, Enfield, N.H.

John D. Marr Jr. ’43 Jan. 17, 2016, Newark, Del.

Arianna Whittemore Lynch ’47 July 20, 2015, Dorset, Vt.

Anthony N. Bahros ’52, ’59G Dec. 14, 2015, Norwell, Mass.

Robert S. Chase, Ret. ’55 Aug. 11, 2015, Orange Park, Fla.

Edna Tolchinsky Ray ’43 Sept. 26, 2015, Pikesville, Md.

Leon B. Stevens ’47 July 30, 2015, Tucson, Ariz.

Herbert R. J. Dickson ’52G Oct. 14, 2015, Burlington, Vt.

Nancy Bartlett Miller ’55 Nov. 17, 2015, Swampscott, Mass.

John F. Stowell ’43 Sept. 1, 2015 Sterling, Ill.

John K. Bryan, Jr. ’48 Dec. 8, 2015, The Villages, Fla.

C. Richard Egbert ’52 Oct. 25, 2015, Harwichport, Mass.

Harold M. Wakefield ’55G Dec. 3, 2015, Frederick, Md.

Glenys Morse Foss ’44 Oct. 28, 2015, Damariscotta, Maine

Phyllis Carroll Clark ’48 Sept. 15, 2015, East Washington, N.H.

Philip J. Ganem ’52 Dec. 4, 2015, Wolfeboro, N.H.

Robert C. Wyman ’55 Oct. 18, 2015, Falmouth, Mass.

Roger W. Hetherman ’52 Nov. 2, 2015, Keene, N.H.

Janice Rand Tucker ’56 Nov. 23, 2015, Arlington, Tex.

Barbara Janetos Johansen ’52 Jan. 20, 2016, Nashua, N.H.

Ann Donovan Ury ’56 Dec. 29, 2015, Portsmouth, N.H.

Edith Swindlehurst Rumrill ’52 Sept. 13, 2015, Warner, N.H.

Elizabeth Johnson McDermith ’56 Aug. 6, 2015, Denmark, Maine

Alice MacDonald Hafner ’44 Oct. 18, 2015, Danville, Vt.

Doris Paradis Hayden ’30, ’33G Oct. 29, 2015, Dover, N.H.

Philip E. Lord ’44 Aug. 9, 2015, Waltham, Mass.

Madelyn Tobin Ahlgren ’36 Sept. 30, 2015, Manchester, N.H.

Joan Smith Oakman ’44 Nov. 16, 2015, Concord, N.H.

Geraldine McIninch Hall ’37 Nov. 16, 2015, Concord, N.H.

R. Anita Chase Towle ’44 Aug. 21, 2015, Camden Wyoming, Del.

June Flanders Cote ’38 Aug. 20, 2015, Middleton, Wis.

Toshiko Baba Yoneji ’44 Aug. 1, 2015, Denver, Colo.

Robert S. Fellows ’38 Nov. 7, 2015, Peterborough, N.H.

Margaret Howe Adams ’44 Sept. 3, 2015, Athol, Mass.

O. Louis Rossi ’38 Dec. 23, 2015, La Varne, Calif.

Edith Wright Millar ’44 Oct. 16, 2015, Brunswick, Maine

Elizabeth Adams Hurley ’39, ’40G Dec. 18, 2015, Wilton, N.H.

Mildred Johnson Bean ’45 Aug. 31, 2015, Center Harbor, N.H.

Barbara Hubbard Chase ’39 Dec. 12, 2015. New Hampton, N.H.

Elizabeth Knowlton Daggett ’45 July 28, 2015, Washburn, Maine

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William R. Kimberling ’45 Jan. 18, 2016, Charleston, W. Va.

Nelson A. Bennett ’40 Jan. 30, 2016, Yakima, Wash.

Sylvia Graham Merfeld ’45 Nov. 1, 2015, Boston, Mass.

Marion E. James ’40 Sept. 21, 2015, Portsmouth, N.H.

Ralph K. Curtis ’45 Oct. 12, 2015, Newfoundland, Penn.

Gordon P. Woolner, ’40 Jan. 19, 2016, Bradenton, Fla.

Niles A. Peterson, Jr. ’45 Dec. 26, 2015, Falmouth, Mass.

Alden E. Fox ’41 Oct. 28, 2015, Dracut, Mass.

Homer H. Hamlin, Jr. ’48 Sept. 13, 2015, Dover, N.H. Barbara Lohn Joslin,’48 Aug. 28, 2015, Charleston, S.C. Sheldon Prescott,’48 Oct. 4, 2015, Durham, N.H. Donald F. Robinson ’48 Dec. 27, 2015, Exeter, N.H. James E. Steele ’48 Nov. 13, 2015, Kennebunkport, Maine William A. Ruel, ’48 Oct. 1, 2015, Portsmouth, N.H. Constance Linnell Ambrose ’49 Dec. 13, 2015, Northwood, N.H. Mildred Burns Chesley ’49 Jan. 6, 2016, Stockton, Calif. Clayton E. Conn ’48, ’49G June 29, 2015, Lynnfield, Mass. Norman R. Ellis ’49 Dec. 19, 2015, Clearwater, Fla. Claire Rouillard Gorman ’49 Sept. 30, 2015, Claremontl, N.H. Robert B. Harris ’49 Dec. 6, 2015, Peterborough, N.H. Vernon L. Ingraham ’49 Aug. 12, 2015, Wareham, Mass.

Genevieve Clark ’46 Aug. 10, 2015, Brunswick, Maine

in UNH’s Canadian hockey players while raising his own family. “He knew they were far from their own homes, so he would invite them to dinner and help them with homework,” recalls Amy. Tim served as vice-president of his class for many years. “He loved the class reunions and getting together with his UNH friends,” says daughter Leslie. Class president Harriet Forkey ’54 says he remained active and involved with class affairs via e-mail and phone calls even after he moved to Hilton Head. “I can truly say that he was loved and appreciated by his classmates.” Craig died at home on Dec. 8, 2015, after an 18-year battle with Parkinson’s disease. Even as illness sapped his strength, he retained his interest in what was happening at UNH. Amy, who is married to UNH associate head athletic trainer and head athletic trainer for men’s hockey Glenn Riefenstahl, would call him weekly with in-depth updates on how the UNH sports teams, especially his beloved hockey team, were doing. ² Jonathan Fox Kellogg ’70 Hall-of-Fame journalist, talented cook, restorer of old homes

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1950s Beatrice Drolet Boudette ’50 Nov. 23, 2015, Franklin, Mass. David V. Dickey ’50, ’53G Dec. 16, 2015, Concord, N.H. Leon E. Loos ’50 Jan. 7, 2016, Keene, N.H. Bruce R. Luneau ’50 Oct. 10, 2015, Concord, N.H. Jeanne Berry Raymond ’50 Aug. 12, 2015, Nashua, N.H. Joseph R. Richard ’50 Aug. 11, 2015, Westlake, OH Earl M. Robertson, ’50G Oct. 21, 2015, Spokane, Wash. Ernest Stevens, Jr. ’50 Aug. 16, 2015, Cheyenne, Wyo. Edwin E. Blaisdell ’50 Dec. 23, 2015, North Haverhill, N.H.

Theresa Carbonneau Dussault ’52 Sept. 22, 2015, Nashua, N.H.

Charles J. Dalzell ’57 Aug. 14, 2015, Charlestown, N.H.

Catherine Rollins Kimball ’52 Jan. 8, 2016, Bella Vista, Ariz.

Martha Sheerin Gamble ’57 Nov. 3, 2015, Marlborough, Mass.

Edward E. Miles ’50 Sept. 13, 2015, Fort Myers, Fla.

Shirley Smith Cohen ’53 Dec. 12, 2015, Hollis, N.H.

James A. Shea ’57 Sept. 19, 2015, Nashua, N.H.

Jacqueline D. Bastille ’51 Jan. 21, 2016, Nashua, N.H.

James C. Dakin ’53 Oct. 31, 2015, Plainville, Mass.

Betty A. Vandersluis ’57G May 8, 2015, Keene, N.H.

Gerald P. Boudreau ’51 Nov. 29, 2015, Tilton, N.H.

Denis J. Driscoll, Ret. ’53 Aug. 11, 2015, Front Royal, Va.

Ruth Bassett Knight ’57 Dec. 12, 2015, Portsmouth, N.H.

Edward F. Capron ’51 Mar. 3, 2015, Nokomis, Fla.

George W. Ford ’53 Oct. 4, 2015, Venice, Fla.

Irene Morin Filbin ’58G Oct. 9, 2015, Daytona Beach, Fla.

Ann Baldwin Covatta ’51 Dec. 11, 2015, Doylestown, Penn.

William H. Lamson ’53 Nov. 4, 2015, Roanoke, Va.

John C. Duffett ’51 Aug. 25, 2015, Manchester, N.H.

Curtis A. Pike ’53 Jan. 25, 2016, Center Ossipee, N.H.

Kent D. Locke, Jr. ’58 Sept. 14, 2015, Center Barnstead, N.H.

Barbara Ford Holden ’51 Nov. 1, 2015, Manchester, N.H.

Mary Perley Reed ’53 Jan. 12, 2016, Londonderry, N.H.

Evangelis H. Karalis ’51 Nov. 5, 2015, Dover, N.H.

John F. Clancy ’53 Nov. 19, 2015, Manchester, N.H.

Henry R. Langevin ’51 Aug. 16, 2015, Concord, N.H.

Robert R. Chauvette ’54G Sept. 28, 2015, Indianapolis, Ind.

Anna Higgins McVay ’58 Oct. 23, 2015, Exeter, N.H. Philip G. Pariseau ’58 Aug. 15, 2015, Hampton, N.H. Nancy Greene Wood ’58 Nov. 23, 2015, Norway, Maine John S. Beever ’59 Dec. 5, 2015, Gorham, Maine

starting in an apartment while Kellogg sought the perfect antique home to restore. The 250-year-old saltbox the couple purchased in Harwinton, Conn., was, finally, “old enough,” says his wife. Well-versed in the history of antique homes, Kellogg spent many happy hours giving guests a tour of the house. Walk-throughs were followed by a dinner that he prepared using skills he had honed while working his way through UNH as a cook. Carpentry and cooking were respites from a stellar journalism career that began when Kellogg was editor of the student newspaper at Berwick Academy and then The New Hampshire at UNH, where he majored in English literature. Editorial stints with The Kansas City Star and The Boston Record-American/Sunday Advertiser led to a position with the Associated Press in Boston in 1972. Two years later he became news editor of the AP’s Northern New England bureau, based in Concord, N.H. In 1978, he became bureau chief, responsible for news coverage in three states, as well as for running the AP election night operation for New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation presidential primary. After 16 years with the AP, Kellogg left to become managing editor/reporting of The Portland Press Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram. During his tenure, the two newspapers won the New England Newspaper Association Newspaper of the Year Award

In Memoriam Henry G. Kellett, Jr. ’59 Jan. 26, 2016, Port Saint Lucie, Fla. Donald C. Lavertu ’59 Oct. 8, 2015, Manchester, N.H. Clifford W. Peterson ’59 Nov. 27, 2015, Halifax, Mass.

1960s Ernest H. Ashford, Jr. ’60 Sept. 19, 2015, Cherokee Village, Ariz.

Lewis W. Newsky ’62 Nov. 25, 2015, South Berwick, Maine Richard A. Crane ’63 Dec. 28, 2015, Hillsborough, N.H. Volker A. Erdmann ’63, ’66G Sept. 11, 2015, Berlin, Germany Elaine A. Mendzela ’63 Aug. 12, 2015, Exeter, N.H. Robert E. Peabody ’63 Aug. 16, 2015, Ayer, Mass.

Oscar F. Beumel, Jr. ’60G Jan. 1, 2016, Peabody, Mass.

Frank T. Ripley, III ’63 July 21, 2015, Severna Park, Md.

Marshall N. Decker ’60 Dec. 19, 2015, Lubbock, Tex.

John G. Savage, Jr. ’63 Sept. 24, 2015, Deerfield, Mass.

Charles M. Harrington ’60 Oct. 17, 2015, Lebanon, N.H.

John B. Spencer ’63 Nov. 7, 2015, Las Vegas, Nev.

Allen W. Milbury ’60 Aug. 11, 2015, Aurora, UT

Malcolm L. Currier ’64 Aug. 17, 2015, Manchester, N.H.

Milton G. Robinson, II ’60 Nov. 23, 2015, Sarataga Springs, N.Y.

Linda Symons Martin ’64 Aug. 25, 2015, Oakland, Ga.

Harvey B. Schow ’60 Aug. 23, 2015, Manchester, N.H. Joseph Shillady, Jr. ’60 Dec. 13, 2015, Plant City, Fla. Robert W. Vigue ’60 Jan. 19, 2016, Springvale, Maine Richard P. Zerba ’60 Nov. 9, 2015, East Hartford, Conn. Clarke G. Conlon ’61 Aug. 5, 2015, Pinehurst, N.C. Fred P. Heydrick ’61G Aug. 19, 2015, Frederick, Md. Howard D. Ladd ’61 Aug. 15, 2015, Pleasant Hill, Calif. David G. Torr ’61 Aug. 27, 2015, Dover, N.H. Jon C. Boothroyd ’62 Oct. 15, 2015, South Kingstown, RI Gale H. French ’62 Oct. 18, 2015, Manchester, N.H. Caroline Chandler Murray ’62G Dec. 2, 2015, Bedrod, Mass. Paul A. Richardson ’62 Dec. 5, 2015, Alton Bay, N.H. Bernard L. Runser ’62 Nov. 9, 2015, West Boothbay Harbor, Maine

Maurice F. Myers ’64 Dec. 23, 2015, Manchester, N.H. Davis Walker ’64 Dec. 25, 2015, Hollywood, S.C.

Thomas J. Neff ’69, ’73G Dec. 7, 2015, Peterborough, N.H.

1970s Lennox D. Barnes, III ’70 Jan. 11, 2016, Springvale, Maine Gary N. Chamberlin ’70, ’75G Aug. 15, 2015, Bath, N.H. George J. Jerry ’70 Sept. 2, 2015, Highlands, N.C. Jonathan F. Kellogg ’70 Aug. 17, 2015, Waterbury, Conn. Neil F. McKeown ’70G July 26, 2015, Kitty Hawk, N.C. Raymond F. O’Brien ’71, ’73G July 23, 2015, Silver Lake, N.H. Jean Stack Robbins ’71G, ’81G Nov. 8, 2015, Concord, N.H. Paula J. Balboni ’72 Nov. 24, 2015, Manchester, N.H. Marilyn Gerrato Beidleman ’72 Nov. 20, 2015, Londonderry, N.H. William T. Gnewuch ’72G Aug. 24, 2015, Brookfield, Conn.

Keith P. Dyer ’74 April 22, 2015, Desert Hot Springs, Calif. George Faeh ’74G Oct. 18, 2015, Naperville, Ill. Frank H. Hampshire ’74 Sept. 16, 2015, Chapel Hill, N.C. Charles D. Lohnes, Jr. ’74G Aug. 30, 2015, Butte, Mont. William J. McAndrews ’74 Dec. 25, 2015, Spokane, Wash.

Amanda M. A. Putnam ’74 Sept. 5, 2015, Alexandria, Va.

Shane M. Conran ’82 Sept. 20, 2015, Santa Barbara, Calif.

Kathleen Lydon Schneider ’83 Jan. 16, 2016, Minocqua, Wis.

Nathan G. Rowe ’94 Feb. 9, 2015, Amesbury, Mass.

Thomas D. Brouillette ’83 Nov. 20, 2015, Exeter, N.H.

Keith A. LaFlam ’95 Nov. 2, 2015, Winston Salem, N.C.

David M. Gibbs ’84 Aug. 27, 2015, Orlando, Fla.

April Goodwin Merrill ’97 Sept. 29, 2015, Venice, Fla. Nathaniel A. Dokmo ’99 Aug. 21, 2015, Milford, N.H.

Bethany D. Keans ’76 Dec. 18, 2015, Lyndonville, Vt.

Joseph C. Beland ’73 Sept. 2, 2015, Durham, N.H.

Joan B. Laughton ’76 June 14, 2015, Worcester, Mass.

Maurice F. King ’84 Nov. 14, 2015, Germantown Hills, Ill.

Elizabeth Bengtson ’73 Jan. 11, 2016, Spring Grove, Penn.

Renee Tilton Leavitt ’76 Nov. 29, 2015, Eliot, Maine

Linda Fanning Roukey ’84 Jan. 17, 2016, Chicopee, Mass.

Edward W. Daley ’73G Aug. 28, 2015, Pittsfield, Mass.

Steven R. Shawney ’76 Dec. 24, 2015, Northwood, N.H.

Richard I. Chase ’85 Dec. 22, 2015, Exeter, N.H.

Clark M. Davis ’73 Nov. 4, 2015, Sutton, N.H.

John F. Sexton ’76 Aug. 8, 2015, Rye, N.H.

Bradford F. amos ’85G Dec. 24, 2015, Bristol, N.H.

James M. Duffy ’73G Sept. 10, 2015, Litchfield, N.H.

Elaine M. Clough ’77G Jan. 7, 2015, Ft. Myers, Fla.

Henry J. Callahan ’87 Oct. 28, 2015, New London, Conn.

Paul S. Meyer ’73G Sept. 18, 2015, Washington, DC

Richard D. Marttala ’77G Sept. 30, 2015, New Castle, Penn.

Bryant N. MacPherson ’87 Nov. 1, 2015, Merrimack, N.H.

Clarence R. Transue, Jr. ’73G Nov. 26, 2015, Colchester, Conn.

Catherine A. Smith ’77 Aug. 2, 2015, Jackson, Wyo.

Alexander Sachs ’87G July 31, 2015, Gloucester, Mass.

Roy A. Wasdyke ’73 Jan. 5, 2016, Melrose, Mass.

Tina Lindegren Horne ’78G, ’81G Oct. 12, 2015, Norwalk, Conn.

James L. Warren ’87 July 30, 2015, Keene, N.H.

Dorothy Mravunac Zaumseil ’73G Dec. 27, 2015, Norwalk, Conn.

Paul F. Perreault ’78 Jan. 6, 2016, Sturbridge, Mass.

Walter E. Peters, III ’88 July 24, 2015, Port Richey, Fla.

Nancy Hosmer Edmond ’67 Dec. 6, 2015, Washington, D.C. Robert S. Forster, Jr. ’67 Nov. 12, 2015, Oxford, Miss. David H. McBride ’67 Feb. 18, 2015, Laconia, N.H. David A. Sobe ’68G Aug. 6, 2015, Peterborough, N.H. Jane B. Holliday ’69 Sept. 7, 2015, Zionville, N.C. John N. McMaster ’69 Oct. 12, 2015, Portsmouth, N.H.

several times. Kellogg moved on to a position as executive editor with The (Lowell, Mass.) Sun, and then became executive editor of The Republican-American in Waterbury, Conn., where he remained for 17 years, until his retirement last June. Throughout his career, Kellogg coached hundreds of reporters and editors, and he led ethics seminars for journalists around New England. His peers recognized his impact. In 2004 he won the Yankee Quill award for achievement in New England journalism. In February 2015 he was inducted into the New England Newspaper Hall of Fame. His coaching efforts weren’t limited to the newsroom, though. When his children, Alexander ’96 and Jessie ’99, from his first marriage to Dorothy White, were growing up, Kellogg loved coaching his son in baseball and basketball and cheering his daughter’s theatrical success as a performer and costume designer. He was looking forward to doing it all again with his grandchildren, Lucy and

Joseph M. Dambach ’93 Jan. 8, 2016, Hooksett, N.H.

Denise A. Berglund ’94 Sept. 22, 2015, Londonderry, N.H.

David R. Albert ’73 Jan. 5, 2016, Laconia, N.H.

Chris Rodney ’66 Dec. 13, 2015, Troy, Maine

Jerome J. David ’92 Aug. 29, 2015, Sanbornville, N.H.

David W. Ordway ’82 Oct. 31, 2015, Poway, Calif.

Kathleen McNamara Johnson ’65 Jan. 6, 2016, West Hills, Calif.

Donald B. Judd ’66 Aug. 20, 2015, Jacksonville, Ala.

Tara T. Breed ’92 July 27, 2015, Denver, Colo.

Sara K. Gregory ’93G Jan. 4, 2016, New Haven, Conn.

Janice Spreadbury Lovejoy ’72 Sept. 13, 2015, Westborough, Mass.

Gardner G. Spencer ’65, ’73G Jan. 14, 2016, Ocala, Fla.

Jason M. Brawn ’92 Aug. 11, 2015, Westbrook, Maine

Stephanie A. Nealon ’82 July 11, 2015, New York City, N.Y.

Robbin Roberts Grill ’65 Dec. 1, 2015, Boscawen, N.H.

Robert A. Dickson ’76 Aug. 13, 2015, Exeter, N.H.

David L. Harrigan ’91G Nov. 21, 2015, Atkinson, N.H.

Kenneth R. Johnston ’80 Sept. 19, 2015, Strafford, N.H.

Robert W. Flanagan, Ret. ’81G Jan. 22, 2016, Aug.a, Maine

Jeffrey C. Covill ’76 Sept. 6, 2015, Phoenix, Ariz

Margaret Scheller Finn ’91G Nov. 12, 2015, Madison, N.H.

John Boghos ’80 Oct. 23, 2015, Wakefield, Mass.

Thomas G. Phyllides ’74 Nov. 9, 2015, Concord, N.H.

Andre D. Saxby ’75 Aug. 17, 2015, Concord, N.H.

Benjamin M. Wall ’90 Aug. 17, 2015, North Conway, N.H.

1980s

Elizabeth Anderson Bilodeau ’81G Jan. 16, 2016, Rockland, Maine

Robert F. Miller, Jr. ’75 Aug. 27, 2015, Woodsville, N.H.

Marc J. Sanford ’90 Nov. 15, 2015, Seattle, Wash.

Irene Clark Wright ’79G Dec. 5, 2015, Concord, N.H.

Elizabeth Luria Moore ’74 Sept. 22, 2015, Lakeville, Minn.

Victoria Gibson Tribble ’74 July 29, 2015, Walla Walla, Wash.

1990s

Philip W. Hokanson ’79G Oct. 24, 2015, Alexandria, Va.

2000s Jessi Pearce Storino ’00 Oct. 3, 2015, Brick, N.J. Sean D. Jackson ’04 Sept. 8, 2015, Portland, Ore. Amie C. Newbanks ’04 June 15, 2015, Homosassa, Fla. Erin E. Maroni ’07 Nov. 18, 2015, Manchester, N.H. Deborah A. Zarembo ’07G Aug. 23, 2015, Madbury, N.H.

2010s Daniel R. Keegan ’13 Jan. 7, 2016, Fayetteville, N.C. Brittany L .Couturier ’14 Jan. 10, 2016, Manchester, N.H.

Cathleen M. Tarnawski ’78 Jan. 23, 2016, Raymond, N.H.

James R. Stark ’15 Nov. 17, 2015, Canaan, N.H.

Wes Kellogg. The postcard Kellogg began sending to friends last July, designed by daughter-in-law Jessica ’98, ostensibly came from them. “Grampy Jon’s retirement is finally here,” the postcard read in part. “The old guy has lots of wonderful memories from 46 years of journalism to treasure, and we intend to give him many more!” Kellogg died on Aug. 17, 2015, while working out at home. He had read—and helped create—a newspaper nearly every day of his life. In a eulogy she delivered at his funeral, Jane Harrigan, an AP reporter hired by Kellogg who later became a professor of journalism at UNH, recalled how loyal he was as a friend and mentor. “Once he believed in you, he was your fan and supporter forever,” she said. In her own eulogy, Mitman shared other tributes that had poured in from former colleagues. “He was a boss who truly cared about his staff and instilled values of truth and integrity in our journalistic lives,” read one. Another commented on Kellogg’s belief that “the vitality of a citizenry is directly related to the vigor of its news industry.” In his eulogy, Alex raised a baseball in the air and talked about the day he was called to the principal’s office. With trepidation, he walked alone down the hall, only to find his father waiting for him, to take him to a World Series game at Fenway Park. They arrived in time for batting practice, and Alex caught the ball. ²

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HIDDEN GEMS, REVEALED: Artist George Loyd’s mural, “Agriculture,” is one of two Depression-era Works Projects Administration wall paintings undergoing restoration as part of the ongoing Hamilton Smith Hall renovation project. The 8-by-40-foot mural was painted in 1939 for what was the thenUNH library’s reserve room in its newly constructed west wing. Across the intervening 77 years, however, the egg tempera paint has faded and the gesso wall beneath it has borne the brunt of time, plumbing leaks and flooding. Both “Agriculture” and a companion mural, “Industry,” painted by Arthur Eisner in Ham Smith’s east wing, are being patched and repainted, and will highlight new classroom space when the renovation project is completed in summer 2017.

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