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PRESIDENT’S PERSPECTIVE THE GREEN Moustapha Diouf takes leadership post in Senegal; Colleague’s cancer drives medical research team; Alumnus, student engineers team to build a better golf club; and more.

CATAMOUNT SPORTS Hoops to hockey, an update on the performance and prospects of UVM’s winter sports teams.

ON COURSE Film class forges an unlikely relationship with fabled German director Werner Herzog.

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UVM BOUND A new coffee table book offers a window on UVM past and present, and helps launch Alumni Association lifetime membership drive.

BY THOMAS WEAVER Cover: Hilary Hickingbotham ’14 has turned an internship with UTC Aerospace in Vergennes into a post-graduation job. Photo by Sally McCay.

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UVM PEOPLE Rhode Island’s children have a powerful advocate in Elizabeth Burke Bryant ’79.

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WHAT’S NEXT? Increased investment and an “it takes a village” approach are rapidly changing how the university helps students find their post-college career paths.

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ALUMNI CONNECTION Affinity programs unite alumni around shared pursuits in college and the places life has taken them.

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Contents photos, from a new UVM coffee table book (see page 22), by Bobby Bruderle ’11.

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ince the beginning of my tenure as president, affordability and access to success for all qualified students has been my foremost priority at the University of Vermont. This year we had a historically low tuition increase of 2.9 percent and a zero increase for Vermont students. We will continue to make every effort to control tuition increases. Our upcoming Comprehensive Campaign will focus on increased academic support, especially scholarships. Already 44 percent of Vermont students attend tuition free at UVM. As a land-grant university, a central part of our mission is to provide first-rate educational opportunities in the State of Vermont and to make a significant contribution to the state’s economic development through our research and academic programs. Of course, increasing access to college education is a national priority as well. We cannot compete with other nations if we do not offer college opportunities that will lead to successful outcomes for all qualified students. As a nation, we must increase not only the number of high school graduates attending college, but also the number of students successfully graduating from college in four years.

On Thursday, January 16, 2014, I was pleased to represent the University of Vermont at the White House Education Summit hosted by President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama. More than eighty college and university presidents and leaders from forty nonprofit and philanthropic organizations were invited to focus on strategies to increase the number of low-income students who apply to, attend, and graduate from college. We heard passionate statements from both the President and First Lady about the importance of expanding college access and ensuring successful completion, especially to low-income students.

This White House Summit was more than an exchange of ideas. It was an inspiring national call to action: each participating institution made a commitment to expand college access; the pledges included a wide range of practices and programs relating to admissions, advising, community outreach, college preparation, and helping academically underprepared students complete

their degrees. To join in President Obama’s call to action, UVM has committed, through our New Americans Program, to significantly increase the enrollment of students from immigrant families who have settled in Vermont. We have dedicated a high-level admissions expert to counsel families and to assist them in seeking aid, filling out forms, and completing the application process. The enrollment process will be free for low-income and first-generation New Americans. Additionally, we pledged to continue covering tuition costs without loans for all our Vermont Pell Grant-eligible students. At present, 22-25 percent of our students are Pell-eligible, including one third of our Vermont students. Nearly 20 percent of our first-year class is comprised of first-generation students, including one third of our Vermont students.

We can take pride that UVM is a leader in providing affordable college access to students. Others have noted UVM’s leadership as well. Kiplinger’s magazine has once again ranked UVM among the top best value public colleges in the country noting our “high four-year graduation rate, low average student debt at graduation, abundant financial aid, low sticker price, and overall great value.” Of those students who take out loans, our students graduate with $8,000 less in debt than the national average. Other institutions aspire to these numbers. Our considerable increase in applications this year—nearly 24,000 and an increase of 9 percent from last year— demonstrates that we remain affordable while our reputation for quality grows. Further, our applications from first-year international students have increased by 56 percent. We are committed to building success for our students by increasing financial access and successful graduation in four years. We know that by expanding access to college for qualified students at UVM and by ensuring their timely graduation, these alumni will be very successful throughout life. We must continue to raise our expectations and our aspirations for our students, because together we can move mountains.

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Vermont to Senegal Veteran professor returns to help his homeland

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oustapha Diouf, associate professor of sociology, has long wanted to help improve the quality of life in his native Senegal.

He will get the chance as the recently appointed special adviser to the prime minister of Senegal and president of the Millenium Challenge Account (MCA)—a $540 million foreign development project funded by the United States.

Diouf, who became friends with the new Prime Minister

Aminata Toure while working on a master’s degree in rural sociology at the University of Paris in the early 1980s, had turned down previous job offers from Senegal officials, holding out for an opportunity promising greater impact on the economic development of the West African country. The addition of the powerful MCA position was exactly what he had in mind.

“The prime minister and I have shared the same dream for many years and are now

in a position to realize that dream together,” says Diouf.

Diouf, who expects to return to UVM in about two years, says he envisions using the MCA funds for infrastructure improvements with a focus on the building of roads and bridges so people can bring goods to market.

He also hopes to improve health care, education, and telecommunications access while keeping a close eye on the management of the funds. “There is great demand for social justice in Senegal,” Diouf says. “Many African

countries are fighting corruption and the mismanagement of public funds. They really have to monitor how money is being spent. I will work on bringing transparency, accountability, and checks and balances to the process.”

In addition to his academic research as a rural sociologist, Diouf brings experience from past fieldwork with development and literacy projects via the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.

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years,” says Diouf. “It is my affiliation with the university that allowed me to get this appointment. I intend to give back by sharing my experience with students and colleagues and converting my experiences into reality.

Otherwise, it’s just abstract theorizing. As a political sociologist, what we teach in the classroom should translate into the field. We all dream of having an impact on social policy, so I’m feeling very fortunate to be in a position to do so.”

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also a generous one. His gifts to Burlington, which totaled nearly $300,000, included the Howard Opera House and

block, proceeds that went to support the city’s home for destitute children.

Howard’s philanthropy extended to UVM, as well. He funded the construction of a new medical college building (the predecessor to Dewey Hall), an endowed chair in natural history and zoology, the fountain on the Green, and an 1885 renovation/ facelift for Old Mill that created the building’s Victorian façade we know today. The bust of Howard wasn’t a case of the philanthropist celebrating himself; it was a gift from the citizens of Burlington in recognition of all he had done for the city and the university.

The project is the latest in a number of UVM public sculpture restorations completed in the last several years.

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ALUMNI, STUDENTS TEAM TO BUILD A BETTER GOLF CLUB

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hen Josh Ross received a new golf club—a driver designed by four UVM undergraduate engineering students—he was, he says, “a little skeptical.”

An independent reviewer for Golfballed.com, a partner with Reader’s Digest, Ross receives a stream of gear from major manufacturers. Golf is big money: the National Golf Foundation reports that there was about $4 billion in golf equipment sales last year.

But the lime-green-andblack club Ross received was

U.N. AMBASSADOR POWER TO SPEAK AT COMMENCEMENT Samantha Power, the United States ambassador to the United Nations, will be the guest speaker and receive an honorary degree at UVM’s 2014 Commencement, Sunday, May 18, on the University Green.

Ambassador Power, a member of President Barack Obama’s cabinet, has held the post of U.N. ambassador since August 2013. She formerly served as special assistant to the president and senior director for multilateral affairs and human rights at the National Security Council.

Power is also an accomplished journalist and the Pulitzer Prize winning author of “A Problem from Hell”: America and the Age of Genocide and Chasing the Flame: Sergio Viera de Mello and the Fight to Save the World.

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ested, reinforced, and restored, the venerable John Purple Howard returned to his perch in front of Old Mill last semester. It has been seven years since the bust of the distinguished nineteenth-century Burlingtonian and stalwart supporter of the university was removed for restoration. Budgetary hurdles and the “surprises” inherent in working on a 130-year-old work of art conspired to make it a lengthy sabbatical.

The journey to Watertown, Massachusetts art conservator Daedalus, Inc. isn’t the first time Mr. Howard has traveled. A 1942 Vermont Cynic article describes an episode in which pranksters stole the bust by Jonathan

Scott Hartley, eventually ditching it on a Summit Street lawn. The statue also spent a period languishing in the attic of Old Mill before being returned to the front of the building in 1968. At some point along the way, likely to better secure it, the bust was filled with cement in which a steel rod was embedded. The new restoration has corrected that ham-handed fix and also taken pains to make sure the historic work stays put for good.

So, who was John Purple Howard and why was he bust-worthy? A native son of Burlington, born in 1814, he learned the hotel business from his father and later went into the same industry in New York City with his brother. The Old Exchange, Howard House, and the Irving Hotel were among the ventures that allowed him to retire and return to Burlington a relatively young and decidedly rich man. He was

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[THEGREEN Sully Sullivan ’07 goes long with BombTech’s studentdesigned driver.

WELCOMING VETERANS U.S. News has added another category—

best colleges for military veterans— to its annual higher education rankings, and UVM placed tenth in the category’s debut year.

The university’s Career Center, which can help veterans translate their military experience to a civilian résumé, and the

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built by the decidedly nonmajor manufacturer BombTech, the one-man-shop of Tyler “Sully” Sullivan ’07, a UVM School of Business alumnus. He built the club at home in Vermont.

“Can a guy really get together with some college students and create a driver that is comparable to those already on the market?” Ross wanted to know. Apparently yes—or even better.

“I have received many items to test and review,” Ross writes. “There has never been one that blew my mind as much as this driver.”

The tests Ross and others have done give the BombTech club, dubbed “The Grenade,” higher numbers for ball speed, carry distance, backspin, and total distance than other high-end drivers from companies like Titlelist, TaylorMade, and Callaway.

Sullivan reports that business is brisk. He’s sold hundreds of the clubs, direct from his company’s website, bombtechgolf.com.

His growing business began in frustration on the golf course. But not because he kept shanking balls into the rough. Instead, the clubs he was getting would break.

He hits the ball hard. After six or seven drivers broke, he says, he’d had enough.

So Sullivan started building drivers himself, ordering shafts and high-end heads and assembling them at home. “I found out I was good at this,” he says, and pretty soon he was providing home-built clubs to his friends, too, and began to make some sales.

But back-orders on heads— and a sense that the design of drivers was not what it could be, led him to wonder if he could go to market with his

own, better, driver.

In 2012, Sullivan approached UVM’s College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences to see if they could help. Professors John Novotny and Jeff Frolik, who lead the year-long “capstone” course for seniors in the college, connected him with four students.

Soon, Mark Belanger, Ryan Corey, Ryan Mickelson, and Evan Olson—all mechanical engineering majors, class of 2013— were working away on club designs as their senior project. On a computer, they developed 3-D models of various possibilities, with an eye toward reducing wind drag on the club’s head.

The computer simulations led to building a real prototype that they tested in a wind tunnel in UVM’s Votey Hall. It had a large face, two large cavities in the underside, and a pleasing bulbous shape that fills the limit of the USGA’s rules: 460 cubic centimeters.

“It’s not a hard science,” Mickelson says. “You have to balance the visual appeal with the functionality. We had some ugly drivers and some pretty drivers. There is no template out there which says: this is how you make the right shape.”

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Growing up on his family’s farm in Colombia, Luis Garcia, dean of UVM’s College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, helped his father troubleshoot irrigation systems in the drought-impacted region. It was an early exposure to problem-solving that would later spark a career in civil and environmental engineering and eventually lead to chairing his department at Colorado State University, the post Garcia held prior to taking on the deanship at UVM last summer. VQ recently sat down with Dean Garcia to discuss his vision for the college.

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education be informed by the humanities?

A. I believe that an education, at the

A. I believe in students having a broad

heart of it, is learning how to learn. Any technology that you learn now is likely going to be upgraded or obsolete in five to ten years. When I came out of school, computers were very limited.

We had punch cards. If I had left my knowledge at that, I would’ve been obsolete shortly after leaving school. Now a lot of what I do is computer-based modeling.

My point is that what students really get out of an engineering education are problem-solving tools—to solve problems that we don’t even yet know about.

Some skills might stay current—perhaps lessons about statics and dynamics. But there are others that are going to change very fast and you need to be aware of that and upgrade your skill set.

That’s why I love engineering: it’s more about getting a problem and coming at it with a creative solution. That’s the core of what we do.

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education because it helps you come up with a better solution. Sometimes if you are too technical, you miss the fact that solutions have to be holistic. I’m a firm believer in trying to expose students to more than just the technical. It’s not necessarily the most technically sophisticated solution that wins—because it’s part of a societal compromise.

Q. What do you imagine the College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences looks like in five years?

A. I’m very excited about the new

STEM facility that President Sullivan and Provost Rosowsky have championed and that we’re working hard to bring to reality. It will bring a huge upgrade to the infrastructure, allow us to meet unmet needs that we have right now, and better serve Vermont and the world. We’ll have new lab facilities, better teaching classrooms, improved re-

search space for our world-class faculty.

We’re in a competitive world. We’re doing five faculty searches right now.

Those individuals that we’re searching for are going to be world-class too. They have opportunities to interview other places, so we need to bring them here and provide the infrastructure that merits the quality of their credentials. And the new STEM facility will be a great asset for recruiting more and better students. The best students always have choices, like the best faculty.

With the new infrastructure in place, it’s going to be a huge boost to our reputation and help us move to the next level. We’ll also focus on maintaining and enhancing areas of strength such as our Department of Mathematics and Statistics, growing successful interdisciplinary areas such as complex systems, biomedical and environmental research, and many others. I am very excited and optimistic about the great things we can accomplish in the next five years.

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Alumni who haven’t been back to Burlington in a few years would likely experience one of those “Where am I?”

the driver. This year, he’s engaged another group of UVM engineering seniors to design a putter for BombTech. Corey Tillson, Tori Thacher, Cody Jackson, and Jeff Keenan have developed a design for a wing-style mallet putter, heavier than average, to be forged in carbon steel.

Pilot testing of the putter is in the near future. “We’re excited and nervous, too,” Jackson says. “Sully has put a lot of trust in us to design something that will be marketable and ‘game-changing,’ as he says. We’re his engineering team.”

moments on this stretch of Cherry Street near Battery.

While we aren’t exactly talking soaring canyons of Manhattan, the line of new buildings with an interesting mix of brick, stone, glass, and metal façades creates more of an enclosed cityscape feel than most parts of BTV. The Hotel Vermont, which opened in May 2013, is a centerpiece of the new development and home to the Hen of the Wood restaurant, one of the state’s finest. Though the name is a nod to the historic Hotel Vermont building at the corner of Main and St. Paul a few blocks away, the 125-room boutique hotel isn’t to be confused with that landmark. The Courtyard Burlington Harbor Hotel is just a few steps down, on the corner of Cherry and Battery, combining with the Hilton on Battery to make this neighborhood lodging-central in Burlington. And, over on Main and Pine, a development/redevelopment project is under way for a Hilton Garden Inn. The old Armory building (Hunt’s music club to alumni of certain vintages) will be renovated and coupled with new construction for the hotel.

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make the area a more attractive corridor for pedestrians to travel between downtown and the lake.

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ecent accolades from his peer mathematicians and educators, awards on both the regional and national level, celebrate the innovative work and long service of Ken Gross, professor of mathematics, in helping to foster strong math teachers throughout the educational system.

Gross is a pioneer and national leader in promoting the importance of providing indepth mathematics content knowledge to K-6 teachers, the guiding principle of the Vermont Mathematics Initiative, which he founded. VMI came into being in 1999 as school districts in Vermont, and across the country, were grappling with a new genera-

tion of integrated K-6 math instructional programs, like Mathland and Discover Math, that required even early grade teachers to have a sophisticated understanding of mathematical concepts. VMI has since enrolled more than 400 Vermont teachers from 90 percent of Vermont’s school districts.

The success of the Vermont Mathematics Initiative led to the adoption of similar programs in eight states, including Massachusetts, where Gross implemented the VMI program while a visiting professor at Lesley University in Cambridge, one of the country’s leading teacher development schools. The program Gross established at Lesley, the Center for Mathematics Achievement, is still a driving force in the school’s curriculum for teacher training in mathematics.

This summer, Penn State launched a program, the Pennsylvania Mathematics Initiative, modeled on VMI. PSU program director George E. Andrews began looking at programs to improve math teaching at the elementary level when he served as president of the American Mathematical Society. “One of the most striking out there was Ken’s program,” he says.

“A number of people have done good work in this area, but Ken is the spearhead. VMI has a ten-year track record of success. He’s done a great service not just for the people of Vermont, but for the country.”

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ophomore Sammie Ibrahim is using her 2013 Simon Family CommunityBased Research Fellowship to study

an issue she takes to heart: sustainable transportation. She’s analyzing data from a survey of five hundred Burlington residents she conducted over the summer to better understand local attitudes about the subject, while also advocating for walking, biking, riding the bus, and CarShare Vermont.

Ibrahim’s experience working with Local Motion led to an undergraduate research assistantship this year with her faculty mentor, assistant professor of geography Pablo Bose. Ibrahim is working with UVM’s Transportation Research Center and Bose to create a web portal making available data from one of his research efforts— transportation accessibility among Vermont’s refugee community. The hope is that by sharing research with other scholars and the community they can promote positive policy outcomes for the state’s new Americans.

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[THEGREEN Maple researchers Abby van den Berg and Tim Perkins have discovered a new way to harvest sap.

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our years ago, Tim Perkins and Abby van den Berg cut the top off a maple tree. As researchers at UVM’s Proctor Maple Research Center, they wanted to learn more about sap flow.

Instead, they discovered an entirely new way to make maple syrup. “It’s revolutionary in some ways,” says Perkins ’84 G’88 ’91.

Their new technique uses tightly spaced plantations of chest-high sugar-maple saplings. These could be single stems with a portion—or all—of the crown removed.

Or they could be multiplestemmed maples, where one stem per tree can be cut each year. Either way, the cut stem is covered with a sealed plastic bag. Under the bag, the sap flows out of the stump under vacuum pressure and

into a tube. Voilà, huge quantities of sap.

In short, these plantations can allow maple syrup production in a farm field. Typically, a traditional sugarbush produces about forty gallons of maple syrup per acre of forest by tapping, perhaps, eighty mature trees. With this new method, the UVM researchers estimate that producers could get more than four hundred gallons of syrup per acre drawing from about six thousand saplings.

The new technique has the potential to enhance business for existing syrup producers, the researchers think, and defend Vermont’s maple industry from threats that range from climate change to spiking land costs to Asian longhorned beetles.

“We didn’t set out to develop this system,” says van den Berg ’99 G’00 ’07. “We were looking at ways to improve

vacuum systems.” But, during a spring thaw, the tapped tree, from which they had removed the crown, just kept yielding sap under vacuum pressure.

And more sap and more sap.

“We got to the point where we should have exhausted any water that was in the tree, but the moisture didn’t drop,” says Perkins.

“The only explanation was that we were pulling water out of the ground, right up through and out the stem.”

In other words, the cut tree works like a sugar-filled straw stuck in the ground. To get the maple sugar stored in the trunk, just apply suction.

While the cut plantation saplings will regrow branches and leaves from side shoots— and can be used year after year—“the top of the tree is really immaterial for sap flow under vacuum-induced flow,” Perkins says.

“Once we saw that we could get yields without tops it was—wow! —this changes the basic paradigm,” says van den Berg. Large, mature trees are no longer needed to provide the sugar. “It became clear that we could deal with an entirely new framework,” she says.

Intriguing as their findings are, the UVM scientists stress that there is still much to be explored. To date, they’ve made a couple of conference presentations to maple syrup producers and applied for a patent. “This is research,” van den Berg says, “and there’s a lot more research to be done before we know what the implications of this research will be.”

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or billions of people, cancer is personal, but a relative handful of them are in a place to have an impact on the disease.

Diane Jaworski, professor of neurological sciences, and her former PhD student Patrick Long G’13 are among them.

Jaworski and her colleagues in UVM neurological sciences had a close, heartbreaking experience with the brain cancer glioblastoma when their colleague Bruce Fonda, a longtime anatomy lecturer beloved by generations of medical students, succumbed to the disease in 2005.

It’s a form of cancer that Jaworski already knew well. Her research focuses on developing therapies to treat gliomas, highly malignant brain tumors that originate in the glial cells of the brain. Patients with glioblastoma, which is the most aggressive type of these tumors, have a median survival of only fourteen months. Even with treatments SALLY MCCAY

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team had the first promising results that GTA decreased the growth of glioma stem cells, but not normal brain cells, in culture. The next critical test, performed with the help of Jeffrey Spees, director of UVM’s Stem Cell Core Facility, and Dr. Andrew Tsen, Fletcher Allen neuro-

cell culture results support her hypothesis. Further recommending its use: GTA can be orally administered, is easily absorbed by the stomach and gastrointestinal tract, has a low risk of side effects, and minimal toxicity to non-cancerous cells. The next step is a Phase 1 clinical trial.

HONOR ROLL UVM has received a record number of applications for next fall’s entering class

—23,936— up nine percent over last year. “There is a buzz about UVM in the high schools we visit,” says Beth Wiser, director of admissions. “UVM offers a first-rate academic experience in a highly desirable location, and students are active and engaged, which leads to their success after graduation. Spreading this story is translating into more applicants.”

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Dr. Andrew Tsen and Professor Diane Jaworski are part of a UVM team discovering potential new brain cancer treatments.

surgery resident, would be to determine if GTA reduced the growth of tumors formed in mouse brains. The group’s second “aha moment” came when the test data were decoded, and it was revealed that GTA increased the effectiveness of chemotherapy treatment and increased survival.

Because almost all types of cancer cells have reduced acetate, Jaworski believes that GTA will not only be effective on glioma cells, but potentially other cancers. Preliminary

“The driving force for this project is the fond memories of my friend and colleague Bruce Fonda,” says Jaworski.

“I often wonder, what if GTA was available for him? However, I must now focus on the fact that there are other patients receiving the dire diagnosis of glioblastoma every day and GTA may help them.

It is through this work that Bruce’s legacy lives on.”

sor of health policy and nursing in the College of Nursing and Health Sciences, is a recipient of the 2013 Sloan Consortium Excellence in Online Teaching award. Over the past three years, Rambur has designed, developed, and taught five online graduate and undergraduate courses. Committed to connecting with her students, Rambur’s online course evaluations are

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year ago on a high school trip to Costa Rica, first-year student Alia Degen helped rebuild pathways in the rain-

consistently excellent.

As a testament to her success, her student retention rate is nearly

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like surgery—not always an option—and radiation and chemotherapy, glioma stem cells are able to rapidly reform tumors.

Reduced acetate levels are a hallmark of all cancers, Jaworski says. “Most notably, the lack of acetate silences tumor suppressor genes, the ‘brakes’ that limit cell division.” As the UVM scientists explored ways to boost acetate levels, they lived the truth of medical research— always a long road, where the knowledge of what doesn’t work can sometimes be the trigger to what treatments can be effective. It was on the flight back from an April 2011 cancer conference that Jaworski and Long talked and came to one of those fabled “aha moments,” insight that pushed them to try another possibility in their efforts to boost acetate levels.

The key solution turned out to be an FDA-approved food additive—glyceryl triacetate (GTA)—used to treat Canavan disease, an inherited disorder that causes progressive damage to nerve cells in the brain. A previous clinical trial using GTA, conducted by collaborators at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland, was fundamental to Jaworski’s pursuit of this avenue. “Their work found that both rodents and infants can tolerate GTA very well,” she says.

Within a few weeks back in the lab, the UVM research

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Chosen among thousands of entries, Degen was one of fifty selected to go on a giving trip and personally deliver shoes to impoverished children in Central and South America last fall. While TOMS signature canvas slipons may be a fashion statement in the United States, in the developing world, they’re a tool to ward off health risks like parasites, bacteria, and infection that can easily develop without a barrier between a child’s foot and the ground.

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Through partnering with schools in the country, TOMS is also providing an incentive for children to pursue an education. A student of Spanish since kindergarten, Degen says one of the best parts of the trip was chatting with the kids as she helped measure their feet for new shoes, asking about their families, their siblings, what they like to do for fun—forming connections with the people impacted by the program.

Aside from her work in Costa Rica and Honduras, Degen, before even graduating high school, had also taken service trips to Nicaragua and New Orleans. “I love traveling,” she says, “but I like to give back while I’m traveling.” It’s no surprise her service-mindedness has followed her to UVM, where she

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volunteers with FeelGood, whose proceeds from grilled cheese sales in the Davis Center are donated to help end world hunger. She’s also working as a program assistant in the Community-University Partnerships and ServiceLearning (CUPS) office on campus, whose mission is to align service opportunities with academic pursuits.

In addition to what she perceived as a commitment to social and environmental justice at UVM—“I felt like people

cared about the world here,” Degen says—it was a meeting with Luis Vivanco, director of Global and Regional Studies, that convinced her UVM was the right choice for her during her college search. While other schools’ programs concentrated on international relations, she says, UVM’s focus on globalization and its causes was a closer fit for her interests.

Vivanco, who is teaching Degen in his “Culture and Environments” course, is also pleased she chose UVM. “I think she’s a stellar representative of the kind of Global Studies student that we have here who is really committed to making change in the world,” he says, “and who wants to spark dialogue across borders—cultural and linguistic—to see what we can do to make the world a better place.”

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If I were not a scientist, I would be a scientist.

Yeah, I heard you. You could take my profession away, but I would just sneak around and be a covert scientist.

Rory Waterman, UVM professor of chemistry, in a special edition of the journal Inorganic Chemistry

JUSTRELEASED] Coat couture

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hat are the signature emblems of high-end fashion? Maybe the red sole of a Christian Louboutin heel or the patterned monogram on a Louis Vuitton bag come to mind. But beyond brands and logos there exists another echelon of luxury clothing, unknown to all except the most discerning, where items bear virtually no outward sign of their origins or value. This is the world of bespoke tailoring; its motto: “knowing, not showing.”

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places that originated this garment and have kept the bespoke tradition alive.

Why care about the frivolity of a coat with a price tag that’s roughly equivalent to what the median U.S. household earns in a year?

“It’s very easy to say, ‘Well, that’s obscene that someone would spend that for a custom overcoat,’” she says. But in a world of massproduced, buy-one, get-one disposable clothing (which Noonan admits she and her two daughters certainly partake in), there’s value, she says, in the made-to-last. “And it’s keeping the tradespeople alive.”

That’s a value near to a journalist’s heart.

Noonan was thrilled a book concept like hers, which involved so much travel and research, could draw the interest of a publisher today.

It’s a different world from when Noonan began writing at UVM, inspired, especially, by classes with the late professor of English T. Alan Broughton. “He really got me to think of myself as someone who could write, and that’s a huge mental leap to make—to feel like you might be good at this.” After graduation, her first writing gig was an internship at the Burlington Free Press.

“I definitely saw parallels to my own life,” she says of the tradespeople working in this rarified textile industry, “and to most of the writers I know who are of a certain age who have seen things change so drastically around them.” It’s those many artisans and patrons that bring The Coat Route to life. “Great, wonderful, funny people who sort of saw the humor in what they were doing,” she says, “but still took it seriously, believed in it, and took a lot of pride in it.”

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Slip Sliding Away Barking Rain Press Sean Mulcahy ’09 At a time when college graduates face one of the most difficult job markets in decades, a new novel by alumnus Sean Mulcahy ’09 puts a face and a story on the issues facing so many Millennials: unemployment, student loan debt, moving back home with mom and dad. But the novel isn’t only for the young. Each chapter comes with recommended playlist of Baby Boomer songs, bridging the generational divide.

Wounded Warriors: A Soldier’s Story of Healing through Birds Potomac Books, Inc. Robert C. Vallieres with Jacquelyn M. Howard ’81 When doctors, pill and behavior modification couldn’t help, nature did. Alumna Jacquelyn Howard ’81 helps Persian Gulf War Veteran Robert Vallieres tell his story of how birds and birdwatching aided in his recovery from war wounds, including a traumatic brain injury. “Hope is the thing with feathers,” wrote Emily Dickinson, and this book offers hope to thousands of military personnel struggling with mental and physical injury. Howard, who majored in agriculture at UVM, is an environmental management specialist, naturalist, avian field biologist, and writer. She lives in Arlington, Virginia and works at the Army National Guard Readiness Center, where she supports sustainability of the landscape needed for soldier training.

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Although the clothing might not speak its pedigree at first glance, that’s not to say it doesn’t have a story to tell. Meg Lukens Noonan ’79 knows this better than anyone. Her new book, The Coat Route: Craft, Luxury & Obsession on the Trail of a $50,000 Coat, traces the story of the making of one of the finest bespoke garments, the impeccable materials of which—from vicuña wool to water buffalo horn buttons—were sourced the world over.

Before beginning the project, Noonan didn’t know much about tailoring or the centuries-old, meticulous bespoke tradition (referring to the most custom of custom-made clothing). The spark for the book was one of her assignments as a freelance writer, her profession for more than twenty-five years.

For that fateful story, Noonan traveled to a remote island in Norway and worked alongside the fifteen or so people who live there, handpicking from duck nests eiderdown feathers destined to become the stuffing of $8,000 comforters. “I was fascinated by the idea of people working in incredibly remote places doing very intensive work for a product that might ultimately end up in a penthouse suite somewhere,” she says.

Back from the assignment and intrigued by the idea of a book on the subject, she turned to Google, searching for terms like “best in the world” and “most luxurious product.” She found John Cutler, a preeminent bespoke tailor and creator of the $50,000 coat. That was the beginning of an adventure that would take her from her home in New Hampshire to Australia and Canada, England and Peru, France and Italy in pursuit of the story of the people and

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aunching into a roundup of sports highlights with a Catamounts loss is somewhat counter-intuitive. But when that loss is by one point to #6 Duke—they of the glowering Coach K, “Crazies” in Cameron Indoor Stadium, and bazillion-game home win streak over non-conference opponents—well, it is something to celebrate.

Coming off three consecutive losses and in the midst of a seven-game string

of road contests, no one had reason to expect Vermont could be a shot away from victory in Durham. As the clock wound down and the Catamounts hung close and even led the game, a lucky few Vermont fans cheered from the rafters of Cameron, more watched on ESPNU, and many shared the experience via social media—Facebook and Twitter lighting up with comments and plenty of “Go Cats Go!”

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The spirited underdog performance against Duke, of course, brought back memories of the upset of Syracuse in the 2005 NCAA Tournament. With a strong regular season, in a battle with Stony Brook at the top of the America East standings, the Catamounts looked to be in a solid position for a possible run through the conference tournament with the prize of an America East Championship and a chance to return to the Big Dance.

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Coach Lori McBride’s women’s team has had a rougher go of it this season, standing at 6-17 overall and 3-7 in America East in early February. Freshmen Kylie Butler and Kristina White have quickly proven themselves at the college level with Butler twice earning conference Rookie of the Week honors. Junior Niki Taylor was America East’s Player of the Week after she played a key role in consecutive victories over Wagner and UMass-Lowell.

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With a victory over #9 Boston University in January, the Cats earned their first win over a ranked opponent during Coach Jim Plumer’s tenure. That milestone is among a number of high points in a season that saw UVM standing at 13-134, 9-7-1, fourth in Hockey East in mid-February. While just a junior, Vermont native Amanda Pelkey has already written her name at the top of the UVM record book for points and goals. On the defensive side, Roxanne Douville has been among the standouts, earning the conference’s Goaltender of the Month recognition in December and keeping that form going with performances like thirty-six saves in a win over Providence. Off the ice, senior Danielle Rancourt was nominated for the 2014 college Hockey Humanitarian Award.

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The Catamounts have continued their domination of the EISA circuit this season, running their string to twelve consecutive victories with a win at the Dartmouth Carnival February 7-8. Beyond the American collegiate scene, UVM alpine skier Elli Terweil competed for Canada at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, and Nordic skiers Jack Hegman, Stephanie Kirk, Cole Morgan, Maggie Williams, Marion Woods, and Scott Patterson competed at the 2014 FIS Nordic Junior and U23 World Ski Championships in Val di Fiemme, Italy. Following a national championship in 2012 and a third place finish in 2013, the Catamounts will travel to Park City, Utah, for the 2014 NCAA Championships in March.

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by BOB ROSENTHAL ’70 The memories blur over decades, but for the guys who became part of UVM’s first championship team what was truly special and what formed a lifelong bond was the shared journey. From freshmen who had to practice at 6:15 a.m., trudging across what we called the “tundra” in the darkness and wind chills, sometimes at fifty-below, to Gutterson. To seniors who played before delirious, stoned, booze-fueled fans packed into the Gut, whose intensity helped take us to championship levels.

But the deep-forged bond I felt at this fall’s reunion for every class was something I did not expect to find: love.

Hockey players and love? But there it was. It made me think what were the things we all shared and understood—without words—that connected us, all of us, over time, distance, and life.

Certainly there was the connection we all shared to the hard work. We all know what it feels like to gasp for breath after all those sprints, we all know the feeling of your heart pounding until you think it will burst. We all know the pain of a slap shot off your instep. We all know the shared anguish of defeat and the exhilaration of victory over an arrogant, cocky foe.

We all know what it feels like to take that first stride onto the brilliant, clean, crackling fresh hard ice.

Some of us are gone, some of us are frail, some of us are strong.

The ups and downs of life touch us all, tragedies and triumphs. The golden days of our college hockey experiences at UVM are wrapped with special cloth.

All of us shared what’s in that package, it’s a special gift to have on hand. It’s OK to treasure it, because it only gets better with the passage of time.

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As the university marks fifty years of men’s hockey, Coach Kevin Sneddon’s team has shown a great sense of moment, putting together a strong season in front of the Gutterson faithful. Marquee wins have included a 5-2 victory over Penn State in a game played at Philadelphia’s Wells Fargo Center and taking the Sheraton/TD Bank Catamount Cup on home ice. The Cats defeated Notre Dame, then ranked #2, in the Irish’s first-ever game in Hockey East. A five-game winning streak during the fall semester included back-to-back weekend sweeps over UMass and Maine. Freshman Mario Puskarich made a habit of earning Hockey East Rookie of the Week honors, four of them in a six-week span. Senior Chris McCarthy has been a force throughout the season and has been named a semi-finalist for the Walter Brown Award, recognizing the best American-born player in New England. In late December, UVM was nationally ranked for the first time since the 2009-10 season and the squad has remained in the polls, rising as high as #17. In mid-February, the team stood at 15-9-3, 7-7-0 in Hockey East.

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Herzog’s Shadow

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Class connects with German film great

Call it audacity. Call it chutzpah. Call it something we can’t call it in a family oriented university publication. This ability to “put yourself out there” through a leap of faith is an essential skill for any artist. In sparking an unlikely collaboration between legendary German director Werner Herzog and two classes of UVM undergrad filmmakers, visiting professor Peter Shellenberger has given his students an immersive lesson in what can happen if you’re willing to take a chance.

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Some background: Shellenberger, an adjunct faculty member covering classes for Professor Ted Lyman in the Art & Art History Department this academic year, is a photographer/filmmaker/teacher who has an affinity for the anachronistic Super 8 film format. He spent some seven years developing a Super 8-based course at the Maine College of Art, and when the opportunity arose to teach film production at UVM, it seemed a natural that he bring it to Vermont. The fact that Lyman had fifteen circa 1975 Super 8 cameras, still in boxes, lined up on the shelf of his office? Pure serendipity and a clincher.

The plot thickened when Shellenberger spotted a notice in local weekly Seven Days that Werner Herzog would be speaking at two events at Dartmouth College in early September. Working together, Shellenberger and his classes devised a plan to attend one of the events with a boxed-up Super 8 camera loaded with film, offering it to Herzog with the proposal that he shoot the 3.5-minute reel, return it to them for developing, then they would develop their own films in response. From every nuance

of their note to the rubberband around the box, they carefully pondered the proposal and its presentation. Herzog, one of the most noted directors of his time with titles such as Aguirre, The Wrath of God; Fitzcarraldo; Grizzly Man; and Nosferatu in his extensive filmography, is a formidable presence, not a man to be trifled with.

Though tickets were scarce for Herzog’s first appearance, a Dartmouth staffer reserved two for Shellenberger.

(The entire class would get their field trip several days later when Herzog and Ken Burns discussed documentaries in tandem.) So it was that Shellenberger drove down to Hanover, seized his opportunity during the Q and A period, stood up in the third row of a Dartmouth auditorium, fought back nerves, and made the pitch on behalf of his students. “He stared at me for a while,” Shellenberger says, as he recounts the story while sitting in his Williams Hall office. “And he’s an intense person, he really is. The eye contact was intense. Then Herzog kind of scooched up to the edge of his seat and he said that yes, he hadn’t worked in Super 8 in such a long time, but, yes, he would WERNER HERZOG

Visiting professor Peter Shellenberger and student Christopher Von Staats.

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developing is their instincts as filmmakers. I don’t know how digital really does that in a way. If something doesn’t go right, you’re relying on the technology to back you up.

Super 8 there is nothing there. There is just you.”

Student Emma Stern calls the Herzog collaboration “surreal” and says she has grown through working in the throwback medium. “Working with Super 8 is a very physical experience,” she says. “You have to be physically in touch with the camera and hope that it captures what you see through it. I’ve also found that filming with Super 8 requires you to slow down and make time. I’ve had my hits and misses with Super 8 so far, and I still feel like I have a lot to learn.”

Fellow student Zach Pughe-Sanford was at work on a film that will explore a human shadow theme in response to the filmmaker’s shadow in Herzog’s work.

And once he has his film completed, Pughe-Sanford has an audacious plan of his own. On an upcoming trip to Los Angeles, he’s going to make a quest to track Herzog down with hopes to hand him his film in person.

Sam Kleh and four classmates have collaborated on a work that he describes as a noir piece that will pick up on the gritty, industrial setting of Herzog’s film. He notes that Super 8 is an ideal medium for highlighting contrast and light, the look they’re seeking. Works in progress sometimes have those pivotal moments, mystical assurance that the path is worthy, that can spur a project on.

For Kleh and friends this happened when they scouted the waterfront railroad tracks in Burlington as a locale and came upon a long freight, thirty cars hitched together, the same name emblazoned on each one: “Herzog.”

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take it. No guarantees, but he would take it.”

Two weeks later, Herzog returned the camera and the exposed reel for developing along with a typewritten, hand-signed letter detailing how he wanted this collaboration to play out. Shellenberger digs out the envelope from a stack on his desk and shares Herzog’s note.

The words, which have the hint of a ransom note, beg the deep, soft hiss of the German filmmaker’s voice—“…

What should happen is the following: please develop the film and hand it over to your students. My demand is the following: they have to make films, collectively or individually, which should include my footage. Obviously, they do not need to take everything, nor in the order I filmed the material. The title of their film/films has to be WHERE’S DA PARTY AT? In my footage this appears in one of the graffiti, and at least this portion of the text should appear in the film, or all the films…”

Herzog’s black-and-white footage, shot in an abandoned industrial building on a Sunday morning, is rough. Some of it is very dark, but with striking images such as water dripping into a puddle and a couple of instances where the looming shadow of the filmmaker appears in the foreground. The lack of perfection, the mistakes, the roughness of it meshes with Shellenberger’s reasons for teaching film students via Super 8. Old school can offer new insight.

“With a Super 8 cartridge you only have three and a half minutes to say what you want to say, trying to get all of these things to take place,” Shellenberger says. “There is no erasing it. There is no checking your little screen to see how it looks. At the end of the day, what I’m interested in

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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

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dent. She earned her bachelor’s degree at UVM in 1961, graduating magna cum laude at the age of thirty-two. She went on to earn a master’s (UVM, 1963), and a doctorate (University of Connecticut, 1968). She came back to UVM and continued what would become a life-long career in the English Department, first as assistant professor in 1968 and, by 1976, one of the youngest full professors. Within four years she was chair of the department. Her academic pursuits were so unusual for a young mother at that time that the Burlington Free Press sent a reporter to photograph her sitting on the swing set in her academic regalia, her three children by her side. While the pendulum of her life swung between the college on the hill in Burlington and the family on the lake in Shelburne, it’s no secret what really made her tick. She was driven by intellectual curiosity and academic achievement. She never fit the ideal of the stay-at-home 1950s mom: in some ways she never fit the role of any kind of “model” mom. Virginia was just Virginia.

Virginia’s office was filled with the books and journals we imagined an English professor whose discipline was language should have. There were hundreds of volumes with titles like Joseph M. Williams’, Origins of the English Language, and The ABCs of Language and Linguistics, by Ornstein and

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hen loved ones pass away they leave things behind. In my mother-in-law Virginia Clark’s case it was books, more than 6,500 of them. What to do with them? We don’t generally think of books as keepsakes. Amazon has cheapened them; Kindle may soon make them obsolete.

Used books, unless they’re rare first editions, don’t have much retail value. Her library wasn’t full of rare books—but it was crowded with interesting ones.

By the time my wife, Delia ’79, and I, together with her sister Susan ’83 and husband, Mark, began really analyzing the book collection, Virginia had been cremated, her ashes combined with her husband’s in Lake Champlain. It turned out there was a lot of her still in those books.

They held a kind of after-image, a hidden shadow in 6,500 stories. While each of us had a different relationship with Virginia’s books—admiring, borrowing, and in her children’s case vividly recollecting the spines of certain tomes since childhood—it now became interesting to consider their collective message. Perhaps it was strange that we hadn’t analyzed the patterns of her library more closely while she was alive. On the other hand, we had had her, and for the family that had always been a bit of a contentious thing.

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Gage. There was what seemed to be a complete collection of Noam Chomsky’s linguistics writing, including his Knowledge of Language, and with Halle, The Sound Pattern of English, and Language and Politics. Geneva Smitherman’s Talkin and Testifyin: The Language of Black America was up on the shelves. There were four Oxford English Dictionaries too, less books than cinder blocks. Not knowing much about linguistic studies I had asked my son Toben UVM ’12, a linguistics and anthropology major, what the books told him about her. Toben, a great reader himself along with his sisters Mollie and Kalmia ’04, said he thought it was her books that gave her company and brought the world into the house, especially important in her last years when she had difficulties getting outside.

Alternately, I had wondered if it was the books that had kept the world out all these years.

Her office books, it seemed to us, reflected her professional persona well, but I wondered if hidden up on those office bookshelves were clues to the secret academic questions that really drove Virginia. In thirty-five years of life with her as mother-in-law, I’m not sure I ever knew about her academic passions. Had I even asked?

I had never taken one of her classes. We were aware of the very successful textbooks she wrote with Al Rosa and Paul Eschholz, Language: Introductory Readings and Language Awareness, but the textbooks seemed more crafted to fit a need in the marketplace. For me it was the slim volume of her unpublished master’s thesis, Criticism of Courtly Love in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde, that gave the more telling clue to her passions. It pointed to an early interest in Middle English, which probably led to her doctorate in linguistics. But it also pointed to a medieval woman, Criseyde, a creation of Chaucer’s, and to a paradox. Was Criseyde a saintly ideal of courtly love, or was Chaucer’s creation weak, “a worthless tramp,” betrayer of Troilus for power and security?

Knowing Virginia, I wondered if she might have been deeply struck by the paradox of Criseyde. These two narrow, but opposing ideas about the nature of womanhood dominated Western male thought for centuries.

Maybe it spoke to a sense of her own modern paradox: Mother or professional woman? It was Criseyde, I think, who was Virginia’s secret friend, her companion—the reflection of her personal paradox. It was Criseyde who opened the door to Virginia’s lifelong interest in women in literature and the role of women in society.

From Criseyde to Erica Jong’s Fear of Flying to postmodern feminist deconstructionism, a primary narrative Virginia wanted to explore and illuminate through

her personal library, and in the classroom, was the journey women had been on and how far they had come. It’s an ongoing story of struggle and liberation. It was her story. Of the hundreds of women’s literature titles, kept neatly in their own bookcases, are more than a few that occupy our bookcase now. Books like Malika Oufkir’s Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail, and Clarissa Pinkola Estes’ Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype, and Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity by Sarah Pomeroy we will read someday. They will remind us of her.

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ooks had long been a refuge for Virginia.

One small volume on her office shelves hinted at stories her children had heard about their grandmother. Agnes Chase’s First Book of Grasses was edited by Virginia’s mother, Phyllis W. Prescott. Phyllis had gone to work for the Smithsonian Institution’s Publications and Editorial Division after her husband abandoned the family when Virginia was four. Phyllis helped support herself and her young daughter by editing books like the grass book, archeological bulletins, anthropological treatises, including Matthew Stirling’s Handbook of South American Indians for the Bureau of American Ethnology.

It wasn’t an easy upbringing, mother and daughter living with Virginia’s aunt and uncle in Chevy Chase, Maryland, where they were treated, according to family lore, like second-class citizens. To be free of that house, where, according to her uncle, “children were to be seen but not heard,” Virginia was introduced by her mother to the local library, where she soon undertook a project to read every book on the shelves. Later, when Virginia might have gone to college with students her own age, her absent father refused any support. She got married instead.

If you loved and needed books as much as Virginia did, then did they become your preferred art form and friends?

One living room wall was lined corner-to-corner, floorto-ceiling with non-fiction—nearly two thousand titles in hardcover, a sea of color and words that entertained and enlightened, written by the century’s most able writers. Judging by their prime location in the living room, non-fiction work is what she needed the most. They gave her information, not to teach or advance her career, but to live. She loved John McPhee’s work, and the essays of Stephen Jay Gould, Loren Eisley, Richard Dawkins. She had an enormous interest in the power of the mind and kept

up with the rapidly evolving field of neuroscience, with titles like Brave New Brain, The Growth of the Mind, The Mind and the Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force. Books like The Age of Empathy: Nature’s Lessons for a Kinder Society by Frans De Waal, and The Accidental Mind: How Brain Evolution Has Given Us Love, Memory, Dreams, and God by David J. Linden perhaps confirmed that mind was all.

A confirmed atheist, Virginia populated the living room with a thin but distinct streak of science writing that framed religious thinking in terms of evolutionary science. She needed books from William James’ The

had been justly rewarded for it. But there are always tradeoffs, particularly for a smart, highly ambitious woman coming up in the 1950s and 1960s, including long months away from her three children and husband during graduate school, and far too much to juggle. I believe it contributed to a feeling of isolation in the family.

Fiction comes out of feelings and the unknown. So, she put fiction in the basement—it had to go somewhere.

For the last four years of her life she had great difficulty getting into the basement. Battling infection, she’d spent a lot of time in and out of hospitals and rehab and was, by 2006, a double amputee. An electronic chair eleva-

If you loved and needed books as much as Virginia did, then did they become your preferred art form and friends? tor could get her downstairs, but it was a tricky double maneuver. Those books, some with notes of thanks from authors she’d helped, and many with notes or letters she’d received or written tucked inside, sunk down into a kind of subconscious existence. On those shelves gathering dust were the likes of David Huddle and Alan Broughton, Grace Paley, Marge Piercy, Adrienne Rich, Annie Proulx, Noel Perrin, Jane Hamilton, Philip Larkin, John Updike, James Joyce, Günter Grass, Anaïs Nin, Naguib Mahfouz, Joyce Carol Oates, Plato, Neal Stephenson, Carol Shields, Tim O’Brien, Gore Vidal, Jane Smiley, V.S. Naipaul, Nabokov, Ruth Rendel, Elizabeth Bishop, Flannery O’Connor, Stephen King, Mary McCarthy, Anne Tyler, David Foster Wallace, William Styron… the list goes on and on and on. Her friends, all.

As Virginia aged, we spoke with her about her wishes regarding her books. While she left precise, well-documented instructions about financial matters and end-oflife care, ultimately she never came up with an answer about her library—so we had to come up with our own.

What did we do with Virginia’s books? Her children took many home. Grandchildren all took the grand book tour and selected their favorites. Some went to the new UVM Linguistics Department, which has created an award in her name. Some were sold. But most were donated to Burlington’s Fletcher Free Library, or were carried to small town and school libraries across Vermont. Basically, we gathered her up and gave her away.

Her library has been scattered and amplified and so, we have little doubt, has she.

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Varieties of Religious Experience, all the way to Chistopher Hitchens’ God is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, and Peter Nadas’ Fire and Knowledge, to know that where she stood had a reasoned validity. Books confirmed to her that it was OK to be who she was. She loved books on weather, mirroring her own love of reading by the lake and watching water and clouds.

But there was a stormy streak to her book collecting, too, that provided a mirror to her life. Although she had struggled with depression her entire adult life, and at least once was knocked down hard by it, she emerged later and seemed to find strength in a rational understanding of the illness. Terri Cheney’s The Dark Side of Innocence: Growing up Bipolar, Peter D. Kramer’s Listening to Prozac and Against Depression, Women of the Asylum by Jeffrey L. Geller and Maxine Harris, The Beast: A Reckoning with Depression by Tracy Thompson, Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness by William Styron were a few that suggested a strong need on her part for useful information on the dark nights of the mind.

My favorite room in Virginia’s library house was the basement sitting room. There were some 3,500 titles housed there—including a fair amount of classic literature, poetry and criticism, but mostly fiction. By the numbers alone, it was fiction that made up the majority of her entire library, and I imagine that it’s fiction writers she secretly admired the most. Why? Because I think she could feel through them and touch something she wanted very much but had difficulty reaching in her own soul.

She’d led a life of the mind. A good, hard one at that, and

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UVM BOUND New book showcases the university

The University of Vermont: Tradition Looks Forward is a new

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coffee-table format book that celebrates the campus, culture, and history of the university. The publication, rich in photographs, features sections focused on the Green, the historic buildings of University Row, Catamount sports, and UVM’s hometown and home state. An anecdotal history hits the high points and pivotal moments across UVM’s 223 years. Vermont Quarterly editor Thomas Weaver is the book’s writer; principal photography is by Sally McCay and Mario Morgado; and VQ art director Elise Whittemore-Hill is the designer. During its initial release, the book has a limited distribution, as a thank you gift to lifetime members of the Alumni Association. In this issue, we offer a glimpse of the volume.

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“Lore has it that UVM’s first president, Daniel Clarke Sanders, joined with students to fell towering white pines on the green, timber that was used to build the university’s original academic building.

It takes an imaginative leap to picture the Green in those early years—the raw, ragged look of newly logged forest, the occasional bear passing through.”

Taken together, University Row—Ira Allen Chapel, Billings Library, Wil“liams Hall, Old Mill, Royall Tyler Theatre, Morrill Hall—create the univer-

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sity’s architectural signature. It’s a diverse signature, to be sure, written in a blend of scrolled calligraphy and careful print.”

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bounds of UVM’s campus is glimpsed in moments, any given day, any given hour. While the undergrads in the CREAM program are caring for their dairy herd on Spear Street, a WRUV student DJ is tending the fire of college rock in the Davis Center studio, a professor is in a College of Medicine lab pushing forward a critical research trial, and the women’s cross-country team is striding across the Green on a morning run.” this balance that makes the city an integral part of students’ years at “theIt’suniversity.

For every memory of Old Mill, Gutterson, or Billings, there is another of the Flynn Theatre, the Burlington Bike Path, or Ben & Jerry’s. For every memory of Living/Learning, Ira Allen Chapel, or the Green, there is another of North Beach, Halverson’s, or that first apartment on Isham Street.”

anecdotal history of the

1790s

From the moment of founding, it takes the trustees almost a decade to establish the institution in Burlington. During these years, the citizens of Burlington pledge $2,310 to fund the university’s first building, library, and “philosophical apparatus.” This is a considerable sum, particularly considering there are just 816 Burlington residents at the time.

1800

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President James Marsh writes the introductory essay to the American edition of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “Aids to Reflection,” an essay that would have a major impact on the Concord circle of Transcendentalist philosophers and writers. The UVM faculty publishes a thirty-two-page pamphlet “Exposition of the System of Instruction and Discipline Pursued in the University of Vermont.” It will have a major impact on the development of American higher education.

Together, these place UVM as a progressive center of humanistic educational thought.

1883-1907

A building boom at UVM and in Burlington, puts the face on the campus that we

still know today. 1883, Old Mill renovation, funded by a gift from Burlington leader John Purple Howard, creates the building’s Victorian façade. 1885, Billings Library; 1896, Williams Hall; 1901, Gymnasium (Royall Tyler Theatre); 1906, College of Medicine Building (Dewey Hall); 1907, Morrill Hall.

1921

The university purchases the Buell Estate on South Prospect Street, creating the heart of Redstone Campus. Robinson Hall and Redstone Hall are converted for use as women’s dormitories, and soon generations of UVM women will experience the pairing of a skirts-only dress code with winter morning walks to class.

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Rev. Daniel Clarke Sanders is appointed as the University of Vermont’s first president. An account from the era describes Sanders as “a powerful man, over six feet in height, so strong that he could lift a barrel of cider by the chines and place it in the tail-end of a cart.” That proves a good thing, as Sanders basically does everything at the fledgling university—chopping down the towering pine trees to provide a clearing for the campus, cataloguing the first library, helping plan the construction of the first building, serving as the university’s entire faculty for the first seven years. Says President Sanders: “There was everything to be created and many shrunk away from the bold and arduous labor of founding a college in a wilderness.”

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1929

James Wilbur leaves the university a trust in excess of $2.5 million, money that will seed a long-standing scholarship fund. Wilbur, a banker by vocation/historian by avocation with a deep interest in Ira Allen, also provided funds for Ira Allen Chapel and the statue of UVM’s founder on The Green.

1950

The UVM Dairy Bar opens under the leadership of Professor Henry Atherton ’48 G’50. The beloved home of UVM ice cream was a campus institution, housed in the Carrigan Dairy Science Building, until its close in 1995. The Dairy Bar’s chrome stools live on in the Davis Center.

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1969

1972

Kake Walk is abolished. Part of the university’s Winter Festival since 1893, the dance performance/competition, rooted in minstrel shows and featuring students in blackface, had stirred protest on campus beginning in the 1950s.

February 12 Barbara Ann Cochran

1970

Phish plays their first concert, performing for a handful of fellow students in HarrisMillis residence hall.

Head Coach Jim Cross leads the Catamounts to the first of three Division II national championships in men’s hockey and an eventual step up to Division I in 1974.

’78 wins the gold medal in slalom at the Winter Olympics in Sapporo, Japan.

1983 1991

Students occupy the executive wing of the Waterman Building in protest of what they see as a lack of progress and administrative commitment to building diversity and multicultural awareness at UVM.

“As the shot snapped through the net, the diehard Catamount faithful who had made the trip south to Worcester, Massachusetts, and all the underdog lovers in the arena erupted. Coach Tom Brennan threw his fists in the air as his team ran to the bench for a timeout. While the game was far from over, the air was suddenly electric with belief—‘Vermont is going to win this.’”

1997

december Jody Williams ’72 receives the Nobel Peace Prize for her work with the International Campaign to Ban Landmines. Two years later, Dr. John McGill, a 1978 graduate of the College of Medicine and president of Doctors Without Borders, again puts Vermont in the Nobel spotlight.

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October 5 The university dedicates

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“Lifetime members of the UVM Alumni Association will receive a copy of the limited-distribution University of Vermont book as a thank you gift for their expression of support for the University and the Alumni Association.

Here’s a thought for current annual members—consider upgrading your annual UVMAA membership to a lifetime membership, and you, too, can receive what’s bound to be one of your most treasured UVM keepsakes.

Here’s thought for UVM parents of the Class of 2014—why not consider giving a lifetime UVM Alumni Association membership to your son or daughter as a graduation gift? They’ll get Tradition Looks Forward as a sentimental journey through their years at UVM as they start their next chapter in life, plus all the other benefits their lifetime membership conveys.

Full details of the UVM Alumni Association’s “Forever UVM” membership program, costs, and benefits are available online at alumni.uvm.edu/ membership.

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the Dudley H. Davis Center and celebrates the successful conclusion of the $250 million Campaign for the University of Vermont.

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UVM PEOPLE

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Elizabeth Burke Bryant ’79 MISSION As founder and executive director of Rhode Island KIDS COUNT, Elizabeth Burke Bryant ’79 has been a powerful voice for children in the state’s halls of power across two decades. Her work creating and leading the policy and research organization focused on the health, safety, education, economic security, and development of Rhode Island’s children has made her a national leader in child advocacy.

“There’s still so much work to do,” she says. “We know that getting a high-quality education has always been the road out of poverty. Every day we approach our work with that in mind and strive to make a difference through public policy in the lives of these children.”

APPROACH The annual Rhode Island KIDS COUNT Factbook provides data on dozens of child welfare measures and is considered an invaluable resource for policymakers, community leaders, and media. A quarterly Issue Brief Series and monthly cable television program also work to inform key stakeholders.

Bryant presents the Factbook to the governor, congressional delegation, and statewide officials at a highprofile breakfast attended by six hundred people. “It’s really meant to be a moment of taking stock of how we’re doing for children in Rhode Island,” says Bryant. “In order to be credible with our advocacy we absolutely needed to have the policy research and the latest reliable data to help inform the public policy decisions. We start with the statistics, and we really try to put a human face on those numbers.”

IMPACT KIDS COUNT has helped change the lives of thousands of children. Progress spurred includes the expansion of health insurance to 94 percent of Rhode Island children; increased access to dental care for low-income children; Rhode Island’s Pre-K Program; and the creation of the Rhode Island Nurse Family Partnership Program for infants born at high risk, among others. KIDS COUNT also helped create the National School Readiness Indicators Initiative: Making Progress for Young Children, a seventeen-state initiative that establishes a set of measurable indicators related to school readiness that can be tracked at the state and local levels.

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Bryant, who graduated from UVM with a degree in political science (husband Dan Bryant ’79 is also an alum), grew up around Rhode Island politics and has fond memories of her father running for mayor of Providence. “Politics is in the blood,” says Bryant, who won a seat in student government in her first year at UVM. “I look back on my UVM experience with such fondness and appreciation. It was an incredible leadership training experience for what I do now. I was able to work on issues I cared about and was made to feel like an equal partner with administration officials. I loved the idea of public policy having an impact on issues that meant something to me.”

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The comforts of Thanksgiving dinner: turkey, yams, pumpkin pie. For a college senior there is often something else on the table not so comforting. Mom, Dad, Grandma, Uncle Ted’s question: “So, what’s next for you after graduation?”

Anticipating that seat-squirmer traditionally results in a surge of visits to the UVM Career Center in November, says Pamela K. Gardner G’85 ’02, the center’s director. But while an initial visit during autumn of senior year is certainly preferable to spring semester finals week, the ideal transition to the working world begins long before—even as soon as when undergrads first set foot on campus. That idea is nothing new. But fresh initiatives, and greater investment in staff and programs are swiftly transforming how aggressively that message is communicated to UVM students and the help they receive in putting it into action. The enhancements implement a study and recommendations spearheaded by Honors College Dean Abu Rizvi at the direction of President Tom Sullivan.

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Getting a first-year student to think about life after graduation when he has just barely lugged the mini-fridge to the fourth floor of Converse Hall, that’s challenge number one.

And, Gardner notes, it’s in direct conflict with an awful lot of what society has told them. “They get all of these messages about how it’s important to enjoy your college years, they are the happiest of your life and you’ll never be that carefree again,” Gardner says. “So many college students don’t get involved in their career development because to them it is the single most representative piece of adulthood that they’ve come up against, and they just want to be young for a while longer.”

One way to begin helping students overcome this fear is to make career questions and issues less weighty, Gardner says. The Career+Experience Hub, which opened last semester in the Davis Student Center, is a highly visible way that has happened. Located at the north end of the sub-Main Street passage into the Davis Center, where thousands of students pass by daily, the Hub brings together the many and rapidly expanding ways UVM students can gain experiential learning. Staff are on hand and informal events focus on internships, service learning classes, work-study jobs, and other opportunities. The space is brightly colored, no appointments necessary, and hosts events like a pizza night with a circle of alumni talking about tech careers.

Nothing to fear—it looks a lot more like the college world than that scary working world.

The Hub will serve as both reminder and facilitator as students chart and monitor their preparation for life after college through a “Four-Year Plan for Career Success” that the university is striving to put in every student’s pocket.

The plan offers a list of strategies and tangible steps that help students begin to figure out what they want to study, where they want to go with their degrees, and how to get there. “The hub is the perfect companion to the career success plan,” Gardner says. “The plan makes clear to students what they should be doing in each semester. The Hub will give them the ‘how.’”

That “how,” says alumnus Seth Moeller ’89, who has a long career in human resources leadership, can look a lot like the activities that have enriched the student experience for years. It’s a point that Moeller stresses when he volunteers to speak with UVM classes or on alumni panels. “Get busy with the things that build a story for yourself. Oh, by the way, they’re the most fun,” he says.

“I can tell you about my time on the student senate or as an orientation leader. Those were the fun things; those were the exciting things; and they were what started to

WORK WISDOM

SETH MOELLER ’89 Seth Moeller is not the first, or likely the last, college grad to leave school with no plan beyond pointing his Jeep toward the Rockies. Aspen, skiing, and busing dishes was followed by a year in Tokyo, where he traveled with his then-girlfriend and taught English, before Moeller really started to think about what he wanted to do professionally.

“Back in the day, there was a mistaken approach that was afforded me that was ‘let’s talk about who you are and see if we can’t figure out where you’ll go.’ I was twenty-two. There wasn’t much to talk about,” Moeller says.

The answer for him and, he suggests, for many of today’s young grads is what he terms “getting busy.” He says, “I needed to learn by do. My time in Tokyo forced me to get busy with the do and experiment with presenting myself, as well as experiment with work that I had never had before. Thirty years later, I’m still affected by what I learned.”

Those thirty years later, Moeller is president of KGA, a Framingham, Massachusetts based firm that sells a variety of human resource-related services. In the course of his career in the field, which began at New England Medical Center (now Tufts Hospital), Moeller estimates he’s been involved in more than three hundred job hires.

Multiply that by candidates considered for each job— well, that’s a lot of interviews he’s been in on.

Moeller brings that personal experience and professional expertise to current students through participating in UVM classes and events, as well as contributing financial support to Career Center initiatives. He stresses the critical importance of students “beginning to build their stories” with activities beyond their academic work and developing the ability to communicate that initiative in a job interview. “Can you present yourself as someone who is genuinely and sincerely champing at the bit to get busy and to learn?” he says. “The humility that you present about your learning and your eagerness to learn—that’s what sells.”

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MICHELLE LEUNG ’13

MATEUS TEIXEIRA ’12

If there’s a lesson in Michelle Leung’s fledgling experi-

This summer, after an aggressive job search with a couple

ence in the working world, it’s this: Step into the path of

of near misses along the way, Mateus Teixeira landed a

opportunities, yes, but also take that next step, which

position that seems a good fit. Granted, a “good fit” for a

sometimes takes some nerve, to truly connect.

mathematics-English-physics triple major with a bloom-

Last spring, Leung was like many college seniors,

ing interest in art history and architectural design could

walking that difficult line of starting up a job search while

mean many things. Since August, Teixeira has worked as

bringing her college years to a close. A work-study job at

a digital production assistant with publisher W.W. Norton

UVM Career Services and her membership in TOWERR,

in New York City.

UVM’s women’s honorary society, got her involved with

Fresh from the front lines of the employment search,

planning a Women in Leadership panel that brought

Teixeira warns that a perky cover letter, tidy one-page re-

professionals to campus to speak about their work.

sume, and good manners aren’t going to cut it these days.

Joy McCune, senior vice president for global human

Though he admits the word “network” makes him wince,

resources at Boston-based State Street Bank, led the

Teixeira learned about job leads from mentors, friends, and

panel. Leung, a business admin major/Chinese minor at

fellow grads. He did his homework on potential employers

UVM, was focused on the human resources field in her

and those in charge of hiring, making sure he knew both

career plans and made it a point to connect with McCune

what they sought and what he had to offer. “Master the

after the discussion.

skill to define yourself as if you were a word cloud,” he says.

Though Leung acknowledges it was a bit “nerve-

As Teixeira looks back on his path to Norton, he credits

wracking” to step up and introduce herself to a woman at

key aspects of his growth to a series of faculty—Lisa

the top of her field, that leap proved worth it. A down-

Schnell and Major Jackson in English, physics profes-

to-earth conversation led to a phone call, led to a visit

sor Joanna Rankin, and Fleming Museum director Janie

to State Street and meetings with McCune and other

Cohen. “By far, the most valuable resources I had were

employees, led to a job two weeks after graduation.

my professors and my own fearlessness/assertiveness.

Since last June, she has been employed as a contract

I would encourage other students to be the same way,”

recruiting coordinator, working out of State Street’s of-

Teixeira says. “I never believed in the magical line separat-

fices in the John Hancock Building in Boston. Her days are

ing students from faculty, so I did all I could to breach it.”

focused on multiple aspects of the hiring and recruiting

A post-graduation internship with Cohen at the

process, so she’s continually aware of the challenges of a

Fleming in which Teixeira took on impressive curatorial

job search as she works with others in the process.

assistant responsibilities proved to be an important coda

With her own senior year a fresh memory, Leung offers

to his UVM years. He loved the work, and the background helped him finish as a finalist in hiring searches at two top

give up, keep persisting. As a senior, it’s very stressful with

NYC art galleries. “But the most important thing to come

papers, exams, and also finding a job and planning for your

out of the experience,” Teixeira says, “was the lesson that

future. But keep your head up, be proactive, meet new

one must be directly involved, obsessed, and, yes, a little

people, make those connections. Honestly, I did not think

shameless, in order to catalyze potential opportunities

that meeting Joy would land me a job, but here I am.”

into real experiences.”

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allow me to define myself to potential employers.”

While intellectual exploration and growth for their own sake is and always will be a part of college life, UVM is also seeking to better integrate reflection and action on “what’s next?” with students’ academic pursuits. Orientation leaders or Career Center staff promoting the Career Success Plan is one thing, it’s another to have a faculty mentor keeping it front and center.

J. Dickinson, professor of anthropology and director of UVM’s Center for Teaching and Learning, has been a stalwart advocate of such initiatives and pioneered an innovative online course that has spawned others. After attending a Career Center workshop for faculty and brainstorming with the center’s associate director, Mary Beth Barritt, Dickinson debuted “Anthropology at Work,” a one-credit winter session course in 2006. It was quickly a hit—usually at capacity, sometimes offered in two sections, and even drew majors from other disciplines.

“The students who were most excited about the class felt that it offered them an opportunity to think about their own career path, to think about internships, to go to Career Center, to write a résumé,” says Dickinson, “to do things they’d never thought of or done before. It was like a gentle on-ramp, not a push. It broke the ice and gave them confidence.”

Given the impact of Dickinson’s class and the popularity of a six-credit summer course called “Business Savvy,” which provides career advice to liberal arts majors, staff in Continuing and Distance Education knew there was student demand for courses that connected the dots between academia and the world of work. In January, the unit offered twenty-two courses similar to Dickinson’s across a wide variety of disciplines.

From faculty on board in the career-focused courses to residential life staff talking up the Career Success Plan with first-year students to alumni advising job-searching seniors via LinkedIn, an “it takes a village” strategy is central to building a stronger bridge between UVM and life after college. “The big idea here is that the institution has gone from thinking that career development is something that the Career Center does to being something that the institution does,” Gardner says. “We’re mobilizing the entire campus in pursuit of students being prepared to transition successfully to the next step.”

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MAX HOLLMAN ’13 Max Hollman confesses that seeking a job in the entertainment management industry right out of college required fighting back a certain sense of intimidation.

He was at an impressionable age, after all, when the characters on the television program Entourage were swaggering around Hollywood. But a senior year “what’s next?” conversation with Honors College Dean Abu Rizvi focused the economics major’s long-held interest in the entertainment/media industries. And after the dean spoke with colleagues at the university foundation and alumni relations, Hollman soon had a list of potential contacts in the field.

Joe Cohen ’87, a top agent with Creative Artists Agency, one of the world’s top firms, agreed to an informational interview on the phone and the young grad’s trepidation quickly fell away. “He was the nicest guy ever,” Hollman says. Cohen and others encouraged him that if this was the business he really wanted to be in, Hollman needed to move to Los Angeles to build his connections and be at the ready for any opportunity that might arise. Cohen offered to pass his résumé along to human resources at CAA. Hollman took the leap, loading up his car and driving across the country to make Los Angeles his home. Within a week he had a job interview with Creative Artists, and not long after that a position as an agent’s assistant. It’s a step up from the traditional mailroom entry-level position and an ideal place to begin to learn the industry, Hollman says.

“It’s true in any industry, but in entertainment, in particular, everything rides on relationships,” he says. “Not in an elitist way—that you have to ‘know someone’ to get in.

It’s more about having someone vouch for you. It’s a matter of being able to convey to anyone who will listen that this is what you want to do, this is what you’re passionate about. And having anyone who is in a position of power

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say, ‘I met with this kid and he seems passionate. I think he’d be great here.’ That goes a long way.”

HILARY HICKINGBOTHAM ’14

DAVID MANAGO ’13

Having a solid job lined up in January when graduation

From the interview process to the culture of his work unit to

isn’t until May is about as good as it gets for a college

the offices in the heart of college-town-hip Ann Arbor, Michi-

senior. Hilary Hickingbotham, a mechanical engineering

gan, the word “amazing” pops up frequently as David Manago

major from Palo Alto, California, is in that happy situa-

discusses his job at Google. His only quibble—it would be nice

tion thanks to proving herself in an internship with UTC

to have a good ski mountain closer.

Aerospace in Vergennes, Vermont.

Her organizational and time management skills are

Google’s Ann Arbor hub is headquarters for some four hundred employees. Manago is part of the small business division,

being tested these days as she juggles her UVM course

handling duties that involve helping businesses maximize

load with two full days a week as a paid intern with UTC.

marketing opportunities via Google.

Hickingbotham says she loves the absorbing role of a

You might not expect to find an environmental studies

manufacturing engineer on the production floor. “It’s fast-

major/business minor at Google less than a year after his

paced. You’re fighting a lot of different little fires in terms

graduation, but Manago says the office halls are full of political

of problems,” she says. “You’re never doing the same thing

science and English majors, a variety of academic backgrounds.

every single day, and it’s never boring.”

In addition to his studies, Manago’s college résumé included

Hickingbotham initially connected with UTC (at that

being an active member of Boulder Society, serving as an Eco-

time Goodrich) at a Career Center job fair during her

Rep, work-study in the Office of Sustainability, participating in

sophomore year. She applied for an internship, didn’t

business case competitions. “I was definitely involved in a lot of

get it, but tried again the next year, and last summer

different things that Google really values,” he says.

began making the drive down Route 7 to UTC’s Vermont

Intrigued by a friend’s work in the tech industry, Manago

headquarters, where they manufacture components for

focused his search in that direction, but a blitz of job

airplanes, helicopters, and military systems. Hickingbo-

applications didn’t yield much until a chain of UVM alumni

tham says she made it a point to not only focus on the

connections helped to break the ice. Manago had a beer

technical aspects of the job but also seek help finding her

one evening with his close friend Jay Taylor ’10, who had just

way in the working world. “I really tried to get a lay of the

completed a nationwide road trip in which he’d met with

land—talking to a bunch of people, asking them what

fellow past presidents of the UVM Student Government

they look for in hiring, what’s important.” She adds about

Association. (Documented in Taylor’s summer 2013 VQ

landing an offer for a real job: “I think it was a combina-

feature.) Bill Tickner ’02, a longtime employee at Google, was

tion of showing them my dedication to it and just work-

among those Taylor had met, and he offered to connect him

ing really hard.”

with Manago. Tickner was generous with his time and advice,

Trying something new for four years was among the attractions that drew Hickingbotham across the country

providing some coaching on interviewing with Google. Not long after, Manago had a job offer.

“I think that really helped put me over the top,” Manago

the professors, the people, and the place. And with that

says. “I hit the jackpot; I’m so grateful.” And he isn’t wasting

job lined up, she’ll be staying a little longer. “I really like it

time paying that forward. The ’13 grad has already put some

in Vermont, and I feel at home,” she says. “I’m happy to get

’14 UVM friends in touch with Google as the Ann Arbor hub

the opportunity to spend some more time here.”

continues to grow.

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ALLIE SCHWARTZ ’11 STRONGER LINKS

Count Allie Schwartz among the believers in the power of Linked

To help both new grads and alumni

In. Granted, it’s not a big surprise that as a LinkedIn employee

well established in their careers to

working in corporate sales out of the company’s Empire State

better network professionally, UVM

Building offices, the young alumna might feel that way. But her

is harnessing the power of LinkedIn.

belief in the social/professional networking website begins with

Join the effort by adding your name

the fact that LinkedIn helped Schwartz land her LinkedIn job in

to the University of Vermont Career

the first place.

Connection and the UVM Alumni Association groups.

The Career Connection group

ation. She sought out informational interviews and grew the

brings together alumni with a parti-

professional network she’d begun to establish as a student. It

cular interest in boosting UVM career

wasn’t long until she landed her first post-college job, with a small

success, offering advice to students

digital branding agency. About the time she was starting to think

and young alums. The Alumni

about her next step, Schwartz received an InMail message from

Association group is primarily for

a LinkedIn manager who had found her via a LinkedIn search for

alumni who want to stay connected

potential candidates with appropriate experience. A couple of

to UVM. Career Center staff encourage

interviews later, she was hired.

alums to join both groups and also

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On a return visit to her alma mater last fall, Schwartz helped

check out the UVM institutional page

current students understand how best to leverage the ways

on LinkedIn.

LinkedIn is revolutionizing the job search process. One key objec-

Lisa Torchiano, alumni programs

tive is to avoid falling victim to what Schwartz calls the “résumé

coordinator at the Career Center, also

abyss.” Steering clear of it can be aided by building a network of

suggests exploring LinkedIn’s new

people who know you, your experience, and your potential. More

“Find Alumni” tool (in the toolbar

than avoiding the abyss, one of them might be the person who

under “Network”). “LinkedIn only

helps bump your résumé to the top of an HR recruiter’s pile.

allows you to reach out to other alums

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A native of New York City who majored in community entrepreneurship at UVM, Schwartz returned to the city after gradu-

Schwartz suggests reversing the process on LinkedIn. Search as

who you are in a shared group with

if you are the recruiter. Search for the company where you’d like to

or are connected to you as a first, sec-

be and then research the people along the ladder who might be

ond, or third connection. So in order

able to help you and see if there are connections. “Don’t be afraid

to maximize the “Find Alumni” tool for

to reach out to people,” she says. “Always act. The worst thing that

outreach, users must be members of

can happen is that someone says no.”

alumni groups,” she notes.

Building professional connections among alumni and current students via LinkedIn (see sidebar) is among the university’s enhanced career services efforts.

PORTRAIT OF ALLIE: GHANEM DAIBES

ALUMNI

CONNECTION

START ME UP

Alumni Association’s new Affinity Programs fast off the launching pad

Only a year ago, it was a promising

new idea, but really, only that. At their winter meeting in Stowe, the UVM Alumni Association Board of Directors heard a report from its Affinity Committee on an intriguing Affinity Program—a grassroots, volunteer-driven program designed to provide opportunities for alumni of shared interests and common bonds to connect on meaningful levels beyond the traditional class or regional programs most alums have become familiar with over the years.

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PICTURED ABOVE: AYLA WALKER ‘11, MIKE FALLMAN ‘82, ANU YADAV ‘96, TUCKER LYMAN ‘09, DAN SLEEPER ‘09, PRESIDENT TOM SULLIVAN, ANDREW KIRSHEN ‘09, SCOTT BAILEY ‘09, AND GRAHAM ALLISON ‘06.

Essentially a start-up operation, the Affinity Program officially launched last July with communications to alumni and campus constituencies about the program and a dedicated Web page on the Alumni Association website. Affinity groups have quickly sprung up­­—focused on entrepreneurship (UVME) in Boston, a Greater China Group in Shanghai, The Green Cats focused on environmental interests, the Outing Club, and an ALANA group called Alumni of Color.

The driving force behind the Affinity Program concept has been Anuradha (Anu) Yadav ’96, chair of the UVM Alumni Association Affinity Committee. “This has been a completely grassroots effort,” she says. “We’re just excited to have it launch and come into fruition. To implement it and to see it grow is very, very rewarding.” Yadav says an idea like UVME can be a model for similar groups in other cities around the country. She is a lawyer by profession and would like to work with other alumni to launch an affinity group for UVMers in the legal profession.

In Boston, where UVME has already had several get-togethers, a key organizer has been Scott Bailey ’09, senior director of partnerships at MassChallenge, a Boston startup accelerator designed to connect high-impact startups from around the world with the resources they need to launch and succeed. “I wanted to start

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[ALUMNICONNECTION ALUMNI WIRE Isis Kanevsky-Mullarky ’96 G ’98, an associate professor of dairy science at Virginia Tech, has been honored by the White House as one of the 2013 recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

Sue Carswell ’83 recently co-authored a book with “I Will Survive” disco queen Gloria Gaynor titled We Will Survive.

The book tells forty true stories of encouragement, inspiration, and the power of song. Carswell

START ME UP

cont’d.

the UVME group to bring together people and help alumni see the entrepreneurial spirit that all of us are capable of,” he says. “I have a lot of pride in UVM and the community of alumni that I joined in 2009. I don’t have a lot of money, so I thought that bringing together my best friends and the community was the best way I could give back for the experience I had at UVM.” Another early success for the Affinity Program is the Greater China Group in Shanghai, led by Dan Whitaker G’96. Whitaker is chair of the Information Technology Committee at the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai; he and his wife, Jenny ’96, have lived in Shanghai since 2008.

Whitaker has been using LinkedIn to locate other UVM alumni in greater China (PRC, Taiwan, Hong Kong). This affinity group will provide a vehicle for UVM alums in China to keep in touch and provide a public support group for Vermont businesspeople and academics who visit Shanghai. Chris Lucier, UVM’s vice president of enrollment management, and two of his admissions staff members met with Whitaker and members of the Greater China Group in Shanghai last year. ”There is great potential to build more connections between UVM and mainland China through an active and engaged alumni group in this region,” Whitaker says. alumni.uvm/getinvolved/affinity

is a reporter-researcher at Vanity Fair and has ghost-written some ten books.

Benjamin Jones ’06, a 2013 graduate of New England Law/ Boston, received the 2013 Adams Pro Bono Publico Award

and the Hinesburg Land

presented by the Supreme

Trust to inquire about

Judicial Court of Massachusetts.

protecting the land. “Our

This award, bestowed annually

basic interests were clear:

upon a select law firm, private

to preserve the natural

attorney, and one law student,

treasures of the land while

honors those who have com-

providing public access

mitted an extraordinary amount

and educational pro-

of time and energy to provide volunteer legal services to poor and disadvantaged clients.

HINESBURG ACRES DONATED, CONSERVED FOR STUDY

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Donald Forst ’54 one of the

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grams,” says his son, Henry Ralph Carse.

The university will use the land for educational

nation’s top newspaper editors

The late Henry H. Carse spent

the UVM Foundation.

throughout his long career,

much of his life in service to Ver-

Carse purchased the land

passed away on January 4. New

monters. For decades, he served

in the 1970s. It includes the

tion land will allow our students

York Newsday, The Village Voice,

in the Vermont legislature, as the

majority of Hinesburg’s largest

and faculty access to a wonder-

The Boston Herald, The New

town moderator, and the town

wetland complex and contains

fully diverse landscape for edu-

York Times and The Los Angeles

school director. Now, through

significant natural diversity. The

cational and research pursuits,”

Herald Examiner were among

his family, his legacy of service

property abuts his family’s farm,

says Rick Paradis, director of

the newsrooms Forst helped

will continue in the form of a

on which they raised Scottish

UVM’s Natural Areas Center.

lead in an editorial career that

new 225-acre natural area that

Highland beef cattle.

“The area contains natural

began when he signed on with

was conserved with the Vermont

the Vermont Cynic.

Land Trust and donated to the

In 2012, his family approached

elements not found on other

University of Vermont by way of

UVM, the Vermont Land Trust

UVM-owned lands.”

Carse passed away in 2008.

and research purposes.

“Acquiring the Carse conserva-

communities and biodiversity

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MARCH

Washington, D.C. , March 12 Ira Allen Lecture, Professor Wolfgang Mieder: “Proverbial Rhetoric in Decisive Moments of American Politics”

CRISTIANA QUINN

Counselor Extraordinaire

C

ristiana Quinn ’84 is all one can hope for in the college and university alumni relations business.

First, of all, she loves UVM. “I had a wonderful experience at UVM,” she says. “I always tell everyone if I could go anywhere in the country I would go back to UVM. I want every student to feel that way about their college choice.”

Second, she’s in about the best position one could imagine to get that word before hundreds of prospective students every year. Quinn founded and heads up College Admissions Advisors in Providence, RI, serving students throughout the U.S. and abroad, in person and via Skype.

“My career has been about education, helping kids find the right colleges and affording the college of their choice,” she says. “And for students who feel that UVM is their first choice, I don’t want finances to be a barrier.”

And, third, Quinn (a relative youngster when it comes to thinking about estate planning) decided to leave a substantial percentage of her estate to fund an endowed scholarship for out-of-state students at UVM. As a Rhode Islander who attended UVM, “I wanted to provide more students the opportunity to attend UVM from out of state, and I also wanted to help UVM with attracting top students from across the country, which I know is always a challenge for a state university,” she says. “Two of my highest performing students last year chose UVM because they were going to come out debt-free. They chose UVM and the Honors College, which were wonderful opportunities for them.”

Quinn writes a column on college admissions published in Providence and Worcester, Massachusetts. She often writes about UVM. “Usually I do a piece every year on the best honors colleges in the country, and I always include UVM,” she says.

The college counselor takes special satisfaction from the fact that the year after she graduated from UVM, her niece, Jennifer Quinn, enrolled and graduated in 1988. Being so close in age, “she and I are very much like sisters,” Cristiana says. “We have a tremendous amount of pride in UVM and wonderful feelings about the school.”

I think the thing that’s special about UVM is its extremely warm, accepting sense of community combined with a top notch education —students there are collaborative versus competitive. Burlington and UVM provide such a unique place to go to school. I don’t think there are many colleges that compare.”

New York, March 18 Ira Allen Lecture, Professor Robert Manning: “A Thinking Person’s Guide to the National Parks”

Boston, March 20 Ira Allen Lecture, Professor Tony Magistrale: “Redemption Through the Feminine in The Shawshank Redemption” Burlington, March 21-22 ALANA (Alumni of Color) Reunion New York, March 26, 2014 UVM Mid-Career Networking Event

APRIL

Fairfield, CT, April 1 Admitted Student Reception Armonk, NY, April 2 Admitted Student Reception Burlington, April 9 Career Networking Night Chicago, April 9 Admitted Student Reception Burlington, April 11, 14, 18, 21, 25 Admitted Student Visit Days

MAY

Burlington, May 10, 5 p.m.

21st Annual CALS Alumni & Friends Dinner

JUNE

Washington, D.C., June 5 UVM Career Networking Night Harvard, MA, June 5 Liberty Mutual Alumni Golf Cup San Francisco, June 8 Giants Game Boston, June 26 Young Alumni Social at Tia’s

AUGUST

New York, August 26 U.S. Open

OCTOBER

Burlington, October 10-12 Reunion, Homecoming & Family Weekend

for details & registration

alumni. uvm.edu

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Arthur M. “Rusty” Brink shared that the fourth annual Treasure Coast Classic was held at the Monarch Country Club in Palm City, Florida: “Backs v. Linemen.

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Loraine Spaulding Dwyer died October 7, 2013, 11 days short of her 100th birthday.

She grew up at 109 South Prospect Street, currently the Pierce-Spaulding House, and remembered playing on the lawn where Waterman now stands. She was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta and one of the few women of that time to graduate with an engineering degree. She lived in Underhill for 50 years where she held many town positions and was a founding member of the Underhill Historical Society, the Green Mountain Folklore Society, and the Chittenden County Historical Society.

She lived at the Converse Home on Church Street for ten years.

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75TH REUNION OCTOBER 10–12, 2014 alumni.uvm.edu/reunion If you are interested in planning your upcoming reunion, email alumni@ uvm.edu.

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Alta P. Slack writes, “Congratulations on 50 years of soccer!

I particularly liked the article on sports. One of my fond memories is taking a boat across lovely Lake Champlain to hike up a New York mountain. My favorite sport was badminton. Eleanor Bayley and I were doubles champions in one of our tournaments. We were also able to see our coach, Ms. Crowe, play the world champion from Australia. My two grandsons in North Carolina are very much involved in soccer. I would have been active in more sports except for a longtime interest in choir and glee club, which I joined my freshman year. I also worked in offices, as many of us did in the ’30’s.

I still drive to the senior center for activities: line dancing, Tai Chi, exer-

cise, bridge. I had three brothers and two sisters who earned UVM degrees, two with master’s. Go, Catamounts!”

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Dick Healy died peacefully in his sleep on August 30, 2013, in his home in Westborough, Massachusetts. He was a Boulder Society member in our class, played basketball and baseball, and was inducted into the UVM Hall of Fame. Dick met his late wife, Marjorie Witham Healy ’43, when they were students at UVM and they were married for 66 years. A World War II veteran, Dick worked for the Liberty Mutual Company for 42 years. Dick was also a dedicated sports official at the high school and college levels.

Frank Nye sent a recent email with news that he is now living in a very nice senior community, Montebello on Academy, that provides independent living services. He is living with his significant other, Nina Van Ausdal, whom he has known for more than 40 years. She is 91 and he is 95. He regrets that he can no longer attend our class reunions. Grace Meeken Hutchins wrote that she traveled from her home in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, to Maine to join all of her family for Thanksgiving.

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We are sad to report that both Ruth Orr Burgess and Lawrence Burgess, of Underhill, Vermont, passed away in 2013.

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I am happy to report that I made it to our 70th Reunion.

At the luncheon on Saturday, I enjoyed seeing the following classmates: Harry Twitchell and his wife, Harry Howe and his wife, Helen McLain and her brother, Mark, John Hoyt, Mary Beth Davis Bloomer, Patty Pike Hallock, and Millie Anderson Layn. Millie, Patty, Mary Beth, and I were driven up to Burlington on a beautiful fall day by Mary Beth’s son, Bob. I was thrilled that the luncheon was held in the dining room on the fifth floor of the Waterman Building. As head waitress I had been in charge of opening that dining hall in 1942. There was a gentleman from the class of 1938 who joined us with his two daughters. We enjoyed seeing Marilyn Eimer Vreeland ’42, as well. She joined us for our picture on the terrace. Bob Earley writes that he recently moved to Snoqualmie,Washington, to be closer to his grandson and great-grandson. So far, he’s enjoying the new surroundings. He also recently enjoyed a week in Maui. I finally have a greatgrandchild, a boy, Jack Michael Pow-

ers, born on September 10, 2013, to Jessica Look and Michael Powers of Springfield, Massachusetts. His grandparents are Richard Look ’69, and Suzanne Dorion Look ’71. As I write this, it is with a very heavy heart that I am going to pay my respects to the family of Sigismund Wysolmerski who started UVM with our class before leaving for dental school. He was our family friend and dentist for many years. “Ziggie” passed away on November 16, 2013. He was a devoted family man who also managed to fit in community service and a thriving dental practice. He will be missed.

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70TH REUNION OCTOBER 10–12, 2014 alumni.uvm.edu/reunion If you are interested in planning your upcoming reunion, email alumni@ uvm.edu. Rose and Saul Boyarsky have moved from their home in Chapel Hill to a continuing care retirement community and joined Penalope Easten at the community. It was like a homecoming. Leonard Kunken writes, “For the past 25 years, I have resided in sunny Orlando, Florida, in a golf community. Unfortunately, this past January, I lost my beautiful wife, Betty. She was 89 years young. I am blessed with ten grandchildren, two of whom are married. If all is well, I plan to attend my 70th class reunion this coming October 2014, with my son, Stephen Kunken ’69, who will be celebrating his 45th reunion (Class of 1969) and who was president of his class.”

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65TH REUNION OCTOBER 10–12, 2014 alumni.uvm.edu/reunion If you are interested in planning your upcoming reunion, email alumni@ uvm.edu. Luton Reed writes, “After graduation I was recalled to Army for service in Korea. I returned to teaching in New York State and then on to Syracuse University where I received my doctorate in 1966. I worked for the Army as an education specialist for 20 years. When retired, I worked for Manlius New York Fire Department and Red Cross Disaster Services. I married in 1958 to Bertha Pieper (Albany State, 1953) and moved to Texas in 2013.”

Nancy Tobey Shisler shared that she and Joe moved to within 15 or 20 minutes of their children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. She writes “We’re in a very convenient and lovely 55 and older mobile home community. It’s nice to be in the Orlando area again.” As an alumni fund volunteer, Ellen Page Reid, a resident at Wake Robin retirement home in Shelburne, passed on some class news when she called me. She said retired minister Morris Pike, who also lives there, is a major Flynn Theater volunteer for the children’s educational/theater program. “He greets all the buses which are lined up all the way down Main Street, and it is such fun to watch this tall guy ushering the students off the buses and toward the theater.” She also sees retired attorney Ben Schweyer. He authored one of the chapters in a book written by Wake Robin residents a few years ago recalling their experiences in World War II. During one of her calls, Ellen talked with Jane King, who is in Litchfield Park, Arizona, and learned that she had just taken her first balloon ride. Ellen is still very active, recently returned from a week in Florida and now looking forward to ski season. I haven’t skied in years, but it was one of the reasons I went from

Connecticut to UVM; however, I still swim and play golf.

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After 33 years in Largo and Tampa, Florida, Maynard J. North became a Hoosier in November, 2012 and now occupies a comfortable apartment in a retirement home not far from Indianapolis. He writes, “I have relatives nearby, thankfully, since my wife of 65 years passed on Easter Sunday in 2012. I sorely miss the UVM proximity but try to appear in Burlington once a year. I would like to hear of any other Hoosiers.” Charlie Ballantyne passed away on December 7, 2013. He and Hedi had recently celebrated their 65th anniversary.

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Stanley Brown says, “All goes well. I just returned from 24 days in South Africa and am now preparing for Machu Picchu and the Galapagos in December. Playing tennis three to four times per week and enjoying life in paradise.”

Jean Austin Medrek and Mary E. Fuller Fitzgerald went on a riverboat cruise in Russia from Moscow to Saint Petersburg in September 2013. They had great fun and lots of UVM catchup conversations. Check out a photo from the trip online at alumni.uvm. edu/gallery. Virginia Dand Skinger shared this sad update, “My husband, Richard Skinger, died February 9, 2012 at our Swansea, Massachusetts home. We married in January 1951 during the winter break of his senior year.”

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Linda Sprague Bowker reports that she retired as a computer programmer from RCA and GE Astro Space Center. “We moved 22 years ago from New Jersey to Sun City Center, Florida, an allvolunteer town for seniors. We still keep busy with the New England Club, Friends of the Library, the genealogy club, computer club, and as nighttime dispatchers for the volunteer ambulance squad. John (Middlebury ’52) is in the amateur radio club and I’m in the sewing and quilting group. So many clubs...so little time!

We celebrated our 60th anniversary in August with our three happily-married children and six super grandchildren. Life is good!” Jean Hakanson Hawes shared, “We moved to a condo this May, because the care of the house and yard had gotten to be too much for us. We love it, and still have a guest room so anyone can visit. We are so thankful for good health and our wonderful family including four grandchildren and a grandson-in-law.”

Tom Holzinger writes “Good news! I have not yet made it into the obituary columns of the local paper. After 36 years in various technical and executive positions with the Borden Company, I retired. I then shared my expertise in food safety and processing, volunteering in developing countries in Eastern Europe, Asia, and Africa.

This was most rewarding until long distance air travel lost all appeal. I’ve been living in Columbus since Borden moved its headquarters to Ohio, and Ohio State University recruited me as an adjunct in the Department of Food Science and Technology. I enjoy sharing my experiences with anyone willing to listen. My major problem is finding enough time for all the activities I want to pursue.”

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60TH REUNION OCTOBER 10–12, 2014 alumni.uvm.edu/reunion If you are interested in planning your upcoming reunion, email alumni@ uvm.edu. Joan Lou Pisanelli Brochu does wish she could find out where Bambi Wigton from Grosse Point, Michigan ended up. She would have been from the Class of 1956 if she

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[CLASSNOTES stayed at UVM for her four years. She has also been looking for Donald Cutler and Joan thinks he was from Milton, Massachusetts, and in ROTC. Jean Nuss Passaro writes that Frank L. Passaro ’53 passed away on September 15, 2013.

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Gerard (Jerry) Allen Mullen shared that his wife of 57 years, Jane Elizabeth Aronson ’55, passed away on April 14, 2013. He writes, “Jane worked as a nurse in hospitals and doctors’ offices, survived the officers’ wives club at the 912th AC&W Squadron U.S.A.F., raised four great kids, compiled a catalog of social services for Chittenden County, taught clinical nursing at the Fanny Allen Nursing school, served as director of that school, supervised the 1980 census for northern Vermont, and worked as a teacher’s aid at Camel’s Hump Middle School in Richmond, Vermont. I worked as a quality control chemist at Geigy, a research assistant at the Boyce Thompson Plant Research Center, spent a few years watching for Russians on radar, and spent 33 years teaching science at Jericho High School and Burlington High School. I also spent six years as chair of the Board of Listers and 15 years on the Select Board, ten as chairman, in Bolton, Vermont.”

Gerry Quinn Dankowski reports that Di Eastman Jones called her at her cottage on Lake Saint Catherine in Poultney from Di’s own cottage in the Northeast Kingdom at the end of October (sounds like a couple of cottage industries). This preceded a visit by Di and her hubby, Dick, who stopped off in North Hampton and brought enough lobster and scallops for lunch...and for three days of lunches thereafter. Di still plays golf in Vermont and Florida. She and Gerry discussed all of their talented, beautiful and above-even-Lake-Wobegon-average grandchildren. They reminisced about Di’s trailer, located in Stowe back in the early ’50s. Di recalled bringing a note to Miss Wing, the unforgettable Miss Wing, who actually accepted a letter from Dr. Eastman, granting Di permission to stay at the trailer. She did correct his punctuation however. (He tended to

use lots of dashes!) Hal Greenfader saw Brad Gordon and his wife down in Newport Beach this summer. Hal was chauffeuring around his grandson, Geoffrey, who was playing in a college summer baseball league all over Southern California. The lanky lefty is now a sophomore at Georgia Tech where he pitches on the baseball team. This fall Brad posted a photo online showing his 80th birthday at home with friends and his bride, Barbara. Hal was invited but unable to attend. We were all saddened to hear about the passing of Kake Walk King, the handsome Walt Johnson, and piano playing virtuoso, Mike Hauptman, who entertained at the many Phi Sig parties at their house on Fern Hill. Both attended our last reunion back in 2010. Marilyn Stern Dukoff celebrated her 80th birthday in November at the Friars Club in New York City. Included were her children and grandchildren, as well as UVM friends Helene Chusid Widders, Mary Sue Harkar, and Eleanor Robinson Hozid ’56.

The gals often rendezvous in New York City. Call Marilyn, 516-374-4305, and join them. Yours truly, Jane Battles, recently had a great chat with Curt Burrell who lives out in Powell Butte, Oregon. He’s enjoying life there surrounded by his donkeys, sheep, alpacas, and his pride and joy: two Great White Pyrenees. Wow! Way to go, Curt! Jim Poole, a.k.a. “the Mink Man” and his wife, Christine, hosted a terrific party at their home in New Castle, Maine, in August to raise funds for the Lincoln County Republican Party in honor of Governor Paul LePage; a pig roast, a gorgeous day and over 200 in attendance. Another year has brought the annual Tri-Delt group of loyal ’55 and ’56ers together for a wonderful weekend in September. This year the gathering was held at my beach house in Connecticut.

Some in attendance were Carol and Lew Dan of Miami, Florida; Sandy and Bob Willey of Essex Junction, Vermont; Nancy McGoughron Blanchet of Spring Lake Heights, New Jersey; Lorrie Buehler and Bill Farwell of Williamsburg, Virginia; Janie Carlough Cleary of Bedford, New Hampshire; and Betsy King Beasley of New York, New York. Liz Melloon Tobi who hails from Buffalo, Wyoming, couldn’t make it as that same day she had a flight to Burlington, no less, to share

in the marriage celebration of her son Donald ’83, who is employed in UVM’s College of Agriculture. Joanne Murray Blakeman writes that in December 2012 she and husband, Allan, attended the UVM graduation of their granddaughter Allyssa Turley ’12. That makes two grandchildren and a grand-daughter-in-law who are now UVM alums. Wish I had more news for you. C’mon, help me out here! More anon. Loyally, Jane Battles, for 58 years now—time flies.

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Gilman T. Dedrick received the Outstanding Alumni Award from the UVM College of Agriculture & Life Sciences at the college’s 20th annual Alumni & Friends Dinner in May. An undergraduate research award fund for the college’s students was established in Gilman’s honor by family members. Additional donations are being sought to fully endow the Dedrick Fund. Mary Rothenberg Harkavy shares that Marilyn Stern Dukoff ’55 celebrated a milestone birthday in New York City at a party given by her children in November 2013. Mary went to San Diego for the Union for Reform Judaism biennial in December. Volunteering has replaced working since she retired. Nancy May Hoisington Humphreys writes “As of this year I sold my lovely home and moved into the Presbyterian Community Home of South Carolina. It is a gorgeous place and I am very blessed to be here. As you may have read, my husband, Dr. Roderick J. Humphreys ’48, passed away in 2011. It did not make sense to keep up a home and swimming pool for me alone. My son and family live in North Reading, Massachusetts, and our youngest daughter and family live in Greece.

I do have one daughter here who is mentally challenged. Words cannot express how happy I am in my new home. It has wonderful people and endless activities.” Marjorie and Robert Levine are celebrating the birth of their third grandchild and first granddaughter, Zoey Madison. Helen Harris Sands says, “After teaching at the University of Southern Indiana for 31

years, I’m having a great time with my husband, children, and grandchildren. Still, I care about students who find it difficult to find jobs after they graduate. That concern has prompted me to write a book designed to help those who not only need a job, but those who are climbing toward recognition and promotion as well. The book’s title is Nail That Job: The Climb of Your Life. There are 54 chapters and 54 accompanying illustrations. Please check out my website, nail-that-job. com, to read a sample chapter and enjoy three of my blogs.

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Janice and Douglas Fayen Burke have become halfbacks—they have moved up from Florida, halfway to Vermont.

They have moved into a continuing care retirement community on Hilton Head Island. “We will return to Maine in the summer, but The Cypress is our new home. We love it. We are joined with Jack and Bev Burke ’54.” Martin Danoff is still practicing law with offices at Montgomery McCracken on Madison Avenue in New York City.

This summer Martin won the Seniors Golf Championship at Fresh Meadow Country Club shooting a 64 net. His wife, Susan, is a family court judge and sits in Bronx County. Martin hears from Mark Bernstein and Robert Corshen.

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Ruth Ann Hansen and Bruce A. Chaffee ’56, MD ’60 got married February 23, 2013 (57 years later). “About time,” one might say. There is a photo at alumni. uvm.edu/gallery of the two at KakeWalk in 1956. Linda Markson Kruger retired from Columbia University and graduate school teaching in library and information science; now on a third career as librarian for a private collector of scientific rare books.

She writes, “I commute two weeks monthly from southern New Mexico where my husband and I moved in 2006 (to be closer to my Albuquer-

que son, Jeremy ’93), to south Florida.

I still summer in north central Pennsylvania. I take great delight in being a Friend of Special Collections at Bailey/Howe, soon to be in Billings.” Ken Smith shares that he and Lynne left their Pittsburgh home of 45 years and moved to Florida. Ken shared, “We’re still getting reoriented and haven’t met any UVMers yet. We’re close to our daughters and grandchildren. I’m retired from USAirways and we exercise our flight privileges to travel the USA.” Martha Scott Perkins says, “My news here in Charlotte, Vermont, is that I just finished the fifth year of directing an Apple Pie Project at our church: $7,500 and over 500 pies. We have 30 volunteers, make them at church, and bake them in a huge, old, black stove—16 pies at a time. One of our granddaughters graduates from college this year from the University of Toronto. Others are following one right after another. One granddaughter’s high school soccer team won the Maine State Championship! We all are blessed to be well. I talked with Dick Perkins for two hours on Saturday. He is well also. Stay well, everyone.” Stephen Rozen is just back from a trip

to Tasmania and mainland Australia.

He says, “We had a great time hiking and scuba diving on the Barrier Reef. I am now spending semi-retirement in Naples. In the spring I will be in Honduras doing free oral surgery with UConn dental school and my wife will be my surgical assistant. It seems like I will never stop working, but I am considering it.” Carolyn Hunt Wall is still living in Cheney, Washington, where her husband, Don, taught for 30 years at Eastern Washington University while she also taught in Spokane.

Don died in 2009. Living near the university allows easy access to sports, music, and lectures as well as a short drive to Spokane’s excellent music and thriving downtown. Daughter Cynthia and family live in Spokane where she works in the Department of Ecology. Philip and family live in Seattle where he is a police officer and works in the mayor’s Office of Executive Protection. Jeffrey and his family recently moved to Spokane; he is a network engineer for Washington Dental Service. There are six grandchildren, two in each family, ages twenty to one year. Latest out of country travel was to Cuba—very enjoyable and educa-

tional. Sheila Robertson Curwen welcomed Eli, her first great-grandchild, in June, 2012. She says, “He joins my five grandchildren who live in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Washington State.

I had the great opportunity to serve as a Peace Corps volunteer teaching ESL and assisting in community development from 1990-1992. In retirement, I have been a seating host at the Seattle Mariners for ten years and volunteer at our local library and as a teacher docent at the local historical museum. I also serve on the board of the Bainbridge Island Senior Center.

Singing has always been an important part of my life, with local chorales and church choir. Every election time has found me very involved in Democratic Party activities. I do deep water aerobics, chair yoga, and walk with a weekly walking group, all of which have helped keep me healthy... and then there’s Sudoku, cribbage, bridge, mahjongg and crossword puzzles for the brain! I’ve been fortunate to travel quite a bit, of course, mainly to visit my children and their families.

I have also rafted in the Grand Canyon, explored Iceland and Prague and will go to the Galapagos and Machu

Picchu in January, 2014. Roger H. Madon has worked nearly 250 hours per month for over 40 years practicing law. “Now that I am working 160 hours per month I feel like I am on vacation, spending time between Florida and Massachusetts with an office in New York City. Over the years I have become a political animal and have written a book to prove it: American Haiku. I do not recommend it if one is weak of heart. I am working on a second book, titled Exhausted. Sue and I are grandparents of two with one more on the way. Time is growing short, yet there is so much left to do.” Bill Pickens represented UVM at the inauguration of President Peter Salovey at Yale University.

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[CLASSNOTES uvm.edu. John Darwin is active in the local land preservation trust. Family activities at the Shaws Cove cottage keep him up with grandchildren.

Diane (Deedee) Weiss Mufson and her husband, Maury, still live in Huntington, West Virginia, most of the year, but spend some winter months in Bay Harbor Islands, Florida. Their three children have provided them with five grandchildren ranging from new born to age 20. After more than three decades as a licensed psychologist, Deedee retired this past summer.

She continues to write weekly op-ed columns on Wednesdays for the Huntington newspaper, which can be found online at herald-dispatch.com/ opinions. Last year, Deedee, Marsha Eisen Schorr, Elsa Levinson Kleinman and Josie Emden Cook ’60 held another fun spring reunion in New York City. Our 55th Reunion will be celebrated October 10-12. Mark it down, save the date. This is our once in five-year opportunity to gather with some really old friends, press the flesh, give a hug, and remind one another about some funny, old times.

Campus is gorgeous! Make reservations now, because hotels are booked solid at that time. Also please, if you haven’t already, send your annual contribution to the UVM Foundation.

Be a faithful Green & Gold; be generous. We need the numbers; the University needs the cash.

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Brian Harwood and Janet Savageau Harwood ’77 are semi-retired, living in Waterbury, Vermont. Janet works as a middle school tutor for the Stern Center. Brian hosts a morning drive- time classical music program on a station in Stowe. They are contemplating a move to Burlington in a year to be closer to events at UVM and other offerings in the city. Virginia Low Coolidge relocated three years ago to Wake Robin, a continuing care retirement community in Shelburne, and loves being back in Vermont after 52 years. Ira Raff is living and working as a urologist in Florida part-time in Delray Beach. He writes, “I am active in sports: bike to work, tennis, golf, and stickball. I run a non-fiction book

club, and health prof club. I retired from Danbury, Connecticut in 2007 but did not want to retire. My wife and I have traveled to southeast Asia, South America, and Antarctica. We have also kayaked in Alaska and Baja; we have our own double kayak and a tandem bicycle on which we have traveled across various states. In Iowa we were in an event called the RAGBRAI.” Ruth Fundin Randle is proud of daughter Sarah Randle Murawski ’91 who has recently opened Randolph (Vermont) Regional Veterinary Hospital on Route 12. Sarah is a graduate of Texas A&M Veterinary College, class of 2000, and for her, this is a dream come true! Grant Corson is pleased to announce the recent release of his two new books on Amazon, The Ratcatcher’s Son and The Weed Road Chronicles. Sue Fidler Shimalla writes that she, her sisters, and brother-in-law continue to travel together several times a year.

They recently made a road trip from sister Patty’s in Sacramento, California, to New Mexico, and visited National Parks that were not affected by the government shutdown. Sandra Fidler ’67 of Coral Gables, Florida, June Fidler Gendron ’59 and husband, Ray Gendron ’61, of Newport, Vermont enjoyed the sights with Sue and Patty.

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Chuck Eldred reported, “August 12, 2013 was our 50th wedding anniversary. We celebrated in June at the Outer Banks of North Carolina with our three children and their spouses, and our eight grandchildren. In late September, we traveled to Ireland with a church group for eight days with a tour guide and then a week on our own.” Sally and Jay Pedley of Northfield, Vermont, visited children and grandchildren in Colorado last summer, where they met Olympic skier Billy Kidd. While there, they also linked up with Ian Ferguson ’60. Check out the alumni.uvm.edu/gallery for a picture of Sally and Jay Pedley with Billy Kidd.

Adele Kahwajy says, “I am planning a trip to my hometown of Bennington, Vermont, in March to celebrate my 75th birthday. I would like to know

what others of our class are planning for their 75ths.” Jamie Jacobs writes, “Retirement continues to be rewarding. I’m doing many of the things I could only dream of while working as a cardiologist. In addition to playing golf, fishing, hunting, skiing in Utah, and traveling, I’ve helped develop a non-profit we call ABLE, Inc. (Assisting Better Living Everywhere, Inc.) which has two main thrusts: internationally, building, renovating or improving schools, often connected with orphanages; and, locally, assisting senior and/or disabled citizens with maintaining their residences to be livable and within local codes. We have sent missions to Haiti, Myanmar (Burma), Ghana and Kenya, as well as regionally to Kentucky/Appalachia this year. ABLE, Inc. has no administrative costs, as everything is done by volunteers. A couple of weeks ago, the Kentucky Chapter of the American College of Cardiology recognized me with their annual Honorable Maestro Award for lifetime achievement in cardiology.” Cindy Beilig Bendelac continues to live in San Rafael, California, where she hikes, meditates, tends to an Airedale and sells imports from her Bendelac Ltd. Moroccan Collection, which includes folk art, kilim rugs, baskets, fashion-forward clothing and accessories. Cindy is in contact with Kathy Famiano Farrow, B K Marino Stropianno and Marion Force Abell ’62. And Kathy Farrow writes,“I lost ten pounds this summer and fall by going on the J.J. Virgin Diet. I spent the entire summer having pneumonia, which might have more to do with the weight loss than the diet. Suzie Lopez O’Malley and I got together for a good gab fest last week”. Kathy and Ced Farrow live in Shelburne, Vermont. Doug Benjamin ’60 and Ellie Lissner Benjamin shared, “Our great news is that we finally have gotten a granddaughter to enroll in UVM. Rachel is a freshman this year and loves it. By coincidence our grandniece, Rachel, is a teaching assistant there getting her master’s in math. Doug and I continue to travel and last winter we went through the Panama Canal and on to Costa Rica in January and spent the month of March in Florence, Italy. Our summers are spent in Castine on the Maine coast. We have several trips planned for 2014 and hope to get up to Vermont in the fall to visit our students.”

Lynda Foley Blevins says she is still playing tennis on one of the teams at her club, though not at the top of the ladder. She recently had lunch with Susan Pearlberg Weinstein who lives in Sacramento. Bob Hobbie writes, “Presently I am recovering from back surgery. As a physician I am learning to give up control and be a patient. Hopefully I will get back to work in a couple of weeks, at least part time. Besides Joyce, Jan Mashman has been my greatest advocate.

It’s been a close 56-year relationship dating back to freshman year at UVM—truly a special friend/brother.”

Ray Pecor was the inaugural David Hakins Award inductee into the Vermont Sports Hall of Fame last fall. The Hakins Award recognizes a business leader or an organization for exceptional promotion and development of sports, athletics, and recreation in the state of Vermont. Ray is the owner of Vermont’s lone affiliated minor league baseball team, formerly the Vermont Expos and now the Vermont Lake Monsters, an Oakland Athletics affiliate. Kay-Frances Mingolla Wardrope reported she was in Vermont this summer and had great fun with John and Jane Wood Andrews, along with Jim Whitmey ’65 and Mary Ann Mingolla Whitney ’63 at a Lake Monsters game. She caught a happy hour in Brunswick, Maine, with Carol McKillop Willard and Buff Harrington ’60 and lunch with Jane Kelly Choate ’60 in Middlebury. She says when the snow flies, think Hollywood, Florida. Roger Zimmerman says, “My wife, Lynne, has retired from pediatric nursing, but is very busy with a variety of things, including being on the board of our local senior college. I’m still working, but as per usual, in the winter, I cut way back in order to continue being a back-country ski guide, mostly out West. This year’s backcountry trip to Yellowstone, my 27th year, is filled, as per usual. I graduated last June from the Maine Master Naturalist program, and have been doing volunteer work teaching kids as well as seniors about wildlife, the environment, etc.” The November request for news got the following report from Lillia (Lynda Kittle) Davidson: “I’m currently at the homes of two sons and family that are living in Vancouver, British Columbia.

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Charles Wesley Stevens writes, “My father’s decision to support my efforts to attend The University of Vermont was one of the best decisions he ever made.

My Vermont education has allowed me to obtain a super but challenging job at the American Stock Exchange in New York City, a block away from Wall Street. After 39 years of increasing responsibilities at the Exchange, I retired with a significant pension which has allowed me to invest in certain publicly traded stocks all of which produce and sell medicalrelated products. Before retiring, I did not invest in any stocks because of the potential conflict of interest. In retirement, that conflict was erased and now I can buy any stock which I like. Check out IMMU and ISRG. I currently own many shares of seven companies. Thank you, UVM.” Sara Kelton Jamharian and her husband, Jan, moved from Florida to be with their older son, who is a doctor of oriental medicine because of her husband’s declining health. Tim (Dolly) Madison writes, “Just had my first visit to campus since graduation for the 50th Anniversary of UVM soccer.

What a wonderful event, weekend, and visit. The campus has changed greatly since 1966 yet stayed the same. My wife thoroughly enjoyed the visit and campus as well during the weekend. It was a great joy to catch up with all of my old teammates and their lives and I enjoyed the alumni and varsity soccer games which were both victories. I continue to run a very successful financial planning practice in the Atlanta, Georgia area and do not know when I will truly retire as there is too much reward in helping others as a Certified Financial Planner. I have submitted a picture of the alumni crowd watching the varsity victory at alumni.uvm. edu/gallery. Jules Older shares that Effin (Ethelyn) Lawes Older ’64 has a new app, Kickass Grammar. Along with answers to whether you capitalize ‘atheist’ (nope) or whether capitol means the city or the building (the building), it’s filled with gossip: “Was Marilyn Monroe eager or anxious?”

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By the time you receive these class notes we will have celebrated our 50th reunion! We started the weekend with a reception at President Tom Sullivan and his wife Leslie’s home and ended with our Class of 1963 recognized at the Green & Gold Brunch as the newest member of the Green & Gold club. We also received the University of Vermont Governor McCullough Reunion Trophy Cup for having the largest number of alumni represented at the reunion: 80.

The President’s Reception included our gracious hosts, standing room only as it was well attended, and a charming venue that spilled out onto beautiful gardens canopied with colorful foliage. President Sullivan spoke of UVM as we knew it in 1963. President Kennedy visited our campus during his presidential campaign. (I was there; how many of you were there to see and him in his navy blue overcoat?)

President Sullivan spoke of our student center and the new Davis Center.

He reiterated that new buildings such as the science labs would be a blend of traditional and classical architecture. After the reception, we walked to the white tent events that included a live band, dance floor, beverages, and food. As a dancer, I was impressed with the band and the 91-year-old gentleman who danced with his walker.

I later found out that he was Fred Gear ’38 and the father of our classmate Allen Gear. Saturday morning combined gray skies and a bit of drizzle with the Class of ’63 parade to the applause of other alumni, parents, students, and volunteers. Saturday evening brought us to the Burlington Country Club for continued rekindling of friendships, dinner, and dancing.

Many thanks to our class president, Jeff Falk, and Kae Gleason Dakin for their commitment and involvement in this special reunion. The most difficult part of reunion was saying goodbye to everyone after the Green and Gold Brunch. We promised each other that we would all return for our fifty-fifth.

May we all enjoy a good, healthy life in the meantime. Lola DiGirolamo Lawrence, Elaine Stauber and I shared conversations on Saturday of reunion.

Both of these dear friends, who were

not able to attend, sent their best wishes to their classmates, Lola from Texas and Lainie from Arizona. We had a mini contingency from Oregon and Washington that included Nora Barclay Terwilliger and her husband, Bob Noble; and Mary Bunting Decher and her husband, Reiner. Linda Hicks Deftos wrote that she was so glad to take the plunge to go diagonally across the country to return to UVM. Although she remembered quite a few names, she remembered few of the faces of 50 years ago. She was not in a sorority, or clubs, her sports were individual (skiing, ice skating, horseback riding), and her course of study (major in speech language pathology with a minor on psychology) did not have many students. Linda was amazed and pleased that so many people remembered her, even though they couldn’t see her name tag (usually twisted backwards). Linda is very pleased that UVM seems to be infusing the students with a respect for the environment, living green, and practicing recycling which keeps more stuff out of our landfills. She was delighted to find a very diverse student body and staff (ethnic, racial, religious) drawn from around the world and lucky to see some beautiful fall foliage. Lyn Lifshin writes that she has two new books published this fall: A Girl Goes Into the Woods, New York Quarterly; Tangled as the Alphabet: The Istanbul Poems, Nightballet Press. She also has four books soon to be published: Malala, Poetic Matrix Press; Secretariat, the Red Freak, The Miracle; Texas Review Press; Luminous Women: Eneduanna, Scherherazade, Nefertiti, Glass Lyre; and Lips, Blues Blue Lace-on The Outside, Gale Resear series 2002-2013.

Linda Joseph Kaye-Moses shared, “I am in the process of completing my third book, the second of two jewelry instruction books. Additionally, a jewel of mine has been selected as a finalist in the 2014 Saul Bell Design Awards International Competition. My husband, Evan J. Soldinger, and our Katrina rescue wonder dog, Misha, continue to thrive in our 1834 farmhouse in the hills of western Massachusetts.” David Brandstein writes, “I want to thank you for sending me the Quarterly for so many years. Even though I’ve enjoyed reading about the university and other graduates, I’ve not contacted you or others before.

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simmons from the tree outside. The frost came last night.” Howard Brown retired from his New York CPA firm and has resided in Boulder, Colorado, for the past twenty years. He and his wife, Lynne, will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary in 2014. They have two sons, Douglas, who lives with his wife, Liz, and granddaughter, Samantha, in Denver; and Stephen, who is with his wife, Odete, and three grandsons in Wilton, Connecticut. They would love to hear from friends at bunkybr@aol.com. G. Millard (Mill) Simmons MD’66 and Rosalie Simmons ’62 moved from Mount Pleasant, South Carolina and built a home in Sun City, Hilton Head, Okatie, South Carolina. Mill says, “The lifestyle, the many activities, and three golf courses motivated this latest adventure. Down-sizing was the main challenge and we’re still going strong in spite of it, celebrating our 50th wedding anniversary in June, in the midst of the move.” At the time we went to press, Kathe Brothers Allen and Louise Magram Weiner were organizing a UVM gathering in Naples, Florida for early February.

We’ll report on the event’s success in the next Quarterly. If you have not provided your current email address to UVM (and over half our class has not!), you really should. UVM is now able to email everyone with a link to the UVM website for providing class news updates. It makes it really simple. Of course you can also send your class secretary an email or a snail mail at the addresses provided at any time.

Joe Smyrski emailed, “My wife and I attended the Duke-UVM basketball game on November 24. We were very impressed with UVM even though they lost the game, 91 to 90. We were pleased so many UVM fans were at the game in Durham, North Carolina.

From what we saw, UVM has a great team and they play together well.

Go UVM!” Martha Nielsen shares, “I continue to enjoy life containing lots of family time, with husband, Louis, daughters, and grandchildren (eight, ages 22 to 12, oh where has the time gone?); theater, ushering and supporting our excellent local companies; reading for self and three book groups; and singing in two choruses: the large SATB Providence Singers and the small women’s chorus, Women Rising.”

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[CLASSNOTES thing! Here’s a little something about me: I should have graduated with the class of ’62, but took time off to travel and live in Europe and the Middle East.

I played freshman and varsity basketball at UVM for several years and have faithfully followed news of the program since then. After UVM, I went on to graduate schools at New York University and Indiana University and have been teaching English and cultural studies, mostly American Indian, at various colleges and universities, full-time at Brooklyn College, Bard College, and Yale University. After opening up a cultural adventure travel enterprise, I continued to teach parttime. I’ve lived, taught, and organized trips in northern Arizona (Prescott) for 19 years. I live in a National Forest and make sure that I hike in it on a daily basis. Because of this, I remain relatively healthy and fit, though I had to give up basketball, running, and jumping, many years ago. Even though I grew up in New York City, my contact with urban areas is limited to visiting my daughter and her family in San Diego. I would enjoy hearing from others.” Please see our classnotes online, uvm.edu/vq, for a report on last fall’s Reunion.

Send your news to— Toni Citarella Mullins 210 Conover Lane Red Bank, NJ 07701 tonicmullins@verizon.net

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50TH REUNION OCTOBER 10–12, 2014 alumni.uvm.edu/reunion If you are interested in planning your upcoming reunion, email alumni@ uvm.edu. By the time you receive this news it will be 2014, the year of our 50th reunion. I hope you will mark your calendars for October 10-12 and join the festivities to celebrate our 50 years since graduation. You will be happy you do. There will be a lovely weekend planned for all of you. Make your reservations early so that you can stay where you choose. Judy Ruskay Rabinor just published her second book, Befriending Your Ex After Divorce: Making Life Better for You, Your Kids and Yes, Your Ex. She also returned from an amazing camel trek in the Talamara Desert in western China. She is hoping to see you in October at our 50th reunion. Darrell Simino loves retire-

ment! He is getting ready for another season volunteering with tax preparation for seniors and low-income citizens which he finds very rewarding! He writes, “Betty volunteers as a case reviewer for Department of Children and Families, another rewarding, though upsetting, task. We go to the Y often to keep our bodies fit; volunteer as constituents in an Alzheimer’s study at Boston University; volunteer on the advisory of the Royal 50’s Club for Commerce Bank and help out with the grandchildren (four total) when asked. I don’t know how I ever worked!” Susan Barber shared that Valerie Felten Robinson celebrated her 70th birthday with husband, Bryant, by visiting Oaxaca, a beautiful city in Mexico. They live in Chapala, Mexico. She also took two trips with classmate Janet Lang Feldmann.

One was to Las Vegas, where they enjoyed the shows with several other friends and reminisced about college days. The other was with her family members to Mt. Desert Island, Maine.

They revisited all the places they had gone for many summers when their kids were growing up. Valerie continues to spend summers at their home on Lake Champlain but heads south before the snow flies. Retirement is one continuous vacation and she is loving it. She writes, “Hope to see you all in October on our University of Vermont campus!”

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Connie Frisbie Block moved from Columbus, Ohio, to Fredericksburg, Virginia, to be nearer six of her nine grandchildren.

“There’s plenty to do in our active adult community, plus good local activities and lots of historical places (think Civil War) to visit in the region.”

Ann Wyle Gordinier finally retired and closed her Seattle interior design firm started in 1978. “Now I’m traveling more, ‘wintering’ in the Palm Desert area and enjoying hosting old friends. Would love to hear from you if you’re in the area.” Al Pristaw has been a practicing optometrist since 1970. He has two grown children, Joshua Harris Pristaw, age 37, Manhattan; and Dara Pristaw Sweatt, age

34, Framingham, Massachussets. Al has grandchildren Charles Markham Pristaw, age 2, and Finley Sophia Troy Sweatt, age 20 months. Al enjoys life in Vermont, keeping in touch with his classmates, hiking, fly fishing, and canoeing in Vermont’s remote bodies of water. His love of reading includes years of studying world history. He recently was honored to lecture on black history at Broward College in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The Pristaw family welcomed a third grandchild in December. Al regards his years at UVM as the great opportunity of life.

David Kauder recently retired from being the managing partner of a nine-doctor urology group in Massachusetts. “I live with my wife Susan of 45 years in Marblehead. I have two boys, one to be married this summer who is a network engineer for an East Coast law firm; the other is a scientist in a West Coast biotech company. We expect our first grandchild this winter. I am still an avid skier, heli-skier, cyclist, and book reader. We enjoy travel in the United States as well as internationally. We have done medical and educational missions to Haiti, Belize, and Honduras.” Marc Stephen Chalkin retired from practicing general and cosmetic dentistry in Toms River, New Jersey, in 2009. “I moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma, where my children and five grandchildren live. After being a dentist in New Jersey for 41 years, I missed dentistry and started volunteering at the Mother Theresa free dental clinic in Tulsa.” This past August, Scott Severance ’65, Jerry Smith ’65, Paul Hurley ’65, Dick Lawson ’64, and Bob Greco ’64 made a road trip in true Sigma Nu style to visit brother, Bob Davidson ’66, in Scarborough, Maine. Frank Foerster recently accompanied his wife, Sharon, on a four-month stay in Cuba to run a study abroad program at the University of Havana. While Sharon worked on academic matters, Frank was the “money man,” distributing Cuba’s two currencies as no American credit cards or ATMs were allowed.

Frank says Cuba was an unbelievable experience. Cuba’s people are lively and welcoming, and the cultural scene of art, music and dance rivaled anywhere in the world they have visited. Frank particularly liked the universal education (98 percent literacy), the universal healthcare system, and the ban on any kind of guns

in the streets. He hopes that someday soon the United States and Cuba will restore diplomatic relations so there would be free travel and commerce. He urges classmates and others to visit this “island paradise with its white sand beaches and turquoise waters. After all, the two countries are neighbors and only 90 miles apart.”

Barbara Bartles Devoy retired from a laboratory manager position in 2009 and is currently doing some per diem work in a microbiology laboratory.

Janet Cochran Mansfield worked 18 years in hospital nursing, then 25 years as a school nurse before retiring in June, 2008. She is enjoying her grandchildren. Marci Bullock Woodrow celebrated 50 years of friendship with Julie Pfannsteihl Writer when they met in Bangkok in November.

Marci was visiting her son and family in Laos, where he is working with the State Department. Julie and her family have lived in Thailand for the past several years. An energetic group of alumni, friends and UVM Athletics Department staff gathered in the UVM Athletic Hall of Fame Room on September 26, 2013 to commemorate the June 1976 U.S. Boxing Team’s pre-Olympic Box-Off competition at Patrick Gym and honor Richard “Dick” Whittier who played a key role in the success of that event. The occasion was highlighted by the unveiling of a framed composite featuring boxing action photos, the event’s publicity poster with signatures from members of the U.S. Boxing Team, and a brief narrative describing the accomplishments of the highly regarded 1976 U.S. Boxing Team which won five gold medals, a silver, and a bronze at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. The poster was donated in Dick Whittier’s honor by Fred “Chico” Lager ’75 and his wife, Yvette Pigeon ’80, G’87, EdD’99. Lager and Pigeon are pictured on the right side of the photo. Others attending this special gathering included past and present UVM Athletic Department staff including current director Bob Corran, former director Denis Lambert ’54 and former UVM Hockey Coach Mike Gilligan; former UVM hockey players Ted Child ’74, Will MacKinnon ’74, and Ted Castle ’74; former WCAX-TV Sports director, Tony Adams; Dave Matthews ’66 and Alan Abair ’66 who chaired the Vermont Athletic Association which hosted the

Box-Off competition. See a photo at alumni.uvm.edu/gallery.

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We are pleased to announce the publication of a book honoring Kingsley Hammett’s work as a journalist. The Architecture of Change: Building a Better World is a collection of articles demonstrating a new view of who actually impacts the built environment. The articles come from fifteen years of Designer/Builder: A Journal of the Human Environment, a magazine he founded and published with his wife, Jerilou, who co-

edited the book. The book is available at Amazon and other online retailers. Kingsley passed away suddenly in 2008. This book is a tribute to his life and work. Matt Brown now lives in Fort Mill, South Carolina, with his wife, Margie. After numerous relocations over 24 years, he retired from senior management with Hallmark Cards in 1995 to care for a terminally-ill spouse.

He has since retired from a second career as a commercial broker/owner of Fairway Commercial Realty and as a small business advisor to SCORE. He and his wife enjoy golf, traveling, and visiting with their four children and three grandchildren. Life is good on the links. Robert Sausville says, “Congratulations to UVM on 50 years of hockey. It seems like just a few years since we first stepped on the ice for that first season.” David and Betsy Hamilton Neumeister ’67 enjoyed a long-planned trip to South Africa in May. They learned more about this country so rich in resources but bound by generations of apartheid.

They visited the Robben Island Prison of Nelson Mandela and met Desmond Tutu. In October, David was awarded a Distinguished Alumni Award by the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Dentistry. He has held numerous dental leadership positions in New England and served as an officer of the American Dental Association. He has also started two dental clinics in Vermont and writes that UVM is where he learned to compartmentalize activities, love chemistry (thanks to Wendell Witcher), and make lifelong friends.

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Bill H. Schubart’s newest novel, I Am Baybie, is available at bookstores everywhere. I Am Baybie, a novel based on the true story of the Reverend Baybie Hoover and her friend and Deaconess of Music, Virginia Brown, two blind women from the Midwest who spent many years singing on the streets of New York. This is the story of Baybie’s courage and endurance in the face of adversity. She tells her own story.

For readers of I am Baybie, the story is enriched by the www.IAmBaybie. com website where one can see a

gallery of images of the two remarkable women, hear their music, and read excerpts from the novel. Pat Hall Hunt and Mark Hunt of Huntstock. com have launched www.DisabilityImages.com. Please take a look at it and also ‘Like’ us on Facebook.com/ DisabilityImages. The site represents imagery for publishing concerning positive lifestyles of people with real disabilities. Richard Tinervin writes, “Earlier in 2013 I shut down my private equity consulting business that I have had for the last eleven years after taking early retirement from Citigroup, and became the CEO of CumulusWorld. CumulusWorld is a Cloud Architected software company that has been around since 1989, with its primary application in Human Capital Management. We continue to live in New York City and Hilton Head Island. One of our sons is the CEO of a hospital in San Francisco, with the other being the co-owner of a software company in Munich, Germany.

Our daughter graduated from college two years ago and is a ballerina having danced in Italy and now with a company in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Our best to everyone, especially my fellow Sig Eps.” Coulman Trip Westcott says, “Hi to Delt Psi buds, and to those from other houses were I used to hang. If my time machine would run, I would be back in a heartbeat. Jules Verne where are you when we all need you? Meanwhile, back in the jungle, I’m still teaching school, mostly math and science. Someday I will quit, move south, be broke, and play music all night and fish all day.

I enjoy two grand kids and another due soon.” Jack Rosenberg says, “Hi everyone! This year, there were over 1,700 entries submitted to the 2013 Washington Post Travel Photo Contest and I am honored to have been selected as one of the 13 finalists. If you don’t get the paper, as I would imagine most of my out-of-town friends and relatives don’t, you can see my work, and the other winners on the Washington Post’s website. I hope you enjoy.” Lee J. Roy writes “Great to see Class of ’68: Bill Dunn, Jack Semler, Curt Tobey, Bob Schroeder, and Doug Krebs at the 50th Men’s Hockey Reunion. Great to celebrate with other teammates as well.

Great weekend!”

Send your news to— Diane Duley Glew

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Philip Buttaravoli’s medical text book Minor Emergencies has become a popular source of comprehensive information regarding the management of everyday non-life threatening emergencies, information that is often not adequately covered in major medical texts. “I had help from co-author and fellow UVM alum, Steve Leffler, MD. I am presently working as Ship’s Doctor on the Silver Spirit sailing on the Mediterranean. Minor Emergencies won first prize in the surgery category at the British Medical Association Book Awards in November of 2013.

Alice Ostrove Miller retired this May after 26 years in Temple administration and 21 years of retailing. “Now I am an outside sales counselor for preneed funeral arrangements for LevittWeinstein. Every year our local Aephi sisters have been meeting in the winter for a reunion in south Florida. This year we will be meeting on January 12, 2014 in Pompano. Attendees this year will be Ellen Montrose Cohen, Margie Bohrer Sussman ’67, Susan Strassberg Davis ’67, Janet Levine Tobey ’67, Claudia Serwer ’67, Syndee Feuer ’67, Merry Rodgers Kaplan ’65, Noelle Kramer Parket ’65, Lynn Wenger Frankel ’66, Linda Sharfstein Stoler ’65, and Alice Ostrove Miller.” Donald Sawyer is retired from the practice of urology this past September. “I am still trying to get used to the idea of not working, but overall I am quite pleased with the decision to hang it up. Recently, I was in Burlington with my significant other. A walk around the campus brought back many good memories and I was delighted with all of the progress at UVM. Downtown Burlington has certainly changed.

Have remained in close touch with Anne and Larry Miller and Karolynn and Norm Coleman. Hard to believe that in three years it will be 50 years since graduating from UVM.” Arthur M. “Rusty” Brink shared that the fourth annual Treasure Coast Classic was held at the Monarch Country Club in Palm City, Florida: “Backs v.

Linemen.” Ron Hertel ’65, Bob Mitchell ’68, Rusty Brink and Ed Kiniry took part. “Ed is very old and needs to sit, especially since the Backs lost again!” Pharilda Galloway writes that he retired from General Dynamics in 2006 and has been enjoying part-time work as the administrative assistant for Faith United Methodist Church. She and her dog, Indy, a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, are a therapy dog team with Pet Partners and enjoy visiting senior living centers and students at UVM. Tom Spector and his wife, Joanna, are now living in North Carolina where he teaches meditation and healing www.hathahouse.com and she teaches yoga. He also is a consultant for drug discovery and development specializing in cancer and antiviral medicines: tomspector.com. He continues to love skiing and recently started to play ice hockey. This past summer he and his wife spent 10 days backpacking in the Wind River Range with Richard Silverstein ’67. Tom would like to hear from classmates who may use either of the referenced websites.

My husband, Ken McGuckin, and I enjoyed a few days in November with Judy Claypoole Stewart and her husband, Jack ’65, at their new vacation condo in Vero Beach, Florida. Both are actively engaged in the Ithaca, New York, volunteer community where they make their permanent home.

Ken and I also spent some time over the Thanksgiving holiday with Carol Neiman Spatz and her husband, Dean, at their vacation home in Scottsdale, Arizona. They enjoy a permanent residence in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. The ladies are all sorority sisters of Kappa Alpha Theta.

Send your news to— Kathleen Nunan McGuckin P. O. Box 2100 Montpelier, VT 05601 kkmcguckin@prodigy.net

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KAREN MEYER ’70 “Everyone on our team is vulnerable, but so is everyone in life. Part of our gig is that we’re showing off how to live this way and not succumbing to the worry of the disabling effects of cancer and cancer treatment, and to carry on.”

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45TH REUNION OCTOBER 10–12, 2014 alumni.uvm.edu/reunion If you are interested in planning your upcoming reunion, email alumni@ uvm.edu. James Ryan wants to share that he recently retired from his position on the Norwich University faculty. He is spending more time fly fishing and playing his trumpet while catching up on his reading and writing. Donna Loizeaux Wilson writes that roommates, math majors, and Class of ’69 grads finally reconnected and had a reunion last summer in Woodstock, Vermont, after 43 years!

Sally Andrews Achey, Phyllis Jayson Parrott and Donna Loizeaux Wilson got together for the fun. Frank Resnick says, “Congratulations to my classmate and good friend for all these years, Barry S. Anton, who was recently named president-elect of the American Psychological Association. Heinz Ansbacher would be very proud!” Class President Steve Kunken is looking forward to the October reunion and hopes many classmates are making plans to come to our 45th. He also reports that his son Charlie (Cornell, Class of 2005) was married during the Columbus Day weekend last year in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire. Charlie works for Skanska, USA and lives in New York City.

His second son, Jake, graduated from University of Maryland in environmental science and plans on a career in stand-up comedy. Steve will keep us posted on his progress. Steve’s wife, Nicolette Pach (Colby 1970, Boston College Law School, 1972), had her first quilting/fabric show in early November 2013 in Cold Spring Harbor, New York. She is a Judicial Hearing Officer in the Queens County Family Court after serving for ten years as a Suffolk County New York Family Court Judge. And Steve is still practicing criminal law in Commack, New York but his big thrill was playing in the 60+ men’s hardball tournament in Fort Myers, Florida last November, for which he worked hard on developing a changeup pitch. Valerie Audette Hall is close to the completion of her doctorate in fisheries oceanography from the University of

Massachusetts School of Marine Science. Her specialty is the reproduction and population dynamics of the bay scallop. Many may remember Tim Stabler, who received his doctorate at our graduation and was a lab instructor for anatomy and physiology when we were freshmen. He has been a volunteer at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry since retiring from teaching at Indiana University Northwest in 2004.

He invites UVM alumni to drop in on Thursday mornings. Tim is also editor of QRP Quarterly, an amateur radio magazine for which he writes the Clubhouse column. He’ll be at the reunion this year. Pam Marvinney Banks sold her home in New Jersey and is now located in the Washington, D.C. area. Her son, Jim, graduated from George Washington University and is now doing graduate work at George Mason University.

Pam still enjoys working as a consultant. Mary Moninger Elia is enjoying retirement and the ability to travel in the fall. She and husband, Pat, have been spending a week or two each fall hanging out in various European destinations (mostly Italy). While at home, she is active as secretary of the Connecticut Alliance for Retired Americans. She is especially thankful there was not a third hurricane reaching Long Island Sound this year. Irene and Sandy broke through her seawall and did exterior damage from which they are still recovering. Paul Woodard retired after 35 years of teaching at the University of Alberta. His news is that he has four grandchildren: two almost next door, and two in Charlotte, North Carolina, with whom he and his wife, Pris, spend as much time as possible. During the winter, however, they can be found in Arizona or other warm spots like Thailand or Mexico. Beth Bergman Polazzo has been traveling extensively in North and South America, and eastern and western Europe, most recently in Lisbon to do equestrian training last April. When not traveling, she lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Send your news to— Mary Moninger-Elia 1 Templeton Street West Haven, CT 06516 melia1112@comcast.net

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Bill Mark Laufer has been voted one of the top 100 attorneys in New Jersey for the 11th consecutive year by New Jersey Monthly. He and his wife, Angie, are proud to announce their first grandchild, Sienna Konkus. They have four daughters and expect more grandchildren to come. Lorraine Parent Racusen MD’75 and her husband, Richard H. Racusen PhD’75, continue to live in Maryland. Lorraine is still a professor of pathology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, travelling a lot, and dreaming of retirement. Richard is enjoying his retirement from the University of Maryland, staying very busy with many activities and interests, including travel. Their oldest son, Chris, is a senior mechanical design engineer at a spacecraft company near San Francisco, and his younger brother, Darren Racusen ’11, is working as head of client relations at a company in San Ramone, California. Lorraine has enjoyed meeting with Deb Dever from the UVM Foundation. Richard and Lorraine visited their boys for Thanksgiving last year and took in a Sharks hockey game while there.

Send your news to— Doug Arnold 11608 Quail Village Drive, #3 Naples, FL 34119 darnold@arnold-co.com

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Liz Farman ’68, of Williston, contacted me in August to inform me that one of our classmates had passed away. Elisabeth “Betty” Burbank was a veteran educator in our community.

She died on November 30, 2012. She had retired from long-standing positions (30+ years) that she had held as music educator in the Essex Junction, Vermont, schools and as organist and music director at the First United Methodist Church in Burlington, Vermont. I was so sorry to hear this news and wanted to be sure classmates knew of Betty’s passing. From Marc Milowksy, “We are at four grandchildren and counting. Megan ’00 has two, Brooklyn and Madden O’Connor.

Molly ’09 has one, Gunner Frate; and Morgan has one, Sienna Needs. Annie Viets and I rode the Prouty again this year to raise money for Norris Cotton Cancer Center. Annie and her daughter Anna ’11 rode the 100 and I wimped out and rode the 50 this year. Anna

interesting folks who’ve relocated just like he has. He recommends signing on to MeetUp.Org in any area—he’s enjoying hiking and biking with folks with similar interests. Who would have thought 40+ years ago, we’d be logging onto the internet to make meaningful connections! Liz Mead Foster and I had lunch recently and she’s enjoying her grandson, Fritz. In closing, Richard and I walked 100 miles on the West Highland Way of Scotland, and found the sights amazingly beautiful. We are finding that we can push through a full day of walking, and still enjoy the scenery, felow walkers, and each other! My twin grandsons, Dima and Daniel are three and continue to bring me incredible joy.

Send your news to— Sarah Wibur Sprayregen 154 Cliff Street Burlington, VT 05401 sarah.sprayregen@uvm.edu

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Judith La Forge Silva tells us, “I finished my book, The Voyage of Yankee Lady Circumnavigating New England on a Sailboat. It’s about six retired sailors, my husband and four other friends on three boats.

It’s an exciting fun book, 3,000 miles of history, geography, sailing, and people adventures. It’s available at the UVM bookstore and on Amazon.

Richard Nelson shares, “I’m mostly retired now, living outside Annapolis, Maryland, on the Chesapeake with my wife of 33 years, Gloria. I do a little work, including finishing my second electronic book. I’m working with the Defense Information Systems Agency at the moment to reassign my copyright for my first book, An Overview of the Defense Information Systems Agency Open Source Corporate Management Information System, to DISA in order for them to be able to modify and update it as needed in the future.

Carol Fitzgerald says “I have lived in three states and have a degree from an institution in each of these states.

They are Purdue, University of Vermont, and Syracuse University. I’d recommend all three to others looking to enrich their lives through great educations.”

Send your news to— Debbie Koslow Stern 198 Bluebird Drive Colchester, VT 05446 debra.stern@uvm.edu

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Robert McWilliam, M.D., sings in the Connecticut Choral Society chorus. This year they performed in Carnegie Hall and an In Memoriam concert in Newtown attended by Reg Griggs ’73 and his lovely wife, Betsy. Elizabeth “Betty” Rice Lewis and Gary celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary this summer and fall with a road trip to Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, New Jersey, and New York. This fall, they traveled to the Bahamas for another relaxing experience which was a gift from their church where Gary is the minister. Betty also had the opportunity to get together with two UVM classmates this summer, Barb Hawkins Collins and Cathy Robinson Honeywell. “We had some great times of sharing together. I am planning on retiring after almost 40 years in education on June 30, 2014. I am enrolled in UVM’s Extension Service Master Gardener Course that begins in February 2014. It will be a fun new adventure.” Karen Blakney is serving as the Bureau of Land Management’s National Climate Change Coordinator which is an ongoing challenge. “It will be a different world than we remember winters in Burlington.”

Send your news to— Deborah Mesce 2227 Observatory Place NW Washington, DC 20007 dmesce@prb.org

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40TH REUNION OCTOBER 10–12, 2014 alumni.uvm.edu/reunion If you are interested in planning your upcoming reunion, email alumni@ uvm.edu. Lucie Malinski recently had a birthday celebration that began with the receipt of the CoopermanBogue Kids First Award. This award is given to an outstanding social service worker in Pinellas County Florida by The Juvenile Welfare Board of Pinellas County. “It was a great honor and a wonderful way to celebrate my birthday!” Frank Luisi writes that UVM and its caring teachers, coaches, and friends has an influence that continues on. “As a teacher and coach, and college advisor, I am blessed to have the opportunity to share the spirit of Vermont with my students and athletes. Recently, at Oceanside, we welcomed Victoria Macridis, an admissions counselor and alum-

nus. She visited with our students to share information about UVM. Vicky did such a tremendous job. I have also been blessed to work as an advisor for NCAA college bound studentathletes helping young people find a college that will help them grow as people and as students, as UVM has done for all of us.” Nancy Altha Simerl writes, “Hi folks, I left Vermont trained for agriculture, but I’ve been paid for livestock management, medical statistics, therapeutic massage (two- and four-legged), and public library management in the 40 years since. I have a fat and happy Morgan mare that traces back to the UVM herd and I still use all the knowledge I gained at UVM. My life is good, I hope that yours is too!” John Simpson and Suzanne visited South Africa in 2002 and have wonderful photos of animals while on safari but were most touched by a visit to the Nkomo Primary School and meeting the children and its dynamic principal. They have returned seven times to visit, volunteer and provide support to the many orphans at the school. They continue to stay in frequent contact with their new friends at the school.

To tell this inspiring story they started making a documentary film about the school and how it has changed the lives of not just the children but the entire community as well. They are now in post-production and expect to be finished in 2014. Check out the website, Facebook and YouTube “Under Four Trees.” I had a wonderful time at Reunion 2013, especially seeing friends from Delta Delta Delta that I had not seen in a long time. And, this wasn’t even our class year for reunion! Our 40th class reunion is this year! Save the date, October 10-12, 2014. You just have to see the improvements to UVM, beautiful Burlington and, of course, all of those long lost friends. We will have a wonderful visit.

Send your news to— Emily Schnaper Manders 104 Walnut Street Framingham, MA 01702 esmanders@gmail.com

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rode the 100 with no training. She is an iron woman like her mom. Annie spent the night with Patty and me, and of course we reminisced about old times at Groovy UV. Yes, your name did come up along with Mags Caney Conant, Mike Levine, John Mahwhinney, and a host of others. It is always great to see her. Patty ’73 and I are off to Italy in October to bike and celebrate our 40th wedding anniversary—from Maypo.” Keith Pillsbury ’69 and Penelope DeLaire Pillsbury celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary in August by enjoying visits by family and friends at their cottage “The Pillsbury Patch” on Metcalf Pond in Fletcher. They are proud of their two adult children: Ellen, who is a senior planner in Duluth, Minnesota, and Caleb, who has been teaching choral music, guitar and music theory at Mount Mansfield Union High School for ten years. Retiring three years ago from his teaching career in Essex Town schools, Keith is serving in his 24th year on the Burlington School Board; he has been board chairman and is now chair of the finance committee. He is a vestry and flower guild member at Saint Paul’s Cathedral and volunteers at J.U.M.P. After 28 years, Penny is still having a lot of fun as the director of the Brownell Library in Essex Junction. She continues to enjoy singing in the Saint Paul’s choir, loves kayaking, reading, and cross country skiing, gardening, and biking. She has been a Rotarian since 1987. Sandra Campbell Simpson is still working for the Defense Logistics Agency doing medical logistics for Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. It has been a very busy and fast paced environment with lots of contacts with interesting folks in some really out-of-the-way places.

Nancy Clark, R.N.’71 has just returned from her fall month long trip to Zimbabwe where she works with AIDS orphans and their care givers. She has done some incredible things in Zimbabwe. Please go to the website to learn more. http://www.zienzele.org. Two of her UVM nursing classmates, Jackie Simpson and Vicki Swenor serve on the board of directors for Zienzele.

And, I heard from Tim Scott as I was wrapping up my column. Tim has moved from the New York metro area to Jacksonville, Florida and now works for the U.S. Department of Labor there.

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dance. It was fun to see Peter Brady and John Murphy representing our class as well as many other former players. Pamela Collier Hunt ’75 and her husband, Herbert G. Hunt III ’74, G’78 and former UVM professor 1987-2001, have moved to San Luis Obispo, California. After almost 12 years in Southern California where Herb taught at California State, Long Beach, they decided they needed a change. Herb accepted a position in the business school at Cal Poly and they moved to the beautiful central coast over the summer. They are enjoying this wonderful part of the country. Before moving, they drove all the way to Vermont for a heartfelt visit and loved being back in New England, spending time with family and friends. Vermont is never far from their thoughts! Mariella Squire is a professor of anthropology and department chair in behavioral and social sciences at the University of Maine at Fort Kent; interests in ethnobotany, folklore, medical anthropology, and identity. Most recent grant: (2013) to restore the Acadian heritage historic gardens at UMFK. David Bourneuf retired from AT&T in 2011 after 34 years and eight relocations. “I’m enjoying retirement, playing golf and awaiting the arrival of our first grandchild this coming December. Our son, Matt, is a first-year medical student at University of Texas, so things are getting busy.” William Gordon shares that after more than 30 years in the West, split between Denver and San Francisco, I returned to the east to my hometown of Westport, Connecticut.

One of my three sons attended UVM (Nathan, BSAD ’09) and had a fantastic experience. Bert Rouleau writes, “I just celebrated my 30th year of private practice in orthodontics and have the honor of having my son, Aaron, join the practice. I want people to know that our son, Nic, is starring in the hit Broadway musical, Book of Mormon, in New York. He plays the lead role of Elder Price. Go see the show and say ‘Hello’ to Nic. Glory Lanphear Douglass Reinstein remarried a few years ago and started a business, Bluebird Promotions, to help promote Vermont singer/songwriters. She plans to retire from her position as music educator at Essex High School in 2015.

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Don Nelinson says, “Oh, happy day! Just bought a house in Wilmington, Vermont, for winter and summer fun! Still working in medical communications in New Jersey but looking forward to time at the new place.” Dana Pumphrey Gourley and her husband, Rob, continue to stay busy in Florida with their green technology, therapeutic products, and offshore Super Boat Extreme race team (REDS/Watt-Ahh Offshore Racing). Throttle Up, Class of ’76!” Jan A D’Angelo writes, “I’ve come a long way since being the Sigma Nu designated pilot to fly to Boston to pick up the Catamount mascot (as immortalized in “A Guy Named Cross. A Place Called Vermont.”) Today, I am in the spaceship business as vice president, business development of AdamWorks in Denver, a composites engineering/ manufacturing firm. Notable projects include the Dream Chaser, which just completed its first flight, and the XCOR Lynx, a space tourism vehicle.

Other products we manufacture are on military aircraft flying in Afghanistan and have been very effective in supporting our troops. Lynn Vera is a school counselor at the Center for Technology, Essex, Vermont. She works with teenagers to make connections between school and careers.

She is focused on equity and pathways and support for non-traditional career choices. She loves travel and the ocean, and recently traveled by boat down the Mekong River in Cambodia and Vietnam. She also traveled to Phuket to snorkel. Suzanne Flynt shared this, “My book, Poetry to the Earth: The Arts and Crafts Movement in Deerfield, was recently published in conjunction with Memorial Hall Museum’s exhibition “Skilled Hands and High Ideals in Deerfield, Massachusetts,” where I work as curator. Donna Laurin is still living in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont, working full time as an ElderCare Clinician for a community mental health center. “I have a LICSW and have worked with children and families for many years before switching to working with the elderly. I have four adult children and two grandchildren. One son, Tyler Laurin Scher ’11, graduated from UVM several years ago and my daughter graduated from Univer-

sity of New England in 2013. I am still in touch with several UVM classmates but haven’t gone to any reunions. Life is good!” Elizabeth “Ebeth” Oliver Scatchard tells us the 40th reunion of APEX, UVM’s primary education program, was absolutely phenomenal! Dean Corrigan, Charlie Rathbone and Frank Watson brought many to tears with their insightful remarks. 2013 also brought major exciting changes for the Scatchard family. Their son, Brooke, bought his first home in Morristown, Vermont.

His brother Ross and Metzi Anderson were married in Stowe. Jean Graham Hight shares that Steve Hight ’76 and she have lived in Marshfield, Massachusetts, for 30 years! “I work as a nurse educator for the Plymouth Public Schools. I will be completing a master’s degree in education/school nursing this spring. Steve is a project manager for IBM. We enjoy vacationing at our summer cottage on the Vineyard.” Martha Hoffman Goedert writes, “I read the alumni news and look for names and events that touch my heart and memory. I am still working, as a nurse midwife and family nurse practitioner, along with teaching in the graduate nursing program at the University of Missouri. My husband, James, is an engineering professor. I have been lucky with love.

We have had marvelous experiences working in Mali, Uganda, Haiti, Togo, and Kenya while combining forces working alongside our global neighbors. My best Vermont memories are the runs along Spear Street, my compassionate friends, especially Marian Carow Entin, biking to Stowe with strong gals, being hostessed by the many locals who were aware that I was the only Missouri farm kid, running cross country, singing in Madrigals and choir, and learning with fabulous fellow students in nursing and in human nutrition. I have way too many children to write about, and am afraid to say that I have taught family planning for years! It is a joy to see what accomplishments have come from my UVM classmates. I wish for each of you great vision and energy for the upcoming decades that follow our collective 60th birthdays! Amy Christensen has been named executive director of Samaritan Center for Young Boys & Families. The organization intervenes with boys and families making bad life choices. The boys

struggle with behavioral and academic issues as a result of dysfunctional families and/or poor parenting.

Samaritan Center works with both the boys and the families for significant improvement and family reconciliation through its residential and counseling program. Amy is responsible for the overall management of and fundraising for the non-profit organization.

Families pay only what they can afford so 100 percent of the boys receive significant scholarship monies. Samaritan Center receives no government funding to accomplish its mission.

Send your news to— Pete Beekman 2 Elm Street Canton, NY 13617 pbeekman@clarkson.edu

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I want you all to appreciate a moment in the life of the UVM ’77 class secretary. The Alumni Office sends me a note a few weeks before it’s time for them to send out an email to you all, wherein I shame and embarrass you into sending news to the alumni office. I write said email and send it back to them.

Weeks pass and then they send me a Word file, included in which are the news items sent in response to my harangue. I download. I click. My palms are sweaty and I feel a deep sense of dread. I fear the sound of crickets. Imagine my delight! Thanks to all of you who did not respond like Cool Hand Luke. Dana Conroy says “Hi!” and shares details of an impressive career: “My years at UVM majoring in mass communications helped start me on a career in television news and entertainment. After working at The Oprah Winfrey Show, ABC News and NBC News, I’m doing work for Human Rights Watch now and living in New York and Philadelphia, where my husband works for NBC. I see friends from UVM as often as possible, and recently got together with many of them for a memorial service to celebrate Walter Hutchins’ ’80 life. Walter died over the summer in a bicycling accident. It was bittersweet, but he would have loved it.

We’ll miss you, Gator.” Robert Walsh writes, “Although reading class notes about retirement and grandchildren reaffirms what a late bloomer I have been, as I contemplate my elementary school children and a seemingly ever receding vision of retirement, life

the past 26 years and have two sons, 22 and 24.” Paul D. Dunkling reports, “I am still working hard at my dental practice just one block north of the beautiful UVM Green! My daughter Angie Dunkling ’11 graduated from UVM Honors College in December of 2011 and is now in her second year at Tufts School of Dental Medicine!

Son, Thomas Dunkling ’16, and stepson, Cody Putre ’16, are busy studying and enjoying college life on campus as sophomores at UVM! It’s nice to feel so connected to a great university. Go Cats GO!” Francine Lynch says hello from New York City, “I am reporting on two get-togethers with fellow classmates. In August, I had dinner in Harvard, Massachusetts at the home of Gail Coolidge and husband, Michael Lauer, joined by Ken Rothwell and wife, Pam, who came out from Newtonville. We had a blast telling tales of Living/Learning, the Medieval/Renaissance Program and B. T. McGuire’s. I am in regular contact with Gail, and see Ken every eight years or so. Then in October I got together with Candice Parker Campbell, here in New York, who I had not seen in 35 years! She is living in Vermont, and we caught up on life over prime rib at The University Club. I have not been to Vermont in 20 years and now have an open invitation from Candace. I run into Kim McSparren in the Hamptons from time to time. I am still a swinging single and working now as a nonprofit management consultant, specializing in arts and culture.” David Gates writes that his son, Jamison Gates ’16, is enjoying his sophomore year at UVM in the engineering program. He added, “Having grown up in Vermont, Jamie wanted to go to college out of state but chose UVM, appreciating that Burlington is ‘really close to Vermont!’” Daughter, Kinsey, graduated from Philadelphia University in May. David and wife, Stacy, moved to their weekend home in Manchester, Vermont, from Manhattan in 1991 (after 12 years on Wall Street), and they haven’t looked back. He and a partner now have an investment management firm in town. He still enjoys skiing, fishing, hunting, mountain biking, and all the other great Vermont outdoor opportunities but has been bitten badly by the golf bug. Regular contact with fellow Delta Psi brothers Jim Falconer, Peter Evans, Rob

Millman, Greg Dirmaier ’76, and Lou Foah ’78 keep the UVM connection strong. David, I’ll meet you on the first tee of Ekwanok, Saturday, June 14, at 10:30 a.m. We’ll do 36, with a little shrimp salad in between, okay?

Hopefully by the time you read this, I will have published my second novel, Law & Disorder. It follows my first, Diary of a Small Fish, which will be out in audiobook in March 2014. Thanks so much, you lovely people. You’re making this job fun.

Send your news to— Pete Morin 41 Border Street Scituate, MA 02066 pbmorin@comcast.net

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Geoff Liggett’s son, Ned Liggett ’16, is a sophomore at UVM and is an R.A. in Living/ Learning where his uncle, John Sama ’84, is the director. Miriam Bolwell Foerster says, “At 83 I’m still painting oil paintings and teaching some. I was an adult when I graduated in ‘78 but still enjoy reading about people and activities at UVM.” Ken Ghazey is living in Boston, and has a son, Sam Ghazey ’16, who is a sophomore at UVM. Stephen Seitz has published two novels recently. London-based MX Publishing has released Never Meant to Be, a time travel thriller featuring Sherlock Holmes. Readers can find the Vermont-based mystery Secrets Can’t Be Kept Forever on Amazon’s CreateSpace site. Holly MacIvor Robbins shares that she is in her ninth year as school nurse at Edmunds Middle School in Burlington. “I still absolutely love my job! I am a new district representative for the Vermont State School Nurse Association so I’m staying active in my nursing field. Our daughter, Christy, is a junior at Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvania. She will be graduating next year with a degree in physical education and health sciences.

We are so proud of her. My husband, Scott, and I enjoy riding motorcycles in our spare time. I got a new Harley for my birthday this year! I still keep up with Rosemary Noonan, Karen McCarthy Lavery, and Ann Harding Burdet.” John Grapek became a real estate agent in Warwick, New York, where he lives with his son who is a junior in high school. John also has three older daughters; a senior at Georgia State looking towards medi-

cal school, and two attending Parsons in New York City studying graphic design and fashion. As a hobby John has been doing standup comedy, which can be viewed on his website, johngrapek.com. Elaine Rosen Groundwater writes “I’m so proud of our daughter, Leslie Groundwater ’13, who graduated May 19, 2013 from the College of Business Administration with a concentration in human resources and marketing! Thirty-five years from my graduation, the ceremony was very special.

She loved her time at UVM as much as I did. Starting my 12th year of real estate sales, I am now affiliated with Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage, in Simsbury, Connecticut. Also, I am the secretary for the board of the Simsbury Chamber of Commerce and I continue to enjoy my volunteer activities with the Greater Hartford Association of Realtors, JDRF and UVM Admissions. If you are thinking of buying or selling real estate in the near future, I can connect you.”

Send your news to— UVM Alumni Association 411 Main Street Burlington, VT 05401 alumni.uvm.edu/classnotes

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35TH REUNION OCTOBER 10–12, 2014 alumni.uvm.edu/reunion If you are interested in planning your upcoming reunion, email alumni@ uvm.edu. Believe it or not our 35th reunion is this year! Please join us in Burlington October 10-12 for a weekend of activities and reminiscing with friends. UVM and Burlington have changed a bit since 1979, come back and check it all out. Lindsay Schine writes, “Freshmen from Wright Hall reunite! Wendy Erikson hosted our biannual reunion with Sue Ruben Thorne, Wendy Wolf and Nancy Carr Worden as well as Gina DeLorenzo Sapnar ’80 and Laura Will ’80 present to celebrate 38 years of friendship going strong!”

Send your news to— Beth Gamache 58 Grey Meadow Drive Burlington, VT 05401 bethgamache@burlington telecom.net

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is full.” Judy Stroffoleno Thompson and her husband Wesley built a house in North Ferrisburgh, Vermont, where they have raised their two daughters Eliza and Lilly. Eliza Thompson ’12 graduated from UVM in May 2012 and Lilly is currently a junior at UVM. Judy has many fond memories of the good old Jeanne Mance days and would love to hear from her pals Piper and Syd! Tag Carpenter (one of my SAE pledgemates!) visited Dana’s daughter Hannah ’17 on campus for Homecoming and gave her and his wife the tour of Delta Psi. They were stunned by the design and architecture. “Can’t wait until it is renovated!”

Glad to hear that impressive mansion is still standing, Tag. I fondly recall hitting golfballs at the slate roof from the deck of SAE. We were so jealous of you guys. After 46 years in Vermont Michael Agusta moved to Wilmington, North Carolina, “chasing the sun and surf in our semi-retirement. In Burlington, our home of 27 years was between Kappa Alpha Theta and SAE. When we moved there we weren’t much older than the students around us. Now, some of the mom and dads of the students there are looking younger. Happy with the move south but will always visit the “hill” in the summer. By the way, the Wilmington area has a Burlington feel to it. College, downtown, arts, airport.”

Bill Klipp and his wife, Linda, just got back from a month-long photo safari to Zimbabwe, Botswana, and Kenya.

The highlight, though, was mountain gorilla trekking in Rwanda. If you have not checked out Bill’s photo website at www.wkimages.net, it is awesome and inspiring. David Marc Katz still owns a motel in southern Vermont after 40 years now. “I have two children who currently live at the motel: Michael who is 30 and Jennifer who is 26. On a sad note, my wife, Christine, passed away in October 2012 after her battle with cancer.

We were married for 25 years.” Deepest sympathies from the whole class, David. Laura Yatvin laments that she does not get to Burlington very often. “My niece is a senior majoring in music education and has loved her years there just as I did. I majored in nutrition at UVM and have continued to work in the field all these years as a registered dietitian and a certified diabetes educator in Philadelphia. I have been living in Philadelphia for

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A memorial service was held at alum Peter Knight’s home in Hanover, New Hampshire, for our friend and UVM alum, Walter Hutchins. Walter died in a bicycling accident in New York near his home.

He brought us all together again to celebrate his life and the wonderful times we had with each other in the 1970s at UVM. In attendance were the following: Dana Conroy, Adele Bielli Savastano, Mary Reber, Maureen Farrell, Andrea Bielli, Mary McCosker Burnside and Heather Bewick Dwight. Bill Edwards writes, “Thirtythree-plus years after graduating... still making ski turns with old UVM friends: Jack Scambos ’81, Ray Buck ’81, Rob Rogers ’81, and Chris Cushing ’81 this winter out in Wyoming, Grand Targhee and Jackson Hole... such a deal! Always a blast and praying for pow! Still working at IBM Burlington wafer fab. Only job I ever had.

Ten plus layoffs over the years and somehow I’m still employed.” Mary Hasson Cain writes, “I am keeping extremely busy with weddings in Vermont now that the Defense of Marriage Act has been declared unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court. I perform weddings seven days a week for all couples and encourage committed same-sex couples who are legally married in their own states to contact me at www.vtweddings.org so they can marry and now receive federal protections like Social Security, veterans’ benefits, health insurance, and retirement savings. I was delighted to have recently visited Jay Peak Resort and happened to run into Charlie Dusha ’77. He was attending the Vermont EMS Conference held at Jay Peak.” Barbara Smith Murphy writes, “I am excited to announce my retirement from a short, 15-year, career with the United States Postal Service. The next year holds events of great joy for me with the expected birth of my son and daughter-inlaw’s first child and the wedding of my daughter. A cross-country train adventure is in the plans, too, with stops in Chicago, Glacier National Park, and Seattle. Looking beyond this next year, I intend to take advantage of my new status and enter Vermont politics as the representative for my community.” Philip Spillane has written a book entitled With the Destination in Mind. Drawing on years of professional experience as a certified

financial planner and wealth advisor, Spillane provides an easy yet effective wealth building process that anyone can follow. A former scholar athlete at the University of Vermont, Phil earned a master’s in business administration at Suffolk University where he graduated at the top of his class.

Phil has been married for 25 years to his wife, Mary. They have two children and a Golden Retriever. Judy Cram Tomasik currently lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, with her husband, Richard, and son, Sam. She is the middle school learning resource teacher at Canterbury Episcopal School. Judy also plays piano for Oak Ridge Presbyterian Church, both the traditional and contemporary services. It has been quiet in my little corner of Vermont, affording time for reflection and introspection as I look forward to this year fresh with the promise of new beginnings and memories to be made and shared. I hope this finds you all doing well and similarly looking forward to the year ahead.

The small details of our lives are what truly matter, not those things that we accumulate over time, but the relationships we forge and cultivate that bring us together and create a rich community. I hope that you will make time in the coming weeks to share the small details of your lives and allow us to come together as a class community. Where has your life journey taken you? What milestones can you relate?

I look forward to hearing from you!

Send your news to— MaryBeth Pinard-Brace P.O. Box 655 Shelburne, VT 05482 marybethpinard_brace@alumni. uvm.edu

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Joyce Allgaier resides in Ketchum, Idaho, home of Sun Valley, and serves as the city’s planning manager. Joyce is a land use and sustainability planner with a specialty in resort communities having spent much of her career working for the popular resort and tourism towns of Aspen, Snowmass Village, and Gunnison, Colorado. Her work as a community sustainability consultant found her working with communities around the country and the Middle East, along with training other planners as faculty of the American Institute of Certified Planners. Joyce is still an avid cross-country skier

and loves wilderness and getting up high in the Rockies! Her daughter, Hannah Ohlson ’12, just finished two appointments with AmeriCorps working as an environmental educator at ECHO on Lake Champlain and then with Local Motion/Bike Recycle Vermont. Hannah recently moved to Missoula, Montana, and is working for REI, enjoying the high Rockies again on bike and foot. Joyce’s son, Gunnar, is a freshman at Saint Lawrence University. The whole family loves Vermont and has visited often through the years and will continue to. Burlington will always be a home to them! John Dockendorf operates two summer camps. Camp Pinnacle is a facility-based camp in Flat Rock, North Carolina, and Adventure Treks is a wilderness adventure camp that travels to destinations across North America. Dock lives in Flat Rock with his wife, Jane, and four kids. Thomas Yorke reports that after 27 years working in sales, trading, and financing of both fixed income and equities, he has finally left the New York institutional investing world. “I have committed full time to an asset management business established in 2008 originally for family and friends.

Check out Oceanic Capital Management at www.oceaniccap.com. Send me an email or catch me on Linkedin and let me know what’s up.” Christopher Chandler shares that he and his wife, Mireya Schmidt, are now home with their dog and cat because their children have headed off to college.

“Nico is a sophomore at Humboldt State in Arcata, California, and Natasha is a freshman at The University of Chicago. So, we work hard to pay college costs! We have lived in La Jolla, California for 17 years and I miss the change in seasons.” Sara Blum talks about the Pohogonot Reunion that was held on October 12, 2013 with 99 descendants of George Daniel Flynn, Sr. who gathered on Martha’s Vineyard to celebrate our 120th reunion.

As we gathered for pictures, we realized that 16 of us attended UVM and so snapped the photo posted on the online gallery found on the alumni website. Of the 16, nine graduated from UVM: Christopher Keeler ’13, Nina Mangini ’13, Wendy Keeler ’82, Tika Keeler ’83, Marty Cutler Fuller; 4 transferred: Hadley Pollett, Parker Lamborn, Edie Hackett Keeler and Edie Woodland Kilchenstein,

and two are currently enrolled: Emily Post Peters ’17 and Jenny Millan ’17.

Five of us remain in Vermont to this day: Carolyn Blum ’11, Lizzie Post ’05, Sara Coward Blum, Anna Post ’01 and Matt Bushlow ’97 who are recently engaged. Thirteen of the 16 are in the picture posted at alumni. uvm.edu/gallery.

Send your news to— UVM Alumni Association 411 Main Street Burlington, VT 05401 alumni.uvm.edu/classnotes

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The national law firm of Quarles & Brady LLP announced that Steven M. Goldman has joined the firm’s Washington, D.C., office as a partner in the Corporate Services Practice Group. Prior to joining the firm, Goldman was executive vice president and corporate officer at Marriott International, Inc. and a partner at Parker Hudson Rainer & Dobbs LLP in Atlanta. Deb Bock Tibbetts continues to practice physical therapy as a pediatric therapist, in Keene, New Hampshire where she has been practicing since 1986.

After a 23-year marriage, and tumultuous divorce, she married Jeff Tibbetts two years ago. This was after undergoing a battle with sarcoma that has left her without a muscle (adductor magnus for her physical therapy cohorts) in her right thigh, a radiation burn, and a totally new and wonderful outlook on life. She is the proud mom of two girls, her older currently attending Wake Forest Law School in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, while her younger is a junior at Siena College in Loudonville, New York, where she is studying accounting and is swimming on their swim/ dive team. Dan Colby graduated as an honors designee from the Graduate School of Banking at Colorado in Boulder in July of this year. Debra Fay married Michael Artist on a beautiful autumn day in Vermont on September 14. Debra continues her 27-year career with the Federal Aviation Administration in Atlanta where he serves as senior advisor to the director of the eastern region. Bruce Bollinger says, “My wife, Dawn, and I opened a gourmet burger restaurant in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, two years ago, MacPhail’s Burgers, honoring my grandmother, Agnes MacPhail. The Farmer’s Almanac (accuracy 80 per-

cent) is saying “winter will be much snowier than normal” (normal = approx. 500”). Jackson Hole Mountain Ski Resort has been ranked #1 in North America by Ski magazine and Forbes magazine for the last two years. Come ski the cowboy powder, have a MacPhail’s burger, and reconnect.” Anne Sullivan Soydan writes, “Perhaps too rote to note, but life, while too busy, is good at age 53, and hope it is for others as well! Lately I have been savoring online connections across the states with Nancy Segal Janes and other festivities to celebrate living for a half century with Susan Aikens Post, Terri Mullins Wright ’83, Giovanna Fratelli Perkins, and Michelle Micciche Dowling. Nice to see John Sama ’84 keeping things hopping together on UVM campus and Paul Butler ’83 and friends (thanks Don McCree ’83) keeping the alumni spirit and fundraising efforts strong.” Daniel Michael Gasparino married Kelley, a University of Arizona graduate. “We have two daughters both playing Division I lacrosse at the University of California Berkeley. I truly enjoyed watching my older daughter, who was a sophomore at the time, score two goals and

add two assists to beat UVM in the spring of 2012 at UVM. I have worked in the fixed income markets for primary dealers for 29 years since being released from the Yankees organization which drafted me out of college.

I stay in touch with Bill Currier who was the head baseball coach at UVM for over 20 years before the administration did away with the program.

Bill is now ten minutes away as the head coach at Fairfield University. I have a niece, Lane Smith, who is a sophomore at UVM.” Rusty Kasupski writes, “After 28 years in Naval Aviation, I retired on July 1, 2013. Our last six years spent working for NATO and living abroad in Europe my wife, Mehrnaz, and I relocated to the sun and fun of San Diego, California. We regularly travel back to Vermont for the fall foliage and always hope to run into other alumni. Mark Gregory shares that he has really enjoyed teaching medical students and residents in the primary care program here at Washington University School of Medicine. It is a very challenging time in American healthcare and he is working hard to insure the best continues on for patients and those docs following in our footsteps. He has

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also been serving with the Illinois Air National Guard and United States Air Force at Scott Air Force Base. “It has been a great experience and I have learned a lot from the Air Force.” Elizabeth Griffey shares, “I was a Spanish major in college, and spent many years in healthcare, where I used my language skills as much as possible. Now my daughter is at UVM, and following in my footsteps. She is an amazingly gifted artist, with additional skills in languages. I thank UVM for giving us both a wonderful environment to explore and expand our interests in the liberal arts.”

Send your news to— John Scambos 20 Canitoe street Katonah, NY 10536

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Sue Carswell recently coauthored a book with “I Will Survive,” disco queen, Gloria Gaynor called We Will Survive. It tells 40 true stories of encouragement, inspiration, and the power of song.

Carswell is a reporter-researcher at Vanity Fair magazine and has ghostwritten close to ten books. She lives in New York’s West Village. Linda Sell Steil is the military adaptive sports

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and reconditioning coordinator for the Warrior Transition BattalionEurope. “I work with the wounded warriors in the United States Army in Germany, Italy, and Belgium. “I recently moved from Heidelberg, Germany to Kaiserslautern, Germany. My oldest two children attend University College Roosevelt in Middleburg, Holland, an honors college from the University of Utrecht. My third child will graduate from Kaiserslautern High School on June 14 and my youngest is in seventh grade. My husband is the battalion surgeon for the Warrior Transition Battalion. Robin Edelstein is living and teaching in Cary, North Carolina, and sending Seth Blitzer, Jan Duncan, and Marc DeNuccio well wishes for the year 2014! “I would love to hear from you guys!”

Jane Montague Jackson married Richard Sack, the love of her life, on Saturday, October 5, 2013 at a tiny family ceremony in Baltimore, Maryland. (A photo is available in the Class Notes Alumni Gallery.) They enjoyed a November “mini-moon” (which will likely be followed by a more maximoon) in beautiful Martha’s Vineyard, where neither of them had been for years and years. I hope everyone

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ANGELA PATTEN ’86 “Instead of feeling embarrassed about where I came from, now I feel that it’s something to celebrate, something rich. Poetry is a way to be in the world for me, to talk about how the world seemed then and how it seems now.”

— Angela Patten, author of High Tea at a Low Table, a memoir, on her Irish roots and the meaning of writing in her life.

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enjoyed our 30th reunion! I know that Lynn Larson Rhoads, Janna Jacobson, and Mark Cotrupi got together for dinner one night. Karen Lamson McKenny gathered with her sorority sisters. Unfortunately, I was unable to attend as planned. I was not a happy camper! The week before the reunion I was diagnosed with multiple, bilateral pulmonary emboli which resulted in a five-day hospitalization. Finally, after ten weeks, I’m feeling close to 90 percent of my “normal” self. Every day is an improvement, and each and every day I count my blessings. My doctor’s comment to me was, “Holy ...., you are lucky!” That summed it up quite well. I am now continuing in the process of becoming a certified level one and level two Stott Pilates Reformer instructor.

Send your news to— Lisa Greenwood Crozier 3370 Sally Kirk Road Winston-Salem, NC 27106 lcrozier@triad.rr.com

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30TH REUNION OCTOBER 10–12, 2014 alumni.uvm.edu/reunion If you are interested in planning your upcoming reunion, email alumni@ uvm.edu. Andy Cook has been elected to a three-year term on the board of directors of the San Diego County Bar Association. Andy practices family law in downtown San Diego. Andy is married to Marcia Gezelter Cook ’86, who is a physical therapist. The Cooks have two children: Lilah, 15, and Jennifer, 12. Chris Castano recently got together with fellow members of the UVM men’s soccer team from the early ’80s at the 50th anniversary of the men’s soccer program at UVM in early October. “I couldn’t get over how old my fellow teammates now look!” Chris lives with his wife Kerry Castano ’86 in Williston and has two boys, Christopher at Georgetown University and Joseph at Champlain Valley Union High School.

Kenneth Pidgeon has continued to be active in the local UVM community throughout the past several years. “I was recently appointed to the UVM College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences Board of Advisors. In November our company, Engineers Construction, hosted the UVM student chapter of American Society of Civil Engineers at our Green Moun-

tain Club Bridge construction project in Bolton, Vermont. The students were able to observe pile installation and pile load testing for the new suspension bridge over the Winooski River.” Sanne Kure-Jensen of Portsmouth, Rhode Island, Cheryl Mayor London ’84 of Paso Robles, California and Mary Hordubay McKenzie ’82 of Blue Bell, Pennsylvania enjoyed a summer gathering in Newport, Rhode Island. Jeff Alpert is keeping busy with fellow UVMers in beautiful Northern California.

Send your news to— Laurie Olander Angle 12 Weidel Drive Pennington, NJ 08534 Abby Goldberg Kelley 303 Oakhill Road Shelburne, VT 05482 saragrant2001@yahoo.com Kelly McDonald 10 Lapointe Street Winooski, VT 05404 jasna-vt@hotmail.com Shelley Carpenter Spillane 336 Tamarack Shores Shelburne, VT 05482 scspillane@aol.com

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Serene Meshel Dillman writes that she finished her documentary film Getting to The Nutcracker last August. “I followed Los Angeles-based Marat Daukayev Ballet Theater from auditions to final performance of the Nutcracker Ballet. The documentary is a behind-the-scenes view of what it takes to produce this classic ballet. I have submitted the film to Sundance and other festivals.

You can see images and trailer at gettingtothenutcracker.com. Dave Dixon got his bachelor’s in physics at UVM in 1985, a master’s in physics at the University of New Mexico in 1993, and a doctorate in economics from the University of New Mexico in 2011where he is currently a visiting lecturer in economics. Harriet Brown Dickerson shared that she, Gina Ingrassia Forberg, and Robin Anderson Ritchie got together for another girls’ weekend, this time in Philadelphia in November of 2013. “When we get together, approximately bi-annually, it seems like nothing has changed, other than a few more wrinkles.” Rosemarie Giacin was thrilled to visit the

UVM campus with her daughter, Grace, who hopes to be a member of the UVM Class of 2018! She says, “Campus looks amazing with all the improvements over the years.” Jennifer Whiston Ley shares that the Class of 1985 graduates Nancy Hoffman Stafford, Eileen Kelty O’Neill, Janie Moyant Burke, Amy Ottariano Corsetti, and Christina Sununu Parrot recently gathered for a 50th birthday celebration at the Sagamore Resort in upstate New York. Missing from the weekend reunion were Ellen Bensky Kendal (who has lived in Toronto since graduating from UVM, with her husband and three boys, and is a principal at Turner Fleischer Architects and Jennifer Ley, who lives in Copenhagen, Denmark, with her Danish husband, and works at Copenhagen Business School and Roskilde University.) Nancy and her husband, Chris Stafford ‘85, have lived in Danville, New Hampshire, for the past 19 years.

Nancy is a school counselor for the Timberlane School District, and Chris is an engineering manager for Alcatel-Lucent Technologies. Eileen lives in Briarcliff Manor, New York with her husband, Colin, and their three children. Eileen is director of conference operations for GLM (a tradeshow and event production company). Janie lives in the San Francisco Bay Area (Marin) with her husband and three boys; her eldest, Trevor Burke ’15, is studying at UVM and another son is playing lacrosse at Colby. Janie has worked at MetLife for the last 26 years.

Christina is an interior designer, living in New Canaan, Connecticut, with her husband, Jeff, and two boys. Nancy and Ellen also connected this summer in Toronto where they watched Nancy’s niece Taylor Pedersen ’15 (who plays on UVM’s women’s lacrosse team) play for Team Israel in the Women’s Lacrosse World Cup Games.

Send your news to— Barbara Roth 140 West 58th Street, #2B New York, NY 10019 roth_barb@yahoo.com

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Lee Diamond would like to invite all alumni to Yoga On Church Street 2014. Lee organizes this event annually. It is free and all donations at the event go to Prevent Child Abuse Vermont. Like us on Facebook! See you on August 10, 2014 at 9 a.m. Thierry Blanchet

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Tracy Fitzgerald Fersan writes, “I am enjoying my work as assistant director for international student services at Suffolk University. My son is now a freshman at Suffolk. I had a great opportunity to catch up with my former study abroad mentor, Holly Wilkinson, last summer.

And, last month I taped a segment for 60 Minutes with three other people who are a part of the HSAM memory research study at University of California, Irvine. Lesley Stahl is a really nice person and actually attended grammar school with my mother in Swampscott, Massachusetts.”

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It was so great seeing everyone at our 25th reunion. What a great turnout and so much fun! Patrick Standen shares, “I was honored to be nominated for the Kroepsch-Maurice Excellence in Teaching Award at UVM where I teach healthcare and clinical ethics. I am also teaching philosophy at nearby Saint Michael’s College and running a nonprofit sports organization for athletes with disabilities called the Northeast Disabled Athletic Association.”

Deb Taylor is a physical therapist at a private ortho and sport practice in Elkridge, Maryland. She writes, “I also run a basketball camp in the summer for boys and girls, Coach Deb’s Basketball Camp, in its 16th year. In addition, I am a personal trainer and give private basketball lessons. I live in Hanover, Maryland with my significant other, Dan Mooney, and my 14-year-old son, Kevin. I am a twotime Ironman triathlete, and will compete in my third Ironman in August 2014 at Mont Tremblant, Canada. I’m also a marathoner and will run in Boston in April 2014. Facebook helps me keep in touch with UVM grads, but I am particularly looking for my old college roommate, Carol Lummert Barry. If anyone knows where she is, please put her in touch with me!”

Diane Dequasie Noury attended the 25th nursing reunion. “I was disappointed in the low turnout but very impressed with the nursing sim lab.

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sons and was pleased with the whole school.” After serving three terms on the Nashua Board of ldermen and one term as chairman of the Nashua Conservation Commission, Dave MacLaughlin currently serves as chief of staff to Nashua alderman at-large Dan Moriarty. Liz Paley is enjoying a new role in brand and business development at Ralph Lauren Corporation where she has worked for the past 11 years. She continues to serve on the board of advisors to the School of Business Administration at UVM and is particularly proud of her Career Development Subcommittee’s work on a first-year course designed to help students explore and prepare for their future careers. She has recently reconnected with alums Jayne Fortier Paskoff, Scott Schwartz ’86, and Seth Moeller ’89. Cynthia Elaine Mitchel tells us, “In December 2012, I moved with my husband, Michael Fuhrer, and our son Tristan (born 2005) to Melbourne, Australia. The move was motivated in part by our collective sense of adventure, but precipitated by Michael’s outstanding employment offer from Monash University and his receipt of an Australian laureate fellowship in science. He is a professor of physics doing research on grapheme and other nanoscale materials. I continue to do volunteer work for our son’s school on the Arts and Sustainability Committees. I am also continuing to work as a graphic designer and photographer in a volunteer capacity. It has been a year of intense transition, but we are enjoying our new life in the southern hemisphere.” John Scotnicki passed away on June 2, 2013. His kind and loving spirit will be missed by all who knew him. Our hearts go out to all of his family and friends.

Send your news to— Cathy Selinka Levison 18 Kean Road Short Hills, NJ 07078 crlevison@comcast.net

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is still in upstate New York, teaching classes and advising graduate students in their graduate research as a professor of mechanical engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. “As a primary pastime I’ve become heavily involved in various formats of bike racing over the past dozen years, especially cross-country mountain bike racing. For the 2013 season I placed third overall in the masters category of the National Ultra Endurance (NUE) series, a collection of 100-mile mountain bike races held across the country. A picture of the overall masters category podium can be found at www. cyclingnews.com, taken at the NUE series finale race last September in Dahlonega, Georgia. Lori DeRosa Centerbari is pleased to say that her son, Zachary Bryant ’17 is starting his first year at UVM. He is in the College of Arts & Sciences, majoring in neuroscience. She is extremely proud of his aspirations and desire to achieve the best life that he can, and that he has chosen her alma mater!

Julie Kully Faryniarz shares that on October 19, 2013 Tom and Lori Martin celebrated the wedding of their eldest son, Tom, to the lovely, Ericka Beloin. They invited UVM classmates to share in this beautiful and very fun event. Included were UVM 1986 classmates: Julie Kully and Danny Faryniarz, Kim Johnson McCrae, Amy Nostrand, Karen Hardock and Tim Ross, Franny Moore Eddy, Gail Masintonio and Jay Welsh, Alice Stifter Bartram, Lori Murchison and Brad Chervin, Sue Browning and Jim Claire, Beth Mitchell Guiliano, Lisa Brest Daley, and Evie Fleishman Katz. Maria Heck Swanson says, “We’re empty nesters!

Three are in college and one is gainfully employed. I’m working part-time doing physical therapy with developmentally delayed pre-school age children and enjoying having more time to volunteer at our local library.

I’ve been able to travel abroad (Rome, Stockholm, Barcelona, Prague, Paris) and look forward to lots more exciting vacations! Michele Colbert wants to say, thank you for the nice welcome my son, Nick ’17, received when we moved him into his dorm!

UVM is high on my twins’ college list.”

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forget that our reunion is this October 10-12. I hope to see many of you back in beautiful Burlington! I was lucky enough to catch up with Jenny Aust Stroud who lives in Boulder, Colorado, with her husband, Rob, and two sons Ty, 8, and Shay, 4. She is the senior vice president for an experiential marketing agency, Match Action.

She recently saw Jennie Magaro in Vail, but is missing her UVM playmates and hopes to see everyone in October 2014. I also got to catch up with Mike Reardon last spring during a lacrosse game. He recently reunited with Keith Wegen, Allan Farquhar, and Drew Wollensak for a long overdue get together last summer at Mike’s home in Falmouth on Cape Cod and a quick trip to Nantucket for a boys’ weekend. The reunion was in part to celebrate Keith’s clean bill of health after his recent recovery from prostate cancer. It had been about ten years since the four former roommates had gotten together. The foursome reports that frequent gatherings are planned going forward. Not only has Keith received a clean bill of health, he has become a spokesperson for prostate cancer education and screening. In 2012 he skated 395 miles across his native Colorado, raising more than $17,000 in muchneeded funds for prostate cancer education and screening. This year, he completed a 555-mile in-line skate through Texas, where he works for employer and sponsor MERX Advisors. Congratulations to Keith on a remarkable accomplishment! Ray Quesnel and his wife, Wendy Tayler Quesnel, have settled in to a new home and new life in Fayetteville, North Carolina. “I became the headmaster at Fayetteville Academy, a private, pre-k through 12th grade, day school in July 2012. Wendy is a math teacher at the same school. Our two children, Kelly, 22; and Jonathan, 20; are currently college students, although not Catamounts, so we are also enjoying our new empty nest.”

Paula Bibeault Roberge writes, “My daughter, Cassie, headed off to college this fall… at UVM! She is competing on the UVM Track and Field team and studying engineering.” Meg McGovern shares a quick update that she continues to be an active UVM volunteer, recently designated as vice chair of the Vermont Regional Board.

“I moved out of the Vermont suburbs

and now live close to Redstone campus and my commercial real estate office on Church Street, above RíRá. I am looking forward to seeing everyone at our 25th reunion!” Trudy Larson and her husband, Jordan Greenberg ’90, were excited to run into Wendy Bachleda ’88 at a Miranda Lambert concert in New Jersey last summer. Wendy was visiting from California, and they all had a great time catching up.

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Paul Frascoia reports that he, John Cashman, and Dan Grove met up in Las Vegas in May. Frascoia got married to Jillian Geiss ’97 in April 2011 in Key West.

Cashman and Armand Dellamonica ’92 and their wives were among the guests. Jillian works at FAHC, runs the Essex figure skating program, and coaches competitive figure skaters. Paul is the president of Critical Process Systems Group, a conglomeration of mid-sized industrial manufacturing companies. CPS is headquartered in Colchester, Vermont with factories around the United States. CPS employs numerous UVM grads. Kelly Hurstak and Lisa Ablove St. George recently caught up at dinner. Kelly is working in downtown Boston at Apex Companies, an environmental consulting and engineering firm. Lisa is working at Cartwheel Kids which designs and manufactures unique and innovative play things for children ages infant to tween. Judith Harding Janone retired after 30 years with the City of Burlington at the Fletcher Free Library. In September, Maura Williams completed her doctorate in classics at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York. Her niece is a junior at UVM and enjoys her time in Burlington. Ken Field was recently named a Dean’s Fellow at Bucknell University for his research and teaching accomplishments as an associate professor of biology. He studies the immunology of bats affected by white-nose syndrome.

Send your news to— Tessa Donohoe Fontaine 108 Pickering Lane Nottingham, PA 19362 tessafontaine@gmail.com

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Robert Lamb writes, “My wife, Monica, and I live in Reno, Nevada, with our twin boys, James and John. I work for Sage Ridge School as director of college counseling and often put in a good word for GroovyUV(M). Go Cats!” Matthew Conway says, “Sorry for being out of touch for 20-plus years! Life happens. I am living with wife and two daughters in Nairobi, Kenya, and working for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Don’t get stateside often, would love to hear from old friends!

Write me at matthewdevinconway@ hotmail.com.” Colleen Pixley Fitzgerald shares, “Having moved to the United Kingdom from Dublin, Ireland, in January 2012, I am currently living in Hemel Hempstead and working as a library assistant for Central Bedfordshire County Council public libraries.” Alexandra Braunstein Scott is currently working as a physician assistant at the University of Michigan Hospital. She and her husband adopted a baby girl in June of this year. Bonnie V. Spindler Custen passed away on November 18, 2013 at a Winter Haven, Florida, hospital after a long and courageous battle with breast cancer. She was only 61 years old. Bonnie was full of life and always had a smile for everyone. Bonnie was raised in Massapequa, New York. She was a manager for Revlon at several major department stores in New York City for most of the 1970s.

She was married to her husband, Stephen, for over 32 years. In 1992, Bonnie moved to Florida after living in Vermont and graduating from the UVM School of Nursing. She was a dean’s list graduate and was selected and honored to give the Honor’s Day speech. Later in her career, she was one of the extraordinary nurses featured in the book Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives: The Stories of Nurses. Catherine and Key Compton recently moved to Short Hills, New Jersey. Key writes, “We have three boys: Andrew, 6; Charlie, 4; and Simon, 9 mos. We spend most winter weekends in Stratton, Vermont, so please connect if you are in the area.” David DuPont is a realtor and entrepreneur in Mill Valley, California, just across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco. Dave is divorced with two children, 7 and 10. His latest website is a home valuation site

www.HomeToggle.com that provides a common platform for market participants to rate homes, and produces the most accurate home valuations found anywhere online. Merrick Lindsay Hoben is director of the Consensus Building Institute’s Washington, D.C., Regional Office, practitioner associate at the MIT-Harvard Public Disputes Program, and faculty associate at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. Merrick helps stakeholders across diverse organizations and sectors, globally and domestically, to develop and implement more effective agreements. Merrick is listed on the roster of conflict resolution professionals of the U.S. Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution. Ben Stigler has much to be thankful for in Seattle: representing home buyers and sellers by day and focusing on his Zumba business by night. Ken Sturm says, “I have been back in Vermont with my wife, Angie, and son, Finn, since 2011 when I assumed the job of refuge manager at the Missisquoi National Wildlife Refuge in Swanton, Vermont. I look forward to engaging in the current wildlife student community at UVM as well as reconnecting with any of my classmates who are still in Vermont.”

Send your news to— Karen Heller Lightman 2796 Fernwald Road Pittsburgh, PA 15217 khlightman@gmail.com

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Lynn Laferriere Madigan and her family have resided in Sutton, New Hampshire, for the past nine years. Lynn is a stay-athome mom and would love to hear from classmates. Clement Powers enjoyed the 20th reunion. “Great seeing those of you who came, but sorry not to see those who couldn’t. Great party with Chuck playing the Metronome and sounding as good as ever.

Nice getting back to UVM to see the latest additions like the Davis Student Center, with all the amenities a student could possibly need plus some. But also the Burlington area to experience those things that are just as they always were, like a good ole

taco at the OP. I made the visit with my old friend, Chad Hochman, who now lives in Philly, and who thought that seeing the campus sights via skateboard would be a good idea.

I went along trying to act younger than my gray hair would suggest. A few funny looks for sure, but most gave a nice UVM smile or wave when this old timer came wobbling by.

In any event, a great visit. I look forward to the 25th and doing it again, if not before then, minus the skateboard mind you.” Laura Scott says, “Nick Orem and I are living in Boston with our two kids, ages 13 and 8, but still miss life in Burlington. I’m working at Wayfair.com, an e-commerce company that is growing by leaps and bounds. We keep in touch with a bunch of ’93 and ’94 alums but would love to hear from more folks who lived at Slade in the early 90’s.”

Send your news to— Gretchen Haffermehl Brainard gretchenbrainard@gmail.com

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Erica Ludlow Bowman writes in, “It was wonderful to reunite this summer with Nell Ryan, Jen Hughes, JJ Jacobs, and Erika Mark not once but twice!

We had a grand blast with our children up in Vermont and then met again (sans E. Mark) down in New Jersey for an encore. My sides still hurt from the laughter. Yay for 40!” Rachel Hillman is pleased to announce the opening of her own real estate firm, Hillman Homes. Rachel and her team help buyers, sellers, and renters in the Greater Boston area. For more information, take a look at www.HillmanHomesMA.com” Laurie Spindler writes, “On November 6, my husband and I welcomed our first child, Xander. Coming in at 10 lbs. on the nose, he continues to be a very healthy and happy baby. We are currently living in Providence, Rhode Island, and I’m excited to spend some quality time at home with my son before heading back to work at the YMCA. Send your news to— Valeri Pappas vpappas@davisandceriani.com

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Grey Lee has just celebrated one year as executive director of the United States Green Building Council for Massachusetts.

He recently attended the UVM Entrepreneurs Alumni Group in Boston with fellow ‘96ers, Greg Dorsey and Anu Yadav. He is starting the “Green Cats” alumni affinity group for envi-

ronmental, sustainability, and clean tech professionals. Drop him a line at greylee@usgbcma.org. Julie Coffin Scanio is just writing in to say, “Hello UVM! Kurt Scanio and I are doing well. We moved to Arizona in 2004 and are loving the sunny warm days.

Kurt earned his master’s in leadership and public administration from Northern Arizona and is using these skills as a sergeant for the Mesa Police Department. I earned a master’s in business administration and MSIM from Arizona State and joined IBM as a supply chain consultant. Last year we met up with Fraser Walsh and his family who were visiting Arizona and this year we had a visit from Heather Weschler Luxenberg. Tracy Spigleman can be found swimming or biking the East Coast and Amy Carroccio McNeil is busy with her husband, two children, and dog. Kurt and I miss the beautiful Vermont fall colors but do not miss the long Vermont winters! If anyone needs to escape the cold of the East, feel free to give us a call out here in the West!”

Send your news to— Jill Cohen Gent 31760 Creekside Drive Pepper Pike, OH 44124 jcgent@roadrunner.com Michelle Richards Peters mpeters@eagleeyes.biz

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Molly Haislmaier Bradford is proud to announce the official release of her online community event calendaring software, Gather Board. After five-plus years running community events calendars in the Northern Rockies, she and her business partner, Colin Hickey, have recoded their product for sales as SaaS. See their software in action on their flagship site, www.MissoulaEvents.net. Jen Torino shares, “My partner Jenny and I were ‘officially’ married in Iowa after being together for over ten years. We live in Madison, Wisconsin, with our daughter, Nora, who celebrated her second birthday in June. We hope to relocate to Massachusetts soon. Looking for news from our med tech classmate Travis Jewett and others.”

Send your news to— Elizabeth Carstensen Genung 362 Upper Hollow Hill Road Stowe, VT 05672 leegunung@me.com

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Meredith Thomas Mansfield and her husband, Marc, welcomed a daughter, Madison Elaine, on July 5, 2013. Craig Rothenberg is busy building a brand new state-of-the-art boutique dental office in Derry, New Hampshire. He recently had an opportunity to see classmates Jon Greene and Eugene Greenberg. He mountain bikes with Jon Alden ’96 and trains at Jon’s wife Cheryl Alden’s ’96 studio (Symmetry Pilates in Bedford, New Hampshire).

Glenna McMahon writes, “Since graduating from UVM and leaving the great state of Vermont, I have been living in southern California. I found a great job with a very reputable engineering and environmental firm (Dudek) a couple blocks from the beach! My focus has been on investigation and remediation of contaminated sites. I am frequently in touch with Megan Tifft, Laura Maricic Warren and Sara Welsford Ozuna, and occasionally ‘see’ some other UVMers on Facebook. I usually get back to Vermont for my annual dose of winter, although it’s been a while since I’ve been in Burlington. I look forward to getting back there soon and walking around the campus!”

Send your news to— Ben Stockman bestockman@gmail.com

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15TH REUNION OCTOBER 10–12, 2014 alumni.uvm.edu/reunion If you are interested in planning your upcoming reunion, email alumni@ uvm.edu. Hello UVMers! Some fun updates but please keep sending them along! Allison Hodge married Joseph Giordano on September 1 in Bethesda, Maryland. Sven Eklof and his wife, Irma just welcomed their third child, Finn Eklof. Tom Johnson and Susan Johnson would like you to welcome two new little Catamounts: Lillian Hope and Connor Thomas born on August 16, 2013. Chad Ryan recently passed his certification as a board certified behavior analystdoctoral and has been working as a school psychologist in Sharon, Massachusetts. Livy Beecher Riddiford and her family have left the Gulf Coast! Livy and her husband, Dave, and their son, James, have moved to Boulder, Colorado. Livy is currently

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20TH REUNION OCTOBER 10–12, 2014 alumni.uvm.edu/reunion If you are interested in planning your upcoming reunion, email alumni@ uvm.edu. The second half of 2013 was very busy and eventful for Clare Threlkeld Conway. “I switched jobs in July and moved from NuVasive to Alphatec Spine (both in San Diego County). I still manage meetings, events and tradeshows but I’m much happier at my new job, plus it’s very close to home. This summer I made the trek from California to Vermont and visited friends in the Burlington area. It was great to be back. Then I went to New York City for a high-school friend’s wedding and met up with Michelle Angelich Josilo afterwards for one day/night. It was great to catch up with her at her house in White Plains with her husband, George. I also got to see Justyn Amarosa Constant in New Hampshire when I was traveling around Vermont. It was nice to visit the East Coast and I will get to keep traveling all over the country with my new job.” Narric Rome was recently promoted to vice president of government affairs at Americans for the Arts.

“I’ve been with the organization for nine years and am pleased to now be in charge of our lobbying, advo-

cacy, and arts education programs.”

Laura White McIndoo just started a new position as full-time faculty at Central New Mexico Community College in Albuquerque, New Mexico. I teach English as a second language to students from all over the world.

I’ve been teaching there for 11 years, but just recently was offered a fulltime position, for which I am very excited.” Greg Trager writes, “In January of 2013 my wife, Sarah, and I had our fifth child, Griffin, who joined his siblings Grace, Miles, Jane, and Sadie.

I am now working as the vice president of programming at CBS Sports Network in New York City and still residing in Riverside, Connecticut.

Send your news to— Cynthia Bohlin Abbott 141 Belcher Drive Sudbury, MA 01776 cyndiabbott@hotmail.com

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JOHN STODDARD ’99 COURTNEY HENNESSEY ’99 “Knowing these people outside of what they’re doing right now and seeing them take on whole new identities and become these real pioneers, it’s such a cool thing to see happen.”

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working as an account manager for the jewelry company Nina Nguyen.

They are looking forward to enjoying seasons once again! I’m so excited to announce the birth of John Conathan Creney II. Lyssa Sher Creney and Joe Creney ’98 welcomed their crazy adorable son on August, 12, 2013.

Lyssa and Joe are thrilled with their bundle of joy! Right around the corner from the Creneys, Chris Frier and his lovely wife, Sara, welcomed their son, Colby Robert Frier on October 26, 2013. Colby weighed 7 pounds 9 ounces and was 19 inches long. Dad, mom, and son are doing great. Up by our old stomping grounds, Leslie Pippin-Tepper and David Tepper ’98 welcomed the newest addition to their family, Dylan Joseph Tepper, born on November 29 at Fletcher Allen hospital. Congrats to you both!

Christian Craig and his wife Lizzy Allen Craig ’09 welcomed Addison Jane Craig on November 10, 2013 in Springfield, Vermont. Addison weighed 6 pounds 15 ounces and is getting settled in with mom and dad at their home in Weathersfield, Vermont. Good luck to you!

Send your news to— Sarah Pitlak Tiber 42 Lacy Street North Andover, MA 01845 spitlak@hotmail.com

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Jim Winterberger writes in, “The North Lake Tahoe UVM contingent gathered to celebrate the wedding of Will York ’02 and his wife, Christine. The ceremony took place in Squaw Valley, and an unforgettable reception followed in Alpine Meadows, where the newlyweds live. UVMers in attendance included Rosemary Lemkin-Winterberger ’02, Jim Winterberger, Dave Westall, Mike Kane, Lineya Bradford-Quinn, and many more. David G. Schieren shares, “EmPower Solar is now in business 10 years! Founded in August, 2003 by David Schieren, EmPower has installed over 700 solar electric systems at homes and businesses throughout New York City, Long Island, Connecticut and St. Martin. EmPower also specializes in battery and hydrogen back-up power solutions and electric vehicle charging infrastructure. EmPower is committed to the EmPowering Way operating philosophy, defined by the highest quality work and profes-

sionalism. More information about EmPower can be found online at: empower-solar.com. David returned to UVM after 13 years this fall to give several presentations to students in economics, his major at UVM. On the web gallery is a photo with Professor Bill Gibson: alumni.uvm.edu/gallery.

Peter von Maffei and the von Maffei family wishes everyone a happy holiday season! We are doing great! Hope to see you all at the next reunion! Lisa Lark received her master’s in history from Wayne State in 2010 and, after working part time for three years, was hired as a tenure-track, full-time instructor in history in May of 2013 at Schoolcraft College.

Send your news to— UVM Alumni Association 411 Main Street Burlington, VT 05401 alumni.uvm.edu/classnotes

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This past August, Russell Romano’s daughter, Julianna, turned one year old.

She loves Elmo! Professionally, Russell is now senior mortgage advisor for Caliber Home Loans helping clients buy and refinance homes in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. Ariel Crohn married Jon Wojculewicz this summer in Guilford, Connecticut. UVMers included Heather and Joe Shanahan, Krista Stepanik DeNofa, and Suzanne Brushart. Ariel and Jon reside in Southington, Connecticut.

Leah Murphy Jones and her husband, Keith, welcomed their third son, Cole, to their family in January. Christopher Moschella married Stephanie Amirault ’02 in 2005. He shares, “We recently had our third child. Baby girl Hadley Corinne Moschella joined her two big brothers Easton, 2, and Beckett, 4. We live in Plymouth, Massachusetts; Stephanie is a first-grade teacher and I own a financial planning practice.” Kohar Der Simonian finished a fellowship in reproductive health/family planning two years ago, and has been working at UCSF/San Francisco General Hospital as full-time faculty in both family medicine and OBGYN. She and her husband were expecting their first child in December. She writes, “Luckily, I have gotten plenty of parenting advice from fellow UVMer and college roommate, Ann Cwik, who I remain in good touch with. Hoping to

make it back to Vermont for our next reunion.” As for me, I am thrilled to be writing this update in Paris, France. I moved here in the fall with Bose Corporation on a two-year assignment so if you are ever in town, please let me know. I have already been able to catch up with one classmate, Alex Nutt, while he was passing through.

Alexis was living in England for a rotation as he works towards becoming a doctor. He is now back stateside. I also just celebrated Thanksgiving in Sandwich, England, with a crew of expats including Frances Durkes ’02.

Nice to see some other UVMers overseas. I am very excited to share the exciting news that Erica MacConnell is engaged to Chris Vessey. Chris proposed on a mountain in Europe while they were skiing this fall, how romantic. Congrats Erica and Chris! Christina Sweet, her husband, Rich, and their daughter, Kristin, welcomed Jill Kathryn into their family on August 25, 2013. Christina also started working as a public health dental hygienist for the State of Vermont. Aimee Bode Konevich and her husband, Mike, recently moved into a new home they built in Essex, Massachusetts, on the site of their wedding. Of course the house is incredibly cool with Aimee’s creative style. Jared and Sarah Brennon Schuler also did some home renovations, creating a fabulous entertaining space in Natick, Massachusetts, and luckily they have offered to put me up on return trips home! Hilary Dixon-Streeter Daly and her husband, Tim Daly ’98, welcomed their son, Chase, who joins big sister, Caroline. I also see on Facebook that a certain dirty cat connoisseur might be a father now too, but I will wait for the formal update for that one. Please send some notes and stay in touch!

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Yehuda Sugarman recently got engaged to Leah Barash of Rockville, Maryland. “We’ll be getting married in early spring 2014 and plan to have a few UVM alumni in attendance, as well as at least one member of the faculty.”

Gretchen Nareff is currently pursuing a doctorate in Forest Resources (wildlife) at West Virginia University.

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Sara Mercanti Lowe shares, “My husband, Cory Lowe, and I are proud to announce the arrival of our son, Carson John Lowe. He was born in Aspen, Colorado on June 10, 2013. The family is doing well and looking forward to the upcoming ski season. Jon Kantor and Wendy Grossman Kantor celebrated the birth of their son Samuel Leslie Kantor last December. Samuel was born in Arlington, Virginia.” Jordan Marsh says, “Hello from Utah! After several years working in the outdoor industry, I recently took a position with Discrete, a Utah-based mountain-lifestyle brand, as vice president of business development and sales. Who knew all those days skiing in Vermont would pay off? UVM is amazing in so many ways!” Alexa McInerney started Healthy and Real, a holistic health coaching business.

“I help people find their happy and their healthy by looking at all areas of their life. I am living in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and recently completed the 2013 New York City Marathon.” Sandy Bermanzon is a happily-married, new mom of a baby boy who is currently eight months old, and the college analyst for the College of Arts & Sciences at UVM. “Burlington has been good to me!”

Send your news to— Korinne Moore korinne.d.moore@gmail.com

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Rob Duguay ’05 writes, “I’m living in New York City working as a musician and involved in many aspects of the music industry including booking, band-leading, artistic direction of a jazz outreach organization (About the Swing), and maitre d’ of New York’s top jazz club, Jazz Standard. I also look forward to opening up my own music/bistro one day. I’m a bassist/composer and I toured with my trio this year to Northwest Territories, Canada; Paris, France, and an east coast tour that included the Burlington Discover Jazz Festival in good ole’ Vermont!

I visited old professors and friends and always take time for my favorite spots to eat around town... Looking forward to crossing paths with UVM alumni around the world! www.robduguay.com” Cameron Nugent says, “I am excited to share with you that I just got accepted into the 2014 Boston Marathon as a member of The South Boston Neighborhood House “Ollie” Team. This will be my first full marathon, but I am running for a cause well worth it! The South Boston Neighborhood House provides services for the underprivileged in South Boston, the place I call home. The foundation relies most heavily on the generosity of individuals, businesses and foundations for support. My goal is to raise $8,000 for the Ollie! Please consider supporting me in my fundraising efforts on crowdrise.com. And of course...go Catamounts!” Ray Li Rui Wanli was the scholarship winner in 2001 from the Green Mountain Postmaster and graduated from UVM on the dean’s list with a bachelor’s in biological sciences. Ray is now a customs and border protection officer at San Francisco International Airport after eight years with Customs and Border Protections.

Send your news to— Kristin Dobbs Apt. 333 5415 Connecticut Avenue NW Washington, DC 20015 kristin.dobbs@gmail.com

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Brit Redline completed his master’s in business administration at the University of Vermont in 2011 while working for Ryder System, Inc. and then moved shortly after to Portland, Oregon. He now works for CH Robinson Worldwide, Inc. as a key account manager and leads the food and beverage vertical consisting of 11 dedicated account managers and operations analysts. Caroline Walsh Guzman writes, “My husband, Jonathan, and I just recently welcomed our first child, a sweet baby girl named Virginia Rose! She is a healthy and happy baby and we are very blessed! The girls of 38 have been very lucky the past few years with weddings and wonderful spouses, houses and new babies! We have our time at UVM to thank for great friendships and successful futures!” Alexandra Mumaw and Stewart MacLean were married August 3 in Chatham, Massachusetts, after meeting in 2002 at UVM orientation and dating throughout their time in Burlington. Other UVMers in attendance: Jane Trivett, Brittany Bell, Lindsay Lord, Matt Traister, Heather Traister, Scott Littrell, Sam Blazar, Nate Gagnon, Elliot Rocheleau, Nick Rotker, Derek Siegler, Lauren Scribi ’08, Mackenzie Leonard and Steve Lutz ’09, and Josh Hogan ’10.

Annie Canu Vanslette writes, “This past October I got married to my best friend, Neil Vanslette. I am so grateful to have had my bridesmaids be my best friends Stephanie Hainley, Maegan Olsen, Adrienne Dicerbo Card, and Nina Marsie Soriano. We all met and lived together our freshman year on Wills 1! Thank you UVM for bringing us all together.” Benjamin Jones, 2013 graduate of New England Law/Boston, received the prestigious 2013 Adams Pro Bono Publico Award presented by the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. This award, bestowed annually upon a select law firm, private attorney and one law student, honors those who have committed an extraordinary amount of time and energy to provide volunteer legal services to poor and disadvantaged clients. In his presenting remarks, Massachusetts Supreme Court Justice Ralph Gants highlighted Ben’s dedication to Pro Bono work including his leadership and management of the CORI Initiative, work with The Innocence Project, Greater Boston Legal

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10TH REUNION OCTOBER 10–12, 2014 alumni.uvm.edu/reunion If you are interested in planning your upcoming reunion, email alumni@ uvm.edu. Hello friends! I hope you are all doing well and getting excited for our 10-year reunion weekend October 10-12, 2014! Save the date and I hope to see you for the festivities! Here are some updates from our classmates: Katie Bengtson Jones, her husband, Jonathan, and big sister Annelie, welcomed Jonathan W Jones III (Tripp)

at home on June 22, 2013. Herschel Douglas Collins, Jr. writes, “I am pleased to report I retired from nursing at the VAWRJ and I am off to new adventures. I trekked a section of the Appalachian Trail from Connecticut to New Hampshire with an additional hike through the Bigelow Range in Maine that overlooks Sugarloaf to the south and Flagstaff Lake to the north.

Then I was off for a month journey through Colorado, tenting at night and exploring that awesome state.

This fall I built a wood frame camper for my truck and it was more involved than I imagined. However, I am close to done, using mostly recycled material. I always have joy in visiting with my children, and Jane and I share much together. Happy trails.” Jessica Later currently resides in downtown Boston with her dog, Luego. She just completed a 200-mile bike ride across Massachusetts to raise over $7,000 for cancer research. She is an active realtor in the Boston residential real estate market and has been so for nearly a decade. She would like to invite and encourage you to view her website, jessicalater.com, where you can better understand her business and past activity. Nancy Morin Sunderland has been married for ten years to a fifthgeneration dairy farmer (Bob Sunderland), has five children: four daughters and one son, and started her own business this past July called Poésie Tissée, selling woven baby wraps.

Steph Knisley received her master’s in global social sustainable enterprise in December 2012. She now serves as the Customer Service/Marketing & Outreach Manager for Great Divide Ski Area in Marysville, Montana. Steph became engaged to Erik Hystad of Great Falls, Montana, and has plans for a 2014 wedding. Dan Seitz married his longtime girlfriend, Alaina Wertman, on October 12, 2013. Dan is a writer whose work is often featured on the popular culture Web sites Uproxx and Gamma Squad. The couple lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.

Gabriel Rothblatt, who was featured on the summer 2004 cover of VQ, during the bicentennial commencement has announced his candidacy for United States Congress in FL-8. Gabriel and his wife, Tiffany, live in Melbourne Beach, Florida, with their four kids.

“Honest Gabe,” as he is known, is planning to restore visionary leadership for the Space Coast of Florida.

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Sean Hagan completed his law degree at Suffolk University Law School in May 2013.

He is currently pursuing a degree in taxation at Boston University School of Law, after which he plans to practice as an estate planning attorney in Massachusetts. Jesse Dunham-Friel married Nicole Podnecky on October 5 in Hyde Park, Vermont. Jesse currently works as a geotechnical engineer and Nicole recently defended her dissertation “Folate Pathway Inhibitor Resistance Mechanisms in Burkholderia Pseudomallei” and will graduate with her doctorate in microbiology at Colorado State University this December. Josh Malczyk writes, “After six years of working for the Line Skis and Full Tilt Ski Boots brands at K2 Sports based in Seattle, Washington, I have been promoted to global brand director.” Angela Hobson has just begun a doctoral program at Arizona State in research and evaluation methodology. Stephanie Rio writes, “Live in the Philadelphia area?

Love cheesesteaks but long to wash them down with some Switchback?

Join the newly created UVM Philly alumni group and get back in touch with your Vermont roots! Our purpose is to connect new and existing alumni through hosted happy hours, community service days, and networking opportunities. For more information, join our listserv by emailing Stephanie Rio at StephanieJRio@ gmail.com.” Elizabeth Kolodner Bitterman shares the following news, “Many beautiful matches among our classmates. Amanda Sanfilippo wrote to announce the wedding of Kaitlyn Hayes Dillon and Benjamin Shearer Beck. The wedding took place September 14, 2013 in Brandon, Vermont, at the Lilac Inn. The couple met freshman year as part of UVM’s Integrated Humanities Program (IHP) at the Living and Learning Center. Also present were Professor Richard Sugarman and IHP students Lillian Greer Smith, Elias Altman, Amanda Sanfilippo,

and E. Conor Hagan. The couple currently lives in Los Angeles, where Kaitlyn teaches high school-level English and Ben is a doctoral candidate at UCLA, Department of English, specializing in American literature and culture before 1900.” Julia Gannon and Jon Leonard were married June 29, 2013 in Saratoga Springs, New York.

Crosby Lawrence and Jon’s brother, Dan Leonard ’11, were in the bridal party. Congratulations, Jon and Julia!

Heather Greenberg and Andrew Pandolph were engaged this August in Vermont! Andrew planned this huge elaborate proposal in Vermont, where the couple met in freshman bio class. The couple will be getting married at the New England Aquarium in June 2014 and will reside in Massachusetts, where they recently purchased a home. Antonina “Nina” Marsie Soriano passed away unexpectedly from a rare heart failure on November 10, 2013. She graduated from the College of Nursing & Health Sciences with her bachelor’s degree in nursing and had been employed as a neurological trauma nurse at Hartford Hospital since graduation. Nina’s fervent passion for life was transcended even in her death, as she gave life to others through her organ donation. She is survived by her daughters, Cecelia (3 years old) and Magdalena (4 months), and her husband, Dr. Jose Soriano, and her dearest friends from UVM Stephanie Hainley ’06, Annie Canu Vanslette ’06, Maegan Olsen ’06, Calvin Borgmann, Adrienne Dicerbo Card, Paran Quigley ’06, and Cassidy Hooker.

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Scott McCarty joined Marathon Health in Winooski, Vermont as the new corporate medical trainer. He is responsible for training and onboarding new medical staff and then implementing the establishment of new health centers and clinics across the United States.

He is traveling a lot but still has enough time to hit Jay Peak on the weekends. Casey A. Carroll writes, “I am still living in Los Angeles and working in feature film production at Straight Up Films. I was fortunate enough to work on our upcoming features Jane Got a Gun starring Natalie Portman and Joel Edgerton and

Transcendence starring Johnny Depp, Rebecca Hall, and Morgan Freeman which comes out in April. On both, I served as the development executive for Straight Up. In late December I am going to Pat Minella’s wedding in Granada, Spain, with Molly Shaker, Lydia Morin, Kate Bauer, Davis Fusco, and Hayley Duval. David Schlansky writes, “Hi, my wife Lauren Rich ’07, now Lauren Schlansky, and I got married on September 29, 2013 at The Ponds at Bolton Valley. The photo is posted at alumni.uvm.edu/ gallery. Many UVM alums were present at the wedding and had a great time and perfect Vermont weather.

The alums are Ben Zack, Sam Rich ’11, Zach Berliner ’05, Jon Orell ’06, Dave Sweeney ’06, Brianna Lurie ’09, Michael Korn ’07, Jordan Benkov, Ryan Barr ’02, Marc Weinman ’07, Brian Raines ’07, Dave Weisbard ’06, Michael Valasky ’07, Ben Salk, Amy Phippen, Dana Aussenberg ’05, Amy Magna, Leah Mansback ’09, Natalie Hart, Melissa Ayre ’09, Zach Martin ’07, Maddi Hurd ’09, and Robert Riesenberg ’72.”

Nick Dion tells us that as community/player relations assistant for the Boston Red Sox, he was fortunate enough to be invited with most of the front office to fly to St. Louis for games three-five of the World Series.

“It was a great experience and something I will never forget. The fans out there were very amicable and hospitable and all three games were intense. Ultimately after the Sox were able to close it out in game six back at Fenway, we were able to be a part of the parade as well. I helped out with alumni relations that morning and was lucky enough to be on their duckboat throughout the rolling rally. An unreal season and one of the highlights of my life.”

Send your news to— Elizabeth Bearese ebearese@gmail.com Emma Grady emma@emmagrady.com

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5TH REUNION OCTOBER 10–12, 2014 alumni.uvm.edu/reunion If you are interested in planning your upcoming reunion, email alumni@ uvm.edu. Stevie Simoneau and her fiancé, Jason Larrere, welcomed a

baby girl, Quinn Teresa, on August 16, 2013. Stevie is working as a maternity nurse at a local hospital. A wedding is planned for September 2014. Joe Sheridan and Jenna Bergman will be getting married in Vermont this summer. Joe graduated law school at the University of Virginia and is a lawyer in Boston, Massachusetts. Jenna will be pursuing her master’s in physician assistant studies at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences this January. Joe proposed to Jenna in Paris after they spent a month backpacking through Europe.

Send your news to— David Volain david.volain@gmail.com

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Zachary Borst married Grace Carlin on September 1 of this year. Zachary met Grace while they were undergrads at UVM. Zachary also returned to campus to work for the Transportation Research Center in October. MJ Matson Pickett was married in September. She was also named program director of a new AmeriCorps program, FarmCorps. Adam Maher writes that since November 2012, he has been working as director of marketing and business development for Fanbrandz, a national sports branding studio that designs some of the largest professional sports team and league brands, including Stanley Cup and World Series logos. Adam got his start in the sports industry at UVM when he came up with an idea to start a sports blog while waiting for coffee at Bailey/Howe between classes, and attributes skills learned as a UVM political science major to his innate ability to network as he travels the country contributing to numerous fundraisers and industry conferences. In the fall of 2013 alone, Adam has had the honor of dining with Yogi Berra, attending the Ivy Sports Summit hosted by Harvard Business School as a ‘Young Leader’ in the industry, as well as the Bloomberg Sports Business Summit, and presenting in front of the USOC, NBA, MLB, NFL, NHL, MLS and many sports franchises within said leagues on behalf of his firm. Olivia Piel married Jeremy Devlin in Essex Junction, Vermont, on December 28, 2013. Alana Oudekerk and David Hanss, who were married in 2011, welcomed their first child, Rhys Alexander, on Novem-

ber 3, 2013. Gail Appleman ’09 married Grayson Savoie in Bear Mountain, New York on August 11, 2012.

Gail went on to receive her master’s in social work from the University of Maryland, Baltimore, and is now employed as a social worker in Baltimore. Grayson is an admissions officer with Morgan State University. Elizabeth Crawford is pursuing a master’s in public humanities from Brown University. During her time at Brown, Elizabeth intends to study how cultural institutions can promote social and political change and establish national identity in memorializing individual accounts of events of the past. She hopes to study established memorial institutions but is also interested in the immediate, spontaneous, and often ephemeral monuments that develop after a tragedy. More broadly, her work in community arts organizations has led her to seek out innovative and comprehensive exhibition design strategies.

Send your news to— Daron Raleigh 58 Madison Avenue P.O. Box 660 Hartford, VT 05047 daronraleigh@gmail.com

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Jackson Renshaw became passionate about food justice as a teenager while working with The Food Project. He decided to pursue his degree in ecological agriculture at UVM because he felt the

smartest way to feed people was to grow food. He continued to work as the Roxbury Youth Programs Coordinator at The Food Project to lead an intensive six-and-a-half-week summer program between school terms.

Together with Cassandria Campbell, they created Fresh Food Generation. They are launching a crowd funding campaign in November.

They are hoping to begin delivery around April. Casey Cullen is working as the sustainability coordinator at the Willow School, where she is helping build a ‘Living Building.’

Scott Novotny is working as an agricultural extensionist with the United States Peace Corps in Paraguay until December 2014. His main project areas include sustainable energy, green manures, and no-till farming methods. Stephanie McDonough reports that she is in her first year as a doctoral student at the University of Louisville, studying Clinical Health Psychology. “I am a research assistant in the Health Behavior Change lab, where our research team is focusing on promoting engagement in healthy behaviors for community members with Type 2 Diabetes. My best friend, Brittany Smith ’12 has booked her flights for spring 2014 to attend the Kentucky Derby. Can’t wait!” Christopher Paul St. Martin says, “After graduating I became a serial traveler, visiting twelve countries in two years. I met up with many UVM alums along the way. This fall I began pursuing a

law degree at Western New England University.” Kelvin Chen writes, “I am currently in my first year of graduate school at the National Chengchi University in Taipei, Taiwan.”

Send your news to— Troy McNamara troy.mcnamara4@gmail.com

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Elliot ’11 and Tyler WilkinsonRay, two brothers and recent graduates of UVM, are the CEOs and founders of T-Bar films. In November they had a premier showing of United We Ski at Main Street Landing in Burlington, with a surprise visit from the Governor, and continued with other showings locally.

United We Ski is a documentary by T-Bar Films that examines the importance of small ski areas to the sport of skiing and New England life. The film looks at the rise and decline of the region’s small ski areas and tells the story of three surviving areas in Vermont (Hard’ack, Cochran’s, and Northeast Slopes), which rely on community support, volunteerism, and Yankee ingenuity to provide affordable skiing to local kids and families.

Tyler and Elliot, along with community support, spent over a year producing the film.

Send your news to— Patrick Dowd P.O. Box 58 Lyme, NH 03768 patrickdowd2012@gmail.com

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Shana Taylor McCann recently arrived in Seattle on an alternative transit adventure from Burlington with two other Class of 2013 grads, Brooke Elizabeth Shaffer and Martine Xin Wong, involving bikes and trains (and even hitchhiking!). She is looking to pursue a graduate degree at the University of Washington in urban planning to become a bike planner with aspirations to return to Burlington and make it a bike haven. Colby Morgan has entered his fifth month at The Derryfield School in Manchester, New Hampshire, as assistant director of admission. Through this position, he completed developmental training at the AISAP Institute in Nashville, Tennessee, in July as well as international recruitment training through IETS in New York City this November.

He is also continuing to act as a second profession in the Boston area as well as New Hampshire. Natalie Battistone is currently studying for her master’s in fine art at the American Repertory Theatre’s Advanced Institute for Theater Training at Harvard/ Moscow Art Theater School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She will graduate May 2015. Jim Fregosi was recently hired at Barclays.

Send your news to— Katharine Hawes Katharine.hawes2@gmail.com Madelaine White mswhite1991@gmail.com

[INMEMORIAM UVMCOMMUNITY Richard Absher, professor emeritus and chair of electri- Jackie Gribbons, who helped found UVM’s graduate procal engineering from 1998 until his retirement in 2003, passed away in January.

Peter Battelle, professor emeritus in the School of Business Administration, passed away on December 15, 2013.

Kenneth Stewart “Stew” Gibson ’51, professor emer-

Hubert W. “Hub” Vogelmann, professor emeritus of botany, passed away on October 11, 2013. (See page 64 for a memorial tribute.)

Win A. Way G’51, professor emeritus in Extension and Plant & Soil Science, passed away on January 26, 2013.

See uvm.edu/vq for more on these faculty members’ service to the university.

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itus in Extension and Food & Animal Sciences, passed away on October 1, 2013.

gram in Higher Education and Student Affairs and served the university from 1966 to 2006 as a faculty member and in a variety of administrative roles, passed away on January 10.

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Ray W. Collins, Jr. ’35, MD’38, of Middlebury, Vermont, September 14, 2013.

Loraine Spaulding Dwyer ’36, of Burlington, Vermont, October 7, 2013.

Pauline Bristol Noonan ’37, of South Burlington, Vermont, August 30, 2013.

Phyllis Craig Graves ’38, of St. Johnsbury, Vermont, September 14, 2013.

Morton Wheeler ’38, of Jefferson, Maine, September 26, 2013.

Phyllis Foster Shelander ’39, of Sierra Vista, Arizona, September 26, 2013.

Richard G. Healy ’41, of Westborough, Massachusetts, August 30, 2013.

William Ray Lyman ’41, of Ambler, Pennsylvania, October 2, 2013.

Erva Livingston Phelps ’42, of Palm Bay, Florida, September 13, 2013.

Dorothy Rockwell Pickard ’42, of Alburg, Vermont, August 16, 2013.

Jean Hall Spasyk ’42, of Montpelier, Vermont, October 7, 2013.

Vincent A. Manjoney ’43, MD’47, of Trumbull, Connecticut, October 4, 2013.

S. James Baum ’44, MD’48, of Fairfield, Connecticut, October 15, 2013.

Frances Corcoran Canfield ’44, of Rutland, Vermont, August 30, 2013.

Janet Stimpson Hill ’45, of Cape Elizabeth, Maine, October 16, 2013.

Robert E. O’Brien MD’45, of Colchester, Vermont, September 29, 2013.

Norman S. Sena ’45, of Waterbury, Connecticut, September 29, 2013.

Norma Prescott Chase ’46, of Marietta, Georgia, October 23, 2013.

Howard H. MacDougall MD’46, of York, Pennsylvania, August 25, 2013.

Thomas M. Holcomb MD’47, of Berlin, Maryland, October 3, 2013.

Doris Christie Macdonald ’48, of Barre, Vermont, August 23, 2013.

Richard Kay Earley ’49, of Morrisville, Vermont, August 19, 2013.

Claire Riggs Moran ’49, of Old Hickory, Tennessee, October 22, 2013.

Barbara Bradway Perry ’49, of Huntsville, Alabama, October 28, 2013.

Eugene Julius Bluto ’50, MD’54, of Camillus, New York, September 7, 2013.

George Borofsky ’50, of Hooksett, New Hampshire, October 7, 2013.

Ralph M. Clark ’50, G’51, of Plattsburg, New York, November 1, 2013.

George Gus Corsones ’50, of Brandon, Vermont, October 30, 2013.

Carmen Mary Pallotta MD’50, of Neptune, New Jersey, August 26, 2013.

Douglas F. Pierce ’50, of Windsor, Massachusetts, August 31, 2013.

Helen M. Post ’50, of Fairport, New York, September 24, 2013.

Kenneth Stewart Gibson ’51, of North Haverhill, New Hampshire, October 1, 2013.

Edwin Donald Kaufmann ’51, of Del Mar, California, October 11, 2013.

Anita Bagdikian Metcalf ’51,G’54, of Hollis Center, Maine, August 20, 2013.

Richard Skinger ’51, of Swansea, Massachusetts on February 9, 2012.

Ronald C. Smith ’51, of Sugar Land, Texas, September 15, 2013.

Shirley Severy Stockwell ’51, of Jericho, Vermont, September 5, 2013.

Mary Taylor Sutherland ’51, of South Burlington, Vermont, September 28, 2013.

Frederic Weinberg ’51, of Voorhees, New Jersey, October 2, 2013.

Katherine Agnes Connerty ’52, of Washington Depot, Connecticut, August 23, 2013.

Raymond P. Koval MD’52, of New York, New York, August 25, 2013.

John R. McSweeney ’52, of South Burlington, Vermont, October 26, 2013.

Richard H. Burns ’53, of Webster, New York, August 29, 2013.

Mary Cragen Goodyear ’53, of Paw Paw, Maine, August 9, 2013.

Charles Lloyd Hughes ’53, of Sierra Vista, Arizona, November 5, 2013.

David Leslie Kendall MD’53, of Farmington, New Mexico, August 27, 2013.

George A. Morwood ’53, of Geneva, New York, August 25, 2013.

Frank L. Passaro ’53, of Boise, Idaho, September 15, 2013.

Irwin Plotkin ’53, of Roslyn Heights, New York, September 2, 2013.

Stratton G. Corsones ’54, of Rutland, Vermont, September 1, 2013.

Richard R. Perilli ’54, of Colchester, Vermont, October 5, 2013.

Jean McLaughlin Peterson ’54, G’76, ’91, of Chelsea, Vermont, August 12, 2013.

Joseph A. McCullough ’55, of West Chatham, Massachusetts, September 8, 2013.

Myron B. Brown ’56, G’62, of Vergennes, Vermont, August 20, 2013.

Sen. Ann Harrington Hanson ’56, of Bethesda, Maryland, November

29, 2013.

Andre R. LeBlanc ’56, G’59, of Hernando, Florida, August 16, 2013.

J. A. Michael Morse ’56, of La Jolla, California, October 28, 2013.

Peter A. Robinson ’57, of Newport, Vermont, October 12, 2013.

Vernon L. Sawyer ’57, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, September 25, 2013.

Richard Lawrence Call ’58, of Allentown, Pennsylvania, October 15, 2013.

Peter Franco, Jr. ’58, of Lyme, Connecticut, October 12, 2013.

Constance St. Onge Adams ’59, of Port Orchard, Washington, October 13, 2013.

Americo B. Almeida MD’59, of Fall River, Massachusetts, August 29, 2013.

Arthur Palmer French ’59, of Orleans, Vermont, August 26, 2013.

John Robert Fay ’60, G’74, of St. George, Vermont, October 15, 2013.

William L. Ladue, Jr. ’60, of Charlotte, North Carolina, October 27, 2013.

Francis G. LaValley G’60, of Rutland, Vermont, October 15, 2013.

Carl A. Peabody ’60, of East Middlebury, Vermont, October 11, 2013.

Mary Shepard Babcock ’61, of Swanton, Vermont, October 2, 2013.

William R. Morton ’61, of Edmonds, Washington, September 4, 2013.

Joanna Lull Williams ’62, of Shelburne, Vermont, September 1, 2013.

Frank R. Fiske, Jr. ’63, of Granville, New York, August 14, 2013.

William J. Greene ’63, of Kinderhook, New York, October 28, 2013.

Donald Earl Jamieson G’63, of Waterbury Center, Vermont, August 29, 2013.

John K. Park ’63, of Kenmore, New York, October 27, 2013.

Wendell A. Button ’64, of Boiling Springs, South Carolina, October 9, 2013.

Roxann Chamberlin ’64, G’79, of Windsor, Vermont, September 20, 2013.

Robert Edward Sherriff ’64, of Sarasota, Florida, September 28, 2013.

Henry F. Pitaniello Jr. ’66, of Rutland, Vermont, August 15, 2013.

William H. Robinson, Jr. ’66, of Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, October 10, 2013.

Robert Charles Moore G’70, of Marquette, Minnesota, August 7, 2013.

Elisabeth B. Burbank ’71, of Colchester, Vermont,

November 30, 2012.

Paulette Amon Plaster ’71, of Simpsonville, South Carolina, October 26, 2013.

Susan Flatow Savage ’71, of Colchester, Vermont, September 15, 2013.

Coleen Fitzsimmons Beck ’72, of Middlebury, Vermont, September 29, 2013.

James W. Darling ’72, of West Lebanon, New Hampshire, September 28, 2013.

Ronnie J. Sweet ’72, of St. Albans, Vermont, November 7, 2013.

Nils A. Berglund ’73, of St. Albans, Vermont, October 22, 2013.

Marie Moroni Findholt ’‘73, of Underhill, Vermont, September 16, 2013.

Paul Jerome Breslin, Jr. ’74, of Portland, Maine, October 2, 2013.

Deborah Leigh Dennis ’74, of Knoxville, Tennessee, September 16, 2013.

Theodore Manazir G’74, of South Burlington, Vermont, October 8, 2013.

David C. DeBoer ’75, of Fairfax, Vermont, August 21, 2013.

Harriett Shephard Durett ’75, of Stowe, Vermont, August 20, 2013.

David P. Granger MD’77, of Rockwall, Texas, September 29, 2013.

Jeffrey D. Kuller ’77, of Camden, Maine, November 5, 2013.

Jonathan Webster Osborn G’79, of Morrisville, Vermont, September 19, 2013.

Daniel Deforest Lucier ’81, of San Juan Capistrano, California, October 3, 2013.

Julia Macklin ’85, of Brooklyn, New York, October 13, 2013.

Stacy F. Lickert ’89, of Winooski, Vermont, September 18, 2013.

Kathleen Marie Cook ’91, G’95, ’10, of Burlington, Vermont, October 31, 2013.

Prof. Monika Ingeborg Baege G’93, 05, of Essex Junction, Vermont, October 29, 2013.

Linda J. Carroll-Higgins G’93, of Burlington, Vermont, October 28, 2013.

Gretchen Holt Allen MD’98, of West Hartford, Connecticut, November 11, 2013.

Antonina Ellen Marsie ’07 of East Hampton, Connecticut, on November 10, 2013.

Mason Jacob Smith ’12, of Canaan, Vermont, September 20, 2013.

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[EXTRACREDIT

A hike with Hub

by Senator Patrick Leahy

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During the decades that I knew him, I would call on Hub Vogelmann frequently

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for scientific advice on national environmental issues and Vermont conservation topics. I looked to him to help place the conservation issues of our time at the top of the national agenda. Hub’s research on acid rain was at center stage when, during a Senate hearing, I pushed Lee Thomas, President Reagan’s EPA administrator, on the issue. It was an uphill push; remember that President Reagan famously stated that more air pollution comes from trees than from cars, and Lee was a “Doubting Thomas.” I challenged Administrator Thomas, on the record, to come to Vermont and climb Camel’s Hump with Hub and me to see the damage firsthand, and I was surprised when he accepted.

On the day of the climb, Senator Stafford and then Congressman Jeffords joined the expedition, as well as many Vermont officials and environmental advocates. The media came, too, with their cumbersome camera equipment. The expedition was so large in number that the Green Mountain Club had to station guides along the way to provide water and to keep people on the trail.

We snaked slowly up the 4,000-foot mountain with Hub in the lead. It was well worth the effort when Hub gave Administrator Thomas a look at acres of acid-scorched dead spruce covering the flanks of our most iconic peak. With the evidence staring him in the face, it was impossible for him to question the impact of acid rain. That revelation helped to make possible work that led to the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990, the most important national pollution control law adopted in the past twenty-five years.

This was one moment of many in Hub’s career and life, where he made an impact on an individual, and on the nation. He led the way for generations of scientists and conservationists to make an impact with their own work, and this is his legacy.

Professor Emeritus Hubert “Hub” Vogelmann passed away in October. Senator Leahy’s tribute to him was read at the Ira Allen Chapel service celebrating Vogelmann’s life. Pictured: Professor Hub Vogelmann, Gov. Madeleine Kunin, Marcelle Leahy, Sen. Patrick Leahy, Admin. Lee Thomas, Rep. James Jeffords.

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