Vermont Quarterly Spring 2018

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CATS IN SAN FRANCISCO

LIBERAL ARTS BEHIND BARS

JONATHAN GARCIA ’81

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No more eggs all day?

Sad, but true.

The iconic Pam’s Deli truck is no longer parked on University Row since George and Pam Bissonnette retired in November.

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Vermont Quarterly DEPARTMENTS

2 President’s Perspective 4 The Green 18 Catamount Sports 20 On Course 49 Class Notes 64 Extra Credit FEATURES

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UVM PEOPLE: Jonathan Garcia ’81

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LIFE ON THE INSIDE

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Hurricane Maria’s devastation of Puerto Rico included toppling the WAPA-TV tower. Helping restore critical communication links is the latest challenge in Jonathan Garcia’s long career in television. | BY ANDREA ESTEY

Last summer’s fire at Torrey Hall threatened natural collections deeply ingrained in UVM history and vitally necessary to contemporary research. | BY JOSHUA BROWN

Helping bring the liberal arts to the incarcerated in Vermont is the latest focus for sociologist Kathy Fox in an academic career rooted in creating positive change. | BY KEVIN COBURN ’81

CATAMOUNT NATION: SAN FRANCISCO EDITION

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COLLEGE STREET TO WALL STREET

San Francisco and Burlington share a common spirit, part of the draw for the many alumni who have made their lives and careers in the City by the Bay. | BY THOMAS WEAVER

Business alumni help the next generation build experience and connections through the rigors of BSAD 228, Wall Street Seminar. | BY JON REIDEL G’06

COVER: Nicole Hamaway takes a BSAD 228 selfie with classmates in the Wall Street Seminar. Left to right: Derek Hamilton, Casey Fuller, Kyle Hubschmitt (foreground), John Kanto, and Erik Bertalan.

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| PRESIDENT’S PERSPECTIVE

Changing the College Culture Creating an engaging environment within which our students develop as creative critical thinkers and as emotionally and physically vital public citizens ranks as the topmost priority at UVM. Campus-wide initiatives undertaken over the last five years—from transforming our educational facilities to developing interest-based residence halls such as the Wellness Environment and implementing a four-year Plan for Career Success—all have been directed to this overarching goal.

One critical initiative making a noticeable impact on our campus culture is the University-wide effort to reduce high-risk

rightly. I supported our campus joining the National Health Improvement Project in 2012, where we committed to better assessing our student behaviors regarding alcohol and drug use. In the spring of 2014, I appointed a seventy-two-member task force from across our community—including students, faculty, staff, high-school counselors, parents, and alumni—to more broadly and effectively address this public health crisis.

We began by systematically collecting and scrutinizing data, deploying a simple monthly questionnaire on alcohol and marijuana use—both personal use and

mittee on Alcohol and Drug Use—met regularly and still continually reviews these data and makes recommendations about systemic strategies to shift the student culture away from high-risk behaviors. Several changes have so far been employed to significant success.

One of those changes involves outreach to parents. Research conducted by Pennsylvania State University shows that when parents talk to students about their expectations, students are more likely to refrain from drinking and substance use. Our Vice Provost and Dean of Students Office reaches out to parents frequently now, identifying

This past October, UVM was honored with the prestigious Prevention Excellence Award by EVERFI, the educational technology company behind AlcoholEdu, for our comprehensive, systemic, evidence-based initiative that is rendering such significant results in countering student alcohol and substance abuse. drinking and drug abuse by our students.

In speaking with other educational leaders across the country, I have increasingly recognized the high-risk use of alcohol, marijuana, and other drugs by college students to be a critical national public health issue, one that must be addressed by our entire community. Every college across the country faces this crisis. From the national data, and through results of the AlcoholEdu course that our incoming students complete before arriving to campus, we know that many are already engaged in these high-risk activities before coming to college.

From my arrival at UVM, I committed to engaging this issue publicly and forth-

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perceived use by others. This anonymous survey, sent to a random sample of 2,000 undergraduate students each month, is composed of a few nationally researched questions regarding frequency of use in a given two-week period and harms that may have ensued, from skipping class or not studying to more personal harms to self or others. These data, along with other quantifiable information such as police incident reports and Student Health Center intakes, began to paint a picture of use among our students and specifically identified times when the incidences of these high-risk behaviors climbed.

Our task force—the President’s Com-

high-risk weekends and encouraging conversations between parents and students.

Another change involves creative campus programming to increase positive University-wide social events throughout the academic year, especially on weekends.

Proactive educational programs aimed at varsity teams and fraternity and sorority members through UVM’s Center for Health and Wellbeing include BASICS— the Behavioral Assessment Screening for College Students—and group meetings for raising prevention awareness. The Center’s Living Well Program, housed in a cozy corner of the Davis Center, offers myriad programs and drop-in opportunities for SALLY MCCAY

students to manage stress, and provides several pathways by which students can connect with others for substance-free socializing.

So far, our data show that these efforts are eliciting the positive changes we are seeking. Student rates of high-risk drinking are dropping year over year—UVM is poised to fall below the national average very soon, as trends continue in this direction. Our efforts at culture change are receiving national recognition. This past October, UVM was honored with the prestigious Prevention Excellence Award by EVERFI, the educational technology company behind AlcoholEdu, for our comprehensive, systemic, evidencebased initiative that is rendering such significant results. Other recent national awards from the NASPA–Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education and the Association of Fraternity/Sorority Advisors acknowledge UVM’s diligent prevention efforts with fraternity and sorority chapters on campus.

The perception that drinking and recreational drug use must be a part of the college experience is misguided and, indeed, not correct! The truth is that these behaviors impede students’ engagement and ability to learn, to be actively and positively involved in academic and extracurricular life, and to fulfill their dreams and goals following graduation.

Our systemic and ecological approach recognizes that the health and wellbeing of our students is everyone’s number one priority on this campus, and that everyone in the UVM community has the means to help us shift the student culture away from high-risk behavior and toward students who are engaged in every positive opportunity the University has to offer. We will continue promoting student well-being academically, culturally, and socially, creating the healthiest environment within which UVM students can thrive.

—Tom Sullivan

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Pledges by college students to eschew drugs and alcohol are old hat.

Now they’re meditating, working out, practicing yoga, eating healthfully, and at least one school, the University of Vermont, it has become a bona fide lifestyle.”

—Opening of an Associated Press article on UVM’s Wellness Environment. The story ran widely, appearing in The Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, USA Today, and many other media outlets.

Research Buzz A study by UVM professor Chris Danforth and Andrew Reece of Harvard, which discovered that Instagram photos hold clues to aid in the early detection of depression, was one of the twenty most popular pieces of academic research in all of 2017. The annual Altmetric Top 100 ranks which pieces of research have caught the public imagination in the last twelve months. To determine 2017’s list,

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Amount of forest Vermont is losing annually.

The trend across the last decade reverses a 150-year trend of forest recovery and expansion. go.uvm.edu/forest

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WE'RE NO. 1 The Sustainable Innovation MBA in UVM’s Grossman School of Business is ranked as the best “Green MBA” in the nation by The Princeton Review. go.uvm.edu/greenmba

Hillel

HOME FOR 439 College Street will undergo renovations to become new headquarters for UVM Hillel thanks to a $2.5 million gift from the Burack family. Read more on page 7.

Big apology to Corey Bronner for erroneously describing him as a former hockey player in a fall issue story about new UVM Athletic Hall of Fame inductees. Soccer was the sport in which Corey, pictured back in the day, excelled for the Cats.

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ONE GRAD TO ANOTHER UVM alumnus Alexander Nemerov ’85, professor and chair of Art and Art History at Stanford University, will deliver the graduation address at Commencement 2018.

More on graduation: uvm.edu/commencement More on the speaker: go.uvm.edu/nemerov

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THE GREEN News & Views

CATS IN THE GAMES Continuing a streak that dates back to when Larry Damon ’55 competed in the 1956 Winter Olympics, the Catamounts were well represented at February’s 2018 Games in South Korea. In addition to Amanda Pelkey ’15 (pictured), U.S. women’s hockey, other UVM grads included Ryan Gunderson ’07, U.S. men’s hockey; Lowell Bailey ’05, U.S. men’s biathlon; Kevin Drury ’14, ski cross, Canada; siblings Caitlin ’12 and Scott ’14 Patterson, Nordic skiing, U.S.; Viktor Stalberg ’09, men’s hockey, Sweden; Laurence St. Germain ’19, women’s alpine, Canada; Jonathan Nordbotten, men’s alpine, Norway; Ida Sargent G’20, women’s Nordic skiing, U.S.; and Connor Wilson ’21, slalom, the lone athlete representing South Africa.

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TREE COVER AND HUMAN HEALTH A UVM-led study of 300,000 children in thirty-five nations says kids whose watersheds have greater tree cover are less likely to experience diarrheal disease, the second leading cause of death for children under the age of five. Published in Nature Communications, the study is the first to quantify the connection between watershed quality and individual health outcomes of children at the global scale.

“This suggests that protecting watersheds, in the right circumstances, can double as a public health investment,” says Brendan Fisher of the Gund Institute and Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources. “This shows, very clearly, how ‘natural infrastructure’ can directly support human health and welfare.”

The research team predicts that a 30 percent increase in upstream tree cover in rural watersheds would have a comparable effect to improved water sanitation, such as the addition of indoor plumbing or toilets.

“We are not saying trees are more important than toilets and indoor plumbing,” says Diego Herrera, who led the paper as a UVM postdoctoral researcher, and is now at Environmental Defense Fund. “But these findings clearly show that forests and other natural systems can complement traditional water sanitation systems, and help compensate for a lack of infrastructure.”

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Mining’s Major Impact on Amazon Forest GUND INSTITUTE | Sprawling mining operations in Brazil are destroying much more of the iconic Amazon forest than previously thought, according to the first comprehensive study of mining deforestation in the world’s largest tropical rainforest.

The research, published in Nature Communications, finds that mining-related forest loss caused roughly 10 percent of all Amazon deforestation between 2005 and 2015, much higher than previous estimates.

Surprisingly, roughly 90 percent of deforestation related to mining occurred outside the mining leases granted by Brazil’s government, the UVM-led study finds. Mininginduced deforestation was twelve times greater outside the mine lease areas than within them, extending as far as seventy kilometers beyond mine borders.

“These results show that mining now ranks as a substantial cause of Amazon forest loss,” says Laura Sonter of UVM’s Gund Institute for Environment. “Previous estimates assumed mining caused maybe one or two percent of deforestation. Hitting the 10 percent threshold is alarming and warrants action.”

Mining infrastructure is one key form of

off-lease deforestation, researchers say. This includes worker housing and new transportation routes—roads, railways and airports.

Built by mining companies or developers, these routes also enable other forms of deforestation, including agriculture, which remains the leading cause of Amazon forest loss.

“Our findings show that Amazon deforestation associated with mining extends remarkable distances from the point of mineral extraction,” says Gillian Galford of the Gund Institute and Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources.

The findings come as Brazil’s government considers legislation that would further ease environmental regulations and lift restrictions on mining in protected and indigenous areas. Currently, when companies apply for mining leases, they do not need to account for any damage their operations may cause offsite, researchers say.

“We hope these findings help government, industry, and scientists to work together to address this issue,” says Sonter, who led the study as a UVM postdoctoral researcher, before joining the University of Queensland in Australia.

ABOVE: NEIL PALMER (CIAT); RIGHT: MARK RAY

New Home for Hillel STUDENT LIFE | In recent years, UVM Hillel has developed into one of the nation’s top programs promoting Jewish student life on campus. Throughout this growth process, members of the Burack family have been both guiding force and stalwart supporters.

Now, on the strength of a recent gift from Daniel A. Burack ’55 HON ’08 and his wife, Carole Burack HON ’08, UVM Hillel is poised to step it up another notch with a new home on campus. The gift of $2.5 million from the Buracks will support the design, planning, and renovation of 439 College Street as a vibrant hub for Jewish life, and will support ongoing and inclusive programming at UVM Hillel. (The building, across from Waterman, was originally home to Phi Delta Theta fraternity.)

This latest gift from the Burack family builds on record levels of participation in UVM Hillel and seeks to rally wider support from fellow alumni, parents, and grandparents for facillity enhancements and investments in students and programs.

“The new facility will benefit campus by providing a physical center of support for students to connect with high-quality, inclusive Jewish life,” Matt Vogel, executive director of UVM Hillel, says. “We envision a hub of activity where all students can come to grab coffee, study, attend class, plan, and participate in the hundreds of programs Hillel facilitates each year.”

In the five years since Dan Burack has chaired its board, UVM Hillel has seen extraordinary growth with participation increasing from 330 students in 2013 to 1,655 in 2017, and a projected 2,000 students for the current academic year. UVM Hillel aspires for an inclusive environment and extends its activities beyond traditional programming. Students from all backgrounds and beliefs are invited to engage with the proJOIN THE EFFORT | MOVEMOUNTAINS.UVM.EDU

gram and one another as a way to Three generations of alumni create community and form lastBuracks: Dan ’55 HON ’08, ing connections.

Carole HON ’08, Adam ’85, Along with their son, Adam ’85 and Abigail ’16. and grand-daughter Abigail ’16, the Burack family’s prior philanthropy at UVM has supported a professorship in the College of Education and Social Services, an endowed scholarship, the Burack President’s Distinguished Lecture Series, and the Fleming Museum.

As ardent supporters of UVM Hillel, the Buracks hope others will see their gift as a call-to-action to do the same: “Now is the time for us to combine our Jewish values of giving back and creating a bright future for Jewish students at UVM.”

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What dieting’s lessons can teach about addiction PSYCHOLOGY | When we’re on a diet, we’ll avoid cheeseburgers and ice cream and other foods we love, even though we’re ravenous and hankering for them. Once off the diet, we’ll often return to stuffing ourselves with goodies—even if we aren’t hungry.

We learn self-control while we’re dieting. But a new study by UVM researchers suggests that control of consumption isn’t simply a great act of willpower but possibly is guided by the states of hunger and satiety.

During a diet, hunger may become the context in which we learn to deny eating impulses. When we stop dieting and no longer feel hungry, the context vanishes, and we may lose the inclination to restrain our food intake. That’s perhaps a reason why weight regain after a diet ends is so common.

Context matters, says Mark Bouton, the UVM psychology professor who co-authored the study with his PhD student Scott Schepers, published in the journal Psychological Science. For years, Bouton has looked at the importance of context in controlling behavioral and emotional responses.

His research shows that the suppression of behavior or emotion depends upon context—a physical setting, a time period or an internal state such as hunger, mood or the influence of a drug. And the behavior or emotion will “renew” when the context changes or returns to where it was when the response was learned.

Bouton is collaborating with University of California San Diego researchers who work with obese children. The study teaches the kids to inhibit their craving in the presence of food and food cues, and also studies the role of context.

“You need to practice the inhibition in the context where it’s going to matter,” Bouton says. “You want to learn to control your eating in the presence of all those cues that have been so hard.”

Bouton’s research also could inform treatment of opioid or other drug abuse. He draws parallels between overeating and addiction, alcoholism and smoking—habit-forming behaviors in response to cues, and influenced by context. Drug rehabilitation programs, like diets, create a context for suppressing the behavior, Bouton says, so it’s not surprising that addicts can relapse when they get out of such programs and back to their normal lives.

Because context is key to controlling behavior, Bouton hopes his work expands the understanding of this concept and sheds light on what causes—and could inhibit—addictive behavior.

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Suma Lashof examines samples of bat DNA on a UV light table in Marsh Life Science.

STUDENT FOCUS | Eureka moments make compelling movie scripts, but they aren’t what day-to-day research is really about. Last summer and through this academic year, Suma Lashof, an environmental science major in the Honors College, has worked with biology professor Bill Kilpatrick on the DNA of threatened Vermont bat populations.

In August, Lashof bumped up against difficulty in the lab finding a primer to properly amplify the DNA in bat guano she had collected.

This is not failure, Kilpatrick notes, this is education. “There is an advantage of getting into research,” he says. “You do a lab in a genetics course, and, of course, it’s going to work. It’s designed that way.” But Lashof’s struggles to amplify the DNA of these bats requires a much deeper dive into what it actually means to experiment.

“I had this idealized picture in my mind that there’s this clear methodology and it’s just simply going to work,” she says. “That’s not the reality of research.”

A month later, the undergrad would find her way on that particular challenge. And, through her work with Kilpatrick, she’s found something much more. “I didn’t know much about bats before I came to college. Now they are my passion,” she says. It all started with a paper she wrote for a class on invasive species, learning that nine species of North American bats are being devastated by white-nose syndrome, a deadly disease caused by an invasive fungus.

The hope for Lashof’s research project is to help state biologists with Vermont’s Department of Fish and Wildlife monitor the location and health of roosting bat colonies via the DNA in their guano, making it so they don’t have to catch or handle these sensitive creatures.

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SERIOUSLY COMIC

Festival draws pioneers of genre

Dykes to Watch Out For to Fun Home, the Fleming Museum offers a look into the work of cartoonist/graphic memoirist Alison Bechdel this semester.

Early drawings, activist ephemera, large-scale self-portraits, and a model of the set for the musical Fun Home are among the works featured.

The exhibition, on display through May 20, explores Bechdel’s work as a writer, an artist, and an archivist of the self, someone who constantly mines and shares her own experiences as a way to communicate something vitally human: the quest for love, acceptance, community, and social justice.

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ARTS | Pulitzer Prizes, MacArthurs, Guggenheims, American Book Awards, and numerous New York Times best sellers are just a sampling of the achievements collectively stacked up by the trio of artists/ authors—Art Spiegelman, Joe Sacco, and Alison Bechdel—who shared keynote honors at last semester’s Pulp Culture Comic Arts Festival & Symposium. And, as if we need further confirmation of their cultural currency and cartoon cred, consider that Spiegelman and Bechdel have both appeared on “The Simpsons.”

Hosted by UVM, which co-organized the festival with the Vermont Folklife Center, the three-day event drew hundreds of comic artists and fans of the medium.

An opening-night event with Spiegelman (pictured) drew a capacity-and-thensome crowd to the Music Building Recital Hall. Discussion considered the long and varied arc of his career—from the childhood inspiration of Mad Magazine to his years of work for Topps bubble gum/baseball cards (“my Medicis,” Spiegelman quipped), from his covers for The New Yorker to his exploration of the Holocaust in the landmark Maus, which redefined the medium and received a Pulitzer Prize in 1992.

The next day, Spiegelman went from star

on the stage to fan in the audience for fellow cartoonist Joe Sacco’s talk. Credited in his own right as a pioneer of graphic journalism and war reportage, Sacco’s books, such as Palestine and Footnotes in Gaza, have further pushed the boundaries of cartooning.

Discussion panels throughout the day on Saturday led up to the closing keynote by local hero Alison Bechdel. Celebrated for her long-running strip Dykes to Watch Out For and her graphic memoir turned Broadway musical, Fun Home, Bechdel has been a UVM Marsh Professor-at-Large for the past several years.

Bechdel was informal and insightful, funny and frank. Reflecting on the unlikely success of Fun Home, she said, “At age forty, it saved my ass. I got to keep being a cartoonist.” She traced a line back to Spiegelman.

“The publication of Maus turned everything upside down. You could tell painful, complex, adult stories and people would read them.”

For the event’s masterminds—Jonah Steinberg, associate professor of anthropology, and Andy Kolovos, director of archives and research at the Vermont Folklife Center—the event was the culmination of years of work that began with a “hey, what if?” moment between friends.

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“Srini’s not hovering above in a helicopter collecting big data. He’s embedded in those contexts on the ground.’’

—Business professor Stuart Hart on colleague Srinivas Venugopal

Elevating Entrepreneurs BUSINESS | Growing up in southern India, Srinivas Venugopal witnessed people living in extreme poverty on a daily basis. He often marveled at their entrepreneurial abilities to meet basic consumption needs by selling tea or umbrellas or patching punctured bicycle tires on the streets of Chennai.

Those experiences inspired Venugopal, assistant professor in the Grossman School of Business, to start a technology-based social venture at age twenty-three. His goal: improving education for low-income students in rural India through technology. He currently runs a non-profit that has increased the economic and educational opportunities of young women in the slums of Chennai, which also informs his research on subsistence marketplaces.

“The marketing world has done a fantastic job of meeting needs in affluent contexts, but to me the ultimate marketing challenge is how to meet the basic needs in sectors like education, healthcare, finance, and nutrition in these contexts of poverty," says Venugopal, who joined the UVM faculty in 2016. "The cornerstone of the Grossman School is seeing how businesses can be used as an important force for making the world better, and my own philosophy and research fits squarely within that broader paradigm.”

Venugopal’s research has taken him and his students to India, Tanzania, Argentina, and a refugee camp in Uganda where they use qualitative research techniques such as interviews, videography, photography, role playing, map drawing, and village walks. “Different conCOURTESY OF SRINIVAS VENUGOPAL

texts have different rhythms and you need to start with an immersive exercise rather than with pre-conceived notions inherited from research done in the context of affluence,” he says.

Once Venugopal understands the local context in which entrepreneurs operate, he theorizes ways to improve their circumstances, often testing it with an experiment. He recently employed an entrepreneurial education program for 750 women in India to see if it improved a set of empowerment indicators. Many of the women have benefitted from the program and are now able to contribute to the family budget, having a voice in household purchases for the first time.

“Srini's not hovering above in a helicopter collecting big data," says faculty colleague Stuart Hart, a world authority on the implications of environment and poverty for business strategy. "He's embedded in those contexts on the ground, which is similar to our approach to business at the Base of the Pyramid. We share a common perspective that to be successful, business has to be developed from the inside out by co-creating a value proposition business model from within local entrepreneurs. Trying to figure out how to market and sell to the poor is not what we're about."

Many of Venugopal’s experiences are chronicled in a new book he co-wrote titled Voices from the Subsistence Marketplaces. The goal of the book, he says, was to write stories about individuals in their own voices to show readers that they are more than just statistics.

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GO BIG, VERY BIG Over the past several years, young alumni Aaron Rice ’12 and Tyler Wilkinson-Ray ’12 have taken to the mountains out west on audacious quests. For Rice, that meant attempting to ski 2.5 million vertical feet under his own power in one year, largely in Utah’s Wasatch Range. For Wilkinson-Ray, it meant a move from Vermont to Telluride, Colorado, aspiring to turn avocation into vocation as an outdoor filmmaker and cinematographer.

Those two quests become one in 2.5 Million, Wilkinson-Ray’s documentary about Rice’s attempt to not just break the existing world record, but exceed it by 500,000 feet. This is “human-powered” skiing.

No lifts, snowmobiles, or helicopters, just Aaron Rice on a pair of backcountry skis, doggedly ascending and gracefully descending day after day after day.

After setting his sights on the world record, Rice called WilkinsonRay about possibly documenting his journey. “Tyler is especially skilled with storytelling in his films,” Rice says. “I’m a good skier, but I’m not hucking forty-foot cliffs; so, I knew this was going to be more about the story.”

In an early scene, Rice pulls his gear out of the back of his Honda Odyssey, green-and-gold UVM Euro sticker on the bumper. With characteristic understatement, he walks past the camera and says, “Day one.

I’ve got a lot of walking to do. Wish me luck.” So it begins. Across the next calendar year, Rice climbs on his skins, skis downhill, stares down adversity, and scarfs 6,000 calories daily.

The film has earned accolades, including a Best Documentary Powder Award, a Vimeo Staff Pick, and a place in this year’s Banff Mountain Film Festival, gold-standard of the genre.

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Guiding Next-Gen Journalists STUDENT LIFE | It’s equal parts critique, lesson, and conversation as UVM student media adviser Chris Evans sits down with the Vermont Cynic’s editor-in-chief, Erika Lewy ’18, and managing editor, Olivia Bowman ’20, for their weekly review of the university’s student newspaper. Evans, who also advises WRUV radio and UVMtv, is well-prepared and rapid-fire, a teacher determined to maximize this hour on a quiet Friday morning in the Davis Center.

A chunk of the meeting is devoted to discussing leadership, driven by a reading list ranging from Lao Tzu to Machiavelli to Martin Luther King, Jr. Later, they drill down on a page-by-page look over the previous week’s Cynic, addressing questions as major as the choice of story on 1A and minor as stray commas.

As the editors and staff put together the next week’s issue, they’ll do it with Evans’s lessons and critique of past issues in mind, but with full control over the new editorial content and presentation. “That’s Chris’s thing—support, but from a distance—which is really good,” Bowman says.

Today’s Cynic staffers are the latest in a proud legacy, “Vermont’s independent student voice since 1883.” The paper’s alumni include two-time Pulitzer winner Eric Lipton ’87 of The New York Times; Laura Bernardini ’95, CNN’s director of coverage in Washington, DC; and Robert Rosenthal ’70, longtime editor at top American papers and now executive director of the pioneering Center for Investigative Reporting; among scores of others in journalism and multiple fields.

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Evans’s hire in 2006 introduced a new era for UVM student media. The organizations would be guided by a fulltime adviser with deep expertise as a communicator. Long involved as a national leader in his field, Evans recently became president of the College Media Association.

The Cynic has earned numerous honors during the past decade, including prestigious Pacemaker Awards from the Associated Collegiate Press and “Diversity Story of the Year” in 2016 for an examination of UVM’s past Kake Walk tradition.

Reflecting on the current political and cultural landscape, Evans says, “We need journalists now more than ever. There is more misinformation out there than ever.

It is right to be concerned about the state of facts. That seems like a ridiculous statement to say, but we need to be concerned about the state of facts.”

Based on multiple recent alumni success stories, Evans is optimistic this generation of UVM journalists possesses the innovation and initiative required to make an impact.

“It takes creativity, which I think we’re good for here,” he says. “We’re not creating a whole bunch of middle managers who are going to go out and sit at a desk and just be the hands of someone else’s mind. I think our students are going out, and they are the minds and the hearts of the organizations that they are working for.

That’s what I want for them. I want them to be steering their own path. That’s what a journalist needs to do today.”

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SEVERE STUDIES? NO PROBLEM Artifacts of a shining first in UVM history, the Phi Beta Kappa keys awarded to alumnae Ellen Hamilton and Lida Mason are part of the University Archives collection. In 1875, Hamilton and Mason became the first women to graduate from UVM and the first women in the nation admitted to the Phi Beta Kappa academic honor society. Matthew Buckham, UVM president during that era, noted that the pioneering pair “addressed themselves to their work with great zeal” and showed “themselves quite capable of meeting the demands of severe studies as successfully as their classmates of the other sex.”

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REMEMBERING JOHN HENNESSEY, UVM PROVOST IN COOR ERA John W. Hennessey, Jr., the University of Vermont’s first provost, died on January 11, 2018 in Shelburne, Vermont. After a distinguished career as a professor and dean in Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business, Hennessey joined UVM in 1986 to work with President Lattie Coor’s administration in the new role of provost. In 1989, after Coor left UVM to accept the presidency at Arizona State University, Hennessey served as interim president for the next year.

As a teacher, Hennessey was remembered as a life-changing mentor. He joined the Dartmouth faculty in 1957 and accepted the Tuck School deanship in 1968. Within his first year as dean, women were admitted to Tuck for the first time, and Dartmouth College made the decision to accept undergraduate women three years later.

Across the next eight years, Hennessey led numerous innovations and advances in the school.

“John Hennessy played a very significant role in the emergence of UVM as a ‘Public Ivy’ in the years I served as president,” Lattie Coor wrote in an e-mail. “He brought great stature and experienced leadership to the university. He was a friend to all with whom he worked, always thoughtfully attentive to whatever issue was under discussion. UVM was very fortunate to have him as a key player in the university’s evolution.”

President Tom Sullivan said, “UVM and Dartmouth lost a great intellectual leader and friend in John Hennessey. Those who knew John knew him as a person of the highest character, impeccable moral judgement, a deeply caring and engaged, probing person in all of life as well as a role-model and mentor to many. His civility, wise counsel, and gentleness stood out beyond all others.”

In 2006, Hennessey married former Vermont Governor Madeleine May Kunin G’67, currently a UVM James Marsh Professor-At-Large. At the 2008 commencement at Vermont Law School, Hennessey and Kunin were awarded honorary Doctor of Laws degrees. At UVM’s 2012 commencement, Hennessey was awarded an honorary LL.D. degree from the university.

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Insight on the Immune System HEALTH SCIENCES | Researchers have long known that glucose— or sugar—fuels cellular activity, including cells involved in immune response. While previous research focused on sugar stores external to the cell, a surprising discovery led by UVM professor Eyal Amiel finds that dendritic cells—the messengers of the mammalian immune system—draw from sugar stores within the cell.

Amiel is an assistant professor in the Department of Medical Laboratory and Radiation Science, College of Nursing and Health Sciences. His recent research, published in the journal Cell Metabolism, adds a missing piece to the puzzle of how early immune responses are powered from a metabolic standpoint and provides immunologists with a new area of focus in efforts to regulate immune activity.

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ing this sugar warehouse within the cell, the hope would be that we could either influence or dampen immune reactions,” says Amiel, who coauthored the paper with Phyu Thwe, a doctoral student in his lab, and three external researchers.

“What we’re really in the business of is finding new switches to toggle to that effect, and this finding provides us with a new target that regulates immune activity,” he says. “What’s surprising is that the intracellular sugar pool is the more important one early on. The reason that is so important is because in any kind of immune protection scenario it is absolutely a race against time between the microbe and mammalian immune response.”

This new knowledge could lead to targeted treatments to increase immune activity in cancer therapy or suppress immune reactions for patients with multiple sclerosis.

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Fresh Take on Pop Art Icon What would the late Andy Warhol make of the social media age? Snapchat moments and Instagram pics direct from The Factory?

Daring to speculate on the vision of an 89-year-old Warhol armed with an iPhone, art historian Anthony Grudin says, “He would have been deeply excited by, enchanted by, mystified by all of these new possibilities.”

Apt terminology in this regard— “amateur cultural participation”—is a phrase the UVM associate professor of art history discusses early in his 2017 book Warhol’s Working Class, published by The University of Chicago Press. Today, that could describe the high school kid whose cell phone video of police brutality goes viral or a comedian who finds her first audience via YouTube.

Decades before this revolution, Warhol was carving a similar path.

“I think of him as one of the first people to really glimpse and get excited about this new possibility,” Grudin says. “I think that is at the core of his achievement and his importance as an artist. He sees the early stages of this opening through all of these relatively cheap reproductive technologies he loves to experiment with—Polaroids, tape recorders, video recorders, silk screens, even the personal computer.”

Warhol’s Working Class is an outgrowth of Grudin’s research at the University of California, Berkeley. Setting out to write a comparative discussion of minimalism and pop art, he became deeply intrigued by Warhol, particularly in regard to class issues. Warhol was one of very few modern artists from a working-class background, Grudin notes.

His father worked construction; his mother cleaned houses; Warhol was born into “the abject poverty of a Pittsburgh ghetto.” But his achievement as an artist would vault him to a place among the glitterati, the rare millionaire artist and the rare individual who experienced life at both ends of the class spectrum.

Grudin breaks new ground with his discovery and examination of a marketing campaign by Macfadden Publications, an odd

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moment in early sixties consumer culture.

It came at a time when national brands (like, say, Campbell’s Soup) were losing ground to generics and store brands. Macfadden, publisher of pulpy magazines such as True Story, argued that the future of national brands depended on the masses of workingclass consumers who would remain loyal because of the perceived higher status of name brands. That same demographic defined Macfadden’s readership. Seeing an opportunity, they made their pitch to potential advertisers with tough-to-miss, full-page ads in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Chicago Tribune.

The first Macfadden ad appeared Aug. 14, 1961. A few months later, Grudin notes, Andy Warhol began painting soup cans.

While it’s impossible to directly connect dots between those two events, they’re indicative of the times and the milieu around consumerism and class within which Warhol blazed his trail. And they add another dimension to a critical consideration of the artist’s life and work. While scholars have looked at performance of gender, sexuality, and race in regard to Warhol, this focus on the performance of class introduces a fresh perspective.

Grudin notes that a more egalitarian art world, allowing for expression across class lines, isn’t necessarily comfortable or welcome. He says, “That provokes a lot of anxiety in people, and it also provokes responses to that anxiety—people who come along and say, ‘you’re scared of what us ‘low-lifes’ are going to do with this access; let us show you what we’re going to do. It will be scary. It will be rough. It will be weird.’ That’s part of Lou Reed, part of punk rock, and definitely part of Warhol.”

Samantha Hunt ’93 published The Dark, Dark, a collection of short stories, with Farrar, Strauss, Giroux in 2017. A New York Times review notes, “Hunt at her best is a lot like the uncle of one character, who is described as ‘so good at imagining things’ that ‘he makes the imagined things real.’

Hunt’s dreamlike images operate in service to earthbound ideas.” A threetime novelist, this is Hunt’s first short story collection.

Robert Lacey ’93 examines an underappreciated tradition in American political thought with his most recent book, Pragmatic Conservatism: Edmund Burke and His American Heirs (Palgrave MacMillan). He argues that modern liberals, who favor evidencebased reforms that strike a balance between tradition and innovation, are the true conservatives in America today.

Howard Frank Mosher G’67, celebrated novelist of Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom, passed away in January 2017. His last work, a book of short stories titled Points North, was released early this year by St. Martin’s Press. “Mosher’s rich language makes art from both history and the quotidian, from bigotry and courage to fishing flies and brook trout…” writes Publishers Weekly.

Kerry Landers G’05 recently published Postsecondary Education for First-Generation and Low-Income Students in the Ivy League: Navigating Policy and Practice (Palgrave Macmillan). The book is grounded in an ethnographic study of twenty low-income students in their senior year at Dartmouth College and follows up with them four and twelve years post-graduation. Landers is assistant dean of graduate student affairs at Dartmouth.

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Countdown to Game Time As UVM’s Board of Trustees

approves project planning, and multiple alumni step up with financial support, the university’s longawaited dream of enhanced space for varsity athletic competition and student wellness has taken significant steps forward over the past year.

The proposed Multi-Purpose Center will include a new events center that will serve as the home for men’s and women’s basketball while also hosting a variety of campus and public events. In addition, the project includes a transformational renovation of Gutterson Fieldhouse for men’s and women’s hockey, and dramatic upgrades to the health, wellness and recreation facilities for the entire campus.

These upgrades will result in a five-fold increase to the amount of dedicated space available for campus recreation.

At the October 2017 meeting of the UVM Board, members viewed detailed drawings of what the project could be. To move the project design through the next phase, the board authorized UVM to spend up to $1 million, all in private gifts, to finish the design development process and determine a final budget for the new facility. The board received an update

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on that work at the February meeting, and Bob Vaughan, director of capital planning and management, hopes to present the final plans and budget at the May meeting.

“Feedback from students, alumni, our loyal fans, and the broader community has been incredibly positive,” says Director of Athletics Jeff Schulman ’89. “I’m looking forward to continued work with our trustees, university leadership, and my Athletic Department colleagues to deliver a truly transformational project.”

Groundbreaking could happen as early as spring 2019, Vaughan says, provided fundraising goes as planned. UVM Foundation President Shane Jacobson says the project is generating significant interest among potential donors and several recent pledges, detailed below, provide critical early support.

SUPPORTING WELLNESS David Daigle ’89, chair of UVM’s Board of Trustees, and his wife, Beth Daigle ’89, have pledged $1 million to the proposed Multi-Purpose Center. Their gift will be directed toward new facilities that will enhance student health and wellness on campus, as

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well as programs that encourage all UVM students to lead healthier lives.

The Daigles’ long history of philanthropy at UVM has had a significant impact on each of the four priorities of Move Mountains: The Campaign for The University of Vermont—scholarships, faculty, facilities, and academic programs. They have supported initiatives at UVM including the Grossman School of Business, the UVM Career Center, the UVM Cancer Center, faculty endowments, student scholarships, and more.

The success of UVM’s nationallyacclaimed Wellness Environment, a neuroscience-inspired behavior change program that incentivizes college students to build healthy brains and healthy bodies, played a significant role in the decision to support the Multi-Purpose Center at UVM. The Daigles believe that the Wellness Environment program can have a direct and positive impact on student academic success, which in turn increases the likelihood that UVM students will enjoy successful lives and careers after they graduate.

COURT FOR ‘COACH’ In December, UVM recognized a landmark era in men’s basketball with the naming of the “Tom Brennan Court” in Patrick Gymnasium. The courtnaming opportunity was the result of a $1 million fundraising goal established to both recognize Coach Brennan and advance the planning for the Multi-Purpose Center.

In his nineteen years at UVM, Brennan won 264 games and led the Catamounts to four 20-plus win seasons, three America East Championships, and UVM’s first three NCAA Tournament appearances. The breakthrough to March Madness run was capped by the 2004-2005 season and the Cats’ stunning upset win over Syracuse.

Barry Stone ’56—a former UVM BRIAN JENKINS

basketball player and member of the UVM Foundation’s Leadership Council—and his wife, Carol, made a lead gift to launch the fundraising effort and other donors joined in to make the Brennan Court a reality.

The “Tom Brennan Court” will remain as the centerpiece in Patrick Gym after it is renovated into a recreational gym for all UVM students. As part of the Multi-Purpose Center project, the court in the new basketball and events arena will be available for a naming opportunity.

DELIVERING ON OUR PROMISE A gift of $1 million from Bill Shean ’79 and Laurie Shean ’80 has provided critical support for producing architectural plans of the Multi-Purpose Center, as well as site evaluation and preparation.

The Sheans are longtime UVM supporters with a special interest in athletics. Bill, a former member of the UVM tennis team, is the managing director of investments at CYS Investments, an agency mortgage REIT located in Waltham, Massachusetts.

Laurie is a nurse practitioner at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

Given their long history with UVM Athletics, the Sheans have significant experience with previous plans to renovate or expand athletic facilities on campus. “This is the first time, in my heart and in my head, that I believe that we will finally get the MultiPurpose Center completed and deliver on our promise to give varsity athletes as well as our entire student body the facilities that they so richly deserve,” says Bill Shean. “We have an incredibly active group of students and they deserve a top-notch center to exercise, train, practice and compete.”

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WINTER ROUNDUP As this issue went to press in February, there was a lot on the horizon for UVM Athletics—conference tournaments, possible March Madness berths, and the 2018 NCAA Skiing Championships in Steamboat Springs, Colorado.

Keep up with the Catamounts at uvmathletics.com.

Men’s basketball continued their winning ways despite an early-season injury to key player Anthony Lamb. Ernie Duncan (pictured) has been among the players who have taken up the slack, helping lead the Cats on a nine-game winning streak to open the America East schedule. During the non-conference slate, Vermont earned a road win at Richmond and battled perennial powerhouse Kentucky, then ranked #4, to a four-point loss in Lexington.

Alayna Sonnesyn, senior Nordic skier, cruised to victory in the five-kilometer classic race at the season-opening Colby Carnival, contributing to the Catamounts’ team title. Last season, Sonnesyn finished second in the fifteen-kilometer freestyle race at the 2017 NCAA Championships.

Helping power men’s hockey to a mid-season five-game unbeaten streak, Liam Coughlin and Ross Colton earned consecutive Hockey East Player of the Week honors for the Catamounts in late January.

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Stories Behind the Bricks ‘Why Build That?’ course takes deep dive into UVM architecture

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Walking into Morrill Hall

Tuesday and Thursday mornings during his first semester at UVM, Tom Freeman has stepped into an immersive learning experience of a different sort.

Yes, on a pedestrian level, Morrill of the distinctive red tile roof, granite entry columns and gray marble staircase, is the classroom location for “Why Build That?” a College of Arts and Sciences Teacher-Advisor Program (TAP) course taught by Professor William Mierse. But to Freeman, the building is also the focus of research at the heart of his work in the course.

Mierse, a veteran professor of art history, initially developed “Why Build That?” years ago, recognizing the rich learning resource in a campus buildingscape that spans centuries and architectural styles, including gems by the likes of Henry Hobson Richardson and McKim, Mead & White. Also essential, the primary sources in UVM Library Special Collections, where students can trace the long and winding road from inspiration to funding, blueprint to building.

Mierse saw, too, that the course would be well-suited to TAP, which emphasizes group work to build a tight cohort of peers,

strong faculty mentoring since the professor is also the students’ first-year advisor, and a bracing, we-are-not-in-high-schoolanymore intellectual jolt.

“Most of the students come in with a pre-set conception of what they think architecture is, and during the course of the fourteen weeks that pre-conception is severely challenged,” Mierse says. “They come out with, I hope, a quite different view of how to go about the process of looking at buildings.”

Along the way, Mierse’s syllabus puts a heavy emphasis on enhancing students’ skills in collaborative work, speaking, research, and writing, all core elements of TAP courses. Beyond campus, students explore the architecture of Burlington and examine decidedly different places and cultural/political circumstances with readings such as At Home with Apartheid: The Hidden Landscapes of Domestic Service in

Johannesburg by Rebecca Ginsburg.

As student Tom Freeman has delved into the architecture of Morrill Hall during the course, he has come to appreciate the history and symbolism of a building that honors the Vermont congressman, Justin Morrill, who sponsored the Land-Grant College Act of 1862.

“Without this land grant, most universities around America, including UVM, never would have created agricultural departments. Without these agriculture departments, America’s middle class never would have grown to the size that it is today,” Freeman says. “The Vermont Legislature funded this building which shows that it was not just UVM that felt the need to commemorate Justin Morrill.”

Another landmark building at the opposite end of the Green has been the focus of student Grace Valickis’s research. A psychology major, she has dug into the history of

her academic home, John Dewey Hall, originally opened in 1905 as home to the university’s College of Medicine. Beyond a greater understanding and appreciation for architecture, Valickis says the course has sharpened her analytical sense around political, economic, and social issues.

At semester’s end, the students in “Why Build That?” write an argument, framed as a letter to UVM’s Board of Trustees, for why “their” building should be preserved or torn down.

Mierse says his goal isn’t to create architectural or art historians with this one course. Instead, he hopes the students will grow as thoughtful, informed consumers of architecture. Whether it’s building or remodeling a house, managing an office space, or voting on municipal development, Mierse says, buildings and the multiple issues around them impact all of our lives.

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urricane Maria, the worst natural disaster to ever hit Puerto Rico, claimed many lives, flattened buildings and homes, and left the island forever changed.

Part of that devastation: a thousand-foot television tower, which had stood atop Puerto Rico’s tallest mountain for sixty years, was pulverized by winds greater than 200 miles per hour.

Now, it’s up to Jonathan Garcia ’81, a senior vice president at WAPA-TV, and his staff to rebuild a communications system, and a way of life.

It’s hard to imagine living without electricity, let alone running water, but that’s the situation Puerto Ricans found themselves in post-Maria; the entire island lost power, and thousands are still without basic necessities today.

Outages, of course, mean no Internet, and no television. “It affected our business very much,” says Garcia, who’s been with San Juan-based WAPA for nearly twenty years. “We’ve never seen anything like this.” With their infrastructure devastated, WAPA is using Telemundo’s broadcasting tower to stay on the air as they rebuild.

Unlike most mainland local networks, WAPA is an independent station. “We produce everything on our own. It’s like being in mini-Hollywood,” Garcia says. And their approach has worked; WAPA was Puerto Rico’s most-played station for the last nine years. “Instead of focusing on rating points, I try to find new solutions,” Garcia explains, like product integrations and new programming. Over the years, his credits include helping to start “MTV Puerto Rico,” and producing “Idol Puerto Rico.”

Many islanders, deprived of power and cell data, have changed the way they get their news, turning back to newspapers and radio. Garcia, whose job includes managing the station’s sales and marketing, saw advertisers simultaneously shift their dollars to these traditional mediums, bucking recent trends; the alum estimates it will take the station six months to normalize programming, ratings, and advertising billings.

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Garcia spent his early years in Philadelphia and New Jersey, before the family moved to the island when he was eleven.

He attended a small, private American high school in Puerto Rico. “I had total island fever,” laughs Garcia. “Puerto Rico is a hundred miles long, thirty-five miles wide. I said, ‘What’s the farthest place I can go, where I’ll have no family, and no other person here would apply?’” The answer: UVM. When he arrived on campus, it was his first visit ever to Vermont and he had no winter clothes. He was one of fewer than a dozen students of color. But he quickly found his niches; one

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year, he lived in the Pantomime Suite in Living/Learning. “I was an annoying mime on campus, juggling, unicycling, clowning,” he confesses.

Fond memories of student life include an epic run of concerts at Patrick Gym: Springsteen to Van Morrison to Bob Marley. And there was a deep-Burlington-late-seventies moment when he and friends took a study break visit to this little ice cream shop on the corner of College and St. Paul. A guy named Ben scooped the granola chunk; his friend Jerry played piano in the corner.

At UVM, Garcia found a way to combine this passion for music with his business and engineering studies in broadcasting. He started WRUV’s radio operations suite, later becoming the student-run station’s public relations director. He even created the logo still used today. “My involvement with ’RUV launched me into radio. It helped me a lot.”

Today, he and his wife live outside of San Juan, and actively maintain ties to Vermont, returning to their house in Stowe throughout the year.

Rebuilding after Maria presents a challenge unlike any other, but Garcia is up for it. A thirty-year television-industry veteran, he’s faced reinvention before, especially in the face of the digital revolution.

“I live for creativity, and I always try to do things differently,” Garcia says. “I get up with the same energy for my job every day.”

The historic storm, and the devastation it left behind, hasn’t changed that: “Puerto Rico will never be the same, but we’re going to come back strong.”

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Liz Thompson, director of conservation science for the Vermont Land Trust, was walking in the woods in Shaftsbury, Vermont. On Bucks Cobble Hill, she and a colleague came across an unusual plant growing on limestone. They knew it was some kind of snakeroot, in the genus Sanicula—but which species? As botanists will do, they both got out their field guides and began to look more closely at the parts of the plant’s green flowers, its calyx and stigma. They keyed it down to two possibilities: an uncommon snakeroot called Sanicula trifoliata or the more rare Sanicula canadensis.

But their two books had different drawings and keys. “And these were conflicting.

So we were confused,” says Thompson G’86, an expert on Vermont plants who co-teaches a UVM field botany course with senior lecturer Cathy Paris G’91. “There are books and books and books, and there are descriptions and descriptions and descriptions. But there is nothing to substitute for natural specimens. To actually see them in the flesh—so to speak—there’s just no substitute for that.”

So she decided to go take a look at the plant collections in UVM’s Pringle Herbarium.

From 1975 until last August, that would have meant going to the third floor of the venerable but-often-overlooked Torrey Hall, dedicated in 1863. It’s home to a collection of some 660,000 specimens. These include more than 330,000 dried plants from around the world—many thousands of which were contributed by UVM botanist Cyrus Guernsey Pringle (1838-1911) for whom the herbarium is named—as well as 280,000 pinned insects, 40,000 spiders and other arachnids, 12,000 mammal skins and skeletons, and a modest selection of stuffed birds, bird eggs, amphibians, lizards, snakes, fish, and mollusks. It’s by far the largest natural history collection in Vermont and now the state’s official archive for documenting its plants and animals after the State of Vermont’s own collections were deeply damaged by flooding during Hurricane Irene in 2011.

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Torrey Hall at 8:12 a.m. on August 3. A spark from a workman’s torch, during renovations to the building’s copper roof, had gone astray.

When David Barrington arrived on campus a few minutes later, “Twenty-foot flames were coming out of the roof,” he says. “I thought: well, that’s the end of my forty-three years of investment in Pringle and his heritage. I thought I was just going to drop.” The curator of the herbarium since 1974 and professor of plant biology, Barrington has been the driving force behind designating the collections in Torrey, in 2014, as the University of Vermont Natural History Museum—bringing together the plants in the Pringle Herbarium with the animal specimens in the Zadock Thompson Zoological Collections. This work included securing a $470,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to reorganize the collections to align with a modern understanding of the tree of life, make high-res digital images of the specimens for online viewing—and move the whole collection from substandard wooden cabinets into new fireproof metal ones.

As the four-alarm fire burned, several near-miracles unfolded. First, the fast-moving firefighters went into the building and covered some of the cabinets with tarps and were able to contain the blaze to the crawl space on the flared outer edge of the building’s mansard roof. “The lieutenant climbed right in there with a hose,” Barrington recalls. The top of the building was surrounded by a crown of flames, but the interior frame was spared. Second, the tinder-dry sheets of plants, glued on paper, just feet from the scorching heat overhead, were unharmed in their new cabinets.

And third, in the days after the fire was extinguished, “an absolutely amazing outpouring of people came to help,” Barrington says. The few thousand plants that were in open cabinets, or out on work tables, were carried by hand to dry out in nearby buildings or shipped to a specialized freezing facility in Massachusetts for protection. The insects and mammals—housed on lower floors of Torrey—were safely moved to Blundell House on Redstone Campus. Cabinets of plants on the fourth floor were lifted by crane through a hole cut in the burned roof of Torrey Hall and reorganized in the basement of Jeffords Hall.

Which is how Liz Thompson could be heading for the Pringle Herbarium, six weeks after the fire, by walking down into the Jeffords basement. She opens a locked storage room, and steps through a narrow canyon of metal doors. “Cabinet 413, let’s see, it’s right here,” she says, and opens one. She

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scans down the hundreds of stacked folders, colorcoded by region (plus a few in red, that are “type” specimens, meaning they are the original plant which a collector used to describe and name a new species) and picks out two green folders; green for Vermont.

She places them side-by-side on a small metal table, takes out her smartphone and opens pictures of the plant she saw in the Shaftsbury forest. In one folder, she goes through a sheaf of specimens of Sanicula canadensis, collected at different seasons, peering closely at their flowers with a silver handlens. One of the plants in this folder Thompson collected herself, in West Haven, near Rutland, in July 1990, on a “hill NW of Fish Hill,” the label reads. In the other pile are sheets of Sanicula trifoliata. She looks closely at one collected on August 18, 1898, by the former president of Middlebury College and distinguished botanist Ezra Brainerd. “Yep, that’s the one,” she says, smiling. “It’s awesome to think that Ezra Brainerd made this collection more than one hundred years ago and here it is and it’s vitally useful to me right now.”

This Shaftsbury forest, where the plant was growing, was recently conserved by the land trust and Thompson and her colleague were scouting it on behalf of the owner, an organic farmer, helping her develop a land management plan. “We know exactly what the species is now,” says Thompson, “we can talk to the landowner about how she has something quite special and get her out to see where it’s living. We’ll advise that area not be managed for timber because of its conservation value.”

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certainly need cabinets, the Renaissance notion of the Kunstkabinett or cabinet of curiosities—the vision of a natural history collection as a mash-up of exotic plants and stuffed creatures curated for its own sake—“misses the point of what I do,” says assistant professor Michael Sundue ’99, the assistant curator and research librarian of the Pringle Herbarium.

Last summer, before the fire, I spoke with Sundue as he was preparing for a botanical expedition to Colombia. Part of his work takes place in a laboratory in Jeffords Hall, extracting DNA from plant cells; part among the cabinets in the herbarium, studying dried plants; and part in mountains, swamps, and forests—from New Guinea to South America—collecting living plants, especially ferns.

“They all fit together,” he says.

“Museums are repositories for collections. And collections are a tool of natural history, which is a tool we can use for understanding many biodiversity questions,” he says. “All of our questions are much more interesting than the collection itself.

But they can’t be addressed without the collection.”

“When I tell people I work in an herbarium, they say, ‘so what do you do up there all day? Categorize things?’” Sundue tells me, with a big smile.

“I try not to be offended,” he says, now laughing out loud. And then he pauses and looks up at the ceiling. “And I think, well, yes, I guess I do. I do categorize things a lot.”

Then he picks up a small bag of dried and ground fern leaves that has been prepared for DNA analysis. “But that is not the point. The point is not to categorize things. This is the point: categorizing is a process we do in order to develop a tool—which is a collection—which we use to answer questions about the natural world.”

For example: how will global warming affect insect life in Vermont? Numerous scientists use the UVM collections to look for clues about how climate change may be shifting the geographic ranges of species. In the Vermont portion of the collection, “we have only one specimen of the carpenter ant, Camponotus chromaoides, collected in the Champlain Valley in 1984,” says UVM biologist Nick Gotelli, who studies ants as part of his ecological research.

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climate change if we start to detect additional occurrences in Vermont,” he says.

Similarly, in 2015, a team of scientists, including Leif Richardson, a bee expert at UVM’s Gund Institute for Environment, and Sara Zahendra and Kent McFarland from the Vermont Center for Ecostudies, donated some 9,000 pinned, identified, and digitized bumble bee specimens, drawing from their work on the Vermont Bumble Bee Survey, to the UVM collections. Combined with the labors of collectors going back decades, this bee collection helps tell a story of how land-use changes, pesticides, and climate change are rewriting the distribution and abundance of the state’s bees and other pollinators.

But the questions go much farther than Vermont, and much deeper in time than the geologic eye-blink of the reign of the naked, large-brained primate categorized as Homo sapiens. “People will say, ‘so, then you have all of the bugs in Vermont?’” says Sundue. “Well, yes, we do have many of them.

And we have insects and plants from all over the world,” he says, including the best collection of DNA-grade Caribbean spiders in the world, gathered by UVM spider expert Ingi Agnarsson and others; a stupendous worldwide collection of ground beetles collected by legendary professor Ross Bell and his wife, Joyce Bell; Cyrus Pringle’s pioneering plant collection from Mexico and other dry places, including some 1,200 new species he discovered; a fine collection of rare shrews and other small mammals from Pakistan collected by mammalogist Bill Kilpatrick; Dave Barrington’s extensive collection of hollyferns—and the collections of hundreds of other naturalists and scientists stretching well back into the nineteenth century.

“The point is not to have one of everything, but to have a representative sample which we can use to understand the morphology of an organism, its shape and form,” says Sundue. Historically, this set of visible traits—like flower shape or skull size— has been used to describe and distinguish species and place them on their branch in the tree of life.

The molecular revolution of the last few decades has redrawn large parts of this tree by exploring microscopic DNA. But the same basic task remains: to find the traits of a plant or animal—whether the shape of a leaf or the molecular sequence of base pairs in a gene—that shows how it is different from, but relates to, other organisms.

And the engine of this ever-branching, currently shrinking, 3.95-billion-year-old tree of life is evolution by natural selection—organisms trying to

make a living in the constant ecological flux, with the ones best-adapted to their place and moment surviving to pass on their distinctive genes to the next generation. It’s an endless process of diversification and movement, innovations and failures. “And we use natural history collections to explore some big questions in evolution,” says Sundue. “Where is biodiversity distributed on the planet? Why are there more species at the equator than anywhere else? Why are there more species halfway up the Andes Mountains than there are at the top or the bottom? Collections are the fundamental primary data we use to address those questions.

“The information we need is not necessarily written down in books anywhere,” Sundue says, sitting in the library of Torrey Hall. Behind him are hundreds of mostly green- and brown-spined books: Fruits of the Guianan Flora, Sex in Plants, Megalastrum of the Andes, Parts I & II. “So you have to have collections at your disposal so you can constantly query the specimens. Does this specimen show this trait? Let’s pull it out of the cabinet and see.”

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when eleven uvm undergrads in the course “Justice Studies” arrive for a weekly class meeting, they are required to leave their keys, cellphones, and other personal belongings at the door before walking through a metal detector under the watchful eye of a correctional officer. It isn’t part of an extreme measure to remove distractions from the classroom. It’s just part of the routine for the students taking the course with incarcerated people at the Women’s Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility in South Burlington.

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Opening doors, for UVM students and their counterparts in the prison, was the impetus for the course developed and taught by Kathy Fox, professor of sociology and director of the new UVM Liberal Arts in Prison Program. Spring semester 2017 was the first time in Vermont that undergrads and inmates took a course together on the “inside,” and it represented UVM’s entry into the renowned Consortium for the Liberal Arts in Prison established at Bard College. UVM is the first public institution and the first land grant university to join.

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cerated Vermonters beginning this spring comes after patient and persistent advocacy by Fox, who sees a liberal education as transformational in the lives of individual students and society at large.

This semester UVM is teaching an introductory sociology course to men in the Northwest State Correctional Facility in Swanton and a course on mythology for female inmates in South Burlington.

“I’ve been very impressed with the number of smart people in prison,” Fox says. “They work hard not just because they see education as important, but because they crave doing something meaningful with their time and bettering themselves. If we take the power of liberal arts seriously—the power to reason and the capacity for critical inquiry— our prison system provides extremely fertile ground for its application.”

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Fox received some early lessons in fairness and privilege that informed her research on social problems and eventually criminal justice. After attending a private Catholic elementary school, she volunteered to be bussed to Booker T. Washington, a racially and socio-economically integrated high school on the other side of Tulsa. She observed that only when white middle-class students were bussed in did the district infuse a lot of resources into the school.

“I was very aware that my trajectory might be different from other kids I knew, not because of talent or smarts, but because of access to resources,” Fox says. “That struck me as wrong. But the experience made me a sociologist.”

Her father, a tax attorney in Tulsa, served as an early role model. He fought to establish fair voting districts in the city—the existing system underrepresented densely populated lower-income neighborhoods dominated by African Americans.

“He got threatening phone calls and was harassed. But he didn’t back down,” Fox recalls.

It was a later conversation with her father that finally set Fox on the path to her profession. She had just graduated from high school and was taking a gap-year (before the term became fashionable), waiting tables and casting about for a clear direction.

The things she was interested in, she told her father, didn’t seem to have any academic application.

“He asked me: ‘what do you spend time thinking about?’ I told him I wondered why people behaved differently in crowds as opposed to small groups. Or why some groups get labeled negatively and others didn’t. ‘There’s a name for that,’ he said. ‘That’s sociology.’”

Fox is not an “armchair” sociologist—her research takes her to places most people don’t want to go but where the magnitude of need and opportunity for positive change are the greatest.

Her doctoral dissertation at California-Berkeley focused on a prevention program for intravenous drug users on the West Coast, most of them homeless and at high risk of contracting HIV from sharing needles. Fox conducted qualitative research on the program, and in the process, provided free condoms and taught addicts how to clean syringes.

She joined the UVM faculty in 1994. Teaching introductory classes and seminars in criminal justice, her research interests turned increasingly towards offender reentry and reintegration in Vermont.

“I’d never been inside a prison, but I was really

struck by the notion that these are people’s sons and daughters, husbands and wives,” she says. “I’ve often said every citizen should visit a prison, because they would understand how dehumanizing the environment is, and they’d meet people that don’t need to be there.”

Fox increasingly began to see higher education as a key lever to change the lives of inmates and improve outcomes after their release. She also became convinced of the societal benefits of education on the “inside”—providing higher education reduces recidivism and dramatically improves the odds that returning citizens could become successful, crime-free, tax-paying members of society.

“Vermont is an ideal laboratory because of its scale—we can try lots of new things,” she says. “The state spends $65,000 per year per in-state inmate (more than four times what it spends for each public school student from kindergarten through the twelfth grade).”

The recidivism rate in the state, while better than the national average, has hovered at about 45 percent for the last decade. Incarcerated citizens who are released with a high school education have a recidivism rate of 24 percent. That drops to 10 percent for inmates with two years of college, and about 5 percent with four years of college.

“Vermont, like the rest of the nation, is investing vast sums of money in a correctional system that has the potential to deliver better results,” she says.

fox is a great believer in experiential learn-

ing, and bringing her UVM undergraduates into the prison provides them with a first-hand look at lives of the incarcerated. The learning is a two-way street—inmates learn academic content alongside UVM students in a classic college seminar while the undergrads develop a sharpened sensitivity to the obstacles inmates face in their day-to-day lives and long-term prospects.

The class typically sits in a circle, with UVM undergrads and students from the prison seated next to each other. It is one of the few times in the inmates’ weekly routine that a uniformed officer is not present in the classroom.

“A big obstacle was breaking down the walls as much as possible. Both groups were a little intimidated so we did some ice breaking exercises to establish the things we all have in common. For instance, I’d propose they talk about what their one food would be if they were stranded on a desert island,” Fox says.

There would be laughter—nervous at first, then more spontaneous—as the students discussed the merits of a diet consisting of pizza versus ice cream.

“The best way to understand our criminal justice system is to talk to people within it, from all angles,” Fox says. The impact, she hopes, will be that the shared human experience will affect UVM students as they go forward in their professions. If they someday work in a management role, for instance, maybe they’ll hire a formerly incarcerated individual.

Sociology major Sarah Bull ’17 worked with Fox as a teaching assistant for the course. In addition to the Monday afternoon class, she spent an hour each

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Wednesday evening in the facility meeting individually with classmates to answer questions and help them with assignments.

“One of the ladies told me every week how empowered she felt to be part of the class,” Bull says.

“She understood that we were not going in just to ‘study’ them—that we were learning as much from them as they were from us. She told me she appreciated the fact that we were using their perspectives to improve a system where she feels she has no voice.”

One of the “inside” students who was recently released, wrote to Fox saying she never imagined she could go to college, but feels that she can after being part of the course. As the program continues to take root at UVM, that’s a result the professor behind it hopes will repeat many times over.

“A liberal arts education certainly changed my life,” says Fox, “I’m confident it can change the lives of those inside our prisons, and improve our communities in the process.”

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Geography and vibe have earned Burlington the “West Coast of New England” nickname. On a smaller city scale—with gentler hills—UVM’s hometown shares something with San Francisco, in particular. Talk to a sample of the approximately 1,700 alumni who make the Bay Area home and you’ll hear echoes of these words from Jim Louderback ’83: “It’s more like Vermont than you might think.”

With this issue, VQ launches an annual focus on our alumni in various cities or regions.

Next year: we’re coming for you, Chicago.

by Thomas Weaver principal photography by Clayton Boyd ’09

jim louderback ’83 WORK: CEO of VidCon, an online video events and experiences company. Big picture: “I focus on how we fulfill our mission to celebrate, connect, and democratize the creative economy around the world. I love the emerging ecosystem that lets creative people anywhere in the world create and connect to audiences without the traditional media middlemen that have constrained connections between fans and creators.” UVM: A math major/mass communications minor, Louderback also learned computer programming and worked many shifts at WRUV. “That mix of technology and media proved to be a fundamental underpinning of my career, as the two are now inextricably bound up.” SF FAVE: Praising the outdoors options and Bay Area vibe— “It’s more like Vermont than you might think.” He loves walking the beaches near his home in Pacifica, and evenings at Phil Lesh’s Terrapin Crossroads music club in Marin take him back to a favorite UVM memory, the night the Grateful Dead came to town.

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luke apfeld ’14

A star forward for the Catamounts as a basketball player, Luke Apfeld is wrapping up law school at UC Berkeley: “There is light at the end of the tunnel, but it is a challenging process.”

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WORK: Third-year student at Berkeley Law, graduating in May. “I’m in the process of figuring out where I want my career in the law to go. There are a lot of possibilities for lawyers right now, and I want to make sure I use my law degree to help ease some of the unrest in our society today.” The former Catamount basketball star helps pay the rent by working with the Golden State Warriors youth program, travelling Northern California for hoops clinics. “It is great to see the positivity that the Warriors embody seep into the neighboring communities.” UVM: Double major in English and sociology.

Friends in Vermont included coaches, fellow teammates, and the sports medicine staffers Apfeld credits for keeping him on court. He also found a mentor for his law career in UVM President Tom Sullivan, J.D. SF FAVE: Apfeld declares allegiance to Oakland.

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“It is a beautifully diverse city that captures the best of both worlds—the free spirit of Berkeley and the big city feel of San Francisco.”

ann cromley ’15 WORK: Line chef at famed Berkeley restaurant Chez Panisse. “Being part of the magic and history of Chez Panisse is an honor. To invigorate and inspire people with good food and to be able to tell of the people and stories behind the food and the soil is part of what makes Chez Panisse so special.”

UVM: Cromley says her four years at UVM were transformative. From volunteer work helping with Hurricane Irene clean-up during her first year to the mentorship of Professor Rachel Johnson in her nutrition and dietetics major, Cromley fell in love with the state and the university. Of Johnson, she says, “Each day, I learned something new from

her; I was continuously inspired to stay committed not only to my studies, but to myself.” Cromley’s work as president of Slow Food UVM, a student club, put her on a path to Chez Panisse, she says.

Last, far from least, she values the community and connection she found in the Slade Environmental Cooperative. SF FAVE: Excited to continue exploring the historic network of paths and staircases in her new hometown of Berkeley.

bill allard ’71 WORK: A founding member of Duck’s Breath Mystery Theatre, a comedy team that made their name from 1975 to 1990 with live performances and sketches on National Public Radio. Today, Allard is focused on producing, distributing, and marketing Duck Spots comedy movies with the goal of having “ten funny movies for Apple to sell by 2020.” Allard calls it “achieving my dreams in the last quartermile of my life.” UVM: A theater major, Allard says legendary professor Ed Feidner “hired me to work for the Champlain Shakespeare Festival while apologizing for ruining my life.” He was also a varsity swimmer, AEPi brother, and braved the snow on his Honda 90 motorcycle. SF FAVE: Allard and his wife, Margaret, own a house in Outer Sunset and have lived in the city for nearly forty years.

“Every inch of this wonderful city is worth a zillion dollars, and we’re all still mining for gold. Digital gold.”

jon d’angelica ’91 WORK: Together with two business partners, owns and operates a wine and whiskey bar/restaurant concept called District, with locations in Oakland, San Francisco, and San Jose. Small plates, pizza, house-made charcuterie, and an eclectic wine and whiskey list are District’s niche. Day to day, D’Angelica focuses on finance and operations with a big picture outlook on possibly growing far beyond the three units. “I enjoy the fact that it’s our business and that we control our own destiny.

If it were manufacturing widgets, I’d still love it because it’s ours. But the fact that it’s something I love so much—wine, whiskey, food, making people happy—makes it that much better.” UVM: A business major/history minor, D’Angelica got a taste for his future working at the fabled Chicken Bone several years. Skiing, music downtown, and

Milo Werner built her career in engineering management at Tesla, FitBit, and now Off.Grid:Electric.

“I love creating the environment that stimulates our engineering team to be creative.

It is about allowing people to access that inner playful side of work.”

milo werner ’02 WORK: VP for engineering at Off.Grid: Electric, an innovative company focused on multiple aspects of bringing affordable, reliable, renewable energy to communities in need. Her previous jobs include engineering/management roles at FitBit and nine years with Tesla during the automotive company’s early days. As a woman in management in a technical field, Werner is thankful for the advocacy of a mentor who saw her leadership potential. “I love creating the environment that stimulates our engineering team to be creative. It is about allowing people to access that inner playful side of work.”

UVM: While earning dual degrees in civil/environmental engineering and geology, Werner ran varsity track and cross-country. She has stayed involved with the university through work on her college’s board of advisors and recently hired Tariye Peter ’17, a young UVM grad. SF FAVE: Home is in the Marina and work is on Potrero Hill; Werner deeply appreciates that she can bike to work. Weekends, she, her husband, and their two kids often head to Chrissy Field.

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a strong circle of lasting friends filled the hours he wasn’t on the job or hitting the books. SF FAVE: Being out on the Pacific fishing for king salmon with his three kids.

jess peabody ’02 Trauma surgeon Dr. James Betts has long worked and lived in the Bay Area. He received wide media attention when, in the aftermath of the 1989 earthquake, he performed an emergency surgical amputation on a child trapped in a car under a collapsed overpass.

WORK: Community director for Conscious Capitalism International, a nonprofit dedicated to elevating humanity through business, overseeing chapters in forty communities worldwide. “I get to work with incredibly purposeful and engaged business leaders around the world who truly want to positively impact their communities, employees, partners, and the environment.” UVM: Studied psychology and studio art. Academically, classmates in the Integrated Humanities Program and printmaking professor Bill Davison had lasting influences upon her. Off-campus, Peabody

was active in the local punk rock scene, as a fan and singing in bands. On the quieter side, Muddy Waters was a favorite spot to read and write. SF FAVE: “This city celebrates and encourages diversity and independence like no other place I have experienced. The value of this lends itself to an incredible richness of self-expression.” A “just say yes” motto since moving to the city four years ago has led to many experiences, including an ultramarathon on Mt. Tam. Marin Headlands—endless trails, views, whale sighting—keeps her coming back for more.

jim betts ’69 md ’73 WORK: Surgeon-in-chief and assistant director of Trauma Services at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland. As a safety-net facility, the hospital turns no patient away. Betts, who grew up in Bennington, Vermont, with his two siblings and their widowed single mom, who had no health insurance, notes that his personal background resonates with the hospital’s mission. “It is an honor and privilege to be able to serve the surgical needs of our patients.”

Betts also serves as a tactical physician with the FBI-San Francisco SWAT Team. UVM: A Wilbur Scholarship combined with other aid and work as a resident advisor enabled Betts to earn his bachelor’s and medical degrees debt free. Within the College of Medicine, longtime dean Bill Luginbuhl and his wife, Vi, were encouragers and confidants. A selfdescribed “very unaccomplished discus and hammer thrower,” Betts credits legendary Catamount track and field coach Archie Post with helping him fit athletics into a challenging academic schedule.

SF FAVE: During the week, Betts lives in Alameda, near the hospital. An ideal weekend usually means heading to his oceanside home in Big Sur, where he does double-duty as a member of the area’s volunteer fire department.

kate sylvester ’02 WORK: Staffing manager at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. “It’s busy, full of innovative and creative people. We’re a pillar in the community for art of our time and I get to see it every day.” Mentoring interns and helping them move into the field is another especially fulfilling aspect of her job. UVM: Environmental studies and poli sci major. Kept busy outside of the classroom with Phi Beta Phi, as an orientation leader, waiting tables at Trattoria Delia, and, very importantly, suiting up as Kitty Catamount. Study abroad experiences in Australia and Costa Rica, along with a semester in Washington, D.C., sparked a love for travel. As a co-chair of the UVM Alumni Association San Francisco Regional

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Board, Sylvester helps connect fellow grads with one another and their alma mater. SF FAVE: Diverse culture of people, food, careers, says the Mission District resident. “Urban hiking” or checking out a new neighborhood are free-time priorities.

Brigid Donovan balances the intensity of work as a trauma nurse practitioner and clinical assistant professor with life in a city where “there’s a feeling that something is always being ‘celebrated’ regardless of weekday or time of day.”

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jeff buckley ’00 WORK: Housing policy advisor in the San Francisco Mayor’s Office, focused on big picture questions such as affordability. Buckley is particularly proud of a public housing plan that leveraged $100 million in local city funds to provide more than $750 million in direct improvements to public housing— without losing a unit or displacing tenants. “That’s why I got involved in government—to make change and improve lives.” UVM: History major/English minor. Ski slopes, music downtown, gravy fries at

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Nectar’s are among the fond memories. Buckley also worked as a student journalist for the Vermont Cynic, covering the Vermont legislature’s same-sex marriage decision. He credits that experience for guiding his path toward taking a role in progressive government. SF FAVE: Describing a typical day leaving his home in Ingleside, dropping his threeyear-old daughter at day care, and getting on BART to go to work, Buckley says, “The beauty of this city is around every corner.” The rickety wooden deck of Fort Funston, watching hang gliders over the Pacific, is his place to be.

brigid donovan ’98 WORK: Trauma nurse practitioner at San Francisco General Hospital and clinical assistant professor of nursing at the University of California, San Fran-

cisco. “The science of medicine and working with people is what I love. The hospital work environment is very intense at times. However, to be at the bedside with patients who are often in their most vulnerable state after sustaining terrible injuries and to know you are taking the best possible care of them is very rewarding.” UVM: A Burlington local who grew up just a few blocks from campus, Donovan still found a new world up the hill at UVM. She made lasting friends living in Harris and Davis halls, rose early for rowing practice with UVM Crew, and knew she’d found the right calling in her nursing courses and clinical experiences. SF FAVE: Donovan rattles off a long list of the things she loves— the sound of the Pacific, runs through the Presidio, shopping in Union Square and hearing the rumble of the cable cars, Giants and Warriors fans, and “liberal politics, diversity, tolerance, acceptance. Everybody is always welcome in SF.”

lydia horne ’16 WORK: Supports three senior editors at WIRED magazine with everything from scheduling to research to photoshoots. “I love the community at WIRED—everyone is so quick, sharp, and kind. I’m constantly learning. I also report to three senior WIRED women—which feels quite special and unique in the tech industry—and feel grateful to be supported and surrounded by such brilliant women.” Horne is also in good company with fellow Catamounts at WIRED—Natalie DiBlasio ’11, Alex Baker-Whitcomb ’11, and Michael Calore ’96.

UVM: English major/art history and Italian double minor. Visiting art professor Peter Shellenberger inspired exploring film photography and Super 8.

“He completely redirected my interests and selfunderstanding as an artist.” SF FAVE: Church of 8 Wheels, a church-turned-roller skating rink, with Soul Train soundtrack, on Friday and Saturday nights. “It has the perfect collision of funk and nostalgia that initially drew me out to San Francisco in the first place.”

will vitagliano ’12 g’15 WORK: Associate university registrar at the University of San Francisco. “I stumbled into something (I don’t know anyone who knows they want to be a registrar when they grow up) that I’m good at and gives me the opportunity to help others. I get to work with students from the moment they step foot on campus to the moment they walk across the stage with their diploma in hand.” UVM: Bachelor’s in psychology and master’s in education. Vitagliano was SGA vice president and served on the President’s

Commission on LGBTQ Equity, among other leadership roles. He credits late friend David Maciewicz ’11 with shaping his UVM experience and career path.

“He showed me that even when you are just one student, out of an entire student body, you can make a difference.” SF FAVE: Lives in SOMA neighborhood with husband, Gary, and puppy, Stetson. Vitagliano praises the view from Twin Peaks. “No matter how many times you go to the top, every time you look down at the city below, you fall in love with it all over again.”

basil tsimoyianis ’09 WORK: Freelance photographer, creative, climber, and certified rope tech who has climbed with Greenpeace for more than ten years. He is also lead rigger and photographer with Bandaloop, a vertical dance company that performs across buildings, bridges, and cliffs. “My goal is to share and provide a holistic and visually driven approach to all the work I do—including my work in the vertical world—it’s a powerful way to change perspectives and move people.” UVM: Tsimoynianis earned his degree in environmental studies, also studying photography. Climbing with the Outing Club “launched my obsession into the vertical world.” As a campus environmental activist, he helped push the university to change paper procurement policies in response to deforestation in Boreal forests. He credits the late Professor Tuna Snider for “encouraging me to speak up and for teaching me that it’s not just what we say but how we say it that matters.” SF FAVE: At home in East Oakland, Tsimoynianis says one of the best parts of the Bay Area is the landscape outside the city. “The Eastern Sierras hold a special place in my heart and is where I go to come home to myself.”

alissa boochever ’15 WORK: Staff for The Trust for Public Land, a national non-profit headquartered in San Francisco.

After starting as an intern, Boochever is now on the organization’s Parks for People team, assisting in project management and outreach for urban parks that the trust builds or renovates in the Bay Area.

She’s particularly excited about a Green Schoolyards program getting started in Oakland. “I used to be a teacher on a farm right after I graduated UVM and before moving to San Francisco, so I know firsthand the benefits of teaching outside and encouraging children to have a connection with nature.”

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experience. SF FAVE: Slide Ranch, a non-profit educational farm just north of the Golden Gate Bridge, where Boochever first lived when she moved west.

“I’d probably bring my picnic of local cheeses and bread and an avocado and hike down to the rocky beach to munch and watch the sunset over the Pacific.”

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John Austin on his work as director of education and outreach at The Garden Project: “When I go home I feel content knowing that we’ve done something tangible to help the community move forward.

Whether that’s a box of vegetables to a senior living community or just seeing a student get excited about a subject here that they shunned in school, all the pieces seem to fall together by the end of the day. “

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WORK: Product manager for rewarded advertising at Pandora Media, where his role means connecting business, technology, and user-experience teams. Bernstein leads Pandora’s engagement-based ad product suite. “In a world where advertising is often seen as interruptive and intrusive, I’m very excited to work on experiences that provide users with what they want, when they want it and satisfy their need for instant gratification without having them swipe their credit cards.” UVM: Engineering management/mechanical engineering were Bernstein’s focus as an undergrad, followed by an MBA. He also excelled as a varsity Nordic skier for the Catamounts. “As part of the ski team, I feel fortunate to have been able to travel to amazing places, make lifelong friendships, and prepare for the real world.”

Influential people from his student days included Joan Jordan and Tony Julianelle from his college and ski coaches Patrick Weaver and Fred Fayette. SF FAVE: Bernstein puts a landscape that offers “skiing in Tahoe one day and hopping on a surfboard in Santa Cruz the next” to good use. Lately, cycling has been a free-time focus, with the Marin Headlands as a favorite destination.

john austin ’07 WORK: Director of education and outreach for The Garden Project, a non-profit that focuses on employment, education, and food security in the city’s most disadvantaged neighborhoods. The project’s 145-acre farm, employs three hundred students in the summer, donating six tons of vegetables. Being part of a smaller “scrappy nonprofit” might mean joining a SFPD task force and driving a tractor in the same afternoon. “When I go home I feel content knowing that we’ve done something tangible to help the community move forward.” UVM: An anthropology major, he has fond memories of Living/Learning’s Chinese Suite. Jazz trombone and competitive Taekwondo also filled his days. Active in the student of color community, Austin credits staff member Beverly Colston as a key influence. SF FAVE: Though he lives in Haight/Ashbury, Austin is an East Bay fan who loves exploring Oakland. “I think it’s a really diverse and complex city. It creates a great contrast from SF’s tech culture, offering

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artist spaces and communities that offer a different face of The Bay.”

karen kefauver ’91 WORK: After twenty years as a freelance journalist specializing in endurance sports and adventure travel, Kefauver shifted into social media coaching shortly after Twitter launched. She teaches small business owners how to use Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Twitter for marketing. “I love helping people demystify the ever-changing technology.” UVM: Her experience at the university, Kefauver says, pivoted on two key “life-changing” events. First, spending her first year in Living/Learning, where she thrived academically and socially, making friends who lasted long past graduation.

Junior year, studying abroad at the University of Kent in Canterbury via the Buckham Overseas Program Scholarship led her to decide on an English major. SF FAVE: Kefauver lives in Santa Cruz, where she first visited on a West Coast road trip at age twenty-three. A few nights in a youth hostel and she decided this was the place for her—ocean, check; redwoods, check; mountain bike trails, check.

“Twenty-five years later, I love it just as much!”

clayton boyd ’09 WORK: Photographer, who works in-house for The North Face on a broad variety of projects—product shots, on-location and in-studio photos of models, photojournalistic work with the brand’s athletes in action, and portraiture. “The variety has taught me a lot, but the portraits are the most engaging aspect of this job.” (Boyd also takes on freelance projects, including most of the portraits of his fellow alumni in this article.) UVM: Earned a bachelor’s in Latin American literature, which he credits for opening a door to critical thought on social issues. Professor Martin Oyata—“an enthusiastic and studied man who seeded a love for the genre”—made a lasting impact. Boyd competed in downhill events for UVM Cycling and lived at the Adsit Court team house where, let history record, he and Adam Morse ’08 built a pump track in the backyard one summer. SF FAVE: Climbing is Boyd’s athletic focus these days.

“The Matthes Crest Traverse is a climbing route in Yosemite that is comparatively easy. It’s like walking a sidewalk, but with hundreds of feet of air below you on either side.”

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n Friday, October 20, 2017, sharply dressed, a bit bleary-eyed, a dozen UVM business majors meet at BTV airport for a 5:30 a.m. flight to New York’s JFK. A big day awaits. They’re the latest class to take part in what has become a rite of passage for many, a day when business students trade a UVM classroom for a Manhattan boardroom as their learning ground. It’s a critical element of BSAD 228, Wall Street Seminar, a course that gives undergrads in the Grossman School of Business experience in professional equity analysis and mergers and acquisitions. Launched in 2003 by professor emeritus James Gatti, it is now taught by associate professor Andrew Prevost.

The short flight is a chance to grab sleep or gather thoughts. Queens to Manhattan, the mood is light on the subway. Students crack jokes, listen to a fellow passenger dropping rhymes to help pay his rent, peer at their laptops with one last run-through of presentation slides. The vibe turns decidedly more serious after they arrive at a Starbucks on 47th and Broadway, where they nervously sip coffee before walking next door to Morgan Stanley, filing through security, then taking an elevator to a boardroom high above the city.

Awaiting them are UVM alumni Steve Penwell ’84, Morgan Stanley’s director of equity research for North America, and Jamie Flicker ’89, managing director and partner at Greenhill & Co., LLC. After brisk greetings, it’s right to the business at hand. The twelve students in the 2017 Wall Street Seminar, divided into three groups, have spent the weeks leading up to this day at work on a financial projection model to determine the valuation of Goodyear Tire, Abbott Laboratories, and Corning, Inc., then advise investors whether to buy, sell, or hold stock.

Now, it’s time to step up.

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Above: Kyle Hubschmitt, Michael Cialone, (front), Casey Fuller, and John Kanto (back) nervously ride the elevator to their presentations.

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The first group recommends buying stock in Goodyear, based in part on projected future growth. Penwell wants proof: “Sorry, I’m not very good at math,” he says. “What’s going to drive your revenue growth in 2018, ’19, and ’20? How did you get there, because I don’t understand the math? You’ve got five years of down revenue and you’ve got them up 2 percent in ’18.

Why?” The students say they are convinced there is pent up demand for certain types of tires. “That seems like a pretty key assumption without any data to support it,” Penwell responds.

“Admittedly, we are putting pretty far across the green, per se” Matt Duff says.

“So you want us to putt, but with a blindfold on,” Penwell counters. “You are trying to convince us to put capital into this idea, right? Anyway, let’s move on.”

The questioning seems harsh, but it’s part of a grilleducate-praise routine that Penwell and Flicker have perfected. Flicker tends to play the role of good cop, telling one group, “look, everything is there and you have a good argument to make. You’ve just got to make it verbally and then you’ve got to make it on a piece of paper.”

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Reflecting on the exercise a few days later, Penwell notes that this year’s UVM students were among the best he’s seen. “Clients are tough and can be belligerent. You are asking them to invest their money and commit capital,” he says. “I’m trying to impress on students that if you walk into a meeting with a client unprepared, they are going to rip you apart. So that’s part of the method to the madness when I evaluate their work. I’ve become more prescriptive lately, so if they don’t give me what I asked for, I’m not afraid to give them some tough love.”

Across the fourteen years of the Wall Street Seminar’s existence, this investment world dry run, coupled with some tough love applied as needed, has been the linchpin of many students’ business education. Gatti says the benefits of the first trip to New York for students far exceeded his initial expectations. To this day, graduates of the seminar let him know how significant the experience was to their careers.

James Keller ’03, a portfolio manager with Tocqueville Asset Management, is among them. “Professor Gatti and the seminar were instrumental in my ability to land my first job,” he says. “I believe it’s a great differentiator for the business school for prospective finance students, giving undergrads the opportunity to be thrown into a real-life situation

they might not get at other schools.”

Keller’s father, James R. Keller ‘72, president of Green Mountain Business Consultants and chair of the UVM Foundation, has funded travel and other expenses associated with the seminar, inspired, to a large degree, by the experience of his son.

“In my opinion, this course was the defining element that put my son on his career path,” says Keller. “I waivered as a senior in my choice of what was to come next for me. I contrast that with James’s clear focus on getting to Wall Street and into the investment business. When something is that powerful, it needs to be funded, and in our family’s tradition of giving back to those enterprises or programs that shape us, let us grow and develop, we chose to fund this.”

A similar spirit drives the alumni who make the class possible through hosting the Wall Street visit and giving guest talks up in Burlington throughout the semester.

Penwell, a Wall Street warrior who cut his teeth on the trading floors of the 1980s, and Dave Daigle ’89, chair of the UVM Board of Trustees and partner at The Capital Group Companies, Inc., have donated their time and expertise since the seminar’s inception. “They stepped up early,” says Gatti of Penwell and Daigle, who recently funded

an endowed scholarship in the professor’s name.

“Almost all of the students in the seminar have gotten high-level jobs before graduation, which I would attribute to what they learned from them.”

More recently, the course has expanded to include help from younger analysts and associates at Morgan Stanley. Patrick Halfmann ’14 gave a presentation at UVM on how to give a professional stock pitch. Evan Silberberg ’16 G’17 helped students build a fully functioning financial model before they started working with analysts. “I’m just returning the favor,” says Silberberg.

Someday soon, senior Kyle Hubschmitt may be joining them, but on October 20 he is ready for that same-day round flight trip back to Vermont.

“I was nervous right up until we started presenting,” he says. “Once we started I was fine and was actually happy when he (Penwell) started asking us questions, because it gave us a chance to differentiate our work. It was a fun day. The elevator ride down after we presented felt really good. I can tell you that.”

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STANTON DODGE ’91 Revisiting his academic roots as a guest

for the Grossman School of Business Dean’s Speaker Series, Stanton Dodge ’91 likely calmed some student minds. Though the alumnus now has a successful, fulfilling career as executive vice president and general counsel for DISH Network, it hasn’t been an arrow-straight, doubt-free path. Careers seldom are, after all. Key lessons that emerged from Dodge’s candid discussion of his own career—be persistent in finding a path that inspires passion and bring that same persistence to pursuing said path once found.

Though he had a solid major in accounting during his undergrad days, Dodge recalled that it hadn’t kindled a spark. It wasn't until he took a business law course taught

by Burlington attorney Chris Davis that he felt that fire.

“In business law, a light went off. I loved thinking that way about issues, problem solving, reading cases, and hearing Chris’s stories. I kind of had this epiphany: ‘What if I went to law school and actually studied something I liked?’”

Convinced he wanted to become a litigator, Dodge moved back to his home state of Massachusetts after a year in Colorado “as a ski bum doing tax returns on the side” and earned a degree from Suffolk Law School.

But post-law school, working as a law clerk for a judge on the Colorado Court of Appeals, Dodge again had that feeling this wasn’t it either. “There I was, no better off than I was four years earlier with no idea what I wanted to do.

I was adrift, but totally committed to finding something that I was passionate about.”

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reading of the Denver Post. “I noticed that I always read the business section first and loved reading about telecommunications, which was really happening in Denver in the mid-nineties. That’s when it hit me that I should be an inhouse lawyer for a telecommunications company.”

Part of that realization traced back to a piece of advice he recalled from one of his UVM professors, the late Peter Battelle. “One day, Professor Battelle says to the class, ‘Do you know how to get rich?’ My ears perked up. He says, ‘By having an idea, starting a company, and taking it public.’

I didn’t have a creative bone in my body; so, I decided to pursue being an in-house lawyer with a start-up where I could buy stock options.”

Dozens of rejection letters later, Dodge focused on a new satellite media company named DISH. Even though he’d already been turned down by DISH, he left a message with the person who had sent him the rejection letter. To Dodge’s surprise, he got a return call, albeit a not particularly friendly one. “He says, ‘I’ve got two questions for you: did you get my rejection letter and what the hell do you want?’” Dodge told the UVM students, drawing a good laugh. “I told him that I wanted to work badly enough for DISH that I’d do it for free until I proved myself.”

He got his opportunity—“once I saw the door crack open just a little bit, I jammed my foot in and never took it out.” Since joining DISH in 1996, Dodge has held positions of increasing importance in the legal department leading to his current responsibilities for all legal and government affairs for DISH and its subsidiaries and also overseeing corporate communications.

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If you are interested in planning your upcoming reunion, email alumni@uvm.edu.

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Joyce N. Daniels celebrated her 100th birthday on November 7, 2017. She held a festive party with family, friends, and neighbors in Essex Junction, Vermont to share stories, smiles, and, of course, a big cake. Her picture was on the UVM Alumni Association’s Facebook page and was a huge success!

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

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I was shocked and saddened today, November 6, to hear of the unexpected death of our classmate, Mary Beth Davis Bloomer. Mary Beth and I had renewed our acquaintance over the years because of the UVM connection, and instead of just classmates, we became friends. In fact, Mary Beth, Patty Pike Hallock and I had a fun lunch together at The Gables where Mary Beth lived as a pre-celebration for our 75th Reunion just last month. I captioned it ‘The Girls of ’43.’ Mary Beth married classmate Bob Bloomer, who predeceased her. Mary Beth was a strong, determined woman who told it the way it was. She and Bob raised a family of four boys whom she loved dearly, as she did her grandchildren. She had lived at the Gables after Bob's demise where she took an active part in encour-

aging activities, particularly the Memoirs Group that she urged me to join. I shall miss her greatly and send the sincere condolences of our class to her family. In happier news, among my Christmas cards, I was delighted to find one from Dorothy Franklin Cole who lives in Shelburne. She is expecting her first great grandchild, a big event in the life of a 95-year-old great grandmother. Dot sounded happy and content as she described the "menagerie" in her back yard consisting of wild turkeys, a deer now and then, lots of squirrels and assorted field mice, and one very fat skunk. The joys of living in Vermont!

Send your news to— June Hoffman Dorion 16 Elmwood Drive, Rutland, VT 05701 junedorion@gmail.com

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Chester McCabe says, “Four alumni, very few contacts but many memories. Class interrupted by WWII, educated and employed by DuPont R&D for 35 years then public service in Pennsylvania for 25, and now retired for seven in Jenner's Pond Retirement Community. Have neighbors from UVM, a little later than ’44. Still connected by McCabe Brook in Shelburne named after my grandfather. Love the Vermont Quarterly. Thanks for all.”

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

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Send your news to— Mrs. Harriet Bristol Saville 468 Church Road, #118 Colchester, VT 05446 hattiesaville@comcast.net

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Anita Ross Pinney writes, “A busy travel year for me: Lake Tahoe, Finland, and Estonia in the summer,

Vermont in the fall. Returned home to discover our city in flames but my home and those of all my family were spared.” Anita also submitted a photo for the Alumni Assocation Flickr photo gallery. It shows two of the three members of ’47 who attended the Alumni Luncheon, Anita Ross Pinney and Dorothy Frazer Carpenter.

Send your news to— Louise Jordan Harper 573 Northampton Street, Holyoke, MA 01040 louisejordanharper@gmail.com

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Marie Farrow Forehan says, “No class notes for 1945-1948 in the last Quarterly? Even if it has been 69 years? Shame on us! I will try to make amends and try to be brief. I taught home economics and science for 23 years, retiring from West Hempfield Junior High School near Greensburg, Pennsylvania. Clayton and I have travelled quite a bit within the United States and overseas. I loved it and he tolerated it. He likes our 30-or-so years of camping much better. Part of our U.S. travel was visiting our four boys and then their offspring. I spent 24 years as librarian and genealogist with Baltzer Meyer Historical Society. I am still working on extensive genealogical research for our own family, as well as compiling booklets for all of our children, grands and great-grands. I am confined to a walker and wheelchair, which cramps my style, but internet came along just in time to help me out. I am sure others of my vintage hear my limitations ‘because of your age.’ I am still striving for scholarship, leadership and service, as commissioned by Phi Beta Kappa Society on that day in June 1948 at UVM. Come on elders, we need to hear from you.”

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Send your news to— Gladys Clark Severance 2179 Roosevelt Highway Colchester, VT 05446 severance@bsad.uvm.edu

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Bob Dufresne writes, “My wife, Barbara Hayden Dufresne ’52, passed away on October 27, 2017 at the age of 87. We were married on Dec. 27, 1952 and had 65 years of wonderful married life together, leaving a living legacy of three sons, six grandchildren, and nine great grandchildren.” (Editor's Note: We're very sad to share that your classmate and dedicated class secretary Hedi Stoehr Ballantyne passed away in late January. With gratitude for her years of service as conduit for class notes, we'd like to share the following personal note Hedi sent in shortly before her death.) Some of my classmates may remember my composer father, Dr. Richard Stoehr, who was fortunate to be given a room with a piano at St. Michael's College and to do some teaching there. When we were students at my father loved having me invite some of you to his room at St. Michael's, where we all sat on the bed or folding chairs and listened to him play the piano and tell stories. Last December, I was very fortunate to be able to attend a wonderful concert and see a very well done exhibition about his life and his work at the University from which he was promptly dismissed as soon as Hitler took over Austria because he was a Jew. Hearing his music played beautifully in VIenna was such a joy! Please look up his website—richardstoehr.com—and hear some samples of his music, read about his works and his life.

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Katherine Jeanne Kay Smith died May 16, 2017. An avid alum, Kay proudly sported the green-and-gold gear she picked up at the reunions she so loved attending! Kay spent 30 years teaching art and a lifetime working on her own creative ventures.

Ever the outdoorswoman, she kept busy with a variety of activities but you could most often find her at the beach.

Send your news to— Valerie Meyer Chamberlain 52 Crabapple Drive, Shelburne, VT 05482 valchamber@aol.com

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Dane H. Shortsleeve passed away at Veterans' Victory House in Walterboro, South Carolina, on Veterans' Day, November 11, 2017. Dane graduated from UVM in 1952, after serving in the Army during WWII. He loved his home state of Vermont and was proud to be the first Vermont employee hired at IBM in Essex Junction. Survivors include his wife, Frances Kenrick '51, son Dane W. Shortsleeve ’75, daughters Deborah Tramontana '73, Bethany Cole (Trinity College), Susan Johnson (Florida

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Jules Siegel is living with wife Carol in Lexington, Massachusetts, and is about to mark 25 years of retirement from Textron. He is still engaged in woodworking and boating.

Send your news to— Nancy Hoyt Burnett 729 Stendhal Lane, Cupertino, CA 95014

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Richard Edward Dufour writes, “Good memories, good friends, good teachers on- and off-campus.” Chuck N. Perkins shares, “The big news for Jann Perkins and me is that we were recently inducted into the Vermont Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame. Jann and I opened the Alpine Shop in South Burlington in 1963, and we ran it for 30 years until our daughter and son-in-law took it over in 1993. When we started the Alpine Shop it was 1,200 square feet, and Jann and I, and our son lived upstairs over the store. We opened the Alpine Shop on November 4, 1963, and our son was born on November 25, 1963. We also had a daughter born on January 31, 1967. Today, the Alpine Shop is more than18,000 square feet. We worked with many high schools and ski clubs with their ski swaps. We also sponsored the Warren Miller movies for many years, as well as the Bogner Fire and Ice movie. I was invited to be on the Board of Directors for the Vermont Ski Museum when it was founded in 1988 by Roy Newton. I have also been on the Board of Directors for I.S.H.A. (International Skiing History Association). My wife and I brought the bronze sculpture of the 10th Mountain Ski Trooper to Stowe, Vermont in 2005. There are only two in the world with the other one being in Vail, Colorado. I have been made an Honorary member of the 10th Mountain Division. Skiing has been both Jann and my vocation and our avocation all of our lives, and to be inducted into the Vermont Skiing and Snowboarding Hall of Fame is a tremendous honor.”

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It’s snowing here in Pennsylvania as I write. Many of you ’55ers have left all that Vermont snow behind as you journey to Points South for the season. The Tri Delts enjoyed immensely their annual reunion since its inception back in the ’50s after graduation. This year, at summer’s end, the gathering was held at yours truly’s beach house in Connecticut—beautiful weather added to the fun and comraderie of the weekend. Present were Nancy McGoughran Blanchet ’56, Jane Carlough Clear ’56, Bob Willey ’54 and Sandy Willey ’56, Ann Harriman Hill ’56 and hubby Greg Hill, Carol Dan ’56 and Lew Dan, Lorrie Farwell ’56 and Bill

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Farwell ’57, and yours truly’s brother Bill Morrison ’61. Plan for 2018 is for Nashville, Tennessee, the Hill’s residence, and of course, the Grand Ole Opry! William (Bill) Battles says, “Hi Skiers! I started my 79th ski season @Killington on Thanksgiving morning before the World Cup races...fabulous! I'd like to connect with veteran skiers at the Beast or Pico when I am in Rutland. Contact me at billbattles32@gmail.com or 610-420-4970. I look forward to skiing with you.” Marilyn Rossier ’57 writes, “I am sad to report the death of my husband, Stanley Rossier, who died April 16, 2017.

Stan received his degree in civil engineering at UVM, went on to attain a master’s degree in civil engineering from Arizona State University, specialized in geotechnical engineering, and was responsible for many international engineering projects.” Paul G. Stevens writes, “After 60 years of practicing medicine in Hawaii, we finally decided to move back to the Mainland to Eastern Iowa, close to family members, one daughter and two grandchildren, who have promised to keep track of us and try to keep us out of trouble in our waning years. Marion and I are still mobile, but had to give up golf this year, and are not planning any ski trips in the near future. Our address is 135 Country Club Ct., Anamosa, Iowa, 52205. Rural country, not too different from Vermont except less mountainous.” Karel Brown Ryan writes, “Dr. Evan Sweetser is 87 now and still living at home, independently. After attaining a PhD in science education from Michigan, Dr. Sweetser taught at Virginia Tech during the 1970s, then answered a call to serve as assistant superintendent for instruction with our Tazewell County Public Schools. I am a Vermont Law School grad of 1990, but as often happens in life, we did not meet in Vermont, but in this tiny town in Virginia. Still strong in body and mind, Dr. Sweetser works out six days a week and reads voraciously. Finally retired from the art club, photography club, and several boards, Dr. Sweetser remains active in his church, Rotary, the library book club, and more. He is an inspiration to us all.”

Marilyn Stern Dukoff writes that she enjoyed a great summer treat when Helen Widder and Eleanor Rosenberg ’56 visited her at her home in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. Marilyn asks that should there be any other UVMers in that area, she

would love to welcome them. Shy on news this time round. Do write and be well, wherever you may be!

Send your news to— Jane Morrison Battles Apt. 125A, 500 East Lancaster Avenue Wayne, PA 19087 janebattles@yahoo.com Hal Lee Greenfader Apt. 1, 805 South Le Doux Road Los Angeles, CA 90035 halisco@att.net

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Dick Simpson who was elected Junior Class President and then left UVM for Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York for a graphic design degree reports that he is alive and well. Dick spends summers with his wife, Deborah, on Lake Willoughby in Vermont, and winters in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The Simpson family has lived in the Northeast Kingdom for six generations. Dick retired in 1991 as vice president of graphic design for Inter-Continental Hotels. Also credit to his design, Dick created the large silver mace—in honor of his parents’ UVM class of 1927—that UVM uses to lead the graduation procession. His twin sister, Dorothy, who also spent two years at UVM, is as active as ever living in Norwich, Vermont in the summer and Jacksonville, Florida in the winter. One more Catamount connection, fellow Sigma Phi brother Don Kidder lives near Dick in the summer on Seymour Lake.

Send your news to— Jane K. Stickney 32 Hickory Hill Road, Williston, VT 05495 stickneyjanek@gmail.com

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Andrew E. Skroback says, “I hope this reaches you in as good health as can be expected for 80-year-olds.

It's here...the Class of ’58...60th reunion. A committee is being formed and we are looking for volunteers. Please email me at skrobackjr@charter.net if you are interested in joining us. Our goal for the reunion is to get the largest participation rate of any 60th reunion class. Participation is our objective. Give according to your financial circumstances. Enjoy the blog of our 40th and 50th reunions at: uvmreunion.blogspot.com. Please be aware there will be wheelchairs available. It will be fun seeing old friends and reminisce about our UVM Days. Have a happy, healthy 2018.

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

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Priscilla R. Carpenter writes, “Sadly, my loving companion, Russ Walters, passed away in early August. Russ was an accomplished and well-educated gentleman.

Worked as a research forester for the U.S. Federal Government. Russ was long retired and we had ten wonderful years together.” Dick Rubin is currently instructing at UNH International Expansion.

Send your news to— Henry Shaw, Jr. 112 Pebble Creek Road, Columbia, SC 29223 hshaw@sc.rr.com

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Donald M. Wallace has retired after 55 years on the Norwich University faculty. The trustees of the university awarded him an Honorary Doctor of Engineering at Commencement last May. He would be happy to hear from former acquaintances, engineers and Outing Club members, in particular.

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Daniel Simpson passed away November 23, 2017. His wife, Lucille (Lucy) Varsho, survives him. Daniel’s long career as a scientist included work for the Atomic Energy Commission Laboratory and service with the Army National Guard. In addition to his UVM degree, he earned a doctorate in chemistry from Virginia Commonwealth University. Online condolences may be made at bennettbardenfh.com. Ruth Clifford Engs is working on another book. This one is a reference on the history of public health for a major publishing company. She and husband, Jeff Franz, spend most of the winter near Pensacola, Florida where she is a tour guide at the National Naval Aviation Museum and would be happy to give a private tour to any

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| CLASS NOTES UVM classmate. She and her husband also bring their Model A Ford with them and have fun traveling around in it. Lillia (Lynda Kittle) Davidson sent a coastal picture and wrote that she is still living on the incredible Northern California Coast, but misses the Vermont colors. Jim Rogers emailed: “Last spring I took a great Rick Steves trip to Spain with my wife Constance Anderson Rogers ’63 and our friends John F. Dick MD ’67 and his wife, Katherine Brush Dick, RN ’67.

We extended a few days to walk on the Camino de Santiago trail. What a great trip in all! Our son Andrew graduated from California State University at Monterey Bay in 2003. He is a middle school teacher at Stevenson private school in Carmel and lives in Pacific Grove with his wife and our two grandsons, Anderson James Rogers, 11, and Austen Rogers, 5. Life is good on the Left Coast, so far.

I hike and golf weekly and am a docent at Gilroy Gardens.” Fran Berlin Grossman is living on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, where she is on the board of her HOA and president of Friends of the Corolla Library. During 2018, she will teach a few classes at John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, North Carolina. Grant Corson reports: “I am working on two projects right now, building a new 22-foot boat and putting the finishing touches on my fourth book, a sequel to The World According to Nub. Julia Cass Kullberg writes: “My husband, Eric, and I celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary in June. We spent a week on Cape Cod with our sons, daughter-in-law, and grandchildren.

It was a wonderful time for all of us. We are still enjoying winters in Florida and summers on Irondequoit Bay in New York.” Paul Murphy writes: “I am happy to report that Pete Nelson and I were able to get together with our wives, as the Nelsons were passing through Lewiston, Maine. It was a great opportunity to get together to reminisce the events both past and present. Both Cynthia Nelson and Angie Murphy were most patient listening to events from the past, including trips to Montreal, social indiscretions, and meetings with Dean Clifford. Looking forward to the next reunion. Peter is retired. However, I continues to practice, practice, practice...” Louise Magram Weiner, our class president writes: “For a native Vermonter, Hurricane Irma was a very frightening experience. There is hardly a neighborhood here in Naples, Florida, that does not have damage. Therefore, we must count our blessings, as Mother Nature does not spare any part of the country. From California wildfires, to hurricanes Irma, Harvey, Maria, etc., we must be prepared for what might come our way. One positive note is how strangers were helping strangers... a truly heartwarming sight.” Carole Demas reports: “I’m still singing, and grateful to be doing it! Always something coming up. In addition to my own performances, “The Magic Garden” (“most successful regional TV show in children’s television history”) has not been broadcast for years, but fans still come to our Family Concerts, with their children and grandchildren. Upcoming and past performances are listed at www.caroledemas.com and www.caroleandpaula.com. You can also find

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info on my Facebook page, Carole and Paula/The Magic Garden, and WPIX-TV’s ARCHIVE Facebook page (not their News page). Hope my classmates are doing well.”

Send your news to— Steve Berry 8 Oakmount Circle, Lexington, MA 02420 steveberrydhs@gmail.com

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Jules Older has now published three e-books. First came Skiing the Edge. Then, Death by Tartar Sauce.

The newest is Take Me Home: How to Rent or Buy in a Hot Home Market. All are on Amazon and everywhere else. Marge Coleman Berg returned to UVM for our 55th reunion. She writes, “I enjoyed seeing the new Alumni House and the campus once more. However, I was so disappointed that there were only six of us from our class who returned to our reunion! While I enjoyed seeing them, I hope for more attendees for the next one!”

Michael Goldberg continues in the active practice of law. During his career, he has been an active duty Army Judge Advocate officer, an attorney in the general counsel's office of the National Labor Relations Board, Labor Counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources, and Chief Counsel to the House Subcommittee on Labor Standards. For the past 30-plus years, he has been engaged in a private litigation practice.

His wife of 47-plus years, the former Linda Zionts Goldberg of Hartford, has only recently retired after a 49-year career in public education, the last 28 years as an elementary school principal. They are both active in various community organizations in the Washington, D.C. area, Linda more so than Mike. Their son, Alex, and his wife, Catia Ojeda, and their son, Leo, live in Burbank, California. Their son, Samuel, lives in Santa Monica, California. Mike says, "They come east, we go west, so Linda and I get to see them often."

Send your news to— Patricia Hoskiewicz Allen 14 Stony Brook Drive, Rexford, NY 12148 traileka@aol.com

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Michael Alan Baker writes, “Living in Florida for the past 17 years, retired since 2012 and living the life I always dreamed about. Going to classes at FAU, playing lots of golf and reading in my spare time.

Married for 52 years, so what could be so bad?”

Marcia Coleman says, “We have recently moved into Quimper Village Co-Housing here in Port Townsend. It's a wonderful group of 44 folks dedicated to creating a community based on friendship and dynamic governance, where decisions are based on consent and what's best for the whole. We find it to be a very heart-warming concept!” Richard H. Gault is active as a volunteer with the Unitarian Universalist Church in Meriden, where he is part of the sanctuary team for an Indonesian immigrant who has been threatened with deportation. The Alumni Association Flickr page features photos from Richard’s trips to Spain, China, and Hawaii. Carole Nagelsmith Green-

berg and Lucy Blau Rosen recently made a twoweek trip with National Geographic to Japan. They have also travelled to Vietnam, Cambodia, Egypt, and Antartica. Lucy lives in New York City and Carole lives in Stamford, Connecticut.

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

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Following his 28-year career in the Army, O.H. Perry Cabot and his wife, Jan, have devoted 20-plus years working with multiple non-profits in their community. Building on definitive research of the Little Fork German Colony in Culpeper, Virginia, Perry is now writing a history of northern Culpeper County. “Life is sweet,” Perry writes. “I credit UVM’s far-sighted forbearance for guiding me to goals I could not even conceive.” Mark K. Goldstein’s first book, 30th Century: Escape was honored with the Book Publicists of Southern California’s award for the Best Science Fiction Book of 2017. Mark publishes under the pen name Mark Kingston Levin. Alan G. Mintz writes, “A mini-reunion took place in December 2017 in Atlanta at the Landmark Diner. There was a lot of laughter and catching up between Mitch Jablow, Howard Jacobson, and Alan Mintz. The wives enjoyed listening, especially Roni Mintz, who attended many UVM events and married Alan in 1965. We plan to continue meeting to enjoy our time together, reliving our UVM years.”

Send your news to— Susan Barber 1 Oak Hill Road, P.O. Box 63, Harvard, MA 01451 suebarbersue@gmail.com

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Mike Crane hosted this year’s Sigma Nu reunion at Three Trees, his family’s camp on the Upper Saranac Lake in the Adirondacks. Attendees included Mike and his wife, Mary, Scott Severance and his wife, Wendy, Richard Lawson and his wife, Judith, Paul Hurley and his wife, Mary, Jerry Smith and his wife, Gene Ellen, Bob Morse and his wife, Steffi, Bob Greco ’64 and his wife, Susie, Miles Heller ’63, and Norm Bohn ’64. The gathering included lots of activities, time on the lake, and fabulous food and drink. Memories of life at UVM, which sound better with each passing year, were retold repeatedly. Memories of those brothers and friends who have passed away were honored, and a pledge was made to continue the tradition by gathering again soon. John Godfrey Westcott of Catharpin, Virginia, passed away September 5 after a short illness. His wife, Pamela Andrews Westcott, children Wendy, Susan and Matthew, and six grandchildren, survive him. Mark Berson and his wife, Ellen, enjoy traveling to visit their children and grandchildren from California to Michigan and back home to Massachusetts. Next stop Georgia?

Send your news to— Colleen Denny Hertel 14 Graystone Circle, Winchester, MA 01890 colleenhertel@hotmail.com

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Karin Ringdahl Snyder shared a photo posted on the Alumni Association Flickr photo gallery. What is the likelihood that three UVM grads work at the same IVD (in vitro diagnostic device) company, Corgenix, in Broomfield, Colorado? Luc Lalire ’15, Karin Ringdahl Snyder, and Patty Andrews ’03 are pictured in front of a BioTek instrument in their laboratory. (BioTek is based in Winooski, Vermont, and the principals are UVM graduates.) William F. Butterfield shared a summary of his career. After graduating from UVM, he earned a master’s degree from Johns Hopkins in space science. He worked in a variety of positions, including the Civilian Agency and Zytel. Highlights included working solving new crypotologic processing challenges and development of multi-super computer processing centers, among many other projects.

Send your news to— Jane Kleinberg Carroll 44 Halsey Street, Apt. 3, Providence, RI 02906 jane.carroll@cox.net

If you are interested in planning your upcoming reunion, email alumni@uvm.edu. Alison Dayton shares that 18 Alpha Delta Pi sisters from the classes of 1966-1969 met for a two-day reunion in September at the Grand Isle Lake House. The beautiful Lake Champlain house became the 21st-century sorority house, a place to renew old friendships and sisterhood. A tour of UVM and lunch at the Alumni House (which many sisters remembered from parties at the old Delta Psi) was a highlight of the reunion. In attendance: Jean Hansen Joslin ’69, Diana Winn Levine ’67, Marty Huff Lazarus ’67, Sandy Snowling Wiggin ’67, Joan Cross Lamere, Dean Hubert Donnelly ’67, Diane Hoffman Koss ’67, Susan Gibbons ’67, Barbara Clark Kay ’67, Lynn Roberts Shepard ’68, Diane Birt Lis ’67, Marsha Hitchcock Nelson ’67, Marianne Vargas Dost ’68, Carole Munger Fortier ’67, Susan Norton Douglas ’69, Alison Menard Dayton ’68, Peggy Lombardo ’68, Kish Dalton Swift ’68.

Jeff Kuhman is very active in technology for processing recyclable and compostable plastics and has written an article that appears in the current issue of Bio Plastics magazine, a German publication that is distributed in 92 countries around the world. In his semi-retirement, Jeff heads up the environmental division of Glycon Corp., the company he founded 40 years ago. Ode below, cour-

tesy of your class secretary—Listen, alumni, and you shall hear Of the reunion of a class so dear.

Who remembers that special day and year?

May eighteenth, Sixty-Eight: Such an anniversary to celebrate.

October 5th is the day to reunite, 50 years passed at the speed of light.

By land or sea or air please come, You're needed there, every one.

From the belfry of Ira Allen To the halls of Waterman…

View the peaks of Mount Mansfield and the shores of Lake Champlain.

Join us, together, the Class of 68 again!

Come by land, by sea, by air; From here, from there, from anywhere.

Come sing and dance, my friends, Like those days would never end.

Send your news to— Diane Duley Glew 23 Franklin Street, 2 Wheeler Farm Westerly, RI 02891 ddglew@gmail.com

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Robert C. Moeller reports that he’s glad to be back in Vermont, 18 miles from his birthplace, after 48 years away. Sadly, Christopher Murray '70 informed us that Jane Ellen Bayer Murray passed away December 12, 2017. The couple met in the Catamount Den in January 1968 and, most recently,

VILLAGE LIFE® around the Italian Lakes Lake Como | Lake Maggiore | Lake Orta

UVM TOUR HOSTS: President Tom Sullivan and Leslie Black Sullivan ’77 For information on this trip or other destinations visit

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| CLASS NOTES made their home in Chandler, Arizona. John and Sarah Stewart Hynes have lived in Stowe for 35 years and still love it, especially now that their boys and their families are also there. During "stick season and mud season,” they are in Punta Gorda, Florida and welcome visits from friends. Jim Betts '69, MD ’73 says, “Although we are almost two years away from our 50th, I look forward to this celebration with great anticipation. For those who have not been back to campus in 'a while,' the physical appearance, as well as the development of programs, is extraordinary. I've had an opportunity to be on campus during many of these changes. UVM has undergone a transformation to an even greater seat of higher learning, one that has been recognized locally, regionally, nationally, and beyond, for its academics, and student life. Begin planning for our 50th reunion now. I'm sure you will be duly impressed, pleased, and proud of our university's seminal transformation." This has been the BIG 70 year for most of us. Pam Marvinney Banks celebrated 70 in California. Paul Woodard and wife, Pris, started the year with two months in Australia and New Zealand, then golfing in Arizona and Oregon, and in spring touring Elk Island, Jasper, Banff, and Kootney national parks with Gary and Valerie von Hacht Smith. In the fall, they toured and golfed the Canadian Maritime, where they ran into classmate Stephen Slayton, then two weeks in the Caribbean in November before visiting their son and his family in Charlotte, North Carolina. Joanne Vallee Seymour was also traveling in Europe, the Galapagos Islands, and then the Christmas holidays in Vietnam. Your class secretary celebrated 70 with high school friends in Bennington in August and then in Italy in the fall. Tell me how you celebrated turning 70 and what’s new in your life.

Send your news to— Mary Moninger-Elia 1 Templeton Street, West Haven, CT 06516 maryeliawh@gmail.com

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Send your news to— Sarah Wilbur Sprayregen 145 Cliff Street Burlington, VT 05401 sarah.sprayregen@uvm.edu

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Mary Louise Gomez is celebrating her 33rd year on the School of Education faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her daughter, Lily, is a dentist in Portland, Oregon.

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

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David M Benjamin ’70 PhD ‘73, a clinical pharmacologist and forensic toxicologist, received an honorary doctorate from the University of Science, Arts and Technology to honor him for his lifetime commitment to researching and teaching pharmacology. David gave that university’s commencement address on the dangers of drug abuse, and a second lecture on the toxic effects of synthetic cannabinoids. Douglas V. Mure and Nancy Rider Mure, Donna Saylor Pijanowski and Brian Pijanowski ’74, and Mary Hill Canavan and husband, Chris, enjoyed a two-week tour of Italy in June 2017.

Ellen Jane Sullivan changed her career path, graduating from law school May 2016 and being admitted to the Alabama bar in September. Her practice is primarily in the field of indigent defense.

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

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Paul Harig just completed a second retirement, as director of the PostTraumatic/Trauma Recovery Program at the Lebanon Veterans Affairs Medical Center.

The first retirement was 11 years ago as a military psychologist and Colonel in the U.S. Army Medical Service Corps. Steven Rice writes that he and his wife, Anna, have settled into their new home in Murrells Inlet, South Carolina. He has rediscovered his love for writing via freelance work for an awardwinning weekly newspaper, The Coastal Observer.

Steve also says he deeply misses his home state of Vermont, as well as UVM. He and his wife have two grown children and four grandchildren. Terrence Petty retired from 41 years in journalism, the last 35 with The Associated Press, and 10 of those years as an AP foreign correspondent. Terrence's bachelor’s in history from UVM provided a springboard for his career. Based in Bonn, Germany during his years as a foreign correspondent, Terrence covered revolutions that toppled communist dictators in East Germany and elsewhere in the Soviet Bloc, Germany’s reunification, East-West disarmament on the continent, and NATO's peace-enforcing mission in Bosnia. He was a news editor for the AP based in Portland, Oregon for the past 18 years. Terrence is currently writing a book about German journalism in the years leading up to Hitler's rise to power. He, his wife, and their son Tristan live in Portland. Eta Chapter of Delta Delta Sorority will commemorate 125 years on the UVM campus in 2018. The Alumni House has been reserved for a banquet on Saturday, October 20, 2018. Other activities are being planned for the same day.

Please save the date and join your sisters for this remarkable event!

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

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Susan Frazier Blum shares that Total Motion Release (TMR) Tots and Teens, a physical therapy program that she developed, is now worldwide. Since her husband, Jeff, retired they are RVing while she teaches her program to PTs and OTs around the country. They have two daughters. Sharyn is an artist in Baltimore; Beth is completing her residency in neuromusculoskeletal medicine at St. Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx, following in mom’s footsteps and collaborating on case studies with her. Paula Oppenheim Cope writes, “I am now teaching full-time at the Grossman School of Business at UVM! My consulting firm continues to flourish under the leadership of my extraordinary staff. On October 7, I joined Linda Krueger and Themis Tsoumas, Jim Laning, and Jack Schmidt and Joanne Schmidt ’76 to cut the ribbon on the new UVM Rescue facility. Heather Logan has moved to Escalante, Utah, where she is in her second year as the Garfield County School District’s speech-language pathologist. She lives within the Grand Staircase Monument and adjacent to Bryce Canyon and Capital Reef National Parks. “Support the National Monument and come visit!” Heather writes. “Hiking, fishing, backcountry exploration, rock climbing, mountain biking, and dinosaur fossils to discover.”

Heather notes that a fellow alumna, Elizabeth Rosen Julian, serves one of her schools. “Together we are following Charlie Rathbone’s preschool and multiage learning environment approaches for seven preschoolers and nine students K-6.” Heather returns home to visit friends in Vermont every summer with her mother, Margaret Miller Logan ’46.

Send your news to— Dina Dwyer Child 102 North Jefferson Rd. South Burlington, VT 05403 dinachild@aol.com

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Michael Diederich, Jr.’s daughter, Victoria Diederich ’17, graduated from UVM in May. She loved UVM and excelled, majoring in neuroscience. She is now in AmeriCorps. Michael still practices employment law, representing employees, and “have started writing a book about how the federal courts (mis-) treat plaintiffs in such cases.” He also notes that his father—who paid for his UVM education—turned 100 last years and continues to be an inspiration.

Frederick Ray Royce works at Ingles Markets in Flat Rock, North Carolina, and enjoys hiking in Pisgah National Forest and Dupont State Forest. Lynn Vera calls herself happily “redirected” after 30 years in public school education. She lives with her partner and dog in South Burlington. Lynn laments UVM’s sale of land along the corner of Swift and Spear streets for development.

Send your news to— Pete Beekman 2 Elm Street, Canton, NY 13617 pbeekman19@gmail.com

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Polly Whitmore enjoys gardening, badminton, reading, and the chance she had to meet up with engineer-

C ATAMOUNT NATION ing and natural resource friends, Redstone campus mates, and others during the October 2017 Reunion. Doug Shealy and Diane Shealy bought an old (1839) house in Wells River Village, Vermont, and have been fixing it up. Doug and former UVM roommates Kevin Martin and Bruce Usher got together last October to visit UVM after many years. Doug's son, Andy Shealy ’07 and his wife, Lisa Herzl ’06, are also alumni. Warren Prehmus, married to Pam Bryant Prehmus, and his “Georgia Boys” 3-on-3 Men's (60+) basketball team won the Senior Olympic National Championship in Birmingham, Alabama, last June. Warren scored 47 points in the championship game. It is his team’s fourth Senior Olympic National Championship.

Bill Kurtz has retired to St. Augustine, Florida, but still works as an aerospace consultant. He excels in skeet shooting, winning age-group titles at state and regional competitions. Bill has two grown children who are also UVM alumni, William Kurtz ’87 and Joanna Kurtz ’90. Last August, Betsy Branon Depman re-opened a new, larger version of her coffee shop, Coffee Coffee, which she runs with her daughter Hillary Depman Tayson '07. Their shop is located in Bel Air, Maryland, just north of Baltimore (and convenient to travelers on I95!). “Stop by if you are in the area and say, hi!” she writes. Robert Hillier retired from the Hawaii Department of Education after 49 years as a teacher and administrator. David Katz is in the midst of a busy year, becoming Worthy Grand Patron of the Eastern Star last June and looking forward to his daughter’s marriage next summer.

Wendy Pearce Nelson counts October’s 40-year UVM Reunion as a highlight of the past year. She is happy and busy with photography, work in advertising sales for CS Living Well Magazine, and two young grandchildren. Mark Perry has entered into a retirement transition plan over the next four years after 22 years of service with Edward Jones Investments. Mark plans to remain in Vermont for the next few years while enjoying downhill skiing, snowshoeing, and long-distance motorcycle touring. His latest trip on the bike was to Alaska and back with friends last summer—11,300 miles over 33 days. Kathleen Phillips retired five years ago from more than 25 years with the American Red Cross, most of which was as executive director of the Berkshire County Chapter in Massachusetts.

She continues her community service on boards of directors and as a resource development consultant. Kathy Brown Sorkin writes, “2017 was a banner year for my family. Two of my three daughters were married. My other daughter got engaged and will be married next summer! How blessed we are to have three sons-in-law who are so terrific. On another note, I was awarded top RE/ MAX agent in my office for the year. It has been a busy but wonderful year.” Francine Lynch sent a photo with Gail Coolidge and Ken Rothwell that is shared in the Alumni Association Flickr gallery.

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

Jack Schmidt ’75 NOW: Retired from a thirty-eight-year military career, primarily as a medivac

helicopter pilot in the U.S. Army. Schmidt completed two tours in Iraq and one each in Bosnia and Afghanistan that involved flying high-ranking officials around the Middle East, including Gen. David Petraeus while commander of the U.S.-led forces in Iraq.

UVM DAYS: As one of the founding members of UVM Rescue, Schmidt returned to campus last fall and spoke at the dedication of the new headquarters for the studentrun squad. He credits joining UVM ROTC with helping him find academic focus as a student, teaching him life and professional skills that were essential to leading UVM Rescue’s start-up, and, of course, launching his long career in the military.

IN HIS WORDS: “There was a lot of overlap between my experience with ROTC

and UVM Rescue in terms of how they were doing training at the time. ROTC had a task-based standard, so I applied it to UVM Rescue by breaking down every job into tasks leading to successful completion.”

Read more: go.uvm.edu/schmidt

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40th Reunion October 5–7, 2018

If you are interested in planning your upcoming reunion, email alumni@uvm.edu. Wallace R.G. McGrew retired from his gastroenterology practice in January. He looks forward to hearing from any classmates coming through Nashville. Stan Przybylinski writes, “It’s our 40th reunion next year (damn we are old), and while I know some did not get out in 1978, the rest of us want to see you. Message me at smprezbo on Twitter or Skype.” After 40 years in higher education administration, Alan Sickbert retired in July, having served as dean of students for the last 13 years at Hamline University. He and his wife, Jan, continue to reside in Woodbury, Minnesota.

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

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Eileen Sheehan McCann passed away on November 26th in Trumbull, Connecticut. Several Pi Phi sis-

ters attended the service and celebrated her special life with husband Peter McCann ’78, three children, and five grandchildren. After a successful and exciting career as a costume designer in multiple segments of the entertainment industry, Muriel Stockdale has shifted her focus to writing and art. As a costume designer, she worked with some of the greatest, Richard Adler, Edward Albee, Coleen Dewhurst, Miss Piggy, Lonette McKee, and many more. She also taught graduate students for 14 years at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, and many of her students are now designers on Broadway. Muriel’s current art project, “E Pluribus,” celebrates the diverse cultures of our country. The project is a series of art flags made from cultural artifacts with the intent to explore the meaning of E Pluribus Unum today. The work has been and will be on display in multiple venues. View it at: http://murielstockdale.com/fine-art/e-pluribus/. On another front, Muriel also recently published her first novel, Gabriel Born, a work of science fiction. She writes, “Thank you to UVM for a degree in science and for creating a fertile field of knowledge to pursue this idea. Even back in my SPRING 2018 |

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Janice Countaway, Sue Dana, Betsy Day, and Marylynn Gentry recently spent a week together in Sedona, Arizona. “Time was well spent catching up, hiking, and, of course, undergoing the necessary pampering at a wellness retreat in the desert,” Marylynn reports. Arni Swanson and Margaret Swanson moved back to Vermont (Windsor) after 38 years living out of state. Lesley Wassmuth visited Molly McRoberts ’80 over Thanksgiving in Portland, Oregon! Lesley just reached her 25th year at Newton-Wellesley Hospital in Massachusetts.

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

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With a master’s in mechanical engineering, George Brooks’ career took him to General Electric and Lockheed Martin. Now retired, he has a family of five with nine grandchildren. This past November, for the second year, Pete Miller Davis served as parade marshal for the FIS Killington World Cup opening ceremony parades. Pete worked closely with fellow UVM alumni Julie Woodworth ’87 (executive director of Vermont Alpine Race Association) and Tao Smith ’95 (head of school at Killington Mountain School) to organize and present this year's parades. Daniel Francis retired in July after 37 years as a high school history teacher at Cumberland Regional High School in Seabrook, New Jersey. Mary C. Hasson Cain shares, “I recently became one of Vermont's leading Information Ambassadors, welcoming up to 3,000 guests a day to our incredible state!

Looking forward to promoting the best of our attributes to more travelers and UVMers!”

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

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Laura Markwick was recently inducted as a Fellow of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners.

She also was elected as the NY North State Representative for the AANP. Laura has been busy working in her private family practice, which is one of the first independent nurse practitioner primary care practices in the Rochester, New York area.

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

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Michael Robert Saxe is now semiretired, working part-time in the ED, and doing a bit of urgent care.

Michael and his wife are also traveling and he’s speaking to medical groups and laypeople on the opioid epidemic. “So far, semi-retirement is great!”

Michael writes.

Send your news to— John Peter Scambos pteron@verizon.net

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Kirsten Farrell G’98 NOW: Health science and medical technology teacher at Venice High School in

California. Farrell’s innovation in founding the L.A. Unified Sports Team, a program that provides hands-on experience for students in sports-medicine, earned her recognition as a 2018 California Teacher of the Year.

UVM DAYS: Seeking a graduate program that would allow her to study school counseling while also deepening her skills as an athletic trainer, Farrell found her opportunity at UVM. She credits “face-to-face” time during her counseling internship combined with direct clinical experience in athletic training for shaping her as a professional and providing a model for the program she has created for high school students.

IN HER WORDS: “I think the award has a lot to do with the fact that students can

take what they learn in my classroom and turn it into an on-campus internship as members of the sports medicine team. We strive to make sure that all kids have the opportunity to attend college after graduation or have the skills to go directly into the workforce.”

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Robin Edelstein writes, “Halfway through my 35th year of teaching math to high school students and still love the kids and the mathematics. Wanting to wish my UVM classmates Janice Duncan Hale, David Fletcher Oakes, and Marc DeNuccio a happy and healthy 2018. Miss you all!” Tom Gennett, Ph.D. is head of the Chemistry Department at the Colorado School of Mines. Composer and songwriter Dave Hall, who already has several CDs to his credit, released a new recording in January. Love & Trouble, a song cycle composed with and for the soprano Adrienne Danrich is on Roven Records and iTunes. As for me, your class secretary, I am happy to say I can now call myself a Polestar Pilates Studio Practitioner. I spent two days testing out in Miami to become a Polestar graduate and am now prepping for my PMA exam! My test was multiple-choice questions on Polestar Principles, exercises and practices, Pilates history and anatomy. Jim is getting ready to retire-YES! I continue to teach knitting as well. My two passions—knit-

ting and Pilates!

Send your news to— Lisa Greenwood Crozier lcrozier@triad.rr.com

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Jaime Fewer celebrates 25 years in 2018 as principal agent and president of Jaimes L. Fewer Agency, Inc., (feweragency.com) an insurance agency specializing in affordable property and casualty coverage and retirement planning for Vermont families, businesses, and farmers.

Send your news to— Abby Goldberg Kelley kelleyabbyvt@gmail.com Kelly McDonald jasna-vt@hotmail.com Shelley Carpenter Spillane scspillane@aol.com

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Patricia A Faass is starting a medical marijuana business in Massachusetts. She has two licenses in the state, for dispensaries in Sturbridge and Provincetown and a cultivation facility in Warren. Jamie Wechsler Fenster enjoys being involved as an alumnus representing UVM, along with Laurie Colon ’84, at local college fairs around South Florida. Mary Jo Gourd is “proud mama” of Nate Gourd ’20, in his sophomore year at UVM double majoring in finance and Chinese. Mary Jo continues to run her interior design business (MJG Interiors) in Manchester, Vermont—“It's a far cry from my BS in medical technology, but it’s incredible the tools you obtain as life takes you on your journey.” Susan Marchand Higgins notes that Tri Delta will celebrate 125 years at UVM in October 2018 and encourages the sisters to sign up for information at etaddd125@gmail.com. Dan J. Lawler is looking forward to having daughter Aspen attend UVM. Susann Thoens shared “this season of my life is dedicated to paying it forward in business. I have taken on a project identifying key young people. In partnership with a collaborative group of top entrepreneurs, we are teaching the secrets of building a business on a smartphone.” Toby Malbec says, “GO CATS GO!” Send your news to— Barbara Roth roth_barb@yahoo.com

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Sue MacFarlane Hanisch says it has been quite a year with daughter Katie Hanisch ’21 starting college at UVM. “So proud of her and it has been great to visit the campus numerous times, see all the improvements, and visit Church Street. Wow!” A recent knee replacement hasn’t slowed Sue too much from motocross, skiing, snowmobiling, and a busy family life.

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Erica Antonelli is enjoying her job in music licensing for SiriusXM Radio, and looking forward to a mother/son college tour in Colorado with Dot Colagiovanni ’87. Hoping for an acceptance to UVM! Jackie Aldinger and Kari Latvalla Miller note that Tri Delta will celebrate 125 years at UVM in October 2018 and encourages the sisters to sign up for information at etaddd125@gmail.com and visit the event's Facebook page: DDD Eta Chapter 125th. Delta sisters from all decades are involved in the planning and many more have indicated they will be attending. Amy Fishbein Koslow, Ellen Singer Shell, Kari Latvalla Miller, Jackie Domingue Estes, Julie Greene Haskell, and Jackie Aldinger will be there. And they’re hoping Caryn Bradley, Marlene Brown Balerno, Cathy Colton Dunlap, Lori Zarkower Seuch, Melanie Masters Steier, Kathie Grant, Donna Bakalor, Sheryl Churchill and others from UVM ’87 will be there, too.

Send your news to—

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Sonna Sween Allen still teaches high school chemistry and has taken on the additional challenge of teaching at the collegiate level. She is an adjunct professor teaching general, organic and biochemistry to nursing students at Adelphi University. Michael R. Deweese shares the sad news that Mary Elizabeth Deweese passed away on February 1, 2017.

Patrick Standen lives in Burlington and teaches medical ethics at UVM and philosophy at Saint Michael's College. Patrick is also writing a book exploring the history of the concept of disability and runs a non-profit sports organization for athletes with disabilities, the Northeast Disabled Athletic Association. Wesley Wright is retired after 31 years at UVM—“plans to spend free time watching Netflix.”

Send your news t— Cathy Selinka Levison crlevison@comcast.net

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Margaret Brophy Kowal is delighted to share that her daughter, Cate Kowal ’21 , is loving her first year at UVM. “My husband, Dan, and I were on campus for Parents’ Weekend with Cate, and we were thoroughly impressed with GroovyUV!!

It was great to see old friends, including Lewis Parker and Kim Parker, who also have a freshman at UVM.” John Spierling appreciated catching up with Walter Van der Schaff ’86 and Bill Penrose ’86 last summer in Denver at the Masters Ultimate tourney. He also reconnected with Mike Rheam in Breckenridge.

Send your news to— Maureen Kelly Gonsalves moe.dave@verizon.net

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Send your news to— Tessa Donohoe Fontaine tfontaine@brandywine.org Send news to— Karen Heller Lightman khlightman@gmail.com

Mark Delip Bokil moved to New Hampshire and was recently promoted to principal UX developer for a medical company. Annette Hines writes, “This has been a great year for our practice at Special Needs Law Group! In addition, Mark and I became foster parents and have been enjoying the new additions to our family.” Stacey Keefer started a new job as executive director of the Maine Marine Trades Association. John-O Niles continues to run The Carbon Institute, which works with developing countries to boost their ability to measure and reduce greenhouse gases, a key part of the Paris Agreement on climate change. John-O lives in San Diego and welcomes all UVMers to visit.

Anne Phyfe Palmer has written a legacy workbook (“like a baby book for adults”) with Sas-

quatch Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House. It will be published in March 2019. Anne’s Seattle business, 8 Limbs Yoga Centers, celebrated 21 years in October and has deepened its commitment to social change through anti-oppression trainings, revisions in business practices, and a social justice mission.

Send your news to— Lisa Kanter jslbk@mac.com

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If you are interested in planning your upcoming reunion, email alumni@uvm.edu. Victoria (Tori) Polonski Torres served as a director for the National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC) since 2014 and serves the board this year as vice chair. Rosemarie Mulroy Simeone and family were contestants on “Family Feud” in November. Manchester, Vermont is homebase for the Mulroy family, and their appearance on the popular game show led to a feature in the local Bennington Banner. (Google and give it a read.) Jeff McNulty reports that Newport, Rhode Island, served as the host city for an impressive gathering of UVM Alumni for Saint Patrick’s Day weekend. Seventeen members of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity joined together in support of brother, Mike Pizzo ’93, who recently lost his wife, Erin, to a brain tumor. The lively crew spent the weekend with Mike enjoying the sites of Newport, attending the annual St. Patrick’s Day parade and cheering on the UVM men’s basketball team as they clinched the America East Championship. The tribute weekend was attended by Bill Kimes ’94, Todd Jenkins ’94, Scott Halsey ’94, Tim West ’94, Jeff McNulty ’94, Gary Tennenbaum, Doug Tesler, Jim Gallagher ’92, Andrew Gerardi ’92, John Maloney, ’92, and Mark Heyman ’92. There is already talk of a follow-up event next year in Vermont. Ron Hirschberg co-founded a new business with fellow friend and musician Chuck Clough last year. Their music podcast, “Above the Basement,” focuses on Boston and New England artists and others that connect in some way to New England. One episode from the Thoreau Library at Walden Woods featured Don Henley of The Eagles discussing the impact of Thoreau on environment, art, science, and social justice. Check it out: abovethebasement.com.

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

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Reginald (Reg) Wilcox III was promoted to executive director of rehabilitation services at Brigham and Women's Hospital in September 2017. Reg and his wife, Kristin Aloi Wilcox, reside in the suburbs of Boston with their two teenage children.

Lisa Troost Sottrel lives in Elmhurst, Illinois and has returned to Burlington a couple of times over the past two years. On a visit last October, she was joined by her mother and three children. “My kids had always wondered about my fascination with Vermont, and this was my chance to show them SPRING 2018 |

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Send your news to— Cynthia Bohlin Abbott cyndiabbott@hotmail.com

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Mitchell Ian Wolfe is working for HHS in Washington, DC, and would love to see any former classmates visiting the area.

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Lauren Chambers Fredette became director of development at King School in Stamford, Connecticut in July 2016. She, her husband, John, and their two teenagers live in Stamford. Grey Lee shared that he and fellow former SGA president Kesha Ram ’08 are both pursuing mid-career MPA degrees at the Harvard Kennedy School. Grey reports they are studying very hard, “but also enjoying bringing their new classmates to Vermont to do some skiing and other activities and bringing the Vermont vibe to their Kennedy School colleagues from around the world!” Kurt Scanio and Julie Coffin Scanio were enjoying prepping for the holidays with their two-year-old, Emily. They continue to stay in touch with fellow UVMers Tracy Spigelman ’77, Heather Wechsler Luxenberg, Amy Carroccio McNeil, and Fraser Walsh, as well as many UVMers they have connected with through social media. At home in Arizona, they encourage friends passing through to get in touch.

Send your news to— Jill Cohen Gent jcgent@roadrunner.com Michelle Richards Peters mpeters@eagleeyes.biz

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Leandra E. Manos recently joined the St. John's Preparatory School Wellness Team as aquatics director in Danvers, Massachusetts. She still has a permanent home in Connecticut, but commutes back and forth by the week. She would love to reconnect with classmates who may be on the North Shore Lee Genung reported on a group of classmates who returned to Burlington in the fall to celebrate the 20th reunion with hopes for even more at the 25th. Rachel Lupert Starkey wrote, “We hit all the old bars, restaurants, late night food, walked around campus (saw our bricks) and checked out all our old houses and Shelburne Farms. So fun!!” A partial list of those in attendance includes: Caroline Walsh Ross, Leslie Boyd and Jabez Boyd ’96, Rob and Hollie Foley, Tre and Mike McCarney, Tobey Dorscel Stultz, Suzanne Roy Granger, Deb Adler, Megan Eagle Kingdon ’98, Joanna Cossman, Alicia Williams Mindel, Kate Baron Kirmse, Erin Wehner Levinthal ’02, Carey Bosch ’98, Max Everett, Jake Goldberg, Eben Thurston, Jesse Raker, Dave Elin, Jay Schoenholtz, Andy Rosenzweig, Freddy Losen, Eric Guthrie ’03, and Claire

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Dr. Michael John Chamberland and partner, Erin Lawrence, welcomed their second child, a son, Nash Anthony, on Nov 28, 2017. Their daughter, Hatteras Elizabeth, was born March 24, 2015. Michael lives with his family in Vermont and is a staff physician for Gifford Medical Center and has worked since 2014 as a sports medicine chiropractic physician at the Sharon Health Center in Sharon, Vermont. Aimee Young Tucker writes, “It's always so refreshing spending a weekend with my college roomies—Heather Crowe Ranney, Trista Mann Hutchins and Alison Schwartz! This year Ali Schwartz hosted our gathering in her new home in Williston. It's always fun coming back to Burlington!” Boston law firm Rackemann, Sawyer & Brewster announced that Stacie Kosinski is included in the 2017 edition of Massachusetts Super Lawyers magazine. She is also listed as a Rising Star for Business Litigation.

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Sara Greenwood writes, “Groovy UV I miss you!” Betty Hibler shared that her first grandchild, Noelle Francine Hibler, arrived November 26, 2017. R.J. Bottaro ’00 worked for the Vermont Department of Fish & Wildlife, focused on Atlantic salmon, for six years following graudation. For the past 11 years, R.J. has been working for the US Fish & Wildlife Service in Northern California with Chinook Salmon and Steelhead. His work was featured in a service publication under the headline “A Dream Job That Will Kick Your Butt.” (Google that headline if you’d like to know more about R.J.’s work.)

Send news to— Sarah Pitlak Tiber spitlak@hotmail.com

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Three former 295 Maple Street roommates reunited for a road trip through the south. Bahair Ghazi hosted the reunion, joined by Brad Gemelli and Steve O’Brien. Described by Erika O’Brien ’01 as a “bachelor party for a car,” the three went on a sports car road trip through the mountains of Georgia and Tennessee, spending a night in Nashville listening to country music and acting like they were back at Rasputin’s. Bahair Ghazi is a plastic surgeon and lives in Atlanta with his wife, Erin, and two girls, Sofi and Nori. Brad Gemelli works in bond sales & trading and lives with his wife,

Elisa, in Manhattan. Steve O’Brien is the general counsel of a software company in San Francisco where he lives with his wife, Erika O’Brien ’01, and two boys, Dylan and Justin. They are already planning a West Coast road trip for 2018.

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In summer 2017, Megan Chilcutt ’01 studied coral reefs, manatees, howler monkeys, jaguars and other wildlife while learning the methods communities are using to sustain them in Belize. Megan, a marketing and PR director at Sea Turtle, Inc. in South Padre Island, Texas, took the graduate course in pursuit of her master's degree from Miami University's Global Field Program.

Send your news to— Erin Wilson ewilson41@gmail.com

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On December 2, 2017, Samantha Chipetz co-chaired the Second Annual Live Life Full Gala in Philadelphia in support of her son, Brandon (5) who was a born with a rare disorder called Prader Willi Syndrome. The event raised more than $172,000 to support the Foundation for Prader Willi Research (FPWR), which funds critical work to find treatments for this complicated disorder. Samantha's husband, Daniel Chorney has been the board president of FPWR for the past two years and they have both been involved with the foundation since Brandon's birth. Planning Committee members for the Live Life Full gala included Morgan Fusetti ’04, Meredith Matson, Kathleen Doherty, and Alana Baum. Also in attendance were Carey Duques and Chad Duques. Supporters of the event included David Santiago, Eve Prensky ’03, Kate Josef, Victoria Ashcraft, Jay Scott, Jill Fitzgerald, Phil Scavone and Kristin Scavone, Neil Williams, Doug Miller, Scott McShane, Patrick Hess, Anne Moonses, Jessica Langer and Justin Morgan-Parmett '99.

Send your news to— Jennifer Khouri Godin jenniferkhouri@yahoo.com

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Liz Moran Hamel let us know that she and her husband, Shane, welcomed their third child, Emerson Jane, on April 19, 2017. “She is adored by big brothers Cooper and Holden, and it’s been fun to have some pink around here!”

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

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Adam Hergenrother writes, “I couldn't be more excited about the progress we made this past year at Adam Hergenrother Companies, which was named one of the best companies to work for in Vermont. BlackRock Construction was recognized on the Inc. 5000 at #42 of the fastest grow-

ing companies in America, along with the #1 in Vermont and #1 in the Construction category. We also moved into a state-of-the-art office building in South Burlington, which was ranked as one of the 7 Coolest Office Buildings from the Inc. 5000 as well.” Keller Williams Vermont continues to dominate locally as the leading brokerage in the state.”

And that’s just a sample of Adam’s ventures. “We are in the business of transforming lives through business success and couldn't be more excited for the future!” he says. Learn more at adamhergenrother.com. Kerry O’Connor was married on November 5, 2017 in Montverde Florida to P.J. Scriffignano. Ryan Garso and Cara Hoffmann Garso ’03 welcomed their daughter, Eva Chambers Garso, to the world on August 29, 2017.

Ebony Meyers-White and her husband, Trevor, have three children. Ebony received a 2017-2018 Fulbright Distinguished Teacher's Award. She will study the educational system in Jyvaskyla, Finland for six months with her family.

Send your news to— Kelly Kisiday kellykisiday@hotmail.com

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Sean A. Hagan and his wife, Katelyn, welcomed their first child in November. Sean continues to practice law in Boston. His firm, Long, Huff-Harris & Hagan, P.C specializes in drafting wills and trusts, handling divorce and family law matters, and serving as outside counsel for small and mediumsized businesses. Jessica Ridgeway shares, “The nonprofit I founded after graduating has now been empowering youth and families through farm-based nutrition and environmental education for 10 years!” Alaina Dickason Roberts, Jonathan Roberts ’08, and big brother Jonas welcomed baby Harriet (Hattie) Mae (Class of 2039) on June 16, 2017. Dr. James M. Willette ’07 was appointed dean of students at Seattle University.

Send your news to— Elizabeth Bitterman ekolodner@gmail.com

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If you are interested in planning your upcoming reunion, email alumni@uvm.edu. Nick Carter reports that after a rewarding experience as political outreach director for Sen. Bernie Sanders historic campaign for president, a stint in D.C. for Congressman Keith Ellison, and a few years with Planned Parenthood of Northern New England, he has moved to NYC to head up the advocacy arm of global youth media company VICE. He runs the website VICE Impact and social impact campaigns of the global youth media company. Though he

currently lives in Brooklyn, he visits Vermont as often as possible. Shannon Dufour-Martinez and Casey Kiernan ’06 survived their first year of parenthood. “Hazel was born November 2016, and our family is busy putting down roots in Vermont.” Gerard Ganey received his master’s degree in Environmental Science from Alaska Pacific University. Amy Keiser ’09 writes that she and Jackson (John) Wright ’08 MS ’10 met through the CREAM (Cooperative for Real Education in Agricultural Management) herd in 2007. Since then, they have lived in Vermont, New York, Illinois and Massachusetts together as well as the island of St. Kitts while they earned their DVM’s through Ross University. They are excited to announce their engagement and plans to be married in, of course, Vermont in April 2018.

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

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On September 30, 2017, Katie Krawitz married Justin Buettner with all their friends and family present. Justin served in the U.S. Air Force in the security forces. Alan Raff passed the Massachusetts and New Hampshire bar exams and has opened his own law firm, Primary Legal Solutions. Primary Legal Solutions represents the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, and its thousands of members, in matters that go before the New Hampshire Site Evaluation Committee (SEC). Alan also serves as a political consultant to a number of labor unions throughout New England. Jamel M. Torres and Avery Dandreta, were married on Aug. 2, 2017.

The couple met at UVM in December 2008. Their wedding photos included a shot of the newlyweds holding a UVM banner together with the fellow Catamounts who celebated the big day with them.

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

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Gerrit Merrem ’11 proposed to Tonya Loveday ’10 G’12 in Burlington over the summer. The couple met through Greek life back in 2008 and have been together ever since. They are beyond excited to tie the knot in September 2018 at a museum outside of Boston. In the seven years since graduating with a bachelor’s in English and honors in her field, Emma Sklar has figured out how to properly sculpt her eyebrows in proportion to her face.

As you can imagine, her quality of life has skyrocketed. Wesley Spence writes, “Congratulations to Samuel Levine on his engagement to Jennifer Citera!”

Send your news to— Daron Raleigh raleighdaron@gmail.com

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John Michael (Jay) Bargayo would like to announce and congratulate Timothy P. Kelley ’08 and Susan-

nah Gruner ’13 on their engagement this past summer. Meaghan Montgomery Etherington is now a sixth grade Spanish teacher at The Episcopal Academy in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania. She married Reade Etherington on October 1, 2016 in East Berkshire, Vermont. In attendance were fellow UVM graduates, Jessica Fefer, Danielle Smith, Devin Sullivan ’17, Claire Packet, Diane Hannigan, Allison Paradee ’06 and Sara Jacobs ’14. Katie Lane graduated from the Gabelli School of Business at Fordham University with a Master of Science in Marketing Intelligence in June 2017. She is the assistant coach for women’s rowing at the University of Pennsylvania. John Curtin ’10 and Andrea Underhill are engaged to be married in October 2018.

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

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Bijoux Elizabeth Bahati writes, “Working with CGI Federal while raising a toddler boy and baby girl on the way for January 2018! My growing little family is making the Granite State our home at the moment.”

Emily Schwartz recently landed her dream position as a veterinarian technician at a zoo. Elizabeth D. Warburton G’12 of Warwick, Rhode Island, is engaged to Denis A. Rochefort, Jr. They are planning a spring 2019 wedding in Rhode Island. Elizabeth is the senior architectural historian at the RI Historical Preservation & Heritage Commission, and Denis is the sales manager at Porsche of Warwick.

Allie Fitzgerald worked as an RN at Mass General for three years before becoming a travel nurse and working and living in Portland, Oregon; San Francisco; and San Diego. Her education and time at UVM helped to prepare her for constant change in different hospitals, often with limited resources beyond her own education and abilities. While living on the West Coast, Allie worked for four different hospitals and was able to go on a number of surf trips and other adventures. Following her two years of travel nursing, she’s now back at Mass General. Pete Weafer did a 10-month AmeriCorps program a year after graduation and lived in various places through the Southwest. Following this, he became the corporate program manager for Boston Cares (New England’s largest volunteer mobilization agency). After two years of working for Boston Cares, he decided to travel with his girlfriend Allie (see above). Now back on the East Coast, Pete just finished a master's in sustainability science through Unity College, and he’s working at a brewery in Scituate, Massachusetts. Allie and Pete are engaged with plans for a September 15, 2018 wedding.

Send your news to— Patrick Dowd patrickdowd2012@gmail.com

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If you are interested in planning your upcoming reunion, email alumni@uvm.edu. Emily Pijanowski joined the Chittenden County State's SPRING 2018 |

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Torres del Paine National Park in Chile, photographed around 6:30 a.m. on the way into the park on Jan. 31. "Very rough roads, windy, and slow going, but the views kept us happy and moving forward."

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Cameron Russell ’07 NOW: Beginning in January 2017, Russell joined with friends Eli Bennett and Noah

McCarter on an epic, 12,000-plus-mile bicycle journey from Ushuaia, Argentina, up the west coast of South America, through Central America, and back home through the United States to Vermont. Dubbed “Mundo Pequeño,” the trio’s ride was dedicated to strengthening a sense of global social connection with their travels. On Nov. 19, they rolled through northern Vermont to trip’s end at the Canadian border.

UVM: Major in sociology/minor in community and international development.

Russell was very active in the Outing Club and other student leadership roles. He credits a strong “theory/practice” balance during his undergrad years for preparing him for his current work as outreach director with Rights and Democracy and a previous role, in 2016, as coordinated campaign director for the Vermont Democratic Party.

IN HIS WORDS: Describing a night’s stay in Chile, when an innkeeper drastically discounted her rates to give them shelter, Russell says, “When we asked her about why she had been so generous, she replied that she thought we would do the same and that she was always happy to help young people follow their dreams. It’s that type of openness and hospitality that we’ve been met with most of the way. We shared meals with gauchos and fellow travelers, took rides with truckers, twice, and pleaded with ferry captains to take our bikes. Nearly everywhere, we have been greeted with kindness.”

Photos of the Mundo Pequeño journey: go.uvm.edu/mundo

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Simeon Marsalis ’13

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NOW: Marsalis published his first novel, As Lie Is To Grin, last

year with Catapult Books. The book draws on the author’s own experience at UVM and the university’s history around issues of race. Now enrolled in an MFA program in writing at Rutgers University-Newark, Marsalis says the experience of witnessing the work ethic of his father, famed trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, and other relatives in his celebrated musical family influenced the mindset he brings to the creative process.

UVM: Marsalis earned his bachelor’s in religion and played

varsity basketball for the Catamounts his first two years at the university. The rigor of writing assignments in his religion classes helped him develop as a writer, he says. Influential faculty in his life included the Religion Department’s Kevin Trainor and Vicki Brennan, as well as Major Jackson and Sean Witters in English.

IN HIS WORDS: “Watching my father and grandfather and

uncles all those years allowed me to see the amount of work it takes to make it as an artist. It helped me see art not as an abstract pursuit, but as an approachable entity. I had a very real connection to the amount of time it takes to hone an art.”

Read more: go.uvm.edu/marsalis

Attorney’s Office as a Deputy State's Attorney in October of 2017. Under a grant provided by the federal Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), Emily manages a caseload comprised of crimes related to stalking, dating and domestic violence, and violations of abuse prevention orders.

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Sarah Burgess Marsh finished her residency and is now employed at SUNY Upstate in two capacities— doing pediatric urgent care in a community hospital in Syracuse and doing primary care at the Onondaga Nation Health Center. She lives near Syracuse, New York, with her husband and, soon-to-be, three daughters.

Send your news to— Grace Buckles Eaton glbuckles@gmail.com

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Benjamin Medor will be moving from Burlington to Tysons Corner, Virginia, as part of a transfer within his employer KPMG. He will be transferring from an audit associate role to an advisory associate role in the securitization tax group. Erik Jacobson proposed to his girlfriend in Paris and happened to be wearing his UVM engineering pullover. He designed and machined the ring box himself. You can view the photo on the Alumni Association Flickr photo gallery.

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Thomas Graham Bryce has been busy since earning his master’s at UVM in civil and environmental engineering. He has worked for Friends of Northern Lake Champlain, a non-profit organization dedicated to finding solutions to improve water quality. His role included working collaboratively with local communities, farmers, government, lake associations, regional planning, and policy developers to reduce polluted land use runoff into Lake Champlain. More recently, Thomas joined the Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food & Markets as a GIS and Field Technician. He writes, “Agriculture is a major passion of mine, and I plan to continue to use my background in environmental engineering to improve the health of our natural and water resources and the viability of our farms/farmers that comprise of so much that Vermont has to offer.” Tristan Comb founded Sabcomeed in 2016, a specialty coffee trading company based in Dubai, UAE currently partnering with farmers in Yemen, to sell the prestigious Yemeni Mocha across the globe. Nate DeFlavio was living in Puerto Rico, but post-Hurrican Maria he evacuated back to his family’s home in Vermont. Nate has initiated a project to help the island recover by stabilizing supplies of drinking water via solar-powered SOURCE panels. Nate writes, “For each panel purchased, Zero Mass has agreed to match our efforts with a second Source panel. These are a small step in helping the people of Puerto Rico begin their recovery and look to new solutions for the future. There are two ways you can help: You can register a team and adopt a source panel at www.cleanwaterpr.com

or you can simply donate by going to www.youcaring.com/cleanwater.”

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Dr. Spencer L. Fenn was appointed to a postdoctoral fellowship in the Training in Education and Critical Research Skills Program at Tufts University in September 2017. Madison Haas is living in San Francisco and working as a management consultant at Accenture. Duyen T. Vo was just accepted to medical school. Jack Ward recently took on a marketing research position at a B2B publishing company that grows and connects businesses around New Jersey to promote economic growth for the state.

David Harper completed the Continental Divide Trail (CDT-2,900 miles/June 15 to November 16, 2017). Following his graduation in May, he decided to take on this amazing goal. David would like to be a resource to others who may consider taking on this challenge in the future and also thanks those who supported him on his own journey. Please feel free to contact David at 443-604-5327 for any questions. Two photos from David’s epic hike are posted on the Alumni Association Flickr page.

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| UVM COMMUNITY BERTIE BOYCE, professor emeritus of plant and soil science, passed away on January 23. An alumnus from ’56, G’58, Dr. Boyce returned to UVM in 1964 and for thirty-four years devoted his professional career to educating hundreds of students in all aspects of horticulture and conducting basic and

applied research on small fruit crops and tree fruits important to Vermont, notably studies on strawberries in cold climates. He received the Joseph E. Carrigan Undergraduate Teaching Award in 1991 and twice held the position of department chair in Plant and Soil Science, retiring in 1998.

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Decades before food trucks were cool—1982 to be precise—Pam and George Bissonnette started serving hamburgers, Philly cheesesteaks, strollers, and “eggs all day” from their yellow truck parked along University Row. An era in campus food came to a close with the Bissonnettes' retirement at the close of fall semester. "We're getting old. It's time, it's time," Pam said in October. "We'll miss the kids, they're great.”

And they will be missed in return. You feed a lot of people, you make a lot of friends.

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FIND YOUR WAY HOME. Campus, downtown, the lake.

They’re all right where you left them. Come home to Burlington with your fellow alumni this fall and make new memories.

Special celebrations planned for the classes of 1968, 1978, 1993, 2008, 2013 and 2018. alumni.uvm.edu/alumniweekend

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WINTER IN VERMONT (INSTAGRAM.COM/UNIVERSITYOFVERMONT). LEFT TO RIGHT, TOP TO BOTTOM: @FRAZHUR ‘18, @BRYCEOLSON ‘19, @TOMMYDELITTO, SALLY MCCAY, @BRIANJENKINSPHOTO, ERICA HOUSKEEPER/HAPPYVERMONT.COM, MARGOT SMITHSON, @DHARR124 ’21, @EDCOLEMAN ’91, CENTER PHOTO: UVM WELCOMED PUERTO RICAN COLLEGE STUDENTS JONATHAN LOPEZ AND LEISHLA PEREZ AS THEY CONTINUE THEIR STUDIES AT NO COST WHILE THEIR HOME COLLEGES REBUILD POST-HURRICANE MARIA.