Vermont Quarterly Summer 2017 by University of Vermont

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SUMMER 2017: ZACK SCOTT ’99, SOX STAT MAN

BROOKE GLADSTONE ’78 ON THE MEDIA ENGINEERING MEETS MEDICINE

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2 President’s Perspective 4 The Green 18 Catamount Sports 20 Alumni Voice 22 New Knowledge 47 Class Notes 64 Extra Credit FEATURES

Numbers Game

The Craft of Brewing

Engineering Meets Medicine

UVM PEOPLE: Brooke Gladstone ’78

Of Cheese & Rocks & Time

Boston Red Sox VP Zack Scott ’99 leads the “Moneyball” side of operations for New England’s team. | BY THOMAS WEAVER

While Vermont’s mystique as “Craft Beer Mecca” grows and the industry becomes a key player in the state’s economy, multiple UVM alumni lead the way. | BY ANDREA ESTEY

Facilities, faculty, and a promising field of study combine to make it the right place and time for building biomedical engineering at UVM. | BY JEFFREY WAKEFIELD

You know that voice from On the Media. Alumna Brooke Gladstone fosters discussion on pressing issues of our times. | BY JEFFREY WAKEFIELD

When food scientists enlisted the help of a geologist, their research into the composition and origin of cheese crystals would lead in unlikely directions. | BY JOSHUA BROWN

COVER: Jen Kimmich ’94 at The Alchemist Brewery, famed for Heady Topper, in Stowe. Jen runs the Alchemist’s business operations; her husband, John, is head brewer. PHOTO BY ANDY DUBACK

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Soon-to-be grads Sean Davis, Katie Babione, Laura Felone, Effie Mbrow, and Danielle Dousa line up with fellow members of the Class of 2017 on May 21. UVM’s 216th commencement ceremony welcomed 3,228 graduates— hailing from forty states and twenty-one countries—to the ranks of UVM alumni. James Fallows, national correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly and one of the country’s leading journalists across more than three decades, delivered the address. | PHOTOGRAPH BY SALLY MCCAY

| PRESIDENT’S PERSPECTIVE

A Campus in Bloom

The familiar rhythm of the

academic year with the graduation of our Class of 2017 now past provides us with a natural time to reflect on what has been a truly auspicious year for the University of Vermont. In multiple dimensions, our Public Ivy is on the rise. A quick walk around campus will offer a glimpse of our future with the opening of the Discovery Hall in May, phase one of our STEM Complex; the stately new residence halls on central campus, which will welcome the Class of 2021 when they arrive in August; and early work on the Ifshin Hall addition to the Grossman School of Business, to name a few. In addition, this summer our iconic Billings Library will be closed for major interior redesign and refurbishing to better support important intellectual centers grounded in the humanities on campus, including the Humanities Center, Library Special Collections, the Miller Holocaust Center, and the Center for Research on Vermont. You also will note some more subtle changes to the look of our campus. Together with Fleming Museum Director Janie Cohen, I’m leading an initiative to feature public art across UVM’s landscape. Intriguing, diverse works by alumni sculptors Christopher Curtis ’74 , Kat Clear ’01, Lars Fisk ’93, and UVM parent Gordon Gund have been installed in several locations across central campus. We anticipate a fabulous piece, “Blue Arete” by Richard Erdman ’75, gracing the west entrance of

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the Davis Center soon. You’ll read more about this effort to enhance the aesthetics of our campus with important public art in an upcoming issue of Vermont Quarterly. It has been a landmark year for philanthropy at the University of Vermont. Last fall, of course, we celebrated the $100 million historic, cumulative gift from Dr. Robert Larner, an alumnus, a transformative gift that puts our renamed Larner College of Medicine at the forefront of experiential-based medical education. In this issue of Vermont Quarterly, we share the news of generous support from the Gund family to create the Gund Institute for Environment, facilitating innovative, multi-disciplinary research across the campus on critical issues faced by humankind. Michele Resnick Cohen ’72, and her husband, Martin Cohen, recently donated $5 million to renovate and transform the Taft School, located at the corner of South Williams and Pearl streets, to become UVM’s first integrated center for the creative arts. With more than two years remaining in our Move Mountains Campaign, we already have received commitments of more than $418 million toward the goal of $500 million. Our thanks to all of the alumni, parents, and friends of the University behind this great success! You also will read in this issue of one of the many ways our academic programs and curriculum continue to evolve to better serve our students, our state, and our nation. Biomedical engineering undergrad-

uate and graduate degrees are among our newest fields of study, providing education in a STEM field that is ripe with promise. And it’s particularly well-suited to the talents of our faculty and the interdisciplinary opportunities facilitated by having academic units in engineering and medicine and an outstanding medical center on campus in close proximity. Our curriculum and student learning will be enhanced further by the recent adoption of quantitative reasoning and analysis as a new addition to our General Education requirement. Our Class of 2021 that will arrive this fall is joining us at a wonderful time in UVM’s history. We are proud to have them! Our incoming students are the most academically talented and diverse class in the history of the University. Many of them join us with support from our new Catamount Commitment program, that guarantees that all limited-income Vermonters receiving federal Pell grants will pay no tuition and no comprehensive fee to attend the University. Financial access and affordability are bedrock principles of our mission as a land grant university; Catamount Commitment is another measure of living up to that ideal. I hope you will have the opportunity to revisit Burlington this summer or for the Alumni and Parent’s Weekend, October 6-8. Leslie and I wish you all the best for a restful and fun summer. —Tom Sullivan SALLY MCCAY

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I’m waiting for someone to wake me up.The last loop felt like it was forty kilometers long and not four.To shoot clean at world championships and to have unbelievable material, every single part of my race came together today. I will remember this for the rest of my life.” —Lowell Bailey ’05 made history this winter when he became the first American skier to win a biathlon world championship. See page58

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What is the University of Vermont? School with two alumni on the May 8 Teacher’s Tournament episode of “Jeopardy.” Gail Ansheles ’78, a kindergarten teacher in New Mexico, squared off against George Deane ’01 G’03 of Colchester High School and another contestant. Gail prevailed to move on to the semi-final round, where the Catamount run ended.

SETH ROGEN GRAND SLAM Score another for Pike. The brothers of Pi Kappa Alpha took the national fundraising competition for actor Seth Rogen’s Hilarity for Charity Alzheimer’s foundation for a fourth-straight year. Hence, Rogen made his fourth-straight annual trip to Burlington, earning induction as an honorary UVM Pike on this visit.

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2017 HUMAN RIGHTS AWARD An initiative launched at UVM is among a consortium of programs treating torture survivors honored by the American Psychiatric Association. The program, called Connecting Cultures, was developed and led by Karen Fondacaro, director of UVM’s Vermont Psychological Services Clinic. Read more: go.uvm.edu/apa

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THE GREEN News & Views

Lineage of Science Professor Chris Landry, chair of the Chemistry Department, works with doctoral student Jenna Taft in his lab in Discovery Hall. The first phase of the university's state-of-the-art upgrades to facilities for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics opened in May. Out the window: Williams Hall, UVM's then-state-of-the-art science building, erected in 1896.

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Gund Gift Elevates Interdisciplinary Research PHILANTHROPY | A $6 million gift from the Gund family—with a challenge to raise even more from other donors—will create the University of Vermont’s first university-wide environmental institute. Designed to catalyze interdisciplinary research at UVM, the new initiative also will connect scholars with government, business, and societal leaders to address urgent sustainability issues around the globe. The Gund Institute for Environment at UVM will be headquartered in Johnson House on Main Street, replacing—and greatly enlarging the scope of—the internationally-renowned Gund Institute for Ecological Economics, which the Gund family established in 2002.

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“The University of Vermont is recognized worldwide as a true leader in environmental scholarship, from the nation’s first environmental studies program to our pioneering research on acid rain, lake health, and nature’s true economic value,” said UVM President Tom Sullivan in announcing the gift. “The Gund Institute for Environment brings the entire campus together to leverage these core strengths to accelerate research and solve the urgent environmental challenges facing Vermont, our nation, and our world," Sullivan added. "I am delighted that after five years of careful and fruitful discussions and planning by a large number of people the Gund Institute soon will be a shining reality and model for other institutions."

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The Gund Family: Zachary Gund ’93 and his wife, Lindsey; Gordon Gund (UVM honorary degree ‘95) and his wife, Llura (Lulie, UVM honorary degree ‘95); Grant Gund ’91 and his wife, Lara.

This extraordinary gift to UVM comes from Gordon Gund (UVM honorary degree ’95) and his wife, Llura (Lulie, UVM honorary degree ’95) of Princeton, New Jersey; Grant Gund ’91 and his wife, Lara, of Weston, Massachusetts; and Zachary Gund ’93 and his wife, Lindsey, of Concord, Massachusetts. Grant Gund serves on the UVM Foundation Leadership Council, and his brother Zack Gund is a member of the UVM Foundation Board of Directors. To inspire further philanthropic support from other donors who also are passionate about building a sustainable future for the planet, the Gunds have committed to providing an additional gift of $4 million when UVM raises $8 million for the Gund Institute for Environment. The total goal for philanthropic support is $20 million. Philanthropy is a fundamental principle for the Gund family. Including this latest $6 million gift, the Gund family has supported priorities at UVM including environmental economics and sustainability, liberal arts and teaching, the Fleming Museum of Art, scholarship and athletics. Despite losing his eyesight at an early age, Gordon Gund—the CEO of Gund Investment Corporation and a former owner of the San Jose Sharks and the Cleve-

land Cavaliers—loved to head outside with his sons, Grant and Zack, and his wife, Lulie, to lead family hikes in the woods near their home and take the boys fishing in rivers and oceans around the world. Time spent together in nature instilled in the brothers a strong interest in preserving a sustainable future for the planet. Founders and managing partners of Coppermine Capital, a private investment firm outside Boston, Grant and Zack’s shared passion for the environment was enhanced during their undergraduate days at UVM. “The physical beauty not only of the campus but also the mountains, streams and lakes of Vermont make UVM the perfect setting for an environmentally-focused center of excellence,” said Grant Gund. “Conservation of the environment is closely intertwined with economic viability, and our greatest chance for a sustainable future is to gather a diverse group of incredibly smart people to find lasting solutions. That’s the new Gund Institute for Environment at the University of Vermont.” Designed to address an evolving set of global environmental challenges, the Gund Institute for Environment will harness UVM’s strategic strengths and priorities to help address urgent issues high-

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lighted in the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals. The UN’s goals range from climate change and renewable energy to world hunger and water security. As a land-grant university, protecting the environment is at UVM’s core, with students and faculty benefiting from and contributing to the significant breadth in environmental research, teaching, and outreach. “The new institute, drawing on interdisciplinary expertise from every corner of the campus, will propel UVM into one of the most exciting, rewarding, and productive places to research and promote environmental action and sustainability,” said UVM Provost David Rosowsky, who for years gave leadership support and keen advice to the faculty-led effort to envision the new institute. “Satisfying human needs without destroying nature is our generation’s defining challenge,” said Taylor Ricketts, the founding director of the Gund Institute for Environment at UVM and the Gund Professor at UVM’s Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources. “These issues are complex and span traditional disciplines. To solve them, we need solutions that are as cross-cutting as the issues themselves. That needs collaboration; it needs all of us.” SUMMER 2017 |

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The Why of Where

“He is and always will be the kind of doctor I want to be.” Jessica Chao, COM '12 “Dr. First embodies the ultimate available mentor. He is committed to making sure UVM COM graduates succeed long after their graduation date. Students and alumni alike feel they are his number one priority.” Rebecca Purtell COM'12, Pediatric hospitalist, University of Utah Medical students on Dr. Lewis First, recipient of the 2017 George V. Kidder Outstanding Faculty Award from the UVM Alumni Association. Larner College of Medicine grads: look for more on the distinguished professor of pediatrics in Vermont Medicine magazine.

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GEOGRAPHY | Maps and globes, likely the first images that pop in your head when you think of “geography.” Walk in the offices of UVM’s Geography Department, first floor Old Mill, and reality meets expectation. A stately globe tilting on its axis, colorful wall maps of the world, frayed around the edges. In this context, though, these old standards aren’t really teaching tools, but heirlooms of a UVM academic department that celebrates its 50th birthday this year. Today’s geography students and faculty are more likely to be out in the world rather than poring over a scale model. Case in point, this semester’s GEOG 196 travelstudy course focused on the grass paramo, a high-elevation Andean savanna. The semester-long class, led by instructor Stuart White, included a spring break trip for an immersive week in the dramatic landscape in southern Ecuador. Like the experiential component of that class, internships are another key element in UVM geography majors’ education. Conversations with several current students finds them doing internships with National Geographic, Vermont’s Department of Environmental Conservation, the Association of Africans Living in Vermont, and Burlington’s Peace and Justice Center, among others.

Professor Lesley-Ann Dupigny-Giroux, department chair who has been on hand for nearly twenty of UVM Geography’s fifty years, notes that while her fellow faculty have global research interests, there’s also a strong local component to their research, teaching and service. Dupigny-Giroux, for one, adds Vermont State Climatologist to her professor title. Dupigny-Giroux led the charge as the Geography Department marked its fiftieth year with events in September and April. She had critical help in the process from UVM geography alumnus Matt Glass ’90, partner and chief creative officer of Eventage, a NYC-based events planning agency. Long an advocate for his alma mater, Glass funds an internship for geography undergrads. Glass’s path is one example of the many places a geography degree can go. Alumni have built careers at Google Earth, in state government, on Wall Street, in academia, among many other paths. The fascination and strength of geography as an academic discipline with multiple applications is in its diversity of perspectives, Dupigny-Giroux says, drawing from political science, environmental science, history, sociology, and other fields. “It’s integrative,” she says. “We take all of these aspects and bring them together.” ASHLEY WELTZ '18

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Kaelyn Burbey’s four years as a UVM undergraduate did not lack for rigor. Honors College, ROTC, environmental engineering major/mathematics minor, and, yes, some trips to the mountains for snowboarding or hiking when she could find the time. The Class of 2017 cadet received the ROTC Legion of Valor Bronze Cross Award, given annually for achievement of scholastic excellence in military and academic subjects. Nationally, just thirteen cadets receive the award. Spring semester of her senior year, Burbey reflects on lessons learned and skills honed via ROTC. Discipline, public speaking, teamwork, and working under pressure rise to the top. Many of them also come to bear, clearly, in her engineering education. “A lot of our ROTC training induces stress, so that it pushes you to be adaptive and think on the fly. That is, obviously, applicable almost anywhere in life—whether it is a test or you’re being pushed to complete a project on a tight deadline, being able to keep a level head and keep working at it.” Burbey didn’t apply to UVM with any thought she would graduate as a U.S. Army officer. A native Californian, who attended prep school in Connecticut, she applied to Vermont with the encouragement of two advisors at her high school, one a UVM grad, the other a parent of a UVM student. The opportunities and scale of a small research university sold her that UVM was the place. Burbey browsed the ROTC table at a summer orientation event and was intrigued. She joined with no initial commitment, found she loved it, and was recruited to sign on formally with a fouryear scholarship. Professors Donna Rizzo and Arne Bomblies have been among influential faculty. In Bomblies’s class spring semester, she is working with the same software used by the Army Corps of Engineers, likely helpful for her future. After graduation, she begins four years of active duty in the Army with five-months of training at Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri.

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Waterfront Upgrade Rolls North Older alumni remember Burlington’s waterfront as weeds, train tracks, oil tanks, maybe a trace of menace. Mayor Bernie Sanders administration began to change all that in the 1980s with public reclamation of land, creation of the Community Boathouse and Waterfront Park, visionary initiatives that have matured into the city’s collective front yard. But just to the north sat the still-ragged “Urban Reserve” or “North 40.” Aside from the bike path built atop the old railbed, for years improvements to this acreage were minor. That recently changed dramatically. From the Andy A_Dog Williams Skatepark to North Beach, things are looking up along Burlington’s beloved strip of blacktop. Jesse Bridges ’02, director of Burlington

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Parks, Recreation and Waterfront for the past five years, has helped lead and oversee the work. About to embark on a new career challenge, CEO of United Way of Northwest Vermont, Bridges counts the project among his proudest accomplishments. Walking the bike path on a spring morning, he points out details large and small—the under-construction Community Sailing Center, a grove of aspens preserved, lakeside Barre granite steps ideal for dog diving or sunset watching. Workers installing exercise equipment donated by the UVM Medical Center offer Bridges the chance to try it out. He laughs and declines. Too hot today. Moving the path close to the lakeshore was fundamental to the project. Bridges ges-

tures at the view and talks about the beauty it will add to the last mile of the Vermont City Marathon in a couple of weeks. Also key, finding the aesthetic sweet spot between urban park and natural landscape, while recognizing the history and beauty in, say, a rusted steel wall at water’s edge, some BTV industrial soul. So revisit the bikepath your next time in Burlington. But it’s not the bikepath now; it’s the Burlington Greenway, a linear park with multiple uses. You might bump into Jesse Bridges there. “I come out here and run or bike with my kids all the time,” he says. “It’s been incredibly rewarding to be part of creating something that you can interact with and experience.” IAN THOMAS JANSEN-LONNQUIST '09

A Life of Leahy ENGLISH | Writing commentaries for Vermont Public Radio, Philip Baruth lived by three words posted above his desk: “Don’t be boring.” The mantra has served the professor of English well through those commentaries and a diverse writing career that includes fiction, literary criticism, and now, with the publication of Senator Leahy: A Life in Scenes, political biography. Baruth, who combines his work on the UVM faculty with service as a three-term Vermont state senator, found the creative spark to tackle the biography of Vermont’s senior senator while watching the second film in The Dark Knight Trilogy. Oddly enough, Leahy, a Batman fanatic, makes a cameo appearance in the movie. Curious about Leahy’s personal story, Baruth searched for a biography and came up empty-handed. “I thought certainly someone had written one because he’s been such a target for the right and an icon for the left, but there was nothing out there, so I started right then doodling around with the idea,” Baruth says. That doodling soon turned into six years of extensive interviews and research that informed this spring’s publication of the Leahy book with University Press of New England. Baruth links Leahy’s long, successful legislative career to the cultivation of a “top cop” image as chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, echoed by his fictional role as the toughtalking “distinguished gentleman” in The Dark Knight Trilogy. Baruth explores Leahy’s “Norman Rockwell Vermont childhood,” growing up across from the Vermont Statehouse in his parent’s home that doubled as a printing business. It charts his quick rise, state’s attorney for Chittenden TOMOKI NOMURA '20

County at the age of twenty-six, and upset victory to earn election to the U.S. Senate in 1974. The author also delves into trying times in Leahy’s career, such as the Iran-Contra affair that contributed to Leahy’s resignation as vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence; and a Leahy-sponsored bill known as PIPA designed to crack down on the online piracy of intellectual property. “I would say that those are two moments in Leahy’s life where he ran afoul of the media that he so flawlessly handled over his career,” says Baruth. “Iran Contra was the moment where he stepped in it as badly as one might. Samuel Johnson’s biographer Boswell said that you have to include the warts as well as everything else in order to create a classic and enduring portrait, so that’s what I tried to do. No one wants to read hagiography.” Baruth’s story of Leahy’s life is also a window on contemporary American history. A two-year span from 2001 to 2003 shows the senator and his colleagues in Washington grappling with tumultuous times: Sen. Jim Jeffords' switch of political parties, which elevated Leahy to Chair of Judiciary; the 9-11 attacks; the writing of the Patriot Act; anthrax attacks on Leahy and other members of Congress; and the Senate changing hands yet again. “I wanted people to take away the sheer enormity of what Leahy has been through and how he’s handled it with such dignity and capability,” says Baruth. “If you can overcome as much as he has and still come out swinging and legislating and protecting your constituents back home as well as the rest of the country, that’s pretty amazing.”

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It takes no small amount of courage to live in a college dorm nearly sixty years after you’ve graduated. But acclaimed author and journalist Gail Sheehy ’58 did just that this spring, when she returned to campus for a two-week residency to work with faculty and students, and yes, live alongside them in GreenHouse, a residential learning community in University Heights South. Thirteen lucky students were selected for a five-workshop series with Sheehy on long-form literary and investigative journalism. “They have been thrilling,” says Sheehy. The students ranged from first-years to seniors and have all previously published work (about half write for campus publications like The Vermont Cynic or The Water Tower). In the first session, students broke into small groups to talk through their story ideas. “You could hear these hoots and hollers and laughter and it was so exciting, the explosion of creativity going on,” says the alumna. "They had just been given the freedom to think about something outside their normal schoolwork that is a passion or question that they’ve had.” These self-selected topics included Vermont’s opioid crisis and the experiences of AmeriCorps volunteers. Luis Vivanco, anthropology professor and co-director of UVM’s Humanities Center, collaborated with Sheehy to design the residency, which also included workshops with faculty. “We want to change the discourse around humanities, from ‘why would you major in that’ to ‘you should major in that,’” says Vivanco, “and Gail is Exhibit A of the success you can have as a humanities major.”

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Silver Science ENGINEERING | Try bending your iPhone in half. Or roll up your tablet like a scroll. Or wrap a touchscreen TV around a pole. Didn’t work out so well, did it? That’s because the ceramic material used to make many of today’s touchscreens has only two of three needed qualities: it’s conductive, it’s transparent—but it’s not flexible. But Frederic Sansoz, professor of mechanical engineering, and a team of other scientists have made a discovery that may change that. Working with silver at a vanishingly small scale—nanowires just a few hundred atoms thick—they discovered that they could make wires that were both super strong “and stretchy like gum,” he says. UVM’s Sansoz, his collaborator Scott Mao at the University of Pittsburgh, and their colleagues have led pioneering research on how to transform soft metals, including gold, into super-strong wires at the nanoscale. It’s part of a growing area of research that shows that as materials are engineered to be smaller and smaller it’s possible to eliminate many defects at the atomic scale. “And this makes them much stronger,” he says, “generally, smaller is stronger.”

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But there’s a problem. “As you make them stronger, they become brittle. It’s chewing gum versus window glass,” Sansoz says. Which is why he was very surprised by what the team discovered about silver. As wires of silver are made smaller and smaller, down to about forty nanometers, they follow the expected trend: they get relatively stronger and more brittle. But earlier research by other scientists had shown that at even-more-extreme smallness—below ten nanometers—silver does something weird. “It behaves like a Jell-O gelatin dessert,” Sansoz say. “It becomes very soft when compressed, has very little strength, and slowly returns to its original shape.” Materials scientists hypothesize this happens because the crystals of silver are so small that most of their atoms are at the surface, with very few interior atoms. This allows diffusion of individual atoms from the surface to dominate the behavior of the metal instead of the cracking and slipping of organized lattices of atoms within. This causes these tiniest, but solid, silver crystals to have liquid-like behavior even at room temperature.

So Sansoz and friends explored what happens in the gap between ten and forty nanometers, the first study of this range. What the team of scientists found in the gap is that “the two mechanisms coexist at the same time,” Sansoz says. This gives silver wires in that little-explored zone both the strength of the “smaller-is-stronger” principle with the liquid-like weirdness of their smaller cousins. At this Goldilockslike size, when defects form at the surface of the wire as it’s pulled apart, “then diffusion comes in and heals the defect,” Sansoz says. “So it just stretches and stretches and stretches—elongating up to two hundred percent.” There has been remarkable progress since 2010 in applying silver nanowires in electronics, Sansoz says, including conductive electrodes for touchscreen displays. And some companies are working hard to apply these wires to creating cost-effective flexible screens. “But, right now, they’re manufacturing totally in the dark,” Sansoz says. “They don’t know what size wire is best.” His new discovery should give chemists and industrial engineers a target size for creating silver wires that could lead to the first foldable phones. JOSHUA BROWN

Portraits of Resilience SOCIOLOGY

Not long after a 7.6 magnitude earthquake devastated Nepal in April of 2015, Emma Squier ’17 sat in a classroom seven thousand miles away studying the effects of the natural disaster on the Nepali people. A year later, she was living among them in the hardest-hit villages learning first-hand how they were surviving. Squier spent two weeks in the remote villages of Paragang, Ghangyul and Sathil, interviewing and photographing fortyeight women for a research project about their experiences in the aftermath of the earthquake that killed nine thousand people. Many of the women from the Helambu region were left homeless, without running water or food, and little else to keep themselves and their children alive. “The stories of the women hit me hard,” says Squier. “One woman was a year younger than me and three months pregnant when the earthquake struck her house and crushed her and her unborn child. She was helicoptered out, but tragically, her baby didn’t make it. Somehow, she and the EMMA SQUIER '17

other women in the village still seemed grateful for the little that they still had.” Squier turned the interviews with the women into a research paper that will become part of a chapter, "The Vulnerability of Children and Women in the 2015 Earthquake in Nepal," in a forthcoming book, published by Springer, titled, Living Under Threat of Earthquake: Short- and LongTerm Management of Earthquake Risk and Damage Prevention in Nepal. Her co-author is sociology professor Alice Fothergill, an international expert on the disproportionate effects of natural disasters on vulnerable populations such as women and children. Squier, who minors in art and is a talented photographer, added a powerful visual element to her research with photo portraits of the women, which are woven into her research paper. “One of the things that really struck me about Emma's work was how much rapport and trust she established with the women in the villages,” says Fothergill. “She used ethnographic methods that are on a doctorate level, where you immerse yourself in another culture in a really remote setting and collect data that no one else has gathered. The data she collected is rare for any researcher, much less an undergraduate."

Student Emma Squier's talents for sociological field research and photography came together when she documented the lives of women and children in the aftermath of the devastating 2015 earthquake in Nepal.

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PRESS PLAY Professors our alumni know well, and some newer faces, are among the faculty featured in a recently produced series of short videos. Simple in format and approach— OK, let’s call them “unplugged”— the pieces put these top teachers and researchers against a plain studio backdrop and let them share their work and what drives them. A sample of the series:

INNOVATION | In a city and state known for its innovative spirit, it’s no surprise that student entrepreneurs at UVM are trying to get in on the action. To help these students bring their ideas to market, Andrew Dazzo ’17 developed a new innovation fund, which offers financial support and expertise. “We want to be the entity that helps students flesh out their ideas, figure out their market, distill their pitches, and whatever else they need to turn their idea into a successful business," says Dazzo. "We looked at models at other universities that choose to take equity stakes in startup companies and we think our model, which relies on a grant structure and does not take equity, will be very effective." Self-starter Dazzo offers a fine example to his fellow undergrads. The economics major/business minor’s thorough networking led to a summer 2016 internship with Wells Fargo, an opportunity to learn about investment banking and prove his merit, eventually leading to a job offer. Dazzo began as a staff analyst at Wells Fargo after graduation. Here’s how the innovation fund works: a student brings an idea to the Student Analyst Team, run by Dazzo and other students. If it shows promise, the team GLYNNIS FAWKES, LEFT; TOMOKI NOMURA '20, ABOVE

would provide support and potentially a $2,000 grant to create a prototype through UVM and local facilities. Students who go through the prototype process may then win a $10,000 grant to further develop, market, and potentially launch a startup. Student analysts receive training from faculty including Erik Monsen, the Steven Grossman Endowed Chair in Entrepreneurship, and alumni. Guidance from a board of advisors, comprising alumni in business and other relevant fields, will also be available to students and analysts to provide expertise and support. “If we’re going to be providing strategic and operational guidance for startups we want to have some sort of background, so we’re planning a training session led by start-up leaders in the Burlington community and faculty," Dazzo said, as the fund was getting off the ground during spring semester. "At the end of the day we realize we’re just students, so we want to rely on the expertise of local entrepreneurs, faculty, and the alumni connections we’re continuing to build.” The fund, financed by alumni donations and the Student Government Association, is administered by the Office of the Vice President for Research.

YUTAKA KONO, music, playing the tuba in ways you have likely never heard the tuba played. MAJOR JACKSON, English, reading from a recent poem and speaking about the power of the medium. ELLEN MARSDEN, fisheries biologist, on Lake Champlain research and behavior of the sculpin fish. JACQUES BAILLY, classics, on his long association with the Scripps National Spelling Bee, from childhood champion to adulthood official pronouncer. WOLFGANG MIEDER, German & Russian, on the wisdom packed into proverbs. [Coming attraction] go.uvm.edu/facultyfeature SUMMER 2017 |

| THE GREEN

STUDENT RESEARCHERS SHARE THEIR WORK From food security issues in Thailand to anaerobic waste digesters on Vermont farms, with several stops in between, the seven presenters in one of the 2017 Student Research Conference’s “Lightning Talks” sessions offered a high-speed glimpse (five minutes max) of the research enterprise and student experience at UVM. Thanking the Lightning Talk presenters, vice president for research Richard Galbraith said, “It is inconceivable to me that as a student I could do what you have done with the poise and passion you’ve shown us this morning.” And so it went throughout the fourth floor of the Davis Center on April 27—student passion for research and poise in presentation on full display. More than 400 undergraduates and grad students participated in this spring’s conference, the largest in the eleven-year history of the event.

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In the Water SOCIOLOGY | When news first broke in 2014 about the Flint, Michigan water crisis, Katrinell Davis was as surprised as the rest of America, but for a different reason: that it took so long for a public health disaster to happen in her hometown. Davis, assistant professor of sociology, knew inadequate public services first-hand while growing up in Flint, life experience at the root of her motivation as an expert on how public policy disproportionately affects lowerincome communities. Her research examines the intersection of race, gender, and work trends within the American labor market and how it negatively affects working people. Students in Davis’s "Race Relations in the U.S." course learn about these issues through her research, which often relates to current events like the Flint water crisis. It’s one of many courses that satisfy UVM’s diversity course requirement, established to help prepare students for responsible citizenship in an increasingly complex global society. "I was looking at this in 2012, well before anyone was concerned about environmental injustice in Flint," says Davis, who is working on a highly anticipated book on the topic. "My research focuses on the life chances of low-skilled poor people living in low-resource communities, so I want my students to understand how these inequalities are created and how they negatively affect working people in

cities across America." Davis's prior research has been a combination of both qualitative interviews and quantitative data. Her Flint study, however, is based heavily on public records. "My book is about the Flint community’s response to environmental racism and the truly historic legacy of pushback there—and the degree to which citizens have any real power or voice to make change," Davis says. "It won’t be about the spectacle we saw unfold on TV after Flint and Hurricane Katrina and the anecdotal studies that followed. That's not my study. I'm relying on archival data from federal and state agencies that speaks to the history of this particular problem and the health consequences of environmental racism as measured by lead exposure." Davis's students are also reading her justreleased Hard Work is Not Enough: Gender and Racial Inequality in an Urban Workspace (University of North Carolina Press, 2017) based on her doctoral dissertation at University of California at Berkeley. Davis spent months riding buses with African American women transit workers in the San Francisco Bay area to document their struggles in dead-end jobs with intolerable work conditions following the Great Recession of 2008. The employment experiences of these women, Davis found, were undermined by workplace norms and administrative practices designed to address flagging workplace morale, and ultimately weed out employees who couldn’t withstand it. SALLY MCCAY

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Escape from Shawshank Enthusiasts of the film The Shawshank Redemption may be familiar with the verb “shawshanked,” as in “to be shawshanked.” If the word had a dictionary definition it might read: “Fatigue caused by impulsive viewing of a popular 1994 American movie on late-night cable TV.” “Shawshank” appears on most “best movie” lists and is the highest rated film on the Internet Movie Database, which uses a formula to compute popularity based on broad public feedback. So what explains our love affair with this film? English professor Anthony Magistrale and Maura Grady ‘96 delve into this question in their new book The Shawshank Experience, published by Palgrave Macmillan. Magistrale has been teaching horror film and gothic fiction at UVM since 1983, so authors like Edgar Allen Poe and Stephen King are chief staples in his classes. The screenplay of the movie is based on a novella by King, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, which puts the movie right in his wheelhouse. “Of course King is known for horror but it’s hard to assign him a genre,” says Magistrale. “He’s also done a lot of stuff with prison stories.” Magistrale has written several books about King’s fiction and developed a friendship with the author. In 1999, he invited King to come over from Bangor, Maine, to talk with his students. King not only delivered a lecture to Magistrale’s class about Poe’s influence on his own fiction, he also gave a reading in Ira Allen Chapel and spoke to a capacity crowd in Patrick Gym.

Most of Shawshank was filmed at the Ohio State Reformatory (OSP) in Mansfield, Ohio, the forbidding limestone prison that provides so many gothic overtones to the movie. The old reformatory is now the official home of the Ohio Corrections Museum, which attracted 110,000 visitors last year. The Shawshank mystique pumps millions of tourismrelated revenues to north-central Ohio each year. The Shawshank Trail guides fans through a series of attractions related to key scenes or artifacts from the movie. Alumna Grady took Magistrale’s senior seminar on Gothic fiction and now teaches in the heart of Shawshank country at Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio. She’s made the “fandom” phenomenon—a combination of sociology, history, and cultural studies—a focus of her scholarship. “When the twentieth anniversary of the film came around in 2014, Maura flew me to Mansfield to deliver the keynote address at the university,” Magistrale says. “I went there thinking I would get to see the great OSR, and by the time I flew back to Burlington, I also had the outline for the book. Maura was on board from the get go.”

The Definitive Word on Cheese Catherine Donnelly ’78, professor in UVM’s Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences, was recently honored with a James Beard Foundation award for her encyclopedic work, The Oxford Companion to Cheese. The book, published in 2016 by Oxford University Press, won in the reference and scholarship category. Four years in the making, the volume contains 855 entries from 325 contributors in thirty-five countries. Donnelly devised all the categories the entries cover—ranging from cheese regulations and cheese-making techniques to cheese history and cuisines— established the twelve-member editorial board, worked with contributors and edited their work. Donnelly’s book was informed, in part, by her leadership at the Vermont Institute for Artisan Cheese, which she co-directed. At the UVM-based institute, her expertise in food safety intersected with the work of cheesemakers, cheesemongers, and other cheese experts. In the spring of 2013, Donnelly was asked to edit The Oxford Companion to Cheese. With a sabbatical scheduled, she had another project in mind, but that quickly changed. “I just shifted gears,” Donnelly says. “This is such an important book.” She framed the scope of the volume, assembled an editorial board, and committed to making a book that represents the international breadth of cheese—in content and contributors. “Cheese is so global,” Donnelly says. “What we know about cheese here in the United States is really a short history compared to the rest of the world.”

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Enhancing the Future, Preserving the Past “It’s amazing to me that I Keeping character of “The Gut” key in major facilities plan

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walk the same halls as athletic director in 2017 that I walked as a first-year studentathlete in 1985,” says Jeff Schulman ’89 G’02. “Part of that is fun and nostalgic. But as the person who is now responsible for advancing athletics and recreation on our campus, it’s my responsibility to ensure that our facilities are evolving and keeping pace. When I became the AD, I knew it was important to take a fresh look at this whole issue.” Indeed, the need to upgrade UVM’s athletic, recreation, and fitness facilities is a discussion that Schulman, a former Catamount hockey player, has been hearing since returning to his alma mater in 1993 as assistant athletic director. After he was named athletic director in April 2016, it became his mission to finally end that dis-

cussion and move forward with a plan to bring UVM athletics and fitness facilities into the twenty-first century. Such a plan was presented to the Board of Trustees in February, where a resolution was passed to provide conceptual and financial support for the creation of a full schematic design of a new multipurpose center. The approximately $80 million plan to overhaul the Patrick-Forbush-Gutterson Athletic Complex calls for a new events center/basketball arena on the site of the parking lot between Gutterson Fieldhouse and Patrick Gymnasium; the modernization and preservation of Gutterson for UVM Hockey; and an 86,000-squarefoot health and wellness zone (only 15,000 square feet of fitness and recreation space currently exists) to be located at the north, Patrick, end of the project.

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The plan emerged from extensive discussions with students, faculty, donors, alumni, and other campus constituents. One key finding: people wanted athletic events to remain on campus, which removed from consideration off-campus proposals in downtown Burlington and South Burlington. There was also strong support for preserving historic Gutterson Fieldhouse. “For a lot of people, there was a really strong emotional connection to The Gut,” Schulman says. “It’s one of the true iconic college hockey facilities in the country and possesses a character and an energy that’s really unique—like our version of Fenway Park or Wrigley Field. So we wanted to find a way to preserve The Gut, yet upgrade it so the fan experience is modernized and the student-athlete experience is enhanced.” Another major question that needed to be resolved was right-sizing the seating capacity. Previous proposals called for a shared basketball and hockey arena ranging from 6,500 to 10,000 seats, but they never gained traction. UVM officials looked at peer institutions that built larger

shared hockey/basketball arenas and found that most have struggled to fill seats and effectively meet the needs of both sports. This is consistent with recent data showing a nationwide decline in attendance at sporting events. “It’s important that our facilities continue to be full, and I don’t mind if that means it’s a tough ticket to get,” says Schulman. While final seat counts and configurations have not been determined, it’s likely that both facilities will have slightly larger capacities than can currently be found in Gutterson (4,035) and Patrick (3,228). Both will have the flexibility to expand capacity significantly for non-athletic uses such as concerts, speakers, and other entertainment events. At the February meetings, trustees also began discussion of a funding model that will likely be a combination of institutional sources and private donations. Pending final approval from the trustees, construction could start as soon as early 2019 with various components coming

online in 2021 leading to a full completion date in 2022. “The magic of this concept, in my mind, is how Gutterson and the new events center will be fully integrated, allowing for multiple shared spaces and a highly efficient design,” Schulman says. “And by consolidating the varsity sport components in one area, the northern zone is freed up for dramatic enhancements to health and fitness, as well as classrooms, group exercise studios, demonstration kitchens, and even a juice bar. The space will be truly multipurpose and designed very much with student engagement in mind. “I think we’ve arrived at the right place with a project that is achievable, rightsized for UVM and Vermont, and capable of gaining the philanthropic support needed to make it happen.” VQ SUMMER 2017 |

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“How Long?” Why Thoreau Matters Now

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“How long?” “How long?”

This question, which punctuated an extraordinary number of Henry Thoreau’s journal entries throughout the growing season every year as he sauntered about Concord’s fields and forests, was prompted by Thoreau’s perennial desire to live deeply into the unfolding biological activity about him. How long since a plant he encountered had flowered, fruited, or leafed out? He wished to be a silent witness at the birth of every natural phenom-

enon in the local landscape, and in his brief life, went a long way to meeting such a desire. But his question carried an existential ache as well, a prophetic plea that rings far beyond Concord, into our own time and place. How long before America becomes naturalized, becomes, like the plants and animals whose life histories he tracked, symbiotically imbedded within its physical surround? How long until the democratic ideals of the founding fathers are truly realized, protected, defended, and

extended? How long before America discovers its true destiny? At the very historical moment when America seemed to be gaining its full independence from Europe, to realize what many felt to be its “Manifest Destiny,” Thoreau’s cranky voice kept insisting that America had an altogether different destiny. Seeing his country’s task as one of redeeming its dark colonial past by forging a new relationship with Nature and History, he called attention to this task by way of his own personal lifelong pilgrimage. His daily meanderings within a tightly circumscribed corner of a rapidly expanding nation made him as acute an observer of civil society as he was of the local society of pickerel, turtles, and field mice. Thoreau’s entire biography can be conceived of as an exquisite attempt to “go native,” to meet the “expectations of the land,” both as to how Americans would live in relationship to the land, and to each other. His life and words have become a measure against which America rests uncomfortably. The perennial challenge for America has been to balance the rights and desires of the individual with those of the wider community. At a time of rampant—and at times, misconceived—social reform, Thoreau and his fellow Transcendentalists championed the principle of self-transformation as a necessary precursor to any social transformation. More than any other American of the antebellum era or since, Thoreau cultivated a rhythmic and rigorous practice of solitude as complement to easy sociality. “How long?” was also a question that Thoreau asked in his capacity as surveyor. Thoreau took stock of the boundaries of his neighbors not only when hired to do so because of legal disputes, but more often when he was not asked, continually measuring the limits within which his contemporaries lived their lives, and provoking them to jump out of bounds with him. Statesmen, scholars, farmers, laborers, clergy, merchants—indeed, all of his neighbors—fell within his philosophical compass. How long would it be until these fellow citizens might take their own honest measure of themselves, that they might meet the expectations of the land? To ground his inner impulse toward natural-

ization, Thoreau constantly pulled out his notched walking stick or some improvised device, to measure the height of the spire of the Notre Dame cathedral in Montreal, the width and length of a moose hide in Maine, or in his native Concord, the Canada lynx skin and the depths of Walden Pond. This unflagging appetite for everyday detail is the very method that allowed him to help answer the existential question regarding America’s destiny. Immersed in an era of “truthiness” and “fake news,” we would do well to follow Thoreau’s example of faithful empiricism. Contemporary historical explanation, which, like modern ecological science, favors contingency over certainty, allows little room for the expectancy of “destined” events. Rarely does one hear the word “destiny” these days, whether in academic circles or in popular parlance. One is more likely in America to speak of “karma,” though mostly in a flippant, dismissive manner that again collapses cosmic fatedness into facile accident. When Thoreau spoke of the “stars,” he was not surrendering to determinism, but fighting his way toward a view of the future that let freedom ring, within the admitted constraints of certain undeniable natural laws. Surrounded by a millennialist culture that saw doomsday or divine deliverance around the corner, he did not go up on his roof to await the Rapture. He championed the sovereignty of the individual, while fully expecting the individual’s progressive divinization. He believed in America as a yet-to-be-fulfilled promise to all humanity, not just an entitled few. The heroic life called for in Walden was above all a life of courage, not for its author’s having walked off a mile from the village to live in a cabin of his own construction for two years, but for its unshakeable confidence in the human imagination. If men were to escape from leading “lives of quiet desperation,” they had to make those lives perpetually meaningful. The men and women born generation after generation had but one transcendent task—to seek out and make sense of Nature’s order, however inscrutable it might appear. Human beings—both their individual biographies and the “second nature,” i.e., culture they

created—were not exempt from this task, but an integral part of it. The book that Henry Thoreau gave to America and to the world was a true book, prophetic not because its author was clairvoyant, but because he lived eternal verities, ones that the world might have lost sight of during his lifetime and ours, but which it must regain. As a young man, Henry Thoreau dreamed chivalric dreams, inspired by his reading in chapbooks, poetry, and myth. Though in adulthood he dismounted, adopting the manner of the foot-bound soldier, he continued to dream chivalric dreams for both himself and his country. Without ever identifying the high tableland of his dreams along any doctrinal lines, Thoreau aspired to a personal and national mythology of grand proportions. If he could not see to which chivalric stream he belonged, which pennant he walked under, perhaps we can, and in so doing, recover the sort of enlarged view of life which was his particular talent. No doubt Thoreau, the indefatigable measurer of trees and truth, would ask—200 years after his birth—that our measurement of his life hew to the facts, but that we then read those facts with an enlarged sense of meaning. Before Henry Thoreau took his string and plumb bob out onto the Walden Pond ice, his townsmen almost to a person spoke of the pond as bottomless. With simple instruments, working from facts to law, Thoreau put his foot through illusion and hearsay to touch bottom. Let us do the same. Let us take facts—which admittedly have grown exceedingly hazy to us earthbound denizens—and strive toward law. There are great cosmic rhythms, perennial, eternal rhythms undulating around and through us which we hear not. “How long?” this great American spirit asked. Why not now? VQ Kevin Dann is the author of Expect Great Things: The Life and Search of Henry David Thoreau, published this summer by TarcherPerigee on the bicentennial of Thoreau’s birth. Billy Renkl is the author/artist of Field Notebook: a response to the journals of Henry David Thoreau, 2014. SUMMER 2017 |

| NEW KNOWLEDGE

Wisdom of Old Growth

Study explores forest management and carbon storage

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Bill Keeton points ahead

in the forest. “There’s one of the tip-up mounds we made,” he says, walking over to a ten-foot-high wall of torn tree roots that have yanked up soil and rocks, leaving a shallow hole behind. “Bears like to den under these in the winter,” he says, “and winter wrens make nests here.” Fourteen years ago, he directed a team of foresters to harvest some of the trees on this hillside at UVM’s 485-acre Jericho Research Forest, including hemlock, maple, and commercially valuable red oak. But some of the biggest trees were left uncut—and others, like this one, were simply pushed over with

a skidder, and left on the ground. Now the decaying trunk stretches across a sunny patch in the middle of the cool woods. “We’re mimicking natural disturbance, like wind throw,” he says. “See that nice big tree up there? We’ve let in a lot of light, released its crown to really grow.” On top of the tipup mound, Keeton points out four species of ferns, blackberry bushes, elderberry, and yellow birch saplings all reaching toward the sun. For nearly two decades, Keeton, a professor of forest ecology and forestry, has been running experiments here and on the side of Mount Mansfield. These studies show

forestland far better than conventional forestry techniques. As the planet warms, carbon markets are getting hot, too. Forest landowners have been looking for ways to enter these markets, making money from their commercial timberland not just by selling logs—but also by demonstrating that their land is absorbing climate-warming carbon dioxide from the air. The more carbon an acre of trees holds, the more valuable it will be in these new carbon markets. But there’s a vexing question: what forestry techniques do the best job of maximizing carbon storage in trees and soil— while still allowing landowners to provide habitat for wildlife and harvest timber for profitable sale?

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how imitating key characteristics of oldgrowth forests in managed timberland can increase biodiversity (including notable increases in mushrooms, herbaceous plants, and amphibians), enhance the ecosystem services that forests provide to people (like clean water), and, ultimately, restore oldgrowth forests—“a vastly underrepresented forest type in the Northern Forest,” Keeton says, due to the lingering effects of forest clearing in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Now his team’s newest results point to another benefit: imitating old-growth forests enhances carbon storage in managed

Keeton calls his approach “structural complexity enhancement,” or SCE. It’s a suite of forestry techniques designed to imitate the ingenious complexity of old forests—with trees of many ages and heights, including old and very large ones, a rich layer of downed logs and woody debris on the forest floor, and a patchwork of small gaps that wind storms and other natural disturbances leave behind. Using this innovative style of forestry, Keeton and his students report that they can maintain high levels of carbon storage on managed timberland: A decade after harvesting, carbon storage in the experimental forestry plots was just fifteen percent less than what would accumulate over time in forests that were not logged at all. In contrast, their study shows that conventionally managed timberland holds about forty-five percent less carbon than uncut forests. “This approach can let landowners restore old-growth forest habitats, fight climate change, and make a moderate amount of money—all at the same time,” says Keeton, who co-led the new study with former UVM student Sarah Ford ’03 G’15. Their results were published this spring in the journal Ecosphere. “There are many goals and options that

landowners have for their forests,” says Keeton. “This is a great new tool for foresters and landowners to have in their tool box.” The scientists were very surprised the growth rates of trees in their experimental forests exceeded the areas managed with conventional techniques. “This overturns previous dogma that more heavily thinned areas would have faster growth that would sequester carbon more rapidly than old trees,” Keeton says. And in one key pool of stored carbon—coarse woody material lying on the ground—the new technique led to more carbon being captured than even the control plots where no forestry work was done.

CONSERVATION CONCERNS In other words, for conservation-minded land owners, like land trusts or forest preserves, Keeton’s SCE approach could lead to more carbon storage, and faster creation of old-growth types of habitats, than doing nothing at all. “It’s possible to accelerate the recovery of old growth in the Northern Forest,” says Keeton, who co-directs the Forestry Program in UVM’s Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources and serves as a fellow in the university’s new Gund Institute for Environment. As the climate warms, that goal becomes increasingly urgent—and the definition of old growth itself becomes increasingly complex. With warmer temperatures and many new invasive pests, “the baseline is shifting,” Keeton says. Restoring old growth to the Northern Forest “does not mean going back to the forests we had four hundred years ago,” he explains. Instead, he sees old growth restoration as a form of adaptation for the future. The characteristics of old forests— “like their structural complexity, closed canopies, high levels of biodiversity, mixed-age trees, and microclimates,” Keeton says—can give land resilience against drought, higher temperatures, diseases, storms, and rapid ecosystem changes. “We’ll need more old growth in the future,” Bill Keeton says. VQ SUMMER 2017 |

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MINING THE STATS

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1986, nine-year-old Zack Scott fell for America’s game and Boston’s team. If you’re a Red Sox fan, you know, that season. Up three games to two versus the New York Mets in the World Series, the tenth inning slow roller off Mookie Wilson’s bat skips between poor, pilloried Bill Buckner’s legs, the Mets’ winning run crosses home, Red Sox dreams of ending The Curse melt with game six and seven heartbreakers, on hold for another eighteen years. So, Scott ’99, the Sox’ head analytics guy, VP for baseball research and development, found the game and the team that would one day be his calling with a season that, to large degree, hinged on a play that defied the odds. Buckner would make that play, what, 99 out of 100 times? In a game of cruel inches, crazy bounces, and mortal rotator cuffs, so it goes. But years later, pioneering front office leaders would begin to realize that close, objective examination of the myriad statistics of baseball could yield better results on the field. There’s no inoculation against chance. But enlisting the reasoned as another line of defense against the random is akin to adding a tenth player named “Evidence-Based Decision-Making” to the lineup. Today, sabermetrics, the empirical analysis of baseball statistics, is a critical dimension of Major League Baseball front office work, and the Red Sox are among the teams with notable investment and success on this front. As a Boston Herald pre-season article described Zack Scott’s role: “There is no one more vital to the future of the Red Sox…” It’s the 2017 season-opening series at Fenway Park. But as a quaintly New England brew of cold, wind, and rain lashes the city, the day game is called. The concession stands on Yawkey Way are shuttered—no Luis Tiant Cubano for you. Fans console themselves browsing the seemingly infinite variations on Red Sox caps for sale at the official store across the street. Out-of-towners wearing Pirates jerseys and forlorn faces head to the refuge of Back Bay shopping malls. But through a side door off Yawkey, up a few flights of stairs, the work of the Boston Red Sox front office quietly hums along. Zack Scott’s office is spare and windowless, buried somewhere in the sprawl of Fenway along the third base line. Past success, a huge photo of the 2007 World Champions banner being unfurled on a blue-sky opening day 2008, hangs on the wall behind his desk. Present and future is in full view on the opposite wall. A white board displays the 2017 game schedule, PHOTOGRAPHS BY IAN MCLELLAN

and the names of players on the active roster, optioned, and 10-Day Disabled List in three tidy columns. A small corner bookshelf holds pictures of Scott’s wife, Molly, their two kids, Zoe, six, and Perry, three; a bright splash of kid’s art; and dense stacks of baseball stats and analytics books. Among the volumes, works by Bill James, godfather of sabermetrics and a consultant to the Red Sox. The wonkish world of baseball statistics had its spotlight moment with Michael Lewis’s 2003 bestseller Moneyball, the story of Oakland Athletics’ general manager Billy Beane’s quest to leverage innovative analytics and turn a cash-poor team into a winner. The book vaulted the work of Beane, his assistant Paul DePodesta, and the pioneering James into the public consciousness. Scott says that, to some extent, he and colleagues in the field owe their careers to Moneyball. The book opened eyes and eventually doors in pro baseball’s front offices. SUMMER 2017 |

Discussing the continual development of new measures, Scott touches upon defensive performance, once a black hole of information with little guide but an official scorer’s subjective call of an error. Now teams have documentation on a grid of where every ball is caught or hits the turf. And it’s just one aspect of what Scott calls a “data explosion” that came with MLB’s 2015 rollout of new measures via Statcast. MLB front offices could easily drown in the information. Scott and his team of analysts strive to sort the relevant from the irrelevant with statistically rigorous models and sound methodology. “We don’t want to be a think tank doing academic exercises,” he says. “We want to positively impact change and make the team better by providing the decisionmakers with the best information to help them solve the questions they need to answer.” There’s an art to that, as well as the science, and a good deal of communication and people skill required. Scott personifies a Red Sox guiding principle to tap the insights of both analysis and scouting—the intangible “seeing the game well” built on years of playing, watching, managing—to get the best result. On game day at Fenway, that plays out in real time as Scott and other top lieutenants watch the game from president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski’s box. Questions arise, and Scott is there to offer data, discuss what needs to be addressed, anticipate what’s next. Colleagues praise Scott for having the patience of a good teacher and the ability to bridge the worlds of “quants,” executives, coaches, and players. “My goal is to get to the point when we feel like we have insights that we’re ready to deliver, to be able to package that up—whether it is just a conversation, an email, a memo—in a way that is easy to digest, really to translate it into baseball language that everyone else speaks here,” Scott says. “It’s an art to try to find the best way to present something and get buy-in. That is everything to me. Buy in on this stuff.” The analysis of Scott’s unit impacts multiple aspects of the Red Sox operation—draft picks, player development, scouting opponents, strategy, roster management, and blockbuster trades such as the deal that brought pitching ace Chris Sale from Chicago to Boston this year. “Zack is really good at synthesizing and communicating complex analytical concepts to decisionmakers in an effective way,” says Brian O’Halloran, senior vice president and assistant general manager. “He isn’t afraid to disagree with the prevailing opinion and offers his thoughts with conviction, but in a respectful and productive manner.”

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Scott became a baseball fan with that 1986 season. A few years later, he took the deep dive into baseball statistics when his older brother introduced him to Strat-O-Matic, a dice-and-cards baseball game grounded in MLB player statistics. Reflecting back on Little Zack, Big Zack expresses some bemusement and confesses to something close to obsession. He played out the entire Red Sox season on Strat-OMatic, kept extensive stats, his parents suggesting he might want to get outside a little more. Scott did, indeed, get outside. Focused on soccer when other kids were playing Little League, he later switched to baseball in Babe Ruth League and high school. He offers a straight-faced assessment of his prospects as a high school JV leftfielder. “I was a good defender. I could catch the ball. But I had no arm strength. And I couldn’t really hit. I was just a singles hitter with too many strikeouts for a singles hitter.” Scott sentenced himself to the bench when he offered to keep the stat book for the coach, then did too good of a job, and earned the duty full-time. “I was like, ‘Uh-oh, I just made a bad decision.’” Scott spent his first year of college at the University of Texas-Austin, charting a computer science major as the route to a career in creating computerbased sports games. But a family emergency back in hometown Natick, Massachusetts, made him reconsider college closer to home, coinciding with a shift towards following his “comfort with numbers” into a statistics major at UVM. Reminiscing about lasting impressions of his Vermont years, Scott mentions Professor Ken Golden, a distinguished mathematician. “He would see math everywhere,” Scott says. “Middle of teaching his class, a big breeze in the trees, he would look out the window and talk about how beautiful this is and how mathematical. It was the first time I was exposed to someone who saw the world that way, through the lens of mathematics. It gave me a new appreciation for the things around me.” Sociology prof Kathy Fox’s course on social deviance, class field trips into the Green Mountains with geologist David Bucke, Scott sampled academics widely, finding experiences and insights that have stayed with him. And in stats classes his interest continued to grow in finding truth through numbers as a basis for sound decision-making. Austin and Burlington alike, the local music scene was also important to him. Just when you think you’ve got Scott pigeon-holed as a somewhat button-down family man, analytics guy in a VP job, you’re thrown by his off-speed pitch—the fact that

he is, in the estimate of many, an ass-kicking blues/ rock harmonica player. That skill is grounded in hours of practice, sometimes holed-up in his dorm room for three hours at a time practicing on his harp. UVM music courses in composition and on the blues took him deeper. Hidden Bean on Redstone, Cactus Café downtown, Scott rattles off a few of the places that he and friend/ fellow math major/guitar player Matt Whitcomb ’98 performed. A few years later, he turned down a chance to tour with the band Buddahead. Jed Hoyer, general manager of the Chicago Cubs and former assistant general manager for the Red Sox, weighed in on Zack Scott, musician, to the Boston Herald: “The thing I love about it is, it was always such a different side to his personality. A part you didn’t see on a day-to-day basis because he was pretty reserved in the office. Then all of a sudden this guy oddly busts out on the harmonica, and he’s unbelievable. You’re shocked by the Zack you knew at work and the Zack going all John Popper on the harmonica.”

Oddly enough, in January 2003 that Popper alter-ego provided a “networking” opportunity in an unlikely location, backstage at Boston’s Paradise Rock Club. Theo Epstein, freshly minted as the boy wonder GM of the Red Sox (and a guitar slinger in his own right), was in the house for a fundraiser show. As Scott tells the story of their first meeting, his somewhat introverted, networking-averse side made him reluctant to approach Epstein and share his background. At the time, he worked for Diamond Mind, a statsbased baseball game headquartered in Lexington, Massachusetts. But a friend kept nudging him, then took it upon herself to break the ice with Theo and suggest, more or less, “You should talk to that guy over there.” As it turned out, Epstein knew Diamond Mind’s work and had thoughts about how they might help the Red Sox as consultants. One of his first questions to Scott that night concerned a player named David Ortiz, recently released by the Minnesota Twins. Though he seemed worthy of signing, Scott admits that back then neither he nor Epstein saw Big Papi developing into a future Hall of Famer. Consulting led to internship led to a full-fledged front office job with the Red Sox in May 2004. They were heady times as the organization honed the team and homed in on breaking the curse with young Epstein leading a young front office. Scott recalls long, long hours—“we basically lived here.” Describing the office dynamics, he first suggests fam-

ily, pauses, and admits “fraternity” would be more accurate. Work breaks might mean baseball amidst the cubicles, taking cuts with a plastic bat at a ball of tape. “HR wouldn’t have been happy,” Scott deadpans. Crazy days, but visionary leadership and hard work at long last brought the MLB Championship trophy to Boston in 2004 and again three years later. As Epstein, Hoyer, and others eventually moved on to the Cubs and other organizations, Scott was among the few 2004 front office originals still on board for 2013’s World Championship. That makes three championship rings to Zack Scott’s name. But don’t expect to see him, or others in the organization, walking around flaunting them. You also won’t find the bling under glass on Scott’s desk or on the fireplace mantle at home. The rings are tucked away in a bank safe deposit box. That reflects, Scott says, an organizational focus on looking forward, driven by a clear sense of mission measured with the most primal of sports statistics—wins and losses. Also fundamental to the Red Sox way, a belief in team concept, shared work and credit, that applies to vice presidents and analysts as sure as it does to pitchers and catchers. Scott winced a bit at that “no one more vital to the future of the Red Sox” line in the Herald. “That’s not really how things work,” he says. With an afternoon status meeting on Beacon, the organization’s new web-based information platform, fast approaching, Scott gathers with his team of analysts for a quick lunch. Heading out to Sal’s Pizza just across Lansdowne, they descend a narrow set of stairs, walking beneath a large blackand-white photo of Ted Williams uncoiling a home-run swing. VQ

“We don’t want to be a think tank doing academic exercises. We want to positively impact change and make the team better by providing the decision-makers with the best information to help them solve the questions they need to answer.” —Zack Scott

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Home to Heady Topper, The Alchemist brewing facility in Stowe, Vermont.

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CHRONICLES OF BREWING Beer writer and historic preservationist Adam Krakowski G’10 takes us back to where it all began. 1792 First documented

functional brewery in Middlebury 1820 200 distilleries

operating in Vermont 1850 Vermont is

nation’s second largest producer of hops 1987 Catamount

Brewing opens, Vermont’s first brewery in 100 years 1988 Vermont Pub &

Brewery opens, Vermont’s first brewpub, second in New England 1994 Magic Hat opens,

Otter Creek and Long Trail expand early 2000s Harpoon,

Wolaver’s, Switchback open; worldclass reputation grows 2017 25th Vermont

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ONE NIGHT IN 2011, while sitting on their living room floor, Jen Kimmich ’94 and her husband, John, designed their first can of beer: tall, with a whimsical black-on-silver illustration and an invitation to “drink from the can.” Within two years, the beer, Heady Topper, would become top-ranked in the world, and one of the most sought-after. Heady was the first Vermont beer to generate a cult-like following. Because it’s only available in limited quantities within state lines, customers queue up, sometimes for hours, to buy it. “Heady Topper changed the attitude of the craft beer world,” says Adam Krakowski G’10, author of Vermont Beer: History of a Brewing Revolution. Today, Vermont’s known as craft beer Mecca. People travel from all over the world to get a taste of what’s called the “Holy Trinity,” the three breweries widely considered to be the state’s best, two of which are owned by UVM alumni: The Alchemist, owned by the Kimmiches, and Lawson’s Finest Liquids, owned by Sean and Karen Lawson (’92 G’99 and G’97). (The third brewery in the trinity, Hill Farmstead, is not alumni-owned, but has been voted best in the world for the past three years.) ECONOMIC UPPER By all measures, Vermont’s beer scene is booming. From 2011-2015, the number of breweries in the state doubled, making Vermont first in the nation for craft breweries per capita. The Vermont Brewer’s Association (VBA) boasts fifty-four members, and expects to hit seventy within a year, says executive director Melissa Corbin ’00. Besides making it tougher to decide what to order at the bar, all those breweries equal a shot of economic adrenaline for the state. According to a study done by VBA, in 2015, beer brought $367 million into Vermont (exceeding maple syrup and equaling on-mountain skiing) and created 2,000+ jobs. It’s also given birth to an entirely new tourist attraction, the Vermont “beer-cation.” For a growing number of customers, “it really is a quest to find the next great beer,” says Corbin. Read on for a sampling of alumni you’ll find brewing in the Green Mountain State. CRAZED FOR HAZE It only takes one sip of Heady Topper to know it’s different. Hoppy and ultra-flavorful, the hazy, unfiltered double IPA was one of the pioneers of what’s now called the New England-style IPA. Jen Kimmich appreciates customers’ enthusiasm. Just don’t call Heady “special.” “We just don’t think of it that way,” laughs Kimmich. “John makes great beer, but we focus on consistent quality and getting the

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best ingredients. All those years it was rated top beer in the world, it was taboo. You have to tune that stuff out because you can get sidetracked.” Kimmich has both a pragmatic and peoplefocused approach to the business, a combination that can be traced back to her days at UVM. A Barre native and second-generation Catamount, she studied business administration for three years before falling in love with sociology. “That’s what grabbed me,” says Kimmich. The late Professor Stephen Berkowitz had a particular impact on her growth; she remembers him as both mentor and friend. Kimmich worked her way through college at Vermont Pub & Brewery, where she met future husband John. He migrated to Burlington after graduating from Penn State to work with the late Greg Noonan, then-owner of the pub and a pioneer in the state’s craft beer scene. Soon after marrying, John and Jen got to work on their business plan, with Jen focused on finances and logistics and John honing recipes. They studied the business from the inside out, working for breweries in Jackson Hole and Boston before returning to Vermont in 2001. Their Alchemist Pub & Brewery was quickly a hit in Waterbury Village. “When we opened the pub, we were content, that’s kind of all we dreamed of doing,” says Kimmich. “But I knew that our beer would do great on the market because there was nothing like it. John finally gave in when I showed him the numbers.” The first cans of Heady Topper came off the line in August 2011, the day before Hurricane Irene slammed Vermont, destroying the pub. “The timing was crazy. It was just a horrible day. But we knew we could overcome it.” Fast forward to today: In addition to a Waterbury production facility, the couple operates a brewery/ visitor’s center in Stowe, a massive, 16,000-square foot warehouse on four acres that offers expansive views of the surrounding slopes. In total, The Alchemist employs forty-nine people; forty-eight are salaried. “Our base salary is twenty-eight dollars an hour,” says Kimmich. “We’re giving people job security. We work together, we’re a team, and because of that, we don’t have any turnover.” Benefits include full insurance, a 401(k) program, even fitness classes with an in-house wellness director. “The most important thing we do is invest in our community and our employees,” says Kimmich. The brewery is doing so well, they started The Alchemist Foundation, which is in its fifth year of awarding scholarships to local students to further their education. “If you ever told us we would be this big, I would have said no, we don’t need this money,

“When you’re given the opportunity to create jobs and make good, positive impact, you have a responsibility to follow through.” —Jen Kimmich ’94, above, is founder/owner of The Alchemist with her husband, John.

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we don’t need all this,” Jen Kimmich says. “But when you’re given the opportunity to create jobs and make good, positive impact, you have a responsibility to follow through. We want to make a lot of positive change.”

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MAD SUCCESS Forty-five minutes south of Alchemist HQ, Sean and Karen Lawson of Lawson’s Finest Liquids are poised to make a similar impact in the Mad River Valley. For the past decade, Sean’s been cooking up standout brews in a tiny sugar shack on his property. Now, the Lawsons are working on opening a tasting room and brewery in downtown Waitsfield next summer. “It’s exciting, but daunting. We really are mom and pop,” says Lawson, who swiftly labels bottles by hand as he talks. “We just hired our first employee, and we’re going to need to hire between twenty and twenty-five people next year. We’re going to create some really good jobs.” A New Jersey native, Sean grew up visiting family in Vermont, including his uncle, professor emeritus Bob Lawson, now retired from the psychology department after forty-four years at UVM. “From a young age, I felt like Vermont was a place I wanted to be,” says Sean. He graduated in 1992 with a degree in environmental studies and ecology, around the time he cooked up his first batch of homebrew, a maple wheat beer made in a big turkey pot in his off-campus apartment. He worked as an environmental researcher, naturalist, ski patroller, and even at a few brewpubs before returning to UVM for his master’s in forestry. Sean was a researcher for about fifteen years, including stints at UVM’s Proctor Maple Research Center and the Vermont Monitoring Cooperative. Through it all, he never gave up homebrewing. “All these great breweries were opening around me, and people for years had been saying, ‘your beer is so good you should sell it,’” says Sean. He finally took the leap with a one-barrel system in 2008. “Once I opened up, things just took off. I couldn’t make beer fast enough,” says Lawson. He upgraded to a seven-barrel system in 2011, “but the beer was still selling way faster than I could make it.” At one point, Lawson’s customers were camping out, lining up at 3 a.m., at the Waitsfield Farmer’s Market. “It was a great problem to have, but we knew it just wasn’t going to work anymore.” One year later, Sean quit his day job and went full time. Then, he had an idea to outsource production to Connecticut-based Two Roads Brewing to better meet demand. It isn’t something he takes lightly. “They have an approach toward quality rather than quantity,” says Lawson. “It’s not a commodity, but

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an artisanal product.” The collaboration has allowed Lawson’s to expand distribution of their flagship beers, IPAs Sip of Sunshine and Super Session #2, to Connecticut and Massachusetts, without investing millions in their own brewing setup. This focus on quality has earned Lawson’s international recognition, including three World Beer Cup medals for their Maple Tripple, which uses Vermont maple sap as its base instead of water, is aged in oak barrels, and takes more than a year to make. “It’s about using extra care with the best ingredients. Some of it is intangible, kind of like a chef in the kitchen,” he says. “You sprinkle a little magic in there, and that’s part of what makes it go.” “We’ve never had a marketing budget,” says Karen. “Word-of-mouth alone always amazes me. The beer counter-culture carries itself.” Karen went fulltime for Lawson’s earlier this year after a twenty-year career with the Vermont Department of Corrections as a transitional housing coordinator. Looking ahead, the couple hopes the taproom will have lots of impact. “One, we’re going to make a substantial capital investment here in Waitsfield, so there’s all the jobs that are created as part of constructing the new project. Two, once we open, there will be at least twenty-five new full-time jobs with benefits,” says Sean. Sean also hopes to help draw visitors to the valley in shoulder months and slack seasons. “Even in a regular year, there’s a good number of restaurants and inns that shutter their business because they can’t afford to keep people on payroll. We hope we’ll really help out some of our neighbors.” CELEBRATING THE QUEEN What the Mad River is to Sean Lawson, Burlington is to Paul Hale ’82, owner of Queen City Brewery. “One of the things I wanted, other than making beer, was for people to think about the history of Burlington,” says Hale. Hale grew up in Burlington, raised by a single mom who worked for IBM for thirty years. He remembers the city’s grungier days with fondness. “It wasn’t always this hipster college town, it was real down and dirty, an industrial place,” says Hale. “I have this image of when I was a kid, walking on the railroad tracks before there was a bike path and looking through the railroad ties at the water below. In the business plan, I said, ‘I want to be down in that end of town.’” Hale did just that when Queen City opened its doors on Pine Street in June 2014. The walls contain hints of history, like bricks stamped with “Queen City” from a local brickyard and a vintage pick-up overlooking the bar.

But returning to Burlington wasn’t always the plan. “When I left Vermont, I never thought I would come back,” laughs Hale. He met his wife, Ellen Zeman ’82, when they were studying chemistry at UVM as undergraduates. Both went on to earn doctorates in chemistry from Northwestern and work in New York before coming back to Vermont when Paul landed a job with BioTek Instruments. Seven years later, he returned to UVM. “The university wanted to get more involved in economic development,” says Hale, and he brought a unique mix of lab experience and local connections. He served as associate vice president for research and economic development for fifteen years, and was the director of the Vermont Technology Council. In that time, Hale estimates he reviewed hundreds of business plans, setting him up for success when it came time to develop his own. On the side of all of this was homebrewing, a hobby since 1986. “My wife calls it an obsession, but it was a hobby,” says Hale. In the early days, he was mentored by the late Greg Noonan; unlike many brewers, Noonan freely shared his recipes. “When I started homebrewing, it was hard to find information,” says Hale. Today, Hale brews a strong scotch ale called Gregarious, based on Noonan’s

“It’s about using extra care with the best ingredients. Some of it is intangible, kind of like a chef in the kitchen. You sprinkle a little magic in there, and that’s part of what makes it go.” — Sean Lawson ’92 G’99, above, is founder/owner of Lawson’s Finest Liquids with his wife Karen, G’97. SUMMER 2017 |

original recipe, in his honor. Hale says there’s still a strong sense of community in the brewing world, despite growing competition. Queen City and neighboring brewery Zero Gravity loan each other ingredients in emergencies. “It really is like getting a cup of sugar from green mountain hops your neighbor,” he says. Knowing the industry was We know beer can thrive in Vermont, crowded, Hale took his time developbut what about hops? Most U.S.-grown ing a business plan after leaving his hops grown come from the Pacific job at UVM. He shared it with friends, Northwest, and while that’s unlikely to three of whom ended up becoming change, Heather Darby, an agronomic partners. “I wasn’t just trying to start a nanobrewery,” says Hale. “It had and soils specialist with UVM Extento be something that would create sion, led a six year-long growing trial enough revenue to hire people and with twenty-four different hops, and grow. Creating jobs was totally in says certain varieties of hops do have the front of my mind, because I had worked in economic development the potential to thrive in the Green for so long.” Mountains. “Our biggest challenge is You won’t find a barrage of hops moisture,” she says, “but we’re proving or trendy brews at Queen City. that what we can put out here is just as “We’re kind of oddballs because of good.” Darby estimates there are about that,” says Hale. His inspiration is pulled from more traditional, intera dozen Vermont farmers growing national beer styles (the brewery’s hops commercially, but with the trial’s slogan is “World-class beer without findings and a growing local knowlthe jet lag”). “We’d traveled to Europe edgebase, she expects this number a bunch of times and visited small breweries. It was in my mind since is poised to explode. “We’re at a place the early nineties that, man, I could where people can start.” do that,” says Hale. He still has the tasting notes from visiting spots like Larkins and Samuel Smith in the U.K. and Pilsner Urquell in the Czech Republic. Now three years old, Queen City has three fulltime employees and a handful of part-time employees. Hale recently purchased bottling machinery, which will enable him to start selling six-packs, and he hopes to hire more employees this year. “It takes time, but I think we’re building a reputation for making these really high-quality beers.” A NEW CROP Undaunted by growing competition, young UVM alumni are also taking the plunge. One such alum: Mark Babson ’06, owner of River Roost Brewing in White River Junction, named one of the best new breweries of 2016 by Beer Advocate. “You look at the model in Europe, and everybody has a community brewery,” says VBA’s Melissa Corbin. “The locals aren’t going to go an hour and a

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half to get their growler filled. They’re going to go ten minutes down the road.” That’s exactly what Babson’s banked on, in a town that hasn’t had a brewery since one of the region’s first, Catamount Brewing, closed years ago. “People have been receptive and open. I still get customers coming in and thanking me for opening,” he says. After earning his degree in environmental studies and working in the field for several years, Babson decided to see if he could turn his homebrewing hobby into a career. He worked at Magic Hat and New Hampshire’s Woodstock Inn before venturing out on his own. It’s been a year of hard work, and Babson is still finding his footing; he just hired his first parttime employee, and his mom makes the long drive from his native Williston one day a week to help fill growlers. He points to the pastel-colored dish mats sitting behind the bar. “Those were a gift from mom,” Babson says with a laugh. Another entrepreneurial young alum is Sam Keane ’12, a nutrition and food sciences grad who credits his UVM advisor, Dr. Todd Pritchard, with first sparking his interest in brewing. Keane worked at Switchback Brewing until he opened Foam Brewery on the Burlington waterfront in April 2016 with four other partners, including John Farmer ’13. “We’re pushing the limits of what beer can be,” says Keane; in the year they’ve been open, the team’s made sixty different beers, ranging from sours and double IPAs to saisons and pilsners. Foam’s seasonally-driven, experimental approach earned them a spot alongside River Roost on Beer Advocate’s Class of 2016 list, and the brewery was recently ranked sixth in the world among new breweries by RateBeer. James Branagan ’07, operations manager at Brattleboro’s Whetstone Station, took a leap of faith to align his profession with his passions when he quit his job as a special educator, moved back to his hometown, and started working his way up at the brewpub. “Being a teacher and all the skills that come with that served me well when I got into this role,” he says. He convinced Whetstone’s owners, who started the brewery in 2012, that he could do a server training course on beer, and put his lesson plan skills to work. Although Whetstone’s brewing capacity is small, the larger brewpub employs eighty people in the winter and more than 150 in the summer when their beer garden overlooking the Connecticut River is open, a magnet for tourists and locals alike. “A lot of people come up for beer hunting adventures,” says Branagan. “But that’s not the reason I fell in love with craft beer. It’s the romanticism of it. It’s a connection to how the whole world drinks beer. I like the idea of continuing those traditions.” VQ

“One of the things I wanted, other than making beer, was for people to think about the history of Burlington.” — Paul Hale ’82, left, founder/owner of Queen City Brewery.

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Think cardiac pacemakers, smart prosthetics, radiation therapy, laser surgery. At UVM, where the engineers at Votey Hall and white-coated physicians and research scientists of the Larner College of Medicine share the same small corner of campus, simple proximity helps foster collaboration. Coupled with new degree programs and major investment in facilities and faculty, the university is poised to dig deep in this vital twenty-first-century field. For a case study in current success and future potential, consider Rachael Oldinski, a rising faculty star in biomedical engineering in the College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences. Oldinski and a group of faculty at the Larner College of Medicine’s Vermont Lung Center are hard at work on an ingenious invention she calls a “lung Band-Aid”—a patch of organic matter derived from seaweed that can be used to repair the hole of a collapsed lung and “potentially save a life,” she says. But if a post-doctoral student at the med school, Darcy Wagner, hadn’t wandered over to Votey Hall to catch a seminar Oldinski was teaching, then talk with her afterwards about a challenge she and her advisor, Dr. Dan Weiss, a pulmonary specialist at the Lung Center, were facing, the invention may never have been conceived.

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“She came to my seminar and said, ‘This is what we’re having trouble doing,’ and I said, ‘Well, I have something that will probably solve your problem,’” Oldinski says. “And then she came back to me and said, ‘You know I think your solution would actually be good for something else.’” One thing led to another and to another (if you’ll allow us a wee simplification of the scientific process), and the lung Band-Aid was born. “It happened only because of the people and the location,” Oldinski says. People and location. David Rosowsky sensed the strength in this combination even as he interviewed for the UVM provost position in 2013. In his previous job, dean of the School of Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Rosowsky presided over one of the nation’s leading biomedical engineering departments. After joining UVM in the #2 administrative spot, Rosowsky was further impressed by the talent of the faculty in both the engineering college and the university’s highly ranked medical school—and by how many faculty in both academic units had educational backgrounds and active research programs in biomedical engineering. “There was an obvious opportunity to invest in an area that was very compelling to students, very compelling to federal agencies supporting research, and

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very attractive to employers,” Rosowsky says. “It’s also a great fit for the university.” A Ph.D. program in bioengineering, launched in 2010, was joined by a new undergraduate major in biomedical engineering during the 2016-17 academic year. A master’s degree track in the discipline will follow within two years. The degree programs and faculty research are undergirded by the impressive bricks-and-mortar investment in the STEM complex, part of President Tom Sullivan’s 2013 Strategic Action Plan. Phase one of the project, the new Discovery Building, opened adjacent to Votey Hall this spring. Following the razing of the Cook Building, construction on the Innovation Building will begin next door. A state-of-the-art biomedical engineering teaching and research lab will be housed in Votey, much of which will be gutted and rebuilt as part of the STEM project. The proximity of engineering and medicine at UVM is rare in American higher education. At the vast majority of the fifty universities that have both accredited biomedical engineering programs and medical colleges, the two units are located across town from one another (think Tufts in Medford and Tufts Medical School in Boston’s Chinatown) or even across the state (Cornell in Ithaca and Weill Cornell Medicine in Manhattan, for example).

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING AS A FIELD is experiencing explosive growth, says Jason Bates, a biomedical engineer and professor of pulmonary medicine in the Larner College of Medicine, who helped launch the bioengineering Ph.D. as interim director of the School of Engineering, a role he played from 2010 to 2014. Bates and Jeff Frolik, professor of electrical engineering in the College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, are co-directors of the new undergraduate program. The growth is being driven along two tracks, says Bates. “There’s the technology involved in healthcare delivery,” he says, which grows exponentially every year and includes everything from smart prosthetics to diagnostic tools like CAT scanners to the safe and standardized manufacture of new pharmaceuticals. “Then there’s the technology involved in making fundamental investigations into biology as a biomedical system,” he says. “Medicine and biology have developed to the point where you just can’t get away from the need for serious quantitative methodology in much of it. Engineers are people with hammers looking for nails. And in medicine, we’ve got a lot of nails.” All that growth means better healthcare out-

comes for patients and a burgeoning job market for biomedical engineers. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects a 23 percent increase in the number of biomedical engineering jobs between 2014 and 2024. In 2015 the median income of biomedical engineers was $86,220. That rosy projection rings true for alumnus Dan Nardi, who earned his bachelor’s in mathematics in 2002 and master’s in computer science two years later. Today, he’s vice president for operations at Livongo, a Chicago-based chronic disease management company, and stays involved with UVM as a member of the CEMS advisory board. Nardi was an early, enthusiastic advocate for the new undergraduate degree. “Being out in Silicon Valley a lot and just picking up as much as I can on all the blogs, I certainly think there is more and more demand,” he says. Nardi also mentors healthcare startups in the Chicago area and notes that future biomedical engineering graduates can anticipate being welcomed by fresh waves of start-ups where their skills and versatility will make them ideal hires. The attractiveness of the new undergraduate program and the popularity of the major across higher ed should help the College of Engineering and Mathematics continue its strong enrollment growth, a strategic goal of the university and the state of Vermont. The unit has more than doubled its enrollment in the last decade. It will also help with another challenge facing UVM and universities everywhere: tipping the scale toward gender balance in the male-dominated field of engineering. “Biomedical engineering nationwide is about 40 percent female,” says Luis Garcia, dean of the College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences. “We’re confident our program will get to that level,” which should boost overall engineering enrollment well above its current ratio of 21 percent female to male, a figure higher than the national average for engineering schools but not where the college wants to be. Why more women are attracted to biomedical engineering is a complicated question. Bates and others guess that it’s “because of the more immediate social implications of being able to directly help people.” Oldinksi says role modeling plays a large part. “Where did a lot of women start to become comfortable” within engineering? she asks. “I think biomedical engineering was one place. And as soon as you have one biomedical engineering professor, there’s your pipeline of female students.” The path of Kiki Cunningham, a junior in JOSHUA BROWN

biomedical engineering who started at UVM in mechanical engineering, suggests that those reasons may be intertwined. While in high school at Emma Willard in Troy, New York, Cunningham took a tour of the General Electric facility in nearby Schenectady and talked with a young woman there who told her about a project she was working on to make synthetic skin for burn victims. Cunningham was inspired by the role model and drawn to the field’s ability to make a human impact. “Originally I wanted to go into internal medicine to help people,” she says. “After that presentation and after doing more research, I saw more ways I could help people as a bioengineer than as an M.D.” From Rachael Oldinski’s perspective, students like Cunningham and her fellow majors in the new degree program are in a classic right place, right time circumstance. “They have the ability to get into the classroom, to go over to the hospital, to volunteer, to work with faculty in the College of Medicine and the College of Engineering, the Material Science program in the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Nursing and Health Sciences,” she says. “UVM has everything you’d want for the degree.” VQ A version of this article originally appeared in Summit, a publication of UVM’s College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences.

Using a powerful green light, former doctoral student Spencer Fenn links long strands of polymers within a liquid, transforming them into a solid gel. It’s part of research seeking an advanced patch for damaged lungs.

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UVM PEOPLE Brooke Gladstone ’78

by Jeffrey Wakefield Photograph by Matthew Septimus

NPR STAR

Managing editor and co-host of WNYC’s On the Media Brooke Gladstone and her sidekick Bob Garfield draw an audience of 1.2 million to the weekly radio show, a staple for many National Public Radio listeners. Along the way, she’s won two Peabody Awards, a National Press Club Award, and an Overseas Press Club Award. Given daily accusations of fake news and dishonest reporting from on high, is it a good time to be managing editor of a program called On the Media? “I’ve had friends who say, ‘Doesn’t it feel like you spent twenty-five years preparing for this moment, so you can be effective and relevant and maybe make a difference?’ It’s an interesting time to be a reporter,” Gladstone says.

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As a UVM theatre major, Gladstone spent nearly every waking hour of her college career in a renovated gymnasium newly named Royall Tyler Theatre. She honed the art of storytelling in classes, in performing, and in watching others perform. “The sense of pacing,” the need to be “specific and concrete” in acting is much like writing an effective news story or conducting an engaging interview, she says. “It requires crafting; UVM helped me with that.” Classmate and fellow thespian David Godkin ’78 remembers Gladstone, whose family moved to Vermont from Long Island when she was in high school, as “just brilliant … We knew she was going places, we just didn’t know where.”

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You never know where waitressing might lead. After graduation, Gladstone accepted an invitation to room with a classmate in Washington, D.C., and found a restaurant job to pay the rent. A customer put her onto her first not-particularly-glamorous freelance writing assignment. “Initially it was real bottom feeding,” she says. But Gladstone marshalled her clips and began to build a career. Her big break came in 1986 when Scott Simon, then a rising talent on a new NPR show called Weekend Edition, asked her to fill in on the program while the show’s editor was away.

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That foot in the door would lead to Gladstone becoming Simon’s senior editor, then senior editor of All Things Considered, and a three-year stint in NPR’s Moscow bureau. After returning to the United States, she reported on the media beat for six years, overcoming an initial reluctance to narrow her focus. Gladstone’s work earned the attention of New York’s flagship public radio station, WNYC, which wanted her to relaunch a failing show called On the Media, which had promise but was under-resourced and lacked an editor. She agreed in 2000, but on her terms. “I realized, ‘well, if I am more-or-less destined, or doomed, to cover media, then I will define media as broadly as I possibly can.’” Media would be “any means by which we speak to each other or reflect our view of the world or take in our view of the world,” she says, an ecumenical approach that helped quintuple the size of the show’s audience over the next seventeen years.

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Not content with the rigors of producing a weekly radio program, Gladstone is also an author, of The Influencing Machine, an acclaimed non-fiction graphic novel on the history of media starring a cartoon version of herself and, most recently, The Trouble with Reality, A Rumination on Moral Panic in Our Time, prompted by President Donald Trump’s electoral victory. The new work counsels both sides of the ideological divide to venture out of their bubbles to at least attempt to understand the other’s reality. “It isn’t about agreeing,” she says. “It’s just about seeing.” VQ

OF C H E E S E & RO C K S & T I M E

On the trail of a mystery crystal

PHOTOS AND STORY BY JOSHUA BROWN

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STRUVITE CRYSTALS, PAUL KINDSTEDT LABORATORY

n 1962, at the bottom of the Ika Fjord on the southwest coast of Greenland, a Danish geologist found spectacular columns of rock growing, like white and algae-covered tree trunks, up to sixty feet tall. It was the first discovery of the mineral ikaite, a strange, watery form of calcium carbonate. Later, geologists would find ikaite in the Arctic Ocean, in sea-bottom sediments in Antarctica, and other freezing places. Taken out of the cold deep water, ikaite can melt rapidly, its aqueous crystals dried into chalk. Now, walk into City Market in Burlington, or Murray’s Cheese Shop on Bleecker Street in Manhattan, and head toward the cheese counter. Ask the cheesemonger for one of their best washed-rind cheeses. If you’re lucky, they’ll have a small wheel called Winnimere. It’s only made in winter, out of raw milk from the Ayrshire cows at the Jasper Hill Farm in Greensboro, Vermont—and it’s aged at a bit over fifty degrees Fahrenheit for two months. When you get home, open the blue-labeled wrapper: it’s going to be beautifully stinky. Note the salmon-colored top surface, overlaid with white fuzz. Scrubbed with a salt brine as it ages, this rind holds a complex layer of bacteria and yeast that imparts to the oozy inner cheese an amazing complexity of flavors, like bacon mixed with sweetened cream. If you happen to get a bit of this orange rind on your spoonful of soft

inner cheese—or you’re one of those eat-it-all types who enjoy the meaty texture of a rind—pay close attention. Notice a slight crunchiness when you bite down? Or a kind of after-effect, like a pleasant toothpaste grittiness on your teeth? Those are cheese crystals. And many of those cheese crystals—a team of UVM scientists has discovered—are cold-water ikaite. “It shouldn’t be there,” says renowned UVM mineralogist John Hughes. “But it is.” “This was very surprising,” says Gil Tansman, who completed his doctorate in food science at UVM this spring and led the discovery. In Europe, people have been making washedrind cheeses since at least the Middle Ages and the first scientific explorations of crystals in cheese began more than a hundred years ago. But very little is understood about the crystal phases of cheese and other foods. And which crystals contribute to the noticeable grittiness of many washed-rind cheeses had never been known—until Tansman thought “minerals are rocks,” and marched across campus to speak with Hughes, professor of geology and past UVM provost. Together with Paul Kindstedt, a professor of nutrition and food science, they launched

some of the first-ever explorations of crystals in food with advanced X-ray techniques. “We’re discovering rare crystals that, it turns out, people have been eating for centuries,” says Tansman, who submitted the team’s findings about cheese—to the geology journal Canadian Mineralogist. Ikaite is unstable at room temperature. “So how in the world is it forming and staying on cheese?” says Kindstedt. At first, when Tansman and Hughes removed these crystals from the rind, they “turned to mush,” Hughes says, before they could finish studying them under the X-ray beam in the university’s single-crystal diffractometer. Only after the scientists learned to quickly coat the crystals in glue could they collect data. Something is happening on the surface of the washed-rind cheese that neither food scientists nor geologists yet understand. “And that’s what makes this exciting,” says Kindstedt. In this complex smear, ecosystems of microbes and yeasts draw proteins and mineral elements, including magnesium and potassium, from within the aging curds below and carbon dioxide and ammonia from the air above the cheese, the near-magical “headspace.” This microscopic

Under a hillside in Greensboro, Vermont, wheels of young curds become rich cheddar cheese—a nearmagical transformation of milk that requires people, molds and microbes, uncommon air, and time.

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lawn creates a mysterious environment that allows these unexpected crystals to nucleate and grow large enough that you might feel them on your tongue. One morning this spring, Kindstedt and one of his new graduate students, Pat Polowsky, are working in the Carrigan Wing of Marsh Life Science Building, looking at short videos they made with a geological microscope. Against a purple background, speartipped, rainbow-edged crystals of ikaite and moreblunt crystals of the bacteria-loving mineral struvite appear and disappear as they rotate under polarized light, confirming their genuine identity as crystals, and “not just cheese gunk,” says Polowsky. The scientists’ goal is to take the definitive results from their X-ray studies and use them to corroborate lower-cost microscope techniques that could give cheesemakers a tool to ID crystals in their own products. They’re also launching an effort to collect washed-rind cheeses from cheesemakers around the country. “There may be other really interesting crystals that we haven’t seen yet,” Kindstedt says. Since arriving at UVM in 1986, Kindstedt has been a leading figure in the development of a scientific understanding of cheese. He started his career helping industrial-scale cheesemakers improve the stretch in mozzarella, and spent years finding methods to prevent calcium lactate crystals from forming in cheddar, since many consumers misinterpret surface crystals as unwanted mold. He’d always enjoyed the pop and crunch of crystals in a nicely aged parmigiano-reggiano, an old gouda, or a three-year-old cheddar. But in Sicily, in 2012, Kindstedt had “an epiphany over my double-espresso,” he says. Meeting with traditional cheesemakers from Europe, he realized that crystals were not just an incidental aspect of some older hard cheeses, but were “deep signs of authenticity” in many styles of cheese, he says—and that “the crystal reveals the conditions that are making the cheese.” In white-mold cheeses, like brie and Camembert, there’d been research, particularly in France, to understand the softening process, how they ripen from too-firm, to perfectly oozy, to an unpalatable liquid. “It’s driven by crystals that form at the surface,” he says. However, no one had taken a hard look at crystals in the washed-rind cheeses, a very profitable category of artisanal cheese. And crystals of any kind were hardly studied in the U.S. cheese industry, except as a problem to be eliminated. Having just completed his sweeping history, Cheese and Culture, Kindstedt reoriented his research program to seek a deeper understanding of crystals.

Under a steel-gray March sky, awaiting the arrival of a spring blizzard, Paul Kindstedt, Pat Polowsky, Gil

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Tansman, and I drive down the driveway at Jasper Hill Farm, past a deep-space-blue barn painted with flying cows and a giant moon of cheese. Soon we are in one of their custom-built caves—The Cellars at Jasper Hill, seven arching concrete vaults blasted into this Greensboro hillside—filled with thousands of ivory and orange and gorgeously mold-and-microbeencrusted wheels and blocks of cheese. Mateo Kehler—one of the co-owners of Jasper Hill with his brother Andy Kehler, UVM Class of 1993—is standing beneath a towering wooden rack of cloth-wrapped cheddar, talking passionately with the visiting scientists about crystals. While the slight crunch of a fine cheddar has been appreciated by cheese-lovers for a very long time, the sensory characteristic called grittiness is a complex issue. And tastes change. Cheese crystals in some markets are getting to be hot. “Cheesemongers, that are cutting at the counters, yes, they’re getting questions about crystals and they’re asking us,” Kehler says. “Maybe ten years ago,” Kehler says, if consumers tasted cheese crystals, “they would’ve freaked out about sand or said ‘something’s wrong with my cheese.’ And it’s still considered a defect in cheddar land. But, for us, these are attributes that we can leverage. Crystals can be part of the story, and they’re generally associated with really delicious cheese.” But balance is all. “Sometimes crystals are desirable and sometimes they’re not,” says Kindstedt. “There can be too much of a good thing.” Which is why he and Polowsky are collaborating with staff at Jasper Hill as they develop a new research effort to establish the relationship between grittiness—the

complex sensation of crystals in the mouth—and the types and sizes of crystals that grow in washed-rind cheeses. It ties in with the scientists’ belief that identifying crystals may reveal the peculiar conditions that gave rise to them. “If we know the magic conditions, maybe we can modulate the magic,” says Kindstedt, opening possibilities of controlling crystal growth for more-delicious cheese. But the discovery of ikaite on washed-rind cheese opens bizarre possibilities far beyond the marketplace, the UVM scientists think. It may give a view back 3.7 billion years, to the beginnings of life. Ancient seawater mats of microbes are believed to have produced ikaite and other forms of calcium carbonate, depositing them on the bottom of oceans. Geologists conjecture that calcium carbonate structures, called stromatolites, hold the entombed remnants of these microbes, and are evidence of the planet’s earliest life-forms. But this idea is controversial, and—as the UVM study shows—the conditions that cause ikaite to crystallize are far from fully understood. Which is where cheese could help. “The environment on the surface of a washed-rind cheese in some ways mimics this geologic environment, this ancient algal mat,” says John Hughes. The team’s new research shows that the microbial smear on washedrind cheese can induce the crystallization of ikaite as well as the minerals brushite and calcite—suggesting that it could work as a model system to better understand how ancient microbes may have formed stromatolites, as well as other far-reaching questions about ancient climates. “We’d like to take what’s happening in the cheese ripening room and use it to infer

things that happen out in nature,” says Kindstedt. We’ve left the cheddar room at Jasper Hill and moved into the cool, humid vault that holds ripening washed-rind cheeses. Here, hundreds of wheels of Winnimere, the 2013 winner of the American Cheese Society’s “Best in Show” award, sit on gleaming steel racks. It’s similar to some cow’s milk cheeses from the mountains of Switzerland and France, like Vacherin Mont d’Or or Försterkäse. Simliar, but not identical, since Winnimere is made by wrapping a piece of spruce bark, a thin strip of the cambium taken from a forest of Greensboro, around each wheel. (When I hand my wife a piece of this cheese that evening, she says, “It’s like eating the North Woods.”) I’m thinking about how delicious it would taste with a glass of Everett, a great porter beer from down the road at Greensboro’s famed Hill Farmstead Brewery. My thoughts turn, somewhat more loftily, to philosopher Alfred North Whitehead’s notion of the “fallacy of misplaced concreteness.” Sometimes the benefits of interdisciplinary research are presented as if scientists had to reach across from the concrete realities of their disciplines—geology, food science, microbiology—and create an imaginary connection to the other. But nature’s going to do what it will, making microbes that evolve and gene-swap in our grocery bag, crystals that care not one whit about the boundary between biology and mineralogy, rocks that become food. Maybe it’s just the thought of beer, or the pungent subterranean air going to my head, but I like to imagine this Northeast Kingdom cheese can summon a trace of crystalline flavor from the bottom of an icy ocean, even the beginning of life itself. VQ

From cows to caves at Jasper Hill Farm, professor Paul Kindstedt and his students, Gil Tansman and Pat Polowsky, are collaborating with the cheesemakers— seeking a deeper understanding of the taste and origins of crystals.

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Opiate addiction hits rural Vermont communities, like UVM junior Rory Butler’s hometown of Coventry, hard. The sociology/ history double major is determined to make a difference, initiating an Addiction Awareness Week on campus this spring and taking to the road this summer in a hard-to-miss van, brightly painted with messages for his cause. Rory’s studies, advocacy, and post-UVM dreams of law school have been greatly boosted by the Hope Scholarship. He is the inaugural recipient of the award, established by David Godkin ’77 and Pamela Haran, which provides free tuition for one Vermonter for four full years.

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CLASS NOTES Life beyond graduation

UVM ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

GREEN &GOLD REUNION

October 6–8, 2017

Classes 1933 – 1964 alumni.uvm.edu/ reunion

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

Please note that your class secretary has had an address change. I am now living with my son, Michael, and family in Rutland. Naturally, I am thrilled to be with them and dog, Nomar. As we age, lifestyles change. I would always love to hear and to report any news of classmates. Send your news to— June Hoffman Dorion 16 Elmwood Drive, Rutland, VT 05701 junedorion@gmail.com

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

I have moved to a cute little cottage in my daughter's backyard! I also am no longer driving (my choice) so there is a new lifestyle to get used to. It keeps me on my toes! Let me hear from you with your news. My new address is below. Send your news to— Louise Jordan Harper 573 Northampton Street Holyoke, MA 01040 louisejordanharper@gmail.com

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

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

Send your news to— Hedi Stoehr Ballantyne 20 Kent Street Montpelier, VT 05602 hedi.ballantyne@gmail.com

Paul Kilty shares, “I moved in to Hawaii Kai Retirement Center for Independent and Assisted Living on September 1, 2013. My address is 428 Kawaihae Street Apt. 307, Honolulu, Hawaii 96825. Phone: 808-397-1244. Email: pkilty@icloud.com. I retired from IBM in 1987 as assistant engineer after 30 years of service and came to Hawaii a few months later. I have been here ever since and enjoyed every minute of it. I taught at the Employment Training Center Community Col-

lege of University of Hawaii from 1995 to 2000. My wife passed away in 2001. My son passed away in 2008 and my daughter, Anne, passed away in 2013. After my daughter passed away, I was left with a son-in-law and four grandchildren and four greatgrandchildren. Since then I’ve suffered from a number of medical issues. I'm presently on the last stage of recovering from my latest operation.” Send your news to— Valerie Meyer Chamberlain 52 Crabapple Drive, Shelburne, VT 05482 valchamber@aol.com

Joan E. Kopp Robinson of Rockville Centre, New York, passed away May 17, 2016. Her husband, Bill Robinson, shared “Joan and I met on a blind date in 1948 as freshmen at UVM and were pinned during our sophomore year. My fraternity, Phi Delt, had a photo illustrating the ‘pinning’ announcement that appeared in a UVM publication that spring; it kind of brings us full circle.” Send your news to— UVM Alumni Association 411 Main Street, Burlington, VT 05401 Alumni.uvm.edu/classnotes

Robert M. Green and his wife, Barbara, from Boynton Beach, Florida, are proud to announce that the youngest of their eleven grandchildren, Zachary Green '21, has been accepted at UVM and will start this fall. Zachary will be the third generation of the Green family from Florida to attend UVM preceded by Grandpa Robert Green, Amy Sue Green Gorodetsky '82, Douglas Green '85, and Zachary’s father, Michael Green '86. Send your news to— Nancy Hoyt Burnett 729 Stendhal Lane, Cupertino, CA 95014

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Charles “Chuck” Perkins writes, “Life is very good for Jann and me. We travel a lot, and we own places in Vermont, Florida, Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming. We also still ski and ride the Harley. Our four grandchildren are all doing well. UVM is in our backyard, and we take advantage of all that it has to offer. My only problem is that I am now 84 years old. Where have the years gone? Thank heavens I married a younger woman. Jann and I have been married 61 years. We had a party for 200 on our 60th Anniversary at our Stowe house. Life is good!” Robert A. Baldwin shares that his beloved wife, Judith MacRae Baldwin, 85, of Cromwell, passed away on February 26, 2017. Judy’s career included the post of director of medical records at Mary Fletcher Hospital. After meeting Bob, she moved to Hartford, Connecticut, and became the assistant director of medical records at Hartford Hospital, where she served for 24 years. Judy and Bob loved hockey and were Hartford Whaler season ticket holders. She also loved jazz and attended many jazz concerts throughout the Northeast. Judy had many hidden talents which included her lead singing role in Judy Poochie and the Buckaroos. Judy was a devoted wife and stepmother and very proud of her Scottish heritage. Howard A. Bouve passed away peacefully on February 18, 2017. He is survived by his wife of 60 years, Sylvia; their four children, Sarah, Elizabeth, Tad and Amy; and their nine grandchildren. Howard’s entire career was at the First National Bank of Boston, retiring as a senior vice president. Howard was long active as a community volunteer and was an avid sailor. He and Sylvia traveled extensively. Send your news to— UVM Alumni Association 411 Main Street, Burlington, VT 05401 alumni.uvm.edu/classnotes

Babette Cameron writes, “Still enjoying island living with tennis and pickleball. Volunteer jobs keep me busy with local land trust and working at a thrift shop to benefit a no-kill animal shelter. Managed to have a winter break with a trip south this winter. Would love to have classmates and UVM friends visit anytime!” Martin “Marty” Louis Warren passed away on February 13, 2017. Marty loved his family, was an avid golfer and a passionate Nebraska football fan. He served in the First Radiological Safety Support Unit measuring fallout at both the Nevada test site and in the Eniwetok and Bikini atolls after which he moved to Omaha as a sales rep in Nebraska and Iowa. Following eleven years of traveling, Marty decided upon a more settled life and in 1969 began his 36-year career in retail with Dillards Department Store’s corporate office. Ovila “Peter” Bibeau retired from playing polo on September 1, 2016, after being an active player and member of the United States Polo Association for 35 years. He owns two polo clubs, Buckleigh Farms in Pine Bush, New York, featuring two polo fields, and the other club in Aiken, South Carolina. Peter has played globally and was recently honored at a dinner in Cheshire, England,

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by polo players he has competed with from all over the world. Peter can be contacted at peterbibeau@bibeauconstruction.com. 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

Bob Gauthier let us know that the Gauthier family T-Bird Motel in Shelburne, Vermont has just upgrated it's Wi-Fi system to one of the fastest high band width Wi-Fi system available in the Burlington area. Send your news to— Jane K. Stickney 32 Hickory Hill Road, Williston, VT 05495 stickneyjanek@gmail.com

Ernest G. Sartelle shares, “I retired from IBM after 34 years. I am still in good health and every day enjoying all my eight grandchildren that live within a few miles of my condo.” Aimee “Julie” Brown Dempsey wanted to make sure you knew that Katherine Fernald Beebe passed away early in 2016 in Bozeman, Montana. William Beebe passed away during the winter of 2017 also in Bozeman, Montana. Kay had been in failing health for some time. Both were avid skiers. Joan King is the founder of Positive Mental Imagery, a mental sports consulting service dedicated to helping golfers achieve their peak performances. Since 1992 she has given workshops and individual training to amateur and professional golfers internationally and has produced eight selfhypnosis golf CDs. Joan's new book, The Heart of Golf, Access Your Supreme Intelligence for Peak Performances explores negative emotions such as fear and performance anxiety, the four Cs of mind blockage, the four progressive stages of learning, the supreme intelligence of the heart, and the way to access the zone state in competition. All royalties will be donated to Junior Golf. Send your news to— UVM Alumni Association 411 Main Street, Burlington, VT 05401 alumni.uvm.edu/classnotes

Roger H. Madon writes, “I am keeping busy practicing labor and employment law and offering financial planning to those contemplating retirement. Also, I am doing a short stint as a radio talk show host on 900AM (The Talk of the Palm Beaches) streaming www.900thetalk.com, something I used to do when attending UVM. I published American Haiku and am working on my second book Huckleberry Jew. For some reason the second one is a lot harder to write. Sue, my beautiful wife of 47 years, says she'll keep me for a little while longer as long as I stay out of her way.” Richard Turrone shares, “I turned 80 this

past September. I'm still growing grapes and making wine, but a little slower than in past years. Tish and I have been blessed with good health, four children and five grandchildren. In October we flew to Vermont to visit our oldest daughter and two of our grandchildren and got caught in a snowstorm on the way to the airport in Manchester. Brought back many college memories.” Send your news to— UVM Alumni Association 411 Main Street, Burlington, VT 05401 alumni.uvm.edu/classnotes

Deedee Weiss Mufson writes, “I had a great reunion with former roommate, Marsha Eisen Schorr, in Bay Harbor Islands, Florida, in March. Priscilla Carpenter writes, “Russ and I are both on the mend. He with a fractured hip and I with a reverse shoulder replacement. I recuperated on the couch in front of the TV alternating between politics and sports. Basically we are fine and finding plenty to do in Franklin and Chittenden Counties—plus an annual trip to Maine and at least a trip every year, Puerto Rico, Branson, New Bern, Hilton Head, often with my siblings. What a year!” Send your news to— Henry Shaw, Jr. 112 Pebble Creek Road Columbia, SC 29223 hshaw@sc.rr.com

Brian Harwood retired from the board of the Northfield Savings Bank after 19 years as a trustee and former chair. He has joined the board of the VNA Chittenden Grand Isle. His wife, Janet Savageau Harwood ’77, is co-chair of the Champlain Valley Friends board of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra. They reside in South Burlington. Robert Denmead writes, “My wife Patricia Doherty '58, and I would enjoy seeing any old friends from UVM. We are located in Venice, Florida, just 25 miles south of Sarasota on the Gulf Coast.” Send your news to— UVM Alumni Association 411 Main Street, Burlington, VT 05401 Alumni.uvm.edu/classnotes

Mary Bell writes, “Roger and I are enjoying our busy retirement life at Terra Siesta Co-Op park. We welcomed our fourth great-grandson in June. When I have time, I enjoy painting and showing my work at local craft fairs. We have many happy memories of our years at UVM.” Sandra Bailey Dibbell completed 50 hours of training to become a Stephen Minister in March 2017 and was installed on April 30, 2017. She serves in that capacity at the Avon Lake United Church of Christ in Avon Lake, Ohio, helping fellow church members through difficult times. John Chiu reports, “I am still working two days a week but hopefully will be out by about this time next year. Terminating a medical practice is not as easy as one would expect in today's market. Thankfully, I am still in pretty good health. I play golf

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BILL PICKENS '58 Generations of UVM student leaders gathered on a late April weekend to mark the seventy-fifth anniversary of student government at the university. Among the alumni returning for a visit, Bill Pickens ’58, the first African-American student elected to the top job. Pickens circled up with six current student leaders to share memories, the advice of an elder, and talk today’s issues. He spun out the story of leading an effort to bring Kakewalk’s blackface rituals to an end. Pickens’s family, including his grandfather, a founder of the NAACP, was well connected to many African-American leaders nationwide, including baseball pioneer Jackie Robinson. Pickens brought some of these leaders to campus to speak out against Kakewalk, but the tour de force of delivering Robinson was thwarted by a snowstorm that stranded him at LaGuardia Airport. And Kakewalk endured for many more years.

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Pickens’s start in student government would set the stage for years involved in Democratic party politics, including service as New York treasurer for Jimmy Carter’s run to the presidency. Pickens told the students about staunchly Republican students who were close friends and allies for his own election. “Politics should not eliminate friendship if you do it the right way,” Pickens said. “It is not a zero-sum game.” As for graduating and heading out into the world: “Get off your duff and do something. Put it to work. Get into the fray. You’ve got to snatch it, because nobody is going to give it to you. But always act with dignity and sensitivity, not a bludgeon.” The student senators gathering with Bill Pickens included Carolynn van Arsdale, Jamie Benson, and Nicole Woodcock, pictured. Chris Petrillo, president; Brandon Tracy, and Will Suban are out of frame.

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| CLASS NOTES on Wednesdays, work out at the gym three times a week. I have been traveling at a pretty fast pace over the last year: Hawaii, Lake Tahoe, Cuba, Dubai, Botswana, Victoria Falls (Zimbabwe), South Africa, Mexico City, and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. We celebrated my wife's birthday at a winery and then went to Anza-Borrego State Park to view the biggest blooming of wildflowers ever. My youngest sister and I will accompany my 98.9 year-old mother on a cruise to Vancouver, Canada. She can walk unaided most of the time and her mind is still very sharp— with her major hobby being mahjongg. In June we will be in Hawaii and in the summer perhaps a river cruise in France. In September, we have a nephew's wedding in Toronto. I am trying to fill up my bucket list since no one knows what tomorrow may bring at our age.” Carol Overton Blanchard says she is still happy in “paradise” a.k.a. Palm City, Florida, and enjoyed an all-too-brief visit from classmate, Bette Dunn Hine, and her husband, Bill, recently. Julia Cass Kullberg shares, “We are still enjoying our winters in Florida and summers in upstate New York. I have had to give up my rewarding volunteer job with Hospice due to back problems. My nursing career has run the gamut from pediatrics to end of life care. Thanks to the UVM nursing program for excellent preparation. My husband and I will celebrate our 50th wedding anniversary in June. We are planning a family celebration on Cape Cod, our annual summer vacation spot, in July.” Madeleine Wishnie Brecher emailed, “I am happy to report that I am still very involved at the United Nations representing an international N.G.O. and working on the status of women issues. It’s 11 long years now and my involvement continues to be a remarkable experience—networking with women from across the globe on the crucial issues of gender equality and women’s empowerment. In addition, I have joined a lifelong learning community and was forced to learn Power Point for my coming hour-an-a-half presentation. Now, my grandkids have nothing on me! Travel remains an important priority too. This year, George and I traveled to Costa Rica for some outdoor adventures including horseback riding and zip lining in the rain with 30 mph winds; Cuba which was quite fantastic; and Naples, Florida, where I had a wonderful reunion with my dear sorority sister, Louise Magram Weiner. We never tired of reminiscing about our four years together at UVM. George and I have a 50th anniversary small ship cruise coming up in two months to Malta and up the west coast of Italy to Venice. I have just been invited to Gracie Mansion this week to meet with New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and his wife, Chirlane McCray, in honor of Women's History Month: The Annual Mentoring & Civic Leadership Event. I am taking my two granddaughters as my female mentees. I am just loving these golden years. I send warm regards to all my friends from the class of 61.” Diana Jordan Edwards reported, “My husband John Donald Edwards died January 21, 2017. We were married 54 years and brought up our two daughters and a son in Coventry, Connecticut. Don was a group agent for Sumner and Sumner, Insurance Co. of Willimantic. For the last two years we have lived in the Salt Lake City, Utah, area.”

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Mimi (Portnoy) Davis-Neches says, “I’m still living and working in Los Angeles. I was an actress for 30 years and have been a licensed marriage and family therapist with an office in Burbank for the past 22 years. I’m married to a licensed marriage and family therapist, Bob Neches, who is also a voice-over actor. We’ve been happily married for 21 years. My son, Garrett, is married and lives in Tacoma, Washington, with his wife and daughter (my stunning, almost 18-year-old granddaughter, Isabella, who is about to graduate from high school.) My daughter, Hilary, who was also an actress, is now a sixth-grade teacher, married to a working actor, Todd Anderson, and they have a precocious 11-year-old son, Colby, who is in fifth-grade. Luckily, Hilary and her family live near us in Los Angeles. I wish I had something truly exciting to convey, but I’m busy with my practice, with my friends and doing as well as I can with the indignities and agonies of getting older.” Send your news to— Steve Berry 8 Oakmount Circle, Lexington, MA 02420 steveberrydhs@gmail.com

Travel journalists Jules Older and Effin Lawes Older ’64 make minimovies, most of which are at YouTube. com/julesolder. Among their most recent are Rufus Takes A Ride and Hallelujah: In Maori. Both are available on youtube.com. When the pair were shopping for plants for daughter Amber Older’s ’91 garden, the knowledgeable associate who advised them at Kings Plant Barn turned out to be none other than Tory Gallogly ’15. Jules also writes, “This spring, just as we were about to start our ushering gig at SFJCC (San Francisco Jewish Community Center), we spotted a table with a green banner that read University of Vermont. We made our way to it, and the guy behind the table said, ‘Jules?’ It was Howard Lincoln ’81, G’92 of the University of Vermont Foundation. We chatted until our respective events—his was for newly accepted high schoolers—began. Small UVM world, eh?” Linda Leffel Landow shares, “My husband, Lloyd, and I visited Israel in January 2017 and spent a wonderful evening with Vic Hoffman and his wife, Hinda, who are long time residents of Jerusalem. A photo is on the Alumni Association website photo flickr gallery. Dick Aldinger writes, “Janet and I are living in Orlando, Florida, and I am retired from Walt Disney World. Two of our four children live close by along with four grandchildren. We look forward to attending my 55th Alumni Weekend, October 6-8, 2017. Such a great time of the year to visit Vermont and see all the progress at UVM. Planned activities look great. Hope that many former classmates will take the time and make this year's Reunion.” Send your news to— Patricia Hoskiewicz Allen 14 Stony Brook Drive, Rexford, NY 12148 traileka@aol.com

Frank Pagliaro shares, “In March, my wife and I flew 17 hours to Singapore where we stayed for several days. Then we flew to Siem Reap in Cambodia where we joined

a National Geographic group. We visited the Angkor Wat temple complex for two days and then boarded a small ship and sailed down the Mekong and other rivers for a week before heading to Saigon. It was our first visit to Asia (our sixth continent) and we found it fascinating. On the way home we stopped in Hong Kong for a few days. I continue to practice law mostly full time and spend more time with my four grandchildren.” Jack Titus writes, before my next birthday, at which time I will be 80 years young, I will semi-retire. Sill have my own packaging and packaging consulting business here in Idaho, and find it tough to give up after 30 years. Became a great-grandpa earlier this month (April 1st, no joke.) Loving life and feeling pretty healthy. Would love to connect with anyone who remembers me.” Jeff Harvey writes that he retired from the Army, a Lieutenant Colonel, in 1995. He was Commanding Officer of ALPHA Company, 1st Battalion, 28th Infantry regiment, 1st Infantry Division. He and his wife, Janet, an Army Chaplain, who retired in 2004, live in Ocala, Florida. He keeps active with a set routine, working out in the morning at the YMCA, and outside in his gardens in the afternoon. He wrote a couple of oral history stories about his company in Vietnam. The first was about his Tet experiences, and it was published in Vietnam Magazine, February 2016 issue. The recollections of other soldiers were taken from oral histories compiled by the Battalion's ALPHA and Headquarters Companies. One can view it at historynet.com/vietnam, and scroll down to “The Black Lions Chew up NVA at An My.” The next article was when he was still in country, but he was no longer with his men. He got some of his men to work on oral histories about the two events. They have reunions on Veteran's Day. One will be published in the June issue due out in April, titled "A Sergeant’s Prayer Is Answered." Jeff says his English literature instructors would be amazed that he's a "published author"! Those of us living in the northeast have an advantage of getting together in New York City whether it's an impromptu lunch as Lola DiGiralomo Lawrence and I enjoyed or a planned event such as the UVM reception held at the Penn Club in New York City. Sandra Timmerman and I attended two such events in the past year and enjoyed meeting many of the alumni who recently graduated and live or work in the city. There were no '63 classmates in attendance. However, this past November, we met up with Don Noble and talked about Bob Walsh his friend, Sigma Nu Brother, and, above all, his Ranger Buddy in Ranger School, the U.S. Army's toughest combat school. Don stated that they went through hell together during that training. Then, he and Bob were sent to Vietnam where Don spent two tours with the Fifth Special Forces Group, was badly wounded and spent a year in Walter Reid Hospital. Don then lost touch with Bob, sadly, and decided to catch up on his life through re-connecting with me. Ours was a bittersweet reunion as Bob, after two tours in Vietnam and a successful military career, died of heart failure at an early age of 50. Hopefully we will see more Class of '63 at the next alumni event in NYC. Another classmate who keeps in touch is Llyn Lifshin. Her latest book is entitled Little Dancer: The Degas Poems. In her poetry, Lyn

explores and imagines the world of Marie Van Goethem, the Little Dancer sculpted by Edgar Degas. Her poetry is recognized as compelling and insightful by the National Endowment for the Arts. Looking forward to hearing from you or meeting up with you at the next alumni event in New York. Until then, enjoy! Send your news to— Toni Citarella Mullins 210 Conover Lane, Red Bank, NJ 07701 tonicmullins@verizon.net

Alan L. Brown writes, “Retired twice now, thirty years as an FBI Agent, and sixteen years as a corporate pilot and instructor for Flight Safety International, Atlanta, Georgia. I reside in Peachtree City, Georgia.” Darrell Simino writes, “I just finished another year volunteering to prepare taxes for seniors and lower-income families through the AARP Tax-Aide Foundation, working at the Worcester Senior Center and the Worcester Public Library. My wife, Betty, continues to volunteer as a case reviewer for the Department of Children and Families. We both also volunteer with the Boston Marathon, assisting one day handing out bib numbers to runners in Boston and one day at the start line in Hopkinton. Great fun! We also take time to enjoy our four grandchildren and watch lots of baseball at this time of the year. Have lived in Westborough for nearly 39 years and hope to stay in our home for a few more,with continued good health.” Hopefully you all had a good winter though it was a crazy up and down one. Maybe summer will be better. Right now I am sitting on our

deck at camp looking at the Adirondacks. Though Lake Champlain was at a record low last summer, it was way back up to our steps at the end of April. We are here to open up and enjoy a couple of days and will be looking forward to our summer back on the lake. Best to all of you. Send your news to— Susan Barber 1 Oak Hill Road, P.O. Box 63 Harvard, MA 01451 suebarber@verizon.net

Rose Levy Beranbaum shares, “My first cookbook, The Cake Bible, published in 1988 and now in it’s 54th printing, has been inducted into the International Association of Culinary Professional Hall of Fame. I am now working on my 11th cookbook, publication date fall of 2018. It will have over 600 step-by-step photos of baking basics.” Mark Berson writes, “All is well. Spending time with grandchildren in Boston, Ann Arbor, Truckee, and Cape Cod. All the best to all.” Send your news to— Colleen Denny Hertel 14 Graystone Circle, Winchester, MA 01890 colleenhertel@hotmail.com

Edward Varney writes, “My wife, Betty, and I were recently treated to a UVM reception for President Tom Sullivan at the home of Laurie Sommer '87 and her husband, Scott Sommer, in Scottsdale, Arizona. Also in attendance was past UVM president Lattie Coor. We

all enjoyed hearing about the future plans for UVM students and the campus.” Dr. C. Norman Coleman received the 2016 Failla Award, which is an honor given by the Radiation Research Society to an outstanding member of the radiation research community in recognition of a history of significant contributions to radiation research. Dr. Coleman presented a lecture with emphasis on the continuum of science, service, and society. The presentation discussed how radiation is an integral part of precision medicine; how radiation scientists could help society deal with the reality of radiation in our lives including threats of radiation exposure from both accidental and intentional exposures, and how experts in cancer care can address the enormous gap in global cancer care. My husband, Ken McGuckin, and I joined several UVM classmates for a fun couple of days of boating, croquet (yes croquet!) beach walking and great conversation in Vero Beach where Judy Claypoole Stewart and Jack Stewart '65 live part time, and where Claire Berka Willis and Frank Willis '64 were vacationing. The ladies all are members of Kappa Alpha Theta and lived in the house oh so long ago where Ken served as dishwasher. Ah, memories of the best times! Send your news to— Kathleen Nunan McGuckin 416 San Nicolas Way, St. Augustine, FL 32080 kkmcguckin@prodigy.net

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For the Love of Water Jack Lear ’55 was not a graduate of the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources—and that’s not because it didn’t yet exist. Jack’s degree was in applied technology and agricultural engineering, followed years later by a master’s in business from Temple University. He then spent most of his career in marketing with AT&T Bell. When the time came for estate planning however, Jack and his wife, Ann, pledged their support for lake research through UVM’s Rubenstein Ecosystem Science Laboratory. “We always had an interest in water,” explains Jack. Both he and Ann, who were hometown high school sweethearts, grew up going to the Jersey Shore where they would sail. They also fondly recall watching Jack’s Sigma Nu brothers sail on Lake Champlain. Sailing and sailboats were passions they enjoyed into their eighties. So, when UVM Foundation officer, Sarah Sprayregen ’77, connected the couple with Rubenstein School Dean Nancy Mathews, it was a great match and instant connection. The Lears have since spent time aboard UVM’s research vessel, the Melosira, learning about the research conducted by UVM students and faculty.

As savvy philanthropists, the Lears chose to establish a UVM Charitable Gift Annuity (CGA) that will ultimately benefit the John W. and Ann G. Lear Fund which supports research and studies around the environmental health of the Lake Champlain eco-system, including teaching, research, instructional programs and public service. By using appreciated securities to fund their gift, the Lears enjoy a fixed stream of income as well as significant capital gains and income tax savings. They are also eligible to take a federal income tax charitable deduction in the year the annuity was created. Once Jack and Ann pass away, the balance of their CGA will be added to the Lear Fund. “UVM has always been on the top of the list for Jack,” says Ann who, although not an alumna herself, considers UVM her school, too, because of the amount of time she spent on campus throughout their courtship. Giving back is a nod of appreciation for the outstanding education Jack received at UVM, and the Lears are particularly proud that their gift will benefit generations of families on both sides of Lake Champlain for years to come.

For information on including the University of Vermont in your estate plan, Amy Palmer-Ellis, Office of Gift Planning The University of Vermont Foundation 411 Main Street, Burlington, VT 05401-3411 PHONE: 802-656-9536 FAX: 802-656-8678 E-MAIL: amy.palmer-ellis@uvm.edu

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If you are interested in planning your upcoming reunion, email alumni@uvm.edu. After a long and wonderful career in the film and television industry in New York and Los Angeles, Tim Hayes is living in Vermont enjoying an incredible second career as adjunct professor of equine therapy for the Department of Behavioral Science at Johnson State College, and as visiting instructor of natural horsemanship for UVM and UConn. He is a contributing expert consultant and columnist for Equus and Equine Journal magazines and a contributing columnist for The Huffington Post. Tim’s book, Riding Home: The Power of Horses to Heal, scientifically and experientially explains today’s Equine Therapy: why horses have the extraordinary ability to help heal emotional wounds. Don De Vries reports, “Life’s been great! Returned to active duty in the Navy in 1999, working and living in the United Kingdom, moving then to Alexandria, Virginia, eventually retiring from the U. S. Navy in 2003 and Federal Government service in 2011. Wonderful, interesting, and challenging work that helped me slide into retirement. My wife, Diane, and I have spent our last seven winters skiing in Summit County, Colorado, and, for the past three years, working at Keystone Ski School to keep us young. Wish I had skied more at UVM, as it would have made me a much better ski bum. We live on Shelter Island, New York, during the spring and fall and spend most summers in Italy and traveling throughout Europe. Walked the Camino de Santiago from Portugal a few seasons ago and looking for new and interesting walks in UK, Italy, and Spain. Still love to sail when the wind is right. We have seven grandchildren that we love to see and hang with.” Michele Garges writes, “I returned to Vermont after many years and am residing in Danville. I am currently providing telephone triage for hospices around the country.” Richard Langs writes, “Retired from 30-year financial management career in the transportation industry. Now engaged in writing history books for the East Bay Regional Park District, traveling with my wife CeCe, and being Grampa to our two grandkids. Life is good!” Carol A. Green writes, “My nursing career started in Denver, Colorado, in 1967 but I returned to Vermont in ’76 to be near family. My one son was four at that time and he ended up going to UVM also. After about 25 years in hospital nursing and administration I took a post-master’s course and became a nurse practitioner for the last 20 years and had an opportunity to precept and teach students at UVM. Since retirement I have relocated to Boulder, Colorado, to be near my son's family. I am blessed with three grandsons now ages 8, 9, and 12. They are a great joy in my life. Colorado offers opportunities for all the things I enjoy outdoors: skiing, hiking, biking, as well as musical opportunities. I enjoy singing in my church choir and playing the piano in various groups. I look forward to returning to our 50th and especially hope to see many of my classmates from nursing.” Send your news to— Jane Kleinberg Carroll

44 Halsey Street, Apt. 3, Providence, RI 02906 jane.carroll@cox.net

For the third time, Jack Rosenberg's work was recently one of 40 selections out of 439 entries for the Maryland Federation of Art's Focal Point Exhibition juried by Hamidah Glasgow. Jack's work was also recently accepted to The Annual Garrett Park Invitational Art Show, a once-a-year, juried exhibit. Other photos by Jack, such as his Cosmos 3, Red Storm, Red Roots and Cape Storm Shadows 2 have ranked Top 10 of Class ahead of 51,000 to 45,000 submissions to ViewBug.com a national photo community. Check out his amazing talent. Paul Malone writes, “Jay Roth will be stepping down as president of Director’s Guild of America (DGA) after 22 years. Roth began his career as a legal services and civil rights lawyer. He joined the DGA as national executive director in 1995 after a career practicing labor law He has served as chair of the Labor Law Section of the Los Angeles County Bar Association and as chair of the American Bar Association Airline-Railway Labor Law Committee. He was elected a Fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers. Roth has worked closely with DGA leaders to nurture the DGA Foundation which provides support for members in times of crisis and the Motion Picture & Television Fund, for which he is treasurer, and has served as a board member for over 15 years. He is also a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He is married to his wife of 45 years, Sherry Grant, an attorney who represents injured workers. Together they have a daughter and son-in-law, Gina and Dan O'Donnell, and two grandchildren, Jack and Caroline, ages 9 and 4.” Send your news to— Diane Duley Glew 23 Franklin Street, 2 Wheeler Farm Westerly, RI 02891 ddglew@gmail.com

James Betts writes, “Still in full-time pediatric surgical practice, completing 34 years at Children's Hospital Oakland. Looking at part-time transition after the end of this year. In my spare time, I serve as a wildland, structure, and cliff rescue firefighter in Big Sur. I have a small home there where I retreat a few weekends a month. I'm also a tactical physician with the FBI, San Francisco SWAT team. For all three 'avocations': the red, white, and blue, it has been an honor and privilege to serve the children, community and society. Humbling for a 'country boy' from Bennington. Looking forward to my 45th College of Medicine Reunion in 2018. Where have all the decades gone? (Sung to the Kingston Trio tune!) I wish everyone in the venerable Class of '69, good health and happiness. We'll see each other at our 50th!” Send your news to— Mary Moninger-Elia 1 Templeton Street, West Haven, CT 06516 maryeliawh@gmail.com

Hi, Classmates. As I write this note to our class, I’m sitting outside by the pool on an 83-degree day. I feel very blessed to be here with such pleasant weather. I discover more and more UVM alums down here in Southwest Florida all the time—some just visiting—others here year long. This winter, I went to a UVM basketball game in Fort Myers. It was a tournament of eight teams where UVM earned runner-up status. While at the game, I saw several local UVM alums and met the new athletic director. Great to see UVM win! I got a note from Paul Shea who lives about a half-mile away from me off the same street. Paul has been down here for a while and has an office in Fort Myers. But, he is slowly retiring to play more golf in their Naples golf community. We met for a drink to tell old UVM stories. Robert Orr writes, “My son, Ambrose Orr ’16, graduated from UVM pre-med last year.” Send your news to— Douglas Arnold 11608 Quail Village Way, Naples, FL 34119 darnold@arnold-co.com

Wally Johnson, who retired after 40 years as sports information director (SID) at Saint Lawrence University on June 1, 2017 became the first SID to be named winner of the Jim Fullerton Award by the American Hockey Coaches Association. He received his award for career contributions to the sport of ice hockey at the ACHA Convention in Florida in April. Send your news to— Sarah Wilbur Sprayregen 145 Cliff Street, Burlington, VT 05401 sarah.sprayregen@uvm.edu

Maureen Pietryka Dakin is currently serving her 11th year in the Vermont State House of Representatives where she serves on the Appropriations Committee. Dr. Ronda Moore and her business partner have been selected as 2017 “Women Worth Watching in STEM” by Profiles in Diversity Journal. Dr. Moore has had a multifaceted STEM career across two different professions, and continues to break new ground every day. Using her experience as a veterinarian and scientist, and background in pathology, she advises inventors and senior management of pharmaceutical, biologic, medical device, and medical diagnostic companies, start-ups and emerging companies, venture capital, and universities on a wide range of intellectual property issues. Rosie Lee writes, “I've been working on a documentary, Inside Peace, for the past six years. It is about criminal offenders marked by generations of violence, addiction and bad choices, who attend a peace class in a Texas jail and struggle to discover their humanity, improve their outlook on life, and rebuild their lives from the inside out. The film was invited to 15 film festivals and won 10 awards, before an invitation to air on PBS in Michigan was offered, where we won a Television Broadcast Excellence Merit Award for independent producer. Inside Peace is now offered on PBS nationally through the National Educational Television Association. It's a rewarding blend of all

that started at UVM: a passion for peace activism, a major in mass communications (who knew the fun to come with that choice!) and a fifth-year program in education. Check out the movie at insidepeacemovie.com.” Send your news to— Debbie Koslow Stern 198 Bluebird Drive, Colchester, VT 05446 debra.stern@uvm.edu

Scott Thomas Vaughn passed away on February 22, 2017. He was a graduate of Washington and Lee University School of Law and practiced law for over 40 years, primarily at the Hilburn Law Firm in North Little Rock, Arkansas. Scott was a man of great integrity, strength, and goodness who brought joy and laughter to all who met him. Even those who did not know him were often recipients of his unsolicited acts of kindness. Send your news to— Deborah Layne Mesce 2227 Observatory Place N.W. Washington, DC 20007 dmesce@prb.org

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

Mariella Squire writes, “I am still on the faculty of University of Maine at Fort Kent, as professor of anthropology and sociology, and am currently head of social sciences. I teach folklore, ethnobotany, medical anthropology, environmental anthropology, and a range of sociology courses. My hobbies include cats, herbalism, gardening, historic re-enactment, and music. I am also the part-time lay preacher and musician for a Congregational Church in town.” Paula Cope writes, “I was excited to participate in the groundbreaking for the new UVM Rescue quarters. Happy to be joined by Stacey Lazarus, Linda Krueger, and Themis Tsoumas. It only took 45 years!” Send your news to— Dina Dwyer Child 1263 Spear Street, South Burlington, VT 05403 dinachild@aol.com

Jeffrey T. Berk shares, “I graduated from University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine 1981. Currently I am based in Lexington, Kentucky, specializing in assisting clients purchasing thoroughbred racehorses and breeding stock internationally. I am also vice president of the American Association of Equine Practitioners.” Don Nelinson writes, “I guess we really don't slow down with age! I recently added to my responsibilities as the American Osteopathic Association's Ex Officio member of the Internal Medicine Review Committee at the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. Not enough skiing this past winter but hopSUMMER 2017 |

| CLASS NOTES ing for some quality time at the Vermont house this summer. Also reminding classmates interested in supporting or getting involved with the Defining Excellence award at UVM to contact me.” Gary Faigen writes, “For over 20 years now, the following group has been getting together annually, trying, with limited success, to act as we did back in the day. It started as five or six of us and has grown to include the following: Chris “you pulled the wrong tooth Doc” Aumock, Mark “let's skip class and go for a drive in the country” Auriema, Steve “collar up” Bradley, Jon “cut down all the trees” Parker, Chuck “want some Sheldrake Point wine” Tauck, Stewart “I move every 15 years” Yaguda, Bruce “Moose” Peel, Jan “call me professor” Carlee, Bob “Wilco/NASA guy” Willcox, Tim “Mr. Florida” Fenton, Teddy “we should go this way,” Pickering, Dave “Mr. Florida 2” Demers and Tim “Oregon Mountain Man” Donahue. We also hope to get Richard “Gitch” Gaiser and Scott “Mr. Alaska” Bauer to join us. Everyone allegedly graduated in the 1975 to 1977 range, with the majority in 1976. Trips have included Mount Katahdin; Myrtle Beach; a fishing club near Woodstock, Vermont, twice; Mad River; Lake Placid twice, Portland, Oregon; Aspen; Savannah; D.C.; Newport, Rhode Island; Lake Winnipesaukee; Flagstaff Lake/Mount Bigelow, Maine; and Sarasota is on the agenda for this October. I'm sure there must be other trips, but I'm old and just can't remember. We do a lot of the same things that we used to do, just at a slower pace. And where we used to go out at 10, now we are going to bed. Lots of great memories!” Karen Laibach Koenig writes that she, Kenneth Koenig, Jim O'Neil, Cindy Wilson O'Neil '77, Patrick Taves, and Peggy Johnstone Taves '77 celebrated their 40th wedding anniversaries together in Key West this April. They all had a great time together! Kathy Towle shares, “Just moved to Hyde Park section of Tampa and love it! Looking forward to meeting some other UVM alums in the area.” Lynn Vera writes, “My biggest news is retirement after 35 years in Vermont public education (middle, adult, and mostly high school). I am traveling, gardening, caregiving for family members, and loving the freedom to wake up and decide what I want to do! I serve on Vermont Workforce Development Board and on boards for two non-profits. I am re-connected with two UVM compatriots and through them to other old friends. Life is good. I referee field hockey every fall (40+years) at high school and college levels. I live with my partner of 28 years and our dog in Queen City Park. The Vermont feminist community continues to inspire and uplift me.” Send your news to— Pete Beekman 2 Elm Street, Canton, NY 13617 pbeekman19@gmail.com

40th Reunion October 6-8, 2017

If you are interested in planning your upcoming reunion, email alumni@uvm.edu. Kathi Burdett Roesler writes, “My husband, Bob, and I have become Florida residents. I retired recently after 40

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years as an operating room nurse. Still using my art degree by doing house portraits on plates. Five children, five grandchildren. Life is busy and good.” Laurel Raines co-founded Dig Studio in 2012, a landscape architecture, urban design and planning firm in Denver, Colorado. She writes, “After over 30 years of partnering in firms of all sizes, having our own firm again has been rewarding and fun!” Lynn St. Amour reports, “Having retired from the Internet Society, a large global non-profit after 13 years as president and CEO, I was recently re-appointed by the United Nations Secretary General to the position of chair of the Multistakeholder Advisory Group of the Internet Governance Forum, so no retirement at the moment. The IGF brings stakeholders together to advance discussions on public policy issues relating to the internet and its impacts. After spending nearly 30 years in Europe, I moved back to Boston and am slowly reconnecting. Nice to be back.” Send your news to— UVM Alumni Association 411 Main Street, Burlington, VT 05401 alumni.uvm.edu/classnotes

Judy Ketcham Knaub writes, “While visiting Linda Johnson Norris '81, we went to the rebels lacrosse game where she surprised me by inviting Jennifer Oakes, one of our UVM basketball coaches. Then, in walks Janice Lange, who was my field hockey coach at UVM. So fun to catch up with these inspiring, active women!” Martha Inglis writes, “After graduation I remained in Vermont for seven years. When I left, I continued teaching, living in New York (Long Island), West Virginia, Maryland (Washington, D.C. region) and Virginia. I have been involved with animal-assisted therapy with my little papillon who thinks all people were put on earth to be his friends. I would love to hear from any UVM grads living in Greater D.C.!” Send your news to— UVM Alumni Association 411 Main Street, Burlington, VT 05401 alumni.uvm.edu/classnotes

Greg Boardman says, “I've announced my retirement as vice provost for student affairs at Stanford

University. Will be moving to Santa Fe, New Mexico, later this summer. Looking forward to the next adventure. Any UVM'ers in the Santa Fe area?” Send your news to— Beth Gamache 58 Grey Meadow Drive, Burlington, VT 05401 bethgamache@burlingtontelecom.net

Heidi Winslow writes, “After living in Colorado for close to 30 years (Aspen and Telluride), I am enjoying being back in New England and reconnecting with UVM alumni! I have been working in the sports medicine/ wellness world since graduating and have recently launched Coreretreats.com which is an exciting and rewarding business. I hope to visit Burlington and UVM sometime soon, maybe for an alumni hockey or lacrosse game? Fellow teammates??” Tom Beatini was a presenter at the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics annual conference in San Antonio, Texas. This conference is attended by mathematics teachers from around the world. It was the tenth time he made a presentation at this conference. He also had a mini-UVM reunion with David Milligan ’77. Send your news to— UVM Alumni Association alumni.uvm.edu/classnotes

Catherine Cover Willson says, “I'm writing on behalf of myself and five alums, Barb Rosenthal Ebenstein, Karen Yacos, Sue Dixon, Ruth Einstein and Mary Crane. The six of us lived in Robinson Dorm (now Slade) in 1978. We graduated together (well, most of us) in 1981 and stayed in Vermont, to find jobs, spouses and have children (okay, most of us). Some have gone back to school, for higher degrees, taking us away from Vermont for a few years. We have seen each other through divorce and the death of a spouse. We are watching our children grow up and find their ways. Some are even now UVM alums! We still share laughter over our antics at Robinson Dorm, most of those stories not really fit for print! Here is to our friendships of almost 35 years that started at UVM!” Laura Barber Markwick will be inducted as a fellow of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) at their annual convention in Philadelphia in June 2017. She was also elected to serve as the New York (north) state representative for AANP. Tim Anderson writes, “My wife, Nickie, and I travelled from California to Burlington for the Men's Lacrosse DI 40-year anniversary celebration weekend on April 1. 120 alumni attended. Great to see the 15+ former guys I played with in the early years, especially Mike Aubrey ’82, Peter Riegelman ’80, and John Cobb ’83. Also great to see Coach Farnham! Sorry to not see so many others—let's try again for the 50th anniversary! Also caught up with fellow Boulder and Sigma Phi brother Chris Williamson ’81. Was great to get back, see that What Ales You has not changed a bit, and I look forward to my next visit.” Send your news to— UVM Alumni Association alumni.uvm.edu/classnotes

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Shelley Carpenter Spillane scspillane@aol.com

David R. Lambert says, “A great visit from a UVM advancement representative recently helped me reflect on four great years with wonderful people. I am living in Rochester, New York. My older two children will have graduated from college by the time this is published and only a high school freshman left at home. It all goes too fast. Enjoy my work as a general internist and overseeing the M.D. program here.” Robin Edelstein writes, “A shout out to my wonderful friend, Jan Hale, with wishes for a great chapter including North Carolina! To Marc DeNuccio: hoping all is well with work and family. To David Oakes: where are you? I cannot find a contact for you anywhere! Find me on LinkedIn, please. For me, still teaching math to high school students and still love it!” Send your news to— Lisa Greenwood Crozier lcrozier@triad.rr.com

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After 17 years working for the federal government in D.C., Dave White and his family relocated to Knoxville, Tennesee. Dave left the FDA to take the associate dean of research position at the University of Tennessee. Buff Blanchard and Michele Donato Blanchard were excited to attend commencement ceremonies this year to witness their daughter Dylan Blanchard ’17's graduation from UVM! Penni Pomeroy was also excited for graduation this year. She writes, “Our daughter Amanda Pomeroy ’17 graduated from UVM a whole year early. So proud of her accomplishments and we can't wait to see what the future holds for her.” Peter Plumeau shares, “I recently launched LogisCity, LLC, a consulting firm focused on providing transportation and logistics solutions for sustainable cities and communities. My current projects are taking me to Paraguay and other countries to help public agencies integrate sustainable development practices into their infrastructure planning and deployment.” Sherri Steinfeld shares, “Still living in New York City since 1990! After careers in pastry and publishing, I have now entered my third, and probably final, career as an independent college counselor, specializing in working with students with learning disabilities. Applying to college today is worlds apart from how we did it in the old days! I still love

to visit UVM, but long for the days when students walked around campus talking to each other rather than texting!” Craig Mabie writes, “I have recently been appointed to a commissioner position with the Kittitas County, Washington, Park and Recreation District No.1. I am leading the ‘Towns to Teanaway Corridor’ project. This is an effort to develop an award-winning trail master plan and design for a loop trail system connecting the Cascade Mountain towns of Ronald, Roslyn, Cle Elum and South Cle Elum to the new 50,000 acre Teanaway Community Forest. This project will provide a plan for a critical recreation corridor that will provide a phenomenal non-motorized trail experience. Creating a recreational corridor to connect these communities to the Teanaway Community Forest is an important undertaking that will benefit the people and wildlife of the region for generations to come.” Send your news to— Barbara Roth roth_barb@yahoo.com

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Andrew Buerger shares, “It’s been a great year for our family. Love our relatively new business, B'more Organic, which bottles organic protein smoothies made with skyr. It's now in 44 states. My wife, Jennifer, and I will be celebrating our 10th anniversary in September. She keeps busy with her psychotherapy practice. Oh, and she also chases our six-year-olds around. Last summer our climbing organization, Jodi's Climb for Hope, ran an expedition on Mount Rainier and we were greeted with 50-mph wind, trapping us in our tents for 30+ hours. Hoping to get back there this summer. Was in New York City for a meeting and stayed with my college roommate, Chris Bert Murphy, who's doing great there. Thanks to social media, I found Joel Greenwald '88 who is a residential home builder in Dallas.” In 2016, Robert Faivre completed his doctorate in English at SUNY Albany, for which he wrote a dissertation on the dialectics of reading. He also served on the editorial collective for a new book, Human, All Too (Post) Human (Lexington) and published an article on the labor theory of value in the time of Walmart in a Minnesota review. Dara Levinewas glad to welcome spring in New York City. She writes, “I love the snow and winter, but I look forward to spring so I can get together with the McAuley Girls: Beth Phillips-Whitehair, Petra Gerstberger-Rowlands, Carolyn Beatty-Murphy, Sara Prineas-Wurzer, Nancy Hacohen-Slavkin, Jeanette Beer-Becker and once in a while Sharme Beuchner-Altshuler, Terry Flannegan and Eileen LaRochelle-Ramer. Happily living with my husband, Brad Hillis, and our three-year-old Westy named Abby who is looking forward to another gift from Jeanette. And last, but not least, thinking of our dear friend Kees Goudsmit who passed away six years and five months ago. It is hard to believe.” Lesley McBride still lives in New York City with her girls: Anneke, almost 11, and Cy, almost 16. Barbara Perlmutter Shapiro and her husband, Ed, recently received the 2017 Kehillah Award in recognition of their outstanding leadership and commitment to the Rashi School and community. Send your news to— Sarah Reynolds Sarahreynolds10708@gmail.com

Susan Neff writes, “Hello from South Alabama! I've been down here for two years with Audet Electric and on the lookout for any other Catamounts in the Gulf Coast area. The beaches are beautiful and business is booming.” Louise Merrigan moved to Portland, Oregon, in August 2015. She is enjoying the kindness of the people, the beauty of the flora, and the extensive culinary delights the city has to offer. George Brothers writes, “My wife, Karla, and I got together in April with Dan Lehan, Lisa Lehan, and Didi Tulloch at Stowe to ring cowbells and cheer on Jeff “Spaz” Tulloch in the Stowe Sugar Slalom, where he placed third in the dual slalom master division. Good times!” David C. Merritt writes,

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“Petra and I enjoyed a trip to Germany to visit her mom and relatives there. Expecting our 11th grandchild. I have hope to walk again! First and only treatment for my spinal muscular atrophy type III was FDA approved in December 2016. I commenced treatment this spring. Very expensive, may need to do some serious fund raising...Any ideas?” Todd Sean Tyrrell is competing on the senior basketball team at the Maccabiah games this month. He lives with his wife, Kim Hargraves, in Denver, Colorado, and they have one son, Ethan Edward. Send your news to— Cathy Selinka Levison crlevison@comcast.net

Maureen Kelly Gonsalves caught up with Emily Katz Moskowitz, Kate Barker Swindell, Robyn Fried Boyd, Kate Fallon Croteau and Sue Mooney Noonan during the holidays. She writes, “It is always a fun night when we can get our group together, even when it’s not the entire group. Diane Peligal O’Halloran lives in New Jersey, Kim Slomin McGarvey lives in New York City and Stefanie Conroy Wallach lives in Washington, D.C., and were unable to join us for the celebration. It was great to ring in the new year at Mount Snow with Dan Croteau ’87 and Kate Fallon Croteau, Sue Mooney Noonan and Tom O’Hara. Tom’s son, Thomas O’Hara ’18, is a junior at UVM and he joined us as well.” Lee Lowell writes, “I am married to Amy Miller Lowell ’90, a UVM grad and a certified nurse-midwife. Just recently settled down in Shaker Heights, Ohio, after spending the last 26 years since UVM graduation living in New York City, Hawaii, and Florida. Three kids; with our oldest daughter, Sydney, a sophomore at Ohio State University and our 11th grade daughter, Josie, recently committed to playing lacrosse for the Catamounts! We're so excited for that. Our son Griffin is 11 and in 5th grade. I just launched a new business, a financial newsletter, The Smart Option Seller (www. smartoptionseller.com) which helps the investing public learn about and profit from the use of stock options. I get together annually with other UVM alums: Steve Medwin, Brian Norton, Bill Wyrick '90, Josh Lipchin, Kevin Birney '90, Phil Kimball and Mike Scope. Looking forward to the 30th reunion!” Send your news to— Maureen Kelly Gonsalves moe.dave@verizon.net

Upon retiring after 30 years in the military, Dwight DeCoster is the director of Champlain Valley Weatherization Services, providing energy efficiency services to low-income Vermonters. Jane Racoosin and Brian Burns ’89 made the move to Manhattan after 23 years in Brooklyn and are adjusting to being empty nesters. Kyle is a freshman at American University in D.C. and Suzanne is a sophomore at Carleton College in Minnesota. Jane is still happily hanging out with little ones at Beginnings Nursery School where she is director and owner of the school. Laura Chevalier writes, Tim Chevalier ’91 and I are so excited

to share that our daughter, Kyra, will be joining her brother, Ryan, at UVM this fall! Ryan Chevalier ’19, is studying electrical engineering. Kyra Chevalier ’21 will be studying public communications. We couldn't be happier for our Catamounts!” Send your news to— Tessa Donohoe Fontaine tfontaine@brandywine.org

Andrea Kaston Tange, has received tenure at Macalester College. Her interests lie in 19th-century British literature and culture, including travel narratives, colonialism and empire, gender and class identities, visual and print culture, domesticity, childhood, Anglo-Jewish life and migrations. After almost 26 years in the United States Army, Greg Doubek will retire this September. Greg attained the rank of Colonel, and served in Washington State, Germany, Colorado, Hawaii, Kuwait, and Maryland. After taking this summer off to travel, Greg plans to settle in Maryland to figure out what he really wants to do when he grows up. He says, “Stop by for a beer if you are travelling near Annapolis.” Songbae Lee got together with Jon Silsby in D.C. over the weekend while Jon and his family (four kids!) were en route to their spring break vacation. Jon works in real estate finance for CIBC in their New York City office. Songbae covers the international microfinance portfolio for Calvert Foundation in Bethesda, Maryland. Send news to— Karen Heller Lightman khlightman@gmail.com

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If you are interested in planning your upcoming reunion, email alumni@uvm.edu. Brandt Rider writes, “I still live in the Baltimore area with my wife, Karen, my 15-year-old son, Bennett, and 13-year old daughter, Anna. I just celebrated my 21st anniversary at The Columbia Bank, where I'm currently a group manager and vice president. I'm looking forward to our upcoming 25th UVM Reunion in October and seeing the Class of '92 crew from 62 South Union extended, including Crawford Hubbard, Jay Czelusniak, Darren Henry, Craig McLaren, Ned Crosby, Nate Beck and Lynnette Beck, Jeremy Solomon, Jai Chanda, Matt Pezzulich, Ted and Nena Rich, John Newton, Andy Kahn, and Matt Reider. I also challenge the crew from 83 North Willard (from my junior year: Jessica, Jenn Bruno, Jenn Holden, Adam, Mason, Leslie, DJ, Renn, Kim, and Jason (I apologize if I missed anyone) to attend! Also, I don't remember seeing Lars, Sebastian, and Tetreault at any recent reunions either! Patterson dorm alums like Kevin Schroeder, Tim Hoover, Todd Frazier, and Drew Smith, let's make an appearance boys! Finally, I hope that '92 grad and fellow Baltimore resident, Henry Boucher, M.D. can make it. Henry, an excellent orthopedic surgeon, just replaced my hip in December 2016 enabling me to be fully ready for the big Reunion! Fired up for a great weekend! And

C ATAMOUNT NATION would love to find out if we can somehow get the old Irish Happy Hour band from The Last Chance, Bootless & Unhorsed, to reunite and play that weekend if anyone knows how to contact them.” Send your news to— Lisa Kanter jslbk@mac.com

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

Greg Huse and his wife, Liz, recently purchased a home in Columbia, Maryland, and are happy to be homeowners in such a great community! After five years at the Smithsonian Institution, Greg is now the urban forester and memorial arboretum manager at Arlington National Cemetery just outside of Washington, D.C. He is honored to work at this national shrine. Randy Folsom shares, “After retiring from the Vermont National Guard in 1997, we moved to South Carolina. I have again retired, this time from the Department of Veterans Affairs where I have been working as a registered nurse for the past 16 years. For those in the nursing program, I highly recommend looking into the VA for your nursing career. Our plans now are to travel and spend time with our grandchildren.” Send your news to— Cynthia Bohlin Abbott cyndiabbott@hotmail.com

Tim Diette writes, “As of July 1, I will be the associate dean of the Williams School of Commerce, Economics, and Politics at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia.” Todd Schneider writes, “It’s been almost 20 years living in Los Angeles, stunt coordinating, performing as a stuntman, and enjoying my family. Both kids are in high school. We are skiing as much as possible in Mammoth. This past year was incredible. (50 feet of snow!) Hoping for another epic season.” Greg Rua, Carl Martin, Arnie Juanillo ’92, and Wayne Chadbourne ’92 wrote to share that they were seen at Bethpage State Park–Black Course (site of the US Open in 2002 and 2009 and future site of The Ryder Cup in 2024). The hope is that this will be an annual event and next year Mark Furr ’92 will get them on the East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta, Georgia (site of the 2017 PGA tour championship). Check out a photo on the Alumni Association’s Flickr page at alumni.uvm.edu. Send your news to— Valeri Susan Pappas vpappas@davisandceriani.com

Barry Gordon and his partner, Laura, welcomed their first child on November 20, 2016 and are glad to have relocated back to Eugene, Oregon. Grey Lee hit some spring skiing in Banff with old buddies Adam Hyde '97 and Neil Dalal '97 and upon returning, discovered he had been admitted to a mid-career master’s in public administration at the Harvard Kennedy School. He is starting academic life this month. Patrick Riordan shares, “I currently live in Westbrook,

Kate McCann ’96 G’98 WORK: A math teacher at U-32 High School in East Montpelier, McCann is

Vermont’s 2017 Teacher of the Year. HOME: Montpelier, Vermont UVM DAYS: McCann found inspiration in Professor Ken Golden’s challenging courses and also a role model for how to build confidence in students. Even if her answers on exams weren’t correct, Golden looked closely at her process, saw the inherent mathematical knowledge and insight, and praised the work. IN HER WORDS: “We have a lot more fun when we see progress. It takes practice, but students have to truly believe that they can work harder and turn those corners. I think that’s one of our biggest challenges in the classroom right now.” Read more: go.uvm.edu/mccann

Connecticut. Still working for Sikorsky Aircraft as a production test pilot. Skyler is now 1 1/2 and Connor is almost 5. My wife, Shanti, is doing well too. I now have my helicopter ATP, CFI, CFII and S-92, S-70 ratings. Things are going well in the Connecticut National Guard too where I'm a CW3 maintenance test pilot. Hope all is well out there for Class of 1996!” Ben Durant has joined the Hergenrother Enterprises team. As vice president of investor relations, Ben focuses on finding and evaluating development projects for their sound investment potential. He has a strong entrepreneurial background and has either been a business owner or involved with start-ups for most of his career. Ben lives in Williston, Vermont, with his wife, Amy, and three children; Adelaide, Eloise, and Truman. Send your news to— Jill Cohen Gent jcgent@roadrunner.com Michelle Richards Peters mpeters@eagleeyes.biz

Jessica Morton writes, “Hi there, I started a business called Morton Essentials, LLC, out of my kitchen in

Santa Monica, California, making natural deodorants. It is now carried in select Whole Foods Markets, on Etsy, and will soon be sold on Amazon for anyone who is looking for free shipping with Amazon Prime. It is the only natural deodorant that has ever worked for me, my friends, and family so please be on the lookout for it. I am grateful for all of my small business management and accounting classes that I took at UVM because they completely set me up to succeed as a business owner. At UVM, I created so many mock businesses as part of my classwork that showed me how to take what starts as an idea and how to bring it to fruition. Also, I am meeting up with a few classmates, Jill Volden Harris, Karen Fishman Lefkowitz, Jenny Gilmore Munroe, and Allyson Foley Johnson, at the beginning of August 2017 in Boston. Please email me at Jessica@Mortonessentials.com if you'd like to join us!” Chris LaBounty passed away June 23, 2016. An avid climber and BASE jumper, Chris had already solo-climbed a nearby peak the morning of June 23, and jumped without incident high in the Alps on the edge of a mountain nature reserve, a Mecca for wingsuit BASE jumping. The Swanton, Vermont, native soloed the 9,255-foot tower again in the afternoon, confidently. Ever calculated, it may have SUMMER 2017 |

Lowell Bailey ’05 WORK: : Lowell Bailey made history in February

when he became the first American skier to win a biathlon world championship. With strong skiing throughout the race’s twenty kilometers and perfect twenty-for-twenty shooting, he took the top step of the podium at the championship in Hochfilzen, Austria. Next winter’s Olympics in South Korea will be his fourth Games. HOME: Lake Placid, New York. UVM DAYS: One of Catamount Skiing’s all-time

greats, Bailey took second in two successive NCAA Championships and was a three-time All-American skier and three-time NCAA Academic All-American during his college years. IN HIS WORDS: “I’m waiting for someone to wake me

up. The last loop felt like it was forty kilometers long and not four. To shoot clean at world championships and to have unbelievable material, every single part of my race came together today. I will remember this for the rest of my life.”

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Watch the final minutes of Bailey’s championship race: go.uvm.edu/lowell

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| CLASS NOTES been a miscalculation in unfamiliar terrain that ultimately cost Chris his life. In the end, the tragic details don’t matter. He is survived by his wife, Colleen, and two daughters. For the many people whose lives Chris touched, from Vermont to California, through climbing and BASE jumping, exploring and playing, a deep void now exists, a void left by a person that lived every minute of life to the fullest. Send your news to— Elizabeth Carstensen Genung leegenung@me.com

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Send news to— Ben Stockman bestockman@gmail.com

Dylan Grimes is a civil litigation attorney in San Francisco. In 2016, he was admitted to the Hawaii Bar and, in 2017, was named a Northern California Superlawyers Rising Star. Through a mix of sound-poems, dance, and traditional scenes Catherine Theis attempts to jostle Medea from her traditional, male-defined narrative in a modern retelling set in the mountains of Montana. Catherine was a finalist for the 2015 Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women Performance Writers for her work on Medea. More information: playsinverse.com or spdbooks.org. Jessica Muslin shares, “I recently transitioned from finance to put that women's studies/ sociology degree to good use as director of operations for Women’s Way in Philadelphia, the region's leading organization dedicated to the advancement of women, girls, and gender equality through grantmaking, catalyzing collaboration, and education.” Andrew Feibelman and his lovely wife, Elaine, welcomed their first child, daughter, Harlyn Ray, on Super Bowl Sunday, February 5, 2017. It was a great day for them and they had all of New England cheering on the special day! Some other exciting news for Massachusetts residents, Chris Frier, his wife, Sara, and son Colby will be moving back from London this summer! We are thrilled to have them back stateside. It is with a heavy heart that Anne Marie DeLuca Comaratta ’99 shares that her husband, Ross Comaratta died on December 4th 2016 after a two-year battle with acute myeloid leukemia. His classmate Chris Sellinger was at the funeral. Ross and his wife, Anne Marie, have two kids: Luca, 8, and Rosie, 6. Before Ross was diagnosed in December 2014, they took an amazing summer trip to Burlington, walked around campus, hung out on Church Street, and ate at the Red Onion. Ross was a vice president at M&T Bank in Buffalo and volunteered his time as chair of the board of directors at International Institute, a refugee resettlement agency. He was an avid road biker. Even when he was sick, he still raised money for Roswell Park Cancer Institute (where he received his treatment including a bone marrow transplant) through the Ride for Roswell, a road bike race and fundraiser in Buffalo. Ross will be dearly missed and we will keep Anne Marie, Luca, and Rosie in our thoughts. I look forward to hearing from you. I have a bit of news to share as well. My husband, Dan, and I were beyond thrilled to welcome our third child on February 15, 2017.

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Zoey Rose joins big brothers Jackson, 3, and Elliot, 5. Please continue to send me your updates. Send news to— Sarah Pitlak Tiber spitlak@hotmail.com

Rayna Freedman shares, “I was recently elected MassCUE (Massachusetts Computer Using Educators) President Elect. I also co-chair the MassCUE Fall Conference, which is New England's premier educational technology conference.” Eric Sigman joined the firm of Laredo & Smith to continue his practice in business and franchise law. He focuses his practice in business law, with a particular concentration on franchise law, guiding clients through corporate formation, capitalization, succession planning, commercial leasing, and mergers and acquisitions. Send your news to-UVM Alumni Association alumni.uvm.edu/classnotes

Joshua Broder, CEO of Maine-based Tilson Technology, was named a Top Young Professional in New England by Engineering News-Record, the magazine of record for stakeholders in the commercial engineering and construction industries. Broder is a graduate of UVM's military studies program. Send your news to— Erin Wilson ewilson41@gmail.com

Danielle Beerli shares, “Last September I opened a non-profit women and girls community center called Empower Her, Inc. which offers local programming and provides a place for women to be supported in their life paths as well as to open new doors and opportunities for girls and provide them with foundational and prosocial skills. I was also honored as a Top 40 Under 40 in Connecticut Magazine's February issue.” Megan Donnachie Reece married Dr. Steven Reece on November 5, 2016 at the MIT Chapel in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Megan's freshman-year roommate, Katherine Fry Hass, was a bridesmaid and quite a few other UVM alumni were in attendance including Kate Sylvester, Elise Brierley Kerrigan (Megan's other UVM roommate) and Colleen and Jim Bartling. Megan and Steven just bought a house in Lincoln, Massachusetts, and will be moving there this summer. Ryan Marlow writes, “We would like to announce the births of our identical twin daughters, Lena Angeline and Vera Antoinette Marlow. They were born on February 26, 2017 at UVM Medical Center overlooking Main Campus.” Send your news to— Jennifer Khouri Godin jenniferkhouri@yahoo.com

Jon Kantor writes, “On Friday, April 7, Bob Fulton '04 hosted the annual memorial dinner for the late Tom Mazza at Ray's The Steaks in Arlington, Virginia. UVM alumni Russel Henderson, Sanjeev Yadav, Michael Banyas, Jon Kantor, Laura Fionda '04,

Katie Engdahl Vernuccio '05, Todd Van Etten '06, and former UVM professor Robert Kaufman (virtually) were all present to celebrate the life of Tom, who is dearly missed.” Send your news to— Korinne Moore Berenson korinne.d.moore@gmail.com

After spending time training on both coasts (at the University of Pittsburgh, Stanford and University of Utah), Anya Gushchin has migrated to the Midwest to start working at two hospitals in Chicago. She is the clinical assistant professor of ophthalmology at Loyola University Medical Center working at the Hines, Virginia, and has a full time appointment as an oculoplastic and orbital surgeon at John H. Stroger Hospital of Cook County. True to her beginnings at UVM, she continues to volunteer time teaching abroad. 2016 took her to Micronesia and Ethiopia and this year she will return to Ghana and Nepal to continue training the next generation of oculoplastic surgeons. Serving the county population she frequently remembers her microbiology and molecular genetics roots which come in handy for some very unique tropical disease presentations. Send your news to— Kelly Kisiday kellykisiday@hotmail.com

Anne Sweet and her family are finally able to stay in one place for a bit! Her husband's active duty service comes to an end this year and they look forward to enjoying the South Jersey/Philadelphia area. Send your news to— Kristin Dobbs kristin.dobbs@gmail.com

Amy M. Allen acquired her CPA license in February. Send your news to— Katherine Murphy kateandbri@gmail.com

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If you are interested in planning your upcoming reunion, email alumni@uvm.edu. Send your news to— Elizabeth Bitterman ekolodner@gmail.com

Ashleigh Overlee shares that Xander Holt Overlee was born in October 2016 and joins his big brother, Steele Gunnison, and big sister, Kensington Brynne, to make a family of five. Mom, Ashleigh Wilson Overlee, and dad, Jared Overlee ’07, enjoy spending time with their kiddos. Send your news to— Elizabeth Bearese ebearese@gmail.com

Emma Grady gradyemma@gmail.com

Benjamin Mark Weisberger and Elizabeth Josephine Botcheller were married Saturday, May 14, 2016 at the North Garden of Blithewold Mansion, in Bristol, Rhode Island. Benjamin, is Chef de Cuisine of No. 9 Park in Boston, Massachusetts. In addition to his bachelor’s in political science from UVM, he holds an associate degree in Culinary Arts from the Culinary Institute of America in New York. The newlyweds enjoyed a mini-moon in Nantucket, Massachusetts. They will honeymoon in Asia next spring and continue to live in Cambridge. Henry Wainhouse recently transferred to Columbia Law School. He will be working at Jones Day in New York City this summer. Send your news to— David Volain david.volain@gmail.com

Lisa Rosenberg writes, “I was offered a six-month opportunity to work and live in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, to gain critical experience within my company.” Send your news to— Daron Raleigh raleighdaron@gmail.com

Hayley Driscoll and Benjamin Regan '12 got engaged. They started dating at UVM in 2009 and have been together ever since. Jen Lisi and Ben Finkel are also engaged! They live in Providence, Rhode Island. Ben completed his master’s in business administration in 2016 and now works as a marketing analyst. Jen is in her second year of law school at Roger Williams University. Send your news to— Troy McNamara Troy.mcnamara4@gmail.com

5th Reunion October 6-8, 2017

If you are interested in planning your upcoming reunion, email alumni@uvm.edu. Sydney Lucia and Brendan Sage ’13 are excited to announce their engagement. After meeting at UVM in 2010, Brendan proposed in Montreal over Christmas 2016. The wedding will take place at the Shelburne Museum in 2018. The wedding party is made up of several UVM alumni, including Molly Fitzsimmons, maid of honor, Andrew McDonagh '13, best man, Katie O'Bryan, Jen Dell '14, Greg Francese, Monica Johnston '13, and Adam Jesudason '13. There will also be countless other alums among the guests! Send your news to— Patrick Dowd patrickdowd2012@gmail.com

C ATAMOUNT NATION Kristof Grina ’12 WORK: Grina is one of the founders of Up Top Acres, which is transforming

rooftops in and around the nation’s capital into thriving organic farms. The work landed Grina and his co-founders a place on Forbes’ 30 Under 30 Social Entrepreneurs of 2017. HOME: Metro Washington, D.C. UVM DAYS: A plant and soil science major, Grina focused on ecological agriculture, studied food systems abroad in Oaxaca, Mexico, and got his hands in the dirt with the UVM Horticulture Club and the Common Ground StudentRun Educational Farm. IN HIS WORDS: “During an urban agriculture course at UVM, I was able to connect the dots between my experience as a city kid and all of the knowledge around plant and soil science that I was accumulating in school. After that class, I started to look at everything I learned with an eye towards adapting it to the built environment.” Read more: go.uvm.edu/grina

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Send your news to— UVM Alumni Association alumni@uvm.edu/classnotes Send your news to— Grace Buckles Eaton glbuckles@gmail.com

Meg Ziegler writes, “Look at the Alumni Association website flickr photo gallery to see the photo of me with a fellow UVM alumni Steven Chadwick ’98, who I met while at Everest Base Camp in Nepal October, 2016. I heard him mention Vermont while on the trail and we realized we were both UVM alumni!” Send your news to— UVM Alumni Association alumni@uvm.edu/classnotes

Elissa Johnson was appointed internship placement coordinator in the food studies program at Syracuse University’s Falk College. She holds a master’s degree in food systems from UVM, where her graduate research explored connections between intersectional identity, place, and practice through a focus on gatherers of wild edibles. She previously worked as a consultant to farmers on a wide range of issues including buyer-appropriate harvesting, agro-tourism, online marketing, and community supported agriculture development. Aviva Loeb started working at The Washington Post in April. She designs and art directs for the national suite of apps as well as for other emerging news products. Send your news to— UVM Alumni Association alumni@uvm.edu/classnotes SUMMER 2017 |

| IN MEMORIAM Sheldon W. Williams G'34, of Urbana, Illinois, February, 14 2017. Ruth M. Barron ’36, of Burlington, Vermont, J anuary, 30 2017. Robert Larner ’39, MD'42, of Woodland Hills, California, April, 20 2017. Ruth Frisbie Peralta ’40, of Beacon, New York, February, 25 2017. Lorraine Mahar Calvi ’41, of Fair Haven, Vermont, March, 9 2017. Cecile Villemarie Clark ’42, of Burlington, Vermont, March, 5 2017. Stanley R. Pike, Jr. ’42, of Bennington, Vermont, December, 6 2016. Hilda Paquette Thayer ’42, of Burlington, Vermont, December, 21 2016. Eleanor Berig Bloom ’43, of Canton, Massachussetts, December, 4 2016. Jean Norris Murphy ’43, of Shreveport, Louisiana, February, 19 2017. William John Murray ’43, of Stamford, Connecticut, November, 20 2016. Margaret Palmer Margerum ’44, of Chagrin Falls, Ohio, December, 24 2016. Carolyn Brown Lockwood-Pitkin ’45, of Charlotte, Vermont, January, 29 2017. Christine Hughes Stockwell ’45, of Utica, New York, February, 26 2017. Julia Field Curtis ’46, of Cortlandt Manor, New York, January, 7 2017. Marilyn Holden Baldwin ’47, of Boulder, Colorado, January, 1 2017. Doris Lindecrantz Colby ’47, of Bridgton, Maine, December, 22 2016. Lorraine Jaques Jones ’47, of South Burlington, Vermont, December, 11 2016. Charles John Arliss ’48, of Rumson, New Jersey, December, 17 2016. Beverly Hall Post ’48, of South Burlington, Vermont, January, 30 2017. Frances Watson Werner ’48, of Tucson, Arizona, September, 30 2016. Margaret Putnam Wesley ’48, of Middlebury, Vermont, March, 18 2017. Myer Frank ’49, of Tampa, Florida, March, 7 2017. Kathryn Eaton Greenslet ’49, of Manchester, Massachussetts, February, 11 2017. C. Richard Moulton ’49, of Bluffton, South Carolina, December, 7 2016. Geoffrey Ware Pelletier, Jr. ’49, of Mashpee, Massachussetts, March, 17 2017. A. Patricia Johnson Welch ’49, of Vergennes, Vermont, January, 7 2017. John Willard Wesley ’49, of Middlebury, Vermont, March, 4 2017. Harry S. Blanchard ’50, of Kimberton, Pennsylvania, March, 27 2017. Jane Gates Capizzi ’50, of Corvallis, Oregon, February, 25 2017. Phyllis Payne Cooley ’50, of Jericho, Vermont, January, 4 2017. Carlos R. Dunn ’50, of Shelburne, Vermont, April, 3 2017. George E. Mattson ’50, G'51, of Madbury, New Hampshire, February, 12 2017.

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Robert D. Trudell ’50, of St. Pete Beach, Florida, December, 29 2016. A. Robert Twiss ’50, G'54, of Craftsbury, Vermont, January, 6 2017. Mary Brown Westfall ’50, of Portsmouth, Virginia, March, 26 2017. Kenneth O. Williams ’50, MD'54, of Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, February, 9 2017. Gordon J. Ballard ’51, of Salem, Oregon, January, 16 2017. Emerson Leslie Frost ’51, of Pittsford, Vermont, December, 20 2016. John Dean Hale ’51, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, November, 18 2016. Carol Greenwood Jamison ’51, of St. Albans, Vermont, March, 20 2017. Carolyn Nelbach McClintock ’51, of Enfield, Connecticut, April, 2 2017. Allen William Sawyer ’51, of Johnson, Vermont, March, 7 2017. William George Semonite ’51, of Mebane, North Carolina, December, 29 2016. Ernest Harrison Bancroft, Jr. ’52, of Barre, Vermont, April, 4 2017. Robert B. Cecil ’52, of Herndon, Virginia, February, 25 2017. Louis Dempf, Jr. ’52, of Burlington, Vermont, March, 29 2017. Edward Carpenter Perkins ’52, G'58, of Rutland, Vermont, January, 4 2017. Joan Kopp Robinson ’52, of Hackettstown, New Jersey, May, 17 2016. Marion Cabble Stephenson ’52, of Springfield, Massachussetts, February, 8 2017. Charles Fenwick Taggart ’52, of St. Augustine, Florida, January, 31 2017. Roy Alvin Whitmore, Jr. ’52, of Charlotte, Vermont, April, 2 2017. Naomi Englerth Zobel ’52, of Thornton, Colorado, March, 6 2017. Mary Dow Bassett ’53, '81, of Saco, Maine, December, 12 2016. Douglas M. Black ’53, MD'56, of Concord, New Hampshire, March, 2 2017. Howard Allston Bouve, Jr. ’54, of Freedom, New Hampshire, February 18, 2017. Dana Leroy Haskin ’53, of Waitsfield, Vermont, January, 16 2017. John A. MacDonald ’53, of Shaftsbury, Vermont, December, 18 2016. Sheila Reed Mackinnon ’53, of Hardwick, Massachussetts, February, 3 2017. Philip C. Mann, Sr. ’53, of South Glens Falls, New York, February, 25 2017. Phyllis Parody McSparran ’53, of Alpharetta, Georgia, February, 1 2017. C. Dexter Sutherland ’53, of Los Alamos, New Mexico, December, 1 2016. Marvin Traub ’53, of Lynnfield, Massachussetts, January, 22 2017. Judith Macrae Baldwin ’54, of Cromwell, Connecticut, February, 26 2017. A. Rosemary Robinson Lamoray ’54, '78, of Sanford, Florida, September, 11 2016.

Thomas A. McGwire ’54, of Peconic, New York, December, 1 2016. William Gerard McKernan ’54, of Red Bank, New Jersey, December, 28 2016. Jane Welch Bickford ’55, of Milford, Connecticut, January, 1 2017. Louise Aline Demers ’55, of South Burlington, Vermont, March, 29 2017. Barbara Parker Farr ’55, of Rancho Palos Verdes, California, January, 5 2017. Rosalyn Gross Harber ’55, of New York, New York, March, 3 2017. Irwin Herling ’55, of Palm Beach, Florida, March, 18 2017. Lucie Woods Lewin ’55, of Woodstock, Vermont, January, 13 2017. Daniel C. Pease, Jr. ’55, G'57, of Old Lyme, Connecticut, January, 2 2017. Mary Ann LaFonte Ringquist ’55, of Natick, Massachussetts, January, 22 2017. Joanne Munsell Simonson ’55, of Colchester, Vermont, March, 31 2016. Martin L. Warren ’55, of Chesterfield, Missourri, February, 13 2017. Charles Thornton Baker ’56, of Rutland, Vermont, December, 9 2016. Anna Benedict Heintz ’56, of East Hartford, Connecticut, December, 24 2016. Joan Dorfman Kreisler ’56, of Las Vegas, Nevada, February, 16 2017. Ann Frazer Krush ’56, of Fort Collins, Colorado, January, 21 2017. Robert Levine ’56, of Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, March, 10, 201. Charles J. Rocknak, Jr. ’56, of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, August, 27, 2016. Richard M. Smith ’56, of Longmeadow, Massachussetts, January, 4 2017. Alan Henry Anderson ’57, of Madison, Alabama, January, 25 2017. Patricia May Barger ’57, of Seattle, Washington, February, 25 2017. Marc Roger Beauregard ’57, of Saco, Maine, February, 7 2017. William A. Beebe ’57, of Bozeman, Montana, October, 2 2016. Denis King Copeland ’57, of Sarasota, Florida, January, 10 2016. Edward Merrell Gipson, Jr. ’57, of Middlebury, Vermont, December, 17 2016. Martha Doane MacAlister ’57, of Bisbee, Arizona, February, 8 2017. Sally Stalker Spear ’57, G'62, of Colchester, Vermont, March, 17 2017. Jeannette S. Buchanan-Tawney ’58, of Missoula, Montana, December, 29 2016. Sheila Anne Granger ’58, of South Yarmouth, Massachussetts, March, 10 2017. Everton Ralph Graves ’58, of Morrisville, Vermont, December, 31 2016. David L. Terwilleger, Jr. ’58, of Lake Wylie, South Carolina, February, 19 2017. Virginia Hillman Thurston ’58, of Yarmouth, Maine, December, 22 2016.

Francis J. Trepanier ’58, of Queensbury, New York, December, 2 2016. Maurice Louis Villemaire ’58, G'67, of Delray Beach, Florida, December, 15 2016. Janet Dauchy Celuzza ’59, of Sturbridge, Massachussetts, December, 23 2016. Emerson E. Ebert ’G'59, of Raleigh, North Carolina, September, 24 2016. John Clark Kendrick ’59, of Lecanto, Florida, February, 5 2017. John A. Corson ’G'61, of Hanover, New Hampshire, March, 15 2017. John D. Edwards ’61, of Houston, Texas, January, 21 2017. David Carlton Achilles ’62, of South Daytona, Florida, December, 23 2016. Gail Carroll Adinolfi ’62, of Waxhaw, North Carolina, December, 20 2016. Sandra S. Honig-Haftel ’62, of East Hampton, Connecticut, March, 6 2017. Giannina Burnett Radcliffe ’62, of West Bend, Wisconsin, November, 16 2016. Robin N. Haeseler ’63, of Columbus, Ohio, January, 16 2017. Alan Hefflon ’63, of West Suffield, Connecticut, January, 28 2017. Abbott A. Brayton ’64, G'69, of Knoxville, Tennessee, January, 13 2017. Douglas A. Lawson ’64, of Essex Junction, Vermont, January, 17 2017. Susan Krokow Simons ’64, of Riverside, California, September, 20 2016. Roger A. Kline ’65, of Tucson, Arizona, December, 24 2016. Renzo C. A. D. Nylander ’65, of Williamsville, New York, January, 29 2017. John Dynan Candon ’66, of Palm City, Florida, December, 22 2016. Norman Jay Snow ’66, MD'70, of Post Mills, Vermont, February, 9 2017. Robert P. Thoresen ’66, of Green Valley, Arizona, December, 23 2016. Scott E. Davis ’67, of Simsbury, Connecticut, March, 8 2017. Howard Frank Mosher G'67, of Irasburg, Vermont, January, 29 2017. Nancy Louise Cassone ’68, of Columbia, South Carolina, February, 10 2017. Dennis P. Carver ’69, of East Montpelier, Vermont, December, 31 2016. Barrett L. Gates G'69, of Morrisville, New York, January, 20 2017. Stanley T. Winer ’69, of Westborough, Massachussetts, April, 6 2017. Winona Orvis Yasko ’70, of Barton, Vermont, March, 23 2017. Carol E. Brassard G'71, of Keene, New Hampshire, January, 26 2017.

Bruce W. Butterfield ’71, G'73, of Princeton, New Jersey, September, 5 2016. BG Richard Skinner Kenney ’71, of Burlington, Vermont, February, 22 2017. Beatrice Kimsey Phalen ’71, of Montpelier, Vermont, December, 31 2016. Deborah M. Ryan-Keefe ’71, of Waltham, Massachussetts, December, 12 2016. Laurence Edgar Thomson, Jr. G'69, ’71, of Richmond, Vermont, September, 24 2016. Mary Alberta Calder ’72, G'83, ’08, of Williston, Vermont, March, 29 2017. Clay Emery Capen ’72, of Fort Ann, New York, February, 13 2017. Phillip Herny Condon ’72, of St. Albans, Vermont, March, 11 2017. Daniel Albert Downes ’G'72, of Lebanon, New Hampshire, March, 18 2017. Leon Lawrence ’72, G'76, of Ithaca, New York, January, 20 2017. Francis John Soychak ’G'72, of Burlington, Vermont, January, 27 2017. Ronald L. St. James ’73, of Wells, Maine, February, 9 2017. Scott Thomas Vaughn ’73, of North Little Rock, Arkansas, February, 22 2017. Denise Gould Willette ’73, of Jericho, Vermont, December, 23 2016. Chris Neal Bengtson ’74, of Ellenton, Florida, February, 25 2017. Pamela O'Brien Cochrane ’74, of Acton, Massachussetts, December, 9 2016. Roy C. Haupt, Jr. ’74, of Waterbury Center, Vermont, December, 3 2016. H. Gregory Johnston ’74, G'76, of South Burlington, Vermont, March, 19 2017. Robert W. Lord ’74, of Vero Beach, Florida, April, 21 2016. H. Stephanie Arno Mayo ’74, of Wyckoff, New Jersey, October, 31 2016. William C. Plumb ’74, of Pittsfield, Massachussetts, November, 25 2016. Martha Hartlieb Wade G'74, of Phillipston, Massachussetts, January, 19 2017. Gail Stuart Sanford G'75, '83, of Grand Isle, Vermont, January, 21 2017. Elizabeth Johnson Hanna ’76, of Winter Park, Florida, February, 3 2017. Daniel R. Tomassetti ’76, of Meriden, Connecticut, January, 12 2017. Michael David Drake ’79, of Middlebury, Vermont, October, 13 2016. David Brian Gammon MD'79, of Rowe, New Mexico, December, 10 2016. Brenda Gonyeau ’80, of Berlin, New Hampshire, April, 12 2016. Deborah Louise Wismer ’80, of Englewood, New Jersey, December, 22 2016.

Bradley George Sulima ’82, of Annapolis, Maryland, April, 2 2017. Kirsten Marie Gehlbach ’83, of Norwich, Vermont, March, 24 2017. Gerard Paul Guertin, Jr. G'84, of Green Cove Springs, Florida, March, 30 2017. Peter Solecky G'84, of Endicott, New York, February, 1 2017. Peter Joseph Fitzpatrick ’86, of Darien, Connecticut, January, 28 2017. Jeffrey Cletus Hall ’86, of Brielle, New Jersey, December, 19 2016. Nancy P. Shinn-Corbett ’86, of Milford, Connecticut, March, 23 2017. Johanna Crockwell ’87, of Essex, Vermont, December, 21 2016. Marylen Ann Grigas G'87, of Burlington, Vermont, February, 14 2017. Mary Bue Deweese G'88, of Enosburg Falls, Vermont, February, 1 2017. Patricia Fink O'Shea G'90, of Franklin, Vermont, January, 2 2017. Hillery A. Durochia ’91, of Essex Junction, Vermont, March, 8 2017. Stephen Robert Rigby ’91, of Burlington, Vermont, February, 1 2017. Fe Trinidad Creagh G'93, of Santa Cruz, California, November, 16 2016. Lisa Sue Litwhiler ’94, of Williston, Vermont, January, 9 2017. Richard Glade ’95, of Crested Butte, Colorado, December, 11 2016. Beth Anne Villandry, ’96, MD'04, of Cape Elizabeth, Maine, April, 1 2017. Christopher J. Labounty ’97, of Ventura, California, June 23, 2016. Adrienne Julia Morton ’98, of San Francisco, California, January, 25 2017. Ross Joseph Comaratta ’99, of Buffalo, New York, December 4, 2016. Tyson Brown Peppers ’99, of Tampa, Florida, January, 19 2017. Steven Bruce Levine G'03, of West Roxbury, Massachussetts, November, 26 2016. Ross Duston Whitlock ’10, of Thetford Center, Vermont, October, 26 2016. Joshua Ty Turnage ’13, of Burlington, Vermont, January, 13 2017. Margaretta Dundon Potter ’16, of Jamestown, Rhode Island, March, 8 2017.

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| EXTRA CREDIT

Song as Abridged Thesis of George Perkins Marshâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

Man and Nature by Major Jackson

(Poem on the Occasion of the Centenary of the National Park Service) The pendulous branches of the Norway spruce slowly move as though approving our gentle walk in Woodstock, and the oak leaves yellowing this early morning fall in the parking lot of Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller. We hear beneath our feet their susurrus as the churning of wonder, found, too, in the eyes of a child who has just sprinted toward a paddock of Jersey cows. The fate of the land is the fate of man. Some have never fallen in love with a river of grass or rested in the dignity of the Great Blue Heron standing alone, saint-like, in a marshland nor envied the painted turtle sunning on a log, nor thanked as I have, the bobcat for modeling how to navigate dynasties of snow, for he survives in both forests and imaginations away from the dark hands of developers and myths of profits. The fate of the land is the fate of man. Some are called to praise as holy, hillocks, ponds, and brooks, to renew the sacred contract of live things everywhere, the cold pensive roamings of clouds above Mount Tom, to extol silkworm and barn owls, gorges and vales, the killdeer, egret, tern, and loon; some must rest at the sandbanks, in deep wilderness, by a lagoon, estuaries or floodplain, standing in the way of the human storm: the fate of the land is the fate of man. Copyright ÂŠ 2016 by Major Jackson, UVM professor of English. Originally published in Poem-a-Day on November 15, 2016, this poem was commissioned by the Academy of American Poets and funded by a National Endowment for the Arts Imagine Your Parks grant.

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