Vermont Quarterly Fall 2018

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2 President’s Perspective 4 The Green 16 Catamount Sports 48 Class Notes 64 Extra Credit FEATURES

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UVM PEOPLE: Oliver Fritsch ’00 and Sara Kinnamon Fritsch ’00

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HOW DO WE LOVE BTV?

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HOMECOMING 2018

Engineer might not be in their job titles, but the mindset of their mutual undergraduate major has been a guiding force in the careers of this Catamount couple. | BY THOMAS WEAVER

From downtown to the lakeshore to the intervale, we tally the people, places, and things that make Burlington an epic college town.

Economics professor by day, city council member by night, Old North End resident Jane Knodell has long worked to make her neighborhood and Burlington great places to live. | BY THOMAS WEAVER

The Vermont Center for Emerging Technologies helps leverage innovative ideas into new ventures essential to local and statewide economic growth. | BY JEFFREY WAKEFIELD

Alumni and families of current students rally on campus to recall UVM past and celebrate UVM present.

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The Burlington Greenway cuts through Rock Point.

Photo by Sally McCay COVER: Downtown Burlington, corner of College and Church. Photo by Sally McCay

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Our Academic Advantage i am often asked what makes the University of Vermont distinct—what in our educational mission and delivery makes UVM stand out among its peers.

I have phrased this overarching question to our faculty in this way: What does it mean to be an educated person? What does it mean to be educated at UVM? And, importantly, what does it mean to hold a degree from UVM? Over the last several years, our faculty and educational leaders have engaged in an important dialogue on this subject, asking these questions in the context of both our ambitions for our students and our status as an institution of higher learning rooted in our history and values. Our core requirements for all UVM undergraduates, embedded in the General Education Program, reflect the faculty’s aspirations for specific competencies and frames of reference that our students will take from their studies at UVM—no matter what their major—and apply as citizens in our dynamic, complex, twenty-first-century world.

UVM’s General Education Program comprises four required fields of study: Diversity, Sustainability, Foundational Writing and Information Literacy, and Quantitative Reasoning. Rather than mandating specific classes that every undergraduate must take, these foundational requirements are embedded within classes across the spectrum of majors, encouraging students to immerse themselves in these essential competencies in the context of their individual interests or fields of study.

It is sometimes a forgeone conclusion

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that students will graduate from college with well-developed skills in writing and quantitative thinking. This is not always, however, the case. By foregrounding Quantitative Reasoning and Foundational Writing and Information Literacy in the UVM education, we are underscoring the University’s responsibility that our students develop these critical skills for responsible citizenship.

The Diversity and Sustainability requirements of the General Education Program speak to values that have long been a part of UVM’s identity. UVM stepped forward as the first American institution of higher learning that specifically declared freedom from religious denomination in its admissions, and was an early advocate for the inclusion of both African Americans and women in higher education. Similarly, Vermont has long been regarded as a leader in environmental concerns, proudly recognizing that many of our forebears were national leaders in conservation and regeneration. UVM created the first Environmental Studies Program in the country, and the Food Systems initiative, another first in the nation launched three years ago, is flourishing with students enrolled at all three degree levels.

Diversity and sustainability are both multilayered, complex concepts. While admittedly more difficult to measure, the competencies developed through the Diversity and Sustainability requirements of our General Education Program are also critical citizenship tools for the twenty-first century.

We aspire that our students be equipped to

critically encounter the world that they will graduate into, a world in which these big questions predominate. What is personal responsibility in a time of rapid climate change? What is the history of how our borders came to be? These are the kinds of existential questions of our time that our students must be ready to delve into as they develop into next-generation leaders.

How do we recognize success in achieving the goals set forth for each of these four core requirements? Each has articulated learning outcomes, such as developing an awareness of the origins of prejudice, and integrating economic, ecological, and social perspectives in evaluating sustainability.

Faculty teams trained in assessment examine specific student work across courses to determine whether the learning outcomes have been achieved. The Faculty Senate currently is assessing each of the General Education fields of study and their goaloriented learning outcomes to determine effectiveness.

The University of Vermont’s mission is “to create, evaluate, share, and apply knowledge and to prepare students to be accountable leaders who will bring to their work dedication to the global community, a grasp of complexity, effective problem-solving and communication skills, and an enduring commitment to learning and ethical conduct.” Our General Education Program inculcates this mission into the foundation of our educational structure. It is this mission, in action, that makes UVM’s education distinct and a standout among its peers.

—Tom Sullivan

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VQ EDITOR Thomas Weaver

ART DIRECTOR Elise Whittemore CLASS NOTES EDITOR Kathy Erickson ’84

“My Dad instilled upon me at an early age the importance of philanthropy.

I owe much to the great experience I had as a student at UVM’s Grossman School of Business and, upon graduating, really wanted to pay it forward.

The question then became not if I would give, but how?

A financial planner by trade, I asked myself what makes the most sense from both an ease of giving and a tax planning perspective. The answer? Appreciated stock.

I give appreciated stock to UVM every year and most recently split my gift between the UVM Fund, the Grossman School of Business, and the Prism Center.

It’s a natural thing.”

—Tom Dettre ’88

CONSIDER A GIFT OF STOCK TO UVM Gifts to the University of Vermont of appreciated stock, bonds, or mutual funds held for longer than one year can offer a wealth of benefits.

It’s a smart and simple way to Move Mountains.

For more information, please contact: THE UVM FOUNDATION OFFICE OF GIFT PLANNING Amy Palmer-Ellis Assistant Vice President for Development & Gift Planning Donna Burke Assistant Director of Gift Planning Phone: 802.656.9536 Toll Free: 888.458.8691 giftplanning@uvm.edu go.uvm.edu/stock

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YOU SHOULD KNOW is a massive upgrade. It will give our faculty access to one of the “ This fastest supercomputers in New England and one of the one hundred fastest academic supercomputers in the country.”

—Adrian Del Maestro, associate professor of physics, and lead researcher on a recent National Science Foundation $1 million grant that will significantly upgrade the Vermont Advanced Computing Core, making it 3,000 times faster.

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2018. Take a look into one day in the life of today’s UVM. go.uvm.edu/oneday

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UVM’s Class of 2022, 2,500 students strong, have the highest average test scores of any incoming class in the university’s history. They hail from forty-three states and twenty-five countries.

UVM professor and alumna Maria Hummel ’94 had her latest book, STILL LIVES, selected

by Reese Witherspoon’s Book Club.

Read more about the novel on page 15.

Robert Rosenthal, Judy Woodruff, Chuck Todd Recognized in 2018 as “Fellows of the Society” by the Society of Professional Journalists.

Class of 1971 alumnus Rosenthal’s remarkable career spans guarding the Pentagon Papers as a fledgling reporter to leading the pioneering Center for Investigative Reporting.

Read more: go.uvm.edu/rosey

The life and work of Andrew Harris, Class of 1838, UVM’s first African-American graduate and a noted abolitionist, was remembered as the semester opened with the installation of a historic marker and the formal naming of the green between the Davis Center and library in his honor.

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BILLINGS IS BACK Library Special Collections is at home in the newer sections of Billings, but much of the historic front section, most notably the North Lounge, has returned to open-access. And, based on anecdotal evidence, students seem to be selfenforcing with library-worthy quiet for studying. Sitting in the silence, we were reminded of these words from the late Brooks Buxton ’56 reflecting on his memories of Billings: “In the reading room, the balcony above, you felt a sense of presence. For a Vermont country boy, this was what a library was supposed to look like. Surrounded by those books, I’d settle right down to my studies.” Video of Billings past and present: go.uvm.edu/billingsvid FA L L 2 0 1 8 |

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President Sullivan Era Enters Final Year LEADERSHIP | Following a highly successful sixyear tenure as UVM’s twenty-sixth president, Tom Sullivan announced in August that he will step out of the presidency in the summer of 2019.

“When the Board of Trustees extended an offer to serve as UVM’s president in February 2012, I was asked the length of time I could envision for this presidency.

I knew the university was planning a major comprehensive fundraising campaign and the board wanted its next president to lead a successful campaign,” said Sullivan. “Now with the university’s comprehensive campaign crossing over its campaign goal of $500 million, one year ahead of schedule, UVM is poised for its next era of reaching even greater academic expectations and aspirations. The time is right.”

Board of Trustees Chair David Daigle ’89 expressed great appreciation for Sullivan’s leadership. “In 2012 the UVM Board of Trustees sought a president who could lead our community on a mission to improve the academic and financial profile of UVM. President

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Sullivan has succeeded in this mission, and our entire community owes him a debt of gratitude for his selfless service to UVM. Tom has led with a passion for students and higher education, with reasoned and thoughtful decision-making, and with unwavering integrity. Our university is unequivocally stronger as a result of his efforts and accomplishments.”

In announcing his plans, Sullivan shared thanks for the way the university community responded to his call to “raise our expectations and aspirations to create an academic experience of the highest quality” during his installation address in 2012.

After a year’s academic leave to complete a book exploring issues around free speech on college campuses, President Sullivan, a professor of law throughout his career, will join the faculty of UVM’s Department of Political Science.

The university has launched the search process, led

by Daigle, for a new president with the goal of selecting a successful candidate by March 2019.

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Connected to Kalkin Hall, the new Ifshin Hall creates an atrium between the two buildings. Many new facilities and renovations have been made possible by the Move Mountains campaign.

$500 Million and Counting Campaign Pushes to Finish Line PHILANTHROPY | Thanks to gifts from more than 70,000 alumni, parents, community members, and friends, Move Mountains: The Campaign for the University of Vermont surpassed its initial $500 million fundraising goal this summer, eleven months ahead of schedule—and shows no signs of slowing down.

“This transformative accomplishment reflects the passion, generosity, and hard work of thousands of donors, volunteers, and staff members who have put their shoulders to the mountainside since the beginning of the campaign,” said UVM President Tom Sullivan. “We owe the ongoing success of this campaign to them and are deeply grateful.”

Launched in 2011, the Move Mountains comprehensive fundraising campaign benefits the entire university, including a wide range of extracurricular and athletics programs.

The $500 million goal makes Move Mountains the most ambitious fundraising effort ever undertaken by UVM, and the campaign will continue through June 30, 2019.

“As significant as the $500 million milestone is, we are not pausing to rest on our laurels,” said UVM Foundation President and CEO Shane Jacobson. “We are building momentum for an outstanding final year and will be working alongside our amazing volunteers to ensure that the promise of this campaign is fully realized.”

The campaign has already impacted the university in

many significant ways. The Larner College of Medicine, the Grossman School of Business, and the Gund Institute for Environment have all been named in recognition of historic acts of generosity. In the latter two cases, these donors are inspiring others to join them in their support by matching additional gifts to these areas.

Recognizing the importance of attracting the best students to UVM, donors have given more than $77 million in scholarship and fellowship support, creating more than 250 new permanent endowed funds in the process. In addition, alumni, family, and friends have established sixtythree new endowed faculty chairs and professorships, more than doubling the pre-campaign total.

Thanks to campaign donors, at least twenty key facilities have been constructed or renovated since the campaign began, with Cohen Hall for the Integrative Creative Arts (the old Taft School), renovated Billings Library, and the Grossman School’s Ifshin Hall opening to students this fall. Move Mountains philanthropy has also provided critical funding for the creation or expansion of numerous academic and research programs. Notable among these are the Humanities Center, the Tarrant Institute for Innovative Education, the UVM Cancer Center, and the university’s science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) initiatives.

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ALUMNA AMONG OBAMA FELLOWS Sasha Fisher ’10 is among the inaugural cohort of Obama Fellows, twenty civic leaders from around the world who are working with communities to build better futures.

Since 2010, Spark Microgrants, which Fisher co-founded, has impacted more than 178 communities across five African nations.

Spark Microgrant’s pioneering development model is simple: empower community members to drive development of their villages, rather than NGOs and other outside groups dictating what’s best. Spark trains a local, college-educated facilitator to guide a community through a phased approach that prepares them to make the most of their grant and ensure the project’s long-term success.

Fisher was selected by the Obama Foundation from more than 20,000 applicants from 191 countries. The fellowship features training, resources, and leadership development. It kicked off this summer with time for the fellows to get to know one another, as well as the forty-fourth President of the United States.

More than the prestige of this latest accolade, Fisher is excited by the opportunities to network with, learn from, and strategize together with the nineteen other fellows, a group that’s committed to creating opportunities for citizens to engage in local change.

“This is what our work is about in East Africa,” she says, “and now we can draw from leaders globally to improve how we serve communities and build the team.”

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DAMASCUS TO BURLINGTON There are many reasons why a young person might dream of becoming a doctor. In 2011, Haya and Yara Alshaabi—both UVM class of 2019—were Syrian kids going to high school in Damascus. Their father was a dentist for the United Nations, their mother taught English. “But then—the war,” says Haya.

As the fighting grew fiercer, they were in danger. The family went to the U.S. embassy in Lebanon, and in October 2013, they got a visa to move to the United States.

“It was not scary. It was lonely,” says Haya, now twenty-two.

“We had to leave our friends. We were starting a new life,” says Yara, twenty-one.

The two sisters excelled at Burlington High School, were admitted to the UVM Honors College, and both have pursued independent research projects in biological science, “with the drive and resilience of full-blown graduate students,” says scientist Brian Cunniff, a professor in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. This past summer—with a $5,000 Honors College summer research fellowship—Haya continued her work in Cunniff’s lab to better understand how the positioning of mitochondria influences the migration and signaling of cells.

It’s basic science that aims toward new treatments to block the spread of cancer and other diseases.

In the nearby UVM Center for Biomedical Imaging, Yara Alshaabi points into the low light of a room with a large MRI machine. “The volunteers will be in here, and we’ll be asking them to do challenging tasks while we scan their brains,” she explains. She’s developing an independent study—supervised by professor Julie Dumas in the Department of Psychiatry, and with funding from the UVM Office of Fellowships, Opportunities, and Undergraduate Research—of two groups of older women who have survived breast cancer. One group completed their treatment within the last three years; the other group is about a decade past treatment. “I’m studying how age and time since cancer treatment influence the function and structure of the brain,” she says. “Chemotherapy and hormone therapy are working very well to help women survive, but we know the treatments can have side effects on brains and memory.”

In April, after years of effort and waiting, the Alshaabi family (including Haya and Yara’s older brother, Thayer, a graduate student in data science and complex systems at UVM) received permanent U.S. residency. Now the sisters are free to apply to medical school.

“I hope to do research and be a surgeon,” says Haya.

“Maybe I’ll be a psychiatrist,” says Yara. “Medicine is my passion. I love helping people. I lost hope when I was in Syria during the war. I’d like to help people who lose hope.”

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THREE QUESTIONS | Linda Schadler joined the UVM faculty this summer as the new dean for the College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences. A leading researcher investigating polymer nanocomposite behavior and applications, Schadler comes to Vermont from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where she was the Russell Sage Professor in Materials Science & Engineering. This summer, Dean Schadler sat down with her new UVM engineering colleague Professor Mandar Dewoolkar for a video interview. The following is excerpted from that interview.

What intrigued you about this deanship at UVM? SCHADLER: Among other things, I really was excited by the combination of computer science, mathematics, statistics, and engineering in one college. It’s the direction that the world is going. We have engineers, mathematicians, and computer scientists coming together in order to solve the world’s most complex and challenging problems. Instead of having to reach across colleges or schools to bring those disciplines together, they’re sitting right here in this college, ready for us to help the world become a better place.

I was also drawn to UVM by the renewed and energized commitment to STEM. When you walk in the new and renovated buildings—with another one set to open next fall—you can feel the energy around the interdisciplinary interaction.

On the personal side, I’ve been coming to Burlington since I was young, and I think I will just love living here—the culture of the college reflects the culture of the region. I just love that we’re doing rigorous science in the midst of this warm and welcoming environment.

Could you describe the “Beta Classroom” you helped create at RPI and share how a similar approach might work at UVM? SCHADLER: The Beta Classroom was a way for us to test technologies that are at a price point that you could move them into the regular classroom and see which ones worked and which ones didn’t. We really learned a

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lot about simple things that can make a huge difference.

Just tables with rolling wheels and chairs that you can move easily change how the faculty use the classroom.

We also explored some relatively simple technologies that enable students to put a bunch of work on the wall together, then compare their answers or designs. That really changed the level of participation. Here at UVM, we already have a lot of active learning and project-based learning, but there are always new technologies that are coming forward that would help us enhance that. I look forward to developing the same level of STEM pedagogical collaboration and beta testing within CEMS. Within the wider university, what are your thoughts on how STEM disciplines and liberal arts should coexist?

SCHADLER: You know, it’s not just STEM and liberal arts, but STEM and all the other non-STEM fields. I think that there’s been a recent feeling that you had to be a STEM major in order to get a job and to help solve the world’s problems. But, really, if you look at where there’s been huge progress made in STEM, it’s been where STEM fields are intersecting with the liberal arts and other nonSTEM fields. Because it’s the critical thinking skills and the perspective on social issues and cultural issues and environmental issues that, coupled with STEM, lead to the unique solutions that are sustainable and are out-ofthe-box solutions to our very challenging problems that we have in the world.

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Ira’s Armchair From his statue on the Green to the chapel that bears his name, UVM founder Ira Allen is memorialized across campus.

But a humble artifact—his own personal Windsor chair— offers a new, quiet yet powerful link to Allen’s life and times.

The chair was given to the university in May by Brooks Buxton ’56, who also donated the historic deed in which Allen gave the town of Irasburg, Vermont, to his bride, Jerusha Hayden Enos, as a gift on the day of their wedding, September 13, 1789.

After Ira Allen’s death in 1814, Jerusha and the couple’s only son, Ira Hayden Allen, moved to Irasburg, and the patriarch’s Windsor chair went with them. It remained within the Allen family in Irasburg until the early 1960s. With the death of the last direct descendant, it was sold at an estate sale to the Merrill family of Ethan Allen Antiques in South Burlington, whom Buxton acquired the chair from earlier this year.

A savvy and committed collector, Buxton long had his eye on the chair. His acquisition came just months before his death on July 9 this summer.

While the chair will serve as a memorial to Ira Allen, of course, it will also mark the legacy of Brooks Buxton. A stalwart supporter of the university, whose philanthropy strengthened UVM from the Fleming Museum to Special Collections, Buxton was driven by a keen eye for aesthetics, a deep sense of tradition, and a seventh-generation Vermonter’s love for his home state.

Presenting the Allen chair and deed to UVM, Buxton wrote, “There has been a long and historic tradition at New England colleges and universities that a founder’s chair will be present on the platform at official university events such as convocation and commencement ceremonies. It is hoped this rare, simple Vermont Windsor chair will follow this honored tradition.”

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RED SPRUCE REVIVAL Since the 1960s, UVM scientists have been documenting the decline of red spruce trees, casualties of the damage caused by acid rain on northeastern forests. But now, surprising research shows that red spruce are making a comeback—and that a combination of reduced pollution mandated by the 1990 Amendments to the Clean Air Act and changing climate are behind the resurgence.

The new study was led by UVM’s Alexandra Kosiba (pictured) with co-authors Paul Schaberg of the USDA Forest Service and UVM researchers Shelly Rayback and Gary Hawley.

The scientists examined data from 658 trees in fifty-two plots spanning five states—and found that more than 75 percent of red spruce trees and 90 percent of the plots exhibited increasing growth since 2001.

Pioneering studies on acid rain were conducted by famed UVM researcher Hub Vogelmann and other UVM scientists on Vermont’s iconic mountain, Camel’s Hump, in the 1960s. This scientific work was instrumental to the formation of the 1990 Amendments to the Clean Air Act that have brought reductions in acid deposition in the Northeast.

Although the pollution that causes acid rain in the Northeast has been greatly reduced in recent decades, there have been very few studies to show that this cleaner air has improved the health of the region’s forests. “So it’s great that we’re finally seeing recovery of spruce,” Kosiba says. “There is a legacy of red spruce research in Vermont—starting with Hub Vogelmann. His work contributed to legislative change that reduced acid rain.

Now our new research helps continue the story. It shows that the Clean Air Act works.”

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Green Mountain Refuge Remembering Solzhenitsyn’s Vermont Years

RUSSIAN | If you know Professor Kevin McKenna, you know that he gave it his best effort, ardent and true. 1989, McKenna spearheaded a UVM-hosted national conference on Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s work. With the Nobel laureate author living just a two-hour drive away in Cavendish, Vermont, the professor of Russian extended an invitation to speak at Ira Allen Chapel.

McKenna knew the odds were long. A curt letter from Solzhenitsyn’s personal secretary sealed it: “Aleksandr Isaaevich no longer gives lectures on American college campuses. Yours will not be an exception.”

Recounting the story nearly thirty years later, McKenna says, “I wasn’t at all surprised.” Widespread misunderstanding of comments the author made at a 1978 commencement address at Harvard had soured him on such campus appearances.

As December 18, 2018, marks the centennial of Solzhenitsyn’s birth, his life and legacy is reflected upon from Moscow to Cavendish. This summer, McKenna reread his well-worn copy of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich for, perhaps, the thirtieth time, preparing to teach a fall semester world literature class focused exclusively on Solzhenitsyn.

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Centennial events have also taken McKenna, and colleague Professor Wolfgang Mieder, to Russia to deliver lectures to the Russian Academy of Sciences and research future work. In Vermont, McKenna helped to organize an exhibit at the Vermont Historical Society and participated in a conference at Northern Vermont University on the topic of Solzhenitsyn’s fiction. He also recently received an invitation from the Academy of Science and Solzhenitsyn Archives in Moscow to deliver a lecture at their international conference in December celebrating the centennial of the author’s birth.

Living in exile in Switzerland in the mid-1970s, Solzhenitsyn found it too busy, too paparazzi-accessible. Friends in Ontario told him about this place to the south. McKenna lists the aspects of Vermont that appealed to the writer—climate and landscape that felt like home; isolation but not too far from the libraries and archives at Harvard and Dartmouth; a solid place to raise his and his wife’s three children; and, most importantly, neighbors who would respect, even protect, his privacy.

With his bearded and brooding looks, a writer at work in the woods, it’s tempting to label Solzhenitsyn a hermit during his Vermont years, 1976 to 1993. McKenna says no. “He was an unbelievably dedicated writer and researcher, regularly working eighteen hours a day,” McKenna says. “Yes, he wasn’t the kind of person who would attend numerous barbecues, go bowling and things like that, not an overly social kind of person, but definitely not a hermit. He was an avid tennis player, for example.”

Solzhenitsyn and his wife, Natalia, did attend Town Meeting in Cavendish in 1993 to thank the town and friends there for the welcoming safe harbor of their Vermont years. A sign in the Cavendish general store had long read, “No directions to Solzhenitsyn’s home.”

As McKenna guides students through Solzhenitsyn’s oeuvre this semester, he reflects on what we can learn about twenty-first-century Russia from this giant of twentieth-century literature. From outside the country’s borders, McKenna says there is an abiding message to be wary of the Kremlin. Within Russia, Solzhenitsyn’s oncebanned books are now seen as mandatory reading by Vladimir Putin’s government. McKenna says, “In the same way as Dostoyevsky or Tolstoy, he is viewed as a Russian prophet, a writer who has something essential to say to and about the Russian people.”

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BRIEFS | Jonah Steinberg, associate professor of anthropology, is the author of A Garland of Bones: Child Runaways in India, Yale University Press. Scheduled for publication in January, Steinberg’s book situates children’s decisions to leave home and flee for the city in their larger cultural, social, and historical contexts.

Framing a Mystery Maria Hummel ’94 was ripe for a new path.

Her previous two novels—Motherland and Wilderness Run—were works of historical fiction. The particular challenges of writing a mystery, which she viewed as a kind of formal exercise in unknown territory, beckoned. “Mystery is one of the most codified forms that we have in fiction, though writers bend that form all the time,” says Hummel, assistant professor of English.

Another new frontier, rooting her fiction in places, people, and circumstances of her own life. For several years between graduate school in North Carolina and a Stegner Fellowship and teaching at Stanford University, Hummel worked as a writer/ editor at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. That immersion in the L.A. art world seemed to offer a rich vein for fiction, and she made some initial efforts during her Southern California years, but nothing jelled: “I was too close to the material then.” But a decade later, setting a story amidst the excess and intrigue of that milieu clicked.

As she began drafting, Hummel did her homework. She read more deeply among the women writers, such as Tana French and Kate Atkinson, who have been pushing the boundaries of mystery. And she dusted off the classics, Raymond Chandler’s Los Angeles-grounded works, in particular.

“In Chandler, Los Angeles feels real, but also sort of dreamy,” Hummel says. “There is a way in which you can locate places, but you also can’t. They are also very much part of the fiction.”

Writing mystery required a more deliberative process than her previous fiction, Hummel says. She needed a keener sense of where the book was going in order to plot out fundamental elements of the genre.

“They say if you write a murder mystery

you have to write out the murder first. And, whoever ‘they’ might be, are correct,” she says. “You can’t properly plant the clues and red herrings without that.”

Readers who know Hummel will note some similarities between protagonist Maggie and author Maria. Bouncing early drafts off her agent, well-versed in mystery through work with Scott Turow, Hummel learned where she needed to push deeper into imagination.

“Most writers who write autobiographical fiction deal with this,” Hummel says.

“You start with yourself, but really your character has to become her own person.

Maggie needed to be smarter, braver, a little bit more unhinged than I am.”

From those humble origins as writing exercise, Still Lives has squarely found its mark with readers. Hummel’s publisher, Counterpoint, made it their lead title in June, and it was selected by both the Book of the Month Club and Reese Witherspoon Book Club. Publication rights have sold for the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand markets, and film and television producers are interested in screen rights.

Find Still Lives at your local book store or plump up the couch for a possible binge watch in your future. And if you can’t get enough, Hummel says she has always envisioned the book as part of a trilogy, with plans to dive into book two in 2019.

Professor Emeritus Robert Manning joins with a number of alumni/ former doctoral students—Peter Newman G’02, Jeffrey Hallo G’07, and Steven Lawson ’89 G’02—plus fellow authors Jesse Barber and Christopher Monz on Natural Quiet and Natural Darkness: The “New” Resources of the National Parks, University Press of New England. The anthology presents and synthesizes research regarding the impact of humancaused noise and light on national parks and protected natural areas.

Christopher Corbett ’73 recently published “Accountability and Ethics in Nonprofit Organizations” in Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy and Governance, Springer International. His prior book, Advancing Nonprofit Stewardship Through Self-Regulation: Translating Principles into Practice, Kumarian Press, is based on studying A-rated nonprofits’ best practices.

Zoë François ’90 teams again with coauthor Dr. Jeff Hertzberg on Holiday and Celebration Bread in Five Minutes a Day, St. Martin’s Press. The book includes clear and concise recipes that adapt the authors’ innovative technique for baking with high-moisture stored dough to a collection of breads from around the world. François is a pastry chef trained at the Culinary Institute of America.

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are similar, but not the same. When Robin Duncan is asked to evaluate the basketball strengths and weaknesses of his older brother Everett, he says quietly, “Everett can shoot. He’s a glue guy, a good leader. His weakness? He likes to yell at me a lot.”

Sitting with Robin and brother Ernie in Patrick Gym after a practice session, Everett is quick to defend himself: “I used to yell at him back in the day! I won’t lie. But I don’t yell at him now. I’ve changed.”

Robin jumps in, “I try not to talk back, but sometimes I mess up, and I’ll talk back to him when I’m wrong. I’m used to arguing with him as his brother, so I’m trying to learn how to not argue with him as a teammate.”

Ernie, a redshirt senior, is the oldest of the three Duncan brothers taking the court for the Catamounts this season. (Everett is a redshirt junior; Robin, a freshman.) Seizing oldest brother privilege, Ernie sums it up: “I’d say we’re definitely harder on each other than we are on our other teammates. We know what we each can take.”

Pushing each other to reach their full potential as basketball players runs deep in the DNA of the Duncans, who grew up in Evansville, Indiana. Their father, Stan, was a six-foot-six Hoosier State kid who,

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The Brothers Duncan: Everett, Ernie, and Robin. looking back as an adult, felt he’d wasted his athletic talent due to a lack of focus and guidance from his parents.

When, at age nine, Ernie began to show skills and love for the game deeply woven into Indiana’s state culture, Stan and his wife, Melinda Duncan, were determined to help their son and his siblings make the most of it. While Melinda continued with her job at a retirement home, Stan retired from construction work to homeschool the kids for several years and coach them in basketball.

They practiced seven days a week at home, at the local YMCA, and the Evansville Basketball Academy. “Basketball is a touch sport,” Stan says. “You have to work on it all the time.” The Duncan brothers’ days began with solid breakfasts, eggs and sausage, and watching tapes of NBA legend Steve Nash as their dad pointed out nuances in his game. “Preaching the gospel of basketball,” Stan says.

By age thirteen, Ernie could take his father in one-on-one. “He was just too fast,” Stan says. Everett and Robin developed quickly, too. (Watch video of fifth-grade Robin’s ball-handling skills: go.uvm.edu/robin.) The Duncans would become a force for Evansville Harrison High School, leaving their mark on the school’s record book.

Stan and Melinda Duncan also saw a promising path to college via athletic scholarships as their kids began to excel as players. In addition to the UVM teammates, their children include Mary, Stanley (who plays basketball for Anderson University in Indiana), and Brandon.

When Vermont head coach John Becker and assistant Kyle Cieplicki ’08 came calling on Ernie before his senior year in high school, he was at first unsure about this school up in New England, a thousand miles from home—“Vermont?

I’m not going to Vermont!” But Cieplicki made his case, building a relationship

and selling the virtues of strong academics, a leading mid-major program, and the opportunity for playing time from the start.

Being from a large, close family, Ernie says he was naturally drawn to the family atmosphere of Coach Becker’s program.

A visit to UVM and Burlington sealed it.

“I pretty much fell in love,” Ernie says.

“I knew it wouldn’t get better than this.”

And that Duncan-Catamount bond continued to grow as Everett and Robin went through their own recruitments. It was an easy choice, they say.

Another key draw for the Duncans has been the Catamounts’ place as perennial contenders, often favorites, to earn America East’s slot in the NCAA Tournament.

Ernie and Everett had that college hoops thrill-of-a-lifetime in March 2017 when the Cats traveled to Milwaukee as a No. 13 seed to take on No. 4 Purdue, putting up a strong upset bid before falling 70-80.

Considering the season ahead, Ernie Duncan says getting back to the tournament is the ultimate goal. In his mind, the entire success or failure of the season rests on that measure. A young Catamount team includes the sibling trio, just the fifth time in NCAA history that three brothers have played for a Division I basketball program.

The bad fortune of a freshman-year injury and redshirt season means that Ernie is in his fifth year and has the good fortune to play organized basketball with both Robin and Everett for the first time.

“I’m getting used to it now, but at first it was unreal, playing with them,” Robin says. “Because I’ve always looked up to them growing up, since I was real little.”

“You still do, right?” Ernie asks, grinning.

Robin: “Not as much.”

They laugh, then are quickly off and running with trash talk about the assist record at Evansville Harrison High School—once Ernie’s, then Everett’s, now Robin’s.

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SHORTS | The UVM Athletic Hall of Fame welcomed eight new members on September 8 at the fiftieth annual induction dinner. This year’s inductees are Danielle Collins ‘08, field hockey; Joe Fallon ‘08, hockey; Milt Goggans ‘66, basketball; Greg Hardy ‘08, skiing; Carmen Lagala ‘08, track & field; Denis Lambert, coach and athletic director; and Courtney LaMere ‘02, lacrosse. Former UVM men’s hockey star Torrey Mitchell ‘07 had his Hall of Fame induction deferred from 2017 to 2018.

Martin St. Louis ’97 joins the National Hockey League’s Hall of Fame this fall. A star for the Catamount team that skated to the Frozen Four in 1996, St. Louis had a stellar seventeen-year professional career that included six All-Star Game appearances, multiple league honors, and the 2004 Stanley Cup and MVP while playing for the Tampa Bay Lightning.

Four 2018 Catamount men’s basketball alumni will be taking their talents abroad, playing professionally in Europe this season: Trae Bell-Haynes, Germany; Payton Henson, Netherlands; Drew Urquhart, Estonia; and Cam Ward, Malta.

Are you old school? Do you miss Charlie and Kitty Catamount? UVM Athletics is there for you with a new vintage line of clothing and other products celebrating mascots and logos past. Check out the gear online at uvmbookstore.uvm.edu or shop during games at Patrick or Gutterson.

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UVM PEOPLE SARA KINNAMON FRITSCH ’00 AND OLIVER FRITSCH ’00

by Thomas Weaver Photograph by Katharine Kimball ’89 ONCE AN ENGINEER, ALWAYS AN ENGINEER Though neither has the word “engineer” in his or her job title, Oliver and Sara Kinnamon Fritsch say their bachelor’s degrees in mechanical engineering are fundamental to the skills and mindset upon which they’ve built their careers. And it’s what initially brought them together back in Votey Hall, where they were ME study buddies and founding members on UVM’s MiniBaja team, a competition in which student engineers design, build, and race cars.

“I feel like if you study engineering, you never don’t work as an engineer,” Sara says. She notes that large business consulting firms, where she and Oliver both began their careers, often hire engineers, “knowing that these are people who can solve complex problems in a logical way.”

Oliver recalls he was drawn to an engineering major simply because he felt it was the toughest academic challenge he could take on. He acknowledges moments of doubt along the road to his degree and credits Professor Gerald Francis as a stalwart supporter.

A grad teaching assistant in thermodynamics also switched on a light when he suggested that, beyond the facts in the textbook, the deeper purpose of a college education was “teaching you how to think, how to learn, how to problem solve.” Though he excelled academically, earning mechanical engineer of the year for his class and leading the Tau Beta Pi honorary, Oliver admits to tears of joy and relief on graduation day. “It gave me the confidence I could do anything,” he says.

JUST DOING IT Working in top executive roles at Nike for the past thirteen years, Oliver Fritsch took on one of his largest projects when, as senior product director for basketball apparel, he led the process of redesigning uniforms for the National Basketball Association. It was a sweeping undertaking that reconsidered everything from fabric and fit to celebrating the history and culture of indi-

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vidual franchises and their hometowns in the designs.

The new uniforms debuted last season.

Describing this project and a broader Nike ethos, Oliver says, “We start with the athlete. We need to understand athletes almost better than they understand themselves, so we can solve problems that they never knew they had and give them any possible advantage. We’re not necessarily asking them for product insights, but going deeper on their approach to the game, when they felt in the zone and how they got there. Then we translate those insights into creating the right product.”

With a nod to the lessons he drew from working on the Mini-Baja buggy at UVM, Oliver says teamwork, a highly valued skill at Nike, is central to that process— athletes, designers, engineers, all zoned in on a common goal.

PORTLAND STYLE After spending most of her career working in business consulting, Sara Fritsch joined Portland, Oregon-based Schoolhouse Electric three years ago. She describes Schoolhouse’s aim as “creating the next generation of heirlooms,” from lighting to furniture to domestic utility goods—all designed with a Portland edge and largely manufactured in their Portland factory. Schoolhouse Electric also has a store in Manhattan’s Tribeca neighborhood, opened another in Pittsburgh this fall, and posts strong sales online.

As president at Schoolhouse, Sara guides and manages a full plate: brand, marketing, product design/ development/and engineering, sales, digital and social media. Echoing Oliver’s experience at Nike, she says that being an effective team member and team leader are central to her work. UVM studies in engineering and studio art, years of consulting, and an abiding passion for people’s relationships with their homes— “how a home’s aesthetic and vibe contribute to memories and emotion”—all come together to drive and inform her work at Schoolhouse.

WORK WHERE YOU LIVE In addition to sharing a major, Oliver, an alpine skier, and Sara, a multi-event athlete in track and field and cross-country, were both varsity student-athletes at UVM. Outdoor recreation options and the famously funky city of Portland drew them west, united in a commitment to “work where we live, not live where we work.”

Their home is on the edge of Forest Park—towering firs, lush ravines, endless trails to hike and run.

Together with their two kids, their weekends often

include wake surfing on the Willamette River or packing up the car and heading for Mount Hood to hit the slopes.

Like most married couples, work talk seeps into home life. But unlike most, their shared experience as students lends some insight. “We know how each other operates, and we go about things differently. But we have a lot of respect for each other’s perspective,” Sara says. “Oli is one of my biggest advisors professionally, and I think that’s mutual. We talk a lot about work, but in a good way. We both love it.”

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Vast as Lake Champlain, tiny as a fleck of Montreal spice on a Myer’s Bagel, the charms of Burlington, Vermont, are many and varied. Our hometown grabs a quick hold of your heart and does not let go. All who have called Burlington home, from new students to alumni returning for Green and Gold Reunions to fourth-generation townies, have their own favorite parts of this place.

In this issue, we consider the standards and a few you may have missed. by Kira Bellis ’18, Joshua Brown, Austen Carpenter, Spike Clayton ’80, Steve Conant ’78, Autumn Engroff ’96 G’99, Andrea Estey, Jennifer Green, Tess Hayner ’20, Penrose Jackson ’70, Ian Thomas Jansen-Lonnquist ’09, Alisha Laramee, Little Outdoor Giants, Sally McCay, Walter Poleman G’95 ’10, Kesha Ram ’08, Henry Rood ’20, Elliot Sion, Thomas Visser G’86, Thomas Weaver

1 ART HOP It seems like yesterday that, as a South End Arts & Business Association board member, I was noodling the idea of starting an arts event in Burlington’s South End. We knew it made sense to mix the arts with business, so opening every studio to the public and turning every business into a gallery seemed smart.

Little did we know.

Twenty-six years later, the South End Art Hop is one of Vermont’s top ten summer attractions, drawing more than 30,000 people from near and far. What started as a one-night affair has morphed into a full weekend of venues and events including a fashion show, road race, parties, craft show, food trucks, and, of course, six hundred artists showing at more than one hundred locations.

In the early years, it required a lot of work to draw a crowd.

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show art, and the public needed to know. I liked telling the story.

Today the event has a life of its own. Artists and businesses start preparing months in advance, pop-ups add to the excitement while tried and true stalwarts anchor the event. Sustaining sponsors recognize the value of supporting the fun, and the local publications help with promotion.

The economic boost provided by Art Hop is palpable. Art sales are brisk, and business relationships are kindled. The owners of Great Harvest Bakery chose to locate their business here after experiencing the event. Restaurants stock up for the busy weekend, and food trucks roll in to take advantage of the mile-long block party vibe.

I love art, and I love business. We’ve been on Pine Street for thirty-eight years at Conant Metal & Light, Inc., and for twentysix of them Art Hop has been an annual celebration of all the ways those worlds come together in this corner of our city.

—Steve Conant ’78 JOSHUA BROWN

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“ We didn’t just assume, if you build it they will come.

It works because we started off making it work.

We did a lot of programming, even during construction, starting right from the beginning saying ‘This is the place to be.’”

—Penrose Jackson ’70, first director of the Church Street Marketplace. Current director of Community Health Improvement at the UVM Medical Center, Jackson also serves as president of the UVM Alumni Association Board Executive Committee.

3 BRIGHT LIGHTS “The Art Deco marquee of the Flynn Theatre on Main Street has showered visual magic on the Burlington night scene with its fantastic show of colored lights beckoning audiences since 1930.

But more than just a fancy sign, the Flynn Theatre marquee serves as a grand cantilevered entrance into a realm of imagination and possibilities that has brought this community together for generations.”

—Tom Visser G’86, director of UVM’s Historic Preservation Program and author of Porches of North America.

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WON’T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR? I’ve spent most of my life in Burlington, and much of it connected—in one way or another—to UVM. In the late 1970s, my father was the administrator of the Living and Learning Center, and A-building was my first home. It was a crazy time—students and faculty lived together in the dorms, the legal drinking age was eighteen, seatbelts were only a loose suggestion, and six-year-old me ruled over my very own L/L queendom—unsupervised, unruly, and unafraid. My favorite activities included cruising the halls on my bright red Big Wheel, busting my brother for setting things on fire in the community kitchen, and making a little cash on the side by hiding under the rec room pool table and throwing the game. While my friends lived regular lives, I lived in a maze of buildings connected by tunnels and bridges and elevators, with easy access to a college cafeteria, and my pick of babysitters.

My family eventually moved away from Burlington.

But, years later, I returned to attend UVM as an undergraduate. Where I had once watched in wonder—like a scientist observing creatures in the wild—roving groups of students wander from building to building looking for the party, I was now lost with and among them. As a kid, I didn’t know that the activity wasn’t the party itself, but trying to find it. Nor did I know that the sights and sounds of my childhood—people enthusiastically talking over each other, outbursts of shared laughter, the thump and crackle of music played through alreadyblown speakers—would be the same sights and sounds

punctuating my college experience and, eventually, my own children’s earliest memories.

My fellow UVM-alum husband, Jeff, and I are raising our family in downtown Burlington in a house just a few blocks away from my college apartment, next to a market that specializes in craft beer and breakfast sandwiches. Our kids will never know the enchanted life of the faculty brat, but they know about living among students. They know that the sound of people enthusiastically speaking over one another is why we sleep with sound machines. They know that if the thump and crackle of music played through already-blown speakers is still thumping and crackling at two in the morning, mom might take a little walk down the street to offer a couple of neighborly choices... in her pajamas.

What I knew as a kid growing up in Living and Learning and as a UVM student, is what my kids know now— that there’s just something a little bit magic about this dynamic, imperfect, sometimes too loud, never-enoughparking college town. What our kids know is that we stayed here—downtown, in this neighborhood, in the heart of this small city—not in spite of the random midnight fireworks, or the wild circadian rhythm of students leaving and returning over an academic year, but because as long as we know there’s a group of students out there enjoying life looking for a party they’ll probably never find, we can still see possibilities and bet on hope.

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5 B U I LD I NG BE R MS & COMMON GR OU N D Jonathon Weber ’13 hit the jump hard. His small bike rose straight off the pile of dirt and for half a heartbeat he hung suspended in the air at the Maple Street Bike Park in Essex, Vermont.

“That was fun,” he said quietly, a few minutes later. “Sometimes I wipe out, but there’s value in falling down and getting up again.”

Near the entrance to the park, Nathan Lantieri ’19 and Olivia Janggen ’19 watched riders on BMX and mountain bikes flowing and bumping over the dirt track. “This is very cool,” said Lantieri. “You can read stuff and look at pictures—but to actually see it makes it real.”

These two students were here in Essex last spring as part of their work in Community Development and Applied Economics 295, Local Community Initiatives. Their semester-long assignment: serve as consultants to Weber and other volunteers who have formed a group that aims to build a park like this one within Burlington.

What the students learned is the community value of some carefully placed piles of dirt. “Our data shows a lot of inter-

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est,” said Janggen. She and Lantieri and two other classmates designed a survey that reached 890 people and “almost every one of them was positive about having a bike park in Burlington,” she said.

For the students’ instructor, Thomas DeSisto ’01 G’11, and the volunteers, the end point is not the park—it’s how bike parks, sometimes called pump tracks, bring together lots of people in the same way that neighborhood gardens, skateboard parks, and swimming pools do. “To create something new, you need lots of kinds of capital,” DeSisto said. “In my course, students partner with organizations in Burlington to help build social capital. I want them to think about the meaning of human capital.”

Fall 2018, the bike park group has been in conversation with Burlington parks and recreation staff to see if they can find a suitable location in the city. As student Nathan Lantieri put it: “It’s great to learn about things in the classroom, but it’s even better to apply them in the world.”

—Joshua Brown JOSHUA BROWN

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HEAD FOR THE HILLS “What’s the best thing about Burlington?

It’s close to Vermont.” Ha, ha. Yes, that old local joke stings a little. But, embracing it, we went down to SkiRack, retail temple for fun hogs of many stripes since 1969, to ask co-owner Spike Clayton ’80 about his favorite places to recreate beyond the city limits. A varsity alpine skier as an undergrad, Clayton raced as a semi-pro cyclist for several years post-graduation and competed in the 1984 U.S. Olympic Trials. “The trail systems, the roads, hiking, whatever it is, across the board, we are totally spoiled here,” he says.

HIKE: Mt. Abraham or Hunger Mountain.

Fewer people than Camel’s Hump or Mansfield and they have that rocky, open, alpine feel on the summit.

ROAD BIKE: Kingsland Bay in Ferrisburgh to the Crown Point Bridge, many lowtraffic roads.

NORDIC SKIING: Trapps, Craftsbury, or some ten-kilometers of homemade trails right out his back door in Hinesburg, which, you know, is in Vermont.

THOMAS WEAVER, LEFT; IAN THOMAS JANSEN-LONNQUIST ’09, RIGHT

You can’t throw a stone in Burlington without hitting a breakfast sandwich.

You also can’t throw a stone without hitting an opinion about which is best.

Everyone has their own favorites and, as I discovered when polling my restaurant co-workers about the matter, people are fiercely loyal to their regular spots. In nearly a decade of eating in Burlington, first as a college student and more recently as a chef, I’m no exception to this rule. These are three of my favorite egg sandwiches in town.

PARKWAY DINER As egg sandwiches go, this one, served on an English muffin with American and choice of meat, is pretty straightforward. What sets it apart is that it’s served with a side of genuine American nostalgia. The Parkway, within easy walking distance of the airport, is one of the few classic diners left in the Burlington area; think red vinyl seating, buffed metallic wall paneling, and unapologetic old-school service.

PENNY CLUSE CAFE The classic Burly brunch joint, Penny Cluse has been around for two decades serving hearty dishes with a South-of-the-Border flair. Their egg sandwich comes on buttery griddled sourdough with cheddar...but add avocado (and a side of watermelon)! It’s still an incredibly popular spot after twenty years in business. If you’re short on time, avoid the long wait and hop one building over to their sister spot, the appropriately named Lucky Next Door, where the same sandwich is also served and can be taken to go.

HENRY STREET DELI I’ve probably eaten hundreds of their sandwiches over the past ten years. The eggs, the bacon, the Taylor ham, the sausage patties; all are cooked in the same enormous skillet (vegetarians, beware!). This adds flavor— and a not insignificant amount of grease—to each sandwich. Order one with tomato and garlic mayo, just don’t expect to get in and out quickly on weekend mornings during ski season, when the entire neighborhood seems to be waiting for a sandwich.

—Elliot Sion, kitchen manager at Honey Road, an Eastern Mediterraneanfocused restaurant at Main and Church. Sion attended UVM through his junior year in 2010, then continued his education at the Culinary Institute of America.

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Let Knowledge Serve the City. I was struck by this motto on a recent visit to Portland State University because it encapsulates one of my aspirations as a UVM faculty member: to be of genuine service to the city that is one of our university’s greatest assets. I would add a second phrase to a UVM version of the motto to capture more fully the spirit of reciprocity that is a hallmark of our relationship with Burlington: Let Knowledge Serve the City—And the City Serve As Classroom.

Burlington provides an outstanding learning environment and source of mentoring for students and faculty from departments across the university—whether it be history, engineering, education, health sciences, or forestry. As an ecologist in the Rubenstein School, I regularly send my students out to explore local landscapes like the floodplain farms of the Intervale, the renowned thrust fault at Rock Point, the historic Redstone Quarry, and the remnants of a legendary ravine that once cut diagonally though the downtown.

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hundred-year transformation from sandy bluff, to lumber port, to railroad yard, to industrial center, to bulk petroleum storage facility, and now to recreational destination, it’s an amazing laboratory for investigating our relationship with land and lake over time, and for envisioning a sustainable future for the city.

Stories of these remarkable places were recently woven together into a community outreach program called Burlington Geographic. By giving voice to diverse narratives, showcasing partnerships and sustainability initiatives, connecting educators with local experts, and infusing energy and ideas, Burlington Geographic aims to engage the whole community in a celebration of place.

For the past three years, faculty, staff, and students have been working closely with the community on creating an integrated series of presentations, field workshops, and web-based resources designed to deeply explore Burlington’s cultural heritage, natural history, and ecological potential.

—Walter Poleman G’95 ’10

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Teage O’Connor’s shoes are the first ancient sand dunes, peat-filled wetsurprise. They’re orange. That much is lands, dolomite cliffs. I had imagined fluorescently obvious even in the preO’Connor would scrupulously avoid RUNNING WILD sunrise gloom of this August morning. pavement and stay in these places He laces them up on his front porch as where, you know, all the nature is. But, we talk about the route. “Let’s start with Centennial Woods,” he as we run along this morning, he seems indifferent to the neat says. We’re going to try to run a “wild” marathon—26.2 miles binary categories of natural versus human—and more interested within the city limits of Burlington, traveling mostly through in finding what he calls “hidden places,” the experience of crosssome of his favorite patches of woods and unmarked backways. ing the landscape a bit like a fox: looking with practical eyes What’s more surprising is that O’Connor is wearing running for how to get around efficiently, searching for the more-thanshoes at all. Just yesterday, he ran a hilly five-mile race on pave- human wildness that pops up everywhere. ment in bare feet. He finished fourth, averaging 5:16 per mile. In “I’ve been obsessed with this idea of connecting to a place and 2017, he set the world record for the fastest barefoot one-hun- learning everything I can about it,” he says. At times, when he’s dred-kilometer run, covering sixty-two unshod miles in seven been training for one-hundred-mile footraces, “I try to become hours and thirteen minutes. this feral animal,” he says.

But O’Connor—a 2010 graduate of UVM’s Field Naturalist We cross the parking lot of what used to be a concrete plant master’s program, and former steeplechase star at the University and plunge into a trail-less riot of vines and ferns near the Winof Chicago—doesn’t see himself as some sort of categorical Bare- ooski River. “Whoa. A deer,” O’Connor says as the animal jumps foot Runner. “I’m not in some cult, but I do love to run barefoot,” up from where it was bedded and crashes away. At the river’s he says. “Running without shoes can be an added layer of aware- edge, delicate footprints of raccoons cover the mud; bobcat and ness, another texture.” But today his feet are tired. “The cushion mink tracks have been spotted nearby, too. Upriver, the bridge feels nice,” he says. “Let’s run.” for Interstate 89 passes overhead. Downriver, we can see the red We loop through his backyard just off Colchester Avenue. brick of Winooski. We’ve been out for almost half an hour and “Here’s where a moose came over,” he says, pointing to a bent “we’ve gone one mile,” O”Connor says. Twenty-five to go. fence. Running downhill through dark woods, he gestures toward O’Connor jumps off a stack of concrete blocks, climbs over a patch of exotic trees, perhaps left behind by some landscapers. some driftwood, and into a rusting eight-foot-high pipe along the “Ginkgo, yew, Japanese maple, Siberian elm,” he says. The sun foundation of Chace Mill. Soon we’re running along an iron trail, begins to catch the treetops as we bump along a trail through the chopped remains of a riveted half-pipe perched between the UVM’s sixty-five-acre natural area, Centennial Woods. He points historic building and the river. Steampunk meets nature hike. out where beavers have chewed on the footbridge. The wildflowWe follow the river. Over the road, down the embankment to ers under the powerline spakle with dew.

Salmon Hole Park, and a dash over rocks that hold ripples from a Forty-nine percent of Burlington is open space—parks, cem- five-hundred-million-year-old tropical sea. For several miles, we eteries, soccer fields, farmland—and half of this open space is follow the Riverwalk Trail and then go off-trail under the raila patchwork of natural areas: clayplain forests, alder swamps, road bridge, and into the Intervale. In these seven hundred acres

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of bottomland, silver maples, and farm fields, the running begins in earnest, flowing along the sandy river-edge. I’m already getting tired and sweaty. My trail guide is not.

O’Connor follows his memory through a few neighborhoods and then plunges across a backyard into the sixty acres of Ethan Allen Park, cool in a shade of oaks. “Barred owl,” he says, pointing. He’s seen this owl four or five times, he thinks, but there are many owls in this park, “because there’s a higher density of squirrels here than anywhere I’ve ever been,” he says. Near the ten-mile mark we go into and up the stairs of Ethan Allen Tower, highest point in the city.

Sidewalks give way to baseball fields to the brushy backyard of the Smith School to the Mount Calvary Red Maple Wetland, twelve bizarre acres surrounded by post-war houses. Here wet meets dry. We pass drought-tolerant pitch pine and black oak growing on the sandy remains of an old river delta, and then jump onto boardwalks over mucky pools of water.

At thirteen miles, we run onto Derway Island, actually a 148acre peninsula near the mouth of the Winooski River—floodplain trees, buttonbush swamps, the rusted ruin of a car, and ferociously itchy nettles. We’ve reached the northernmost extent of Burlington and the halfway point of our run.

The miles and landscapes begin to blur together as my aging legs try to keep pace with O’Connor’s effortless gait. He dances over a driftwood berm and along the spectacularly wild edge of Lake Champlain, churning over the sand toward Starr Farm Beach. A lap through the sandy woods behind Starr Farm Nursing Center, then O’Connor hunts for some remembered-but-nowdeveloped forest on Appletree Point. At eighteen miles, we stop for chocolate milk. O’Connor finds an unblemished watermelon in a supermarket dumpster and we happily eat it.

Then we skitter over North Avenue and plunge back into the trees and down a steep embankment to the Donohue Sea Caves.

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tiful algae-covered floor of the cave, created by the wave action of the Champlain Sea not long after the glaciers retreated. “It’s not pristine,” he says pointing to a tire and rusting drum at the cave entrance, but in higher water “big fish swim in here,” he says, drawing eagles and osprey.

I start a second GPS watch with fresh batteries, while O’Connor calls his wife to explain why we’ve been gone for four hours—and still have six miles to go. We run into the Arms Forest behind the high school, a meandering set of trails and boardwalks through mature maple woods—and the only place in Burlington where you can find rare yellow lady-slipper orchids.

The parcel adjoins Rock Point, perhaps the finest jewel of land in the city, 130 acres with breathtaking cliff views and a famous trick of geology called the Champlain Thrust Fault, where older dolomite rock lies atop younger shale. Here’s where Crow’s Path—the outdoor field school O’Connor founded and leads— teaches children natural history and primitive skills, like fire-making.

At twenty-three miles, I’m so tired I feel like I’m in a tunnel.

And then we are. O’Connor leads us around a line of tanker cars, onto the rail line and into the train tunnel built under North Avenue in 1861. If coyotes can use this to get across town, apparently so can we.

At twenty-five miles, we’ve climbed up through some steep trees off Riverside Avenue and decide to take a pass across the UVM Green. Teage O’Connor bounds joyfully over the grass and jumps directly into the fountain. “Clearly not enough people run through that fountain,” he says. We run past Billings Library, then take a slow lap around Trinity Campus to nudge the Garmin over twenty-six miles.

We finish at O’Connor’s home. “You want to come in and get some water?” he says, taking his shoes off and leaving a wet footprint on the front porch. “That was pretty wild.”

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10 S U S TA I N A B L E C I T Y In 2014, after ten years in the making, Burlington became the first city in the country to source 100 percent of its electricity from renewables—hydro, wind, biomass, and solar. While that pioneering achievement drew national and international attention to our city, Burlingtonians knew it as the latest example of a longstanding city and state mindset to think differently—to make “Think Globally, Act Locally,” more than a bumper sticker slogan.

Working for the City of Burlington, I’m proud to be part of local government that values smart planning, is committed to long-term solutions over short-term gains, and embraces the principle that all Burlingtonians, regardless of income or ethnicity, deserve the benefits of a sustainable city.

Building on this success, Burlington recently set its next ambitious target—to become a “net zero energy” city in the thermal (heating and cooling) and transportation sectors, which will involve continuing to produce and source more renewables as we begin to transition the city off of fossil fuels. Stay tuned.

—Jennifer Green Sustainability officer for the City of Burlington, Green has taught UVM courses in sustainable communities, environmental sociology, and careers in sustainability.

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When people found out I grew up in Santa Monica, on the beaches of

Los Angeles, they’d ask, ‘Why did you move here?’ The moment I got to Burlington, I found this close knit, small city, with a walking promenade, bluffs overlooking the water and this body of water to the west, and of all the places I visited outside of California I felt the most at home. So when I came to visit, not only was everyone incredibly nice and I fell in love with the sense of community, but my sense of place was well-oriented.

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—Kesha Ram ‘08 has remained a Vermont resident, serving four terms in the state legislature and recently completing her Master of Public Administration at the Harvard Kennedy School.

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Tucked away on Lake Street, up past Skinny Pancake, you’ll find the inconspicuous home of one of Burlington’s newest breweries. Foam Brewers is young in many ways— founded in 2016 by a team including Sam Keane ’12 and John Farmer ’13, they make experimental beers, serve gourmet cheese on slate boards, and play host to yoga nights.

In spite of its age, Foam feels like it’s been here a long time, like it decidedly belongs.

When I moved to Burlington five years ago, I was drawn down the hill to the waterfront, like all newcomers to the city. There, the paradox of my surroundings baffled me: drinking in spectacular sunsets at the foot of the derelict, overgrown Moran Plant.

There’s a grittiness to this stretch of shore, an echo of history, a rusty tinge of early industries not yet scrubbed away.

It’s an intangible feeling I get on this stretch of the lake, and it’s one I get inside Foam.

Sure, the beer styles are newfangled—my grandfather wasn’t drinking a sour ale fruited with tangerine or a Double IPA when he drove a Public Works snowplow in the Queen City a century ago. But he might have glanced at the same exposed bricks along this wall or admired a sunset over the Adirondacks from the place where Foam’s patio now sits.

And of course, there’s lots about Foam that feels decidedly BTV circa now. Three Chimney Farm, founded by a trio of UVM grads, sell their fruits and vegetables out front in the summertime. The brewery space, designed by longtime Phish collaborator Russ Bennett, has metalwork accents by sculptor Kat Clear ’01. And the curved bar? Deliberately shaped that way, to encourage Burlingtonians to turn toward one another.

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When Bhutanese refugees began arriving in Burlington in the early to mid-2000s, gaining access to agricultural land to grow culturally significant crops for their families was an essential part of resettlement. This has also been the case for other refugee groups resettled in Chittenden County since 1988, a truth behind the creation of New Farms for New Americans, operated by the Association of Africans Living in Vermont, some ten years ago.

With more than 250 farmers from Burundi, Bhutan, Burma, Somalia, and Nepal participating in some capacity in the program each year, farmers are producing an estimated 100 tons of vegetables annually on less than five acres.

A walk through the program’s farmland along the banks of the Winooski River in Burlington reveals a world of vegetables, flavors, and growing techniques not common in Vermont’s countryside, but increasingly more familiar in Chittenden County. Bitter melon, roselle, and African eggplant highlight flavors of bitter and sour, while snake gourd and caigua fruits hang from vines climbing wildly over homemade trellises.

Beyond the farm field, New Farms offers workshops on growing crops in a northern climate and preserving the harvest to help feed families through a Vermont winter. All of these efforts—supported by dwindling federal funding and critical philanthropy—play a key role in addressing food security and tight personal finances, while helping New Americans feel welcome and at home as they begin the next era of their lives in Vermont.

Learn more: go.uvm.edu/nfna —Alisha Laramee Program Manager, New Farms for New Americans SALLY MCCAY

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14 NIGHTCRAWLERS & TIME TRAVEL Five miles up the Burlington Greenway, just before you cross the bridge over the Winooski River, it’s easy to miss the side path down to Auer’s Family Boathouse. But to pass it by is to pass by a deep and authentic piece of Burlington culture, a place where reality edges into relic.

The rewards of stopping, besides a cold Coke on a hot day, are a look into the past at this living time capsule, which first opened for business in the 1920s. An old piano and jukebox conjure memories of when residents of Burlington’s New North End gathered for dances in the 1950s.

Worn wooden oars, nightcrawlers and minnows in the cooler, nets and tackle, give the place— AKA simply as Charlie’s Boathouse—the look, smell, and feel of everyone’s summer vacation by the lake.

If you want a grass-fed burger or microbrew, stay downtown. Out here you won’t get anything fancier than a microwaved hot dog, ice cream bar, candy or chips or a soda. What you will get is lots of talk and laughter from Charlie and his sister, Christine Auer Hebert, and a welcome to sit down, stay as long as you like, and enjoy the view where the river meets the lake.

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Nectar’s neon, long may it spin.

26 NORTH BEACH. Bonus points during a sunny Senior Week.

16 When solid ice turns Burlington Bay into a vast playground.

27 Champlain Thrust Fault.

Geology gone mad.

17 Handy’s Lunch, corner of Maple and Champlain, where Earl presides over the grill and Yankees v. Red Sox discussion. (Insider’s tip: Earl is a Yankees man.)

28 When Lloyd, master bagelman of Myer’s Bagels, tosses you one straight out of the wood-fired oven.

18 SATURDAY FARMERS’ MARKET. Name another state where you can buy fresh carrots from your lieutenant governor.

29 Running up College Street from the lake to the green. That which does not kill us, makes us stronger.

19 Hammocking at Lone Rock Point.

20 Highest number of dogs per capita in the United States?

21 Insider local history— e.g., “Yes, President Ulysses S. Grant slept at the original Hotel Vermont, but did you know Phish shared that green house over on King?”

22 Dining al fresco: Michigan from Beansie’s Bus with Battery Park lake view.

23 Five dollar live music at Light Club Lamp Shop on North Winooski.

24 Donuts on the north wind from Koffee Kup Bakery on Riverside Ave. 25 Roasting coffee beans on the west wind from Speeder’s on Pine Street.

30 A sandwich and a seat on the ski bench outside Henry Street Deli.

31 Braving open mic at the Vermont Comedy Club.

32 Friday night feast at the ArtsRiot Truck Stop: pierogi from Luiza’s, ice cream from Scout’s Honor, and crispy florets from The Broccoli Bar. 33 Ferry horn’s blast from the King Street Dock.

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35 Crow Bookshop plus Pure Pop plus Old Gold.

36 Secret garden at Red Onion.

37 Searching the labyrinth of City Market. I swear the black beans were here last time.

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urlington’s Old North End is a neighborhood of diverse people living in close company—multi-generation Vermonters, newly resettled refugees, college students glorying in their first apartments, young families rehabbing old houses.

On a side street near Pomeroy Park, you’ll find the four-square, concrete-block home of a distinguished UVM economics professor, past provost, and longtime member of the City Council. Jane Knodell says the ever-changing diversity of this neighborhood is a key attraction that drew her here, keeps her here, and motivates fighting the good fight to make the Old North End, and the entire city, a great place to live.

When Knodell joined the UVM faculty in 1986, her department chair encouraged her to reach beyond campus with her expertise, “get involved.”

With interstate banking under debate, it seemed a likely opportunity for an economist to offer testimony at the statehouse. In Burlington, Knodell began to share her perspective with city government during the Bernie Sanders and Peter Clavelle administrations. She also hit the sidewalks to leaflet for Progressive Coalition candidates. When someone suggested she make her own run for the council, Knodell said, “OK, sounds good. I can do that,” she recalls with a quiet laugh.

So began years of community service in multiple roles, two decades on the Burlington City Council at the core. That work finds its way back into UVM economics courses. “I feel like it has helped me in the classroom to be more connected to the so-called ‘real

world,’ to see how things really play out, how businesses think,” Knodell says. In recent years, she has drawn on her many contacts in public service and non-profits to develop an internship-based course for top econ majors.

Considering how her politics may have evolved over the years, Knodell says, “My underlying values are the same, I think. I come at it from a point of view of helping people who are really struggling, seeing the role of local government as helping people succeed. And some people need more attention from government than others, right? But issues are much less black and white for me than they used to be. I’ve probably moved a little closer to the center.”

On North Winooski Avenue, a few blocks from Knodell’s home, several new buildings have gone up in recent years and businesses have come in.

“Some people say that’s gentrifying; I’m not sure it is,” Knodell says. “I don’t see people being displaced.

You’re bringing more people into the community who have some purchasing power, and that is going to help us support small businesses. For me, it’s always been about housing and jobs.”

Though Knodell sees retirement from the UVM faculty a few years off, smart money would bet on perhaps an even more active political career to follow.

Burlington mayor? Vermont state senator? Knodell is frank that both are roles that intrigue her and could be a good fit for her experience. With a laugh, she puts in a plug for the virtues of her academic discipline: “You don’t want all economists, but I think a couple of us in office can be a good thing.”

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With its superhero-themed art, retro furniture, random ping-pong table and open floor plan, the Vermont Center for Emerging Technologies’ eyecatching co-working space—a little bit of Palo Alto plunked into Burlington’s FairPoint Technology Hub—is a fitting symbol for the dynamic contribution the economic development organization is making to Vermont’s start-up culture.

But an everyday suite of offices in Winooski may tell the VCET story just as compellingly.

The 5,000-square-foot space, tucked into an office park off East Allen Street, is home to SemiProbe, a fast-growing tech firm that, but for VCET, to borrow the developer’s phrase, might still be a gleam in the eyes of its founders.

In 2007, VCET contributed space to the fledgling start-up, in the form of its Farrell Hall incubator on the UVM campus. Seed financing from VCET followed several years later, which spurred significant additional investment. Eighteen months ago, VCET helped recruit the company’s CEO, Doug Merrill.

Today SemiProbe, which designs and manufactures equipment for quality-testing semiconductor components, has clients ranging from United Technologies to Sandia National Laboratories, eleven employees, two hires in the works, and the potential to add significantly more staff in the future.

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launched via vcet AN APP FOR THAT STUDENT | The last task doctors face after treating their patients during a hospital stay is among the most challenging: conveying information at discharge —in a way that will stick—about their post-hospitalization medication regimens, followup appointments, and self-care.

After observing how regularly her already harried physician-teachers had to repeat this information to patients post-hospitalization, sometimes in unnecessary meetings, Anna Lidofsky, a third-year medical student in UVM’s Larner College of Medicine, had an idea.

“Patient education is really difficult in a hospital setting,” she says. What patients needed, Lidofsky thought, was an app that would capture their doctor’s instructions and make them easily accessible on their phones or computers after they got home.

But how to turn that good idea into a real product?

Lidofsky got two pieces of advice from an entrepreneurially minded fellow medical student who learned of her app idea: Apply for a grant from a student-managed venture capital fund. And make a beeline for the Vermont Center for Emerging Technologies.

After applying for the venture funding, which came through, Lidofsky and the two fellow medical students she was developing the app with set up a

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“We had a really strong year,” Merrill says, “and we’re looking at long-term, multi-year growth.”

Those words are music to the ears of VCET president and business alumnus David Bradbury ’88 and confirmation that the approach VCET takes to launching and scaling start-up companies is on target.

“Our goal is to create a density for innovation,” Bradbury says, consisting of three components he repeats like a mantra, all of which SemiProbe tapped into: people, VCET’s expansive network; places, the three physical spaces VCET runs, including Farrell Hall, the Burlington facility, and an incubator at Middlebury College; and capital, VCET’s $5.1 million seed fund, which, it uses to expertly leverage additional investment.

SemiProbe is hardly the only success story that tripartite approach has yielded. Since 2008, VCET’s fifty “portfolio companies”—those it provided seed capital to—have raised more than $172 million total in capital.

In turn, those companies have lifetime sales of $133 million and a payroll of $112 million.

VCET’s stellar track record prompted the Stockholmbased University Business Incubator Index to rank it the eleventh best university and college-orientated business incubator in the world and fifth best in the U.S in 2013.

VCET’s expansion to the stylish Burlington co-working space—Bradbury uses the term reluctantly, since it’s equally a start-up incubator and accelerator—was a no brainer.

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Left: VCET president David Bradbury walks through the organization’s busy co-working space on Burlington’s Main Street. Above: Medical student Anna Lidofsky is working to develop an app that helps doctors clearly communicate post-hospitalization regimens to patients.

typing away and drinking coffee, and not talking to anybody,” he says. “I remember thinking, ‘I want to know what you’re doing. How can I help you? How can you help me?’”

When FairPoint Communications approached VCET board chair Frank Cioffi ’77, president of the Greater Burlington Industrial Corporation, in 2014, offering to help spur Burlington’s innovation culture by donating a floor of the company’s 266 Main Street building, Bradbury was all in.

The space opened the next year, was an immediate hit, and now has close to 130 members, including remote workers from Google, HubSpot, and Twitter.

“People are cordial and incredibly smart; it’s hitting on everything I could look for,” says Betsy Nesbitt, founder of Flyway Wellness, an outcomes-based wellness service that combines on-site yoga and meditation classes with proprietary data-based tools serving behavioral health treatment programs, as well as the business and hospitality sectors across New England.

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meeting with VCET president David Bradbury.

Things went well. “All of a sudden I was a member,” Lidofsky says.

Having the physical space to meet—VCET’s co-working space on Main Street has several small conference rooms members share as well as a large common area—was great.

But it was the other VCET members who offered the biggest benefit.

“One day I saw David, and he said, ‘You should talk to the person who’s working right next to you,’” the founder of a company called OhMD, Ethan Bechtel (Business Administration, ‘04), who’d created a HIPAA-compliant texting app for improving communication among doctors in the hospital setting.

“So I did. He took our emails and said anytime we needed help with anything, he would be willing to help,” Lidofsky says. “That doesn’t happen anywhere.”

The interaction and sense of community VCET offers has made all the difference for Lidofsky and her teammates.

“I think to solve these really big issues, like our issue with discharge, we need to be getting perspectives from people from all over, and VCET is great for that. It’s exciting to be part of a bigger community.”

next capital ALUMNUS | First there was online banking.

Then there was online brokerage. What’s next in the technological transformation of the financial services industry?

Something called digital advice, says Rob Foregger (Business, ’90), where advanced algorithms and artificial intelligence combine with brute computer power to offer users sophisticated investment counseling, supplementing or even replacing human expertise.

The financial promise of digital advice, projected to be a $6.5 trillion global business over the next five years, is clear today. But it was less so when Foregger launched Next Capital with three partners in 2013.

VCET president David Bradbury was one who saw the promise of the fledgling firm, which provides digital advice software and services for large institutional investment management companies like State Street Global Advisors, Transamerica, and John Hancock. Using its Vermont Seed Capital Fund, VCET made a vital early investment in the company.

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first sources of capital,” says Foregger, who lives in Stowe. “David was super helpful identifying the opportunity of our business early on.”

VCET’s seed funding helped attract $54 million in additional investment and spur rapid growth at the company. Today the Chicago-based firm has 110 total employees, including ten in Burlington’s Karma Bird House, a start-up mecca.

Seed funding wasn’t the only contribution VCET made to the company’s success. It also provided work space at its Main Street facility for the company’s first employees. Foregger also got good advice—the human kind—from Bradbury and his colleagues.

Having launched three successful financial services firms before Next Capital, Foregger wouldn’t seem to need much help.

But experience can take you only so far, he says.

“When you start something from scratch, it can often be a little bit of an echo chamber. You want to really make sure that you surround yourself with good trusted advisors that will help not just shape your business, but also test some of the key hypotheses,” Foregger says.

“Everybody talks about wanting to have tech hubs, but David really walks the walk in connecting people, capital, the higher education institutions and government. He’s been really fantastic for the state of Vermont.”

packetized energy FACULTY | UVM electrical engineering professor Paul Hines, an active researcher who uses big data and computer models to unravel the mysteries of the power grid, wasn’t used to thinking of his work in commercial terms.

But the ingenious algorithms he had developed with two faculty colleagues, Jeff Frolik and Mads Almassalkhi, which help electric utilities make greater, more consistent use of fickle wind and solar energy sources, were turning heads, helping the faculty win a small innovation grant from UVM and a large one from the U.S. Department of Energy.

Hines’s initial instinct was to form a holding company with his colleagues where they could park the technology for future reference and get on with his research.

“But the more we looked into it, the more we realized, hey, there’s an opportunity here. Let’s really put something into this,” he says.

The group launched a company in earnest, called Packetized Energy, and made its first hire, Andrew Giroux ’15 G’16, who had just earned a master’s in electrical engineering working under Frolik.

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state—Northern Reliability in Waterbury, for instance.

When start-up costs caused cash-flow impacts for the firm, which creates batteries and other systems for storing renewable energy, VCET stepped in with bridge financing that prompted more investment and a team of advisors that helped reposition the company’s business plan. Last year it had record sales.

It’s not easy being an economic development catalyst in the twenty-first century, as the start-up environment grows more competitive each year and entrepreneurs more sophisticated.

“VCET has been substantially different every thirtysix months based upon the needs of our startups,” Bradbury says.

Recently the organization has put emphasis on creating original content—in the form of a podcast called Start Here and networking events spotlighting female entrepreneurs. The Female Founders Series, created and managed by Bradbury’s VCET colleague, Sam RoachGerber, has taken the start-up community by storm, with nine sold out events over the last year and a half.

While VCET has always been autonomous, it was born on the UVM campus, in part as a way to spur commercialization of faculty research. VCET launched in 2005 as an independent 501(c)3 in Farrell Hall with funding from the university, federal support secured with the help of Senator Patrick Leahy, and the Vermont Technology Council.

UVM is still a funder and remains closely connected through its faculty entrepreneurs, six of whom are in residence at one of the VCET facilities, and its students.

Fully one third of VCET’s 188 members are student entrepreneurs and interns, many from UVM.

Left: The Vermont Center for Emerging Technologies has helped Rob Foregger ’90 grow Next Capital, a firm which provides digital advice software for investment managers.

Above: UVM faculty Mads Almassalkhi, left, Jeff Frolik, third from left, and Paul Hines, foreground, are behind Packetized Energy, a growing Burlington company that helps utilities more efficiently use renewable energy sources.

That composition is attractive to Provost David Rosowsky, a new member of the VCET board, who would like to see even more students involved.

VCET, Rosowsky says, “can create a platform for interested students to become engaged in innovation and entrepreneurship, be part of startup culture, and maybe even launch a startup.”

As new companies form and grow, “that will create pathways and opportunities for students that could convince them to stay in Vermont,” contributing much needed youth to the state’s aging workforce and helping “drive a sustainable, prosperous, and compelling future for the state,” one of UVM’s overarching goals as the state’s land grant university, Rosowsky says.

As important as VCET’s other contributions were to his company’s success, it’s the “people” element of the VCET troika that stands out for SemiProbe’s Merrill.

“VCET has access to an incredible network of entrepreneurs and support professionals,” Merrill says. “If you’re a small company and you’re currently launching in Vermont, David Bradbury is a guy who should be in your Rolodex.”

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But where to put him?

The obvious choice was VCET’s incubator space in Farrell Hall on the UVM campus, two floors down from Hines’s office, which had work spaces, services, and a shared conference room. The group met with VCET president David Bradbury. “It was a no-brainer” for both sides, Hines says.

In addition to providing an office for Giroux, VCET helped the Packetized team feel like a real company—and look like one.

“It was important to have a space that we could call home, where we could get our mail and give demonstrations of our technology,” he says.

VCET was a help in other ways, too—particularly in the advice Bradbury and his colleagues offered faculty, used to making long-winded presentations at conferences, on how to succinctly sell the company vision at the ubiquitous pitch competitions that earn start-ups seed money and attention.

The incubator space and advice have paid off handsomely for Packetized Energy—and the Vermont economy. Now in its own offices in Burlington’s Chace Mill, the company has six full-time employees in addition to the faculty founders, with the prospect of adding many more.

Hines is bullish on the importance of organizations like VCET in growing the state’s entrepreneurial ecosystem. “They’re critical to making Vermont the innovative startup incubator that it has the potential to be.”

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Burlington was hopping October 5-7 as Catamount Nation— both alumni returning for Reunion and families of current students visiting for Parent & Family Weekend—filled campus and the city.

Activities and events took place everywhere from cruises on Lake Champlain to a Mount Philo 50th Reunion BBQ for the Class of 1968.

Academic open houses, theatre and music department performances, tours of new and renovated facilities, and the perennially popular a cappella Homecoming Concert in Ira Allen Chapel were among the highlights on campus. Sports fans enjoyed a number of exciting games, including victories in soccer for both the men’s and women’s teams. Dedication ceremonies were held for Billings Library; Ifshin Hall; the Andrew Harris Commons, between the library and Terrill Hall, honoring UVM’s first African-American graduate; and Michele and Martin Cohen Hall for the Integrative Creative Arts, the renovated Taft School on South Williams Street. The Cohens are pictured in a drawing studio (above right).

2018 ALUMNI ASSOCIATION AWARDS

OUTSTANDING YOUNG ALUMNI AWARD

Jessica Bullock ’12 Elliot Kennedy ’08 ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Briar Alpert ’83 & G’92 Wanda Heading-Grant ’87 & G’03 DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD

Paul Malone ’68 LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT IN PHILANTHROPY AWARD

Robert E. & Holly D. Miller

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CLASS NOTES Life beyond graduation MAIL YOUR CLASS NOTES:

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Dr. George Tulin died peacefully at his home in San Diego at the age of 99.

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

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Lucene Pike ’67 shares that his father, Merton Pike passed away on April 18, 2018 two days before his 98th birthday. He had remained active in agriculture and community until that time from his home in Stowe at Keewaydin Farm.

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

Sarah Carpenter ’73 let us know that her mother, Dorothy Frazer Carpenter, passed away on June 15, 2018 at the Vermont Respite House after a short illness.

Dotsy was living in her own home in Burlington, not far from Redstone Campus, and was active playing bridge, going to the library and visiting friends, until her passing. Dot was able to attend the 70th reunion last year. Sarah had a wonderful conversation with Sue Warner ’48 about the fun times Sue and Dot, Chuck Warner ’49, and Torrey Carpenter ’48 had as newly married UVM grads. Dot leaves behind four children and their families: Sarah, Case Carpenter ’74, Rink, and Sam Carpenter.

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

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Green & Gold Reunion October 4-6, 2019

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Send your news to— Gladys Clark Severance Apt. 11, 185 Pine Haven Shores Rd Shelburne, VT 05482 Alumni.uvm.edu/classnotes

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John Eddy ’50 MD’53 and Carol Eddy wrote with memories of our wonderful late classmate and class secretary Hedi Stoehr Ballantyne and gratitude for all her years of service to our class. Also remembering Hedi, Maynard North shared memories of Hedi’s father, whom he had met at St. Michael's College as a senior German major.

He writes, “My faculty friends in German, Fred Carpenter ’17, Truman Webster ’31 and Harry Kahn, all provided exposures beyond the norm; but Dr. Stoehr was unique.” Maynard also remembered UVM days in drama, where Howard and

Carolyn Delano were instrumental in his growth.

Residing in a retirement home in Indianapolis, after 33 years in Florida, Maynard keeps up on news from Vermont via his son and fellow grad Phyllis Dykhuizen. Maynard began his study at UVM in 1943 when he was an aviation cadet.

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

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Christopher J.Peck shared that his father, Michael Peck, Jr., passed away. Michael studied economics at UVM. His granddaughter, Madison Peck ’18, carried on the family’s UVM tradition with her graduation last spring. Alma Warrell Briggs’s son retired recently as a Major General in the U.S. Air Force after several tours of duty overseas. His military career began at the Air Force Academy right after graduation from high school. And in news from another military family, Todd Semonite, the son of Jeanne Farr Semonite and her late husband, Bill Semonite ’50, is still on active duty as a General.

He is currently serving over the entire United States Corp of Engineers. Dr. Bill Goodman and his wife, Nan Gray, now reside in Austin, Texas, after living in many different places in their seventy years together. Bill’s career in veterinary medicine began with the U.S. Army Veterinary Corps and included years of running a family vet practice in Manhasset, Long Island. Bill and Nan raised three children together, and Bill writes that “Nan still looks fifty after all this.” The couple finds Austin a wonderful, active place to live. With this column, Valerie Chamberlain, your class secretary for more than twenty years, steps down from her class secretary role. “Thank you for giving me the opportunity to keep up with your activities and the milestones in your lives. Best wishes now and for the future,” Valerie writes. (Editor’s Note: And all best wishes and

thanks back at Valerie for her years of service to VQ!) Send your news to— UVM Alumni Association 411 Main Street, Burlington, VT 05401 Alumni.uvm.edu/classnotes

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Nancy M. Humphreys reports that she has lived in a wonderful retirement home, Presbyterian Community of South Carolina, for the past five years. Her husband, Dr. Roderick Humphreys ’48, passed away in 2011. Nancy welcomes classmates coming through South Carolina to stop in for a visit. After his wife passed on, Howard Shannon moved into a retirement community to be closer to his family.

“I still see Art Prune and his wife to play Mexican Train,” Howard adds.

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

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Robert Chaffee and MaryAnn Chaffee ’60 moved to Wake Robin in Shelburne, Vermont in early October. They are excited to join classmates and other UVM grads there. Alfred John Purcell, Jr. ’53, passed away on January 28, 2018. A graduate of the College of Engineering and Math, he went on

to receive his MBA from Babson College. Al served as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Army during the Korean Conflict and was later president of Heald Division of Cincinnatti Milacron during his career. Al is survived by his wife of fifty-nine years, Carolyn.

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

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Nancy Buchheim Beauchamp shares, sadly, four Pi Phis attended the funeral of one of their sisters, Cynthia Stafford MacDonald, in Montpelier on June 23. They were Nancy Burden Tapley, Martha Marvin Kelley, Louise Ewart Long, and Nancy Buchheim Beauchamp. Fond memories were the order of the day as they bid farewell to their friend. Robert Foster is finally, officially, fully retired. He continues to participate in professional organizations and has discovered that self publishing is a lot of work with limited reward, see www.michaelseyesandotherworks.com. Robert fills his free time visiting colleagues in Europe and watching his grandsons make their place in the world. Bob Foster (SAE), Charles (Chuck) Perkins and Jan Perkins were inducted into the Vermont Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame, see photo at

go.uvm.edu/alumpics. Chuck and Jan opened the Alpine Shop in South Burlington in 1963. Chuck, a founding members of the Vermont Ski and Snowboard Museum, is still an active skier. Their children are UVM graduates; Chuck Perkins III ’85 and Peggy Perkins Rieley ’87, and they have four grandchildren ages thirteen to twenty. The Perkins reside in Burlington. The Home Economics Class of 1954 including Patricia Mazuzan Diego, Nancy Spaulding Hitchcock, Ruth Pestle, and Carolyn Davis Stone met in Montpelier for an annual minireunion, enjoying good food, fond memories, and tales of UVM student life. Martha Gleason shares that her husband, Dr. Ray E. Gleason passed away on December 24, 2017. Ray earned his bachelor’s from UVM’s College of Agriculture before going on for a master’s from the University of Massachusetts and his PhD from Texas A&M. Ray was married to Martha Davies ’56, a graduate of Mary Fletcher Hospital School of Nursing. Together they had four children and sixteen grandchildren. Ray, a biostatistician in the medical field, worked at Joslin Diabetes Research Center, Brigham & Women’s Hospital Research Center, and MIT’s Medical Research Center during his career.

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

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Nancy Brown Bunting, her son, Jim, and daughter-in-law, Dee, recently visited Babette Nichols Cameron on Deer Isle in Maine. They enjoyed gorgeous weather, sight-seeing and some good seafood, and spent most of their time reflecting on old times with many laughs! Rhea Salsburg Dorn shares that after another winter of skiing, her knees are beginning to object. Rhea plans to “do some fixing” and get back on the slopes. She has found a wonderful old-folks ski club and encourages interested class members to email her for details. Lawrence Sullivan has met a lovely lady, Adele Noble, who also lost her spouse after a long and happy marriage. They are engaged to be married in Poultney, Vermont in August of this year.

Both are very happy and thankful. Hal Greenfader ’55 shares that Bradley Gordon sent in a photo that is posted on the alumni website photo gallery showing his great trip. Finally, from class secretary Jane Battles: Still in Middlebury, Vermont with my partner Jane Campbell. We reconnected after knowing both families for forty years.

We both lost our spouses to cancer, mine, Marilyn Falby Stetson ’56, in 2012. Very busy with church, senior meals, Middlebury College events, Porter Hospital Board, ACHHH Board, and three great grandchildren. No reason to leave Vermont in any season. A proud grandmother, the quadruplet Battles boys are now age 18. All four are off to different engineering colleges, with one headed to UVM College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences. Yay! Send your news to— Jane Morrison Battles Apt. 125A 500 East Lancaster Ave Wayne, PA 19087 janebattles@yahoo.com Hal Lee Greenfader Apt. 1 805 South Le Doux Rd Los Angeles, CA 90035 halisco@att.net

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George Hansen has changed residence from New Jersey to Naples, Florida. He writes, “The land here is flat, the weather sunny, hot and humid, the roads are without potholes and the cost of living is reasonable. Life is, as ever, good.” Audrey R. Stein is still traveling. Visit her website at www.passionate-traveler.com.

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

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Raymond Daley has served as a member on the Board of Trustees for the Washington Savings Bank in Lowell for fifty-three years and has been a member of the Vesper Country Club in Tyngsboroug, Massachussetts for fifty-eight years. A life member in both cases. Donald Kidder has been traveling this year, including a November cruise inadvertently timed to witness the devastation caused by the

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Caribbean hurricanes, a delightful spring cruise on the Elbe, and a month later Cambeltown, Scotland for a family birthday party. This was followed by island hopping around the Hebrides. Donald notes, “Mud season in Vermont provides good training for driving the weak single track roads in the Highlands.” Ronald Randall owns a rare book shop in Laguna Beach, California–Randall House Rare Books. The book store began in San Francisco in 1975 and moved to Laguna Beach in 1985.

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

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Martha Scott Perkins sends greetings from Lake Champlain, which, at it's widest point, is clean as a whistle. She lives in Charlotte on the lake with terrific neighbors. Martha grew up in Burlington, where there still are many folks who went to Champlain School, Burlington High School, and UVM. Martha writes, “We all keep our eyes on UVM–a vital and amazing university! My gang and I are well.

Three children are UVM graduates.” Martha sees Joyce McQuilkin Dawson now and again and reports that she is well, with a granddaughter at Smith College. She saw Joan Bugbee Boardman recently at Larry Williams’s memorial service and reports that Libby Kidder also lives nearby.

Last year she worked with artist Elliott Katz and Burlington City Arts to do an outdoor public art exhibit at Shelburne Farms. A photo of the exhibit with Elliott and Martha is at go.uvm.edu/alumpics.

Charles Gnassi has traveled with Neil and Evelyn over the past few years on ocean cruises. Stu Zeitzer has been working as the executive professional family driver and personal assistant for several prominent Manhattan executive families.

Andrew Skroback shares that the 60th Reunion Committee planned a great weekend. A chance to reacquaint with old friends and reminisce about UVM days. “If you couldn't attend, we missed you!”

Judy Rosenblum Cohen had a most enjoyable visit with Deedee Weiss Mufson ’59 in Huntington, West Virginia, in May 2018. A photo of their visit is posted at go.uvm.edu/alumpics. (John) Larry Williams Sr., died at home surrounded by his family on Friday, June 22, 2018. Larry was born to John and Freda Williams on March 13, 1935, in the Vermont hill town of East Corinth. He grew up in a wonderful and loving family and enjoyed his youth in and on the hills, streams, and roads around East Corinth.

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

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Cynthia Mindick Weitz’s latest mystery, Feisty Old Gangbusters, is now available on Amazon and Kindle and can also be ordered from booksellers. The book, starring her glamorous senior sleuth, is a

sequel to her first mystery, Feisty Old Ladies. Diane (Deedee) Weiss Mufson shares, “Our last get together was almost thirty years ago, it was great fun when Judy Rosenblum Cohen ’58 and her husband, Dick, stopped in Huntington, West Virginia on their travels from North Carolina to their home near Cleveland to visit with me and my husband, Maury.”

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

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Stephan Cooper reports that he is alive and well, if any classmate remembers him, send along a hello.

Bob Denmead and Pat Doherty Denmead ’58 reside in Venice, Florida and would enjoy seeing old friends, give them a call at 941-493-7462. Brian Harwood is a patient family advisor at the UVM Health Network. He attends several hospital committees to provide suggestions from the patient's point of view. He is also a trustee of the VNA, which recently joined the Health Network. Nancy Wilde Slayton lives in the Northeast Kingdom in the summer and spends her winters in Venice, Florida.

She has three children, six grandchildren, and one incredible greatgrand.

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

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Carol Overton Blanchard is living at Sonata, an assisted living facility in Vero Beach, Florida. She is closer to family and shares, “Although I am making new friends, I do miss that old gang of mine in Palm City, Florida.” Edward Freedman has been a “West Coaster” for fifty-plus years, living primarily in Seattle after attending graduate school at the Unversity of Washington. He has retired to Green Valley, Arizona and reports that there are about ninety folks from Vermont in Green Valley, and many more from New England. He is involved in birding, photography, and OLLI lifelong learning programs. His family includes a significant other, three sons, and three grandchildren. Linda Farnkoff Kirker has hosted and produced a weekly cable show called Sound Off at Northwest Access TV in St. Albans, Vermont. The program has invited guests who discuss politics, education, health care, patriotism, government, and more. This summer, she helped organize two Liberty Camps for students in grades six to eight in St. Albans and Rutland, Vermont. Campers enjoy exploring the roots of American history. In her spare time, she bottles the herbs from her garden and gives them away as gifts. Linda sends best regards to all UVM friends. Walden Rooney joined New York Life as an agent shortly after graduation. He holds the professional designations of Charted Life Underwriter and Charted Financial Consultant and is a life member of the Million Dollar Round Table.

Walden assists families and businesses with wealth accumulation and preservation. Muriel Wills Witham writes, “It is hard to believe that I moved

east to west about twenty years ago.” She has lived in San Diego, Ventura, and now Orange County in southern California. Three of her five children are in California and she enjoys being with them and the grandchildren. At the tender age of seventy, she married a man with whom she shared five special years until he passed two years ago. Muriel loves retirement and volunteers taking blood pressures in the senior center, driving for Meals on Wheels, and does extensive gardening at home and at her church. Last year, she had a delightful visit with Joan Meyerhoff Feist and her husband, Steve, in Falmouth, Massachussets. She shares, “Good health, energy and a supportive family and friends make for a good life here in Southern California.” William R. Mooza passed away in April. Bill was a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity and played on the football team at UVM. After college, he served with distinction in the U.S. Army, attaining the rank of Lieutenant. He worked his entire career as a selfemployed sales representative for numerous American furniture manufacturers and was an avid fisherman, hunter, and skier. Truman Grandy moved from Portland to Redmond, Oregon. He’s settling down in a resort area in central Oregon with two guest rooms to offer! Kay Mingolla Wardrope Stroppiana writes, “Having a hectic summer. Just returned from France where I babysat while my son took in a concert and the World Cup. Hope to spend time in Vermont this summer. I have signed up for the UVM tour of the South Pacific in February 2019 and I need a roommate.” Roy Kelly’s life is pretty quiet—unless he’s on the road with his various musical pursuits. He is keyboard player for two big bands, The Olde Kids On The Block and Tinkertown Big Band. He is organist/choirmaster for St. Michael’s Episcopal church in Holliston, Massachusetts. Roy shares that there will be a reunion, first one, of the UVM Summer Music Camp that ran from 1958-80. He was a member of the staff in the early sixties. Jim Rogers and Connie Anderson Rogers ’63 just returned from two great weeks at their time-share in Stowe where they hiked, swam, and got together with friends. They enjoyed one day in Burlington where they walked the campus and visited the new Alumni House. “The campus is a far cry from our years and looks better for it! We’re glad to see the signature buildings like Billings Library and Williams Science Hall being restored and used and the return of the Dairy Bar, now in the Davis Center.” Tom Hackett is happy to be in the mountains in Arizona avoiding the 115 degree temps in Scottsdale and enjoying visits from granddaughters from Vermont. They are still doing some travel with plans to cruise the Great Lakes from Chicago to Toronto.

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

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Steve Burzon is enormously gratified that his granddaughter Lily Mandl will be beginning her nursing education at UVM this fall. Far and away her first choice and she made it! He thanks all at UVM who enabled this wonderful achievement. He and

C ATAMOUNT NATION Richard Ader ’63 NOW: As the U.S. Open kicked off this summer, Richard Ader was honored at the grand slam tennis tournament’s 50th Anniversary Gala for his many years of leadership and work in support of the game he loves. (He’s pictured at the event with tennis great Billie Jean King, gala co-host.) Among other efforts through his work on the United States Tennis Association Board, Ader has been a staunch support of the association’s National Junior Tennis and Learning Network. The programs in multiple cities nationwide offer free or low-cost tennis lessons and equipment in a fun-first format. They also include education programming, help with both academic and life skills that has reached some 250,000 kids across the country UVM: A varsity basketball player for the Catamounts, inducted into UVM Athletic Hall of Fame last year, Ader’s hoops skills translated well to the tennis court, and he developed into an outstanding master’s player in his thirties and beyond.

IN HIS WORDS: “Serving underserved children is exposing them to other options in life. It helps them evolve and become more knowledgeable about going to college as well as giving them a lifetime sport. That combination is outstanding.”

Read more: go.uvm.edu/ader

his wife, Nancy, continue to enjoy living in Saint Maarten in the Dutch West Indies where they sail, enjoy an ideal island life, and are warmed by the joy of their island neighbors. They stay in touch with UVM ’62 friends— John Lazarus, Jules Older and Effin Older ’64, and Jerry Kolker. Steve sends his very best to all classmates. Wayne Gibson forgot to retire. He is now a promotional products distributor, active in Vermont and Fort Myers, Florida.

Wayne sold Kershner Signs of South Burlington to his daughter, Sara. Bob Adler is still practicing dentistry part-time and loving it. He and his wife divide their time between New York City and Long Island.

He is still cataloging and adding to his collection of illustrated classes and gentle erotica. His wife, B.J., is the Director of the Louis Armstrong Museum House and Archive. They also tend their four-acre garden wonderland which includes pools, waterfalls, trails, and assorted growing things. Their oldest son, Walter, just returned from Syria, helping the Kurds with paramedic skills. Son Danny owns a customized

travel service in and around Barcelona.

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

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Linda Hicks Deftos loves being a 'grannie' and spend as much time as she can in the busy lives of her children, who live elsewhere in California. Linda joined a senior support group and the Lo-Tiders walking group. She is active in the politics of Del Mar, has done several museum tours, and enjoys lectures aimed at seniors through UCSD. Linda hopes to get a trip to the the UVM Reunion arranged.

At age eighty, Jack Titus has finally retired, after fifty-three years as a packaging and packaging machinery consultant, and vendor. He looks forward to more time fly fishing, and plans to write a book, The Little John Lessons. Larry Yarkin and his wife Reesa will be celebrating their 50th wedding FA L L 2 0 1 8 |

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

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Doug Barrett has a grandson, Drew Simeon ’19, and granddaughter, Kathryn Simeon ’20, at UVM and was able to watch four of his grandson’s lacrosse games this past year. He and his wife, Sally Barrett ’65, spend their winters in Jupiter, Florida. They also visited with Trish and Jack Nugent in Mystic, Connecticut. Sue Weatherby Engbrecht, husband Ron and granddaughter Sarah visited Duane '63 and Susan Barber at their cottage in Addison, Vermont in July. They were also visited by Norman Bohn, Bob Pasco, and Phyllis Perry Marganoff in June. O.H. Perry Cabot plans to retire from a second career, managing local non-profits: County Historical Society; a community service Ruritan Club and its scholarship foundation; a village Community Center; and a municipal planning think tank. “It was rewarding associating with so many, all working for their community. But, it’s time to divest, preserve legacy for others, and spend time with family while I can still remember their names.” Eric Olson just sold his “baby,” Salem Wine Imports. He still works with the new owner in a symbiotic relationship. Eric loves living in an 1860 hotel overlooking Salem Sound. He’s rowed up and down the coast for the past thirty years, at present in a HerreshoffGardner, seventeen-foot wooden dory. Eric travels yearly to Europe, recently to Budapest, and still manages to get down most ski mountains without extensive damage. “My porch overlooks the ocean and I’m a self described wine expert. Stop by and have a glass,” he says. Robert Cygan shares the news of his wife, Sandra McLeod Cygan’s death. Sandra moved to Norwalk, Connecticut to teach after her UVM graduation. She met Robert there and they married in 1967. Sandra died, of colon cancer on July 1, 2018. Robert shares, “She must have been one of UVM’s most outstanding graduates. She was admired, respected, and loved as the area’s most dedicated and talented nursery school director… and the best partner a guy could ask for.”

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

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Regina Robicheau Ralston has been living in Arizona for the past thirtyfour years, earning her master’s in education at Northern Arizona University along the way. Regina owned clothing stores for thirty years and now helps family caregivers with support and placement. She is married to Walter Ralston, PhD, who was her seventh- through twelfth-grade classmate. She proudly shares that daughter Hathaway is a vice president at the Nelson-Atkins Museum in

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Missouri, and son Kenseth just won his first Emmy for composing music for a short film. Rose Levy Beranbaum’s eleventh cookbook, Rose's Baking Basics, was just published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. It has over 600 step-by-step photos, and includes recipes for cakes, cookies, pies and tarts, and bread. The Cake Bible is now thirty years in print and was inducted into the IACP Culinary Classics.

“This all started with a failed lemon meringue pie in 1961 at UVM!” W. Howard Cyr recently enjoyed a short vacation to Oklahoma. Why Oklahoma? It was the fiftieth state on his bucket list. He now needs a new bucket list.

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

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John Beck and wife Sharon Peloquin Beck ’67 have been in Williamsburg, Virginia, since John’s retirement from ExxonMobil in 2002. They are very active with walking, jogging, tennis, gardening, bridge, poker, dinner group, College of William & Mary sporting events, volunteering, cruising, and pickleball. In May ’18 at the Virginia Senior Games, in the 75-79 age category for pickleball, John finished 1st/2nd/4th in Men’s Doubles/Mixed Doubles/Singles. He qualified and will participate in these events at the U.S. National Senior Games in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in June 2019. Geri Sharff Gould and her husband, Jim, have been in Arizona for eleven years.

They just celebrated their 53rd anniversary, with hope and prayers for many more. They are both quite active. Jim plays golf at least four times a week, and Geri is their temple president and is involved in three different book clubs, water aerobics, and lots of Mahjongg. They live about twenty minutes from the Phoenix airport and would love to see classmates traveling in the southwest. Warren Kaplan will retire in 2019 after fifty years of practicing small animal veterinary medicine. He and his wife, Julie, continue to do a lot of traveling. This past year they traveled to Iceland, New Zealand, and the north of England. Warren continues his mania for bike riding, about 75-100 miles a week, and feels it works miracles. They are still in contact with Norm Coleman, Larry Miller, Donny Sawyer, Steve Brodman, Tom Block and Larry Roth. Marilyn Shron Likosky, PhD, has just published Representations of Women in Theocritus’s Idylls: Authenticiy of the Female Voice in the Erotic and Non-Erotic Portrayals. She lives in Tolucca Lake, California, with her husband Bill ’62 MD ’66, two Yorkies, and a Maltese puppy.

Send your news to— Kathleen Nunan McGuckin 416 San Nicolas Way, St Augustine, FL 32080 kkmcguckin@comcast.net

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James Carpenter received the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences’ 2018 Outstanding Alumni Award on May 12. Jim was recognized for his international career in academia focusing on animal nutrition at the University of Hawaii at Manoa; his decorated

military career in the Hawaii Army National Guard where he retired as Brigadier General; for being named the “Outstanding Layman of the Year” by American Baptist Churches, USA; and for his active community service. Don Mayland ’66 was recently recognized by the Litchfield Bancorp for forty years of service on the board of trustees, twenty-two as president. He was presented with a clock which has special meaning—it contains chimes made by a company his great-grandfather started. Don is currently president of the Salisbury Volunteer Ambulance Service and a selectman in the town of Salisbury. Don taught Economics at the Hotchkiss School for thirty-eight years. He has been married to Diane Monti Mayland for fifty. Howard Solomon submitted a photo with William Belville, both graduates of 1967 and again in 1971, on their annual salmon fishing trip to British Columbia. They won the salmon derby at Hippa Island, British Columbia.

Check out the photo: go.uvm.edu/alumpics.

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

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Charles Lillie is retired after Naval service, twenty-one years on the analytical/problem resolution side of life insurance, and ten years as a bookseller. A cancelled blind-date at the 1970 Homecoming, led him to his UVM bride and two beautiful children. They now have five bright and talented grandkids. Jane is an RN and recently went on her first medical mission trip. Faith has led Charles to volunteer with Literacy KC, helping adults improve their reading and writing skills to achieve business and personal goals.

David Crane moved to Jeffersonville to be closer to skiing and the real Vermont. He is still selling real estate and enjoying life. Jayne L. Warner recently published Turkish Nomad: The Intellectual Journey of Talat S. Halman (I.B. Tauris, London), a biography of poet, scholar, diplomat Talat Sait Halman, a native of Istanbul. The book illuminates not only the life of one of Turkey's leading literary and cultural authorities, but also the emergence of a republic in his native country in the early twentieth century.

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

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Ralph Edelman is enjoying retirement after working forty-nine years in the pigment industry. Ralph lives in Charlotte, North Carolina and writes, “Plenty to see and do before we rest.” After eleven years in Dunnellon, Florida, Gary Lyman has moved to On Top of the World Communities in Ocala. Robert Moeller had a great hockey alumni meet and greet with the 2018-19 men's ice hockey team at the Gucciardi Center. He met Owen Jenkins ’71 at the gathering and they reminisced about their first win at Middlebury College.

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

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Norine E. Noonan retired from active faculty status at USF St. Petersburg this August and will become professor emerita. She looks forward to staying connected with colleagues, continuing committee work, and spending more time training and showing her standard poodles. Karen Nystrom Meyer was honored

by UVM at Commencement this year as an Honorary Degree Recipient. Karen has devoted her career to advancing policy and practice in essential matters of the commons. A skilled consensus builder and problem solver, she has improved the lives of countless Vermont citizens by brokering innovative initiatives in complex political environments to advance affordable housing, health care quality, community vitality, land planning and conservation, disaster recovery, and more. Her prodigious efforts have benefitted people and communities all across Vermont.

Send your news to— Douglas Arnold 11608 Quail Village Way, Naples, FL 34119 darnold@arnold-co.com

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Richard Peisch and his wife, Emilia, recently purchased an olive grove and farmhouse in Tuscany, Italy where they produce olive oil. (Bruce Ferguson can attest to the high quality of that oil.) They currently divide their time between Cambridge, Massachussetts, Nantucket, and Italy. They would love to hear from fellow UVMers. Their oldest daughter, Carolina, just finished a graduate degree at Cornell Tech and their daughter Stella finished a graduate degree at the London School of Economics and works for a think tank in Dubai. John Garrity retired from a career in emergency medicine several years ago and is now living in upstate New York. David Ingraham is currently teaching Spanish in the Rochester, New York City School District, and working part-time nights, weekends and summers as an elder care-giver for clients with dementia, Alzheimer's, and diminished physical abilities. David lives in Pittsford, New York which he says feels like Manchester, Vermont. His children include David, Amherst College ’18, who is working with Lawyers Without Borders; Laura, Oberlin College ’19; and Ethan, Saint Lawrence University, ’22. He’s located Best Man at second wedding, Michael Bridgewater, ’70, who is living in Warren, Vermont. David shares he is, “writing and writing and writing and taking nothing 'seriously' except for well-being of family and friends. I’m unable to settle down with 'groan-ups' and their fears and he sends a shoutout to any UVM compadres who do not identify as 'senior citizens' [Yuk!].”

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

C ATAMOUNT NATION Sanford Friedman ’73 NOW: Co-founder of UVM’s LGBTQA alumni affinity group, Friedman helped organize a very successful gathering of alums in New York City in September, a tour of the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art followed by a reception at the historic Stonewall Inn. Since reconnecting with the university in the late nineties, Friedman has become involved with planning alumni events, building networks of gay and lesbian alumni and students.

UVM: Friedman says that after growing up in a tiny town in northwestern New Jersey, he went to college determined “to learn to be a social person.” Friedman would come out as a gay man at UVM, noting that he also “came out of his withdrawn shell.” A member of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, he was also involved in student activities.

IN HIS WORDS: As keynote speaker at the Rainbow graduation-week event for LGBTQA students in 2015, Friedman said, “It is always who you know who gives you a helping hand. Therefore, for us, or for any person in a minority, if you can build a relationship on that we both went to UVM, we’re both LGBTQA, then you have something to make yourself stand out.”

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Deborah Allen shares that Guy Charles Callahan, a member of AEPi fraternity has passed away. Shannon Horton Norgaard ’01 writes that her father, William H. Horton passed away peacefully on July 7, 2018 with his family present. He had a successful career in sales that spanned many years. Among other pursuits in his life, Will became a devoted member of the Hebron, Connecticut. Volunteer Fire Department as an EMT and went on to become Hebron's Fire Chief. Will was quick on his feet when helping others in emergency situations which gave him a great sense of purpose. “He was a gentle man with a beautiful smile which we will miss deeply and remember fondly,” Shannon writes.

Send your news to— Debbie Koslow Stern 198 Bluebird Drive, Colchester, VT 05446 debbie2907@gmail.com

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Spencer Benson is a twice-retired professor, University of Maryland (1988-2014) and University of Macau (2013-17). He is founder and head of Education Innovations International Consulting, LLC., a company that focuses on university education for 21stcentury success. Spencer lives in University Park, Maryland with wife Lynne and various dogs. He continues to travel for work and pleasure and hopes to have visited 100 countries by age seventy. He can be contacted at Eii-Consulting, http://eii-consulting.com. As the heat persists, the idea of skiing in Chile August 2019 is gaining momentum for Susan Glovsky and her husband. She welcomes word of others’ experiences. Susan enjoys practicing intellectual property law in Boston. Suzanne Schoenthaler Jones has reached her family goal: her two children, Ben and Emily, have finally planned their respective weddings. Suzanne is assured all will happen before she enters into a home for the aged.

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Stephen Buerkle just launched his ninth tech startup since 1981. It is focused on the use of virtual and augmented reality technologies in workforce development. In family news: his son is happily working in the pharma research field and his daughter just graduated from Yale's MBA program. He’s proud of both! Stephen is still flying, mainly sailplanes, as he finds them much more interesting than power planes. He invites friends to connect with him on Facebook and LinkedIn. The Joy of Forest Bathing

by Melanie Choukas-Bradley was published in August 2018 by Rock Point. In her book, Melanie describes the meditative practice of nature immersion known as shinrin-yoku or forest bathing, which began in Japan in the 1980s and has gained popularity around the world. The book is illustrated by Dutch artist Lieke van der Vorst. Melanie is a certified nature and forest therapy guide and she has traveled throughout Japan participating in guided shinrin-yoku walks. Melanie has authored four previous nature books including A Year in Rock Creek Park and City of Trees, which was illustrated by her UVM classmate Polly Alexander ’76. Ed Cymerys and spouse Shelley Handy Cymerys reconnected with Mike Pitman and his spouse Jackie at a San Francisco Giants game arranged by the UVM San Francisco alumni board. Ed, Mike, and Shelley have all been in the San Francisco Bay area since the mid ’80s and recently reconnected. The group encourages all to use UVM Connect to reach out to old UVM friends in your area! Herb Hunt ’74 G’78 recently retired from Cal Poly State University in San Luis Obispo, California where he was a professor of accounting and director of the Orfalea College of Business MSA program. Herb and his wife, Pamela Collier Hunt ’75, moved back to Vermont, where they met forty-seven years ago as undergraduates at UVM. Emily Schnaper Manders who lives in Massachusetts, Robin Bossi Moore ’73, and Irene Kwasnik Kowalski ’73, both from Connecticut, enjoyed the Red Sox game on Vermont Day at Fenway Park in July. See their picture: go.uvm.edu/ alumpics. Sally Cummings ’72 of South Burlington, Vermont visited Emily Schnaper Manders on her way to Nantucket for a reunion with her Peace Corps friends. After graduating from UVM, Sally served in the Peace Corps in Morocco as a teacher.

Cathy Doane-Wilson moved to Milton, Delaware with her husband, Sam, and rescue dogs. She still practices gyn medicine. See a recent picture of Cathy: go.uvm.edu/alumpics. Keep in touch, send in your news, we want to hear from all of you!

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

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Alec Beeson says the classes of 1972 and 1973 were out in full force in Buffalo, New York, to celebrate the wedding of Fred Koehler. Present were Michael Walsh ’72, Donnie and Betsy Macomber ’72, Sue Thayer-Kramers ’72, Sally Streeter Zoppo ’72, Mary Whaley ’73, Becky Morse ’73 and Mike Nawrath ’74 and Polly Prior Beeson ’73.

The reception was cruising Lake Erie on the Grand Lady. A good time was had by all in true UVM tradition. After twenty years as a claims adjuster for MountainGuard, the ski industry insurance provider, Mary Clifford Bozack was promoted to National Director of Risk Management and Education. Mary and her husband, Bill, divide their time between Sandy, Utah and Moretown, Vermont.

The crew of Chikago International continues their annual New Hampshire weekend get-togethers. A photo has been posted at go.uvm.edu/alumpics from the Summer ’18 at Lake Winnisquam. Left to right, Mike Cronin ’74 (new Chikago pledge), Bill Dillon, Hans Puck (SAGA foods), Alan Dimick, Chico Lager, Bert Anderson, Scott Baldwin ’76, Marv Thomas, Bob Musser (interloper), Dennis Canedy, Fred Bussone. Missing from photo, Steve Gendren. Bruce Ellison has been an engineer for forty-three years, the past twenty-nine in Oregon working for FLIR Systems Inc. Many products and patents later, he’s decided to try retirement and plans to visit family and friends in New England and Montreal. One year after moving to Vermont in 1972, Barbara H. Field was in psychiatric nursing until retirement in 2007. Inpatient nursing on Baird 6 at the UVM Medical Center remains her favorite job. Her career has included inpatient work in Lexington, Kentucky, and Orleans, Massachusetts. Barbara got her BSN at UK, and MSSW at the University of Louisville. The inspiration and model of care for her work has remained the values and skills she learned at UVM. Barbara is moving to the beautiful state of Maine and life in the country. She shares a tribute to her friend and classmate at UVM, Camilla Manny, who died in 1975 of ovarian cancer just prior to graduation. Will Gordon is the founder of Sound Market Research, LLC, a full-service market research agency serving companies and non-profits of all sizes.

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

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Michael Diederich, Jr. is running for Attorney General of the State of New York. His goal is to bring rationality back into governance for the benefit of all New Yorkers. Julie Halpern plans on retiring after this school year, having spent twenty-five years working as a school counselor. Her husband is a retired college professor who still takes students to Cambodia and Thailand on experiential learning trips.

She enjoys going out for drinks with her daughter Samay, recently twenty-one. Her son Kris has blessed her with a granddaughter with another on the way! “Lucky to live in Hawaii! Thank you UVM

for being a valuable stepping stone on this great adventure!”

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

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Pat Boera is excited that twin niece and nephew Michaela and Adam Sobczak, are members of the UVM Class of ’22. Pat continues to volunteer with Lyric Theatre, and is promoting their fall production of Annie at the Flynn Center in November. Andrea Bonnar recently fulfilled her obligation for jury duty, her first time in the courtroom as a juror. Bill Cairns, president of Bromley Mountain in Peru, Vermont has a daughter at UVM and has become reacquainted with the school and Burlington. He still enjoys the ski business. “Forty-one years later...saying hello to all!” After fifteen years at the Ecological Society of America, Clifford Duke is moving to the National Academy of Sciences to become the director of the Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology. He thanks UVM's Environmental Studies program, where he started so many years ago. Patty Donlan Greenfield, Barbara Goldberg Best and Cindy Hayes Little continue to get together each summer since they’ve turned fifty. They pick a place—Montreal, Quebec City, New England— where they can “shop till they drop,” eat great food, and pick up on conversations right where they left off the year before. Next year, since they will all be retired, Bermuda is a strong possibility. Wendy Nelson has had an exciting year. Son Patrick has a new son, Andrew, bringing their family to four. She and her husband, Chip, are inching closer to retirement.

She’s still doing photography and real estate, and planning to build a new down-sized dream home this winter. Due to multiple surgeries, Nicholas San Martino is on social security disability and has become at sixty-three, an ex-physical therapist and marathon runner. Nicholas lives in Chester, Vermont with his dog, Sabine. After twenty years at its helm, Alan Charles (Chuck) Sheketoff left the Oregon Center for Public Policy that he founded in 1997.

Chuck isn’t sure what comes next, besides becoming an empty-nester as his son goes off to college and spending time remodeling and cleaning up the three acres surrounding his recently purchased mid-century home.

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

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Steve Funk has retired after forty years of global sales in the dairy business. He and his wife, Carla LaBombard Funk, who attended UVM, look forward to celebrating the marriage of their daughter Kaila on October 13 in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin with many UVM friends. They remain in touch with fellow alums Ivy Sloan Bourque, Scott Anderson, Tim Miner, Richard Olsen, Pat Cleary and Rich Bizzozero ’77, Jim Paine ’77, and Joe Miner ’77.

Steve will miss the 40th reunion but sends best

wishes to all his old UVM friends, especially those from animal and dairy science. This July, Carl Hemenway made a road-trip from Shrewsbury, Massachusetts to Cornwall, Vermont to visit his cousin, Gary Wright ’79. They reminisced about their Animal House experiences attending UVM and being fraternity brothers at Sigma Nu and Acacia, respectively. Gary played hockey for UVM. Peter Katz and Jen Katz hosted a mini reunion at their Lake Tahoe home in July. Attending were Mark Kaufman and Julie Kaufman, Ken Koffman and Kathy Koffman, and Charlie Trapani. In addition to hiking, boating on the lake, and lots of good eating, they also reminisced about UVM accomplishments and celebrated forty years of friendships. Karen Alence from Nantucket, John Keith from Denver, Dick Crowley from Phoenix, Andrew Feldman from New York, and Jon Kilik from Los Angeles all met in Burlington in June to celebrate their forty-year reunion as housemates on South Willard Street.

Jim Edgerton ’77, Staige Davis ’76, Roberta Witkowski, and Kathy Newton joined in the festivities which included a John Prine concert at the Flynn and gravy fries at Nectar’s. Joseph Nabozny, MD marks his thirtieth year in Maine, where he lives on Branch Lake with his wife, Tammy. After twentyseven years in family medicine, he now works in the emergency department at Downeast Community Hospital in Machias. Karin Tilberg recently accepted the position of executive director for the Forest Society of Maine. Debra Welsh has retired after forty-three years in dentistry. She is now back in Vermont and loves living on Lake Champlain. She shares, “It feels like I have returned home!” After twenty-one years working as a Substance Abuse Counselor for Wake County in Raleigh, North Carolina, Mandy Cohen Lees has officially retired. Now time to write those books!

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

ories of that incomparable year and caught up on their lives over the last four decades. Paul Kindstedt's research group at UVM simultaneously received two international research awards for their work on cheese crystals: the 2018 International Dairy Foods Association Research Award in Dairy Foods Processing from the American Dairy Science Association, and The Hawley Medal from the Mineralogical Society of Canada for the best paper to appear in The Canadian Mineralogist in 2017. Iva Kravitz has been living in Brooklyn since 1989, and has raised two sons, now twenty-seven and thirty. She is married to a loving, creative man who designs museum exhibits. Iva own a small marketing agency that works with architects and designers doing strategic planning, external communications, and press. They seek out values-based firms who practice environmentally or socially responsible design. Iva stays in touch with many wonderful UVM friends, including Maureen Horan White, Karyl Levinson, Mary Dixon Wittke, David Crosby, Alison Granucci, Christopher Bourne, Mary Quinn, Sally Fri, and others. The Avelan'Arts Association, Lavelanet, France, presented Teressa Valla’s recent series of works on paper in a group exhibition this fall. Paula Jenkins LaRose reports

our eighth-annual gathering of physical therapists was held at Liz Maccini Millard's home in McLean, Virginia. Sandy Meyer Wilcox, Mary Tautkus Winslow, Jenny Yonkers Lind, Linda Potash Marchese, and Lisa Fernandez were all present with facinaters in place over the Kentucky Derby weekend. They enjoyed a segway tour of DC, a Washington National Baseball game (which was also a UVM alumni gathering), a dinner, and a play. Many stories and laughs were shared as they sat by Liz’s beautiful backyard pool. Peter Dunn is incredibly proud of his daughter, Elizabeth Dunn ’18, who graduated in May 2018 with a bachelor’s in Business Administration from the Grossman School of Business.

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

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Donna Loso Hayes is a certified hospice and palliative care nurse for a large hospice in South Florida. She recently celebrated her twenty-third wedding anniversary with her husband, Dave. Donna would love to hear from her UVM friends and is on Facebook.

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Fran Alster Kinghorn never left UVM and has been working for the Department of Animal & Veterinary Sciences for almost forty years. She loves her job as the teaching labs and internship coordinator.

She has two adult children who live in Burlington and just became a grandmother. Karyl Levinson Conescu had a joyous forty-year reunion of the Vermont Overseas Study Program (VOSP), UVM's study abroad program. At the end of April, fifteen VOSPians from the 1977-78 group to Nice, France gathered at a Boston restaurant to celebrate. Their advisor, UVM Professor Emeritus Patrick Hutton was also there. People came from as far away as California, Texas, and Michigan including Polly Nimick, Karyl Levinson Conescu, Iva Kravitz, David Crosby, Ellen Thomas, Mary Rothwell, all UVM and VOSP alum, and VOSP alum Randy Greenblatt, Alicia Connors, Clarie Bland, Angela Warren Ippolito, Katie Hechinger, Katie Hilboldt, Medea Isphording Bern, John Warrington, and Fred Cook. They shared mem-

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| CLASS NOTES Patricia Cartland Noble sends a shout-out to the best roommate ever—Ruth Ellen Leskowitz Trudeau! “I launched my daughter, Julia, onto campus this past fall and was flooded with Harris-Millis memories and deep gratitude for every friend and experience I encountered along the way.” David Shaw started a new position as attorney with Marinosci Law Group, PC. Wendy Laramee Wilton was appointed by President Trump in late 2017 to serve as the state executive director of the USDA Farm Service Agency in Vermont. The agency makes loans to and provides disaster relief and loss insurance for Vermont agricultural producers.

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Jamie Fagan and wife Katie welcomed their first grandchild to the family. Their second of three daughters was just married. Jamie’s team at JP Morgan was recognized as one of the top Private Wealth Teams in The United States by Forbes. All in all a great year! They recently moved back to Beacon Hill from Weston and say “it is like going back to college except there is no homework!” Dan Gasparino’s daughters, Paige and Brynn, went to University of California and played lacrosse. Both graduated and have settled in San Francisco. Dan retired five years ago and volunteers as an assistant baseball coach for longtime UVM head coach and former teammate Bill Currier ’84 at Fairfield University.

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

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Kirsten Gehlbach passed away last year and will be sadly missed

by Pamela Cowan and Lori Tucker

Bibeau.

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

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Pamela Cheever shares that is was a very good year, she recently married and is now a proud grandmother. In April, Laurie Colon, Kelly Cook Biggar, Robert Mac Bigga ’83 met up in Miami for a day at the beach. Laurie is in real estate sales with Woods & Associates Realty in Ft. Lauderdale and Kelly and Mac, who live in Cleveland, are recent empty-nesters. Jim Laughlin was with the following in Hope Town, Abaco, Bahamas: Lynne Herbert ’86, Tony Fong ’85, and Katelyn Laughlin ’20. All were volunteering in the Hope Town Sailing and Sports Camp, which is directed by Marjie and Jim Laughlin.

David Like has been married twenty-seven years to Kamila Like. They have four children. David has been managing environmental matters for Hampton Lumber Mill's twelve manufacturing sites for seventeen years. Matt T.J. Surico received a master's in theology from St. Joseph's College and Seminary in May. He was ordained a permanent deacon in the Catholic Church for the Diocese of Rockville Centre, Long Island, New York.

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

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Harriet Brown Dickerson’s daughter, Lucy Dickerson ’21, is a sophomore at the Grossman School of Business at UVM. Former UVM roommate, friend, and fellow ’85 grad Liz Nixon’s son, Thomas Turpin ’22, will be joining the ranks of current students at UVM. Harriet looks forward to meeting up with her good friend Liz during Parent & Family Weekends, etc. over the next few years. Harriet's husband, Michael, owns a bicycle shop in Leesburg, Virginia.

They enjoy cycling in Vermont when visiting their daughter at UVM. Their son, Hank, a junior in high school is also considering UVM. Jamie Wechsler Fenster is excited that her daughter, Emilee, will be a first-year at UVM this fall! “I know she is going to love UVM and Burlington as much as I did. I am happy to attend college fairs in South Florida and try to help recruit more future Catamounts!” Karl Anderson ’85 College of Agriculture, AGR Fraternity, is running for Probate Judge in Rutland County. He has been practicing law in Rutland for the past thirty years. He and his wife Carolyn have raised four children, three of whom have gone to UVM David Anderson ’17, Stephen Anderson ’18, Elizabeth Class ’20. Their youngest is a sophomore at Rutland High and they have their fingers crossed for him as well! Barbara Roth shares news that Debbie Remar Petrovsky is celebrating two milestones: oldest son, Aaron, will graduate from the University of Arizona in May and younger son, Alex, will celebrate his twenty-first birthday at Virginia Tech. Debbie lives in Massachusetts. Mark Manning recently had a golf weekend on Cape Cod with Hooter, Action Jackson, Billy Bags, Flopper, LT, NH, CC and Al. Rough weather, but great golf and games. They recently traveled to Pinehurst in March for another trip. Anyone interested in joining in the future should contact Mark at markemail@ juno.com. Mark is also trying to set a U.S. record for VQ update notes that are marginally real (thus far one in a row).

Send your news to— Barbara Roth roth_barb@yahoo.com

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Lee Diamond had a surprise visit from Jason Lavelle ’88, his wife Beth Lavelle ’88 and their children, Bridget Lavelle ’22 and Jayce, who were in Burlington for summer orientation. Bridget is attending UVM this fall. Sue MacFarlane Hanisch still lives in New Hampshire—twenty-eight years—and has been married thirty years this September. Her daughter KT Hanisch ’21 is a sophomore at UVM, pursuing mechanical engineering and physics. Her son Matt is a junior in high school and has been

doing great in motocross. They still go to Vermont to ski and relax. Sue volunteers with Puerto Rico/ Aruba Dog rescue and works with disabled and less fortunate kids at a therapeutic horse farm. Llynne Carpenter Kiernan sends greetings to her classmates from 1986 School of Nursing and members of Alpha Chi Sorority. Llynne has been on the faculty at Norwich University School of Nursing since 2004 and recently obtained her doctorate in nursing from Chatham University. Her manuscript on evaluating clinical confidence and competence in beginning nursing students using simulation technology was just accepted to Nursing 2018 for publication. Llynne recently got together with Nancy Colligan Hesby. Helen Raboin Condry has been accepted into a Phd in nursing program for fall 2018 at Nova Southeastern University in Florida.

She is teaching first-year nursing students fulltime at Eastern Florida State College of Nursing and has discovered that teaching is her passion. Mary Anne Dankowski Sheahan is living in Vermont and working for the Vermont Business Roundtable developing a talent pipeline for employment in Vermont. She and husband Chris have three children, two are at UVM now—Hugh Sheahan ’20 and Clare Sheahan ’21. Their youngest, Ted, is at Rice High School. Janet Tanguay, director of entrepreneurship at the Capital Region Chamber in Albany, New York has been honored this year with a Schenectady Human Rights Commission Award, a Fearless Advocate of Entrepreneurs Award, 50 Over 50 who are Making an Impact by WTEN, and is a fourtime recipient of the NYS Award for Excellence for Outstanding Performance, Achievement and Dedication to the Entrepreneurs of New York State. Her latest business, Hammock Way of Life LLC (www. hammockwayoflife.com) is helping entrepreneurs and others fulfill their dreams.

Send your news to— Lawrence Gorkun vtlfg@msn.com

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John Chappelow is living just north of Fairbanks, Alaska where he works from home doing planetary science research for NASA, with the help of his two furry chihuahuas. If only they could write MATLAB code.

Michael Dwyer and fellow UVM alum, Margaret (Penny) Swallow Dwyer, continue to thrive in South Jersey. Mike's business, Association Headquarters, is one of the world's largest association management companies (AMC) and continues to thrive and grow. He and his business partner completed the buyout of their founding partner in June 2017. The firm provides a full range of management services to associations and professional societies. Their eldest son, Chandler, recently graduated from Boston University with a degree in mechanical engineering, has entered the U.S. Navy as an ensign, and departs for flight school in Pensacola, Florida in November. Their middle son, Owen, will be attending the University of Michigan this fall.

Madeline, their youngest, is a junior in high school, excelling academically, and on the girl's soccer and golf teams. The Dwyers remain very close to fellow UVMers, Gene and Kim Morin Steinfeld and

hope to return this Christmas for another visit to Burlington and perhaps a UVM hockey game. Vivianne Mundigo Farmer recently moved to New York City after thirty years in Vermont. She would love to connect and make new friends. Chris Fontecchio is a member of the Seattle Diaspora of UVM alumni and lives there with his wife and two boys.

He fondly remembers his Burlington days. Celeste Leon is delighted to announce her novel Luck is Just the Beginning was named finalist in the 2018 Latino Books into Movies Awards in the category of Biography. She would love to hear from her fellow alumni at www.celesteleon.com.

Send your news to— Sarah Reynolds Sarahreynolds10708@gmail.com

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Thirty years after graduating from UVM, Sara Freedheim Newman is proud to share that her daughter entered UVM this fall. During orientation visit this summer, Sara was thrilled to see the growth and improvements on campus—the Davis Center, the theatre, the environmental science and engineering programs, the hospital and more! She spent a weekend with four of her UVM college buddies—a reunion they have rarely missed for the past thirty

years. “UVM not only gave me the basic skill sets to enjoy the incredible career I have —serving as the director of public health for the National Park Service—UVM also gave me lifelong friendships that have supported me through the ups and downs. I am beaming with joy that my daughter will get to experience the incredible opportunities and friendships.” Liz Paley left the Ralph Lauren Corporation after fourteen years and has started Framework Consulting New York, focusing on organizational structure, leadership & team development, and internal and external communications. Liz has been a guest lecturer at Parsons and begins teaching as an adjunct faculty member this fall.

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

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

Shannon Blake reminds all of the Annual Golf Charity Event to support our Wounded Heroes at the West Bolton Golf Club in Jericho, Vermont. Shannon, a retired major in the U.S. Army with Military Service

from 1986-2006, is an Afghanistan War Veteran, a VFW and DAV Life Member, WARRIORS SOAR President, and Founder of S.O.A.R. (Support*Outreach *Assistance*Recovery) To find out more information, go to warriorssoar.com. Eliza Cain is eager to reconnect with UVM folks. She lives in central Vermont with her husband and two teenage daughters. She co-owns Red Hen Baking Company with her husband, Randy George, and works as a Court Advocate for Circle, Washington County's domestic violence agency. Richard Doran married Amy Lynn Miller on May 12, 2018 at the National Society of The Colonial Dames of America in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania headquarters in Philadelphia. The couple self-united in a secular Quaker-style ceremony.

Ruth L. Henry finds that celebrating fifty is more fun than twenty-one, and much more memorable!

Burlington, Paris (Thanks Ron!), York, and Sewickley just to name a few. “Happy Birthday ladies—Carolyn Rainville, Lisa Palvino Curran, Jane Works Tarsy, Sheila Smith Diestel, Erin Murphy Kehoe, Meg Schwartz Smith—so fun celebrating with you!” Phil Prather has been living in Sydney for ten years now! He’s just finished developing a new farm to produce Tea Tree and other native Australian essential oils. He supplies over eighty tons per year to personal care companies around the world.

Island Life® in Ancient Greece An Aegean Odyssey September 12 to 20, 2019

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After eighteen years with the UN, and twenty-two years working in international aid, primarily in Africa, Matthew Conway has settled in Ireland with his wife and two daughters. He has joined the Irish affiliate of Prudential in their creative services department in Letterkenny, Donegal. Lauren Keiser is living in Park City, Utah and enjoying travel whenever possible. She has two fabulous properties for vacation rentals: Park City, Utah and Cassis, France. Anyone interested please look at www.utahskiproperties. net for more information or contact her directly.

Send news to— Karen Heller Lightman khlightman@gmail.com

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Leslie Averill has started her own organizational development and executive leadership consulting company after working for twenty-five years in business and higher education. She is married to Jeffrey Debes and lives in Ferrisburgh, Vermont. Kelly Bain and her husband, David, are happy that both daughters, Caitlyn Bain ’19 and Ally Bain ’22, are now attending UVM. Victoria Burke has been living in Colorado for the past eight-plus years with her husband and son. She has worked for the past fifteen years for a subsidiary of Mars called Royal Canin as an area sales director in the veterinary diet division. Her pre-vet/animal science degree is still working for her. She recently completed her MBA through WSU. Jamie Gage has led an eGovernment web services shop in Montpelier for the last ten years. He published his first collection of poetry in 2016 (Finishing Line Press) and a collection of political songs, Earth Turns Both, last year.

They are available on his website and other online channels, as well as at select local businesses in Vermont. Lisa Bardack Katz and Lisa Weitzman spent July 4th together in Cuttyhunk, Massachusetts. Jeff McNulty ’94 shares that North Pomfret, Vermont provided the perfect destination for Farm Hang ’18, a celebration of everything UVM and Vermont. Biria St. John hosted everyone for a weekend of golf, food, and fun. In attendance were Chris Rose, Travis St. Peter, Scott Switzer, Ethan Sullivan ’93, Jay O'Kieffe ’93, Andy O'Connell ’94 and Jeff McNulty ’94. Locals Gregg Spiro ’93 and Cherif Aziz ’93 also joined the festivities. This July, Kellie Ryan Molander was appointed director of parent programs at Wilbraham & Monson Academy, great timing so she can share a school-like schedule that allows ample time to visit her oldest daughter, Carlin Molander ’22, an incoming firstyear at the UVM! Send your news to— Lisa Kanter jslbk@mac.com

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with her dog from Miami. Jennifer Pitzi Hellwig and her husband have moved back to the greater Boston area after living in Florida for the last fourteen years. Jen is excited to be “home” and looks forward to Boston-area alumni events.

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

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Alison L. Croke recently accepted the position of president and CEO of Wood River Health Services, a federally qualified health center in Hope Valley, Rhode Island. Scott Moore is working as a senior financial analyst at a small firm in Colchester. Scott also volunteers as the managing director of a summer camp for underprivileged youth, Camp Exclamation Point, one week each summer.

Jessica Roosli is the senior director of activations within the brand marketing department at Nike.

She recently joined the Board of Directors for Pet Partners, the nation’s leading organization in registering therapy animals for animal-assisted interventions. Her passion for animals and high-level marketing experience make her a great addition to the board. Allison Gorelick has been living in Reno, Nevada for the past nine years and continues to invest in real estate. She has recently purchased properties in Cleveland, Ohio and would welcome any UVM real estate connections in Cleveland. Her boys are now thirteen and ten and her oldest is interested in boarding schools for high school. She’s done some East Coast reconnaissance trips looking at schools and visiting with her college roommate, Kate Teahan Whipple. In early August, Class of '94-based 'Equipe Henry' participated in the Pan Mass Challenge (www.pmc.org) to raise money for Boston's Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Classmates Captain Josh Fenollosa, Chapin Mechem, Mark Robohm and Rob Cronin rode 192 miles over two days, well supported by EH road crew Cathy Ray Fenollosa and Jen Mullenholz Smith. The small but potent ‘Equipe Henry’ has raised close to $100,000 to date for the 2018 PMC, including generous donations from 43 members of the Class of 1994 and 58 total from the broader UVM community (Thank You!), all en route to the PMC 2018's goal of raising $52,000,000 for the fight against cancer. EH would love to add to the team as we plan for the 2019 PMC August 3rd & 4th, which will be Equipe Henry's 10th PMC. Please be in touch if you or someone you know would like to join EH next year for this tremendous event.

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

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Sean Boucher hopes everyone is well and is missing Burlington a bit these days. Sean lives near the shore in Connecticut where he is happily married to Emily Edson Boucher ’97. They have two children, sixteen and thirteen, a golden retriever, cat, and guinea pig. Sean looks forward to another

strong Catamount soccer season for the men and women this fall: “I try to watch it all on AE TV. GO CATS!” Send your news to— Valeri Susan Pappas vpappas@davisandceriani.com

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

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Send your news to— Elizabeth Carstensen Genung leegenung@me.com Send your news to— Ben Stockman bestockman@gmail.com

Erin Henneberry Cababe, Becca Alexander Haynes ’98, Nancy Alexander Wollenberg ’01, and Livy Beecher Riddiford got together in June on the Cape where Livy lives. Although it had been a while, it felt like no time had passed since their last get together. The weather was good and the ladies enjoyed the beach and the kids camped in the backyard.

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Kelsey Frost got her master’s in language and literacy from Lesley University in May. She celebrated with family and daughters, Stella, age six, and Libby, age three. Nicole Gelinas is the 2018 recipient of the Cape & Plymouth Business 40 Under 40 Award for her business, Nicole M. Gelinas Life Coaching.

She helps female entrepreneurs build a solid foundation for their branding. Nicole lives in Cape Cod with her partner, Gordon Miller. You can find her at www.nicolemgelinas.com. In the summer of 2018, Megan Chilcutt studied Maasai communities and sustainable approaches to human/wildlife coexistence in Kenya. Megan, a marketing and PR director at Sea Turtle, Inc., lives in South Padre Island, Texas, and is a graduate student in Miami University's Global Field Program.

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Sarah Tetzlaff was recently promoted to co-principal of Rutland Town School, a Pre-K-8th grade school in Rutland, Vermont. On June 5th, she gave birth to a healthy baby boy, Ethan Hamilton Audet, who joins her daughter, Naria, six years old.

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Nolan Albarelli writes, "ChittendenBuckham-Wills was demolished, but our legacy and memories live on! Positive thoughts to all ’04 grads, especially that legendary main campus freshman year crew." Beau Sander Henderson is currently residing on Martha's Vineyard. With Massachusetts legalizing recreational marijuana, he has started an investment fund centered around real estate and cannabis. He is in the process of opening a dispensary on the island as well as providing consulting services and funding for others looking to get into this emerging market.

David Montegari and his wife, Molly, welcomed a daughter, Maggie Clare, on June 16th. Lindsey King was recognized with the 2018 New Achiever Alumni Award for her professional achievements by the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences during their Saturday, May 12, Alumni and Friends Dinner. Lindsey was an animal science major who now is senior zookeeper at the San Diego Zoo and has worked with high-profile species such as the polar bear and pandas. She is regarded as a koala expert, caring for the largest collection of Australian Koalas outside their native country. Craig Waugh has been elected to shareholder of a national law firm Polsinelli. He is a commercial and securities litigator who assists clients in state and federal court actions, arbitrations, and enforcement actions by the SEC, FINRA,

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William Alexander writes, “My sixth novel for middle grade audiences comes out in early August: A Festival of Ghosts (sequel to A Properly Unhaunted Place).

Kirkus has this to say about it: ‘If mirrors are liminal spaces, perhaps this through-the-looking-glass world endeavors to shine its mirror on our contemporary struggles to honor and grieve the gray-hued past.’ William is a 2012 National Book Award winner.

Chloe Bouscaren is living in Charlestown, Massachusetts and is working for NBBJ, a global architecture firm specializing in the design and planning of Healthcare, Higher Education and Life Sciences projects. Her passion for travel and keeping up with her UVM friends has enabled her to continue a rigor-

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Also in attendance were fellow Slade alums Jessica DeBiasio, Ethan Joseph, Jessica Frank, Brittany Dunn, Kate Banta, Joshua Kowalski, Sarah Greenleaf ’06 and Christopher Smith in addition to many other UVMers. Renée Lorraine Bourassa Soutiere, daughter of Richard Bourassa ’81 and Lorraine Bourassa ’80 of Colchester, and Michael Joseph Soutiere, son of Bradley and Betsy Pollak Soutiere ’82 of Jericho, were united in marriage on June 2. Pastor Brent Devenney officiated at the double ring ceremony at Jericho Congregational Church. A reception was held at the Barn at Boyden Farm in Cambridge. Betsy is an event planner at her alma mater. Her husband graduated from Champlain College and is employed as an MRI technician at the UVM Medical Center. Fellow UVM alumni in attendance were Tamra Yandow ’89, Leah Orth Rowe ’94, Gary Rogers ’94 and Nancy Hunter Rogers ’97 G’09, Kate Thornton Labor ’98, Maureen Cartier ’04, Kevin Lumpkin ’07, Monica Hong Stotyn ’08, Sara Weiskotten ’09, Sarah Molloy ’14, Kirsten Nedde ’16, Carly Martin ’17,

and Adam Oler ’18. They reside in Jericho with their two children. Congratulations! Clyde McGraw and Alexis Penkoff McGraw welcomed a baby boy, Earl Cylde McGraw III, also known as Trip, on June 3, 2018. They live in Washington, D.C. where Clyde works in development for JBG Smith Properties, and Alexis is a retail manager for J.McLaughlin.

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Ryan Guthrie and his very smart and beautiful wife, Taylor, are proud to announce the arrival of their second daughter, Luna Mae Guthrie. Ryan is now a Certified Fiduciary Planning Advisor and Vice President at Merrill Lynch. Taylor created a new board game called Conversate this year and they are all very proud of her entrepreneurial spirit. They are also proud of Catamount sister, Lia Guthrie ’20, who completed her second year in the nursing program on the Dean's List. Long Live UVM! Carmen Lagala is a stand-up comedian in New York City, making her network television debut on Late Night with Stephen Colbert this summer. Proud parents Hallie Paxton and Joseph Paxton welcomed their first child, Grayson Joseph Paxton, on April 27.

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Connor Boals hit two milestones this year. One year of marriage and one year of life in London. He continues his passion for storytelling, fostered by his time at the Cynic, and is now celebrating one year running the London operation for Great Big Story, a video platform from CNN. David Brault and Nikki Luehm Brault happily celebrated their one-year wedding anniversary on July 29. They live and work on their farm in the Finger Lakes region of New York. Josh Neirman just enrolled at George Washington University in their Experiential Education and Jewish Cultural Arts Program and will be receiving his master's of education and human development in summer 2019. Caitlin Regan got married on December 9, 2017 in Weston. Lots of other UVMers were in attendance, including Ian Prieto ’08, Asenett Rosario ’08, Christine Fitzsimmons ’08, Bob Bartlett ’08, Jennifer Pond ’08, Jeremiah Sieunarine ’10 and Sarah Castillo. Caitlin works as a clinical social worker for MHM Services and the Massachusetts Trial Court, and her husband is a police officer. Andrew Kirshen shared a photo from his September 2017 wedding at the Grafton Inn on the alumni website. There were many ’09 UVM grads (except the bride and one groomsman), Xander Kirshen ’20, a current Catamount; Ben Clayman, Xander Kirshen, Bryan Cordeau, Dan Sleeper, Erik Giard-Chase, Andrew Kirshen, Kaitie Conrad, Cody Bills, Clarese Kirshen, Scott Bailey, Chris McClellan, Caleb Searles, and Tucker Lyman.

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Alex Brady is Colorado regional manager for Big Green, a national nonprofit founded by Kimbal Musk that works to connect kids to Real Food through a nationwide network of learning gardens and food literacy programs. Dylan Ingraham took his English degree and started working in a coffee shop.

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This past June, Chelsea Levine began a new position as an academic advisor at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. She works directly with students in the College of Science and Math. Erica Weinberg and Teddy Abraham were married in New York on September 8.

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Tony Hollop is happy to be living in Burlington. After studying in Philadelphia for four years, he and his wife bought a home in the New North End. Tony practices optometry in Montpelier, and his wife, Stephanie Hollop, practices audiology at the Luce Center in Pomeroy Hall on campus. Graham Glauber and Michele Langone are engaged. They met at an accepted students day in 2008. Being in the same major (SLH), they had every class together and quickly moved past the friend zone to become a couple. They currently live in Westchester County, New York, where Graham is a horticulturist and Michele is a landscape designer. They will marry in September 2019 at an orchard in central Massachusetts. Sydney Lucia and Brendan Sage ’13 of Washington, DC are pleased to announce they had a beautiful wedding at Shelburne Museum on May 19 (yes, Commencement weekend). At their sides were some of their amazing UVM friends, including Maid of Honor Molly Fitzsimmons and Best Man Andrew McDonagh ’13, along with Katie Bazzano, Jen Dell ’14, Monica Johnson ’13,

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James Alford and Eliza Kelsten were married in Leesburg, Virginia in May. In August, they moved from the DC area to Philadelphia, where James will attend law school. Eliza will continue her career in political consulting and government affairs, and their English bulldog, Regina George, will enjoy long walks along the Schuykill. After teaching abroad in Costa Rica and Peru, Ally Croteau is excited to be attending George Washington University for her graduate study in International Education. Ashleigh DiLaurenzio has her own apartment, is working in West Hartford as a speech language pathologist, and is loving it. Ashleigh works on a tracheostomy and ventilator unit where she helps patients regain their voices and swallowing abilities after respiratory failure. Hilary Kulig graduated from Trinity Washington University in Washington, DC with her master’s of education in school counseling, urban students specialization. Shana McCann is at a Seattle nonprofit, Solid Ground, working to end poverty and hunger by teaching about food, nutrition, cooking, budgeting, and food resource management. She also has been doing neighborhood-based community organizing and is taking a class to become an EMT. Sean Wilcox was promoted to lead acquisition marketing for Fusion 360 at Autodesk in San Francisco, California. Max Ebenstein and Maude Stranberg ’12, will be married July 28, 2018 in Huntington, Vermont. “Looking forward to our future children meeting the love of their life at UVM someday, too!”

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Nina Rose married Joshua Rose July 22, 2016. She was accepted to NYU Graduate School of Arts and Sciences 2016. Nina is working in New York City at Mt. Sinai Icahn School of Medicine doing Psychiatric Research at the Bronx VA Medical Center. They reside on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Having met at UVM in 2012, Charles Daniel Sheffy and Amy Sercel were married on August 11, 2018 and continue their lives together in Burlington.

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Maxwell Blake made it through DPT school and was hired as a physical therapist in the DC area. He is actively studying for his PT license. Olivia Faro is living the dream in Denver, Colorado and is a cardiac nurse.

“So many UVMers out here it’s wild! I love running into friends from Vermont.” Sarah Gibson is completing the Boettcher Teacher Residency in Denver, Colorado, while working with City Year to expand teacher pathway opportunities for those who have done an AmeriCorps service year. Lila Gilbreath received the Teacher of the Year award at Springfield High School. Kathryn Gray shares that after growing up and going to college in Chittenden County, her dream has always been to teach where she calls home. She is officially the new fifth grade teacher at Founders Memorial School in Essex: “I couldn't be more thrilled!” Ben Jensen has finished up his AmeriCorps term in Eldorado National Forest and is still surprised about how many UVM alumni end up in the Sierra Nevada. Ben Lindstrom-Ives is an Honors College graduate in global and African studies. He will be enrolling as a master’s student at SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies) at the University of London to pursue a degree in Arabic and Middle East Studies this fall. Ben is thrilled to be moving to London and hopes to use his Arabic skills to pursue a career in international finance and/or diplomacy. Casey Short has moved to Denver, Colorado with her dog, Josie. She is starting a new position as the development associate with Florence Crittenton Services of Colorado, a nonprofit that empowers teen mothers to help them finish high school. She is excited to connect with UVM alumni in her new state. Evan Keating has joined Cost Control Associates as a telecommunications analyst. Prior to joining Cost Control, Evan was an assistant account manager at Associates of Glens Falls for three years.

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Kate Burke moved to Chicago to teach kindergarten in the Chicago Public Schools. Molly Koch Parker would like to announce her marriage to Dustin Parker in her hometown of Killington, Vermont on June 2. In attendance were fellow UVM graduates, Kathryn Tadio, Marisa Parent, Heidi Harris, Sarah Zeger, Kristina Payne ’19, Derryk O’Grady ’17, and bridesmaids included Nancy Koch ’12 and Claudia Hleap. Molly is now a registered dietitian nutritionist at The Adams Center For Mind and Body in South Burlington, Vermont. Emily Wheaton will be finishing her Peace Corps service in Peru. She serves as a community health promoter, teaching nutrition, early childhood stimulation, and hygiene to families with babies to prevent malnutrition, as well as teaching self-esteem, future planning, and sexual education to high school students. She will return to the United States to begin study on a master’s in nursing.

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After a year of working at UVM Medical Center, Sandra Beauchamp is starting medical school in New Orleans. Caleb Breslin has been working for a real estate lawyer for a year and is now heading to the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law to pursue a JD in Sports Law. Sarah Evans is excited to be graduating from elementary school. She will be making the move this coming year from an elementary school in Middlebury to Main Street Middle School in Montpelier, teaching sixth grade language arts and social studies. After working in Boston for a year, Bailey Kimball is moving back to Vermont and living in Winooski. She will begin a new job as a digital campaign coordinator at Dealer.com. Claire Mathon started graduate school at the MGH Institute of Health Professions in Boston, where she will receive a master's and become a family nurse practitioner. Ian McHale just completed his master’s of public health at UVM. Juliette Miller started working as a marketing analyst for a company in Billerica, Massachusetts in June. She thanks members of the UVM faculty and staff for helping her land this job. Jen Powers just started grad school at American International College in Massachusetts for her doctorate in physical therapy. Lauren Sadowski left for Botswana, Africa in May to work for Virginia Tech and an NGO called CARACAL. As Virginia Tech's research ecolo-

gist, she tracks the banded mongoose and studies wildlife disease. She thanks her Rubenstein teachers for getting her to where she is today and allowing her to call Botswana her new home. Zachary Kotler moved to Aspen after graduation to work in hospitality at a five star hotel: The Residences at The Little Nell. He spent a year as a driver/valet and this April was promoted to concierge/front desk. “I am learning a ton about hotel operations while rubbing shoulders with some truly fascinating people. This is an amazing place to work. I would highly recommend moving out here to any Catamount who does not have post-grad plans.”

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Noah Bell is working with the Drone Ecology Network using drones to study high-latitude ecology. He’s working on Herschel Island in the Canadian Arctic flying drones to map vegetation growth and coastal erosion. Caitlin Bernier became a licensed radiation therapist in the state of Maine and started a job in August. Sierra Cotnoir started working as an IT systems developer with the State of Vermont. Charlotte Goodrich started a job in the business office at the Vermont Department of Health in Burlington. Audrey Pfeffer misses UVM dearly but feels blessed to extend her time in the area by starting her nursing career at UVM's Medical Center. She is excited and a little nervous to start her professional path in life, and

wishes fellow classmates and new graduates all the best in their future pursuits. Lucy Rogers is running for the Lamoille-3 seat in the Vermont House of Representatives, which serves the towns of Cambridge and Waterville. You can read more about her candidacy at lucyrogersvt.com. Justin Senni and his wife, Kathryn, are the new parents of twins: “Two beautiful baby boys, Matthew and Seth.” Heather Swallow was assistant camp director for The DREAM Program Inc. and she looks forward to a year-long position with the program serving through AmeriCorps as a program empowerment director for some of DREAM’s UVM mentoring clubs. Felix Torres has been traveling through Germany to work on several farms until mid-August. He’s enjoying “the gently warm sunshine and the familiarity of the country around me.” Caitlin Beaudet received the L. K. Forcier Outstanding Senior Award in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Caitlin was recognized for her superior academic and research accomplishments, including numerous leadership and volunteer activities throughout her undergraduate years.

She plans to apply to medical school soon.

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| UVM COMMUNITY ADAM CLYMER, noted political reporter and editor for The New York Times and other newspapers, passed away on September 10. Adam and Ann Clymer helped many young women fund their UVM educations through the Jane emily Clymer Scholarship, which honored their daughter, killed in 1985, when she was a UVM student, by a drunken driver. The Clymer Scholarship has supported junior and senior women in the College of Arts and Sciences on the basis of financial need, academic promise, and community service.

HELENE LANG, UVM faculty member from 1967 to 2001, passed away on August 21. She was a professor of literacy and literature, with specialties in reading, gifted education and library science, where she enriched the lives of many students. Between 1986 and 2018, she enriched the state through her work with the Vermont Humanities

Council as a leader of countless book discussions and through first-person presentations of Beatrix Potter, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, and Agatha Christie.

GHITA ORTH, longtime lecturer in the English Department, died September 2, 2018. After earning a master’s degree from UVM in 1967, she taught literature and writing in the university’s English Department for many years, retiring in 2001. Her collection of poetry, The Music of What Happens, was published by Saturday Press in 1982, and she was coeditor of two textbooks, Angles of Vision and About These Stories. In 1999, Orth received UVM's Kroepsch-Maurice Award for Excellence in Teaching. Ghita Orth is survived by her husband, Ralph Harry Orth, professor emeritus of English.

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