Vermont Quarterly Fall 2015

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2 President’s Perspective 4 The Green 14 Catamount Sports 16 Alumni Voice 45 Class Notes 64 Extra Credit FEATURES

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The public launch of the $500 million Campaign for the University of Vermont sets a course to secure UVM’s place among the nation’s top universities. | BY RICK GREEN ’82

A global glimpse of our alumni, their pursuits, and how UVM guided their paths. | BY JOSHUA BROWN, JAY GOYETTE, KATHLEEN LARAMEE ’00, JON REIDELG’06, AMANDA WAITE ’02 G’04, THOMAS WEAVER

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Sustainability to workplace dynamics to mathematics pedagogy, new faculty are advancing the university’s research tradition. | JOSHUA BROWN, JON REIDEL ’06, AMANDA WAITE ’02 G’04

Cover photos clockwise from top: Andy Duback, Bob Handelman, Brian Jenkins, Ian Thomas Jansen-Lonnquist, Sally McCay

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2,400 FLAMES Candles alight, the Class of 2019 gathers on the Green for the annual induction ceremony and recitation of a pledge to maintain a supportive environment for all.

The new class boasts GPAs and SAT scores that rank them as the most academically talented in UVM history. They hail from forty states and eighteen countries. Chinese international students Connie Ou, center, and Jade Yu Zeng, left, are pictured with their new classmates. | PHOTOGRAPH BY SALLY MCCAY

| PRESIDENT’S PERSPECTIVE

A milestone weekend A tremendous sense of optimism,

pride in our past, and anticipation of our future filled the University of Vermont campus over the first weekend in October. While the UVM Reunion and Homecoming Weekend is a perennial time for celebration, we reached a new pitch this year as the event was coupled with the public launch of Move Mountains: The Campaign for the University of Vermont.

Thursday morning began an unprecedented run of fifteen new UVM gift announcements, a crescendo of giving that would continue across the next two days. Each gift, in its own individual way, spoke volumes about the loyalty and generosity of our donors. At the same time, taken together, they paint a picture of the myriad endeavors of the University of Vermont in 2015 as we build our future. Medical education, Fleming Museum collections, LGBTQA Center, Jewish Studies, civil engineering, and the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources are just a few of the areas of the university that will be greatly enhanced by these new gifts. And, in keeping with the core focus of our campaign, these gifts will all directly benefit the work of our students and faculty.

On Friday afternoon many gathered in the Kalkin Building courtyard for a milestone moment, the announcement of the largest individual gift in the history of the university. Steven Grossman, a 1961 graduate, spoke to having some of the best years of his life at UVM, the lifelong impact of his education, his ethical

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commitment to philanthropy, and his excitement at the direction UVM’s School of Business Administration has taken under the leadership of Dean Sanjay Sharma. All combined to inspire a $20 million gift to the school, now named in his honor—The Grossman School of Business.

Steven Grossman’s gift directly supports our aspiration to position UVM as one of the nation’s top public research universities: making UVM a talent magnet to attract the best faculty and students from across the land to our university. We are profoundly appreciative of the generosity of this support and what it will do for the University of Vermont.

Fresh from that announcement, my wife, Leslie, and I stepped into the Davis Center atrium to find the threestory staircase and floor filled with students, staff, faculty, and alumni. The UVM pep band stirred the excitement another notch as students, trustees, and alumni joined me at the podium to make the official announcement of a $500 million campaign goal. I thought alumnus John Hilton, chair of the UVM Foundation Board of Directors, put it very succinctly in context when he said that this campaign is “not about numbers but about excellence.”

Indeed, while $500 million presents a compelling goal that we will meet, we must never mistake that goal for our true objective. With this campaign we are on the move to rise to the next level of accomplishment, excellence, stature, and consequence.

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together faculty, students, and 525 of the university’s most stalwart supporters to celebrate this auspicious moment and consider what we are and what we can be. At evening’s outset, we were amused and uplifted by a reading of a rap poem that poet/professor Major Jackson wrote in honor of the event. Never has a university been captured so well in verse. We heard student Flore Costume tell us of her personal journey from Haiti to New York City to UVM. We heard of the innovative research and teaching of faculty members Lizzie Pope, Josh Bongard, and Stuart Hart. We heard what a UVM education has meant in the life of Karen Nystrom Meyer, UVM alumna and a member of the Executive Campaign Council.

The evening also provided the opportunity for direct conversation with the students and faculty who define us—from the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics to UVM Rescue, the Humanities Center to our top-flight ski team, the Clinical Simulation Lab to the new Wellness Environment residential community.

I am pleased that so many of our alumni were able to join us for these moments of community dialogue and celebration. I hope that many more will join us along the four-year road ahead as we strive to reach our goal of $500 million by 2019. I am deeply grateful to the thousands of alumni, parents, and friends of the university who— with our current campaign gift total nearing $250 million—have already brought us nearly halfway home.

—Tom Sullivan

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going to be the generation most affected “ We’re by climate change. We’re not just the leaders of tomorrow, we need to be leaders today.”

UVM SOPHOMORE GINA FIORILE, whose work on climate education has earned her two White House invitations in the past seven months. More: go.uvm.edu/gina

SO LONG CBW AND ANGELL HALLS. Central campus transformation launched this summer. Watch the STEM project progress live: go.uvm.edu/webcam

On August 1, UVM became a tobacco-free campus.

TOP 25 WORLDWIDE: School of Business cited for family business expertise, keeping company with the likes of Harvard, Penn, and Cornell.

NEWS REPORTS Washington Post, CNN, and The New York Times were among hundreds of international news organizations that reported on UVM research studying climate change and bee habitat.

See page 7.

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A record number of Green & Gold Scholars enrolled with the Class of 2019. The top students in their Vermont high schools, they receive full-tuition scholarships.

GROSSMAN School of Business The largest gift in UVM history, $20 million from Steven Grossman ’61, highlights the Move Mountains Campaign launch. See page 22.

Sex Objects Art history and anthropology students curate a show for the Fleming that offers perspectives on gender and sexuality.

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SAVE THE DATE NCAA Frozen Four.

Tampa, Florida.

April 7-9, 2016.

Why not?

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THE GREEN News & Views SERVICE TREK | BUILDING BONDS On a Tuesday morning the week before fall semester began, eight new students and their two upperclassmen leaders got down to work at a Habitat for Humanity site in Shelburne.

Freshmen backpacking the Long Trail is likely the first image that come to mind when the subject is UVM TREK. But while the immersive week-long student orientation program has its roots in the wilds of Vermont, Service TREK has carved out its own distinct place in the university’s culture across nearly twenty years.

While a table saw buzzed, nail guns thumped, and rain poured outside the roughed-in house frame, Brenna Foley, an Honors College student majoring in Global Studies, says the same ethos behind Service TREK drew her to UVM more broadly.

“There was this feeling on campus that working together is valued at UVM,” she says. Foley plans to get involved in service and human rights work during her years at the university.

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Washington, D.C., sinking fast

CLIMATE SUMMIT As world leaders soon gather in Paris for the 2015 U.N. Climate Change Conference, UVM will be well represented.

Faculty members Lini Wollenberg, Asim Zia, Meryl Richards, and Jennie Stephens, together with student Gina Fiorile, are among the voices of expertise and advocacy hoping to inspire action.

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GEOLOGY | New research confirms that the land under the Chesapeake Bay is sinking rapidly and projects that Washington, D.C., could drop by six or more inches in the next century—adding to the problems of sea-level rise.

This falling land will exacerbate the flooding that the nation’s capital faces from rising ocean waters due to a warming climate and melting ice sheets—accelerating the threat to the region’s monuments, roads, wildlife refuges, and military installations.

For sixty years, tide gauges have shown that sea level in the Chesapeake is rising at twice the global average rate and faster than elsewhere on the East Coast. And geologists have hypothesized for several decades that land in this area, pushed up by the weight of a pre-historic ice sheet to the north, has been settling back down since the ice melted.

The new study—based on extensive drilling in the coastal plain of Maryland—confirms this hypothesis, and provides a firm estimate of how quickly this drop is happening. Additionally, the researchers’ detailed field data make clear that the land sinking around Washington is not primarily driven by human influence, such as groundwater withdrawals, but instead is a long-term geologi-

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cal process that will continue unabated for tens of thousands of years, independent from human land use or climate change.

The new research was conducted by a team of UVM geologists, the U.S. Geological Survey, and other institutions.

Lead author of the study is Ben DeJong, who conducted the research as a doctoral student at UVM’s Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources with support from the U.S. Geological Survey.

“Right now is the time to start making preparations,” says DeJong. “Six extra inches of water really matters in this part of the world,” he says—adding urgency to the models of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that project roughly one to three or more feet of global sea-level rise by 2100 from global warming.

“It’s ironic that the nation’s capital—the place least responsive to the dangers of climate change— is sitting in one of the worst spots it could be in terms of this land subsidence,” says Paul Bierman, a UVM geologist and the senior author on the new paper. “Will the Congress just sit there with their feet getting ever wetter? What’s next, forebulge denial?”

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Bumblebee in a coal mine ENVIRONMENT | Global warming is putting the squeeze on bumblebees. In the most comprehensive study ever conducted of the impacts of climate change on critical pollinators, scientists have discovered that global warming is rapidly shrinking the area where these bees are found in both North America and Europe.

Researchers examined more than 420,000 historical and current records of many species of bumblebees—and confirm that bumblebees are in steep decline at a continental scale because of climate change. The new research is reported in the journal Science.

This shrinking range is bad news for more than bees. “Bumblebees pollinate many plants that provide food for humans and wildlife,” says Leif Richardson, a UVM scientist in the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics and the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, who helped lead the new research. “If we don’t stop the decline in the abundance of bumblebees, we may well face higher food prices, diminished varieties, and other troubles.”

With climate change, many species of animals, including butterflies, have been observed to expand their territory: the northern edge of their range marches toward the North Pole—while the southern edge remains in place. Not so with bumblebees. The team of fourteen scientists who conducted the new study found that northern populations of many bumblebee species are staying put—while the southern range edge is retreating away from the equator.

“This was a surprise,” says Richardson.

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at the northern margin—so their habitat range is shrinking.”

The new study shows that the culprit is not pesticides and it’s not land use changes—two other major threats to bumblebee populations and health.

Instead, the research shows clearly that this “range compression,” as the scientists call it, tracks with warming temperatures.

The team also found that bumblebees are shifting to areas of habitat at higher elevation in response to climate change.

“Moving upslope doesn’t necessarily mean they’ve lost area there yet,” says UVM’s Richardson, “but, eventually, they may simply run out of hill.”

To respond to this problem, the research team suggests that a dramatic solution be considered: moving bee populations into new areas where they might persist. This “assisted migration” idea has been considered—and controversial—in conservation biology circles for more than a decade, but is gaining support as warming continues.

Bottom line, the most important message of this study is “the need to halt or reverse climate warming,” says Richardson.

DUDE, WHERE’S MY DORM? As the Class of 2019 arrived on campus, student Ian McHale shot photos for the #moveuvm social media campaign. He couldn’t resist the chance to get one new student to pose by the recently razed ChittendenBuckham-Wills complex.

The venerable “Shoeboxes” came down this summer, and work has begun on new central campus residence halls slated to open fall 2017.

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WORDS OF WISDOM The second annual #MoveUVM Giving Day Challenge raised more than $80,000 in gifts, unlocking an additional $100,000 challenge gift. The effort, largely driven by social media, took place on August 28 as UVM’s Class of 2019 and families arrived on campus. #MoveUVM appealed to alumni and the broader university community to remember their own college beginnings with a gift in support of student scholarships.

Along with their financial gifts, donors were invited to share three words of advice to the incoming students. Here’s a glimpse: Do not procrastinate.

Tell good jokes.

Kindness matters!

PRAY, STUDY, APPRECIATE.

Look within.

Live your life.

Youth is overrated.

Always be courteous.

GET A DOG!

Don’t be shy.

Ask for help!

Visit Red Rocks.

SEEK THE TRUTH. Study hard, SKI.

Lots of science!

Call your mother.

Give ’em hell!

Love the library.

Shred the gnar.

Breakfast at Mirabelles.

DONA NOBIS PACEM. Take religion classes.

Read the book.

Be a sponge.

Put the cellphone down.

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Building a better solar panel PHYSICS | TV screens that roll up. Roofing tiles that double as solar panels. Sun-powered cell phone chargers woven into the fabric of backpacks. A new generation of organic semiconductors may allow these kinds of flexible electronics to be manufactured at low cost, says UVM physicist and materials scientist Madalina Furis.

But the basic science of how to get electrons to move quickly and easily in these organic materials remains murky.

To help, Furis and a team of UVM materials scientists have invented a new way to create what they are calling “an electron superhighway” in one of these materials—a low-cost blue dye called phthalocyanine— that promises to allow electrons to flow faster and farther in organic semiconductors. Their discovery, reported in the journal Nature Communications, will aid in the hunt for alternatives to traditional silicon-based electronics.

Many of these types of flexible electronic devices will rely on thin films of organic materials that catch sunlight and convert the light into electric current using excited states in the material called “excitons.” Roughly speaking, an exciton is a displaced electron bound together with the hole it left behind.

Increasing the distance these excitons can diffuse—before they reach a juncture where they’re broken apart to produce electrical current—is essential to improving the efficiency

of organic semiconductors.

Using a new imaging technique, the UVM team was able to observe nanoscale defects and boundaries in the crystal grains in the thin films of phthalocyanine—roadblocks in the electron highway. “We have discovered that we have hills that electrons have to go over and potholes that they need to avoid,” Furis explains.

To find these defects, the UVM team—with support from the National Science Foundation—built a large scanning laser microscope.

The instrument combines a specialized form of linearly polarized light and photoluminescence to optically probe the molecular structure of the phthalocyanine crystals.

“Marrying these two techniques together is new; it’s never been reported anywhere,” says Lane Manning ’08 a doctoral student in Furis’ lab and co-author on the study.

Though the Nature Communications study focused on just one organic material, phthalocyanine, the new research provides a powerful way to explore many other types of organic materials, too—with particular promise for improved solar cells.

“One of today’s big challenges is how to make better photovoltaics and solar technologies,” says Furis, who directs UVM’s program in materials science, “and to do that we need a deeper understanding of exciton diffusion.

That’s what this research is about.”

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STUDENT FOCUS | SIERRA THOMPSON Sierra Thompson ’15 was the founding president of the new Kappa Delta sorority, but it’s another kind of sisterhood that has also defined her four years at UVM. In 2012, her brother Jordan Preavy committed suicide after being hazed by football teammates in Milton, Vermont, charting a new course for Thompson, who originally aspired to plan couples’ weddings.

Today, she’s on track to planning the country’s toughest policies, thanks to her work on Jordan’s Bill, a piece of legislation triggered by her brother’s death that clarifies language and tightens requirements for mandatory reporting by school officials in bullying and hazing cases.

It was signed into Vermont law on June 15. “It was a very exciting and meaningful day,” says Sierra. “Not to say we are done, by any means!”

Up ahead are speaking engagements on hazing and bullying, along with joining a Vermont Democratic candidate’s campaign.

This comes after her summer of traveling everywhere from West Virginia to Hong Kong, and a year of working as the marketing media specialist for Carved Solutions.

As she considered her college options, Thompson initially eyed an out-of-state school, but when she found that UVM would be the best financial fit, she chose to see the Green Mountain State through a new lens. “I initially had the impression it wouldn’t feel like a new venture,” admits Thompson, who discovered “purpose” through Kappa Delta, Jordan’s Bill, and “incredibly influential” professors.

Proximity to her family, meanwhile, empowered her to take a leading role in the passage of Jordan’s Bill, a public-eye process that increased her poise and professionalism. When she presented the Preavy-Thompson plight to Professor Catherine Finley Woodruff’s Introduction to Public Affairs class last January, she galvanized a community. “I was blown away—I could feel the support,” she says.

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AL GORE TALKS CLIMATE CHANGE AND HOPE Usually, climate change activists use melting ice as a sign of approaching trouble. Not Al Gore.

Speaking to more than a thousand people—packed into UVM’s Ira Allen Chapel and watching remotely at Mann Hall—the former U.S. vice president and Nobel Peace Prize winner took the opposite metaphor. “It’s just one degree of difference between water and ice,” he said—and the same is true of markets, he added.

The cost of solar panels, advanced batteries, and other renewableenergy technologies has reached a melting point, Gore said, where they are becoming cheaper than fossil fuels.

“The difference between ‘more expensive than’ and ‘cheaper than’ is markets that are frozen up and markets that are liquid with investments flowing toward the new, more attractive alternative,” Gore said on October 6.

And in that fundamental shift in economics, Gore told his audience, there is cause for hope about solving the problems of global warming.

Gore’s lecture at UVM, “The Climate Crisis and The Case for Hope,” was hosted by the Burlington-based company Seventh Generation and the University of Vermont’s Energy Action Seminar and Clean Energy Fund.

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Blue eyes & the bottle GENETICS | People with blue eyes might have a greater chance of becoming alcoholics, according to a new study by UVM genetic researchers.

The work, led by Arvis Sulovari, a doctoral student in cellular, molecular and biomedical sciences, and Dawei Li, assistant professor of microbiology and molecular genetics, is the first to make a direct connection between a person’s eye color and alcohol dependence. The results of the research, published in the July issue of the American Journal of Medical Genetics: Neuropsychiatric Genetics, suggest the hope of finding the roots of not only alcoholism, but also many other psychiatric illnesses.

The authors found that primarily European Americans with light-colored eyes— including green, gray, and brown in the center—had a higher incidence of alcohol dependency than those with dark brown eyes, with the strongest tendency among blue-eyed individuals. The study outlines the genetic components that determine eye color and shows that they line up along the same chromosome as the genes related to excessive alcohol use.

But, Li says, “we still don’t know the reason” and more research is needed.

Li has worked with physicians and scientists throughout the Northeast who have collaborated to build a clinical and genetic database of more than 10,000 individuals, mostly African Americans and European Americans, diagnosed with at least one psychiatric illness. Many have

multiple diagnoses of diseases, including depression, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, as well as addiction and alcohol or drug dependence.

“These are complex disorders,” he says.

“There are many genes, and there are many environmental triggers.”

From that extensive database, Li’s and Sulovari’s study filtered out the alcoholdependent patients with European ancestry. After Sulovari noticed the eye-color connection, they retested their analysis three times, arranging and rearranging the groups to compare age, gender, and different ethnic or geographic backgrounds, such as southern and northern parts of the continent.

Next, Li wants to delve deeper into the relationship between cultural background and genetic makeup, continuing his quest to find the mechanisms of mental illness.

His greatest challenge: All the genes identified in the past twenty years “can only explain a small percentage of the genetics part that has been suggested,” he says.

“A large number is still missing, is still unknown.”

Li’s project with Sulovari has provided a significant stepping-stone, he says.

“What has fascinated me the most about this work has been investigating the interface between statistics, informatics, and biology,” says Sulovari. “It’s an incredible opportunity to study genomics in the context of complex human diseases.”

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BRIEFS | Howard Frank Mosher G’67 published God’s Kingdom, his eleventh novel, in October. Set in northeastern Vermont in the 1950s, God’s Kingdom continues the story of the Kinneson family from Mosher’s bestselling A Stranger in the Kingdom.

Children of Katrina The vulnerability of children was starkly apparent in Hurricane Katrina, the most disruptive and destructive disaster in modern U.S. history.

A dozen children and youth in Louisiana perished in the disaster. An untold number of children lost loved ones, were orphaned or left homeless. More than 370,000 school-age children were displaced immediately following Katrina, while 160,000 remained dislocated for years.

A new book, Children of Katrina (University of Texas Press), coauthored by sociology professor Alice Fothergill, is the first multi-year sociological study of children after a disaster. Fothergill and co-author Lori Peek, of Colorado State University, spent seven years after the hurricane interviewing and observing several hundred children and their family members, friends, neighbors, teachers, and other caregivers.

The book focuses intimately on seven children between the ages of three and eighteen, selected because they exemplify the varied experiences of the larger group.

Authors Alice Fothergill and Lori Peek in New Orleans’s Lower Ninth Ward.

“We chose to focus on children and youth because there has been so little research done in this area, and we felt it was a very important topic,” Fothergill says. “We also knew there were misconceptions about children and disasters.”

Among the misconceptions: children are super-resilient, “like rubber balls, they just bounce back”; or the opposite, that they are “helpless victims” with no capacity to help themselves or others.

Drawing on what they learned, Fothergill and Peek clarify what kinds of assistance children need during emergency response and recovery periods, as well as the individual, familial, social, structural factors that aid or hinder children in getting that support.

“We know there are going to be more disasters, more intense storms,” Fothergill says. “So it becomes particularly important to look at what led to positive outcomes and consider how we can make sure those things happen in the future.”

Sylvia Parker, senior lecturer of music theory and piano, has recorded Bela Bartok’s piano harmonizations of folk songs that the famed Hungarian composer collected in the eastern European countryside.

Parker’s two-CD set, Peasant Jewels, was released by Centaur Records in May. It is the first time all 152 of the pieces have been featured in a single album.

Daniel Lusk, poet and senior lecturer emeritus in English, released The Vermeer Suite in September. The collection features eighteen original poems with full-color images of the eighteen masterpieces by Johannes Vermeer that inspired them. Based on the work of eminent art historians and his own, first-hand observations of these beloved paintings, his imaginative poetry offers admirers of Vermeer a bridge between the analysis and insights of scholars and their own direct experience of contemplating these intimate and timeless works.

Alumni couple Jules ’62 and Effin Lawes Older ’64 recently released their e-book Take Me Home: How to Rent or Buy in a Hot Home Market on Amazon and other platforms.

The Olders share wisdom from their experience “hacking through the housing wilderness” in New York, New Zealand, and San Francisco.

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ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVES Most UVM alumni know Stephanie Seguino as a professor of economics focused on issues of inequality by class, race, and gender. But she is also a committed and talented photographer who explores those same issues through the lens of her camera. “Radical Empathy,” Seguino’s exhibit on display this summer at Burlington’s Flynndog Gallery, was a timely exploration of black men’s images and the bias that viewers may bring to their perception.

Depending on whether the individual is photographed from in front or behind can create a very different reaction. “The project is about lifting that racial veil that obscures the deeper humanity of black men in our society,” Seguino says.

Jeffrey, 2015 20” X 30” Stephanie Seguino

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Beyond Coaching Alumnus Fred Fayette, heart of the Catamount Nordic program

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Champlain visiting Juniper Island aboard Fred Fayette’s research vessel, the Neptune, and you’ll learn something from the man at the helm. Like how sonar works, some of the curiosities that lie on the bottom of Lake Champlain, and the date (October 10, 1776) Benedict Arnold and fleet sailed north past Juniper to meet the British attack.

It’s a fair bet that a number of UVM’s top-flight Nordic skiers across the past four decades have absorbed some of those same facts from Fayette, a Class of 1969

alumnus of the ski program and longtime volunteer coach with the team. Both savvy advisor and beloved uncle to skiers across generations, Fayette is a man with a lively mind and a warm spirit.

While his ski waxing wisdom may have helped athletes kick and glide to NCAA Championships, or split times called out on a frigid morning along the race course at Trapp’s served as a valuable gauge of their efforts, most skiers take away deeper memories of Fayette.

Fred Fayette’s own career as a Nordic

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skier began somewhat reluctantly. When the South Burlington native enrolled at UVM, after serving in the U.S. Navy’s Fleet Air Reconnaissance Squadron, he joined legendary coach Archie Post’s cross-country team. Fayette would add another sport when ski coach Bill Stone recruited some of Post’s fit harriers in the hope of building his Nordic ranks.

Problem was, Fayette really wanted to ski alpine. A deal was struck. If Fayette and some of his fellow runners would attend the pre-season Nordic camp, then they would also get a tryout for the alpine team.

Smiling at the memory, Fayette recounts when alpine coach Hermann Muckenschnabl watched him ski down the mountain around gates then, with thick Austrian accent, said, “Well, Fayette, you turn OK one way.”

With those words, a Catamount Nordic skier was born.

There’s no sport like cross-country ski racing for wringing an athlete dry. Fayette and his fellow-convert runners soon fell in love with it. “That feeling of being exhausted, but a good exhaustion,” he says.

The bonds built training and racing lasted long beyond graduation. Mention the name of an old teammate like Perry Bland ’71 or Dave Hosmer ’66, and Fayette will feign a hazy memory of this person of whom you speak, before cracking a smile and launching into their virtues. It was Bland, during his years as UVM Nordic coach, who first brought Fayette into the coaching fold. Bland’s pitch, as Fayette remembers it, centered around road trips to ski carnivals and the opportunity to share coffee, donuts, and conversation.

Fayette signed on and has never looked back. Though there have been offers through the years to formalize his coaching status beyond volunteer, he declined.

There has always been something else going on in his life—running the Marble Island Resort he used to own with his brother David or the scientific exploration of the lake he’s conducted aboard the Nep-

tune with his business Juniper Research.

Lake Champlain has always been at the center of Fayette’s life. As a kid, he remembers wondering what was on the lake’s bottom; as an adult, he and colleagues used sonar to map the entire bottom of Champlain. Juniper Island, which Fayette’s father bought from the U.S. government for $7,000 in 1956, has long been a gathering spot for the large extended family.

The same MacGyver-like ingenuity that Fayette brought to designing an underwater camera and other lake research efforts has guided projects for UVM Skiing, such as crafting a device to determine the exact kick zone on a ski or a hot box to optimize waxing. But when you speak with Catamount athletes about Fayette, they seldom want to talk about technical matters of skiing so much as, well, the Fredness of Fred.

Knut Nystad ’94, chief of service for the Norwegian national team, cites Fayette’s rare gift for being equally adept at storytelling and listening. “Fred is a walking Wikipedia with facts and tidbits about everything (and nothing) worth discussing,” Nystad says. “Thanks to his patience it was possible to have great discussions with us stubborn foreigners about culture, politics, finance, economics, and other fun subjects.”

Dave Stewart ’00, a former assistant with the UVM team and now head Nordic coach at the University of Denver, recalls the freewheeling discussions—“always with an open mind and always forcing

me to question my own ideas”—as he sat shotgun next to Fayette on the drives to races. Stewart continues, “I get to talk with Fred once or twice a year, and he so often amazes me by recalling some minor personal triumph or special moment from my years on the team. If we are judged by how we make others feel, Fred has no equal.”

Fayette’s fans aren’t limited to UVM skiers. Athletes throughout the Eastern ski circuit have felt his influence. Last year, Middlebury College skier Stella Holt created a video that featured Fayette and the lessons she has drawn from him. (Watch: go.uvm.edu/fred) Fayette is generous with his encouragement along a race course, regardless of the colors the skier is wearing. He recalls a few years back when the UVM and Dartmouth women traded off wins in the Eastern Carnivals, then combined to take places one through six at the NCAA Championships.

Faster competition makes for faster skiers.

“It helps us all in the long run,” Fayette says.

That close Nordic community, which transcends team, is a large part of what drives Fayette’s years of volunteer coaching.

He admits to some embarrassment at having a spotlight on his own work, and talks instead of what his years with UVM Skiing have brought him. Top of the list: meeting his wife, Susan, at ski races in Craftsbury.

“It is such a great joy for me,” Fayette says. “This enriches my life—all the wonderful kids and coaches I’ve been able to VQ spend time with.”

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In these Woods Finding renewal in the borderland

BY | KERSTIN LANGE G’03 ART BY | PEP MONTSERRAT

A cool morning mist raised

goose bumps on my skin when I set out on the Goethe Trail. I had picked this particular trail because it offered the most direct access to where I wanted to go, but the idea of hiking in the footsteps of the great poet-thinker-naturalist-all-round-genius certainly added to the appeal of my quest.

Where I wanted to go was the Harzer Grenzweg, the trail in Germany’s Harz Mountains that traces the former border (Grenze) that divided the country for forty years. For most of that time, this had been one of the deadliest borders in the world— a high-security strip cleared of all vegetation and studded with land mines, watch towers, and booby-trapped fences.

By the time I set foot on the Goethe Trail in September 2014, the border had lost its grim purpose and the two Germanys had been reunited for almost twenty-four years. By now there was a whole generation of young Germans for whom the four-decade-long division was a strange but largely irrelevant chapter in

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history books. Yet here I was, pulled from my Vermont life by an irresistible longing to hike along the former border. I had crossed it many times by train and on the Autobahn, had reveled in my explorations of eastern Germany (the ‘other’ Germany for the first half of my life), had made friends with easterners—and still, this urge to spend time in the border strip had only grown stronger.

It was not so much the brutal history of the border that pulled me, though that had certainly been on my mind. There was also, thankfully, an uplifting element to my fascination. Ironically, because humans had been kept out of the border strip, some 1,200 species of rare plants and animals— like the peregrine falcon—had found a refuge there from the relentless pressures of development and agriculture on both sides. Almost immediately after the fall of the Berlin Wall, naturalists from both sides of the border came together to call for the creation of a nature preserve in place of the 900-mile border strip between the two German states. A seventy-mile stretch of the resulting Grünes Band (Green Belt) was now part of the Harz National Park, which had started out as two separate national parks in East and West Germany but had later been combined.

I had been uncertain what to expect of the forest in the National Park, even outside of the former border strip. On a crosscountry ski excursion some fifteen years earlier, it had struck me as looking more

like a spruce plantation than a forest: A legacy of the Harz region’s centuries-long history of silver, copper, lead, and zinc mining. From the eighteenth-century on, the largely destroyed native forests had been replanted with fast-growing spruce rather than the beech that would have been typical of the region’s mid-elevation. A more hands-off approach was adopted in the 1870s. I was relieved now to find myself in a lush, uneven-aged stand of beech and spruce—a clear sign that ecological processes, rather than human management, were at work here.

Half an hour later and a few hundred feet higher in elevation, the trail traversed what looked like a ghost forest—an expanse of dead spruce. On second glance, I noticed some clearly alive spruce and mountain ash saplings. An interpretive sign explained that this area had been hit by a bark beetle attack a few years earlier.

In keeping with national park management guidelines, the spruce stand had been left to its own devices. The saplings hinted at a future forest much more typical of this elevation—ecological succession was indeed unfolding.

From my trail map, I knew I had to be close to the Grenzweg now. And indeed, the trail was now palpably changing under my feet. Early on, it had alternated between a wooden walkway and a trampled footpath. Now my feet could feel a grid of concrete, overgrown but clearly recognizable as two parallel tracks. I

knew that this was the Kolonnenweg, the pathway installed by the East German regime for border patrol vehicles.

I really was in the former death strip now. For anyone who didn’t notice the concrete grid, there was a large wooden sign pointing out this fact. Across from it, four people were sitting at a picnic table, engrossed in conversation over thermos bottles and Butterbrote, homemade sandwiches wrapped in parchment paper.

Throughout the morning, I had wondered how other people felt about hiking in this history-heavy place. Was it as mean-

ingful to “normal” Germans—those who had everyday lives here—as it was to me? I decided to approach the four and ask.

Clearly the conversation had been about entirely different things before my interruption, but the picnickers, two couples perhaps in their early seventies, indulged me and switched topics to share their reflections about the border. One of the two men had escaped from East Germany with his parents as a child. He had only seen his grandparents once after that; they had died before reunification.

The other man told of an aunt in the east

whom he had met for the first time on the day after the border opened in 1989, and who died two weeks later. Both couples remembered hearing about a nine-yearold boy who had run after a ball into the border strip and been shot by East German border guards.

Deep in thought, I continued on the overgrown concrete-grid path. Aside from the concrete itself, there was no trace of the deadly contraptions that had been here until twenty-five years ago. The forest around me was certainly not old growth, but then the rest of the forest wasn’t either.

All in all, the place had a serene feel to it.

The stories of disruption and grief were part of its history, but so were the stories of recovery and resilience. I could see signs of that all around me in the forest, and I had just heard and felt it in the conversation with the four hikers.

I could also feel it in myself. Hiking back towards the Goethe Trail that afternoon, I was reminded of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s words: “In these woods, we return to reason and faith.” I had long felt drawn to “the woods” as a place of refuge, a place to regain perspective and renewal. In fact, the woods were, in large part, what had brought me to Vermont.

I felt grateful now that Emerson’s words felt true in these German woods as well.

In these woods here, I felt myself returning not only to reason and faith, but to a deeper bond with my complicated home VQ country.

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CAMPAIGN KINDLES UVM’S NEXT ERA

MOUNTAINS The power of the place burns brightly within the most ambitious fundraising campaign in the history of the University of Vermont.

BY | RICK GREEN ’82

TOP LEFT TO RIGHT: JOSHUA BROWN, BOB HANDELMAN, JOSHUA BROWN; BOTTOM LEFT: ANDY DUBACK

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You find it in the confidence and inspiration student

STUDENT OPPORTUNITY Without the aid of a Donald H. DeHayes Multicultural Scholarship, it’s unlikely Jacqueline Cordoza ’17 would be enrolled at the University of Vermont. That critical financial assistance has given her the opportunity to thrive in college.

Early coursework sparked her interest in environmental health and social justice and career goals in environmental epidemiology. “I learned that who you are and where you live can directly impact your health, and my dream is to help those who do not have a voice,” Cardoza says.

Creating “access to success” for students has been a passionate refrain for President Tom Sullivan from his first days on the job. With a fundraising goal of $210 million—nearly a third of the total goal—that commitment to student support stands tall as a top priority of the Move Mountains campaign.

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Jacqueline Cordoza ’17 has discovered in her years on campus. You find it in the commitment of UVM vaccine researchers working to save lives half a world away. And you find it in public school classrooms across Vermont where, with mentorship from education professor Penny Bishop, young teachers are learning to harness technology for the good of their students.

Move Mountains: The Campaign for the University of Vermont aims to raise $500 million in private support by 2019 to nurture academic programs, expand scholarships and professorships, and strategically transform the campus through new and enhanced facilities. In the eyes of President Tom Sullivan, the fundraising campaign also works like a giant lever, lifting UVM to a new position of distinction among public research universities.

While the campaign is about the hard business of asking for gifts at a time when more universities are aggressively fundraising, Move Mountains is also about the invisible glue that cements a diverse community of 100,000 UVM alumni across the world. It is about declaring “this is where:” sharpening and focusing the possible of a public university that even its graduates might not fully appreciate sometimes.

“We educate and encourage our students to be leaders in communities and societies. The experience here is about the educated person, the whole person,’’ Sullivan explains. “That’s the uniqueness of the University of Vermont undergraduate experience.’’

The public launch of the campaign on October 2 at Gutterson Fieldhouse capped a four-year effort that began with the creation of the UVM Foundation in 2011 and comes as universities turn to private foundations for a helping hand. Created to engage UVM’s most capable supporters, the nonprofit UVM Foundation is governed by its own board of directors and exists solely to benefit the University of Vermont.

At the October launch, President Sullivan announced to a crowd of more than five-hundred supporters that about $248 million has already been committed toward the goal of $500 million by 2019.

“The timing of this comprehensive campaign is really critical at this point in the university’s history,’’ says Sullivan, who since his arrival three years ago has sought to craft a concise strategy to bring UVM forward in an era of tight finances, intense competition for students, and a rapidly evolving higher education market.

“It’s a tipping point because at this juncture in our history we are on the move to go to the next level of excellence and stature and reputation,’’ Sullivan says. Noting that just six percent of the overall UVM budget comes from the state of Vermont, the president adds, “Our friends, our alumni and donors to this university are absolutely critical. We’re asking them to help us step up and have this be a historic transformation for the University of Vermont.

“When you have a big idea to move forward and you have a friend of the university or a donor or an alum and they have a passion about that idea—and they have the ability or the capacity to make an investment—when those things come together, the big idea, the passion, and the capacity, it’s magical.’’

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Twice the size of UVM’s last fundraising effort in 2007, the Move Mountains campaign has been in its silent, or planning, phase for the last four years as the UVM Foundation ramped up.

While new and improved campus facilities are part of the strategy—including a $104 million STEM Complex, an Alumni House, an expanded and renamed Grossman School of Business, and a firstever partnership with the recently renamed University of Vermont Medical Center—it’s young women such as Jacqueline Cardoza who will illustrate the vital role private support can play.

Her story is one of the most basic messages of the Move Mountains campaign: a financially accessible education for talented students of all backgrounds. The campaign is seeking nearly $210 million in scholarship support from private donations.

“I was looking at universities and colleges a lot smaller than UVM. I ended up taking a tour, coming up here and braving the cold. As soon as I stepped foot on the campus I just knew I wanted to be here,’’ says Cardoza. Private support, through her Donald H. DeHayes Multicultural Scholarship, has made her experience at the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources possible.

“It’s really about the environment here. But not just the landscape. It’s the social environment. I really feel that students and faculty members are helping you, helping you thrive to be who you want to be. And I was kind of nervous going out of my realm from within a small town in Connecticut to go to a big university,’’ she says. “But it’s been just the opposite. I’ve been really kind of nurtured and talked to about where I want to go. I’ve been inspired to do so many other things and, really, I’ve become more passionate in so many different areas.”

Over the last quarter century, Rob Cioffi ’90 has closely watched the ups and downs of his alma mater and sees this moment as something of an inflection point and an opportunity for UVM to tell a bigger story.

“This campaign has the chance to elevate UVM to the level where we need to be—increasing SATs, better engineering scholars, better basketball players, better thespians … so people say, ‘Wow!’’’ says Cioffi, a member of the University of Vermont Foundation’s Executive Campaign Council, the group that has been planning the strategy for the Move Mountains campaign. A native Vermonter, Cioffi is a former chair of the University of Vermont Board of Trustees who now lives in Connecticut.

“This is a comprehensive university. We have an incredible nursing school, an incredible college of engineering. We have a great college of arts and sciences. There are very few universities that have all these pieces on a campus of only 10,000 students,’’ says Cioffi.

FACULTY ENDEAVOR Speaking to the leverage created by endowed professorships, Dr. Beth Kirkpatrick says, “It’s just a phenomenal tool that the university can have to make sure that it perpetuates itself with very strong leaders.”

Kirkpatrick, a professor in the College of Medicine, is founder and director of UVM’s Vaccine Testing Center, which works to tame some of the world’s most deadly diseases.

Endowment gifts provide funding that can cover a portion of a professor’s salary and open additional flexibility to advance that individual’s teaching and research— creating new courses and student research experiences, supporting graduate students, securing new grants, and launching new partnerships, among other opportunities.

Over the past three years, UVM has made remarkable progress in growing the number of endowed professorships. The Move Mountains campaign aims to push it to a new plateau with a plan to raise more than $148 million to create new professorships, chairs, and deanships across the entire university.

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Steven Grossman’s landmark gift leads to renaming of the business school After the largest individual gift in UVM history, the school of business has been renamed in honor of the donor, Steven Grossman, a 1961 graduate and a long-time supporter of the school.

“This is the kind of gift that can transform a school or college and elevate it significantly on the national stage,” President Sullivan said at a business school ceremony on the day the Move Mountains campaign had its public launch.

The $20 million gift from the Grossman Family Foundation funds three endowed academic positions: the Steven Grossman Chairs in Entrepreneurship, Finance, and Sustainable Business. The gift will also provide resources to support teaching and program priorities as the school aims to become one of the top undergraduate business programs in the nation and among the best MBA programs in the world.

“As the school’s direction under the leadership of Dean Sanjay Sharma came into sharper focus, I felt that the business school was on the verge of a transformative change and what they need to make the change was the right amount of capital. Thus this gift.

This process was not an exact science but rather a feeling from my heart and soul,” Grossman said.

The Grossman School of Business is only the second of UVM’s ten schools and colleges to be named in honor of an individual for outstanding philanthropic support. The first was the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, named in 2003 in honor of Steven ’61 and Beverly Rubenstein, whose $15 million gift brought UVM into the national spotlight of environmental and natural resource programs.

University officials believe the Grossman gift will have a similar impact on the business school.

“The timing of the gift is propitious as the school continues its progress into the ranks of the world’s finest via revamped and new programs, world class faculty, dedicated staff, and the most talented class of students in UVM’s history,’’ said Sanjay Sharma, dean of the Grossman School of Business.

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Sullivan has brought to campus is a plan to double the number of endowed professorships and chairmanships. The university has made rapid progress on this front and the Move Mountains campaign aims to push it to a new plateau with a plan to raise more than $148 million to create new professorships, chairs and deanships across UVM—an acknowledgement that a public university must be a talent magnet to compete in a world where other state universities receive more support from their state legislatures.

A gift that creates and funds a named professorship “enables us to build strong programs around it. It immediately institutionalizes a program in a way that says this is something that’s really important,’’ says Penny Bishop, professor of middle level education and the director of the Tarrant Institute, a donor-supported initiative that trains Vermont teachers and schools to use technology more effectively in the classroom.

“It enables us as a university to attract new faculty, faculty who are doing really innovative things with research, to showcase a lot of the research that’s being done as well as to invest more in the teaching that’s done within the program,’’ says Bishop.

Both President Sullivan and Provost David Rosowsky point out that these endowed positions become the essential DNA for a successful UVM future—they keep top professors on campus for long careers, add to the university’s capacity for high-quality research, and serve as a beacon to attract more talented faculty and scholars.

“It’s just a phenomenal tool that the university can have to make sure that it perpetuates itself with very strong leaders,’’ says College of Medicine Professor Beth Kirkpatrick, who founded the Vaccine Testing Center, which works to tame some of the world’s most deadly diseases.

All of this complements a campus that already has a strong reputation as a place that is “open to creative ways to do different things,” Kirkpatrick says. “People feel a little less pigeonholed here and are able to think more broadly.”

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Rosowsky, who as provost must make sure UVM has top academic programs, emphasizes that while a comprehensive fundraising campaign is about students, faculty and programs, it can’t stop there.

A centerpiece of the UVM Board of Trustees’ plan to transform the Central Campus is the 266,000 square-foot STEM Complex now under construction just east of University Row. The big buildings, slated for completion in 2019, have deep symbolism: the $104 million project aims to bring the university into a future where top students choose UVM because of lab and research facilities—and faculty remain or are attracted here because of the unique interdisciplinary cooperation that the STEM facility will nurture.

“It’s also a critically needed and timely investment in the science and technology and engineering side of our house. It’s not changing the university’s emphasis on academics.

It’s not changing the character or the ethos of the university’s academic programs,’’ says Rosowsky.

“It’s simply elevating those programs to the same level of quality and opportunity that we have across the rest of the university. And science and engineering and math and computer science facilities are expensive, similar to medicine and nursing. These are expensive facilities to construct and to maintain, but

CAMPUS ENHANCEMENTS Though increasing scholarships for students and support for faculty are the keystone priorities of The Campaign for the University of Vermont, a number of new facilities and historic renovations are also critical to the university’s future.

The STEM Complex will feature modern classrooms, labs, and equipment for teaching and research in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and related fields.

The Multi-Purpose Event Center will create a new arena for ice hockey, basketball, and special events. A second phase is planned that will include a hockey practice facility and campus recreation center.

Kalkin Hall expansion and renovation will add two classrooms, a sixty-seat-case-method classroom, faculty offices, graduate students spaces, and an upgraded computer lab in the Grossman School of Business.

Billings Library renovations will restore the Great Hall, Apse, and Marsh Lounge, creating a new home for library Special Collections, the Center for Holocaust Studies, and the Center for Research on Vermont.

UVM Medical Center Inpatient Building adds four floors of private, technologically advanced rooms for medical-surgical patients.

The Taft School renovation creates new studio, classroom, and exhibition space for the Department of Art and Art History.

Alumni House completes the restoration of the Queen Anne Revival-style home at the corner of Summit and Maple streets.

Together with an adjoining pavilion, the facility will establish a central space for alumni events and activities.

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you must have them to be attractive as a top university to the best students.”

Like the comprehensive campaign, university leaders point out that the STEM Complex must be viewed through a larger lens, one that takes in the economic health of Burlington and all of Vermont.

Increasingly, the outside world is taking note of the area’s growing status as an innovation hub—Vermont was ranked no. 5 for its “startup culture” by the Kauffman Foundation in 2015, and Burlington’s growing entrepreneurial reputation has won accolades from Forbes and Atlantic Monthly.

“We believe as the state’s public research university we have both opportunity and obligation to train students who will go into fields that will create new technologies and spin out new companies, graduates who will be energized intellectually and culturally to want to stay in Vermont,’’ says Rosowsky. “We view that as part of our mission and part of our commitment.”

Five hundred million is a dramatic number for a humble

On October 2, President Sullivan launched the public phase of Move Mountains: The Campaign for the University of Vermont, and its $500 million goal, at a gathering of the campus community in the Davis Center’s Olin Atrium.

President Tom Sullivan and his wife, Leslie Black Sullivan ’77, toast the Move Mountains launch with Executive Campaign Council members Diane Seder ’74, Peter ’69 and Karen Nystrom Meyer ’70, Megan Walsh Cioffi ’91 and Robert Cioffi ’90, Ian Boyce ’89, James Betts ’69 MD’73, and UVM Foundation CEO Rich Bundy. Alumni, university and UVM Foundation leadership, faculty, and students celebrated the launch at an event in Gutterson Fieldhouse Friday evening.

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state and a public university with a reputation for modesty.

But Richard Bundy, president and CEO of the UVM Foundation, sees a striking opportunity amid the ambitious goals. He points to the more than 23,000 donors who expressed their confidence in UVM’s promising new path this year, as private support continues to help to shape the future of one of the nation’s oldest public universities.

“This year we broke the $60 million mark for the first time in UVM history,’’ Bundy says. “Fiscal 2015 was the fourth consecutive year of record-setting fundraising for the UVM Foundation. That is a testament to our donors and their commitment to UVM’s mission and values. And it speaks volumes about the quality of the people who work at the foundation.”

The days before the campaign launch bolstered Bundy’s optimism, adding to the growing sense that the Move Mountains campaign is a turning point for UVM. More than $40 million in new commitments to UVM were revealed in a series of fifteen gift announcements across campus on October 1 and 2, culminating in the Grossman Family Foundation’s donation of $20 million to what will now be known as the Grossman School of Business.

UVM is “on a different trajectory,’’ says alumni leader Rob Cioffi.

“We are in a different place today.”

It is that extraordinary confluence of place, people, and what happens when they come together here that comprises the magic that President Sullivan believes will fuel a successful Move Mountains campaign.

“We have friends and alumni and donors who deeply believe in this university, as I do,’’ he said. “When you have a really creative, inspiring big idea, it’s transformative. And that’s what this campaign is going to do as we celebrate the 225th anniversary of UVM— transform it so that the University of Vermont continues to be in the VQ forefront of the great universities in the United States.”

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William Meezan ’67, Richard Ader ’63, Daniel Burack ’55, J. Brooks Buxton ’56

Two-day crescendo of gifts leads to campaign’s public launch From the Fleming Museum to Billings Library, Davis Center to Gutterson, the challenge and progress of Move Mountains: The Campaign for the University of Vermont crackled across campus as the largest fundraising initiative in UVM history went public the first weekend in October.

Multiple events heralded new gift announcements, totaling $40 million, and led up to President Sullivan announcing the campaign’s goal, $500 million, in the Davis Center atrium, packed with faculty, staff, students, and alumni. Later that evening, supporters gathered in a magically transformed Gutterson Fieldhouse for a celebration of the campaign’s launch. As Move Mountains transitions into the public phase, $247,636,555 has been raised.

MOVE MOUNTAINS THE CAMPAIGN FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT CAMPAIGN GOAL $500M

CURRENT GIFTS $248M

In addition to Steven Grossman’s $20 million in support of the business school, gifts announced in the days prior to the campaign launch included: • $8.9 million from Robert ’39, MD’42 and Helen Larner to establish the Robert and Helen Larner Medical Education Fund in the College of Medicine.

• $1 million from the Richard E. and Deborah L. Tarrant Foundation to support the Patient Care Facility project in The UVM Medical Center.

• $3.0 million from Daniel and Carole Burack to support the programs and activities of UVM Hillel and enhance Jewish life on campus.

• $900,000 from Gregory N. Sweeny ’70 to support the civil engineering program in the College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences with a scholarship, professorship, and program support.

• $1.5 million gift-in-kind from J. Brooks Buxton, UVM Class of 1956, who is donating his art collection to the Fleming Museum.

• $1.2 million to support the work of the LGBTQA Center on campus. This includes $875,000 from UVM Foundation Leadership Council member William Meezan, UVM Class of 1967, and his husband, Michael Brittenback; $200,000 from Sanford Friedman, Class of 1973, and his husband Jerry Hipps; and $125,000 from Michael Upton, a member of the College of Medicine, class of 1994.

• $1 million from John ’68 and Julia Hilton to establish a Faculty Research Support Endowment and expand the Janus Forum Lecture Series. John Hilton is chair of the UVM Foundation Board of Directors.

• $1 million from Eugene ’50 and Joan Kalkin to fund a professorship in the College of Arts and Sciences. Eugene is chair emeritus of the UVM Foundation. Both Kalkins are former UVM trustees.

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• $500,000 from the university’s food services provider, Sodexo, to support the university’s Food Systems Initiative.

• $450,000 estate commitment from John Bossange of Burlington to add to the scholarship fund he established to honor the memory of his late wife, Dr. Janet Bossange, a long-time faculty member in the College of Education and Social Services.

• $250,000 from Richard Ader ’63 to support UVM’s Alumni House capital project. Ader is a member of the UVM Foundation Board of Directors and Foundation Leadership Council.

• $250,000 from the Crowley family of Princeton, Mass., to support the student internship program in the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources.

• Robert ’90 and Meghan Cioffi ’91, a gift to endow the men’s basketball coaching position.

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THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AWARDED THE 100,000th BACHELOR’S DEGREE IN THE HISTORY OF THE INSTITUTION AT LAST SPRING’S COMMENCEMENT. THAT MILESTONE SUGGESTS

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NATION AN APT MOMENT TO STEP BACK AND LOOK BROADLY AT A FRACTION OF OUR COMMUNITY OF GRADUATES, A GLOBAL GLIMPSE AT WHERE SOME OF THOSE UVM DIPLOMAS HAVE LED. by joshua brown, jay goyette, kathleen laramee ’00, jon reidel g’06, amanda waite ’02 g’04, thomas weaver

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Yudi Bennett G ’75

WORK: Founder of Exceptional Minds Studio, a nonprofit vocational center and animation studio for young adults on the autism spectrum. Venture is a shift in direction from a more than thirty-year career in film production HOME: Glendale, California. UVM DAYS: While earning her master’s in communications, professors such as Kim Worden advanced her interest and skills in filmmaking—“My studies there totally changed my life!” IN HER WORDS: “Because we are an innovative, one of a kind program, the work is tremendously fulfilling and very exciting. We like to say we are ‘changing lives…one frame at a time.’

Our graduates have just finished working on Avengers: Age of Ultron, Ant-Man, and Game of Thrones—just to mention a few.”

Scott Baldwin ’76

WORK: Owns Vermont Brokerage Services a, financial planning and employee benefits agency. A retired Vermont Air National Guard F-16 pilot, on September 11, 2001, Baldwin and another jet from the squadron were the first military planes to patrol the skies over New York City in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks. HOME: Burlington. UVM DAYS: Made lifelong friendships through a circle of guys, a fraternity of sorts, that dubbed themselves “Chikago.” They still gather each New Year’s Eve and, since 1991, have taken a reunion trip to Europe every five years. IN HIS WORDS: “To me, those relationships you build—the friendships and growing experiences you take away—are the most important things of your years in college.”

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Meredith Rose Burak ’07

WORK: A Merrill Lynch financial manager for non-profits, Burak is also a committed volunteer advocate who recently led efforts to gain financial support from New York City government for impoverished Holocaust survivors. HOME: Living her dream of moving to Tel Aviv, Israel, this fall.

UVM DAYS: Professor Richard Sugarman and Holocaust Studies classes were major influences.

Burak founded and organized the UVM student group raising awareness of genocide in Darfur.

Also working with Hillel, she led efforts to bring author Elie Wiesel to campus. IN HER WORDS: “I set up a table outside of the library, put up a poster, and started stopping people. ‘Hey, do you know what is happening in Darfur?’ I was that person, which was very uncharacteristic of me.”

WORK: Fisheries engineer who specializes in the removal of dams. Formerly chief engineer at American Rivers, Wildman now runs the New England office of an ecological restoration firm, Princeton Hydro. She’s helped design and supervise the demolition of over one hundred dams—reopening waterways for fish and other wildlife. HOME: Glastonbury, Connecticut. UVM DAYS: Wildman credits her UVM engineering professors, including Richard Downer, with pointing her toward a good career path. IN HER WORDS: “I had started as a mechanical engineer, but Downer convinced me that if I liked the outdoors and people, civil engineering might be a better choice for me—and, boy, was he right. I now get paid to kayak and restore rivers!”

Matt Sharp ’94

WORK: Founder and CEO of Sharp Entertainment, a television production company based in New York City. HOME: New York, New York. UVM DAYS: Enjoyed every minute of his UVM experience from freshman year in the Shoeboxes to his studies (history major/poli-sci minor) to joining a fraternity, playing lacrosse, skiing at Stowe, and playing Frisbee on the Green. IN HIS WORDS: “I’ve always been entrepreneurial but at the same time loved a creative challenge. At UVM, I took painting and acting classes and during the summers in Burlington, I ran my own window washing business. I guess a production company is a happy medium between being a creative and an entrepreneur.”

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WORK: Studio art instructor at North Branch Arts, and art instructor for kindergarten, fifth, and sixth grades through North Branch Arts at Edgebrook Elementary School. HOME: Chicago, Illinois.

UVM DAYS: Began her undergraduate studies at UVM at age twenty-seven after earning an associate’s degree from Community College of Vermont in her early twenties. Counts art faculty Kathleen Schneider and Chris Campbell as key influences. Waitressed at Penny Cluse to help pay tuition. IN HER WORDS: “My students’ intelligence and perseverance really shows through when you allow them to find their own answers. This is the way artists create outside of the classroom, and I want my students to consider themselves artists, to think of themselves as capable and creative people.”

Michael Hurdzan ’69 G’74

WORK: Golf course architect with an international practice whose firm has worked on 400-plus projects on five continents over the past forty-five years.

Hurdzan has been a pioneering thinker and practitioner in creating environmentally friendly courses. HOME: Columbus, Ohio. UVM DAYS: “Vermont was a paradise to this midwestern, redneck kid,” Hurdzan recalls. He came for a master’s in plant and soil science and ended up staying for his PhD. He credits his professors and the state’s environmental ethic for setting his path. IN HIS WORDS: “One of my greatest challenges is convincing colleagues, clients, and golfers that the best golf is enjoyed in the most natural environments. We strive to make golf courses environmental assets not liabilities.”

Madeline Murphy Hall ’10

WORK: Global affairs regional officer, working at the State Department on human rights policy in the Middle East. HOME: Washington, D.C. UVM DAYS: A political science major and anthropology minor, she

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was inspired by Professor Gregory Gause, Middle East expert. She studied Arabic at the Middlebury Language program, then won a Boren Scholarship to study abroad in Jordan her senior year. IN HER WORDS: “Being part of the Lawrence Debate Union at UVM was hugely influential. My coaches, Tuna Snider and David Register, and my teammates, were my family on campus.”

Sascha Mayer ’89

WORK: CEO and co-founder of Mamava, Inc., a company that makes self-contained lactation pods, allowing nursing mothers to use their breast pumps or nurse in private. Business was incubated at JDK Design in Burlington, where Mayer worked for nearly twenty years. HOME: Williston, Vermont. UVM DAYS: Sociology major with a minor in women’s studies. Post-graduation, worked for then Congressman Bernie Sanders in his Burlington office. Has fond memories of the view from Williams Hall and “digging into a steaming plate of Nectar’s fries” with friends. IN HER WORDS: “Mamava’s mission is to create a healthier society due to a changed cultural perception of pumping/nursing that affords every woman the opportunity to nurse her child regardless of her circumstances.”

Sanjeev Yadav ’05

WORK: Recently co-founded Banyan Tree Capital, a boutique investment advisory firm based in Boston. Prior to that venture, Yadav served for nearly two years as a vice consul for trade and investment at the British Consulate-General in Boston, where he worked on furthering trans-Atlantic trade between New England and the United Kingdom. HOME: Boston, Massachusetts.

UVM DAYS: The son of longtime psychology professor Dharam Yadav, Sanjeev calls UVM a “home” to his family in many ways.

IN HIS WORDS: “Some of the most lasting experiences of my undergrad years were opportunities to serve as a student ambassador, a student trustee, and to work with other students to bring unique and engaging speakers to the university to increase campus discourse.”

Gary J. Margolis ’91 G ’96 ’01

WORK: President & CEO of Social Sentinel, Inc., a service that alerts officials in education, local government, and other entities to potential threats on social media; Co-founder of Margolis Healy & Associates, LLC; Former chief of police at UVM. HOME: Richmond, Vermont. UVM DAYS: Gained valuable experience working in police services, residential life, and admissions; undergraduate courses with Professor Robert Tyzbir and graduate courses with Professor Robert Nash guided him personally and professionally. IN HIS WORDS: “Our service has helped prevent suicides, stop drug dealers at schools, identify sex offenders, and many other things.

Having worn a uniform for twenty years as a police officer, I feel like I’m still protecting people and communities through Social Sentinel.”

Jilyne Higgins ’09

WORK: Co-founder of ZGiRLS, a nonprofit organization dedicated to elevating and empowering the lives of girls through athletics. Established in Seattle in 2012, ZGiRLS has begun to branch across the country. HOME: Charlottesville, Virginia. UVM DAYS: A public communications major, Higgins balanced her studies with training and competition as an elite alpine skier. She was a seven-time NCAA All-American skiing for the Catamounts.

IN HER WORDS: “I know that we’ve set a really big goal and with that comes challenges. But I always come back to exactly what we teach at ZGiRLS—chasing down your dreams takes courage, and by doing so, you make courage contagious. Like fire, it spreads and ignites even bigger dreams in those around you.”

Joshua Prince ’86

WORK: President of The CDM Group, a global healthcare communications company. Named 2015 Industry Person of The Year by MedAdNews, he is also the author of two-well-reviewed children’s books. HOME: Westport, Connecticut.

UVM DAYS: He credits the Cynic for forging his idea of what a workplace should be—“demanding, creative, productive, but

Zwick’s abiding love for Vermont’s hiking trails inspired his advocacy and significant funding support for a long-sought footbridge over the Winooski River in Jonesville.

“ I began to have

doubts that I would live long enough to see the finished bridge, let alone walk across it. But the bridge is completed.

And I have walked across it. Joyfully.”

—DAAN ZWICK ’43

WORK: Retired from a long career at Kodak, where he was a research scientist exploring image structure in color photography and the interface between motion picture film and color television. HOME: Rochester, New York. UVM DAYS: A chemistry major, Zwick also ran cross-country and track, wrote for the Cynic, and was active in the Outing Club.

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Magic!”

Robert Bayer ’66, G’68

WORK: An expert on lobster health and nutrition, he is executive director of the Lobster Institute, and professor of animal and veterinary sciences, at the University of Maine. HOME: Orono, Maine. UVM DAYS: Credits his animal science major with teaching him approaches to solving problems of food production, the main focus of his work today. Made lifetime friends in Buckham residence hall and joined some of them this summer to watch the walls tumble down. IN HIS WORDS: “What I do is about preserving a way of life that is lobstering. Lobsters are doing very well this season, but the issues that we’re concerned about are climate change, ocean acidification, and pollution.”

Nancy Clark ’71

WORK: Co-founder and director of the Zienzele Foundation, which supports AIDS orphans and caregivers in rural Zimbabwe; care coordinator at Gifford Medical Center in Randolph, Vermont. Last year Zienzele supported approximately one thousand orphans in school. HOME: West Topsham, Vermont. UVM DAYS: Majored in nursing because it felt like a “safe and predictable women’s career” at the time, but was encouraged by professors to think outside the box. IN HER OWN WORDS: “My UVM experience gave me the courage to leave Vermont for a job at Albert Einstein Hospital in the Bronx, where I had my first experiences working in intensive pediatrics among underserved populations, an experience that has guided my entire career.”

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Charles Iacovou ’92 Ricky Strauss ’88

WORK: President of marketing for Walt Disney Studios, overseeing global marketing strategy including creative, media, digital, promotions, publicity, research, and synergy for live-action and animated motion pictures. HOME: Los Angeles, California. UVM DAYS: Credits his involvement in UVM theatre, film, creative writing, and art history as “stoking his passion for the arts,” and a summer internship at TriStar Pictures for paving the way for his current career. IN HIS WORDS: “With a portfolio of films from Marvel, Pixar, Lucasfilm, and Disney there is something creatively stimulating every day. I’m also fortunate to work alongside some of the industry’s top filmmakers and lead a team of incredibly talented and strategic marketers.”

Thorodd Bakken ’96 G’98

WORK: Dean of the Wake Forest University School of Business, Kirby Chair in Business Excellence and Professor of Management.

Home: Winston-Salem, North Carolina. UVM DAYS: Came to UVM from Cyprus to become a high school teacher, like his mother, but changed course after conducting research with his undergraduate advisor on the use of information systems by small companies.

IN HIS WORDS: “I was captivated by that research experience. That was when I realized I could still be a teacher and follow my passion, and that a PhD would allow me to educate students at the college level.

It changed my life.”

WORK: Head of sales and research for Nordea Markets in Norway, one of Europe’s largest banks. Leading the Norwegian operation involves setting strategic direction and continually developing the talented team that Bakken says is critical to success. HOME: Oslo, Norway.

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Ray Allen ’59

WORK: Fourth-generation Vermont farmer on his family’s Allenholm Farm in South Hero. His alarm goes off at 4 a.m., beginning a day that includes the anything and everything of overseeing a diversified agribusiness—bookwork to hauling a load of apple bins to making a batch of pie dough for the farm store. Many family members pitch in, including a pair of great granddaughters who “train the chickens to be friendly” in the farmyard petting paddock.

UVM DAYS: Allen ran on one of Coach Archie Post’s greatest teams—Yankee Conference and New England champs. IN HIS OWN WORDS: “Having guys on the team who could work together that way was just an incredible experience and those lessons have helped me throughout life.”

Lesléa Newman ’77

WORK: Author of seventy books for readers of all ages including the children’s classic, Heather Has Two Mommies. HOME: Holyoke, Massachusetts. UVM DAYS: Professor David Huddle’s creative writing class made a great impression. IN HER WORDS: “As Heather was challenged, burned, and defecated upon over the years, I looked on in amazement that my little book caused such an uproar.

It’s such a sweet little story with the message that ‘The most important thing about a family is that all the people in it love each other.’ I never expected that to be seen as controversial. I’m thrilled that children with two moms or two dads now have the legal protection they deserve.

Love DOES conquer all!”

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Laura Bernardini ’95 UVM DAYS: A four-time NCAA champion in Nordic skiing, Bakken also was the Catamounts’ top cross-country runner. In addition to his coaches, he counts business faculty members Lauck Parke and Len Tashman as key influences. IN HIS WORDS: “I guess I have always liked working with financial markets—the everlasting chase to try to figure out how and why they move like they do.”

Linda Sell Steil ’83

WORK: Helping rehabilitate veterans as military adaptive sports and reconditioning site coordinator, Warrior Transition Battalion-Europe. HOME: Recently moved to San Antonio, Texas, where she continues to work with soldiers, after nineteen years in Germany. UVM DAYS: Worked as an athletic trainer and was introduced to adaptive sports in a required physical education course. IN HER WORDS: “Military adaptive sports gives those wounded in war the opportunity to start over and find new ways to tackle issues that come with losing a limb, sight, or dealing with chronic pain.

It has been rewarding to see most soldiers rise to the occasion and make a good transition either back to duty or to civilian life.”

WORK: CNN Washington’s director of coverage. After fifteen years in the field, she’s now managing the assignment desk and live unit, and planning D.C. coverage. Bernardini is writing some, too, contributing to CNN’s Belief Blog as she reads through the Bible. HOME: Washington, D.C. UVM DAYS: Benardini was an English major, but her main focus, she says, was working on the Cynic, an experience she credits for her career today. IN HER WORDS: “The Cynic gave me the chance to write, edit, and work with a team. I may not have been the best student in the classroom, but I loved being in that newsroom.”

Vincent Mugisha G’14

WORK: Educational development adviser for FHI360, a Washington, D.C.-based international development think tank.

Current project is a collaboration among FHI360, the government of Equatorial Guinea, and HESS Petroleum Corporation to improve the quality of public schooling in the country. HOME: Professionally based in Washington, D.C., but currently working in the west central African nation.

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Marion Brown Thorpe ’38

WORK: After graduating with a degree in home economics education, she went on to earn her master’s at Syracuse University, then returned to join the faculty at UVM, where she taught home economics education for thirty-three years, retiring in 1974. (Thorpe turns 100 November 27, 2015.) HOME: South Burlington, Vermont.

UVM DAYS: Her students found in her an inspiring and gifted teacher, a friend, mentor and advisor who helped launch and sustain many a successful career. IN HER WORDS: In her “Opening Reflection” at UVM’s historic two-hundredth Commencement Ceremony in 2004, she said, “I leave you with this. You may be only one person in the world. But you may be the world to one person.”

Chris Zimmerman ’81

WORK: President and CEO of Business Operations for the St. Louis Blues. Held similar positions with the Vancouver Canucks, Nike, Bauer, and Easton. HOME: St. Louis, Missouri. UVM DAYS: Zimmerman recalls the joy of playing hockey to packed houses at Gutterson Arena and the power of the Catamount community. IN HIS WORDS: “My journey through the sports world has been filled with the chance to see athletes at all levels achieve spectacular personal accomplishments. From the NHL to the Ryder Cup to the Little League World Series to Special Olympics to six year-olds playing Kick and Chase, I have been inspired by the power and emotion that drives athletes to test their personal boundaries.”

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Jay Shindler ’94

WORK: Chef, chocolatier, and owner of Catering Chocolate, a retail gourmet food shop with a focus on catering. Shindler’s client list has included Mikhail Baryshnikov, presidents Clinton and Obama, as well as beloved Chicago institutions such as the Steppenwolf and Goodman theatres.

HOME: Chicago, Illinois. UVM DAYS: Philosophy major; Delta Psi brother; Mad River skier; Kountry Kart Deli lover. IN HIS WORDS: “Catering covers a lot of ground and we need to be prepared to cook anything at anytime. Staying creative with the changing seasons and meeting the needs of varying events certainly is a daily challenge. People say I’m a workaholic; I say my customers are orderaholics.”

Melissa Wolff-Burke ’82

WORK: Physical therapist, professor of physical therapy at Shenandoah University, and founder of the Adventure Amputee Camp for children, now in its twentyfirst year. HOME: Winchester, Virginia.

UVM DAYS: Still talks about the donut machine in Redstone dining hall. IN HER WORDS: “We have campers who (until camp) hid their amputated limb in pictures, never went swimming because of a bathing suit, climbed a ladder, rode a bike, or thought someone would like them. And something magic happens at camp when they’re surrounded by other people with physical differences… there is a bigger, prouder self that emerges.”

David Perez ’81

WORK: Founder and CEO of Seamless Medical Systems, Inc., a digital healthcare company that replaces the paper forms patients fill out in medical offices with an iPad. HOME: Santa Fe, New Mexico UVM DAYS: Double major, economics and political science, focus on economic development and international affairs. Away from class, worked with Concert Bureau and loved to ski. IN HIS WORDS: “I am a serial entrepreneur. This is my third venture since 1999. The challenges of starting a business from an idea are manifold—raising capital, building the team, building the

software, getting customers, scaling the enterprise. I love the creative experience of coming up with an idea, then building a team and business to execute it.”

Bill Barron ’89

WORK: Carpenter; founder of the nonprofit Renewable Energy Resources, dedicated to educating the public in ways to utilize renewable energy and improve energy efficiency; founder of the Salt Lake City-Citizens’ Climate Lobby; a past (and likely future) single-issue climate change candidate for U.S. Senate and Congress.

HOME: Salt Lake City, Utah. UVM DAYS: Geography major and founding member of UVM Crew, rowing in the team’s first competitions, including the 1987 Head of the Charles. IN HIS WORDS: “My work as a carpenter keeps me grounded, offers tangible results, creativity, and a sense of accomplishment. My advocacy work offers a way to speak from my heart for what I believe is possible and necessary.”

Meghan Clohessy ’05

WORK: Studio director of Daniel Arsham Studio, a role that includes overseeing the production of Arsham’s artwork and films, working with galleries and museums to arrange exhibitions, manage press, and plan events. Previously, she managed artists Vanessa Beecroft and Kehinde Wiley.

HOME: Brooklyn, New York. UVM DAYS: Double major in art history and studio art. Professors Kelley DiDio and Frank Owen and an internship at Burlington’s Firehouse Gallery were key influences.

IN HER WORDS: “My work is fulfilling because it allows me to use my business sense to help an artist achieve their professional and creative goals. I’m involved in the creative side of the art world without being a professional artist myself, which is a unique position.”

Ian Thomas Jansen-Lonnquist ’09

WORK: Freelance photographer whose work regularly appears in the New York Times.

He’s currently the paper’s go-to photographer for coverage of the presidential campaign in his home state of New Hampshire.

(Pictured: Jansen-Lonnquist, left, covers a Donald Trump rally.) HOME: Burlington, Vermont. UVM DAYS: While majoring in natural resources, he also pursued his love of photography—at the Cynic and during his junior year abroad in India, where he served as an international correspondent for a National Geographic-affiliated organization. IN HIS WORDS: “Photography has always been a vehicle for me to meet and interact with people. It’s a little bit of psychology, sociology, anthropology all wrapped up into one.”

Matt Carreira ’05

WORK: His business card with TwoXSea reads “Sustainable Fishmonger.” Carreira defines that as primarily a sales role to connect chefs with the company’s sustainable seafood, but adds, that could span making deliveries to analyzing financials—“basically doing whatever it takes to keep the company moving in a positive direction.” HOME: Alameda, California.

UVM DAYS: Carreira looks back fondly on the friendship of fellow students and mentorship of professors in the School of Business Administration. His passion for sustainability was kindled by an elective course in environmental studies. IN HIS WORDS: “It feels great to wake up every day utilizing my talents to make the world a better place. For me, it does not get any better than that.”

Rebeka Foley ’13

WORK: Pursuing a master’s degree in International Relations and Russian Studies at the European University of St. PetersRYAN MCBRIDE

burg. Prior to that, Foley worked in film and video production in Paris, France.

As a “fixer,” she organized productions and translated for American crews working abroad in France, Monaco, and Italy.

HOME: St. Petersburg, Russia. UVM DAYS: Double major in French and Russian Studies, also active in Student Government Association. IN HER WORDS: “Professors Kathleen Scollins and Kevin McKenna of the Russian Department are not only fantastic instructors and hugely inspiring academics, but they were also mentors for my career and life in general. The whole department had a huge impact on my further pursuits.”

Leslie Lawson ’91

WORK: Chief of the Nogales Border Patrol Station. The 700-employee station, the largest in the country, is responsible for securing more than thirty linear miles and nearly 1,100 square miles of border with Mexico. HOME: Green Valley, Arizona. UVM DAYS: An English and hisFA L L 2 0 1 5 |

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Will Trowbridge ’12

WORK: Video producer and director at Disney Interactive Media. HOME: Los Angeles, California. UVM DAYS: A film and television studies major, Trowbridge got his first break in the business with an internship on the 2012 Sundance film Safety Not Guaranteed. He scored the position after making an impression on the director during a class visit. IN HIS WORDS: “I think about UVM often. I appreciate my analytical education now more than ever and have found it gives me a leg up in my largely technical industry.

I miss the lake and cold winters. L.A. is really warm, just a heads up.”

Kristin Hubert ’00

WORK: Principal at Northwest Primary School (Rutland City). Winner Distinguished Principal Award from the National Association of Elementary Schools Principals. HOME: Rutland City, Vermont. UVM DAYS: Worked at Recreational Sports and as a lifeguard at the UVM pool. Participated in mentoring/tutoring programs and volunteered in community elementary schools. IN HER WORDS: “I love collaborating with teachers as they do the important work of molding young minds.

As a teacher, I made a positive impact on the students I taught. As a principal, I have the ability to make a positive impact on my school and the community.”

Achier Mou ’06

WORK: Principal, Aweil Health Sciences Training Institute. It’s the first post-secondary health training institution in the South Sudan city, part of an effort to com-

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Jamie Christian ’94 bat the severe shortage of health workers in the country. HOME: Aweil, Northern Bahr El Ghazal State, South Sudan. He’s finally close again to his mother, from whom he was separated—unsure if she’d survived—for twenty years. UVM DAYS: A “Lost Boy of Sudan,” Mou started his time at UVM as a custodian. As a student, he helped lead UVM to divest from Sudan.

IN HIS WORDS: “I had always thought I would come back to South Sudan to help in the field of health and development. It was going to be the time when the country had straightened out its priorities and all the agendas had been set.”

Emily Berliet ’08

WORK: Founder of the CSR Alliance, a corporate social responsibility and sustainability advisory firm specializing in social entrepreneurship, social innovation, and social business. HOME: Lyon, France, until she moves to Paris this fall. UVM DAYS: Vice president of SGA and co-coordinator of the Big Buddies program. IN HER WORDS: “Social entrepreneurs are individuals with innovative solutions to society’s most pressing social problems. We create value while fostering a strong social and environmental impact, proving to the world that making profits can be compatible with bettering society and the planet.”

Richard Bass ’66

WORK: Founder and president of Cardinal Shoe Corporation, one of the largest manufacturers of ballet pointe shoes in the world. The patented slippers are shipped to more than ninety countries and used

by American Ballet Theater, the Royal Ballet, and the Bolshoi Ballet to name a few.

HOME: Salem, New Hampshire. UVM DAYS: In between “studying like it was my job,” he learned to ski. IN HIS WORDS: “In 1962 I went into the shoe manufacturing business with my father. Now my son, Jon, and daughter, Jill, have joined the team and they plan on extending our history well into this century.”

WORK: Christian and his wife run Karisia Walking Safari, using camels to explore northern Kenya—rich with wildlife and far out of reach of vehicles. HOME: Laikipia, at the base of Mt. Kenya, where his children go to school. UVM DAYS: Credits profs Ross Bell, David Hirth, and others for a solid grounding in natural history.

IN HIS WORDS: “On the property we currently have hundreds of elephants—and lions that are trying to eat our camels. Like any business we face some mundane challenges, but rural Africa does also present some interesting obstacles. We’ve had to consult a witchdoctor to dissipate an argument between two employees. The night before last a leopard ate one of the dogs that guard the camels.”

Alana Chain ’06

WORK: Senior construction manager on solar energy projects with Barron Partners. HOME: Boston, Massachusetts. UVM DAYS: Chain recalls quickly falling for the university and Burlington when she visited as a prospective student. She studied French and political science, counting Professor Garrison Nelson as inspiration, mentor, and friend. IN HER WORDS: “You can’t help but feel fulfilled when you’re standing in that field among thousands of modules that were once just a concept in a CAD file and know that by harnessing this natural source of power we’re not only reducing energy costs, but most importantly; we’re combating greenhouse gas emissions, reducing our dependence on fossil fuels, and creating jobs in the process.”

Ryan Fletcher ’02

WORK: Principal, Piedmont Middle School, recently ranked the #1 public middle school in the country. Previously, taught math and science in Palo Alto, California. HOME: Oakland, California.

UVM DAYS: An elementary education major and human development minor, Fletcher still found time for plenty of ski days and “seeing live music all around the East Coast.” IN HIS WORDS: “My

Gulnar Pothiawala Odera ’03 MD ’08

WORK: Cardiologist at Kaiser Permanente in Antioch, California. HOME: San Francisco. UVM DAYS: Favorite hangouts ranged from the Molecular Genetics labs to Muddy Waters coffeehouse.

Favorite activities: intramural soccer, running, studying in the medical library in the dead of winter. “UVM was and still is an idyllic place to go to school,” the Essex, Vermont, native says. IN HER WORDS: “What I enjoy most about my job is the variety: I see patients in clinic, I supervise stress tests, read echocardiograms, EKGs, place pacemakers, and take care of patients who are hospitalized with more acute cardiac needs. The most challenging part is making sure I’m making the right decisions for my patients.”

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proudest professional moments have been reading letters that I receive from former students. In this line of work, there is nothing better or more fulfilling than hearing how students feel that you have supported them along their educational journey.”

Rose Levy Berenbaum ’65

WORK: Cookbook author and designer of bakeware products. A three-time James Beard Award winner, she has authored ten best-selling cookbooks with an eleventh on the way and hosted her own PBS cooking series. HOME: Hope, New Jersey.

IN HER OWN WORDS: “In a food class at UVM I learned how to make lemon meringue pie, and when I tried making it on my own in a friend’s house it would not thicken. It turned out it was the hard water, and that was the beginning of my

investigative approach to baking—the merging of science, art, craft, precision, and instructional and creative writing— all the things I love.”

Mark Biedron ’74

WORK: President, New Jersey State Board of Education. Co-Founder, The Willow School in Gladstone, New Jersey, home of LEED gold and platinum facilities where “children discover who they are, the joy of learning, and the wonder of the environment around them.” HOME: Pottersville, New Jersey. UVM DAYS: Majored in business, enjoyed skiing at Mad River, hiking in the mountains, and exploring the countryside around Starksboro. IN HIS WORDS: “Education is my focus. It is the process for real and lasting change.

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Sustainability to workplace dynamics to mathematics pedagogy, new faculty advance UVM’s research tradition

REALITIES OF CHANGE Energy expert Jennie Stephens has led her students to the edge of a dam. They’re standing on top of Green Mountain Power’s hydroelectric plant #19 along Route 2A in Essex, Vermont. It’s a sunny morning, but a sparkling torrent of water pouring over the concrete spillway is strangely silent. It’s March and in Vermont that means winter. With a closer look, it’s clear that the whitewater is frozen solid.

The course is “Natural Resources 385: Energy System Transitions.” Stephens’s graduate students, in wool hats and Ray-Bans, chat amiably about the falling cost of solar panels and ask their tour guide, GMP plant operator Bob Young, questions about this power station and carbon markets. It’s a cheerful scene.

But Stephens, hired last year as the Blittersdorf Professor of Sustainability Science & Policy— with appointments in both the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources and the College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences—wants her students to take a closer look at the realities of our energy situation.

“We know fossil fuels are limited, and we’re eventually going to move away from them to renewables—but the important thing to consider is that an energy system transition is not primarily a technological change,” she says. “Some may think it’s about switching from coal to wind—but more fundamentally it requires deep cultural change.”

With ever-rising global demand for energy, land, and materials, “and with an expanding population—it’s impossible,” she says, “unless we voluntarily limit consumption.” In other words, while humanity may benefit from technological innovation, cleaner power, and improvements in efficiency, there is, finally, no engineering fix to problems from “our ideology of endless economic growth,” she says. Which is why her own social science research explores the interconnections between emerging social movements “that aim for human well-being instead of growth,” and new expectations for energy production and consumption—both in Germany and Vermont. “We can’t know the future,” Jennie Stephens says, but she and her students are looking closely for ways to avoid a drop-off into what she calls “overwhelming unsustainability.”

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volution is not just a theory to plant biologist Steve Keller. He watches it happen. “Most people think of species evolving very gradually,” he says. And, indeed, sometimes change within a lineage of plants is imperceptible over millions of years. But when environmental conditions shift quickly—as with human-caused climate change or when people carry species across oceans—“evolution can happen fast too, year-to-year, generation-to-generation,” he says.

In his work, studying poplar trees and other plants, “evolution is not a cartoon that people debate philosophically,” Keller says. “Exploring evolution is an experimental science just as much as any other science.”

“The key is that it’s measurable,” he says. “I can go out there and quantify and measure it.” Which is exactly what he and his students do. “We’ve looked at specific genes in balsam poplar involved in light and temperature sensing, and have found rapid evolutionary changes in these genes during the range expansion of the species since the last ice age,” he says.

In other words, trees can change and move fast. Not quite so fast as the Ents in The Lord of the Rings, walking on huge bark-covered feet, but almost. At the end of the last

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ice age, about 20,000 years ago, much of North America was scoured to bedrock. Then, as temperatures warmed, the trees, squeezed into the south, started marching north again, bits of their DNA getting constantly rejiggered by natural selection as they recolonized millions of square miles in a few thousand years.

Today, balsam poplar is the hardwood found farthest north in North America—and a keystone forest species across the whole continent, taking Keller to field sites from Alaska to Vermont. Back in the lab, he uses an advanced technology called “Genotype by Sequencing,” or GBS, to discover slight genetic differences between hundreds of poplar trees from many different regions. “We’re looking across the entire poplar genome,” he says, “for signals of adaptation to climate.”

Keller and his team have focused on the southern edge of the poplar’s range to better understand the genetics of trees already adapted to the warmest growing season poplars currently face. Now they’re combining this knowledge with landscape modeling to predict which stocks of these economically and ecologically important trees might be able to keep pace—as global warming gathers unprecedented speed.

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magine that you’ve lost your hard drive. Argh.

There goes your term paper. Now jump forward into a foreseeable future and imagine that you’ve lost a hard drive—that’s wired into your brain.

There goes…what? Your memories? The behavior modification software that conCHARTING BOUNDARIES trols your heroin addiction?

“If I am really tied in to my iPhone—in the sense that it has taken over some of my cognitive functioning— should it get a protective status now?” wonders Randall Harp, assistant professor of philosophy.

“Should technologies have a moral and ethical status as part of me?”

As a teacher, Harp wants his students to think deeply about questions like this—about what, exactly, does “me” mean? And as a researcher, Harp has thought deeply about how that me—that self or “agent” as the philosopher-speak puts it—can be understood to have chosen to act.

Harp tips back in his chair and directs his eyes

toward the ceiling when he is thinking. Musing out loud, he quotes famed philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein from memory: “What is left over if I subtract the fact that my arm goes up from the fact that I raise my arm?”

Far from daydreaming, Harp’s field of action theory has pressing relevance for guiding new developments in behavioral science, neurobiology, and law.

“If you hit somebody while having a seizure, generally we say, ‘Oh that’s unfortunate, but that’s not your fault,’” Harp says, but figuring out “what the boundaries of agency are is very important. A growing strategy in law—neuro-law—is to reduce all of the things we do, to some extent, to something like seizures.” Not guilty, your honor, my brain did it.

“Is it taking away free choice if you know how someone is going to choose based on the way their brain works?” Randall Harp wonders. “These are the kinds of questions that we are going to need to face up to, the more advanced our behavioral sciences get. Asking them is my job.”

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to suck a milkshake through a straw,” “ It’ssayshard Adrian Del Maestro, assistant professor of

physics. Not so with helium. When cooled to just above absolute zero, it forms a bizarre state of matter, called a superfluid, “that has no friction,” Del Maestro says. “It’s a perfect liquid.” Once SMALL MATTER it has been stirred, a closed ring filled with superfluid helium will continue circulating for months.

Now, “think about a wide river heading into a narrow canyon,” says Del Maestro. “What’s it going to do?” Common sense tells us that liquids speed up as the channel containing them tightens. But what if a faucet were so amazingly tiny that only a few atoms of helium could squeeze through its opening at once? There, slippery perfection—and common sense—reach their quantum limits, it seems.

According to a longstanding model of quantum mechanics, once the pipe shrinks to the nanoscale, the bizarre behavior of superfluid helium should become even more odd: far from speeding up, it should actually slow down. For more than seventy years, scientists have been studying the flow of helium through ever-smaller pipes. Now, Del Maestro and a team of researchers from Canada and Germany have successfully created the world’s smallest faucet: a pore through silicon nitride that is less than thirty atoms wide. In results published in May, in the journal Science Advances, Del Maestro and the other researchers report that the flow of helium through this microscopic pipe does, indeed, appear to slow down.

Del Maestro used computer simulations on the Vermont Advanced Computing Core at UVM to understand just how small the faucet will have to be before this new physics fully emerges. “This ‘Luttinger liquid,’ as it’s sometimes called, is a very strange state of matter,” he says. “Because it exists in strictly one dimension, it’s not really a liquid, it’s not really a superfluid, it’s not really a solid—it’s everything, all at once.”

“We’re almost there,” he adds. “This knowledge could lead to novel technologies including ultrahigh-precision rotation sensors with application to the GPS system.”

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t first glance, Katie Gough’s work life is marked by the disparate. Even her resume includes academic positions in three different countries, in three different disciplines. Now, as resident dramaturge in UVM’s Department of TheUNLIKELY COUSINS atre, she’s enjoying her role as “the academic wing to a creative arts department, where everyone is a designer or playwright or acting teacher.” It may be a position that’s different from her peers in Royall Tyler, but she’s in an environment, she says, that “feeds my theoretical interests really well.”

Those theoretical interests happen to be rooted in finding connections among unlikely subjects. She’s published a book on relationships between Irish and African-American culture, Kinship and Performance in the Black and Green Atlantic. She’s also at work on a project that explores the relationship between medieval and digital performance and culture, two areas that seemingly have nothing in common, but in fact, she says, mirror and relate to each other in interesting ways.

Broadly, her work focuses on “people, performances, objects, or time periods that don’t seem to have a lot to say to each other, or that you wouldn’t think had anything in common,” she says. “I think there’s always an ethical imperative in my work to see interconnections and relationships across cultures, situations, people who maybe wouldn’t think of themselves as the same. Yet, often times these diverse cultures and people were involved in similar projects and worked within and against similar political structures. Those principles are an effective means of seeking common ground.”

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f Patrick Garcia, assistant professor of management, finds himself feeling a little depressed while researching employee aggression and deviance in the workplace he can always turn to his other area of expertise: career development and self-efficacy.

“My research interests involve two parallel research streams,” says Garcia. “I call this my yin and yang. People often ask me how I got into doing research on the ‘dark side’ of organizational behavior. Looking back, I guess it has something to do with my background and training in clinical psychology, where we usually focused on psychopathology and mental illness.”

Garcia became even more intrigued with the yin side of his research after working as an employee in organizations in the Philippines.

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and supervisors,” he says. “These experiences further motivated me to find answers to the questions ‘why do they behave the way they do?’ and ‘what happens to the rest of us if they behave that way?’”

Garcia hopes to produce evidence-based approaches for how to detect, prevent, and/ or minimize aggressive behavior at work. “My ultimate goal is to be able to use what I find in my own research to develop specific training programs that organizations can implement to manage abusive supervision.”

As for the yang side of his research, Garcia is exploring how employees adapt to the everchanging career landscape and how adolescents and older workers make decisions regarding their future career goals. “The answers to these questions would have important implications for career counselors, educators, students, and employees,” he says.

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s a high school math teacher, Carmen Petrick Smith found that her students learned geometric principles more easily when she incorporated physical movements into her lesson plans. Today, as an assistant professor of mathematics education, she is reimagining what a MATH THROUGH MOVEMENT math class looks like based on a similar question: What if instead of manipulating symbols on a paper, you manipulated your body?

Her latest research in the Journal of Mathematical Behavior shows significant gains in the understanding of angles and angle measurements by elementary school students who performed body-based tasks while interacting with a Kinect for Windows mathematics program. “Maybe they don’t know the words quite yet, but they have a way to express it using their body that they didn’t have before when they were sitting in a row of desks looking up at the teacher and searching for an answer.”

Smith and her research team engaged thirty third- and fourth-grade students in a series of tasks that involved moving their arms to form angles projected on a large Kinect screen that incudes a motion sensor input device that allows people to interact with computers based on their natural movements.

“We’re finding that these kinds of activities are giving students new ways to think about mathematics and new ways of expressing their ideas,” says Smith, who once taught students how to write geometric transformations by having them do the Electric Slide on a giant coordinate plane she placed on a dance floor. “Our hope is to continue to develop these activities and support teachers in integrating them effectively in the classroom.”

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typical image of a chemist is a guy wearing a lab “ The coat, shaking a flask,” says Jianing Li with a big smile,

“that’s not me.” Li is a chemist, but she does her experiments in a virtual way—simulating chemical processes on supercomputers, including on the Vermont Advanced Computing Core at UVM. Her goal: “to help decipher the sugar code,” she says.

Besides nucleotides (like DNA) and amino acids (that form proteins), sugars are considered “the third alphabet of life,” Li explains. For example, “the sugar coating on a disease virus recognizes specific proteins on the surface of the human cell,” she says.

Li’s research simulates the motions of atoms in these sugars and proteins as they interact. “If we can block parts of these interactions, we might come up with new ways to treat diseases. But these molecules are super-large. Even with a supercomputer, it’s impossible to see all the atomic detail at once,” Li says. “So in my lab we are coming up with a smart way to adjust the resolution of the model to study different parts of the interaction.”

Li grew up in China, a few hours from Hong Kong, and went to college near Shanghai before coming to the United States to complete her doctorate at Columbia. Her parents are doctors who practice traditional Chinese medicine.

“The reason I chose chemical physics is because when I was young I loved how my parents grew and prepared different herbs. You drink the black soup and you can get better. For a kid, it’s like magic. So I became interested in how they did this. I wanted to learn this magic.”

“A goal for me would be to marry computational chemistry with traditional Chinese medicine—but we’re not there yet!” Li says. “Someday we might be able to isolate each compound, each molecule, but it’s very difficult to do.” In the meantime, she carries a bit of her upbringing into her workday routine: “I drink tea everyday,” she says.

“Monday green tea; Tuesday black tea; and flower teas over three or four different days.” She swirls a pale-green liquid around in an oversized cup and holds it up to the light. “See what I’m drinking this out of? It’s a beaker actually.”

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an amazing trip to Cuba “inAfter March, I am now planning a road trip across the United States with my daughter and grandkids. California to Vermont and it should be interesting­— either bickering or bonding.”

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Alumni reconnect at a Class of 1985 gathering.

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Green & Gold Reunion September 23–25, 2016

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Francis Nye called in from Albuquerque, New Mexico, to say that at 97 he is physically unable to attend the October Homecoming activities but wishes every attendee a most memorable weekend.

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Gwendolyn “Gwen” Brown, 93, died peacefully on Monday, April 13, 2015 in Milford, Massachusetts. She received her bachelor’s degree in teaching from UVM, where she served as class secretary. Gwen taught in Newport, Vermont, where she met her future husband, Arthur “Slim” Brown, whom she married in 1944. They settled and raised a family in Milton, Vermont. Gwen had been very active in her church and the Milton Historical Society and kept up with her many friends and family.

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While doing my spring house cleaning (yes, I still do that!), I forgot I was 93 and did something stupid. My stupidity resulted in a hospital stay plus rehab of over four weeks. Not a happy time, I had a double whammy: compression fractures of the spine with the usual spasms and an enflamed colon.

One malady would have been enough. The good news is that I am getting better slowly, but surely.

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| CLASS NOTES I heard from my loyal contributor, Daan Zwick this week. He reports that he and his wife, Janis, have made a big change by moving from their lovely, lifelong home in a most beautiful and rustic setting to the top floor (eighth) of a large apartment dwelling of about 125 units. You can be sure Daan will make the most of his new lifestyle with Janis by his side. I have heard from Mary Beth Bloomer recently and Dr. Art Wolk MD’43. They live at the lovely Gables near me. Art’s son, David Wolk ’75, G’77, is the esteemed president of the newly named Castleton University. I could not resist mentioning this since it is a source of great excitement and pride to me as a former educator at Castleton State College, just three hundred students when I began teaching there in 1958. About thirty of those students petitioned then President Dundas to have French taught. I took up the challenge and enjoyed every minute of it. This was the first time language was taught at Castleton and by a classics major from UVM. I believe there were about five language teachers when I retired who offered courses in Spanish and German as well. The new name augurs well for the future of this fine institution which has grown by leaps and bounds under David’s presidency. Please send me some news. No matter how unimportant it may seem to you. We all care.

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Rose Eisman Boyarsky and Saul Boyarsky ’44, MD’46 write, “We have been in a continuing care retirement community for two years now, having moved there at age 90. We met Penelope Easton who moved to the same place several years before.

We celebrated our 70th wedding anniversary this year. Are any of the class of ’44 or ’45 still around?”

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Hattie Wright shares, “Alice Miller Wright died January 19, 2015. She had a career in teaching and as state nutritionist. She often appeared on WCAX’s ‘Across the Fence.’ Alice, her husband, David Wright ’44, and six children ran a jersey farm in Middlebury. She also taught at Middlebury Union

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High School.”

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Vivian DuBrule Ells passed away on May 5, 2015 in Northampton, Massachusetts. Vivian and Bernard Ells of Essex Junction had five children and a very rewarding life. After her youngest child went off to first grade, Vivian went back to school herself.

She earned a master’s degree in education from the University of Massachusetts and then worked as the reading supervisor for the town of Williamsburg, Massachusetts. After retirement, Vivian moved to Largo, Florida, and enjoyed the sunshine for 20 years. Recently, due to health concerns, Vivian moved back to Massachusetts to be closer to her children. She never forgot her experiences and the good times she had at UVM. She was very proud to be an alumna. Louise Shopis Bedarfas writes, “After graduation I went to Washington, D.C., since I had my degree in political science. There I met my wonderful international science professor, Robert Eli Long, who suggested I apply to the Central Intelligence Agency. I did and became a counter intelligence agent in the Baltic Division since I knew Lithuanian. We were sending displaced men, volunteers from the Baltics, to their countries partisans, all top secret work. I married one of the volunteers and we moved to California. I bought a franchise from creator Glen Bell and a 14-unit apartment house which I still have. During this time I had a son, John, and daughter, Laurie. John’s son graduated from Palos Verdes High School as valedictorian along with four honors in other subjects. My daughter, Laurie, is very successful in real estate in Texas, where her daughter attends the University of Texas.”

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Doris Jones Fafunwa writes, this would be my 65th Reunion and I am sorry to miss it as I returned to Lagos, Nigeria in mid-August. It is always wonderful to see family and friends here and I have visited in Penn-

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sylvania, Vermont and Massachusetts, enjoyed professional productions of Romeo & Juliet and Man of La Mancha and the lovely walk over the Bridge of Flowers in Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts. Several friends in the United States have kindly supported our project for street children as well as our Braille Centre which produces textbooks for students all over Nigeria and trains visually-impaired adults on computer. Warm greetings to all my classmates and anyone else who may remember me. My email is dfafunwa@yahoo.com and I would be delighted to hear from you!

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

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Claire Fink and Dick Fink wrote that both of their daughters bought homes near their place in Sarasota.

Dick plays tennis three days a week and said his legs are good. The only problem he notes is that everyone he plays with is much younger than he is. Good for you, Dick! Carolyn Lindy Nelback McClintock wrote that her husband, Russell McClintock ’52, passed away on March 4, 2014.

He is dearly missed by Carolyn, their four children, and seven grandchildren. One of the granddaughters followed in her grandparents’ footsteps and graduated from UVM. Another granddaughter enlisted in the Navy with a concentration in aviation and married a naval flight engineer. Carolyn continues to live in Enfield, Connecticut, and still maintains the family homestead in Vermont.

Renee Schulman ’49 wrote, “Sadly, I report the death of my husband, Bernard Schulman, who died on May 9, 2015. Bernie attended UVM on the G.I. Bill and graduated with a major in mechanical engineering. Later he earned a master’s degree in electrical engineering at Yale. We lived in Morristown, New Jersey, for almost 50 years where he worked at Bell Labs and then Piccating Arsenal. We

moved to Birmingham, Alabama, six years ago. He is survived by me, two children, and five grandchildren.” Charlotte R. Bostwick of New Milford, Connecticut, writes, “Happy trails!” Harry and Beth Lohr McMarthy moved recently from their home in Quechee, Vermont, to a senior living community called River’s Woods in Exeter, New Hampshire.

Dick Aplin and his wife live there as well. I guess many of us are downsizing and moving to these types of communities. My home is now a duplex at Wake Robin in Shelburne, Vermont, which is a Continuing Care Residential Community.

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Mary Dustin Hutchinson reports that four generations of her immediate family have graduated from the same high school (Randolph High School) and UVM. A daughter-in-law, Nancy Giles Hutchinson ’79, did also. She recently attended the graduation of granddaughter Annie Hutchinson ’15 who graduated from UVM magna cum laude. The other family alumni include Clifford Dustin ’19, Mary D Hutchinson ’52, Mark Hutchinson ’78, Marla Hutchinson ’78, Abagail Hutchinson ’12, and Annie Hutchinson ’15. “How the university has grown,” Mary notes, “I would have difficulty finding my way around! Hello to all my classmates

of the class of 1952.” Katie Berger Saunders ’79 wrote, “My dad, Lawrence C. ‘Larry’ Berger, a UVM graduate of the School of Business Administration, died at the age of 84, in June 2015.”

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Norman O. Stevens died on July 2, 2015. Norman taught agriculture at Whitingham, Chelsea and Chester High Schools. While in Chester he received his master’s in education administration at Keene State College. He went on to be the principal of Green Mountain Union High School in Chester, Vermont, and then as house master at Mill River High School. He held various positions in the Vermont Headmaster’s Association. In 2012, he was proud to be named to the Vermont Principal’s Association

Hall of Fame. Norman retired in 1993 to Whitingham. George Donald Ewins, Sr. died peacefully on July 21, 2015, after a struggle with Alzheimer’s disease. After graduation he moved to New York City, where he worked while earning an MBA in finance from New York University. He was accepted into the Chase Manhattan Bank training program after graduation and went on to become a portfolio manager for the Mobil Oil Corporation. He capped off his Wall Street career at Loeb Rhoades & Company. George’s love of his home state pulled him from back from Wall Street to Vermont in 1978.

He and his wife Maxie settled in Shelburne, and George established the state’s first Merrill Lynch office, in Burlington. George retired in 2001, after 22 years of helping people achieve financial success. To read the full obituary, visit www.uvm.edu/ vq. Mark Rosenblatt passed away in Los Angeles this past July. Barbara and Dick Fallon write, “We have been married for 63 years. We have three adult children. Debbie, 62, married with one son.

Elizabeth 59, was recently widowed. Her husband, Allen, 59, died in April of pancreatic cancer — our hearts are broken. Jim 55, is married with two children (one married). Dick was in sales and traveled.

We lived in South Bend, Cleveland (Bay Village) and Atlanta (Stone Mountain).We left all kids married in the Atlanta area and retired to Sarasota, Florida. Built a home and lived there for 33 years. Then, two years ago we sold the house and moved into a retirement community 20 miles south in Venice,

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Linda Pattison Banta writes, “After 33 years at our current home in Orangevale, we decided it was time to make a change, so we are moving to the Northern California coast to lovely Fort Bragg.

Any UVM alumni who would like to experience beauty at its best are welcome to visit us at: 200 S. Whipple St., Ft. Bragg, CA 95437. Never fear— we still visit Vermont as our daughter lives in Bennington and is on faculty at Williams College in Massachusetts. Our two sons live in Colorado and Nevada respectively so the family is shared by much of the country. I retired nearly 10 years ago from Sierra College biology faculty; Andy is retired faculty of engineering from California State University, Sacramento. Who else remembers and misses ‘sugaring off’ in March?”

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Robert “Bob” Wolfe and Joan Wolfe write, “We just spent a great week visiting with Don Greenhouse and his wife, Kathy, at their Chatauqua, New York, home.

Good thing we still have our long term memory faculties. Went all the way back to our first week at UVM in September, 1953.”

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Judy Clark Gibson writes, “I’m still enjoying a busy, satisfying, small town life in Canton, New York, including a happy relationship with my partner David Nelson, a retired lawyer and family court judge. I’ve stepped down from several volunteer activities but find time for my Unitarian Universalist Church, the public library, some travel, and my flower gardens.

My two sons and their families live in Weston, Florida, and Potomac, Maryland. The first of my four grandchildren is off to Colgate this fall. UVM was on his short list—maybe the other three will be interested. I am delighted to be in touch frequently with classmates Carolyn Wall, CeCe Lindberg, and

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Elliott A. Brown, originally from Glens Falls, New York, recently created the first professorship in the Department of Political Science, named the Elliott A. Brown Green and Gold Professor of Law, Politics, and Political Behavior. A political science major at UVM, as a student Elliott served with distinction as vice-president of the Student Government Association, a member of Gold Key, Key and Serpent, and Boulder societies, and was the first recipient of the Warren R. and Mildred Austin Prize for International Peace and Security. Elliott, now retired, enjoyed a long and distinguished career in Washington, D.C. in the United States Department of Justice. While on my way to a high school 60th Reunion in Concord, New Hampshire, my wife Judy and I visited with Jerry Heller and his wife, Anne Beaudin Heller ’72, on May 25 at their lovely and gracious summer home in South Dartmouth, Massachusetts. We had a great time together, and Jerry and I reminisced about old times and certainly some old friends.

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Sue Alenick writes, “I’ve recently, finally published an ‘autobiographical cookbook’ called Menus for a Month of Sundays. It’s a celebration of memorable Sunday dinners, which, un-strictly speaking don’t have to be dinner or on Sunday.”

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Nancy Miller Kimball writes, “I selfpublished a book titled Possums to Porcupines: The Wild Life of an Adirondack Rehabilitator based on my 14 years of experience as a home-based wildlife rehabilitator. You can find more details at www.possumstoporcupines.com. My home is in the southern Adirondacks near Lake George and, at present, I have a variety of animals in my care including two baby mink.” Linda Hufnagel reports, “I have had a busy and rewarding life as a faculty member at the University of Rhode Island, teaching cell and molecular biology courses and directing the research of numerous graduate and undergraduate students.

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ters, one of whom writes for television and just had her first baby. My other daughter has been incubating, too, as the director of Fertilab, an incubator for entrepreneurship in Eugene, Oregon. I would love to hear from all my old friends from UVM! My email address is lhufnagel@uri.edu.” Lynda Foley Blevins writes, “After an amazing trip to Cuba in March, I am now planning a road trip across the United States with my daughter and grandkids.

California to Vermont and it should be interesting —either bickering or bonding. The rest of the year I have been volunteering teaching English literacy to a Mexican mother and her 7-year-old daughter. I’m still playing tennis and have added yoga to my activities.” Cynthia Beilig Bendelac had no news she wanted to send, but said: “You can just say that I continue!” Sheila Whitney Mable writes, “Last October I decided to retire from teaching English (writing and public speaking courses) at Southern New Hampshire University in Manchester, New Hampshire. After 51 years as an educator at the high school and university levels (43 years in Vermont), I wasn’t ready to give up teaching but did so because of an early diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease. I keep active, though, as New Hampshire state president of Delta Kappa Gamma Society International and as the Speechcraft coordinator in the Karner Blue Toastmasters Club and mentor to the Pleasant Street Toastmasters Club. It’s hard to believe that my husband Duane and I will be celebrating our 53rd anniversary this summer and our 10th year living near our two children, Marc and Angela, and their families. We are particularly proud of our granddaughter, Rheanna Mable, who is serving in the Peace Corps in southern Thailand.” Diane Germain ’64 writes, “My cousin, Bernard E. Germain passed away in his Colchester home on February 18, 2015. He was a 1957 graduate of Cathedral High School in Burlington and a proud graduate of UVM. He served for two years in the United States Army at Governor’s Island, New York. Bernard was a Vermont State Social Worker for many years, serving diligently the children and

youth of the state. Later, he retired from years of work at IBM in Essex Junction. In his retirement he worked part time for the Colchester School District until just a few years ago. He put his education and personal gifts to good purpose.” George Rioch Anthonisen writes, “Professor Paul Aschenbach not only introduced me to sculpture, but personally escorted me to New York to show me where I should study. I continue to work as a professional sculptor. Most recently, six of my bronzes were exhibited in ‘The Rodin Legacy’, James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, in conjunction with a larger exhibition ‘Rodin: The Human Experience—selections from the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Collections’. Following the Rodin show, three bronzes were included in ‘When I Was Here’, an exhibition celebrating the 50th anniversary designation of Augustus Saint Gaudens National Historic Site, Cornish, New Hampshire. Visitors are welcome to our home and studio. We are 90 minutes from New York, one hour from Philadelphia, and 45 minutes from Princeton. My website is www. ganthonisen.com.” Ruth Clifford Engs’ latest book will be of interest to World War II history buffs: The Field Hospital That Never Was: Diary of Lt. Col. Karl D. Macmillan’s, M.D., 96th Field Hospital in China-IndiaBurma Theater 1945, WWII is available at amazon. com and Barnes & Noble.

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

Frost Home and Museum. He is busier than he ever was in his “working” life. He and his wife of thirty years have a new granddaughter, Olivia, born in Nairobi where her mom and dad live. David’s son started a successful solar-powered drip irrigation system business there and won several Pan-African awards for leadership in social venture capital business. Dad and son are proud that the State of Vermont is the third most active solar-powered state relative to its population. Marcia Bickel Coleman writes, “Phil and I have moved to Port Townsend, Washington, to fulfill our dream of living on the water. We love it! Will be camping/hiking in the north Cascades in September with Sara Jackson Simpson.” James Card writes, “I have been driving or flying to Boston from Florida every three or four months to visit family. (As I write this, three grandchildren, soon to be four.) On my last drive south, Loren Disque ’63 and his lovely wife, Pat, were kind enough to invite me to stay overnight at their home south of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Wonderful visit. What wonderful hosts! My wife and I (above trip was solo) visited with Al LeBlanc and his wife, Siriporn, in Bangkok earlier this year. Wonderful dinner at a restaurant called “Cabbages and Condoms.” Great food and companionship. Not sure where the completely misleading name came from. I should write a longer note-but it is kind of a daunting to compress over a half century of a pretty good life (mostly) into a few paragraphs. Looking forward to the next Reunion. As

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Janie Heller Goldstein shares, “We are here in Denver and love living in Colorado. I am still doing travel and Joel is still practicing medicine full time, now with the University of Colorado Medical Center. We have three kids and a total of eight grandchildren ranging in age from 1 to 17 years and all live in the Boston area along with my 101-year-old mother. If in our area, contact us. Enjoy life!”

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

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Donald J. McFeeters G’86 was awarded the 2015 Robert O. Sinclair Cup Award on May 9 in the Grand Maple Ballroom of the UVM Davis Center.

The award honors retired faculty who served with distinction and excellence in their profession, with a record of service and commitment to the landgrant mission to serve the people of Vermont and beyond. David Nichols now lives in Dorset, Vermont, after retiring from his position as head of the development and trustee for the Bennington Area Habitat for Humanity and as trustee for the Southern Vermont Arts Center and the Robert

are the couples above. Al should get the award for who traveled the farthest! Sandra Timmerman and I met up in New York City; first time seeing each other in many years. Of course it was as if we had just seen each other! After lunch and walking along Fifth Avenue, we headed to the Penn Club as the Alumni Association had an open house for UVM graduates. The reception was well attended and the UVMers were interesting to meet. Sandra and I were the only ones from the class of ’63.

However, The UVM Alumni Association has formed a Green & Gold Affinity Group. The group will consist of UVM alumni age 60 and above. Its mission is to connect us for social and educational purposes, concentrating in areas of the country where more alumni reside. The group held a brunch on campus on Sunday, October 4 at 10 a.m. For more details reach out to Barbara Clark Kay ’67, uvm. gg.affinity.barbara@gmail.com or Anne Brown ’66, uvm.gg.affinity.anne@gmail.com. Plan on attending a Green and Gold Affinity Group event in your area. By the way, I had an interesting summer as well. In addition to several successful International Latin Ballroom Competitions, I took three teenaged grand children to Italy for two weeks!

Hope to see you soon.

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Susan Weatherby Engbrecht and her husband, Ron, are retired and have purchased the house they have been renting near Aviano Air Base. It is a lovely home with a view of the mountains in the village of San Giovanni de Polcenigo. They will split their retirement time between Italy and Binghamton, New York, in Sue’s family home. Doug Barrett shared that he and Sally Barrett ’65 had all eleven grandchildren together at their home in Simsbury, Connecticut in June. A hectic, activity-filled wonderful time was had by all. Their grandson, Drew Simeon, will be attending UVM as a freshman this fall as a member of the lacrosse team. Sally keeps busy with volunteer work at the local library and Doug enjoys his golf and bike riding as well as staying busy with their families. Doug also commented on how great our 50th Reunion was. Many fond memories were brought back. They head back to Jupiter in October for the winter. Valerie Felten Robinson has a camp down the lake from us and spends her summers there with her husband Robbie. They winter in Mexico. I have also seen Susan Benton Prezzano.

Send your news to— Susan Griesenbeck Barber 1 Oak Hill Road P.O. Box 63, Harvard, MA 01451 suebarber@verizon.net

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Sharon Roberts Palmer tells us, “I am a retired school media specialist. My family includes two wonderful daughters and six grandchildren. I am enjoying travel and my lovely home in Florida, a home in Colorado and my camp on Lake Champlain. Life is good!” Roger Pickar writes, “I continue to publish my GoofyAmerica.com newsletter and attack art projects where I have definitely achieved mediocrity. Most of all my wife, Gloria, and I relish our family. Oldest daughter, Amy, is the chief medical officer for Google’s largest investment in healthcare. Sarah and her husband own and manage five Floyds 99 Hair Parlors. Julie edits while Dr. Gloria has retired from her job as president and chief academic officer of Pearson’s online education company, 650 employees. Currently, we supervise no one and play with our five grandchildren.

Life is good in Orlando, Florida.” Rose Beranbaum shares, “In the fall of 2015 I published my 10th cookbook: The Baking Bible. It won the best baking book from the International Association of Culinary Professionals. My first book, The Cake Bible, published in 1988, is now in its 52nd printing. In May 2015 my first online class “Cookies” for Craftsy.com, went live. And, before the end of 2015 my pie baking kit will be available in just about every Costco in the country.” Ralph D’Altilia passed away on June 24, 2015. Ralph lived in Coral Springs, Florida.

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will be skiing soon. Guriana Hanson writes, “I am currently retired for the third time. It may or may not be permanent. I do spend my days volunteering at a mission that provides a clothes closet and food for the needy in Cedar Rapids. Living here allows us to see our granddaughters who are 8 and 5. They keep us young.”

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

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If you are interested in planning your upcoming reunion, email alumni@uvm.edu. Larry Miller recently wrote that he and his wife are currently living in Little Rock, Arkansas, where he is working for the University of Arkansas for Medical Services as senior psychiatrist and clinical professor of psychiatry. Larry served as editor of The Cynic and he and some of his AEPI fraternity brothers are hoping to attend our 50th Reunion in 2016. Speaking of our 50th, please give serious thought to joining your classmates at this very special gathering! John Beck and wife Sharon Peloquin ’67 have been in Williamsburg, Virginia, since John’s 2003 retirement from ExxonMobil Corp. after a 34-year career.

They are relatively healthy and active with walking/jogging, tennis, Pickleball, yard work/gardening, bridge/poker, dine out/potluck dinner groups, movies, attending College of William & Mary football/basketball games, volunteering at William & Mary Art Museum, attending Williamsburg Community Theater and country club activities, and visiting the historical triangle area of Jamestown, Yorktown and Williamsburg. John has become a Pickleball enthusiast, playing 4-5 times a week and has medaled in regional/state age group Pickleball tournaments. They are avid large ship sea cruisers, traveling throughout the world, with over 300 nights at sea, primarily on Princess Cruise Lines and Cunard’s Queen Elizabeth and Queen Mary 2, including eight transatlantic crossings. Their three children and their families live in San Francisco and Richmond, Virginia. Janet Ruth Hadda, Yiddish professor, psychoanalyst, and biographer, died in Los Angeles on June 23, 2015. Moving to UCLA in 1973 to start its Yiddish Program, she later became the first tenured professor of Yiddish in the United States. She initially developed a specialty in American Yiddish poetry, particularly the works of Yankev Glatshteyn, the subject of her first book and numerous articles. Dr. Hadda began psychoanalytic training in 1982, initially to improve her understanding of modernist Yiddish poetry. She became a training and supervising analyst at the New Center for Psychoanalysis and the Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, as well as a member of the Certification Committee of the American Psychoanalytic Association. Her second book, Passionate Women and

Passive Men (1988), explored psychological issues around suicide in Yiddish literature. Her psychoanalytic insights also contributed to her treatments of Isaac Bashevis and of Allen Ginsberg, whose 194950 stay in the New York State Psychiatric Institute, she argued in a much-admired piece in American Imago, allowed him to emerge as a great poet. She was particularly grateful to UVM for her years there and she regularly recognized the importance in her life of Dr. Harry Kahn and Dr. Truman. To read her full obituary, visit www.uvm.edu/vq. Geri Sharff Gould shares, “Jim and I just celebrated our 50th anniversary with a sweet gathering of our children and grandchildren at a lovely mountain resort in Pennsylvania. Our two kids are both happily married with two children each. Our four grandchildren range in age from 15 to 9 and are all delicious. We left California in 2007, several years after my retirement and a few years after Jim’s, and migrated to a golf community near Phoenix. Jim plays so regularly that he thinks of it as his job now, and I am happily involved in a number of volunteer activities and three book clubs. We travel quite often as well, and with Jim’s planned trip to Antarctica in February, he will have been to all seven continents.

Over the years I have been in touch regularly with my UVM roommate, Betty Fuchs Welt, and have gotten together occasionally when we travel to New England. I would love to hear from fellow Patterson 2, Hamilton 2, and Christie 4 gals if they’re so inclined.” Hayes Sogoloff, Bonnie Herschede Sogoloff, Myron Fox and Phyllis Lowen Fox will be traveling once again this winter to a Caribbean island together in this the 49th year of their marriages. They frequently see friends Michael Unger and Susan Kaplan, Art Fromer and Sheilagh Fromer, Barry Dean Gordon and Leslie Gordon, and Larry Schonbrun and Yolanda Schonbrun.

They are all looking forward to seeing their other ‘66 friends at their 50th Reunion. Den Linnehan just published his fifth photography book: Yellowstone & Grand Teton Splendor, five years of photos covering all seasons except winter and text of both beloved parks. Currently he and his wife of 42 years are out west doing book signings in places like the

Old Faithful Inn, Barnes and Noble in Bozeman, and 10 other selected stores.

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

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Stuart Jeffrey Shapiro writes, “Several TEP brothers, (and one lonely Phi Sig) convened a mini reunion of sorts. Roy Zuckerman, Gordon Josephson, Arnold Shimelman, Stephen Schulte and Danny Goldberg dined at the Waverly Inn in Greenwich Village. The occasion was Stephen crossing the pond to remodel his apartment in Tribeca and his marriage to Jayne in June. Both turned out wonderfully. Good food, good wine, and great stories from our UVM days as we all transition to retirement. Looking forward to our 50th Reunion.”

Send your news to— Jane Kleinberg Carroll 44 Halsey Street, Apt. 3.

Providence, RI 02906, jane.carroll@cox.net

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Congratulations to Jack Rosenberg for having his four submissions to Philadelphia’s Art In City accepted into the “All That’s Jazz” exhibition. Jim Krause writes, “Thought I’d better check in since the 50th anniversary is coming soon before I check out. Just retired from Aflac (that’s the one with the duck) after 18 years as a leadership consultant and executive coach. Prior 24 years were with United Technologies as a human resources manager and training manager. Two sons out of college and in professional careers. Son number three will be graduating from law school soon after six years as an officer in the Marines. Still doing some consulting, but at my leisure. Celebrating 42 years married to a UConn grad who teaches at a private school. We are addicted to UConn basketball and Auburn University football where you will find us in the fall. Enjoy travelling, especially to England, Scotland and Ireland exploring the family trees. Currently a volunteer tour guide at the National Infantry Museum at Fort Benning, Georgia, so if any UVM grads are in the area I’ll give them a private tour.” Curt Tobey tells us, “The big news is that my daughter, Caroline Tobey, got married recently in Maine to Jake Dolan. Caroline just finished her master’s in early childhood education from Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. There is a picture in the Alumni Association photo gallery. Also in the picture second from right is my son, Ben Tobey; he and his wife, Jordan, recently had twins. Blake and Jake!

Elizabeth and my son, Lorin, fourth from right, will be going to Elon University in North Carolina this fall. He hopes to play both soccer and lacrosse. I recently joined Chilton Trust Company as a consultant. I also have been doing advisory work for Save

the Children which is a major humanitarian organization; I will be visiting the Middle East with them in August to see their great work in Israel, Gaza, West Bank and Jordan to include the Z’aatari refugee camp on the Syria/Jordan border.” Georgia Walsh Miller shares, “My husband, Richard Miller, and I recently got together with Barb Johnson Winton and Mike Winton ’67, and also Leslie Andrews Freeman and Jim Freeman ’67. We had a great time sharing memories of our days at UVM.” Send your news to— Diane Duley Glew 23 Franklin Street, 2 Wheeler Farm Westerly, RI 02891 ddglew@gmail.com

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James M. Betts reports, “My 50th high school reunion (Bennington High School ‘65) was held in July.

More than 10 percent of my class went on to attend UVM for their undergraduate education, graduating together in ‘69. Almost all of us had not only gone through our secondary education ‘as one’, but we had been together since kindergarten. Most of our parents had also been classmates since early elementary school. I’m sure that is the same local story for many of our UVM Class of ‘69 who attended various high schools throughout Vermont. UVM provided a continuity of education which began over 60 years ago for a significant number of our Ben-Hi class. Two of us went on to our College of Medicine. Attending UVM: a significant educational opportunity which I trust will serve many more Vermont high school graduates, and classes, well into the future.” Lydia Burdick is happy to share that the 10th anniversary second edition of her first award-winning Alzheimer’s book, The Sunshine on My Face: A Read-Aloud Book for Memory-Challenged Adults, will be published this October. Lydia’s books were featured last month on mariashriver. com under #architectsofchange and have been acclaimed by professional and family caregivers as a “go-to” resource for connecting with people in mid-to late-stage dementia. Check out www. twolapbooks.com for more info.

Send your news to— Mary Moninger-Elia 1 Templeton Street West Haven, CT 06516 Melia1112@comcast.net

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I am sad to report the death of our classmate John B. McShane of Sudbury, Vermont, who died on April 15 of this year. Condolences to his friends and family.

I talked by phone to my old roommate Tom Cioci from Providence, Rhode Island—one of the great guys I met at UVM. Additionally, I corresponded with Jim Stowell, another old Sigma Nu from our class. Jim has a fabulous antique hardwood and custom flooring business in Zirconia, North Car-

olina. Susan McClenning Silverberg writes, “I am happily retired from teaching. But I am sad to inform you that my wonderful friend and college roommate, Lynda Strauss Quimby, died in June 2014. She was a highly respected and loved retired high school teacher and administrator at Joel Barlow High School in Easton, Connecticut.” Norine Freeman Noonan shares, I have returned to the faculty at University of South Florida, St. Petersburg after five years as vice chancellor for academic and student affairs. I’m having fun coordinating our Biology Living/Learning Community, being the pre-vet adviser and teaching my classes in biology and health professions.” I want to close with a truly descriptive accounting of our years at UVM and its time and place in history. The following was penned by Penrose Jackson for our Reunion this year. I think it represents more than that. Thank you Penrose. “We were the last class of the 1960s or the first class of the 1970s? Both.

What change we saw in our four years … we were the last class to receive beanies (but we didn’t wear them!). We began with curfews and ‘pinking out’. We ended our four years in living arrangements as diverse as our individual college experiences. As we planned for and began our years at UVM we listened to the ‘Ballad of the Green Berets’, “California Dreamin’, and, yes, ‘A Groovy Kind of Love’.” To read Penrose’s full submission, visit uvm. edu/vq .

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

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OK, maybe I won’t retire as Class Secretary quite yet. After the summer VQ hit, I received several messages from classmates. Keep your notes coming! Rob Sydney shares, “William ‘Bill/Willy’ Ridder, Jr. died on November 16, 2014. He had lived in Alaska for over 40 years, many of those in Delta Junction (about 90 miles south of Fairbanks). For many years he was an employee of the State of Alaska, Department of Fish & Game, Division of Sport Fish as a fisheries biologist. Meanwhile, since we last communicated, I have retired from energy law, and moved from Boston to Norwich, Vermont, where I have the opportunity to pal around with fellow residents and classmates Doug Kerr and Arnie Brown.” Rob also met up with Steve Ralph in Pasadena, California, in early February at the Huntington Memorial Hospital, where he’s been president and chief executive officer for 31 years! He’s still having fun in his leadership role. The Board of the hospital clearly values his accomplishments—just amazing, and Pasadena isn’t too bad either! Peter Spear emailed me recently to say he wanted to catch up with classmates. He reports that he has tried unsuccessfully to get that retirement-thing across the goal line for some time. Despite that, he travelled through 84 time zones last year in the

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| CLASS NOTES pursuit of fair-chase hunting around the world. The Grand Slam Club/Ovis awarded Peter the coveted ‘Capra World 20’ for the fair-chase taking 20 species of wild goats. Beyond that, he enjoys spoiling his three grandchildren from daughter Carolyn Wehler-Wagman ’88, ’95. Annie Viets and I had lunch at the end of June. I continue to be amazed at Annie’s fortitude to live and teach in Saudi Arabia. She is still an associate professor of management at the Prince Mohammad bin Fahd University (PMU) in the eastern province of the Kingdom.

She was recently featured in Boston University’s School of Education Alumni Magazine. At our next reunion, folks need to hear her account of camping in the desert with a student and her family— truly “Kingdom-style”. From Tim Scott, “I just had my 5th anniversary as a compliance officer for the United States Department of Labor here in Jacksonville, Florida. I have really created another life for myself down here, not quite believing that I could adapt to the heat. I just came back from a month in Aix-en-Provence, France, where a group of MIT alumni went to study French in an international language school. We also toured Provence on the weekends, some of the most scenic places you’ll ever see. I am on the board of two non-profits and spend my leisure time hiking and biking almost every weekend. I do miss the hills of New England.” From Susie Campbell, “I was just reading your news update and have some additional detail to add to one of the items. Molly Conant ’06, Mags Conant’s daughter, is getting married at the summer camp both of my sons attended for many years. Also, my older son Nick Pestone ’05 is the officiant for their wedding. Erik, Molly’s groom and former roommate of Nick, learned of the camp from my son. We know Erik very well! My younger son, Evan, is also getting married at the camp this summer the previous week. He and his bride both graduated from Johnson State. However, her father, Brian Reed ’74 is the associate provost for curricular affairs at UVM, and both he and his wife Holly Reed ’72 graduated from UVM. I hope to be in Burlington the week of Evan’s wedding.” Carl Korman tells us, “Retired to Shaftsbury, Vermont, in 2010 which was the best decision I made since choosing to go to UVM. We just put on an addition to our home so we’ve got plenty of room for any of my ol’ AEPi skiing brothers to come visit.” Jim Earle writes, “It is with much sadness that I share the death of my life-long friend Mike Towner. He is survived by his daughter, Aria, and his wife, Jan. He had a very large heart, I will miss him.” Mary Jane Leach reports, “It’s been a pretty busy year.

A book that I’m co-editing and that I wrote a couple of essays for, Gay Guerrilla: Julius Eastman and his Music, is coming out on the Rochester University Press in December. I’ve had music come out on Die Schachtel, an Italian CD label, a piano piece published in Belgium, and performances in six countries (three in one day!), with my first performance in Finland. And now I’m about to go to an

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arts residency in Italy, at Civitella Ranieri, and literally live in a castle for six weeks, making side trips to Bari, Amsterdam, and Cologne to hear performances of my music. It’s going to be tough coming down to earth after this.” I received an interesting film clip of Duck’s Breath Theater’s latest work from Bill Allard. There’s an event at Freight & Salvage on August 29, 2015—Duck’s Breath Mystery Theater lives on! Joanne Czachor Magliozzi reports that she’s well and very busy. We plan on a walk together in the Boston area or Florida when I am there visiting my grandsons!

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

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On April 25, 2015, some sisters from Tri Delta planned a surprise retirement dinner for Sally Cummings.

She retired from Saint Michael’s College as an associate professor of applied linguistics. Sally taught at Saint Michael’s for 36 years. She was totally surprised to see Sandy Willey ’56, Kathye August Boll ’73, Diane Batt Smith ’74, Emily Schnaper Manders ’74 and Pam Tanguay Simendinger ’85 at the Blue Paddle Bistro in South Hero, Vermont.

Sally thought it was just going to be a nice quiet dinner with Robin Bossi Moore ’73 and Margo David Diieso ’74. They had so much fun reminiscing about UVM. Congratulations and enjoy retirement, Sally!

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

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Glenn F. Rogers G’76, was awarded the 2015 Robert O. Sinclair Cup Award on Saturday, May 9, in the Grand Maple Ballroom of the UVM Davis Center.

This award honors retired faculty who have served with distinction and excellence in their profession, record of service and commitment to the landgrant mission to benefit the people of Vermont and beyond. Rogers is a retired UVM Extension professor. Albert G. “Bert” Thayer writes that he’s had an interesting year with the birth of his 12th grandchild on St. Patrick’s Day in 2014; Bert’s son Peter Thayer named his son after St. Killian, an Irish missionary who is the patron saint of Wuerzburg, Germany, where Bert was stationed for three years in the United States Army. And because of his birth date, Killian Thayer was given Patrick as his middle name. Bert saw his grandson for the first time in September 2014 when most of his family gathered in the Boston area as Bert’s father, Donald W. Thayer ’41, celebrated his 95th birthday. In November, Bert represented UVM at a college fair in Uvalde, Texas, and the next month he and his wife sold their place and moved into a smaller house. In

February, his daughter, Tabitha Bomer, delivered his 13th grandchild, Maple Amber Bomer, in San Antonio, Texas. To celebrate, he planted a Rocky Mountain big toothed maple tree in his front yard that day. Stuart Aque shares, “Sadly, I am notifying you of Alan J. Berkowitz’s ’75 passing. We became friends when we were at UVM. Alan was a distinguished scholar and teacher.” Gerard Bourcier tells us, “I just returned from ten days in France (cousin’s wedding) and Germany (visiting family). Younger son is engaged to a beautiful young woman from South Africa (destination wedding). Older son has a new job as marketing director for a major restaurant chain based in New York. I’m still working in the theater, trying to pay for these trips and weddings. Life is good.” On August 10 Carrie Richardson Towne Rhinelander, lost her 17-year battle with breast cancer. Carrie grew up in Underhill, Vermont and graduated from Mount Mansfield High School in 1969. Carrie was a dedicated nurse who worked at the then Mary Fletcher Hospital, The Visiting Nurses Association in Burlington and the Neo Natal Intensive Care Unit at Children’s Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky. She received an advanced degree in Neo Natal Nursing from the University of Louisville. Later in her career, Carrie worked in senior management in home health care in Portland, Maine. She became a Medicare certified Hospice Nurse in Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine.

She also worked as the area Director of the Visiting Nurses’ Association and Hospice of Southern Maine and New Hampshire. Carrie grew up skiing at the Underhill Ski Bowl, Smuggler’s Notch and Stowe.

Carrie became a certified professional ski instructor and taught for many years at the Sunday River Ski Area in Newry, Maine. She was recognized for her work in teaching young children to ski. Memorial gifts may be made to Hospice of Southern Maine: Gosnell Memorial Hospice House, Scarborough, Maine, or Putney Cares, Putney, Vermont.

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

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Rhode Island Public Radio political reporter Scott MacKay served as featured speaker at the Rhode Island College undergraduate commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 16. MacKay has a 30-year career of chronicling the Ocean State’s political scene. A Providence native, he worked as a reporter for The Providence Journal from 1984 to 2008. Since 2009, he has served as a political analyst for Rhode Island Public Radio (RIPR), where he provides commentary and analysis to “Political Roundtable,” “Morning Edition,” and “All Things Considered.” He is also a co-author of the RIPR “On Politics” blog. MacKay is among six community members chosen to receive honorary degrees from Rhode Island College during commence-

ment ceremonies. MacKay received an honorary doctorate of journalism. Every July I vacation for a week in Bethany Beach, Delaware. This year I found out that Cathleen Doane-Wilson MD’80 was building a house close by in Lewes, Delaware.

Cathleen and I met for lunch and we promised to get together whenever I am in Bethany Beach.

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

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Richard T. Cassidy, partner at the Burlington law firm of Hoff Curtis has been elected to serve a two-year term as president of the Uniform Law Commission (ULC).

Richard is the first Vermont lawyer to serve as president of the ULC since George B. Young served from 1925 to 1927. Judy Cohen shares, “I just retired from UVM in May from the Department of Nursing as a professor emerita after teaching there for the past 34 years. I continue to be connected to UVM as I serve on the executive board of the retired faculty organization and am their representative to the Faculty Senate Executive Committee.” Jim Morrison writes, “I am widowed with two boys. After 40 years on the road selling medical equipment, I’m retiring. Love to see old classmates in my travels.” Glory Lanphear Douglass Reinstein retired

this past June after a 38-year career in music education in Vermont. She recently accepted the position of director of licensing at Song and Film. Glory is the owner and creative liaison at Malletts Bay Music in Colchester, Vermont. Margery A. Kaye writes, “My world continues to enlarge. My first grandchild was born this summer (her dad is also a UVM alum). My business continues to sweeten up lots of lives all over the world. My daughter is making her way in New York City as a forensic informational specialist.

My youngest son lives in Cheng Du, China, running his own business AquaFude. My parents (both UVM Alums) are doing well nearby. Life is good! Cheers to all of us! Enjoy and be well!” Jon Nelson writes, “Sue and I finally left Pennsylvania for Venice, Florida, to enjoy the warm weather and sandy beaches.

Our oldest boy is working at Brown University in economic research, while the twins finish their last semester at university (Pitt and Susquehanna).”

Debbie Sample Kim writes, “Three children in college (son at University of Utah Honors College; two daughters at Barnard College-Columbia University).

I guess that would make me an empty nester! I miss the green trees, lushness of New England, family and East Coast friends. Looking forward to the 40th Reunion in October. Not ready to retire—maybe someday.”

Send your news to— Dina Dwyer Child

1263 Spear Street, South Burlington, VT 05403 dinachild@aol.com

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Oney P. Smith and Marcia Evangelista Smith ’77 met on campus in August of 1975 as resident assistants on the fourth floor of Millis Hall. They write, “We have been married 35 years and just returned from our summer vacation, including our visit to the UVM campus. A photo is posted on the Alumni Association’s website photo gallery.”

Michael Diederich, Jr. shares, “I retired from the Army Reserves after 29 years, and tours in Germany (3 years), Iraq (1 year) and Afghanistan (9 months). I can devote full attention to private law practice (employment law/civil rights). My daughter Victoria Diederich ’17 will be a junior at UVM this fall. I expect to be skiing Mad River Glen again this winter and bicycling in lower Hudson River Valley and Harriman Park to get in shape.”

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

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My employer, Savantage Solutions, has designated me a subject matter expert (scary isn’t it?!) and it’s amazing the questions I’m fielding. My daughter, Carlie, is attending college across the puddle at SUNY Plattsburgh and I’m trying to complete renovations on an apartment building that I have there in time for her and her friends to move in this fall. Been dealing with chronic Lyme disease and I would appreciate hearing from anyone who has put this beast into remission. It’s been three years with no success at all, although on the positive side I did drop 50 pounds. Looking forward to attending the 40th reunion and having as much fun as was had at the 35th!” Deb Jenkins Fennell shares, “In April, 2015, I finished my fifth year with the State of Vermont as a professional relations officer for the Office of Disability Determination Services. Winter weekends I teach skiing to kids at Smugglers’.

And this winter, I also fed my muse, as Snowsports Reporter for the Stowe Reporter. A highlight of that gig was being able to cover the 2015 NCAA’s in Lake Placid. It was a blast to interview and shoot photos of the athletes and then write up their stories, especially all of the awesome Catamount cross-country and alpine skiers!” Debi Chaffee Seamans writes, “I have been living in the Midwest for 20 years and look forward to a return to New England after my husband, Stephen, and I retire. Our oldest daughter, Colby, got married this year and our youngest, Courtney, moved to New York City, so we are headed towards a new phase of our lives. I always look forward to returning to Vermont.”

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

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Mark William Weber, 60, resident of New London, Connecticut, died peacefully at a New London hospital after a several month battle with Leukemia in July of 2015. Mark had been diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia in November 2014. A jack of many trades, Mark was a strong salesman of all things with a passion for selling cars and real estate. Most recently, he served as executive director of Serenity Living Recovery Centers, Inc., a non-profit organization, which he devoted his life to until the very end. Mark is survived by his two daughters, Callie and Sarah Weber, of New Canaan, Connecticut, and the many friends whose life he touched on a daily basis. Stanley Przybylinski writes, “I’m enjoying the surf at Long Beach Island, New Jersey with Susan Brady, Carol Brady Lundgren ’79, and Anne Brady ’11. A tradition that dates back at least to 1979.” Bob Hopwood writes, “Members of the ‘Christie Commandos’ have managed to stay in touch over the years.

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gathered at Mike Durkin’s home in Florida last year and are hoping to plan more mini-reunions in the future. Other Commandos can reach out to any one of us to learn more. Catherine Stowell Howland writes, “I have been a proud alumna and supporter of the Green and Gold. I’ve taken my family to sporting events, and a most memorable hockey game between UVM and Dartmouth. My youngest, Chelsea, was in grade school at the time and cried after Dartmouth had ‘invited UVM to play and then beat them.’ Her innocence at the time was so charming, but I never realized her underlying affection for UVM. So this spring I had the greatest pleasure in watching the 214th Commencement Ceremonies and seeing Chelsea walk across that stage.

She received a Bachelor of Science in nutrition and food science, graduating cum laude. Chelsea is also a member of the honor fraternity Alpha Zeta and the Golden Key Honor Society. It is with great honor that I can now enjoy my alumna status with my daughter. Thank you UVM, go Cats go!

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I would like to send a big thank you to MaryKay McGuire Conte and Chuck Conte for hosting a summer weekend Pi Phi reunion in Long Island. Joining me for the fun was Eileen Sheehan McCann and Peter McCann ‘78, Anne Trask Forcier and Larry Forcier.

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

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Heidi Winslow writes, “Since graduating I followed my heart to the Rocky Mountains to work at The Aspen Club Sports Medicine Institute, where I studied under Dr. Julie Anthony and Br. Bruno Balke. After getting married, having two amazing daughters and moving from Aspen to Telluride, Colorado, I continued my passion for wellness by opening a studio called Workout. In 2006 my family returned to the East Coast and I started a small private training business called Winslow Training (winslowtraining.net). From that, Core Connect Method (a class I designed based on the combined principals of both Pilates & Yoga, infused with resistance stretching & strengthening) was designed. Core Retreats are now offered on both the West and East Coasts, integrating principals of wellbeing for fitness, nutrition and mindfulness. I am grateful for the education and opportunities that were presented to me at UVM, in the school of education and the APEX Program. Thank you!” Harry Tower reflects, “Thirty-five years?

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Athletic program support honors late Sigma Nu brothers Sigma Nu brothers rallied this summer to raise funds in support of the Sigma Nu Athletic Fund, which began modestly in 2008 with a collective gift in memory of Jack “Jocko” Clifford ’75 and grew significantly in 2013 with collective gifts in memory of Tommy McNamara, son of Tom McNamara ’77 who lost his life in a boating accident in July 2012.

Gifts in Tommy’s memory were used to help launch the summer academic and conditioning program for the men’s hockey team in the summer of 2014. On July 19, the hockey team and athletic department hosted a cookout for more than fifty brothers from the classes of 1976-1983 who returned that weekend to honor two Sigma Nu brothers: Mark “Bronto” Byrne, who had an untimely death in March 2015, and Charles “Chuckie” Stahlin, who was killed in a car accident in 1984. Brothers from 1979-83 raised funds for the Sigma Nu Athletic Fund in Stahlin’s honor.

Sigma Nu brothers offered special thanks to Bruce Rockowitz ’80 and Mark Campagnon ’80, who put up a large financial matching challenge, all the way from China, to the group that helped kick start and motivate the campaign.

Collective support in memory of Byrne and Stahlin totals $250,000.

Leaders of the fundraising note that the effort is driven by the role the fraternity played and continues to play in their lives—“While the chapter is gone, the strong affiliation with UVM and the hockey program continues.”

Sigma Nu brothers interested in supporting the Sigma Nu Athletic Fund or seeking information on how to organize an effort to remember and honor a fallen brother, are encouraged to contact Jim Duffy ’79, jduffy@remodelingnews.com or Peter Beekman ’79, pbeekman19@ gmail.com.

ington, Delaware. In regular touch with Giordano bro’s: Phil Stimpson, Rip Warrendorf, and a few others. Have had a nice career in advertising and brand management, now working for Fannie Mae in D.C. Look me up on LinkedIn!” Barbara Kane DelGrego shares, “In June, six of us got together in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. I came from Connecticut, Shirley Moore Ryan from Vermont, Nancy Madden Reid from Maryland, Janine Sanford from Texas, Nancy Kearney Hora from Tennessee and Pam Hurlbert Kelsea ’81 from Massachusetts. During the weekend we ate at the famous Polly’s Pancake Parlor and drove out the Kancamagus for some views, walking and a lot of laughs! En route back to the airport some of us visited with John O’Brien at his hosta nursery in Granby, Connecticut. It was great catching up with everyone and we have already discussed a future get together!” Elisheva Kilner writes, “I have been teaching in the same school since 1985. I currently teach math to students in grade seven and Hebrew language to students in grades five through eight. Seems like just yesterday that we were all ‘little kids’ together at UVM. I would love to hear from anyone who was there when I was there. I enjoyed reconnecting with those who responded to my last class note.”

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Karen I. Plaut was recognized as the 2015 Outstanding Alumni Award recipient at the May 9, 2015 College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Alumni and Friends Dinner at the UVM Davis Center.

Karen was honored for achieving excellence in her academic career, exhibiting significant leadership, and contributing to the land-grant ethic to benefit her community, college and nation.

Thomas Horan writes, “In July, I became dean of the Peter F. Drucker School of Management, Claremont Graduate University. I also got to spend a couple of summer weeks back in New England, which was great and I got to see lots of green grass (a rarity in California these days)!” Leroy Watson and his family have recently moved to Walpole, New Hampshire. He says that they are all happy to be living in New England again.

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Robert Boucher writes, “I would like to get a Varsity Baseball reunion organized for the Class of 1982 at the 2015 or 2016 Alumni Baseball Game.” Frank L. Lojacono, III writes, “I was wondering how my freshman friends from Chittenden first floor and the best broomball team ever were doing. Living in Pittsburgh with my wife and two daughters—The Skipper.” After being asked to chair the

College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences Board of Advisors last year I have found myself deeply involved with the college’s major improvements. The STEM facility enhancements are going to totally change the look and feel of the back of main campus with vastly improved science and lab facilities, a new look for the green with the removal of the shoe boxes, and a real physical tie in with the newly named UVM Medical Center, Fletcher is officially dropped—never really did understand that differentiation to begin with. I strongly urge you to look at what’s happening in your old school—it is truly transformative—including the development of a bio-medical engineering track! In addition, I had the honor of delivering this year’s commencement address to the CEMS graduates; what an opportunity and incredible honor. Thank you, Dean Garcia. My wife, Donna, and I were able to celebrate the marriage of our eldest daughter one year ago this August. I continue to see lots of my UVM family, Rob Rogers and Mike Gochman are frequent concert buddies; also Jim Greenebaum and Chris Hodgson at a recent soiree in CT. Also see Bill Edwards ’80, Chis Cushing, Marc Hauser, Rich Goodwin, Peter Melmed and Mark Kepler ’83 and Graham Pettengill ’83 on a fairly regular basis—f any of these names sound familiar, get on line and tell us what you’ve been up to.

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

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John Monty Clark just published the book, I Wish Someone Had Told Me... which offers practical advice, real life examples and hands-on exercises to help students get the most out of their college experience. A must-read for high school seniors and college students, as well as anyone wanting to improve their career and life. On April 18, 2015 Helen Connors married David Grant. The wedding took place in St. George Island, Florida. Kris Johnson, Tracey Lynch Meaney ’85 and Chris Meaney ’84 were in attendance. Congratulations Helen! Todd Wulfson sent the following information regarding our classmate James McDowell, “James’s boat, Grand Illusion, won the Overall in the 48th edition of the 2225-mile biennial LAHonoluluTransPac Race and it is the only boat to win this race three times in a row with the same owner! His boat also won in 1999 and 2011. Find further information and pictures: www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/2015”. Ken Oasis shares, “Earlier this summer, my wife, Lauren, and I visited Don McCree, and his wife, Gabby McCree, at their beautiful lake home. We were joined by other UVMers, Andy Goodman, David Spector, and Stewart Ledbetter. Laughs were flowing. Missed Steve Reinecke and Paul Butler who couldn’t make it. A photo is posted on the website Flickr photo gallery. Congratulations James

and crew! My husband and I have just come back from a two-week cruise/land trip to Alaska to celebrate our 30th anniversary! Absolutely beautiful and amazing! It is truly God’s country. We saw lots of wildlife: orcas, humpbacks-breaching and bubble net feeding, brown bear, eagles, ptarmigan, Dall sheep, snowshoe hare, osprey, lots of eagles, moose, caribou and one grizzly bear! One of the highlights was a plane ride through Denali to land on Ruth Glacier and a sighting of the north and south summit of McKinley, aka, Denali. I highly recommend a trip to Alaska.

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

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Bruce Hurd shares, “My company, NOVO Development Corporation, developed, constructed, financed, and is now leasing a 77-unit apartment building located at a powerful address, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE Washington, D.C. To investigate living at a presidential address without ever having to deliver one, visit, www.liveat1600penn.com.” Gail Earley Renaud celebrated her 30th anniversary working for the Social Security Administration on August 4, 2015. Her son Jeffrey Renaud ’16 is currently in his senior year at UVM majoring in political science.

Send your news to— Abby Goldberg Kelley saragrant2001@yahoo.com Kelly McDonald jasna-vt@hotmail.com Shelley Carpenter Spillane scspillane@aol.com

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Jay Rein recently joined EPAM Systems as their new vice president of the Travel & Hospitality Industry Solutions Practice. He is helping airlines, hotels, and travel distribution systems around the world deal with technology challenges of today and in the future. As for Jay’s children, Lauren (19) is returning to Tulane University for her sophomore year of college. Marni (17) is starting the college application process now, and a trip to UVM is planned for the fall. Sydney (14) will be starting high school at The Weber School of Atlanta.

Marc Hartstein and Chris Pizzo Hartstein ’86 are thrilled to report that they have two children in medical school. Joey is starting his fourth year at the University of Maryland while Luke will be a first-year student at New York University. They are happy to still have daughter Hannah at home starting 10th grade at Towson High. Marc is a senior executive with Medicare and Chris does professional organizing and a lot of volunteer work. Ann Ruck Hand writes, “Jeff Hand ’86 and I celebrated our 30th wedding anniversary this month! I have

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| CLASS NOTES been a Special Education Resource Room teacher’s aide in a 4th/5th grade elementary school for 12 years (after staying home with our daughters for 15 years). I also tutor students during the summers and after school. I love my job, and I have really enjoyed this age group very much. Our three daughters are all in their 20’s. Laura is 26, and is at Johns Hopkins University studying for her master’s degree in healthcare administration, graduating in May 2016. Elizabeth is 24, and is close to completing her bachelor’s degree, hopefully also in May 2016. Kathryn, 22, just graduated from the University of New Hampshire and is looking for a job while working in Kennebunkport for the summer. Overall, life is wonderful! We look forward to connecting with classmates for the 30th Reunion in October!”

Send your news to— Barbara Roth roth_barb@yahoo.com Paul Grieco was named presidentelect of the Ohio Association for Justice for the coming 2015-2016 year at its annual convention. Grieco is a member of the association’s executive committee, and has served in the past as vice president, treasurer and secretary. Grieco is a partner with the Landskroner Grieco Merriman law firm based in Cleveland.

He has been a member of OAJ’s board of trustees since 2007. He also is a member of the Ohio State Bar Association, the American Association for Justice, The Justinian Forum, and the Cleveland Academy of Trial Attorneys. Julia Davies writes, “In June 2015, I graduated with distinction from DePaul University with a master’s in humancomputer interaction. I am seeking employment where I can combine my expertise in user experience design and project management.” Kim Johnson McCrae and Scott McCrae ’84 celebrated their 25th anniversary in May with a celebration in a real castle in the heart of old Montreal. Kim writes, “How is it possible that 25 years have flown by? We had a great time remembering our fun wedding with the Pi Phi girls and Sigma Phi boys in attendance. Hope you are all well!”

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

based compensation arrangements, employment agreements, change-in-control agreements and all other executive compensation arrangements.

In addition to advising business owners and corporate executives, Mark represents pension plan fiduciaries, investment fund sponsors, pension plan investors, banks and other financial services firms regarding fiduciary issues related to employee benefits, including ERISA’s “plan assets” rules. Thornton Tomasetti Principal and Sustainability Practice Leader Gunnar Hubbard, AIA, LEED Fellow, has been elected a fellow of the American Institute of Architects. The designation is awarded to architects who have made significant contributions to architecture and society, and those who have achieved a standard of excellence in the profession. Hubbard has more than 25 years of experience as an architect, consultant, educator, and advocate for projects around the globe. See photo on the Alumni Association Website Photo Gallery. Stephen Farrington recently installed a new soil moisture monitoring technology developed by the firm he owns with wife Catherine Voghell Farrington ’89, ’93 in a groundbreaking experiment in Puerto Rico that will examine the effects of warming on a tropical rainforest ecosystem. Farrington founded Transcend Engineering in 2010. The firm has applied for three patents related to the PRISMS moisture monitoring technology and has sponsored Electrical Engineering Professor Tian Xia and graduate student Taian Fan to research system performance. Celeste Leon writes, “As a physical therapy alum and author, I am pleased to announce that my novel, Luck is Just the Beginning, is being released this fall, published by Floricanto Press. A labor of love for nearly 10 years, the novel is inspired by a true story. I would love to hear from you and welcome your comments. For more information, please visit me at www.celestejleon.blogspot.com.” Happy 50th everyone! Hope you are all doing well and have found time to celebrate this big milestone with family and friends!

I celebrated mine with Keri Wolfson Craft, Karen Murray Bosworth, Jennifer Kohen McNair, and Carol Brinkerhoff. Be sure to submit any UVM birthday celebrations to us!

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After 12 years with Ralph Lauren Corporation, Liz Paley was just named to a new role as senior vice president of strategic initiatives and chief of staff to the president and chief operations officer. Although she recently stepped down as a many-year member of the Board of Advisors to the UVM School of Business, she remains engaged with students and young alums in the area of career development. Christine McCarthy was selected as Vermont EMS Educator of the Year. Sonna Sween Allen shares, “I am still living on Long Island, and teaching high school

chemistry. I have been the science department chair at Portledge School for 15 years. My husband and I have not been up to UVM in ages but we do get to Hampton Beach, New Hampshire, most summer weekends. We are doing well and are in touch with Karen Hobbs Sharpe occasionally.” Marleigh Pelton McNealus writes, “I moved my business, Manchester Eye Care, to downtown Manchester, Vermont. If you’re in town, drop by. I am married to Jerry McNealus ’78 and we have two children. Our oldest is 16 and is looking at UVM! Our youngest is 13 and wants to be a reporter. My husband, Jerry, is still skiing in the winter and doing construction in the summer.” Jill Talbot Huard writes, “I had a great time connecting with some of my UVM friends at our Rutland High School 30th reunion in November of last year. I was able to reconnect with Laura Williams, Joe Carmolli, Pam Shaffer Hersperger as well as fellow Cats’ Meows Jackie Aldinger, Victoria Teta ’87, and Haley Veller ’87! I have been a real estate agent with Century 21 Surette Real Estate in Waterville, Maine, for the past 10 years. I am also a past president of the board of directors for the Maine Children’s Home for Little Wanderers, a non-profit offering family counseling, adoption services, a teen parent school, alternative education and early childhood education. I am currently the president-elect for the Kennebec Valley Board of Realtors, as well as a director on the board of the Maine Association of Realtors!”

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Kathy Clark writes, “What a great night at the home of Sean Martin ’90 connecting with Sam Williams, Ed Kim ’87, Lara Kelly Bohlke, Mike Buccelato, Andrew Malkin and others.” Marren Mary Sanders is serving as interim associate dean of academic outcomes at Arizona Summit Law School.

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

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Mark McGowan writes, “Catamount II, pictured on the Alumni Association website photo gallery, entered the Block Island Race Week Regatta. We had two alumni onboard; Paul Noniewicz ’86 was trimming headsails and I was at the helm. We had a great week and finished second against other Flying Tiger 10M’s.

While we were there, we stayed at Payne’s Marina where the owner’s wife and son are both alumni.

With the UVM flag flying as our sailing war flag, met many other alumni during the course of the week.

Sail fast and go Catamounts!” Laura Molony Chevalier writes, “My husband Tim Chevalier ’91, and I are over the moon excited that our son Ryan Chevalier is a member of the UVM Class of 2019! Ryan will be studying electrical engineering. He is fourth generation on Tim’s side to attend UVM. We had a

great time celebrating Ryan’s high school graduation in May with fellow UVM alums and friends Susan Foster Wadehul ’91, Keith Wadehul, Kathy Lorenzetti Morse, Beth Blanchard Landry and Mark Landry. Needless to say all are excited for the newest Catamount!”

Send news to— Tessa Donohoe Fontaine tfontaine@brandywine.org

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25th Reunion September 23–25, 2016

If you are interested in planning your upcoming reunion, email alumni@uvm.edu. Laurie Way moved to Boston a couple of years ago and works in fundraising at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

She and her fiancé, Paul, got engaged last spring, and have been enjoying weekend trips to Cape Cod over the summer. Laura Clark joined PT360’s Williston office. She has practiced physical therapy for over 23 years, with a focus on sports, orthopedic, and post-surgical rehabilitation. Her areas of expertise include foot and ankle biomechanics, orthotic evaluation and fabrication, manual therapy including fascial restrictions and work hardening.

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Lauren Swick Jordan writes, “After years of being a stay-at-home mom, I began writing parenting articles, specifically about how our family is affected by autism. My articles have been featured in the Washington Post’s “On Parenting” section, themighty.com, and the Organization for Autism Research. I have loved writing and my boys think they are famous. So it’s good for all of us!” Lauren Jordan blogs at http://lauren-idonthaveajob. blogspot.com Send your news to— Lisa Kanter jslbk@mac.com

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Mindy Menkowitz Scheier started a program called Runway of Dreams.

Runway of Dreams is a nonprofit collaborating with the fashion industry to adapt mainstream, affordable clothing lines with wearable technology for the differently-abled community. The organization’s goal is to change the fashion landscape so that it’s inclusive of everyone. One in twenty children between 5 and 18 are differently-abled and this company offers mainstream clothing options, formerly unavailable. Justin LeBlanc shares, “I am preparing for my third Dopey Challenge (5k, 10k, half marathon and full marathon over four days in Walt Disney World) in honor of my son, Theo, and to raise

money for, and awareness of, Tourette Syndrome.

Tax deductible donations can be made at www. classy.org/LeBlanc.” Dianna Gahlsdorf Terrell, an assistant professor of education at Saint Anselm College, launched a new blog about parenting children through schools called schoolingourkids. org. She lives in southern New Hampshire with her husband, two children, MIL, two cats and a brood of hens. Charlie Kellett shares, “In recognition of the Americans with Disabilities Act 25-year anniversary, I envisioned the Global Virtual Comedy Club, which demonstrated the power of comedy to put person first, disability second and overcome societal barriers that hinder disability inclusion.

This unprecedented event was co-hosted by the United States Department of State and the Kennedy Center, set a new attendance record at the Millennium Stage and included audiences around the world via viewing parties at United States Embassies.

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J.P. LaFors writes, “I’m still using my marketing degree as chief operations officer of a Richmond, Virginiabased advertising agency, Free Agents Marketing. Also still playing tennis and love to ski.” Rob Cronin writes, “In early August, UVM ‘94-rooted

| CLASS NOTES ‘Equipe Henry’ completed another Pan-Mass Challenge (www.pmc.org). The 192-mile bike ride from Sturbridge, Massachusetts, to Provincetown is a fundraiser for Dana-Farber Cancer Institute which raised $40 million in 2014 for cancer research with a goal of $45 Million in 2015. UVM ‘94 team members include Captain Josh Fenollosa, Chapin Mechem, Mark Robohm and Rob Cronin with Cathy Ray Fenollosa serving as Equipe Coordinator and Coach. Equipe Henry would like to thank the UVM community for its tremendous and continued support of our team and of the PMC. Furthermore, we’d welcome any and all alums that would like to join us for the 2016 PMC next August. Please be in touch with Josh, Cathy, or Rob if you’ll join us for this great cause. It’s a tremendous event with a very UVM feel to it. Go Cats Go and Vive Le Equipe!”

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Robes Parrish is living in the shadow of the Cascade Mountains in beautiful Leavenworth, Washington. He shares, “I’m busy working as a hydrologist for the United States Fish and Wildlife Service doing river restoration projects for salmon habitat recovery. I am fortunate to live somewhere that I can go climbing, ski tour, ride bikes, and paddle right out the back door! Old friends should drop in if they’re in the neighborhood: heydukelives@ hotmail.com.”

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Patrick Riordan shares, “I’m now at Sikorsky Aircraft as a production test pilot, but still maintain my part-time status in the Connecticut Army National Guard as a chief warrant officer 3 maintenance test pilot. I will be moving to Westbrook, Connecticut, at the end of the summer and my son Connor, who just turned three, will be attending school in the fall for the first time.

My daughter is due to be born mid-September.

Parents still live in Stowe, Vermont, and I get home from time to time. Life is pretty decent, but I do miss the Green Mountains.” Kurt Scanio and Julie Coffin Scanio welcomed their daughter Emily Alexis Scanio on May 20, 2015. Emily is already sporting her first UVM outfit but is hoping to find a pair of UVM “greenies” to wear during the winter months.

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Caroline Walsh, Alicia Williams, Joanna Cossman, Rachel Lupert, Hollie Meyer, Deborah Adler, Megan Eagle, Suzanne Roy, and Leslie Haines recently went to Vegas a few weeks back to celebrate their 40th birthdays. Happy birthday ladies!

A thorough update recently arrived from another classmate: Peter Rand lives in New York City with his wife, Rachel. They recently welcomed their second baby, a little girl named Delaney. Peter recently celebrated his 40th birthday. In attendance was Brendan Burke, who along with his wife Jennifer Burke ’98, has three boys and lives in Sudbury, Massachusetts, where Brendan spends his free time training for Cross Fit competitions. Steve Losordo and John Hallisey also made the trip to New York City from Boston. Steve recently picked up the guitar again and told us to look for his first solo project to be released shortly. John Hallisey and his wife Britta Hallisey have three kids, including a set of twins and live outside of Boston. They recently celebrated John’s 44th birthday at the Chatham Bars Inn. Rob Slocum was also in attendance. Rob and his wife, Sarah, live with their three kids outside of New York City where Rob works for CAA. CAA talent reps our own Ryen Russillo ’01, who can be heard daily on ESPN co-hosting the SVP and Russillo show. Ryen reports to have 231K loyal Twitter followers. Darren Blasko celebrated his 40th birthday recently and welcomed his second child, Catherine, with wife Emily. They live in Darien, Connecticut.

Darren is still playing video games and attending jam band concerts regularly. Chris McGuirk and his wife, Sarah, live in Norwell, Massachusetts, with their three boys. Chris runs North River Lacrosse and is grooming his boys for future success on the field for the Catamounts. Ben Fisher and his wife, Trisha, live in Chicago, Illinois, and recently welcomed their second child. Ben works for Deutsche Bank and spends his free time arguing with Eben Thurston. Eben lives in Bronxville, New York, with his wife and daughter. Ryan Carroll lives in San Francisco with his wife, Ashley, and is very active in local rec sports leagues. Robert Balchunas, his wife, Katie, and daughter, Lola, also live in the Bay area. Rob rarely sees Ryan. Tim Walsh and his wife, Jenny, live in Denver, Colorado, and welcomed their first baby, a little boy named Lochlan, in October.

Tim is still in his 30s. Mark Robertson ’96 lives in Denver, Colorado and still claims to be Class of ’97.

James Baden writes that his wife Heather Isham Baden completed the Lake Placid Ironman Triathlon this past July and earlier in the summer she qualified for the Half Ironman World Championships in Austria. They live in Rye, New York, with their two daughters. Heather currently has a private practice as a board certified sports dietician. Jessica Dayton Mendez shares, “I recently left my job as manager of legal services at a nonprofit domestic violence organization to start my own law firm: ADZ Law, located in San Mateo, California. I will focus on family law as well as civil remedies for survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault and

human trafficking.” Macalester College has granted tenure status to Amy Damon who teaches in the Economics and Latin American Studies Departments at Macalester College. Damon focuses on household poverty reduction strategies and food security issues and is currently working on a project examining links between conservation, food security, and hunting practices in Tanzania.

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Ewen Syme and his wife of three years, Becky Beers G’10, married privately in Hawaii and have been very happily living in Seattle, Washington, for the past five years. After moving away from Burlington, Ewen worked as a user experience designer for Microsoft, Frog Design, and for the past year, Google where he leads the design of their Cloud Computing product. They love the Pacific Northwest lifestyle of camping in National Parks, hiking and swimming with their mini-labradoodle puppy and eating some of the world’s best seafood. They bought a house last year and when they’re not busy exploring the region (having no kids helps), they’re probably doing some form of interior design upgrade on their 100-year-old craftsman.

They love it!

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John Murtha sends greetings from sunny Colorado! “I have been living out here for the last 16 years. I am a realtor for the Denver and mountain areas. If you, or anyone you know, is interested in purchasing a home, please contact me at johnmurthaproperties@gmail.com. I am always looking for ways to help out fellow Catamounts!” Jeff Look joined the PT360 team at its Shelburne location. He has spent a majority of his professional career in the outpatient sports and orthopedic settings. He is proficient with functional capacity evaluations and has experience in outpatient orthopedics, acute and sub-acute care hospitals, and skilled nursing facilities.

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

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Courtney Daly McGuire and her husband, Ryan McGuire, are happy to announce the arrival of their first child, Julia Elizabeth McGuire, born May 26, 2015.

She met UVMer’s at a July weekend mini reunion; Patrick Reed, Rebecca Stoops Reed, Jody Matthews, and Meagan Mckiernan Barry.

Send your news to— UVM Alumni Association alumni@uvm.edu/classnotes

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Brian Levine writes that is has been a busy couple of years.

“Moved to Australia in September 2012 to become fire management officer for ACT Parks and Conservation Service. Responsible for planning and implementing prescribed fire program which involves a burning program of 25,000 acres a year, mostly completed by aerial ignition.

I also serve as an officer for fire suppression. We recently had a second child, Eden Sierra in May. Our first child, Scarlet Lily Grace, just turned two.”

James Conley writes, “On August 2, 2015, Ted McGillicuddy married his partner of 14 years, Adam Terella, of Denver, Colorado. The ceremony was held at the Twin Oaks Country Club in Littleton, Massachusetts.”

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

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Doniyor Ahmedov writes, “I was an international student at UVM from 1999 through 2002 majoring in business administration. After graduation, I lived and worked in Alexandria, Virginia, for some time. Right now, I live in my home town Tashkent, Uzbekistan. I am running a successful real estate business which I started more than four years ago.

I own half a dozen apartment units which I rent for the guests of our city and I also work as real estate agent for other apartment and house owners.” Rebecca Loonin shares, “I am starting a master’s program in speech language pathology at Adelphi University and aim to be part of the 2017 graduating class.”

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

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Heather Hawkes and Nick Wolfe welcomed another daughter, Helen Elizabeth, on March 27. The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences awarded Jeffrey M. DeCelles with its 2015 New Achiever Alumni Award on Saturday, May 9, 2015 in the Grand Maple Ballroom of the UVM Davis Center. Jeff flew in from his current home in South Africa to receive the college’s award which honors a graduate within the last 15 years for their outstanding professional achievement and potential for future accomplishments. Jeff spent a few extra days in Burlington and the Northeast to see family, friends and former professors before returning home to his wife and two children. Tracy Petherbridge Liebenow writes, “My husband, Brian, and I have experienced a couple of big life changes over the past year. On August 29, 2014 we welcomed our baby boy, Bryce, to the family. Kylie (4) absolutely loves being an older sister. They just adore each other, and boy, can she make him laugh! Sibling love is amazing. Just a few months after Bryce arrived my husband got a job offer we couldn’t

refuse, and so we took the family, left Vermont and now live in the Capital Region (Clifton Park, New York). We have been here since December 2014. I am still working in the human resources field and we bought a wonderful home with a huge backyard for the kids to play. We are still settling in, getting to know the area, and making this ‘home.’ We visit Vermont often (luckily it isn’t too far away) as it will always be ‘home’ in our hearts.”

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

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Erin O’Neill shares, “I had the pleasure of being a bridesmaid in my dear friend, Kerry Sullivan’s wedding on Saturday, August 1. Kerry married Christopher Tomecek, a Boston College graduate, in Hingham, Massachusetts. It was a beautiful wedding (with a gorgeous bride!) and was attended by many UVMers: Jessica Gabriels Slagen, who also served as a bridesmaid; Elizabeth Lundgren ’02, Shawna Wells, Jim O’Neill ’76 and Cindy Wilson O’Neill ’77, and Steven ’78 and Susan ’78 Lane. Congratulations to Kerry and Chris!

Anna “Anya” Gushchin completed her advanced training this past July by finishing an Ophthalmic Plastic and Orbital Fellowship at Stanford and an International Ophthalmology fellowship at the University of Utah with her previous UVM mentor, Dr. Geoffrey Tabin. In conclusion of her fellowships, she had the privilege of leading a multidisciplinary team of surgeons to take care of 100 patients with a previously undescribed drooping of the eyelids in Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea. After spending the last year teaching in Asia and Africa, she is back in the United States looking for an academic faculty position in oculoplastic surgery. Sarah Wilby writes, “I am beginning a new position as the head of the Bio-Science and Environmental Technology Department at A.I. Prince Technical High School in Hartford, Connecticut.” A few of our classmates have some new additions to their families! Dave Jadwin writes, “I wanted to announce that Shanna and I had our first child, a daughter named Sella Liron, on July 8, 2015. Hopefully, she’ll be a future Catamount!”

I also heard from Amy Christensen Manchester, “My husband Don and I welcomed our second daughter on April 14. Her name is Kathryn Margaret Manchester and she joins big sister, threeyear-old Abigail!” I had the pleasure of spending some time in Burlington this summer to celebrate the upcoming nuptials of Korinne Moore ’03 and Dan Berenson. Jessica Rosenfeld Vicente, Kara Egasti Dooley, Rebekah “Boo” Stuwe Baril, Molly Betzhold Kusek ’03, Janine White ’03, Jenny Casartello Eddy, and Callie Moore ’10 were also in attendance for the fun and festivities. We all reunited again in September for Korinne and Dan’s big day with even more UVMers in attendance! If you have any news you would like

to share please let me know! I love receiving your updates.

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

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Jennifer Zicherman Kelleher tells us, “I graduated May 9 from MCPHS University (formerly Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences) with a Doctor of Pharmacy. I will be completing a yearlong clinical pharmacy residency at WentworthDouglass Hospital in Dover, New Hampshire, this summer.” TD Bank has promoted Nicholas J. Faitoute to senior vice president, market commercial credit manager in Commercial Credit Management. Based in Manchester, New Hampshire, he is responsible for managing the credit underwriting and credit administration functions for TD Bank’s commercial banking portfolio in New Hampshire.

Faitoute has 10 years of banking experience. Keith Upton-Weber and his husband, Chris, welcomed their boy and girl twins via surrogacy, on April 13.

Madison Karl Upton-Weber was 6 lbs., 10 oz. and 19 inches and Margaret “Maggie” Patch UptonWeber was 5 lbs., 4oz and 18 inches. Both dads and babies are doing great and enjoying each and every day!

Send your news to— Kristin Dobbs kristin.dobbs@gmail.com

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10th Reunion September 23–25, 2016

If you are interested in planning your upcoming reunion, email alumni@uvm.edu. Carl Siebecker and his wife Laura Vogric Siebecker ’08 welcomed their second child, Eva Elizabeth, in May. Kate Haggerty writes, “My husband, Ryan Allgrove ’05, and I met at UVM and just got married June 20, 2015. There were a good number of UVMers there, so we figured we would send names and post a photo on the Flickr photo gallery. The following were there: Nickii Whitney Davignon, Jake Davignon, Betsy Harlow, Ethan Bernstein ’05, Hana Fritz Bernstein ’07, Adam Morrison ’05, Jay Harpp ’05, Stephanie Gergely Davis ’05, Richard Lendino ’05, Alison Basdekis, Sara Armstrong Donegan, Kyle Cram, Janet Machon Lampkin, Matt Lampkin, Patty-Ann Csizmesia Holden, Sarah Hall Magoon, Amira Bakr, Ben Visich, Dave Chez ’05, Libby Meehan ’06, Tim Hancock ’05, Angela Muzzey, Logan Sena ’05, Linky Le Roux-Ohm and Ben Englund ’05. There are six married couples in there that met at UVM! Brian Murphy and I recently relocated to Acton, Massachusetts. I accepted a fulltime active duty position with the Massachusetts Army National Guard as the deputy chief of behavioral health and Brian has started a new career at Worcester Polytechnic Institute as a development

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| CLASS NOTES officer in University Advancement. We welcomed a daughter, Harper Elizabeth, on June 8. Aidan, 6, and Addison, 2, are excited for their new little sister to arrive.

Send your news to— Katherine Murphy kateandbri@gmail.com

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Tom Collingham and wife, Jameson duPont Collingham ’06, welcomed their second child on July 9, 2015. Baby Clara is also welcomed by her 20-month-old big brother, Campbell. Robert Orr III is completing the final year of a family medicine residency with hopes to return to the Champlain Valley region to practice. Alex Friendly is between his first and second year at UCLA Anderson getting his MBA. He’s interning this summer at the NFL in Los Angeles working on data analytics on their Next Gen Stats business. Alex left his job at the White House for his degree program.

Tori Jones, Sarah Jane Compton, Rini Mayer and Christine Vela reunited on Lake Fairlee, Vermont, in July. The visit was spent eating, laughing, and reflecting on the ten-plus years of friendship, countless Orchard Terrace memories, dance parties, and of course, cornbread. In October 2014, Marisa Dauber and Michael Fullam were married in Rancho Santa Fe, California. The two met on the Redstone Green freshman year, and have since moved to the West Coast. Michael was recently named one of San Diego’s outstanding young attorneys and Marisa continues her UVM education in environmental consulting. They were lucky enough to have numerous UVM alumni present at the wedding, including, Terry “The Scorpion” Ganer, Edward Reimann ’05, Julie Bastian Claus ’08, Daniel Wilf, Suzy Teibloom Ganer, Sky Ganer, and Michaela Best. Coco Kuehn Kaminski welcomed baby Brady Kaminski, 7 lbs., 3 oz., on July 31, 2015.

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

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Katherine Carton-Bacon Weigel writes “On July 3 my husband, Benjamin Weigel, and I celebrated our fifth wedding anniversary and the birth of our first child, Connor Philip Weigel.” Andrew Richard recently returned to the United States from yet another deployment, this time at sea with the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit. “While away,” he writes, “my wife Kim welcomed our new son, Nolan, into the world.”

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

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Kit Wiebe Cahill recently moved back to Vermont with husband David Cahill to take a job at the UVM Medical Center in the surgical ICU. She is excited to be back in Burlington and reconnecting with old friends. David Volain shares, David Helfand just received his Psy.D. in clinical psychology from William James College, Newton, Massachusetts. He is now in practice in Beverly, Massachusetts at the Medical Psychology Center. He specializes in neuro feedback. Ryan Jackson Walker writes, “2015 has been a big year for me! I got married in Italy, graduated from Babson College with my MBA, and started a new job as a manager with M Booth & Associates, a marketing and public relations firm in New York.” Caitlin Adams married Joshua Barker on May 30, 2015 in White River Junction. Fellow UVM alums Audrey Arnold and Catriona Brosius ’10 were bridesmaids. Caitlin works as an infection preventionist at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire. The couple reside in White River Junction. Erica Bruno has been promoted to the district operations manager for Nissan USA covering the Maine and seacoast of New Hampshire. She started with Nissan seven months ago as a fixed operations manager covering Vermont and New Hampshire. In her six-year career in the automotive industry, this is now her fourth promotion.

Emily Rodney married Paul Tufaro (of Emory University) on June 27, 2015 in Newport, Rhode Island. Emily currently works as a story producer on TLC’s show “Say Yes to the Dress”. Paul works as a director of business development at Business Talent Group. The couple reside in New York City.

Sage Stout and Peter Johannessen got engaged this summer while hiking in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. They’re pretty excited!

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

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Jeremy Baras got married in December, 2014 and moved from Boston to Chicago with his wife. He is the CEO of PopUp Republic, the leading endto-end service provider for the $50 billion dollar pop-up industry. He is currently working with his publisher, John C. Wiley & Sons, to write the definitive book on pop-ups. The book will be released in stores (and on Amazon) in October, 2015. Bailey Adie writes, “Since graduating from UVM, I have completed a master’s in cultural heritage and international development from the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. During this time, I also undertook a five-week internship in India working with the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage. I married my wonderful husband, Alberto, on August 9, 2014. We have both been working on the completion of our doctorates, with his being undertaken in New Zealand. Mine was in management and development of cultural

heritage from IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy. I focused on world heritage tourism and undertook fieldwork in the United States, Serbia, and Morocco. I also completed a research period at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. I successfully defended my thesis on July 10, 2015, and I hope to find a researcher/lecturer position focusing on cultural/ heritage tourism.” Christine Elliott and Addison Minott have lived together in Boston, Massachusetts, for the past four years. Christine worked in healthcare at Massachusetts General Hospital for several years and just accepted a business development position at a healthcare startup called American Well. Addison continues to work in environmental engineering and remediation for a small company in Winchester, Massachusetts. He is also president of the Boston Polo Club and travels with the club to participate in hardcourt bike polo tournaments throughout the United States (and Mexico this fall!). His love for bike polo originated in Burlington! Christine and Addison both enjoy cycling in their free time and are making plans to travel to Chile and elsewhere in the next year. They enjoyed cheering on the Catamounts this past winter as UVM advanced to the Hockey East semi-finals and challenged Boston College.

Go Cats!

Daron Raleigh raleighdaron@gmail.com

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Lisa White Finan and Thomas Finan were married on September, 13, 2014 in Watch Hill, Rhode Island. The couple met during their freshman year at a Delta Delta Delta and Pi Kappa Alpha event.

There were many fellow Catamounts in attendance, including Caroline Shepard, Adam Rogers, and Carlo Casa in the wedding party. Also there to celebrate were Megan Fitzgerald, Christiana Nilson Martin, Luke Martin ’12, Vanessa Denino, DJ Figueiredo ’12, Frank Flora ’12, Colin Robichaud ’12, Michael McHugo ’12, Jonathan Berger and Nathaniel Kay ’12. The couple resides in Brookline, Massachusetts. Holly Bridges writes, “I have spent the past year or so completing the clinical externship for my doctoral degree in Audiology in Seattle. I graduated in May 2015 from Washington University in St. Louis, but decided that I liked being in the Pacific Northwest so much that I decided to stay there. I am now working as an audiologist in the Seattle area.”

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

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William Vitagliano writes, “I worked in the Office of the Registrar for three years as the university residency officer and enrollment management professional.

During my time as an employee, I also earned my master of education in interdisciplinary studies in education in May of 2015 and represented the graduate study body as the vice president for the Graduate Student Senate. Upon completing my degree, I began working for the University of San Francisco (USF) as the assistant registrar for course & degree audit. Zach Hirsch writes, “I now live in Plattsburgh, New York, where I launched a news bureau for NPR-affiliated North Country Public Radio. I was recently profiled in a local business magazine which quoted me as follows, ‘Then I was accepted into a respected radio workshop called Transom. I did some work for a station in New York City, and one day, I looked up and I was a full-time reporter for an award-winning NPR station. I bring our average age down! I help make sure that our content appeals to a younger audience. And I have a unique news sensibility, my self-assigned stories have a certain flavor—they can be adventurous, quirky and uncomfortable.” Abbie Desrochers Jefferis, and Erik Jefferis ’11 welcomed son, Oliver John Jefferis, on Tuesday, July 28. Ollie was 5 lbs., 14 oz, and 19.5 inches long. All are doing well and Ollie eagerly awaits attending his first Catamount sporting event! Nina Dinan G’12 joined the team at PT360 in Williston, VT. Her specialties include sport and work-related injuries pediatrics, and post-surgical patients in addition to general orthopedics. She has a certification in Selective Functional Movement Assessment, which classifies patients’ movement patterns to direct therapeutic interventions.

Send your news to— patrickdowd2012@gmail.com

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Hannah Faesy writes, “The following alums had a small UVM reunion in Bangkok, in January 2015, at the Root Garden, an urban farm. Alex Gagnon ’14, Joseph Hasselmann ’14, Sarah Alexander ’14, and Hannah Faesy. Alex and Joe both started engineering jobs in late winter, so they took a month to explore and volunteer in Thailand and Vietnam. Sarah and I quit our jobs and took three months to explore Southeast Asia and we all happened to be in Bangkok at the same time.” Katharine Hawes writes, “Jeffrey Hammersmith and Shannon Emmons got married on July 25, 2015.

Karole-Ann Bayer is a first-grade teacher.

Send your news to— Katharine Hawes katharine.hawes2@gmail.com

a wedding next year, we will be tying the knot in our beloved Vermont. Joe Connors writes, “For those entering the field of psychology, inquire in the New England area where positions are readily available and are usually in high demand. The job market has been more than kind, and I have since been employed at two prominent corporations.

One being at the highly-esteemed McLean Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where I serve as a counselor for women diagnosed with borderline personality disorders and other co-occurring conditions. The other position I hold is clinical case manager at O’Connor Professional Group, which caters primarily to those afflicted with addiction and substance abuse. Even one job will still put your foot through the door and learning new aspects of the field will allow you to make better professional decisions and narrow down your career choices. Accrue as much experience as you can in the field before pursuing graduate studies to really appeal to future employers or admissions officials.”

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

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Deniz Sehovic received the 2015 L. K. Forcier Outstanding Senior Award on Saturday, May 9, 2015, at the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences’ Alumni and Friends Dinner in the Grand Maple Ballroom of the UVM Davis Center. The award recognizes accomplishments and character of one senior who exhibited the highest standards and distinguished service to the college, UVM, and the community.

Congrats Deniz! Tom MacJarrett teamed up with Liz Herlihy to serve as rescue scuba divers for the June New England Tough Mudder held at Mount Snow in Vermont.

Send your news to— UVM Alumni Association alumni@uvm.edu/classnotes

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5BR year round retreat on 520’ of private lakefront. Call Becky Moore ’74.

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BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES VERMONT Longing for Vermont? Acquire a successful, readily learned business offering a comfortable living and make the move! For Vermont business opportunities, contact The Silva Group at 802-864-6200, <www.thesilvagroupvt.com>

Madelaine White mswhite1991@gmail.com

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After meeting in UVM’s Integrated Humanities Program nearly five years ago, former Cynic editor-inChief Mike Eaton and I are happy to announce another Catamount Couple engagement! Set for

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| IN MEMORIAM Shirley Chapin Montgomery ’32, of Milton, Vermont, July 14 2015.

Helen Cook Nelson ’34, of Scotia, New York, July 24, 2015.

Barbara Blodgett Rea ’41, of York, Pennsylvania, May 31, 2015.

Mildred McRae Scotten ’42, of White River Junction, Vermont, May 9, 2015.

Robert Emmett Fenix ’43, G’47, of Burlington, Vermont, May 27, 2015.

Helen Clifford Crawford ’44, of West Lebanon, New Hampshire, April 26, 2015.

Cleveland R. Denton ’44, MD’48, of Broad Brook, Connecticut, June 23, 2015.

Rudolph H. Kempter ’44, of Carlsbad, California, May 12, 2015.

Ronald H. Neal ’44, MD’47, of Ludlow, Vermont, May 27, 2015.

Elaine Bailey Gage ’45, of South Burlington, Vermont, June 19, 2015.

Pauline Fitch James ’45, of Maineville, Ohio, August 11, 2015.

Robert W. Linehan MD’47, of Queensbury, New York, June 21, 2015.

Kathleen Haus Moriarty ’47, G’66, of Boca Raton, Florida, May 7, 2015.

June Beverly Abell ’48, of Sterling, Massachusetts, May 14, 2015.

Stanton H. Bryden ’48, of Cambridge, Vermont, May 19, 2015.

Vivian DuBrule Ells ’48, of Largo, Florida, May 5, 2015.

Ann Davis Fagan ’48, of Rutland, Vermont, April 26, 2015.

Phyllis Prescott French ’48, of Lebanon, New Hampshire, May 10, 2015.

Laura Byington Kreutzer ’48, of Holbrook, Massachusetts, June 23, 2015.

Paul Pascal ’48, of Seattle, Washington, May 11, 2015.

Truman R. Cavanaugh ’49, of Boise, Idaho, May 12, 2015.

Jewell Yvonne Croom ’49, of Roswell, Georgia, June 12, 2015.

John Lawrence Gardner ’49, of Richmond, Vermont, July 26, 2015.

Thomas R. Ingram ’49, G’57, of Osteen, Florida, April 29, 2015.

A. Gould Susslin ’49, of Fort Myers, Florida, April 28, 2015.

Bernard Edmond Villemaire ’49, G’51, of Burlington, Vermont, May 13, 2015.

Robert F. White ’49, of Wellesley, Massachusetts, August 3, 2015.

Samuel D. Mills ’50, of Cypress Gardens, Florida, February 25, 2015.

Alfred Edward Peterson MD’50, of Binghamton, New York, July 20, 2015.

John Reznor Ward ’50, of Albany, Oregon, May 11, 2015.

Rae Mactiernan Worthen ’50, of South Burlington, Vermont, August 4, 2015.

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Paul L. Hackel ’51, of Nashua, New Hampshire, June 3, 2015.

Edward J. Leach ’51, of Saint Paul, Minnesota, May 22, 2015.

Robert T. Platka, Jr. ’51, of Gardnerville, Nevada, April 7, 2015.

Douglas Parker Shaw ’51, of Manchester Center, Vermont, May 4, 2015.

Dorothy Post Stevens ’51, of North Scituate, Rhode Island, June 28, 2015.

Nancy Varn Baldwin ’52, of Hendersonville, North Carolina, May 24, 2015.

Lawrence C. Berger ’52, of Melbourne Beach, Florida, June 10, 2015.

Robert K. Blakeman ’52, of Milford, New Hampshire, May 25, 2015.

Donald L. Booth ’52, of Princeton, Massachusetts, August 7, 2015.

Harald F. Henningsen ’52, of Orlando, Florida, June 14, 2015.

Thomas B. Miller ’52, of Milford, Connecticut, July 18, 2015.

Rita Blinder Deutsch ’53, of Miami, Florida, August 4, 2015.

Paul W. Jary ’53, G’58, of Queensbury, New York, June 10, 2015.

John A. La Belle ’53, of Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, May 11, 2015.

Carolyn Pinto Rossi ’54, of Doylestown, Pennsylvania, April 25, 2015.

Merritt W. Sheldon ’54, of Essex Junction, Vermont, June 5, 2015.

Marilyn Bates Smith ’54, of Westfield, Massachusetts, June 13, 2015.

Carlton M. Brown, Jr. ’55, of Newfane, Vermont, May 16, 2015.

George Donald Ewins, Sr. ’55, of Shelburne, Vermont, July 21, 2015.

Norman O. Stevens ’55, of Jacksonville, Vermont, July 2, 2015.

Charles Parker Barrows ’56, of Glover, Vermont, June 30, 2015.

Philip D. Chiaravalle, Sr. ’56, G’58, of Hyde Park, Vermont, June 6, 2015.

William A. Frappier ’56, of Rutland, Vermont, June 15, 2015.

Robert Gorman ’56, of Bonita Springs, Florida, April 26, 2015.

Gerald Herbert Sevits ’56, of New York, New York, May 14, 2015.

Dudley M. Baker MD’57, of Williamstown, Massachusetts, July 2, 2015.

Richard J. Urie ’57, of Livingston, Montana, June 5, 2015.

Christopher Peter Acker, Sr. ’58, G’79, of Bristol, Vermont, May 15, 2015.

Joseph T. Vitelli ’58, of Poughkeepsie, New York, July 13, 2015.

John C. Darwin ’59, of Fairhaven, Massachusetts, July 9, 2015.

John Douglas Detore ’60, G’71, of Valley Springs, South Dakota, May 24, 2015.

Gloria S. Dugan ’60, of Falmouth, Maine, May 2, 2015.

Ian G. Ferguson ’60, of Boulder, Colorado, July 14, 2015.

Phyllis Hammond Finch ’61, of Middleburgh, New York, May 7, 2015.

David Newton ’61, of Northampton, Massachusetts, June 9, 2015.

Margaret Miles Waddington MD’61, of Rutland, Vermont, June 21, 2015.

Arthur S. Ashton ’62, of Amory, Mississippi, July 9, 2015.

Elliott M. Rosenbaum ’62, of Oceanside, New York, June 23, 2015.

Jeffrey A. Falk ’63, of Highland, New York, May 14, 2015.

John J. Salengo ’63, of Davis, California, May 17, 2015.

James P. Reuschel ’65, of South Burlington, Vermont, May 1, 2015.

Roscoe C. Stevenson ’65, of Williston, Vermont, June 26, 2015.

Gilbert P. Connelly MD’66, of West Yarmouth, Massachusetts, May 8, 2015.

Janet Ruth Hadda ’66, of Los Angeles, California, June 23, 2015.

Alexander M. Clarke ’67, of Fernandina Beach, Florida, June 16, 2015.

John Michael McKnight, Jr. ‘67, of Underhill Center, Vermont, June 22, 2015.

Stephen H. Greenberg MD’68, of Indian Shores, Florida, June 3, 2015.

Cynthia Whiting Peyerl ’68, of South Barre, Vermont, August 12, 2015.

Nelson A. Shepard ’68, of Swanton, Vermont, May 20, 2015.

James W. Sullivan ’68, of Vergennes, Vermont, August 12, 2015.

Lucien Dennis Paquette ’69, of Middlebury, Vermont, August 4, 2015.

Glenn R. Tosi ’69, of Montpelier, Vermont, April 25, 2015.

Stephen John Furtado G’70, of Fairhaven, Massachusetts, June 2, 2015.

Allan E. Marsceill ’70, of Savannah, Georgia, May 1, 2015.

Dorothy Shupp McKeown ’70, of Hendersonville, North Carolina, April 28, 2015.

Earle Bruce Nelson ’70, of Waterbury, Vermont, July 25, 2015.

Mary Ann Merrill ’71, of Morrisville, Vermont, April 23, 2015.

J. Michael Towner ’71, of Martin, Florida, April 21, 2015.

Susanna Hinman Clark ’72, of Ryegate, Vermont, June 15, 2015.

Jeffrey Thomas Smith ’72, of Burlington, Vermont, May 21, 2015.

Joyce Riley Davis ’73, of Scituate, Massachusetts, June 16, 2015.

Carrie Towne Rhinelander ’73, of Putney, Vermont, August 10, 2015.

| UVM COMMUNITY Judith Ann Puck ’74, of Shelburne, Vermont, May 20, 2015.

Jody Sherman ’74, of Montpelier, Vermont, May 11, 2015.

Joyce D’Errico Ellison ’75, of Ludlow, Vermont, July 26, 2015.

Stuart Gerald Hunt ’75, of West Charleston, Vermont, May 5, 2015.

Gary R. Niles ’75, of North Bennington, Vermont, June 13, 2015.

Edith White Perry G’75, of Logansport, Indiana, June 9, 2015.

Ellen Elizabeth Mario ’76, of Vero Beach, Florida, July 19, 2015.

Edith Kyle Templin G’76, of Burlington, Vermont, August 3, 2015.

Judith Bronsveldt Callander ’78, of Bluffton, South Carolina, June 25, 2015.

Mark William Weber ’78, of Westerly, Rhode Island, July 9, 2015.

Margot Rose Fletcher ’80, of Las Vegas, Nevada, May 28, 2015.

Michael N. Heffernan ’80, of Montpelier, Vermont, August 8, 2015.

Richard Alan Kirsch, Jr. ’80, of Briarcliff Manor, New York, May 20, 2015.

Kenneth Earl Najarian MD’80, of Charlotte, Vermont, June 17, 2015.

P. Kay Barbour-Schmokel G’83, of Waterbury, Vermont, April 24, 2015.

Kris Lewis Carlson ’85, of Williston, Vermont, May 1, 2015.

Phyllis Brand Merritt G’85, of Montpelier, Vermont, August 2, 2015.

Jon Conrad Zdechlik ’86, of Frisco, Colorado, July 18, 2015.

Barbara J. DuBois G’88, of Burlington, Vermont, July 05 2015.

Lara K. Sobel-Faryniarz ’89, G’02, of East Montpelier, Vermont, August 7, 2015.

Jere M. Scanlon G’91, of Essex Junction, Vermont, May 31, 2015.

Robyn L. Darling ’92, of Windham, New Hampshire, July 4, 2015.

Elaine Keen Harrington G’92, of Montpelier, Vermont, July 16, 2015.

Diane Wolk, EdD G’97, of Castleton, Vermont, July 4, 2015.

William Wiley Warrick, IV ’00, of Stamford, Connecticut, August 3, 2015.

Jesse Blair Smith ’07, of Astoria, New York, January 12, 2015.

Maria Dolores Berard G’08, of Saint Albans, Vermont, August 4, 2015.

Andrew James Howe ’09, of Shelburne, Vermont, May 16, 2015.

Mark Russo Weber G’11, of Charlottesville, Virginia, January 21, 2015.

Daniel W. Gade, professor

emeritus of geography, passed away in June. Professor Gade joined the UVM community in 1966, one of the first faculty members to establish geography as an academic focus at the university.

Beyond his teaching, through the years he served as chair of the Latin American studies program. As a field geographer, Professor Gade’s research took him to Latin America, France, Italy, Madagascar, Ethiopia, Spain, Portugal and Quebec.

Elaine Keen Harrington g’92, lecturer in English and a past staff writer in UVM Communications, passed away in July after a long illness. A journalist for the Times Argus and Rutland Herald before her years at UVM, Harrington brought that experience to journalism courses in the English Department, where she also taught expository writing and American literature.

William Lewis, professor emeritus of sociology, passed away in July. Professor Lewis joined the UVM faculty in 1954 as a professor in the department of communication. He was the founder and first station manager of WRUV, and the director of a project report sponsored by the Ford Foundation that was instrumental in bringing public television to the state of Vermont.

Professor Lewis was also noted for his work as a naturalist with the National Park Service. His book Interpreting for Park Visitors is considered a classic in the field of interpretation and communication. In 1989, the year of his retirement from UVM, Professor Lewis received the Alumni Association’s George V. Kidder Award for excellence in teaching.

David Morency, mathematics lec-

turer from 1973 to 2001, passed away in June. In addition to teaching undergraduate courses, Morency oversaw the College of Technology Co-op Program, was involved in the Vermont Math Institute,

and helped to conduct the annual Math Prize Exam held by the Math Department.

Richard Musty, professor emeri-

tus of psychology, passed away in July.

He joined the UVM faculty in 1968 and would serve the university as an exceptional teacher, scholar, and colleague for thirty-seven years. Professor Musty was chair of the Department of Psychology for twelve years. His pioneering research on cannabinoids for therapeutic applications contributed to the development of two new drugs, one for neuropathic pain and one for weight loss in obesity.

John Page ’50, UVM Agricultural

Extension agent in Bennington County from 1952 to 1986, passed away in September. For more than three decades, Page promoted sound agricultural practices on Bennington County farms. He was also very active in the community, serving as president of the Board of Directors of Merck Forest and on the board at Camp Ondowa. He also served on the State Environmental Board and on the Regional Planning Commission, among other pursuits. The UVM College of Agriculture and Life Sciences recently presented the Sinclair Cup to Page in honor of his years of distinguished service.

Sondra Solomon, associate

professor of psychology and psychiatry, passed away in September. In addition to her teaching appointments, Professor Solomon directed UVM’s Fall Institute on Racism, Heterosexism, Bias and Oppression, chaired the Diversity Curriculum Review Committee, and was committed to mentoring undergraduate and graduate students from diverse backgrounds.

She was director of the undergraduate program in the Department of Psychological Science, as well as an affiliate faculty member of the Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies programs.

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Alumna Wins Emmy for “Transparent” Costume Design

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Marie Schley, UVM Class of 1994, won a 2015 Emmy Award for her costume design on “Transparent.”

Schley and her colleague Nancy Jarzynko were honored for their work on the Amazon Studios comedydrama that revolves around a transgender character played by actor Jeffrey Tambor, who also won a 2015 Emmy. We caught up with Schley via e-mail.

Q. Tell me about the particular challenges or opportunities dressing transgender characters for “Transparent.” What have you tried to achieve in your costuming of Maura Pfefferman?

A. Ultimately, I was dressing a fully rounded person, not just someone whose only facet is that they are transgender. Maura is in her late sixties. She has a bad knee. She was a professor who taught at Berkeley in the seventies. She’s from an upper middle class background. She is liberal and well traveled. She has a beautiful mid-century house in the Pacific Palisades.

These were all factors that I took into consideration when thinking about what Maura would like and how she would like to present herself to the world.

Q. Is it an interactive process working with Jeffrey Tambor on the show? Does he have costumes

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he prefers, thoughts on ways the character should dress?

A. It is definitely an interactive process. Jeffery and I talked about who would have influenced Maura’s style choices. Maura was a young adult in the seventies, and we decided she would have been influenced by some of the women of that time like Stevie Nicks and Mama Cass. But some costume choices were made in a less cerebral way and were more visceral.

For instance, during the pilot and in my first fitting with Jeffrey, I tried dangling earrings on him, and he immediately said, “Oh, that’s nice! I don’t know why, but I like the movement.” He began to feel Maura come alive. After that we tried some flowing pants and a top. The sensuality and comfort made him feel like Maura. It made sense because of where Maura was in her life and in her transition to a woman.

Q. Congratulations on the Emmy. What does that achievement mean to you?

A. Of course it’s amazing and wonderful to win the Emmy, but especially for this show, which has so much heart and love and passion at its core. The show has a profound message for the world about authenticity and acceptance of one’s true self. I am honored to have been a part of that message.

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