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2 President’s Perspective 4 The Green 18 Catamount Sports 20 Faculty Voice 46 Back on Campus 47 Class Notes 64 Extra Credit FEATURES

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UVM PEOPLE: Ariel Wengroff ’10

A chef, a pet-care CEO, a pioneering physician, and many more—we check in with a circle of alumni who make their lives and livings in the Windy City. | BY THOMAS WEAVER

An annual fall event since 2011, photographers and writers fan out across campus to document a single day in the life of the university.

We offer a sample of our 2018 take.

Leading Holocaust scholars at UVM further the legacy of bold scholarship established by the late Professor Raul Hilberg. | BY THOMAS WEAVER

As the opioid crisis hits home in Vermont, physicians and other health care leaders have developed an innovative treatment system making a significant impact locally and serving as a model nationally. | BY ERIN POST

As an executive producer and in other roles at Vice Media, alumna Ariel Wengroff works to illuminate marginalized communities and amplify disenfranchised voices. | BY KAITLIN CATANIA

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Bird’s eye view of the UVM Green. 9:23 a.m. on Wednesday, October 10, 2018. Drone photograph by UVM Spatial Analysis Lab. COVER: Nariba Shepherd ’12, sous chef at Free Rein, St. Jane Hotel, Michigan Avenue, Chicago. Photograph by Alyssa Schukar.

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Laying the Foundation for Greater Success in Higher Education as my time serving as uvm’s 26th president begins drawing to a close, I am reflecting on the priorities that have guided this remarkable university and informed our strategic decisions across campus.

In October 2012, at my installation, I challenged the UVM community to raise our expectations and aspirations so that, together, we would create an academic environment of the highest quality—for our students, for our faculty and staff, for the future of Vermont, and beyond. In my remarks, I articulated four pathways to success—all involving investments in people—which became the strategic action plan adopted by the Board of Trustees.

That plan has informed every leadership decision and our collective efforts as we endeavor to deliver the promise of a first-rate university education to each UVM student, with a focus on the quality of the educational engagement.

The first strategic action goal has been centered on affordability, making sure that all of our talented students—especially those from Vermont—have the financial support to realize their ambitions of studying here, and to persist and succeed in graduating in four years. Another goal called for creating a world-class learning environment and experience for the twentyfirst century, both in terms of facilities and infrastructure and in recruiting talent and fostering success for our students. This distinctive environment supports the research mandate of our university, with new stateof-the-art facilities and learning spaces that energize, nurture, and support the discovery and understanding of new knowledge. Our social contract as a public, land-grant university comes alive as we work together and across disciplines to devise solutions to the urgent issues of our day.

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mined finitely by family resources. All students must have the opportunity to achieve their very best in order to make the investment in education a successful proposition for students, for families, and for the public good. Our times require bold initiatives and collaboration through a collective approach with peer institutions to share best practices in increasing access to college education, advancing educational quality, and supporting students to achieve success in reaching their goals. To that end, leaders from public universities across the country have united in several ambitious efforts to share tactics that have helped them attract, retain, and graduate students—including first-generation students and students from diverse backgrounds. One of those collective strategies spearheaded by the Association of Public & Land-grant Universities (APLU) brings together 130 public universities and university systems toward the purposeful goals of increasing college access, closing the achievement gap, and awarding hundreds of thousands more degrees by 2025.

Flowing from this collective effort, two UVM initiatives for student success are being shared with a cluster of nine northeastern universities. The new Catamount Commitment Scholarship, which is bringing more limited-income Vermonters to UVM, has realized tremendous success in its short life, increasing enrollment of eligible students in its first year (FY18) by 27 percent. In addition to comprehensive financial aid, the program also provides mentors, workshops, and other resources to assist students in succeeding.

Toward our important goals of improving student retention and four-year graduation rates, a new approach to advising has been implemented recently at UVM. This student-centric management system utilizes a software framework to incorporate

both academic services and student services, ultimately integrating all of the ways a student engages in academic and campus life. This personalized program connects academic advisors with the Career Center, Student Accessibility Services, the Office of International Education, Student Life advisors—virtually all areas of life on campus—giving each student targeted and customized support toward academic success and personal achievement at UVM. We look forward to sharing this initiative with our peers as well.

Higher education is vital in shaping a productive, hopeful, and equitable future for this generation of students and others to come. In laying the foundation and building a culture for the future of higher education, we must provide the facilities, the infrastructure, the inspiration, and the resources for our students to thrive and succeed. At UVM, we are committed to building and maintaining this new qualitycentered foundation. We also are working with our public university peers to scale efforts that make access and success available to every deserving student. At the end of the educational journey, students should gain a real advantage in life by our focus on improving educational quality, knowledge, experiences, and skills; by instilling an expectation that students will graduate on time; and by controlling the cost of attendance and completion.

I look forward to seeing these initiatives bear fruit into the future, as a result of our efforts and investments over the past seven years.

—Tom Sullivan

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CONTINUING A LEGACY OF SHARING

VQ EDITOR Thomas Weaver

ART DIRECTOR Elise Whittemore

“Teaching is an experience that allows you to help shape the lives of others.

“As UVM professors, my husband, Skip, and I enjoyed the privilege of sharing with students some of the university’s most treasured resources such as the Fleming Museum, Special Collections, and the Lane Series. Because of this, I want to leave a legacy that will have a real impact.

“Making a bequest to the University of Vermont from my IRA makes sense. Because UVM is a non-profit organization, it will not have to pay income tax on my gift. This means that 100 percent of my bequest will be used to benefit this special place I hold so dear.

“It makes me happy when I think about my time at UVM, and I feel fortunate that I am able to give back.”

—Professor Emerita Mary Jane Dickerson

CONSIDER A BEQUEST TO UVM USING YOUR IRA • It’s an easy and tax-savvy way to make a gift • Simply update your beneficiary designation form online or with your IRA plan administrator • As a charity, UVM is tax-exempt and will receive 100 percent of the value of your intended bequest THE UVM FOUNDATION OFFICE OF GIFT PLANNING Amy Palmer-Ellis, JD Assistant Vice President for Development & Gift Planning Donna Burke Assistant Director of Gift Planning Phone: 802.656.9536 Toll Free: 888.458.8691 giftplanning@uvm.edu go.uvm.edu/ira

CLASS NOTES EDITOR Kathy Erickson ’84 DESIGN INTERN Kira Bellis ’18 CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Joshua Brown, Kaitlin Catania, Andrea Estey, Erin Post, Jeffrey Wakefield, Benjamin Yousey-Hindes PHOTOGRAPHY Ross Bell, Joshua Brown, Bear Cieri, Angelica Dickson, Andy Duback, Alex Edelman ’13, Ian Thomas JansenLonnquist ’09, Brian Jenkins, Sally Keith, Sally McCay, Michael McGuire ’20, Mario Morgado, Carly Romeo, David Seaver, Alyssa Schukar, Vermont Aerial Photography, Ryan Wiklund ILLUSTRATION Glynnis Fawkes ADVERTISING SALES Vermont Quarterly 86 South Williams Street Burlington, VT 05401 (802) 656-7996, tweaver@uvm.edu CORRESPONDENCE Editor, Vermont Quarterly 86 South Williams Street Burlington, VT 05401 (802) 656-2005, tweaver@uvm.edu ADDRESS CHANGES UVM Foundation 411 Main Street Burlington, VT 05401 (802) 656-9662, alumni@uvm.edu CLASS NOTES alumni.uvm.edu/classnotes VERMONT QUARTERLY Produced by UVM Creative Communications Services Amanda Waite’02 G’04, Director Publishes March 1, July 1, November 1 PRINTED IN VERMONT Issue No. 83, March 2019 VERMONT QUARTERLY ONLINE uvm.edu/vq

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YOU SHOULD KNOW of the key takeaways are the observed and anticipated “ Some risks posed to our ‘forests, wildlife, snowpack, and streamflow’ in our rural environments as our climate changes.”

—Lesley-Ann Dupigny-Giroux, professor of geography and Vermont State Climatologist, was lead author for the Northeast chapter of the 2018 U.S. National Climate Assessment.

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UVM earned three spots in Forbes’s 2019 spotlight of rising stars: chemistry professor Nick Ruggerio, alumnae Ariel Wengroff ’10 and Claire Neaton ’12.

Read more about them on pages 14, 44, and 59.

FIGHTING INFECTIOUS DISEASE

The League of American Bicyclists recently honored UVM with a Gold-level designation as a Bicycle Friendly University.

The Larner College of Medicine landed

$12.3 million in National Institutes of Health funding for a Translational Global Infectious Disease Research Center. The center will reach across disciplines, also tapping expertise in the College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences and College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

GREEN REPEAT

For the second year in a row, the Grossman School of Business’s Sustainable Innovation MBA program has been named the top “Green MBA” in the nation by the Princeton Review.

Runners-up: Cornell and Yale.

UVM PBK HITS 170 With a proud history that includes admitting the first women and African Americans, the UVM chapter of Phi Beta Kappa celebrated its 170th anniversary this fall, a milestone recognized with a Waterman Building cover photo on the academic honorary’s national magazine.

IRA’S FAMILY LIVES ON The fall issue story “Ira’s Armchair” stated that Ira Allen’s Windsor chair left the family after his last direct descendant died in the early 1960s. Not true. Descendants of UVM’s founder include Leah Gaynor Leavitt ’87, the only direct descendant of Allen to graduate from the university. Apologies to the family for our error.

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THE GREEN News & Views

Author Ta-Nehisi Coates visited campus on November 6 for a public reading and conversation moderated by professor/ poet Major Jackson. Coates’s Between the World and Me, winner of the 2015 National Book Award, was the first-year reading selection for the Class of 2022.

Read more: go.uvm.edu/coates

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Purdue University professor/leader selected as UVM’s next president Suresh Garimella, a longtime professor of mechanical engineering and current executive vice president for research and partnerships at Purdue University, will be the University of Vermont’s twenty-seventh president. After a nationwide presidential search, co-chaired by UVM trustees David Daigle ’89 and Ron Lumbra ’83, the Board of Trustees announced Garimella’s appointment on February 22.

“Dr. Garimella clearly possesses the intellect, vision, leadership skills, and academic credentials to be a highly successful president at UVM,” said Daigle. “He is a passionate educator, a highly accomplished researcher, an effective relationship builder, and a gifted administrative leader. He has a well-demonstrated ability to attract external investment and support, and he has a deep and abiding passion for the land-grant mission. Importantly, Dr. Garimella is sharply focused on the quality of the student educational experience as well as student success during and after college.”

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Prior to his appointment, Garimella visited UVM on February 14 for meetings with multiple groups on campus. Speaking at an open forum in the Davis Center, he said a core appeal of the UVM presidential opening was the land grant dimension of the university’s history, including that Senator Justin Morrill was a Vermonter. “Creating the land grant university system was one of the greatest experiments in higher education,” Garimella said. Noting his own life, he added, “I owe a debt of gratitude to public universities.” In addition, the university’s hybrid Public Ivy nature and Burlington’s national reputation as a sustainable local economy attracted him.

In addition to his executive vice president role at Purdue, Garimella is the Goodson Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the university.

Previous administrative experience at Purdue includes appointments as the chief global affairs officer and as the associate vice president for engagement.

In 2010, the U.S. Department of State

appointed Garimella as a Jefferson Science Fellow to serve as a science advisor in the International Energy Office. He also served for six years as a Senior Fellow in the State Department’s Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas, and as the State Department delegate to the International Energy Agency.

Garimella has a long list of honors and awards, including appointment as a member of the National Science Board. He is co-author of more than five hundred publications and thirteen patents. Garimella earned his doctorate at the University of California Berkeley, his master’s from The Ohio State University, and a bachelor’s degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras.

Succeeding Tom Sullivan as president, Garimella will assume the duties of UVM’s top job in July, when he and his wife, Lakshmi, will move into Englesby House. The Garimellas have two children: a daughter, Shruthi, a student at Purdue University, and a son, Sanjay, a senior in high school.

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Dia Brown would like to solve some hard engineering problems. In fact, she’d like to solve some problems that many conventional engineers wouldn’t think of as belonging to their field. “Like how do we make new apartment buildings environmentally sustainable and healthy,” she asks, “while allowing the folks, low-income folks, who live in that neighborhood to stay and thrive?”

For her—a sophomore majoring in environmental engineering—the traditional work of the engineer, to develop the smartest, most elegant, budget-conscious design, can only be judged successful if it deeply considers social justice.

Which helps explain why—while taking the full load of foundational courses in engineering—she’s founded a UVM chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers; and worked as an intern for the climate-change organization 350.org; and met with students of color at Winooski High School to encourage them to pursue engineering in college.

Brown grew up in an affluent county outside of Washington, D.C., “but there were still people there who were homeless and who had to fear getting shot,” she says. Her grandfather was a farmer, and her father, who largely raised her, is a construction worker. “When I helped my dad at work, I felt sad because I saw all of these really environmentally detrimental products and toxins that go into construction,” she says, “and I think this work could be healthier for the people who do it and also for the people who live in those places that are built.”

Brown also grew up near the Chesapeake Bay and fell in love with its beautiful-but-polluted tidal marshes and waterways. It was Brown’s beloved history teacher who said to her, in her first year of high school, “I know you want to do ecology, but you should look at environmental engineering,” she recalls.

“Right now, my passion is sustainable row housing,” she says, “not just environmentally sustainable, but deeply sustainable for the whole community.”

She thinks that environmental engineers are unlikely to succeed by just considering the design of a building, but must confront the arrangement and racial politics of cities. “American cities are still very much designed through redlining districts,” Brown says. “And that’s an unsustainable design, because how are you expecting a community to thrive when on one block you have extreme poverty and then a block over you have multimillion-dollar houses?”

Historic Tarrant Gift Names New Event Center PHILANTHROPY | Tuesday, December 18, was a very big night at Patrick Gym. Yes, men’s basketball pulled off a gritty rally to defeat St. Bonaventure in double overtime. But even before the opening tip-off, it was an auspicious evening for Catamount athletics and the entire community, as the university announced a $15 million gift from Rich and Deb Tarrant, Vermont philanthropists with strong ties to the university.

The gift, one of the largest ever made to UVM and the largest capital gift in its history, will help bring the highly anticipated Multi-Purpose Center to fruition.

A newly constructed arena, to be named Tarrant Event Center, will be home to UVM’s men’s and women’s basketball programs, and also host a variety of academic, social, cultural, and entertainment programming. Work on the broader Multi-Purpose Center includes a major renovation of historic Gutterson Fieldhouse and significant upgrades to campus health, wellness, fitness, and recreation spaces. Construction is anticipated to start as early as this spring, and is scheduled to be completed in various stages throughout the 2020–21 academic year with minimal disruption to varsity athletics schedules. The total project cost is projected at $95

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million, which will be funded through a combination of private philanthropic gifts and other institutional sources.

“While this is technically a gift to the university, universities are an integral part of the community,” said Rich Tarrant. “They provide entertainment, jobs, health care, and are a place for people to come together. A university of this caliber, especially in a small community, is an incredible resource. Deb and I believe in investing in projects that have an impact far beyond campus, including projects like this one.”

With this gift to the Multi-Purpose Center, the Tarrants become the second largest donors in UVM history. Previously, they have made substantial contributions focused on revolutionizing middle-level education through the establishment of the Tarrant Institute for Innovative Education in the College of Education and Social Services. They also have provided significant support for the UVM Cancer Center, the Larner College of Medicine, and the Dudley H. Davis Student Center, among other programs. In addition, the Tarrants have named a floor in the UVM Medical Center’s new Robert E. and Holly D. Miller Building in honor of dedicated

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hospital volunteers and supporters Allen and Bonnie Martin.

Within the Athletics Department, Rich played an instrumental role in securing funding for the Gucciardi Fitness & Recreation Center, which he named to recognize Richard and Mary Anne Gucciardi, long-time supporters of UVM Athletics and student-athletes. As part of the MultiPurpose project, the Gucciardi Center will be transformed into a modern varsity athlete performance center with cutting-edge equipment and training space servicing all eighteen varsity athletic programs.

In 2016, the UVM Foundation awarded Rich and Deb its Lifetime Achievement in Philanthropy Award. Rich, a First Team All-American basketball player at Saint Michael’s College, is the father of three sons, who were all varsity athletes at UVM. “The Tarrants embody everything we work to instill in our student-athletes,” UVM Athletics Director Jeff Schulman ’89 said. “They’re passionate, hard-working, loyal, and know how to deliver in that crucial moment when success hangs in the balance. The Tarrant Event Center will be among the finest mid-major college basketball facilities in the country while also finally providing our campus with an appropriate event space for countless other activities. This is a facility that will be enjoyed by our teams, our fans, and the entire community for generations to come.”

To learn more about how you can support the Multi-Purpose Center project—including opportunities to name spaces within the center— visit go.uvm.edu/itstime or contact Director of Major Gifts for Athletics Chris Bernier Chris.Bernier@uvm.edu (802) 656-3910

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MassMutual Center Advances Health, Wellness Research

PHILANTHROPY | With the largest corporate gift in UVM history, Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company (MassMutual) will provide $5 million in funding to further advance study and research in the field of data science and analytics. The gift marks an important expansion of MassMutual’s relationship with the UVM Complex Systems Center.

The funding, to be provided over five years beginning in 2019, will establish the MassMutual Center of Excellence for Complex Systems and Data Science, which will initiate research projects and programs aimed at better understanding human wellness through data analytics, as well as programming to cultivate a strong pipeline of data science talent.

“This new center will provide students with the opportunity to gain deeper insights into data assets, publish their findings, and ultimately identify trends in health and wellness to help people live healthier lives,” said Roger Crandall ’87, MassMutual’s chairman, president, and CEO. “We look forward to continuing our partnership with UVM to foster greater talent in the data science field and working together to find new ways to harness the power of data to make a positive impact on our world.”

In addition to the establishment of the center, the expanded partnership between MassMutual and UVM includes the creation of a paid MassMutual fellowship for PhD students, a data visualization artistin-residence program for early career

data scientists, and Professor/Complex funding for research Systems scientist and mentorship pro- Chris Danforth grams for undergraduate, postgraduate, and PhD students.

The Vermont Complex Systems Center supports data science and complex systems education through interdisciplinary learning, and the center’s master’s- and doctorate-level graduates have gone on to work for leading data science teams in the private sector at major U.S. and international companies.

“This significant investment in UVM represents a milestone for us,” said President Tom Sullivan. “Our distinguished faculty and programs are capable of dynamic, large-scale partnerships that permit the university to create this Center of Excellence with MassMutual, a company named one of the top fifty most ethical companies in the world. We couldn’t have a better partner to share UVM’s passion for wellness in this exciting endeavor.”

Peter Dodds, professor of mathematics and statistics at UVM and director of the university’s Complex Systems Center, said, “The MassMutual Center will be a wellspring of research into people-centric systems, guided by our core ethos to make the world a better place: healthier, happier, fairer, and more productive and creative.

The center will also boost our established educational programs to help students at all levels become the ethical, powerful data scientists that the world needs.’’

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FORD FOUNDATION PRESIDENT TO SPEAK AT 2019 COMMENCEMENT Darren Walker, an international leader of philanthropic organizations that have helped revitalize the city of Detroit and aid in the re-building of New Orleans post-Hurricane Katrina, among other initiatives, will deliver the graduation address at this spring’s commencement ceremony on Sunday, May 19.

Walker has been president of the Ford Foundation for the past six years and is cofounder and chair of the U.S. Impact Investing Alliance. In the 1990s, as chief operating officer of the Abyssinian Development Corporation— Harlem’s largest community development organization— he oversaw a comprehensive revitalization strategy, including building more than one thousand units of affordable housing, the first major commercial development in Harlem since the 1960s.

Walker has been included on numerous annual media lists, including Time’s list of the 100 Most Influential People in the World, Rolling Stone’s 25 People Shaping the Future, Fast Company’s 50 Most Innovative People, and OUT Magazine’s Power 50.

Details on Commencement Weekend: go.uvm.edu/2019grad

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Eugenics Legacy Prompts Library Renaming

CAMPUS | In October, the Board of Trustees voted to remove the name of Guy W. Bailey, UVM’s thirteenth president, from the main university library. The official name for the building, previously Guy W. Bailey/David W. Howe Memorial Library, is now David W. Howe Memorial Library.

This decision was reached following recommendation by the university’s Renaming Advisory Committee, established in March 2018.

Composed of faculty, alumni, and students, the committee followed a process and set of principles developed at Yale University, which includes the opportunity for members of the community to comment.

The proposal to remove Bailey’s name, submitted by associate professor Jackie Weinstock and signed by more than one hundred members of the UVM faculty, cites Bailey’s involvement with the Vermont eugenics movement of the 1920s and 30s as grounds for revoking the naming honor.

After review of the proposal and subsequent research, the committee concluded that Bailey was significantly involved in pro-

moting eugenics, which led to involuntary sterilizations of poor women, darker-skinned French Canadians, and Native Americans.

Because this legacy is at odds with the mission of the university and because the building in question plays a substantial role in forming community on campus—two of the principles that guide the renaming committee—a recommendation was made to the board to remove Bailey’s name.

Trustee Ron Lumbra ’83, who chaired the committee, emphasized that the library renaming is not “case closed,” but an imperative for on-going reflection and learning. “As an institution of higher education, we should take meaningful steps to document and understand the past and educate current and future generations. This could take the form of seminars, exhibits, public art or monuments, or other ideas,” he said. “Topics like eugenics—at the intersection of medicine, technology, identity, ethics, and justice—continue to be relevant today, and institutions like UVM must confront the role they have played in the past and should play in the future.”

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Body of Art Fleming Museum collection holds lessons for PT students PHYSICAL THERAPY | It all started with a pair of children’s moccasins. Reuben Escorpizo, a clinical associate professor in the Department of Rehabilitation and Movement Science, first saw the pair of early twentieth-century shoes at a workshop hosted by the Fleming Museum about incorporating art into classroom curricula.

He noticed how thin the soles were and considered how, where, and when a child might have worn them. “I pictured a child who had a shoe that was comfortable, but less functional. I wondered how this child learned how to walk with less support, especially with uneven terrain at the time,” says Escorpizo, who is also a practicing physical therapist.

Escorpizo realized he had inferred that information about the child just by observing the shoes. That’s when he got the idea to challenge his Doctor of Physical Therapy students to do the same. With the support of his fellow faculty, Escorpizo collaborated with the Fleming Museum to customize an exhibit of art and artifacts featuring the human body for his students to practice their clinical reasoning and patient observation skills, and test their knowledge of movement systems.

Fleming Museum manager of collections and exhibitions Margaret Tamulonis pulled objects including a woman’s corset, shoes, and a sculpture of a leaning Buddha for the class to carefully examine and discuss. Students moved through the exhibit with a prompt to simply write their observations about the pieces and any discomfort or symptoms they thought the subjects displayed. Escorpizo’s goal for the experience was to have his class defend their observations through reasoning, an essential skill required of physical therapists.

“Students have to be able to clinical reason to know what the best possible care for a patient is. Once they go through and observe the body and consider movement systems—for example how muscle power inefficiency in the hip may affect a patient’s walking—then they’re not just randomly testing the patient or grasping at every single thing without reason,” explains Escorpizo.

While at the museum, the class considered how a statue of Buddha standing and leaning toward the left side could demonstrate a patient’s spinal curvature or asymmetry like scoliosis. They observed a woman in a portrait with unique posture and discussed what physical trauma or injury, or habitual posture from childhood might have caused it.

“Is there a correct way of looking at it? Maybe not. The next step is talking to the person. It’s all part of their clinical reasoning and how they would do that in real life,” says Escorpizo. As DPT students move through the curriculum, they build on the skills they practice in the museum when they begin to interact with real patients in the university’s clinic.

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LENS ON HISTORY Young alumnus photographer Alex Edelman ’13 has rapidly built his career in Washington, DC, shooting for clients such as Getty Images, Bloomberg News, and Agence France-Presse, often in the White House press pool. When Edelman began working assignments on Capitol Hill, Sen. John McCain was the first senator to acknowledge him personally.

McCain walked past the press corps covering an Armed Services Committee meeting, noticed Edelman, and said, “You’re new.” He shook his hand and welcomed him to Washington.

“We fade into the background really easily, that’s our job, we’re supposed to. But Senator McCain made that connection, and it meant a lot to me. So, it felt like the closing of a book to photograph his departure,” Edelman says.

See more of Alex Edelman’s photographs and read the stories behind them: go.uvm.edu/edelman.

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CHEMISTRY | Trillions of atoms in motion could take the form of a new cancer drug or a bendable phone. At the quantum scale, “atoms vibrate, combine, and pile up in very complicated ways,” says UVM chemist Michael Ruggiero.

For his remarkable work in better understanding how these subtle, but very specific, motions of atoms influence the bulk properties of materials people can use, the twenty-eight-year-old UVM assistant professor was selected to Forbes’ “30 Under 30,” their “annual list chronicling the brashest entrepreneurs across the United States and Canada, as a leader in science.”

In his on-campus laboratory, Ruggiero and his students hit materials with a powerful laser to tease out the quantum mechanics of molecules. Then they take what they learn in these real-world materials and model their motions on a supercomputer.

“We go from the very basic to the very applied,” Ruggiero says. For example, with insights he gains about the motions of specific molecules, he’s working to help pharmaceutical companies better understand how materials may be interacting to degrade a medication.

“The kind of work we do could lead to drugs with a longer shelf life,” he says. Other examples of where Ruggiero’s research program aims to help: improving the ability of semiconductors to work in flexible displays, and better understanding the mechanical properties of gas storage materials for improved hydrogen fuel cells.

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On the Culinary Map

AGRICULTURE | In the spring of 2017, early in his tenure as director of UVM Extension, Chuck Ross ’82 got a long voicemail message from a farmer and culinary tourism advocate in Pontiac, Quebec, named David Gillespie.

Did Vermont have any interest, Gillespie wanted to know, in being part of an international culinary trail he was helping create that connected Quebec, Ontario, and the Adirondack region of New York?

“I didn’t know David from Adam,” Ross says, “but I returned the call.”

An hour-and-a-half later, Ross could not have been more sold on the tourism opportunity represented by a culinary route dotted with high quality food producers, vineyards, farms, farm-to-table restaurants, and farmers’ markets that wound its way through famously scenic areas in two states, including the Champlain Valley region of Vermont, and two provinces.

After a follow-up meeting with Gillespie and other partners in Quebec, Ross and Lisa Chase, Extension’s agritourism expert, brought the tour idea to other key stakeholders in Vermont—including the Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets, the Department of Tourism and Marketing, and the Vermont Fresh Network—who were equally intrigued and soon signed on as co-sponsors.

The trail took a major step forward last fall with a bus tour of the Canadian leg of the trail that was part get-toknow-you exercise and part pilot. About forty represen-

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tatives, including agriculture and tourism officials from Vermont and New York State and food producers in both states, participated.

The two-day trip featured stops at seven vineyard/ wineries, fromageries, farms, inns, and farmers’ markets that spanned south central Quebec to Ottawa to eastern Ontario. The group also stopped at Parliament Hill in Ottawa to talk up the trail with legislators.

Though each of the four areas on the culinary tour have individual strengths as tourism destinations, combining them into one multi-faceted, international trail significantly magnifies their appeal, Ross says. “It amplifies what’s here, gives us a bigger presence, and enables us to put this area on the map as a global destination to see beautiful landscapes, engage with value-added farming operations, and enjoy the incredible culinary products that we generate in this region.”

Vermont’s leg of the trail extends from Cornwall to Swanton in the Champlain Valley and encompasses fifty stops, including well-known destinations like Boyer’s Orchard and Cider Mill, Shelburne Farms, Hen of the Wood, the Charlotte Berry Farm, the Champlain Islands Farmers’ Market, Green Mountain Blue Cheese and Boucher Family Farm, and the Boston Post Dairy.

Though much remains to be done before the international trail can formally open, Ross expects that will happen in 2019.

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English Professor Emily Bernard’s latest book, Black Is the Body: Stories From My Grandmother’s Time, My Mother’s Time, and Mine, was published by Penguin Random House in January. Library Journal writes, “Bernard’s honesty and vulnerability reveal a strong voice with no sugarcoating, sharing her struggle, ambivalence, hopes, and fears as an individual within a web of relationships, black and white. Highly recommended.”

Oprah Magazine also endorsed the volume of essays, including it on a list of “25 Most Anticipated Books of 2019.”

Beyond the Slumdog Spotlight Inside a police station in New Delhi sat a crying, beaten young boy, when UVM associate professor of anthropology Jonah Steinberg wandered in to ask for directions. The boy was difficult to miss, with blood on his face and hair. A police officer explained that the boy had run away from home and that an NGO worker had done this to him.

Throughout his time in India, Steinberg encountered children in trying circumstances or outright danger. “The presence of death was shocking to me,” he says. For more than a decade, Steinberg built relationships with these children and compiled their stories for an ethnographic exploration of the cultural, social, and historical forces that draw them away from their rural Indian homes and into high-risk cities. His latest book, A Garland of Bones: Child Runaways in India, serves as a meditation on the issues at play and illuminates this highly marginalized population.

Steinberg acknowledges that images of Indian street kids—which the runaways are commonly called—can be striking to Westerners as “markedly foreign” from the childhood that they themselves experienced and perceive to be “normal.” Under the spotlight of popular films like Lion and Slumdog Millionaire, Indian street kids have become associated with a loss of innocence, poverty, abandonment, and peril. However, despite Euro-American assumptions, “those kids aren’t straightforward victims of pure poverty and abandonment,” explains Steinberg.

The peril, however, is real.

The majority of street kids featured in Steinberg’s book are not abandoned, but actively choose to leave troubling situations at home. They travel hundreds of miles, usually via train, to populated cities where they plan to acquire work. Many die, but nearly IAN THOMAS JANSEN-LONNQUIST ’09

all face some degree of daily threat—getting struck by trains and cars, drug addiction, disease and illness, human trafficking and sexual exploitation, to name a few. Some kids return home, but most do not. So why would they choose to live this life?

Over the course of his work, which was supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation, Steinberg says many of the children he came to know cited familial abuse and poverty in their villages as reasons for running away. Yet, Steinberg notes, those children had the autonomy and resources to physically leave.

As an anthropologist, Steinberg strives to connect swaths of history to contemporary life. In A Garland of Bones, published by Yale Press, he makes the case that runaway children are pushed by centuries of history to leave their rural lands. For example, indigo farming during British colonialism in the 1800s indebted families, devastated oncefertile lands, and resulted in massive agrarian exploitation at the time. Two hundred years later, villagers on those same lands still suffer from depleted soils and inescapable poverty, which causes high stress and preventable illness among families.

“That’s not something that can absolutely be proven,” Steinberg says, “but the book is more of a meditation on that process. It looks to disrupt what we think of as normal. Poverty is directly related to vast systems of history, of which we’re a part.”

Garret Keizer G’78 recently published his first book of poems, The World Pushes Back, with Texas Review Press. Fellow poet Jesse Graves writes that Keizer’s poems “are both political and religious without being shrill or self-righteous, and they engage life as we find it today with an equanimity and good will that seems all but lost in public discourse.” The collection received the 2018 X.J. Kennedy Poetry Prize.

Anne Phyfe Palmer ’92 is the author of This Life of Mine: A Legacy Journal, published by Sasquatch Books. A beautiful hardcover, with illustrations by Sarah Trumbauer, the journal is built upon prompts to awaken memories and provoke reflection.

Palmer founded 8 Limbs Yoga Centers in Seattle in 1996.

Charles Smigelski ’82 draws on decades of experience as a nutrition counselor for his recent book, Exceptional Aging: Fierce Food & Smart Supplements. Advice is geared, in particular, to the post-fifty reader.

The author notes that his training in the field began with an exceptional introductory class taught by Lyndon Carew, UVM professor emeritus.

Exceptional Aging is available at Amazon.

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Roll Players Cyclists outpace adversity at MTB nationals For a cycling team, showing up at the colleBY | THOMAS WEAVER

Above: Mazie Hayden competes on the U.S. team in summer 2018 at Mont Sainte-Anne, Quebec. Right: Nick Lando races cyclocross in Rhode Island.

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giate national championships with a fleet of scorched mountain bikes is not a good look. When the UVM cycling team flew to Missoula, Montana, for October’s USA Cycling Collegiate MTB Championships, most of their bikes took the longer, cheaper road, shipped via FedEx. All went according to plan until the Thursday morning before the competition. But instead of picking up their bikes on arrival and heading out to preride the circuits at Marshall Mountain, the team was getting the news that a fire in a truck had damaged or destroyed many of their finely tuned rides. Carbon turned to ash.

Quick thinking by UVM sophomore rider Sara Spencer initiated a chain of helping hands that gave Vermont a fighting chance to make the starting line.

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Trek dealer. Using those connections, Spencer called the company’s corporate offices seeking help, and Trek came through big time. Within twenty-four hours, race-quality bikes were shipped from a California warehouse to Missoula, where mechanics at Open Road Bicycle and Nordic assembled them for free in a flash. Other teams, such as Fort Lewis College and the University of Montana-Bozeman, also chipped in with spare bikes.

Vermont made the podium in the overall results, finishing third behind Colorado and Colorado State among Division I club teams.

UVM Cycling has been a compelling success story for decades—a plucky club sport that has drawn some of the best young American cyclists who go on to race as professionals and for national teams after graduation. With help from Jake Hollenbach, a top cyclist in his own right, an attempt at assembling a short list, ROSS BELL, TOP; ANGELICA DIXON, RIGHT

and the familiar draw of her home state’s slopes and trails. The cycling team has quickly become her campus family.

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actually becomes a pretty long list: Katheryn Curi G’02, Jamie Driscoll ’11, Sarah Uhl, Issac Howe ’08, Will Dugan ’09, Dan Vaillancourt ’05, Jessica Phillips ’00, Max Morgan, and Adam Morse ’08, among others.

Senior Nick Lando and first-year Mazie Hayden added their names to those ranks with their performances in Montana and other competitions. At the October championships, Lando won the club division men’s individual omnium (most points overall), highlighted by taking second in the crosscountry and short track races. Hayden raced to national championships in two events, downhill and dual slalom.

DOWNHILL RACER: MAZIE HAYDEN Hayden is a multi-sport professional athlete, a world-class ski cross racer who began skiing at Killington at age two then took up downhill mountain biking as a complement to her ski training in high school. Competing in Australia in 2018, she represented US national teams in both of her sports. Hayden took second at the FIS World Junior Championships in ski cross and third at the UCI Mountain Bike Downhill World Cup. As often seems to be the case with ath-

letes in high-velocity sports, Hayden has a laid-back demeanor, clearly someone who can keep a cool head hurtling down a mountain. Learning to ski is a vague memory for her, natural as learning to walk.

Hayden says she grew up on moguls and was quickly hooked by ski cross, an event that puts four or five skiers on a course at the same time. “I’d always liked going fast, bombing down trails, more than anything. Alpine is good for that, but it is very structured and doesn’t give you that adrenaline of going straight,” she says. “Ski cross is just the perfect mix of jumps and rollers and going really fast.

And there is nothing else that has that head-to-head aspect. It gives you such a drive when you can feel or hear someone else next to you.”

Hayden came to downhill mountain biking as a way to improve her skiing— balance and agility and the mental dimension. “Fear training,” she calls it, acknowledging that falling on rocks hurts more than falling on snow (and that her mother much prefers her daughter’s winter sport).

Though Hayden was recruited by several schools with varsity cycling programs, the Honors College student decided on UVM because of academics

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Late in the fall semester, Nick Lando was, like any student, absorbed with upcoming finals. But also on the horizon for him, more pressure to perform when he would travel to Louisville, Kentucky, for the USA Cyclocross National Championships. Lando would take third in the collegiate club division and fourth in the U23 race.

Lando’s roots on a bike are with the motorized kind, racing motocross at age four. In his teens, Lando’s mom began taking him mountain biking on trails near their home in Ringwood, New Jersey. He loved it, soon found he was very good at it, and had to make a choice—muscles or motors. One can only afford so many racing bikes.

The tradition of success and community of UVM Cycling were a central draw to the university for Lando. But the summer before his first year, a crash in a race led to a concussion, a CAT scan, and the surprise discovery of a cancerous thyroid tumor. Undergoing treatment and undeterred, Lando started college. “Since then I try even harder not to take life for granted,” he says. “Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you react to it.”

In his final semester at UVM this spring, Lando balances his studies with his career as a professional cyclist. He’ll travel to California for a series of cross-country mountain bike races, trying to earn a spot for World Cup competitions in Europe over the summer. It’s all about time management, Lando says, in regard to keeping up with coursework in business entrepreneurship while training hours a day.

Lando has been through plenty during his undergraduate years, but the incinerated bikes at 2018 nationals added another dimension. As he told a reporter from cycling publication VeloNews: “There’s some character-building when people show up on the start with scorched jerseys that smell like smoke.”

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The Gloves of Summer

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What is the first sensation that comes to mind when you think about a baseball glove?

Maybe it’s the smell. There is something utterly distinctive about the smell of a baseball glove. Like “new car smell,” or “Chinatown,” a baseball glove is an amalgam of aromas combining together to produce a scent unlike anything else. Even though individual expressions of the form may vary (a Subaru smells different than a Porsche and Montreal’s Chinatown is distinct from New York’s or San Francisco’s), there is nevertheless no mistaking the smell of a new car for the smell of Chinatown.

It is the same for a baseball glove. New, there is the odor of leather, and coupled with

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that is the smell of the tanning process that gives the leather its character. Each color of dye imparts a slightly different scent character. A black glove, a walnut glove, and a red glove will all smell slightly different.

Perhaps, at the wrist strap there is the funk of lamb’s wool and the slightly acrid, caustic tinge of new stitching in the embroidered label. The lettering, burned into the leather, imparts more notes.

But the smell of a new glove is like an opening movement when compared to the symphony of a broken-in and well-used glove—a sonnet compared to an epic poem.

A well-worn glove still holds the memory of the new glove as an undertone, but it also holds the scent of infield clay and outfield

grass. Depending on how it is broken in, an older glove will smell of glove oil, or neatsfoot oil, or Vaseline. Or maybe, alongside the grass and the dust, it will smell just slightly of shaving cream, of lanolin, of a parent or grandparent, who smelled something like that glove when they taught you to shave or when they sat close by your side and told you the mysteries of the game like they were revealing to you the meaning of the world.

And lastly, a well-worn glove will smell like sweat and salt. The lambswool and the padding and the leather itself will absorb the smell of the wearer, of the days in the sun spent playing and the nights on the couch spent pounding the pocket into just the right shape.

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Or maybe the sensation you first experience is what a glove looks like. Again, a new glove and old present a different aesthetic.

New, the leather fairly shines, its lacing and stitching, crisp, clean and true. Its label stands off from the leather like a billboard on a buff landscape—which is just what the label is—advertising to the world that the owner is partisan of Rawlings, with its classic sweeping white script on a red background. Then there are the aspirational “E’s” for Easton, vectoring in three directions into infinity, or some players will sport the geometric “M’s” and abstracted “runbird” distinctive to Mizuno, or maybe, depending on the player and the year, is the profile—not unlike the face on the old buffalo nickel—of Comanche Chief Peta Nocona on the wrist of a Nokona ball glove.

As with the smell of a broken-in glove, the look of an older model is likewise distinctive. The pocket is darker where the sweat and the oil and a thousand caught balls combine, the tooled letters in the palm obliterated by endless pounding.

The labels are faded and frayed. For some, the laces will be cracked and re-knotted; for others, there will be efforts at repair, sprucing up, and customization: New laces and cleaned leather, inked and painted sections, providing a player’s glove with personality. This past summer, a teammate of mine arrived at a game with a glove he had bought on eBay. It was a basic, conservative Rawlings first basemen’s mitt, walnut brown in color, but the previous owner had relaced the entire glove with baby blue laces. We both agreed it was one of the most beautiful things we had ever seen.

Sound, likewise, plays its part in the experience of a glove. A new glove gently creaks as you bend and fold it, the fibers of the leather straining as the owner tries to make it pliable. The thumb and pinky softly click—“tick, tick!”—together as you stiffly close your hand, trying to loosen the

glove’s hinges. The sounds of a new glove are tentative and expectant, but soon, those sounds will be replaced by more assertive ones. The fingers will snap together with force and you’ll hear the explosive pop of a baseball hitting the pocket of the glove.

When people describe the sounds of a game of baseball, they often talk about “the crack of the bat” as though that is somehow unique to the game, but wooden bats and mallets strike balls in many sports. For me, the sound of a ball meeting a glove is truly unlike any sound in the world. In one of the interviews for the book, I traveled to Meriden, Connecticut, to speak to the “Glovesmith” Dave Katz, who breaks in gloves for people. As we spoke, Dave and I took turns pounding a ball into one of my gloves. The audio file of our interview is punctuated with that sound just as surely as the written transcript is dotted with periods and commas.

Of course, for you, the sense of touch might be the first thing you experience.

The stiffness of a new glove fights against the tendons of your hands and fingers. It is frankly uncomfortable to try on a new glove. The leather is slick and unnatural, and you have to contort your hand into a stiffened claw to put your fingers in their stalls—the space for your fingers to rest while waiting for action. Broken in, the feel of a glove is something else altogether. It fits—well, not really like a glove, not these days. Rather, a well-worn glove feels more like a hammer in the hand, a tool exquisitely designed to do a certain job (catching a nine-inch circumference sphere), and the increasing suppleness of the leather as it breaks in only enhances the efficiency with which it accomplishes that task.

Finally, lest you think you are forgotten—although I can’t imagine there are many people for whom this the primary sensation of the glove—a glove has a taste.

Watch a game at any level. Little Leaguers

will be distractedly gnawing on their laces, while older players will use their teeth to tighten them so as to not have to take the glove off of their hands while in the field.

Here, as with the other senses, the taste of the glove—of leather and sunshine and dust—is all its own.

All of this is to say that a baseball glove is a profoundly material object, appealing to all of the senses, and no account of a baseball glove’s cultural significance can—or should—ignore that materiality. The material facts of a baseball glove’s existence come into being as the result of a set of historical and cultural processes. The transformation of a piece of raw material, generally—although not exclusively—a piece of leather made from tanned steer hide, into a consumer product suited to playing the game of baseball seems like a relatively straightforward, even inevitable, process.

But when considered in light of the history of the game, of changing ideas about gender, masculinity, race, and national identity, of evolving concepts of fair play, and of a transforming global economy, we can see that the material fact of a baseball glove is neither straightforward nor is it inevitable.

VQ David Jenemann, interim dean of UVM’s Honors College, associate professor of English, and second baseman for the Burlington Cardinals in the Vermont Senior Baseball League, is the author of The Baseball Glove: History, Material, Meaning, and Value (Routledge). This essay is excerpted from the 2018 publication.

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or Chicagoland high school students looking east for college, UVM has long been a powerful draw. That non-stop ORD to BTV plane ticket especially appealing, no doubt, to generations of UVM parents. Some of those Illinois natives return home post-graduation to make their careers, and many transplants find a totally new home in this vibrant hub of the United States. In this issue, we check in with a circle of Catamounts making their lives and careers from the Loop to Logan Square, South Side to the suburbs.

by Thomas Weaver photography by Alyssa Schukar

mike collins ’62 WORK: Professor of molecular pharmacology at Loyola University’s School of Medicine. Collins leads NIH-funded laboratory research on brain neurotoxicity processes, mentoring scores of students across nearly fifty years on the Loyola faculty. Related service has also been a major focus in Collins’s life. He helped form Central America Medical Aid, working with fellow Chicago-area medical scientists to deliver supplies and medicines to Nicaragua. After a Fulbright in Honduras, Collins and his wife, Carol, started a non-profit to support physician/human rights activist Dr. Juan Almendares in Tegucigalpa, Honduras’s capital city. UVM: Chemistry major, Sigma Phi fraternity

brother. A Vermont native, Collins has retirement plans to revisit his roots by researching and writing a book about Civil War Capt. Stephen Brown, a hero of the Battle of Gettysburg (and later a successful lawyer in Chicago) raised on the same Swanton farm where Collins grew up. CHICAGO FAVE: When Collins left post-doctoral research at Columbia University to accept the faculty post at Loyola, his New York City colleagues were skeptical. Decades later, he says, “Chicago is pretty much a world-class city, with terrific music, good theatre, reliable weather (winters excepted), and a nice big lake with long bicycling paths that helped in raising two great children.”

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WORK: Patient advocacy with Kindred Healthcare, focused on facilitating transitions from intensive care to long-term acute care. A mother of four, Morrissey counts raising her sons as “the most fulfilling work of my life.” A breast cancer survivor, she is in the process of documenting her illness, participation in a national vaccine trial, and recovery in a memoir. Morrissey’s mindset for the memoir is to find the humor in her most trying times, promising a section on the moment the entire operating room team serenaded her with the chorus of seventies hit, “Brandy.” UVM: A business administration major, Morrissey sampled widely with electives—photography, film, philosophy. She has keen memories of good times with friends in the Vermont outdoors, skiing the mountains in winter and the lake in summer: “We’d get up when the sun rose and the lake would look like glass.”

CHICAGO FAVE: A resident of Ravinia in Highland Park, Morrissey lives near the famed amphitheater, where she’s enjoyed shows from James Taylor to Van Cliburn to Lady Gaga. Even without a ticket, still good: “It’s majestic in the summer when I can hear concerts from my front yard.”

WORK: President of Roxbury Road Creative, providing expertise in project management, fundraising, and long-range planning. He also produces an arts and culture interview series, “Conversations,” hosted by Tracy, and publishes a theatrical review platform, “PicksinSix.” Involved in non-profit management for decades, Tracy was the founding director of the Pritzker Military Library. UVM: A theatre major during a period of significant growth and change for the program with the move into Royall

ruth andrea seeler ’58, MD ’62 WORK: Emerita professor of pediatric hematologyoncology at the University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago campus. Dr. Seeler was instrumental in the 1973 founding of Camp Warren Jyrch, a week-long camp for kids with hemophilia and other bleeding disorders. For many years, she also gave up a week’s vacation to serve as the camp’s director. UVM: Seeler’s ties to the university have remained close long beyond graduation. She’s been deeply involved with alumni events, reunions, the Gamma Phi Beta alumnae group in Chicago, and is a generous supporter of the Larner College of Medicine. A scholarship in her name aids UVM medical students pursuing careers in primary care. “There is a dearth of primary care physicians. We have a desperate need for them, but students are drawn to traditionally higher paying specialties, particularly in view of the need to pay off their student loans,” Seeler says. “I want to help reduce the debt burden for students who want to specialize in primary care so they can afford to do so.” CHICAGO FAVE: An enthusiastic athlete who learned to downhill ski at UVM, Seeler later competed in triathlons. During her training days, she says a favorite routine was riding her bike from her home in the Lincoln Park neighborhood down to Oak Street Beach and doing a long swim.

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Tyler. “The alumni of that era who worked (and played) together are this/close,” Tracy writes. He helped lead a 2014 reunion that brought 175 alumni of the program back to campus and raised funds for refurbishing the theatre. CHICAGO FAVE: On Monday nights you’ll find Ed Tracy in Booth 23 at Petterino’s on Dearborn, heart of the Theatre District, for Monday Night Live. The musical showcase, produced by his wife, Denise McGowan Tracy, features the best of Chicago’s talented theatre community.

“No cover,” Tracy advises. “Reservations suggested.”

sara buxton ’10 WORK: Owner/founder of Center & Room to Breathe Integrated Therapy and Yoga, located in the Loop. A psychology major and lacrosse standout for the Catamounts, Buxton says she wasn’t quite ready to leave the world of athletics with graduation. It led her to earn a master’s degree in counseling with a specialization in sport and health. Room to Breathe evolved out of Buxton’s therapy private practice.

UVM: Juggling varsity lacrosse and her initial premed biological sciences major was a stern test, Bux-

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ton admits, but also a time of great personal growth.

Sandy Wurthmann, her organic chemistry professor, earned her appreciation to this day: “Orgo was my nemesis, but he got me through. Asking for help was the only way.” CHICAGO FAVE: A resident of the Logan Square neighborhood, Buxton loves walking The 606 (AKA Bloomingdale Trail) in the same part of the city. A 2.7-mile former elevated rail line, the recreation area is Chicago’s answer to Manhattan’s High Line.

nariba shepherd ’12 WORK: Sous chef at Free Rein in the St. Jane Hotel in the historic Carbide and Carbon Building on Michigan Ave. “The hours are long and brutal,

and sometimes working at Michelin Star level feels like a lot,” Shepherd says. “But whenever it becomes too much I remind myself that feeding people is the original form of social work, and ultimately I chop vegetables for a living.” UVM: Academic journey took her from art history to human development and family studies. An internship at Outright Vermont introduced her to the Chittenden Emergency Food Shelf, where she met chef Jamie Eisenberg, a mentor who would guide her toward culinary school and eventually to taking the leap to Chicago’s big city market. Beyond class: ALANA House program director at L/L, event’s management at Davis Center, women’s rugby, Ski and Snowboard Club trips to Sugarbush, maple

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creemees in summer. She dreams about returning to Burlington someday and opening a small curry shop. CHICAGO FAVE: Winter: Garfield Park Conservatory. Spring: Restaurant Week sampling.

Summer: Andersonville Street Festival. Fall: Local breweries to check out the seasonal fixings.

david lipschultz ’96 WORK: Over the last twenty years, Lipschultz has grown Out-U-Go!, his dog-walking/pet-sitting business, into nine locations in three states. In the early years, he was out walking dogs and checking in on cats himself. These days, he’s managing brand, operational, and growth development strategies.

UVM: An English major, Lipschultz also took many environmental studies courses. “My environmental studies classes were heavily influential in my world view then, and still today,” he says.

“My English classes taught me to write critical assessments which I use professionally every day, even in the world of dog walking.” Perhaps not surprisingly, one of his favorite Burlington pastimes was heading to a lakefront park to toss a Frisbee for his pup, Scrap.

CHICAGO FAVE: A native of the city, Lipschultz says the Apollo 8 capsule at the Museum of Science and Industry has fascinated him since childhood. Recent favorites: First Ascent climbing gym with his son and dinner at Little Goat with his wife.

sara schroeder ’98 WORK: Vice president leading human resources for Maropost, a sales and marketing software company. It’s a new role, following on three years as a VP with Signal Digital, another Chicago tech venture. “It’s hard to make the right decisions at the right time when you’re dealing with human factors like emotions, psychology, and people’s livelihoods,” she says of the HR profession. “But it’s an honorable and worthwhile challenge in which no problem is ever the same, intriguing because the right answer is never black and white.” UVM: Family roots at the university run deep, including Schroeder’s great-great uncle Albert Gutterson.

A political science major, she worked with the

tom parry ’05 WORK: Owner of Atlas Performance, a chain of gyms in the city focused on class-based, highintensity training with CrossFit among their formats. “Going to work every day and having the opportunity to make an immediate impact on another person is pretty special,” Parry says.

“Beyond that, being your own boss is rewarding in that you push yourself much harder than any other person could. Your business’s success is completely dependent upon you, and there is 100 percent accountability.” UVM: On the face of it, there doesn’t seem to be a direct connect between his studio art major and running a gym business. But Parry says, “It helped me develop my creativity immensely, and that quality is invaluable to any entrepreneur.” Beyond campus, Parry took full advantage of the Vermont landscape—from Red Rocks in town to hiking Camel’s Hump to skiing Mansfield. CHICAGO FAVE: It’s a slow-pitch question for the Chicago native and lifelong Cubs fan. Bleacher seat and a beer at Wrigley Field.

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student concert bureau, bringing the likes of Bob Dylan and James Brown to campus. She fondly remembers a personal “stay in school” lecture from the Godfather of Soul himself. CHICAGO FAVE: Where skyline meets Lake Michigan: “The feeling of awe when you get a good view of both together, the manmade juxtaposed and complementary to Mother Earth.”

raja gopal bhattar G’07 WORK: Assistant provost and executive director of the Center for Identity + Inclusion at the University of Chicago. “Given the current sociopolitical climate, supporting marginalized students, staff, and faculty; using our institutional voices to challenge injustice; and fostering access to higher education is essential to our future.” As a Desi queer,

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gender non-conforming immigrant, and first-generation professional, Bhattar adds that their own identity can be an affirmation for today’s students: “I want to ensure that other young people have role models that look like them, because I never had that in college.” UVM: While earning a master’s in higher education and student affairs administration, Bhattar found many influences at UVM, starting with the late professor Jackie Gribbons, “a feisty, brilliant, and thoughtful teacher.” Documenting the history of inclusion and diversity at UVM introduced Bhattar to the painting of the late David Bethuel Jamieson, leading to efforts to display the artist’s “Self Portrait at the University of BLACK Vermont” in the Davis Center. CHICAGO FAVE: Museum of Science and Industry for interactive displays and people watching.

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OCTOBER 10, 2018

A DAY IN THE

LIFE Some 80,000 days tell the full story of the University of Vermont, founded 1791. But let’s consider just one day, October 10, 2018, for insight into the many people, places, and endeavors that define our twenty-first-century university. Join us as we share a collective snapshot of a Day in the Life of UVM. 7:02 A.M. ATHLETIC CAMPUS

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9:38 A.M. SULLIVAN CLASSROOM, MED ED CENTER First-year medical students listen to different heart valve sounds and feel a carotid artery pulse via a Harvey cardiopulmonary simulator in their doctoring skills session with instructor Shirley McAdam, standardized patient educator in UVM’s Clinical Simulation Laboratory.

2:40 P.M. VIRTUE FIELD 1:32 P.M. BILLINGS LIBRARY Angels and alphabets, books that unfold like accordions, Charles Bukowski’s poem “Lost” paired with prints by artist Fred Hagstrom. A wide variety of rare artist’s books from Special Collections were the lesson of the day as Prudence Doherty of UVM Special Collections shared a selection of works with students in a printmaking class taught by Associate Professor Mildred Beltre.

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After a 3-0 win Tuesday at Yale, the UVM men’s soccer team gathers for a light afternoon practice as the Catamounts prepare for a pivotal league matchup against UAlbany Friday night on the road. In the goal: Nate Silveira, a sophomore from East Providence, Rhode Island.

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3:25 P.M. SHELBURNE ORCHARD For pears, Comice, Bosc, and Asian are some of the varieties growing at Shelburne Orchards. For apples “you gotta love Honeycrisp, Liberty, Mac, and Empire,” says senior Christian Page. He’s a student in Terry Bradshaw’s Orchard Management course. Today’s field trip has covered distilling hard cider and testing for pests— and over the semester, says ecological agriculture major Emma Schoeppner, “we learn pruning styles, varieties, anything you need to know to run your own orchard.”

4:00 P.M. UVM RESCUE Junior Amanda Locke radios dispatch, responding to a male with chest pain in the City of Burlington. Averaging more than 1,800 calls a year, UVM Rescue is one of the only student-operated advanced life support rescue squads in the country. Its members not only serve campus, but the whole of Chittenden County 24/7, | VER 365 days aM year.

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4:32 P.M. JEFFORDS HALL Mary Tierney, associate professor of plant biology, takes sophomore Molly Searway on her first visit to the growth chamber room in the basement of Jeffords. Searway started working in Tierney’s lab this fall and has made a quick impression.

“Molly is a star,” Tierney says. “She’s ambitious, dedicated, careful, and is already generating very useful information for us.” Expect to see Molly Searway as co-author on a paper in a couple of years, the professor adds.

5:46 P.M. SUNNY HOLLOW TRAILS After class, friends Michael McGuire ’20, Gennaro Valant ’21, and Bryce Potts ’20 head for the rolling hills of nearby Colchester for mountain biking.

6:09 P.M. PI BETA PHI Grilled cheese and tomato soup fuel a study session for sorority sisters (from left) Tess Hayner, Elise Salken, and Jordyn Zolty, majors in public communications, health sciences, and animal science, respectively.

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6:15 P.M. CENTRAL CAMPUS One last flash before the sun dips behind the Adirondacks.

7:45 P.M. CENTRAL CAMPUS RESIDENCE HALL Tonight, in their fifth class, Phoenix Crockett’s beginning violin students are working on bowing technique.

It’s part of their participation in UVM’s Wellness Environment, a program that teaches students the neuroscience behind a healthy life. “Music education is very good for brain health,” says Crockett ’17, now a graduate student in the counseling program.

“Music is a saving grace against the stress of a college life.”

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8:25 P.M. JOHN DEWEY LOUNGE, OLD MILL The cast of The Great Gatsby rips it to the jazz number “Delight.” Julie Sullivan ’21 (center) plays Jordan Baker— professional golfer and love interest to Nick Carraway. In the lead role of Daisy Buchanan, Rachel Pepin ’20 hopes to have the audience “hate her a little less.” Vishal Vijayakumar ’21 wants to have his version of Jay Gatsby show that “people can be misunderstood, but still have a good purpose.” The University Players are rehearsing hard tonight— their show opens November 2, downtown, at the Main Street Landing’s Black Box Theater.

10:14 P.M. THE MELOSIRA After fours hours of trawling for trout in the dark, graduate student Pascal Wilkins inspects a large, healthy adult fish. “Each year it’s been getting better,” he says. Meaning: more native trout are appearing— and reproducing—in Lake Champlain. Working with Steve Cluett, the captain of the UVM research vessel Melosira; doctoral student Ben Block; and first-mate Brian Zabel, Wilkins collected a barrelful of fish tonight to test in the lab. Native lake trout disappeared from Champlain around 1900. Then, in 2015, they came back. The scientists are very happy around this— and are working to figure out why.

Can’t get enough? There are plenty more where these came from.

See the full story that was posted online throughout the day as photographers and writers fanned out across campus and beyond: go.uvm.edu/oneday.

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IN HER WHEELER HOUSE OFFICE, one wall lined with books on the Holocaust and twentieth-century German history,

another with a panoramic map of the Alps from the perspective of her native Munich, Susanna Schrafstetter considers the University of Vermont legacy of the late Professor Emeritus Raul Hilberg.

“It means a lot to all of us; without Hilberg we wouldn’t be here,” the associate professor of history and faculty member in UVM’s Carolyn and Leonard Miller Center for Holocaust Studies says.

“He established the field of research here. He and his work made it prominent. He and his work are the reason that we have a center for Holocaust studies here now at the university. He is, of course, always part of the work that we are doing.”

Alan Steinweis, professor of history and former director of the Miller Center, notes the fundamental challenge that Hilberg, professor at UVM from 1956 to 1991, undertook when, as a graduate student, he launched his research on the Holocaust. Citing Hilberg’s memoir, Politics of History, Steinweis shares Hilberg’s recollection of his Columbia doctoral dissertation advisor telling him that the subject would be his professional death. “It’s not that people were in denial about what happened to the Jews in Nazi Germany in World War II,” Steinweis says. “But for a long time, it wasn’t really considered to be… Everybody knew that it had happened and it was a terrible thing, but it was more the subject of moral condemnation than serious intellectual research.”

That all changed in 1961 with Hilberg’s publication of The Destruction of the European Jews, a foundational work exhaustively documenting the Holocaust with a rigor and authenticity never before approached.

A measure of the global impact of the career that followed is found in an October 2017 conference in Berlin, co-sponsored by UVM’s Miller Center, that brought together many of the world’s top historians and Holocaust scholars to consider Hilberg’s transformative work on the tenth anniversary of his death.

At UVM today, Steinweis calls Hilberg’s impact “palpable,” with a professorship, lecture, and research collection named in his honor. But the greatest tribute to his influence is found in the work of the current generation of Holocaust scholars at UVM. Academic focuses vary—history, political science, religion, German, sociology—but faculty are united by an approach to their scholarship that follows in Hilberg’s footsteps, Steinweis notes.

“The kind of work that we really emphasize is empirical historical work based on documents,” Steinweis says. “We actually operate in Hilberg’s intellectual tradition.”

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U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. The honor gave them the opportunity to spend the semester in Washington, D.C., writing and using the museum’s archive for research.

Susanna Schrafstetter’s main focus at the Mandel Center, as the Judith B. and Burton P. Resnick Invitational Scholar for the Study of Anti-Semitism, was work on her project “Seeking Survival in the South: German-Jewish Refugees in Italy, 1933-1950.”

Her research explores the lives of the thousands of Jews from Germany who fled from National Socialist persecution between 1933 and 1940 to Fascist Italy. For the majority of these individuals Italy served as a temporary refuge, but a substantial number of Jewish refugees from Germany and other European countries remained in the country until the end of the Second World War. Following the Italian entry into WWII in 1940, they experienced internment, and, after the German occupation of Italy in September of 1943, they faced arrest and deportation to Auschwitz.

She notes that exploring why Jews would seek refuge in Fascist Italy, of all places, is a central question. “I’m looking at how do Jews from Germany live in Italy in the late 1930s, how do they make a living?” she says. “The idea is to very much examine this from their perspective through their writings to the extent that we have them.”

That work is rooted in document deep dives in

places such as the national archives in Rome, the Jewish Documentation Center in Milan, and regional archives in key cities that include Trieste, Turin, and Vicenza. And the Mandel Center fellowship at the U.S. Holocaust Museum opened more avenues. Materials from the International Tracing Service contain details on the fate of those sent to Nazi death camps.

Film and video of survivor testimony, widely known as the “Spielberg Collection,” includes the experience of German-Jewish refugees in Italy.

Alan Steinweis, the Ina Levine Invitational Senior Fellow during his semester in residence at the Holocaust Museum’s Mandel Center, concentrated on completing a book manuscript on the history of Nazi Germany for Cambridge University Press. Part of a series called New Interpretations in European History, the book is designed to be a foundational text for college courses, highly readable but solidly grounded in scholarship.

As that broadly framed project came to a close, Steinweis also set out on the early stages of his work on a lesser-known chapter in the history of the Nazi regime. Steinweis is intrigued by the story of Georg Elser, a German cabinetmaker who came close to assassinating Hitler with a bomb hidden in a Munich beer hall in November 1939. Elser’s action has received much less attention than the failed attempt on Hitler’s life by German military officers in July 1944.

In particular, Steinweis sees an opportunity for greater examination of the afterlife of Elser’s act and why it has remained relatively obscure while the Stauffenberg assassination attempt of 1944 is celebrated, the stuff of Hollywood movies. Reasons range, Steinweis suggests, from the timing of the two assassination attempts to post-war German politics. East Germans were reluctant to claim Elser because he wasn’t a communist; but for West Germans, he was too far to the left for embrace— a would-be hero lost in a no man’s land between ideologies.

“We probably know as much about Elser and his acts as we can, as we ever will, research has really exhausted the sources,” Steinweis says. “But I think his story deserves to be told in a more extensive way in English than it has.”

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A NEW HISTORIC HOME Academic year 2018-19 holds milestones for the university’s Carolyn and Leonard Miller Center for Holocaust Studies. After nine years as director, Professor Alan Steinweis stepped down from leadership as Jonathan Huener, associate professor of history, took on the directorship for the next year.

And the center moved into new space this year with the re-opening of Billings Library, joining the Humanities Center, the Center for Research on Vermont, and Library Special Collections in UVM’s most beautiful building.

“The center now has an actual home on the campus instead of functioning as a sort of virtual center among various offices,” Huener says. “And it’s only appropriate that its home is in Billings.

Leonard Miller had fond memories of the building as a student and was eager to see it function as a library.”

With a director’s office, library/research space, a seminar room, an office for potential visiting scholars, and event space in the gracious common areas of the 1885 Billings Library, Huener hopes that this hub becomes a very busy place—for students, faculty, and the Vermont community.

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vermont approach gains ground | by erin post T H E N AT I O N A L O P I O I D A D D I C T I O N C R I S I S has hit home with a particular ferocity in Vermont. From 2000 to 2014, Vermont saw a more than 770 percent increase in treatment for all opiates, indicating a rising tide of addiction. And it’s a deadly epidemic: Heroin-related fatalities were non-existent in the state in 2010. Five years later, thirty-four Vermonters died of a heroin overdose in a single year.

For a state that prides itself on its bucolic image—think general stores with creaky wooden floors, rolling fields of dairy cows, steam rising from the maple sugar shack—the epidemic rattled many Vermonters to their core. In 2014, then-Governor Peter Shumlin devoted almost his entire State of the State address to what he called a health crisis that required quick and decisive action. He cited statistics as well as stories from Vermont families that painted a dire picture. Vermonters were suffering and needed help.

Physicians at the front lines understood the stakes; even before the governor’s address they had been seeing the steady rise in addiction rates and knew all too well the struggles their patients had with opioids, how addiction tore families apart and ruined lives. It also killed far too many people. Faced with the ratcheting crisis and waitlists of five hundred or more at some treatment centers, physicians, public health leaders, community organizers, and law enforcement officials got to work.

Over the past five years, Vermont has emerged as a national leader in treatment for opioid use disorder. The new system— called the hub and spoke—incorporates addiction treatment into primary care in a comprehensive way not seen anywhere else in the country. A support network for community physicians administering medication assisted treatment has increased capacity at what are known as the spokes, while centers of excellence called hubs bring addiction specialists and wraparound services together to provide more intensive treatment for patients who need a higher level of support. Research on new treatments for addiction—long an area of excellence at UVM—benefits from a model that incorporates opioid use disorder as a chronic condition, fostering innovative thinking about ways to deliver that care.

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BUILDING A BETTER TREATMENT NETWORK UVM Clinical Assistant Professor of Family Medicine Dr. John Brooklyn ’79 had his first ‘aha’ moment related to addiction as a second-year medical student at Brown University. When a faculty member there gave a lecture about his own struggles with addiction, Brooklyn realized for the first time that the disorder doesn’t discriminate, and that “you can treat it just like anything else.”

The perspective stayed with him across years as Brooklyn completed medical school and returned to Burlington, where he earned his UVM bachelor’s in elementary education, for his residency at what is now the UVM Medical Center. Work followed at UVM’s Human Behavioral Pharmacology Lab, a pioneering center for addiction treatment research, including the use of buprenorphine as an alternative to methadone.

In 2002, Vermont’s first methadone clinic, the Chittenden Clinic, opened with Brooklyn as medical director. The waiting list quickly ballooned. In 2003, Vermont introduced buprenorphine as an office-based treatment, which in theory should have expanded treatment capacity. But concerns about managing complex patients without adequate support, the lack of social and mental health services for patients, and the possibility for medication diversion meant many primary care physicians only saw a handful of patients or less. So despite Vermont boasting a high number of office-based treatment providers per capita, many still lacked care. The wait list at the Chittenden Clinic extended to two years.

Brooklyn, who was also treating patients at the Community Health Centers of Burlington, saw the struggling primary care physicians, the at-capacity clinic, and the growing number of patients who desperately needed treatment, and he proposed a plan to Vermont Department of Health officials with the executive director of the Howard Center: “One day I marched into the Department of Health with Bob Bick from the Howard Center and I said ‘Hey, you guys, I’ve got this idea.’ And I sat down and I sketched it out where we would have these centralized centers of excellence that we would call hubs, and we’d have these docs in the community we’d call spokes, and there would be a connection. We’d set up the same kind of referral network that existed with everything else in medicine.”

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the state—including health care providers, elected officials, and government agency leaders—as well as funding. The Vermont Blueprint for Health—the state-led initiative to improve the overall health of the population while reducing costs—designated opioid use disorder as a chronic condition, paving the way for expanding treatment.

The first hub opened in January of 2013 at the Chittenden Clinic in Burlington, and other hubs across Vermont soon followed. Spoke providers were recruited from the ranks of family medicine physicians, obstetricians, and pediatricians at all types of practices, from group and solo practices to federally qualified health centers. These doctors received training that granted them a “waiver” to prescribe buprenorphine, giving patients access to medication assisted treatment in a medical home, a place where treatment is coordinated and delivered in a way that puts the patient first. The key to making it all work, says Brooklyn, is communication and support.

“Docs in the community need to know that we have their back,” says Brooklyn. “Because if you’re going to take on prescribing for people who are fairly complex, you need to know that there’s a regional expert you can call at any time.”

OUT OF THE GREEN MOUNTAINS, INTO THE WORLD UVM Professor of Psychiatry Richard Rawson ’70, PhD’74, a native Vermonter who returned to the state in 2015 after a storied career in addiction treatment research at UCLA, characterizes Vermont as the leader of a paradigm shift. In December of 2017 he completed a federally funded assessment of the hub and spoke system, conducting interviews with providers and patients over the course of one year.

“I was surprised and inspired by the treatment going on in primary care settings,” he says. “I think this new treatment paradigm will change the course of opioid addiction and recovery.”

In creating this new system, Vermont physicians and health policy leaders have altered public perception of addiction. Instead of shunting patients labeled as “addicts” into a category separate from other disease sufferers, they’re welcomed into an environment that supports them on the journey to recovery.

Although challenges remain, the hub and spoke system represents a huge step forward in how opioid use disorder is treated and understood, and stands alone as a national model.

After gathering data from patients and providers across Vermont, Rawson says there’s no doubt the hub and spoke system is changing lives, even as the state continues to work on improvements like

the integration of mental health care and additional support for family. The data tell one part of the story: Patients in both hub-and-spoke settings reported a 96 percent decrease in opioid use, including a 92 percent drop in injection drug use. Patients’ lived experiences tell the rest of the story.

“The dynamic for many of these patients is about their relationship with their doctor,” says Rawson.

“Everything else is nice. Even the medicine gets rated as less important than the relationship they have with their physician. That’s different. We’ve never seen that before.”

A watershed moment came in September of 2017 when Governor Phil Scott convened a press conference to announce that the wait list for medication assisted treatment in Chittenden County had been eliminated, and that patients in all fourteen Vermont counties could receive immediate treatment for opioid addiction.

Now, the state boasts six hubs and more than 75 spokes across the state. Capacity for treatment of opioid use disorder in Vermont is higher than anywhere else in the United States, with 13.8 patients potentially treated per 1,000 people, according to a 2017 paper in the Journal of Addiction Medicine. As the first opioid treatment program in the U.S. to receive Medical Home status from the National Committee for Quality Assurance, the Chittenden Clinic leads the way for hubs. And UVM Medical Center residents in specialties including family medicine, internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, and psychiatry are trained to prescribe buprenorphine, so that many of the state’s newest physicians provide treatment from day one.

It’s a model worthy of export, says Brooklyn. Over the past two years he has been to California, Colorado, and even Vietnam to consult on how to set up DAVID SEAVER

similar systems. At a presentation at the annual meeting of the Association of American Medical Colleges in November 2017, Brooklyn was asked, “So how long are your wait times for treatment in Vermont?”

When he replied that there were no wait times, an audible gasp was heard from the audience.

“We’re breaking down silos and putting a lot of emphasis on primary care homes,” he says. “Financially, it’s a viable model. A lot of people are saying ‘wow you are treating everybody, and saving money, and your overdose rate is low.’ How often in medicine do you get pretty good evidence that something is working like that?”

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Dr. John Brooklyn ’79 envisioned a model that treated addiction much like any other disease.

Adapted from an article that originally appeared in Vermont Medicine.

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UVM PEOPLE ARIEL WENGROFF ’10

by Kaitlin Catania Photograph by Carly Romeo

STORYTELLING THE TRUTH Ariel Wengroff has met with President Barack Obama in the Oval Office, walked the red carpet with legendary feminist and activist Gloria Steinem, and interviewed Nobel Prize laureate and girls’ education activist Malala Yousafzai. At just twenty-six years old, she became the youngest executive producer in Emmy history to be nominated in the nonfiction or documentary series category. A few years later at twenty-nine, she earned a spot on the Forbes 2019 “30 Under 30” list as a trailblazer in media.

“As Gloria Steinem says: ‘We are linked, not ranked.’

Being a part of Forbes’s ‘30 Under 30’ is a huge honor and it’s important to also remember the amazing work that is not reflected on the list,” says Wengroff. “Hopefully, it will allow me to continue to share the hidden stories around the globe of those who need it most.”

A powerhouse at Vice Media, Wengroff is the publisher of Broadly, a women’s- and LGBTQ+-focused digital channel of Vice Media, as well as the executive producer of Viceland’s Emmy-nominated “Woman with Gloria Steinem,” a docuseries hosted by Steinem that explores worldwide struggles of women that has illuminated difficult subjects like assault in the U.S. military, child brides in Zambia, wartime rape in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and convicted mothers in US prisons. Wengroff is also a board member of Lesbians Who Tech.

“I love the people I work with every day, getting to travel around the world, and knowing I’m fighting to tell untold, truthful stories about challenging topics.

A good day is long, different, and means meeting with lots of different people,” she says.

PEN VS. POLICY Wengroff’s journey to impactful storytelling wasn’t always her plan, however. She admits that during her time at UVM, she thought she would be a poet. As a student, she earned the English Department’s Benjamin B. Wainwright Prize for poetry. Between gradua-

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tion and finding her home at Vice, she took a detour into politics and worked for the Executive Office of Governor of Vermont during the Peter Shumlin administration, for the Vermont Democratic Party, and for the Welch for Congress campaign.

“I was so fascinated by how people communicate, and as I’ve shifted from poetry to politics to media, that hasn’t changed. I felt that if I continued in politics, I would get buried in red tape and wouldn’t be able to make progress. Media became the natural next step, as it has the largest audience that you can immediately connect with.”

BETTER BECAUSE OF BURLINGTON Off the top of her head, Wengroff can name a handful of faculty—Philip Baruth, Daniel Lusk, Suzanne Levine, and Annika Ljung-Baruth—who pushed and honed her writing skills over the years. She also credits her experience at UVM for shaping her into an engaged global citizen and storyteller.

“Going to UVM and being in Burlington completely changed my life. Burlington, The Radio Bean, and the Living/Learning creative writing program, The Inkpot, was my everything. It taught me to challenge the norm and the status quo, to protest on campus, and fight for what I believe in.”

Though Wengroff’s work puts her in the thick of some of the most seemingly impossible issues we face today, like war, LGBTQ+ rights, and violence against women to name a few, she believes that communicating new possibilities is the key to breaking down barriers that hold progress back.

“Young people today feel like they’re stuck with the world’s problems. It’s important to create content and tell stories that shine a light on serious issues, but also have a positive solution or moment of change,” she says. “There are courageous people fighting for change, and with the political fracture around the world, I hope to bring the truth to the forefront and help find solutions.”

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| BACK ON CAMPUS Alumni returning to campus for guest talks during the fall semester included Robert Clarkson ’88, PayPal general manager for North America, and Brian Halligan ’90, CEO and co-founder of HubSpot. Read on for a distillation of their insights on building a career in business and making the most of the college years.

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BRIAN HALLIGAN ’90

Think big, then think bigger A lot of entrepreneurs coming out of UVM don’t think big enough. One of the things that we were inspired by is we wanted to build a California-style company in Boston.

We wanted to build something like an Apple or a Google or an Amazon, something big and ambitious. From the beginning, we were ambitious about our vision, about who we hired, ambitious about how much money we raised and how much dilution we could take. We swung hard. I would encourage that. If you’re going to do it, do it.

Branch out I was an electrical engineering major with a biomedical option. I took a ton of electrical engineering courses, math, physics, biology, chemistry. There are technical skills I learned, and I use them all the time. I took computer science classes that were early and raw, but useful.

I can speak like an engineer to our engineers.

Tips for the entrepreneurial student Starting a company early in your life or career is a good thing. At school, you’re in a very inspiring environment to start a company. And, pick a really good cofounder, someone who complements you. My co-founder Dharmesh is really technical, and I’m more on the business side, and we’re sort of this one plus one equals three. The leading cause of death in startups is co-founder conflict.

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The virtues of a broad education I loved the balance I found at UVM. In addition to my business courses, I took a lot of English classes and worked on set designs for the Royall Tyler Theatre. I didn’t know what I wanted to be when I was in college, but I was smart enough to know what I didn’t know. I realized that I didn’t have it all figured out and thought the wider the influences and education I got was going to be better for me in the long run. It worked out that way, and I still feel that way. The world isn’t single-threaded.

You can’t go it alone At work I’m motivated by other people’s success. I feel best when I can get somebody on my team promoted or they get more responsibility. I feel like that’s my mission as their leader. Or when I can help a merchant grow their business and satisfy their customers’ needs, I feel like that’s a pretty good day. In Silicon Valley, there’s a strong ethic that advancement is in the collective, not the individual sense—the thinking is “we” not “me.”

On lifelong learning and creativity Looking back when I was a student, I think I thought that the working world was going to be like some sort of Dickens novel or a Pink Floyd video where you’re shuffling off to contribute to the machine. But that same sense of joy of discovery and camaraderie that you have while at the university can continue throughout your career. The university creates the platform to be successful. But, in fact, the peak of your curiosity and your agility is after you graduate.

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CLASS NOTES Life beyond graduation MAIL YOUR CLASS NOTES:

UVM Alumni Association 61 Summit Street, Burlington, VT 05401

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Arnold Becker ’41, MD’43 and Ruth Spiwak Becker ’42 met at UVM 80 years ago and will celebrate their 75th anniversary in December. They share, “Vermont is an enduring part of the fabric of our life.” Your class secretary June Dorion is overjoyed to share the news of the birth of her third great grandson, Lincoln George Look, on June 30, 2018.

The son of Jeffrey Look ’99 and Rachel Wellman Look ’16.

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

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Class secretary Gladys Severance passed on December 28, 2018. She leaves behind her husband of 66 years, professor emeritus Malcolm Severance. The couple received an honorary Doctor of Laws from UVM in 2008. Alumni from the class of 1949 fondly remember Gladys’s many years of dedicated service and her welcoming presence at reunions. She is also warmly remembered by 1950s alumni who knew her as the Converse Hall house manager.

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We share the sad news that classmate Mary Therese Farrell Morley passed on July 27, 2017. She is the mother of John Morely ’83 and Maryann Morely ’89.

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Rose-Marie Steiner Tarbell-Lyman ’53 and Ona Rufus Lyman still live in Aberdeen, Maryland, where he worked at Aberdeen Proving Grounds and Rose volunteers as a Parish Nurse at Grace United Methodist. Barbara Hayden Dufresne passed away in October 2017. To honor her memory, Robert Dufresne ’50 has his grandchildren and children join him in Florida for a week. Robert shares, "Barbara especially loved her little ones and this is my way of spreading her love.” Warren Bergstrom retired from his career in public education in 1989.

He resides in Monticello, New York, and continues his formal education with the help of Road Scholar travel. He hopes to share an excursion with a former UVM classmate some day.

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Robert Chaffee and Mary Ann Chaffee ’60 are very happy in their new apartment at Wake Robin Retirement Community in Shelburne, Vermont.

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

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Matthew Baigell's latest book, Jewish Identity in American Art: A Golden Age Since the 1970s will be published this fall. Charles Perkins says “hi” to all his UVM friends and Theta Chi fraternity brothers. Married to Jann Perkins for 62 years, Chuck shares, “we used to win ‘dance’ contests and now we win ‘who has been married the longest’ contests.” Their son, Chuck Perkins III ’86, lives in Ketchikan, Alaska, and their daughter, Peg Rieley ’89, SPRING 2019 |

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Class secretary Jane Battles shares the sad news of the passing of both Bill Farwell ’57 and, a month later, his lovely wife Lorrie Buecler Farwell ’56. The couple were UVM sweethearts from day one— popular and well loved on campus in all activities.

The Farwells had retired to Williamsburg, Virginia.

Bob Stetson is still in Middlebury with his partner Jane Campbell. They reconnected after knowing both families for forty years. Both lost their spouses to cancer, Marilyn Falby Stetson ’56, in 2012. They’re very busy with church, senior meals, Middlebury College events, Porter Hostpital Board, ACHHH Board, and three great grandchildren. Your class secretary Jane is a proud grandmother, the quadruplet Battles boys are now age 18. All four are off to different engineering colleges, with one at UVM College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences. Yay! Send your news to— Jane Morrison Battles Apt. 125A, 500 East Lancaster Avenue Wayne, PA 19087 janebattles@yahoo.com Hal Lee Greenfader Apt. 1, 805 South Le Doux Road Los Angeles, CA 90035 halisco@att.net

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Nancy McGoughran Blanchet shares that the passing of her beloved friend and Tri Delt sister Lorrie Buehler Farwell was a real shock. Lorrie’s death followed that of her husband Bill Farwell ’57 by less than a month. Nancy and Lorrie participated in the annal Tri Delt celebration of the friendships they had formed. Bill, a loyal husband, had met other Tri Delt husbands during the 50+ years of celebrations and was loved, as was Lorrie, by all. “They were truly a golden couple.” Marsha Pearl Jamil enjoys living part time in Nantucket and encourages fellow alumni visiting the island to email her at ccsmspearl@aol.com. She shares, “If any 2017 grads are reading this note, I’m sure 1956 is practically ancient—cheers and good luck.” James Danigelis MD’59 has been living on a beautiful sea island called Dataw just outside of Beaufort, South Carolina for 18 years. He celebrated his 54th anniversary with his wife, Cec, this year. They enjoy good health and he play lots of golf. Cec does volunteer work and gardening.

Their sons and families live in the San Francisco area and coastal Oregon, which they frequently visit. Son Matthew MD’97 is an ER physician in Oregon. David Spector enjoyed his visit to UVM over homecoming. He keeps busy with lectures

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at Florida Atlantic University, and cultural events at the Kravis Center. He finds Florida preferable to the snows of New York City. Melvyn H. Wolk ’56 MD’60 has been actively involved in photography and other art. He creates abstract art from found objects, a far cry from practicing pediatrics and pediatric allergy. He enjoys rummaging through junkyards to produce extraordinary pieces. See more at go.uvm.edu/alumpics. Or contact him at e-melliemar@aol.com.

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

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Judith Lamson Blackmer visited with her Alpha Chi Omega friend Jan Erla Buck ’58 at Wake Robin in Shelburne, Vermont. Jan was visiting from California. Judith shares, “It was a joy to have many days together and get reaquainted after 60 years.”

J. Douglas Burke was sorry to learn of the passing of Steve Millard, a loyal classmate and a regular at reunions. J. Douglas and Janice Burke enjoy the lifestyle at Cypress of Hilton Head, a CCRC with 450 friends. Brother Jack Burke ’54 and Bev Burke ’54 are living in the same complex and joined them for Thanksgiving. In October they went on their eleventh African photographic safari. They stayed in three elegant lodges in Botswana and were in the bush for eleven nights.

Robert Corshen loved his Peace Corps days and overseas volunteer work. He now volunteers close to home and finds it even more rewarding. Robert volunteers in the re-entry program at San Quentin prison, working with inmates who will be paroled within a year. He shares, “I really get to like these guys. I do have to remember they’re felons…but they’re nice felons.” Ronald R. Randall is working full-time operating Randall House Rare Books in Santa Barbara, California.

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

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Peter Alexander ’84 G’90 shares the sad news of the passing of Clare Louise Dyer on September 19, 2018 in Derby, Vermont. For close to 30 years, Clare lived in Clearwater, Florida, enjoying the warm weather and her circle of friends. She was proud that her daughter Jeanne Allendorf Alexander ’85 G’91 and granddaughter Catherine Clare Alexander ’15, became part of the Green & Gold family. Jackie Flick Peterson ’62 regretfully shares that Judy Flick Schubert passed away on September 29, while visiting her daughter in Colorado Springs. Steve Rozen is happy for the season in Naples, Florida. He was sorry to miss the 60th, but intends on being there for the 65th. Steve instructs NYU Dental Residents in Oral Surgery at a Healthcare Clinic in Immokale. He feels blessed to have the health to continue as a professional and encourages classmates in Naples to give him a call.

Send your news to—

UVM Alumni Association 411 Main Street, Burlington, VT 05401 alumni.uvm.edu/classnotes

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Green & Gold Reunion October 4-6, 2019

Make your travel plans and join the 60th Reunion Celebration! Among the many events, don't miss the Green & Gold luncheon on Saturday!

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

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Virginia Low Coolidge enjoys a busy retired life in an independent living cottage at Wake Robin in Shelburne. Michael Freedman had a wonderful visit to UVM in November with his wife Iris Steinert Freedman ’62. They visited their grandson Jacob Sacher ’20, a junior at UVM, their old haunts, and checked out the changes. They found some things are exactly the same, and some are beautiful and new.

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

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Michael Bartenstein passed away in December at Aultman Hospital and Akron General Medical Center.

Michael served six years in the Vermont National Guard and was a Captain and Headquarters Commander, 3rd Battalion, 172 Reg. 50th Division.

He raced on the 1961 US Olympic Ski Team and remained a certified professional ski instructor. A true man of integrity, Mike’s sense of humor and love of life brought joy and laughter to everyone who knew him. Cynthia Belig Bendelac shared her experience during the California wildfires this past fall, “The air has been smoky for a week now.

The Fire Department has issued guidelines. Have taken precautions. My home is on Open Space.

Kind of scary!” Joe Furgal is active and enjoying retirement. He’s an instructor at Berkshire Community College, coordinates his hometown’s annual Lee Founders Weekend, and sells real estate part-time in Berkshire County. In his spare time he plays golf and attends his four granddaughters’ basketball and soccer games. James (Jay) Pedley, passed away at home in Northfield, Vermont, in October. He leaves his wife, Sally Nadon Pedley. Married for 18 years, the couple traveled extensively, and enjoyed camping and skiing. His legacy of leadership in Northfield includes: Jaycees, Rotary Club, Northfield School Board, and Northfield Historical Society. Jay ski raced and ski jumped competitively, in high school, at Vermont Academy, Dartmouth, and UVM. He was a member of Delta Psi. Roger Zimmerman retired from his psychology practice. He and wife Lynne led their ninth trip at Glacier National Park in Montana and plan to lead another this summer. He continues to backcountry ski guide in Maine and

out West. Graham Phelps is still alive and kicking.

His travels include visiting son Scott, his wife, and daughter in Franklin, Tennessee. His other children, Dana and Jean, are also doing well. After forty years of teaching and research at the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology at the University of Rhode Island, Linda Hufnagel retired two years ago. She is busy with ceramics and works in the pot shop at the South County Art Association in Kingston, Rhode Island. She is also on the board of the Art Association. Linda and husband, Robert Zackroff, enjoy traveling, most recently to Paris and Normandy, France. Other recent adventures include travel to Los Angeles and Eugene, Oregon, where their daughters live with their families. Last winter, she participated in an anagama woodfire workshop at the Morean Center for Clay, in St. Petersburg, Florida. She hopes to get back to Florida again this winter, but shares that it is unlikely that she will become a snowbird or retire to Florida. She hopes to hear from old friends from UVM. John Cruickshank tried to retire ten years ago, couldn’t stand it, and bought the local newspaper to keep busy. He is the publisher of The Northfield News, the Northfield, Vermont, newspaper. In 2015 he published his first novel, Jason's Ladder, and is working on a new novel set in Vermont in the fifties, For Sale, A Piece of God's Country. Myrl Jaquith escaped major damage from Hurricane Michael, losing several trees, a few roof shingles, and a little vinyl siding. She shares, “If we had been seven miles away in Mexico Beach, we

would have been hit by the 19-foot storm surge and 140+ mph winds. Most of the Florida Panhandle looks like a war zone and we won’t see this area restored to ‘normal’ in our lifetimes. We know that we were truly blessed.” Fran Grossman lives in the Outer Banks of North Carolina and is happy to see any classmates visiting the area. She teaches quilting and knitting at John Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, North Carolina, is president of the Corolla Friends of the Library, and sits on the board of her HOA. Joan Tyler Mead, former professor and dean at Marshall University, is retired in New Hampshire. She is playing clarinet again after a 40-year hiatus. Joan is in two town bands with year-round concert schedules, and a member of the Catamount Reeds, a clarinet trio that performs in recitals, concerts, church, and civic activities. Jamie Jacobs and Jean Pillsbury Jacobs ’62 are loving retirement and traveling a lot. Last spring, they visited Sicily and Croatia and found the areas to be beautiful, rich with history, and full of nice people. This summer, they were fly fishing in Montana and also fished Baranof Island, Alaska. This fall, Jamie headed to the Bolivian jungle to fish the Amazon for peacock bass. He followed this with a dove hunt in Cordoba, Argentina. John Chiu has a season pass for skiing and hopes for plenty of snow. He’ll ski at Deer Valley on his 80th birthday and hopes to get to Aspen this year. John was in Kauai for a week before Christmas, then joined his sister to take their 100.5-yearold mom on a one-week cruise to Mexico. He plans

to retire next August and looks forward to a lot of traveling in Eastern Europe and Southern China.

Your class secretary Steve Berry and his wife, Louise, took a walking tour of Portugal in September.

Their adventure started in Porto, they spent six days visiting three inland wine growing areas, and then finished their tour in Lisbon. In November he saw Karen Kellers Donovan and her daughter Stacy Marino at a PBS fundraising event. They had fun remembering UVM friends including her roommates Ginny Worstell Duffy and Judy Enright Daly.

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

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Stephen Burzon and his wife, Nancy, are happy and healthy living in Saint Maarten in the Dutch West Indies. He’s retired but working hard on marketing for his yacht club, the Saint Maarten Yacht Club, and the Heineken Regatta Foundation. He enjoys sailing and is thankful that his children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren are all well.

He’s still in touch with UVM pals John Lazarus, Jules Older, and Jerry Kolker. Beverly Browne Fleming, Jackie Flick Peterson, Martha Hilton Houghton, Ann Leddy Charron, Sandra Cameron Kessenick and Patricia Gitt celebrated Tri Delta House’s Eta Chapter 125 years of national affiliation. See their photo at go.uvm.edu/alum-

Green Living At Wake Robin, residents have designed and built three miles of walking trails. Each spring, we make maple syrup in the community sugarhouse and each fall, we harvest honey from our beehives. We compost, plant gardens, and work with staff to follow earth-friendly practices, conserve energy and use locally grown foods.

Live the life you choose—in a vibrant lifecare community that practices “green” ideals. We’re happy to tell you more.

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| CLASS NOTES pics. Beth Spenciner Rosenthal is proud that her grand-nephew, Benjamin Spenciner ’19, will be graduating from UVM with a degree in computer science. He and her nephew will celebrate the graduation with a trip to Japan this summer.

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

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Frank Pagliaro continues to practice law in New York and California, where he lives. He has four grandchildren, ages two to ten, and tries to spend as much time with them as possible. Frank and his wife love to travel, six continents so far, and this year flew to London and Cape Town before spending two weeks in Namibia. Elise Moeller Widlund enjoys living close to UVM, its activities and opportunities. She lives in Shelburne at Wake Robin and encourages classmates to call and visit.

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

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Sue Griesenbeck Barber, her husband Duane Barber ’63, and Norman Bohn attended the UVM vs. BU basketball game in Boston in November.

Sue shares, “With the help of an enthusiastic UVM crowd, the Cats surged ahead and won 78-72. Go Cats Go!!!” She reminds all that the 55th reunion is coming up this October. “Let’s all return to our beautiful campus in autumn and enjoy a great reunion.” Roger Brown has an active life in Brattleboro, where he grew up and returned to in retirement. He continues to provide substitute supply preaching in small churches in Vermont, and volunteers in his church in Brattleboro. This past summer for the fourth year he participated in the CONTACT Peacebuilding three-week program at the School for International Training in Brattleboro.

He highly recommends the program and encourages those who want to learn more to email him at: roglb43@gmail.com. OH Perry Cabot retired for the second time. The first was in 1992 after 28 years in the US Army, the second is from 25 years in local public community service. He served on six boards, chairing four of them, and worked through miles of red tape to establish three other boards. He shares “This has provided great pleasure: turkey shoots, Civil War research, writing history (soon to be published, I hope), and beating back misguided ten billion dollar developers.” Stanley Carp is finally retiring from the practice of public accounting to spend more time with family. He has three daughters, three great sons-in-law, and seven grandchildren.

Ann Clark attended Smith College after graduation and received a master’s degree in social work.

She worked in the field of child welfare throughout her career and continues to work part-time doing international adoption. Ann has three grandchildren living in Vermont brings much joy to her life.

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Robert A. Silverstein is involved in poltics in Nagaland. He has been there six times since May 2015.

See a photo at go.uvm.edu/alumpics of Robert and then editor, Akum Longchari, of The Morung Express—one of the main state papers. He has published more than two dozen articles. In April, 2017 it became too dangerous to publish. Carol Watters sends greetings from the cool south. She retired from nursing after 44 years. Her last position was at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. She volunteers through her church and the North Carolina Methodist Committee on Relief. She also visits older adults in their homes, which relates to her doctoral work in education.

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

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An August get-together in the beautiful Northeast Kingdom was enjoyed by Susan Clark, Mary Ann Mc-Mahon Hodges, Judith Heller Mulhern, Judy Pierce, Penny Sheperd Wright, and Marianne Riley Mercy. This year Gail M. Perlee turned 76 and celebrated 20 years of retirement from the City of Phoenix Public Library.

She lives on her desert acre, near South Mountain, and although she no longer owns horses is actively researching and writing a Morgan horse history featured in Morgan Horse magazine. Richard Pouch and his wife Carol, (Mary Fletcher ’64), are still enjoying life in Vero Beach, Florida and Bar Harbor, Maine. They enjoy watching their four grandsons grow, two at UGA, and two working on life plans. They wish the best to their classmates. Albert “Albie” Pristaw has been a practicing optometrist in Vermont, New York, and New Hampshire for 48 years. He spends time caring for prison inmates in both states and is in semi-retirement mode. Albie enjoys canoeing, fly fishing, and fly tying. He stays in touch with UVM friends Joe Pogar, Bob Russo ’64, and others. After twelve great years in Mexico, Steven Weisberg and his wife, Lynn, have moved to Hendersonville, North Carolina. They are excited to begin the next chapter of their lives and would love to hear from any alums living in the area.

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

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Brian Andrews and Lucy Beal Andrews ’68 visited Singapore last October. They visited the beyondspectacular National Gardens and many museums. They noted the development Singapore has undergone since living there when Brian was on an expat assignment with United Technologies and Singapore Airlines. Helene Sihler Moses is living in retirement between Milton, Florida, and South Berwick, Maine. She has three daughters and three grandsons. Helene still loves Vermont and visits every summer.

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Kathleen Nunan McGuckin 416 San Nicolas Way, St Augustine, FL 32080 kkmcguckin@comcast.net

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Richard Langs retired in 2001 after 30 years in finance positions in the transportation industry. He has since published two books on the history of the East Bay Regional Park District in the San Francisco Bay area. His latest book on Tilden Regional Park will be available this spring from Arcadia History Press.

Roger Allbee retired from his position as CEO of Grace Cottage Hospital and Family Health Center in Townshend, VT. He’s off to new things with his wife, Ann Persons Allbee ’66 G’04.

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

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Syrette Dym thanks Paul Malone and the entire Reunion Committee for the tremendous 50th reunion.

Thanks also to Jeff and Joanne Koledo Kuhman for hosting a beautiful afternoon on Mt. Philo.

Syrette loved seeing old friends—Cecilia (Candy) Kane, Kathy Torrisi Idleman, Georgia Walsh Miller—and meeting classmates never known.

She writes, “So proud of the new UVM, beautiful new buildings integrated with the old through well-designed public spaces, a true university.”

Congratulations to Jack Rosenberg, whose picture, “Make a Wish 4” received ViewBug’s prestigious Community Choice Award. This award is voted on by members who take the time to recognize special photos that serve as an inspiration for others. After consulting for a decade (Li-ion batteries), Rick Howard is drifting toward retirement.

His hobbies and three grandchildren keep him busy. Rick connected with fellow chemistry major Hal Nordstrom after nearly 50 years. William Schubart’s seventh work of fiction, Lila & Theron, won second prize for literary fiction in IBPA's (Independent Book Publishers Association) Benjamin Franklin Awards. His new novel, The Priest, was published in January. Learn more at schubart.com. John Wagner is retired and enjoying his eight grandchildren. Paul Malone, class committee chair, shared the following about last fall’s Reunion Weekend: “Our memorable 50th Reunion weekend began on Friday, with superb Vermont fall weather, and more than 80 classmates/guests gathered at Mt. Philo State Park for a picnic lunch, music provided by a UVM Music Department student jazz trio. Special thanks to Jeff Kuhman and Joanne Kuhman for their active involvement in sponsoring and planning. That evening classmates mingled in Waterman Manor for cocktails, conversation, and remarks from President Sullivan. Then on to the new Alumni House for socializing and visiting the new Colin Hurd Memorial Lounge. Saturday morning included a narrated campus bus tour, where we took in the remarkable transfomation of campus. At lunch, our class was welcomed into the Green and Gold Society. The Saturday evening banquet was attended by more

than 100—a memorable evening, from cocktails to dessert! A special thank you to Eileen Dudley ’92 G’14, our UVM Foundation reunion coordinator, and her able staff for going above and beyond.

Every table was adorned with fall flowers, gourds, runners, and candles. Additional commendations to Donna Burke ’01, George Rutherford, Chris Bernier, and Alan Ryea ’90 who assisted immensely. Throughout the evening, we socialized, danced to ‘our music,’ viewed a continuous slide show from our yearbook on the giant screen, and just ‘hung out one more time.’ If you missed it visit the UVM Alumni website: www.alumni.uvm. edu/alumniweekend, there is a link to our photos in the left sidebar.

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

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Steve Kunken encourages classmates to celebrate our 50th Reunion, October 4-6, 2019. Plans are underway for an event-filled weekend. Information is available on the alumni website. Frank Resnick makes his own recommendation: “If you are reading this note, you are ordered to attend our 50th Class Reunion. There won't be another

one.” Jim Betts ’69, MD ’73 wrote in the midst of this summer’s terrible wildfire season out west: “I‘ve lived in California longer than any other location, it's been 50 years and a continent away from my ‘home-home’ in Bennington. Here on the Pacific Coast, we are always aware of the risks of earthquakes, but now with climate change, the question of ‘inadequate forest management,’ and just no rain, the state is an ignition waiting to happen. As a firefighter and homeowner in Big Sur, I am in awe of the magnificence of the region and aware that we must all take stewardship of our environs. That is true wherever we reside.” Jim continues to practice pediatric surgery at UCSF Children’s Hospital Oakland, with a special interest in trauma and disaster management. With some ‘age and resolve,’ he’s ‘carving out’ cherished moments to be away from the city among the Redwoods high above the Pacific. Jim writes, “Time for us in the Class of ‘69 to reflect on our years at UVM. For those who have not returned to our university, please make plans to do so at Reunion next fall.” There is plenty to celebrate about UVM 2019, Jim notes, from impressive changes to the physical campus to academic excellence to the approaching close of a highly successful capital campaign.

He closes, “I'm looking forward to seeing as many of our class, and others, as possible during this seminal anniversary of our graduation. Wishing all a happy and healthy year.”

Send your news to—

Symphony of the Blue Danube September 16–25, 2019

For information on our new tours visit alumni.uvm.edu/travel

Mary Moninger-Elia 1 Templeton Street, West Haven, CT 06516 maryeliawh@gmail.com

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Lynne Bartholomew Kreiner and ’70 Pi Phi sisters gathered in Burlington in September to celebrate their Golden Arrow reunion—50 years a Pi Phi! They toured the current Pi Phi house, the beautifully renovated Alumni House (formerly Delta Psi), and even danced to Motown. The group included: Carole Pixley Walker, Chris Scott Oliver, Gail Wilson Murray, Janie MacDougall Sherwin, Joan Aldrich Knight, Judith Winsor Bruce, Karen Sorrell Villanti, Kit Delfausse Ardell, Linae Johnson Schroeder, Linda Hawkins Caponegro, Lynne Bartholomew, Mary Mulhern Alberti, Pat Walker Cook, Perky Spaulding Maddocks, and Vicki Vanderventer Eaton. Unable to attend, and missed were: Barbara Schhmitt West, Suzanne Thabault Pisanelli, Jeanne Whitcomb Bonin, Judy Church Reynolds, Star Vogt Rader, Kathy Leonard Gordon, Margaret Williams Hitchcock ’69, Cheryl Payne, Cindy Blakely, and Terry Franz Dixon. As we look forward to our 50th Reunion, Adrienne Gouzoulis Broch is interested in participating in the festivities. Anyone involved, please contact Adrienne at adrienne.broch@aol. com. Martha Johnson Gavin and Karen Kiernan Mechem traveled to Paris, Lyon, and Provence for two weeks in June. See their photo at go.uvm.

| CLASS NOTES edu/alumpics. Doug Arnold, your class secretary, reporting: I find that southwest Florida continues to draw folks from UVM. I play golf with George Kreiner, Tad Ebling, and Sandy Luckenbill. I also see Jeff and Joanne Kuhman ’68, Ron Tice ’69, and Mary Tice from Ohio. I played in a golf tournament with Ron Tice in Toledo this past summer and spent time with the Peter Doremus ’68, Jain Doremus, and Dale Hines ’69 in Punta Gorda, Florida.

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

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Christine Mosher Labone has lived in Perth, Australia, for 36 years. She recently retired from work as a medical scientist at Fiona Stanley Hospital and enjoys travelling with her husband. In November 2017, she visited classmate Lynn Bailey at her home in Vermont. Christine shares, “We had as much fun as we did all those years ago in college.”

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

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Margot Witten Johnson and Emily Schnaper Manders ‘74 stayed with Sally Cummings to attend Tri DeltaEta Chapter‘s 125th Anniversary Celebration. The October weekend included a fun run, desserts, tours at the chapter house, campus tours, and a banquet at the Alumni House. Others in attendance were Barbara Crandell Cochran, Joanne Connors Stewart, Gayle Secord, and B.J. Martin. Margot writes, “It was fantastic to be together after 46 years, and to share the event with another 150 Tri Deltas of all generations.” Paula Lemerman retired from her full-time career as an associate county counselor at the Office of the St. Louis County Counselor. She successfully completed the master gardener certification course through the Missouri Botanical Garden.

She now volunteers there, researching native plants.

Debra Koslow Stern retired from UVM and feels busier than ever. She and husband, Mitch Stern G’79, are teaching at the Community College of Vermont. They took several wonderful vacations last year, including Hawaii, Germany, and Cuba. Debra had a great time reconnecting with friend and classmate Susan Sharp, who was visiting from Montana and shares, “UVM friends are the best!” Jeffrey Lewis moved from Putney, Vermont, to Nantucket Island 28 years ago. His avocation and occupation a blend of woodworking and a healing modality called Biodynamic Crainiosacral Therapy.

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

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to persuade them to get their charges to learn to write! Two poems authored by Charlotte Cohen Sheer appear in An Assortment of Animals: A Children's Poetry Anthology. The full-color, illustrated collection includes 44 pages of original poetry contributed by various writers and illustrators. Tri Deltas who lived in the chapter house in 1971-72 gathered with many other sisters for a fun weekend reunion in October. The occasion celebrated the Eta Chapter’s 125th anniversary. Martha Hoe Ireland, Katie Byers Goglia, Barb Wittine Star, Kathy August Boll, Margaret Speyer Poster, Deborah Mesce, Tina Silvestri Stokes, Cathy Copp Dion and many others met for drinks, toured the Tri Delta house and the campus, and caught up.

The anniversary dinner at the Alumni House was a throwback for those who remember it as the Delta Psi house.

Send your news to— Deborah Layne Mesce 2227 Observatory Place NW Washington, DC 20007 dmesce@icloud.com

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Stephen Buerkle enjoys living in beautiful Upper Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The area is great for kayaking, running, bicycling, and motorcycling. He is on his ninth tech startup, focused on the use of virtual and augmented reality technologies in the industrial and manufacturing sectors. Daughter Alexandra recently married a wonderful woman, both are Ivy League grads. He’d love to hear from classmates, especially those who lived in Mason or Coolidge. In November, Jim Condos was re-elected to his fifth term as Vermont's Secretary of State. In July, he was elected by his peers to be the president of the National Association of Secretaries of State. Paul Kenny is a broker at Paul Kenny & Matt Bogue Commercial Real Estate in Sun Valley, Idaho; he represents Hotel Ketchum as a leasing agent. Paul connected with Josh Dinar ’95, founding partner of T/ACO, one of Boulder, Colorado’s favorite restaurants. Josh is scouting a location for a new tequila bar/restaurant in Sun Valley. Katherine Pisanelli LaMontagne lives in Middletown Springs, Vermont.

She works as an ICU nurse in two Vermont hospitals and spends time with her children and grandchildren. Frank Luisi is an advisor for NCAA College Bound Student-Athletes at Oceanside High School.

He helps student-athletes attend the best academic and NCAA institutions. Frank finds it “most rewarding to help young people reach their dreams, just as someone helped us.” Frank remembers Rick Farnham ’69, Denis Lambert ’54, Joe Scannella, Mike Murphy, Bruce Craddock, Bill Stephany, Charlie Rathbone, Fr. Frank Holland, and Fr. Omer Dufault, as great mentors of UVM student-athletes and himself. “Now it’s my turn to give back and help our young people reach their dreams. Thank you to all who have been part of my life, I remember the spirit of UVM when I help kids learn to persevere.”

Emily Schnaper Manders, Kathleen Welch, Patty Bucken Timmeny, Laura Tilly Davies ’73, Marilyn Berkman Sturman ’73, and many other Tri Delta sisters returned in October to celebrate the

125th Anniversary of the Eta Chapter. The weekend included drinks at local bars, a lovely open house at the Tri Delta house, and an entertaining banquet at the Alumni House. Thanks to Susan Marchand Higgins ’85 for her efforts in coordinating this amazing event. Emily Schnaper Manders and Irene Kwasnik Kowalski ’73, along with Irene’s daughter Andrea, attended the Boston University vs. Boston College hockey game in November. They rooted for BU as Andrea is an alum and Emily is employed there. James Morrison’s retirement was short lived, he’s now busy as part-owner in European Working Dogs, providing working dogs to police departments, the military, and more.

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

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James Lake is at the end of his career with ten years in product development and thirty years in IT management. He has had ‘a great ride’ literally—working at Harley-Davidson leading all IT operations for their product development center. He’s proud of son Michael, a law enforcement officer with high passion for his career. James married last year and is going to be a grandfather for first time in April. He wishes all the very best!

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

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Frank Alfano finished his fifteenth service trip to the Dominican Republic, spaying and neutering the local dog and cat population. Jeffrey Berk recently took on the role of president with the American Association of Equine Practitioners. Andrea Kalisch Casey is living in Bend, Oregon. She teaches skiing, travels, hikes, and enjoys retirement. After 32 years, Judy Holmes moved from Colorado to Montana for her winter home. She also changed her seasonal residence from Sanibel to the Greenbrier. Judy invites classmates who’d love to ski Big Sky, to visit.

Her email is Judy@judyholmes.com. Her cabin is in the Yellowstone Club; so, no lift tickets required.

Paula Yankauskas, a former UVM varsity swim team member is busy. In September, she swam the Catalina, the San Pedro Channel from Catalina Island to the mainland. Once ratified, she will be on record as the 198th person in the world, the 98th person from the United States, and the first person from Vermont to achieve the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming. Paula swam the English Channel in 2016, and around Manhattan in 2017. The Catalina completes the Triple Crown. Her first marathon swim was with her sister to cross Lake Champlain from Shelburne Point to Willsboro Point back in 1977. Husband, Dale Martin ’76, crewed. Mark A. Johnson retired last summer after a 17-year career as a chip designer in the space sciences division at Southwest Research Institute. His final accomplishment was his sixth patent, this one for the elec-

MOSAIC COMMUNITY CELEBRATION MARCH 20-21, 2019 Khalil Munir ’74 used to describe himself as a “lost” alumnus of the University of Vermont. He rarely thought of the university, and like many other alumni of color he felt a lack of connection with his alma mater. That changed in 2014 when his friends encouraged him to attend an alumni of color event on campus where he engaged with current students and saw the many ways that UVM had changed and grown since he was a student. Since then, Munir has made it his mission to build bridges between the alumni and student communities at UVM. The Mosaic Community Celebration on campus March 20 & 21 delivers a program informed by feedback received from hundreds of alumni and students of color who share the mutual goal of building a stronger network of support.

A community breakfast, job fair, career mentoring, campus tours, keynote lecture, and jazz concert highlight a program that Munir hopes has “something for everyone” and will serve as a springboard for more activities in the months and years ahead. Learn more at alumni.uvm.edu/mosaic

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tronics on a radiation detector that is currently on the International Space Station. Dennis and Mary Ellen Keresey hosted a mini-Sigma Nu reunion in September. Gary Wright, Herb Muther, Curt Duane, Pete Beekman, and Jeff DeLuca with their wives and significant other enjoyed a beautiful late summer at the beach. The annual surf and turf dinner, organized by the Fairfield Beach Residents Association was a highlight. For those not familiar with Fairfield Beach, many cottages are rented to students from Fairfield University. Gary, a former director of residential life at AIC (in addition to coaching the hockey team), helped quiet a large, loud, after hour’s student party in the wee hours a few doors down.

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

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Mark Aeschliman is an independent school teacher of art history, architecture, and design in Ticino, Switzerland. Mark and his wife, Simone, live in a renovated stone barn/house with a view of Lake Lugano. Their daughter Hilary completed her bachelor’s in musical theater in Bologna, Italy, and is currently in her second year studying voice at the Royal College of Music in London. Mark’s interests include the psychology of C. G. Jung, the architecture of Louis Kahn, and wood-turning on the lathe. Mark shares new contact information: mark.aeschliman@tasis.ch, Piazzetta Municipio 5, 6992 Vernate, Ticino, Switzerland. Thomas

Kiley is having trouble staying still. He sailed his 50-year-old, 37-foot wooden boat 10,000 miles, circling around the Atlantic. He has learned that sailing long distance is the most expensive way to get somewhere for free. Rob Waxman retired from teaching adult education at Fairfield-Suisun Adult School. He now teaches math and computers part-time in Vallejo at the adult regional education center. He also teaches guitar and plays Allman Brother’s songs in his band, Idlewild West, https://www.facebook.com/allmanstepbrothers.

Link and Beverly Baier Keur’s son Ryan was married to Brittany Elizabeth Ison in September at The Biltmore Estates in Asheville, North Carolina., Beverly was recently inducted into the Sussex County Sports Hall of Fame for her career as field hockey coach at High Pont Regional High School, New Jersey. Bill Klipp and wife Linda are pursuing their post-retirement passion of wildlife photography, traveling most recently to Australia, Madagascar, East Africa, and the Galapagos. See some of their award-winning photos at: www.WildlifePhotos. me and read their blog at: www.klipp.blog Send your news to— UVM Alumni Association 411 Main Street, Burlington, VT 05401 alumni.uvm.edu/classnotes

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Dawna Cobb is enjoying not working after years of practicing law and serving as dean of students and lecturer at the University of Maryland School of Law. She serves on non-profit boards, mentors a teenage girl, is starting a project that gives working people

access to affordable legal representation, travels, and feels lucky to do all of it. Alexandra Hoblitzell Heintz just celebrated her thirtieth year working at Southwestern Vermont Medical Center as a Patient Safety Officer. Her son Jamie Heintz ’10 is married and works for Bombardier Recreational Products in Quebec; daughter Hannah Heintz ’15 is a research assistant in a Boston lab and is applying to grad schools. Stanley Przybylinski and the extended Chittenden crew from 1974-75 had a good time at the 40th UVM Reunion. The group included Charley Dykes ’80, Greg Edwards ’79, Max Martin ’79, Peter Drakos, Nat Foote ’79, Rick Parker, Chris Hancock, Brian Evans, Norm Poutre, Mark Wenzel, and Libby Carney Manahan. Ken Wormser is living and working in New York City. He recently returned to campus with his daughters Samantha and Lindsay for the opening of the new business school.

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David Marvin is grateful for his young family and real estate hospitality business in Atlanta. After a career in the US Air Force and with Jet Blue Airways, Craig Roebuck retired in July and lives in Maine. Craig flew reconnaissance planes worldwide, flew scientists around Antarctica, and flew many students and alumni in and out of Burlington. He looks forSPRING 2019 |

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| CLASS NOTES ward to traveling on his own schedule, hiking, paddling, and nordic skiing. Theresa Valla invites classmates to visit her new website, TeressaValla-Arts.nyc and delight in the paintings, sculpture, and photography. After a twelve-year career with the Perry Restaurant Group as general manger of Sweetwaters, Kenny Gray left Vermont in 1990 and lives in New York City with his wife, Lori. He is a pilot and director of operations for an aircraft management/charter company based in New York with worldwide operations. He returns to Burlington frequently to visit college friends and restaurant colleagues. Roy Sokolowski and Patricia Nebel Sokolowski ‘79 relocated to Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. They were founders of WestView Investment Advisors in Burlington, VT. Roy was an investment manager and Pat was a Certified Financial Planner. They opened a branch in Hilton Head to help new and existing clients while enjoying warmer weather. The South Carolina team is rounded out with two other UVM grads: their son Robert ’12 and daughter-in-law Jennifer ’11. They look forward to meeting UVM alumni in the Low Country!

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

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Ines Rulis Barlerin has fond memories of her time at UVM, where she met her very closest friends, Annie Kempton Guyer ’81 and Barbara Hansberry ’81. Ines and husband, Peter Henry Barlerin have spent thirty years in the foreign service with the Department of State, raising three children, Sebastien, Maximilian, and Ines Alexandra abroad. They reside in Yaounde, Cameroon, where Peter is the US Ambassador. Catherine Conolly, an environmental scientist, has worked for thirty years as a researcher/instructor at University of Washington, and as a consulting biologist. Retired, she continues to do fieldwork related to rare plants, and serves as a board member for Audubon Washington. She lives in Seattle, loving the mountains and ocean. After 34 years with the Department of Education, Mark Gadson will retire in 2019. He looks forward to the 2020 reunion and seeing Eric Johnson. Diane D’Orlando Dacey celebrated her birthday oceanside in Newburyport at a party hosted by her husband, Bob Dacey ’81. Classmates in attendance were Susan Donnelly Murphy, Susan Caverly, and Mary Praught. Susan Donnelly Murphy celebrated her birthday with her daughter in Portugal and Morocco. Stanley Rydjeski celebrated his 60th birthday near Everest Base Camp. He enjoyed the incredible scenery, so different from Vermont!

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Alice Block Pedego lives outside of Boston and works as the district behavior analyst for the Wellesley Public Schools. Karen Kaplan is a senior editor at the science journal Nature in the Washington, DC

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Susan Vigsnes and Briar Alpert ’83 share news of the passing of their brother-in-law, Alan Bates, on October 2, 2018. Alan studied economics and studio art at UVM and was a member of Sigma Nu fraternity. Alan was an active alumnus and ardent supporter of UVM and the UVM Medical Center.

He is survived by his beloved wife, Elizabeth Bates, and three daughters, Natalie Bates, Lydia Bates ’14, and Audrey Bates. Alan returned to Vermont in 2015, where he reconnected with UVM friends and was surrounded by family. John Wolanski and wife Lori Wolanski ’80 are semi-retired snowbirds at the Treviso Bay Club in Naples, Florida.

They divide their time between Florida and their lakehouse on Panther Pond in Raymond, Maine.

Their daughter Lisa Wolanski ’11 is living and working in Boston, and engaged to be married in September 2019. John and Lori would be happy to meet up with UVM alums in southwest Florida; Facebook them if you are interested.

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John Bartlett lives in southern California with wife Cynthia and sixteenyear-old Dylan, who plays club soccer on a Top 10 team nationally. Son Jackson is at Leeds Business School at CU Boulder, and oldest son Cam is in graduate school in Paris, France at AUP. John is in touch with former varsity baseball buddies Dan Gasparino ’82 and Bill Currier ’84. He remembers Bill as the winningest baseball coach in UVM history, and wonders when UVM will reinstate varsity baseball. Thirty-four years later, Jamie Fagan still hangs with John Carter ’81 and his wife, Anne Stires Carter ’81. Their kids are best friends, and now that John is retired they see more of each other. Thomas Gates had a great evening with the Michael Aubrey and Jon Rogers families last April, watching the LAX Cats lose by a whisker to UVA. John shares, “Coolidge 1978 lives on. Hi to all.” Audrey Mello Hammer and David Hammer ’81 live in Bedford, New Hampshire, and run their automobile dealership, Contemporary Automotive, in Milford. They recently visited their son Jared Hammer ’16 G’17 who works at the University of Washington in Seattle. They’d love to reconnect with UVM friends via email or Facebook. Tom O’Donovan and Denise Butterfield O’Donovan’s daughter married this fall. He’s retired from the Army and Department of Energy. They live in Bow, New Hampshire. They recently saw John Wiley, VP of sales for Vermont Systems, at the fall UVM ROTC Reception. Tim Gaudette serves in the Army, as an Army senior executive. He was recently assigned to Detroit, and leads the Army's acquisition work there. Mary Ellen Sherry is grateful she survived the terrible Malibu fires. The custom home she and Bob built and sold this year, and their new place closer to the beach also survived. Their eldest daughter was married at her alma mater, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. Mary was thrilled to have her UVM buddy Debbie Hanaway McAneny ’81 and

husband Dave celebrate with them. Charles Smigelski’s new book, Exceptional Aging: Fierce Food & Smart Supplements, The Nutrition Formula for Vitality after 50, a culmination of 36 years of nutrition counseling advice, is now available at Amazon. His training started with Dr. Lyn Carew's wonderful intro class.

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Laura Cicia DiBacco is happy that daughter, Emma DiBacco ’22, chose to attend UVM, and reports that she is settling in and making great friends. This fall, the 35th year since graduation, Laura coordinated a mini-reunion with ten great friends she’s known since freshman year. In September, Karen Rosenwater Schloss, Lisa Campisi Casey, Pam Christlieb Plesons, Kiki Sirop Nissen, Katherine Young Hurley, Martha Auble Alderman, David Wallace, Bill Horn, Nelson Marass, Dean Holden and Laura, along with significant others, stayed at Thompson’s Point in Charlotte, Vermont.

With the help of Dave Wallace, they secured three cottages in this beautiful community located along Lake Champlain. They spent a summer-like weekend swimming, boating, and visiting Burlington. There was a lot of laughing and reminiscing and they hope to continue this tradition. Jim Donnelly shares that Jessa Donnelly ’11 G’12 and Michael Prevoznik ’11 G’12 were married at the Willowbend Country Club in Mashpee, Massachusetts in June. Alumni in attendance included the parents of the bride, Jim Donnelly and Cathy Blouin Donnelly ’84, bridesmaid Caitlin Chapman ’11, and officiant Brett Silverstein ’11.

In true UVM fashion, it was a great party. David Lambert and his wife live in Rochester, New York, where he works as a general internist and oversees the University of Rochester's medical student program. Their twins have graduated college and are happily employed, their youngest is a junior in high school. Congratulations to John Handy and Jennifer Baker Handy ’84. Their daughter Ariel Baker Handy ’13 married William Chandler ’13 this summer. In attendance were 40+ UVM grads spanning six decades, including John Caswell, James Donnelly, Marc Abatiell, and James Provost. Quite a day in Catamount Country! Lisa Cozier was sorry to miss her Delta Delta Delta, Eta chapter’s 125th Anniversary. She and husband Jim, parents, brother and sister-in-law, were on a week cruise on the Rhine. Jim is getting ready to retire next year after 30+ years of medical practice. Lisa continues to teach Pilates. Their daughter Caryn Alexis is working toward her doctorate of music arts at WVU and a May graduation. Their youngest, Colleen Nicole, is a practicing small animal veterinarian. They feel blessed to have such wonderful and talented daughters.

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Susan Shelley Broderic is living in north Florida with two crazy Siberian Huskies. She sails in the BVI when she can, and is on a competitive paddling team that had a big meet in Italy last July. Margot Carr is the chief operating officer of Gramercy Tech in New York City, and just had a successful art gallery opening. www.quoguegallery.com or www.margotcarr.com. Susan Pories is delighted to announce the publication of her second compilation of Harvard Medical School student essays: The Soul of a Patient: Lessons in Healing for Harvard Medical Students.

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

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Margaret Garb received the St. Louis-based Emerson Excellence in Teaching award in November. The award pays tribute to area educators for their achievements and dedication to the field of education. Charlie Greeff and wife Eva live in West Linn, Oregon. Their daughter Bethany is a freshman at American University in Washington, DC. Charlie practices law. He continues to regularly run long distance, loves skiing, and is always up for a wilderness adventure. Susan Marchand Higgins joined more than 150 Tri Delta alumnae of Eta Chapter in Burlington in October to celebrate 125 years at UVM. A great time was had by all, especially at the Alumni House banquet. She sends out special thanks to the planning committee: Nancy Hutchins Sykas, Mary O'Rourke ’79, Stephanie Zak Jerome '84, Cassi Stellos-Malvers, Linda Kerr Waters '86, Julie Greene Haskell ’87, Jackie Aldinger Hayes ’87, Kari Latvalla Miller ’87, Kimberlee Chesarone Coleman ’88, Lisa Matlin Pratt ’88, Lori Cooper Ahdieh ’89, Sarah Herring Kneale ’03, Tiffany Martin ’06, Elyse Gambarella ’08, Jenna Bergman Sheridan ’09, Jordan Palker ’14 and Maddy Crane ’14. Nora Moser McMillan also attended and shared that alumnae returning for the celebration also included Wendy Katz Nunez, Mary Bosley, Nora Moser McMillan, Ayse Gokcigdem McCarthy, Pam Tanguay Simendinger, Katrina Long Ouellette, Gabrielle Cote, Nancy Hutchins Sykas, and Judi O'Brien. Daniel Lawler is happy his daughter Aspen Lawler ’22 started her first year at UVM. Craig Mabie was gifted the ‘key to the city’ for his volunteer work as a commissioner with Kittitas County Park and Recreation.

He received the Jim Ellis Spirit Award. Mark Manning had a great time with Shoboat watching the Bills vs. Pats. He hopes all are well and encourages classmates to contact him at markemail@juno. com. Tom O'Handley is excited to be part of a start-up, Cornell Tech in New York City, on Roosevelt Island. Prior to that, Tom spent four years at

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Ksenya Kiebuzinski moved to Toronto, Ontario in 2006. She is head of the Petro Jacyk Central & East European Resource Centre and Slavic resources coordinator at the University of Toronto. Karin Bernardo Sagar is proud to have a new Catamount in the family. She made the trip from Maui to drop son Griffin Sagar ’22 in August and notes that campus has really changed. Her Maui boy is getting used to his first New England winter.

Karin had a great reunion with sorority sister Mary Gage Los and visited a few old haunts downtown.

After six-plus years practicing and teaching emergency medicine in Brisbane, Australia, Francis Nolan has returned to the United States with wife Stephanie and their five children. He’s completed his first book, working title Doc Down Under, about their adventures in Australia and New Zealand, and hopes to find a publisher. Contact him at fnolan11@gmail.com. Read his blog and photojournal at docdownunder.com. Mary Lou Kete was promoted to full professor in the Department of English at UVM. Send your news to— Lawrence Gorkun vtlfg@msn.com

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Scott Bosse and wife Mara have lived in Montana for twenty years.

Based in Bozeman, he is the Northern Rockies Director for American Rivers. When not at work protecting rivers, he enjoys fishing, hunting, whitewater boating, skiing, and visiting UVM friends around the west. Tracy Fitzgerald joined Hult International Business School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, as head of Visas and Compliance.

David Galfetti shares that the alumni brothers from Delta Psi Fraternal Order gathered in Louisville, KY for their 30th Annual Trip to Nowhere [TTN]. In attendance were: Kevin Lessard, Garth Fondo ’90, David Galfetti, Pete Allen ’85, Paul Arnaud ’86.5, John Spencer, Myers Mermel ’84, Pete Monte, Jim Norton, Bob Handel ’89, Terry Amodio, Steve Vincent ’88, David Caminear, John Arena ’88, Howard Brophy, Peter Harper ’88, Scott Bonneville ’84, Bill Gage, and Jim Donahue ’85. See their photo at go.uvm.edu/ alumpics. Laurie Oelbaum Sommer had a fabulous girls trip to Paris with Carey Hoffman Pippert, Trish Wheeler Ellsworth, and Stephanie Croke. Gioia Thompson loves her work as sustainability director at UVM after twenty years on the job. Email sustain@uvm.edu with initiatives you want to see at UVM. Send your news to—

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Sonna Sween Allen is teaching chemistry at Portledge School and is an adjunct professor at Adelphi University. She lives in New York and expects her second grandchild in the spring. Daryl Campbell is president and CEO of Seattle Goodwill. Still fulltime residents of Seattle, Daryl and wife Janel have bought a second home in Hinesburg, Vermont, to be closer to Daryl's son and daughter-in-law in Burlington. Angela Stover Johnson sends greetings to everyone. She shares, “Let’s unite, refuel, and ignite! I look forward to convening soon!”

Diana Lipsig married Ken Laudano on June 23, 2018 at Topping Rose House in Bridgehampton, New York. Tracy Minichiello, Jon Weis ’87, and Nancy Cooperman Hyatt attended; Tracy gave an amazing toast. Diana practices real estate law and brokerage in Manhattan. Robert Truman was named associate dean and director of the Boley Law Library of Lewis & Clark Law School, Portland, Oregon, in September 2018. Roger Von Elm returned to Burlington in December to speak to a governmental accounting class on his experiences working with the federal government. He visited his sister Judy Von Elm Bond ’75 and brother-inlaw Charles Bond ’72. Lieutenant General Todd Semonite will be honored by the American Society of Civil Engineers as one of five Outstanding Projects and Leaders Award winners for 2019. The award, in the construction category, recognizes his extraordinary contributions to the civil engineering industry throughout his career in US Army Corps of Engineers, where he has spent 14 years of his 39-year military and engineering career.

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Christine Bianchino Thompson is happy to share that her son, Jack Thompson ’22, is now a first-year student at UVM. In a crazy coincidence, he was assigned to the same dorm, and the the exact same room! He loves UVM and she loves visiting him. After living abroad for the past five years in Mumbai, India, and Jakarta, Indonesia, for her husband's job, Allison Tassie Srinivasan has moved back to Massachusetts. She enjoys seeing longtime friends and attended the 125th anniversary of Eta Chapter Delta Delta Delta at UVM in October. She reconnected with many sisters including Kari Latvalla Miller ’87, Lori Cooper Ahdieh, Jill Teplitzky Frankel, Suzy Ranish Kelley ’90, Kim Lonis Scheub, Amy Fishbein Koslow ’87, Kim Chesarone Coleman ’88, Lisa Matlin Pratt ’88, Melanie Masters Steier ’87, Kelly Faunce Malmquist ’88, Cynthia Goldstein Lynch ’88, Karen Demma Howard ’88, Lisa Zelinski Coyne ’87, Jackie Domingue Estes ’87, Ellen Singer Shell ’87, and Julie Green Haskell ’87. “There was a lot of reminiscing, and sharing fond memories of our days at UVM.” Send your news to— SPRING 2019 |

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David Galatt shares news about Healthy Mama, the start-up that he and wife Rachel founded six years ago after their first daughter, Mia, was born at 24 weeks and in the hospital for five months. Healthy Mama provides pregnancy safe products for prepregnancy through nursing for all of the ailments and issues women may experience. Happily, Mia is a healthy and happy second grader today. Learn more at healthymamabrand.com. Melanie Pappageorge married Steve Whaley, in Boulder, Colorado, in September 2018. Best friends/roomies from UVM were there to celebrate and helped make the day absolutely perfect. She sends thanks to Maru McCarthy Rinella, Grace Ward Slosberg, Sheila Dempsey DeKuyper, Mollie MacKenzie, and Liza Leventhal Byers ’91 for their help and for being there.

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Suzanne Sammis Cabot enjoys her work as a director and educator with Beautycounter, a BCorporation that is transforming the personal skin care industry.

Fellow alumna Gregg Renfrew ’90 is founder & CEO of Beautycounter. Lisa Dombal Hunter is living in Bethesda, Maryland, and works for the Las Vegas Convention & Visitors Authority in Washington, DC. She visited Vermont this summer with son Ryan who attended the UVM Lacrosse Prospect Camp. Her other son, Dylan, plays baseball at Denison University in Ohio. Lisa is in touch with Deanna Damiano Bastianich, Britt Dittrich, Jim Liu, Glenn Cademartori, and Chuck Marlas. She shares, “It's always great to see everyone and their families!” Joanne Kaplan Tuckman had a great time catching up with Karen Moseson, Michael Provenz ’92 and Javier Saenz ’92 in New York City. The group shared many memories in a night filled with lots of laughter. Laurie Way enjoys her work in donor relations at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. She lives in Brookline with her fiancé Paul and continues her ballroom dancing hobby in full force as a Bronze level competitor in multiple dance styles.

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Maureen Broderick-Hebert and Jeff Hebert happily share that their son, Riley Hebert ’22, is a first-year student at UVM. This summer, Colin Comi got together with Jeremy Metcalf, Tom Okowitz, Chris Plumpton ’93, and Rob Litchfield ’93 for an annual poker weekend at Halls Lake in Newbury, Vermont. He also reconnected with Sharon Rhode Waite in Saratoga.

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Jessica Atkins Hernandez and her family moved from Bethesda, Maryland, to San Diego for her husband's new job as a captain in the US Navy. After 11 years practicing corporate law, and another 10 years in legal professional development, Jessica is launching a business as a certified executive coach, focusing on professional growth, transitions, leadership development, and skills enhancement for individuals and organizations. She would love to hear from any SoCal alums!

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25th Reunion October 4-6, 2019

In early August, Class of ’94-based ‘Equipe Henry’ participated in the Pan Mass Challenge to raise money for Boston's Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

Captain Josh Fenollosa, Chapin Mechem, Mark Robohm, and Rob Cronin rode 192 miles over two days, well supported by EH road crew Cathy Ray Fenollosa and Jen Mullenholz Smith. They have raised close to $100,000 to date, with donations from 43 members of the Class of 1994 and 58 total from the broader UVM community. They are recruiting for the 2019 PMC August 3-4, 2019.

Please be in touch if you would like to join this tremendous event. Nursing is Jackie Denise Levin’s passion and now her writing muse. She’s writing blogs and making short videos on holistic nursing. Living in the Pacific Northwest gives her lots of nature to soak in and helps here create retreat-style experiences for health professionals. She encourages nursing colleagues to visit! Narric Rome is looking forward to the 25th Class Reunion! Mimy von Schreiner-Valentiy has been living in Naples, Florida, with her husband since 1995. She is a luxury residential real estate consultant specializing in beach and golf properties. She has two teenage boys, Jack and Will, who love to visit Vermont and ski during spring break. Mimy wants to rally friends to come for reunion in October 2019. She’d love to hear from classmates, find her on Facebook and LinkedIn. Send your news to— Cynthia Bohlin Abbott cyndiabbott@hotmail.com

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Richard "Rick" J. Gatteau has been appointed vice president for student affairs and dean of students at Stony Brook University. He earned his master's degree in Higher Education and Student Affairs from UVM. Send your news to— Valeri Susan Pappas vpappas@davisandceriani.com

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Cordelia Garofalo opened a kitchen supplies store near Mount Snow in West Dover, Vermont. Opa Kitchen Supplies has cooking, baking, and entertaining supplies, plus wonderful seasonal and gift items. Stop in if you’re in the area! Brian Hiller

was awarded tenure and promoted to associate professor of biology, wildlife specialist at Bemidji State University in Minnesota. While on sabbatical in Australia from January to July 2019, he will work on artificial nest structures for waterfowl. Life is good for Kurt Scanio and his family who are living in Gilbert, Arizona. Kurt was promoted to lieutenant at the Mesa Police Department, and his wife Julie is doing extremely well at IBM. Their threeyear-old daughter is excelling at her French immersion school. The family spent three weeks in Switzerland and France this summer. Donnie Droppo proudly shares that his company, Curtis Packaging in Sandy Hook, Connecticut, won the 2018 University of Vermont Family Business Award (Multi-Gen Family Enterprise category). The award recognizes outstanding multi-generational family businesses.

Gene and Lilly Devlin feel honored to own Quimby Country, a Vermont business committed to building strong relationships between others while providing real experiences in the outdoors.

They invite UVMers to come to Quimby Country, a rustic family camp and resort that brings generations of people together to share meaningful time, unplugged, in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont.

Learn more at: http://quimbycountry.com. John Gorman lives with his wife, Ali, in Tokyo. He stays in touch with Frank Doupona who lives in Denver and runs a large architectural firm. His other roommate, Roger Fekete, is the head of the LGBT arm for southern Connecticut and invites alums to reach out and help expand the group. Adam Noble opened Carbon, a bar in Culver City, Los Angeles, and invites alumni to visit and check it out. Kevin Hoskins moved back to Vermont for UVM's one-year MBA program focused on sustainable business, entrepreneurship, and innovation.

He shares, “Being back at UVM was a bit strange at first, but the experience was nothing short of transformational. I‘d highly recommend it for anyone who‘s tired of business-as-usual and wants to learn strategies to provide the vision and leadership this century‘s challenges require of us.” He can be reached via kevinhoskins.net. Vicki Isacowitz is part of a large contingent of UVMers that live in Lake Tahoe. She credits some of her favorite professors for her achievements, including: Toby Fulwiller, John Clarke, and Mary Jane Dickerson. Vicki has owned Clever Minds Educational Services for fifteen years and has lots of help from UVMers including Pam Fishman Cianci ‘95. Vicki shares, “I‘m thankful and grateful for my friendships created at UVM. I genuinely believe UVM made me value education, and for that I am forever grateful.”

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Elizabeth Ashley lives on the New Hampshire Seacoast in Newmarket with her Maine Coon Cat Lily. She kayaks and canoes almost daily during the summer, and cross country skis in the winter. She’d love

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Thomas Payeur ’10, G’12 NOW: On paper, Vermont’s 2019 Teacher of the Year is a math teacher, but at the heart of Tom Payeur’s work, he’s a persistence teacher. At Winooski High School, located in the state’s most diverse community, Payeur is making education more equitable for all students by pivoting his school to a proficiency-based education model that he’s building from scratch. The course he teaches, Math Lab, integrates students from all grades and math levels into one class and encourages them to collaborate on realistic problems involving math. Payeur says this model helps students receive individual, catered tutoring as they practice math, but also ingrains valuable life skills like communication, persistency, and critical thinking that will help students succeed beyond school.

UVM: During his senior year as an economics and math student, a course in wealth and poverty economics opened Payeur’s eyes to the disparities in America’s educational policies and systems. He secured an internship in which he worked alongside the individual who wrote Vermont’s tax code for school funding. Soon after his undergraduate studies, he returned to UVM and dove headfirst into education through an accelerated master’s in teaching program.

IN HIS WORDS: “What we're doing is we're pulling out all of the inequities that are deeper than just getting students to pass the class. We're getting at the root causes of what our students need in the moment.”

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| CLASS NOTES to hear from anyone in the area. Mark Hand lives with his wife and three children in Duxbury, Massachusetts. He hangs out with Kelly Desmond Turner often, as well as others from the class of 1997. Super Bowl weekend he played in the annual New England Pond Hockey Classic with fellow grads John Kearney ’96, Vince Villella, Dave Venuti, Tyler Laundon ’98, and Scott Esselman.

It marked their fourth year in a row playing, a great mini-reunion. Mark joined Compass on Newbury Street in Boston, working in residential real estate sales. Classmate Steve Losordo works in the same office. Matthew Choate was named chief nursing officer for The University of Vermont Health Network—Central Vermont Medical Center. He had served as interim CNO since December 2016.

Rob Writz published his first book in November 2018. Backcountry Skiing Berthoud Pass Colorado is a graphical guidebook describing the backcountry ski terrain on this popular pass leading to Winter Park. See the book’s cover image at go.uvm.edu/ alumpics. James Eugene Fong ’87 G’89 ’97 saw classmate Todd Williams at Ragbrai in July. Last time they saw each other was at graduation. They spotted the UVM jerseys on college jersey day.

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Bart Stephens is general manager of PRADCO Outdoor Brands. Addie Mae Spongberg Weiss attended the 2018 Women‘s FIS World Cup in Killington with husband Ryan Weiss ‘97 and their two daughters, who have recently started to ski race. Despite the crowds, they saw lots of UVM alums including Gary Hedman, his wife, Stacey, Heather Fouratt Hess, Brad Hess, Sarah Stuwe Pashby ‘98, Rich Pashby, and Matt Horne. They saw UVM‘s Paula Moltzan finish with her best World Cup time ever on a tough course with some great competition.

Stacie Kosinski was named to the list of 2018 Massachusetts Super Lawyers and Rising Stars. She is being recongnized for a high-degree of peer recognition and professional achievement.

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Leah Merritt-Mervine’s husband, Nathaniel C. Merritt-Mervine, passed away on August 26, 2018, at the age of 40 from a rare cancer, chondrosarcoma. While he was not a UVM alum, he fell in love with the Green Mountains when he came to visit her during college. The couple were married at Sterling Ridge in Jeffersonville, Vermont. Brad Rosenheim is living in Florida. He traveled to Antarctica in December 2018 and January 2019 with a team of scientists in search of life in extreme environments. His role in the project, SALSA, was to obtain mud and sediment beneath 1,000 meters of ice, at the bottom of Mercer Subglacial Lake. The samples were examined to obtain information about any microbial life. Follow his adventures at: www.salsa-antarctica.org. Brad reminds himself that “sleeping in a

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Gerald Kubiak’s mechanical engineering background from UVM prepared him to take on the role of lead engineer at Kelly Slater Wave Co. The company builds wave machines for competitive surfing. See photos at go.uvm.edu/alumpics. Johnny Helzer opened a bar and restaurant, Peg & Ter’s, in Shelburne, Vermont. He looks forward to seeing some familiar UVM faces stop by for a drink and a bite.

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After taking tours working in Congress, USAID, and the State Department as a foreign aid/policy specialist, Nikole Burroughs is a legislative/government affairs advisor at the International Rescue Committee, advising on policy matters related to refugees in the United States and abroad. She lives in Bethesda, Maryland, with her three children. Russ Romano expanded his financial planning practice in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and Princeton, New Jersey. In addition to providing retirement, insurance, college education, and investment planning to his clients, Russ leads the firm's internship program which is ranked a Top 10 internship for financial services. (Samuel) Jared Waite and Danielle Waite started their own structural engineering and residential design firm, Waite Design & Engineering, waitedeseng.com. WDE is based in Georgia, Vermont, and has completed various structural building design and roof-top solar projects in Vermont.

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

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Send your news to— Jennifer Khouri Godin jenniferkhouri@yahoo.com Alexa McInerney and her husband, Kyle Fincham opened Movement Brooklyn, a movement school in Brooklyn, New York. MB teaches students to reconnect with their movement potential. Classmate Meredith Shield stopped in last month for a class. Archie Olson has a new job with Uncommon Schools in Rochester, New York. He is dean of curriculum and instruction. He and wife Meghan had their third child in July.

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

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Greg Martin is content director and joint marketing manager at Arcade Belts, an outdoor-focused, global accessories brand based in Olympic Valley, California. Greg, wife Stephanie, and three year son Rory reside in Truckee. Kelly Kisiday attended the Tri Delta 125th Anniversary at UVM in October. Other attendees include Kara Egasti Dooley, Jessica Rosenfeld Vincente, Cailin Rarey Judge, Jennifer Cassertello Eddy, Heather Pearson ’03, Korinne Moore Berenson ’03, Kim Quirk Donovan ’03, Janine White ’03, Molly Betzhold Kusek ’03, Rebekah Stuwe Baril ’03. Kelly shares, “The current sisters and alumnae did an excellent job organizing the weekend’s events and the house looked incredible. We all had a blast being together again back on campus reliving the glory days. “ Send your news to— Kelly Kisiday kelly.kisiday@gmail.com

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Lindsay Davis completed her doctorate in american studies from George Washington University in June 2018. She is an assistant teaching professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Kristen Gedney married Joseph Stevenson Manning V on August 11, 2018, at the Barn at Boyden Farm in Cambridge, Vermont. Jennifer Zicherman Kelleher and her husband, Jeffrey Kelleher had their first child, Caroline Aviva, on March 18, 2018.

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

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Paul Damon moved Keramas, his marketing and public relations consultancy for asset managers, to the western edge of the continent. He now helps clients write and promote research on investments and markets, and helps investment firms with growth strategies in his pajamas. Paul is happy to report that he now puts on his (wet) suit and commutes (walks) across San Francisco‘s Great Highway to surf the sometimes excellent, oftentimes large, waves shaped by the elaborate sandbars off Ocean Beach. Lauren Koenig Giannullo, husband Mark Giannullo ’05, and son August moved to Shelburne, Vermont. Mark is a senior systems engineer at the UVM Medical Center. Their daughter Magenta Pearl was born on August 4, 2018. They are happy to be raising their family in Vermont.

Devin Mason is now the director of marketing for HIMSS Analytics in Burlington.

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

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Dr. Courtenay Brines and Kevin Myers G’12 were engaged Thanksgiving 2016. Courtenay is in her third and final year of residency as a veterinarian ophthalmologist at The Ohio State University Veterinary School. Kevin is an educator at a local high school in Columbus. They can't wait to move back SCOTT DICKERSON

Claire Neaton ’12

C ATAMOUNT NATION

NOW: Neaton is half of the Alaska-based Salmon Sisters duo that founded and head operations for a unique enterprise that couples a sustainable fishery business with an apparel line. Neaton and her sister Emma Teal Laukitis not only source high-quality Alaskan salmon, halibut, and cod sustainably, but they also raise awareness about the importance of fishing for wild seafood with integrity and the environment in mind. Apart from fish, their website sells everything from passport wallets made of salmon leather—adorned with fish scales and all—sweatshirts, and sturdy boots. The Salmon Sisters were recently included in Forbes’s 2019 “30 Under 30” list of rising stars.

UVM: Major in the Grossman School of Business with a minor in nutrition through the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

Neaton says the environmental ethos of UVM and Vermont, the close connection of community and food sources, shaped her thinking as Salmon Sisters has evolved.

IN HER WORDS: “It’s neat to realize this fish has a purpose—it’s going to feed someone.

Customers get a healthy product and they know where the food is coming from. I’ve always been interested in that.”

Read more: go.uvm.edu/neaton

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| CLASS NOTES to New England. Lesley University named Amarildo ‘Lilu’ Barbosa G’11 their first-ever chief diversity officer. Barbosa was director of Lesley’s Office of Multicultural Affairs and Student Inclusion for two years prior to this appointment. He is a doctoral candidate in the human development and learning program at Lesley University and lives in Rhode Island with his family. Ashley Hogan Cardarelli is in an exciting and newly created program at Cornell University, an EMBA/MS in Healthcare Leadership. Classes are held at the Cornell Tech campus on Roosevelt Island in New York City. Ashley hopes to develop the skills to make a positive impact on the healthcare industry. Kelsey Borjeson Johndrow and her husband moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she opened a small art boutique, Box at Santa Fe. The boutique focuses on the normalization and celebration of the female form and experience. Elizabeth Fallon Morrocco and Brandon Morrocco ’06 welcomed a baby girl, Anne Catherine, on October 16, 2018.

The family resides in Boston. Alicia Stewart gave birth to a baby girl, Chloe Isabel Stewart, on June 14, 2018. The family of John Garth Cummings shares the sad news of his passing in November of 2018 due to injuries sustained in a work-related accident. John is survived by his wife, Heidi, and two sons, Atticus and Ansel, as well as his mother, Kathleen, father Curtis and brother Ira. Send your news to— Elizabeth Bitterman bittermane@jgua.com

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Emily James authored a children's book titled: The Adventures of Pinky: Friends in Fun Places. The book is available at Webster stores and online at thewebster.us. In September, Carmen Lagala was inducted into the UVM Athletics Hall of Fame for track and field. Matt Treem and Sara Mohebbi welcomed a baby girl, Annabelle Grace, on October 29, 2018. Jordan Rosenberg married Mahasidhidhi Parmar ’11 on September 15 at the West Monitor barn in Richmond, Vermont.

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

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10th Reunion October 4-6, 2019

Erica Bruno married Ben Martin of Portland, Maine, at the Wentworth by the Sea Hotel on November 3, 2018. Sasha Marina Rios was maid of honor and Jenn Nakhla and Lauren Cooperman were bridesmaids. In attendance were multiple UVM alums. Steffanie Kelshaw recently became a licensed professional counselor and joined a private practice, Mt. Vernon Counseling Center in Alexandria, Virginia. Daniel Lynch made a career change to nutrition and food science through pinesnatto.com. He is also teaching English in Japan. Polly Perkins and Ryan Crocker

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

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Isabel Burnham married Sebastian Kandell at her family's home on Fishers Island, New York, on September 2, 2018. Kayla DeCarr and family welcomed their first child, a healthy baby girl, on September 23. In May of 2018, Blanka Nikolic and Sean Toplosky were married in Williston, Vermont. Blanka is an assistant director of admissions at UVM. Sean is a mechanical engineer with Husky. They live in Milton. This summer, Lizz Lach thru-hiked the Long Trail. She loves Vermont and the Green Mountains.

After recovering from a traumatic brain injury, and a brief professorship in agriculture and natural resources at the University of Hawaii-Maui College in 2012, David Alexander Ferrell is back in school earning his master’s in agroforestry at the University of Missouri. Andrew Lassiter ’10 is transitioning from the tech start-up world into civil service as a project manager for the New York City Council. He will be working on land-use and planning projects in one of the most exciting urban landscapes in the country. Andrew is also the national board chair of the DREAM program, which oversees the regional activities and policies that continues to impact the UVM chapter of this mentoring organization.

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

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On Saturday, September 15, 2018, Melissa Cameron ’11 and Tom Petschauer ’09 were married in Melissa's hometown, Berkeley Heights, New Jersey. The reception was held at historic Waterloo Village in Stanhope. Melissa and Tom met at UVM as environmental studies students. Fellow Catamounts and classmates in attendence include Hannah Aitken, Josh Aldred, Lindsey Reilly, Allison Hamlin ’10, Matthew Claeys, Kyle Sala, Lizzy Pope ’13, Seth Yellin, Diana Yellin, Ben Pacelli ’09, Nick Ziter ’09, Erica Letson, and Claire Goodwin. On September 29, Robin Donovan and Christopher Bocchiaro were married. Their wedding was officiated by Rev. Amy Pitton ’82. Parents of the couple are Jim Donovan ’83 and Diane Donovan ’83, and Lynne Bocchiaro ’82 & Joe Bocchiaro. Some of Robin's friends from the UVM Ballroom Dance Team attended. The week after graduation, Molly Dunham-Friel moved to Atlanta, Georgia, with the Teach For America program. She now works at Emory University. Molly received her master’s of public health from Georgia State University while working at Emory. Diagnosed with ulcerative colitis, she shares her story via an Instagram account called Better Bellies By Molly. Molly shares that her public communications degree “has helped me share my chronic illness journey with the world so I can help others feel less alone in their fight for

health.” Mary Lou Jacobsen married Dan Pomeroy in Washington, DC, on November 3. She is currently working on her doctorate in health services research at George Mason University. Daniela Sasson was married to Eric Dore in a delightfully drizzly Connecticut ceremony in August. The pair now reside in Hoboken with their Australian Wolfhound, Shmoopy. Elizabeth Colletti recently became a feline mother with the adoption of a cat named Lady. The two are flourishing in Conshohoken, Pennsylvania, as engineer and furry sidekick. Laura Galiher carved time out of her busy schedule as an engineer to finish a grueling Ragnar Relay in Napa Valley in November. She was greeted at the finish line by her California convert and fiance, HR Hagan ’09. Alexandria (Alex) Williams and sister Cydney Williams ’16 had nine panel paintings exhibited at Mana Contemporary, Miami. The exhibition is in conjunction with the world renowned art fair, Art Basel.

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

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In June 2018, Natalie Jones Halley married James Halley in upstate New York. Fellow Catamounts from the women’s lacrosse team Adison Rounds, Samantha Stern, Caitlin Izzo, and Ariana Jasuta were in attendance. Natalie lives in Chicago, where she works in the marketing department of the University of Chicago Medical Center. She would love to connect with other UVM alumni in the city. Cherie Lum switched careers from operations into web development in summer 2018. She graduated from a coding boot camp and then from Udacity's Front End Nanodegree, sponsored by Google.

She’s excited to be a fantastic web developer! In May 2018, Leah Renert Beck and Scott Beck ’10 tied the knot in California. They currently live in Davis, California, with their adorable rescue pup, Annie. Julia Shotwell moved back to the East Coast from California. She is empolyed at Harvard Business School working with Executive Education as the new guest services manager.

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

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Max Ebenstein was married to Maude Stranberg Ebenstein ’12 on July 28, 2018 at Fielder Farm in Huntington, Vermont. A huge UVM contingent was in attendance, including Dave Ebenstein ’82, Barb Ebenstein ’81, Caryn Davis ’80, Pete Davis ’80, Victoria Seaver ’12, John Goldie ’12, Connor Winton, Mackie Shebell, Chris Small, Jared Necamp, Ricky Sughrue, Luke Goodermote ’12, Ethan McCoski, Nate Clark, Madeline Bacon, Nick Holmes ’12, Shane Watson ’12, and Olivia Lincoln. See their photo at go.uvm.edu/ alumpics. Kendall Cooper, K.C., moved to Sun Valley, Idaho, to pursue a successful career in real estate and supervise snowsports at the ski mountain. She would love to assist any alumni with their real estate goals. Liza Elman and Michael Law-

lor married in Killlington, Vermont, on August 25 2018. Michael's parents are UVM alums, Catherine Lawlor ’82 and Richard Lawlor ’82. Many UVM alumni from 1977 to 2013 were in attendance. Tim Kelley ’08 and Susannah Gruner Kelley ’13 were married July 14, 2018, at The Ponds at Bolton, Vermont. Tim, who was on the UVM ski team as a student is now the assistant coach for the team. The following UVM alumni were in attendance: Callie Ewald, Amy Vazquez, Alisa Quiet, Bob Kelley, John Kelley, Patricia Kelley, Christine Kelley, Amy Cochran, Brad Farrell, Kiki Rendall, Robby Kelley, Marie Johnson, Bob Cochran, Olivia Taussig, Alicia Hawks, Steve Kelley, Sam Lednicky, Sarah Quinttas, John Higgins, Lindsay Laird, Colton Hardy, Brad Currier, Jesse Paul, Leandro Vazquez, Kelsey Tierney, Emily Alexander, Sarah Beque, Danielle Moffatt, Lindy Kelley, Eva Wimberly, Addison Van Gulden, Peter Hendee, Leah Licari, Elizabeth ChengTolmie, Mike Simoneau, Geri Reilly, MK Cirelli, Kailey Gardner, Cathy Corsones Gruner, Beau Johnson, Jimmy Cochran, Sean Higgins, Dusty Lea, Malory Goldstein Lea, David Donaldson, Evan Olson, Bobby Farrell, Jordan Schweizer, Lauren Colby, John Bargayo, Connor Richards, and Kevin Drury.

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5th Reunion October 4-6, 2019

Matt Brill leads the sales department in Long Island City, Queens, for SunPower by EmPower Solar, a solar installer of residential and commercial systems. Rebecca Lynn Nelson and Thomas Mario Jack Cason were married on August 18, 2018, at The Inn at Shelburne Farms. In September, Jon Lott published his first book, Hitchhike America. He is teaching and backpacking around Asia. 2018 was a great year for Hunter Foreman. He climbed Denali in the spring but did not summit, due to -65 degree weather at the top of Denali Pass. He made it to 19,000 feet before he was turned around. He returned to Chicago, quit his job, and moved out to Denver, Colorado, with fellow Catamount Kiley Falcone. Within one month, he was hired as an associate manager of acquisitions & asset management for a startup real estate private equity fund. They miss Vermont every day and can’t wait to get back for the 5th Reunion. Elizabeth Kennett met with several alumni this year, including Kayla H. She has settled into Milton, Vermont, for good and is working full time as an ER veterinary technician at Burlington Emergency Veterinary Service. The Main Street Alliance of Vermont named Ashley Moore as state director. MSA-VT was founded in 2014 to elevate the voices of small business owners on important public policy issues in Vermont. Jennifer Mscisz ran her first marathon, the 2018 Boston Marathon, for Tufts Medical Center, in honor of her mother who has received life saving care for more than 20 years from Tufts following a ruptured brain aneu-

Open to the public for weddings, private parties, meetings and more.

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| CLASS NOTES rysm. Jennifer survived torrential rain, cold, and wind, and finished her first marathon raising over $10,000 for the charity.

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

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Shannon Esrich completed her master’s in food systems at UVM, becoming the first student to earn this degree in the accelerated program. In 2016, she traveled to Senegal in West Africa to serve in the Peace Corps amidst the most incredible scenery, culture, and a few lions to boot. Shannon found her way back to Vermont via Vermont Works for Women, where she directed camps across the state for middle school girls to learn carpentry and welding. She is happily living in beautiful Montpelier, with best friends and fellow UVM alumni Chris Damiani and Michelle Goldsmith as neighbors.

She now serves the state of Vermont as a committee assistant to the legislature for the 2019 session.

Hannah Frering received her master’s of public health in December 2018. She looks forward to using these skills in her current research position. Leah Gundrum moved to Austin, Texas, to work as an embryologist for Ovation Fertility. Baxter Miatke lives in Portland, Maine, where he is an environmental remediation engineer. He is serving as the Engineers Without Borders state representative for Maine/New Hampshire/Vermont.

Baxter’s work in this regard has included a water distribution project in Ecuador. Chris Young and James Marcuccio are chilling wicked hard in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Emily Burghardt misses Vermont and the beautiful winter on campus. She is in Seattle with a job as a physical therapist in outpatient orthopedics. She loves her connections across the country with fellow Catamounts. Jessie Woodcock celebrated Thanksgiving with Annie Kaufman ’14. She lives in Berkeley and is working at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Emily Hadley Strout will complete her residency in 2019 and work as a primary care doctor at UVMMC beginning in September 2019. Matt Iacobucci moved back to Burlington to pursue UVM's Sustainable Innovation MBA. Lindsay Rattigan and her husband welcomed a baby girl, Abigail, in September 2018. She enjoys exploring London with Abigail during her year-long maternity leave (thank you, UK)! Benjamin Scheu shares that there is a steady stream of 2016 UVMer's in and around Salt Lake City who get together regularly after work or on the weekends to go on an adventure. All seem to love their new home with proximity to the mountains, but often the conversations relate back to Burlington, UVM, and how lucky they all are to call Vermont their home. Stanislas Walden recently moved to New York City to begin a new job. He’s excited to reconnect with the UVM community after a fun stint in Minneapolis!

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Jennifer Morley was engaged in June to fiancé Scott and is planning an October 2019 wedding. They live in Marlborough, Massachusetts. She works as an associate chemist at Nitto Avecia in Milford. Jennifer is excited about her future with the company and feels her biochemistry major provided the skills and knowledge needed for her personal success. Katelyn Pine works in sales operations at Thermo Fisher Scientific in Waltham, Massachusetts. She will run the Boston Marathon in April 2019 for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. On June 30, 2018, Sophia White married Ryan Quinn ’16, at Kamp Kill Kare State Park in St. Albans, Vermont. They met on Trinity Campus while living in Mercy Residence Hall and have been inseparable since. Sophia works full time for the UVM Bookstore’s Church Street location, and Ryan is obtain-

ing his doctorate in Pharmacy at the Albany School of Pharmacy in Colchester. Olivia Peña completed her master’s degree in food systems. She is working as a food security specialist at Hunger Free Vermont in South Burlington.

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Alexander Benoit is pursuing a master’s in Irish literature at Boston College. Matthew Ciminella recently founded the UVM Cross Country/Track and Field Alumni Association. With the help of Erik Buser ’16, Alex Judge ’13, Maura Knowles ’16, Thomas O'Leary ’13, Peter Raak ’01, Mitchell Switzer ’13, and athletic department staff, they released their debut newsletter in October. The team hopes this group will connect alumni to each other and to the program. If you are interested, send an email to uvmxctfalumni@gmail.com. Gabriel Cohn began his laboratory rotations while working towards his doctorate within the Knights Cancer Research center at Oregon Health and Science University in Portland. Timothy Jordan is working as a sales associate at Goodwill, a freelance drummer, and a waste-to-energy researcher. Will Sudbay received the Elmer Nicholson Achievement Prize Senior Award and was recently accepted to The Snelling Center for Government: Vermont Leadership Institute. He is excited to start a job at the Vermont Attorney General’s Office. After graduation, Hannah Tobey made a big move to the Bay Area in California. She joined Teach for America and teaches elementary special education in San Jose. She will miss the snow in Vermont this winter, but can’t complain too much about year-round sunshine.

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| IN MEMORIAM 1933 1939 1940 1942 1943

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Helen Goodrich Morris Helen Rockwood Wallstrom Robert E. Dunning Marion Roy Wilson Harry Elwin Howe MD‘52, G‘47 Janet Dike Rood Ralph R. Goss, Sr. Kathleen Little Campbell Janet Pike Harvey Marian Melby Abbott Doris Ostergren Barton Audrey Hutchins Bickford Florence Mueller Howes Gwendolyn Richardson Sheppard Harriet Pearl Grant G‘77

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Charles Clinton Moran Gladys Clark Severance Lyndol H. Palin Allan K. Lawrence John L. Phillips John M. Bogie Mary Farrell Morley Reba Sanderson Ballard William J. Buzzell Chadwick Cummings Arms G‘60 Claude Henry Magnant Drusilla Springsted Shea George Rudes Jeanne Farr Semonite LeRoy L. Keith

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William Burwell Crosby, Jr. Barry Granville Beale John V. Knickerbocker Nathalie Frank Forte R. Avery Hall Russell H. Shurtleff Carolyn M. Silsby June Marble Vydra Lowell Zane Carpenter Luther Frederick Hackett Ruel Guy Barrett G‘62 Dolores “Lorrie” Buehler Farwell George Spencer Kolbe Eugene C. Mowry, Jr. Lewis Dexter Mowry, III Richard L. Plath Donald N. Zehl MD‘57 George W. Stevenson Leonard H. Thornton Linda McKerley Cohen Peter Mark Armstrong Ronald L. Peaker Stephen H. Millard, Jr. William Henry Farwell, Jr. William Ivan Schoenfeld William M. Soybel MD‘57 Beverly Jaques Haskins Clare Louise Dyer Edward M. Austin MD‘62 Francis J. Russo G‘58 Judith Flick Schubert Frederick C. Aldrich G‘59 Frederick T. Jordan Larry J. Laber G‘61 Richard A. French Tomma Keith Sargent

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| UVM COMMUNITY LUTHER “FRED” HACKETT ’55 passed away on October 8, 2018. A sixth-generation Vermonter, Hackett earned his UVM bachelor’s degree in economics and political science. In addition to academics, he was deeply involved with Delta Psi Fraternity, UVM Ski Team, and the Air Force ROTC program. A successful businessman in the insurance field, he also served years in the state legislature, and took on many service roles. These included the UVM Board of Trustees, on which he was a member for fourteen years, including chair from 1991 to 1993. The university awarded Hackett a Doctorate of Laws in 1979 and the Distinguished Alumni Award in 1980.

LYN JARVIS, longtime producer of UVM Extension’s “Across the Fence” program, passed away on December 29, 2018. Jarvis, who retired in 2002, was a major part of crafting the television show that is the longest running program of its kind in the nation. He broadened the show’s focus, considering topics from food to gardening to consumer issues.

MUN SON, professor emeritus of statistics, passed away in early December 2018. Joining the UVM faculty in 1984 as a visiting assistant professor began his thirty-four-year career at the university. Son also actively promoted statistics in his native Korea as an editor of The Korean Journal of Data and Technology Association and executive member of the Korean Mathematical Society in America.

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UVM English professor and poet Major Jackson wrote the liner notes for the 1994 album by these musicians:

Phish played their first show in this UVM residential complex:

A. ZZ Top C. Fugees

A. Wing-Davis-Wilks C. Harris-Millis

B. The Roots D. Beastie Boys

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B. Living/Learning D. Coolidge Hall

In 1926, UVM students voted to choose a school mascot.

Which of these animals were among the four options?

Just one other university has the Catamount as their mascot.

That school is:

A. Camels C. Porcupines

A. Appalachian State C. SUNY-Potsdam

B. Bobcats D. Fightin’ Newts

B. Eastern Carolina University D. Western Carolina University

Which of these actors who played Batman also attended UVM:

Prototypes for this revolutionary athletic garment were developed in the costume studio of UVM’s Royall Tyler Theatre:

A. Christian Bale C. Adam West

A. The JogBra C. The smartphone arm strap

B. Val Kilmer D. Ben Affleck

UVM’s Williams Hall is modeled after this famous building:

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A. The Parthenon C. Oxford University Museum

B. Canada’s Parliament D. Peace Palace, The Hague

HH Richardson, architect who designed Trinity Church on Boston’s Copley Square, also designed this UVM building: A. Billings Library C. Old Mill

B. Williams Hall D. Ira Allen Chapel

B. The Buff D. The skort

Pi Kappa Alpha‘s stellar fundraising for Hilarity for Charity Alzheimer’s Foundation brought this actor to campus three times: A. Steve Carrell C. Seth Rogen

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UVM alumna author Annie Proulx, Class of 1969, wrote the short story adapted into this film:

A. 1956 C. 1924

A. Brokeback Mountain C. Benjamin Button

UVM alumnus Jon Kilik, Class of 1978, has these movies among his many credits as a producer: A. Reservoir Dogs, Air Bud, Cujo

C. Brokeback Mountain,

The Ice Storm, Moonlight

B. Spotlight, Lord of the Rings, Frozen D. Do the Right Thing, Hunger Games trilogy, Foxcatcher

B. No Country for Old Men D. Frozen

Which movie starring Harrison Ford was filmed, in part, at UVM ?

A. Star Wars C. Raiders of the Lost Ark

UVM Music faculty member Ray Vega has performed on Grammy Award-winning albums with:

A. Le Lion Couchant B. Bosses sur la Route C. La Brioche D. L’Enfant Terrible

A. New York Philharmonic C. Electric Light Orchestra

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Camel’s Hump was given this alternate name by French explorer Samuel de Champlain:

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UVM has been represented by a current student-athlete or graduate in every Winter Olympics since: B. 1972 D. 1988

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B. Paul Rudd D. Adam Sandler

During the War of 1812, the university suspended operations and this campus building was used by the military as a temporary barracks.

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The North Woods, and the creatures that inhabit them, are the subject for most of Caitlin Drasher’s Instagram shots.

The 2017 Rubenstein School of Environment & Natural Resources grad has been working in wildlife conservation for the states of New York and Connecticut.

Follow her: @caitlindrasher