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THE GREEN
Welcoming the Class of 2016; 3 Questions with
new Arts and Sciences Dean Antonio CepedaBenito; Redstone Lofts open new housing
options; and more.
catamount sports
As the nation marks the fortieth anniversary
of Title IX, UVM alumni and staff look back on
the evolution of Catamount women’s sports.
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By Fraser Drew ’33
Cover photograph by Sally McCay
Greenland’s ice sheet: 1,500 miles long, thousands of feet
thick, and melting quickly. Photograph by Joshua Brown
The legacy of student debate runs 113 years
deep at UVM. Today, the venerable Professor
Alfred “Tuna” Snider continues to keep that
fire burning with the next generation and
those to follow.
BY Lee Ann Cox
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FEMINISM’S UNFINISHED BUSINESS Madeleine Kunin pioneered a new place for
women in government when she became
Vermont’s first woman governor in the 1980s.
Today, the UVM Marsh Professor at Large
explores current issues with her book
The New Feminist Agenda.
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Interview by Amanda Waite ’02 G’04
ICE SHEETS, ISOTOPES
& MUSK-OX PIZZA In the field on the rapidly melting ice of
Greenland with geology professor Paul
Bierman and colleagues as they seek
answers to the questions of climate change.
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mind remarkably sharp at age ninety-nine.
A sampler of his essays on college life at the
Owl House, work at the Cynic, and spending
an afternoon with Ernest Hemingway.
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THE PATH TO A PRESIDENCY Tom Sullivan, UVM’s 26th president,
brings the logical mind of a lawyer and
the communication skills of a gifted
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cheese and culture
Professor Paul Kindstedt’s recent book Cheese
and Culture: A History of Cheese and its Place
in Western Civilization led the author in new
directions, causing him to rethink his work with
the food industry and the art and science of
cheesemaking.
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and colleagues received a 2012 Emmy Award for
cinematography for their outstanding work in
tough circumstances.
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THE
by the NUMBERS
GREEN
g a t h e r i ng n e w s & v i e w s o f l i f e a t t h e un i v e rs i t y
t h e c l a s s o f 2016
2,372
first-year students
1,785
average SAT score,
the highest in UVM history
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nations represented
4
states represented
O
ver the summer, the UVM Class
of 2016 shared the experience of
reading This I Believe, the collection
of essays spun-off from the popular
National Public Radio series. On
Sunday, August 26, they gathered in Patrick
Gymnasium for their first shared experience in person, Convocation 2012, the
traditional academic year kick-off/welcome
ceremony.
As the new students filled the bleachers, a sea of color with all dressed in their
residence hall “team” t-shirts, slides with
members of the UVM community sharing
their beliefs flashed on the screen behind
the stage. To quote a few of these beliefs:
“co-existence,” “my brothers,” “fun times,”
“Jesus,” “rock and roll,” “long-distance relationships,” “taking a chance,” “good karma,”
and “pretty much everything.”
sally mccay
Addressing the students, new UVM
President Tom Sullivan noted the “firstyear” experience that he shares with the
Class of 2016. Sullivan’s comments were
full of UVM history and points of pride—
from being the first university in the United
States founded on principles of religious
tolerance to the legacy of alumnus John
Dewey to the work of Nobel Laureate
Jody Williams, Class of ’72. Williams, who
received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997 for
her leadership of the International Campaign to Ban Land Mines, is among the
essayists in This I Believe.
Following convocation in the gym, the
evening continued with the march down
Main Street, Taiko Drummers pounding
out a rhythm, and the candlelight induction on the Green.
541
Vermonters
10%
ALANA students,
holding steady with the
record-breaking numbers
of the past two years
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THEGREEN
redstone redux
T
fingertip access
For many students,
fumbling for their UVM ID
card was the first exercise
of the workout on a visit
to the Gucciardi Fitness
Center. No more. Campus
Recreation has taken the
lead in using biometric
finger vein scanners for
quick, fumble-free access
to the facility. Michael
Trader ’98 is president
of M2SYS Accelerated
Biometrics, developers of
the technology used in
the system.
Though the scanners
are used in many business
he word “Redstone”
rose to the top when
business partners Doug
Nedde ’84 and Larry
Williams ’81 hired a writer to
brainstorm potential names
for their new real estate
brokerage/development
firm back in 1992. Though
both of them are alumni,
and Williams, in fact, lived in
Simpson Hall on Redstone
Campus, that UVM connection was more coincidence
than rationale, they say.
But the multi-faceted firm’s
latest completed project,
Redstone Lofts on Redstone
Campus, brings together the
developers’ shared UVM
roots, their careers, and that
name which, no matter the
context, suggests solidity,
history, and Vermont. The
lofts are a 144-unit apartment complex that opened
in August on a parcel of
in terms of providing a good
housing solution for upperclassmen,” Nedde says.
The new apartments, which
operate independently of the
university and are technically
“off-campus,” filled up quickly.
Redstone surveyed students
about what they sought in a
rental unit and met that wish
list with spacious, furnished
units; amenities like game
rooms, theater rooms and
common lounge space, fitness
facilities, high-speed Wi-Fi
and cable; and all of it a threeminute walk from the athletic
complex and a CATS shuttle
ride to the main campus.
Williams and Nedde say
putting a large building on a
fairly small slice of land presented challenges. Architects
addressed it by designing
the building in two main
wings, each a subtle curve
that minimizes the mass
from the exterior. The point
where the wings meet, called
“The Lantern,” is glass-walled
and includes the common
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and industrial applications, UVM Campus Rec
staff researching the move
to this technology found
only one other school
putting it to use. But the
glitches have been few;
and the students, faculty,
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their fingertips to work,
many.
Redstone Lofts add much-needed
student apartments to Burlington’s
tight rental market.
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top left: grace weaver ’11;
right: sally mccay (2)
Q. Could you describe your vision for
students and faculty in your college?
A. I have high expectations for UVM
and I want to become known as a place
where you can get a liberal arts education that is second to none. I want our
students dreaming big and wanting to do
something for the benefit of humanity
because of the inspiration and the skills
they get here. So I want to incentivize
faculty to create high-impact learning
opportunities: students working in
groups outside the classroom, involved
in service learning, engaged in research,
studying abroad—all these things that
we know makes learning a deeper and
more pleasurable experience.
UVM believes in the scholar-teacher,
the assumption that if you are researchactive (and I include areas like the
performing arts), then you are going to
offer a teaching experience that adds
value because you are engaged in that
creative dissemination process. I want
to make sure that we not only say that
but we can demonstrate that, and the
place to start is by being at the forefront
of scholarship, discovering and contributing to the advancement of knowledge
so that the rest of the world is looking
and noticing us.
Q. We’ve heard you have ideas about
working to break down some of the walls
between academic areas. Can you talk
about that?
A. In terms of teaching, one of the
things that we’re going to do is encourage faculty to create new curriculum
or enhance already existing courses
with interdisciplinary experiences.
And the same with research. I will find
ways to encourage faculty to work with
investigators from other disciplines.
Some may be very good within the
college because we are so diverse and
we have so many departments. I truly
believe that we are moving into an era
where problems are better addressed
when you take into consideration many
different perspectives, and you tackle
problems with integrated solutions.
Q. It sounds like the ALANA U.S. Ethnic
Studies Program is a priority for you. What
are you thinking about that?
A. It fulfills a very important role
within our curriculum. Our students
need to learn about group identity and
how it impacts day-to-day life, how it
permeates every aspect of what we do,
be it politics, economics, labor, health,
entertainment, you name it. So race
relations is a very important part of
this country and now, I think, every
other country because globalization
has basically made societies more heterogeneous than ever before. I came
from a very homogenous society in
Spain, but in the twenty-first century
it’s no longer that way. Much of its
population is from South America,
Africa, and Eastern Europe. Students
need access to courses taught by a
diverse cadre of faculty with different
worldviews because where we come
from influences the way we teach—
there’s no way around it. I think that’s a
good experience for everyone.
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and staff opting to put
Antonio Cepeda-Benito
Antonio Cepeda-Benito joined the university in July as
new dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. He comes to
UVM from Texas A&M University, where he built his academic career over the past eighteen years as a professor of
psychology and an administrator, most recently in the role
of dean of faculties and associate provost. As a researcher,
he connects the disciplines of behavioral neuroscience and
clinical psychology to investigate drug addiction and eating
disorders. Cepeda-Benito was named one of the “Top 100
Most Influential Hispanics” by Hispanic Business Magazine,
and is the recipient of a number of awards at Texas A&M,
including Psychology Teacher of the Year, Academic Inspiration Award, and multiple diversity service awards.
just 3 questions
[CAMPUS]
Redstone Campus just east
of the residence halls. Open
to UVM upperclassmen and
graduate students, they add
403 beds of space to Burlington’s tight rental market.
The Redstone Group’s
sign is a familiar one around
Chittenden County, often
attached to historic renovations and repurposing of
buildings—Chace Mill along
the Winooski River, the
former Saputo Cheese Plant
in Hinesburg, the Shelburne
Inn, and they’ve got plans on
the table to incorporate the
landmark Armory Building
on Main and Pine (alumni
of a certain vintage will
remember it as Hunt’s) into
a boutique hotel. Ownership
of Bolton Valley Resort is also
on the list of diverse ventures
for the two local natives.
Redstone explored another
direction with the lofts,
their largest project to date.
“Clearly, there’s a housing
issue in our community, and
I think this project provides
a real asset to the university
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A
the
l i s ts
UVM and Burlington
continue to rack up
the rankings on many
and varied “best” lists.
On top of the hill, the
university’s College
of Medicine is #8 for
admissions selectivity
according to U.S. News;
Outside puts UVM at #9
among best colleges for
outdoor enthusiasts;
and Campus Pride lauds
the campus’s inclusive
and supportive
environment for
lesbian, gay, bisexual,
and transgender students.
Burlington’s recent
laurels include a #11
spot on a list of
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a Parenting magazine
salute as a best city for
families; and even a nod
from the 2013 Farmer’s
Almanac as a top five
locale for a cool summer.
space. The face of Redstone
Lofts is a blend of black brick
accented with blue, yellow,
and white panels for a look
that is contemporary, but also
has a certain seventies retro
thing going on.
Regarding the lofts’ look,
Williams says, “I think it’s a
building that pushes the envelope and pushes the norm in
the area that we live. It’s not
a traditional New England
vernacular building; but, I
think long-term for UVM it
will be great that it provokes
some discussion. It is not a
background building.”
While the exterior aesthetics may be in that eye
of the beholder, there’s little
debate about the views from
inside the units. To the east
are the sightlines one would
anticipate toward the Green
Mountains and a perspective on the new Virtue Field
that feels like a stadium
box view. To the west, the
elevation of the upper floors
offers a surprising, stunning
sweep of Burlington treetops,
Lake Champlain, and the
Adirondacks.
[INVENTION]
Tool could curb
invasive species
E
ighty percent of world
trade is carried by ships.
A big cargo ship docks
in the United States
about every six minutes. It
unloads goods that can come
from any port on the planet.
Unfortunately, these ships
also often unload invasive species—unwanted hitchhikers,
like zebra mussel larvae and
purple loosestrife seeds—
travelling in the ship’s ballast
water. This, too, can come
from any port on the planet.
In the United States,
dumped ballast water may be
the leading source of invasive
species found in freshwater
and marine ecosystems,
according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
From the Caspian Sea to Lake
Champlain, communities
have suffered profound damage—like collapsed fisheries
and clogged pipes—due to
invaders that arrived in ballast
water.
Ballast water is essential to
cargo ships (as well as cruise-
liners and sailboats) allowing
them to stay at the proper
depth, steer correctly, and not
tip over. Unfortunately, efforts
to remove species from the
twelve billion tons of ballast
water dumped annually have
proven very difficult, often
toxic, and expensive.
But Junru Wu, a physicist
at the University of Vermont,
has invented a promising new
approach: blast them to death
with sound.
He and Meiyin Wu (no
relation), an ecologist at
Montclair State University
in New Jersey, have been
collaborating for nearly a
decade to create a device—
they call it BallastSolution.
The machine will treat ballast
water, as ships take it in and
dump it out, with a lethal
dose of ultrasound. (Lethal,
that is, to wee beasties; it’s
harmless to people.)
In recent tests, “we thought
we’d be happy if we could kill
close to ninety percent” of the
small clams, water fleas, and
E. coli bacteria sent into the
machine, says Junru Wu, “but
the results were over ninetynine percent.”
The promise of their collaboration is well timed, as
the U.S. Coast Guard rolled
out rules in March requiring
ocean-going ships to have an
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left: Mike Peters/Montclair State University; right: sally mccay
STUDENT focus
I
t’s quiet this afternoon in Centennial Woods. When Hillary
Laggis ’14 was here five days ago, not so quiet. Squeals and
screeches bounced off the maples, rushed down the brook,
and rose up through the pines—the sound of kids romping
through the woods and having fun.
They were here with the DREAM Program (Directing
through Recreation, Education, Adventure and Mentoring),
which matches children from low-income families with
a college-age student. Led by Laggis and a wide circle
of fellow UVM students, the younger kids took on a
scavenger hunt—“This is a pinecone, right?” one
tentative little boy asked—while the teenagers
learned wilderness survival skills with help from
UVM Outing Club leaders.
Laggis’s leadership on this event is just one
of many efforts that helped the junior in public
communications earn a nationally competitive
Pearson Prize this year. She was chosen as one
of twenty winners, out of more than 20,000
applicants. Laggis received $10,000 to help
defray the cost of college, as well as guidance, support and training from the Pearson
Foundation around endeavors in community
involvement and social entrepreneurship. While work in the community has been
a key part of the junior from Hardwick, Vermont’s years at UVM, that day in Centennial
Woods has special meaning for Laggis. It was
the first of many activities that honor the
memory of her close friend Avi Kurganoff, a
fellow UVM student who passed away last
March. “Avi’s Adventures” carries forward
Kurganoff’s plan to create a program to get
local underprivileged youth into the woods,
opening them to the same wisdom and joy
he found there in his own life.
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“America’s Leading
High-Tech Metros;”
UVM’s Junru Wu and Montclair
State University scientist
Meiyin Wu (pictured) are
collaborating on a device for
combatting invasive species
transported via ships’ ballast
water.
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best book
Joe Roman, a conservation
biologist on the UVM faculty,
received the 2011/2012 Rachel Carson Award from the
Society for Environmental
Journalists for best environmental book. Roman’s Listed: Dispatches from
America’s Endangered Species
Act “shows persuasively
that protecting endangered
species and their habitats
can be a win for communities
and economies, as well as for
nature, and in so doing, suggests a path towards greater
protection for all species, not
just those that make the list,”
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the SEJ judges wrote.
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onboard ballast treatment system and limiting how many
organisms they can release in
coastal waters. And the U.N.’s
International Maritime Organization will require all ships,
millions worldwide, to have a
treatment system by the end
of 2016.
The patented BallastSolution device, funded by a
$673,000 grant from the U.S.
Department of the Interior,
is made from twenty ultra-
sound transducers, arranged
in a spiral, that protrude into
a pipe about ten inches wide
on the interior. As the ballast
water pumps through, the
transducers oscillate at frequencies above the range of
human hearing. In goes a load
of potential bad guys at one
end—and out comes nearly
sterile water at the other.
At least that’s what the first
tests have shown. The machine,
built at UVM by Junru Wu and
post-doctoral researcher Di
Chen, was delivered to Meiyin
Wu at the beginning of 2012
for testing in her laboratory in
New Jersey.
[music]
A symphonic storm
A
s David Feurzeig recalls
Tropical Storm Irene, its
onset was milder than
the warnings—from
where he sat, a bullet dodged.
And so begins his symphony:
“stillness, intermittently
broken by quick, isolated
note-snippets.” But then.
“They become more and
more frequent until there is a
full deluge of sound.” Those
are the words of Vermont
Symphony Orchestra conductor Anthony Princiotti
who is preparing for rehearsal
of High Water. “David’s piece
is highly descriptive, and I
think it accurately evokes
what Irene felt like,” he says.
“Retrospectively the warnings
seem abstract in comparison
to how destructive the storm
was. The beginning of the
Professor and composer David Feurzeig
piece depicts this well.”
The VSO annually commissions one piece for their
“Made in Vermont” fall tour.
It’s a privilege, says Feurzeig,
associate professor of music
theory and composition,
particularly because orchestras generally choose safe,
well-loved works. He usually
writes for chamber groups
or soloists, so to have a full
symphony perform his work,
not once but in eight performances, is a rarity except
for the most elite composers whose names aren’t
Beethoven, Bach, and the like.
Feurzeig, though, is hardly
unknown. He was twice a
featured guest at the International Composers Festival in
Bangkok. His “Songs of Love
and Protest” were selected by
the Dresden Chamber Chorus for the city’s 800th jubilee
and premiered in the fabled
Semper Opera House, and his
work has won many notable
awards including the Silver
Medal of the London Royal
Academy of Arts.
When he was approached
by the VSO, Feurzeig says
they asked for something
cheerful, most of the new
works for “Made in Vermont”
being picturesque or historical. “They said, ‘your piece
should be a little chipper,’”
he laughs, “then I accidently
wrote this.”
But Feurzeig did not take
this project lightly. Though
he and his family did some
hardcore volunteer work
in ravaged areas, the composer acknowledges persistent misgivings about his
moral authority as a relative
bystander to make art from
others’ tragedy.
“It’s still pretty fresh and
sensitive for a lot of people.
It’s not historical yet,” he says.
“And, I don’t know if this matters to anybody else, but since
I wasn’t personally, materially
harmed, who am I to be the
person writing a piece about
this? But this is the piece that
wanted to happen.”
Just after he finished the
score, Feurzeig got a call from a
woman he had helped, building
emergency lean-tos around her
sally mccay (2)
foundation. “She looked like
she was moving through a fog
when we were there, and I was
amazed that she knew who we
were and had tracked us down,”
he says. She told Feurzeig that
it was amazing what people had
done and that she has more
positive memories than otherwise from that time. “I can’t say
that everybody feels the same
way that she does,” he says,
“but that felt encouraging to
me that mine wasn’t an unusual
reaction, that maybe other
people are feeling that way.”
[art]
One work,
two artists
I
t’s early August and
Bill Davison, professor
emeritus of art, and Gerrit
Gollner ’98, a former student, are in the first stages of a
collaborative print project. As
they look over initial sketches
and discuss directions at the
Iskra Print Collective in the
basement of JDK Design on
Maple Street, Davison is the
first to shelve the notion that
he and Gollner will labor
under any sort of vestigial
teacher-student hierarchy.
That ended long ago, says
Davison, as soon as Gollner
graduated and began a stint
as a teaching assistant in the
art department. “At that point
there was no sense that I was
any different than she was,”
Davison says. “She was just
a young artist and I was an
older artist.”
Incipient talent and a prodigious work ethic combined
to drive Gollner’s rapid development during her student
top: courtesy the jdk gallery;
bottom: grace weaver ’11
years and after graduation.
A key milestone along the
way was a 1994 exhibit titled
“Rake,” curated by fellow
alumna Rachel Comey ’94 for
the Exquisite Corpse Gallery.
Now known as JDK Gallery,
the space is just upstairs in
the JDK building where Gollner has been painting and
printing during her residency
in August and September.
Gollner makes her living
with her art and makes her
home in Cologne, Germany
these days. But a confluence
of family, friends, and the
Burlington art scene conspired
to bring her back this summer.
Eleazer Durfee ’86, a member
of UVM’s Fleming Museum
Board, and John Bates, owner
of Black Horse Art Supply,
proposed bringing Gollner
to Burlington for a residency
leading up to a show during
this year’s South End Art Hop.
JDK stepped up with space
Released in an edition
of sixty, “tandem”
prints are being
offered for $300
each. For additional
information about
purchasing prints,
contact William.
[email protected].
for her to work at Iskra and
the assistance of highly skilled
printmaker Leo Listi, a JDK
staff member who manages
the Iskra Collective. And her
longtime friend Janie Cohen,
Fleming Museum director,
offered a place to stay.
Gollner’s return to Burlington was a busy and productive time. Undaunted by an
August 29 bike accident in
which she seriously injured
her right hand, she created
a number of new paintings
and drawings and the print
collaboration with Davison
titled “tandem.”
Davison offered a starting
point for the work with an
intriguing news photograph
of shark fins lined up on
a wharf in China. Gollner
immediately liked it, and they
began moving forward with a
basic plan for a work structured with quadrants: two
for Gollner, two for Davison,
and the liberty to “intervene,”
even “invade,” one another’s
graphic turf.
Looking back to when he
first met Gollner, Davison
recall her begging for a place
THEGREEN
in his fully enrolled lithography class. “I didn’t know who
she was, and suddenly I had
this sixteenth student that I
didn’t want in the class,” the
professor says. “But within a
month it was so apparent that
she was so beyond anyone in
terms of comprehending the
process and making the most
inventive work I’d seen in
many, many years.”
[service]
Vermont’s esprit
de Peace Corps
O
n August 16, Aaron S.
Williams, director of
the Peace Corps, and
Sen. Patrick Leahy,
gathered at UVM’s Henderson Cafe in the Davis Center
to celebrate what Leahy
called “the extraordinary
partnership between Vermont and the Peace Corps.”
Leahy is chair of the Senate
Appropriations Committee’s
Subcommittee on Department of State and Foreign
Operations, which handles
the Senate’s annual budget
bills for foreign operations,
including the Peace Corps.
“If the mission (of the Peace
Corps) was relevant back
when JFK was president—
and it was—it’s even more
relevant today,”
Leahy said.
Williams, himself a former
Peace Corps volunteer, spoke
about a sometimes overlooked
third goal of the organization: for volunteers to make a
difference when they return
home. In addition to the
handful of audience members
who affirmed their service as
volunteers, he congratulated
two Vermonters in attendance, John William Meyer of
Shelburne, a 2010 Middlebury
College graduate who recently
completed his service as a
youth development volunteer
in Peru, and UVM doctoral
student Charles Kerchner of
Burlington, who served as a
Peace Corps volunteer in the
Dominican Republic from
2001-2003.
Kerchner took to the
podium to outline his “Two
Worlds—One Bird” project,
an alliance he founded to
protect endangered rainforest in the Caribbean and save
the threatened Bicknell’s
Thrush, a songbird that
migrates from Vermont
and the northeast to the
Dominican and Haiti.
Using his Peace Corps
background as an agroforestry specialist, Kerchner
imports organic cacao from
the Dominican to manufacture Kerchner Artisan Chocolate in Vermont. The business
partnership helps the cacao
farmers to improve earnings
while conserving land in the
rainforest canopy to protect
the thrush and other migratory songbirds.
His work received initial
funding through small donations at the Henderson Café
cash register about five years
ago, an amount leveraged to
$1.25 million as the project
has grown in the years since.
Kerchner spoke of his work
with Bicknell’s Thrush as
symbolic of the goals of the
Peace Corps, one that celebrates the “shared values and
morals between countries”
and showcases the “compounding impact” of serving
in the Corps.
Vermont is nationally
ranked on the 2011 Peace
Corps Top State list for per-
Running through the past
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capita volunteer production
with forty-seven currently
serving Peace Corps volunteers. Historically, Vermont
has produced 1,422 Peace
Corps volunteers who have
helped promote a better
understanding between
Americans and the people of
the 139 countries in which
they have served. The
University of Vermont ranks
No. 5 on the 2012 top Peace
Corps volunteer-producing
colleges and universities in
the medium-size category
with forty-two undergraduate alumni currently serving
overseas. Since the agency
was founded in 1961, 801
UVM alumni have served in
the Peace Corps.
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This is a whiz-bang building. I’m kind of jealous,
and I have a pretty nice building myself.
— Mark Dimunation, chief of Rare Books and Special Collections
at the Library of Congress, on Billings, the future site of UVM’s Special Collections.
t’s unlikely you’ll find a photo of Caleb Daniloff
’94—smiling with self-assurance, backpack casually slung over one shoulder—in a UVM student
recruitment brochure circa 1992.
Alcohol and addiction had been part of the adolescent’s life from his years living in Moscow, where his
father, Nicholas Daniloff, was a journalist, to his study
at Northfield Mount Hermon School. The freedom of
college took it to a new level, part of a personal tale that
Daniloff tells with admirable honesty in his first book,
Running Ransom Road (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt),
released in October.
In the second chapter of Ransom work and made me think I could be
Road, Daniloff describes the atmo- halfway decent at writing,” Daniloff
sphere as “electric” during his first year says. “It wasn’t until years later that he
on campus. “Students took over the told me that he basically completely saw
president’s office demanding diversity, himself in me sitting there in the back
protest shanties choked the main cam- row.” Fulwiler also led him toward Jean
pus, a ragtag jam band named Phish was Kiedaisch, then head of the writing cenfilling bar crowds with the spirit, and ter at Living/Learning, where he would
Burlington’s mayor was a Brooklyn-bred work as a writing tutor.
From pitching the book concept to
socialist named Bernie Sanders. Long
streets poured down from campus like publication has been a three-and-a halfasphalt tributaries into the black sparkle year process, the writing accomplished
of Lake Champlain. It was a great place through early mornings, late nights, and
weekends, and a short leave from his
to get lost.”
Fifteen years after his graduation, job as a writer at Boston University. “It
Daniloff—a sober man, husband, did have that marathon, endless miles
father, athlete—returned to Burlington quality to it,” Daniloff says with a bit of
to compete in the 2009 Vermont City a smile.
Now that the work is in bookstores,
Marathon. Running through what he
terms “former sinning grounds,” the Daniloff reflects on his hope for Running
interplay of a dramatically different Ransom Road: “I want people to recogpast and present in Daniloff’s life gives nize that you’re never at an end point
Ransom Road its structure. Other chap- where it’s just over and you can’t go
ters take him on the roads of Boston, any further. Nothing is static. Sobriety
Moscow, New York, and Middlebury, itself is a whole bizarre adventure and
among other locales. While some pas- you need tools to navigate that terrain,
sages might make readers wince at what which can be complicated. For me, it’s
was, ultimately it’s a story rooted in been running and marathoning. Recovery is a constant state of evolution. If I
hope and the power to change.
Daniloff says there were “lights in can help embed that feeling inside oththe darkness” of his UVM years; Toby ers, then that would be a success.” —Thomas Weaver
Fulwiler, professor emeritus of English, was a primary influence. “Toby
was the first person who validated my ONLINE
EXTRA See uvm.edu/vq for an
Adventures In Two Worlds: Vietnam
General and Vermont Professor
Xlibris, Corp; Douglas Kinnard
Douglas Kinnard graduated from West
Point on D-Day, 1944, and served in World
War II, the Korean War, and two tours in
Vietnam. In 1970, he retired from the U.S.
Army as a brigadier general and pursued a
doctorate from Princeton, which brought
him to the political science faculty at the
University of Vermont. His latest book, his
eighth, recounts his experiences in those
two worlds: as chief of operations analysis
for General Westmoreland during the 1966-67
phase of the Vietnam War and then, upon his
return, as an academic at work on
campuses enlivened by anti-war sentiment.
Summer Friends
Vineyard Stories, Sarah French ’77
With handmade papers and collage, alumna and
artist Sarah French tells the story of Minnie the
mutt and Stanley the seal, two unlikely friends
whose attempts to play together are the subject
of her new children’s book, Summer Friends.
The rich colors and textured landscapes of the
collage art give dimension to the beach scene
backdrops. An original piece of art for display
is included. Learn more about French on her
website: sarahfrenchartandillustration.com.
Public Meltdown: The Story of the
Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant
White River Press, Richard Watts
Richard Watts, assistant research professor in
Community Development and Applied Economics, watched Vermont Yankee go through a
metaphorical meltdown­—a meltdown in its
public perception that turned the facility politically toxic. Watts, an expert on media discourse
and energy, studied government documents,
analyzed 1,400 newspaper articles, and interviewed dozens of observers and experts to trace
the story of what happened from the time the
power plant was sold to Entergy Corporation in
2002 until the Vermont Senate voted to shut the
plant in 2010.
Read about more UVM books at uvm.edu/vq
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Leveling the playing field
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A
s UVM’s dean of women in the
late sixties and early seventies,
Jackie Gribbons was well aware of
the inequities between the men’s
and women’s athletic programs. Budgets
were smaller for women, scholarships
fewer, and facilities poorer. It wasn’t out
of the ordinary for the women’s teams to
carpool to games toting bag lunches and
compete in their practice pinnies.
UVM President Ed Andrews appointed
a task force on women’s athletics in
1971—a full year before Title IX, the landmark legislation aimed at eliminating sexbased discrimination in education, was
passed, putting the university well ahead
of most athletic programs nationwide.
“The discrepancies were appalling and
they were right in front of us, but I wanted
to complete the task force so it was on the
record and formally pointed out to justify
our recommendations,” recalls Gribbons,
who chaired the task force that evaluated
all aspects of women’s athletics and other
activities on campus. “Even the men had
to admit that things weren’t fair and many
of them supported our efforts. Bottom
line: it was about ethics and fairness.”
Change didn’t come immediately,
however, as attested to by some of the
women who, during Reunion and Homecoming Weekend, attended a fortieth
anniversary celebration of the passage
of Title IX. Jane Condon recalls coming
to UVM in 1967 to start a new physical education program in the College of
Janet Lynch ’78 and Janet Terp ’80
competed for the Catamounts in the
early years of the Title IX era.
photo courtesy of janet terp
Education and trying to launch women’s
teams in basketball, volleyball, softball,
lacrosse, soccer, tennis, golf, and crosscountry skiing with teacher volunteers
and no budget. Tennis and dance were
already offered at Southwick Gym, where
the basketball court was so small that the
walls served as the sidelines.
Condon describes the pre-Title IX
years as exciting and driven by a love
of sports, but frustrating in terms of
advancement. Even after the law’s passage, it would be years until any visible
signs appeared. “Title IX was slow to
be seen, not just heard,” says Condon.
“Many promises were made, but nothing
really happened until about 1978. The
male coaches always made more than we
did, but we always got along with the men
and they were respectful of women and
our desire to gain and grow, and always
helped us when they could. It (Title IX)
gave us the opportunity to play—just for
the love of the game.”
The lengthy implementation process,
according to Gribbons and then-assistant
athletic director Rick Farnham ’69 G’77,
both of whom were tasked with making
the university compliant within a year,
was due in part to the ambiguity of the
law and lack of funding to implement it.
“Title IX was about a lot more than just
athletics,” says Gribbons. “It was meant
to address the equity and equality of services, benefits, programs and activities in
higher education, and that’s pretty broad.”
Farnham said then-athletic director
Denis Lambert was aware of the discrepancies and felt strongly that women should
be treated equally “because it was the right
thing to do, and because women paid the
same amount of money as men for their
education and should be treated equally.”
Lambert would eventually merge the
william dilillo
men’s and women’s programs, even up the
number of teams at thirteen apiece, and
add twelve new scholarships for women.
Janet Terp ’80, a multi-event track star,
was a beneficiary of one of these scholarships, receiving one following her first
season. “It takes a village and UVM was
truly a village when it came to Title IX,”
says Terp, who works as chief of staff for
administration and advancement in the
arts and sciences development office
at Dartmouth College. “There were so
many ambassadors and heroines that
took the time to teach and mentor me and
who made Title IX work. It led to new
resources for women that allowed us to
train better. Other institutions didn’t let
women go to nationals. UVM said, ‘We
want to support you.’ I came back from
nationals thinking, ‘Wow UVM is way
ahead of everyone else and cared enough
to support me.’ UVM would have done it
anyway, but the law was needed to push it
along and provide some framework. Title
IX was a real game changer both academically, athletically, and professionally for
me and so many other women.”
Val Turtle ’72, who was captain of the
field hockey team and played four other
sports, notes that despite the advances
brought about by Title IX, it’s important
to remember that there remains room for
progress.
“You remember the expression ‘you’ve
come a long way baby’? Well, we still
have a long way to go,” Turtle says. “Title
IX opened up the doors, but there were
definitely pros and cons to it. I do think
it allowed women to have a better standing in athletics even though it wasn’t set
up just for sports. The glass ceiling isn’t
always glass anymore, and I think women
are breaking through more often, and
that’s as it should be.”
Stirling Winder ’08
Former UVM trustee and student-athlete
Stirling Winder passed away in July after
a long and courageous battle with cancer. She was diagnosed with osteosarcoma during her first semester as a UVM
student. Following chemotherapy and a
total knee replacement in 2005, she continued to be involved with the Vermont
field hockey program. She returned to
the field for her senior year and finished
her career having played in twenty-five
games, helping the Catamounts reach
the America East Tournament.
In 2008, she was awarded the Russell
O. Sunderland Memorial Trophy, presented to UVM senior student-athletes for
persistence in overcoming obstacles to
achieve a high level of athletic accomplishment.
In addition to her service as a student
trustee from 2006 to 2008, Winder accepted an appointment to the University
of Vermont Alumni Association Board
of Directors last May. Her father, John
Winder, is a UVM alumnus, class of 1975,
and her brother Alden graduated from
UVM this past spring.
Following graduation from UVM,
Stirling Winder worked at the Beth Israel
Deaconess Medical Center in the neonatal intensive care unit and was attending
Northeastern University for her pediatric
nurse practitioner degree.
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by Jon Reidel G’06
uvmathletics.com
for sports NEWS
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ALUMNIVOICE
F
The long happy life of Fraser Drew
raser Drew ’33, who celebrated his ninety-ninth birthday at his home in Williamsville, New York,
this summer, is among the university’s oldest alumni. But Drew, to borrow a nugget from Abe Lincoln, is the sort of man for whom the life in his years is just as notable as the years in his life. At
ninety-nine, he’s a delight to converse with and writes a thoughtful letter in a careful hand.
His career included decades as a beloved and influential professor of English at Buffalo State University of New York. He is a hearty traveler who has visited every county in Ireland; a literary scholar and
unabashed fan of authors whose one-on-one meetings included a three-hour visit with Ernest Hemingway
in Cuba; an ardent literary collector who has donated rare author-signed volumes and letters to UVM
Special Collections; and a graceful writer who, in his later years, turned to typing out memories of his past,
including his formative years at UVM. (In a letter to a friend, Drew’s humility and precision with language
show as he corrects himself for referring to these works as a memoir—“This is a pretentious word and I’ll
use recollection instead.”) Memoirs or recollections, they are keenly observed and recalled moments in
time, a window into a bygone era at the University of Vermont.
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An hour or two at Rand’s, five minutes from the Owl
House, was the right interval between Latin and the rest
of my work.
Rand’s was a typical college hangout of the early
1930’s, presided over by busy, unsmiling Mrs. Rand,
who offered very good food in pleasant surroundings at
fair prices. The back booth was the regular territory of
Lecta Schaefer, a tall girl from the Hudson Valley with a
mane of red gold hair and literary gifts and interests. Lex
had several friends at the Owl House who often joined
her and the equally striking dark-haired poet Dorothy
Kennedy. I was one friend and my junior-year roommate Stan Carter, a farm boy from East Corinth with the
manner of an urban sophisticate, was another. Freshman
Owls Art Mayville and Ray Greemore were often there
and an occasional heathen like the Irish brothers Derven from downstate. The back booth was always thick
with smoke, no deterrent for Owls whose fraternity had
been founded as a rebellious smoking society and had
once been known as Lorillard Institute.
Here we talked of FDR and the Depression, of campus politics, games and dances, of the newest poems
of Frost, MacLeish, Robinson, and Edna St. Vincent
Millay. We drank much coffee and sometimes ordered
by Fraser Drew ’33
a piece of Mrs. Rand’s superb homemade pie—apple,
mince, berry, or her signature coconut custard…
THE CYNIC AND OTHER MATTERS
Often my evenings included a couple of hours at the
Vermont Cynic office in the north end of the Old Mill,
the venerable building where all my classes met except
military science, gym, and zoology. As a freshman I had
been a reporter for the Cynic, the university semi-weekly
newspaper, then film columnist and news editor, and
eventually editor-in-chief… The little office was noisy
with typewriters, telephone, and the constant traffic of
reporters.
When I was editor-in-chief, the Cynic provided a
telephone in my room at the Owl House, though it also
served my social life and that of my senior year roommate, Art Mayville. Like telephones, student cars were
rare in the early thirties. From the parking space behind
the house I remember only the roadster owned by Owl
hockey star Bob Hendrick in which he looks like a hangover from the Roaring Twenties in his big coonskin coat.
Art often brought his mother’s big blue Oldsmobile in
from Milton for the weekend, and double dates in this
STAR DUST MEMORIES
Most of us cannot remember a time when we did not
know the melody and some of the words of “Star Dust,”
and I am just old enough at ninety-seven to recall its earliest days. I was a freshman at the University of Vermont
when the music of Hoagy Carmichael and the lyrics of
Mitchell Parish began to float through the dance halls
of Burlington and the fraternity houses of Pearl Street
and College Street. Somehow “Star Dust” ensorcelled
us and its enchantment has endured through a century’s
decades and then beyond.
I first heard “Star Dust” at the annual dinner dance
of Lambda Iota, the society whose brothers had taken
me in hand and patiently taught me lessons not available in my Latin, French, and Greek textbooks. My
date for the formal was Faire Divoll, a glamorous junior
recruited by my Lambda Iota brothers who years later
remembered the occasion as the first time she had heard
“Star Dust.” And I heard it at every dance of my years at
Vermont, Syracuse, and Duke, and my teaching years at
Green Mountain and Buffalo State until the time of the
Beatles, when “Star Dust” moved to private collections
of records and the reminiscent programs of television…
WITH HEMINGWAY in havana
He asked if I had any books in my briefcase for him to
sign, and I admitted having picked up what I could find on
a hurried tour of the French Quarter bookshops. Asking
for information about each recipient, he signed The Old
Man and the Sea for my father, To Have and Have Not for
Buffalo State College colleague Conrad J. Schuck…
After he had signed the books, he asked why I had
become a teacher. “You don’t look like a teacher,” he
said. “You have the face of a doctor.”
I remembered that his father had been a doctor and
that the young American’s Italian friend Rinaldi in A
Farewell to Arms was a surgeon.
When he asked about my collection and learned
that I had all his first editions except The Spanish
Earth, Hemingway found his own copy of the first
lauren simkin berke
issue, marked “author’s copy” in his hand, and gave it
to me nicely inscribed, further stuffing my briefcase
with French and Italian editions of A Farewell to Arms,
For Whom the Bell Tolls, and The Old Man and the Sea,
signing them all with comments about the cover or illustrations about my trip.
I would gladly have spent all day in the library, but
we went on to see other rooms. In the dining room I
recognized Miro’s “The Farm,” the only picture I could
have identified for sure among the Massons, the Klees
and other moderns. It turned out to be Hemingway’s
favorite, purchased in Paris in 1925 when he and his wife
could not afford such extravagances. He also showed me
the room where he worked every morning standing at
a typewriter that rested on a bookcase. The room also
contained a bed, other bookcases and a table strewn
with books, papers, and unopened letters.
Clutching my bulging bookcase, I thanked my host
and began my exit.
“I hope that you aren’t too badly disappointed after
coming so far and taking so much trouble,” he said.
“Writers are always a disappointment when you meet
them. All the good in them goes into their books, and
they are dull themselves.”
I assured him that this time he was wrong and the
visit had been all I had hoped and more.
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elegant car were mine in unspoken brotherly exchange
for help on Art’s French comps and the availability of
Burlington 3273, the only phone number I have remembered for seventy years.
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p r o f i l e — t o m s u ll i v a n
The
Path to a
Presidency
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by Thomas Weaver
photography by Sally McCay
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’ve asked Tom Sullivan to tell me about his childhood, his family, his hometown. Precisely twenty-six words later, he has left
Amboy, Illinois, completed his undergrad years at Drake University, earned his law degree at Indiana University, and gotten
down to work with a federal court clerkship in Miami.
Efficient is a word that friends and colleagues turn to without fail when describing Tom Sullivan, and I have just gotten a keen sense of that efficiency.
While Sullivan will graciously fill out the finer details of his youth later in the conversation, it’s
clear that talking about himself is not a top priority.
The moment UVM’s twenty-sixth president genuinely gets rolling—no prodding necessary—is when the subject turns to teaching. He excelled in his work at the front of the lecture hall in decades of teaching law at the University of Missouri, Washington University in St.
Louis, the University of Arizona, and the University of Minnesota, where he received the law
school’s top teaching award. During his years as law school dean, Sullivan made continuing to
teach a priority.
He loves the environment of a steeply pitched law lecture hall, a hundred-plus students in a
semi-circle. As Sullivan describes his teaching style, one envisions a kinder, gentler version of Professor Charles Kingsfield from The Paper Chase. “I taught like I was taught in law school, Socratically. Question, answer, question, answer, question, answer. I walk around, I get close to students,
and we have a conversation,” Sullivan says. “And I would really try to focus on individual students,
try to bring that student out and give him or her confidence and a comfort level that they can feel
free to have a conversation with me in front of a hundred other students. When you build that
confidence level and that comfort level, it’s amazing how dazzling those young minds are.”
Talk to colleagues, friends, former students, and many will touch on this aspect of the teacher
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in Tom Sullivan’s personal and professional style. A picture emerges of a man with high standards for himself
and others, but one who is patient, persuasive, and collaborative in his way of working toward them.
Barbara McFadden Allen, executive director of the
Committee on Institutional Cooperation, a consortium
of the Big Ten member universities plus the University
of Chicago, worked with Sullivan during his years as
Minnesota’s provost.
“I’ve worked with probably thirty different provosts
from our member universities over the years,” she says.
“One distinctive thing about Tom that he shares with
the very best of our leaders is they can help you see
where you should be going. Sometimes he has to do
that by showing you where you’re falling short. But
he can help you see what is possible and then he will
roll up his sleeves and work alongside you to make it
happen.”
“Tom had the least to gain of any dean around
the table, yet he was the first to say to me,
‘It’s difficult, it’s an extraordinarily
difficult time to do it, but it is consistent
with our academic mission and public
responsibilities. It is the right thing to
VERMONT Q U A RTER L Y
do and we should do it.’ ”
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I
f you’ve lived in, driven through, or flown over the
American Midwest, you have a picture for Amboy,
Illinois—a crossroads of flat two-lanes and Illinois
Central rail tracks, a small, leafy town set amidst a
grid of corn and soybean fields stretching to the horizon.
Those railroad tracks brought many Irish to the town
one hundred miles west of Chicago in the nineteenth
century, says Sullivan. His own Irish heritage and Illinois
roots trace to his great-grandfather, a farmer who came
to America during the Irish Potato Famine of the 1840s,
settling in Rochelle, twenty miles northeast of Amboy.
President Tom Sullivan and his wife, Leslie Black Sullivan
’77, lead the procession at the 2012 Convocation ceremony.
interest in the law ran deep in his blood, Sullivan had
long been impressed by teachers.
“I always wanted to teach, even before I went to law
school,” Sullivan says. “I had great teachers and mentors
all along the way. I had the impression, ‘Boy, would I
like to do that. Would I like to be in a classroom making a difference in students’ lives as it was for me.’” With
a near sense of wonder, Sullivan recalls an eighth grade
English teacher who spent an entire semester diagramming sentences, an exercise that many recall with something other than wonder. “We really learned how words
related to one another, the whole relationship, structure,
and great craft of writing.”
Those communication skills would serve Sullivan
well in his work as a lawyer, years spent as a trial attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice and as an antitrust litigator in Washington, D.C. After his move to
the academic world, Sullivan has been a prolific legal
scholar, the author of eleven books and fifty articles, and
a nationally recognized authority on antitrust law and
complex litigation.
Teaching, writing, and administration—Tom Sullivan counts them as the three loves of his years in higher
education and says the three pursuits have balanced and
fed one another throughout his career. No one knows
Sullivan’s skills as an administrator better than Bob Bruininks, past president of the University of Minnesota who
selected Sullivan to be his second in command as provost.
Bruininks defines his colleague’s leadership with
a story from when the University of Minnesota struggled with a decision whether to add a satellite presence in Rochester at a time when budgets were already
stretched. Bruininks was academic vice president at the
time; Sullivan, law school dean.
“Tom had the least to gain of any dean around the
table, yet he was the first to say to me, ‘It’s difficult, it’s an
extraordinarily difficult time to do it, but it is consistent
with our academic mission and public responsibilities.
It is the right thing to do and we should do it,’” Bruininks
says. “I’ve told that story a few times because it exemplifies Tom’s commitment to mission, to excellence, to
principle, to doing the right thing.”
Former Vice President Walter Mondale has been a
close friend of Sullivan’s for years and they’ve worked
together on fundraising initiatives for the University of
Minnesota Law School (housed in Walter F. Mondale
Hall). Mondale notes today’s critical need for private support in higher education, Sullivan’s skill in fundraising at
Minnesota, and the focus he has already put on it in his
first months at the University of Vermont.
“He knows how to do it,” Mondale says. “You know,
some of these people full of goodwill haven’t done it
before and spend a couple of years learning. Tom knows
exactly how to start necessary financial efforts.”
Both Bruininks and Mondale also give high praise to
Leslie Black Sullivan ’77, noting her personal warmth,
professional accomplishment, and the Sullivans supportive relationship. “They are a wonderful couple and
it shows; people like being around them,” Mondale says.
“Your university got a ‘twofer.’ It was an inspired choice
by the board.”
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n a cool September evening, Tom and
Leslie Sullivan stroll across Redstone
Campus. As the new president is eager
to show off the “snappy new dining
hall” in Simpson or the light-filled, graceful renovation of the Wing-Davis-Wilks lobby space, his alumna
spouse reminisces about the more basic accommoda-
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Tom Sullivan was the youngest of Edward and
Loraine Sullivan’s five children. As he describes a happy,
fulfilled 1950s childhood, Norman Rockwell Saturday
Evening Post covers come to mind. Catholic grade school
was a block from home; the future university president
was a high school class president and three-sport letterman (football, basketball, track); and a parent-instilled
work ethic meant mowing lawns, baling hay, and hot
summer days on a highway construction crew.
His father’s generation of siblings were all either doctors or lawyers, and Tom Sullivan had a sense from an
early age he would follow his father’s path. “Going to
law school was an anticipated, expected, almost natural thing for me,” he says. That interest was furthered by
occasional trips to the courtroom with his father, where
it’s clear Edward Sullivan influenced his son not only
with his professional direction, but more deeply with his
character. “He was very much a gentleman, always wellprepared, a prudent person,” Sullivan says.
Campuses around the country were hotbeds of dissent—rarely gentlemanly or prudent—when Tom Sullivan entered Drake
University in Des Moines, Iowa, during the
Vietnam War era. An effort was made at
Drake to give students a structured voice,
and Tom Sullivan took a lead role when he
was the first student elected to sit on the
school’s Faculty Senate.
Don Adams, now a forty-some-year veteran of higher education student affairs, was
a newly minted VP for student life at Drake in
1970, the year of Kent State and when he first
met Tom Sullivan. Adams recalls the electricity—“a university community really trying
to understand what was happening”—that
marked the atmosphere of Drake at the time.
“Student leaders brought about a lot of
change in sixty-nine and seventy. Tom pushed hard; he
could listen carefully, could stand up and have an opinion, but didn’t have to win every time,” Adams recalls.
“You don’t like to put on the shoulders of a twenty-one
or twenty-two year old that they were ‘mature beyond
their years’ in a way that people don’t believe it. But if I
described Tom in any other way, I’d be lying.”
While Sullivan was developing his leadership skills in
the halls of administration at Drake, he was also growing
in the classrooms. He wasn’t learning solely about political science, his major, but more broadly about the power
of liberal arts education and inspired teaching. While his
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tions she knew during her days living at Wilks
in the seventies. As a group of undergrads bustle past, Leslie Sullivan says, “And the students
seem to have gotten younger,” then laughs.
Try as we may to guide them, life and career
paths have moments where they seem to chart
their own course. While Tom Sullivan’s trajectory
from lawyer to law professor to provost are central
to bringing him to this role as a university president, his wife’s own history and affinity for this
place played a part in bringing him to the University of Vermont. Colleagues and Sullivan himself
outline the appeals that attracted him to take on
this challenge: the alignment of UVM’s land grant
mission and place in higher education with his
own principles, the current strength of the university, the
appeal of Burlington and chance to be closer to family on
the East Coast, and Leslie’s high regard for her alma mater.
After earning her UVM degree in political science,
Leslie Black had thoughts of a legal career, thought otherwise after a stint as a paralegal, then went to work in the
financial industry. She built a successful thirty-year career
that began on Wall Street and continued with work in
institutional money management in Minneapolis. More
recently, she’s been involved in non-profit board work,
particularly with an organization called Artspace that
builds and restores buildings to provide living/studio
space for artists and revitalize urban neighborhoods.
Married in 2008, Tom and Leslie Sullivan first met
on the board of the University of Minnesota’s Weisman
Art Museum. They share a love of visual art (abstract
expressionism, New York school of the 1920s–1950s, in
particular); good books (he’s reading Kofi Annan’s Interventions: A Life in War and Peace; she has Wild: From Lost
to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed on
the nightstand); good movies (latest, Farewell, My Queen
about the last days of Marie Antoinette); the energy of
big cities and the quiet of the outdoors. (Bob Bruininks
jokes that he knew the Sullivans were truly a good match
when he witnessed them canoe a tricky passage of Minnesota’s St. Croix River without an angry word.)
And, if you talk with any of their friends, the subject
of Harry Potter, the couple’s famously named Australian
shepherd will come up. Sadly, Harry passed away in September from kidney failure. But, testimony to their love
of the dog and his breed, the Sullivans assert there will
be another Aussie in their lives when the time is right.
Tara Norgard, one of his law students at Minnesota
and a longtime friend of Tom Sullivan’s, recalls when
Tom first met Leslie and her dog also became a part of
his life. “Harry had run of Tom’s car and house in ways
that were shocking to some of us, just a head-scratcher
to those who knew him in his more buttoned-down
capacity,” she says.
Leslie Sullivan gets a laugh when I share Norgard’s
take on when Harry met Tom. “It is so true, just the
most wonderful thing about Tom,” she says. “Tom is
flexible when it comes to things that are really important. He had not been around dogs. But from the get go,
if the carpet got dirty, the carpet got dirty. This is a dog,
we love him, that goes with the territory.”
There will be tests and challenges ahead for President
Sullivan, but let us not underestimate an early one when
the Vermont Lake Monsters asked him to throw out the
first pitch on UVM night at Centennial Field. No surprise that a man who learned prudence from his father
and built a career being well prepared to step in front
of a courtroom, a classroom, or a university boardroom
realized his rusty right arm needed some practice before
taking the mound in front of a couple of thousand minor
league baseball fans.
So, with Harry at the ready to fetch the balls, Tom
Sullivan stepped outside on a few evenings this summer,
stared down the trunk of a backyard locust tree that served
as his batter, and worked on throwing strikes.
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Excerpts from President E. Thomas Sullivan’s speech
hen I was in college contemplating
what I would do with my life, I heard
Robert Kennedy speak and his historic words live with me to this day.
He observed, “Some people see things as they are and
say why? I dream things that never were and say, why
not?”
And while my intent is not to dwell on the politics of
that time, Kennedy was challenging all of us to lift expectations and aspire to yet unconsidered greatness. Over
the course of my long career in academia, I have learned
how important it is to instill that spirit and drive in the
hearts of our students, faculty, and staff. It is part of the
reason I am honored and so grateful for this opportunity
to serve this beloved institution with all of you and to
advance quality and excellence at this crucial juncture in
the University’s long history.
A large part of our responsibility is to encourage students to stretch their imaginations and push their curiosity beyond “how things are,” to raise expectations and
aspirations and dream the big dream. We need to help
them set forth lofty goals, and ask and answer, “Why
not?” We want the UVM experience to inspire in them
a lifetime of achievement and contribution. And, we
expect our students to make a difference in the lives of
others after they graduate.
Together, we can raise our expectations and aspirations to create an academic experience of the highest
quality. In my view, there are four pathways to ensuring
success for our students, faculty, and staff—and they all
have to do with investing in people:
First we must provide our students access to success
through scholarships and financial aid. Affordability
must be our top priority.
Second, we must advance academic excellence by
rebalancing priorities and investing in this University’s
strengths to create a distinctive teaching and learning
environment.
Third, we must improve facilities and support creative endeavors and breakthrough research for our faculty and staff to attract and retain talent of the highest
quality.
Fourth, central to our mission is public service, civic
engagement, and outreach throughout Vermont to further economic development, health, civic life, and environmental sustainability.
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Former Vice President Walter Mondale, a longtime friend of Tom Sullivan, delivered the keynote
address at the presidential installation ceremony.
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The
Good
Tuna Snider furthers UVM’s proud legacy of argument
Fight
by Lee Ann Cox
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’ve seen extraordinarily crazy
debates about ridiculous stuff,”
laughs junior Stefanie Doucette,
last season’s policy squad captain.
“Serious arguments that people actually get very into.”
And she’s talking about what debaters do when they’re
just hanging out, an inclination their other friends
don’t always appreciate, “Will you guys stop arguing,
just please stop talking,” apparently a common refrain
among the uninitiated. But that’s what UVM debaters
do—and do exceptionally well—thanks in large part
to the university’s Lawrence Debate Union director of
thirty years, Professor Alfred “Tuna” Snider, an international icon in the field. At the high point of their 2011–
2012 season, UVM was ranked seventh in the world by
the International Debate Education Association, just
behind Cambridge, Oxford, and Yale and ahead of the
likes of the London School of Economics, Harvard, and
Stanford, all in an elite top thirty among hundreds of
competing institutions.
Winning is sweet, no doubt, but Snider both proselytizes and democratizes debate. For him, trophies and
point tallies are not the prize. It is students and what
they gain, the people they become. What is important,
Snider says, is “building the citizens of the future and in
doing that, the world of the future… the kind of skills
you develop through debate are twenty-first-century
success skills. Wherever you go, whatever you do, you’re
going to have to take information and shape it into messages that influence people. You have to be able to critically analyze ideas, arguments, and positions.”
That is Snider’s pitch and it’s echoed by alumni like
Charles Morton ’87, a partner at the law firm Venable
who also has a faculty appointment at Johns Hopkins
University. “Not a day goes by that I don’t rely on a les-
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the building at 475 Main Street that houses the debate
coaching offices and practice space is called Huber
House and the university’s debate tournament is named
in his honor as well.
It was Huber who was here when Lawrence reached
out with his donation, also securing an endowment for
the Edwin Lawrence Professor of Forensics, the chair
that Snider has held for three decades. If it sounds to the
modern ear as if he’s prepping people for CSI, forensics
refers to the public delivery of rhetorical argumentation—Snider’s academic expertise is personal and social
beyond the current team of debaters, to the long legacy
of debate at the university, making students feel part of
a powerful continuum. Snider keeps the history alive,
beginning public events by faithfully thanking those
who made it possible. The program, then known as the
Green and Gold Debate Society, was founded in 1899
by three students, including Edwin W. Lawrence, Class
of 1901. “He went on to be a very successful lawyerbanker-railroad tycoon,” says Snider, “and he attributed
the fact that he was rich, successful, and happy to what
he learned debating.” To offer the same experience for
future students, Lawrence created a sizeable endowment that currently generates about $80,000 a year
to cover the basic budget, which is supplemented by
alumni donations and funding from the Student Government Association.
Another character in the tale of UVM debate history
is famed coach Robert Huber, who held the position
here for thirty-eight years. Unofficially, but ubiquitously,
influence. He is a scholar of persuasion. Snider puts that
talent to work in many ways, but following tradition, he’s
begun thinking of his predecessor’s parting wisdom.
“If you’re going to be here for a while you need to
pave the way for the next person. You have to create
structures,” Snider says recalling Huber’s words. “He had
created the structure of the endowment, which made
my life wonderful and so I committed myself to raising
money.” Snider had a $1 million goal, but he barely got
to test his powers of persuasion when an alumnus made
a bequest for the full amount.
So now he’s doubled the mission to $2 million. “One
of our jobs is to produce great alumni,” Snider says,
which he believes the LDU has done and that it explains
their propensity to give. Debaters tend to be successful and therefore have not only the means but also the
strong connection and loyalty that generates that desire.
And much of that is directly attributable to Snider.
“Tuna was a phenomenal mentor for me,” says Laura
Ellingson ’91, associate professor of communication and
women’s and gender studies at Santa Clara University in
California. “He taught me how to put together an argument, how to think on my feet—I learned extraordinary
research skills from him.” Beyond that, Ellingson drew
something deeper from Snider’s faith in her when she
was diagnosed with cancer shortly after joining UVM
debate. “He’s an amazing man,” she says. “He just kept
saying, ‘I believe in you,’ over and over. I have such deep
affection and gratitude for his support mentoring me as
a debater and as a human being.”
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or all of his commitment to history and tradition, Snider has
also shaped the way forward
for a newer style of competitive debate known as the worlds
format, an approach that he
believes better develops students’ ability to improvise than the traditional policy
format, where they debate the same issue all year. It
prepares them for more “real-life” situations.
In worlds, teams learn the topic only fifteen minutes
prior to the start of the debate. After that they can talk
only to their partner, no coaches, and have no access to
the internet, though written materials are permitted. It
requires that debaters be broadly informed and able to
think fast on their feet to develop a convincing argument they will deliver in a seven-minute speech.
Topics run the spectrum including economics, ecology, the military, technology, social policy, criminal jus-
tice, sports. “You want some of
everything,” says Snider, who
helped create the “holy secret”
of motions for the final debate
last season in Oregon. But he
notes that it would be a foolish
debater who went in without a
solid understanding of unfolding events in Syria and the
Eurozone.
“You need to read the news
Left to right:
Alex Bullock ’15,
Sherry Zhao ’13,
Dan Cmejla ’14,
Rebecca White ’15
constantly,” he says. The occasional curve ball can
come—a favorite Snider recalls is a motion granting
independence to Abkhazia, which could be a bit troublesome if you’ve never heard of it.
One thing that’s noted universally: everyone remembers stumbling through that first speech which was
maybe only a few minutes long, if that. No one is judgmental. New people want to come to practices and just
watch but the goal is to push them into the fray. “And
once we get them to a debate tournament,” Snider says,
“they’re ours.” Because it’s really fun.
“Like any competitive activity, it’s extremely addicting,” says last year’s LDU co-president Paul Gross ’12,
who was named sixth of the top ten worlds format
debaters in the U.S. National Championship in April.
Even in practice debates (of which there are three or
more a week all year), the adrenaline is palpable.
Debaters crowd in the long, narrow Huber House
meeting room with trophy-lined walls and a portrait of
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son I learned in debate,” Morton says. “In my practice
of law, in teaching—it framed my view of the world and
helped to empower me as someone who can compete
successfully.”
Despite his vigorous passion for the mission of debate,
Snider is anything but a Type A personality. He is a man
of gentle heart and he brings a unique sensibility to the
LDU. At UVM it is not about an intellectual elite. It’s
more of a big family—with lots of spirited arguing and
hand banging—but everyone is welcome at the table.
That sense of camaraderie and inclusion extends
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sition, separate and move into action for fifteen minutes of formulating their best cases, lobbing ideas and
arguments for the best means of attack: “Your right to
free speech ends where my reputation begins”… “The
goal of government is not to change society but to protect citizens.”
The time passes in a flash and the first speaker begins,
addressing the adjudicator and “the house” at large with
established formality, but the room is rowdy. Between
the first and sixth minutes of a rapid-fire, impassioned
speech anyone on the opposing side can stand up to
offer a Point of Information, essentially a question or
attack on the speaker’s argument—but at the risk of
being waved into silence.
In both worlds and policy formats, during some
point in a tournament every debater will be arguing for
both the affirmative and the negative. Asked whats it’s
like to take a side you personally oppose, Gross, a political science and philosophy major from the Washington,
D.C. area, says he finds that almost more fun, recalling
a conversation with an attorney who told him being in
court was like boxing with your brain.
“It’s like you get to embody this person that you
wouldn’t otherwise be and it’s just purely an intellectual
exercise. It’s just a game at that point. It’s who can make
the best argument, and I find that really engaging.” But
he allows that it not only helps him evaluate his own
positions more critically in his private life, he is also
more likely to be thoughtful in taking others’ opinions
into account.
S
omeone once suggested that “every
debater is Tuna Snider’s debater.” That
estimate gives the man a laugh. “I do
feel that way. I want to help them all—
even from Cornell,” Snider says. He
jokes about the Ivy because the Cornell
debate director was once his assistant coach. “I taught
him what he knows.” But Snider’s service is no joke. He
says he’s done debate training now in thirty-eight countries, not charging except for help with travel expenses.
He spends more than a hundred days a year traveling,
with much of it dedicated to promoting debate in places
such as Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, and
China.
“We’re not getting everywhere but we’re just
about,” says Snider. “Amazing countries have vibrant
debate scenes now. Bangladesh—one of the poorest,
most crowded countries in the world with almost
no natural resources, and debate is solid there. They
are serious because everybody sees it as a way to get
ahead. (They think) ‘I need not just to speak English,
I need to speak English well and be able to persuade
people.’ And the other thing is, it doesn’t cost any
money. I could go out under a tree and have a debate.
So they teach each other.”
Different countries have different reasons for seeking
out debate. For South Koreans, according to Snider, it’s
a means to get in top English or American schools. In
Latin America, it’s people who are concerned about the
future of democracy. In former communist countries,
hosted the first Spanish language tournament ever in the
Northeast last year, Bullock says, and UVM made it to
the semifinals against teams from Colombia and Ven-
it’s about trying to get critical discourse accepted. In
China, he says, there were initial problems. “The party
was very suspicious about debating and now it’s growing
explosively there,” says Snider. “I think the University of
Vermont did a lot of the groundwork.”
But much of Snider’s time on the road is spent
with UVM students—again with a nod to old Mr.
Lawrence—who get to be a part of that international
experience with the advent of the new worlds debate
format. “I’ve gotten to travel the world for free. I’ve
been to Serbia, Slovenia, South Africa, the Philippines,
Botswana…,” says Jessica Bullock ’12, the other LDU
co-president who was seventh of the top ten American
debaters (Drew Adamczyk, now a junior, was ninth,
making UVM the only school to have three students in
the top ten).
Bullock has also been coaching Spanish debate here
for the last two years, with at least two teams, some
novice, debating in both English and Spanish. Cornell
ezuela. “For us to make it to the semifinals against native
speakers,” she says, “I was very proud.”
All of it, including the way international debate cuts
across cultures—the influence of machismo in Latin
America when debating women’s rights or political history debating capitalism versus socialism with someone
from Eastern Europe—“It’s eye-opening for a girl who
came from rural Vermont,” Bullock says.
An English major, Bullock has taken a position with
Teach for America in Baltimore for the next two years
with an eye toward educational policy and maybe law
school. Meanwhile she’ll be teaching elementary school,
with hopes of introducing the youngest students to
debate, something fun like, “This house believes cats
should be on leashes.”
She’ll be sticking by her coach’s credo: “I think we’re
about promoting debate everywhere for everyone,”
Snider says. “Close to home, far away—that’s what we
do.”
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more than 400 LDU debates on Flashpoint Television, at
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Left to right:
Jessica Bullock ’12,
John Sadek ’12,
Amanda Kurtz ’15,
Drew Adamczyk ’14
the legendary coach, their backpacks slung to the floor. The
debates are styled after the British Parliamentary system; so, on
one spring evening, a motion
reads, “This house would not
allow those wrongly accused
of being gay to sue for defamation.” The teams, two pairs on
each side, half arguing for the
government, half for the oppo-
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i nterv i e w — ma d ele i ne k un i n
Feminism’s
unfinished
business
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interview by
Amanda Waite ’02 G’04
t’s time for a new revolution. So says the first chapter of Madeleine
Kunin’s latest book, The New Feminist Agenda. While the feminist movement of the sixties and seventies paved the way for women to join the
workforce in record numbers and gain increasing representation in leadership roles—as Kunin herself did when she served as the first female
governor of Vermont from 1985 to 1991—that revolution, she says, has
fallen a bit short. A renewed feminist agenda, Kunin argues, is not solely
in the interest of women, but would improve conditions of employment
for all, quality of life for families, and the economy as a whole.
The book, released this year by Vermont publisher Chelsea Green, was written during
Kunin’s tenure as a James-Marsh-Professor-at-Large, a UVM program that appoints top
scholars and internationally known figures as visiting professors to enrich the scholarly
life of campus. To that end, she’s organized panel discussions, lectures, and conferences at
UVM on her particular areas of expertise: women, power, and politics.
Kunin took time out from her office hours, speaking appointments, and media calls to
speak with VQ about the book and her vision for the next phase of feminism.
photography by Todd R. Lockwood
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What has feminism accomplished, and what’s left to be done?
Well, it’s accomplished a great deal. Just look at the
enrollment at the University of Vermont, which is typical of universities around the country. About 60 percent
of enrollment is female, and when I went to school, it was
probably just the opposite, that roughly 40 percent was
female. So that’s a big achievement. And women in the
workforce in record numbers, partly as a consequence
of their education. And women in leadership positions.
If not in the numbers one would have expected, many
women are in positions as “firsts.” Hillary Clinton is the
third female secretary of state, and that in itself is phenomenal. And she’s probably the first secretary of state
to emphasize women’s issues globally. So, as I say, that’s
the good news.
What hasn’t adjusted is the way work is structured.
middle or low income. It can chew up a huge portion of
your earnings.
You devote a section of the book comparing U.S. policies to
the rest of the world. How do we stack up?
We always say we are the greatest, we are the best, we
are exceptional. We say that about our healthcare, even
though the facts tell us our healthcare is the most expensive but not necessarily the best in the world. So we
believe this about how we treat families, but we’re one
of four countries that doesn’t have paid maternity leave
in some form. We’re not just talking about Scandinavian
countries, we’re talking about all countries. So we’re in
very odd company. It seems the richest country in the
world should not belong in that subset.
I’ve found that most people don’t know how different
And the whole idea that families are part of domain, that none of us should interfere there—
sure, it’s a part of domain, and nobody wants to dictate parenting, but it is the responsibility
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Work in America is still based on the assumption that
moms are home and have the time to take care of the
children, the elderly, the sick. What we still have to do is
change the way work is structured, to accommodate not
just women but all working families.
One of the policies at the top of the list is paid maternity leave. We have unpaid leave now, but it’s not a realistic choice for most new mothers to take six weeks
off from their job and give up their paycheck. When
you have a new baby, that’s when you have the greatest
increase in expenses. So paid maternity leave would be
good for babies; it would be good for parents. It would
have an impact on the health of both mother and child
and on the development of mother and child.
And the other key issue that women, and increasingly
men, really need to make their lives more integrated and
less stressful is to have some form of workplace flexibility. If you have to pick up your child at preschool at five
o’clock, you can get there. If you have a mother who has
to go to the doctor, you can take her. Some employees
do have that, but especially those at the bottom of the
pay scale—or even in the middle—often don’t.
The third issue for most families with young children
is affordable, quality childcare. It’s very scarce in the
United States. It’s expensive, especially if you’re at the
we are. They just think, “Well, it’s always been that way.
It’s my problem. It’s my fault if I can’t balance this thing.”
It’s really not your fault; it’s that our society hasn’t recognized its responsibilities toward families. And the whole
idea that families are part of domain, that none of us
should interfere there—sure, it’s a part of domain, and
nobody wants to dictate parenting, but it is the responsibility of society to make sure the next generation is prepared to carry on, and that’s where we’re slipping.
You also link the lack of family-friendly benefits to higher
rates of children living in poverty. What’s the correlation?
The best anti-poverty program is still a paycheck. And
sometimes women have to quit their jobs because they
can’t afford daycare. They can’t work part-time, which
they might like to do, and still receive pro-rated benefits.
So, in that sense, it makes it hard—especially for lowerincome women or middle-income women—to work.
It affects poverty in another way, too. If we have really
high-quality childcare, because of what we know now
about brain development, there will be a better chance
at having the right stimulus and the right education so
that those children (without high-quality childcare)
don’t fall behind the minute they enter school. Good
early childhood education really has lifelong effects.
What are the roadblocks?
The hardest part, I think, is to convince policy makers
to make a long-term investment in children and early
childhood education. The business community is also
hard to get on board. The instinct is to look at today’s
costs and say, “I can’t afford it. I can’t afford to offer sick
days. I can’t afford to offer paid leave. I can’t give you flexibility; it’s too much trouble.” But if we look at the long
term, the cost of neglecting the next generation is enormous—both in terms of dollars and in terms of morality. We are one country, and we shouldn’t just passively
accept the great divide in income and opportunity. I still
believe that access to achieving your dreams has to be
maintained because that’s what made this country, and
that’s what’s going to continue to make us strong.
But there are business people who are far-sighted,
who are already implementing these policies. And we
have to give them more of a spotlight and get them to
speak up that this is, in fact, an economic policy. It’s simple common sense that if you treat your employees well,
they’ll treat you well. They’ll be loyal and work hard.
People say, “How can you talk about this? More government involvement, more spending, more requests
from the private sector.” I say there’s never going to be
a good time. Sometimes when things get really bad is
a good time. What I basically say is that the feminist
movement should take on these issues. But not feminists alone. You don’t have to self-identify as a feminist
to think these issues are important. And of course I ask
for a coalition of men, the elderly, the disabled, everyone
to join the parade.
You talk about the need to put divisive issues, like reproductive choice, aside and instead unite around shared goals. You
ask, “Instead of two groups shaking their fists at one other,
can we march together for the benefit of fathers, mothers,
children, and grandchildren?” What does your experience
in politics tell you about the likelihood and the tactics necessary to achieve this?
It’s not going to be easy. I think we all know that. And I
think even in recent years, the divisiveness hasn’t gotten
better. When I say put them aside, I don’t mean don’t
work on them. Because I still see choice and the ability
to determine when and whether you have children as a
very personal issue. But I don’t think they need to enter
every conversation. In my most optimistic moments, I
can see a conversation about paid maternity leave, for
example, between a conservative and a progressive.
Conservatives want women to be home with their children, but in order for that to be a reality, you have to have
paid maternity leave, and you have to create a structure.
So I’d like to experiment with that and see if we can
make some headway and find some common ground.
The first words out of your mouth don’t have to be “I’m
for choice” or “I’m pro-life.” Let’s find where we agree,
instead of where we disagree.
Did you have a moment when you knew you had to write
this book? When was that?
I kept being asked by students, “How did you manage
work and family, having a career and having four children?” I realized this is very much on their minds. It was
on my mind in my generation. In some ways, I think
it’s gotten easier for this generation. The expectation is
that they will work, at least for part, if not most of their
lives. The expectation in the fifties and sixties when I got
married (I got married in 1959) was, at least for middle
class women, that you would be a stay-at-home mom.
Now, the tables have turned. People ask, “Why are you
at home?” The assumptions have changed. And yet, the
policies haven’t.
What do you hope for?
I wrote the book, really, to start a conversation, and to
elevate that conversation in volume and in breadth so
that it becomes a topic that we talk about not only at
the playground or the water cooler, but also in the public
arena. I’d like to build on the coalition idea, to see if we
can really make this more than an asterisk on the agenda
on both parties. I realize it will be harder among the
Republicans, but Democrats haven’t really pushed these
issues either. And even with people who call themselves
liberals, you don’t see childcare on the list. So I’m going
to make an effort to at least be a catalyst for that kind of
concerted, unified action. As a result of this book, I’ve
been asked to be part of different groups, and there’s a
group in Wisconsin that works on the state level to try
to translate family work research into public policy. So I
think there are little lights going on, and whether they’ll
really grow and be serious issues, it’s too early to know.
But I find myself now in this new territory of family and
work, and a lot of people are interested. I think if we can
develop a common agenda, even if it’s limited, we’ll have
made progress.
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of society to make sure the next generation is prepared to carry on, and that’s where we’re slipping.
We’re always trying to figure out how you reduce poverty, but there are ways that work. Good childcare is one
of them.
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Ice sheets
Isotopes
& Musk-ox pizza
A polar scientist’s tour of Greenland
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Joshua Brown
why Bierman, professor of geology at UVM since 1993,
has led a team of scientists to this barren coastline.
They’re collecting sand and rocks, washing out from the
snow and ice, that will help answer a little understood—
but most important—question: how fast will Greenland
melt in a warming world?
Still standing in the stream, Jeremy Shakun, a
researcher from Harvard, stoops to collect more sand.
A glinting torrent of ice and water goes rushing past,
nearly overtopping his Muck boots. Alice Nelson, Bierman’s graduate student, enters our GPS coordinates in a
notebook. On the opposite bank, Dylan Rood, a Californian now at the Scottish Universities Environmental
Research Centre, arranges black letters on a magnetic
white board. I sit and watch, an embedded science reporter armed with skis and a camera. Rood
begins humming snatches of some drinking song
or, maybe, it’s a sea shanty.
Shakun dunks his hands back into the water.
“Yep, thirty-two-point-one degrees,” he says and
takes another scoop from the streambed. He
swears at his numbing fingers. “It hurts worse
when you bring ’em out,” he says. Nelson laughs.
“Well, put ’em back in then,” she says.
The stream winds silently down a valley that
could be a ski slope on Mars: red boulders and
tan gravel punctuate long soggy tongues of snow.
At the bottom, the water pours into a still-frozen
bay. A thin band of sea fog moves over the salt
ice. Behind, mountains remain visible like pencil
marks on a white sheet. Their jagged tops stick out
of the fog into blue sky, supersaturated in a wash
of fierce polar sunlight.
It’s our second day above Tasiilaq, the so-called
capital of East Greenland, where tiny houses perch
in a pleasing jumble on the hills, brightly painted
in red, yellow, and electric blue. There are no trees,
just earth-tone patches of rock, lichen, snow, and
golden grass. It’s like the landscape was done by
some brooding elemental god and the houses by
Crayola. The vast Greenland ice sheet—the “big
ice” as locals call it—remains out of sight, several
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t’s getting hot. Paul Bierman takes off his ski
hat and wipes his brow. Then he scrambles
out of a stream and up a bank of wet snow.
Alice Nelson holds open a plastic bag.
Bierman carefully empties a brass sieve,
filling the bag with sand from the bottom
of the stream.
The air temperature feels like it’s about fifty degrees
Fahrenheit. Chilly for a day in June. Except this is Greenland. We’re sixty-two miles from the Arctic Circle. It’s
supposed to be cold here: most of this not-green island
is covered with an ice sheet 1,500 miles long and thousands of feet thick.
Covered, that is, for now—but it’s getting hot. That’s
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shorter run, it’s likely that global sea level will rise three
or four feet this century, if greenhouse gas emissions
continue unchecked. And a good bit of that water will
wash off Greenland, obliterating coastal wetlands, overrunning highways.
Warm spells are becoming increasingly common in
Greenland and this summer the surface of the ice sheet
melted over a far greater area than ever before observed.
But the deeper details are devilishly important. Exactly
how warming will affect ice in Greenland and West Antarctica remains one of the least well-understood variables in global climate models.
“We want to know: how stable is the ice sheet?”
Alice Nelson tells me. To augur its future with greater
precision, the scientists look to the past, collecting
rocks and sand that, back in Bierman’s lab at UVM,
let them measure how extensive the ice was here over
the last ten thousand years as temperatures rose and
fell. This relatively short record will, in turn, allow the
team to interpret far-more-ancient sediment from the
bottom of the ocean. Hidden in this ocean muck, the
geologists think they’ll be able to uncover the story of
Greenland’s ice stretching back millions of years.
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he next night, at 10:36 p.m., the sky is still
bright. The sun has gone behind a mountain, but it is mostly going sideways, sliding not setting. This close to the North
Pole, in the height of summer, the sky
never gets fully dark. The scientists, still
at work in our hotel’s dining room, drink tea and study
maps. They’re preparing to fly in a helicopter tomorrow to
the outwash of about a dozen glaciers. The team hunches
over their papers trying to decide how many minutes each
stop will take. The fuel and money burn rate of a chartered
Air Greenland helicopter makes thousands of dollars tied
into this five-hour trip.
The sand and rock that they collect will travel back
to UVM’s Delehanty Hall, home of one of the few cosmogenic isotope laboratories in the world, where it will
be painstakingly dissolved to yield nearly pure quartz. “I
was working on samples for twenty-five straight days,”
Alice Nelson says, with the rueful head-shaking characteristic of graduate students.
From the quartz, Bierman and his students will
extract the element beryllium and then ship it to Scotland, where Rood will test the substance in a special-
ized mass spectrometer, capable of Sponsored by the National
detecting a single atom out of a million Science Foundation, the
billion atoms. Why, you may be ask- geologists (left: Alice Nelson,
ing, would four geologists—interested Dylan Rood, Jeremy Shakun,
in understanding climate change— and Paul Bierman) traveled
want to collect bags of sand in order the island by helicopter—and
to count the atoms of beryllium in its skis. “We know surprisingly
little about what happened to
quartz?
Because of cosmic rays. Really. This the ice sheet over the last
radiation, born at the beginning of the six million years,” UVM
universe, rains down on you, me, polar graduate student Nelson
bears, and rocks. It penetrates the top says. The team’s goal:
few meters of the Earth’s surface. And better understand this
where it does, ever so rarely, it smashes deep past to better
into oxygen within the quartz, knock- forecast the near future.
ing a chunk off. What remains from
the busted oxygen is a special form of
beryllium, the rare isotope 10Be. The longer the quartz
is exposed to the sky, bombarded by cosmic rays, the
more 10Be accumulates within its crystals.
But buried under snow and ice—shielded by, say,
the Greenland ice sheet—no 10Be accumulates in the
quartz. So the amount of beryllium in a grain of sand
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miles inland, hidden behind rows of mountains.
There are no roads that lead to Tasiilaq—we arrived
by helicopter. With one school, one church, two bars,
and some 2,000 people—mostly Inuit, who cobble
together a livelihood hunting seals, fishing, and serving odd-duck tourists—it seems a vulnerable outpost
on the edge of inconsequence. Only 57,000 people live
in all of Greenland, an island five times the size of California, and most of them live on the western side. This
eastern coast is one of the more remote places on the
planet, congenial for polar bears, far from the world’s
great cities. But, since arriving here, I’ve been thinking
a lot about Manhattan.
If the whole ice sheet—that covers more than 80 percent of Greenland—were to melt, global sea level would
rise twenty-three feet, drowning coastal cities on every
continent. The dirt tracks through Tasiilaq may drain
onto Wall Street.
Bierman and his team want to create a clearer picture of how quickly such a melt-off could happen. Some
scientists predict that the ice sheet is at a tipping point
where it will begin to melt irreversibly—faster and
faster—disappearing in a couple thousand years. In the
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e’re now near Kulusuk, population three hundred, in a most
unlikely hotel: a stronghold
of cinderblock and blue paint
plunked down on the edge of
a fjord full of icebergs. We’ve
woken to bad news. Air Greenland has called to say our
flight to Nuuk, the capital, is cancelled. I can see why:
white on white, a heavy fog sifts over the snow. I can’t see
the dirt runway only a few hundred yards from the hotel.
We’re stuck in one of the most remote airports in the
world, and the next scheduled flight to where we need to
go isn’t for three more days. This, it seems, is how polar
science often works: months of intensive careful planning from the comfort of home, followed by frantic calls
on a satellite phone from the field.
Hours later, we still don’t know what’s going to happen. The fog has cleared—but it’s also clear that no trip
to Nuuk is happening today. “Let’s go skiing,” Bierman
finally says.
An hour later, we re-gather in Kulusuk. Local people,
with coppery Inuit complexions, push their babies in baby
joggers. Tuborg beer cans litter the snow and dirt paths that
wind between red houses. A dead seal lies in a wheelbarrow. A man and his sled-dog team huff past the grocery
store where I just paid about eight dollars for two bananas.
Down the road, the hotel manager pulls up along
us in his jeep. Air Greenland called, he says, to tell us
our flight to Nuuk has been rescheduled for tomorrow.
We’re back in business.
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Prior to this trip, my sense of Greenland came
largely from schoolroom maps of childhood. The
traditional Mercator projection stretched Greenland
into a huge blank white wedge, larger than Africa—a
timeless fortress of ice resting at the top of a rectangular world. But Greenland is smaller, more complex—
and its ice more fragile—than those old maps suggest.
The researchers know Greenland has had distinct
chapters of melting and ice growth. But how big did the
ice sheet get? When did it melt? It may have been totally
gone during a warm period 100,000 years ago. “It’s really
hard to study ice sheets from the past,” Alice Nelson told
me. “If it melted, it melted.”
If past climates—that were three or four degrees
warmer than today—didn’t have a Greenland ice sheet,
there is good reason to think that future ones won’t either.
Some climate models project that local warming over
Greenland will go up five degrees Fahrenheit, and perhaps as much as sixteen degrees, during the next century.
Happily or not, there is only one Earth. N=1, the scientists might say. And so the changes that people have
wrought on the planet, pouring out vast quantities of
heat-trapping carbon dioxide from our fossil-fuel and jetplane-loving ways of life represent an experiment with no
control group. We can’t run it again with a bigger sample.
Which is why scientists try to understand how past warm
periods affected things—like Greenland’s ice sheet—as a
way of guessing what will happen next. Based on what we
now know, buying real estate on high ground in Greenland might not be such a bad idea.
he next day we land in Nuuk Traveling with a pilot
and head out immediately and mechanic, UVM
to Kangerlussuaq, a former scientists touch down
U.S. military airfield where in a land of glaciers
inbound 757s from Copen- and wandering musk
hagen touch down. Fat- ox. Some of the places
bellied C-130 U.S. military propeller planes, they visited have likely
equipped with skis for landing on the ice never felt human footsheet, sit in a motionless row on the tarmac.
steps before. Above:
And then there are the mosquitoes. Kulusuk, Greenland
They’re big enough to serve an in-flight meal.
We drag our train of backpacks and gear—
including a cooler nearly full with 150 pounds of rocks
and sand—out to the parking lot. The mosquitoes are
on us immediately, landing with military precision all
over backs, wrists, and Paul Bierman’s apparently delicious bald head.
It’s dry here on the southwest edge of Greenland.
The snow is gone. A silty river sweeps by and the landscape looks more like Afghanistan than a land of ice.
But the silt is a clue that, not far from here, the ice sheet
remains, melting and calving, pouring down water
bound for the sea.
At the Kangerlussuaq International Science Station—an old army barrack identical to the nearby Polar
Bear Inn—we dump our gear in dormitory rooms
amidst a small stream of wandering American scientists.
But no rest. Still chewing musk-ox pizza, we cram in the
back of a small AStar helicopter and float into the air. Our
Norwegian pilot, with a chin worthy of Hollywood—and
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can reveal how long it was exposed, versus how long buried under ice. Collect
enough of these grains, from enough
spots in Greenland, and you could
begin to sketch a picture of when and
where ice rested here in the past.
The next day, the helicopter lifts, thudding and whining, while we all stare out the
windows, suddenly ripped from the ground.
It is loud—and for twenty minutes we roar
over ragged ranges, ten-story icebergs with
azure pools on top, and vertiginous peaks
that look like a frosted version of Wyoming.
The helicopter banks and all the world
is now on its side. We circle, the machine
slows, descends, its rotors so powerful that
water on the ground sprays like a hurricane and rocks
roll away. Down again onto the ice.
Our Norwegian pilot slides open the doors and Bierman leads us over boulders to where a stream slices along
a wall of snow. It’s old gray below, fresh white above. The
scientists quickly dig with a trowel in the sand on the
stream edge and fill another bag. We’re probably standing where no human has ever stood before, but this is
no time to set out a picnic and ponder eternity. We have
hours of flying ahead. The team quickly labels the bag,
“GLX-63,” hoist their packs, and are about to hustle
back to the helicopter. Then Bierman stops. “Listen,” he
says, and we hear the rush of water over rock. “That’s the
sound of Greenland melting.”
North of the Arctic Circle,
Paul Bierman enters
field data at the Kangerlussuaq International
Science Station.
Water spilling off Greenland will raise global
sea level over the next
centuries. How many
feet will depend on how
fast the ice sheet melts
and how much carbon
dioxide humanity pumps
into the atmosphere.
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a job worthy of a marriage proposal, Alice
Nelson jokes—listens on his headset to
Bierman’s directions, trying to match the
landscape to a handheld GPS. The Watson River, the color of milky coffee, passes
underneath, carrying a load of sediment
toward the ocean.
And it’s from the ocean that the most important
insights of this research project will come. Sediment,
washing off Greenland, has sifted to the ocean bottom
and piled up, in intact layers, for millions of years. In
1993 and 1995, an international effort collected two
long cores of these sediments, drilled from the sea floor,
off the southeast coast of Greenland. This year, Jeremy
Shakun traveled to Germany to get samples of these
cores stored in a huge refrigerated hangar.
In the deepest—and therefore oldest—of these samples, the team expects to find high levels of beryllium in
the sediment, revealing a time when much of the bedrock was exposed to cosmic radiation—a time before
glaciers had covered Greenland with an ice sheet.
Moving up the core, the scientists expect to find
decreasing beryllium concentrations as the ice sheet grew.
But, punctuating this big downward trend, they expect
to find short up-pulses during brief interglacial periods
(“brief” to geologists being in the neighborhood of every
100,000 years) when the ice sheet was reduced.
To make sense of these ocean core data, the team collects samples from today’s Greenland. That’s what this
whole trip is for. Contemporary erosion rates, sediment
transportation, ice coverage—and associated beryl-
Paul Bierman,
UVM professor
of geology, and
graduate student
Alice Nelson.
lium levels—provide a good picture of
the recent geologic past, roughly the last
10,000 years. This picture will serve as an
analogy to the deeper past, Nelson tells
me, guiding interpretation of the samples
drawn from far down the ocean core. In
short, beryllium concentrations in ocean
sediments will be a yardstick of the ice
sheet stretching back six million years.
It’s a method that has worked for
Bierman in studying other landscapes—
but has never been tried before on ocean
cores, which is a large part of why the
National Science Foundation is investing in flying these four geologists all over
Greenland.
The helicopter hugs the terrain, roaring through a narrow rock opening.
We turn on a bank of nothingness, and there it is. The
Greenland ice sheet. Black and pale gray and brooding
and dripping. A wall on a different scale than everything
else I’ve seen here. We stop and collect sand, like lycraclad ants at its base. Then the helicopter rises again, over
the lip, and the ice sheet stretches, white and pocketed,
a whole landscape of frozen water, toward an end that
can’t yet be seen.
The next day, our tenth day of travel, we’re heading
home. On the runway at Kangerlussuaq, a half-circle of
scientists, many bearded and baggy-eyed, gather around
a clean-shaven officer from the New York Air National
Guard. We’re getting final instructions—I guess—about
what to do if our transport plane has to ditch over water.
The C-130—flown here to train soldiers in coldweather combat and to aid scientific expeditions—is
dark inside and full of red webbing and plastic-wrapped
pallets of gear. Our ears stuffed with plugs, the plane lifts
off. Paul Bierman and Dylan Rood work on their laptops, preparing data, and writing each other notes onscreen, tired of shouting over the engines. Alice Nelson
reads a novel, her third this week. Jeremy Shakun scrolls
through science papers on his iPad.
Inside one of the pallets is a blue cooler, now full with
dozens of bags of sand and small rocks from Greenland.
They’re going to Vermont. And they’re quite heavy.
These four geologists believe they’ll tell us something
useful about the ways the ever-so-much-more-heavy ice
that rests on this island, now passing away beneath us, is
getting lighter—becoming, perhaps, for coastal parts of
the world, an unbearable lightness.
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alumni.
uvm.edu
for more photos
2012 uvm alumni
association award winners
Reunion &
Homecoming 2012
Outstanding Young Alumni Award
Kesha Ram ’08
Alumni Achievement Award
C. Norman Coleman ’66
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photography by sally mccay and jeff clarke
Alumni Distinguished Service Award
David Godkin ’77
Paula Oppenheim Cope ’75, G’83
2012 George V. Kidder
Outstanding Faculty Award
Professor Luis Vivanco (pictured below, left)
For the first time in 2012, the University of
Vermont Foundation presented the Leadership
in Philanthropy Award—given to a deserving
individual or couple for a passionate commitment
to furthering the efforts of philanthropy at UVM
through their leadership, vision, volunteerism,
and personal philanthropy. The first recipients of
this award are Eugene ’50 and Joan Kalkin. The
Kalkins are pictured with President Tom Sullivan
and UVM Foundation CEO Rich Bundy.
More on 2012 award recipients:
alumni.uvm.edu
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I
t was the best of times, it was . . . the best of
times. Reunion & Homecoming 2012 went
off without a hitch, with an estimated 4,000
alums and their families returning to a campus alive with students, faculty, and more than
one hundred events to take in. Friday got things
off to a perfect start, with a bright, warm, sunny
day setting the scene for the official installation of
Thomas Sullivan as UVM’s 26th president. More
than fifty faculty opened their classes to visitors,
students and alums shared their artwork, the
Fleming Museum was open to all, and Professor
Emeritus William Averyt hosted his renowned
historic walking tour of campus as the more futuristic Segway electric two-wheelers whizzed by on
their own campus tours.
The weather gods weren’t quite as kind on
Saturday, but what do we do on a wet fall day in
Vermont? Throw a tent party! That’s just what
happened at UVM Fest, a family-centered gettogether with the flavor of an old-fashioned
Vermont country fair under a tent on the green
between the Davis Center and Bailey/Howe
Library. There was live music, vendors, great food,
and lots to do for little kids, big kids (students),
parents, and grandparents alike. The sun was back
in the afternoon, and by end-of-day Sunday, all
were agreed it was, indeed, the best of times.
—Jay Goyette
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p h ilant h r o p y
NOV DEC
Burlington, November 23, 7 p.m.
UVM Men’s Hockey vs. Minnesota,
Gutterson Field House
Boston, Massachusetts
December 4, 6-8 p.m.
Alumni Association Holiday Party,
Millennium Bostonian Hotel,
26 North St.
New York City, December 5, 6-8 p.m.
Alumni Association Holiday Party,
University Club, One West 54th St.,
Special guests UVM President Tom
Sullivan and Leslie Black Sullivan ’77.
Washington, D.C., December 6, 6-8 p.m.
DC Alumni Association Holiday Party,
Anderson House-Society of the Cincinnati,
2118 Massachusetts Avenue, NW,
Special guests UVM President Tom
Sullivan and Leslie Black Sullivan ’77.
Burlington, December 15
UVM December graduation
JAN
Needham, Massachusetts
January 7, 6:15-8:30 p.m.
Boston Career Networking Night,
Sheraton Needham, 100 Cabot St.
New York, New York
January 9, 6:15-8:30 p.m.
New York Career Networking Night,
Credit Suisse, Eleven Madison Ave.
National Game Watch
January 18, 7 p.m., ESPNU
UVM Men’s Basketball vs. Stonybrook
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
January 19, 7 p.m. EST
UVM Men’s Hockey vs. Penn State
Needham, Massachusetts
January 30, 7:15-8:30 p.m.
First Class Kidder Faculty lecture,
Sheraton Needham, 100 Cabot St.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
February 4, 7:15-8:30 p.m.
UVM First Class Kidder Faculty lecture
New York City, February 6, 7:15-8:30 p.m
UVM First Class Kidder Faculty lecture,
Time Inc., 1271 Avenue of the Americas
alumni.
uvm.edu
for details & registration
Leaving a legacy
for Vermonters
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UVM Board of Trustees.
“Carolyn and I are happy to be
able to celebrate and support academic excellence at UVM,” Rob
Brennan said. “We wanted our giving to have an impact university
wide, and the Honors College enrolls
outstanding students across UVM
majors and disciplines.”
urt and Celia Paquin ’43 met in 1941 when
Celia was a UVM undergraduate and Burt
was a recent graduate of Burlington Business
College (now Champlain College) and soon
to begin his service in the Army Air Corps during World
War II.
Now retired and living in Swanton on the shore of
Lake Champlain, the couple were married in 1946, a
year before Burt began the automobile dealership that
has made the Paquin name a familiar and respected one
by Vermonters throughout the state. Celia spent her
career as a first-grade teacher in Burlington while raising
a young family. Her passion was helping young children
learn to read.
Having grown up on a farm in Sheldon, Vermont
(both his father and grandfather were farmers), Burt
says those formative years taught him much that helped
him throughout his career in business and the military— including the value of hard work, the value of a
dollar, and common sense. His early education was in a
one-room schoolhouse, and he worked his way through
college as a young man.
In addition to his service in World War II and the
Korean War, Burt has also maintained a long-time affiliation with the Vermont Air National Guard. He takes
pride in having been among its founding members, rising to the rank of Colonel in the United States Air Force
—service he refers to as his “first career.”
His second career, he says, was in the auto dealership he founded in St. Albans, Paquin Motors, a successful business consistently recognized for its outstanding
UVM
START
This fall, UVM launched a
crowd-donating platform called UVM
Start that will allow student entrepreneurs to raise money through alumni
donations. The program connects
student startups with alumni—gaining the connections, mentoring, and
capital necessary to get their companies off the ground. “Alumni support
could make all the difference for
many student startups,” said Tucker
Severson, an MBA student. “Substantive capital and mentoring is often
the difference between languishing
and success. The university has many
entrepreneurial students and supportive alumni, so by connecting the
two, UVM Start plans to help turbo-
customer service, earning him Time Magazine’s Quality
Dealer Award in 1988 and numerous other industry accolades throughout the years.
The automobile business is now headed by Burt and
Celia’s son, Burton “Bud” Paquin, Jr., UVM Class of 1969.
The couple also have a son Robert, UVM Class of 1971,
G’75, a longtime aide to U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy and
currently the state director of the USDA Farm Service
Agency in Vermont, as well as a daughter, Sarah, Skidmore Class of 1975, who is the chief human resources
officer for Brookline Bancorp. Granddaughter Jennifer
Paquin is a UVM graduate as well, Class of 1999.
The Paquin family all having enjoyed the benefits
of higher education in their lives and careers, Burt and
Celia decided several years ago to provide funds in their
estate to support students at three Vermont institutions
of higher education: UVM; Champlain College (where
Burt graduated in 1938); and Vermont Technical College, where Burt was a passionate advocate for the Automotive Technology program at its inception.
Funds received by UVM will be used to establish
the Burt and Celia Paquin Scholarship Fund, providing
annual support for one or more students with financial
need from Franklin County, Vermont.
“The way we’re headed, we need to make higher education available to more people,” Burt says of the country’s current economic challenges. “Our three children
and three grandchildren all got a good education, and
they’re all doing okay. Hopefully, Celia and I will be able
to help some other young Vermonters get through who
need a hand.”
charge entrepreneurship on campus.”
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UVM First Class Kidder Faculty lecture
lumni Robert “Rob” Brennan ’83 and his wife, Carolyn
Brennan ’82, have pledged $1
million to build on the success of the university’s Honors College and add to their prior giving for
the same purpose.
Half of the funds will be added
to the Brennan Family Scholarship
Fund they established in 2006, providing scholarship support for Honors College students. Since inception, the fund has awarded a total of
$77,500 to five students.
The other half of the gift will
establish the Brennan Summer
Research Fellowship, funding grants
of up to $5,000 annually to enable
Honors College students to pursue
undergraduate research during the
summer.
“Our sincere thanks to Rob and
Carolyn and their family for this wonderful commitment to our students,”
said Abu Rizvi, dean of the Honors
College. “We’re very excited by what
this gift will do to bring excellent students to UVM and to support and
challenge them while they’re here.
Visionary philanthropy such as this
is central to our main mission of
attracting the best students and helping them do their best work.”
Brennan is senior managing director of Guggenheim Partners, based
in New York City. He is a member of
the Board of Directors of the University of Vermont Foundation and the
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LIFE BEYOND GRADUATION
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Jeff McNulty ’94 and his bride, Lindsay, tied the knot on August 4. Now this is a UVM guest list.
The UVMers in attendance included me (Cyndi Bohlin Abbott), Maura Mahoney,
Cathy Holahan Murphy, Andy O’Connell, Dave Donohue, Narric Rome, Mark
Abramowitz, Paul Zedlovich, and Lisa Goodrich Zedlovich ’95, Carey Smith
Rose ’93 and Chris Rose ’92, Severn Taylor Switzer ’93 and Scott Switzer ’92,
Beth McDermott, Erin Gurry Koch, Denyce Wicht, Drew ’92 and Melanie Mount
’95, Jonathan Heaton ’93, Alex Frink ’93, John Maloney ’92, Marni McManus ’92,
Brian Koch ’92, Todd Jenkins ’92, Rich Jaffe ’93, Leslie and Doug Tesler ’93,
Tim Norris ’93, Samir Singh ’94, Kathryn Sellig ’94, Doug Siegfried ’94,
Suzanne Gillert ’94, Caryn Daum ’95, and Loretta Casey ’95.
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Ray W. Collins, Jr., M.D.
15 South Street
Middlebury, VT 05753
Marion H. Klandl, a lifelong
resident of Burlington, passed
away May 7 at the age of 98.
After taking the secretarial course
for college graduates at Katherine
Gibbs School, Boston, she worked in
the advertising department of the
Beech-Nut Packing Company in New
York City. Upon returning to Vermont,
she worked in the Vermont Department of Public Health as a secretary
and health education writer. She also
served as assistant editor in publications at the Vermont Agricultural
Extension Service. On December
2, 1944, she was married to Carl A.
Klandl. She was a member of St. Paul’s
Cathedral Church all her life, as well
as a member of the Laureate Chapter of Beta Sigma Phi, the Burlington
Garden Club, and the Athena Club.
Marion shared her husband’s love
of horses and helped him at horse
events all over Vermont. She was a
4-H Horsemanship Club leader and
served on the Chittenden County and
Vermont State advisory boards of the
UVM Agricultural Extension Service.
She was a member of the Lucky Trail
Riders Club and the Vermont Morgan
Horse Association.
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100 Wake Robin Drive
Shelburne, VT 05482
Reid H. Leonard, Pensacola,
Florida, tells us that after earning a Ph.D. in biochemistry at
Wisconsin, he went to Pensacola in
1946 and became a board certified
clinical chemist. His woodworking
hobby led him to become involved
in the local art community about
forty years ago. He is an honorary
life member in Pensacola Artists Inc.,
and recently won a $500 prize in the
First City Show. Reid has not done lab
work for the past twenty years and
spends his time doing artistic work
with veneered furniture.
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Mary Nelson Tanner
209 Heron Point
501 East Campus Avenue
Chestertown, MD 21620
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All our classmates will be
saddened to learn that two
devoted men of the class
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Harvey Hart Hubbard, 90, of
Newport News, Virginia, died
May 14, 2012, after a short illness. Harvey served in the U. S. Army
Air Corps during World War II and
retired as a lieutenant colonel in the
Air Force reserves. As a NASA aeroacoustician and noise control engineer, he devoted his career to defining, alleviating, and controlling noise
from large commercial aircraft and
wind turbines. He was the author of
numerous publications, the editor
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70th reunion
October 4–6, 2013
alumni.uvm.edu/reunion
I begin with a poignant UVM-related
story about our classmate and my
dear friend. A lawyer in St. Louis for
most of his life, Ray Laramie ’41 was
a native of Fair Haven, Vermont, and
a friend of my late husband. He was
a member of the UVM basketball
squad while a student and evidently
always held UVM basketball close to
his heart. In early July, Ray sent me a
great snapshot of himself in a UVM
basketball jersey that he had worn
last year to a UVM championship
basketball game in the Midwest. I
immediately replied with a snapshot of my husband and me and a
brief note. Unfortunately, he never
received my note—Ray passed away
on July 8. We extend our sincere
condolences to Ray’s family. Now for
some good news . . . I was happy to
hear from Daan Zwick, one of my
most loyal correspondents over the
years. Daan was honored recently
by the Green Mountain Club at their
awards banquet at the Trapp Fam-
ily Lodge. His most recent endeavor
has been planning for the building
of a foot bridge to allow hikers along
the Long Trail to cross the Winooski
River at Bolton. Daan is hoping to
walk across the bridge next summer.
While in Burlington, he visited Janet
Dike Rood, who touted the virtues
of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra, with which she has been deeply
involved. Daan attended a performance of the Vermont Symphony
at the Flynn Theatre and reminisced
that he had seen his first movie
there, Simba the Lion, more than
eighty years ago. He added that he
had taken his first movie date there
as well. He confessed that he could
remember the name of the girl, but
not the movie. Interesting . . . We
have lost four more members of
our class since I last wrote. Margo
Benoit Downes passed on January
16. Margo and I were among nine
freshmen who lived at Robinson Hall
in 1939–40. We all always kept that
bond and remained friends for all
four years at UVM and beyond.
Elizabeth (Biddy) Demming
Goeller, a Theta, died on January 22.
I remember her as a free-spirited,
fun-loving girl. Marjorie Witham
Healy, a dear personal friend and
person I always tried to emulate,
died on February 8. She left a large
family, including her husband,
Dick Healy ’41, who, at age 94, still
resides in Westboro, Massachusetts. I
was very fortunate to be able to chat
with Dick over the phone recently.
We both enjoyed reminiscing about
UVM events and people. He knew
Ray Laramie well. I teased him about
his memory because he thought
that I came from Brooklyn. I had
to set him straight on that. He was
close since my hometown was the
Bronx. William Tyler Chapin died
on February 17. I did not have the
good fortune to know him personally. I extend our sincere sympathy
to the families of all the deceased
class members mentioned above. If
you are interested in planning your
upcoming reunion, email alumni@
uvm.edu.
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8 Lewis Lane
Fair Haven, VT 05743
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75th reunion
October 4–6, 2013
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of a two-volume book, and a member of the editorial boards of several
professional journals. After retirement from NASA, he became a senior
research associate in engineering at
the College of William and Mary, consultant for the Bionetics Corporation,
and senior staff engineer at the Lockheed Science and Engineering Company. Harvey was a charter member,
president, and fellow of the Institute
of Noise Control Engineering; a longtime member of the Acoustical Society of America; and the first American recipient of the Aero-acoustics
Award. A long-time member of the
Hilton Presbyterian Church, where
he served as elder, trustee, and committee member, he also served on
the board of directors of Presbyterian
Homes and Family Services and was
an active supporter of the Zuni Peanut Sheltered Workshop Training Center for challenged young adults. He is
survived by a number of Vermont relatives who considered him the patriarch of the Hubbard clan.
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Kenneth B. Ricketson, going
strong at 103, wrote to the
Alumni Association in July
wondering if he still has any fellow members of the Class of 1932.
He shared the news that he recently
wrote a book about his life titled My
First 103 Years and Secrets of a Long
Life. Also quite impressive, this onetime mechanical engineering major
has a website for his publication:
http://myfirst103years.com/index.
html.
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Evelyn Eaton Getz passed
away on March 13, 2012, at
the age of 94. She grew up
in Waitsfield, Vermont. Following
her graduation, she was a teacher in
Middletown Springs, Vermont, and
in Kinderhook and Canajoharie, New
York. She lived more than fifty years
in Montvale, New Jersey, and spent
the last eight years of her life in
Goshen, New York.
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passed away three days apart in July
2012. After having a heart attack
a month before his 93rd birthday,
Raymond F. Laramie died in St.
Louis, Missouri, on July 8. He is survived by his wife, six children, and
fourteen grandchildren. After serving in the U. S. Army in World War
II, he attended Boston University
School of Law, from which he graduated in 1949. During the Korean
War, he served fifteen months in the
JAG office in Japan and later developed a successful career in the St.
Louis insurance business. An avid
and active sports fan, he often won
medals in the Senior Olympics. Ray
served in several leadership roles in
his church including parish historian and president of the “Fifty Plus
Club.” He always was a proud UVM
alumnus and there were many gold
and green flowers at his funeral. On
July 11, Edward O. Eaton, age 93,
passed away in St. Albans, Vermont.
Ed graduated from Waitsfield High
School and received his degree in
agriculture from UVM. After serving in the U. S. Air Force from 1942 to
1946, he received a master’s degree
in 1950 and a doctorate in 1952 in
agriculture engineering from Cornell University, where he was professor emeritus. He was a member of
the American Society of Agriculture
Engineers, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, and
the Masonic Lodge in Waitsfield.
Ed is survived by sons Edward H.
Eaton and his wife, Marie, of Williamstown, Vermont, and Paul Eaton and
his wife, Barbara, of South Amherst,
Ohio; seven grandchildren, eleven
great-grandchildren, three nieces,
one nephew, and their families.
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44 Birch Road
Andover, MA 01810
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203 Deer Lane #4
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15 Ward Avenue
South Deerfield, MA 01373
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65th reunion
October 4–6, 2013
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Carol Clark Wheatley, 85, of Glover,
passed away May 25. She was a
daughter of Leslie and Bernice
(Davis) Clark. In 1948, she married
Donald Wheatley, who survives her.
Following her graduation from UVM,
Mrs. Wheatley was a teacher at the
Glen Carlyn School and in the Arlington Virginia School System. She was
a member of the Glover Community Church and an ordained deacon of the Southern Baptist Church
in Arlington, Virginia. She was also
a member of the American Legion
Auxiliary of Barton, Vermont, and
the retired teachers association.
Among her hobbies, she enjoyed
reading, traveling, cooking, attending family gatherings, and windjamming cruises. Robert “Bob” Walker
Ker, Jr., retired textile industry
executive, entrepreneur, and fourdecade resident of New Canaan,
passed away May 16 at the age of
89. Shortly after Pearl Harbor, Bob
enlisted in the Army and was commissioned a 2nd lieutenant. He
served in the Pacific Theater, where
he earned battle stars in New Guinea
and the Philippines, was promoted
to the rank of captain, and was honorably discharged in the fall of 1946.
After graduating from the University of Vermont, he entered Harvard
Business School. For several years in
the mid-1960s, Bob was co-owner
of Alling Rubber. Later, Bob was
founder, owner, and president of
Gulford Company, based in Norwalk,
and came out of retirement in 1992
to manage Kitchens by Deane after
the sudden death of its founder. During his business career, Bob served
on the boards of numerous companies as well as the University of Connecticut School of Business Administration’s Family Business Program.
In 1963, the Kers moved to New
Canaan, where they remained until
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Frank Zwick died July 6 in
Myrtle Beach, where he and
his wife lived since retiring
in 1993. Born in New Britain, Connecticut, May 8, 1927, he graduated
from high school there and enrolled
in UVM. He spent a short time in
the Army as World War II was ending. Back at UVM, he was active in
Sigma Alpha Epsilon and was one
of the directors of Kake Walk. In earlier years our families were very
close when he and his first wife,
Joan (Jenkins) Zwick, and my late
husband, Paul Hunt, and I, shared
the living room many evenings in
the Kappa Alpha Theta house. After
graduations and marriages in the
summer of 1949, we all lived in the
same apartment house in New Britain, Connecticut, owned by Frank’s
father. I had a washing machine;
Joan didn’t — which made us even
closer as families. We played a lot
of pinochle that year. In the early
1970s, Frank founded Northeast
Cabinet and Stairs, Inc., running it
from his home in Sandisfield, Massachusetts, where he and his wife
Lynn (Miller) Zwick lived for many
years. Besides his wife, he is survived
by his sister and by his four children and their families. On a happier
note, other good friends, Doug Tudhope ’50 and his wife, Billie ’52, are
still enjoying the good life. Today,
July 26, he played eighteen holes of
golf, then spent the afternoon playing bridge with his foursome (and
taking all their money). He’s also one
of twelve on the Vermont Senior
Golf Team, playing against the New
Hampshire seniors in August in
Okemo. Otherwise Doug and Billie spend time between North Hero,
where they are still involved in Shore
Acres motel and restaurant, and
Captiva Island, Florida. We hope to
see them later in August. My high
school friend, Al Callahan, and I still
travel once a month between Morgan, Vermont, and West Hartford,
Connecticut, where we grew up, and
spend some time in New Smyrna
Beach, Florida, in the winter. That’s
my news! What’s yours?
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236 Coche Brook Crossing
West Charleston, VT 05872
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Arthur Langer wrote, “After
a career in the Broadway,
off-Broadway, and cabaret
theater as producer, general manager, and playwright, I’ve returned
from the world of make-believe with
Songs at Twilight, a collection of nonfiction stories told in the style of fiction. Two of the stories take place at
UVM—one leading into the Korean
War, the other remembering Kake
Walk. It took three years to write,
one year to find a publisher, and
one year to prepare for publication.
Looking back on it all, there must
be easier ways to stay out of the
pool room.” Charlotte Pamela Crandall died July 13, 2012, at age 84.
Pam was born in Bangor, Maine, to
Charles P. Crandall and Martha Halling Crandall. After earning a degree
in English with some French thrown
in, she began her teaching career in
Hyde Park, Vermont, in 1950; then
she taught in Essex Junction, even
before IBM. In 1956, she joined the
Department of Defense Schools
in Europe, where she taught high
school English, French, and ancient
history for thirty-six years in Rochefort and Poitiers, France; Wiesbaden,
Germany; and Brussels, Belgium,
before retiring in 1992. Returning to
Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom and
her beloved camp on Daniel’s Pond
in Glover, Charlotte spent her retirement reading, listening to classical music, and attending as many
museum and theater events as possible. She shared her unbounded
love of the arts with all she met. On
Saturday mornings you could find
her listening to “Wait Wait . . . Don’t
Tell Me!” on NPR, and she never
missed the Sunday New York Times.
Pam’s zeal for life was with her for all
of her eighty-four years and lives on
in her sister, Sally Crandall Cromer,
several nieces and nephews, and
some very good friends.
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20 Kent Street
Montpelier, VT 05602
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Merton Stancliff advised us
that he has moved. You may
contact him at 5 Flannigan
Drive, Apt 1, Plattsburgh, NY 12901
or 518-563-8768. Phyllis Jones
Thorsen writes, “Wow! Sixty years
and I’m still moving (maybe slowly).
Anyone up to sending an email of
life sixty years after graduation? If so,
my email is [email protected].
Look forward to hearing from UVM
1952 alumni.”
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60th reunion
October 4–6, 2013
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A half century of annual mini
reunions continues to unite four
university alumnae in the San Francisco Bay area. All are Kappa Alpha
Theta sisters of Lambda chapter,
who thrive on their common University of Vermont heritage. Bunny
(FitzSimons) Smith ’54, Jane (Wilson) Durie ’52, Jean (Hawley)
Navarra ’53, and Nancy (Hoyt) Burnett ’53 have been meeting regularly for more than fifty years to celebrate their lives as mothers and
grandmothers with a delightful college ancestry. Among their descendants are an Air Force brigadier general and at least two sets of twins.
They have discovered that cats and
dogs have been important to them
also. Despite a few signs of aging
infirmities, the four alums met on
June 11, 2012, at Max’s Opera Café
in Palo Alto. All had arrived without canes. Their smiles attested to
lives of extensive travel, happy marriages, successful volunteer activities, and continued optimism about
more annual lunches to come. Jack
Hartman has written twenty-four
Christian books based on the Bible,
eleven co-authored with his wife,
Judy. Jack is president of Lamplight
Ministries, Inc., which gives books
and sets of scripture meditation
cards free of charge to needy people in third world countries and to
inmates in prisons and jails. In April,
Jack was working on book twentyfive, which was expected to be completed before his eighty-first birthday. The Hartmans have received a
tremendous number of comments
on their publications from people
all over the world. Jack writes every
day, and he and Judy complete two
books a year. Further information on
Lamplight Ministries, may be found
at www.lamplight.net, where you
can also see a picture of Jack and
Judy with their lovely white dog.
Lynn Davis, of Radford, Virginia,
noted that it had been years since
he had seen some of his Sigma Nu
brothers. In late March, he visited
Lorrie and Tad Norton at their condo
in Fort Myers, Florida. While there
they all drove over to Vero Beach to
spend the evening with Carol ’54
and Deke Morrison. That week-
end, Lynn drove up to The Villages to
look around for a winter place and
spent an evening with Mark Margiotta and Pam Krohn. The trip also
included a lunch with Gill Detrick
’56 and his wife, Pat, at their home
in Estero. At the time of writing,
Lynn had two more trips planned:
June in Nova Scotia and October in
Hawaii. Marilyn (Madryn) Priesing
reports that she and her family are in
good health and still living in Bronxville, New York, where they have
been for thirty-nine years. She talks
with Phyllis (Burke) Davis quite
often, and they see each other at
least twice a year. She also keeps in
touch with several Pi Phi classmates
through Christmas cards: Shorty
(Sprague) Bowker, Bobby (Demarest) Robinson, and Ann (Johnson)
Hartzell. While on Kiawah Island,
where they have a second home,
Marilyn had the pleasure of meeting and chatting with Dr. Barbara
Block ’80, who was being honored
at the South Carolina Aquarium Conservation Gala. (Block is a marine
biologist and professor in Marine
Sciences Evolutionary Cellular and
Molecular Biology at Stanford University. She and her team from Stanford’s Hopkins Marine Station use
electronic tags to track large predators—tunas, billfish, and sharks—
on their ocean journeys and study
how and why their muscle makes
heat at a molecular level. Collaborating with the Monterey Bay Aquarium, they established and operate
the Tuna Research and Conservation
Center, a member of the Tagging
of Pacific Predators program. Block
is the recipient of a National Science Foundation Presidential Young
Investigator Award and in 1996 was
awarded a “genius” grant from the
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. What a delightful story about a dedicated scientist
of whom we all should be proud.) In
July, Ruth (Spalding) Shaw reported
about a fun weekend enjoyed in
western Massachusetts with Marty
(Pierce) Moulin, who summers in
New Hampshire and lives, mostly, in
Grenoble, France. The rehearsal concert the two had intended to attend
at Tanglewood was canceled, so
they made do with a visit to Clark
Art Institute in Williamstown and the
Heritage Park in North Adams. Ruth
said, “Mostly we just talked any-
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next two months, sometimes on
work detail, were otherwise spent
in my cell: no books, no lessons, no
conversation,” he said. He was transferred to Bavaria, where he could
interact with others. “Internment
camps had very little in common
with concentration camps, thanks to
the International Red Cross,” Fletcher
explained. He was then moved to
Lisbon, Portugal, and brought to the
United States on a passenger ship
sponsored by the Red Cross. He was
happily surprised to find his sister
on the same ship. Back in New York
he made presentations for the Red
Cross and then joined the Army. Sent
to Europe again, he liberated POW
and labor camps as well as discovering outlying camps in the Dachau
area. Later, coming to UVM, he was
selected to be in the first class of Fulbright students at University of Brussels, along with Jean Tucker, who
later became his wife. He served as
graduate studies chair at the University of Texas and in the history
departments at the University of
Pennsylvania and the University of
Delaware. He was very involved
in the development of the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. I
really enjoyed a fabulous speech he
gave at the University of Delaware.
You can read about it at www.udel.
edu/udaily/2011/apr/Personal-Journey-041911.html. If you are interested in planning your upcoming
reunion, email [email protected].
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Elizabeth Doolin Uptegrove, aged 88, of West
Townshend, Vermont, passed
away June 13, 2012. Betsey grew
up in Cambridge, Massachusetts,
and after high school, lived with a
French Canadian farm family on Isle
d’Orleans, Quebec, teaching English at the local elementary school.
After earning a degree in secondary
education at UVM, she taught high
school English, first in Newport Center and later in Brandon. She also
worked briefly for the Vermont Printing Company in Brattleboro. She
married William Edgar Uptegrove in
1947 and, through the mid-1970s,
lived in Brooklyn, Westchester
County, and Rochester, where they
raised their family. The family came
to Vermont every summer and many
weekends, staying at their un-modernized farmhouse in Jamaica. They
settled in that house year-round in
1975. Betsey described her occupation as “self-employed environmentalist.” She was active in several organizations, including Stop Uranium
Mining, Stratton Area Citizens Committee, Vermont Natural Resources
Council, and West River Watershed
Alliance. She initiated and won the
first upgraded stream classification
in Vermont to protect the pristine
waters of Kidder Brook on the eastern slopes of Stratton Mountain. Betsey enjoyed reading poetry, making and listening to music of many
genres, gardening, photography,
cooking, canoeing, horseback riding, camping, walking in the woods,
skiing, and caring for animals. Betsey sang with West River Valley Chorus. She read the newspaper regularly and was an amateur scholar of
Shakespeare’s plays.
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2001, when Bob retired to Cape Cod.
There, Bob had savored summer
clan gatherings since the 1950s and
had entertained generations of family and friends with tennis tourneys,
talent shows, and legendary dump
runs. Respected for his kind, generous, and humorous spirit, Bob was
a member of numerous organizations and clubs in Cape Cod, New
York, and New Canaan. Pat Hunt
’49 writes that the following information is for the classes of ’48, ’49,
and ’50, as it’s hard to tell which
class the returning World War II veterans were in. We were on a quarter-year program: September to
December 1945 saw few men on
campus and girls living in the fraternity houses, except for some men
in the Phi Delta Theta house; winter quarter some military men and
women entered or returned to UVM,
and the military gals were quartered in Lyman Hall; spring quarter more came in under the GI Bill,
and I had to take the quarter off for
knee surgery following a ski accident at Stowe; summer quarter, with
seven men for every woman, I was
one of the lucky ones making up the
missed spring quarter. The military
could make up missed time during
the summers. That’s when I met my
husband, Paul Hunt ’49—but had
lots of other opportunities. Robert
Ker was a member of the Sigma Phi
quartet, along with Bill Chapin ’50,
Phil Robinson, and Stan Carey ’50.
Bob Taisey ’50 was their accompanist. Bob still practices law in New
York City, specializing in trusts and
estates with nonprofits, and enjoys
vacationing in Lyme, Connecticut.
He was on the board of the Vermont Law School and served on several other boards, including that
of Keuka College for twenty-two
years. Had a surprise email from Willard Fletcher ’49 and his wife Jean
Tucker Fletcher ’48. After some
years of research in the states and
abroad, they co-authored a recently
published book, Defiant Diplomat:
George Platt Waller: American Consul in Nazi-Occupied Luxembourg,
1939–1941. Born in Vermont, Willard
moved to Luxembourg at the age of
two. In 1942, when German troops
invaded the area, he was sixteen
and was taken out of his trigonometry class by three Gestapo agents
and driven to prison in the area. “The
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way.” They got in touch with Donna
(Ellis) Rigby for more conversation,
since Donna and husband, George,
had recently been in Massachusetts. As Marty says, “It is great fun
to reconnect with old friends.” This
has been a delightful assortment of
email updates from classmates, and
I appreciate that each added “UVM”
in the email subject box to alert this
aging secretary about the wonderful messages within. If you are interested in planning your upcoming
reunion, email [email protected].
Send your news to—
Nancy Hoyt Burnett
729 Stendhal Lane
Cupertino, CA 95014
[email protected]
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Richard Lapidus died February 18, 2012. He was an
outstanding member of the
Florida Bar and was lauded in an editorial obituary in the newspaper a
few days after his death. He will be
sorely missed.
Send your news to—
Kathryn Dimick Wendling
Apt. 1, 34 Pleasant Street
Woodstock, VT 05091
[email protected]
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Send your news to—
Jane Stickney
32 Hickory Hill Road
Williston, VT 05495
[email protected]
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55th reunion
October 4–6, 2013
alumni.uvm.edu/reunion
Mike Turianski, called to let us know
that his UVM roommate, Russell
J. Wagner, died at his daughter’s
home in New Jersey on July 23. Russell was a former Delta Psi brother.
Fall is reunion time, and next fall
will be our 55th. In spirit, I don’t feel
much different than I did fifty-five
years ago—but who has invaded
my body? We used to have social
engagements on our calendar. Now
it’s doctor’s appointments. I retrieve
old term papers and class notes and
don’t remember ever learning what’s
there. Now, I know less, but I understand more. With friends and relatives from the past, we suddenly recognize our old selves. Please go to
our reunion! We’ll rediscover who
we were, reveal who we are now,
and make new connections to carry
on with. Meanwhile, in hopes that
a new class secretary can find good
ways to communicate with you, I bid
adieu, but look forward to seeing
you all at UVM in October 2013.
—Libby Kidder Michael
If you are interested in planning your
upcoming reunion, email alumni@
uvm.edu.
Send your news to—
UVM Alumni Association
411 Main Street
Burlington, VT 05401
[email protected]
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Send your news to—
Paul F. Heald
Foulsham Farms Real Estate
P.O. Box 2205
South Burlington, VT 05407
[email protected]
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Linda Farnkoff Artus Kirker
reports, “I served as a state
representative to the Vermont legislature for two terms from
Essex Junction (2000–2004). Subsequently, I moved to Georgia, Vermont, and built my dream home
overlooking Lake Champlain and the
Adirondack Mountains. For the past
five years, I chaired Franklin County’s Republican Committee and in
2010, co-founded American Conservative Women in Action of Vermont.
I have had the pleasure of serving as
president of ACWA since its inception. Our mission is to preserve our
U.S. Constitution for future generations through events and education. My two children, Kirk and Kara
Artus, and one grandson reside in
Vermont. My other grandson lives
and works in Charlotte, North Carolina, where he is employed as an
electro-mechanical engineer. Life
is good and busy!” From Joe Buley
we learned that “After skipping a
generation, my granddaughter will
continue the tradition of her great
grandfather, grandfather, a great
aunt, a great uncle, a cousin, and a
great uncle-in-law who attended
UVM. Olivia Buley will enter the College of Engineering and Mathematical Science this fall. She graduated
from U-32 High School in East Montpelier. Her dad owns an organic farm
and was recently appointed to the
advisory board of the UVM Extension.” Fred Rugo tells us that, “I went
to the 50th and had a great time
with everyone I met. Peter Nelson
’61 and I exchanged Christmas cards,
which resulted in our having dinner
together in Raynham, Massachusetts
(lasted three hours). Peter and his
wife, Cynthia, and my wife, Deanna,
covered a lot of ground, but not
nearly fifty years. But guess what?
Our wives are home gardeners and
Peter and I are fly fishermen, and
we have each bagged an elk. Peter
lives at 19 Penelope Road, Monument Beach, MA 02553, and I reside
at 11 Obeline Drive, North Smithfield, RI 02896.” Susie Sells Hodgson adds, “I shall never forget our
50th Reunion! It was so beautifully
planned. We all had such a wonderful time, and with all of your clever
marketing, we had great attendance.
Had it really been fifty years? Thanks
to Steve Berry and Louise Weiner
for everything they did—and with
such spirit. A real highlight was Carole Demas’s performance: just like
Broadway, she was just grand. I
remember her singing in the halls
of Coolidge as a freshman. Dick and
I had a good year with lots of visits
from children and grandchildren. We
went to Block Island, Rhode Island,
for a week and to Connecticut several times for graduations. Off to
Stonington, Maine, for the summer
with hopes of cooler weather after
the pressure cooker in Virginia.” Bob
Hobbie reports “Joyce and I spent a
month to celebrate our 50th wedding anniversary in a renovated farm
house in Volpaia, which is about
ten minutes from Radda in Chianti,
Italy. It’s a beautiful, charming village with forty residents. Susan and
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Jan Mashman, our dearest friends,
joined us for a week to celebrate and
take day trips to Radda, Greve, Panzano, Siena, San Giminagno, Florence, and return to the comfort of
the home. Our children and their
families joined us for two weeks.
Professionally, I am still working four
days a week, with the long weekend
for Joyce and me. I still enjoy working with the kids and their families
—I think they also help keep me
young at heart. Still love my vegetable garden. I’m playing less golf
to enable more travel and trips to
see the family in Atlanta and Richmond.” Roger Zimmerman emailed
“Thanks to all of you—my classmates—who contributed to the
“payback run” from Maine to Vermont to raise money for the general scholarship fund. I just pulled
off a second place in the Maine
Senior Games in the 800 meter track
event, and am getting ready for the
“Wildman,” a three-event biathlon in August in New Hampshire.
This winter will be my twenty-seventh year of guiding backcountry
skiing in Yellowstone National Park.
We have some openings for this trip,
so send me an email if interested:
[email protected]. My daughter Heather will be home from two
years in India come this Thanksgiving.” George Anderson went to Italy
this spring for his grandniece’s wedding. He says he’s trying to bolster
Italy’s economy and the euro. In July,
Kathe Brother Allen reported “We
had a wonderful trip to the Keuka
Lake, New York, cottage of Judy
Morse Baxter and George Baxter
’60. Judy and George’s primary residence is Fairport, New York, just
east of Rochester. George is a Kodak
retiree and Judy works in the office
of the local Montessori school. The
group included Caroline Tyler
Nordquist and her husband Don.
Caroline and Don live just across
the river from Charleston in Mount
Pleasant, South Carolina. Both are
active in protecting loggerhead turtle nests at nearby Sullivan’s Island.
Carol Suhr Gater and her husband,
Malcolm, are gracious hosts of the
Wealthy Poor House Bed and Breakfast in Belfast, Maine. Kathe and
Rolly Allen live in Hague, New York,
on the northwest shore of Lake
George. Kathe is retired from real
estate, and Rolly is retired from General Foods, but still keeps his executive search firm semi-active. He is
on the Board of Inter Lakes Health
in Ticonderoga, New York, which is
affiliated with Fletcher Allen Healthcare in Burlington. During our stay at
Keuka Lake we had lots of good food
and many laughs and reminded ourselves how lucky and proud we all
are for our time at UVM.” Congratulations to Liz Elkavich and Bill Wester,
who celebrated their fiftieth on
July 7 with family at the South Seas
Island Resort in Captiva, Florida. And
finally, as you read this, it’s time to
submit news for the next edition, so
send an email or snail mail to Steve
today.
Send your news to—
Steve Berry
8 Oakmount Circle
Lexington, MA 02420
[email protected]
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Sandra Rose Larkin died on
March 27, 2009, after a courageous nearly two-year battle with cancer. After graduation,
Sandy received her Master of Library
Science from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York. She married Robert T.
Mylod on March 21, 1964. Bob and
Sandy were married forty-five years
and raised three children. Before
retirement in 1997, she worked at
East Cheltenham Library, near Philadelphia, and Chambersburg Library,
in Pennsylvania, and re-organized
the Emanuel Lutheran Church school
library in Patchogue, New York. In
retirement she studied art and won
a blue ribbon best in show at Children’s Beach House, Lewes, Delaware, where she also worked with
challenged children in their summer
program. She and Bob led weekly
worship at Gull House, a day care
center for stroke and Alzheimer residents. She is sadly missed.
Send your news to—
Patricia Hoskiewicz Allen
14 Stony Brook Drive
Rexford, NY 12148
[email protected]
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50th reunion
October 4–6, 2013
alumni.uvm.edu/reunion
Next fall will be 2013. Does that date
ring any bells, thoughts, memories?
Yes, my classmates, we are coming
to our fiftieth-year UVM Reunion,
October 4–6, 2013. Reminisce and
rediscover UVM as you gather with
your classmates. Our dinner will
be on Saturday evening, October
5, 2013. Many other activities are
planned for us, including a welcome-back party on Friday evening;
music, entertainment, and local
vendors all day Saturday; and tours
and historic walks. You will be able
to register online, plan your lodging through the UVM Reunion Travel
and Lodging link, and check to see
who is coming. Jeff Falk, our class
president, would like you to begin
by helping to plan for our big event.
Please contact him at JAFalk@aol.
com if you are interested in participating in our planning committee.
Lyn Lifshin continues to successfully
publish compelling literature. Her
recent book, All the Poets Who Have
Touched Me, can be viewed on Amazon.com or on her website, www.
lynlifshin.com. Any other news?
A column will be due December
1, 2012, for the March 2013 issue.
Please keep in touch and send lots
of news. You may email UVM or me,
or call me, which would be terrific. In
the meantime, I am wishing everyone good health and a festive winter
season. If you are interested in planning your upcoming reunion, email
[email protected].
Send your news to—
Toni Citarella Mullins
210 Conover Lane
Red Bank, NJ 07701
[email protected]
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Charles V. Masick passed
away on July 7. At UVM,
Charles was a member of
Sigma Phi Epsilon and ROTC. He
served as a captain in the Army
and was a decorated helicopter
pilot with the 1st Air Cavalry Division. Charles retired as a professor of mathematics from SUNY
Cobleskill, where he had also been
assistant dean of students and first
chairman of the board of directors
of SUNY Cobleskill Credit Union.
A member of many organizations,
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Hal Greenfader
805 S. Le Doux Rd.
Los Angeles, CA 90035
[email protected]
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Emily “Lee” and Lloyd Perry,
of Berwyn, Pennsylvania;
Durwood “Woody” Montgomery and his wife, Sandy, of Belmont, Vermont; and Barbara and
Andy Skroback ’58, of East Longmeadow, Massachusetts, met in July
for a long weekend at the Skroback’s
summer home in Pittsfield, Vermont.
This is an annual event during which
they rest, relax, and catch up on old
friends and family. Sharon Wilson
reported that her husband, Norman
“Neemo” Wilson, died in December
2011 of cancer. UVM friends gathered at Silver Lake, New Hampshire,
on August 11 to celebrate his life.
As one of your Green & Gold fundraisers, I thought you would be
interested in the following report
on donations to the UVM Foundation by the class of 1959 during the
2011–12 fiscal year. Active alumni =
514; number of donors = 114; participation rate = 22% (average class
participation is 24%); total dollars
raised = $46,394. Where we could
most noticeably pick up is in the rate
of participation. A small check alone
can spike that up.
Send your news to—
Henry Shaw, Jr.
112 Pebble Creek Road
Columbia, SC 29223
[email protected]
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Marilyn Stern Dukoff,
Hewlett Harbor, New York,
was in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, for the summer. She was
looking forward to getting together
with a few classmates. Last winter,
Elaine Wittenstein Rohlin met Jean
and Bob Gorman ’56, in Naples,
Florida, and Roz Gross Harper in
New York City. In July, Elaine and Vi
Menke had lunch with Hal Greenfader at the Polo Lounge in Beverly Hills. Food, average; reminiscing, extraordinary. Elaine thinks we
should have an off-year gathering in
2013 in NYC or Las Vegas. Anybody
interested? Hal also dined with Brad
Gordon and wife in Newport Beach,
California, in August. Brad has most
generously invited all classmates to
try his wife’s amazing gazpacho at
their beach house next summer. As
of this writing, he has yet to provide
his address or phone number. (Just
kidding, Brad. Next July 4, 600 of us
will be at your doorstep.) Dick Lewis
is proud to have his granddaughter,
Lara, entering UVM as a freshman
this September. Last May he had dinner in NYC with fraternity brother Ed
Walker ’57. Steve Klein’s daughter,
Lauren ’01, was married at the fabulous Oheka Castle on Long Island on
June 2, a date coinciding with Steve’s
forty-second wedding anniversary.
Apparently the wedding celebration
was spectacular, with an after-party
featuring cigars, belly dancers, and
hookas. (I assured Steve that “hookas” would be spelled correctly in
this column.) Mark Rosenblatt and
Jennifer Lopez were seen holding
hands and hot dogs at world famous
Pink’s in West Hollywood. This piece
of news is strictly according to Mark,
who also claims he’s held hands
over the years with celebrities like
Sharapova, Anniston, and Margaret Rutherford. Way to go, Mark! Jay
Selcow, of UVM tennis fame, spent
an overnight with Al Mufson on
the way back from Florida last winter. Jay says he still plays tennis from
time to time with Barry Stone ’56.
He does object to the fact that Barry
prefers to play him after Jay has had
some medical problem such as hernia surgery. In the “Giving Back”
department, Dan Burack writes that
Judy and Dave Hershberg are currently mentoring grade-school kids
in Burlington as part of the program
Everyone Wins! Vermont. They’ve
had a history of giving back from
the days when Dave was a major
innovator in supporting the Vermont
Foodbank. Any additions to the
giving- back portion of the Class
of ’55 section will be appreciated.
Who’s doing what for whom?
Send your news to—
Jane Morrison Battles
Apt. 125A
500 East Lancaster Avenue
Wayne, PA 19087
[email protected]
Bart Gershen ’54 ’57 MD
reports that he has retired
from a fifty-year practice in
noninvasive cardiology. Recently he
published a book on medical etymology, Word Rounds, based on
more than twenty years of writing
a column on word derivations for
Maryland Medicine, the state medical journal. He also developed a
website with the same name, www.
wordrounds.com. You may contact
him at [email protected],
301-721-9394, or through his website.
Send your news to—
UVM Alumni Association
411 Main Street
Burlington, VT 05401
[email protected]
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DEWEY CARON ’64
“The epidemic will run
its course, and as it
passes, how do we get
out of the woods from
all those losses, find an
equilibrium, and get
our bee populations
back?”
­—Dewey Caron,
professor emeritus
at the University of
Delaware and a leading
expert on Africanized
bees, on dwindling
North American
populations
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Janet Parsons wrote that
she and her husband, Hunter
Daughtrey, are retired and
living in Durham, North Carolina.
Her son lives in Brooklyn, where he
works for Bette Midler’s New York
Restoration Project.
Send your news to—
Jane Kleinberg Carroll
44 Halsey Street, Unit 3
Providence, RI 02906
[email protected]
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45th reunion
October 4–6, 2013
alumni.uvm.edu/reunion
Congratulations to Jack Rosenberg, who was chosen to compete in the selective Art Takes Times
Square competition, where the
works of selected artists were displayed on twenty-three-story-high
video billboards in Times Square,
New York City. The selected artists’
works will also be published in an
Art Takes Times Square book distributed internationally. Jack enjoys putting together lots of pieces—small
details, so they can be viewed as a
whole (i.e., creating puzzles from
abstracts). His work is eclectic, documenting detailed images from his
travels in order to take the viewer to
a time and place only they can create with their imagination. Samples can be seen at www.my-2ndlife.com. Jack is now retired from his
orthodontic practice. Everyone else,
please send your news. If you are
interested in planning your upcoming reunion, email [email protected].
Send your news to—
Diane Duley Glew
64 Woodland Park Drive
Haverhill, MA 01830
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Send your news to—
Mary Moninger-Elia
1 Templeton Street
West Haven, CT 06516
[email protected]
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Send your news to—
Doug Arnold
3311 Oak Knoll Drive
Pepper Pike, OH 44124
[email protected]
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Send your news to—
Sarah Wilbur Sprayregen
145 Cliff Street
Burlington, VT 05401
[email protected]
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Arn Rubinoff, Atlanta attorney and adjunct professor
in the College of Management at Georgia Tech, was named,
by vote of undergraduate students, Professor of the Year. Rubinoff
teaches undergraduate and MBAlevel courses in technology transfer, international business, business
law, and business ethics. For the last
eleven years, Christopher Blair has
been principal/chief scientist with
Akustiks LLC in Norwalk, Connecticut. The firm is responsible for the
acoustic design of major new performing arts centers in the country,
including Schermerhorn Symphony
Center in Nashville and The Smith
Center in Las Vegas, as well as work
for educational clients such as the
Eastman School of Music and Cleveland Institute of Music among others. Chris is currently working with
orchestras on concert hall designs
in Brazil, Mexico, and Costa Rica, as
well as in the United States. As Akustiks’ tuning conductor, he also has
the opportunity to lead orchestras
in rehearsals and concerts to familiarize them with their new spaces. In
the past year he has worked in this
capacity with the Sao Paulo State
Symphony, the National Orchestras of Mexico and Costa Rica, the
United States Coast Guard Band, and
the New Haven Symphony Orchestra. Retirement is not in the picture for now; he’s having way too
much fun. Deborah Allen wonders
whether anyone has contact with or
an address or phone number for Guy
Callahan. She has been trying to
locate him. She is also trying to locate
joshua brown
a current address and phone number
for Brenda Eastman ’73. If you have
information about either of her lost
friends, please email her at [email protected].
Send your news to—
Debbie Koslow Stern
198 Bluebird Drive
Colchester, Vermont 05446
[email protected]
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40th reunion
October 4–6, 2013
alumni.uvm.edu/reunion
E. J. Sullivan recently published an
ebook titled Diary of a Mad Man’s
Daughter, her memoir of growing
up as the daughter of a New York
advertising executive in the 1960s.
Sullivan lives in Alabama, where
she maintains publishing and book
packaging businesses. I heard from
Pat Dillon Larsen about a summer mini-reunion: In August, five
ADPi members from the Class of ’73
gathered for a weekend at the Mallets Bay cottage of our organizer
and host, Barb Hawkins Collins. The
group included (in addition to Pat)
Eileen Hiney, Marti Schultz Wachtel, and Betty Rice Lewis. For some,
it was the first time they had seen
each other in almost forty years.
Besides catching up on all the years
since graduation, we got a chance
to explore the campus, see the old
ADPi House (now, sadly, a dorm for
Champlain College), and reminisce
with photos, a yearbook, and lots of
old stories. On Saturday, we enjoyed
the Burlington Farmer’s Market,
a wonderful brunch at the Inn at
Shelburne Farms, and a tour of the
Brick House on the Shelburne Farms
grounds. We all agreed it would be
great to get together with a bigger group in the future and would
love to hear from those we have lost
touch with. Currently Barb is retired
and lives in Miami Beach; Pat is
retired and lives in Homosassa, Florida; Eileen is an attorney in Boston
and lives in Bridgewater; Marti is a
nurse in Schenectady; and Betty is
a school administrator living in Vergennes, Vermont.
Send your news to—
Deborah Mesce
2227 Observatory Place NW
Washington, DC 20007
[email protected]
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Nancy Sturtevant Wolfe,
White River Junction, Vermont, has retired from teaching music after thirty-plus years.
She has a beautiful granddaughter,
Norah Bethany Wolfe, born April 1,
2012, to Nick Wolfe ‘03 and Heather
Hawkes Wolfe ‘03. Life is very good.
In July, Margo David DiIeso and
I took a trip to Vermont. First we
stopped at Lake Fairlee to visit Marilyn Berkman Sturman ’73 and her
husband, Skip, and son, Jed, who
were vacationing there. Marilyn and
I had fun kayaking around this beautiful lake. Then Margo and I continued up to Stowe to have dinner with
Diane Batt Smith and her family.
The next day we went out on Lake
Champlain with Sally Cummings
’72 on her new boat. We motored
over to New York to have lunch, then
came back and had fun water skiing and tubing. Finally, on Sunday,
Margo and I went back to Stowe to
surprise Diane at the sixtieth birthday party that her daughters gave
her. It was a wonderful weekend in
Vermont with my UVM friends. I will
be back in Vermont for Reunion/
Homecoming and the celebration of
forty years of Title IX. If you attended
this year’s reunion, please share
some news about seeing old friends
and what fun you had.
Send your news to—
Emily Schnaper Manders
104 Walnut Street
Framingham, MA 01702
[email protected]
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Brenda Broadwell Shortle has been working hard
as the clinic center RN for
PACEVermont in Rutland, an allinclusive medical care center for the
elderly. She works with a wonderful
team of doctors, nurses, aids, therapists, dietician, and social worker.
Her youngest daughter, Allyson,
recently received her doctorate at
OSU in political science and is a professor at the University of Oklahoma;
her daughter Amy is in the process
of moving from North Carolina to
Portland, Oregon, hoping to use her
Spanish language skills again in her
career; and son, William, Jr., is an
electrician in the Rutland area. He
and his two children are living with
Brenda temporarily, helping to fill
the empty house and keep her company while they all adjust to changes
in their lives. “They keep me hopping
when they are here,” she says. “Hoping to hear what’s going on with the
old gang from second floor Wing
and 27 South Willard. Halloween has
never been quite as much fun without you.”
Send your news to—
Dina Dwyer Child
1263 Spear Street
South Burlington, VT 05401
[email protected]
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Sue Fowler-Finn and Harris-Millis suite mates Marcia
Maynard, Catherine (Chandler) Block, and Marita Benavides
Ferreyros have reconnected in a
very circuitous fashion. Marita and
her younger brother attended UVM
from Lima, Peru, where their father
was on house arrest during those
turbulent times. Like so many of us,
they all had a great experience at
UVM and moved on to enjoy their
lives afterwards. Following graduation, Marita settled in Texas (she was
in international banking). The last
time the suitemates saw her was at
Sue’s wedding, thirty-seven years
ago, and they have always wondered
what happened to her. This February, Sue’s husband, Tom, and daughter, Kasey, traveled to Peru. While
in Lima, they had lunch with one of
Tom’s BU classmates. They had such
a great time, they were invited to
meet his wife and have dinner at
their home. As Tom and Kasey were
bidding them farewell, Tom asked
if they happened to know Marita.
To everyone’s amazement, they not
only knew her, they had grown up
together and the man’s wife is her
best friend. So at the end of their
trip, Marita drove two hours from
her huge family farm and met them.
Tom recognized her right away —
she looked exactly the same. She
had been living out of the country for twenty-three years, but her
brothers asked her to come back to
the farm to manage business operations. Of course, the emails and
phone calls between the three U.S.
friends and Marita have been fast
and furious. Marita also sent them
lovely jewelry that seemed to match
their personalities. She hopes to get
up to Boston or Vermont soon. In the
meantime, Catherine, Marcia, and
Sue are planning their sixtieth birthday celebration in Peru with Marita
in the next couple of years. Unbelievable!
Send your news to—
Pete Beekman
2 Elm Street
Canton, NY 13617
[email protected]
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Bill Kurtz G’77 is living in
Wilder, Kentucky. He is the
parent of William ’87 and
Joanna ’90. He is currently the marketing manager at L-3 Fuzing & Ordnance Systems Division in Cincinnati, Ohio. At the fifty-fifth annual
Fuze Conference, sponsored by the
National Defense Industrial Association, Kurtz, who has more than fifty
years of engineering and management experience in the fuzing arena,
was presented the prestigious Harry
Diamond Award for “an individual
within the United States fuze community for outstanding achievement in the fuze field in recognition
of the greatest overall contribution
to fuze programs during their lifetime.” Ferrell Glenn Thigpen passed
away July 9, 2011. He grew up in
Doraville, Georgia, and spent his last
fifteen years in Jaffrey, New Hampshire. Glenn participated in many
sports and was recruited to play football for UVM. Nicholas San Martino
is finally back in Vermont (heaven) to
practice a few more years as a physical therapist, then run a B&B in retirement. He is looking forward to the
thirty-fifth reunion in October. “We
are old now,” he says. Gee, you guys
don’t make this easy. A thirty-fifth
reunion approaches and all I hear is
crickets. Well, not quite that bad. True
to my earlier report, a large group of
thirty-five or so descended on the
breathtaking New Haven, Vermont,
farm of Gregg and Caroline Marston in June. Participants included
(but were not limited to) Jamie Conway, Dave Donahue, John McDonald ’78, Jeff Macartney, Chris Griffin,
Donna Vershay, Paul Donovan, Jeff
Berry, Sam and Edie Goethals, Alex
Bryan, Robin Daly, Joy Castillo, Gay
Gray, Laurie Coughlin, a few names I
can’t remember (we have that excuse
now), and assorted significant (or not
so significant) others. We gathered
for a lovely dinner in Gregg’s “Pahty
Bahn,” and you’d have thought we’d
never left Redstone campus. Some of
us certainly have found a few pounds
or gray hairs in the meantime. It was
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Colleen Denny Hertel
10 Norwood Street
Winchester, MA 01890
[email protected]
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including the board of directors of
the SUNY Cobleskilll Foundation,
the Tri-County Motor Club, and the
BPOE, he was also a postcard collector and dealer and a life member of the American Philatelic Society. In his later years, Charles loved
to travel with his wife and enjoyed
spending time with his children and
grandchildren. As I write our column, it is summer on Lake Champlain, a beautiful Vermont summer
day. Norman Bohn will be coming
down for dinner and a swim. I hope
we will be having a visit from Sue
Weatherby Engbrecht and her husband, Ron, in August. They are still
living in Italy. Doug Barrett wrote
to say that he and Sally Dewey Barrett ’65 had a great winter in Jupiter,
Florida, and are spending the summer in Simsbury, Connecticut, where
two of their three daughters and six
grandchildren also live. In June, they
entertained all eleven grandchildren,
ages six to eighteen—“magic, but, at
times, chaotic.” Last September, they
went on a Viking River cruise up the
Seine River from Paris to the beaches
of Normandy. Trish and Jack Nugent
joined them. A great time with many
laughs was had by the four. Doug
and Sally will celebrate their fortyninth wedding anniversary in September, and Doug is in his sixth year
of retirement. Finally, my Vermont
neighbor, Carolyn King Stephens
(writer), and I (illustrator) have published a children’s book—Newcomer
to Otter Creek, a story about animal
communities around Otter Creek.
And now for a commercial . . . Our
fiftieth reunion is rapidly approaching, and I hope you all are planning
to attend. Let’s break all records with
our attendance. I will look forward to
seeing you.
Send your news to—
Susan Barber
1 Oak Hill Road
P.O. Box 63
Harvard, MA 01451
[email protected]
Tom Spector, Durham, North
Carolina, writes that he has
recently published a new
book, Our Two Gardens: How to Cultivate Healing. Information is available
on the website www.hathahouse.
com. Tom is a chief scientific officer
for Adherex Technologies, leading a
clinical trial for breast cancer. Most
importantly, he still enjoys skiing.
“Hello” to all his UVM friends.
Send your news to—
Kathleen Nunan McGuckin
P.O. Box 2100 PMB 137
Montpelier, VT 05601
[email protected]
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Cynthia Koury joined CM
Wealth Advisors in April as a
partner. She will be responsible for focusing on the endowment
and foundation lines of business, as
well as managing investment activity
and fostering existing and new highnet-worth client relationships. Prior
to joining CM Wealth Advisors, Koury
worked for more than twenty years
at KeyCorp, most recently serving as
a senior managing director at Victory
Capital Management, an investment
advisory firm. She also held positions at National City Corporation and
Standard Oil Company of Ohio.
Send your news to—
Beth Nutter Gamache
58 Grey Meadow Drive
Burlington, VT 05401
bethgamache@burlington
telecom.net
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Mary Hasson Cain is running
for Windham County (Vermont) senator and would
appreciate any questions from UVM
alumni in that area. She would like to
arrange for UVM’s president to come
to Windham County. Fall is once again
upon us, renewing memories of walking across campus on cool, crisp days.
The fall colors splashing across the
Vermont landscape and leaves dancing on soft breezes herald the stark
winter to come. I hope a number
of you were able to return to campus and enjoy homecoming activi-
Linkedin Group
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alumni.uvm.edu
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Gerry DiFiore is a capital
markets and M&A lawyer
with the global law firm Reed
Smith LLP. After practicing in New
York City for almost fifteen years,
Gerry will be relocating to Hong
Kong to coordinate the firm’s integration of its U.S. and Asian capital markets and corporate practices.
Gerry will be joined by his wife, Patti,
and would love to connect with any
UVM alumni in the region.
Send your news to—
UVM Alumni Relations
411 Main Street
Burlington, VT 05401
[email protected]
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Tom Gates reported that
he and his wife, Tracey, celebrated their twenty-fifth
anniversary in Bermuda with their
kids, Ren (22) and Sheridan (20), and
their three parents. They had a great
time despite the rain and wind. The
highlight was connecting with classmate and Delta Psi brother Michael
Rego and family, with whom they
dined and played some golf. Michael
and Tom are both planning on heading to reunion.
Send your news to—
John Scambos
20 Cantitoe Street
Katonah, NY 10536
[email protected]
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30th reunion
October 4–6, 2013
alumni.uvm.edu/reunion
Anthony Shaw, of Burlington,
recently joined Queen City Real
Estate. Katherine Riegelman ’85,
is the principal broker of the firm,
which provides both commercial and
residential real estate services, marketing, and property management.
Mary Louise Ambrose, who remarried in April, now goes by Mary Lou
Burke. She and her husband, Don, live
in Chesapeake, Virginia, where she
is lobbying the city council to allow
backyard laying hens. Her son, Matthew, is an engineering major at N.C.
State University. She is happily blogging at mlcs garden.blogspot.com/.
Jim Wilner and his wife, Laura Dammers Wilner ’84, recently celebrated
their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary with a lovely trip to Mexico.
While Laura and Jim make their home
in Marlborough, Massachusetts,
they have shared their love of Vermont with their two children by taking nearly annual treks to Burlington.
Although their daughter loved her
campus tour at UVM, she prefers the
city and is a junior studying psychology and Spanish at Boston University. Fortunately, their son is spending a second summer participating in
the SOCAPA filmmaking program at
Champlain College, which has offered
Laura and Jim frequent opportunities to return to beautiful Burlington.
Jim was amazed to tour the inside of
his former UVM fraternity house, Phi
Mu Delta, which is now a Champlain
College dormitory. There have been
a lot of changes made to the inside.
On Super Bowl Sunday 2012, a gentleman submitted notes to me, and
somewhere in the midst of my mind,
I don’t think they were ever published. I hope that is not true; however, I believe it is. Would you forgive
me and be kind enough to resubmit?
If there are others out there I have
missed, please know that I try hard,
but don’t always get it right. This
Chicago summer has been sizzling
with record breaking heat. Al Gore’s
inconvenient truth may be kicking
in. My son Giffin is attending university in the city. Niles is a senior in
high school, hoping to attend University of Texas/Austin, also applying to
Indiana, Illinois, Colorado, and Iowa,
and interested in international business and economics. He’s been taking
honors Chinese, and I start Mandarin
classes in the city in two weeks. My
sophomore, Jack Henry, has spent the
summer caddying and plays hockey
for Highland Park High School. His
sophomore brother, Sullivan, has his
grandfather Eugene’s build and personality and plays football for the
Giants. The most exciting news is
that Sullivan is getting his third set of
braces removed in three weeks. I’m
having a party to celebrate, and the
whole class of ’83 is invited. His teeth
were a train wreck, worse than the
1984 Amtrak derailment in Vermont. I
am still averaging four loads of dishes
and laundry per day and doing contract work in health care. My most
edifying project is working on Cancer With a Twist, which combines cancer survivorship with the performing arts. Please keep writing in; your
news fuels me. If you are interested
in planning your upcoming reunion,
email [email protected].
Send your news to—
Sharon Morrissey Young
444 Broadview Avenue
Highland Park, Il 60035
[email protected]
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Tracy Gibbons Piette says,
“Aloha. We spent five wonderful years in Oahu and
have just recently relocated back to
Seattle, Washington, where my husband, Jeff, accepted a position with
a new company. I’m continuing my
private-practice work as a family
therapist and both my children—
Emily, age twelve, and Christopher,
age nine—just made premier soccer teams in the Seattle area. We are
looking forward to our new adventure here in the Pacific Northwest.”
Send your news to—
Laurie Olander Angle
12 Weidel Drive
Pennington, NJ 08534
Abby Goldberg Kelley
303 Oakhill Road
Shelburne, VT 05482
[email protected]
Kelly McDonald
10 Lapointe Street
Winooski, VT 05404
[email protected]
Shelley Carpenter Spillane
336 Tamarack Shores
Shelburne, VT 05482
[email protected]
85
Katherine Riegelman is
pleased to announce that
Queen City Real Estate in
Burlington, Vermont, has a new
website, logo, and marketing plan.
Katherine is the principal broker of
the firm and was recently joined
in the business by Anthony Shaw
’83. Queen City Real Estate provides
real estate, marketing, and property
management services. TD Bank has
named Thomas R. Creed as senior
vice president, market commercial
credit manager in the new Credit
Management Division in Springfield,
Massachusetts. Tom has twentyseven years in banking and related
fields. Prior to joining TD Bank, he
served as SVP, regional executive at
Berkshire Bank in Springfield. Tom
and his wife, Nancy, live in Holyoke, Massachusetts. He is the chairman of the Holyoke Redevelopment
Authority and serves on the board of
the Economic Development Council of Western Massachusetts (EDC).
He also serves as board chair of both
the YMCA of Greater Springfield and
the Springfield Symphony Orchestra.
Send your news to—
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35th reunion
October 4–6, 2013
alumni.uvm.edu/reunion
Tom Brassard, president of Catamount Marketing, South Burlington,
completed a four-month training
seminar offered by HubSpot, making him Vermont’s first professional
to become a certified HubSpot Marketing Partner. HubSpot integrates
inbound marketing options in a software program designed to help businesses be found on the Internet. As a
certified HubSpot Marketing Partner,
Catamount Marketing provides website evaluation and development,
SEO strategies and implementation,
social media and blogging services,
email marketing, lead nurturing,
website analysis, content writing,
graphic design, and direct mail marketing. If you are interested in planning your upcoming reunion, email
[email protected].
Send your news to—
Audrey Ziss Bath
10567 West Landmark Court
Boise, ID 83704
[email protected]
facebook.com/audrey.bath
ties, for returning to campus is truly
like coming home. Thank you to all
who have reached out to me over
the spring and summer months. It is
always great to hear from everyone.
A special “hi” goes out to Lyn Stultz.
I also heard from Tri Delta sister
Robin Basch Flatow. Robin moved to
Toronto in 1999 for a two-year international work assignment. She and
her family ended up loving the area
and the people and decided to stay.
She still lives there with her husband,
Robert, and their daughter, Jamie,
who is seventeen and just graduated from high school. Today, Robin
is the senior director of marketing for
a technology company. She recently
spent a weekend at a mini Tri Delta
reunion with Deb Agrillo Whitehead,
Donna Nikles Poe, Jaye Rooney Tani,
Lynne Hollingsworth, Kyra Bannister, and Kathy Kurtz Little ’79
on Keuka Lake in the Finger Lakes in
upstate New York. She would love to
hear from all of those she lost touch
with. I have her email, and Robin can
also be found on Facebook and LinkedIn. Peter A. Riegelman attended
the American Society of News Editors Reynolds High School Journalism Institute at the University of Missouri in preparation for his new role
within the English department at Bellows Free Academy (BFA), St. Albans,
Vermont. He took over as adviser for
the student newspaper, the longestrunning continually published high
school paper in Vermont, in publication since 1931. He has been teaching
English there for six years and living
in Grand Isle. In 2002, Peter earned
a master’s in English at the Bread
Loaf School of English. Prior to BFA,
he worked for almost twenty years
at Vermont Academy, teaching English and coaching snowboarding and
lacrosse. He was able to coach some
very talented individuals. He served
as the head freestyle snowboard
coach for the ISF Junior National
Team in 1997, at the world championships in Finland. These days, Peter
has pretty much traded in his snowboard for a fishing pole, and Grand
Isle is just the place for it. No lift lines!
I have Peter’s contact information if
anyone would like to find him, and he
is also on Facebook.
Send your news to—
MaryBeth Pinard-Brace
P.O. Box 655
Shelburne, VT 05482
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a sublime experience. My free book
offer prompted word from Cindy Barnet Loughran, who lives in Needham with her husband, a dog, and
two teenagers (one just off to college). Cindy owns a life and leadership coaching consultancy right in
greater Boston and was kind enough
(as some are) to ensure that I was not
shut out of news entirely. One other
was fellow SAE brother Gary Medvigy, who is a sitting criminal judge in
Sonoma County, California. A reserve
officer, he just came out of command
of the 351st Civil Affairs Command in
Mountainview, California, after three
years as the commanding general. His
next assignment will be deputy commanding general of 8th Army located
in Korea. This promotion to major
general is pending Senate confirmation. Gary is also a pilot and offers to
provide a Sonoma County wine country tour by air for any fellow UVM
alumni. Gary’s oldest daughter graduated from West Point this past May —
he gave her the oath of office as she
became a 2LT in the U.S. Army. How
cool is that? Gary and Bill Klipp also
mentioned their sadness at the loss of
classmate, SAE brother, and Rutlander
Chris Raleigh and his son. More sad
news—Tom McNamara’s twentyfive-year-old son, Tom Jr., met a tragic
end while boating with friends off
the coast of Kennebunk Beach. Tom
Jr. was a talented and bright young
man who had a very promising acting career before him. My free book
offer didn’t have as much allure as I’d
hoped. When my next one hits the
big screen, don’t come looking for
a seat at the premier. Chris Groves
has dibs.
Send your news to—
Pete Morin
41 Border Street
Scituate, MA 02066
[email protected]
www.facebook.com/pete.morin2
www.petemorin.wordpress.com
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Barbara Roth
140 West 58th Street, #2B
New York, NY 10019
[email protected]
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In October, 2011, Lisa A.
Klein, Esq., was appointed
administrative law judge for
the Colorado Department of Labor
& Employment. Lisa still resides in
Lafayette, Colorado, with her daughter, Cydney, and her husband, Cam,
owner of Build It! Inc., a general
contracting firm. Larry Gorkun has
accepted a position as the account
manager for Safelight Security Advisors, a leading provider of training
services for information security and
secure software development. Matt
and Martha Terry are proud that
their son Brendan has enrolled in the
UVM Class of 2016. Brendan will be
majoring in public communication
and will be a member of the UVM
cross country team.
Send your news to—
Lawrence Gorkun
141 Brigham Road
St. Albans, VT 05478
[email protected]
87
Send your news to–
Sarah Reynolds
2 Edgewood Lane
Bronxville, NY 10708
[email protected]
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Christina Magliocco von
Oiste is co-chair of the twentieth annual benefit of the
Boys & Girls Club of Greenwich (Connecticut). The 2012 event—“Plongez
dans la mer de St. Barth”—will radiate French style, encompassing the
elegance of island life. Cocktails, a
gourmet dinner, and dancing will
highlight the evening. The Boys &
Girls Club of Greenwich offers more
than eighty-five comprehensive programs for school-aged children, the
most extensive set of programs for
kids in Greenwich. Melissa Donovan d’Arabian reports that “In August
2009, I won season five of “The Next
Food Network Star” and premiered
a cooking show on Food Network
called “Ten Dollar Dinners,” which is
now in its seventh successful season.
I host a second show called “Drop
5 Lbs with Good Housekeeping,”
which premiered on Cooking Channel in January 2012. My debut cookbook, Ten Dollar Dinners, went on
sale August 14. It features 140 of my
affordable and satisfying recipes plus
more than 100 practical tips to ensure
home cooking at its finest. People
can visit www.melissadarabian.net
for more information on my shows,
book, and recipes.”
Send your news to—
Tessa Donohoe Fontaine
108 Pickering Lane
Nottingham, PA 19362
[email protected]
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Hello 1991 UVM Classmates!
Hard to believe it’s been a year
since our fabulous twentyyear reunion; I am already looking
forward to our twenty-fifth. I have
lots of great news to share from fellow alumni and hope this inspires
more of you to share your news—
even the little stuff. As for me, my
husband, Ari, and I are celebrat-
melissa
d’arabian ’90
“Start in the produce
aisle and buy what is
cheapest there. Unlike
most places in life,
in the produce aisle,
cheap = best quality
in the produce aisle,
because what’s cheapest is also what is in
season. And what’s in
season is what tastes
the best.”
—Melissa d’Arabian,
Food Network host and
author of Ten Dollar
Dinners, on practical
advice for students
learning to cook for
themselves
read more at
uvm.edu/vq
92
Stephen Shannon, Patti
Shannon, Cindy Richardson
Bohne, Paul Bohne ’91, and
their families recently spent a week
boating in the British Virgin Islands.
Highlights included diving around
Virgin Gorda, Jost Van Dyke, and the
Indians. All are pleased to announce
that they survived the Soggy Dollar
Challenge.
Send your news to—
Lisa Kanter
10116 Colebrook Avenue
Potomac, MD 20854
[email protected]
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20th reunion
October 4–6, 2013
alumni.uvm.edu/reunion
If you are interested in planning your
upcoming reunion, email alumni@
uvm.edu.
Send your news to—
Gretchen Haffermehl
Brainard
[email protected]
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Rachel Jolly reports that she
will be hiking the John Muir
Trail in California. Clare Conway started a new job at the end of
March as an event marketing manager for NuVasive, a medical device
company that develops and markets
surgical instruments and implants for
spine surgery. She runs the U.S. program, which consists mostly of large
tradeshows and regional events.
It’s very fast-paced, and she gets to
travel quite a bit to places around the
States, with a couple international
trips a year. She just got back from
Kauai—no complaints. Clare will be
in Vermont in mid-August for a short
visit and plans to see Justyn Amarosa Constant for dinner while going
through New Hampshire. “I miss Vermont still,” she says, “but can’t give
up the California lifestyle and perfect weather.” From my own vantage point, it’s been a great summer.
We started off spending a week on
the Cape in a great little house on
the dunes in Truro. It was very pretty,
relaxing, and the boys had a blast.
This fall my older son, Jake, will start
kindergarten, so we’re looking forward to that. Whitney McDonald
Strehle celebrated her birthday this
allegra boverman
July in style by having a pink-themed
party at her home in Wayland, Massachusetts. It was a great evening, and
everyone embraced the pink theme.
I was thrilled to have the chance to
photograph it for her. In late July,
Tara Crones Lambden, Deanna
Fryer Kamienski, and Erin McMahon Jessen met in Annapolis, Maryland, where they hung out with their
families and had dinner. It was great
catching up since it had been years
since they had all been together.
Tara and Deanna live in Maryland,
and Erin lives in Idaho and was back
on the east coast visiting family and
friends. Jeff McNulty tied the knot on
August 4 in San Francisco. Many congratulations to Jeff and his beautiful
bride, Lindsay. The ceremony was at
Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, and
the reception was held at the Burlingame Country Club in Hillsborough,
California. It was a gorgeous wedding, and so great to connect with
so many old friends. The UVMers in
attendance included me (Cyndi Bohlin Abbott), Maura Mahoney, Cathy
Holahan Murphy, Andy O’Connell,
Dave Donohue, Narric Rome, Mark
Abramowitz, Paul Zedlovich, and
Lisa Goodrich Zedlovich ’95, Carey
Smith Rose ’93 and Chris Rose ’92,
Severn Taylor Switzer ’93 and Scott
Switzer ’92, Beth McDermott, Erin
Gurry Koch, Denyce Wicht, Drew ’92
and Melanie Mount ’95, Jonathan
Heaton ’93, Alex Frink ’93, John
Maloney ’92, Marni McManus ’92,
Brian Koch ’92, Todd Jenkins ’92,
Rich Jaffe ’93, Leslie and Doug Tesler ’93, Tim Norris ’93, Samir Singh
’94, Kathryn Sellig ’94, Doug Siegfried ’94, Suzanne Gillert ’94, Caryn
Daum ’95, and Loretta Casey ’95.
Send your news to—
Cyndi Bohlin Abbott
114 Morse Road
Sudbury, MA 01776
[email protected]
95
Send your news to—
Valeri Pappas
1350 17th Street
Suite 400
Denver, CO 80202
[email protected]
96
Send your news to—
Jill Cohen Gent
31760 Creekside Dr.
Pepper Pike, OH 44124
[email protected]
Michelle Richards Peters
332 Northwest 74th Street
Seattle, WA 98117
[email protected]
97
Jessi Trotta McQuilkin had
her children’s book Clayton
in the Moonlight published
in January by Peapod Press. As a
teacher of special needs students
and a mother of two, Jessi says she
felt compelled to write a story for
children that paints a more realistic portrait of what it feels like to be
different and how to embrace your
own strengths and nurture genuine
relationships in your life. For more
information about her book, visit
www.claytoninthemoonlight.com.
Send your news to—
Elizabeth Carstensen Genung
[email protected]
98
15th reunion
October 4–6, 2013
alumni.uvm.edu/reunion
Brewer Rowe has been named director of special events and assistant
tournament director for the International Tennis Hall of Fame. In
this position, Rowe will oversee all
aspects of the Campbell’s Hall of
Fame Tennis Championships, the Hall
of Fame’s annual men’s professional
tennis tournament, and the only
ATP World Tour event in the Northeast. Rowe has more than a decade
of experience in marketing and management of large-scale sports events,
specifically road races, triathlons, and
professional golf tournaments. Most
recently, he was executive vice president of Eident Sports, a Providence,
Rhode Island-based event management firm, and prior to that he was
tournament manager for the CVS/
Caremark Charity Classic, a PGA TOUR
Challenge Series Event produced by
Peter Jacobsen Sports. He resides in
Newport, Rhode Island, with his wife
and their two daughters. Carey Baldwin Hennigar and her husband, Nat,
live in Charlestown, Massachusetts,
where they are watching their property value plummet every time Ben
Affleck releases a movie about bank
robbers. They welcomed their second son, Theodore Baldwin Hennigar (Teddy), eighteen months ago.
His older brother, William (age 4), is
quickly showing him the ropes. Carey
works at Thomson Reuters as a senior
VQEXTRA
online
caleb
daniloff ’94
“It took three years of
not drinking before
I fully realized that
getting sober is more
than slapping on a
nicotine patch. There
is a lot of active work
that needs to be done,
and it begins with
an inner journey.
Running was such a
direct tunnel accessing
all of those things.”
­—Caleb Daniloff
on the path explored
in his new book,
Running Ransom Road
(book review on p. 15)
read more at
uvm.edu/vq
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Trudy Larson reports that
she and Jordan Greenberg ’90 moved to gorgeous
Tewksbury, New Jersey, two years
ago. It reminds them very much of
Vermont, with its horse farms and
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25th reunion
October 4–6, 2013
alumni.uvm.edu/reunion
Daryl Campbell graduated with
a J.D. degree from Seattle University School of Law in December
2011, and was admitted to the bar
in Washington state in June 2012. If
you are interested in planning your
upcoming reunion, email alumni@
uvm.edu.
Send your news to—
Cathy Selinka Levison
18 Kean Road
Short Hills, NJ 07078
[email protected]
scenic countryside. Last year they
celebrated their twenty-year wedding anniversary, and their son,
Jake, will turn sixteen this summer.
They hope all of their classmates are
doing well.
Send your news to—
Kate Barker Swindell
2681 Southwest Upper Drive Place
Portland, OR 97201
[email protected]
ing fifteen years of marriage this fall
(wow) and are proud parents to two
beautiful girls (Katie, 11 and Beth,
8). We are living in the Squirrel Hill
neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and I often connect with
local UVMers for hockey and basketball telecasts at local bars (when the
Steelers aren’t playing). Here’s what
our classmates have been up to:
Christo Doyle has been promoted to
the position of vice president-executive producer at the Discovery Channel in Silver Spring, Maryland. In his
new role, he will be responsible for
executing the network’s brand-definitional programs and driving the production process to ensure maximum
return on investment through exposure and ratings performance. Christo
previously served as Discovery’s
managing executive producer for
the east coast. Carin Cosgrove Nardone gave birth to her fourth baby,
John. He joins his three sisters and
all are doing great. Warren Ackerman sends news from San Francisco
on the birth of his third son, Connor
Roy, who joins older brothers Cole
and Luke. He sees other UVM alumni
every other month, recently catching up with Andrew Hoeberichts
and Tom Hicks ’90 for an oyster BBQ
in Tomales Bay. Kelly Clifford Laviolette has been living in Duxbury,
Massachusetts, since 2006 with her
husband, Norm, and two daughters,
Chloe and Lucy. After many years in
banking, Kelly switched lifestyles and
opened yoTaco!, a quaint taqueria in
Duxbury. It is open year round, so if
any UVMers are in the area, stop by
and say hello. Leigh Ross Husband
reports that she completed her fourth
half marathon. She spent the summer on Fire Island with her husband,
Jamie, and son, Ross. While there,
she tried to get together with Alyson
Becker ’92, but to no avail— plans
just didn’t work out. She met up with
Alex Gadd in Miami in June and took
in a Miami Marlins game. In March,
she visited Tanya Packard Kensley
and family in Fort Collins, Colorado,
and hit Vail. If anyone is ever in Miami
or the Keys, let her know; Leigh loves
being a South Florida tour guide. She
also adds that she loved seeing everyone at the reunion, especially Melissa
Skehan Arsanault.
Send your news to—
Karen Heller Lightman
2796 Fernwald Road
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Sarah Pitlak Tiber
4104 Woodbridge Road
Peabody, MA 01960
[email protected]
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Send your news to—
Sara Kinnamon Fritsch
4401 Southwest
Hamilton Terrace
Portland, OR 97239
[email protected]
Katie Zemenick and Jeffrey
Fogel are happy to announce
their marriage on June 16,
2012, at Eleven Madison Park in New
York. They spent their honeymoon
in Japan and currently reside in Robbinsville, New Jersey. In attendance
as maid of honor was former UVM
roommate Lauren Segall.
Send your news to—
Erin Wilson
10 Worcester Square, #1
Boston, MA 02118
[email protected]
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Send your news to—
Jennifer Khouri Godin
[email protected]
10th reunion
October 4–6, 2013
alumni.uvm.edu/reunion
Hello ’03 and happy fall! Lots of fun
news to report: Sarah (Herring)
Kneale and her husband, Chris, welcomed a daughter, McKenna Harper
Kneale, on May 22, 2012. McKenna
weighed seven pounds, thirteen
ounces at birth and spent the summer getting settled at home with
mom and dad in Glastonbury, Connecticut. Tracy Petherbridge Liebenow and husband, Brian, also welcomed their first child, Kylie Grace,
on August 16, 2011, at 1:31 p.m. at
Fletcher Allen Hospital in Burlington, where she got wonderful care
from the hospital’s NICU team. Kylie
weighed five pounds, twelve ounces
and was sixteen inches long; she is a
little peanut (not unlike her mother).
Tracy writes, “We feel truly blessed
to have a happy, healthy, beautiful girl! She has the most amazing
blue eyes and is already quite the
chatterbox. Parenthood is an amazing experience and we couldn’t be
happier.” Sarah Tetzlaff is also a
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Hello Class of 2004! I hope
everyone had a wonderful
summer. I have lots of fun
news to share and title this quarterly
column “Three Weddings and a Little Baby.” Stephanie Catania married Kevin Belanger ’02 in Connecticut on September, 10, 2011. UVM
bridesmaids included Jacki Shortway Blaber ’05, Lauren Romano,
and Eve Trombley; UVM groomsmen
included Dr. Dennis “DJ” D’Amico
’02 and Howard Rosenzweig ’02. A
reading at the ceremony was done
by Elizabeth Moran Hamel ‘03.
UVM was also well represented by
Mariana Fiallos , Eliza Berenberg
Stein , Erica Charney , Justin Blaber, Jeremy Haft, Michael Phippen ‘01, Sarah Jackson ‘01, and Dr.
Kara Gasink Jolley. The couple honeymooned in the French Polynesian Islands of Tahiti, Moorea, Tahaa,
and Bora Bora. They reside in the
Back Bay of Boston. Congratula-
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“The boat is rocking
side to side thirty
degrees and going up
twenty-foot waves;
the deck is covered
with ice. I took spills
all the time. Falling
into crab pots, missing
thousand-pound crab
pots swinging by.”
— Matt Getz on
working as a cameraman/associate
producer on the
Emmy Award-winning
“Deadliest Catch” crew
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tions on your wedding and your first
anniversary, Stephanie and Kevin.
Jon Mruz was married October 15,
2011, to Megan Wilson (UPenn ‘06
G’11) at the Flanders Hotel in Ocean
City, New Jersey. UVM alumni in
attendance included Devin Harmon, Christian Stevens, TJ Patton
’05, and Bryant Jones ’05. Jon has
been a trooper with the New Jersey
State Police for five years, stationed
in southern New Jersey as a general
road duty trooper. Megan works as a
nurse anesthetist at A.I. DuPont Children’s Hospital in Wilmington, Delaware. Megan and Jon will be moving
late this fall to Mullica Hill, New Jersey. David Jadwin wrote in to share
that “On July 3, 2012, I was married
to Shanna Baumgarten in St. Louis
Park, Minnesota. We had the following fellow UVM alumni to help
celebrate: Brett Kreiter ‘05, Zach
Berliner ‘05, Jared Menkes, Eliza
Grimes, Joy Katz, Jason Schwartz,
Kate Brambilla, and my Buckham
roommate, Adam Gingo. Shanna
and I are now living in Chicago and
everything is going great.” Amy
Christensen Manchester and her
husband, Donald Manchester, welcomed their first child on April 8,
2012. Her name is Abigail Honor
Manchester. Thank you all for sharing your updates. If you have any
news you would like to share with
the class, please let me know.
Send your news to—
Kelly Kisiday
39 Shepherd Street #22
Brighton, MA 02135
[email protected]
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Send your news to—
Kristin Dobbs
1330 Connecticut Avenue
Washington, DC 20015
[email protected]
06
Send your news to—
Katherine Kasarjian Murphy
1203 Morning Dove Trail
Copperas Cove, TX 76522
[email protected]
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Nikaiataa Skidders recently
published her play, Standing Alone. For more information, you may contact her at 73 Tony
Barnes Road, Akwesasne, NY 13655.
Send your news to—
Samuel Madden
64 Frederick Place
Excerpts from President E. Thomas Sullivan’s installation ceremony speech
continued from page 23
U
VM has all of the advantages of
a small university with broadly
defined emphasis in liberal arts;
however, and very importantly, we are also
the flagship research university of the state.
As an institution committed to research
and discovery that benefits society for a lifetime, we cannot simply cut costs if we are
to achieve relevance, trust, and impact. In
order to be a University of national consequence, we must invest in the future of this
University and the future of our state.
As Drew Faust, president of Harvard
University, has argued, “A university is not
about results in the next quarter… It is
about learning that molds a lifetime, learning that transmits the heritage of millennia,
learning that shapes the future. A university
looks both backwards and forwards in ways
that must—that even ought to—conflict
with a public’s immediate concerns or demands. Universities make commitments
that are timeless, and these investments have
yields we cannot predict and often cannot
measure.”
Through our primary pathways we will
invest prudently in “learning that shapes the
future”:
1.) We will provide access to success
to students through strategic investments that increase scholarships and
financial aid. Specifically, we are developing a new enrollment management plan to ensure that the right
balance between student enrollment
and faculty size at both undergraduate and graduate levels to achieve the
highest quality for learning and success for ours students. This plan will
result in lower class size for under-
graduate colleges and perhaps higher
graduate student enrollment.
2.) We will create a distinctive teaching and learning environment through
targeting and rebalancing priorities
that advance our students’ total academic, cultural, and social experience.
Specifically, we plan to hire faculty in
selected departments and colleges
where there has been a substantial increase in enrollment to guarantee an
even greater quality experience for all
of our students. The benefit will be a
rebalancing of our student/faculty ratio and a lowering of the average number of students per class.
3.) We will invest in educational quality and support breakthrough research
and creative innovation by improving
facilities and infrastructure.
And how will we follow these ambitious
pathways?
We are planning a bold, creative, new
comprehensive campaign to support these
crucial strategic investments and to foster quality and excellence, let’s continue to
work together, listen to each other, learn
from each other, and support each other, to
advance UVM to the next level of excellence
and international recognition.
I call on all of us to raise our expectations and aspirations to move this already
distinguished University into the first ranks
of higher education. As Robert Kennedy
would say, “Why not?”
Full text of President Sullivan’s speech and
a slideshow of the installation ceremony are
available at uvm.edu/vq.
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sales executive, facilitating online
events such as large corporate meetings, PR announcements, concerts,
and the like for Fortune 500 companies. She still sees fellow classmates
in Boston (she lives down the street
from Jim Downes) and San Francisco a few times a year (Jenny Tasker
Yama, Sara Kirsner ’99, and Ben
Roberts). In her spare time her family heads to Boothbay Harbor, Maine,
and she hopes to get William on skis
this year up in Stowe. Matt Lyon
and his wife, Lynn Gareau Lyon ’99,
call Charlotte, North Carolina, home,
where they’ve spent the past three
years. They are expecting their first
child in December. They jointly developed a cutting-edge wellness center
with a holistic approach to personal
wellness incorporating integral chiropractic, health coaching, nutrition,
psychotherapy, and mind/body practices. Together they help folks truly
learn to heal themselves, to unravel
the damage done by stress, and to
empower people to live at their full
human potential. Their waiting-list
practice has visitors from all over the
globe. Matt credits UVM for planting the seeds of his desire to help
others better their lives. Check their
website at www.networkwellnesscharlotte.com. In their spare time
they love to travel, play, spend time
with friends, read great books, enjoy
music, and stay fit. Matt is also a didgeridoo player who plays to audiences
around the Southeast. Patrick Strom
recently moved to Paris with his wife,
Hilary Nicholas-Alexander (a Middlebury alum), to head up European and
African sales for wind power industry
company NRG Systems. Prior to relocating to France, Patrick lived in Burlington, where he’d been since 1999.
Patrick and Hilary married in 2009 at
Shore Acres in North Hero, Vermont,
before a crowd filled with UVM and
Middlebury alums, including UVMers
Ethan Phelps, Warren Bryan, Hope
Jansen, and Xan Desch (all Class of
’98), as well as Colin Cascadden ’99,
Damon Nazarenko ’01, Todd Sargent ’02, Peter Brown ’99, and Ben
McElvany ’04.
Send your news to–
Ben Stockman
[email protected]
new mom. She writes, “On March
25, 2012, I gave birth to a baby girl,
Naria Elizabeth Audet. My husband,
Jeremy Audet, and I are so happy!”
After teaching family and consumer
sciences at Rutland High School for
the past five years, Sarah started
her new job as the assistant principal of Rutland Town School this
past July. Heather (Hawkes) Wolfe
and Nick Wolfe also wrote in with
baby news. Heather and Nick had a
daughter, Norah Bethany, on April 1,
2012. Karri Cathrall Crossman wrote
in to report the exciting news that
she married Brian Crossman on June
30, 2012, at the Lang Barn in Essex,
Vermont. She writes, “I was lucky
to have my friends Jen Shaw Rita
(with her husband, Anthony Rita),
Erin Socha Leonard (with husband,
Paul Leonard), Nicolle Clemente
Miller, Colin Miller ‘02, Michaela
Conway Weldy and Nils Weldy ‘02
come back to Vermont to all be in
attendance.” Karri works at Fletcher
Allen Health Care and Brian works
at Goodrich in Vergennes. Congratulations to everyone mentioned,
and thanks so much for sharing your
news! If you are interested in planning your upcoming reunion, email
[email protected].
Send your news to—
Cara Linehan Esch
caramurphylinehan
@gmail.com
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CLASS NOTES
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sasha fisher ’10
“What I want to do
is to enable all the
humans on Earth, even
if they’re in an illegitimate state or a corrupt
state, to meet all their
basic needs. And that
doesn’t necessarily
mean money—that
means that they have
food, that they have
health care, that they
have a house, that
they have access to
clean water.”
uvm.edu/vq
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Erica Bruno has recently
been promoted to district
service and parts manager
at the Chicago region of Toyota
Motor Sales. This is her third promotion since joining the company
in 2009. Kristin McGrath recently
began an internship at an innovative philanthropic market research
firm in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Kristin, who is currently working on her master’s in social work,
was inspired to join Op4G (Opinions4Good) because it fit directly in
line with her personal and professional goals. Op4G offers a unique
approach to market research, allowing nonprofit supporters to take surveys for cash, which is given directly
to their nonprofit of choice. Last year
Op4G donated more than $71,000
for their nonprofit partners. In her
role as a nonprofit account manager, Kristin works to help nonprofits receive the maximum amount of
cash for their cause. She most enjoys
the fusion of business and charitable
work and feels it greatly contributes
to her ability to excel as a macrolevel social work graduate student.
To learn more about this company or
to reach out to Kristin with a potential nonprofit partner contact her
at [email protected]. Since graduation James Mathews has been
working at a large veterinary hospital in Atlanta and taking science
courses at Georgia State University.
In September, he entered the University of Georgia’s College of Veterinary Medicine in pursuit of a DVM
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Send your news to—
Daron Raleigh
[email protected]
Lindsey Bachelder lives in
Boston and works in public
relations at Cone Communications. Brittanie Booker will be
starting graduate school at the
University of Delaware this fall. Holly
Bridges is studying audiology in a
graduate program at Washington
University in St. Louis. This summer,
her clinical rotation was at
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
in Boston. In the upcoming school
year, in addition to taking classes,
Bridget will be one of the choreographers for the medical school
musical. Melissa Cameron currently
works full-time as an environmental
scientist at the Louis Berger Group in
Morristown, New Jersey. She resides
in Maplewood, New Jersey. Kelvin
Chen lives in Taipei, Taiwan. He is a
research assistant at Academia
Sinica, working on a digital archiving
project called AAT-Taiwan. Next year,
he will be starting graduate school
at National Chengchi University in
Taipei, where he will be studying
Taiwan-China relations. Claire
Chevrier recently moved to Miami,
Florida, for Teach for America, but
still considers herself a Vermonter.
Emily Cook currently lives in
Winooski with her boyfriend, Joe,
and their dog, Kito. She is the food
program manager and chef at Pine
Forest Children’s Center, a therapeutic childcare and preschool in
Burlington. She is responsible for the
creating the menu, purchasing food,
and preparing and serving breakfast,
lunch, and afternoon snack for about
eighty children, ages one through
six. Using her background in
nutrition and the USDA regulations
for the Child and Adult Care Food
Program (CACFP), Emily creates a
monthly menu that appeals to a
child’s appetite, as well as providing
healthy, well-balanced meals.
Roughly half of the children enrolled
qualify for free or reduced-price
meals; for some, the food they eat at
Pine Forest is the only food they will
sally mccay
of teaching professionally. She works
full time at Spaulding High School,
teaching algebra II and pre-calculus,
as well as helping out with theatre.
Jessa Gilbert still resides in
Chittenden County and has been
active in many different roles
artistically and occupationally since
completing her degree. She
currently works at Terry Bicycles as a
merchandising assistant and has had
an active role in the Burlington
community. This summer she was a
mentor in the mountain bike
organization “Little Bellas,” which
works with young girls to build
confidence and recognize their
potential through cycling at the
Catamount Family Center. She has
donated multiple paintings to a
silent auction for Burton’s Chill
Foundation, a program that provides
opportunities for at-risk and
underserved youth to build
self-esteem and life skills through
board sports. A collection of her art
works was featured in the Dunkiel
Saunders Art and Soul exhibition,
where fifty percent of the proceeds
from the art sales were donated to
the Intervale community center. Her
paintings and drawings have been
featured in solo and group shows,
notably in Vermont, New York, and
California. You can view her work at
www.jessagilbert.com, or www.
facebook.com/jessagilbertstudios.
Ed Guardaro lives in New York City
and is an account executive for
Mimeo.com. He has plans to go to
Peru. Kalvin Hassell recently started
a new job at Fletcher Allen Health
Care as a patient account representative. Katie Lane graduated from
the Institute for Rowing Leadership
in June and currently lives in
Brighton. She has been coaching a
competitive junior girls program for
the summer that just raced at the
USRowing Club National Championships. In the fall she will continue on
as the head coach for Wentworth
Institute of Technology and hopes to
find a job in either alumni relations
or student programming at one of
the universities in the greater-Boston area. Briana Mills commutes to
her job as an animal technician from
her home in Philadelphia and is
involved in many projects as a
songwriter. Elena Molokotos
attends graduate school at Boston
University and works at Massachu-
setts General Hospital doing
neuropsychology. Christina Moore
recently had an article published in
the scholarly journal Aggressive
Behavior, based on her honors-thesis
work at UVM. The article, titled
“Protective Role of Teacher
Preference,” was co-authored by E.K.
Shoulberg, who earned a Ph.D. at
UVM, and D. Murray-Close, an
associate professor in UVM’s
psychology department. Christina
has been working at Ballet Tech/New
York City Public School for Dance as
a school program coordinator.
Brandy Oswald earned a position
working with Burlington representative Kesha Ram on her re-election
campaign, after serving as her
legislative intern in Montpelier for
the most recent legislative session.
Brandy also serves as intern to the
legislative assistant for the Vermont
Chamber of Commerce. Alexandra
Patch is a medical-surgical R.N. at
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical
Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire.
Melena Saddler is entering her
second year as a graduate student at
SUNY Plattsburgh in the Clinical
Mental Health program and expects
to graduate in August 2013. She will
be working at Behavioral Health
Services North with emotionally
disturbed children with mental
disorders. For the summer, Melena
worked for the YMCA summer camp
in Rye, New York. Allie Schwartz
works at LinkedIn as a sales
development specialist. Nicole
Smith resides in Fairfax, Virginia, and
works as a special investigator for
the government contractor, CACI. As
a part of her job, Nicole carries out
background investigations.
Following graduation Chris Stiffler
moved west to Lake Tahoe,
specifically Tahoe City, California. He
moved there to ski, but recently took
a full-time position with Westwind
Investors in Incline Village, Nevada.
His position includes a variety of
tasks such as helping the investment
team with cold calls, confidentiality
agreement reviews, and basic
investment research. Chase Thomas
moved to Martha’s Vineyard
following graduation and worked on
the Black Dog tall ship for six
months, sailing around the east
coast. Chase then moved to Florida,
working on yachts in South Beach
and Key West, but recently moved
back to his hometown in Connecticut. Maya Thomas lives in
Waterbury, Vermont, and works in
Stowe at Utility Risk Management
Corporation. She recently earned the
distinction of Esri Certified ArcGIS
Desktop Associate. Bridget Treco
graduates in August with a master’s
in English education from Teachers
College—Columbia University.
Following graduation, she will
relocate to Boston to begin a
year-long service project with
Americorps*VISTA at a nonprofit
children’s literacy organization.
Jeffrey Whitmore has been living in
Washington, D.C. for about a year
now with a college fraternity
brother. In January, he started a job
with a digital media agency that
works with political campaigns and
issue advocacy organizations. Corrie
Wilcox will join Americorp NCCC
based in Sacramento, California, this
fall.
Send your news to—
Troy McNamara
[email protected]
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Rebecca R. Calder received
the 2012 Lawrence K. Forcier
Outstanding Senior Award
for her excellent academic, research,
and community service records.
The UVM College of Agriculture
and Life Sciences award was part
of the Alumni and Friends dinner
on May 12 at the UVM Davis Center.
Rebecca is attending Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine.
Sara Cleaver is bound for American
Samoa to teach for a year. If any Catamounts are headed that way, she’d
love to hear from them.
Send your news to —
Patrick Dowd
[email protected]
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read more at
08
5th reunion
October 4–6, 2013
alumni.uvm.edu/reunion
In October 2011, Whitney Keating
became engaged to Matthew Noel.
They both live and work in the Burlington area and will be married in
November 2012. If you are interested
in planning your upcoming reunion,
email [email protected].
Send your news to—
Elizabeth Bearese
[email protected]
Emma Grady
[email protected]
get. Emily writes, “I am reminded on
a daily basis in the smiles and hugs
from the kids that my job is making
a difference in their lives.” She has
attended numerous conferences and
trainings on behalf of Pine Forest,
including the Annual Hunger
Conference, the Spring CACFP
Conference, the National Food
Service Management Institute
Summer Conference, ServSafe
Certification Course, and various
trainings through Child Care
Resource. Additionally, she was
recently awarded the Green
Mountain Healthier Kids Challenge
Grant, and Pine Forest was selected
as a pilot school to implement new
state regulations for physical fitness
and wellness in preschool programs.
Emily plans to continue working at
Pine Forest for the foreseeable
future, as well as continue her
professional development in both
nutrition and early childhood
education and development. Casey
L. Cullen returned to New Jersey to
work for RSENR Board of Advisors
Chair Mark Biedron ’74 at The
Willow School. She is coordinating
efforts between project stakeholders
to create a LEED platinum and Living
Building Challenge-compliant
health, wellness, and nutrition
center. She earned her LEED AP,
BD&C accreditation and will be
working toward a master’s degree in
urban sustainability at City College
in New York City this fall. Kristin
(Kirsti) Dahly was in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia, from 2011 to 2012 on a
Fulbright Scholarship. Megan
DeWaele currently lives in Boston,
where she works as an account
management executive for Emerald
Group Publishing. Peter Donaghy
currently lives in Los Angeles, where
he is pursuing a film career. He is
filming electronic artists, hip-hop
artists, and nightlife venues in Los
Angeles. Pete was sent to Las Vegas
for EDC to film an electronic artist
there and is constantly working on
new and exciting projects. His videos
have been featured on LA magazine
websites like Blackbook, Vibe, and V
Magazine, among others. Two of his
most recent videos received more
than 100,000 views on YouTube. You
can check out his work at peterdonaghy.com and his photo blog
donslens.tumblr.com. Mary
Gaudreau just finished her first year
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— Sasha Fisher
on SparkMicroGrants,
a non-profit she has
co-founded
Mount Vernon, NY 10552
[email protected]
degree. James can be reached at
[email protected].
Send your news to—
David Volain
[email protected]
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Elisabeth Aiken Martin ’33, of
Stowe, Vermont, May 20, 2012.
Louis R. Mazel ’34, of Canton,
Massachussetts, March 28, 2012.
Marion Herberg Klandl ’36,
of South Burlington, Vermont,
May 7, 2012.
Harry M. Rowe, M.D. ’36, of Wells
River, Vermont, August 3, 2012.
Roy V. Buttles, M.D. ’37, ‘40,
of South Burlington, Vermont,
December 30, 2011.
Gilbert Weller Rist ’37, of
Burlington, Vermont, July 6, 2012.
Harold Allen Schoff ’37, of Melbourne, Florida, June 1, 2012.
Gordon Marshall Wood ’37, of Hyde
Park, Vermont, November 23, 2004.
Marion Yerks Bedford ’38, of Exeter,
New Hampshire, June 5, 2012.
Kathryn Kellett Nichols ’38, of
Stowe, Vermont, June 28, 2012.
Willard Orlin Hale ’39, of Springfield, Massachussetts, June 18, 2012.
Martha Douglass Peterson ’39, of
Juno Beach, Florida, April 3, 2012.
Joyce Gardner Barnett ’40, of Barre,
Vermont, June 2, 2012.
Phyllis Rhodes Pitkin ’40, of Bristol,
Vermont, May 30, 2012.
Edward O. Eaton ’41, of Franklin,
Vermont, July 11, 2012.
Margaret Beattie Kambour ’41,
of Barton, Vermont, July 29, 2012.
Raymond F. Laramie, Sr. ’41,
of St. Louis, Montana, July 8, 2012.
Gerald I. Palmer ’41, of Braintree,
Massachussetts, July 6, 2012.
Margaret Cass Springer ’41,
of Reading, Vermont, April 8, 2012.
Idora Cooley Tucker ’41 G’78,
of Randolph, Vermont, July 15, 2012.
Collamer Martin Abbott ’42,
of White River Junction, Vermont,
April 8, 2012.
Harvey Hart Hubbard ’42, of Newport News, Virginia, May 14, 2012.
Joyce Kenyon Livak ’42, of Richmond, Vermont, December 15, 2011.
Roxana Wilmoth Tofferi ’42,
of Ludlow, Vermont, May 27, 2012.
Joseph Alpert ’43, of Savannah,
Georgia, May 27, 2012.
Mary Lyle McCleskey ’43,
of Hanover, New Hampshire,
April 5, 2012.
Paul H. Crandall, M.D. ’44 ‘47,
of Pacific Palisades, California,
March 15, 2012.
Geraldine Jasper Holtzman ’44,
of Rockville Centre, New York,
June 10, 2012.
Erika Heininger Sawyer ’44,
of Vancouver, British Columbia,
July 3, 2012.
Elizabeth Doolin Uptegrove ’44,
of West Townshend, Vermont,
June 13, 2012.
Alice D. Tyndall, M.D. ’45 ‘47,
of Shrewsbury, New Jersey,
December 5, 2011.
Constance Brownell Hall, M.D. ’46
‘49, of Shelburne, Vermont,
July 15, 2012.
Elizabeth Clark Vialle ’46, of Concord, Massachussetts, July 31, 2012.
Edward Gillette Wright ’46,
of White River Junction, Vermont,
May 6, 2012.
Priscilla Joslin Bedia ’47, of Barre,
Vermont, April 19, 2012.
Margaret Brockway Pixley ’47,
of Lebanon, New Hampshire,
July 25, 2012.
Pauline Palin Caputo ’48, of
Newport, Vermont, March 19, 2012.
Robert W. Ker, Jr. ’48, of Brewster,
Massachussetts, May 16, 2012.
Roger W. Sevy G’48, of Easton,
Pennsylvania, May 12, 2012.
Carol Clark Wheatley ’48, of Glover,
Vermont, May 25, 2012.
Culver Sidney Brown, Jr. ’49,
of Sangerville, July 17, 2012.
John Michael Fiore, M.D. ‘49,
of Troy, New York, August 5, 2012.
Mitchell Jerry Hunt ’49, of Willow
Grove, Pennsylvania, March 30, 2012.
David B. Hunter ’49, of Fort Myers,
Florida, May 23, 2012.
Leopold Laliberte ’49, of Jacksonville, Florida, November 2, 2011.
Richard F. Nims ’49, of West Springfield, Massachussetts, May 12, 2012.
Frederick M. Reed ’49,
of Vinalhaven, Maine, March 6, 2012.
Frank Zwick, Jr. ’49, of Myrtle Beach,
South Carolina, July 6, 2012.
Robert John Burns ’50, of Reeding,
Connecticut, July 20, 2012.
Charlotte Pamela Crandall ’50, of
Glover, Vermont, July 13, 2012.
Lillian Cotnoir Doyle ’50,
of Amarillo, Texas, May 23, 2012.
Arthur William Jasper ’50, of
Tehachapi, California, June 7, 2012.
Ursula Hirsch Joachim ’50, of White
Plains, New York, March 27, 2012.
Lawrence James Parker, M.D. ’50, of
Fallbrook, California, June 17, 2012.
Albert Edward Rondeau ’50,
of North Adams, Massachussetts,
April 24, 2012.
Philip Bliss Sweetser ’50, of Hyde
Park, Vermont, March 30, 2012.
Harriet L. Towne ’50, of Burlington,
Vermont, June 16, 2012.
Richman Garrison Weaver, D.O.
’50, of York, Pennsylvania,
March 29, 2012.
Jackson W. Wisner, Jr. ’50 G’52,
of Altamonte Springs, Florida,
April 6, 2012.
Paul Bree Boyce ’51, of Schenectady, New York, July 11, 2012.
John Brown III ’51, of Lancaster,
New Hampshire, April 18, 2012.
Dominic Germain Cote ’51, of Branford, Connecticut, July 19, 2012.
Agnes McKenzie Flanagan ’51
G’70, of Burlington, Vermont,
July 26, 2012.
Merle Austin Manchester ’51,
of Warren, Michigan, April 8, 2012.
Arthur J. McCann, Jr. ’51, of
Lyndonville, Vermont, June 4, 2012.
Bernard P. Murphy ’51, of Rock
Island, Illinois, June 24, 2012.
Barbara Preston Norton ’51, of
Gainesville, Virginia, August 1, 2012.
Bruce M. Stargatt ’51, of Wilmington, Delaware, July 19, 2012.
Marilyn E. Wood ’51, of Windsor,
Vermont, November 9, 2011.
Elizabeth Burnett Carroll ’52, of
West Dennis, Massachussetts, July
7, 2012.
R. Keith Clarke, M.D. ’52 ‘55, of Brattleboro, Vermont, August 5, 2012.
Weyman Stockton Crocker G’52, of
Putney, Vermont, June 21, 2012.
Betty Scribner Dahl ’52, of Manhasset, New York, January 30, 2012.
Fred Dewitt Holford, Jr., M.D. ’52
‘56, of Media, Pennsylvania,
July 7, 2012.
Priscilla Seale Johnson ’52,
of Cookeville, Tennessee,
March 28, 2012.
Ann L. Lesser ’52, of Weston,
Massachussetts, January 1, 2012.
Alice Wakefield O’Connor ’52,
of Tewksbury, Massachussetts,
September 30, 2011.
Dalphia Hall Brown ’53, of North
Bennington, Vermont, June 8, 2012.
Barbara Frank ’53, of Boston,
Massachussetts, May 21, 2012.
Thomas R. Long ’53, of Westport,
Connecticut, April 19, 2012.
Patricia Mahoney Powers ’53, of
Wyckoff, New Jersey, July 24, 2012.
Peter Vincent Arcidiacono ’54, of
Albany, New York, May 15, 2012.
Dewees Harold Brown, M.D. ’54,
of Bristol, Vermont, May 18, 2012.
Roger C. Chapman, Jr. ’54, of Lexington, North Carolina, July 17, 2012.
John D. Clark, M.D. ’54 ’60, of Madison, Connecticut, June 30, 2012.
Peter H. Coffey ’54, of Underhill,
Vermont, October 17, 2011.
Henry Dean Fuller ’54, of Cape
Elizabeth, Maine, June 27, 2012.
Mary Tate Howson ’54,
of Chappaqua, New York,
November 24, 2011.
Donald J. Norton ’54, of Gainesville,
Virginia, April 19, 2012.
Colleen Miller Page ’54, of Barre,
Vermont, March 27, 2012.
George H. Price, Jr. ’54, of Bethel,
Vermont, February 19, 2012.
Thomas Erdmann Rogers ’54, of
Chester, Vermont, February 29, 2012.
Bruce Christion Sahlman ’54,
of Camden, South Carolina,
June 9, 2012.
Gerald Arthur Samuels ’54, of
Wanaque, New Jersey, July 30, 2012.
Harold C. Avery, Jr. ’55, of Jupiter,
Florida, April 3, 2012.
Frank Lucarelli ’55, of Albany, New
York, April 19, 2012.
Clinton H. Thompson ’55, of Little
Compton, Rhode Island, July 5, 2012.
Sally Sherman Grice ’56, of Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, June 26, 2012.
Arnold E. Howe ’56, of Taftsville,
Vermont, April 19, 2012.
Robert Arthur Mather, Sr. ’56, of
Rome, New York, June 25, 2012.
Marilyn Falby Stetson ’56, of Bristol,
Vermont, August 1, 2012.
Peter Francis Allendorf ’57,
of Edgartown, Massachussetts,
May 9, 2012.
Anne E. Coghlan G’57, of Milton,
Massachussetts, June 11, 2012.
Rodney Carroll Facteau, Sr. ’57,
of Lyndon Center, Vermont,
June 16, 2012.
Martha Abell Rudd ’57, of North
Pownal, Vermont, May 21, 2012.
Jack E. Russell G’57, of Kennebunk,
Maine, May 15, 2012.
Carolyn Smith Wilcox ’57, of Timonium, Maryland, February 2, 2012.
Einar L. Chrystie ’58 G’60, of Boynton Beach, Florida, July 3, 2012.
Harvey C. Farr ’58, of Windsor, Vermont, March 22, 2012.
Raymond Gerard Langlois ’58, of
Osprey, Florida, June 1, 2012.
Malcolm L. Russell ’58, of Idaho
Falls, Idaho, June 11, 2012.
Margaret Renald Schlichting ’58
G’60, of Colchester, Vermont,
June 12, 2012.
Ann Maher Overton ’59, of Essex
Junction, Vermont, May 22, 2012.
Richard Maurice Wheeler ’59, of
Stowe, Vermont, June 11, 2012.
Thayer J. Lewis ’60, of White Plains,
Maryland, March 16, 2012.
Virginia Prescott Clark ’61 G’63, of
Williston, Vermont, March 31, 2012.
Rhea Dolores Paro ’61, of New York,
New York, May 20, 2012.
James N. Hunt, Sr. ’62, of Shelburne,
Vermont, July 30, 2012.
Priscilla Cutting Mayo ’62, of St.
Johnsbury, Vermont, June 29, 2012.
Richard F. Rivers ’62, of Arlington,
Texas, May 18, 2010.
Antonia Solari Starck ’62, of Centerville, Massachussetts, May 20, 2012.
David H. Steele ’62, of Claremont,
New Hampshire, March 9, 2012.
Albert W. Wedwaldt ’62, of Middlebury, Vermont, May 5, 2012.
Harold E. Billings ’63, of North
Clarendon, Vermont, May 22, 2012.
A. John LaRock, Jr. ’63, of Enfield,
New Hampshire, July 16, 2012.
Nancy Elizabeth Lang ’64, of Stowe,
Vermont, March 28, 2012.
Charles V. Masick ’64, of Cobleskill,
New York, July 7, 2012.
Denis J. Blanck ’65, of Stowe,
Vermont, April 1, 2012.
Donald A. Capron ’65, of Oswego,
New York, July 14, 2012.
Janet Noreault Dana ’65, of Moira,
New York, July 19, 2012.
Elsie Gilman Dodge ’65, of Perkinsville, Vermont, June 30, 2012.
Stephen C. Schaubhut, Sr. ’65,
of West Milford, New Jersey,
May 11, 2012.
Louise Allen Winecup ’65 G’69,
of Staten Island, New York,
April 7, 2011.
Edward Ralph Mallozzi ’66, of New
Canaan, Connecticut, April 19, 2012.
Alan E. Irwin, M.D. ’67 ’71, of Essex
Junction, Vermont, April 7, 2012.
John N. Rutledge ’67, of Queensbury, New York, July 25, 2012.
Ralph H. Clark III ’68, of Riyadh,
Saudi Arabia, May 30, 2012.
William H. Cleland ’68, of Montpelier, Vermont, June 24, 2012.
John F. Schwartz ’68, of Concord,
New Hampshire, July 30, 2012.
Paul Merrill Choate, Jr. ’70, of
Gainesville, Florida, July 29, 2012.
John Francis Pawlusiak ’71, of
Burlington, Vermont, July 4, 2012.
Anne Alexander Bingham G’72,
of South Hero, Vermont, March 31,
2012.
Russel S. Page III, M.D. ’72,
of Stowe, Vermont, April 25, 2012.
Carol Price Walters G’73, of South
Burlington, Vermont, July 3, 2012.
Gerald Goold G’74, of Winthrop,
Maine, July 10, 2012.
Norma Miller Roth G’74, of Shelburne, Vermont, March 17, 2012.
Jean Ann Belaski ’75, of Springfield,
Vermont, July 14, 2012.
Warren A. Crapo G’75, of Shelburne,
Vermont, May 5, 2012.
William R. Dennen G’75, of Vernon,
Vermont, June 27, 2012.
Michael E. Gates ’75 G’86, of Waterbury Center, Vermont, July 4, 2012.
Norman R. Johnson ’75, of
Charlotte, Vermont, March 7, 2012.
Ellen M. Flanagan ’76, of Burlington,
Vermont, June 19, 2012.
Geneva Poland Howes ’76, of Moretown, Vermont, August 10, 2012.
Barbara Nichols Reed ’76, of South
Burlington, Vermont, June 22, 2012.
Bruce Edward Tatro ’76, of Swanton,
Vermont, June 5, 2012.
Leslie Caraccioli Schettino G’77, of
Cortland, New York, April 12, 2012.
Jeffrey Maurice King, M.D. ’78, of
Visalia, California, June 19, 2012.
Denis D. McGonagle ’78, of Burlington, Vermont, March 29, 2012.
Margaret Staples Munt ’78, of
Williston, Vermont, May 31, 2012.
Pamela Dutka Sietz ’79, of Meriden,
Connecticut, July 21, 2012.
David W. Amidon ’80, of Uxbridge,
Massachussetts, June 18, 2012.
Lydia Myzak Lapenas ’80,
of Southwick, Massachussetts,
August 8, 2012.
Patricia Ann Roy ’82, of New Hyde
Park, New York, May 6, 2012.
John Marshall Twitchell ’82, of University Heights, Ohio, June 4, 2012.
Sandra J. Dass ’83, of Black Rock,
Arizona, June 21, 2011.
Laura Val Paisley ’85, of San Diego,
California, May 24, 2012.
Andrea Hill ’88, of Morristown,
New Jersey, May 5, 2012.
Richard Alan Johnson G’88 ’99,
of Gresham, Oregon, April 22, 2012.
Donna Everett Slicer G’89,
of Jefferson, Maine, July 13, 2012.
William Bradley Cook G’96,
of Grand Forks, North Dakota,
July 6, 2012.
Erik Thomas Heath ’99, of
Bradenton, Florida, May 22, 2012.
Cornelius Keats Gallagher, Jr. G’01,
of Gloucester, Massachussetts,
July 10, 2012.
Matthew Peace Christenson ’03, of
Cuttingsville, Vermont, June 7, 2012.
Michael David Zukowski ’05,
of Holyoke, Massachussetts,
July 26, 2012.
Susan Ann McCanna G’06, of Walpole, New Hampshire, April 15, 2011.
Stirling Auchincloss Winder ’08,
of South Boston, Massachussetts,
July 28, 2012.
Rudolf Grayson Kiburis ’09, of
Burlington, Vermont, June 30, 2012.
Erin Elizabeth Schneider ’09,
of Amherst, New Hampshire,
March 24, 2012.
David Neil Toye ’11, of Franklin,
Massachussetts, July 2, 2012.
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