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1950s – 1960s
1950
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Hedi Ballantyne
candh@sover.net
1951
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Joan Coffman Sabens
jsabens@aol.com
1952
Your classmates would really like to hear news of the class of 1952. Someone must be doing something of interest to the rest of us. Please let us hear from you for the next issue.
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Helene Shapiro Hemmendinger
helhemm@comcast.net
1953
Remember our classmate who was UVM’s star quarterback and also played shortstop on UVM’s baseball team? A peek at the Ariel will remind us that Bob Deacon was UVM’s quarterback in 1953. Sadly, his wife Marge Annis Deacon ’54, let us know that Bob died on February13 of lung cancer after a life which had included sports throughout. Along with employment in sales at Eaton Corporation, Bob’s career included coaching his five sons in Little League from the 1960s through the 1980s. He also served on his city’s Parks and Recreation Commission. Heartfelt condolences go to Bob’s wife, five sons, thirteen grandchildren, and other family members. As I sit at my desk with a walking cast, I marvel at UVM’s past and present in sports. Unfortunately, now I personally am just a statistic among the number of “aged over sixty” elderly who fall down in their own homes. My accident occurred when I awoke to a ringing telephone after falling asleep in a comfortable chair. That means that I have even more time to sit at the computer nowadays to write about 1953 classmates. Please send an entry for the next Vermont Quarterly. If using email, do include UVM in the subject heading so that I won’t inadvertently delete your important message. I’ll look forward to hearing from you!
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Nancy Hoyt Burnett
nanhiker@aol.com
1954
55th Reunion
June 4 – June 7, 2009
alumni.uvm.edu/reunion
Beverly Jarvis was named woman of the year by the Phoenix, Arizona, Diocesan Council of Catholic Women. She continues to be active in her parish as coordinator of Helping Hands, a program that serves meals after funerals. She also is chairwoman of a group that makes thousands of rosaries each year to give to the missions, and she serves on the board of directors of the Saint Paul’s Women’s guild.
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Kathryn Dimick Wendling
kwendling@live.com
1955
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Jane Morrison Battles
jane.battles@yahoo.com
Daniel Burack
dab@burackinvestments.com
1956
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Jane Stickney
stickneyjane@yahoo.com
1957
Bill Solemene wrote that UVMers fom the Dallas area and North Texas got together for a UVM update and reception at his home in North Dallas. The event featured UVM Professor Lauck Parke, who gave an update on the University. Among the attendees were Carla Barber ‘82, Connie Baird ‘68. Barbara Short ‘64, Steve Emerick ’76, and many other Dallas area UVM’ers.
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Marilyn Falby Stetson
duostets@vtlink.net
1958
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Elizabeth Kidder Michael
robteliz@verizon.net
1959
50th Reunion
June 4 – June 7, 2009
alumni.uvm.edu/reunion
Jerry Heller is beginning to put together plans for our 50th Reunion! I can’t believe it’s coming up next year, scheduled for June 4-7, 2009. This is the “Big One!” You don’t want to miss it, so please mark your calendar and make this a must-do event.
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Henry Shaw
hshaw@sc.rr.com
1960
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Paul Heald
1200 Dorset Street
pheald1@cs.com
1961
Bob Murphy wrote, “I believe that life begins at retirement. With twelve years under my belt, I am happily pursuing far more interesting activities than I have time for. My chief outlet is working as a volunteer at the Vermont History Center in Barre, where I have, on occasion, bumped into our classmate, Jack Brown. I completed a marathon last May, my first in fourteen years, and I am now trying to recuperate so I can do it again next year. I challenge all of my classmates to join me at the 21st running of the Vermont City Marathon in Burlington in May 2009! Bob Hobbie wrote, “Jan Mashman, MD ’65, and I are still ‘hanging out’ after fifty years. We’ve known each other since sophomore year at UVM, and we live twenty-five minutes apart. We both still love medicine (the non HMO part) but have plenty of vacation time to relax. My wife, Joyce, and I have four grandchildren, and we visit them in Richmond and Atlanta a lot. We also enjoy golf, gardening (Joyce, flowers, vegetables for me), travel near and far. I hope to cut work time in half 2009. Linda Sack Fossier wrote, “I am remarried to a wonderful, retired, rocket scientist, Mike Fossier, and we live a bicoastal life. We spend half of our time in Newport Beach, California, and half in Winchester, Massachusetts. I have three grown children—a doctor, a lawyer, and a physical therapist—and seven grandchildren. Mike has three children and six grandkids. Life is wonderful, full of skiing, tennis, golf, and music. I play the French horn. Best wishes to all our UVM friends. Now that we have all enjoyed our 50th high school reunions, it’s time to plan ahead for our UVM 50th in 2011. Louise Weiner and Steve Berry are urging all of you to send them ideas for our very special reunion. It’s not too early to think about what would lure the most classmates back to campus. Put on your thinking caps and help us make it “The Best Reunion Ever!” Send suggestions to sweiner420@aol.com or SteveBerry@rcn.com, and if you are interested in volunteering for the reunion committee, please let us know. Margo Hathaway Thomas and her husband, John, survived a devastating flood in 1995. The flood destroyed their home and auto-body repair business, and they decided not to reopen. John went to work at the local hospital, and Margo became a correctional service specialist for the State of Vermont. She retired from Vermont Department of Corrections in 2002, then started working as substitute teacher in Waterville Elementary and Lamoille Union Middle/High Schools. Sadly, she wrote that her husband of nearly thirty years succumbed to cancer two years ago and she is once again single. Margo remains active in the Veterans of Foreign Wars auxiliary, and she enjoys watching local school sports teams.
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Carol Adams Gater
cpadams02@snet.net
1962
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Patricia Hoskiewicz Allen
traileka@aol.com
1963
Our 45th Reunion has come and gone. Duane and Susan Griesenbeck (’64) Barber reported on a fun cookout/lawn party that Rick Hubbard hosted at his home on Spear Street overlooking Lake Champlain and the Adirondacks. About fifteen classmates were in attendance, including Jeff Falk, Garth Peterson, Al Leblanc, Bob Pasco, Connie Anderson, Mary Bunting, Jan Hill Lawson, and Joyce Webster. Many of our classmates enjoyed the Taste of Vermont Buffet and the dinner cruise, and all agreed that the campus brought back many memories. Even though things had changed, there are many positive improvements. We are already looking back at Reunion 2008 and collecting information about what went well and what might work better in the future. We would greatly appreciate your thoughts about your 45th reunion. What did you enjoy most and what might we have done differently? Do you have any suggestions for future Reunions? Jeff Falk reported that many classmates have given him feedback and have volunteered to help plan our 50th. In addition to hearing from classmates who attended Reunion, several of our classmates who could not attend sent updates. Julie Hersey Chapman, Grace Waters Young, and Ann Maynes Gladding visited Sedona in March and had a wonderful time that included plenty of laughter, great chats, and some awesome hiking in the picturesque countryside. Fred Kellerup hopes to reunite with classmates. He lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Doug Clark and other Lambda Iota Owls keep in touch even though they are living in all parts of the USA. Doug reported that, for the seventh consecutive year, he, Bruce Cornish ’60, Scott Hallock, Jamie Jacobs ’61, Mike Klyszeiko ’62, Mo Leno ’62, Paul Martin ’65, J.H. Saliba ’60, and Fred Smith ’61 gathered last April in Ocean City, Maryland, for a week of golf, relaxation, and catching up. Finally, H. Robert Young reported that he is living in Corvallis, Oregon. He married Vicki McAllister last October, and he wrote that it was a pleasant change after thirty years of living on his own. Our class and I lost a treasured friend on June 10th. Sara Moreau Gear Boyd left this world after a courageous six-year battle with ovarian cancer. She always rebounded, and she was so upbeat throughout those years that we often denied her illness. Sara will be most remembered for her wonderful smile that lit up the entire room. She was a dearest friend and beloved wife to her late husband Allen Gear, and she will be sorely missed by her brother, three daughters, and their families. Sara’s life work was helping others to achieve a better life. She was a Vermont state legislator and political fighter who maintained friendships across party lines. She was the first woman to hold majority leader posts in both Houses of the Vermont state legislature for more then twenty-four years, including Vermont House of Representatives and Senate Republican leader, Vermont National Committee Woman, and Secretary of the Republican National Committee. She will be missed by all who knew her. As we move toward fifty years as UVMers, I wish you all good health, a happy family life, and wonderful friendships. Keep in touch and send me your news.
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Toni Citarella Mullins
tonicmullins@verizon.net
1964
45th Reunion
June 4 – June 7, 2009
alumni.uvm.edu/reunion
A while back, I received an email from Kathy Patric, who attended UVM with us but actually graduated from the University of Connecticut in 1967. Kathy is now living in Lafayette, California, with her husband, Richard Cunningham. They have two sons, Chris and Sam. Kathy taught middle school in Connecticut for four years before moving to the San Francisco Bay area in 1972, and she still loves being there. She went on to get her master’s degree in the field of learning disabilities. Kathy and Richard spend a month in her hometown of Waterford, Connecticut, in the summer. Catherine Simpson Curtis wrote that her children are “more interesting than I.” Daughter Jennifer has a family practice in Massachusetts. James finished a two-year sea tour as captain of the nuclear submarine SSN Augusta. Matthew has a Ph.D in literature and is a Navy commander stationed with his family in Naples, Italy. Andrew has a Ph.D in music, sings opera, and is a professor of music. Abigail is a neuro-radiologist in the UMass system in western Massachusetts. All of them are married, and she has thirteen grandchildren. At the end of May, I accompanied my husband Duane ’63 to his 45th reunion, which leads me to start encouraging all of you to think seriously about coming back to UVM next spring for our 45th Reunion. Jim Rosenberg was there in his official capacity, and we chatted a bit. He has agreed to talk to friends about coming back. I will do the same and charge you all to follow suit. Let’s show UVM that the class of 1964 is happy to celebrate our time at UVM with a huge turnout. Don’t wait until our 50th. Let’s go back in 2009! As a follow-up to the last report of the rumored demise of the Phi Sigma Delta golf team, Michel Steinburg wrote, “Howard ‘Gums’ Gorney and Mickey ‘Stinky’ Steinberg, Phi Sigma Deltas, soundly defeated Steve ‘The Rat’ Ratner and Neil Toulouse Yeston in a match last June at the Orchards Golf Course.” Although the TEPS gave it a gallant effort, they were no match for the brothers from Fern Hill. Mickey said he would consider a rematch and would love to do it our 45th Reunion. Go Cats!
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Susan Barber
suebarber@verizon.net
1965
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Colleen Denny Hertel
colleenhertel@hotmail.com
1966
Paul Jellinek moved to Palm Coast, Florida, from Atlanta three years ago. He recently wrote a script for a one-man show about the life of Henry M. Flagler, the developer of the east coast of Florida in the late eighteen hundreds as well as the creator of Standard Oil. Paul will play the part of Henry on various stages in Florida. He would love to hear from his UVM friends via email at pjjelli@aol.com.
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Kathleen Nunan McGuckin
kkmcguckin@prodigy.net
1967
We missed Ann Brown at our reunion last year because she was in the process of making some big changes. After forty years of teaching, most of it in the field of special education, Ann sold her house in New York and retired. Then, after a leisurely trip across country visiting friends and relatives, she arrived at her new home in Georgetown, Texas, where she and her sister bought a house in a golf cart community. Ann loves retired life, and she has done quite a bit of traveling. Last January, she had the opportunity to work on houses being built in Waveland, Mississippi, a community hard hit by Katrina. She traveled to China in March, and in April she joined a friend from Vermont in Las Vegas, where they saw the sites and shows and visited the Grand Canyon. Ann wrote that she misses friends in the Northeast, but she enjoys meeting new friends and being active in her community.
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Jane Kleinberg Carroll
jane.carroll@cox.net
1968
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Diane Duley Glew
ddgvt@comcast.net
1969
40th Reunion
June 4 – June 7, 2009
alumni.uvm.edu/reunion
Jean Denson Betts of Groton, Vermont, is president-elect of the Vermont School Counselors Association, and she will serve as president from July 2008 to June 2009. Currently, she is earning a CAGS in Education from Southern New Hampshire University. Nancy Howe Rogers of Wildwood, Florida, retired in January 2008 after completing thirty years of teaching—two years in Vermont and the remaining twenty-eight in Florida. David Barlow has been a professor of psychology and psychiatry at Boston University for the past twelve years. He has also been a leader in the advancement of cognitive-behavioral therapies, most prominently in his studies of panic disorder. He recently received a career/lifetime achievement award from the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies.
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Mary Moninger-Elia
rere1112@aol.com
