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1970
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Doug Arnold
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1971
Our efforts to recruit classmates to send in notes has paid off… sort of, that is. Tom McLaughlin wrote a long email about his Kappa Sig brothers, most of which cannot be reprinted, but I will only mention that he wrote about Robert “Whale” Lynch, Arthur “Egor” Williamson, James “Fuzzy” Lauder, Jeffrey “Nails” Naylor, Gerald “the Big Ugly” Elliott, and, of course, Thomas “Sheriff” McLaughlin. Some of what Tom wrote had some truth to it based on my own knowledge of these guys, but even if I culled the jokes, his notes could never pass by our editor. I spoke to Marc “Maypo” Milowsky, who, along with Annie Viets, once again participated in a 100-mile bike race last July to benefit cancer research. Marc and I bemoaned the closing of the Sirloin Saloon, where Marc and others got their start in the restaurant business. When I told Dick Peisch the news of Marc and Annie’s upcoming bike ride, he found it shocking that anyone in our class would be able to ride one hundred miles. Dick did, however, run a portion of the Burlington City Marathon Memorial Day Weekend. He said that he’s in contact with Jimmy Seder, whose two daughters are at Georgetown. He’s also in touch with Bill Ferguson and Bobby Welch. When I told Dick about the June 2008 UVM Theater Reunion, he was disappointed that he was not invited. He reminded me that he was the minstrel at the Shakespeare Festival founded by Professor Ed Feidner. Dick said he played guitar prior to the performances and on several occasions was a part of the productions. The thought of seeing Dick wandering around the Royall Tyler Theater in tights made my day. Speaking of the Theater Reunion, Myron Grauer attended, and we had some time catching up before the event, which was great fun. Myron continues his work in the academic field as law professor at Capital Law School. He sees Jason Robards and Jason’s son, Greg, relatively often in Columbus, Ohio. Jason attended the UVM Theater Reunion, but I was not blessed with a visit. I bumped into Owen Jenkins and Wendy Reilly Jenkins ’72 at Wendy’s 35th Reunion. It was great fun to chat with Owen, who insists that his social schedule is jam-packed. Since we have had trouble booking a dinner date this summer, I can verify that he and Wendy live quite the busy lives. Jim Lampman ’72 spoke at the Burlington Rotary Club recently about his company, Lake Champlain Chocolates. Always entertaining, he tells the greatest story of how chocolate making became his life as well as his wife Anne Moreau (’71) Lampman’s and their children’s lives! Jim and Anne’s daughter, Ellen, and son, Eric, work for the company. UVM graduation 2008 brought several ’71 alumni families together. Joanne Czachor Magliozzi’s daughter, Anna Magliozzi ’08, graduated last May, and Mags Caney Conant held a gathering at her home for the Czachor Magliozzis; Nancy Haydock ’70, MD ’78, whose son and daughter just graduated from UVM; and they invited me so I could see Joanne and Anna. Of course, Steve Conant ’78 was there as was Steve and Mags’s daughter, Molly ’06. It was a mini-reunion coupled with a celebration of the children’s graduation, and we documented the event with photos. Anna Magliozzi ’08 represents the third “Czachor” generation to complete a degree at UVM! Richard Cate has been appointed UVM’s interim vice president for finance and administration. He has served as commissioner of education for the Vermont Department of Education since 2003. The University is fortunate to have recruited a VP of Richard’s caliber! I will end with news about Liz Mead Foster and your class secretary. As you all know, Liz and I volunteered to work with the Vermont Hands to Honduras program, and we plan to return to Tela, Honduras, to complete new projects in February 2009. The program will be featured in an upcoming Yankee Magazine which should be fun and perhaps a bit embarrassing. In addition, Liz has signed on to a pilot global study on using ultrasound scanners called, Imaging the World (ItW), and she chose me as a partner. The study will analyze how regular people can learn to run an ultrasound machine in third world countries. We will report back on our progress with “imaging of the world” in the next issue. After imaging each other, we certainly can take on another country! Please send your notes!
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Sarah Wilbur Sprayregen
Sarah.Sprayregen@uvm.edu
1972
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Debra Koslow Stern
debra.stern@uvm.edu
1973
Jennifer Allen wrote that the ’73 Reunion Committee continues to appreciate all the people who came to Burlington for our 35th reunion. The consensus is that this was the best reunion yet, the highlight being the dinner cruise on Lake Champlain. We’re hoping to create momentum for our 40th (how can that be possible?) in 2013. Special thanks to committee members Martha Baker, Gene Beaudoin, Kathryn Boardman, Kathye August Boll, Ted Dudley, Joe Fowler, Steve Levenson, Pam Gillman McDermott, Deborah Mesce, Nancy Morse, Carrie Towne Rhinelander, Wadi Sawabini, Louise McCormick Sharp, Miles Susskind, and Linda Darling Waltien. We’re trying to expand our various networks to include even more of our classmates in our next reunion in 2013. I confess that I was not so successful in pulling in my friends from the theatre for this event, but along the way I had great catch-up emails with David “Tang” Pangaro, who is in the process of creating a five hundred-seat theatre in San Francisco, and with Chris Andersen, who has an ever-expanding, local and remote, video and audio recording studio in Woodstock, New York. (And we all remember Woodstock, don’t we?) In the meantime, Gerard Bourcier and I did our best to represent the theatre contingent. As we cruised the lake, I was delighted to reconnect with friends from the second floor of Jeanne Mance, 1969-70, including Kathy August Boll, Carolyn Sheehan, and Tina Sylvestri Stokes. Many thanks to Michael Brown (#35), who hosted a reception Friday evening at the Ethan Allen Club, featuring a guest appearance from former UVM men’s basketball coach Tom Brennan. Miles Susskind also came through with some great ’73 Reunion hats. You couldn’t miss us on campus! We are very much interested in pulling the old gang back together in 2013. You know who you are! I encourage everyone to expand the class of 1973 networks and to rally as many as we can for May 2013. If the 35th was any indication, there is much fun ahead! Jim (G’73, G‘81) and Janet Early Pietrovito from Francestown, New Hampshire, celebrated their 35th wedding anniversary on June 2 followed by their 35th UVM reunion. Janet is a sixth grade teacher at Great Brook School in New Hampshire. She earned her Master of Education degree from Cambridge College in 1998. In her spare time, she is an adjunct professor of education at NHTI Concord’s Community College in New Hampshire, where Jim is a professor of education. Jim became a professor in 1996 after fifteen years as dean of Continuing Education. He completed the Ed.D. program at Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College in 1989. The Pietrovitos have two sons, Jim, Junior; and Dan, both college graduates. Jan and Jim enjoy skiing and sailing on Mallett’s Bay in Vermont.
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Deborah Mesce
d.mesce@verizon.net
1974
35th Reunion
June 4 – June 7, 2009
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I will start this column with a reminder that our 35th Reunion will be held on campus June 4-7, 2009. I hope to see you all there! I attended some of Reunion ’08 last May and had a wonderful time. It is worth it to come to UVM to see the new “green” Davis Building. It is absolutely beautiful! I also attended a reunion at Tri Delta Sorority with Tina Silvestri (’73) Stokes, Shelly Henderson ’73, Joyce Hanna ’73, Pam Gilman (’73) McDermott, Laura Davies (’73) Tilley, Kathy August (’73) Boll, Sally Cummings ’72, Marilyn Berkman (’73) Sturman, and Becky Moore. It was great to see so many friends. I stayed at Marilyn’s house in Thetford Hill, Vermont. Lou Ann Fournier recently retired after thirty-three years of teaching family and consumer sciences in the Rutland, Vermont, area. She has relocated to North Port, Florida. Barbara Denhoff Dworkin of South Londonderry, Vermont, is teaching yoga to adults and teens, and she has a retail/wholesale business based in Vermont called Homagenie (www.homagenie.com), which pays homage to artisans and their creations. Much of this unusual and admired collection has been procured directly from artisans, many of whom reside in India. Keith Rice of Deland, Florida, is in the process of becoming a certified financial planner. He sent greetings to his UVM friends, especially Jane Messier and Sue Pound. Keep in touch and send in your news. We want to hear from all of you!
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Emily Schnaper Manders
esmanders@gmail.com
1975
Jim Calder of Shelburne, Vermont, sent an update on what he has been doing since his days at UVM. Jim has taught driver training and traffic safety at Middlebury Union High School since 1981. He also has been very involved with the Vermont Driver and Traffic Safety Education Association, the New England and National Driver Education Associations, and the Vermont-NEA. He received his Master of Education degree from Southern New Hampshire University in January 2008. Jim also is very involved with the American Baptist Church in Burlington, where he plays horn in the church’s ensemble once a month. He hopes that other classmates will send news for future class columns.
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Dina Dwyer Child
dinachild@aol.com
1976
Amy Christensen is the director of development for the Historical Society of Martin County, the “parent” of two local museums, The Elliott Museum and the House of Refuge Museum, both located in Stuart, Florida. The Elliott Museum has the largest collection of signed baseball memorabilia outside of Cooperstown, New York. The House of Refuge Museum, built in the 1860s to provide safe haven for sailors on the Florida coast, is listed on the National Historic Register as the oldest structure in Martin County. Amy and her dog Bailey are a certified pet therapy team. She would love to hear from classmates. Wayne Johnson purchased the Birdneck Animal Hospital in Virginia Beach, Virginia. He, his wife Kim, and son Adam love living there. I am sorry to report the passing of Suzanne Kealey Ford on March 20, 2008. Suzanne loved her years at UVM as an English major. Our condolences to Suzanne’s family. Last June the Sigma Nu brothers from the classes of 1974–1979 gathered in Burlington for a mini-reunion. Garry Gottfried once again did an outstanding job organizing entertaining activities. Members of the class of 1976 attending included Tom Lenci, Vic Vaughan, Jeff DeLuca, Scott Macomber, Dennis Keresey, Chris Wallace, Pete Larkin, Tim O’Connell, Bill Coogan, Greg Sullivan, Gary Wright, Curt Duane, Ken Yeates, and Don Smith. Also joining in were Ted Child ’74, Hank Elitzer ’75, Tom Colby ’77, Tom McNamara ’77, Peter Reynolds ’77, Tom Wheeler ’77, Scott Turban ’78, Ed Barry ’78, John Combias ’79, Mike Nardi ’79, and Alex Pastuszek ’79. One of many highlights from the weekend was establishing a scholarship in the UVM Athletic Department in memory of Jack “Jocko” Clifford ’75. Planning for our next gathering is under way with Orlando a likely destination to ensure Ted Curtis ’75 can attend.
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Peter Beekman
pbeekman@clarkson.edu
1977
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Stephen Monroe
monroe@levinassociates.com
1978
Jeff and Betsy (‘78) Warner Oakes of Sandwich, Massachusetts, celebrated their son Justin’s graduation from the University of Vermont last May. He received a bachelor’s degree in finance.
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Audrey Ziss Bath
audreyb2@aol.com
1979
30th Reunion
June 4 – June 7, 2009
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Mark Robbins, M.D., of Concord, Massachusetts, recently published a novel of outdoor suspense, entitled The Coffin Bind. Mark will be running the Falmouth Road Race with Ed Nemeth ‘80 and other former track buddies. Kimeri Brown of Lafayette, Colorado, wrote, “Aloha! I’m a busy working mother, and I love my job as a Waldorf Kindergarten teacher. My nine-year-old daughter is a Waldorf student in 3rd grade, and she loves gymnastics. Our family will soon be certified as a foster-adopt family. Blessings to you all.” Christine Powers Montgomery of Essex Junction, Vermont, wrote that she would love to connect with Margaret Grant O’Brien, and she wondered where Ann Morrissey ’78 is now.
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Beth Nutter Gamache
class.notes@uvm.edu
1980
Fall is here and I am happily enjoying crisp Vermont apples and the bright colors that herald the coming cold weather season. Soon I will be trading outdoor activities for warmer indoor pursuits, but for now I am enjoying the last warm days of Indian Summer. I found myself reflecting on UVM the other day. It’s funny how a song on the radio can send us back in time for a moment. Alan Parson’s “Eye in the Sky” was playing, and suddenly I was back at UVM sitting in on the marathon Risk games with Matt Bruns and crew. Hope all is well with the gang. I hear people play Risk on-line these days. What are you up to? I am always so pleased to hear from you all. Many thanks for your compliments on our column. I am glad that you enjoy my reports and reflections. Hello to Alan Marshall! He’s been quite busy. After a few software startups and twelve years at Microsoft, Alan is now helping guide Expedia.com’s new software architecture to maturity. He has two teenage boys with his Japanese wife of seventeen years, Noriko, who is just finishing a master’s degree in landscape architecture at the University of Washington in the Seattle area. Life is good, but he misses the maple syrup smells. Michael Cohen and Megan Humphrey had the wonderful chance to catch up over breakfast recently, and she wrote with an update on both of them. Michael is director of special projects for the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies, the premier environmental program in the Middle East, preparing future Arab and Jewish leaders to cooperatively solve the region’s environmental challenges. Michael first became involved with AIES when he was on a sabbatical from the Israel Congregation in Manchester Center, Vermont. UVM has sent more students to AIES than any University in the USA. He is married to Alison Hill ‘81, and they have two children. Michael also recently completed his first novella, Einstein’s Rabbi. Megan is juggling three jobs, grassroots marketing for the CCTV Center for Media & Democracy, working with Lauren-Glenn Davitian ’82; coordinating marketing and special events for Shelburne Orchards; and running her handmade greeting card company, Sweet Basil Cards (www.sweetbasilcards.com). She lives in Burlington, Vermont, with her sweetheart Terry Hotaling ‘75, who works at Shelburne Orchards. Megan and Terry spend as much time as they can on their sailboat on Lake Champlain in the summer. Michael and Megan were reminiscing and would love to hear what friends from the old days are up to now. Please get in touch.
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MaryBeth Pinard-Brace
marybethpinard_brace@alumni.uvm.edu
1981
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Mardie Trask Sorensen
mardie@uta.edu
1982
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John Scambos
pteron@optonline.net
1983
Deborah DeMore Greenwood regrets that she missed our reunion because she was at UCLA attending her son’s jazz concert. She has a daughter and three sons; her eldest son is in his first year at UCLA. Deborah lives in northern California, quite a distance from Vermont. Her family moved from Chicago two years ago, and she now works as a diabetes nurse educator, clinical nurse specialist, and ADA program coordinator in the Sacramento area. Deborah is excited that she will be a speaker at the American Association of Diabetes Educators National Convention to discuss her work in California with diabetes and smoking cessation. Deborah was in Boston last September, and she caught up with Alpha Chi sisters Cheryl Bernard MacIver and Marcia Madden Taylor. Kathy McGrath is a research associate and visiting assistant professor in the department of environmental forestry and biology at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, New York. Paul Black has accepted the position of professor and chair of the department of biochemistry at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. His wife, Concetta DiRusso G ‘82, who earned her PhD in cell and molecular biology, has accepted a Chancellor position as professor of biochemistry and nutrition, also at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. They wrote, “These are both important milestones in our academic careers, and it is important to remember much was initiated as PhD students at UVM in the late 70s/early 80s.” I am pleased to report that I recently passed my fifth year of remission from breast cancer. I have been a participant in the Walter Reed Medical Center’s peptide vaccine trial, and I was the first woman to receive the booster vaccine. I am very grateful to doctors David Krag, Hyman Muss, and Jim Wallace M.D., who are pioneers in breast cancer research at UVM.
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Sharon Morrissey Young
sm.young@comcast.net
1984
25th Reunion
June 4 – June 7, 2009
alumni.uvm.edu/reunion
Hi everyone. We have been reading this column for many years and would like to take this opportunity to thank Laurie Olander Angle for all her work in the past. She did a great job and we hope that we can fill her shoes. We are hoping to hear from a lot of our friends from UVM, and we are looking forward to sharing stories from everyone. Since graduation, Shelley Carpenter Spillane received her master’s from Virginia Tech before settling in Shelburne and marrying Chip Spillane ’87. Shelley and Chip have three children, Tucker, Summer, and Kidder. Abby Goldberg Kelley received her master’s from Michigan State University and lived in California for a while, then moved back to Vermont and married Jim Kelley, a 1984 graduate of Colgate University. Abby and Jim have two children, Grant and Sara. Kelly McDonald is also excited to help write our column, so please send us your updates so we can share them with our classmates. Margaret Keeshan McGovern and her family live in Trumbull, Connecticut. She let us know that she is looking forward to seeing Ed Sheehan and his wife, Carla; Ilene Grodd Kauffman and husband Paul, Janice Woytowicz Powers and husband Jack in March. Lelia Harrington wrote from Locust Valley, New York, “I truly enjoyed my college experience at UVM. I keep in touch with a few of my college roommates, and I hope all my friends that I haven’t spoken to are well.” Matthew Benoit of Lakewood, Colorado, had his first novel, Whackers, published in February 2008.
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Abby Goldberg Kelley
saragrant2001@yahoo.com
Kelly McDonald
jasna-vt@hotmail.com
Shelley Carpenter Spillane
class.notes@uvm.edu
1985
Mary Beth Pettine Brown of Wheaton, Illinois, is pleased that her son Hunter will be joining UVM’s Honors Class of 2012. Mary Beth wrote, “Hunter was born at Fletcher Allen Hospital, and he is now returning to his roots—and mine.” Helping out will be Katie Riegelman and Jane Doherty Mitchell, both still in the area. Mary Beth wrote, “Hunter appeared on the recent Teen Jeopardy Tournament, and we all had an amazing time meeting Alex Trebek!”
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Barbara Roth
rothb@eightoclock.com
1986
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Lawrence Gorkun
vtlfg@msn.com
1987
Hi everyone! A little news, but I would still love to hear from more of you. I heard from Amy Fishbein Koslow, who recently moved to Warren, New Jersey, with her husband Greg and their children Danielle and Emma. They were planning to spend Memorial Day with fellow UVMer Wendy Brenner Palat ’88, her husband, David, and their children. Stephen Ash also wrote an update, “After nearly twenty-two years, mostly in EMS and nursing, my life and studies with German language brought me back to Austria, where I had studied for a year in Salzburg in 1985-1986. I’ve been living near Vienna since 2005, working as an English teacher and local manager of instruction for one of the Berlitz language schools. I am now the country manager of instruction for all twelve schools in Austria and will be doing work at the regional level in parts of Germany and other cities in the European Union. I sometimes miss life in the United States, but I am thrilled to be back in Austria. I wish the class of 1987, especially all the folks I hung out with at UVM Rescue, well.”
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Sarah Reynolds
ssrey2@verizon.net
1988
It was great seeing so many of you at our 20th reunion. Thanks to Paul Carney and his reunion committee a great time was had by everyone. Also thank you to Tim Reed, who organized a return of Urban Blight. What a fun weekend with lot of reminiscing and laughs! For those of you who couldn’t make it, plan for our 25th early. It was definitely worth seeing so many people who were part of my UVM years. We received some corrections about information we printed about Tracy Torregrossa Brandt. Tracy lives in Orlando, Florida. She works for Rising Lotus Children’s Village, “a home and community raising orphaned Nepalese children from a place of poverty and despair to a place of hope, joy, and possibility.” Check their website at www.risinglotus childrensvillage.org.
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Cathy Selinka Levison
crlevison@comcast.net
1989
20th Reunion
June 4 – June 7, 2009
alumni.uvm.edu/reunion
Karen Spiller has been living in Sydney, Australia, since 2003, and she has loved every minute of it. John Lomas of Sarasota, Florida, married his partner, Bruce Nobil, July 23, 2007, in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Stefanie Friedman of Bedford, New York, took her oldest daughter, Lucy, to UVM to show her around. She said it was great walking around campus and on Church Street. She ran into Lon Finklestein ’88 and Jeff Schulman at the airport. She wrote, “Crazy to think twenty years has almost flown by!”
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Kate Barker Swindell
katebs@comcast.net
