Are you a lawyer who gave up the practice to run a surf shop? An engineer teaching high school math? A graphic designer who went back to college for a nursing degree and now works the night shift in maternity? We’re considering a VQ feature focused on the stories of alumni who have made dramatic changes in their careers—by choice or by necessity—and lived to tell the tale. Please let us know your own story or share tips on friends who might be too modest to nominate themselves.
That’s for the future. Looking back, we’d like to set the record straight on a photo caption that appeared in the spring 2009 feature on a theatre alumni reunion. The production of Mother Courage pictured took place in 1964/5 at the Fleming Theatre, not 1984 at the Royall Tyler. (Too bad about multiple wrongs not making a right.) Our thanks to “Mother Courage” herself, cast member Linda Simet Klein ’68 for letting us know.
Finally, we’d like to pass along special thanks to Eric Lipton ’87 for volunteering his journalistic skills for the cover profile of Brian Sack ’92. It’s a rare opportunity when a Pulitzer-winning New York Times reporter, whose current focus is on America’s economy, calls you up and suggests a story on an alumnus helping lead efforts at the New York Fed. The easiest editorial decision we’ve had all year. Thanks, Eric.
Thomas Weaver
Editor, Vermont Quarterly, tweaver@uvm.edu, 802-656-7996
