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UVM COUPLE LEAVES A LEGACY
Bill Hauke ’35 and his wife Ellinor ’34 were a prominent Burlington couple and among the University’s most loyal and generous alums. Bill was the founder and owner of Hauke Building Supply, Inc. and Hauke Realty in Burlington—businesses that remain in the family today. Hauke Building Supply’s earliest projects were five-room bungalows, many built in Burlington’s North End, which sold for $3,500. Over the years, the company’s projects have included the Gaynes complex (now Staples Plaza) in South Burlington, the Ethan Allen Shopping Center in Burlington, and the Essex Junction Shopping Center.
The Haukes were significant benefactors to UVM over the years, with major gifts going to support student scholarships and the water quality lab in the Rubenstein Ecosystem Science Center on the shore of Lake Champlain. In fact, their contributions to the William and Ellinor Hauke Fund, established in 1984, helped it achieve a market value of $1 million as of June 30, 2008. This year the Hauke Fund is providing scholarship support for twenty-three UVM students.
Bill and Ellinor Hauke provided in their will that UVM would receive a significant and unrestricted charitable gift from their estate. Bill died in August of 2000, and following Ellinor’s passing last February, the University received a bequest of more than $839,000 from the Haukes’ estate.
“Bill and Ellinor Hauke were outstanding individuals who cared deeply about the University of Vermont,” says President Daniel Mark Fogel. “We are profoundly grateful for the lasting legacy of their many contributions. Their scholarship fund is making it possible for many outstanding students to pursue their studies at UVM, and their unrestricted estate gift is of tremendous value for the entire University community during this difficult financial stretch.”
80TH ANNIVERSARY OF WILBUR’S DEATH
When James Benjamin Wilbur died on April 28, 1929, the University of Vermont lost one of the best friends and benefactors it has ever had. Wilbur was an avid devotee of Vermont history— an avocation he pursued throughout his retirement years in Manchester, Vermont. He held a particular fascination for UVM founding father Ira Allen, which is what brought the successful railroad executive and banker to become a major donor to the University. It was Wilbur who commissioned the statue of Ira Allen that has occupied its place on the University Green since 1921 . . . Wilbur whose $200,000 gift in 1924 enabled the construction of Ira Allen Chapel (dedicated 1927) . . . Wilbur who funded construction of the Wilbur Room in the Fleming Museum to house his beloved collection of Vermontiana—today part of Special Collections in the Bailey/Howe Library —and provided an endowment to maintain it.
But it was his final act of philanthropy—a $1.5 million bequest to establish the James B. Wilbur Fund at the University—that has perhaps had the greatest impact on UVM students over the years. Eighty years after his death, the fund established by James B. Wilbur has grown to more than $17 million (as of November 30, 2008), and provides financial assistance to hundreds of UVM students annually. Just since the 2000-2001 academic year, for example, the Wilbur Fund has provided a total of $7,480,000 in scholarship funds to 3,401 Vermont students.
James B. Wilbur continues to influence the lives of successive generations of UVM students, and the University owes him a lasting debt of gratitude.
[PROFILES IN GIVING]
TOO MANY INTERESTS, TOO LITTLE TIME
Sarah L. Dopp ’68 says since childhood, UVM has always been “the center of my cultural universe.” Both of her parents worked for the University for many years. Her mother, Katharine Eckley Dopp, graduated from UVM in 1928, and her father was a Burlington native who went to Burlington Business College (now Champlain College) and took classes at UVM from, among others, former president Lyman Rowell. World War II interrupted her father’s college work, and after the war, Sarah says, he and her mother had a decision to make—go back to college or have a child. “They opted for the child, which was good for me,” she laughs.
UVM was always a part of her daily life, Sarah says, so when it came time to go to college herself, she availed herself of the University’s tuition remission policy and followed in the family tradition. After graduating with a degree in medical technology, she went on to pursue a successful career with Fletcher Allen Health Care as a supervisor in the Blood Bank and later in phlebotomy and eventually became the system manager for the blood bank computer system. After taking early retirement in 2003, she remained at Fletcher Allen on a part-time basis and still spends some six to eight hours a week helping to keep Blood Bank records accurate and up-to-date.
Sarah is also a tireless volunteer for various organizations in and around the Burlington area, including the UVM Alumni Association, which awarded her its Distinguished Service Award in 2008. A self-described amateur historian, she has been involved with the Chittenden County Historical Society in various capacities for some forty years; she is the current president of the Vermont Historical Society and has served on its board for eighteen years; she chairs the investment committee at the First Baptist Church in Burlington and has served as chair of its board of trustees “four or five times.” And then there’s the South Burlington Land Trust, which she founded, and where she remains involved. “Too many interests, too little time,” she says.
Sarah recently became a member of UVM’s Wilbur Society, a group of some 750 alumni, parents, and friends who have chosen to support the University through wills, trusts, and other forms of estate gifts. Sarah opted for the “flexible gift annuity,” which gives a donor an annual opportunity to decide whether to begin receiving annuity payments. The longer that event is deferred, the higher the income when the payments eventually begin.
“That flexibility is great for me,” says Sarah. “There may come a day when it will be very nice to have that in the back pocket.”
[ALUMNI NOTES]
AFTER THE FINAL HORN
Alumni athletes share career advice
Minus the occasional National Hockey League star or Euro basketball player, most athletes who graduate from UVM can relate to the NCAA’s television ads with their message that “there are over 380,000 NCAA student-athletes and just about all of them will be going pro in something other than sports.” Lisa Ventriss ’77, current president of the Vermont Business Roundtable, remembers well the challenging transition from college field hockey player to employee at CBS News in New York City.
“I learned a lot about myself in those two years,” says Ventriss, who collected and analyzed data in CBS’s election and survey unit. “You become immersed in your job and really have to adjust in quick order or you’ll fall behind. The most important lesson I’ve learned over the years is that life is not linear. Just because you studied one thing doesn’t mean that’s what you’ll be doing for the rest of your life. My advice: embrace new challenges and be creative in the way you fashion your experiences into a marketable skill set.”
Ventriss and about a dozen other former Catamount athletes shared similar experiences and offered advice to current athletes preparing to enter the workforce at the “Catamount Connections” panel on March 18 in Billings. The advice was as diverse as the alums, who represented four decades and a variety of careers ranging from a pharmaceutical salesperson to an assistant vice president for student affairs at a local college to a director of a program focused on outdoor education and urban youth.
Despite having unique post-collegiate experiences, many of the alums touched on similar themes. Most felt the skills they acquired as athletes, such as competitiveness, goal setting, time management, teamwork, and multitasking were transferable to the workforce. Networking was among the more emphasized job search tactics, including using the contacts made in college.
In some cases, the adjustment from “big man or woman” on campus to bottom of the pecking order wasn’t easy, but wasn’t unlike coming into the University as a first-year student-athlete and realizing that you were surrounded by athletes who were more experienced and talented than you.
Bernie Cieplicki ’96, who scored more than 1,000 points for the men’s basketball team between 1994 and 1996, spent almost ten years as a college basketball assistant coach and worked briefly in business before taking over as an athletic director of a local high school. The long nights and constant travel as a coach took a toll on his family life and forced him to re-evaluate what was most important.
“When you go from playing in games to working and living in the real world you have to re-identify who you are,’” says Cieplicki. “I think it’s important to try different things and have as many real life experiences as possible. Sometimes life dictates what you end up doing, but your gut will always tell what is right.”
Jon Reidel G’06
RECONNECTING WITH ROOTS
Reunion ’09 a thrifty vacation in tight times
Alumni from across the country are making plans now to attend Reunion 2009, taking place the weekend of June 4-7. This year the classes of ’04, ’99, ’94, ’89, ’84, ’79, ’74, ’69, ’64, ’59, ’54, ’49, ’44, ’39 and Green & Gold alumni will return to Burlington for the celebration, and a diverse array of activities and events is slated for their arrival.
This year’s theme—“Working for the Greater Good”—was inspired by the myriad ways Catamounts make a difference in their communities, and will be woven throughout the weekend’s events. Friday’s Voices of Vermont lectures will feature extraordinary alumni and faculty speakers, including renowned pediatric surgeon Jim Betts ’69 MD ’73, and a presentation on women and leadership in which Madeleine Kunin is interviewed by Kesha Ram ’08 (her former student and now first-term Vermont legislator).
While the official theme will focus on how UVM alumni, faculty, and staff make the world a better place, the unofficial theme is shaping up to be music. Reunion 2009 will kick off on Thursday evening with Jazz at the Davis Center, with performances by faculty, alumni, and students taking place simultaneously throughout the building. A concert by the UVM Jazz Faculty Collective will be the highlight of the evening, featuring UVM music faculty with acclaimed trumpeter Ray Vega. (The family-friendly event is open to the public, and alumni attending Reunion will receive a special discount.) For alumni who like their music a bit more interactive, Friday night will feature a salsa dancing class followed by a Latin DJ Dance Party.
And, speaking of music, alums from the ’90s will want to practice their moves ahead of time because the band Belizbeha—with its self-described “soul-loving-funkified-hiphop-jazzy” sound—is reuniting after five years apart for a special Discover Jazz Festival performance during Reunion. The class of 1999, who spearheaded the event, will be joined by the class of 1994 for special VIP seating at the Flynn.
Asked why alumni should consider attending Reunion, Eileen Dudley, director of UVM Reunion, is quick to respond. “In this time of uncertainty, Reunion offers an opportunity to revisit a time in life that was full of promise and to renew relationships created while at UVM. Not to mention, it makes for a really fun, affordable mini-vacation to Burlington.”
Caroline Gilley
ALUMS IN THE NEWS
Matthew McCann ’91 has been named to the position of chief executive officer of TransAtlantic Petroleum Corp. (TSX:TNP) of Dallas, Texas. He will focus on acquiring and developing oil and gas assets. McCann’s career is highlighted by his leadership as general counsel for The Mitchell Group and vice president, legal & corporate secretary for SandRidge Energy, Inc. from 2005 to 2007. From 2001 to 2005, he served as general counsel for Riata Energy. After graduating from UVM with a degree in business administration, he went on to receive his J.D. from the University of Oklahoma College of Law.
Curt Gervich ’04 and Heath Keirstead ’96 are the recipients of a new national fellowship designed to advance the work of individuals with outstanding potential to help shape a brighter environmental future. They are two of only forty people selected from competitors nationwide for the TogetherGreen Conservation Leadership Program, part of a new conservation initiative of the National Audubon Society with support from Toyota. Gervich is an environmental planner and conflict mediator. He has his master’s degree from UVM in natural resource planning. Involved in conservation efforts for seven years, Keirstead is currently the education and outreach coordinator of the Benton Soil & Water Conservation District in Oregon. Her major at UVM was environmental studies.
Edward Kiniry ’66 has been named chief executive officer of Vermont Organic Fiber Company (VTOF) of Middlebury, the nation’s leading manufacturer of fabrics, blankets, and hand-knitting yarn made with certified organic wool. Formerly, he was president of Winterquest, LLC, the parent company of Tubbs and Atlas snowshoes, selling the company to K2 Inc. in 2003. Kiniry is credited with the re-invention of snowshoeing as a $100 million worldwide market.
UVM OUTING CLUB LEADERS
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[ALUMNI FOCUS]
GIFT OF LIFE
Like many college friends, Paula Kenney McMahon and Marcia Sears Woodall first connected over experiences and interests shared. They both majored in physical education, both lived in Simpson Hall as freshmen, both liked to get outside, ski, and compete in sports. Though they didn’t see each other often after graduation, they kept in touch, wrote, and made the occasional phone call. But over the past several years their friendship has deepened through a unique bond—that of organ donor and recipient.
McMahon, who lives in Chatham, Massachusetts, began to have health trouble more than ten years ago when she was diagnosed with Wegener’s Disease, a relatively rare autoimmune illness. Though her only symptom was high blood pressure, the disease would badly damage her kidneys over time. By spring 2005, doctors told her that without a transplant she would need dialysis within a year.
“To an active person, this news was devastating,” McMahon says. “I had been a teacher for twenty-nine years and was an athletic director for more than ten years. It felt as though something had come out of nowhere and robbed me of my health.”
McMahon eventually began dialysis and put her name on the national donor list, sending blood to Massachusetts General Hospital monthly in hopes that a kidney would be found. She knew the wait could be a lengthy one; five years is not uncommon in New England, McMahon says. Her best chance was to find someone who was a blood match and willing to donate a live kidney.
After learning of her friend’s health struggles in a Christmas 2005 holiday letter, Woodall called McMahon from her home in Goshen, New York, and told her she’d like to help. “I had no idea what I was getting myself into,” Woodall admits. “It was a spontaneous response.” Not long after, her own cataract surgery confirmed Woodall’s decision to offer herself as a potential donor. “I knew the miracle of restored life myself. I felt, ‘Yeah, this is what I should be doing.’”
After doctors in New York and Boston tested Woodall and McMahon as a donor/recipient pairing, they found that the friends were compatible right down to the cellular level. Transplant surgery was performed on December 16, 2006, and both of them made a swift and full recovery. McMahon and Woodall have since participated in follow-up research looking at successful live donor pairings.
As one might suspect, the longtime friends have grown closer because of the experience. They’ve visited each other at their respective homes and recently spent a ski weekend at Burke Mountain—just like old times on the ski hills of Vermont. Woodall laughs as she mentions her daughter’s joke that “my mother’s other kidney is coming to visit.”
McMahon is eager to share her story with the motives of giving hope to those in situations similar to her own and encouraging more people to consider making a critical difference in someone’s life through organ donation. With diabetes on the rise, the need for kidney donors is acute and continues to grow.
“Marcia is too special for words, yet I know there are more people like her,” McMahon says. “There is not a day when I do not think of what she did for me.”
For her part, Woodall says she came out of the dual experience of cataract surgery and the kidney donation a better person. “So many good thing happen when you give to other people,” she says. “I’m just glad Paula is doing so well.”
Thomas Weaver
STEPS OF FAITH
Exploring the community beyond campus is often part of the college experience for UVM students. Usually that means downtown, the tightly packed neighborhoods of the Old North End, Red Rocks Park, rambles along the lakeshore. For Daniel Kanter, it meant a weekly seat in a pew. Together with longtime friend Paul Steege ’89, Kanter set out to visit every church in Burlington during his senior year. Greek Orthodox, Christian Science, Jewish temple, Quaker meeting house, a small Pentecostal church where the congregation of thirty spoke in tongues—the open-minded, multi-faith odyssey of his senior weekends, typified Kanter’s time at UVM and his path since.
In January, Daniel Kanter was installed as senior minister of First Unitarian Church of Dallas, assuming leadership of the fifth largest Unitarian Universalist congregation in the country. The UU church is in his heritage. His parents, both UVM alumni, David Kanter ’59 and Dorothy Aurora “Rory” De Cecio ’60, were drawn to Unitarianism from their study of Transcendentalism and got involved with the faith as undergraduates through the UU church at the top of Church Street in Burlington.
But the Kanters’ background also included the Jewish and Christian faiths. Raising their children in the Unitarian Universalist church, their household was rich in religious tradition, celebrating Passover Seder and Easter, Hannukah and Christmas.
“As many college students experience leaving home, and in some ways leaving the faith they grew up in, I was really searching for who I was going to be as a person of faith,” Kanter says. He focused on religion and psychology at UVM, spent a study abroad year in India exploring Hinduism, dug deep closer to home on those Sabbath field trips in Burlington.
Post-UVM, Kanter’s search would draw him east again, as he studied Buddhism in India through Antioch College. During that time, he and a friend embarked on a silent retreat, trekking north of Kathmandu. “In some way in my mind, it was preparation to be a zen monk,” Kanter says. Caught in a Himalayan snowstorm at 14,000 feet, the friends sat in contemplation one morning. Recalling what would be a turning point in his life, Kanter says, “The words came to me ‘return home and serve your people.’” In retrospect, Kanter sees that call as an awakening from within, a realization that the grounding he sought in the exotic was better found in his own life.
Before seminary and joining the UU ministry, Kanter would live on a kibbutz in Israel, teach troubled teens in Burlington, and work in apple orchards in Vermont and New York, adding to the texture of experience that informs his work today with his congregation and the community beyond.
Scarcely a month into his new job as senior minister, Kanter describes his dual role as spiritual leader and CEO with a staff of twenty-five and a budget of $2 million. He keeps balance with a disciplined schedule, devoting Mondays and Wednesdays to spiritual practice, reading, and writing; Tuesdays and Thursdays are reserved for “meetings, e-mail, all that other stuff.”
Kanter hopes to lead the Dallas First Church into a more prominent community role. He notes that in the religiously conservative South, UU congregations can be insular, the “sanctuary becomes a sanctuary from that conservative culture.” Kanter says he envisions the Dallas church “moving out a little more into the city and into the world to be effective. Because, ultimately, Unitarians are about deeds and not creeds. We’re not going to get to agreements about what we believe so much as whether our work is effective in society.”
Thomas Weaver
DANIEL KANTER ’89
RECENT ACHIEVEMENT:
Named senior minister of First
Unitarian Church of Dallas, the
fifth largest UU congregation
in the nation.
INFLUENTIAL PROFESSORS:
William Paden, religion;
George Albee, psychology;
Steve Pastner, anthropology.
CAMPUS MEMORY:
Involved with WRUV from his first day on campus, Kanter helped move the radio station from the fabled “barn” to Billings and hosted a jazz show.
OFF-CAMPUS DIGS:
Green Street apartment with Ray Lewis ’90, William Cronin ’89, and Pete Wilshusen ’89.
FAMILY:
Spouse, Marianne Gargour,
is a painter and web designer.
They have two children, Gabriella, eight, and Nicholas, four.
AVOCATION:
An avid road cyclist, Kanter says, “I’m not sure riding is spiritual practice, but it requires a lot of mindfulness to stay on the bike and on the road… and the exercise is important to helping me stay balanced.”
BEACH BREWS
When Kevin Chipman ’99 and Chirag ‘Cheech’ Vyas ’99 put out a call to their old friends from Tupper Hall and Buell Street to see if they’d be interested in quitting their jobs and moving to the Caribbean, they didn’t get many takers. Undeterred, Chipman left his job as a physical therapist in Boston, and Vyas resigned his position as a scientist for NASA in California.
Within a few months they were living on a sailboat they rented for $250 in the U.S. Virgin Islands and working as bus boys and bartenders. “We were at a point early in our careers where if we were going to make a move this was the time to do it,” says Chipman. “It was supposed to be for six to eight months, but fortunately it didn’t turn out that way.”
The longtime friends quickly assimilated to the slower pace of island life on St. John, but not for long. Fueled by a longing for some of the full-flavored beers they enjoyed at bars and restaurants in Burlington, the college roomies ordered a beer-making kit for $50 online at the island library. It took two years of tinkering in their apartment before they created Virgin Islands Tropical Mango and eventually Virgin Islands Summer Ale.
“To have a locally created beer is something we thought would go over well,” says Vyas.
And it did among their friends, but getting the full-flavored, not-too-heavy brews in restaurants, bars, and resorts proved challenging. The two initially sterilized large, glass bottles, filled them with their brews, and packed them in blank six packs and cardboard cases. Demand quickly overtook their local production so they acquired a bottling partner and were on their way to supplying the Virgin Islands with their beer. They still hadn’t teamed up with a distribution company so the two spent many nights (and mornings) after tending bar delivering beer in their ’89 Toyota pickup.
Eventually, as some revenue started flowing as their brew became a local staple, Chipman and Vyas hired a distributor, built their brew pub called The Tap Room, and expanded their selections to root beer, ginger beer, and an energy drink they concocted called Green Flash. The Tap Room, located in Cruz Bay on St. John, is also home to their island microbrewery, St. John Brewers. They boast the largest selection of microbrewed beers in the Caribbean.
The Tap Room features a UVM banner that never fails to generate a conversation with vacationing alumni (this reporter included). “We don’t have a lot of decorations, but we take pride in that banner,” says Vyas. “You’d be surprised how many UVM grads stop in here. They end up spreading the word when they go back to the states.”
Those alums have been the key to Chipman and Vyas’s expansion into the United States. They recently had a launch in Boston that drew about three hundred guests, the majority of them alumni. Their beer is now sold in selected bars, restaurants, and stores in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, California, Florida, Nebraska, and they’re hoping to push farther north into Vermont in the near future. The first chance for some alums to sample the beer could be this summer at UVM’s annual Reunion Weekend, June 4-7, where Chipman and Vyas will celebrate their tenth reunion.
“Our UVM network of friends and the overall UVM community have been very supportive,” says Vyas. “We’d love to have a presence in Vermont. Right now the business is paying the bills. It would be nice to make more money, but we’re a start-up and have to make a little more of a personal sacrifice, which we don’t mind doing at all. It’s been a tremendous learning experience and has allowed us to explore new things and think outside the box. That’s why we came here and hope to continue to grow.”
Jon Reidel G’06
KEVIN CHIPMAN
MAJOR:
Physical Therapy
FRESHMAN RESIDENCE:
Tupper 2
OFF-CAMPUS
RESIDENCE:
84 Buell St.
FAVORITE HANGOUT:
Any green on campus when the leaves were changing and Frisbees were flying
INFLUENTIAL
PROFESSOR:
Lee Nelson
MOST CHALLENGING CLASS:
Neuroanatomy
EXTRACURRICULAR
ACTIVITIES:
Hiking, running, biking
CHIRAG VYAS
MAJOR:
Animal Science
FRESHMAN RESIDENCE:
Tupper 2
OFF-CAMPUS
RESIDENCE:
84 Buell St.
FAVORITE HANGOUT:
Redstone Green playing
Frisbee, anywhere on Church St.
INFLUENTIAL
PROFESSOR:
Karen Plaut
MOST CHALLENGING CLASS:
Organic Chemistry
EXTRACURRICULAR
ACTIVITIES:
UVM President’s
Ambassadors program, Boulder Society
IN MEMORIAM
Elzbeth Billings Creighton ’28 of Albany, New York, December 21, 2008
Eleanor Gates Blanchard ’33 of Saint Albans, Vermont, December 7, 2008.
Herbert Selib ’34 of Sarasota, Florida, April 2, 2008.
Nathaniel Gould ’35, MD ’37, of Birmingham, Alabama, November 1, 2008.
Edith Maddock Ruhmshottel ’36 of Kailua, Hawaii, March 26, 2007.
Roberta Thompson Bonnette ’36 of Rutland, Vermont, November 18, 2008.
Neil Bartlett ’37 of Tucson, Arizona, November 15, 2008.
Frank Mudgett ’37 of Bennington, Vermont, December 5, 2008.
M. Eluned Roberts ’37 of Albany, New York, September 12, 2008.
Helen Huntington Carris ’38 of Rutland, Vermont, November 27, 2008.
Frances Hennessey Anderson ’38 of Shelburne, Vermont, November 29, 2008.
Shirley Miller Mackiewicz ’39 of Albany, New York, November 28, 2008.
Muriel Hutchinson Brainerd ’39 of Bradford, Vermont, October 15, 2008.
Harriet Canedy Murdock ’39 of Brattleboro, Vermont, November 28, 2008.
Jean Butler Pye ’40 of Charlotte, North Carolina, December 13, 2008.
Esther Moor Doran ’40 of Burlington, Vermont, January 9, 2009.
John Couture ’41 of Milton, Florida, April 7, 2008.
Verna Allen Grant ’42 of Malden, Illinois, April 7, 2008.
James Aseltine ’43 of Lombard, Illinois, November 7, 2008.
Margaret Cassidy O’Gorman ’43 of South Burlington, Vermont, November 8, 2008.
Thomas McCormick ’43 of Williston, Vermont, December 17, 2008.
Era DelGuidice Campbell ’44 of Williston, Vermont, November 3, 2008.
Louis Fishman ’44, MD ’50, of Auburn, Maine, October 6, 2008.
George Huard ’44, MD ’46, of Rancho Mirage, California, November 30, 2008.
Jacob Katz, M.D., ’44 of New Haven, Connecticut, November 17, 2008.
Carolyn Provost Keighley ’44 of Norton, Massachusetts, November 14, 2008.
Jean Ryan Hewitt ’47 of Burlington, Vermont, November 12, 2008.
Helen Boyd Steele ’48 of Beaverton, Oregon, January 25, 2008.
Lawrence Beauregard ’49 of Doral, Florida, August 23, 2008.
David Jareckie ’49, G ’56, of Bennington, Vermont, December 9, 2008.
Robert Stafford ’49 of Richmond, Vermont, November 4, 2008.
Daniel Meegan ’50, G ’55, of
Keeseville, New York, October 7, 2008.
Robert Blackmore ’51 of Schenectady, New York, January 19, 2009.
Harold Darling ’51 of Clover, South Carolina, November 2, 2008.
Frederick Mayo ’52 of Saint Johnsbury, Vermont, November 3, 2008.
Dirk Kuyk ’53 of Pennsylvania, December 31, 2008.
Helen Davidoff Larcom ’53 of Morris Plains, New Jersey, November 8, 2008.
Elizabeth Riegelman Cody G’73 of Waitsfield, Vermont, July 30, 2008.
[FACULTY]
Joseph Abruscato
Joseph Abruscato, professor emeritus of education, died on March 17, 2009 in Burlington. A nationally prominent educator and author of professional books in the field of science teaching, Professor Abruscato taught as a member of the UVM faculty from 1969 until his retirement in 2006. An engaging professor, ever attentive to the needs of his students, Abruscato also played key roles in developing innovative ways to adapt UVM’s teacher preparation curriculum to the evolving demands of education.
