1970s – 1980s

1970
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Doug Arnold
darnold@arnold-co.com

1971
Since this is one of the last times I can let you know information about Reunion ’06 before the actual weekend, June 1-4, 2006, I want to propose that members of the Class of ’71 meet at my house on the Burlington Waterfront for cocktails the evening of Saturday, June 3. Afterwards, we can walk over to a local restaurant called Greenstreets for dinner with music of our choice piped in. Annie Viets has offered to have a Sunday brunch Reunion Weekend. More on that later. She can take a break from teaching her course, “Business Savvy,” to allow us to say our goodbyes after reunion. Janie Williams Sherman said that she and her husband, Lon, will most likely attend reunion. Bill Allard wrote that the Duck’s Breath Mystery Theater is having a reunion. The aging men of Duck’s Breath Mystery Theater are gathering for several shows in the San Francisco Bay area, including Bill and Leon Martell ’72. Bill wrote that Duck’s Breath’s 30th anniversary DVD is being released nationally in November 2005, and it should be in stores by November 2005, “but it’s show biz so you never know.” Bill also directed a show for the New York Fringe Festival, and it had rave reviews, including one from The New York Times. It sounded like a good review of a weird show! Bill can be reached at bill@3street.net. Jason Robards is back from Peru. I have to find out what draws him there. Speaking of Peru, Jim Taylor and Barbara Potter ’76 went there last October to shoot a documentary on Peruvians’ efforts to obtain clear title of their land. Ray (Tom) Gilman is an attorney in his hometown of Rochester, N.Y., with Woods Oviatt Gilman LLP, the firm his grandfather joined in 1912 and his father, now retired, joined in 1949. Ray left UVM to serve the Peace Corps in Kenya from 1971 through 1973. In August 2005, he traveled to Kenya with his wife, Kelly, and sons Scott and Jimmy to visit friends and former students, and tent camp in the Maasai Mara Game Reserve. Ray has a nephew currently attending UVM in the class of 2009. Jimmy Seder wrote, “I have a 25th anniversary so Marie and I are going to Spain (together). It’s the typical tour: Barcelona, Madrid, Granada, Seville. I’ll send photos if you will print them in Abstract Gaudi. Maypo just got back from Napa, so you might want to bug him.” Jimmy’s words; I couldn’t say it as well as he does. Derrick Semler’s latest was featured in the Fall 2005 Vermont Quarterly.  He sent me an email recently saying, “The newest update is that The Music Laos Project, which I founded and direct has gained a year business visa from the Lao Ministry of Public Health. I leave on December 5. I wrote the UNESCO grant proposal in 2003, and the MLP was one of 25 projects worldwide selected for its Co-Action program, serving 27 of the worlds poorest countries.” He also provided a footnote: He won the first Bob Dylan Wannabe Contest in 2004. I heard from Marc Milowski (AKA Maypo) that Megz is happy working for Bayer Pharmaeuticals Veterinary Division in Boston. Molly is in New York City working in the children’s clothing business, and Morgan is working for Aware Manager, a company that designs and implements software systems for sports arenas and stadiums. A dream job for her. Mark spoke to Jeff Faller, who is in Chicago and doing well. He also bumped into Dave “Moon” Reece at Kimball Union Academy. Dave lives in the next town over from Mark. He also met with Chuck Locke in New York City recently. Chuck has his own law firm, Locke and Herbert LLP, and is ‘of counsel’ for another larger midtown firm. Chuck looks forward to seeing Ray Gilman at Reunion. Marc also heard from Pat Hunt Vanna, who lives near the Canadian border. She is teaching French at North Country Union High School in Newport, Vt. After six years, she just stepped down from the VT-NEA Board. She recently moved into a large house, rebuilt from her mother’s summer cottage, and she lives there with her mother, Geraldine Wilcox (’41) Hunt. The house is two miles from the Canadian border and the curling club, where Pat frenetically practices her latest sport. Check out Mary Jane Leach’s article about producing a 3-CD set of Julius Eastman’s music at www.newmusicbox.org/ article.nmbx?id=4411. Please write and put June 1-4, 2006, on your calendars now. Getting together after 35 years will be great fun.
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Sarah Sprayregen
sarah.sprayregen@uvm.edu

1972
Richard Haupt, who received his soils masters engineering degree in 1972, has retired from the State of Vermont and is living in Morrisonville, N.Y., with his wife, Kathryn. Three of his four children live in Vermont, so he comes to Vermont often. Richard and Kathryn celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on June 16, 2004.
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Debbie Koslow Stern
debra.stern@uvm.edu

1973
Michele Pietryka Pagan is a textile conservator in private practice in Washington, D.C., and she represented the Vermont Painted Theater Curtain Project at the International Conference on Museums at The Hague, Netherlands, in September. The Vermont Painted Theater Curtains have been recognized as one of America’s treasures, as has the Star Spangled Banner, another of Michele’s previous projects with the Smithsonian Institution. Michele is the textile conservator on the Vermont project, and she addressed the international conference of conservators on the topic of connecting the heritage of our past with our future. The project has been recognized because it uses local Vermont citizen volunteers in the preservation of these curtains. Michele and her husband, John, live on Capitol Hill and in Brookfield, Vt., where Michele maintains a conservation studo. She also holds the contract for the conservation of the Civil War Flag Collection at the Vermont State House in Montpelier. Michele’s undergraduate degree in home economics with a concentration in costume and textiles prepared her for this profession. Kristin Helweg Hanson completed her PhD degree in religion from Emory University. She now teaches Western Religions and Eastern Philosophies and Religions at the University of Anchorage in Alaska.
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Deborah Mesce
d.mesce@verizon.net

1974
After many years of writing class notes for our class, I am putting down the pen. It has been an enjoyable experience, but I find I have not been able to keep up with your news items. This past year, I lost my mother, who died after a courageous struggle with diabetes and congestive heart failure. As a result, I have lost focus on some endeavors, including this column. I apologize to anyone who sent me news and did not see it in print as quickly as anticipated. I did hear from two classmates in recent months. Joanne Risley Artz of Evansville, Ind., was promoted to associate librarian/ professor at the University of Southern Indiana. She toured UVM’s Bailey-Howe Library last summer courtesy of Becky Arnold ’77, from UVM’s Planned Gift Office. Joanne had a wonderful lunch with her undergraduate advisor, Dr. Jean Davison ’44.  Joanne also visited some of her Gamma Phi sorority sisters: Sue Lewis Degner ’73, Carol Cooley Peters ’75, Garry Lundrigan Parizo, and Sue Orzell Farrell. Marilyn LaBossiere G’76 recently returned from a two-week trip to Italy with her husband, Bruce. Her older son, Jon, works for Bank of America, and her youngest, Mike, who recently graduated from WPI in Worcester, Mass., is now attending Boston University. Marilyn now teaches high-school math at Natick High School in Massachusetts after instructing students in science for many years. Every fall, she gets together with her UVM friends Carol Lucyniak ’76, Lee Parks ’76, and Robin Severy ’75. Chris Brown G’79, D’83, wrote from his new home in Cazenovia, N.Y., that he saw Jilyne McDonald ’08, Johnny Davidson ’07, and Carolyn Maull ’93 at the World University Games last winter in Innsbruck. Jilyne and Johnny were competing. Johnny was competing for Canada, and Carolyn was the trainer of the U.S. Team. Chris was there as a spectator to watch his son, Roger, a 2004 Dartmouth graduate, compete. While there, he gave seminars on measuring and characterizing the roughness of ski bases and axiomatic design of ski bindings. Both Roger and Carolyn had taken Roger Bryant’s course in care and prevention of athletic injuries, and both had enjoyed UVM theater. Chris is a professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, doing research on surface metrology as well as teaching courses on manufacturing, design, and the technology of alpine skiing. He hopes to get together with other UVMers in central New York. Well, folks, it has been a pleasure being your official scribe, but it is time to move on to other pursuits. All of you will always be in my thoughts and prayers. May we all find peace, fellowship, and love.
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Steven Rice
swinner123@aol.com

1975
I received a wonderful email message from Ellen Murphy Bailey, who was feeling sentimental and missing UVM. She decided to get in touch hoping that maybe someone she knew would be inspired to write as well. Ellen, husband Dave, and children Kate and James live on Cape Cod. Ellen is the administrator at the Ocean Life Institute at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. She loves her job and says the most fun she had in a very long time was last winter when she went on a five-week research cruise to Antarctica. She reported it to be the most exciting, breathtaking environment she has ever seen. She stressed that the landscape was enormous, and she took many photos of icebergs, penguins, whales, and albatrosses. She was on duty from midnight to 4:00 a.m., and she saw the sun set and rise several hours apart. In addition to this exciting work, Ellen works per diem as a physical therapist in orthopedic rehabilitation.  She loves to sail, and she also sings in a choir. Bill McConnell contacted me from his office in Michigan. If you read this column, I am still waiting for your news. Chico Lager and his golf partner, Bill Dillon, won their flight and finished as runners up in a dramatic playoff at the MacAndrew Golf Tournament at the Burlington Country Club. Artist Leslie Fry created the “growing” sculpture Big Dress in Vermont by weaving grapevines though a huge, floral gown made of welded steel. Her sculpture has now been planted at the Gulf Coast Museum in Largo, Fla. Richard Cassidy recently began a three-year term on the American Bar Association Board of Governors.  Richard is a founder and director of Hoff, Curtis, Pacht, Cassidy, Frame, Somers and Katims, P.C., in Burlington, Vt. I would love to include news from more classmates. Please send me an email with your update. Thanks!
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Dina Dwyer Child
dinachild@aol.com

1976
Linda Boardman Drumheller and Marjie Stern-Hackett have come up with a terrific venue for our 30th Reunion in June 2006. Get ready for a Saturday evening class of ’76 event at the new Higher Ground on Williston Road. We’ll dance to the tunes of Charlie Rice (CNOTE Entertainment), who used to be in Downpour. Eddie Sall, Mark Soufleris, Skip Beitzel, Judy Holmes, Shelley Richardson, and I are working on the rest of the program for the Class of ’76 Reunion, June 1-4, 2006.
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Peter Beekman
bbeekma1@twcny.rr.com

1977
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c/o UVM Alumni Office
alumni@uvm.edu

1978
Classmates, why haven’t any of you written me with news? I am positively embarrassed to keep talking about myself. Please email me with some current news about your lives. Otherwise, you will be stuck knowing more about me than you probably care to. The only classmate I have heard from is Gail Leach Ansheles. She wrote that Starr Farm Beach in Burlington was the setting for a 30th anniversary Labor Day party for many UVM alums last September 4. Attendees included Paul Sisson, Ann Heffernon, Alex Hoblitzel Heintz, Mike Hedges, Steve Fitch, Chris Heintz, and Gail. Other UVMers present were Hilary Fisher Jacques, Dee Olive, Shari Klein Sanderford, Bill Sisson, and possibly Lisa Voos. Gail let us know that the partiers relived decadent days on the lake, and a good time was had by all. I am preparing to enter my fifth year as director of Bar Services for the State of Nevada; however, I am lobbying hard for a change and hope that by the time this reaches you, I will be installed as the new editor of the Bar’s monthly legal publication, Nevada Lawyer. Keep your fingers crossed for me! As many of you know, I am also a licensed mediator and arbitrator and have offered my services to FEMA as they put together a team of 24 “conflict resolution specialists” who will work as members of FEMA’s National Alternative Dispute Resolution Cadre assigned to a field office created when a situation like “Hurricane Katrina” is declared a disaster by the president. It sounds like a very challenging opportunity, and it will involve lots of travel. I don’t know how much competition I will have for a spot, but I’m definitely interested. Have a warm and healthy New Year!
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Audrey Ziss Bath
audreyb2@aol.com

1979
Louise Mobbs is a diagnostic medical sonographer at Fletcher Allen Healthcare in Burlington, Vt. She and three others have co-authored an article in the July-August 2005 issue of the Journal of Diagnostic Medical Sonography, entitled “Accuracy of Sonography in Detecting Abnormal Axillary Lymph Nodes When Breast Cancer is Present.” Louise sends greetings to her diagnostic radiology classmates.  Please continue to send news.
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Beth Nutter Gamache
bnutter@adelphia.net

1980
May this column find you all happy, safe, and warm. I am writing this on a beautiful Vermont fall morning. The sun is shining brightly; the sky is a clear, crisp blue; and the clouds float slowly by like big white puffs of cotton candy. I always forget just how beautiful fall can be with leaves crackling and the air fresh with only the subtlest hint of the cooler weather to come. It always brings back memories of apple picking at Shelburne Orchards with my Tri-Delta sisters and walking across campus to class. I heard from Sarah Page recently. She shared her reflections on our 25th reunion. Her parents John ’55 and Marjorie Clark (’56) Page were on hand for the weekend as was Sarah’s husband Bob Westcott, a former Sig Ep, making it a true family affair. At reunion, we informally voted Sarah and Bob the class’s “most romantic couple.” They dated during freshman year, stayed in touch over all these years, and eventually reconnected and married. Bob is a computer consultant and an occasional tour guide at Ben and Jerry’s. It was great to reminisce about our freshman days at McCauley Hall over sushi on Church Street before heading off to our class gathering at the Firehouse Gallery. Sarah also enjoyed reconnecting with Sig Ep Robert “Ram” Monniere and his wife, Jan. She also spent some time with fellow ADPis Carolyn Cummings Cordeiro, Pam Burgess Blum, and Andrea Porro Allen. The group of us really boogied down on the dance floor proving that disco is not dead, even as the Jazz Festival was hopping on Church Street below. Some revelers from the Jazz Festival tried to crash our gathering. It must have seemed to them that we were having a truly great time. They were right. Sarah has just started her 26th year at Harwood Union High School in Duxbury, Vt., where she is happy to work with another ADPi, Cindy Green Wheeler. Sarah also stays in touch with our dear friend, Kathy Hayes Lamb, who lives in White River Junction, Vt. Ed Bullock of Issaquah, Wash., let us know that he completed the Ironman Canada last August. He spent eight months training by biking more than 2,000 miles and swimming and running for many hours. He completed the race in 12 hours and 54 minutes, beating his goal of 13 hours. He ran the marathon in just under five hours. Ed finished 89th out of 217 in his age group, and of the 2,050 finishers, he came in 989th. I guess that’s all for now. Please drop me a note or send an email message to let me know what’s happening. It’s always so great to hear from you all. Happy New Year!
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Mary Beth Cirino Pinard-Brace
mypookey4ever@yahoo.com

1981
Reunion Weekend is June 1-4, 2006, and in addition to the all-class activities, the class of ’81 will be meeting Saturday evening in downtown Burlington (place TBA) for a fun gathering. Our ’06 reunion committee is headed by Suzanne Kelly Moreland and Linda Johnson Norris.  Tom Pynchon reports that he is working on St. Lawrence’s reunion weekend, and he knows that Suzanne and Linda will do a great job. So far, Brian and Brooks Barton Boardman, Lisa Cleverdon Clark, Martin Horner, Jay and Gail Laird, Eric Reimer, and Larry Stone are on board. Hope to see lots of classmates there. The more the merrier.
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Mardie Trask Sorenson
mardie@uta.edu

1982
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Beth Peabody
peabodyea@aol.com

1983
We have had a magnificent fall here in Chicago. I was walking by Lake Michigan yesterday and thinking about those early mornings when a few UVM classmates and I would water ski on Lake Champlain. Great memories! Lorraine Forenza Henry, Alisa Bowen Goessling, and Robin Ellis Busch and their families met at Sugarbush last August for their annual reunion. They enjoyed the mountains and waterways around Warren/Waitsfield and were joined by Chris and Allyson Carpenter Yandow and their children for a hike to the top of Mount Abraham. Jill Sigal was sworn in as Assistant Secretary of Energy for Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs last August. She has led the Department of Energy’s congressional affairs team and helped secure passage of the energy bill. Jill and her husband, Bob Muth, live with their son in Bethesda, Md. I’d like to extend my warmest wishes for a safe, happy, and healthy New Year. Don’t forget to write in.
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Sharon Morrissey Young
smyoung@att.net

1984
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Laurie Olander Angle
alumni@uvm.edu

1985
Hope everyone had a wonderful winter so far. Thank you to those who wrote to me. Henry “Ira” Trombley wrote to tell us that he has been appointed to the Vermont Human Resources Council, the Vermont Assistive Technology Council, and the National Conference of State Legislators, assigned to the work force development committee. He sits on the Vermont School Board Association board of directors as well. In his spare time, he works in addictions counseling for the Counseling Service of Addison County, and somehow he finds time to be a grange member and justice of the peace. Congratulations to Wendy Mills Gross, who was married in April 2005 to Mitchell Gross. Ilyse Berger Steiger was Wendy’s matron of honor, and Ken Mazer also attended the wedding. Wendy and Mitch bought a house in Scarsdale, N.Y. Wendy is a business development officer for the wealth management firm, Fiduciary Trust Company International. She also chairs UVM’s New York Regional Board and is part of the Alumni Council. Please send me more updates so that everyone can keep in touch.
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Barbara Roth
roth_barbara@yahoo.com

1986
Joel Levis wrote to let us know that he is currently working as a staff physician in emergency medicine at Kaiser Santa Clara Medical Center in northern California. He is also a clinical instructor for the Stanford/Kaiser Emergency Medicine Residency Program.
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Larry Gorkun
vtlfg@msn.com

1987
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Sarah Vaden Reynolds
ssrey@optonline.net

1988
Thanks to everyone who has been in touch. If I left anyone out, I apologize. Life can get a little crazy as we all know. My husband, Jon, and I had the chance to spend a weekend last summer with Michael ’87 and Lori Tull Bass in Boston. We had a great time. My middle son, Charlie, who lives with four Yankee fans, is an avid Red Sox fan. He and Jon went with Mike and his older son, Adam, to a game at Fenway Park. It absolutely was the highlight of Charlie’s summer. It was great to spend time with Lori. We had lots of laughs looking at old UVM photos. My sister, Jill Selinka (’90) Winston, and her husband, Michael, welcomed their second daughter, Marni Rose. She joined big sister, Eva, in August. On September 17, I had a great day celebrating Jane Bernholz (’87) Maltby’s 40th birthday. Mia McLean (’87) Hitchcock, Michelle Pinter (’87) Howe, Kelly Finn (’87) Mazo, Ellen Berkowitz ’87, and I took Jane out for a day in New York City. We had so much fun! We look forward to celebrating Mia and Ellen’s birthdays very soon. I was pleasantly surprised to hear from my long-lost friend, Lou Quiroz. It has been years since we’ve seen each other, and we had a lot of catching up to do. Lou lives in Fresno, Calif., with his wife, Lisa. He has three chidren, Alyssa, Devin, and Connor. Lou works for Boston Scientific selling interventinal cardiology products. I loved hearing from him! Bruce David is another old friend I heard from. He now lives in Israel with his wife and two sons, ages three years and six months. He works as a fundraiser and alumni director for an organization called LIVNOT that runs Israeli programs for unaffiliated “20-30-somethings” from the United States. Thanks for writing, Bruce! Another old friend who got in touch was Bill Glavin. He lives in Norwood, Mass., with his wife, Karen, and his three children, Aine, Liam, and Maeve. Last summer his family vacationed in Ohio. They visited Julie Boland Gannon, her husband, John, and their four children. He also saw Jill Boland (’90) Kahn, her husband, Gulam, and their three children. Billy Weber ’90, his wife, Debbie, and their three daughters also were part of the fun. Bill’s family ended the week hanging out with Jen Boland ’92. Finally, on
a very sad note, Leslie Day (’87) Craige wrote to let us know that Christopher Tramontana died in New York City on June 21, 2005. He leaves behind his wife, Jean, and daughters Elizabeth, Caroline, and Rachel. Chris was raised in Summit, N.J., and after his graduation from UVM, he was a long-time resident of Elizabeth, N.J. Several UVM graduates attended his funeral. Hope everyone will keep in touch!
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Cathy Selinka Levison
crlevison@comcast.net

1989
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Kate Barker Swindell
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