1950s – 1960s

1950
Clement Looby ’59 let us know that his brother, Robert, our classmate, passed away in July 2004. Robert had lived in Shelburne, Vt., with his wife, Audrey, and he had a 30-year military career, including service in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. He also had assignments in Europe and Washington, retiring at the rank of colonel. He had six children. Alvan Lawrence died in July 2006 in Vermont. He is survived by his wife, Eleanor, daughter, Wanda Bezio, grandson, Bart Bezio ’00, and his brothers, Allen and James ’62. Our classmate, John Page, delivered the eulogy. Alvan and Eleanor Scribner Lawrence gave a conservation easement on 263 acres of their farm in Shaftsbury, Vt., to the Vermont Land Trust so that it will remain a farm. Helen Post attended UVM’s Summer Learning Adventures last July with her sister, Ruth ’47. They enjoyed learning about the history of Lake Champlain with UVM professor Andre Senecal.
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Hedi Stoehr Ballantyne
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1951
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Joan Coffman Sabens
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1952
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Trudy Rosenberg Wolf
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1953
The three-quarter century age milestone finds me still trying to decide what to do when I grow up. Meanwhile, yoga keeps my body limber, and a memoir class for seniors keeps me active. The lessons and the stories in my memoir have really tickled the mind and helped to dredge up wonderful memories that had been long forgotten. If you have such a class in your community, I highly recommend it; and while you are busy writing about your life, you could drop us a line or two for the next Vermont Quarterly.
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Nancy Hoyt Burnett
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1954
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Kathryn Dimick Wendling
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1955
Harmon “Don” Graves recently completed a biography of a nationally-recognized landscape painter, titled Passionate Landscape: The Painting Journeys of Buffalo Kaplinski, released last August by Sunstone Press. He is past president of the Douglas Society, a supporting arm of the Denver Art Museum’s Native Arts department. Don has been the author of articles on art and related legal issues, and he was a contributor to R.G. Bowman’s book Walking With Beauty, The Art and Life of Gerard Curtis Delano. A practicing attorney in Denver, he has represented art galleries, dealers, artists, and others involved in the creative process.
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Dan Burack
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Jane Morrison Battles
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1956
Judy Silon Hershberg reported that, after our successful 50th reunion, the UVM Alumni Office assisted us in sending out Marsha Pearl Jamil’s class history to all classmates. If you didn’t receive your copy, contact the office at 411 Main Street, Burlington, VT 05401.
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Jane Stickney
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1957
Sally Davis Adams of Lexington, Mass., is still working as a nurse several days a week, enjoying the “same old, same old” with husband John and their eight grandchildren. Retired dairy farmer Charles Bailey is now living in Barre, Vt., during the summer and in Winter Haven, Fla., to escape the chill of Vermont winters. He reported that each summer eight to 10 of the “Hardy Boys” get together in the Burlington area. Richard Everett lives in Oswego, N.Y., keeping busy “pursuing happiness” and trying to avoid the hazards of senior life. Anne Duncan Golding of Sarasota, Fla., wrote that she has lived in Florida for 20 years. She continues to love it and couldn’t think of living anywhere else, hurricanes and all. Anne has gotten together with Jane Gregory Caldwell and Mary Coffee in Florida several times, and she has spoken to Lois Marvin by phone. Gayla Schildhaus Halbrecht moved to a retirement community in Chapel Hill, N.C. William “Bill” Higgins of Hayward, Calif., is an avid Oakland A’s baseball fan, attending 20-30 games a season and going to Arizona for 10 days each year for spring training. Bill plays a lot of pool at the local senior center and travels to Reno, Nev., several times a year. He has 14 grandchildren and reports that he spends the month of July back East visiting kids and grandkids. Maryann Wondolowski Lakin retired from the faculty of the humanities department at Central Oregon Community College, where she taught writing. After retirement in 2004, she and her husband took a car trip from Oregon to New England. Maryann wrote, “We stopped at the UVM campus. It looks so crowded! I also showed my husband the front steps and closed front door of Grassemount. Ah, Lafayette!” They also visited Nancy Sears, a nursing graduate, in Middletown, N.Y., Maryann’s home town. Maryann has seven grandchildren. Peter Lallos of Syosset, N.Y., has finished researching family history dating back to 1750. He is also helping to restore an ancestral home, which was the seat of the final overthrow of Turkish rule in Macedonia, Greece. Currently, he is writing a book on his family’s history. Marv Levy lives in Denver, Colo., where he is a business management consultant. He recently served as chairman of the Colorado State Chamber of Commerce and is currently chairman of the Mountain State Region Anti-Defamation League. Bill Schoenfeld of Lakewood, N.J., a retired professor of fine arts, now has a jewelry gallery featuring personal designs. His wife, Elaine, is a graduate gemologist. June Squiers Sherwin of Arlington, Vt., is on the steering committee for the Faith in Action program that assists the elderly with transportation, light housekeeping, and other needs. She and her husband sold their home in Arizona and their log cabin in Vermont, and they have moved into a new home in Arlington, Vt. Ruthann Hadley Spaulding, who lives in Queensbury, N.Y., wrote: “After I retired, I thought it would be fun to work at something else. I got my degree in medical records and passed the national exam. Shortly after that I accidentally hurt both knees.” Ruthann has adapted to a lifestyle that accommodates her knee problems. This summer, she will travel by bus to Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. Rebecca Orvis Fifield of Middlebury, Vt., wrote that her granddaughters Allison Cram and Ashley Hayes are in their first year at UVM. Charles Magoon is retired and living in Olympia, Wash. Martin Danoff’s wife, Susan, was appointed as a family court judge in the State of New York. She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Fordham University and an honors graduate of Cardozo Law School. If you haven’t sent your submission for our 50th Reunion memory book, please send it ASAP to the UVM Alumni Office, 411 Main Street, Burlington, VT 05401, by fax to 802-656-8798, or by email to alumni.uvm. edu. For news about our reunion, consult the web page at alumni.uvm. edu.
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Susan Wakefield Cochran
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1958
Hazel Vantine Smith retired from Wayzata West Middle School. She misses the lakes and hills of Vermont, but will continue to make Minnesota her home.
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Joyce McQuilkin Dawson
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1959
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Henry Shaw, Jr.
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1960
Last May, your esteemed class secretary spent three weeks in northern Italy on an opera tour, visiting all of the major opera houses in Turin, Florence, Milan, Bologna, and Venice. I saw six operas in 12 days. I then spent a week in England with a friend, who wanted to visit the village of Foulsham in Norfolk County in northeast England where his family lived before coming to Hingham, Mass., in 1638. I am still very active in real estate in the Burlington area, celebrating 45 years in 2006. I plan to go back to Greece next summer to sail with friends who have a house on the great little island of Kea. Please let me know about your travels and things of interest.
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Paul Heald
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1961
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Carol Adams Gater
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1962
Mike Pearo has been a teacher and coach at Rice Memorial High School in South Burlington, Vt., for the past 44 years. He currently teaches AP European history and honors contemporary history. Recently, the Rice Memorial baseball field was renamed the “Coach Mike Pearo Field” in his honor. He continues to lead student tours to Europe as part of “Mr. Pearo’s Comparative Cultures Program.” He also established an outreach program to help the poor in Chile with more than 2,000 students participating in the program. Mike continues to travel, having visited 94 countries so far. Polly Hemingway Franz and her husband, Robert “Pete” (’63) Franz, are both enjoying retirement. They spend their time at their home in Boise, Idaho, and their vacation home in McCall, Idaho. Polly and Pete have two sons and four grandchildren. Susan Elwood Richter lives in Ridgefield, Conn. She had a wonderful reunion with her college roommates, Linda Mann Silver Diamond and Lorie Heller Goldstein at her son’s wedding in Burlington two years ago. It was their first time together in more than 40 years. Louise Cerasoli Chaffee of Williston, Vt., is partially retired but continues to work part-time as an office manager at a law firm. In 2003, she sold the Heart of the Village Inn. Louise is also very involved as a volunteer with the American Red Cross Disaster Services and traveled to Gulfport, Miss., to assist in mass care following Hurricane Katrina. Elliott Rosenbaum of Oceanside, N.Y., is a trial attorney, specializing in family law and personal injury. He was selected to serve as executive vice president of the Valley Stream Chamber of commerce, and he also serves as the Chamber’s attorney. Neil Rockoff lives in the Palm Springs, Calif., area, where he enjoys playing golf, traveling, and writing. He has had a career in broadcast sales management as a media broker and radio station owner, and he has been general manager of CBS, among other companies. Michael Cosgrove of Henrietta, N.Y., wrote that after 42 years in the Rochester, N.Y., area, where he has had a career in aerospace, systems engineering, satellite imaging, IKONOS and Quickbird, NPOESS, and image compression, he has moved to Fort Wayne, Ind., with his wife, Mary Ann. The last of his three, her five, and their two children have graduated from college. Their son, Andrew is in the Navy; Tim is in the Army Special Forces; and Michael is teaching math in Taiwan. Linda Kieselmann Montgomery is semi-retired from Franklin County Home Health Agency in Vermont. She continues to work part-time doing IV therapy in clients’ homes. Linda also keeps busy with church activities, and she is a family educator for the National Alliance for Mental Illness. Linda makes her home in Milton, Vt., but she frequently visits her daughter and family, including grandson Kyle and twin granddaughters, Megan and Danielle, in California. Joann Brzezicke Trolinger of Vacaville, Calif,, retired from the faculty of the Family Nurse Practitioner/Physician Program at the University of California at Davis. She continues to do work with them and with the University of Phoenix NLP Program. Her husband, Don, is a retired teacher, who is now a golf coach. They love California. Paul Sausville was elected to the Saratoga County board of supervisors as well as supervisor for the town of Malta, N.Y. Richard Aldinger, who is retired and living in Orlando, Fla., sent a report about a reunion of four UVM Theta Chi brothers and their wives in St. Augustine, Fla., last April. It was the first time all four had been together since our graduation. Michael Johns and his wife, Norma, hosted the gathering and made arrangements for tours and other activities. Many memories were shared about UVM days, including fraternity sports and old friends. Also attending were Dick and Jane Aldinger, Tom and Anne Sherman, and Garry “Buzz” and Sandy Stone. All agreed to meet again next year, and they hoped others would join them. James Messier and his wife own and operate a horse breeding farm in Franklin, Vt. They raise registered Arabian, Morab, and miniature horses. Linda Martin Dunklee of Quechee, Vt., and Barbara Perri have remained close friends who keep in contact weekly. Barbara Gioria Comtois of Bellows Falls, Vt., reported that her mother, Dorotha Edwards (’33) Gioria, passed away last April in Barre, Vt. She enjoyed correspondence with Fraser Drew ’33. Dorotha had had a wonderful 95th birthday party on March 4 with many relatives, friends, and former students in attendance. Her father was Americo Gioria ’33. Barbara is retired from a career in secondary education. Sandra Honig-Haftel and her husband, Carl, of Cromwell, Conn., recently returned from an interesting and exciting trip to Central Europe. Their son, Michael, is a senior at Skidmore College, and daughter, Cathy, has blessed them with two beautiful grandchildren. Sandra is a retired professor of entrepreneurship and management. Al McLean has had two careers, one with Eastman Kodak and one as a stockbroker with Transamerica. He has settled in Charleston, S.C., where he continues to enjoy his passion for photography. Classmates can contact Al via email at acm4052@yahoo.com.
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Patty Hoskiewicz Allen
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1963
A. Peter Low had an article titled, “Recollections from Four Decades on the NYSE Trading Floor,” published in the summer 2006 issue of Financial History, The Magazine of the Museum of American Finance. Peter is managing director and senior advisor at the Griswold Company, Inc., in New York City.
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Toni Citarella Mullins
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1964
Hi, everyone! For the first time in many years, we did not see any news from our class published in Vermont Quarterly. It wasn’t that I didn’t write anything; however, my news was lost in cyberspace when I e-mailed it to UVM. Sadly, I did not even keep a copy and, of course, can’t remember what I said! I received an e-mail from Ed Healy awhile back. He retired from teaching mathematics in 2001 and lives in Ellenville, N.Y., with his wife, Jane, who graduated from Plattsburgh State in ’67. Jane retired from teaching courses in home and careers in 2003. Ed has been a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks for more than 44 years and is currently the district deputy to the national president. Jane and Ed keep busy golfing and volunteering. They have two children, Kathleen, a Union College graduate who is married to Bryan Yackel and teaches math, and Bryan, an engineer. Their son Ryan is a professional golfer in Wilmington, N.C.
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Susan Griesenbeck Barber
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1965
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Colleen Denny Hertel
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1966
John and Linda Dick Fox live at Reynolds Plantation in Greensboro, Ga., after having spent 28 years in Corning, N.Y. John retired from Corning as director of human resources after 32 years with the company. They have two children and two grandchildren. Their daughter and family live in Atlanta, and their son and his family live in Richmond, Va. Both John and Linda are avid golfers, and they enjoy the long golf season in Georgia. Claire Berka Willis and husband Frank ’64 recently retired from their respective jobs in Connecticut. They moved to Burlington to be closer to their children and grandchildren. Their son and daughter, as well as their spouses, are all teachers in Vermont. Last October, Claire and Frank hosted a dinner party for classmates, including Chip (’65) and Marcia Ely Bechtold, Ed and Susan Gorman Kiniry, and my husband Ken McGuckin and me. All of the ladies are members of Kappa Alpha Theta, and we lived together on campus way back when. Ken and I visited Anne Appleton Weller in Columbia, Mo., last September. Ann works at the University of Missouri, specializing in major gift development for their College of Arts and Sciences. She, too, is a member of Kappa Alpha Theta. After UVM, Pete Mulford flew in the Army Medivac, went to graduate school at Cornell, and spent 35 years as a hospital administrator. He met and married his wife, Betty, in 1976 after he relocated to Marion, S.C. Not being ready to retire just yet, he now is working in philanthropy from home. Pete was reminded of all his great years at UVM (SAE, Kakewalk, football games, parties, ROTC, and perhaps some studying), while reading the last issue of Vermont Quarterly. Pete’s last contact with UVMers was about ten years ago when he saw Boyd Tomassetti at Gettysburg College. Before that, he ran into Judy and Jack Stewart at a Cornell football game. Pete welcomes classmates to stop by for a visit; he has lots of room.
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1967
Jeffrey Clyman wrote that besides flying jet fighters when the need arises, he is starting and managing a living history aviation museum on Long Island. He and Jacky, his wife of 35 years, are savoring life and our freedoms. Chasing Danforth, A Wilderness Calling, an autobiography of John Danforth written by Robert Cook, was published in June 2005. John DeBoer retired last July, and he looks forward to more time for golf, tennis, and finally finishing the novel he started writing ten years ago. Also joining the list of retirees is Bruce Durgin, who has spent the past 39 years in corporate sales and marketing positions. He will be dividing his time between Evergreen, Colo., and Lake Morey, Vt. Anna Gardner Higginson is a clinical nurse specialist who assists with staffing and management of a 36-bed telemetry-ICU step- down-cardiac unit. She gives educational lectures on pacemakers and peripheral vascular disease and teaches CPR and acute coronary life systems. Anna enjoys visiting her son and grandchildren in Manhattan and vacationing in Naples, Fla., each spring. After 33 years with Merrill Lynch, Donald Hutchinson opened a fee-only financial management practice of personal, corporate, and retirement assets. He writes a financial column called “Your Financial Compass” for Connecticut newspapers. Peter Lichtenthal has been promoted to professor of anesthesiology at the University of Arizona in Tucson. Marilyn Gibby Machia wrote, “I am excited that the camp that was the vision of my husband, Larry, moves forward in his memory. The Machia Wilderness Camp Inc. received its non-profit status in January 2006. The first donation came from my son, Sean Fahey ’94, G ’96 just days before he died in a surfing accident last January.” Betsy Hamilton Neumeister enjoyed a mini-reunion with her Pi Beta Phi classmates last June. Joining Betsy in sharing memories, photographs, and much laughter were Lee Fardelmann Birdsey, Dorcas Brannum Hanna, Ruth Taylor Matthews, Claire Kahkola Buckley, Ann Lindley Grosz and Diane Monti Mayland, who hosted the gathering at her summer home on Lake Champlain. Mary McColl Poplawski is on the 2006 national list of the top 500 masterpoints winners in bridge. Mary occasionally runs bridge lessons and games aboard cruise ships, and she has traveled in the Baltic, Mediterranean, Alaska, and the South Seas. After 20 years as a nurse in behavioral health, Frances Murphy Rork retired and moved to Ohio. She enjoys painting, writing unpublished romance novels, and her beautiful grandson. Carol Schick Rothschild was recently elected to the Delaware Art Museum board of trustees. She continues to serve on the board of the Jewish Federation of Delaware and is first chairman of the Delaware Science Alliance and member of the Delaware Children’s Museum’s board of trustees. Daniel Senecal retired in 1997 after 30 years with IBM. He currently splits his time between home inspections for buyers or sellers and babysitting for three of his grandchildren. He and his wife, Priscilla, have two other grandchildren in Montclair, N.J. Michael and Pat Boufard (’66) Sutliff live in Essex Junction, Vt. Mike sold his sporting goods business in Gloversville, N.Y., and is now retired. Pat teaches French part-time at Colchester High School. Sandra Snowling Wiggin joined 20 of her ADPi sorority sisters in Stockbridge, Mass., last year for fun, relaxation, and reconnection. Sandra’s first grandchild, Grant, was born in 2006.
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Jane Kleinberg Carroll
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1968
Sam and Janet Gordon (’69) Bain recently connected with Dave Shumate in their old hometown of “St. J” for their 60th birthdays. Dave lives in Silver City, N.C. Last July, Jeff Hyman and his wife, Suzanne, hosted a long-weekend mini-reunion at their home in Silverthorne, Colo. Those attending included Mike and Judy Bamman (’69) Pietsch, Jeff and Joanne Koledo Kuhman, John and Jody Hilton, and Paul and Nancy Malone. The weekend included driving ATVs as well as an actual cattle drive and cattle herding. Jeff Hyman won the “Chester Award” for the best after herding pose, and Jeff Kuhman was given a new honorary nickname (IW) by cattle leader, Han. We won’t tell anyone, but make sure you ask Jeff the next time you see him.
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Diane Duley Glew
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1969
Burk Mantel recently sold his advertising company in Boise, Idaho, where he has lived for 25 years. He is temporarily retired as he considers, “What’s next?” Top on his list is creating or acquiring a bio-diesel company, which will help reduce our dependence on foreign oil. Burk got together with Bob Ciulla for some pheasant hunting last November. He looks forward to Willy Furman’s annual visit in February for a few days of skiing.
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Mary Moninger-Elia
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