1990s – 2000s

1990

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Tessa Donohoe Fontaine
tessafontaine@zoominternet.net

1991

Jordanna Hertz lives with her husband, Mark, and their two young children, Sarai and Maceo, in West Hartford, Connecticut. She works as a graphic designer for the University of Connecticut Department of Communications.  How about you? What are you up to? Please send me updates and tidbits about yourself and your fellow UVMers. I look forward to hearing from you.

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Karen Heller Lightman
klightman@memsindustrygroup.org

1992

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Lisa Aserkoff Kanter
lisa.kanter@ed.gov

1993

John Clark, director of the herbarium at the Alabama Museum of Natural History, recently became an assistant professor in the department of biology at the University of Alabama. Tony Voellm and Beth Zimmerman-Voellm have been busy raising Lillian and Julian. Beth is managing the homefront and running an eBay business, while Tony is head of the SM SQL Server Software Performance Development group “making sure it really runs fast.” Janine Adami Mooney, a former Merck pharmaceutical representative until her twins were born in 2002, lives in Rochester, New York. Suzanne Gambella received her doctor of veterinary medicine degree from the University of Florida in 1997. She owns a feline-only veterinary practice. Suzanne and her husband, Michael Rosenberg, make a home for their two beautiful children in Vero Beach, Florida. Thomas Giebmanns’ family has settled in Dunn, North Carolina. He and his wife have three children, Katja, Ethan, and Claudia. Tom opened his own ob/gyn practice two years ago, and he recruited his wife, Esme Pederson (’92) Giebmanns, as his office manager. Celina Moore and her husband celebrated their eighth anniversary in Antiguilla, where they were married. They relocated to Vermont last September. Celina works in high-end real estate, and Pip is a senior financial consultant with AG Edwards. They invite classmates to visit them in Norwich, Vermont. Andrew and Christine Murphy (’92) Arena celebrated the birth of their third child, Andrew Xavier. Jamey Fidel and Rachel Rosenblum are living in Waitsfield, Vermont. Jamey is forest program director and legal counsel at the Vermont Natural Resources Council, and Rachel teaches ELL in a local public school. They enjoy life in the mountains with their children, Ayla and Jude. Shannon O’Boyle, her husband, and son Ryan moved to the Washington, D.C., area last June.  Shannon and Buck will continue their Air Force careers at the Pentagon.  Heather Wyman married Brian Hill on May 31, 2003, in Essex Junction, Vermont. Brian, a Portland, Connecticut native, graduated from Clarkson University. Heather and Bill make their home in Essex Junction. Michael Derby is a tennis instructor at country clubs in Houston, Texas, in the winter, and on Cape Cod, in the summer. He loves every minute. Allison Blew married Michael Burley in 2006 on Cape Cod. They spent their honeymoon in the Bahamas. Allison currently works as a healthcare attorney. Gail Tarleton is clinical director with a private outpatient physical therapy company. She and her husband have two children. Gail is a marathon runner and busy mom. Amy Reagan Rodjenski left her position in private practice for a new position as clinical dental hygiene instructor in both first- and second- year clinic at Vermont Technical College. She finds the experience quite rewarding. Paula Provencher Rupp is a home health physical therapist in Chittenden County, Vermont. She recently traveled to Manhattan to visit Patty Jimenez of Allied Health. Jill Cooper Dunn and her girlfriends, Lisa Brown and Rachel Williams, all have full lives with two young boys. Jules Webb Bigger just had twin daughters last November. Selina Rooney is a clinical dietician at Copley Hospital in Vermont, and she also works for Head Start and consults at Top Notch. Selina helps out with sugaring on the family farm, and she also has an organic CSA. Courtney Murray married Jack Coghlan in Kauai, Hawaii, and they now live in San Juan Capistrano, California. Kara Cassani and husband John Oliver of Williston, Vermont, proudly announced the birth of Kady Pearl Cassani, born in September 2006. Stephanie Lovegrove Daniels is a consultant with NGOs and corporations on sustainable supply chains with a specialty in cocoa and chocolate. Julie Theoret, an associate professor of mathematics, was awarded tenure at Lyndon State College in 2006. She attended the wedding of Sheila Poulin ’92 in Raleigh, North Carolina, in April 2006. Jonathan Linker works in real estate and bankruptcy law. He reported that on October 28, 2006, Kimberly Kotraba married Alexander Love in Quogue, New York. In attendance were Jonathan Linker and bridesmaids Mercedes Atwood Sidor, Lisa Samuelson, Allison Durgin Lombart, and Kimberly Caswell Snyder. An excellent time was had by all. Christina Ramirez-Platt earned her PhD in school psychology from the University of Oregon in 2001. She specializes in behavioral consultation which allows her to serve as consultant to school systems in Massachusetts. Currently, she is a behavioral specialist for the Hampstead, New Hampshire, and the New Hampshire public schools, consulting with teachers, parents, and administrators and developing specialized programs for students with disabilities. Sean Easley is a physical therapist for the U.S. Navy, serving on a three-year tour in Japan. Virginia Adams, who formerly worked as a certified nurse-midwife, is now a stay-at-home mom to her twin sons, Ryan Bradley and Colby Adam. She works part-time as an ER nurse. Virginia visited New Hampshire in 2006 to see Polly Halpern-Reiss and her family. Jonathan Sanders teaches English at an alternative school at the St. Louis County Juvenile Detention Center. He is also an adjunct professor at St. Louis Community College in Meramec, Missouri. Jonathan, his brother, Rob ’95, and their father traveled to Russia in 2006 for a Russian river cruise. Later that summer, Jonathan and his father toured Germany, Belgium, Austria, and Switzerland by train. A highlight of the trip was being in Berlin for the 2006 World Cup final. Robert Coffey relocated to Ann Arbor to take a position at the University of Michigan, where he managed education, training, and outreach programming for the office of student conflict resolution. He wrote that it’s particularly great to be working with Susan Wilson ’85, whom he remembers from his time at UVM. Shelley Scipione returned from celebrating Carnival in Trinidad in spring 2007. She has been living in San Francisco for the past five years, working at Paypal. In her free time, she serves on the board of a non-profit organization, plays soccer, and practices Tae Kwondo. She just achieved her third degree black belt.  Shelley spends winters skiing and snowboarding in Tahoe. Andrea Ells Korry and husband Richard of Seattle, Washington, are the proud parents of Tova Adeline, born March 7, 2006. Her loving brothers, Isaac and Zevi, think she’s great. Tamara Burke Devine is project manager for an environmental engineering firm. She had a great winter get-together at Kerry Pasquerelli’s New Hampshire cottage with Elizabeth “Missy” Koch Mossi, Steph Larkin, Joann Bossi Stich, Clem Powers, and Josh Fairfax. Judy Coppola Bright moved to Boston six years ago, and she married the man of her dreams in 2004.  She and her husband, John, make their home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Judy works in global marketing at State Street Bank & Trust Company, and husband John is a program trader at Fidelity. They have lived in Harvard Square for the past seven years, and they are thrilled to announce the birth of their daughter, Ripley, last April. Deb Way and Randy Norris ’95 were married on July 28, 2007, in Burlington. Several UVM grads were in the wedding party, including Laurie Way, Brent and Maureen Kinney Carpenter, Tracey Merrill, Nick Dulong, Casey Stevens, Jim Sadler, Aimee Schroeder-Wallin, Heather Simkins, Jason Norris, Diana Norris and Stephen Way. Randy works at GE Healthcare, and Deb works at Vermont Student Assistance Corporation. They make their home in Colchester, Vermont.  In October, Jay O’Keiffe, Kenny Shulklapper, Biria St. John ’92, Ethan Sullivan, Gregg Spiro, and Larry Martin got together for a weekend in New York City. During their adventures in city, they met up with fellow UVMers Sean Pusey and Harlan Frey. Don’t be among the missing. Your classmates are counting on you to come back and join in the fun at Reunion, May 29 – June 1, 2008.

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Gretchen Haffermehl
ghaffermehl.uvm@gmail.com

John Gates
alumni@uvm.edu

Jessica Ellis
go2siena@hotmail.com

1994

After spending eight years working in Turkey in the finance industry, Marilyn Abbott graduated in June of 2006 with a master’s degree in Middle Eastern studies with a language component in Turkish from St. Antony’s College, Oxford University. Phil Grant and his wife, Lesley, welcomed Ainsley Elizabeth into the world on April 19. Phil and family recently moved to the Stowe area where he is the new principal at People’s Academy High School. Phil added, “Please drop by after your next ski or ride.” Jon Davidson wrote that he and his wife Caryn “moved to Mount Prospect, Illinois, and welcomed their son Michael on February 1. He has worked for Newcastle Brown Ale for the past ten years. There’s lots of baby news from southeastern Connecticut. Tim Williamson and his wife, Nancy, welcomed their third child, Jack Robert, on June 6, 2007. He joins big sisters, Mattie and Lily in the Williamson’s Pawcatuck, Connecticut home. Katie Arnold sent in an update. She and her husband live in the Bay Area with their daughter, Maeve. They wrote, “Maeve is a tiny replica of her mother—always talking and on the go!” Katie is director of marketing for a mid-size medical device company, and her husband is in venture capital. Jonathan Hodes was married in October 2006. Jon is an art director with a corporate design group in Pennsylvania. Lisa Baillargeon Murphy wrote, “My husband, Glenn, a Syracuse University grad, and I recently celebrated our first anniversary. We were married at Topnotch Resort in Stowe, on September 3, 2006. Unfortunately, we were visited that day by the tail end of Hurricane Hugo; however, it could not stop the amazing time we had celebrating with our families and tons of UVM alumni! Lisa wrote, “I am now back living in Vermont and love it.” Amy Boudreau is in the final stages of completing her MD/PhD from Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science. Amy moved to Illinois in 2001, and she finished the first part of her M.D. licensing in 2000. She then began working on her PhD, studying cocaine addiction, and she successfully defended her PhD thesis last June, then left for a well- deserved cruise the next day. She then began the rotation portion of medical school, and she is now starting her clerkship and hoping that it’s all downhill from here. Finally, I would like to announce that my husband, Tim, and I welcomed our child, Keria Hana, on May 5. She joins her big sister, Teagan, and big brother, Cade, in our family.

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Abby Atkinson O’Brien
abbyao@sbglobal.net

1995

Ladies and Gentlemen, Dean Strober has written to announce he is back in the class of 1995 after finding that being in the class of 1994 is too lonely. He also has some very exciting news. When he wrote, he was working on two new productions, Die Hard—The Puppet Musical, playing in NYC this fall, and a wedding. Dean got hitched last October to Lena Armstrong.  They had a mountain wedding in the Catskills. Sarah Ginnetti and husband Sergio Rodriguez welcomed their baby daughter, Maya Elizabeth, into their family on June 19th. They also have a son, Diego, and the family makes their home in Connecticut. Derek Rozycki wrote to tell us that, after spending more than a decade in investment banking with Barclays Capital in New York and the Middle East, he decided to change gears. He moved to the buy side and is now an executive director for Mubadala Development Company, a primary principal/private equity investment vehicle of the Government of Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. He has been in the Gulf since 2000 with his Finnish wife, Elina, whom he met on a business trip to Ecuador. He also has a step-daughter, Alexa, and a son, Ethan (yes—named after Ethan Allen). Derek says that it’s amazing living in the Gulf and those who have not been there should come take a look what it is really like. Dan Cross has been living in northern Kentucky near Cincinnati, Ohio, since graduation. He and his wife Sharon have been married for ten years, and they have two sons, Logan and Ethan. Dan also owns his own private practice in pediatric physical therapy. 

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Valeri Pappas
vpappas@davisandceriani.com

1996

Class secretary Jill Cohen Gent and husband Richard Gent are happy to announce the arrival of their second son, Brandon Michael, on June 10, 2007. Jeremy Town wrote that he left IBM and the Mid-Hudson Valley of New York to be a financial analyst for Amer Sports in Ogden, Utah. He is working in their U.S. winter sports office. It’s a very exciting time, and he is looking forward to the new challenge. If there are any Cats in the greater Salt Lake/Park City/Ogden area, he’d love to hear from you! Kristen Clayton and Shane Sarty ’97 married in August 2005 in Old Saybrook, Connecticut. The wedding party included Tiffany Gardner Lawrence, Brandon Lawrence ’97, Mike Curtis ’97 and Jared Smith ’97. Also in attendance was Scott Mulholland ’97. Shane and Kristen welcomed their first child, Jack, in September 2006. Megan Kelton-Rehkopf and her husband, Jon, welcomed their child, Hans Kelton Rehkopf, into the world on April 16, 2006. They are living in Seattle, Washington. Catherine Little Casey wrote with baby news. She and her husband, Jim, welcomed their first child, Carolyn Grace, on August 25, 2006. She also wrote that Lisa Hill Isham and her husband, Matt, welcomed baby number two, Logan Matthew, on February 23, 2006. He joins his sister, Mara, in the family. Melissa Rathburn Tibbetts and her husband, Sean, also welcomed their first baby, Evan Michael, on August 9, 2006, and Susan Mercure Slysz and her husband, Bob, welcomed Robert Edward Slysz III on December 10, 2006.

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Michelle Richards Peters
mpeters@eagleeyes.biz

Jill Cohen Gent
jcgent@adelphia.net

1997

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Lee Carstensen Genung
lee@dunhamroad.com

1998

Hi, everyone! I hope you all had a great fall and were able to make it back to Vermont to see the fall colors. As most of you know, our reunion is right around the corner so I hope everyone has marked their calendars for the weekend of May 29 through June 1. It’s a big one for us—our 10th! For those of you who attended our 5th, I’m sure you will agree it was a blast. For those of you who weren’t able to join us five years ago, please do so this year! Our reunion will be here before we know it! Thank you to all of our classmates who continue to write in sharing their exciting news. Keep it up! See you at reunion! Gayle Bress reported the good news that Meghan Bress Westwood and her husband, Bob, are the proud new parents of twins Conner and Aidan on October 19, 2007. Melissa Walker currently resides in Wilmington, North Carolina, with her husband Paul, daughter, Mya, and son, Jake, born September 19, 2007. She would like to give a ‘shout out’ to all fellow ’98 graduates who were residents of Buckham Hall freshman year. ‘I miss them and wish the best for everyone.’ Gail sent congratulations to her dear friend Kristen D’Avolio who was married September 28, 2007, in Boston. Melissa Dick Maxwell and her husband Jeff welcomed their first child, a son, Nolan, born on March 25th, 2007. On October 6, Mindy Vinelli married Derryn Marchetti in Northampton, Massachusetts. Beth Crusius officiated their ceremony.  Jodi Withington Tierney, Lucinda Tokarski Hewitt and Gina Pezzetti were in her bridal party. Other UVMer’s in attendance included Kristen Garner ’99, Keisha Kohler Beasley ’99, Heather Belmosto True ’99, Kristen Nestor Tayag ’97, James Tierney ’98 and Tammy Turner ’99.  Scott and Katie Finnegan Stoddard celebrated their third anniversary on September 25, and they welcomed their first child, Mason Daniel, into the world on September 27. They still love living, playing, and working in Saranac Lake, New York. Shelly Pirroni lives in Feeding Hills, Massachusetts, where she also owns her own pilates studio and very much enjoys teaching group and private classes. Shelly would love to hear from her friends Maryalice Elbaum, Karla Blackman, Jenny Hyslop, and Kerri Duquette via email at spilates@comcast.net. Vanessa Grenfell Thomas and husband Jeffrey welcomed their first child, a beautiful girl, Amelia Grenfell Thomas, born July 1, 2007. The family lives in San Francisco. Alice Orrell attended the 2007 WINDPOWER Conference & Exhibition in Los Angeles last June, and she was pleasantly surprised to run into Jenna Pollock ’99 whom she knew from the UVM engineering program. Alice is currently working on her PhD at Dartmouth. Alice also visited Heather Dooley (’97) Waslin and her newborn daughter Josephine “Josie” Clare, who was born May 14, 2007. Heather and her husband Michael live near Philadelphia. They also saw Jenny Pinkus ’96, also from the Philadelphia area, who was in town from Vail. Amy Mottola married Michael Camodeca on April 14th, 2007 in downtown Chicago. One of her bridesmaids was Lindsay Haskell Maxwell. Amy lives in Chicago where she is the chief therapist for Rush University hospital’s radiation oncology unit. Brad Kozk recently got engaged to Natalia Migal, a sociology major at Illinois Wesley, who also has an MS degree in sociology from the University of Chicago and an MS degree from DePaul University in mathematics and applied statistics. She is a business analyst at CNH Capital. Brad received an MS degree in communications at Northwestern University in 2006. He has worked at Discover Card for the past five years, currently as internal communications project manager. They live in Chicago and will be married there on May 25, 2008. Ellie Marvin attended Amanda Werner’s gorgeous wedding to James Gomez in Tarrytown, New York, last May. She enjoyed catching up with Kelley Pillman, Whitney Wigton, and Marni Rubin at the wedding. Amanda and James will continue to make their home in New York. Justin DuMond ’99 and Alison Artico were engaged last December, and they plan to marry on January 12, 2008, in Breckenridge. They live in Denver, Colorado, where Justin is a civil engineer with Flatiron Constructors Corporation, and Alison is a pediatric nurse practitioner at the Children’s Hospital Heart Institute.  Christopher and Noel Kemmerer (’99) Howe have a new addition to their family, a son, Timothy Kemmerer Howe, born March 14th. His sister Abrie Kathryn is now two years old. Susannah Magee married  Scott McGrath on June 3, 2006, in Charlotte, Vermont, and she was happy to have these UVM friends in attendance: Jane Andrews Smith, Samantha Gold, Stacie Kosinski, Allison Jones, Valerie Dawson, Beth Carstens, Zachary Butterfield ’01, and fellow Cats Meow members Elizabeth Thurber LeBeau and Charity Clark ’97. Jason and Carrie Raisbeck ’97 Landstrom and their son JD welcomed Taylor Jane Landstrom into the family on September 15, 2006. The Landstroms make their home in Excelsior, Minnesota. Matt and Jenny Wallace Myers and their daughter Grace welcomed Emmeline Ann into the family on February 7, 2007. They are soon moving to Hartford, Connecticut, but they are in Rhode Island, where Matt is finishing up his residency. Natalie Mead and husband Corbin Meek welcomed Gwendolyn Iris Meek into the family on March 6, 2007. Natalie wrote that she shares her birthday with Allison Martin Pine. Natalie’s family lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, right next door to Andrew Fisher ’96, his wife Janet, and their daughter Crawford. Small world!  Christina Collins will attend Colorado State University’s five-year MBA/DVM dual program. She was one of five students admitted to this elite program. In five years, she’ll be a veterinarian. Paul Tighe ’91, G’98, recently earned a doctorate from the University of Arizona in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies. Since leaving Vermont, Paul has served as principal in the Dysart Unified School District. He was also a teacher and principal in Vermont prior to relocating to Surprise, Arizona, with his wife, Melissa, and their daughter, Brittany. Walter DeNino and Marcus Garand have started a new business, Trismarter.com, a premium triathlon coaching and sports nutrition service. They offer a 10% discount to all fellow UVM alumni. Walter lives in Burlington while studying at the UVM College of Medicine, and Marcus, a proud new father, lives in New Jersey. Chuck Olney married Sarah Fracchia in Saratoga, New York on Septemper 16, 2006. Drew Tornga was best man and other UVMers in the wedding party included Dan Morrison, Matt Bernier, Eric Marrus and Adam Gurry. Jim Downes, Todd Gochman, Todd Kathan, Mark Rosen, Gary Ball, Reygan Smith and Sarah Lounge Tornga also attended the wedding. Chuck and Sarah currently live in Denver, Colorado, where Chuck works for the Denver Outlaws Lacrosse Team and Sarah works for Action Marketing Group in Boulder. Kelley Pillman married Terry King on September 8th, 2007, on Nantucket, Massachusetts. They had the most amazing weather, and UVMers packed the dance floor.  Whitney Wigton, Meghan Kelly ’99, Kristie Donohue, Laura Benevento Baum were all bridesmaids, and, of course, they were wearing KEP Designs, a gift from the bride’s jewelry collection. Laura’s daughter Molly was a flower girl, and Mark Hand ’97 was a groomsmen. Also celebrating at the wedding were Timmy Madden and his fiancée Tara Hanley ’99, Brewer Rowe and his fiancé Abby Campbell, James and Amanda Werner Gomez, Todd Kathan and his fiancée Becca Adams, and my husband Philippe and I. The couple headed to Bora Bora for a much needed honeymoon. Please continue to send me your updates. Everyone loves to hear what you are up to! Looking forward to seeing you at our 10th reunion in May!

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Heather Lynch McAuliffe
heather.mcauliffe@jcrew.com

1999

It’s hard to believe it’s winter once again. I still find myself catching up on all the summer activities! Will Roya and wife Jessica celebrated the birth of their first child, Chloe Ellen, on April 10. Congratulations! For the past three years, Suzy Kaplan has been a Peace Corps volunteer in Nicaragua, working in agriculture in a small farming community in the northern mountains. She has loved every minute of it. Suzy is now an assistant language teacher as part of the JET program on the island of Ishigaki in Japan. You can check out Suzy’s myspace page at www.myspace.com/suzylovessushi. Thanks for the update! Heather Belmosto True is living in Braintree, Massachusetts, and teaching history and coaching field hockey at Scituate High School. She has two sons, Aidan, two, and Davin, who is seven months. They keep her very busy, but they’ve had an incredible summer hanging out at the beach. Darcy Meilleur, now Rothman, married Scott Rothman ’93 on June 21, 2003. They got married at Bolton Valley Resort on an absolutely gorgeous day. Lots of Catamounts were in attendance. They now own a house in Burlington, where they have lived for the past five years. On June 13, 2007, they welcomed twin boys, Russell and Jackson. The busy life of parents of twins landed both Scott and Darcy in physical therapy at Apple Tree Bay Physical Therapy in Burlington,  owned by fellow 99ers Andy and Megan Baldwin Rubman. I know there had to have been other weddings and births  over the summer, so please share with me and I will include your updates in the next issue. Thanks and happy winter!

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Sarah Pitlak
spitlak@hotmail.com

2000

More baby news for the Y2K class! On July 18th Ben  and Melissa Weier Merrill  welcomed Elizabeth Kenyon Merrill to the world. “Liza” was born at NY Presbyterian Hospital, around the corner from the Merrill’s home on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. She weighed in at 7lbs 1oz and was 21” long—Ben reports that Melissa and baby were both amazing that Liza is growing quickly and seems to enjoy life in the Big Apple. Congrats to the proud parents! Melissa also tells me that Liz Weiss got married on June 23 at her beautiful home in Connecticut. Margaret Hill was in the wedding and many UVMers were in attendance. Congratulations to Liz! Sarah (Fisher) Fuller wrote in with all of the following updates. Thank you Sarah for these great updates! Jill Murtagh received her master’s in higher education from the University of Massachusetts. Jill is currently employed as an academic adviser to the graduate programs at Emmanuel College in Boston. Jill resides in Waltham with her boyfriend, Larry Pickner, a good friend of another UVM alum, Jonathan Stahl. After several years in Hawaii, Maureen “Moe” Quigley finally returned stateside in 2005. Moe continues to work in the environmental/marine biology field. She is currently living in Providence, Rhode Island, and working for AmeriCorp on the “Save the Bay” project. Moe continues to pursue her master’s degree, and makes several yearly trips to Vermont. Patricia “Tricia” Dace, as always, is turning heads in Boston. After many years in the accounting department of WGBH Channel 11, Tricia changed employers and is now employed in the accounting department at Color Kinetics in Braintree, Massachusetts. Tricia continues to summer in Marshfield, Massachusetts, and resides in Dedham. After college, E.B. (Wagner) Stevens and her then boyfriend (now husband), headed west to reside in the beautiful location of Jackson, Wyoming. E.B. and Anthony were married in Jackson on July 23, 2005. Sarah (Fisher) Fuller was a bridesmaid. E.B. and Anthony continue to travel the world, and make all their friends jealous with their great adventures. In September 2007, E.B. completed a two-week NOLS course. In 2003, Sarah (Fisher) Fuller graduated from Suffolk Law School in Boston. Sarah is currently licensed to practice law in Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire. On August 27, 2005,  Sarah married Robert Fuller in Durham, New Hampshire. In attendance at the wedding were fellow UVM alums Jill Murtagh, E.B. (Wagner) Stevens, Patricia Dacey, Maureen Quigley, Samantha Thomas, and Matt Sgro ’99. Until November 2007, Sarah was employed at a small law firm in Foxboro, Massachusetts as a civil litigator. In November 2007, she joined her father’s law firm in Dover, New Hampshire, and will be focusing her practice on civil litigation and family law. Please keep the updates coming! Happy Winter to all! 

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Sara Kinnamon Fritsch
sarakfritsch@yahoo.com

2001

Leah Murphy Jones and her husband, Keith, a 1999 graduate of Vanderbilt University, welcomed their first child, Owen Martin, into the world on December 29, 2006. The family lives in the New North End of Burlington. Cassandra “Cassie” Walters married Jared Annello in Manchester, Vermont, on June 16, 2006. In attendance were many UVM graduates including Ben Sussman, Matt Dias, Alex Thibadeau, Eric Fenton, Leah Jones, Dustin and Erin Kachele Giberson, Filiz Soyak, Christy McDermott, Andrew Nelson, Eric Smith, Julie Annis, Dru Walters, Cassie’s brother, and Mat Barewicz. Cassie and Jared met in California, and they moved to the East Coast just before getting engaged. They now live in Boston. Ginelle Nelson Edmondson wrote that she and C.W. Edmondson, a 1999 graduate of Norwich University “are thrilled with the expected addition to their family.” Following a recent move back East from San Diego, Heather Bacon and Jeremy Gatto ’98 were married July 27, 2007, in Stowe. UVMers in attendance included Mike Barron ’99, Melissa LaCroix Barron, Sheree Bayeur ’01, Matt Bradley ’98, Josh Burt ’98, Jen Hayes ’02 Burt, Cathy Carter ’01, Andy Comeau ’95, Steve DePasquale ’98, Kathryn Pelletier ’03 DePasquale, Mike ’98 and Kathleen White ’00 Laramee, James Tierney ’98, Jodi Tierney ’98, and Kristin Burbank ’02 Trivento. The couple spent their honeymoon in Kauai. They are in the process of relocating to Portland, Maine. Noah Cherry married Christine Garrett, a 2004 graduate of Loyola University. UVMers in attendance were Tom Forbes, Jason Godin, Jen Khouri ’02, Adam Wolk ’02, Jason Morris ’02, Alex Larsen, Sean Sullivan, Sarah Nathan, Mike Barna, Brett Robbins, Alex Chaykin and Alex Bauman. Noah and Christine live in Noah’s hometown, Rochester, New York. Noah is working in the family business, maintenance supply and paper, in sales and marketing while working on his MBA at Rochester Institute of Technology. Heather Scott wrote, “In February 2006, I got engaged to my husband, Ryan Kraudel, in Washington, D.C., where I’d been living for nearly four years. We were married on Cape Cod in June 2007. Amanda Starbuck was one of my bridesmaids, and Aimee Bode, Frances Durkes ’02, Melissa Halleran, Margaret Hill ’00 and Brett Mosely ’02 were in attendance. Ryan was transferred to Raleigh, North Carolina, so we made the move and are settling in. Over the summer, Jared Schuler participated in his first triathlon and won an award in his division. Congratulations, Jared! We will look forward to watching you complete the Ironman one day. I hope you all enjoy the winter. Drop me a line soon!

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Erin Wilson
ewilson41@hotmail.com

2002

Greetings, class of 2002! It was so great to see everyone at our Reunion. For many, it seemed as if we had never left. Here are some updates: Courtney Keefe married Chris Benevides ’00 at the Inn at Essex in Vermont in the fall. Bridesmaids included Heather Larkin, Molly Gleason ’03, and Caitlin Hadley ’03. Jessica Krick wrote to let us know that she recently saw Kerry Gannon, who lives in New York City and works for Huron Consulting Group. She also saw Kevin Jeans and Rebecca Aborn, who got engaged last January. They plan to marry next summer in Vermont. Allison Rude wrote to let us know that she just started a new gig as account supervisor on the Cadillac account at Modernista!, an ad agency in downtown Boston. She lives in Mission Hill with Frank Collazo ’01. In her spare time, Allison serves on the advisory board of Best Buddies of Massachussets with Erik Weibust ’02, who is an associate in the litigation department of Seyfarth Shaw, a law firm downtown. Congratulations to Nicole Hintlian, who ran the Nike Women’s Marathon in October 2006 in San Francisco. Together with Katie Bengston ’04, they raised more than $8,000 for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society through their Team in Training program. Barbie Zunder Verrett received her master’s degree in counseling psychology from the University of San Francisco a few weeks ago. She is still working at USF, organizing new student orientation. She lives in San Francisco with her husband, Eli, and their two cute little cats, Sonoma and Tobias. Sarah Nocito Turner wrote to let us know that she married Joe Nocito, a graduate of Fordham University, in April 2006 on Little Palm Island in the Florida Keys. Two weeks later they closed on their house in Winooski, Vermont. They have been there for more than a year, and they’re hoping that they’ll stay for at least another year before they consider a move closer to New York City. She is still in close touch with her UVM roommates, Gayla Hancsarik Olesky, Elizabeth Young Marks, and Denise Benvenuto. She and Gayla live close to each other so they see each other regularly. Sarah wrote, “Denise and Elizabeth we see a little more infrequently. But we do try to get all four of us together at least once a year. This year we are going to Rhode Island to do some wedding dress shopping. Three of us are married, and I think the fourth will be soon!” Gayla married Jeff Olesky in Stowe in August of 2005, and they live in Essex, Vermont. Gayla recently decided to leave her job at Fletcher Allen to work for a private nuclear medical technology company. Elizabeth graduated from Wake Forest as a physican assistant in 2005. She has since been working at a Massachusetts hospital in anesthesiology/pain management. She married Michael Marks in October 2005. Elizabeth, Denise, and Sarah were bridesmaids in Gayla’s wedding; and Denise, Gayla and Sarah were bridesmaids in Elizabeth’s wedding later that year. It was a very busy summer! Denise graduated last May from Iowa State University with her degree in veterinary medicine. The day before she was to graduate Dave Kurtz, her significant other since our sophomore year at UVM, asked if she would marry him. Denise and Dave are in the process of moving from Iowa to Penn Yan, New York. Denise has accepted a job in a veterinary practice that serves both large farm animals as well as smaller animals. She is very excited to be working for a dual practice; since participating in UVM CREAM, she has had a soft spot in her heart for cows.  Lastly, as for me, I became engaged to Jason Godin ’01 last Christmas. We have been dating since my sophomore year at UVM and are so excited to be getting married. We are living in Boston and planning a summer 2008 wedding.

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Jennifer Khouri
jenniferkhouri@yahoo.com

2003

Jillian Bryant married Kevin Mayer ’04 on August 25, 2007.  UVMers in attendance were Gina Barrera ’02, Kathleen Kertesz ’02, Rachel Kradin, Cori Fine, Carla Sardelli, Jill Greene, Molly Velte, Francesca Gurney, Justin Campbell, Adam Hergenrother, Luke Bonang, Nate Malley ’04, Aaron Chiaravelotti ’04 and Carson Pratt ’04. Jillian and Kevin were married at the Inn at the Round Barn in Waitsfield, Vermont. Jillian is currently working on a master of science degree in IT at Champlain College, and she expects to graduate in late 2008. Jane Orkin married Daniel Glazer on May 27, 2007, in Boston. In attendance were Lizzy Maltzman, Katie Monticello, Andrew Weaderhorn ’02, Adam Ullian ’02, and Mike Koch ’02.  Dan and Jane are living in Cleveland, Ohio, where Jane is finishing a dual master’s degree in nursing and bioethics, and Dan is finishing medical school. Both attend Case Western University. Linda Kasper is happy to report that she recently completed the Cochise Cycling Classic. They covered 252 miles in just over 20 hours. She is very excited to have finished the race as part of a great team. Jenny Agnew married Corey Ridley on August 18, 2007, in Newry, Maine. Becky Daley ’04 served as maid of honor, while Billy Keighley and Fredo Guarino ’02 served as the bride’s attendants.  Other UVMers in attendance were Charles (’77) and Jill Jones (’76) Agnew, Rob Bryan ’76, Chris Rimmer ’78, Averill Cook ’76, John Caulo ’77, Dennis Miller ’80, Michelle Donlon ’98, Tiffany Hayes, Lindsay Jones ’06, and me, along with Alyssa Rimmer, currently UVM student. Heather Fifield married John LeTourneau on September 8, 2007, in Killington, Vermont, at the Mountain Meadows Lodge. Heather’s sister, Jenny Fifield ’06, served as maid of honor, and Kristen Lyons Landerman was a bridesmaid. Other UVMers in attendance were Cara Linehan, Brian Landerman, Annie Geratowski, and Hillary Dana. Cara Linehan was engaged to Thomas Esch on October 31, 2007. In other news…. our five-year reunion is quickly approaching. Please save the date: May 31–June 1, 2008. Our class reunion committee, led by Cara Linehan, Stephanie Waterman, Nat Sillin, and me, is hard at work, ensuring that this will be a weekend to remember. We’re still looking for people to join the reunion committee, so please email me if you are interested. For more information about Reunion and to see who else is coming, please visit www.alumni.uvm.edu/reunion. Hope to see you there!

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Jillian Giardina
jillian.giardina@gmail.com

2004

Maggie Gage is director of federal relations at the bipartisan lobby office. She has worked on technology and intellectual property issues on Capitol Hill.  She formerly was an aide to Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont.

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Kelly Kisiday
kellykisiday@hotmail.com

2005

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Kristin Dobbs
kristindobbs@alumni.uvm.edu

2006

Greetings! I hope that many of you were able to enjoy the recent Homecoming festivities on campus. Congratulations to Patrick Venne and Michelle Atienza, who were engaged last New Year's Eve. They are living in Portland, Maine, where Michelle is working as a registered nurse, and Patrick is attending the University of Maine School of Law. Sunah Park recently deployed to Iraq as a military police platoon leader. Amy Schneider is living in Boston while completing her master’s degree in communication sciences and disorders at Emerson College. Please keep our classmates updated by sending your news to me at the address below.  Thanks!

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Katie Kasarjian
katiek163@yahoo.com

2007

Friends and former teachers of Courtney Blasius are rallying in support of our classmate, who has been hospitalized since suffering a cardiac arrest on September 12. Through a new website and a number of future events, the Support for Courtney Foundation hopes to raise funds to defray the considerable cost of her treatment and therapy. Courtney has made tremendous strides in her recovery after spending three weeks in intensive care at Fletcher Allen Medical Center. Since then, she has been a patient at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Boston and Crotched Mountain Rehab center in New Hampshire, where she continues to make progress. To learn more about the effort and Courtney’s on-going recovery, see supportforcourtney.com. Donations to “Support for Courtney” may also be sent directly to Chittenden Bank, Dudley H. Davis Center, University of Vermont, 590 Main Street, Burlington, VT 05402. 

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Sam Madden
samuel.madden@uvm.edu

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