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Class of 1950's Class of 1960's
Class of '50 Madaleen
Jacobs Ellis wrote that she, Eschol Pixley (‘48) Goodell, Ruth Mason
(‘49) Allard, and Madaleen Ellis Ellis enjoyed their annual get together
at the home of Rachel Kinne (‘49) Farrar in Craftsbury Common, Vt.
They missed the company of Clara Bundy (‘47) Abbott and Freda Corwin
(‘48) Stephens. Virginia Davis Cochran wrote that she is still involved
with the Cochran Ski Area, which is now non-profit. They enjoyed a very
good ski season last winter, with lots of snow. She now enjoys watching
her grandchildren compete on the national level. Class of '51 It
was great to see so many classmates at our 50th reunion. We missed all
of you who couldn’t make it, but we hope you will join us in future
years. You don’t have to wait until our 55th comes along. Many, many
thanks to Valerie Meyer Chamberlain for her years of keeping the class
informed of everyone’s activities. Please write to me about what
is happening in your life so that I can share it with all our friends.
Blakely Harris wrote that he and his wife, Ruth, have retired and sold
their home in Batavia, N.Y. They now make their home in an RV and spend
winters in Florida and Arizona and three months each year in southern
Texas. They have one daughter and a grandson. Chad Arms retired in 1996
after 38 years as an extension dairy specialist in Maine. He and his wife
have two children and one grandson. Chad now spends his time as a freelance
writer as well as a photographer and gardener. His wife, Barbara, enjoys
“barbershop” singing and cross-country skiing. Last March, Marcus
McCorison represented UVM at the inauguration of the new president of
Clark University in Worcester, Mass. During reunion, we found out that
David Newhall has spent the past ten years writing biographical essays
for two encyclopedias. He did papers on Ethan Allen, among others, for
Historic World Leaders, and he is just finishing 40 pieces about French
women from Madame Pompadour to Edith Piaf for The Encyclopedia of Women
in World History. Lawrence Bryant sold his business, Putney Nursery and
Linden Gardens Florist Shop, and he now spends his winters in Florida
with his wife, Carol Poynton (‘53) Bryant. They spend their summers
in Vermont. The Bryants have four children and five grandchildren. Martha
Atwood Pike moved to Brookfield, N.H., in 1990, where she has been active
in town government. Her husband, John, spends his time gardening and photographing
day lilies. Martha has two sons, two daughters, and a step daughter as
well as seven grandchildren. Donald Duclos and his wife, Helen, have been
living in North Carolina since Donald retired from General Electric in
1986. They enjoy traveling to visit family in Massachusetts, Texas, and
North Carolina. Donald continues to consult in engineering, and he is
active as an AARP tax consultant. Our condolences to Loretta Foley Raymond
on the loss of her husband, Roy. She wrote that she thinks UVM is “one
of the best universities in the USA.” We’ll go along with that,
Loretta. Robert Powers and his wife, Carol Farmer (‘50) Powers, were
unable to be at our reunion, but Robert hoped we enjoyed ourselves. We
did, Robert, and we hope to see you soon. Stanley Susskind wrote earlier
this year that he was looking forward to our reunion. We hope you had
a good time, Stanley. Maureen Haney Lanzilotti and her husband, Anthony
Lanzilotti, a retired chemist, have four children and 17 grandchildren.
Joan Herburg Dillon hosted a mini-reunion for the Burlington High School
class of ‘47 during our reunion. Nan Nelson Small, Jean Hard Queale,
Dotty Post Sevens, Jo Buck Hayslip, Joyce Rolfe Barron, and your class
secretary were present. Hope to hear from more classmates for the next
issue. Class of '52 Jane Hoogstoel Farrar reported sadly that her husband, Lee, lost his eight-year battle with Alzheimer’s disease on February 22, 2001. She is grateful that she was able to care for him at home all but the last three months. You are a special lady, Jane. Our deepest sympathy. Carolyn Wallace Barnum wrote, “No big changes in my life. That’s good!” She still plays a lot of duplicate bridge, walks two miles a day, does church activities, and appreciates every moment of them all. Your secretary spends part of her summer on Cape Cod. For you lobster lovers, not eaters, there is a beautiful live 10-year-old bright blue lobster to see in Buzzards Bay, Mass. They are rare, and the unusual natural blue color is due to some diet change in the sea. Please start planning to attend our big 50th reunion—a golden moment in your life and golden memories. If anyone would like to help create or update our class reunion web page, please contact Annabel Khouri at the Alumni Office via email at annabel. khouri@uvm.edu. 53Mary Dodge of Denver, Colo., wrote that she was sad to learn of the passing of her good friend, Pat Williams Morris. Mary and her husband, Bob Wang, keep busy with their business in out-of-print books and Bob’s custom-designed slipcases. Mary and Bob are both graduates of the Peking American School, and they co-chair its Alumni Association and keep its archives. Rhonda Davison Rochat moved from Far Hills to Green Pond, N.J. She keeps busy with eight married children and 20 grandchildren. Catherine Pété of Poughkeepsie, N.Y., has been busy taking trips. Harry Weiser of Westminster, Vt. has been activities director and state student council coordinator for the Vermont Principal’s Association. Donald Wolf and his wife, Jane, recently retired to Naples, Fla. They were greeted by Robert Green and wife Barbara, who have lived there for 45 years, and later joined by Leonard and Francine Strickler (‘54) Sherman, who drove down from Virginia to join them for a mini-reunion. R. Allan Paul was awarded the C. Harry Behney Award at the Greater Burlington Industrial Corporation’s annual meeting. The award honors “commitment to creating value-added jobs and promoting a climate that enhances the economic value of the state.”
Lyle Salter of East Arlington, Vt., is enjoying his retirement. He likes to hunt, fish, and play golf and bridge. He and his wife, Ruth, recently celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. They became grandparents when their daughter Wanda and husband Todd adopted a baby daughter from China. Susan VanWagner Levitt moved into a new house in Marshall, N.C., with a nice view of the Blue Ridge Mountains, her “dream come true.” She continues teaching piano and playing piano for church services.
Donna Trombley Burt of Atlanta, Ga., wrote that she spends lots of time volunteering—teaching swimming and administering a swim league. She and her husband have a garden with more than 750 roses, which has been featured in regional magazines. She also took on a volunteer position with Replant the Dunwoody Forest after a 1998 tornado hit Dunwoody. She was involved in replanting more than 20,000 trees. Donna wrote that she is also finally a grandmother. Lee Hitchcock reported that he and his wife are retired and living in Myrtle Beach, Fla., enjoying the beach life. Lee is part of the fire department there. Since graduating from Rutgers School of Law, Robert Kleinberg has been practicing law in New Jersey for the past 40 years. He is just completing his sixth successive term as a municipal court judge. Robert has three children and two grandchildren. He and his wife have been able to travel all over the world, having been to every continent except Antarctica. They currently are traveling throughout the U.S. in their motor home, but their permanent residence is in Park Ridge, N.J. Robert has been elected to Who’s Who in America and has been named Rotary International’s Man of the Year. Anne Lyman Farnham and husband Jack ‘53, MD ‘56 recently moved to Mount Dora, Fla., the town known as “the New England of the South.” They are near their daughter, son-in-law, and grandson and just love it.
Dear classmates: I am sad to report that Ed Dailey passed away on May 30, 2001. My condolences to Mary Jo Judd Dailey and their family. We will all miss Ed and the many things he did for our class and UVM. He will live on fondly in our memories. Bob and Sandy Gerkin Longhi’s house was on a historic holiday tour for the benefit of the AIDS Benefit Committee of New Jersey. Bob is a Superior Court judge, sitting in Middlesex County, where he is the assignment judge. Herbert and Lynda Posner of New Rochelle, N.Y., are really enjoying their four grandchildren. They have enjoyed visits with Marv and Sheila Stockel, George and Vivian Friedman, and other UVM friends. Kenneth Smith recently retired from US Airways and is enjoying lots of traveling. Claire Dyer heads up the Tampa Bay, Fla., alumni group. If you are in the area, she would love to hear from you. Judith Doe Collette is enjoying retirement in Maine. Her fifth grandchild was born last December. Judith enjoyed wonderful visits with Susan Thomas Van Voorhees and Nancy Soistman Richman last winter when Susan and Nancy traveled south to escape the snow. Hope more classmates will write soon.
Paul Anderson was honored with the 2001 Award in Industrial Chemistry by the American Chemical Society at its 221st national meeting. The award was presented in recognition of Paul’s directing the development of pharmaceutical drugs, most recently as senior vice president of chemical and physical sciences at DuPont Pharmaceuticals Company in Wilmington, Del. He currently directs the development of second-generation AIDS-fighting drugs. Burke Brown ‘39 of Columbia, S.C., got hold of my name and phoned to tell me that he, too, is a displaced old alumnus, caught in the Deep South, where every day is paradise, except for summer’s heat. Burke grew up in Jericho, Vt., and attended UVM, where he was a Lambda Iota Owl, majoring in commerce and economics. He served in the Army in World War II as a driver in Libya, later as a supply sergeant in Italy, and finally as an instructor at Warner Robbins Air Force Base. Burke worked 30 years for Atlantic Richfield Corp. in Pittsfield, Mass., and as a salesman in Springfield, Mass. Upon his retirement in 1975, he and his wife moved to Columbia, and they would enjoy hearing from old friends. Jerry Heller had the pleasure of representing Russell Straub ‘85 in the sale of property in South Dartmouth, Mass. Jerry is regional manager of LandVest, a real estate firm with principal offices in Boston. He and his wife, Anne Beaudin (‘72) Heller, live in Wayland, Mass., with their son, Sam, a student at Wayland High School. Barbara Evans Skroback was recently honored with the Paul Harris Award for Community Leadership in Springfield, Mass. Barbara has worked in the Junior League, and she is past president of the Jayceettes and Forest Park Zoo, currently serving on its board. Barbara is now co-president of the Women’s Symphony League and volunteer bookkeeper at Skroback & Associates. She and her husband, Andy ‘58, have four children and seven grandchildren.
Arthur Levison wrote proudly that his wife, Caryn, a 1964 graduate of Alfred University, was recently appointed assistant principal for special education at Lehman High School in the Bronx, with a student population of 500. Stephen and Stephanie Sirota (‘61) Alpert of Wayland, Mass., let us know that their daughter Heidi is married with two children, and son Andrew is married with six-month-old twins. Their son, Charlie, was married in Vermont last summer. Roger Amidon represented UVM at the inauguration of the new president of Wofford College in Spartanburg, S.C.
Patricia
Morse Doane and husband Woolson, MD ‘65, moved to Newcastle, Maine
in 1997. “Wooly” is currently a medical consultant to Union
Provident Insurance Co. in Portland. Patricia keeps busy restoring their
1805 Cape home. Their three grown children and two grandsons also live
in Maine. Samuel MacDonald has enjoyed the heat of Arizona for the past
14 years. He lives in Sun City West, where “the warmth makes the
arthritis feel better, and two new knees help make life easier.”
His two daughters live in the West, and grandchildren are an important
focus. Paul Loseby retired from IBM in 1992 and then taught at Lyndon
State College for seven years. Now that he has retired for the second
time, he has moved to Lecanto, Fla., a much warmer climate. Judith Hamilton
Johnson retired from the Putnam Companies as senior vice president, and
she is now enjoying Boston and a home in Orleans, Mass., on Cape Cod.
She and her husband, Brad, have children in Boston, Denver, and Los Angeles.
Erwin Clark of Kansas City, Mo., is an agriculture consultant, specializing
in animal nutrition processes and products. Paul Murphy reported from
Lewiston, Maine, that his daughter, Megan, was married to Michael Goldman,
son of our classmate Bob Goldman, in Kennebunkport, Maine. He said that
this was a wonderful way for classmates to renew an old and lasting friendship.
Devora
Perlman Epstein continues to work as a middle-school counselor. Her husband,
Bob, is semi-retired and pursuing photography, bicycling, and computer
interests. Their son, Adam, is an assistant professor of math at Warwick
University in England. Daughter Amanda works in Boston. They are both
enjoying their two grandchildren. Linda Leffel Landow and her husband,
Lloyd, of Dix Hills, N.Y., announced the birth of their fifth grandchild,
Rachelle Rose Levitin, on April 14. The proud parents are daughter Robin
and son-in-law Sol Levitin of Manhattan. Michael Nagurney recently retired
from the chemistry department in the Stamford, Conn., public schools after
36 years. His band performs at weddings in Fairfield County, Conn., and
he also has a one-man show in Fairfield County and Cape Cod. Michael and
his wife, Marybeth, live in Stamford and would love to hear from classmates
via email at nagurns@optonline.net. Finally, if anyone would like to help
create or update our class reunion web page, please contact Annabel Khouri
at the Alumni Office via email at annabel.khouri@uvm.edu. Rosemary Mello Nolan of Stoughton, Mass., wrote that she is “the same as before and even better.” She is proud to say that she is a graduate of UVM, and she feels she received an excellent education.
As I write this news, I am sitting with a view of Lake Champlain and the Adirondacks. It is a glorious Vermont summer day. I received a letter from Harold Frost, who is married to Beverly Roy (‘66) Frost. Harold has had a 35-year career in physics, including MS and PhD degrees from UVM in 1969 and 1974. He worked in Los Alamos from 1984-2000, and he has now made a career change to writer, poet, and painter. He and Beverly are happy to be living back in Vermont, where Harold is researching Vermont sugaring history. Melvin Golden represented UVM at the inauguration of David Schmidly as president of Texas Tech last January. John Pillsbury retired from Georgia Power Company last September after a 33-year career. He now works part-time at Coosa Valley Vocational Technical College in economic development. Patricia Shanahan Aresco of Portland, Conn., a client and data manager with Middletown Adult Education, is the grandmother of two. She is fortunate to have her son, who works in the family construction business, and his family living nearby. Her daughter, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, works in Boston. Patricia and her husband, Lou, enjoy travel and golf. We are now at the age when many classmates retire and move on to other interesting adventures. It is great to hear about all these plans. Do keep in touch.
Barbara Hoffman-Mow wrote that she was sorry to have missed reunion, but she was traveling in Greece. She sent greetings to classmates. Barbara’s son, Jonathan, recently started a pharmaceutical company, while her younger son travels the world for Dreyfuss. Her husband, Van, recently opened the new biomedical research department at Columbia University. Ann-Elizabeth Wyle Gardinier was looking forward to our 35th reunion, hoping to reconnect with friends and see the campus when she wrote in May. Ann-Elizabeth and husband Gregory ‘66 have been living in Seattle since 1972. They love it there, but miss the East Coast and their old friends. Marie Gross Grimes of Stockton Springs, Maine, works for a rural, non-profit social agency, which helps those with low incomes by offering adult education classes and on-the-job training, building affordable housing, and providing food and shelter. She is in charge of a large greenhouse and organic garden, and she helps in the shelter and food bank. Judith Howland lives in North Concord, Vt., and she has three daughters, Kaija, a graduate student at Antioch; Sigrid, an artist; and Astrid, an undergraduate at McGill University. Richard Allen wrote that after working at Chapel-Hill Chauncy Hall School in Waltham, Mass., for the past 27 years, he and his wife, Margaret, moved to Foxcroft School in Middleburg, Va. He teaches studio art, and she is the academic dean and dean of the faculty.
Philip Buttaravoli, MD ‘70 wrote that he and his wife, Susan, have moved to West Palm Beach, Fla., now that their children are all out of their home. David Neumeister of Vernon, Vt., was the recipient of the Etherington Award, given to the Outstanding Dental Leader in New England. Reginald Wells wrote that he is a TV newscaster in New York City. Edward Varney of Belmont, N.H., has worked for the Batesville Casket Company for the past 25 years. He and his wife, Bette Jean, a graduate of the Mary Fletcher School of Nursing, recently celebrated their 35th wedding anniversary. Daughter Sarah lives in San Francisco, and son Adam, in Charleston, S.C. David Matte is teaching history at Bethel High School in Connecticut. Daughter Jane will graduate from Northeastern in Boston, and son Jeffrey is a student at Suffolk University in Boston. His wife, Lauren, is a nurse and teacher at the Prince of Peace Nursing School in Brookfield, Conn. Your class secretary, husband Ken McGuckin, and classmate Judy Claypoole Stewart attended the wedding of Michael Willis, son of Claire Berka Willis, in Hinesburg, Vt., on July 14, 2001. Judy’s son, Andy, was married in Vail, Colo., last June, and attending that wedding were Carol Neiman Spatz and Claire Berka Willis. Please write or email me at the above address. We always appreciate your news.
Linda
Mann Diamond lives in Great Neck, N.Y., with her husband, Norman. She
keeps busy as an occupational therapist in home care and as a grandmother
of 12. Robert Mirman is living in Laguna Niguel, Calif., with his wife,
Perri, and their two sons. Bob’s oldest daughter, Alexis, graduated
from Northwestern University in 1996, and she now attends Hastings Law
School in San Francisco. Bob is CEO of National Survey Systems in Irvine,
Calif. Harry Nelson has sold his business. His plans include traveling
and deciding what to do next and in which location. Besides his position
as director of the Office of Foreign Relations of the U.S. Department
of Labor, James Perlmutter is a part-time Cantor with the Bethesda Jewish
Congregation. His wife, Maxine, is a family educator and music specialist.
Jim’s daughter, Rena, Lynda Stone Gardner continues to present her innovative program design work and cross-system partnerships at national conferences, this year, at the Build on Family Strengths Conference in Portland, Oreg., and the National Association of Family Based Services Conference in New Orleans. She noted how exciting it is to connect with innovators across the country. Joyce Herlihy Monroe wrote that her son, Marc, is a UVM student and that daughter Melinda hopes to attend UVM in 2002. Joyce, who works at the French Embassy Cultural Services in New York City, continues to teach French and Spanish. She just successfully concluded an exchange with 35 French students. |