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Class
Notes 1970s
Class
of '70
Stephen Cooke wrote from Moscow, Idaho, that he is the father of two:
Eli, who attends the University of Michigan, and Brice, a 7th grader.
Stephen is an associate professor of agricultural economics at the University
of Idaho. For fun, he works on his family’s genealogy.
Class
of '71
I moved from Charlotte to downtown Burlington, and I am still sorting
through boxes wishing most of them would go away. There has been lots
of news from the reunion questionnaires sent to us. Here is a “snippet”
of information: Claire Becker is working at the Einstein division of Montefiore
Medical Center in the Bronx. Claire was united with her daughter, Siobhan,
in China in November 1995. Siobhan is now an active six year old. Claire
would love to hear from classmates via email at chinadoll1995@earthlink.net.
Peter Miller shows up at UVM events occasionally. He still lives in Westford,
Vt., with wife, Marilyn. Barbara Lee was named dean of the Rutgers University
school of management and labor relations in 2000. She lives in Princeton,
N.J., with husband Jim Begin and son Robby. Barbara serves on the Board
of Directors of the Princeton Adult School. Christine Mosher Labone wrote
from Australia to say that she has been acting and singing in amateur
productions. She and her husband will be sailing during the month of November
along the Great Barrier Reef. Kim Butterfield is in private practice with
Otter Creek Associates in South Burlington, Vt. She lives in Williston
with husband, Michael Olson, who is a curriculum developer with the Vermont
State Colleges. Daughter Jessie is at UVM, and son Isaac attends Johnson
State College. Lynn and Bonnie Irwin live in Thetford, Vt. Lynn is a caseworker
with Upper Valley Services in Bradford, while Bonnie is a teacher at Thetford
Elementay School. Lynn just received a master’s degree in psychoanalysis
at the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis. Bonnie recently began
working for the critical skills programme in Edinburgh, Scotland. Annie
Viets departed Ben & Jerry’s on the eve of the Unilever takeover
in July 2000. She has since studied mediation at Woodbury College and
recently started her own consulting business in organization development
and conflict management. Annie lives in Burlington, Vt., with her 13-year-old
daughter. Paula Christofoletti is on the national board of directors of
the National Association of Disability Examiners. She is also editor-in-chief
of the NADE Granite State Voice newspaper. Annie and Paula are also working
on the ‘71 reunion committee. Anne Ehrlich, M.D., is director of
radiology at Bertrand Chaffee Hospital, and her husband, Alfred Wodehouse,
owns and operates the largest you-pick apple orchard in Erie County, N.Y.
Dr. Renny Franceschi was recently elected president of the mineralized
tissues group of the International Association for Dental Research. He
conducts research on bone formation and teaches biological chemistry to
first-year dental students at the University of Michigan School of Dentistry.
Annalee Morrison Bishop is a licensed social worker for a home care agency,
and her husband, Daniel ‘72, is a logistics manager for Compac Corp.
They live in Townsend, Mass. Their son, Robert, graduated magna cum laude
from Brown University with a BS in electrical engineering last May. Kathleen
Geran, who was a professor of nursing at UVM, has moved with her husband,
Fred Marks, to Tucson, Ariz. We heard from Peter and Alice Kent. Peter
is president and CEO of Bicron Electronics in Canaan, Conn., and Alice
is manager of the Salisbury Bank & Trust Company. Carl Korman works
with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as district counsel. He and his
family live in Fair Oaks, Calif. He’d love to hear from old AEP alums
so they can join him in some family skiing. Come back to reunion, Carl.
Elizabeth Ryan is a systems engineer with Lockheed Martin air traffic
management. Elizabeth still plays the cello. Karen Kerin lives in South
Royalton, Vt. She ran for U.S. Congress in the state of Vermont in 2000.
Joyce Bordeaux lives in Burlington, Vt. She works in pastoral care and
also paints. Bill Anderson, who lives and works at Salomon Smith Barney
in Rutland, Vt., went on a month-long trip to Nigeria as part of a Rotary
Foundation Vocational Exchange. Daniel Hoberman is a trial lawyer in northern
New Jersey, specializing in professional negligence claims and matrimonial
matters. His daughter, Andrea, recently graduated from Cornell, and his
son, Jeff, attends George Washington University school of business. Dan
and his wife, Julie, just returned from a trip to Italy, where they visited
their daughter, Kelrey, a Rhode Island School of Design graduate, who’s
completing a graduate internship at FABRICA. Their daughter, Mika, is
in high school. J. Lynn Bisbee is employed by the Office of the Governor
of South Carolina. She’s responsible for insuring that the group
home facilities for severely emotionally-disturbed children comply with
state and federal standards. Stephen Higgins works at the INS in Providence,
R.I. His sons, Andy and Christopher, do a lot of hiking with him in the
White Mountains. Andy attends Bryant College, and Christopher is in high
school. Arthur Williamson is with Atlantic Coast Realty Advisory Group
in Toms River, N.J. His oldest daughter, Colleen, graduated from University
of Maryland and is now in dental school at UMD-Baltimore. Son Brian is
a student at St. Joseph’s University and his twin sister, Jennifer,
attends Georgia Court College. Arthur’s youngest, Tim, is in high
school. Wally Johnson was given the Warren Berg Award by the College Sports
Information Directors of American in recognition of outstanding achievement
in the field of sports information and contributions to college athletics
in 2001. Wally also received the Irving T. Marsh Award in 1995. He’s
currently in his 27th year as the director of athletic media relations
at St. Lawrence University. Derrick “Rick” Semler called me
recently to check in. He wanted to reconnect with Peter Mitchell. Rick,
who is close by in Washington, Vt. produces music and has a new CD coming
out. He promised to provide back-up music at Reunion. Can’t wait
to see you, Rick. And, finally, Mags Caney Conant was chosen as one of
the Best Vermont Teachers and was feted at the UVM event honoring Vermont
teachers October 17th. I have known of Mags’s incredible career as
an innovative art teacher at Burlington High School for the past 30 years.
It was nice to see the state and UVM recognize her for her accomplishments.
Class
of '72
Ken Perry wrote that he and his family are safe and sound, although homeless,
after having been evacuated from the World Trade Center site. In addition,
Ken’s office is on the edge of the forbidden zone, which was closed
until October 1 and still suffers from occasional loss of services and
utilities. Ken, his wife, Elinore Antell, and their sons, Shawn and Lee,
are determined to resume life in what was almost a suburban oasis within
Manhattan. He is looking forward to visiting UVM during reunion. I hope
you are thinking about returning ”home” for our class reunion.
Please make sure to visit our class reunion web site at http://alumni.
uvm.edu/2re/re02_’71_’72_’73_home.htm. And now for the
news: Larry and Debbie Lewin Kull, of Medford, N.J, recently celebrated
their 30th wedding anniversary. Congratulations, Larry and Debbie! Their
son, David, graduated from Cornell University, and then began a master’s
program at Cornell. Daughter Jamie attends Washington University in St.
Louis, where she joined AEPhi sorority. Rosamond Lee, after a mid-life
career change, now owns a small media production company, Collaboration
Works, which produced an album last year. She is also a freelance writer,
who was published in the Los Angeles Times several times last year. She
is also writing two books. Michele Resnick Cohen’s son Todd graduated
from Tulane, and daughter Mollie, from high school. Mollie now attends
UC Boulder. Adam is involved in art at Alfred University, and Barrie is
in eighth grade. Mark Brundage has been doing lots of camping and trout
fishing in the northern Cascades of Washington state as well as having
exotic adventures during his “low-budget style” world traveling.
Would you believe that he’s still using the same beaten backpack
he traveled around the world with in 1972-73? Dorothy and George Cook
are very active volunteers in their community of Hyde Park, Vt., serving
on the rescue squad for 26 years and in the fire department for 25 years.
They have three children: Wendy, a 2001 graduate of RIT; Dennis; and Heather,
a student at Barry University. Curlee Washington lives in Texas, where
he teaches seventh and eighth grade music. Travel has kept him busy with
visits to Hawaii, Jamaica, and Cancun. Jean LeClair Desilets has been
teaching in the Williston, Vt., school district for 27 years. She and
husband Ray recently celebrated their 30th wedding anniversary. Their
daughter attends St. Michael’s College, and their son graduated from
Mount Mansfield High School, then enlisted in the Marines in aviation
mechanics. Anita Piro Toppin recently became math department chair at
her school. Anne Bennett Snyder and her husband, Mike, live with their
four children in Berrien Springs, Mich. She is a teacher for the hearing
impaired. A. David Clark is now vice chairman of the Chester, N.H., school
board. In addition, he taught sailing to special needs kids at Boy Scout
Camp last summer. His children, Ben and Jenny, are competitive swimmers
around New England. Vera Beaudin Saeedpour received her doctorate in education
from Columbia University in 1976, specializing in contemporary Kurdish
affairs in the context of U.S. foreign policy. Last June, Carol Webster
Blair completed a fellowship at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.
Her studies there added to her transportation expertise and prepared her
to start a new organization called “People on the Move.” Lorraine
Eddy Record’s son, Christopher, graduated from the University of
North Texas. Anne Hughes Soper is happy that the “preppy” look
is back again. Dr. Bradford Barnes owns two veterinary practices in southern
New Hampshire. Daughter Elizabeth entered UVM this fall. Son Jonathan
attends Ithaca College. M. Paula Burnett Premo and family moved to North
Carolina’s Outer Banks, where her husband, Greg, is the executive
director of Trinity Center, an Episcopal Conference Center. Polly is office
manager for a busy dental practice. Daughter Jeanette, a Kenyon College
graduate, lives in St. Paul, Minn. Barbara Torrey Hillinger left her job
as assistant director of Dartmouth’s Ethics Institute to become administrative
coordinator of a new initiative, “The Demography of Inequality”
at the University of Maryland, College Park. Isla Lee Spring moved to
Rockport, Maine. She plans to build in Warren, Maine, soon. Bruce Roeck
was named president of Wexford Labs, Inc., where he has been employed
since 1976. He and his wife, Donna, will be relocating to Kirkwood, Mo.,
but they plan to keep their home in Florida. Son Adam, who graduated from
Florida State University in 1997, is an electrical engineer; and daughter
Megan now attends Florida State.
Class
of '73
Class president Miles Susskind hopes to see everyone at our reunion May
30-June 2, 2002. Jean Coe Poppoon has been teaching elementary and middle
school since 1973. She and her husband, John, live with their three daughters
on a farm in the Finger Lakes of upstate New York. Dr. Thomas Legan lives
in the Santa Cruz mountains of California with his wife, Mary Ann, their
two sons, and five German short-hair pointers. They also grow pinot noir
and chardonnay wine grapes that are used in the wines produced under the
Clos La Chance label. He sent his best to ‘73 classmates, Gene, Glenn,
Dave, Woody, Mike, and Tom. Ellen Sabo Morris wrote that she still enjoys
working in Continuing Education’s distance learning network at UVM.
She’s been in the job six years. In her spare time, she and her husband
enjoy summer skydiving, and they faithfully attend UVM hockey games in
the winter. Dorothy Wilson Cook and her husband, George, live in Hyde
Park, Vt., where they have been on the local rescue squad for 25 years.
Dorothy is treasurer of her church, and George is a member of the church
council. Bruce Dutcher spends his spare time white-water canoeing in Atlanta’s
Chattahoochee River with his children. Deborah Jacobson Burton wrote that
she and her husband, John, will celebrate their 30th wedding anniversary
in 2002. They are enjoying being “empty-nesters” in South Burlington.
Their daughter attends Georgia Southern University, and their son is “exploring
the universe.” Joseph Sabourin has two sons graduating in June 2002—one
from West Point and another from the University of California, San Francisco,
dental school. Joseph lives in Moore, S.C. Mary Whaley Kiefer continues
to teach psychiatric nursing part time at Cleveland State University.
She and her husband, Jay, recently celebrated their 20th wedding anniversary.
They have three daughters. Laurie Teller Feldman works as a research associate
at Yale University, recruiting and interviewing patients for studies being
carried out at the Primary Care Center of Yale New Haven Hospital. One
of her daughters is a UVM senior, the other is in her first year at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison, and her son is a high school sophomore.
Lois Farnham wrote that she and Holly Puterbaugh became “legal”
on July 1, 2000, in a civil union ceremony in Burlington’s First
Congregational Church. “It was not the first civil union performed,
but we believe it was the first one performed in a church,” she said.
They were plaintiffs in the court case that led to Vermont’s first-in-the-nation
civil unions law. Gretchen Vonberg Adsit and John Adsit reported that
they cross paths with various classmates now and again, usually through
their business of selling trailers in Hinesburg, Vt. Their son, Justin,
graduated from Skidmore College in 2000, and Evan is to graduate from
there in 2002. Dr. Laurence Murphy is a partner in a pediatrics partnership
in Burke, Va. James Foss has been restoring the Gifford House Inn in Provincetown,
Mass. He and Harvey Wilson celebrated their 11th year of commitment last
August. Wesley Larkin has been promoted to supervisor of the Eddy Current
Center for Excellence at Pratt
& Whitney in Connecticut. Jan Swartzbaugh Zajicek is in Corvallis,
Oreg., working part time in ultrasound at various hospitals in the area.
She spends her spare time helping local non-profits with special events
and fundraisers. When he’s not working, Ants Uiga is exploring the
western states with his vintage Airstream trailer and contemplating life.
He wrote, “So, if you see a trailer with a pink flamingo on the front,
stop by and say hello.” Dr. Karoline Kimball traveled to Slovakia
and the Czech Republic with son Adam, who made the USA under-16 National
Hockey Team. Judy Strong Peterson, Susan Donnelly, Sally Hazen Britton,
and Beth Corcoran planned to celebrate their 50th birthdays in Montreal
in September 2001. Harold Smead expects to finish a series of computer
courses that will certify him as a Microsoft network engineer specialist
in October 2002. Alan Zampini moved to New Mexico nearly two years ago
with his wife and seven-year-old son. He is the CEO of a health care company
that provides long-term care. Dr. Andrew Miller’s private medical
practice was bought by UMass Memorial Health Care. He is providing primary
care to patients in the Blackstone Valley of Massachusetts, where he lives
with his wife, Tina ‘72, who holds a master’s in communication
disorders. Their son graduated from UMass-Amherst and is a computer engineer,
and their daughter attends UConn. Karen Blakney traveled to Cuba recently
for an ornithology meeting. Living in Salt Lake City, she’s looking
forward to the Olympics. After having worked on the Star Spangled Banner
for the Smithsonian Institution and having prepared the vestments worn
by Pope John Paul II, Michele Pietryka Pagan is in private practice doing
textile conservation and reproduction of textile furnishings for historic
sites like the Shelburne Museum in Vermont and George Washington’s
Mount Vernon. Allison Thurmond and her fiancé are building a house
and planning their March wedding in Key West, where they expect to be
joined by 40 friends and relatives for a sunset ceremony on the beach.
Her daughter attends Emma Willard School, with an eye toward rowing for
a Division I college in four short years. Karen Salvador Blosser completed
studies to become a certified life underwriter in 2000. You might have
seen her on TV; she represented State Farm in a national television ad.
Ann Taylor spent most of the last decade in Salt Lake City, skiing Snowbird
and Alta, but she’s back in the Burlington area running a physical
therapy clinic. “There is no better place to live,” she said.
“The West is great, but Vermont’s beauty, arts, community, the
lake, the Adirondacks, and the scenery make it the place to be.”
Dr. Linda Rubin has been practicing veterinary medicine in Orlando, Fla.,
since 1981, competing in triathlons and still looking for “Mr. Right.”
Class
of '74
Leigh Rosenberg Earnest is an artist living in Kansas City, Mo. She announced
that two of her linocuts were included in Hallmark’s “Tree of
Life” line of cards. One entitled, “La Shannah Tovah,”
is a print of a rabbi blowing a shofar; the other features a dreidle and
a menorah, entitled “Chanukkah.”
Class
of '75
Helen Riendeau wrote from Traverse City, Mich., that she enjoyed working
with Habitat for Humanity in Mexico and touring Ireland in 2000. She was
looking forward to a trip to Egypt in 2001. Kathleen Erway Beinert of
Williston, Vt., has been married for more than 30 years. She has two teenage
daughters. Kathleen has a private practice in psychotherapy, and she loves
hiking, biking, and dog walking as well as spiritual work. Joan Deady
wanted her dietetics and nutrition and food sciences classmates to know
about her new cookbook. Reach Joan via email at gourmet@cookbooks4u. net.
Class
of '76
Congratulations to Russell Johnston on being named a partner at Meehan
and Goodin, an engineering and surveying firm in Manchester, Conn. Russell’s
wife, Gail Gauthier ‘75, had her fourth novel, The Hero of Ticonderoga,
published by G.P. Putnam’s Sons in March 2001. Judy Holmes had hoped
to see more Simpson dormmates, field hockey and lacrosse teammates, and
anthropology majors at reunion. She did enjoy catching up with a few people
she knew from Sigma Nu. Judy would welcome a visit from classmates traveling
to Vail/Beaver Creek, Colo., where she has spent the last 16 winters.
Michael Conley and Dr. Glen Elder had their civil union on March 13, 2001.
Glen teaches in UVM’s geography department.
Class
of '77
Donna Cummings Agnew of Morrisonville, N.Y., hopes to see Ann Duval and
Barb Lafferty at our reunion in June. Darlene “Dee” Main Blanchard
of Milford, N.H., is an elementary level physical education instructor
as well as a soccer and track coach at Milford High School. Dee also plays
soccer in an indoor women’s league. Her son, Adam, is a dean’s
list student in UVM’s College of Engineering and Mathematics. Daughter
Meghan attends Milford High School, where she is on the soccer, cross-country
ski, and spring track teams. Susan Nostrand Boston lives in Acton, Mass.,
with her husband, David; daughter Sarah, who attends Union College; and
son Peter, who attends Killington Mountain School. Susan sent a message
to Lee-Ellen Gaeta Harder, Tina Flannery Roberts, and Corinne Johansson:
“We have an important date next June.” Malcolm Kimball wrote,
“Where have all my classmates and fellow streakers gone?” Malcolm
lives in Haverhill, Mass., and would love to hear from “the old gang.”
Martha Bauver recently enjoyed visiting the UVM campus and Burlington
again after more than 20 years. Her daughter, Leah, was on campus to attend
a program sponsored by the College of Engineering and Math. Lisa Ringey
Ventriss has three sons, runs a non-profit trade association, is vice
president of the Lund Family Center board of directors, and is chairperson
of the 2001 campaign of the United Way of Chittenden County. Her husband,
Curtis, is a professor in UVM’s School of Natural Resources. Stowe
Shoemaker earned his PhD from Cornell University in 1995. He is an associate
professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, spending the fall semester
on sabbatical at Harvard Business School. Colleen Morey is director of
education and youth outreach for Airline Ambassadors International, a
humanitarian organization that provides aid to orphans in third-world
countries. Colleen coordinates bi-annual missions to Bogota, Colombia.
Anyone interested in finding out more about the organization should contact
cemorey@aol.com. Richard Thomas, a realtor for the past 12 years, recently
graduated from the Realtor Institute, achieving the designation GRI from
the National Association of Realtors. Kirk Robinson left the corporate
world ten years ago to start his own business, Captain Kirks. He invites
UVMers to check out his Website, www.captainkirks.com, in which he credits
UVM and Vermont in the biography section. Susan Glovsky, husband Steve,
and son Lowell moved to Wayland, Mass. Her new law office, Hamilton, Brook,
Smith & Reynolds, is moving to Concord, Mass. Bruce Greenbaum is living
in Los Angeles. He would love to hear from his UVM friends with plans
for the class’s 25th reunion. Carol Degan loves her job teaching
physical education at a low-income elementary school in Everett, Wash.
She wrote that Sher Varney ’73 is the school psychiatrist. Carol
enjoys running, hiking, cycling, skiing, traveling, and writing articles
for Northwest Runner magazine. Jack Wood recently received his MBA from
the University of Massachusetts-Boston. He is now an associate with Veitas
& Veitas Engineers, Inc., in Braintree, Mass. Mark Lamont and his
wife, Patti, were married on June 10, 2001. Mark wrote that Patti’s
son, Tyler, is “now my son, too.” The family lives in Bermuda
where they play golf, swim, coach Little League, and work together in
Patti’s two businesses, Franklin Travel and Daly Associates. Marcia
Evangelista Smith and husband Oney ‘76 live in Frederick, Md., with
their two children, Andrew and Aimee. Marcia teaches family and consumer
science-life skills at a nearby middle school. Oney is a member of the
biology department faculty at Hood College in Frederick. The Smiths celebrated
their 21st wedding anniversary last June. Kathleen Welch moved to Portland,
Oreg., to live near her older daughter. She enjoys spending quality time
with her grandson, Sayer, who was born on February 17, 1999. She has been
touring Portland, volunteering for social causes, and attending music
events. Kathie Sullivan wrote that she was program chair for the 94th
annual meeting of the American Association of Law Libraries. Janice Cauchon
enjoys being a stay-at-home mom to Tyler and Travis. Janice recently had
a visit from Celia Dondes, and they enjoyed reminiscing about UVM and
Pi Phi. Brett Arron, M.D., was appointed clinical director of the department
of anesthesia at Mt. Sinai Medical Center in Chicago. Deborah Jenkins
Fennell is running a residential camp, raising her daughter, and volunteering
in her community. Christopher Long’s oldest daughter, Megan, is a
member of UVM’s class of 2005. Lauren Tofias worked as a nurse until
her daughter was born and then used her nursing experience in several
other positions. She is now an administrative assistant in her husband’s
business, and she teaches sewing to children. Christopher Chilelli became
a senior instructional designer for Johnson Space Center distance learning
educational programs using video-teleconferencing technology. Carrie Askren
Messer is council director for Green Mountain United Way of Caledonia,
Essex, and Orleans counties in Vermont. Now that her triplet daughters
are 15 years old, she is writing a book about life with triplets. Erwin
Kinsey is living in Tanzania, where he directs a program that has directly
assisted more than 15,000 poor families in obtaining training using livestock.
Deborah Chaffee Seamans and her family recently returned to the U.S. after
having lived in Krakow, Poland, for four years. Her daughters, Colby and
Courtney, both competitive swimmers, keep her busy. The family is now
enjoying life in the Northwest. Myra Fraser Handy teaches a field course
as a liaison for graduate social work students at UVM, and is a social
worker in an elementary school. She enjoys spending time with her children
as well as hiking, biking, kayaking, skiing, and running. Scott Curtis
enjoyed hearing Professor Frank Bryan speak in Boston, noting “He
explained everything.” Richard Frechette, M.D., and his wife, Jean
‘79, spent their 12th anniversary hiking in the Alps of Austria and
enjoying the city of Innsbruck. They are the proud parents of Danielle.
Ellen Thompson recently published her first book, I Teach First Grade!.
She wrote, “Other than giving birth, this is just about the most
exciting and difficult thing that has happened to me.” Janet Benoit
Connor of East Montpelier, Vt., has four children, including an adopted
Vietnamese daughter. Robert Kraus planned a reunion at Lake Tahoe with
Ron French, Greg Zoll, Charlie Trapani, Ken Koffman ‘78, Mark Kaufman
‘78, Bob Kraus ‘77 and Peter Katz ‘78 last September. He
wondered, “Will they hit any fairways?” David Goodman, M.D.,
enjoyed a trip as a U.S. delegate to an international health conference
in Sydney, Australia. His son, Andrew, attends George Washington University.
Greg Rainville owns and manages Rainville & Associates, P.C., a law
firm concentrating in trial work. He and his wife, Pauline, recently purchased
a new home in St. Albans, Vt. Greg serves as an alternate member of the
Vermont Environmental Board and manages a farm, raising black angus beef
as a hobby. Vicki Boardman Lawry of Gardiner, Maine, wrote that her daughter,
Haily, graduated from high school last June. Robert Waxman, his wife,
Irene, and daughter Kyla Rose live in Richmond, Calif. He plays in an
Allman Brothers tribute band, called Southband, and enjoys playing tennis
regularly. 1st Lt. Gregory Doubek completed a three-year assignment in
Germany, then met his future wife, Cory. They both completed master’s
degrees at the University of Colorado in Boulder in 2001, and they were
married in Lyons, Colo. Chris McAvoy ‘91 was the officiant, Chris
Nugent ‘92 gave a reading, and Carolan Knott (‘91) McAvoy, John
Bardes ‘92, and Rick Davis ‘92 were in attendance. Gregory and
his new wife have now been assigned to Stuttgart, Germany. Edith Abbott
is a senior instructor for professional equity compensation. When not
teaching, Edith can be found in the garden. Dorothy Bellhouse wrote from
Milford, Conn., that the past year has been one of change. She expanded
her work responsibilities, her mother died, and she married a wonderful
man, Hunter Ficke, in June. UVMers in attendance at their wedding celebration
party included Betsy Giovine Vogel ‘77, Laurette Maro DeCabia ‘77,
and Laura Pearce Kelleher. Andrew Wener lives in South Florida, where
he works as an air traffic controller for the FAA in Miami. Most of his
free time is spent with his 13-year-old son. He would love to hear from
UVM friends.78Adam Zahler completed his fourth year at New Repertory Theatre
in Newton, Mass. Their production of Stonewall Jackson’s House received
the 2001 Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Production, Small Theatre,
the Boston area’s highest honor. This season he is directing Rose.
Bruce Cote of Prospect, Kent., was appointed to the newly-created position
of vice president for human resources and best practices leader at Brown-Forman
Corporation in Louisville, Ky.
Class
of '79
Greetings to all from Vermont! I hope that many of you were able to make
it to Burlington for Homecoming Weekend in early October. As I write this
note to you, it has cooled down considerably, and we are enjoying one
of those autumn afternoons perfect for apple picking or football games.
I didn’t receive many messages this quarter, so please consider sending
me an email message with your latest news to share with classmates. We
did receive news from Mary Dixon Wittke, who sent greetings from Brighton,
Utah, where she has lived for the past 22 years. I look forward to hearing
from you soon.
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