1970s 1980s

1970
Class secretary - dgsouthard@juno.com

1971
It was an exciting basketball season at UVM, and it offered great opportunities to meet up with classmates. I sat next to Linda Horsford and John Radimer at one game. It was fun to catch up. Son Scott ’02 will probably follow in dad’s footsteps in secondary education. I also ran into Jim Ross and wife Peggy, who are great athletic boosters. I had a great chat with Owen Jenkins at a pep rally preceding the last home game against Maine. He and Wendy Reilly (’72) Jenkins have launched their kids, and it was fun to hear Owen’s interest in UVM Athletics. I attended a conference at BC and had dinner with Joanne Czachor Magliozzi. Daughter Anna will be attending UVM in the fall — a third generation UVMer! Liz Foster ran the Boston Marathon (again!) April 19, and, despite the horrific conditions, she did extremely well. She figures she won’t be running for a while, and, in fact, she will be sailing off the island of Tahiti in May. Although Jimmy Seder should really be in the class of ’70, we can call him a ’71 as far as I’m concerned. He called to inform me of an accepted student from Milwaukee, and we did a lot of catching up. Jim is retired and fulfilling his dream of volunteering for several civic organizations. He says that he will return to UVM’s ’68, ’69, and ’70 cluster reunion because of the friends he has in the class. I’ll have a full report if he returns for the weekend. I ran into Bonnie Christensen ’73 at a Fleming Museum event. Bonnie has two book deals in the works, teaches at St. Michael’s College, and was to be in Venice during April and May doing research for another book. It’s always great to catch up with Bonnie, because we can compare Jason Robards notes. Dick Peisch is doing great volunteer work for UVM and is in touch regularly. Work and daughters keep him busy plus trips to Italy and Nantucket. George and Gale Burns Dorsey are living in Cornwall, Vt. We’re trying to get together on campus or in between Cornwall and Burlington in the near future. Mark Milowsky reported, “Everything is hectic as always. Megz ’00 is still in Burlington, working for Wyeth Pharmaceuticals. Molly is finishing up at UVM, and we are praying that she gets done this summer. Morgan graduates from Endicott College this spring, and Maddy is finishing up her sophomore year at Kimball Union Academy. Patty ’73 and I are great. Just finished adding on to our house now that everyone is gone. Hopefully, someday they will be back with grandchildren.” Please write. This column is only fun when I hear from you!
Class secretary - sarah.sprayregen@uvm.edu

1972
David Carter of South Hero, Vt., a member of Rotary since 1981, was selected to lead a group study exchange team to India for a one-month visit in January 2004. The team visited Rotary projects in Madhya Pradesh state and traveled to rural villages and historical sites, staying in homes of Rotarians. David said, “Just experiencing living in a country of 1.1 billion with all of its incumbent issues and problems was an experience of a lifetime. It gives you a perspective that makes you realize even more clearly how good we have it here in the USA.”
Class secretary - dstern@uvm.edu

1973
Dorothy Wilson Cook received Copley Hospital’s 2003 Edward French Memorial Award for excellence in the nursing profession. Dot has worked at the Morrisville, Vt., hospital for 30 years, since graduating from the UVM School of Nursing. She also serves on the Morristown Rescue Squad and the Hyde Park Fast Squad.
Class secretary - d.mesce@verizon.net

1974
Class secretary - swinner123@aol.com30th

1975
Class secretary - dinachild@aol.com

1976
Melissa O’Brien G’02 was pleased to pass on wedding news: Richard Eyre and Melissa were married in their back field in Charlotte, Vt., on September 13, 2003. The wedding itself was secondary to the UVM reunion that took place that weekend. Friends from Richard’s UVM years enjoyed three days of reminiscing at their home on Lake Champlain. Melissa wrote, “So much fun was had that everyone is now scrambling to plan the inevitable 50th birthday celebrations.” It was nice to hear from Norene Poulin, who remains positive and upbeat in spite of being forced into early retirement. After years of fighting SLE, she is now at a coping level. Norene is a nursing graduate who has been out of touch with classmates since graduation. She wrote, “I look back on my years at UVM as some of the best times in my memories. My hobbies include writing mediocre poetry and short stories from childhood memories and learning how to polish rocks into gemstones. I am extremely proud of my fellow students and how much they have accomplished.”
Class secretary - bbeekma1@twcny.rr.com

1977
Hello, everyone! I hope you had a nice spring. Julia Eddy made mention of UVM in the dedication of her husband’s book, Essential Evidence-Based Medicine by Dan Mayer, M.D., which was published by Oxford University Press in May. Glenn Gottfried wrote that he was named president of Thomson TFP, a division of Thomson Media, Inc., within the Thomson Corporation. Glenn has three children, Gavin, Garrett, and Gabrielle. He has been a soccer referee for 11 years, and he passed one part of the AYSO National Referee Test. Glenn also coaches his daughter’s basketball team, and he goes skiing with his children almost every Saturday. He continues to serve on UVM’s College of Engineering and Mathematics’ board of advisors. Dr. Charles “Chuck” Hoffman is a board-certified anesthesiologist, and he directs a surgery center in Beverly Hills, Calif. He occasionally bumps into Bruce Greenbaum. Rick King of Eagan, Minn., was promoted to senior vice president and chief technology officer for Thomson Legal and Regulatory, the largest market group within the Thomson Corporation. Abby Mandel instructs physical therapy assistant students at Northern Virginia Community College, and she won an award for her student retention program. Abby also assesses medical education students’ learning styles and tutors individual students. She has three sons, and, in her spare time, she skis and dances. Larry Seiden and his wife, Nancy, who is president of an insurance company, live in San Jose, Calif., with their three dogs and two cats. They have two children in college, one at Cal Poly and the other at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Larry completed one 20-year career in advertising, then started a second career as an employee benefits consultant. He collects wristwatches and writes about watches on related websites. Please contact me with your updates. We would love to hear from you.
Class secretary - jacober3@cox.net

1978
As you read this column, Las Vegas is undoubtedly sweltering in more than 100-degree heat, and it stays this way for about three months. I never miss the cool Green Mountains more than I do right now. I’ve heard from three classmates since returning to my post as class secretary. Ken Wormser and Kerrie Lindberg gave me some news, and Bruce Donovan managed to squeak out a sentence or two about himself. The “Worm” and I were good friends in college, but this is the first time I’ve heard from him in (gulp) 26 years. He reported that he is married with two daughters, Samantha and Lindsay, and he lives with his family in Demarest, N.J. Ken runs a corporate finance group for the French bank, Caisse de Depot, and he spends too much time on the road. However, he’s healthy and sounds very happy. Way to go, Worm! Kerrie Lindberg Anders is a graduate of the school of nursing. She wrote that she is a colonel in the Air Force Nurse Corps, and she plans to retire in March 2005 after 26 years of service. Kerrie is the director of the Defense Institute for Medical Operations, an organization that presents courses on disaster/trauma and healthcare management internationally. She and her husband of 23 years, Gayle Anders, live in San Antonio, Tex., with their two youngest sons. Her oldest son, Gayle, is a corporal in the Marine Corps, and the second, Mycal, is at the US. Air Force Academy. Eryk and Bryan are in high school. The older girls, Tamara, Evie, and Jessica, are doing well in their respective careers. Kerrie concludes that the family plans to stay in San Antonio after she retires from the Air Force, and she will be hitting the job market soon after, something she hasn’t done since graduating UVM. Bruce “Duke” Donovan wrote that he is starting his second year as treasurer of the Barre, Vt., Lions Club, and he is in his fifth year as treasurer of the Barre Area Clergy Association. He juggles his family responsibilities with working (three jobs in fact) and bowling in his “spare” time (no pun intended) after first discovering his talent for bowling on the Christie 3rd bowling team. In other news, my own bowling handicap remains the same, dismal, but on a very positive note, I have become a certified mediator and arbitrator in Nevada and have started a part-time business called Desert Mediation. If you want to see what I look like these days, you can go to my website, www.desertmediation.com, for an accurate cartoon of me and the doggies. The peace sign on my tee shirt is a definite throwback to our wonderful years at UVM. Please send me an email message and give me some news about yourself to share with our classmates. Until then, peace!
Class secretary - audreyb2@aol.com

1979
By the time you are all reading this column, summer will be here, and I am sure many of you will have returned to Burlington for our reunion. I am confident that everyone who came had an enjoyable weekend seeing old friends. Please send me your news and perhaps news of classmates who were unable to attend. I would appreciate hearing from more of you. For this issue, I received an update from Ami Setright Longstreet, who lives in Fayetteville, N.Y. Ami is a partner at Mackenzie Hughes LLP, a Syracuse law firm. She has been elected treasurer of the Elder Law Section of the New York State Bar Association. Greg Boardman will be moving from New Orleans to Palo Alto, Calif., after 15 years at Tulane University. He was named dean of students at Stanford University.
Class secretary - banutter@adelphia.net

1980
Class secretary - ky3e@virginia.edu

1981
Jim Apfelbaum’s fourth book, a revised edition of Golf Etiquette, was published by St. Martin’s Press in 2003. Commentator Paul Harvey called it, “the first and last word on how properly to behave on and off the golf course.” Jim is president of the Texas Golf Writers’ Association, and he lives in Austin, Tex.
Class secretary - alumni@uvm.edu

1982
John Matarese is a consumer reporter for WCPO-TV in Cincinnati. His segment, “Don’t Waste your Money,” appears weekly on affiliate stations around the country. His website, wcpo.com/wcpo/ localshows/dontwasteyourmoney/ contains tips on how to be a smart consumer.
Class secretary - peabodyea@aol.com

1983
I am pleased to be working with Colette on our class column in Vermont Quarterly. We are looking forward to working together to deliver class news to all of you. I live in Chapel Hill, N.C., with my husband, Chris, and four sons, Giffin, Niles, Sullivan, and Jack Henry. I have fulfilled 21 years working in both land planning and health care. However, my number one job is “Mom.” My husband is a biostatistician and epidemiologist, and we enjoy living in a university town. I loved UVM and miss my classmates, so please write in. John Handy wrote to say, “In 20 years as a post grad, I’ve never written to Vermont Quarterly. Shame on me.” John is living in Essex, Vt., with his wife, Jennifer Baker (’84) Handy. He has been there since he “left” Burlington following graduation. John owns a property/casualty insurance agency in Essex Junction with his business partner, David Holton ’72. He has three children, Axel, Ariel, and Jamil, and he keeps in close contact with many area UVM grads as well as Sig Eps in New England. John currently is a member of the UVM Alumni Association’s Vermont Regional Board. He also keeps in touch with Pete and Cathy McNichol (’92) Kelley, Jim and Cathy Blouin (’84) Donnelly, John and Diana Ramirez (’82) Wallace, Craig Caswell, Mark Abatiell, Mike Bemis ’84, and others. Lorraine Forenza Henry, Robin Ellis Busch, Alisa Bowen Goessling, Sandy Jones, and Lisa Feuss Ballard traveled to Burlington last May for our 20th reunion. They saw many old friends, including Paul Averill, Chris and Allyson Carpenter Yandow, Jimmy Provost, Toni Lynn Raffinelli Kittredge, Paul Butler, Cynnie Wheeler Thunem, Micaela Sorrell Wallace, and Susan Post, to name a few. They were happy to report that UVM has not changed at all and is still a great place to play and see friends.
Class secretarys - smorrissey@nc.rr.com
colette.twigg@rowseco.com


1985
Sandi Milne Holden is a singer/actress/songwriter/ teacher with a commercial running on national network television and an album of original songs released this spring. She teaches music and drama classes and volunteers at a home for neglected children. She and her husband, Peter, were married in Ira Allen Chapel in October 1994, and they will celebrate their 10th anniversary this year. They have two children, Lennon and Robby. Sandi sent thanks to professors in the UVM Music Department and Royall Tyler Theatre for her great education. She enjoys hearing from Gary Hammer and family in Michigan, and she would love to hear from Jan Brassard (’86) Smith and Nancy Littlehale. Nora Moser McMillan returned to Burlington last July to marry W. Bradford McMillan. They were wed in Ira Allen Chapel with classmates Wendy Katz Nunez, Mary Bosley, Melanie Thorndike Lounsbury, Katrina Long, Alan Ouellette, and recent newlywed Mary Laudise Watts in attendance.
Class secretary - roth_barb@yahoo.com

1986
Thank goodness the drought of news from the class of 1986 is over! Dana Boole wrote to say that he was recently promoted to president and CEO of Community Affordable Housing Equity Corp. in North Carolina, a non-profit company serving the mid-Atlantic and southeastern U.S. Dana, his wife Lauren, and children Kelsey and Taylor live in Raleigh, N.C. Jeff Holdsworth married Susan Toller in Keene, N.Y., on August 2, 2003. In attendance were Hilton Dier, Paul Mattor, ex-Wilkes floormates Bill Jaffe ’87 and Price Hunneman ’87. Jeff met Susan while exploring eastern Canada during the summer of 2000. He is an application/sales engineer with Giga-Tron Associates in Montreal.
Class secretary - alumni@uvm.edu

1987
I heard from Arthur Hacker for the first time. Thanks for writing in. He has been living in Boulder, Colo., for the last 11 years, but every summer he comes home to his family’s house in the Adirondacks, where he enjoys visits from fellow UVMers Suzanne Sweetser ’94, Chris Whitlock ’89, David Halpin, ’89, and Charles Armbruster ’89. Art still thinks about the great times he had with the people of Marsh 2nd, Austin 2nd, and Austin 1st, and he wishes everyone well. Congratulations to Steve Gorman, who was recently promoted to president and general manager of IDX Systems Corporation’s groupcast operating unit. He has been with the company since 1991. Langdon Clough received the Excellence in Teaching Award from Northeastern University’s University College. He is in his 17th year of teaching in their earth sciences program and his fifth year as a program consultant.
Class secretary - ssrey@optonline.net

1988
Greer Greene Westerink is living in Tiburon, Calif., with her husband, Bart, and sons Sebastian, three, and Constantine, nine months. Ruben Echandy married Zul Mangual on November 29, 2003. They welcomed their daughter, Sofia Isabel, into the world on July 30, 2003. Kim Heinig Pegg sent greetings to classmates. Last summer, she got together with Kappa Kappa Gamma sisters Suzie Strumpf Shreier, Holly Huntley Bayus, Lisa Garcia Karkhanis, and Karen Millenbach in Boston for a “Girls’ Getaway.” She sent a “big hello” to Tracy Keller and Linda Cornell, and she congratulated Tracy on her marriage and new son. Kim has been living in Rochester, N.Y., for 14 years after receiving her master’s degree in education at the University of Virginia. She is married with two daughters and is working for Eagle International Institute, managing the projects they design for handheld and tablet deployments around the country.
Class secretary - alumni@uvm.edu

1989
Hi, everyone! Not much news this time around, so I hope that most of us were able to catch up at our 15th reunion. Stay tuned ’til the next column for the full report. Congratulations to Michael and Kathy Knisely Wood, who celebrated the arrival of their son, Thomas Lian. Thomas was named after Michael’s father and the city in China in which he was born, Lianyungang (near Shanghai). Michael and Thomas share May 18 as a birthday. In February, Michael was elected a Loyal Knight of the Elks of North Carolina. The Woods live outside of Raleigh, N.C. Congratulations as well to Amy Frazier Maikkula, her husband, Stephan, and two-year-old son, Will, who welcomed a new addition to their family, Jacob (“Jake”), in April 2004. The Maikkulas live in Austin, Tex. Don Fox and his wife, Rachel, celebrated the birth of their second daughter, Caroline Grace, in August 2003. Don has also just started his own company, supplying luxury animal fiber, such as cashmere, camel hair, silk, llama and alpaca, to manufacturers. He also has his own line of cashmere finished products such as sweaters, scarves, and throws. Don has plans to visit Burlington in May with Dave Paolella ’90, although they will not be able to make it to reunion. Hope you all had a great time at reunion and a terrific summer.
Class secretary - katebs@comcast.net