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FALL 2004<br />
A MAGAZINE FOR ALUMNI & FRIENDS OF<br />
CHAMPLAIN COLLEGE<br />
Working on<br />
the Edge<br />
Ski cinematographer Tom Day ’82 talks<br />
about the fun—and the fear—of shooting<br />
where the action is<br />
Trend Tracker 2004 • Motion Pictures • Acting Out Issues
Calendar of Events<br />
October 28 Vermont Global Symposium lecture, “The Global Economy and Vermont,”<br />
featuring former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich. The event is presented<br />
by <strong>Champlain</strong> <strong>College</strong>, Saint Michael’s <strong>College</strong> and the Vermont Council<br />
on World Affairs. Saint Michael’s <strong>College</strong> Ross Sports Center, 2:30 p.m.<br />
$10 admission, $5 students/seniors (free for <strong>Champlain</strong> students with ID).<br />
Tickets are available at <strong>Champlain</strong> Bookstore, Borders Books and Flynn Tix<br />
at 86-FLYNN and www.flynntix.org.<br />
November 10-13 The <strong>Champlain</strong> Players present Arthur Miller’s All My Sons. Alumni<br />
17-20 Auditorium, 7:30 p.m. $12 admission (free for <strong>Champlain</strong> students with ID).<br />
For tickets call the theater box office at (802) 651-5962.<br />
20 Comedian, writer, storyteller and performance artist Peter Burns comes<br />
to campus. Morgan Room, Aiken Hall, 7 p.m. Free admission.<br />
December 2 Intercollegiate Writers’ Exchange, Morgan Room, Aiken Hall, 7 p.m.<br />
Free admission.<br />
2005<br />
9 Native American poet, essayist, novelist and children’s story writer Joe<br />
Bruchac speaks. Morgan Room, Aiken Hall, 7 p.m. Free admission.<br />
February 2-6 <strong>Champlain</strong> Players One-Act Festival, presenting plays on plays. Alumni<br />
Auditorium, 7:30 p.m. $10 admission (free for <strong>Champlain</strong> students with ID).<br />
For tickets call the theater box office at<br />
(802) 651-5962.<br />
March/April 18-20 The <strong>Champlain</strong> Players present Martin McDonagh’s The Cripple of<br />
23-24 Inishmaan. Alumni Auditorium, 7:30 p.m. $12 admission (free for<br />
31-2 <strong>Champlain</strong> students with ID). For tickets call the theater box office at<br />
(802) 651-5962.<br />
For more information about these events and others,<br />
visit www.champlain.edu or call (802) 860-2756.<br />
2004-05 Board of Trustees<br />
Robert W. Allen<br />
Terry F. Allen<br />
Deborah M. Bergh<br />
George F. Bond ’73<br />
William P. Cody<br />
April Cornell<br />
James Crook, Jr.<br />
Staige Davis<br />
Leta C. Finch<br />
Michael D. Flynn<br />
James B. Foster<br />
Hinda S. Miller<br />
Holly D. Miller<br />
Robert B. Moore<br />
Diane Mueller<br />
Paul A. Perrault<br />
Roger H. Perry<br />
Peter Lewis Phillips<br />
Thomas H. Pierce<br />
William G. Post, Jr.<br />
Mary G. Powell<br />
David A. Scheuer<br />
Steven D. Shepard<br />
Robert A. Snyder<br />
Dawn Terrill ’88<br />
Lisa Ventriss<br />
Lawrence J. Walsh, Jr.’66<br />
Arthur E. Wegner<br />
COVER: Tom Day ’82, “hands-down the best cinematographer in the snowboard and ski industry,”<br />
according to Mike Hatchett, president of Standard Films. Photo by Keoki Flagg.
FALL 2004<br />
A MAGAZINE FOR ALUMNI & FRIENDS OF<br />
CHAMPLAIN COLLEGE<br />
A MAGAZINE FOR ALUMNI & FRIENDS OF<br />
DEPARTMENTS<br />
CHAMPLAIN COLLEGE<br />
CALENDAR OF EVENTS<br />
2 FROM THE EDITOR<br />
3 VIEW FROM THE HILL<br />
Class Act…The Sporting Life…<br />
News in Brief…Student View<br />
22 CLASS NOTES<br />
News…Alumni Lives & more<br />
A MAGAZINE FOR ALUMNI & FRIENDS OF<br />
CHAMPLAIN COLLEGE<br />
FEATURES<br />
(Bottom) photograph by Greg Von Doersten; illustration by Ginny Joyner; (top) photograph by Jordan Silverman<br />
10 AHEAD OF THE WAVE<br />
Innovation and energy are powerful lures and <strong>Champlain</strong>’s got<br />
them, drawing people at the forefront of their fields. To find out<br />
what’s happening out on the cutting edge, we chatted with<br />
some of the <strong>College</strong>’s top experts, and got some reassuring—<br />
and surprising—answers.<br />
by Lee Ann Cox<br />
16 DANGEROUS ANGLES<br />
Filming extreme skiing requires being an extreme skier, with<br />
camera gear in tow. By all accounts, alumnus Tom Day ’82 is<br />
a world-class cinematographer and skier who gets the footage<br />
that lets you feel the chill of a blast down the mountain. He’s<br />
also a really nice guy. Here he shares what it takes to live a<br />
life on skis.<br />
by Patrick Kelley<br />
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FROM THE EDITOR<br />
When I look at this issue, I get a palpable sense of the<br />
energy at <strong>Champlain</strong>. The people here are motivated,<br />
driven by curiosity, by passion, by respect for themselves<br />
and others. And the alumni who leave here put that energy<br />
out into the world. It’s endlessly fascinating to follow the<br />
paths of graduates, to see how their lives ripen when<br />
experience and the fresh knowledge and commitment of<br />
the college years grow together.<br />
This time we check in on Tom Day, a business grad from the class of 1982.<br />
Day’s heart may have been more with the ski team (see their picture below) than<br />
his management classes, but the ethic he’s followed through his career as a ski<br />
cinematographer is truly in the <strong>Champlain</strong> spirit. He’s creative, he’s adventurous,<br />
he gets the job done.<br />
“You’re guaranteed to get the goods when Tom goes out,” Kim Schneider, a<br />
film editor for Warren Miller, told us. “He’s going to get it or he’s not coming<br />
back.” For Day, “getting it” can involve doorless helicopters, avalanches and<br />
“ripping down the mountain with all his gear as well as anybody who skis in the<br />
film.” Read more of his story in “Dangerous Angles,” page 16.<br />
The <strong>College</strong> no longer has an official ski team, but students are skiing and<br />
riding and kickboxing, playing hockey, basketball, lacrosse and stretching into<br />
yoga poses. In our photo essay “The Sporting Life,” page 4, you can see how<br />
<strong>Champlain</strong> is shaping the whole student, instilling the joy—along with the<br />
health—of movement that will hopefully become a natural lifelong pursuit.<br />
There’s one future alumna whose pursuits I’m particularly eager to watch.<br />
Michelle Weissman ’05 (“Student View,” page 9) has a mission. She’s a software<br />
engineering major with few female peers, a fact she aims to change. Having<br />
benefited from the mentorship of successful women, Weissman is committed to<br />
returning the favor. In fact, she’s already started, volunteering at a tech camp for<br />
girls over the summer. It’s just the kind of transformation, from passion into<br />
action, that this issue celebrates. — LAC<br />
<strong>Champlain</strong><br />
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EDITOR<br />
ART DIRECTOR<br />
CONTRIBUTING<br />
WRITERS<br />
PHOTOGRAPHERS<br />
ILLUSTRATOR<br />
CLASS NOTES<br />
VOLUME 3, NUMBER 2<br />
Lee Ann Cox<br />
Julia Caminiti<br />
Lee Griffin<br />
Patrick Kelley<br />
Kris Surette<br />
Keoki Flagg<br />
Kathleen Landwehrle<br />
Jordan Silverman<br />
Greg Von Doersten<br />
Ginny Joyner<br />
Coralee Holm Zizza<br />
Alumni & Development Staff<br />
VICE PRESIDENT OF Shelley Richardson<br />
DEVELOPMENT<br />
& ALUMNI AFFAIRS<br />
DIRECTOR OF Paul Ugalde<br />
PLANNED GIVING<br />
DIRECTOR OF Greg Morgan<br />
CORPORATIONS &<br />
FOUNDATIONS<br />
ALUMNI AFFAIRS Coralee Holm Zizza<br />
& ANNUAL FUND<br />
OFFICER<br />
DEVELOPMENT Tammy Carroll ‘92<br />
INFORMATION<br />
SYSTEMS<br />
DEVELOPMENT Sue Marino<br />
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Tom Day ’82 (far left) with the 1981 <strong>Champlain</strong> <strong>College</strong> ski team.<br />
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ACT<br />
CLASS<br />
Theater Group Brings<br />
Tough Issues Center Stage<br />
For some anxious parents preparing to drop their<br />
children off at college,the age-old autumn ritual got<br />
a little more intense this year. Sitting in Alumni<br />
Auditorium, they watched two students, Maggie<br />
and Todd, give varying accounts of a night gone<br />
wrong.They met at a party where they both admit to drinking.He<br />
says they shared a night of fun.She says she was raped.<br />
A third student, Ashley, who introduced them, says she isn’t<br />
sure who to believe.<br />
Fortunately, this is a fictional scenario, part of an interactive<br />
theater production created for <strong>Champlain</strong>’s Parent<br />
Orientation Day. The event was designed to foster discussion—and<br />
prevention—of important issues,such as substance<br />
abuse and date rape, and was followed by an open dialogue<br />
session where parents could question cast members.<br />
Joanne Farrell, director of the professional writing program,<br />
came up with the idea for the skit and worked with the<br />
actors to merge their monologues into a cohesive storyline.“I<br />
was worried about how it would be received,”she said,adding<br />
that the risk was worth it if it keeps even one student from<br />
being in such a position.<br />
Parents wasted no time jumping in during the questionand-answer<br />
session, asking some very direct questions of the<br />
actors, still “in character.”<br />
“What part of ‘no’ don’t you understand?” demanded one<br />
father.<br />
“Did you ever consider STDs as a consequence?” asked<br />
another parent.<br />
The potentially upsetting exercise received an overwhelmingly<br />
positive response from parents, many of whom<br />
said they were relieved to hear such frank and honest talk<br />
about subjects that otherwise might not have been discussed.<br />
“I want to thank you for talking about these issues. I feel<br />
better having talked about them,” said one mother.<br />
“I wasn’t sure how it would go because it’s such a difficult<br />
topic,” said Alexandra Sevakian ’07, who played the role of<br />
Maggie.“We got a lot more feedback than I expected.[The parents]<br />
seemed like they wanted to keep talking about it.”<br />
Once the actors stepped out of character, they had a<br />
chance to talk about their real-life experiences at <strong>Champlain</strong>.<br />
Melissa Plante ’07 reassured parents that these scenarios,<br />
although real, are rare here.<br />
“I want you to know that you are leaving your kids at a safe<br />
place,” she said.“Nothing like this has ever happened to me,<br />
but to stand here and say that your child will never be around<br />
alcohol or that situations like this don’t ever happen wouldn’t<br />
be truthful.”<br />
Daring to prepare students for those possibilities is what<br />
makes this campus stand out. Carol Moran Brown of student<br />
life services informs parents of the many support and counseling<br />
services offered on campus. New students are exposed<br />
to group counseling sessions and are shown the same skit that<br />
was performed for parents.<br />
Ginny and Dan Thurler of Canton, Massachusetts, whose<br />
son is a first-year student, said they’re confident that he will<br />
have a high-quality academic experience, but are naturally<br />
concerned about the social aspects of college life.<br />
“You’re so used to being in that daily contact, so when<br />
they’re out of range it does cause some anxiety,” Dan Thurler<br />
said. “It’s been good to hear from students and staff about<br />
what goes on here and the services that are offered.”<br />
Doris Ogden, <strong>Champlain</strong>’s alcohol/drug education coordinator,summed<br />
up the presentation:“It’s like watching a horror<br />
movie. You know she’s going to open the cellar door even<br />
though everyone is yelling ‘Don’t do it, don’t do it.’ We want<br />
students to know what’s on the other side of the door before<br />
they consider opening it.”<br />
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| VIEW FROM THE HILL |<br />
The<br />
Sporting<br />
“THERE ARE NO SHORT-<br />
CUTS TO ANY PLACE<br />
WORTH GOING.”<br />
— OPERA STAR BEVERLY SILLS<br />
Surrounded as they are by lake,<br />
mountains, bicycle paths, gym<br />
facilities and playing fields—and<br />
as energized as they tend to be—<br />
<strong>Champlain</strong>’s students play as hard as<br />
they work. Sometimes the energy pours<br />
into organized games—hockey, b-ball,<br />
lacrosse or volleyball. Often, a few students<br />
bundle up and head to the ski<br />
slopes for freestyle boarding. Or it’s two<br />
on two in an impromptu pickup game<br />
on one of the courts. Among the most<br />
adventurous, the setting might be vertical<br />
and, whether designed by nature or<br />
Petra Cliffs, the climb can be exhilarating.<br />
Sometimes nothing can surpass<br />
the meditative nourishment of a yoga<br />
class or a solo ride on Burlington’s miles<br />
of bicycle paths to bask in the restorative<br />
glow of a Lake <strong>Champlain</strong> sunset.<br />
Although students might not be<br />
thinking about James Joyce at moments<br />
like these, they no doubt can resonate<br />
with his thinking, if not the formality of<br />
his expression, when he wrote: “Rapid<br />
motion through space elates one.”<br />
Life<br />
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“THE BEST INSPIRATION IS NOT TO OUTDO OTHERS,<br />
BUT TO OUTDO OURSELVES.” — ANONYMOUS<br />
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| VIEW FROM THE HILL |<br />
“YOU HAVE TO<br />
EXPECT<br />
THINGS OF<br />
YOURSELF<br />
BEFORE<br />
YOU CAN DO<br />
THEM.”<br />
— MICHAEL<br />
JORDAN<br />
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| VIEW FROM THE HILL |<br />
“IT ISN’T THE MOUNTAINS AHEAD<br />
TO CLIMB THAT WEAR YOU OUT;<br />
IT’S THE PEBBLE IN YOUR SHOE.”<br />
— MUHAMMAD ALI<br />
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| VIEW FROM THE HILL |<br />
NEWSin brief<br />
<strong>Champlain</strong> Gets Top-Tier Ranking<br />
in New <strong>College</strong> Guide<br />
U.S. News America’s Best <strong>College</strong>s 2005 has ranked<br />
<strong>Champlain</strong> in the top tier of the best comprehensive colleges<br />
in the North. <strong>Champlain</strong> placed 16th in this field of<br />
colleges that emphasize undergraduate education. This<br />
year, the publication ranked 324 comprehensive colleges<br />
in four regions of the country. U.S. News highlighted<br />
<strong>Champlain</strong> for its strong graduation rate, which is among<br />
the highest in its category. The publication uses measures<br />
of quality that fall into seven broad categories: peer assessment,<br />
graduation and retention rates, faculty resources,<br />
student selectivity, financial resources and alumni giving.<br />
Main Street Suites Earns Historical<br />
Society Award<br />
<strong>Champlain</strong> <strong>College</strong> has received a Chittenden County<br />
Historical Society Preservation Award for its new residence<br />
hall, the Main Street Suites & Conference Center, which<br />
opened last fall. The award, for “outstanding fill-in design<br />
in an historic district,” in the residential category, was presented<br />
to Russell Willis, <strong>Champlain</strong>’s provost, at a<br />
ceremony in July. The Society praised the <strong>College</strong> for creating<br />
a building that reflects “the scale, materials, and<br />
character of the beautiful nearby historic and campus<br />
buildings, while maintaining a distinguishable contemporary<br />
appearance.” The building was designed by local<br />
architects Truex Cullins & Partners.<br />
The <strong>College</strong> Celebrates Its First<br />
Master’s Graduates<br />
When master’s hoods were presented in a special ceremony<br />
last spring, it marked an important milestone for<br />
<strong>Champlain</strong>: the graduation of its first master’s class. The<br />
Managing Innovation and Information Technology program,<br />
which began in the fall of 2002, combines business<br />
and technology education and is delivered entirely online.<br />
Four degrees were conferred in May, two of which went to<br />
<strong>Champlain</strong> alumni. The <strong>College</strong> is examining additional<br />
online graduate offerings in the fields of special education,<br />
business and applied technology.<br />
In the <strong>Champlain</strong> Spotlight<br />
Ann DeMarle, director of the multimedia & graphic design<br />
program and the new electronic game & interactive development<br />
program, has been named an Apple Distinguished<br />
Educator. This select group is honored by Apple Computers<br />
for making creative and influential use of their technology,<br />
inspiring students as well as other educators.<br />
Historical scholar-in-residence Willard Sterne Randall<br />
lends his expertise on Alexander Hamilton, who figured<br />
prominently in the formative years of lower Manhattan, to<br />
a new cellphone walking tour of the area. Profits from the<br />
tour, narrated by Sigourney Weaver, will be donated to the<br />
World Trade Center Memorial Foundation. Find more information<br />
online at www.talkingstreet.com.<br />
Accounting professor Harold “Champ” Soncrant was<br />
honored by Vermont Campus Compact as a 2004 Excellence<br />
in Teaching finalist. He was praised for “exemplary,<br />
innovative teaching using community-based learning and<br />
demonstrated commitment to student voice and community<br />
partnership.” Soncrant, who coordinates the Volunteer<br />
Income Tax Assistance program at <strong>Champlain</strong>, has taught<br />
at the <strong>College</strong> for 33 years.<br />
<strong>College</strong> “Icon” Larry Veladota Retires<br />
<strong>Champlain</strong> Vice President Larry Veladota, a<br />
1964 accounting graduate, has retired<br />
after 35 years of service to his alma mater.<br />
Hired to bring the <strong>College</strong>’s first computer<br />
online in 1969, Veladota held the positions<br />
of director of computer operations<br />
and vice president for financial affairs<br />
before being named vice president.<br />
During his tenure, he also earned a master’s in education<br />
from Harvard University. Calling him a “true <strong>Champlain</strong><br />
icon,” President Roger Perry praised Veladota’s management<br />
of the physical plant, his tireless efforts as<br />
ambassador to the City of Burlington, his fiscal oversight<br />
and his role in building <strong>Champlain</strong>’s state-of-the-art technology<br />
centers. Veladota, echoing Bader Brouilette, one of<br />
the three presidents he served under, says the <strong>College</strong><br />
was like one of his children: “I had three daughters<br />
and <strong>Champlain</strong>.”<br />
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Student<br />
View<br />
Michelle Weissman ’05<br />
Q & A<br />
You’re one of a handful of women in <strong>Champlain</strong>’s software<br />
engineering program. How did you get turned on to technology?<br />
We had the early Macs in kindergarten with alphabet programs and<br />
word games. Ever since then I’ve wanted to know more. In middle<br />
school I had two women mentors who took me under their wing,<br />
letting me develop the school’s website. From then on I was hooked.<br />
This past summer, as a project to fulfill your community service<br />
requirement, you worked as a teacher at the Vermont Institutes’<br />
Tech Savvy Girls Camp. Why did you choose that job?<br />
Michelle Weissman, teaching at Tech Savvy Girl’s Camp<br />
I was really interested in the fact that they were teaching technology in a completely female environment. And<br />
I wanted to give back because I was so lucky having these two women mentor me. I wanted to help other girls<br />
who are just starting out.<br />
In your statement of goals for the project, you said that you expected to learn more about<br />
the fears girls have in pursuing tech classes. What do you think scares girls off?<br />
It’s hard to pinpoint. Maybe they don’t want to fail or be shown up by boys. And it’s hard for some girls to<br />
be labeled a computer geek. The camp took that away. It was a learning environment that’s maybe more<br />
conducive to teaching girls technology because it was very supporting; there were no put-downs. I think once<br />
girls are taught that they can do it and it’s fun, they’ll keep pursuing it.<br />
You wrote that you want to change the stigma that women don’t belong in engineering.<br />
You’ve taken computer classes for years and you just finished a four-year summer<br />
internship at Goodrich Aerospace. How much resistance have you felt?<br />
I’ve experienced it. It’s daunting to be in a conference room surrounded by men or go into a classroom with 20<br />
males and two other females, but, honestly, I’m not turned off by it. I’ve had to work to prove that I have skills<br />
that are equal to the men, but once you break through that, you’re respected. I think you have to be careful<br />
not to make gender a huge issue. I make it known that I’m an engineer and I’m a professional and this is what<br />
I’m here to do. I can prove that I’m a good engineer.<br />
You’re confident. Where did the confidence come from?<br />
It’s taken time. I think from role models, meeting a lot of passionate women. It’s good to know that you’re not<br />
alone. But the confidence? I think you have to be confident in order to really do what you want to do, in any<br />
field. People will tell you that you can’t do something or that you’re not good enough, but you just have to<br />
prove to them that you are. I think you can achieve anything. You can achieve what your mind believes. If you<br />
have the confidence, there’s no stopping you.<br />
Do you have other interests beyond technology?<br />
A ton. I love doing community service. I love movies, hanging out with friends, being outdoors, boating.<br />
I run. I have an itch to travel. That’s one of my passions.<br />
Photograph by Kris Surette<br />
What are your goals after <strong>Champlain</strong>?<br />
I’m looking at grad schools; I’m looking at doing service with Vermont Campus Compact for a year or two. I’m<br />
also looking at industry. I’d like to work for a time, rise to a position of manager and then work in women’s<br />
advocacy in technology or in designing programs to get younger girls interested in technology. I want to help.<br />
I’ve seen what mentoring can do. I think I’m a living testimonial that mentoring works.<br />
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Change is accelerating, in business and in life. In a world that’s gone global,<br />
where ever-higher speed is the status quo (why e-mail when you can instant<br />
message?) and access to information is virtually unbounded (even by wires),<br />
we’ve grown increasingly sophisticated—and demanding. At work and at<br />
leisure we expect a rewarding experience. It’s got to be stimulating. It’s got to be<br />
challenging. It’s got to have value.<br />
These dynamics are nothing new to the future-focused people at <strong>Champlain</strong><br />
who make it their business to stay sensitive—and responsive—to the coming currents<br />
of change. To learn more, <strong>Champlain</strong> View tapped the expertise of a diverse range of<br />
trend-spotters to find out the answer to an age-old question: What’s next?
By Lee Ann Cox<br />
Illustration by Ginny Joyner<br />
Ahead of the<br />
Wave<br />
<strong>Champlain</strong>’s cutting-edge<br />
experts track the trends<br />
in how we live, learn,<br />
work and play<br />
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THE EXPERT:<br />
Steven Shepard<br />
<strong>Champlain</strong> Trustee,<br />
Master’s Degree Faculty and<br />
President, Shepard Communications Group<br />
THE FIELD:<br />
Demographics & the<br />
Workplace<br />
THE EXPERT:<br />
Ann DeMarle<br />
Director, Electronic Game & Interactive<br />
Development and Multimedia & Graphic Design<br />
THE FIELD:<br />
Electronic Games<br />
THE TREND:<br />
Hollywood hype. As the gaming industry continues to<br />
grow at a phenomenal rate (15 to 20 percent in sales per<br />
year, according to DeMarle), gamers are getting a bigger—<br />
and better—bang for their bucks. Faster computers and<br />
increasingly sophisticated software engineering have created<br />
fantasy worlds where hyperreality rules. “Put the<br />
stunning visuals together with better and better sound<br />
effects,” says DeMarle, “and you’re approaching movie quality.”<br />
But game creators aren’t stopping there. With Hollywood<br />
actors and music from the likes of Peter Gabriel, coming<br />
back to regular reality may be harder than ever.<br />
THE TREND:<br />
Empowered employees. Shepard has been<br />
studying the newest generation to enter the work force,<br />
the so-called Millennials (those born roughly between<br />
1982 and 2003), and he’s issued some comforting conclusions<br />
for society at large—and a stark warning for<br />
the corporations who hire them: ignore their needs at<br />
your peril. Shepard makes the case that generational<br />
types come in cycles and this new one shares a value<br />
set with the World War II “Greatest Generation.”<br />
Following on the heels of sarcastic, alienated<br />
Generation X, the Millennials, Shepard says, are civicminded,<br />
team-oriented, optimistic, moral. “They need to<br />
be motivated—and challenged,” he says. “They’re very<br />
energetic and they’re looking for strong meaning in<br />
what they do. They’re willing to work very hard, but they<br />
also want balance.” Unlike generations before them,<br />
Millennials are unwilling to sacrifice their families for<br />
their jobs and they feel they have the power as a generation<br />
to have it their way. Successful managers,<br />
Shepard believes, will adapt in profound ways. “They<br />
will ensure that everyone contributes and that everyone<br />
in every job feels like part of the solution. They will<br />
move towards a far more collaborative management<br />
style,” he says, one that relies heavily on technology.<br />
“Companies that fail to see the need for accommodating<br />
the changing demands of the work force will fail,”<br />
says Shepard. But to those who wring their hands over<br />
who we’re leaving this world to, he has an easy answer.<br />
“We’re leaving it in the hands of a generation ideally<br />
suited to succeed.”<br />
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THE EXPERT:<br />
Fran Stoddard<br />
Producer & Host of<br />
Vermont Public Television’s<br />
“Profile” and Media<br />
Communications Faculty<br />
THE FIELD:<br />
Media<br />
THE TREND:<br />
(Left ) photograph by Jordan Silverman; (right) courtesy of Burton Snowboards<br />
THE EXPERT:<br />
Joe Gaetani ’06<br />
Student<br />
THE FIELD:<br />
Snowboarding<br />
THE TREND:<br />
Spins… and pink? For snowboarders, a day on the<br />
mountain is one of big air—and big risks. Consider a few of<br />
the hippest tricks, according to Gaetani. There’s the Frontside<br />
540 Indy, which involves spinning off your heels and doing<br />
a 540-degree midair rotation during which you grab your back<br />
hand between your feet (that’s the Indy). When that gets old<br />
there’s the Backside Rodeo. “You come in off your toes but<br />
spin backwards over your front shoulder like an inside-out<br />
spin. They look really cool,” says Gaetani, “It’s almost like you<br />
get flat in the air.”<br />
Gaetani and his friends, who’ll be premiering their second<br />
ski and riding video at <strong>Champlain</strong> this fall (view a trailer<br />
at www.rightproductions.com), are into the tricks for the<br />
challenge and the rush of adrenaline. “I’d be so bored without<br />
it in the winter,” Gaetani says. “It keeps me living.”<br />
But there’s one trend Gaetani cites that he’s not into—yet.<br />
For the truly daring rider: pink outerwear.<br />
Local air. In an age of big media<br />
consolidation, it’s the little guy<br />
around the corner who’s making the<br />
waves in broadcasting. “People are<br />
so desperate to make money,”<br />
Stoddard says of the national media<br />
corporations, “that there’s not a lot of<br />
risk-taking. It’s expensive to take<br />
risks.” Enter low-power radio and<br />
regional television programming.<br />
With new legislation before Congress<br />
(co-sponsored by Vermont Senator<br />
Patrick Leahy), there’s hope of loosening<br />
tough FCC restrictions on<br />
low-power radio, opening the airwaves<br />
to community stations and a<br />
diverse mix of local voices, music<br />
and news. And filmmaker Jay<br />
Craven, in partnership with Vermont<br />
Public Television, is taking a chance<br />
on “Windy Acres,” a six-part comedy<br />
series set in the Northeast Kingdom,<br />
to air on VPT—and public stations all<br />
over the Northeast—this fall (the<br />
show, starring alumnus Rusty<br />
DeWees ’84, premiered at <strong>Champlain</strong><br />
earlier this month). This groundbreaking<br />
project, Stoddard hopes, is<br />
only the beginning of similar regional<br />
offerings nationwide, expanding our<br />
understanding of ourselves and each<br />
other. “Now we get to see the lives of<br />
New Yorkers and Californians. It’s<br />
limiting. You just don’t get that much<br />
reflection of who we are.”<br />
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THE EXPERT:<br />
Ken Fredericks<br />
Chef, <strong>Champlain</strong> Dining Facility<br />
THE FIELD:<br />
Feeding Students<br />
THE TREND:<br />
Free-style fusion. Remember dorm food, the<br />
ubiquitous meat and overcooked vegetables languishing<br />
in industrial metal trays? Forget it. Students may still suffer<br />
over academics, but the amenities of college life have<br />
gone upscale. In <strong>Champlain</strong>’s new Student Life Complex,<br />
open for dining this fall, there’s a state-of-the-art open<br />
kitchen, fine china and seven separate platforms at which<br />
diners can interact with chefs and customize their food.<br />
No steam tables. “Students want fresh food,” says head<br />
chef Ken Fredericks. “They want to control the ingredients,<br />
not eat food that’s been sitting in the kitchen for<br />
hours.” What are they choosing? According to Fredericks,<br />
comfort food is out, fusion is in. If they want Chinese<br />
chicken salad on a wrap grilled on a panini grill, he says,<br />
that’s what they get.<br />
THE EXPERT:<br />
Roger Perry<br />
President of <strong>Champlain</strong> <strong>College</strong><br />
THE FIELD:<br />
Higher Education<br />
THE TREND:<br />
Renaissance programmers.<br />
Gone are the days of the stereotypic<br />
tech geek, the guy you want when your<br />
computer crashes—but when you’re<br />
giving a dinner party, not so much.<br />
Course requirements at <strong>Champlain</strong> and<br />
other progressive colleges and universities<br />
now include work in the humanities,<br />
communication, critical thinking, global<br />
perspectives and even social responsibility<br />
and ethical reasoning, producing<br />
graduates as conversant in the arts and<br />
sciences as they are in writing PHP<br />
code. It’s a move that’s paying off big,<br />
according to Perry. “EA loves our curriculum,”<br />
he says, referring to Electronic<br />
Arts, the world’s leading video game<br />
developer. “We offer advanced technology,<br />
but there’s also quite a bit in terms<br />
of the liberal arts. We’re arming tech<br />
majors so they can understand the story<br />
writers [who create these games], and<br />
appreciate the aesthetic point of view.”<br />
Now EA and <strong>Champlain</strong> are talking about<br />
a business partnership, supplying wellrounded<br />
techies for highly envied jobs.
THE EXPERT:<br />
Peter Straube<br />
Director, Hospitality Industry Management<br />
THE FIELD:<br />
Tourism<br />
THE TREND:<br />
(Left and center ) photographs by Kathleen Landwehrle; (right) photograph by Jordan Silverman<br />
THE EXPERT:<br />
Gary Kessler<br />
Program Director,<br />
Computer Networking<br />
THE FIELD:<br />
Internet Safety<br />
THE TREND:<br />
Phishing for fraud. By now everyone knows to<br />
be wary of credit card fraud. The problem is, the bad guys<br />
are staying one step ahead, exploiting this climate of concern<br />
to get people to voluntarily turn over valuable<br />
information. In these “phishing” schemes, according to<br />
Kessler, people get an e-mail purportedly from a legitimate<br />
company (Kessler uses Best Buy as an example),<br />
alerting them that someone has just made a purchase in<br />
their name and requesting that they go to “the company’s”<br />
url to verify the authenticity of the order. The<br />
person gets directed to a fake but realistic-looking version<br />
of Best Buy’s website and is asked to provide<br />
information as proof of identity. “People are falling for it in<br />
droves,” says Kessler. “They think, ‘Somebody is using my<br />
card and the company is going to let me help catch them.’”<br />
The key to avoiding these schemes is simple:<br />
Don’t go there. Ever. “When you’re on the Internet, use<br />
common sense,” Kessler says, . “Don’t give away information<br />
to places when you’re not sure who they are or why<br />
you’re giving it to them. You see those [e-mails], they’re all<br />
scams,” he insists. “One hundred percent are scams.”<br />
Extreme vacations. One’s annual two<br />
weeks off used to mean lolling on the beach, doing<br />
a little shopping, taking in the sights. Today’s travelers,<br />
for both leisure and business, want more, says<br />
Straube. They’ve become “experience collectors.”<br />
“Now normal people have been a lot of places and<br />
they’re getting bored,” he explains. “People want<br />
something new. They want to learn something, to<br />
get a taste of an authentic experience.” Look out,<br />
Disney. Why go to the “Polynesian Resort” when you<br />
can take the kids to Bora Bora?<br />
THE EXPERT:<br />
Charlie Nagelschmidt<br />
Assistant Director, Business &<br />
Management Programs<br />
THE FIELD:<br />
Business<br />
THE TREND:<br />
Caring for customers. To be filed in the “well,<br />
duh” category, businesses are catching up to the fact that<br />
service counts when it comes to luring—and keeping—<br />
customers. And that means more than a smile at the door.<br />
From back-end fulfillment centers to top management,<br />
companies are becoming “customer-centric,” integrating<br />
a culture of service throughout their organizations, says<br />
Nagelschmidt. “They’re managing the customer experience<br />
for competitive advantage,” he says, “because the<br />
customer holds the trump card. They can take their dollars<br />
elsewhere and they will.” For many consumers,<br />
though, the ultimate customer service is do-it-yourself.<br />
Increasingly, we’re banking, shopping (and tracking shipping)<br />
online and even scanning our own groceries. After<br />
years of shaky service, it puts the one with the wallet in<br />
control—and the help always sees things your way.<br />
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DANGEROUS<br />
Angles<br />
By Patrick Kelley<br />
Photograph by Keoki Flagg<br />
A fearless skier in his<br />
own right, cinematographer<br />
and <strong>Champlain</strong> alumnus<br />
Tom Day ’82 captures the<br />
speed, the thrill and the<br />
pure reckless beauty of<br />
extreme skiing<br />
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While this isn’t exactly a typical month<br />
of work for Tom Day ’82, it isn’t<br />
completely unusual, either. He’s out<br />
on South Georgia Island, a glaciated<br />
speck tucked off the coast of<br />
Antarctica, the wind raging to 100<br />
mph and shredding tents, its howling<br />
an ever-present soundtrack. A<br />
day at the office is clicking into<br />
skis, loading up 50 pounds of camera<br />
gear, negotiating brutal traverses and climbs, and, hopefully, watching<br />
world-class skiers and riders carve down a 10,000-foot mountain with fearsome<br />
slopes.<br />
Day, a leading ski cinematographer, is working with Warren Miller<br />
Entertainment to shoot the 2002 film Storm.To get to the island, he and the rest<br />
of the crew flew down to the tip of South America, made their way to the<br />
Falkland Islands, boarded a 60-foot cutter and sailed for four days—four days of<br />
12-foot swells and no land in sight—until they reached the island where the<br />
famous explorer Ernest Shackleton began (and ended) his famous trek toward<br />
the South Pole. It’s appropriate. Day, whom Skiing Magazine described as the<br />
“Energizer Bunny on skis,” is something of an explorer himself.<br />
In more than 20 years of professional skiing and filming the sport,he’s traveled<br />
from Uzbekistan to Antarctica,Alaska to Morocco, and virtually every place snowy<br />
and skiable in between. Not bad for a kid who left Vermont at age 20 and headed<br />
west to Squaw Valley, California, with little more than a plan to find powder.<br />
“I follow my passions—skiing, mountains, travel,” Day says.“I’ve been pretty<br />
much going with the flow since <strong>Champlain</strong>, and it’s been working out.”<br />
The Elements of Action<br />
Finding success making ski films isn’t quite that simple.The ingredients for doing<br />
what Day does include preternatural ability on skis,enough to make the extreme<br />
(mostly) routine, an obsession with cameras (he got his first Instamatic at age<br />
seven), and an ability to get along with almost everyone, from uptight commercial<br />
directors to unbridled soul-patched snowboarders.<br />
“His cinematography is phenomenal,” says Kim Schneider, an editor at<br />
Warren Miller. “He captures what’s going on out there so you feel it. It puts a<br />
tingle on the spine.”<br />
Day, who speaks quietly and thoughtfully, sees his craft a little differently.<br />
Whether he’s strapped to a doorless helicopter, urging the pilot on with a mike,<br />
trying to capture some “sick” sequence of action with the light fading and filmand<br />
pilot-time running at hundreds of dollars an hour, or whether he’s perched<br />
on a sketchy, avalanche-prone slope, his focus is on capturing action in ways that<br />
are exciting, innovative and bathed in pure mountain light.<br />
“It’s still a constant challenge,”he says.“You can never conquer it.I’m still trying<br />
to find that perfect angle.There are so many subtle things you can do with<br />
each shot.”<br />
Subtle, and not-so-subtle, things.You can go two basic ways shooting action:<br />
the “whoa,” and the “oh-no.” For the whoa shots, Day’s goal is to rip his audience<br />
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“His focus is on capturing action in ways that are exciting,<br />
innovative and bathed in pure mountain light.”<br />
Photograph by Greg Von Doersten<br />
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out of their seats and put them on skis or snowboard,<br />
watching the perfect powder unspool in front of them.The<br />
oh-no stuff is different.There, Day is trying to find the angle<br />
that puts the action into perspective, helping the audience<br />
see exactly how the 55-degree slopes and epic jumps differ<br />
from their own weekend turns.<br />
“You want to put the audience as close as they want to<br />
be to the really dangerous stuff,” he says.“As a skier filming<br />
skiing, I have a better chance of getting there because I<br />
really understand what’s going on.”Of course, closing in on<br />
the danger puts Day himself at risk.He doesn’t dwell on the<br />
perils of helicopters and avalanches, but he isn’t a cowboy.<br />
“I am scared in those situations,” Day admits.“To me, being<br />
scared is showing respect for the situation.”<br />
A life spent among mountains has given him a keen<br />
insight into what moves and conditions are dangerous, and<br />
he’s constantly evaluating whether he wants to pursue a<br />
particular shot, stunt or chute. But when he decides that<br />
something’s comfortable, he immediately pushes the risks<br />
out of his mind and concentrates on the work. It isn’t<br />
always easy.<br />
“With photography, you’re always getting pulled into<br />
danger zones because that’s where the shots are.And you<br />
always know it when you’re there,” Day says.<br />
Going West<br />
Day’s life in skiing started early—the Montpelier native<br />
watched his family hit the slopes without him, until finally,<br />
at the grand old age of four, he was allowed to go.At seven,<br />
he met a man on the lifts who, when the young Day asked<br />
him what he did, said that he skied every day.“I liked the<br />
sound of that. It stuck with me,” Day says.<br />
So it surprised no one that Day graduated from<br />
<strong>Champlain</strong> <strong>College</strong> one morning, and the next he chased<br />
his dream to California: He grabbed two buddies, including<br />
Francois Borel ’82, loaded up the car with skis, and found<br />
his way west to Squaw Valley,a resort with steep slopes and<br />
copious snow tucked into a box canyon in the Sierra<br />
Nevada Mountains just outside of Lake Tahoe. He settled in,<br />
started washing dishes and doing odd jobs, and scored a ski<br />
pass.When winter came—with load after load of powdery<br />
snow—he skied every day.<br />
That was life,and it was good,until his first break:Some<br />
spotters making a promotional film for a Japanese clothing<br />
company spied Day on the slopes and invited him to ski in<br />
a commercial.The next year, a skier he met on the shoot,<br />
Scott Schmitt, wandered into the shop where Day was tuning<br />
skis and asked him if he wanted to be in a film that<br />
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A cold eye: Day films as skiers plan their run. Points North Heli<br />
Skiing, Cordova, Alaska.<br />
Photograph by Greg Von Doersten<br />
legendary ski director Warren Miller’s crew was making.<br />
Day managed to choke out a “yes.”<br />
For a longtime skier like Day, and peers around the<br />
country, Miller’s annual ski films, which are timed to open<br />
just as the weather begins to turn chilly, are a yearly tradition<br />
of inspiration. Skiing for Miller’s crew, especially with<br />
Schmitt, was like an amateur guitarist suddenly taking the<br />
stage with Springsteen. But Day wasn’t starstruck. The<br />
shoot went well and led to more work.The money wasn’t<br />
great—in the mid-1980s, about the only way to make a living<br />
on skis was to join a team or ride moguls; so-called “free<br />
skiers” like Day were on the fringes—but he had an annual<br />
ski pass and a roof over his head and that was enough.<br />
Those early shoots, though, unlocked another passion,<br />
one that would transform Day’s life and career.He had always<br />
been interested in cameras—after that first Instamatic, he<br />
bought a nice SLR when he graduated from high school—so<br />
when he began skiing on film, he found himself as drawn to<br />
the filmmakers as he was to his fellow skiers.<br />
“When the cameraman pulled his camera out of the<br />
backpack I was really intrigued by it.I had never seen a film<br />
camera before,” Day says of his first shoot, and the mutual<br />
interest deepened from there.“Over the years of working<br />
with Warren Miller’s productions, his cameramen were<br />
really cool about showing me how to load the camera, all<br />
kinds of tricks.”<br />
Over the next six years, after he bought his first crude<br />
16mm camera for $500, Day began a gradual transition<br />
from skier to filmmaker.With film for the camera running<br />
at about $100 for three minutes, he had to learn on the<br />
job, cadging film from friends he met on Warren Miller<br />
projects.They were happy to supply a fledgling filmmaker<br />
they trusted with a few cans of film in hopes that he could<br />
come up with a few minutes of usable footage. Day would<br />
go out and shoot the film, then send it back to Miller.<br />
“Most of it was pretty bad, but they gave me pointers,<br />
and even used a few shots,” Day says.<br />
On the basis of those early shots, his connections and<br />
skiing ability, Day landed a six-week trip to Europe that<br />
allowed him to shoot a lot of film and begin developing<br />
his own style. Day had envisioned the camera as a “ticket<br />
around the world,” and it was beginning to pay off.As his<br />
ability with the camera grew, he began getting more and<br />
more work. For the last four years, in particular, he’s been<br />
heavily involved with Warren Miller’s projects, but he frequently<br />
works with commercial, promotional and travel<br />
directors as well.<br />
“I enjoy any kind of shooting, but I love working on<br />
travel documentaries. I’m shooting so that the audience is<br />
intrigued to go there—or, if it’s someplace where they<br />
could never go, so they feel like they’ve been there.”<br />
New Tracks<br />
Caught at home at Squaw in late summer, Day was enjoying<br />
a relaxed working schedule,spending time in the open<br />
post-and-beam home he and his wife, Lizzie, share with<br />
their two children, and looking forward to winter’s skiing<br />
and shooting. He’s hoping that this winter, or future ones,<br />
will bring more opportunities to edit film as well as shoot<br />
it; he’s interested in following through on his footage and<br />
having more influence on the final production.<br />
Day isn’t a big down-the-road-plan kind of guy, and he<br />
doesn’t know exactly what his job will look like in ten<br />
years. But it’s a good bet that it will be fun—and involve<br />
his passions of film and, especially, skiing.<br />
“I love where I’m living,I love my family,and I love my<br />
work,” Day says.“I’m constantly meeting new people, and<br />
when the action starts, I’m definitely still blown away. I<br />
never get jaded.That keeps it fun for me—all of a sudden<br />
I’m watching as the athletes do something I would have<br />
hardly imagined. Everything comes back to the love and<br />
thrill of skiing.”<br />
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| CLASS NOTES |<br />
‘60<br />
DEATHS<br />
Mark G. Brouillette, Richford, VT,<br />
January 23, 2004.<br />
DEATHS<br />
Jane (Perry) Bowen, Rochester, VT,<br />
January 27, 2004.<br />
‘70<br />
NEWS<br />
Diane (Whitcomb) Avery has been<br />
selected to receive honorary award<br />
recognition by having her biography<br />
published in the 27th annual edition of<br />
“The National Dean’s List 2003/2004.”<br />
She is currently a political science major<br />
at Southern New Hampshire University.<br />
‘61<br />
ENGAGEMENTS<br />
Nancy (Boyle) Pierce and Sgt. Donald<br />
M. Garron, to be married in Fall 2004.<br />
‘62<br />
MARRIAGES<br />
Katie Flanders and James Hadeka, Jr.,<br />
May 1, 2004.<br />
‘71<br />
NEWS<br />
Laurie Lambert has started a small nursery<br />
in Newfield, ME, called Naturally<br />
Herbs & Flowers, open weekends during<br />
spring and summer. A greenhouse is<br />
under construction and will be ready to<br />
grow flowers in March 2005. Laurie also<br />
works with F.L. Putnam Investment<br />
Management Company in Portland.<br />
Christine (Pare) McDermott and Robert<br />
J. McDermott own five Morgan horses.<br />
Christine serves on the UVM President’s<br />
Advisory Committee for the UVM<br />
Morgan Horse Farm in Weybridge, VT.<br />
Reunited: (front row) Dawn<br />
(Sauther) Manchester ‘94,<br />
Rachel (Russell) Ward ‘94,<br />
Jennifer (Hayes) Alderman<br />
‘93/’97 and Jennifer (Haskell)<br />
Cravinho ‘94. (Back row)<br />
Michelle Merrill ‘94, Kim<br />
(Moir) Lewis ‘93, Sarah<br />
Otterson ‘94, Andrea (Holmes)<br />
Pariseau ‘94 and Jessica<br />
(Santini) Norkon ‘94.<br />
Dale Higgs ‘56 worked at<br />
<strong>Champlain</strong> <strong>College</strong> for<br />
more than 45 years, until<br />
he retired in 2001. He<br />
died on August 12.<br />
‘34<br />
NEWS<br />
Mildred (Carpenter) Hill has retired<br />
from the Randolph, VT, school system.<br />
She also worked for many years in the<br />
Motor Vehicle Department and for the<br />
Vermont Extension Service.<br />
‘41<br />
DEATHS<br />
Albert Mongeon, Jr., January 2004<br />
Rita (Riley) Piper, Weybridge, VT,<br />
January 31, 2004.<br />
‘42<br />
DEATHS<br />
Floyd Leon White, South Hero, VT,<br />
May 11, 2004.<br />
‘53<br />
DEATHS<br />
Shirley J. (Lambert) Meacham,<br />
Burlington, VT, July 8, 2004.<br />
‘56<br />
NEWS<br />
Virginia (Branch) Pratt does medical<br />
transcription from home, as well as<br />
working per diem for Fletcher Allen.<br />
She married Arthur Pratt 4 years ago<br />
and they currently live in South Hero.<br />
They are enjoying vacations on cruises,<br />
at family resorts and they especially love<br />
Cape Cod. Virginia would love to hear<br />
from other classmates!<br />
DEATHS<br />
Dale C. Higgs, Burlington, VT,<br />
August 12, 2004.<br />
‘58<br />
DEATHS<br />
Nadine Hayes, Manchester Center, VT,<br />
February 21, 2004.<br />
‘64<br />
NEWS<br />
Jacqueline A. Mathias retired from<br />
Middlesex Hospital in Middletown, CT,<br />
in May 2002.<br />
‘65<br />
DEATHS<br />
Richard A. Blatt, March 15, 2004.<br />
‘66<br />
NEWS<br />
Patricia E. (Page) Trendowski and her<br />
husband, Teal, have recently retired.<br />
They are busy with many travel plans,<br />
spending summers at their cottage and<br />
enjoying their three-year-old grandson,<br />
with another expected soon! Pat is<br />
involved in activities at her church and<br />
has many craft interests. Currently, she<br />
is busy with the newest scrapbooking<br />
craze. (Did we really look that young<br />
in the ‘60s?)<br />
‘67<br />
MARRIAGES<br />
Lauire R. Schacher and Stu Wohl,<br />
December 18, 2003.<br />
NEWS<br />
Raymond V. Boisvert, vice president of<br />
Publishers Consultants, Inc., has recently<br />
taken over the duties of general manager<br />
at The Golden Gate Gazette in<br />
Naples, FL.<br />
Laurie R. Schacher retired from<br />
American Express after 25 years.<br />
DEATHS<br />
Norman Andrews, East Boothbay, ME,<br />
January 21, 2004.<br />
‘68<br />
NEWS<br />
Marilyn L. (Ash) Ewell is currently the<br />
Registrar of the Language Schools at<br />
Middlebury <strong>College</strong>.<br />
DEATHS<br />
Roger W. Goldthwait, Putnam, CT,<br />
March 29, 2004.<br />
‘72<br />
NEWS<br />
Jim Davidson was recently appointed<br />
as a Sales Consultant for Cirelli Foods,<br />
the largest family-owned food-service<br />
distributor in New England.<br />
Nancy (Gauthier) Scribner is currently<br />
financial officer for the Department of<br />
Public Safety division of Vermont<br />
Emergency Managment in Waterbury.<br />
She was voted employee of the month<br />
in August. She has recently moved into<br />
a new home in Cabot with her husband,<br />
Stephen, and daughter, Melissa. Her<br />
son, Eric, is attending <strong>Champlain</strong><br />
<strong>College</strong> this fall.<br />
‘73<br />
NEWS<br />
Don Guyett is an author working under<br />
the pseudonym Hollister DeLong. His<br />
first novel, Mystical Toy Guitar, was published<br />
in July. The novel has received<br />
resounding acclaim nationwide, with<br />
two different critics echoing the comment<br />
that, “properly cast and directed,<br />
Mystical Toy Guitar may be the next It’s<br />
a Wonderful Life.” Don is a member of<br />
<strong>Champlain</strong>’s first graduating criminal justice<br />
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class. Visit www.eastmesapress.com/<br />
mtg.htm for a synopsis, author biography<br />
and four-chapter preview of his novel.<br />
‘74<br />
NEWS<br />
Carol Laird Brownell is the human<br />
resources manager for the Department<br />
of Homeland Security, Transportation<br />
Security Administration at the<br />
Burlington International Airport.<br />
‘76<br />
ENGAGEMENTS<br />
Karen Dempsey and Christopher<br />
Carney, to be married in November<br />
2004. They will make their home in<br />
Marblehead, MA.<br />
NEWS<br />
Patricia A. Cranston completed her<br />
first half-marathon in Nashville, TN, in<br />
April 2004 with the Leukemia &<br />
Lymphoma Society’s “Team in Training.”<br />
She was awarded Top Fundraiser of the<br />
Year for this organization in Memphis.<br />
Patricia is now volunteering as a mentor<br />
and preparing for the Nike marathon<br />
and half-marathon in San Francisco in<br />
October. She received a promotion at<br />
FedEx to Strategic Sourcing Advisor.<br />
She is responsible for multi milliondollar<br />
contracts across all FedEx operating<br />
companies. Patricia’s son is now 28<br />
and has graced her with two grandchildren.<br />
Her daughter is 21 and attending<br />
college in Memphis, TN.<br />
Karen Dempsey founded Alliance<br />
Relocation, a residential real estate<br />
company helping people moving into<br />
the Boston, MA, area. Check out her<br />
website at www.alliancerelo.com.<br />
Sherry Shedd is currently a single business<br />
woman who owns and operates<br />
two mini-marts in North Central<br />
Pennsylvania. The stores, called<br />
“Shedd’s Old Country Market,” feature<br />
antiques, gifts and gift baskets as well<br />
as groceries and deli items. She is also<br />
an author who writes life- and timemanagement<br />
books in addition to<br />
fiction. On April 1, 2004, she attended<br />
a gala with President George W. Bush.<br />
She owns five rental properties and a<br />
100-acre ranch, where she lives with her<br />
two cats. She is the mother of four, and<br />
grandmother of two.<br />
‘77<br />
NEWS<br />
Steven Belanger has recently opened<br />
his own business in Montpelier, VT,<br />
called “Steven Belanger’s Property<br />
alumni lives<br />
G FORCE<br />
Kevin Graziadei ’98 is driving<br />
up the Pacific Coast highway. It’s<br />
sunny and 75 degrees, his surfboard<br />
is in the back and he’s<br />
feeling very good about his place<br />
in the world. “Since moving out<br />
here,” he says of his relocation to<br />
Manhattan Beach, just south of<br />
Los Angeles, “I’ve become solar<br />
powered. I love the sun.”<br />
For this Plattsburgh, New<br />
York, native, working in the entertainment<br />
industry and living two<br />
blocks from the beach where he<br />
runs and surfs several times a<br />
week is sweet indeed. But he finds<br />
himself on an eastbound plane<br />
three or four times a year. He<br />
comes for his dad and his four<br />
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“Living two blocks from the ocean reminds me<br />
how important it is to have a balanced life,” says<br />
Kevin Graziadei ‘98. “After a busy day at work, I<br />
relax by surfing at sunset.”<br />
brothers (the “G5” they call themselves), a tight-knit group since they<br />
lost their mom to cancer when Kevin, the youngest, was nine.<br />
Occasionally, he finds himself back on the <strong>Champlain</strong> campus.<br />
“It’s such a big part of me,” says Graziadei. “I loved it there.” He<br />
loved <strong>Champlain</strong>, it seems, from his first chat with Admissions and<br />
today he still exchanges e-mails with favorite professors. Graziadei, a<br />
public relations and media communications major, discovered one of<br />
his prime talents working as a campus tour guide: “That’s where I fell in<br />
love with PR. The interaction with people came so naturally. I established<br />
relationships from President Perry to the folks in the mailroom.”<br />
After graduation Graziadei moved to Boston and earned his BA in<br />
visual and media arts from Emerson <strong>College</strong> in 2000. “I craved big-city<br />
life,” he says, though he’s certain he would have stayed at <strong>Champlain</strong> if<br />
there had been the media offerings then that are in place today.<br />
A number of internships—from MTV and Universal Music in New<br />
York to Twentieth Century Fox in LA—helped Graziadei refine his career<br />
goals and land his current position as an information security analyst<br />
project manager for Fox Entertainment Group. One internship, in the<br />
Fox script library, led to one of the most meaningful experiences of<br />
his life.<br />
Graziadei came across a rejected script that he immediately connected<br />
with—the story of two women coming to terms with cancer. He<br />
lobbied director Martin Guigui, a former Vermonter, who made the<br />
film Changing Hearts, with a star-studded cast, including Oscar-winner<br />
Faye Dunaway.<br />
His involvement with the movie, the parallels with his own life and<br />
the chance to bring a little heart to Hollywood, was, Graziadei says, “a<br />
magical time.” It had a feel-good element that’s mostly missing from<br />
the technical work he’s doing today. He has a great job that affords him<br />
his life at the ocean, snowboarding escapes and his frequent trips back<br />
home. But Graziadei has mountains of files full of project ideas and<br />
plans to venture off and become an independent producer. He wants<br />
to work with his brothers and to express the free-spirited nature he got<br />
from his mom.<br />
Graziadei is sweet, humble, striving, a self-described “old soul.” His<br />
name in Italian means “thanks to God” and he lives his life like he<br />
means it.<br />
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Maintenance,” specializing in property<br />
upkeep and management. Steven’s<br />
daughter, Lauren, is currently attending<br />
<strong>Champlain</strong> and is on schedule to graduate<br />
in May 2005.<br />
Ronald “Ron” Brochu competed in the<br />
Town Meeting Day election for town<br />
clerk and treasurer. He is the billing<br />
manager at Bellavance Trucking in<br />
Barre, where he has been employed for<br />
seven years.<br />
‘78<br />
NEWS<br />
Elizabeth (Allen) Lyman lives in Gilford,<br />
NH, with her husband, Jack, and her<br />
three children, ages 13 to 22. They own<br />
Lyman Construction and Liz runs a<br />
Boar’s Head deli in Gilford. She would<br />
love to hear from fellow classmates at<br />
llizzy58@yahoo.com.<br />
Gail (Johnson) White is currently a<br />
homemaker and OKC Regional Soccer<br />
Tournament Director. She lives in<br />
Oklahoma with her husband, Jim, and 5<br />
children, ages 5 to 19! She would love<br />
to hear from classmates.<br />
‘80<br />
NEWS<br />
Kelly Circe is currently the senior staff<br />
assistant for the Department of<br />
Education and Social Services, Dean’s<br />
Office, at the University of Vermont.<br />
She earned her B.A. in psychology and<br />
business law from Burlington <strong>College</strong> in<br />
May 2003.<br />
Catherine (Ribar) McCullough and Dan<br />
McCullough own McCullough’s Quick<br />
Stop in Bethel, VT, and Dan McCullough<br />
Excavation. Cathy is the director of<br />
financial aid at Vermont Technical<br />
<strong>College</strong>. They have three daughters.<br />
Corrine J. (Thomson) Whitaker has<br />
been in the orthodontic field since<br />
graduating from <strong>Champlain</strong>. She is a<br />
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Maine and New Hampshire. She currently<br />
lives in Conway, NH, with her<br />
daughter and son. Both of her children<br />
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‘82<br />
NEWS<br />
Steven A. Benoit has joined Rock of<br />
Ages as retail sales manager in the<br />
company’s Retail Memorial Studio in<br />
Graniteville, VT. He has 15 years’ experience<br />
in granite manufacturing. He lives<br />
in Williamstown with his wife and their<br />
two daughters.<br />
DEATHS<br />
Robert A. Fontecha, Waterford, VT,<br />
January 31, 2004.<br />
‘83<br />
NEWS<br />
Donna Canty works as a Project<br />
Administrator with Engelberth<br />
Construction. She lives in Shelburne, VT,<br />
with her husband, Joe, and their two<br />
children.<br />
Kent J. Gregoire is CEO & President of<br />
DermAscreen Systems of Florida, Inc., a<br />
company with a national network of<br />
physicians who provide a procedure to<br />
detect skin cancer at its earliest stages.<br />
Mary Lynne Isham received her M.A. in<br />
teaching English as a second or foreign<br />
language from Saint Michael’s <strong>College</strong><br />
in Colchester, VT, in May 2004. She<br />
received the 2004 Richard C. Yorkey<br />
award for “academic excellence, interpersonal<br />
skills and great potential in the<br />
field of English language teaching.” She<br />
is an adjunct instructor at Saint Michael’s<br />
in the School of International Studies.<br />
Michelle Laferriere is busy! She is currently<br />
enrolled in an MBA program at<br />
the University of Phoenix and in the<br />
Master of Science degree program for<br />
Managing Innovation and Information<br />
Technology at <strong>Champlain</strong> <strong>College</strong>.<br />
DEATHS<br />
Joyce Loretta Hobbs Booska,<br />
Burlington, VT, February 27, 2004.<br />
‘84<br />
BIRTHS<br />
Sarah Lane (Peabody) Downey and<br />
Tom Downey, a daughter, Carolyn,<br />
July 2004.<br />
NEWS<br />
W. Sam Hill was sworn in as the<br />
Washington County Sheriff on July 12,<br />
2004 by Governor James Douglas. Hill<br />
is excited about this new challenge and<br />
his first goal is to stabilize the sheriff’s<br />
department. Hill is also a field training<br />
officer and an instructor at the Vermont<br />
Police Academy in Pittsford.<br />
Sarah Lane (Peabody) Downey<br />
operates her own company, JT Lane<br />
Gifts, which can be found online at<br />
www.jtlane.com. She lives with her<br />
husband, Tom, and their four children.<br />
‘85<br />
NEWS<br />
Timothy R. Barre works for Northfield<br />
Savings Bank as a work center manager.<br />
He is pursuing purchasing management,<br />
accredited purchasing<br />
practitioner and certified purchasing<br />
manager certifications.<br />
Judy (Chapman) White received<br />
the Professional Human Resource<br />
designation from the Society of<br />
Human Resource Management in<br />
December 2003.<br />
Maura “Mo” Cunningham Taggert<br />
lives in Seargentsville, NJ, and is a stayat-home<br />
mom with three children, ages<br />
3 to 9. She would love to hear from<br />
anyone from any of the hotel & restaurant<br />
management classes. E-mail:<br />
taggert5@hotmail.com.<br />
Lisa (Hill) Mason is the assistant to the<br />
parents’ program director at Union<br />
<strong>College</strong> in Schenectady, NY. Along with<br />
her husband of 18 years, Christopher,<br />
and their two children, she lives in<br />
Albany, NY.<br />
Kimberly Blais (Whitaker) DuBrul has<br />
just “retired” from the real estate sales<br />
business after 18 years! She is now<br />
coaching agents from across the United<br />
States and Canada for the Mike Ferry<br />
Organization of Irvine, CA. Kim helps<br />
these clients reach their potential as top<br />
agents in the real estate business. Kim’s<br />
former licensed assistant has taken over<br />
her sales business.<br />
‘86<br />
MARRIAGES<br />
Kendy Skidmore and Anthony<br />
Sausville, May 17, 2003.<br />
NEWS<br />
Heidi Ferland has owned Heidi’s Bridal<br />
Boutique for 12 years. She has recently<br />
moved her business to a new 2,300-<br />
square-foot location in Claremont, VT.<br />
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The location presents a more boutiquelike<br />
atmosphere with elegant track<br />
lighting, soft ivory-painted walls and an<br />
antique decorative tin ceiling.<br />
‘87<br />
NEWS<br />
Celeste A. (Beebe) Resch is host and<br />
producer of Wisconsin’s newest cable<br />
TV talk and variety show, “Star<br />
Creations by Celeste.” Celeste lives in<br />
Wisconsin with her family and can be<br />
reached at starcreations@dwave.net.<br />
‘88<br />
MARRIAGES<br />
Lisa M. Ackel and Andrew Judge,<br />
June 20, 2003.<br />
Jennifer Stebbins and Steve Gray,<br />
February 14, 2004.<br />
BIRTHS<br />
Susan (Phelps) Dana and Brian Dana,<br />
a son, Paul Edward, August 8, 2003.<br />
NEWS<br />
Lisa M. Ackel-Judge entered her<br />
screenplay into the Project Greenlight<br />
Screenplay Contest conducted by Matt<br />
Damon and Ben Affleck. Her screenplay<br />
made the list of the top 1,000 entries.<br />
Brigitte C. (Audy) Thompson is cofounder<br />
of Moms In Print, a traditional<br />
publishing house whose sole purpose is<br />
to support, encourage and inspire<br />
moms to write from their hearts with the<br />
goal of publishing and releasing to the<br />
national and international markets<br />
select top-quality works by a wide variety<br />
of “mother authors.” See more at<br />
www.momsinprint.com. She also hosts a<br />
popular site devoted to supporting<br />
moms in the “caretaker role” at<br />
www.caringathome.us.<br />
Susan (Phelps) Dana received her CPA<br />
license in December 2001.<br />
‘89<br />
ENGAGEMENTS<br />
Steven M. Ferretti and Dawn E. Zito,<br />
October 16, 2004.<br />
MARRIAGES<br />
Janine Bergeron and Ross Roy,<br />
September 27, 2003.<br />
BIRTHS<br />
Christina (Maheux) Mead and<br />
Peter Mead, a son, Evan James,<br />
January 21, 2004.<br />
NEWS<br />
Charles R. Conroy moved to Miami, FL,<br />
in February 2004 after 17 years in<br />
Vermont. He is an attorney practicing<br />
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commercial, securities and bankruptcy<br />
law for Tabas, Freedman, Soloff &<br />
Miller, P.A. After <strong>Champlain</strong>, Chuck<br />
received his B.A. from Saint Michael’s<br />
<strong>College</strong> in 1993 and his J.D. from<br />
Vermont Law School in 1999.<br />
Brian Corey is currently the assistant<br />
manager and marketing director of<br />
Bowl of New England.<br />
Michelle (Gosselin) Spence is the coordinator<br />
of the Franklin County (VT) Early<br />
Childhood Programs and is active on<br />
the local United Way board. She married<br />
her high school sweetheart, Bill<br />
Spence, after <strong>Champlain</strong> <strong>College</strong>. She<br />
received her B.A. in accounting and<br />
business management from Campbell<br />
University and an M.A. Ed. in supervision<br />
and administration from the<br />
University of Phoenix. She lives in<br />
Vermont with her husband, 11-year-old<br />
son and eight year-old twin daughters.<br />
Michele (Grossman) Cunningham is a<br />
victim assistance counselor for the<br />
deaf/hard-of-hearing community at<br />
Chicago Hearing Society in Chicago, IL.<br />
She would love to hear from classmates<br />
at MCunningham@anixter.org!<br />
Christina (Maheux) Mead lives in<br />
Williston, VT, with her husband, Peter,<br />
and their two children. Christina enjoys<br />
staying home with them.<br />
Susan Willey will be joining the Board<br />
of Trustees at <strong>Champlain</strong> <strong>College</strong> in<br />
October 2004. Susan is currently Vice<br />
President of Systems & Software, Inc. in<br />
Colchester, VT.<br />
‘90<br />
BIRTHS<br />
John Booth and Kirsten Frances Booth,<br />
a daughter, Amelia Francesca, July 31,<br />
2004.<br />
NEWS<br />
Krista (Marzewski) Brown lives in<br />
Bimini, Bahamas, with her husband,<br />
Eslie. They run a custom dive operation<br />
called K&B EZ Dive. See them online at<br />
www.knbezdive.com. They invite friends<br />
to come on down for a visit!<br />
John Booth is currently a finance officer<br />
with Union Bank in Morrisville, VT. He<br />
lives with his wife, Kirsten Frances<br />
Booth, and their newborn daughter,<br />
Amelia.<br />
Susan M. Tice has joined the Franklin<br />
County Humane Society in St. Albans,<br />
VT, as the executive director.<br />
Kimberly (Viner) Place has been<br />
appointed investment representative for<br />
Investors MarketPlace, located at Bow<br />
(NH) Mills Bank and Trust. She recently<br />
received her securities and insurance<br />
licenses. She resides in Webster, NH,<br />
with her husband and son.<br />
DEATHS<br />
Catherine Anne Paquette, Tempe, AZ.<br />
‘91<br />
MARRIAGES<br />
Elwin Edward Emery, Jr. and Jennifer<br />
Lillian Saunders, June 5, 2004.<br />
Karen Paquette and Sean Preavy,<br />
February 14, 2004.<br />
Kristie L. Young and Douglas W.<br />
Boisvert, May 23, 2004, in New<br />
London, NH.<br />
BIRTHS<br />
Jeanne (Ney) Sincerbeaux and Scott<br />
Sincerbeaux, a son, Connor Scott,<br />
March 17, 2004. Big sister Hailee<br />
welcomed him home!<br />
NEWS<br />
Rebecca (Heath) Seime married Trevor<br />
Seime in 1995. They have three children,<br />
ages 2 to 8. Becky is currently a<br />
daycare provider in North Dakota.<br />
Julie L. (Kennedy) Clough has been<br />
the executive director of Grafton County<br />
operations for the past year and a half.<br />
As director of operations, she oversees<br />
about 325 employees, as well as operations<br />
of the county jail, farm and<br />
nursing home.<br />
‘92<br />
ENGAGEMENTS<br />
Troy David Lund to Jennifer Jean<br />
Mayville, October 2, 2004.<br />
MARRIAGES<br />
Margaret Carter and Eric Spivack,<br />
December 27, 2003.<br />
Michael Riley and Sheri Kelly,<br />
January 24, 2004.<br />
BIRTHS<br />
Rebecca Bromley and Curt Guenther,<br />
a daughter, Abigail Jayne Guenther,<br />
July 11, 2004.<br />
Audra (LaBonte) O’Connor and Brian J.<br />
O’Connor, a daughter, Blythe Brier,<br />
April 2004.<br />
Jean (Schneider) Shea and David Shea,<br />
a son, Kieran Gerald, 2002.<br />
NEWS<br />
Rebecca (Bromley) Guenther is the<br />
human resource manager at Paul, Frank<br />
& Collins in Burlington, VT.<br />
Melissa (Fogg) Wallace and her<br />
husband, Charles, recently celebrated<br />
their 5th anniversary of owning the<br />
Mount Blue Motel in Farmington, ME.<br />
They have two young children.<br />
Audra (LaBonte) O’Connor is currently<br />
a sales assistant with Smith Barney in<br />
Gilford, NH. She lives in Sanborton, NH,<br />
with her husband, Brian, their four-yearold<br />
son, Patrick, and newborn daughter,<br />
Blythe.<br />
‘93<br />
ENGAGEMENTS<br />
Michael Kenyon Griffith and Dana L.<br />
Fronc, to be married in November 2004.<br />
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Patricia Hill and Ray Garrison, Jr., to<br />
be married in August 2006.<br />
Jennifer Leigh Landon and Mark<br />
Richard Lynch, October 2004.<br />
Jennifer L. Shaneberger and Brad<br />
Aldrich, August 14, 2004.<br />
Christie West and Trevor Mitchell,<br />
June 19, 2004.<br />
MARRIAGES<br />
Monique Daniels and Christopher<br />
Hunt, October 4, 2003.<br />
Laurianne J. Verret and Matthew A.<br />
Griffes, May 29, 2004.<br />
NEWS<br />
Frank Boyle walked in his third Avon<br />
Walk for Breast Cancer on May 2, 2004.<br />
This is a 40-mile walk that is completed<br />
in two days.<br />
Patricia Hill currently works at COTS<br />
(Committee on Temporary Shelter) in<br />
Burlington, VT.<br />
DEATHS<br />
Lisa (Trombley) Shepard, South<br />
Burlington, VT, February 26, 2004.<br />
‘94<br />
PLEASE SEND IN CLASS NOTES BY FEBRUARY 2005<br />
ENGAGEMENTS<br />
Kristy Bezio and Greg Jankowski,<br />
June 2004.<br />
Carrie Ann Devenow to Peter J. Jones,<br />
Jr., to be married in May 2005.<br />
MARRIAGES<br />
Kelly Marie Greene and Jason<br />
Garofalo, September 8, 2001.<br />
Tricia Klein and Scott Bilsky,<br />
May 15, 2004.<br />
Jeanne Marie McCann and Robert<br />
James Miller, June 19, 2004.<br />
Nealy Russo and Page Parsels,<br />
May 15, 2004.<br />
Michele (Stringer) Palmer and<br />
David C. Palmer, April 24, 2004.<br />
They honeymooned in Turks and<br />
Caicos, Providenciales and the<br />
British West Indies.<br />
BIRTHS<br />
Kelly (Greene) Garofalo and Jason<br />
Garofalo, triplets (two boys and a girl),<br />
September 13, 2003.<br />
NEWS<br />
Kelly (Greene) Garofalo has been promoted<br />
to senior management at<br />
PricewaterhouseCoopers in their Oracle<br />
consulting division in Las Vegas, NV.<br />
Nealy Russo graduated from the<br />
Laboratory Institute of Merchandising in<br />
New York City in 1996.<br />
‘95<br />
ENGAGEMENTS<br />
Stacey Lynn Dupoise and Scott Eric<br />
Brown, June 5, 2004.<br />
MARRIAGES<br />
Jennifer Bernier and Ramon Ortiz,<br />
October 25, 2003.<br />
Monique M. Desjardins and Eric P.<br />
Rich, March 20, 2004.<br />
Leslie Dunn and Christopher Gandin,<br />
August 19, 2003.<br />
Summer Resnick and Troy Capra,<br />
June 7, 2003.<br />
Christine E. Spencer and Marco<br />
Tonizzo, Washington, D.C.<br />
Jennifer Guerin Riordan ‘94 with her husband, Michael, at the 2002<br />
Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, UT, holding the Olympic torch.<br />
BIRTHS<br />
Amy (Boudreau) Adams and<br />
Travis Adams, a son, Brady Jacob,<br />
February 1, 2004.<br />
NEWS<br />
Giuseppe (Paul) Cugliari is enjoying<br />
teaching in Australia after traveling its<br />
countryside.<br />
Summer (Resnick) Capra graduated<br />
from Colby-Sawyer <strong>College</strong> with a bachelor’s<br />
degree in child development with<br />
an elementary education certification.<br />
‘96<br />
ENGAGEMENTS<br />
Tracy Kenyon and Martin Wells,<br />
October 2004.<br />
Christine Lynch and Duane Secord,<br />
April 16, 2004.<br />
MARRIAGES<br />
Kelley Jo Kamison and Corey T.<br />
Hackett, May 8, 2004.<br />
Laurie Knapp and Daniel J. Celik, May<br />
15, 2004. They make their home in<br />
Brandon, VT.<br />
BIRTHS<br />
Jennifer (Miller) Palmer and Jason<br />
Palmer, a daughter, Kailey, July 2, 2004.<br />
Kelley E. (Poulin) Bonneau and Doug<br />
E. Bonneau, a daughter, Morgan Lynn,<br />
December 18, 1999, and a son, Curtis<br />
Joseph, September 2, 2002.<br />
NEWS<br />
Kristin A. Leach, CPA, has been promoted<br />
to senior accountant in tax<br />
services at Grippin, Donlan & Roche, PLC.<br />
Karey Young, after six-and-a-half years<br />
as an administrative assistant for Melvin<br />
Kaplan Inc., has become a full-time realtor<br />
at Prudential Realty Mart in South<br />
Burlington, VT.<br />
‘97<br />
ENGAGEMENTS<br />
Dawn K. Beane and Jayson E. Newton,<br />
to be married in April 2005.<br />
Christine R. Darlington and Matthew<br />
C. McCuin, August 2004.<br />
Darci Mayer and James Dotchin, to be<br />
married in Summer 2005.<br />
Joanne Miklaszewski and John<br />
Matthews, to be married in June 2005.<br />
Chad Jesse Wimble and Judith Lynn<br />
Johnson ’04, September 4, 2004.<br />
MARRIAGES<br />
Alyson Audet and Michael Eastman,<br />
July 13, 2002.<br />
Jaime Bouchard and John Williams<br />
Young, January 29, 2004.<br />
Heather White and Joshua Gauvin,<br />
April 17, 2004.<br />
BIRTHS<br />
Alyson (Audet) Eastman and Michael<br />
Eastman, twin sons, Bently James and<br />
Brandon Michael, June 1, 2004.<br />
NEWS<br />
Emily K. Fair has been promoted to<br />
director of BlueCard in the BlueCard/ITS<br />
department at Blue Cross and Blue<br />
Shield of Vermont.<br />
‘98<br />
ENGAGEMENTS<br />
Lisa Bessette and Michael Currier, Jr.,<br />
June 12, 2004.<br />
Kristi Ann Hibbard and Bradley<br />
Michael Klein, October 9, 2004.<br />
Corinne Hull and Eric Relation, to be<br />
married in August 2005.<br />
‘99<br />
ENGAGEMENTS<br />
Brandi G. Cook and Thomas M.<br />
Barclay, July 24, 2004.<br />
Liza Cote and Derric Miner,<br />
July 31, 2004.<br />
Scott W. Grant and Christine C. Laduc,<br />
to be married in August 2005.<br />
Jayson E. Newton and Dawn K. Beane,<br />
to be married in April 2005.<br />
Jason J. Provost and Jessica L. Palmer,<br />
August 20, 2004.<br />
MARRIAGES<br />
Michael Voity and Melissa Greenslet,<br />
May 8, 2004.<br />
Benjamin T. Young and Tanya P. Llave,<br />
May 22, 2004.<br />
BIRTHS<br />
Harold L. Start, Jr. and Lee Ann Start,<br />
a daughter, July 5, 2004.<br />
Jennifer (Vorse) Kirkpatrick and Scott<br />
Kirkpatrick ’00, a son, Matthew,<br />
February 2004.<br />
NEWS<br />
Debra (Manning) Sioufi received her<br />
Bachelor of Science degree from<br />
Johnson State <strong>College</strong>, graduating<br />
summa cum laude. She will be attending<br />
medical school in South Carolina<br />
this fall.<br />
Jill Merrow lives in Dorset, VT, with her<br />
two teenagers.<br />
Melanie Snay has passed three parts of<br />
the CPA exam and is currently working<br />
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for the State of New York as a tax auditor.<br />
Martha (Weeks) Wellman is now working<br />
for Cabot Creamery. She has two<br />
granddaughters, Ramona and Gemma<br />
Bilodeau. She has been diagnosed with<br />
stage-three cancer and has been undergoing<br />
surgery and treatment.<br />
‘00<br />
ENGAGEMENTS<br />
Kendra Bowen and Chris Hogan,<br />
October 2, 2004.<br />
Amanda L. Marshia and Adam L.<br />
Blaney, June 19, 2004.<br />
Nicole Murphy and Bret Hodgdon,<br />
September 4, 2004.<br />
Rhonda Murphy and Steven Rugar,<br />
October 2, 2004.<br />
B A C K<br />
V I E W<br />
<strong>Champlain</strong><br />
bids a fond farewell<br />
to Hamrick Hall as<br />
a favorite old meeting<br />
spot makes way for<br />
a new generation<br />
campus hangout.<br />
MARRIAGES<br />
Elizabeth D. Bartlett and Christopher<br />
C. Coppins, May 15, 2004.<br />
Lara Beth Beane and Randall L. Alemy,<br />
April 10, 2004.<br />
Teresa Marie Jones and Jeffry Anthony<br />
Moisan, May 8, 2004.<br />
Jeffrey St. Peter and Yoko Yamamoto,<br />
July 28, 2003, in Maui, Hawaii.<br />
BIRTHS<br />
Patricia (Punt) Brown and Sebastian<br />
Brown, a daughter, Isabelle Christine,<br />
April 2, 2004.<br />
Debbie (Smith) Weissinger and Jeffrey<br />
Weissinger, a son, Tyler, August 2003.<br />
Scott Kirkpatrick and Jennifer (Vorse)<br />
Kirkpatrick ’99, a son, Matthew,<br />
February 2004.<br />
NEWS<br />
Nouri Dassi completed his M.B.A. in<br />
International Business at Hawaii Pacific<br />
University in December 2003. He<br />
earned a 3.9 GPA and graduated with<br />
honors and distinction. He is currently<br />
working as a financial advisor for<br />
American Express in Honolulu and is<br />
working to complete the Series 7 and<br />
66 security licenses. However, he is<br />
looking to work in Asia as an operations<br />
manager for a multi-national corporation.<br />
Army Pfc Clayton E. Hunsdon has<br />
graduated from the ammunition specialist<br />
course at Redstone Arsenal,<br />
Huntsville, AL.<br />
Teresa Jones Moisan currently works<br />
for Fletcher Allen Healthcare in<br />
Burlington, VT.<br />
Karen A. Mills, CPA, was promoted to<br />
senior accountant in tax services at<br />
Grippin, Donlan & Roche, PLC.<br />
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Mark Porter, in June 2004, completed<br />
his MBA with a concentration in finance<br />
from Suffolk University in Boston, MA.<br />
He also earned membership in Beta<br />
Gamma Sigma, the honor society for<br />
business graduates.<br />
Patricia (Punt) Brown married<br />
Sebastian Brown on September 20,<br />
2001. She’s currently a stay-at-home<br />
mom and lives in Vermont with her husband<br />
and their 4-month-old daughter,<br />
Isabelle.<br />
Jason Sumner and his wife, Jessica, are<br />
expecting their first child in January<br />
2005. They currently live in Atlanta, GA.<br />
‘01<br />
ENGAGEMENTS<br />
Jessica Dora Pappathan and Robert<br />
Lee Bertini, October 16, 2004.<br />
Amanda E. Roberts and Sean P. Reilly,<br />
to be married in December 2004.<br />
Ashley J. Truax and David Goletz,<br />
August 28, 2004.<br />
MARRIAGES<br />
Josceline M. Bachiochi and Dennis J.<br />
Reardon, April 17, 2004.<br />
Olivia C. Gorman and Nathan A. Farrar,<br />
December 31, 2003.<br />
James Hadeka, Jr. and Katie Flanders,<br />
May 1, 2004.<br />
Jamie L. Phelps and David Peters Jr.,<br />
October 4, 2003.<br />
Michelle D. Roberge and Scott<br />
Beauregard, April 2, 2004.<br />
BIRTHS<br />
Ronald N. Gallagher and Beatrice<br />
Gallagher, a son, William MacEwen,<br />
Natick, MA, October 2003.<br />
NEWS<br />
Christine Bilbrey is a paralegal in<br />
forensic psychiatry at the Vermont<br />
Department of Health and loves it.<br />
She lost her older brother, Brian,<br />
unexpectedly in May 2004.<br />
Ronald N. Gallagher and his family<br />
have relocated to Concord, CA, due to<br />
Ron’s promotion to regional vice president/field<br />
wholesaler for Evergreen<br />
Investments. They are enjoying the mild<br />
weather in Northern California!<br />
Paul C. Leclerc has joined the accounting<br />
department at MorrisSwitzer-Environments<br />
for Health in Williston, VT.<br />
Paula Steady has opened Essential<br />
Bookkeeping Services. Among the<br />
computerized bookkeeping services she<br />
offers are accounts receivable, accounts<br />
payable, account reconciliation and payroll<br />
services. She has “kept the books”<br />
for small and medium-sized businesses<br />
and handled funds accounting for nonprofit<br />
organizations since 1990.<br />
‘02<br />
MARRIAGES<br />
Scott C. Beauregard and Michelle<br />
Roberge, April 2, 2004.<br />
Samuel E. Clark and Deanna Morin ’03,<br />
August 1, 2004.<br />
Christopher Coffey and Kylee<br />
Huizenga, May 8, 2004.<br />
Derek Bradley Hellyer and Melissa<br />
Jean Bailey, August 17, 2003.<br />
Sarah Paulson and Benjamin J. Tatro,<br />
August 16, 2003.<br />
NEWS<br />
Samuel E. Clark will receive his bachelor’s<br />
degree in professional studies from<br />
<strong>Champlain</strong> <strong>College</strong> at the end of the<br />
Fall 2004 semester. Samuel is currently<br />
employed at <strong>Champlain</strong> as a developer<br />
in eLearning.<br />
Bethany Craig recently purchased a<br />
home in St. Albans, VT.<br />
Jill Lafond has moved to Bakersfield,<br />
CA, and is the service coordinator at<br />
Kern Regional Center, a program for the<br />
developmentally disabled. She has an<br />
active caseload of 80 clients. Jill will<br />
attend California State University in the<br />
spring of 2005 to begin work on her<br />
master’s degree in social services.<br />
Sarah (Paulson) Tatro is the administrative<br />
assistant to the regional vice<br />
president of human resources for<br />
Banknorth, N.A. in Concord, NH. She<br />
makes her home there with her husband,<br />
Benjamin.<br />
Velma Reed is an AmeriCorps volunteer<br />
who has worked in a number of community-based<br />
programs to help women<br />
and children. She has been recognized<br />
by the Burlington Community Land Trust<br />
for her significant contribution to affordable<br />
housing and community<br />
revitalization.<br />
Got photos?<br />
The Alumni Office welcomes your<br />
prints of <strong>Champlain</strong> alumni gathered<br />
for a wedding, party or any<br />
other occasion. Please identify<br />
the grads shown in your photos.<br />
Lindsay Rivard has been promoted to<br />
the position of closer for the North<br />
American Title Company. Lindsay lives<br />
in Ft. Myers, FL.<br />
Troy Stienstra has finished an internship<br />
with the Montgomery County CART<br />
program in Rockville, MD. CART is short<br />
for Community Accountability and<br />
Reintegration Program, an electronic<br />
monitoring program with the Maryland<br />
state government. Back in New Jersey,<br />
he started a security job in February 2004.<br />
‘03<br />
ENGAGEMENTS<br />
Chad M. Bouvier and Rachel Thibault,<br />
October 8, 2005.<br />
Marla A. Kelty and David Redmond,<br />
October 9, 2004.<br />
MARRIAGES<br />
Nicole D. Beaulieu and Bruce Cullen,<br />
July 24, 2004. They make their home in<br />
Morgantown, WV.<br />
Courtney V. Carpenter and Patrick A.<br />
Raymond, March 13, 2004.<br />
Stacey Nichole Dolan and Mark James<br />
Elwell, February 21, 2004.<br />
Deanna Morin and Samuel Clark ’02,<br />
August 1, 2004.<br />
BIRTHS<br />
Elizabeth Evelyn (Weeks) Bilodeau, a<br />
daughter, Gemma G., February 7, 2004.<br />
NEWS<br />
Jacqueline Botjer worked at<br />
Breakwaters Cafe on the Burlington, VT,<br />
waterfront this summer.<br />
Chris MacDonald is a homeland<br />
security project officer with the<br />
Lieutenant Governor’s office for the<br />
State of Vermont.<br />
Kelly J. Palmer is currently teaching<br />
preschool and kindergarten at the<br />
Smilie Memorial School in Bolton, VT.<br />
Shelly Siskavich is the office manager<br />
for Vermont Well & Pump in Hinesburg.<br />
She also coaches the women’s basketball<br />
team at Vermont Technical <strong>College</strong><br />
in Randolph. She plans to obtain her<br />
master’s degree at <strong>Champlain</strong> <strong>College</strong><br />
in Managing Innovation and Information<br />
Technology.<br />
Amy Jo Verrill teaches fourth grade at<br />
the Eagle Ridge Intermediate Science<br />
& Technology School in Florida. She is<br />
an active member of the reading &<br />
technology committee and is an afterschool<br />
tutor.<br />
Anthony Vitelli has recently celebrated<br />
his first anniversary as a CMA service<br />
specialist with Merrill Lynch in<br />
New Jersey.<br />
‘04<br />
ENGAGEMENTS<br />
Jaimie Anderson and Robert T.<br />
Mongeon II, July 10, 2004.<br />
Heidi A. Babcock and Nick Marchand.<br />
They have not set a date.<br />
Kelly L. Bender and JT Collins ’05,<br />
to be married in July 2005.<br />
Raymond J. Bergeron and Corinn<br />
McCarthy, July 10, 2004.<br />
Trish L. Cook and Benjamin T. Shepard,<br />
August 22, 2004.<br />
Judith Lynn Johnson and Chad<br />
Jesse Wimble ’97, September 4, 2004.<br />
MARRIAGES<br />
Trina Deuso and Jason Plantier,<br />
May 15, 2004.<br />
NEWS<br />
Kelly L. Bender is currently working for<br />
George Silver and Associates in<br />
Burlington, VT.<br />
Erin Phillips is the ByRequest Manager<br />
at the Wyndham Billerica Hotel in<br />
Billerica, MA.<br />
Abbe Sweeney is <strong>Champlain</strong> <strong>College</strong>’s<br />
new full-time AmeriCorps VISTA<br />
member. She works in the Community<br />
Connection Office on campus.<br />
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The <strong>College</strong> Extends a Special<br />
Thank You to the S.D. Ireland Family<br />
With their generous gift to the Power<br />
of Three campaign, Kim (Wilson)<br />
Ireland ’85 and her husband, Scott<br />
Ireland, have created a lasting legacy at<br />
<strong>Champlain</strong> <strong>College</strong>. By lending their name to<br />
the newly opened Center for Global Business<br />
and Technology, the Irelands have made it possible<br />
for generations of students to get a competitive<br />
edge by working and studying in this state-ofthe-art<br />
facility.<br />
This family supports causes they believe in,<br />
among them: education, cutting edge endeavors,<br />
the continued growth and success of Kim’s alma<br />
mater. Thanks to their help, all will thrive well<br />
into the future.<br />
Read more about the new S.D. Ireland<br />
Center for Global Business and Technology in<br />
the fall issue of the Power of Three campaign<br />
newsletter, coming out in about a month.<br />
Congratulations to the 2004-2005 Sigler Scholarship Recipients<br />
At the September dedication of the S.D. Ireland Family Center for Global Business and<br />
Technology, business major Melody Wilkins ’05 and paralegal major Melissa Giroux ’05 each<br />
received $1000 scholarships for their outstanding academic accomplishments, their contributions<br />
to college life and their determination to pursue ambitious career goals. After graduation,<br />
Ms. Wilkins plans to continue her career as an employee development specialist and Ms. Giroux<br />
plans to attend law school.<br />
The Sigler Scholarships are made possible through the generosity of Professor Mary Sigler,<br />
co-founder of <strong>Champlain</strong>’s paralegal program and a faculty member from 1988 to 1996. Professor Sigler,<br />
who died of breast cancer at the age of 50, was a passionate and gifted educator who set high expectations<br />
for herself and her students. Through an endowed scholarship fund, she left a tangible legacy to the dedicated<br />
students who meant so much to her.