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1 THE ANNUAL MAGAZINE OF JOHNSON S TAT E COLLEGE 2014/ ALSO INSIDE: PRESIDENT MURPHY RETIRES 14 -Y E A R T E N U R E M A R K E D BY U P G R A D E S TO P R O G R A M S A N D FAC I L I T I E S 10 JOHNSON VIEWS 2014/2015 i

2 from the president President s Message As this is the final opportunity I will have to offer an opening note to our annual magazine, much comes rushing at me in an attempt to name all that is precious and important about Johnson State College. The magazine is a good place to start. This issue of Johnson Views underscores the dynamism of a college that continues to reach forward and create its future while honoring the most basic traditions of teaching and learning. Our alumni continue to do us proud as they design and develop businesses, teach and care for our youth and families, steward our environmental resources, and make and perform art. They take pride in their JSC degrees and take note of the campus as it continues to redefine itself with new labs, studios, upgraded classrooms and places for students to gather, study and collaborate. Our Common Reading Initiative begun in 2007 continues to thrive and serve as an organizing vehicle for rich and diverse activities. This year s choice, A Pearl in the Storm, had us talking all fall about grit and determination, courage and the greater world. While the author s visit was a highlight of the fall semester, spring s lively session on women as adventurers rounded out a year that also included boat-building and conversations about our heavy footprint on the Earth. Faculty and staff had their own journey this semester into a shared reading, as we read Vincent Tinto s Completing College and shared observations about the factors and commitments that must align in order to guide students toward success. As ever, I am impressed by the seriousness and collegiality that guide my friends and colleagues at Johnson State College, how deeply we do our best to live our mission that believes in the power of higher education to transform lives. Sally Ballin s very generous article (see page 10) about my tenure at Johnson State College describes much of the work we have done together over the past 14 years. Public higher education is a less forgiving field than it was at the beginning of the century, with changing demographics, a struggling economy and a regrettable shift in view that sees college more as a private rather than a public good, all combining into a complicating mix. Still we have much to note and celebrate at our college. A Title III grant awarded nearly a decade ago left a lasting legacy in the form of our Office of First-Year Experience and its significant program offshoots of learning communities, first-year seminars, creative audience programming and more intentional advising. We have launched new academic programs, including Media Arts, Musical Theatre and Sport Management. These new fields and indeed all areas of our curriculum are benefitting from revitalized faculty ranks. We are thrilled with the faculty who have joined our veteran professors in raising standards and exposing us all to new areas of scholarship and creativity. Our physical resources buildings, classrooms, labs and studios have expanded and been upgraded. Our students and faculty teach and learn together in brighter, better equipped, more energy-efficient settings. Our Stearns Student Center and SHAPE Center extend these benefits beyond the classroom. We have been helped in these campus improvements by the generosity of many. Our library was named in 2011 for the Willey family by an alumnus whose goal was always to be successful enough to make a gift of such significance that it would stand in memory of his family. Another gift that figures prominently in our current landscape is an endowment that will ensure an annual allocation to enable students and faculty to present research, attend conferences together, and design internships and experiences beyond their own budgets. These are the funds that allow us to offer opportunities that level playing fields and equalize opportunities. And, Johnson State College keeps growing! We have added women s lacrosse to our roster of opportunities for student-athletes, opened our doors to high school seniors through Early College at JSC and launched both a Diversity Task Force and a student-run ALANA group. This year we graduate our first cohort of students with a B.F.A. in Media Arts and a B.A. in Business with a Sport Management concentration. Johnson State College has many assets mostly its faculty, staff and students and a bright future. It takes courage and a deep commitment to Johnson State s mission to keep going. Our college has both.

3 337 College Hill Johnson, V T VOLUME /2015 PRESIDENT Barbara E. Murphy contents Around the Rock ACADEMIC DE AN Daniel Regan DE AN OF STUDENTS & COLLEGE REL ATIONS David Bergh DE AN OF ADMINISTR ATION Sharron Scott DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS Deborah Bouton DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT & alumni rel ations Lauren Philie EDITOR Deborah Bouton CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Sally Ballin, Leila Bandar, Lisa Baranyay, Elaine Harvey, Paul Heintz, Lisa Kent, Meredith Woodward King, Lauren Philie, Marilyn Tagliavia, Melissa Weinstein CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGR APHERS Glenn Callahan, Mary Claire Carroll, Kali Covell, Barb Flathers, Victoria Greenia, Elaine Harvey, Paul Heintz, Ellen Hill, Eric Kirk, Don Landwehrle, Kathleen Landwehrle, Forrest Mattern, Margo Warden Barbara s Artistic Vision 15 Announcing the Barbara E. Murphy Fellowship A New Giving Opportunity in Barbara s Honor 17 The Art of Beer 18 JSC Alums Play a Major Role in Vermont s Craft Brew Boom From Punk Rock to Politics Grad Dylan Giambatista Lands a Gig in the State House Keeping the Books for a New Century 28 PRINTING An Interview with JSC Faculty Librarian Joe Farara Queen City Printers Inc., Burlington, VT please Send suggestions, alumni news & address changes to : A Lasting Impression 10 Reflections on the 14-year tenure of President Barbara E. Murphy Kate Wolinsky Hathaway Point Design, St. Albans, VT is an annual publication for alumni, parents and friends of Johnson State College. F E ATUR ES DESIGN johnson Views 2 Next JSC President: Elaine Collins Third Time s a Charm for Dinner with the Boss New Programs in Psychology, Sport Management, Physical Therapy, Criminal Justice Common Book Initiative Enters 9th Year Gender-Neutral Housing Comes to Campus Greening Up Disc Golf Course Improvements SHAPE Pool Lives On Departments Join Forces to Serve Students New JSC Website JSC Deemed Military Friendly and a Top 100 Affordable Small College Alumni & Family Reunion Weekend DE PAR TMENTS Faculty & Staff News Alumni Awards 34 Athletics Update 36 [email protected] 2014 Athletics Hall of Fame Inductees 39 Philanthropy Report 40 Donor Report 44 on the cover : Alumni News 47 Photo of Matt Nadeau at Rock Art Brewery by Glenn Callahan In Memoriam 59 Office of Development & Alumni Relations Johnson State College 337 College Hill Johnson, VT Phone Fa x THE ANNUAL MAGAZINE OF JOHNSON S TAT E COLLEGE 2014/ ALSO INSIDE: PRESIDENT MURPHY RETIRES 14 -Y E A R T E N U R E M A R K E D BY U P G R A D E S TO P R O G R A M S A N D FAC I L I T I E S 12 JOHNSON VIEWS 2014/2015 I Photo of President Murphy by Don Landwehrle Johnson views 2014/2015 1

4 Happenings at Johnson State College Elaine Collins Named Next JSC President 2 Johnson views 2014/2015 Dr. Elaine Collins, dean and chief operating officer of the College of Education at Grand Valley State University in Michigan, has been named the 13th president of Johnson State College by the Vermont State Colleges Board of Trustees. She officially assumes the helm July 1, 2015, upon the retirement of President Barbara E. Murphy. The College of Education at Grand Valley houses the university s largest graduate program and comprises approximately 4,000 students, 175 faculty and 25 staff members. During her 12-year tenure as dean, Collins led the college through two successful national accreditations, receiving commendations for faculty quality and academic partnership, and strengthened its programs through partnerships with local museums, school districts, community colleges and businesses. Collins emerged as the top candidate for the JSC presidency following a nationwide search that brought four candidates to campus, each of whom spent two days meeting with students, faculty, staff and local community members. Search Committee member Jamey Ventura, JSC s director of athletics and recreation, praised Collins vision for moving the college forward. Her focus on developing and marketing a strong college brand, providing opportunities and support to help students achieve their dreams, and developing new initiatives and Photo: Kali Covell/Forrest Mattern partnerships will distinguish Johnson regionally and nationally, he said. A first-generation college student, Collins has a bachelor s degree in music from the University of California at Los Angeles, a master s degree in curriculum and instruction from the University of California at Davis, and a doctorate in educational policy and leadership from Ohio State University. At Grand Valley, she chairs the Professional Teacher Education Advisory Council and serves on the Advisory Board for Sustainability. In past years, she has served as president and member of the executive board of the Michigan Association of Colleges of Teacher Education and has represented Michigan s public university education deans on the State Board of Education s Professional Standards Commission. She also has chaired the Urban Center Revitalization/ Education and Arts/Education initiatives for the organization Leadership West Michigan. Elaine brought a rich background of teaching and leadership experience to us, said Grand Valley Provost Gayle R. Davis. It is no surprise that her talent and experience have attracted another institution to select her as its president. n Photo: Kali Covell/Forrest Mattern JSC Performing Arts students brought down the house with their spring 2015 production of Grease on the Dibden stage.

5 around the rock Photos: Kali Covell/Forrest Mattern Connecting Students to Careers Dinner with the Boss Returns to Campus JSC held its third Dinner with the Boss, an annual event made possible by the JSC Alumni Association. The evening connects business leaders who are JSC alums with students at a catered dinner and features information about business etiquette and career opportunities. Seven alums and 25 students at least two of whom received job offers by the end of the evening participated. Pictured clockwise from above: South Burlington Chief of Police Trevor Whipple, JSC class of 1994, chats with psychology major and graduating senior Sammy Cochran before sitting down for dinner; students, staff and alumni at the event are all smiles as they gather for a group photo; and Accuworkx USA Vice President & Chief Scientist Jeff Simone, JSC class of 2001, addresses the gathering. n JSC Launches 4 New Academic Programs Three new academic concentrations Health & Sport Psychology, Pre- Physical Therapy and Sport Management debuted in the academic year, and a fourth, Criminal Justice kicks off in fall Here s an overview Health & Sport Psychology, a new concentration available within the psychology major, explores how psychology can be used to improve motivation and performance, how physical activity improves mental health and overall well-being, and how stress and other psychological factors affect health and wellness. Students have the opportunity to assist with ongoing research at JSC into biofeedback as a tool for exercise motivation. As with the psychology major, an internship is required. Pre-Physical Therapy, a new concentration in the health sciences major, is a rigorous program designed to prepare graduates for admission to doctorate of physical therapy (D.P.T.) programs. In addition, this intensive, science-packed program paves the way for chiropractic and physician-assistant graduate programs. Courses include chemistry, physics, anatomy, physiology, biology, psychology and statistics. An internship under the supervision of a physical therapist, chiropractor or physician assistant is required to complete the program. Sport Management is a new option for students pursuing a B.A. in business at JSC. It enables students to combine their interests in sports, finance, management and leadership to prepare for a career in the business side of sports a growing, $213 billion-a-year industry in the U.S. alone. This program recognizes that sports today is as much about marketing events and refining a brand as it is about working with players and scheduling events and that strong business skills are essential for successful careers in sport management. Criminal Justice is a concentration available in either the political science or anthropology and sociology major. It goes far beyond the study of law and crime to explore complex issues of social justice as they relate to crime, punishment and victimization, including race, class, gender and sexuality. A distinguishing feature of this program is its emphasis on the growing field of restorative justice, a technique that involves working with victims as well as offenders typically bringing them together so that offenders can understand the harm they have caused and a program of mutually agreed upon restitution can be put into place. n Johnson views 2014/2015 3

6 around the rock JSC Common Book Initiative Connects discussions, exhibits, films and concerts complementing the book. This year s book A Pearl in the Storm by Tori Murden McClure follows the author as she attempts to become the first woman to row solo across the Atlantic. The book charts in vivid detail McClure s treacherous crossing during one of the worst hurricane seasons on record as she rows a 2,800-pound boat across 3,600 miles of open ocean. In addition to book discussions during Orientation Weekend, students participated in a variety of activities that reinforced the book s themes of perseverance, dedication, and realizing a dream against seemingly insurmountable odds. Common Reading Initiative events this year included: Since 2008, first-year students at JSC have participated in the Common Reading Initiative, which involves reading a common book with fellow members of the JSC community and participating in a series of lectures, Construction of three wooden boats on campus, under the guidance of volunteers from the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, over three days in September. Chesamore Cup Rowing Regatta, with the goal of collectively rowing 1,350 miles the same mileage McClure rowed on her journey using Concept 2 rowing machines. Looking Back: The Books of the Common Reading Detroit: An American Autopsy by Charlie LeDuff Once a thriving metropolis a true leader in the nation for production, wealth, and opportunity Detroit is now the nation s poorest city, leading the nation in unemployment, arson and other social ills. As a Detroit native and a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, LeDuff tells the tale of the city s decline, getting up close and personal with his subject Characters by Lou Beach Beach s characters contend with the strange and terrible and beautiful in life, and no outcome is certain. Begun as a series of Facebook status updates, 420 Characters marks a new turn in the career of an acclaimed artist and illustrator Greasy Rider by Greg Melville Journalist Greg Melville and a friend set out on a road trip with the goal of becoming the first people to drive cross country, from Vermont to California, in a vehicle powered entirely by vegetable oil collected from restaurant grease dumpsters along the way Outcasts United by Warren St. John The book chronicles a refugee soccer team, a remarkable woman coach and a small southern town Clarkston, Georgia turned upside down by the process of refugee resettlement. Luma Mufleh, an Americaneducated Jordanian woman who founded a youth soccer team to help keep Clarkston s boys off the streets. These boys named themselves the Fugees short for refugees How Does It Feel To Be A Problem? Being Young and Arab in America by Moustafa Bayoumi The book tells the stories of seven young Arab American men and women living in Brooklyn after the events of 9/11 as they begin to face pervasive workplace discrimination and government surveillance, cultural misunderstanding and threats of violence. The book served as a springboard for a lecture by the author himself, a semester-long photo exhibit of mosques in America by Edward Grazda, a performance by Iranian comedian Maz Jobrani; and a five-week residency by visiting Fulbright scholar Zaharom ( Rom ) Nain of Malaysia, who came to JSC through the Fulbright s Direct Access to the Muslim World program. 4 Johnson views 2014/2015

7 around the rock Students to the Campus Community An author talk and book signing by McClure, who also spent two days on campus in late September sharing tales of her life and some of her many adventures. Displays, art exhibits and films related to McClure s journey and the ocean life she observed, plus a panel discussion by some of Vermont s top female athletes who addressed what it means to be both a competitor/ explorer and a woman, including the many roles women play and societal expectations that accompany them. n Photos: Margo Warden Initiative, A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah A Long Way Gone is Beah s firsthand account of being pressed into service as a child soldier in the war-torn country of Sierra Leone. His story of a childhood lost and an adulthood found is an inspiring journey, from heartbreaking tragedy to hope and redemption Dead in Attic by Chris Rose This searing chronicle of post-katrina New Orleans explores the city during its most desperate time as it struggles out of the floodwaters and wills itself back to life. As one reviewer wrote, Rose s stories are stories of the dead and the living, stories of survivors and believers, stories of hope and despair. Gender-Neutral Housing Arrives on Campus JSC will begin offering gender-neutral housing to residential students starting in the fall 2015 semester. It will be located on the second floor of Martinetti Hall, which already has a shared, gender-neutral bathroom along with 22 rooms, both singles and doubles. More and more students were starting to self-disclose their identity as transgender or in some other way, so we began to explore what it would look like to offer this option, both from a logistical perspective and in terms of best practices, says Jeff Bickford, JSC s assistant director of student life. Before that, we had worked on an individual basis with students who identified as transgender or gender-variant to find them housing on campus. Nationally, more than 120 colleges and universities have some form of gender-neutral housing, Bickford adds. We re creating a space welcome to all so that nobody has to make any kind of disclosure or out themselves by living there, Bickford says. It s a space where gender doesn t matter. Gender-neutral housing benefits and welcomes many different types of students, including those who are gender-variant, also male and female siblings and platonic male-female friends who wish to share rooms. JSC s other residence halls are single-sex by floor or by suite. n Meredith King Johnson views 2014/2015 5

8 around the rock Greening up JSC Revitalized Gardens in the Works Campus Solar Array Up and Running JSC has installed a one-acre, 150 kwh solar panel array near the main campus entrance, just up the hill from the former upper pond. The project has been tied into Johnson Water & Light and generating electricity since late fall The college and surrounding energy consumers are using the power supplied by the array, and JSC receives a leasing fee for the acre of land, as well as an additional payment for being a net-metered customer an incentive established by the Vermont Legislature to encourage the adoption of alternative energy sources throughout the state. The solar farm continues JSC s focus on sustainability and a reduced carbon footprint and is a natural extension of the college s energyconservation efforts. The array is projected to have a lifespan of 25 to 40 years and an annual production of about than 200,000 kwh enough to meet the power needs of both McClelland and Martinetti halls. As of April 2015, the array had: generated 40,755 kwh of electricity and provided 30,138 hours of electricity to area buildings; saved 27.5 trees; offset 12,096 pounds of coal. n A renovated garden space for residents of the College Apartments is the focus of a collaborative project between JSC s Student Government Association and Green Solutions Club. SGA Senator Marina Turco became interested in fixing up the area because of her love of sustainable living she developed through her Wellness & Alternative Medicine major at JSC. She connected with Samantha Gorton, who Turco says has been the sole caretaker of the existing garden and has a real passion for its upkeep. Turco realized that very few people know that the apartments have this resource and wants to make it a place where people will congregate. Now Turco, Gorton, the Green Solutions Club and part-time faculty member Russ Weis are working to create 6 x 8 beds that could be shared among interested households and to redo the whole garden space, including a former labyrinth (meditation walk) that is now overgrown, says Turco. n Marilyn Tagliavia New Forestry Plan Under Way Recognizing that managing our woodlands opens up wildlife habitat, provides watershed protection and enables the college to generate revenue through the sale of timber, JSC implemented a new forestmanagement strategy as the spring 2015 semester began. The goal is to selectively harvest mature and over-mature trees, which stimulates regeneration. Following conversations with key users those who use the campus woods for cross-country running, disc golf and the ropes course staff marked trees for harvesting and solicited bids for the work in the fall. Harvesting began during the winter, when frigid temperatures provided a protective frozen base. Lamoille County Forester Raymond Toolan, who works in the Forest Resource Management Division of the Vermont Department of Forest, Parks & Recreation, has been chosen to oversee and guide the process. n Sharron Scott Melissa Weinstein 6 Johnson views 2014/2015

9 around the rock Campus Disc Golf Course Improvements Ahead By the time fall 2015 rolls around, JSC community members can look forward to some major changes to the campus disc golf course. Graduate students Thomas Brace and Ross King and their friend Travis Connolly have banded together to bring a new look and layout for disc golf players. The overall project will consist of new tee boxes on every hole, new tee signs for every hole, signage throughout the course, some new bridges over some of the water areas, and a new welcome sign, explains Brace. There will also be a little check-in station with a sign-in book and some rules, and some general safety improvements because of fallen and leaning trees. Brace, King and Connolly started putting their ideas together for the course about a year ago. We like the sport so much that we wanted to improve the course for everybody by relocating some baskets and making other improvements, says Brace. Moving CREEK SWAMP CREEK WATER TOWER ROAD VAC PARKING RULES SIGN a basket can almost make it a whole new course, he adds. It gives it a new look and a more competitive feel, and it avoids concerns about throwing discs across paths where people were walking. The trio conducted the upgrades in such a way that the course was able to remain open. They worked when fewer people were on the course and moved baskets to their new places one by one, repositioning them immediately so that no hole would be unavailable for long. Funding for this project was provided by Healthy Lamoille Valley, an organization that focuses on healthy lifestyles, including limiting alcohol and drug use. Tee signs will help to deliver the messaging Healthy Lamoille Valley wants to promote. The messaging focuses on things that promote a positive, healthy lifestyle, says Brace. Just friendly, positive messages reminding people to not litter, to have a MINAERT FIELDS ADVANCED TEE BEGINNER TEE (NOT ALL HOLES HAVE BEGINNER TEES) COLLEGE APARTMENTS CAMPUS ENTRANCE healthy and safe day and enjoy the course, to respect others while they re out there. Each tee sign will have a description of the hole with a map and the phrase on the bottom, he explains. When the last traces of snow were gone, Brace, King and Connolly cleared out broken trees and invited the community to pitch in. They plan to host a tournament after the work is completed to promote the new course and additions. It s been a really exciting project and I m really happy to be a part of it, says Brace. A lot of work has gone into it and will continue going into it. We re always looking for help and feedback, he adds, inviting anyone who wants more information to [email protected]. n Marilyn Tagliavia Departments Team Up to Improve Student Services After a year of planning, the offices of the Register and Academic Advising were combined in Dewey Hall this year, following a model in place at many colleges that partners the two offices in order to better help students plan and successfully complete their degree requirements. Registrar Doug Eastman and Director of Advising Sara Kinerson proposed the collaboration after considering the many ways that student records, before they become completed documents, are evolving plans that need regular attention and that students rely on advising from faculty and Advising Center staff as they move toward program completion. In another move aimed at improving services for students, the former Business and Financial Aid offices have merged into a new department called Student Financial Services. The move provides one-stop service for students and families with questions about matters related to bills and payments. As a result of these changes, several other offices on campus relocated as well. For example, Information Technology Services, previously located in the lower level of Senators, now occupies the former Registrar s space in Martinetti Hall, and the Office of Development & Alumni Relations is now fully accessible and located just down the hall from its previous space in Martinetti. n Johnson views 2014/2015 7

10 around the rock A New Website for JSC After more than two years of research and development, JSC unveiled a revamped website during the summer of The look and feel of the mobile-friendly site is designed to both better reflect JSC s vibrant community and increase user engagement. Feedback from the site s primary audience prospective students and their families has been overwhelmingly positive, with users citing the clean look of the site and easy-to-understand site navigation as the most impressive features. The homepage provides a place to highlight students and alumni as well as clear paths to top level information. With hand-drawn -style graphics that are echoed throughout the site, it relays to users that Johnson State is a welcoming community where students can be themselves and feel at home. Below that main graphic, users find three columns. Is JSC Right for You? takes users to a microsite that explores our purpose, our place and our people ; Finish Your Degree links users to information about the External Degree Program; and Information for: links to information sought by key audiences. The site was designed by NewCity Media, which was chosen after a competitive bid process. Feedback from JSC students, faculty and staff, as well as current best practices in web design and user engagement, guided the process. We set out not only to make it easier for users to find the information they wanted, but to make the site cleaner and less cluttered so it would function as well on a smartphone or tablet as it does on a desktop, explains Melissa Weinstein, JSC web and digital communications manager. We want to be sure that no matter what device a potential student is using to research a college and at this point, it could be anything from a desktop to a watch they have the best experience possible. A quick links section at the top of the homepage, just above the search bar, opens to reveal links to frequently sought content, further reducing content on the homepage itself. Key landing pages throughout the site have been similarly streamlined. In addition, a new Planned Giving Guide at walks visitors through the steps of leaving a planned gift to JSC, complete with a benefits calculator for specific types and amounts of gifts. And on every page is a footer with the JSC address and phone number, social media links, and the all-important Support JSC button, which links to a page where users can make a secure online gift. More work remains to be done and will always remain to be done but the new site is light years ahead of its previous incarnation. As Weinstein puts it, Websites are works in progress they re never finished. We d love your feedback. Please send an to [email protected] with your thoughts. JSC: Military Friendly & Affordable Johnson State College has been designated both a Military Friendly School in recognition of the college s commitment to student veterans and an Affordable Small College in recognition of the number of students and tuition cost at JSC. The military friendly certification was bestowed by Victory Media, a veteran-owned business that assesses colleges on their programs and services for veterans and bestows the designation at no cost. JSC has taken several steps in recent years to enhance services to students who are veterans. In 2013, the College received a $10,000 innovations and collaborations grant from the Vermont Community Foundation to expand programs for veterans and their families. At that time JSC began serving as an outpost of the South Burlington Vet Center, providing counseling and information on veterans benefits on Fridays to students and area residents who otherwise would have to travel to Burlington or White River Junction. The following year, JSC established a Veterans Center in Dewey Hall and started offering a course called The Military Experience: To War and Back. In addition, recently JSC was named one of the Top 100 Most Affordable Small Colleges in America by BestValueSchools.com. The website notes that the College is ideal for students who love the outdoors but don t want to feel isolated from the real world and acknowledges the College s strong campus community, small classes, modern facilities and student involvement in athletics and extracurricular activities. The only other Vermont colleges to make the list were JSC s two sister colleges, Castleton and Lyndon. All three are part of the Vermont State College system and the only VSC institutions that award degrees at the both the baccalaureate and graduate levels. n 8 Johnson views 2014/2015

11 Photo: Elaine Harvey In the spring of 2014, as JSC was strategizing on ways to reduce expenses, one of the items put on the table was closing the pool in the SHAPE Center something no one wanted to happen, but which nonetheless was a possibility due to repeated failures of the system that heats the pool and controls humidity. The system had outlived its projected 25-year lifespan, and the price tag to replace it upwards of $400,000 was out of reach, even though in recent years the college had spent $60,000 to $70,000 for repairs on top of the annual $80,000 just to run it. By the time the fall 2014 semester began, administrators agreed to keep the pool open through the end of the semester, but the future was uncertain at best. With an outpouring of concern from local residents that the pool might close, the college formed a committee of college and community members to explore ways to keep the pool open. A long-term loan for energy-efficiency improvements from the Vermont State Colleges ended up being the solution, and plans were made to install the new system over winter break. As luck would have it and to no one s surprise at SHAPE the system broke down yet again, forcing the pool to close in November. It took longer than expected for the new system to arrive, but eventually it was delivered and installed in late February The pool reopened the following month with great fanfare and a new, energy-efficient heating and ventilation system. The College celebrated by hosting a Saturday open house for local residents that Scenes from the March 2015 Open House drew more than Photo: Barb Flathers 60 adults and children for a free day of swimming and related activities. And so the JSC pool lives on, now with a more efficient heating and dehumidification system that will save the college about $20,000 per year. While relatively few students, faculty and staff use the pool on a regular basis, it is used for some Outdoor Education classes, and it hosts swim lessons, physical therapy, water aerobics classes and other activities frequented by community members. n around the rock SHAPE Pool Gets a New Lease on Life Photo: Kali Covell/Forrest Mattern JSC Casino Night Wins Big for United Way of Lamoille County Margo Warden deals the cards at JSC s 38th annual Casino Night in March. One of the College s longest-running traditions, Casino Night is sponsored by JSC s Student Government Association and supports the United Way of Lamoille County. This year s event attracted more than 100 students and community members, many of whom dressed to the nines for the Hollywood theme, and raised more than $800 for the organization. Johnson views 2014/2015 9

12 feature title The Legacy of Barbara E. Murphy 14 Years as President of Johnson State College 32 Years with the Vermont State Colleges 2001 Barbara E. Murphy is inaugurated as the 12 th president of JSC. Number of online courses offered through the External Degree Program doubles. The first technologyenhanced classrooms are established on campus. 10 Johnson views 2014/2015

13 feature a lasting impression What President Barbara Murphy will miss most about JSC besides the views and the outdoors and the ever-present energy on campus where something is always happening is the stimulation of being part of a culture in which teaching and learning are the primary purpose. She will miss the creative projects and research of faculty and conversations with them about their work, the thoughtful ideas of staff committed to trying out new strategies for students to thrive. Especially, she will miss the faith and energy of students. They trust us with their futures, she said, and are lending us their hopes and dreams for a while. That is huge. The students will miss her, too. Senior Nick Nadeau, from nearby Fairfax, first met President Murphy when he was college-shopping and came to Johnson. During a tour of campus, the group encountered her in Martinetti Hall. She talked with me for about five minutes, asking a lot of questions about my interests, he recalls. It made a big impression on him at no other college had he even met the president and in fact tipped the scales in his decision to attend JSC. She s really involved in the community I see her everywhere, from varsity athletics on campus to the local market in town where I work. She seems genuinely interested in what s happening in my life, even beyond how things are going for me at JSC, he says, adding that college was a longshot for him because he grew up in a foster family. It matters to him, he says, that the president puts students first and has an open door. It s a common theme echoed by many, including David Bergh, dean of student life and college relations, who s worked side by side with Barbara during her entire tenure at JSC. She puts a priority on being approachable and visible on campus, and she takes great interest in students as people, he says. She s always curious to know how Barbara has been exceptional at engaging people in creative thinking around how we can better serve our students. She s been very supportive of new ideas and initiatives. Sara Kinerson Director of Advising 2002 JSC partners with the Community College of Vermont to bring the External Degree Program to all CCV academic centers in the state. JSC workforce-education opportunities expand throughout the state, including degree programs at Rutland Regional Health Center and Washington County Mental Health Services. JSC joins forces with Copley Health Systems to support the Lamoille Valley Tobacco Task Force. Implementation of Colleague, the new student-information system for the Vermont State Colleges, begins The Fund for Johnson State College is established. Students travel to Nicaragua for a service-learning project in conjunction with Burlington s Sister City program in Puerto Cabezas. Campus computing facilities expand, and McClelland Hall receives a new laboratory. JSC creates a long-range plan to address deferred maintenance in residence halls and the College Apartments Initial courses are developed for the new First-Year Experience program. As learning technologies grow, the campus computer network gets a substantial upgrade. JSC endowment continues to grow, now approaching $1 million. JSC students partner with Clear Path International and travel to Vietnam to help landmine survivors. Johnson views 2014/

14 feature title I think Barbara s greatest legacy will be the transformation of Johnson s small External Degree Program into something dynamic. EDP has reached to the far edges of the state, seen extraordinary growth and made a college degree much more accessible for Vermonters. Tyrone Shaw Professor of Writing & Literature Ribbon cutting at the renovated Bentley Hall with senior Ryan Joy and Professor Liz Dolci; opposite page: the new chemistry lab on the second floor students are being served, and she s very responsive to their needs and interests. In the space of her 14 years at JSC, Barbara has transformed JSC in a number of significant ways. She is proudest overall, she says, of helping to create a climate that values access and supports the belief that every student has a right not just to attend college, but to succeed in college, surrounded by staff and faculty with high standards to reinforce the notion that excellence is within reach. The essential Barbara Murphy philosophy about higher education is this: Make it available, meaningful, and worth it. Being a college president means you are involved every day in a complex work in progress, she says. The job is never done, although many milestones signal important achievements. Points of Pride Many on campus point to the renovation of facilities in serious need of improvements as one of Barbara s greatest accomplishments: Stearns Student Center, the SHAPE Center, the Visual Arts Center, the Bentley Hall science building, the bookstore and classrooms in Dewey Hall, the new dance studio and student lounge in McClelland Hall all have been brought into the 21 st century since Barbara became president in Sharron Scott, dean of administration, credits her with $12 million in campus improvements over the past decade. She was instrumental in getting the funding and deciding where improvements would be made, basing those decisions on academic programs and students interests, she says. She didn t just look at the immediate needs; she looked at what could be, in the future. She saw the potential in academic quality. These improvements have enhanced academic programs as well as campus aesthetics and student pride, she notes. Another of Barbara s proudest achievements is her role in fostering the creation and work of JSC s First-Year Experience program and its wraparound focus on the wellbeing of students during their first year. This grant-funded initiative is a model for welcoming and engaging new students by involving them in the campus community. Drawing on the wide-ranging talents of faculty members to create a series of seminars for first-year students, it includes a common book, extensive programming tied to the book theme, and focused academic and servicelearning opportunities. It s a program that has transformed the experience for incoming students by providing programs and resources that support their success, says Margo Warden, director of the program. Among other things, it s helped increase first- to second-year retention, she notes. Barbara s been a best friend to undergraduate research at JSC. Her vocal and financial support has allowed over a dozen psychology students to present research and represent JSC all over the country. As a direct result, most have embarked on graduate educations. In raising the visibility of and celebrating research activity, she s helped to highlight scientific inquiry as the foundation of the social and life sciences. Dr. Gina Mireault Professor of Psychology 2005 JSC is awarded a $1.8 million Title III/Institution Strengthening Grant. The College creates a dedicated Office of First-Year Experience. JSC is issued full reaccreditation by the New England Association of Schools & Colleges. The Lamoille County Housing Summit, sponsored by JSC, explores long-term solutions to local housing issues. Among the Vermont State Colleges four campusbased institutions, JSC educates the largest number of Vermonters (77% of the undergraduate population) A JSC planning group creates an action plan in six areas identified as crucial to success of first-year students. JSC is one of five baccalaureate colleges in Vermont to collaborate with the University of Vermont in the Vermont Genetics Network, funded by the National Center for Research Resources and the National Institutes of Health. The College completes its first Facilities Master Plan. Enrollment in JSC s External Degree Program surpasses 500 students, an all-time high. A women s center is established on campus.

15 feature a lasting impression Before I arrived in 2002, Barbara told me she was a diehard liberal arts president who values applied knowledge but firmly believes that a good liberal arts education is excellent preparation for the flexibility, resiliency and problem-solving the real world of work requires. More than a decade later, I appreciate her unceasing support for these values in a climate not always friendly to them. Dan Regan Academic Dean Shortly after arriving on campus in 2001, Barbara established the President s Fund for Excellence in Teaching & Learning to encourage and support learning opportunities for students and faculty outside the classroom. This donor-supported fund supports worthy projects large and small, including student travel for unique experiences that otherwise would be out of reach. Last year it sent members of JSC s new Model U.N. Club to Boston for a weekend competition at Harvard. It s been used to send a music student to an out-of-state conducting seminar, to finance art students museum and gallery trips, to send students to a national conference on service and civic engagement. Launched in 2001, the Presidents Fund has awarded more than $300,000 to date. Celebrating the successes and contributions of JSC alumni is important to Barbara, and she will be remembered for highlighting their accomplishments through an annual awards ceremony and other programs that bring alums to campus. The Willey Library Learning Center named in honor of alumnus Richard Willey ( 71) and his wife, Rosalind, who made a $1 million gift to the college in 2010 is an example of what strong alumni relationships can mean. Another point of pride for Richard Willey & Rosalind Weiss Barbara is creating a climate that attracts and welcomes a student population that more closely mirrors the face of the nation. The number of minority students has doubled over the past 11 years, and JSC is known as a school that embraces different cultures, beliefs and lifestyles. We all feel really good about that, she says. Support for Science Dr. Elizabeth Dolci, JSC professor of biology, is especially grateful for Barbara s advocacy of faculty-mentored undergraduate research. Her support has been essential to the dynamic state of the sciences here, she says. Barbara has been a strong proponent of our involvement with the Vermont Genetics Network and Vermont EPSCoR, making JSC competitive at the national level for scienceprogram and research funds. It s significantly enhanced professional academic achievement at JSC, she adds. Of special note is the financial support Barbara has provided directly to students to conduct genuine research, attend professional conferences with JSC faculty and present research there, Dolci adds. These experiences have been truly transformative for our students. Indeed, students who conduct serious research during their time at JSC leave college with credentials above and beyond an academic degree. This is the tangible value of the nationally recognized science program now in place at JSC one that attracted the attention of the National Science Foundation, which awarded the College more than $500,000 in 2010 to provide scholarships to promising science students at JSC. To date, 12 students have been awarded these START Scholarships, which provide up to $10,000 a year over four years at JSC. The goal of the START initiative Barbara s been a tremendous supporter of the sciences at JSC. She uses her President s Fund to support our research and empower our students, sending them with faculty around the world to attend and present at professional conferences. Dr. Leslie Kanat Professor, Environmental & Health Sciences Dept., and Coordinator, START Science Scholarship With Barbara s support, Johnson is at the forefront of the Vermont State College system in developing and sustaining a culture of research that focuses on the education of our undergraduates and promotes the scholarly activity of our faculty. Dr. Liz Dolci Professor & Chair, Environmental & Health Sciences Department 2007 Ishmael Beah s A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier launches the College s new Common Reading Initiative. Governor James Douglas attends JSC s first annual Extended Classroom Experiences Showcase. Service-learning opportunities take students to Maine, New Hampshire, South Dakota, New York City, Utah and Tanzania Cutting the ribbon to Stearns with student Toni Little The academic year begins with 32 first-year seminars in place for incoming students. A newly renovated Stearns Hall opens as the Stearns Student Center, with a refurbished dining hall, performance space, and facilities and meeting spaces for students and clubs. With the support of two $40,000 workforcedevelopment grants, the College provides workshops for regional environmental workers and entry-level professionals in the nonprofit sector. Senator Patrick Leahy delivers the College s 141st Commencement address. Johnson views 2014/

16 feature a lasting impression Barbara changed the landscape and the culture at JSC for the better with regard to non-traditional learners. She encouraged everyone to treat nontraditional learners, on and off campus, as an integral part of the College. There s been a change of attitude and practices in many departments that is a direct result of her leadership. David Cavanagh Advisor & Faculty Member, External Degree Program She transformed JSC by helping to create a climate that values and supports student success. Gains in student retention are but one result. Dan Regan Academic Dean The Common Reading Initiative Barbara brought to JSC not only makes for an exciting start of the academic year, it s created extended programming that reinforces the College s belief in the importance of interdisciplinary thinking. Joe Farara Faculty Librarian is to prepare students for graduate school and future employment by providing realistic, relevant, supportive and challenging research and learning opportunities. Sophomore Shayna Bennett of Belvidere, Vt., an environmental science major at JSC, is one beneficiary. She planned to be a writer until she experienced working in a laboratory while taking college science courses as a high school student through Vermont s dual enrollment program. Today she s involved in research at JSC and is an active member of the JSC Lab Rats, an informal group of science faculty and students who meet regularly to chat about their work and build connections. Bennett points out that President Murphy is a big supporter of the STARTers and Lab Rat students. Last fall we were guests at her house for dinner. She wanted to meet us and learn more about what we were doing, she recalls. A Collaborative Style Barbara is praised by many faculty for her strong yet collaborative leadership on campus, as Tyrone Shaw Barbara leads JSC staff members in the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge on the steps of SHAPE in August puts it. I have been repeatedly struck by her deep commitment to our faculty and to the college, which remains undiminished even as she approaches her last commencement, adds the professor of writing and literature, who refers to the president as both a respected colleague and a friend. Fine Arts Professor Ken Leslie, who has taught painting, drawing and all sorts of other things at JSC since 1984, concurs. It hasn t been easy over the past five years because of changing demographics, which translates to a tighter budget, but rather than respond by cutting back on the arts, Barbara found funds to renovate the Visual Arts Center and enhance its prominence on campus, he says. She understood that the myth of the starving artist is just a myth. With Barbara s support, the college created a new B.F.A. degree in media arts and strengthened its collaborative connection with the town s thriving Vermont Studio Center as way to enhance the college s M.F.A. program. Enrollment in art has grown because she is a big believer in the arts for everyone, not just for art majors, Leslie notes Creative Audience program for first-year students debuts, bringing to campus a variety of programming tied to the year s common book. Fulbright scholar Zaharom Nain of Malaysia completes a five-week residency at JSC through the Fulbright s Direct Access to the Muslim World program. Major renovations to the SHAPE Athletics & Fitness Center are completed. The building is now fully accessible and includes a lab for exercise-physiology research. A steering committee of faculty and staff identifies six priority areas for a new JSC strategic plan, placing academic challenge and student achievement and early and ongoing student success at top of the list Johnson views 2014/2015

17 Looking Ahead New England faces some tough demographics, Barbara notes, presenting the next president of Johnson State College with different challenges. The population of traditional-age students is falling, Vermont s high school graduates do not proceed directly to college in strong numbers, and Vermont has steadily reduced funding for public higher education. College costs exceed the reach of feature a lasting impression many, leading to a serious imbalance in who goes to college. She calls the current patterns of college attainment deeply disturbing. A recent study by the Pell Institute showed among 24-year-olds who have attained an undergraduate degree, 77 percent came from families with incomes in the top quartile, and only 9 percent from families in the bottom quartile. Without a very conscious The College has greatly strengthened and improved our relationship with the regional community during Barbara s tenure. David Bergh Dean of Student Life & College Relations by Leila Bandar Art is an act of courage because self-expression is an act of courage. It takes leadership and vision to celebrate, embrace and nurture these acts of courage and no one has exemplified these traits more than Barbara Murphy, whose work to restore and reclaim the arts on campus will be one of her lasting legacies. It began in 2004 with the installation of track lighting in the Julian Scott Memorial Gallery. That same year, she renovated the Sundial sculpture by Kate Pond in the center of campus. In 2006, she accepted a gift from Won Lee, one of our M.F.A. alumni, of his 7-foot-tall cast bronze sculpture The Meditators, which sits atop a block of Barre granite overlooking College Hill. In 2009, she hosted the work of sculptor Cestmir Suska, which inspired the creation of a campus sculpture garden featuring some of his work. Three years later, learning of JSC s and Barbara s commitment to the visual arts on campus, Dr. Carolann and George Najarian chose to donate to us a trio of magnificent sculptures by Judith Brown. And just last year, Barbara accepted from sculptor Susie Cronin the whimsical A Matter of Balance, which now overlooks the softball diamond outside the Visual Arts Center. All the while she has supported numerous indoor art installations as well, transforming unused walls into galleries in buildings throughout campus. More than any one of these acts, Barbara has done something greater than the sum of its parts: She has restored the sense of wonder, awe and delight for art and the power of art on campus. Students have told me that seeing the art on campus allowed them to feel comfortable being themselves and to think creatively, work individually and do things their own way. The new architecture of our campus, the continuous renovations of campus buildings and the ongoing landscape work on campus grounds all are part of this celebration of visual language, part of Barbara s legacy at JSC. In Clockwise from above: Won Lee with his sculpture The Meditators ; Susie Cronin with her A Matter of Balance ; The Aegean Trio by Judith Brown; Kate Pond s sundial hosts a student gathering during fall orientation. addition to being a community of academics, scholars and researchers, we are a community of risk-takers who honor selfexpression and hard work, each of us like a color in the color wheel: scientists, artists, writers, historians, journalists, mathematicians, teachers, counselors, thespians, musicians and outdoor educators. Together, a community. n Leila Bandar is the coordinator of arts on campus and an advisor in the Office of Academic Support Services. Bentley Hall Phase One renovations are completed, adding state-of-theart research labs and equipment for molecular biology, Earth science, water-quality analysis and more to the campus science building. Media Arts Research Studio ( MARS Lab ) is installed in the Library & Learning Center, with 36 Mac stations to support JSC s new B.F.A. in Media Arts. With the installation of the Alumni Clock & Bell Tower on the campus quad, made possible by gifts from JSC alumni, the College launches the Increase Our Base campaign JSC receives its first milliondollar gift, in the form of a bequest from alumnus Richard Willey, class of 1971, and his wife, Rosalind Weiss (above). The Library & Learning Center is named in their honor. The College approves a new pre-medical concentration in biology to start in 2012, preparing students for graduate study in medicine. The new JSC Success Scholarship attracts new out-of-state students. The JSC institutional logo gets an update as the first phase of a College rebranding campaign. Athletics launches a new website. Johnson views 2014/

18 Barbara changed the landscape and culture at JSC for the better with regard to non-traditional learners, who are now considered an integral part of the College. It has required a change of attitude and practices in many departments, which is a direct result of her leadership. David Cavanagh, Advisor & Faculty, External Degree Program JSC hosted a retirement celebration Barbara cheers on the home team at a cross country meet. for Barbara in late April. One of the highlights was a video produced by Eric Kirk featuring several alumni, students, faculty and staff. You can watch it at: strategy and commitment to closing this gap, she worries about our core commitments to equal opportunity. College is a more complex place now than 32 years ago, when Barbara began her career in higher education at the Community College of Vermont and later became president. There are increased expectations and requirements for our financial and social environments, and while these obligations are often rooted in concerns about important issues, compliance to meet them and report about them comes without funding, she says. In addition, she notes, Public scrutiny of colleges, course content and even the price of textbooks has increased, particularly over the past 10 years, putting new demands on resources. So what happens after the 30th of June, Barbara s last day as JSC president? She certainly won t be drifting off into the sunset. She has a home to return to in Burlington, close to extended family, and some direction in mind: writing, seeing friends more often, traveling. Her health is good and she s energetic, so more hiking and biking and being out in nature are in her future too. She likes the idea of hiking the Camino de Santiago a network of classical pilgrimages through the Pyrenees or accompanying a friend who worked in East Africa on a trip she s organizing to Ethiopia. She also has a second manuscript in the works. And she s not ruling out further work. More focused work, paid or volunteer, remains an open question, she says. With more time to read for pleasure, she intends to finish The Neapolitan Trilogy, by Italian novelist Elena Ferrante, having read only the first book that explores a friendship between two girls growing up poor in Naples in the 1950s. I need some blank space, she says, heeding the advice of recently retired friends who counsel, Don t say Yes to anything for six months. Retirement will be a work in progress for Barbara, too and it s likely to be just as innovative, creative and visible as her 14-year tenure as JSC president. n Sally Ballin, former director of JSC s Upward Bound program, is a writer and teacher in Burlington, Vt. Barbara Murphy: A Brief Biography Before assuming the JSC presidency in 2001, Barbara Murphy worked for 18 years at the Community College of Vermont, starting as an academic advisor, advancing to academic dean and then becoming president for six years. Her career has been dedicated to education in many ways as a VISTA volunteer in the mid-70s directing the Vermont renter-rebate program, as director of after-school programs at the YMCA, and as part of a research team investigating outcomes for low birth-weight babies. The organization Vermont Works for Women honored her in its 2012 Labor of Love campaign, noting that Barbara was one of the first to drive home the point that students did not have a right to fail but had instead a right to succeed. This is not a subtle point. The first in her family to earn a college degree, Barbara earned a B.A. in English from The Catholic University, an M.S. in community development from Southern Illinois University, and an M.F.A. in writing from Warren Wilson College. Her poetry has been published in several journals, and a book of her poems, Almost Too Much, was published by Cervena Barva Press in April Barbara received the Jackie Gribbons Leadership Award from Vermont Women in Higher Education in 1994 and has remained active in educational, civic and nonprofit organizations throughout her career. She s chaired or participated on college-accreditation teams, spoken at local and regional conferences, and served on the boards of numerous organizations, including the national Council for Adult & Experiential Learning, River Arts (Morrisville), the Vermont Hunger Council, the Vermont Alliance for Non-Profit Organizations, the Lamoille County Planning Commission, Vermont CARES and others. n Photo: Mary Claire Carroll 2012 $552,000 National Science Foundation grant launches the START Science Scholarship at JSC, awarding up to $10,000/ year for academically strong students majoring in biology and environmental science. A renovated and expanded Visual Arts Center opens, marking the addition of space on campus since Features include new galleries and studios for printmaking, photography, sculpture, ceramics, painting and drawing, media arts, woodworking and more. Athletics receives multiple NCAA grants to support additional staffing and educational programs for JSC student-athletes. JSC receives $1.4 million, to be held in trust, from the estate of longtime friend and supporter Prescott Stearns. JSC s hosts the first annual Performing Arts Festival for Vermont high school students Johnson views 2014/2015

19 feature a lasting impression Announcing the Barbara E. Murphy Fellowship Supporting adventurers in residence Johnson State College has established the Barbara E. Murphy Fellowship in honor of President Murphy s tenure. The fellowship will support visiting scholars, artists and adventurers in residence, as Barbara refers to innovators who are passionate about their work and excel in their field or are making a difference in the world. Barbara s dream is to expose students in every major to a visiting fellow who expands their worldview and inspires them to envision new possibilities. Gifts in Barbara s honor also may be directed to the President s Fund for Excellence in Teaching & Learning, which Barbara established shortly after her arrival at JSC. The President s Fund supports unique academic opportunities for students and faculty, including attendance at professional conferences and cultural immersion in foreign lands, and to date has awarded more than $300,000 to JSC students, faculty and staff. (For highlights of recent grants, see page 42.) Gifts to either or both initiatives may be made using the enclosed envelope or by contributing online at JSC s External Degree Program, now offering seven majors statewide, receives Vermont s State Merit Award from the New England Board of Higher Education and graduates its 3,000 th student. Renovations to McClelland Hall bring a refurbished dance studio and new student lounge to one of the oldest buildings on campus. Supported by a grant from the Vermont Community Foundation, JSC brings counseling services to area veterans in collaboration with the S. Burlington Vet Center. JSC partners with Vermont Public Television to bring Community Cinema documentaries and panel discussions to Lamoille County. Athletics launches new logo, replacing our cuddlier Badger with a fiercer, badder Boris Fall brings six new full-time faculty members to JSC in behavioral sciences, education, fine arts, music, and writing and literature. New academic programs: Health & Sport Psychology, Sport Management, Pre-Physical Therapy. Twenty high school seniors enroll at JSC via Vermont s new Early College program. President s Fund for Excellence in Teaching & Learning tops $500,000 thanks to a generous gift from Peter and Evelyn Fuss. JSC varsity women s lacrosse plays its first season. JSC partners with the Community College of Vermont and Vermont Law School to create the Pathways to Law & Policy program. Eligible JSC grads may pursue graduate study at VLS supported by a $15,000 annual scholarship. A Veterans Center is established in Dewey Hall. Johnson views 2014/

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21 feature the art of beer Matt Nadeau, JSC grad and Rock Art microbrewery pioneer, helped spark a Vermont craft brew revolution. Since the first days of Rock Art, other Johnson alums have followed in his footsteps, adding their own twist to the movement and creating a community of creative brewers. Story by Meredith Woodward King Photos by Glenn Callahan Matt remembers the old days in Vermont, when Budweiser and Miller dominated the beer market. If you wanted something even remotely different and a lot stronger, you drove to Montreal. If you wanted something high-quality, you drank Catamount from Vermont s first microbrewery. I used to love going to Canada for some Brador s or Molson Export Red Label or O Keefe s, recalls the Vermont native and 1989 JSC business graduate. In restaurants, I was always the one getting different beers and trying something besides the typical [Anheuser-Busch] or Miller. But it wasn t until he lived and worked in Colorado that he really began to appreciate craft beer. He landed there with his girlfriend, fellow JSC alum Renée Brunault, after they graduated in They watched Breckenridge Brewery & Pub being built, tank by tank. Soon, hanging out with friends at the pub, especially after a grueling mountain bike race, became a part of their life. When they moved back to Vermont in 1994 to marry and buy a house in Johnson, Matt couldn t wait to start brewing his own beer. I started out with extract and yeast packets, and I started reading every book on home brewing I could and really getting into it. I was propagating yeast in test tubes and building my own home-brew equipment, he says. I love to cook. I like a little bit of science, and this was a hobby that was really hands-on. And at the end, you had a great beer. Matt s hobby evolved into a home-brew supply business and, in 1997, a brewery, operating out of the Nadeaus basement. They named it Rock Art for the Kokopelli petroglyph images they had seen in Colorado. In 2001, they moved to an industrial building in Morrisville. Outgrowing that, they built a 13,300-square-foot brewery, tasting room and store nearby on Laporte Road/Route 100. It opened in Rock Art now produces almost 3,200 barrels of more than 20 types of beer. An Explosion of Vermont Breweries The Nadeaus success parallels the growth of Vermont s microbreweries. In 1986, when Matt was a sophomore at JSC, The New York Times called Catamount Brewing Co. Vermont s first boutique brewery. It was one of only seven on the East Coast and 80 in all of North America. By the time the Nadeaus started Rock Art a decade later, it was one of about 20 microbreweries in Vermont. Now there are about 40, with at least 10 having opened last year and more are in the works, according to Kurt Staudter, executive director of the Vermont Brewers Association. (Catamount is no longer one of them, however; it was bought out by Harpoon and eventually discontinued.) In 2014, we saw a record number of breweries opening up in a single year, and I m envisioning a continual, steady growth, Staudter says. Have we hit the saturation point? I don t think we ve even come close. Vermont has gained a reputation as a craft-beer lover s nirvana. The Green Mountain State is ranked No. 1 by the national Brewers Association for gallons of beer brewed per adult and No. 2 for craft breweries per capita. Recently, 10 Vermont beers were ranked in the top 50 on beeradvocate. com, and Rachel Maddow of MSNBC declared Vermont and western Photo courtesy of Rock Art Clockwise from opposite page: Matt Nadeau at the Rock Art tasting room in Morrisville; Nadeau at the first Rock Art brewery location in Johnson; Lost Nation owners Allen Van Anda (left) and Jamie Griffith; and Mike Gerhart, brewmaster for Otter Creek. Johnson views 2014/

22 feature the art of beer part of tourism in the state, says Cook, who graduated from JSC in 2003 with a degree in hospitality and tourism management. Craft beer fits very nicely into the strong Vermont brand for quality food and merchandise. Craft brewers and consumers value quality over quantity, and local over anything that smacks of a global conglomerate. Inside and outside Vermont, they are having an impact. Big beer has taken notice and is getting a little defensive, as demonstrated by Budweiser s 2015 Super Bowl commercial mocking craft-beer drinkers. The Wall Street Journal recently reported that more people now drink craft beer than Bud. There s a whole generation of 20-somethings who have never known anything but craft beer. Sitting and enjoying a bottle of [Natural Lite] has never crossed their minds, Staudter concurs, adding, Forty percent of beer drinkers in their 20s have never had a mass-produced beer produced by the macro breweries. Matt and Renée Nadeau on the floor of the Rock Art Brewing Company. Massachusetts the center of the beer universe. In 2014, the 8,400 tickets to the Vermont Brewers Festival, held in Burlington each July, sold out in just 11 minutes. The Vermont Department of Tourism & Marketing partners with breweries on promotions and special events such as the Brewers Festival, according to JSC alum Steven Cook, the department s deputy commissioner. Breweries are making all kinds of impacts on Vermont s economy, from retail to restaurants and bars. They re a key JSC Alums Play a Prominent Role The Nadeaus are not the only Johnson State grads deeply involved in Vermont s beer revolution. Over the years, they ve employed a number of JSC students and alumni; at the time of this writing, JSC graduates Brian Coon (class of 2009), Luke Gellaty (class of 2014) and Melissa Rixon (class of 2014) were all working at Rock Art. In addition, the Nadeaus have welcomed other fellow alums into the ever-expanding community of brewers in the Green Mountain State. About two years ago, Allen Van Anda, class of 2002, opened Lost Nation Brewing with his friend and business partner, Jamie Griffith, in Rock Art s former Morrisville location. Both are married to JSC graduates: Van Anda to Breanna Hart, class of 2002, and Griffith to Jennie Grove, class of Beer Basics What are all those new craft beers on tap? Most of them fall into two broad categories: ale or lager. The difference is the yeast. For ale, the yeast is fermented at the top of the fermentation vessel, usually at 60 to 75 degrees. For lager, yeast is fermented at the bottom, using cooler temperatures (around 34 degrees) and resulting in slower fermentation. Beyond yeast and water, brewers generally use these key ingredients in both ales and lagers: Malts: A staple of beer, malt is made from grain, most commonly barley. In a process called malting, grains are soaked in water to germinate, then dried, to release the simpler sugars; further toasting or roasting creates deeper colors and aromas. Malts also can be crystalized, resulting in beers with sweeter, caramel-like flavors. Besides barley malt, brewers might use malt made from wheat, rye or oats or incorporate grains that have not been malted. Steeping malts and grains in water, and then introducing yeast, leads to fermentation and alcohol. Depending on the style of beer they re making, brewers

23 Down in Middlebury, Mike Gerhart, a 2000 JSC graduate, has worked as brewmaster for Otter Creek Brewing Co. since He s also responsible for brewing Wolaver s and The Shed, both part of Otter Creek s line. The JSC brewers have known each other for years and, at times, have worked together. We have a symbiotic relationship, Van Anda says of the Nadeaus, his one-time employers. We try to support each other and raise the bar. During college, Van Anda worked at the now-defunct Kross Brewing in Morrisville before moving over to Rock Art. After some five years there, he took a job at Vermont Soy in Hardwick, where he met Griffith. When Van Anda was recruited to build Stowe s Trapp Lager Brewery in 2010, he hired Griffith to work alongside him. Gerhart landed at JSC in 1996 with several years of home-brewing experience under his belt. He felt fortunate to find the Nadeaus homebrew store nearby. Before I was able to make the change from home brewer to professional, I was going to Matt s house for information on recipe formulation and ingredients and supplies. Long before Vermont became famous for craft beer, he was the guy up there in Johnson with all the knowledge about making beer, Gerhart recalls. He was able to coach me along, and helped me out. It was pretty amazing to have that available considering that Johnson was off the beaten path. Photo: Otter Creek Gerhart develops and tests recipes on a 10-gallon pilot system and oversees operations and production of up to 80,000 bottles of beer a day, or 50,000 barrels a year of some 20 different brews. I ve never made a beer I didn t like, he says. feature the art of beer Putting Their JSC Degrees to Work While at JSC, Gerhart set his sights on a career in brewing. He was able to shape his liberal arts major to gain experience at Kross and then Magic Hat, which had moved to a state-of-the-art plant in South Burlington, capable of producing 70,000 barrels annually. When I left Kross for Magic Hat, Allen Van Anda took my position, he says. Craft beer was booming, and we were all in the right place at the right time. Gerhart is grateful to his JSC professors and academic adviser, who were open and receptive to what I was up to at that time. They could have easily said, You re kind of nuts, when I told them I wanted to brew beer. But they firmly embraced that and put it back on me and said, What do you want to get out of this? How do you want to do it? They allowed me to sculpt my course load and my internship in a structured manner, and allowed me to continue to work, setting me up for my next step to study brewing in Germany. When he graduated from JSC, Gerhart already had a written business plan for the brewery he hoped one day to manage. Nadeau and Van Anda also have drawn on their JSC educations to build their business plans and steer the growth of their breweries. I took political science with Bill Doyle, and that really put a down-to-earth face to a Vermont senator, Nadeau recalls. When you re younger, you can be intimidated. Photo: D. Bouton Breweries are making all kinds of impacts on Vermont s economy, from retail to restaurants and bars. They re a key part of tourism in the state, says Steve Cook, JSC class of 2002, deputy commissioner of the Vermont Department of Tourism & Marketing. might buy malts from the United States, Canada or even as far away as Germany, Britain and Belgium. Hops: The distinctive cone-like flowers from the trailing Humulus lupulus plant are added to malt and water during boiling that is, before fermentation. Hops lend bitterness, helping offset the sweetness of malts. In dryhopping, which creates an even more hoppy flavor, the flowers are added during or after fermentation. There are more than 80 varieties of hops, with names like Amarillo, Cascade, Centennial, Chinook, Citra, Galaxy and Simcoe. Brewers might use several types or just a single hop in a beer recipe. Vermont farmers currently don t grow enough hops to support all of the state s brewers. Many have developed partnerships with hop farmers, and some brewers even grow their own. But most buy hops from the Pacific Northwest, Europe and Australia. Other ingredients: To introduce complex aromas and flavors, brewers might incorporate fruits, flowers, vegetables, herbs, spruce tips or maple; some age beer in bourbon, whiskey or other spirit barrels. Johnson views 2014/

24 f e at u r e the ar t of be e r JSC Craft Brew Connections 1997 Matt and Renée Nadeau open Rock Art Brewery, later employing JSC alums and students During college at JSC, Mike Gerhart buys homebrew supplies from Matt Nadeau and works at Kross and Magic Hat These JSC brewers have started and/or had a hand in crafting beers for these Vermont labels: Mike Gerhart becomes head brewer for Otter Creek, The Shed and Wolaver s in Middlebury. 22 Johnson views 2014/2015 Because of that class, now I m quite confident to be able to talk with senators and representatives about business issues. As Lost Nation expands, Van Anda taps into his environmental science major and political science minor from JSC. I got a very well-founded degree from Johnson, he says. My professors taught me how to dig in and complete a project. It was very good for me to learn that skill set. I have a project, and I have to get it done in that time frame, and I have to get it done with these specifications. I use my degree all the time. I ve reached out to professors I ve had in business and environmental science, and they re always super supportive. Yeast Doesn t Take a Holiday Because of the experience they had gained over the years, the JSC brewers knew what to expect once they fully plunged into the beer business. Brewing might seem like a Allen Van Anda fun, carefree job, they emphasize, but it s works at Kross, actually a lot of hard work. Rock Art and Trapp Nadeau recalls the old days when Lager breweries. he did all the hard labor himself, carrying barrels and grain back and forth from the basement to the shed to the trailer. Back then, Rock Art was the only brewery in the U.S. located in an occupied home. It was backbreaking work, seven days a week, at least 12 hours a day. The last year we were there, in 2001, I brewed 800 barrels out of the basement, he says. I had to handle a bag of grain seven times to make a batch of beer. Each bag weighed 55 pounds, and each batch of beer took seven bags of grain. Rock Art now employs a staff of nine Allen Van Anda and uses state-of-the-art equipment. Renée opens Lost Nation with manages marketing and the store, where Jamie Griffith at Rock visitors can sample as many as eight beers, Art s former space in take home growlers or bottles and buy Vermont Morrisville. products. She and Matt remain committed to selling most of their beer within a 50-mile radius of Morrisville and often incorporate local ingredients, such as hops, maple syrup and spruce tips. They regularly give back to the community, making benefit beers to support causes such as Salvation Farms in Morrisville and the preservation of Journey s End swimming hole in Johnson

25 Over at Lost Nation, on any given day you can find Van Anda and Griffith busy with the many tasks needed to run a brewery, from ordering yeast and hops to cleaning equipment. It s something with which Van Anda is familiar; his work ethic was honed as a teenager, scrubbing floors and washing tanks at a New Jersey brewery. After almost two decades of toiling in breweries, however, Van Anda swore he would never open one because just handling beer is and of itself a 24-hour-a-day job. You re working with yeast, and yeast doesn t take a holiday. You re working with machines, and machines like to break down when you re not there. But brewing alongside Griffith, who shared his work ethic and commitment to making quality beer at Trapp Lager, changed his mind. I realized neither of us was able to check our work at the door and not take it home, Van Anda says. Then I wondered: Why are we putting forth this level of commitment for someone else? Why not for ourselves? And it was the best decision I ever made. Voted Vermont s Best New Brewers on ratebeer. com for 2013, Lost Nation produced 1,500 barrels of lower-alcohol beer called sessionables in 2014 and is aiming for 2,000-plus this year. Their brewpub draws tourists and locals alike for localvore meals paired with beer. Van Anda stresses that while he and Griffith enjoy what they do, it s also a business they take very seriously. It took six to seven months to write a business plan. We have a five- to 10-year plan, and we have everything mapped out. With new brews in hand, business partners Jamie Griffith (left) and Allen Van Anda look up from the tank room at Lost Nation Brewery in Morrisville. A Dream Job in Vermont Back in Middlebury, Gerhart develops and tests recipes on a 10-gallon pilot system and oversees operations and production of up to 80,000 bottles of beer a day, or 50,000 barrels a year of some 20 different brews. Several newer and hoppier Otter Creek releases feature the bushy-bearded, long-haired Gerhart, a bandana around his head. The label for Citra Mantra India Pils Lager features him levitating, in full yoga lotus position, above his orange VW bus. Overgrown American Pale Ale finds him clad in a peace shirt, hanging with his Bernese mountain dog, amid trailing hops. For years, my mom wanted me to cut my hair, and now it s making money, he jokes. Like Van Anda, Gerhart became interested in brewing at a young age. I was a pretty rambunctious kid, he says. I was off doing a lot of things I shouldn t have been doing. To keep him out of trouble, his parents bought him a brewing kit. They heavily monitored his experiments, and his father did most of the tasting. Anything brewed at home had to stay at home, recalls Gerhart, who grew up in Suffern, N.Y. I had logs and tasting notes from my father. It was a science experiment. After graduating from JSC and returning from his studies in Germany, Gerhart was hired by investors to build a brewery on Staten Island. He then went to work for Coors, which sent him to Scotland for another degree in brewing and distilling. Next, he landed a dream job as research and development brewer for Dogfish Head in Delaware, brewing small batches of craft beer and overseeing production of hand-distilled spirits. But after four years, Gerhart realized he never would be able to afford a house in the beach community where he worked. He quit his job, with nothing lined up. At that point, I decided that of all the places I ve lived and been, Vermont was the place where no matter what my job was, I would be happy to go home at night, he says. Working at a tree nursery in Dorset, he met his future wife. On a whim, he dropped off a resume at Otter Creek. They called me and said, Our head brewmaster is retiring, Gerhart recalls. I think things happen for a reason. I came back to Vermont, and it honestly has worked out. A six-pack of Brewmaster Mike s Citra Mantra from Otter Creek features a levitating likeness of Gerhart. Johnson views 2014/

26 feature the art of beer Standing by the bottling machine at Otter Creek Brewery in Middlebury, brewmaster Gerhart reviews the latest numbers with a colleague. Next year he ll oversee the building of Otter Creek s new brew house, which will increase capacity to 200,000 barrels a year. Meanwhile, he s always looking ahead and shaping the business plan. I ve never made a beer I didn t like. But you don t brew beers for brewers; you brew for customers, he says. With the popularity of IPAs cutting into the world s hop supplies, for instance, I have a responsibility to make sure we are able to produce high-quality beers, Gerhart says. I have contracts for hops that are going to grow in At times, such responsibility can lead to 15-hour days or even overnights at the plant. But all those long hours are worth it, Gerhart says, and his fellow JSC brewers concur. Passionate about their chosen careers, they also feel lucky to live and raise their children in Vermont. With the growth of the localvore movement, their craft is even more deeply appreciated. Beer is reflective of the person making it, says Van Anda, who lives with his family in Wolcott. Between the quality of the life we have here, the great water we have, and the people who call the state home, all of that is a good match for making quality beer. n A freelance writer traveling back and forth between Vermont and Massachusetts, Meredith Woodward King has been drinking Vermont craft beer since the days of Catamount. While the yeast and fermentation process determine the category of beer (ale or lager), the combination of additional ingredients results in different styles of beer, with varying colors, tastes, aromas and alcohol contents. According to beeradvocate.com, there are more varieties of ales than lagers. Ales range from the lighter pale ale and pale wheat ale, to the medium-hued amber and red ales, to the darker stouts, porters and black ales. Common in Germany, lagers can be dark and strong like many ales, but because of the ubiquity of Budweiser, many Americans only know lagers that are lightercolored and lower-alcohol. The more complex, hopcentered Pilsners, a German favorite that also is brewed in the U.S., fall under the lager category. Here are some of the beers brewed by JSC graduates at Rock Art, Lost Nation and Otter Creek: Pale ale, India pale ale (IPA) and black IPA: The success of Vermont s hop-forward, high-alcohol IPAs has made this beer a favorite nationwide. But as the name suggests, IPAs got their start with British troops stationed in India over two centuries ago. To make their pale ale more storable for export, the English began adding more hops and malts. Americans followed suit much later with American IPA and American double IPA, sometimes called Imperial IPA (taking its name from the stout brewed for the Russian czars). The late Greg Noonan of Vermont Pub & Brewery in Burlington is credited with creating black IPA, adding dark, roasted malts to abundant hops. And Americans also came up with a new version of pale ale: American pale ale, or APA. Vermont pale ales have won many accolades inside and outside the state. Burlington-based Seven Days named Otter Creek s Overgrown American Pale Ale, brewed by Mike Gerhart, as Best Pale Ale in The alternative weekly also liked Rock Art s Galaxy IPA, named for the Australian hop used in its brewing. Created by Matt Nadeau, Galaxy won Seven Days Best Hop-Specific IPA of Rock Art and Otter Creek make a number of additional IPAs and pale ales. A few examples: Rock Art s Vermont Hop Harvest uses homegrown hops, and its limited Jasmine Pale Ale is lightly infused with the flowers commonly found in tea. Gerhart teamed up with Sean Lawson of Lawson s Finest Liquids in Warren to make a limited batch of Double Dose IPA, and Otter Creek recently released a year-round IPA, 24 Johnson views 2014/2015

27 feature the art of beer Backseat Berner (the label features Gerhart s dog and VW van) and the lower-alcohol Over Easy. Lost Nation brews an IPA as well: The limited release Lost Galaxy is a wheat-based version that, at 4.8 percent ABV (alcohol by volume), is not as alcohol-heavy as many IPAs. Year-round, the brewery offers Pitch Black Ale, aged in bourbon barrels with sour cherries, a fruitier, loweralcohol twist on black IPA. Which leads to Sessionables: Lost Nation has carved out a niche making lower-alcohol beers, putting a Vermont spin on a European approach in which drinkers savor and sample brews during a session. The idea is to drink for taste and pleasure, not inebriation. We believe that many of the parts of Europe that these styles originate from are very similar to our rural lifestyle here in Vermont, Allen Van Anda explains. As of this writing, in addition to Pitch Black, Lost Nation s year-round sessionables included the lighter Vermont Pilsner; classic farmhouse-style Saison Lamoille ale; Belgian-inspired, blonde Petit Ardennes; red Rustic Ale; and tart Gose, brewed with coriander and sea salt and chosen by Seven Days as Best Sour Beer in The Belgians are best known for sour beers, which are catching on with Americans. Barley wine: At the other end of the spectrum is barley wine, an ale called as such because of its higher alcohol content. Matt Nadeau jokes that Rock Art s popular Ridge Runner mild barley wine built the brewery. He also brews a stronger version, Vermonster (the name of which survived a legal challenge in 2009 by Monster brand energy drinks, thanks to an outpouring of social-media support for Rock Art). Recently, he put Ridge Runner in Smuggler s Notch Distillery rum barrels and ended up with Rum Runner. Medium-to-dark-colored ales: Before the IPA craze, Vermont craft beers were known for malty, often sweeter, amber/red and brown ales, porters and stouts. Remember Otter Creek s Stovepipe Porter or Wolaver s Brown Ale? As consumers tastes have changed, Gerhart explains, some original favorites have been retired. This spring, that also included Otter Creek s awardwinning Copper Ale. But malty, darker beers still have faithful followers. For them, Otter Creek offers the limited Russian Imperial Stout. Gerhart also is responsible for brewing The Shed s Mountain Ale, a longtime favorite English strong ale once brewed at the Stowe restaurant. It closed in 2011, and Otter Creek bought the label. Other dark beers include The Shed s limited Nosedive Porter, and Wolaver s year-round Oatmeal Stout and seasonal Alta Gracia Coffee Porter. Although its beers vary depending on the season, Rock Art always has darker beers on tap or in bottles. Recent examples included Bourbon Barrel-Aged Russian Imperial Stout, Scotch Ale, various saisons (also called farmhouse ales, a style borrowed from Belgium), American Red, Midnight Madness smoked porter, Stump Jumper stout and seasonal beers incorporating spruce tips: Vermont Spruce Stout and Pumpkin Imperial Spruce Stout. As you might think, several of Lost Nation s sessionables fall under the medium-to-dark umbrella. The brewers also make the classic deep-orange Oktoberfest in the fall, and they recently brewed Lamoille Bretta, a saison refermented and aged in the bottle with Brettanomyces yeast, which lends a unique taste similar to many traditional Belgian beers. Light-colored ales brewed with wheat or fruit: Incorporating wheat or fruit or both, lighter ales are especially popular in the summer. Over the past year, Rock Art brewed Vermont Maple Wheat and Sunny & 75, a Belgian white ale made with orange and coriander. Lost Nation s year-round Gose, Petit Ardennes and Saison Lamoille use fruit, and its limited Lost Galaxy IPA, citrus and wheat. Otter Creek s seasonal Fresh Slice white IPA has hints of orange and coriander. Gruits: These ancient Scottish brews use herbs instead of hops. Rock Art s A River Runs Gruit includes lavender, chamomile, rose hips and elderberry. Lagers: Not as prevalent as ales, lagers are beginning to show up in Vermont. Besides Lost Nation s Vermont Pilsner, Otter Creek offers the seasonal Citra Mantra IPL (India Pale Lager), and Rock Art has made lagers, including a dark, strong, German-inspired bock called Mountain Holidays in Vermont. Want to learn more? Visit beeradvocate.com Johnson views 2014/

28 feature title Photo: Jeff Howlett Below: Dylan Giambatista (left) with his boss, Vermont House Speaker Shap Smith ylan Giambatista graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. degree in political science from JSC in The former high-school dropout enrolled at Johnson after tiring of his life as a nationally recognized punk rocker he was founding guitarist for the Burlington-based punk rock band Rough Francis and returned to Vermont to take up what he had discovered was his true passion: history and politics. He earned an associate s degree from the Community College of Vermont before transferring to JSC, with one goal in mind: to study with Professor Bill Doyle, Vermont s senior state senator. I love history and politics. When I m not working, I read. When I read, it s all politics. Before arriving at JSC, he added, he had learned about Doyle through a series of books on Vermont history. Dylan not only studied with Doyle, he reached several milestones during his two years at JSC. He became an Ellsworth scholar his second semester and completed an internship at the Vermont State House with the Vermont State Employees Association. He also organized and was elected chair of the first caucus in the town of Essex for the Vermont Progressive Party. On campus, he served in student government and was a teaching assistant for Doyle s American Politics and Government course. His JSC internship led to a job with the Chittenden County state s attorney. That led to a gig on the re-election campaign for the state treasurer, which in turn led to a job as her executive assistant following the election. And that position got him to where he landed in fall 2014: working as chief of staff for Vermont House Speaker Shap Smith. Dylan s journey from high-school dropout to punk rocker to chief of staff intrigued Seven Days political columnist Paul Heintz, who wrote a piece for his Montpeculiar series titled Punk Rock Dropout in the Speaker s Office in the Feb. 16, 2015, issue. It is reprinted here with permission. 26 Johnson views 2014/2015

29 alumni profile dylan giambatista When Burlington s Rough Francis opened for protopunk legends Death recently, founding guitarist Dylan Giambatista was not in attendance. Now chief of staff to Vermont House Speaker Shap Smith (D-Morristown), the 28-year-old native of Wallingford, Vt., long ago traded his musical aspirations for political ones. I want to be in a job where I m serving the public, he says. I truly am bought into that. On the surface, Giambatista fits by Paul Heintz the mold of the up-and-coming political aide: clean-cut, polite and a touch overeager. He even bears a striking resemblance to his boss, which prompted Smith to introduce him at a Democratic caucus last December as his doppelgänger. But in the Vermont Statehouse, Giambatista s background is anything but ordinary. He dropped out of high school in 10th grade, couch-surfed for years, toured with a band he describes as quasi-straight-edge hardcore and has more than a few tattoos. From the start, Giambatista says, he was a pretty inquisitive kid but didn t learn in a traditional fashion. After years of skipping school, he decided to call it quits during his second year at North Clarendon s Mill River Union High School. It wasn t sparking success for me, he says. I didn t have a fully developed sense of what I wanted, but I knew it wasn t that. As he spun his wheels, Giambatista played in a succession of bands, including the Teenage Mothers, which he describes as an obscene, angsty, youth punk band, and Class Clown, which achieved fleeting success when it won the VH1/School of Rock Battle of the Bands. Giambatista says something clicked for him while touring in Virginia with the band From the Ground Up. He decided to return to school and worked his way through community college as a manager at a local pizza shop. In 2008, From the Ground Up bandmate Julian Hackney and his brothers discovered Death, the longforgotten 1970s punk band founded by their father and two uncles. The younger generation of Hackneys formed Rough Francis to pick up where Death left off and invited Giambatista to play guitar. He was a big part of the group, Bobby Jr. says. He has this onstage energy that s pretty awesome. He s just very energetic, very interactive with the crowd. Giambatista played with Rough Francis on and off for several years, Photo: Isaac Wasuck eventually parting ways with the band to focus on school and politics. He enrolled at Johnson State College and was introduced to the Statehouse by his professor, Sen. Bill Doyle (R-Washington). An internship with the Vermont State Employees Association led to a job as Chittenden County State s Attorney T.J. Donovan s driver when he ran for attorney general in Following Donovan s loss, Giambatista worked in communications on state Treasurer Beth Pearce s campaign to retain the seat to which she had been appointed. After graduating from Johnson, Giambatista landed a job as Pearce s executive assistant, which he held until moving to the speaker s office. I really enjoyed the work that we did together and appreciated his perceptive skills and policy development, Pearce says. I have not seen his punk rock. But I will tell you, he has a pretty big obsession with the eighth president of the United States. That s Martin Van Buren, in case you were wondering. Smith says that Giambatista s position as his chief of staff requires him to do everything from engaging in high-level negotiations to answering the phones. Says Giambatista, The hardest thing I do, truly, is maintain [Smith s] schedule. That is a full-time gig. According to the speaker, Giambatista s unconventional life story actually made me think more about hiring him than I might have otherwise. Giambatista credits it with his success. I am very proud of my nontraditional background, he says. And I m very proud of the work I do. If I wasn t once a high school dropout, I couldn t do it as well as I do. And if I wasn t in a band with my friends, I would lack a lot of the skills I use on a daily basis here. n Below: Dylan (second from right) with fellow Rough Francis band members Johnson views 2014/

30 by Lisa Kent Joe Farara has been director of the JSC library now called the Willey Library in honor of JSC alumnus and donor Richard Willey 71 since August Wanting to know more about Joe and his work at JSC, I interviewed him shortly after joining the library staff in Here is what I learned. for a new century You started at JSC as library director. How did your career path lead you to that position? I had been a cataloging assistant at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the reference and circulation supervisor at the Rhode Island School of Design, and head of reserves and circulation at Harvard s Hilles Library, so library director seemed like a normal progression. You came to Vermont because of the position at JSC? Right. Vermont, though, was long on my wife s and my radar. Her family s roots in Jeffersonville extend back to the early 19th century, and she spent much of her life driving from Massachusetts to ski at Smugglers Notch. We visited regularly after her parents moved to Waterville in 1983, and felt enormously comfortable in Lamoille County. We were commuting long distances working in Massachusetts. My wife was traveling an hour back and forth to her job as a graphic designer, and it took me an hour and half each way for my job at Hilles. In addition to being attracted to the position at JSC, I was very interested in having a shorter and less emotionally charged ride to work something I still appreciate 25 years later. You received your graduate degree in Information Science from Simmons College. What are some of the skills you learned then that you still use now? Simmons gave me the sense that the future of libraries was going to be connected very closely to the growth of information technology. That was useful. What trends do you see with regard to academic libraries not just in technology, but in use? The idea of library as place, as an intellectual common meeting area we re going to see more of that, and we ve already seen quite a bit. I also see librarians collaborating more with faculty and with academic-support and informationtechnology staff, building on the learning commons model. JSC Library Director Joe Farara reflects on 25 years of transformation What is the learning commons model? Essentially it s putting people and resources together for students in a way that is programmatically coherent but is comprised of people who have seemingly discrete functions. Learning is a dynamic experience, and learning commons reflect that. Putting teachers, tutors, librarians and technologists together in a shared space can make the student learning experience more successful. What are some little-known facts about the Willey Library you d like people to know? We serve a very broad clientele. In addition to supporting 28 Johnson views 2014/2015

31 feature joe farara opened in I learned a great deal during the process. My son was born the year the Center opened, so it was a remarkably exciting time. faculty and students on campus, we provide extensive services to our distance learners. We have many local borrowers, including homeschoolers, who also make use of our online offerings and our government-documents collection. We extend borrowing privileges to residents at the Vermont Studio Center as well. We re also open a lot. We offer a lot of access to people not just to online resources, although those are significant for a college of our size and resources. The fact that we have a 24-hour study room with 16 computer stations sets us apart from our Vermont State College counterparts. And we have a very welcoming and accomplished staff. Are there things you ve accomplished here that people might not be aware of? My experience developing the college s technology infrastructure might be the most significant. Because of my experience working on the Harvard library system, I was asked to be the president s designee for computing and to represent the college in a system-wide working group overseen by the Office of the Chancellor. Our role was to make recommendations on the direction of technology for our respective institutions. This led to responsibility for connecting JSC to the Internet, implementing the campus network, and designing and rolling out smart classrooms. I was part of a group that selected VSC s enterprise software system, and coordinated its implementation at JSC. Other professional activities include overseeing the VSC Library Council, where I m responsible for long-range planning. I oversaw the implementation of the integrated library system for the five state colleges, and I ve been involved with several significant upgrades since. I was an early participant in the Vermont Online Library, which is overseen by the Vermont Department of Libraries, and I was a founder of the Vermont Consortium of Academic Libraries, a professional organization comprising all the academic libraries in the state. I ve served multiple terms as president of the latter organization and have been president of the Vermont Library Association. It s all been very rewarding. Is there an achievement that holds special significance for you? Without a doubt, it would be the construction of the Library & Learning Center which How did you conceptualize the building? Other than knowing that we needed substantially more study space and had to prepare for the expansion of technology, I found that reading about libraries and visiting new ones was helpful in determining what would work best for us. For instance, Northeastern University did some novel things in adding onto its library, such as putting the service desk as the first point of access when patrons enter; traditionally it was the circulation desk. This made more sense to me, as reference staff could greet and direct students who were unfamiliar with the library and explain how it could help them. Nineteen years down the road, that approach still works. Do you have a favorite academic library? I m still quite fond of the way my old employer, Harvard University, regards libraries. Harvard has about 90 libraries, which says something about the importance of libraries to the academic enterprise. Harvard also has committed to information-literacy instruction for its students. Many faculty members and administrators I talk with take it as a given that students know how to use libraries and do college-level research, but this isn t the case. I look forward to integrating information literacy more fully into the curriculum at JSC. Why is the Willey Library important to JSC? It may be a cliché to say that libraries are at the heart of the academic enterprise, but it happens to be true. When the anti-vaccine activist Jenny McCarthy proudly claimed that her research came from the University of Google, she was ridiculed mightily and rightly so. The mission statement for the Willey Library captures why we re so essential: Information literacy is a powerful foundation for every person s education. We believe that libraries and librarians play a pivotal role in teaching individuals how to transform information into knowledge for academic success, civic engagement and personal enrichment. n Lisa Kent is the access-services librarian at JSC s Willey Library. Her first book, Peace Cottage, was published in Johnson views 2014/

32 Writer Jensen Beach, formerly of the University of Illinois, joined JSC in fall 2014 as assistant professor of writing and literature, with a focus on fiction writing. He has published numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, including the short story collection For Out of the Heart Proceed (Dzanc Books and Dark Sky Books). He is working on a novel, Slow to Anger, set in 1960s West Africa during the Nigeria-Biafra conflict. He has an M.F.A. in fiction from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and an M.A. in English from Stockholm University. Staci Born started in fall 2014 as assistant professor in the graduate counseling program. Most recently a faculty member at Minnesota State University in Mankato and a therapist in private practice, she has an M.S. in mental health counseling and an Ed.D. in counselor education and supervision from Mankato State. She specializes in early childhood mental health and women s mental health related to reproduction. In addition, at the end of the current academic year, Professor Russ Longtin of the Performing Arts Department retired after 30 years at JSC, having guided countless students to stardom on the stage. Dozens of students attended a farewell reception and spoke passionately about the love and respect they have for Russ. He will be greatly missed. The JSC community said goodbye to two beloved and longtime professors who retired at the end of the academic year: Susan Calza, who taught in the undergraduate and graduate fine arts programs; and David Hutchinson, who taught in the graduate counseling program. Timothy Saeed joined JSC as a visiting assistant music professor, teaching piano and music theory in fall Saeed was previously at the Louisiana State University, where he taught undergraduate music theory and earned his Ph.D. in music theory. He holds an M.M. in piano performance from the University of New Mexico and an M.M. in music theory from Boston University. Rob Schulze is JSC s new assistant professor of education, teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in special education since fall He most recently taught at University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he held the Excelsior Fellowship and earned his doctorate in special education. His public school experience includes serving as special education supervisor, assistant special education director and special education teacher in Massachusetts. Kaja Tretjak is an assistant professor of anthropology and sociology who joined the College in fall She holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from the City University of New York, a J.D. from UC-Berkeley and a B.A. from Columbia University. She came to JSC from SUNY Buffalo Law School s Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy. She has worked with immigrant survivors of domestic violence and victims of police abuse and human trafficking, and she co-founded three organizations dedicated to ending sexual violence, promoting safe streets and ensuring police accountability. Michael Zebrowski came to JSC in fall 2014 as assistant professor of fine arts specializing in sculpture and 3D art. He is the principal designer of the design brand This End Up and the founder of O P E N, an exhibition and event space in Geneva, N.Y. He has a master s degree in architecture from the Cranbrook Academy of Art and has held academic positions at colleges in New York, Maryland and Mississippi. 30 Johnson views 2014/2015

33 facult y/staff highlights David Cavanagh, former co-director of the External Degree Program, has retired from that position but remains as an advisor in a part-time capacity. His new collection of poetry, Straddle, was published this year on the heels of his earlier collection, Cycling in Plato s Cave, which was published last year. Professor and Director of Jazz Studies Steve Blair spent his 2014 sabbatical creating new original jazz/ fusion compositions that he recorded with some of Vermont s best jazz musicians including Dave Ellis (trumpet), Brian McCarthy (sax), Dan Silverman (trombone), Tom Cleary (keyboards), Aram Bedrosian (bass guitar) and Lucas Adler (drums) for their new CD, Ostinato. The effort was named Best CD of 2014 by Reuben Jackson, host of Friday Night Jazz on Vermont Public Radio, and the weekly Seven Days. Professor Gina Mireault s ongoing research into infant humor development made the NBC Nightly News Jan. 17, 2015, in a segment titled Babies Understand Your Humor and Want to Joke Too. It certainly wasn t the first time she and her work have been in the limelight, but it was the first time it gained national visibility on mainstream media. Earlier that month Gina co-authored a paper in the Jan. 5 issue of Current Biology, which published a series of primers on The Biology of Fun and the Fun of Biology in celebration of the journal s 25th anniversary. Several other national media covered her work at the time, including Science Daily, the Huffington Post, and New York magazine s The Science of Us. Assistant Athletics Director for Communications Elaine Harvey has been appointed to a three-year term on the National Collegiate Athletic Association s Division III Strategic Alliance Matching Grant (SAMG) Selection Committee. As one of five members of the national committee, she will take part in the awarding process of SAMGs to support senior-level administrative positions at Division III institutions and offices to encourage the access, recruitment, selection and long-term success of ethnic minorities and women. Beyond Elaine s responsibilities on campus, she was named a National Student-Athlete Leadership Forum facilitator last year and is a member of the National Association of Collegiate Women Athletic Administrators. The 14th and final documentary of Depression-era life in each Vermont county has been completed by Professor William Doyle and his students. Life in Bennington County premiered in December 2014, marking the culmination of an eight-year project that has involved JSC students interviewing residents and helping to gather period photographs for the documentaries. The documentaries, produced by filmmaker Vince Franke of Peregrine Productions, have aired on Vermont PBS. Copies are available at schools and libraries statewide or from the JSC Alumni Office. Freda Hebb Award winners Dianne Allaire, longtime director of the JSC mailroom, received the 2015 Freda Hebb Award, the college s highest staff honor. It is named after the longtime JSC registrar and executive assistant who served six JSC presidents over 38 years, from 1934 to Diane started at JSC in She is known for her strong work ethic, ever-present smile and dedication to students. The same can be said for Kim Goodell, associate director of financial aid, recipient of the 2014 award. Kim has worked at the college for 27 years and knows the ins and outs of the financial-aid process like no other. She s known as the go-to person when anyone has questions and always steps up when a job needs doing. Two longtime JSC staff members shared the Freda Hebb Award in 2013: Deneen Russell, accounts supervisor in Student Financial Services; and Bethany Harrington, admissions specialist in the Office of Admissions & Enrollment Services. They have worked at the college 31 and 26 years respectively and are known for their get it done attitude, positive outlook and commitment to students. Dianne Allaire Kim Goodell Deneen Russell Bethany Harrington Johnson views 2014/

34 The weather couldn t have been better as JSC alumni, students and families gathered on campus to celebrate Reunion Weekend From the beer and wine tent on the quad (selling alumni-owned Rock Art and Lost Nation brews, of course!) to the Reunion Luncheon, Alumni & FAMILY ReUNION Weekend Alumni Awards Ceremony and numerous outdoor activities, there was plenty to keep folks hopping. Guests could try their luck on the slackline, test their skills in inflatable jousting, sink a Badger in the Dunk Tank, learn a new dance, paint the rock, enjoy a free chair massage or Tarot card reading, smile for the camera in the photo booth, attend varsity soccer and volleyball games, watch men s and women s rugby at the renovated JSC rugby pitch and more! As in previous years, the weekend kicked off with a concert by the Vermont Symphony Orchestra, included a fireworks show from the South Lawn on Saturday night, and closed out on Sunday with JSC s second annual Color Run. Class of 74 Abdel-Fatah Family Class of 69 There s more fun to be had in 2015 mark your calendars and plan to join us Sept ! Class of 64 Dick & Carole McCarthy Class of 64 Class of 54 Best friends, class of 74 Class of 79 Class of 59

35 2014 alumni & family reunion weekend homecoming Megan Panek Alumni Council Chair Class of 64 Mark your CALENDARS AND JOIN us next FALL! September 19-20, JSC Color Runnners show their true colors post-race. Johnson views 2014/

36 Every year, the JSC Alumni Association names a person in each of three categories alumni, faculty and staff for special recognition. In addition, the president names alumni who have made outstanding contributions in their personal and professional lives since graduating from JSC for Outstanding Alumni Awards. Recipients are recognized every year during Alumni & Family Reunion Weekend. Here are the 2014 honorees. From left: Danielle Spring, David Fink and Nancy Brown MacDowell 2014 DISTINGUISHED Alumni Award Nancy Brown MacDowell Nancy earned her B.A. in education from JSC in While at JSC, she participated in theatre, music and dance and volunteered at the college radio station, WJSC. After graduating, she taught second grade in Berkshire, Vt., and began a successful career in commercial radio. For 13 years, she hosted the Sunday Morning Sampler music show on WLVB. She decided to pursue her own musical dreams and has since produced two albums of her own. In keeping the title of the first, Giving Back, she donated a portion of the proceeds to JSC s scholarship fund. She retired after a 30-year career in Vermont broadcasting, and remains involved with the Lamoille County Players and sings in a trio called Girls Night Out DISTINGUISHED FACULTY AWARD David Fink With a bachelor s degree in religion, a master s in theology and a doctorate in counselor education, David had several offers to choose from when he decided to join the faculty at Johnson State, which he says attracted him because of its small size, friendliness, and commitment to student success. Starting at JSC in 1989, he has taught core undergraduate and graduate courses in psychology and counseling and, since 2003, served as coordinator of the College s M.A. in Counseling program. David leads occasional workshops for teachers, counselors and administrators on group process, stress management, interpersonal relations and communication skills. His passions include history (he has a special fondness for Civil War sites), songwriting and playing with his folk-rock band, Brick Windows DISTINGUISHED STAFF AWARD Dannielle J. Spring Dannielle earned her B.A. in business management from JSC in 2007 while working as an accounting specialist. After graduation she was named JSC s director of Conference & Event Services. Adept at juggling competing tasks and demands, she keeps track of thousands of details simultaneously. Last year she configured a new event-management system at JSC that was being adopted by the Vermont State College system, which required hundreds of hours of training and coordinating during her busiest time of year. She not only implemented the system at JSC on time and on budget, she quickly became the VSC expert on the system. Dannielle is an active and involved member of the JSC community who serves as treasurer of her union chapter, sits on the Wellness Committee and a member of JSC s annual Common Book selection committee. n Andrew Miller-Brown As an undergraduate at JSC, Andrew spent much time in the art department and the print shop while working toward his B.F.A. in creative writing, graduating in He went on to work with internationally recognized artist Claire Van Vliet at the Janus Press in Newark, Vt., and subsequently founded Plowboy Press and began crafting and publishing limited-edition, handmade books focusing on rural life, farming and Vermont. Andrew volunteers at the St. Johnsbury Community Justice Center and is collaborating with Children s Literacy Foundation to bring a traveling letterpress printing demonstration to local schools. Kelly A. Holt (M.A.) Kelly earned her M.A. in art education from JSC in She is an active artist who exhibits her paintings and mixed-media work throughout the Northeast. Her workshops and art camps at River Arts in Morrisville, the Portland (Maine) Museum of Art, the Helen Day Art Center in Stowe and the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson are popular events. She teaches art to children from age 3 to 17 and works as the office and gallery manager at River Arts, where she also runs Kinder Arts program that serves children in preschool and kindergarten at four local schools. n 34 Johnson views 2014/2015

37 2014 president s These awards are presented to alumni who have made outstanding business and community accomplishments in their careers and lives. Service to the College is one of many factors considered. Outstanding Alumni award recipients have graduated at least 10 years ago, while Rising Star award recipients must have graduated within the past 10 years. Nominations are made by faculty, staff and alumni, with selection by the president. Greg Stefanski (M.A.) Greg found his way to Johnson from Detroit, earning his master s degree in education from JSC in A graduate of the Vermont Leadership Institute, Greg is executive director of Laraway Youth & Family Services, where he s worked since 1999 and has been instrumental in growing the organization to better serve Laraway clients. In addition, he s deeply involved in the community, having served on the Johnson School Board, the Lamoille North Supervisory Union School Board, the Johnson Planning Commission, Johnson Works, the Vermont Coalition of Residential Providers, and the Council on the Future of Vermont. In his spare time he coaches youth basketball, baseball and soccer and serves as emcee for Johnson s weekly summer music series, Tuesday Night Live. Susan Rand Susan graduated with a bachelor s degree in allied health in 1980 and went on to pursue a graduate degree in exercise science from Northeastern University. She played field hockey at JSC for four years, earning both individual and team inductions into the JSC Athletics Hall of Fame. She was director of athletics and head field hockey and soccer coach at Champlain College from 1982 to As founder and owner of Sojourn Bicycling & Active Vacations in Charlotte, Vt., she organizes and hosts luxury trips for individuals and groups and conducts charity events. Sojourn is a major sponsor of Local Motion, Race to the Top of Vermont, the Catamount Trail, and Middlebury High School s Project Graduation. Dennis P. DePaul Dennis graduated magna cum laude from JSC in 1990 with a B.S. in anthropology/ sociology and went on to earn an M.S. in educational leadership. In 2010 he co-founded the Consortium for Inclusion & Equity, which provides multicultural competency training and development. Currently the assistant dean of students at the University of Vermont, Dennis has served as board member and president of several organizations devoted to helping seriously ill children, including the Children s Oncology Camping Association International, the Make- A-Wish Foundation of Vermont, and Vermont s Camp Ta-Kum-Ta, which provides free summer camp and year-round programs for children with cancer. Jean Olson Jean earned a B.A. in liberal arts from JSC in 1970 and went on to obtain her Ed.D. focused on the educational needs of gifted adolescents. She has taught English in North Cyprus with her husband, George, a 1969 JSC graduate; worked as an elementary music teacher and director of development; helped to coordinate the legislation establishing Vermont s E911 system; and served 17 years as executive director of the Governor s Institutes of Vermont, retiring in Jean has served as a volunteer and trustee for several organizations in the Montpelier area and today serves as resolution clerk for the Vermont State Legislature. Melisande ( Sandy ) A.C. Mayotte Sandy earned her B.A. degree from JSC in 1992 and went on to further her education at St. Michael s College, the Vermont Leadership Institute, and the Sloan School of Business at MIT. Since 1996, she s worked in St. Albans at A.N. Deringer, the sixth largest U.S. Customs brokerage firm, where she was named senior vice president in She also co-owns a large maple syrup operation in Fletcher and Enosburg. Her extensive community service includes volunteering with Vermont Works for Women, the American Heart Association, Voices Against Violence. She also is a board member of several organizations. She s a big fan of JSC s External Degree Program, noting that it enabled her to grow her career and care for her family while completing her bachelor s degree. n Johnson views 2014/

38 Photos: Kali Covell & Forrest Mattern Big smiles and hoop dreams filled Carter Gymnasium on Saturday, March 21, at the first annual SAAC-sponsored Special Olympics Basketball Tournament at JSC. Above: Student-athletes and participants gather for a group photo at the end of the event; below left to right: SAAC members Ron Adrian and Pedro Perez; two Olympians show their Badger spirit. Student-Athletes Partner with Special Olympics Photo: Elaine Harvey JSC s Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) has been tremendously active this year. In addition to sending representatives to the North Atlantic Conference SAAC Summit to participate in community service and network with regional student-athletes, SAAC has continued its popular Kids Night Out events, at which local youth spend the evening in SHAPE participating in activities with JSC student-athletes, and hosted the campus first Special Olympics basketball tournament. The tournament, held March 21, 2015, in SHAPE, allowed people of all ages to play on unified sports teams, which means people with intellectual disabilities get a chance to play in basketball games with people without disabilities. Community members from JSC and surrounding towns cheered on the athletes. Getting the rest of the community involved makes a big difference in the lives of these athletes, said Kristin Cannon, assistant athletics director for student-athlete development. We re proud of our Student-Athlete Advisory Committee for taking the initiative to bring this great programming to Johnson State. n Don t Miss Out on Badger News The JSC Athletics e-newsletter comes out quarterly, with occasional issues in the interim as news warrants. It is an athletics alum s best source of information for news about JSC varsity athletics, including team standings, department updates, team photos and new initiatives to support the Badgers! Not on the list? Contact Elaine Harvey at [email protected] or to sign up! 36 JOHNSON VIEWS 2014/2015

39 news athletics JSC Athletics Joins in NAC s You Can Play Campaign From top: Boris the Badger tries to steal the ball; SAAC members who coordinated the day s events gather behind Tristan Geoffrey, a member of the Think College program at JSC, as they signal No. 1 for the camera; Tristan takes his turn aiming for the hoop. In spring 2013, the North Atlantic Conference affirmed its commitment to respect and inclusion by supporting the You Can Play project, a campaign aimed at combatting homophobia on campus and recognizing the benefit of diversity. At the time, JSC student-athlete Matt Dekens, former president of the NAC Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC), pitched the concept of creating a NAC video to support the campaign. Through the hard work and thoughtful discussion of the full NAC SAAC, the message was shaped and the project was launched. The resulting three-minute video includes footage and voices of student-athletes at NACmember colleges, including JSC, and can be viewed at bit.ly/1bhe1yv. n For more information on the You Can Play campaign, visit youcanplayproject.org Johnson views 2014/

40 news athletics JSC Student-Athletes Attend National Substance Abuse-Prevention Conference Representing JSC at the 2015 APPLE conference were (L-R, back): Jay Palmisano, Kristin Cannon, Maddi Prescott, (L-R, front): Pedro Perez, Michele Whitmore and Jennie Moore. Four JSC student-athletes and two administrators attended the NCAA Athletics Prevention Programming & Leadership Education (APPLE) conference in Reston, Va., in January The annual conferences, coordinated by the Gordie Center for Substance Abuse Prevention at the University of Virginia, are the leading national abuse-prevention training symposiums for student-athletes and athletics administrators. The events are aimed at helping colleges promote student health and wellness by empowering teams of student-athletes and administrators to create action plans for their colleges. Representing JSC varsity teams were Jennie Moore (softball), Jay Palmisano (lacrosse), Pedro Perez (soccer) and Maddison Prescott (soccer). They were accompanied by Michele Whitmore, associate dean of students and women s tennis coach, and Kristin Cannon, coordinator of student-athlete development and women s soccer coach. For three days, the group attended such sessions as Fueling for Performance, Student-Athlete Mentors, Mixed Drinks, Mixed Emotions: Alcohol Abuse & Mental Health, and Athletics Role in Support of Healthy and Safe Campuses. It was a great opportunity for JSC students to learn about wellness and substance-abuse prevention in a supportive and engaging environment, Cannon noted. Networking with other student-athletes was an amazing experience, said Perez. We re all really excited to take new ideas and programs back to Johnson. This is the second year JSC has attended the conference, noted Whitmore, adding that within two weeks of their return to campus, they were already sharing what they learned with other students and developing plans for activities and educational events. The Gordie Center is named in memory of University of Colorado freshman Gordon Bailey, Jr. who died in 2004 at age 18 after consuming lethal amounts of alcohol during a fraterinity hazing ritual. n Photos: Elaine Harvey 2014 Minaert Open Attracts 70 to Scenic Jay Peak Course The Minaert Open grew for the third straight year in summer 2014, with more than 70 JSC friends, alums and family members participating in the annual event. Competitors enjoyed scenic views of Jay Peak and surrounding mountains, great prizes, fantastic weather and discounted overnight room rates. Silent auction winners walked away with Red Sox vs. Yankee tickets, golf rounds and weekend stays in Stowe! The best by far, however, were the connections and reconnections made by alumni and friends as they shared Johnson tales of yore. The 2015 Minaert Open, happening Friday, June 19, will again take place at beautiful Jay Peak. Sign-in begins at 7:30 a.m., with a shotgun start at 9:30 a.m. and lunch following the tournament. Don t miss this fantastic opportunity to connect with JSC friends and alums! For info or to register for the 2015 Minaert Open, happening June 19, 2015, contact Elaine Harvey at or [email protected] #LeaveYourMark JSC Athletics launched the #LeaveYourMark campaign in August The social-media campaign asks studentathletes how they leave their mark on their teams, at JSC and beyond. The campaign features more than 30 studentathletes from all 13 JSC varsity programs, with filming and production handled by JSC s graphic design and production manager, Eric Kirk. The videos have amassed more than 7,000 views. Check them out! #LeaveYourMark bit.ly/jscathletics Fall Sports Promo bit.ly/jscfallpromo JSC Volleyball bit.ly/1iitis1 JSC Men s Soccer bit.ly/1bher7q Winter Sports Promo bit.ly/1415promo JSC Women s Basketball bit.ly/1ymioou JSC Men s Basketball bit.ly/19khbow 38 Johnson views 2014/2015

41 news athletics n e w I n d u c t e e s Athletics Hall of Fame At the annual dinner and ceremony on Sept. 20, 2014, during Alumni & Family Reunion Weekend, JSC inducted one team and four individuals into the JSC Athletics Hall of Fame. Soccer DANIEL GREENLEAF 90 was a member of the 1988 men s soccer team as well as a varsity soccer player and Nordic ski racer. As a racer and captain of JSC s Nordic team for the 88 and 89 seasons, Greenleaf consistently finished top five in races at Harvard, M.I.T, the Norwich and multiple Eastern Intercollegiate Ski Association (EISA) qualifying races. He earned All EISA individual honors each season. After graduation, he returned to Johnson to coach the Nordic team for the 1990 ski season. Off the field, Greenleaf was a residential assistant and a member of the college s Education Club. He currently teaches sixth grade at Waitsfield (Vt.) Elementary School and has been nominated multiple times for Vermont Teacher of the Year. RACHEL PETERSON-LEMKE 07 (below, center) holds several JSC records in women s soccer. She is first in career saves (590), first in career wins (25), tied for second in career shutouts (9) and tied for first in single-game saves (22). She earned NAC first team honors in 2002 and 2003 and was named to the NAC second team in She also played basketball and softball at Johnson and holds the record for fifth most career doubles in softball. She lives with her family in Connecticut, where she remains involved in sports as a youth coach and works for Adelbrook Behavioral & Developmental Services. MICHAEL TOWNE 90, also a member of the 1988 men s soccer team, is one of only four in JSC men s soccer to have earned NAIA All-American honors. He helped the team earn the Mayflower Conference championship title and was named to the NAIA District 5 first team in He and his teammates went on to capture five more consecutive conference titles. Towne also competed for JSC on the varsity baseball team in Today he lives in Ohio with his family and works as a teacher at Darby Woods Elementary School in Galloway, where he received the Outstanding Educator Award for the school year. Basketball CHARLIE VIANA 08 holds several individual and career records in JSC men s basketball. He is first in three-point field goals, ninth in steals and second in the most points scored in a single game (42). As well, he is third in career points (1,674), eighth in career assists, fifth in career rebounds and second in career field goals, having bucketed 613 points overall. He earned NAC first team honors in He also played men s lacrosse at JSC, earning NAC first team honors in his first year. After graduation, Viana was a sports-information intern at nearby St. Michael s College and completed his graduate degree there in He currently lives in New York and works on major capital campaigns throughout the country. THE 1988 MEN S SOCCER TEAM, under the leadership of head coach Peter Albright, captured a Mayflower Conference championship title, an NAIA Region 5 Western Champions title and produced three NAIA All-Americans: Michael Towne, Todd Wennar and Jim DeRose. Patrick Flanagan, also on the 1988 roster, is Johnson s only other NAIA All-American and was honored the following year as such. The team finished overall, which is JSC s fourth winningest season in the sport, and was ranked 20th in the country overall. Many team members went on to coach locally and nationwide. Note: Following the 2014 induction ceremony, board members voted to switch the heretofore annual ceremony to a biennial event. Board chair Scott Cole noted that the move is designed to elevate the event s prestige regionally and nationally, as it will allow more time for inductee research, outreach and preparation, strengthening the overall event. Johnson views 2014/

42 Increase Our Base Campaign Donations of $500 or more to the Scholarship Fund, the JSC Annual Fund, or the President s Fund for Excellence in Teaching & Learning entitle the donor to an inscribed brick or paver in the Donors Plaza surrounding the Chesamore Bell & Alumni Clock Tower on the campus quad. To date, 19 bricks and 14 pavers have been purchased and inscribed. In addition to establishing a physical base for the tower, the goal is to double both the number of donors and the amount of gifts to JSC. In fiscal year 2014, JSC received 3,061 gifts totaling more than $757,000. Of these gifts, 260 were from new donors. Donors may direct their gifts to 52 different funds, including named scholarship funds. A particularly lovely thing about an institution of our size is that anyone may establish a named scholarship in memory of a loved one or in honor of a person or program. As noted below, several new scholarships were established at JSC this year. Gifts to the Scholarship Fund enabled us to make 156 awards totaling over $200,000 to returning students a $37,000 increase over last year. Part of this increase is due to improved market performance, which allows us to award more from our endowment; we also attribute it in part to the stronger ties we ve established with JSC alumni. As of Dec. 31, 2014, our endowment was valued at just over $3.6 million. The following are some highlights of the year, as well as news about two new memorial scholarships honoring recent JSC alumni. Student InternSHIP Fund With the support of Union Bank President David Silverman, JSC class of 85, we received a gift of $3,000 from the Union Bank to launch a fund to support students engaged in internships at area businesses and organizations. The fund provides grants to students to defray costs associated with internships, such as transportation to work sites, wardrobe needs and mandatory background checks. This generous gift helps to remove financial barriers to internship opportunities, as students often cannot afford to take unpaid internships, or they may have to take a paid job outside their field simply because they don t have the funds to support their placement. More than 15 students were awarded grants from the fund this semester. JSC has a long history of placing student interns with businesses, nonprofit organizations and government agencies. In the academic year alone, 350 JSC students interned a total of 53,124 hours. 40 Johnson views 2014/2015

43 Alyson Finn Memorial SchoLARSHIP Alyson Marie Finn, class of 2013, was killed in an automobile accident in October 2014 at age 23. Aly was a beloved and wellknown student at JSC who re-started the women s rugby team in 2011 and served as co-captain. As noted in these pages, the team captured the national championship in their division that first year of play. Raised in Montgomery, N.Y., Aly was living in Stowe, Vt., at the time of her death. To honor Aly, friends and family have established the Alyson Finn Memorial Scholarship, which will be awarded to rugby players who demonstrate Aly s determination, positive spirit and love of life. Greg CALIMeris Memorial SchoLARSHIP Gregory Calimeris was a student in JSC s graduate counseling program at the time of his death in April He also was working at Spring Hill Recovery Center, a private residential treatment facility in New Hampshire. The staff at Spring Hill established a scholarship in his memory that will cover the cost of tuition for one full-time student in the graduate counseling program concentrating either in mental health or addiction. This is the first scholarship of its kind available to students in this graduate program. The Don & Susan Collins Praxis Loan Fund Donald ( 64) and Susan ( 70) Collins have established a fund to provide interest-free loans, up to the cost of the test fee, for teacher-education students during the semester they take the Praxis exam. In order to keep the fund going in perpetuity, recipients are expected to repay their loan after receiving their JSC degree and becoming gainfully employed. Donors put President s Fund over $500,000 Peter and Evelyn Fuss of Morrisville are longtime friends of and donors to JSC. They direct their annual gifts to the President s Fund for Excellence in Teaching & Learning, which was established by President Murphy to support teaching and learning opportunities beyond the classroom. The Fusses especially value the research, professional and creative work faculty members do in the company of students with the support of this fund. Over the past several years, they have provided annual gifts to support student presentations at conferences, summer research stipends for students, guest speakers, opportunities for students to present at professional conferences, and several educational travel opportunities. Last year the Fusses chose to make an extraordinary and truly transformative gift to this fund, increasing the size of the endowment to more than $511,000! Since its inception in 2001, the President s Fund has granted more than $300,000 to support the participation of students, faculty and staff in projects large and small. On behalf of the students, faculty and staff at Johnson State College, I thank those of you who made a gift to the College this year. Your support is tremendously important, allowing us to provide scholarships to deserving students, bring guest speakers to campus, support student internships and so much more. When you give to JSC, you are saying, Yes! I believe in the power of a Johnson State College education to transform lives, and I want to invest in that mission. So take a look at the names on the Donor Report starting on page 44. They are the names of people like you people who have signed on to support a prosperous future for JSC students. If your name is missing, I hope you will make sure it is added this year. Gifts of any amount are greatly appreciated. We welcome your involvement and thank you for your support. Lauren Philie Director of Development & Alumni Relations To make a secure online gift, visit Please contact me at [email protected] or with any questions or if I can help in any way. Johnson views 2014/

44 THE PRESIDENT S FUND FOR EXCELLENCE The President s Fund for Excellence in Teaching & Learning, established by President Murphy in 2001 shortly after her arrival at JSC, supports projects large and small that are deemed to have the potential to significantly enhance the depth and breadth of teaching and learning at JSC. Funds are allocated based on proposals from faculty, students and staff. Here is a list of selected grants awarded from October 2013 to October A link to the full report is available under Support JSC at GRANTS IN SUPPORT OF STUDENT TRAVEL & ATTENDANCE AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS To Professors Julie Theoret and Kathleen Brinegar (Mathematics and Education) and six JSC students: to attend the Association of Teachers of Mathematics in New England conference ($1,200) To Professor Hans Haverkamp (Health Sciences) and nine JSC students: to attend the American College of Sports Medicine Conference and enable the students to compete in the College Bowl, a Jeopardy -style competition ($2,050) To Professor Steven Light (Music) and JSC music education majors: to fund students collegiate memberships of the National Association for Music Education and participate in the annual Vermont Music Educators Association s fall conference ($1,414) To Associate Professor David Plazek (Political Science) and seven JSC students: to support their attendance at the Model United Nations Conference in Boston ($660) To Associate Professor Lisa Cline (History) and two JSC students: to attend the Holocaust Museum in Montreal ($170) To Professors Mary Martin and Susan Calza (Art) and 12 JSC students: to fund art supplies and subsidize the cost of their study trip to Istanbul and Athens ($3,550) To Lucas Peduzzi (Outdoor Education): to support his attendance at an Instructor Certification Program with the JSC art students with Professor Susan Calza in Athens International Mountain Bike Association, where he gained certification to help launch his career ($300) To support the attendance of six Writing & Literature students at the Association of Writers & Writing Professionals Conference ($2,436) To Elizabeth Conard and Victoria Greenia: to support their participation in the Cuba trip sponsored by the Writing & Literature and Fine Arts departments ($1,350) To Melissa Rixon (Wellness & Alternative Medicine): to support her attendance at the Integrative Healthcare Symposium in New York City, allowing her to take advantage of networking opportunities in her final semester at JSC ($500) To the JSC Chamber Singers: to support their spring 2014 recruiting tour, which included ten performances in five New England states ($3,450) To three student research assistants working with Professor Gina Mireault (Psychology): to support their attendance at the Eastern Psychological Association conference in Boston ($1,500) The President s Fund for Excellence in Teaching & Learning is one of two funds to which President Murphy has requested that gifts in her honor be directed. (The other is the newly established Barbara E. Murphy Fellowship; see page 19.) For more information or to make a secure online gift, visit 42 Johnson views 2014/2015

45 To Samantha Gorton, Marina Turco, Amy Farnham, Rachele Funk and Liz Beatty-Owens: to support their attendance at the U.S. Student Association s National Grassroots Legislative Conference & National Student Congress ($400) To Eliza Doncaster (Environmental Sciences): to support her attendance at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research ($250) To Corey Chase (Health Sciences): to support his studyabroad semester in Australia ($2,000) To Sarah Mott (Fine Arts): to support her participation in the art department s trip to France ($750) To Jacob Fournier (Performing Arts): to support his attendance at the U.S. Institute of Theater Technology Conference ($1,000) To Professor Patrick Houle (Theater) and seven JSC students: to enable them to perform their production of Pippin at the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival ($1,538) To Professor Brad Moskowitz (Outdoor Education) and students: to support his class expedition to Peru, a location chosen for the opportunity to a provide cultural immersion in addition to the outdoor-education curriculum ($3,500) GRANTS in support of CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES & VISITING LECTURERS To Assistant Professor Liz Powell (Writing & Literature): to present the 2014 JSC Authors Series, which brings visiting poets, writers and editors to campus to present and work with students ($4,500) Award-winning poet and critic Edward Hirsch presents a reading to students and faculty in the Cinema Space. Hirsch s visit was made possible by the President s Fund. GRANTS in support of FACULTy & STAFF DEVELOPMENT To Academic Dean Dan Regan and JSC Faculty Members: to present and attend a workshop on how to redesign introductory gateway courses to enhance positive student outcomes ($5,500) To Director of Academic Support Karen Madden: to present a workshop for JSC staff and faculty on Understanding and Engaging Under-Resourced Students ($1,000) To Professor Amy Welch (Health Sciences) and the JSC Counseling Center: to collaborate in a projectdesigned to reduce student anxiety and enhance academic performance using biofeedback at three campus locations ($2,165) To the Office of First-Year Experience: to purchase copies of the book Completing College by Vince Tinto, the book chosen for this year s faculty/staff Common Reading Program ($400) Photo: Kali Covell / Forrest Mattern To Professor John Miller (Fine Arts): to bring a guest speaker to his Advanced Digital Documentary course ($247) To Associate Professor Hans Haverkamp and his student research assistants: to support the students in their submission of a professional paper on the effects of altered airways on exercise ($550) The JSC Chamber Singers Photo: D. Bouton Johnson views 2014/

46 gifts received from July 1, 2013, to june 30, 2014 Photo: Kyleigh Joseph PRESIDENT S club Gifts of $5,000 or more Dr. William T. Doyle Ellsworth Trust Peter & Evelyn Fuss President Barbara E. Murphy Dr. Carolann & K. George Najarian William J. Russell Mrs. Stella Bialecki Sargent Glenn & Marga Sproul Estate of Prescott Stearns Canaday Family Charitable Trust Vermont Community Foundation Richard Willey 71 & Rosalind Weiss MANSFIELD club Gifts of $1,000 to $4,999 Anonymous Dr. Irene Amilhat Allen 57 & Elizabeth Amilhat Root Jeff Crowley 78 Steven Bushey 71 & Mary Bushey 72 John Cantisano 92 & Lynn Cantisano Donald Collins 64 & Susan Collins 70 Timothy Donovan DUR-A-FLEX Foundation, Inc. David Faile 68 Follett Higher Education Group Mark Heinrich 69 & Star Heinrich 69 Mr. Mark Horowitz Liberty Mutual Group Drs. Michael F. Luck 70 & Barbara C. Wilson Marc Reibman 73 Sharron Scott Michael Sicilian 69 & Caroline Sicilian Dr. Carol M. Story 69, MA 74 Jane G. White 71 PINNACLE club Gifts of $500 to $999 Katherine Blackett 95 James Canders 70 Michael & Donna Capern Victor Comtois 68 Concept2 Lisa Cummings Dr. Elizabeth Dolci Peter & Amy Ferris and Family Barbara Dillow Fiddler Fiduciary Trust Company Earl Fisher 68 & Carolyn Fisher 61 Hans Haverkamp David Hutchinson IBM Corporation Sheila Whitcomb Jaquish 68 Leif David Keelty 89 Jo Ann Lamore 00, MA 03 Dawn LeBaron 76 Patricia Lent 50 John Lord Alecia & Frank Manning Carol Mateo 83 D. Scott McClelland Daniel Regan & Judith Mathison James Rowell 54 Mr. & Mrs. William Stritzler Bradford Townsend 79 Donald R. Vickers 70 Margo Warden 97 & Paul Warden Alice G. Whiting 56 STERLING club Gifts of $250 to $499 Elizabeth Bolton 71 Dr. Tania Bacchus Timothy Barcomb 04 David Bergh Deborah Bouton Butternut Mountain Farm Kirk Byles 96 Ginny Chenoweth 77 Keith Conger 91 W. Robert Conners 70; Susan Jossi & Kathleen Conners Maureen Ryan Cooper 61 Edward Debor 76 Emily DiGiulio Richard Dumont 91 Robert Geyer-Sylvia 87 Philip Gray & Janet Travers Philip C. Hack Penny Howrigan Linda & Peter Kramer Karen Madden, Ph.D. Kenneth McLaughlin 57 Mary & Terrence Murphy Sandra JC Noyes Eric Page 94 & Lori-Ann Page 97 Bethany Plissey John Rosenblum 85 Judith Rosovsky Robert Self Dr. Neil Shepard David Silverman 85 Richard Simmons Robert Slade 74 Dr. Julie M. Theoret David Tiffany 79 Union Bank Please note that gifts received after June 30, 2014, are not reflected in this report. They will be listed in the next issue of Johnson Views. Gene Walsh Geofrey T. Wolfe 72 & Joan I. Wolfe Vasilios & Agnes Zaharias SPRUCE club Gifts of $100 to $249 Jacqueline Abbey Russell Arnold 69 Artisan Electric Contractors, Inc. Dawn Bailey 75 William Baker 85 Dr.& Mrs. Stephen Balkun Rebecca N. Ballard 41 Leila Bandar David Batchelder 68 & Sandra Batchelder 78 David Beckman 94 & Jamie Beckman 94 Julie Bell 87 Cynthia Borck 98 Teresa A. Bressette 70 David Brookfield John C. Brown, III 78, MA 80 Jacqueline & Levi Brown William Bugbee 62 Garrett Burch 77 Cynthia Burroughs 69 Bob Bushnell Anne Calza Patricia Cano Andrea Carey 92 Bryan Cerutti 69 Henrique Cezar Scott C. Chapman Therese Cioffi 87 John Clemency David P. Cobb 79 Conrad Coggeshall 91 John Cohen 82 Anthony Collier 75 Todd Comen Ann Marie Courchaine Wayne & Doris Cousineau Fran & Mary Lou Coyle Louise Hansen Cross 67 Peter Croteau 84 & Lisa Croteau Kelly Daige 75 Cynthia J. Dechenes, M.D. 87 & Donald R. Woolever, M.D. Theodora S. Dennison Mary Denny 63 Carl Driscoll 61 Diane Dupere Mr. Brian M. Dwyer 00 East Farmington Volunteer Fire Department Tammy Ellis 06 Virginia Enola 53 & John Enola 53 Robert Esdon 53 Dr. Charles Eyler John Farmer Kirk Farquharson 65 & Ellen Farquharson 67 Mary A. Field, Ph.D. 84 Tom Fitzgerald Kelly Ford & Rev. Michael Ford 90 Susan Whitcomb Foster 73 Julie Fraenkel 82 Nina Frankonis 64 Friends of the Alburgh Public Library Christian Fuller Sharon Gagner David Gallicchio 67 Sherrie Giacobbe Raymond R. Girouard 73 Leslie E. Black & Graham Hayes Govoni 87 Robert Grace 54 Merri Greenia 71 Karen Hack George & Ruth Hack Hugh Haggerty 61 Mark Hale Linda Hall 70 Paulette Harkins 64 Yvonne Harman 75 Randy Hartshorn 79 Elaine Harvey Glenda Haskell 74 Thomas & Theresa Heinrich Robert Hess 77 Linda Hill Ellen M. Hill 95 Carol Holland 92 Melissa Hunter-Boyce MA 92 Bonnie Hurd J. Guy Isabelle 74 Leslie Kanat, Ph.D. Jeanne Bonneau Kennedy 84 Perry LaRoque Lauren Mascola, Petcare Veterinary Services Patricia Lawrence Mark Leipert 96 & Rebecca Leipert 00 Kenneth Leslie Tracy Lizotte 87 Joye M Lyon 09 Judith Kenyon MacMurdo 63 Steven Mann 10 Diane Manning & Family Mr. James W. Martin 71 Mat Su Miners William McCarthy 81 Richard McCarthy 59 Anne Menkens Norman R. Messier 61, MA 84 Margaret McBride Miller 42, 46 John Miller Shawn Montague 95 & Kenena Montague 96 Kathy Montague 78, MA 03 Carleen Musick 97 Sherri Muzzy 69 Mark & Sue Netsch New York Life Insurance Co. Jane Nicholl 72 Julie Nicole 03 Carol Padovano Rich & Twila Palmer Ann Parker 72 Fred Pond Johnson views 2014/2015

47 giving at JSC donor report Arnold & Sherry Rainville Curt Randall 93 & Maura Randall Christopher Raymond & Diane Winchell Barbara Riley 57 Richard Schwolsky 74 David Scudder, Jr. & Martha Walker Robert E. Searles 72, MA 83 & Sally Searles Barbara Self Tammy Shannon Tyrone Shaw Marjorie Buck Shepard 46 Dr. & Mrs. Joel Silverstein Beth Elaine Smallheer 99 Cinda LaClair Smith 76 Jean Snow 80 Frederick Somers 76 Peggy Sprague 81, MA 05 Judith A. Stancliff 00 & Ronald Stancliff Howard Sticklor Diana Stone 07, Stone Underground Construction Kent Strobel 77 Sunrise Physical Therapy Krista Swahn 14 Wayne & Mary Swanger Elizabeth Timmerman Kenneth Tourangeau, Jr. Mary A. Transou Jon Treon 75 Robert & Susan Turco Damian Turner Barbara E. Turnowicz 64, MA 93 Union Mutual Fire Insurance Charles Usher 65 Verizon Judith Villa 80 Christopher Vollaro 93 Elisabeth von Trapp 78, MA 83 Jane Wade Washington Electrical Co-op, Inc. Shelly Watts Russell Weis 10 Denise Marchetto Wessig 99 Senator Richard Westman 82 Patrick Wheatley 75 Lillian L. White 74 Michele Whitmore 08, MA 12 Thomas Wills BABCOCK club Gifts of $50 to $99 Paul Adams 98 & Kelly Adams Ms. Kathryn D. Aiken 86 Gar Anderson 67 Tomas Anderson 64 Dr. John W. Anderson 64 Bergthora Asmundsson Carrie Ballou 01 Bonnie Baran 66 Lisa Lothridge Baranyay 94 Siobhan Barber 92, MA 99 Jennifer Bauer Marie Bean 61 Miss Janis Bender 71 Leroy C. Bennett 64 Robert Berthiaume Marguerite Blackmore Stephen W. Blair 80 Lorna Bliss 59 Douglass Boardman 89 & Jacqueline Gale 92, MA 06 Susan Bombadier Alissa Booth 91 Jane Bradley 96 & Owen Bradley 98 Brattleboro Area Realty Betsey Burdett 82 Jo Ann Burns Kenneth Burrill & Susan Burrill 88 Mary Bushnell 73 Beverly Calza Jose Campos Barbara M. Carter Mr. Scott S. Cole 85, MA 93 Janet B. Cole 99 Nancy Collins 92 Shirley Conley 72 Mary Constance 76 Gregory Coolidge Patricia Coppola Diane Cote 70 & Emile Cote 70 Emily Curtis & Nick Balkun Ruth Curtiss 60 Lois D Arcangelo 74 Deerfield Valley Sportsmen s Club Virginia Deluzio Alan d Etremont Everett Dickinson 62 Roger Donahue 77 Edward Dowling 78 Judith Duval 62 Douglas Eastman Teresa Eng Paulette Fedorishen Carol Fells Wendy Forbes David Ford 68 & Nancy Ford 69, MA 87 Philip Fournier 70 & Andrea Fournier 70 Paul Frenette 75 Linda Garrett 82 Kristal & Shannon Gibbs David Gibson 63 & Betty Gibson 63 Jason Goddette 87 Matthew Goddette 01 Paula Gomes Terry Goodrich 73 & Debra Goodrich 73 Arthur S. Gordon 87 Luc E. Gosselin 79 Melanie Greeno Lawrence & Maryann Grimaldi Elga Gruner 02, MA 09 & Steven Gruner 02 June Guyette 91 & Robert Guyette Patricia M. Haggerty Bruce Hall David Hall Ann Hall Cynthia Hennard Patrick & Barbara Higgins Catherine Higley Letitia C. Hill & Dr. David Hill Jeanne Hinrichs 79 Melissa Hollander 90 Robert Horowitz Billie Houghton Wayne Howe 80 Mark Huff 95 & Julie Paris 95 Linda K. Hughes Marge Isadore Eleanor Isham 47 Kato Jaworski 99 Clifford Johnson Dan Kane Susan B. Katzer Janice Ketchum 86 Ellen Knepper Kenneth Kopsco 66 Maury Kost Cindy Kullmann Stephen LaBree 93 Michael Lampron 94 & Jill Lampron 95 Geneva Lariviere 61 Louise Leach 56 Francine Ellen Lemnah 00 Robert Lencke 80 Meredith Leonard 85 Marjorie A. Livingston 69 Illa Loeb 14 Walter Lother 07 Richard Lumbra 61 Betty Learned MacDowell 47 Cynthia Gilbert Macera 67 Kevin Magee 92 Denise Magnant Erika Magoon 04 Thomas Maguire 71 Stephen Malo 94 Cathy Mander-Adams 88 Donna Martin 93 Deanna Martin 81 Michael Mashtare 81 Amy May James J. McCormack Norman McElvany Millicent McGinnes 92 Rebecca Smith McGregor 02 Michael McKinney Heidi McLaughlin 00 Mr. James McWilliam 67 David Meaney 69 Renovations to McClelland Hall last summer moved the dance studio to the lower level, in the space formerly occupied by JSC s Child Development Center, complete with new wood floors and walls of mirrors. George E. Merrill 70 - Artech Craig Miner 73 Brian, Sharon & Jarred Mongeon Eric H. Montminy 87 Suzanne Morlock 06 Daniel Morse 92 Monique Morway Lynn Murray Paulette Noyes David O Brien 71 Michael Osborne 98 Lily Owusu-Darkwa Kristin Dufault Parkhurst 92 Debra Pearce Peoples Trust Company Lauren Philie Virginia C. Pierrepont 14 Janet Potter 03 David Potter 59 Rosemary Racine 11 Scott Rainville Tammy Rainville Claude Rainville 61 & Luthera Rainville 61 Stephen Ratte 59 William Reynolds 82 Louise Richmond 69 Edward & Elaine Roach Edward Roach Kenneth Roach George Rockwell 65 Patrick Rogers 05 Ann Louise & Sam Rosensohn David Rousselle 76, MA 88 & Kathleen Rousselle 75 Deneen Russell 07 Marguerite Metayer Sayah 71 Mark Schmoll 89 John Scully III 82 Joe Seguin 00 Anissa Seguin 03 Karen Seward 01 Michael & Ann-Lou Shapiro Don Shepheard Ruth Siegel Kendra Silsby Mary Simon John Skala 87 & Donna Skala Marylee Smith Bruce Smith Kim Snitko Jeffrey Sparks 73 & Betsy Harper Jan Speilman Dannielle Jean Spring 07 Clyde Stats Gregory Stefanski 06 & Jennifer Stefanski Kenneth & Melanie Thompson Herbert Tilley & Janice Tilley 84 Mireya Torra 11 Lea Tracy Heather & Jerry Tucker Jean Tucker 51 Julie M. Tumminia-Tomsuden 91 Robert Tyler 78 Dr. Karen Uhlendorf Sharon Vecchiolla Fred & Mary Lou Voelksen Richard Wade 04 Harold J. Wagoner Beth Walsh Nancy Warren 04 Nancy Wentworth 65 Joan Westmoreland Catherine Whatley 72 David & Amie Whitcomb Janice & Thomas WIlls Heather E. L. Wilson 03 Mark Winchester 97 Memorial & HonORary Gifts In Honor of Susan Calza Anna Dermody William Doyle G. Thomas Fisher Ellen Hill Gladys Menkens Alice Whiting In Memory of Barbara Barber Jay Blair J. Mark Canavan David Cook Robert DiGiulio Ruth K. Dillow Amy, Arnold & Elaine Fisher Lisa Korth C. Susan LaPorte Sarah Lizotte William MacLeay Donald McClelland Vera Parker Ron Ross Walter Sargent Prescott Stearns Dennis Taylor Jessica Taylor Walter Sargent Mary Alicia Shanks Prescott W. Stearns Christos Zaharias Norman Wolfe 73 Dale S. Woods, Jr. 76 Mark Woodward 80 SUPPORTERS Gifts up to $49 Sherry Abbey Christian Adams Kent Adams 72 & Sarah Adams 72 Loralie Adams 11 Charlene Albee 80 & Keith Albee Edward A. Andrus 99 Jeff Angione Anne M. Atherton 59 Emily M. Austin 87 Ms. Claire W. Austin 95 David Baker 71 Travis E. Barber 92 Robert Barnard 79 & Leanne Barnard 86 Stephen C. Barnard 77 Johnson views 2014/

48 July 1, 2013, to june 30, 2014 On the second floor of McClelland Hall, the space previously occupied by the dance studio has been transformed into a large, light-filled lounge and meeting space for students and faculty. Pictured here is a summer 2014 meeting of the JSC Lab Rats students and faculty engaged in research during the summer. Valerie Holt Barry 93 Karmen Bascom 88 David Bean 61 & Reta Bean 60 Mary Lou Beaulieu 03 Melissa S. Beckwith 13 Lou Ann Beninati 77 Gerard Berthiaume Lisa Bibona 02 Alicia Boisseau 94 Carol Bokan Jane Bolduc Linda Somers Bongiolatti 67 Nancy Baker Boyer 60 Dr. Kenneth Brighton Dr. Kathleen Brinegar Heidi Brosseau 09 Lorraine Brouillette 57 Robin Lee Brown Carol C. Brown Carol Buchdahl 85, MA 92 Elisabeth Burghardt 84 LoriJane Burns Carroll Burrington 85 James Cadieux 97 Kristin Cannon Mary Jean Carbone 64 Robert Carbone 65 Emma Cardoso Tom Carney 71, MA 78 & Sue Carney 72 John Carroll III 79 Mary Carty 93 Carole Chabot Penelope Chapman 59 Julie Choquette 01 Jamie Clark 11 Leigh Clark 74 Paul Clark 70 Jerry Clark 71 Pam Clineff 73 Merilyn Clinger Alma M. Cobb Collins & Associates, LLC Timothy Comolli 65 Julia Compagna 13 Susan Conger 86 Joan W. Cook 89 Dale Copping 82 The Corrells Douglas Corrow 74 Susan Cote Jeffrey & Debbie Cousineau Sandra Crowningshield Beverly Lothian Cyr 59 Timothy Daley 03 Howard & Betty Davis George Davis 67 Sheryl Davis Linda Davis Antoinette Dell Osso 98 Jennifer Densmore 82 Richard Devine 73 & Gwendolyn Devine 73 Shirley Diaz 57 Jennifer Dickie 07 Mary Dole 86 Carol Doner 94 Florette Dorr 11 Lori Draper 93 Sandra Duffy Eileen Dulmer 94 Jacques Dupuis 71 Jo Anne Edwards Steven Eisenberg 04 Janet Ertz 02 & Charles Ertz Larry Fafard 74 Alison Farr Joseph Fiarkoski 62 Margaret Filingeri 62 Dorothy Tobin Finlay 69, MA 05 Martha Baker Fiske 70 Elaine Bullock Fitch 51, MA 82 Barb Flathers Martin Fors 88 Pauline Fort Adrianna Fox 93 Brenda Frazer 68 Pauline Garceau 45 Yvonne & Greg Gardner Michael Gaydos 77 & Lynda Gaydos 74 Richard Gibson 66 Gena Glidden 71 Jane Gomez-Dimotsis 79 Mary Goodyear, Caroline & Jonathan Raymond Linda Parker Goyet 77 George Gross 95 Lois Gulino Jacqueline & David Gustafson Karen Hall Geraldine Hallock 73 Molly Hatfield 05 Kirsten Borgstrom Hayes 78 Cindy Hayford Donald Hazelton 73 & Deborah Hazelton 74 Susan & William Healey Margaret Henn 83 Carmella Henry Bill & Minnie Herzog Judith Higgins 00 Jerry Himelstein Thomas Hood 84 Patricia Horsford 61 Kimberly Hudock Marlene Hughes 09 Gregory Ives 74 & Beth Ives Annette Jalbert Trina Janeczek 95 Natalie Jensen Linda & James Jewett Jon Jewett 78 Nancy Jones 92 Helen Joyal 54 Sandra Joyce 79 Leonard Julius 81 David Kahn 88 Lois Keith 52 Keith s II Sports, Ltd. 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Floyd Sleeper Yvonne Smith 54 Timothy Smith 71 Cynthia Smorgans 72 Fern Sparks Carroll Stuart Spaulding 68 Don Spawn Paul Stabler Pawel Stanlewski Mabel Fleming Stevens 87 Toby Stewart Siobhan Stout 08 Philip Swanson 74 Joseph Tasca 11 Elizabeth Taylor Roger Thivierge 68 Nancy Thompson Shawn Thompson-Snow 99 Marjorie Timmerman Rodney Titus 62 & Sandra Titus 62 Donna Towne 94 Rhonda True Kendra True Rebecca Woodbury Tucker 94 Doris Underwood 41 Ben Vaughan William Vecchiolla 00 Carl Veilleux 86 Wendy Velander 08 Amanda Viens Gerry & Sharon Viens Mike & Jane Viens Andrea Vose 93 Harold L. Wagoner Gayle Sweet Waite 61 Kimberly Ward 89 Thomas K. Ware Dr. Eleanor Webber Melissa Weinstein Diane Welch 96 Mary S. West 79 David Wetmore 98 Suzanne Whedon 87 Jacob White Margaret M. Whittemore Roger Wilken Thomas Kent Williams 69 Joan Williams Patrice Williams Arlie Williamson 45 Jonathan Willson 12 Christine & Bert Wolff Keith Wuttke 08 Patricia Zlotucha 72, MA 86 & Michael Zlotucha 89 Please join your fellow alums who are investing in the future by supporting Johnson State College. Use the envelope in this issue or go online to give to make a secure gift. Your donations ensure that future alumni receive a strong JSC experience inside the classroom and out. Thank you. 46 Johnson views 2014/2015

49 1940s DORIS (LACE) UNDERWOOD 41 attended her 70th reunion at JSC two years ago with her daughter, Diane. She has five children (all of them UVM graduates), seven grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren! CONNSTANCE (SAVARD) CARLSON 44 reports that she and husband Ernie celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary Feb. 15, HELEN (BURBANK) DAVIS 44 reports that she has been legally blind for the last several years. While she can no longer quilt, over the years she created more than 100 quilts, donating many to churches and other organizations and giving the rest to relatives and friends. Helen published a cookbook as she was losing her eyesight, but it didn t quite fit all 2,273 recipes and many anecdotes! Her husband passed away in 2012, a month away from his 94th birthday. They had been married for 67 years and 5 months at the time of his passing. MARION (NORTH) SPRAGUE 49 retired in 2000 after 50 years of teaching first grade, four years in Vermont and the rest in Southington, Conn. She and her husband celebrated their wedding anniversary of 62 years last year in Punta Cana with their five children, spouses and grandchildren. This year, for their 63rd, they spent time at home with their family. 1950s ELIZABETH (NEWTON) PACKER 51 reports that her oldest grandson, Tyler, graduated high school in June 2013 and has started college. YVONNE (ALLAIRE) SMITH 54 has been spending a lot of her time in her flower and vegetable gardens. She has three children as well as three grandchildren. Yvonne has also been enjoying her time participating in the church and community activities. ESTHER MCLAUGHLIN 56 has been retired from teaching since 1996 but that hasn t slowed her down! She remains very involved with senior activities at the Jeri-Hill XYZ Senior Center. She always helps out and has a food dish to share with the seniors. She still loves to knit, read, do ceramics and remain involved at church. Esther travels regularly around New England and has a very spoiled poodle! KENNETH MCLAUGHLIN 57 reported plans to make a two-week trip to Kenya in August 2014, which would be his 12th trip to that African country. RICHARD McCARTHY 59 and his wife, Carole, recently celebrated their 34th anniversary. They welcomed their first great grandson into the family in fall Dick has been in great health and recently completed his first Reebok Spartan race. He enjoys cycling every day and looks forward to many more rides. DAVID POTTER 59 published his first book, Storm Clouds Over Mountainview Middle School, a story intended for middleschool kids who don t like to read, in He planned to complete his second book by fall 2014 focusing on poetry and photos of Vermont wildlife and scenery. He enjoys being an instructor in the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department s Let s Go Fishing program and is on the department s Lake Champlain Committee. 1960s RUTH CURTISS 60 has a third grandchild enrolled at JSC; the other two have already graduated. Ruth has been retired for a long time, is a great-grandmother and is enjoying retirement and family. TOMAS ANDERSON 64 says his education degree from JSC prepared him for his career in Montana, where he taught for 12 years and served as an administrator for 19 years. He retired in 2006 and has been active in Kiwanis, Friends of the Library, KC, Mountain Bluebird Trails, and a recycling organization. Tomas favorite memory of Johnson is the fellowship with the staff and students. JOHN JACK ANDERSON 64 is retired and living in Englewood, Fla., where he serves on his homeowner s board and keeps busy with his photography hobby. He and his wife have five sons and daughters and eight grandchildren. They enjoy travel and often come to Johnson. He served on the Ellsworth Trust until 2013, when he moved to emeritus status. MARY JEAN CARBONE 64 is proud to report that she has read over 2,000 books in her lifetime. DONALD COLLINS 64 decided not to run for re-election after 10 years in the Vermont Senate. He is proud to have served as chair of the Senate Education Committee. His career also included serving on the State Board of Education. He now looks forward to enjoying his four grandchildren and traveling. JUDITH G. FLASHMAN 64 is planning to relocate in the near future. She says JSC was the best time of her life. I have a great love for Vermont, especially Johnson. I am so pleased to have been there and to have had Dr. Doris Spencer, Professor Ellsworth and Dr. Stefaniak, she said, adding that JSC prepared her to further her education at Boston University in remedial reading. NINA (VELOVICH) FRANKONIS 64 reports that with 46 years of marriage, three wonderful children and four beautiful grandchildren, life is good! LYNN A. KINGSBURY 64 retired in June 2000 after 33 years of teaching. In 2014 she and her husband, GARY KINGSBURY 63, celebrated 50 years of marriage. They travel to Austin every winter to be with their daughter s family. Their son Todd and his family live in Shelburne, Vt., and they have five grandchildren. Johnson views 2014/

50 BARBARA E. TURNOWICZ 64 is enjoying retirement after teaching in Burlington for 30 years. She likes taking friends out on various errands and going out to lunch. Barbara still loves to read and to learn about natural remedies. She cooks a lot of vegan dishes and is an active member in the Burlington Garden Club. MAURICE WALSH 64 is enjoying retirement after teaching at Burlington High School. TIMOTHY COMOLLI 65 has been enjoying retirement for the past nine years. LESLIE LARROW 65 reports she is retired from teaching but still spends time with students as a tutor one day a week. She also enjoys having lunch every Wednesday with her fellow retired teacher friends. RICHARD GIBSON 66 attended a JSC Alumni Gathering in Burlington, Vt., in May He reports he retired after 32 years of teaching there, he is now working 40 hours a week for a painting contractor. SALLY LESTER LAMPHIER 65 reports, After 32 years as a school counselor at the Shelburne Community School, I worked at Gardener s Supply for 12 years. When I drive through Johnson now, I am so impressed with how it has grown from the days with the one dorm on the hill and classes down the hill! GAR ANDERSON 67 retired Dec. 31, 2013, and was re-elected to the Vermont Conservation Committee, where he is working on legislation regarding taxation of conservation lands. Gar was also elected to the board of the Stowe Community Church. LINDA BONGIOLATTI 67 retired from full-time teaching in June GEORGE DAVIS 67 is enjoying retirement, volunteer work and his 6-year-old identical twin grandchildren, Maggie and Ella. DAVID H. FAILE, JR. 68, is a nine-time Master Certified Flight Instructor (CFI) and a member of the Society of Aviation and Flight Educators who teaches flight at the Sikorsky Airport in Bridgeport, Conn. David is an Airport Support Network representative, a FAASTeam (FAA Safety Team) representative in the Windsor Locks (Conn.) Flight Standards District and the recipient of the FAA s Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award. He was named national CFI of the Year in JERRY BRIGHAM 69 taught 7th and 8th grade social studies and language arts in Vermont for 40 years (eight in Berkshire and 32 in Bakersfield). Jerry and his wife Jane Lavery have been married since They have three children: Jessica, Jason and Johnathan. Jessica passed away in 2008 in an automobile accident. Jerry retired in 2009 and keeps busy with his two grandsons, Dillion and Sebastian. He also spends his time gardening, doing yard work, cutting wood and volunteering. RODNEY COMOLLI 69 retired in 2002 after 32+ years of teaching. These days he s keeping himself busy golfing and traveling. Rodney enjoys spending winters in Beverly Hills, Fla., saving him from shoveling chores. KENNETH GOLDBLATT 69 may have retired from 34 years of teaching but retirement hasn t slowed him down! Ken moved into emergency management for Brockton, Mass., initially serving as a training and safety officer, then became the traffic commissioner and deputy director of emergency management for the town. ROO V. HARRIS 70 is a professional bamboo propagator and landscape designer. He is now retired and this work keeps him healthy. Roo is currently a professional mountain bike guide with Mendocino Bike Sprites and recently published a guidebook, Mountain Biking the Mendocino Coast and Beyond. SHERRI KITTY (SWINTON) MUZZY 69 reports she is busy and loving retirement. She and her husband spend time exploring parts of the U.S. during February and March and have been enjoying the family camp on Lake Champlain in the summertime. In November they will welcome a new grandson to accompany their other three. DEBORAH (FLYNN) PLANT 69 retired in 2010 from St. Albans City School, where she was a reading recovery and kindergarten teacher. She then substituted for three years and now volunteers once a week. Deb is on two reparative boards and serves as the victim liaison for her local community justice center. She and her husband have two granddaughters who keep them very busy. They go to Florida for a month each year and hope to increase their stay at some point. DR. CAROL M. STORY 69 is enjoying retirement and the chance to travel and live life without a schedule. This year she enjoyed going to Michigan for the annual tulip festival and to several national parks, monuments and other historical sites. She also volunteers with the Green Mountain Center for Gifted Education and continues to work with the Talent Development Institute every summer. 1970s HELEN J. CAMPBELL-ELLSWORTH 70 spends a lot of time with her grandson since retirement. RONALD GONDEK 70 writes, After graduation, I went in to teaching and stayed in the profession for 32 years, teaching eighth grade algebra. I coached at all levels in the education continuum. I was also the athletic director for 27 of those 32 years. I coached basketball at the middle and high school levels. I coached baseball at the middle, high school and college levels. I married my wife Barbara (39 years), and she became my chief statistician and confident. I retired in 2000 and started my own painting business with two of the coaches who worked with me. We have been in business now for the past 14 years what a different world from education. My wife and I are travelers and have literally been all over the world, France and Ireland being a couple of highlights. PAUL ROBERTS 70 retired from Boeing in August 2014 but was called back in September as a consultant at Air Combat Command on the U-2 and the unmanned Global Hawk. ELIZABETH BOLTON 71 is still enjoying what is now her seventh year of retirement! JAMES W. MARTIN 71 retired from Berlin (Vt.) Public Schools as a teacher in MARY BUSHNELL 73 sends her thanks to Johnson State and JSC students and staff for their continued support of the weekly Johnson CommUNITY Meal (a free lunchtime meal served every Wednesday) and for helping out at Thanksgiving. Mary is the president of the Johnson Food Shelf, which is the beneficiary of donations from the meal. GWEN (HURLBURT) DEVINE 73 and RICK DEVINE 73 have been enjoying their retirement since June 2012, when they each stopped teaching after 40 years for Rick and 39 years for Gwen. They now have more time to enjoy their two grandchildren, ages 5 and 8. JAMES JIM FREDERICKS 73 has been working and playing in the Nordic ski industry for over 40 years, including working with some of the world s top athletes as the U.S. director of Nordic racing and promotions with Rossignol Ski Company and executive director of the Catamount Trail Association in Vermont. He also founded the Race to the Top of Vermont in Stowe, the second highest hill-climb in the Northeast. Joi n th e Alumni Council! Help plan alumni events and connect fellow JSC grads to the College. It's fun! It's rewarding! And it's a great way to support past, present and future JSC students. Lea rn more! Lauren Philie [email protected] 48 Johnson views 2014/2015

51 PETER KOLEDO 73 and PATRICIA KOLEDO 74 recently celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary. Patricia also retired recently after teaching third and fourth grade for 38 years at Brewster Pierce School in Huntington, Vt. THOMAS LAVALLEY 73, MA 77, MA 81 recently retired after 40 years in education as a teacher, principal and superintendent in Vermont, New Hampshire and Massachusetts. He received a fellowship in the Interactive Leadership Project from UVM in 1984, served in the Vermont Army National Guard and the U.S. Army Reserves for 29 years, was honored as a national distinguished principal in 1994, and is in Who s Who Among Students in American Colleges and Universities and in several Who s Who in American Education editions. He was an active member of the Vermont Principals Association and was elected to the board of the Massachusetts Elementary School Principals Association. His last position was as principal of the Bates School in Salem, Mass., from 2001 to He and his wife live in Georgetown, Mass. He has three sons, three stepchildren and four grandsons. NORMAN WOLFE 73 continues to work as a part-time music teacher after retiring from full-time teaching in He is also enjoying his 2-year-old granddaughter, Norah, an April Fool s Day baby! PEGGY (BOWIN) AINSWORTH 74 reports, The last 40 years have been full of diverse activities. In addition to teaching in Barre, Vt., for 30 years, I worked during summers for the U.S. Forest Service s Youth Conservation Corps. (3 years), as a volunteer firefighter (6 years), acted in a small town theater (five years), sang with Brookfield Singers (8 years), and currently play in the South Royalton Town Band. Between marriage, divorce and remarriage, I have one daughter, two stepchildren, and two granddaughters. My husband, David, and I own a fifth-generation, 435-acre dairy and vegetable farm. I am also in my ninth year on the Royalton Select Board. ROBERTA DUMAS 74 retired in 2010 from teaching at Richard Elementary School after 36 years. She currently lives in Jericho, Vt., with her three dogs. She loves spending time with friends, doing dog agility, and gardening. LARRY FAFARD 74 has a daughter who began studies at JSC in August MARTHA FLANAGAN 74 retired January SUSIE M. GIRARDIN 74 and KEN GIRARDIN 72 recently celebrated their 35th wedding anniversary. In 2005 Ken retired from teaching after 33 years, and Susie retired after 25 years. She s been an independent educational consultant ever since. They live in a contemporary home on Lake Champlain. LAIRD MACDOWELL 74 retired from IBM in 2013 after 33 years. He currently works part-time at Smugglers Notch Resort. In the summer he is a hiking guide and in the winter he is a cross-country ski instructor. GAIL (McCLINTOCK) MOREAU 74 recently retired from a career in senior services, most recently as director of the Heineberg Senior Center in Burlington, Vt. LILLIAN WHITE 74 retired from teaching at the Johnson Elementary School in She is now working part-time as a substitute teacher. STEVE BAILEY 75 recently retired after 37 years in the environmental air-monitoring field. He worked with two different state agencies as well as a national environmental consulting firm on projects in more than 20 states. He now spends his time on various hobbies and is enjoying life with his wife, Barbara, and their two sons and four grandkids. RICHARD BASHAW 75 recently retired from a custodial position at Bellows Free Academy-St. Albans. His presence made BFA a better place for everyone, said athletic director Dan Marlow, who worked with Richard for many years. Richard had worked at the school for 25 years. RICHARD RICK DESORDA 75 retired in June 2014 after 39 years teaching history at his alma mater, Mt. Abraham Union High School in Bristol, Vt., where he also served as the dean of faculty. Rick says he looks forward to spending more time at home with his wife, Sandy, and will continue to officiate soccer and baseball games. PAULA DOLAN 75 retired from teaching several years ago but is still very active in her community. Paula has volunteered countless hours at the Vermont Food Bank in Barre, Vt., over the past nine years, handling any number of tasks thrown her way, from sorting food to stuffing envelopes. She was featured on the WVNY-TV evening news as a Local Hero. KATHARINE ENEGUESS 75 stepped down last June as president of White Mountains Community College to take a position elsewhere within the Community College System of New Hampshire. She served as president for a decade. Earlier in 2014, Eneguess was one of 26 people appointed by Gov. Maggie Hassan to the state Economic Development Advisory Council and was named one of six Outstanding Women in Business by New Hampshire Business magazine and Centrix Bank. SANDRA HOWARD 75 recently accepted a new position as administrative assistant and marketing representative for Paul Davis Restoration in Hardwick, Vt. She previously worked for more than 25 years as a sales and marketing executive in her family s longtime local furniture store, Buck s Furniture in Wolcott, Vt. She also served as president of the Heart of Vermont Chamber of Commerce in the Hardwick area and as vice president of the Lamoille Region Chamber of Commerce. ANN JONES 75 is retired from dairy farming after 40 years and says she remembers JSC as a highlight in her life. She now lives in Richford, Vt., and says she would love to be in touch with classmates. JAMES JIM OSBORNE 75 and SUSAN (PORTELANCE) OSBORNE 74 met at JSC back in They celebrated their 35th wedding anniversary on campus at Sue s class reunion during JSC Family & Alumni Reunion Weekend in September SHEILA CARDWELL 76 reported in spring 2014 that she was planning a wedding for August MARY CONSTANCE 76 became a grandmother Dec. 3, 2013, when granddaughter Avery was born. CYNTHIA (MELENDY) LABELLE 76 and DONALD LABELLE 76 met the first day of their freshman year at JSC in Doni was just back from a stint in the army, having been drafted soon after his graduation from high school in Cyndi was fresh out of high school and looking for a new and exciting adventure. They met during their first advisory meeting and have been together since. They just celebrated their 40th year of marital bliss on June 8, 2014, and say that their time at JSC was great. They lived in the dorms their first two years, then got married and moved into the almostbrand-new Married Student Housing (now called the College Apartments). Many of the couples had children and the husbands were also war vets, which contributed to a tighter bond between them. They say their experience as a married couple was made that much stronger being with other young married couples struggling to make ends meet and attend college. MICHAEL GAYDOS 77 and LINDA GAYDOS 74 reported in April 2014 that they were expecting a granddaughter in June LINDA GOYET 77 recently built a new home in Waterford, Vt. Jim and Susan Osborne at 2014 JSC Reunion Weekend Katharine Eneguess Johnson views 2014/

52 WALTER E. MOSLEY 77 currently lives in New York City. His acclaimed debut novel, Devil in a Blue Dress (Norton, 1990) was adapted into a 1995 film of the same name starring Denzel Washington. In 2013 he was inducted into the New York Writers Hall of Fame. In a literary career spanning nearly a quarter century, he has published more than 40 books across numerous writing genres. Devil in a Blue Dress was the first of 12 books in Mosley s commercially and critically successful Easy Rawlins Mystery Novel Series. Among his other notable novels are Little Green (Doubleday, 2013), Fortunate Son (Little, Brown, 2006), and Blue Light (Little, Brown, 1998), which was named one of 100 Notable Books of 1998 by The New York Times. Other awards and distinctions include the 2006 Carl Brandon Parrallax Award for the novel 47 (Little, Brown, 2005), a 1998 Anisfield Wolf Award, a 1996 O. Henry Award, and a 1996 Literary Award from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. He also won a Grammy Award for the liner notes to Richard Pryor s comedy compilation And It s Deep Too! in CHRISTOPHER PARKER 77 was a personal chef at the Masters Golf Tournament in spring ALBERT PRINGLE 77, aka Woody, recently played in Wakefield, N.H., at the historic Little Red Schoolhouse with fellow musician Marek Bennett, playing and singing songs of the Civil War. KATHY MONTAGUE 78 & MA 03 has been a teacher at Milton (Vt.) High School for more than 34 years. CARLA LEMNAH-WARNER 79 recently celebrated her 30th anniversary with husband James Warner. They have two daughters: Kate, 28, living in Westfield, Mass.; and Emily, 26, in Montpelier, Vt. Carla has been a special education teacher for 33 years and is currently at Agawam High School in Massachusetts. In 2010 and 2011 Carla coached the Lower New England High School girls lacrosse team, leading them to the national championship in Baltimore, Md. In 2011 she was named Girls Lacrosse Coach of the Year by the Western Massachusetts Sportswriters. WILLIAM VECCHITTO 79 and his wife were planning a move to the Olympia area of Washington State in May 2015 to be with their family. He says, Retirement is as good as it gets, and I am loving it. There is time to do things as I wish and want. 1980s LINDA WILLIAMSON DAVIS 80 reports that she had an eventful In May, her daughter Stacey Moss, from New Jersey, graduated with a 4.0 GPA from Brookdale Community College, in Lincroft, N.J. In June, Stacey s youngest son, Cameron, graduated from Freehold High School. Then, in September, Stacey s oldest son, Nick, graduated from Universal Technical Institute in Pennsylvania, while middle son, Nate, in the U.S. Army stationed at Fort Polk, La., was promoted to specialist. In addition, Nate and his wife, Danielle, were married in January 2013, and in December they celebrated the birth of Sydney Grace, Linda s greatgranddaughter. WILLIAM J. KELLY 80 reported in spring 2014 that he had a 2-year old granddaughter and another due that June. ELLIE FINN DIXON 81 says she has wonderful memories of Vermont and that life is good since she retired in 2005 after 25 years with the Caledonian Record. LEONARD JULIUS 81 is enjoying retirement from his career in the Navy and the state of Vermont. photo: Los Angeles Times MICHAEL T. MASHTARE 81 has worked at Bellow Free Academy in St. Albans, Vt., for 33 years, primarily in physical education, and is also the cross-country coach. Mike aims to help all runners feel better about their results, and themselves, through Better Running, a side business he launched last fall. All clients begin with a test run, so that Mike can gauge their fitness level. From there, his programs can span a few weeks or several months, depending on his client s experience and goals. He also focuses on time management, cross training and stretching, and nutrition as necessary. As of spring 2014, he had run 30-plus marathons, including five Boston Marathons. He also made it to the national championships twice, during his freshman and senior years, while in college. Mike wants to carry Better Running into his post-retirement life from teaching, and he says he wants to run for the rest of his life. MARY (ASHLEY) SMITH 81 just built a new home in Concord, Ohio. Her youngest son, Tyler, just got married and is a paramedic in Cleveland. Her daughter Jennifer received her master s degree in special education and is working in a school in Cleveland. Her oldest daughter, who has special needs, continues to work part time as a teacher assistant in a day care and lives in a group home in Madison, Ohio. She continues to stay very busy attending her day program, visiting friends and family, attending the YMCA and the library and shopping. She is a true blessing from heaven, Mary says. CYNTHIA CINDY BURKE 82 is spending her time skiing, doing yoga, and leading bike tours along the coast of Maine. BRENT WHITE 82 reported in June 2014 that he had just finished his 28th year as a music educator and his sixth as band director at Barre (Vt.) Town School, where he teaches grades 3 through 8. He says, I have the best job with the best students ever. I get to play music with kids every day! He and his wife moved from a farmhouse in Duxbury to a condo in Stowe last October, which means no more lawn-mowing, pool-cleaning or snow-shoveling. They also purchased a condo in Naples, Fla., two years ago and look forward to retiring in a few years so they can become snowbirds on the Gulf of Mexico. Brent sends greetings to all of his Dibden music classmates! THOMAS HOOD 84 is a minister in New York and is putting the finishing touches on a ministry center that is over 60 feet wide and 100 feet long. ELIZABETH LOWRY 84 works as a tutor helping kids with exam preparation and reading skills. CARL VEILLEUX 86 was re-married in He and his wife have twin daughters, born in DIANA WHITTINGTON 86 became a first-time grandmother to a baby boy in August KERRICK JOHNSON 87 was recently appointed to a three-year term on the Howard Center board of trustees in Burlington, Vt. Kerrick lives in North Middlesex and is vice president of communications, systems and strategy for the Vermont Electric Power Co. (VELCO). CYNTHIA CYD KNIGHT 87 and DAVID SCHRAFF SCHRAFFENBERGER 08 visited JSC in June They both work at Production Advantage Inc. in Williston, Vt. Their company recently upgraded the rigging apparatus in the Dibden Center for the Arts. Over lunch, they dazzled us with their stories of life on the road with famous musicians and other performers, managing all things lighting. HEATHER C. BRADLEY 88 was promoted to vice president and commercial lender at Community National Bank, where has worked since Heather lives in Lamoille County with her husband, George, and their children and has been very active with civic duties. She currently sits on the boards of Lamoille Community Food Share and Lamoille Home Health & Hospice, and she is a member the Morrisville Rotary Club. MICHAEL KEMMER 88 is the director of ski racing for the Thunder Ridge race team in New York. LAUREN MITCHELL 88 married Wayne Schultz, the love of her life, in June 2014 and is proud to be a breast cancer survivor since DREW SCHNEIDER 88 reports that he is working for the number one real estate brokerage firm on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles. He can advise anywhere in the United States, Canada, Mexico and Dubai. He says, Feel free to contact me! SUSAN BROWN 89, MA 04 was honored at the Vermont Educational Opportunity Programs (VEOP) annual conference in October 2014 with the Carolyn Donahue Friend of Equal Opportunity Education Award, which recognizes educators who are strong supporters of TRiO or GEAR UP students and programs in Vermont. The recipient works tirelessly to improve access to and success in higher education for modest income, firstgeneration college students and students with disabilities. Sue is the director of guidance at Craftsbury Academy and has done much more for her students than what is in her job description. Students say that Sue s kindness radiates throughout her office and everyone who enters it leaves feeling better. 50 Johnson views 2014/2015

53 MICHELLE (HARRINGTON) MOATS 89 reported in spring 2014 that her son, Todd (20), who joined the Navy, was married and was expecting a baby boy in June. She added that her husband earned his Ph.D. in adult human resource development from Texas University. GREGORY SCRIBNER 89 was recently promoted to manager of technical support at Process Solutions America Inc. in Hudson, N.Y., where he has completed his 25th year in the cement industry. 1990s KRISTIN CALLAHAN 90 married John Osborne in April They live in Ayer, Mass., and Kristin teaches fifth grade math in Fitchburg. ANGELA HUGHES BRULEY 91 has retired from her job as an adjudications officer for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. ROBERT BURNHAM 91 is taking a break from his career as an English teacher to stay at home with his kids and says he enjoys carpentry when time allows. CHRISTOPHER S. REED 91 is the former director of annual giving at Colby-Sawyer College in New Hampshire. After 15 years as head coach for the men s and women s rugby teams there, Chris stepped down in 2014 so he could spend more time with his family. His combined record stands at 153 wins and 43 losses including 11 conference titles, seven non-conference spring championships, and eight Division second-place and three third-place finishes but the Colby-Sawyer rugby community would tell you that his impact was far deeper than wins and losses. MICHELLE RONDEAU 91 has been in the hotel industry since graduating from JSC except for a two-year stint in retail. She has been at the Public House Historic Inn in Sturbridge, Mass. for 17 years, 13 of them as manager of the rooms division, and says she still loves her job. I don t like everything I have to deal with, but I learn new things about the industry and myself every day, she reports. It was great to have a JSC intern last year, and it opened the door for others to do the same. When you experience the industry and its challenges from the inside and meet the people who walk through the door, it s a very interesting career. I have no regrets. I have to thank Dr. John Pierce and Lance Crocker for what they taught me. JULIE TUMMINIA-TOMSUDEN 91 bought a house in North Carolina in anticipation of retiring there when the time comes. TRAVIS BARBER 92 celebrated his 20th year at his job. RICHARD GENEST 92 reported that he was planning a wedding for January 2015 in St.Croix. He has three children, ages 12, 10 and 6. CHRISTOPHER HARDY 92 recently celebrated his 12th year at Northeast Kingdom Learning Services in Newport, Vt., starting as a community education teacher for two years, then becoming the organization s chief GED examiner. Two years ago he was promoted to director of data and assessment. He says that the work the organization does helping adult learners makes him love going to work each day. NANCY P. JONES 92 lives in Bradford, Vt., and maintains an active lifestyle. In one recent eight-day period, she supervised a bus of teenagers on a field trip to Burlington, attended a two-day conference in New Hampshire for community leaders addressing climate change, participated in an economic development meeting with the Two Rivers- Ottauquechee Regional Planning Commission (of which she is an executive board member) and made several dozen burritos to sell at a fundraiser for the Bradford Conservation Commission. She has been a member of the Commission since 1991, serving as its chair for the past 11 years. The former science teacher spearheaded efforts over several years to establish what is now known as the Wright s Mountain/ Devil s Den Town Forest, an 800-acre network of conserved land that includes seven miles of trails and an expansive, west-facing vista from a cabin near Wright s Mountain s 1,822-foot summit. Nancy also keeps busy helping those in need. A year after retiring from Oxbow, she became coordinator of the Mentoring Project of the Upper Valley, a nonprofit organization matching students aged 10 to 18 with mentors in the local communities. She helps the program stay strong by applying for grants, handling insurance paperwork and urging volunteers to follow through on commitments. PETER LEWIA 92 is an author and former Lamoille County resident who returned to Johnson in June 2014 to hold a book signing for his third book, The King of Ameron, at Ebenezer Books. Peter is the co-author of the Ameron Chronicles, a sci-fi and fantasy series he writes with Roger Sicely. Work on the series began in 2005, when Peter started writing a series of short stories for Sicely, who at the time was in the army and stationed in Afghanistan. Sicely then volunteered to start writing alternating chapters in the story with Lewia, and they soon had a rough manuscript of nearly 500,000 words.their first novel, The Heir of Ameron, was released in 2011, and their second, The Princes of Ameron, was released the following year. The series centers on the story of two young men in a post-apocolyptic, pre-industrial society where those in power have control of futuristic technology that appears to others as magic. Over the course of the series, the two main characters see war break out and face a number of challenges as their heritage is revealed. KEVIN MAGEE 92 has been working on a coastal resilience plan for the past several years. The plan examines rising sea levels and the accompanying risks and hazards to towns and roads. RACHEL (CASWELL) BAKER 93 is the children s librarian at Elkins Public Library in Canterbury, N.H., where she lives with her husband, Erik, and their children, Patrick and Annie. EILEEN BOLAND 93 was recently reappointed to Vermont Women s Commission by Gov. Peter Shumlin. Her interest in women s issues began with her involvement in Vermont s efforts to pass the national Equal Rights Amendment in the early 80s. She has had an active and continuing interest in the social and economic wellbeing of women and girls through her work with senior management teams in Vermont K-16 education and state government. Eileen serves as director of human resources for St. Johnsbury Academy. She was Vermont s commissioner of human resources from and served as a member of the Governor s Affirmative Action Council. Her numerous community and civic involvements include serving as a trustee for the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum and as a Justice of the Peace and member of the Board of Civil Authority for her hometown of Wheelock. MICHELE (LUMBRA) BOOMHOWER 93 recently accepted a new job as director of policy, planning and intermodal development (PPAID) for the Vermont Agency of Transportation (VTrans). Michele previously served as assistant director of the Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission. In her new position she serves as a senior policy advisor and oversees planning for VTrans and Vermont s rail, aviation and public-transit programs. In her free time, Michele is president of the Burlington Rotary and continues to serve as a governor s appointee for the Vermont Rail Council. Michele attended the national Prowalk, Probike, ProPlace conference in September 2014 in Pittsburgh. MICHAEL A. DEBONIS 93 is the new executive director of the Green Mountain Club. DeBonis was formally the executive director of the Forest Guild based in Santa Fe, N.M. Michael started his work in the natural resources field in Vermont. He has hiked both the Appalachian Trail and the Long Trail and been a GMC member for 10 years. He oversees GMC s mission to preserve and protect the Long Trail, a 273-mile hiking trail spanning the length of Vermont through the Green Mountains, as well as nearly 200 additional side trails and networks. DEAN C.HEWITT 93 owns his own construction company, DCH Builders. He reported in May that he was engaged and had just built a new home in Hyde Park, Vt. TAMRA HIGGINS 93 and JUSTIN MARSH 11, both members of the Cambridge (Vt.) Historical Society, co-edited a new book of local history and cooking traditions. The Historical Society teamed up with Shelburne s Wind Ridge Books of Vermont to publish Tasteful Traditions: A Collection of Cambridge History, Memories and Family Recipes. The book is filled with recipes and stories submitted by residents and compiled from newspapers, personal collections and community cookbooks. Justin found some deteriorating community cookbooks and decided he wanted to document his hometown s heritage. These books were barely hanging on for dear life, and they were filled with these recipes from the early 1900s. We wanted to preserve them so they could live on for another generation, he wrote. Johnson views 2014/

54 ANDREA ALTMAN 94 is the founder and director of the Green Mountain Massage School in Hyde Park, Vt. It evolved from her 10 years of teaching massage and wellness-related courses at area colleges, including JSC, where she noticed the increased demand for online and distance learning formats. Andrea was inspired to create a program that would allow students to become experts in the field of massage therapy while still keeping up with the demands of daily life, work, family and school. The Green Mountain Massage School is a nine-month program that provides 600 hours of massage and bodywork training. You can learn more about Andrea s business at PETER BRADUNAS 94 is an information-technology specialist for the U.S. Army Intelligence & Security Command (INSCOM), stationed at Ft. Belvoir, Va. His division conducts intelligence, security and information operations for military commanders and national decision-makers. Peter spent a good part of his summer in classes for management and earning his 11th IT certification. CAROL DONER 94 retired in June 2011 from a 30-year career in education. JENNIFER HULSE PESZEK 94 is the new student support director at St. Johnsbury School. A resident of St. Johnsbury, Jen was formerly the special education coordinator at Lamoille Union High School in Hyde Park, Vt. BRENDAN C. JOHNSON 94 is a senior loadmaster instructor for the Marine Forces Reserve for the KC-130T aircraft, stationed with VMGR-452 at Stewart Air National Guard Base in Newburgh, N.Y. Brendan and his wife, Anna, have been married more than 12 years. JOSEPH VELDON 94 married the love of his life, Victoria (O Neil) Veldon, in October They reside in Morrisville, Vt. SHEILA BEDI 95 started the Creative Spirit Children s Center in West Fairlee, Vt., 11 years ago. She received a grant from the governor a few years ago and says business is going well. Sheila has a 5-year-old son who attends kindergarten. JENNIFER GROVES 95 has worked at Swaner EcoCenter & Preserve in Park City, Utah, for the past two years. She is now starting a new project called Swaner Kids, which will be an eco-education servicelearning program for kids in grades five through eight. In addition, she runs a geo-cache program, leads nature walks and snowshoe tours, and helps with other education programs at Swaner. To encourage return trips to the EcoCenter, Jennifer has created themed, rotating touch tables where visitors get a tactile sense of the preserve. She is passionate about connecting people with nature and says that Swaner is an excellent fit for me. She had been a teacher for five years before moving to Des Moines, Iowa, and working part time for area nonprofits. She helped start an environmental education program for toddlers and a community service program for children called Kids With a Kause. At Community Youth Concepts, she went into schools and set up service-learning projects and worked with many refugees from Africa. JOHN HEUSER 95 retired from psychology in He is working on a public sculpture project with Florence Bird Studios and plans to launch a new sculpture project with a Kickstarter program. DAVID KRAYESKY 95 is an assistant professor of biology at Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvania. He is known for his expertise in the evolutionary relationships of red algae. His research led to two threeyear appointments as a research collaborator at the National Museum of Natural History, part of the Smithsonian Institution, starting in November Married since 2013, David maintains a camp in Franklin, Vt. and swings through Johnson when he s in the area. Next trip he s hoping for a tour of Bentley Hall! CHRISTI (LAFONTAINE) O CONNOR 95 co-founded and operates Well Served Tennis Academy, a nonprofit organization in Simsbury, Conn., that introduces children with autism to the lifelong sport of tennis. WSTA was recently featured on Parenting. com. She works as a freelance development professional and lives with her husband and three children in Simsbury. CHRISTINE FESKO 96 made the move to South Carolina. In March 2014 she reported that she was a proud, first-time grandmother of 8-month-old Audrey Grace. JENIFER HARDY 96 is working as a 6th grade math teacher at Georgia (Vt.) Elementary and Middle School. SUZANNE HIGLEY 96 recently published two children s books: The Adventures of Finnegan Begin! about a sweet rescue dog, and Finnegan for Mayor!, a dog s-eye view of a small city that he plans to lead with the help of his friends. CHRISTOPHER PULITO 96 has worked in the hospitality industry since graduation and is considered a national expert in hospitality resort management. Most recently he was featured on Fox News and had in a feature article in the November 2014 issue of Hotels magazine ( MICHELLE ROBBINS 96 continues to work as a massage therapist in the Williston office that she opened in The practice has evolved to include environmental wellness consulting, digestive health coaching and a variety of class offerings. Her office includes nine other practitioners who work in multiple wellness methods. MEGAN W. TREADWELL 96 is now a nurse at the UVM Medical Center (formerly Fletcher Allen Health Care). DONALD KOCH 97 reports that after 10 years driving trucks both over-the-road and for local carriers, he has purchased his own truck and is the owner of Cedarbrook Trucking in Barre, Vt. He is leased to Long Haul Trucking, Inc. in Albertville, Minn., and pulls a flatbed trailer with a Conestoga (curtainside) tarp system. He continues to reside on the family farm in Barre, although he s usually on the road. MEGAN PANEK 97 started a new job in November 2013 as the director of development at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. She and her family moved to their forever-home where they can travel to and from the lake in their golf cart. Megan also serves as president of the JSC Alumni Council. JOY BRAUNSTEIN 98 has been the director of the Holocaust Center of the Greater Pittsburgh Jewish Federation since The mission of the organization is to transform community and individual attitudes and behaviors by recognizing, understanding and remembering the atrocities of the Holocaust and the consequences of hate. SARAH JOHNSON 98 announces the birth of her son, Tanner Dean, on Feb. 1, Born 2 months early, Tanner is a happy and healthy little boy. COREY P. RYDER 98 hosts a radio show called Rooted in the Country that has brought nationally renowned artists to WJSC 90.7, Radio Johnson. Ryder himself has made a contribution to country music with his album Rooted in the Country, in which he covers songs by George Jones, Earl Montgomery and others. Artists such as Leona Williams, Johnny Counterfeit, and Jennifer McCarter have all appeared on Ryder s show. The show airs 6-8 p.m. every other Monday and Friday and can be streamed online. KRISTIN STRELLIS 08 is living in San Jose, Calif., with her two sons, ages 6 and 8. She says she is using her degree from JSC to work as a group fitness instructor at the YMCA and teaches wellness classes for Stanford University staff and alumni. Prior to the birth of her children she worked for Health Fitness Corporation for eight years at the corporate fitness center at Lockheed Martin in Sunnyvale. LAWRENCE G. BEAULIEW, II 99 retired in 2006 from IBM. DORATHY LANGEVIN 99 reports that she taught art for 23 years thanks to her fine education from JSC. She took early retirement at age 62 and is now applying her skills and knowledge to mural art. RANDI (MANSFIELD) MCCUIN 99 has been elected Vermont state director of the New England Water Works Association (NEWWA), the region s largest and oldest nonprofit organization of its type. TARA SIMPSON 99 lives in Barre with her family, raising two sons and working part time at Central Vermont Medical Center in the cardiology department. ALBERT BERT THOMPSON 99 has been keeping busy in Lamoille County! Although he stepped down from his post 52 Johnson views 2014/2015

55 as president of Will Miller Green Mountain Veterans for Peace, he is still working to bring peace to the world. Locally Bert is a member of the Board of Directors of the Lamoille Housing Partnership, a nonprofit housing organization working to provide affordable housing to people with modest incomes or who are elderly or disabled. At the state level Bert chairs the Lamoille County Democratic Committee and says he looks forward to continuing this worthwhile work. FRANK K. WASHINGTON, JR. 99 has retired from the Vermont state workforce. 2000s PATRICIA PAT DASARO 00 retired from JSC in 2009, after working 18 years in the JSC Admissions Office working to recruit talented new students to the college. JOSHUA DUFRESNE 00 is a board member at the Southern Vermont Area Health Education Center in Springfield, Vt., and is chief of practice operations with Springfield Medical Care Systems. RYAN EMMONS 00 is the director of sales and marketing for Vermont Coffee Company in Middlebury. He and his wife, Megan, have three children: Riley, Connor and Carson. BRIAN B. GIBNEY 00 married Coral Brown in September The couple honeymooned in Ireland and now live in East Greenwich, R.I.Brian works at Chez Pascal in Providence. JULIE HULBURD 00 recently received her professional in human resources certification (P.H.R.) from the Human Resources Certification Institute and hopes to pursue a law degree. Julie married Jared Fuller on Dec. 31, They live with their two children in Colchester, Vt. JENNIFER JOHNSON 00 continued her education, receiving her M.Ed. from University of Minnesota, Duluth (UMD), in She then received a superintendent and principal administration certificate from UMD in 2012 and currently serves as principal at a school on the Chippewa Reservation in Cloquet, Minn. SARA MACDONOUGH-CIVITELLO 00 started a new position with Quinnipiac University after having worked for the U.S. Coast Guard for the five years. She teaches in their athletic training program as the certified athletic trainer, working mainly with the men s basketball team. Sara lives in Hamden, Conn., with her husband, Mike Civitello. She has enjoyed seeing fellow JSC alumni at the annual alumni basketball games and says she was sad to miss them this year due to her position at Quinnipiac. Go, Badgers! MICHELE MIYAMOTO 00 & MA 10 works full time as the tutorial program coordinator at Humboldt State University in northern California. Her position is part of the Educational Opportunity Program (EOP), a program designed to help first-generation, low-income students earning their degree. She also co-teaches a section of Introduction to Ethnic Studies for freshman entering the EOP. Michele s love of plants has bloomed in California, and her artwork has taken a pivotal role again in her life. She is now studying plants, which includes home herb and vegetable gardening, as well as wild crafting for sustenance and art. She is grateful for all of her Johnson State staff and faculty friends who deeply impressed upon her the values of spirit, Earth, expression and responsibility. She s proud to be a part of a cohort of students who have a particular commitment that only JSC can nurture: people who gain skills, have great hearts and make a difference in their world! MICHELLE (GRUNER) PRESSEY 00 and her husband have lived in Hawaii over 10 years and have started homeschooling the oldest of their two children. ZACHARY YOUNG 00 and wife Ashley welcomed a son, Brady Keenan Young, into the world on Nov. 12, CHRISTOPHER BENJAMIN 01 serves as general manager at Skinny Pancake crêperie in Burlington, Vt. REBECCA HAMM 01 reports that she received her master s degree in English education at Plymouth University in 2011 and is currently teaching high school in New Hampshire. MATTHEW MIENTKA 01, a journalist with more than 15 years experience, joined the news staff of the Waterbury Record and Stowe Reporter in Matthew previously reported for the Newport Daily Express and worked as a reporter on Capitol Hill, a speechwriter at the U.S Department of Transportation, a consultant for trade magazines, and a digital journalist for International Business Times Media in New York. Matthew has had his work published in Newsweek several times. JACKI BARRESI 02 and THOMAS O CONNOR 08 were married in July Tommy joined JSC as an Admissions counselor in JOY C. CHOQUETTE 02 published her second novel, Dark Circle, in March The book centers around an out-of-town couple that moves to Franklin County, Vermont. Her debut book, Epidemic, was published in March Like Dark Circle, it is a thriller the story of a viral outbreak in Franklin County. TIMOTHY GRINHAM 02 recently bought a house and relocated to Paxton, Mass., with his wife, Kelly, and their 1-year-old daughter Kyleigh. He works as a business banking officer with United Bank in Worcester. The Landmark Tavern Iconic Restaurant Back in Business Thanks to Johnson Alum By Elaine Harvey Dana TOURANGEAU 99 and his wife, CADI, have been busy breathing life into the latest evolution of a beloved and iconic Johnson establishment: the former Long Trail Restaurant, which they have purchased and renamed the Landmark Tavern. Their vision, says Dana, is simple: We want every guest who chooses The Landmark Tavern to leave here happy. The Long Trail closed several years ago, when the previous owners moved on. It reopened briefly under new management, but that business too failed, and the building was shuttered again. That all changed in October 2014, when Dana and Cadi came along and got the chance to live out a longtime dream. Ever since they had had their first date Cadi (left) and Dana are thumbs up about bringing the resturant and tavern back to life. at the Long Trail, they knew the place was special. Throughout the years they had discussed buying the establishment, and when they found out it was for sale, they jumped at the opportunity. Many alumni will remember the restaurant as a go-to watering hole during their college days a place to grab a few drinks (and then a few more) after rugby or soccer matches or to see familiar faces and chat by the wood fire. While visitors can still sample local brews and liquors from some of Vermont s finest purveyors, under Dana and Cadi s management the space is now family-friendly, with the emphasis on food rather than drinks. The Tourangeaus take pride in their family-friendly emphasis. We host trivia nights, open-mic events and will even be hosting a wedding this summer, says Cadi. It s great to see college students and families alike enjoying the new space. Dana has worked for the Army National Guard full time for many years and says he is thrilled to work with his wife on this project. Since we opened November 5th, we ve had guests from all over, said Cadi. Everyone has been so welcoming. Dana brushed up on local history before naming the tavern. He dug into Johnson s historical annals and identified the importance of the old Landmark Building, and it was an easy choice from there. Dana and Cadi love that the initials remain LT, but with a new meaning and feeling. The newly updated interior still pays homage to the Long Trail, as the original sign hangs proudly on the wall for all to see. This summer, the Landmark Tavern will sponsor a softball team, host a volleyball league on two new sand courts and serve as the new location for the former Johnson Farmers Market. To learn more or to view the menu, visit n Elaine Harvey is JSC s assistant director of athletics for communications. Johnson views 2014/

56 HONAH LEE MILNE 02 has been making a name for herself in the booming Massachusetts film scene. As key costumer, she works with both the costume designer and the director, helping to maintain their vision during filming. She has volumes of entertaining tales about working with celebrities and has worked on some of the biggest Massachusetts productions over the past five years, beginning with the Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway film Bride Wars in 2009, Moonrise Kingdom in 2012, and American Hustle in SANDRA PATULAK 02 continues teaching as a special educator. One of her sons graduated from the University of Connecticut and is now living in Spain. ANDREW SCIRIA 02 is proud to report that his son is an assistant basketball coach at Southern New Hampshire University. ALLEN VAN ANDA 02 founded Lost Nation Brewing along with fellow former Trapp Lager Brewery coworker Jamie Griffith. Since opening last June at the former Rock Art Brewery space in Morrisville, Lost Nation has earned widespread acclaim for its brews, adding to the area s strong craft beer culture. Van Anda and Griffith were recently named best new brewers in RateBeer.com s annual guide to the best beers and brewers in every state in the country. TODD A. GEVRY 03 is an independent musician and percussion instructor. He wrote his hit single Never Crossed My Mind while studying jazz/commercial music and recording at JSC in the early 2000s. Nowadays, Gevry plays drums and sings backup with Landway, a psychedelic pop band comprised of a group of JSC buddies. The group has been together since 2007 and just last month put together a surf band called The High Breaks. Since Todd travels to his students homes for lessons, he likes to think of himself as a delivery driver who delivers customized music lessons. You can check out his music at BRIAN GODFREY 03 is the physical education teacher at Richmond (Vt.) Elementary School, where he was once a student. During his first year there ( ), he piloted a fourth-grade ski program with Cochran Ski Area in which students visit Chochran s once a week during the school day for ski lessons. An integral part of his overall goal is to create better awareness among students about how to live a healthy lifestyle. JOANNA McCLELLAND 03 earned her master of divinity degree from Earlham School of Religion, a Society of Friends seminary, in She provides individual and group spiritual direction and volunteers at Turning Point, a recovery center in Springfield, Vt. ANGELA (MAINOLFI) MILLER-BROWN 03 and ANDREW MILLER-BROWN 04 welcomed their first child, Arthur Clemente Miller-Brown, on Oct. 6, They live in Burke, Vt. JULIE NICOLE 03 attended the JSC Alumni Gathering in San Francisco in October She had just moved to Fresno, where she has taken on a new position as an OB/GYN at Clinica Sierra Vista, a nonprofit organization. She provides health care to migrant farmworkers and others who are medically underserved. PHILIP BRANCA 04 and LAURA KARSTENSEN 05 were married at an outdoor ceremony in Morrisville, Vt., on Aug. 2, Philip is an adventure educator, instructor, and part-time JSC faculty member. MARY BROSNAN 04 reported in July 2014 that she was engaged. SUSAN BROWN 89, MA 04 See entry for 1989 PATRICK GRAHAM 04 continues to work as a mountain guide with Sun Valley Trekking in Hailey, Idaho, and was expecting a new baby in September VIRGINIA J. MASSUCCO 04 is in her second year as a reading teacher at Central Elementary School in Bellows Falls, Vt., after teaching 5th grade in Springfield for eight years. LIZA MERCY 04 has been running her own dance studio for five years. TUIPATE MUBIAY 04 was recently reelected board president of the Association of Africans Living in Vermont, an association he co-founded in 1999 to help refugees and immigrants. The organization now serves more than 3,000 clients and has 13 staff some 50 interpreters. Tuipate was also appointed to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, serving on the state advisory committee in Vermont. This committee reports to the President and Congress on violations of civil rights. He writes, I am very grateful for the education and trainings from CCV, JSC and UVM that led to all of these achievements, and I sincerely thank all of those who contributed to it, including faculty and staff at these institutions and my colleagues and co-workers. HEIDI PICKERING 04 reported in March 2014 that she was anticipating the birth of a grandchild that summer. ANDREW C. SEALEY 04 works at BFA-Fairfax (Vt.) Middle School teaching sixth grade language arts. He and his wife welcomed their third child, and their first son, Cecilio Myles, Aug. 19, LAURA (STUMM) WAYNE 04 started the fall 2014 semester as the newest member of the humanities faculty at Lyndon Institute. Laura says she is using her degree from JSC teaching acting and script-writing at the high school. In addition to teaching, she is responsible for the extracurricular theater program, which includes a fall musical, spring one-act plays for the Vermont Drama Festival, and a student showcase at year s end. In her free time, Laura serves as vice president of the St. Johnsbury Players and is a regular actor, director and producer with that group and others. She recently participated in a staged reading of The Laramie Project with the LSC Twilight Players as part of its Year of Social Justice series. Laura lives in St. Johnsbury, Vt., with her husband of eight years, Nathaniel Wayne, and her 3-year-old daughter, Morrighan Rose. CYNTHIA BOWLER 05, an artist in Bellows Falls, Vt., exhibited her very happy pastel oil paintings in November 2014 at Mocha Joe s Café during the Gallery Walk in downtown Brattleboro. JULIE RABOIN 05 was a Democrat candidate for one of two Vermont House seats in the Orleans-2 district in the November 2014 election. JESSE RICE 05 and SHEENA (JOHNSON) RICE 06 were married in 2006 and have two children: Katarina (5) and Alric (3). SCOTT VOLLMER 05 has announced his engagement to Shannon Marie Gillece. They reside in Washington, D.C., and were planning a wedding on Long Beach Island, N.J., and a honeymoon in Italy. DANNY BALLENTINE 06 is one of two newly elected members to the Southern Vermont Health & Education Center Board of Directors in Springfield, Vt. He and his wife live in the Townshend area with their two children. JON WERMER 06 is attending Boston College to earn his master s degree in social work. Upon graduating from JSC, he taught English to elementary students in South Korea for three years and worked in the mental health field in Vermont. EMILY A. BOUTHIETTE 07 married Eric Scott Seiler at the Allen Harbor Yacht Club in Harwich Port, Mass., Sept. 14, Emily is a biologist with Techlaw Inc. and lives with her husband in Lowell. SANDRA G. BROWN 07 reports that she s been working at the Super Store in Williston, Vt., as a furniture and design consultant for four years. JEANINE BUNZIGIYE 07 is a newly elected board member of the Vermont Family Network. She has worked for the Burlington Housing Authority since 2008 and also has worked with the Burlington School District for four years as an advocate for the New American community and people of color. Jeanine works with dozens of agencies and organizations throughout Vermont, helping them to become more inclusive and culturally competent. CARLA JOHNSON 07 works at Milton (Vt.) Elementary School as a special educator for students in third and fourth grades. 54 Johnson views 2014/2015

57 JUSTIN D. LOVELL 07 is working on a horror novel series centered around a detective in Boston. SARAH VENSEL 07 attended the JSC Alumni Gathering in San Francisco in October She had recently moved to California and started a new job as a physician s assistant at One Medical. KATE WAGEMAN 07 has been hired as a family practitioner at Brattleboro (Vt.) Internal Medicine. Kate previously worked for two years as a registered nurse in the transitional care unit at Birchwood Terrace Healthcare in Burlington. She has experience in family practice, pediatric care, urgent care and women s health settings. JESSE COUTRAYER 08 made his debut as the boys basketball coach at Essex (Vt.) High School in December AMBER COUTURE 08 is an X-ray technologist at UVM Medical Center (formerly Fletcher Allen Health Care) in Burlington, Vt. EMILY (HAMLIN) HARRIS 08 and JONATHAN HARRIS 08 were married April 13, The ceremony was officiated by Judge Edward Cashman, a former JSC professor. Kate Wageman 07 was Emily s maid of honor. The couple resides in Duxbury, Vt. NORMA HENDRIX 08 recently presented sketching workshops at the Jackson County Library in North Carolina. JENNA and CHRIS LAMICA 08 say that life is good in Los Angeles. They are slowly working through their bucket list, visiting Zion National Park and Antelope Canyon in Utah and Arizona this past year. They added another poodle to their pack soon after and named him Zion. (Rescue is the way to go!) Other adventures included hiking a 10,000 foot mountain, listening to live music, taking road trips down old Route 66 and up the Pacific Coast Highway to San Francisco. After a warm reception of twenties: the series, Chris and his production team were working on season two. (You can check out the first season at twenties:theseries.com.) Jenna continues to enjoy teaching second graders, who she says keep her on her toes and laughing every day. THOMAS O CONNOR 08 See entry for JACKI BARRESI 02. DAVID SCHRAFF SCHRAFFENBERGER 08 See entry for CYNTHIA CYD KNIGHT 87 ANGELIQUE SCHULTZ 06 and M.A. 08 was hired as a clinical case manager at Maple Leaf Farm in Underhill, Vt. She is currently enrolled in an M.S. program at Southern New Hampshire University. JESSICA ALBRIGHT 09 is a singer/ songwriter in the Boston area. Jessie moved to Boston in 2010 to pursue her passion for music. She has been involved with The Unrehearsed, The Road Dawgs, Silver Breaks and The Four Letter Band. RYAN ANDERSON 09 and his cat, Dr. Butler, hosted a JSC Alumni Gathering at his Seattle rooftop deck in October He reports that he is now the lead humanities teacher at the Leadership & Entrepreneurship Academy in Kirkland, Wash., a small private school focused on providing an intensely individualized curriculum for students. HEIDI BROSSEAU 09 is working as a financial advisor and has opened her own Edward Jones office in Essex Junction, Vt. AISHA CAMERON 09 is on the board of directors of the American Coton Club, home of the rare dog breed Coton de Tulear. Aisha continues in her private psychotherapy practice and is a Coton de Tulear breeder. Her website is JESSIE FORAND 09 was honored by the New England Newspaper & Press Association in Boston for her work with her former employer, the St. Albans Messenger. She received the first place award for crime and courts reporting in the daily newspaper division for a series of stories examining sexual assaults in Franklin County. Jessie joined the Burlington Free Press in July 2014, leaving there in early 2015 to become the communications coordinator for ECHO Lake Aquarium & Science Center in Burlington, Vt. MARK P. GEBO 09 is in graduate school at Keene State in New Hampshire, where he is working on a master s degree in education. JAHIDA JORGANES 09 is the choir director at Fort Lauderdale (Fla.) High School. In November 2013, shortly after Jahida started there, the choir had the opportunity of a lifetime when they performed on stage at the BB&T Center with popular alternative rock/pop band Paramore on the band s new single, Ain t It Fun. Responding to request for a choir that would like to perform with the group, Jahida assembled and rehearsed the chosen choir members. I chose students who were fans of the band because I knew that this would be a memory they d never forget, and they would sing with their hearts, out of a love for the band, she told a local reporter. Paramore had been inviting local high school choirs on stage with them in recent weeks and demonstrated a particular love for Fort Lauderdale High School, posting a group picture of them with the choir on their Instagram account with the caption, Thanks to the choir from Fort Lauderdale High School for helping out with Ain t it Fun. NICHOLE M.LEFAIVRE 09 has been teaching dance at Lamoille Union High School in Hyde Park, Vt., for five years and was named Lamoille County Teacher of the Year in Nichole also coaches the Lancer Dancers varsity dance team, which won their first state championship in the hip-hop category in They also placed third in the jazz division. While at Johnson, Nichole was president of the Dance Club and a member of the Vermont Dance Collective under the direction of Professor Maris Wolff. Both experiences helped prepare her for her current career, and Maris remains a wonderful mentor and friend. The JSC Dance Club and Jan Herder have also helped create a tradition that allows Lamoille students to perform alongside JSC s Dance Club in the club s spring performance. KYLE REARDON 09 is currently in graduate school. KIRA (SCARPONI) REED 09 married Anthony Reed in September STEPHANIE SANTUCCI 09 moved to Philadelphia, got married, and went to horticulture school in Delaware. She lives in the city and is a rose gardener at Wyck Historic House and Farm ( MILES SMITH 09 and his wife were expecting their second child in March 2015, just in time for March Madness extra exciting news because Miles was recently named head men s basketball coach at Wilson College in Pennsylvania, where he also serves as an admissions counselor and the athletics liaison. Miles loved his time at JSC and thanks the staff and faculty, especially the Admissions staff, for helping him land where he is today. Johnson views 2014/

58 ASHLEY (ST. GELAIS) WISHINSKI 09 and her husband, Bruce, welcomed Miles Root and Brigham Alexander to the Wishinski tribe on June 2, Ashley remains as busy as ever with her career in financial services and property management. Her latest passion project is The Vermontrepreneur Collective, whose mission is to combat entrepreneurial isolation while improving the Vermont economy. She offers free a monthly newsletter and programs to help entrepreneurs improve business. Visit her website at DONNA B. WORKS 09 reports that she is finally managing to find time to paint! 2010s AMANDA BUTLER 10 graduated in December 2013 from the physician s assistant program at Drexel University. She is now practicing medicine in Kansas. SIMON CLEMENT 10 is in his third season as a graduate assistant on the University of Albany basketball staff. He manages film exchange and is responsible for all video production for individual workouts, practices and games. His duties include travel, on-campus recruitment and supervision of student managers, and he also co-directs of the summer basketball camp. In addition to his work, Simon is enrolled in the educational administration and policy study Ph.D. program at UAlbany. KATHERINE CUTILLO 10 has been a massage therapist at Essence Salon & Day Spa in Jeffersonville, Vt., since ALEDA BOOMHOWER 14 and MATHEW FARMHAND 15 live in Cabot, Vt., with their new dog, Roo. Aleda works for Easter Seals of Vermont in its Barre office, providing direct counseling services for families, and Mathew has been promoted to social relations manager at Hannaford s in Morrisville, Vt. He is completing his M.A. in counseling internship on the job and looks forward to his graduation in May COURTNEY GABAREE 10, a recipient of as JSC Rising Star Alumni Award in 2012, has been spending a fair amount of time in the spotlight. In January 2014 she testified at a Vermont Senate committee hearing as part of her work as a youth advocate at H.O.P.E Works, an anti-sexual violence organization in Chittenden County. Courtney told the committee that the limited scope of the law dissuades victims from coming forward, and that the state needs to start collecting data about human trafficking in Vermont. Her passion for human rights was realized on a high school trip to Panama, and it has been a driving force in her life ever since. Most recently she was one of seven trailblazing Vermont women who have made a difference in their communities profiled by Vermont Public Television as part of its Vermont Makers series. The segment can be viewed at ZHEN HUANG 10 was inducted as a New York City police officer Dec. 29, Patrick Rogers 00, a member of the JSC Admissions staff, traveled to NYC to attend the ceremony and relay best wishes from his many friends at JSC. DEBORAH NEVIL 10 has been involved in many local community-building endeavors, including the weekly Jeffersonville (Vt.) Farmers and Artisan Market, which she founded. SLOANE (IRWIN) PRESCOTT 10 married Tyler Prescott June 16, 2012, in Cambridge, Vt. A preschool teacher at Kalanianaole Elementary School in Hawaii from 2010 to 2013, she now teaches preschool at Cambridge Elementary School. JONATHAN PREUSS 10 is living and working in the mountains of Idaho as a certified guide with Sun Valley Trekking. TIM SAVARD 10 is exhibiting his paintings in various venues around Burlington. He describes his paintings as rich in religious imagery and bold colors and, though balanced compositionally, composed of many discrete fragments. MATT ALDEN 11 has been working as the director of residence life at Leslie University since JESSICA BACHAND 11 is a preschool assistant teacher at Waitsfield (Vt.) Elementary School and recently announced her engagement to MAXWELL HARRISON POST 11. HEATHER BARAW 11 announced plans to tie the knot with Josh Sargent on May 23, 2015, in Derby, Vt. ANGELICA D. CATERINO 11 is the new fund development and communications specialist at the Family Center of Washington County in Montpelier, Vt. NATALIE COUGHLIN 11 got married in summer SAMANTHA CUTTING 11 has been a first grade teacher at Cambridge Elementary School (Vt.) since November CORINA DEMORE 11 works at the Howard Center as a case manager for drug treatment court and work development services. She welcomed a new baby granddaughter into the world March 20, FLORETTE DORR 11 continues to work as a home care provider. TARA GOREAU 11 continues to beautify Vermont with her large-scale murals. Her paintings are spreading around Vermont, appearing on everything from metal whey tanks to the sides of barns and entrances to hospitals, cafes and senior centers. Her murals now frame the entrance to the bustling City Market in Burlington, and emblazon the outside of a barn at the cheesemaker Jasper Hill Farm in Greensboro. They grace the inside of Dunbar Hall and the outside of Hamilton House at Sterling College in Craftsbury, and decorate the inside of the new Pingala Cafe & Eatery in Burlington, wrote Andrew Nemethy for The young artist is channeling an ancient art that goes back thousands of years and is making it her own, one bare wall at a time, he continued. On steel and sheetrock, vinyl, barnboard, luan, you name it. Her art is painting murals, conjuring up a fanciful melange of local people, buildings and settings, animals and iconic landscapes. It s a bright gospel of color and whimsy and it s spreading around Vermont, appearing on everything from metal whey tanks to the sides of barns and entrances to hospitals, cafes and senior centers. Think of her as a vanisher of the drab, turning the bland into magical multi-hued realms, as if her paintbrush had a touch of Hogwarts wizardry. Keeping up with her commissions has her running around the state, which totally fits her personality Tara s growing portfolio of work can be seen at arteatergallery.com. AXEL HANDY 11 is an insurance agent at The Essex Agency in Essex Jct., Vt., specializing in personal and commercial property and causality insurance. As a new agent, he looks forward to networking with fellow JSC alums. JUSTIN MARSH 11 See entry for TAMRA HIGGINS 93 IAN PASSINO 11 is engaged to Kelly Lucia, with a wedding planned for July 2015 at the Crowne Plaza Lake Placid Golf Club. JULIE SANTOS 11 lived briefly in San Antonio, Tex., after graduation and has since moved back to the East coast, settling in Massachusetts to be closer to her niece and nephew. She started working as the assistant publisher for the president of a commercial real estate publication and within seven months became publisher of her own section. ZAK SCHAFER 11 has been working as a cheesemaker at Shelburne Farms since March About being a cheese maker, Zak says, I enjoy that connection to the past I feel when practicing this craft that goes back for centuries, and also the connection to the future, by making a food that may not be tasted for three years or more. When not at the farm, Zak likes to ride his bike, travel, get lost in the woods, read and write. JOSEPH TASCA 11 transitioned from working at a ski shop to a new job working for Prime Ingredients, a company that produces specialty food colors and flavors, in January Joe reports that he is mentoring a little brother, Emmany, through his volunteer work with Big Brothers Big Sisters of America. AMANDA WELLS 11 began a new job as First-Year Advisor at Burlington College, where she also organizes new-student orientation activities. Amanda worked with the JSC Upward Bound program until her move to BC in March Johnson views 2014/2015

59 DARREN D. ADAMS 12 has served on the Milton, Vt., Selectboard since He and his wife, Allyssa, have a daughter, Brooke, age 3. He is a technical sergeant at the Vermont Air National Guard where he serves as the non-commissioned officer in charge of airfield operations. Darren previously served as a Milton Village Trustee and on Milton Rescue for 13 years, serving as chief for four years. JOSH BOSSIN 12 has been busy climbing mountains, most recently Pico de Orizaba in Mexico in November Pico de Orizaba is the highest point in Mexico and the third highest mountain in North America at 18,491 feet above sea level. LUCIA-KATE CICCARELLO 12 works in a residential facility for trauma support. KILEY (BARBER) CURRIER 12 married Christopher Currier on July 19, 2013, now attends graduate school at Illinois State University. CLAIRE DEMARIS 12 reported in April 2014 that she was working as a library assistant at Fletcher Free Library in Burlington, Vt. LIZ GLASSER 12, TARYN GLASSER 12 and HENRY MEOLA 10 worked on the tech crew for this year s Super Bowl Half- Time Show at Met Life Stadium. KATHRYN JOHNSON 12 and RYAN JOY 12 were married at a ceremony officiated by Margo Warden, director of the First-Year Experience program at JSC, on Feb. 16, KELLY MAHNENSMITH 12 is a school counselor at Founders Memorial School in Essex, Vt. MASON RACHAMPBELL 12 recently received the medal of merit, a national award given for outstanding service implementing scouting skills and ideals, from the Boy Scouts of America for his role last summer in the rescue of an adult counselor at Frontiers Camp on Lake Eden. Currently, Mason is the scoutmaster for Boy Scout Troop 645 in Huntington, Vt. KARISSA RAMSDELL 12 recently began studies toward a doctorate in naturopathic medicine and a M.S. in nutrition at the National College of Natural Medicine in Portland, Ore. Through my education at JSC, I was able to discover my passion for naturopathic medicine, and now I can pursue my dream of becoming a doctor, she writes. The Wellness & Alternative Medicine program prepared me for this journey, and I am forever grateful to JSC. SARA (ROUSE) BARKER 13 moved to Sonoma, Calif., in May She married Justin Barker in Maui, Hawaii, in August Their daughter, Amelia Michele, was born later that month. DAVID BINGHAM 13 reported in April 2014 that he works as a crisis hotline counselor at Health Care & Rehabilitation Services of Vermont in Brattleboro, Vt., and that he was to begin an internship in the Fatherhood Services program at the Union Institute & University the following month. He has two children that keep him very busy. PETER BOARDMAN 13 was spotted painting a mural at the Riverbend Market on Bridge Street in Morrisville. Sponsored by the Vermont Dept. of Health s Fit & Healthy program, the mural depicts familiar scenes from around Morrisville as an alternative to typical alcohol-related advertisements. See more of his work at his website www. PeteBoardman.webly.com. JULIA BURGESS 13 reported in spring 2014 that she was excited to start Norwich University s M.A. program in public administration in fall ALLI COMPAGNA 13 now works as an agricultural resource specialist and conservation planner for the Vermont Association of Conservation Districts, a nonprofit that works with government agencies and other organizations to improve water quality. She works with small farms in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont and says she loves it! JULIA COMPAGNA 13 and ALLISON COMPAGNA 13, mother and daughter, crossed off their bucket list a visit to the Grand Canyon in DYLAN GIAMBATISTA 13 has been hired by Vermont House Speaker Shap Smith, D-Morristown, to be his chief of staff. Dylan previously worked at the state treasurer s office as executive assistant to Treasury Secretary Beth Pearce. (See related article.) MOLLY GROVER 13 has moved to North Carolina and plans to attend graduate school in Canada. KAYLA JAROBSKI 13 has been working as a prekindergarten teacher at Bright Horizons Preschool and Child Care since summer ASHLEY R. MEUNIER 13 is employed at Northwestern Counseling & Support Services in St. Albans. She was married Mark Flood, also from St. Albans, in September KEVIN PHILIPS 13 was promoted to manager of marketing intelligence at The Orvis Company. JONATHAN WERNER 13 is a public records analyst in Boston, working in the realty market. IRENE RIPPON 13 recently exhibited her oil paintings and ceramics at the Royalton Memorial Library in South Royalton. BRANDI SARAZIN 13 is a mother of four children and works as a case manager at Tim s House, a homeless shelter in St. Albans, Vt. Brandi was hired before she graduated through her internship with Northwestern Counseling & Support Services. ANGELA SMITH 13 is earning her M.B.A. at UMass Amherst. She is also the new director of HR (that s Happiness Resources ) at SunCommon, a solar firm based in Waterbury, Vt. She is excited be creating the company s HR department and being part of its extraordinary growth. BARBARA ACKERMAN 14 teaches graphic technology at Mount Anthony Union High School in Bennington, Vt., using techniques developed over her career as an artist and professional graphic designer. She has been a design professional for over 30 years and has spent the past 20 years working fervently on her paintings. Her Dark History (see photo) was exhibited in Southern Vermont College s Burgdorff Gallery. ANNA ALLEN 14 recently hiked Europe s Camino de Santiago trail. SHANE BOUTHILLETTE 13 ran for Vermont House of Representatives in Lamoille County in November 2014 as a Republican candidate. He works at Laraway Youth & Family Services and continues to serve on the Governor s Veterans Advisory Council. JASON BRENK 14 recently moved to North Carolina to fill a marketing position for a firm in Asheville. VANESSA BROWN 14 reported in spring 2014 that she would be getting married in June and planned to relocate to New Hampshire and have a baby. ALLAN CICCARELLI 14 published his first book, Personal Vendetta, in summer JENNA DILLON 14 reports that she will be getting married in fall MAGEN FARLEY 14 landed a job as a customer service representative with the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in Monterey, Calif., shortly after finishing her JSC degree requirements in December JESSICA (ROYER) FARRAR 14 reports that she was married on Sept. 1, LUKE GELLATLY 14 reports that he plans to hike the Long Trail this summer. KAYLIE HALE 14 and SAMANTHA FLINT 12 are engaged to be married. CHRISTINE HULEATT 14 recently started work as a counselor for students in grades 3 and 4 at Milton (Vt.) Elementary School. MICAHEL LABOMBARD 14 works as a firefighter and EMT for the Burlington (Vt.) Fire Department. He and fiancé LYNDSAY SHEERAN 15 were expecting a baby in October Johnson views 2014/

60 ASHLEY SHOTWELL 14 traveled to Ireland, London, and Wales for a concentration in art history. She also traveled 3,500 miles around the country with her grandmother, then traveled to Turkey and Greece as part of her Advanced Drawing and Advanced Art History classes at JSC. Ashley reported in May 2014 that she planned to move to Chattanooga, Tenn. JANESSA SWAINBANK 14, in her first year coaching the Richford (Vt.) High School girls basketball team, won the Vermont Division III state championship in February 2015, beating No. 1 Thetford 71-36! Local media covered the upset victory and the accomplishments of the rookie coach and former JSC Badger. CLARISEE TALLEY 14 recently purchased a home with her boyfriend. BRIAN LIMA 14 spent his summer working as an intern at the Lamoille County Planning Commission in Morrisville, Vt. Duties included assisting in field work related to traffic counts, road erosion inventories, and sign and/or culvert inventories as well as a variety of GIS mapping projects. JULIA MITIGUY 14 married Jason Callan on Aug. 9, 2014, at her parents home on Lake Champlain. Julia is a behavior consultant at Northwestern Counseling & Support Services in St. Albans, Vt. She and Jason have made their home in Sheldon. BENJAMIN MORLEY 14 is working in an administrative position at Jay Peak Resort and plans to pursue a career in human resources, sales or marketing. GWEN MORSE 13 began a new job with Vermont Associates, where she a specialist working with mature workers. Gwen started a master s degree program in March MICHAEL MULLINS 14 is engaged to be married. CHELSEA PHILLIPS 14 reported in fall 2014 that she was expecting a baby girl Dec. 26, She married Alan Philips in summer RYLEIGH POISSANT 14 got married and went on a honeymoon to the Dominican Republic. MELISSA RIXON 14 started as a parttime employee with the Champlain Valley Area Health Education Center ( org) and was promoted to a full-time position a health careers program educator, bringing healthcare career information to middle and high school students in Grand Isle, Franklin, Chittenden and Addison counties. She helps plan and implement programs for students, schools and healthcare professionals alike. With strong interests in wellness, complementary/ alternative medicine, and community wellbeing, Melissa s passion is to enrich life with health and happiness. ALISON THATCHER 14 reports that she will be getting married July 19, AMY WAN 14 spent four months in Hong Kong at culinary school and says she plans to open a restaurant in Troy, Vt. NICHOLAS NORRIS 14 married Emily Christie Sept. 6, 2014 in Fairfield, Vt. The reception was held at The Barn at Boyden Farm in Cambridge. The couple honeymooned in Italy is making their home in Sheldon. SAMUEL FELCH 13 is a trail guide for Sun Valley Trekking in Idaho. One of his recent trips landed in the pages of the Utah Adventure Journal as part of an article about traversing through the Sawtooth Range. MARK YOUR CALENDARS & PLAN TO ATTEND FALL 2015 alumni & family reunion Weekend September 19-20, 2015 Join the Reunion Classes of (75 years) (50 years) (25 years) (70 years) (45 years) (20 years) (65 years) (40 years) (15 years) (60 years) (35 years) (10 years) (55 years) (30 years) (5 years) These are the classes that will be officially acknowledged, but Everyone s invited! 58 Johnson views 2014/20154

61 MARGUERITE (MANN) NIELSON 35 of Waterville, Vt., died Feb. 16, 2009 in Salisbury, Md. surrounded by her family. She began her elementary school teaching career in Lamoille County, Vermont. In 1942, she married the Rev. John B. Nielson, then pastor of the Church of the Nazarene in Johnson, and they served Nazarene congregations in Yarmouth, Maine; Ottawa, Kansas; W. Somerville and Lowell, Mass., and Pawtucket, R.I. Marguerite designed a program for teaching English to students from over six nations in one classroom, bringing them to college-level reading skills within one year. She did this before textbooks for multi-language teaching were available and the concept of English as a Second Language had been developed in the field of education. In later years Marguerite served on staff at Mount Vernon Nazarene University and Mid-America Nazarene University. In 1983, they retired to Waterville. The couple had four children, 12 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren. BETHLEEN (TILLOTSON) KELLEY 37 of Barton, Vt., formerly of Lowell and Island Pond, died Dec. 24, 2007 in Barton. She was born on Sept. 11, 1914, in Lowell, the daughter of Homer and Edith (Potter) Tillotson. She was married on April 2, 1938 to Kleon Kelley. She was a teacher when one-room schoolhouses were the norm. She was also a cook at Frank s Steak House in Newport. Besides her family, her greatest passion was geneology. Her research results are recorded in the Lowell Town Clerk s office. DOROTHY M. PERSONS 40 died age 95 Dec. 28, 2014, at her home in Northfield, Mass., with her family by her side. She was a graduate of Peoples Academy in Morrisville, Vt., then graduated from Johnson Normal School. She married Wendell T. Persons on Oct. 17, Dorothy taught in the Greenfield, Mass., school system, retiring in She was a well-known watercolor artist in the area. She played violin in the Pioneer Valley Symphony and sang in the chorus. Dorothy was a member of the Four Seasons String Quartet, performing in many area nursing homes. She was an avid borrower at the Dickinson Memorial Library in Northfield as well as an avid bird watcher and had many bird feeders so she could see the many types of birds. In her later years, she became a regular user of the Internet, spending much time on Facebook. ADENA (BELVILLE) MARTIN 41, MA 45 died at Sunrise Assisted Living in Stamford, Conn., Oct. 28, She attended Goddard Seminary in Barre, Vt., before earning her education degrees from what was then Johnson Normal School. She married Howard Wesley Martin in 1951 and lived on the same street in Montpelier most of her married life. Her first year as an elementary teacher in 1941 was in South Cabot, in a one-room schoolhouse called Hookerville. She next taught in Marshfield and Springfield, then moved to Hingham, Mass. She subsequently returned to Vermont and taught in Barre and then Montpelier until her 65th year. She was a member of Delta Kappa Gamma until her death. Adena was also a homemaker who worked hard to maintain her property and keep her tenants happy. She retired to Boynton Beach, Fla., where she enjoyed travel club, chorus, water aerobics, and dining out. Adena loved the warm weather and all her friends at Briny Breezes from all over the country. In 2009, she moved in with her daughter in Stamford before moving into Sunrise Assisted Living in MARGARET MAGGIE (MCBRIDE) MILLER 42 died peacefully at home Oct. 9, 2014, with the loving care and support of her many friends and family. She graduated from Enosburg Falls High School and attended Johnson Normal School (later JSC). After teaching for several years in Waterville and Worcester, she continued her lifelong association with the Episcopal Church, with further education at Columbia Teachers College, Union Theological Seminary, and General Theological Seminary in New York City. Work for the church included years as director of Christian education in Eau Claire, Wis., and in curriculum development for the Christian Department of the Executive Council. Later she earned a certificate in gerontology from the University of Vermont and worked for the Episcopal Church Pension Fund, visiting retired clergy and their spouses. She was a board member of the Bishop Booth Conference Center at Rock Point in Burlington and created a conference there called Women Growing Older. She founded and led the Green Mountain Chapter of the Alzheimer s Support Group and volunteered for Hospice of Lamoille County, the Vermont Ethics Network, and Lamoille County Health. She served on the Johnson Elementary School Board and was a supporter of the Laraway School and the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson. MARY LOUISE (SHERWOOD) COOKE 45 died Sept. 13, 2014, at Mayo Healthcare in Northfield, Vt., at the age of 88. Mary taught elementary school in Colchester, Williston, Roxbury and Northfield, retiring from teaching in Mary was a member of the United Methodist Parish in Northfield, the Retired Teachers Association and Daughters of Colonial Wars. She married the late Allan H. Cooke in PAULINE POLLY (THRESHER) CROMBE 45 died Jan. 10, 2015, at the age of 91. Polly dedicated her life to education as an elementary school teacher for 34 years. She was an active member of the Ontario (N.Y.) Historical Society and the North Ontario United Methodist Church. KATHLEEN MOBBS 45 died Dec. 3, 2014, in Avon Park, Fla., at the age of 88. Kathleen graduated from Johnson Teachers College and went on to teach in Essex Junction, Jericho Center and South Burlington. She enjoyed traveling to Virginia for the summers as it reminded her of Vermont. She became a resident of Avon Park in 2007, after moving from South Carolina. Kathleen was a member of our Lady of Grace Catholic Church. AGNES FAVREAU 49 died Sept. 28, 2014, in the Greensboro (Vt.) Nursing Home at age 84. Agnes married Francis Favreau July 18, She began a long and distinguished teaching career in a one-room schoolhouse in Fletcher, then taught in Hyde Park for many years. She took a leave of absence from teaching in 1960 to raise her four children. She returned to teaching in a private kindergarten and went on to serve as a teaching assistant at Morristown Elementary School and Peoples Academy, then served as a volunteer and substitute teacher at the Bishop John A. Marshall School. In addition, Agnes tutored several children both in and out of her home. Education was a very important part of her life. CORA ELIZABETH BETTY (WANZER) TIFFANY 53 died at her home Feb. 13, Betty married Silas Morris Tiffany Jr. in 1953, and together they bought a farm and raised their family. Betty taught for two years in Franklin, Vt., followed by 41 years in Fairfield. These 41 years were split up among the St. Rocks School, Chester A. Arthur School, and Fairfield Central. Betty was devoted to her students and profession, touching the lives of hundreds of children who grew up and lived in the Fairfield area. Her memory will live on in the accomplishments of all her students. DAWN (STROUT) HEROLD 54 died at age 82 at the Greensboro (Vt.) Nursing Home Feb. 2, She graduated from BFA-St. Albans High School in 1950 and from JSC four years later, earning a degree in education. She married Robert Herold in Dawn went on to teach at Highgate Springs, then moved her teaching career to Lamoille County, obtaining positions at Eden, Hyde Park and Johnson schools until her retirement in She was an avid reader and an active member of the United Church of Johnson. ROBERT BOB ROWE 54 (above) died Jan. 28, 2015, at age 82, at Central Vermont Medical Center. Following his graduation from JSC, he helped build what is now the elementary school in Tunbridge, Vt. In January 1955, he enlisted in the U.S. Army and served on active duty for two years at Loring Air Base in Maine as a supply sergeant. While at JSC, he met Joyce Palmer, the love of his life, whom he married Feb. 19, They were looking forward to celebrating their 59th wedding anniversary this year. He began his teaching career in Gilman, Vt., then taught in Waterbury and at Main Street School in Montpelier. He and Joyce became owners of the Meadow Mart in In 1990, they sold the store and Bob continued keeping the books for the new owner. Bob enjoyed the family camp in Waitsfield, especially the deer hunting season and Fourth of July celebrations, weekly golf outings and entertaining friends, neighbors and relatives at holiday gatherings. He loved doing genealogy work, continuing research begun by his father; he and Joyce completed several family genealogies. Bob enjoyed restoring antique cars and tractors; his last car restoration was a 1929 Ford Murray sedan, just like the car he had while at JSC. He and Joyce spent summers camping in state parks as well as on Prince Edward Island and in Nova Scotia. Bob belonged to the Montpelier Elks, the Marc Club, the VAE and the American Legion. Bob is remembered for his integrity, humor, exuberance and his ability to fix anything. He was proud to be a Vermonter. Johnson views 2014/

62 NANCY (STEVENS) STRONG 54 died July 9, 2014, at Berlin Health & Rehabilitation Center in Berlin, Vt., at 82, after an extended illness. Nancy performed her student teaching at the Center School in East Montpelier as well as Union Elementary School in Montpelier, where after graduation she taught first grade. In her younger years, she was a member of the Randolph Chapter of Rainbow Girls and later joined the Order of the Eastern Star. She was also a member of the Friendly Circle of East Montpelier. On June 16, 1957, she married Frederick C. Strong of East Montpelier, who was stationed at Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho. They lived in Mountain Home until the summer of 1958, when they were transferred to Ethan Allen AFB in Vermont. Air Force assignments took them to Massachusetts, Mississippi, Maine, Nebraska and Labrador. In 1994, she and her husband returned to the Strong homestead in East Montpelier. MARILYN (PEET) BIRD 55 died Dec. 5, 2014, after a long illness. She graduated from Hinesburg High School in 1951, and went on to graduate from JSC with a degree in early education. She taught at Thayer School in Burlington, Vt., and later at Hinesburg Elementary School. She was an avid reader and loved to spend time with her family. RAYMOND LADUE JR 55 died peacefully in Newport, Vt., Feb. 10, 2015, at the age of 82. He attended elementary schools in Sheldon, graduated from BFA-St. Albans in 1951, and earned his B.S. degree in education from JSC in 1955 and a master s degree in administration from St. Michael s College in Ray taught and was principal from 1955 to He started his career in Vermont at South School, then West School, Newport Junior High School, North Country Union High School and Newport City Elementary School, where he was supervising principal. Ray was on the Newport Recreation Committee for 18 years and coached Little League. He was a member of the local Retired Teachers Association and the Newport Elk Club #2155, in which he held various leadership positions. JOSEPH TASETANO 58 died Feb. 21, He moved to Vermont in 1941 and graduated from Burlington High School in Joseph was a Korean War veteran, serving in the U.S. Navy aboard the aircraft carrier U.S.S. WASP CVA 18. Upon discharge he enrolled in Johnson State Teachers College. After graduating, he taught in Vermont schools. In 1961 he married the love of his life, moved to Lisbon, N.Y., and taught for many years in the Lisbon School system until he retired. JEAN L. GOODELL 59 died Aug. 8, 2014, at age 78, with her family by her side. Jean earned her degree in teaching from JSC. On June 21, 1958, she married Wesley J. Goodell in Colchester. Her greatest joy was raising her three daughters and spending time with her grandsons, great-grandchildren and her husband, Skip. She loved shopping trips with her girls and playing bingo with her friend Harriet. She was a sweet and kind soul who always thought of others first. She passed her great sense of humor along to her children. Her motto was: Be Silly, Have Fun and Be Kind. She remained strong and positive and sang her favorite song, What a Wonderful World, daily. EMILE LAGRANDEUR 61 died Feb. 14, 2015, at the UVM Medical Center in Burlington. Born in Quebec, Emile was a longtime resident of Franklin County, Vt. He spent most of his working life in education beginning in 1961 at Swanton High School and from 1970 until retirement at Missisquoi Valley Union High School. Later he worked for the Franklin Northwest Supervisory Union, writing grants for the bilingual program, then worked for Vermont Associates. Emile loved his family, especially his grandchildren, and enjoyed his pets, cars, reading and his many trips to the Gibou swimming hole in Montgomery Center. DIANE (PRESCOTT) MAGNANT 61 died May 31, 2013, at 74. After earning her B.S. degree from JSC, she went on to postgraduate work. She began her teaching career in Isle LaMotte, Vt., and then moved on to teach in the Essex Village School District for more than 35 years. She and her husband of over 50 years, HOWARD J. MAGNANT 63, taught at the same school for a year. They lived in Vermont for many years before they moved back to New London, N.H., in Diane was an avid knitter and a member of the Elkins Ladies Benevolent Society. MARSHALL ARONSTAM 63 died Feb. 2, 2014, at home after a hard-fought battle with cancer. After growing up in Vermont and graduating from Burlington High School in 1956, Marshall went on to join the U.S. Army. He spent a brief period at Fort Benjamin before returning to Vermont, where he attended the University of Vermont and later graduated from JSC with a degree in education. Marshall was the devoted husband of Martha Robinson Aronstam for 49 years. In 1977 he settled his teaching roots firmly in Sunderland until his retirement in For 26 years, Marshall represented the town of Deerfield on the Franklin County Technical School Committee, until he retired in Marshall coached youth baseball for 16 years and played a major role in starting a girls softball program known as the Lassie League. In the 80s, Marshall became involved with the American Cancer Society s Relay for Life and helped his granddaughter organize the first all-kids team in Franklin County. He was an active member and deacon at the South Deerfield Congregational Church, where he helped organize the Adopt a Family program. Above all else, Marshall s family was most important to him. He never let his busy schedule allow him to miss a single game or recital, awards ceremony or banquet for any of his children or grandchildren. JUDITH (KENYON) MACMURDO 63 died peacefully with her husband by her side on Dec. 19, Judy graduated from Mt. Saint Mary Academy in Burlington, Vt., and received a degree in education from JSC, and later earned her master s degree in education from UVM. She began her teaching career as an elementary teacher in Milton, Vt., then spent two years in a Catholic extension, teaching in Chicago and Colorado. She ended her teaching career at Orchard School in South Burlington. She was a member of Delta Kappa Gamma. NANCY M. NARAMORE 64 died Jan. 23, She taught in the Trumbull School System in Connecticut, from which she retired. CARL HARVEY 68 died Dec. 8, 2014, at the Greensboro (Vt.) Nursing Home. Carl attended Hardwick public schools, Lyndon Institute, and graduated from Hardwick Academy in the class of He entered the U.S. Air Force in 1942 and was stationed in Michigan, South Carolina and Illinois. Carl fought in the battle of the Ryukyu Islands in the western Pacific during World War II. He was honorably discharged in He owned and operated a dairy farm in his home town of Hardwick from 1946 to 1962 and earned his degree in elementary education from JSC in He taught at Cabot School from 1968 until Carl was awarded the Outstanding Vermont Teachers Award from the University of Vermont in He was a member of the United Church in Hardwick, the American Legion Post 7, the Caspian Lake Lodge, the Riverside Chapter 32 Order of the Eastern Star, and the Coral Chapter 16 Order of the Eastern Star in Morrisville. Carl enjoyed his camp on Greenwood Lake in Woodbury, traveling to visit his sons, collecting coins and playing cards with three generations of his family. MARY WILCOX 69 died June 9, 2014, at her home in Sag Harbor, N.Y. At JSC Mary was known for her outstanding athletic capability. She went on to earn her master s degree and professional diploma from Manhattan College in Riverdale, N.Y. She began her career in education in the Lakeland School district of New York, where she spent 32 years 10 as a sixth grade social studies teacher and the remaining 22 as a middle school guidance counselor. DOUGLAS J. BRESETTE 71 died May 20, 2014, losing his battle with pancreatic cancer. After graduation Doug and a friend opened a bar and restaurant called Blacky Stones Industrial Revolution. Doug went on to work for the state of Vermont, first in the Corrections Department and then the Agency of Transportation, retiring in On Dec. 30, 2011, Doug married Tess Kennedy. In retirement, he continued the use of his woodworking/cabinet-making skills as he worked for others renovating homes and cottages. Throughout his life, Doug was involved in sports in the Montpelier area as a player, coach and mentor, or just through his efforts in providing facilities where others could enjoy athletic events. He coached Vermont State Champion AAU boys and girls basketball teams and went on to represent Vermont in national tournaments. He spent countless hours preparing the Montpelier Recreation Field for the Mountaineers baseball team, building dugouts and refurbishing outbuildings. Doug was instrumental in the operation of the grounds crew, making sure the field was always in top shape. 60 Johnson views 2014/20154

63 ANNA MARY (FLYNN) DERMODY 73 died peacefully July 25, 2014, surrounded by her loving family. She was born Nov. 9, 1918, in Boston. Her love of books set her career path. While finishing her high school education at Brighton High School, she began her career with the Boston Public Library, where she became the children s librarian at the Allston branch. She set the standards for many achievements working at the library, including becoming the first married woman to be hired there. She married Francis J. Dermody Jr. Feb. 21, While raising four sons, she continued her love of books and art. Based on her library training in Boston, she was asked to become librarian at JSC to bring the library up to standards for accreditation. During her long career at the college she became reference librarian and helped many students until she retired at the age of 68. One of the many cherished honors of her career was being asked to give the JSC commencement address in JUDY LARAWAY 74 died Oct. 18, 2014, at 64. She passed away in the Redstone Villa in St. Albans, Vt., following a courageous battle with cancer. Judy was born in Morrisville, and attended Johnson public schools, graduating in the first class of Lamoille Union High School. She continued her education at Weaver Airline School in Missouri and then returned to Vermont to attend JSC. After graduating in 1974, Judy moved to Canada, where she worked in guidance at Richelieu Valley Middle School in Quebec. Judy studied for her master s degree at McGill University in Montreal. In 1997, Judy completed her master s degree and in 1990, she received a certificate of advanced counseling from the University of Vermont. Judy was a member of the Moose Club in St. Albans. She enjoyed music, trips to Maine with her girlfriends, cross country skiing, animals, and spending time with her longtime friends. JAMES KEESLING 75 died peacefully at his home on Oct. 31, 2014, leaving his wife of 10 years, Teresa Carrie. At the ages of 18 and 19, Jim served in the Marine Corps, receiving the National Defense Medal, the Vietnam Service Medal, the Vietnam Campaign Medal, the Combat Action Ribbon, and the Purple Heart. Following his discharge, Jim earned a degree in psychology from JSC, then spent four years in Cape Cod before returning to Hampton for a position with the International Longshoremen Association, Local 862, which provided him with a prosperous, 25-year career. Jim was an active outdoorsman whose passion for hunting took him near and far, including three trips to Africa. He was an avid reader and an endurance athlete who ran in several Marine Corps marathons. Despite demands on his time and resources, Jim was always giving of himself to others. RICHARD G. DICK SPAULDING 75, died unexpectedly Friday, April 4, In 2004, he married Lisa Daniels Dunlavey and became a loving and devoted father to her children and later their offspring. Dick attended Cambridge (Vt.) Elementary School, graduated from Lamoille Union High School, and received his bachelor s and master s degrees in education degrees from JSC. Dick had a lifelong passion for education and, at age 18, became the youngest school board member in Vermont. His early teaching career began in Wolcott and then Berkshire. He then served concurrently as principal and teacher in Belvidere, later as principal of both Newport Center and Burke. More recently, he was a responsive interventionist counselor at Cabot School. Throughout his career, Dick was a role model to both other educators and most important to him, his students. Dick was constantly expanding his deep understanding of geography, history and science, and was sharing his wealth of knowledge with all who would listen. Dick was extremely eclectic in his interests, which ranged from hiking and wilderness exploring to custom woodworking and playing the harmonica. He was an avid runner, crosscountry skier and cyclist who played multiple roles in bettering many Vermont communities and the lives of others. Recently, he was team leader of an ecumenical outreach trip to Valdosta, Ga., where over 350 young adults from all over America spent a week repairing and painting houses of people in need. KATHERINE WASHBURN 76 died April 14, Katherine was a special education teacher for 22 years and deeply loved by her students. A talented and creative artist who specialized in pottery, she found time to continue her passion for art as a hobby while teaching. She left her full-time teaching career in 2000 to establish Katherine Washburn Ceramics, a successful business located in Stowe, Vt., which was known for its whimsical designs and employed a number of artists over the years. Her signature pet ware was shipped nationwide and sold at regional craft fairs throughout the Northeast. Kathy was an animal lover and supporter of animal rescue groups. She was the founder of the Quiet Path Dog Walkers and had recently illustrated a book of animal rescue stories titled Eddie s Tails. MARYANN (ENKOFF) PARIS 80, MA 92 died with her family at her side on May 19, 2014, at age 63 after a brief battle with a brain tumor. Maryann, or Manya as she was called by family, had an unconditional love for her husband, two daughters (Julie PARIS 95 and Susan Paris 96), two sons-in-law (including Mark Huff 95) and five grandchildren. She had a contagious laugh and loved to have fun, whether it was sitting around a bonfire, hiking at the swimming hole or traveling on Barbara Molloy Veteran part-time Fine Arts faculty member Barbara MOLLOY died March 16, 2015, succumbing to breast cancer. She began teaching at JSC in 1991 after working on special projects at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, working as an instructor with Central Vermont Adult Basic Education and serving as executive director for the 1989 season of the Stratton Arts Festival. Barbara earned her M.F.A. in printmaking from Hunter College, N.Y., and generously shared her considerable talents at JSC for 23 years. She taught printmaking, design and drawing courses to both undergraduate and graduate students. Her syllabus for Drawing I includes an assignment to students to concentrate on one artist s drawings. Choose one, she said, and let the fun begin. Her classes set a climate for such warmth, enthusiasm and high standards. In recognizing Barbara for 20 years of service a few years ago, Academic Dean Dan Regan noted that Barbara had developed an outstanding printmaking program at the college. She knows the field inside and out and has led the charge into solvent-free printmaking, creating a green studio, he said. She also encourages her students to engage in art-making that can help others, often including a project with students that serves as a fundraiser for some cause or nonprofit. To underscore this last point, while Barbara was in treatment for breast cancer, she organized fundraising for those suffering in Haiti and, closer to home, people affected by Tropical Storm Irene. Barbara s work is in many private collections and has been exhibited widely, including venues in New York and Washington, D.C., as well as at JSC s Julian Scott Gallery, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Helen Day Art Center in Stowe. n many adventures with her husband. The shore was her happy place, and many adventures involved lots of sea, sunshine and sand. She also loved to spend her time quilting, working in her flower beds or exercising. She walked several half-marathons in her 50s and was a beloved teacher at Cambridge (Vt.) Elementary School, where she taught for 34 years. She especially loved her last few years there as a Title I teacher because she was able to provide individual attention to each child. She loved staying in touch with her students and made lifelong connections with many of them. Johnson views 2014/

64 ELLEN (RICHARDSON) ANDREWS 82 died unexpectedly July 30, She grew up in Lebanon, N.H., graduating from Lebanon High School in She married Richard Fadden Sr. of Meriden, N.H., in April 1955, and later divorced in She married James Andrews on March 9, 1974, and made their home in Barre, Vt. A graduate of JSC and Vermont Law School, she was a Realtor for 20 years with her husband in Andrews Real Estate. After graduating from law school in 1985 she became an attorney and practiced law in Barre until retirement in Ellen was elected to the Barre City School Board in 1986, serving two years. She also served six years on the Barre City Council in the 1990s. She was a past president of the Business and Professional Women s Group and a longtime member of the Central Vermont Rotary Club, serving as president in 1994 and Ellen was a longtime member of the Barre Area Senior Center, serving three terms as president and as board chair. She also served five years on the Board of Commissioners of the Barre Housing Authority. CAROL FITZPATRICK 82 died peacefully Sept. 11, 2014, in Montpelier, Vt., after a long illness. She met her future husband, Montpelier native Douglas R. Fitzpatrick, at a multidenominational youth retreat. They were married on June 15, 1963, after he graduated from Yale University. They traveled the U.S. and settled in San Francisco, where Doug worked on the design of the Bay Area Rapid Transit system. While in California, Carol had two daughters, Sandy and Heather. Carol and Doug returned to the East and lived in Syracuse, N.Y., for five years before returning to Vermont and building a house in Berlin. Carol spent many hours there in her extensive gardens. Except for travel (including a year in Indonesia from 1975 to 1976), they both resided in this house until Doug s death in Carol moved to Westview Meadows in 2007 and grew to love many new friends, participating in many activities, including painting, book clubs and music. Carol will be remembered for her good humor, generosity and friendliness. Carol centered her life around her family and friends and her adopted town of Berlin. PATRICIA (LOCONTO) STEVENS 82 died peacefully at home Aug. 31, 2014, with her family. Pat married David C. Stevens in 1962 and taught elementary language arts in New Bloomfield, Pa., the beginning of a lifelong devotion to teaching and promoting literacy among middle school students. While raising four children, in 1976 Pat returned to the classroom to teach sixth grade at Morristown (Vt.) Elementary School and Peoples Academy. While teaching full-time, she earned an M.A. in gifted and talented education from JSC in 1982 and a Certificate of Advanced Studies and Curriculum in coursework at the doctoral level from the University of Vermont in She was 1985 Teacher of the Year for the Lamoille South Supervisory Union. Upon retirement in 2002, she was honored to have the Patricia Stevens Literacy Award for Sixth Graders created in her name. She was also recognized twice by Who s Who in American Teachers. Her civic activities included participation in the Morristown Association for Commerce and Culture (MACC). A two-time breast cancer survivor, Pat continued to be active in fundraising and support for others fighting this disease. Pat also volunteered to teach a literacy-enrichment program in the Morristown Elementary School twice a week and coached the spelling team. She was recognized for these volunteer efforts in the 2007 Morristown annual report. Other interests and activities included reading, sewing, knitting, gardening and traveling. Pat s lifelong efforts to support her family and community embodied her philosophy that building a better life starts at the local level. LOIS COOLEY 83 died peacefully at Mayor Residential Care in Northfield, Vt., on Feb. 8, 2015, at age 83. She graduated from Randolph High School in 1949 and received an associate s degree in retail marketing from Green Mountain College and later a B.A. in education from JSC. Lois maintained a lifelong interest in music. She loved singing with friends and bringing music into other aspects of her life. Lois brought her infectious energy to many local theater productions, where she acted and sang. She belonged to the Vermont Theater Guild. Her favorite role was the lead in Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You, though she often took on small roles for which she received praise. Lois had a lifelong interest in art as an artist and a teacher. As an art teacher at Berlin Elementary School, she pioneered infusing art into the entire curriculum. She served as president of the Vermont Art Teachers Association, and often traveled to art museums in New England to see art exhibited by favorite painters, particularly Van Gogh and other impressionists. After retiring from teaching, Lois remained active in her community. She worked with hospice care and in PFLAG (Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians and Gays). She also spearheaded development for the Northfield Historical Society, organized a number of exhibits, and wrote for and edited the Dog River Crier. Lois loved good films and was a voracious reader. She filled her house and spare time with books and engaged everyone around her in talking about them. KEVIN O RIORDAN 84 died Dec. 31, 2014, at his home in Barre, Vt. Kevin taught special education for the Barre City school system. He was program director at Washington County Mental Health Services for many years and executive director of human services at Sterling Area Services in Morrisville for 18 years. He advocated tirelessly for individuals with developmental disabilities to help ensure their best possible quality of life. He and his wife, Helena were foster parents and home providers for children with disabilities for over 30 years, raising them with their biological children. Kevin was a member of St. Monica Catholic Church in Barre, where he taught religious education for several years, and the Barre chapter of the Knights of Columbus. His interests included gardening, reading, traveling and spending time with his children and grandchildren. SHIRLEY ANNE HIMES 86 died peacefully at her home March 21, 2014, after a brief illness. She attended school in Oceanside, N.Y., and received her master s degree in education from JSC. A longtime teacher at the former St. Michael s Graded School in Montpelier, Vt., she taught kindergarten and first grade from 1967 to Nancy was a member of St. Augustine Church in Montpelier. MARC GOSSELIN 87 died peacefully Nov. 13, 2014, at the Vermont Respite House in Williston, Vt., after a short battle with cancer. Marc was born in Newport, spending his childhood on the family dairy farm in Barton. He was a contemplative soul with a gentle spirit who loved and marveled at nature. His family has deep and fond memories of time spent with Marc while he was growing up and later in his adult years. He enjoyed music and took a special delight in seeing his nieces and nephew grow up. ROBERT BOB CLAPPER 88 died Oct. 18, 2014, at his home in Holland, Vt., surrounded by his pets. He was a Vermonter through and through. His parents had a camp in Salem where he and his brother spent summers, and he loved telling stories about their always-leaky rowboats and catching baby skunks, squirrels and chipmunks. After high school graduation, he enlisted in the Navy where he was a radioman on the U.S.S Neptune. Following his honorable discharge, he worked at Ethan Allen in Orleans for nearly 20 years. Eventually attaining a supervisory position, he decided to attend JSC, graduating magna cum laude with a degree in elementary education with an additional specialization in special education. He worked for a short time at North Country Union High School in special education but decided it wasn t for him. He then took a job with Northeast Kingdom Mental Health Services and after retirement became a house husband and kennel keeper to many pets. He was especially fond of golden retrievers. One of his greatest wishes was to visit the holy land, which he was able to do before his health declined; while there he was baptized in the Jordan River. A favorite memory was the day he participated in the great Cadillac parade through Barton, Vt. He was up before daylight to get in line, managing to be number 34. AUDREY LINDGREN 89, died peacefully at her home on Jan. 2, 2014, after a courageous battle with cancer. After many years in Germany during her high schools years, Audrey s family moved back to the U.S. Audrey was a longtime state employee in Vermont, working for 16 years in a variety of roles. She loved life and her family, pets and friends. She offered to all the gift of accepting everyone and appreciating their unique characteristics. DEBRA S. WELLS 89 died unexpectedly Nov. 24, 2014, at age 48. Shortly after graduating from JSC, Deb began an 18-year teaching career at Hardwick (Vt.) Elementary School, followed by stints at Hyde Park, Eden and Cambridge elementary schools. She found the position she truly loved as athletic trainer at Stowe High School, her alma mater. She felt pride helping injured athletes return to their sports. Last winter Deb fractured her foot, but continued to fulfill her duties while on crutches. No one will soon forget the sight of Deb sitting in a chair being pushed across the ice at Stowe Arena so she could attend to an injured hockey player. Deb loved being active outdoors. She completed 10 marathons and was most at peace when she was running, hiking, downhill and cross country skiing, playing softball, or just walking the trails in Morrisville. JOYCE (HARDING) DENSMORE 91 died Jan. 9, 2014, at age 53. She graduated from Bellows Free Academy in St. Albans in 1978 and earned a master s degree in psychology from JSC. 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65 for the Vermont State Hospital in Waterbury, Howard Mental Health in Burlington, and Central Vermont Substance Abuse Center in Berlin. She was a member of St. Paul s Methodist Church in St. Albans. She enjoyed puzzles, writing, drawing, sewing, crochet and quilting. RUTH HALE 91 died May 12, 2014, at her home. While a student at JSC, she was awarded the Truman Scholarship, which enabled her to later pursue her master s degree in social work. She started as a social worker at Casey Family Services in Waterbury, Vt., and later established her own family therapy practice. Her hobbies included going for rides with her husband, attending grandchildren s sports events, photography, and painting with oil and pastels. DIANE BUSHEY 94 died Nov. 16, 2014, at her home with her family at her side following a courageous battle with cancer. Diane grew up in Swanton, Vt., graduated from the Fanny Allen School of Nursing in 1967, and practiced nursing until She married Clifton Bushey in She created and ran a craft business called A Touch of Country from 1980 until Diane came to JSC in 1990 to prepare for a career in teaching and was elected to the Chesamore Honor Society while here. She was hired as a middle school math teacher by BFA-Fairfax after graduation and retired in She was an exceptional athlete who enjoyed golf, skiing and racquetball. She won an award from Hamlen s Garden Center for her many flower gardens. Diane volunteered extensively and enjoyed playing her violin and singing with Clifton for the residents of nursing homes throughout Franklin County. Diane was a loving and giving person with nothing more important to her than family and close friends. She especially enjoyed spending time with her grandchildren. Diane had a love of music, hiking, kayaking, biking and camping at remote campgrounds. She hiked most of the high peaks in Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine, and kayaked over 50 different ponds and rivers in northern New England. Diane had a unique gift of truly enjoying the simple gifts of nature. BARBARA MOORE 97 died Nov. 2, 2013, at age 78. She spent most of her life in the Newport, Vt., area except for several years when she was a nun. At 58, she went back to school, receiving a B.A. in art from JSC. She enjoyed crocheting and making ceramics. NANCY A. REMICK 97 died May 8, 2014, with her children by her side after a long battle with multiple sclerosis. Nancy taught in the Bennington and Essex Junction school districts before pursuing a M.S. in counseling from JSC. STEPHANIE A. PFAU 99 died peacefully March 30, 2014, with her family at her side, after a long journey with kidney disease. Prior to declining health, she was employed for seven years at Fletcher Allen Health Care in Burlington (now UVM Medical Center) as a licensed nurse assistant. An active participant of Donate Life Vermont, whose mission is to bring awareness and education to Vermont communities about the need for organ donors, Stephanie will be remembered for her fiery spirit and quiet determination. Her warmth and generosity showed in her love of painting, cooking and especially gardening. EMILY MORGAN 01 died Jan. 4, 2014, due to post-influenza pneumonia. Emily was working toward her master s degree in social work at the University of Connecticut and will be remembered for her kindness and generosity. Emily was a thoughtful and loving person who had a special place in her heart for people in need and for animal welfare. She loved reading, movies and music, especially Bob Dylan. MARY LYNN RUPE 02 died in the Vermont Respite House on Dec. 20, 2014, just as she had lived with grace, beauty, fearlessness and no regrets. She had an irrepressible spirit and a one-of-a-kind mixture of humor and determination. Lynn swam the width of Lake Champlain, played ice hockey for years, windsurfed, played racquetball, and learned to roller blade. She was an accomplished painter, sculptor, glassblower and printmaker. As a teacher, she used her love of science, color and invention to create a world full of wonder and discovery. Lynn could do anything and had the ability to make you feel that you could, too. Bicycling was a special joy, and when she could no longer manage a bicycle, she switched over to a motorized trike and became Queen of the Bikepath. Lynn loved to dance, and although her MS progressively interfered with it, she always found a way to move to music. After graduating from the University of Michigan with a degree in forestry, she joined the Peace Corps and was posted in the Philippines for two years. Her travels also took her to southeast Asia, Europe, Central America, the Caribbean Sea, Canada and places throughout the U.S., but her love for mountains and water led her back to Vermont. She enrolled in graduate school at the UVM and earned her M.S. in Natural Resource Planning, which led to a job as town planner for Shelburne for two years. She later earned her M.F.A. from JSC, and then, having obtained a teacher certification from the University of Wisconsin, went on to a career as a teacher. Lynn s art received awards from the National Endowments for the Arts, the Puffin Foundation and the Barbara Small Memorial Award and earned her fellowships at the Hambridge Center, JSC, and the Women s Studio Workshop. Her art has been shown at scores of galleries and museums in Vermont and elsewhere in the U.S. and Canada. One of her larger paintings is on permanent display at the Burlington International Airport. Graduating women rugby players pose with their coach, Don Allen, following the 2013 Commencement Ceremony at JSC. Aly is pictured third from left. Alyson Finn ALYSON MARIE FINN 13, age 23, died Oct. 14, 2014, due to injuries sustained in a car accident. Alyson was more than a daughter, sister, aunt and friend to all. She was a free spirit and a humanitarian with a great a sense of adventure. Aly was raised in Montgomery, N.Y., and moved to Stowe, Vt., as a young adult, earning her bachelor s degree from JSC in While at JSC she revived the long-dormant women s rugby team at JSC and served as captain. The team astounded all by winning the 2011 national championship in their division that first year of play, attracting national media attention and an interview on the National Public Radio program Only a Game. After graduating from JSC, Aly played for the Burlington Women s Rugby Club. In addition to being an step dancer with the Kevin Broesler School of Irish Dance, Alyson loved everything outdoors and living in Stowe. When she wasn t playing rugby, you could find her climbing Mt. Mansfield, hiking a trail, skiing or at the beach. She loved animals, especially her boxer, Roxy. Aly was always on the go planning her next trip. Aly s parents and brother traveled to Johnson to attend a memorial service organized by the JSC rugby team and advisor Patrick Rogers Sunday afternoon, Oct. 26. The service took place at the JSC rugby field and was followed by a scrimmage in Aly s memory. The tent could not begin to contain all the JSC friends, faculty, staff and coaches who came out to honor Aly on that chilly and intermittently rainy day. Aly s friends and teammates have established a scholarship in her name that will be awarded to deserving JSC woman ruggers. To contribute or learn more, please [email protected] or call n Photo: Ellen Hill Johnson views 2014/

66 GARY NIQUETTE 04 died Sept. 7, 2011, surrounded by his wife and children. He enjoyed a full life that touched many people. Gary s passions included scuba diving, geocaching, teaching and woodworking. JENNIFER GALVANI 06 died July 13, 2014, from respiratory failure at the age of 30. After graduating from Erskine Academy in 2002, she left Maine and headed to Vermont, where she earned a degree in environmental science from JSC. KARII CLOUD (ZACHARY BOYKINS) 11 died Nov. 1, 2014, at the age of 25. Karii graduated from Mascoma Valley High School in 2007 and then from JSC with an A.A. in technical theater and a B.A. in theater and drama. She was a gifted and talented actress, an accomplished guitarist, an award-winning potter, an avid trick skier, and a mad, tenacious rugger. Karii was driven and passionate about her career at Dealer.com in Burlington, Vt. She was a strong, loving, sensitive young woman with a creative soul and a brilliant and powerful intellect. Karii wants everyone to become educated and accepting of transgender issues and struggles. GREGORY P. CALIMERIS 14 died April 29, 2014, at age 36, doing what he loved: working out with friends at Crossfit in Boylston, Mass. Greg earned his B.A. degree from Westfield State College, then worked as a recruiter for Robert Half Associates in New York City and for Daley & Associates in Boston before embarking on a new vocation in mental health. He worked at Plymouth House in Plymouth, N.H., then became a clinician and counselor at Spring Hill Recovery Center in Ashby, Mass., before coming to JSC to earn his master s degree in counseling. Athletics were his passion. Greg gave himself to others with all his heart, mind, body and spirit. Because he made an impact and difference in so many people s lives, Spring Hill Recovery has set up a scholarship in his memory at JSC for graduate students in the mental health counseling program. HOLLY PROVONCHA 14, age 36, died May 20, 2014, just days after attending Commencement to receive her diploma. She graduated from North Country High School in Newport, Vt., in 1997, received two associate s degrees from the Community College of Vermont, and earned her bachelor s degree through the External Degree Program of JSC. Holly battled cystic fibrosis all her life but didn t let it get her down, as she always had a happy outlook on life. Her hobbies included going fishing and riding ATVs. At JSC s 2014 Commencement ceremony, despite her declining health, she walked the stage unescorted to receive her bachelor s degree. This was one of Holly s life goals, and to achieve it in front of family and friends was one of her proudest moments. Many alumni and friends of Johnson State College have expressed their caring by making a charitable bequest or by creating an endowment. Simply put, a charitable bequest is a provision in a will or living trust specifying that all or a portion of your estate is to pass to a charitable organization such as Johnson State College. An endowment is a gift of cash or stock of at least $10,000 that is invested to provide support for a cause of your choice and to ensure that the principal amount of your gift grows. Only the return on the investment (the interest) up to a defined percentage is spent, while the principal remains intact. The College and the students who benefit from the gifts of these special friends are extremely grateful for this support. Bequests and endowments live on, providing interest each year to support students, visiting lecturers, curricular innovation and excellence in teaching and learning at JSC. Director of Advising Sara Kinerson with 2013 graduate Maroni Minter A lasting legacy FOUR WAYS TO MAKE A GIFT TO JOHNSON STATE COLLEGE: Include a gift of any size in your will. Name Johnson State College as a beneficiary of a retirement plan, trust or a life insurance policy. This can be done without needing to revise your will. Make a Charitable Gift Annuity, which provides you with lifetime income. These gifts can have significant tax benefits and pay attractive interest rates. Contribute an annual donation of cash or stock. For more information, contact the Office of Development & Alumni Relations OR [email protected] 64 Johnson views 2014/20154

67 ALUMNI AWARD NOMINATION FORM Use this form or submit your nomination online at I am nominating this person for (please select one): o Distinguished Alumni Award Recognizing outstanding career and public service achievements o Distinguished Faculty Award Recognizing outstanding teaching, service, scholarship and dedication to JSC students o Distinguished Staff Award Recognizing outstanding commitment and dedication to the mission of JSC Nominee s Name: JSC Graduation Year: Nominee s Street Address: City: State: ZIP: Phone: NOMINATED BY: Your Name: JSC Graduation Year: Address: City/State: ZIP: Phone: Supporting Information, Awards, Comments (please attach additional sheet, if necessary): Return this form to: Johnson State College Office of Alumni Relations, 337 College Hill, Johnson, VT ATHLETICS HALL OF FAME NOMINATION FORM Use this form or submit your nomination online at I am nominating this person/team for (please select one): o Individual Athlete o Team o Honorary o Other: Nominee s Name: JSC Class of: Nominee s Street Address: City: State: ZIP: Phone: NOMINATED BY: Your Name: JSC Graduation Year: Address: City/State: ZIP: Phone: Supporting Information, Awards, Comments (please attach additional sheet, if necessary): Return this form to: Johnson State College Hall of Fame, Athletics Department, 337 College Hill, Johnson, VT ALUMNI AWARD NOMINATION ATHLETICS HALL OF FAME NOMINATION Johnson views 2014/2015 iii

68 337 College Hill Johnson, VT NonProfit ORG U.S. Postage PAID Burlington, VT Permit No GREAT WAYS to connect with fellow alumni & stay connected to JSC! LIKE US on LINK US on Linked In For the inside skinny, visit Basement Medicine.org JSC s online student-run community newspaper. at facebook.com/groups/ JSCAlumniGroup The Official Johnson State College Alumni Page Join the Johnson State College Alumni Group Send your to [email protected] No ? Don't miss out! Let us know and we ll check in by phone or letter instead. for the JSC Alumni Website! Visit Follow the instructions online. [email protected] if you have any problems. Call or JSC anytime to share your news! Let us know if you are coming to campus. We will arrange a tour or treat you to coffee. Phone ( locally) jsc.alum@ jsc.edu