class notes alumni Doug Wilson participated in the August 19, 2012, Hampshire 100, a hundred-mile mountain bike race. 2008
Tori Arnold earned her master’s in education from Lehigh University and is an elementary school science teacher at the Banner School in Frederick, Md. Tom Frezza was promoted to superintendent of the Pry House Field Hospital Museum at the National Museum of Civil War Medicine in Frederick, Md. He redesigned the exhibits in preparation for the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Antietam, which is the battlefield where Pry House is located. Lisa Bates is a wildlife technician for the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife She works on the bear project and was pictured holding a yearling bear on the front page of the February 26, 2012, Maine Sunday Telegram. Eric Bragg is lead climber and foreman for Bartlett Tree Experts in Woodstock, N.H., and owns a fish hatchery business raising trout and bait fish. Dan Cavanaugh signed on for his third year as a field biologist for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Cooperative Research Unit focusing on the endangered snail kite. Franki (Dalton) Delaney is the oil and hazardous material responder for the Maine Department of Environmental Protection. She and her husband bought a home in Alfred. Tom Freedman is a hatchery technician for Cooke Aquaculture USA in Oquossoc, Maine. Will Hafford finished his doctoral degree course work in Clinical Psychology at Antioch University New England and began his internship year this fall. He and partner, Eileen McCue, are building a house in the Monmouth area. They have a daughter. Nate Jack is a sheriff ’s deputy for Knox County and lives in Tenants Harbor.
Jeff Ruckert earned his paramedic license in February 2012 and is a paramedic and dispatcher for Delta Ambulance in Waterville, Maine. He volunteers for Unity Ambulance and is a per diem paramedic for Sebasticook Hospital. Isabel Streichhahn-Demers is finishing her master’s in acupuncture and oriental medicine. Josiah “Josh” Towne is a forester foreman at Spider Creek Logging and Tree Service in Deering, N.H. Sara Trunzo, Unity College food and farms project coordinator, received the Volunteer of the Year Award from the Unity Area Rotary Club in June 2012. She is active in area agencies and on multiple advisory boards which address issues of hunger, food access, sustainable agriculture, and community development. Her award was for bringing together the work of all the local food related interest groups. The president of the Unity Rotary, Don Newell, cited Sara’s “passion for improving community access to fresh, healthy food for all people,” as the impetus behind giving her this award. Kenyon Twitchell is a fish culturist at the Maine State Fishery at Grand Lake Stream, where they raise salmon and brook trout. He married Angela Lynn Stevens on July 23, 2011. Nick VanderHeld is a seasonal park ranger for the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation, helping to run their Off Road Vehicle permit program in the state parks. Nate Williams is a Maine National Guard recruiter for the central coastal area of Maine. 2009
Megan Anderson was promoted to inspector of international sales at Johnny’s Selected Seeds in Winslow, Maine. She works with the USDA to inspect and certify all seed lots shipping outside the United States and Canada.
Mark Mullen is a venomous keeper/presenter at the Naples, Fla., zoo.
Aaron Cross is a Maine Game Warden corporal. He and Cassie had a baby girl in June 2012.
Brian O’Donnell works in corporate security in an executive support group for Fidelity Investments in Boston. He is working to become an emergency medical technician. He fishes for Bluefin tuna.
Jake Deslauriers worked the summer of 2012 as ranger and work coordinator with the U.S. Youth Conservation Corps at Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming.
Eric Fluette is a New Hampshire Fish and Game conservation officer assigned to work on the seacoast. Chris Hayward is an assistant lead coordinator for MRAG Americas. He assigns fisheries monitors and observers to commercial fishing boats from Maine to North Carolina. He and Lisa Casagrande ’10 are engaged. Lisa is a U.S. Fish and Wildlife refuge officer in Cape May, N.J. Nathaniel Jack is a deputy sheriff for the Knox County Sheriff ’s Department. Julie Lachance works for Maine Huts and Trails, and is in the ski patrol at Sugarloaf. Bryan Lane is a public health sanitarian for Chenango County in New York and is the county coordinator for the rabies program. Lon Robinson is a fish culturist II for the New Hampshire Fish and Game Inland Fisheries Division at the Milford State Hatchery, where Lou Gagnon ’96 and Sterling Baker ’08 also work. Lon and his wife have two children. Joshua Slawek is a maintenance ranger for the Maine Department of Conservation at Mt. Blue State Park. Zoe Turcotte is a teacher’s assistant, head coach of the boy’s middle school basketball teams, and runs an after-school program on Martha’s Vineyard. She has earned an educator license to teach science in Massachusetts, and she is working on her master’s of education at Lesley University in Cambridge, Mass. Amanda Walker, with a wildlife care and education degree from Unity, is working seasonally with the United States Fish & Wildlife Services as a ranger at the Silvio O. Conti National Fish and Wildlife Preserve, encompassing the 7.2 million-acre Connecticut River watershed in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont. She lives in Hadley, Mass. She completed her degree in environmental science at the Middlebury Community College of Vermont. Josh Youse is a surf camp instructor in the summer in Wrightsville Beach, N.C. In the winter, he works in customer service at a food co-op in Wilmington, N.C., and as a residential assistant /direct care staff in Leland, N.C. In February 2012, he traveled to Nicaragua on a surf/volunteer trip.
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