Teny Bannick ’86 is volunteering for Green Energy Ohio, a chapter of the American Solar Energy Society, helping to prepare for its annual conference in Cleveland. Teny’s son, Remi, is now 28 and married. Her granddaughter, Brooke, just graduated from high school. Edward Monat III ’88 (see photo with Mike Staggs ’96) has started the League of Underwater Superheroes and, “is living happily with his five dogs, two cats, three horses, seventy-six chickens, one goat—and my wife too.” Lauren Gilson ’88 is in central Florida working with endangered avian species on a large section of federal land. “Despite development, Florida has an amazingly beautiful and diverse ecology, with many rare and sensitive organisms associated with ecological refugia along a ridge system.” Laura Cohn ’88 writes, “I still live just outside of Philadelphia with my husband, Bill, and my 9-year-old son, Daniel, teaching, painting, gardening and migrating back to Indonesia each year.” www.FromBalitoBala.com.
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On May 6, 2007 Dorie Stolley ’88 gathered with family members and friends at the Norfolk Botanical Garden in Virginia for her wedding to Eric Walberg. Despite the brewing of tropical storm Andrea, a fun time was had by all. Miriama Broady (’88) and Gwyn Peterdi (’89) sang during the ceremony; Gwyn led circle dancing after the reception. In true COA fashion, the happy couple first laid eyes upon each other in the romantic setting of a meeting on fecal coliform in the local waters! From left to right, back row: Noreen Hogan ’91, Jiff Blansfield ’89 holding daughter Madelaine Blansfield, Miriama, Dorie, Eric, Elizabeth Laver Kacergis, Mike Kacergis ’91, Gwyn. Front Row: Ned Ormsby ’91 with his children, Charlie Hunt Ormsby and Jane Hunt Ormsby. Their mom, Aimee Hunt ’91, is not in the picture. David Vickery ’89 (married to Beth Vickery ’91), is painting full time and has launched the website dvickery.com. He is represented by Gallery 357 in Rockland, Maine. Libby Dean ’89 is finishing her thesis, “Communicating with Young Inuit Women About Environmental Contaminants, Food, and Health Issues in Nunatsiavut,” as part of her MA in environmental studies at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia. Libby participated in the recent Society for Human Ecology conference at COA, winning an award for her poster on the same topic. In addition to her work with risk communication and the environment, Libby’s essay about the collision of shamanistic Inuit culture with Christianity at the time of contact will appear in the upcoming companion book for the film The Journals of Knud Rasmussen (by a predominantly Inuit team who made acclaimed film Atanarjuat: the Fast Runner). Linda Gregory ’89 is living in San Rafael, California where her husband, Jeff, is working as an open space ranger in Marin County. “I am a full-time mom to 3-year-old Matthew. In my spare time I am working on creating a pictorial field guide to the plants of Acadia National Park with Glen Mittelhauser ’89 and several other Maine colleagues.” In June, Linda returned to COA to see her stepdaughter, Menemsha Grey ’07, graduate. Last September at Gay Head Light on Martha’s Vineyard, Jeremy T. Norton ’91 married Vineyard resident Jane Belanger Norton. “Jane and I have decided to move back to the island. I have taken a position as treatment manager for a substance abuse program for offenders,” writes Jeremy. He has also resigned as host and producer of the "Night of the Living Dead" radio show on WFRD 99.3 FM, broadcasting out of Dartmouth College. Jeremy adds, “I came to Dartmouth in 1995 to enroll in the master of liberal studies program where I studied philosophy and ethics. My thesis was titled “Aristotle, Aquinas and their friend in Narcotics Anonymous.” jtnorton@mac.com At the Bar Harbor Whale Museum, Natalie Springuel ’91 presented “Images and Voices from the Gulf of Maine: Development, Fisheries and Issues along the Edge of the Gulf,” based on a five-month sea kayaking expedition from Cape Cod, Massachusetts to Cape Sable Island, Nova Scotia, in which she highlighted the issues of the region: development, fisheries, coastal access and sustainable tourism.
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Beth (Heidemann) Vickery ’91 (married to David Vickery ’89) is teaching at Cushing School in Cushing, Maine and volunteering for the Family Literacy Project and Listen UP Environmental Action Resources Group. “I’ve attended two high school graduations of my former kindergarten students. I’m also pretty busy parenting. My daughter attends the Riley School in Rockport and is a dedicated violin student and youth orchestra member.”
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