CLASS NOTES Life Beyond Graduation

1972

Pam Reynolds Halbur ’72 said, “Our class enjoyed the Reunion Weekend so much that we have set up a Facebook private group page to share news, photos, trivia questions and reminisce about our four great years at Burr and Burton. So far 30 classmates have joined. The group is called Burr and Burton Class of 1972, and we welcome all our classmates to join.”

2002

Sally Utiger ’48 attended The Peru Fair last fall and ran into schoolmate (and fellow BBS cheerleader) Bubsy Tuttle ’49. She said, “Guess who I met in a crowd of millions over the weekend?”

The Burr and Burton class of 1982 had a great showing at their 40th Reunion last fall. Lenore Scanlon ’82 sent along this photo of her classmates from the weekend. (L-R): Karen (Piekarski) Carrera, Melissa (Griffith) Reed, Seth Rice, Ida (Muzzio) Fazio, Becky (Thompson) Denofer, Donny Bierwirth, Dawn (West) Dorr, Lenore (McNamara) Scanlon, Jason Schoffstall, Sue (Mohr) Murphy, Chris Senecal, Jeff Thompson, Pablo Chavarry, Robin (Hockman) Kristiansen (present but missing from photo).

Samantha Jurnak ’02 and Brian Cram got married last May, they live in Rutland.

2006

Zach Weiss ’06 attended the UN Water Conference March 22-24 in New York as part of Dr. Rajendra Singh's Contingent from India. Zach produced the award-winning film, “Reviving Rivers,” which was shown at the World Water Film Festival before the UN Water Conference began. Zach is the creator of Water Stories.com, a “learning, training, and action platform focused entirely on water cycle restoration.” Zach is the founder of Elemental Ecosystems, which is committed to helping clients “improve their relationship with their land, specializing in water-retention landscapes that harvest rain to create naturally productive ecosystems.” To find out more about how you can help, go to waterstories.com.

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2007

York, where she is a union organizer and writer for Bon Appétit Magazine.

On Saturday, September 10, Burr and Burton alumni Marie Van Der Kar Gray ’07, Matthew Van Der Kar ’02, and James Van Der Kar ’04 were all inducted into the Castleton University Hall of Fame. Congratulations to the Van Der Kar family! Burr and Burton inducted Marie into the Burr and Burton Hall of Fame on Saturday, September 24.

2013

Zachary Byrd Harding-Laprade ’13 lives in Manhattan where he works as a consultant at Boston Consulting Group after graduating from the MBA program at Northwestern University in 2022.

2016

After nearly two years as a baker’s assistant in Budapest, Alma Avalle ’16 had to move on amid increasing antiLGBT hostility in Hungary. She relocated to Berlin in early 2022, where she worked as a food writer covering the impact of the Iron Curtain on the city's divergent cuisines. She now lives in Brooklyn, New

Raili Utiger ’16 ran the Philadelphia Marathon on November 20 with a 7:41 minute mile. Raili’s grandmother (Sally Baldwin Utiger ’48) reported that Raili qualified for the Boston Marathon.

2018

Bryan Emery ’18 is thankful for his experience at the BBA Mountain Campus and the Dene Farm which shaped his future studies. He graduated in May ’22 from Sterling College in Vermont with a B.A. in Outdoor Education and is currently employed at Sylvan Peak Mountain Shop in Red Lodge, MT and is also a guide with Zephyr Adventures in Montana leading trips to Yellowstone and Glacier National Park.

After graduating from Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY, in May 2022, Margo Grapshi ’18 was selected by the French Embassy for their program Teaching Assistant Program in France or TAPIF. During her one-year assignment, she has served as an English Language Assistant in two primary schools in Angers, a city in western France, at the edge of the Loire Valley. She has loved her experience, improving her French and working with children and she credits much of her success and start with the French language to her time at Burr and Burton Academy in Madame Emery's classes! It was Madame Emery who recommended Margo explore the TAPIF program and she is so happy that she pursued this wonderful opportunity.

Matthew Scott ’20 and Danielle MacKenzie ’20 are currently music majors at Ithaca College and were Burr and Burton artists in residence during their winter break. During their time as artists-in-residence, Danielle coached Burr and Burton saxophone students in the Instrumental Music Ensemble and Matthew led vocal workshops with our Vocal Music Ensemble and Cast of the Winter Musical.