UMASSD Magazine Winter 2013

Winter 2013

A magazine for alumni & friends of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

INSIDE: New Chancellor Divina Grossman discusses her route to UMass Dartmouth

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From the Chancellor

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hroughout the pages of this issue of UMass Dartmouth magazine, you will find the evidence of why I am thrilled to be here at UMass Dartmouth and why Washington Monthly recently ranked us among the top 25 master’s-level universities in the nation.

UMass Dartmouth is a special place because of the people who make up

our engaged community of learners, teachers and scholars, whose activities produce alumni who make transformative contributions to society.

In the following pages, you will read about Paul Moore ’85, Kel Kelley ’84, and Esther Emard ’75, who are truly Corsairs at heart, adventurous and always focused on the horizon. Paul’s leadership of the effort to expand youth hockey participation on Cape Cod and the building of a solar powered ice arena is featured along with Kel’s innovative approach to life and business, and Esther’s mission to improve health care quality.

You will also read about the accomplishments of our faculty and staff such as Juli Parker, who is breaking down gender stereotypes, and Professors Tom Stubblefield and Pamela Karimi who are studying the creative sector’s impact on the revitalization of gateway cities.

And you will encounter the achievements of our students, such as the international award-winning DECA team, a Fulbright scholar, and our Engineers Without Borders.

You can see why Washington Monthly praised us for “increasing social mobility, producing research, and inspiring public service” that serves the

You can reach me at chancellor@umassd.edu or find me on Facebook.

Joyfully,

Divina Grossman, Chancellor

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Interim Assistant Chancellor of Advancement Wendy K. Skinner Assistant Vice Chancellor for Alumni Relations Lori Jacques Contributing writers Christine Allen Robert Lamontagne Design / illustration Rachel Cocroft

Alumni Class Notes Nancy J. Tooley ’99

Chancellor Divina Grossman brings new style and perspective to an evolving campus

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Managing Editor John T. Hoey ’00 (Boston) Assistant Chancellor for Public Affairs

Photographers D. Confar Kindra Clineff Jennifer Joubert ’07

A caring leader with global perspective

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Creator of the anti-agency agency Kel Kelly ’84, not your average CEO

Remembering Don Howard Former students and friends mourn and celebrate their mentor

Making ice hockey sustainable

Paul Moore ’85 helps create a green ice hockey arena on Cape Cod

MBA student finds team at Charlton Entrepreneur and shellfisher, Kathleen Duffy, is getting her MBA

Washington Monthly ranks UMass Dartmouth # 25 Healing power of the cranberry; Caret Express comes to the SouthCoast Gene Sharp is Alternative Nobel winner; Larry McDonald ’89 speaks on campus Fulbright winner to teach in Brazil; UMass Dartmouth Engineers Without Borders begin 5-year clean water project in Panama

Alumni News & more

I hope you enjoy this issue, and I am interested in hearing your stories.

We welcome letters from our readers and encourage you to email your comments to publicaffairs@umassd.edu or mail them to Public Affairs, Foster Administration, Room 331A, 285 Old Westport Road, North Dartmouth, MA 02747-2300.

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ssues of UMass Dartmouth are produced for the 53,000 alumni, 9,300 students, 1,200 employees, and countless partners of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. The information contained in this publication is intended to engage readers in the mission of UMass Dartmouth, which is critical to the social and economic development of the region.

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Corsair Hall of Fame inductees Alumni event photos Alumni Profiles: Esther Emard ’75 Gus Silveira, Jr. ’57 Class notes Alumni Awards

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The Caret Express comes to the SouthCoast UMass President Robert L. Caret took his second annual statewide bus tour of the UMass system this October. Joined by students, faculty and staff, President Caret toured the School of Marine Science and Technology in New Bedford (right), and People Inc. in Fall River, where many of our students volunteer and a team of CVPA students is redesigning the building. President Caret capped his visit by joining 300 students in the renovated Campus Center to watch the first presidential debate.

“BBF Unbound: Books Behind Bars”

Washington Monthly ranks us #25 Students returning to the University (above in the newly renovated Carney Library Grand Reading Room) and the School of Law at the end of summer were reminded of the value they get for their education dollar at UMass Dartmouth. Washington Monthly magazine ranked UMass Dartmouth 25th in the nation among master’s-granting universities, giving us sky-high marks for increasing social mobility, producing research, and inspiring public service” in our students.

Delivering value for our students’ dollars is just as important to the UMass School of Law (left): this summer, tuition and fees were frozen for three years—helping students to predict the total cost of their education and UMass

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keep that cost at about 50 percent of private alternatives.

Professor Robert Waxler moderated a discussion, “BBF Unbound: Books Behind Bars” at this year’s Boston Book Festival, featuring former prisoners whose lives have been changed by the Changing Lives Through Literature program he founded more than 20 years ago. The program, founded in New Bedford, has spread to seven states and the UK and affected 3,500 offenders.

The quintessential UMass Dartmouth student Demitria “Meech” Ferreira, a senior in Marketing with a minor in Portuguese from Fall River who is graduating this December at the age of 20, was featured in new ad by the state Board of Higher Education. The child of hard-working immigrants from the Azores, Meech holds

President Caret (above right) toured SMAST with Henry M. Thomas, III chairman University of Massachusetts Board and Chancellor Grossman and (above left) enjoyed a debate night party with students on campus.

down a job and an internship—the perfect example of the students and families UMass Dartmouth has served for decades.

Creative service to the community This summer, UMass Dartmouth faculty and staff won three grants totaling $100,000 from the UMass President’s Creative Economy Initiatives Fund.

Dr. Susan Jennings with the Office of Sustainability and Professor Tara Rajaniemi will experiment with ways to improve the yield of local sustainable gardens. Professor Michael Griffin and Dr. Matthew Roy will lead students from the Leduc Center for Civic Engagement and Charlton College of Business to work with the New Bedford Museum of Glass to build the Museum’s profile and attract more visitors. CVPA Professors Thomas Stubblefield and Pamela Karimi will illuminate the role of the creative sector

in both the past glory and the future economic revitalization of New Bedford with lectures, and a public art exhibition comparing city landmarks today with how they appeared a hundred years ago.

UMass Dartmouth researchers ask: Can cranberries prevent cancer, heart attacks?

Founded last year thanks to a grant from the UMass President’s Office and led by UMass Dartmouth professors Cathy Neto and Maolin Guo, the new UMass Dartmouth-led Cranberry Health Research Center complements our regional focus on the science of raising cranberries: exploring the world of health benefits provided by this fruit, including whether or not cranberries can prevent cancer or heart attacks.

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Campus Center renovation

Professor Emeritus Gene Sharp wins “Alternative Nobel” Bristol County Savings Bank contributes $250,000 to Charlton College of Business Building Campaign Bristol County Savings Bank President Patrick Murray, Jr. presents Chancellor Divina Grossman with a check for $250,000 towards the Charlton College of Business “A Place to Call Home” Building Campaign. UMass Dartmouth is undertaking this $14.5 million expansion project to provide state-of-the-art classroom space for its business students, who represent more than 30 percent of this campus’s population.

Dr. Gene Sharp, the “world’s foremost expert on nonviolent revolution” cited as the inspiration behind the Arab Spring and popular uprisings around the world and considered by some to have been a nominee for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, won the 2012 Right Livelihood Award in September. Called the “Alternative Nobel,” the Award recognizes individuals and groups who “define essential conditions for global peace and security.”

Sharp then made a rare appearance on campus via Skype as part of the Center for Indic Studies’s lecture series. Sharp formerly chaired the Department of Sociology, and served as a professor at SMU for 16 years.

One summer and $2.2 million later, the campus center renovations have recreated the MacLean Campus Center.

The Commuter Café name is gone, after 40 years, in recognition that the student body is now half residential.

What was once a drab and dreary cafeteria is now a food court with a new range of food options including a Wendy’s, and the newly-opened University Club.

More light, more color, more dining choices Students enjoy a brighter dining area in which to socialize, study, or grab a quick meal in between classes, while the newly designed University Club on campus (below) creates a welcoming atmosphere for faculty, staff, alumni and friends to relax and enjoy a meal.

Dr. Juli Parker and former interim Provost, John Farrington, cut the ribbon to open the Center for Women, Gender and Sexuality.

Breaking down gender stereotypes

UMass Dartmouth DECA team members (l-r) Marco DiCarlo, Jeff Iacoviello, Thomas Fitzpatrick, Jackie Sardina, Katie Annis, Miranda Figueiredo and Matt Witzgall.

Business students bring home international awards Freshmen Jackie Sardina and Thomas Fitzpatrick took First Place at DECA’s International Career Development Conference in Salt Lake City. DECA, an organization that brings together business students and professionals, hosted 14,000 college students. Jackie and Thomas beat out more than 20 other teams from around the world for their project on how the campus could improve sustainability and corporate responsibility. Sophomore Katie Annis was a finalist in the category, also taking home an Award for Excellence, as did sophomore Matt Witzgall in the Entrepreneurship category. Our DECA chapter was also recognized with the Presidential Passport award for leadership. Advisor Kaisa Holloway Cripps was also awarded an Award for Service Excellence for her work.

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Larry McDonald ’89, bestselling author, speaks on campus Lawrence G. McDonald returned to campus for the first time in 23 years to share the lessons he learned working as a senior executive at Lehman Brothers—lessons he shared with the world in the New York Times bestseller A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers.

Dr. Juli Parker, the director of UMass Dartmouth’s Center for Women, Gender and Sexuality, has been awarded the $100,000 Roy J. Zuckerberg Leadership Prize, which she will use to spark a movement across the state to break down gender stereotypes among middle-and high-school students. The long-term goal of the program, which is based around the documentary Miss Representation, is to create a pipeline of young women and men who will become critically engaged in what they see in the media. “From the beginning of my career here, I have wanted to design programs that would have not only an impact on UMass Dartmouth students, but also on the communities we serve,” said Dr. Parker. “I believe that leadership on campus and in the community on gender issues and social justice can have a far-reaching positive effect for all of us.”

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Fourth Congressional District candidate Joseph Kennedy at the Advanced Technology Manufacturing Center.

Chancellor Grossman and Congressman Bill Keating thank student volunteers for helping to make the Ninth Congressional District Democratic Debate on campus this summer a success.

Political debates teach students about leadership This year, UMass Dartmouth hosted two debates as a service to the community, but also to make sure our students see what democracy is all about. U.S. Congressman William Keating and Bristol County District Attorney Sam Sutter debated in the Main Auditorium during their race for the Democratic nomination for the Ninth Congressional District.

Republican Sean Bielat and Democrat Joseph Kennedy III debated at the ATMC as part of their run for the Fourth Congressional District.

(l-r) Elsie McIver (former Peace Corp member), UMass Dartmouth students Keith Jones ’12, Dhruv Patel ’12, Engineer/consultant Elizabeth Watson, UMass Dartmouth student Ben Mitsmenn ’13, Eric Rosenfield (Peace Corp member) with some of the Panamanian family members who provided housing.

Serena Rivera wins Fulbright to teach in Brazil

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After 3 years and $43 million, the renovations to the Claire T. Carney Library are almost complete. The main building is finished, giving us amazing spaces like the Grand Reading Room where then-U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren recently spoke with professor Michael Goodman (above), South Reading Room and the light-filled, bright Fifth Floor.

PhD student Serena Rivera beat out stiff competition to win a prestigious Fulbright fellowship this fall.

Rivera, a Rahway, N.J. native, will serve at the Universidade Estadual de Londrina, where she will help prepare Brazilian English-language teachers and learners for upcoming events like the World Cup in 2014 and the 2016 Summer Olympics. Rivera completed her master’s in Portuguese Studies at the University this spring, and will return to campus next year to continue working on her doctorate in Luso-Afro-Brazilian Studies.

Engineers Without Borders The UMass Dartmouth chapter recently completed the first of many trips to Panama as part of a five-year commitment to help a rural village build a successfully functioning water tank. The group hopes that after raising much of the money needed for equipment and coordinating with the many cultural and governmental agencies involved, they will be able to help villagers realize their dream of clean water for drinking, cooking, and farming in every household.

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with the accelerating pace of change in the academic world.

with global perspective New Chancellor Divina Grossman

came to UMass Dartmouth this summer after serving as the Vice President for Engagement at Florida International University. An immigrant daughter of Filipino teachers and a nurse by training, she has brought a new style and perspective to UMass Dartmouth at a time of rapid change in public higher education. The following are excerpts from an interview conducted by UMass Dartmouth magazine 100 days into her chancellorship.

100 days into your chancellorship, what are your impressions of UMass Dartmouth, the region and Massachusetts?

What an adventure it has been to meet everyone—students, faculty, and staff, as well as civic, business, and political leaders in the SouthCoast! The recurrent refrain I heard about UMass Dartmouth’s deep and broad engagement with the community is true, as I personally observed on my civic engagement bus tour with Dr. Matt Roy of the Leduc Center for Civic Engagement.

I appreciated in meeting with various constituencies how highly regarded our university is as an anchor institution in the region. Everywhere I visited, there was a warm and enthusiastic expression of goodwill and a recognition of the university’s role as an intellectual leader and as a catalyst for economic, social, and cultural transformation. I sense that the community is eager for us to succeed both for our own sake and theirs; we have a shared purpose.

What has been your biggest surprise?

Probably the most delightful surprise is discovering the sheer number, quality, and caliber of the alumni! The countless alumni I met in various events and meetings reflect the consequential impact of UMass Dartmouth. They are earnest and successful achievers who have led meaningful lives and productive careers after the transformative experience they had here.

The alumni are leaders in many fields—in engineering, public policy, health, banking, business, and art, among others. They

speak about “the light bulb turning on” after being exposed to classes and ideas with professors who mentored them. Many of them were the first in their families to attend college and without UMass Dartmouth, their lives would not have been the same….

What a legacy for UMass Dartmouth and the faculty!

What are the greatest opportunities and challenges that you see facing UMass Dartmouth and public higher education.

We are at an inflection point. U.S. News and World Report has ranked us as the top regional public university in New England, and Washington Monthly ranked us 25th in the nation based on the University’s contribution to the public good. In a few more years, with the right investments of faculty and resources, we can evolve from a regional to a national university and we can traverse from the Carnegie classification category of “Masters University” to “Doctoral Research University, High Research Activity.”

We have the opportunity to grow our enrollment and develop new and innovative programs in the behavioral and social sciences. Health is going to be a crucial area with the implementation of the Affordable Care Act and the shift in focus to preventive and community-based care.

We have to address some vexing challenges such as declining state support and the insidious degradation of our physical facilities, many of which were built 40 years ago. Engaging in entrepreneurial ventures to generate revenue will be part of our financial strategy moving forward. We have to develop more online programs, expand our faculty research and scholarship, and aggressively launch fundraising.

We have to keep up with the accelerating pace of change in the academic world. With regard to the challenges facing public higher education in general, we have to continually educate our community about why a college education is necessary and help families figure out how to finance their children’s college education.

Growing up in the Philippines, did you ever dream that you would be in this position?

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How did growing up in the Philippines shape your views and your aspirations?

Growing up in a family with six children in a modest home where there was not enough of everything to go around, I learned to work hard, to always strive to excel, and to be fully appreciative of the precious blessings one has.

My mother and grandmother were both teachers and instilled in me and my siblings a love of learning and a valuing of education. My mother was a fourth grade teacher and a library property custodian, so I had the opportunity to borrow as many books as I could devour and was first to read any new books that were introduced at the school.

We had a large extended family with aunts, uncles, and cousins who got together every Sunday at my grandmother's house. There we learned to share with each other and to seek what was best for the whole family as opposed to a single individual.

My father was a World War II veteran with the United States Armed Forces in the Far East and when he was discharged, he transferred to his children his veterans’ educational benefits. My siblings and I all graduated from college largely supported by the U.S. Veterans Affairs educational awards. It seems life has come full circle now that I am leading an American public university.

How will your global experience add value to your leadership of UMass Dartmouth?

As we enjoy peace and prosperity, I am keenly aware of families and communities in other parts of the world who are ravaged by war and poverty. I worry right now about the situation in Syria where thousands have already died and UMass

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thousands of others are evacuating to neighboring countries to seek safety and better lives. Our lives and nations are interconnected.

Growing up in the Philippines and speaking three languages, I have traveled to about sixty countries. I am comfortable interacting with people of different cultures, ethnicities, and languages and try at all times not to be ethnocentric in the way I assess things. I would like us to integrate a global perspective in the way we teach and to incorporate multicultural and global awareness in our classes.

Tell us about your decision to immigrate to the United States.

I was quickly hired to be an Instructor at the University of Santo Tomas, where I earned my Bachelor’s degree in Nursing. At the same time, I began my graduate studies. One of my professors, who earned her PhD from UCLA and who was also my mentor, advised me to go abroad for my graduate degrees. She thought it would be difficult to ascend the academic ladder without a U.S. or European degree.

Because my parents could not afford to support me in this endeavor, I decided I would work as a nurse in a hospital and then support myself through graduate school. That plan worked, but I did not anticipate meeting my husband at Mount Sinai Medical Center, getting married, and never returning to the Philippines. Life has its twists and turns, and there is always a surprise along the way.

Why did you choose nursing as your field?

Young people identify strongly with role models. My aunt is a nurse and I came across nurses in the hospital whenever my father, who had chronic asthma, was hospitalized.

I admired the nurses’ professionalism and caring and thought I wanted to be like them. When I was in third grade, I read the biographies of heroic nurses in the book “Nurses Who Led The Way” and they inspired me deeply. My imagination was captured by the stories of Lillian Wald in establishing the Henry

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How has your education and training as a nurse helped you excel as a higher education leader and how will it shape your leadership as chancellor?

As a nurse, my education and training is in caring for and teaching individuals, families, and communities to promote and maintain health. As well, part of my nursing background focused on understanding the ecological factors affecting health which includes genetic, biological, socioeconomic, lifestyle, educational, and environmental factors.

As it turns out, understanding public higher education and educational attainment also requires a similarly holistic approach. Unless we engage families and communities in developing a culture that values education and educational attainment, we will not be successful.

Within the university community, unless we engage and mobilize all stakeholders including students, faculty, staff, administrators, and external partners, we will not be able to achieve our goals as a university.

You were the founding VP of Civic Engagement at FIU. How would you define excellent civic engagement?

I would like to differentiate between definitions of civic engagement and community engagement. Civic engagement pertains to individual and collective actions designed to identify and address community problems. Community engagement as defined by the Carnegie Foundation is “the collaboration between institutions of higher education and their larger communities (local, regional/state, national, global) for the mutually beneficial exchange of knowledge and resources in a context of partnership and reciprocity.”

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What FIU civic engagement initiative are you most proud of?

This is a tough question to answer, like asking a mother which of her children she is proudest of!

I would say the broad partnership with Miami Dade County Public Schools, the fourth largest public school system in the U.S., with about 350,000 students, is the one I am most proud of. We were able to increase student achievement and success through expansion of dual enrollment, creating pre-service and in-service programs for STEM teacher preparation, aligning university resources such as clinical internships in assessment and management of students experiencing speech and hearing deficits, psychological and health issues; offering programs for pre-collegiate preparation; and developing collaborative research grants to support increased educational attainment, among others.

I am particularly proud of a project focused in a large African American high school near a housing project located in an underserved community called Liberty City. We partnered with Miami Northwestern High School’s principal and the Assistant Superintendent and were successful in acquiring a $1 million grant from the JP Morgan Chase Foundation to develop a community school initiative called “Education Effect,” patterned after the community school model in West Philadelphia pioneered by Ira Harkavy at the University of Pennsylvania.

Where do you think UMass Dartmouth can make the biggest difference in the social and economic future of this region?

The biggest difference we can make is to unleash the human potential of the SouthCoast through education of the workforce, building an innovation economy spurred by our research, and catalyzing economic, social, and cultural development.

If we can significantly increase high-paying jobs through entrepreneurship and research-based disruptive innovations, help to produce a vibrant social and cultural life, and foster community engagement and civic attachment among our young people, we will face a more prosperous and promising future for this community and region.

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Driven by happiness Kel Kelly ’84, Co-founder and CEO of Kel & Partners, a multi-million dollar PR and social media agency in Boston, is not your average CEO —or your average interview, especially for an alumni magazine.

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n a recent interview, Kel Kelley, 1984 graduate of SMU said, “I loved the campus from the moment I stepped foot on it. I love how it doesn’t look like everything else; I made lifelong friends out of my relationships there.”

She also said, “I take tremendous pride in not trying to suck

up to people by telling them how prestigious my college is.

“I live in a world where everyone talks about the ‘top-tier’ schools they went to, where they got their MBA and who they knew when they were at school. I’m not impressed by that. I’d rather lick a subway railing than attend a networking event.”

That’s because Kelly, one of three children of a single mother who took the bus every day to her secretarial job in Boston, is her mother’s daughter —and an example of the students the University was founded to serve.

“My work ethic really came from my mom,” Kelly said. “She told us we could do whatever we wanted to, and not to let anyone tell you can’t. She was an underdog with an amazingly compassionate heart, and everything in my life is driven by that heart.”

That heart gave a girl with great challenges an advantage: the drive to succeed on her own terms. Her journey began in her hometown, where Kelly was a star player on one of the nation’s elite basketball teams.

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I’d rather lick a subway railing than attend a networking event.

It brought her to campus, where she discovered a love for marketing, the “idea of

— Kel being able to change and drive people’s perceptions and action depending on your brand, or what you were saying about yourself.”

It sustained her during her first job out of SMU, selling pots and pans door to door — and then at a job as a security guard at a company called Prime Computer, which she traded for a warehouse job, and then one promotion after another to managing corporate marketing.

After SMU, that heart sustained her while she sold pots and pans door to door, as a security guard at Prime Computer, and then through one promotion after another until she made her way into their marketing department. It drove her to Bay Networks, one of the world’s leading sellers of network hardware, as the firm’s youngest officer— and where she had an epiphany.

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I thought: I shouldn’t have to sacrifice my family for my career.”

Kelly ’84 In a trade dominated by stress, burnout, relentless deadlines and the requirement to rack up more billable hours — Kelly decided to take a risk and to create something different: the “anti-agency agency.”

“The Kel & Partners culture is driven by one thing—happiness,” she says. Her philosophy is as simple as it is radical: “create a community of really smart people, who want to work in a place with compassion and understanding.”

The profit would follow.

And the profit did follow: Kel & Partners rapidly grew as it established itself as the go-to PR firm for ecommerce powerhouses like Zappos.com, the billion-dollar online seller of shoes and apparel. It also outgrew its home in Westborough and the firm moved to a space in the heart of Boston’s Innovation District.

But the money has never come at the expense of her team. Kelly is proud of

resigning six clients while CEO because her staff weren’t treated with respect — and equally proud that her staff’s skill brought every one of those clients to rehire her firm.

In ten years, she has been forced to lay off just one team member—and it clearly still pains her.

That’s because Kelly rejects labels, but if she has to have one, she says, “I always want to be seen as the mother: I want on my tombstone, ‘She raised four amazing kids who are going to contribute in life.”

That love of family, inspired by her mother’s heart and work ethic, is the drive that’s made her into one of the nation’s leading experts on social media and public relations.

It’s also redefined “family business:” for ten years, Kelly and her wife, Ginny Pitcher, have shared work and home and found joy and success in both—and now they’re joined by their daughter, Julia, who recently joined the agency Throughout it all, Kel Kelly hasn’t compromised. Underdogs never do.

Robert Lamontagne is a staff writer for the Office of Public Affairs.

Paul Moore ’85, President of the Falmouth Youth Hockey League, sits in front of the new Falmouth Ice Arena that he helped raise money to build.

A long-time hockey fan, Moore played hockey as a student at SMU.

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By Robert Lamontagne “There’s no rink like it in the country,” Paul Moore ’85 told the local paper at the opening of the Falmouth Ice Arena on Cape Cod last summer. “It’s an incredible, incredible building.”

He wasn’t just talking about the size of it —although, at 49,000 square feet, it spreads over more than an acre. He’s not just talking about the scale of it —although the main rink (the “sheet”) is the same size as a regulation professional NHL surface, not to mention the half-rink beside it, or the bleachers with room for seating 700.

No, he’s talking about the precise way the building is angled to capture the most sunlight possible—and the 3,202 solar panels that coat the building like a suit of armor.

This is probably the most energy-efficient ice arena in the country, maybe the world.

That’s because the solar panels are just one part of it, the

most visible part. The building is uniquely designed to cut the carbon footprint and energy costs of a hockey arena.

More than just efficient lights and plumbing, there’s added insulation in the roof to make the building airtight. Airtight means it’s possible to perfectly control the climate inside— using a state-of-the-art computerized energy management system to keep different parts of the building at the right temperature.

It’s also the only rink around that has a handle on air conditioning. After all, you can’t have ice without an industrial-strength air cooling system. That means CFCs — chlorofluorocarbons— the gases that have punched a hole in the ozone layer.

This arena, however, generates no CFCs. Not only that, but its system recycles wasted heat (air conditioners spit cold out of one end and heat out of the other) to melt snowpack on the roof in winter, and heat the water used in the showers and resurfacing the ice.

The result: An arena that cuts energy use in half.

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discipline, and most of all, teamwork—giving of yourself to Is it good for the environment? Of course. But just as build something greater than yourself. important, it is good for the game. And the game is what Paul It’s why he says that “the greatest gift you can give your Moore has devoted his life to. community is volunteerism.” After all, his life in hockey wasn’t He learned hockey as a child, and spent years honing just about playing the game, but spreading its values. He his skills— skills that he used to help lead Southeastern practiced the values he saw in hockey, and gave back to game by Massachusetts University to three consecutive ECAC titles in making sure that boys and girls across the Upper Cape could try a row. He played in the International Hockey League for two it, practice it, and become as committed to it as he was. years, and returned home to Falmouth, Mass. to begin another It’s hard to do on the Cape, where all was not well with chapter in his life. His professional career had come to an end, the game. After all, one of the rituals of the hockey family is but his hockey career was just entering a new phase. spending money: on the skates, the lessons, the For years, Paul built his business, raised a uniforms, the fees, the gas, the gear— year after family, and as his children grew, kept the rituals year, thousands of dollars. common to thousands of hockey families across In a place like the Cape, where one in four the state and around the world: early morning residents is over 65 and one in six is under 18, rides to the rink, encouraging the kids after a those costs go up because there are fewer kids to good play and a won game — or bucking up bear the cost of a league. Costs are higher on the players after a hard loss.

Cape in the best of times, and incomes tend to He didn’t stop at his own kids. He threw be lower than in the rest of the state. himself into developing new ways for children For Moore, building a green arena meant in the area to discover the game, helping four that the dollars they saved on energy would go elementary schools offer after-school skating

— Paul Moore ’85 to lower rates for ice time and tuition. It would programs for 5-9 year-olds and finding ways to put the game within reach of more families. The fund “Try Hockey for Free”—efforts that led in money would go to build the best rink around— part to earning the Massachusetts Hockey Mike an arena the kids on the Cape deserved.

Cheever “Grow Hockey Development” grant for Falmouth The cost? $6 million. Sure, there were some well-known and Youth Hockey. well-off guys around who shared his passion (former Boston That’s why USA Hockey invited Moore to its 75th Bruins Mike Leetch and Paul Mara live on the Cape, and Anniversary Gala in June, where he stood on a stage between volunteered their time and celebrity to help raise the funds as Peter Karmanos—who owned the Hartford Whalers, and made honorary co-chairs of the campaign) but almost all of the total them into the Stanley Cup-winning Carolina Hurricanes—and was raised the hard way: through small, private donations.

Jack Johnson, the captain of the NHL’s Columbus Blue Jackets, Paul chaired the building and fundraising committees, he where he accepted the William Thayer Tutt Award for his drove the campaign. With old friends, he led his team to victory, services to making hockey available to thousands of boys and just as he had years ago at SMU. girls in southeastern Massachusetts.

Why do all the work? Because for Moore, hockey is about more than just fun. It’s about values: determination, Robert Lamontagne is a staff writer for the Office of Public Affairs.

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Corsair Hall of Fame welcomes 5 new members Class of 2012 are (left to right) Matt Quinn ’87, Danielle Petrone-Morley ’03, Robin (Dziedzic) Drew ’07, Katelyn (Elliott) Griffin ’07) and Glen Nieuwenhuis ’73.

• Matt Quinn ’87, football Founding member of the two-time NEFC champion football team • Danielle Petrone-Morley ’03, diving Three-time LEC champion and held the LEC one-meter diving record until last year • Robin (Dziedzic) Drew ’07, field hockey ECAC Robbins Female Scholar Athlete of the Year Award, 2007; NCAA Division III All-American team captain; LEC Player of the Year; LEC First Team All-Star • Katelyn (Elliott) Griffin ’07, women’s lacrosse Holds every offensive record in the program’s history; Women’s Lacrosse NCAA Division III All-American; LEC Rookie of the Year; LEC Offensive Player of the Year • Glen Nieuwenhuis ’73, cross country and track First four-year letter winner in cross country • UMass Dartmouth 2000-2001 men's basketball team lead by LEC Coach of the Year Brian Baptiste (right) to a 25-3 record; top-ranked team in New England; NCAA Division III Sweet 16 UMass Da rtmo u th M a g a zin e | W in te r 2 0 1 3

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Alumni and friends had the opportunity to meet new Chancellor Dr. Divina Grossman at welcome receptions in New Bedford, Boston and Fall River.

Chancellor Grossman learns more about UMass Dartmouth history from Fred Gifun, author of UMass Dartmouth 1960-2006: Trials and Triumph.

Paula Collins ’85, Elizabeth Talerman ’85, Lydia Borenstein ’85, Chancellor Grossman, Julie Gould ’86, Renee Grady ’86, Terry Dessert ’85 and Laurie Harrington ’85 celebrated an impromptu reunion at Pour Farm Tavern in New Bedford before going to the Zeiterion for New Bedford Festival Theatre’s production of Hairspray.

The Gordon Walters Duo entertained guests at the CVPA Star Store during the New Bedford welcome reception.

Patricia Cory, Les Cory ’63 and Myron Wilner

Feeling relieved—Shannon Grindrod, JD ’12 and Ashton Pouliot, JD ’12 after completing the Massachusetts Bar exam in July.

Jason LeBeau ’95 and Kim LeBeau catch up with fellow alums, Carol Gomes ’90, MS ’92, and Celeste Dufresne ’90, MS ’97 at the pre-reception for Hairspray.

Kellee-Sue Henry, JD ’11, Allen Milord and UMass Law Dean Mary Lu Bilek.

UMass Dartmouth Alumni Association Board members, Theresa Brum ’76, Bryony Bouyer ’86 and Laura DaFonseca ’85 along with Yvonne Jones ’84 (second from left).

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David ’83 and Lisa ’83 Vergara mingle with Interim Assistant Chancellor of Advancement, Wendy Skinner

Herb Kusako, Jr., JD ’89, Cheryl Kusako, Scott Cavanaugh and Arleen Cavanaugh ’90 attended the welcome reception held at the UMass Club in Boston.

Recent UMass Law graduates, Rita Resende, JD ’12, Kyle McPherson, JD ’12 and Camala Richardson, JD ’12, celebrated the completion of the Massachusetts Bar exam in Boston at a post bar party, sponsored by the UMass Law Alumni Association.

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UMass Dartmouth remembers

Don Howard D onald C. Howard,

A familiar scene to any of the thousands of students who flowed through his office to seek counsel, solve a problem, or enjoy a few minutes of light banter.

Chancellor Divina Grossman Every day I encounter the results of Dean Howard’s life and service.

Our students’ engagement in the life of the University and their passionate involvement in the civic life of their community are his legacy. Students knew they had a friend, mentor and advocate in him. Alumni I meet all over the country tell me of his willingness to listen, problem solve, and even cajole at times so that they would succeed at school and life.

who dedicated 41 years of his life to student affairs at UMass Dartmouth and its predecessor Southeastern Massachusetts University, passed away on October 20, 2012 in New Bedford at the age of 82.

The Dean joined the University in the same year the first building on campus was completed and led student affairs through four decades and several generations of students, as the University evolved from a commuter school rooted in the textile industry into a world-class university with more than 50,000 alumni—many of whom Howard knew personally.

Hired as the Dean of Men, Howard served as Dean of Students, then as Associate Vice Chancellor of Alumni Relations until his retirement in 2003, and remained part of the campus community as a consultant until 2007.

Over that time, he created student government and leadership structures, the student judiciary system, the student-run activity fee and disbursement system, the Theatre Company and the Lecture Series that brought state, national and world leaders to campus.

Among his many honors, Howard received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from the University in 2008, as well as National Association of Student Personnel Administration’s Scott Goodnight Award for Outstanding Performance as a Dean in 2001, the Alumni Association University Service Award in 1998 and the Distinguished Service to University Award in 1997.

Born in Chicago, a son of the late Robert A. and Flora E. (McNeil) Howard, he was a New Bedford resident for more than 45 years. A 1954 graduate of Boston University (where he was “Man of the Year”), Howard worked briefly in advertising before returning to BU to start a career in university administration. He later worked at Wagner College before coming to SMU. He is survived by three nieces, Beverly, Lois and Beth, and their families. He was also the brother of the late Robert Howard.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions in his honor may be made to the Donald C. Howard Scholarship Fund, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Foundation, Foster Administration Building, UMass Dartmouth, North Dartmouth, MA, 02747.

Senator M ark Montigny ’84

Don Howard surrounded by the Morrissey family; Kristin, Matt and their children, (l-r) Zan, Wilson, Zoe, and Henri.

L-R Pres. Don Walker, Gov. Elliot Richardson, Dean Howard.

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Being hooded by Sen. Mark Montigny and Michael Dukakis upon his receiving an honorary doctorate from UMass Dartmouth.

Don Howard set an example that ought to be emulated by educators nationwide. The Dean’s positive influence on students at our University is peerless and is a worthy testament to his years of work at the University. Dean Howard personified what a college administrator should be. To him, the student always came first and he always made the time to sit and speak with any student who sought his counsel. He listened intently, then gently advised on direction and when a decision was made, fully supported an individual’s choice. His belief in empowering students and building their esteem and character is reflected in the lives of the thousands of students he mentored and loved.

M atthew Morrissey ’96

Irene Tsouprake ’78

It is impossible to put into words the impact that Don Howard had on my life and the life of other students. Whether he was making sure I was studying, encouraging me to demonstrate leadership on student issues, or even introducing me to my wife, Don dedicated himself to my success. What makes Don truly unique, is that he has invested in similar ways in the lives of thousands of others.

When I think of Donald, I think of loyalty: to the University, the students, the people in his life. If Donald loved you, he never let you go. Donald could make you believe that you mattered in a world that mattered, and he made thousands of students know that, too.

With George McGovern.

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By Chris Allen Kathleen Duffy joined the corporate world after graduating from UMass Amherst in 2006. For five years, she enjoyed traveling around the globe almost non-stop — but then made the nerve-wracking decision to leave her job in an unstable economy to pursue an MBA. Her positive undergraduate experience at UMass Amherst led her to anticipate a similarly rewarding graduate experience at Charlton College of Business.

“UMass Dartmouth is one of the closest universities to Cape Cod, where I live, and the cost of the program is such

—Kathleen Duffy a good value,” Duffy said.

“I feel that the students who attend state schools are hard-working and down to earth —they’re looking for a good value in their education and are willing to work hard for it.

That’s the kind of student I am, as well.”

It’s great to have my own business that I can operate around my schoolwork.

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However, Duffy has had her fair share of challenging group situations in the past and was “not overly excited about the teamwork requirement” at Charlton College of Business.

“To my surprise, the three women that I worked with were all uniquely wonderful,” she said.

“Not only did everyone carry her own weight, but we also supported, challenged, and motivated each other. My group experience ended up being the best part of the class.”

Duffy had planned to establish an entrepreneurial business while attending school, so it “seemed like destiny” when the opportunity to apply for a rare commercial shellfish license presented itself just ten days after she handed in her resignation.

She turned her recreational hobby into a full-fledged shellfishing business.

So, in addition to studying for her MBA, Duffy harvests wild shellfish, mostly quahogs, from the waters of her hometown, Barnstable.

“Shellfishing is challenging work both physically and mentally, but it’s great to have my own business that I can operate around my schoolwork,” she said.

“And I’ve been able to apply the concepts I’m learning in class to my business.”

The shellfishing industry is physically grueling: sunrise starts, hours of raking, 50- to 100-pound loads to lift. And it is extremely male-dominated. Currently, Duffy is the only female commercial shellfisherman in Barnstable, and she has received more than a few skeptical glances from colleagues.

“But I’ve found the work to be extremely rewarding,” she said.

“I’m developing an amazing connection to my physical environment, Cape Cod. I’ve discovered amazing little bays and waterways. I’ve experienced beautiful pink sunrises. I’ve watched gulls and herons dive into the cold blue water.”

What lies ahead? Right now she’s still learning the ins-andouts of wild shellfish harvesting—littlenecks, quahogs, steamers, razor clams— but envisions a time when the “Barnstable quahog” is as renowned as the “Wellfleet oyster.”

Not one to shy away from an opportunity, Duffy has also taken on an internship as an assistant to a financial advisor.

When the Morgan Stanley office in Hyannis contacted Charlton for an intern, Duffy was recommended because she had taken finance courses as part of her MBA program. Whether she continues with finance as a career or not, she said it definitely has had an impact on both her personal and entrepreneurial life.

Once she has her MBA, like any true entrepreneur, Duffy said she intends to try as many things as possible and “see what doors open for me.”

Chris Allen BA ’79, MA ’11 is a web writer-editor for the Office of Public Affairs.

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Alumni profiles Seeing the comfort that the nurses brought to patients as a candy striper, she recalls, “That’s what I wanted to be.”

The only problem? “I had no money, no resources for school past high school.” She applied for every scholarship and student loan and work-study she could find. Southeastern Massachusetts University reached out with a scholarship that sealed the deal.

The only problem? SMU had never graduated a nurse, and at the time, the medical community wasn’t convinced of the value of a bachelor’s degree in nursing.

Led by a Dominican nun, Sister Madeline Clemence Vaillot, the new College of Nursing’s 18 students and five faculty members were doing something novel, and unique to deliver high-quality care. But it was an unproven path.

Sister Madeline fought to get her students taken on at area hospitals —something Esther experienced first-hand—but it was the quality of the nurses the College produced that made the BSN the critically-important credential it is today.

More than excel at practice as a Registered Nurse, Esther wanted to learn more: “I wanted to be around people who helped you grow as a nurse leader and improve healthcare quality.”

She entered the Master of Science in Nursing program at the University of Rhode Island, studying part-time, piecing the financing together, and ate up the chance to see nursing leadership in increasingly complex situations, learning how to negotiate with students, staff, hospital executives, and unions.

She went to Morton Hospital in Taunton as the Director of Critical Care Nursing, put that learning to use, and earned a promotion to Associate Director for the hospital. “I knew If you’ve gone to a hospital in a health system, quality and patient-safety issues,” she recalls, but “from the or seen a doctor in the last decade or so, you’ve business side, I needed greater exposure.” So, because there was no healthcare MBA at the time, she designed her own benefited from healthcare improved by Nursing specialized Master’s in Labor and Industrial Relations. graduate Esther Emard ’75.

From there it was a fast rise with what became Harvard Pilgrim, eventually managing their entire healthcare network across New England, and then she became the COO for NCQA. In her role as Chief Operating Officer of the National During her 13-plus years there, she found the time to Committee for Quality Assurance, or NCQA, Esther Emard’s keep practicing as a nurse with the Virginia Medical Reserve been helping to lead one of the most influential nonprofits in the Corps and keep educating—now nation, which accredits and certifies health as a nursing professor at George care organizations, physician recognition Washington University. programs and educational programs.

At the end of the year, Esther will She’s responsible for 270 staffers and be “semi-retired” from NCQA, but a budget of $45 million that affects every not from her career. Moving back dime of the $2.7 trillion Americans spent to New England, she’ll travel the on healthcare last year. country to advance Quality and But even at the height of her profession, Safety Education in Nursing for the she still stands out. “I meet healthcare Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, leaders all over the country that started teaching classes at GW, advising the

— Esther Emard ’75 their careers as nurses, but don’t put it State of Vermont as a member of on their business card,” she says. the Blueprint for Health’s Executive “I don’t get it. Being a nurse is one of the Committee, and serving on the things I’m most proud of—that’s where the passion came from.” board of the Visiting Nurse Association of America.

It started with an idea and a passion for caring for others, Reflecting on it all, she says: “It’s just been amazing, but it continued with a desire to do more, to know more, to be and you know, it’s all been possible through the amazing more: in Esther’s words, to “never stop learning.” foundational education I had at SMU.”

Never stop learning

It’s just been amazing, and you know, it’s all been possible through the amazing foundational education I had at SMU.

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Following his dream Augustine “Gus” Silveira, Jr. ’57 accepted the first honorary doctorate in the University’s history in 1975—barely a dozen years into his career, but with a quarter-century of achievement to come.

It was a long road for a self-described “skinny kid from Mattapoisett” who had been going to enlist in the Marines before a friend filled out an application to NBIT for him.

Like that friend, the professors at Tech saw something in him—and worked hard to help him see it, too. Professor Warren Holt tutored him for free to bring his calculus up to par. Professor Alden Counsell made sure Gus had the scholarship he needed to afford school. Professor Howard Tinkham came to his home to tell his parents how well Gus was doing in class, to emphasize the value of a college degree.

Thinking back, Gus remembers that as part of the culture of the community at Tech. Reminiscing about the State Theatre and lunch at the College Grille, basketball games at the courts on Coffin Street and field trips to Hoffman Dye (as well as to a local brewery), he says, “We always used to help one another.”

To Gus, Fran Tripp, the legendary coach and science professor “was so much more for me than a coach”— he was the chair of the chemistry department and textile chemist who got Gus interested in dyes.

Gus loved it, which led to a job as a research chemist at

Gus Silveira reminisces with former professor, Alden Counsell ’42 at his 55th reunion in September.

Titleist, where his job was to find a way to make a paint that would keep golf balls bright white. When he discovered he was colorblind, he switched to organic chemistry and his professors encouraged him to apply to grad school; Gus earned his doctorate from UMass Amherst five years later.

He went to work at SUNY Oswego, and became the department chair in just four years. There, he worked with Dr. Ei-ichi Negishi at Syracuse in using the element palladium to build molecules that would eventually be used to make everything from pharmaceuticals to electronics — research started between the two of them that went on to win the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2010.

Gus later explored anti-cancer compounds — a personal task for Gus, whose five paternal uncles and all his cousins suffered from the disease. Gus himself was diagnosed with cancer, and now it’s in remission, in part because he received the best treatment available: Taxol, a drug he had helped develop.

Over 33 years as department chair, Gus trained thousands of chemists and won more than 50 national awards for his work and teaching, all the while giving back to the community.

Even now, Gus still gives talks on pursuing science to schoolkids near his homes in Fairhaven and Santa Cruz, Calif., telling those children to do what he did, and “follow your dreams.”

Over his distinguished career and through all of his accomplishments, Gus is proud to say that it all started at NBIT, with a community that cared, and “an outstanding education given to us by our professors.”

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Mona McCarthy ’57, Raymond Richard ’57 and Jim Gifford ’57, are all graduates of the New Bedford Institute of Technology.

Bradford Durfee College of Technology alums, Joan Markland Reed ’57 and John Spence ’57 share a light moment.

Class of 1957 55th Reunion At UMass Dartmouth, we’re proud of our roots in higher education on the SouthCoast— roots put down more than a century ago. Before UMass Dartmouth, there was SMU and Swain.

Prior to that there was SMTI, and before SMTI there were the Bradford Durfee Technical Institute (BDTI) and the New Bedford Institute of Technology (NBIT). Now, there is UMass Law, formerly Southern New England School of Law (SNESL).

This fall, 28 graduates of the Class of 1957 gathered on campus at the University Club to meet, reminisce, and see the University that has stayed true to its roots: offering students a world-class education close to home.

The attendees included a scientist whose work led to a Nobel Prize; several retired engineers from the Naval Undersea Warfare Center; multiple company presidents; two professors; and a retired art consultant.

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Sept. 28, 2013

Golden Graduates Luncheon

Bradford Durfee Tech alum, Tom Carroll ’60 (left) and Swain School alum, Edwin Albino ’58 enjoy a traditional New England lobster boil.

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Golden Graduates, graduates from at least 50 years ago, from Bradford Durfee College of Technology, New Bedford Institute of Technology and Swain School of Design gathered at UMass Dartmouth for a lobster boil in June. Pictured above: Jane Johnson, Alex Johnson ’62, Bill Gifford ’62, MA ’64, Tink Tinkham ’42, Nancy Tinkham and Alumni Association Board member, Maureen Sylvia ’80.

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Class Notes and Alumni News named University Professor, the highest distinction bestowed on a UMass Lowell faculty member for exceptional teaching achievement and service to the university.

Satoji Yoshida ‘78, management, Yokohama, Japan, works as the General Manager of Overseas Business Division of Tokyo Movie Business Headquarters at TMS Entertainment, Ltd.

Jesse Green ’00, sculpture/3D studies, Medway, creator of the UMass Dartmouth Corsair wood sculpture, is going national on the National Geographic Channel. He also fronts for the rock band Fevah Dream and tours with the Paul Bunyan Lumberjack show.

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Dr. James A. Stahley '62, electrical engineering, Naples, FL, works as a Professor of Doctoral Studies at Baker College.

paintings were inspired and informed by her long association with the sea and the natural world.

John Travers '64, electrical engineering, New Port Richey, FL, retired from Westinghouse as a Senior Electrical Engineer, and for several years after retiring, worked part-time as a consulting engineer for a firm manned by ex-Westinghouse engineers.

He's now completely retired and enjoying life with his wife of 43 years.

David Bixler ‘76, marketing, Rutherfordton, NC, was named the Chief Executive Officer at Daviess Community Hospital in Washington, IN.

Fernando Garcia '69, Portuguese, New Bedford, was named chairman of the Board of Trustees at Bristol Community College by Governor Deval Patrick.

’70s

Brenda Figuerido '71, painting, Westport Point, presented “The Moby Dick Series: Recent Paintings by Brenda Figuerido” at the Visiting Artist Gallery at Tiverton Four Corners in May 2012. These

Andrei Klein ‘77, textile technology, Dartmouth, is the textile manager of Nutex Industries, Inc.; a respected leader in custom development of narrow fabrics for the industrial, fashion, medical, military, and safety industries.

David Fredette ‘78, civil engineering, New Bedford, was promoted to City Engineer for New Bedford. The Engineering Division provides technical support for the department as well as all other city entities.

Stephen McCarthy ‘78, textile chemistry, Tyngsboro, who works as a plastics engineering professor and pioneer, has been

Francis Colantonio ‘79, management, Holliston, President of Colantonio Inc., was named one of the “Top 10 to Watch” by MetroWest495 Biz. Peter Duffy ‘79, civil engineering, Old Lyme, CT, has been hired

by UMass Dartmouth as the Associate Vice Chancellor of Facilities Management. Previously Duffy held the position of Vice President of Facility Operations at Saint Raphael Healthcare Systems in Connecticut.

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Sherilyn D. McCoy ‘80, textile chemistry, Skillman, NJ, was hired by Avon as its new chief executive officer. McCoy previously served as a senior executive at Johnson & Johnson.

William F. Benoit II ‘81, business administration, Pembroke, has a successful sales career in the high-tech industry spanning over 25 years. Benoit specializes in video conferencing and custom audiovisual room integration along with IP, ISDN and ATM networking solutions.

Prior to co-founding Providea Conferencing, he held senior sales positions at Viewtech, USTeleCenters, Chancellor Corporation and NYNEX Systems Marketing.

Reverend Anastasion Gounaris ‘81, electrical engineering, New York, NY, was promoted to dean, or presiding priest, of the historic Archdiocesan Cathedral of

the Holy Trinity in Manhattan.

Gounaris will be playing host to heads of state and world religious leaders. Founded in 1891, the cathedral is the second-oldest Greek Orthodox parish in America.

the advancement of Portuguese Americans. Louro was also recognized recently by the Prince Henry Society as the PortugueseAmerican of the Year.

Janet DePonte Evans ‘82, biology, Lakeville, works as the Software Development Manger at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge.

Lisa Gizara ‘82, visual design, Ventura, CA, a photojournalist for Ventura Life and Style magazine, became acquainted with the 16-year-old sailors Zac and Abby Sunderland, then attempting to be the youngest people to sail around the world.

Gizara photographed the two sailors as they prepared for their voyages, and her photos have appeared in virtually every major newspaper in the world.

Additionally, Gizara’s abstract paintings titled “King of Hearts” and “Queen of Hearts” were purchased for use in Roger Sterling’s office on AMC’s award-winning television series, Mad Men. Richard J. Taylor, ‘83, accounting, Rockville, MD, has joined the USAID OIG as Deputy Assistant Inspector General for the Millennium Challenge Corporation.

Manuel J. Louro ‘84, marketing, Dartmouth, and fellow alumnus, Carlos DaCunha ’87, finance, New Bedford, were awarded the Heritage Day of Portugal Award at the annual Heritage Day of Portugal celebration.

DaCunha, who is the senior vice president of commercial banking at Webster Bank, is also involved with the Prince Henry Society’s New Bedford Chapter and serves as the President. This celebration recognizes role models of Portuguese heritage who are working to make Massachusetts a better place, as well as advocates who are working for

of the New England Fishery Management Council.

Michele Paul ‘89, civil engineering, Swansea, works as the director of New Bedford’s Office of Environmental Stewardship. Michele was the former project manager for the Fall River Office of Economic Development.

’90s Theresa L. Massou ‘84, management, Fall River, works as Vice President and Director of Marketing at BankNewport.

Massou and her husband, Neil ‘86, management, have two children.

John Quinn ‘85, economics, Dartmouth, who is a former Massachusetts state representative, was appointed by the secretary of commerce as SouthCoast’s newest member

Michael S. Considine ‘90, political science, Washington, DC, works for the U.S. Department of Energy serving as the department representative to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. Steven A. Baddour ‘91, political science, Methuen, works as a partner in the Boston office of McDermott Will & Emery LLP and focuses on government relations at the state and federal level, public

policy and complex civil litigation.

Baddour was a Massachusetts state senator and former assistant attorney general.

Kirk Gibson ‘92, finance, New York, NY, works as a vice president at Barclays Capital, Greater New York City Area Industry Financial Services.

Joseph Duquette ‘93, business information systems, Charlottesville, VA, is an Actors’ Equity, Screen Actors’ Guild and AFTRA member. He has performed regionally, off and on Broadway and in several television roles. Joe and his wife, Juanita Wilson Duquette, own the Wilson School of Dance.

Kimberly Marie Riley ‘93, electrical engineering, Rochester, MA, works in website development as a cloud developer and partner at HKM Consulting, LLC.

Craig Rousseau ‘93, ’94, visual design/illustration & painting/2D studies, Swansea, has been working on a project for Marvel Disney.

David J. Berger, JD '95, Attleboro, has been awarded an LL.M. in Innovation, Technology and the Law by the University of Edinburgh.

Theresa Souza ‘96, nursing, Somerset, has been named Director of Quality and Education of the Hospitalist Program by the SouthCoast Hospitals Group.

Souza will manage clinical quality improvement projects and a comprehensive education program for the hospitalist providers at Charlton Memorial in Fall River, St. Luke’s in New Bedford, and Tobey Hospital in Wareham.

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Alumni Memorials— April 1, 2012 to September 15, 2012 Hyman D. Rothkopf ‘36

Charles W. Isherwood ‘72

Francis C. McQuillan ‘40

Mary L. Henrique ‘73

Richard H. Ashworth ‘52

Karyn Ann Medeiros Stone ‘74

Saul Cohen ‘54

Paul J. Ferus ‘75

Harold Israel Isserlis ‘54

Scott A. Coulter ‘78

James A. Doucet ‘55

Marshall Ramos ‘80

Betsey E. Gillin ‘55

Kenneth W. Stockwell ‘83

Thomas S. Bancroft ‘60

Cynthia Lynn Powell ‘84

Catherine M. Catin ‘62

Severn H. Williams ‘84

Stanley J. DeVoyd ‘62

Grace Hindle ‘86

Robert C. Fredette ‘62

Frank James Lepreau, M.D. ‘88

John F. Keavy, Jr. ‘63

Lynn Margulis ‘89

Glen A. Shoesmith ‘64

Matthew J. Murray ‘92

George A. Corriveau ‘67

George J. Hickey, Jr. ‘98

Gerald S. Smith ‘69

Kara M. Sault ‘01

G. Robert Stetson, Jr. ‘69

Donald C. Howard ’08 (Hon LHD)

Joanne M. Shea ‘98, MA ‘01, English & professional writing, Bourne, was promoted to Store Manager of the TD Bank located in Falmouth. She is responsible for new business development, consumer and business lending, managing personnel and overseeing the day-to-day operations at the store serving customers throughout the area.

Brenda Austin Burger ‘99, English / Writing & Communications, Holbrook, works as Copy Manager at Distinctive Apparel, Inc., the parent company of Chadwicks of Boston, Metrostyle and Territory Ahead. Brenda married Kevin Burger in 2006.

’00s

Lisa Lassiter ‘00, accounting, Wareham, was promoted to controller for Bristol County Savings Bank.

Duanne Esteves ‘01, management, New York, NY, is the director of purchasing at Teach for America in the Greater New York City Area.

Kristi Oliver ‘01, Millis, is the 2012 best art educator in Massachusetts according to

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the National Art Education Association, but she’s also the busiest. Since earning her BFA, Oliver has earned national recognition for helping students in greater Boston pursue careers in art. She’s bringing together students and art educators from across the country to participate in a unique art-making and professional development event at the Worcester Art Museum in the Art All-State Program, and still teaches photography, AP Studio Art and Portfolio at Marlborough High School— while creating her own art through her studio and business, Olive Art. Patricia Bloom-McDonald, JD '02, North Dartmouth, was selected

by Super Lawyers as a "Rising Star" in 2012, for the third year in a row.

Joseph Pavao ‘02, New Bedford, computer engineering, was promoted to director of ebusiness and business intelligence at Network Health.

Casey Ryan ‘09, marketing, Colrain, received a Juris Doctor degree from the Roger Williams University School of Law on May 18, 2012.

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Myriam Jeannis ‘11, nursing/French, Stoneham, has co-founded Partners for Change, a Roslindale-based organization that aims to educate and empower the people of Haiti.

Professor Rick Creighton’s graduate sculpture class created a series of sculptures made of 23-year-old Scotch-brand magnetic tape and bamboo on top of mountains of road salt stored in Portsmouth, NH. Student Russell Prigodich christened the work, “Cester,” after the Greek word for a Roman encampment.

Prigodich said because Romans were also paid in salt, the venue was all the more appropriate.

Kerry Gallagher ‘09, marketing, Agawam, has joined Cronin and Company, LLC’s interactive team as interactive/social marketing manager. Previously Gallagher

was the manager of marketing and communications for the American Lung Association of New England.

Unions Nicholas A. Ferreira ‘06, biology, Dartmouth, married Julie Amaral on July 14, 2012 in New Bedford and honeymooned in Australia.

Nicholas works as an emergency care nurse and Julie is a teacher.

Lindsay Marie Veo ‘04, sociology, Hudson, married Justin Geneau on September 10, 2011. Lindsay is employed as a maintenance contracts specialist at Dassault Systèmes Americas Corp, Waltham.

Valerie C. Paquette ‘02, visual design graphic design/letterform, Needham Heights, and husband, Eric Miga, are proud to announce the birth of Lillian Paquette Miga on June 24, 2012. Valerie works in alumni relations at Northeastern University where she has recently earned her Masters of Business Administration.

Amy Louise Guerin ‘08, criminal justice, Chelmsford, took first place in a bodybuilding show in Atlantic City, N.J., in August in the bikini division and second place in the modeling division. Guerin, a former UMD field hockey player, will compete in a national show in Miami next year.

Jay Richard ‘08, visual design/ illustration, Fairhaven, was among 12 writers and 12 illustrators honored at the 28th Annual L. Ron Hubbard Achievement Awards in Los Angeles.

Alex Kaplan ‘09, history and political science, Needham Heights, was invited to serve in the United States Peace Corps and will be stationed in the Ukraine. Alex would like to thank all who have helped inspire and educate him at UMass Dartmouth especially Professors Steven Baden, Bridget Teboh and Brian Glyn Williams.

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Class Notes and Alumni News

Thank you…

Livia Blanusa, a senior in the College of Nursing, is the recipient of the Arlene M. Oliveira Scholarship.

alumni awards

Celebrating Leadership & Excellence

2012 Recipients (l-r): Justin Nadeau, JD ’00, Gloria Craven ’77, Chancellor Grossman, Carol Spencer ’92, MA ’96, Stephanie Perini-Hegarty, JD ’96, and Donald McCormack ’85.

Justin Nadeau, JD ’00

Carol Spencer ’92, MA ’96

UMass Law Alumni Association Alumni Achievement Award One of Justin Nadeau’s proudest life accomplishments occurred in 2009, when he fought and won a landmark case in front of the New Hampshire Supreme Court which clarified and expanded the rights of all grandparents to visit and have relationships with their grandchildren.

UMass Dartmouth Alumni Association University Service Award With over 20 years of higher education experience at UMass Dartmouth, Carol Spencer provides leadership as the Director of Alternative Admissions, College Now/START Program. In her tenure, this program has seen monumental growth and success as she has helped students turn a dream of college into reality.

Gloria Craven ’77

Stephanie Perini-Hegarty, JD ’96

UMass Dartmouth Alumni Association Distinguished Lifetime Service Award Gloria Craven is a past president of the UMass Dartmouth Alumni Association and a renowned lobbyist responsible for the passage of more than twenty new laws in the areas of health care, nursing, public safety, drunk driving, education and veterans affairs.

UMass Law Alumni Association Alumni Achievement Award Stephanie Perini-Hegarty, founder and president of PeriniHegarty & Associates, focuses her practice on international commercial transactions and trade law. She has experience in every context in which an international or domestic business law issue may arise and has successfully negotiated a wide variety of complex transactions in these areas.

Save the date for these upcoming events!

February 2

Ice Skating at Patriot Place

February 5

Social Media 101

March 16-21

Florida Alumni Events

May 11 & 12 Class of 1963 50th Reunion June 27

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Donald McCormack ’85 UMass Dartmouth Alumni Association Achievement Award Donald McCormack serves as the Technical Director for the Naval Undersea Warfare Center, the Navy’s research, development, engineering and fleet support center for submarine systems, in Newport, RI, as well as the Acting Technical Director of the Naval Surface Warfare Center at the Washington, D.C. Navy Yard. He manages a combined budget of $6 billion dollars and almost 20,000 employees.

In 1998 I moved to the US with my family from Serbia. It has always been a dream of mine to attend college and become a registered nurse.

Now, I am due to graduate in May of 2013 from UMass Dartmouth with a BSN degree. I aspire to obtain my Doctorate in Nursing and work as a pediatric oncology nurse.

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