UNH Magazine Winter 2015

WINTER 2015

Welcome to

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Imagine a global university where all the profs have a UNH degree

TEN SHOCKING* Reasons Alumni Give to the Annual Fund At UNH I had opportunities that were life-changing. I want today’s students to have those same opportunities.

I found a mentor at UNH who had a big and positive impact on my life.

New Hampshire is important to me and UNH is important to New Hampshire.

Because of UNH, I got to travel and learn that the world is a really small place.

I was able to attend UNH because of a generous financial aid package.

Someone helped me; now I would like to help others.

State funding isn’t enough.

It’s time for me to repay the school that prepared me so well for my life and career. I use my UNH education everyday.

UNH is doing good things in the world. I know that my donation will be put to good use.

Because every day is a great day to be a Wildcat!

UNH believed in me. *There’s actually nothing shocking about it. Be part of the pride. Make your gift today.

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CONTENTS

DEPARTMENTS

4 | Letters 5 | View from T-Hall F IR ST TR ACK S Students skied in College Woods in late January, just after the first snow fall of the semester.

Subsequent storms have left seacost New Hampshire—and much of New England—with record amounts of the white stuff.

Photo by Valerie Lester

6 | Campus Currents

Award-winning milk, student star-turns, and a football season for the record books.

13 | Crossword Puzzle 14 | Inquiring Minds

Cosmic rays on Mars, New Hampshire’s changing accent, tracking bobcats.

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39 | Book Reviews

Beatleness, by Candy Leonard ’98G

40 | Alumni News 42 | Class Notes

Profiles of Brig. Gen. Peter Corey ’83, Matthew Mead ’91 and Jessica dePontbriand ’03

61 | In Memoriam 64 | On Ben’s Farm

FEATURES

16 | W ildcat University

From Boston to Beirut, more than 500 UNH alums have gone on to their own careers in academia.

24 | F ear is a Virus

For medical anthropologist Theresa MacPhail ’94, life has been one long lesson in facing it.

28 | G uiding the Climb

In the Strafford County Corrections system, UNH alums serve up justice with a healthy side of compassion.

34 | B ig Shoes

Shawn Gorman ’89 is just the third chairman in the 103-year history of L.L. Bean, legendary retailer of everything from fly-fishing rods to flannel pajamas—and those boots.

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Letters to the Editor Uncommon Valor

Over many years, there have been terrific articles about individual alumni accomplishments, but none finer than the fall issue’s tribute to Staff Sargeant Ryan Pitts. Everything about his actions on that July day are heroic. His incredible bravery then, and everything about his demeanor and behavior since, qualify him as the “real deal.”

I’m sure all of UNH is especially proud of him and his accomplishments.

I am sure that Pitts would be the first to agree—he hints at this in many ways—that military service has so many benefits. An all-win situation for the individual, for the citizens, for the future—it’s all there for young people to take advantage of. I hope my fellow alumni will encourage young people they know, especially high schoolers who may not be ready for college, to consider military service. I also believe that current college students would be wise to consider the military upon graduation. The experience is like no other, and the educated vet appealing to many corporate positions and well prepared to run his or her own show.

Thanks, Ryan Pitts, for your service, and congratulations on your extraordinary success—success that clearly will continue.

Paul E. Larkin ’65 East Sandwich, Mass.

Marching On

I was very pleased to see the article in the recent UNH Magazine about the 95th anniversary of the UNH Marching Band. I met my wife, Debby Woodworth Shaffer ’66, in the marching band in the fall of 1962 and now have been married for 45 years.

I was disappointed, though, that the article made no mention of the history of the Marching Band between 1960 and 1965.

During this time, the band was “reborn” with the arrival of band director Donald A. Mattran, a recent graduate of the University of Michigan who had been an active member of that band as an undergraduate.

He brought with him the marching style

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of the Michigan Band (“Parallel and Perpendicular”) and the belief that the UNH band could be the best in the East.

His arrival also brought a new level of competition to the band: the band director at the University of Connecticut was a classmate of his at Michigan and each tried to out-do the other during half-time shows on their respective campuses.

During the Mattran years, the UNH Marching Band hosted the first “Band Day,” where many high school bands were invited to play with us during the half-time show of the game. The first Band Day guest director was Arthur Fiedler, who was the long-time director of the Boston Pops. It was a thrill to play under his direction. Also during the Mattran years, the band perfected dance routines to such numbers as the St. Louis Blues March. During one half-time show, while the band played Pictures from an Exhibition, several artists from the university painted a picture of T-Hall on a huge canvas on the field.

At the end of each football season, the band had a banquet at a local restaurant.

One year, the lobster Newburg somehow became spoiled. Later that night, members who had eaten some of that dish became violently ill. In dorms, frat houses and sororities all over campus, band members encountered each other in bathrooms throughout the night. The title Best in the East might have been up for grabs still, but he next day, a large sign was put on the band room door: “UNH Marching Band— Fastest in the East.”

David Shaffer ’66 Gaylordsville, Conn.

Change

I just finished the article “Change” in the fall 2014 issue of UNH Magazine.

I read it with great pride, as I was one of the first few male advocates to be trained in SHARPP’s infancy, many, many years ago.

I still live in the area—Epping— and teach seventh grade mathematics at Continued on Page 12

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Editor-in-Chief kristin waterfield duisberg

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BY PRESIDENT MARK W. HUDDLESTON

The View from T-Hall

Supporting the Greater Good

B R U C E C R A M E R / S N AV E LY A S S O C I AT E S

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very time a New Hampshire student earns a UNH degree, the positive impact on that young person’s life, on the Granite State and on the world, is nearly impossible to overstate. When you begin to tally up these benefits, it is equally hard to believe that some view public higher education as a luxury item—a nice-enough, although not entirely necessary, expense that is worthy of state support only when there is “extra” money at hand.

Yet that is exactly how public higher education is regarded in our national dialogue these days. The skepticism is especially strong here in New Hampshire, where state support for four-year public higher education hovers at less than 10 percent of UNH’s annual operating budget.

New Hampshire is dead last in the country compared with the national average of 51 percent.

For the 80 percent of UNH students who qualify for need-based financial aid, and for the one-third who are the first in their families to attend college, it is critical to keep UNH affordable. In fact, everything our faculty and staff accomplish—from running one of the most cost-efficient universities in New England to inspiring record-breaking private philanthropy— helps keep tuition as low as possible. The partnership of UNH and the state is critical to students and their families. And it is critical to everyone else in the Granite State.

I know how important affordability is, because I was a firstgeneration student who could attend college only because of the low in-state tuition offered by New York state’s public university system. I am forever grateful that citizens and leaders acted on their core belief in the common good of public higher education in those days. They invested wisely in higher education to create tremendous opportunities for their students and decades of robust economic growth for the state.

Now, more than 40 years later, I still cherish that ideal. In fact, I am inspired every day, knowing what today’s bright, hardworking students can accomplish when we keep UNH accessible to them, regardless of their family income.

We know, for instance, that four-year college graduates will earn, on average, nearly a million dollars more during their careers than those with only a high school diploma. In addition to providing talent and skills that New Hampshire industries need to succeed, college graduates are also far more likely to contribute positively to society. They vote, volunteer and contribute in their communities. They adopt healthier lifestyles that return financial benefits to all of us. Simply put: We are all better off when higher education is affordable and accessible.

Here at UNH, the talented students we teach and the research we conduct contribute more than $1.4 billion to the state’s economy each year. That is a remarkable return on the state’s modest investment. And we can do even more for New Hampshire when we can do more for our students and their families.

Experience bears this out. When the legislature and See Mark the governor enabled Huddleston’s State UNH to freeze in-state of the University tuition two years ago, Address at www. our enrollments jumped. unh.edu/president/ Last fall, we saw our state-university largest incoming class ever, including a 7 percent increase in New Hampshire students. I still hear frequently from UNH students and their parents just how much the tuition freeze means to them.

I also hear about the importance of college affordability when I travel around the state to high schools, meeting with students, teachers and guidance counselors. Whether I am at Fall Mountain, Nashua North, Spaulding or Manchester West, the number one question is always the same: “How can my family ever afford to pay for college?”

That is a question that keeps me awake at night. While I always answer that we are working as hard as possible to keep tuition low, I wish I could promise them that the state will partner with us to continue the in-state tuition freeze for two more years.

Ultimately, that decision lies with our state’s elected leaders, who are debating our funding levels even as this magazine goes to press. It is my hope that they, too, see the value of investing in UNH students and families for the greater good of New Hampshire and all of her citizens. ~

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Campus Currents

WA NT TO C H EC K O U T T H E H E R D ?

Fairchild Dairy Center is open to the public seven days a week from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. and visitors can observe the milking of cows at 3:30 p.m. each day. Learn more at www.colsa.unh.edu/aes/fairchild.

UNH MILK: IT DOES A BODY GOLD Among the many student, faculty and alumni achievements chronicled throughout the pages of this and other UNH Magazine editions, it’s important to note that sometimes, the school’s dairy cows need a pat on the back too.

Well, in reality—the kudos go to the dairy managers, says the Dairy Farmers of America organization.

UNH’s dairy cows and their managers, producing an average of about 26,000 pounds of milk per year, have helped the university’s Fairchild Dairy Teaching and Research Center garner a 2014 Gold Quality Award from the Dairy Farmers of America, that nation’s leading milk cooperative.

The Dairy Farmers of America tests milk for a number of factors that indicate herd health, hygiene and sanitation. Among those is the somatic cell count. Dairy herds with a low somatic cell count tend to be more profitable herds since they have reduced treatment and veterinary costs for mastitis (which is the most common and costliest disease for dairy cattle), higher milk production per cow and higher milk prices.

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As a result of receiving the Gold Quality Award, UNH is paid the highest price for its milk. Dairy Farmers of America works with nearly 13,000 dairy producers in 48 states. UNH’s milk goes to the Hood plant in Concord.

The DFA credited Fairchild staff Jon Whitehouse and John Weeks for doing “a masterful job making high quality milk” for the cooperative.

Celebrating its 25th year of operation this year, the Fairchild Dairy Center houses 87 milking-age Holstein and Jersey cows and approximately 70 juveniles. Included in that number is the 20-cow, student-managed Cooperative for Real Education in Agricultural Management (CREAM) herd, with the remaining animals devoted primarily to research in the area of dairy nutrition and reproductive biology. The center is part of the N.H. Agriculture Experiment Station at UNH’s College of Life Sciences and Agriculture.

— Lori Wright ’06G

JEREMY GASOWSKI

Fairchild Dairy Earns Top Award from Dairy Farmers of America

P RE S S

POLITICS AND PREDICTIONS During the fall election season, and looking ahead to the 2016 presidential election, the Carsey School of Public Policy’s expertise was featured heavily in news outlets such as The New York Times and National Public Radio during election season — especially when New Hampshire’s Jeanne Shaheen emerged as one of the few Democrats to be re-elected to her Senate seat in November.

KIND WORDS GO VIRAL

Good vibes, good words all part of university’s “Month of Believing”

MICHELLE MORRISSEY

Who wouldn’t want to hear something nice as they trudge off to class, Dimond Library or just back to their dorm to get some sleep before finals week? That was the idea behind a UNH video that’s now gone viral.

With a stool, a megaphone and a sign encouraging passersby in Murkland Courtyard to say something nice to strangers and friends, university advancement staff helped strangers spread some good cheer during a stressful time in early December. “I like your hat” or “Have a great day!” were popular thoughts, and “You’re a great lab partner” and “It’s a great day to be a Wildcat!” were among the others. The idea was to simply put good energy out into the universe, and the video chronicling the day has carried the message forward, with some 31,000 hits so far online.

It was all part of the Month of Believing, an engagement campaign hosted by the

You can watch the funny video at bit.ly/unh-nice.

UNH Advacenment office to boast about all the great things happening at UNH and drum up some holiday-season pride in the school.

“With the end of a long semester and finals approaching, we thought students might like to pause and give a shout out to their peers; turns out we were right!” says Katie Oslin, director of the UNH Fund and one of the organizers of Month of Believing events.

Each week of the campaign followed a special theme—UNH Cares, UNH Serves, UNH Thanks and UNH Pride—and all related events were chronicled on social media using the hashtag #ibelieveinunh and online at www.unh.edu/ibelieveinunh.

CAMPUS SEXUAL ASSAULT UNH’s Jane Stapleton and Sharyn Potter were quoted in Time Magazine and Christian Science Monitor, about using bystander intervention to prevent campus sexual assault, especially in the wake of high-profile cases at colleges around the country. UNH will be expanding its nationally recognized sexual violence prevention programs to high schools in Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts.

A CCOL A DE S KEVIN SHORT, INVENTOR Mathematics professor Kevin Short has been named a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. Short’s research in nonlinear dynamics and signal processing led to the discovery of cupolets and has helped to improve hearing aids and speech recognition software, and led to innovations in audio and video compression, audio restoration and improved data encryption and storage.

ROCHELLE LIEBER, LINGUIST At the Linguistic Society of America’s annual conference in January, professor of linguistics Rochelle Lieber accepted the society’s Leonard Bloomfield Book Award for her book, The Oxford Reference Guide to English Morphology, co-authored with Laurie Bauer and Ingo Plag. The award recognizes the volume that makes the most outstanding contribution to the development of our understanding of language and linguistics.

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SAFER FOOTBALL ESPN, USA Today, NPR and the Associated Press reported on department of kinesiology Chair Erik Swartz’s research on making football safer by training younger players how to block and tackle without using their heads — dubbed the HuTT Technique. Swartz was one of seven recipients nationwide of a $500,000 grant from the Head Health Challenge II, a joint program by the National Football League, Under Armour and General Electric.

Student blogger offers winter fashion tips

BEFORE

UNH Tales blogger Annah Todd ’14 offers campus-ready fashion advice for male students aiming to elevate their winter staples of snow boots, flannels and sweatpants. Todd’s interest in fashion began early on: Her mother is a professional photographer and her father studied architecture and is a general contractor, so she grew up in a very design-conscious home. “Design has always been a big aspect of my life, and fashion falls under that umbrella as well,” she says. Todd’s fashion dos and don’ts may be meant for students, but they are useful for the alumni set, as well.

Vinny Mwano ’15 (below) models a “before” and “after” as Todd applies the finishing touches.

SCARF: Scarves are an essential part of the “neck candy” segment of any man’s wardrobe (which also includes a popped collar and turtleneck, says Todd). A bold-colored scarf brings a bit of style to any monochrome outfit.

BLAZER: “Dressing up has never been this much fun,” Todd says of her No. 1 tip: wear a blazer. Here, Mwano’s following her advice for selecting a simple color palette of grays and blacks. Not sure how to fit a blazer into your everyday wear? “Wear a simple Oxford shirt or layer up with a sweater underneath.

You’ll get brownie points if you wear a knitted tie.”

PANTS: There’s one rule with pants: wear a pair that actually fits you.

Slim-fitting pants are more flattering than you realize, but if that’s pushing you too far out of your comfort zone, at least take a step away from Levi’s in medium wash. “A pair of nice quality, well fitting, dark wash jeans can take you from class to the office out to dinner and back again,” Todd advises.

SHOES: Functional boots are essential for trudging across campus, but a nice pair of leather shoes are just as important. “I’m not talking about the plastic ones you wore to prom,” Todd writes in her blog. “I’m talking about the super-comfortableunbelievably-soft-butteryleather ones that become your go-to shoes for everything.”

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“ We could have this forum in Houston and it would be perceived as bias toward industry or we could have it in D.C. and everyone’s politics hairs would be standing up on their necks, but having it in New Hampshire, having it at UNH, allows for a considerable amount of conversation — getting to real issues and creating real solutions around the problems that we face as an oil spill community.”

RAY BRADLEY, senior policy advisor, American Petroleum Institute, one of the 40 oil spill experts and eyewitnesses who attended a UNH forum about the Exxon Valdez spill, the Deepwater Horizon spill, and how to prepare for future oil spill disasters in the fall.

Hear from the experts at the forum’s webpage: bit.ly/osrforum

Waking up with A Cappella Not Too Sharp all-male singing group makes Christmas Day appearance on The Today Show The singers of UNH’s Not Too Sharp appeared on Christmas Day on The Today Show, helping Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb celebrate the day with a cappella Christmas tunes.

The group sang arranged versions of Jingle Bells and Deck the Halls — “the show’s producers wanted something upbeat,” says Corey Nitschelm ’16.

Founded in 2002, NTS has been steadily building a following, and appearing on a cappella compilation albums, while releasing their its covers and original songs and albums. The singers released their first video last year — a cover of Rusted Root’s Send Me On My Way, which garnered more than 65,000 hits on YouTube.

Since their brush with fame at NBC, the group has performed at Gov. Maggie Hassan’s inauguration in early January, and has big plans for the future, including competing in the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella.

VALERIE LESTER

CAMPUS STYLE

Dan Tran ’15G won $7,600 on Jeopardy!

The world of Internet snarkiness is finally giving UNH grad student Dan Tran a break.

It’s been about four months since Tran appeared on the television show Jeopardy!, and life has returned to normal. Well, normal plus about $7,600 in winnings that Tran brought back thanks to his trivia acumen and quick-trigger buzzer finger.

But his Internet infamy came not from his winnings but from the always-awkward “small talk” segment of the show, where host Alex Trebek goes to each contestant and chats them up.

Tran told a story about how once, when travelling with friends, his weary mind mistakenly thought the sun shining in the sky was actually a bright full moon.

Internet haters quickly jumped on the awkward moment— dubbing Tran an aspiring astronomy student who doesn’t know the difference between the moon and the sun. The snippet was picked up everywhere from Fox News to Reddit.

“It bothered me for about a day,” says Tran, whose

embarrassing moment was quickly drown out by words of congratulations from friends, family and colleagues.

But the laidback Tran took it all in stride.

“When I saw myself on Gawker.com, I thought that was pretty cool,” he says with a chuckle. Tran is proud of his TV appearance, which saw him stay for two episodes, and bring home a nice chunk of prize money.

“I think I have a better than average memory, and a lot of trivia is reaching back to something you learned a long time ago in middle school English or high school history,” he said.

Tran hasn’t blown his winnings on anything big — he might like to take a trip with some of the money, and has bought incidentals here and there.

“As my fellow grad students will attest, we don’t make a lot of money, so I’ll gladly take whatever I can earn from a game show,” Tran says.

— Michelle Morrissey ’97

WANT TO TRY YOUR HAND AT APPEARING ON JEOPARDY? Follow this advice from Dan Tran: KNOW YOUR PRESIDENTS. The leader of the free world is a popular category on the show, so know some obscure facts about everyone from Millard Fillmore to Gerald Ford.

HAVE YOUR FINGERS READY. Many times, all three contestants know the answer, but it just comes down to who has the faster buzzer finger.

WATCH THE SHOW — a lot.

Watching will give you a better feel for the show, and you’ll see some categories that occur repeatedly. You’ll also get to practice phrasing all your answers in the form of a question.

NE W A P P OINTME NTS Deborah Merrill-Sands will take over leadership of the Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics this March, after serving as dean of the Lorry I. Lokey Graduate School of Business at Mills College in Oakland, Calif. Merrill-Sands also served as dean of the Simmons College School of Management in Boston for five years. At Mills she worked to develop the MBA program into a full-fledged graduate school of business and prepare its programs for AACSB accreditation.

Christopher Clement ’94 will serve as the university’s next vice president for finance and administration.

Clement brings nearly two decades of experience in the private sector as well as six years of service to the state of New Hampshire, most recently as commissioner of the Department of Transportation.

He graduated from UNH in 1994 with a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering technology and received an MBA from New Hampshire College Graduate School of Business in 1998.

Ken La Valley recently took over as dean and director of the UNH Cooperative Extension. La Valley joined UNH Cooperative Extension and NH Sea Grant in 2004. As an extension educator, he received the UNH Presidential Award of Excellence and the National Sea Grant Outstanding Extension Achievement Award for his innovative fisheries programs. He has served as Cooperative Extension’s assistant director for programs since 2011.

As the university’s major outreach arm, UNH Cooperative Extension works with more than 2,000 businesses, 1,000 farms, and 20,000 youth statewide. In 2014, extension delivered more than $4.5 million in value to N.H. citizens through educational programs conducted by 3,359 extension-trained volunteers.

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GRAD STUDENT WEATHERS INTERNET DUST-UP, DOES UNH PROUD

MVP MENTOR

On and off the gridiron, it was an unforgettable fall for All-American R.J. Harris ’14 coach Sean McDonnell ’78 knew the young man from Odenton, Md., had other lessons to learn.

“R.J. needed to learn how to keep his feet on the ground, how his actions affected others,” McDonell says.

Known for pushing players to step it up in the classroom and in the community, Coach Mac connected Harris with a mentor program at Oyster River Middle School in Durham. Last fall, the famed wide receiver started spending time with an 11-year-old boy who needed to learn some lessons himself. Devontae Lefleur wanted to do better in school, but had trouble managing his time and focusing on his studies. Things started to turn around for the youngster when Harris started visiting him every Tuesday morning.

Harris never expected to grow so close or care so much about the boy he was assigned to mentor. “I began to feel more like a big brother,” he says.

Harris finished his football season—and his UNH degree—in December, but before he left Durham, he and Lefleur exchanged Christmas gifts. Harris gave his 11-yearold friend a signed UNH football jersey. Lefleur handed Harris a holiday ornament shaped like a cell phone. The sixth-grader had inscribed a message on the gift: ‘R.J. Harris, greatest mentor 2014.’

“I don’t think Devontae realizes the effect he had on me,” says Harris, who took the ornament to Florida for inspiration while he trains for the NFL draft. “It really humbled me that I made a difference in this kid’s life and he was able to do the same in mine.”

Though Lefleur is more than 1,000 miles away, Harris still texts his middle school friend. Back home in New Hampshire, Lafleur continues to root for Harris, hoping he makes the NFL. But the 11-year-old boy also has another wish. “I hope that we can be friends forever.”

Grateful for the relationship that transformed her student, Wesson recently wrote Coach McDonnell to thank him for connecting Harris and Lafleur in the mentor program.

McDonnell quickly responded with his own gratitude. “It was,” he says, “a win-win situation for both of them.”

— Barbara Walsh ’81

KIM WESSON

Of all the awards and accolades Wildcat wide receiver R.J. Harris ’14 amassed over the course of the football team’s remarkable fall, one that stands out might be surprising: a holiday ornament from an 11-year-old boy.

In November, Harris helped boost UNH to its first FCS division national No. 1 ranking, a position the team held deep into the playoffs. He shattered records, won several awards and was named an AllAmerican wide receiver,─the highest honor in college football─by six different media publications. But with the awards and accolades comes responsibility, and though Harris was one of the hardest working and most talented players on the field, head

“When R.J. walked into the room, Devontae’s eyes lit up and every student in the class smiled,” Oyster River teacher Kim Wesson says.

During each visit, Harris would sit down next to Lefleur and join whatever activity the class tackled: science labs, social studies discussions and even a Thanksgiving rap routine in which the kids and Harris gobbled and danced like turkeys. During lunch and recess, Harris offered the sixth grader encouragement and advice and played basketball, football and freeze tag with Lefleur and the other students.

“It was pretty cool that he was my mentor,” Lefleur says. “He taught me a lot of things, like learning to manage my time and how to talk to kids if they’re obnoxious or mean to me.”

Harris got Lefleur and his family tickets to most of his UNH home games, and the quick-footed wide receiver also showed up at one of his mentee’s middle school football games, 10 of his Wildcat teammates in tow. “I had tears in my eyes when I saw R.J. and his teammates show up at that game,” Wesson says. “It blew me away that these young, busy, talented guys took time to see Devontae play.”

Harris’ visits over the fourth-month mentorship, his encouragement and advice, boosted Lefleur’s confidence and grades. “The impact R.J. had on Devontae was profound,” Wesson says.

“Every time R.J. showed up, Devontae knew it was for him.

It gave him a reason to look forward to school.”

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The women’s volleyball team made its second trip to the NCAA playoffs in as many years, defeating the University of Albany in four sets to claim the 2014 America East championship on Nov. 22. The ’Cats fell to the University of Washington in the first round, but Madison Lightfoot ’16 scooped up seven digs to match the program’s singleseason record of 560.

RYAN SZEPAN

AWARDS SEASON Team, players and Coach Mac finish the fall with a string of honors Just how many accolades can one team bring home? At the end of another recordmaking season, the football team was named the ECAC Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) Team of the Year, and head coach Sean McDonnell ’78 earned both ECAC coach of the year and American Football Coaches Association FCS national coach of the year honors.

Individual players took home a raft of additional awards.

The team, which reeled off 10 straight wins to finish the regular season with a 10-1 record and a perfect 8-0 in the Colonial Athletic Association Conference, earned its first-ever number-one ranking spot in the FCS in November. Making their 11th-consecutive trip to the NCAA playoffs, the ’Cats kept that top-seed status with post-season victories against Fordham University and the University of Chattanooga at Durham’s Cowell Stadium. The run ended with a nail-biting

semi-final round loss to Illinois State at Cowell on December 20—the team’s second semi-final loss in as many years— but winning an outright CAA title and hosting a trio of playoff games were major landmarks for the program.

“It doesn’t seem like a big step, but it’s the same thing I always felt after some of the quarterfinal games, that we were taking steps to get closer to the national title,” McDonnell says. “The most important thing now is how do we refocus and how do we get ready to go for next year.”

McDonnell earned a total of six coach of the year awards this season. Former Wildcat quarterback and current receivers coach Ricky Santos ’05 says there isn’t a coach who deserves the kudos more. “He brings his passion every day,” Santos says.

“He breeds a culture of winning and a blue collar attitude. And he has a unique ability to have everybody focus on the here and now and to motivate kids.”

Women’s soccer earned its first-ever America East title on Nov. 8 with a 2–1 victory over the University of Hartford. The team faced off against UConn in the first round of NCAA tournament play on Nov. 15, but lost 0–2.

KEEP UP WITH YOUR WILDCATS online at www.unhwildcats.com. Stay tuned as men’s basketball and hockey jockey for playoff positions.

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Elinor Purrier ’17 just can’t stop winning.

The speedy sophomore— the first Wildcat athlete to be named a National Athlete of the Week by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association—won the America East Women’s Cross Country Championship individual title on Nov. 1, covering the 5K course in 17:19. Five Wildcats placed in the top 10 as UNH successfully defended its America East team crown.

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the Cooperative Middle School in Stratham. I did a little bit of work with Sexual Assault Support Services out of Portsmouth after I graduated, but have not been active in many years (career, wife, and two kids might be part of the reason, but certainly not an excuse).

One of the comments by Jane Stapleton that really struck home with me was the line about not treating all women like potential victims and all men like potential perpetrators. I have always been uncomfortable with the men-asperpetrators mindset. Treating men in such a way does nothing to solve the issue, and I am proud to hail from a school and a program that recognizes a much more positive approach to involving men in the issue of addressing sexual assault.

Tom Witmer ’90 Epping, N.H.

Bringing the U to You

The story about the 100th anniversary of Cooperative Extension in the fall magazine was very interesting. I may have it all wrong, but I believe there was another aspect to the Extension which could/should be mentioned here. In the late 40s and early 50s my family lived in the very small town of Mason, south of Durham on the Massachusetts line.

I remember that there was a lady who traveled around from town to town, meeting periodically with groups of housewives and teaching them arts and crafts. As I remember it, my mother said that she was from the “University Extension Service,” which I now take to be UNH Cooperative Extension. The

lady in question was Myrtis Beecher and one of the many crafts she taught over the years was the making and etching of aluminum trays. I still have five of Mom’s trays [photo of one to the left].

Robert W. (Bob) Martin ’54 Penn Valley, Calif.

Editor’s note: UNH Magazine checked with Cooperative Extension associate dean emeritus Jim Grace, who confirms that Martin’s memory is on the money. He writes: “Myrtis Beecher was the home demonstration agent for Hillsborough County Cooperative Extension from around 1927 to 1951. I believe she was from Massachusetts and finished her career there as a home demo agent. I am sure that etching aluminum trays was one of the arts and crafts projects she conducted, though during the Depression and World War II it was more canning and preserving, sewing, mattress making and furniture refinishing.”

I just received the fall 2014 issue of UNH Magazine and found it interesting as usual. I am particularly motivated to write because of the excellent article written by C. Ralph Adler and Tracey Bentley about the 100th anniversary of the passage of the Federal Smith-Lever Act of 1914. Cooperative Extension has special significant for me, first because of my memory of the handicraft programs brought to my country school by a county 4-H agent in the 1940s and second by my professional career serving as an extension specialist in two landgrant universities.

From 1962–1968 I was an Extension Marketing Specialist at UNH. I subsequently held a faculty and Extension position at UMass and served in related roles with the Extension Service USDA, the National Association of State Universities and State Colleges, and as director of the New England Extension Consortium Project. I learned a great deal about the people who founded the concept

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and how it has evolved from its original farm-focused orientation to one serving the larger community and became a particular fan of Kenyon Leech Butterfield, who might well be the person most responsible for the creation of the Cooperative Extension System.

Butterfield began his career in Michigan in the late 1800s as one of the first Extension agricultural agents, organizing farmer educational meetings with college faculty away from campus and promoting this concept at national professional meetings and with legislators over more than a decade. He called Extension work “the third leg of the stool” that comprised the mission of the land-grant college: student instruction, applied research and dissemination of knowledge into the community.

Butterfield had a major hand in drafting the language that became the SmithLever Act of 1914 and is regarded by some as “the father of the Smith-Lever Extension Act.” In 1995, I researched and wrote a monograph titled The Third Leg of the Stool—Kenyon Butterfield and the Smith-Lever Act of 1914. I know that, as of last summer, this monograph can still be found through a Google search and there should be at least one copy somewhere in the UNH Extension Director’s office.

Robert L. Christensen Bradenton, Fla.

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IT’S CATCHING— Professional puzzlemaker Brendan Emmett Quigley ’96 creates custom puzzles for UNH Magazine that include clues from one or more of the issue’s feature stories.

Some of these got you stumped? Check out FEAR IS A VIRUS, the “Road I’ve Traveled” essay by Theresa MacPhail ’94 on page 24— to get the inside scoop.

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Inquiring Minds

Highlights from UNH research

SUN SCREENING Heading to Mars? Beware the cosmic rays It could be the subject of a science fiction B movie: Space travelers to Mars bombarded by cosmic rays! But it’s science fact, the primary finding of major research out of UNH’s Space Science Center that has implications on the future of deepspace travel.

In an article published last fall in the journal Space Weather, associate professor of physics Nathan Schwadron details how periods of weak solar activity lead to an increase in cosmic radiation levels, limiting the amount of time an astronaut can spend in space without risking radiation-induced cancer.

Using data from the Cosmic Ray Telescope for the Effects of Radiation (CRaTER) on NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, the research found that a 30-year-old male astronaut could spend about 400 days in space— roughly the duration of a mission to Mars and back— before he exceeded NASA’s limits on safe exposure to cosmic rays. A female astronaut of the same age would hit that limit in just under 300 days.

CRaTER’s “tissue-equivalent plastic,” a material that mimics human muscle, measures the effects of radiation dosage over time.

The issue, Schwadron explains, is that we’re currently experiencing an abnormally long period of weak solar activity. An

active sun has frequent sunspots, which intensify the sun’s magnetic field. That magnetic field is dragged out through the solar system by the solar wind and deflects galactic cosmic rays away from the solar system—and from any astronauts in transit.

For most of the space age, the sun’s activity ebbed and flowed like clockwork in 11-year cycles, with six- to eight-year lulls in activity, called solar minimum, followed by two- to three-year periods when the sun is more active.

“However, starting in about 2006, we observed the longest solar minimum and weakest solar activity observed in the space age,” says Schwadron. “There’s been a sustained change in the way the sun is behaving. Over time, it’s become increasingly clear that the space environment is not returning to normal.”

The possibility that this current extended solar minimum could be part of a longterm trend prompted Schwadron and his colleagues—including UNH researchers Colin Joyce, Marty Quinn, Charles Smith, Sonya Smith, Harlan Spence and Jody Wilson, all of EOS—to probe its implications on long-term space travel.

Schwadron presents these results, which were the capstone article of a special CRaTER-focused issue of Space Weather, with the characteristic caution of a scientist.

Deeper understanding of this unusually prolonged solar minimum will better inform NASA on the risks to astronauts engaged in long-term space travel.

Nonetheless, Schwadron says that while these solar conditions “are not necessarily a showstopper for long-duration missions to the moon, an asteroid, or even Mars, galactic cosmic ray radiation in particular remains a significant and worsening factor that limits mission durations.”

—Beth Potier

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EVEN AS WE SPEAK Linguistic changes are happening in New Hampshire We don’t pahk the cah anymore. That’s at least one of the conclusions coming out of a multi-year study about changes in New Hampshire dialect led by assistant professor of linguistics Maya Ravindranath.

Traditional linguistic atlases for New England describe a single “dialect region” that runs from Rhode Island to Maine and from the edge of New Hampshire to the far Vermont border.

When Ravindranath moved to New Hampshire from Pennsylvania in 2009, the sociolinguist immediately recognized that there were many ways in which New Hampshirites did not sound like traditional New England speakers—particularly in being significantly less likely to drop their

THE CAT CAME BACK

New Hampshire’s bobcats are on the rise—and on the move, showing up in places they’ve never been before. Those are the major findings from a four-year study of the animal that puts the “wild” into wildcat, led by John Litvaitis, professor of natural resources and the environment, with colleagues from UNH and N.H. Fish and Game. The researchers estimate that New Hampshire is now home to 800 to1,200 bobcats, up from 100 to 150 in mid-1980s, and that they now exist throughout the Granite State, even in areas like the Seacoast that for decades had “zero bobcats,” Litvaitis says. Launched in 2009, the study trapped and collared 19 bobcats but also relied on citizenscientists around the state, who sent more than 1,000 photographs and descriptions of bobcat sightings in to the project’s website. The broad enthusiasm for the project came as no surprise to the researchers. “Everyone’s gaga about bobcats,” Litvaitis says. “It’s an animal that exemplifies the things we like about nature. If you’ve got bobcats, the world’s still pretty good. We haven’t screwed everything up.”

‘r’s. Thus began a study to measure New Hampshire subjects’ dialect and whether the tendency toward the traditional New England pronunciations (think “bother” versus “father”) is changing over time.

Terming the study The New Hampshire Language and Life Project, Ravindranath enlisted undergraduates to interview locals and document the presence and frequency of traditional New England speech features. Subjects were divided into three age groups—18-22, 22–59, and over 60 years old. To control for outside linguistic influence, only individuals who had lived in the region since at least age seven were included. In a survey of 28 subjects in the Exeter area, Melanie Platt ’15 found that all speakers in her 60+ age group exhibited traditional New England speech features, and all younger speakers did not. Her results corroborated what

Ravindranath’s other students had found: a linguistic change is occurring right now in New Hampshire.

To get at the whys, Ravindranath is now overseeing a follow-up study with PhD student Marino Fernandes and the UNH Earth Systems Research Center’s Michael Routhier, to assess attitudes towards speech. Using a map of New England, researchers ask subjects to circle the area where they think people sound like them and where people have other distinct speech features. They then ask how pleasant the speech is in each circled region—and how correct. Results indicate that New Hampshire speakers in the southeast, where most of the data has been collected, tend to distance themselves from the speech of both Boston and Maine and ally themselves with Vermont. “There’s a belief that we speak correctly here, as do

people from Vermont, which makes me think there may be a convergence to the supra local, moving away from things that seem regional towards some of kind of general American speech,” Ravindranath says.

Ravindranath has presented two conference papers on her research, one a collaboration with professor James Stanford of Dartmouth College, who is doing similar work with his students in the Hanover region. But some holes exist in the research that Ravindranath is eager to address. She doesn’t have enough data from northern and central New Hampshire to draw a complete picture of the state, and she'd like to collect more stories from residents about how New Hampshire has changed in their lifetimes to better understand the relationship between social and linguistic change. —Susan Dumais

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UNH MEMORIES Erin Buzuvis, Western New England School of Law: I remember the exact moment that I became a feminist, in Professor Lucy Salyer’s history class on Women and the Law, during a documentary about suffrage. I got really emotional about it and was glad I was in the front row so no one could see me crying in class— although I’m pretty sure I was not the only one.

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Hundreds of UNH alumni have gone on to careers in academia. Imagine if you could take classes with all of them.

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most of us didn’t appreciate while we were in college, one stands out:

the great privilege of learning every day. In post-school life, where assignments tend to be more mind-numbing than mind-expanding, the idea of daily learning can sound as refreshing—and as remote—as a tropical drink sipped beneath a palm tree.

But who said your UNH education had to end when you framed your degree? What if you could travel the globe enrolled in a fantasy university, one where all the courses are taught by UNH graduates who’ve become college professors, experts in every field you could possibly want to explore? Let’s imagine this worldwide web of academic talent, and let’s call it Wildcat U. Nobody can precisely pinpoint the number of potential faculty for Wildcat U—people who earned at least one degree from UNH and now work as college professors. Weeks of obsessive web-trawling yield a list at least 500 professors strong, or about the same size as the actual faculty in Durham. And that’s just the full-time, tenure-track profs; alumni instructors and part-timers would add hundreds more.

Something about this place produces lifelong believers in education who possess not just the smarts but the persistence to persevere to the highest degree in their field. They’ve made that

IN HER WORDS: When I was accepted into the graduate program in composition at UNH, I felt that I became a member of a new generation in a long line of previous graduates. That sense of genealogy was important to me. Reading texts alongside Tom Newkirk was inspiring. In him we saw someone whose personal passions and experience inform and enrich his work as an academic. Even if our ability to teach grows with experience, learning to teach better is never finished, especially when we are teaching writers. The professors I admire most are always re-imagining their courses, their aims in teaching, and their assignments. It is lots of work, but engaging and satisfying.

ACADEMIC LIFE Christian Kastrup, University of British Columbia: Everything about being a professor is awesome, provided you like working hard.

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Limiting our imaginary Wildcat U to a few pages of faculty and course offerings means leaving out hundreds of fascinating people and subjects. Here’s a random sampling: LAHRA SMITH ’97, associate professor of political science in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown, studies questions of equality and citizenship in contemporary Africa, a passion that began when she did research on Zimbabwe as a McNair Scholar at UNH. DIPEN BHATTACHARYA ’90G, professor of physics and astronomy at Moreno Valley College in California, is also a best-selling science fiction author in the Bengali language in his native Bangladesh.

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reer THE P “No way!” says Jenny Thomson ’82, chair of the geology ROF: M ichelle THE P B at L AC E : department at Eastern Washington University. “Freshman year Colorad ty Stanley, fl utist an o State in Durham, I was having way too much fun.” d assis Univer ta sity, Fo r e rt Collin nt professor ative To the question “Would people who knew you at UNH ever of mus s peop ic. le can unde rstand achie have expected you to land where you’ve landed?” Kris Ramsay, Entre ve su today prene ccess ’s artis urs associate professor of politics at Princeton, starts with “NO!” caree when tic cli rs as e hip, Arts a the m ate. C d n vocac trepre and fi and then elaborates: “I was only an OK undergrad student.

SU’s L y acquire y and neurs scal a the to EAP In t w h t h a e in o r renes stitut Public perso Even I wouldn’t have expected it.” e (Lea ls to s. This ough self) n and t r a p in d c r c e s o o r o rship, m a u o nline, rtists wdso r otion The faculty members of Wildcat U want you to know that to cre creatin se begins urcin , med g, and a w ia t g it e , h a resu netw the b the academic life is challenging and rewarding—and way mana orkin me a asics ging ABOU g n d o f fi T a n nance rtist s M more complicated than you think. As they contemplate what tatem etworking s.

M.M. a ICHELLE S TA ent, b nd D.M NLE Y: people don’t understand about their chosen profession, randin .A B .A. mu . fl u te Colora g, sic UNH per for do 1 m an ce 1 one response is nearly unanimous: how much time being 9 9 Symph 996, 2002. P 4 ; Univer er form ony, Pr sit y of s with oM Ens em a professor takes. t h e Co ble and usica Chamb lorado e r S o O as a re nor a D r Many universities, including UNH, define three citalist uo, and chestra, Colo an d c h ra travels online amb er equal parts to a faculty position: teaching, scholarship interna do Bach musicmusicia tionall ap p r e c an d m n y . iation Au t h o r usic m and service. One-third each, the theory goes. Or three te x t b o of an ajors in e duc at o k . t W e r or k s w ested in o r s, m u thirds each, as it seems to professors. Summers off? ith flut sic the b e co m ist rapists ing pe Not exactly—but summer is a great time for pursuing r forme s a n d music IN HER r s, e n t W r e p reneu their own research on their own schedule. with s ORDS: A mu r s. tu s Josh Stillwagon, who earned all three of his in a w dents. Beca ic professor ’s a u keeps y that’s uni se of this c teaching ce degrees from UNH, says that in his second year lose in quely me en n r teract ters on on g eward to per aged a as an assistant professor of economics at Trinity e-on-o i o form i n n n g ,Ig d . ex M n in pla College in Hartford, he’s beginning to apprecices su cited and a y creative w et to know e sessions ch as my stu f f o o r r k d a s China ate something a professor once said: “Sure, this , Japa me remark s a perform dents n, Ital a job is flexible—you get to choose which 80 hours y and ble opport er unitie Germ s any. a week you work.”

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GREAT MOMENTS David Skole, Michigan State University: I had one student actually cry when she saw this happen. [In Costa Rica] we came across a line of howler monkeys moving through the forest, with several mothers with their babies on their backs.

When they crossed a river, one monkey walked ahead to the end of an overhanging palm branch. While holding on with his feet, he reached across and grabbed another overhanging frond from a tree on the other bank. He pulled the two together, holding by hands and feet, and made a bridge. The rest of the clan walked across it—and him— to the other side.

fessor, ociate pro Okech, ass id v a D : F THE PRO rk s Social Wo ia, Athen School of y of Georg it rs e iv n U C E: THE PL A dents to oses stu p x e d e rs ltural an his cou t mic, cu o n n effec o a c e e v social, s that ha e s e m u e s is th ental study cial nvironm ing. We ts e e so h in -b g . ll ri .S e B E C H: ple’s w human bal AVID OK M.A. on peo zation, the glo ABO UT D obi 1995; globali ir , a y N rt f w how e o v o y o it h s rder p rs e o f f to iv o o d n t y rl U n work ew wo lopme . Universit n e .D v e h e P th d d f n d 4a an mm er . dness o UNH 200 es in a su rsonally nnecte 08. Teach very pe interco na. le a p h o G e Kansas 20 in ram ting p road prog is affec p m ent study-ab ic develo m o n this field co -e cio ssion for ate a ving in p li Studies so y n re M d : il ORDS rgradu s and ch IN HIS W an unde ly 1990s, nhancing for familie e s r a fo , s n e e v r h initiati began w Kenya in the ea ndoned n in poor poverty, for childre in aba f ss t o e n n e cc ts e r a h d d g e g ri il stu d of colle ing the ave ch s ct te to ro suspecte p d e d g k n a r in s o e b ie w il r I m d fo fa tions. parents and also worke ry le popula by their vulnerab a ve sitive

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ACADEMIC LIFE Peggy Plass, James Madison University: I spend most of my time with 18- to 22-year-olds.

There’s a special pleasure in seeing the amazing intellectual changes that take place in people during this time period, and I feel fortunate to have been a part of so many wonderful lives. No doubt the worst thing about being a college professor is grading. I can’t imagine that anyone would say anything else.

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Mohammad Salah, Hashemite University, Jordan: Professors get the chance to convey what we’ve learned to a new generation.

That feels important; I can change students’ perspectives on science and engineering. Here in a public school in the Middle East, I teach a lot of students in each class (about 60) and have to grade all the exams for more than one course. This is the not-great part of academia. Trying to be fair in evaluating large numbers of students is really a hard task to do.

KARA MAKI ’03, assistant professor of math at Rochester Institute of Technology, directs a summer camp that shows eighth-grade girls what’s cool about math. It’s called SMASH, for Summer Math Applications in Science with Hands-on experience for girls.

MARC BRACKETT ’03G, director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, teaches around the country at One-Day University, recommending strategies for using emotional intelligence in daily life. He also serves on the advisory board of Lady Gaga’s anti-bullying group, the Born This Way Foundation.

SAM BOWRING ’75, professor of geology at MIT, was called “a homicide detective trying to solve the ultimate cold case” in a New York Times story about scientists working to pinpoint how long it took 96 percent of the earth’s species to become extinct 252 million years ago.

CAROLE WHITE DENNIS ’71, occupational therapy professor at Ithaca College, is part of the Tots on Bots team, developing robot mobility devices that allow infants with motor impairments to move around and interact.

ERIK NOYES ’97G, associate professor of entrepreneurship at Babson College, teaches an affordable design course in which students work with community partners, in the U.S. and abroad, to develop innovations aimed at alleviating poverty and meeting basic human needs.

MIKE NOTHNAGEL ’96, ’98G, associate professor at the Culinary Institute of America, teaches kitchen math, wrote a book on the subject, constructs crossword puzzles and hosts a public radio trivia show.

SUSAN BAUER-WU ’90G holds an endowed professorship in “contemplative end-of-life care” at the University of Virginia School of Nursing.

She researches the effect of chronic stress on patients with debilitating illnesses, and how mindfulness can help.

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Crime and Politics in Southern Italy

ABOUT PEGG Y PLASS: B.A. sociology and English Loyola University 1982; M.A. sociology Memphis State University 1984, Ph.D. UNH 1990. She feels the influence of her time at UNH every day in her current work. Among the courses she teaches at James Madison is one on victimization of children, which grew out of her work with in the UNH Family Research Lab in the early 1990s.

THE PROFS: Peggy Plass, professor of justice studies, James Madison University, and Dianne Cyr Carmo dy, university professor of sociology and criminal justice, Old Dominion University.

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wo professors, friends since grad school in Durham, teach in this sum mer program. One course compare s the criminal justice systems in Italy and the United States; the other focuses on Italy’s anti-Mafia movements. Both involve travel to Rome, Naples and Sicily, hearing from experts on law, investigation, courts and punishment as well as the brave peop le who are leading the effort to fight the Mafia.

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IN PEGGY’S WORDS: The very best thing

about being a college professor is the opportun ity to be a lifelong learner. It’s like getting to be a student forever! When I decided to teach a course in organized crime, the reading and other prep work opened a totally new area of interest to me. I was so excited by what I was discovering.

Pretty much every day I think how lucky I am to have a job where my primary responsibility is to learn new things.

IN DIANNE’S WORDS: While a graduate student at UNH, I was convinced that I would limit my work to research and avoid teaching. Our doctoral program strongly encouraged us to teach at least one cour se before graduating, and that experienc e exposed me to the joys of teaching. It was so much more fun than I had expected!

Now it’s my favorite part of the job.

web pages do show some common threads. Concern for the environment, for instance. A down-to-earth, student-focused attitude. And enthusiasm for outdoor pursuits, no matter how library- or lab-centered their scholarly fields. In other words, traits easily traceable back to the winding paths of Durham.

These Wildcat U “course offerings” are just a tiny sample of what you could learn from and with your fellow alums.

Most are courses the professors actually do teach; others are variations they’ve imagined for your virtual enjoyment. With professors teaching online and in summer programs, you actually could study with some of these people. On the other hand, Wildcat U has the advantage of requiring no tuition and no prerequisites.

Simply exploring the possibilities sharpens the mind. As historian Daniel Boorstein said, in a quote posted to the web page of more than one UNH alumni professor, “Education is learning what you didn’t even know you didn’t know.” ~

THE PROF: Rachel Obbard, assistant professor of engineering THE PLACE: Dartmouth able and ports equipment uses almost every type of material imagin efficiency, human ze maximi to ering engine t f-the-ar leverages state-o ity with familiar some has e Everyon safety. and t comfor ance, perform lar piece of sports, but few people understand what makes a particu stress, under up holding it’s r equipment behave as it does—whethe ly, smooth rolling or sliding g, breakin t withou flexing absorbing impact, ces materials introdu course This water. or air through flying or ng bounci ble and useful science and engineering concepts in a way that is accessi engineering is t relevan how ts studen s for the non-engineer and remind be. can science fun much how and

S ABOUT DIANNE CARMODY: B.A. psychology 1981; M.A. and Ph.D. psychology 1986 and 1991, all from UNH. A presentation by Professor Murray Straus inspired her to work in the Family Violence Research Lab at UNH. Among the courses she teaches at ODU are two available online, Homicide and Violence Against Women.

GREAT MOMENTS Scott Hancock, Gettysburg College: One memorable moment was when the first and only (as far as I’ve been able to ascertain) black student commencement speaker in Gettysburg College’s 182-year history named only one professor in her speech as instrumental in her life, and gave me a shout-out by what she and a few of the other black students called me—Scott Barack Hancock.

ABOUT RACHEL OBBARD : B.S. engineering Colorado School of Mines 1985. M.Sc. materials science and engineering UNH 1992. Ph.D. engineering Dartmouth 2006. Certified snowboarding instructor interested in all aspects of materials science. Made news last year for discovery of tiny plastic particles imbedded in Arctic sea ice. This year, traveling to the Arctic and Antarctic to study the influence that microstructure has on the flow of ice sheets and the role sea ice plays in Earth’s climate.

of the courses useful every is that dge knowle of breadth a me gave they I took at UNH; Now I UNH. at single day. I also felt very supported as a grad student my told who lor counse school wish I could go back and meet the high or who profess rad underg the or college— nity mother to send me to commu ring! enginee in belong didn’t women that told my class IN HER WORDS: I remain impressed by the range and quality

Jane Harrigan, former director of the UNH journalism program, is now a freelance editor and writer.

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his four-week intensive study-abroad program is offered in the rainforests of Costa Rica through a consor tium of U.S. universities hosted by EARTH Universit y in Costa Rica. After five days in the classroom we are off on a two-h our boat ride to the coastal rainforests at Tor tuguero, then to the terra firme forest s at La Selva biologica l station, ending at the Monteverde cloud forests. Students are exposed to both conser vation and sus tainable use of tropic al forest ecosystems and natural resources.

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ABOUT DAV ID SKOLE: B.A biology and M.S. environmental scie nce, Indiana University, 1977 and 1980.

Ph.D. natural resources UNH 1992.

Studies the role of tropical forests in the global carbon cycle and how land use change and defore station contribute to emissions of greenhouse gases and affe ct climate change. His Carbon 2Markets program leverages forest and agroforestry carbon sequestrat ion and carbon financial markets for both climate change mitigation and poverty alleviation.

WORDS: Working on my Ph.D., I got frustrated and decided to take time off to travel through Southe ast Asia. Berrien Moore said, “David, the world does not need another American backpacker.

Whatever you do, be sur e to make a contributio n. Then you can have the travel, but from the vantage point of doing good in the world.” I canceled the trip and rededicated myself to the work. Now I spend much time in Southeast Asia (and Africa and La tin America too), working on solutions to climate change.

UNH MEMORIES Scott Simpson, Case Western Reserve University Medical School: Moving to New Hampshire to attend UNH was one of the best decisions I ever made. I frequently reflect with great fondness on my time there, whether it was listening to Bill Morrissey at the Stone Church, cross-country skiing up the Oyster River, or meeting friends for coffee and crosswords at the MUB. When I had to leave to complete my education, it was with sadness that I saw the “Bienvenue a New Hampshire” sign in my rearview mirror.

∨ ROBERT CARET ’74G, president of the UMass system since 2011, will become chancellor of the University of Maryland system this summer.

HEATHER MILLER COYLE ’89, ’94G, associate professor of forensic science at the University of New Haven, specializes in the use of both plant evidence and human DNA in criminal cases.

KENNETH KIESLER ’75, professor of conducting at the University of Michigan School of music, has conducted orchestras around the world and runs a summer retreat for conductors in the woods of Maine.

JENNIFER BEARD ’98G, assistant professor in the Department of Global Health at Boston University, teaches science/professional writing and has conducted research on vulnerable populations (sex workers, children affected by HIV) in Ghana, India, Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania, Ukraine, and Zambia.

WILLIAM DARROW ’68G, professor of public health at Florida International University, had a 30-year career at the CDC during which he helped to establish how HIV is transmitted. The actor Richard Masur played Darrow in the movie of the book And the Band Played On. Bill gives a shout-out to FIU colleague Tim Page ’05, ’08G, who received tenure this year in the school of public health.

GRETCHEN ADAMS ’01G, associate professor of history at Texas Tech, was part of an international team that produced the first complete annotated collection of the legal records of the Salem witchcraft trials. Her book on Benedict Arnold in American memory will come out next year.

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T HE ROAD I ’ VE T R AVE LE D WE WANT YOUR STORIES! This is the third installment of The Road I’ve Traveled, a feature highlighting essays by alumni contributors about milestone moments in their lives. What road have you traveled? Send us a first-person account—or an idea for one. If you don’t think of yourself as a writer, we’ll connect you with an experienced writing coach who can help you bring out the best in your story.

Contact us with your idea, a proposal, or even a completed first draft of no more than 1,200 words at alumni.editor@unh.edu. Spread the word to your alumni friends: We want to hear from you!

BY THERESA MACPHAIL ’94

fear [ is a virus ] THE FIRST THING you think as the door clicks shut and you’re standing inside a cool, eerily empty Biosafety Level 3 lab is What am I doing here?

Why would any sane person voluntarily walk into a vacuumsealed room where researchers unpack vials of potentially deadly viruses? The second thing you think—at least if you’re a medical anthropologist interested in the daily work of microbiologists and epidemiologists—is This is awesome.

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For the past decade, I’ve immersed myself in the complex world of influenza viruses, following the trails of H1N1, H5N1 and H7N9 around the globe. I’ve wandered crowded, stiflingly hot “wet” markets in China that sell live birds, fish and reptiles.

I’ve volunteered to work alongside and observe global health analysts—the people whose job it is to spot a disease outbreak before it becomes a bigger problem—at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta.

I’ve trekked out to a decaying abandoned abattoir in Cheung Sha Wan, Kowloon, where thousands of pigs and cattle were slaughtered until the late 1990s, when a rash of bird flu outbreaks made the idea of housing and killing live animals in the city less palatable. I’ve observed virologists inside a lab that sequences viral RNA, doing influenza surveillance in the hopes of better understanding how and when the next deadly strain might emerge.

As a medical anthropologist, I study the social, economic and political culture of public health. Specifically, I research the experts who study viruses and who are called upon to combat them during pandemics. I think about how they know what they know. I ask questions about how they sort through a daily barrage of data in order to make urgent decisions that affect our health and safety.

My quest to understand how experts in public health do their jobs has taken me to places I would never have imagined visiting. I’ve found myself taking uncomfortable risks when they’ve felt essential for doing my job well. Sometimes—like when I’m defying everyone’s admonitions to steer clear of wet markets—it strikes me that these are exactly the types of situations my mother spent her life trying to protect me from.

Compared to what my mom thought could happen to me every day of my childhood, being inside a Biosafety Level 3 lab seems as safe as going for a stroll in my community park.

When I was 4 years old, my much older brother and his young family died at a rest stop, asphyxiated in an idling car with the one-in-a million combination of overlapping holes in the exhaust pipe and in the bed of their station wagon. My brother’s death turned my mother into a

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but at my mother’s funeral, as i was staring down at her folded hands and thinking about how often they had held my own, i realized that they had also held me back.”

security guard whose sole purpose on earth was to protect her only remaining child.

Throughout my formative years, the world I lived in was a scary place, one where my mother expected terrible things to happen and taught me to do the same. I lived a very small life back then. My entire world consisted of my school, my house and my yard; if I went anywhere else, I had to be escorted. Over time, I learned to cope with the strictures my mom put on my movements; I accepted my limited options for “having fun.”

And then, when I was 14, my mom died in a car accident. Suddenly it seemed she’d been right: Horrible things really were waiting just around the corner, hidden from our view. But at my mother’s funeral, as I was staring down at her folded hands and thinking about how often they had held my own, I realized that they had also held me back.

I knew I had a decision to make. I could continue to live a small life and be fearful of the unknown. Or I could choose a larger life, one where I turned those corners and explored new avenues even if that meant coming into harm’s way. As I timidly began to practice being brave, I slowly expanded my tiny universe.

My father, however, was as fearful about my safety as my mother had been.

Throughout high school, I couldn’t go out with friends more than once a week, had to be home by 9 p.m., and could never date. Then, the year after I graduated from UNH, my father died from a bee sting (coincidentally, he was in his car at the time). At 24, I had experienced more loss than most people double my age. But I was determined to stick to the promise I’d made myself at 14: I would not let fear dictate my choices.

If there is a thread that ties together all the things I’ve done in my life, it’s facing my fears. Whenever an opportunity arises to do something that makes me nervous and would have driven my parents to

distraction, I grab it. I am comfortable being uncomfortable.

My graduate adviser once warned me that a good anthropologist will eventually be uncomfortable everywhere. That’s part of the job. Anthropologists constantly question what we are seeing in order to say something larger about what it means to be human. And you can’t do that well if you’re too close to your subject. We are trained to look at things as outsiders, to rethink all our assumptions about the world so that we can inch a bit closer to describing how it really feels to live, work, eat, pray, dance or love in the moment.

I’m also a trained writer. Experienced writers often advise beginning writers to tackle things that trouble them. A famous writer once counseled me to study and write about all the things I hated or feared until I finally understood them enough to stop hating or fearing them. That’s why I started to study viruses.

Living in Hong Kong in 2003, right after SARS, I was terrified of this new disease—and I wanted to understand why. It wasn’t all that probable that I would catch it, just as it’s not at all likely in 2015 that anyone will contract Ebola in the U.S. But statistics never seem to stop us from worrying.

The result of asking “Why are we so scared of influenza?” is the subject of my first academic book, The Viral Network: A Pathography of the H1N1 Influenza Pandemic. The incredibly abridged answer is that we fear what we’ve been trained to fear. Our history and culture shape our fears as much as any virus does.

In essence, I’ve been seeking answers to the question “why” for almost two decades. It began with a need to understand why all my closest relatives had died, then turned into a series of educational and career choices that helped me begin to study fear in all its guises.

Today, as a medical anthropologist, I think of it this way: Asking why can be

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a powerful antidote to the viral contagion of fear.

Though I’ve become adept at facing my fears, the truth is, I’m still scared of almost everything. I’m terrified of getting cancer or dying in a car accident. I’m afraid of losing my job or getting mugged.

But despite being one of the most fearful people I know, I have consciously chosen to lead an out-of-the-ordinary life. I’ve lived in China, studying the Chinese language.

I’ve changed careers at least three times.

I’ve been married twice. I practice being courageous, and I’d like to think I’m slowly getting better at it.

Right now I’m getting ready to go back into the field at the CDC in Atlanta and other international locations to study the disease surveillance systems that help to keep us safe. Last year’s lab breaches at the CDC involving anthrax and bird flu samples, as well as the forgotten vials of live smallpox viruses discovered at the NIH, remind me that the places I go are not risk-free. But I take risks, large and small, all the time. For instance, I’m working up the courage to sign up for an improv class because I’m always nervous being in front of people—something I have to do daily.

Now that I’m a professor, I often tell my students that the trick to a fulfilling life is simple: Learn to recognize your fears.

Fear often disguises itself as something else —anger or dislike or derision. Fear can be as tricky as a virus, and just as contagious.

It can infect you without your being fully aware of it. It can change the makeup of

your personality and, if you let it, end up shaping the contours of your world.

My life is one long lesson in the art of facing fear. Here’s the best advice I’ve discovered so far: Every now and then, do something that scares you. Venture outside your comfort zone and challenge yourself. You’ll learn what you’re capable of, and that’s often much more than you think.

Ask more questions. In each conversation, ask someone about what she loves doing, what he has always secretly wanted to try, why she chose her profession. Other people’s passions are not only fascinating, but they can inspire you to find your own. Finally, be more interested in the world. Travel as much as you can, even if that means just exploring a new part of Vermont. Read voraciously about new cultures or people or places.

Never stop learning.

I’m not just preaching all these things; I’m trying to practice them continuously.

Last summer I started learning German and writing a science fiction novel. Writing fiction—now there’s something that really terrifies me. Researching physics and astronomy. Creating believable, sympathetic characters. Crafting a plot out of thin air. As I sit down to write, it all feels impossible.

But when I get stuck and tempted to quit, I’ll be reminding myself: Learning new things and taking small risks are like building up your immune system. If fear is a virus, the best anti-viral is exploration.~

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Though college students tend to imagine their professors aiming for academia from birth, that’s rarely the case, and Theresa MacPhail’s route took more turns than most.

She began as a journalist and model, then started grad school at age 29 never having heard of medical anthropology.

Ten years after entering NYU’s Draper interdisciplinary master’s program as a student, she returned to it as a professor, with a Ph.D. in medical anthropology from Berkeley. Even that, however, was not “the unicorn,” the elusive tenure-track faculty position. Now she has it. In September she began as an assistant professor of science and technology studies at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, N.J. Her book The Viral Network: A Pathography of the H1N1 Influenza Pandemic was published in December 2014 by Cornell University Press. MacPhail also writes a writing-advice column for Vitae, the career site run by The Chronicle of Higher Education.

MacPhail, who lives in New York, spoke with Jane Harrigan (with whom she took a journalism course in the 1990s) while on vacation in New Hampshire.

Their conversation touched not just on perseverance and overcoming fear, but on the power of writing and the chance academic encounters that can change the course of a student’s life.

[Q +A] ‘Everyone hears the clock ticking, but I heard it sooner and it’s louder.’

Given your sheltered childhood, did college feel like capital-F Freedom? Oh yeah, I went nuts; I was on Young Drive a little too much. But then I got it together and did well. I was part of New England Models Group, so I worked.

One year I was the NASCAR girl at Loudon, wearing these ridiculous short shorts and loading people into the racecar simulator. It helped pay tuition.

After college I was working at a New York model-scouting agency, and modeling and acting. I’d interview for publishing jobs and come close, but then they’d hear I was a model and I’d see this curtain come down.

For your return to school, you chose a very broad master’s program in “humanities and social thought.” How did you find your path? I randomly took this class comparing literary representations of disease with their actual history.

One week we’d discuss the history of plague, and the next we’d read Camus’ The Plague. It was fascinating. I realized that disease was a way to think about bigger questions—fear and mortality and the unknown.

I took a class on Nietzsche, on looking into the abyss, and it struck me that the two were related. My thesis was on viruses in our genome—there’s a lot of evidence now that our entire immune system is former viruses, so viruses are protecting us from other viruses— and how that blurs the line between what we think of as alive and not alive.

How does an English major make peace with science? For my thesis I had to understand how viruses worked, so I started studying genetics. My Nietzsche professor is the reason I had the courage.

When I went to talk to him about my paper topic, I was nervous, so I started, “Listen, I don’t know a thing about philosophy .” And he said something that changed my life.

He said, “Oh good. If you don’t know what you’re supposed to think, you might actually see something new in Nietzsche.” He was giving me permission: I didn’t have to be an expert in order to say something interesting.

Through the years whenever I’ve felt inadequate—and starting a doctoral program is all about feeling inadequate—I’ve remembered that, and it’s emboldened me. I don’t think there’s anything you can’t know if you’re willing to spend some time on it.

When someone at a party hears you’re a medical anthropologist, what’s the response? If they have an idea of anthropology, they think Margaret Mead, out there in the bush with the tribe. So I say I study doctors and public health workers as my tribe. The CDC is my tribe. They have their own rituals, language, way of dressing, their own politics and social hierarchies, and those are what I study.

A teacher at NYU told me I’d like anthropology because “we get to do whatever we want; our topic is mankind.” Most medical anthropologists focus on the patient. I thought I’d do that with influenza, but in a weird sense I got lucky because there was a

pandemic when I started doing my research. Using my journalism skills, I finagled my way into the CDC and I got to watch them cope with this pandemic. So the book is basically what’s a pandemic and how do we know. And the answer is it’s way messier than you think.

Given what you've observed at the CDC, do you trust the system to keep us safe from outbreaks like Ebola? I will worry when someone I know at the CDC worries. I am that confident in them. Becoming more familiar with the way microbes work and the things epidemiologists do has made me worry less, not more.

We’ll always have outbreaks of infectious diseases; that’s just the way the world works. But knowing these people are on the front lines?

Yeah, I sleep soundly. They don’t, by the way.

You took time building a career— after you got your master’s, you moved to Hong Kong for four years and didn’t start your Ph.D. until you were 34. What advice do you give students trying to figure things out? What I most wish someone had told me: You have time to turn around; you have time to change. You graduate from college and feel so much pressure, like you’re choosing forever. But in fact you have no idea where you’re headed, so you might as well let yourself off the hook.

After college I was offered a job at a newspaper and I accepted.

Then I went out to my car, burst into tears, and called the editor and turned it down. Whenever I make a decision now, I think about that moment. I had convinced myself I was saying no because journalism wasn’t right for me, but the truth is I was terrified. I thought I was making my last choice: I’d have to be a journalist forever, and I’d never get better at it than I was at 22.

So we’re back to fear. Do you connect your childhood experiences to what you do now?

It took me a long time to see that my whole life has been figuring out why people die and how that affects others and how people think about death. It’s definitely made me braver because I feel like there’s a clock ticking. Everyone hears the clock, but I heard it sooner and it’s louder. When I’m dawdling, I hear it, and it forces me to move.

Which connects to the tattoo on your arm? Qu’as tu fait? Qu’as tu fait de ta vie? It’s from the poem “Capri” by Czeslaw Milosz. “Voices call in various languages, gathered in your wanderings through two continents. What did you do with your life? What did you do?”

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VELARDI

COLLINS

HOURAN

CASALE

INDUISI

BY CONNIE EPPICH

Guiding the Climb IN THE STRAFFORD COUNTY CORRECTIONS SYSTEM, UNH ALUMS SERVE UP JUSTICE WITH A HEALTHY SIDE OF COMPASSION

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very day, New Hampshire news outlets carry stories about people arrested for crimes connected to drug abuse or mental illness. But once the cameras are off and the police reports are filed, those same outlets rarely tell the story that comes next. In Strafford County, home to UNH, it’s the story of what happens when offenders enter a criminal justice system that offers a huge array of interconnected services, both inside the jail and out in the community. Run by a team of compassionate professionals, many of them UNH alumni, the Strafford County criminal justice system has a single goal: to help guide offenders toward a future free from crime.

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he tools for assembling that future depend on each individual’s needs. The county helps offenders conquer drug or alcohol abuse, get treatment for mental illness, manage anger, earn a high school equivalency certificate, learn English or computer skills, hunt for a job or find affordable medical care. Programs intersect and overlap: Offenders involved in community-based rehab may spend an occasional night in jail, while jail inmates spend their days in the community on work release. Some people battling addictions live in a separate Therapeutic Community at the jail; others live at home while working through their rehab in the community-based Drug Court program. Still others with issues around mental illness participate in the Mental Health Court program.

Developing this network took years of work and collaboration among parties who could easily have been adversaries, like the prosecutors in the county attorney’s office responsible for taking legal action against offenders and the public defense lawyers who represent them. County attorney Tom Velardi ’93, for instance, prosecutes cases but also sees himself as an advocate for both victims and offenders.

“Collaborative approaches to criminal justice require more time and effort, but the effort is so worth it when you get exposed to the success stories and see lives change,” Velardi says.

To the county’s criminal justice professionals, the programs they staff are a living, changing web. To the experts, they’re a model. David Bennett, a national criminal justice consultant who has worked with several hundred counties, says Strafford County offers a wider array of programs at the jail and in its Community Corrections department than any other jurisdiction of its size in the country.

As they navigate that network, people who have committed crimes begin to rewrite their own stories.

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CLIMBING THE MOUNTAIN

In Drug Court, the story begins with a new name: those who enter the system are no longer known as offenders but rather as clients. Every Monday afternoon, clients file into the county courthouse for Drug Court check-in. Young men in jeans and hoodies, sneakers or work boots, fill the courtroom gallery. Many joke around like high school boys; others keep to themselves. A few young women sit here and there, some joining in the banter of the rowdy group. Inmates in khaki uniforms from the county jail across the street enter quietly and sit in the back row on the right, an officer from the sheriff’s department standing beside them.

Everyone in the room knows that before the afternoon’s proceedings are over, a few more may be joining their ranks.

Many Drug Court clients started using drugs before their teens; a few almost died from an overdose or had a friend who did. They’ve been arrested for assault, burglary, drunk driving, possession of drugs, or all of the above; they’ve spent a night—or two weeks, or several months —in jail for crimes related to their addictions.

Now they have committed to taking on the challenge of rehabilitation rather than serving time in the county jail or state prison. Rehab

Clockwise from left: Attorney Tom Velardi ’94; a Monday morning gathering in Drug Court; Superior Judge Stephen Houran, Alex Casale ’03, and Velardi discuss a case; county program graduate Gary Anderson ’11.

is like climbing the steepest, rockiest mountain on the Appalachian Trail.

They’ll stumble and fall, maybe get lost along the way. The professionals can provide proper gear and trail maps, but ultimately each client climbs alone. Some make it; many don’t. Of those who veer off course, many try again and again—as many times as it takes—to reach the summit.

When Gary Anderson ’11 was arrested for cocaine possession in 2009, he chose Drug Court over jail, but had no intention of getting sober. He tried to game the system, thinking he could carry his addiction with him up the mountain.

Eventually, after failing a drug test that terminated his participation in the program, he went to jail for his original oneyear sentence.

In December, Anderson celebrated two years of sobriety. He credits Drug Court for giving him the tools he needed, even though he chose, at first, not to use them. In the end, he says, “I got exactly what I didn’t want, but I got exactly what I needed.”

‘NOT A MORAL DEFICIENCY’

On a recent afternoon, Anderson stopped by the Strafford County courthouse to thank Drug Court director Alex Casale ’03 for the positive impact he and his colleagues had in changing the course of his life.

Casale is one of many UNH alumni in the county criminal justice system—at the jail, in Community Corrections, and in the public defenders and county attorney’s offices. He began as a student interning with a probation officer, then accepted a part-time job taking urine samples. Before long he became a fulltime case manager and by age 24, he’d written a policy manual for drug testing.

When the Drug Court director moved to another position, he took over the job.

Everyone involved with Drug Court, Casale says, brings a non-adversarial approach to the work. “We’re not there to belittle people and say that there’s something wrong with them because they have these addictions,” he says. “The science says it’s an addiction and you’re supposed to treat it like you would something like diabetes. It’s not a moral deficiency.”

Casale and his colleagues know they may have to stand by and watch as a client struggles—or even gives up. Blair Rowlett ’05, director of the Mental Health Court, has seen it happen. In the grips of mental illness and/or substance abuse, she says, “sometimes it doesn’t work out and people will continue to offend, serve jail time or even die.”

For Anderson, the struggle began before he turned 13. He started drinking and using drugs in junior high, was arrested for smoking marijuana in his high school parking lot, and enrolled in a youth drug-counseling program. At 17, he blacked out on opiates and alcohol

and totaled his mother’s Jeep; skid marks indicated he was going 100 mph.

His license revoked, on probation, he took classes where he learned something about addiction—and met people he’d go out drinking with.

At UNH he got by for a while, but then he stopped going to classes, forgot to take his finals, and was put on academic probation. Then came his 2009 cocaine arrest. He entered the Drug Court program in February 2011.

Drug Court begins with weekly court visits, daily intensive group and outpatient therapy sessions and scheduled and random drug testing. Each client has different challenges. Casale and his case managers provide support with writing resumes and refer clients to staffing agencies. They help clients get free medical and dental care. And they give advice.

When one wanted to get back into working as a tattoo artist, Casale suggested he wait a while. People getting tattoos are sometimes high on drugs—perhaps not the best clientele for a recovering addict.

“Sometimes you have to save them from themselves,” Casale says. He’ll remind a client, “Last time you made that decision, it didn’t work out so well for you.”

ON THE FRONTLINE

Every Monday Casale leads a team meeting to discuss the progress of each Drug Court participant. The team includes caseworkers, counselors, probation officers, the director of transitional housing, the superior court judge, the public defender— and county attorney Velardi.

As the county criminal justice system has evolved, so has the role of the county attorney’s office, which prosecutes criminal cases. Early in his career, Velardi saw that drug offenders sent to state prison often reoffended soon after their release.

Today he sees himself as not just a prosecutor but an advocate for both victim and offender. He learns about the unique

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Rehab is like climbing the steepest, rockiest mountain on the Appalachian Trail .... The professionals can provide proper gear and trail maps, but ultimately each client climbs alone.

Some make it; many don’t. Of those who veer off course, many try again and again—as many times as it takes—to reach the summit. needs of each offender entering the system, finding out if there are drug or mental health issues that need addressing.

“This is a constructive way of making us all safer,” he tells victims.

Velardi serves on both the Drug Court and Mental Health Court teams, working with treatment members and the public defender to help clients stay on track with their rehabilitation while maintaining public safety and accountability to victims. Sometimes a client who breaks the rules gets a second chance; sometimes he or she goes to jail. Velardi also ensures that the Drug Court program follow its own policies, so that law enforcement will stay invested in the process.

“The criminal justice system is the frontline for mental health and addiction issues,” he says. “I feel lucky to work in a county that believes these issues are important and worthy of the time and money spent on running these programs.”

MONITORING THE PATH

Shortly after 2 p.m. on Monday, the Drug Court team enters the courtroom and sits down at the tables in front and in chairs along the side, notebooks open in front of them. All rise when Judge Steven Houran enters.

Houran works his way through the docket quickly, spending two or three minutes with each of the 20 or so clients.

First up are those who are meeting their goals. They have started restitution payment plans, found jobs, completed parenting classes. Houran applauds each client’s accomplishments or gives advice on some of the challenges he or she is facing, always focusing on the need for continuing sobriety and meeting the demands of the program.

Then come those with minor offenses. Houran gives a reprimand for being late to group therapy, assigns a work day for a missed therapy appointment or a written apology for rude behavior during group.

Last up are those with the most egregious offenses—usually a positive drug test. Some come from the back row, handcuffs on and ankle chain rattling as they walk up to the judge. They’ll spend two nights in jail and attend daily meetings for 30 days. Houran’s tone remains respectful. “It is a relapse,” he says. “I hope you come out of it focused on the progress you’ve made.”

Everyone in the courtroom understands that the steep climb of recovery doesn’t always move straight ahead.

Anyone, anytime, can stumble. Some Mondays as many as seven clients will shuffle across the street for a stay at the Strafford County House of Corrections, where anyone who commits a crime in Strafford County, if not out on bail, awaits trial or sentencing. Those sentenced to a year or less stay there; those

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with longer sentences serve their time at the state prison.

A WEB OF PROGRAMS

At the jail, the only bars are on the windows. Each cell opens onto the unit’s common area, where inmates are free to move around for most of the day. From his office, county assistant superintendent of programs and education Jake Collins ’92, ’14G oversees a web of programs that is likewise integrated to ensure that inmates, when they are released, leave with the skills and healing they need. It’s a particular point in the system where UNH alums abound. Quinn Brackett ’07, ’09G runs the women’s component of Therapeutic Communities, a program Collins implemented to help inmates move into lives free of drug addiction. Deanna Strand ’86, ’95, ’97G, director of the Dover Adult Learning Center, works with Collins to provide curricula for classes offered at the jail and to hire teachers. Muriel Farrar ’94G teaches adult education classes to help inmates prepare for the high school equivalency exam. Minnett Indusi ’79G teaches parenting and anger management classes, provides one-onone counseling and assists Farrar in the adult education program. And Isabel Padial ’94 helps inmates access social and community services as they prepare for their release from jail.

Collins, who has worked for the system for 13 years, says that his job is to help inmates move toward more promising futures; others say that description barely scratches the surface of his commitment. For every inmate who earns a high school diploma, for example, Collins holds a graduation ceremony complete with caps and gowns, photos and a reception with cake. “For someone with his position and responsibilities to take that time really speaks to how he approaches his job,” says Strand.

When federal money became available for drug and alcohol rehabilitaton programs, Collins researched a number of models and, in 2005, introduced Therapeutic Communities. In the

program, participants live separately from the general jail population for 90 days in a large room with barracks-style bunks and a meeting area. Days are structured from 5 a.m. until lights out at 9 p.m.; participants spend their time in therapy, anger management, yoga, and parenting classes, Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous and other activities. The men’s unit has 15 participants, the women’s, 10.

In the women’s unit, participants’ eyes glimmer with excitement as they talk about the program. One says, “This is the first time I’ve ever been content in my life.” Another says it’s helped her to accept things she has no control over. “I’ve been given the tools to let go of unhealthy relationships,” says a third.

Induisi, who has has worked at the jail for 35 years, also provides yarn for the female inmates, who teach each other to crochet afghans that she later helps them donate or sell to benefit nonprofit groups.

Former inmate Marcus Cherry describes her as the mother, grandmother and godmother he never had. Cherry spent hours with Induisi in one-on-one counseling.

The work he did with her in therapy, he says, “came at a point in my life when I really wanted to change.”

REACHING THE SUMMIT

Anderson didn’t want to change.

Even after he started Drug Court, he kept smoking pot and drinking. One positive drug test sent him to jail for two nights, then a second one for a week. He lived in transitional housing for a few months, obeyed the curfew, went to counseling and stayed sober. He continued his studies at UNH, got a job, and started drinking again.

In December 2011, Anderson completed a degree in business from UNH. Shortly after, he transitioned from the intensive outpatient component of Drug Court into continuing care, where court check-ins and drug tests are gradually phased out. Soon he was smoking pot and back on heroin, even as he began taking online classes toward an MBA. A positive drug test landed him in jail for two weeks. And then, the big

one: Another positive led to his termination from Drug Court. On Christmas Eve 2012, he began serving his oneyear sentence.

In jail, Anderson sat with himself long enough to realize he’d put himself there.

Drug Court had taught him how to plan, prioritize and set goals, and the forced sobriety had helped him to see what he’d been doing to himself and those around him, but even all that, at the time, was not enough. “I wasn't ready to go back to society without any legal restraints, and I think the Drug Court team knew that,” he says. “In a way, I feel that they saved my life.”

Anderson got into the work-release program and resumed his graduate studies online. In April 2013, he was transitioned to house arrest and fitted with an ankle bracelet. He went to work and AA meetings. By then, “I knew I was more productive and a better person when I didn’t drink.” When he was almost done with the bracelet, he made a bargain with himself to make it to a year of being sober. With good time allowance and one month of his sentence served while in Drug Court, Anderson completed his legal obligations in July 2013.

Today, two years after he found himself at the bottom of the mountain yet again, Anderson has earned his MBA, holds a steady sales job, owns and manages two rental properties and is buying commercial real estate. Statistically, he may be counted as a Drug Court failure— but he is a genuine Strafford County Corrections System success, one of many whose lives have changed by virtue of entering a system that was committed not just to ensuring that they were held accountable for their crimes, but also to providing a route away from the life that led to them. Anderson and his fellow Strafford County success stories have left behind drug addictions, found ways to manage mental illness, earned degrees and come out of the system far better than they went in—determined climbers who have reached their own personal summits, filled with gratitude for the guides who helped them find their way.~ From top: Judge Houran addresses the Drug Court; Minnett Induisi ’79G confers with a therapeutic communities program participant about her afghan; Jake Collins ’92, ’15G in the jail library.

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SHAWN GORMAN ’89 is just the third chairman in the 103year history of L.L. Bean, legendary retailer of everything from flyfishing rods to flannel pajamas—and those boots.

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What is it about the boots, exactly?

That’s the question in front of SHAWN GORMAN ’89 at the L.L. Bean corporate headquarters in Freeport, Maine, on a late fall afternoon. Gorman is uniquely qualified to explain how L.L.Bean Boots—heavy rubber and leather boots also known as the Maine Hunting Shoe—have transcended their utilitarian roots to become a winter-fashion staple, right up there with a classic pea coat or a Burberry scarf.

GEORGE BARKER

BIG SHOES

BY MICHELLE MORRISSEY ’97

He’s is the chairman of the board for the 103-year-old Maine company, which sells everything from sweaters and jeans to camping, hunting and other outdoor gear.

He’s also the father of three high schoolers—two girls and a boy—and is therefore tuned into what the latest thing is when it comes to fashion trends.

And when it comes to footwear, Bean Boots are about as hot as it gets this winter, although the product (the company’s original) dates back to 1912. In fact, there’s been a bit of a shortage of the boots for the past several months. Long-loved by outdoorsmen for their all-weather durability, Bean Boots have spiked in popularity among the teens-and-20s sets, with students from Caribou to California clamoring for the must-have campus wear and creating a backorder of some 75,000 pairs that is expected to last well into spring.

But how exactly did the born-out-offunction-not-fashion boots become a musthave for a whole new generation? Gorman attributes the boots’ popularity to a reissue in 2012 that coincided with L.L.Bean’s 100th anniversary.

“I think it brought some attention and focus back to this really functional product that actually also has some good style to it,” he says.

The Bean Boot’s resurgence is also the result of a key merchandising strategy: taking heritage products and tweaking them a bit for contemporary consumers. As part of the reissue, Bean introduced a waxed canvas Bean Boot, offered the boot in a variety of colors beyond the classic brownand-tan and served up several insulated options, lined with Gore-Tex, Thinsulate and/or shearling.

National media outlets like ABC News and NPR have picked up the story of the Bean Boot backlog, but Gorman’s work— and indeed the legend that is L.L.Bean— is about much more than the latest fashion trend. Since taking over as chairman of the board in 2013, Gorman has overseen the expansion of Bean’s brand, including the opening of four new retail stores, and continued the push to get Bean products into new customers’ homes—all while maintaining the company’s commitment to its existing customer base.

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Great-grandson of company founder Leon Leonwood Bean, Gorman never thought he’d end up working in the family business—he envisioned a professional life writing copy or working in some other similar creative position in an advertising agency. He spent a few years working in sales—interesting, he says, but not challenging—and then in 1992, he came home to Bean. It was a job in advertising, but not on the creative side, working as an analyst.

Gorman’s role gave him a 360-view of the company’s advertising, measuring the effectiveness of Bean’s direct marketing and advertising campaigns. It was direct marketing 101, he says, and he loved everything about it. For the next two decades, he worked in various positions within the company—as manager of international marketing operations, director of advertising and partnership marketing, vice president of card services and direct-to-business, and finally senior vice president of brand communications. Then in 2011, the family began discussing a succession plan for his uncle, Leon Gorman, who had served as president and CEO and then chairman for nearly 40 years, taking the business from $5 million to more than $1 billion plus in annual sales.

The plan for the privately held company was simple: Leon would stay on as chairman for an additional two or three years, at which time Shawn— then comfortable in his role as senior vice president of brand communications—would step into the chairman’s position. But Leon delivered a surprise: he wanted to make the transition happen in six months. Suddenly, the weight of the company’s history, as well as the fate of the 5,000 year-round employees who work there, rested squarely on Gorman. He would be at the helm of a

ALL IN THE FAMILY: Gorman, second from right, on vacation with daughter Amelia, son Owen, wife Cari and daughter Chloe.

$1.6 billion family business. He would be just the third chairman in the company’s century-plus history. Was he ready?

“While the transition plan had been in the works, you don’t realize the responsibility until it actually happens,” Gorman says. “It definitely put some weight on my shoulders, but then I realized this is much more than one person, it’s the 5,000 people who are dedicated to the success of this company. Fairly quickly you realize we have an excellent CEO and outstanding talent in our management — both at the executive level and the middlemanagement level. So my anxiety quickly transitioned to a sense of comfort.”

To be sure, running a family business brings a unique set of challenges. Most family businesses, Gorman points out, don’t make it to a third generation; Bean is

in its fourth generation of family ownership.

But what if a family member who works at Bean isn’t pulling his or her weight? Or, what if the opposite is true: what if a young family member is really doing well, and you want to promote him or her? Will that seem like family favoritism in a company where the vast majority of employees do not carry the Bean or Gorman name?

Every situation is different, Gorman says diplomatically, and while there haven’t been any fights around the family Thanksgiving table, difficult conversations do come up around the corporate headquarters’ conference table at times. And deciding who among the family weighs in on certain business decisions can be tricky sometimes, as well.

In those moments, Gorman thinks of the company like an airplane. “As the owners

BEAN FACT / THE STORY BEHIND THE GUARANTEE / L.L. Bean will take back anything at any time, pretty much for any reason—a return policy that sets the company apart from other retailers. “It’s a big reason behind our long-term success,” Gorman says. The company’s very first product was the Bean Boot. Of the first 100 pair of the boots sold, 90 came back because the tops and bottoms separated — “he didn’t have the stitching process right,” Gorman says of the company’s founder, great grandfather Leon Leonwood Bean. “L.L.” almost went bankrupt returning his customers’ money, eventually borrowing $400 from his brother to cover the loss. That’s how the policy started, and surprisingly, customers haven’t taken unfair advantage of the liberal return rules. Over the years, the returns department has found some interesting items left in pockets or rolled up in a sleeping bag, however. Gorman tells the story of one woman who returned her husband’s Bean Boots, an older pair that had been tucked away in a closet. Little did she know what was inside. “We realized this must have been his money storage place — there was maybe $4,000 in the toe of one boot,” Gorman explains. “We called her up and said, ‘We’ve got these boots and we’ll take them back, but we want you to know you’ve got about $4,000 here.’ Needless to say, she was pretty surprised.”

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of an airplane, you can decide to paint the plane whatever color you want, determine the clientele, determine where you want to fly,” he explains. “But you hire people with expertise to fly the airplane. The owners stay out of the cockpit.”

CATCHING NEW CUSTOMERS’ EYES

and bikes and active apparel… they’ll be drawn to it.”

Indeed, at the Mall of America opening, L.L.Bean’s vice president of retail Greg Elder told the large crowd that Bean sees Minnesota and Maine “as something like long-lost brothers,” because of both states’ outdoorsy nature. And a local newspaper writer penned a column reflecting on the opening as a sentimental experience: “It was the tote bags that got me. Right there at the entrance to the new L.L.Bean store at, of all places for an outdoors writer on assignment, the Mall of America.

There they were, hanging on hooks, like my mom’s ever-present Bean tote hanging on a wooden peg in our kitchen where I grew up. My mom’s Bean bags —or so we called them—held any assortment of things totes carry: a mother’s pursely goods, a Thermos of hot chocolate and extra mittens for a day skiing, several balls of yarn from a half-finished sweater. . .

“Wow. An emotional reaction at a store in the Mall of America,” wrote Dave Orrick of The Pioneer Press.

“We don’t answer to Wall Street, we answer to Casco Street.” It’s a phrase Gorman has used in media interviews before, referring to the company’s headquarters, but it’s much more than a catchy slogan. In a company whose senior managers don’t need to lie awake at night worrying about things like stock price and shareholder satisfaction, it’s an articulation of Bean’s outlook on its standing and priorities. “We’re looking out over five to 10 years to make sure we remain viable for the long-term,” Gorman says.

Today, Bean is at a critical juncture in its long history. The company has fierce brand loyalty, with shoppers returning for its quality products year after year through catalog and web orders or by visiting one of 26 L.L.Bean stores across the country.

The Bean target customer is anyone who Last fall, Gorman and his wife, Cari, shares a love of the outdoors, Gorman says, took part in a regular parental rite of whether he or she is climbing Everest or passage: touring colleges with their son, day-hiking in the Presidentials. But at the a high school junior. The experience same time, Bean has to stay nimble and took the 48-year-old back to the time win new customers. And yes, that means when he was thinking about colleges. seeking a younger audience.

An Exeter, N.H., native, Gorman Under Gorman’s leadership, Bean spent his high school years as a boardhas opened new retail spaces—in Denver, ing student at Brooks School in North at Minnesota’s Mall of America and in Andover, Mass., and the university just Burlington, Vt. “Retail provides us the up the road from home was at the top opportunity to expand our reach to new of his list for a few different reasons. customers in new markets. We see our A close friend from Brooks had gone stores as an extension of the brand and on to UNH and kept in touch, sharing brings our catalog to life,” he explains. how much he was enjoying his freshman The retail stores aim to catch the eye year. And Gorman found Durham’s of young shoppers, a demographic that proximity to Portsmouth and Boston, doesn’t shop from catalogs, and Gorman combined with the campus’ rural setting has a vision of what it can look like when and beauty, appealing. a non-customer first discovers the Bean “When you picture in your head what brand. “If they think they know L.L.Bean an idyllic college campus would look like, and that it’s not for them, they won’t be UNH meets that criteria, with T-Hall picking up a catalog,” he says. “But as lawn, the walkways, the library … it that same person is walking through an worked well for me,” he says. “Looking at outdoor mall, and he or she sees a beauticolleges with my son now, he has the same ful storefront presentation with kayaks kind of view I had, which is interesting.”

THE UNH EXPERIENCE

GORMAN GETS GRILLED Our interview with Shawn Gorman ’89 included a few random questions about L.L. Bean and also about Gorman’s time in Durham: Be honest: Have you ever gone the easy route and given an L.L. Bean gift card as a gift? Oh, I suppose I have. But it’s kind of fun to go up and shop and find gifts that you think your friends and family would like — and then find out they actually do.

Is there an idea that someone pitched as a new product that you just said “heck no” to? Ah, yes — the trailer-hitch mounted porta-potty. It probably has a purpose, but it didn’t seem like a good product for L.L. Bean.

Is there a product that surprised you with its popularity? My brother introduced a cold-weather hunting suit that’s essentially like a sleeping bag with arms, so when you’re up in a stand and it’s subzero and you’re idle for a long time, you can stay warm. We put it into the catalog, and not only did hunters want them, but they really caught on as the ultimate stadium jacket to wear to Patriots games.

What’s your favorite memory from your time at UNH? It’s hard to pinpoint one particular thing. I love the campus location, and spent a lot of times outdoors, which was great. I guess I’d say mostly dorm life in Lord Hall, and the lifelong friends I made.

Lord was an all-male dorm, and it was exactly how you’d imagine an all-guys dorm to be — so much fun. I met my very best friends in life there.

What’s your must-have outdoor accessory? I’d have to say this vest I’m wearing today (points to his PrimaLoft vest by L.L. Bean). It’s a new product and it’s great.

You’re an avid outdoorsman. Where is your favorite outdoor spot in New England?

For hiking, it would be Bigelow Range in Carrabasset Valley. The hike is beautiful, and the reward from the top is gorgeous because you’re overlooking Flagstaff Lake. It’s in the western Maine mountains, which are really my favorite place on earth.

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You might not be among the thousands clamoring for back-ordered Bean boots, and maybe you don’t have plans for an outdoor adventure that requires you to buy a new tent, snowshoes, kayak or some other outdoor gear that Beans sells.

But even if you aren’t a frequent Bean patron, you can’t help but notice the way that L.L. Bean has been popping up in pop culture and mainstream media recently: Quirky Comments In late December, blogger Alex Ronan wrote in New York Magazine about the “weird, lovely world of L.L. Bean commenters,” drawing attention to the lengths that some people will go to in order to weigh in all-things-Bean: the Bean maple syrup is thick, but is that how everyone likes their maple syrup?

Ronan also noted the reviewer who took the time to write 300 words touting her new flip-flops, and yet another reviewer was thrilled that her Bean tote appeared to be the only accessory that her pet rabbit would not chew through.

Gorman studied business for his first two years, but “probably didn’t give business school much of a chance.” He spent his sophomore spring interning at a resort hotel, thinking perhaps a hospitality career was in his future.

“It was a valuable experience — it made me decide I didn’t want to go into hospitality,” Gorman laughs. He came back his junior year and made the decision to transfer into the College of Liberal Arts, graduating a year later with a degree in English.

These days, with a shifting economy and the job market more in flux than ever, Gorman’s advice to current UNH students is to keep their options open. Jobs that exist now didn’t exist 25 years ago, he says, so it’s important to stay flexible.

“For myself, I didn’t pinpoint any one career path; I would tell students to be open to new opportunities,” he says. “And I know it might sound cliché but I would also advise them to love what they do.

Lumberjack Meets Prepster Acknowledging that teenagers and 20-somethings generally set the fashion trends of tomorrow, it’s probably good to be included in a young fashion blogger’s list of cool companies, right? L.L. Bean is right up there with Lilly Pulitzer and Vineyard Vines on the Twitter account called Preppy Life, where followers could see recently how to “prep-out” their Bean boots. (For those of you who want to be prep-school cool, apparently it’s all in how you tie the laces).

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Pursue what they are passionate about.

Obviously sometimes you just need to get a job, but when you can find a job you love, if you can see the rewards for hard work and you feel like you’re contributing something, it makes working harder that much more fun.”

That’s just what Gorman has found in his family’s business. While the day-today work features a lot of meetings, it’s also about maintaining high standards for everything from kayaks to maple syrup, and making sure the customer is happy with his or her purchase. That’s why, while it might not have been love at first sight with his family’s legacy, it’s certainly a strong relationship now.

“I love this company. I’m not sure I did when I was younger, when I didn’t know as much about it. But as I’ve come to work here and grow here and lead here, I’ve come to see what this company means to the community and to Maine itself.”~

GEORGE BARKER

BEAN’S IN POP CULTURE

“ You hire people with expertise to fly the airplane. The owners stay out of the cockpit.”

Book Reviews OF NOTE Bewildered

by Carla Panciera ’85, University of Massachusetts Press, 2014. Winner of the 2013 Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction, this collection of short stories examines small world disruptions—mistimed infatuations, devastating diagnoses, the realizations inherent in loss.

All Eyes Are Upon Us

by Jason Sokol, assistant professor of history, Basic Books, 2014. An unflinching look at the segregation and racism that continued to exist in the Northeast in the 1960s, despite the region’s long and celebrated history of racial equality and political liberalism.

Minds Made for Stories

by Thomas Newkirk, professor of English and director of the New Hampshire Literary Institutes, Heinemann, 2014. Newkirk’s latest invites readers to imagine narrative as not just a type of writing but as the primary way we understand our world and ourselves.

Oil, Ice, and Bone— Arctic Whaler Nathaniel Ransom

by Helen Hiller Frink ’68, Peter E. Randall Press, 2014. One whaler’s account of the 1871 ice trap—the worst whaling disaster in the history of the New England fleet.

One Man’s Family

by Sydney Williams ’63, Bauhan Publishing, 2014. Williams’ musings evoke growing up the second of nine children on a Peterborough, NH, farm in the late 1940s and early 50s. While personal, these stories are a universal reflection on families and the effect genes and environment have on how we become who we are.

Web Extra For more books by alumni and faculty members, see unhmagazine.unh.edu.

Beatleness: How the Beatles and Their Fans Remade the World Why did Americans love the Beatles? Scholars have theorized that the band lifted the nation’s spirits after the death of JFK, a tragedy that “made us more receptive to the happy tumult the Beatles ushered in,” Candy Leonard ’96G writes in Beatleness: How the Beatles and Their Fans Remade the World (Arcade, 2014).

But first-generation fans of the group—those born roughly between 1945 and 1961—have their own ideas about why they loved listening to Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, watching A Hard Day’s Night in movie theaters, and donning moptop wigs in imitation of John, Paul, George and Ringo. Leonard gives their views fond and well-documented respect in this blend of memoir, sociology, and pop-cultural history that focuses on the years between the arrival of the Beatles in the United States in 1964 and Paul McCartney’s announcement that he was leaving the group in 1970.

Leonard interviewed hundreds of fans for a book that provides both close-up shots of individual lives—one college student called her poster-bedecked dorm room “Lennongrad”—and wide-screen views of Beatlemania. The Beatles, she found, seem to have had the greatest effect on fans born between 1953 and 1961, those who were preteens or younger when the group arrived and grew up with its music. The band’s “impact was less primordial” on Americans born between 1945 and 1952—adolescents or teenagers in 1964—in part because many had strong prior loyalties to Elvis or other rock stars. The Beatles also tended to affect male and female fans differently, the book notes, and its perceptive analysis of that divide at times challenges the conventional wisdom about the band: “Boys wanted to be them and girls wanted to be with them.”

Young Americans, Leonard says, loved the early Beatles for many reasons—not just for their unique musical sound but for their ability to challenge adults with a fresh-faced “intelligence, humor, charisma, and confidence” that lacked the bad-boy edge of stars such as James Dean. And Beatleness is at heart an affectionate portrait that shows why countless baby boomers—as they head for retirement—still count among their cherished belongings an original vinyl copy of The White Album.

—Janice Harayda ’70G

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Alumni News

TALES FROM THE REAL WORLD New web page lets alums share their professional experiences, as well as their thoughts on how UNH helped them achieve their career and personal goals.

MOST QUOTABLE: Alumni Tales has provided some great quotes from UNH alums about how they feel about the university:

“ I don’t doubt my time at UNH opened doors for me to find a passion that I otherwise would have never found.” “ As a transfer student I wasn’t sure what to expect from UNH. I can safely say that transferring to UNH was the best life decision I have made to date. Not just because of the vast amount of learning I did, but also because of the amazing sense of community.”

CONNECT @ AN E VENT December was Wildcat alumni gathering season, with events in New York, Boston, Seacoast New Hampshire and elsewhere. Join us at one of the upcoming events noted at right!

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CREDIT

“ UNH bred a unique generation of curious, collaborative, thoughtful Wildcats in the 1990s, and their talents and service enrich New Hampshire and the world every day.”

We all like to check out what our classmates have done since graduation. Now, you can read about fellow alumni’s professional achievements and life-lessons learned with the click of a button on the recently launched UNH Alumni Tales webpage.

Open to all alumni, the webpage features a professional bio and photo of those who have submitted their information via a brief online form — sharing what they have been up to one, five and 10 years after graduation. They’re also sharing how their experience at UNH helped prepare them for their future endeavors.

“We knew alums were accomplishing great things out in their professional lives, and we wanted a place to share those successes,” says Bridget Finnegan, creative director, who worked with UNH's social media manager Jason Boucher on the Tales concept.

The Alumni Tales webpage also allows the broader community to share in the Wildcat pride that alumni carry with them months and years after earning their diplomas.

“UNH is where I came alive academically and socially. From Day One … I learned to be an active participant in my educational journey. I wanted to study things I was personally interested in and passionate about. I’m fortunate to now be in a place where I can be my authentic self at work and be surrounded by similarly minded people,” wrote Tony Berry ’01, who says he is “living the dream” working in HR at Burton Snowboards. Others credited specific faculty members, departments and internship experiences with helping them find their “right fit,” professionally.

Share your tale! Go to www.unh.edu/unhtales/ alumni-tales/ to share your story, and check out what other alumni are up to.

PL AN TO AT TEND ... ➥ Chi-Omega Centennial Celebration, Mar. 27–29, Durham ➥ A lumni Career Fair, Mar. 30, Online ➥ Alumni Network Reception, Apr. 2, Chicago ➥ Alumni Network Reception, Apr. 8, Washington, D.C ➥ Jazz Band Alumni reception, Apr. 20, Durham ➥ Alumni Achievement Awards Ceremony, Apr. 24, Durham

CREDIT

➥ UNH Pioneer Black Alumni Family and Friends Weekend, Apr. 24–25, Durham ☛ Lakes Region Alumni Network Spring Reception, May 7, Wolfeboro, NH ☛ Boston Alumni Network Red Sox Games, May 23 and June 14, Boston ➥ Spring Reunion Weekend, June 5–7, Durham ➥ Northern CA Alumni Network Reception, June 16, San Francisco ➥ UNH Executive Forum Breakfast, June 16, Silicon Valley, CA ➥ Southern CA Alumni Network Reception, June 18, Beverly Hills, CA ➥ UNH Alumni Golf Tournament, June 29, Somersworth, NH Write alumni@unh.edu to receive email notice of events.

Opportunity Awaits I spent a good portion of the fall on the road, meeting with alumni who serve as volunteer network leaders around the country. From the New Hampshire Lakes Region to California, with stops in Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago and Denver in between, I was inspired and energized by the Wildcat spirit of our many dedicated volunteers.

In San Francisco we met with Anne Kirkbride and Ellen Kaidanow, wife and daughter of Tom Kirkbride ’53. Tom served as the head of the San Francisco network for more than 56 years, and when he died in October, he left behind some enormous shoes to fill—and a true legacy of love for UNH. In Los Angeles we arrived as network leaders were in the midst of planning an appearance by actor and writer Mike O’Malley ’88 at the famed Skirball Center.

LA-based alumni have the benefit of the celebrity factor; last year, alumni gathered at the home of Emmy-winning television producer Marcy Carsey ’66. A visit to New York confirmed the success of network leaders’ efforts to provide a diverse and ambitious activity calendar— gatherings in Central Park, community service activities and executive leadership networking events—in a city where hundreds of events compete for attendance on any given night, and our visits to Boston included an inspiring Executive Breakfast Forum with Tim Collins ’85, president and CEO of EBSCO Industries, Inc.

Our travels were nothing less than encouraging, and truly validated our decision to move from the term “chapter” to “network” to describe the remarkable and complex web of UNH connections that exist beyond campus. Building on the work started by legends like Tom Kirkbride ’53 and the efforts or our network leaders, we have a very strong base from which to continue to develop affinity relationships across the United States.

So what does this mean for you, as a valued UNH stakeholder? It means opportunity— the opportunity to tap into UNH activities happening around the country, whether or not you’re an alum. Maybe you’re a parent Get your daily who travels to New York City dose of Wildcat for business. Look for UNH pride at facebook. activities while you’re in the city com/unhalumni or contact the network volunteer leaders for lunch; your connections will help develop valuable contacts for your UNH graduate. If you’re a New Hampshire legislator attend our alumni gatherings and network with your constituents. If you are not near any of the UNH network locations don’t forget you can still participate in our online events to enhance your personal and professional connections. Our Wildcat family is better and stronger when you are a part of it. Make every day a great day to be a Wildcat!

Sincerely, Susan Entz ’08G Associate Vice President for Alumni Relations

J. Morgan Rutman to Lead UNH Foundation Board The philanthropy of J. Morgan Rutman ’84 is benefitting students and faculty in diverse areas around the university—including the Shoals Marine Laboratory, a prestigious lecture series on the American presidency and a new athletic complex. Now, the UNH Foundation will benefit from his business acumen and leadership— Rutman has been named the

foundation board’s next chairman, succeeding Lynne Dougherty ’78.

Rutman’s ties to his alma mater run deep: his father, Darrett B. Rutman, was a longtime faculty member in the History Department and early American history scholar, who, along with Morgan’s mother, Anita, authored several works.

Rutman, an Oyster River graduate and business administration major while at UNH, is president of Willoughby Capital Management, a private investment company, established in October 2008. Though his family is based in New York, he visits campus often, and said recently that “New Hampshire is definitely home to me.”

Learn more about the foundation’s work at www.foundation. unh.edu/.

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Ruth Prince Harrison, has passed away at age 98. Ruth, a native of Claremont, N.H., was a member of the Phi Kappa Phi sorority.

The fall issue of UNH Magazine mentioned Nelson Bennett’s 100th birthday in December, so I want to congratulate him again. I spoke to Carolyn Myhre Bullard a few weeks ago. She now lives in Stratham, N.H., near her son. She sends greetings to the class. I also talked to Ralph Blaine and sent greetings to him too. Marion James is now living in Portsmouth at The Mark Wentworth House. It’s now been over nine years since Creely “Buck” Buchanan asked me to take over as class secretary; please send any news you may have. There are more than 80 of us left from the class of 1940 of the original 427. I am sorry to report the following deaths: June C. Tanner died July 3, 2014, in Zephyrhills, Fla.; Barbara Clausen Smith died Feb. 14, 2013, Reading, Mass.; Frances Loretta Wood died June 1, 2013, Hampton. Va.; Ruth E. Strurrus died July 15, 2013, Chandler, Ariz.; Dorothy May Shaw died June 16, 2014, Concord, N.H. Dorothy was a home economics teacher at Epping High School and later Tilton Northfield High School. She was also an assistant 4-H agent for Middlesex County in Concord, Mass. She is survived by three children and several greatand great-great-grandchildren. Constance G. (Hatch) Herron died Feb. 13, 2013 in Kittery, Maine. She was employed for a number of years as administrative assistant to the director of graduate studies at Boston University’s School of Education and later as principal of ConVal High School and Peterborough Middle School in New Hampshire. She is survived by a son and daughter and several grandchildren. Beatrice Victoria Rakoff died April 15, 2011, in Austin, Texas. She was an artist and taught painting until she was 90. She is survived by three children and grandchildren.

class treasurer, passed away on July 14, 2014, in Dover, N.H. Waldron was a member of Kappa Sigma, the lacrosse team and marching band, and was a dedicated alumnus. Waldron served in the U.S. Army in World War II. He earned his DDS at Temple University and practiced dentistry in Dover. He was predeceased by his wife Grace (McDaniel) ’42 and is survived by three sons, two daughters and three grandchildren.

Dorothea “Dot” Bancroft Phillips died on July 28, 2014, in Rotonda West, Fla. Dot began her physical education teaching career at UNH and then taught at other colleges and junior high schools. She proudly represented the class of ’41 on the UNH Florida Southwest Coast Alumni Chapter. Dot was predeceased by her husband, Spencer, and a son and is survived by a daughter, grandchildren and extended step-family. Ruth Eastman Hassett passed away on June 26, 2014, in Gorham, Maine. After UNH, Ruth graduated from Smith College School of Social Work and worked in the Diocesan Bureau and Family Services in Portland. She was predeceased by her husband, Henry, and is survived by a daughter and son. Colonel Joseph M. Verna passed away on August 10, 2012, in Portsmouth, N.H. Joe served in World War II and the Korean War and received two Bronze Stars.

Joe was predeceased by his first wife, Gertrude (Havener), and a grandson and is survived by his second wife, Mary (Casa-O‘Keefe), a daughter, stepchildren, grandchildren and greatgrandchildren. Paul E. Grandmont died on Dec. 1, 2009 in Bloomfield, N.J. A retired aerospace engineer at Curtiss-Wright and Singer Kearfott, he was married to Pauline (Verrette) for 65 years and they had two daughters. Herb Cheeseman died Oct. 21, 2014. He was commissioned as an officer in the U.S. Army Reserve, and was called up just after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Back at home after the war, he resumed his engineering career at GE. He is survived by his wife of 72 years, our classmate Betty Browne Cheeseman, son Gary, daughter Marsha, three grandchildren and on great-grandson. He was predeceased by his oldest son, Capt. Alan Browne Cheeseman, USAF, killed in action in 1970.

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you may recall on those mornings on your way to breakfast at the Commons. And you will remember too where you were yesterday when you asked, “Where is Pearl Harbor?”

Indeed we all became well aware of its location and many other locations throughout the world as members of our class lived and died through the years of World War II. Do you know that the football team calls Cowell Stadium the Dungeon? With affection of course, as it becomes the site of many victories. Now for the bad news. William Millar died Sept. 22, 2014. He was an Army veteran of World War II and was the recipient of the Purple Heart, the Combat Infantryman’s Badge and the Bronze Star, while serving with the 104th Infantry Division. His experience during the liberation of Nordhausen Concentration Camp led him to be active in the Maine Holocaust Commission. He traveled and spoke at schools throughout the state, so that young people could know from a first-hand witness the horrors of the Holocaust.

He is survived by his wife, two sons, a daughter, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Lois Richardson Hastings died July 15, 2014. She married classmate Raymond Hastings and moved to Gilsum, N.H., in 1946. Lois was active in church and town affairs and was named Citizen of the Year in 2004. She is survived by two sons, two daughters, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Eleanor Powers Haweeli died Aug. 8, 2014. She worked during World War II for the Oklahoma Contracting Co. Later she taught secretarial courses at Berlin (N.H.) High School, and in New York State. She is survived by one son and a grandson. Rose Feinberg Alterman died on Jan. 17, 2014, in Delray Beach, Fla. Bernice Hilton Derby died Jan. 2, 2013.

She had been a resident of Gibsonia, Penn.

Jeanette Yoffee Dubick died on June 15, 2014.

After graduation, Jeanette taught mathematics, chemistry and various other subjects. She met her husband Ben when he was stationed on the Isles of Shoals. Rosalind Cogger Kelsey died Oct. 26, 2013. She had worked in Boston with the Missionary Society until her marriage in 1945 to Rev. Philip Kelsey. She started a pre-school at the Congregational Church in Keene, N.H., taught primary school in Cortland, N.Y., and, after moving to New Jersey, continued to teach and later ran a day-care center in Atlantic City. She is survived by three children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren. Beryl Marcotte O’Connor died Aug. 30, 2013. She is survived by her husband, two songs, two daughters, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. I hope that the new year brings you good tidings and happy days; let me hear from you. Be of good cheer.

—Mary Louise Hancock, 33 Washington St., Concord, MA 03301; mlhdeerisland@gmail.com

A CENTURY WORTH CELEBRATING

NELSON BENNETT ’40 spent his 100th birthday right where you would expect him to—at the White Pass, Wash., ski resort he helped guide and expand for many years. On Dec. 7, 2014, friends and family from as far away as New Hampshire gathered at White Pass Ski Area to celebrate with the skiing legend, U.S. Skiing Hall of Famer and Lancaster, N.H., native. One of the central figures in the winter 2011 UNH Magazine feature “Mountain Men,” Bennett served as a member of the famed 10th Mountain Division ski infantry, which was pivotal in clearing a route through the Italian Alps for the Allies during World War II. After the war, Bennett became

something of a ski instructor to the stars, squiring the likes of Gary Cooper, Clark Gable, Esther Williams and Lucille Ball around the Sun Valley slopes.

He returned to the Italian mountains with the U.S. alpine team for the 1956 Olympics in Cortina, serving as team manager, and he oversaw all the ski events for the 1960 Olympics in Squaw Valley, Calif. From 1960-1985, he served as general manager for White Pass. A decorated competitor known for returning to New Hampshire to race at North Conway’s Cranmore Mountain even into his late 90s, Bennett didn’t take to the slopes on Dec. 7.

But he did mark his milestone birthday with another favorite indulgence— a gin and tonic.

—Kristin Waterfield Duisberg

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WEDDING: Thirty-three UNHers gathered for the fall wedding of Elizabeth Walls Murphy ’07 and Michael Murphy at Dexter’s Inn in Sunapee, N.H. Pictured from top left are David Walls ’80, Jane Shanahan ’74, Ted Siegler ’73, William Bagdoyhan ’73, Peter Robart ’73, Mark Carroll ’82, Jerry Walls ’73 (father of the bride), Lauren Grady ’07, Jim Grady ’72, Garrett Quinn ’07, Matt Grady ’09, Ryan Walls ’03, 08G, Caitlin Liebert ’07, Hallie Pope ’07, Annie Arnold ’11, Cindy Lamson Siegler ’73, Ann McNamara Sprague ’73, Lockwood “Pooh” Sprague ’73, and Debbie Lamson ’75. In front are Donna Walls Carroll ’83, Barbara Worsowicz Jobin ’74, ’80G, Rosemary McGoff Johnson ’77, Edie Parker Posselt ’69, Coleen Murphy ’10, Evan Walls ’15, Gordon McKinnon’48 (great uncle of the bride), Elizabeth Walls Murphy ’08, Lindsay Michaud ’08, Ainslie Seeber ’07, Janet Waldron ’74, Katie Arnold ’11, and Emily Grady ’13.

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Miriam Eastman Cook passed away on Nov. 3, 2014, in Laconia, N.H. She was an English major who graduated with honors, and worked as a flight attendant for American Airlines. After World War II, she married fellow UNH grad Capt. Richard F. Cook ’42, an Army veteran. Living in New Jersey, she worked as an aide at a high school, an English teacher, a library volunteer and an avid church member.

Richard died in 1966, and Miriam returned to the Lakes Region of New Hampshire in the late 1990s. Our thoughts are with her son, her sister, nieces, nephews, cousins and many friends. Her son Brad shares: “We are a UNH family, with my parents having met at UNH, my wife Kathy ’71 and I ’70 and our son Richard Cook II and his wife, Kimberly Soha Cook having met there as well.”

— Dorothy Kimball Kraft, 2 Lilac Lane, Wolfeboro, NH 03894; d.m.kraft@alumni.unh.edu

1944

Please send your news to alumni.

1945

Please send your news to alumni.

editor@unh.edu or mail: UNH Magazine, 15 Strafford Ave., Durham, NH 03824.

editor@unh.edu or mail: UNH Magazine, 15 Strafford Ave., Durham, NH 03824.

1946

As I write for the winter issue, I am watching our football team win the quarter-finals of NCAA FCS championship. It was very nice of Beryle Stimson Hammond of Northfield, Mass., to call me—she wanted me to know that she was still alive and active. She recently walked several miles along the Cape Cod Canal. She is enjoying retirement after 41 years teaching home economics at Pioneer Valley Regional School in Northfield.

I am very sorry to report the death of Betty Woodward Allen in Exeter, N.H., on Sept. 18, 2014. Betty was my roommate at Phi Mu and a

close friend all the years since graduation. She and her husband, Don, lived in Melrose, Mass., for many years before moving to Stratham, N.H., in 1973. She was president of our class for many years after graduation, then served as treasurer. She was always active in alumni events and helping to run class reunions. She is survived by two children, five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Margaret E. Normandin of Belmont, N.H., died at her home on June 5. She worked as a title examiner for Normandin, Cheney and O’Neil for more than 50 years. She was a member of the N.H. House of Representatives from 1963 to 1969. She was chairperson of the N.H. Governor’s Commission on the Status of Women. She also served as a trustee of Notre Dame College and N.H. Catholic Charities. She was a member of the college advisory committee of the N.H. Vocational-Technical Institute of New Hampshire and was on several other boards and committees. Barbara Dunlap Beck, a resident of North Andover, Mass., and formerly of Melrose, Mass., passed away on Sept. 18, 2014. She was a long-time resident of Melrose where she and her husband, Carl, raised three daughters. She leaves her daughters, five grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Our sincere sympathy goes out to each of their families. Please send news to share.

“blending the old with the new” for each successive issue of UNH Magazine. She races to check out the obits, hoping and praying that old friends are still with us. We are all grateful for those who are, and saddened for those who are not. Hopefully this column provides “a great little support system to help us stay the course.”

Joan’s macular degeneration limits her sun exposure, but she observes, “At this stage in life, something’s gotta give.” Keep up the good fight, Joan! And to all other survivors, please do share your news. Gregory P. Clauson ’15, class of 1948 Endowed Scholarship Fund recipient in 20122013, sent our president, Don Lamson, a thankyou note: “As a non-traditional student in the civil engineering department, I feel extremely fortunate to be honored with this scholarship.

I look forward to continuing on to graduate school.” Good luck, Greg! To the families of the following fallen classmates, we offer our most sincere sympathy: Rachel Ann Burbank Grieg of York, Maine; Arnold Philip Hanson, Sr. of Berlin, N.H., and Nashua, N.H.; Marjorie Dunnels Chadbourne of Sanford, Maine and Aglaia Martin of Manchester, N.H. We wish you the best of health and happiness during the brand new year of 2015. Let’s resolved to meet on campus for Reunion Weekend, June 5–7!

—Jeane Steacie Harriman, 14 Old Mill Dr., P.O. Box

NH 03833; eshea@alumni.unh.edu

670, Wolfeboro, NH 03894

1947

Please send your news to alumni.

editor@unh.edu or mail: UNH Magazine, 15 Strafford Ave., Durham, NH 03824.

1948

Imagine my delight upon receiving a note from Joan Tilton Schroeter in Ipswich, Mass.! Since she held the class secretary position for many years, she fully realizes the increased challenges of

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—Elizabeth MacAskill Shea, P.O. Box 1975, Exeter,

1949

Did you know that a ’49er classmate of ours was one of the very first female Marines in World War II? Barbara Currier Kruse was inspired to join the Marines after the attack on Pearl Harbor. “We were not wanted,” she said, speaking of her male drill instructors. “They weren’t ready for women in the Corps; but I never took no for an answer, and the instructors did make Marines out of us.

It was about attitude,” she says. “I wanted to

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The best part of the journey is coming home. unhconnect.unh.edu/reunion be a Marine.” Barbara and two other World War II veterans, and a number of younger veterans were honored at Northport (N.Y.) High School on Veterans Day 2014. After serving, Barbara attended UNH. Your classmates also salute you, Barbara. Remember Albert “Buck” Johnston, who grew up in Keene, the son of a medical doctor, with his sister and two brothers? Their life was documented in a book, and an awardwinning film, Lost Boundaries, which chronicle his father’s struggles to gain employment as an African-American, and how he “passed” as a Caucasian to get a job and support his family during an era of extreme racial prejudice.

Buck died July 2, 2014 in Hawaii, leaving behind three sons, five grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Our class was enriched by Buck’s outgoing personality and musical talent, compositions, singing, playing the piano. Dick Dart and Bev have moved to Blacksburg, Va., to live with daughter, Deb, and her husband, Jeff.

Retired pilot Bob Fortnam and Janet live happily at The Ledges in Concord, N.H. Vivacious Joan Garland Metcalfe ’48 is living on Village Drive in Peabody, Mass. Robert Hague enjoys Sun City, in Roseville, Calif., and Fred W. White and Ginger are happily living in the River Woods community in Exeter, N.H. Jack Hird is living in Portsmouth, N.H. now. “I’m New Hampshire born, and New Hampshire bred, and a part of me never left New Hampshire, says Barbara Kruse. The New Hampshire spirit is contagious, I say!

—Joan Boodey Lamson, 51 Lamson Lane, New London, NH, 03257 (603) 526-6648; unhjblamson@gmail.com

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An important message from our president: “Class of 1950 65th Reunion is just a few months away, June 5–7. We should gather to celebrate our 65th; I urge you now to plan on attending. Please immediately forward me via email (rbrouillard28@yahoo. com) or postal mail, your email address or other contact information, so that your class officers are able to be in direct contact with you to inform you as the plans are formulated. Also, please include some news about yourself.” Barbara Newall, who lives at Riverwoods in Exeter, N.H., has created many pieces of stained glass over the years and treasures her collection. Her small sea enamel bowl with a vanishing figure was selected out of 90 works to be featured in the 2015 River Woods calendar. and will grace the page for May. Congratulations, Barbara! We are sorry to report the passing of Laura Washburn Verry at the Henry Washburn homestead in Oxfordville, N.H. After her discharge from the Women’s Army Corps (WAC) she trained at UNH as a physical therapist. She leaves her husband, Herbert, of 66 years, whom she met at UNH, as well as a brother and sister. I sadly report that on Nov. 10, 2014, JoAnn Ryden ’51 passed away.

She and her husband, Casey Wolcott met at UNH and had many happy years together. I enjoyed her company especially attending many UNH Southwest Coast alumni events with them in Florida. Sincere condolences to Casey and their four children: Charlie, Karen, Nancy and Tommy.

Hope to see you at the 65th Reunion in Durham.

—Anne Marie Flanagan Long, 2601 Newcomb Ct., Sun City, FL 33573; amflong@alumni.unh.edu

1951

Shortage of news—does that mean short memories ? Never admit to it! But let’s get on with the show! Russ Page’s letter was great—grumbling about social media and techies—I agree with no TV but lots of reading! Russ was the subject of a WMUR Channel 9’s Chronicle segment about his building of colonial-style pine furniture but particularly wooden toys to excite a child’s mind. He also gives them away as a pseudo Santa—about 600 by now ! Russ’s wife, Gert, died last year in the 58th year of their wedded life. He still can be found at 125 Mountain Road in Concord, N.H. Cliff Reuter of Lebanon, Tenn., spends a couple of months at Lake Waukewan in Meredith, N.H., each summer—best of both worlds! Sally Ann Quirk retired 20 years ago as a fourth-grade teacher in New Smryna Beach, Fla., and has lived in the same neighborhood for 50 years but still thinks of New Hampshire as home. And Jan Anderson, bless her, is still busy in Pembroke but a little curtailed by a new hip but not by much: lots of to club and volunteer work but no tennis. Has six grandchildren and seven greats, AND she still had time for our class. Ted Stanley of St. Louis, Mo., spent two years in the service, then 30 years with Monsanto, and has been happily retired for 30 years. Al Hood is still in Iowa City, Iowa, and looking forward to a skiing trip in the French Alps in 2015. He has moved to a retirement condo and he enjoys his biking still. He’s thankful for his 12 grandchildren who help him keep up with all the techie toys. William Ekstedt and his wife, Marion, have moved to Wells Beach,

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CL A SS NOTES Maine, after 57 years in Agawam, Mass. He spent 40 years with Western Mass Electric (Northeast Utilities) and is pleased to be on the Maine coast. In addition to the sad news department in the back of the magazine I must make some additions received from the Alumni Office.

First is William Rhines of Wells, Maine, who died last June. He had earned his degrees in engineering and law and first lived in Weston, Conn., where he was active in many town affairs.

Bob Saunders grew up in North Conway, N.H., and died there last July. He served two years at sea during the war and joined Metropolitan Life in Portsmouth, N.H., and retired from a successful career in Manchester, N.H. Lt. Col. George Dimtsios of Asbury Park, N.J., passed the last of June having served 26 years in the U.S. Army after also graduating from West Point.

He earned a master’s degree from Purdue. He served in both the Korean War and the Vietnam War, then worked for Stytex in New Jersey. Bob Irwin of Laconia died in September. He had served in the Army Air Corps before entering our class. May all of our friends be remembered with fondness and may their families honor and love their memories.

—Anne Schultz Cotter, PO Box 33, Intervale, NH 03854; anne.cotter.nh@gmail.com

1952

Please send your news.

—Ruth Goldthwait Maynard,

23 Bent Lane, Newark, DE 19711; DMayn32445@ alumni.unh.edu

1953

Bud Hildreth has abandoned Connecticut for sun and warm zephyrs in Clearwater, Fla. His e-mail is now tampahildredth@tampabay.rr.com. Polly Perley Reed has moved to a retirement community: Villa Crest, 1276 Hanover St., Manchester, NH 03104. Now the sad part, the increasing obits. Norm Wallace of Tulsa, Okla. died June 24, 2014. After Air Force duty following graduation with a degree in geology, he moved to Tulsa and worked as an oil scout. He also worked for oil companies as an exploration geologist, and later became president of Anadarko Land and Exploration, from which he retired at 52.

Richard Melick died Aug. 22, 2014. A Naval veteran of World War II (joining at 17), he later attended Haverford College and UNH before earning a law degree at Boston University.

Among his many legal activities, he was a past president of the Norfolk Bar Association and instructed young lawyers how to try cases.

A long-time resident of Littleton, N.H., Julien Fournier died June 4, 2014. A graduate of the Thompson School, he was an Army veteran with service in Korea. He had worked for Nynex for more than 35 years. Bob Salois of Seminole, Fla., died Oct. 3, 2014. Menlo Park, Calif., resident Tom Kirkbride died Oct. 28, 2014, of leukemia. After graduation, he was sent to Germany by the Air Force, and remained in the Air Force Reserve for 24 years, attaining the rank of lieutenant colonel. He worked for the California CPA Society for 23 years and a construction company for 13 years; he was very active in civic work as well. A longtime president of the

UNH Northern California Alumni Association, he has an In Memoriam on p. 62.

—Ann Merrow Burghardt, 411 Wentworth Hill Road, Center Sandwich, NH 03227; annjack@ alumni.unh.edu

1954

Prexy (aka Harriet Forkey) reports that we have raised the truly staggering sum of $2,813,314.64 in gifts and bequests for the 1954 Fund for Academic Enrichment and other university projects (and also reached our participation goal of 54 percent). For our 61st reunion, the plan is to gather at the Golden Wildcats Luncheon on June 6, 2015. Elizabeth Foss Moore is home from two weeks in Scotland, a week in London and a week in Paris with her daughter, exploring museums and galleries and discovering a restaurant with “beautiful food [and] reasonable prices,” surely a remarkable combination. “Life is good,” she writes. “Long may it continue!” Bill Gallagher agrees: “Life is good, living in the shadows of the Cove Point Lighthouse on Chesapeake Bay. Get to walk on the beach daily, searching for fossilized shark’s teeth. The happiest times are in watching (chasing) our great-grand kids (four so far) to keep them out of trouble.” Charlotte Anderson Marsh was rehearsing as one of 80 voices to sing Vivaldi’s Gloria in a San Diego Christmas concert. Bill (Buzz) Gardner reports from Florida: “Wife and I have moved from Ponte Vedra Beach to a CCRC in Atlantic Beach. Had to dispose of ‘stuff’ we collected from 60 years of marriage and make it fit in a house a little larger than the garage at last house.” Hugo Riciputi has returned to the U.S. after a sojourn in Italy.

And your secretary (aka Dan Ford) was off to ski in Aspen, having given his new knees a workout keeping up with Sally on the Aegean island of Amorgos. And now for the hard news: We heard from Robert J. Austin ’55, whose brother, our classmate Lt. Col. Ralph A. Austin, Jr., of North Syracuse, N.Y., who passed away Aug. 23, 2014. He retired after serving in the artillery, including during two tours of duty in Vietnam. He earned a Bronze Star and the Cross of Gallantry with palm. He received a bachelor’s of science degree in chemical engineering and he went on to receive a master’s degree in library science from Syracuse. He leaves his wife of 56 years, Beverly, six children, 10 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Fond good wishes to Mary Whitehurst Phillips (ex’54) whose husband (and our classmate) John “Doc” Phillips died Sept. 11, 2014. They lived in Salisbury, N.H., where they settled in 1975 after he retired from the U.S. Air Force as a lieutenant colonel. Shantih (peace) to Doc, and a long overdue salute to Gerald B. Sawyer of Boston, who died there on Aug. 11, 2009, and was buried in Woodstock, N.H. Shantih also to Carl F. Tinnerholm of Pinehurst, N.C., who served in the U.S. Navy, belonged to the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, and was a trustee for Perkiomen School in Pennsylvania; he died Jan. 20, 2012; to Philip W. Blanchard of Somerville, Mass., a vocational disability examiner and avid photographer, died March 5, 2013; to William Bryant ’55 of Henderson, Nev., who

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joined the U.S. Air Force and served to his retirement, when he worked at Data General and the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine, died Feb. 20, 2014 (Billy was a member of our class though graduating a year later); to Mary Perra of Winchester, Mass., a teacher, parentteacher organization president and widow of our classmate “Sal” Perra, died March 7, 2014; to Robert P. Williams, Jr. of Bristol, N.H., a veteran of the Korean War who, with his father, operated RP Williams & Sons lumber yard and home builders in Bristol, and who served as selectman of Bridgewater, who died March 28, 2014; and to Walter T. Lefavour of Rochester, N.H., a World War II veteran who for 30 years operated four Virginia Lee Shoppes in the FarmingtonDover, area, who died April 10, 2014; to Stewart Smith of Boynton Beach, Fla., and Lincoln, Mass., a U.S. Army veteran and longtime executive for Uniroyal Tire, who died July 14, 2014; to Leo Decoteau of Yarmouth, Mass., an Army Air Forces veteran of World War II who served as a public health officer in New England and in retirement as chairman of the Yarmouth Board of Health, who died July 19, 2014; to Ormsby John Buck of Holden, Mass., a Korean War veteran who was an art teacher in Natick, who died Aug. 11, 2014; to Col. Robert Madden of Derry, N.H., an oral and maxillofacial surgeon for the U.S. Army, decorated for service in Vietnam, and (following his retirement) a marathon runner and a dental contractor for the N.H. Department of Corrections, who died Oct. 9, 2014; and to Lila Johnston Cobb of Sangerville, Maine, a music teacher in New England schools, who, after her marriage, gave lessons and wrote music while raising a family; she died Oct. 11, 2014.

—Daniel Ford, 433 Bay Road, Durham, NH 03824; danford@alumni.unh.edu

1955

As we write this column we realize that our 60th Reunion is less than six months away—June 5–7. The Holiday Inn Express in Durham has a block of rooms reserved but it is important that you call and make a reservation: (603) 868-1234.

Your Reunion Committee includes Lorna Kimball, Chan and Ann Sanborn, Bill and Marge Johnston, Jack and Pat Weeks and Norris Browne. To honor our 60th Reunion and at the suggestion of UNH, as a class gift we will be funding the refurbishment of two existing granite benches near Murkland Hall, Dimond Library and T-Hall. The balance in our treasury will not cover the entire expense so we are asking for contributions from classmates.

Send your check payable to Class of 1955 to Richard Shepardson, P.O. Box 883, East Sandwich, MA 02537-0883. Each bench will have a commemorative plaque, one identifying our class of 1955 and one in loving memory of Evelyn S. Baker, our long-time class secretary, reunion chairperson and good friend. Our reunion starts Friday evening with a welcome reception at Paul College Courtyard, followed by Saturday campus tours, class parade and class banquet. Lots more details will be in the mail soon including a roster of fellow classmates.

Help us rally classmates to Durham—contact

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those you know and encourage them to attend.

Let’s return in full force! See you all in Durham in June. It’s with great sadness that we list five more classmates who have died: John Lonati Jr., June 28, 2014; Hugh Mellett, Aug. 14, 2014; Richard L. Hewitt, Aug. 30, 2014; Montgomery Childs (our class president), October 2014 and James Farley, Sept. 1, 2014.

—Marge and Bill Johnston, 40502 Lenox Park Drive, Novi, MI 48377; billj7485@aol.com

1956

It’s Thanksgiving morning—our first snowfall of 6 to 7 inches arrived overnight. Now the sky is a brilliant blue; every limb and twig is snow-laden—truly a winter wonderland. It was another terrific season for our Wildcats football team, undefeated in league play. We had season tickets again this year, and saw many contemporaries at the games. With a lighted stadium (finally), we’re hoping to enjoy the post-season just as much.

Again this past August, Ellie Hill Lewis from San Diego came east to visit her sister in York Beach, Maine. Fortunately we were at least able to meet for lunch. A few days later Don and I were cruising—circumnavigated the entire Irish coast.

After many shore visits, we sailed through the English Channel, stopping at several islands before docking in Dover. From there it was on to Ascot and Winchester, where we visited several British friends from our years in Bucharest.

Carolyn (Cal) Foshay Opie manages to keep in touch. She and Bob have retired to the delightful coastal town of Cambria, Calif., which we had the pleasure of visiting a few years back.

It has a distinctly New England ‘flavor,’ with an inviting beach and a small but charming downtown. Now to the unpleasant task of reporting obituaries. In July we lost Donal F. Ballou of New London, N.H. Following a tour in the Navy, he received a degree in mechanical engineering. After many years in Pennsylvania with Borg Warner, he established his own company in Columbus, Ohio, and soon expanded into several other states. Upon retirement in 1992, he and wife Betty returned to New Hampshire, where they greatly enjoyed their home on the shore of Pleasant Lake. From Concord, where he lived his entire life, we learned of the August death of Constantine Bart. He and his brother owned and operated the Granite State Candy Shoppe for almost 40 years. His two sons now run the business founded by their grandfather in 1927. “Costa” was an active member of the community, serving on the boards of the YMCA and the regional American Red Cross. On Oct. 6, 2014, we lost John F. Marrapese, a long-time resident of Franklin, N.H. He spent his youth in Jaffrey, and four years in the Navy during the Korean War. After his UNH graduation, John was employed by National Cash Register Co. for 35 years, and then was with Capitol Cash Registers in Concord. John was a founder of the Webster Lake Association, devoted to the preservation of the shorefront. He was predeceased by his wife Pamela (Horne) Marrapese, and a daughter, Tracy. Survivors include a son and two grandsons. By the time you read this, I will have had hip replacement surgery. Can’t wait to have that event in my past! Most of you enjoy reading

this column when the magazine arrives. Please send your most-needed news for it to continue.

You’ll find the e-address below, or please contact me directly at joanholroyd@gmail.com.

—Joan Zing Holroyd, 5 Timber Lane Apt. 213, Exeter, NH 03833; jholroyd_zing@alumni.unh.edu

1957

Mary Lou “Parky” (Parkhurst) Lavallee very much enjoys living at Thornton Oaks, a retirement community in Brunswick, Maine. Kids, grandkids and even great-grandkids all live nearby and add wonderful “spice” to life in the “slow lane.” Roberta Close Lane lives in Golden, Colo. She and Bill are enjoying retirement in the foothills west of Denver. Four of their children as well as five grandchildren live nearby making life eventful and fun. It’s beautiful there, she says, but she still gets nostalgic for New Hampshire. She reports that she has remembered UNH generously in her will. Carolyn Allard McCoy lives in Lake City, Mich., where her family moved in 1958. They have just welcomed their fifth greatgrandchild; a boy. He has a 5-year-old sister.

Carolyn is busy two days a week volunteering in elementary school working with first graders on reading skills. “They are so eager to learn,” she writes. Jane MacAskill Grinwis in Washington, D.C., retired from U.S. government service in 2012 and now is caregiver for her husband. They are looking at retirement communities and one of them is in New Hampshire. Ralph Fearon in Lee’s Summit, Mo., writes that he and Shirley continue to travel by car from their Kansas City home. In the fall of 2013 they spent a month in

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CL A SS NOTES New England visiting relatives and friends. They contacted Harry Azarian and Rose in Salem and spent two sunny weeks on Cape Cod. They miss the shore and the seafood. Remember everyone, our 60th is not far away—2017.

—Ann Garside Perkins, P.O.Box 105, Kennebunkport, ME 04046; musiklovers@ roadrunner.com

1958

I attended my 60th Portsmouth (N.H.) High School reunion in September and saw many of my UNH classmates including Beverly (Fritz) Collymore, Marlen Mapes, Jack McDonough and his wife Polly (Lessard) McDonough. Three other classmates had schedule conflicts but sent messages: Ned Gould, Patricia (Herman) Howe, and Cynthia (Varrell) Coher. Everyone seemed well, healthy and happy. I am sad to report the passing of Lee Simpson Nelson Ipswich, Mass., wife of our class president, Bill Nelson. Lee graduated from the business school, one of the only women in her class. In retirement she was very active in several volunteer groups including the Wenham Museum and the Ipswich Museum. She was an organic gardener, photographer and loved clamming and lobstering. She was also an avid worldwide traveler and explorer. Our sincere condolences to Bill and their two daughters. Condolences are also extended to the families of Patricia (Croft) Cheney of Dedham, Mass., and John “Jack” McKenna of Beverly, Mass., who both passed away in July 2014. Patricia was a retired teacher at the Hitchcock School in Boston. Jack worked for the Department of Infectious Disease at Tufts University School of Medicine and retired in 1988 from the Department of Public Health, Biologic Labs as a quality control chemist.

—Peggy Ann Shea, 100 Tennyson Ave., Nashua, NH 03062-2535; peggy.shea@alumni.unh.edu or sssrc@msn.com

1959

Please send your news.

—Carole Vitagliano Carlson,

15 Thatcher Road, Gloucester, MA 01930; c.v.carlson@alumni.unh.edu

1960

By the time you read this letter, you no doubt will have received additional information regarding our upcoming 55th Reunion June 5 –7. Do make note of it on your calendar of events. In November, my daughter Martha Landry Duffey ’93 and I joined UNH President Mark Huddleston in Philadelphia at the home of Ann-Frances Peters ’78 and Brian M. Peters ’77. It was a reception with UNH alumni and friends. Michael Ettlinger gave a report on the Carsey School of Public Policy of which he is founding director. Much to my surprise, I did recognize a fellow classmate, Richard R. Fernandez. I received an email from Charlie Wibel. He just finished writing a book entitled Congratulations You Are 18. To order, he says you can find it at: www.congratulationsyouare18. com. He also mentioned that as of November 1, he will have taken over the management of the Highland Links Golf Club in Holderness, N.H., “a very pretty and challenging par 3, 9-hole

course.” Since we have been absolved of paying class dues, no news is being forwarded to me by Henry “Butch” Roy, who served as class treasurer for many years. So, please send news direct to me at the address shown below. You can also call me at the number listed or send an e-mail to my UNH address.

—Estelle “Stella” Belanger Landry, 315 Chickory Trail, Mullica Hill, NJ 08062; (856)418-1800; stella. landry@alumni.unh.edu

1961

Democrat Lou D’Allesandro was re-elected for his ninth term to the N.H. State Senate. Mike Barnicle wrote a column featuring D’Allesandro for The Atlantic in November. Congrats, Lou! —Pat Gagne Coolidge, P.O. Box 736, Rollinsford, NH 03869; pat.coolidge@alumni.unh.edu

1962

Sandra Freeman Orluk, enjoys her retirement years in Thomaston, Maine, keeps active volunteering, and enjoys trips to Connecticut visiting her grandsons. Barbara L. Klein of Rochester, Mass., enjoyed getting back in touch with her freshman-year roommate Beth McCarty Mallard after 50 years. Nancy Vaccaro Senet of Allenstown, N.J., enjoys walking her dog at the Jersey Shore, near where her grandson lives. After earning her master’s degree in social work and her doctoral degree in psychology, she had her own private practice. Bruce William Smith of Strafford, N.H., is still working as a marine biologist for the N.H. Fish and Game Department, Region 3, Marine Division, at UNH. Maj. John C Stevens of Henderson, Nev., is enjoying early retirement and living in the Nevada desert. After 20 years in the USAF and 17 years as a civilian contracting officer, he volunteered in the scouts program and the local Elks Lodge. James E. Swasey of Chadds Ford, Penn., earned his master’s of science and doctoral degrees in horticulture and became the department head at University of Maine at Orono, as well as a landscape designer for the University of Maine system for 13 years. He then became director of the Longwood Program at the University of Delaware. He retired after 21 years, became professor emeritus, advisor to AGR fraternity, and was awarded National Brother of the Century. The American Horticulture Society gave him the National Teaching Award. He and his wife, Susan Ellis Swasey ’61, enjoy their grandchildren. Brad Thorp of Goffstown, N.H., served in the U.S. Air Force as a pilot, production officer in missile research and development and admissions counselor for the U.S. Air Force Academy. He worked in marketing, sales, training and management for Burroughs Corp., Nashua Corp., Centronics and Norwood Real Estate. He managed a 300-home retirement community. He was president and owner/operator of Mobicare of New Hampshire, a traveling vehicle service company, and vice president and partner of Henderson Associates and Norton Envelope Co. He enjoyed performing with his jazz combo and a Boston Jazz trio. He has been most generous to his UNH class of 1962, providing favors for

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one of our reunions and organizing music for several of our reunions including our 50th.

—Judy Dawkins Kennedy, 34 Timber Ridge Rd., Alton Bay, NH 03810; (603) 875-5979; jak@alumni.unh.edu

1963

My finger pointed to the “L’s” on my most recent class printout, and out of 10 tries, I reached three of you for news. Susan Fairchild LeClair of West Nottingham, N.H., is well settled into retirement.

Still a clarinetist, she’s joining the UNH Alumni Band. She regularly visits Anita Garrett in a nearby nursing home; Anita was her roommate for three years in Smith Hall. Louise Russell Luther of East Wakefield, N.H., can still be seen on re-runs of Antiques Roadshow evaluating art glass and lamps, but will make no new appearances. She’ll visit her granddaughter in Washington state at Christmas, and will spend most of the cold months in Florida. Arthur N. Learnard of Derry, N.H., does restoration contracting with a partner in Massachusetts—his most recent project, a carriage house in Derry.

He and Maria (originally from Chile) have been married for 50 years. They enjoy their two grandchildren, one of whom resides with them.

Arthur’s family includes several other alumni, including his grandmother who graduated from UNH at the age of 18! Does anybody know where Peter M. Lloyd is? I reached the one listed, but it was the wrong person. Robert G. Lyman and Natalie are listed right here in East Falmouth, Mass., but I seem never able to reach him. Others had no phone listing or said they preferred not to provide news. If no news reaches me for next time, I might dial a few more “random” names.

Be ready, or send news!

—Alice Miller Batchelor, 37 Rydal Mount Drive, Falmouth, MA 02540-2942; (508) 548-2221; a.m.batchelor@alumni.unh.edu

1964

Please send your news.

—Polly Ashton Daniels, 3190 N.

State Route 89-A, Sedona, AZ 86336; polly.daniels@alumni.unh.edu

1965

By the time you read this column, our 50th Reunion will only be a few months away: June 5–7, 2015. The reunion committee is working overtime to get all the planning done for a fabulous event. We hope you received the letter from Brad Aiken regarding our class gift. Please take the time to consider which option works best for you and how much you can contribute to the fund. The schedule is full of a variety of activities to choose from, and you should receive a packet of information from the Alumni Office soon, if you haven’t already. Please spend some time planning the events you want to attend, and return the registration form at your earliest convenience—the committee and Alumni Office need to have an idea of attendance at the various events. One of the most important forms that you will receive will be the Golden Granite information sheet from class president Ralph Young. The Golden Granite is a class of 1965 “yearbook” containing information that classmates have provided,

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COURTESY OF U.S. ARMY

Duty and know-how took Peter Corey ’83 to the heart of the Ebola crisis

BRIG. GEN. PETER COREY ’83 has been deployed to many places in the world that are dangerous for various reasons—but perhaps none gave his family as much pause as when he left for Liberia last October.

The deputy commanding general for U.S. Army Africa, Corey spent much of the fall in Monrovia, leading U.S. Army troops helping in the effort to stop the spread of Ebola. An advance team, Corey’s unit constructed a 25-bed hospital to treat infected healthcare workers and established two mobile medical labs to facilitate quicker diagnosis of the deadly disease and multiple Ebola treatment units for those workers who are really on the frontlines—the doctors and nurses fighting the country’s Ebola outbreak.

Corey says the good news is that there are people who are getting better. “There are people being healed and being able to go back to their families,” he says. “It’s perhaps equally exciting but less dramatic [than the bad news]: folks do get cured and get to return home.”

Stationed in Liberia in 2006-2007 as part of a U.N. peacekeeping mission, Corey arrived well versed in what has proven to be the biggest challenge in getting on top of the spread of Ebola: the lack infrastructure throughout the country. Since emerging from civil war in 2003, Liberia has struggled to rebuild government institutions and services that Americans might take for granted.

“There is no power grid, no reliable water, no sewage treatment system,” he says. “What little infrastructure there is, you might see in the capital city, but it’s really nonexistent beyond that. There are very few paved roads, and those that are paved are in a state of disrepair. The health system is fragile, the security system is fragile.” Unfortunately, he says, the progress that has been made since 2003 is taking a heavy hit from the Ebola outbreak.

Still, he notes that the dramatics of the day-to-day life in Liberia and other hot zones may be overplayed in the American media. “You don’t see bodies lying in the street, or dazed people wandering aimlessly, but

they know it’s certainly very serious. Whole families have been wiped out, some villages have lost sizable percentages of their population.”

Liberia was not Corey’s first turn at humanitarian assistance disaster response. As director of the N.H. National Guard’s joint staff, he was the commander for New Hampshire’s response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005, leading 400 New Hampshire National Guardsmen in New Orleans. It’s quite a departure for the plant biology major who enrolled at UNH with visions of a career in agriculture or botany—not the military. He joined the UNH ROTC program, he says, following in the footsteps of his father a 40-year guardsman, and quickly found that it inspired the sense of teamwork and selfless service that led him to his current path.

It was also at UNH that Corey met his wife, Margaret, whom he married not long after their 1983 graduation. The Coreys’ children have continued the UNH tradition—daughters Kerstin and Dana graduated in 2011 and 2013, respectively, and son Joseph is a member of the class of 2016.

Corey acknowledges that the entire family was somewhat nervous about his Liberia mission, even knowing that he was not going to be in direct contact with infected citizens. “But everyone got over his or her initial concern,” he says. “They appreciate what I do, and they are all very supportive.”

Corey’s deployment ended in mid-November with a precautionary quarantine. Today, he is back in New Hampshire, watching the work of his advance detachment bear fruit from afar. Their lab facilities have dramatically accelerated the testing of patient samples, according to the Department of Defense, and the sustainment base his unit built for the ongoing Operation United Assistance is in full service with the international healthcare teams still on the ground in Liberia.

“If you could sit down and see what’s been accomplished, it would be mindboggling,” he says. “This really speaks to the capabilities of the U.S. military being able to quickly mobilize resources and get things done.”

—Michelle Morrissey ’97 Winter 2015 • Uni vers ity o f New Hamp s h ire Maga z ine • 49

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We’ve got your stuff.

unh.edu/shop/marketplace

including a current picture. Please complete the form and return it so that our volunteers, with the help of the Alumni Office, can assemble this exciting book. Another request from the reunion committee is that you dig up your old pictures from your days at UNH and send them, however you can—either snail mail to the Alumni Office, 9 Edgewood Road, Durham, NH 03824, or via email to Gina.Damiano@unh.edu. Natalie Salatich Jacobson will assemble a video show for the Saturday night banquet. If you want to be part of it, shoot a short video of yourself recalling your favorite UNH memory, and send the video to Gina at the email address above. It will be wonderful to have lots of current and old pictures to enjoy. We urge you to join your classmates on Facebook. You can find a link to the UNH Class of 1965 Facebook group at unhconnect.unh. edu/reunion under our class page on the left.

I am sorry to have to add another name to the deceased classmates list. James Maguire of Marco Island, Fla., died July 26, 2014, at Tampa General Hospital where he was awaiting heart surgery. Jim served in Vietnam in 1968 and was awarded the Bronze Star medal for his actions there. He was a research sociologist, working with various companies and organizations over the years. He traveled the world as an activist in the interests of the rights of people in the U.S. and around the world. He is survived by his wife, Karen, daughter Allison, brother John and four grandchildren. Mike Granieri was recently awarded the prestigious John Slattery Professional Achievement Award at the 2014 IEEE Autotest Conference in St Louis. Mike is a

1965 graduate of the UNH College of Technology where he majored in electrical engineering.

Congratulations, Mike. He’s is working hard on the reunion committee as well.

—Jacqueline Flynn Thompson, PO Box 302, 197 Cross Hill Road, Wilmot, NH 03287; thompson2004@tds.net

1966

Starting this spring, there will be an exhibit of the works of our late honorary classmate and former UNH faculty member Edwin Scheier and his wife Mary at the Discover Portsmouth Center, 10 Middle St., Portsmouth, N.H. Celebrated midcentury modern artists, the Scheiers were lured to UNH to expand the pottery program, and their work — Ed’s sculptural vessels and Mary’s utilitiarian ware—went on to gain worldwide recognition. The exhibit will be up from April 30–October 2—be sure to check it out if you’re in the area!

—Please send your news to alumni.editor@unh.edu

1967

Class president Jim Jelmberg writes that he and his wife Joanne ’68 spent a luxurious summer and early fall on their sailboat in Rockport, Mass., racing, catching up with old friends and performances at the new Shalin Liu Performing Arts Center there. He reported that during his annual homecoming weekend he visited with ’67 classmates Ken Goldsmith, Dick Knight, Lynn Perkins Sweet, Anne Ward and ’68 classmates Billy Estes, Steve Wentzel, Joe Rahal, as well as Gail Hayes from the class of ‘66. He also noted that

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Edwin Scheier ’66 and his wife Mary.

discussions are under way for our 50th reunion in 2017—yikes! What a surprise for us to enjoy Erica Brown and the Bluegrass Connection at the Saco River Theatre in Maine and find classmate John Shipman in the audience. He and ’68er Angie Piper’s son Matt were part of the Connection—terrific bluegrass sounds. Once again we sadly report the untimely deaths of our classmates. Meredith Brown Pearlstein and husband Harvey Pearlstein were UNH sweethearts and enjoyed 46 years of marriage.

She was a teacher before daughters Allison and

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—Diane Derring, 921 Deerwander Rd., Hollis Center, ME 04042; dndeering@yahoo.com

1968

Nearly 50 years ago approximately 1,000 new freshmen entered the UNH campus to start their college career. We anxiously heard Dr. Milne’s biology lectures for the first time and hung onto every word that Dr. Linden spoke in his history class.

Well, 2018 is fast approaching and those 50 years will have flown by in a blink of the eye. It is time to start forming the reunion committee, which will plan the event. Your class president, Bill Rothwell, and I are looking for a number of you to volunteer to spearhead the reunion. It would be very advantageous if some of you were within driving distance of the university so that you could attend any necessary meetings and coordinate your efforts with the Alumni Center.

You can contact Gina Damiano, associate director of reunion programs, and set up a time to meet with her: gina.damiano@unh.edu. Being in Florida it will be very hard for me to get to any organizational meetings or talk with vendors.

Dick Ray and the Spectres may be available to provide the entertainment, hopefully! And we need to come up with an idea for a class gift.

News from our fellow classmates includes an email from Helen Frink. She writes that she has just published Oil, Ice and Bone: Arctic Whaler Nathaniel Ransom. The book is based on the journals of her great-grandfather’s whaling voyages and details the history of Arctic bowhead whaling. Helen retired in 2009 after 33 years as professor of Modern Languages at Keene State.

She now works in conservation and historic preservation and lives with her husband in Acworth, N.H. She can be contacted at hfrink@ keene.edu. I look forward to hearing your news and to hearing that there will be a reunion committee in the next few month, ready to start the work of planning a 50th Reunion for our class.

—Angela M. Piper, 1349 S. Prairie Cir., Deltona, FL 32725; angelapiper28@gmail.com or a.piper@alumni.unh.edu.

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Please send your news. alumni.editor@unh.edu

Mark your calendars! Our 45th reunion is coming up on June 5–7 in Durham. Highlights of this wonderful, event-packed weekend will include a reception from 5–7 p.m. on Friday, June 5, for the classes of 1970, 1960 and 1955 and a Saturday night cocktail hour and dinner just for our class with, we hope, dancing to the Spectras or other music of “our day.” Search online for “UNH Class of 1970 40th Reunion YouTube” to see our classmates dancing to the Spectras at our 40th reunion in a video provided by Buck and Ann Gouvalaris Howe. During the day on Saturday, we’ll have a chance to join other classes for a campus tour, a Portsmouth Harbor cruise, sparkling talks by faculty and staff about how UNH has changed, and additional fun. To learn more, visit unhconnect.unh.edu/reunion or email me at the

address below, or tweet me at @janiceharayda on Twitter. To make sure you get email or snail mail about the reunion, please update your contact information at unhconnect.unh.edu or send it to the Alumni Office. We’d love to have more volunteers for the reunion committee!

At this writing, the committee includes class president Bill Gardner; past class president Carmen Frattaroli; David Abbey, Craig Abbott, Brad Cook, Steve de Graaf, Gary Evans, Jim Fiore, Laurie Folkes, Eric Halvorson, Janet Hall Kerchner, Mary Evelyn Biggers Monty, Susan Pratt Mooney, Kathy McGuire, Alan Peterson, Larry Spongberg, Nan Winterbottom, and myself; Linda Anderson, Jane Spurway Brandt, and Ryan Brandt have also helped. To join the committee, please email me or Gina Damiano, gina.damiano@unh.edu on the reunions staff.

We received a delightful note from the committee’s Mary Evelyn (MaryEv), who wrote: “I moved to Minneapolis 20 years ago to marry my prince. Had a great life there and enjoyed working as a network project manager for AT&T, and later, Sprint. Sadly, Larry died of frontal lobe dementia two years ago. This year I decided it was time to come back home to New Hampshire, and I bought a house in Concord. I am retired, and very busy. I show my two English springer spaniels in AKC shows, and AKC agility trials.

My boy Apollo has been invited to Westminster Kennel Club show twice! I am loving the Concord area. Concord has become vibrant and lively during my absence. I will look forward to participating in alumni events, and seeing former classmates!” We are so sorry to note that John Vernon Tuck Lewis and Wesley Mackewich have died. Wes’s obituary in a Washington state newspaper noted that, when asked what his peak experiences were, his list would include “the mayhem he and his good buddies created at the University of New Hampshire.”

—Jan Harayda, 10 North Section St., #105, Fairhope, AL 36532; haraydajan@alumni.unh.edu.

1971

My husband and I are going to Cuba in March with the Pan Am Historical Society. We are looking forward to seeing a country where Pan Am first started mail service in 1927 and which has been closed to most of us ever since Castro took over. I know it is a bit controversial to go, but I just couldn’t resist the opportunity. I was a Spanish major at UNH so this is going to be fun for me! Buena Vista Social Club anyone? I regret having to report to you that class member Judi A. Buote Malcolm passed away in July 2014. Judi graduated from UNH with a bachelor’s degree in social work. She was an Alpha Xi at UNH. She met her husband David Malcolm at UNH, and they were married in 1968. She worked for 42 years for the New Hampshire Division of Children, Youth and Families and was the longest working employee there at the time of her retirement. In addition to her husband, David, she is survived by her daughter and grandchildren. She wanted her lasting message to be “do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” We also lost class member Judy Ann Gillam (nee Johnson), who passed away Oct. 20, 2014, after a long

and courageous battle with pancreatic cancer.

She and her husband, Robin, went through the UNH campus a few times on their way to Maine over the years and she loved it there. Of course, she also loved Rutgers University where they met in mathematics graduate school in the mid1970s. They were married in 1980. They both had careers as casualty actuaries, last working together in their joint consulting business 2003 to 2012. She is survived by her husband, two sons, Danny and Mark Ernest, and father Ernest Johnson. Please send news for next time!

—Debbi Martin Fuller, 276 River St. Langdon, NH 03602; (603) 835-6753

1972

The class of ’72 lost several of its members in recent months.

Richard H. Lane of Hudson, Fla., passed away in August 2014. Richard graduated with a bachelor’s degree in business and belonged to the Kappa Sigma Fraternity. He was predeceased by his wife, Dorothy A. Lane, to whom he had been married for 37 years. He leaves behind a daughter, Dorothy M. Eagles and her husband, Sherman L. Eagles of Hudson, Fla.; a son, Joseph W. Lane and his wife, Alison, of Dover, N.H.; a sister, Margaret Herrick and her husband, Thomas, of Hampton, N.H.; and extended family in the Peterborough, N.H., area. Douglas S. Means of Gorham, Maine, also passed away in August. He graduated from the forestry program at UNH and for several years was a volunteer firefighter and EMT in Peterborough, N.H., and Greenfield, Maine. He is survived by his daughter, Stephanie Janet Means of Rochester, N.H.; his sister, Patricia M. Johnston and her husband, Thomas, of Bangor, Maine; his brother, David L. Means and his wife, Cheryl, of North Andover, Mass.; and several nieces and nephews. Dr. Terry B. Goodman died in November.

Terry graduated from UNH, Phi Beta Kappa. I met Terry as a freshman, during the time we were both members of a band called The Morning After. (The group also included John Maguire ’73, John Stewart and Doug Hoffmaster ’71.)

A talented drummer, Terry spent two years after graduation in Ohio where he worked as a musician playing the drums and there met his future wife, Elda Cordero. He eventually returned to New England and earned his doctorate of optometry from the New England College of Optometry in Boston. In addition to his wife of more 41 years, Elda, he is survived by his daughter, Aleeza; a brother, Malcolm Goodman and his wife, Paula; a niece and a grandnephew.

—Paul Bergeron, 15 Stanstead Place, Nashua, NH 03063

1973

Kathleen O’Leary just retired as chief of the women’s program at the National Institute of Mental Health at NIH. She is living in Arlington, Va., and enjoying her daughter’s last year of high school. Sadly, I report the passing of Leon LaMadeleine in Ogden, Utah. He served in the U.S. Army, and began a lifelong career with the U.S. Forest Service, from which he retired in 2002.

—Joyce Dube Stephens, 33 Spruce Lane, Dover, NH 03820; j.d.stephens@alumni.unh.edu

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TRAVELS: Mike Comer ’74 and wife Maggie of Brooks, Maine, shared another trip to some place beautiful in Europe with Becky Kimball Hommon ’73 and her Kensington cousin, Mark. This time it was rural Switzerland and northern Italy.

1974

Robert Caret ’74G, who has been president of the five-campus University of Massachusetts system since 2011, will be leaving to head the University of Maryland’s 12-campus system. Bob’s mostvisible efforts in Massachusetts have revolved around increasing state subsidies for the UMass system. He was previously president of Towson University from 2003–2011. Please send your news and updates.

—Jean Martson-Dockstader, 51 Londonderry Road, Windham, NH 03807; UNH1974@alumni.unh.edu

1975

Tim Mulhern, an attorney with Shatz, Schwartz and Fentin of Springfield, Mass., has been named to a top lawyer by Super Lawyers, a national rating service, and Best Lawyers, a highly respected guide to lawyers. He’s been a partner at the Springfield law firm since 1984.

—Kim Lampson Reiff, 7540 S.E. 71st St.,Mercer Island, WA 98040-5317; klampsonreiff@alumni. unh.edu

1976

Meg Rokos recently joined Faulkner & Associates, a team within Keller Williams Realty in Andover, Mass.

Rokos specializes in working with empty-nesters and first-time homebuyers and sellers in the Merrimack Valley and North Shore markets. C. Andrew Martin participated in the 15th Annual Hill Country Ride for AIDS. More than $500,000 was raised for 10 central Texas AIDS services organizations. In June, Andrew achieved AIDS Certified Registered Nurse (ACRN) certification and is recognized as one of two ACRNs in Austin, Texas. In August, he started a doctor of nursing (DNP) program at Carlow University’s School of Nursing in Pittsburgh, Penn. To support Andrew in the 2015 Hill Country Ride go to: www.hillcountryride.org/site/TR/ HillCountryRideforAIDS. You can also reach him directly at candrewmartin@me.com. In addition to my work as a medical technologist, I am also an independent professional voice actor.

Would love to voice your next project including commercials, training and development material, travel, documentary, and biographical production, telephone answering prompts, audio books and much more. You can check out my demo at: SusanAlimi.icanvoice.com.

—Susan Ackles Alimi, 48 Fairview Drive, Fryeburg, ME 04037; (207) 935-4065; alimi@alumni.unh.edu

1977

Lois Kelly is founder of Foghound, as well as an accomplished author of business management books.

She recently wrote Rebels at Work, which outlines how to gain credibility, pitch ideas, navigate politics, manage conflict and maintain sanity.

During her career Lois has seen so much frustration—and wasted opportunities—because people were afraid to speak up or did so in a way that made management cringe and not listen to their good ideas. The book, co-authored with Carmen Medina, one of the highest ranking women in the CIA, is meant to help employees learn how to be heard and get their good ideas adopted.

Foghound specializes in advising leaders on how to make their change efforts successful, and coaching and mentoring marketing, sales and corporate communications teams so that they achieve more than they thought possible.

You can find more at www.foghound.com. Roger Rydell recently joined Conifer Health Solutions as vice president of marketing and communications. Deb Stone has been named the director of financial regulation by the New Hampshire Department of Insurance. Army Lt. Gen. Peter M. Vangjel was recently honored by Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) who made a public address on the floor of the U.S. Senate about Vangjel’s service. Vangjel served as the 64th Army inspector general and retired on Feb. 1, after more than 37 years of service. He served in a variety of command and staff assignments and has led soldiers in both peace and war, in combat and humanitarian missions, in the United States, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. “He has proven himself as a stellar leader demonstrating unselfish devotion to the nation, our leaders, soldiers and their families,” Inhofe said. “On behalf of Congress and the United States of America, I thank General Vangjel, his wife Joanne, and his entire family for their commitment and contributions to our Army and the nation, and I congratulate them both on an exceptional career of selfless service.” Congrats, Peter. We received word on the passing of Commander USCG (Ret.) Pete Corson of Hampton, N.H. His family history with UNH started with his parents (class of ‘31 and ’33), includes Geoff ’84 and continues to this day with his grandson, Jackson ‘14, now a first-year UNH grad student. After retirement from the Coast Guard, Pete completed a degree in English literature in 1977 from UNH. His lifelong love of the sea continued into his retirement where he obtained a Merchant Marines Masters license; skippered the Appledore III out of Rockport,

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Mass., and enjoyed providing yacht delivery services to the rich and famous. Pete was an avid Ham radio operator, past commodore of the Portsmouth Yacht club and a 32nd degree Mason. He maintained membership and was active in many associations that include the Coast Guard Cuttermen, American Legion, Coast Guard Combat Veterans and Veterans of Foreign Wars. We also received notice of the passing of Donald Dennis; he spent his career working in the forestry service and earned a doctoral degree in forest economics. His emphasis was on the ecological and social dimensions of the forest ecosystem.

—Gary Pheasant, 1099 Lanier Blvd., Atlanta, GA 30306; (404) 731 5533; pheasant@alumni.unh.edu

1978

David King received the 2014 Alumni Meritorious Service Award. He served on the UNH Foundation Board and is a board emeritus member. He majored in business and loved jazz music and has played with UNH professor David Seiler’s jazz ensemble. A passionate supporter of UNH, Dave established the Dr. Clark Terry and David Seiler Endowed Fund for the Perpetuation of the Jazz Language. David is a senior portfolio manager at Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC. Crystal Ward Kent has worked for the Maine Tourism Association, UNH Magazine and the corporate sector. In 1990, she started her own business, Kent Creative, providing writing, design and marketing services in Dover, N.H. She has written for newspapers and magazines, Guideposts books, Chicken Soup series books and has several books of her own published including Harvest Maine, a compilation of nature lore, festivals, history and recipes geared toward Maine. Her children’s books are Tugboat River Rescue and The Bad Cats of Biddeford.

Tom Barker cares for perennial gardens using organic methods while Karen Parker Barker works part-time at Laconia Village Bakery and is the volunteer coordinator of the Lakes Region Food Network. Together they operate a “nano-farm,” Minglewood Farm in Laconia, which provides enough produce for family, and a weekly farmers market. In December 2013 they became first-time grandparents to Dylan—congratulations! George Sinclair died peacefully in September surrounded by his family. George earned his master’s in business administration from UNH. He joined the Army and served as a lieutenant with MACV military effort in I Corp, in south Vietnam. George received the Bronze Star for Meritorious Service and the Combat Infantryman’s Badge. He began his public service care in the N.H. Department of Health and Welfare and continued his work with the Maryland Department of Human Resources.

In August 2014, Catherine “Cay” Robbins died at the age of 95. She earned an associate’s of science degree at UNH in library science. A devoted homemaker, Cay started a thrift shop, was a teacher’s aide, librarian and trustee of the Hampstead (N.H.) Public Library, a den mother and owned and operated a raspberry farm. Cay was a member of the Hampstead Congregational Church, the church choir and was a church

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THE ART OF REINVENTION

VALERIE LESTER

There’s always another opportunity around the corner for lifestyle guru Matthew Mead

IF YOU’VE EVER READ Better Homes & Gardens or paged through a Pottery Barn catalog, there’s a good chance that you’ve come across the work of lifestyle guru Matthew Mead ’91. For 25 years Mead has been sharing entertaining, decorating, cooking and crafting tips in books, magazines, workshops and catalogs; all from his studio in Boscawen, N.H. In the current economic climate Mead has found that it isn’t enough to just have one job anymore, a fact that he addresses quite candidly on his blog. Mead is the food photographer for the Associated Press, a freelance photographer, a writer, a stylist and a teacher. He also travels to flea markets and participates in pop-up shops, selling pieces from his warehouse full of vintage treasures he’s collected over the years. His wife, Jennifer, is also an integral part of the business A New Hampshire native, Mead attended Notre Dame College in Manchester for a year before enrolling at the University of New

Hampshire’s Manchester campus as a commuter student majoring in English. “I loved it,” Mead says, “I loved all of my professors and I was with a lot of other nontraditional students who were looking for something to enhance their careers. I found that the classes were really excellent and it fit my life and all of the other things I had to do, all of the other hats I had to wear. It was a really great education.” Shortly after graduation, Mead’s career took off and soon he had more work than he could handle, including writing books such as Gifts from Nature, directing and styling catalog shoots, and ultimately landing the coveted role as style director at Country Home magazine.

But during the massive decline of magazine publishing in 2008, Country Home folded and Mead found that the industry that he had dedicated the last 17 years of his life to had radically changed. He had already taught himself the art of photography in order to compensate for declining budgets, and now he needed to make another radical change himself. “I was kind of dumbfounded when publishing went south and I thought...how do I reinvent myself again?” Mead continues, “So what I have found is that I need to have lots of oars in the water, and hope that one of the things pays off.”

Mead has been paddling those oars like mad ever since and there’s nothing he won’t try. He says, “For example, this week I have a new decorating client that I’ve taken on. I’m working on a new magazine with a new publisher out of California. Tomorrow we’re doing a pop-up shop at a store in Andover, Mass. It’s hard not to have one thing to focus on, but it’s good that I have all of these different things happening.”

With a new corporate client and a recently inked deal for a 2015 series of Matthew Mead publications, there isn’t much spare time in his future.

And even though Mead shares that there are some days when he’s not sure how he’ll financially finish out the month, there is a silver lining to his artfully styled cloud. “I have to say, and I’ve always felt this way, that I was able to figure out what it was that I’m good at and what I loved to do and I turned it into a job. While it isn’t producing the income that it used to, I still do what I love...so how can I really complain about that? I try to remind myself of that.”

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GLOBAL RESEARCH: Class of 1979’s Thomas Philbrick’s professional adventures as a scientist started during his years at UNH. “The ideas I was introduced to in Nesmith Hall, that involved projects in the Lamprey River (at Packer’s Falls), have led to my studies in Mexico, Central America and South America, as well Europe, Russia, and Southeast Asia,” he writes. His most recent research trip was to Amapá, Brazil, pictured here. “When at my field sites along tropical rivers I can close my eyes and listen; the sounds are those that I first heard at Packer’s Falls.”

deaconess. She was the oldest resident of Hampstead and the current Boston Post Cane Holder. The fall column included an incorrect email address for our classmate Meredith Brown Fitzherbert. Fitzherbert, who suffers from late stage kidney disease, is in need of a transplant and is hoping to find a match for an altruistic (living) organ donation. “Live kidney donations tend to last longer and provide better quality of life than cadaver organs,” writes Fitzherbert, who was diagnosed in 2013 and will soon need to start dialysis. Some 6,000 living kidney donations are performed in the United States each year, the majority of them laparoscopic procedures that are minimally invasive and offer easier recovery to donors than open surgery. Classmates or other Wildcats interested in learning more can email Fitzhebert directly at jkfitz@comcast.net or contact the Transplant Coordinator at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Hospital at (603) 653-9391. More information is also available at http://med.dartmouth-hitchcock. org/transplantation.html and at https://www. kidney.org/transplantation/livingdonors.

—Carol Scagnelli Edmonds, 75 Wire Rd., Merrimack, NH 03054; c.edmonds@alumni.unh.edu

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We heard from Thomas Philbrick, who writes, “It’s been several decades since I graduated from UNH, so please allow me to give you an overview of my postUNH life. Subsequent to graduating with a bachelor’s of science degree in botany in 1979 I earned my masters in botany in Botany at UNH and then a doctoral degree in systematic biology at UConn. Since 1993 I’ve been a professor of biology at Western Connecticut State University.

The doors that opened to me at UNH were the beginning of a path that has taken me far from Newmarket. Undergraduate research projects that I started as an undergrad at UNH proved to be the catalyst for the research path I’ve pursued for several decades. The ideas I was introduced to in Nesmith Hall, and involved projects in the Lamprey River (at Packer’s Falls), have led to my studies in Mexico, Central America and South America, as well Europe, Russia, and Southeast Asia. My most recent research trip was to Amapá, Brazil (picture attached). Another

life-changing event happened at UNH—I met my future wife, Paula K. Busse Philbrick, UNH PhD. Paula and I now have two grown children, Graham, 28, and Tilly, 25, and are thrilled that they’ve both turned out so well. We live in Newtown, Conn.” Congrats, Tom, on all your accomplishments thus far! I report some sad news on classmates we’ve lost. Tina Schirmer passed away in August 2014. She was an avid flower and vegetable gardener and enjoyed sailing, swimming and kayaking at Lake Sunapee.

Her family nicknamed her “Julie cruise director” for her role in coordinating many family vacations. Deborah Beth Lees passed away in 2013 after a long struggle with multiple sclerosis.

She love sailing and cooking and was the chef aboard the tall ship Spirit of Massachusetts during its maiden year. She was a tireless helper and worked with deaf and blind children at Perkins School and disabled veterans at the VA hospital in Connecticut. Please send news!

—Chris Engel, 268 Washington Ave., Chatham, NJ 07928; c.engel@alumni.unh.edu

1980

In the fall, I was able to meet up with classmate Margo Gray for a quick lunch while she was home to celebrate her brother Jeff’s birthday. Margo owns the Trinity Alps Resort in Trinity, Calif. In 2009 I took a trip out to visit her there; what a great place, check it out. If you have not written recently, please send news!

—Anne M. Getchell, P.O. Box 2211, Conway, NH 03818; agetch@alumni.unh.edu

1981

Happy 2015! Please send news as part of your New Year’s Resolutions. I am looking forward to reconnecting with Carol Merlini Symonds this coming summer when she heads to the Pacific Northwest for her daughter’s wedding.

I’m sure we’ll tell stories of our junior year abroad—Carol in Valencia, Spain, and me in Dijon, France—along with our wonderful travels.

Let this serve as inspiration for those of you who also travelled abroad—reminisce and share.

W. Bradford Smith joined Ocular Therapeutix, a biopharmaceutical company focused on therapies for diseases and conditions of the eye, as chief financial officer earlier this year. Prior to Ocular Therapuetix, Brad was CFO of OmniGuide, a medical device company. William Vaughan of Stratford, N.H., died on May 3, 2014. He is survived by a brother, brother-in-law and several nieces and nephews. We send condolences to his family. Please write—news of family, career, travels, and volunteer activities will be most welcome by all of our classmates.

—Caroline McKee Anderson, 8626 Fauntlee Crest SW, Seattle, WA 98136; c.anderson@aliumni.unh.edu

1982

Congratulations to Cory Schwartz who is a 2014 recipient of the UNH Profile of Service Award. Cory is the head coach of the UNH Nordic ski team and the UNH ski coordinator. This award recognizes Cory for his consistent leadership of the ski team and more importantly his support and involvement with his student athletes. His efforts are

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instrumental in creating supportive, community-minded team players—something that his students carry with them throughout their time at UNH and also as involved alumni. The award is bestowed upon an individual for outstanding performance on behalf of the Alumni Association or the University. Additional congratulations go to Christine Carberry for receiving the 2014 Alumni Meritorious Service Award. Since graduating, Christine has had an illustrious career in the scientific research community. She has been instrumental in developing programs in the areas of autoimmune diseases, neuro-degeneration, oncology and fibrosis. She is a volunteer in the Career Mentor Network, has established the Christine St. Martin Carberry Endowed Fund for Biological Sciences, and is a guest lecturer at many local colleges and universities. The Alumni Meritorious Service Award is given to a graduate who renders meritorious service to the university or its alumni organizations through faithful and continued effort in maintaining class or other alumni organizations, through active participation in alumni or university affairs, and/ or by assisting and expanding the usefulness, influence, and prestige of the university.

—Julie Lake Butterfield, j.butterfield@alumni.unh.edu

1983

Lt. Col. Michael A. Jacques graduated from the U.S. Army War College and earned his master’s degree in strategic studies. The 10-month curriculum of the Army’s senior officer school is designed to prepare and train officers of all the U.S. military branches to serve in top-level command and staff positions. Michael is currently serving as the director of doctrine and training with the Concord Joint Force Headquarters in New Hampshire. He has served in the military for 30 years, and we thank him for his service to our country. Gary Stuer DVM graduated from Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine in 1987 (I was in that class, too!) and in 1994, opened the Bethel Animal Hospital in Bethel, Maine, where he is a small animal practitioner. In 2004, Gary was certified in veterinary acupuncture by the International Veterinary Acupuncture Society and completed reiki master training, so he is now able to integrate complementary veterinary care with traditional methods of treating patients. He is also currently serving as a member of the board of directors of the American Holistic Veterinary Medical Association. His wife, Anne, who graduated from UNH with a degree in biochemistry, is the business manager for their practice. They have a son Nick, one dog and three cats. Martha L. Burdick passed away Sept. 2, 2014, from complications due to lung cancer. She had worked as a journalist for several years and later worked as an independent editor specializing in technical contracts. In the latter part of her life, she worked tirelessly with feral cat spay-and-neuter organizations and educated pet owners on responsible pet care in her Seattle, Wash., community. Please consider a donation in Martha’s memory to the Fred Hutch Cancer Center or the Feral Cat Spay/Neuter Project at feralcatproject.org. We

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extend our condolences to her family. Francis (Frank) O’Moore died Aug. 25, 2014. Frank joined the Navy at 17, and served his country for the next 24 years. Once he retired, he worked at the Dover, N.H., Post Office and as a real estate agent, and also earned a master’s degree in history from UNH. In 1997, he married the love of his life, Ellen, and they traveled extensively, and then divided their time between Maine and Florida. Our sympathies go out to Frank’s family on his passing.

—Ilene H. Segal, DVM, 245 Warren Drive, Norfolk, MA 02056; ihsdvm@aol.com

1984

It is hockey season at UNH and that’s a great opportunity to run into lots of UNH class of 1984 alums. For years, our seats have been near Scott and Rae Ann Hoyt Chrane. The Chranes love living near UNH and attended Homecoming this year with classmates Pattee and Craig Nowell, Chuck Huckins, Bob and Pam Perreault and their son Luke and Greg “CB” Wolters. Scott sees many of his UNH ’84 AGR brothers throughout the year, including John Rodgers, Jim George, Bill Bennion and his wife Sheila. Scott is a merchandising manager for the Easy Street Sales Corporation in the footwear industry and is a member of the Seacoast band, Rock Logic. Rae Ann works for Willis Insurance in the programs division and coaches the Spaulding High School gymnastics team. Their daughter, Sarah, a Rhode Island College graduate and gymnast, is now a gymnastics coach, judge and blogger. Rae Ann writes that Arnold Garron

has served as the interim dean of UNH’s Peter T. Paul College. Beth Howley Bye writes that she lives in West Hartford, Conn., and was just elected to her third term for the State Senate. She currently serves as chair of the Appropriations Committee. From her Sunnyside Drive days, she keeps up with Sue Kortmann Freiss ’83 who lives in East Aurora, N.Y., and is currently battling the Buffalo area snow. She is also in touch with Kathy Reilly (a veterinarian practicing in Keene, N.H.), Winnie Guttman ’83 and Glenn and Bethany Yovino. Glenn is a veterinarian in St. George, Maine, and Bethany works in early intervention in Maine. Maureen Leavitt Sanserverino has taken to farming in Tennessee. I see my Amesbury, Mass., neighbor Mark Sheehan regularly since we both belong to the Main Street Congregational Church here in town. He works for ISO, a division of Verisk Analytics in New Jersey, and lives in Jersey during the work week. He and his wife, Joanne, are empty-nesters—son Taylor lives and works in Utah, and daughter Kendall, a recent UVM graduate, is now a nurse at the Fletcher-Allen Hospital in Burlington, Vt. I am also in touch with Donna Kelsey Chisholm who I have known since my days as an SDSU Exchange student back in spring ’83. She and husband Joe live in Londonderry, N.H. Donna has been a math teacher at Londonderry High since graduation (with a 13-year sabbatical to raise daughters Meagan and Shannon). Shannon has graduated from Notre Dame and now works and lives in Boston, and Meagan graduates this year, so the last college payment is around the corner

for them! Donna wrote with an update on Amy Price Moldoff who is an elementary music school teacher and lives in Salem, N.H. with husband Ross—they have Allison (junior at Simmons College) and Emily (a graduate of Merrimack College who is an emergency room technician). Lisa Heaphy Palance and husband Tom Palance live in Ipswich, Mass. Lisa teaches music and band in Ipswich and they have two daughters, Allysa (Lesley University) and high school student Anabell. Melissa Robinson is a math teacher at the Lincoln Akerman School in Hampton Falls, N.H.; Debbie Syphers Ludington has her own company, Sweet Grass Farm in Greenland, N.H. Michelle Fecteau Wilson works as an infusion nurse and lives in Fort Mill, S.C. Thanks for writing everyone—keep the updates coming, and Facebookers, be sure to like our UNH Class of ’84 Facebook page!

—Robin Schell, 5 Ashley Drive, Amesbury, MA 01913; rschell@jjwpr.com; (603) 770-3607

1985

Please send your news.

—Julie Colligan Spak, 116 Longfields Way, Downingtown, PA 19335; juliespak@verizon.net

1986

Tom Gamache has been named Northeast division sales manager for the retail loan officer channel of the home lending solutions group of Citizens Financial Group. A banking professional with 25 years of industry experience, Gamache will be responsible for leading sales, business growth and bank partner initiatives in the New England

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SOMETHING TO SING ABOUT: Last summer, more than half of the New Hampshire Gentlemen’s all time membership—some 75 singers—gathered to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the group’s founding at Purity Springs Resort in East Madison, NH. UNH’s all-male a cappella singing student group, the “Gents” were founded in 1979 by Phil Walz ’80 and several of his contemporaries. Thirty-five years later, the group is going strong. Writes Marc Laliberte ’89, “Every June, alumni gather to renew our motto, “good singing and good times,” but the milestone anniversary years really bring out the numbers. In addition to past and current members, many spouses and children attended last year’s gathering, bringing the total attendance close to a record 100 people from our extended Gent family. As he often is, founder Walz was there, perhaps just a little wide-eyed about all he’s wrought, as groups from the 1980s to the present dusted off their repertoires (some more dusty than others).”

markets, Eastern Pennsylvania, metro New York and Washington, D.C. Please send your news.

—Stephanie Creane King,92 Channing Road, Belmont, MA 02478; s.king@alumni.unh.edu

1987

Greetings everyone! I hope 2014 was a great year for everyone, as we move in to the new year. I heard from Lori Sears Adair that she was recently published by Foreverland Press with her debut novel, Spider Woman’s Loom. The book was set on a Navajo reservation where Lori lived after graduating with a secondary education degree. I have heard that Jackie D’Amico Good recently received her pediatric nurse practitioner degree from the University of New Mexico. Jackie lives in New Mexico with her husband and two children. Several of us spent a fun night in Boston recently, celebrating Karen Carpenter Cormier’s 50th birthday (we are all getting very close to this big milestone)! Karen is a claims training specialist with Arbella Mutual Insurance in Quincy, Mass. Dari Christensen Ward was with us that evening as well. Dari actually works for the UNH Extension Program as a coordinator for the UNH Marine Docent Program which provides marine science educational programs for area students and groups. Linda Deveau Nutter was also with us and is an associate nursing instructor at Cape Cod Community College. Lynn Gervais Smith is a healthcare/dental consultant for OsteoHealth, and Mike Hale is the director of Selco, the electric and cable company for the town of Shrewsbury, Mass. Lastly, I am a national account manager in the print division of Office Depot. It was a fun night to get together!

—Tina Napolitano Savoia, 5 Samuel Path, Natick, MA 01760; savoia@comcast.net

1988

Mary Beth Cassely married John Buse in Chapel Hill, N.C.,

on November 29. It was a lovely, small affair with friends and family and most importantly, their moms and their four children—Katherine and Caroline Buse, and Mary Eloise and CJ Lister. We had the pleasure of meeting John at the 25th Reunion at Homecoming 2013.

John is a Dartmouth grad, and amuses MB by telling people “we both went to college in New Hampshire.” Karl Leinsing is doing medical device product development and patient litigation expert witness work with his company, ATech Designs, Inc. in Dover, N.H. Karl recently earned his helicopter license and bought himself a helicopter. Deb Richards Thibodeau has been asked to be on the board of directors at New Directions for Maine Families and to work with some leading people in the field of inclusion for all people with disabilities. Deb is a preK-6 grade guidance counselor, does freelance consulting and is an information specialist with the Autism Society of Maine.

Chris Equality Levy is in his seventh year as music director of the Winter Park Playhouse in Florida. Chris performs occasionally at the Rose and Crown Pub in Disney’s EPCOT and Hoop Dee Doo Revue at Fort Wilderness. He was recently nominated for a 2014 BroadwayWorld Orlando Award for best music direction, for his direction of Backwards in High Heels. Chris recently celebrated 23 years with his partner, Ned Wilkinson.

Bridget Heffernan Mendel has moved from their 20-year home of Chicago to Bradenton, Fla., with her husband, Mark, and three sons.

Bridget recently returned to work after many years as a stay-at-home mom. She is a firstgrade teacher in Manatee County. Electrical engineering major, MUB manager and RA Randy Pierce was nominated for the UNH 2014 Award of Excellence for Outstanding Achievement by several alums. Randy developed a neurological condition that robbed him of his eyesight

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permanently and of his ability to walk for several years. After regaining his ability to walk, he set a goal to climb all 48 of New Hampshire’s over-4,000-feet mountains by 2020. A charity, 2020 Vision Quest, evolved from the goal. 2020 Vision Quest has already raised more than $80,000 for the N.H. Association for the Blind and for Guiding Eyes for the Blind. Randy works full-time as a public speaker on “ability awareness” and how to “achieve a vision beyond your sight” (his personal tagline). He has presented to 22,140 students since 2010. Karen E. (DiConza) Andreas is the regional publisher for North of Boston Media Group, which consists of four daily newspapers in Massachusetts: The Eagle-Tribune, Gloucester Daily News, Salem News and the Daily News of Newburyport.

She has been named the 2014 Publisher of the Year by Editor & Publisher, the industry’s top trade publication. You can read about her at www.editorandpublisher.com. Elisa L. Steele was recently promoted to president at Jive Software, a provider of communication and collaboration solutions for businesses. She was also appointed to a newly created “Office of the CEO” role, responsible for overseeing the day-today operations of the company until a new CEO is named. Elisa was previously executive vice president of marketing and products with Jive.

She joined Jive as chief marketing officer in January 2014 from Microsoft, where she served as chief marketing officer and corporate vice president for consumer apps and services. She previously held executive positions at Yahoo! and NetApp. Bradley Osgood was recently named chief of police for Concord, N.H., after nine months serving as interim chief. He has been with the Concord Police Department since 1989. Kathy Anderson was recently elected president of the Massachusetts Association of Student Financial Aid. Anderson has been

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director of financial aid at the MGH Institute of Health Professions, a health sciences graduate school in Boston, since 2012. In her role at the nonprofit organization, Anderson will serve as its chief executive officer, provide leadership and direction to its members, and be the liaison between the association and government agencies, foundations, private business, private and community organizations, and other sponsors of student financial aid events and funds.

With a very heavy heart, I share the loss of two classmates: health management and policy colleague Monica Holahan Ward, and Lt. Col. (Ret.) John Thompson, Jr. Monica passed away on July 4, 2014. She leaves husband, John ’85, and three children – Kate, Samuel and Jackson.

John passed away on Oct. 16, 2014, of skin cancer. John married classmate Carrie Gilbert also Army ROTC. John leaves behind Carrie and three teenage children, two daughters and a son, in Virginia.

1990

Florence Reed, founder of Sustainable Harvest International, continues her work for the environment. She is one of the 160 international environmental leaders who have signed a declaration calling on foundations and philanthropist “to deploy their endowments urgently in an effort save civilization” from the peril of global warming. The declaration ran as a full-page ad in the New York Times on Sept. 14. You can learn more about the petition at ecowatch.com/2014/09/15/divest-fossilfuels-foundations/. David Farwell was recently featured as a Boston Business Journal executive profile. He is executive vice president and managing director of franchise finance for Citizens Bank’s commercial banking division.

His unit provides credit and other loans to larger national franchisees as well as smaller regional chains and independent owners.

—Beth D. Simpson-Robie, P.O. Box 434, Kennebunk,

—Amy French, 2709 44th Ave. SW, Seattle, WA 98116;

ME 04043; bgsrobie@alumni.unh.edu

amy.french@alumni.unh.edu

1989

Arthur Tzianabos was recently promoted from chief scientific officer to resident of Ovascience, a biotech firm focused on innovative infertility treatments.

Arthur joined OvaScience in July 2013 from Shire Human Genetic Therapies where he led new therapeutics.

—David L. Gray, 131 Holmes Ave., Darien, CT 06820; david.gray@alumni.unh.edu

1991

—Missy Langbein, 744 Johns Rd., Blue Bell, PA 19422; m.l.langbein@alumni.unh.edu

1993

Please send your news.

—Caryn Crotty Eldridge,

2 Steele Rd., Chiswick, London, W4 5AF, UK; caryn.eldridge@alumni.unh.edu

Please send your news.

—Christina Ayers Quinlan, 2316 Beauport Dr. Naperville, IL 60564; c.a.quinlan@ alumni.unh.edu

1992

Birger is responsible for overseeing Give2Asia as a platform for social partnerships in 24 countries. Since its founding in 2001, Give2Asia has generated more than a quarter billion dollars in support of education, health, social services and disaster response. Christopher Hakala ’92G was recently named director of university teaching and learning at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Conn.. He joined Quinnipiac from Western New England College, where he served as director of the center for teaching and learning from 2009 to 2014. He has also taught psychology at UNH, Gettysburg College, Lycoming College and American International College.

Christopher earned his undergraduate degree from Castleton College and then both a master’s degree and a doctoral degree (in 1995) in psychology at UNH.

Birger Stamperdahl has been named president and CEO of Give2Asia. Give2Asia is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that serves as a catalyst for private philanthropic investment in Asia. In this role,

1994

David Cedarholm ’94G, a civil engineer, has joined the engineering firm Tighe & Bond as senior project manager. He previously served for more than eight years as an engineer for the Durham (N.H.) Public Works Department.

—Mike Opal, 26 Rockwood Heights Rd., Manchester, MA 01944; m.opal@alumni.unh.edu

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Greetings! I hope that, by the time you read this, you will have recovered from the busy holiday season and that 2015 is off to a great start. Congratulations to Michael Vlacich, who received the 2014 Alumni Meritorious Service Award for his distinguished record of public service during the administrations of former governors Jeanne Shaheen and John Lynch. Currently, as Sen. Shaheen’s state director, Mike continues to work in a problem-solving mode to address the concerns of New Hampshire citizens. Please send your news!

—Tammy Ross, 22 St. Ann’s Ave., Peabody, MA 01960; tross8573@yahoo.com

1996

I’m sad to report that Alan Young passed away in July 2014. Alan graduated from Keene High School and studied mechanical engineering while at UNH. Please send me any updates you have to include in the next issue.

—Michael Walsh, 607 Atwood Drive, Downingtown, PA, 19335; michaelwalsh@alumni.unh.edu

1997

Jenn Menendez, a sportswriter at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, has recently been promoted to the Pittsburgh Penguins beat. She spent the last two seasons covering the Pirates back-to-back trips to the Major League Baseball playoffs. Mike Milbury accepted the position as math department chair at the Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School in Rabun Gap, Ga. He wites, “The opportunity to help shape curriculum, course offerings, and mentor teachers was a goal of mine, and this job was exactly what I was looking for. I also serve at the head football coach for the middle school/junior varsity program at our school.” Mike’s new position means he’ll be passing on the classnotes torch to a new class secretary—could that be you?

If you’re interested in taking over this column, please be in touch with UNH Magazine class notes editor Michelle Morrissey at michelle. morrissey@unh.edu.

Endeavor IP, Inc., an IP services and patent licensing company based in New York.

Congratulations to Meredith Kingsland Smith and Gabriel Hurt Johnson on their July 19, 2014, marriage in Easton, Md. Meredith is the director of the YMCA of Metropolitan Washington, D.C. Sincere condolences to the family and friends of Thad Mandsager, who died unexpectedly on Aug. 30, 2014. Thad was a dynamic and remarkable man who served as director of social services at the Seymour Osman Center in Dover, N.H. He will be missed. Kathie Fife’s recent photography exhibit was featured last fall at the New Hampshire Audubon McLane Center in Concord, N.H. Her exhibit included a photo book featuring nine New Hampshire Audubon properties, with images of gorgeous landscapes, rare plants, insects and native wildflowers. Though her exhibit is no longer showing, you can reach Kathie via Twitter and Facebook. Mary Morin Carlin has created a unique gift as a Stella & Dot stylist: a beautiful disc necklace with the engraved words UNH 01. You can view it online through her personal Stella & Dot website or on the Class Alumni Facebook page. She will give 10 percent back to the Alumni Association for each necklace sold! Don’t forget to become a member our UNH Class of 2001 Alumni Facebook page!

currently works at GSI Group in Bedford, Mass., as an SEC external reporting and technical accounting manager. Kevin took over the family landscaping and plow business, Salmon Brook Landscaping, in Nashua, N.H. The family lives in Andover, Mass. Carrie Mahon Mittelmark and Matt Mittelmark ’04 welcomed the arrival of their first child, son Dylan James Mittelmark, on Dec. 2, 2014, one day before celebrating their second wedding anniversary. Carrie is a marketing specialist at Beaver-Visitec International in Waltham, Mass. Matt is a consultant at Cervello in Boston. The Mittelmark family lives in Lexington, Mass. It is with regret that I report the passing of Holly Anne Gaudette on July 27, 2014.

At UNH, Holly received her undergraduate degree in religious studies and outdoor education. She then earned her master’s in divinity with honors from Duke University. Holly was a chaplain at NYU Langone Medical Center in New York City.

Elizabeth Plourde is the author of How I Made the World, a new comic book series she writes in collaboration with illustrator Randy Michaels.

In 2012, the project won one of the last Xeric Awards, a grant for self-publication by the Xeric Foundation, which was established by Peter Laird (spouse of Jeannine Atkins ’84G), the cocreator of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, to support nonprofits in Western Massachusetts and provide publishing grants for new comic book creators. Liz is an assistant professor of English at Mount Washington College.

—Elizabeth Merrill Tewksbury, PO Box 7185, Cape

—Megan Stevener, 55 River Road #7G, Manchester,

Porpoise, ME 04014; etewksbury@alumni.unh.edu

NH 03104; megan.stevener@alumni.unh.edu

2002

2006

—Becky Roman Hardie, 3715 N. 4th St., Harrisburg, PA 17110; becky.roman@alumni.unh.edu

2001

We extend our well wishes to newlywed Philip T. Gidley and his new bride, Vonetta, on their October nuptials.

Congratulations are also in order for Meaghan Bartels and her husband, Matthew, on their marriage in December 2013. In July, Orlando Pacheco was appointed as purchasing agent and energy manager for Haverhill, Mass., bringing his solar energy expertise to the city. Best of luck in this new role!

—Please send your news and updates to

—Abby Severance Gillis, 19 Chase Street, Woburn,

alumni.editor@unh.edu

MA 01801; agillis716@alumni.unh.edu

1998

2003

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Christopher Nicolopoulos was recently named president and CEO of the New Hampshire Association of Insurance Agents, a statewide alliance of 2,000 business owners and their employees that offer insurance and financial services products. He was most recently an attorney and government relations director at Preti, Flaherty, Beliveau and Pachios, a regional law firm with offices throughout New England.

—Emily Rines, 23 Tarratine Dr., Brunswick, ME 04011

1999

Please send your news.

—Jaime Russo Zahoruiko,

PO Box 287, Haverhill, MA 01831; j.a.russo@alumni.unh.edu

2000

Franciscus Diaba, an experienced intellectual property trial lawyer, was recently named president of

—Shannon Goff Welsh, 77 Hooksett Road, Auburn, NH 03032; s.goff@alumni. unh.edu

April Talon has been promoted to town engineer for the town of Durham, N.H. Prior to joining the Durham town staff in 2010, she worked at consultant engineering company Hoyle, Tanner & Associates for four years. She told Foster’s Daily Democrat, “I said to the hiring committee, I’m not going to say I have 25 years of experience, but I can tell you I’ve been here and I know the projects and I know the town.” Andrew Korman ’06 ’07G is the new assistant principal at Portsmouth High School.

He was previously a biology/genetics teacher and dean of students at Noble High School in North Berwick, Maine, and is pursuing a doctorate in leadership and policy at UNH. — Please send your news and updates to alumni.editor@unh.edu

—Victoria Magowan Reed,

5 Twilight Dr., Scarborough, ME 04074; victoria.macgowan@alumni.unh.edu

2005

Congratulations to three of my very close friends on the arrival of their little ones! Lee Rudolf Manning and husband Chuck Manning welcomed their son, Connor Louis Manning, on Oct. 1, 2014. Connor joins big sister Lillian, 2. Lee is a reading tutor for elementary-aged children. Prior to Lillian’s birth, she worked as a reading specialist. The Manning family resides in Lexington, Mass. Julie Lane Korn and Kevin Korn welcomed twin daughters, Kristina and Katie Korn, on Nov. 19, 2014. Julie

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Kelly Hadley ’08 and Stephen Spain were married on Sept. 6, 2014 in Henniker, N.H. at Kelly’s family’s farm and vineyard. They had an outdoor ceremony, with a reception in the barn that the family spent their entire summer renovating. The highlight of the day was an oldfashioned barn dance.

CL A SS NOTES

SWEET DREAM

JEREMY GASOWSKI

Jessica dePontbriand ’03 started with a Holloway business prize and ended up with a Greek bakery

IN MARCH 2014, Jessica dePontbriand ‘03 opened a coffee and pastry shop in Nashua, N.H. The idea had been rolling around in her head for more than 10 years. People often say that when they finally make this kind of leap: “I’ve been thinking about doing this forever.” But dePontbriand has proof.

Hanging on the wall in jajaBelle’s Pastry and Coffee Shop on Main Street is the sketch of a storefront, complete with the name “jajaBelle’s” written on the awning, that dePontbriand had included with her 2003 entry in UNH’s Holloway Business Plan Competition. Her idea for a café offering Greek pastries, ice cream and coffee won her first place, and $4,000, in the lifestyles category.

The idea first breathed life as a project for an entrepreneurial class dePontbriand was taking. Students with the best presentations were encouraged to enter the competition, held annually since 1988.

“Everything since then has brought me to this moment; I have come full circle to what my dream was on paper 11 years ago,” dePontbriand says.

After graduating UNH with a degree in hospitality, dePontbriand began selling Greek pastries at craft fairs in New Hampshire, using recipes handed down in her family for generations.

That very first fair was a financial bust; dePontbriand made far too much food, it was beastly hot, and she had only four customers. But those four raved about her pastries. dePontbriand moved to Colorado in 2006 and started selling baklava (phyllo dough and walnuts covered in a homemade syrup), finikia (date filled cookies, dipped in syrup, rolled in walnuts) and spanakopita (spinach and feta wrapped in phyllo) at farmer’s markets between Denver and Vail.

“There were a lot of late, late nights, sometimes no-sleep nights, spent baking, getting everything together and then driving from one place to the next,” dePontbriand says. “It was a lot of good hard work.”

During a 2013 visit home, dePontbriand happened by the Main Street storefront where her coffee shop is now located and saw that it was for rent. She called the landlord immediately. And within months, the plan she’d devised more than a decade earlier was coming to fruition.

In a nod to that long road, dePontbriand included a picture of the original jajaBelle’s sketch on invitations to the ribbon-cutting ceremony for her store last year. jajaBelle’s (Jaja was her childhood nickname) is full of items dePontbriand had been collecting throughout the years, an eclectic mix that gives the coffee shop a warm, welcoming vibe. Since opening she has expanded her menu, adding brownies, lace cookies and French macarons, muffins and quick breads. She also has a robust mail-order business.

During the holidays, with the help of two employees, she mailed boxes of her cookies to 18 states.

And she still keeps in touch with her Colorado customers. Since opening her Nashua shop, six of them have visited the store during travels to New England. dePontbriand also has gone back to Colorado to again sell her goods at the farmer’s markets.

“The Holloway Competition validated the idea of jajaBelle’s and now it’s a reality,” she says. “A few weeks ago a woman who had been in the Holloway Competition the year after me came in and said, ‘Look at you, you did it.’ And I said, ‘Yes, I finally did.’”

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CL A SS NOTES

2011

Marybeth Iani writes with news of her recent wedding: “I got married to Greg Tassinari, another UNH alum (fun fact: we met freshman year as prospective tour guides!) My husband’s parents were UNH college sweethearts too! So between my husband’s parents, his parents friends, his cousins, his friends, my siblings and their significant others (both of my brothers met their loves at UNH too!), and my friends, we had quite a UNH reunion! In attendance were alums from the classes of ’79, ’03, ’07, ’09, ’10 and ’11.

—Kristina Looney, 117 Central St., Apt. 2, Auburn, MA 01524; kLooney@alumni.unh.edu

2012 Erin (Goebel) Cahill ’08 and Jerome Cahill ’09, married on June 21, 2014, in Newport, R.I.

2007

Ashley Hastings married Jonas Bendiks in Portsmouth, N.H. in May 2014. Ashley is a registered nurse at Boston Children’s Hospital, and Jonas is an analyst at Fidelity Investments. They live in Melrose, Mass., and honeymooned in Hawaii. Rory O’Connor is the new principal at Golden Brook School in Windham, N.H. Rory attended Golden Brook as a child, and was previously the assistant principal there. He is also pursuing a doctorate in leadership and learning from Rivier University. Kelly Collins was hired as a teacher at Main Street School in Exeter, N.H., in 2012. She previously taught in Rochester. Joanna Kinsman was inducted into the 2013 Hall of Excellence class for Fryeburg Academy. She has founded a highend swimwear line called “Miss Kinsman,” and lives in California.

—Michael Patrick Antosh, 3476 Post Road, Wakefield, RI 02879; mantosh@alumni.unh.edu

2008

Hey class of 2008! I hope you’re all doing well and feeling good wherever you are on your path. My 10-year high school reunion recently came and went, and I realized how quickly things can pass us by. In just a few short years our 10-year college reunion will be upon us, and I hope we’ll all get the chance to revisit the place that helped launch us. We still have a ways to go though, so let’s just check out what you’ve all been up to since last time. Tyler Walker has been inspirationally skiing with the U.S. Adaptive Ski Team, and in 2014 he participated in the Sochi Olympics as part of the U.S. Paralympic Alpine Skiing Team. He has won three World Cup Globes, and has been a three-time X-Games Gold medalist. Jeremy Oneail of Goffstown, N.H., stopped by the Dover High School and Regional Career Technical Center’s cosmetology program to talk to students about special effects makeup in late October. He’s been doing special effects makeup for TV and movies since 1999. He’s worked on more than 50 productions, including shows on MTV and the Discovery Channel, and the movie Paul Blart Mall Cop. He graduated from UNH with a bachelor’s of studio art with a focus on sculpture. Learn more about Jeremy’s work at www.oneailfxstudios.com.Congratulations to

Please send your news.

—Bria Oneglia, 436 Winchester Road, Winsted, CT 06098; bwf9@wildcats.unh.edu

2013

—Alexandra Covucci; apo2@alumni.unh.edu

Christina Hickey is now a staff accountant at the firm of Leone, McDonnell & Roberts. Working in the Dover, N.H., office, she will assist with tax and audit services.

Hickey graduated with a degree in business administration and earned her master’s of science degree in accounting in 2014. Christina spent the spring of 2012 studying abroad in Florence, Italy, as part of the University of New Hampshire’s Lorenzo D’Medici Program. She was a member of the Accounting Students Association at UNH and maintains her membership in the New Hampshire Society of Certified Public Accountants. She will assist in tax and audits. Sophie Gee was featured in a recent Portsmouth Herald (N.H.)article. She is now the co-owner with her mother of Jane Gee, a cosmetics store in downtown Portsmouth. The shop recently changed downtown locations (it’s now located at 107 Congress St., Portsmouth).

Proud mom Jane Gee told the Herald, “After Sophie graduated from the University of New Hampshire with a degree in business management and she decided to stick around and come into business with me this move became a reality. We work beautifully together and Sophie is the store manager as well as co-owner. We also have a lot of fun together.”

— Please send your news and updates to alumni.editor@unh.edu.

2009

2014

Jennifer Ragazzo and John Blaschik who were married on July 12, 2014, at Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Church in New London, N.H. They spent a week in Jamaica after the ceremony, and they live in Springfield, Mass. Another congratulations to Patrick Brennan and Nicole Cappadona who were married on May 31, 2014, at Gates of Heaven Church in South Boston; the reception took place at the beautiful Omni Parker House in Boston. The couple honeymooned touring the islands of Greece, and they live in South Boston.

Congratulations to Erin (Goebel) Cahill and Jerome Cahill ’09, who were married in Newport, R.I.. Another congratulations for Kelly Hadley and Stephen Spain, who were married on Sept.

6, 2014, in Henniker, N.H. at Kelly’s family’s farm and vineyard. The couple honeymooned in the Dominican Republica and currently reside in Manchester, N.H. And finally one more congratulations to Morgan MacKay and Ross Maguire ’07, who married on Aug. 23, 2014. They met as undergrads in WSBE (now Paul College), and they currently work at Liberty Mutual. Morgan is lead accountant in the corporate tax group. Best wishes to all the happy couples! It’s always great to see where you’re all ending up, so please, send me your updates. Don’t be shy! Stay happy, stay healthy, and keep in touch!

Shane MacDowell is working as an assistant coach for Green Mountain Valley School’s Nordic skiing program.

Please send your news!

—Jenelle DeVits,187 Woodpoint Rd., Apt. 4, Brooklyn, NY 11211; j.devits@alumni.unh.edu

2010

Congratulations to Reid Butler on his new position at Baker Newman Noyes as a senior in the audit practice.

In addition, congratulations to Natalie Delfosse who married Andrew Godfrey ’10G, on May 31, 2014, at Lake Sunapee in New Hampshire. We are always looking to hear about what you have been up to so please send any announcements along to me and I will be sure to include them in the next class notes!

—Caitlin LeMay, 18-22 Essex St., Apt 17, Haverhill, MA 01832; caitlin.lemay@alumni.unh.edu

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Kathryn Mitropoulos has also recently joined the firm of Leone, McDonnell & Roberts, working in the Wolfeboro, N.H., office as staff accountant.

She graduated from UNH’s Peter T. Paul College with bachelor’s of science degrees in business administration with an emphasis on accounting. Kathryn is a member of Seacoast Reads, an organization that helps elementary school students improve their reading and writing skills.

Kathryn has volunteered for the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program for the past two tax seasons and also devotes time to local heritage events in the Dover, N.H., area. Christina Hickey is also joining the firm, but in the Dover office. She will also be a staff accountant, assisting with tax and audit services.

— Please send your news and updates to alumni.editor@unh.edu

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In Memoriam

STACEY WARD COLE ’41

CREDIT

Farmer, politician and ardent supporter of the Thompson School

Stacey Cole’s resonant voice fell silent on November 30, 2014, when he passed away at Red Crow Farm, his home in West Swanzey, N.H. He had owned and operated the farm since 1941, which at one point boasted 46 head of cattle, 5,000 laying hens, and several pigs. Cole had a soft spot for all animals, including a newborn lamb rejected by its mother. Rescued by his wife Mildred and named “Jennifer,” the lamb had the run of the couple’s living room and was fond of sitting in Cole’s lap.

The farm program director at WKNE Radio Corp. for more than 20 years, Cole hosted a daily program called “Down on the Farm.” Stephen Taylor ’62, former N.H. state commissioner of agriculture, treasures a childhood memory of Cole’s “great radio voice” as he mused about his animals, happenings at Red Crow Farm and the changing seasons. Years later, Cole served on the State Agricultural Advisory Board when Taylor was commissioner.

Cole also wrote a column, “Nature Talks,” for the New Hampshire Union Leader from 1962 until his death, and gave public talks about the natural world. He was especially enthusiastic and knowledgeable about birds. “Even if you didn’t give a hoot about birds, you would after going to just one of his lectures,” says Taylor. In 2013 Cole wrote a book, Stacey Cole’s New Hampshire, a compilation of essays about the state’s natural history.

A staunch Republican, Cole was a member of the N.H. House of Representatives from 1965 to 1967, and again from 1989 to 1996, serving as deputy speaker for three years. He became known as someone with strong political beliefs, but one who never let them stand in the way of getting things done, says Taylor. Six New Hampshire governors appointed him to committees and commissions ranging from the State Board of Fire Control to the Governor’s Commission on the 21st Century.

A graduate and an ardent supporter of the UNH Thompson School of Applied Science, Cole was a university system trustee from 1974-1986. According to Mary Louise Hancock ’42, who served with him as a trustee, when a new Thompson School building was dedicated in 1991, there was little question of what to name it. Cole was a lifelong farmer who had studied agriculture at the Thompson School and became widely respected in the New Hampshire agricultural world, so “It seemed logical that the building should be named after him,” she says. He was delighted

with the honor, which included the Stacey Cole flower garden near the building. A popular common area and café within Cole Hall is also known as “Stacey’s.”

Associate professor and executive director of the Thompson School Regina Smick-Attisano met Cole when she arrived on campus in 1997. “He informed me each time we visited of the impact the Thompson School had on the path of his very successful life,” she says, and “wouldn’t hesitate to express his opinions and give me advice, which I graciously accepted.” A scholarship in Cole’s name was established in 1986; following Mildred’s death in 2000, he asked that her name be added to it. Criteria for the Stacey and Mildred Cole scholarship include “exhibited characteristics of motivation and promise, moral integrity and a sense of citizenship and spirit for the Thompson School”— attributes that Smick-Attisano says “sum up Stacey.”

Cole lived alone after his wife’s death, with help from a caregiver when his health declined. Stephen Taylor remembers that their final telephone conversation included, as always, jokes and laughter. His friend’s “orator’s voice” remained powerful to the end, he says, and when Cole’s noisy dogs misbehaved during their conversation, he didn’t hesitate to bellow at them. “He was a rough-hewn, self-made Yankee,” says Taylor. “There aren’t

many like him left in the world.”

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THOMAS EDWARDS KIRKBRIDE ’53 He was dedicated to his family, loved to travel, and had a lifelong bond with UNH

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CREDIT

After graduating with an ROTC commission as a second lieutenant, Thomas Kirkbride was posted in Germany with the U.S. Air Force. The experience sparked his interest in international travel and introduced him to the love of his life. It was there that he met his wife, Anne, a teacher in the schools for U.S. dependents. Over the years they traveled extensively as a couple and with their three children, Ellen Kaidanow, Peter and Christopher. Kirkbride also struck out on his own to places as diverse as Singapore, Cuba, North Korea and Dubai.

He enjoyed exploring other cultures and observing different ways of life, says Anne. “He was always interested in people.”

For more than 50 years, Kirkbride was an active volunteer with the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, an organization of men and women who offer practical, person-to-person assistance to those in need. Wherever he traveled, he made a point of finding out who was in charge of the local branch of the organization, says Anne. “He would arrange to visit them, see the work being done and exchange ideas.”

Kirkbride’s commitment to service was influenced by his parents’ work with the Red Cross during World War II. He was an only child, and while his parents were busy with the war effort, he lived with his great-uncle Tom Phillips, a professor at UNH. He attended the Durham Center School through eighth grade, where he became close friends with Jere Lundholm ’53. UNH was much smaller then, recalls Lundholm, and in many ways the town and the university seemed one and the same.

“We played sports in the Field House and on Lewis Field like they were our own. We had manual training in the university carpentry shop. There was a special room in the library for us. I am sure that this early exposure also helped establish Tom’s lifelong bond to UNH.” After the war, Kirkbride returned to his parents’ home in Quincy, Mass. where he attended high school before enrolling at the university. At UNH he managed the basketball and baseball teams, served as statistician for the football team and was sports editor for The New Hampshire. Lundholm, then a university classmate, remembers Kirkbride as “a friendly guy and fun to be with.” After graduation the two men worked as lifeguards at the outdoor pool.

The Kirkbrides eventually settled in Anne’s home state of California. “He was happy to leave the cold of New England behind,” she says. Kirkbride worked for the California CPA Society for more than 20 years and later for Sletten Construction Company. He remained in the Air Force Reserve for 14 years, reaching the rank of lieutenant colonel.

Although he lived on the other side of the country, Kirkbride was one of UNH’s most loyal graduates and was active in the Northern California alumni chapter for decades, often serving as its president. His organizational talents were legendary as he

almost single-handedly expanded the Nor-Cal alumni network.

“He would get on the phone and call 95 people to arrange events,” says his wife, joking that “Tom’s job was to organize huge gettogethers, and my job was to carry things.” He also ensured a warm welcome for UNH sports teams by arranging luncheons and receptions when they came to California to compete. In 2011, Kirkbride’s dedication to the university was recognized with his selection for the UNH Volunteer of the Year Award.

He kept a close eye on university happenings to the end of his life. In a letter published in the Fall 2014 UNH Magazine, Kirkbride wrote that he “was delighted to read of the outdoor pool renovations in the Spring/Summer issue” and reminisced about being the first person to swim in the pool when it opened in 1937. He died on October 18, 2014, following a year-long battle with leukemia.

MEMORIAM LIST 1930s

Rosalind Putney Hanson ’36 July 28, 2014, Hopkinton, N.H. Ruth Prince Harrison ’37 November 13, 2014, Phoenix, Ariz.

Carleton M. Wentworth ’37 August 24, 2014, Madbury, N.H. Lois Hudson Lynch ’38 September 12, 2014, Wilton, Conn.

Thelma Goldberg Stone-Magun ’39 September 1, 2014, Allentown, Pa.

1940s June Cordeau Tanner ’40 July 3, 2014, Zephyrhills, Fla.

Dr. Ronald H. Ruffle ’55 November 15, 2014, Jaffrey, N.H.

Thomas C. Hushen ’67 October 2, 2014, Evergreen, Colo.

Lorrine H. Wakefield ’87 October 28, 2014, Manchester, N.H.

Aglaia Tsimtsos Martin ’48 September 28, 2014, Manchester, N.H.

Constantine P. Bart ’56 August 24, 2014, Concord, N.H.

Sister Doris I. Comtois ’68G October 11, 2014, Saco, Maine

Lt. Col. John R. Thompson Jr. ’88 October 16, 2014, Woodbridge, Va.

Albert C. Johnston Jr. ’49 July 2, 2014, Ewa Beach, Hawaii

Donald M. Black ’56 Mass.y 25, 2014, Naples, Fla.

Richard T. Goller ’68G September 8, 2014, Roanoke, Va.

Richard G. Hawes ’89G October 5, 2014, Kennebunk, Maine

Dr. Stanley R. Parker Jr. ’49 October 15, 2014, Taunton, Mass.

John F. Marrapese ’56 October 6, 2014, Franklin, N.H.

William Bent Jr. ’69G September 24, 2014, Sarasota, Fla.

Alvan W. Hicks Jr. ’89 October 2, 2014, Hopkinton, N.H.

Dr. George C. Saunders ’49 September 16, 2014, Chelmsford, Mass.

Olga Spanos Pappas ’56 November 5, 2014, Somersworth, N.H.

Patricia O’Leary Kish ’69 October 15, 2014, Greenland, N.H.

Shaun P. Kelly ’89 September 1, 2014, Amesbury, Mass.

Lt. Col. Earlan L. Seawards ’49 September 30, 2014, Dover, N.H.

Robert C. Hirschfeld ’57 September 1, 2014, Cheshire, Conn.

Reverend Robert V. Reagan ’69 August 16, 2014, Lake Worth, Fla.

1990s

1950s

John C. Solloway ’57 October 4, 2014, Bedford, N.H.

1970s

Christopher J. Seavey ’90 August 31, 2014, Rochester, N.H.

John V. Lewis ’70 July 26, 2014, Sanford, Maine

John B. Chase ’91 October 7, 2014, Portland, Maine

Jacques F. Cartier ’50 October 20, 2014, Exeter, N.H.

Lt. Col. Philip J. Stack ’57 October 28, 2014, Torrance, Calif.

Frank D. Robie ’50 November 9, 2014, Rutherford, N.J.

Eleanor Goodridge Van Everen ’57 October 20, 2014, Lafayette, Colo.

Jane M. Russell ’70 October 1, 2014, Plymouth, Mass.

Cleveland L. Howard III ’91 November 5, 2014, Gaithersburg, Md.

Warren C. Sander ’50 November 7, 2014, Palm City, Fla.

Dr. Howard A. Hall ’58 October 1, 2014, Providence, R.I.

Dr. Terry B. Goodman ’72 November 20, 2014, Bedford, N.H.

Erin K. Gravel ’93 November 21, 2014, Bedford, N.H.

Laura Washburn Verry ’50 August 28, 2014, Orfordville, N.H.

Edwin A. Harre ’58, ’63G August 28, 2014, San Luis Obispo, Calif.

Richard H. Lane ’72 August 22, 2014, Hudson, Fla.

Frank E. Davidson ’95 November 6, 2014, Wilton, Conn.

June E. Ward ’50 August 9, 2014, Boston, Mass.

Lee Simpson Nelson ’58 September 12, 2014, Ipswich, Mass.

Douglas S. Means ’72 August 6, 2014, Gorham, Maine

Donald L. Temple II ’95 October 19, 2014, Canterbury, N.H.

John S. Harmon ’51 February 26, 2014, Paso Robles, Calif.

Patricia Sites Sillars ’58 September 28, 2014, Santa Barbara, Calif.

Regan Robinson ’73 August 24, 2014, Whidbey Island, Wash.

Henry C. Ackermann ’96 November 14, 2014, Merrimack, N.H.

Robert H. Irwin ’51 September 21, 2014, Laconia, N.H.

David E. Ingalls ’59 September 1, 2014, Kingston, N.H.

Robert P. Hubbard ’74G November 20, 2014, Walpole, N.H.

Jennifer Wheeler Malcolm ’97 September 2, 2014, Hampton, N.H.

Robert D. Saunders ’51 July 30, 2014, Hale’s Location, N.H.

1960s

Maj. Clark D. Meek ’74G August 1, 2014, Kuna, Idaho

JoAnn Rydin Wolcott ’51 November 10, 2014, Sarasota, Fla.

David S. Dodge ’60 Mass.y 17, 2014, Stratham, N.H.

2000s

Lt. Col. Vernon R. Letourneau ’52 November 19, 2014, Chelmsford, Mass.

Leon A. Osborne ’60 November 13, 2014, Springfield, Mass.

Paul L. Normandin ’52 August 14, 2014, Laconia, N.H.

Wilbur D. Phillips ’61 November 18, 2014, Loudon, N.H.

Raymond D. Scruton ’52 November 9, 2014, Rochester, N.H.

Donald A. Whittaker ’61, ’73G June 17, 2014, New Bern, N.C.

Arthur W. Stier ’52 September 28, 2014, Boston, Mass.

Dr. Muttaniyil E. Idiculla ’62G August 19, 2014, Venice, Fla.

Samuel N. Stratton ’52 August 13, 2014, Bonita Springs, Fla.

Jerome A. LePelletier ’62G July 23, 2014, Old Orchard Beach, Maine

Fred L. Zullo ’52 August 21, 2014, Edgewater, Fla.

The Honorable H. Charles Royce ’62 November 3, 2014, Jaffrey, N.H.

Julien L. Fournier ’53 June 4, 2014, Littleton, N.H.

Sandra Donovan Carrier ’63 November 5, 2014, Merrimack, N.H.

Col. Peter F. Kalitka ’53 February 14, 2014, Paeonian Springs, Va.

Dr. Stuart F. Daniels ’63 November 9, 2014, Moorestown, N.J.

Thomas E. Kirkbride ’53 October 28, 2014, Menlo Park, Calif.

Patricia Reese Meader ’63 November 26, 2014, Buckfield, Maine

Richard P. Melick ’53 August 22, 2014, Naples, Fla.

Barbara McGee Chasse ’64G August 7, 2014, Scarborough, Maine

Robert E. Salois ’53 October 3, 2014, Seminole, Fla.

Elizabeth L. Faulkner Latuch ’64 October 27, 2014, Derry, N.H.

Lt. Col. Ralph A. Austin Jr. ’54 August 23, 2014, North Syracuse, N.Y.

Charles A. Wolfe ’64 October 3, 2014, Salem, N.H.

Margaret Junkins Burkhardt ’46 October 5, 2014, Stamford, Conn.

Ormsby J. Buck ’54 August 11, 2014, Holden, Mass.

James T. Maguire ’65 July 25, 2014, Mass.rco Island, Fla.

Daniel P. Kiley Jr. ’46 September 19, 2014, Andover, N.H.

Lila Johnston Cobb ’54 October 11, 2014, Sangerville, Maine

Maj. Donald R. Wright ’65 November 8, 2014, Bridgewater, Va.

Howard H. Brown ’47 September 4, 2014, Weirs Beach, N.H.

Col. Robert J. Madden ’54 October 9, 2014, Derry, N.H.

Lance E. McDowell ’66 September 4, 2014, Yorktown, Va.

Barbara Brock MacFarlane ’47 August 3, 2014, North Adams, Mass.

Montgomery R. Childs ’55 October 18, 2014, Dover, N.H.

Charles A. McKenna ’66G August 24, 2014, North Stonington, Conn.

Richard A. Trachy ’47 August 21, 2014, Rochester, Minn.

James W. Farley ’55 September 1, 2014, Farmington, Maine

Denis A. Roessiger ’66 September 22, 2014, Penobscot, Maine

Margery A. Byers ’48 August 11, 2014, Washington, DC

Richard L. Hewitt ’55 August 30, 2014, Mansfield, Mass.

Dale Wallace Smith ’66 August 19, 2014, Hampton, N.H.

Marjorie Dunnells Chadbourne ’48 August 11, 2014, Sanford, Maine

Hugh C. Mallett ’55 August 14, 2014, Manchester, N.H.

John D. Cameron ’67, ’95G August 14, 2014, Gilford, N.H.

Lt. Col. Herbert L. Cheeseman ’41 OConn.ober 21, 2014, Wenham, Mass.

Stacey W. Cole ’41 November 30, 2014, West Swanzey, N.H. Rose Feinberg Alterman ’42 January 17, 2014, Delray Beach, Fla. Marjorie Moore Curtis ’42 November 25, 2014, Rockport Mass.

Jeanette Yoffee Dubick ’42 June 15, 2014, Marlborough, Mass.

Lois Richardson Hastings ’42 July 15, 2014, Gilsum, N.H. Eleanor Powers Haweeli ’42 August 8, 2014, Portsmouth, N.H. William K. Millar ’42 September 27, 2014, Brunswick, Maine CREDIT

Arnold P. Hanson ’48 July 28, 2014, Nashua, N.H.

Miriam Eastman Cook ’43 November 3, 2014, Laconia, N.H. Winslow H. Macdonald ’43 March 19, 2014, The Villages, Fla. Fayette Hoyt Bassey ’44 October 13, 2014, Tucson, Ariz.

Dr. Frederick M. Jervis ’44, ’49G August 22, 2014, Exeter, N.H. Dr. Constantine G. Kyreages ’44 September 8, 2014, Surfside Beach, S.C. Mary Carlisle Oliver ’44 August 11, 2014, Albany, Calif.

Clara Knight Turner ’44 September 23, 2014, Laconia, N.H. E. Benjamin Ayer ’45 October 16, 2014, Henniker, N.H. Joye Johnson Barrett ’45 August 28, 2014, Keene, N.H. Kathryn Johnson Carlson ’45 November 25, 2014, Stamford, Conn.

Elizabeth Woodward Allen ’46 September 15, 2014, Exeter, N.H. Barbara Dunlap Beck ’46 September 18, 2014, North Andover, Mass.

Rohe V. Pennington ’74 November 15, 2014, Fernandina Beach, Fla. Col. Russell J. Grady ’75 October 29, 2014, Manchester, N.H. Steve S. Walker ’75 August 14, 2014, Windham, Maine Shirley Whiting Michael ’76G November 24, 2014, Exeter, N.H. Dr. Donald F. Dennis ’77G September 22, 2014, Burlington, Vt. Catherine P. Robbins ’78 August 26, 2014, Hampstead, N.H. George E. Sinclair Jr. ’78G September 21, 2014, Canterbury, N.H. Cynthia A. Dobrowolski ’79 October 22, 2014, Rye, N.H. Duncan A. Parsons ’79 September 3, 2014, Abingdon, Va. Tina C. Schirmer ’79 August 25, 2014, Warner, N.H. Helen Sfinas ’79 August 25, 2014, New Port Richey, Fla. Ann Hellweg Warren ’79G September 16, 2014, Exeter, N.H.

1980s Joan Prestipino Cappetta ’82 October 15, 2014, Hollis, N.H. Martha L. Burdick ’83 September 2, 2014, North Conway, N.H. Francis E. O’Moore ’83 August 25, 2014, Scarborough, Maine

Thaddeus L. Mandsager ’01 August 30, 2014, Dover, N.H. John E. Vinsel ’01G November 26, 2014, Mont Vernon, N.H. Linda M. Martin ’02 November 11, 2014, Derry, N.H. Holly A. Gaudette ’05 July 27, 2014, Morris Plains, N.J. Hilary Mitchell Ryan ’05 August 26, 2014, Gloucester, Mass.

Andrew K. Brown ’06G November 23, 2014, Manchester, N.H.

2010s Ryan S. Lattime ’10 October 27, 2014, Seabrook, N.H. Normand L. Manseau ’10G August 5, 2014, Manchester, N.H. Ryan P. Actis ’11 November 11, 2014, Nashua, N.H. Desiree C. Clark ’11G September 26, 2014, Durham, N.H. Johnathan B. Murphy ’13 October 12, 2014, Hookset, N.H. Amanda L. Witzig ’13 August 18, 2014, Nashua, N.H. Brandi L. MacDonald ’14 September 24, 2014, Wells, Maine Patrick J. Terrin ’14 August 8, 2014, Nashua, N.H. Oliver E. Culver ’18 October 19, 2014, Durham, N.H.

April Kremen Neumeister ’84 July 26, 2014, Keene, N.H. Loretta M. Carney ’86, ’88G September 28, 2014, Rye, N.H. Miriam Hanlon Weston ’86 September 18, 2014, Bremerton, Wash.

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On Ben’s Farm

THE HIDDEN GEMS OF HAM SMITH Artist George Lloyd was on a mission to find a “real” farmer. It was the spring of 1939, and, having been commissioned to paint a mural about agriculture that would cover one entire wall inside Hamilton Smith Hall, he wanted to be sure he could depict a New Hampshire farmer accurately. With UNH agriculture professors as his guide, he soon found his models out in the fields, piecing together a way of life in the aftermath of the Great Depression— much the way he was doing, himself.

Lloyd was one of the unemployed artists who had been hired under the auspices of the Federal Art Project branch of the Work Projects Administration, a national program created by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt to provide productive work to some 8.5 million citizens in lieu of unemployment benefits.

Coordinated by Manchester artist Omer T. Lassonde, at the time one of the country's most influential modernist painters, the UNH project included three massive murals, eight feet high and 40 feet wide, in the three main rooms of UNH’s then-library. Lloyd’s “agriculture” mural was to grace the reserve room. Arthur Esner was commissioned to depict industry in the reference room. And Gladys Brannigan was selected to capture news and information in the newspaper room.

Both Lloyd and Esner painted directly onto Ham Smith’s gesso-surfaced walls with egg tempera, drawing their designs first on oversized sheets of paper and then painting the outlines through tiny perforations and onto the walls. Brannigan went a different route, using oil paints on canvas panels that she painted in her studio in Portsmouth. The finished panels were then adhered to the walls.

When Dimond Library was built in 1958, Hamilton Smith was remodeled as classroom space and departmental offices. Lloyd and Esner’s murals, housed in the two wings of Ham Smith built in the 1930s, were untouched, but Brannigan’s canvas panels were removed and stored for later use. During a subsequent renovation in the 1960s, Esner’s mural was boarded over.

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Today, Ham Smith is the university’s most heavily used classroom building—more than 20 different departments hold classes in its halls, and the building has more classroom seats than any other. But the iconic building is feeling its age, and this summer will commence a total interior and exterior renovation that will include restoration of Lloyd’s now faded mural and the excavation of Esner’s. The Brannigan canvases, unfortunately, will not be reinstalled unless the project turns up a real surprise—after they were taken down in the late 1950s, they were lost.

— Mylinda Woodward ’97

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