class notes alumni tainability standards for communities (www.starcommunities.org) Hilari and Jason have a daughter and a son. Aimee (Campbell) Lee is data administration manager at Celebrity Access, and is in her final year at the University of Connecticut working on a bachelor of general studies degree. Jacob Connetti works in his family’s auto body business. He and Jessica have two sons and a daughter. Mark Demgard works for Clean Harbors Environmental in Bow, N.H. He travels to Ohio, Maryland, West Virginia, Arizona, and New York. In Pennsylvania he worked with gas exploration companies. George Menth is as an Army medic. He returned from Afghanistan in July 2012. He shook hands with President Obama when the president visited the troops. 1998
Heather (Bryer) Lorrain is an administrative assistant in the guidance office at Boothbay Region High School. She owns a pottery business, Peaceful Acres Pottery. She and Jason have a daughter. Pete Gregoire is director of IT Program Management for Time Warner Cable in Milwaukee, Wisc. He and Jody have two children. John Guarnieri is a police officer with the Plymouth State University Police Department. He graduated from the Police Academy last April. John has a daughter. David Hunter is a lieutenant with the Brunswick Fire Department and manages a small estate. He and Kristi have two daughters. Mark Knapp is operations manager for a construction company. He visited Marc ’99 and Alisa (MacArthur) Arnts ’01 in Maine last year. Mike Larrivee has worked at the Waldo County 911 Center for 12 years and is currently the daytime dispatch supervisor. He is a part-time police officer in Searsport.
Chris (McDonald) Okleshan is moving to Portsmouth, Va., where her husband Travis was transferred. She plans to finish her master’s degree. They have two children. Matt Mooney works as client services manager for Dun and Bradstreet in Australia. He is a Boy Scout troop leader, whose troop is getting ready for the Australian Jamboree in January 2013. Jim Newton is a computer technician for Geek Housecalls. He and Ying have a daughter. Jason Pelchat is senior project manager for Sovereign Consulting, Inc., which has opened their 15th branch office in Concord, N.H., providing environmental assessment, investigation, design, and construction services throughout the U.S. Rebecca (Roy) Phelps and Ethan have a daughter. Rebecca works in conservation education for the State of Vermont. Scott Philbrook is a corporal and patrol supervisor with the Milton Police Department in Vermont, where he has worked for 13 years. He and Tiffany have two children. Michael Plante is president of MDP Research, Inc., in Colchester, Conn., a company providing patent and literature research for corporations. He has three children. Kelley Stanton teaches fourth grade at Pleasant View Elementary School in Providence, R.I. Kim Verstringhe and her boyfriend opened an acupuncture clinic, Adirondack Integrated Health in Lake Placid, N.Y. She graduated from New York Chiropractic College in 2007 with degrees in acupuncture and oriental medicine. 1999
Jim Buckle and his partner, Wendy, have an organic farm in Dighton, Mass., raising vegetables, fruit, and meat. Todd Chilton is an officer with the Lincoln County Sheriff ’s Office. He and Erika have two sons.
Jeff Duguay ’92
Edna St. Vincent Millay, Ornithology, and Wildlife Labs: One Path to a Beloved Career By Debora Noone, Alumni and Parent Relations Coordinator Jeff Duguay ’92 has a job he is passionate about. What he values most from his Unity experience is something he carries with him daily, his love and enthusiasm for the environment. Duguay, who earned a master’s in ecology from Eastern Kentucky University and a doctorate in wildlife management from West Virginia University, admits he came to college in an indirect way. He was not fond of high school and went on to work in a warehouse for five years. When he was ready for college, finding a small campus where he wasn’t just a number was important. “At Unity, I found the direction I was looking for in a career,” said Duguay. Like all Unity students, he interned each summer. Ornithological field research prepared him for his current position as research and survey program manager for Mourning Doves and American Woodcocks at the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries. Duguay credits his professional success to the hands-on education and personal attention he got from his professors. Duguay uses both Global Positioning Systems (GPS) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS), skills he learned at Unity, to monitor wild turkey movements, before, during, and after nesting, using the information to create additional nesting habitat and ensure sustainable turkey populations. As part of the Unity curriculum requirement to have a specialization in a field outside a student’s major, Duguay chose literature, which included reading Maine authors and writing creatively. “As a regular part of my job, I have published several manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals and written technical reports,” said Duguay. “These classes proved invaluable to me.”
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