| CLASS NOTES made their home in Chandler, Arizona. John and Sarah Stewart Hynes have lived in Stowe for 35 years and still love it, especially now that their boys and their families are also there. During "stick season and mud season,” they are in Punta Gorda, Florida and welcome visits from friends. Jim Betts '69, MD ’73 says, “Although we are almost two years away from our 50th, I look forward to this celebration with great anticipation. For those who have not been back to campus in 'a while,' the physical appearance, as well as the development of programs, is extraordinary. I've had an opportunity to be on campus during many of these changes. UVM has undergone a transformation to an even greater seat of higher learning, one that has been recognized locally, regionally, nationally, and beyond, for its academics, and student life. Begin planning for our 50th reunion now. I'm sure you will be duly impressed, pleased, and proud of our university's seminal transformation." This has been the BIG 70 year for most of us. Pam Marvinney Banks celebrated 70 in California. Paul Woodard and wife, Pris, started the year with two months in Australia and New Zealand, then golfing in Arizona and Oregon, and in spring touring Elk Island, Jasper, Banff, and Kootney national parks with Gary and Valerie von Hacht Smith. In the fall, they toured and golfed the Canadian Maritime, where they ran into classmate Stephen Slayton, then two weeks in the Caribbean in November before visiting their son and his family in Charlotte, North Carolina. Joanne Vallee Seymour was also traveling in Europe, the Galapagos Islands, and then the Christmas holidays in Vietnam. Your class secretary celebrated 70 with high school friends in Bennington in August and then in Italy in the fall. Tell me how you celebrated turning 70 and what’s new in your life. Send your news to— Mary Moninger-Elia 1 Templeton Street, West Haven, CT 06516 maryeliawh@gmail.com
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Send your news to— Douglas Arnold 11608 Quail Village Way Naples, FL 34119 darnold@arnold-co.com
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Send your news to— Sarah Wilbur Sprayregen 145 Cliff Street Burlington, VT 05401 sarah.sprayregen@uvm.edu
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Mary Louise Gomez is celebrating her 33rd year on the School of Education faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her daughter, Lily, is a dentist in Portland, Oregon. Send your news to— Debbie Koslow Stern 198 Bluebird Drive, Colchester, VT 05446 debra.stern@uvm.edu
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David M Benjamin ’70 PhD ‘73, a clinical pharmacologist and forensic toxicologist, received an honorary doctorate from the University of Science, Arts and Technology to honor him for his lifetime commitment to researching and teaching pharmacology. David gave that university’s commencement address on the dangers of drug abuse, and a second lecture on the toxic effects of synthetic cannabinoids. Douglas V. Mure and Nancy Rider Mure, Donna Saylor Pijanowski and Brian Pijanowski ’74, and Mary Hill Canavan and husband, Chris, enjoyed a two-week tour of Italy in June 2017. Ellen Jane Sullivan changed her career path, graduating from law school May 2016 and being admitted to the Alabama bar in September. Her practice is primarily in the field of indigent defense. Send your news to— Deborah Layne Mesce 2227 Observatory Place N.W. Washington, DC 20007 dmesce@prb.org
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Paul Harig just completed a second retirement, as director of the PostTraumatic/Trauma Recovery Program at the Lebanon Veterans Affairs Medical Center. The first retirement was 11 years ago as a military psychologist and Colonel in the U.S. Army Medical Service Corps. Steven Rice writes that he and his wife, Anna, have settled into their new home in Murrells Inlet, South Carolina. He has rediscovered his love for writing via freelance work for an awardwinning weekly newspaper, The Coastal Observer. Steve also says he deeply misses his home state of Vermont, as well as UVM. He and his wife have two grown children and four grandchildren. Terrence Petty retired from 41 years in journalism, the last 35 with The Associated Press, and 10 of those years as an AP foreign correspondent. Terrence's bachelor’s in history from UVM provided a springboard for his career. Based in Bonn, Germany during his years as a foreign correspondent, Terrence covered revolutions that toppled communist dictators in East Germany and elsewhere in the Soviet Bloc, Germany’s reunification, East-West disarmament on the continent, and NATO's peace-enforcing mission in Bosnia. He was a news editor for the AP based in Portland, Oregon for the past 18 years. Terrence is currently writing a book about German journalism in the years leading up to Hitler's rise to power. He, his wife, and their son Tristan live in Portland. Eta Chapter of Delta Delta Sorority will commemorate 125 years on the UVM campus in 2018. The Alumni House has been reserved for a banquet on Saturday, October 20, 2018. Other activities are being planned for the same day. Please save the date and join your sisters for this remarkable event! Send your news to— Emily Schnaper Manders 104 Walnut Street, Framingham, MA 01702 esmanders@gmail.com
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Susan Frazier Blum shares that Total Motion Release (TMR) Tots and Teens, a physical therapy program that she developed, is now worldwide. Since her husband, Jeff, retired they are RVing while she teaches her program to PTs and OTs around the country. They have two daughters. Sharyn is an artist in Baltimore; Beth is completing her residency in neuromusculoskeletal medicine at St. Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx, following in mom’s footsteps and collaborating on case studies with her. Paula Oppenheim Cope writes, “I am now teaching full-time at the Grossman School of Business at UVM! My consulting firm continues to flourish under the leadership of my extraordinary staff. On October 7, I joined Linda Krueger and Themis Tsoumas, Jim Laning, and Jack Schmidt and Joanne Schmidt ’76 to cut the ribbon on the new UVM Rescue facility. Heather Logan has moved to Escalante, Utah, where she is in her second year as the Garfield County School District’s speech-language pathologist. She lives within the Grand Staircase Monument and adjacent to Bryce Canyon and Capital Reef National Parks. “Support the National Monument and come visit!” Heather writes. “Hiking, fishing, backcountry exploration, rock climbing, mountain biking, and dinosaur fossils to discover.” Heather notes that a fellow alumna, Elizabeth Rosen Julian, serves one of her schools. “Together we are following Charlie Rathbone’s preschool and multiage learning environment approaches for seven preschoolers and nine students K-6.” Heather returns home to visit friends in Vermont every summer with her mother, Margaret Miller Logan ’46. Send your news to— Dina Dwyer Child 102 North Jefferson Rd. South Burlington, VT 05403 dinachild@aol.com
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Michael Diederich, Jr.’s daughter, Victoria Diederich ’17, graduated from UVM in May. She loved UVM and excelled, majoring in neuroscience. She is now in AmeriCorps. Michael still practices employment law, representing employees, and “have started writing a book about how the federal courts (mis-) treat plaintiffs in such cases.” He also notes that his father—who paid for his UVM education—turned 100 last years and continues to be an inspiration. Frederick Ray Royce works at Ingles Markets in Flat Rock, North Carolina, and enjoys hiking in Pisgah National Forest and Dupont State Forest. Lynn Vera calls herself happily “redirected” after 30 years in public school education. She lives with her partner and dog in South Burlington. Lynn laments UVM’s sale of land along the corner of Swift and Spear streets for development. Send your news to— Pete Beekman 2 Elm Street, Canton, NY 13617 pbeekman19@gmail.com
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Polly Whitmore enjoys gardening, badminton, reading, and the chance she had to meet up with engineer-