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grade day/boarding school. Bill’s two sons, Billy and Steven, are both graduates of Pennington and daughter, Ellie is in the 7th grade at the school. Kathleen (Kathy) Perry Hall reports, “I am still enjoying my chosen field of physical therapy after 34 years of practice! I recently changed jobs and I am employed at The Alpine Clinic in Franconia, New Hampshire. The clinic is associated with the U.S. ski jumping team. I am working with some top-notch orthopedic surgeons and physical therapists. I had a great mini reunion with fellow UVM alums Anne Scotti and Maureen Corey Gibeault. We enjoyed reminiscing about our time at UVM. Next year is our 35th reunion and we decided that it would be great to get together with our classmates!” Steve Morse is alive and well in the Charleston, South Carolina, area. He has three kids in high school (two boys and youngest is a girl) and works as a relationship sales manager for BB&T Mortgage Correspondent Lending. He says, “Classmates: Feel free to contact me through LinkedIn (I’m not on Facebook) or at SMorse@bbandt.com— especially if you are in the Southeast!” Linda Johnson Norris writes, “I got to ski with famous old UVM alumni and ski team members from the late 70’s and early ‘80s! The UVM gal pals had a mini-reunion at Stowe on March 31 and the spring skiing was fabulous! Gail Lebaron ’79 (of Vermont and California), Sheila Whalen Cook ’79 (Pennsylvania) and Hilary EngischKlein ’79 (Vermont and Ottawa) joined me, their former soccer teammate, for a great two days of ski, sun, spa and laughter. Sheila brought the expensive wine and a great time was had by all while Gail toured us around the beautiful Stowe Mountain Lodge and spa where she works. Hilary just completed her Stowe, Vermont Kids on Top ski program for children cancer survivors so the venue made for a great celebration of good health and outdoor fun for all! We missed you Clev, Grace, Phantom, Alice and all—book your 2016 calendar now! Send your news to— UVM Alumni Association 411 Main Street Burlington, VT 05401 alumni@uvm.edu/classnotes
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John Bartlett says, “Been living in Southern California now for 20 years with wife Cynthia and three boys: Cameron, Jackson, and Dylan. Still proud to be a UVMer living on the West Coast. However, as a former player I remain curious about why varsity baseball has not been reinstated at UVM. Jim Carter G’80 has done a great job with the club team and agrees that we should “bring it back.” Bill Currier is doing well as head baseball coach at Fairfield but he would be even better as returning coach of the varsity Cats. Please join me in logging on to the Friends of UVM Baseball site and voicing your opinion or donating to the cause. Baseball, apple pie, and UVM. Nice combination, don’t you think? Go Cats Go!” [Editor’s Note: Eliminating a varsity sport, particularly one with the roots and tradition of UVM baseball, is never an easy decision. The UVM administration has reviewed the financial resources needed to return baseball to varsity status. It would be a steep challenge, requiring $20 million in a permanent endowment. As John has shared, the athletes and Coach Jim Carter are proudly representing the university at a club level, and UVM applauds their success on the diamond.] Bret Kernoff published two books in April of 2015. As a consulting special educator and a board certified behavior analyst, Bret published one text called A Teacher’s Guide to Applied Behavior Analysis designed for teachers facing maladaptive behaviors. The other text is called The Path to Passing the BACB Exams for BCBA and BCaBa. This technical journal is designed to help applicants pass the certification exam to become a behavior analyst. These books were edited continuously by Diana Paul Kernoff ‘84. Bret can be found on the web at behavior institute.org. Sas Carey directs the non-profit Nomadicare, which supports the sustainability and cultural survival of nomadic peoples by harmonizing traditional and modern medicine and documenting nomadic lifeways, lore and heart songs. For 21 years, she has been traveling to Mongolia working with nomads and has written a book about it, Reindeer Herders in My Heart (2012) and made three feature documentary films, “Gobi Women’s Song”(2005), “Ceremony”(2015), and “Migration”
(2015). She gives presentations and travels with her book and films. Her most recent presentation was for the 100-year-old Explorers’ Club in New York City. Karen Partridge Earley shares that Lisa Fite DeYoung hosted her for a visit at her home in beautiful Salida, Colorado. They spent three action-packed days enjoying the mountains and desert and catching up while snowshoeing, skiing and climbing 700-foot sand dunes (at Great Sand Dunes National Park). Lisa, a.k.a. the mountain mermaid, is a creative, independent spirit whose motto in life is create, play, thrive. You can find her online home at mountainmermaidstudios.com. Amy Beth Perkins Moore writes, “I continue to reside in Yorktown, Virginia. I spend quite a bit of time traveling to visit my children, Meghan (age 23) and Sean (age 20), family and friends as well as for various organizations where I volunteer. For a family and friend dinner of 12 in Big Sky Montana in March, seven of us at the gathering were UVMers. My big brother Dave Perkins ‘78, Carmen Thomas McSpadden ‘81, Doug McSpadden ‘81, Dave’s children Polly Perkins ‘09, James Perkins ‘11 and Polly’s boyfriend, Ryan Crocker, PhD candidate for 2015. Carmen and I were UVM field hockey teammates and had not seen each other in 32 years. The years melted away. It was absolutely amazing to be able to catch up in person. We won’t let it be 32 years before we link up again as we want to continue to be able to swoosh down the slopes together. We all had a blast! A picture of the seven UVMers sporting Catamount attire was sent to the UVM alumni online photo gallery. Send your news to— John Peter Scambos pteron@verizon.net
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The Khabele School in Austin, Texas, is excited to announce that after an extensive national and international search, Ted Graf has been named its next head of school, effective July 1, 2015. Graf is a career-long independent school student, teacher, and leader, who holds degrees from the University of Vermont, Brown University, and the School for International Training. Graf will lead this model independent school into a new era of the school’s student-centered, globally
minded learning community, serving students from early childhood through 12th grade across three campuses. Citizens Financial Group, Inc. today announced the appointment of Donald H. McCree as vice chairman and head of commercial banking. He will serve on the company’s executive committee and report to chairman and CEO Bruce Van Saun. McCree will join Citizens effective September 1, 2015. McCree comes to Citizens having served in a number of senior leadership positions over the course of 31 years at JPMorgan Chase & Co. and its predecessor companies. He has extensive experience in commercial banking gained through positions at JPMorgan including head of Corporate Banking and CEO of Global Treasury Services, head of Global Credit Markets, North American co-head of Fixed Income, European co-head of Investment Banking and head of European and Asian Syndicated Finance. He also served as head of Wholesale Risk Management and head of Treasury and Corporate Development. He retired from JPMorgan in mid-2014. Al Jackson writes, “Last fall my son, Evan ‘18, began his freshman year at UVM. When we moved him into his dorm room on Redstone, it brought back such good memories of my days living there. While much has changed at UVM since my day, it was nice to see that some things remain the same.” Blair MacKenzie Van Brunt writes, “I am still living in Sherborn, Massachusetts, for the last 20 years and see so many wonderful UVM friends over all these years. Inspired by our daughter who has a rare disease, I’ve recently started a communications consulting business called Rare Disease Perspectives LLC which works with companies in the pharma and biotech space to create, strengthen or refine communications with the patient populations that they serve.” Send your news to— Lisa Greenwood Crozier lcrozier@triad.rr.com
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Liz Moore Axelson writes, “I love living in the Hudson Valley of New York with Rusty Boris. We enjoy snowshoeing and hiking nearby; day trips to the Catskills; New York City or so many other places in the Kingston-New Paltz area. We love visiting my son, Ben, and daugh-