CLASS NOTES zoology and poultry science. She is about to very successfully complete her first year of vet school at NCSU CVM. I travelled to Norway in April with my mom to visit my sister Marit and her family at their sheep farm on Ombo, an island near Stavanger, Norway. Last year I became a certified Stott Pilates® essential and intermediate mat instructor, and I continue to teach knitting at all levels at my local yarn shop. Jim and I are looking forward to a trip to San Francisco this summer. I look forward to reconnecting at Reunion, especially with Lynn Larson Rhoads, Janna Jacobson, Laurel Baker Walker, Megan Brendel, Debbie Noyes Swartz, Karen Lamson McKenny, and so many more with whom I have lost contact. Send your news to— Lisa Greenwood Crozier 3370 Sally Kirk Road Winston-Salem, NC 27106 lcrozier@triad.rr.com
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Megan Camp received an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Middlebury College at the commencement ceremony in May. Megan is vice president and program director at Shelburne Farms, a 1,400-acre working farm, nonprofit education center, and National Historic Landmark located in Vermont’s Champlain Valley. Providing leadership for organizational and educational program development, she has focused on building public-private partnerships to conduct research, influence policy, and build networks to strengthen sustainability-education efforts in Vermont and around the world. Carol Greenberger loves living in the mountains of Asheville, North Carolina, with her husband and ten-year-old daughter. She is in private practice doing psychotherapy at The Relationship Center. Come by and say hello if you’re in the area. Kristin Ann Manazir was very excited to get a surprise visit last Memorial Day weekend from Ginger Ross Kosobucki and Sally Neidecker Morris in honor of their birthdays. They walked all around UVM campus and laughed (of course) just about the entire time. “Thank you to both of my very dear friends, whom I’ve had since freshman year, for giving me that wonderful gift of a reunion!”
writes Kristin. Sam Sparhawk is a managing director in securities finance at The Bank of New York Mellon. Barbara Clark Sparhawk works for J Crew Corporation. Two of their kids opted for Penn State over UVM, despite recruIting efforts by mom and dad. Sam and Barb keep in touch with Phil Davis and Jeff Ng, and are planning a mini reunion soon. Jeff has kept UVM tradition alive with his older daughter enrolling in the Class of 2016. Send your news to— Laurie Olander Angle 12 Weidel Drive Pennington, NJ 08534 Abby Goldberg Kelley 303 Oakhill Road Shelburne, VT 05482 saragrant2001@yahoo.com Kelly McDonald 10 Lapointe Street Winooski, VT 05404 jasna-vt@hotmail.com Shelley Carpenter Spillane 336 Tamarack Shores Shelburne, VT 05482 scspillane@aol.com
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Paul Klockenbrink, a partner in Gentry Locke’s Labor and Employment Law group, was named a “Legal Eagle” for employment law, management and litigation, and labor and employment in 2012 by Virginia Living Magazine. Cathy Irish Tremblay recently joined the Vermont Regional Board of the UVM Alumni Association and also serves on its athletic sub-committee. Her youngest daughter is a UVM sophomore, majoring in education. Lynne Halpin Costen toured the UVM campus to prep for volunteering at a UVM table for a college fair in Connecticut last fall. “UVM looked great!” she reports. Lynne officiates soccer and girls lacrosse high school games, which gets her runing on a field with the kids—a great change of pace from another job she loves, chief administrator/owner of ASR Engineering in Milford. Caroline Tassey, who has been a family nurse practitioner for many years, opened a practice in child and adolescent psychiatry after obtaining her psychiat-
ric mental health nurse practitioner license. Send your news to— Barbara Roth 140 West 58th Street, #2B New York, NY 10019 roth_barb@yahoo.com
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Lee Diamond is a lab safety coordinator for the Department of Risk Management & Safety at UVM. She has worked at the university since 1997. In her spare time, she is getting her yoga teacher training certificate and organizing a free annual community-sponsored yoga benefit on the Church Street Marketplace (Aug. 11, 2013). Donations at the event will go to Prevent Child Abuse Vermont. Send your news to— Lawrence Gorkun 141 Brigham Road St. Albans, VT 05478 vtlfg@msn.com
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Jane Isaacs Schoenholtz writes, “I was sorry to miss our 25th reunion in October. I miss UVM, Burlington, and fellow classmates! Glad to hear it was such a success. Fortunately I still see Carey Hoffman Pippert, Trish Wheeler Ellsworth, Stephanie Croke, Laurie Oelbaum Sommer, and Carolyn Williams Hazen as much as possible, and we talk even more.” Jane and her husband, Mark, are still living in New Canaan, Connecticut. Their older daughter, Katelyn, is a sophomore at Taft; Megan, their fourteen-year-old daughter, just heard that she, too, got into Taft and will likely be going next year as well; and Teddy, who is ten years old, will be entering sixth grade. Jane hopes to bring the family back to Burlington soon. Marianne Spear Apfelbaum wants all UVM alumni who are business owners to know about her company’s new venture: Williston Area Business Association (WABA). Visit www. willistonaba. com for information. She is also looking for great freelance writers for her newest publication, My Finance Magazine, which premiered in June. Contact Marianne if you are interested. Dara Levine Hillis writes, “Dear Class of 1987, many of us are celebrating our thirtieth high school reunion. It is hard to believe. I remember leaving my very close-knit group of Rye High School friends and thinking I could
PATRICK MURPHY ’85 “It was very compelling to see the Burmese people aspire to something very different, and now seeing them get that opportunity has been quite an incredible process to be part of.” —Patrick Murphy on his work with the U.S. Foreign Service in Burma, where he was the senior government official in charge of historic visits by Secretary of State Clinton and President Obama. Patrick Murphy is pictured with Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese politician and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. read more at
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