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1970
Christine Berkhout Leary wrote to share that she and her husband recently retired and moved to an active "adult" community in Waretown, New Jersey. They spend their time playing tennis, skiing in Vermont and taking care of their grandchildren. Lizabeth Crussell reports that she has traveled to all 48 states in her RV since 2004 and will travel to Alaska by RV in the summer of 2009. Marianne Darling threw in a plug for reading the VQ online and "saving a tree."
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Doug Arnold
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1971
The best thing about writing '71 class notes is that it sure gets people responding to the column. The first note I received was from Marc Milowsky: "Just got my copy of the UVM magazine. Do you really think I am losing it? Hope you are getting through the winter in Vermont and getting some skiing in." To which I told him I was in Honduras with Liz Mead Foster, who was the team leader for one of the school building projects I worked on with the Vermont Hands to Honduras group in late January and early February. I promised to inform classmates when Yankee Magazine published an article on Vermont Hands to Honduras and I just learned that it was in the November/December 2008 issue amongst stories of other New Englanders who volunteer their time and energy to the community. Although Liz and I were not pictured, the four local individuals who work full time on this effort were and the story is great. Retired UVM professors Al Gilbert (economics) and Sam Feitelberg (physical therapy) are pictured with Linda Gilbert (Al's wife and parent of two UVMers) and Colleen Haag (Shelburne town clerk). 2008 was a good year for Norman Edminster: "My four grandchildren are active and growing up fast. I took a first place in my club championship, and my local sports team won the league championship. My wife and I took a relaxing trip to Montego Bay, Jamaica. It was great scuba diving, kayaking, snorkeling, and soaking up the sun. I stay in touch with a couple of my Phi Delta Theta fraternity brothers. If in the Plymouth, Massachusetts, area, contact me." Since I didn't understand what sport warranted the championship, I asked Norm: "Actually my two championships trophies were in the shooting sports (the club championship was in steel plates, and my sporting team is a bulls-eye one). I didn't elaborate on what the sports awards are in my original e-mail, as many get turned off by the mere mention of shooting. So I carefully word my accomplishments in those disciplines." Well, speaking of shooting, I also heard from Peter Spear: "I'm a first time grandfather of a little boy. Zachary Alexander was born on November 12, 2008. My first babysitting assignment is coming up. Diapers 101. I am beyond words with excitement. On a personal note I successfully hunted for all three Tur species (Dagistan, Kuban and Mid-Caucasian) completing very difficult mountain hunts for them in Russia and Azerbaijan (just south of Chechnya). The Kuban hunt was three kilometers from the border with Georgia a month after the cessation of hostilities. I'm told that only twenty-two other hunters have taken all three Tur. I went on plenty of other trophy hunts in 2008, but the Russian trip was the toughest. You'll have to write to Peter to see the hunting trip pictures which were pretty amazing even for a non-hunter. I also met Cindy Hines Horrocks at a Vermont alumni event in early April. She came with her husband, Terry and son, Zachary, who is a current UVM student. It was great seeing her, albeit briefly. She and Terry came over from Lake Placid for a great event hosted by the Vermont alumni group featuring the former artistic director of Cirque du Soleil. Tom Reilly phoned me recently too, since he wanted to take advantage of a great UVM event at Jazz at Lincoln Center. It was his anniversary so he and Janine had a night out with UVM friends listening to great jazz with the Wynton Marsalis Orchestra. I hope Tom stayed to meet Wynton, which took some time since Wynton, had interviews following the televised performance. I have heard it was well worth the wait to chat with Wynton whose son will be attending UVM next year! Bill Allard, Linda Blackwood and I had our annual dinner in San Francisco at the end of March. It was great fun, but Bill's enthusiasm is a challenge to cap. We love you Bill! He does have an exciting project in the works (he wore a t-shirt advertising it) called GLOW: "Great Libraries of the World"¯, a series of half-hour television programs, produced by the non-profit Libraries Without Walls, Inc. Four documentaries have already been funded, and are in post-production. It is GLOW's aim to raise awareness–or simply remind people–of the vital role libraries play in our culture. Linda Blackwood is looking forward to retirement and I was reminded of her accomplishments in the world of science over dinner. She is still in administration at San Francisco State and works in the area of research compliance. I had forgotten what a hockey fan she was, so it was a great evening reminiscing about the UVM hockey team as the current team entered the Frozen Four competition. Which leads me to my final story which began in San Francisco and ended with a telephone conversation with Dave Reece! Following UVM's amazing performance against BU in the first round of the Frozen Four, I thought of Dave. Dave is doing well, running an educational consulting business which is a perfect occupation for him. He lives in Hartford, Vermont and sees Marc Milowsky often in the Hanover area (that's how I found Dave). Dave loves working with student athletes. A unique coincidence came up in our conversation: Dave played pro hockey with the father of our current UVM hockey coach Kevin Sneddon. Dave remembers seeing Kevin at the Buffalo rink as a young child. That's it for now. Has anyone seen Jason Robards?
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Sarah Wilbur Sprayregen
sarah.sprayregen@uvm.edu
1972
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Debra Koslow Stern
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1973
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Deborah Mesce
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1974
Sharon McCollum took early retirement from the Department of Mental Health in Boston, where she had been a nurse since graduation. In January she and a friend went to Washington D.C., for the Obama inauguration. As a minority of minorities: the only Vermont-born, UVM-educated, black, four-year nursing school graduate in the world, it was a thrilling experience for her. This year marks the 100th anniversary of the 10th Cavalry Buffalo Soldiers' return from the Philippines and being stationed in Vermont. Her grandfather, Willis Hatcher, was a blacksmith in the cavalry. He remained in Vermont after retirement. Sharon, along with Rose Mary Graveline (also a descendant of Buffalo soldiers and the mother of two UVM graduates, Danielle Sartini '96 and Michelle Graveline-Welch '00) are co-chairing the reunion celebration in the Burlington area July 28- August 2, 2009. Reg Wells '65, Mark Spencer '76, and Nick McCollum III '75, also descendants of Buffalo Soldiers, are on the reunion committee. Please visit their web site, www.uvm.edu/~vtbufalo
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Emily Schnaper Manders
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1975
Greetings from Burlington! It has been an exciting winter in Burlington as many fans followed the hockey Cats as they travelled to Washington, D.C., to the NCAA Frozen Four Tournament. Finally some news to report from our classmates. Keep the news coming! Jay Robert Allen, Horsham, Pennsylvania, celebrated his 25th wedding anniversary in May '08 in Jamaica. Pamela Burns and her husband are empty nesters, have moved to Manhattan and are loving it. She is still a fashion consultant for CAbi and is hoping to catch up with classmates Winkie Collins and Keri Barrett. Pamela and her husband have a son at UVM and a daughter at Georgetown. Rebecca Chase Dutton, Windham, Vermont, is involved with "green construction," utilizing solar electric insulation in renovated homes in Montana and Vermont. Richard Jaffe is happy to be back in New England after twenty years in Texas. He is looking forward to visiting Ed Tracy '76 and his new wife. Glory Lanphear Douglass Reinstein is in her 32nd year of teaching music at the high school level. She has been at Essex High School in Essex Junction, Vermont, for the past ten years. She received her master's in music education from Central Connecticut State in May '08. In addition to teaching, she is the assistant conductor for the Bella Voce Women's Choir of Vermont. In anticipation of her retirement she has started a business called Bluebird Promotions, which helps support independent singer/songwriters on the East Coast. She recently remarried and lives in Malletts Bay, Colchester, Vermont. Her honeymoon was in Tortola, BVI. Glory has two children from her first marriage. Gregory is an independent singer/songwriter based in Burlington, and Gwendolyn works for a non-profit for homeless teenagers in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Following careers in education and banking, Bill Stickney took early retirement in 2005 for health reasons. He spent the next two years in religious studies and in 2007 was awarded the Doctor of Divinity degree by the American Institute of Holistic Theology. He was ordained later that year by World Christianship Ministries. He now operates a website called youcanbesavedtoo.com, from which he offers free spiritual advice and counseling to all. Helen Riendeau '75 represented UVM at the inauguration of Wayne State University's new president on April 7, 2009. Helen makes her home in East Lansing, Michigan. Thanks to all of you who were brave enough to contribute. It makes it a lot more fun for all of us. Looking forward to hearing from more of you in the next issue.
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Dina Dwyer Child
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1976
Michael Conley enjoyed hosting Heather Munro O'Neil and her parents when they visited Michael and his partner, Glen Elder, at their home in Montreal. Glen is now the associate dean of the College of Arts and Science at UVM. (Editor's note: We regret to share the tragic news that Professor Glen Elder passed away on May 21 at age 42. Our condolences to his partner, Mick Conley, and the Elder family. See story in "The Green" in this issue.) Anne Massucco Alberghini is living in the Hartford, Connecticut area with her husband, Tod Alberghini '79. Their son, Ross, is a sophomore at the University of South Carolina and Anne notes the Vermont weather was too cold for his golf game! It was great being part of a huge turnout of Catamount fans at the Frozen Four in Washington, D.C., in early April, cheering on our hockey team. Also making the trek to our nation's capital were Skip Beitzel and his wife, Michaela; George Beato, and Tom Wheeler '77, and his son, Ben. While the Cat's loss to Boston University was disappointing, my daughter, who is a sophomore at Miami University, was devastated watching BU score two goals with less than a minute to go to tie the game and then win the national championship in overtime!
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Peter Beekman
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1977
Last October, UVM friends Susan Hunt Dion, Lynne Pearce Kelleher, Linda Hovey Martin, Stephanie Miller Raho '76, and Patricia Balzer '76 had a weekend get together at Lorraine Cropper Clough's in Peacham, Vermont, and were finally able to get in touch with Gail Polhemus Tyson after thirty-one years of trying to locate her! Lorraine's son is currently a sophomore at UVM. John Dickason writes, "I have been living in South Starksboro, Vermont, for twenty years or so, with my partner Cherrie. I still play a lot of music and write a lot of original acoustic and electric music, and just finished a book of poems on sustainability and spirituality called Stream of Consciousness. I have been working as a builder of smallish, greenish homes for most of my career, interspersed with some teaching stints. I have two older children: Alaina, who works for Boeing, and Kate, who is an artist. Leyla, the youngest, is a drummer at the moment. We have a small farmstead with two draft horses, a riding horse, three dogs, and a bunch of chickens. I seem to have gotten myself involved in building lots of boats of late, the newest being a twenty-six foot schooner. What a long, interesting journey it has been; I hope you all are weathering the economic storm well."
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Stephen Monroe
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1978
Classmates, I am very excited to report that I have more news this time than I know what to do with! Here it comes, in no particular order. Jane Elizabeth Brown, now known as J. Casey Gershon, reports that she and classmate, Rick Gershon, have been married for thirty years. Jane is the manager of rehabilitation services for Bronson Hospital, a regional hospital providing physical, speech and occupational therapy and Rick is a professor at Western Michigan University. After hearing many stories about Vermont, their twenty-year-old son has now decided to call Vermont home after growing up in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Jane writes "We have lived for twenty years in an old brick and stucco home–on one of those streets where folks go for walks every evening and everyone knows each other. Michigan has been home for many years. We enjoy the lakes, canoeing and hiking whenever we can. The state parks of Michigan are wonderful, and if you have never seen the Upper Peninsula of Michigan you are really missing something. Classmates, drop an email if you get a chance: starmountain@chartermi.net or look us up on Facebook." Mark Wetzel reports that he is still living in Reading Massachusetts with his wife, Joan. He volunteers on the Town Conservation Commission and is looking forward to getting back on the bike this spring. He'll be riding in the Pan Mass Challenge again this year to raise money for curing cancer and sees old Hamilton Hall dorm mate Doug Lyons at the ride every year. Christopher H. Howe shared that after completing his education at UVM with a BA and BS Degree and studying law as a member of the Class of '81, he now looks back on a twenty-six year career as an attorney at law with a private practice in Fair Haven, Vermont, serving for twenty-two outstanding years as one of Vermont's seventeen probate judges. He lives on beautiful Lake Bomoseen with his wife, Susan, and is the father of two adult girls including a graduate of William and Mary, and a fellow graduate of UVM. Christopher is a true Vermonter and a proud graduate of the university. Marjorie Cohen has a new job as a private contractor with the military family life consultants program and has been in Germany and the Netherlands for the past six months. On her way back to Denver, she stopped and visited her mom, Adele Kaye '49. She writes "I saw my buddy Sue Spies and have been contacted by Stan Przybylinski. I am having a blast, happily married for the second time. I got in touch with Marcy Kopelman as well. Colorado is fabulous, a close second to Vermont." Marjorie is interested in finding Bob Durkee, Judy Keleher, and Christopher Angell. Rene Levesque Baggot has retired from a twenty-three year career in international tourism & aviation marketing. She has been married for eighteen years and her husband, Patrick, is a retired air traffic controller. They live in Chandler, Arizona and spend summers in Ouray, Colorado which is near Telluride. Rene works part-time as an esthetician, volunteers with seniors and a local service group, plays golf, travels and spends a lot of time with family and friends. Faith Robinson sent greetings from New Jersey where she is presently employed as VP of operations for Midas Pharmaceuticals, Inc., supplying active pharmaceutical ingredients and finished pharmaceutical dosage forms in the USA mostly from overseas manufacturers. She and her son, Eduardo Cabrera, traveled to Cape Town, South Africa for a combination work/vacation/graduation trip that included visiting Londolozi game preserve where they observed diverse flora and fauna of the bush. She writes "The interaction with the primates was the most fun! Check out the marula fruit that both the elephants and the primates so enjoy once fermented by the hot African sun!" Susan "Sukie" Jacobs Benoit's husband, Tim Benoit '82, surprised her for her fiftieth birthday by sending her to Florida where she was picked up in the airport by '78ers Sarah Freyman Fontenot and Alison Brown. Sukie shared "In Sarah's rented convertible, the three of us headed off to the beautiful Pink Palace Hotel in St. Pete and had a weekend of indulging ourselves and catching up. Sarah lives in Fredericksburg, Texas. She has a law degree and teaches and lectures on medical ethics around the country. Alison has her MPH and is a VP at a hospital associated with John Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. I am a staff nurse at a family medical center that's part of Maine Medical Center in Portland, Maine. I am now a UVM parent with our youngest son, Tom, attending the school. Alison and I attended our thirtieth reunion last summer." Chris Lemay and Margie Williams Lemay have two children: Justin, who is a junior in high school, and Tyler who, after graduating from Alfred with a degree in fine arts, is now pursuing a career in medicine at UVM. They live in Colchester, Vermont and after nearly thirty-one years at IBM, Chris recently transitioned to an entirely different career with COTS Family Shelter in Burlington and loves it. Gary A. Medvigy is still a General Officer in the U.S. Army reserves, presently serving as the Deputy Commanding General of the Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations Command (Airborne) in Fort Bragg, North Carolina. On the second of May, he took command of the 351st Civil Affairs Command, Mountain View, California. In his civilian capacity, he is a California Superior Court Judge presiding over a felony criminal trial department in Sonoma County, California. Friends may contact him at: gary.medvigy@capoc.ds.army.smil.mil. Diane Riley Pouliot wrote from Manchester, Vermont to share that she recently moved from the Burlington area to Southern Vermont. With a change in marital status and kids having graduated from college (Michelle from St. Michael's and Matt from Montana State) and now out on their own in great jobs she writes "It's time to concentrate on Mom's new career and life. So, here I am, in the heart of the Green Mountains with my best friend and we are running the Casablanca Motel! It's a great place and thoroughly unique as we have ten individual cabins situated on three acres of land on Historical Route 7A - the same road that Ethan & Ira Allen rode in their day! It's especially nice to say I am a native Vermonter (Burlington) with roots to UVM and my business partner has roots to Burlington and Champlain College! So classmates, when it's time for a reunion or just a fun get together, why not spend a day or two and stay with us. We are clean, cozy, comfortable, pet friendly, convenient to all the attractions and, most of all, affordable! Check us out on line at www.casablancamotel.com and mention UVM alumni and your class. Take care and hope to see you soon." Elaine Groundwater reports having a fun time at the thirtieth reunion in May 2008. She arrived with Lynn Zito and Jane Butler and enjoyed seeing all of the wonderful changes to campus as well as experiencing déjĆ vu and reuniting with classmates. She also went back in October for her daughter Leslie's first visit to Burlington and the UVM campus. Leslie has accepted admittance to UVM's business school and will be starting in the fall. They went to Burlington for accepted student day and writes it is "so great to be able to go back again!" Elaine's oldest child, Dan, is a junior at Franklin Pierce University in Rindge, New Hampshire. Elaine lives in Simsbury, Connecticut with her husband, Bob, and is a realtor in the greater Hartford area with RE/MAX Premier Realtors. For 2009, she is the West region chairperson for the Greater Hartford Association of Realtors and also an active member of the Simsbury Chamber of Commerce and the Parent Teacher Council of Simsbury High School. She encourages anyone passing through Simsbury to contact her: 860-729-3489 or at elaine@remax-premier-ct.com." Rusty Kasupski got in touch from Mons, Belgium! His wife, Mehrnaz, and he are halfway through a three-year tour working for NATO and are very much enjoying living in and traveling throughout Europe. He writes "While my wife is honing her French, working out on the Belgian economy, I am very busy with heading up NATO's contribution to the international community's effort to fight piracy off the Horn of Africa. One of the most interesting jobs I've had in my twenty-four years in the Navy." Rob Hamill has completed his thirtieth year of money management with the firm, East Penn Investment Services, in Emmaus, Pennsylvania and his thirtieth year of professional whitewater kayak guiding. His family has been skiing Vermont for the last fifteen years regularly and his son has been winning several freestyle skiing events for St. Michael's over the last two years. Rob's newest hobby has been producing Nakashima Style natural edge furniture from his woodlot and studio. He says "My UVM forestry experience has been grafted into my DNA, it seems. Friends may reach me at hamillrob@aol.com." Dave Perkins shared that his daughter, Polly, graduated this year from UVM with a degree in environmental science. He is still working in Washington for the Army. Polly and Dave attended Professor Mark Stoler's lecture to UVM alumni at the University Club in Washington, D.C. Of the lecture, he writes "classic Stoler; we were spoiled." His son is a sophomore at the UVM Business School. He and Dave are both active National Ski Patrollers. Dave finds himself back in Burlington often; skiing and doing the Penguing Plunge for Vermont Special Olympics. He also has one last section over Jay Peak to become an end-to-ender on the Long Trail and has had some interesting business trips, two to Iraq and two to Afghanistan. David Clark and Susan Jones Clark '79 who met at The Old Board on her twenty-first birthday and danced the night away, are celebrating their thirtieth wedding anniversary this year and they're still dancing. David and son, Caldwell (UVM 2011), hit a Bluebird Day at Sugarbush and skied with Lucy (UVM 2011) and Phil Glaize in sixty-five degree weather, reminiscing about all those great times living off campus. He says hello to all of our classmates!! Phil Glaize wrote in to let us know that he is "alive and well growing apples in Winchester, Virginia. Regarding UVM, I am getting back into the swing of things. With a freshman there, it has been a trip down memory lane. However, the lane has changed a good bit. The kids are lucky to have the new facilities. Return trips to the Burlington area have been great. Through Parents' Weekend and quick ski trips, the love for Vermont remains alive. Most of my time is spent in the Waitsfield/Warren area which is where I ran into David Clark two weeks ago. His son Caldwell has become friends with my daughter Lucy. Another recent UVM highlight was attending the Frozen Four in Washington. What a great game! The Cats played well and we can all be proud. Hats off to the organizers of the alumni and parent reception before the game! It really got things rolling." Louise Buscemi and Craig Buscemi '79 have been living outside Orlando, Florida in Winter Springs for almost twenty-eight years. Craig is with Siemens Power Generation. They have three grown children, one grandchild, and another one of the way. Their nephew, Peter, is a freshman at UVM at this very moment! They get to Vermont in the summer as Louise's family has a place in Manchester and hope to make it to Burlington soon to see how the campus has changed. Kathy Dell is living in the Bay Area with her husband and two sons. Last summer, she took her younger son to Bingham Falls to show him how she spent many a warm spring and fall Saturday afternoon. Sue Colbert Gleason is a speech language pathologist working in the Washington, D.C. area. Her two grown sons have recently left the nest and her husband is retired, leaving more time to hike, garden, bike and travel. Last spring, she was delighted to see the huge transformations of both UVM and Burlington. She writes "UVM seems to be leading the pack in green innovations and Burlington's pedestrian mall succeeded in keeping its downtown vibrant." Greg Allen shared that he and his nine-year-old daughter, Melia, were evacuated from the Magic Mountain chair lift using rope and harnesses in February 2009 after an equipment malfunction. Jessica Strater lives on Lake Sammamish in a house that her husband, Bill, and she built in the 'burbs of Seattle. Jessica decorates builder's model homes and business has been down because of the recession. Her two oldest kids have graduated from college and her youngest is at Willamette University. She loves to ski, hike, bike and kayak and writes "I love the Northwest, but I still miss Vermont!" Friends may contact her at strater3@comcast.net." Doug Reed enjoyed the reunion last year and getting reacquainted with friend, Tim Schutte, whom he had not seen in years. He makes it to UVM hockey games, particularly Northeastern University games as his youngest son is a sophomore there, and Doug received his master's degree there. He writes "Cats could have won that game against BU. How many classmates remember the playoff game against BU, and I recall BU won that too?" Doug's daughter, Courtney, graduated from Muhlenberg College, resides in New Jersey and is engaged to her college sweetheart. His oldest spent a winter teaching skiing at Breckenridge, which means a season's pass to Vail resorts. Doug and fraternity brother, Skip Wright, still do an annual Myrtle Beach golf trip. Doug looks at real estate in coastal North Carolina and thinks he will likely end up there both for business and retiring. He'd be interested to hear from anyone living down there at dougreed@verzon.net. He writes "Now that the kids are grown, it is time to renew some friendships." Philip D. Lanoue is currently living in Smyrna, Georgia with his wife, Vickie. He has two daughters: Jaime who lives and works in Nashua, New Hampshire and Joslyn who will graduate this May from the University of New Hampshire. Vickie works for MFS in Boston and travels to Boston for two to three weeks out of a month. Currently, Philip is an area assistant superintendent for the Cobb County School District, which is a large metro-Atlanta district with 107,000 students. In July, he will move to Athens, Georgia to assume the superintendent position for the Athens-Clarke County School District (Home of the University of Georgia Dawgs). He recently completed a doctorate from Mercer University in Educational Leadership. Stan Przybylinski moved to Boston in January 2008, living in Brookline and working in Lowell. With the down economy, he doesn't get back to corporate HQ in Paris as often as in past years. He jokes "I don't expect sympathy for that one, but I am due after all of the trips to Dayton and Georgia over the years." A couple months ago, he met up with Peter Morin '77 to listen to some music and have a few beers. Peter helped Stan reconnect with Lou Barbero. Stan writes "During my phone conversation with Lou, we spoke of Dave Drake (not sure what year - '79?), someone Lou introduced me to at UVM. That got me curious and, with the help of the web site LinkedIn, I found Dave happily living in Chicago. We've exchanged a few emails and I will probably see him when I go there on business. I am going to San Francisco in May and will see some UVMers there too." Stephen Seitz is the news director at radio station WCFR in Springfield, Vermont. He hosts a novelty music show called "The Magical Music Museum" which airs Sunday nights at 10 p.m. Eastern time; WCFR's programming streams online at http://springfieldsvariety.com. Sharon Pluta Bixby and her husband of thirty years, Ron, are pleased to report that both of their daughters have jobs and are enjoying their new careers. Pamela Bixby '04 is teaching first grade in Norfolk, Virginia and Kimberly Bixby (Quinnipiac 2008) is a claim customer service representative with Travelers Insurance Co. in Windsor, Connecticut. Sharon and Ron are still happily in their hometown of Ludlow, Vermont continuing as the third generation in the family business, Ludlow Insurance Agency, Inc., and both are active in many organizations and non-profits. Dan Page and his family live in Newton, Massachusetts, where Dan works at the Fessenden School and helps his wife, Kirsi Savusalo, manage her orthodontic practice, also in Newton. They enjoy raising their three boys who are busy with homework, sports, and scouts. They make the long drive up I-89 as many weekends as possible to sail their beloved wooden boat on Malletts Bay. Tanya Ohl Tanimoto is a realtor in metro-west Boston, living in Wayland (since 1986) and working out of William Raveis Real Estate in Wellesley, Massachusetts. She is very busy despite this crazy economy and says that prices have moderated in her area but there is some pent up demand now, especially with first-time home buyers. Her husband of twenty-two years, Dana, is an architect and she has two daughters, Ariana, 19, at the University of Washington and Marina, 14, at Wayland High School. Both girls are very involved with crew and Ariana is one of twenty-eight women in the U23 (under twenty-three years old) level invited to try out for the National Team which competes this year in Racice, Czech Republic. Pam Hensel Kearney shares that "Minnesota life is going great! We've got two daughters, fifteen and twelve, who still like spending time with us (as long as we want to play Wii). Came back to groovy UV a few years ago to reconnect with friends and was happy to see that while it's grown significantly, the feel and essence of Burlington and campus remain true to their core. I've run my own consulting business since 2000 where we help companies innovate and execute. It's almost as much fun as the Chicken Bone on a Friday afternoon! We partner with our clients bringing in some serious right brain thinking with left brain execution using synergistic tools/processes not normally seen or understood in the business world to make our clients more profitable. Some of the results of our work are the monetization of unrecognized intellectual property, profitably cross-purposing current technology, products or services into unrealized markets, creating Blue Ocean opportunities and the discovery of business blind spots. Our tools, processes and people have made it possible to reduce the typical engagement up to 70 percent and create unprecedented alignment and accurate downstream messaging around the agreed solution. I'd welcome reconnecting with any classmates over work or travel – anyone coming to Minneapolis soon? Call me at 952-994-4112." Cynthia Cole's daughter, Aretha, is a freshman at UVM and loves it! Cynthia is the director of psychological services for the schools located south of Burlington in Chittenden County. She is happily married to Fred Erdman. Janet Walsh Jones writes "Tom and I have had some memorable visits with great UVM friends in the past few years. We brought our kids Jenny, Kelly and Michael back to the Cape and had a fun-filled visit with Duane and Julie Larsen and their kids Erik and Katie. It was a blast to have all of our kids playing together at the beach and to catch up and reminisce about our college antics. We also had a wonderful surprise visit from Brenda Lyons and her husband, Doug, who are international teachers, now in Ethiopia. It was great to connect and fascinating to hear about their travels around the world." Karen Anderson is living and working in Waitsfield, Vermont. In 2007 she traveled to Haiti to assist with a pilot veterinarian healthcare training project for a variety of animals, including cows, donkeys and pigs. Along with fellow volunteers, she helped to train nine agents on how to administer antibiotics and immunizations and physical exams, and also demonstrated animal restraint techniques. During ten days there, she saw more than 400 animals and provided each one with wormers and vaccines–a once-in-a-lifetime experience! Dave and Merry Johnson Maccini are happily living in Spokane, Washington. Dave works weekends only, covering for his gastroenterology group and is loving the free weekdays to ski, kayak, hike, camp and ride his motorcycle with Merry. They are empty-nesters and keeping plenty busy. Their oldest is a first-year medical student at UVM, middle son is at Colgate and the youngest is at University of Miami. They plan to be in Burlington at the end of June and would love to see or hear from old friends! Linda Owen and her husband, Bob, spent a long weekend in Burlington, where their daughter was attending admitted students visiting at UVM. She has not decided yet on which college she'll attend in the fall, but had a great time at UVM and especially loved touring the Honors College facilities and meeting so many of the students. They visited Alpha Chi and Linda was pleased to find the house in good repair. She writes "It was great being back at UVM. The number of buildings has grown and it was weird to walk into Billings and not see one student upstairs–but much about UVM has not changed and felt very familiar, even thirty years after graduating!" While they were in Burlington they visited with fellow Alpha Chi Omega sorority sister, Nancy Goss Sheahan '76, and her husband, Terry Sheahan '77, who live in South Burlington. Their daughter Jamie is attending UVM (class of 2010). Linda recently had dinner with Knut Rostad who lives in Bethesda, Maryland too and also recently visited with Deborah Kelly '76 who will have two of her three triplets attending UVM in the fall. Linda is the executive director of a private, non-profit preschool and child care center in Cabin John, Maryland where she has been for the past fourteen years. Nancy Collier has been busy as the chair of the Hanover Planning Board for the last decade when campus and downtown development has kept them busy. She has also kept the household, including two teen-aged boys, in check. Next year her youngest will be off to college. Recreation for their family includes pond hockey at our pond all winter and mountain biking in New England and afar during the summer. She would love to hear from Robinson Hall classmates or anyone who lived at the Redman Farm in Williston. Kate Turnbull Pretorius is a J.D. but does not practice anymore; she has stayed home to be with her three kids. Daughter Jo, 23, is expecting her first child this October, and is a second-year med student; daughter Grace, 20, is a college student; and son, Miles, 16, a high school student, just got his permit. She has been married to Robert G. Pretorius for twenty-five years and they live in Redlands, California and Fish Haven, Idaho. Mark R. Kaufman and his spouse, Julie, split time between residences in Wayland, Massachusetts and Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. They enjoyed cruising on their sailboat in the Bahamas this winter. Kathy Lamb is most interested in knowing what her nursing classmates are up to. She writes "We did not have a lot of opportunity to mix with other students and were there for a shorter amount of time before entering the world of 'work.' Please encourage them to write me at kathyjlamb@aol.com." John Keith lives in Greenwood Village, Colorado and has owned a home-building company for twenty-five years. His company, Harvard Communities, Inc., builds energy efficient, solar homes and John was recently named the "Colorado Green Builder of the Year." Ginger Hinman McEachem is living and working in Natick, Massachusetts as an artist and a gallery/gift shop owner. She owns Five Crows Gallery & Hand Crafted Gifts with two other artists and has been in business for seven years. She shares the studio building behind the store with five other artists. She writes "Our store has a great reputation for providing high quality hand-crafted items from local artists. In this economy what we provide seems to be highly valued. Why purchase a special gift from the mall if you can purchase something handmade with love, right?" She has been married for twenty years; her husband Paul and she have two fabulous girls, both of whom will be in high school next year. Katherine McGinley Wessel is living in Ketchum, Idaho and shared that her sister, Linda McGinley Murphy, lives in Hailey, Idaho. Katherine is selling real estate, while Linda is a bookkeeper with two beautiful girls, Erin, 15, and Meg, 12. They both love the Wood River Valley! Evan Preston Reed is currently working as a pricing analyst for Allied Air Enterprises which makes air conditioners, furnaces, heat pumps, etc. She has been married for twenty-five years and has three children; Ian is in his first year of college, and her twin daughters are in the seventh grade. They live near Columbia, South Carolina. She reports "I haven't really kept up with my old friends from UVM, but I do exchange Christmas cards with classmates Sara Brown Poore and her husband Robert Poore as well as with Sue Smith and her husband Chris Smith '77." Mandy Lees Cohen shared that she just passed the state exam to be a certified licensed supervisor for alcohol and drug counselors. She has been working for Wake County for almost twelve years providing Substance Abuse services to child protection services and has been involved with presenting a variety of trainings on this topic. She is a huge hockey fan and hopes that the Hurricanes go for it in the playoffs! Carolyn Moore Smith is working at Celgene Corporation in Summit, New Jersey happily enjoying her empty nest. She is also working on the crew as part of my sister's (Susan Kent '81) breast cancer walking team. Susan is walking sixty miles on October 1-2, 2009 in San Francisco. Carolyn is support staff, and together they're raising money to help cure breast cancer." John Grapek is engaged to Pam Asberry, who accompanied him to the thirty-year class reunion, and they are living in the Atlanta area with their blended family. Nick Ceto recently took a job with the U.S. Department of Energy in Richland, Washington. Joining DOE marked the end of a twenty-year career with the USEPA that included work across the United States and a dozen foreign countries managing hazardous waste cleanup projects. His work with DOE will be to manage cleanup activities at the Hanford nuclear site, one of the most challenging cleanup projects in the U.S. with an annual budget of $2 billion. He and his wife Mary '81 celebrated their thirtieth anniversary in May 2009, and were married at Ira Allen. They have two children, Kristin, who is married and living in Chicago while attending graduate school, and Steven who attends the University of Washington. They suggest a visit to eastern Washington for a wine tasting weekend in the Columbia Valley to any UVMers who find themselves in the Pacific Northwest. Steve Feder has lived near the small town of Redstone, Colorado, about a forty-five minute drive from Aspen, for the last fifteen years. He had been a home-builder, general contractor, and ski teaching professional for twenty years before taking a position as a building official with the City of Aspen. He currently plays on a hockey team with fellow UVM alums Wendy Winkleman '81, Tim Francis '87, and Galen Nourjian '91. His true passion, however, is his family. His wife of eighteen years, Kimberly, owns a business services company helping small companies with everything from payroll and tax planning to health insurance and retirement plans. They have two daughters, Madelene, 11, and Hannah, 9. He writes, "Both enjoy skiing, softball, hockey, basketball, gymnastics and reminding their dad who's really in charge!" Polly Meyer McFarlin is teaching sixth grade language arts and social studies and seventh/eighth reading at Alburgh Educational Center in Vermont. She was excited to go to UVM for her son Ryan's graduation in May and can't believe he is done already! Cindy Danza has been living in Larchmont, New York and working at the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission for more than six years. Jody '79 and George Kulick have been helping out with the class of '79 Reunion this year. They moved to Pittsboro, North Carolina from New Jersey last year. Both of their kids graduated from Penn State and are now in grad school and working in Philadelphia. Jody and George have connected with a lot of classmates on Facebook. Barbara Rieger Zemcik and her husband, Mark, just celebrated their twenty-fifth anniversary. They have three wonderful children who will all be in college by September. Barbara went back to school several years ago to obtain her teaching degree and now teaches high school biology. She has wonderful memories of her time at UVM! Keep up the news, classmates!
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Audrey Ziss Bath
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1979
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Beth Nutter Gamache
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1980
Wow...Thanks to all of you who contacted me this spring! It is so great to learn what you have been up to and to hear about your families and achievements. Congratulations go to Stanley Rydjeski. Stanley has been working at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center since 1981 and recently passed the certification test for Long-Term Monitoring (CLTM) which means that he knows a lot about intercranial recording and how the brain works, etc. He has also passed the registry tests for electroencephalography (EEG), evoked potentials (EP), and intraoperative monitoring (CNIM). Now that he has passed the CLTM test he is one of only twenty-seven people in the world to have passed all four credentialing tests. That's a lot of brain power! Stanley has been married for twenty-three years and has two children, Chris (attending Lyndon State) and Alicia (age 15). Happy Birthday greetings go out to Jon Burke. He wrote to say that, in celebration of the big 50, he and a group of UVM friends took a well-deserved ski vacation at Snowbird, Utah, in January. On hand were: Glenn Epstein, Bill Hutchinson '81, Brian Mullin '81, Terry Murray '79, Michael Nasoff '81, Ed Siegal '81, and Doug Fogg '04. Rich Taxwood hosted the gathering. He is now director of lift operations for Snowbird and was able to provide many special experiences for the group. They skied all day at Alta with Sam Howard '79 who has been on Alta Ski Patrol since leaving UVM. Carlos Braceras and Billy Reese joined the group on the weekend and brought the fresh powder with them. Both have lived in Salt Lake City since UVM days. Jon summed it up perfectly: "As eleven UVMers emerged from a particularly epic powder run off Mt. Baldy, it was concluded that we must have all done something right to be there, at that moment, together. ...Carpe Diem!" I also heard from David Weissenstein, Kathryn Sherman Grace, and Eric Warren Stinebring. David has been teaching elementary school in Burlington for twenty-nine years and is currently a captain with the Malletts Bay Fire Department, where he has volunteered for more than thirty years. Kathryn wrote to say that she has written a book, Phonics and Spelling through Phoneme-Grapheme Mapping, published by Supris West Publications. This is a resource book for teachers that details an effective method for helping students understand the relationship between phonemes (the sounds we hear in a word) and graphemes (the letters that represent those sounds). The book has gained much recognition among educators throughout the country. Eric is currently teaching English language arts to middle school students in Keene, New Hampshire. He and his wife, Trixie Wessel Stinebring '78, live in Spofford, New Hampshire. That's it for our class notes. I did have an e-mail from Allison Ewing '81 reaching out to all 1979-1981 Kappa Alpha Thetas and friends to say that there is a Facebook group trying to connect and make plans for a reunion in 2010.
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MaryBeth Pinard-Brace
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1981
Hello Class of '81! Since we haven't had a secretary for a while, I am stepping in and thought I'd get the ball rolling with some news of my own. I now live in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, with my wife, Margaret; son, Calvin, 12; Burke, 10; and Clara, 8. When I left UVM, I went back to being a milkman for a local dairy, then bartended around Burlington. (Working at Hunt's was my favorite stint). I got into mortgage banking in '87 and have been at it ever since, although I did a little commercial banking for BB&T in the early 2000s in Baltimore. We moved from Burlington to Charleston, South Carolina, eleven years ago to escape the winters and clouds. I am currently a mortgage correspondent lending rep for BB&T (a large regional bank based out of North Carolina), and have been back here in the Charleston area since 2005, when we returned from Baltimore. I would love to hear what is up with all 1981 classmates.
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1982
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John Scambos
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1983
Nancy Riddel Moore, an adapted physical education teacher at Portsmouth High School, took the first High School Penguin Plunge, with 150 participants, into the ocean in January to raise money for the Special Olympics. She said she wanted to practice before taking her first plunge, but her husband talked her out of it. "He said 'you'll do it once, and then you won't want to do it again'." Moore took the plunge with her daughter Brooke, a freshman at Dover High School. The High School Penguin Plunge brought in more than $37,000 for the Special Olympics. I am pleased to announce that Senator Susan Garrett, Dr. Tammy Novak and I are working on the First Annual Dr. Novak's Hope Clinic to offer free preventive annual exams to all the uninsured women of Chicago. This event is meant to help save lives and draw attention to the paramount problem in our country of millions of Americans' need for health insurance. I have fallen in love with the Windy City and look forward to a great spring and summer.
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Sharon Morrissey Young
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1984
Victoria Palmer Vestuto announces that she has become an author. She is very excited to see where this new adventure takes her. Viki's book, The Joy of Living an Organized Life (J.A. Rock & Co), will donate all proceeds to Focus on the Family, a non-profit organization. "This little book offers hundreds of easy-to-implement suggestions – and countless tips on how readers can 'beat the clock,' gain control, and finally relax in today's busy world." Available through bookstores and websites as well as directly from the publisher (www.rockpublishing.com). Kelly M. McDonald is also seeing her work in print. Her article "Derbyshires Corresponding: Elizabeth Bennet and the Austen Tour of 1833" will appear in Persuasions, the peer-reviewed journal of the Jane Austen Society of North America (JASNA). This is the second article Persuasions has accepted. "Edward Austen's Emma Reads Emma" was published in 2008. Also in 2008, two articles on Emma Austen's sister, Fanny Seymour, appeared in Local Past: The Newsletter of the Alcester and District Historical Society (Warwickshire, England). We have heard from Amy Muse. She lives in Sewickley, Pennsylvania, with her husband Rob and two boys, Griffin, 15, and Lucas, 10, and their golden doodle, Teddy. She plays a lot of paddle tennis in the winter and is a consultant for the Carlisle Collection. She also does real estate closings for a title company. She keeps in touch UVMers Beth Holstad Richter, Helen Toro Rothschild, Pam Jackson Durniak, Beth Walker Mecke '85, and Abby Goldberg Kelley. Dave Wark lives in Burlington with his wife, Debbie, and has two sons, Tyler, a freshman at Middlebury College, where he is on the baseball team, and Nate, a freshman in high school. Dave owns DW Construction and builds custom homes. Shelley and Abby want to say hello to Jane O'Brien Henegan, who is living in Alaska. Jane, let us know what you are up to. Linda Bogardus has joined TD Insurance, Inc., in Burlington as an account manager in the core division of commercial lines. She is responsible for marketing and servicing large commercial insurance accounts throughout the region. To everyone from the class of 1984, please be in touch, we are looking forward to hearing from you.
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Abby Goldberg Kelley
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Kelly McDonald
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Shelley Carpenter Spillane
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Laurie Olander Angle
class.notes@uvm.edu
1985
Ira Trombley told me that he was appointed to the Smart Growth Committee. Smart Growth will promote development while preserving Vermont's nature and traditions. By the time you read this, Ira will be a grandfather, with a grandbaby coming in December. W. Patrick Murphy wrote that he and his family (wife, Kathleen, and three children) have enjoyed another five-year stretch overseas with the Department of State, including assignments at U.S. Embassies in Burma and the Kingdom of Lesotho, the latter as deputy chief of mission. They returned to Washington, D.C. in 2008, where Patrick is spending an academic year at the National War College. They recently experienced an exchange of visits with Peter Jensen '85 and family who reside and work in Tanzania. Laura Rose Galli wrote that she volunteers as a camp counselor one week every summer at Camp Ta-Kum-Ta, a camp for children with cancer, ages 7-17. Gary Alan Klinefelter reports that he is soon to be semi-retired. Jacquelyn Whitehorne Madsen of Cranford, New Jersey shared this: "Donna Kiley, Dana Drew Wagner, Jeannie Dougherty Keily, and I all spent Presidents weekend at Donna's house in Jericho, Vermont skiing with our husbands and children. We all get together every few months in Vermont, Connecticut, or New Jersey." Marc and Chris (Pizzo '86) Hartstein continue to live in Baltimore, Maryland. Chris owns a home organizing business and Marc is a deputy group director for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid programs. Their oldest son, Joey, is a freshman at the University of Maryland and they live with their two younger children, Luke, 16, and Hannah, 8.
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Barbara Roth
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1986
Deborah Dunlap Avasthi wrote in with the sad news of Ross Abrams's death in February of this year. "A great guy and one who loved his days at UVM. I believe he may have been on the tennis team and certainly enjoyed skiing the Green Mountains. He will be sorely missed by all that knew and loved him."
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Larry Gorkun
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1987
Hi everyone! Hope you are all doing well! So glad to hear from Terri Healey recently (it's been way too long). She just started a new job with USI New England and is now on the broker side (versus carrier side) for employee benefits–group medical/dental/401k and also does property and casualty insurance. Thanks to Liz Anklow for writing in a big update. She wrote "It has been a really long time since I have focused on how many years have passed since we graduated. I am in touch with a handful of people from UVM and was just up in Burlington last summer for the first time in many years. It was really amazing to be back. Tal Cohen, now Shore, and I are still very much in touch and we were just all together on MLK Day when she brought her two kids, Dov and Adi, out to my house for lunch and a movie. Our children are of similar ages; my son, Jack, is seven and my daughter, Lucy, is four. I married a journalist who covers the financial markets for Reuters and we have been married since September 2000. I am have been working in the public relations field for the last seventeen years and the last ten years have been at an agency in New York City called Dan Klores Communications (DKC) I do consumer, corporate, brand strategy and entertainment. My husband and I moved from the Upper West Side to South Orange, New Jersey when Lucy was born, and I commute daily on New Jersey Transit to my office on 27th and Park. Just two weeks ago, we went to visit Pam Grand Frank and her husband and two kids in Lawrenceville, New Jersey. We had a great time. I am also in communication with Lisa Lewis, whom I saw last year when she passed through New York City. Last summer during a family vacation at Smugglers' Notch, we met up with Dan Seff, who is an attorney up in New York City and it was great to see him as well." Matt Kenna was excited to share the news with us that he argued his first case to the U.S. Supreme Court on October 8, in Summers v. Earth Island Institute, representing conservation groups challenging a Forest Service rule cutting the public out of timber sale decisions. He would love to hear from fellow UVMers at kenna@westernlaw.org. David Crowley shared that Jack Ross Crowley was born November 14, 2008 in Alexandria, Virginia, to David and his wife Susan Kelly Crowley. He is the first child for the couple, who was married in November, 2006. After years of consulting for consumer products companies, Steven Schultz and his wife Nora have started Naturally Nora, Inc. (www.naturallynora.com). Their company produces all-natural baking mixes that can be found in stores across the country. Steven looks forward to reconnecting with his UVM classmates. Risa Dean Holmes wrote from Evergreen, Colorado, to report the passing of Ross Abrams '86 after a strong, courageous battle with brain cancer. He will be greatly missed by his family and friends. Bill Smith wrote me a nice long email update: "After graduating I kicked around at loose ends for a few years, in the process losing track of nearly everyone I knew at UVM. Please let them know I am alive, well, and very happy with my family and law practice. I went to law school (not much else to do with a history degree if you don't teach!), graduating in 1992. I have worked in Vermont as an attorney since then, most recently before my current position in Essex Junction. Since 2005 I have been a partner in a small law practice in Northfield, Vermont. My home life is (finally) wonderful; I married Vanessa Khouri G'98 in 1995, and we have two beautiful daughters, Maia, seven, and Greta, five. Future Catamounts, no doubt. Beautiful, athletic, and intelligent, like their mother. Small town life in the Village of Northfield is nice, but we also like to get to Burlington (or even larger towns!) whenever we can. My interests include fishing, hunting, and skiing; same as twenty-one years ago." Lastly, it is with great sadness I report that Helen Fischer Carbonneau '83 wrote in and shared that her sister, Marianne Fischer Rejewski, passed away on January 29, 2009. She was a nurse in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
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Sarah Reynolds
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1988
Todd Tyrell was recently selected to play for the US Masters Basketball team, headed to Israel in July '09 to compete against other countries in the World Maccabiah Games.
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Cathy Selinka Levison
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1989
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