A NOTE FROM CARLA LINEBACK DIRECTOR OF ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: One of my favorite parts of this job is having alumni stop by for a visit. Louis Meucci and Hirak Biswas, both ICT 23, spent two Back row L-R Michael Furtado, Susan (Shrank) Furtado, Virginia “Ginna” Portman-Amis, N. Patricia Brogdon-Gomez, days on campus recently, visiting Cindy Anson, Rob (Reggie) Anson, Cathy Berger, International Education classes with Front Row, L-R Claire Lematta, Grace Johnson, Fernando Gomez-Frutos (ISE-International Student of English), Professor Sora Friedman, PIM 35, Sue Raufer, Rob Rosenberger, Lisa Soldat, Robert Lawson, Bari Shamas and Professor Emerita Linda Drake Gobbo. They also met with other administrators and visited with There is something really magical about We loved it so much we are already Alvino Fantini, professor emeritus A REUNION these reunions. How we see our younger planning to do it again. Same space, and director of the Institutional selves and our mature beings all in one. two years and one week later, so more Archives (photo below). While we IN VERMONT How we continue to learn about and from people can come. A smaller group may Did you know that SIT granted over 500 each other. The last two reunions were meet again in Colorado next year. And undergraduate degrees as part of the held at my house in Westminster West, maybe more will join Bob Lawson and his World Issues Program (WIP) that ran Vermont. The space holds each person amazing wife Cicely to walk the Camino for 25 years? While the undergraduate with love and caring and each person de Santiago in Spain next year, just as programs we offer now are in the form of responds with the same. Though we this year the reunion season started early SIT’s semester and summer study abroad ventured into Brattleboro on Saturday when Claire Lematta, Lisa Soldat and Bari programs, the WIP program is part of our late morning to visit the farmer’s market, Shamas met in April to walk the Camino walked around campus, we shared treasured history and the relationships most everyone headed back to the Big with Bob, Cicely, and their travel group. various memories, compared notes formed during that program remain Mama House to marvel at our good on how buildings were used, and If your class wants to have a reunion at strong. Here’s a reunion story submitted fortune of being together. talked about how small the world Bari’s house, contact her, she is open to by Bari Shamas, WIP 7. Remember that really is, especially when looking at it If you want a recipe for a great reunion, hosting these sorts of gatherings. Write the Alumni Office can support your through the SIT lens. start with beautiful people. Give to [email protected]. reunion efforts and perhaps even provide yourselves time. Make food. Share it. Have If you’re passing through Brattleboro, some SIT goodies. loosely facilitated group discussions. please consider reaching out to me We did it again. WIP VII’s, Miracle WIPs, Have your old faculty join in for meals as I’d love to host you, catch up, and Sevens, WIPsters—we reunited. Second and talks. Let everyone gab in their see what this office can do for you! Help others experience the time in four years. Some were suspicious smaller groups. Skype in classmates magic of SIT. in foreign lands who are there doing that 2019’s reunion could match the Visit: sit.edu/give magic of 2014. Doubts quickly dissipated. amazing work.

experience teaching there in the 1980s, after three years of serving overseas in Integrated Systems of Care Division at ALUMNI NEWS the book is one woman’s love story with Jerusalem and Nazareth as a Missionary the Department of Healthcare Services. rural China as it rushes toward becoming with the Episcopal Church and Jerusalem She will be working on organizational Jeff Lansdale, ICT 25 1979, lives in a nation of city-dwellers. Facing culture Peacebuilders. Now based in Houston, development and strategic planning for Honduras where he is president of clashes that test her beliefs, she begins to TX as Program Director of Jerusalem Medi-Cal/Medicaid programs in California. Zamorano University, an institution with see herself in a new way. Peacebuilders, Jack is developing their She is a proud mother of two, a son who a rigorous curriculum for 1,200 students domestic programming. is in first grade and a three-year-old from more than 20 countries. The Stephen Sadlier, MAT 31 ESOL Spanish daughter. university is currently looking for certified Generalist 1999, recently published Jaime Durham, MAT 44 TESOL 2012, English teachers. Movements on the Streets and in Schools: is the new administrative manager for Riah Werner, MAT 47 TESOL 2015, is an State Repression, Neoliberal Reforms, the Broad Brook Community Center English Language Fellow at the National Denise Wallace, PIM 36 1985, was and Oaxaca Teacher Counter-Pedagogies. in Guilford, VT. Jaime received her BA Pedagogical Institute for Technical and recently named vice president and He is currently working at the South from Cornell University, and MA from Professional Training in Abidjan, Côte general counsel at Florida A&M Puget Sound Community College in SIT Graduate Institute, where she has d’Ivoire. She is developing a national University. She earned her BA in Washington. also worked. She has been a language professional development program for journalism/English from the University of instructor in Thailand and South Korea, Ivorian English teachers, which includes Massachusetts at Amherst and her MA Jessica (Hillard) Goldberg, PIM a children’s librarian, and, most recently, delivering twice monthly workshops for in Intercultural Service, Leadership, and 65 Peacebuilding and Conflict was on the staff of Hilltop Montessori in-service teachers at ten focus schools, Management from SIT. Denise served Transformation 2005, co-authored an School in Brattleboro. creating a website with videos and as assistant city attorney for the City of article about the work she was able to teaching materials accessible throughout Miami, assistant school board attorney do at her practicum site in 2008-2010 Shinichiro Matsuguma, MAT 44 TESOL the country, and planning Côte d’Ivoire’s for Miami-Dade County Public Schools; before completing her SIT degree. Jessica 2012, is a PhD student specializing in first national English teaching conference. and general counsel for Palm Beach is grateful to SIT for the opportunity positive psychology at Keio University She also designed an English for State College. to learn and prepare for the work she School of Medicine in Tokyo and has set Leadership course, which uses materials is doing now in restorative justice and up a non-profit to rehabilitate hikikomori Judy Sharkey, MAT 20 TESOL 1989, has from the Young African Leaders Initiative mediation. (people who have remained isolated at four recent publications, Self-Study of to prepare advanced students to become home for at least six consecutive months) Language and Literacy Teacher Education Jonathan Andrew, PIM 68 International leaders in their communities. called the Strength Association. He’s Practices: Culturally and Linguistically Education 2008, has co-authored provided coaching to 32 patients using Congratulations to Alex Beck, PIM Diverse Contexts; Missing a S-STEP: an interactive book, LOOK UP— principles from positive psychology, 72 Intercultural Leadership 2012, and How Self Study of Teacher Education Gaining Insight and Direction Through which focuses on strengths rather than Steffen Gillom, PIM 75 Peacebuilding Practice can Support the Language Experiential Learning—For Your Personal flaws. The majority of his clients play and Conflict Transformation 2015, who Teacher Education Knowledge Base; The Professional and Civic Life. Jon and video games so this typically involves were named 2019 Emerging Leaders Promising Potential Role of Intercultural his co-author identify and examine discussing playing styles and motivations of Southern Vermont. Alex is the Citizenship in Preparing Mainstream the choices that students face when to identify strengths like teamwork, Workforce & Education Program Manager Teachers for Im/migrant Populations; navigating through their institutions of strategy or leadership. for Brattleboro Development Credit and Engaging Research: Transforming higher learning, workplaces and global Corporation and Steffen is President of Practices for the Elementary Classroom. society. Jon is currently a faculty member Stephanie Morgena, DC 2 Sustainable the Windham County NAACP, and VPR at Northeastern University. Development 2012, was promoted Nancy E. Dollahite, MAT 21 1991, recently Commentator. from Chief of the Quality Management published Field Notes From Sichuan: Jack Karn, PIM 73 Peacebuilding and Section to Assistant Chief of the Learning To Be a Foreigner. Based on her Conflict Transformation 2013, returned

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