Volume XXIX • Number 3 Summer 2013 Keene State Today THE MAGAZINE FOR ALUMNI AND FRIENDS

withDistinction GREAT STUDENTSn Campus standouts Thoughts on the theatre

GREAT FACULTYn Far-flung Fulbrights David Henning ’13 A lineup of luminaries architecture GREAT ALUMNIn National honor brings music major Heidi Welch ’96 to the White House … and more

SUMMER 2013 Introducing the 10th President of Keene State College Dr. Anne Huot

eene State College’s new leader already has a academic administration. She comes to Keene State couple of things in common with a number of from The College at Brockport, State University of New Kthe students on campus: she’s New Hampshire York, where she served for six years as provost and vice born and bred, and she’s from the first generation of her president of academic affairs. family to go on to higher education. In her remarks to the College community after the Anne Huot, PhD, was named the 10th president of the trustees voted unanimously to appoint her president, College March 26 at a meeting of the University System Dr. Huot invoked the College motto: “I am entering to of New Hampshire Board of Trustees in the Mabel Brown learn, and I look forward to going forth to serve.” Room of the Young Student Center. “New Hampshire is

Hometown: Manchester, New Hampshire

Education: BS in Medical Technology, University of New Hampshire; MS in Medical Technology, University of Vermont; PhD in Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Vermont

Resume: Faculty, University of Vermont, 1990-1999; interim and then executive dean of the Graduate College, University of Vermont, 1999-2003; associate provost and then executive vice provost and head of the Office of Academic Affairs, State University of New York-System Administration in Albany, 2003-2007; provost and vice president for academic affairs, The College at Brockport, State University of New York, 2007-2013

Family: Partner, Joanne Cepelak, PhD Photo: Mark Corliss my home, and the opportunity to further establish Keene Following a reception, Dr. Huot met with the Student State College as a preeminent public liberal arts college Assembly. “I took this position for you,” she told the is both humbling and exciting,” she told the gathered assembly members, “to ensure stewardship of your faculty, staff, and students. Her partner, Joanne Cepelak, education. It is important that you and the generations and her father, Don Huot, who lives in Manchester, were of students to come continue to have access to the on hand for the introduction and reception. outstanding education that is a hallmark of Keene State College.” Dr. Huot’s academic career has been public higher education-based, starting with her own undergraduate NRead more online at keene.edu/mag. and graduate studies at the universities of New Hampshire and Vermont. Since earning her PhD, she’s Coming in the next issue of Keene State Today: conducted research in her field, served on the faculties a conversation with Dr. Anne Huot. of the state universities of Vermont and New York, and taken on positions of increasing responsibility in

KEENE STATE TODAY keene.edu Keene State Today Volume XXIX Number 3 Summer 2013 4 8 Contents Editor Jane Eklund [email protected] From the President’s Office Designer A Welcome to Incoming President Anne Huot ...... 2 Tim Thrasher, Thrasher Graphics Production Manager With Distinction Laura Borden ’82 A Note on this Issue...... [email protected] 3

Contributors Great Alumni Stuart Kaufman [email protected] Heidi Welch ’96: A Life Set to Music...... 4

Matt McDougal ’15 Fostering Greatness Shirley McLoughlin Promoting Excellence on Campus and Beyond...... 7

Class Notes Editor Lucy Webb Great Students [email protected] Campus Stand-Outs...... 8 An Oyster of a Theatre Conference ...... Vice President for Advancement 10 Maryann LaCroix Lindberg [email protected] Great Faculty Director of Development Scholars Abroad ...... 12 Kenneth Goebel Above & Beyond ...... 14 [email protected] Faculty & Staff Accomplishments ...... 17 Director of Marketing & Communications Kathleen Williams Great Visibility [email protected] Keene State: The Word is Out! ...... 18 Director of Alumni and Parent Relations Patty Farmer ’92 [email protected] Great Athletes

Alumni Association President Two for the Record Books ...... 19 David Westover ’72 [email protected] Class Notes

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know them and encouraging their intellectual curiosity From Jay Kahn, and career ambitions has greatly enriched my year. Interim President, 2012-2013 Ensuring that students and potential students have A Welcome to Incoming President Anne Huot access to affordable, quality public higher education and a Look Back over the Past Year continues to be a major concern. The sticker price of tuition and other fees inhibits some students from elcome, Anne, to a community dedicated to attending and causes others to put off college or drop student success. From distinguished professors out before graduating. Making the case for greater Wto financial aid staff, from academic and student support to donors and legislators has taken admissions advisors to athletic coaches, from alumni a lot of time and effort this year. The campus itself is mentors to grounds and trades staff, the Keene State energizing, and then I’ve had to convey that energy in College community is committed to helping undergraduate students succeed.

Who are those students? Many are traditional high school graduates, but increasing numbers are nontraditional in their age, in their workforce history, in military experience, and in cultural backgrounds that they bring to the College. The campus is becoming more diverse and more global in its perspectives.

Many of us at Keene State recognize the transformations that occur through public higher education because we are ourselves products of public institutions. I often find myself talking about students’ multidisciplinary experiences, which begin when they take their introductory integrated studies courses in writing and quantitative literacy. Once they get familiar with their majors, they begin to branch out to other fields, so

that by the time they’re seniors, they’ve been able to Photo: Lynn Roman cultivate an interest in multiple disciplines. What many academics have discovered in their own study is that the really interesting work is done where disciplines terms of value added to the state by educating in-state converge, and you can make greater contributions students here at KSC – value evident through the to your personal development and your intellectual projects students complete, the awards students, thought where you connect multiple disciplines around faculty and the College receive, and the jobs graduates problems and solutions. fill in-state.

Students also have had opportunities to broaden their The end of the school year, with its graduation and own scope of influence at the College, community, honors ceremonies and its orientation sessions and state levels this year. They’ve participated in for admitted first-year students, is a reminder that community service days, met with lawmakers, transitions are important moments. For our seniors, hosted visiting officials, attended alumni events, culminating experiences like the Academic Excellence and testified at legislative hearings. Conference serve to anchor what they’ve accomplished and launch them on the next stage of life. For incoming As president, I’ve discovered how easy it is to form students, their arrival on campus is full of expectations relationships with our students. I’ve interacted with and promise. them through programs like the Student Ambassadors, through campus performances and events, through This summer, the College itself undergoes a transition, Student Assembly and class officer meetings, through as I move on from my year as interim president and our recognition occasions like a breakfast for this year’s all- new president settles in. Anne, I wish you the best in American athletes, and while taking Maizey, my golden your new beginning here. May you be as supported and retriever, on night-time walks through campus. They’ve energized by the campus community as I have been in shared with me their stories about how their time at my years at Keene State. Keene State has given direction to their lives. Getting to

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sk Jay Kahn, interim president 2012-13, about excellence at MUSINGS ON EXCELLENCE A Keene State College, and he talks about areas of distinction. “It’s important to have a core We asked a handful of people areas of study; you don’t just pick one around which you can define to share their thoughts on major, you pick a lot of different things excellence,” he says. “Excellence excellence, how it’s manifested and try to figure out needs to be purposeful and at Keene State, and why it’s how to combine integrated, and through that important. Here’s a sampling them to really suit you get a sense of cohesion, your interest. And of the responses: cohesiveness, and synergy.” students are very engaged on this He mentions student “Faculty scholarship, student learning achievements in the humanities, and scholarship, campus. They’re outstanding music and theatre facilities technology passionate about performances, a growing body of access, experiential their fields of study, student research in the sciences, learning: they they’re passionate about service, they’re project-based experiences in the all need to be passionate about student affairs issues.” social sciences. He brings up the exemplary. Then – Allie Bedell ’14 versatility of the student body and you get the synergy Honors Program, political science/journalism how students’ interests overlap fields of study. He talks about and the cohesion major, Holocaust and genocide studies minor the interest of employers in the and the integration College’s students, and about and the evidence of excellence.” “In thinking about excellence from collaborations in the community. – Jay Kahn the standpoint of advancement and “I think that physically this Interim President 2012-13 philanthropy, I thought through what campus embodies the strength of it is we’re actually doing and why. We these areas of distinction,” he says, “I think excellence is a way of perceiving are giving students the opportunity to pointing to the success of the new yourself and the world. That perception fulfill their potential for excellence, and TDS building in lifting the level providing the faculty with the resources of student work. “To be able translates into doing the best job you and the environment and the opportunity to transfer what takes place can do. We all have choices – many to live up to their full capacity. We’re within buildings to the buildings times a day. We can choose to do a job themselves, their appearance, completely, to the best of our ability, or raising money, we’re getting partners in is what makes this campus to take shortcuts. If we care about our from the community and corporations environment unique and students, our colleagues, and ourselves, and other areas in order to enable a attractive.” we figure out student to say, This is where I want to what needs to go, this is what I want to accomplish with At Keene State, we celebrate the be done and we my life, and now I’m ready to do that. If achievements of our students, do it right. The our faculty are doing research in an area, graduates, faculty and staff, and or they want to be the very best teacher programs on a regular basis, and, result is a high at biology or social in fact, we could easily fill every level of personal science or whatever edition of Keene State Today with satisfaction, respect stories about awards and from others, it is, the philanthropy accolades. In this issue, we’re and successful we are doing means honoring some of the recent contributions to student success.” we’re bringing standout accomplishments not together as many – Andrew Robinson because they are unusual but resources and as because they are representative Vice President for Student Affairs many partners as we of the kind of success Keene State can to support each community members achieve “At Keene State, excellence is very individual to fulfill that potential.” every day on campus and in the apparent. Getting an education isn’t only world. They also demonstrate about going to class. So many students – Maryann LaCroix Lindberg how, in combination, the College’s are fulfilling multiple degrees or multiple Vice President for Advancement various areas of distinction add up to a culture of excellence. SUMMER 2013 • 3 Photos: Will Wrobel ’11

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Heidi Welch ’96 A Life Set to Music A Focus on Students Makes a State and National Impact

By Jane Eklund

art coach, part den mother, part motivational and elementary schoolers in Claremont. When she speaker, and all music teacher, Heidi (Blish) started at Hillsboro-Deering, the school’s music program PWelch ’96 stands facing the altar of the Smith was limited to the band. Congregational Church in Hillsborough, New Hampshire, where the 60-plus students in the Hillsboro-Deering Welch added a guitar program, seeing that as a way to High School Chorus are arranged in tiers, and offers get students into the music room. She added courses, a kind of invocation. including music theory and some that are much less standard: Musical Theatre Appreciation, American “This is the biggest choral work we’ve ever done,” she History through Music, and Music in Film. A once-a-week tells the students, who stand with their eyes closed, afterschool chorus that drew six girls the first year has some swaying slightly. “Make this piece bigger than you grown into a class of 65 with an ample supply of male ever, ever expected. … Let that hope and that light in.” voices – not bad for a school of 440.

The chorus members have just And all that time, she’s been finished an early-morning rehearsal The minute you walk into my room, creating a space where students of John Rutter’s “Requiem,” which you become part of this family. can belong. “The minute you they are scheduled to perform at walk into my room, you become an upcoming concert at the church part of this family,” she’d told to benefit suicide prevention. Welch’s pep talk seems the choral singers earlier. The music room, its concrete designed as much to launch the young people into the block wall a quilt of messages painted by graduating world as to rev them up for the concert. “You will have seniors, is testament to that. an impact. A huge impact,” she tells them. “This is a place where I want them to feel safe, The impact Welch has had on the“ hundreds of students where I ”want them to feel loved, where I want them she’s taught in her 17-year career was recently to feel supported, where I will keep extremely high acknowledged in a big way. After being selected the expectations,” she says. “The expectations musically are 2013 New Hampshire Teacher of the Year, she was named one of four finalists for National Teacher of the Year, a program sponsored by the Council of Chief State School Officers.

The designation earned her a trip to Washington, DC, for a ceremony with President Obama in the White House Rose Garden. She also participated with the other finalists and the winner, Jeff Charbonneau of Washington state, in a round-table discussion on education led by Jill Biden, a teacher and the wife of Vice President Joe Biden. A Place to Feel Safe After the chorus rehearsal wraps up, Welch and her students return to the high school, a short walk away. She settles into the music room, an airy, colorful space, and looks back over her teaching life. She’s been at this school for most of her career, taking the job 15 years ago after a two-year stint teaching music to kindergartners Heidi Welch directs the Hillsboro-Deering High School Chorus.

SUMMER 2013 • 5 department. She’s still connected with the college: she takes on Keene State student teachers most years, and is scheduled next year to teach two courses at KSC – a night class, Musical Theatre Appreciation, in the fall, and Women in Music in the spring. With a master’s in education from New England College, she is pursuing a doctorate through Walden University. She is the parent of three: stepdaughter Brianna Welch, 17; daughter Katherine Ort (whose father is her first husband, Kevin Ort ’95), 15; and 3-year-old Noah, her son with Randy Welch, whom she married in 2006.

Life is good. The national Teacher of the Year finalist tells her students at Hillsboro-Deering that her wish

Official White House Photo by Lawrence Jackson Official for them is that they find work they love as much as Heidi Welch’s White House visit included a photo op with she loves her work. the president in the Oval Office. “I don’t take sick days,” she says, “hardly any at all, because who would not want to come into this space high, my expectations for them academically are high. every day? It’s not a cubicle where you’re just punching I want them to be smart, I want them to be musicians, in numbers, it’s really cool. So being honored like that, not just players and singers, and at the same time I want for something that you love doing, it seems so crazy.” them to feel like when they come in this room, they’re going to feel their support system. And I tell them all the NRead more online at keene.edu/mag. time, You are a member of this family.” ‘Band Meant Everything’ Welch is the first to note that her own growing-up What else have Keene State alumni been up years were less than ideal. Born in Claremont, New to in the awards and accolades department? Hampshire, she landed in Manchester in fifth grade, then bounced around dozens of addresses in the city as Here’s just a sampling: her family was evicted again and again. She found her Michelle Tiani ’03, an elementary school physical center by focusing on her studies, and by joining the education teacher and high school coach for the Keene chorus in middle school and high school. At the end of School District, has been named Elementary School her sophomore year at Manchester Central High School, a music teacher handed her a school euphonium and Physical Education Teacher of the Year for New Hampshire. directed her to learn to play it over the summer so she NRead more online at keene.edu/mag. could join the school band. Kristine Finnegan ’91 was selected 2012 New “I loved being in band. When I was in high school, Hampshire Library Director of the Year by the NH Library being in band meant everything to me, being in chorus meant everything to me. I think it was because it gave Trustees Association. Finnegan heads up the library in me a family, it gave me a home when I had no safety at small-town Nelson, where, during her 20-year tenure, a home.” new library building has been constructed and the old library listed on the state Register of Historic Places. When her family moved to the other side of the city, Read more online at keene.edu/mag. Welch walked miles to and from Manchester Central N every day rather than transfer to another school, The Samaritans and the organization’s program because she didn’t want to leave the band behind. coordinator, Carmen (Prandini) Trafton ’95, received Close Connections to KSC the 2013 Campus Compact Presidents’ Community Partner Award for the training of Keene State students to Even though she intended to study English in college, Welch chose Keene State partly because of its staff a crisis hotline and provide support to those in need affordability as a state school but mostly because she in and around Keene. wanted to study with Doug Nelson (who retired in 2006 as director of the music program). Within weeks Keene State Alumni Award winners were honored at of her arrival on campus, she dropped her plans to the reunion luncheon in June. They are: concentrate on the classics and British lit and became • Sprague Drenan Award: Susan Fortier ’86 a music education major. She also, at Prof. Nelson’s • Alumni Achievement Award: Dr. Walter Asonevich ’77 suggestion, put down the euphonium and picked up • Outstanding Service Award: Dr. Jay Kahn, Interim the French horn. President, 2012-13 “I had an amazing education at Keene,” she says, • Alumni Inspiration Award: Shawn Curtis ’99 pointing to the benefits of a small, supportive music

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From left: A student discusses his work with NH architects (NRead more online at keene.edu/mag); KSC honors outstanding women; Chinese educators visit; students present at the Academic Excellence Conference. Promoting Excellence on Campus and Beyond Whether it’s on campus or in Dartmouth-Hitchcock Keene, Dr. NH Department of Education, is the community, among students Loren Launen, Keene State biology scheduled for campus July 24 and 25. or faculty or outside achievers, professor, and Deena Snoke ’13, a biology major who has represented n Twenty-two educators from Keene State seeks to cultivate the College in national forums. Shanghai, China, visited campus in excellence – by hosting February for an exchange on teaching conferences, honoring notable n From July 1, 2011, to June 30, 2012, approaches and helping students citizens, and encouraging good 1,094 KSC students put in 62,882 succeed. hours of community service. That works. Here’s a sampling of number helped lead to the College n The 13th annual Academic recent occasions of the college being named to the 2013 President’s Excellence Conference, which fostering excellence. Higher Education Community Service highlights research by Keene State Honor Roll by the Corporation for students, was held at the college in n Keene State presented the National and Community Service. April. 2013 Outstanding Women of New n Hampshire awards in March. The n The New Hampshire Science The New Hampshire chapter of honorees were Dr. Trinidad Tellez, Teachers’ Association held its the American Institute of Architects director of the Office of Minority conference in the Putnam Science met on campus April 25. Members Health and Refugee Affairs at the NH Center during the college’s spring enjoyed a dinner, talked with senior Department of Health and Human break. architecture majors about their Services, Dr. Yvonne Goldsberry, entries in a design competition, and n senior director of community The Summer Statewide Educator toured the TDS Center. Health at Cheshire Medical Center/ Conference, co-sponsored with the

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ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE CONFERENCE 2013 participants reflect on the academic fields they love.

“There are many things I like about being a mathematics major. One thing I enjoy is the sense of community I get with the students and professors in the department. Everyone is always friendly and willing to help each other. I also enjoy the opportunities that being a math and education major has provided me with, such as tutoring in the math center and in local elementary, middle, and high schools.”

“Ever since I was young, I’ve been interested in building things. When I was in high school I discovered a few courses in architectural drafting that really captured my heart and mind. The combination of mathematics, leadership, and creativity that are essential in architecture fit my personality very well. … I love that I have the opportunity to take classes outside of the architecture program that relate to my field of study – for example, the construction management courses I completed alongside my required architecture courses.”

Rebecca Brady ’14, mathematics and Jacob Blake ’13, architecture major. At the secondary education major. She’s presented AEC, he was part of a group that presented her paper “Rectangular Occurrence of Pi” at a workshop, “TDS Center as a Teaching three conferences, including the Academic Tool.” His future plans include working as Excellence Conference, and is headed to an assistant manager for a construction Bosnia for the summer to intern at the Tuzla company and coming back to campus for Summer Institute. visits – something he recommends that all alumni do. Will Wrobel ’11 Photos: Wrobel Will

8 • KEENE STATE TODAY keene.edu “I chose architecture because the classes are small yet competitive, the faculty are well versed in their respective specialties, and the TDS Center is one of the best buildings on campus with regards to fostering a dynamic and intellectual environment.”

David Henning ’13, architecture major. He hopes to work internationally as an architect. At the AEC, he gave an oral presentation: “Investigating the Use of the Sterling Memorial Library as Propaganda for the Relationship Between the Sacred and the Secular at Yale University.”

“I enjoy that I am able to surround myself with passionate and talented artists who simultaneously support me in endeavors and “As a graphic push me to do better. This year, I created a seven- designer, I minute original dance work entitled ‘Composition’ love what I do; that features an original, live musical score for I never stop Research and Choreography class that has been designing. selected by dance faculty to be fully produced in Whether it’s An Evening of Dance 2013.” for a class, on my own, Alexander Davis or analyzing ’14, theatre designs in my and dance head, relaxing, major. He and hanging out another student with friends, performed and listening Composition to music all help to rejuvenate my design and Movement: abilities, which also helps inspire me to A Collaboration complete my next project.” at the AEC. At Keene State, he Victoria White ’13, graphic design participates in major. The recipient of a Graphic Design service projects, Fellowship scholarship, she and another serves as a student created a poster presentation for resident assistant, the AEC titled “A Method to the Madness: and does improv A Look at the Process and Methodologies comedy. Employed in Graphic Design III.”

“I like how the material I learn about in class can be used to gain a better understanding of how people operate outside the classroom, and I can apply that information to my own relationships. Studying psychology has helped with my personal growth as an individual.”

Emily Winskowicz ’14, psychology major. At the AEC, she took part in a panel discussion, “Global Engagement in Nicaragua,” contributing knowledge and insights she picked up in Nicaragua last summer. The most interesting research project she’s undertaken, she says, was a paper on Nicaraguan mural paintings.

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AN OYSTER OF A THEATRE CONFERENCE, with Multiple Pearls By Matt McDougal ’15 Photo: ’11 Wrobel Will

Seventeen students in the Theatre and Dance Department headed to Cape Cod at the end of January to participate in the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, Region 1. They presented work in the areas of acting, design, stage management, and theatre criticism, and took home a number of honors, from a national honorable mention for Excellence in Sound Design to a regional first place in Costume Design. (NRead more online at keene.edu/mag.) Matt McDougal, who took the stage at the festival to perform scenes and a monologue, penned this account of his experiences.

started preparing for the 2013 Region One Kennedy Center for Ameri- can College Theater Festival (or, to shorten that mouthful, ACTF) way back before the new year, honing two scenes and a monologue from the plays Oedipus at Colonus (by Sophocles), Sure Thing (by David Ives), and I Am My Own Wife (by Doug Wright). I enjoyed working on the Iscenes immensely, in particular the intensive focus and critical

10 • KEENE STATE TODAY keene.edu feedback provided by PeggyRae Johnson of KSC’s Theatre workshop that focused on devised theatre – a form in and Dance Department for me and my scene partner, which the script grows out of collaborative improvisation Kristen Licht. Although I didn’t progress past the first by a group of people, typically the performers. Routhier round, I’m still proud of the work I presented, and I re- talked about a piece she helped create over the course of ceived really useful feedback from the panel of academ- eight weeks that began as pure improvisation, morphed ics and professionals in the field of theatre. One com- into a creative exploration of Flannery O’Connor’s short mented on my strong stage presence; another on my story “Good Country People,” and ended up being an vocal work. Fortunately, I presented my work relatively adapted performance of the tale. early in the week, and once I had the weight of nerves and stress of the competition lifted from my shoulders, Here’s one thing I took away from that workshop: I felt as though the rest of the week was my oyster, and Sometimes all it takes to create quality work is putting all that remained for me out an idea to the group, was to find the pearl. no matter how good or ACTF was a chance to take part in a conference bad, no matter how much In the end, this oyster ended where hundreds of the most talented theatre you like or dislike it. Just up having multiple pearls. students from New England pool their collective throw something out there. I had the pleasure to meet, energies – and, collectively, we had a blast. That opens the door to connect, and collaborate the next contribution, and with countless students the next – and each one is from schools including Saint Michael’s College, Boston likely to be better than the one before it. The workshop University, and the University“ of Southern Maine. I watched encouraged me to express whatever ideas I have when and was inspired by the exceptional performances they I’m collaborating with a group of people. staged. I still remember viewing one show that left me an emotional train wreck due to its contemporary tragic plot ACTF was a chance” to take part in a conference where and another more traditional piece that had me booming hundreds of the most talented theatre students from with laughter the very next night. New England pool their collective energies – and, collectively, we had a blast. I hope to return next year, to I attended master classes and workshops on various connect with more theatre majors, to learn from more aspects of the craft of theatre, led by people like certified professionals, and to get back up on the stage with new fight choreographers who had been practicing their scenes and monologues to perform. whole lives and the director of the Commonwealth Shakespeare Company in Boston. Nicholette Routhier Because, as they say, the show must go on. of the Dell’Arte International School of Theatre gave a

How else have Keene State placed first for Comprehensive Project of the Year for “Country Life,” a comprehensive students been recognized business plan for a vegan restaurant in downtown recently? Here are just a few Keene. accomplishments: •The Lambda Sigma chapter of Tau Kappa Epsilon Students in last year’s Keene State Small Business took home the 2013 Campus Compact Presidents’ Institute• – a seminar that engages students in solving Leadership award for a student organization for real challenges for real business clients – took home outstanding contributions to College and community two first-place awards at the 2013 Small Business events and service projects. Institute Project of the Year Awards, held in February Three students have been awarded $4,000 KSC at the SBI Conference in Tampa, Florida. Dr. Neal Summer• Undergraduate Research Fellowships. Pruchansky supervised both projects. Johanna DeBari will be comparing and analyzing Elias Grijalva, Abby Hajec, Sylvie McCarthy, Matthew the crime of rape during genocide in Rwanda and Oakley, and Lea Swanson placed first for Specialized in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Jordan Chase will create Project of the Year for “Raw Elements: It’s Not an a large-scale composition for chamber orchestra. Accessory, It’s a Necessity,” a marketing plan for an James Ulcickas will study the chemical components environmentally safe sunscreen. of Japanese knotweed as a supplement to hens’ Wayland Luter, Richard Scappaticci, Brendan Koning, diets and its capacity for boosting omega 3s in eggs. Matt Panicali, and exchange student Lucie Clique NRead more online: keene.edu/mag.

SUMMER 2013 • 11 GREAT FACULTYn Scholars Abroad Winning a coveted Fulbright Scholar Grant means concentrated time to focus on a project, teach, or conduct in-depth research, but it also means learning “by immersion” about a new place and culture. During the 2012- 2013 academic year, two Fulbright Scholars from Keene State’s faculty had the opportunity to be so immersed. Shirley McLoughlin, associate professor of education, sent a missive from the Republic of Georgia, where she lived and worked during the spring semester. Deborah Merchant, also an associate professor of education, sat down with Keene State Today to talk about the three months she spent in Greece during the fall semester. Friendships, Insights, and Enduring Memories By Shirley McLoughlin

ith a great deal of too, have been my experiences of citizens have endured, with thought and preparation, day-to-day living in this country. invasions from the Turks, Mongols, WI headed off to the Shopping at an open market, Ottomans, Persians, and last, Republic of Georgia as part of walking down streets lined with just beyond the mountains, the my sabbatical. However, none vendors selling richly scented Russians. Despite this difficult of the work done beforehand herbs and cheeses, getting together history, the Georgians are prepared me for the rich, exciting for shared meals with Peace Corps exceedingly kind and hospitable, experiences in which I have been volunteers and native Georgians, and have maintained their customs, immersed. This adventure has learning to make kinkhali (a classic culture, and individuality. They are clearly exceeded my expectations. Georgian meat-filled dumpling) a remarkably strong people, and – all of these typical Georgian clearly have provided me with new While in Georgia, I work at Telavi experiences are delightfully new friendships, fresh insights, and State University as a Fulbright to me. Whether struggling with enduring memories of my time Scholar, teaching undergraduates deciphering a few Georgian letters spent in this wonderful country. about blogging in a media class on a store sign, sharing a cup and teaching graduate and doctoral of tea with my sweet landlady, students about educational sharing American blues songs on systems and their development. a neighbor’s guitar as he sings As I express to all my students, the Russian ballads, or weaving a role of teacher and learner truly grapevine wreath with pruned fluctuates in my classes. While I am branches left beneath vines in my introducing students to new ideas yard, I am finding myself more and and ways of thinking and giving more immersed in the culture. them examples of life in the United States, they, in turn, have been The heart of the Khakheti region teaching me about the history of where I am living is the vineyards; their beautiful country, their schools, this is the birthplace of wine, their family life, their customs, where wine producing has been and their rituals. We marvel at our carried out for 8,000 years. The differences and our similarities, and valley has grapevines everywhere, are acutely aware of how we are and overseeing them are the changing our ways of viewing the majestic Caucasus Mountains. As Shirley McLoughlin wrote from her world as part of this interchange of I sit on my balcony looking out rented house in Georgia in mid-April. ideas and knowledge. at the mountains, I think back While she was on her Fulbright, she also at the history of this country, blogged for the Huffington Post. While my experiences in the of the numerous conquests the N Read more online at keene.edu/mag. university have been so fruitful, so, wonderfully welcoming Georgian

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Food, Adventure, and Collaboration

“This experience opened up a conference in Rhodes, Greece, kokoretsi, was particularly tasty – opportunities,” says faculty this summer. though they were a bit taken aback member and alumna Dr. Deb when they learned later it contained Merchant ’80 of her semester at Off campus, Merchant and her liver surrounded by various parts of the University of Macedonia. “I husband, Randall Merchant ’77, a lamb’s intestines. “Had I known, really feel like the focus of my an artist, enjoyed their urban I might not have eaten it” she says, scholarship is shifting to include neighborhood in Thessaloniki, adding, “It was delicious.” an international perspective.”

From her visits to schools in Thessaloniki, Merchant discovered that there are vast differences between the special education systems in Greece and the United States, specifically in the area of inclusion. In Greece, the majority of students with disabilities are educated outside of the general education classroom, most often in a separate school. With this information, she had to switch gears. “I experienced a shift in thinking,” she wrote in her Fulbright report. Instead of highlighting what Greek special educators aren’t doing, the focus should be on what special educators are doing to meet the Photo: ’77 Randall Merchant needs of students with disabilities and how more inclusive settings In addition to teaching and doing research, Deb Merchant toured Greece with her husband. can be created. the Macedonia Region’s capital Merchant left feeling she had just In the process, she gained a city. They also traveled around the scratched the surface in terms of friend and collaborator, Lefkothea country, visiting Rhodes, Delphi, her research and work with special Kartasidou, a professor at the Meteora, and Athens. They hired educators in Greece. Her husband, university with whom she taught a local resident as their tour guide who was very productive during a graduate course, conducted a and visited the countryside, going to their stay, found Greece to be a survey, and led a workshop for vineyards and ancient ruins. great place to create art. special educators. Their work continues, as they communicate And they ate. “What was fun was “I felt like we got a really good on a regular basis via Skype having local folks order at the sense of the country,” Merchant and email. In fact, the two are restaurants,” she remembers. says. “We want to go back and working on an article together, They typically chose meze, or continue our work.” and the results of the survey they small plates, so they could sample conducted will be presented at a variety of foods. One, called

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t’s particularly appropriate that And with fourteen Distinguished “and I try to have very high standards the Alumni Association bestows Teachers from years past still on the and challenge students. So to have the Distinguished Teacher of the faculty and many others who are the validation that all the work and Year Award, notes Patty Farmer retired and living in the area, it’s a thought that goes into teaching is ’92,I director of Alumni and Parent great time to honor their service to recognized – it means a lot.” Relations. Given the College’s the College and to their students, beginnings as a normal school and and to honor the kind of great Each spring a committee that then a teachers’ college, along with teaching that inspired the award. includes past winners, an alumna its long history of producing or alumnus, a representative of the educators, the award is a way to “I put a lot of work into teaching,” says College president’s office, and two honor and continue a great tradition. Therese Seibert, the 2007 honoree, students sifts through a pile of

14 • KEENE STATE TODAY keene.edu Distinguished Teachers of the Year Add up to a Big Presence on Campus Will Wrobel ’11 Photos: Wrobel Will

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hefty nomination packets. The The teacher who’s selected, says a true opportunity for the students’ group considers nomination Farmer, is the one who’s gone above voices to be heard,” Farmer says. essays and the required five and beyond, pushing students to letters of support from colleagues, do their best, providing substantial For the selected faculty members, students, and alumni, and academic guidance, and often the Distinguished Teacher balances them against the contributing to students’ sense designation is a personal honor selection criteria – excellence of responsibility and work ethic. that’s also indicative of Keene State’s in teaching, encouragement of emphasis on quality teaching. The independent thinking, rapport The process is competitive, and the 2010 Distinguished Teacher, Beverly with students, and effective students on the selection committee Ferrucci, calls the award “a superb student advising. typically have a lot of influence. “It’s opportunity to reflect on the

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Above & Beyond: The Faces of the Distinguished Teachers

David Leinster, 1990 Neal Pruchansky, 2004 ultimate value that our College History (retired) Management places on teaching excellence.”

Working with KSC students can be Anne-Marie Mallon, 2009 Paul Vincent, 2008 profoundly gratifying, some of the English and Women’s Studies Holocaust Studies honorees note.

“What made me stay at Keene Richard Cunningham, 1984 Beverly Ferrucci, 2010 State and excel at Keene State was English (retired) Mathematics how much some of the students became capable of doing when you gave them a push,” says Kenneth Bergman, 2000 JoBeth Mullins, 2006 Neal Pruchansky, the 2004 Biology Geography Distinguished Teacher. “Some of their work has been astounding. Ockle Johnson, 2002 Nancy Lory, 2001 They’ve won national awards, and they just have made me Mathematics Special Education (retired) proud to be here.” William Seigh, 2011 Susan Whittemore, 2012 Professor Emerita Eleanor Vander Dance Biology Haegen, the 1989 honoree, reflects on “a wonderful career”: “I do believe that students who came to Jan Youga, 2003 David White, 1985 Keene State were people who had English Education a great deal of talent and who could do wonderful things in our society. This was an opportunity Stephen Stepenuck, 1981 Klaus Bayr, 1995 for them to get an education at a Chemistry (retired) Geography (retired) reasonable cost and go out and do great things. And many of them did. It was good to be part of it.” Albert Rydant, 1991 Therese Seibert, 2007 Geography Sociology N Read more online and download the nomination form at keene.edu/mag. Gregory Knouff, 2005 Eleanor Vander Haegen, 1989 History Sociology (retired)

Your Contributions at Work The financial aid package, along with the scholarships Nathan’s story is common at I have received here at Keene State College, are what Keene State. He is one of the 82 percent of the student made it possible for me to attend school and pursue population that receive financial my dreams. Without assistance, I would not have been aid, and one of 100 percent of able to afford college. The financial assistance here has students who are impacted by turned my dreams into a reality. your gifts. Thank you! Learn more about giving Nathan Bisson ’14, Recipient of the N and donate online at keene. David C. Staples Scholarship and the edu/mag. Keene Tuition Scholarship

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Neal Pruchansky, 2004 Management

Paul Vincent, 2008 Holocaust Studies

Beverly Ferrucci, 2010 Mathematics Beverly J. Ferrucci Jay Kahn Loren Launen Emily Porshitz Christopher Swist Michael Welsh JoBeth Mullins, 2006 Geography Beverly J. Ferrucci, Mathematics Elected president of the Associa- Christopher Swist, Music Named chair of the National tion for the Study of Literature and Celebrated the premiere of his Council of Teachers of Mathematics’ Environment. orchestral work, Abaprima, by the Nancy Lory, 2001 Educational Materials Committee. Bard Conservatory Orchestra at the Special Education (retired) Emily Porshitz, Management Fisher Center in Annandale-on- Meg Henning, Health Science Awarded the 2013 Michael J. Driver Hudson, New York, December 9. Appointed a Takemi Fellow at the Best Regional Paper Award for the Susan Whittemore, 2012 Harvard School of Public Health for most outstanding careers-related pa- Bart Sapeta, Technology, Design, and Biology the 2012-13 academic year. The fel- per scheduled for presentation at the Safety lows come together to focus on the 50th annual meeting of the Eastern Received a Commendation Award Academy of Management in the New Hampshire chapter of David White, 1985 problems of mobilizing, allocating, and maintaining limited resources in Baltimore. the American Institute of Architects’ Education to improve health internationally. 2013 Excellence in Architecture Henning will travel to Zambia this Design Awards. He was honored in the “unbuilt” category for a design Klaus Bayr, 1995 summer to continue her work. Daniel Patterson, Theatre and Dance called “Island Shack.” Geography (retired) Jay Kahn, Interim President Named an honorary Therese Seibert, 2007 member of the New Hampshire chapter of Sociology FULBRIGHT HONORS the American Institute of Architects. The membership hemistry Professor Jerry P. Jasinski has been awarded a Eleanor Vander Haegen, 1989 is bestowed on people who CFulbright Scholarship to lecture and conduct research at the Sociology (retired) have rendered distinguished service to the profession of University of Mysore in Mysore, India, during the 2013-2014 academic architecture or to the arts year. Through this exchange, he will advance the knowledge base of and sciences in the state. students and faculty at the University of Mysore and affiliated institu- Alex Kelsey, Campus Safety tions in the use of single crystal X-ray crystallography as a modern Received his Firefighter state-of-the-art tool in the determination of molecular structure. I certification and is a Jerry Jasinski volunteer firefighter in NRead more online at keene.edu/mag. Alstead.

Loren Launen, Biology Awarded a plaque honoring his 15 Michael Welsh, Political Science Honored as one of four Outstanding years as the Critics Chair at the Received the Campus Compact Women of New Hampshire by Keene Kennedy Center American College 2013 Good Steward Award for State College. She earned the dis- Theater Festival: Region I. contributions to the city of Keene, tinction for her contribution to the including the city’s master plan, sciences at the College and beyond, Keene Cares, the planning board, and for her scholarship and the Marlboro Street Area and academic accomplishments. Rezoning Project. N Read more online at keene.edu/ mag.

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rom brief mentions to longer comments to “There are tremendous opportunities for people that feature stories, word about Keene State makes want to work hard and always be involved with the regular appearances in local, state, and national community and give back. That is my mantra, I want to media. One recent example is the College’s give back,” said Bartlomiej “Bart” Sapeta, the third in this prominence in the New Hampshire Union Leader’s year’s “40 Under Forty” crop with ties to Keene State. F2013 “40 Under Forty” section, an annual feature that profiles the best and brightest residents of the state who An assistant professor in the Technology, Design and have yet to reach their 40th birthdays. Safety Department, Sapeta gives back by volunteering for Plan NH – a nonprofit focusing on municipal and Two alumni and one faculty member were selected for regional planning – in its design charrettes, which are the honor this year, and another faculty member was intensive collaborative planning sessions involving nominated by the College for recognition. citizens, planners, and officials. He’s involved in establishing Keene Listens, a grassroots effort to engage Eric Proulx ’02 is making his mark as general manager of residents in working to better the city. the Tanger Outlets in Tilton, New Hampshire, where he has worked since his post-graduation plans for student Sapeta has earned numerous awards for his professional teaching fell through. “No two days work, including being part of the annual American are the same,” Proulx told the Union Institute of Architects Emerging Professionals Exhibit in Leader. “If I didn’t love what I do, I Washington, DC, in 2012. wouldn’t be here.” Dr. Emily Porschitz, assistant professor of management, In 2011, Proulx earned a US was honored by the College with a nomination for “40 Community Support Award from Under Forty” status. Through her research, Porschitz the International Council of has sought to understand the dynamics experienced Shopping Centers Foundation for by young professionals in their pursuit of meaningful his work organizing an annual careers. As co-chair of the Keene Young Professionals 5K road race to raise money for Network, she has worked to organize social events, breast cancer research. The most recent race brought in community service projects, educational programs, and over $12,000. He’s also helped raise more than $350,000 opportunities for local young professions to meet with through Tanger’s breast cancer awareness campaign. their counterparts in the state.

A resident of Goffstown, New Hampshire, who has a master’s in management from New England College, Proulx and his wife, Tara (LaBranche) Proulx ’03, have AMONG OTHER RECENT two children. “KEENE STATE SIGHTINGS”: As the Portsmouth, New Hampshire-based vice president and commercial loan officer for First Colebrook Bank, Ben Wheeler ’05 is invested in the Seacoast Region. “In order to be successful in a small community bank like ours, you have to be fully entrenched in your community,” he told the Union Leader. Keene Sentinel, March 5, 2013, “Growing Gray: Two Generations of Senior Citizens.” This series on His memberships in local aging featured Keene State’s Cheshire Academy for organizations have led him to take Lifelong Learning. leadership roles, including serving on the Rotary Club’s board of New Hampshire Public Radio, Friday, March directors and the Portsmouth-Area 8, 2013, “At Keene State College, Passion for Chamber of Commerce’s executive Journalism Alive and Well” by Michael Brindley ’03. committee and overseeing a five-day program for 110 youth through Rotary Youth Leaders of America. Brattleboro Reformer, April 12, 2013, “World A history major at Keene State, Wheeler earned a Learning Honors Madeleine Albright,” a story by master’s in public administration from UNH. He and his Emily Madson, a Keene State student interning at wife, Michelle (Karcz) Wheeler ’05, and their daughter, the Reformer. Emma, live in Rye.

18 • KEENE STATE TODAY keene.edu nGREAT ATHLETES THE WORD IS OUT! KEENE STATE: Two for the Record Books SPORTS SUPERSTARS By Stuart Kaufman The 2013 Alumni Athletic Hall of Famers were eene State athletes Janel Haggerty ’13 and Drew inducted June 8. The honored athletes are Ledwith ’14 had unprecedented success on land Kand in the water respectively this past season. Osvaldo Molina ’93, men’s soccer; Seanna Haggerty, a senior from Guilford, Connecticut, captured Matthews Lombardo ’99, women’s swimming; the national championship in the pentathlon at the Kelly Smith ’01, field hockey; Joe Branciforte NCAA Division III Indoor Track and Field Champion- ’04, men’s lacrosse; and the 1983 women’s ships at Naperville, Illinois, while Keene native Led- soccer team. with, a junior, earned three All-America honors, includ- ing a second-place finish in the 1,650-yard freestyle race, at the NCAA Division III Swimming and Diving Championships held in Shenandoah, Texas. list of swimming All-Americas, which now totals six. A gymnastics enthusiast growing up, Haggerty Ledwith didn’t waste any time getting to the po- already possessed the athleticism and strong dium, placing fourth in the 500 freestyle in the mental fortitude to compete in multiple events first day of competition at the NCAA meet. He in a short period of time. Not even a lack of followed that up with a second-place perfor- training facilities could derail her from her mance in the 1,650 freestyle and also joined national championship aspirations. his teammates for a fourth-place finish in Getting off to a good start by finishing the 800 free relay with a school record first in the 60-meter hurdles and third time. in her signature event, the high jump, Haggerty Overall, KSC produced 11 All-Americas faced some adversity when she finished at the at the meet and finished 11th in the bottom of the pack in the shot put. But she ral- team standings with 109 points. lied with personal best performances in the Keene State also had some success on the soft- final two events, finishing fourth in the long ball and baseball diamonds this spring. First- jump and second in the 800-meter race to claim year phenom Mariah Crisp became just the third the national crown with a school-record 3,467 player in Little East Conference history to earn points. both softball pitcher and rookie of the year honors “It absolutely makes the hard work and train- in the same season, while baseball coach and KSC ing all worthwhile,” said Haggerty, who was grad Ken Howe won his 500th career game with named KSC’s senior female athlete of the year. the Owls’ 15-5 victory over Fitchburg State “Who would’ve thought a girl without a track could on April 18. become a national champion? I wasn’t expecting it whatsoever. I was hoping, praying, for top eight, but this just tops it all off.” The local fish who didn’t get away, Ledwith added to his Photos by Steve Woltmann

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This listing represents Virginia Rollins Flint writes that 1946 Irene DiMeco Parent class notes submitted as she taught for 26 years; she went 27 Lashua Rd. of January 7, 2013 to school with my children when Thelma Partridge Mitchell Ashburnham, MA 01430 the youngest of her five entered PO Box 52 [email protected] school. “I am 93 years old, still 70 Cedar St. Claire Waterhouse Simensen 1936 drive, attended retired teachers Contoocook, NH 03229 17 Sullivan Ct. and Delta Kappa Gamma Ferne Coffin Fogg writes: “I am Salem, NH 03079 Golden Circle.” 1947 97-plus years old. Live by myself. [email protected] I am in good health. Go to Golden 1942 Ruth Washburn Circle if I can get someone to 75 Pleasant St., Apt 207 1953 take me. Miss hearing from former Peggy Smith Campbell East Longmeadow, MA 01028 Donald J. Johnson classmates and associates. 143 Walton Rd. [email protected] 695 Clement Hill Rd. Norma Walker ’51 keeps in touch. East Palatka, FL 32131 Deering, NH 03244 God bless her and her Golden [email protected] 1948 [email protected] Circle work.” Ellie Smith Butler 1943 9 Muster Ct. Class Secretary Don Johnson 1938 Caroline Nichols Pregent Lexington, MA 02420-2001 writes: “Our class has lived Audrey Wells Curren graduated 30 Giffin St. [email protected] through much of the 20th in 1938 from then Keene Normal Keene, NH 03431 century and we have seen more School. She has taught for about [email protected] 1949 social changes than most genera- 40 years, including Title One, Ellie Hughgill Muldoon tions. We want to increase the and volunteers at Danbury 1944 3D Melville Ct. amount in our class gift, so please Elementary School. Constance Riley Fullam writes: Lily Pond Overlook send in your contribution to the “Life is good. I live at Cloverworld Pocasset, MA 02559 Alumni Office.” 1939 in a house. Many friends and [email protected] activities keep me busy and 1955 Ruth Dodge writes: “My husband Fred C. Aldrich writes that he has happy. I would welcome any Alfreda Crosby Gallo (Cap) and I celebrated our 70th made it to 88! wedding anniversary on June 24, visitors that might be near the 3406 S. Palm Ave. 2012, with over 100 of our close Rochester, NY, area.” Olive McMorran Dorr writes: “I Palatka, FL 32177-6342 friends and relatives, all from our am now living in a lovely assisted [email protected] 1945 living called Wood Crest Village. town. Two of our dearest friends Glenna Burney Phelps writes: I moved here because I needed came from Ontario to make us a Nancy Scripture Ashford writes: “Several years ago, my family, to be with people. Living alone surprise visit at York Beach with “I talked with Lois Stevens Howe friends, and I organized a book is not my desire! All is well. My lots of laughter and reminiscing. on her 89th birthday. I had a good program, giving many low-income family is perfect and I have one Everyone is good to us.” reminiscence visit with her. Her children seven books. We gave great-grandson and lots of husband, Harland, had died the away over 80,000 books. The grandchildren.” 1940 previous year. My last surviving Phoenix Suns Wives Club has Dorothy Young Carruthers sibling died the morning after 1951 continued the program. My son, PO Box 344 her 92nd birthday: October 22, Dr. Craig Phelps, was named Contoocook, NH 03229-0344 2012.” Norma Wright Walker NBA Physician of the Year for 19 Eaton Rd. Myrtie Flanders Kullgren writes: 2011. This year, he was appointed 1941 Swanzey, NH 03446 “I’m trying to take care of my president of the A.T. Stills Uni- [email protected] Virginia Rollins Flint husband. He’s 97; he gets around versity Medical School in Kirks- 799 Milan Rd. better than I do but his memory is 1952 ville, MO, where he entered as a Milan, NH 03588 not good. I thank God every day student in 1980. He had already for helping me. I would like to hear Winifred Woodbury Langtry established a branch in Mesa, AZ. Barbara Jeffery Stimson from my classmates.” 50 Evergreen Lane He had also been doctor for the 678 Pettyboro Rd. Contoocook, NH 03229 Suns for 27 years.” Bath, NH 03740 [email protected] COMMENCEMENT 2013 COMMENCEMENT

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1956 Lawrence Cole ran the Marine 1964 1966 Corps Marathon in Washington, Minot Parker DC, on October 28 in 5:28:46. Helen I. Jette Nancy Coutts PO Box 370540 37100 Neukom Ave. 175 South Main St. Montara, CA 94037-0540 1961 Zephyrhills, FL 33541 Brattleboro, VT 05301 [email protected] [email protected] Dorothy Bean Simpson 1968 1957 PO Box 1373 Bill Doolan Center Harbor, NH 03226 9189 William Cody Dr. Jan Temple Metoxen Cynthia Randall Faust [email protected] Evergreen, CO 80439 330 Maple Rd. 77 Sand Hill Rd. [email protected] Longmeadow, MA 01106 Peterborough, NH 03458 Class Secretary Dorothy Bean [email protected] [email protected] Simpson reminds you to please Donna Twiss retired in June remember to update your email 2009 after 28 years with Travel- Class Secretary Jan Temple Nancy A. Hurlburt Beaudry lives and current addresses with the ers Insurance and Citigroup as a Metoxen writes: “Hi, everyone. in Pembroke, NH. She is grand- Alumni Office at KSC. “Also, send claims adjuster and commercial I didn’t receive many replies to mother of eight, four married, and me or the alumni office news!” underwriter and 16 years with the my letter asking for news. It’s not has three great-grandchildren: NH Insurance Department as a too late! You can always send Jeanne LaChance Erickson and Emma, Anna, and Oliver. She is commercial insurance examiner. me some news. Recently I spent active in TOPS Club, Inc., and husband Dennis spent a week in an afternoon at the College for a is a life member of the American Zambrone (Calabria) Italy, and Kenneth L. Brown continues meeting and the opening of the Legion Auxiliary. cruised in Greece, Croatia, and to tutor math. He and Corrine new TDS building. This amazing other locations in Italy. Being at L. Corrier Brown ’66 have one green building houses the aca- 1958 the Acropolis was part of Jeanne’s grandchild, Norah Marie Brown, demic programs of Architecture, “bucket” list. Jacqueline A. Abbott who is 5 years old, and they get to Safety Studies, and Sustainable spend time with her twice a week. 7 Keeney Dr. Ray and Pat Clark spent February Product Design. Keene is now Corrine continues to be active in Bolton, CT 06043 in Siesta Key, FL. known as being a liberal arts col- [email protected] church groups and is still sewing lege, not just a teachers’ college. Bob and Grace Saulnier were at and doing crafts. Frank Taylor is retired after Destin, FL, for the winter. “I also had lunch with Martha teaching for 54 years. 1965 Ferris Marsette. She and Bruce live in Keene and are both retired 1962 Richard E. Doyle teachers. Martha was the first 1959 561 Ocean Blvd. #4 Stephanie Heselton Baute person I met as I moved in to Fiske Carol Gatcomb Riel Hampton, NH 03842 515 E. Surry Rd. Hall in the fall of 1964. We caught 350 Pako Ave [email protected] Surry, NH 03431 up on our children and grand- Keene, NH 03431 [email protected] Audrey Rondo children over lunch. I am going to [email protected] retired in June Martha Crowley Morse 2011. She has one daughter and work on her to get more involved 1960 131 Case St. twin grandchildren (a boy and a on campus.” North Canton, CT 06019 girl, age 3½). She is involved with Carol Balcom writes: “Keene Gail Spevack Sheldon [email protected] Nashua Retired Teachers, Jewish 241 Blucher St. State prepared me well for gradu- Federation of Retired Seniors, ate school. Many thanks to Francis Manchester, NH 03102 1963 Nashua Senior Center, and other [email protected] Haley for recommending me to Elizabeth Butterfly Gilman groups and interests. attend graduate school in Illinois. Janice R. Brackett writes that 277 Coolidge Dr. Carol Lanza Sierk took a second Francis was my geology teacher. she had a great trip to Italy and Portsmouth, NH 03801-5740 trip to Iceland last summer. She Also, sad news about Nancy the Greek Islands. “Also, climbed [email protected] writes: “Marvelous waterfalls, Wovkonish ’70: she has passed up to the Parthenon – amazing! icecaps, volcanoes, black sand – on.” Had our first great-granddaughter highly recommend the trip to R. Bryan Trainor retired from – beautiful – along with everyone.” grandchildren.” teaching in June 2012. As of his

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fall writing, he planned to move to Sharon L. Brown writes: “Into H&R Block in Claremont, NH. As 1976 Sunapee, NH, to sell real estate. my 43rd year of teaching and it of his writing last fall, he planned seems like yesterday I was sitting to start wintering in Nevada, pos- Philip Bellingham Mary-Beth Schmidt Dickey lives in a classroom at KSC. They were sibly this year. 20 Transit Ln. in Woodsville, NH. She writes: great years at a great school.” East Hartford, CT 06118 “We had family time while visiting 1973 Disneyland and California Adven- Beatrice Corriveau writes: Sandra Santa Maria retired after ture Land in November 2012.” “Kevin ’71 and I just had our 42nd Kathleen Pickford Stacy 35 years of teaching, and looked wedding anniversary (on Decem- 190 Old Hancock Rd. forward to being able to attend 1969 ber 26, 2012). We’re both retired Antrim, NH 03440 KSC homecoming. from teaching high school English. [email protected] Barbara A. Hamilton Ray Archambault moved down to Our son, Garth, is an attorney 112 Avondale Rd. Cheryl Devoid Marisov Pennsylvania with his wife, Lynn, and alderman in Manchester, NH, Manchester, CT 06040 97 5th Ave. in 1980 and lives approximately and our daughter, Alexandra, [email protected] Neptune, NJ 07753 45 minutes from Philly. He has works in New York City for [email protected] a son and daughter plus three Joel McKenna writes: “While Boston Consulting Group.” grandchildren who also live in the attending a memorial service for 1974 area. Recently, he retired after my brother on August 12 in Kit- Carol L. Warren Pearson lives in serving as finance officer for East tery, Maine, I was blessed to see Wahiawa, HI, and keeps herself Jane Cappuccio Stauffer Norriton Township for 31 years. Barry Osborn and Thom Rich- busy by babysitting a couple of 28 Beckford St. He’s keeping busy with bike rid- ards. Unfortunately, due to the different kids before school and Salem, MA 01970-3239 ing and Civil War studies and circumstances, I couldn’t spend again after school. [email protected] has been certified as a basketball the time I wanted to with them. Priscille Jean retired from teach- referee since 1986. He sends out Brief as it was, it was great to see 1970 ing in 2011. a hello to all the Phi Mu Delta guys them. In a thumbnail, I retired from Susan Campbell from his era, and would greatly like running a small division of Standex 15 New Acres Rd. Karen Sielke retired in late Au- to hear from one and all – possibly International and relocated to the Keene, NH 03431 gust after 21 years working for for a get-together dinner/weekend Huntsville, AL, area in 2000. I then the city of Keene as a parking to be named later. became a rural letter carrier for 1971 enforcement officer. She writes, the USPS and retired from that on Maureen Sheehan Hall “No plans for the future – but to 1977 January 31, 2011. The one thing 69 Crescent St. enjoy life!” Barry, Thom, and I regret is not Sabrina Brown Maltby Hooksett, NH 03106 Clifford Smith writes: “Retire- having the opportunity to ‘terrorize’ 13 Main St. [email protected] ment is great – I can camp, fish, Ed Forebush’s swank nightclub!” Raymond, NH 03077 and read all those books I didn’t Nan Hodgdon has retired and 1972 have time for years ago. Life is Roxanne Stevens Wilson lives in says she is “learning to live on a Debra Davis Butterworth good!” Derry, NH, and is director of pupil fixed income!” She’s acting as an 21 McAuley Rd. personal services for Timberlane academic aide for her grandson, Cape Elizabeth, ME 04107 1975 Regional School District. She who is autistic and attending com- [email protected] Anne Dunwoody Hunter received a doctorate in education munity college. She’s hoping her from Plymouth State University in Roger Hartwell 20 Highland Dr. high-school-senior granddaughter May 2012. 17 Meadow Ln. Henniker, NH 03242 will apply to KSC. Enfield, NH 03748 Margo Merrow Karamanoogian 1978 John Morey retired from TD Bank David A. Westover 27 Sandstone Dr. Dianne Glaser-Gilrein after 34 years of service. Nancy was honored Bedford, NH 03110 P.O. Box 1391 (Burns) Morey ’70 retired from to represent alumni on the search [email protected] East Dennis, MA 02461 teaching special education in committee for KSC’s new presi- [email protected] the Hudson, NH, School District dent. after 42 years of service. She now Charles F. Taylor is now semi- works part time for the school retired. He works tax season for district. COMMENCEMENT 2013 COMMENCEMENT

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Send your news to your class secretary or to: Class Notes Editor, Barbara Pierson Schaedel 1984 Keene State College, 229 Main Street, Keene, NH 03435-1502, writes: “I dropped off my youngest Mary Beth Lucas Connors [email protected]. child at James Madison University, and found out one of his suite- 295 Megan Dr. mates was from Keene! Thought Manchester, NH 03109-5924 1979 now in college, at Colby and I would send in a few updates. I [email protected] UMO. While I keep in touch with a have been a teacher since 1982 Louise Perron Tetreault Bill Reed few people, I’d love to know what after a fabulous education at 4 Avon Ave. 3 Mayfair Ln., Apt. 206 the old ’Nox Squad and SAC are KSC. I was recently a finalist for Cumberland, RI 02864 Nashua, NH 03063-7645 up to these days.” the REB award in Richmond, VA. [email protected] [email protected] Jay Punt writes: “Hello to all. I This is given to about 30 educa- Martha Petrowski Laflamme hope this note finds everyone tors a year to support individual 1985 474 Second Ave. proposals. I was able to then go healthy. Not one to pat myself on Alison Ahmed-Regen Berlin, NH 03570-2334 to Ireland for 18 days with three the back; however – I feel this 1194 Lees Meadow Ct. [email protected] needs mentioning. I competed in of my sisters, my daughter, and my nephew. It was an amazing Great Falls, VA 22066 the Massachusetts Senior Games [email protected] 1980 on September 23 at Springfield trip of a lifetime! I was also named my school’s Teacher of the Year Allison Ashley-Bergstrom College. I competed in the 50m Lisa A. Gagnon for 2013, so all in all, a very excit- 212 S. Leandro St. and 100m dashes. I thought if I 12 Tack Ct. ing year! I would love to get up Anaheim Hills, CA 92807 set a goal for myself, trained hard Edgewater, MD 21037 to Keene in the future and once [email protected] enough, and was smart about it, [email protected]. I just might be able to qualify for again climb Mt. Monadnock!” gov Cathy Stuart Zurek the National Senior Games (still Tamara Lawson has an 18-year- 78 Morse Ln. getting used to the term ‘senior’). 1983 old son, Chris, who started col- Boxborough, MA 01719 I finished third in the 50m and Patricia K. Hodgeman Bush lege last fall at St. Scholastica. [email protected] second in the 100m (55-59 age Berkshire School Both of her sons are exceptional group): my first silver and bronze 245 N. Undermountain Rd. distance runners; both are the top 1981 medals. I qualified in the 50m; I’m Sheffield, MA 01257 runners on their team. Nancy Colciaghi Pallas headed to Cleveland, OH, in July [email protected] 6153 W. Fallen Leaf Ln. for the nationals. The friendliness Jacqueline Haight DeFreze Paula Monahan Bedard writes: Glendale, AZ 85310 of the competitors was great! It 502 Portsmouth Ave. “After 13 years of teaching grade [email protected] was a fantastic time all around. Greenland, NH 03840 1, I have moved to grade 3. My I encourage anyone age 50 and [email protected] oldest, Ryan, will graduate from 1982 over to become involved in the New England Tech with a BS Catherine Gewanter Senior Games. All states have Valerie Belanger McKenney in game design and simulation 600 Willis Ave., Apt. 2L their games, usually from May to 31 Westwood Cir. programming in March. Grant is a Williston Park, NY 11596-1217 September, and there are more Dover, NH 03820 sophomore at UConn in environ- [email protected] events than just track and field. [email protected] mental engineering, and Heather Be well.” is a freshman at UMass-Amherst Lynn Smith writes: “I became a Janet Carsten Shaffer in nursing. Ed and I are empty Deborah Sanders-Dame writes: grandmother on July 23, 2012. 13004 Gleneagles Pl. nesters.” Riverview, FL 33569 “On November 4, I graduated with Emily Lynn was born in China [email protected] my doctorate in educational lead- to my son and his wife Jenny. I 1986 ership. I am currently the director spent three weeks in China during Ann Kashian writes: “I’m in my of Student Support Services in St. October. The trip was especially Tori Berube 28th year of accounting for the Johnsbury, VT. I enjoy my grand- wonderful because my daughter 35 Andrew St. #4 DOD, living in northern Maine with son Brody, who is 22 months.” Laura accompanied me.” Manchester, NH 03104 my husband and four children. [email protected] Well, actually the two oldest are

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Michael Trabucco Shelly Brodeur Masson 361 Park Ave. 173 Raven Cir. Arlington, MA 02476 Williston, VT 05495 [email protected] [email protected] 1987 Maureen Cicchese Musseau 75 Pinehaven Dr. Lisa Corrette Livingstone Whitman, MA 02382 54 Regan Cir. [email protected] Raynham, MA 02767 [email protected] Frank Dolan is a real estate spe- cialist and lives in Harrington Park, Samantha Barrett McKinlay NJ. He is married to Kim Valensi, 2400 Country Line Rd. and has two children: Tyler, 6, and Ardmore, PA 19003 Jolie, 9. He writes: “Please help [email protected] rebuild the Jersey Shore, where I Travis Hodgdon ’94 had a gathering of KSC friends in grew up!” Michelle Morris Ayer Cooperstown, NY, in June 2012. He built a backyard Green 41 Hemlock Rd. Karen A. Boivin writes: “I am Monster; left to right, Jeff Becker ’93, Rob Taylor ’93, Darren Hingham, MA 02043 currently teaching 6th and 7th Kupinsky ’94, Scott Hogg ’93, and Travis Hodgdon with the KSC [email protected] graders at Presentation of Mary logo on the Monster. Travis writes: “We had a great weekend Dave Brigham writes that one of Academy in Hudson, NH. My son catching up, watching baseball, and visiting the Hall of Fame.” his short stories was recently pub- Ted is a high school junior and my daughter Holly is in the 7th grade.” lished by Plus One Press in the Cassandra Graves Juchter anthology Tales from the House 1993 writes: “We are fortunate to be Band, Volume II. 1991 Shelli Bienvenue Cook traveling the world. We just got Karen Dicey 18 Heathrow Ave. back from Galapagos Islands and 1988 PO Box 88 Manchester, NH 03204 the Amazon rainforest. Our son Jeffrey LaValley Exeter, NH 03833 [email protected] is in 3rd grade and loving it.” She [email protected] and husband Bryan celebrated 260 Connecticut Ave. Seth M. Klaiman their 10th anniversary in October. Springfield, MA 01104 Amy Eshelman 2 Sweet Fern Trail [email protected] 102 Newberry Rd. Saunderstown, RI 02874 Roger Wilkins writes: “I am Susan Lundgren Regan East Haddam, CT 06423 [email protected] proud to announce the birth of my 79 Winthrop Rd. [email protected] daughter, Georgia Paige Wilkins, 1994 born January 2013! A shout-out Guilford, CT 06437 Kathleen Kerr St. Germaine to Greg, Shannon, Norma, Paul, 19 Great Woods Rd. Melissa Sawyer Bowler Andy, Matt, Jessica, and Dawn. 1989 Plymouth, MA 02360-1826 158 Shaker Rd. Hope you are all well, and invite Maribeth Marsico Gesler [email protected] Canterbury, NH 03224 you to reach out for lunch some- 463 Juniper Ln. [email protected] time. It’s been 20 years next year Cheshire, CT 06410 1992 Dawn Deurell – wow!” [email protected] Joan Crosby Anderson 17 Chestnut Cir. General Delivery Merrimack, NH 03054-6611 1995 1990 Wilmot Flat, NH 03287-9999 [email protected] Cara H. Staus Lauren Aborjaily Griffin 2180 Stanley St. 17 Monhege Path Kate Shepard Dugan Penny Rioux Joyal New Britain, CT 06053 Marlborough, CT 06447 42 Middlefield Dr. 106 N. Adams St. West Hartford, CT 06107 Manchester, NH 03104 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] COMMENCEMENT 2013 COMMENCEMENT

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Erin Delude George 1999 2003 9 Bigelow Hill Rd. Troy, NH 03465-2106 Jason Hindle Angela Watson [email protected] 8 Spruce St. 55 Davidson Hill Rd. Somersworth, NH 03878 Westminster, VT 05158 1996 [email protected] [email protected] Karen Holmes Reinhold 2000 Danielle Popyk 132 Overland St. 20 Main Street, Unit #1 Manchester, NH 03103 Danielle LePage Zimmerman Somerville, MA 02145 [email protected] 3 Tracey Ave. [email protected] Nashua, NH 03063 Aaron Kay Sales Parker [email protected] Michelle Tiani (Dufour) was 5832 Wooded Acres Dr. named Elementary School Physi- Knoxville, TN 37921 Gregory D. Sears was accepted cal Education Teacher of the Year [email protected] to the Norwich University Masters for New Hampshire. in Military History program, which 1997 is all online except for a one-week Sari Gagnon is filming her direc- residency at the campus in North- torial debut documentary, Home- Meredith (Skelton) Kesler Danielle Dearborn Gagne field, VT. Norwich University is less in a College Town. Sari, in ’06 and Andrew Kesler were 1587 Waterwells Rd. the oldest private military school partnership with Counterfeit Cow Alfred Station, NY 14803 married at the Exeter Inn August in the US, creator of the ROTC Productions LLC, is fundraising to [email protected] 18, 2012. Other alumnae who program, and first military acad- finish the film. Sari has kept Keene attended included Jessica State College close to her heart 1998 emy to accept women cadets. Skelton ’06 and Kristen during this project by hiring Kevin (Giacobbe) Bartlett ‘06. Deb Clogher Burleigh 2001 Sandler ’12 as a production as- 44 Clinton Ave. Christine Leland Williams sistant. “I’d like to hire more Keene Budd Lake, NJ 07828 Toni (Pelletier) Bobenrieth 54 Eastern Ave. State alumni always; I hope all [email protected] writes that on October 20, 2012, Woburn, MA 01801 alums feel that way. But we mostly want to inspire college kids ev- she married Dean Bobenrieth in Lisa Demers Harvey [email protected] erywhere to look at homelessness Alvirne Memorial Church. Frances [email protected] Matthew Denko teaches theatre differently. We’re trying to help Lassor was her maid of honor. Kristen Cranson Nelson and performing arts classes at change this crisis for the good PO Box 208 Gilford Middle School and High with this film.” 2006 Greenvale, NY 11548 School. In December, he directed [email protected] Adam Wefers the first production ofThe Little 2004 154 Sagamore St., Apt. 2 Katherine Ryan Martin and Mermaid Jr. in the state of New Alison Thompson Manchester, NH 03104 Brendon Martin welcomed their Hampshire. 18 Mount Pleasant Ave. [email protected] first child on August 2, 2012. Wil- Wakefield, MA 01880 Adam Wefers liam “Liam” Edward Martin was 8 2002 writes: “I saw [email protected] Marcus Gabrieli pounds, 2 ounces and 20 inches at a wedding Jessie Gannett Heath in New Hampshire. Marcus is long. Liam lives with his proud 59 King Road 2005 parents in Wallingford, CT. He has the safety director for the City of Chichester, NH 03258 Valerie Nettleton Holyoke, MA, he serves on his been very busy meeting all of his [email protected] 497 Foster St. mom’s wonderful friends that she local emergency planning commit- South Windsor, CT 06074 met while attending Keene State! tee for disaster relief efforts, and [email protected] was a first responder to last year’s tornado disaster in western Mass. Josh Chisholm and I are both working in Boston in property

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management. We recently met up 2010 and he let me know he had just come from Cailyn O’Donnell’s Matt Gill wedding. Cailyn has been working 69 Conleys Grove Road in the insurance industry for five Derry NH 03038 years and is currently attending [email protected] the University of Hartford for her Alyssa Parlee (now Alyssa MBA.” Levesque) married Kyle Levesque 2007 in Narragansett, RI, on September 15, 2012. Jose Lugo and Sarina Habib Lugo ’10 were married on June 2011 10, 2012. They met on the KSC Kelly Payeur cheerleading team in the fall of 766 Ocean Ave 2006. Portland, ME 04101 2008 [email protected] David Butterfield ’07 and Lindsey Roberts Butterfield ’07 met at Kelly A. Mullane 2012 Keene State College their first year. They were married September 1820 Commonwealth Ave. Marie Avery 10, 2011, in Ludlow, VT, at their favorite ski mountain: Jackson Apt. #20 101 Capen St. Brighton, MA 02135 Gore at Okemo Mountain Resort. Keene alumni in the wedding Medford, MA 02155 [email protected] party included Lyndsey Taylor Russell, Emily Russell, Eli Clifford, [email protected] Regan Shelly, Stephan Schaub, Eric Francis, and Alyssa Swan. Laura Hermance and Dan Maxfield ’11 got engaged October 13.

Thomas and Caitlyn (Johnson) Remmes ’11 were married June 17, 2012 at Mystic Seaport in Mystic, CT. More than 20 Keene State graduates were in attendance, including six in the wedding party. Pictured from left to right are Matt Spaulding, Kristine Glynn, Matt Gavoni, Kelsey Cole, Thomas Remmes, Caitlyn Remmes, Six members of the class of 2012 took a trip to Walt Disney World Hannah Dumas, Sarah Spindler, Jim Krasco, Leanne Creaven, in December to celebrate their May graduation — and brought their Matt Evans, Hillary Moskwitz, Erica Ciarciello, Craig McAlister, KSC gear along. Pictured from left to right are Alyssa Marinaccio, Jacqueline Ayers, Curtis Manning, Andrew Johnson, and Matt Allison McGinnity, Elizabeth Riegert, Samantha Nee, Jessica Talley, all class of 2011. Grant, and Kelsey Mulcahy.

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Our class has done some pretty remarkable things. . . . We found our passions and our friends. We will forever hold our memories of the time we spent here. “ – Alison Hammel, senior class ”president Photo: Roman Lynn

For inspiration, consider Dotti Bean SEEKING CLASS SECRETARIES Simpson ’61, who’s been secretary of her class since her freshman year Here’s a chance to connect with your classmates and help in 1957. “The class secretary makes keep the network of Keene State alumni strong. We have a big difference in keeping the class several openings for volunteer class secretaries – a job that together,” says Simpson, who has involves soliciting and gathering news and delivering it to convened a class reunion committee the class notes editor, who’s on the College’s Marketing and every five years during her tenure. Communications staff. The alumni office supplies contact “Who information and ideas for reaching out to members of your wouldn’t love this job? All pleasure – class. especially when you have wonderful classmates.” The available class years are 1944, 1945, 1950, 1954, 1967, 2007, and 2009. Class secretary Seth Klaiman ’93 agrees. “With each note or email I To sign on, or for more information, contact receive, hearing how my classmates Patty Farmer ’92, director of alumni and parent are doing is such a joy! My only wish relations, at 603-358-2370 or [email protected]. is I could hear from every classmate.”

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In Memoriam

Elizabeth L. Veneri ’33 Virginia K. Aiken ’44 Carol Reidy ’51 June 20, 2011 June 27, 2012 September 27, 2012 Elizabeth S. McGuirk ’35 Bernard W. Corson ’44 Nina A. Witham ’51 March 5, 2012 June 7, 2012 December 9, 2012 The increase in “In Memoriam” Marion C. Bent ’36 Zitelka S. Dupuis ’44 Lorraine E. Fistola ’52 notices in this issue is due July 1, 2010 March 20, 2009 March 17, 2010 to an effort on the part of our Flora L. LeClerc ’36 Catherine Hatch ’44 Joyce O. Wick ’52 Advancement Services and Alumni February 6, 2013 January 15, 2013 August 31, 2012 Relations teams to track down information on alumni with whom Janice S. Stokes ’36 Marjorie N. Russell ’44 Nathalie F. Blackie ’53 we’ve lost contact. July 31, 2012 June 9, 2009 November 12, 2004 Florence H. Cooney ’37 Caroline A. Trovato ’46 Antonia B. Lowe ’53 Alice B. Sanborn ’25 November 1, 2011 February 1, 2013 June 5, 2010 September 11, 2008 Helen T. Tsiotas ’37 Ida R. Goodell ’47 Edmund F. Weston ’53 Ruth M. Blomgren ’26 June 13, 2012 April 3, 2013 January 24, 2013 August 15, 2004 Russell Colby ’38 Angelo Montrone ’47 William J. Beauregard ’55 Shirley B. Casey ’27 September 26, 2003 February 28, 2013 September 22, 2012 February 2, 2004 Ruth Holmes ’38 Dorothy Marrer ’48 Lois G. Haynes ’55 Rachelle Richardson ’27 May 9, 2012 March 15, 2013 October 19, 2000 January 17, 2013 Alberta Roberts ’38 Barbara A. Peterson ’48 Paul H. Potter Jr. ’55 Madelene H. Garside ’28 November 5, 2011 March 2013 February 18, 2012 March 12, 2009 Bessie Theros ’39 Robert G. Daly ’49 Maxiene E. Glenday ’56 Merle E. Collins ’31 April 23, 2007 September 12, 2012 June 26, 2012 February 1, 2003 Phyllis S. Clukay ’40 Margarita Garofalo ’49 Edwin T. Green Jr. ’56 Sadie Gordon ’31 March 31, 2012 January 15, 2005 January 20, 2006 June 2, 2004 Ruth F. Harris ’40 Carl R. Burnap ’50 Nancy A. Richard ’56 Marjorie E. Clark ’32 December 14, 2012 November 8, 2012 October 27, 2012 December 31, 2012 Hazel J. Nutting ’40 Raymond A. Dallaire ’50 Katherine J. Tepper ’56 Anne M. Curtis ’32 October 17, 2012 January 29, 2005 May 14, 2008 September 10, 2012 Ellen Cascadden ’41 James H. Durling ’50 Naomi M. Umenhofer ’56 Annabelle A. Egerton ’32 July 14, 2012 May 11, 2010 September 19, 2007 January 14, 2011 Jessie D. Lombard ’41 Mary Ellen F. Fifield ’50 Thomas Vincens ’56 Lucy P. Gibbs ’32 February 23, 2011 February 7, 2013 July 12, 2009 February 19, 2004 Ruth L. Brown ’42 Bessie R. Hanrahan ’50 William F. Carey ’57 Grace Enman ’33 May 12, 2012 November 7, 2012 February 17, 2005 December 2, 2011 Mabel E. LaFramboise ’42 Priscilla Ingram ’50 Leon J. Cote ’57 Frances A. Gould ’33 July 9, 2012 January 3, 2012 October 15, 2012 February 8, 2009 Helen P. Boswell ’43 Donald V. Marrer ’50 Robert J. Hall ’57 M’65 Ann A. Koski ’33 ’47 M’52 May 24, 2011 August 7, 2012 September 16, 2012 May 14, 2003 Dorothy J. Hess ’43 Beverly P. Boyer ’51 Elizabeth Hatzos ’57 Elisabeth Martin ’33 August 5, 2009 May 20, 2012 February 13, 2013 May 20, 2012 Donalyne E. Poudrier ’43 Homer E. Chase ’51 Fred Hill Jr. ’57 Panagiota S. Rizos ’33 March 15, 2012 October 20, 2012 January 19, 2013 November 21, 2012 Patricia T. Shedd ’43 Joan Fay ’51 Edward A. Bonneau ’58 Beulah L. Thayer ’33 September 18, 2012 April 21, 2012 January 3, 2013 October 23, 2012

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John R. Carmichael ’58 Armand C. Michaud ’72 Alice L. Romanek ’83 Joel A. Dupuis ’90 May 11, 2005 May 3, 2007 August 13, 2012 November 15, 2010 Erma T. Mannion ’58 Frances S. Quinn ’72 Thomas D. Tormey Jr. ’86 Susan D. Henry ’90 February 12, 2013 December 28, 2012 December 24, 2011 February 21, 2010 Ernest J. Moran ’58 M’73 Linda M. Warn ’72 Rahima C. Wade M’86 Pamela Y. Tessier ’90 October 22, 2012 December 13, 2012 March 27, 2012 June 24, 2010 Mario D. Falsani ’59 Leonard E. Crews Jr. ’73 Karen S. Ager ’87 Bruce D. Smith M’92 November 14, 2012 April 1, 2011 March 26, 2013 February 24, 2013 Gerald Mottram ’59 Ronald M. Neronsky ’73 William T. Lemerise ’87 Nancy P. Stone ’95 April 1, 2013 February 8, 2013 July 11, 2010 February 13, 2009 Anne Boudrieau ’60 Valerie R. Sloan ’73 James E. Buffum ’88 Justin P. Schenauer ’98 September 26, 2012 January 5, 2013 July 11, 2010 October 10, 2009 Robert L. Stapleton ’60 William D. Struthers ’73 Sandra M. Tanguay M’88 Sharon S. Cruikshank ’02 September 9, 2012 February 18, 2008 May 4, 2009 August 15, 2010 Marie A. Commoss ’61 M’84 Michael J. McCracken ’74 Jaye Alper ’89 Jennifer A. Puls Sweeney ’04 February 23, 2013 March 10, 2011 May 8, 2012 November 19, 2012 Judith Cavanaugh ’63 Susan Koerber ’74 Joseph A. Delio M’89 March 14, 2010 November 27, 2012 October 16, 2012 John S. Noftle M’63 Barbara J. Ross ’74 October 25, 2011 March 14, 2013 Winifred Sullivan ’71 Vernon D. Taylor ’63 Stephen Metcalf ’75 September 17, 2012 June 11, 2009 The death of Dr. Winifred “Win” Sullivan, 88, on February 23, 2013, inspired emerita faculty member Nancy M. Casey ’64 Carl H. Munroe M’75 Dr. Margaret Langford to write a poem, “Kaleidoscope March 5, 2013 December 8, 2012 Memories.” “Dr. Win was phenomenal – a multi- Ruth B. Ford ’64 Arthur C. Polychronis ’75 talented mover and shaker,” writes Dr. Langford of July 11, 2012 June 16, 2012 the alumna who earned a bachelor’s degree from Constance Willman ’64 Irene C. Alexa ’76 Keene State at the age of 47 and followed it up with April 2, 2010 January 1, 2012 a master’s from the college and a PhD from the Shirley B. Palone ’65 Linda J. Beaulieu ’76 University of Massachusetts at Amherst. September 17, 2012 February 28, 2013 An active member of the Keene community, John E. Pelletier ’66 Lyman P. Morgan Jr. ’76 Dr. Sullivan taught English as an adjunct and Music January 18, 2013 September 5, 2011 as a graduate assistant at KSC and also worked for Susan Muller ’67 Sarah M. Santy ’76 the NH Humanities Council – among many other June 28, 2012 July 13, 2011 undertakings, as is evident from the opening lines of “Kaleidoscope Memories”: Donna L. Nawoj ’69 Emil J. Donatello M’78 October 17, 2012 January 10, 2012 Life performance artist, Christina L. Nelson ’69 Barbara W. Jarrett ’80 August 1, 2012 October 3, 2005 she enacted each event as if she were Pauline P. Oliver M’70 Susan L. Lockwood ’81 January 7, 2009 April 24, 2005 a kindly impresario Nancy C. Wovkonish ’70 Richard T. Lyons ’81 and all surrounding others March 4, 2012 April 3, 2011 either members of her orchestra Winifred H. Sullivan ’71 M’75 Sanford Smith ’82 harmonizing with her tempo February 23, 2013 May 27, 2012 or actors in her masterwork.

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