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spring 2011 A mAgAzIne fOr ALumnI, PArenTs & frIends Of ChAmPLAIn COLLege Exploring Finances Champlain leads the way toward a better relationship with our money In Their Own Voices | Professor of the Year | Lakeside Campus | Class of 2011 Calendar of events mAY 7 Class of 2011 Commencement Memorial Auditorium, Burlington, Vermont. 10 a.m., tickets required. 12 15th Annual Celebrity spelling Bee Organized by the Zonta Club of Burlington to benefit Champlain College’s Single Parents Program Scholarship Fund. Reception at 6 p.m. in the IDX Student Life Center, Spelling Bee at 7 p.m. in the Alumni Auditorium. Cost $10, tickets available at the door. June 11 Varsity Basketball Players Alumni Basketball game In the IDX Student Life Center Argosy Gymnasium on the Champlain campus, 2 to 4 p.m. Free. For further details, contact Diana Agusta ’71 at [email protected]. (See story on page 27.) 23 ChAmPLAIn ALumnI eVenT: BBQ, Baseball and ... Chauncey at the Lake monsters Bring friends and family and catch up with fellow alumni and parents of current students during the pre-game BBQ. Enjoy a special visit by Champ and cheer on the Lake Monsters as they take on the Connecticut Tigers. BBQ at 6 p.m., game at 7:05 p.m. Cost: $18, includes ticket for reserved seat, BBQ and a small donation to the Alumni Fund. RSVP by Friday, June 10, to [email protected]. JuLY 23, 24 ChAmPLAIn ALumnI eVenT: rockin’ the red sox From the Green Mountains to the Green Monster, Champlain is heading to Fenway. Join us as we watch the Boston Red Sox take on the Seattle Mariners. Saturday, July 23, evening game, alumni only. Sunday, July 24, day game, alumni and parents. This event is hosted by Champlain’s Boston Alumni Chapter. Visit www.alumni.champlain.edu for event and ticket details. summer ChAmPLAIn ALumnI eVenT: Watch the alumni website at www.alumni.champlain.edu for details on our annual Habitat for Humanity workdays. AugusT 29 fall classes begin. sePTemBer 16-18 ChAmPLAIn ALumnI eVenT: fashion & retail merchandising reunion in nYC Champlain College, together with Phyllis Emmons Black, will be in New York City on the heels of Fashion Week to reunite with Fashion and Retail Merchandising alumni. Watch for more information or contact us at [email protected]. OCTOBer 21-23 ChAmPLAIn ALumnI eVenT: Alumni and family Weekend Relive your Champlain days during this memorable weekend packed full of events for all ages. It’s the one weekend a year we gather everyone together to celebrate Champlain’s past and present. Spend time with fellow alumni and reconnect with faculty and staff. Save the date because you won’t want to miss this weekend. More details coming soon! ALumnI, get connected, stay connected! To sign up for the Alumni e-Newsletter, email [email protected], visit www.alumni.champlain.edu, or call (802) 860-2785 or toll-free (866) 421-7170. Parents, sign up for the e-Newsletter at [email protected] 2011 Alumni & Parent networking events SAVE THE DATE upper Valley region, Vermont /new hampshire – June 8, 6 to 8 p.m. former Varsity Basketball Players at Montshire Museum, Norwich, VT with Ian Mortimer, vice president of Alumni Basketball game enrollment at Champlain College. Share your story and network with alumni, parents and prospective students. Refreshments will be served saturday, June 11, 2 p.m. Washington, d.C. – June 18-19. Regional chapter kick-off event. Social alumni event on Saturday and regional chapter meeting on Sunday. IdX Argosy gym Boston, massachusetts – June 30. Regional chapter kick-off event. at Champlain College for details, contact: Boulder, Colorado – October, Look for details soon. Bob Tipson: [email protected] We are interested in creating regional chapters in your area. steve gentile: [email protected] diana Agusta: [email protected] Please call (802) 860-2785 or email [email protected]. We’d love your help! Let us know if you are interested in volunteering for events in your area. spring 2011 volume 10, number 1 A mAgAzIne fOr ALumnI, PArenTs & frIends Of C hAmPLAIn COLLege editor Stephen Mease [email protected] Contributing designer Tom Baginski Contributing Writers Ame Lambert Christina Erickson Michael Kelly Inside the View Amanda Petry ’11 P. 10 Darrien Marazzo ’11 Photographers 2 President’s Letter Kathleen Landwehrle 3 View from the hill Stephen Mease The Learning Zone... Stories from Michael Blanchard the War... Kudos for the College and Class notes Elizabeth Scott Burlington... News & Notables ... Lakeside Campus Opens Vice President of Advancement 23 Professor of the Year Shelley Richardson 24 spending summer Abroad director, 25 Class notes Advancement & Campaign Tere Gade, CFRE Basketball Reunion... Alumni Lives... Class of 2011 director, Alumni relations 34 Vision. Innovation. Passion. P. 4 Alison Johnson ’89 and ’97 35 Annual report of gifts Assistant director, 45 Champlain Voices Alumni relations & Annual giving Elizabeth Scott senior development Officers Dannah Beauregard ’P13 features Moneer Greenbaum Greg Morgan Erik Oliver 12 Financial Breakthrough Evan Smith ’94 The new Center for Financial Literacy is earning interest and Contact Information Send letters and attention for teaching students and address changes to: adults about money in a new way. Champlain College, Office of Advancement 163 South Willard St., P.O. Box 670 18 Who Are You going To Be? Burlington, VT 05402-0670 The voices of Champlain College’s [email protected], (866) 421-7170 leaders and educators are asking some interesting questions about Champlain View is published twice a year P. 23 (spring and fall) by Champlain College. Printing how we live our lives. by Queen City Printers Inc., Burlington, VT. Founded in 1878, Champlain College is an Equal Opportunity Educational Institution. Printed with vegetable-based inks on Flo Dull, 10% post- consumer waste recycled paper. Please recycle this magazine. Mease If you would like to read the issue online and would rather not receive it through the mail, please contact the Office of Stephen Advancement at (800) 570-5858 or [email protected]. P. 18 by Photos On the cover: The College’s Samuel de Champlain statue at sunset. PresIdenT’s LETTER Hello from the Hill, For more than a year, I have told you about the College’s strategic plan, how every department and division established goals, how staff and faculty met several times to review ideas and dreams and blend those into a collective document that will focus our work in the coming years. Last fall, the Champlain Board of Trustees reviewed and approved our work and as the decade dawned, we set the course ahead for Champlain 2020. The creation of Champlain 2020 occurs at a time of enormous change for Champlain College. Recent history has seen a complete restructuring of the academic enterprise into divisions focused on discrete professional areas. The separation of adult education into its own academic unit occurred, along with the creation of several new graduate programs. A number of global initiatives have been launched, and the size of the full-time faculty has increased by 52 percent since 2006. The College has tremendous momentum, which bodes well for its next decade. Champlain College is uniquely poised among American institutions of higher education. The College’s career-focused programs remain squarely at the center of what it means to obtain a Champlain degree. With its focus on educating the whole person through the critical thinking aspects of CORE and the life-skills LEAD programs for professionals in an increasingly complex and changing world, Champlain offers the most complete undergraduate education available. This educational approach is not found elsewhere in the world, and its distinctiveness will serve the College well over the next decade. Competitively, the College finds itself in an arena that is dramatically different from that of 20 years ago. As a 2011Board of Trustees private, four-year college in New England, Champlain exists in a highly crowded and competitive marketplace. George F. Bond ’73 The College’s ability to innovate and its long-standing career focus have allowed it to flourish in this competitive Robert D. Botjer milieu. As with any other endeavor, past performance is no guarantee of future prospects. Champlain must Dawn D. Bugbee continue to earn its place each year. George C. Burrill Scott D. Carpenter In addition to a tradition of innovation, Champlain is characterized by exceptional execution—by its ability James H. Crook, Jr. not only to change quickly, but also to maintain a focus on excellence in its new and innovative program offerings Thomas V.S. Cullins even as they are being created. This is a rare skill, especially uncommon among institutions of higher education. Laura P. Dagan The goals set forth in Champlain 2020 are interrelated. The single largest threat to the viability of the College Staige Davis has to do with its ability to improve at a time when the number of high school graduates is falling. We must Molly Dillion come to be viewed as an attractive option by a larger number of students. Our programs must be distinctive, Heather B. Dwight so that our capacity to market them effectively is enhanced. They must be academically challenging, so that Mary Evslin increasingly bright students engage deeply with their programs and see them through to completion. David F. Finney It is through all this—a unique and rigorous professionally focused education that fosters awareness of global James B. Foster connections and issues along with an appreciation of Vermont and its possibilities—that Champlain charts its Joan L. Gignoux course for the future. Susan W. Lamaster ’88 Even as we look forward, we look back. Our plans for the future are built on the accomplishments of our Diana L.