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WHEN JANIS PLAYED PIERCE

NH TEACHER OF THE YEAR: ELIZABETH LICHTENBERG M.Ed ’13

ANDY CARD Franklin Pierce’s 5th President Commencement 2015 Honorary degree recipients Juan Williams, Stan Fry, and Yvonne Boice bestow wisdom and congratulations upon the Class of 2015. MAKE YOUR MOVE!

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He relishes “the chance to connect with students, who remind him what’s 18 at stake.”

Features

18 | Franklin Pierce Gets 30 | The Road to ESPN a New President The Mass Comm program and The Board of Trustees land a the Marlin Fitzwater Center for On the Cover national figure—former White Communication has produced Andrew Card House Chief of Sta Andy its share of alumni stars over the becomes Franklin Pierce’s Card—to serve as Pierce’s 5th years—and quite a few are working fifth President. president. at ESPN. PHOTOGRAPHY: 24 | When Janis 36 | Like a Saint or Kathleen Dooher Played Pierce Super Hero In 1969 two ambitious students Elizabeth Lichtenberg M.Ed. ’13 created their own mini- builds the sort of meaningful Woodstock in the Franklin relationships with her students Pierce Field House—smack in that encourages exploration and the middle of winter. learning—which is one reason she was named New Hampshire’s Teacher of the Year for 2015.

2 PIERCE / FALL 2015 Departments

5 President’s Message Calling All Alumni 8 Ravenings From ghosts in Peterson Manor to Fulbright Scholars to America’s 36 #1 baseball team 42 Face to Face Meet your Alumni Board of Directors 46 Events Alumni reconnect over food, dancing, and golf 52 Planned Giving The newest members of the Pioneer Legacy Society share their reasons for giving back to Franklin Pierce. 55 Class Notes Marriage proposals, new digs, new jobs—Class Notes has it all! 68 Honor Roll of Giving 10 Acknowledging the leadership, support and generosity of our donors during 2014/15 30

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FRANKLIN PIERCE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI MAGAZINE | FALL 2015 | VOL. 33, NO. 1

PRESIDENT Andrew H. Card, Jr.

VICE PRESIDENT OF EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT BOARD OF TRUSTEES INSTITUTIONAL ADVANCEMENT TO THE PRESIDENT Michael C.J. Fallon, Chair Lisa Murray Ann Gagnon Leslye A. Arsht DIRECTOR OF ALUMNI AND PROVOST & VICE PRESIDENT Lloyd Astmann ’69 PARENT RELATIONS FOR ACADEMIC AFFAIRS Patricia L. Barry Julie Zahn Kim Mooney ’83 Steven V. Camerino, Vice Chair B. Jay Cooper EDITOR EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT Elizabeth DiPietro Jim Wolken FOR ADMINISTRATION & CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER Carleen Farrell ’71, Secretary Nathaniel Peirce MANAGING EDITOR Thomas V. Farrell ’83 David DeIuliis Caryl Felicetta DEAN OF THE COLLEGE AT RINDGE Paul M. Goyette ’94 Kerry McKeever ASSISTANT EDITOR Milton E. Kahn Barbara Hall DEAN OF THE COLLEGE Al N. Marulli, Jr. ’69 OF GRADUATE AND Patrick McHugh CONTRIBUTING EDITORS PROFESSIONAL STUDIES Sean O’Kane Alyssa Borelli ‘15 Maria Altobello Susan Pimentel Vicki Doyle Laurie A. Tomlinson ’82 Ann Gagnon CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER Sandra Quaye Amanda Kau man ’12, MBA ’14 CLERK OF THE CORPORATION Lisa Murray ATHLETIC DIRECTOR Nathaniel Peirce Julie Zahn Bruce Kirsh ’71 ASSISTANT CLERK ART DIRECTOR & DESIGN OF THE CORPORATION VICE PRESIDENT OF STUDENT AFFAIRS Carolyn Bowes Lisa Murray James Earle CONTRIBUTING WRITERS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS VICE PRESIDENT OF Susannah Batchelder ’13, MBA ’14 INSTITUTIONAL ADVANCEMENT Bob Riley ’82, President Alyssa Borelli ’15 Lisa Murray Marcy (Pollock) Fink ’73, Vice President, Amanda Kau man ’12, MBA ’14 Academic Relations Joanne Mackenzie VICE PRESIDENT OF ADVANCEMENT Henry Ellis ’69. AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT Vice President, Lisa Murray Membership, Bylaws and Elections Larry Leach ’82 Stephanie Nebes Nicole Torday ’98, Vice President, Meghan Pierce ASSISTANT VICE PRESIDENT External Relations OF ENROLLMENT Jennifer Scott Forry ’04, Vice President, CONTRIBUTING DESIGNERS Linda Quimby Reunion and Homecoming Weekends Ann LaFond Scott Babitts ’73, P’09 ASSISTANT VICE PRESIDENT Danny Becker ’70 PHOTOGRAPHERS OF STUDENT FINANCIAL SERVICES Susannah Batchelder ’13, MBA ’14 Kenneth Ferreira Kimberly (Cook) Neher ’89 Christopher Beauchamp Arthur Fink ’72 DIRECTOR OF HUMAN RESOURCES Trent Bell Chris Holman ’99 Janette Merideth Richard Berube ’98 David Masse ’83 Scott Dorrance James McDonald ’75 Kathleen Dooher Kim (Lewis) Riley ’83 Christopher Evans Josh Sigsworth ’07, G’10 Ann Lafond Merrill Vaughan ’12 Gary John Norman Tara Wilkinson ’12 Stephanie Nebes

ILLUSTRATOR Walter Vasconcelos

Pierce Alumni Magazine (PAM) is published biannually by Franklin Pierce University in conjunction with the Franklin Pierce University Alumni Association. Issues are mailed to all known Franklin Pierce Alumni within the United States. Pierce Alumni Magazine is guided by the principles of freedom of expression and accepted standards of good taste. The views expressed are those of the signed contributors and do not necessarily represent the views or ocial opinions of Franklin Pierce University. POSTMASTER: Please send address changes, Form 3579, to Franklin Pierce University, Alumni Relations Oce, 40 University Drive, Rindge, NH 03461.

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Pierce Pride

athleene, my wife and partner whom I’ve among the very best sports programs in the country, and known since 5th grade, and I are so pleased this past year, the baseball team distinguished itself by K to tell you that we are “All In!” That is, we’re being ranked #1 in the nation—the first time in state his- excited to be at Franklin Pierce University. tory that a New Hampshire school has earned that honor. We’re excited about its future, its amazing students, its And new partnerships, like the recent agreement with the talented faculty, its outstanding sports teams, and its Boston Herald to exclusively cover the 2016 Presidential stunning location. When it comes to offering a bright fu- elections, provide our students with outstanding learning ture to young people, Franklin Pierce is second to none. opportunities that few schools can match. We’re also excited about the chance to meet each and I could fill this magazine with good news about every one of you, the alumni of Franklin Pierce. As you Franklin Pierce. But you already know what makes this know, your alma mater has a long history of truly mak- university special. My job is to make sure it stays that ing a difference. Thousands and thousands of young way—and I am going to need your help. people found their lives magically changed by this uni- An important part of the president’s job is to make versity. That magic still happens here. Every day I take sure the university is properly time to meet with students, as I want to hear their con- resourced. So, yes, you will cerns, their dreams, their ideas. I’m proud to tell you hear from me about the impor- Franklin Pierce that Franklin Pierce has already made a tremendous tance of our Annual Fund and needs you. difference in their lives. other funding opportunities. While Franklin Pierce faces challenges, (like many But Franklin Pierce needs your We need your small schools), there is also much good news to share help in other ways, too. We involvement. with you. Our students continue to inspire with their need your involvement. Your zest for life and learning. Faculty continue to win na- Pierce Pride. We need you to Your Pierce Pride. tional acclaim while devoting significant attention to reconnect. Not just with your every student. Signature programs, like the Pappas alma mater, but with the next Health Science program and the Marlin Fitzwater generation of Pierce alumni. Center for Communication, continue to distinguish I encourage you to visit the campus, talk with the stu- Franklin Pierce, and new programs, such as our Social dents, share your story, share your path to success, and Media and Emerging Technology major, have already help us spread the word about Franklin Pierce. We also demonstrated significant promise. need to hear your ideas about the future of this univer- Likewise, the success of our online programs and our sity and where you, our alumni, think we should focus. campuses in Manchester, Portsmouth, Lebanon, NH, You are the legacy of Franklin Pierce. You are the and Goodyear, AZ, represent a new era for Franklin reason this university exists. And together we can ensure Pierce University, as we respond to the changing reali- that Franklin Pierce University has a strong foundation ties in higher education. Raven Athletics continues to be for many, many years to come.

ANDREW H. CARD, JR. PRESIDENT

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Changes in the Air

all has a colorful way of reminding us that Falconi were determined to keep their classmates in change is not only possible, but inevitable. Rindge over the break. They pooled their student activi- F That’s certainly the spirit at Franklin Pierce ties funds, putting all their proverbial eggs into a single University these days, as change arrived last se- concert guaranteed to keep students on campus in the mester in the form of a new president—Andrew H. Card, middle of February. What resulted (“When Janis Played Jr., former White House chief of staff. Pierce,” page 24) was a rollicking adventure that became While a politician entering academia is no longer a a campus legend and put Franklin Pierce on the map like novelty, it is still extremely rare to attract such a promi- never before. The fledgling school that nobody had heard nent national figure to a university the size of Franklin of suddenly became a household name in New England, Pierce, especially given the financial challenges facing thanks to a handful of students who accidentally created small liberal arts schools. a mini-Woodstock. But a previous stint on the Franklin Pierce Board of During research for this story, I had the honor of in- Trustees (1996 to 1999) had already convinced Card that terviewing both Ellis and Falconi, whose retelling of the Pierce was a special place. So, when good friend and fel- story is both hilarious and brilliant. Both understand low Pierce trustee Marlin Fitzwater called 16 years later, the power of surprise and narrative arc, and I am con- Card was ready and willing to take the helm. vinced their story would make a wonderful movie. We brought How Andy Card, as he likes to be called, came We were stunned to learn over the summer that Rick to be the 5th president of Franklin Pierce is the Falconi’s health had taken a sudden turn for the worse, back the subject of our cover story. and he passed away in September of this year. A long-time magazine’s New leadership, of course, brings new volunteer and alumni board leader, Rick’s passing left a energy and new ideas. It has also re-energized big hole in the hearts of many. While I only had a few op- original name, your alumni magazine, which has changed portunities to meet with him, each time I did, I was struck Pierce, which in several ways. You’ll find more pages, more by his sincere passion for this university. It had changed pictures, and more stories. You’ll also find his life in a very meaningful way. And through his lifelong most alumni significantly more class notes, which is always commitment to Franklin Pierce, beginning when he was the best read in an alumni magazine. a student, Rick Falconi changed the fortunes of Franklin still use to But we’ve also changed the magazine’s Pierce in a very big way. It’s an honor for this magazine to this day. name. Gone is the metaphorical Radius, be able to retell one of Rick’s great adventures, which in a lovely tribute to the reach of a Franklin turn became one of the university’s great triumphs. Pierce education. Instead, we brought back Change comes to us all—people, institutions, maga- the magazine’s original name, Pierce, which zines. But one constant that we intend to maintain most alumni still use to this day. is that the Pierce Alumni Magazine continues to be a Pierce Alumni Magazine—or, PAM as we a–ection- strong connection to your past and exciting herald of ately call it—has also been redesigned by award-winning your alma mater’s future, for as the university’s new designer Carolyn Bowes, with the clear intent of making President will tell you, Franklin Pierce is a very special your reading experience more enjoyable. But we’re not school. Send your ideas and feedback, large or small, to done. We anticipate more changes in the year ahead, [email protected]. so please share your ideas or criticisms, as we intend to make PAM the best alumni magazine in New England. Change was certainly what alums Henry Ellis ’69 and Rick Falconi ’69 were aiming for back in 1969. Tired of hosting a Winter Carnival that few students attended, JIM WOLKEN (nearly everyone went home for winter break), Ellis and EDITOR

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Dr. Josh Cleland continues to garner national attention for his work at Franklin Pierce.

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Award Winning Cleland Comes up Roses Professor Josh Cleland nabs third Rose Award and first Golden Pen Award

he big news at the Franklin Pierce Man- and this year’s awards join a growing roster of Tchester campus these days is award-winning achievements, including the 2012 John Medeiros physical therapy professor, Dr. Joshua Cleland. Award, a 2011 Chattanooga Research Award Not that Cleland would ever characterize from the American Physical Therapy Associa- himself that way. tion, a 2010 Prescrire Prize from France, a 2010 For one thing, the words “bragging rights” just Dick Erhard award for Excellence in Research, aren’t in his vocabulary. For another, this profes- a 2009 award from the American Academy of sor is more about rewards than awards; and for Orthopaedic Manual Physical Therapists, and him, those rewards come in seeing the diˆerence the list goes on. that advances in physical therapy can make in Cleland spends most of his time teaching at the people’s lives. Manchester campus in one of two state-of-the- But others can’t help but sing his praises, as for art teaching labs where, as he says, it’s all about the third straight year, Cleland won the presti- “working together.” gious Rose Award. “It’s about knowledge and skills, but also about Given annually to the primary author of an common goals,” he says. “Pass the license exam, article that has the most significant impact, become a practicing physical therapist.” immediate or potential, on the practice of ortho- Employment rate of Franklin Pierce graduates paedic physical therapy, this year’s Rose Award has been 100% within six months of passing the recognizes Dr. Cleland for a study published in licensing exam, and with an aging population and the Annals of Internal Medicine, which com- the increasingly competitive nature of sports, pares the e‘cacy of Subacromial Corticosteroid those graduates will remain in high demand. Injection Compared to Manual Physical Therapy With an annual revenue of $33 billion, the for the Management of the Unilateral Shoulder physical therapy sector of the U.S. healthcare Impingement Syndrome. industry employs over 300,000. And it’s grow- The study may potentially translate into ing fast. meaningful evidence-based advantages, particu- Advances in evidence based understanding of larly for an aging population for whom physical how the body works are cutting health care costs therapy is a growing alternative. through alternative treatments that are working, Equally prestigious, but easier for the average and winning recognition through the kind of re- reader to comprehend, is Cleland’s recent recogni- search that’s winning Dr. Cleland—and Frankin tion by the APTA (American Physical Therapy Pierce—national recognition. Association) in the form of the 2015 Jules M. Roth- “It’s been a real privilege to know and work stein Golden Pen Award for Scientific Writing. with Josh Cleland over the past 12 years,” says Awards are nothing new for Dr. Cleland, who has Dr. Maria Altobello, Dean of the College of Grad- published some 150 manuscripts in peer-reviewed uate & Professional Studies, “He’s an outstand- journals. These are dispatches from the front lines ing teacher and contributes to the betterment of of science where the breakthroughs happen. our students, our faculty, our institution, and the Cleland’s primary area of expertise is the physical therapy profession. It is an honor to call

SCOTT DORRANCE SCOTT management of spine and extremities disorders, him colleague.”

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Haunting Edna Still Haunts Peterson

andsome, historical Peterson Manor. H Turn right up the hill towards the center of the Rindge campus, and there it is. And what it is, or so goes the legend, is haunted. That’s right, as in paranormally occupied by, in this case, a lady. Only this lady was not, er, a lady—at least not accord- ing to an article in New Hampshire Magazine. Her name was Edna McGuinness, and she was, claims the article, a madam, implying that Peterson Manor was once (ahem!) a brothel. All this is said to have happened back at the start of the 20th century, when the son of one Zachariah Whitney sold family land to mahogany tycoon George D. Emory, who commenced building the grand ‘manor house’ to entertain his guests, then added an elegant barn-carriage house for his prize horses. The elegant Edna McGuinness was probably added later, after the manor was inherited by Emory’s playboy son, who was said to use it “as one might expect a playboy to…” On the other hand, “Edna” may be an embellished compendium of ladies who ruled the roost at various times. When, for instance, it was an “exclusive rendez- vous for members of the literary world.” Or home to the flamboyant dancer Alma Monaco, whose shenanigans scandalized the town. One rumor involving a murder may have been started by the sighting, reported by Professor Bill Jack in the Oct. 28, 1997, Pierce Arrow, of a disembodied, floating head. distributing their cameras strategically in spots where unusual Professor Jack spent many nights with students witnessing all activity most frequently occurred. manner of other-worldly activities, while investigating initial Sure enough, things soon started going paranormally on the sec- reports of a ghostly apparition by a Franklin Pierce employee ond floor, where senior Chelsea DeRaps-Richardson reported “The claiming to have heard a piano playing late one night, followed by camera would shut o¤ at exactly 20-minute intervals, and the bat- a womanly glow appearing, clutching a baby and humming while tery would be fully recharged when turned back on.” What’s more descending the stairwell on which a portrait of ‘Edna’ McGuin- said DeRaps-Richardson, the camera “also captured very distinct ness once hung proudly. whistling of a song near the microphone, even though there was no Over the years, Peterson Manor became the center of much in- one near it at the time.” trigue on local websites specializing in haunted houses, and all this Things continued to go mysteriously bump in the night, culminat- unearthly speculation eventually attracted the Pierce Media Group, ing with the group distinctly hearing what they say were “footsteps Franklin Pierce’s student media group which has a strong reputa- coming down the stairs.” tion for unearthing great stories. While they never got to film Edna, the intrepid media mavens got So back on Oct. 5, 2014, several of them decided to find out just quite a scare. And the ghostliness, they say, continued days later, what was “glowing on” late at night in those haunted halls. when they regrouped to view their footage, and clearly heard some- Armed with cameras, Sarah Rodriguez ’15, Stephen Keimig ’16, one, or something, shouting the words “GO” and “DON’T.” Alyssa Borelli ’15, and Chelsea DeRaps-Richardson ’15, were joined Was it Edna? Who knows. While she may or may not haunt the by sta¤ member and alumna, Katie Bernier ’13, and, in true Blair manor, the lady sure knows how to haunt imaginations.

Witch Project style, surrendered themselves to a night in the manor, — Susannah Batchelder VASCONCELOS WALTER

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First Puppy STATE OF GRACIE The ‘First Puppy’ Makes a Campus Visit

ou could say that President Card launched his tenure as Woof! Woof! the fifth president of Franklin Pierce University from the The first Y doghouse. puppy, Gracie, Back in Texas, as President and Mrs. Card were packing up their car to start the 2,000-mile journey to Rindge, their dog, taking in Gracie, went missing. her first “I was bringing boxes out to the car the whole morning, so the New England door was open probably more than it should have been,” recalls winter on President Card. “She [Mrs. Card] kept telling me to shut the door so Gracie wouldn’t get out. As soon as we realized we couldn’t find her, I campus with knew I was in the doghouse.” President and Frantic for their furry little friend, the couple called Gracie’s name, Mrs. Card. they searched the house high and low, called in search parties of family and friends. While President Card joined one of the search parties, Mrs. Card began desperately making posters. An hour went by, two hours, almost a third. Then, one of their With the help of one of the Texas A&M Veterinary Program stu- friends came into the house, started talking, and out popped Gracie to dents, Gracie got some helpful training. But Gracie was still Gracie, greet her. “To this day,” laughs Mrs. Card, “we still have no idea where and here at Franklin Pierce we wouldn’t want her any other way. she was. We’d searched that house top to bottom, inside and out.” Accustomed as she’d been to sweltering Texas heat, this little As anyone who knows anything about Peekapoo puppies will tell bundle of energy dove headfirst into this year’s record breaking you, 10-month-old Gracie was just being true to her breed. A petite snowfall, “just like a born New Englander,” says Mrs. Card proudly. cross between a Pekinese and a Poodle, Peekapoo puppies are Up early each morning eager for a walk, Gracie’s already won the adorably loving “lap dogs”—and they are also, as everyone at Frank- heart of the campus she now calls home. And when at home, “all lin Pierce would soon discover—characters. she wants to do is be near you and love you.” President Card recalls the first time he brought Gracie to his oce Her presence is so calming, they say, that they’ve decided on a at Texas A&M and saw her puppy colors shine through. “I was on the “career” that should suit Gracie to a T. Gracie, say Mr. and Mrs. Card, phone at the time… and the voice of the person I was speaking to on will be trained to be a therapy dog. the other end was very crackly. I hung up and was about to call IT to Meanwhile, the couple hopes that Gracie will be a source of Pierce have my phone replaced, when I looked down to see that Gracie had Pride to everyone on campus. And one look at her picture, how could chewed almost completely through the cord.” she be otherwise? —Stephanie Nebes

Winners Quotable AND THE WINNER IS… Bill Raymond ’69 “ I didn’t come to accepts his new iPad with his wife, Martha. Franklin Pierce to get Bill won the iPad by submitting a class note a degree. I came to for this issue of Pierce. Submit your class find my passion.” notes to classnotes@ franklinpierce.edu and MEGAN HEANEY ’16 you can be eligible for a prize! BIOLOGY

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Victories RAVEN ROUND UP

he baseball team enjoyed one of their best seasons in program history, finishing the season with a 48-4 record. The team broke the program record for consecutive wins Twith a 27-game winning streak. They also earned their first No. 1 national ranking in team history and the first for any New Hampshire college or university. The Ravens ultimately fell to the eventual regional champion, Wilmington, in the semifinal round of the eastern regional tournament. Raven catcher Matt Walsh signed with the Yankees shortly after the season ended. The women’s basketball team advanced to the semifinal round of the NCAA Championship East Regional where they were defeated 69-59 by the University New Haven, who ultimately went on to win the region. Franklin Pierce concluded its season with a 19-11 record. Men’s lacrosse qualified for the Northeast-10 Championship for the first time in program his- tory and was able to host and win their first postseason game in team history with a 9-5 triumph over Assumption in the Northeast-10 quarterfinal. Over the course of the season, Eddie Noonan ‘15 established new team records for career goals and points.

In track and field, Dage Minors ’17, placed eighth in the 800-meter final at the NCAA Cham- Dage Minors pionships. This summer, Minors also went on to capture the Under-20 national title in the 1500 ’17 meters in his home country of Bermuda.

Growth Clubhouse Complements Program

hen the men’s baseball team returned The clubhouse will include a locker room, Wto campus this fall, they found a new o‘ces, umpire room, and player showers. Head building just beyond their center field wall: The baseball coach, Jayson King, believes that Bruce and Patricia Kirsh Baseball Clubhouse. the new facility will strengthen the baseball The facility’s name recognizes two alumni program. who have shown a remarkable commitment “To me it’s the last piece of the puzzle as to Franklin Pierce. Bruce Kirsh ’71 has held far as the baseball facilities. We have a great several positions in his 42-year indoor facility, a great outdoor tenure at the University, but is facility. The Clubhouse is a best known as the University’s showcase for anybody inter- Athletic Director, a position he ested in the program,” explained has held for 35 years. Patricia Coach King. Kirsh ’70 was instrumental in The building of the Club- mentoring aspiring teachers house was a family effort, as “The Clubhouse and served as the University’s Mike Rego, father of two former is a showcase coordinator for all student teaching baseball players, served as General for anybody placements and observations. Contractor, while Kyle Griffin, father of “It’s a wonderful tribute to me and my wife and two current Ravens, completed the building’s interested in the years of service we have given to the Univer- plumbing. Longtime University benefactors the program,” sity. For the team, it enhances what is already a Dr. Arthur and Martha Pappas also contrib- explained great program,” said Kirsh. “My hope and wish uted a generous lead gift to help launch the Coach King. is that someday I come back here and the whole project. Donations for The Bruce and Patricia strip between the new clubhouse and the right- Kirsh Baseball Clubhouse are still being field line is made up of new buildings for the accepted and can be made at www.franklin- other Franklin Pierce teams that play here.” pierce.edu/donate.

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Scholarship

Dr. Mooiman Studying Solar Power in Botswana wants to Dr. Michael Mooiman receives Fulbright Scholarship tap into the tremendous r. Michael Mooiman takes his passion for energy Four years ago at Franklin Pierce, Dr. Mooiman created potential D and sustainability to rural Botswana for the the M.B.A. in Energy and Sustainability Studies program, to harness 2015/2016 academic year. Traveling to Africa on a which looks at energy issues from a business and sustain- solar power Fulbright Scholarship, the Associate Professor in the ability viewpoint. An engineer, Dr. Mooiman has long M.B.A. program based in Manchester, NH, is the first been interested in the crossroads where energy meets in the desert Franklin Pierce University College of Graduate and industry and often tells his students, “Energy stands at the country Professional Studies faculty member to receive the intersection of technology, finance, and policy.” prestigious award. Dr. Mooiman was born and raised in South Africa, As a Fulbright Scholar, his research will focus on but has been living in the U.S. since 1987. His the current state of solar technology in the country, as Fulbright experience gives him a chance to give back well as the obstacles that stand in its way. Botswana to the land of his birth. He has a Ph.D. in Metallurgical is located just north of South Africa, with most of its Engineering and an MS in Chemistry, Business. land being in the Kalahari Desert. Dr. Mooiman wants To prepare for his trip, he took a to tap into the tremendous potential to harness solar community college course on power in the desert country. He will also teach energy solar panel installation and studies at the University worked on his Botswana of Botswana. language skills.

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Aesthetic Arrest Drawn Together: Curating the Alumni Art Show

urating an art show is a challenge, but a world-renowned artists. In short, they’re busy Crewarding one. I recently curated, “Drawn working in the arts, so their participation was Together: Franklin Pierce University Alumni Art greatly appreciated by this curator. Exhibit,” at the Thoreau Art Gallery in Peterson The final step was installing the artwork. Ar- Manor. The show was a landmark, as it was the ranging where the work would hang in the gallery first ever alumni art show on campus. was like a puzzle, as each artist contributed more The exhibit, however, did not come together than a single piece. I rearranged the show several easily. It took many months of careful planning, times, wanting to make sure that the arrangement aided greatly by my faculty advisor Prof. Nate highlighted each piece. After much work and con- Sullivan. Because Franklin Pierce’s arts graduates stant assessment, we found the ideal spot for each are known for their scope and breadth, I reached artist. For the finishing touch, we hung the artists’ out to a variety of artists—painters, photogra- statements and biographies next to their work. phers, ceramicists, and glass artists were all con- My graphic design background came in handy for tacted. The response was quick and impressive as this and the accompanying plaques. I also created more than 10 alumni artists replied. advertisements for the show, and did outreach to Then came the tricky part, selecting the individ- campus media sources, including this magazine. ual pieces. The more compelling the art, the more The hard work paid o•. Opening night was one di‘cult the selection process. There were some very of the most successful in the Thoreau Gallery’s di‘cult choices. In the end, I chose pieces with simi- history. The gallery was packed with sta•, teach- lar lines and forms, which created commonalities ers, students, and alumni all buzzing. amongst the art, and, in turn, tied the show together. I graduate in 2016, and am excited to join the I then worked with each artist to ensure the ranks of such talented former students. Curating work was shipped safely and on time. Building the Alumni Art Show was a great honor and an schedules and coordinating the various steps experience I will never forget. so that the show came together was a big part of the job. The fact that the show received so much —Vanessa De Zorzi ’16 is a rising senior at support from alumni was incredible, as practicing Franklin Pierce University. She is a double major artists tend to be very busy people. Our alumni in Fine Arts and Graphic Communications, artists work as art educators and studio owners, and plans to work in a museum and do freelance and some recent grads are studio assistants to design after graduation.

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Out in Front DECKER’S NEW NOVEL TACKLES TOUGH QUESTIONS

onna Decker is often described as a powerhouse. Ph.D professor and chair of the Department of English, her Dmilieu may be literature, but her mission is trailblaz- ing—particularly when focused on the challenging and changing landscape of feminism. The courses she teaches, and the blog she writes for Ms. Magazine’s national website, reveals a serious approach to Decker women’s issues. It also shows in her upcoming first novel, researched Dancing in Red Shoes Will Kill You, which tells the excruciating the Montreal details of the 1989 Montreal massacre at École Polytechnique Massacre where 14 female engineering students were senselessly gunned extensively down by a 25-year-old misogynistic maniac. Dancing in Red Shoes Will Kill You, (Inanna Publications), was for her novel, published in May and re-imagines the massacre on two fiction- but also uses alized campuses through the narratives of three fictionalized that research characters caught up in a version of the original killings: Deirdre, a as the basis beautiful, Bohemian first-year female engineering student; Marin, of a hugely who ponders what it means to be a female engineer in a male dominant culture; and Jenean, a feisty, feminist journalist who popular finds herself on a list of 19 women the shooter intends to kill. freshman Decker researched the Montreal Massacre extensively for her seminar novel, but also uses that research as the basis of a hugely popu- she’s now lar freshman seminar she’s now taught twice at Franklin Pierce. taught twice Entitled “Intentional Venom: Making Meaning of School Shootings,” the seminar debunks myths shrouding school shoot- at Franklin ers. Drawing on multi-media sources, including fiction and non- Pierce. fiction books, a play, and a film, the course encourages creative exploration of commonalities among these mass murderers, ultimately finding one predominant factor: all were male. Students initially resist this conclusion, says Decker. But a documentary she uses in the course helps students see the pattern. “Tough Guise,” by filmmaker Jackson Katz, an acclaimed anti-violence educator, argues that the epidemic of male violence plagu- ing American society needs to be understood as part of a much larger cultural crisis in masculinity. “The film is pretty compelling,” says Decker, who says she teaches the course for the same reason she teaches literature—so students will learn to be more empathetic. “If we can be open to what other people think and feel, especially with those not like us, maybe that’s an opening for a dialogue.” Dialogue is one of Decker’s strong suits, according to students who regularly give her an ‘A’ on course evaluations and on RateMyProfessor.com. “She doesn’t so much teach as encourage class-long chats,” says one student. “She is a wonderful soul with vast amounts of knowledge,” says another. She is also mother to three children, two girls and one boy, all—like the characters in her novel—in their 20s. “I wake up thinking about the parents of those poor students,” says Decker, “I think about the parents of the killer . . . femicide is the second leading cause of death for women 20-24, and the leading cause of death for African American women ages 15-24.” It is, she says, not a new, but a very old story. And one she tells as perhaps never before in Dancing in Red Shoes Will Kill You. —Joanne Mackenzie

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Victory Great Escape Seniors escape war-torn country to Franklin Pierce

few years ago, Antoine Gisore ’15 and Makopa Ru- they quickly improved. Antoine expressed a desire to go to A gabirwa ’15 ran for their lives. This past spring, they college. Coach Emerson challenged him to run faster, as that walked in the processional to receive their diplomas. was a possible path. So, in his senior year, Makopa won the “We’re very fortunate to be at Franklin Pierce,” says New Hampshire state championship. Makopa, who, along with his cousin Antoine, are members of After high school, both Antoine and Makopa briefly at- the Banyamulenge tribe (Tutsi) of the Democratic Republic tended another New England college. In 2011, Emerson of the Congo, which has a long history of internal conflict. joined Franklin Pierce as the men’s track coach. A few months In the late 1990s, the government expelled all Banyamulenge later, in January 2012, while his wife was giving birth to a new from the country. Farms, homes and villages were pillaged and baby, Emerson received a phone call from the Franklin Pierce burned. Families were driven out and murdered. Antoine and admissions o¤ce. “There are two young gentlemen here filling Makopa, who grew up in separate towns, spent their childhoods out paperwork,” they told me. “They want to come to Franklin moving from place-to-place, struggling to stay alive. Antoine Pierce to run for you,” Emerson recalls with a smile. “It was a became separated from his parents. big surprise, but a good one.” In early June 2004, Makopa, one of 11 siblings, found safety After being accepted to Franklin Pierce, Antoine and Makopa with an aunt at a refugee camp in Gatumba in the bordering joined the track team, but had to sit out a year due to NCAA country of Burunda. The tent city, which was operated by a regulations. Since then, they’ve each consistently helped to UN agency, housed 1,700 refugees. propel each other and the team toward victory. Two months later, on the night of August 13, armed rebels, They’ve also found academic success. Makopa carried a 3.1 mainly associated with the Forces for National Liberation, GPA, an impressive achievement for attacked the sleeping camp with guns, torches, and ma- Antoine someone who learned English only a chetes. They continued through noon the next day. In all, 166 worked few years ago. On top of that, both also men, women, and children were slaughtered, with another at a local held jobs. 116 burned, injured, and maimed. “They’re both extremely lucky Makopa was 11 years old at the time. Walmart; just to be alive,” says Emerson. “I’m “It was ten o’clock at night,” he says. “Suddenly I heard Makopa blessed to be part of their journey. a step, and then I started hearing gun shots. After a few flipped They taught me a lot about coaching.” minutes, I heard a baby crying for its mother—then nothing. burgers at Emerson quickly adds that Bill Costa, It went on for hours and hours. We ran. When we came back Wendy’s. their faculty advisor, really has helped the next day there were dead bodies everywhere, and many them a lot, especially with English. injured people.” “Bill had them read books aloud in his Antoine was elsewhere, but soon heard about the Gatumba o¤ce to fine-tune their pronunciation. massacre. Just 12 years old, he didn’t know Makopa was He’s one of the big reasons they graduated this May.” there, but walked three days to reach the camp to search for Antoine was first to become a U.S. citizen in April 2013. survivors. They lived in refugee camps until a missionary Makopa followed in September 2014. While Makopa’s par- with the International Organization for Migration (IOM), ents emigrated with him to Concord, Antoine discovered just an intergovernmental agency, asked if they wanted to go to a few years ago that his parents had survived the Congo wars. the United States. “Of course, we said yes,” says Makopa, who Refugees in both Kenya and Ethiopia, they’re now waiting today laughs at the irony of such questions. for asylum. In 2007, they arrived in Concord, New Hampshire, After their 2015 FPU graduation, Antoine, a mass com- speaking no English. Antoine worked at a local Walmart; munications major, hopes to work for ESPN. Makopa plans Makopa flipped burgers at Wendy’s. Both attended Con- eventually to start a foundation to build a school for children cord High School. There they met Zach Emerson, who was in the Congo. They credit Franklin Pierce for helping them then Concord’s track coach at the time. Both boys joined start new lives. the team. “We really love it here,” says Antoine. “Franklin Pierce At first, neither did very well. Antoine ran with folded arms. people are so kind. They really care about you here. And they Makopa quit because he hated the cold. But with the same help you when you need it. We’ll really miss this place when courage and determination they used to survive the Congo, we leave.”

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Journey A FAR THROW FROM HOME

hen Brian Kirn ’16 was a high school junior, he attended an archaeology conference in his hometown of San Antonio, Texas. There he saw a Franklin W Pierce anthropology major give an atlatl demonstration. “I was hooked immediately,” says Kirn. “I wanted to be an archaeologist back then, so seeing students hurl an ancient weapon that was tens of thousands of years old, well, I knew right then that this the school for me.” Being 1,700 miles from home may feel like the other side of the world, but Kirn couldn’t be happier with his decision or his major, anthropology. “Anthropology teaches you very valuable skills, especially analysis and research, which is vital in business,” he says. “You also learn to read people, to understand their lives, their social relationships.” After a pause, Kirn adds, “You also learn patience.” Kirn didn’t have to be patient earning fieldwork Brian Kirn ’16 decided time, as FP anthropology to attend Pierce after majors receive extensive Above: hands-on training in seeing a Franklin Pierce Makopa anthropology major give Rugabirwa archaeological excava- ’15. tion starting freshman an atlatl demonstration Below: year. Kirn currently works Antoine in his hometown of on the largest dig site in Gisore ’15. San Antonio, TX. New England, a huge dig site along the banks of the Connecticut River in Walpole, NH, searching for Native American artifacts that date back thousands of years. It’s part of Professor Robert Goodby’s Monadnock Archaeological Project. “Brian’s an excellent student, one of the top people in the major,” says Goodby. “He’s serious about his work, but brings a great sense of humor. He’s also very accomplished. I can hand him part of our Walpole project, and ask him to execute it, and he’ll do it. He also instructs freshmen in the process, and does it very well. I think of Brian as a real Renaissance guy, with lots of gifts and talents.” Among them is music. A bass baritone, Kirn sings with Franklin Pierce’s Choral Union, and Lachrimae, the FP musical group dedicated to medieval music. Kirn currently is performing in “Cautionary Tale: A Junk Opera” by Professor Robert Lawson, which was chosen by the Ken- nedy Performing Arts Center for recognition. An avid outdoor enthusiast, Kirn also volunteers as adventure trip leader for rock climbing expeditions, and leads freshmen on hiking and kayaking trips during pre-orientation. He also gives atlatl demonstrations, including at the Museum of Science in Boston, and he competes in events like the Atlatl Championships in Vermont. On a good day, he can throw the ancient dart more than 100 yards. At the end of every academic year, Kirn travels the 1,700 miles back to San Antonio for summer break. Besides family and friends, he misses authentic Mexican food and Texas barbecue. “It’s hard to find good Mexican food here,” he says. After graduation, Brian wants to work in the artifacts department of a museum, creating exhibits that demonstrate the impor- tance of archaeology projects. He has no doubt that Franklin Pierce has prepared him well for this career. “I know Professors Goodby and Welsch very well at this point,” he points out. “Through them, I have a professional network that goes back generations and spreads across the country. That’s a nice advantage that a school like Franklin Pierce can give you. It opens doors for students. I can’t imagine going to a school where you don’t know your professors on a first-name basis. It’s what makes Franklin Pierce special.”

FALL 2015 \ PIERCE 17 18 PIERCE / FALL 2015 FORMER WHITE HOUSE CHIEF OF STAFF, ANDY CARD, TAKES THE HELM AT A CRITICAL TIME. THE RIGHT STUFF

BY AMY CRAWFORD PHOTOGRAPHS BY KATHLEEN DOOHER

PROFESSOR GERALD BURNS is the coordinator of Franklin Pierce’s American Studies program, and, as it happens, something of an expert in the recent history of the United States. His popular class, “America & 9/11” examines the terrorist attacks and their far-ranging consequences for American life, culture, and public policy. Of course, this year’s students have only vague recollections of that terrible day, and most are not old enough to remember the famous photo of President George W. Bush at a Florida elementary school as his chief of sta , Andrew Card, leans in to inform him that the nation is under attack.

FALL 2015 \ PIERCE 19 This page: Still, Burns calls it “an iconic image of 9/11,” and Card, President Card who became Franklin Pierce’s fifth president in Janu- interacts with students on a daily ary, will always be tied in many Americans’ minds to basis, often showing that fateful moment. Today, the photo serves as a sort of up in the cafeteria at visual shorthand for his five and a half years in the White 7:30 for breakfast. House—war years that required di‹cult decisions, an awe- Facing page: inspiring poker face, and fortitude under inconceivable President Card meets with Provost pressure. So of course, when Pierce trustees announced Kim Mooney ’83 and last fall that Card would be the University’s next president, Vice President of Professor Burns thought he knew what to expect. Advancement, Lisa Murray, during But then he ran into the new president on campus. his first day in oce. “I saw him and I was very formal,” Burns recalls. “I said, ‘Oh, President Card!’ And he was very informal— almost gushing! I was thinking, ‘This is the former chief Pierce. After all, he has enjoyed a forty-year career, with of sta• of the White House?’ I never imagined him to prestigious appointments in both government and the be so voluble and, well, bouncy. I was expecting a sort of private sector. But, in an early morning interview from stern gatekeeper, but he’s very human.” his new o‹ce in Peterson Manor, Card explains that the Burns’ surprise has been echoed across campus, by emotional reasons for taking the job were compelling. faculty and students alike. Here was the chance, he says, to be a transformational “He’s very fun, very energetic,” says Alyssa Borelli ’15, leader, to guide Franklin Pierce through a rocky era a mass communication major who met the incoming and to ensure that it continues to be an institution that president when he made the rounds of student organiza- fosters student success. tions just hours after taking o‹ce. (Card asked members “Franklin Pierce has a lot of young people who are of the Pierce Media Group for Twitter advice, she says.) here to do noble things,” he says. “They come with lofty “When I heard he was a former White House chief of dreams and expectations. If you go to Amherst, Wil- sta•, I was blown away. I was surprised he would come to liams, Yale, Harvard, Bates, Bowdoin, you’re kind of liv- Franklin Pierce after serving such an important role.” ing the American Dream. If you come to Franklin Pierce, It’s true that Card’s résumé was already more than you’re finding your American Dream. I think there’s a complete by the time he took the helm at Franklin greater contribution to what makes America a great

20 PIERCE / FALL 2015 nation at Franklin Pierce than even at “I was expecting a sort of stern these other institutions.” Card’s connection to Pierce goes back gatekeeper, but he’s very human.” many years. The Massachusetts native, who was also a key White House sta­er —PROFESSOR GERALD BURNS during the administrations of Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush President James F. Birge would be stepping down. He and then U.S. Secretary of Transportation from 1992 to knew Card, who had recently completed a stint as act- 1993, served on Pierce’s Board of Trustees from 1996 ing dean of the Bush School of Government and Public to 2000, at the invitation of then-President George Service at Texas A&M, was being actively recruited by a Hagerty, a hometown friend. And it was Card who few other universities, but he asked him to think about recruited Marlin Fitzwater, his old White House col- taking over at Franklin Pierce instead. No pressure, league, to the board, beginning a fruitful relationship Fitzwater told his old friend. “I knew if he was inter- that led to the founding of the University’s Marlin ested, he’d say so.” Card promised to mull it over. Fitzwater Center in 2002. Nearly two decades later, A couple of weeks later, Fitzwater got an email from Fitzwater returned the favor—it was his idea to bring Card, and it had an attachment: a photo of Card and his Card back to Rindge. wife in front of the Fitzwater Center, pointing up at the “He has all the right skills and experience that name and smiling. They had decided to stop in Rindge Franklin Pierce needs. We were looking for someone on their way home from a vacation in Maine. “I thought who would be able to make tough decisions, and Andy that was a pretty good sign!” Fitzwater says. has the right stu­,” Fitzwater says before adding, “And I “Andy clearly had many choices,” says Michael C.J. knew he would love the students.” Fallon, chair of the board of trustees, who took over the Fitzwater, who lives in Maryland, happened to be recruiting e­ort once Card had signaled his interest. with Card in Washington, D.C., when he heard that “I was impressed that he wanted to do it for the right

FALL 2015 \ PIERCE 21 reasons. And I figured, if he could run the White House, universities were able to rely on during the recession, and he could run Franklin Pierce.” that means that one of his main tasks as president will be Card knew it would not be an easy job. Franklin Pierce fundraising—tapping into the vast network he has built has faced great financial pressure in recent years, which up over four decades working with powerful people and culminated last summer when Moody’s downgraded its by reconnecting the University’s 18,000 alumni with the bond rating. The struggle is perhaps most apparent in the school’s history and mission. “I run into alumni in the most toll it has taken on the campus itself. unexpected places,” he says. “Tokyo, Moscow, Washington “Ravencroft Theater was one of the original buildings D.C…. Many of them say ‘Oh, I loved Franklin Pierce.’ But on campus,” Card says. “But that building is condemned. they haven’t been back. They haven’t contributed. They There are no lights on inside. That does not send a good haven’t been asked! The alumni of Franklin Pierce are re- signal. Then Crestview Hall—it looks okay, until you re- ally the legacy that will make a di›erence.” alize the snow is plowed up in front of the doors. I wish Beyond guiding the University through tough fi- there were a sign on one of those buildings that said nancial times, Card also hopes to transform it into the ‘Future home of…’ Because the students are not here to sort of institution that the 21st century demands, one celebrate the past.” that provides students with a strong foundation in the This page, top: Franklin Pierce is not the only university facing Marlin Fitzwater, tough times. In March, administrators at small, who was once recruited by Andy liberal arts-focused schools across the United States Card to serve on the were shaken when Virginia’s Sweet Briar College an- Board of Trustees, nounced that it would close after the spring semester, had the idea of bringing Card back due to “insurmountable” financial troubles. “The to Rindge. terrible recession starting in 2008 put a strain on a lot Bottom: of institutions of higher education,” Card says. “Every President Card small college and university is struggling with the re- talks with alities of the economic changes that we went through.” media during a campus press Card notes that Pierce, founded in 1962, is too young conference. to have built up the sort of endowment that many

Fitzwater got an email from Card, and it had an attachment: a photo of Card and his wife in front of the Fitzwater Center, pointing up at the name and smiling. “I thought that was a pretty good sign!”

22 PIERCE / FALL 2015 liberal arts as well as more concrete He relishes the chance to connect skills. That will mean tough choices. Card believes liberal arts schools need with students, whose youthful to strengthen their value proposition. enthusiasm energizes him— “It used to be that you could be trained in liberal arts and move into and reminds him of what’s at stake. diverse paths,” he says. “Today our economy demands more specializa- tion. Health Sciences. Physical therapy. youthful enthusiasm energizes him—and reminds him Business courses. That’s what we’re doing. We’ve repo- of what’s at stake. One recent encounter was especially sitioned the University so that it will always be relevant moving, he says. to the success of our students.” “It was 7:45 in the morning, and I was going over to It’s a high pressure mission, but Card says his the dining hall, and there was a young student walking White House years were excellent preparation for by,” Card says. “I said ‘Hey, you going to breakfast?’ He the challenges he faces today. Chief of staff to the said ‘No, I’m actually going to meet with a professor.’” President of the United States is an all-encompassing Card was impressed—first, that a professor had volun- commitment, he explains. “It is a great privilege, but teered to meet with a student that early, and second, you also carry a big burden. The chief of staff has to that the student actually seemed excited about his early decide what the President needs to know. If you don’t morning meeting. Card asked the young man what had tell him something he needs to know, there are big brought him to Rindge, and he shared that he had As- consequences.” The role also demanded long hours: perger’s, a syndrome on the autism spectrum. As he was Card’s day began at 5:45 a.m. and ended only after the searching for a college, he learned about one of Franklin President went to bed—and sometimes not even then. Pierce’s most celebrated alumni, the animal behaviorist “The job was seven days a week,” Card says. “I did it and autism activist Temple Grandin ’70. He figured if for five and a half years. I had one vacation in five and Pierce had been a home for her, it would be a good fit for a half years, and on day two of the vacation Hurricane him as well. “And I’m so glad I came,” the student told Katrina hit.” Card. “It’s changing my life.” Card is still an early riser, although his schedule at Upon hearing the student’s story, “I pušed up with all Pierce is a little more relaxed. He likes to arrive on kinds of Pierce pride,” Card says. “My motivation comes campus around 7:00, beginning his day with a visit to from the students. It’s their passion and their success that the dining hall, where students are having breakfast. drives me. It’s a phenomenal gift, I think, to the American He relishes the chance to connect with students, whose people to have a place like Franklin Pierce.”

FALL 2015 \ PIERCE 23 ON A FRIGID FEBRUARY NIGHT IN 1969, A PAIR OF UNDERGRADS AND A ROCK LEGEND GAVE A SMALL NEW HAMPSHIRE TOWN AND A FLEDGLING COLLEGE ONE FOR THE HISTORY BOOKS.

BY DAVE ENDERS

24 PIERCE / FALL 2015 FALL 2015 \ PIERCE 25 veryone said it would never happen,” Henry Ellis ’69 recalls with the knowing laugh of history as hindsight. “People won’t come to Rindge. It will be an embarrassment.”

On February 8, 1969, following San Francisco’s “summer of love” and New York’s Woodstock phenomenon, Henry Ellis ’69 and fellow Franklin Pierce classmate Rick Falconi ’69 pulled oˆ their own music miracle. And they did so in the dead of winter, just as a Nor’easter rolled in. It was Winter Carnival, the annual mid-semester break when students packed up en masse and headed home, much to the chagrin of the administration. Until ’69, that is, when every Franklin Pierce student stayed, joined by thousands of other music lovers, who converged on tiny Franklin Pierce College on a frigid February evening to hear the headliner, Janis Joplin, rock Rindge like never before. “I learned that night that you can do anything you want if you put your mind to it,” says Ellis with just a hint of pride in his voice.

Warming Up The Joplin story actually began the previous winter when Franklin Pierce’s founding president, Frank DiPietro, approached the 20-year-old Fal- coni, Ellis’ friend and colleague on the Student Social Committee. DiPietro was Henry Ellis ’69 expressing his annual lament

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26 PIERCE / FALL 2015 Ellis and Falconi aggressively marketed the concert, which led to an overflow crowd of several thousand and a huge trac jam students from campus during “Good. Let them stay there.” But in tiny Rindge. the winter break. “You need after explaining that a rather something ‘going on’ to make large crowd was ready to rock, students stay,” Falconi told the and might damage the new president. Fieldhouse if the show So it fell to Ellis (chairman of cancelled, the president the committee) and Falconi to directed Falconi to “discreetly get something “going on.” It get a campus van, drive to the would take some money to Keene Police Headquarters, attract talent to the Winter park in back, and go fetch that Carnival, which, in the past, was damn band.” DiPietro called highlighted by a rather stodgy Keene’s chief of police and a o†-campus formal dance. Falconi deal was made. Falconi was to and Ellis worked with the deliver Country Joe and the administration to add a Student Fish back to jail immediately Activity fee to the ’68/’69 school after the concert. The show year. The new fee raised $35,000, started only five minutes late and, as luck would have it, that and, to forestall their return to summer the Franklin Pierce jail, Country Joe and the boys Fieldhouse was completed. They played an extremely long set. now had the money and a venue. “Then I drove them back to jail,” Seating capacity: 800. Falconi says with a rueful smile. “The administration didn’t encourage us to spend it all on Star Search one big event,” laughs Ellis, “but Having dodged disaster, Ellis and they never said we couldn’t Falconi began planning for an either. It was called the ‘Student even bigger Winter Carnival the Activity Fee’ so we assumed it following year—1969, their was ours to spend.” senior year. They polled the They had tested the concert student body, which returned big business in the fall of ’68 when names like The Doors, The Country Joe and the Fish were Temptations, Simon and Garfun- booked to play the first public kel. But as Ellis remembers, show at the Fieldhouse. But by “They answered our survey but 5 p.m. on the evening of the big students still thought we were event, there was no Country Joe, crazy. They didn’t believe that a and no Fish. A call from Keene big name would ever come to Police Headquarters confirmed Franklin Pierce.” And they were that the band had been arrested right. Weeks rolled by with no for smoking marijuana during big names tempted by an o†er their flight to Keene. from Rindge, New Hampshire. “‘What are we going to do?” In February. Falconi remembers saying. “We Ellis and Falconi, along with had already sold a lot of fellow Social Committee tickets!’” Falconi informed Di members Tad Boyce ’69 and Pietro, who, he recalls, said Sharon Bornstein ’70, went to something to the e†ect of see a Boston booking agent, a

“ That very brief moment I held her hand and led her on stage, I was in awe.”

FALL 2015 \ PIERCE 27 shot in the dark that paid o . The agent called a colleague in New York. “He was talking on the phone and then turns to us and says ‘How about Janis Joplin?’” recalls Falconi. “It was a matter of being in the right place at the right time.” Joplin had already taken the country by storm. Richard Goldstein, writing for Vogue magazine, said that Joplin was “the most staggering leading woman in rock . . . she slinks like tar, scowls like war . . . clutching the knees of a final stanza, begging it not to leave . . . Janis Joplin can sing the chic o any listener.” Ellis, who wasn’t a Joplin fan at the time, could tell by the way his classmates were wildly jumping around the promoter’s oŒce that they had found their headliner. Joplin had just broken up with her backup band, Big Brother and the Holding Company, and was about to begin a tour with her new Kosmic Blues Band. Their first “preview concert” was scheduled for February 9 in Boston and the group needed a place to test sound equipment before the big premiere. Legendary rock manager Albert Grossman, Bob Dylan’s manager, believed this preview concert was critical to Joplin’s future success going solo after her rocky breakup with Big Brother. He was later quoted as saying “We were looking for the most obscure venue we could find.” They didn’t want a large audience. Rindge, New Hampshire seemed a safe bet. The Paul Butterfield Blues Band was touring with Joplin and would open the show. Ellis Rick Falconi ’69 and Falconi also booked an up-and-comer named Richie Havens to perform the

28 PIERCE / FALL 2015 The opening act, the Paul Butterfield Blues the Social Committee’s “apologize later” tactics, the Band, rocked the house for all of 15 minutes administration wasn’t exactly before blowing every fuse in the building. unhappy with the outcome. “They didn’t come out and say it, but I think the administration was as thrilled following day and close out Joplin finally arrived just replaced. The show went on. as the students. That concert their dream weekend. Total price minutes before 8 p.m. and she When Butterfield finished, Ellis put Franklin Pierce on the for Joplin, Butterfield, and was livid. Not only was there took Joplin’s hand and led her map,” Ellis says. “Remember, Havens? $32,500. Tickets were no time for the sound test, but, on stage. Falconi had taken his Franklin Pierce was only 7 $10 for Joplin on Saturday, and $5 due to the freezing weather, seat in the front row. Clutching years old back then, so we for Havens on Sunday. (Havens’ students had opened the huge her bottle of Southern Comfort didn’t get mentioned much. performance was unfortunately fieldhouse doors. The in the other hand, she After Janis played here, we had cancelled due to a blizzard rolling floodgates had opened, and the approached the microphone, it ‘going on.’ We were the cool in the night of Joplin’s show.) masses crammed into the took two swigs, placed the bottle school. Everybody talked about Ellis and Falconi easily agreed 800-seat capacity fieldhouse. down by her feet and proceeded Franklin Pierce.” to Joplin’s two requests: she Students were literally to deliver an electrifying and Ellis went on to a career wanted to arrive early, around hanging from the rafters. soulful performance, unlike teaching English in Florida, 5 p.m., in order to test sound Ticket taking was impossible. anything Falconi had seen while Falconi put his business equipment. And no one was Fortunately, Joplin had before or since. “I really had degree to use by running the allowed in the building before calmed down by the time never seen a big-time performer family heating business in the 8 p.m. start time. Roadies Falconi delivered her like that up close before,” he Boston. They reconnected arrived early and were finished customary bottle of Southern says. “There was sheer joy in her decades later at Alumni setting up before 5 p.m. Two Comfort just before show time. face as she performed, but there Weekend and later both joined hours later, 7 p.m. rolled around “The concert turned out to be was anguish, too.” the Alumni Committee. “I still and no Janis. “Oh boy, here we her sound test,” Ellis says. Somehow the night all came think Franklin Pierce is one of go again!” thought Falconi. They The opening act, the Paul together. “Despite the huge the most beautiful campuses had not counted on the sheer Butterfield Blues Band, rocked crowd, we didn’t have any I’ve ever seen,” says Falconi attendance numbers (estimated the house for all of 15 minutes mishaps,” Ellis says, “and nobody proudly. “And Franklin Pierce to be between 3,000 and 4,000) before blowing every fuse in the had any complaints about the still knows how to make a real that would quickly clog the few building. “We hadn’t counted on sound, or especially the di£erence in a young person’s roads into Rindge. In addition the huge amount of power performance. She was amazing.” life, which is why I stay to radio promotions, a $950 needed for all the sound and The College had been kept in involved.” extra-large ad in the Boston lighting equipment.” A the dark about the price tag until Janis Joplin, by most Globe Sunday entertainment marathon drum solo covered contracts had been signed and it accounts a sensitive, shy and section may have had some the mishap while fuses were was too late to turn back. Despite lonely girl from Port Arthur, impact, Falconi confesses. Texas, who found a powerful “There were many things way to express herself by what about the show that fell under she called “getting under the the heading of ‘we had no idea music,” would end her arc of what we were doing,’” he recalls fame less than two years after with a hearty laugh. “That ad, Alumnus Henry Ellis ’69, a her Rindge performance from for instance. It brought in a lot principle organizer of the Janis an accidental overdose of of people from Boston. Way heroin. “That very brief more than we anticipated.” A concert who went on to teach moment I held her hand and led Woodstock-like tra›c jam college English, has recently her on stage,” Ellis recalls, “I ensued. In spite of the freezing written a memoir of the event, was in awe. She had a very light weather, people were lining the and soft touch, not at all what streets or standing in front of which can be viewed on the you would expect.” their homes to watch the Franklin Pierce Web site at: In the end, the concert that massive procession. “They had www.franklinpierce.edu/joplin everyone said could never never seen so many cars filled happen was one for the history

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FALL 2015 \ PIERCE 29 THE ROAD TO MASS COMM GRADUATES FIND THEIR CALLING AT THE WORLDWIDE ESPN LEADER IN SPORTS

BY JOHN SHAW

30 PIERCE / FALL 2015 FALL 2015 \ PIERCE 31 t’s probably premature to rename ESPN’s nightly news show the “FPUCenter,” but if the pipeline from Rindge to the network’s headquarters in Bristol, Conn., continues I to grow at its current pace, it may not be that preposterous. Fourteen Franklin Pierce alumni currently work at “Rich is a good leader and knows how to manage the Worldwide Leader in Sports, as ESPN bills itself. his team’s many responsibilities,” says Francis Legros, And while you won’t see many Ravens in front of the senior director of production operations and Goode’s cameras, they show up throughout the station, ensuring boss. “In fact, all of the Franklin Pierce alumni are pas- that every telecast lives up to ESPN’s Emmy Award- sionate about working at ESPN. They have a great atti- winning standards. tude. They say ‘yes’ to any project and they get it done.” Previous spread: Jason Potterton ’07, As associate manager of production operations, Rich Goode compares his ESPN work to the HBO series, Rich Goode ’96 Goode ’96 directs 17 separate ESPN control rooms The Newsroom. “It’s extremely fast paced, just like that and Erik Barone ’95 comprised of some 130 technical directors, camera show portrays. Putting together a breaking story, with on the set of ESPN, the Worldwide operators, video editors, audio editors, and media tech- video highlights, in less than 10 minutes is not unusual. Leader in Sports. nicians. Several Pierce alumni, including former room- It has to get on the air. When it comes to sports, we want This page: This isn’t mate Todd Coleman ’96, Jay McCormack ’95, James people to get their news from us.” his first rodeo. Misarti ’96 and Chris Vicente ’96, are part of Goode’s You might think Goode is a sports maven who can cite Erik Barone ’95 sees the action up close team that keeps the Teleprompters™ running and the the starting lineup for the 2004 Red Sox from memory— and personal. highlight clips flowing 24 hours a day. well, he actually can, since the Sox are his favorite team—but when he’s at the ožce, it’s all business. “We have people on my staŸ who don’t care that much about sports, and that’s actually fine,” says Goode, who has traded the adrenaline rush of being in the production trenches for a management role in which his days are filled with meetings. “There’s so much work to do that you really can’t get caught up in being a fan. That’s not part of the work.”

WILD SIDE OF SPORTS It was at ESPN’s Winter X Games that Erik Barone ’95 decided he had a special job. He was holding 70 pounds of camera equipment while sitting on the back of a snowmobile, keeping the camera running while he and the driver successfully cleared a 150-foot jump. He just doesn’t remember which X-Games event it was, because he’s covered every one of them between 2002 and 2012. But here’s what he can’t forget, the adrenaline rush. “It’s awesome. I love it,” says Barone, the Mass Communications graduate, who also counts being in

RICH GOODE ’96 DIRECTS 17 SEPARATE ESPN CONTROL ROOMS COMPRISING A TEAM OF SOME 130 TECHNICAL DIRECTORS, CAMERA OPERATORS, VIDEO EDITORS, AUDIO EDITORS,

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he Marlin Fitzwater Cen- Mass Communications Phyllis The Fitzwater Center en- because of it and it shows up T ter for Communication is Zrzavy. “And, it really raised the courages students to take an in their work, which was very a long way from the facilities profile of the university.” interest in media and politics. professional.” where Erik Barone ’95 and Named for the legendary During recent presidential The Fitzwater Center’s Rich Goode ’96 learned their press secretary and long-time campaigns, student photos, national reputation has grown skills in the 1990s. Franklin Pierce University videos, and reports were used over the past 13 years, and it’s “We were in the basement trustee, Marlin Fitzwater, the by prestigious news outlets, now a regular stop for presi- of the [DiPietro] library, and it Center operates as an aca- including WMUR-TV, New dential candidates, including was pretty cramped,” laughs demic laboratory for students Hampshire Public Televi- John McCain in 2008, and Barone, who recently joined studying the relationship sion, the Union Leader, and John Huntsman and Mike Goode and other ESPN alumni between the presidency and Dan Rather Reports. These Huckabee in 2012. as part of an on-campus the press. reports were culled from With a wide-open 2016 panel discussion with Pierce Part of that student experi- students covering presiden- presidential race, the Fitz is students. “Visiting the Fitz- ence includes regular visits tial debates, attending the once again to be the nerve water Center, I was struck by from Fitzwater himself, who Democratic and Republican center of the university’s po- the facilities. Today’s students served as White House Press conventions, covering the litical focus and an important have much more to work with Secretary for six years under first-in-the-nation presiden- part of maintaining the Ameri- than we did, and that’s great two dierent presidents, tial voting booths in Dixville can commonwealth. to see.” (Reagan and George H.W. Notch, and even attending “The Fitzwater Center The Fitz, as it is known on Bush), making Fitzwater one President Barack Obama’s recently signed an exclusive campus, is home to the uni- of the longest serving press 2008 inauguration. partnership with the Boston versity’s radio and television secretaries in American his- “And they weren’t given Herald to cover the 2016 presi- stations, audio production tory. “We are very fortunate a free pass to these presti- dential primary,” says Nevious. facilities, and houses online that Marlin has been very gious assignments, either,” “We’ll conduct important journalism labs as well as involved with the Center since says Nevious, noting that political polling around the student newspaper, the the beginning,” says Nevious. students enrolled as English, New Hampshire’s First-in- Pierce Arrow, and a new online “He’s very student oriented History, and even music the-Nation primary, and our student newspaper, The and many students here con- majors joined Mass Comm students will follow and report Exchange. sider him their mentor.” majors on these teams. “The on candidates and the issues “The Fitzwater Center’s mis- Fitzwater was on campus students earned these media right along side the Herald’s sion is to help every student last December when news credentials because of their sta. It will be a tremendous find his or her voice in the broke that his friend, Andy hard work. They were treated learning experience for our public discourse,” says Dr. Kris- Card, the former chief of sta like professional journalists students.” ten Nevious, who became the for President George W. Bush, Center’s director in 2004. would become Pierce’s fifth “When it opened, the Fitz- president. Fittingly, he was water Center added a whole speaking in Zrzavy’s class which new focus and depth to the focuses on how to position a department,” adds Professor of big news story in the media.

PART OF THAT STUDENT EXPERIENCE INCLUDES REGULAR VISITS FROM FITZWATER HIMSELF, WHO SERVED AS WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY FOR SIX YEARS, AND FOR TWO DIFFERENT PRESIDENTS.

34 PIERCE / FALL 2015 ERIK BARONE ’95 REMEMBERS HOLDING 70 POUNDS OF EQUIPMENT WHILE SITTING ON THE BACK OF A SNOWMOBILE, KEEPING THE CAMERA RUNNING WHILE HE AND THE DRIVER SUCCESSFULLY CLEARED A 150-FOOT JUMP.

speeding cars and hanging o the side of mountains FOCUSING ON THE GAMES This page: ESPN has taken among his assignments. “Experiencing these things This past January, Jason Potterton ’07 looked at photos Erik Barone from in person is a thrill. It takes camera work to a whole of the first NCAA national football championship the slopes of di erent level.” playo game. In fact, he looked at about 8,000 photo- the X Games to the sidelines of the Barone, who credits Goode with helping him get his graphs of the game. As photo editor for ESPN, it’s part National Football foot in the door at ESPN, has filmed scores of ESPN of the job. It’s also a considerable challenge, as he had League. events, from college basketball games, to the NBA ce- to narrow those 8,000 photos down to about 36, where Facing page: lebrity all-star game, to Monday Night Football. they were eventually used for the network’s magazine, Marlin Fitzwater (pictured with But ESPN’s Winter X Games is what the avid skier website, social media, and mobile properties. President Card) holds most dear. “I get to develop relationships with “A photo editor has to think about what each property takes a keen interest the athletes, guys like [two-time Olympic gold medal is looking for,” says Potterton, who chose to follow his in the students at his namesake, the winner] Shawn White, who always gives me a fist bump passion for photography over working in the video de- Fitzwater Center for when he sees me. That part of the job is pretty cool.” partment. “So the selection process can be complicated.” Communication During his 18-year career at ESPN, Barone has won Potterton is a third-generation Raven. He followed aka The Fitz. three Emmy awards—the pinnacle of achievement in in the footsteps of his mother, Cynthia (Conover) Pot- the television industry. Interestingly, two of the Emmys terton ’77 and his godmother, Karen (Fletcher) Galletly were for non-sporting events: “This is Sports Center” in ’77. He also still finds time to shoot his own photos 2002, a behind-the-scenes documentary about how the during work assignments. “Having an extra camera at a network’s signature program is put together; and for his sporting event is always a good idea, so it’s been gratify- coverage of the 2005 NBA draft. Barone’s third Emmy ing that some of my own shots have been used,” he says. came in 2012, when he and his team took home honors Potterton, who won an Emmy in 2008 during his first for coverage of the Winter X Games. year at ESPN for his photo work on Super Bowl MVPs, Barone now works behind the scenes as an opera- has been all about sports since he was a kid. “Growing tions specialist where he’s helping to improve ESPN up I told all my friends I wanted to be either an athlete studios in Los Angeles, Brazil, Argentina, and Mexico. or work at ESPN, so I guess that worked out.” That work is something he never could have predicted He credits the faculty at Franklin Pierce, particularly when he arrived in Rindge in the fall of 1991. “I senior lecturer Katherine Cronin, along with working thought I might be a marine biologist, but really had no on live shows and other assignments at Pierce, for giving idea what I wanted to do. I liked Pierce because of its him the knowledge and skills to pursue his dream job. small size,” recalls Barone. During his freshman year, “I received a lot of hands-on training at Pierce,” says Barone helped two seniors, John Perry ’92 and Jason Potterton. “Being put into high-pressure situations, Lassen ’92, with a movie project they were doing. which is what happens to students in the Fitz, is really “After helping with that movie, which I really enjoyed, valuable. It gets you prepared for professional work. I I thought ‘This is what I want to do’—and the rest, as learned a lot at Pierce and it led me to ESPN, which was

FACING PAGE: CHRISTOPHER EVANS. CHRISTOPHER PAGE: FACING they say, is history.” a dream come true. And that’s pretty cool.”

FALL 2015 \ PIERCE 35 36 PIERCE / FALL 2015 ALUMNA ELIZABETH LICHTENBERG M.Ed. ’13 NEW HAMPSHIRE’S 2015 TEACHER OF THE YEAR

BY IAN ALDRICH

FALL 2015 \ PIERCE 37 n a pristine mid-September morning SHE’S NOT ALONE… last year, Elizabeth Lichtenberg, M.Ed. ’13, an elementary school iz Lichtenberg is far from the only teacher who’s ben- teacher at New Hampshire’s Alton L efitted from CGPS’ education program. Between 50 Central School, arrived at work and 100 students each year take advantage of the school’s around seven, and began preparing innovative oering. The product of Franklin Pierce’s integral for a day she knew was going to be role in the recent strengthening of the state’s teaching disjointed. The biggest curveball in certification rules, the online-only graduate program is the the schedule was an all-school meet- first of its kind in the state. It oers M.Ed. credentials, as ing in the gymnasium to go over the well as certification in elementary, middle school, and high construction work taking place on the school education. Future plans include providing Advanced campus. Lichtenberg was a reluctant partici- Endorsements in learning disabilities, emotional behaviors, pant and as she made her way to the gathering and intellectual development disabilities. she kept wondering, why are we meeting about this? For the university, it’s enabled the school to draw on pro- The answer came as soon as she stepped inside the gymnasium, fessors from around the country to teach its courses. For where excited students and teachers sat in the bleachers, while many students, the program’s flexibility and versatility have school and state education oˆcials milled about near a podium. The allowed them to pursue a graduate degree that wouldn’t construction announcement had been a ruse. The 38-year-old Lich- have been available to them otherwise. tenberg, who inspires the kind of gushing from her principal, Linda “There’s a lot of live interaction with professors through Wilman, that’s usually reserved for saints or super heroes, had been Skype and GoToMeeting and teachers often set up a virtual named New Hampshire’s 2015 Teacher of the Year. classroom where students can check in and talk about “I looked over at the podium and saw some of the people who had their work,” explains Professor Alana Mosley, chair of the interviewed me,” Lichtenberg recalls with a laugh. “We had turned in education department. “For students who live in rural my application in early August and I’d completely forgotten about it. communities it’s opened up a lot of possibilities. Especially I figured it would never be me. But then I saw some of the people on those who are already teaching. After a full day of work the committee who’d interviewed me and I knew I was in trouble. I they don’t have to then drive a couple of hours to then sit in don’t like attention. I remember turning to a colleague and jokingly a classroom for two more hours. They can go home, get on asking her if I could leave.” their computer and jump into their studies.” Amidst a rollicking celebration of cheering students and teary- eyed fellow teachers, Lichtenberg was honored for her work in Alton over the last five years. All the young lives she’d changed. The grants she’d earned. The gardens and after school programs she’d introduced. The honor made Lichtenberg a finalist for National ability is. She knows that every kid is di˜erent and isn’t afraid to Teacher of the Year, and in April she traveled to Washington D.C., teach at whatever kind of level they need.” In the months since the award ceremony Lichten- berg’s anxiety over the attention has long receded. “It was just so humbling to think I’ve been honored among all these other amazing teachers,” she says. ALL THE YOUNG LIVES SHE’D “It was a validation for what I do, how I teach. I think it’s made me feel more comfortable to share my ap- CHANGED. THE GRANTS SHE’D proach.” Lichtenberg then laughs. “Maybe my ideas EARNED. THE GARDENS AND aren’t really that crazy.” AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAMS TAKING RISKS he younger of two girls, Lichtenberg was born SHE’D INTRODUCED. in Chicago, but spent her formative years liv- ing in southern California, where her father, where she and other state winners were honored by President Frank Huang , a native of China, who immigrated to the U.S. for Barack Obama at the White House. college, worked as a food engineer. Lichtenberg attended public “She’s one of the most special people you’ll ever meet,” says Wil- high school and then enrolled at the University of California at San man. “Just a super human being. She’s so caring and nurturing and Diego, intent on studying biomedical engineering so she could go on

takes her time with every one of her students, no matter what their to become a pediatrician. That quickly changed. SPREAD: TRENT BELL. PREVIOUS

38 PIERCE / FALL 2015 Below, from top to bottom: Lichtenberg ’13 visiting the White House, where she was honored by President Obama, and employing her unique teaching style both outside and LICHTENBERG THEN inside the classroom. TRAVELED TO WASHINGTON D.C., WHERE SHE AND OTHER STATE WINNERS WERE HONORED BY PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA AT THE WHITE HOUSE.

“I realized the science wasn’t for me,” Lichtenberg says. “What I was drawn to about being a doctor was working with children. Mak- ing a di­erence in their lives.” In the middle of her freshman year, Lichtenberg changed her major to cognitive science. She graduated with a BS in 2000 and returned to UCSD the following year to earn her elementary teach- ing certification. That next fall she started teaching third grade at a public elementary school in San Diego. Lichtenberg remained there for four years before moving east with her new husband, Aaron, where they rebooted their lives as restaurant owners in Newbury- port, Massachusetts. After two long years of 70-hour weeks, the burned-out couple sold their business in 2007 and ventured o­ on a seven-month trek through South America. It’s there that Lichten- berg realized how much she missed teaching. “Everywhere I turned it seemed, there were these things pulling me back to education,” she says. “I’d see a group of kids excited about something, or I’d be on this incredible mountain and want a class of students to run back and tell them about it.” When the Lichtenbergs returned to the States, they moved to New Hampshire, first Portsmouth, where Liz taught for two years, and later Alton, where she accepted a job as a second grade teacher at Central School. Today, the couple lives in Alton—“I always feel it’s important to live in the community where you teach,” she says—and Aaron, a farmer, works a plot of land in nearby Gilford. Lichtenberg’s approach to education is in part driven by her own experience as a student. She was the kind of kid any school would want. She earned great grades, always followed the rules, made sure she never strayed too far from the course that was laid out for her. “I did everything I was supposed to and I don’t remember a thing I learned,” she says. “I’d absorb something just long enough to re- member it for a test but then it was gone. That’s awful to me and it’s a daily battle that I’m still facing.” For Lichtenberg that kind of segmented education—this hour is math, the next hour is science—fails to inspire kids, she says. It doesn’t get them excited or invested in what they’re learning. The end result, she feels, is students who’ve mastered the system but not the material.

FALLFALL 20152015 \ PIERCEPIERCE 3399 Much of Lichtenberg’s work involves project-based learning. COOPERATIVE LEARNING Sure, the important fundamentals are covered, but it’s often rolled ichtenberg’s style of teaching isn’t some static approach. It’s together around a single endeavor. This spring, for example, she and constantly evolving. Wilman says she’s the most reflective her kids studied renewable resources. She covered the necessary teacher she’s ever worked with. “She’s so driven to improve and textbook ground, but then her students went deeper, looking at get better,” she says. inventors and inventions that are trying to address the issues as- Part of that evolution came while Lichtenberg was a student at sociated with fossil fuel use. Eventually, every single student began Franklin Pierce’s College of Graduate & Professional Studies, where planning their own inventions. One student worked on modifying she received her M.Ed. Lichtenberg enrolled in the program in a car tailpipe that filters out pollutants, another drew up plans for a 2010, while she lived in Portsmouth. For a busy teacher who needed jet engine that only uses biofuel. something that could adjust to her pace and schedule, the program “They don’t need to get all the science down for what they’re do- proved ideal. She could work at the campus when she lived nearby, ing,” she says. “What we’re doing is getting the ideas going, building and finished the program online after she moved to Alton. that knowledge base.” “Because I was already teaching, I could take what I learned But to even get that far, kids need to feel excited about from the classroom and apply it immediately to what I was doing,” learning and pursuing their interest. Lichtenberg goes to great Lichtenberg says. In one instance she had a chance to look closely lengths to create a classroom environment that allows for that at a composting program that Professor Marilyn Shepardson had kind of passion to develop. Good teaching, she feels, begins set up at her school in Rochester, New Hampshire. It’s now been with good community building. At the start of the year, before replicated in Alton, where Lichtenberg’s students work with a lo- she delves deeply into the textbooks, she builds a lot of meeting time into her class- room sessions, where she and the students talk about what they like, what they want to do in the coming year. Those kinds of bonding sessions continue until school “TO TAKE RISKS IN LIFE YOU HAVE lets out in the spring. TO FEEL COMFORTABLE WITH THOSE “To take risks in life you have to feel com- fortable with those around you,” she says. AROUND YOU,” SHE SAYS. “SO A LOT “So a lot of the early stu‰ I do is just building relationships. There’s no point in rushing OF THE EARLY STUFF I DO IS JUST through something if the kids don’t have the BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS.” headspace to retain it. I’ve talked to a num- ber of teachers, whom I respect and they’ll see my style and sort of be surprised that it will take me a couple of cal pig farmer to collect the school’s waste as feed for his animals. months to cover something they did in a few days. But then they’ll In return he donates meat and eggs to local charities in the name say, ‘Why aren’t these kids understanding their multiplication of the school. tables?’ Kids need to feel invested in what they’re learning. They On a grander level, Lichtenberg says CGPS “revolutionized” her need context. They need to understand there’s a purpose behind entire approach to teaching. A lot of her project-based learning is these learning exercises.” rooted in what she learned at the University, and for her thesis she Linda Wilman, who taught with Lichtenberg for several years in researched cooperative learning, where the emphasis is placed on Alton before taking over as school principal, has seen up-close just students working together, rather than individually, to learn mate- how much Lichtenberg’s students blossom under guidance. rial. “Students feel more empowered,” she says, “more in command “A few years ago she had this little boy in her class and you of what school means to them.” could tell he just wasn’t getting what he needed at home,” Wilman After working with an assortment of behaviorally challenged recalls. “He had these needs that were di‰erent than the other kids students in Portsmouth, Lichtenberg began the CGPS program deter- in her class. For example, he insisted on wearing his winter coat mined to find a di‰erent way to help those kinds of kids and make them when he was indoors. But she let him do what he needed to do, better students. She found it at Franklin Pierce and with cooperative and if he put his head down on his desk, she motivated him to get learning. involved. She allowed him to be who he was, without making him “We sometimes forget the human aspect of kids,” she says. “We feel di‰erent.” forget who they are, what they might really need. It’s about getting Wilman takes a deep breath and begins tearing up at remember- them to learn without restraining them. Building that trust in the ing the story. “He ended up feeling really successful,” she says. classroom so they feel like they can take chances. And be who they “He made friends. He cared about school again. He went from this are. When you give a student the kind of time and space they re- disengaged little boy to someone who was ready to be released from quire, everything changes. They can overcome anything.” the nest at the end of the year.” Just like a saint or super hero.

40 PIERCE / FALL 2015 In Memory Of

Mr. Edward Ancewicz Ms. Carol D. Bedell Ms. Margery A. Bellevue Ms. Susan A. Bonyai Mrs. Mary Lou Burness Mr. Richard Call Mr. Thomas A.F. Clausen Mr. David J. Collum Mr. Howard H. Conaway Mr. Joseph T. Czerwonka Mr. Gordon Dexter Mr. Michael W. Downing Ms. Stacey Lee Evans Mr. Richard E. Falconi Mrs. Marabeth Farmer Ms. Joanne Finn Ms. Heidi Fysh Mr. William Fortier Mr. Trent L. Givens Mrs. L. Brooke Patterson Glessner Mr. David F. Harrington Mr. James L. Howell Mr. Peter Jeƒerson Ms. Sylvia E. Johnson Mr. Christopher Lane Mr. Lance Larson Mr. Joseph P. Long Memoriam Mr. Scott Meyer Mr. Jason A. Murphy In Memory of Mr. William Nelson Dr. Richmond Neuville Mr. Robert E. Perry RICK FALCONI 9/19/45 – 9/9/15 Ms. Cheryl S. Pitzen Mr. Richard W. Pratt “There is no man who embodies what Franklin Pierce represents better than him.” Ms. Sharon L. Schempp That fitting tribute, expressed by a double alumnus from the classes of 2012 and 2014, was for Rick Mrs. Marcela Smith-Hogan Falconi, a member of the Franklin Pierce College class of 1969. Another alum, from the class of 1969, said, Mr. Michael W. Somers “Rick was a fixture at Franklin Pierce College/University for 50 years. He was always so giving and such a Mrs. Lynn A. Burns Stauble great person. We have all lost a dear friend.” Ms. Tracey J. Tierney As an undergrad, Rick was Senior Class President and, with a classmate, will be remembered for bringing Mr. John Davis Trombly Janis Joplin to campus for an unforgettable concert in the Franklin Pierce Field House in 1969. Upon graduation, Rick stayed very active with Franklin Pierce, being one of the founding members of the Dr. Betty A. Vandersluis Alumni Association. While on the board, he served as Membership and By-laws Chairman, Alumni and Mrs. Ethel M. Vollertson Reunion Weekend Chair, and Chairman of the 50th Anniversary Committee. Mr. William Weinstein A consistent contributor to the University’s Annual Fund, Rick was one of the founders of Cliord Coles Mr. Christopher A. West Hall Fund. A few years ago, Rick started to work on the school’s archives, preserving Franklin Pierce Mr. John Wooten history for generations to come. In recognition of his long-time loyalty and dedication, he was presented Mr. Robert Wottawa the 2012 Alumni Participation Award. Well liked by all those who came in contact with him, a mentor and role model to alumni from all classes, Rick truly was one of the best and will be missed by so many. He made Pierce the family it is! SCOTT DORRANCE SCOTT FACE TO FACE

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS

The Franklin Pierce Alumni Association Board of Directors (AABOD) oversees e orts to advance, support, and foster lifelong bonds between alumni, students, and the University. The AABOD is PRESIDENT VICE PRESIDENT, composed of volunteers who demonstrate Bob Riley ’82 ACADEMIC RELATIONS service, leadership, and Pierce Pride, along Marcy (Pollock) Fink ’73 VOLUNTEER: 2007 – Present with a strong understanding of the mission VOLUNTEER: 2006 – Present of the Alumni Association and University. Bob joined the board to reconnect with the The AABOD works closely alongside the University. “I had a great experience at Marcy joined the board because she felt it was important to support and give back to Director of Alumni & Parents Relations to Franklin Pierce and still consider Pierce a special place. Volunteering allows me to the University. She was the Associate plan Alumni Reunion Weekend, Homecom- share my job experiences and career skills to Program Manager for foreign military sales for ing, and other Pierce events held on any of help and give back.” Bob is the newly elected the Program Executive Oce of the U.S. our five campuses or throughout the President of the Alumni Association; his Army’s Electronic and Intelligence Warfare, country. This group of dedicated volunteers main objective is to advance the mission of Product Manager Radars. Marcy retired after also oversees the Alumni Scholarship the Association by supporting the interests 40 years of service to the US Army in 2012. Programs, Alumni Service Awards, and of the University and fostering strong She happily retired in Lewes, Delaware, with supports current students with career lifelong bonds between the University and her husband Art ’72. mentoring and networking opportunities. its alumni body.

VICE PRESIDENT, MEMBERSHIP, VICE PRESIDENT, VICE PRESIDENT, REUNION & BY-LAWS, & ELECTIONS EXTERNAL RELATIONS HOMECOMING WEEKENDS Henry Ellis ’69 Nicole Torday ’98 Jennifer Scott Forry ’04 VOLUNTEER: 2005 – Present VOLUNTEER: 2004 – Present VOLUNTEER: 2012 – Present

Henry got involved with the AABOD as a result Nikki joined the board because she wanted to Jennifer joined the board to give back and stay of the fact that Franklin Pierce “has a give back to the University that gave her so connected to Franklin Pierce. She is the connection to almost every aspect of my life, much. Through local chapters, she hopes to Assistant Dean of Students at Newbury from meeting my wife to my work as a encourage all her fellow alums to come back College. Jennifer is a past President of the teacher. I doubt that I can ever pay back to see what is going on with the University Boston Area College Housing Association completely what I believe I owe Franklin they know, love, and that gave them so much. (BACHA) and is the incoming President of the Pierce, but I intend to keep trying.” Henry has Nikki also wants to show the current students Massachusetts College Personnel Association served on the Alumni Association Board of what they have to look forward to when they (MCPA). She lives in Boston with her husband Directors for the past 10 years, three of which graduate, and what the alumni can do for and two sons. he served as the President. In his current them. Nikki works as a nursery school teacher; position, he is making the by-laws easier to her Franklin Pierce education is put to good work with and bringing new members to the use every day on the job. Nikki also volunteers Alumni Association Board of Directors. with the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation, and The Gift of Life Bone Marrow Registry.

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DIRECTOR DIRECTOR DIRECTOR Scott Babitts ’73, P’09 Danny Becker ’70 Kimberly (Cook) Neher ’89 VOLUNTEER: 2006 – Present VOLUNTEER: 2015 – Present VOLUNTEER: 2015 – Present

Scott wanted to give back to Franklin Pierce Danny was voted onto the Alumni Board this “Joining the Alumni Board was an opportunity and got involved with the AABOD to do that. past June and is excited about this new to reconnect with Pierce and help shape its He got into sales in the pharmaceutical volunteer opportunity. He wants to “preserve future. I want to lend my support by planning industry upon graduation, and then joined a the legacy of Franklin Pierce College for all the successful events, promoting the University, family business 35 years ago. He is now the past and future alumni. Giving back is the best supporting its sta, and engaging fellow President of Stewart Howard Interiors, a way to help others like myself, who was not alumni to ensure the continued success of wholesale manufacturer of draperies and the best student in high school. Pierce gave Franklin Pierce. We gained so much more than custom window treatments. Scott and his me the opportunity to pursue my goals and an education from our days in college. Giving wife Katie have two sons; one is a 2009 career.” Danny resides in Haverhill, to Pierce is a way to say thank you and to help graduate of Franklin Pierce. Massachusetts, with his family. support the next generation. I want others to have the life changing experiences that I had at Franklin Pierce.”

DIRECTOR DIRECTOR DIRECTOR Arthur Fink ’72 Chris Holman ’99 David Masse ’83 VOLUNTEER: 2006 – Present VOLUNTEER: 2012 – Present VOLUNTEER: 2013 – Present

Arthur joined the Board “to repay Franklin Chris, a.k.a. CJ the DJ, has a long history of David joined the Alumni Board to give back to Pierce for my wonderful experience as a community involvement and was elected for a the University. “Franklin Pierce gave me a solid student. This is my way of saying thank three-year term as Selectman for Fitzwilliam foundation and I hope to encourage past and you.” Arthur worked in manufacturing for in 2014. He is involved in numerous local future graduates to participate in alumni 40 years and has retired with his wife, nonprofit and civic organizations. While events.” David is currently an IT Manager for Marcy ’73, to a new home in Delaware. attending Franklin Pierce, Chris worked for the Schneider Electric. He is the Senior Warden at They are enjoying their new life and staying library and began a part-time career as a St. Augustine’s Episcopal Center at the active in the Alumni Association. Arthur private DJ. Chris hopes to create an FPU University of Rhode Island, is the coach for keeps active with home improvement Business Networking Group. He lives close to Chariho Little League Baseball, and is a projects and with his classic cars. campus and would love to meet you when member of Ocean State PMI as well as Rhode you are in the area. Island Men’s Senior Baseball League.

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DIRECTOR DIRECTOR DIRECTOR James McDonald ’75 Kim (Lewis) Riley ’83 Josh Sigsworth ’07, G’10 VOLUNTEER: 2014 – Present VOLUNTEER: 2007 – Present VOLUNTEER: 2015 – Present

Jimmy said Franklin Pierce gave him the Kim joined the Board to give back to the Josh joined the Alumni Association Board of opportunity for an excellent education and University for all the support and Directors in June because he wanted to give prepared him well for a career. Early on, he encouragement she received as a student. back to his University, which provided him decided that he would head back to Franklin She loves being a volunteer, meeting other with an excellent education and opportunity Pierce someday to get involved. Jimmy alumni across class years, and making new “to live the life I have always dreamed of. I find enjoyed a 32-year career with United friends. “I’m supporting Franklin Pierce, which it important to give back to Franklin Pierce Technologies, where he worked in a variety of has a special place in my heart. I feel I’m because of the experiences I have had, the positions. Jimmy recently retired and enjoys helping to make a dierence.” friends I have made, and the education that fishing, tying flies, hanging around the marina, has provided me with an amazing career.” Josh and driving his jeep with a smile – “Thanks to is a physical therapist and resides in Braintree, Franklin Pierce.” Jimmy also volunteers at a Massachusetts, with his wife Anna. Veteran Homeless Shelter, as well as with the Special Olympics and a local church, which ministers to elderly and handicapped individuals.

DIRECTOR ALUMNI & PARENT RELATIONS Julie Zahn RETURN. RENEW. REFLECT

As the Director of Alumni & Parent Relations, Julie is excited about the opportunity to engage and connect with Alumni, Parents, and Friends of the University. She is committed to the mission of the Alumni Association and honors DIRECTOR DIRECTOR Pierce’s past while building lifelong Merrill Vaughan ’12 Tara Wilkinson ’97 relationships for the future. 2015 – Present 2015 – Present VOLUNTEER: VOLUNTEER: Contact her at: Merrill is a first generation college graduate from Tara is also new to the Board, as of this past [email protected] or an immigrant family. “Running for a position on June. She joined the Alumni Association Board (603) 899-1159. the Board of Directors was a way for me to pay “to honor the history of Franklin Pierce while back to the Alumni Association for a scholarship advocating for the value, purpose, and pride of that I won, and to work for the non-traditional our institution in the future. The greatest students and alumni from CGPS.” Merrill is a resource of any community is the people who VOLUNTEER veteran and a high school substitute teacher. have been fortunate enough to be part of it. I For more information about your “Pierce gave me something that I first tried to have a responsibility to show my gratitude for Alumni Association Board of Directors obtain back in September 1967: a college the experience by sharing my time, talent, and and how you can volunteer, please education. There was a war on and I was treasure.” Tara resides in Birmingham, visit www.franklinpierce.edu/ waiting for my time to go into the service. When Alabama, and is the Vice President of alumni/alum_assoc.htm. I entered Franklin Pierce as a CGPS student in Administration for Capstone on Campus 2008, I had the chance to finally achieve my Management. dream of becoming a college graduate.”

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Let us know about your achievements, life’s adventures, and what you’ve been doing since graduation.

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2015 ANNUAL GOLF TOURNAMENT More than 100 alumni, parents and friends, gathered on Monday, June 8, at the Keene Country Club in Keene, N.H., to play in the 26th Annual Franklin Pierce Golf Tournament, the proceeds of which support the Don and Judy Schriefer Scholarship Fund. This fund provides financial assistance for non-scholarship student-athletes, as well as general athletic operations at the University. Over $27,000 was raised in support of these important scholarships. Save the date! 2016 Annual Golf Tournament: Monday, June 13. For more information, please check the University website.

1 (L to R) Don Pyke ’81, President Card, and Roland Pillsbury 2 The Melissa D. Bisaccia Scholarship Golf Team 3 (L to R) Peter Panopoulos ’10, David Chadbourne, Dave Panopoulos, Jayson King 4 (L to R) Mike Fallon, Reverend Card, and Bob St. Jean 5 (L to R) Board Chair Mike Fallon and alumnus Don Pyke ’81 6 (L to R) Don Schriefer, Julie Zahn, Kelly Dodge 7 (L to R) John Burke ’66, Dave Wilson ’77, Don Schriefer, and Dave Groder ’66 8 (L to R) Dave Wilson ’77 and Don Schriefer

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1 (L to R) Maggie Birge, Lisa Birge, Dr. James Birge, and Siobhan Birge 2 (L to R) Connor Mahon and Frank Blais ’05 3 (L to R) Reverend Kathleene Card and President Card 4 (L to R) Theresa (Whelan) Holahan ’91, Ericka Monteiro ’91, and Cathylyn (Cattaneo) Helmar ’91 5 (L to R) Board of Trustee Chairman Mike Fallon and Dr. Birge 6 (L to R) Pamela Sanderson ’98 & ’08, Merrill Vaughan ’12, and Julie Zahn, Director of Alumni & Parent Relations 7 (L to R) Cecilia Maliangos, Dennis Maliangos ’70, Charlene Hulten ’69, John Borino ’69, Robbie Williamson ’71 8 (L to R) Conrad Farnham ’10 (in the front white shirt) shows Carleen Farrell ’71 and other alumni and friends how to line dance.

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1 (L to R) Katie Babitts P ’09, Scott Babitts ’73 & P ’09, President Card, Andrew Babitts, Erin Babitts 2 Back Row (L to R) Art Fink ’72, Scott Babitts ’73 & P ’09, Kimberly (Cook) Neher ’89, Marcy (Pollock) Fink ’73, Chris Holman ’99. Front Row (L to R) Bob Riley ’82, Kimberley (Lewis) Riley ’83, Nicole Torday ’98. 3 (L to R) Gary Appleton ’69, Reverend Kathleene Card, Joann Appleton 4 (L to R) Lily Neher, Kimberly (Cook) Neher ’89, Christopher Neher 5 (L to R) Jennifer (Sackett) Park ’02, Michael Park ’00, and two of their children 6 (L to R) Alicia Copatch ’14, Kaylee Flint ’14, and Nicolas Thistle ’13 7 (L to R) Judy (Raposa) Leach ’82 & P ’13 & P ’15, and Larry Leach ’82 & P ’13 & P ’15 8 (L to R) Kimberly (Morris) Derby ’90, Karen (Kreusch) Zurcher ’91, Michael Zurcher ’90, and Kevin Derby

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1 (L to R) Taylor Jones ’16, Kim Youngs-Grand ’16, Karolina Kozlova ’16, Kayley Nolan ’16, and Karin Stalter ’16. 2 (L to R) Justin Ternes ‘17 & Lindsey Grom ’16 3 (L to R) Michael Tyrone Brown, II ’12, Susannah Batchelder ’13 & ’14, Brett Bosley ’14, and Michelle Barbeau ’11 & ’13 4 (L to R) Kelsey Colpitts ‘17, Charles Carville ‘17, Brett Hermans ’17, Pete Smith ‘17, Chesney Silmon ‘17, Frank Helfst ‘17, and Megan Quigley ‘17.

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Standing (L to R) James McDonald III ’75 (goes by Jimmy), Henry Ellis ’69, Art Fink ’72, John Borino ’69, Marcy (Pollock) Fink ’73, Nicole Torday ’98 (goes by Nikki), David Masse ’83, President Card, Rick Falconi ’69, Scott Babitts ’73, Ray Schank ’69, Katie Babitts, Bob Riley ’82, Kimberley (Lewis) Riley ’83, Pamela Sanderson ’98 & ’08, Mike Fallon. Front Row (L to R) Chris Holman ’99, John Washington, Jr. ’83, Remi Francoeur ’04, Kyle Provost ’05, Merrill Vaughan ’12.

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PIERCE ALUMNI WINTER GAMES In November, Pierce brothers gathered at Winchendon School in Winchendon, Mass., to participate in the 2014 Alumni Winter Games. Ice Hockey was the game of the day!

Pierce welcomed back, Trevor A. Clark ’09, Joseph B. Fields ’08, Peter A Wilson ’08, Charles W. Matthews ’08, Brian K. Bator ’09, Je rey M. Kasper ’09, Kyle F. Kruse ’09, Shane E. Murphy ’09, Robert A. Perretta ’09, Edward M. Farinato ’05, Je rey R. Beattie ’08, Shawn M. Dooley ’06, Mark Gibbons ’06, Christopher E. Pryputniew ’06, Stephen M. Della-Calce ’10, William P. Dugan ’10, Casey M. Goodell ’10, Benjamin D. Siok ’12, Dean R. Federico ’13, Michael F. Carr ’13, Tyler F. Cornele ’15, Adam D. Dallaire ’13, Wesley P. Russell ’13, Roscoe J. Sweeney ’13, Timothy J. Dineen ’13, Kyle K. Craig ’14, Theodore W. Walsh ’14, Sean F. Dunn ’14. Patrick F. Dunn ’14, Ryan Carney, John P. Gasparrini ’11, Matthew G. McCarthy ’11, Sean Woodring ’11, Thomas C. Perretta ’10, and many more!

A special thank you to Joshua Lupinek ’09, Robert Perretta’09, Coursen Schneider ’09, Mark Gibbons ’06, and Athletic Director, Bruce Kirsh ’71, for their help in coordinating the event.

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Planning Ahead to Give Back

By Lisa Murray

hat matters in our life at the end of the day? What do of Divinity degree at Andover Newton Theological School and be- we hope to preserve? How can we make an impact? came an ordained minister. He went on to obtain a Master’s in Edu- W Making an impact often ties in with who or what cation and now teaches sixth grade language arts and social studies. made an impact on our own lives, and then consider- “To me, teaching and ministry go hand in hand,” says Bruce. “In both, ing a way to give back. I’m helping people to know themselves.” Bruce found the faculty to Several Franklin Pierce alumni have recently let the University be “outstanding” at Franklin Pierce and says several made a lasting know of their plans to remember their alma mater in their estate impact on him as a person. plans. These newest members of our Pioneer Legacy Society share But it was the Franklin Pierce community that made an indelible a desire to give back to Franklin Pierce, where they experienced a impression on Bruce. “You spend so much time in community there strong sense of community and received educational opportunities on the hill, eating and socializing with people who are different than that helped them fulfill their dreams. you are. They grew to know me and love me and accept me for who Bruce Harrington ’88 credits Franklin Pierce with stretching I was—unconditionally. I think there’s more sense of community at him as a person. A shy young man when he entered Franklin Pierce, Franklin Pierce than in any church I’ve been in. And I’ve been in a lot Bruce was elected class president his Senior year. “It was an honor,” of churches!” says Bruce. “The opportunity gave me confidence. I believe every “I always wish I had more to give,” says Bruce. “I challenge my fel- person has something to offer; one just needs to find it. I want kids to low alumni to consider giving something to Franklin Pierce in their have opportunities like I had.” Bruce recollects shared meals more will. I’m leaving something to Franklin Pierce, but I could never pay than anything else. “We would plan back what Franklin Pierce gave me.” when to meet and eat all our Bruce strives to give life the most he meals together, every day – all can give and hopes to leave the world six or eight of us. We would just a better place someday. “I hope that sit and talk. We’re still friends when my time comes, people will re- today.” member, above and beyond, that I was Bruce recalls being “shocked” a good person.” during his first weekend at Franklin Pierce, when President Peterson climbed up Mount Bruce Harrington ’88 Monadnock with the students. The climb took perseverance to get all the way to the top. “When I made it to the top, I realized that I could get my degree,” says Bruce. “Franklin Pierce taught me that the career wasn’t as im- portant as the role I would play in my community. It’s unlike any school I know of. It’s a fabulous place where students can become the person they were meant to be and be confident and success- ful. All the alumni I know have become better people and have bigger hearts because they went to Franklin Pierce.” Bruce got his degree in anthro- pology and then earned a Master

52 PIERCE / FALL 2015 Mark Goodman ’71 claims Franklin Pierce was the only school that would take him and gave him the opportu- nity to pursue his dream to become a clinical psychologist.

“I’ve always wanted to give back to places that allowed Mark Goodman ’71 me to have a successful career,” Mark says. He did in fact fulfill his dream to become a clinical psychologist, going on for his doctorate at Brigham Young after Franklin Pierce; he has a thriving Mark received a Senior year award at Franklin Pierce for the stu- practice in Kansas. dent who “best exemplified the spirit of Franklin Pierce.” He’s kept The small student/faculty ratio and the closeness of the faculty that spirit alive since his graduation, coming back to campus many are among Mark’s most cherished memories of Franklin Pierce. times over the years for visits and attending at least five Reunions. “The small student/faculty ratio was paramount in being able to It’s in that spirit that he has chosen to remember the University develop who I am today. I was able to get a lot of one-on-one atten- he loves in his will. “I’m trying to set an example,” says Mark. “I’m tion,” says Mark. “I had special bonds with grateful to Franklin Pierce for giving me the professors like Professor Desrosiers and opportunity to pursue my dream to become a Professor Moriarity. I loved how tough they doctor in my chosen field to help people who were; I loved their high standards and are emotionally disturbed.” how they rewarded you for hard work.” PIONEER Franklin Pierce helped Mark to fulfill his The quality and dedication of Frank- LEGACY dreams, and he, in turn, has helped many lin Pierce faculty is a hallmark of the SOCIETY people over the decades while practicing University that is regularly echoed by his profession as a clinical psychologist. His alumni, as is the extra help that is often Any alum can become a member of the planned gift helps to ensure that the institu- offered to students in times of need. Pioneer Legacy Society and create tion he loves will continue to nurture stu- Mark recollected that he was having a bit opportunities for students for years to dents for generations to come, as they pursue of trouble in his French literature class come. Just remember Franklin Pierce their dreams. at Franklin Pierce. “Professor Desrosiers University in your will, or make any of a James (Jimmy) McDonald ’75 enjoyed a encouraged me not to give up,” he says. variety of planned gifts that can provide long career at United Technologies. He credits “The sacrifices that some of the profes- valuable tax benefits and/or income for his successful rise up the corporate ladder sors made to help us achieve our ulti- life. For more information, please contact to hard work and opportunity. Jimmy has mate goals were so important. You got to the Oce of Institutional Advancement lived his life with a couple of old maxims held know the professors on a personal level.” at: (603) 899-4030 close to his heart: “Be nice to everybody,” and

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PLANNING EARLY! Jill (Astmann) Karol ’95 was trained from an early age to not only be generous, but to start planning for the future as soon as possible. Naming Franklin Pierce in her will in her late 20s was a “no brainer,” says Jill, whose parents, ’69 alumni Helen (Ament) and Lloyd Astmann, taught her by example how to be community minded. “Franklin Pierce was there for me when I needed it,” says Jill, “and I wanted to give back in any way I could. I give what I can year to year, but in the end, I want to make sure Franklin Pierce University receives a gift.” Jill remembers the strong sense of community she experienced as a student. “At Franklin Pierce, you’re not just a number. Professors not even in your major know who you are,” she says. Some of Jill’s favorite memories were “the long, long nights in Ravencroft and making runs to Keene just to go to Dunkin’ Donuts!” There may be more Dunkin’ Donuts shops closer to campus now, but the sense of community has not changed and continues to be a hallmark of what makes the Franklin Pierce experience special. “We have a responsibility and obligation to give back for the next generation,” says Jill.

“Never forget your friends or those who had an impact on your life. Jimmy went from average grades to barely passing. It was at that Franklin Pierce had an impact on my life, so will be remembered in point that Jimmy recognized that Franklin Pierce was giving him an a significant way. You can’t forget that impact is a few rungs up from opportunity for a quality education and that it was his decision to fail opportunity.” or succeed. He chose success. “But it all starts with opportunity, and “Success doesn’t happen,” says Jimmy. “Success is a choice. Before then it’s up to you.” success, you have to recognize and be presented with opportunity, Jimmy enjoys reaching out to as many alumni as he can in his which historically is seldom labeled and travels. “I enjoy seeing all the familiar faces while sometimes small. You develop your suc- attending on and off campus activities. I went to cess through perseverance, tenacity, the FPU/Post football game last fall and met a lot and moxie. Never be afraid to fail. Drift of recent alumni and parent of the football play- out of your comfort zone.” During his ers. I always enjoy our get-togethers.” first three semesters at Franklin Pierce, One of Jimmy’s objectives for retirement is “giving back.” Part of his plan to give back was joining the Alumni Board and making a planned gift to the University. “Franklin Pierce needs all our support to become better and more com- petitive in the challenging and ever-changing world we now live in,” says Jimmy. “Franklin Pierce can’t move forward by itself. We need to build togeth- er, get more support, and be the best. We can’t do that without James (Jimmy) McDonald ’75 doing it as a team.” Jimmy particularly appreciated the natural environment on campus during his years at Frank- lin Pierce. “A quality environment allows a person to develop,” he says. Having a view of Mount Monadnock was important to Jimmy, who says looking at the mountain helped to organize, relax, and unclutter his mind. “I wasn’t a good student when I entered Franklin Pierce,” says Jimmy. “But Franklin Pierce was willing to invest in me and offered me an environment where someone like me could thrive.” Every year when Jimmy returns to the Rindge campus for Alumni Reunion Weekend, he finds a place to sit and look up at “the Mountain.” Jimmy is unconcerned with how he’ll be remembered. “If I can cre- ate an impact while I’m upright,” says Jimmy, “that’s my priority.”

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company. When the kids moved Jarey Rindge Rotary Club languages at an A-1 high school and 60’s out and the dog died, we moved to Treasurer, I drive for the Red Cross a loves it. After starting and running Susanne (Henk) Alyce ’67 is Florida, (it wasn’t that simple, but couple of days a month, and do four businesses in Vermont for 15 happily retired from her career as a that’s what happened). Here in some things for my church. I am years, Tim and Sherry decided to massage therapist and owner of Englewood, Fla., I am the also the president of our condo move to Florida so Tim could retire. Riversedge Health Arts Center. She Commander of our Coast Guard association, a job I don’t He was oered a corporate position is enjoying a new business venture AUX Flotilla, and we have wrapped recommend to anyone. Our only with an eight billion RPM company, in alternative green energy and solar ourselves up in the good work of son, Christopher, lives in Dublin, and which lasted the past 16 years. He is with Viridian Energy. Susanne volunteering with various groups. I is the owner of Eastern Slope now semi-retired, still involved in writes, “We are a socially am still selling real estate, Construction, which does site referral real estate and loving the responsible company with a competing in oil painting construction and development in Florida lifestyle. mission that is inseparable from our exhibitions, and have finished and around the Monadnock Region. brand, Power with Purpose!” She writing three books—two are We have no grandchildren as of yet. would love to hear from classmates, available through Amazon, the third I play a lot of golf, and we travel as and can be contacted by email at is not yet in print. Greetings to all.” much as the budget will allow. I see 70’s [email protected], or Marc Tieger from time to time and Dan Becker ’70 writes, “I’ve only through her Viridian website. Holly O’Neill ’68 recently moved keep in contact with Dane Hahn ’68. been able to reach a few of my into a senior citizens housing I saw Rick Falconi around FPU’s classmates over the past two years Michael Berman ’67 has been apartment complex in Franklin, N.J. 50th, but have basically lost track of to oer photos from our years at writing a consumer tech blog for The the rest of Cli Coles’ boys. Would Franklin Pierce. Therefore, with the Hu ngton Post since November Kenneth Abramczyk ’69 is the love to hear from any and all. Got to help of the Alumni Association, a 2013. The blog evolved out of a dare retired Commissioner of Mental know Jaimie Birge a bit through link has been made available to the to write something readable on Health and O ce of Aging and Rotary. He is a great guy, and we’ll photos from years 1966 to 1970. I technology for the Journal of Continuing Care in Oneida County, miss him. Looking forward to Andy hope you will enjoy them.” The link: Commerce in 1995. It has appeared New York. He is also a retired LTC, Card’s presidency and hope to see newspapers for the Scripps Howard on several boards, and enjoys Danny Sansevieri ’69 is News Service (now defunct). The spending the winter months in semi-retired and enjoying life Ronald Dietter ’70 has moved from blog, itself, appeared weekly on an Florida, playing golf and relaxing. between the mountains in Blue Connecticut to Sebastian, Fla. a liate website (ScrippsNews) and “Jerry, Dick, Ken and Bob, how are Ridge, Ga., and beautiful Naples, FL. moved on to The Hu ngton Post you? Happy to see how FPU has He enjoys riding his Harley and Carleen (Albonizio) Farrell ’71 when Scripps was acquired by the grown!” boating on the Gulf or on Lake Blue writes, “Happy 2015 to my ’71 McClatchy Corp. Ridge. He still dabbles a bit in USDI, classmates. I’ve been retired for five Henry Ellis ’69 in completely but has reduced his level of activity years, and my husband Dan and I Dane Hahn ’68 writes, “When I enthralled with life as a grandparent drastically. He has an ongoing enjoy an active life. I do a graduated in 1968, 50 years was to his grandson, AJ. He is thrilled to passion for the business world and considerable amount of two lifetimes. Yet Pierce has spend three or four days a week can’t seem to give it up entirely. volunteering and am an avid quilter. grown so much during those years, with AJ, watching him grow and Danny recently acquired his real We live in Arlington, Mass., and as have we all, I suppose. But sharing in his adventures. “He has estate license in Florida, where he spend the winter months in Delray when I look back it has gone by in become the center of my world and sells homes in the exploding Naples Beach, Fla. We have two a flash. I still occasionally see is a constant source of joy and market. He would love to help alum- granddaughters, as cute as can be!” classmates Jim Calvet and his wife wonder. I hope that when the time ni find their dream home in Susan (Staples), and Bill comes he’ll be the first member of paradise. Danny and his wife Sheila Allan Stegeman ’71 writes, “Life is Raymond, who was best man in the Class of ’32.” are five-time grandparents and their good! I just retired from New my wedding all those years ago. youngest child is getting married in Country BMW in Hartford, and am My publishing career took my wife Bill Raymond ’69 updates, “After a 2016. Danny writes, “Whew, it’s been enjoying the snow from indoors in Sandra and me from New England career in radio broadcasting, the quite a ride!” Manchester, Conn. My wife and I are to New York and on to Chicago travel agency business, and finally very fortunate to have good health before we came back to spend as a town administrator (Dublin, Tim Sherry ’69 and his wife Laura and are able to spend time with our nearly 30 years in N.H., where we N.H.), I am retired and living with my (Falzone) Sherry ’68 are living in three daughters and three owned a couple of magazines, two wife, Martha, in Jarey. I am doing paradise on the west coast of grandchildren. Looking forward to retail businesses, and a real estate what most retired folks do...I am the Florida. Laura is still teaching playing lots of golf this summer.”

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John Yeamen ’71 is now retired from Bishop Hendricken High School in Warwick, R.I., after teach- ing Spanish there since 2003. He is currently working for Standard Parking as a shuttle driver at T.F. Green Airport in Warwick. John requests, “If anyone knows the whereabouts of Cindy Boop, please let me know!”

Daniel Doll ’72 writes, “I arrived at FPC in July 1968. I was told I needed to upgrade my math. There were approximately 40 prospective students taking both math with Mr. Dion and English with Mrs. Proper. Our classes were in the morning so the afternoon was generally used for exploring the Rindge/Ja rey/ Fitzwilliam area. One day, an upperclassman who was taking summer courses brought me and my roommates over to Silver Ranch. It was a delicious find. The following Saturday, me and few others hiked Jack Alexander ’72 and Debbie (Peacock) Alexander ’71 had a wonderful year in 2014. Debbie travels all over up Mt. Monadnock. It was so clear the lower part of South Carolina in support of her Relay for the American Cancer Society. Jack is retired from the you could just make out the top of steel wire industry, and drives for the Columbia Charlotte Airport Shuttle. He also volunteers once a week for the the Hancock Building in Boston. Disabled American Veterans. Alex (39) and his daughter Ellie (12) moved to Aiken to be closer to his work. Alex Also nearby, we found Cathedral of works for Georgia-Lina Precast as an estimator, inside sales, and the yard master. Ellie is enrolled in all honors the Pines. The temperature was in classes and earning straight A’s. In June, Maggie (30), her husband Harrison, Maddie (11), Bragan (4), and Roxie the 90s that day, but it was much Cat moved to Charleston, S.C. Maggie is continuing her medical education with a fellowship in pediatric cooler walking around under the cardiology at The Medical University of South Carolina. In November, she received notification that she is a board huge pine trees. The view of Mt. certified pediatrician. Maddie stars in soccer and loves her new school. Her little brother, Bragan, also plays soccer Monadnock was breathtaking. One and is making new friends in 3K. Anne Spencer (24) graduated from Winthrop University in 2012, and works for a Saturday, we went to a quarry real estate firm in West Columbia, S.C. She also moonlights with a caterer on the weekends, and belongs to swimming hole in Fitzwilliam. The “Extreme Bootcamp” in Lexington. She ran her first 10K race in September, and she’s now training for a half water was azure blue. I was told it marathon. Our family continues to grow with the arrival of a female boxer, Miss Molly. She’s a rescue dog and very was 100 feet deep. Many of the well behaved (most of the time). Jack writes, “We still live in Lexington, South Carolina, and would love to hear locals enjoyed the quarry also. from our classmates in 2015. Come visit us, we would love to see y’all!” There were high ledges on one side of the quarry where you could climb up to jump or dive. We also drove to KSC to use their paddleboard courts Dorm, room 109, directly across partnerships, they have been able to see them as much as he would like. and pool. One day I went down to from the dorm mother. I have kept focus on five special interest groups: Joe writes, “Overall, LIFE IS GOOD!” the FPC beach front with some in contact with Ray Forino. I lost victims of human tracking, friends. We took the row boat out contact with Alphonse Bottazzi, Joe veterans, homeless shelters, John Romagnoli ’73 retired on June on Pearly Pond. Beautiful. When we Boniuto, Bob van Gorder, Bob Eisner, battered women’s shelters and 5, 2014, after a long and successful returned to the beach front, there Joe Curran, Brandt Elkind, and Millie senior community. sales career in the communications was a man and a woman waiting to Kafka. I regret not finishing my industry. Since retirement, he has use the boat. I thought we were in undergraduate degree at FPC, but, it Joe Driscoll ‘73 recently turned 65 had time to work on his trap trouble. He was polite, and we all worked out alright.” years old, and retired in 2013. He now shooting skills, as well working on helped him turn the boat around. happily spends his days on the Glenn his golf game and his model (O About a week later, I had to go to Charlie Mann ’72 is founder and Dale, Md., golf course where he not Gauge) trains layout. He and his the administrative oces for some president of Celestial Manna, a only plays, but works part-time as a wife Sandy plan on traveling, paperwork for the fall semester. 501(c)3 nonprofit organization in player assistant. Joe is enjoying life including a stop at FPU for either When I walked in, I noticed the Derwood, Md., impacting the with his two grandsons (10 and 17), alumni or homecoming events, and same man that was at the beach. It Washington, D.C. area. Celestial while also celebrating his daughter enjoying retirement to the fullest! was FPC President Frank DiPietro. Manna currently provides support to and her husband’s 20-year Well, it was a good start. I met my people in dire need of food, clothing, anniversary. His son, Joe III, is living in Happily married ’73 alumni Alan two freshmen roommates that furniture, toys, and household North Carolina with his two Schneider and Ann (Spiegel) summer. We were in Monadnock goods. With the help of some granddaughters, so he doesn’t get to Schneider are living in Missouri

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City, Texas, a town southwest of Yankee Fantasy Camp in Tampa, Jonathan Holmes ’78 writes, “After and obviously have inherited their Houston. Alan is in his 39th year of Fla., every year.” graduating with a B.A. with honors mother’s intellect and work ethic. I the practice of psychotherapy. Alan in Cultural Anthropology in 1978, my have been practicing law for 33 writes, “We have two great kids Larry Abramson ’75 wants to share wife, Kathy, and I got married in years and look forward to a who have each given us a that he and his wife are the proud 1980. I’ve spent most of my career well-deserved retirement in a few grandson. This year both couples grandparents of their second in personnel management and more years. Life is good!” will give us a granddaughter. Life is grandchild, Charlotte Chen, known human resource management, first good in Texas.” to all as Charlie. She is now happily in Massachusetts and then in Class of ’78 Alumni, Phuong sharing her parents’ love with her Kentucky, after we moved in 1996. Nguyen and Thu Thuy Nguyen, Art Lisbon ’74 writes, “I’m currently brother, Xander. As of today, we are both retired and write, “Since leaving FPU, Thuy employed by Bose Corp World enjoying our home and property, Phuong still keeps in touch with a Headquarters in Framingham, Lisa (Gurwitz) Clements ’76 which was recently certified as a number of alumni of Franklin Pierce. Mass., and reside with my wife Kim celebrates the major wildlife habitat by the National Debbie sends us a note every year in Franklin, Mass. I loved playing accomplishment of being Wildlife Federation, in the beautiful from New Jersey to let us know how basketball for Franklin Pierce cancer-free since March 2013. country of rural Kentucky.” the kids are doing, as well as throughout my years there, and Although her mobility is limited by business activities. We love to read would like to give a shout out to my her health, she always manages to Susan (Sterner) Howe ’78 met her the Christmas letters. Thuy wrote to old teammates, as well as say hi to keep in contact with her FPU alumni husband Steve Howe ’79 at her from time to time and my student friends I hung out with via Facebook! Franklin Pierce, and they have spent exchanged greetings, phone back in the 70s. My current email is: over 30 years enjoying their move numbers, and pictures. Another is [email protected] Would love to William L. Russell ’76 updates, “I westward. Susan received her Thuy’s roommate who lives in San hear from some old friends!” am now CFO at Paul H. Gesswein Biology degree from FPU and later Jose, California, with a husband and Company in Fairfield, Conn., and a received her B.S.N from Montana children. She used to attend the Peter Loden ’74 is celebrating 25 director of their Bangkok, Thailand, State University in 1985, followed by annual spiritual seminar here in years of operating Walker Loden company. Gesswein distributes her M.S.N in 2007. The pair has Houston. After the session was over, retail stores in southern precision tooling to the jewelry and worked in Salt Lake City for 20 all of us went to a vegetarian Connecticut. Our newest location, machining industries. I saw Je Bolza years, and are ready to retire and restaurant nearby to eat lunch, and which opened Labor Day weekend ’75 last summer at my high school move back to Montana where they share what happening during the 2014, is at 8 Main St, Essex, Conn. reunion at Hoosac School. We both own 40 secluded acres of land! year. We talked about family, friends Other Walker Loden stores can be went to Hoosac and then Franklin and religion. Last but not least, Mr. found in Madison, New Haven, and Pierce in Rindge. I went on to get my Leslie Kahn ’78 planned to change Tuu Ngo, our classmate, also lives in shops at the Madison Beach Hotel M.B.A at Babson College. I am still jobs this past year and wound up San Jose with wife and kids. One and Whitney Center in Whitneyville, living by the water in Norwalk, Conn., unemployed and battling cancer year he drove with a group of friends Conn. Follow us on on Long Island Sound, 27 years later, instead. “Kicked cancer’s butt, and to visit people here. Most of his Facebook-Walker Loden-for a with my wife, Wendy, and daughter excited about a new job for the fall, friends were in the Navy before sampling of what we carry, from Lauren. I gave up the big sailboat either still teaching French or 1975, therefore the meetings were ladies accessories, jewelry, wedding racing for rowing an open water shell something else in education, as I am loud with plenty of food and drinks. gifts, body care products, and around the Norwalk Islands. I have finishing up my M.Ed. Living in He also stopped by to see us and antiques. Things Worth Giving, not made it to a reunion in years, but Epping N.H., where I’ve been for 26 shared the video he had taken with Things Worth Keeping, Things to challenge the class of ’76 to attend years now. Would welcome hearing friends in Dallas, Texas. We are glad Make You Smile.... the next one. I hope to be there and from old friends.” because the school is small and share some stories. My 39th class students know each other well.” Ellen Rose ’74 is working for Miami reunion at Hoosac reminded me how Terri (Tolchin) Lavin ’78 is living in Dade County Public Schools as a the years fly by.” Freehold, N.J., with her husband, Joe. “Frenchie” Cynthia (Danboise) district adminstrator, while also They have been married for 29 Franke ’79 and John Franke ’78 looking forward to retirement. She Peter Crabb ’77 was so inspired by years! She has been teaching celebrated their 36th wedding has one son in graduate school, who great Franklin Pierce teachers like elementary education ever since anniversary this past August. To their has been recruited by Macy’s Edwin Dethlefsen that he chose a she graduated from Franklin Pierce. great joy, they also added two new executive training program. career in higher education. He is a Terri writes, “I always enjoy seeing grandsons to the brood for a total of professor of psychology at Penn my Pierce friends!” four: Mason, Jack, August, and Silas. Je rey Salgo ’74 writes, “I have State University, where he has 2014 was quite a year! reached the grand old age of 62 taught for 24 years. He and his wife, Russ Needell ’78 writes, “I cannot and am still single with no kids that Tammy, live in an old farmhouse believe it has been almost 37 years Kenneth M. Hart, Sr. ’79 writes, “In I know of. Having retired from CBS and are permaculture enthusiasts. since graduation. I still have October 2014, for the first time in News as a director, I find I am busier incredibly fond memories of my seven years since I got married, my than ever. I train for triathlons and Mary Ann (Maggie) Zadorozny ’77 time at Pierce, and I miss all of my wife and I went on a vacation to am a consultant with my company, is doing well in Washington, D.C. college friends. I have been married Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. We stayed Present Yourself, which educates She will be leaving the National for almost 30 years to my at Sheraton Buganvilas timeshare on how to present oneself to clients Park Service after 30 years of wonderful wife, Wanda. We have on the seventh floor overlooking the and trade shows, proposals, etc. I service in 2017! She looks forward to two children, both of whom attend ocean. The base of the building we live in Flushing, Queens, and am a the next chapter in her life. “Carpe universities here in North Carolina. were in was about 60 feet from the die hard Yankee Fan. I attend the diem, you all.” They are pulling excellent grades water, and the sound was

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absolutely divine. We were in shorts 2010, he published his first book William Leavitt ’82 and his wife Peckville Alliance Church, outside of on our balcony at midnight with with Arcadia Press in their Images of celebrated the last of her radiation Scranton, Pa. This past September, 80-85 degree temperatures. Wish America Series entitled Monmouth, treatments in her fight against Nestor was also brought on as an we were back there! Anyway, while about his hometown of Monmouth, cancer with a seven-day cruise to adjunct professor at Nyack’s College there, we went on a evening pirate Maine. He is currently working on a the Caribbean. “We sailed just of the Bible and Christian Ministry, ship adventure cruise/musical/ book about the 7th Maine before Christmas on the Oasis of where he is currently teaching show/dinner that was the highlight Regiment, and a book about a the Seas, the largest cruise ship in advanced Greek classes at Nyack’s of our trip. On another day, after a murder that took place in Winthrop, the world. The weather was great, Manhattan campus, located near monsoon rain storm, we went on a Maine, in 1925. Bobbie writes, “I have and we had an awesome time.” Battery Park. Nestor is single and bus tour, which first stopped at a many fond memories of Franklin shares his home in Dingmans Ferry, tequila making establishment (with Pierce and the wonderful professors Waverly (Clingman) Knize ’83 Pa., with his father, his adopted tastings and we sampled at least 10 I was so fortunate to study under.” writes, “I’m a nurse, and I’ve also greyhound, and his tabby cat. dierent tequilas-lost count). Well had the pleasure of owning my own then, half drunk, we continued on Heiko Jansen ’82 just wants to gardening business-but most Peter McGrath ’84 manages a law our trip to the “Garden of Eden send out a “hello” to his friends from importantly, I am a parent to a great firm with oces in Concord, New Restaurant” where the film Predator the Franklin Pierce class of 1982. young adult!” Hampshire, and Charleston, South was shot. This part of the trip was a Carolina, which was voted “Best definite lowlight of our vacation! Larry Leach ’82 sends his regards Alan Murray ’83 received his Law Firm in Concord, New Here we are on a full size bus with to his fellow classmates and hopes master’s degree in Design from the Hampshire” by that city’s largest holes in the floor and diesel smell that everyone is doing well. He is Pratt Institute in 1987. He is working newspaper, the Concord Monitor. infiltrating throughout, on a dirt road celebrating his last daughter as a senior planner at Bayer Health McGrath Law Firm was founded by complete with washouts, gullies, graduating from FPU last May by Care, in Whippany, N.J. its managing partner, Peter G. and mud, going into a mountain using his travel points with McGrath ’84, J.D., M.L.S. area that a donkey cart shouldn’t American Airlines to fly around the Nestor Soto ’83 completed his have been on! Needless to say, we world! He plans to see his former master’s degree in Biblical Literature, Gordy Steadman ’84, his wife, both got sick. Other than that classmates along the way and to with an emphasis on New Natasha, and one of their daughters, nine-hour trip, we had a spectacular see places he has always wanted to Testament/Greek, at the Alliance Aspen, live in Leadville, Colorado. time in Mexico. We would go back in visit. Send Larry an email at Theological Seminary (Nyack, N.Y.) The couple’s other three daughters, a heartbeat just to go on the pirate [email protected], if you would like in 2009. Since then, he has been Zoe, Maria, and Skye live in Ohio. ship again, and would skip the him to visit you during his travels! serving as the lead pastor of the Gordy and Natasha are Predator thing!” coppersmiths, and also make a living gardening as well. They enjoy hiking and rafting in their spare time. Gordy Suzanne Grant ’84 writes, “My milestone would be my recent retirement writes, “Franklin Pierce Rocks! Class 80’s from the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, after 30 plus years of faithful service of 1984, that was fun! Thanks FPU!” Charlotte (Schatzii) Hall ’81 is to the United States Government. I was a team member in the engineering living in Cooperstown, N.Y. She and planning department as a logistics management specialist; defense Justine D. Caudill, Ph.D. ’85 has writes, “I’ve been teaching in prisons logistics agency as an inventory management specialist; and many other completed her master’s degree in for the past 27 years and will be roles through the years. Working at the shipyard has given me the Psychology and Ph.D., in Counseling, coming to the end of my career opportunity to meet and talk to people all over the world, while working Education, and Supervision. She shortly. I don’t know if I’ll make it to together to keep this country safe. It has made me a better person and has lives on Prince Edward Island, the magic 30-year mark. After that, opened my eyes through the years to see the dedication around me. I’m Canada, for the most part, but maybe I’ll hike the Appalachian Trail proud to say that both my husband and his father also retired from the ventures to San Antonio, Texas, or Pacific Coast Trail. Who knows? I shipyard. Both of our boys work at the yard to carry on our legacy.” when she needs some sun! She recently built a ‘tiny house’ (16’ by lives with her dad, a cat, three dogs, 20’), and plan on living there when I and four horses. She has a private retire. I’m trying to sell the bigger practice in mental health, house I’ve had for 32 years. I am specializing in equine facilitated growing most of my own food and psychotherapy, called Riverhorse will be living o grid. I guess I’m Ranch. She also teaches, writes, always trying to get back to the and is an active member of the feeling I had when I walked through Canadian Society of Friends Europe in 1979. I think of the walk (Quakers). She expresses, “I would every day and long for it. I plan on love to hear from folks, and my farm visiting a friend in Japan for two here on PEI is a great vacation spot, weeks in April. I currently have one where there is always room. dog, four cats, and five chickens.” Namaste y’all.”

Bobbie Bowler ’82 is no longer able Perry Bove ’86 is employed by TD to work, but this at least gave him Bank as the AVP of TD merchant the opportunity to do the writing services for VT, NH, and upstate NY. that he always wanted to do. In Perry was the ice hockey ocial for

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live in Camden, Maine. They recently celebrated 23 years 90’s together, and have two great kids. Cheryl Crump ’90 received her Jonah is a freshman at Colby master’s degree in Nursing College, and Thia is a junior at Education from the University of Islesboro Central School. Phoenix, online. She was recently hired as a nursing clinical instructor Hazel Harding ’89 is currently at Northwestern Community teaching and coaching in the College in Winsted, Conn. She Passaic Public School system in writes, “I LOVE training new nurses Passaic, N.J. She writes, “Hello to all and watching them grow into my many friends and teammates confident, successful nurses.” from the 80s! Peace and blessings!” Libby (Depopolo) Hayes ’90 joined Wilmington College in August Martha (Harris) Myron ’89 writes, 2014, as their director of human “Since United States graduation in resources. She also holds a PHR 1989, I served for the next 10 years in certification from the Human various finance-related positions, Resources Certification Institute. culminating in ownership of a small U.S. financial planning firm. I also Jeannette (Plourde) Passanisi Shari (Needle) Matarazzo ’87 announces, “2015 is a year of milestones in qualified for CPA and CFP ’90 has returned to teaching at the my home! A big birthday for me and also for my hubby, in addition to our certifications and a Series 7 U.S. college level at the Benjamin 20th wedding anniversary. My older son is getting his driver’s license and Securities’ broker license. In 1998, my Franklin Institute of Technology in looking into colleges as well (maybe another generation of FPC alumnus). dear husband, Paul, and I relocated Boston. She is teaching in the My younger one is taking on the world in his Science Olympiad Club, Chess to my traditional home of Bermuda, Computer Technology Department, Club, and hiphop classes. Hope all my Pierce peers are happy and healthy where for 15 years, we were incredibly where students can enjoy taking and enjoying life as I am.” fortunate in continuing to practice; classes such as web design, flash he, as an international registered development, and database pharmacist, and myself, in the management. Jeannette also runs international tax and finance her own web design and curriculum over 24 years with USA Hockey and Deborah Godeski ’87 is working as industry. It was a wonderful family development company at www. NIHOA. He o ciated the Women’s a practice administrator for Tina C. time as well, with two Bermudian/ jeannettepassanisi.com 2014 ECAC D III championship game Gage, DMD, in Stratford, Conn. She U.S. grandchildren welcomed to our and NCAA 2014 Women’s Frozen 4 enjoys petsitting, home world. Recently, Paul and I opened a Thomas Walsh ’90 currently lives National Division III Championship improvement projects, and taking virtual/physical cross border on the upper east side of in March. He hopes to return again care of 14 rescue cats in her spare international financial planning Manhattan as a single father with a this year. “Hi to all alums of 1986!” time. She writes, “Pierce taught me consulting firm, after I was awarded 12-year-old son. He works as a that a person can do anything if a M.S. in Law in International Tax manager of a local appliance repair Linda (Petocz) Mauriello ’86 they try. Hi to Rita and Kimberly.”” and Financial Services, summa cum shop. While not working, he enjoys would love to connect with former laude, at age 69! My husband has practicing and playing guitar with a classmates. “I look forward to Je Woodburn ’87 was recently had a very significant role in our guitar practice circle, making art, catching up on the last 30 years!” re-elected to the New Hampshire children’s and my university journey, and spending time with his son. State Senate. He was also while our strong commitment to John and Sandra “Sam” (Muniak) unanimously chosen to serve as the continuing education has truly Michelle Balon ’91 is a divorced Birkett, both ’86 graduates, have Minority Leader by his colleagues. enhanced our lives.” mother of two wonderful boys, enjoyed the past 28 years together Je represents the state’s largest, Zachariah (23) and Bryce (16). She living on Chebeague Island in Casco most rural legislative district, After 25 years in the software has lived in Deerfield, N.H., since Bay, Maine. They have two sons (23 encompassing 27 percent of the industry, ranging from startups to 1999. She recently celebrated 25 and 25) and a daughter (12). John state’s land mass. large corporations like Microsoft, years of service with DHHS, working writes, “Time flies, and the 30th Fernando Rodrigues ’89 started on The New Hampshire reunion is around the corner. Yikes!” Linda (Bielawski) Cli ord ’88 is his own Dotcom in 2014. He created Employment Program in working at Michigan State University a travel website that provides the Manchester, N.H. Michelle is an Lisa (Nason) Francoeur ’87 and recruiting graduate students for the visitor the ability to search for all employment counselor specialist on her husband Dennis will be married Electrical and Computer components of their travel a mandatory welfare-to-work for 30 years this April. They have Engineering Department. “I have accommodations from one location. program, specializing in refugees. three children, Dennis (Northeastern been doing this for the past five Fernando oers all pricing ranges She assists low-income clients with 2013), Marcella (Husson 2014), and years, though I have been in the for these accommodations and their integration into the community, Hunter. Marcella is in the M.Ed. same department for 13 years.” visitors can also book vacation and self-su ciency by providing life program at Franklin Pierce, and activites for their trips. Visit skills for employment, job readiness Hunter has been accepted at Judith Haines-Carter ’88 and Guruscape to book your next skills, job referrals, childcare Franklin Pierce for fall 2015. Christine Haines-Carter currently vacation experience! resources, referrals to counseling,

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educational, legal, support services, Your new best “furiend” is waiting who plays football, basketball, and named Duncan. I also just returned and other social service programs. for you! I know mine was! baseball, and Shanel (24), who is from a wonderful trip to Florida.” Michelle writes, “I have had many currently in graduate school in accomplishments with the state. I Tom Jatulis ’91 has left his position Georgia. Andrea writes, “I’m looking Karen (Eintracht) Cohen ’93 is was the first ECS to make the at Bank of America after 19 years to forward to taking Shawn II on a currently living in New Jersey, right mandatory federal participation explore a new opportunity with college visit at Pierce to see the outside of Philadelphia. She is requirements in the State of N.H. for Accenture Financial Services. He is basketball and baseball teams working at JCC in Cherry Hill as the work benefits and have maintained currently a content delivery play-perhaps he’ll consider being a assistant director during the school a high participation rate. I have operations manager, working on the Pierce alumnus like mom. Be year, and as the camp director been a guest speaker at many state mortgage solutions platform in their blessed all-miss you Nat, Brad, Erin, during the summer. Karen writes, conferences and trainings. I was Charlotte, N.C., delivery center. Tom Age, Carla, and 007!” “Stop by and say hello!!” given an award from the State of added a furry friend to his family, N.H. in 2004 for Outstanding when they adopted a lab mix from a RJ Bibby ’92 works at NetApp, an Heather Barry ’94 writes, “It’s been Humanitarian Award: presented by rescue organization this summer. industry leader in technology. www. a great year! I was promoted to John A. Stephen, DHHS She is full of energy, and netapp.com. The Bibblast Network: graphic production manager at Commissioner and Terry R. Smith, accomplanies Tom on his early a social networking and ideas site is Access TCA. We also added to our DHHS/DFA Director. I was inducted morning runs. located at www.bibblast.com and pack with Daisy, the coon hound as an honorary queen of the on Twitter @Bibblast. mix, rescued from Arkansas.” refugees for the South Sudan Dinka Michael Robertson ’91 and his wife Tribe on April 16, 2011, at the post Nora have been living in Jacksonville, Elaine (Jubar) Sampson ’92 and Robert Cappucci ’94 was certified celebration of the south Sudan Florida, since 2002. The traveling her family recently took a whirlwind to teach communications in referendum at the St. Anselm couple just got back from a trip to tour of New England. Nine days, Massachusetts and worked for College’s N.H. Institute of Politics San Francisco, and are planning a seven states, and too many hours in daycare, grade and middle schools, Center with all of the lost boys in getaway to Costa Rica in April. His the car to count. The family stopped and secondary education. After attendance for my years of work daugher Ashley is 14, and growing up at Franklin Pierce so Elaine could several years of teaching, he joined assisting refugees. I am also a justice way too quickly. Michael sends, show the campus to her children, the U.S. Army Reserves, and was of the peace and notary public.” “Hello to everyone at Franklin Pierce!” and also have a bite to eat at Pizza honorably discharged in 2008. He Haven. Elaine recalls, “Many things currently works in the medical Susan (Allen) Jacobs ’91 writes, Andrea (Freeman) Smith ’91 lives have changed, but the water is still device industry manufacturing laser Since graduating in 1991, when in Irvington, N.J., and is currently the same.” scalpels for surgeons around the Franklin Pierce was still a College working as a contracts paralegal at world. Robert is an avid political and not a University, I’ve Celgene Corp in Summit, N.J. She is Chris Wittenberg ’91 writes,”I activist and has worked for many experienced many ‘life events.’ I married to Shawn Smith, a U.S. traveled to the Outer Hebrides of successful candidates, and has moved back to my hometown in postal mail carrier, and they have Scotland. I live in Loudon, N.H. I work been a candidate himself for local East Brookfield, Massachusetts two beautiful children, Shawn II, for the State of N.H. I have a beagle and state level oces. He lives in (1992); got married (1998); started Medford, Massachusetts, with his working full-time with my husband faithful best friend, a black lab in his sign/vehicle lettering business, named Joey. both designing layouts on the computer and doing the Philip Johnson ’94 has written a bookkeeping (2000); and moved book and self-published it. The book back to my old neighborhood of is entitled The Hampden Railroad, Podunk (2008). We then adopted a the Greatest Railroad that Never Ran, senior chihuahua, Canela, who we and tells the story of the lost to renal failure in April of last construction of this railroad and year-she was most likely 16 or 17 ultimate failure to operate. It was years old. I was so lost without her built in 1913 from Springfield to the that a month and a half later we Bondsville section of Palmer, Mass., adopted another chihuahua, a to connect two railroads and provide rescue from Texas. Sofia is about passenger trac from southern New three years old, and an absolute England and New York to the sweetheart! Through her adoption, vacationlands of New Hampshire I’ve become involved in volunteering and Maine. The book is available some time to do computer updates from the author, on Amazon, and for a new rescue group, Save One Barnes & Noble online, as well as a Soul Animal Rescue League. So few booksellers specializing in many good, sweet dogs find railroad books. Phil can be reached themselves abandoned through no at [email protected]. fault of their own. It’s such a good Tim “Red” Morgan ’89 and Chris “Rize” Reisner ’89 got together in feeling to play at least some small Winshell Laguerre ’94 got married Newport, R.I., for a mini reunion (and Rize’s b-day!). role in helping these dogs find their in March 2014, and is currently forever homes. “Adopt! Don’t shop!” residing in Stoughton, Mass.

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Corey Pine ’94 is living in Jupiter, have a video game she designed Franklin Pierce.” He has been doing a like, God saw fit to bless me with an Fla. (The Cat Rescue) included in Math lot of freelance work in New York. He opportunity to get back into the Alive!, a traveling museum lives with his wife, Jennifer, and his legal field, first as a bankruptcy Jim “Skip” Rocheleau ’94 writes, “I exhibition. For the premier of the daughter, Adina, in West Orange, N.J. analyst, and now as a case was recently promoted to senior exhibition, their family was invited to administrator/paralegal. I am technologist for the kidney stone Washington, D.C. to see the game Kristen Jaccodine ’97 writes, “Dear currently in my eighth year being department at LabCorp. This past (and exhibition) debut at the Pierce Friends…I don’t remember part of the Justice Department’s Halloween, my family moved to Smithsonian Institution. when I last updated you and the Chapter 13 Trusteeship, and I can tell Elon, N.C. We’re enjoying this school of my daily adventures, so I you that the wonderful world of transition, and looking forward to Richard Johnson ’96 is living thought I would do so now. I can’t bankruptcy is both crazy busy and many campfires in our new happily in the Bay Area doing digital say that I’m doing anything extremely rewarding at the same backyard.” advertising and technology space. exciting. I am half way through my time. I should note that my time He recently joined Conversant 11th year as a school counselor at a spent back in the retail industry was Jackie Copeland ’95 has been living Media as the head of programmatic high school in N.J. Dealing with also a blessing unto itself. First, in southern Maryland on the media & strategic partnerships. He teenagers on a regular basis is because I believe that what we Chesapeake Bay for the past 10 is based in San Francisco, but gets challenging-yet rewarding. I work learned at Franklin Pierce University years. She has a 9-year-old son to travel to Chicago and New York with a great group of people, and shows through—even when life named Patrick. Jackie is currently often. He is happily married, and his am grateful for that. A couple of throws us a curve! We get up, dust teaching second grade and has wife works at Oracle. Richard’s years ago, I self-published my first ourselves o, and have at it again. been teaching in an elementary daughter Emilie (12) loves volleyball children’s book, Magic Stones, and We do what we have to in order to school for almost 10 years. Lastly, and soccer, and his son Max (9) am working on my second. For make ends meet and survive. she recently experienced the joy of plays baseball and flag football. those of you that know me, my Second, a Raven never quits! I purchasing her first home in The Johnsons are big fans of ultimate goal is still to be a writer. remain a single male trying to take December! Oakland Athletics. One day! Other than that, I look care of both my mother and my forward to spending my summers godmother (we lost my uncle Beth Morse ’95 started a new job in Lori Oleskewicz ’96 is living abroad in Maine with my sister, approximately two and a half years April 2014, at the National Bank of in Italy for a year. She is exploring brother-in-law, and my nephews! ago). The flip side to this is, that Middlebury as a teller in Middlebury, Europe and taking a break from a Hope all is well with everyone!” given my commute (taking the train Vt. In addition to working at the hectic schedule in the states! from Lowell, Mass., into Boston bank, Beth enjoys giving back to the Matthew Melillo ’97 is in the everyday) I have met and made community through her local Damon Peter Rallis ’96 is currently process of having three books many friends, some even becoming Grange. She is on several living in Mattituck, N.Y., and published this year, with the first what we call ‘Train Wives’ (believe committees through the Grange, celebrating his 14th year as a Caston’s Revenge. More information me… it’s a long story). So, life keeps and helps to organize open forum municipal employee for the Town of can be found on his Facebook page. me busy, puzzled, and always meetings between local state Southold. The year 2014 marked striving to move forward with a government and townspeople in her numerous milestones for Damon. In Mandy Mills ’97 is currently a smile! Recently, I have been getting county. April, he married Joanna R. Land, of medical biller in Rhode Island. She more involved in local (municipal) Mattituck, N.Y. In October, he just finished her second marathon politics and happenings around my Myrna Vashaw ’95 writes, “Hard to celebrated his first year of sobriety. (26.2 miles) this past November in hometown of Nashua, N.H., and I believe that 20 years has passed. I He has become active in his Cocoa, Fla. She completed it in 5 find that very rewarding in itself. have so many good memories of my community as a church leader and hours and 57 minutes, which was a Having an M.B.A in Leadership from years at Pierce evening division in scout leader, and in 2015, he will be personal record! She is planning on FPU probably has had a hand in this. Concord. Was teaching at Concord running for political oce. He has doing her next full one in 2016. Until I believe that many issues facing us High School at the time and still am. two children, Luca Owen Rallis (10) then, she has plenty of races as a nation no longer allows any of I truly value my experience at FPU.” and Destin Elijah Rallis (7). planned to get her ready! us to just sit around and complain or do nothing. Decisions are made by Ed Fleming and Sue (Conway) Timothy Slavin ’96 writes, “My life Scott Beausoleil ’90, G ’98 writes, those who show up! My uncle Fleming ’96 have two daughters, has been up and down as of late... “I can tell you that today it is always used to say, ‘Scott, act, don’t Laura (13) and Emily (8), and they but that’s the life of a Slavin! lol” extremely cold down here in Boston react!’ I try to keep this advice close live in the suburbs of Philadelphia. (Beantown), as it is -5 degrees (with and when it comes to my They run a family business, and for Carrie (Cutler) Brown ’97 writes: the wind chill). Hopefully this finds hometown, my state, or my the past 14 years have operated “In September 2014, I accepted a everyone trying their best to keep country—a Raven tries to make a sci-tech and videogame summer position as a high school science warm!? As you may know from past dierence! I bid all of you at Franklin camps. They currently have 10 teacher at The Victor School in notes, I have been working here in Pierce University and around the campuses up and down the Acton, Mass. I’m enjoying working Boston at my prior oce (Oce of country a heartfelt happy and safe Northeast, and will host over 2,500 with the wonderful sta and the Chapter 13 Trusteeship) that I year! Be well!” campers in the 2015 summer. In the students!!” worked at for much of the 1990s. o season, Sue teaches, and Ed After having been laid o from the Rich Berube ’98 has succeeded in runs Meetings and Adventures, a Jamie Dunst ’97 fondly reminisces, banking industry in New Hampshire getting his wife on a kayak after two corporate event planning firm. They “I’m looking out my window at the back in 2002 and working years! They have been married for also wanted to note that their snow falling, and it reminds me of all (underemployed) in the retail three years now. He enjoys mountain daughter Laura was selected to of the heavy snow fall when I went to industry for longer than one would biking, kayaking, and being with his

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wife and friends. If he’s not outside, enjoys philanthropy and lives locally he will be inside geeking out on a is also encouraged to join the Gap Windows laptop, Linux, or Mac doing Mountain Lions Club; they meet various web, print or video projects, regularly at 6:30 p.m. at the Village or just playing with code. Rich writes, Pond Community Center in Troy on “I have been working for our alma the first Friday monthly. mater for four years now, still absolutely love it...still weird (in a Bill Houghton ’99 writes to let us really good way) to be working at know, “I’ve been working for the Pierce with all the memories of also past 11 years with Dydacomp attending Pierce. I wouldn’t mind Development Corp. in N.J., in the IT reconnecting with my fellow field, and living in Bloomfield, N.J. In classmates and finding an extra my spare time, I am an avid reader of mountain biker, kayaker, or design/ English literature, as it was my major computer geek to hang out with in at Franklin Pierce. I write poetry and Dominick Miciotta ’91 had a great year in 2013! He not only became a the southern N.H. area.” fix computers. I still love to visit N.H., proud, stay-at-home dad to his son Leo, who was born in July, but also got and try to go up as much as possible. married to Jason J. Smith, Esq., in October. Before becoming a full-time Rick Cecchetti ’98 is the first One day I will make it back to Rindge parent, Dominick worked in the entertainment industry in Los Angeles, and outreach program manager at to see how much has changed and spent 12 years in higher education developing an expertise in enrollment Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, after stayed the same.” management and marketing. He has helped over 30 education providers spending 29 years in the engineering nationwide optimize and organize online learning programs. Dominick department. His new position Assunta (Moberg) Kerr ’99 is a earned his M.Ed. from Northeastern University in 2011. The Smith-Miciotta includes responsibility for STEM out- graduate of the Keene campus. She family relocated to Huntington, N.Y., in July 2014, so Jason could begin his reach and technical hiring for the updates, “I am a salaried new position as Partner at the Law Firm of Meltzer, Lippe, Goldstein & almost 5,000 employees in Kittery, professional with Robert Half Breitstone, LLP. Maine. The Cecchettis celebrated International under their 30 years of marriage, and now have accountemps division. Basically, I their oldest working on her film am a permanent employee who is career in Brooklyn, N.Y., and their Portsmouth, N.H., as well as a tour eroga in Ticonderoga, New York. sent on assignments to dierent youngest working on his Ph.D. in of none other than Franklin Pierce. She worked with teachers from companies in need of accounting Environmental Engineering at UC He instantly fell in love as I had so around the country during three help. This is a very rewarding job, as I Berkeley. many years ago with my first visit to weeks of teacher institutes that can go in and solve the problems of campus. We are having a happy focused on the Northern Frontier of dierent organizations in dierent Natalie Landry ‘98 will be retiring and healthy 2015, which started o the American Revolution. She also industries. I have learned so much from EMD Millipore Corporation- with a trip to the Bahamas last Feb- spent a week conducting research from each of my assignments, and I Jarey, N.H., after 10 years of service. ruary to scuba dive with great and finding primary documents on can put to good use all of what I “It has been a great experience hammerhead sharks!” the French and Indian Wars for next learned during my time at FPU.” working as a senior buyer for the year’s teacher institute. procurement group in Jarey. I will Jared Rehberg ’98 has joined Mikey “X” Wierzbicki ’99 writes, now go on to a new phase and new Besen & Associates as a marketing Christopher J. Holman ’99, a local “Just been chillin’ in Vermont, adventures. It is scary, and also very manager. Besen & Associates is a alumnus and member of the of the managing a local skateshop and exciting, as I have worked most all of full-service, real estate firm in New Alumni Board, also known as CJ the park. You can catch me on the my life, with the exception of having York City. DJ, has recently been honored with weekends teaching little groms how my children.” the WeddingWire Couples’ Choice to skate so that one day they will Libby Richardson ’98 is the events Awards® again for 2015, as annoy society. Other than that, just Joanna (Peptis) Mayer ’98 manager for United Way of central determined by reviews from his playing music in a couple local hard- updates, “I moved from Cleveland and northeastern Connecticut in clients. The Couples’ Choice Awards core bands and one metal band. to Columbus, Ohio, in 2013, and Hartford, Conn. For the last 10 years, recognizes his business as being Oh, and destroying my body skating. took a position as manager of she has spent much of her free time among the top 5% of wedding Keep it edge!” global benefits with McGraw-Hill crewing for hot air balloons in professionals nationwide within the Education. In May 2014, my fiance Cheshire and Southington, Conn., WeddingWire Network who Steve and I bought a home in and at festivals throughout New demonstrates excellence in quality, Pickerington, Ohio, and got married England. She often sees Lina service, responsiveness, and 00’s in June in New Hampshire. My (Strimavicius) Balcom, who was a professionalism. As a Fitzwilliam Melissa (Hebert) Gendreau ’00 husband had never been to New resident director at Pierce from Selectman who is involved in many updates, “I had some jobs along the England, can you believe it!? We August 1995 through June 1997. Lina community organizations, he has way, but landed one with PC were married in Jackson, N.H., at received her hot air balloon pilot’s been very busy analyzing the eects Connection in early 2005. Hitting The Christmas Farm Inn and Spa, license in 2014, and lives in Vermont. of the newly proposed southern my 10-year anniversary there in followed by a week-long tour of New Hampshire natural gas March. I finally settled down and New England that included Mt. Wendy Bergeron ’99 spent the pipeline, and encourages the FPU married my husband, Jason, on Washington, Boston, Salem, and month of July working as the community to become informed 04/30/11. Together we had a son, Marblehead, Mass., and teacher-in-residence at Fort Ticond- and to get involved. Anybody who Vincent, born on 1/1/12-yes, a New

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Year’s Day baby, and he was the first at the time, I wanted to provide a getting settled in, but so happy to beginning teachers in northern in Nashua that year! He just comfortable lifestyle for myself and be back in New England.” California. She currently writes celebrated his 3rd birthday...time my four children. The convenience curriculum for the six northernmost flies too fast. My husband was of your night classes made this Sarah Kucsma ’01 began flying for counties in California, so that previously married and has two kids, possible. My bachelor’s degree Southwest Airlines as a flight beginning teachers can clear their who are now my step-children. also made me eligible to apply to attendant in June 2014. teaching credentials with the state Emma is 13 and Jaxon is 10. This law school, which I did in 2009. of California. rounds out our family of five.” I’ve since graduated from Heather O’Dell ’01 married her Massachusetts School of Law, and husband, Adam, on June 12, 2011, Matt Collier’s ’03 will be working at Michelle (Belleau) Russell ’00 passed the bar in both and recently adopted an adorable Merrill Lynch for 10 years in 2015. He has been married for 13 years with Massachusetts and New rescue dog named Daisy Mae. is currently a VP division sales two kids. She ran her own business, Hampshire. I opened my own law Heather was promoted to supervisor manager overseeing retail sales but recently closed it after eight firm with oces in North Andover, of three pre-trial services oces in teams in Hopewell, N.J., years. She is still living in New Mass., and Nashua, N.H. I have 2012, for the State of Conn.-Court Jacksonville, Fla., and Chandler, Ariz. England and fondly tells her kids done a lot of pro bono work for Support Services Division. She also Matt and his wife, Colleen, about her times at FPU! Michelle’s veterans, single parents, and those coordinated fundraiser charity welcomed their first child to the son is going to be attending a in danger of foreclosure. This has events to support cancer research in world on 8/14/14. Cambridge baseball clinic with Jayson King. She allowed me to ‘pay it forward’ so memory of her mother, who passed Cecelia Collier is a healthy and plans on showing her kids the to speak, for the assistance I away of colon cancer last fall. happy little girl. They currently campus while she’s here! received as a struggling single Heather is a licensed zumba reside in Yardley, Pa. mother prior to my degree. This all instructor, and enjoys motivating Scott A. Spencer ’00 recently started with a sit down others to be happy and healthy. George Gardei ’03 is living in joined the Law Oces of John J. conversation in the registrar’s Cincinnati. George writes, “I have Bonistalli in Boston as an Associate. oce, where I was warmly Kristin (Ciccarelli) Augusta ’02 paid o all my credit card debt His practice will be concentrated welcomed and encouraged to was recently promoted to senior (totaling over $20,000), which I had primarily in civil litigation, insurance believe my goals were attainable. consultant, learning and accumulated prior to moving to defense, and defense of Franklin Pierce gave me the tools development, at John Hancock Cincinnati in 2008. In January 2013, I self-insureds. and confidence I needed on my Financial. She continues to employ left my job at God’s Bible School road to success!” her Franklin Pierce M.B.A education and College, and I now work as a Wendy (Gooden) Spillane ’00 to create eLearning for John software engineer at Framework MI, writes, “Hello Franklin Pierce! I Christie (Carrier) Tamayo ’00 Hancock and its parent company, Inc. In July 2013, I paid cash for a wanted to drop you a quick note to writes, “After college, I moved to Manulife Financial. house, and in June of 2014, I let you know what I’ve been up to Florida, started my career in graphic adopted another dog. I have two since graduation in 2000. Wow, design, bought a house, and got Hilary Shaw ‘02 married Michael dogs now, Eskimo (Husky-Corgi was it really 15 years ago? With my married. I worked as a designer in Finkelstein on September 7, 2013, in mix), and the new guy is Bojangles bachelor’s degree, I was able to the agency and corporate world for Boothbay Harbor, Maine. Also in (a Chihuahua mix). secure a full-time job at a salary 10 years, and then had a baby. attendance from FPC were Lauren significantly higher than it would Having our little one made us want Faretta ’02, Shaun Homan ’02, and Stephanie (Caswell) Tellier ’03 have been without it. This was to be closer to family, so we moved Gary Levy ’02. They honeymooned writes, “I’ve been married now for 11 essential since, as a single mother back to N.H. in 2014. We are slowly in Paris, France, and Barcelona, years to Matthew Tellier, and we Spain. are currently expecting our fourth child in July. We have three Ken Gowell ‘02 is currently living in beautiful girls (10, 7, and 4), and are Grafton, Mass., with his two anxiously awaiting the call from the daughers, Nia and Brynn. He is doctor to tell us the gender of this working for Metabolix in Cambridge, baby! We live in Fitchburg, Mass., U.S. Army Major developing technology for the and I’m a stay-at-home mom, and Chad Henderson production of sustainable, biobased my husband just finished his ’96 recently got plastics and other polymers. paralegal degree.” engaged to U.S. Army Captain Rich McClane ’02 went to Big Belly Eric Feldbaum ’04 updates, “I am Sarah Thompson. Deli on Friday, October 10, 2014, in living in Concord, N.H., with my They currently live Newport Beach, California, and had fiancé and my dog, Daisy. I am the in Alexandria, Va., a decent sandwich. director of community recreation for and will be married the N.H. Division of Parks and Recre- Melissa (McConnell) Quinn ’02 ation (state parks).” in September 2015, got married on December 27, 2014. near Binghamton, The pair live in Sonoma County, Remi Francoeur ’04 won the N.H. N.Y. California. After teaching for 11 years, State Senate campaign he was Melissa left the classroom and managing. He will end his campaign began working in a management managment record at seven and position writing curriculum for seven.

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Kim (Cavallari) Kowalski ’04 Sarah (Bascom) Hussey ’06 writes, contemplating that for sure. I would hosts a live music calendar and a married her husband Tom on “Since I have graduated from Franklin love some day to work at the blog with up-to-date information on November 1, 2014, at Old Pierce with a B.S. in Business Rindge campus with many of the the local music scene. If any FPU Sturbridge Village in Sturbridge, Management, I have helped my sta, faculty, and students I have alums would like to submit a story Mass. Franklin Pierce alumni in husband to start up a business. He come to know as a police ocer.” idea, press release, calendar date, or attendance at the wedding runs the machine shop and works their own album for review, email included Clint Daggan, Kristin with the customers and vendors, and Trent Spiner ’07 was hired as Juliana at [email protected]. (Stoll) Daggan, Jennifer I run the oce. I do payroll, hiring, executive editor of the New (Mummenthey) Siemaszko, benefits, accounts payable and Hampshire Union Leader, where he Jason Archambeault ’08, G ’10 Christine (Morchausser) Morin, receivable, and anything else to do manages all print and digital has been putting his education to Chad Jones, Matt Labbe, and with the oce. We make a good coverage for the state’s largest work! In 2012, Jason and his Aaron Steinfeld-all class of 2004. team! I hope everyone is doing well!” newspaper. POLITICO named him business partner Greg purchased as a “must-follow journalist on the Granite Air Center, an aviation Dan Gouthro ’05 was recently Frank Morrill ’07 writes, “Hey there ground” in New Hampshire ahead of services company located at the recognized by his employer, Matter to Graduate & Professional Studies the 2016 presidential primary. He airport in West Lebanon, N.H. As if Communications, for running one of Alumni of Keene, N.H., Class of was also elected president of the running a business isn’t enough, the national agency’s most 2007. After completing my New Hampshire Press Association. Jason has also produced several successful PR campaigns of 2014. bachelor’s in Criminal Justice in He lives in Concord, N.H. stage musicals and has even 2007 as a Sgt. for the Rindge Police starred in one. On August 23, 2014, Sarah (Stevens) Leonard ’05 and Department, I made my way to a Sarah (Blake) Ward ’07 graduated Jason married the love of his life, her husband Allen Leonard promotion to Chief of the Rindge from UMASS Amherst in May 2014, Dawn, whom he met in the welcomed new daughter, Lucie Police Department. I retired from with an M.Ed. and a 4.0 GPA. She Franklin Pierce undergraduate Elisabeth Leonard, on December 18, that position in May of 2014 after 24 bought her first house in July 2014, degree program. Jason writes, 2014. Lucie joins big brothers Brody years in law enforcement. I married and began teaching social studies “Without a doubt, all of the best (6) and Caden (4). in 2009, and my lovely wife bought for grades 7-12 at Sacred Heart High parts of my life have been made and settled in a new home in School in August 2014. possible by Franklin Pierce!” Matt Na ah ’05 and Kristen Peterborough, N.H. What am I doing (Bartini) Na ah ’05 are looking now? Well, working as an assistant In March 2014, Brett Wilson ’04 Martha Dickey ’08 and her forward to celebrating their 10-year to the director of security at and Juliana (Spence) Wilson ’07 husband built a new house in 2014, reunion this upcoming spring. Monadnock Hospital. To keep up purchased Cider Mag, “The NH and and are settling in nicely and Currently, Matt and Kristen are living my law enforcement certification, I VT Entertainment Authority”. enjoying it. “We have been in Andover, Mass., with their two am currently working as a part-time Currently Cider Mag is a monthly entertaining a lot and spending children, Olivia (4) and Lincoln (2). police ocer in Bennington, N.H. music and entertainment digital quality time with friends and family They also adopted a puppy last Will I go back to school for my magazine that can be found at making new memories. I am also year, named Hunter. master’s? Good question, still www.cidermag.com, which also currently taking my seventh class

Vicky Rank ’02, ’05, ’12, writes, “This past May I handed my daughter, Madison Rank, her diploma from Franklin Pierce. This was one of my proudest moments! It was made even brighter because her best friend, Amber Ciarcia, also received her FPU diploma on the same day. Armed with their bachelor degrees in marketing, they are both excited to be employed and using the skills they’ve learned at Franklin Pierce.”

Talesha L. Caynon, Esq. ’06 got engaged on March 1, 2014, and married on May 30, 2015.

Luke Healy ’06 and Dana (Frazao) Healy ’06 had their first child, a little girl, on February 13, 2015. Luke has gone back to school for a food science degree, and Dana was Tom Cruickshank ’00 writes, “My wife Elisa and I had our first baby on January 27, 2015, during the blizzard on Long recently promoted to executive Island! Her name is Angela Kathleen Cruickshank, and she is 7.5 ounces and 20 inches in length. Go Ravens!!!” director of Danvers Community Access TV.

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towards an M.B.A in Leadership (at field of social services, quite a leap FPU)...that’s exciting.” from where I started o, but happily so. My career at the RI Care Christine (Donahue) Gauvain ’08 Management Network is as a care Amy (Renczkowski) writes, “My husband and I both went manager of out of home placement, Erhart ’04 and Jerey to Franklin Pierce. He graduated in which entails working with and Erhart celebrated the first 2007 when it was still Franklin supporting youth that are placed out birthday of their daughter, Pierce College. I graduated in 2008, of their home and into state care. It Isabella Emily Erhart, who when it became a University. James is a di cult, yet rewarding, position. I was born on January 11, Gauvain, Jr. and I were married was reunited in this position with a 2014. They had a October 9, 2010, in Newport N.H. We fellow 2008 alumni, Sarah Therrien. cupcake-themed birthday currently live in Nashua, N.H. with I still harbor my passion for writing, party for her. our daughter Natalie, born April 12, which is easily done with all the 2014. My husband is a medical beautiful inspiration life has oered equipment technician at REQ in me so far.” Manchester, N.H. I recently left my position as a psychiatric Sarah Therrien ’08 currently rehabilitation specialist at Greater resides in East Greenwich, Rhode Je Cornell ’09 updates, “I one year to finally meet. They were Nashua Mental Health Center in Island. She has been working with graduated FPU in 2009 and moved married in November 2012, have a order to take care of our daughter.” the non-profit, Child & Family, for straight to New York City, where I got 17-month-old son, a 3-year-old the past five years as a social worker. a job as a post-production assistant pitbull mix, and they live in Joshua Jacques ’08 has been This past fall she was promoted to on the Paramount Pictures film, Greenfield, Mass. continuing work with the state of work for Rhode Island Care Morning Glory, starring Rachel Maine O ce of Information Management Network (C&F McAdams and Harrison Ford. I was Steven Dodrill ’09 writes, “I’ve been Technology since the day after a liate) to oversee transitions & able to fly out to London twice living in Hanson, Mass., and currently graduation from Franklin Pierce. “I permanency eorts for youth in during the film to help make the working in guest support/consumer recently received a promotion to DCYF custody who are in residential, editor’s and director’s cut of the care at Dunkin’ brands in Canton, programmer analyst and take part therapeutic foster care, and out of picture. After the movie wrapped up, Mass., the parent company of the on working on many dierent state placements. She was excited I worked on a few small films as a well known national brands of applications to support the citizens to be reunited unexpectedly while director of photography, and then Dunkin’ Donuts and Baskin-Robbins. of Maine. These include interviewing fellow alumna, Beth worked on a show for The Weather I’ll celebrate my two years at the unemployment benefits, job search Tedeschi 08’ to be her co-worker. Channel called Breaking Ice, before company in March. This fall, I earned tools, and college degree research Sarah enjoys spending as much landing a gig with fellow 2009 a promotion and was named a tools for Maine schools. It is time as possible with her one and a graduate and roommate at the time, senior coordinator of loyalty support currently -15 degrees here without half-year-old nephew, Liam! Justin Martell, at MTV working as a for Dunkin’, supporting the DDPerks the wind chill, and it is giving me logger/assistant editor on the loyalty program, Dunkin’ mobile app, reminders of walking across the Kristen Bean ’09 bought a house popular shows 16 & Pregnant and and Dunkin’ card.” quad to class in the middle of last August in Boscawen, N.H., and Teen Mom. After a few seasons, I February.” got engaged to Andrew Warren in moved on to be the assistant editor It’s been a wonderful year for the April 2014. He proposed while they on a show called Crowning New Ferreiras as 2009 alumni Jake Cristal Pinnix ’08 started a new were spring skiing at Gunstock! The York, which was for the Smithsonian Ferreira and Jessica Summers tied position with Dallas Independent wedding is planned for September Channel and Discovery International the knot (“FINALLY”) on July 5, 2014. School District’s Student Initiatives 2015. She also switched positions about the finishing of rebuilding One They bought their first home department in October 2014. She from environmental consulting at World Trade Center in New York City. together and couldn’t be more also started an online radio station Vanasse Hangen Brustlin, Inc. to Back in 2011, I started my own thrilled. In addition, they recently got (Vagrant Variety Radio) in May 2014. teaching at Bedford High School. wedding videography business a basset hound puppy and named She is still in transition while called JF3 Productions with another him Dewey. They can’t wait to see Beth Tedeschi ’08 writes, “I completing the Education 2009 graduate, Frank Raimo. We what the rest of 2015 has to oer! graduated from Franklin Pierce in Conversion program at NHTI of have filmed over 60 weddings since 2008. I have experienced many Concord, N.H. in the tri-state area, and a few of wonderful and unexpected them were Franklin Pierce alumni! adventures in the seven years since Jennifer Croce ’09 graduated Currently, I am working on season six 10’s graduation. I am the very happy and summa cum laude with a Master of of Teen Mom 2 while preparing for Conrad Farnham ’10 received his 15- proud mother of a brilliant Social Work degree from the another busy wedding season this year service award as a Dartmouth 3-year-old beauty, Fae Autumn, and University of Southern California. year! I reside in Brooklyn, N.Y. with College employee. He has been busy welcomed another baby girl in April. She works as a clinician with my longtime girlfriend, Meghan, of working full-time as the arts & I share the joys of parenthood with Emergency Mobile Psychiatric almost seven years.” sciences senior finance center my talented and handsome fiance, Services of United Community and specialist, responsible for all faculty Scott. I received a B.A. in English on Family Services Inc. in Norwich, Kara (Costin) Coutu ’09, G ’11 met payroll. Conrad is also the manager the writing track with a double minor Conn., providing crisis intervention her now husband at FPU. Although to one of the most successful in Creative Writing and Print and brief therapeutic treatment to he wasn’t a student here, they met country bands in New England, The Journalism. I currently work in the children and adolescents. through mutual friends. It took them Shana Stack Band. The Shana Stack

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Steven Cantwell ’11 writes, “Hello Chelsea Martin ’12 writes, “Hey FPU class and alumni. Just a brief FPU! I am working back in my note to update what is going on in hometown school district as the my life. I graduated with a B.S. in data specialist and school registrar. I Business, and a friend also got engaged to my fiancé Tyler recommended that we take a trip in November. We have a wedding to Brazil to celebrate my planned in August.” commencement. We decided to go for two weeks to a country full of Dr. Margaret “Meg” Morse-Barry rich culture, and we both ’12 is the special education developed strong friendships with coordinator at South Range School in great people. The best part of the Derry. She is the president of the trip was that I met a local beauty Derry Teacher Assocation, and is an the first Friday I had visited, and we advocate for education and the state. have been together since. We still do not understand how we Merrill Vaughan ’12 writes “Since conversed, as she only spoke graduating in 2012, I have become a Portuguese, and I only spoke dedicated substitute teacher for English. I guess we used the PMHS. While the middle school “language of love!” We just might be the toughest to handle, it recently celebrated two weddings is my love of teaching that sees me (USA and Brazil). We decided the through each day. Is middle school a next wedding will be in Las Vegas challenge? Yes it is, but my classes this March! LOL I am a poor man with CGPS prepared me for the Melissa (Dunsing) Poisson ’07 and Joshua Poisson ’07, G ’11, got now (LOL) as marriage can do position I now have.” engaged in Zermatt, Switzerland, overlooking the Matterhorn on 5/31/2014, that, but we are very happy in life during a two-week trip to 14 cities/towns in Switzerland. “We are looking now. Oh, I think it is important to Kelly Walter ’12 states, “Graduation forward to more trips that lead us to naturally beautiful places.” Melissa is a note that soon after my was awesome, but I soon missed rail asset manager for Clean Harbors in Norwell, Mass. Joshua is an IT graduation, I found a better job school, and lost my job at the law support supervisor for Boston Beer Company in Boston. P.S. “With my two (due to my degree) firm I was at. I decided that in order to semesters experience as an undergraduate and a graduate assistant in the telecommuting from my home! be more marketable as a paralegal, former FPU Vienna study abroad program, and two semesters as graduate Best.Job.Ever! Thanks FPU!” that I would enroll in FPU’s Paralegal assistant in the former FPU Athens Greece study abroad program, I was very Certificate program. The professors confident in my abilities to plan and navigate in a foreign country; which Valarie Gauthier ’11 welcomed the are great, the online medium allows made our experience in Switzerland very rewarding. I always encourage new year by getting engaged to the me to work, and just being enrolled in college students to take advantage of opportunities to study abroad since it love of her life, Scott Tetreault! the program was compelling enough drastically improves their confidence to reach out further in the world to land me another law firm job. I will around them. Melissa and I are starting to plan our next trip. It’s a toss up Frank Martino ’11 took a job with be done in March, and I feel much between southern Spain/Morocco or Peru for a hike up to Machu Picchu.” the largest independent insurance more competent for having taken wholesaler in the U.S.: All Risks, Ltd. these law courses!” Working out of the Austin, Texas, Band has won numerous awards and engaging in proactive outreach to satellite oce as an insurance Heather Allard ’13 has been including Country Act of the Year by constituent and civic organizations. broker for oil and gas risks. promoted to provider relations the New England Music Awards. The specialist at Beacon Health Options band will be opening for Little Big Julie (Sebert) Gray ’10 graduated Lizz Sheridan ’11 got engaged on in Woburn, Mass. She will assist in Town at the Bank of New Hampshire with a B.S. in Management. “Since September 27, 2014, to Joshua managing Beacon’s behavioral Pavilion at Meadowbrook on then, there have been TONS of new Lewis. They are currently living in health provider network, including: September 5. This will be their fifth things! I got a new job, a new dog, their wonderful apartment in provider event planning and year back to Meadowbrook. The got married, got my accounting Vernon, Conn. Also, they both participation, network access Shana Stack Band performed at degree, passed my CFE, and am currently work for Whole Foods monitoring, and recruitment. Alumni Reunion Weekend 2015, and now studying for the CPA test! I now Market. Lizz is taking classes at Conrad taught line dancing during work for the WV State Auditors Manchester Community College, Amanda Saab ’13 writes, “Hi! After the event. Conrad takes great pride Oce in the accounting division. and will be going to University of graduating in May 2013, with degrees in both of his positions. Thanks FPU for helping me achieve Hartford for a master’s in in Sports Management and my goals!!!” Elementary Education. Everything is Accounting, I was lucky enough to Peter Brodie ’10 reports that he going well for Lizz! land a job right away at Lasell recently accepted the position of Katie Ristow ’10 left her position at College in Newton, Mass., as the Montgomery County Constituent FIU (Miami, Fla.) in June 2014, and Nathan “Woody” Wood ’11 will be assistant women’s basketball coach. Coordinator for New York State moved to Malibu, Calif., to start a graduating from Albany College of At this time, I relocated closer to Senator Geroge A. Amedore, Jr. new job at Pepperdine University as Pharmacy and Health Sciences in Boston, and got my first apartment in (R-46). His job duties include the marketing & events manager for May 2015, with a Doctor of the city! In addition, I continued my responding to constituent concerns athletics. Pharmacy degree. education and immediately started

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Shirley Dawson ’14 writes, “Although I graduated with my associate’s, I am still a Franklin Pierce student, pursuing my bachelor’s in Health Care Administration. So, although I haven’t climbed Mount Kilimanjaro (or Mount Monadnock for that matter), my life is busy and full of learning, which I enjoy immensely.”

Adam Castiglione ’13 married Michelle Gilmore on October 12, 2014, in Bruce Ruotsala ’14 got a job as a Miranda Mantello ’13 writes, “After Averill Park, N.Y. They met through Bianca LaPointe ’10, ’13, and their love sta accountant at Melanson graduating, I went on to work at of Franklin Pierce runs deep, even though Michelle didn’t attend there. Heath, a public accounting firm in The Children’s Museum in my Michelle visited Bianca at FPU undergrad, and then frequently visited both Nashua, N.H. hometown as an animal curator in Bianca and Adam at DPT school in Concord, N.H. All of Adam’s DPT their wildlife sanctuary. Although I classmates became fast friends. Adam and Michelle were a big part of M. Katie Jackson ’14 moved back to am no longer full-time, I continue Syed Hussain ’14 and Amber (Chowdhri) ’14 Hussain’s wedding in August. Denver after graduation, and to stay aliated with them by Adam practices as a DPT at a school for children with autism spectrum obtained a job with Pearson Inc. as doing outreach programs and disorders, and also works at an outpatient manual physical therapy clinic. a level 1 software developer. She special events. I decided to pursue Michelle is a registered nurse in the emergency department. In the photo writes, “As you may know, FPU a new field in hopes of getting a above, from L to R: M. Syed Hussain FPU DPT ’14, Amber Hussain currently uses Pearson’s old feel for the education world. (Chowdhri) FPU PA ’14, Devin Zylak FPU DPT ’13, Adam Castiglione FPU platform for their online undergrad Currently, I am an associate DPT ’13, Michelle Castiglione (Gilmore), Elizabeth Kolator FPU ’08 and and graduate classes. I am currently instructor at an elementary school! FPU DPT ’13, Bianca LaPointe FPU ’10 and FPU DPT ’13, and Jeanne involved with working on Pearson’s Since graduating I also got to Callahan FPU DPT ’13. Also in attendance, but missed the photo: Cheryl new online portal and online welcome a niece into my life, Botelho FPU DPT ’13. material for higher education, which spend more time with my nephew/ Franklin Pierce might end up using family, friends, and I was able to in the future. When I am not reconnect with the love of my life! taking graduate classes online with oldest daughter is a senior in high working, I like to visit many of Needless to say, I’m one happy and Franklin Pierce University. I am on school this year, and is interested in Denver’s craft breweries, proud Raven!” track to receive my M.B.A in attending Franklin Pierce in the snowboard, and hike.” Leadership this coming May. After a fall! She has been accepted, but year coaching at Lasell College, I has not come to a final decision decided to try something di erent-I yet. We attended a college tour ended up taking a job at Andover over the summer which was a lot High School in Andover, Mass., head of fun. Rindge is a beautiful coaching the girls’ JV basketball campus. My other daughters are program and assisting with the both at the local high school now varsity program as well. In addition to and it is wonderful to see them all the coaching jobs, I worked part-time grow up and become young adults. in the school’s athletic oce. I am I want to wish everyone at the very excited for what the future has in Lebanon campus a great year!” store for me, and very eager to wrap up my last couple of graduate Bianca Acebron Peco ’14 courses over the next several updates, “After graduation, and months! I miss Franklin Pierce more through my work in politics, I was than words can describe, but I am able to meet President Barack very fortunate to have had the Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Kim Ruth ’09 has been living in Sydney, Australia, since December 2011. In opportunity to get a Franklin Pierce and former Secretary of State/ 2014, the Pierce Arrow team was reunited when Carol Pennamacour (‘07) education, and play basketball for Former First Lady Hillary Clinton. I became her roommate for six months. Kim also traveled to Asia for the the University for four years.” just recently accepted a position first time this year, where she met up with Yoko Hisada (‘09) in Japan for with the admissions oce at some amazing karaoke. If anyone comes to Sydney for a visit, make sure to Hilary Scruggs ’13 says “Hi to Franklin Pierce. I have achieved say hello and she can show you around. everyone at the Lebanon Campus! much success because of Franklin I graduated from the 2013 RN to Pierce, and all of the support I was B.S.N program. I continue to work given. I’d like to thank the Political at DHMC in cardiology. I miss Science Department for asking me Please send your news and notes to seeing my classmates, but have back multiple times to share my [email protected] been able to keep in touch with journey with current students, for inclusion in a future issue of Pierce. many of them who work locally. My faculty, and sta .”

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n behalf of Franklin Pierce University, I want to thank the 1,844 THE PRESIDENT’S LEADERSHIP COUNCIL donors who made a gift to the University during our Fiscal Year ($5,000 - $9,999) (June 1, 2014-May 31, 2015). The total raised was $2,250,783. John T. Burke Jr. It is due to the support of caring alumni, parents, and friends Jonathan and Judith M. Burke O Andrew and Jane Cohen that Franklin Pierce is able to provide our students with an outstanding Philip and Anne Dedona education. The University relies on private donations, making your James and Millie Egan Mark D. Goodman personal support that much more significant. Thank you for your Bruce M. Kirsh generosity and most of all, thank you for strengthening the future of Drayton McLane Jr. Franklin Pierce. David and Diane Panopoulos Rindge Pizza Haven, Inc. Sincerely, David and Donna Shooster Blaine E. Thompson Laura (Mitchell) Treonze Garvin Warner and Margaret Wheeler

Lisa Murray THE PRESIDENT’S 1962 CIRCLE Vice President for Institutional Advancement ($1,962 - $4,999) Leslye A. Arsht Belletetes Incorporated Please see the site key on page 76 for gifts made in honor or memory of others. James and Lisa Birge Bruce S. Crockett David P. Deiuliis Robert E. Diercks and Sidne Lewis THE BY GIFT CLUB Nick and Pam Bisaccia Discount Oil of Keene THE CHAIRMAN’S CIRCLE President George H. W. John and Janet Donohue PRESIDENT’S and Barbara Bush d ($100,000+) Michael C.J. and Georgiann Fallon President George W. and LEADERSHIP Daniel and Carleen Grimshaw-Gudewicz Laura Bush d GIVING Charitable Foundation (Albonizio) Farrell i Community Foundation Michael and Jill Thomas V. and Ann Marie Farrell SOCIETIES of Western Massachusetts (Petrocelli) Lamoretti James E. Fitz-Simon Sr. Community Foundations Franklin Pierce Attilio and Beverly Petrocelli Greenline Roofing, LLC of the Hudson Valley University gratefully The Attilio & Beverly Petrocelli Nancy E. Hadley Foundation Stephen A. Davis acknowledges the John B. and Lynda M. Hunt State of New Hampshire Gregory M. Doody following individuals and The Roy A. Hunt Foundation FairPoint Communications Michael and Melissa The Charles and Mabel P. Jost organizations for their (Petrocelli) Weinbaum Marlin and Melinda Fitzwater Foundation, Inc. leadership support of Paul M. and Suzanne Goyette Harold M. and Anne Levy the University during THE REGENT’S COUNCIL Earle I. Mack Timothy G. and Melinda Nawn the 2015 fiscal year. ($50,000 - $99,999) Earle I. Mack Foundation, Inc. The Ole Skaarup Foundation For more information Andrew H. and Kathleene Card John H. Perry Barbara and Alfred Marulli Jr. on becoming a member Estate of Lenore Eileen Lam Dorothy Peterson David and Melissa McGraw of the President’s Arthur M. and Martha R. Pappas Susan Pimentel Patrick and Kathleen McHugh Leadership Giving Sandra Quaye Harry D. and Linda Meyer Societies, contact THE TRUSTEES’ CIRCLE Rotary Club of Jarey-Rindge ($10,000 - $49,999) Kim M. Mooney and Greg Walsh Mr. Kelly Dodge at Steve and Judith Sabatino Amco Property Management National Collegiate Sarah J. Schiermeyer (603) 899-4032. Athletic Association Lloyd and Helen Securitas Security (Ament) Astmann Pepsi Bottling Group Services USA, Inc. q

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Christine Skaarup New England Employee Bert’s Deep Rock FRANKLIN Benefits Co., Inc. Jonathan and Lori Patricia A. Beyland PIERCE Deirdre (Catalano) Olsen (Weinstein) Slavin Daniel Blair LOYALTY Catherine Owen Koning Sodexo, Inc. & A liates Boom Technology, Inc. Diane (Najarian) Parvin Michael J. Stockdale GIVING John Borino G. William Pattison SOCIETIES Marc W. Bragin m John Plonski THE PRESIDENT’S Branford River Resort & Spa, LLC Franklin Pierce Protector Group Insurance, Inc. COUNCIL Breakwater Cottages LLC ($1,000 - $1,961) Quality Life Health Care University gratefully Bridgeworks, LLC John and Cynthia Ainsley R. Landry & Sons, Inc. acknowledges the Je rey and Janet (Hong) Brown The Susan A. and Donald P. Madison Rank following individuals G. Andrew Bucci Babson Charitable Foundation Vicky Rank and organizations Labon T. Bumphus William P. Baumer Louise J. Redmon for their loyalty in Galen and Shea Byram Timothy and Eleanor RICOH USA, Inc. (Raposa) Byrne financially supporting Cable Comm, LLC. Nancy Ringland Charles M. Callahan III the University during Henry A. Caldwell and the 2015 fiscal year. Kevin Michael Rivers Katrina Van Dyck Steven V. Camerino and Anthony and Karen Thomas Canfarotta Sarah Knowlton (Rose) Savageau Capitol Waste Services Inc. B. Jay Cooper and Stephen J. Schwartz Christine M. Black Coastal Window & Door THE PIERCE Stephen H. Segal Philip J. and Maureen Curry Thomas Corey Sr. MANOR SOCIETY Seppala Real Estate Delta Dental Plan of ($500 - $999) Development, LLC D & F Plumbing and Heating Co., Inc. New Hampshire Service First, Inc. Andre T. Aho Melinda Davies James and Sally Earle III Randall F. Shaw ATA Construction, LLC Donald and Mary DeForge Jr. Martin H. and Rebecca Eisenberg SLL Sports Management Catherine R. Baratta m s Stephen and Laura DelSavio Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg John and Patricia (Lang) Barry South Shore Cable Construction Foundation David and Carla Desilets A’Lisa (Underwood) Tello Frederick C. Berger David and Donna DesRuisseaux Richard E. Falconi (l) Anthony and Jean Tranfaglia Justin E. Blood Gregory F. DeYoe Caryl Felicetta and John Ringwood Tyco Simplex Grinnell Justin Blood Baseball Academy Elizabeth Di Pietro Arthur and Marcy (Pollock) Fink UA Local 51 General Treasury William H. Bucknall Diligence, Inc. Follett Higher Education Group United States Premier Bucknall Family Foundation David W. Dingman Stuart Fried Hockey League, LLC J. David Butner Royce Vehslage and DM Remodeling Peter and Ricki Fuchs Dennis J. Callahan Karen Mortensen Jean D’Meza Leuner Karen (Fletcher) Galletly Capital Marketing Village Signs, Inc. Kelly Dodge Michael and Jill Gasper Consolidated Electrical W. B. Mason Company, Inc. John M. Dodge Richard Green Distributors, Inc. Amy (Fales) Walsh Dynamic Systems Milton and Jan Kahn Copeland Toyota, Inc. William and Elaine White Eric and Gerene (Selmer) Ellis Jill (Astmann) Karol John T. Dembishack and Jack and Aylene Wozmak Enterprise Fleet Services Alexandra Farsun Randell J. Kennedy Joseph and Arlene Enterprise Rent-A-Car John M. DePledge (Moskowitz) Wzorek Paul M. Kotila and Mary M. Farrell Company of Boston, Inc. William and Cathleen Erik Nates Euro Hockey, Inc. James and Della Lounsbery (Loconti) Duerig THE PIERCE John Esposito Dennis J. and Cecilia Maliangos Eckman Construction Co., Inc. GRANITE SOCIETY Will L. Fancher Eric S. and Eileen Marcus Daniel and Deirdre Geib ($250 - $499) Denis and Susan Fitzpatrick Marian Craig Leers Charitable Trust The Graphic Edge 13 Pomona Realty LLC Scott and Sandy Forand Kerry E. McKeever Scott and Mary Hausman Aaxiom Concrete Sawing, LLC Frederick C. Forsgard II Lisa G. Murray f Honeywell, Inc ABC Disposal & Recycling, Inc. Gregory and Natasa National Water Main Cleaning Co. James F. Hourihan Lawrence M. Abramson (Crnilovic) Friedland Sean and Terri O’Kane Charlene (Linzer) Hulten l Law O ce of Ann and Wayne Gagnon Lawrence M. Abramson Philip and Patricia Pengeroth Leader Bank Michael and Jeanne Gilbert Samuel K. Lessey, Jr. Michael and Regina Adjutant Paul M. Read Thomas and Lynda Gleason Mac-Gray Co., Inc. Anthony R. Albanese Michael and Diane Rivers Gary and Cynthia Grabowski David P. Masse q Maria R. Altobello Grande Mexico Secure Energy Solutions Jason E. McCormack Michael Arisco Restaurant Y Cantina Warren and Marilyn Shadek McLaughlin Transportation The Arvanitis Team - Kyle and Judy Gri n Kenneth and Ellen (Mayo) Smith Systems, Inc. Century 21 Thompson Real Estate David B. Groder Sovren Group Inc. Monadnock Community Hospital John and Kim Auclair William and Patricia Harron Laurie A. Tomlinson Francis J. Moriarty, B & H Oil Company Henry Hartman Professor Emeritus d n r John and Kathleen Michael L. Barr Harvard Pilgrim Health Care (Brown) Washington NAHGA, Inc. BerryDunn of New England

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Joanne (Gulliford) Hoban Sport-Ya-Later Tod A. Colby Larry King Kevin Holmes and Tamara Stamford Valley Golf Course Darlene (Kain) Collins David J. Krono Signer-Holmes David F. Stockdale Henry W. Cox II Robert and Karen Landry Frank Hubacz Glenn and Melissa Strange Brenton E. Creelman Henri Langevin and Cheryl Minotti Kristen R. Jaccodine Sunbelievable Golden Tan Tom Daly Neil and Melissa Lanning Stephanie Johnson T & D Growers, LLC Sarah Dangelantonio Shari A. LaPierre Michael and Lynne Keating Jules and Heather Knox-Tetreault Steven and Sharyn Cli ord Lattin Keating Plumbing & Heating Mark Thamm (Tanzer) Dasaro Anthony and Caroline LaVorgna Keene Gas Corporation Gayle (Hamilton) Tirpok Elizabeth Dawson Lawrence and Judith (Raposa) Leach Kelly, Inc. Je rey Trenk Doug DeBiase Allen A. Leach Richard and Beth Ketterman Everett and Maryanne Deep Blue, Inc. DBA Toad’s Place Kingdom Aquaponics LLC (Ryder) Vallorano Clifton Dennis Larry and Marisa Lee Voir-Yulo J. Kwity Carl and Lisa Vazquez Brian and Elaine Desforges Edson Carneiro Lima Gary LaRue John C. Weber Jr. John and Genevieve Desmond M C S Industries, Inc. Richard and Darlene Lavoie Leslie B. Weitzman Norm and Joan Dion Michael Maclean Law O ces of Eliot F. Bloom P.C. Dave and Lynda Whyte Francis and Ann DiTondo Thomas Manley Mark and Melissa Lawrence William Perotti and Sons, Inc. Jane Dojutrek Bryan Marshall Andy and Deana Levine David and Janice Maria N. Dos Santos Julio Martinez (Paranto) Wilson Peter C. Loden Patrick and Nancy Dowd Connor P. Mauro Justin R. Wingate Frank and Lisa Manginell Vicki Doyle f James F. McDonald III John A. Yeamen Anne M. Manning-Martin DRB Systems Merrimack College Dennis and Karen Marcure Matt Eaton Michael and Caryn Mooiman THE PIERCE Nicole M. Moore Maria Davis Interpreting CRIMSON & GRAY Don and Sherry Edson and Translations John and Maryellen Moran SOCIETY Henry G. and Fredda Ellis l Benjamin Earl McDannell ($125 - $249) Kathleen Fahey James J. Morin Henry J. McDermott Steven K. Muller A.N.T. Vending, Inc. Paul M. Fahey Bernard and Michelle McDonald Richard David Myette Advanced Water Conditioning Roger and Julie Falk Sr. Genevieve M. McGillicuddy Coleman and Kelly Nee Peter N. Aldrich Carol Ann Fletcher Maynard McLean and Mary M. Fournier Janet M. Nelson Laurie Addison Joseph C. Alessi Kristen D. Nevious f Susan (Con) Babb Linnea M. Fraser Edward McNaught and Robin New England Ravens Barlow Scott and Katie Babitts Tim and Beth Friday Paul and Norma Niemi Janette Merideth William C. Bailey Garden Fresh Salad Company Nina M. Nilsson Monadnock Disposal Service Gary L. Baker Zachary J. Gianaris Gerald F. Nisbett Napoli Foods, Inc. Lisa Baker Carmine C. Giangreco Mary (Stoops-Buch) Ober Northern New England Matthew and Amy Batis David and Karen Girardo Primary Care Vincent A. Palumbo Bay State Envelope Eileen Goldblatt James and Phyllis Norton James T. Patulak Danny L. Becker l Lee and Maria Gross David Norton Michael J. Pennella Derek M. Bell Richard J. Gray David and Debbie Ofcarcik Brian and Maria Phelps Sr. Lorrie A. Berger John and Susan Haty Joseph and Mary O’Neil Stanley E. Piecuch Tracey Bergstrand Hale and Patricia Halasy Muriel Finn O’Neil The Pizza Barn Ronald and Doreen Berry Bruce David Harrington Lawrence and Lorraine Palma Donald Pyke Tyler and Gina (Lanni) Bishop Richard F. Haskell Eugene and Christine Pasto Tracy (Langlois) Rader Black Box Network Services Ken and Anne Hassin Nathaniel and Anne Peirce Richard and Gail Ramage Linda and Thomas Blaker The Haun Family Vincent C. Pennell Ramunto’s Brick Oven Pizza Dianne Bonaventura Shawn W. Hayes Jane (Czachorowski) Perry Vincent and Susan Reardon III Matthew Bradbury Earle L. Heckeroth Joseph A. Piccardi Derek S. Reddy Brolsma Design Build, Inc. William T. He ernan Pine Springs Nanette W. Reuss Darryl Brown Arthur A. Hembrough Craig W. Platt Benjamin Doskocil and Jed Brummer Mary E. Hess Maryam Riad Alan and Kathleen Potvin Eric J. Burney Malachy B. Higgins Kathleen A. Riccardi Robert and Kimberley Peter D. Hipson (Lewis) Riley Gerald T. Burns and Ruth C. Arjona Libby M. Richardson Diana (Holmgren) Horsman John A. and Sandy Romagnoli Richard and Helen Burns Judd M. Riedinger Steven and Nadine Hovan Andrew and Rachel C. Gillentine, Inc. Brock W. Riley (Rauch) Schwartz Joseph John Cafaro Richard J. Husband Rindge Original Group Gerald W. Scott q Michael M. Chambers Marlene A. Jae Rosalinda Rodriguez Judy Ann Sharkey Mark and Michelle Chooljian Rick Johnstone Frederick and Helene Rogers Kevin J. Shirvell Jacob S. Christman Peter B. Josef Connor J. Rogowsky Christopher O. Sonnie Cocoplum Appliances, Inc. Regina (Matos) Katz Tim Rose

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J. Brian and Lynn Russell R. Arpin John Blaney and Kathleen Lynch Georey A. Caldwell (Schwenk) Russell Keith and Ellen Ashkins Kristyn T. Bliss Mark and Noreen Caleca Savoy Contract Furniture Lory Attalla Alyssa Bloomingdale Kevin A. Calhoun Raymond G. Schank l Jerey M. Babitts Wade and Natalie Boelter Bernie and Diana Caliendo Roger Schleper and James R. Bachelder Jeannine M. Bohi Michelle Callinan Kathleen Bagge Jeanne Bachelder Joseph and Dolores Bohi James and Susan William and Nancy Schneider (Staples) Calvet Karen A. Bachelder Daniel and Beth Bois Gregory and Lori Shea Paige T. Cameron Molly and Sinan Badrawy Karen E. Boisvert Maxx S. Sheehan Robert B. Camp Ali Reza Bagheri Phillip W. Bolenbaugh Charles and Patrice Spicer Daniel and Melissa Elaine H. Baine Carol Ann Bolton David A. Springfield (Szeliga) Campbell Bianca M. Baldelli Jerey R. Bolza p Christopher Stanford Donald and Noreen Aras J. Banevicius Jenna M. Bonaventura (Oakes) Canney David and Tracey Steeves Beverly T. Bara Mary A. Bondarek Steven M. Cantwell Matthew P. Stepanski Patrica R. Barabe Charles J. Bordin Danielle M. Caputo Craig and Kelly Stimson Michelle A. Barbeau Alyssa G. Borelli Russell C. Carlson Jr. Jon Streeter Richard and Suzanne Barbeau Brett N. Bosley f Bernadette Carman Stephen J. Sugar Jr. Richard and Maria Barbieri Robert and Jean Boss Jr. Deborah A. Carney Robert Sylvia Thomas and Betsy Barker Sr. Christine V. Boulanger David G. Caron Thomas Charters, LLC Carissa M. Barnard Gina Boulay Thomas and Gail Carpenter Ronald and Cynthia Thresher Haley N. Baron Ahmad and Jennifer Boura b David G. Carr Rosemarie Tirrell Richard Barrett Bryan D. Bourque Carr Auto Group Dean and Vickie Turcotte Rosalie Barrett Jennifer A. Bousquet Cortlandt D. Carter Nancy I. Tyning John and Donna Barron Jr. d Thomas Bowman Jennifer L. Cartier Karen A. Wassil-Mackey Eileen Barry J. Kevin Boylan Courtney A. Carton Shawn and Vicki Wilcox John and Patricia Bartek Thomas and Diane Bradley Doug and Chauntelle Carty Tara M. Wilkinson Kevin and Charlene Bartini Briana (Dorval) Bradley Susan A. Casey Nancy J. (Atkins) Wray Judson S. Bartlett Pamela S. (Slingerland) Jacob A. Cassano Michael and Julie Zahn Bradstreet Susannah L. Batchelder f Ralph and Rebecca Cassara Debra L. Brady f Bruce A. Bauer Michael Cassara and Marta THE SPIRIT CLUB Monroe A. Brand Jr. Stepan-Cassara Amy C. Baxter ($1 - $124) Carl E. Brassell Aboubacar Casse Margaret E. Bean Anonymous (2) The Brennan Family Adam Castiglione Alan and Kristen Bealsey A Laundry Service Incorporated Pamela (Parks) Breuer Richard R. Cataldo Ford Beattie A-Ward Straight Chiropractic Christopher T. Brewer Glenn C. Catania, Sr. John and Sandra Beauchemin Will and Alicia Abbott a Donna L. Brewer Laura (Henry) Cavallo Daniel G. Beaulieu Nancy R. Adams Lentz Carl T. Brezovec Joseph Paul Cavazzoni Scott W. Beausoleil A ordable Services Je and Diane Brigman Barbara Cervino Joy E. Becker Goshen Road, LLC Derek Briseno Dillon A. Chakuro William A. Beckerman Alaska Merchant Services John and Margaret Brolsma Nicole L. Chalifoux Cassandra J. Beckwith Nicholas and Diane Bruce Bronner and Patricia Sorento John and Rita Champagne (Copeland) Albonizio Annie E. Behrens Davina Brown Gregg Champney Patricia-Laurie Allen Joseph L. Belakonis Hayley D. Brown Benjamin J. Charest Valerie A. Allison-Davis Kathy A. Belanger Jennie Brown Adam S. Chase Alpha Alliance Group, Inc. Jeremy R. Benjamin Jonathan E. Brown Christopher and Colleen Kathleen (Gearhart) Aluia Paula J. Bennett (Evans) Chase Karen J. Brown f Carlos A. Alvarez Jr. Terese M. Bennett Steven and Tami Chase Lorraine M. Brown Amazon Smile Sheila (Speeney) Bergeron Michele (Elichman) Cherney Veron P. Browne Grace Blalock Ames John and Patricia Bernand Matthew R. Choiniere Joseph E. Bruno Jodi M. Ancin John and Sharon Bernard Jr. Terry L. A. Chouinard Corissa A. Bubenick Abigail Anderson Kathryn D. Bernier f Deanna Johnson Chrisman Mona Bumpers Peter and Wendy Anderson Dennis and Linda Bernier Robert Burg and Wendy Liam D. Christian Forrest L. Andrews Richard F. Berube f Beatty-Burg Denise Christodoulopoulos James Angelini Christine Betts Linda E. Burger Jonathan and Susan Church Scott and Andrea Ansevin-Allen Richard J. Bibby Robert J. Burns Brooke A. Cialdea Joshua T. Antebi-Eager Nell Anna Bielecki Edward R. Burns April P. Claggett Gary R. Appleton Laurie A. Bienefeld Daniel and Kathleen Burns William Thomas Clark Lolita Arcilla Lindsay M. Bill Stephanie Burns-Leary Andrew and Pamela Clark John D. Armstrong Tanner Bird Douglas and Kelly Byam David E. Clark Timothy J. Armstrong Gail J. Bisplingho Nancy (Sheppard) Cail Kenneth Clarke Timothy Armstrong Michael P. Black-Farrell James Caisse Benjamin M. Clemons

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William T. Cleveland Margaret H. Darcy Laurette M. Dupree Rosemary A. Foss Donn Cli ord Joseph and Marylou Darling Aaron W. Dupuis Kathleen B. Foss-Siwicki James F. Clouse Jr. k Richard J. Dastous Caitlyn J. Durden Adam J. Fournier Christy Clowes Keith and Paula Davies Harrison T. Durfee Joseph P. Fowler Julia E. Coakley Michael and Maria Davis John Durning Geena C. Franciosi Maggie J. Cochran William C. Davis Kathryn E. Dutille Deanna (DiJohn) Francis Stephen Douglas Coe Alicia K. Dean Marcia Dwelly Remi M. Francoeur Karen (Eintracht) Cohen Dennis J. Deer Joy Jean Dyke Kathryn A. Francoeur Alisha A. Cole Richard and Lisa DeFemia Melissa Beth Dymek John and Cynthia (Danboise) Franke Nancy J. (Champney) Coleman Roberta N. DeGrandis Ann K. Earl Jennifer L. Franklin George A. Collins John Paul and Joanne Deignan East Coast Perfection Coating Michael J. Frappier Jayne D. Collins John and Pamela Deignan Cynthia (Smith) Eckert Michael T. Frappier Pierre B. Collins Tim G. DeLeon Brian P. Edsforth Christopher J. Frechette Tyler J. Colombo J. Robert Dell’ Anno Eciency Solutions, LLC Alan Friedfel Colleen D. Colwell Gail K. DeMasi Gregory J. Egan Maxwell L. Friedlander Philip J. Condon John and Terri Dembishack III Brant A. Elkind l Gweneth H. Frost Janet Condon-Terenzi Tara S. Demeyer George and Carol Ellery Michael W. Frost Ann B. Cone Peter V. DeMinico Keith and Melissa Ellery Adam J. Fuchs Daniel Connolly Richard and Kelly Deneault William R. Elliott Michael Fuller Michael P. Connor Sarah Dengler Sudarshan and Lakshmi Erramilli Mary A. Gaal Michael P. Connor f Donald P. Denman Kenneth and Elizabeth Edward Gallagher Kathleen L. Connors Dylan J. Dennis (Nelson) Ervin John and Deborah Connors Jr. Denny Landscaping John and Janet Esposito Jr. Eric M. Gallos Lawrence S. Cooper Vandy Densmore Mary Essig-Morrow Tori A. Gamache Glen and Trisha Copatch Chelsea M. DeRaps-Richardson Dennis Estis and Phyllis Kessler Mark and Melody Garcia Lisa Garcia Charles and Caryn (Margulis) Kimberly (Morris) Derby Ruth Fagal t Coran Richard Desmond Carlo Falitico Ronald Garcia Alize J. Cordell Kelsey T. Devlin John F. Falk Dyamond M. Gardner Kristy (Birch) Corey Alan and Georgann Dickey Family Practice Centre Amy Ida Gardner-Hadachek of Livonia, PC Tyler F. Cornele Frederick A. Dietrich Amanda L. Gauvin Edmund E. Correa Diane DiGiantommaso Lee Fanwick Sean Gavin William G. Costa Daniel and Jane Dilena Max A. Fanwick Fraser G. Geiwitz Roger and Michele Coulombe John Diley Faremac Corporation Sean M. Gelinas Doris E. (Ellis) Cousens Michael and Michelle Diliberto J. Forbes Farmer Marguerite Gentile Kara (Costin) Coutu Debra L. (Bergeron) Dill Michael W. Farrell Mark Gibbons Paul and Patricia Covelle Jr. Deborah Dimitriadis Kimberly (Muller) Farrington Brian and Lorraine Gibbons Paul R. Covelle Anna Melissa Dimitriadis Nicole R. Favreau Nancy J. Gilbert Chelsea M. Cowie Joan Dinapoli Rebecca C. Fee Nancy (Winograd) Gilbert Kevin and Karen (Gregory) Coyle Leonardo Dionicio Michael R. Feglar Elizabeth Gill Douglas J. Craw Michael and Angela Dionne Alexander P. Felson David J. Girouard Patricia A. Crawford Evelyn E. Dixon Kenneth and Jennifer Ferreira Keith Glaccum Sheryl A. Crawford Je rey Dolan Maegan Ferreira Glam Spa Meradith L. Creber Alyssa K. Dolson Ferrigno-Storrs, Realtors Je rey Bert Gloshinski Jennifer M. Croce James E. Donelan Charles J. Fertitta Ann Marie Glynn Shawn E. Cronin Katelyn T. Donga Lauren V. Filauro Franklin O. Goforth John J. and RoAne Cronin Steven Donohue Robert J. Fink Chantal Golding Phillip A. Croteau Richard and Rene Donovan Michael and Kimberley Fiorillo q Michael A. Goldman William Crowley William Doubleday Warren and Doris Fish e Dre’ A. Goode Harrison P. Csorny Don Doucette Timothy E. Fisher Mary Lou Goral Arlene R. Cummings Mark and Alba Dowds Brendan A. FitzPatrick John F. Gordon Diane Cummings John A. Downing Cherie L. Fitzsimmons Terry A. Gorzelany David Cunningham Jr. Tristan K. Downing Fitzy’s Wake ‘n Shake Brigid Mary Gosselin David S. Curran Molly C. Doyle Jamie M. Flaherty Michael D. Gradijan William and Lynne Currier Pamela R. Doyle Sebastian Flint Joanne Gradijan Mary J. Curtis DTM Small Engine Repair Arthur and Carol Flynn Martin and Lisa Gradijan Ralph Cutting Bernard L. Dudley Vincent J. Flynn Jr. Bruce and Kathleen Graham Carolee (Randall) Dalton Bradley D. Dumais Mary C. Forrest LeRoy P. Graham Donna Damelio Martin A. Dunlap Jennifer (Scott) Forry Herbert F. Gramm Spencer F. Damon Daniel C. Dunn Karissa M. Forzese Grassmere Country Club

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Carol Gravel Leigh M. Hickman Steven and Helene Jeanine L. Lauder John and Marie Greeley Cli ord and Maureen Hicks (Greenewald) Just Scott D. Lauermann Green Monster Container Meredith Hicks Rachel V. Kahaly Richard Lauziere Helaine (Rosenberg) Kanegsberg Brandon A. Greene Corey Hill Ashley M. Lavoie Rebecca (Hamlet) Kapple Adrienne E. Grieve f Joseph and Jacquelyn Hilliard o Stephen C. Lavoie William H. Karkheck Gage R. Gri n Danielle M. (Rivard) Hilstro Janice (Black) Law Glenn J. Kaufman Adam W Gri n John D. Hinton Michelle (St. Jean) Lawson Timothy M. Keating Adam N. Grill Joshua and Nichole Chelsea Leach (Boucher) Hinton Nicole A. Kedaroe Pamela Grimard Lindsey Leach Kara Lynn Hofsaes Karen (Lennon) Keefe Devere Groleau John R. Learson Christopher J. Holman James J. Kelley Ruth Grossmann Lindsey C. LeBeau William C. Holroyd Courtney J. Kelly Robert and Elaine Groundwater Lenore A. LeBlanc Peter and Maria Hood Douglas and Shelley Kelly Felix and Eleanor Gui ra Jr. g Barbara Lebowitz Kyle A. Hood Mary C. Kelly Anthony and Tracey Guignard Judson S. Lee Caitlin N. Hopkins Robert F. Kelly Meghan R. Guilmartin Jean Leger David and Mary Hopkins Rachel E. Kennedy David Hadaway Joseph W. Lehman Mark and Marcia Hopkins Linda B. Kenney-Janosz Ryan Fitzpatrick Hagan Robert M. Lehman Martin and Jennifer Lori B. Key June Haley Adrienne Leibfried-Cirone (Merkouris) Horechny Jean J. Kingsbury Blaine and Stephany Hall Sarah M. Lennon Nathaniel B. Horowitz John and Catherine Kingsbury George E. Hall William and Karen LeNoir Owen and Norma Houghton c James and Kathryn Kirby o Stephen M. Hall Sarah E. LeNoir Brian Richard Hovendon Michael D. Kirouac James P. Halliday Marilyn Lent Christopher P. Howard Ronald and Brenda Kleinman Katie J. Hallowell Brittany A. Lepore Peter S. Howard Brian M. Kleinman Hamden Travel Inc. Ann Michelle L’Estrange Robert J. Hoy Lee and Ann Kleven Tina L. Hamolsky Gerard M. Lettre Efsavia (Kremidas) Huber Richard Knowles Charles Hand Susan (Anctil) Levenson Thomas and Marsha Hudson Thomas Koobatian Charles Handy Joyce C. Levitt Ernest R. Hudziec Walter and Lori Kostich George Hansen Raphael J. Levy-Lesko Isaac Hughes Anna Maria Kot Ronald J. Harbour Robin M. (Beaumont) L’Homme Michael and Lauren William D. Kovacs Elizabeth C. Hardy (Veno) Hughes Liberty Lighthouse Group, LLC Philip Krajewski Danielle M. Hare Brian P. Hughes Mark Libiszewski Andrew and Riep Krall Douglas W. Harlow Ryan E. Hulse David and Mary Krapf David P. Lima John R. Harper Jessica Hurd Kari Kristensen Ervind and Helen Lindoe Ann M. Harrington William and Heather Renee Lindoe (March) Hurley Dorothy A. Kruger Christopher J. Harrington Adria M. Liseno Iggy’s Doughboys, Inc. E. Foster Krupa Stephanie (Duers) Harrington Emily J. Liskow Darlene K. Ingamell Kyle Francis Kruse Louis A. Harris Matthew L. Litchfield Michael J. Ingenito Robert H. Kuhsel Debora E. (Vallery) Harris Jason and Pamela Little Deborah Irish James F. Kulacz Bruce B. Hart Kaitlyn T. Llewellyn J. D. Willey Building, Co. Edward J. Kus Jr. Jacqueline D. Hart Brooke B. Long Tina Jabs Norman E. Kuzel Catherine Hartman Patricia Long Christina J. Jabs Larry LaBarge Richard F. Haskell Jr. Lynn Longo Jackson Funding LLC Paul J. LaBarge Jacqueline A. Hassin Petra Lostelius Vikman Claudia Jacobs Je and Audra Lackey Rachel D. Hatch Jake E. Loughlin Robert and Cynthia Jaksina Kenneth and Marlee Jo J Havel (Transue) Lacoste James and Joanne Loughlin Marisa A. Jarvis Ian T. Hayden Andrew J. Ladeau Mitchel and Amy Love Peter H. Jason Kristin (Lapane) Hayes-Leite Ann Lafond Duane and Gayle Lovello Douglas R. Jaureguy Bradley F. Head Susan LaFrance Tracey A. Lovering Sirles Timothy and Jennifer Jerome Ralph E. Heald Louise F. Lafreniere David Lozier and Ann Brady-Lozier JohnG Solutions Erika L. Hebert Bruce C. Laine Paula Lubas Vincent Johnson and Iole K. Heikkinen Kathleen Tirrell Johnson Kendra I. Lajoie Christopher R. Lucas James M. Hendsey Brian and Kelly Johnson Ryan W. Lally Vincent R. Lucrezi Lisa Hengel Cynthia Audrey Johnson Paul A. Lambert Susan E. (Dussol) Luhrs Mark Hennessey o Tony J. Jones Joseph Anthony Landini Wanda Lukehart Steven C. Hennessey Laurie A. Jones Erin S. Lang William A. Lundberg Meghan T. Hennigan Dianne Larovera Joseph P. Jones Mark R. Lyons Del and Ann LaRue Robert R. Henssler Jim Joseph and Elna Stephen B. MacCrea Lisa M. Herr Joseph-Bijhouwer Jessica D. Lasorsa William and Irene Bradford E. Hibbard Martin and Jean Joyce-Brady Joseph and Debra Lasorsa Jr. (Richards) Machemer

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Cheryl A. Mackintosh William and Robin McIntosh Nicole T. Natale Stephanie M. Plunkett Cody R. MacLellan Lyndsy McIntyre Harry and Susan Nathan Lou Ann Poirier John and Sandra Madonna J. McKenzie Kimberly (Cook) Neher Carmen M. Ponzio (Ouellette) MacMillan Richard and Marie McKinnon Julie H Nero Ponzio’s Florist Edward Madigan Melissa C. McKinnon Neil E. Newton John and Ellen (Ahern) Popp Courtney C. Madore Arianna C. McLean Victor M. Ng Meghan L. Porcelli Daniel and Cindy Madore Caitlin E. McNamara Hung Nguyen and Tai Luu Adrian V. Potter John and Nancy Madrid Elaine B. McNanna Judith M. Nichols Alexander N. Powell Michael J. Madrid Joe and Lisa McNanna James M. Nicholson Robert and Amy Powell Paul J. Maggiore Seanna P. McNary Gladys Nielsen Robert and Dawne Pranulis Sarah M. Maguire Brenden K. McNaught Amy (Lewison) Nisen Alphonso Promutico Erin E. Mallory Keith and Lori Meagher Nancy (Coles) Nye Gina Pronzati Albert and Lorraine Mancuso Tracy A. Mendham O.H. Burg Corporation Jean T. Proulx Domenick and Deborah Dayna L. Mercadante John O’Coin Lee Ann Provencher Mangano III Eva (Bergsten) Meredith Emma B. O’Connor Kyle R. Provost Nancy (Freedman) Manning Stephen H. Merrill Felix and Denise Octave Paul C. Pullar Robert and Colleen Manning Sandra (Wohr) Messina James and Patricia O’Der Catherine Purdy Nicholas J. Marciello Benjamin and Rebecca Meza April Ohlinger John and Janet Purdy Scott and Teresa Marek Samuel J. Meza Old Mountain Lanes Inc. R. Scott and Susan Quade Alexandra J. Marella Michael’s Greenhouses Inc. Kathryn D. O’Leary Linda P. Quimby Lynde Margelot Dominick T. Miciotta Jr. Anna E. Oliveira Quincy Youth Hockey Betty (Ceteur) Markiewicz Jason Paul Miglionico Eric Olsen Association, Inc. Anthony M. Marrocchio Jennifer D. Miller Melissa J. Quinn John S. Martin Timothy O’Malley Lauren B. Miller Bryan and Jane L. O’Neil Michael and Lisa Quinn Joshua W. Martin Robert F. Miller Michael and Anna Orobello Richard R. Quinn Meredith M. Martin Ronald and Sharon Quinn Taylor A. Miller Melanie A. Ortez Scott W. Martin Dorothy Mitchell t David A. Osgood Nicholas and Karolina Harry and Lori Martindle (Divert) Ra erty Amy L. Mitson Mike and Marianne Ouellette Holly E. Martz Thayer and Candice Raines Jack and Sherry Mobley Christopher M. Owen Edward A. Mastriano Celine Rainville Stephen Moczarski Glenna M. Paine Victoria A. Randall Anthony Matarazzo and Heather F. Modjesky Kelly Caralis Mary Palaima Molly O’s Family Restaurant Al and Cathy Ranger Dennis and Georgia Cheryl Palmer & Sicard, Inc. Amanda (Rosenberg) Monaco Jamie J. Rankin Matsumoto Jodi N. (Derby) Panzino Karen J. Monsen Kyle D. Rao Joseph and Arlene Mattavi Vincent Papageorgiou Beverly E. Moody Franklin D. Raposa Anne (Spencer) Mattheisen Lynda H. Paradis Alison M. Moore Megan E. Raposa Anthony J. Mattiello Michael and Jennifer William B. Raymond Nicholas and MaryAnn Mattiello Stephen C. Moore (Sackett) Park Gregory B. Redding Daniel and Abigail (Nichols) May Therese A. Moore Mary P. Parker Joshua D. Rego Scott and Jennifer Mayo The Moreno Family Michael and Arleen Parks Michael E. Rego Mary Jo Mays Timothy J. Morgan Corey M. Parks Matthew S. Reiss Brandon H. Mayville Madelene S. Morrill William and Debra (Ormezzano) Paskowski Herzl and Eileen Rejwan Gina-Marie Mazerolle A. Glenn and Catherine Morrison j Taylor L. Remy Daniel Margaret McAuli e Susan Morrison Michael W. Pasquarelli Jr. Irene Pasto Patrick T. Renna James C. McAuli e Caralie J. Morrison Natasha J. Pastor Mario Retondo Nan McCarthy Douglas R. Morton Antonia Peeples Maurice A. Richard, Jr. Robert and Irene McCarthy Raymond and Hannah Morvan Patricia Riley Ann Kathleen McColgan John W. Mosser c Jillene V. Pehrson Seamus Pender James M. Riley Jr. Mark McCoo Marian A. Mucci Mary Pengeroth Ruth J. Ring Margaret O. McDevitt Charles J. Murphy David and Karen Perry Michelle A. Rioux Edward F. McDonnell John and Joanne Murphy Dorothy P. Perry Riverside Reptiles Andrea McGill-O’Rourke Jillian N. Murphy Karen Peterson Evelyn J. Rivet Barbara McGinnis o Zachary J. Murphy Mary Threse Robbie Erika Marie McGowan Richard and Julie Murray Catherine L. Peterson Peter and Lynda Petrides Bradley Roberto Paige J. McGroarty Robert A. Murray Tim McGuckin and Dylan C. Muse Bertha Pettus Grover M. Robinson Kimberly DiCarlo Inessa S. Muse Roseann Picardi Melissa R. Robles Matthew Paul McGuiness Collette Marie Nadeau Sheila D. Pierson-Roy Roche Locksmith John J. McGuire Jr. Stephen and Marie Nardone Gloria A. Pizzarella Gillaine S. Rochon Sandra McIntire William G. Naser Linda Plant Leslie P. Rodgers

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Sarah D. Rodriguez Jennifer J. Sim TAC Landscaping Eric M. Vincens Phillip Rooney Eliakim Simpson Denis and Sandra Talbot Jayne M. Vogler Ellen (Zantz) Rose Paul and Marilyn Sinibaldi Renée Taveniere Doris A. Vollertson t Rachel A. Rossetti Stephanie D. (Kalivas) Sipala Leonard M. Tavera Erica (Foisy) Vosburgh Louis N. Roten Michael C. Sirosky Meghan A. Tedder David G. Voss Caitlyn Ashley Rowse Ron and Pam Skilton Timothy and Suzanne Tenney Jennifer Caroline Wagner Ruby’s Genuine Brick Oven Wendy K. Slate Berman Nevena Teodosic Angela Waldron c Diana Ahmed Rudha Joshua M. Slipp Terrapin Glassblowing Studio Kenneth J. Wandzy Makopa Rugabirwa Joseph W. Small James B. Terry Richard J. Ward Jr. JoAnn and Hannah Runge Paige C. Smelley Robert C. Thieme William J. Warren Thomas and Cindy Russell Alexandra N. Smith Nicolas N. Thistle Robert Watson Tyler E. Russell Gregg M. Smith Lorna A. Thomas Kimberly E. Webb Robert and Dorothy Ryan Je rey K. Smith and Roger Egli Albert and Zenovia Thompson Ann Marie Weed Adam C. Saada Julia M. Smiley Jennifer R. (DePietro) Thompson Patricia (Halsey) Wellen Kevin and Terrill Sabourin Lisa M. Smith Linda B. Thompson Kenneth D. Wells Michael and Nancy Sackett Thomas and Diana Smith Ralph E. Thresher Robert L. Welsch Gabrielle (Osmun) Salter Troy Smith Steven A. Thurber Geneva S. West Kirt D. Sampson II Daniel T. Snell Sharon Thurston Barbara L. West Melissa M. (Zangari) Sampson Stanley and Kathleen Sobieski o Sara Tichauer Felicia (Soumis) West Pamela A. Sanderson Marilyn A. Solbakken Angelo and Nina Tiddia Willard H. Whitcomb Daniel F. Sansevieri Solutions For Today Marc P. Tieger l Dennis J. White Frank T. Sansom Regina (Bonito) Sonyi Mark Tigan Benjamin J. Whitney Brenda (Doherty) Sansom Kyle Soule Michael and Nancy Tippins Benjamin D. Wickham Jair Preira Santos Mary-Anne E. Sousa Amy Tisch Mark C. Wickles Hannah (Goodwin) Sarat Charles and Julie Spall Madeline K. Tisch Diane (Zondiros) Wiedeke Carole Sarnie Judy Spigarelli h Robert C. Tobin Frederick R. Wiedeke Marilyn K. Sarnie Trent E. Spiner Laurence and Rosa Todd Carmela L. Wiley Derek M. Scalia Michelle A. Spinney Barbara A. Toomire Jamie L. Wiley f Lewis and Mary Schalm Morgan C. Sprague Nicole A. Torday James N. Willette Susan A. Schiefert Square Spot Publishing, LLC David Torjussen Je and Lisa Willey Alexander T. Schleper Bob and Jill St. Jean Timothy and Bernice Toscano Even R. Williams Bruce and Carol Schmitt Gary and Nancy Staniewicz Paula D. Travers The Williams Family Jennifer R. Schmitt Matthew P. Staniewicz Lisa M. Trombley Thomas and Carmella Wilson Samuel L. Schrager Jeanne Marie S. Stanley Nichole R. Trovato William and Shannon Wilson Michael and Sue Schryver Jordan Star Joseph K. Trujillo James Wolken Deborah B. Wood Alan Schulte Abigail Carolyn Starin Jessica Trumphour Jessica L. Wood David A. Schwartz Lydia Stavrinos Claudia L. (Cole) Tufo Joseph and Nancy Wood Jr. Joseph T. Scungio Jr. Hilbert M. Stearns Tom and Heather Weibel Tullio Patricia J. Woodcome Laurie Seamans Melissa Stearns Joseph M. Tyman Jessica Woodworth Nicole (Bilyak) Seguljic Charles W. Steele U.W.U.A. Local 369 Gregg Woolston Michael A. Selling Douglas C. Steimle Philip C. Unger Conee M. Wright Kelsey E. Senior Michael Stein United Sales Distributors, Inc. Harry and Patricia Wright Thomas A. Sensale Je rey B. Stevenson United Technologies Lindsey A. Wright Meagan F. Shackelford Kelly L. Stone Updike, Kelly & Spellacy, PC Margaret L. Wright James and Debra Shampine Lynne Stone Brandon J. Urban Patrick and Sally Wright Stuart M. Shapiro David and Faye Stout Michelle Usseglio Cindy F. Wyman Elliot M. Shea David Scotch and Elizabeth R. Vaillancourt C.B. and M.C. Sheehan Helen J. Streubert Poultney Rebecca (Ogonoski) Yacovino James and Linda Sheils Paula M. Sullivan Michele Van Wagoner Kayla M. Yoerger Mary Jane Sheldon-McKenzie Timothy C. Sullivan James K. VanCampen Robin Dale Young Barnard C. Sherwin Sunshine Landscaping Craig and Julie VanDussen Yunfa Yu Tara (Pietraszuk) Shollenberger Stephanie K. (Peck) Sutterlin Tammy Jo (Nichols) VanEngen John and Constance Zacharkan Madeline P. Shopshire Ralph E. Sutton Nathan P. Vassill Thomas Zaluki and Dawn T. Brennan Camille Siano Enders Paul and Mary Beth Sweet Merrill A. Vaughan Amy E. Zaroogian Helen I. Sibley The Sweet Side Gabriel Jose Vega Kristine C. Zavorotny Kelly (Lynch) Sieper Catherine A. Swiderski Dina (Sawicki) Vernon Lonnie Zimmerman Joseph E. Swiderski Anthony and Sheryl Viaes James L. Siewert Elizabeth D. Zinn Susan Silverman Walter and Janet Szalwinski John Villemaire Michael and Karen David R. Silverstein Walter and Jo-Ann Szulga Ryen B. Vilmont (Kreusch) Zurcher

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IN HONOR OF MATCHING GIFTS Radisson Hotel John Borino a Jacob H. Abbott WERE MADE BY Lisa M. Record Thomas Bowman b Lloyd H. and Helen THESE COMPANIES Ridgewood Country Club Henry G. Ellis l (Ament) Astmann Ameriprise Financial Thomas Rup Richard E. Falconi l c James F. and Lisa Birge Boeing Charles S. Sampson Stuart Fried d Andrew H. Card Deloitte Foundation Sandri Energy, LLC Michael A. Goldman e Peter J. Fish Deluxe Corporation Paul Scharfenberger Richard Green f Marlin Fitzwater Foundation Edward Scott Earle L. Heckeroth Jr. g Kristin L. Gui ra Fidelity Investments Steve Sherman and Julia Older John D. Hinton h Sadie A. Roberge General Reinsurance Michael G. Sideris Charlene (Linzer) Hulten l Corporation Melissa Stearns Cli ord Lattin IBM International Foundation IN MEMORY OF SymQuest Alfred N. Marulli Jr. Lincoln Financial Foundation i John A. Anastas Terrapin Glassblowing Studio David A. Osgood j Lockheed Martin William J. Cavadi Tractor Supply Vincent A. Palumbo Lorillard Tobacco Company k James F. Clouse Sr. James K. VanCampen Diane (Najarian) Parvin l Cli ord Coles Nationwide Foundation G. William Pattison Elsa Voelcker m Marabeth Farmer New York Life Foundation John Plonski W.S. Badger Company, Inc. n James B. Hayden NV Energy Foundation Carmen M. Ponzio Wachusett Mountain o Peter Je erson OMG, Inc. Ellen (Ahern) Popp WCVB TV Channel 5 Boston p Daniel R. Kilty Pfizer Foundation Richard R. Quinn Joseph White q Patricia Brown Kirsh Raytheon Company William B. Raymond Brett R. Wilson r Walter Peterson Schneider Electric Lynn (Schwenk) Russell North America Foundation Juliana (Spence) Wilson s Betty A. Vandersluis Steven J. Sabatino Travelers Foundation Jill Wixom t Ethel M. Vollertson Community Action Program Gabrielle (Osmun) Salter Daniel F. Sansevieri Union Pacific Corporation BY CLASS YEAR Raymond G. Schank l United Technologies 1966 Mary Jane Sheldon-McKenzie THE PIONEER The Walt Disney Company Diane (Copeland) Albonizio David H. Shooster J. Kevin Boylan LEGACY SOCIETY Michael Stein GIFTS IN KIND John T. Burke Jr. The Pioneer Legacy Robert C. Thieme Genevieve H. Desmond WERE MADE BY Blaine E. Thompson Society recognizes John A. Desmond Jacob M. Appel Marc P. Tieger l donors who have Carmine C. Giangreco Bay State Envelope Angela Waldron c established a life-income David B. Groder Boston Bruins Leslie B. Weitzman gift with Franklin Pierce Michael T. Brown II Muriel F. O’Neil University or have made Paul C. Campbell 1970 a provision in their Charles P. Caulkins 1967 Danny L. Becker l estate or retirement Melissa A. Conway Nicholas Albonizio J. David Butner plans to financially David P. DeIuliis Sheila (Speeney) Bergeron Joseph J. Cafaro support the University. Norman and Joan Dion Daniel T. Snell J. Robert Dell’ Anno For more information on Enterprise Fleet Services Robert J. Fink becoming a member of William B. Flynn 1968 Nancy W. (Winograd) Gilbert The Pioneer Legacy Shawn R. Gray William C. Bailey James M. Hendsey Society, contact Molly Haas Joseph E. Bruno Isaac Hughes James P. Calvet Lisa Murray at Melinda M. Jette Peter B. Josef Susan H. (Staples) Calvet (603) 899-4031 or JP Stevens Restaurant & Tavern Harold M. Levy Frederick A. Dietrich Dennis J. Maliangos development@ Mary Kelly Douglas A. Ley Keith Glaccum Christopher M. Owen franklinpierce.edu. Richard Marshall and Ann McEntee Harry D. Meyer J. Brian Russell Andrea McGill-O’Rourke John Popp Gregg M. Smith NEW PIONEER Kerry E. McKeever Lonnie Zimmerman Everett Vallorano LEGACY SOCIETY Tracy A. Mendham Joseph J. Wzorek MEMBERS Mount Sunapee 1969 Yvonne S. Boice New England Employee Joseph C. Alessi 1971 Art and Marcy Fink Benefits Co., Inc. Gary R. Appleton William A. Beckerman Mark D. Goodman Palace Theatre Helen M. (Ament) Astmann Deborah A. Carney Bruce David Harrington Pats Peak Lloyd H. Astmann Stephen D. Coe Glenn J. Kaufman Pepsi Bottling Group Gary L. Baker George A. Collins James F. McDonald III Peterborough Players Charles J. Bordin Bruce S. Crockett

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Philip J. Curry Janice (Black) Law Stephen C. Moore Nancy C. (Coles) Nye Brant A. Elkind l Peter C. Loden Karen E. Mortensen Mary P. Parker Carleen (Albonizio) Farrell i Ellen (Zantz) Rose Charles W. Steele Matthew S. Reiss Alan Friedfel Jerey Trenk Stephen J. Sugar Jr. Robert F. Riley Mark D. Goodman Royce L. Vehslage Rachel (Rauch) Schwartz Efsavia (Kremidas) Huber 1975 Gregg Woolston Jerey B. Stevenson Bruce M. Kirsh Lawrence M. Abramson Laurie A. Tomlinson Vincent R. Lucrezi Charles M. Coran 1979 Jayne M. Vogler Betty (Ceteur) Markiewicz Henry W. Cox II Eleanor (Raposa) Byrne Michael W. Pasquarelli Jr. j David Cunningham Jr. Cynthia (Smith) Eckert 1983 Jane C. (Czachorowski) Perry Richard F. Haskell Michael R. Feglar Catherine R. Baratta m s Judd M. Riedinger William C. Holroyd Cynthia (Danboise) Franke David G. Caron Gerald W. Scott q Peter S. Howard Brian R. Hovendon Thomas V. Farrell Stephen H. Segal Steven R. Just Robert H. Kuhsel Kimberly A. (Muller) Farrington Maryanne (Ryder) Vallorano James F. McDonald III Judson S. Lee Douglas R. Jaureguy John C. Weber Jr. Steven K. Muller David W. McGraw Regina M. (Matos) Katz John A. Yeamen David R. Silverstein Amanda (Rosenberg) Monaco Karen (Lennon) Keefe Douglas C. Steimle Joseph A. Piccardi David J. Krono 1972 Matthew P. Stepanski Willard H. Whitcomb E. Foster Krupa Joseph P. Cavazzoni Frederick R. Wiedeke Susan LaFrance Michele (Elichman) Cherney 1976 David P. Masse q Sharyn (Tanzer) Dasaro Frederick C. Berger 1980 Kim M. Mooney Steven Dasaro Terry L. A. Chouinard Forrest L. Andrews Kimberley (Lewis) Riley John M. Dodge David E. Clark Dennis J. Callahan Randall F. Shaw Cathleen (Loconti) Duerig Martin H. Eisenberg Charles M. Callahan III A’Lisa (Underwood) Tello James W. Egan Helene (Greenewald) Just Russell C. Carlson Jr. David G. Voss Mildred (Kafka) Egan Patricia (Halsey) Wellen Brenton E. Creelman John F. Washington Jr. Arthur W. Fink Mary E. Essig-Morrow Elizabeth D. Zinn Mary C. Forrest 1977 Alexander P. Felson Jennifer (Merkouris) Horechny Susan (Co n) Babb Amy I. Gardner-Hadachek 1984 Martin Horechny Michael L. Barr Eric S. Marcus Lory Attalla Marlene A. Ja e Caryn (Margulis) Coran Amy (Lewison) Nisen Laurie A. Bienefeld Scott D. Lauermann John Diley Frank T. Sansom Lawrence S. Cooper Neil E. Newton Karen (Fletcher) Galletly Diane (Zondiros) Wiedeke Karen (Gregory) Coyle James M. Riley Jr. William T. Heernan Phillip A. Croteau Kenneth J. Wandzy Richard J. Husband 1981 Carolee (Randall) Dalton Glenn J. Kaufman James F. Clouse Jr. k Devere Groleau 1973 Robert M. Lehman John F. Falk Ann M. Harrington Scott Babitts Stephen H. Merrill Bruce C. Laine Ann M. L’Estrange Jonathan R. Burke Stephen Moczarski Stephen B. MacCrea Debra (Ormezzano) Paskowski Laura (Henry) Cavallo Mary E. (Stoops-Buch) Ober Edward A. Mastriano William S. Paskowski Andrew M. Cohen Jordan Star Robert F. Miller Stuart M. Shapiro John J. Cronin III Robert C. Tobin Donald Pyke Judy A. Sharkey William H. Duerig Barbara L. West Andrew G. Schwartz James L. Siewert Marcy (Pollock) Fink David T. Wilson Jerey K. Smith Kathleen A. (Brown) Washington Louis A. Harris Claudia L. (Cole) Tufo Janice F. (Paranto) Wilson Robert R. Henssler 1978 Robin D. Young Paul J. Maggiore Janet (Hong) Brown 1985 John A. Romagnoli Jerey R. Brown 1982 Denise Christodoulopoulos Karen A. Wassil-Mackey Philip J. Condon Ali R. Bagheri Kevin J. Coyle Arlene (Moskowitz) Wzorek Gregory F. DeYoe Patricia A. Beyland Frederick C. Forsgard II David W. Dingman Ralph Cutting Mary E. Hess 1974 James E. Fitz-Simon Sr. John M. DePledge Tony J. Jones Anthony R. Albanese John T. Franke Ralph E. Heald William H. Karkheck Jerey R. Bolza p George Hansen Timothy M. Keating Randell J. Kennedy William H. Bucknall James F. Hourihan Linda B. Kenney-Janosz Paul J. LaBarge Darlene (Kain) Collins Kenneth C. Lacoste Judith (Raposa) Leach Edward F. McDonnell Elizabeth C. Hardy Marlee (Transue) Lacoste Lawrence Leach Jean T. Proulx Peter H. Jason Anne (Spencer) Mattheisen Alison M. Moore Grover M. Robinson

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Brenda (Doherty) Sansom Timothy J. Morgan David G. Carr Melissa M. (Zangari) Sampson Karen (Rose) Savageau William G. Naser Tod A. Colby Wendy K. Slate Berman Nancy J. (Atkins) Wray Kimberly (Cook) Neher Nancy J. (Champney) Coleman Lydia Stavrinos Richard J. Ward Jr. Doris E. (Ellis) Cousens Jules Tetreault 1986 William J. Warren Gregory M. Doody Jennifer R. (DePietro) Thompson Pamela S. (Slingerland) Bradstreet Melissa (Petrocelli) Weinbaum Gweneth H. Frost Rebecca V. (Ogonoski) Yacovino Dawn T. Brennan Michael J. Weinbaum Fraser G. Geiwitz Melissa (Szeliga) Campbell Christopher P. Howard 1996 Kristin (Lapane) Hayes-Leite 1990 William D. Kovacs Andre T. Aho Diana L. (Holmgren) Horsman Scott W. Beausoleil James F. Kulacz Cassandra J. Beckwith Daphne Leon Donald R. Canney William R. Machemer Colleen L. (Evans) Chase Lynde Margelot Noreen M. (Oakes) Canney John H. Perry William R. Currier Timothy G. Nawn Danielle M. Caputo Sheila D. Pierson-Roy Pamela R. Doyle Anthony T. Savageau Dennis J. Deer Jonathan L. Slavin Kenneth M. Ervin Thomas E. Zaluki Kimberly A. (Morris) Derby Ellen (Mayo) Smith Natasa S. (Crnilovic) Friedland Kristine C. Zavorotny Nancy J. Gilbert Nancy I. Tyning Brandon A. Greene Stephanie L. (Duers) Harrington Patricia J. Woodcome Eva B. (Bergsten) Meredith 1987 Claudia Jacobs Victor M. Ng William P. Baumer Michael T. Lamoretti 1993 Melissa R. Robles Monroe A. Brand Jr. Nancy S. (Freedman) Manning Kathleen (Gearhart) Aluia Daniel T. Campbell Douglas R. Morton Robert J. Burns 1997 Richard J. Dastous Paul C. Pullar Karen G. (Eintracht) Cohen Meradith L. Creber William C. Davis Kenneth Smith Douglas J. Craw William R. Currier Timothy E. Fisher Gayle (Hamilton) Tirpok David J. Girouard Gregory P. Friedland Charles Hand Amy E. (Fales) Walsh John T. Greeley Marie R. Greeley Helaine (Rosenberg) Kanegsberg Michael F. Zurcher Marie R. Greeley Heather J. (March) Hurley Michelle M. (St. Jean) Lawson John R. Harper William E. Hurley Susan E. (Dussol) Luhrs 1991 Ernest R. Hudziec Kristen R. Jaccodine Wanda Lukehart Ford Beattie Irene G. (Richards) Machemer Irene G. (Richards) Machemer Joseph T. Scungio Jr. Kathy A. Belanger Jason P. Miglionico William R. Machemer Philip C. Unger Marc W. Bragin m Nina M. Nilsson Jennifer D. Miller Kevin A. Calhoun Lynda H. Paradis Sheila D. Pierson-Roy 1988 Edmund E. Correa Nicholas M. Raerty Tracy L. (Langlois) Rader Nancy R. Adams Lentz Debra L. (Bergeron) Dill Jennifer J. Sim Labon T. Bumphus Daniel C. Dunn 1994 Tammy Jo (Nichols) VanEngen Nancy (Sheppard) Cail William R. Elliott Bruce A. Bauer Tara M. Wilkinson John A. Downing Charles J. Fertitta Pamela M. (Parks) Breuer George E. Hall Franklin O. Goforth Christopher M. Chase 1998 Bruce D. Harrington Douglas W. Harlow Roberta N. DeGrandis Margaret E. Bean Corey Hill Brian P. Hughes Paul M. Goyette Scott W. Beausoleil Philip Krajewski Jill (Petrocelli) Lamoretti Joanne G. (Gulliford) Hoban Richard F. Berube f Susan (Anctil) Levenson Adrienne M. Leibfried-Cirone Genevieve M. McGillicuddy Danielle M. Caputo Nan McCarthy Robin M. (Beaumont) L’Homme Paul M. Read Bernard L. Dudley Sandra McIntire John F. MacMillan Maurice A. Richard Jr. Elizabeth A. (Nelson) Ervin Sandra D.W. (Wohr) Messina Sandra (Ouellette) MacMillan Lorna A. Thomas Kara L. Hofsaes Alphonso Promutico Dominick T. Miciotta Jr. Albert C. Thompson II Christopher R. Lucas Barnard C. Sherwin James J. Morin Zenovia T. Thompson Sherry L. Mobley Deirdre (Catalano) Olsen Dina S. (Sawicki) Vernon Jamie J. Rankin 1989 Patricia Riley Geneva S. West Libby M. Richardson Daniel G. Beaulieu Stephen J. Schwartz Pamela A. Sanderson Tracey Bergstrand Nicole J. (Bilyak) Seguljic 1995 Nicole A. Torday Carl E. Brassell Michael C. Sirosky Chantal Golding Stephanie Burns-Leary Christopher O. Sonnie Jill A. (Astmann) Karol 1999 Vincent J. Flynn Jr. David A. Springfield Louise F. Lafreniere Briana L. (Dorval) Bradley Deanna A. (DiJohn) Francis Karen (Kreusch) Zurcher Petra Lostelius Vikman Pierre B. Collins Zachary J. Gianaris Jason E. McCormack Lynne E. Currier John F. Gordon 1992 Marian A. Mucci Christopher J. Holman Adam N. Grill Lorrie A. Berger Karolina E. (Divert) Raerty Brian M. Kleinman James J. Kelley Richard J. Bibby Patrick T. Renna Shari A. LaPierre

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Henry J. McDermott Benjamin M. Clemons Gregory B. Redding Lyndsy McIntyre Erica J. (Foisy) Vosburgh John T. Dembishack Stephanie D. (Kalivas) Sipala Richard D. Myette Jennifer M. (Scott) Forry Trent E. Spiner Michael J. Pennella 2000 Remi M. Francoeur Kevin M. Rivers Peter N. Aldrich Bruce B. Hart 2008 Robert B. Camp Lynda M. Hunt Beverly T. Bara 2012 Brian P. Edsforth Joseph P. Jones Tyler T. Bishop Grace B. Ames Sebastian Flint Rebecca J. (Hamlet) Kapple Susan A. Casey Nicole L. Chalifoux Michael Fuller Shari A. LaPierre Ryan F. Hagan Michael M. Chambers Stephen M. Hall Brandon H. Mayville Charles Handy Gail K. DeMasi Lauren E. (Veno) Hughes Catherine L. Peterson Nicole A. Kedaroe Vicki Doyle f Michael W. Hughes Hannah J. (Goodwin) Sarat Edward J. Kus Jr. Matthew L. Litchfield James M. Nicholson Tara K. (Pietraszuk) Shollenberger Maryam A. Riad Arianna C. McLean Jodi N. (Derby) Panzino Lisa M. Smith Pamela A. Sanderson Tracy A. Mendham Michael D. Park Yunfa Yu Joseph M. Tyman Inessa S. Muse Stephanie K. (Peck) Sutterlin Nathan P. Vassill Vincent Papageorgiou Barbara A. Toomire 2005 Kenneth D. Wells Vicky Rank Annie E. Behrens Sarah J. Schiermeyer 2001 Karen J. Brown f 2009 Merrill A. Vaughan Peter V. DeMinico Susan A. Casey Je rey M. Babitts Jennifer C. Wagner Michael R. Gasper Gregg Champney Kara R. (Costin) Coutu Christopher R. Lucas Kathleen L. Connors Jennifer M. Croce 2013 Kevin J. Shirvell William G. Costa Jennifer L. Franklin James Angelini Justin R. Wingate Arthur A. Hembrough Ryan E. Hulse Joshua T. Antebi-Eager Mark R. Lyons Marisa A. Jarvis Michelle A. Barbeau 2002 Kyle R. Provost Anna M. Kot Susannah L. Batchelder f Judson S. Bartlett Vicky Rank Kyle F. Kruse Kathryn D. Bernier f Justin E. Blood Derek M. Scalia Erika M. McGowan Adam Castiglione Ahmad Boura b Regina M. (Bonito) Sonyi Richard D. Myette Jayne D. Collins Eric J. Burney Celine Rainville Je rey B. Gloshinski Gregg Champney 2006 Caitlyn A. Rowse Richard J. Gray Christopher J. Frechette Douglas J. Carty Diana A. Rudha Lindsey Leach Ronald J. Harbour Michael M. Chambers Brooke B. Long Malachy B. Higgins David S. Curran 2010 Jason E. McCormack Danielle M. (Rivard) Hilstro Eric M. Ellis Gina A. (Lanni) Bishop Benjamin E. McDannell Joshua R. Hinton Gerene L. (Selmer) Ellis Tyler T. Bishop Timothy O’Malley Nichole M. (Boucher) Hinton Mark Gibbons William T. Clark Nicolas N. Thistle John R. Learson Nathaniel B. Horowitz Tim G. DeLeon Emily J. Liskow Paul A. Lambert Debora E.W. (Vallery) Harris 2014 Madonna J. McKenzie Joseph W. Lehman Darlene K. Ingamell Susannah L. Batchelder f Jack Mobley Kaitlyn T. Llewellyn Heather F. Modjesky Lindsay M. Bill Jennifer L. (Sackett) Park Abigail A. (Nichols) May Vincent C. Pennell Gail J. Bisplingho Vicky Rank Amy L. Mitson Adam C. Saada Brett N. Bosley f Kirt D. Sampson II Bryan D. Bourque 2003 Elliot M. Shea 2011 Jonathan E. Brown Kristy R. (Birch) Corey Lisa M. Trombley Michelle A. Barbeau Karen J. Brown f Tara S. Demeyer Daniel Blair Paige T. Cameron Kenneth M. Ervin 2007 Steven M. Cantwell Maggie J. Cochran Alexandra Farsun Jacob S. Christman Jacob S. Christman Alisha A. Cole Linnea M. Fraser Benjamin E. Doskocil Kara R. (Costin) Coutu Tyler J. Colombo Lori B. Key Tristan K. Downing Melissa B. Dymek Michael P. Connor f Voir-Yulo J. Kwity Michael W. Farrell Michael W. Frost Alize J. Cordell James C. McAuli e Jennifer L. Ferreira Adam W. Grin Mary J. Curtis Adam J. Fuchs Richard F. Haskell Jr. Martin A. Dunlap 2004 Sean M. Gelinas Shawn W. Hayes Maegan Ferreira Kathy A. Belanger LeRoy P. Graham Ryan E. Hulse Jamie M. Flaherty Veron P. Browne Daniel A. May Joseph A. Landini Joseph P. Fowler G. Andrew Bucci Collette M. Nadeau Jeanine L. Lauder Jacqueline A. Hassin Geo rey A. Caldwell Vincent C. Pennell Tracey A. Lovering Sirles Bradley F. Head

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Iole K. Heikkinen Cortlandt D. Carter Kendra I. Lajoie Julia M. Smiley Bradford E. Hibbard Jennifer L. Cartier Ryan W. Lally Alexandra N. Smith Leigh M. Hickman Courtney A. Carton Erin S. Lang Kyle Soule Caitlin N. Hopkins Dillon A. Chakuro Jessica D. Lasorsa Mary-Anne E. Sousa Jessica Hurd Benjamin J. Charest Ashley M. Lavoie Morgan C. Sprague Deborah Irish Brooke A. Cialdea Chelsea Leach Matthew P. Staniewicz Courtney J. Kelly William T. Cleveland Lindsey C. LeBeau Jeanne Marie S. Stanley Jeanine L. Lauder Julia E. Coakley Sarah M. Lennon Abigail C. Starin Stephen C. Lavoie Colleen D. Colwell Sarah E. LeNoir Hilbert M. Stearns Edward Madigan Michael P. Connor f Brittany A. Lepore Timothy C. Sullivan Erin E. Mallory Tyler F. Cornele Raphael J. Levy-Lesko Meghan A. Tedder Gina-Marie Mazerolle Chelsea M. Cowie David P. Lima Nevena Teodosic Seanna P. McNary Shawn E. Cronin Adria M. Liseno James B. Terry Lauren B. Miller Harrison P. Csorny Jake E. Loughlin Joseph K. Trujillo Jillian N. Murphy Spencer F. Damon Cody R. MacLellan Jessica Trumphour Dylan C. Muse Margaret H. Darcy Courtney C. Madore Brandon J. Urban Melanie A. Ortez Alicia K. Dean Michael J. Madrid Elizabeth R. Vaillancourt Poultney Natasha J. Pastor Donald P. Denman Sarah M. Maguire Ryen B. Vilmont Meghan L. Porcelli Chelsea M. DeRaps-Richardson Nicholas J. Marciello Dennis J. White Gina Pronzati Kelsey T. Devlin Alexandra J. Marella Benjamin J. Whitney Anthony M. Marrocchio Madison Rank Anna M. Dimitriadis Benjamin D. Wickham Phillip Rooney Alyssa K. Dolson Scott W. Martin Jessica L. Wood Tyler E. Russell Katelyn T. Donga Holly E. Martz Jessica Woodworth Kirt D. Sampson II Molly C. Doyle Ann K. McColgan Kayla M. Yoerger David A. Schwartz Bradley D. Dumais Paige J. McGroarty Michael A. Selling Aaron W. Dupuis Matthew P. McGuiness 2016 Michelle A. Spinney Caitlyn J. Durden Lyndsy McIntyre Tanner Bird Catherine A. Swiderski Harrison T. Durfee Melissa C. McKinnon Debra L. Brady f Nichole R. Trovato Gregory J. Egan Caitlin E. McNamara Aboubacar Casse Gabriel J. Vega Carlo Falitico Brenden K. McNaught Paul R. Covelle Eric M. Vincens Max A. Fanwick Dayna L. Mercadante Steven Donohue Kimberly E. Webb Nicole R. Favreau Samuel J. Meza Adam J. Fournier Felicia C. (Soumis) West Lauren V. Filauro Taylor A. Miller Maxwell L. Friedlander Jamie L. Wiley f Brendan A. FitzPatrick Madelene S. Morrill Gage R. Grin Cindy F. Wyman Karissa M. Forzese Caralie J. Morrison Joshua W. Martin Amy E. Zaroogian Geena C. Franciosi Zachary J. Murphy Anthony J. Mattiello Michael T. Frappier Nicole T. Natale Catherine Purdy 2015 Eric M. Gallos Emma B. O’Connor Derek S. Reddy Carlos A. Alvarez Jr. Tori A. Gamache Corey M. Parks Abigail Anderson Dyamond M. Gardner Jillene V. Pehrson Michael E. Rego Timothy J. Armstrong Amanda L. Gauvin Stephanie M. Plunkett Connor J. Rogowsky Russell R. Arpin Dre’ A. Goode Adrian V. Potter James N. Willette Bianca M. Baldelli Meghan R. Guilmartin Melissa J. Quinn Aras J. Banevicius Katie J. Hallowell Kyle D. Rao 2017 Carissa M. Barnard Danielle M. Hare Megan E. Raposa Dylan J. Dennis Haley N. Baron Christopher J. Harrington Taylor L. Remy Kyle A. Hood Amy C. Baxter Jacqueline D. Hart Leslie P. Rodgers Connor P. Mauro Joseph L. Belakonis Rachel D. Hatch Sarah D. Rodriguez Alexander N. Powell Jeremy R. Benjamin Ian T. Hayden Rachel A. Rossetti Bradley Roberto Michael P. Black-Farrell Erika L. Hebert Makopa Rugabirwa Alexander T. Schleper Kristyn T. Bliss Stephen C. Hennessey Jennifer R. Schmitt Christopher Stanford Alyssa Bloomingdale Meghan T. Hennigan Kelsey E. Senior Jenna M. Bonaventura Meredith Hicks Thomas A. Sensale 2018 Mary A. Bondarek Michael J. Ingenito Meagan F. Shackelford Jacob A. Cassano Alyssa G. Borelli Cynthia A. Johnson Madeline P. Shopshire Adam S. Chase Christine V. Boulanger Rachel V. Kahaly Kelly (Lynch) Sieper Liam D. Christian Christopher T. Brewer Rachel E. Kennedy Joshua M. Slipp Joshua D. Rego Hayley D. Brown Michael D. Kirouac Joseph W. Small Brock W. Riley Corissa A. Bubenick Andrew J. Ladeau Paige C. Smelley Maxx S. Sheehan

80 PIERCE / FALL 2015 FASTER THAN A SPEEDING SNOW TUBE… President Card has quickly built a reputation for being a student-centric president. Left: Last winter, he showed up unannounced at a campus snow tubing event where he made four downhill runs. Below: Franklin Pierce University President Andy Card gave a super hero welcome to the Class of 2019 at the honors convocation ceremony.

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