Volume XXVIII • Number 2 Spring 2012 Keene State Today THE MAGAZINE FOR ALUMNI AND FRIENDS

personal pursuit & public benefit Letter from the President

When Colleges Thrive, Our Communities Thrive Helen Giles-Gee, President, Keene State College

n light of the challenges public higher education is students to become active citizens and fostering a facing in New Hampshire, I feel fortunate to lead passion for civic engagement beyond their college years. a college that has received national honors for programs and contributions to our communities, Keene State supports state agencies. Our faculty and Iand is dedicated to promoting civic engagement. Keene sociology students increase the resources available to State College serves as an example of excellence that agencies by assisting them in writing grant proposals others are choosing to follow. and compiling data. Keene State also joined with Governor Lynch and the Department of Environmental Colleges such as Keene State bring many benefits Studies to retain the Occupational Safety and Health to our society and communities. Our students and Agency (OSHA) consultancy center in New Hampshire. faculty are collaborating with communities to Keene State College currently operates one of the top solve problems, provide strategic thinking and five (out of 24) OSHA centers in the United States – with policy development, promote civic 18 sites throughout New England – keeping engagement, support government, bring workers healthier and safer every day. cultural experiences to people, and contribute mightily to economic growth Public colleges and universities contribute and stability. These experiences prepare to economic development. Keene State our students to join the thousands of employs over 900 people and serves as an successful Keene State alumni already economic stabilizer for the Monadnock making an important difference. Region. We help to develop educated citizens who possess the critical thinking Our college collaborates with communities and communication skills, quantitative and state organizations for their mutual and information literacy, and teamwork benefit. Examples include Keene State’s Architecture that are desired by today’s employers around the world. Department, which developed the Communicorps Our faculty develops programs that respond to the Program to enable students to use their knowledge expressed needs of employers, such as undergraduate in the field. Students working with Southwestern and graduate programs in Safety Studies and Community Services designed a 20-unit housing facility Occupational Health, Environmental Studies, for seniors in Winchester, New Hampshire. Geography Architecture, Sustainable Design and Innovation, and architecture students are conducting a health-needs and nursing. The Regional Center for Advanced assessment and analysis for the town of Troy, New Manufacturing (RCAM) partnership among Keene State, Hampshire, in order to set the stage for future River Valley Community College, SAU 29, and the Greater community health interventions. Keene Chamber of Commerce is building a workforce that will help sustain the economy of the Monadnock Leaders at Keene State College share their expertise by Region and New Hampshire. serving on boards for organizations such as the Greater Keene Chamber of Commerce, the Cheshire Medical And public colleges are trying to do more. Our faculty Center/Dartmouth-Hitchcock Keene, the New and students are comparing the health effects of Hampshire Charitable Foundation, and many others. burning biodiesel versus diesel, and testing the quality These are only a few of the organizations that have of biodiesel developed from waste grease. Collaborating invited our staff to develop policy and strategic plans with Dartmouth College, we are developing the next that will improve the lives of New Hampshire citizens. generation of leaders in research from our students who are receiving grants and preparing to enter I firmly believe that public higher education institutions graduate programs. should help students become responsible citizens. Keene State College has partnered with the American As president of this amazing public college in New Democracy Project (ADP), a nonpartisan initiative begun Hampshire, I can attest that we are doing our best to in 2003 by the American Association of State Colleges serve the citizens of this state and beyond. We believe and Universities (AASCU), to inspire and equip that a public college should provide its students with graduates to become active and involved in their complete access to a high-quality education. And the communities. Our college has developed a variety of benefits from this high-quality education will be felt by faculty, staff, and student initiatives aimed at engaging students and our surrounding communities and state for many years to come. 2 6 8 Contents

Letter from the President ...... Inside Cover Helen Giles-Gee emphasizes the college’s commitment to serving the citizens of our state and beyond

First Person: Reconsidering Service by Reconsidering Myself ...... 2 10 Will Wrobel ’08 writes of his evolving response to “Go Forth to Serve”

Faculty & Staff Accomplishment ...... 6

Phonathon: Making Connections for Surprising Rewards ...... 8 Stories of unexpected fulfillment from inside the KSC Fund’s telephone fundraising team

Life Outside the Wire ...... 10 Joshua Tuscher’s winding road from cleaning bathrooms to serving in the seat of power 14

Athletes Find Responsibility in Admiring Eyes ...... 14 Owl basketball players face high expectations at The Marlborough School

Local Leaders Explore Complacency and Courage ...... 16 The Cohen Center’s Civic Leadership Initiative escorted local leaders to the U.S. Holocaust Museum for surprising lessons in the necessity of courage and the danger of public complacency 16 Preparing a Workforce for Today and Tomorrow ...... 18 How the new Technology, Design, and Safety Studies (TDS) Center is poised to carry on a tradition of enriching the nation’s communities and advancing our global competitiveness

Alumni Profile: Dr. Mark Newton ’87 ...... 22 Timberland Corporation’s new VP of Corporate Social Responsibility offers a clear, simple way to understand sustainability — and to achieve it

Alumni Notebook ...... 24 18 Alumni Association President Alan Hodsdon’68 reflects on specific contributions KSC’s alumni make to their communities

Class Notes ...... 25

About the Cover: The background image 22 comes from NASA’s Blue Marble project, a composite image taken by the Suomi satellite on January 4, 2012. The photo in the foreground shows former student Andrew Ducomb during a Study Away Program in Monterey, CA. Photo by Brennan Natoli ’10. SPRING 2012 • 1 24 Keene State Today Volume XXVIII Number 2 Spring 2012

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Vice President for Advancement hen masons laid the bricks for the Appian Maryann LaCroix Lindberg Way arches at Keene State College, did [email protected] they pause to think about the implications Director of Development of their task? They must have seen Kenneth Goebel the symbolic nature of those gates and [email protected] Margaret Sanger’s exhortation framed Director of Marketing & Communications within the brick. Their work took place in Eve Alintuck a matter of days; it took me years to understand the [email protected] W significance of that structure. Director of Alumni and Parent Relations Patty Farmer ’92 I see myself as three different men walking through [email protected] those gates. I have grown and changed since the first Director of Advancement Services time, just as the meaning of those arches and the Michelle Fuller ’08 engraved statement “Enter to learn; go forth to serve” [email protected] has changed for me. Alumni Association President Alan Hodsdon ’68 If you had asked me as a prospective student to define [email protected] what it meant to serve, I would have looked at you Keene State Today is published by the Marketing & Communications with a mix of bewilderment and blankness and, after Office, Keene State College. Periodicals postage rate is paid at a moment of reflection, given an answer that was Keene, NH, and additional offices. U.S. Postal Service No. 015-914. pieced together from many simple ideas. I didn’t know Postmaster: Please send address changes to Keene State Today, what I could do to serve, and held only a romanticized 229 Main St., Keene, NH 03435-2701. definition of service I had seen in Marine Corps Address change: Make sure you don’t miss the next issue of Keene commercials and newspaper stories of volunteers. I State Today. Send information – your name, class year, spouse’s had never been challenged to explore the concept. In name and class year, new address including ZIP code, telephone number, and e-mail address – to Alumni Center, Keene State my entrance application to Keene State, I described College, 229 Main St., Keene, NH 03435-2701. such a poorly considered and shallow idea of service www.keene.edu/kst that I cringe at the memory of it.

2 • KEENE STATE TODAY Visit Keene State Today online: keene.edu/kst As a student, service became what I believed it to be – When I get scared, I’m reminded that being responsible more apparent. I surrounded myself with people who for myself means assuming some responsibility for felt that they had the ability to make a difference in helping others. I feel that I grow from lending a hand, the world and refused to just “live and let live.” We from providing a little support and safety for someone believed that KSC trained us to go out and reshape the else. Now I try to build service into my work, knowing world. The faculty only emphasized the idea that the that if I can help myself I might be solid, solvent, and world was malleable. They had us convinced that as strong enough to offer support and safety to others. soon as we walked through those gates as graduates, For instance, I am working three jobs in three fields we would overhaul the world. to amass as much experience as quickly as possible and move into a position where I can make a larger I believed that I could change the world through difference. I am improving myself, acquiring advanced photography, righting wrongs and exposing injustice skills to help those in need. on a global scale. At that point I could tell you exactly what I wanted to do, the things I wanted to change. So I ask myself again what it means to serve. This time I thought I had it all figured out, but there was one my answer is concise and much more pointed. To serve more evolution that remained unforeseen, though it is to contribute to the good of a community – local, should have stood as a glaring discrepancy between national, or global – by pursuing my own personal my aspirations and reality. The discrepancy stemmed success. Though sometimes represented in uniforms or from my lack of insight into how the world outside clerical robes, service is a broader ideal; it is the mortar school operated. College is a community where much that holds communities together. And much like that is given to the student but little is asked in return. mixture of sand and cement, service can wear thin and I equated the way college worked with the way the crumble, needing restoration. And that’s when places world worked. like Keene State College step in, encouraging people to understand their potential to serve and preparing them Throughout my years at KSC, professors often asked for that task. what it meant to serve. Each time, the question received an answer that included ideas from superhero My mind wanders back to the bricklayers who built the comics: helping the weak, dealing in retribution, and Appian Way gate. Did they already know what took adding to the general good of the world. For me, these me many years to learn – that you can’t serve others ideas came alive when I traveled to Atlanta, GA, during unless you can serve yourself? And did they realize spring break to perform community service work with that they were building a passageway through which inner-city children. I believe that’s when I really began many of us would start a journey of understanding? I to understand what service meant, that I could define think they knew this for sure: they were crafting strong that elusive word. columns to honor small seeds of wisdom. How we nurture them is up to us. Today, as a college graduate, I know that service commonly misrepresents itself as something I can do for others. Rather, it is often that which I do for myself that positively affects others. Walking through those gates, I looked out for my friends and classmates in a way that came naturally, and they constantly supported me. They acted as my life preservers, my safety nets. Throughout my years at KSC, professors and friends assured me of my success and gave me every chance to better myself. They held me in a close- knit group and guided me. Serving others seemed to be easy because I had backup.

Now that I am out of college and working, my dream of changing the world is riding shotgun with reality, neither one taking the backseat. I’m surprised at the way the real world and idealism coexist, challenging each other, but both asking for much more giving and much less receiving. I juggle to uphold beliefs while managing responsibilities. The safety net is thinner, so putting myself in precarious situations becomes much more unsettling. With higher stakes, the responsibilities can be overwhelming. Palermo Chris

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Marathon Logo Design Winner Senior Kevin Sherry ’12 shows his winning logo design for The Clarence DeMar Marathon. His entry was selected by marathon sponsor, the Keene Rotary Club, in a competition open to Keene State students, that included a $1,000 scholarship for the winner. With Sherry, from left to right, are Bob Kostick of the graphic design faculty, and Rotarian Alan Stroshine.

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President Helen Giles-Gee led a corporate roundtable in Manchester, NH on February 9 to hear directly from business and industry leaders on how the college can continue to prepare graduates for work in New Hampshire businesses. Twenty-seven private sector leaders and ten Keene State faculty and administrators participated in the event, held at Boynton’s Tap Room, which is owned by Josh Boynton ’96.

SPRING 2012 • 5 FACULTY & STAFF ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Ramona Anderson Ann Atkinson Beverly Ferrucci Jose Lezcano Penny Miceli Daniel Patterson Sally Southwick

r. Jose Lezcano, professor of music, performed Lara Bryant, geography faculty, served as an his “Canciones para Alfonsina” cycle with invited member on the opening panel session for GIS soprano Carrie Culver at the College of (Geographic Information System) Educator’s Day at the Wooster (Nov. 1) and a solo recital at Oberlin New England ArcUsers Group Conference in Saratoga DCollege (Nov. 4), where students also performed a Springs, NY, on November 13. Entitled “Educating complete program of his chamber music (Nov. 5). He also Indispensable Geospatial Professionals for the 21st performed solo recitals in Ecuador, featuring his own Century,” the panel was moderated by Richard D. works as well as those of Latin composers, at the Casa de Quodomine from the New York State Department of la Musica in Quito (Nov. 28) and at the International Guitar Transportation, and also included Tora Johnson from Festival of Cuenca (Nov. 29). In addition, he taught master the University of Maine at Machias and Tao Tang from classes or gave guest lectures at all these institutions. Buffalo State College. This panel was sponsored by the With harpist Francizka Huhn, he played a duo concert New York State GIS Association. The panel members at Middlesex (MA) Community College (Nov. 18). shared the methods used in their courses, as well as their ideas about what skills are needed for employees in Prof. Daniel Patterson of the Theatre and Dance faculty the current geospatial workforce. Bryant discussed the has been asked to adjudicate for the David Mark Cohen need to be able to not only apply learned GIS skills and National Playwriting Award given by the Kennedy Center. knowledge in the classroom but also determine which This will be the second year in a row that Patterson has technology and skills are most appropriate in a variety adjudicated for that award. In addition, Patterson has of settings to enhance learning within a variety of been asked to participate in the Kennedy Center disciplines. There is also a need for educators to build American College Theatre Festival in Region VIII a foundation of GIS skills that can begin in public (California, Utah, Arizona, Nevada) as a festival elementary schools. The panel also focused on the two respondent and adjudicator for the Irene Ryan Acting different types of skills needed in a geospatial career, Scholarship award. Patterson will be on sabbatical in the knowledge and capability to use current technology, the spring of 2012 and is working on two scripts for as well as the ability to think critically and work with possible presentation at KSC when he returns. others. Much of the discussion focused on service learning and community involvement. All of the panel Director of Campus Safety Amanda Warman recently members discussed how they require their students to completed a program at the International Association complete meaningful projects that are relevant to their of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators’ (IACLEA) local communities. Executive Development Institute at the Northwestern University Center for Public Safety in Evanston, IL. At the same Saratoga Springs conference, KSC senior Warman received a Motorola Foundation scholarship Kayla Reeves presented a vernal cache lesson she and to attend the program. her senior seminar group created. The lesson is one of four piloted as part of her senior geography seminar Ramona Anderson, assistant director of the counseling project and utilizes GPS (Global Position System) center, had an article published in the online newsletter technology. Instead of teaching GPS as a separate skill, Student Affairs eNews. The piece is about the Critical this lesson teaches students to use the technology in Incident Support Team at Keene State, and has initiated the context of learning how to identify vernal pools. a number of inquiries from other institutions around the Her presentation was attended by educators from many country about our special work in this area. organizations, including the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department and the New York iMapInvasives Biology faculty Karen Cangialosi and Scott Strong Program, and was very well received. received a grant of $550 from the Turks and Caicos Reef Fund to support their coral-reef monitoring work, Penny Miceli, director of Sponsored Projects and including a pilot of a snorkeling education program Research, co-led a half-day professional development with students from the Clement Howell High School workshop entitled “Compliance Issues for Predominantly on Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands. Undergraduate Institutions” at the 53rd Annual Meeting

6 • KEENE STATE TODAY Visit Keene State Today online: keene.edu/kst of the National Council of University Research the Department of Communication, Journalism, & Administrators in Washington, D.C., on November 6. Philosophy, presented her paper entitled “From Myopia The workshop was presented with colleagues from to a Hybrid Gaze: The Visuality of Halle Berry.” Agnes Scott College and Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, and was attended by research Beverly J. Ferrucci, professor of mathematics, and administrators from around the country. Craig Sheil ’03 presented a workshop entitled “Blending Mathematics and Technology Meaningfully” at the Alex Brown, coordinator of Greek Life and Student annual conference of the Association of Teachers of Leadership, recently presented a program Mathematics in New England (ATMNE) in entitled “Fraternal Inception” at the New Warwick, RI. Their workshop shared ways in England Greek Summit at the Massachusetts FACULTY which technology can be incorporated into Institute of Technology. The summit RETIREMENTS mathematics courses for grades 7-12, and brought students, professionals, and 2011 they included examples of mathematics volunteers together from across the activities for teaching algebra, geometry, Northeast to address challenges and issues trigonometry, statistics, and calculus. A within fraternity and sorority communities, discussion of other mathematical resources, and to find new, revolutionary ways to along with projects and lessons that can create stronger leaders, organizations, and help students and teachers, followed the communities. Alex’s program weaves pop presentation. More than 600 mathematics culture with education by connecting plot teachers at all levels were in attendance at points from the hit movie Inception with the conference. tangible lessons helping students understand the importance of taking Professor Ferrucci also presented a talk Margaret Langford entitled “Cases in Technology-Enriched ownership of their current reality, (Modern Language) recognizing the power of ideas, and School Mathematics” at the 15th Asian initiating change. Technology Conference in Mathematics at Abant Izzet Baysal University in Bolu, Turkey. Sally Southwick, associate director The presentation discussed research that of Sponsored Projects and Research, Ferrucci conducted with colleagues while organized and co-led a half-day on sabbatical at the National Institute of professional development workshop Education in Singapore. She also presented entitled “Finding the Right Research a workshop, “Technology-Rich Learning Administration Situation” at the annual Experiences from the Web for the Secondary meeting of the Society of Research Mathematics Classroom,” for a group of Administrators International in Montreal, Nancy Lory Turkish teachers. Mathematics teachers, (Education) Quebec, on October 23. The workshop was professors, and education professionals presented with colleagues from Dakota from 25 countries were in attendance. State University and Christopher Newport University, and was attended by research Professor Ferrucci has been awarded the administrators from six countries. Richard C. Evans Distinguished Mathematics Educator Award by the New Hampshire Three Keene State College professors Teachers of Mathematics. The intent of presented their research on a panel about the award is to highlight creativity and “Seeing Gender” at the 20th Annual Women innovation in the teaching of mathematics & Society Conference at Marist College in to all students. The recipient of this award is Poughkeepsie, New York. Running from Charles Weed recognized as representing Evans’ philosophy, October 21 to 22, this interdisciplinary and (Political Science) passion, and knowledge of mathematics multidisciplinary conference covered a wide education. range of issues related to women’s and gender studies and modeled feminist inquiry Ferrucci was recognized for her unsurpassed passion for undergraduate students. Ann Atkinson, an for mathematics education and for the improvement associate professor and chair of the Department of of mathematics teaching for all in the State of New Communication, Journalism, & Philosophy, presented Hampshire, and for her significant contributions to and her paper entitled “Seeing Supreme Court Justices: advancements in the field of mathematics education on A Feminist Rhetorical Analysis of Images of Sandra an international level. She has been invited to conduct Day O’Connor and Other Women on the Court.” research in more than 70 countries and has published Sara Hottinger, an associate professor and chair of the more than 80 research articles. In addition to being Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, presented a frequent speaker at national and international her paper entitled “Visualizing Rationality: An conferences, she is the first female editor of the Examination of Portraits in History of Mathematics New England Mathematics Journal. Textbooks.” Jamie Landau, an assistant professor in

SPRING 2012 • 7 phonathon Making Connections for Surprising Rewards

by Lindsay Taflas e all know how much we like answering phone solicitations. But many of us have the courtesy to hear what the call is about, and sometimes we can be Wpleasantly surprised. Imagine what it’s like to actually make those phone calls. After the first few moments, the students who call during KSC Phonathon often get much more than courtesy from our alumni; they get an outpouring of good will, generosity, and a commitment to making a difference. Last year alone, 2,107 alumni contributed $101,786 to the KSC Fund through Phonathon. Given that 78 percent of KSC students receive some form of financial aid, these gifts have a critical impact. But Phonathon also means much more. It completes a circular spirit that rises out of the dedication of the callers and the support, belief, kinship, and reinforcement of ideals that our alumni offer in return. After being involved with the Keene State Phonathon Program for almost six years, I know that Phonathon is about coming together for a purpose larger than any of us alone. When you answer your phone and a KSC Phonathon caller says hello, you are beginning to reconnect with your alma mater, or you’re strengthening that connection. You are transported back to your college days and, if only for a few minutes, you may get the chance to relive a moment of your college experience or think about all that you’ve become since then. The Phonathon Program employs 22 to 24 callers who have been selected mostly because of their passion for Keene State. They are eager to talk with KSC alumni and share stories of what’s new at the college and talk about the achievements of all kinds of stellar students. Everyone on campus knows that there are easier jobs for students, and many new callers enter the training program with only slight expectations about how the job will help them grow. But once they begin to make calls, they start developing valuable job skills. They learn how to communicate with people from all generations and make connections – skills imperative to almost any good employer. They learn how to negotiate, ask questions, and truly listen, while spreading awareness about giving back and raising money for their peers. Meet: Julie Lessard,’12, Phonathon Student Manager. Years working at Phonathon: 3 “I originally wanted this job as a freshman to become more involved on campus and I knew it would be a good way to get connected. As it turned out, I became very interested photographs by Will Wrobel Will by photographs

8 • KEENE STATE TODAY Visit Keene State Today online: keene.edu/kst in chatting with alumni, learning what they’ve done Meet: Renee Giles, ’13, Years working at Phonathon: 2 with their degrees, and learning where their education “The best encouragement I get from this job is when has taken them. Yes, we’re looking for donations, but the friends on campus thank me for doing it. They know how conversations we have are just as important to me. After much alumni contributions mean to all of us. I love having all, the alumni have helped me get where I am. Their a campus job where I can bridge the gap between students support has made it possible for students like me to stay in and alumni, and I also love hearing stories from alumni college, and I know I’ll give back, too, so other students can about how campus has changed. Do you know how many get the same opportunity I have had. After a shift I feel babies were born in Elliot Hall when it was a hospital? great! I’m so proud of the callers and I love going home to And it’s heartwarming to hear story after story about my roommates and bragging about how much money we couples falling in love here and getting married. With raised. I especially like being a student manager because I every call, I’m reminded how important it is to appreciate get to hear all about the wonderful conversations that the my time here at Keene State. We should all maintain a callers are having with alumni.” willingness to help each other for the benefit of everyone. Meet: Kaleigh Liupakka, ’13, Phonathon Student Manager The Keene State College Fund provides students with Years working at Phonathon: 2 opportunities that would not exist if it were not for the generosity of our alumni, which we will practice ourselves “When I first took this job everyone thought I was crazy. after we graduate. I try to help alumni understand how They thought people were going to hang up and yell at significant and appreciated every pledge is; they add up, me all the time. It’s really just the opposite. Fewer alumni and that’s why getting the absolute most participation is say no than you might think, and many are interested important. But that’s not all of it. On my walk home from in what’s going on at Keene State and want to give back work, I reflect on my conversations with alumni and there and support the school that provided them with so many is always something about them that sticks with me for memories and possibilities. Of course, I love coming to good.” work because I love talking – and listening to the alumni’s stories. Who wouldn’t like a job like this? We always Meet: Rebecca LeClerc, ’13, Years working at Phonathon: 3 share stories and have a few laughs. There’s never a dull “I’m excited to get back to the call center every year moment. My roommates and friends always ask me about because the work we do and the contributions to the work and they love the stories I tell them. They think KSC Fund really make a difference to so many people, they’re inspiring!” including myself. But mostly I love the stories I hear. One Meet: LeeAnn Clark, ’11, Years working at Phonathon: 4 alumna told me all about the Hurricane of 1938, how the trees fell across Main Street, all of campus lost power and “Being a student caller helped to give me a backbone the only light in Huntress Hall came from a single candle and ask strangers for their time and money. Once I got on each landing of the staircase. Another donor told me into it, I loved helping alumni find a way to give back, about mandatory winter swim classes and how the girls’ and the experience has definitely shaped my career. hair froze solid while they walked back to their rooms. After graduation I dove right into development work, as Not only did they have to dry their hair, they had to melt a volunteer for the United Way, calling and visiting area it! Some have been away a long time but they still want to businesses and asking for gifts that help the neediest know what’s going on. For instance, ‘Do you still have to people in our community. Today, I work at a retirement dodge cars when you’re running late down Appian Way?’ consulting firm, making calls to local businesses. Nearly He was happy to hear that it wasn’t a road anymore. everything I know about doing this difficult but important Here’s one thing I like about telling people I work for work comes from all those calls and hours at Phonathon. Phonathon: they always say, ‘So you get hung up on all I couldn’t wait to join the ranks of the generous Keene the time?’ and I get to say, ‘Not as often as you would State alumni – our donations make a tremendous think.’ Many of our alumni tell me they worked their way difference for students.” through school and they know we are doing the same, Meet: Sarah Comeau, ’14, Years working at Phonathon: 2 so they give back to help us succeed and enjoy our “My calls to alumni have allowed me to reach out and experience here as much as they did.” connect as well as be part of something bigger, and to Students’ success comes from more than perfect grades or help the school. I had one conversation with a Hollywood perfect essays. They succeed because of the connections television producer who makes shows I actually watch! they make. Veteran callers thrive by mastering the art And, as a cat lover, I’ve learned a lot about some of communication and by nourishing relationships with interesting cats and their owners. I also just love others. They make the most of connections and real the atmosphere of the call center and the fun of being interactions. Callers in the Phonathon Program have a around positive people. When alumni find out that I’m chance to make these skills a natural part of life. They an education major, they offer me great advice and some empower themselves with the confidence to join the have asked me to student teach in their classrooms or world and make positive changes. As students they work call them after graduation. The calls give alumni a chance to serve the greater good; and as alumni, they continue to ask questions about what’s going on at Keene State. It’s to do just that. a cool job; my parents think so, too, and everyone should know that we appreciate every single dollar!”

SPRING 2012 • 9 by Paul Hertneky nstinct seldom travels along a prescribed path. “One day I was cleaning the toilets at 6:30 in the Following impulse and opportunity with intense morning, and I thought, ‘Whoa, what am I doing with Iinterest, Josh Tuscher ’06 recounts an adventure that my life here?’ I was 23; it was 1997. I immediately looked weaves outside the bounds of familiarity, ending in into Keene State. I needed a way to pay for it, so I talked unimaginable circumstances – and leaves the impression to the New Hampshire National Guard recruiter. I decided that many more twists and turns lie ahead. As we spoke, I would go for the Mountain Infantry Company because he swiveled his desk chair away from his view of the I thought that would be the hottest thing I could do and most recognizable residence in America. His rapid still go to school. Plus, I wanted a physical shock because recollections rise to a pitch you might expect from I was way out of shape.” a man who is repeatedly pinching himself. Do you get the sense of an older freshman, trying to feel “I didn’t go to college right away. Didn’t know what I his way along? It gets better. “I came back from basic wanted to do. Traveled across country and just had fun, training to live in a house on Pearl Street – six of us, a partied a lot. Chad Cassin ’01 was my first good friend to cat, and a dog. It was a big crazy house. I didn’t know go to college, and I went to visit him at KSC and it was what I wanted to do at school.” He signed up for a few like, yeah, this is cool. So my brother and I rented a courses but nothing in particular caught his fancy. But house in Richmond [NH] and my brother started taking then, “I took German and I was interested in that right classes. I got a job as a janitor at a car dealership. My away. Professor [Helen] Frink and I got pretty close and it journey started there. used to bug her because I was pretty bad with the

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Josh Tuscher in his turret. LaPree,Bob Union-Leader NH English language, let alone German, but she always [Yuan] Pan really helped me develop artistically. We’re worked with me. She’s a great professor. Whenever she similar in age, and he talked to me about entering KSC’s saw a student who was genuinely interested she would newly formed Bachelor in Fine Arts program, which had stay after and help.” just started up. I went for it, extending my studies by a year. That was another fork in my road, but I had him as “He was older than the average student, and he was an adviser and mentor.” drifting,” recalls Frink, who retired in 2009. “German, at first, it wasn’t terribly easy for him. I remember he would Learning a new art form while trying to assemble a get out of one class and come to my office, and he very senior thesis threw Tuscher into a spin. In late 2003, he

“Reporting for duty actually saved me from what I thought was going to be a terrible, half-baked thesis.”

much wanted to know things, wanted to be sure he got was plodding. Disappointed with his state-side Army it. And he was very thorough. He wanted to understand.” Reserve unit, he struggled, and eventually succeeded at Hearing him talk about studying in Germany, and returning to the New Hampshire National Guard – the wanting to support his newfound direction, Frink 172nd Mountain Infantry Regiment. By Christmas break, suggested Marburg, a medium-size university city. he needed to travel, and spent the holiday in Germany. He dove in, and stayed for two years. Perhaps the scene of his love affair with language and “That’s typical of Josh,” says Cassin, who knew Tuscher art would supply the inspiration he needed for his thesis as a boy and at Keene State. “He may seem like he’s wandering, but once something captures his interest, once he heads off in a particular direction, an almost maniacal need to understand takes over. He immerses himself. In Germany, he hung out almost exclusively with Germans. If his fascination hadn’t landed on Germany and German, he would have dived into something else.” And he did. According to Cassin, Tuscher pursues his interests with complete absorption so as to feel them in his bones and inhabit his understanding. For instance, Cassin says, “when he put on his uniform, he didn’t look much different; he already was a soldier, through and through.”

During his first year in Germany, Tuscher took the usual required courses. “But after that I did some really cool stuff,” he says. “I had a German minor but was majoring in graphic design, so I took some art classes – a lot of printmaking. To fulfill the requirements we only had to do two etchings, but I took it to another level and made a print and etching art book.”

Tuscher hoped to stay beyond two years. He had transferred from the National Guard into an Army Reserve unit stationed there. To enter the University of Marburg and finish his degree in Germany, he would need to pass a language test. He failed by a half point. “It was one of those things that drastically altered the course of my life – that half point,” he says. “I would have gone to Iraq for the invasion with the 1st Armored Division.”

His book of etchings and prints helped him gain footing back at Keene State. “None of the art professors knew me; I had been gone for so long. But Professor

SPRING 2012 • 11 Bob LaPree,Bob Union-Leader NH project. But that inspiration would come only after life protect those convoys, and that job fell to units like took yet another turn. Tuscher’s.

“When I got back to the States on the day before New “When we got there it wasn’t bad,” says Tuscher. “Then Year’s Eve, I noticed a pile of mail from my [National the insurgency kicked off and we thought, ‘Oh, man, Guard] unit. I’d been called to active duty two weeks this going to be a long year.’ We also did personal earlier! Then I played my answering machine and the security details, and training of Iraqi police. I got to messages were getting angrier and angrier, sort of an video a lot of different aspects of Iraq, outside the wire audio montage that was pretty funny. Reporting for every day, which was fortunate in many ways. I didn’t duty actually saved me from what I thought was going really want to sit on the base for the whole year.” to be a terrible, half-baked thesis. So I had a

“For someone like me…this is sort of like getting drafted into the NFL.”

new project as of January 4th.” And he packed Life outside the wire, though, meant IEDs and roadside his video camera. firefights, real danger for Tuscher, who manned a 50-caliber machine gun atop a truck. His three-man Tuscher’s unit landed at Camp Anaconda, the largest team encountered their share of tense moments, and U.S. base in Iraq, with a PX the size of a Wal-Mart, although his Staff Sergeant Patrick Clarke appreciated which required a steady stream of supplies that went Tuscher and his driver, he knew none of them would be far beyond food, water, and fuel. Someone had to career soldiers. “We had a poor squad leader and that really takes its toll on the guys. I didn’t think Josh

12 • KEENE STATE TODAY Visit Keene State Today online: keene.edu/kst would stay in any longer than he had to. Between him I’m still in shock, though. Every day I come to work and my driver, I came home with no hair, my blood and pinch myself because I can look out the window pressure was through the roof. But I came home with and see the White House across the street. all my parts and pieces, so they did something right,” says Clarke. “The other night I went to happy hour with friends, to a place right near the office, and we got locked into the Tuscher returned to Keene armed with fresh ideas for bar because Michelle Obama was having her birthday his senior thesis and loads of video footage, some of dinner nearby. It’s inspiring,” says Tuscher. “I’m which would earn him a screen credit on the award- overseeing big contractors and I want to make sure winning documentary The War Tapes. He began to blend the taxpayers’ money is helping veterans the best way his footage with poetry, music, and paintings, riding a possible. For someone like me, what I went to school creative high, only to be interrupted by Hurricane Katrina for, doing what I was doing, this is sort of like getting and deployment to New Orleans. After less than a month drafted into the NFL. When I got out of the Guard, I was he was back home and working on his thesis piece again kind of done with the military, but as time went on, I – an installation that Professor Pan said “questioned the missed something.” He missed his team; he missed the nature of war and of human beings.” It won top honors flavor.“And now I know what it really was,” he says. “I in the annual graphic design student exhibition. missed serving.”

“That was a night I’ll never forget,” Tuscher says. “It was a closure-thing – good for me as a veteran, good therapy to spend a lot of time with that footage. I think it helped me adjust. It was a lot of reflection, a way for me to get my feelings out in public, and it was well-received, luckily!” says the janitor turned Germanophile, turned soldier, turned artist.

Add waiter. To pay the rent throughout college, he waited tables at the Ninety-Nine Restaurant, a job he could leave after graduation when a marketing firm in Hampton hired him as a graphic designer, a position that led to a year of freelancing and other jobs in hot marketing companies. He also said good-bye to the military, if not to his unit mates, a tight corps of Iraq veterans with whom he mountain-biked and hung out on weekends. But something was missing.

“I don’t want to say that [working in businesses] was pointless, but it lacked flavor,” says Tuscher, searching for a way to be uncharacteristically philosophical. “I missed having a purpose bigger than making one man rich.” That unshakable blandness propelled him into a nine-month federal hiring process after learning, during a trip to see a Guard buddy in Washington, that the U.S. Department of Veterans’ Affairs (VA) was looking to hire vets with his skills.

The newly repurposed VA, energized by the innumerable needs of a million new veterans and increasing wherewithal to serve them, desperately needed communicators like Tuscher. Today, he’s a new media technologist for the VA’s online communications team. “I’m actually helping people I really care about, who need it, getting the message out about veterans’ benefits, veterans’ issues, and getting vets who can use the VA to come to us. They earned it. And it’s here for them.”

Battling a stigma among veterans, the VA is going all-out to change its image. “It’s exciting to be part of that team,” Tuscher says. “We’re at the top of the organization as far as messaging and public affairs.

SPRING 2012 • 13

ATHLETES FIND RESPONSIBILITY IN ADMIRING EYES by Stuart Kaufman

junior forward on the Keene State College New Haven, CT. “Without the grades, you won’t be able men’s basketball team, Eric Fazio is used to to get into college.” playing in front of a lot of people. You want a clutch reverse layup before a packed-to-the- The Owls’ migration to Marlborough dates back to Arafters Spaulding Gym? No problem. Or how about a the ’70s, when then Keene State Coach Glenn Theulen rough rebound in enemy territory? A piece of cake. began to bring his teams to the high school. The partnership with Keene State also extends to the But how would he do in front of a classroom of young classroom. Over the years, many KSC students got students at the Marlborough School in Marlborough, their first teaching experience at the Marlborough New Hampshire? Although Fazio and the Owls were schools. looking forward to the team’s 38th annual visit to the school, they felt pre-game jitters as they entered the classroom to be grilled by 7– to 13-year-olds.

Sitting in Mrs. Rilda Letourneau’s wicker chair in the corner of the kindergarten room, Fazio handled the questions like a pro. How tall are you? What’s your favorite color? What’s the highest you ever shot a basketball?

“I like hearing all the funny questions the kids have,” said Fazio, from Hopewell Junction in New York. You want to be a good role model because all the kids look up to you, so you want to say the right things.”

The arrival of the Keene State players is treated like a holiday at the school. “It was like Santa Claus had come through the door,” said Letourneau, who has been at the school for almost 20 years. “You have no idea what kind of impact the players have on the students.”

Although the venue has changed over the years from the high school to the old middle school to the town’s spanking-new K-8 school built two years ago, the message has always been the same: “This is my third year going to Marlborough and before leaving I always tell the students there’s no substitute for working hard in the classroom,” said Fazio.

It’s a prominent point reinforced by other members of the team. “One of the kids asked me what I have to do to go to college and play ball, and I told him to keep his grades up,” said Montel Walcott, a sophomore from

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Skip Mason ’74, who has been a gym teacher in the did their best Elvis Presley hip moves, gyrating the Marlborough school system for 36 years, says it’s a maddening hoops to the delight of their students in win-win for his students and the KSC team. “Many of the stands. the players are majoring in education and it’s probably one of the first times they will get in front of an Several students, including members of the school’s audience, not to play but to stand up and talk about basketball team, the Marlborough Dukes, joined the their lives, what it’s like to be a Keene State player, Owls on the floor for the big finale – an exciting relay and reemphasize the importance of doing well in the race. The highlight of the race went to Walcott, who classroom to the students,” he said. somehow slipped his six-foot, eight-inch, 235-pound frame between the legs of a startled seventh grader to “It’s really important for our players to see how they win the race. are viewed,” said Coach Rob Colbert. “They’re looked upon as superstars and that’s a powerful place to Captivated by the physical presence of the players, be. Your perspective can change when those little eyes the students left the gym all smiles, hearing words are looking up at you.” of encouragement meant to bring out strong performances in the classroom. “It was really fun,” “A lot of these kids go to Coach Colbert’s basketball said Erika Farhmy, a sixth grader. “I want to play in camp and attend Keene State games, and their eyes college, so I know I’m going to have to work hard in light up when they come in,” said Mason. “This is it. school and practice.” They know the Celtics and they know Duke, but Keene State is their Duke and Coach Colbert is Coach K.” “It takes a lot of practice and a lot of hard work to be like them,” echoed seventh grader Allyson Patnode, gazing up After meeting with the players in their classroom, at the giants in front of her. “You can’t give up.” the students filed into the gym for a brief basketball clinic that included demonstrations, dribbling drills, Lessons in commitment and sacrifice came through. and a free-throw competition. Coach Colbert then “You have to get up at five in the morning [referring summoned teachers to the court for a hula-hoop to the Owls’ preseason bonding ritual],” said Emersyn contest. With a pizza party on the line, the teachers Blanchard, a 13-year-old. “I’d do it, but I wouldn’t like it.” photographs by John Napolitano John by photographs

SPRING 2012 • 15 LOCAL LEADERS EXPLORE COMPLACENCY AND COURAGE The lessons of history can impart knowledge­—done right, they can impart wisdom.

by Mark Reynolds ast October, 24 civic and Studies, which had organized the more connected to the world than campus leaders from Keene trip. “Here are these men who, as you’ve ever thought possible. You look huddled in the Baltimore young men and teenagers, had at the implications of your thinking in airport, on their way home witnessed the very things we had new ways. And there’s hardly a better Lfrom visiting the United States seen secondhand in the museum. and more unsettling example of the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Their presence brought affirmation, ramifications of one group seeing Washington, D.C. As if touring the hope, and respect for what these guys individuals who are different from museum hadn’t been affective had done to stop the evil that was themselves as ‘others’ than at the enough, group exercises that Nazism. So that moment, right before Holocaust Memorial Museum.” revealed how the genocide gained we boarded the plane, was healing momentum in Germany brought and warm, and brought tears to our The Washington trip is one of many them face-to-face with eerily familiar eyes – and gave us hope. To see these ways the Cohen Center reaches out to the larger community. Others include the Kristallnacht Remembrance it holds each year in the Colonial Theater, its annual Hildebrandt and Herman Awards night, its commemoration of Yom HaShoah, and its educational outreach to area schools. But Hank Knight and Tom White saw the need to carry the center’s message in a more powerful way to those leaders who are influential in the community, those people who might apply the lessons in ways that could affect many others.

“Looking at the purposeful determination by a 20th-century European state to mass-murder everyone of a certain ethnicity,” explained Prof. Paul Vincent, “will hit you every time you visit the museum. attitudes and behaviors they see old veterans, most of whom were in That’s the point of taking people every day. The intensity of the day’s wheelchairs, who had been so young down there. The lesson is not simply workshops drew them into intimate, and vital but now were in need of one of ‘Germans and Jews’; the lesson reflective conversations at the gate, help and respect, brought home the is about what modern, educated suddenly drowned out by the airport’s very messages we had learned at human beings are capable of doing. loudspeakers. the museum.” It doesn’t matter how educated they are; nearly every one of the leaders The announcer introduced a group That serendipitous event was a of the Einsatzgruppen, the special task of World War II veterans who were powerful conclusion to the Cohen forces that were on the Eastern Front making their way through the airport. Center’s outreach effort, the first Civic for the purpose of mass-murdering They had been visiting the WWII Leadership Initiative (CLI) program, Jews, had a doctorate.” Memorial in Washington and were designed to use the lessons of the now heading home. Spontaneously, Holocaust to enhance its participants’ Because the social transformation that everyone in the airport stood to cheer social and civic awareness – all led up to the Holocaust took years to and applaud. New Hampshire State to help them be more effective at develop and swept up members of Senator Molly Kelly ’83, a member of what they do. As Center Director Dr. every profession and occupation in the Keene contingent, shook each vet’s Hank Knight explains, the center’s the society, the CLI participants could hand, thanking them for their service. focus helps people “realize there are see how their own professions and significant consequences to how analogous institutions played a role, “It was a profound moment,” they see other people, how they see if not actually participating in the noted Tom White, coordinator of themselves in relationship to other oppression, then in the shared guilt of educational outreach for the Cohen people. You often come out of this standing by and doing little to stop a Center for Holocaust and Genocide kind of encounter seeing yourself as movement bent on justifying

16 • KEENE STATE TODAY Visit Keene State Today online: keene.edu/kst extermination. “All of our participants, said, “They were asking themselves group against another, or bully others, these professionals and individuals, ‘How do I take that experience in the or pressure a targeted group with began to see connections to their museum and not only change how unjust political power,” Dr. Fedrizzi fields in ways they hadn’t understood we talk to each other here in Keene, said. “In my community health work, before,” Tom White explained. but also ask how we can project that I now find myself more mindful “Suddenly, they see the implications through the state, through the region, about the concept of equity and the for the whole society, and they’re able through the nation to change some of idea that we are all better together, to deal with it more honestly.” the trends we’re seeing?’ There was a when everyone shares meaningfully real hope that we can have an impact, and fully in health improvement Facing complicity isn’t easy. “Often, opportunities. As a parent I find people turn away from the really myself trying harder to express difficult stuff that implicates them empathy, model acceptance of when it has to do with their world, different views, stress kindness and their way of seeing things,” Hank gratitude, and remind my kids that, Knight pointed out. “But they can be regardless of the other person, we more able and willing to open those are almost always more alike doors if they’re respectful of what than different.” that resistance is about.” The deteriorating balance of power The Keene contingent began to see in the German government struck that what happened in Nazi Germany New Hampshire State Senator Molly could happen again, even in our Kelly. She took note of how the sophisticated society. The currents judicial branch steadily lost authority, and human tendencies that were allowing members of the other at play then are still very present in The eternal flame in the Hall of Remem- branches to run roughshod over the today’s world. Antioch University brance at the United States Holocaust rights of minority groups. “My job as President David Caruso explained Memorial Museum. Photo courtesy of the a state senator is to make sure that that the group exercises led by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. we keep those branches balanced,” museum’s staff “really delved into the she said. “When I saw how the ways that German society cooperated with other like-minded groups and judiciary fell, I went ‘ah ha!’ We need with the Nazis that allowed such a institutions, to really change the to continue to work to maintain that complete takeover – the collaboration trend of some of our discussions in important balance.” of the judicial system, the police, America these days.” the fire departments, the education Mark Hayward Jr., principal at system, people who just a few years Dr. Rudy Fedrizzi, a community Westmoreland School, said, “The earlier were typical, average folks in health leader, admitted, “I had trip made me more patient and the community. It really changed my mistakenly thought the Holocaust reflective and also reminded me of understanding. You can’t just the importance of not always blame the Nazi leadership “….this human catastrophe involved… accepting what is handed and the military machine; it down to you but instead was much more pervasive thousands of bystanders whose complacency having the courage to than that and the machine allowed those in power to continuously challenge the wrongs you wouldn’t have been effective expand their cruelty.” see around you. It has made without the cooperation of me more assertive when it most people in the society.” comes to calling someone involved a relatively small number on something that I see as harmful As Tom White asks, “Have we really of Nazi monsters and mostly was or destructive.” learned the lesson of the Holocaust? a war-related tragedy. But the time You’ve got to take the experience at the museum made me realize Participants in the CLI trip were from history and transform it into this human catastrophe involved given an opportunity to explore more what’s going on today, because the thousands of non-Nazi perpetrators deeply the museum’s messages. human experience hasn’t changed – and collaborators whose direct “In this computer age, lots of people just the context of that interaction.” actions contributed to deaths and have knowledge, but very few people Some of the participants stayed the thousands of bystanders whose have wisdom,” Tom White noted. an extra day and visited the U.S. complacency allowed those in power “A trip like this allows you to discover Congress. After what they’d seen at the to continuously expand their cruelty.” wisdom, rather than simply acquire Holocaust Museum, they were deeply knowledge.” disturbed by the rabid partisanship Will what he learned really affect of a legislative body that consistently his personal life, or his life in the “And it’s a wisdom that starts with vilifies “the other.” community? “I hope I will have more knowing yourself,” Hank Knight awareness and courage to confront added, “in relationship with others, And yet, those who attended the social forces that seek to turn one in relationship with the world, even CLI came back hopeful. Tom White in difficult and unsettling ways.” SPRING 2012 • 17 Preparing a Workforce for Today and Tomorrow

18 • KEENE STATE TODAY Visit Keene State Today online: keene.edu/kst Interested in the nuts and bolts of those whistles and bells?

The TDS Center includes:

• Teaching laboratories for material sciences, chemical hygiene, and anatomy and physiology

• Architecture and visual arts studios, including a model shop, media lab, and crit space

• A photovoltaic solar array across the entire roof, which will consist of approximately 20,000 square feet of panels, with a rated capacity of 300 KW and the ability to provide approximately 50 percent of the TDS Center’s 2,500 MM Btu annual energy demand

• High bay with scaffolding and confined space with theatrical smoke system for safety training

• Machine tool laboratory for the Regional Center for Advanced Manufacturing by Lucy Webb • An innovative SPDI ideation laboratory ounded to prepare teachers to serve American children, and digital prototyping lab Keene State has a long history of educating workforces. Combining academic classes and field training, Keene • Wood-shop spaces, with a state-of- Normal School dispatched teachers into countless the-art dust exhaust system and wood Fcommunities. Today’s technology, design, and safety studies finishing booth students face similar opportunities – but with farther-reaching implications than industrial arts students of a century ago • Classrooms, faculty and staff offices, could have imagined. and conference facilities

Back then, vocational-technical programs, from wood shop • A fully wireless environment to driver education, formed educational disciplines that were distinct from each other and eventually occupied two buildings • A central hub designed for small-group on campus – Adams Tech and Butterfield. But the old programs study, informal student gatherings, and became “Balkanized,” according to Vice President of Finance gallery display and Planning, Jay Kahn. • Increased capacity to accommodate the Over time the Safety Studies, Architecture, and Sustainable three majors – from 340 to 500 Product Design and Innovation Programs had been building students partnerships with outside organizations. Students in all three majors are gaining experience solving real-world problems • Design for zero net energy performance and LEED Platinum Certification through collaborations with local businesses and nonprofits. Keene State’s biodiesel research project is a partnership with the City of Keene and the Monadnock Biodiesel Collaborative.

SPRING 2012 • 19 A few years ago, as it became clear that the old Partners in buildings could no longer serve the new, innovative programs, dean of professional and graduate studies, Melinda Treadwell, and assistant vice president of Safety finance and planning, Karen House, among others, started planning renovations to make the buildings RCAM is not the only collaboration work. They found a need for improved energy-efficiency, the TDS programs have up their new equipment, and infrastructure that could support collective sleeve. In fall 2011, Keene that equipment. State announced a new partnership with the New Hampshire Occupational And as the list grew, it became clear that these fixes Safety and Health Administration were really stopgap measures; the buildings would (OSHA) consultation program. As eventually need to be replaced with something better: part of the federal OSHA and through More open space. Classrooms without obstructed views behind pillars. Carbon neutrality. Faculty offices its partnership with Keene State, the clustered together to improve collaboration. group provides free, confidential initial consultations to businesses to ensure The programs are ready to cross-pollinate, to provide they’re operating a safe and productive more opportunities for students and faculty from each work environment. program to work together. The questions for a new building’s design became, Kahn says, “How do you give By partnering with Keene State College, a physical form to that evolution?” and “What kind of the consultancy can continue to provide synergy will this building spawn?”After careful and critical services, with the additional collaborative planning KSC faculty, Physical Plant, and Finance and Planning arrived at a plan to eventually involvement of students and faculty build a Technology, Design, and Safety (TDS) Center. from Keene State’s Safety Studies and Occupational Health Program. And And then a bad economy created a new opportunity in addition to those opportunities for as projects like the TDS Center – bound to serve public students and faculty, Keene State gains good, effective at maintaining economic momentum federal funding of more than $400,000 – became targets of the American Recovery and from the U.S. Department of Labor. Reinvestment Act, or “stimulus money.” Thanks to lists and planning and pipe dreams, thanks to lots of hard work by faculty and administrative staff and outside Keene State also continues to direct consultants, the TDS Center was shovel-ready. an OSHA Training Institute Education Center in Manchester, NH, as it has since The new building will lend itself to hands-on, minds- 1994, through a cooperative agreement on learning, according to Treadwell. Every classroom between Keene State College and the opens collaboration – removing both the physical U.S. Department of Labor. Over the past and technological hurdles of Adams and Butterfield. six years, the college has expanded its Wayne Hartz, an associate professor of Safety Studies, impact by establishing a network of 18 is pleased by the sudden ease of cross-pollination OSHA training centers throughout the of ideas. The safety field, he says, has evolved – and employers want diverse perspectives and prevention New England region. through design. The new building and recent programmatic changes fit with the changes to the field. According to President Giles-Gee, “The “There’s this tempo of opportunity,” he says, “about college is investing in this field to build a diversity in its richest sense.” skilled and adaptable workforce for the manufacturing industry, which will help As if to confirm Hartz’s observation, another our state, and ultimately, our country, to collaborative opportunity arose during the planning compete on the world stage.” phase, and that collaboration will also be housed in the TDS Center. The Regional Center for Advanced Manufacturing (RCAM) brings together the Greater Kelly Ricaurte Keene Chamber of Commerce, the Keene School District, River Valley Community College, and Keene State in an effort to support advanced manufacturing

20 • KEENE STATE TODAY Visit Keene State Today online: keene.edu/kst in the Monadnock Region. Each academic institution is developing new courses and using existing classes to support local manufacturing. In turn, local manufacturers offer training and mentoring to RCAM students. RCAM director, Norm Fisk, points out that without the program, the region was in danger of losing manufacturing employers who needed a more educated workforce.

And because RCAM connects with Keene State’s Continuing Education Office, Fisk says, “We remove those hurdles for people to get back into school.” The work RCAM students do transfers between the three schools, which allows people who may have been out of academic life for a while to find their place on the ladder. The RCAM model, Fisk says, shifts from a seat- time model to ensuring that students have the skills and proficiencies they need.

Placing RCAM in the same building with Safety Studies, SPDI, and Architecture exposes matriculated Keene State students to people who are actually working in the industries they’ll be going into, encouraging them to build connections and to solve real-world problems. It also gets people who work in local companies back into the classroom, where they have opportunities to bolster their existing knowledge and potentially work toward degrees.

Fisk describes the partnership as an example of how “liberal arts colleges contribute to the immediate needs of the community in tangible, functional ways.”

As helpful and timely as it was, the public funding Keene State secured for the TDS Center doesn’t quite pay for the whole project (for more on opportunities for giving, see www.keene.edu/development/tds _center.cfm). But it’s an excellent start on a project that is necessary for Keene State and will prove vital for New England’s workforce.

Groundbreaking took place during the summer of 2011. By the time you read this, construction will be in its final phases. (If that’s the kind of thing that delights you as much as it does us, you should check out the construction webcam at http://www.keene.edu/tds/tds- center-webcam/. It’s particularly cool at dusk on days when there’s welding.) How Can You Help Build a Safer,

More Sustainable World? CaulfieldBen Every gift to the TDS Center is important to its comple- On January 30, Keene State College welcomed state tion, and to the local and regional manufacturing legislators to discuss legislation under consideration this community. You can support TDS in a variety of ways, session. State legislators from Cheshire, Hillsborough long-term, visible, and at all levels. To discuss a gift, and Sullivan Counties, including Speaker of the House William O’Brien, pictured, turned out to engage with e-mail Ken Goebel, Director of Development, at KSC President Helen Giles-Gee and other community kgoebel@keene. edu or call him at 603-358-2378. members.

SPRING 2012 • 21 PROFILE: DR. MARK NEWTON ’87 The Simple [chemistry] of Sustainability by Paul Hertneky

veryone remembers the turning points in life, He took the assignment and solved the problem by using when unforeseen forces blow open a door and, other materials. But the manufacturing paradigm had without hesitation, we step forward. Mark shifted. “It caused us to start thinking more intentionally Newton, Timberland Corporation’s new VP of about design.” ECorporate Social Responsibility, has had a few turning points, but the most powerful one changed more than One of the first design-for-environment programs – his life, it changed the world as we know it. entirely common today – was born, with Newton and a new Motorola research team in the delivery room. Only When Newton came to Keene State in 1983, he knew the research leaders – IBM, Lucent, Bell Labs – were in little about applied chemistry, but once he got a taste, the game. “It allowed me to question the status quo – he couldn’t get enough. “It was like drinking from a fire things that scientists are trained to do. And because hose for me. I gulped it. And when I took p-chem [that’s materials were the first focus of sustainability in physical chemistry to the rest of us] with Professor companies, my area of expertise led me into working Jasinski, it became a language I could suddenly speak. I with the suppliers, design groups, manufacturing could visualize it. I had to go to grad school.” groups, communications teams, and legal teams.”

Over his seven years of graduate But did Motorola executives see work and industry internships at the sustainability as profitable, as value University of Texas in Dallas, Newton added? “They thought I was crazy,” witnessed an explosion in personal Newton says. Fortunately, the company communication devices. He cruised had a blue-sky approach to research and into a Texas job fair, sporting a shiny development. “Everybody talks about new PhD in chemistry and a fluency in Google doing that today, but that’s what a polymers. Upon meeting him, recruiters whole bunch of companies used to do.” from Motorola closed their booth and took him to lunch. The boom in electronics and demand for design-for-environment programs blew Motorola, at the time Newton was open a door for Newton. He returned to hired, was a leader in developing the New Hampshire as a principal scientist gadgets we all carry today – mobile for the visionary Dean Kamen’s DEKA devices, largely made of polymers. Research [think inventions, from arterial Leveraging what he had learned during his internships stents to Segways], then moved on to Apple, and to at manufacturers such as United Technologies, which Dell, where he became Executive Director of Global bathed aircraft parts in boiling vats of chromic acid Sustainability. Along the way, he’s traveled the world, and cyanide, Newton tried to get the most out of toxic and with his wife, Dee, who also holds a graduate degree and expensive materials before they had to be treated in chemistry, raised three children: Emily (once a student and disposed of. His work improved products and at KSC), 24; Daniel, 21; and Sam, 13. The admittedly saved money. “overachieving” dad is an Eagle Scout and re-engaged with scouting as an adult. He credits it with teaching Soon after Newton started at Motorola, the company him pragmatic skills, confidence, and leadership. He got a letter from a customer, the likes of which they’d says, “I learned the difference between being a boss and never seen. The Netherlands, a massive buyer of two- a leader in scouts.” way radios, had passed tough environmental laws governing chemicals in discarded electronics. They Newton admits avoiding the environmental teams at had ground up and analyzed the Motorola products his early jobs. “Everybody hid under their desks when and found a list of now-illegal chemicals. “Nobody ever they came, because they weren’t seen as adding value, asked about what was in this stuff; it was all about just creating constraints.” Over the years, though, his performance,” Newton says. work has likely preserved countless natural systems.

22 • KEENE STATE TODAY Visit Keene State Today online: keene.edu/kst He says he didn’t set out with an agenda. But once he I really didn’t. And then I saw them shut the place down got to Dell and his creativity with materials focused on twice a year, putting 500 to 600 of us, plus our partners, energy efficiency that dovetailed with environmental shoulder-to-shoulder, working on doing things like compliance, which in turn led to health and labor building five Habitat for Humanity houses in the parking conditions in the supply chain and concerns about the lot, in one day! Well, that’s transformative. It breaks products’ end-of-life, he realized that he had a full- down walls in the company and creates a real culture. blown, integrated sustainability program on his hands. And, it catalyzes real impact in the community!”

And yet, he says, when it comes to social responsibility, Newton understands that, since 1993, he’s been working “the social side of it…I was happy not to touch it with a near the nexus of commerce and justice. “It’s been about 10-foot pole. It wasn’t my background, I hadn’t worked doing well and doing good, feeling good about it…but

“I look back fondly on my days at Keene State. I fell in love with chemistry there. It was idyllic.” with it, and it’s a can of worms. Working conditions, not nearly the way it is at Timberland, a highly profitable wages, hours, rights – it wasn’t until I was in a leadership entity, serving individuals well and doing the right thing. role for overall sustainability that, oh, man, I had a lot to The philosophy and ethos here is: if it’s the right thing to learn. Again, I do like drinking from a firehose.” do, go do it.”

Until he came to Timberland, he had seen the local, When Newton was a student, he worked mornings at civic, and community service aspects of corporate social UPS and evenings cooking at the legendary Folkway in responsibility relegated to philanthropy. “I never saw Peterborough, paying his way through school. He says, “I it in action. It never clicked for me. It had always been look back fondly on my days at Keene State. I fell in love about writing a check. Yeah, I admired Timberland’s with chemistry there. It was idyllic. climate leadership and benchmarked the company for its excellence while at Dell. I had worked with Jeff “And I’m glad I went to a liberal arts college. I’m a real [Swartz, founder and president] on panels but I didn’t advocate of having a specialized field, but having a really know about their commitment to community liberal approach, a more well-rounded approach to that service. discipline has really served me well. Because that’s what it’s all about,” says Newton. “If I had wanted to “I was shocked. At first, I was almost saying, ‘Jeff, you become a bench chemist or a research scientist, that take your folks here and line them up to do service would have been fine. But, opening up my blinders and projects. I mean, why are you such a cheap bastard? considering other perspectives has created a world of Write a check like everybody else.’ Because I didn’t get it. opportunity for me.”

Making a real impact in theSPRING community: 2012 •Timberland 23 employees build houses for Habitat for Humanity. Alumni Notebook

From: Alan Hodsdon, President, Keene State College Alumni Association hile thinking about this letter, I did what most a slogan; it’s an exhortation folks do. I thought about my experiences, we take to heart as Wcontinued relationships, and networks from members of the KSC family. my days at Keene State College and their effects on my professional work. This got me thinking about other This year, the board and the involvements, those not directly related to business Alumni and Parent Relations and employment, where we try to give back to our staff are reaching out to communities. our fellow alumni through a host of activities—major When I moved to Canterbury, New Hampshire, a couple events, homecoming, of classmates and friends from KSC lived there, and reunion, Winterfest, and one of them, Bill Egan ’68, asked me to serve on the many planned social and town’s planning board. I learned a great deal from networking gatherings at locations throughout the that experience and am grateful to Bill for asking me. Northeast and around the U.S. At a recent event in While serving as the chair of the planning board, I Hooksett, I ran into some old acquaintances, including ran into Dick Amarosa ’67, who was serving in the Don Nelson ’69 and got caught up. It was nice and same capacity for his community. Jim Ashworth ’69 informative to learn about the lives of interesting and his wife, Carol, who attended Keene State, also people, both younger and older. lived in Canterbury and they both were involved in the community. Jim had served as selectman and Other events are being planned and you’ll want to Carol served as the administrator for the planning be sure to attend reunion June 1-3. These are great board. Later, my wife, Sandi ’71, served on the zoning opportunities to re-establish friendships, to learn about board. So, as a small network of friends, we made a others, and to have lots of fun doing it. Who knows contribution to our community. what pleasant surprises and new experiences await you when you get together to celebrate your association Once I started to think about KSC alumni working for with Keene State College? the public good, I thought of Dave Gagne ’73, who got me involved in the Nashua community with a program If you haven’t been in Keene for a while, it’s constantly called Adopt a School. I could go on and name many changing for the better, as is our campus. Do yourself other KSC grads who have given back to community a favor and come to what’s sure to be a great summer groups and charities. I’m sure you could, too. weekend in June.

Every year, we ask a number of people to serve either as See you there! members of the Alumni Board of Directors or on various committees to promote the college. Their willingness to help proves to me that “Go Forth to Serve” is more than

KSC Alumni Association Here’s What’s on the Horizon Bylaws revision information online Spring 2012 Alumni–Student Career Mentoring online volunteering Alumni Board 2012 Election

Come back and stay connected. Look for more at: www.keene.edu/alumni

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1927 “Holiday cards were received Golden Circle luncheon this “Barbara Jeffery Stimson is still from Ruth Nelson Towle and my summer. We are all looking doing workouts to strengthen her REMEMBER REUNION good friend Doris McQuade Re- forward to having her with us in bones. It has helped her tremen- June 1-3, 2012 bidure who lives in Milford, NH.” 2012. We would like to thank her dously. son for bringing her to each of the Ginny Rollins Flint 1935 luncheons. “ still drives From Norma Walker ’51: “Always around the North Country and nice to receive a phone call from Bernice “Bunny” Adams Mi- “At the annual Golden Circle beyond — even to Concord for a Margaret Grover Colburn. She chael writes: “Hart’s Turkey Farm luncheon held at Havenwood/ Golden Circle luncheon and to is well and still living by herself in Restaurant is the one nearest and Heritage Heights it was wonder- Keene for Reunion ’11. Talk about her own home. We did chat about so I do try to join in the Golden ful to have two very faithful Keene dedication! the unusual weather. There is a Circle there each year.” Normal School alumni present. Irene Nelson Koski little pond by her house where They were Doris Dekware Piper “ and I had some geese were swimming. 1936 and Blanche ‘Scottie’ Bean a visit. Irene is dealing with some Other years the pond has been From Norma Walker ’51: “Velma Smith. Scottie had recently been health problems at a nursing home frozen so her children and grand- Peirce Smith will be 96 in June. interviewed by Mark Reynolds, on Main Street in Keene. children had skated on it as early Her home is in Upsala, ON, but writer for Keene State Today. “Emelyn ‘Skip’ Ayer Krause as Thanksgiving, but not this year. she is still living with her daughter Doris is one of the stars of Enter writes that she often chats with “I had another recent phone call Martha Campbell ’65 in Brad- to Learn, Go Forth to Serve: The Barbara Rowe Freese on the from Margaret saying she had only ford, ME, since she fell and broke First Hundred Years of Keene phone. They were in the home ec lost power for a short period of her hip. We wish her well. State College.” classes at Keene Teachers Col- time during the last snowstorm. “Lovely cards arrived form Ferne 1939 lege. Skip also shared that she She said her family takes good Coffin Fogg and Trudy Emer- had worked for many years at Betty Har- care of her at all times.” son Carmichael. They are two The ever-effervescent Ruth Berry Camp Wawona with ris Jean Dudley E. Scrib- faithful alumnae.” Dodge joined other Keene teach- , , and 1932 ers and Keene Normal School ner (who came East from the 1937 alumni for lunch at Havenwood/ West for a visit last summer). REMEMBER REUNION Heritage Heights, Concord, NH. “There was a note on Frances June 1-3, 2012 Also present was Louise Whit- REMEMBER REUNION Day Bolles’s card saying she ten Perkins ’43, whose husband June 1-3, 2012 missed getting to the Golden Cir- Marjorie Clark celebrated her was a member of the class of ’39. 100th birthday with family and 1938 cle luncheons. She looks forward friends. She is recovering from a 1940 to every issue of Keene State fall that did damage to her pelvic From Norma Walker ’51: “Mari- Today. It helps her to keep up with Dorothy Young Carruthers bone. Norma Wright Walker ’51 on Thorell Sabin recently broke the happenings on campus.” presented her with a certificate 22 Sunset Dr. her wrist so was unable to write At a recent meeting of Delta signed by Dr. Helen Giles-Gee, P.O. Box 344 her usual message. We wish her Kappa Gamma International held president of Keene State, along Contoocook, NH 03229-0344 a speedy recovery so she can use at The Balsams Resort in Dixville with a bouquet of red and white her hand again soon. A memorial service for Barbara Notch, Ginny Rollins Flint and carnations. Eaves Craig “Blanche ‘Scottie’ Bean Smith was held at her Barbara Jeffrey Stimson as- From Norma Walker ’51: “Olive was planning a quiet holiday be- home in Peterborough, NH. sisted at the initiation of Audrey Norma Wright Walker ’51 Ames Edmunds always sends cause of the recent death of her was Evans Nankerois ’71. Audrey beautiful holiday cards. We have husband. We understand how you invited to attend by Barbara’s is the daughter of Jane Jeffrey missed Olive at the Golden Circle feel, Scottie. son Richard because his father, Whitney ’39. Jane, Virginia, and luncheons.” Clayton Craig ’33, had been her Barbara have been members of “Audrey Wells Curren writes 4th-, 5th-, and 6th-grade teacher DKG for 40 years. 1934 that she enjoys reading the in Hancock. articles in Keene State Today, We have received thank-you let- From Norma Walker ’51: “Kari, especially the one about the Owl 1941 ters from Erin Cogan, Henry the granddaughter of Ida Thomp- MacCormack, and Alexandra with its picture. [Ed. Note: You Virginia Rollins Flint son Skinner, enclosed a delight- McCusker for scholarships from can find this story in the Winter 799 Milan Rd. ful picture of the two of them and the Teacher Education Scholar- 2012 issue of Keene State Today Milan, NH 03588 Ida’s cats Edmund and Caspian. or online at www.keene.edu/ ship Endowment that was started Last summer, they took a three- kst/2012WINTER/class1951.cfm.] Barbara Jeffery Stimson at our 50th reunion by Neal Per- week trip to New Hampshire. Kari She would like to attend some of 678 Pettyboro Rd. kins ’41. Classes ’42, ’43, ’44, was delighted to meet and hear the Golden Circle luncheons but Bath, NH 03740 and ’49 have adopted it also. The about relatives she doesn’t see due to health problems is unable class of ’51 added a donation at From Norma Walker ’51: “A very often. Next August, Ida will to. She sent her e-mail address so their 60th reunion in May 2011. phone call to Ginny Rollins Flint be 100 and they are starting now we can keep in close contact found her with a touch of the flu so Our class sends its sympathy out to plan how to celebrate that with her. special day. she asked me to write some notes to the family of Neal Perkins. He “Gertrude ‘Trudy’ Emerson about classmates because she was a class leader and a great in- Carmichael missed only one hadn’t heard from anyone recently. spiration not only to our class but

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also to many Keene State alumni. enjoyed chatting with her and her of Marjorie Paulsen Hilton, 1947 He will be missed. sister, Christine Sweeney. who passed away this past fall. Marjorie had been class secretary Marjorie Paulson Hilton ’44 REMEMBER REUNION Our class celebrated our 70th re- “ for many years and a very active Ginny Flint June 1-3, 2012 union last May. drove died recently. She usually sat at Keene State alumna. down to celebrate it. We were the our table (class of ’43) during the first class to get a degree. reunion luncheon. She was a loyal “Priscilla ‘Robin’ Chic Sargent 1948 class secretary for many years. had minor surgery in September 1942 but is on the road to recovery. Ellie Smith Butler “Norma Walker ’51 called to tell 9 Muster Ct. REMEMBER REUNION me Art Shedd died in November. “Cards were also received from Lexington, MA 02420-2001 June 1-3, 2012 Pat Shedd had written a letter other of my Hancock High teach- [email protected] telling her of his passing at the ers: Janet Joslin Chin and Peggy Smith Campbell age of 91. Art contributed much to Shirley Mills Lang. Others who 1949 143 Walton Rd. education, especially in New York shared the holidays were Ruth Ellie Hughgill Muldoon East Palatka, FL 32131 State. He will be greatly missed by Avery Briggs, Rosina Digilio 3D Melville Ct. [email protected] his family and friends. Stark, and dear friend Harriette Lily Pond Overlook Chandler Streeter.” 1943 “Andy Moynihan also sent Pocasset, MA 02559 Norma a letter saying he was now 1945 [email protected] Caroline Nichols Pregent living with his daughter Lisa and 30 Giffin St. son-in-law in Gilford, NH. He has From Norma Walker ’51: “Once 1950 Keene, NH 03431 been recovering from a heart at- again Nancy Scripture Ashford Jim Wheeler was able to attend the final Gold- From class secretary Caroline tack in September. 6 General Miller Rd. en Circle luncheon held at J.P. Peterborough, NH 03458 Pregent: “Christmas celebrations “I was surprised to read in our last Stephens in Rindge. It’s always [email protected] are over and we all can look for- edition of Keene State Today that nice to see Nancy. ward to 2012. Edith Buxton Hadley died. “Carolyn Wynott Goodwill en- 1951 “Norma Walker ’51 visited “I also received cards from Phyl- joyed the Golden Circle luncheon Norma Wright Walker recently. She had attended the lis Buxton Bodwell from Con- held at Havenwood/Heritage 19 Eaton Rd. graduation of her granddaughter cord and Barbara Brown Char- Heights, Concord, NH. Swanzey, NH 03446 from the University of Arizona. bonneau in Florida. [email protected] “I had a phone call from Vesta “Rita Sughrue wrote that she “In November, Louise Whitten Fenderson Kennedy saying From class secretary Norma was experiencing conges- Perkins and family attended a she is moving to Saco, ME. She Walker: “In December, I attended tive heart failure. She tires very ceremony at West Point where has recently spent time in the the graduation of my granddaugh- quickly. her son David Perkins was hon- hospital. We will miss her at the ter Johanna at the University of “Lois Moore Querim wrote that ored as a three-star general. Golden Circle luncheons.” Arizona in Tucson. I had the op- portunity to meet several of her she and her husband had spent “In October, a group visited Ha- 1946 college girlfriends. How young a pleasant year in Florida enjoy- venwood/Heritage Heights. It was they all look, these beautiful young ing whatever their frail bodies will good to see Marilyn Bushnell, Thelma Partridge Mitchell people. We did have a chance to allow. Lois has turned 90 and Ned Ann Bridge, John Freeze ’42, P.O. Box 52 visit the Sonora Desert Museum, is 92. Their location on the ‘Top and Barbara Freeze ’41. We 70 Cedar St. where the animals are in their of the World’ has allowed them enjoyed a luncheon with other Contoocook, NH 03229 to enjoy many active years and alumni of KSC. has given them the pleasure and company of many good neighbors “On October 25, a small group of and friends. Golden Circle members enjoyed a pancake luncheon at Parker’s Newsline “Barbara Adams has had an Maple Barn in Mason, NH. active and pleasant year of several Want to know more about your classmates celebrations of her 90th birthday “On November 9, we had our last with family and friends. She did luncheon of the season at J.P. and what’s happening on campus? Check out not spend Christmas with her Stevens restaurant in Rindge, NH. relatives in Maine. ‘It is too cold,’ I am very fortunate that Joyce Newsline (sites.keene.edu/newsline), our news she remarked. Smith ’56 and Harry Winther blog for alums and parents. We post news as we offered to include me when “Marge Howe Herlin is in a they attend these luncheons. get it, but you can sign up for a monthly new location in Meredith, NH. “Stay healthy in 2012.” She says the staff there is very e-mail reminder to check the latest posts. supportive. 1944 And if you or an alum you know has done some- “We are sorry to hear of the death From Norma Walker ’51: “Our thing outstanding, let us know! of Margaret Sweeney ’42. We sympathy goes out to the family

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natural settings. The afternoon “I always enjoy Martha Bassett “I did attend my granddaughter’s Claire Waterhouse Simensen after graduation we all went to Sargent’s letters. They were to graduation from Marine boot 17 Sullivan Ct. tour the Biosphere 2. That was spend the holidays in Madison, camp at Parris Island, SC. It was Salem, NH 03079 very interesting to see and hear WI, with family. Their son from very impressive. Her orders for [email protected] about people existing for three Colorado Springs was planning MP training have been changed Irene Parent years within this sphere. to join them. Martha and Dick are to San Antonio, TX. She seems to Class secretary Priscilla Osborn Be- trying to downsize so they can enjoy what she has chosen to do. heard from Beverly Proctor chok Rachel Osborn “I always enjoy move into smaller quarters in the I’m very proud of her. , sister of Boyer Kidder. Winnie ’s Christmas letter. She near future. Class secretary keeps busy between her sum- “I’d like to thank not only my Langtry discovered that Rachel mers in New Jersey and winters in “I want to say a special thank you classmates who attended one or lived less than an hour away from Florida. Her family is always there to Ann Currier, Bicky, Elsie, more Golden Circle luncheons Winnie, and called her and visited to help. Joan, Ellie, Sally, Dick, Polly, this past year, but also all of the with her. Rachel no longer drives Stan, Del, Elaine, and, of course, Keene State alumni who have and finds it hard to get around. Shirley Milnor Keith “ writes that my faithful roommate, Rita, for attended throughout the season. Winnie invited Rachel to come her husband passed away two their cards, notes, and phone It is because of all of you that the to our 60th reunion next June, years ago, and now she is living calls. My life is complete with the gatherings continue to be a suc- but Rachel is sure she will not be at the Merrimack County Nursing support you continue to give to cess. Now I’m looking forward to able to go. They had a nice visit Home due to health problems. me. I hope you’ll continue to sup- sharing a lunch or two with you all and Winnie learned that Rachel “Glenna Yeaton Nutter is enjoy- port Keene State College, the next summer.” left home economics teaching ing time spent with her two grand- college that gave us all an excel- after a year as she found that the daughters. It is great to do that, as lent education and many lifelong 1952 younger children were more in- many of us know already. friendships. Please keep in con- teresting. She took extra courses tact. I love to hear from and about REMEMBER REUNION and taught mostly 3rd grade for “Margaret Rhoades Bost was you. I wish each of you a happy June 1-3, 2012 over 30 years, while raising a fam- looking forward to having family and healthy 2012. ily and helping her husband with for holiday meals and she is an Winifred Woodbury Langtry the garage he ran. They traveled excellent cook. “By now you will have seen a pic- 50 Evergreen Ln. a little and had a wonderful trip to ture of our owl that proudly watch- Contoocook, NH 03229 “Winnie Schoolcraft has to Canada, and, Irene thinks, to Ha- es over the comings and goings [email protected] waii as well. spend time in the hospital for a at the Alumni Center. I want to very serious back operation. If thank Richard Rogers, Stanley Irene DiMeco Parent Anita Nestor has had a cataract anyone would like her address, Johnson, and Charles Manos 27 Lashua Rd. operation and is having trouble I have it. for taking part in the dedication Ashburnham, MA 01430 with her knee but her spirits are Dr. [email protected] “Carol Adamson Reidy caught of the owl, which was led by good. Her husband, Alex, is still Helen Giles-Gee up on news of classmates and , president of family with Nina Krochmal Keene State. Witham. Nina had called me to “Elaine Schmidt Chelsey and say she is doing very well after her other classmates have gone to bad fall. She still uses a walker but a warmer climate for the winter they are planning for some time at months. Marco Island to enjoy the sun and warmer weather. “Patricia Parent O’Donnell is assisting the KSC alumni staff in “I had my annual Christmas phone the organization of an all-alumni call from Doc Chase. He and gathering in the Clearwater, FL, Faye are doing okay. They recently area. She will locate a restaurant had some improvements done on for a luncheon and make phone their home. It’s always nice to chat calls to alumni who are in the area, with him for a little while. He did encouraging them to attend. Her say he had talked on the phone to eagerness to help is deeply ap- Marian Brown Leavitt ’52, who preciated by the alumni staff. is adjusting to life after the death of Claude. “At the Hancock High School Alumni Reunion held in Septem- “I had a note from Ralph Dwire ber, there were a number of Keene saying George McKeage was State alumni present, including Four generations of Winnie Langtry ’52 gather at the wedding having some health procedures Marion Weston Frazier ’63, of Christin Langtry to Tom Ratcliffe on Dec. 12 , 2011. Winnie’s to improve his quality of life, so I sister Sarah Weston Hutchins, son, Gary, is on her left, granddaughter, Christin, is on her called to see how he was doing. ’57, Lee McMahon ’80, Herbert right with Tom, and their daughter, Sydney, (Winnie’s great- We all wish him only the best for Werdon ’60, and me. a speedy recovery. granddaughter) is in front. They had a wonderful time at Disney World that day.

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having health problems and has “June will be here before you know had to have surgery, but they re- it. Please start planning on com- 2012 GOLDEN CIRCLE main optimistic that he will reach ing to our 60th reunion in June LUNCHEON SCHEDULE his 90th birthday this fall, as he 2012. Hope to see you all in June.” has dreamed of doing. She talked June 21 Concord - Makris Restaurant with Joyce Wick in Florida and 1953 Joyce hopes to make it to our re- Donald J. Johnson June 29 North Conway - Granite State College union in June 2012. 695 Clement Hill Rd. July 19 Keene - KSC Alumni Center Marian Leavitt’s husband, Deering, NH 03244 Claude, died January 12, 2011. [email protected] Aug. 7 Meredith - Hart’s Turkey Farm She writes, “I miss him terribly, Bob Morgan writes: “During this but our family makes me feel con- past summer, my 46-year-old son- Aug. 28 Portsmouth - Country Club nected and needed. My grandson in-law, Remi, had surgery for an Sept. 20 Charlestown - Sumner House Zach attended KSC, and pres- inherited rare heart disease, with ently my granddaughter, Hannah medical costs of over $130,000. Oct. 18 Concord Havenwood/Heritage Heights Norton, loves our alma mater. I Also this past summer, another play bridge, women’s poker, and son-in-law, 47-year-old Greg, (residents only) do water aerobics. I belong to a gave one of his kidneys to the Nov. 8 Rindge - J.P. Stephens library reading group and I volun- ‘bank’ so that his brother would teer at our hospital.” receive one; his brother was criti- Prompt reservations, with nonrefundable Evelyn Bruce Quimby has four cally ill. All three men are recover- children, eight grandchildren, two ing at this time.” payment, are necessary so that we can great-grandchildren, and a new give an accurate count to restaurants. “green” house. She’s been singing 1955 and piano-playing in area nursing Alfreda Crosby Gallo Invitations will be mailed to all NH homes for 10 years. She also par- 3406 S. Palm Ave. Golden Circle members (all classes ticipates in the Nashua College Palatka, FL 32177-6342 Club, raising money for women’s [email protected] before and including 1962) three weeks scholarships. 1956 before reservations are due. If you do Winnie writes: “I was pleased to not receive your mailing, please contact Mary Ann Pellerin see that Dr. Helen Giles-Gee Kirsten Camp at 603-358-2369 or 1-800-572-1909 had a letter to the editor in our 10450 Lottsford Rd., Apt. 2104 local newspaper, describing how Mitchellville, MD 20721 (option #6 for Advancement/Alumni Relations), e-mail difficult it is for students, without [email protected] [email protected], or contact Norma Walker ’51 at scholarships, to complete their Shirley Wright writes: “I enjoyed 603-357-4089. education. I pray that we can help my recent visit to KSC when I students even in small ways with visited my granddaughter there. gifts from our class. Lots of nice changes.” “A reminder that June 2012 marks Alumni Office. a journey of 55 years since our “I am busy this fall with church “Your reunion committee invites 1957 graduation from KTC. This occa- and volunteering at the senior you to attend Reunion Weekend, sion will be celebrated at Keene center. This summer I learned where you will have an opportu- REMEMBER REUNION State College’s Reunion Weekend how to make a fresh blueberry pie nity to see a beautiful expanded June 1-3, 2012 on June 1, 2, and 3, 2012. It’s not with a glaze on top that was so campus, view our class gift (The too early to be thinking about your delicious. No longer do I just have Centennial Clock), reconnect Cynthia Randall Faust plans to return to campus and join to use cookbooks to find new with friends, and relive a time from 77 Sand Hill Rd. in the activities and events of the recipes, as the Internet has ev- your past. Bring your spouse, a Peterborough, NH 03458 weekend. erything if I just know how to ask. [email protected] friend, kids, grandkids, and enjoy Facebook is a challenge to me but “Our class will have a meeting on a memorable time. You’ll be glad I keep trying. Mary Pickett Hopwood Saturday morning. We will join you came.” writes: “My husband and I spend “I enjoyed going over and volun- all alums for the noon luncheon our summers at our camp on and will be seated together as a 1958 teering at Keene State College for Moosehead Lake in Maine.” new student orientation this fall. I class. A Saturday evening social Jacqueline A. Abbott got a chance to see another part Lee Manston Mackenzie is also being planned. Housing on 7 Keeney Dr. of the English Department and all Duncan winters in North Pond, campus will be available for one Bolton, CT 06043 the pictures donated from illustra- FL, January through April. night or more. A Sunday morn- [email protected] tors of children’s books. What a ing brunch is a popular event Connie Tremblay In October 2011, John Faust wonderful collection. writes on be- that closes a fun-filled weekend. half of the Reunion Committee: Details on all the weekend activi- and Cynthia Randall Faust ’57 ties will be forthcoming from the hosted a lunch get-together for

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1960 books in bookstores throughout New Hampshire. Try to visit her! Gail Spevack Sheldon 241 Blucher St. Nancy Hancock Cross, the Manchester, NH 03102 wife of Larry Cross ’60, died at [email protected] her home in Nashua on October 4, 2011. Nancy served on our Jane “Buffy” Buffington Co- KSC Reunion Committee for 30 man wrote from Sapphire, NC. years. Nancy enjoyed golf and She and her husband, Al, recently her seasonal home on Newfound celebrated their 50th wedding Lake. She was an avid reader; anniversary. This past spring their loved her Red Sox, Patriots, and daughter Cristi gave them a trip to Bruins; taught and retired from Miami to revisit the places where the Nashua School System; and they met, dated, and got engaged. volunteered for many civic causes. Included were trips to Joe’s Stone She was loved by all and will be Crabs and champagne at the missed. Fontainebleau, where they met at a Frank Sinatra concert. On Dr. Raymond E. Clarke, of Kent the actual anniversary date (June County, MD, received the Mary- In early September, five 1961 graduates gathered for three days 24), their two daughters and a land Retired School Personnel in New Hampshire at Judy Wilson’s lake house. Having lunch son hosted a party for them in Association 2011 Individual Com- are Dotty McGettigan Callaghan, Judy Desmarais Wilson, Atlanta. Buffy sent a lovely family munity Service Award. Dr. Clarke has served on boards of several Margaret Frain Curtin, Cathi White Wolf, and Terry Duggan photo showing them, spouses, five grandchildren, and their great- community service organizations, Broderick. granddaughter, Nora, three years including the United Fund and the Chestertown Elks. He has been four 1958 classmates and Theta luncheon in Rindge, NH, this old. After the party Jane and Al involved with the Kent County Chi Delta fraternity brothers and past November. enjoyed a cruise (their first) to Food Pantry and the “Food Packs” their wives. In attendance were Alaska. “Doris Courteau Roulx program, which supplies needy Al Fischer Jr. and his wife, Theia, and Kenny Roulx ’58, Also enjoying a cruise in January children with food for the week- of Merrimack, NH; Ray Demars her husband, 2011 was Irene Plourde. She ends. We congratulate you, Ray, and JoAnn Daily Demars ’60 of drove up from Connecticut. Doris visited Mexico, Costa Rica, and on being so active and contribut- Manchester, NH; Ken Roulx and has kept in touch with a few class- cruised through the Panama Ca- ing to make our world a better Doris Courteau ’59 from Gran- mates so I’m hoping to have a few interesting updates to pass along. nal. Other trips enjoyed through- place. by, CT; and Ray Plante and wife, out the year were to the states Betty, of West Lebanon, NH. “Vin ’57 and I took a wonderful of Washington, Idaho, and New Robert Dinwoodie lives with his wife, Sandra, in Manchester, NH. Ray Plante and Ken Roulx had trip in July to Transylvania and the Hampshire. He keeps busy with family, includ- not seen each other for 50 years. Black Sea. Then we took a river- Janis Brackett also had a trav- ing three grandsons, and con- The conversation was nonstop for boat excursion from Bucharest eling year. She attended her tinues playing the bagpipes with the afternoon. One highlight was to Budapest, stopping along the grandson’s wedding in Morehead the Clan MacPherson Pipes and an 8mm movie of our KSC days way in Croatia and Serbia. Many City, NC, took a cruise to Italian Drums in North Andover, MA. taken by the Fausts. Bits of the ravages of the past war were still visible. and Greek islands, and enjoyed a film were used by faculty member week at Disneyland with her Priscilla Canney Dutile and Larry Benaquist in producing “Our granddaughter, Cassie grandchildren, niece, and her sis- husband, Joe ’60, keep busy with Enter to Learn, Go Forth to Serve: Tobey ’09, is busy teaching ter and husband. grandchildren activities, going to The First Hundred Years of Keene dance at MoCo and some the gym four mornings a week, State College. Larry made a CD Keene-area schools. 1961 helping Joe (president of the for us from our footage. Everyone Manchester Teachers Asssocia- Dorothy Bean Simpson present enjoyed the film, with “Please be thinking and planning tion), activities of the Manchester P.O. Box 1373 shots of the White Rose Ball, on coming to Keene in 2014. It Women’s Club, staying in touch Center Harbor, NH 03226 Club Blue Gardenia, and the fa- is our 55th reunion and you will with her friends, and taking care [email protected] mous picnics at Spofford Lake. be amazed at the changes on of her garden. We also appreciate campus.” Ruth Doan MacDougall’s her assistance with the KSC Re- 1959 David C. Leavitt writes: “I have 14th novel, A Born Maniac, has union Committee. Carol Gatcomb Riel recently been published. It is the been very happily retired for 13 Elaine Chicaderis Ellis and 350 Pako Ave fourth sequel to her best seller, years. Lorraine and I will be cel- husband, Bill ’62, keep busy Keene, NH 03431 The Cheerleader. As the title sug- ebrating our 60th wedding an- with grandchildren and other fam- [email protected] gests, the setting is not only in niversary in April. Our memories of ily, friends, reading, birding, and the ‘barracks’ on Marlboro St. and New Hampshire this time but also Class secretary Carol Riel writes: church work. She retired from her four years at KTC come often.” Maine. Ruth has been signing “It was wonderful to see a few career as a library media special- new faces at the Golden Circle ist while living in Vernon, VT. She

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keeps a close eye over Bill, so “ladies” and their couples club John Knowles of East Harwich, we really loved having her take 50TH REUNION Bible studies, and antiquing. Two MA, enjoys shellfishing, reading, time out to come back to our 50th CHALLENGE of her grandkids live in Colorado and Cape Cod history. John’s class reunion. She still looks great and four live in California, and granddaughter is a freshman at with that naturally curly short hair. CLASS OF ’62 she makes multiple trips yearly to UNH and he has two grandchil- see them. Carol’s four sisters are dren adopted from Kazakhstan Jeanne Lachance Erickson and We’re on our way to a close to Rye. She saw Mary and by his son. He has been active in husband, Dennis, travel a lot. They great Class of ’62 Endowed Art Nadeau for a day this past “Seniors Helping Seniors,” sup- live in Duluth, MN. They enjoy summer. porting the less fortunate. Mike family and friends in between their Scholarship. and Fran Emond visited John Bill Buckler busy travel schedule. Frequently, of Winchendon, this past summer. John would like they come back to New Hamp- Please give, whether you MA – a first-time questionnaire to hear from Ralph Robinson shire to visit Jeannie’s many responder – taught English for can join us or not on and Vaughn Mann. brothers and sisters. 35 years in Ashburnham, MA, Reunion Weekend, June before retiring in 2004. His wife, Mike Emond of Granville, NY, Susan Freeman is busy scouting 1–3. At the class luncheon Gail Barlow ’66, of 33 years has been retired since 1999 but antique shops and shows around died in 1997. He married Helen, keeps busy playing his baritone her home in Ellington, CT. She has on Saturday, we’ll present a retired teacher, two years later sax in a marching band and guitar three daughters, their hubbies, a whopping check to and between them they have three in church. He also sings tenor and and six grandchildren. She enjoys children and five grandchildren. plays percussion in a local chorus President Giles-Gee. Hope journal writing, reading, walking, Bill and Helen work part-time as well as guitar, banjo, conga, “Lunch Group Gatherings,” and to see you there! helping others and enjoy their and tambourine. Mike does a lot volunteering at children’s reading friends. Bill has fond memories of of work on his 6.5-acre property, programs. Can’t wait to go antiqu- KSC, especially the Alpha Opera, mowing, cutting trees, cleaning • Share your ideas for ways to ing with her someday! Mac Keddy, Rev. Fay Gemmell, up after storms, plus painting and make our celebration unique Dean Fred Barry, Huntress Hall, repairing. He and Fran travel to Nancy and George Cote en- and representative of our class. joyed Golden Circle activities last and the old Spaulding Gym. Great Europe at least once a year and spring and their lunch at Parker’s • Step up and become involved. to hear from you, Bill, after all visited Prague, Vienna, and Buda- Maple Barn this fall. They are now • Let us know your latest adven- these years! pest in 2010, and recently went to Granada and Gibraltar. They win- looking forward to a three-month tures and important events. Carol Jeffrey of Keene likes to winter stay in Englewood, FL. ter in Georgia and Florida. Mike • Most important, make your finan- partake of senior-citizen discount serves on the Little League board 1962 cial contribution targeting the offerings by taking classes at of directors and parish committee Class of ’63. KSC. and writes feature articles for a REMEMBER REUNION To offer your suggestions or help, Cathy Gilbert of Keene at- local weekly on Granville alumni June 1-3, 2012 please contact Kay MacLean or tended our 45th reunion with and the wonderful things they are Ken Goebel at Keene State, Pat Bev Kovacs Spaven and Cathy doing. He says it is very rewarding Stephanie Heselton Baute Plante Zemianek via e-mail at Ayes Currier. Great to hear that for a retired teacher to know that 515 E. Surry Rd. [email protected], or Betty Butter- since the registration desk only former students are happy and Surry, NH 03431 fly Gilmanthrough the contact had Cathy Gilbert as our sole doing well. [email protected] information listed above. representative! She got a ride in Finally, we need to give serious Martha Crowley Morse a hot-air balloon as a gift from her thought to attending our 50th 131 Case St. 1964 husband upon her retirement in reunion in three years but more North Canton, CT 06019 Helen I. Jette 2000. She likes reading, garden- important to a class gift to the [email protected]. 37100 Neukom Ave. ing, cooking, and shopping. Last college to commemorate it. Bev Spaven Zephyrhills, FL 33541 winter she visited Please let Richard Doyle know 1963 [email protected] in Virginia, and she went to Nova your ideas on both issues and Scotia recently. spread the word to other ’65ers! Elizabeth Butterfly Gilman Bill Doolan 277 Coolidge Dr. 9189 William Cody Dr. Elaine Tuttle of Quincy, MA, is 1966 Portsmouth, NH 03801-5740 Evergreen, CO 80439 still working part-time as an ad- [email protected] [email protected] junct tutor at Quincy Community Nancy Coutts College. After teaching public 175 South Main St. We have just one year to go 1965 school for 15 years and doing Brattleboro, VT 05301 before we celebrate our 50th social work in Boston for 15 years, reunion! It will be here before you Richard E. Doyle this is her third career. Elaine has Thomas Makela writes: “My wife know it! Now is the time to: 561 Ocean Blvd. #4 moderate osteoarthritis, so travel and I live in Lake Wales, FL in a Hampton, NH 03842 gated golf community. It has been • Start planning your return to has been very difficult for the [email protected] past 10 years. She has 10 “baby 11 years since I retired after 35 Keene State College in 2013. years of teaching in Mystic, CT. Carol Hobbs Parkhurst of Rye, grands,” aged infancy to 22 years! • Think about how you might con- Elaine would like to hear from We have not traveled this year, as tribute to the celebration. NH, reads a book a week when my wife had major back surgery she’s not decorating, enjoying her Karen Tunney and Louise Pederzani Pear. almost a year ago. We are active

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here at Lake Ashton for there are volved in the program began in with his wife, Susan, near San is a freshman at Cornell and we many things to do.” 1962, when as a freshman, he Antonio, TX. Younger son, Paul, are enjoying life!” watched the televised Miss works for Wells Fargo and lives Bill Haggerty , co-executive di- America Pageant. Margaret with his wife, Brooke, and children 1973 rector and producer of the Miss “Peggy” Wass ’65, was in Charlotte, NC. We try to visit New Hampshire Scholarship Kathleen Pickford Stacy competing for the title of Miss often.” 190 Old Hancock Rd. Program, is the recipient of the America as Miss New Hampshire Bruce ’69 / M’73 and Linda Antrim, NH 03440 2011 Miss America Academy of 1962. Peggy had won the local Cloutier ’73 [email protected] Honor Award. This award was Miss Monadnock title, a contest are now permanently established in 1996 to recognize sponsored by the Keene Jaycees residing in Ocala, FL, and enjoy- Cheryl Devoid Marisov one individual who has provided at the time, which made her eli- ing retirement. 97 5th Ave. outstanding service to the Miss gible to compete for the Miss New Don Nelson went to a KSC alum- Neptune, NJ 07753 America level at the state or local Hampshire title. While she didn’t [email protected] organization for the year. ni get-together in November in win the Miss America title, she Manchester, NH. Don has lived in Bill has been involved in every was selected by her fellow con- Manchester since leaving Keene 1974 phase and aspect of the Miss testants as Miss Congeniality. many years ago. He has been Jane Cappuccio Stauffer 28 Beckford St. New Hampshire program. He is Bill met Patricia Morin, who retired for seven years and trav- Salem, MA 01970-3239 also a volunteer to the Miss Amer- was first runner-up to Miss New els most of the year; he recently [email protected] ica Organization, participating on Hampshire 1969, through the bought a home in Nokomis, FL. a committee that collaborated to program and they were married Mary Ellen Bouchie Joanne Castricone standardize the scholarship rules retired From : in 1970. They have three adult Frank Cas- for state and local organizations from insurance billing and is now “Sadly, my husband, children: Joshua, Megan, and working for herself, sewing for tricone ’76, passed away on – an extremely important task. In Katelyn ’99, and five grandchil- addition to providing his expertise craft shows and sales. Her ninth October 3, 2011. I have very fond dren. Katelyn was a captain of grandchild was born on July 20, memories of KSC as that is where on the scholarship committee, Bill KSC’s women’s soccer team. has dedicated his time to helping 2011. Emily joins siblings Hannah, Frank and I met and married in the state and national programs 1967 Kathryn, Michael, and Nathan and 1975.” by creating workshops, website cousins Sara, Guy, Andrew, and Audrey. 1975 development, newsletters, and REMEMBER REUNION public relations initiatives. He June 1-3, 2012 Anne Dunwoody Hunter serves on the Miss New Hamp- 1970 20 Highland Dr. shire Scholarship Program Board 1968 Susan Campbell Henniker, NH 03242 as vice president, and he also acts 15 New Acres Rd. Margo Merrow Karamanoogian as the production consultant for Jan Temple Metoxen Keene, NH 03431 27 Sandstone Dr. Miss New Hampshire’s Outstand- 330 Maple Rd. Bruce Nawoj and Donna Bedford, NH 03110 ing Teen program. Longmeadow, MA 01106 [email protected] (Smith) Nawoj ’69 are both [email protected] Bill earned his master’s degree in retired and enjoying their grand- John Berge writes that he is “still educational administration from daughter, traveling, and their lake 1969 alive – and sort of kicking with my the University of Connecticut in house. Barbara A. Hamilton new hip.” 1975. After 10 years of classroom 112 Avondale Rd. experience in New Hampshire 1971 Manchester, CT 06040 Michael J. Aumand has just and Connecticut, he became a [email protected] Maureen Sheehan Hall retired from being a contractor school administrator in 1975 in 69 Crescent St. and educator for the last 33 years. the Quaboag Regional School Ed Forbush writes that he re- Hooksett, NH 03106 He has a niece at KSC (Brienna District, which serves Warren and cently retired after 42 years of [email protected] Aumand) and a niece at Cornell. West Brookfield, MA. In 1983, teaching in Manchester, NH. He He is very proud of both of them. he became superintendent of is part owner and bartender at the 1972 schools in that district, a position Breezeway Pub in Manchester, 1976 he held until his retirement which keeps him very busy. REMEMBER REUNION Philip Bellingham in 2004. June 1-3, 2012 Cathy Derring Koppang writes: 20 Transit Ln. East Hartford, CT 06118 Bill was instrumental in establish- “Russ and I are in Naples, FL. We Debra Davis Butterworth ing the first Miss Keene State are in a friendly neighborhood, 21 McAuley Rd. 1977 College Pageant in 1965 and walk every day, and enjoy great Cape Elizabeth, ME 04107 served as its executive director. free concerts. We still spend the [email protected] REMEMBER REUNION Cheryl-Leigh Buffum ’65 was summer months in Wells, ME, so June 1-3, 2012 the first Miss Keene State College we have the best weather pos- Roger Hartwell in February of that year and went 17 Meadow Ln. sible all year. After 25 years in Sabrina Brown Maltby on to win the title of Miss New Enfield, NH 03748 retail, it is nice to be free to enjoy 13 Main St. Hampshire 1965 in the spring. the seasons. Our older son, Erik, Lucia Clementi Fischer writes: Raymond, NH 03077 is an anesthesiologist and lives Bill’s inspiration to get KSC in- “All is well in Albany, NY. Our son

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1978 Jacqueline Haight DeFreze time (ha!), I continue to work on lenge that I’m very comfortable 502 Portsmouth Ave. my fixer-upper. Whatever the year taking. I’ve been keeping in pretty Dianne Glaser-Gilrein Greenland, NH 03840 holds for all of you reading this, I good touch with David DeTuccio P.O. Box 1391 [email protected] hope 2012 is your best year ever. and Joanne (Pajak) Meegan. East Dennis, MA 02461 Maybe this will even be the year Thanks to Facebook, I’ve recon- Valerie Belanger McKenney [email protected] you send a message or update nected with my former roomie, 31 Westwood Cir. into the Class Notes… And re- Monique (Nahin) Couillard, and Dover, NH 03820 1979 member, everyone – there’s also here and there with Andrew Ne- [email protected] Bill Reed a Keene State College Class of blett. Keene seems like an entire 3 Mayfair Ln., Apt. 206 1984 1986 Facebook page. Join us!” lifetime ago. I always say that Nashua, NH 03063-7645 I’d go back in a second…for the From Steve Fortier: “On Satur- [email protected] Mary Beth Lucas Connors weekends! Truth be told, I thor- 295 Megan Dr. day, September 17, I got together oughly enjoyed my four very quick Martha Petrowski Laflamme Manchester, NH 03109-5924 with nearly 100 of my ZBT-Sigma years at KSC and have returned 474 Second Ave. [email protected] Lambda Chi-Sigma Pi brothers in a couple of times just to check on Berlin, NH 03570-2334 Keene to celebrate the 30th an- the place.” [email protected] Louise Perron Tetreault niversary of our brotherhood. ZBT 4 Avon Ave. started in the fall of 1981. In 1986, Hope O’Shaughnessy wrote Cynthia (Haefling) Stinson Cumberland, RI 02864 when I was president, we decided in a while ago, but due to chang- writes: “My daughter Hannah E. [email protected] that we’d be better off as a lo- ing deadlines for the last issue Stinson married Ben Pickand at cal fraternity and became Sigma of Keene State Today, part of her First Congregational Church of 1985 Lambda Chi. Two years ago, KSC update was left out. She does Swanzey, NH, on Aug. 6, 2011.” Alison Ahmed-Regen required all Greek organizations to grant writing for Songbird Sings 1980 1194 Lees Meadow Ct. be affiliated with national groups. (www.songbirdsings.org) and also Great Falls, VA 22066 Sigma Lambda Chi went with enjoys writing music (www.itunes. Allison Ashley-Bergstrom [email protected] Sigma Pi. Regardless of the name, com/hopealane). She most re- 212 S. Leandro St. we are all brothers, as our cele- cently worked at Keene State Col- Anaheim Hills, CA 92807 Lisa A. Gagnon bration in mid-September proved. lege, and prior to that, she worked [email protected] 12 Tack Ct. We are still all about being diverse at the University of Massachusetts Edgewater, MD 21037 and leading with our values. I am Amherst for over a decade. Cathy Stuart Zurek [email protected]. very proud to have been involved Karen Lee (Eddy) Gray 78 Morse Ln. gov with the creation of such a great writes Valerie Boxborough, MA 01719 organization.” that she “attended [email protected] 1986 Ann Lowe’s wedding to Tom Monique (Cusson) Lavertu DiPietro on Sept. 3 with Robin Tori Berube 1981 writes: “Life is going well here in Dannhauser Lazinsk. I was her 35 Andrew St. #4 northern New Hampshire, and matron of honor.” Nancy Colciaghi Pallas Manchester, NH 03104 there have been many twists and 6153 W. Fallen Leaf Ln. [email protected] Glendale, AZ 85310 turns along the way. My husband, 1987 [email protected] Michael Trabucco Robin, has retired from the US 361 Park Ave. Army after 26 years of service REMEMBER REUNION 1982 Arlington, MA 02476 and is now working as an office June 1-3, 2012 [email protected] manager for a financial planner. REMEMBER REUNION Our three kids aren’t really kids Lisa Corrette Livingstone June 1-3, 2012 Class secretary Michael Tra- anymore, I suppose. The oldest is 54 Regan Cir. bucco writes: “Happy New Year, in her second year of grad school, Raynham, MA 02767 Catherine Gewanter everyone! I was thrilled to hear working toward a doctoral degree [email protected] from so many reunion attendees, 600 Willis Ave., Apt. 2L in physical therapy. Our second Samantha Barrett McKinlay and be able to send so many Williston Park, NY 11596-1217 is in her third year of college and 2400 Country Line Rd. class notes into the last edition of [email protected] is taking steps toward becoming Ardmore, PA 19003 Keene State Today. Let’s keep it a pilot. And our third, in year two, [email protected] Janet Carsten Shaffer up! If you’ve never written in, now has just changed his mind about 13004 Gleneagles Pl. is the time! You can send me an his career plans: culinary arts to Michelle Morris Ayer Riverview, FL 33569 e-mail (address above) or find me business. After 20 years in music 41 Hemlock Rd. [email protected] on Facebook and send a mes- education, I’ve decided to spread Hingham, MA 02043 sage there. After taking two years my wings and change direction. [email protected] 1983 off from acting, I’m at it again. I’m By the time this goes to print, I’ll Joe Bannon sent this note: “The Patricia K. Hodgeman Bush playing one of the brothers in the have earned an MBA. I was hired other morning I got up and started Berkshire School Newton Country Players’ produc- as an office coordinator for a my daily routine, which includes 245 N. Undermountain Rd. tion of Joseph and the Amazing specialties practice at the local reading the paper before coming Sheffield, MA 01257 Technicolor Dreamcoat. And later hospital back in September. It’s a to work. On the front page of the [email protected] this year, I’m slated to direct a long way from my original career Quad City Times was an article show in Belmont, MA. In my spare as a music teacher, but it’s a chal-

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about an AmeriCorps group help- casionally as a guest lecturer in Seth M. Klaiman Maxwell Air Force Base, Mont- ing with a local nature preserve. the management department. She 2 Sweet Fern Trail gomery, AL. He is married to I know the fellow who runs the lives in Keene with her husband, Saunderstown, RI 02874 Stephanie Bessette Egan, a preserve, Brian Ritter, because Floyd (the firm’s IT specialist), and [email protected] graduate of Trinity College, VT, he sits on the advisory board for a their two children. Belinda serves and avid Owl supporter! preserve my company owns and on the board of directors of Pros- 1994 Heidi (Blish) Welch writes: “I that I oversee. pect Place in Keene and as trea- Melissa Sawyer Bowler surer for the Marlborough Garden am still teaching music at Hills- “As I read the article, I nearly 158 Shaker Rd. boro-Deering High School (this Club. She is also treasurer of the Canterbury, NH 03224 jumped out of my chair when it Monadnock chapter of BNI, Busi- year makes 14 years!), and was Kris- [email protected] noted that one volunteer, ness Networking International. honored with being named Best tina Hawes ’10, is a KSC grad! Dawn Deurell Teacher of the Concord area by I got to work and called Brian 1990 17 Chestnut Cir. the Hippo Press this past spring, almost immediately. I heard him as well as being named Music Lauren Aborjaily Griffin Merrimack, NH 03054-6611 call out, ‘Hey, Kristina, wanna talk [email protected] Teacher of the Year by WERZ to another KSC grad?’ and her 17 Monhege Path radio, which gave me the opportu- response, which was something Marlborough, CT 06447 Penny Rioux Joyal nity to conduct “Sleigh Ride” with along the lines of, ‘No way!’ I Shelly Brodeur Masson 106 N. Adams St. the Boston Pops at the Verizon would have offered to meet her 173 Raven Cir. Manchester, NH 03104 Arena in Manchester in Decem- and/or the group over lunch but Williston, VT 05495 [email protected] ber. I was also on campus in No- unfortunately, yesterday was their vember to give a guest lecture in [email protected] Mark Kadehjian was recently last day and they were heading the music department, which was promoted to corporate facility home. Ms. Hawes and I talked for Maureen Cicchese Musseau incredible. I am beginning my doc- supervisor for a national company. a bit and shared how much KSC 75 Pinehaven Dr. torate in educational leadership meant to us. Living in Iowa it can Whitman, MA 02382 1995 this summer, so life is very busy. be hard to feel connected as an [email protected] My son, Noah, just turned two, my alum, but this brief conversation Cara H. Staus daughter, Katie, turned 14, and life re-energized my feelings about 1991 2180 Stanley St. is fantastic!” KSC.” Karen Dicey New Britain, CT 06053 Kasey and Jake Schoch ’94 are P.O. Box 88 [email protected] married and living in Hopkinton, 1988 Exeter, NH 03833 Erin Delude George NH. They have two sons, Ryan (4) [email protected] Jeffrey LaValley 9 Bigelow Hill Rd. and Tyler (1). 260 Connecticut Avenue Amy Eshelman Troy, NH 03465-2106 Springfield, MA 01104 Helen Hames has joined creative 102 Newberry Rd. [email protected] [email protected] communications firm North Star East Haddam, CT 06423 Marketing in North Kingstown, [email protected] 1996 Susan Lundgren Regan RI, as Idea Instigator. Her role Karen Holmes Reinhold 79 Winthrop Rd. is to help position North Star as Kathleen Kerr St. Germaine 132 Overland St. Guilford, CT 06437 a strategic partner that brings 19 Great Woods Rd. Manchester, NH 03103 new ideas to the table, helping 1989 Plymouth, MA 02360-1826 [email protected] [email protected] clients build valuable business Maribeth Marsico Gesler Aaron Kay Sales Parker advantages. Before joining North 463 Juniper Ln. 1992 5832 Wooded Acres Dr. Star, Helen worked at the senior Cheshire, CT 06410 Knoxville, TN 37921 marketing level in the video game, [email protected] REMEMBER REUNION [email protected] toy, and computer accessories June 1-3, 2012 industries. Belinda S. Oster, president of Lieutenant Colonel Patrick Egan, Lehman, Wilkinson, and Oster, is Joan Crosby Anderson USAF, says hello. Announcing the 1997 hanging a new shingle: The Keene General Delivery birth of Declan Riordan Egan, his CPA firm is now Oster & Wheeler, Wilmot Flat, NH 03287-9999 brothers, Brennan Patrick (5) and REMEMBER REUNION PC. Belinda promoted Christo- Rowan Thomas (2), say hello from June 1-3, 2012 pher Wheeler to partner this year. Kate Shepard Dugan Marietta, GA, where Lt. Col. Egan Belinda purchased the firm in 42 Middlefield Dr. is the chief pilot of the 22nd Air Danielle Dearborn Gagne 2006 after having worked there West Hartford, CT 06107 Force and a recent graduate of 1587 Waterwells Rd. for much of her career. As the [email protected] the Air War College and National Alfred Station, NY 14803 firm’s president, Belinda manages Defense University, Advanced [email protected] the growth and direction of the 1993 Joint Professional Military Educa- firm in addition to serving as its tax Shelli Bienvenue Cook tion program. He received a mas- 1998 expert. After graduating, Belinda 18 Heathrow Ave. ter’s of Military Operational Art Deb Clogher Burleigh taught accounting from 2001 to Manchester, NH 03204 and Science in 2009 from the Air 44 Clinton Ave. 2007 at KSC. She returns oc [email protected] Command and Staff College at Budd Lake, NJ 07828 [email protected]

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Lisa Demers Harvey 2003 [email protected] Angela Watson Kristen Cranson Nelson 55 Davidson Hill Rd. P.O. Box 208 Westminster, VT 05158 Greenvale, NY 11548 [email protected] [email protected] Danielle Popyk 1999 20 Main Street, Unit #1 Somerville, MA 02145 Jason Hindle [email protected] 8 Spruce St. Somersworth, NH 03878 Erin Dineen Zaffini and Mat- [email protected] thew Zaffini ’01 welcomed their first child on November 16, 2011: 2000 Matthew James Paul Zaffini was Danielle LePage Zimmerman 8 pounds, 3 ounces and 20.5 3 Tracey Ave. inches long. Erin and Matt are Nashua, NH 03063 very excited about the new addi- Matt Chasse and Kara Chicoine met as RAs for Carle Hall [email protected] tion to the family. and were married August 14, 2011, with the support of Douglas Turner, who married Sarah Fanska, Don Detoro, Jesse Matthew Rorick welcomed 2004 a baby boy, Dylan Rorick, on Conant, who married Erin (Smith), family member Betty Ann Alison Thompson September 4, 2011. Singleton, Scott O’Brien, who was also an RA in Carle Hall, 18 Mount Pleasant Ave. and Christine Burns, who was Kara’s roommate her first year 2001 Wakefield, MA 01880 [email protected] at Keene State. Christine Leland Williams 54 Eastern Ave. Kurt Boudette married Carrie Woburn, MA 01801 Achatz June 26 at Aspen Hall in [email protected] Bend, OR. Kurt works as a safety CHALLENGE to KSC manager. The couple honey- 2002 mooned at Dreams Puerto Vallarta Recent Graduates! Resort in Mexico. They will settle REMEMBER REUNION in central Oregon. June 1-3, 2012 Bruce LeVine Mellion Krista Zielinski married Mat- Jessie Gannett thew Rotella on August 6, 2011. ’69 has a great idea. 91 Highland St., A Plymouth, NH 03264 MEMBERS OF CLASSES 2000 – 2011: Bruce will give $5,000 for scholarships and financial aid if at least 742 recent grads make a donation of any amount. A generous donor since he graduated, Bruce knows that small gifts can be just as important as big ones.

Why 742? Because that will set a record for recent grad donors. And we’re on our way. During March alone, hundreds of recent grads have made gifts toward Bruce’s challenge. If you’re one of them, THANK YOU! If you’re not, there’s still time…. Cheryl Wendt Clark ’01 and Cory Douglas Clark welcomed a baby boy, Matthew Cory Clark, on December 8, 2010. The happy Visit www.keene.edu/giving/742 to family resides in North Branford, CT. see the progress of the campaign and make your gift today!

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2005 2007 Valerie Nettleton REMEMBER REUNION 497 Foster St. June 1-3, 2012 South Windsor, CT 06074 [email protected] Becca (Fuller) Whitehead gave birth to her first baby girl at 12:37 2006 a.m. on January 1, apparently not Adam Wefers quite early enough to be the first 154 Sagamore St., Apt. 2 New Year’s baby in Hampton, VA, Manchester, NH 03104 which was in the next hospital Amber Connary Larareo ’05 met her husband, Jason [email protected] room at 12:31. Larareo ’03, during a summer as an orientation leader. They Christopher Hughes recently 2008 were married July 23, 2011. Jason is a second-generation Keene obtained the Certified Safety State alumnus, and Amber is a third-generation alumna. Jason’s Professional designation through Kelly A. Mullane father graduated in 1973. Her mother and father met at KSC 808 N. Congdon St. the Board of Certified Safety and graduated in 1984 and 1981. Her grandmother, three aunts, Professionals. Georgetown, SC 29440 [email protected] and an uncle also all attended and graduated from KSC. As Joanne Rix and Normand Mer- Amber says, “We are truly a Keene State family.” Back Row L-R: cier ’07 were married on June 10, 2010 Fran Colton (Blado) ’97, Tracey Lynch-Clason ’90, Katje 2011, at Hidden Hills in Rindge, Jenna M. Patnode married Mickola ’97, Craig Waring ’03, Ryan Phelps-Franco ’03, NH. Bridesmaids included Ro- Christopher Stromgren on chelle Bunton and Nicole Jon Zielinski ’03, Kerry Cussen ’03. Middle Row L-R: Lauren September 4, 2011. LaBranche ’07. Groomsmen Dennis (Court) ’03, Rob Dennis ’03, Dave Morrill ’00, included Joseph Vaiknoras ’07, Ben Leece ’03, Tim Guyotte ’03, Dominic DiBenedetto Henry Bailly ’07, and Jason ’07, Heather Lancey ’08, Micci Freyenhagen ’04, Ed Blinn ’08. Freyenhagen ’79, Lori Guyette ’90. Front Row L-R: Jack Larareo ’73, Jay Larareo ’03, Amber Connary Larareo ’05, Elaine Connary (Freyenhagen) ’84, Ervin Connary ’81, Lisa Robblee (Freyenhagen) ’88, Betty Freyenhagen ’92

Alumni gathered in Manchester, NH on February 9th at Boynton’s Tap Room, owned by Josh Boynton ’96. Pictured here: Anne Swisher-McIntyre ’07, Dan Saucier ’09, Keene State alumni gather at the wedding of Nick Arroyo ’07 KSC President Helen Giles-Gee, Loren Peet ’07, and and Sara Joyce ’07. Lilia Nickerson ’08

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Dr. Arthur Shedd ’43 Ruel “Joe” Hall ’55 Richard Bragg Jr. ’78 November 3, 2011 January 11, 2012 October 20, 2011 Marjorie Hilton ’44 John Hazelton, ’57 Carolyn Hadge ’78 December 15, 2011 January 11, 2012 March 22, 2011 Elizabeth Belle Edmund Poor ’59 Kathy Jambeck ’78 Hildreth M. Burke ’29 Fitzgerald ’44 September 10, 2010 January 31, 2012 August 25, 1997 June 12, 2011 Nancy Hancock Cross ’61 Lynn C. Whitman-Mulvey ’79 Maria Webber ’29 Beverly Fifield October 4, 2011 April 12, 2009 June 24, 2011 Darby ’46 Margery Hanson ’65 Sarah D. Knapp ’82 May 11, 2011 Bertha W. Saltzgiver ’30 April 11, 2011 November 1, 2011 September 17, 2011 Carolyn J. Hine ’46 Irene Tucker ’67 Connie J. Owens ’82 November 24, 2011 Barbara A. Parker ’39 October 23, 2011 November 24, 2011 October 12, 2011 Emery G. Chickering ’48 Leonard Goodnow ’71 Melinda A. Puglisi M’88 January 22, 2012 Katherine Bourgault ’40 November 14, 2011 March 13, 2005 November 26, 2011 Aldea O. Fowler ’49 Susan G. Bakaian ’74 Rory D. O’Sullivan ’01 December 4, 2011 Esther Perry Warren ’40 September 21, 2011 January 1, 2012 December 26, 2011 Priscilla Blackington Debra Lynn (Salonen) Elliott Krach ’09 Ingram ’50 Margaret Noyes Lovett ’40 Finelli ’75 December 2, 2011 January 3, 2011 January 12, 2012 January 8, 2012 Rebecca B. Brusie ’52 Margaret Sweeney ’42 Frank Castricone ’76 January 3, 2012 December 11, 2011 October 3, 2011 Gordon C. Durnford ’54 Sylvia Tenney ’42 October 23, 2011 September 28, 2011

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