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classnotes1940John Slocomb is 93 years old andlives in Grantsville, Md. He is inexcellent health, keeps up on forestryand environmental issues, walksdaily, likes to sail, plays saxophonein a local band and recently wrote abook on Paul Bunyan stories.

1942Richard Jorgensen, D.F. ’54, writes:“I have been very fortunate in beingable to talk to the other four membersof our class. Betty and Dick West arein Florida to be near their threegrandkids and seven great-grandkids.Betty is severely arthritic and needsmuch care, but Dick says her spirit isgood. He and Crock Atkinson tentedtogether at Urania camp, and bothmentioned Crock sticking his pistolout of the tent and firing to scare an owl away that was keeping them awake. Crock turned 90 lastNovember and is still hunting. Hegot a 185-pound buck last fall. Sadly,Crock’s brother in Boston is very ill,and Crock had just returned fromvisiting him when we talked. SidMcKnight lost his beloved wife justabout the time I lost mine and isgoing through the same lonely life,but showed me up by walking 10miles every day. I go around theblock once a week! He has a patch oftimber behind his house and oftengoes out to watch the trees grow. Hischildren are some 30 miles away, andI check on him often. Ben Eggemanlives in Alexandria, Va., with wifeJenny, whom he latched on to some60 years ago. They’re keeping theline going with six grandchildren. Iserve on the board of directors at asenior housing facility and do somechurch work. I got a new driver’slicense on my 90th and take folksshopping, etc.”

1946Class SecretaryPaul [email protected] Burns, Ph.D. ’49, writes: “Icontinue to go to my office nearlyevery day at the Louisiana StateUniversity School of RenewableNatural Resources in Baton Rouge. I have been professor emeritus there

since I retired in 1986. I have beentrying to learn more about the Chinesescientists who received special train-ing in wood technology at the YaleForestry School from 1945 to 1946.My friend and fellow 1946 alumnusDave Smith, Ph.D. ’50, and GordonGeballe, F&ES associate dean forstudent and alumni affairs, havehelped me. Gordon wrote that on thewall near his Sage Hall office is aphoto showing 14 Chinese studentsin a special 1946 class. He also wroteto his colleague Yajie Song ’89,D.F.E.S. ’95, who traveled in Chinaduring the summer of 2008 and hadplanned to make contact with one ormore of these former students. Thehistory of the Yale Forestry School’sfirst half-century has a chapter on“Yale in Foreign Countries,” with asection on China that points outhow Chinese graduates, includingD.Y. Lin ’14, N.K. Ip ’19, Paul S. Lee’20, P.F. Shen ’21, C.F. Yao ’21 andC. Wan ’23 played an important partin Chinese forestry.”

1947Class SecretaryEvert [email protected] “Hank” Wilson writes: “Itook a 35-day Viking cruise and wasamazed at seeing a plantation inIceland of very slow-growing trees. Ienjoy keeping in touch with RobertParker, now living in Issaquah, Wash.He is acquiring land in Brush, Colo.I live in Lyman, S.C., a small townbetween Greenville and Spartanburg.I always enjoy the news of YaleForestry School graduates from theWWII era.”

1948Class SecretaryFrancis [email protected] Clifton writes: “August 1was my fourth anniversary at TheCloisters in DeLand, Fla.”� GeorgeHindmarsh writes: “I went to WhiteLake off Lake Michigan with mydaughter for 10 days and caught twonice salmon. I admired the greatwildlife and huge white pine and redoak in the area above Michigan’sshores.” � John O’Donnell writes: “Iam long retired but healthy, and keep

busy cutting grass and babysittingfor grandkids. Not old enough towinter in Florida yet.”

1949Class SecretaryDaniel [email protected] Carlaw was the first forester thatInternational Paper ever hired, whichinvolved him in very large sales andpurchases of timberland and pulp. Heretired to Cape Cod when he was 60.�Dan Dick writes: “Then there were51 of us, the largest class in the historyof the school at that time. Now thereare 20 of us 59 years later. Not sobad. Noting that the previous issueof environment:Yale did not list a classsecretary for our class, I volunteeredand was appointed posthaste. WiryDave Fordyce, of Ogden, Utah, foryears now has been concerned overthe lack of forest management of thetimberlands in those states where toolittle rainfall produces incendiaryconditions. To quote Dave, ‘… forestsneed stocking control through heavythinning, fire breaks along with prescribed burning. Both federal andprivate-property holders pulled backfrom these actions due to no financingand threatened lawsuits by environ-mental groups using surrogate reasonssuch as timber harvesting, thinningor any type of vegetative managementthat would purportedly threatenwildlife habitat, or perhaps, anendangered species. Judicial decisionswere handed down to stay harvestingor any type of tree-cutting. With thesemanagement practices shut down orcurtailed, ground fires turned intocrown fires and total destruction ofthe forest. This year, money has beenallocated for extensive thinning.Actually, when controlled, fire is verybeneficial, such as in the South, toensure regeneration.’ How about themapples?! I trust that the rest of usaren’t too old to find some similarpassion stirring in our bloodstreamabout personal or professional issuesof interest. How about it?” �HerbWiner, Ph.D. ’56, likes the interna-tional position the school holds as its curriculum and outreach havedeveloped.

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1950Class SecretaryKenneth [email protected] Henson, Ph.D. ’50, writes: “Ibroke my hip early in May and spenteight weeks in the hospital. Recoveryhas been slow, but my doctor tellsme I am doing well. Pauline is doingpretty well. She enjoyed the poolduring the hot summer. The grand-children are prospering and are lotsof fun.”

1951Class SecretaryPeter [email protected] Arnold writes: “This year Ihave crossed a couple of watersheds.July saw my professional forester’slicense come off the wall—inCalifornia, if you don’t renew andneglect to inform the powers, youget fined for it—so no more woodstraipsing for me. My knees wouldcomplain too much anyway. Thisyear we also moved out of the housewe had lived in for 35 years (fouryears out while we lived in Ecuador)and into a new one just up the hillthat wife Sarah had designed—a veryeasy transfer from one to the other.We had sold most of our property,including the vineyard, two yearsago and were renting until this onewas finished. And the final water-shed was leaving the grape-growingbusiness. In 2007, even though the vineyard was no longer ours, Imanaged it for the last season, amost dismal one in terms of yield.But grapes from that vineyard have,over the years, produced award-winning cabernet franc; in fact, the1997 vintage was even noted in aWall Street Journal article about thatvarietal some time back.”

1952Class SecretaryMilton [email protected]

1953Class SecretaryStanley [email protected]

Eric Ellwood, Ph.D. ’54, writes:“Now in my 86th year, I have beenretired for 19 years from my positionof Dean of the College of NaturalResources at North Carolina StateUniversity. Retired is a misnomer, asI run out of time daily. For the firstseveral years of my retirement, mymain occupation was caregiver formy ailing wife Dorothy (Parkinson’sdisease). She passed away in 2000,and a few years later I married awonderful lady, Mary Kilburn, whothis year will retire from her businessas a clinical psychologist. We dosome traveling and have lots ofexpanded family nearby. I’m prettyactive gardening (especially roses)and sailing off the North Carolinacoast. My principal passion is photog-raphy (I’ve built a studio over thegarage), and I’ve won some awardsfor my work. My best regards to allthe other survivors out there andwould like to hear from them. Haveto go—things to do!” �Oak Thornewrites: “I was elected to the externalboard of the Yale Institute forBiospheric Studies and am honoredto be a member.” �George Tsoumis,D.F. ’57, writes: “I am 20 years inretirement as professor of forest utilization, School of Forestry andNatural Environment, AristotelianUniversity, Thessaloniki, Greece. Inthe course of the years, I publishedthree books in English: Wood as RawMaterial; Science and Technology ofWood; and Harvesting Forest Products.These were published in the UnitedStates and England and as texts inGreek for the local students. In 2007,I published Forests and Environmentin Ancient Greece. It is in Greek witha long English summary. I donated acopy of this book to the F&ESlibrary. Over my career, I was aFulbright scholar and dean of theSchool of Agriculture and Forestryand the School of Forestry andNatural Environment in Greece. Itaught at Montana and Penn Stateuniversities. I was a research associateat Yale. I served as president of theHellenic Forestry Association, was amember of the International Academyof Wood Science and was a foundingmember of the Hellenic AgriculturalAcademy. I published 60 researchpapers and many presentations injournals, books, conferences, public

lectures and encyclopedia articles.My wife Alexandra, a dietician, isnow retired. We have two sons—asurgeon and an orthodontist.”

1954Class SecretaryRichard [email protected]

1956Class SecretaryJack Rose [email protected] Rose writes: “After too muchmedical excitement for the last year,we finally headed out for our SunValley, Idaho, home in August, andthe trout are now endangered again.”

1957Gordon Baskerville, Ph.D. ’64,received an honorary Doctor ofScience (Forestry) degree on May 29from the University of NewBrunswick. In attendance for thisoccasion, which was held in the cen-tennial year of the UNB Faculty ofForestry and Environmental Studies,was John William Ker ’51, D.F. ’57.

1958Class SecretaryErnest [email protected] Barres writes: “I continue todevelop the forest carbon-offsetmodel, which I have been workingon for more than 40 years. Reforestthe Tropics (RTT), a Connecticut-based nonprofit organization, manages30 carbon-offset forests for 59 U.S.sponsors in Costa Rica. The goal ofthis applied research, climate-changeprogram is to combine efficient CO2sequestration in tropical farm pasturereforestation projects, with the pro-duction of wood for farmer income.Key to long-term carbon sequestrationis the profitability of these forests tothe participating farmer on whoseland the forests are established. Onlyif the farmer is happy with the cashflow from the forest will the forest bemanaged sustainably. Each forest hasa 25-year agreement between RTTand the farmer. In September 2008,the first thinning of these very-fastgrowing forests will be done for

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farmer income. Recently, MikeFerrucci ’81 and Kyle Meister ’07inspected some of the 30 differentinnovative models designed by me.RTT maintains a forester in CostaRica who is in charge of managingthe forests under my direction. Theresults so far are very positive, withannual sequestration rates of 40 to50 tons of CO2 per hectare by thefifth and sixth years in some designs.”� Rolf Benseler writes: “It’s our 50thanniversary, and I have much to begrateful for. I still can get out withmy dog in the field and in thewoods: redwoods, coast and sierra,though mostly sierra mixed coniferand coastal mixed evergreen forests.Move slowly, shorter distances, lesstime spent afield. I continue to beactive in the local Bernard OsherLifelong Learning Institute and AdultEducation Program. Once a student,always a student. Classmate BillRogers and his wife, Peg, celebratetheir golden anniversary this year.When asked how I spend my time, Irecite a little ditty: ‘I wander andwonder, look and listen, usually withdog on the go. Ballet and opera, Bachand Shakespeare, usually with wifein tow.’” � Ernie Kurmes, Ph.D. ’61,is writing a brief history of theNorthern Arizona University forestryschool for the celebration of its 50thanniversary this year. He also is completely recovered from a hipreplacement operation in mid-June.

1959Class SecretaryHans [email protected]

1960Class SecretaryJohn [email protected]

1961Class SecretaryRoger GrahamR. Scott Wallinger writes: “I am amember of the National Commissionon Science for Sustainable Forestry,now in its final year and making somesignificant policy-related recommen-dations. Joyce Berry, D.F.E.S. ’00,John Gordon and Al Sample ’80,D.F. ’89, are also members. The

commission has issued a statementcalling for a presidential commissionon forests to address major inconsis-tencies between policies and anurbanizing society with a growingpopulation in federal and state forestpolicies. In parallel, the commissioncalls for a forest caucus in theCongress and forestry sectors in thevarious governors’ associations. Icontinue to chair the Forest HistorySociety, which is growing its endow-ment and its relevance to educationand public policy. I’m grossly over-worked and underpaid as a memberof the board of the Seabrook IslandProperty Owners Association, and Ichair two of its committees. Adelaideand I travel and enjoy grandchildren,and I find time to golf, fish, boat andshoot.” �Harry Wiant Jr., Ph.D. ’63,holds the Joseph E. Ibberson Chairin Forest Resources Management atPenn State University, which has justannounced the institution of a newIbberson Chair in SilvicultureResearch. Joseph Ibberson ’48 wasthe subject of the book A Forester’sLegacy: The Life of Joseph E. Ibberson,by Henry Gerhold ’56, Ph.D. ’59(See Bookshelf, Fall 2007).

1962Class SecretaryLarry [email protected] Burley, Ph.D. ’65, writes: “Aftera career in international developmentforestry and academic teaching andresearch at Oxford, I retired in 2003and have recently become chair of anincubator company, C-Questor,which is concerned with marine,geological, terrestrial and silviculturalcarbon sequestration and renewable-energy generation.”

1963Class SecretaryJames [email protected]

1964John Worrall, Ph.D. ’69, reports thathe is five years retired, but stillteaching forestry at the University ofBritish Columbia (41st year comingup). They just don’t pay him for itanymore.

1965Class SecretaryJames [email protected] Blouch writes: “I’m director ofspecialty paper sales, trying tobrighten the world with Fluorescent,Photo Ink Jet, Laser and Latex papersfrom Miami Wabash Paper inFranklin, Ohio. I work out of myhome office in Lebanon, Pa. I enjoygreat health and love the customersand the opportunities to help. I planon working until the other huskiespull too fast, and they leave my carcass for the wolves. I’ve been married to Joyce for 43 years. She isa very patient and understandingsemi-retired HR manager. The soleprogeny, John von Blauch (restorationof pre-immigration nomenclature), is managing director of a Madridjewelry company, Cejalvo, manufac-turer of orders and decorations suchas Blue Max and Golden Fleece.”�Michael Greenwood, Ph.D. ’69,writes: “I am in my last year of aphased retirement in the School ofForest Resources at the University ofMaine, wrapping up the establishmentof a clonal test of white pine to findweevil-resistant clones. I still havesome graduate students, and havesome articles to finish on maturationand stand growth in red spruce. Iwork closely with Bob Seymour ’76,Ph.D. ’80, on the White Pine project,and work with Bruce Wiersma as amember of our new Center forSustainable Forestry Research.”

1966Class SecretaryHoward Dickinson Jr.

1967Class SecretaryRobert Hintze [email protected]

1968Class SecretaryGerald Gagne [email protected]

1969Class SecretaryDavis Cherington [email protected]

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1970Class SecretaryWhitney [email protected] Bissonette writes: “I work forthe U.S. Geological Survey, and haveled the Utah Cooperative Fish andWildlife Research Unit at Utah StateUniversity since 1985. I just finishedmy fifth book, Temporal Dimensionsof Landscape Ecology: WildlifeResponses to Variable Resources, whichis the third in a series of landscapeecology ideas for wildlife biologists. Iwas a Senior Fulbright Scholar in2002 at the Technic University ofMunich, and in 2005 a MercatorVisiting Professor at the University ofFreiburg in Germany. I return yearlyin November to the University ofFreiburg to teach a three-weekcourse in landscape ecology to inter-national students. The people thatmake life wonderful are my wife of42 years, Mary; my son, Gabe, whoworks for the Bureau of LandManagement in Moab, Utah; and mydaughter, Nicole, who works for theUtah Department of Health, and herhusband, Robert. Nicole’s daughter—our first grandbaby, Gabriella—turned1 in August. I find it so fascinating towatch her go through all of thosedevelopmental steps that my childrenwent through more than 35 yearsago. It keeps us young. When we’renot traveling, you can find me ridingmy horse in the mountains of Utahand my Harley on the back roads ofthe West.” �Donn Critchell isdesigning and maintaining simplewebsites for local town and commu-nity organizations. He is also a mem-ber of two photography clubs andparticipates in their monthly compe-titions. His photographs are online atwww.dynamicdonn.com. After retire-ment, Donn took up downhill skiingand has been to China twice, Greeceonce and Switzerland several timeswith his skiing friends and Sue. Hegave up sailing to take up kayakingon lakes and sometimes on theHudson River near Catskill, N.Y. �William Lansing retired as presidentand CEO of Menasha ForestProducts Corporation in April 2006,a position he held since 2001. He isthe author of Seeing the Forest for theTrees: Menasha Corporation and Its100 Year History in Coos County,

Oregon, 1905-2005; Can’t You Hearthe Whistle Blowin’: Logs, Lignite, andLocomotives in Coos County, Oregon,1859-1930; and Remember When:Coos County Schools, 1850-1940. Hemakes presentations around the stateof Oregon about the history of thetimber, railroad, coal mining andschools of the region. He lives inNorth Bend, Ore. � Rick Mathenywrites: “For 32 years, I have been thedirector of public health for theFarmington Valley Health District, a10-town area that encompasses themajority of the watershed of theFarmington River in Connecticut. Ihave just recently rotated off of theboard of directors of the NationalAssociation of County and CityHealth Officials after eight years, thelast four of which I was on the exec-utive committee. I was just electedpresident of the ConnecticutAssociation of Directors of Healthfor a two-year term, and I spent fiveyears as a special consultant to theboard of scientific counselors of theAgency for Toxic Substances andDisease Registry. My wife, Ines, andI have four adult children and twograndchildren, all of whom livewithin an hour’s drive, so we get tospend lots of time together. I havebecome a very serious photographerand have had many photographsexhibited at juried art and photo-graphy exhibits in the Hartford area.My online gallery can found atwww.nikonians-images.org/galleriesunder RHMJR2.”

1971Class SecretaryHarold [email protected]

1972Class SecretaryRuth Hamilton [email protected] Taylor, Ph.D. ’77, writes: “I’mworking with a small group to com-mercialize a versatile concentratingsolar patent. Ray tracing and computer simulations just completedshow that we are ahead of the curveof the most advanced technologiescurrently deployed. We have justcommissioned a prototype that webelieve will be finished soon. We

have an exclusive deal with thepatent holder and are seeking part-ners, advisors, investors and friendsto help us through the coming steps.”

1974Chuck Dauchy writes: “I’m stillusing my F&ES education and a fewyears of on-the-job training with theSCS (now NRCS), a small civil engi-neering firm, and have been an independent consultant since 1986for wetlands delineation, site designand permitting (to avoid the wet-lands) and stormwater management.Thanks to Tom Siccama and myclassmates for help on plant identifi-cation, to Garth Voight for my introto soils, to Professor Gartska for anintro to hydrology and to the wholeschool for the understanding thateverything is connected.” � LenLankford continues expanding thecommunity-based forestry enterprise,Greenleaf Forestry and WoodProducts. Three huge buildings havebeen added—all constructed of salvaged materials—to house a wood-product showroom (10,000 squarefeet) and two lumber-drying sheds(each 3,500 square feet). Installationof grant-funded small-diameter poleand lumber processing equipment isproceeding. Greenleaf is now pro-cessing beetle-kill lodge pole pinefrom northern Colorado, where 1.5million acres of lodge pole have died.www.greenleafforestry.com � LizMikols sends warm greetings to allfrom New Mexico. After retiringfrom Lehigh Cement Company inthe spring of 2008, she and her husband, Joe Schindler, relocated toSilver City, N.M., in early August. Asof writing, they were still up to theirears in boxes and bubble wrap. Shewrites that she participated in a five-session workshop with the GilaNative Plant Society on Shrubs andTrees of New Mexico on August 20.“Although I am terribly rusty, I managed to recognize some of thosearcane (and delightful) botanicalterms, such as tomentose, pinnatelycompound and obovate. I am eagerto learn a new flora, which I plan toput to good use when landscapingmy yard. I volunteer at the local historical museum and hope to beginteaching a few group fitness classeslater this year.”

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� Judith Stockdale writes: “I amexecutive director of the Gaylord andDorothy Donnelley Foundation,which is focused on land conservationand artistic vitality in the three-stateChicago region and the Low Countryof South Carolina. Projects of themoment concern local food produc-tion, regional land use, the IllinoisCultural Data Project and the ArtsWork Fund. I serve on the boards ofthe Donors Forum, Friends of RyersonWoods and the Nuveen Funds. Myhusband, Jonathan Boyer, is workingon sustainable architecture andneighborhoods with Farr Associates.”

1975Jean Thomson Black was promoted toexecutive editor in the AcquisitionsDepartment of Yale University Press.Jean has built the science, medicineand technology lists from almostnothing since coming to the Press inApril 1990. “It is a remarkable anddeep accomplishment that hasearned the respect of her peersthroughout the publishing world,”according to an announcement. Sheinvented the consumer health list andthe Yale University Press Health andWellness imprint. Her specializationshave encompassed life, environmentaland physical sciences; history of science and medicine; environmentalpolitics and policy; environmentalhistory; the ongoing debate betweenscience and religion; and trade psychology and cognitive science/philosophy of the mind. She hasacquired a continuous stream ofexcellent academic and trade titles,from general interest to scholarly tocourse books, to major referenceworks, such as Lichens of NorthAmerica and Phylogeny andClassification of Birds. Among theF&ES faculty and graduates whosebooks Jean has published are JohnAber ’73, Ph.D. ’76; Diana Balmori;Joyce Berry, D.F.E.S. ’00; HerbBormann; Mark Boyce, Ph.D. ’77;Ben Cashore; Susan Clark; GordonGeballe; John Gordon; Steve Kellert;Ralph Schmidt ’78; and Gus Speth.� Evan Griswold writes: “I havebeen involved with the school forseveral years now on a volunteerbasis, first as a delegate to the AYAand also with the F&ES AlumniCouncil. It’s been great fun meeting

other grads from different eras. Aftera five-year stint with The NatureConservancy, I entered residentialreal estate, working with conservationsellers and buyers to help protect theLower Connecticut River throughprivate action. I’m married, have twoadult sons—one married, one aboutto be—and have lived in one place for32 years. I manage my own 50-acrewoodlot in Lyme, which provides me with fuel, some venison andtranquility.” �Michael Harlow isundergoing a highly experimentalstem cell transplant procedure atStanford to try to stave off continuingassaults from multiple myeloma. His brother is the stem cell donor.� Patrick Lee assumed a managerialposition with the Legacy LandsProgram in 2006. He writes: “TheLegacy Lands Program seeks toestablish an interconnected system ofparks, natural areas, open spacestrails and greenways throughout thecounty. Since its inception in 1985,the program has protected over4,000 acres of land. The emphasis ison habitat protection and restorationand low-impact recreation. New initiatives include development ofprograms to support working farmsand forests in the county that arethreatened by rapid urbanization.Clark County is just across theColumbia River from Portland, Ore.,and is an integral part of thePortland-Vancouver metropolitanarea. My daughter, Robyn, graduatedfrom Oregon State University in2006 with a major in biology, and isnow working at Oregon HealthSciences University in Portland. Myson, Darren, is a junior at RensselaerPolytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y.,majoring in chemical engineering. Ata recent Yale gathering at the LuckyLab brew pub in northwest Portland,I had a nice conversation with formerDean John Gordon and his son, SeanGordon ’91.” � Jaynee Levy writes:“I transferred from the Bureau ofLand Management in Utah to theU.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS)in Washington. I live in Pasco, Wash.My new appointment involves man-aging visitor services for the FWS atthe Mid-Columbia River NationalWildlife Refuge Complex, whichconsists of eight refuges: Columbia,Cold Springs, Conboy Lake, McKay,

Toppenish and Umatilla NationalWildlife Refuges; McNary NationalWildlife Refuge and EnvironmentalEducation Center; and the HanfordReach National Monument.” �HelenWaldorf retired from the MassachusettsDepartment of EnvironmentalProtection after 25 years to do freelance and volunteer work on climate change. bostongreenfest.org;[email protected]

1976Richard Guldin, Ph.D. ’79, is thedirector of Quantitative Sciences atthe USDA Forest Service. In June, hewas recruited to lead an interagencyproject started by the Council ofEnvironmental Quality. The intent ofthe project is to recommend a pathforward on building the capacity toregularly report on NEST indicators tothe incoming chair of CEQ, director ofthe Office of Science and TechnologyPolicy and deputy director of theOffice of Management and Budget.� Colin Peterson writes: “My wife,Sandy, and I relocated in May fromPrattville, Ala., to Georgetown, S.C.,following retirement in October 2007from International Paper’s GlobalForestry Division after 36-plus years.All good things must come to an end.I have four daughters, five grand-children and innumerable friends andfellow associates made over the yearsin forestry and various organizations.”[email protected] � TyTice writes: “I took a memorablemonthlong ‘walkabout’ in theAustralian states of Queensland,Victoria and Tasmania, guided by myeldest grandson, Lincoln, after hefinished a semester abroad studyingenvironmental issues at QueenslandUniversity before graduating fromthe University of Wisconsin in May2008. I spent several enjoyable dayswith Chris and Herb Bormann, herein Seattle. I endured the painful ‘laying to rest’ last fall of a decade-long effort to establish a sustainablebusiness enterprise, discovering andproducing hydrocarbon energy, inthe Ukraine. Now, having fully completed a transition from a quarter-century of environmental mediationpractice to far more laid-back ‘elder’pursuits of mentoring grandchildren,maintaining fitness, renewing friendships and traveling to special

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places, I’m looking forward to swap-ping tales with F&ES colleaguesalong the way.”

1977Class SecretaryJames [email protected] Glidden writes: “I’m holdingdown the fort at Land for Maine’sFuture. Generous voters ponied upanother $20 million for more trails,eco-reserves, parks and green space,so I guess I’m employed for anothercouple of years. Maine remains ahotbed of F&ES types—classes oldand new. On the home front, onedaughter is about to graduate collegeand thinking about following ol’ dadinto the swamp of environmentalpolicy. She is even thinking aboutapplying to F&ES. Yikes. My seconddaughter is headed to college this falllooking to strike out as a historianand writer.” � Kirk Hall writes:“When I left F&ES, I worked onenvironmental cases in the U.S.Attorney’s Office in Portland, Ore. Iliked the law side, so I got a lawdegree at Lewis & Clark Law Schoolwhile working full time in a lawfirm. I practiced law for five years,started a business related to trans-portation services and was CEO of a professional liability insurancecompany for 12 years. I got marriedto a wine writer along the way, LisaShara Hall, so there has been lots oftravel to where grapes are grown. Idon’t have any kids, but three dogs.In 2000 I joined a technology startupthat was acquired by a big companyin 2006. Now I work with aPortland-based commercial real estatesyndication firm that focuses oncommercial properties in the West,and also with a family company help-ing them manage their investmentand real estate holdings. On the side,I drive Meals on Wheels on weekendsand am a court-appointed specialadvocate for abused and neglectedkids. I’m still trying to figure outwhat I want to do for my real career,and will let you know when I do.”[email protected] � TimHawley writes: “My son, John, wasco-valedictorian of Middletown HighSchool, a National Merit Scholar,Chemistry Olympiad state champion,math team captain, and he played

varsity tennis and taught biology toUpward Bound students for a summerjob. He’s attending Brown University,and his career goal is to do researchin theoretical math. He’s not keen onbeing close to nature, but he uses theclothesline instead of the dryer andturns off the lights, so he’s on theright track.” � Evan Koslow runs acompany in Waterloo, Ontario,where he invents and develops newtechnologies and starts new compa-nies. Last year, his manufacturingcompany KX Industries was sold to a large conglomerate. He has fourboys, the youngest only 2 years old.His wife, Gosia, is from Poland.� Andrew Melnykovych writes: “I joined the executive staff of theKentucky Public Service Commission,and am living in Louisville. My son,Alexander, is a sophomore history/economics major at Hendrix Collegein Arkansas, where he plays on thelacrosse team. My daughter, Anna, is a junior in high school, a prize-winning baker of desserts and a playeron the field hockey team. Both kidsare goalies, evidence that a lack ofcommon sense is an inheritable trait.”[email protected]. �HowieNeufeld writes: “This summer I wasinvited to present a lecture to RainerMatyssek’s research group at theTechnical University of Munich aboutthe impacts of ozone on plants inGreat Smoky Mountains NationalPark. I also toured their research forest (and got to go up in one ofthose canopy cranes to view the forest from above the canopy—something I highly recommend—very cool!). This October, I partici-pated on a U.S. EPA panel in ResearchTriangle Park, N.C., to discuss theprotocols associated with setting theNational Ambient Air QualityStandards for ozone. I am also thechair of Appalachian State University’sDarwin Bicentennial CelebrationCommittee. We will be hosting 13distinguished lecturers over theupcoming fall and spring semestersto celebrate the 200th anniversary of Darwin’s birth and the 150thanniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species. The list of speakers can be found atwww.universityforum.appstate.eduand includes two Pulitzer Prize-winning authors.” � Joanne Polayes

writes: “After 20 years with theWashington State Department ofEcology, I have retired from stateservice. My last nine years were withthe Water Quality Program, where Iserved as grant project manager for avariety of local nonpoint water qualityprojects, including stream restoration,water quality monitoring, outreachand education. I enjoyed a summerof hiking, backpacking (including asuccessful climb of Mt. Whitney),gardening and kayaking. I will betraveling with my husband, PerryWien, to Argentina and Chile in thefall and winter. After my return, Iplan to do volunteer work with envi-ronmental nonprofits, perhaps leadingeventually to part-time work.” [email protected] � Stuart Rosswrites: “After 25 years in corporatepublic relations, I am head of programmarketing and communications forthe Environmental Defense Fund,where I am primarily based inWashington, D.C., but commutingweekly from home in northernWestchester, N.Y.” � Kate Troll,executive director of the AlaskaConservation Alliance in Anchorage,wrote a letter to the editor thatappeared in the July 19 edition ofNewsweek. She wrote: “The easiestway to raise individual consciousnessis to tie climate change to weatherreports—something everyone talksabout and watches. As such, I waswondering if it was possible forweather experts to develop a climate-change association index—say, on ascale of 1 to 5 for different types ofextreme weather events, such asfloods, hurricanes, tornadoes, etc.—that weather reporters could quicklyreference. When we have 100-yearfloods every 10 years or so, it’s morethan just local weather patterns.Alas, most reporters miss the climate-change connection, and as a result,so do most Americans. I certainlyhope this [index] can be developed,given that Alaska is warming up attwo to three times the rate of theLower 48. This small step could havea very significant impact on how weas a nation face up to the challengeof climate change.”

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1978Class SecretariesSusan [email protected] Marie Magleby [email protected] Regina Rochefort [email protected] Hogan writes: “I have been in theprivate practice of environmental lawfor the past 27 years; here in NewJersey for the past 25. I have had agreat practice and really enjoy what Ido. Most of my work has involveddealing with the legal issues involvedin the remediation, purchase and saleof contaminated industrial properties.In the ’80s and ’90s, that involvedprimarily industrial-to-industrial use,but for the past 10 years or so it hasturned to redevelopment of theseproperties to commercial and resi-dential (multifamily) uses. I findmyself frequently drawing on what Ilearned in a number of my F&EScourses. In my work, I also deal witha broad range of other environmentalmatters concerning endangeredspecies, wetlands, coastal land useand stormwater. On the nonprofitside, I am a member of the board ofdirectors of the New Jersey AudubonSociety, and was previously on theboard of the New Jersey ForestryAssociation.” � Tom Rumpf is anassociate state director of The NatureConservancy in Maine. Tom and TNCin Maine, along with other privateand public conservation partners,received a Cooperative ConservationAward from the Secretary of theInterior, Dirk Kempthorne, for thePenobscot River Restoration Project,the largest river restoration projecteast of the Mississippi. The awardswere recently announced at a cele-bration of a major step in the project,which is the execution of options topurchase three hydro dams on theriver for $25 million from PPLMaine. When completed in three tofour years, the project will open upan additional 1,000 miles of habitatfor 11 different species of diadramousfish in Maine’s largest river.

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Zealand; working for a natural resources consulting company, a high-end travel company and abuilding design firm in Boston.

When she conceived the idea to actually build her own house, she took a two-week homedesign class offered by yestermorrow.org, which was founded by a group of architects “exploringthe very fertile junction of design/build/sustainability,” Turnbull says.

Turnbull is studying for a master’s degree in environmental management, focusing particularlyon the intersection between business and the environment at F&ES, with the goal of learning moreabout greening the built environment. “It’s the best school for what I want to do,” she says. “The[environment] school has a great connection to the business school, and it’s forward-thinkingand solutions-oriented.”

“It’s been a very public design and building process, and the house is much more interesting,much better-designed and much more creative than it would have been if I’d been building in avacuum,” she says. “There’s been great volunteer support, donations, curiosity, interest and ideas.”

The house was hauled by a trailer to Yale in October. It uses passive solar heating, so Turnbullsays she can position the high wall to the south in the winter for maximum solar heat and thenrotate it 180 degrees in the summer, turning the high wall to the north to keep her home cooler.

Her desks fold down Murphy-style, enabling a maximum workspace of 18 square feet, which ismassive for the size of the interior space. And she’s euphoric about her combination stove andoven, which is smaller than a two-foot cube. “It’s just a tiny little thing; it’s so cute!” She alsohas a lot of shelf space and a 3 foot by 7 foot storage loft above the door, as well as the bathroomand a closet wardrobe that she built. “So I had to be thoughtful about what I brought, and itturns out that there’s enough room.” She uses a marine cooler now but hopes to get a solar-powered refrigerator down the road.

The bathroom is the tiniest room in the tiny house. It measures 3 feet by 3 feet, but willeventually host a yacht-style wetbath.

The house is located near F&ES, and she’ll have close access to a bathroom in a host house.She has water for cooking and drinking but not for washing. The siting would determine whethershe would be able to put in a composting toilet and a sustainable gray water management system.“Waiting for a ruling from zoning boards and [figuring out] legal issues, like how to insure it, wasa big part of the learning process for me.”

Not only does the house use minimal construction materials, but Turnbull says she paid a lotof attention to the kind of materials she used. Most of the wood is FSC (Forest StewardshipCouncil)-certified, which added about $250 to the cost of the wood she purchased. “To knowthat it came from a forest that was well-managed and supported regeneration,” she says, “I feltgreat about it.” The exterior paint was low on volatile organic compounds (VOC), and the interiorpaint didn’t have any VOCs. “I used only four gallons of paint on the outside,” she says, “so Icould afford to go with one of the more expensive paints.”

The insulation was donated by a company that uses post-industrial waste soy oil in place of30 percent of the petroleum in standard insulation, creating a foam that’s highly energy efficient.

Turnbull says she held five building parties on summer weekends, and spurred by the first ina series of articles in a local Massachusetts-area newspaper, the majority of people who showedup at the first one were strangers. She gives special credit to a young man, Andy Vecchione, whocame to check out the project and returned almost every day to help convert Turnbull’s dreaminto reality. She says he had a lot more building and design experience than she did, adding,“There were four hands working on the house most of the time, and the other two belonged tosomeone who’s way more capable and has a significantly better three-dimensional brain than Ido. I joke with Andy that without him the house would be basically ashes and tears.” �

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1980Class SecretarySara [email protected] Johnson writes: “I finished myfifth year of teaching this past June. Itook my biodiversity class on ourannual field trip to Great MountainForest, where Star Childs led us ona great field tour. My boyfriend of sixyears, Robert Johnson, and I weremarried on August 2 in a ceremonyat the Pine Orchard Chapel inBranford, near where we live. Wesailed off into the sunset aboard our37-foot Tartan sailboat for a two-weekhoneymoon cruise. I teach science atCommon Ground High School inNew Haven, which was founded byOliver Barton ’94.” � Patti KolbMillet writes: “I left the ForestService this year on a disability retire-ment after having hip replacementsurgery in November and in antici-pation of future knee replacement—too risky to continue with fieldwork.I fell in love with Mabou, CapeBreton, Nova Scotia, a few years agoon the basis of the fiddle music andstep dance, the warm ocean waterand the genuinely friendly people Imet. So I bought a store this springand opened Nest, which sells jewelry, gifts and home decor inspiredby nature. It will be a seasonal busi-ness for about five years, with Jackholding down the fort in Californiauntil the store gets going and we getimmigration status, at which time we plan to move here permanently.”� Charlie Nilon writes: “I’m startingmy 19th year as a faculty member inthe Department of Fisheries andWildlife Sciences at the University ofMissouri. Thirty years ago this weekI was in the middle of the secondweek of the modules and roamingaround the Yale golf course withLaura Snook, D.F. ’93, and MarcGroff ’81.” � Steven Strauss is aprofessor of genetics and molecularand cellular biology in Oregon StateUniversity’s College of Forestry. TheJuly issue of The Forestry Sourcereports that he was recently awardedthe title of distinguished professor. Heis the author of nearly 160 scholarlypapers, has delivered more than 170invited lectures and raised more than$14 million in research funding from

the National Science Foundation, theNational Institutes of Health andother federal agencies. He is thefounder and director of the TreeGenomics and Biosafety ResearchCooperative, composed of biotechnol-ogy companies and forest industries,which focuses on reducing ecologicalrisks of genetically engineered trees.He also created and directed the NSFIndustry-University Research Centeron Tree Genetics in 1999, a multiu-niversity center. � Jim Thorne andRosemary FitzGerald visited SueyBraatz and Laura Snook, D.F. ’93, inRome in June. Suey led a field trip toUmbria.

1981Class SecretariesFred [email protected] Youell [email protected] Clarke, D.F.E.S. ’92, is the environmental chief at NASA AmesResearch Center, Moffett Field, Calif.� John Echeverria writes: “Afterserving as executive director of theGeorgetown Environmental Law &Policy Institute at GeorgetownUniversity Law Center for 12 years, I will join the faculty of the VermontLaw School as a professor of law inSeptember 2009.” � Thea Weiss(Tarbet) Hayes is a 16-year scienceteacher at Marysville School inPortland, Ore. She will be workingwith the Portland Bureau ofEnvironmental Services, JohnsonCreek Watershed Council, METRO,Oregon Sea Grant, Oregon HealthSciences University and PortlandGeneral Electric in her service learn-ing and research projects with 7th-and 8th-grade students. She is theproud mother of Hanna, 20, a SignLanguage Interpretation programcollege student, and Rachel, 12, abudding cook and David DouglasSwim Club team member. She ishappily married to Angel, amechanical engineering student andengineering technician.�Keith Tait isan EHS director at SUNY Plattsburgh.He was recently featured in an articlein the Plattsburgh Press Republicanabout greening the campus.

1982Class SecretariesBarbara [email protected] [email protected] Choudhury writes that hehas worked on the National ForestAssessment and Forestry OutlookReport 2020 for the Food andAgriculture Organization. After hisretirement in 2000 as conservator offorests for Bangladesh, he joined theInternational Union for Conservationof Nature and worked as head ofEcosystem & Landscape Managementuntil 2004. He joined Pakistan’sForest Service in 1967. His wife,Juliana, and he live in Dhaka, andthey have two daughters, Junna, asociologist in Sydney, Australia, andJuhaina, an environmentalist whoworks for the British government inLondon.” � Evan DeLucia writes:“Our older son, Nicholas, starts hissophomore year in college, and ouryounger son, Michael, begins hissenior year in high school. Afterserving as head of the department ofPlant Biology at the University ofIllinois for seven years, I am steppingdown this fall to assume the director-ship of the School of IntegrativeBiology. An unexpected honorbestowed on me this year was anappointment as the G. WilliamArends Professor of Biology. Thisprestigious endowed position willprovide additional financial supportfor my laboratory, which examinesphysiological and ecosystem responsesto global change. I have initiated amajor new research program exam-ining the ecological consequences ofthe widespread deployment of biofuelcrops on the landscape. Leslie and Ioften visit Ed Ionata on our travelseast to visit family.”

1983Class SecretaryStephen [email protected] Blackmer writes: “I left aspresident of the Northern ForestCenter in April and will spend 2008-2009 as a Bullard Fellow with theHarvard Forest, based in Cambridge.During the year at Harvard, I’ll

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explore the growing interest in con-necting environment and spirituality,including how I can more fully integrate my own spiritual interestswith my work in conservation. Onthe home front, both kids are away,traveling and in college, and mywife, Kelly, continues her conserva-tion communications work.”[email protected] �Mary AnnFajvan writes: “Since 2004, I havebeen a research silviculturist with theUSFS Northern Research Station.Even though I am stationed in WestVirginia, some of my field studies ofhemlock woolly adelgid allow me totravel to southern New England,where I run into other alumni andforestry friends from Yale and theUniversity of Maine. I was electedchair of the Allegheny Society ofAmerican Foresters, and I am honoredto be joining the ranks of other F&ESalumni who have held this position,including Gifford Pinchot, who wasthe first chair from 1922 to 1923.” �Domenic Forcella is on sabbaticalfrom his position as an environmentalhealth and safety officer at CentralConnecticut State University. He willbe working on college sustainabilityissues and the role of the EH&S staff.He is serving his last year as a boardmember of the Blues Foundation inMemphis and is writing a blues column for daily papers aroundConnecticut called Blues Beat.� Bob Glass writes: “I’ve been atSandia National Laboratories for thepast 20 years. In the last few, I’vemoved away from subsurface flowand transport (primarily the vadosezone) and on to complex adaptivesystems that include human andsocial response. As a part of theNational Infrastructure Simulationand Analysis Center, I’m working onproblems that range from thwartingthe next influenza pandemic to pre-venting congestion and cascading infinancial payment systems. I’ve startedto turn my attention to the globalenergy system and the constraints onacceptance of global carbon treaties.”� Paul Watson writes: “Retired,remarried and relaxed in Victoria,B.C. I’m not doing any more forestryactivities, but the environment isalways on my mind. Online stocktrading is a pleasant way to spendthe mornings. Measuring houses to

produce house plans for realtors,appraisers and architects occupiesthe latter part of the day. Golf figuresin there somewhere. The days atF&ES were great and are never farfrom my mind.”

1984Class SecretariesTherese [email protected] Tabell [email protected] Abbott notes that she left D.C.three years ago for Austin, Texas—a funky, blue blip in the state. She’sdirecting the Center for Science andPractice of Sustainability in theprovost’s office at the University of Texas at Austin and co-chairs the President’s Task Force onSustainability, which is focusing onreducing the campus’ carbon foot-print and developing a campus cul-ture of sustainability. Her husband,Jim Steinberg, is the dean of the LBJSchool of Public Affairs. � ShelleyDresser and Dave Gagnon ’85 areliving happily ever after inBrattleboro, Vt., with their threekids, Heather, Alex and Hope.Shelley obtained another master’s ineducation from Smith College and isteaching mathematics at EaglebrookSchool, an all-boys independentboarding school in Deerfield, Mass.Dave is the interim executive directorat the Organic Trade Association, anational trade group, and he alsoserves on several boards. TheGagnon-Dresser family spends agood deal of time with Anita andNed Childs ’83 and their family inDummerston, Vt., all having enjoyedSchroon Lake in the Adirondacksthis summer. � Rose Harvey is theTrust for Public Land’s Mid-Atlanticregional director. The trust’s work onan ambitious plan to acquire thou-sands of acres along the shore of theChesapeake Bay and five of its largesttributaries for conversion to publicpark land was highlighted in the July14, 2008, edition of The BaltimoreSun. “The concept,” Rose is quotedas saying, “is parks for people thatwill in turn protect the bay. We call itgreen-printing.” Environmental offi-cials have said they plan to focus onwater quality and habitat in decidingwhich land to purchase. �Nobby

Riedy writes: “I’m living on the central coast of California (50 milessouth of San Francisco) with mywife and 4-year-old daughter. I workfrom home developing and imple-menting philanthropic programs tosupport land conservation inCalifornia.” [email protected]� Susan (Huke) Stein is managingthe “Forests on the Edge” project forthe U.S. Forest Service. She workswith scientists throughout the ForestService and others to produce publi-cations that draw attention to theimportance of conserving forests.Susan and husband Bruce are enjoyingraising their two boys, Ben, 9, andNoah, 7, and getting them and theirnew field spaniel out in the woods asmuch as possible.

1985Class SecretaryAlex [email protected] Alling writes: “I am presidentof the Biosphere Foundation, whichhas several projects to inspire intelli-gent stewardship of our biosphere,and have been engaged with thePlanetary Coral Reef Foundation. I amliving in California with my partner,and my son is a musician in college.”www.biospherefoundation.org� Ed Backus writes: “I am living onthe Oregon coast, in Newport, withmy wife Jessica, a professor of marinefisheries ecology at Oregon StateUniversity. I am the vice presidentfor fisheries at Ecotrust. I am workingon the development of marketapproaches to fisheries bycatch (capand trade) in the Bering Sea, andhave also developed a mission loanfund for financing community fish-eries trusts to acquire fisheries quotasalong the West Coast and Alaska.”� Brent Bailey writes: “I’m living inMorgantown, W.Va., a small postin-dustrial university-centered rivertown 75 miles south of Pittsburgh,with my wife, Liz, and two daughters,Zannah, 17, and Lily, 12. I am directorof the Appalachia Program with TheMountain Institute, a conservationand community development nonprofit. My time is occupied byenvironmental education and citizenscience programs for teachers andstudents, management of a high-elevation preserve, a landfill methane

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project, fund-raising to support programs and a staff of about 20.Outside of work, I am on the town’stree board and the StewardshipCouncil of the Appalachian TrailConservancy and am a nontenuredfaculty member in biology at WestVirginia University. I garden, bake,hike and watch birds.” �HelenBallew writes: “I’m getting a graduatedegree in education. My aim is toknit together my 15 years of profes-sional experience in conservationand environmental protection with mylong-time (volunteer) commitment toinner-city public schools in order tohelp push back against our culture’sgrowing alienation from nature. I’llbe teaching K-8 science for a while.I’m married to David, chair of biologyat Trinity, and our three strong littlewomen—all bilingual—are thrivingat ages 7, 9 and 12. World travels inrecent years have taken us to SouthAfrica (twice), Tanzania and centralMexico.” [email protected]� Dorie Bolze is the executive direc-tor of a Nashville conservationorganization, the Harpeth RiverWatershed Association. Her kids arenow in middle and high school. � Rick Boyce got tenure a few yearsago at Northern Kentucky University,and his boys, Nathan, 14, and Seth,10, are in Cincinnati with his wife,Martha. On sabbatical this fall, Rickwill be in Burlington, Vt., studyingthe effects of calcium deficiency onspruce and fir in northern NewEngland. � Alex Brash is the N.E.Regional Director for the NationalParks Conservation Association, anorganization dedicated to protectingour national parks. He lives in an oldVictorian house in Riverside, Conn.,with wonderful partner Jane andtheir kids. Among other projects,Alex edited and published a com-pendium on the natural history ofNew York City. He also worked withan array of alumni to hold a confer-ence in Acadia in October on thefuture of Maine’s North Woods.� Jim Coleman, Ph.D. ’87, is viceprovost for research at Rice University.Adele, his wife, is still living inMissouri, and stepson Chuck is inReno, so Houston has been anadjustment. Jim and Jay Arnone ’81,Ph.D. ’88, collaborated on a paperpublished in Nature in early fall relat-

ing to ecosystem carbon dynamics.�Haydi Boething Danielson hasspent the last 10 years running aprivate K-8 school in Santa Cruz,but is stepping aside because sheand her family are moving to theCarmel area. She plans to work afew days a week with the family treenursery, helping out in productionplanning, process improvement andteam building at the two northernCalifornia locations. � Louise deMontigny has conducted silvicultureresearch with the B.C. Ministry ofForests for the past 17 years. Herhusband, Raoul, is the director ofthe Canadian Wood Fibre Centre inVictoria; their oldest son, Jaspar, isin his second year of mathematics atthe University of Victoria; and theiryoungest son, Oliver, is a high schooljunior. � Jock Conyngham writes: “I am a research ecologist for theUSACE Environmental Lab in Evaro,Mont., office in Missoula. I work ondam removal, river and riparianrestoration and fisheries restoration.I also run a consulting business thatkeeps my field skills up and myhands dirty. The money is good and,at this point, I only agree to fun orstrange projects. I’m a faculty affiliateat the University of Montana.”� Jeff Diehl writes: “In 1997, I co-founded Albion Environmental, aconsulting firm that does biologicaland archaeological studies. I no longerget to do fieldwork, but I’m having ablast running a small company. Wehave about 30 employees and threeoffices in northern and centralCalifornia. Life is good in Santa Cruz.I live in a great neighborhood threeblocks from the beach and a 10-minute bike ride from my office. Rob,my partner, graduated with a DukeMBA and has worked in corporatefinance with HP. He’ll be ordained asan Episcopal priest in the comingyear.” � Chris Donnelly is an urbanforester with Connecticut DEP. J.J.Earhart is chair of the GlobalEnvironment Fund and works on its$350 million emerging marketsforestry fund with the firm of ClarkBinkley ’79. With his wife, Analia, J.J.spends half the year in Buenos Airesand the other half in Portland, Ore.His kids are finishing up at university,where Sara just received her master’sdegree in marine conservation and

Nico will complete his bachelor’s ininternational studies this winter. � Caroline Eliot worked on land useand natural resource issues facingMaine’s North Woods, but left totake care of her kids. �DeborahFleischer has a consulting practice,Green Impact, to provide services insustainability strategy, programdevelopment and written communi-cations. She recently helped launchThe Institute at the Golden Gate.� J.B. Friday writes: “Greetings fromHilo, Hawaii, where Katie Fridayand I have lived for the past 10years. I’m the extension forester forthe University of Hawaii. Most of mywork these days involves restorationand management of native Hawaiianforests. I also work with people whoare growing high-value tropical tim-bers on former croplands or doingagroforestry. I’m cooperating on anative forest restoration project inPalau, Guam, which is the mostbeautiful set of islands I’ve ever seenafter Hawaii, and I was able to visitthe village in the Philippines wherewe were Peace Corps volunteers over20 years ago. My son, Nathanael, 15,is a sophomore in our local highschool, and Hilda, 9, plays soccerand reads.” � Katie Friday writes: “Iam working with the Forest Servicein Hawaii, American Samoa andMicronesia, trying to bridge the serious cultural differences betweenfederal bureaucracy and indigenousvalue systems. My favorite projectsare internship programs and train-ing. Some of our major areas ofemphasis are mangrove conservation,watershed restoration, agroforestryand invasive-species control. I visitMaine at least once a year, and it isdeeply encouraging to see how muchrecovery has taken place since I wasa kid—more rivers are swimmable,and there are more eagles andospreys. My father has Parkinson’sand in the couple of years since hisdiagnosis, we squeezed in extended-family canoe trips on the east branchof the Penobscot and the Allagash.”� Tara Gallagher writes: “Life on theNorth Shore with Steve’s and mythree boys is good. This year I startedconsulting with Pure Strategies, specialists in corporate sustainabilityconsulting. It has been interesting totake all those years of working in


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state government and apply what I’velearned to a comparable set of prob-lems. I’ve also been teaching parttime at Salem State for the past fouryears. I’m getting my mom finallysettled in an assisted-living placenear me, and it was a major feat rep-resenting a few years of U.N.-worthynegotiations. I imagine I’m not alonein facing such issues.” �MarkJudelson writes: “Anna and I are inChestnut Ridge, N.Y. I am the execu-tive director of the Arts Council ofRockland, where I’ve been for 14years. My connection to the woods ismaintained—still cutting and sellingfirewood and playing with thePaulownia I’ve planted and tended atmy home. For the past 11 years, I’vewritten and performed several one-man shows telling true stories ofindividuals who respond to violenceand genocide with artistic and peace-ful gestures. I’ve received four grantsto perform in high schools and pris-ons. Anna directs a Suzuki program,teaches violin, performs and con-ducts a youth orchestra. Our daugh-ter Maija, 32, directs a Suzuki pro-gram in Newton, Mass., teaches vio-lin and performs in and conducts anadult orchestra. Max, 20, after twoyears of working as a bike messengerin Paris and Manhattan, is about tobegin at the Boston Conservatory ofMusic, where he will study classicalbass. Anna and I visited Ruth Yanai,Ph.D. ’90, who threw me regular life-lines in Binkley’s class. I’m still grate-ful to her.” www.storiesofpeace.com� Asmeen Khan is still hard at workfor the World Bank. After a few yearsat the Trust for Public Land in NewYork City, Evelyn Lee took time offto take care of her family. Her oldestdaughter, Bonnie, is now enteringher junior year at Yale as an EEBmajor, while her younger daughter,Emily, is entering senior year of highschool. While on sabbatical, Evelynwrote two books for the Soundprintshabitat series for children. Last sum-mer, she undertook a greenhouse gasemissions inventory for the RegionalPlan Association. Stephen Lowrey ofTolland, Conn., is in municipal plan-ning and has helped add over 800acres of open space to the town andwrote regulations to encourage openspace. His older daughter is workingon a master’s in entomology at the

University of Connecticut; his son isin the Air Force, having gone to Iraqin October after serving inAfghanistan for three years; and hisyoungest daughter just finished atthe University of Connecticut.Gretchen Meyer is managing thefield station for the University ofWisconsin-Milwaukee that is locatednorth of Milwaukee. She is responsi-ble for administering programs,teaching occasionally and advisingstudents. She served as a host for therecent Ecological Society of Americameeting in Milwaukee and, with herhusband Fred, enjoys bicycling andswimming in the summer and skiingand ice skating in the winter. � RolfeLarson writes: “I created my ownconsulting business, serving non-profits, and teach marketing andentrepreneurship at the University ofSt. Thomas in Minneapolis. I alsowrote a book on business venturesfor nonprofits, and was lucky to getPaul Newman of Newman’s Own toendorse it. My consulting work ledme to a wide variety of interesting,effective and sometimes strugglingnonprofits around the United States,all seeking to incorporate or expandearned-income strategies to help thempursue their social or environmentalmission. Most of my environmentalwork has been done as a volunteer.After graduate school, I worked foralmost 10 years as a senior managerat Minnesota Public Radio. My majorfocus was developing successfulearned-income ventures for MPR. Ialso served for six years on the boardof The Nature Conservancy inMinnesota, I was the board chairduring our successful capital cam-paign to raise more than $15 millionfor conservation acquisitions andmaintenance in Minnesota and theregion and I guided a process thatled to investing a portion of thisendowment to support conservationin Guatemala. After leaving MPR in1995, I married and moved toDenver. Last year, Peg and I adoptedan incredible girl, Mariela, fromGuatemala.” � Jon Nute has had a20-year career with the University ofNew Hampshire CooperativeExtension. He and wife, Anne, livenear Concord, and their daughter,Sarah, is at UNH. Jon was honoredas the Society of American Foresters’

New Hampshire Forester of the Yearin 2004. Molly Harriss Olson workson a National Business Leaders Forumon Sustainable Development, whichbrought Al Gore to Australia in2003, and she has an article comingout in Austral Ecology, as well as abook called Ten Commitments:Reshaping the Lucky Country’sEnvironment. She and her husbandhave two boys, Atticus, 10, andAaron, 8, and live in a little historicrural village called Gundaroo justoutside Canberra. Lorna Perkins is a mother of two, wife of David for 23 years, teaches biology part time atSalem State College and is a freelanceeditor. Whitney Tilt leads theEverlands Conservation Initiative,which is an equity-based club forthose who share a love of the out-doors while being committed to givingsomething back in the form of conservation and stewardship.� Kathy Schwartz Spencer writes:“Our son, Will, is a freshman atCornell. There is a lot of excitementfor all he will learn and discover,mixed with profound sadness for usas parents, as we close the door onthis chapter of our family life. Wehave our daughter, Christie, 16, butreally need to get rolling on her college search almost immediately. Iwork part time (about three days aweek) as the environmental specialistwith a planning/grant-writing firm inRochester, N.Y. We work mainly withsmall upstate New York communities,helping them get funds to build public water and sewer utilities. Acouple of years ago, we were acquiredby an engineering firm, so our projectsare widening in scope. I also volunteerwith our local land trust, which wasestablished just after I moved toRochester about 20 years ago. Myhusband, Tim, works for Kodak.”[email protected] � DavidSteckel writes: “I have worked forNatural Lands Trust—a regional landtrust focused on eastern Pennsylvaniaand southern New Jersey—and livedin southeastern Pennsylvania sincegraduation. The first 20 years werespent in the stewardship departmentas director of land stewardship. Inow divide my time between thedevelopment and planning depart-ments. My wife, Claudia, is a consult-ing botanist. We live in Allentown,

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where we spend much time caringfor home, gardens and aging rela-tives.” �Gregor Wolf writes: “Afternearly 10 years in Brazil, initiallywith the German Development Bankand then the World Bank, where I ranthe G-7 Pilot Program to Protect theBrazilian Rainforests, I am at WorldBank headquarters in Washington,D.C. After a two-year stint in ourforest policy team at the WorldBank’s Environment Department, Iwas promoted to sector leader incharge of the bank’s project portfoliofor infrastructure, energy, rural devel-opment and the environment. I ammarried and have two boys, Alex, 11,and Sam, 13.�Ruth Yanai, Ph.D. ’90,writes: “I’m at the Ecosystem Centerof the Marine Biological Laboratory inWoods Hole, Mass., for the semester(sabbaticals are a nice feature of aca-demic life), and my daughter Nora isin her first school. I have projects atthe Hubbard Brook ExperimentalForest, and I work with TomSiccama, Mary Arthur ’83 and SteveHamburg ’77, Ph.D. ’84. I’m mostexcited about an experiment to testwhether forests are approachingphosphorus limitation after all thenitrogen we’ve been applying in airpollution.” � Steve Young writes: “Iam living on the North Shore ofMassachusetts with Tara (Gallagher)and our three boys, Dylan, 14,Nathan, 9, and Joshua, 9. I am chairof the Department of Geography atSalem State College (one of the pub-lic colleges of Massachusetts). I loveworking at SSC and in geography.My specialty is satellite imaging andglobal vegetation change. One of myprojects is the Earth Exposed, an artgallery exhibition that explains howgeographers study the Earth fromspace. The show has traveled to afew East Coast cities, the headquar-ters of the National ScienceFoundation, Australia and, inAugust, Tunisia.”

1986Ken Andrasko writes: “I’m living inWashington, D.C., with my wife,Julie, and our two daughters. I leftthe EPA to join the World Bank andwork in the innovative carbonfinance unit that manages $2 billionin funds and projects that address

climate-change emissions mitigation.About five of us are developing theForest Carbon Partnership Facility, a$300 million partnership fundamong developing countries withtropical forests, donor countries andthe bank to reduce deforestation atthe national scale, use remote sens-ing to monitor reductions and thencreate a carbon asset to be traded oninternational markets in the post-Kyoto Protocol climate regime.” [email protected] �DaveBraun is a tree and forest consultantin Hood River, Ore. Work includesnative plant restoration and forestfuels treatment; he enjoys climbingaround in trees as part of the diagnosisof health or hazard issues. He doesresearch on bark beetles and eco-restoration, is developing techniquesfor making wildlife trees withTimothy Brown and is co-authoringa book on the same with Tim, ChrisMaser and Bill Laudenslayer. He justlanded a contract with Tim to diver-sify a 40-year-old montane coniferforest by putting in about 50 smallstand openings—at 40 to 60 feet offthe ground to leave vertical structurefor habitat. Becky, his partner, is anurse practitioner at the regional jail(NORCOR). Son Zev, 15, will giveyou a Halo tutorial or trombone lesson—your choice.” � EricCarlson and his consultancy E2C2provide LEED, green-building andadvisory services for numerous public projects in the mid-Atlanticregion. He is also a senior advisor toa green-business startup in Portland,Ore., called Shorepower. He is anadjunct professor at the CorcoranCollege of Art & Design inWashington, D.C., where he teachessustainable practices for designers.www.e2c2inc.com; www.shorepow-er.com �Maggie Coon celebrated 20years with The Nature Conservancy.In the past five years, she’s beendeeply involved in the creation andleadership of the WashingtonBiodiversity Council, charged by thegovernor with safeguardingWashington’s natural heritage.� Tom Duffus writes: “I am theUpper Midwest Director with TheConservation Fund and am havingfun with some large forestland con-servation projects in the Great Lakes,

as well as large river conservationprojects on the Mississippi andMissouri rivers. Nell and I live inDuluth, Minn., on Lake Superior. Iam playing bagpipes and have joinedthe Minnesota Police Pipe Band,which is headed to the WorldChampionships in 2010. My son startscollege this year, so I am feeling old.”�Michael Wells is a freelance con-sultant on international environmentaltopics from his home in Norway, nowaided and abetted by two teenagedaughters. Recent assignments haveincluded leading independent evalu-ations of the Critical EcosystemPartnership Fund; the Gordon andBetty Moore Foundation’s grants toConservation International; UNDP’s$3 billion global environment andenergy program; and the MillenniumEcosystem Assessment. Other clients include the World Bank’sDevelopment Marketplace, NORADand a variety of Global EnvironmentFacility activities, including the flag-ship GEF Small Grants Programme.These have provided rich opportuni-ties to interact with dedicated environ-mentalists carrying out marvelouswork worldwide, including F&ESalumni. Family vacations have pro-vided a critical balance, most recently,sea kayaking among killer whalesnorth of Vancouver Island in BritishColumbia.

1987Class SecretariesChristie [email protected] Paly [email protected] Brennan is senior climate changescientist of the science program atDefenders of Wildlife. She has beenrecognized for her vital contributionsas part of the IntergovernmentalPanel on Climate Change thathelped win the 2007 Nobel PeacePrize for the IPCC. As science officerfor the U.S. Department of State,Office of Global Change, she waspart of a federal interagency workinggroup and a member of the U.S. del-egation at international negotiationsof the Intergovernmental Panel onClimate Change under the U.N.Framework Convention on ClimateChange. She also coordinated tech-

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nical reviews and submissions onbehalf of the United States to theIPCC and U.S. Interagency TechnicalAdvisory Team on the IPCC SpecialReport & Publications: Aviation andthe Global Atmosphere; Land Use,Land-Use Change and Forestry;Technology Transfer; and EmissionScenarios. � Julie Dunlap, Ph.D. ’87,writes: “I got to visit Anne HookerClarke ’81, D.F.E.S. ’92, in Californiathis summer, and we visitedYosemite and the Mariposa Big Treestogether.” � Anne Hartley writes:“I’ve joined the faculty of FloridaGulf Coast University in Fort Myers.It’s the youngest Florida state univer-sity, and its mission is environmentalsustainability and service learning. I’ma new member of Coastal WatershedInstitute, a group of exceptionalmarine scientists working on prob-lems of nutrient loading, harmfulalgal blooms and fisheries in theGulf of Mexico.” � Joshua Roytefocuses on large forest conservationprojects and the Penobscot RiverRestoration project, a massive projectto restore millions of sea-run fish toMaine’s largest river, for The NatureConservancy in Maine. His primaryrole for the conservancy is ensuringthat baseline measures are in placebefore dam removal begins and coor-dinating the identification and miti-gation of hundreds of smaller barriersin the watershed with federal, stateand other NGO partners. Josh liveshappily with his wife, Leigh Baker, inYarmouth, Maine, and they had theopportunity to get together inAugust with the families of LauraFalk McCarthy, Libby Moore andBobby Moore ’86, and Melissa Palyat Melissa’s home in Kittery Point,Maine. � Joel Seton writes:“Greetings from the Setons inJerusalem. Laura and I are enjoyingour second year of marriage. I run atour company that brings peoplefrom abroad for study tours of Israel.Laura does freelance writing andediting, in addition to writing songsin English and Hebrew and othercreative pursuits. We love the fasci-nating historical sites, dynamic cul-ture and great hiking routes in thisecologically diverse and beautifulcountry. We are also involved withthe Yale Club of Israel.”

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explicit, specific and decisive entry into the biotic community and prompted life-longphilosophical and moral reflections. In one sense, the biotic community and predator-preyrelations are amoral, natural realities and processes spawned by the Crafty Blind Tinkerer(Darwin’s nature). However, for us humans, biotic communities and natural processes havecome to hold a deep, complex cultural and moral significance. We know, however imper-fectly, that these processes are how Earthly life, including human life, comes into being—anEarthly life laced with innumerable values moral and other (aesthetic and spiritual, centrallyconcerning life’s innumerable and incredible forms, capacities and interactions). Thisamounts to stunning, bedrock philosophic and spiritual revelation. We also know that allthese values, forms, capacities and interactions are mortal, finite and vulnerable to harm.

Why might recognition of our aboriginal status in nature, our membership in the bioticcommunity—prompted by hunting, fishing or whatever other means—matter so much?Precisely because the recognition so radically underscores our moral situation and demandsthat we face squarely ultimate responsibilities. There are several forms of stewardship orcaretaker ethics which enjoin us to care for the Earth and all the creatures that dwell therein.But if we do not explicitly and emphatically count ourselves as among Earth’s creatures andas integral participants in Earthly communities, we all too easily let ourselves off the moralhook. We consider nature as not essentially mattering to us humans. However, if we ownup to our membership in the biotic community, we must recognize that we are a centraland significant factor in immediate and future threats to nature and, ultimately, to ourselves.

For example, there are too many of us human ones (6-plus billion and growing) inEarth’s biotic communities, consuming too many of its material resources and wreaking toomuch havoc to ongoing evolutionary and ecological processes. What are we going to doabout this daunting human overreaching and natural injustice? No doubt the Earth andevolutionary, ecological processes will survive our human onslaught, perhaps with a newabundance of biological species, but at what cost? What goodness and values, includingthose of human life, painstakingly evolved over natural (evolutionary, ecological and geo-logical) and cultural time, will be lost? Ought we to collectively condone such moral andspiritual guilt, such sins against Earthly life and being?

If deep, existential recognition of our charter membership in the biotic communitywould help to stem this disastrous moral slide, then we must morally educate, or re-educate,ourselves in a hurry. If hunting and fishing, among other means, are effective avenues toexplicit recognition of membership in the biotic community and its attendant moralresponsibilities, then readers of Leopold should move past their ethical puzzlement andponder anew his and others’ hunting and fishing in their widest, biotic-community contexts.Nature’s complex, dynamic and uncontrollable interconnectedness and interactions defymoral simplicity, easily drawn bright lines between good and bad, right and wrong. If weare morally going to return to our native home and community, we need to grow up, culturally and morally.

In marginalizing our membership in biotic communities and, specifically, our implicationin predator-prey relations, we marginalize central, fundamental moral issues that alreadyconfront us. Let me be more specific, at risk of repetition.

In the United States and elsewhere, whether by intentional design or not, we have extir-pated large predators from their native landscapes and ecosystems, with real, usually negative,consequences. Consider metropolitan areas—Chicago, New York and others—with newlyengendered species and ecosystem problems, for example, an overabundance of deer,

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1988Class SecretariesDiane [email protected] [email protected] Campbell is the director ofgrant-making for The ChristensenFund. Born in the Himalayas andraised in the Punjab, Jeff has spentmost of his life in South Asia andassumes his responsibilities with TheChristensen Fund after 17 years atthe Ford Foundation, serving as pro-gram officer for environment anddevelopment programs in India andNepal (1991-1996) and Indonesia(1997-2000) and then as programofficer, deputy director and seniorprogram officer in the New YorkOffice (2000-2008). An accomplishedmusician and multi-instrumentalistin classical and vernacular SouthAsian traditions, as well as in con-temporary improvisational forms, herecords with the band Orchestra naïf,and recent albums include AufGarde; Les Bonbons; and Over anHour. � Stephen Gorman writes:“I’ve been working as a writer andphotographer for various adventureand environmental publications,such as The Discovery Channel, theNational Geographic Society,Audubon, Sierra and many others.I’ve also produced a number of large-format color photo books, with several more in production. Thiswork, which was helped along by thesocial ecology classes I took at Yale,has allowed me to travel extensivelythroughout the North Americanwilds in search of images and stories,and it continues to provide me withopportunities to explore the places Ilong to see. The last few years mywork has centered on the Alaskanand Canadian High Arctic fromANWR to the Northwest Passageand beyond. I see a lot of MelissaPaly ’87 and her wonderful family attheir place in Maine or in the WhiteMountains; and Steve and CillaKellert ’81 are practically neighborsat their hideaway just over the ridgefrom my wife, Mary, and me and twodogs in Norwich, Vt.” � KarenLeAnn McKay writes: “I have beenmanaging a nonprofit fair trade store

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Canada geese and even wild turkeys. This overabundance threatens regional flora andfauna, as well as human well-being (Lyme disease, car accidents and more). What shouldwe do in the absence of former large predators that were a natural check to species over-abundance? Arguably, we must take over their roles in keeping regional ecosystems healthyand resilient. For the sake of the biotic community as a whole, we should cull the super-abundance by whatever means we deem most morally appropriate and acceptable. The rolesof these large predators have become our moral responsibilities.

But this is only the beginning of our responsibilities as members of the biotic community.Actually, it is not the deer, geese or turkeys that are the greatest threats to regional landscapesand ecosystems. That prize emphatically goes to us. Again, despite the significant, innumer-able and distinctive values of human existence, what are we going to do about our ownsuperabundance and overpopulation of biotic communities, our overuse of their life-givingresources, our pollution and disturbance of natural structures and processes? As membersof biotic communities, from the regional to the global, as in fact the community’s mosteffective large predators, we cannot in good conscience evade these facts and attendantresponsibilities. Of course, this is exactly what we are doing. Whether out of ignorance,neglect or willful amoral intention, the reigning large predators (ourselves) are undeniablyand inexcusably irresponsible. Here is an issue that we must not duck, but resolve humanly—that is, responsibly.

Consider further ramifications of our present irresponsibility. Given our status in evolu-tionary, ecological and biotic communities, to undermine biotic communities is to undermineand threaten the future of humanity, its very bodily being, the quality of its life and whateverimportant capacities and values—from the bodily, psychic and mental to the moral, artistic,aesthetic, spiritual and other—it harbors. Robust, biologically and culturally diverse com-munities are as necessary to our inner selfhood and well-being as they are to our physicallyactive bodies. We, our whole selves, emerge out of the world—natural and cultural—anddo so ongoing until we die. To impoverish biological and cultural communities is to impov-erish ourselves.

In short, to continue in our present cultural, political, economic and moral ways—notto recognize ourselves as predatory organisms with a long evolutionary, ecological andEarthly past, that is, as members of biotic communities—amounts to a form of nihilism, awillful destruction of Earthly, including human, values. If some find this ironic, odd or,indeed, blasphemous, so be it. It is, as far as we can see, the truth.

Did my own road of moral and philosophic reflection begin, at least in part, in huntingHennepin’s Windblown Bottoms? If so, what role does hunting, fishing or predation, ingeneral, have in the genesis of civically important philosophic and moral landscapes(worldviews)? Leopold and other Darwinian naturalists, as champions of temporally deepbiotic communities, would no doubt answer unequivocally a great deal, certainly more thanurban, human-centered citizens might think. (The religious practices and rituals of tradi-tional, especially hunter and gatherer, societies evidence as much.) The relatively unexploredrelations of human predation (an inescapable fact of our existence) to the recognition ofour deepest Earthly, moral responsibilities is a matter worth further pondering, hopefullyinforming evermore adequate practical and civic action. �


in Portland for the last several years.I’m now in Indonesia looking at fairtrade and forestry stuff, before I leavethe store manager position tobecome blissfully unemployed for awhile.” � Alexandra Pitts writes: “Ihave been living in Fair Oaks, Calif.,and for the last four years I havehandled communications and con-gressional affairs for the regionaldirector of the U.S. Fish and WildlifeService in Sacramento. My daughtersare now 10; my son is 6; and they areall turning into California kids. Myhusband, Keith, and I just celebratedour 16th anniversary (10 married).The most interesting project I amworking on right now is a deal with26 local partners and a hydroelectriccompany to restore the KlamathRiver, so salmon can access 300more miles of river and the wildliferefuges can have adequate water(among a lot of other importantthings).” �Manuel Ramirez writes:“I am director for Southern CentralAmerica for ConservationInternational in Costa Rica, conduct-ing conservation work in bothmarine and terrestrial ecosystemsand regions in Nicaragua, Costa Ricaand Panama.” � Tom Strumolowrites: “I spent the first part of mycareer shoulder-to-shoulder with BillBurch and other pioneers of atmos-pheric defense through efficiency,conservation and alternative energy,before I met most of my classmates.I’m now back in a lot of boiler roomsand on a bunch of roofs, most enjoy-ably in St. Thomas, where 40 centsper kilowatt hour of electricity and300-plus days of sunshine are finallycombining to make photovoltaicsunbelievably cost-effective. I am intouch with Anthony Irving, PeterConnorton and Mike Gregonis—theConnecticut eco mafia.” �HollyWelles writes: “I created my ownconsulting firm called SummitEnvironmental Consulting. My pri-mary client is Climate Central—anew and exciting organization inPrinceton created to provide infor-mation to help the public and policy-makers make sound choices aboutclimate change.”

1989Class SecretariesSusan Campbell [email protected] [email protected] Ketty Faichampa writes:“I got a bachelor’s of science degreein nursing from the University ofMaryland in May 2008, and am nowstarting my second career in theOpen Heart and Thoracic SurgeryStepdown Unit at St. Joseph MedicalCenter in Towson, Md.” �DawnGelderloos writes: “I own my owncompany, Silver Wings Coaching andConsulting, in Boulder, Colo. I aman executive/career coach and acommunications trainer. I partnerwith clients across the country tohelp them produce extraordinaryresults in their careers, businesses ororganizations and their lives. Throughthe process of coaching, my clientsdeepen their learning, heighten theirself-awareness, improve their perform-ance and enhance their quality oflife. My coaching specialties includecareer planning and development,home-to-work transitions, publicspeaking and effective communica-tions, life purpose and work/life balance. I enjoy living in the moun-tains in Boulder with my husband,Dave, and our three kids, Ben, 16,Maddie, 15, and Nevin, 12.”� Stephen Kelleher is deputy directorof the International Union forConservation of Nature’s ForestConservation Programme and jointcoordinator of the Livelihoods andLandscapes Initiative. � LaurieReynolds Rardin loves living inConcord, N.H., with her family,where she has been freelancing forseveral local magazines, helping tostart a green committee at husbandJed’s church and generally promotingthe connection between spiritualityand environmental [email protected]

1990Class SecretariesJudy Olson HicksCarolyn Anne [email protected] Bhatt is an independent

consultant. Since early 2008, she hasbeen managing a project titled“Adapting to Climate Change inAsia: Identifying Critical KnowledgeGaps,” for the Institute for Social andEnvironmental Transition Network.This project has been supported byCanada’s International DevelopmentResearch Centre and the UnitedKingdom’s Department forInternational Development. She hasalso co-authored a book, EcotourismDevelopment in India: Communities,Capital and Conservation, which waspublished by the CambridgeUniversity Press in its FoundationBooks series. She received a FulbrightFellowship under the Indo-AmericanLeadership Program and will spendthree months in the United Statesbeginning in early 2009. � PeterJipp writes: “I just completed 10years of service with the World Bankand am now based in Thailand,working in Cambodia and Laos onbiodiversity conservation, communityforestry and land titling. Our familyis doing well—Priya’s network ofenvironmental economists(www.sandeeonline.org) is growing.Tulsi, 9, and Kabir, 6, are growingtoo, and they really enjoyed our stayat Timberlock this summer.”� Christine Laporte writes: “Myfamily and I are moving to Asheville,N.C. I will continue managing theSouth Atlantic Regional ResearchProject while I seek local opportuni-ties and work on my wildlife rehablicense.” [email protected]� Laura Simon continues her animaladvocacy work for the HumaneSociety of the United States, focusingon humane solutions for wildlifeproblems. Right now a major projectis helping towns learn how to avertbeaver flooding problems. Her 5-year-old, Jack, seems to be followingin her footsteps, having just rehabili-tated his first baby skunks and turtle!� Susannah Troner writes: “I amworking with the Miami-DadeCounty’s new Office of Sustainability.We are focusing on getting a handleon the county’s fuel consumptionbaseline and establishing routinereporting by departments, imple-menting the county’s new sustainablebuilding ordinance (requiring LEEDsilver for new buildings and LEED

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certified for major renovations) andtrying to figure out how to pay forefficiency retrofits and solar installa-tions for existing buildings. Twochildren of our friends in Italy spentpart of the summer with us. Thingsturned out wonderfully, although wedid feel obliged to feed them a gooddinner every day instead of sneakingin an occasional meal of cold cereal.”[email protected] �Mark VanSteeter writes: “Carla Wise and Ihave a lovely 9-year-old daughterand a yellow lab. We are living inCorvallis, Ore. I have tenure at a nicelittle university, and Carla has trans-formed herself into an environmentalwriter. Check out the September-October Utne Reader, ‘Green All theLawyers.’”

1991Class SecretaryRichard Wallace [email protected] Harper writes: “I have beenthe vice president of education forHeifer International in Little Rock,Ark., for the past three years. Bradyis 27, has a delightful 1-year-olddaughter named Eliza Jane and livesin New York City with his familymost of the time. This summerAndrea is the production managerfor the Brevard Music Center inNorth Carolina; Brady is the soundengineer; and Eliza Jane is enjoyingthe opportunity to play outside onthe lawn. Megan is 24, and she is alicensed massage therapist and energyhealer traveling with a team that usesthe trapeze as a challenge course.They have taught her to fly on thetrapeze and coach new students,too.” � Chip Isenhart writes: “JillIsenhart and I live in Boulder withour two kids, 7 and 9. We help runECOS Communications, a companywe originally started with DonWhittemore ’89 and Dawn Amato ’89just after we finished at Yale. This yearI co-founded a new company calledBio-Logical Capital. The firm isdeveloping large-scale projects andinvestment opportunities in a varietyof emerging environmental markets,including carbon, water, biodiversity,renewable energy, ecotourism and,where appropriate, environmentallysound real estate development.

Bio-Logical Capital has a solid conservation mission and is well-funded, both operationally and forproject seed money.”[email protected]� Anne Southworth Marsh, Ph.D.’96, is starting her fourth year at TheHeinz Center, where she has workedto develop national environmentalindicators for the State of the Nation’sEcosystem’s project. Anne and herhusband, David, split their timebetween Bethesda, Md., and GibsonIsland, Md., where Anne chairs theisland’s conservation committee.They have two children, Thomas, 10,and Elizabeth, 8. � Juan Pablo RuizSoto is living in Santa fe de Bogotá,Colombia, and is a senior naturalresources specialist for the WorldBank. He is a manager for such proj-ects as Andean region conservationand sustainable use of biodiversity inColombia; regional integrated silvi-pastoral approaches to ecosystemmanagement in Costa Rica, Colombiaand Nicaragua; the ColombianNational Protected Areas ConservationTrust Fund in Colombia; andexpanding partnerships for theNational Parks System in Venezuela.He also writes on a variety of envi-ronmental issues.

1992Class SecretaryKatherine Kearse [email protected] Fallon Lambert is the sustain-ability manager at Dartmouth. Shefounded and ran a consulting practice,Ecologic: Analysis & Communications,from 2003 to 2008. � Lisa Lumbaowrites: “I am working on sanitationissues in the Philippines and the Asiaregion. Josh is working for the Centerfor Clean Air Policy on climatechange issues. Both Susan and Karlare longtime government employees,working for NOAA and the ForestService, respectively.” � RobinMaille writes: “My husband, PeterMaille, and I moved to La Grande,Ore., in late August. Peter is teachingeconomics at Eastern OregonUniversity and is finishing his Ph.D.in natural resource economics atWest Virginia University. I have beenworking as a WVU county extensionagent since last September and will

be looking for a new job soon. Ourtwo boys, Nathan, 13, and Simon, 8,are happy about being closer to myfamily in Tacoma, Wash.”[email protected]

1993Class SecretariesDean [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Baker writes: “I am a lecturerin plant ecology at Monash Universityin Melbourne, where I’ve set upAustralia’s only dedicated tree-ringlab. I continue my long-standingwork in Thailand with theSmithsonian’s Center for TropicalForest Science and the ThaiDepartment of Natural Parks. I haveresearch projects reconstructing historical drought severity acrosseastern Australia, investigating forestdynamics and disturbance historiesin Thailand and southeasternAustralia and estimating carbon storage in Southeast Asian forests. Iam starting a joint project with theChinese Academy of Sciences andCTFS working on long-term carbondynamics and forest history in themountains of eastern China.”www.ozdendro.org � CynthiaBarakatt is director of content devel-opment for the Encyclopedia of Earth.A collaborative effort betweenBoston University and the NationalCouncil for Science and theEnvironment, the encyclopedia is a“wiki” site, but only scientists withexpertise in the specific topics areallowed to be editors and reviewersof the information that gets posted.Part of Cynthia’s job is to recruit scientists to contribute content andserve as editors. [email protected]� Susan Helms Daley adopted anadorable boy (Jackson) fromKazakhstan about three years ago,and six months later, she and herhusband, Sean, had a girl, Emeline.Susan is working hard at hometeaching her children about the environment. � Andre Eid writes: “Ijust finished working for three yearswith UNEP and UN-HABITAT for

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the Norwegian Government inNairobi. Now I’m back in Oslo, avery different world, and working forNORAD (USAID) and providingNorwegian experience on sustainableexploration of oil and gas to coun-tries worldwide.” � Erik Esselstyn isliving a great life with his wife inVermont, having retired a few yearsago. �Molly Goodyear writes: “Our15th reunion this year in New Havenwas a blast. It was great to be back atSage Hall, enjoying TGIF and feelinglike it was 1993 again. CynthiaBarakatt, Susan Helms Daley, ErikEsselstyn, Lisa Gustavson, KathyRoy Hooke, Paul Jahnige, BillKenny, Sally Loomis, Lois Morrison,Bill Mott, John Norwood, TomO’Shea, Susanne Schmidt ’92, ErikaSvendson, Wolfe Tone, MargaretWilliams and I were all there to celebrate. I have been a developmentconsultant for the Yellowstone toYukon Conservation Initiative for 2.5 years. My children, Peter, 10, andElla, 7, love to ski, play soccer, iceskate and skateboard, and my hus-band, Mike, is having a great timeworking in membership develop-ment at our newly opened YMCA.”[email protected] � Josh Fosterwrites: “I am manager for climateadaptation at the Center for CleanAir Policy in Washington, D.C. I willbe working under the Urban LeadersAdaptation Initiative, a RockefellerFoundation-funded project partner-ing with nine cities and counties representing major metropolitanareas across the United States, helpingthem prepare for and become moreresilient to the impacts of climatechange. For the last decade or so atNOAA, I had been working on thedevelopment of climate services,including some work on the NobelPrize-winning IPCC reports.”�Meg (Holliday) Kelly writes: “Ilive in Weston, Mass., with my hus-band, Jonathan, our three daughters,13, 11 and 7, an adolescent chocolatelab and a 17-year-old cat that adoptedme when I was at F&ES. I am thepresident of our town’s land trustand serve on three other local openspace or organic farm boards, as wellas a new nature preserve in theAdirondacks.” � Tom Kalinoskyworks in PricewaterhouseCoopers’

accounting, valuation and financialreporting advisory practice. He leadsthe firm’s work in environment-related financial reporting, auditingand advice. He is also involved withsustainability data assurance andreporting, as well as environmental,health and safety performanceimprovement. � Kate Lance is work-ing on a Ph.D. in geographic infor-mation management at WageningenUniversity � Lois Morrison is theexecutive director of a small founda-tion in Chicago. She is married toJustin and has two young daughters.� John Norwood lives in Iowa,works for a wealthy individual witha vision for public greenspace andhas a son who loves baseball. � TomO’Shea is the assistant director ofwildlife for the MassachusettsDivision of Fisheries and Wildlife.� Erika Svendson had a baby in latespring and brought him to reunionweekend 2008 in New Haven for aday. � Ann Tartre works for AvoidedDeforestation Partners. She organizeda roundtable discussion and luncheonfor policymakers and key stakeholderswith Nobel Laureates Al Gore andWangari Maathai in New York Cityin September. Ann enjoys the surfinglifestyle of Southern California andvisits from F&ES alumni, mostrecently Cynthia [email protected] �Wolfe Tone ismarried with twins and works for theTrust for Public Land in Portland,Maine. �Margaret Williams testifiedbefore Congress last spring in sup-port of listing the polar bear on theEndangered Species list. She lives inAlaska, but travels a lot to D.C. andRussia. � Tim Wohlgenant writes: “Iam the Colorado state director for TheTrust for Public Land. My wife, Annie,and I follow our two girls, Zoe, 12,and Clio, 9, around on their variousafter-school activities, shake our headsin amazement at how quickly they’vegrown and try to squeeze in a fewadventures during the year.”

1994Class SecretariesJane Calvin [email protected] W. [email protected]

Jane [email protected] Blate writes: “I moved withmy wife, Sujata, and two children,Daniel, 3, and Sabina, almost 2, toBangkok, Thailand, in mid-Septemberfor two to five years. I will be coordi-nating World Wildlife Fund’s climatechange initiative in the GreaterMekong region (Thailand, Cambodia,Laos and Vietnam). My two-yearAAAS fellowship at EPA just ended.It was a great experience and I highlyrecommend the fellowship programto anyone interested in gaining adeeper appreciation for how the federal government ‘works’ and howscience is used (or not) in policy-making. During my fellowship, I co-authored three chapters in a govern-ment report that reviewed adaptationoptions that resource managers coulduse to cope with climate change. The report can be downloaded atwww.climatescience.gov/Library/sap/sap4-4/final-report/.” � ChrisCosslett writes: “I’ve been workingin various capacities (expert, con-sultant, etc.) with the GlobalEnvironment Facility since graduat-ing. Most of my time these days isspent formulating biodiversity conservation projects for UNDP-GEF. I’m working on projects inChina, Kazakhstan, Turkey andCongo. This mostly involves supportto terrestrial and marine protected-area systems. I’m also starting towork in the area of ReducingEmissions from Deforestation andDegradation. I happen to be living inTirana, Albania, at the moment.”[email protected] � TadGallion writes: “I’ve left my positionwith the Senate AppropriationsCommittee and we’ve moved toBrookline, Mass. Short-term I’ll befocusing on assisting with thelaunching of my wife’s new careerand keeping Emma, 11, and Claire,4, on track.” � Alexis Harte writes:“I have been pursuing a music/song-writing career full time. In May, Isigned a publishing deal withLionsgate Entertainment to providesongs for films and TV shows. On arecent trip to New York City, I con-nected with Scott Mathison andJames Jiler ’95.” futuresealevel.org�Diana Wheeler writes: “We have

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two kids and live in Austin, Texas.My husband, Don Redmond, is anattorney with the State EnvironmentalAgency, and I’m a programmer atDell.”

1995Class SecretariesMarie [email protected] Ciara O’Connell [email protected] Barry is living in PortAngeles, Wash., with his wife, Tami,and kids, Kate, 5, and David, 3.Dwight is the coordinator of theElwha Research Consortium, a groupof over 100 scientists studying theworld’s largest dam removal and fisheries restoration [email protected]�Gregory Dicum writes: “Nina(Luttinger) and I are having a babyin December.” � Amy Dumas writes:“As of March 2008, I have been theCalifornia program lead for the Bureauof Land Management’s Wild Horseand Burro Program. I am based inSacramento.” [email protected]� Felton Jenkins writes: “I wasappointed to the Chatham County,Ga., Resource Protection Commission.It’s a new commission, with the goalof protecting lands with high natural-resource and historical significance,using acquisitions and easementswhere possible. I am an investmentportfolio manager with Minis & Co.,and my wife, Karen, and I are enjoy-ing downtown Savannah with ourdogs, Lucy and Hooch. We’re fightinghigh gas prices and greenhouse gasesby walking to work.” � James Jilerleft New York City and his work onRikers Island and is residing inMiami, Fla., where he’s raising threedaughters—Nina, Niki and Nadia—and developing environmental pro-gramming for the Florida StatePrison System. His book, Doing Timein the Garden (New Village Press,2006), continues to “inspire garden-ing programs for at-risk groups indifferent settings around the country.”� Tetsuro Mori writes: “I am a freelance consultant and auditor forenvironmental management sys-tems, corporate social responsibility,macrobiotics and LOHAS (lifestylefor health and sustainability).”

www.shiawasesoken.com � LizGalli-Noble is the director of theCenter for Invasive Plant Managementat Montana State University-Bozeman.�Nina Rooks-Cast writes: “Thispast summer I spent eight weeks inGuatemala learning Spanish, since65 percent of my students inProvidence are Latino and I have anESL physics class. Any alumni livingin the Providence area who wouldlike to help prepare students to com-pete in the Science Olympiads, I’msearching for volunteers.” � KristenSteck works for Chevron. She wasgiven the CARROT (Climate ActionRegistry Recognizing Our Team)award, which is given by theCalifornia registry staff to a selectgroup of individuals who have goneabove and beyond the call of duty to support the California registry’sprogram.

1996Class SecretariesKathryn [email protected] [email protected] Auer, Ph.D., was appointeddean of the Hutton Honors Collegeat Indiana University in July 2008.He maintains his appointment asprofessor of public and environmentalaffairs at the university’s School ofPublic and Environmental Affairs.� Karen Beard, Ph.D. ’01, andAndrew Kulmatiski ’99 welcomedtheir first child, Andrew PaulKulmatiski, on June 19, 2008. Karengot tenure at Utah State University,and Andrew is starting a tenure-trackposition at the University of Alaska,Anchorage, in January 2009.� Topher Buck is a senior projectmanager for GreenBlue, a nonprofitin Charlottesville, Va., that specializesin making “commercial activity ecologically and socially soundthrough the creative use of productdesign.” His program, CleanGredients,helps formulators of industrial andinstitutional cleaning products iden-tify surfactants that have potentialenvironmental and human healthbenefits, and provides an opportunityfor surfactant manufacturers toshowcase such ingredients. � JohnGunn writes: “I am a senior scientist

with the Manomet Center forConservation Sciences based inBrunswick, Maine. I’m working intheir Natural Capital Initiative onprojects related to carbon sequestra-tion and other forest-based ecosystemservices. I live in the town of Hebronin western Maine with my wife,Lori.” � Christian Kull has lived inMelbourne, Australia, for the pastfive years and works in MonashUniversity’s School of Geographyand Environmental Science, wherehe continues his research and teach-ing on the social aspects of resourcemanagement. He has investigateddebates over fire use in Madagascar,reported in the book Isle of Fire(University of Chicago Press, 2004),and works on conflicts of interestover introduced and invasive species.For this project he has followed dif-ferent species of Australian acaciatrees in their travels around theIndian Ocean, to India, Madagascarand South Africa. � Lara (Nachiem)Swenson writes: “I am teachingenvironmental science at my sonJoseph’s private Christian school.Joseph is 12 years old. I’m very excit-ed to be able to teach this subject ina place where I can talk about theChristian basis for stewarding theEarth, and I’ll be glad too for thetuition break that we’ll receive as aresult of my teaching there. Werecently enjoyed a visit fromReinhold Hubner (F&ES Germanexchange student from 1994 to1995), Joseph’s biological father. Onthe horizon for Joseph are trips toGermany, Austria, Italy and Francewith the Hubner family.”

1997Class SecretaryPaul Calzada [email protected] Eisenstadt writes: “My wife,Kristy, and I live in Missoula, Mont.,with our precocious 2-year-old son,Spencer, and an assortment of housemascots. Lots of biking, skiing,kayaking, climbing and fun here inBig Sky country. Occasionally, Ibump into Dave Gaillard and TonyaOpperman, who are both in Montana.I’ve founded a new company thatdesigns and implements climate-change mitigation projects aroundthe world. Initially it was mostly

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reforestation in the tropics, but now we are involved in a number of projects of “various types.”www.clearskyclimatesolutions.com� Alexander Evans, Ph.D. ’06,writes: “I’m looking forward to therelease of a report I’ve been workingon about the sustainable use ofwoody biomass from forests. My twoboys, 4 and 1, have gotten me outsidefor some great hikes this summer.”www.biomass.forestguild.org � AlexFinkral, Ph.D. ’05, and Liz Kalies’04 welcomed their daughter, PriMyers Finkral, in May 2008. The newfamily is living in Flagstaff, Ariz.,where Alex is working toward tenureand Liz her Ph.D., both at NorthernArizona University. � CarlosGuindon, D.F. ’97, writes: “Thissummer I worked for Maine Audubonand the Rachel Carson NationalWildlife Refuge, conducting pointcounts of marsh birds and assistingwith saltmarsh sharptailed sparrowresearch. The Rachel Carson Reservebiologist is Kate O’Brien ’95. I amalso doing shorebird and waterfowlmonitoring within the Rachel CarsonReserve during the fall, along withteaching an introductory biologycourse at North Shore CommunityCollege in Danvers, Mass. I will alsobe working on the translation intoSpanish of a book written by KayChornook and my dad, Walking WithWolf: Reflections on a Life SpentProtecting the Costa Rican Wilderness.Our oldest is a senior at Cornell and,this year, our youngest, Sergio, is offto college at Carnegie Mellon.”� Vicki Hornbostel writes: “I gotmarried in December 2004 and wehad our first baby, Michael JohnScotto, on March 14, 2008. He was 8pounds and 15 ounces at birth. I leftmy last job working for a town wet-lands agency to care for the baby, butwould like to get back into ecologicalresearch eventually.” � Kristen(Needham) Jordan writes: “Five yearsago, my husband, Bruce Jordan, andI started a business called Sea CiderFarm & Ciderhouse. We bought afarm on Vancouver Island and plantedan organic cider apple orchard, andthis past year we began selling hardcider. Besides the orchard, we haveseveral acres of forest and have beenharvesting some agroforestry crops(mainly stinging nettle, which we

make into tea). It has been a labor oflove, but very rewarding to see thebusiness grow. Evelyn, 8, andThomas, 5, are big helpers.” � JonKohl writes: “In Costa Rica, my wifeand I and several other Costa Ricansare making progress in establishingQuerencia, an ecovillage. We’re inthe process of creating a cooperative.Aside from these largely volunteeractivities, I am working on a numberof fronts to promote a new kind ofpark planning that depends on adap-tive management and learning. I alsohave been studying integral theoryand evolutionary spirituality andwould be interested in hearing fromanyone else who wants to applythese approaches to their work.”www.jonkohl.com �Gus Le Bretonwrites: “I run a nonprofit trade initia-tive promoting the commercializationof nontimber forest products fromsouthern Africa. Last year I sailed toAntarctica and climbed a smallmountain there. This year I finallylearned to snow ski in South Africa.Next year I’m taking a six-monthsabbatical with my family to drivethe length of Africa.” [email protected] � LinwoodPendleton, D.F.E.S. ’97, writes: “Lastyear I quit my tenured job at UCLAto create a research center at theOcean Foundation. I am living withJessica Morton ’01 and our two girlsin Sandwich, N.H., and on our boatin Ventura, Calif., with shorter staysnear Cobscook Bay in Lubec and anundisclosed surf spot in theCaribbean. I recently held a congres-sional briefing regarding a report Ipublished with Restore America’sEstuaries, which led to several featureson Greenwire.com and an hourlongradio show on the Outdoor TalkNetwork, America’s largest huntingand fishing radio program with 17million listeners. This summer I spentsome quality southern Californiasurf time with Marc Luesebrink’95.” www.coastalvalues.org� Shalini Ramanathan writes: “I ama project developer with RESAmericas, a leading developer ofwind-power plants with a portfolioof generating assets using solar, biomass and other renewable-powertechnologies.” � Scott Rehmuswrites: “My wife, Wingfield, mythree boys, ages 8, 5 and 3, and I

finished spending two years in theisland nation of the Republic of Palauon the western edge of Micronesia.While there, I was a senior EBM(ecosystem-based management)advisor to the Palau ConservationSociety, and Wingfield worked as adermatologist, as well as coordinatedthe strategic planning process for theBureau of Public Health. In mid-August, we moved to Vancouver,B.C., where I co-lead a new grant-making entity that manages $120million to support conservation andsustainable economic developmentactivities in 27 First Nations on thecoast of British Columbia. The CoastOpportunity Funds grew out of adecades-long effort to resolve con-flicts over forest management in anarea often called the Great BearRainforest.” [email protected]�Mary Tyrell writes: “I’m the executive director of Yale’s GlobalInstitute of Sustainable Forestry.Besides running the institute, I’vebeen working on land use changeaffecting our Northeastern forestsand changing forestland ownershipin the United States. It’s wonderful to continue to interact with F&ESstudents and I enjoy life in NewHaven, in between travels for workand pleasure and hikes in the moun-tains.” www.yale.edu/gisf �DebWeiner, Dan Shepherd ’99 and theirtwo daughters, Haley and Lucy,moved to Quito, Ecuador, about 18months ago after more than eightyears in Washington, D.C.

1998Class SecretariesNadine [email protected] Corcoran [email protected] Adams is vice president of ICFInternational. He recently relocatedto Baltimore with Kristen Adams ’99and their three children, a 2-year-oldand 8-month-old twins. � LuisaCámara Cabrales writes: “I am nowat Tabasco State in southern Mexico.I work in the UJAT, the local TabascoState University, as a teacher andresearcher. I am in charge of threeprojects, one about secondary suc-cession of tropical dry forest and tworegional projects about forestryassessment and planning for the

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National Commission of Forestry. Ialso am in charge of four nurseries forthe local state forestry commission,where we produced three millionseedlings of native trees and introducespecies for forestry plantations andreforestation programs. On theweekends I am a beekeeper and Icheck my 100 hectares of forest-land—fire line breaks are importantto check very often, because this forest is surrounded by cattle ranch-ing. I have been taking care of thisland for about 18 years. It is in different stages of successions, someparts becoming a tropical forest, so the bees and I are happy.” � SethCook, Ph.D. ’04, writes: “I amattending an intensive Chinese language program at TsinghuaUniversity in Beijing until June 2009.The Inter-University Program haswaived most of my tuition.”� Tormod Dale writes: “I live in myhometown, Kristiansand, in Norway.I work in the forestry sector, for thelast six to seven years on projects informer Yugoslavian countries, andmost often through a network com-pany called Norwegian ForestryGroup.” � Kevin Drury writes: “Ifinished a postdoc at the NationalCenter for Ecological Analysis andSynthesis at the University ofCalifornia, Santa Barbara. Duringthat time I traveled to the KrugerNational Park in South Africa todevelop software for ecological mod-eling of park wildlife populations. Iam an assistant professor of biologyand ecology at Bethel College inSouth Bend, Ind. My oldest daughter,Danielle, is a senior in high school.”[email protected]�Michelle Ernst writes: “My organi-zation, Tri-State TransportationCampaign, has become interested inNew Haven’s proposal to tear downRoute 34. The project could serve asa great regional model for highwayremovals. We’ve pulled together anupcoming symposium on the plan.”www.tstc.org � Brad Kahn and hiswife, Erin, welcomed their son, Ezra,on June 16, which also happens tobe Brad’s birthday. �Natalie Kellerwrites: “I got a second master’sdegree at the Harvard School ofPublic Health in environmentalhealth. I have been a literacy volun-

teer with K-2 students in Cambridgeelementary schools with their Englishimmersion program.” � Kris Moricois the global leader of the GeneralElectric water program headquarteredin Fairfield, Conn. She joined G.E. in2006. She and her husband, Shaun,reside in Cheshire, Conn.

1999Class SecretariesJocelyn [email protected] Garrison [email protected] [email protected] Prettyman Adams writes:“Jeff Adams ’98 and I have moved toBaltimore to be closer to family andfriends and the ocean. We have threelittle ones, Lily, 3, and Meg andColin, 1. I am the head of the UpperSchool at the McDonogh School.”� Timothy Allred writes: “My wife,9-month-old son Beckett, and I livein Rosendale, N.Y. For the past severalyears, I have been redeveloping anold 800-acre family resort into aLEED-certified resort and residentialcommunity focused on healthy livingand the outdoors. The project is inthe permit phase—we are drafting ourenvironmental impact statement—andthe experience reminds me of almostevery class I took at F&ES, includinga few of my business classes. Thename of the project is Hudson RiverValley Resorts.” [email protected] � Lena Brookwrites: “Jonah and I are living in SanFrancisco in a duplex Victorian thatwe own with Bhavna Shamasunderand her husband, Patrick. Ouryounger daughter, Talia, turned ayear old on May 31, and 5-year-oldAva started kindergarten in lateAugust. I am on the staff of the SanFrancisco Bay chapter of Physiciansfor Social Responsibility. My work isfocused on sustainable food in thehealth care sector, and we’ve seengreat progress in California in recentyears. This is part of a national campaign coordinated by HealthCare Without Harm, and one of mycolleagues in Boston is MichelleGottlieb ’95.” �Don Chen is a pro-gram officer at the Ford Foundation

in New York. �Nancy Fresco isworking as a postdoctoral fellow atthe University of Alaska, Fairbanks,doing climate change research. She isalso busy with her 2-year-old twins.� Andre Heinz writes: “After threeyears of work, I am happy toannounce the closing of theSustainable Technology Fund, whichI co-founded to invest primarily inexpansion of Nordic clean technology.This means that my time is spentheavily in Sweden, where we have anoffice, as well as in other Nordiccountries.” � Rachel (Schwartz)Louis writes: “I am assistant directorof the Center for DevelopmentEconomics at Williams College.”� Eli Sagor is in his ninth year withthe University of Minnesota, St Paul.He is working on private forest stewardship, with a primary focus onpeer-to-peer learning through wood-land-owner networks. Eli and hiswife, Amy Kay Kerber, are expectingtheir second child in January 2009.� Terry Terhaar, Ph.D. ’05, writes:“I’m a lecturer at the University ofCalifornia, Santa Cruz, where I teachin the environmental studies collegeand the writing program. I also serveas executive director of theInternational Society for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture.”� Laura Williams writes: “After twoproductive years in Kamchatka setting up a regional office for theWorld Wildlife Fund, I havereturned to my home in the villageof Chukhrai in western Russia thisfall. My book, The Storks’ Nest, pub-lished in March 2008, is about mylife with my husband, Igor Shpilenok,in this village. (See Bookshelf, page 28) Igor and I are beginning to homeschool our 7-year-old son,Andrei, and our 4-year-old son,Makar. I will also start work on anew book about my experiences inKamchatka and continue consultingfor WWF in Russia. I also hope tospend more time promoting my husband’s nature photography business. You can see his work at www.shpilenok.com. Copies ofThe Storks’ Nest are available atLabyrinth Books in New Haven.”www.wild-russia.org � Shiju Zhoureceived a Ph.D. from XiamenUniversity, China. He is the deputy

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director of the Provincial Science andTechnology Bureau of Fujian Province,where he is responsible for agricul-tural and forestry-related scientificdevelopment. He met Yajie Song ’89,D.F.E.S. ’95, in Fuzhou, China.

2000Class SecretariesErika Schaub [email protected] Yu [email protected] Chu (Ann) and Chi-HungLiao (Charles) write: “Our son,Samuel Mu-En Liao, was born inEnloe Medical Center in Chico,Calif., on August 4, 2008.” � Susan(Weuste) Ellis has been withCameron-Cole for over four yearsnow. She writes: “I am based inPleasantville, N.Y., and am the man-ager of our sustainability practice onthe East Coast. We’ve been very busyworking on GHG inventories, annualsustainability reports and greeningthe supply-chain projects. I adopteda puppy that we named Nani, whichmeans beautiful in Hawaiian. She is agolden retriever/lab/mystery mix, andis the cutie of the neighborhood.”� Chris Kemos writes: “My wife,Tanya Stadnick, and I moved fromSan Francisco to Kentfield in MarinCounty. We just had our secondchild, Alexander Leo, this May. I ama civil litigator at a firm in SanRafael, Calif., and putting my F&ESskills to use dealing also with localland use and planning issues.”� Yuki Matsuoka writes: “Since 2005,I have lived on a southern island inJapan near Okinawa. Here, I growmango, potato, peanuts, papaya andcassava organically for sale. Also, I’mworking for a local authority to setup a farmers’ market on the island. Itrequires setting up a farmers’ organi-zation, skills sessions and marketdevelopment. Integrating daily lifeand work gives me full satisfaction.Besides my current work, we aregoing to purchase a piece of land onthe island.” � Carlos Pineda lives inSan Francisco with his wife, AzitaGhafourpour. [email protected]� Christie Pollet-Young marriedFrenchman Grégory Pollet-Young inCalifornia in the summer of 2007.

The couple met in Lima, whereChristie was a conservation plannerfor The Nature Conservancy in Peru.Their outdoor wedding was celebratedwith friends Anne Eschtruth, ElsaHatanaka, Caroline Kuebler, Laura(Dunleavy) Nelms and April Reese.Christie is a biologist for EDAW, anenvironmental design and planningconsulting firm based in SanFrancisco. Her projects range fromfocused surveys for special-statusspecies to land management plansand the occasional environmental-compliance document. � Ashley(McAvey) Prout writes: “Our firstchild, Elle Uppercu McAvey, was bornon February 27, 2008. My husband,Ken, Elle, dog Jackson and I are livingin Shelburne, Vt. Before the birth ofElle, I was the senior developmentofficer at The Rubenstein School ofEnvironment and Natural Resourcesat the University of Vermont,Montpelier.” � Kristin (Sipes) Rihawrites: “My husband, Mike, and I areliving in Concord, Calif., with ourdaughter, Lily. I work with truckingand rail companies through a volun-tary program at the EPA’s Region 9Office, called the West CoastCollaborative.”

2001Class SecretariesLeigh Cash [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Benoit is the president ofthe Connecticut CommunityGardening Association. She writes:“There are about 80 programs inConnecticut’s 169 towns, and sixprograms in New Haven alone, onebeing the Greenspace Program at our own URI. In our spare time, myhusband, David Eliscu, and I arerestoring my family’s antique houseand grounds in Westerly, R.I.”�Dave Ellum, Ph.D. ’07, writes:“I’m beginning my second year ofteaching at Warren Wilson Collegein Asheville, N.C. The college’semphasis on academics, work andservice, combined with a 650-acreschool forest, makes for a great setting

to teach silviculture and forest man-agement at the undergraduate level.Townes has begun first grade and ishitting pitched balls. Seija is full oflife and keeping us busy. Mona con-tinues to keep us all organized alongwith her own engineering work.”� Lisbet Kugler writes: “I am in D.C.enjoying what the city has to offer—especially running into F&ES friendsat Jazz in the Sculpture Garden. I amworking at Environmental ResourcesManagement and about to startworking at the International FinanceCorporation part time.” � PradeepKurukulasuriya, Ph.D. ’06, is basedin New York City and works withthe United Nations DevelopmentProgramme. He works with a team within UNDP’s Bureau ofDevelopment Policy that assistsdeveloping countries with accessingglobal funds for, and designing pro-grams and projects on, adaptation toclimate change. Pradeep and hiswife, Sharmila, are expecting theirsecond baby in December 2008!� Jeff Luoma is a garden and forestmanager at North Country Schoolnear Lake Placid, N.Y. He and hispartner, Betsy, have a nice guestroom in the farmhouse, and it’s inthe heart of the Adirondacks.www.nct.org � Tracy (Scheffler)Melbihess writes: “I am a contractorfrom our home in Boise, Idaho, withthe Fish and Wildlife Service on wolfconservation issues in the Southwest.My husband, Eric, and I are expectingour second child at the end ofSeptember.”�Michael Montag writes:“My new firm, Beyond Compliance,does environmental regulatory andsustainability consulting. The firmfocuses on environmental-compliancesupport (permitting, environmentalmanagement, etc.). We also do auditing and environmental-manage-ment systems implementation and“sustainability implementation.”www.beyondcompliance.net � ChrisNyce has moved to Nicaragua. He isworking in the U.S. Embassy inManagua for two years—a year ofconsular work and a year on a port-folio of environment-, science- andtechnology-related issues in the economic section. His wife, Rukmini,two daughters, Rasa and Priya, anddog Kayso would love to host any

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visitors passing through CentralAmerica. [email protected]� Jen Osha writes: “I am facilitatinga participatory mapping projectregarding the impacts of mountain-top-removal coal mining in southernWest Virginia. I am also producing aCD to raise money and awarenessabout the social and environmentalinjustice in the coalfields throughthe nonprofit I founded, AuroraLights. A first CD was called MovingMountains, and we raised $6,000 forlocal grass-roots groups. My son,Elijah Storm, is 5 now and spendsmost of his time in the woods.”[email protected] � LisaSchulman is a senior engineer in thearea of environmental risk assessmentat Merck & Co. Lisa and her husband,Dotan, reside in New Jersey withtheir two sons, Asher, 2, and babybrother Jonah, born in July 2008.�Mark Urban, Ph.D. ’06, wasawarded the 2008 Young InvestigatorPrize from the American Society ofNaturalists. He teaches in the Ecologyand Evolutionary Biology Departmentat the University of Connecticut.

2002Class SecretariesCatherine [email protected] Roberto J. [email protected] Alcacer writes: “Life’s treatingPaola Amador and me well here inold Europe. I have accepted an offerfrom the company I used to work forsix years ago in the United Kingdomto develop a business line in ecohy-drology, my lifelong field of expertise.It’s good to know that the consultancyworld seeks business opportunitiesin sustainable water managementprojects. This also meant leavingSpain once again, although after 12years wandering around I am gettingused to that. Regarding Paola, she isenjoying her role as mother ofHector, 2.” � Barb Bambergerwrites: “I work for the State ofCalifornia Office of Climate Changefor the Air Resources Board, in thegroup designing its cap-and-tradeprogram. My particular focus is onenvironmental justice and how itwill be integrated into California’sClimate Plan.” � Catherine Bottrill

writes: “The highlight of my summerwas tramping around music festivalsdoing an audience travel survey forsome of the major U.K. festivals—Roberto Frau saw me just beforeheading to Glastonbury.” � BeccaBrown married Jason Dzubow onSeptember 7, 2008, at a familyfriend’s horse farm on the shore ofthe Chester River on the easternshore of Maryland. Since graduating,Becca has been working at EPA inWashington, D.C., and Jason is animmigration lawyer there. Attendingthe wedding were Suzanne Sessine,Sarah Garman ’03, Meg Roessing’03, Vic Edgerton ’03, Rachel Fertik,Becca Jensen Bruhl ’03 andStephanie Perles. �Gwen Busbyfinished her Ph.D. at Oregon StateUniversity and is an assistant professorin the Department of Forestry atVirginia Tech. �Matt Clark releasedan album, Funny Little Fella, abouthis son, Rowan’s first year of life.Rowan’s mother, Abby, sings andplays cello. Matt is an executivedirector of Johnson Creek WatershedCouncil in Portland, Oregon.www.mattclarkmusic.com � RobertoFrau writes: “I am in Mexico Cityand working for EnvironmentalResources Management on sustainabledevelopment projects that run thegamut from carbon footprint calcula-tions to social-impact assessments.This year I’ve had mandatory happyhours with many classmates,including Catherine Bottrill, MariaDeRijk ’03, Erika Diamond, RachelFertik, Curtis Robinhold ’03, LizRowls and David Vexler.”�Michael Funaro and ZhannaBeisembaeva-Funaro write: “Michaeltook a job with ESRI, so we movedto San Antonio in June. Our daughter,Danna, started sixth grade in August.She plays French horn in her schoolband and plays in tennis tournamentsevery weekend. Kair turned 2 inMay. He speaks English, understandsRussian and is learning Spanish now.”[email protected]� Shalini Gupta received anArchibald Bush FoundationLeadership Fellowship and is based inMinneapolis. For the next year and ahalf, she will do an independent studyof energy and climate change policiesfrom a social-equity perspective. She’lltravel to India and South Korea, as

well as network with other policyinstitutions and social justice grass-roots groups in North America. Hermother was diagnosed with breastcancer in early 2008. Shalini and herhusband, Jim, went on a work/vacation trip to Vienna and Paristhis year. [email protected]� John Homan writes: “After twoyears in private banking, I havemoved to the Wealth AdvisoryDivision of U.S. Trust, Bank ofAmerica Private Wealth Management.This new role continues to includemanaging relationships for high-net-worth clients while, at the sametime, providing hands-on experiencein portfolio management. I hope tocomplete my certification in financialplanning in 2009, while continuingto expand my knowledge of sociallyresponsible investments.”� Elizabeth Levy writes: “My hus-band, Ryan, and I just purchased acondo in Somerville, outside ofBoston. He is working on his Ph.D.in green chemistry.” � CherylMargoluis writes: “I am living onthe Pacific coast in Costa Rica.Richard and I have two kids now,Sylvana and Kian. I am doing a tonof consulting still and started a littleschool down here. We just finishedbuilding a house, so we are hopingto have F&ES friends come visit!”[email protected] � ChrisNelson and Nina Arnold welcomedFinn Thomas in late March. Finnloves gazing up at the trees duringhis daily walks around town, and hisfirst big visit to the woods appropri-ately took place at Great Mountain,with Star Childs serving as guide.Chris has been busy implementingthe Regional Greenhouse GasInitiative (RGGI) in Connecticut,and he collaborated with colleaguesfrom the other RGGI states to pre-pare for the nation’s first auction ofCO2 allowances in late September.� Rachel Novick, Ph.D. ’08, writes:“In May I finally graduated and, inJune, we moved to South Bend. I’mthe education and outreach coordi-nator for Notre Dame’s new Office ofSustainability. Tzvi is an assistantprofessor in Notre Dame’s theologydepartment, and Aiden is attendingthe Notre Dame daycare center.”�Nalini Rao finished her Ph.D.� Rebecca Rundquist is living in

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Yarmouth, Maine, and working forthe Private Operating Foundationand Family Foundation, both createdby Burt’s Bees Founder, RoxanneQuimby. Rebecca is raising her 3-year-old daughter, and she won’twork full time until the little one isin school. � Becky Tavani writes: “I am a forestry officer at FAO inRome, traveling often to Zambia fora land use assessment inventory.”[email protected] �DylanTaylor is the roads and wildlife pro-gram coordinator for the SouthernRockies Ecosystem Project. � CoreyWisneski writes: “My husband,Brian, and I had a daughter, AmeliaLynne, on June 30, 2008.”

2003Class SecretariesBrian [email protected] [email protected] Ashley Asare writes: “InNovember I gave birth to a baby girl,Claire Adjoa Asabea Asare. Richardand I are living in Accra, Ghana. Heis working for the InternationalInstitute of Tropical Agriculture ontheir Sustainable Tree Crops Program,and I am slugging away at finishingmy dissertation.” � Ryan Bennettwrites: “I’m living in San Franciscoand involved in private equity forrenewable-energy developments. Iam engaged to my sweetheart,Jessica.” � Becca Jensen Bruhlwrites: “I live in Houston with Aaronand our 2-year-old son, Elliot. I workpart time as a staff scientist at theMickey Leland National Urban AirToxics Research Center, and I’mworking on my doctorate at theUniversity of Texas, Houston, Schoolof Public Health in the environmentaland occupational health division.”� Chuck Brunton and Laura Pylewere married in New Jersey onSeptember 22, 2007. They celebratedthe evening with Andrew Clack;Ellen Denny ’97; Anne Eschtruth’00; Mary Ford ’01; Heather(Peckham) Griscom ’00, Ph.D. ’04;Bronson Griscom, Ph.D. ’03; PeteHill ’01; Illisa Kelman ’99; CarolineKuebler ’00; Roy Schiff, Ph.D. ’05;Trey Schillie; Carla Short; KirstenSpainhower; and Sarah Vogel.

� Daniela Cusack writes: “I did my last field season in Puerto Ricofor my dissertation, and then Imoved to Santa Cruz to live with my boyfriend. I have a writing grantfor this academic year.”[email protected]� Aspasia Dimizas and her husbandwelcomed their baby girl, MyrtoMaurides, on April 4. She hasalready gone hiking with them inSwitzerland, where she greatlyenjoyed “talking” to big trees duringtheir walks in the mountains.� Cherie LeBlanc Fisher writes: “Igot married at Malabar Farm StatePark in Ohio in May. The park letme and my husband, Charles, planta tree in honor of our wedding. I dourban social science research inChicago for the research division ofthe U.S. Forest Service.” � SarahGarman writes: “I work at the EPAin the Office of Policy, Economicsand Innovation. The bulk of my workis dedicated to addressing climatechange and energy security. In addi-tion, I have worked on developingregulations related to water andsolid-waste permitting. I relocated toNew York City this August.” � BrianGoldberg writes: “I’m building apublic park along the Coney Islandboardwalk, as well as leading anenvironmental planning study ofLibya’s desert coast.” � KarenHardigg and her husband, Nick, welcomed a healthy baby boy, Ashe,on July 30. She works at TheWilderness Society on national forestpolicy in Anchorage. �OrawanIntarakomalyasut writes: “I am themother of two sons, Obi-One andAnda.” � Krithi Karanth and herfamily moved to D.C. She will defendher Ph.D. from Duke in Novemberand will start a postdoc fellowship atColumbia University. � Cherie Limis an environmental manager withJMK Environmental Solutions andwas designated a California RegisteredEnvironmental Assessor as of July2008. � Brendan McEneaney writes:“I am the green-building programadvisor for the City of Santa Monica.I oversee green-construction require-ments in the city, as well as incentiveprograms, education and outreach. Ihave been here for a little over a yearand I enjoy it very much. I’m also onthe board of the U.S. Green Building

Council, Los Angeles chapter. We have over 1,800 members.” [email protected]� Florence Miller writes: “I’m run-ning an innovation grants program forthe National Audubon Society that isintended to inspire the Audubon net-work to reach new audiences whiledeveloping innovative techniques fortackling environmental problems. Iwork from home in Vermont, buttravel to Washington, D.C.”� Fuyumi Naito writes: “I live inGeneva and work for the JapaneseMission to the United Nations. Icover the Basel Convention,Convention on International Tradein Endangered Species and someother multinational environmentalagreements. My 1-year-old sonenjoys his life here, and my husband,who works in Brussels, comes toGeneva every weekend.” � KabirPeay and Alison Forrestel were married in Yosemite in October 2007.Kabir’s next big challenge is writinghis dissertation and hopefully gradu-ating by the end of this year. Afterthat he expects to be showered inmoney and offered lots of jobs.� Bryan Petit writes: “I am in theearly stages of forming a walkingtour of interesting trees in the down-town area of D.C., a project of ourlocal Society of American Foresterschapter.” � Soni Pradhanang writes:“I am writing a couple of manuscriptson my Ph.D. research. I am hopingto finish writing my dissertation bythe end of this year.” �Holly Sagewrites: “We have a baby girl. OliviaSarah Green was born in March2008. We live in Maryland and I amworking for the EPA’s water qualitystandards program.” � Abdalla Shahwrites: “I am a national technicaladvisor for the Kilombero ValleyRamsar Project in Tanzania. Themain objective of the project is todevelop an integrated managementplan for the Kilombero Wetlands. Itraveled to Cuiaba, Brazil, to attendthe International WetlandsConference.” � Jay Shepherd is anacquisition and development managerfor contaminated properties nation-wide and in Guam for WestonSolutions in D.C. Jay has almost com-pleted a second master’s from JohnsHopkins in real estate developmentand seeks to continue his effort to

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revive urban communities blightedby decades of environmental harm.www.westonsolutions.com� Laura Tam and Darryl welcomedtheir son, Liam Asher Knudsen, inFebruary 2008. Laura has been trying to persuade the City of SanFrancisco not to build a new naturalgas power plant that was permittedin their community.

2004Class SecretariesJennifer Vogel [email protected] Keith Bisson [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Barnes writes: “David Kneas’05 and I got engaged, and I am backin New Haven to write my Ph.D.research on irrigation in Egypt.”� Jennifer Vogel Bass and her hus-band, Gordon, welcomed HenryWilliam Bass in June 2008 at theirhome in Queens.�Marco Buttazzoniand Valerie Craig welcomed theirson, Giulio, in April 2008. � SuzetteCarty writes: “I live in Louisville andwork for Brown-Forman Corporation,leading our environmental steward-ship initiatives.” � Jonathan Cookwrites: “I spent the past year livingin Laos and working with WorldWildlife Fund’s Greater MekongProgram on agriculture. I also foundtime to climb Mount Kinabalu inMalaysia, run the Angkor Wat 10Kand attend Hahn-Ning Chou’s epicwedding in Manila. I’m now at myold job with WWF in Washington.”� Alvaro del Campo writes: “I amthe international field programsmanager of ecology, culture and conservation, coordinating all rapidinventories (social and biological)and some of our tropical ecologycourses in Chicago and in the field.We conduct rapid biological andsocial inventories to promote effectiveconservation action in threatenedregions of high-biological diversityand uniqueness. We are working inthe tropical rainforests of Peru,Bolivia and Ecuador. I lead theadvance teams in the country, and

since I am also a nature photographer,I take most of the pictures during theinventories for the reports and otherarticles. I also help edit the post-inventory reports and write articlesabout our experiences and outcomesin the field for local media.” � TashaEichenseher is the science editor forthe National Geographic website.�Margarita Fernandez is living inOaxaca, Mexico, working with anorganic certifying agency. On June 7,2008, she and Benjamin Hodgdon ’03welcomed their first baby, CarmenDelia. � Alphonse (Buddy) FletcherJr. married Ellen Pao last year andthey had a daughter, Matilda PaoFletcher, whom they call Mei.� Betony Jones is director of programdevelopment at the Sierra BusinessCouncil in Truckee, Calif., trying topioneer the new green economy inthe Sierra Nevada. Betony is workingwith land trusts to finalize forestconservation projects for carbonsequestration in order to securefunding for long-term managementand restoration of private forests inthe region. She writes: “I’m also get-ting ready to launch an ambitiousenergy efficiency program that willtie rural economic developmentopportunities to energy conservation.Other than that, I tried to get outbackpacking a lot this summer. Iwent on a five-day excursion to theastoundingly beautiful EvolutionBasin with my boyfriend and AlisonForrestel ’03, Kabir Peay ’03, IlmiGranoff, Garret Miller and AliceBond ’05.” � Amanda (Farris)Mahaffey writes: “I got hitched onAugust 2 in Brunswick, Maine, toKevin Mahaffey. I am active at Stantec,formerly Woodlot Alternatives, andam also pursuing a degree in music.”� Rose Mannik writes: “I have beenworking in Melbourne, Australia, forthe last two years. I worked first inthe spatial, and now the waterresources, section of the engineeringconsulting firm Sinclair KnightMerz.” � Susan Tambi Matambowrites: “We have returned to theUnited States after a three-year stintin Southeast Asia and have settled inBethesda.” �Megan Mattox writes:“I am based in the Bay of Islandswith my husband, Rowan, and I amworking for New Forests AssetManagement, overseeing operations

in New Zealand and Hawaii.”� Shona Quinn is the sustainabilityleader for the clothing companyEileen Fisher. � Christopher Rielywrites: “I have alighted in Providence,R.I., and am a watershed forest man-ager for Providence Water, the publicutility providing drinking water toRhode Islanders.” �Nalin Sahniwrites: “I’m in law school at theUniversity of Toronto but onexchange in Amsterdam until the endof 2008.” �Dani Simons is livingand working in New York City. Thissummer she helped the city’sDepartment of Transportation createSummer Streets, a seven-mile car-freeroute through the heart of Manhattanon three consecutive Saturday morn-ings to encourage more people to re-imagine the way we use streets aspublic spaces and to promote biking,walking and other sustainable andhealthy modes of [email protected] � AbigailWeinberg writes: “I’ve been develop-ing a research program focused onunderstanding the impacts of newinvestment vehicles on forestlandconservation for the Open SpaceInstitute. Our next project is examin-ing the current ownership of the 67million acres of old industry lands inthe United States—who owns themand what’s to come as TimberlandInvestment Management Organizationinvestors move oversees. I marriedmy love of 12 years last September,and we’re living in Brooklyn. Wehave just taken up sailing, and get-ting out on the Hudson is a greatescape from the city.”�Kevin Woodswrites: “I will be starting my Ph.D. atthe University of California, Berkeley,in environmental science, policy andmanagement.”

2005Class SecretariesDavid Cherney [email protected] Cudjoe [email protected] [email protected] Urquhart [email protected] (Leahy) Adams lives inConcord, N.H., and is manager

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of environmental stewardship for St. Paul’s School, a private boardingschool. [email protected]� Lauren Baker enjoyed some timeoff in Peru and California andreturned to F&ES in August to doher Ph.D. with Michael Dove andRobert Bailis. � Cherelle Blazer-Higgins writes: “I am a communityactivist, green builder and businessowner. I have a little boy and girl.”� Alvaro Redondo Brenes is afourth-year Ph.D. candidate at F&ES.He is working on his dissertation inCosta Rica, studying the effects ofland use, political and socio-economicfactors on the conservation ofwildlife in the Path of TapirBiological Corridor, Costa Rica’sCentral and South Pacific Coast.� Patrick Burtis writes: “I’ve been inthe United Kingdom since July 2006,investing in clean energy and envi-ronmental technologies startups onbehalf of Amadeus Capital Partners,a leading European venture capitalfirm. I get to travel quite a lot inEurope for work and pleasure. I married Jennifer Thomas in Londonlast July after four years of dating.We live in Notting Hill with our dog,Mimi. We hung out with Kyle Jones’06 a lot when she was living inLondon, but sadly (for us) she hasgone back to New York. We haveseen Andre Heinz ’99, who’s living inStockholm, and Caley Johnson ’06when I was in Colorado on vacation.Jennifer and I also had dinner withArnulf Grubler in Vienna inFebruary—on his birthday, no less. A good time as always.”[email protected]� Sharifa (Gulamhussein) Crandallis living in Boston and studying urbanlandscape design and restorationecology through the ArnoldArboretum at Harvard. She’s findingtime to botanize, swim and playkickball on the weekends. �DoraCudjoe had a boy, Jonathan Joel(Jojo) Fiifi Forson, in May 2008.� Trisha Eyler is living in Ashburn,Va., just west of Washington, D.C.She recently left her position as anenforcement specialist with theVirginia Department of EnvironmentalQuality and began working for URSas a consultant in its air qualitygroup. � James Fergusson writes: “Iam financing a range of renewables

in a variety of countries—geothermalin Indonesia, wind in Chile andPakistan and hydro in India forInternational Finance. Sarah and Iare living in D.C. and expecting ourfirst child in August.” � CarishmaGokhale-Welch and Aaron Welchhave gone to India. Aaron has beenawarded a Fulbright Scholarship toresearch conservation in associationwith the Indian Institute ofTechnology in Mumbai. Carishmawill integrate sustainable practicesinto the booming economy. Thiscomes at the close of Aaron’s ColoradoConservation Trust Fellowship withtwo land trusts and Carishma’s continuing direction of a successfulwatershed management effort in thehistoric mining town of Creede. [email protected]� Emily Levin writes: “I moved toBurlington, Vt., last September andam the planning manager for resi-dential services at the VermontEnergy Investment Corporation. I dostrategic planning and managementfor energy efficiency services in newand existing homes at EfficiencyVermont, the state’s energy efficiencyutility.” �Michelle Lichtenfelswrites: “I’m a program manager atPortland Energy Conservation,where I’m implementing large-scalecommercial energy efficiency programsin California. Matt and I have had abusy year racing our bikes aroundOregon and Washington—bothcyclocross and road racing. I’m gettingready to upgrade to Category 3. Atthe end of the summer, we went toVermont to see Kelly Coleman andher fiancé, Amir, then were off toAmsterdam and Egypt for a coupleof weeks.”� Sarah Matheson traveledto Peru, where she saw Cesar Moran.She is starting a sustainability practicefor an Australian consulting firm inWashington, D.C. � Azalea Mitchwrites: “I am a project engineer withthe Greater New Haven WaterPollution Control Authority. I bike towork on most days and have beenhappy to reduce my carbon footprint.We installed a solar hot water heatersystem last year. Bill and I canoed inCanada, and we work with EngineersWithout Borders on a water projectin Cameroon.” �Daniel Stoningtonwrites: “I’m a program manager forthe Cascade Land Conservancy in

Seattle, lobbying local and state government for sustainable land usepolicy changes. I’m in my third yearon the board of directors for HighCountry News, a magazine aboutsocial, cultural and environmentalissues in the western United States. Ihad the pleasure of attending SamKrasnow’s wedding in Vermont thissummer, where I also got to see AliMacalady ’06 and her husband,Derek, and Kelly Coleman and herfiancé, Amir. Jim Cronan ’06 and Iare housemates living in northSeattle.” �Megan Sutton writes:“This summer Andy Tait and I gothitched in a lovely high meadow outin the countryside of the southernAppalachian Mountains. Mary Aliceand Rob Lamb played beautifulmusic throughout our ceremony.”� Carlisle Tuggey writes: “I am anenvironmental attorney at PretiFlaherty law firm in Portland, Maine.I sail, ski, hike, enjoy Portland andhave been getting involved with TheNature Conservancy, Sail Maine,United Way, the American BarAssociation and some other nonprof-its in my free time.” � Ben Urquhartis a research associate at the HarvardUniversity Center for theEnvironment, where he is workingon international climate and energypolicy. There might be some forestryand biomass energy project develop-ment on the side. � Ethan Winterreports that Savannah Hollins Winterwas born in August 2008. Ethan isthe New York conservation managerfor the Land Trust Alliance and isresponsible for a $1.5 million annualcapacity-building grants programand the state policy program.

2006Class SecretariesFlora Chi [email protected] Renshaw Dibner [email protected] A. Mostoller [email protected] Savery [email protected] [email protected] Albietz is doing watershedrestoration in the northern Sierras

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there. I helped conduct a climatechange impacts assessment workshopfor biodiversity and natural resources-based livelihoods in Madagascar. The results of this vulnerabilityassessment are contributing to theformulation of a comprehensiveadaptation strategy for incorporatingclimate impacts into conservation.”� Elizabeth Deliso writes: “For thelast two years I’ve been living in thecloud forest of Monteverde, CostaRica. In 2007 I wrote a grant withAlan Pounds and conducted a projectinvestigating the potential effects ofclimate change on the hummingbirdsof Monteverde. The idea is to helpLa Reserva Biologica Bosque Nubusode Monteverde develop and imple-ment a research and biological monitoring program. I also spendtime with my 8-month-old son andpartner, Julio, and I welcomed JulianSantiago Medina Deliso into theworld in December 2007.”[email protected] � ReillyDibner writes: “I’ve just moved backto Galway to begin a Ph.D. at theNational University of Ireland, work-ing on an ecology, environmental-engineering and forestry project. I’vebeen racing triathlons, playing music(more mandolin, less bass) andlearning how to make fancy hats outof discarded fabric. I visited withF&ESers at Kim Wilkinson’s weddingin June and look forward to crashingon Jill Savery’s couch near Londonsometime this year. This past summer I monitored gull nests inSan Francisco under dive-bombingpressure by the (large) adults andconducted endangered butterflycounts on San Bruno Mountain.”� Konstantine Drakonakis writes: “Iopened a new office in New Havenfor LaunchCapital, a new venturecapital fund. We look to invest in abroad and diverse range of startups.”�Heather Eves, D.F.E.S. ’06, hasbeen director of the Bushmeat CrisisTask Force based in Washington,D.C., since 2000. She has continuedto focus on the bushmeat issueacross Africa, most recently inEastern Africa, and is working withthe MENTOR fellowship program toprovide training and support formid-career wildlife professionals in

Eastern Africa to address the trade. AFulbright Senior Specialist grant willenable her to continue work with thefellows in building an Eastern Africanetwork to complement a decade ofeffort on bushmeat in Central Africa.Heather has two children, CaseySavanna, 7, and Ryan Forest, 5, whorecently accompanied their parentsto Tanzania for a month, wheremom and dad were working onAfrican wildlife conservation efforts.www.bushmeat.org �Debora Filliswrites: “I am an environmental planner for communities in the New York City metro area and havemoved back to my hometown inEastchester, N.Y. In addition to environmental planning, I am goingto marry Steve Ryba next spring.”� Erin Flanagan writes: “I work fora big law firm, Thompson Hine,where I practice as a trial lawyer inthe firm’s business litigation group. I am involved in raising northeastOhio’s awareness to the region’sclean-water and clean-air issues andam looking forward to becominginvolved in the civic task force thatis trying to bring the largest windfarm to the United States, to belocated in the waters of Lake Erie.”� Jenny Frankel-Reed writes: “I am a technical advisor for a projecttitled ‘Adaptation to Climate Change in Rural Areas’ in India with GTZ (German TechnicalCooperation). I was in Eschborn,Germany, until September, and nowam going to live in New Delhithrough mid-2011. It has been aprivilege to work with and learnfrom Pradeep Kurukulasuriya ’01,Ph.D. ’06, and Luis Gomez-Echeverri ’91 while at the UNDP.”[email protected] � RossGeredien writes: “Julie and I aredoing very well after a belated honeymoon to Costa Rica, where wesaw 189 species of birds. I managethe state’s rare-, threatened- andendangered-species information at theMaryland Natural Heritage Program.”www.goodmigrationsphoto.com�Gonzalo Griebenow is working atthe World Bank EnvironmentDepartment with the policy and economics team. He writes: “Mywork is about improving the integra-

tion of climate-change policies indeveloping countries. I am also carrying out research work in theAmazon, studying the potentialimpacts of climate change in thetropical Andes.” �Maria Ivanova,Ph.D., is an assistant professor ofgovernment and environmental policyat the College of William and Maryin Virginia. She is spending her sabbatical year in Washington, D.C., asa visiting scholar at the EnvironmentalLaw Institute. � Kyle Jones hasmoved back to New York City aftertwo years in London. � Taek Joowrites: “I live in Korea and got a newjob at Korea Green Foundation, anenvironmental NGO. I work on theinternational cooperation team.”� Jen Karanian writes: “I’m living inSudan and am a contractor forUSAID, writing environmental evalu-ations for all its upcoming projects.I’m hoping to get a gig with theWildlife Conservation Society in thefall, doing some work related to thatenormous wildlife migration routethey discovered in Southern Sudan.”� Alder Keleman writes: “I’vemoved to Rome to be based at theFAO for a year. Here I’m working onthe same old topics—crop diversity,markets and agricultural policy—butwith a broader geographical scope.”[email protected] � ChrisMeaney writes: “I was hired by theNMFS office of the HabitatConservation Habitat ProtectionDivision. I’m now a full-time federalemployee.” � Shuichi Ozawa writes:“I am an environmental consultantin Tokyo. I met Gala Davaa ’07 inTokyo when he visited here for vaca-tion.” � Tiffany McCormick Potterwrites: “I am head of origination forEquator Environmental, a privateasset management firm with head-quarters in New York City and thesecond-largest natural gas brokeragein North America. This positionallows me the opportunity to followmy heart and potentially help changethe way we value, invest and protectgreen spaces and to tap back into myexpertise in forestry and conserva-tion.” [email protected]� Sarah Price writes: “I’m workingwith Tropical Forest Trust and ambased in Geneva. TFT worksthroughout the tropics to improve

sustainable forest practices, so I’mlucky to work on projects all overthe place.” � Jill Savery writes: “Imoved to London and am the 2012project manager for BioRegional.BioRegional and WWF co-authoredthe London 2012 One PlanetOlympics sustainability strategy, andI am providing assistance to theorganizers in meeting their targets.” �Dhyana Quintanar Solares writes:“I am collaborating with the Ministryof Environment of Mexico City(Secretaría de Medio Ambiente delDistrito Federal), where I coordinatethe Bikeway Master Plan of MexicoCity.” [email protected]�Dahvi Wilson writes: “I am thedirector of sustainability at a newgreen neighborhood developmentcalled Mountainside Village, theexecutive director of a small non-profit called Mountainside Institute,the board chair of Teton ValleyCommunity Recycling and a co-founder of a new collaboration oflocal green organizations and busi-nesses that we’re calling the TetonValley Green Forum. Jeni (Krencicki)Barcelos and I continue our workadvising and consulting as fellows ofthe Progressive Ideas Network, astrategic collaboration of severalnational progressive political thinktanks, and we hope to call anothermeeting of these groups after theelections in November.” � ChristinaZarrella is assistant to the directorof, as well as multistate conservationgrant program coordinator for, theAssociation of Fish & WildlifeAgencies in D.C.

2007Class SecretaryRosi [email protected] Arrowood writes: “I’m aconsultant for Vintage Africa, basedin the Kigio Wildlife Conservancy inKenya, but I may move to theirTanzania office in a few months.”� Joanna Carey writes: “I’m moni-toring stream flow at over 60 sitesstatewide for the MassachusettsRiverways Program, a division of theDepartment of Fish and Game. Iexamine how the streams areresponding hydrologically to stressors

(water withdrawals, upstream barriers,stormwater).” � Amanda Cowanwrites: “I am in my second year in adoctoral program at OxfordUniversity. I’m in the marketingdepartment at Oxford’s businessschool, and my current research ison U.S. environmental activismaround the issue of climate change.”� Beth Jamie Feingold writes: “Icompleted the first year of my Ph.D.at Johns Hopkins School of PublicHealth in the Department ofEnvironmental Health Sciences. I’mabout to start research on the envi-ronmental health effects of large-scale factory farms. I get to catch upwith Bridgid Curry, CarolineSimmonds ’06, Fuphan Chou ’06and Steve Rhee ’00, among others. Ijust built a road bike and am excitedto ride it.” �Dawn Lippert writes: “I have been developing a strategyfor Hawaii to reach 70 percent cleanenergy by 2030—including electricity,efficiency and transportation—forBooz Allen’s renewable-energy team.It’s related to my experience at F&ESworking with Marian Chertow,Ph.D. ’00, and four other studentson a sustainable energy plan for theBig Island.” � Charlie Liu writes:“I’m a Ph.D. student in the BiologyDepartment at University ofCalifornia, Berkeley, working in JayKeasling’s lab on biofuels (not relatedto corn or ethanol).” � SusanMarriott is an associate of PhilipsLytle in Buffalo. Her practice concen-trates on environment and energy,telecommunications and land use,and zoning law, along with climate-change policy. � Colleen Morgan isstarting a program called BayouRebirth Wetlands Restoration andEducation in New Orleans. She hasspent the past year networking, pro-moting and testing her idea whileworking at the Audubon NatureInstitute as the volunteer coordinatorof its nature center in New OrleansEast, an 86-acre property that wasdestroyed by Hurricane Katrina. Shemanages a volunteer restorationproject there to remove the invasivespecies, Chinese tallow, and replantnative bottomland hardwood species.www.bayourebirth.org �HannahMurray writes: “I’m working at ForestTrends and the Katoomba Group in

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s notesWashington, D.C., on market incen-tives for forest conservation in LatinAmerica.” � Jim Nordgren writes:“I’m the executive director of theNortheast Wilderness Trust inBoston, protecting wilderness landacross northern New York and NewEngland.” � Stephanie Ogburnwrites: “I’m the outreach and devel-opment coordinator for a rural recy-cling program, the Four CornersRecycling Initiative. It’s an effort toboost recycling in my part of thecountry—Montezuma County, Colo.I’m also working part time on anorganic farm and blogging aboutthose experiences at Grist.org’s blog,Gristmill. In my spare time, I’mworking on starting a new nonprofitto support community food andfarms in southwestern Colorado.”www.stephanieogburn.com;www.4cornersrecycles.org�Mike Perlmutter is the Bay Areaconservation coordinator forAudubon California, which is part-nering with the U.S. Fish andWildlife Service to initiate tidalrestoration on Tubbs Island, part ofthe wetlands that make up the SanPablo Bay National Wildlife Refuge.I’m working on setting up a moni-toring protocol to measure the suc-cess of our restoration actions inimproving habitat for wetland birdsand plants.” www.ca.audubon.org� Pedro Piris-Cabezas writes: “I amworking for the EnvironmentalDefense Fund in Madrid and on mydissertation as a student at Rey JuanCarlos University.” � Krishna Rokawrites: “I am a Ph.D. student in ruralsociology and the human dimensionsof natural resource management atPenn State. I will be working on governance and forest managementin Nepal. In May 2008 we had a babygirl, Avani, who joins our 2-year-oldson, Diptanshu.” � Tenley ElizabethWurglitz writes: “I am a programassistant with the Sonoma LandTrust in Santa Rosa, Calif. I amassisting two senior staff memberswith all aspects of land and conser-vation easement acquisitions.”

2008Class SecretariesAngelica [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Absar is at F&ES completingher master’s thesis on farmer behaviorand adaptation to water shortages inPakistan, and she is doing an inde-pendent study analyzing the precipi-tation patterns of the Rio Bravowatershed. She is also interning withthe Pakistani mission at the UnitedNations in New York. � Ali Akramwrites: “I went back to Pakistan,married Zahra, traveled to the FarEast with her and now plan to comeback to New Haven to start Ph.D.study at F&ES in environmentaleconomics. Zahra is joining me inNew Haven, and I hope to introduceher to some of the best pizza in theworld.” � Avery Anderson hasmoved to Santa Fe, N.M., to be theprogram coordinator for a new con-servation leadership developmentprogram called CARLY (Conservationand Ranching Leadership and Youth)for The Quivira Coalition, a conser-vation nonprofit that builds resilientcommunities and ecosystems innorthern New Mexico. The CARLYProgram will match eager youngleaders with mentors in conservationand ranching for 24-month programs.� Anamaria Aristizabal is a consult-ant at McKinsey & Co. in Bogota,where she developed the carbonabatement plan for the office toreduce emissions by 10 percent bynext year, coordinating with LatinAmerican colleagues. She also devel-oped a growth strategy for wastemanagement for a sanitation companyin Brazil, did organizational designand portfolio revamping for aDominican bank and was involvedin the running of a McKinsey-spon-sored business plan competition.www.aldeafeliz.org �Georgia Bassowrites: “I am working on a sustain-able coffee project with The NatureConservancy and the Center forSustainable Markets at INCAEBusiness School in Costa Rica.”

�Genny Biggs writes: “My familyand I are getting settled in Winnetka,and I’m working remotely for theMoore Foundation.” � Sara Busheyand Ron Ohrel were married on July11 in Pismo Beach, Calif. Joiningthem for the special event wereAudrey Davenport ’09, BensonGabler ’09, Claire Gagne ’07, JohnPaul Jewell ’09 and Lucas Knowles’08. Ron is director of the MarinePublic Education Office, College ofMarine and Earth Studies and SeaGrant College Program at theUniversity of Delaware. Sara is takingsome time to relax and do somepickling and outdoor exploringbefore starting to look for her nextjob. � Kelsey Kidd writes: “I’m anenvironmental scientist for WestonSolutions in Tempe, Ariz., and loving the desert.” � Jennifer Lewiswrites: “I work at the New YorkUniversity Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.”[email protected] � InnocentLiengola writes: “I am a projectdirector in Salonga National Parkwith the Wildlife ConservationSociety trying to preserve bonobos(Pan paniscus) and their habitat.Bonobos are pygmy chimps, the lastof the great apes to be discovered.They are the closest relative tohumans.” � Kyle Meister writes: “Ifinished a forestry internship with theMercy Corps in Bogotá, Colombia,and I am now a certification foresterwith Scientific Certification Systemsin the Bay Area of California. I willbe working on certifying forests ofNorth and South America under theForest Stewardship Council standard.There is also a good chance that Iwill be working on forest carbonstandards and certifications.”� Xinwei Zhang writes: “I moved toMelbourne, Fla., and started my firstjob at AgCert Services. I am a regula-tory analyst—mainly keeping thecompany up-to-date on carbon markets and Clean DevelopmentMechanism regulations. I also helpdevelop carbon emissions-reductionprojects in developing countries.”


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Ralph Arnold ’41 (1915-2008) died atthe age of 93 on July 10 in Crossett,Ark. Ralph was born on February 9,1915. A retired lieutenant com-mander, U.S. Navy Reserve, he servedin World War II as a PT boat skipperin the Pacific-Solomon Islands. Heearned a bachelor’s of science degreein entomology from the Universityof Massachusetts before he studiedat Yale. As a retired forester forGeorgia-Pacific, he was a goldenmember of the Society of AmericanForesters and a member of theArkansas Forestry Association,Louisiana Forestry Association andthe Chamber of Commerce. Hebelonged to the First UnitedMethodist Church, and he is remem-bered for his love of reading, golfand traveling. He was preceded indeath by his wife, Lois Arnold ofTamarac, Fla. He is survived by ason, David of Flower Mound, Texas;two daughters, Sue Chesney ofArlington, Texas, and Cheryl Jule ofKerrville, Texas; two brothers, Waldoof Tamarac and Theodore of Franklin,Mass.; a sister, Helen Olsen ofWrentham, Mass.; and six grandchil-dren and four great-grandchildren.

Bruce Atkinson ’64 (1934-2008)died in Green Valley, Ariz., on March3 after a lengthy illness. Born onSeptember 10, 1934, Bruce workedas a forester, logging manager andmill manager with MacMillan-Bloedelbefore and after his degree work atYale. He was a founding analystwith Nawitka Renewable ResourceConsultants in 1974, which ranforestry projects in 40 countries over28 years. His other business interestsin communications and real estateeventually reduced his involvementin forestry, but he continued analyzingmill and marketing opportunities in Chile. He is survived by his wife, Shirley; two sons, John ofVancouver Island, British Columbia,and Matthew of Vancouver, BritishColumbia; and a daughter, Sara, ofLondon.

Charles O’Connor Baird Jr. ’51(1922-2008), a longtime resident ofSewanee, Tenn., died on April 4 inChattanooga, Tenn., at the age of 85.During his 32-year tenure with theUniversity of the South, Charlesserved as a professor of forestry,department chair, university foresterand dean of men. He also helpeddevelop the natural resources major,which has proven to be one of thestrongest majors in the college. Hegraduated from Knoxville HighSchool and earned his undergraduatedegree in engineering from theUniversity of Tennessee before con-tinuing at Yale for a master of forestrydegree. In 1962, he received a doctorof forestry degree from the DukeSchool of Forestry. During WorldWar II, he served as an officer in theArmy Corps of Engineers in thePhilippine Islands. He received theAsiatic Pacific Campaign Medal withbronze battle star, the PhilippineLiberation Ribbon with bronze starand the World War II Victory Medal.He was an Eagle Scout. Into his 80s,he played tennis and was an avidreader and outdoorsman. He is survived by his wife, Joan; a son,Charles; two daughters, ElizabethThoni and Julia Denegre; and eightgrandchildren.

David Challinor ’59, Ph.D. ’66,(1920-2008) was a conservationistwho combined his career as a topscientific administrator at theSmithsonian Institution with anequally intense pursuit of excellenceas a champion oarsman, rowingcompetitively into his 80s. Daviddied on March 5 at the age of 87 ofcongestive heart failure at his homein Washington, D.C. He was born inNew York City on July 11, 1920,graduated from Harvard College ayear early and, in 1942, enlisted in theNavy. He served in the Mediterraneanand Pacific theaters during WorldWar II, primarily on the escort carrierKasaan Bay. After the war, he movedto Texas and worked as a cotton broker, farmer and mortgage broker.

In the late 1950s, he returned to theEast to study forestry at Yale. In1966, he left a job with the PeabodyMuseum of Natural History at Yaleto be a special assistant in tropicalbiology at the Smithsonian Institutionin Washington, D.C. Through the1970s and 1980s, he oversaw thebudgets, staff and general directionof the National Zoo, the NationalMuseum of Natural History, theHarvard-Smithsonian Center forAstrophysics and other scientific unitsof the Smithsonian as assistant secre-tary for science and research. He wasa member of the Charles DarwinFoundation, the African WildlifeFoundation and the EnvironmentalDefense Fund. He is survived by hiswife of 56 years, Joan of Washington,D.C.; three daughters, Julia ofAmsterdam, Mary of Washingtonand Sarah of San Francisco; a son,David of Seattle; a sister; and sixgrandchildren.

Herbert Damon ’49 (1917-2008)died peacefully at home in NewLondon, N.H., on March 13 at theage of 90. Herbert was born onDecember 24, 1917, in Malden,Mass., and graduated from PhillipsExeter Academy and AmherstCollege. Soon after, he enlisted inthe Navy, serving as an officeraboard the destroyer USS Smith inthe South Pacific from 1941 to 1945.Having earned seven battle stars, hewas second in command of the shipwhen he was finally transferredstateside to teach naval science atthe University of Texas. He servedwith distinction as a citizen-soldierbut is remembered as decrying waras a solution. In 1946 he marriedMargaret “Peggy” Damon, and heobtained his master’s degree at theForestry School as they were startinga family. After moving to NorthConway, N.H., in 1949, he owned andoperated several ventures, includingthe Carroll County Service Company,a propane gas and appliance business,and a sawmill. He also worked as aforester, real estate agent and car-

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penter. From 1961 to the mid 1970s,he taught general science to hundredsof junior high school students inConway and Tamworth. In 1975, heand Peggy moved to Tamworth,where they started Hollow Hill Farm,a pick-your-own apple and berrybusiness. They fully retired in 1993and moved to New London. Hebecame Peggy’s devoted caregiverwhen she developed health problemsand continued until her death inSeptember 2007. From his earlyexperiences on a canoe trip downthe Allagash River at summer camp,he fell in love with the woods,mountains and streams of northernNew England, a love that is evidentin his many watercolor landscapepaintings. He was an early trustee ofthe Tin Mountain ConservationCenter and, with Peggy, an avidbirder for many years. Together theytraveled from the Galapagos to Africaon birding and nature expeditions. Heenjoyed young people, volunteeringtime with the Eastern Slope Ski Club,Junior Ski Program, Boy Scouts, LittleLeague and the Community Centerin North Conway. He was a lovingfather, grandfather, brother anduncle, and his lively, irreverent senseof humor will be missed. He is sur-vived by a son, Edward of Concord,N.H.; two daughters, Martha Kaneof Huntingtown, Md., and SusanHurst of Grantham, N.H.; sevengrandchildren; a brother, Stephen ofTamworth, and a sister, PatriciaNiswander of Concord; and numer-ous nieces, nephews and in-laws.Besides Peggy, he was predeceasedby an older brother, Harry of GrandRapids, Mich.; and an older sister,Katharine Reed of North Conway.

Richard (“Dick”) Dingle ’47, Ph.D.’53, (1918-2008) died on June 1 inBismarck, N.D., at the age of 90.Dick was born on January 5, 1918,and spent most of his childhood inSt. Paul, Minn. He graduated with aforestry degree from the Universityof Minnesota in 1941 and served asa Navy lieutenant on a landing craft

during World War II in the SouthPacific from 1944 to 1946. Afterearning his master’s degree at theForestry School, he taught in theForestry Department at the Universityof Missouri, Columbia, from 1948 to1953 while conducting his Ph.D.research. He taught in the ForestryDepartment at Washington StateUniversity from 1953 until he retiredin 1983. He was dedicated to hisstudents, the preservation and sustainable use of forests and thedevelopment of the naturally perfectChristmas tree. This quest took himon sabbatical to Europe in 1969,where he pursued a pure source ofseeds of the rare Spanish fir. Helater planted them at the ForestExperiment Station in Vancouver,Wash. In 1981 he joined a WSU-AID project in Indonesia, workingwith forestry faculty members atUniversitas Hasanuddin in UjungPandang on the island of Sulawesi.He was an active member of thePullman Presbyterian Church formany years and of the Society ofAmerican Foresters. He married thelove of his life, Barbara, in St. Paulon June 6, 1947, sharing manyadventures and world travels withher. They celebrated their 50th and60th wedding anniversaries withfriends and family and were just fivedays shy of celebrating their 61stwhen he died. He is survived by hiswife, Barbara; two daughters, Maryof Portland, Ore., and Judy Soule ofAlexandria, Va.; two brothers, A.Nelson and Gene; a sister, DorothyOlson; a daughter-in-law, TillayChristensen; a son-in-law, RobertSoule; four grandchildren; and agreat-granddaughter. He was precededin death by his brother Roy and sister Eunice.

Arthur Galston (1920-2008), pro-fessor emeritus of molecular, cellularand developmental biology at Yale,died on June 15 at the age of 88 atthe Whitney Center in Hamden,where he lived with his wife, Dale.Born in Brooklyn, Art received his

undergraduate degree from Cornelland a Ph.D. in botany from theUniversity of Illinois in 1943. Hespent a year at Yale before becomingan assistant and then associate pro-fessor at the California Institute ofTechnology. He was a leading plantphysiologist from the 1940s to 1970s.He contributed not only to botany,but also to international relations,especially in the Far East, and to thefield of bioethics. He was also theEaton Professor Emeritus of MCDB,professor emeritus at the Institutionfor Social and Policy Studies, wherehe served on the executive committeefor interdisciplinary bioethics proj-ects. He was chair of the BotanyDepartment in 1960 and was instru-mental in arranging the merger ofthe botany and zoology departments,chairing the newly merged depart-ment from 1985 to 1988. He waspresident of the Botanical Society ofAmerica (BSA) and the AmericanSociety of Plant Physiologists. Heorganized and presided over abioethics and science seminar seriesheld at the Joseph Slifka Center forJewish Life at Yale. His pioneeringresearch in plant physiology andhormones later led to corporatedevelopment of defoliants that wereused for the production of AgentOrange during the Vietnam War.The consequences of this led to hispassionate interest in bioethics as adiscipline. At the time of his death,he was preparing a presentation forthe 40th anniversary of his BSAPresidential Address, titled “Plants,People and Politics,” which was toreview how people “have not soughtto ameliorate the damage caused bythis largest chemical warfare operationin history.”

George Hopkins ’37 (1912-2008), aformer resident of Ballston Lake,N.Y., died on May 18 at KingswayArms Nursing Home. Born inBrooklyn on December 7, 1912,George graduated from Burnt HillsBallston Lake High School andreceived his biochemistry degree from

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Harvard. After earning his forestrydegree, he worked at the GE SiliconePlant in Waterford, N.Y. He was amember and leader of the BallstonCenter Associate ReformedPresbyterian Church. He is survivedby his wife, Vernice, with whom hewould have celebrated their 70thanniversary in June; a son, Richardof Charlton, N.Y.; twin daughters,Susan Malone of Guilderland, N.Y.,and Sandra Knabner of BallstonLake; eight grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren; and numerous niecesand nephews. He was predeceasedby two brothers, William and John;and two sisters, Alice Eyreman andVirginia Mayakis.

John Klinkam ’41 (1917-2008) diedat home on March 31 at the age of90. Born on November 22, 1917,John lived in Seattle all his life. Hegraduated from Franklin High Schooland the University of Washington.After earning his forestry degree atYale, he became a forester and thenserved in the U.S. armed forces during World War II. After dischargefrom the Army, he spent 43-plusyears working for Boeing and earneda reputation for excellence in qualityassurance for programs ranging fromthe B-17 bomber to space electronicsin the 1980s. He enjoyed painting,music, poetry and carpentry, as wellas camping, hiking, fishing, boatingand berry picking, and is rememberedfor his sense of humor. He is sur-vived by his wife of more than 50years, Helen Sprague of Seattle; twodaughters, Mary and Monica; twosons, Craig and John; four grand-children; and a brother, Frank ofIssaquah, Wash.

Morten Lauridsen Jr. ’40 (1910-2008)died at the age of 98 on August 8.Morten was born in Seattle on April 30, 1910, and graduated fromQueen Anne High School in Seattleand from the College of Forestry atthe University of Washington withan undergraduate degree in forestmanagement. During his college

years he was a seasonal worker forthe U.S. Forest Service in Oregonand Washington, and he was laterassigned to a research study of thetimber resources in the Northwestbeing conducted by the PacificNorthwest Forest and RangeExperiment Station in Portland. Inlate 1941, he transferred to theInternal Revenue Service (IRS) as atimber valuation engineer. DuringWorld War II, he was an intelligenceofficer in the Navy and was a graduateof the Navy’s Advanced IntelligenceSchool. After the war, he returned tothe IRS in Portland, where he becamethe manager of a group of forestersand engineers. In 1973, he transferredto the Seattle district office of the IRSand was responsible for engineeringand valuations audits in the fiveNorthwest states, including Alaska.He retired from the IRS in 1975. In retirement, he was a consultantuntil 1988. He was a member of the Beaverton Elks Lodge, theWashington County Public AffairsForum, the Pacific Northwest Forest Service Association and theConductor’s Circle of the OregonSymphony. He is survived by a son,Morten Lauridsen III; and fivegrandchildren. He was predeceasedby his wife, Evelyn; a son, Neal; andhis sister, Helen Bucy of BainbridgeIsland, Wash.

Peter Lewis ’80 (1950-2008) diedon August 26 at the age of 58. Bornon May 8, 1950, Peter was raised inRochester, N.Y. In 1970 he went toYosemite National Park to work on atrail crew and fell in love with themountains. He attended ColumbiaUniversity and finished his graduatestudies in forestry at Yale. His class-mates at F&ES recall his trademarkblack cowboy hat and how he oftencarried his front bicycle wheel intoclass with him. He inspired thousandsof young people to follow him intothe backcountry for nearly 30 yearsthrough his work with the CaliforniaConservation Corps, where hehelped to create and sustain a back-

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area where the Earth and its community of life are

untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor

who does not remain.”

Burch fondly recalls how he was, at that time, part

of a “coalition of nature lovers, pacifists and workers’

rights activists.”

“We had diversity before anyone even knew what

the term meant,” he says. “Even though the unity fell

apart in the late 1960s, I still think that three-legged

paradigm of nature-peace-labor was a good one and

will return to the fore.”

After his time with the Forest Service, Burch taught

at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand

and Syracuse University, before hearing about what he

called “interesting developments” at Yale.

“The Yale Forestry School was looking for nonecono-

mist social scientists,” he recalls. “That’s when Francois

Mergen was dean. He knew that changes had to be

made to broaden the forestry school, so he brought in

Herb Bormann, Rick Miller and me.”

Burch went on to author, co-author or edit 14 books

on community development, natural resources and the

environment, as well as 100 peer-reviewed journal

articles. “The great benefit at Yale is that I didn’t have

to do esoteric, peer academic work,” he says. “I could

do other work.”

Among this “other work” was the reorganization of

the state’s environmental protection department. In

addition to the state government work, Burch was

retained by the National Park Service as a researcher

from 1984 to 1996. As such, he’s left his mark around

the country and the world.

Machlis took such teachings to heart.

“Bill emboldened me in my research by instilling in

me that you don’t have to go toward conventional

acclaim. It has been 30 years and even though I am

now his colleague [Burch and Machlis are collaborating

on a book to be published in 2009 by Yale University

Press.], I am still his student. I bought a place on

Vieques, Puerto Rico, near his place just to keep learning

from him. In my 35 years in academia, he is the one

intellectual who is most capable of continued learning.

Bill is the exemplar of lifelong learning.” �

A tribute to Tom Siccama will appear in the spring 2009 issue.


country trails program that is anational model. Graduates of thisprogram have gone on to careers inparks and forests throughout theUnited States, advancing the steward-ship ethic that they learned from him.His sons, Gabe and Forrest, havefond memories of their dad alwayssitting on the bleachers to watchtheir many sports events, hiking withhim through the Sierras, his love ofswimming in cold mountain lakesand rivers, how he enjoyed listeningto talk radio and the way he loved toplay the harmonica around thecampfire. He is survived by his wife,Cheryl; his sons, Gabe and Forrest;a sister, Barbara Paulson; a brother,Scott; two nieces, Julie Sherman and Mariah Lewis; and a nephew,Walker Paulson. Visit the website,“Remembering Peter,” atwww.peterlewisccc.blogspot.com.

Howard “Hap” Mason Jr. ’48 (1920-2008) of Russell, N.J., died onAugust 10 at Country Estates inAgawam, Mass., at the age of 87.Hap was born in Somerville, N.J., onSeptember 24, 1920. From 1951 to1982, he served as chief forester forPeck Lumber Company of Westfield,Mass. His consulting service, ForestResource Specialists, served land-owners and timber harvesters inwestern Massachusetts for manyyears. He was instrumental in pio-neering the environmental move-ments and modern sustainableforestry practices in New England.He was a member of many publicinterest and trade associations,including the Connecticut RiverWatershed Council, Westfield RiverWatershed Association, MassachusettsAssociation of Professional Foresters,Western Massachusetts WoodProducers Association, New EnglandSociety of American Foresters,Massachusetts Tree Farm Committee,Northeastern Loggers Association,Environmental Lobby ofMassachusetts, Appalachian MountainClub, Massachusetts ForestStewardship Committee and Berkshire

Pioneer Resource Conservation andDevelopment Council. His faithfulinvolvement with and support of theF&ES Alumni Association wasdeeply valued and will be greatlymissed. He received awards for out-standing service from a number ofthese organizations for his dedicationto the principles of natural resourceconservation and sustainable devel-opment, and he served numerouslocal and regional groups. He is sur-vived by three sons, David of CulverCity, Calif., Bruce of Norwich, Vt.,and Derrick of Russell; two fosterdaughters, Doreene Pangiarella ofLudlow, Mass., and Edna Hough ofPinebush, N.Y.; and 13 grandchildren.He was predeceased by a brother,David; a sister, Joanne Tryon; and hisformer wife, Louise Hadden Mason.

John Mattoon ’50 (1921-2008), anoutdoorsman who spent his careerprotecting wildlife and the environ-ment, died of congestive heart failureon June 18 at his home in FallsChurch, Va. John was 86. Born inHartford on July 25, 1921, toMerwin and Margurite McLeanMattoon, he graduated from PennState and received a bachelor of science degree in 1942. DuringWorld War II, he served on the air-craft carrier USS Yorktown as a NavySBD (Scout Bomber Douglas) divebomber pilot in the 88th Squadron.As a lieutenant, he took part in thesinking of a Japanese battleship underheavy fire. On another occasion, hedislodged a live bomb from theundercarriage of his squadronleader’s aircraft—while in flight—using the wing tip of his own aircraft.His maneuver enabled the plane toland safely on the Yorktown. For hisactions, he was twice awarded theDistinguished Flying Cross andreceived two Air Medals. In the early1950s, he worked as a forest rangerin Washington, Oregon and Utah; helater served as an executive in the U.S.Forest Service. To help in preservationefforts for national forests and land,he mobilized national figures such

as actor Lorne Greene and singersBurl Ives and Pete Seeger. He helpeddevelop the Smokey Bear and JohnnyHorizon advertising campaigns forforest fire prevention. He also playeda role in President John F. Kennedy’s1963 dedication of the PinchotInstitute for Conservation in Milford,Pa. From the mid-1960s to the late1980s, he worked at the Departmentof the Interior on projects thatincluded the Alaska Pipeline and theEndangered Species Act. He was anaccomplished snow skier with theNational Ski Patrol, a fisherman anda tennis player, and he belonged tothe Episcopal Church of the HolyCross in Dunn Loring, Va. Survivorsinclude his wife of 55 years, Shirleyof Falls Church, and a sister.

Roger Melrose ’49 (1923-2008) diedpeacefully at home in Onouli, Hawaii,on June 26. Born in Seattle onNovember 23, 1923, Roger was aWorld War II Navy veteran whoserved in the Pacific theater. He held degrees in forestry from theUniversity of Washington and Yaleand a master’s of divinity and hon-orary doctor of divinity degrees fromthe Church Divinity School of thePacific. He was an Episcopal parishminister in Kahaluu, Oahu andWailuku, Maui, before becoming thefounding headmaster of SeaburyHall, a private secondary boardingand day school in Makawao, Maui,in 1964. He built and managed theschool for 23 years before his retire-ment in 1987. He is survived by hiswife, Charlotte; two sons, Kennethof Kealakekua and Jeffrey of Hilo;two daughters, Anne Lombardo ofOakhurst, Calif., and Nutie of Kula,Maui; a sister, Patty of Lake Oswego,Ore.; nine grandchildren; and twogreat-grandchildren.

Richard “Dick” M. Pierce ’48 (1920-2008) died at Franklin MemorialHospital in Farmington, Maine, onJune 3 at the age of 88. Dick wasborn on February 21, 1920, inGardiner, Maine, and graduated from

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high school in 1937. He graduatedfrom the University of Maine atOrono in 1943 and was valedictorianof his class. He was a replacementsoldier for the 28th Infantry duringthe D-Day invasion of World War II.He was captured by the Germans inthe Battle of the Bulge and was aprisoner of war for eight monthsbefore being liberated by U.S. troopsat the end of the war. For his service,he received the United NationsService Medal, the Oak Leaf Clusterand two Bronze Star Medals, theKorean Service Medal with twoBronze Medals and a Purple Heartand a second Oak Leaf Cluster. Afterthe war, he became a fire warden forthe Maine Forest Service, stationedin Daaquam. He earned a master’sdegree in wood technology. He leftMaine to construct wooden rotorblades for Piasecki Helicopters inSwarthmore, Pa., and served as aresearcher for new wood processingtechnologies at Timber Engineering inWashington, D.C. In 1950 he joinedFosters Manufacturing, where heworked for 14 years, taking time toserve in the Korean War as a combatengineer. He was discharged as acaptain. He left Fosters as vice presi-dent of production and engineeringin 1968 with a patent on part of thedesign of the wooden clothespin. Hethen was employed in Old Town asmill manager for Lily Tulip Cup, thelargest paper cup manufacturingcompany in the United States at thetime. He was a vice president atHighland Lumber before retiring in1987. He liked working in his gardenand wood shop and was involved innumerous organizations, committeesand councils. He was an EagleScout. He is survived by a daughter,Marjorie of Waterbury, Vt.; two sons,Richard of Industry, N.Y., and Davidof Portage, N.Y.; two grandchildren;two step-grandchildren; and hisGerman shepherd, Lady. He was predeceased by his first wife, Rita;and his brother, Phillip Pierce.

Hurlon Ray ’49 (1921-2008) ofLonsdale, Ark., died on July 25 atthe age of 87. Hurlon was born onApril 25, 1921, in Owensville, Ark.,and attended Saline and GarlandCounty public schools, ArkansasTech University, the University ofArkansas at Fayetteville, Utah StateUniversity, Yale, USDA GraduateSchool in Washington, D.C., and theFederal Executive Institute inCharlottesville, Va. He served in theMarine Corps during World War IIin the South Pacific. In 1995, thenGov. Jim Guy Tucker appointed hima delegate to the White HouseConference on Aging. He served as a member of Metroplan-CentralArkansas Regional TransportationStudy, was legislative chair for theArkansas State Federation of NationalAssociation of Retired FederalEmployees and chair of the ArkansasNatural Heritage Commission. Hesat on the board of directors of theArkansas Wildlife Federation andthe Arkansas Public Policy Panel. Hewas a member of the Saline CountyPlanning Commission, was on theSaline County Public Facilities Boardand worked for improving ArkansasHighway 5 and constructing a scenicturnout. He was also instrumental in helping to secure funds for theOwensville and Paron WaterAssociation. Author of over 100technical papers dealing with envi-ronmental pollution control, hereceived the EPA/ES DistinguishedService Award and was one of theprincipal architects of the FederalClean Water Act. At 82, he wasdeeply involved in what he calledthe most important fight of his life:clearing up the Middle Fork of theSaline River, the Central Arkansaswaterway on which he and four generations of his family grew up.He was a member of the White OakSprings Hunting Club of Princeton,Ark., and the Owensville BaptistChurch. He is survived by three sons,Harold, Daryl and Gaylon; twobrothers, D.L. Ziegler and J.R.

Ziegler; three grandchildren; andtwo great-grandchildren. He waspredeceased by his wife, TyJuana.

Robert Teeters ’52 (1928-2008) ofStamford, Conn., died on February 29at the age of 79 in Stamford Hospitalafter a short illness. Robert was bornin Philadelphia on September 10,1928, to Negley and Ruth Teeters.He attended Oak Lane Country Day School and graduated fromCheltenham High School in 1946.Summers were spent in Maine andon family farms in Minnesota, wherehis love of the outdoors and thebelief in the necessity of governmentprotection of natural resources werefostered. He received his bachelor’sof science degree from OberlinCollege, where he met and marriedNancy Hays. After earning his master’s degree in forestry two yearslater at Yale, he served as a medic inthe U.S. Army in Stuttgart, Germany,and then relocated to WashingtonD.C., where he served in the Officeof Management and Budget. In1965, he joined the Army Corps ofEngineers in the Policy, Programsand Legislative Directorate of CivilWorks. In 1972, he received theDecoration for Meritorious CivilianService for his work on the nation’senvironmental policy. He retired in1985 as chief of research and policyfor the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.In retirement, he was a member andpresident of the Long Island SoundTask Force and was a world traveler.He is survived by his wife, Nancy;two sons, James and John; a daughter,Ann; six grandchildren; and hisbrother, Ralph.

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