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classnotes1942Richard Jorgensen, D.F. ’54, writes:“When you have five old men togather news from, the pantry israther empty. All are moving about,taking care of themselves and lovedones they may be fortunate enoughto still have at their side. I have notbeen able to reach B.R. Eggemanbut, as of now, Richard West is thesenior—he will be 92 in August. Hewent to a Rutgers-Florida footballgame recently with son and grand-son and was saluted as the oldestalumnus there—quite a thrill. Bythe time this is published, J. SidneyMcKnight and I will be 91, andGayley Atkinson will reach 92 inNovember. We all support the medi-cal profession, but my health isgood without medications. I worksenior housing and church trusteejobs and drive neighbors where theyneed to go.”

1946Class SecretaryPaul [email protected]

Cliff Bryden is in fragile health, andhe and wife Burne take it one day ata time. Cliff was 92 on Dec. 1.

Paul Burns, Ph.D. ’49, writes: “Idiscovered that Dave Smith, Ph.D.’50, and I each have a daughter who is a city council member inTennessee. Dave’s daughter, EllenSmith, serves Oak Ridge, and mydaughter, Margaret Feierabend,serves Bristol. They may meet inperson at one of the meetings of citycouncil members held in Tennessee.”Paul is seeking to learn what hap-pened to the 14 Chinese special students who took wood technologytraining in 1945 and 1946 at theYale School of Forestry. Yajie Song’89, D.F.E.S. ’95, a research scientistat F&ES, visited China in July 2008and reported that he located one ofthe 14: Professor Wen-Yue Hsiung’47, retired, of Nanjing ForestryUniversity. Yajie promised to checkwith Wen-Yue for information about

the others in the 1946 group. C. Don Maus, in Eugene, Ore.,

was 93 in January. He has sloweddown, but can still cook, shop anddrive a car. Wife Beula is physicallyactive and in a few organizations,including environmental groups.dbmaus@mymailstation

1947Class SecretaryEvert [email protected]

1948Class SecretaryFrancis [email protected]

Francis Clifton writes: “I am in myfifth year of enjoying the comfortsand activities of The Cloisters inDeLand, Fla. I played a wise man inthis year’s Christmas pageant. Eachweekday at 3 p.m., I meet with oldfriends at a local coffee shop to dis-cuss the world situation, but end uprehashing World War II and the per-sonalities and events of DeLand overthe past 50-plus years. Attendanceranges from three to seven; agesrange from 72 to the 90s.” StevePryce writes: “Carlsbad By The Seaisn’t bad living. Sorry to say that mywife had a bad fall and broke herleg. She’s now in rehab, hoping toget home soon.”

1949Class SecretaryDaniel [email protected]

Dan Dick writes: “While most of usare long since retired, the baby ofour class, Leon Fiske, at 82, is hardat work building his forest productsbusiness in lumber and wood supplyin Greenfield, Mass. He’s consideringimporting bamboo from China.When we were at Yale, the accentwas on forestry. I remember seeing alarge illustration at the school onwhat a watershed is. It stayed withme, and years later I became involvedwith my local watershed in

Worcester, serving as president from1989 to 1999. Watersheds and theirmanagement, like the need to combatglobal warming and carbon loading,are some of our world’s imperativesnow. The new curriculum reflectsthis. In a global economy, the centersof importation from countries likeChina are the unwitting carriers ofthe Asian longhorned beetle thathas arrived embedded in woodenpackaging. This insect has infectedour urban hardwoods, mostly ourmaple species, which are abundantin Worcester. Parts of states likeIllinois, New York and New Jerseywere previously affected; now we in Worcester must deal with this 65-square-mile infection. The fear isthat this slow-moving insect mightinfect our state’s woodlands to thewest if both the infected and theadjacent vulnerable trees are notremoved without delay. We’re talkingabout 20,000 trees and a fine of up to $25,000 for unauthorizedremoval from the quarantined area.Shock over the enormity of theremoval and the screams of resist-ance are pronounced, but the federalagencies involved advise that non-compliance means no federal fundingfor the removal. What is your senseof all this? Will you share yourviews with your classmates?” www.forestproductsassociates.com

1950Class SecretaryKenneth [email protected]

1951Class SecretaryPeter [email protected]

1952Class SecretaryMilton [email protected]

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1953Class SecretaryStanley [email protected]

1954Class SecretaryRichard [email protected]

Robert Echols, Ph.D. ’57, is enjoy-ing retirement in West Texas.

Pausolino Martínez writes: “InAugust I will be 82, and I am stillrunning smoothly. Last year I wasawarded the title of Doctor HonorisCausa from the University of theAndes in Merida, Venezuela. Myproject for a factory to produce fur-niture parts using tropical hardwoodsis waiting for financing. I hope thiscan be accomplished during the firstsemester of the present year.”

1955Warren Doolittle, Ph.D., writes: “Ihave been a little slow recoveringfrom open heart surgery to replacethe aortic heart valve. I hope tobecome more active again in forestconservation.”

1956Class SecretaryJack [email protected]

1958Class SecretaryErnest [email protected]

Doogie (Orville) Darling co-authored,with Don Bragg, “The Early Mills,Railroads, and Logging Camps ofthe Crossett Lumber Company,”published in The Arkansas HistoricalQuarterly, Vol. LXVII, Summer 2008.

1959Class SecretaryHans [email protected]

Philip Craib writes: “I am retiringfrom service as a mutual fund

investment manager.” Philip and hiswife live in the Republic of SouthAfrica. [email protected]

1960Class SecretaryJohn [email protected]

1961Class SecretaryRoger Graham

Lee Miller writes: “Sylvia and I arelearning to tango, so our latest vaca-tion involved a visit to Buenos Aires,where tango got its start. It was ablast! Buenos Aires, the Paris ofSouth America, is a beautiful, busycity with heavy traffic at all hoursand lots of wonderful parks andmuseums. After Buenos Aires, weenjoyed a week in Patagonia, strollingthrough a huge penguin colony andvisiting beautiful glaciers. We cele-brated our 55th anniversary with akiss in front of Perito Moreno—theonly glacier in the world, we weretold, that is not receding. It is fed byice from Chile, high in the Andes.We ended with a visit to Coloniaand Montevideo, Uruguay. We areactive in volunteer work. Sylvia ispresident of the board of an excel-lent local theater company. I’m onthe board of a nonprofit that helpslow-income rural families buy firsthomes or rehabilitate older homes. Iretired from the local public libraryboard after eight years, includingtwo years as chair. We moved to thecity of Ithaca after 40 years in a 160-year-old farmhouse 10 miles out oftown. Beavers moved into our pondthe week after we moved out of thehouse.” R. Scott Wallinger writes:“The National Commission onScience for Sustainable Forestry iswrapping up its activities. JohnGordon, Joyce Berry, D.F.E.S. ’00,Al Sample ’80, D.F. ’89, and JimBrown are all involved in that. I willserve another term as chair of theForest History Society. I’m on theboard of the Charleston Museumand the Seabrook Island Property

Owners Association, and I do a littleforest policy consulting. When I’mnot doing that, there are grandchil-dren, boats, fishing, hunting, golfand other fun things to do. Adelaidejust got back from a South Africancamera safari, and we were inTuscany last September, so myPhotoshop program stays busy, too!”

1962Class SecretaryLarry [email protected]

1963Class SecretaryJames [email protected]

1964Stephen Hanover is enjoying hisretirement in southwest Florida. Nosnow down there! He and his wife,Dr. Meng Lian Tan (Hanover), fin-ished their new condo in Nanning,Guangxi, PRC, in October. They lookforward to returning this spring totheir condo for a couple of months.Steve enjoyed the article in the Fall2008 issue of environment:Yale titled“Thirsty Chinese Cities GettingDrier As Skyscrapers Rise.” He hastraveled to major metro areas severaltimes in the past 10 years.

1965Class SecretaryJames [email protected]

1966Class SecretaryHoward Dickinson Jr.

1967Class SecretaryRobert [email protected]

1968Class SecretaryGerald [email protected]

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Keshab Pradhan retired in 1993from Sikkim government service aschief secretary, which is head of theadministration and the highest posta bureaucrat can hold in a state ofIndia, after 35 years. He is presidentof the Sikkim Nature ConservationFoundation and chair of the SikkimDevelopment Foundation. In 2003,he received a gold medal from theAmerican Rhododendron Societyand now serves as chapter president.He is also a member of the conser-vation committee of the AmericanOrchid Society.

1969Class SecretaryDavis [email protected]

1970Class SecretaryWhitney [email protected]

1971Class SecretaryHarold [email protected]

1972Class SecretaryRuth Hamilton [email protected]

Ruth Hamilton Allen, Ph.D. ’77,“shifted at the root” in September andbecame a visiting scholar at the JohnsHopkins Bloomberg School of PublicHealth, Department of EnvironmentalHealth Science, after 23 years at theEnvironmental Protection Agency.In her new assignment, Ruth iswriting a book on global health andenvironment and coaching studentson the interface of environment and public health. Ruth recentlyspoke at an international women’sconference (www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-AiGKeYonw).

1973Mark Bagdon writes: “I have beenin the Albany, N.Y., area since 1978,and run two affiliated consulting

businesses—Novus Engineering,which provides energy consultingand mechanical design services, andBagdon Environmental, which pro-vides ecological services (primarilywetlands and endangered species)to public and private clients. I havelittle personal involvement with theday-to-day operation of the ecologicalbusiness and focus mainly on theenergy engineering. In the early ’90s,I got my P.E. in mechanical engi-neering and changed my personalfocus. After 20 years in energy efficiency, it is nice to see the fieldgetting the national attention itdeserves. I married late in life andhave two wonderful children, Keith,7, and Lydia, 10. My wife, Suzanne,is an attorney with the New YorkState Health Department.” DixLeeson writes: “When not raisingfunds at Babson College in Wellesley,Mass., I chair the long-range planningcommittee for the (tiny) Town ofGosnold, Mass. Better known as theElizabeth Islands, the town includesCuttyhunk Island, whose natural andhuman resources have an uncertainfuture. I am pleased to say we areslowly getting more voters involvedin identifying and protecting theisland’s assets.”

1974Lee Lankford writes: “Here in theSangre de Cristo Mountains ofColorado, we are in an economicbind like the rest of the country. Idecided that reading historicalaccounts of implementing conserva-tion ideas in hard times might help.For instance, Tom Wolf’s biography,Arthur Carhart, Wilderness Prophet,includes lots of tie-ins to AldoLeopold. Otherwise, Clyde Cremer’73 (living nearby in Pueblo) willpossibly help us with recycled millingmachinery. We process poles andblue-stain dead-standing sawlogsfrom the gigantic northern Coloradomountain pine beetle catastrophe.”www.greenleafforestry.com PaulWilson bought a 16-acre gyppoclear-cut near Clatskanie, Ore.,cleaned it up and planted in late

January. It gets five feet of rain ayear and drains like a sieve. He’s had great fun optimizing micrositeadaptation—Sitka spruce and coast redwood to ponderosa pine andincense cedar, and everything inbetween. The Oregon Department ofForestry offered full support, saying,“The smart money is on diversity.”

1975Diddahally Govindaraju writes:“Along with Professor StephenStearns and two others, I organizeda Sackler colloquium, “Evolution inHealth and Medicine,” at the NationalAcademy of Sciences headquartersin Washington, D.C., that tookplace April 2 and 3. I developed adeep appreciation for evolutionarybiology as a graduate student atYale. Our goal is to introduce evolu-tionary thinking to medical students.I live with my family in Lexington,Mass.” Suzanne Reed writes: “Iam returning to the California statelegislature as chief of staff to SenatorCarol Liu of the 21st district. Iserved six years as her chief of staffin the assembly, but we were termedout in 2006 and the senate seat wasnot open until this year. We are bothhappy to be back in the legislativearena in spite of California’s multi-billion-dollar budget deficit. In addi-tion to much-needed budget reform,we are planning a ‘Greening the21st Senate District.’ I’ll be usingmuch of the expertise on currentclimate change policy that I havegained the last two years as theCalifornia program director for theD.C.-based nonprofit Center forClean Air Policy. I was heavilyinvolved in the implementation ofCalifornia’s Global WarmingSolutions Act, with particularemphasis on cap-and-trade, envi-ronmental justice, smart growth andadaptation planning. I was honoredto be recommended for that job byYale law alum Mary Nichols, whosits on the Center for Clean AirPolicy’s board. Mary now chairs theCalifornia Air Resources Board, aposition she previously held in the

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Ruth Hamilton

Allen ’72, Ph.D. ’77,

“shifted at the root”in September and

became a visiting scholar at the

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg

School of Public Health

after 23 years at

the EPA.

40th Reunion Year

35th Reunion Year

Jerry Brown administration. It wasgreat to have Josh Foster ’93 comeon board during my tenure and tobe replaced in my position by AnnChan, a Yale Law School grad whoalso taught at F&ES. Also, my sister,Lonnie Reed, was elected to theConnecticut State House ofRepresentatives. Lonnie, who for-merly served on the Branford TownCouncil, is a fellow at Morse College,and her kitchen cabinet includesseveral members of the Yale com-munity. It was a thrill to be with heron Election Day and to see her nameon the ballot with Barack Obamaand my former boss, Joe Biden.”

1976Tom Barounis writes: “The EPA is agreat organization for which towork, especially in these troublingtimes. I finally persuaded my non-fiction book group to read DeanSpeth’s most recent book, The Bridgeat the Edge of the World: Capitalism,the Environment, and Crossing FromCrisis to Sustainability. I recommendit to all alumni. John Lundquistis a forest entomologist with theUSDA Forest Service in Anchorage.He has been able to visit with vari-ous alumni from time to time atSAF meetings.

1977Class SecretaryJames Guldin [email protected]

Robert Arnold writes: “My environ-mental activities are limited to volun-teer work in local groups promotinggreen building and water qualityimprovement for our local treasure,Puget Sound. We had three orcasmysteriously disappear this season,and we’re worried that might be atrend. Our orcas eat salmon almostexclusively, and their stocks aredown dramatically. I’m in the money-growing business, instead of thetree-growing business. I am directorof financial services for an accountingfirm on Mercer Island, near Seattle.”

1978Class SecretariesSusan [email protected]

Marie [email protected]

Regina [email protected]

Becky Bormann, Ph.D. ’82, writes:“Winter in the North Star State hasturned cold again after a few yearsof wimpy weather. I have learnedhow to dress correctly to take a dailywalk, regardless of the temperature. Iwish I had known about this ingraduate school. I have been involvedin a number of diverse issues here,mostly political. The exciting news isthat John Marty, a state senator Ihave worked and volunteered withfor a number of years, is running forgovernor. He is a progressive candi-date with well-thought-out views onenvironmental and social issues.Most recently he has been involvedin writing legislation for sustainableuniversal health coverage. I am hiscampaign treasurer and advisor. If wecan pull this off, Minnesota will be ina position to be a role model on anumber of important issues.”www.johnmarty.org Susan Curnanreceived honors for 25 years ofservice to Brandeis University as aprofessor at The Heller School forSocial Policy and Management. Sheis also director of the Center forYouth and Communities. Her proj-ects and teaching combine lifelonggoals for youth education, environ-mental quality and economic devel-opment. She recently met EricOlson ’88, who works with theProgram on Sustainable InternationalDevelopment at Heller. Susan’s mostenjoyable initiative is a new projectwith the National Park Service inthe Hudson Valley. As chair of thenewly established Roosevelt-Vanderbilt Legacy Federation, she is working with nonprofit partnerson a 10-year management plan forthe property and programs. Lots of

green jobs are to be created andtriple-bottom-line outcomes are partof the plan. She is always lookingfor smart, hardworking interns.

Hans Drielsma, Ph.D. ’84, writes:“Greetings from Tasmania. Nanetteand I enjoy spoiling our three younggrandsons, one from each of ourchildren, with the last born thisyear. Unfortunately our stay in NewHaven conditioned our children towander far from the nest, and wenow have to fly at least two to threehours and, in one case, 20 hours tosee them. I have enjoyed seeing thephotos of the reunion, and we wishwe could have been there. Forestryin Tasmania continues to be inter-esting. Markets have been strong,but we are preparing for tough timesahead. The politics and managementof forest carbon have added a newdimension, with many opportunities.I am involved in forest certificationmatters at both the national andinternational levels, which has beenboth rewarding and challenging.”

Regina Rochefort writes: “I amworking with Os Schmitz [OastlerProfessor of Population andCommunity Ecology] this year, andhis student Kate Freund is going todo a project with me on severalparks and forests. It’s exciting, andcontinues my ties with students.Last summer I also had an internfrom the undergrad environmentalstudies program.”

1979Class SecretaryJohn Carey [email protected]

Chris Brown, director of wildernessand wild and scenic rivers for theUSDA Forest Service, writes: “Fromthe Omnibus Public Lands bill, we’llhave an almost 10 percent increasein the rivers system and a 2 percentincrease in the wilderness system.There are lots of new challenges tokeeping the wilderness wild andrivers free-flowing and clean. Over arecent dinner, Bob Perschel and

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John Carey helped me rethink theroles that forest service managementof our 36 million acres of designatedwilderness can play in adaptation toclimate change. Our historic recordsof what is ‘natural’ no longer pertain;it’s a befuddling time for managers.”

Dorie Faulkner and her husbandhave settled in a cabin in the woodsjust east of Gainesville, Fla. Doriewrites: “The property spans severalhabitat types, from upland scrub toa lake. We enjoy the wildlife and,yes, we even see alligators everynow and then.” Dorie is working foran agency that serves the elderly andhas seven grandchildren who livenearby. “Needless to say, my familylife stays busy and fun.” PattyFriedman reports that her oldestdaughter graduated from Duke, andher son is in Oxford for his junioryear, studying religion and philoso-phy. Her youngest daughter is afreshman in high school, where shehelped them in winning the statesoccer championship. Patty writes:“I do hospice work and serve on theSomerset environmental committee incharge of invasives removal on townland. I am an official MontgomeryCounty ‘week warrior,’ so I haven’tlost touch with my environmentalroots.” Patty’s husband, Blair Levin,former chief of staff to the chair ofthe Federal CommunicationsCommission, worked on the Obamatransition team and is the principaltelecom, media and tech regulatoryand strategy analyst for StifelNicholaus. Patricia Leavenworthwrites: “This October I celebrated15 years as the USDA NaturalResources Conservation Service(NRCS) state conservationist inWisconsin. It’s been a true honorbeing in a state where conservation ofprivate working lands is considered apriority by legislators, farm groups,state and local partners and privateNGOs. We are finishing work on the2002 Farm Bill Title II conservationprograms and are looking forwardto rolling out the beginnings of the2008 farm bill in the next few

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months. I also enjoyed spending asummer evening in August withJohn Carey and Chris Brown—thesuper-fit urban cyclists—and theirfabulous partners in marriage whileI was on detail at the NRCS nationalheadquarters. Also, I was summermodule partner at F&ES and con-tinuing friend to Peter Lewis. I havetwo children. My husband, Phil, isthe at-home parent and operates oursmall farm in Ridgeway, Wis. Helenis a sophomore at the U.W. StevensPoint School of Natural Resources,and Dan is a sophomore in highschool.” Jim Lyons left CaseyTrees to become vice president forpolicy and communications withOxfam America. Jim writes: “I workout of our Washington, D.C., office,although I spend a great deal of timein our Boston headquarters, wherethe majority of my staff resides. Muchof our work these days is devoted tothe nexus between climate, energy,the environment and poverty, andissues of sustainable growth anddevelopment, of course.” Jim teachesa course in natural-resources policyat Yale during the spring and remar-ried in June 2007 “to a wonderfulwoman whom I’ve known for 18years, but never really got to knowuntil a chance encounter in a nationalairport on my last day at CaseyTrees.” Bob Perschel is director ofthe Forest Guild’s Northeast region,where he is working on climatechange, cap-and-trade legislationand biomass standards. He is alsofinishing a book on environmentalleadership and serves on the F&ESalumni association board. MarthaTableman has moved from theKeystone Center in Colorado tobecome the open space coordinatorfor Clear Creek County, which islocated 35 miles west of Denver andjust east of Summit County. She’s thesole staff member for a nine-personvolunteer commission that acquiresand manages open space, and shereports learning much about management and land acquisition.Martha’s kids have become accom-

plished downhill skiers who can skidouble-black diamond runs with easeand are also Nordic skiers who loveto explore the back country. Bothare avid equestrians, competing in4-H and other horse shows.

1980Class SecretarySara Schreiner-Kendall [email protected]

Bob Comer has returned to D.C.with the Department of the Interior,this time serving as the associatesolicitor for energy and mineralresources. Janet Hess is finishinga feature documentary that she hopesto screen at an upcoming film festival.

Tricia Johnson writes: “I teachscience in New Haven at CommonGround High School, an environ-mental charter school founded byOliver Barton ’94. Last June, I tookmy biodiversity class to GreatMountain Forest, where Star Childsled us on a great field tour. OnAugust 2, I married Robert Johnsonin a ceremony at the Pine OrchardChapel in Branford, Conn., nearwhere I live. We sailed off into thesunset aboard our 37-foot Tartansailboat for a two-week honeymooncruise. We had a great time andmanaged to miss all but one of thethunderstorms that seemed to pop upall over the East Coast last summer.”

Tom McHenry is active with theCalifornia State Parks Foundationand teaches environmental law andpolicy with Yale College grad BillChristian, a former ARCO lawyernow managing the Amargosa Riverproject for The Nature Conservancy.His firm, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher,recently undertook the generalcounsel representation for the newlyformed Tejon Ranch Conservancythat will hold easement interests inmore than 200,000 acres of theTejon Ranch, the largest private landholding in California. His two sons,William and Jack, have little interestin biking with him or watchingTour de France videos and are beingtaken on a Haute Route hiking trip

this summer where no video gameswill be available. Tom has run acrossBobby McKinstry ’79 at the ELIAward dinner and John Echeverria’81 at a D.C. restaurant, and hehopes to be hiking with Suey Braatzthis summer and visiting Mexicosoon with Laura Snook, D.For. ’93,and Jim Thorne, Ph.D. ’85.

Ruben Rangel writes: “DaughterDaniella is in college. Son Dante isgraduating from high school in Mayand preparing for college. WifeBeatriz is teaching and enjoying J. Kathy Parker ’81, Ph.D. ’85, whois mentoring one of Beatriz’s students,sharing our family time and cookingdishes from around the world. Kathyis a big hit with the elementary students, especially when she sharesher stories from work around theworld. I work at Los Alamos NationalLaboratory. The family took a longroad trip last year from Poland,Ore., south to San Francisco, westto Las Vegas and back to Santa Fe.We had a wonderful time seeingand enjoying all of nature along theway.” Al Sample writes: “I serveas president of the Pinchot Institutein Washington, D.C., with a personalresearch focus on ensuring forestsustainability as current nationalpriorities stimulate the rapid devel-opment of a wood biofuels andbioenergy industry. I’m pleased to bein my final year as immediate pastpresident of the F&ES AlumniAssociation and happy to be in mysecond year as F&ES delegate toAYA. Dory and I spend the rest ofour time managing our investmentsin higher education—one daughter atthe College of William & Mary andanother finishing graduate school atthe University of Texas MedicalSchool.” Sara Schreiner-Kendallenjoys her work as environmentalhealth and safety vice president atWeyerhaeuser Company and islooking forward to sending her second child off to college in 2009.

Jane Sokolow writes: “I aminvolved in community planning,zoning and park issues in Riverdale

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and in the Catskills. The next bigenvironmental battle in New Yorkstate is to stop gas drilling in theMarcellus shale formation in theCatskills watershed.” KeithStewart writes: “I’m tilling the rockyNew York soils and marketing theharvest in Manhattan. About a yearago, Flavia and I put a conservationeasement on our farm, guaranteeingthat it will not sprout a crop ofhouses in perpetuity.” Jim Thorne,Ph.D. ’85, is stepping down as thefirst chair of the PennsylvaniaPrescribed Fire Council. The councilanticipates the passage of a law thisspring legalizing the safe use of prescribed fire in Pennsylvania.

Carol Zimmerman, Ph.D. ’81,writes: “My husband, John, and Ihave been living in Havre de Grace,Md., for the past three-plus years,after 24 years in Princeton, N.J. Weenjoy living on the SusquehannaRiver and Chesapeake Bay and beingcloser to my work as a research consultant to the Department ofTransportation in Washington, D.C.”

1981Class SecretariesFred [email protected]

Carol [email protected]

Olufemi Olaleye writes: “I bring youspecial greetings from Nigeria. I havenow retired from the Civil Service ofthe Federal Republic of Nigeria. Iretired as a director of training tech-nology at the Agricultural and RuralManagement Training Institute inIlorin, Nigeria. I am now a seniorlecturer at Bowen University in Iwo.My duties include teaching andresearch in environmental manage-ment at this privately owned university of the Nigerian BaptistConvention. My wife, Maria, worksat the Nigerian Agricultural,Cooperative and Rural DevelopmentBank. Our first son, who was barely4 months old when we came to NewHaven in September, 1979, is a

marketing officer at First Bank ofNigeria. Our second son, Olatokunbo,is based in Toronto, Canada. Ourthird son, James, who was born inTexas, is based in New Jersey. Iattended his graduation at theUniversity of Connecticut, Storrs.Although that U.S. visit was verybrief, I visited F&ES. It broughtback many pleasant memories. Itook a walk through Prospect Streetand tried to locate our former resi-dential apartments. Kath Schomakergave me audience in her office. Iwould love to meet with membersof my class and that of 1980.”

1982Class SecretariesBarbara [email protected]

Kenneth [email protected]

Junaid Choudhury retired in 2001at the age of 57, as per rule of theBangladesh government, from theposition of deputy chief conservatorof forests (number two position inforestry at the national level). Sinceretirement he has been working free-lance as a forestry and environmentconsultant with IUCN, FAO andADB, among others. He has alsoregularly offered forest managementcourses to the undergrad students ofenvironmental science and manage-ment at North South University,Banani, Dhaka, Bangladesh, since2002. In 2005 he received a U.S.permanent resident card and, todate, has written over 40 reportsand papers. Deborah Finley hasapplied her F&ES education toteaching secondary school biologyand environmental science at theWilbraham and Monson Academyin Wilbraham, Mass., where she’schair of the science department.During vacation, she has exploredecosystems from Belize to Labradorand while underwater all over theCaribbean. She writes: “I think ofTom Siccama every time I takeclasses outside for a local flora lab.”

Bob Krumenaker and SusanEdwards ’83 celebrated their 26thwedding anniversary and have livedin Bayfield, Wis., for the past sevenyears. Bob is the superintendent ofApostle Islands National Lakeshorefor the National Park Service. Thisyear’s big challenges will be gettingapproval of a formal agreement thatwas negotiated with 11 Chippewatribes to recognize their off-reserva-tion treaty rights to harvest resourceswithin the national park, and engag-ing with the public as they finallyrelease the park’s general managementplan for review. Bob writes: “Whileall this is going on, I’ve entered theDepartment of the Interior’s seniorexecutive service training program,which portends a lot of time awayon details, probably in Washington,and possibly a month at Harvard’sKennedy School in its senior execu-tive fellows program. I’ve also beenasked to serve on the National ParkService’s Climate Change SteeringCommittee in my spare time. Ofcourse, the more I rail on that sub-ject, the colder the winter has beenhere on Lake Superior. Several daysin January I walked to work when itwas minus 22 degrees, and the lakewas a white sheet of ice as far as Icould see.” Ross Povenmire hasbeen an environmental attorney andis now director of conservation forthe Town of Boxford, Mass.

1983Class SecretaryStephen [email protected]

1984Class SecretariesTherese [email protected]

Roberta Tabell [email protected]

1985Class SecretaryAlex Brash [email protected]

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“I’m tilling the

rocky New Yorksoils and marketing

the harvest in

Manhattan. About a

year ago, Flavia and

I put a conservation

easement on ourfarm, guaranteeing

that it will not sprout a

crop of housesin perpetuity.”

— Keith Stewart ’80

25th Reunion Year

1986Laura Brown writes: “We have starteda consulting business, WildlifeScience International, with a focuson endangered-species issues. Twoteenage daughters keep us very busy,and they are field assistants in train-ing on our research trips to studydesert elephants in Namibia. Life inthe mountains above Boulder, Colo.,is full of outdoor adventure.”wildlifescienceintl.com JimChamberlain is a research scientistwith the National AgroforestryCenter of the USDA Forest Service.He writes: “I’m doing research onmedicinal and edible forest products,particularly sustainable harvest andmanagement of these resources. Ihave ongoing research on allium(also known as ramps and leeks)and black cohosh (medicinally usedfor menopausal symptoms). I focusmost of my research on hardwoodforests of Appalachia. My son, Luke,is a junior in high school and isstarting to think about life aftergraduation. My daughter starts highschool next fall. My spousal unit,Cindy, teaches sign language atBlacksburg High School.” MarkDillenbeck will turn 50 in June. Besure to send him your regards orshow up at his party. CarolineNorden lives in Yarmouth, Maine,with her partner, Curtis Bohlen, andtheir two children, Sarah, 9, andKatrina, 4. She maintains a smallconsulting practice, assisting land-owners and land trusts with variousland conservation and stewardshipprojects. Most recently, she servedas a peer reviewer for the LandTrust Alliance’s new book, Caringfor Land Trust Properties, as well asfor its curriculum on sales of con-servation land and easements. Shewrites, “I had lots of fun at Christmasgetting together with Caroline Eliot’85, Jane Ceraso ’85, TaraGallagher ’85 and Brenda Lind forlunch in Freeport, Maine.”

Mohammed Zaman, former chiefconservator of forests, ForestDepartment, Ministry of Environment

& Forests, Bangladesh, and formervice chair (Asia region), UNCCD,retired in 2002. Mohammed washonored with the President Awardby the government of Bangladeshfor his outstanding contributions toagroforestry. He was associated withF&ES as a research affiliate from2004 to 2006. He is now a U.S per-manent resident and lives in NewYork with his spouse, Sultana; son,Ferdous; and daughter, Farahnaz.

1987Class SecretariesChristie [email protected]

Melissa [email protected]

Julie Dunlap, Ph.D., writes: “I gotto visit Ann Clarke ’81, D.F.E.S. ’92,in California last summer, and wetoured Yosemite and the Mariposa BigTrees together. It was a great trip, andI can’t wait to go back.” JimPissot is working for Defenders ofWildlife in Alberta, Canada. Hewrites: “Our year started and endedin Utah with hometown friends andValerie’s family. We enjoyed lastyear’s holidays, then slid and plowedover the most treacherous roadsimaginable on Teton Pass whenleaving our friends in Jackson Hole.Our four-wheel footing was fairlyfirm, but we could hardly see theroad in the blizzard, so we bumpedsnow banks on both sides, sendingsnow over the hood and front wind-shield—must be where ‘dashingthrough the snow’ comes from!”

Josh Royte is married, happy andworking for TNC in Maine onPenobscot River restoration scienceand large-forest project planning.

1988Class SecretariesDiane [email protected]

Holly [email protected]

Jennifer Allen received a $25 milliongrant for a 10-year sustainability

project at Portland State University.It’s the largest grant to date for anacademic sustainability programanywhere and the largest gift heruniversity has ever received.

Holly Welles writes: “In the fallof 2008, several members of theClasses of 1986 to 1989 and theirfamilies gathered for a weekendreunion in Sonoma County,California’s wine country. We shareddelicious meals and drinks, partici-pated in a field trip led by RogerSternberg ’89 of the 2,300-acre forest that he manages, heard Jenny Allen speak about the grantPortland State University justreceived (see above) and toured anorganic vineyard.”

1989Class SecretaryJane [email protected]

Laura Simon is the urban wildlifefield director for the Humane Societyof the United States and is a mom to5-year-old Jack, who rules the roost!Her office is in Woodbridge, not farfrom F&ES. Laura recently visitedKate Heaton and her two kids,Hans, 6, and Kaya, 3, at their newhouse in Manchester, Vt.

1990Class SecretariesJudy Olson Hicks

Carolyn Anne [email protected]

Lise Aangeenbrug was appointedexecutive director of Great OutdoorsColorado (GOCO) in January afterhaving been deputy director since2006. She has played a significantrole in developing grant programsand working closely with local governments, land trusts, ColoradoState Parks and the ColoradoDivision of Wildlife—the entitieseligible to receive GOCO funds.Previously she was director of pro-grams for the Colorado ConservationTrust, a statewide nonprofit organi-zation dedicated to advancing land

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conservation, and ran grant andloan programs and developed thestate’s first comprehensive report onland conservation. ChristineLaPorte Gardiner writes: “We arehappily settled into Asheville andexploring these ancient mountains.I am coordinating the NOAA/SeaGrant South Atlantic regionalresearch plan project, with a lot oftravel to the coasts of NorthCarolina and Florida. The goal isregional coordination of scientistsand managers from many agenciesto address priority research questionsthat will aid in the protection of ourocean and coasts. I hope to resumeteaching soon and am inspired by themany superlative land conservationfolks in this area. It’s also inspiringto be back near my other alma mater,the incomparable Warren WilsonCollege, which is one of the greenestcolleges in the nation. Ned and Ienjoy our monthly lunch dates withWNC/Yale alumni (also known aslocal Yale elders). Ned is workinghard with his new professional chal-lenges in NOAA’s climate programoffice and is consulting with theAmerican Museum of Natural History.Our son, Asa, 12, is thriving in ournew habitat.” [email protected]

Melissa Grigione recentlyreceived tenure at Pace University inNew York, where she works withthe grad program in environmentalscience of the biology department.Her research involves the conserva-tion of endangered and rare speciesin the United States, Mexico andSouth America. She works mostlywith endangered cats. Her husband,Ron Sarno, is a professor who studiescamels in South America. They livein North Salem, N.Y., with their twochildren, Marcus, 6, and Andea, 2.

Jennifer Lamb writes: “I am settledin Lander, Wyo., at the southeastedge of the Wind River Mountains. Imanage public lands policy, conserva-tion and environmental sustainabilitywork for the National OutdoorLeadership School. We run extendedbackcountry expeditions around the

world, teaching wilderness skills,environmental studies and leadershipto students of all ages. Much of mywork involves building coalitions toprotect the places we visit, especiallygiven the policy push of the lasteight years to develop energyresources in the Rocky Mountainregion. My husband, Jim, and son,Bennett, 2, and I spend as muchtime as we can in the mountains.”

1991Class SecretaryRichard Wallace [email protected]

Margo Burnham writes: “I’ve beenat TNC for over 11 years, workingin Bolivia, Chile, Maryland and nowCosta Rica and loving nearly everyminute. I live in the D.C. area andget together with Alexandra Teitzperiodically, among others. BernWientraub just made an appearancehere for inauguration—great funcatching up. I got married this fall(big party pending) and am expectinga baby son in late February, whichmy husband, Kenny Kornfield, and Iare very excited about. If anyonewants tips on whittling their ownrings, let me know.” Chris Rogersrecently completed the OlympicSculpture Park for the Seattle ArtMuseum, a nine-acre park on a for-mer brownfield on Seattle’s down-town waterfront. He is heading up areal estate development companycalled Point32. One project that heis particularly excited about is anet-zero energy/net-zero waterheadquarters for the BullittFoundation. www.point32.com

1992Class SecretaryKatherine Kearse [email protected]

1993Class SecretariesDean [email protected]

Molly [email protected]

Heather [email protected]

John Albertson is a professor ofcivil and environmental engineeringat Duke University, leading researchprojects on the interactions of climateand hydrology in southern Africa,the Mediterranean region and thedesert southwestern United States.

Patrick Baker writes: “I’ve beenpromoted to senior lecturer in vege-tation ecology at Monash Universityin Melbourne, Australia. I’ve recentlybeen working on dendrochrono-logical reconstructions of droughtacross eastern Australia, but I con-tinue my work on the seasonal tropi-cal forests of Southeast Asia.”

Chip Darmstadt writes: “I’mdirector of the North Branch NatureCenter in Montpelier, which since2006 has been a separate independ-ent nonprofit organization (split offfrom Vermont Institute of NaturalScience). Last summer we conductedthe first Montpelier BioBlitz, withhundreds of participants discoveringover 2,000 species in the Montpeliercity limits. It was a great event thatserved to raise awareness aboutlocal biodiversity. My wife, Alisa,our three sons and I are living inMiddlesex, with a beautiful view ofCamel’s Hump.” Paul Jahnige andSally Loomis send greetings to allfrom Williamsburg, Mass. Pauldirects the greenways and trails program for the MassachusettsDepartment of Conservation andRecreation. Sally works with a localland trust in western Massachusettsand a collaborative school gardeningprogram but is mostly at home withtheir son, Skye, 2. Soccer with Sage,12, and Sierra, 10, takes up most oftheir free time, but they manage toget out and enjoy the snow and

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“I got married this

fall (big party pending)

and am expectinga baby son

in late February, which

my husband, Kenny

Kornfield, and I

are very excited about.

If anyone wants

tips on whittlingtheir own rings,

let me know.”

— Margo Burnham ’91

wilderness when they can. DexterMead lives in Dartmouth, Mass.,where he is director of theDartmouth Natural Resources Trust.www.dnrt.org Bill Mott writes:“Our kids, Nicholas, 5, and Sophia,7, are growing up way too fast, andI keep mostly sane hours at work toenjoy life with them as much aspossible. The Ocean Project justcompleted the largest public opinionresearch on any environmental issue(22,000 data points), and we releasedthe findings in March, with recom-mendations on how best to moveforward on improving ocean conser-vation education and action, workingin partnership with aquariums, zoosand museums around the world.”Bill and family live in Providence.

Marnie Murray writes: “I live inBuffalo. My husband, Bob, is anattorney with Harris Beach. We havefour kids all under 9—Noah, Cole,Parker and Piper. I am self-employedand run two businesses—photogra-phy and Web design. I keep intouch with Anita van Breda andEileen Cates ’94. We got togetherlast September in Saratoga for a fungetaway weekend.” Jennifer Pittwrites: “I live in Colorado and justmarked 10 years working at theEnvironmental Defense Fund. I workon Colorado River water supplyissues—how to keep water in theriver, how to keep the growing citiesin the Southwest from developingmore energy-intensive water supplies,how to sustain rural communitiesand how to plan for all this in afuture that will be drier as global-warming impacts increase. It’s end-lessly fascinating, and I feel verylucky to earn my living this way. Ibike my daughter home from pre-school but don’t put on my telemarkskis nearly as much as I used to.”

1994Class SecretariesJane [email protected]

Cynthia W. [email protected]

Jane [email protected]

Thomas Brendler writes: “Last sum-mer I joined Bernuth & Williamson,a D.C. consulting firm that helpsNGOs with strategic planning, communications and fund-raising.I’ve also been working on someindependent projects for the U.S.Endowment for Forestry andCommunities and the ForestReserve. Phoebe, almost 5, andViolet, 18 months, are doing greatand becoming fast friends. Lucy waspromoted to professor at the RhodeIsland School of Design last summerand designs books for the Museumof Fine Arts and other clients. I’m afounding member of the newlyformed Environmental JusticeLeague of Rhode Island.” CindyCaron writes: “I am in Sri Lankaworking for two organizations:UNOPS, where I am managingdirector of the Applied ResearchUnit, and Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund,a German NGO where I am pro-gram manager of reconstruction,resettlement and rehabilitation.”[email protected] MaryJensen Eddy is married to Nils, anarchitect. They live in Salt Lake City.Mary works as an R.N. at theUniversity of Utah’s burn traumacenter and recently passed her critical-care R.N. exam. [email protected] BinneyGirdler has tenure as associate pro-fessor at Kalamazoo College andwill go on sabbatical with her family—Otto, 10, Freya, 5, and husbandTim—to Thailand during the fall of2009. [email protected]

Erik Kulleseid went to the Obamainauguration with Mark and the girls.Best moment: the whole crowdsinging along with Pete Seeger andBruce Springsteen to “This Land IsYour Land.” [email protected]

John Zhongwen Ma works for himself as a licensed profes-sional engineer in Dallas. [email protected] DavidMoffat reports that this winter a crab-feasting otter has taken up residence

beside his dock. He just joined atech startup. www.locarna.com;[email protected]

Nick Shufro writes: “I am atPricewaterhouseCoopers focused onsustainability and climate change,working with clients in financial,retail, consumer and industrial serv-ices. I led the development of PwC’scarbon footprint, was the lead authoron the Carbon Disclosure ProjectS&P 500 report and am now leadingone of the workstreams for theWorld Resources Institute/WorldBusiness Council for SustainableDevelopment Scope 3 EmissionsProtocol. I recently ran into MikeToffel ’95 and Doug Wheat ’95 at acorporate environmental metricsworkshop hosted by the Yale Centerfor Environmental Law & Policy.”

Donna Stauffer writes: “I amworking with the U.S. Agency forInternational Development. I’ve justcompleted an assignment with theoffice of the director of foreign assis-tance in Washington and am nowstudying Mongolian in preparationfor a new job in our USAID office inUlaan Bataar, Mongolia.” EileenStone writes: “We are having a won-derful winter in northern New Yorkenjoying the snow with our twosons, Kieran, 5, and Ethan, 18months. Two partners and I managea renewable-energy developmentcompany called Sage Energy Group.We continue to be excited about theopportunities and growth in therenewable-energy market.”[email protected]

1995Class SecretariesMarie [email protected]

Ciara O’[email protected]

Sarah (Cole) McDaniel is up to fullspeed at her Portland, Maine, lawpractice and parenting her daughter,7, after donating her kidney to astranger in October 2008. Sarah’smother had been on dialysis for 10

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months before receiving a new kid-ney the day before Thanksgiving. Inwhat is known as a “list exchange,”Sarah’s donation allowed her motherto receive a deceased-donor kidney infour weeks, instead of the approxi-mately four years that many patientswait for a deceased-donor kidney.Sarah asks everyone, whose healthallows, to consider the gift of life bydonating blood and is more thanwilling to talk with folks about thepossibilities of living-organ donation.

Ciara O’Connell and her husband,John Nowaczyk, welcomed theirthird child, Jack, on December 22.Jack joins big brothers Ryan, 9, andQuinn, 3. The family resides inWilmington, Del., where Ciara con-sults part time for McCabe andAssociates.

1996Class SecretariesKathryn [email protected]

Julie [email protected]

David Newman writes: “I live outsideBoston and work for Millipore, a lifescience manufacturing company,directing our environmental sustain-ability programs. Our goal is to dramatically reduce the company’scarbon footprint, waste productionand energy costs, and we have madesome great progress so far. We aretrying to hit at least a 20 percentgreenhouse gas reduction by 2011.I’m also working on several productstewardship issues, where we’relooking at environmental productdesign and end-of-life management.Our boys, Ben, 4, and Andrew, 1, arekeeping us busy morning, noon andnight. We’ve gotten in some goodcross-country skiing this winter.”

Rick Rheingans, D.F.E.S., writes:“For the last eight years I’ve been atthe School of Public Health atEmory University and have workedon developing a master’s program inglobal environmental health and aCenter for Global Safe Water. I split

my time between Atlanta, London(where I have a visiting appoint-ment) and Kenya. My research inKenya includes a randomized trialof the impact of school-based water,sanitation and hygiene improve-ments and a study of water and sanitation disparities in periurbanKisumu. This time of year, westernKenya isn’t a bad place to do somemountain biking. I also enjoyspending time with my sons,Roman and Camilo, and wifeMaria.” Rhonda Williams writes:“We were delighted last June withthe arrival of our newest familymember, Jing Mae. We are trying toenjoy what Vermont has to offer andto volunteer, especially as the econ-omy stresses the local community. Ialso serve on the board of the localAudubon chapter and enjoy hikingwith our boys. We live in Vergennesin an old farmhouse, a far cry fromour condo life in Hyde Park, Chicago.I work as an investigator on a childhood asthma project, and Tomteaches in the religion department atthe University of Vermont.”

1997Class SecretaryPaul [email protected]

Darius Szewczak writes: “RachelHampton ’99 and I recently had oursecond child. Quinn HamptonSzewczak was born on November23. Big sister Lily, 2, adores her littlebrother. Rachel is an attorney forThe Nature Conservancy, and I am asenior health, safety, security andenvironment specialist for DeltaConsultants.” Cristin Tighe livesin Brussels, Belgium, with her hus-band and their baby daughter, whois almost 1. Cristin is completingher Ph.D., focused on malaria,through Johns Hopkins UniversitySchool of Advanced InternationalStudies. [email protected]

1998Class SecretariesNadine [email protected]

Claire [email protected]

1999Class SecretariesJocelyn [email protected]

Christiana [email protected]

Jennifer Garrison [email protected]

John Wickham writes: “I am anindependent consultant, havingdropped out of working full time inthe environmental field. I chairedthe environment committee at mylocal church, St. Columba’s Episcopalin Washington, D.C., where I boughta three-year contract for 100 percentwind energy last year, installed LEDand CFL lights and installed motionsensors in common areas, savingthe church several thousand dollarsper year in energy costs. I recentlywas short-listed for a fabulous jobwith a Kyoto Protocol CDM offsetverification nonprofit, The GoldStandard, founded by World WildlifeFund International. I am in the running for U.S. regional coordina-tor, who will be responsible forincreasing the visibility of The GoldStandard as a benchmark for evalu-ating the environmental, economicand social sustainability of CDMand JI Projects.”

2000Class SecretariesErika [email protected]

Zikun Yu [email protected]

Ashley (Pout) McAvey and her husband, Ken, are delighted toannounce the birth of their firstdaughter, Elle Uppercu McAvey,born on February 27, 2008. Theyare enjoying the fresh air and trees

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donated her kidney to a

stranger in

October 2008. In what

is known as a

“list exchange,” Sarah’s

donation allowed

her mother to

receive a kidney in

four weeks rather

than four years.

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in Vermont. Jason Patrick worksfor Merrill Lynch Commodities,leading the carbon business for theAmericas, and had a second childlast spring. Kristin (Sipes) Rihahad a daughter, Lily, in May 2008.

Erika Schaub had a daughter,Kyleigh Kristina, on August 17.

2001Class SecretariesLeigh [email protected]

Adam [email protected]

Jennifer [email protected]

Cordalie Benoit is involved in theredevelopment of Court Street inNew Haven. It is the 50th anniver-sary of redevelopment in the neigh-borhood. For several buildings andthe landscaping of the entire street,it was the first time that federalredevelopment dollars were spent onrehabbing, rather than on completedestruction and new construction.Anyone familiar with the streetknows it was a good and successfulidea. The Court Street Association,with the help of Elm City ParksConservancy, is seeking grants forphase two of the project. LeighCash is working on her Dr.P.H. inenvironmental health at the JohnsHopkins Bloomberg School of PublicHealth. She finishes classes thisspring and plans to do her researchon the risks associated with phar-maceuticals in the environment.James is doing great, as are Tango,Jack Russell terrier, 13; Fonzie,Tibetan spaniel mix, 14; and Kishua,paint horse, 15. Matt Clark, AbbySarmac and Rowan are expecting anew member of their family at thebeginning of June. Abby is feelingbetter after a rough first trimester.Rowan talks about and to “brothertummy.” Katy Guimond is inBerkeley and fighting her waythrough the “endless” process ofgetting a Ph.D. She’ll move back toNew York this summer to do research

on real estate in the Bronx. Shespent a fabulous Thanksgiving withAbby Sarmac’s family. KatinaHanson writes: “It has been anexciting few years for us. Our won-derful son, Atticus, will turn 3 inApril. After more than six years inHawaii, I joined the USDA FarmService Agency, and we moved toWashington, D.C., in September2007. The pace has definitely been abit different, but we love our housein Manassas, Va. I was promoted tonational program manager for theEmergency Conservation Program,and Josh is staying home withAtticus.” Dong-Young Kimbecame the acting director of theCenter for Conflict Resolution andNegotiation at the KDI School ofPublic Policy and Management inKorea in September. PradeepKurukulasuriya, Ph.D. ’06, is basedin New York, working with UNDPin supporting countries with pro-gramming resources on climatechange adaptation. On a personalfront, Santa brought with him theirson, Prashan, born on December 27.

Tracy Melbihess and husbandEric had a daughter, Riley, inSeptember, just a year behind herbig brother, Tyler. Life is hectic, butthey’ve never laughed so much.Tracy works from home in Idaho asa part-time contractor for the Fishand Wildlife Service on wolf issues.

Valerie (Fraser) O’Donnell hasbeen the forester for the RegionalWater Authority in New Havensince 2001. She and husband Johnlive in East Haven with their beauti-ful daughter, Caitlin Rose, 1, andgoofy Doberman/German Shepherdmix, Ruby. Georgia Seamans isexpected to graduate in May 2010.She is planning a spring trip toSingapore and Malaysia, where she’llsee Lin (Rusaslina) Idrus. She, Lin,Shimona Quazi and Upik Djalins’00 started a food blog, “Milo &Nutella.” She contributes essays tothe Human Flower Project.www.miloandnutella.blogspot.com;www.humanflowerproject.com

2002Class SecretariesCatherine [email protected]

Roberto [email protected]

Ramsay Ravenel writes: “I am leavingMissionPoint Capital Partners to return to Marshall StreetManagement, the family office ofone of MissionPoint’s co-founders,Jesse Fink. At Marshall StreetManagement, I will develop a sus-tainable investment strategy forasset classes not currently coveredby MissionPoint. We will focus onidentifying gaps in the capital markets for sustainable businesses,where family office capital isuniquely suited to understand, takeon and manage risk.”

2003Class SecretariesBrian [email protected]

Scott [email protected]

Marni Carroll ’99 and NathanielCarroll write: “Our beautiful daugh-ter, Lucy Elizabeth Carroll, wasborn on January 4. We’ve movedback to D.C., and now that we areon the same coast as Pete Land,Oliver Grantham, Scott Threadgill,Bill Finnegan and others, I suspectthere might be some serious pokergames in her future.” DanielaCusack is living in Santa Cruz withher boyfriend, working away onchapter three of her dissertationabout the effects of air pollution oncarbon storage in tropical forests.She’ll graduate on May 17 fromU.C. Berkeley and has been inter-viewing for postdoctoral positions.

Melanie Cutler writes: “I enjoyedthe snowy New England winterwith my daughters, Emmy andSophia, and husband Mark. Theenvironmental club that I advise atAndover High School has been activethis year—we just gave away 500

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CFLs and are working on a campaignfor town residents to purchaserenewable energy for their house-holds. I’m also excited to be workingwith the 1420 Foundation and aschool in Costa Rica on a commonsustainability project.” BrianGoldberg is an environmental plan-ner with EDAW/AECOM in NewYork City. He’s promoting sustainableland development through draftinga regional conservation and devel-opment plan for eastern Libya, aswell as advising on community con-servation efforts in southern Kenya.A two-acre public park design forConey Island keeps him groundedin the challenges of actually gettingsomething built in New York City.

Kat Hall lives outside of Spokane,Wash., and runs the environmentalhealth program of a nonprofit calledthe Lands Council. She coaches ateenage girls’ soccer team and is try-ing valiantly to build an eight-footsailing dinghy. Kat spent the monthof February in New Orleans, volun-teering for an organization to helprebuild homes damaged by Katrinain the Lower Ninth Ward. Marchtravels included Ecuador, Peru andBolivia with a good Peace Corpsfriend. Alissa Hamilton, Ph.D. ’06,writes: “I turned my dissertation onFlorida’s orange juice industry into abook, Squeezed: What You Don’t KnowAbout Orange Juice, which was pub-lished by Yale University Press in May2009. I am a Woodcock Foundation-funded Food and Society PolicyFellow, writing about and advocatingfor consumer rights to know howfood is produced. Although it is aU.S. fellowship, I am living in an800-square-foot house in Torontowith Dixi, my 9-pound Jack Russell/Chihuahua.” www.nypost.com/seven/12072008/gossip/pagesix/the_real_juice_143037.htm KateHammond, her husband, Geoff, and daughter, Avery, 1, just movedto Billings, Mont. She is the superintendent of Little BighornBattlefield National Monument, aunit of the National Park Service.

[email protected] KrithiKaranth is now Dr. Karanth, havingdefended her dissertation at Duke inNovember. She started a postdoctoralfellowship at Columbia Universitybut will be based in D.C. and doingfieldwork in India. Pete Landspent last summer in Idaho, whereTamarack has established a satelliteoffice. He and Bill Finnegan thenwent to rural Virginia to campaignfor Barack Obama during the weekleading up to the election. Pete isback in Vermont, and life couldn’t bebetter for him right now. CherieLim, as of January, started her ownenvironmental due diligence com-pany, Envirodox, based in California.Sungsoo Ok, based in New Jersey,works with Cherie. Flo Millerwrites: I am working from home for the National Audubon Society,managing a new innovation grantsprogram, part of a bigger programresulting from an alliance withToyota called TogetherGreen. Weaim to reach new audiences toachieve conservation for habitat,water and energy. It’s a lot of fun.”www.togethergreen.org FuyumiNaito lives in Geneva with her son,2, and is a diplomat. She covers someenvironmental treaties, such as BaselConvention and CITES. Her husbandlives in Brussels and comes back toGeneva every weekend. TakeshiOkumura married Lopes Rosemeri,who comes from a place far, farfrom Japan; she’s Brazilian. At theirwedding, he saw Po-Chuan Lin,Wei-Shiuen Ng, Rutu Dave ’02,Ruiko Kato and other F&ES people.

Kabir Peay finished his Ph.D. atU.C. Berkeley in December, andstarted a postdoctoral position (alsoat U.C. Berkeley) in the Departmentof Plant & Microbial Biology.

Soni Pradhanang is finishing herPh.D. dissertation at SUNY-ESF and hopes to graduate this summer.

Samantha Rothman writes: “I’mliving in Morristown, N.J., doing abit of environmental consulting anda lot of local environmental advocacy.John and I have Logan, 2, who is

the best pal a gal could ask for. Sinceno neighborhood can be without acouple of eccentrics, we’ve decidedto convert our entire backyard to avegetable garden.” Abdalla Shahcame back to the United States andF&ES in September. He found it apleasure to see the people at theschool and the progress of KroonHall. Guoqian Wang writes: “Theyear 2008 has been transitional forme. I changed my job and I havestarted my Ph.D. program. I am theclimate change advisor at theDepartment for InternationalDevelopment in China, a bilateraldevelopment agency of the U.K. gov-ernment. In my Ph.D. program atRenmin University in Beijing, I amstudying population, resources andenvironmental economics. I havebegun my personal attempt to adaptto climate change—I’m seriouslylearning to swim, just in case the sealevel rises faster than we would liketo see.” [email protected]

2004Class SecretariesJennifer Vogel [email protected]

Keith [email protected]

Daniela [email protected]

Laura [email protected]

Philippe Amstislavski got married,is still riding his old bike and livesin New York City. He’s working onhis doctorate and is an assistant professor in the Department ofEnvironmental and OccupationalHealth Sciences, SUNY DownstateMedical Center, Brooklyn. He hasalso been playing with all types ofdatabases. His research focuses ondeveloping new spatial analysisapproaches that fully include thebehavioral, socioeconomic and envi-ronmental variables in the study ofhealth. Jessica Barnes writes: “Ilive in New Haven with DavidKneas ’05 and am making some

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Ona Ferguson writes: “I’m livingin Cambridge with my sweetheart,Garth Goldstein, biking everywhereand having good friends all around.I delight in my job at the ConsensusBuilding Institute, mediating andfacilitating environmental and pub-lic policy dialogues and disputes allover the country. In the past coupleof years, I’ve been working primarilyon coastal and land use issues.”

Margarita Fernandez lives inOaxaca, Mexico, with BenjaminHodgdon ’03 and daughter, CarmenDelia, 8 months. Margarita workspart time for an organic certificationcompany and spends the rest of hertime enjoying being a new mommy.

Amit Kapur joined the Center forDesign at RMIT University inMelbourne, Australia, as a seniorresearch fellow. He is working in theareas of life cycle assessment andsustainable products and buildings.

Susan Matambo writes: “I workat the Global Environment Facilityfor the evaluation office, assessingthe impacts of GEF projects. I amraising a teenager, Muta, and toddler,Leia. Muta is in high school and playslots of soccer, and Leia is talkingquite a bit.” Nalin Sahni writes:“I just spent four months inAmsterdam for school and have onlyone term left of law school in Toronto.This summer I start as a prosecutorat the Ontario Ministry of theEnvironment.” Brynn Taylor isthe California conservation scienceprogram manager at The NatureConservancy in San Francisco. She

is engaged to Galen Pewtherer, andthey will be married in MammothLakes (in the Sierras) in July.

2005Class SecretariesDavid [email protected]

Dora [email protected]

Virginia [email protected]

Benjamin [email protected]

Sybil Ackerman writes: “I work onenvironmental grant-making as theexecutive director at the LazarFoundation.” Alice Bond writes:“I work for the Wilderness Societyin San Francisco on renewableenergy and public lands issues.After meeting in San Francisco twoand a half years ago, Garrett Miller’04 and I got engaged in October ona deserted island off the coast ofMexico. We enjoy San Francisco withour new pooch, Wally.” AlvaroRedondo Brenes writes: “I’m in mysecond year of fieldwork in CostaRica and expect to return to NewHaven by September to write mydissertation.” Kelly Coleman andAmir Flesher got married and boughta house in Brattleboro, Vt., last year.Amir teaches, and Kelly is the pro-gram director for CommunityInvolved in Sustaining Agriculture.

Lisa Botero Dieguez writes: “Ilive in Miami Beach and am theenvironmental manager for the cityof Miami Beach. We deal with suchfamiliar issues as beach erosion,water quality of creeks and BiscayneBay, the occasional storm and theusual regulatory suspects. I amexcited about beginning a greenmovement in these urban islands.There is never a dull moment here,and the sunsets and winters areunrivaled.” Trisha Eyler writes: “I live in Sterling, Va., and work atURS doing environmental consulting.

I am recently engaged to the man ofmy dreams, Michael Victor, and weare planning a June 2010 wedding.”

Carishma Gokhale-Welch andAaron Welch live in India. Aaronwas awarded a Fulbright grant toresearch water conservation in thecountry. In a fine example of out-sourcing, Carishma continues tooversee watershed managementprojects in Creede, Colo. AnnGrodnik writes: “Kyle Nagle and Igot married in February inWinthrop, Wash.” Po-Yi Hungwrites: “My baby girl was born onNovember 21; her English name isMadeleine, and her Chinese name isShen-Siang. Little Maddie was 6 lbs.at birth. I’m a Ph.D. candidate ingeography at the University ofWisconsin, Madison, looking at therelations between tea trade land-scapes and ethnic minorities on theSino-Tibet frontier.” AndreaJohnson writes: “I’m director of for-est campaigns at the EnvironmentalInvestigation Agency in D.C., whereI work on illegal timber trade and,increasingly, on forest climate issues.”

Melissa Kuskie writes: “My hus-band and I moved to Georgetown,Texas, last summer, and I’m an airquality planner—specifically, managing state implementation plan projects—with the TexasCommission on EnvironmentalQuality.” Michelle Lichtenfelswrites: “I’m at PECI and living avery busy Portland life. This year webought a house, went to the Tour ofCalifornia, attended Kelly Coleman’slovely wedding in Vermont andtraveled to Europe and Egypt. Istarted road (bike) racing and endedthe season as a category 3 racer, andraced my second cyclocross season.I went to Ann Grodnik’s wedding inFebruary and am looking forward tocross-country skiing in the NorthCascades with some fellow F&ESers.”

Joseph MacDougald writes: “Iwas fortunate enough to sell mycompany last summer and have

since been focusing on my academicand political pursuits. This semesterI am teaching climate law at theUniversity of Connecticut School ofLaw. We focus on the many areas inwhich law has changed in responseto climate science and policy. I’mpleased to have as guest speakers amember of the IPCC, a state senatorand other political figures. I recentlypublished a law review article onthe constitutional limitations ofstate-based emissions trading. I amalso a selectman in my hometownof Madison. I have started a small,private asset management firm but,to my kids, I am just the chauffeur.”

Sarah Matheson is building theU.S. sustainability and climate changepractice for her new firm, GHDConsulting, which is proving to bean exciting, but daunting, task. Sherecently visited Australia for a fewweeks and was able to connect witha few F&ES alums there, includingKaisone Phengsopha, VickyCritchley and Radha Kuppalli ’06,who was visiting at the time. Sarahlives in D.C. and is excited about hernew neighbors, the Obamas. AzaleaMitch is back from Cameroon on anEngineers Without Borders trip. Shewrites: “We extended the water dis-tribution system, so more villagersin Kikoo have access to safe drinkingwater. I’m working in New Haventreating wastewater.” CesarMoran-Cahusac is the executivedirector for an NGO, AmazonConservation Association, focusedon preserving the headwaters of theAmazon Basin in southeast Peruand northeast Bolivia. This NGOworks in scientific research, spear-heading cross-cutting payments forenvironmental services programs inthis region. William Pott is a consultant in Booz & Company’senergy practice, focusing on alterna-tive energy. He and Emily AtwoodPott welcomed a son, Cyrus, inBrooklyn last August. Amina Soudwrites: “I have been busy with water

and sanitation projects in the Lamudistrict of Kenya and have managedto either build or rehabilitate 31 waterpoints so far.” Tanja Srebotnjakwrites: “I’m a postgraduate fellow atthe new Institute for Health Metricsand Evaluation at the University ofWashington, Seattle. It’s a great placeand city and, of course, we’ve gotthe mountains and the sea (and therain). My work focuses on statisticalmodeling of causes of death, small-area estimation and missing datamethods. My husband and two kidskeep me on my toes all day long.”

Yusuke Taishi left India in October,where he spent over three years,and is now working for UNDP inNew York. Elena Traister writes:“I’m teaching and coordinating theenvironmental studies program atthe Massachusetts College of LiberalArts in western Massachusetts. I’malso working on my Ph.D. on streamdisturbance ecology and restoration,for which I received a SwitzerEnvironmental Fellowship this academic year.” Carlisle Tuggeywrites: “I am an attorney practicingin the areas of environmental andland use law in Portland, Maine.”

Huiyan Zhao writes: “I am doinggreat at Mitkem Laboratories, a division of Spectrum Analytical inWarwick, R.I. I test and report con-taminants in environmental samples.”

2006Class SecretariesFlora [email protected]

Reilly [email protected]

Krista Mostoller [email protected]

Jill [email protected]

Joel Creswell writes: “I’m learninghow to collect sediment cores froma wetland in northern Wisconsinyear-round, which, in winter, involvesa significant amount of ice sawing

and standing in frigid water. I’mhoping to finish my dissertationresearch by January 2010 and maybefinish writing my dissertation bysummer of 2010.” Mary (McNealy)Czarnecki lives in Oregon. LastAugust, she married her high schoolsweetheart. Chris is a fourth genera-tion chef/restaurateur in WillametteValley (the mecca for Pinot Noir).www.joelpalmerhouse.com ReillyDibner writes: “Ireland is cold thiswinter, and fieldwork has introducedan extra element of frosty samplingthat is beginning to test the circula-tory resilience of my toes. Soonenough, however, we’ll have bright,warm days.” Kostis Drakonakiswrites: “Joy and I are really excitedand nervous to have our first baby.I’m getting settled into a new jobwith LaunchCapital—an early-stageventure capital firm that focuses onlaunching companies. I was askedto start the New Haven office andhave been lucky enough to have aflooded pipeline of deals even inthis economy. We also have officesin San Francisco and Boston.”

Wendy Francesconi writes: “I’vebeen in Brazil for the last sevenmonths, working on my dissertationexperiment testing agroforestrystepping stones. I’m hoping to finishmy fieldwork in time to enjoy theBrazilian Carnaval.” GonzaloGriebenow writes: “I work for the World Bank EnvironmentDepartment on ways to better inte-grate climate change into poverty-reduction strategies. I just finished apublication on this work and willpresent the results in the next scien-tific Conference of the Parties inCopenhagen. I am also traveling toGhana to present a paper on forestelephants and REDD at the SCBconference and will have the oppor-tunity to meet with Godfred Ohene-Gyan and Melody Ocloo ’07. I’mhaving fun with F&ESers in D.C.”

Yukiko Ichishima writes: “I workfor Tetra Tech in Fairfax, Va. (and

Azalea Mitch ’05 is back

from Cameroonon an Engineers

Without Borders trip,

where she helped

extend the waterdistribution

system so that

more villagers in

Kikoo have access to

safe drinking water.

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s noteswas joined by Alex DeWire ’07). Iwent on a great trip to Peru inAugust with Perrine Punwani andLuisa Lema Vélez. We also sawOscar Franco ’07 in Lima.” JenKaranian writes: “I live in southernSudan and work for the WildlifeConservation Society, which isworking with the government ofsouthern Sudan to set up severalwildlife preserves and protected areasthroughout the south.” AlderKeleman writes: “After spendingtwo years in Mexico, I’m based inRome and working at the Food andAgriculture Organization on localseed systems and crop diversity. Myspare time is dedicated primarily topersonal research on local varieties ofgelato.” [email protected]

Taek Joo Kim writes: “I am inKorea and work at the ClimateChange Center of Korea GreenFoundation. I hope to be back inthe United States for further studysometime in the future.” RitaLohani writes: “After spending ayear in Bangkok with the UnitedNations Environment Programme, I accepted a job with Tetra Tech, alarge American consulting firm withoffices around the world. I spent sixmonths in the Thailand office andrecently moved to the company’sManila office. I have two roles in thecompany, environmental specialistand business development specialist.I work on urban environment andclimate change mitigation-relatedprojects.” Alicia Gray Londonwrites: “I work for the AquayaInstitute on drinking-water issues inthe developing world. Most of ourprojects are in India and Africa, andI find it very interesting work. I gotmarried in August to Adam London,and our wedding was in Wareham,Mass., at my parent’s house onBuzzard’s Bay. We had a good groupto help us celebrate: Alice Bond ’05,Garrett Miller ’04, Kelly Coleman’05, Jackie Guzman ’05, Lisa Patel’05, Erica Schroeder ’04, Erin

Walsh ’05, Critter Thompson ’07and Kate Neville ’07. Garrett intro-duced us.” Krista Mostollerwrites: “I am happily living in theBoston area and working for theGovernment Accountability Office(GAO). I recently completed theGAO two-year professional develop-ment program, during which Irotated among different policy areasand worked on environmentalhealth, disability, bankruptcy andemergency-planning issues. I’ve nowbeen permanently staffed to the natural resources and environmentteam and look forward to startingmy next assignment in this area.”

Daniel Piotto is a doctoral candi-date at F&ES. Perrine Punwani isthe program manager for conflictand environmental change at theInternational Rescue Committee inWashington, D.C. She hopes tomake two international trips thisyear to conflict-affected countries inorder to improve her work on strat-egy regarding conflict, disaster riskreduction and climate change as theyrelate to vulnerable populations inthe countries in which the organiza-tion operates. She was able toreunite with fellow F&ESers inWashington for Kim Wilkinson’sbeautiful wedding. AlexisRingwald writes: “I completed myFulbright in New Delhi, India, atTERI with Rajendra Pachauri inApril 2008; published a book,Momentum for Renewable Energy inIndia, based on my research; and co-founded a solar and smart-gridcompany called Valence Energy. It’sbased in California, but I’m launchingour India/South Asia operationsfrom New Delhi, so I’ll be staying inIndia.” Alexis organized the ClimateSolutions Road Tour, a drive acrossIndia in solar electric cars, with agroup of friends from the IndianYouth Climate Network to highlightsolutions to climate change. She andCaroline Howe caught the attentionof New York Times columnist Thomas

Friedman during the tour. Also inattendance were F&ES studentsBidisha Banerjee ’10, KartikeyaSingh ’11 and Alark Saxena ’07.Alexis is the Indian Youth ClimateNetwork’s international coordinator.www.valenceenergy.com; www.indiaclimatesolutions.com

Patricia Ruby writes: “I am aproject coordinator for the NewJersey Sustainable State Institute atRutgers University, and I am plan-ning a wedding for September.”

Catherine Schloegel writes: “Imoved to the Andean highlands inCuenca, Ecuador, where I work onthe implementation of payment for environmental services withFundación Cordillera Tropical. I amhaving fun working with highlandQuichua communities that simplylaugh at my attempts to speak thelowland Quichua dialect with them.I spent two weeks traveling throughEcuador with Lisa Bassani. Wedrank lots of chicha, went monkey-watching and avidly chased birds.”

Luisa Lema Vélez works for the United Nations Foundation’sSustainable Development Program.She spends about two-thirds of her time working from sunny, green Medellín, Colombia.”

Kim Wilksinson writes: “I live inVancouver, B.C., with my husband,Rahul. For work, I’m coordinatingtraining for the U.S. Forest Serviceon restoration of degraded landswith native plants, writing a tropicalnursery manual and considering anoffer to help teach at the SustainableLiving Arts School.” ChristinaZarrella enjoyed two magical trips toItaly (October and New Year’s) andcan be found in Washington, D.C.,working for the Association of Fish& Wildlife Agencies. She is learninga lot about the North Americanmodel of wildlife conservation.


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Erin Barnes ’07,

Brandon Whitney ’07

and Cassie Flynn ’07

founded ioby.orgin 2008.

It’s the first online

microphilanthropic

initiative tosupport local

environmental

conservation, restoration

and education.

2007Class SecretariesSusan [email protected]

Rosi [email protected]

Anamaria Aristizabal worked atMcKinsey for a year as a managementconsultant. She now works as aconsultant for the World Bank inBogotá and also works with greenentrepreneurs on strengthening theirbusiness plans. www.aldeafeliz.org

Terry Baker is a supervisoryforester in southern Oregon in theRogue-River-Siskiyou NationalForest. He’s getting another regionof the U.S. hooked on his BBQ andfried turkey. Erin Barnes, BrandonWhitney and Cassie Flynn foundedioby.org in 2008. It’s the first onlinemicrophilanthropic initiative to support local environmental conser-vation, restoration and education.Ioby fosters local environmentalknowledge and action in New YorkCity. On ioby.org, community groupsdescribe their projects and peoplecan choose to fund them or volun-teer, with an aim to better enjoy theplaces where they live, work andplay. Rod Bates is conductingresearch and solving problems atKieranTimberlake, a Philadelphiaarchitecture firm. Carla Borja isworking at the World Bank inWashington, D.C. Matt Brewer isplanting trees and working to developlarge carbon/timber projects in Braziland Panama. Pedro Cabezas is thedaddy of a lovely little 6-month-oldbaby. Pedro stays very busy feeding,changing diapers, running economicmodels, writing papers on environ-mental policy and giving tons of loveto his little girl, the joy of the [email protected]

Joanna Carey is working for theCommonwealth of Massachusetts,doing river restoration and streamflow analysis and trying to battlestate budget cuts. She’s living in

Boston with Jules. Gordon Clarkis living in San Francisco and work-ing for the Peninsula Open SpaceTrust, a regional Palo Alto-basedland trust. He loves the Bay Areaand is happy to be playing a role inprotecting open spaces and agricul-tural lands there. Brandi Colanderwrites: “I am working on energypolicy as an attorney with theAir/Energy Program at the NaturalResources Defense Council in itsNew York City headquarters. I feelextremely fortunate to have theopportunity to be working on issuesthat are of interest to me, particularlyunder an administration that hasprioritized energy security and global-warming solutions. I’madjusting to the concrete jungle.”http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/bcolander Derrick Dease writes:“I’m an environmental engineer forInternational Paper at a paper millin Louisiana, but in February I tran-sitioned to a new post in Vicksburg,Miss., working for the corporateoffice.” Alex DeWire lives inArlington, Va., and works for TetraTech on a wide variety of waterresources issues. His wife, Kristen,hiked the entire state of Vermontthis summer on the Long Trail, andAlex accompanied her for a bit.”

Sue Ely works for the AlaskaConservation Alliance and AlaskaConservation Voters in Juneau,Alaska, lobbying on renewable-energyand energy-efficiency legislation.Despite living far away, Sue was ableto make it through the holidaysnowstorms to meet up with EllenHawes in Portland, Maine, and JimCronan ’06 in Seattle. Rhead Enionwrites: “I am in my second year oflaw school at Duke. Journal workand the environmental clinic keep mebusy. This summer, I will be intern-ing for Oceana in Washington, D.C.”

Qian Fang writes: “After gradua-tion, I worked in New Jersey as anenvironmental engineer for oneyear. I then moved back to Shanghai

and am working as an environmentalconsultant. I passed the LEED APtest in December, so I can work onsome green-building projects thisyear. I visited Beijing, which is my hometown, and saw the Bird’sNest and the Water Cube—they are amazing! I’m so proud of mycountry!” Beth Feingold partiedin D.C. in celebration of Obama withlots of other F&ESers, including FuChou ’06, Kate Hamilton ’06, ChrisMeaney ’06, Kevin Ogorzalek,Myra Sinnott ’06, Manuel Somoza’06 and others from the class of2006. Beth is in her second year of aPh.D. at the Johns Hopkins Schoolof Public Health, investigating howantibiotic-resistant bacteria travelfrom large factory farms into thecommunity. She’s doing her best toavoid fieldwork in manure lagoons.

Oscar Franco is traveling fromone troubled corner of the Andes toanother, following conflicts betweenmining companies and local com-munities. He has become skepticalabout everybody getting along. Oscaris also a member of the editorialcommittee of La Revista Agraria, amagazine distributed nationwidethat aims to give political support tosmall farmers. Todd Gartnerwrites: “I am living in D.C., where Iwork for the American ForestFoundation, managing their conser-vation incentives program. I spendmy free time rock climbing andplaying assorted sports. I had somegreat trips in 2008, including snowsports in Vermont, bouldering inSquamish, B.C., and chilling on the beach in the Bahamas.”

Rachelle Gould appreciates thatthe magnolias and pear trees bloomin January in northern California.She is in her second year ofStanford’s Interdisciplinary Programin Environment and Resources,working on land conservation andecosystem services. Marc Hillerworks on global forestry investmentsand spent significant time during

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s notes2008 in Cambridge, Mass., andAsia, and on airplanes in between.He has earned way too many Deltamiles to feel good about his annualcarbon footprint. He’s looking for-ward to working on his firm’sdomestic forestry projects andspending more time in Cambridgein 2009. Ruoting Jiang is atStanford University studying civiland environmental engineering as aPh.D. candidate. She writes: “Myresearch is monitoring and modelingindoor particulate matter pollutionfrom cigarette smoke. Interestingly,the project involves a lot of traveling,and I have had a great time since Istarted. However, I still miss Yaleoccasionally.” Rosi Kerr justreturned from six weeks of wanderingthe United States. Now she’s startinga new and incredibly awesome non-profit and working on helping thiscountry run on better energy.

Michael Lichtenfield and Cat areliving together in San Francisco,loving life. Mike is developing andfinancing large-scale solar projectsthroughout the western UnitedStates, and Cat is a landscapedesigner, emphasizing sustainabilityfor commercial and public spacesaround the world. Dawn Lippertis doing policy and finance consultingfor Booz Allen’s renewable-energygroup. She is based in D.C. butspends a lot of time on the road inHawaii, working with the Departmentof Energy and the State of Hawaii todevelop and implement an aggressiveand transformational plan to have a70 percent clean energy economy by2030. Charlie Liu writes: “I’m living in Berkeley, though I actuallylive in a lab in Berkeley, where I amcheap labor—a Ph.D. student in themolecular biology department.”Charlie is working on biofuels, buthe emphasizes that there is no cornor ethanol involved, so you canhold off on the pitchforks for now.

Tracy Magellan is living inMiami and working at Montgomery

Botanical Center, a nonprofit palmand cycad research institution andbotanical garden. She writes grantsand newsletters and manages volunteers and the website. She’salso an adjunct professor of biologyand ecology at Miami Dade College.

Arthur Middleton is a second-year Ph.D. student in the Universityof Wyoming’s program in ecology.He lives in Laramie, but spendsmuch of the year in Cody and theAbsaroka Mountains. His researchinvolves the influence of forage con-ditions and wolf movements on elkin the Clarks Fork herd in andaround Yellowstone Park. The workhas required more time in the fieldand more agency and landownerinvolvement than he’d expected, sothe learning curve has been steep,but the experience rich. HannahMurray hung up her backpack towork at Forest Trends in Washington,D.C., after a year of hemisphericwanderings from Alaska to Patagonia.The transition has been made easierby the fact that her work, whichfocuses on ecosystem services inLatin America, involves occasionaltravel. In her free time, she can befound chopping carrots at D.C.Central Kitchen or baking vegantreats at home. Kate Neville ishappily living a few blocks from theocean in the buzz of the city ofVancouver, making her way througha Ph.D. program in political science.She’s settling into a new house withfriends, adapting to the rain, embrac-ing the mild winter (although shestill wears her toque) and definitelyloving the bike routes and trails.Exploring is balancing out timespent reading. Tina O’Connellwrites: “Jonathan and I are living inWashington, D.C., and I am work-ing at NOAA with the NationalEstuarine Research Reserves.”[email protected] StephanieOgburn lives in rural southwestColorado. She writes: “I love explor-ing the mountains, canyons and

deserts of this starkly beautiful partof the country.” She works as anenvironmental and media consultant,with projects that include running anew rural recycling program andcoordinating media for local non-profits. She’s also a DJ with the localcommunity radio station, runningthe Fabulous S.P.O. Radio Show.She’s moving to the Bay Area thisspring and hopes to become moreinvolved in the alternative food andagriculture movement. ksjd.org

Suzy Oversvee lives in Seattleand enjoys spending time with old friends and family. She is ananalyst for a local public electricutility, planning and evaluating conservation programs. She writes:“Our utility is over 90 percent carbonfree, and my job is to keep it thatway despite growing demand.”[email protected] MikePerlmutter is living in Berkeley andis the conservation coordinator forAudubon California in the SanFrancisco Bay Area. His band,Zoyres Eastern European WildFerment, performs regularly andrecently released its second CD,Biserka! Matthew Quinlan writes:“Marina Campos ’03, Ph.D.’06, andI welcomed the birth of our daughter,Olivia Campos Quinlan, last August.Since Olivia decided to come morethan two months early, Marina hadto rush to Sao Paulo from Manaus,where she had been coordinatingthe State of Amazonas’ climatechange program for the past twoyears. Despite weighing less than 2pounds at birth, Olivia has tons ofpersonality and is a real fighter.Since getting out of the neonatal ICUin October, she has been growing byleaps and bounds. This March,Marina and Olivia joined me inCambridge, Mass., where I amworking on an advanced biofuelsstartup company. Marina plans towork as a full-time mom until thesummer, while also doing someconsulting work. The F&ES


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“I live in Beijingand work for the newly

established World Resources

Institute Beijing

office on water and

forestry projects.”

— Hanqian “Sabrina”

Zhang ’07

Admissions office has alreadyreserved a spot for Olivia in theclass of 2032 and has been kindenough to accept crayon drawingsin lieu of essays if it receives herapplication materials no later thanJanuary 15, 2012.” Krishna Rokais living with his family in HappyValley (State College), Penn. He isin the second year of his Ph.D. pro-gram on rural sociology and humandimensions of natural resources andenvironment at Penn State. Hisresearch examines the impacts offorest policies on local communitiesin Nepal within the broader forestmanagement system. Last summerKrishna and his wife had a beautifulgirl, Avani, and have another child,Diptanshu. Alark Saxena writes:“After graduating, I directed an initiative on disaster risk reductionunder the Global Institute ofSustainable Forestry. I am now a doctoral candidate at F&ES, look-ing at issues of climate change adap-tation through a dynamic systemsapproach. During the winter break, I participated in the 3,500 kilometer,national climate solutions road trip,covering more than 15 cities, wherewe gave presentations to createawareness among the youth ofIndia. Now I am back and prepar-ing for my prospectus, which I aimto finish by the end of this year.”Alark appears on the F&ES websitein a 2-minute video explaining why he chose to study at Yale.

Mackenzie Schoonmaker is livingin Washington, D.C., where she’s anassociate at Beveridge & Diamond,an environmental law firm.

Evelyn Silva is an environmentalpolicy analyst at the ConnecticutDepartment of EnvironmentalProtection, Waste Engineering andEnforcement Division. She works inHartford and is also a DJ. SaraSmiley Smith writes: “I’m in mysecond year as a doctoral student atF&ES, studying institutional sus-tainability and innovation diffusion.

Happily, I get to work in a sunnyoffice in the new Kroon Hall, whenI’m not at the Yale Office ofSustainability.” Nalin Srivastavawrites: “I am a program officer in theIntergovernmental Panel on ClimateChange National Greenhouse GasInventories Programme. We’re tryingto save the world from the loominghorrors of climate change, oneemission inventory at a time. WhenI am not in the glass facade opulenceof Tokyo Ginza or basking in theglory of Mount Fuji (Fuji-san asthey call it), I am zipping aroundthe world from one conference toanother, hoping that someday therewill be a greater unity of purpose onan issue that threatens to end theworld as we know it.” Kate“Woody” Woodruff is leaving herjob at the University of ConnecticutCenter for Land Use, Education andResearch (CLEAR) for Salt LakeCity, Utah. There, she hopes to gogeo-caching daily and continueworking on how land use planningand policy affect water resources.But most exciting, Brett Tipple andWoody are engaged. TenleyWurglitz has been living in beautifulSonoma County, Calif., and workingat Sonoma Land Trust for almost ayear now. Her co-workers are amaz-ing, and sometimes she is paid to gohiking. Johanna Zetterberg loveslife as a bureaucrat in Washington,D.C., helping our nation consumeless energy, in general, and less fossilenergy in particular. She spent awarm and sunny winter in the Cityby the Bay at the California PublicUtilities Commission, whereManisha Gangopadhyay and BethMoore work. Hanqian “Sabrina”Zhang writes: “I live in Beijing andwork for the newly established WRIBeijing office on water and forestryprojects. I came down to the south,as do the immigrant birds that myprovince is famous for, to celebrateChinese New Year with family andfriends.”

2008Class SecretaryKelsey [email protected]

Avery Anderson was selected forthe TogetherGreen ConservationLeadership Program, a conservationinitiative of the National AudubonSociety that is supported by Toyota.As a fellow of the program, Averywill focus her efforts on the restora-tion of a degraded section of theDry Cimarron River in northeasternNew Mexico. She plans to helpimprove both water quality andsupply through onsite volunteerworkshops that reach out to thelocal ranching community. She isthe coordinator of the Conservationand Ranch Leadership and Youth(CARLY) program for The QuiviraCoalition. Anton Chiono is a policy associate in the San Franciscooffice of Pacific Forest Trust, splittinghis time between San Francisco andthe California state legislature inSacramento. Anton is assistingPacific Forest Trust in revisingCalifornia state forest policy toimplement innovative new policiesto combat climate change. Anton isexcited to return west and to havethe opportunity to join in the fightagainst global warming in Californiastate politics. Kimpton Cooper isthe district environmental coordina-tor for the U.S. Forest Service inWalla Walla, Wash. Kelsey Kiddwrites: “I’m an environmental scien-tist for Weston Solutions in Tempe,Ariz., and enjoying learning aboutdesert plants and birds.” Jing Suis the China program associate atthe American Council on RenewableEnergy in Washington, D.C.

Jason Weiner writes: “I passedthe California bar, and I acceptedan offer to get my law review articlethat critiques New Hampshire’s in-stream flow legislation publishedin the University of Denver WaterLaw Review.”

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Perry Hagenstein ’53 (1931-2008)died peacefully on December 27,surrounded by his family at his resi-dence in Wayland, Mass., at the ageof 77. Perry was born in St. Paul,Minn., and was a resident of Waylandfor over 37 years. He also resided inArkansas, Michigan, Pennsylvaniaand Maryland, before settling inWayland. He held a B.S. in forestryfrom the University of Minnesota,an M.F. from F&ES and a Ph.D. in forestry economics from theUniversity of Michigan. He servedin the U.S. Army from 1953 to 1956,primarily in Germany. He had a longand distinguished career in the fieldof natural-resource policy and eco-nomics that began in 1976. At thetime of his death he was presidentof the Institute for Forest Analysis,Planning, and Policy and chair ofthe board of trustees of the NewEngland Natural Resources Centerand of the advisory committee forthe Forest Economics and PolicyProgram of Resources for the Future.His past positions include researchforester, Fordyce Lumber Company,Arkansas; principal economist,Northeastern Forest ExperimentStation, U.S. Forest Service; seniorpolicy analyst, U.S. Public Land LawReview Commission; research fellow,Harvard University; and executivedirector, New England NaturalResources Center. Over the years hetaught courses in natural-resourcepolicy at Yale, University of Mas-sachusetts, University of Vermontand Vermont Law School. He servedon numerous committees and boardsof the National Research Council/National Academy of Sciences thatconcern natural resources, includingfive committees as chair, and servedas a member of the National ResearchCouncil Board on Agriculture andNatural Resources. He is a formerpresident and board member of theAmerican Forestry Association (nowAmerican Forests). Since 2004 he wasa member of the real estate advisorycommittee of the Massachusetts

Pension Reserves InvestmentManagement Fund, advising on thefund’s portfolio of timberlandinvestments. He was a fellow of theSociety of American Foresters, seniorfellow of the Pinchot Institute forConservation, national associate ofthe National Academy of Sciencesand long-time member of the CosmosClub. In addition, he was a long-timemember of First Parish Church ofWayland, serving on numerouscommittees. He spent several yearsas a trustee for the Wayland PublicLibrary, was a member of theWayland Historical Society andserved on the Wayland ConservationCommission and on the board ofthe New England Wildflower Society.He enjoyed playing tennis, walkingand hiking in the woods, and tookthe time to recognize the gentlenesswith which seasons pass. He is survived by three sons, Jonathan,Randall and Edwin; a daughter,Elizabeth; and six grandchildren.His wife, Ann, and a brother, Guy,predeceased him.

Michael Harlow ’75 (1948-2008)died peacefully at home in his sleepon October 1 after a six-year battlewith cancer. It was his wish to be athome in the comfort of familiar surroundings and in the presence ofhis loved ones. Michael is remem-bered as a fine teacher and coach,an enthusiastic photographer andan eager latecomer to electric bassguitar. His family and communitywill continue to be inspired by hisgrace, dignity and courage in facingthe challenges of the last severalyears, as well as by his compassion,love of life, gentleness and quietstrength. He is survived by twosons, Jonathan and Nicholas; hisformer wife, Carol Harlow ’75; twosisters; and a brother.

Alfred Meiss, Ph.D. ’50 (1918-2008),died of congestive heart failure onSeptember 30 at Haven Hospice inEdison, N.J., at the age of 90. Alfredspent the past 57 years in Cranbury,N.J. In the early 1960s, he was activein local environmental planning andwas instrumental in establishingCranbury’s first planning board,which he chaired for about eightyears. At the same time, he wasactive in the Stony Brook-MillstoneWatershed Association. His interestin conservation and land use datesto his undergraduate days. Hereceived a B.S. and M.S. in soilchemistry and agriculture fromRutgers. While a student, he metand married his wife, Edith, aDouglas graduate. After serving inthe U.S. Navy from 1944 to 1946,he completed his Yale doctorate inplant science in 1950. He earned hisway by working as a biochemist atthe Connecticut AgriculturalExperiment Station in New Havenfrom 1948 to 1952. He returnedwith his family to New Jersey, wherehe was an associate professor atRutgers University College ofAgriculture from 1952 to 1957.From 1957 to 1967, he was scienceadvisor at Ted Bates & Co. in NewYork City, where he specialized infood products and nutrition. Hemoved from advertising to food andagricultural research projects ininternational development forSidney M. Cantor Associates,Haverford, Penn., from 1968 to 1975.Field research took him to Chile,Peru, India and Pakistan. His lastconsulting work was for a smalldefense consulting firm, for which heconducted research and developmentof military and security products.He was predeceased by his wife of60 years, Edith; a son, Stephen; anda daughter, Elizabeth. He is survivedby a daughter, Alison; two grand-daughters, Angela and Stephanie;two nephews, Richard and Martin; aniece, Harriette Regan; and fourgreat-grandchildren.

obituaries


Johnson Parker ’47 (1917-2008)died at home on October 19 at theage of 90. Johnson was born inBoston. He was an ensign in theU.S. Navy and was discharged in1945. He received his B.S. fromHarvard University and his Ph.D.from Duke University. He was a pro-fessor of botany and forestry at theUniversity of Idaho in Moscow,Idaho, and at Yale. He retired as abiologist for the state of Connect-icut after having worked at the U.S.Forest Service Insect and DiseaseLaboratory in Hamden. He was amember of Bethany First Church of Christ Congregational and of theEcological Society of America. He is survived by a son, Stephen; adaughter, Winifred; and two grand-children, Kevin and Sarah. He waspredeceased by his wife, Dorothy.

Douglas Redmond ’50, Ph.D. ’54(1918-2008), died on October 29 atthe age of 91. Douglas was born inUpper Musquodoboit, Nova Scotia.He graduated with a B.S. and high-est honors from the University ofNew Brunswick before earninggraduate degrees at Yale. He dedi-cated his life to leading theCanadian Forestry Service by main-taining and preserving the Canadianforest industry through the promo-tion of conservation, preservationand reforestation measures. He rep-resented Canada at the internationallevel to spearhead the preservationof the world’s forests and, for hisefforts, received an honorary mem-bership in the International Union ofForest Research Organizations (thefirst such award to be presentednonposthumously). Upon retire-ment, he continued to authorresearch papers on matters relatingto Canadian and international forestissues and became president of theCanadian Institute of Forestry. Hecontinued to be actively involvedwith that organization up to his

death. He was also active in thecommunity as a member of Kiwanisand, in his later years, SAGE Kiwanis,spearheading charitable fund-raisingactivities. He served in World War IIwith the Royal Canadian Air Force,Squadron 608–DFC. He is survivedby his wife of 65 years, Hazel; adaughter, Sharon; two sons, Rodand Ian; five grandchildren; threegreat-grandchildren; and two sisters,Hilda Gammell and Pauline Dean.

Ralph Robertson ’56 (1919-2009),formerly a resident of Starkville,Miss., died on February 4 at theTerrace at Grove Park in Dothan,Ala., at the age of 89. Ralph earneddegrees from Louisiana StateUniversity and Yale, served in theU.S. Army Air Corps in World WarII, worked for the MississippiForestry Commission and was thenemployed for over 25 years with theMississippi Cooperation ExtensionService at Mississippi State University.He was a member of First UnitedMethodist Church in Starkville,Miss. He is survived by his wife,Nell; a son, Rick; a daughter, SusanPhares; two grandchildren, Deniseand Curtis; and several nieces andnephews.

David Smith ’46, Ph.D. ’49 (1921-2009), Morris K. Jesup ProfessorEmeritus of Silviculture at F&ES,died at the Whitney Center, a retire-ment community in Hamden, Conn.,on March 7 at the age of 87. Born inBryan, Texas, David grew up inKingston, R.I., and received a B.A.from the University of Rhode Islandin 1941. He served as a meteorolo-gist in the U.S. Army during WorldWar II and then received his M.F. fromthe Yale School of Forestry and hisPh.D. from Yale. He spent almost hisentire career on the faculty of the YaleSchool of Forestry & EnvironmentalStudies. Throughout the years, hewas an associate dean and manager

of the Yale Forests, and he served inmany other university and civiccapacities. He authored the world’smost widely used forestry textbook,The Practice of Silviculture, and wasresponsible for obtaining a HartfordFoundation grant in the mid-1950sthat added many natural sciencefaculty positions to the school. In theearly 1970s he was a silviculturalconsultant to a U.S. presidentialadvisory panel on timber and theenvironment. He also served as anadvisor to the U.S. Forest Serviceand to government agencies inAustralia and British Columbia. Hewas a fellow in the Society ofAmerican Foresters, New Englandbranch, which awarded him itsDistinguished Service Award twice, in1969 and 1993. American Forestsalso gave him its DistinguishedService Award, in 1990. For fourdecades he was either a director orpresident of the Connecticut Forestand Park Association and ofConnwood Foresters, the nation’soldest forest landowners’ cooperative.He was on the Connecticut ForestPractices Advisory Board during the1990s and was, for many years, adirector of the Hamden LandConservation Trust. The Universityof Rhode Island awarded him anhonorary Doctor of Science degree,and his forestry efforts in Mainebrought him the same award fromBates College. He was the author or co-author of four editions of The Practice of Silviculture, usedthroughout North America and, inseveral translations, throughout theworld, and of numerous researchpapers and commentaries on forestrypractices. His contributions to theworld of knowledge through histeaching, ideas, way of thinking andthe research that he inspired his students to take up were unsur-passed. He was reluctant to be a co-author on his students’ papers;however, some of his contributions

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are reflected in The Ecology andSilviculture of Mixed-Species Forests:A Festschrift for David M. Smith(1992). He is survived by his wife ofnearly 58 years, Catherine; twodaughters, Ellen and Nancy; agrandson, Karl Norby; and a brother,Allen.

Joseph Swearingen III ’59 (1932-2008) died at St. Thomas Hospital inNashville, Tenn., on September 12 atthe age of 75. Born in Charlotte,N.C., Joseph received a B.S. inforestry from the University of theSouth and an M.F. from F&ES. Hereceived a commission in the U.S.Air Force through the ROTC programat Sewanee and served four years ofactive duty. He attained the rank ofcaptain and was awarded a commen-dation ribbon for meritorious serv-ice. Swearingen’s forestry careerspanned more than 40 years. Heoperated a forestry consulting firmand was an expert in the use of smallprivate aircraft. He held commercialand flight instructor certificates withsingle- and multi-engine land andinstrument ratings. He served aschair of the board of JosephKershaw Academy in Camden, S.C.,and served two terms as a trustee forthe University of the South, representing the dioceses of UpperSouth Carolina. After returning toSewanee, he was a volunteer in theAbbo’s Alley supervisor’s group andfor the Big Tree project. He wasactive in the Sewanee EQB Club andwas devoted to the Sewanee SeniorCitizens’ Center, serving on its boardof directors until his death. He issurvived by two daughters, KimberlyMcCann and Catherine; a brother,William; and four grandchildren.

Five students and alums from the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies,joined by a group of friends from the Indian Youth Climate Network, recently trekked 2,200miles across India in clean-energy vehicles to increase awareness of projects designed tocombat climate change.

The Climate Solutions Road Tour began on January 1 in Chennai and, over five weeks,stopped in 15 major cities, including Ahmadabad, Bangalore, Delhi, Goa, Hyderabad, Jaipur,Mumbai, Pune and Udaipur, as well as in numerous towns and villages. The group traveled inthree solar-integrated Reva electric cars, a CleanStar sustainable biofuel truck, a van pow-ered by used cooking oil and a solar-powered minivan.

Along the way, they found biogas plants powering homes and reducing carbon emissionsand indoor air pollution; organic farms in central India, where rainfall has become increas-ingly sporadic; green buildings; smart microgrids; water harvesting systems; new forms ofenvironmental education; solar cookers; and clean-tech entrepreneur networks.

“The project was created in the belief that we have a chance to create a new vision forthe world. We seek new ways to solve the problem of climate change through ways thatalready exist and that depend on nothing less than our intentions and action,” said AlexisRingwald ’06, the tour’s co-organizer with Caroline Howe ’07. They were joined by BidishaBanerjee ’10, Alark Saxena ’07 and incoming F&ES student, Kartikeya Singh ’11.

The journey ended on February 4 in New Delhi, where they met India’s President PratibhaPatil; Abhinav Bhindra, an Olympian and gold medal winner; Kapil Sibal, Minister of Science andTechnology; Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change andrecently appointed director of the new Yale Climate and Energy Institute; Larry Brilliant, chiefphilanthropy evangelist at Google; and Thomas Friedman, a columnist for The New York Times.

For more information about the Climate Solutions Road Tour, visit indiaclimatesolutions.com.


Johnson Parker ’47 (1917-2008)died at home on October 19 at theage of 90. Johnson was born inBoston. He was an ensign in theU.S. Navy and was discharged in1945. He received his B.S. fromHarvard University and his Ph.D.from Duke University. He was a pro-fessor of botany and forestry at theUniversity of Idaho in Moscow,Idaho, and at Yale. He retired as abiologist for the state of Connect-icut after having worked at the U.S.Forest Service Insect and DiseaseLaboratory in Hamden. He was amember of Bethany First Church of Christ Congregational and of theEcological Society of America. He is survived by a son, Stephen; adaughter, Winifred; and two grand-children, Kevin and Sarah. He waspredeceased by his wife, Dorothy.

Douglas Redmond ’50, Ph.D. ’54(1918-2008), died on October 29 atthe age of 91. Douglas was born inUpper Musquodoboit, Nova Scotia.He graduated with a B.S. and high-est honors from the University ofNew Brunswick before earninggraduate degrees at Yale. He dedi-cated his life to leading theCanadian Forestry Service by main-taining and preserving the Canadianforest industry through the promo-tion of conservation, preservationand reforestation measures. He rep-resented Canada at the internationallevel to spearhead the preservationof the world’s forests and, for hisefforts, received an honorary mem-bership in the International Union ofForest Research Organizations (thefirst such award to be presentednonposthumously). Upon retire-ment, he continued to authorresearch papers on matters relatingto Canadian and international forestissues and became president of theCanadian Institute of Forestry. Hecontinued to be actively involvedwith that organization up to his

death. He was also active in thecommunity as a member of Kiwanisand, in his later years, SAGE Kiwanis,spearheading charitable fund-raisingactivities. He served in World War IIwith the Royal Canadian Air Force,Squadron 608–DFC. He is survivedby his wife of 65 years, Hazel; adaughter, Sharon; two sons, Rodand Ian; five grandchildren; threegreat-grandchildren; and two sisters,Hilda Gammell and Pauline Dean.

Ralph Robertson ’56 (1919-2009),formerly a resident of Starkville,Miss., died on February 4 at theTerrace at Grove Park in Dothan,Ala., at the age of 89. Ralph earneddegrees from Louisiana StateUniversity and Yale, served in theU.S. Army Air Corps in World WarII, worked for the MississippiForestry Commission and was thenemployed for over 25 years with theMississippi Cooperation ExtensionService at Mississippi State University.He was a member of First UnitedMethodist Church in Starkville,Miss. He is survived by his wife,Nell; a son, Rick; a daughter, SusanPhares; two grandchildren, Deniseand Curtis; and several nieces andnephews.

David Smith ’46, Ph.D. ’49 (1921-2009), Morris K. Jesup ProfessorEmeritus of Silviculture at F&ES,died at the Whitney Center, a retire-ment community in Hamden, Conn.,on March 7 at the age of 87. Born inBryan, Texas, David grew up inKingston, R.I., and received a B.A.from the University of Rhode Islandin 1941. He served as a meteorolo-gist in the U.S. Army during WorldWar II and then received his M.F. fromthe Yale School of Forestry and hisPh.D. from Yale. He spent almost hisentire career on the faculty of the YaleSchool of Forestry & EnvironmentalStudies. Throughout the years, hewas an associate dean and manager

of the Yale Forests, and he served inmany other university and civiccapacities. He authored the world’smost widely used forestry textbook,The Practice of Silviculture, and wasresponsible for obtaining a HartfordFoundation grant in the mid-1950sthat added many natural sciencefaculty positions to the school. In theearly 1970s he was a silviculturalconsultant to a U.S. presidentialadvisory panel on timber and theenvironment. He also served as anadvisor to the U.S. Forest Serviceand to government agencies inAustralia and British Columbia. Hewas a fellow in the Society ofAmerican Foresters, New Englandbranch, which awarded him itsDistinguished Service Award twice, in1969 and 1993. American Forestsalso gave him its DistinguishedService Award, in 1990. For fourdecades he was either a director orpresident of the Connecticut Forestand Park Association and ofConnwood Foresters, the nation’soldest forest landowners’ cooperative.He was on the Connecticut ForestPractices Advisory Board during the1990s and was, for many years, adirector of the Hamden LandConservation Trust. The Universityof Rhode Island awarded him anhonorary Doctor of Science degree,and his forestry efforts in Mainebrought him the same award fromBates College. He was the author or co-author of four editions of The Practice of Silviculture, usedthroughout North America and, inseveral translations, throughout theworld, and of numerous researchpapers and commentaries on forestrypractices. His contributions to theworld of knowledge through histeaching, ideas, way of thinking andthe research that he inspired his students to take up were unsur-passed. He was reluctant to be a co-author on his students’ papers;however, some of his contributions

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