HONOR ROLL OF DONORS 2010
We are pleased to honor alumni and friends of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies who
made gifts to the school between July 1, 2009, and June 30, 2010. We also wish to recognize the corporations,
foundations and organizations that have provided generous support to the school.
Class of 1938
Jack W. Densmore
John M. McMurray
Class of 1940
Richard C. Rose
Class of 1942
Richard F. West
Class of 1946
Paul Y. Burns
Class of 1947
Robert F. Parker*
Henry A. Wilson*
Class of 1948
Harold J. Belcher
Francis H. Dillon, Jr.
Otis F. Hall
George M. Hindmarsh
John E. O'Donnell, Jr.
Stephen D. Pryce
Class of 1949
James B. Carlaw*
David H. Fordyce
Herbert I. Winer
Class of 1950
John O. Batson
Robert O. Brandenberger
Kenneth L. Carvell
William F. Cowen, Jr.
Theodore Natti
Albert L.C. Nelson
John C. Watt
Class of 1951
Peter Arnold
Lester E. Bradford
John L. Christie
Robert O. Curtis,
Robert W. Eisenmenger
Gerald D. Fitzgerald
Walter P. Gould
John W. Ker
Donald S. Page
Lewis C. Peters
* deceased
Class of 1952
Robert S. Bond
John C. Calhoun, Jr.
Eugene M. Carpenter
John L. Hall
Milton E. Hartley, Jr.
Gordon Loery
John R. Skeele
William I. Stein
Class of 1953
Eric L. Ellwood
John F. Miller
Earl W. Raymond
Oakleigh Thorne II
Class of 1954
Harry B. Bailey, Jr.
James H. Brown
Gordon Hall III
Donald J. Miller
Jack R. Mulholland
Roy D. Whitney
Robert L. Youngs
Class of 1955
Warren T. Doolittle
David R. Houston
Kenneth Knoerr
George R. Lamb
Daniel P. Loucks
Wee Yuey Pong
Lawrence B. Sunderland
Kenneth G. Weston
Donald K. Whittemore
David E. Baker
Class of 1956
Fields W. Cobb, Jr.
Douglas M. Crutchfield
Patrick J. B. Duffy
Joseph E. Peters
Kirk P. Rodgers
Jack A. Rose
Class of 1957
Sheldon Greene
Benjamin F. Hoffman
Gertrude E. Huntington
George W. Wendel
Class of 1958
Rolf W. Benseler
Evar L. Knudtson
Ernest A. Kurmes
William G. Rogers II
Friedrich Schilling, Jr.
George R. Stephens, Jr.
John P. Vimmerstedt
Class of 1959
Richard H. Arps
Hans T. Bergey
Donald S. Girton
Class of 1960
Evangelos J. Biblis
Gregory Neil Brown
Peter Robert Hannah
Lee Herrington,
Peter M. Huberth
Jon P. Liles
Robert D. McReynolds
Kennard G. Nelson
Robert Charles Nowack
David H. Scanlon III
Gerald R. Stairs
Seijuro Uraki
Class of 1961
William W. Alcorn
Laurens K. Larson
Normand Methot
Lee N. Miller
Robert C. Peters
James A. Rollins
R. Scott Wallinger
Malcolm John Zwolinski
Class of 1962
Roger P. Belanger
Le Viet Du
Gordon M. Heisler
C.H. Anthony Little
Charles N. Lowrie III
Gyula Pech
Lawrence O. Safford
Robert C. Van Aken
Carel L.H. Van
Vredenburch
John C. Zasada
Sand County Society $1,000-$4,999 ($500-$999 for last five graduating classes)
Class of 1963
Henry F. Barbour
Robert C. Fisk*
Philip O. Frazer
Joseph W. Gorrell
Edward M. Jager
G. Andrew Larsen
Yan Bohumil Linhart
R Douglas S. Macdonald
Robert N. Mowbray
John K. Prescott
Guy E. Sabin
William Hulse Smith
Class of 1964
Allan Richard Applegate
Frank G. Bock, Jr.
Gerald R. Conley
Stephen J. Hanover
Douglas A. MacKinnon
Kenneth J. Mitchell
Bradford W. Monahon
George S. Nagle
H. Phillip Sasnett
Errol G. Sowers
G. Wade Staniar
Class of 1965
Hollis W. Barber, Jr.
William Blankenship, Jr.
Alan W. Haney
Robert Philip Kreitler
Roger W. Merritt
Richard C. Schlesinger
Guy L. Steucek
Class of 1966
Edward A. Arens
S. Gene Day
Howard C. Dickinson, Jr.
William G. Horn, Jr.
James K. Lyle
William J. Shirley
Alden M. Townsend
Class of 1967
Reginald B. Elwell, Jr.
Gordon A. Enk
Peter W. Ludwig
A. Bradford Wyman
Class of 1968
Richard R. Buech
Andrew L. Johnson
Raymond J. Kordish
Martin Lugus
Peter L. Marks
Claude H. O'Gwynn
Hardy L. Pearce
Donald G. Schall
Class of 1969
Earle D. Bessey III
Ah Chun Chu
Diana Starr Cooper
Harry L. Haney, Jr.
David T. Harvey
Gregory Alan Sharp
Johannes G. Von Trapp
Class of 1970
Whitney A. Beals
John A. Bissonette
Donn E. Critchell
Joseph L. Horowitz
Donald C. Hubert
Mack H. Jenkins
William A. Lansing
Steven C. Maurice
Wan Hin Ooi
James H. Shaw
Thomas L. Smith
John F. Tinker
Class of 1971
Joseph L. Deschenes
Katharine B. Grantham
Donald R. Korbobo
Harold T. Nygren
S. Tahir Qadri
Alfred L. Scopp
Douglas G. Sprugel
Mary L. Standaert
Class of 1972
George F. Ames
Hedley W. Bond
John M. Brink
Gary W. Drobnack
Robert A. Hart
Helen Kim
Jung-Ja S. Lee
Francis P. Maroney
Othniel C. Marsh Associates $5,000 donation and above
Jerry M. Melillo
David P. Miller
Philip E. Nemir
Priscilla P. Newbury
William K. Newbury
Richard Porterfield
Thomas G. Robinson
Matthew S. Rosen
John C. Welker
Stephen R. Wells
Class of 1973
John D. Aber
Mark J. Bagdon
Lauren E. Brown
John C. Cannon
Robert H. Cashel
Clyde H. Cremer
Roy W. Deitchman
Thomas J. Dunn, Jr.
Deborah Brooks Hill
Samuel G. Hopkins
Thomas S. Kohlsaat
Milos Krnajski-Jovic
A. Dix Leeson, Jr.
Dorothy S. McCluskey
Roy Mendelssohn
James E. Murphy
Dennis R. Perham
A. Mark Rasmussen
Mary K. Reynolds
Jeffrey J. Rhodes
Ruth M. Shane
Edward L. Spencer
Kathryn Snider Stockwell
Mark E. Triebwasser
Ian H. Von Lindern
Evan S. Griswold
Carol Stevenson Harlow
Libby O. Hopkins
Suzanne M. Kilner
Patrick T. Lee
Stephen M. Levy
Hallie R. Metzger
Christopher W. Murdoch
Jacqueline S. Russell
Douglas F. Ryan
Stephen Shotland
George B. Weir
Arthur B. Weissman
Class of 1976
Randolph B. Austin
Thomas Barounis
Susan D. Cooley
Byron Luke Felde
Bruce A. Fernald
Joel S. Flagler
Stuart L. Hart
Kathleen M. Ligare
John E. Lundquist
Thomas M. Marino
Kathleen McNamara
John P. McTague
M. Anne Peters
Colin S. Peterson
Alan F. Poole
Virginia M. Reilly
Eric E. See
William E. Timko
Class of 1974
Catherine E. Badgley
Frances Beinecke
William G. Constable
Charles H. Dauchy, Jr.
Nancy F. Ehorn
Andrew W. Ezell
Leah K. Hair
Leonard A. Lankford, Jr.
Elizabeth H. Mikols
Norman A. Noyes
Katharine M. Preston
Judith M. Stockdale
Gordon G. Whitney
Paul S. Wilson
Bradford W. Wyche
Henry A. F. Young
Class of 1977
Keith B. Aubry
Edward A. Brotak
Leon E. Bucher
Javade Chaudhri
Jonathan Falk
William T. Glidden, Jr.
Victor L. Gonzalez
David E. Hall
Steven P. Hamburg
William A. Hanson
Charles E. Hewett
Peter S. Homann
Pamela Kohlberg
Andrew O. Melnykovych
Howard S. Neufeld
Joanne R. Polayes
Robert C. Rooke, Jr.
Joann P. Roskoski
George C. Wheelwright
Brooke Myers Wickham
Class of 1975
Jennifer Slade Belovsky
Richard A. Brown
Larry E. Burd
Alyn Robinson Caulk
Leslie N. Corey, Jr.
John F. Dowd
Anne S. Fege
Class of 1978
Carol A. Aubry
Ellen K. Baum
Edward O. Becker
Rebecca E. Bormann
William C. Davis
Peter John Falco
Robert S. Gipe
* deceased
Rosine W. Hall
John R. Hoffnagle
Catherine G. Hopper
Patricia H. Korotky
Bruce C. Larson
Dora Yuen-Kie Lee
Emly M. McDiarmid
Michael D. Rees
Regina M. Rochefort
Kenneth L. Rosenbaum
Thomas A. Rumpf
Ralph C. Schmidt
Loring La Barbera Schwarz
Louise P. Sclafani
Isabell Stransky-Berger
C. Dana Tomlin
David Wentworth
Class of 1979
Clark S. Binkley
Christopher N. Brown
John A. Carey
Dorothy K. Faulkner
Neil Hendrickson
Pierre Lafond
Mrs. Patricia S.
Leavenworth
Robert B. McKinstry, Jr.
Martha E. Okie
Robert T. Perschel
Marcia J.K. Peters
Hope Pillsbury
Elizabeth L. Rich
Margaret N. Schneider
Penelope C. Sharp
Martha A. Tableman
Vijay K. Verma
Deane Wang
Class of 1980
Natasha Atkins
Susan M. Braatz
Phillip Brylski
Starling W. Childs II
Robert D. Comer
M. Thomas Hatley III
Virginia F. Kearney
David Kittredge, Jr.
Thomas McHenry
Thomas D. Mordecai
Charles Nilon
W. Kent Olson
Kincaid Perot
Curtis G. Rand
Mrs. Frances M. Rundlett
V. Alaric Sample
Laura K. Snook
Jane E.S. Sokolow
Keith D. Stewart
Steven H. Strauss
Jean Tam
Carol Zimmerman
Sand County Society $1,000-$4,999 ($500-$999 for last five graduating classes)
Class of 1981
Alan W. Belcher
James M. Caffrey
Amy L. Catterton-Janovsky
Martha Davis
John D. Echeverria
Michael Ferrucci III
Louise Richardson Forrest
Thomas Gaman
Thea Weiss Hayes
Betsy Jewett
Mrs. Susan Fitch Kelsey
Priscilla Kellert
Elizabeth D. Mullin
Mark G. Racicot
Gail K. Reynolds
James R. Runyan
Keith D. Tait
David Allen Van Wie
Carol E. Youell
Class of 1982
Susan Becker-Jacob
Michael Bell
Sandra J. Blinstrubas
Paula Daukas
Michael P. Dowling
Deborah Reichert Finley
Steve C. Forrest
Davis Hartwell
Jacqueline K. Hewett
Edward W. Ionata
Thomas R. Jacob
Robert J. Krumenaker
Jonathan Kusel
Phillip C. Lende, Jr.
Keio Maeda
Diane Mayerfeld
Benjamin L. Niles
Marie Z. Nolan
Peter A. Quinby
Daniel F. Reynolds
Robert S. Ridgely
Mrs. Hazel F. Tuttle
Keith G. Waite
Thomas James Walicki
Nathaniel B. Whitcombe
Class of 1983
Mary A. Arthur
Susan M. Babcock
Louis J. Bacchiocchi
Stephen D. Blackmer
Elizabeth A. Blair
Stephen P. Broker
Guillermo Castilleja
John A. Duwaldt
Domenic J. Forcella, Jr.
Peter T. Hazlewood
Richard M. Huber, Jr.
Carol Kennedy Hearle
Richard H. Odom, Jr.
Jennifer Cross Peterson
David E. Reeves
Denise Schlener
Jim Daniel Serfis
Elizabeth W. Swain
Olaf Unsoeld
Class of 1984
Alan C. Carey
Thomas O. Crist
Mrs. Barbara B. Dowd
Shelley J. Dresser
Frances F. Dunwell
Rosemary N. Furfey
Jennifer Haaser
Mattei
Randall H. Hagenstein
Rose H. Harvey
Leah V. Haygood
Mark John Kern
Peter B. Maxson
Eva U. Muller
A. Sharon Hamby O'Connor
Bruce A. Phillips
Norbert J. Riedy, Jr.
Christopher W. Stecko
Susan Huke Stein
Nathan R. Williams
Class of 1985
Brent Bailey
Helen Ballew
Richard L. Boyce
Alexander R. Brash
Ian R. Cameron
Jane Ceraso
Robert E. Clausi
James S. Coleman
John Nesbitt Conyngham
Christopher M. Donnelly
Mark Damian Duda
Caroline S. Eliot
Edward H. Elliman
James J. Espy, Jr.
Lynne Wommack Espy
Deborah Fleischer
James B. Friday
Kathleen S. Friday
David A. Gagnon
Tara Gallagher
Steven F. Jacovino
Mark Jay Judelson
Stephen J. Lowrey
Catherine A. McConnell
Lesley A. MorganThompson
Jonathan W. Nute
Molly Harriss Olson
Cameron H.
Sanders, Jr.
Anne Sergeant
David B. Steckel
Whitney C. Tilt
Mark J. Twery
Henry L. Whittemore
Stephen Young
Othniel C. Marsh Associates $5,000 donation and above
Class of 1986
Kenneth J. Andrasko, Jr.
Peter P. Blanchard III
David Max Braun
Sarah L. Brichford
Mark R. Dillenbeck
Elliott L. Gimble
Nan L. Jenks-Jay
Nels C. Johnson
Asmeen M. Khan
Bruce H. Leighty
Betsy Ann McGean
Steve J. Miller
Robert M. Moore
Richard P. Reading
Sarah Clark Stuart
Robert E. Unsworth
Caroline A. Woodwell
Mohammed Nuruz Zaman
Class of 1990
Ramon Quintin Alfonso
Catherine Bealle Statland
Linda E. Behnken
Mary Ann K. Boyer
Christine LaPorte Gardiner
Melissa M. Grigione
Leslie J. Hudson
Peter Taber Jenkins
Peter Hobart Jipp
Kristie N. Kapp
Thomas Edward Kelsch
Jonathan Martin Labaree
Judy G. Olson Hicks
Douglas Morgan Robotham
Robert C. Russo
Nicholas Raymond
Simmons
Susannah Beth Troner
Joshua G. Foster
Mrs. Katharine Elsom
Frohardt
Jonathan A. Garen
Molly G. Goodyear
Lisa Christine Gustavsen
Mrs. Kathleen M. Hooke
Daniel H. Hudnut
Margaret C. Holliday Kelly
Dexter C. Mead
Lois L. Morrison
John M. Norwood
Sarah Marie Risser
Allan N. Shanfield
Sara L. St. Antoine
Eleanor J. Sterling
Jefferson Wolfe Tone
Anita Van Breda
Margaret D. Williams
Class of 1987
Karl A. Beard
Christie Anna Coon
Kathleen Lake Shaw
Pamela Manice
Elizabeth Hyde Moore
Melissa Paly
Peter Cooper Pinchot
Christopher E. Pratt
Kathleen M. Rorison
Joshua L. Royte
Steven Taswell
Edgar L. Vaughn
Jonathan G. Wingerath
Class of 1991
Susan D. Brodie
Margo L. Burnham
J. Creed Clayton
Jane Coppock
Diane W. Duva
James H.E. Fosburgh
Helmut Gieben
Jennifer Greenfeld
Susan B. Hodgson
Annette Huddle
Joan B. Kelsch
Douglas J. Lober
Betsy W. Lyman
Anne S. Marsh
Geoffrey McGean
Sarah J. Pick
Peter T. Schuyler
Richard D. Sloman
Jennie Wood Sheldon
Class of 1994
Oliver D. Barton
Mark T. Bryer
Jane L. Calvin
Eliza J. Cleveland
Marlene B. Cole
Javier L. Dominguez
Christopher E. Filardi
Stephanie R. Flack
Catherine C. Garnett
Cynthia W. Henshaw
Harriet B. Honigfeld
Lars Erik Kulleseid
Elizabeth Hayes McGraw
Michael D. Moffat
W. Keith Moser
Jennifer O'Hara Palmiotto
Colleen C. Reid
Luis A. Rivera-Cruz
William A. Root IV
Nicholas A. Shufro
Donna R. Stauffer
William E. Stevenson
Eileen Cates Stone
Graham L. Trelstad
Jane M. Whitehill
Jessica Bennett Wilkinson
Theodore G. Wong
Class of 1988
Jennifer H. Allen
Robin Gale Cash
Peter Michael Connorton
Anne Buckelew Cumming
Eric Jay Dolin
Pieter W. Fosburgh, Jr.
Elizabeth Greer
Anthony C. W. Irving
Brian Roy Lockhart
Heidi Margrit McAllister
Carol Lewis Pease
Cristin Gallup Rich
Carlos Rodriguez-Franco
Judy Lynn Stone
Holly Page Welles
Class of 1989
Jeffrey R. Bopp
Anthony Boutard
Susan M. Campbell
Kate Elizabeth Heaton
Julia P. McMahon
Judith E. Moore
John R. Potter, Jr.
Allen Joseph Reilly, Jr.
Dave Trynz Tobias
James Chesnut Williams
* deceased
Class of 1992
Nicholas T. Bennett
Anne E. Black
Charles H. Collins
Peyton C. Griffin
Ayako O. Kurihara
Lisa K. Lumbao
Robin L. Maille
Susan C. Peterson
Joan Bresnan Popowics
Susan L. Pultz
Pamela Lichtman Reading
Mary Rowen
Susanne Schmidt
James N. Sheldon
Townsend S. Swayze
Mitchell L. Tarnowski
Staunton Williams, Jr.
Class of 1993
Mary Christine Angelo
Cynthia M. Barakatt
Elana E. Cohen
Class of 1995
Ellen Tarrant Aikenhead
Richard L. Blaylock
Richard J. Bucchieri
Lisa O. Fernandez
Kerry Anne Fitzmaurice
Marie J. Gunning
Cassandra J. Hopkins
A. Felton Jenkins III
Heinrich Jessen
Lindsey Brace Martinez
Sarah A. McDaniel
Adam Robert Moore
Tetsuro Mori
Thomas Berrigan Murray
Sand County Society $1,000-$4,999 ($500-$999 for last five graduating classes)
Ciara M. O'Connell
Karalyn L. Replogle Colopy
Harry Joseph Scott
Kristen Margaret Steck
Robin A. Wilcox-Cabanos
Eve Witten
Class of 1996
Thomas T. Ballantine
John C. Barker
Benjamin H. Becker
David G. Casagrande
Paulette S. Frank
Elisabeth J. Grinspoon
John S. Gunn
Derek E. Halberg
Christopher T. Hanson
Jared J. Hardner
Philip B. Huffman
Namrita Kapur
Stephen P. Keim
Adrian Leighton
William W. Martin
Edmond D. McCarthy
Rachel Husted O'Malley
Thomas A. Poczkalski, Jr.
Kathleen M. Schomaker
Brent L. Sohngen
Edward M. Walsh
Antoinette V. Wannebo
Ward T. Wickwire
Rhonda K. Williams
Luise A. Woelflein
Class of 1997
Nancy Osterweis Alderman
H. Casey Cordes
Christina M. Cromley
Bruner
Ellen G. Denny
David Lee Gaillard
David L. Galt
Jonathan Kohl
Sally Tinker Milliken
Wendy Naysnerski Morrison
Astrid Ute Palmieri
Tolan Doak Steele
Darius S. Szewcza
Mary L. Tyrrell
Helene H. Wade
Erik M. Wohlgemuth
Class of 1998
Jeffrey Neal Adams
Glenn Martin Allen
Wendy Barber Taggart
Nadine E. Block
Claire M. Corcoran
Tormod Dale
Christopher M. Elwell
Michelle G. Ernst
Timothy Clarke
Fritzinger
Bruce W. Hammond
Megan A. Hammond
Xinzhang Hu
Vanessa K. Johnson
Miranda M. Kaiser
Dirk Ludwig
Elliot E. Mainzer
Keely B. Maxwell
Kristin Morico
Andrei L. Podolsky
Evan L. Preisser
Frances Raymond Price
Andrew D. Richardson
Brian J. Rod
Manrique Rojas Araya
Nathan J. Smallwood
Anne M. St. John
Joseph L. Taggart
Brian C. Watson
Class of 1999
Kirsten Prettyman Adams
Jennifer R. Baxter
Lena Brook
Stephanie L. Campbell
Elizabeth Bennett Carroll
Nicole Smith Chevalier
Andrea Cristofani Geurts
Christopher B. Espy
Jennifer M. Garrison Ross
M. Anders Halverson
Rachel C. Hampton,
Andre Thierstein Heinz
Erin L. Heitkamp
Robert Jason Klee,
Noah Paul Matson
Jonathan D Meade
Kathleen E. Miller
Norris Zachary Muth
Brian P. O'Malley
William C. Price
Rajini Ramakrishnan
Eli Samuel Sagor
Benjamin Jacob Silberfarb
Laurel J. Stegina
Sarah L. Tallarico
Nam J. Zeon
Class of 2000
Alethea Mariel T. Abuyuan
Joyce K. Berry
Maureen O. Cunningham
Caroline Garrity Kuebler
Christopher C. Lotspeich
Katherin Marie McArthur
Ashley Prout McAvey
Heather Joy McGray
Sarah J. Morath
Anne Todd Osborn
Jason Richard Patrick
Dylan T. Simonds
Gregory Frazier Socha
Alice Jane Walker
Harry Edward White
Scott C. Williams
Othniel C. Marsh Associates $5,000 donation and above
Class of 2001
Elizabeth F. Baker
Michael Anthony Benjamin
Kerry Michele Cesareo
Adam Sebastian Chambers
Matthew Roberts Clark
John Edward Daly
Uromi L. M. Goodale
Catherine Claire Guimond
Peter John Hill
Jesse D. Johnson
Gregory C Jones
Stephanie Hanna Jones
Christian F. Kemos
Pia Marili Kohler
Barry Ross Muchnick
Lech Lee Naumovich
David W. Newcomer V
Colin Casey O'Brien
Valerie F. O'Donnell
Michel Woodard Ohly
Georgia Silvera Seamans
Sasha Silver
Anna Birgitta Viggh
Bruce Eugene Westerman
Joshua Henry Wilson
Christian Joachim
Wippermann
Mark Harry Wishnie
James Willard
Woodworth, Jr.
Class of 2002
Sherry Marin Altman
Nikki Aronhalt
Elizabeth Joy Ban
Christian H. Binggeli
Peter Jon Deschenes
Erika Sloane Diamond
Jill Elizabeth Ferguson
Derik R. Frederiksen
Molly Kate Giese
Erin Wingfield Gray
John Francis Homan IV
Robin Kriesberg
Timothy James Lasocki
Elizabeth Robertson Levy
Jennifer Morgan Linn
John Pullman Longstreth
Jay Thomas McLaughlin
Laura Phyllis Meadors
Yemeserach T. Megenasa
Douglas C. Morton
Christopher David Nelson
John Woods Potter
Nalini Sivapriya Rao
Ramsay Michel Ravenel
Shimako Takahashi
Madeleine Renee Weil
Adam Robert Wolfensohn
R. Zampierollo-Rheinfeldt
* deceased
Class of 2003
Rebecca J. Bruhl
Charles Andrew Brunton
Nathaniel Webster Carroll
Melanie Ann Cutler
Katherine Lange Dolan
William Michael Finnegan
Olivia C. Glenn
Brian S. Goldberg
Oliver J. Grantham
Peter Christopher Land
Theodore Nicholas Lanzano
Kelly E. Levin
James Geoffrey Lucas
Brenden Patrick
McEneaney
Florence G.B. Miller
Timothy H. Northrop
Marni L. Rapoport
Elizabeth Naomi Shapiro
Jay Wesley Shepherd
Ninian Rebecca Rosa Stein
Andrew Scott Winston
Class of 2004
Keith Roland Bisson
Elizabeth Bradford Borden
Hahn-Ning Chou
Heather Kaplan Coleman
Claudia R. Coplein
Ona S. Ferguson
Alphonse Fletcher, Jr.
Lisa Gomes-Casseres
Kristen Holopainen Kimball
Erin Foster Largay
Amanda M. Mahaffey
Christopher Seth Mahendra
Brian Thomas Marcaurelle
Elizabeth S. Mills
Jennifer Lynne Molnar
Shona Barton Quinn
Christopher Cabell Riely
Brynn Morrison Taylor
Class of 2005
Ines Angulo
Sarah Elizabeth Bendit
Patrick Richard Burtis
Sharifa Mansur
Gulamhussein
Jocelyn Eileen Hittle
Po-Yi Hung
Andrea Eleanor Johnson
Melissa Andersen Kuskie
Virginia Rheutan Lacy
Sandra L. Lauterbach
Emily Chapin Levin
Michelle Eileen Lichtenfels
Joseph Allan
MacDougald
Sarah Kay Matheson
Alexander Gilbert
McIntosh
Azalea Artemiza Mitch
David Clark Sand Mitchell
Michelle Murdock
Jennifer Jane Ronk
Amy Stevens Saar
Victoria Mireille Thompson
Ethan Hamill Winter
Class of 2006
Aravinda Joy Ananda
Mary K. Czarnecki
Konstantine A. Drakonakis
Wendy Francesconi
Ross Paul Geredien
Jose Gonzalo Griebenow
Daniel H. Jones
Kyle Elizabeth Jones
Alder Keleman
Deanna Lekas Lizas
Melanie P. J. Loftus
Christopher Ryan Meaney
Krista A. Mostoller
Tiffany McCormick Potter
Alexis Eva Montalvo
Ringwald
Catherine Ann Schloegel
Benjamin Aaron Shepherd
Robert Mason Smith
Kevin Martin Tidwell
Xizhou Zhou
Class of 2007
Terry Tyrone Baker
Claudia Patricia Barrera
Roderick Stewart Bates
Richard Walter Campbell
Linda Chhay Geballe
Gordon Clement Clark
Amanda Moss Cowan
Christopher P. Craig
Emily Dawn Enderle
Beth Jamie Feingold
Todd Michael Gartner
David Richmond Griffith
Shani S. Harmon
Ruoting Jiang
Charlotte Jerome Kaiser
Maria Martin
Rodrigues-Ovelleiro
James Brian McConaghie
Kathryn Joanne Neville
Sarah Beth Percy
Laura Beth Robertson
Mackenzie S.
Schoonmaker
Deborah Chaplin Spalding
Jinlong Wang
Austin Flint Whitman
Rachel Susan Wilson
Tenley E. Wurglitz
Sand County Society $1,000-$4,999 ($500-$999 for last five graduating classes)
Class of 2008
Georgia Basso
Joshua A. Berman
Sara Bushey Ohrel
Rayna Hake Caldwell
Margaret Woolsey Carmalt
Obidimma C. Ezezika
Troy Derek Hill
Frank Patrick Holmes III
Kyle Kitson Meister
John Whitney Nixon III
Jennie Cross Nolon
Ashley E. Roberts
Jason Adam Weiner
Class of 2009
Jenny Ace
Alyssa Lee Arcaya
Ariana Cummings Bain
Panah Bhalla
Katharine Elizabeth
Boicourt
Casey Crockett Brown
Cindy Joan Chang
Jeffrey Laurence Chatellier
Bjorn Kalle Fredrickson
Haley E Gilbert
Eva Marianna Gladek
Thomas M. James
Max Holtzman Joel
John D. Kaufman
Jordan Evan Macknick
Andre Mershon
Kate Harrison Muchnick
Anastasia R. O'Rourke
Tristan James
Peter-Contesse
Caroline Elisabeth Raisler
Judith Sy-Ying Wu
Jack Alexander Yeh
Class of 2010
Berkley Erin Adrio
Daniella Aburto Valle
Abigail Lee Adams
Saalem Tilahun Adera
Neda Arabshahi
Sarah Catherine Bahan
Jennifer A. Baldwin
Lauren Margaret Barredo
Luke Harbour Bassett
Michael Jay Blazewicz
Benjamin Z. Blom
Martin Bouda
Hugh Clement Addokwei
Brown
Jesse Brodie Burkhardt
David Nathaniel Burns
Peter Joseph Caligiuri
Kate Carman
Chelsea Megan Chandler
Tamar Maia Cooper
Stella J. M. Cousins
Meredith Anne Cowart
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1942
Dick Jorgenson, D.F. ’54, writes: “Crock
[Atkinson] is going west to observe elk
hunting and wishing it was fall in
Pennsylvania so he could go for his deer.”
1948
Class Secretary
Francis Clifton
fhcpbyfor@webtv.net
Francis Clifton writes: “This summer I
spent two weekends camping in north
Georgia’s Vogel State Park. I saw white pine
and hemlock trees for the first time since I
left New Haven in 1948. The park has oldgrowth sweet gum, yellow poplar, white
pine and hemlock trees ranging up to three
feet and more in diameter, with heights over
100 feet.” n Richard Hale writes: “I ran my
own sawmill for 10 years and was a sawmill
consultant for eight years. From 1966 to
1990, I taught wood products processing at
the University of Maine’s College of
Forestry. In retirement I have taken a special
interest in forest history and consulting; I
am a certified sawyer; and I moved in 2008
to Bethel, Maine, to be near my daughter
and two young granddaughters, and I have
been working here with the local historical
society.” n George Hindmarsh writes: “I’m
in Punta Gorda, Fla. I had two grandchildren get married in late June and mid-July,
one in Oswego, N.Y., and the other in
Berkeley, Calif. So for three weeks I just
traveled.” n Steve Pryce writes: “We have
sold the house and retreated to a retirement
facility—Belmont Village, Cardiff-by-theSea, Calif.”
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1953
Class Secretary
Stanley Goodrich
slgmyg.good@quest.net
Oakleigh Thorne writes: “I have been on
the external board of the Yale Institute for
Biospheric Studies for three years and look
forward to being on the F&ES Leadership
Council in the future, representing the Yale
Conservation Program years (1950-1960)
under Dr. Paul Sears. Our Thorne Ecological
Institute is in its 56th year connecting kids
to nature.”
1954
Class Secretary
Richard Chase
rachase@aya.yale.edu
Pausolino Martinez writes: “I am a professor
at the University of Guayana (Puerto Ordaz,
Venezuela). I’m planning to retire after 25
years of service.”
1955
Patrick Duffy writes: “The highlight this
year was volunteering (with 25,000 others)
on the 2010 Vancouver/Whistler Winter
Olympic Games. My daughter Anne was in
charge of the sustainability file for the games
and was pleased to see the testimonial of
Leif Linden ’10 on the F&ES website. My
work with the FAO regional office for
Eastern Europe and Mid-Asia, adapting
agriculture to climate change, wound down
with meetings in October in Budapest and
Sopron, Hungary.”
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1958
Class Secretary
Ernest Kurmes
ernest.kurmes@nau.edu
Herster Barres writes: “This year the
UNFCCC climate change program that
I manage converted 25 acres of pastures
to forests in Costa Rica. This brings the
total of carbon-offset research forests to
325 acres sponsored by 90 U.S. donors.”
info@reforestthetropics.org n Rolf Benseler
writes: “I enjoy retirement as an emeritus
professor, California State University, East
Bay. I’m involved in the Osher Lifelong
Learning Institute at the CSU East Bay campus, where I take German courses. I’ve cut
back on involvement in North American and
European hunting dog clubs and activities, as
well as travel, though I did a quickie to southern Germany in May for a family reunion.”
1959
Class Secretary
Hans Bergey
hberg16@aol.com
Don Girton writes: “We live on our 90-acre
family tree farm, where we have been since
my retirement 25 years ago from the Forest
Service national office. We have a small
choose-and-cut Christmas tree operation.
Two years ago my wife was diagnosed with
Alzheimer’s disease. It certainly has been a
challenge; I am the primary caregiver.”
1962
Class Secretary
Larry Safford
lsafford@metrocast.net
Gyula (Julius) Péch writes: “I worked for
the Canadian Forest Service for 35 years,
studying forest meteorology in different
laboratories across Canada, including the
Forest Fire Research Institute. During that
time I completed all requirements for a doctoral candidacy at Duke.” n Brian Turner,
D.F. ’65, writes: “I was a professor of
forestry and co-director of the Office for
Remote Sensing of Earth Resources at the
Pennsylvania State University School of
Forest Resources. In 2002 I became
involved in climate change research and
consulted for the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change. I also assist in editing
the Australian Forestry Journal, and I do
community work with Canberra Prisoners
Aid and other human rights organizations.”
1963
Class Secretary
James Boyle
forsol40@comcast.net
Ramon Echenique-Manrique, D.F. ’67,
writes: “I am founder of a microenterprise,
MECMA, where we sell lumber and wood
products and build wood structures of various sorts. I also am a consultant to the
Southern Forest Products Association.”
n Yan Linhart writes: “I spent 39 years on
the faculty of the University of Colorado,
Boulder, where I taught and did research in
genetics, ecology, evolution and tropical
biology. I have retired, but I continue my
studies of the evolutionary dynamics of
various species, including ponderosa pine,
thyme and their parasites.”
1970
Class Secretary
Whitney Beals
wbeals@newenglandforestry.org
J.A. Bissonette writes: “I taught a threeweek course in landscape ecology at the
University of Freiburg in Germany in
November at the invitation of my colleague
Prof. Ilse Storch, with whom I have edited
two books, Landscape Ecology and Resource
Management: Linking Theory with Practice
and Temporal Dimensions of Landscape
Ecology: Wildlife Responses to Variable
Resources.” n Rick Matheny writes: “For
nearly 34 years I’ve served as the director of
public health for the Farmington Valley
Health District, a 10-town area that encompasses the majority of the watershed of the
Farmington River in Connecticut. I recently
rotated off of the board of directors of the
National Association of County and City
Health Officials, the last four years of which
I was on the executive committee. I served a
two-year term as president of the Connecticut
Association of Directors of Health and for
five years was a special consultant to the
board of scientific counselors of the Agency
for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.”
n Bill Parker writes: “I have been at
Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario,
for 35 years, teaching courses in forest genetics, dendrology and plant taxonomy.”
1973
Class Secretary
Roy Deitchman
deitchr@amtrak.com
John Aber, Ph.D. ’76, writes: “I served four
years as vice president for research at
University of New Hampshire and returned
to the faculty in 2007. I am a professor and
provost there.” n Ian von Lindern, Ph.D.
’80, has been in Idaho and in the same
country home for 27 years. He has a large
garden and plays noontime basketball. He
started TerraGraphics with Margrit von
Braun in 1984 and they married shortly
thereafter. Now with 140 offspring businesses
in four states and six offices, they do
hazardous waste, mine and brownfield
cleanups, salmon habitat restoration and
lake and stream reclamation.
1974
Len Lankford writes: “Our Greenleaf
Forestry enterprise is supplying materials
for pergolas and other unique wood products nationwide. Clyde Cremer ’73 has
helped with planning our beetle kill in pine
and southern Douglas fir boards in Pueblo
West.” www.greenleafforestry.com. n R.A.
Lautenschlager writes: “I am chair of
NatureServe Canada. My next CD will be a
collection of environmental songs and will
likely be titled Mama (Songs for Mother
Earth).” n Katharine Preston and her
husband, John Bingham, live on a 110-acre
farm in the Champlain Valley of New York
overlooking the Adirondack Mountains. A
small wind generator and solar array reduce
their carbon footprint. Katharine writes and
guest preaches about the nexus between
faith and the environment and the justice
issues surrounding climate change.
katharine.preston@gmail.com
1975
Helen Waldorf writes: “This summer I went
to Cuba with the Yale Alumni Chorus.
Cubans are highly interested in climate
change, as they stand to lose about 25 percent of their country to the ocean in 30
years. I suggest we appeal to the Treasury
Department to do an environmental
exchange mission with Cuba. Email me
with your ideas.” hawaldorf@aol.com
1976 35th Reunion Year
Tom Barounis writes: “I had a marvelous
time at reunion weekend in May chatting
with the Class of 1975, including Evan
Griswold ’75, and other alumni.” n Roger
Clark is the air and energy director for the
Grand Canyon Trust, a nonprofit conservation advocacy group based in Flagstaff, Ariz.
He writes: “We’re investing in photovoltaic
systems and jobs in electrifying some of the
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18,000 off-grid homes on tribal lands and
doing our part to stop global warming. We
just did a traditional agave roast with
Hualapai and Havasupai elders and will be
doing a round dance on the rim of the
Grand Canyon to protest uranium mining.
PBS recently broadcast a documentary
about some of our environmental justice
work.” powerpaths.semkhor.com
n Philip Conkling writes: “The Island
Institute, which I founded in 1983, helped
sponsor the installation of three GE 1.5megawatt wind turbines on Vinalhaven,
an island 12 miles off the Maine coast.” n
John (“Riv”) Echeverria joined the Vermont
Law School faculty in 2009 and was granted
tenure in April. He previously served for 12
years as executive director of the Georgetown
Environmental Law & Policy Institute at
the Georgetown University Law Center.
n Stuart Hart is the S.C. Johnson Chair in
Sustainable Global Enterprise at Cornell
University’s Johnson School of Management,
where he founded the Center for Sustainable
Global Enterprise. The third edition of his
best-selling book, Capitalism at the
Crossroads, was published this year.
n Sally Hasted writes: “I teach special
education, and this fall I began a full-time
job at a new school, teaching as much
environmental and field science as possible.
My husband, Jack, survived a bout with
colon cancer four years ago, and his fiveyear surgery milestone is January 31.”
n Collin Peterson writes: “My wife, Sandy,
and I entertained Bill Timko and his wife,
Pam, in July. I was one of four Knights of
Columbus from our local council to win a
record four state awards at a recent state
convention!”
1978
Class Secretaries
Susan Curnan
curnan@brandeis.edu
Marie Magleby
lomamag@aol.com
Regina Rochefort
regina_rochefort@nps.gov
Tom Rumpf writes: “My wife, Annee Tara,
and I went sailing in Croatia last autumn
under the watchful eye of Captain Bob
Gipe and his wife, Betsy, and crew members
Andrew Schwarz and Loring Schwarz. The
two-week sailing adventure in the Croatian
isles along the Dalmation coast included
stops at the islands of Solta, Brac, Hvar and
Korcula (reputed home to Marco Polo) and
a visit to the walled city of Dubrovnik.”
1977
Class Secretary
James Guldin
jguldin@prodigy.net
Sharon Friedman is a regional planning
director and the general climate change
coordinator in the Rocky Mountain Region
for the Forest Service. She writes: “Martin Nie
of the University of Montana and I started a
blog called A New Century of Forest Planning
that covers a great many Forest Servicerelated topics.” ncfp.wordpress.com/ n Tim
Glidden writes: “I’ve recently been sworn in
as the acting director of the Maine state
1979
Class Secretary
John Carey
carey@aya.yale.edu
Charlotte Belser is living in a retirement
community in Hanover, N.H., and spending
part of the summer at her home in
Guilford, Vt. She’s enjoying the theater and
other cultural events in Hanover, as well as
taking courses at Dartmouth. n Chris Brown
is director of the Forest Service’s Wilderness
and Wild and Scenic Rivers program.
n John Carey, after 21 years of writing about
science, medicine and the environment for
environment:Yale
planning office. This assignment is in addition to my ongoing responsibilities with the
Land for Maine’s Future Program.”
n Evan Koslow writes: “I have worked in
nearly every imaginable technology—
chemistry, filtration, renewable energy, electronics, informatics, software, fibers, resins,
beverage carbonators, defense systems and
more—and also operate a venture capital
operation out of both Canada and the
United States.” eekinventor@gmail.com
n Denise Mitten is the chair of the graduate
program in adventure education at Prescott
College in Arizona. She spent time with Tim
Hawley and his family in Middletown,
Conn. She also ran into Steve Hamburg in
August at the Ecological Society of America
conference in Pittsburgh, where she gave a
paper about environmental action through
academic service learning.
The School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
BusinessWeek, took a buyout in March to
become a freelance writer and editor.
n Vicki LaFarge is the department chair of
management at Bentley University. n Pat
(Scanlon) Leavenworth is in Washington,
D.C., at USDA headquarters. She writes: “I
was acting director of the Office of
Advocacy and Outreach, a new office
authorized in the 2008 farm bill.” n Gary
Machlis, Ph.D., is a science advisor to the
director of the National Park Service in
Washington, D.C. He is also leading a
science team working on the Deepwater
Horizon oil spill (see story, page 17), as well
as co-leading an international effort to help
rebuild science capacity in Haiti. n Betsy
Rich teaches at St. Joseph’s University in
Philadelphia. n Penni Sharp is an independent consultant, mostly doing wetland
evaluations, wetland monitoring and open
space inventories. She volunteers for the
New England Plant Conservation Program,
monitoring rare and endangered plant
species in Connecticut; is co-chair of the
Connecticut Invasive Plant Working Group;
and is the field trip chair of the Connecticut
Botanical Society. n Martha Tableman
writes: “I have been the open space coordinator for Clear Creek County, comprised
predominantly of canyons, mountains, rock
outcroppings and forests. Recently we
bought 76 acres in Clear Creek Canyon, a
key link in the greenway that will cross
Colorado, and built a whitewater park for
kayakers and rafters.” n Jeanne Wong-Boehm
writes: “I live in Cape Cod next to a pond
and close to 100 acres of private conservation land with my husband, Bruce. I serve
on the boards of the town Conservation
Commission and the Community
Preservation Committee.”
1980
Class Secretary
Sara Schreiner-Kendall
sara.kendall@weyerhaeuser.com
Natasha Atkins is doing freelance science
writing and editing and just finished up a
big project with USGS, which has a new
Center for Climate Change and Wildlife
Science. She is working on an article for
the Ecological Society of America, translating a fairly technical paper on bioenergy
landscapes for a lay audience.
n Susan Braatz is the forests and climate
change officer at the Food and Agriculture
Organization of the United Nations in
Rome. In 1991 she became the agroforestry
and land use officer and a forest policy officer, and in 2004 she coordinated a regional
project for forestry rehabilitation following
that year’s Indian Ocean tsunami. n Phil
Brylski has a 4-month-old baby and lives in
Irvine, Calif. n Bob Burke lives in Vermont,
where he and his wife, Deb Burke ’79, run
a forestry and log-grading business.
n Starling “Star” Childs is deeply rooted in
the Norfolk, Conn., woods, where every
August since 1991 he dons his Yale Forestry
hat and teaches the land measurement and
mapping module for incoming students at
Great Mountain Forest. He is director of
Connwood Foresters and the Connecticut
Forest and Park Association and is president
of the Berkshire Litchfield Environment
Council. He also is chair of the external
advisory board of the Global Institute of
Sustainable Forestry at F&ES. n Bob Comer
resides in the foothills of Colorado. He did
four stints in D.C., including service as a
political appointee at the Department of the
Interior during the Bush administration. He
practices natural resource and environmental
law with the firm of Faegre and Benson.
n Chuck Dvorsky is a senior natural resource
specialist for the Texas Commission on
Environmental Quality, where he is coordinating the development and operation of
a network of continuous water quality
monitoring stations. www.texaswaterdata.org
n Janet Hess is the series editor of the longrunning Nature series on PBS, produced by
WNET in New York. She produced a feature
documentary called The Legend of Pale Male
about the red-tailed hawk nesting above
Central Park. n Tricia Johnson writes: “I
work at Common Ground High School, an
environmentally focused, urban charter
high school in New Haven. I teach both AP
environmental science and biodiversity.”
n Rick Kelley writes: “I have developed a
number of companies, including Ranger
Resource, which is cutting trees, managing
land and working on a number of alternative energy projects in New York and
Vermont, and one that is involved in the
development of resource recovery plants.”
n Dave Kittredge, Ph.D. ’86, has been the
extension forester at University of
Massachusetts, Amherst, since 1987. He
leads the undergraduate forestry program
and teaches classes in timber harvesting and
conservation. His extension work involves
him in educational programs for foresters,
woodland owners, communities and nonprofit organizations. n Chris Lafarge is now
on his seventh startup, this time in medical
devices. His wife of 26 years, Vicki (Van
Steenberg) ’79, is a professor and department chair at Bentley University. n Ellie
Lathrop works for Weyerhaeuser Co. on
the St. Helens Tree Farm. She manages
commercial thinning operations. n Mike
Lavigne writes: “I work for the Canadian
Forest Service and do research on ecosystem processes. My research focuses on
impacts of and adaptation to climate
change. I contribute to a national research
network led by classmate Hank Margolis,
investigating the role of disturbances in carbon cycling.” n Tom McHenry is busy with
his law practice at Gibson, Dunn &
Crutcher in Los Angeles, where he works
on a variety of environmental matters,
including hazardous waste management
and air and water quality. He teaches environmental law and policy at Claremont
McKenna College. He remains active in
fundraising for F&ES and chairs the Sand
County Society (donors above $1,000) and
the Annual Fund (raised $300,000-plus last
year). n Tom Mordecai writes: “For 20
years I have been a missionary with Pioneers.
I have served in 15 countries in just about
any capacity you can imagine. I have been
part of a church planting team in Indonesia,
helped run refugee camps in Albania, was
director of an English school in Lebanon,
did counseling and mediating in Africa and
blazed trails in the jungle with a machete.”
n Charlie Nilon is a professor at the
University of Missouri. He writes: “My
research and teaching consider the impact
of urbanization on wildlife habitats, populations and communities. Since 1997 I’ve
been a co-principal investigator of the
Baltimore Ecosystem Study.” n Ken Olson
retired in 2006 after 31 years in nonprofit
management, including 21 years as CEO at
three organizations—The Nature Conservancy
(Connecticut), American Rivers (Washington,
D.C.) and Friends of Acadia (Bar Harbor,
Maine). He was given EPA’s highest grassroots honor, the Environmental Merit Award.
He also received a Lifetime Achievement
Award from the Natural Resources Council
of Maine and an honorary degree from
College of the Atlantic for “outstanding
contributions to human ecology.”
n Kinny Perot is active in land use and
environmental issues in the Mad River
Valley, served two terms with distinction in
the Vermont Legislature and has long-term
plans to live off the grid. n Curtis Rand is a
forester in northwest Connecticut and was
recently re-elected first selectman of
Salisbury, Conn. He teaches an introductory
course in forest science at the Salisbury
School for Boys. n Ruben Rangel is a health
physicist at the Los Alamos National
Laboratory. He interacts with managers and
workers at the laboratory and the Department
of Energy to make sure that workers are
protected from workplace radiation exposure.
n Linda Kasper Reed writes: “I divide my
time as a paralegal between labor, school
law and land use law issues, and I also do
some occasional freelance work.” n Fran
Rundlett writes: “I am semiretired from
consulting, but I teach at Georgia State part
time.” n Al Sample, Ph.D. ’89, has served
as president of the Pinchot Institute for
Conservation in Washington, D.C., since
1995. He is a fellow of the Society of
American Foresters and a research affiliate
at F&ES. He is author of numerous research
papers, articles and books on topics in
national and international natural resource
policy and environmental policy. His
most recent book is Common Goals for
Sustainable Forest Management: Divergence
and Reconvergence of American and European
Forestry, co-edited with Steven Anderson.
n Sara Schreiner-Kendall is the vice president of environment, health and safety at
Weyerhaeuser Co., where she has worked
for nearly 25 years. She manages all the
environmental and health and safety functions in the company, as well as leading initiatives on climate change and sustainability.
n Susan Shen is with the World Bank in
Washington D.C. She was part of the environment and natural resources group working on East Asia and the Pacific Region, but
now she is at the corporate level working
on the reform of that institution. n Laura
Snook, D.F. ’93, writes: “Jim Thorne, Ph.D.
’85, recently visited Rome, spending time
with residents Suey Braatz and me. I’m at
Bioversity International, and in July I initiated
a new forest research project in the dry
miombo woodlands of northern Mozambique.
Before the end of the year I will be launching another project in the humid African
forests of Cameroon, Gabon and Congo.”
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n Jane Sokolow is involved in community
zoning, parks, open space and green issues
in New York City and New York state. She
serves on the boards of the Hubbard Brook
Research Foundation, Friends of Beaverkill
Community, Hudsonia, Metro Forest
Council and the Bronx Council for
Environmental Quality. n Marty Steele is
chief lending officer for Boston Private Bank
& Trust. The challenge is revitalizing a
small community bank in the wake of the
financial crisis. He plays guitar in a band
with Phil Bednarski ’82.
n Keith Stewart writes: “I grow organic
vegetables, herbs, fruit, Christmas trees—
whatever will bring in a dollar. My book, It’s
a Long Road to a Tomato: Tales of an Organic
Farmer Who Quit the Big City for the (Not
So) Simple Life, is now out in a new,
expanded and updated edition.” n Steven
Strauss is director of Oregon State
University’s Tree Biosafety and Genomics
Research Cooperative, a university, public
agency and industry consortium that is
conducting research on the biosafety and
physiology of genetically engineered trees
used in plantation forestry and horticulture.
n Linda Suhgers lives in Old Saybrook,
Conn., where she runs a health care business
and is active in supporting environmental
causes. n Jim Thorne, Ph.D. ’85, facilitates
conservation planning, research and education for the Natural Lands Trust, a 60-person
regional land trust in the Philadelphia
region. n Carol Zimmermann, Ph.D. ’81,
writes: “I work for Battelle Memorial
Institute, leading intelligent transportation
systems. Some of my work has intersected
with national parks and other public lands.”
1981 30th Reunion Year
Class Secretaries
Fred Hadley
fhadley@sit-co.net
Gail Reynolds
gail.kalison.reynolds@aya.yale.edu
Louise Richardson Forrest lives in Bozeman,
Mont. Her daughter Caitlin graduated from
Vassar and is heading to L.A. to make
movies, and her other daughter, Samantha,
is at Bates. n Amy Nurick McCoy breeds
and raises nationally recognized show
ponies on her Champlain Isle Farm in
northern Vermont. She and her husband,
Randy, also have a tissue culture lab
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specializing in virus-indexed woody crops
and in diseases of tropical palm tree crops.
n Olufemi Olaleye writes: “I am a senior
lecturer at Bowen University in Nigeria,
where I teach forestry and environmental
management courses.” n Kathy Parker,
Ph.D. ’85, has established a new company,
J.K. Parker Photography, which specializes
in macrophotography of nature. She was
part of a group exhibition at Marji Gallery
in Santa Fe, with a series of photographs of
insects (most less than a half-inch in size)
titled “Form or Fashion.” n Mark Plotkin
received an honorary doctor of humane letters
degree from Lewis and Clark College in
Portland, Ore. Mark and his colleagues at
the Amazon Conservation Team have partnered with 32 Amazonian tribes to map,
manage and improve protection of over 70
million acres of ancestral rainforest. He
received the 2010 Global Leadership Award
from the Jane Goodall Institute in recognition of his entrepreneurial work protecting
the Amazonian rainforest. n Gail (Kalison)
Reynolds writes: “My husband, Dan
Reynolds ’82, and I dropped our son off at
the University of Vermont to begin his
freshman year.” n Lisa Speer has worked
on oceans at NRDC for 27 years. n Keith
Tait is the environment, health and safety
director at SUNY Plattsburgh and is a board
member of Protect the Adirondacks, an
advocacy and conservation group.
1982
Class Secretaries
Barbara Hansen
bjhansen@fs.fed.us
Kenneth Osborn
forstman@fidalgo.net
Michael Dowling is working with Bio-Logical
Capital, a Denver-based sustainable development company, to develop a North American
acquisition strategy and a new website for
the company. michael@mpdowling.com;
www.biologicalcapital.com n Tim Gregoire,
Ph.D. ’85, writes: “In August I taught a
short course in Sweden on applied statistics
for foresters, which was based on the 2008
Gregoire & Valentine textbook Sampling
Strategies for Natural Resources and the
Environment. In June I attended the 2010
Asia-Pacific Forestry Commission meeting
in Thimphu, Bhutan. At a satellite meeting
on national forest inventories I presented
The School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
details of the inventories of Bhutan, which I
am helping to design and implement.”
n Dave Hartwell teaches history at
Cheverus High School in Portland, Maine.
Both he and his wife have law degrees and
are active in the Episcopal Church. n Marie
Nolan writes: “I have been a project manager
at the Green Engineer in Concord, Mass.,
for the last three years, providing sustainabledesign advice and managing the LEED
certification process for green buildings.”
marie@greenengineer.com
1983
Class Secretary
Stephen Broker
ls.broker@cox.net
Daniel Fort invites FE&S alumni to learn
more about the Virginia Commonwealth
University Inger and Walter Rice Center
near Richmond, Va., a field station and
research facility. www.vcu.edu/rice/
n Dave Loeks founded Haven TimberHomes
two years ago, manufacturing innovatively
designed and engineered structures in Lac La
Hache, B.C. The buildings use cants salvaged
from the massive mountain pine beetle infestation that has devastated central British
Columbia. www.haventimberhomes.com
1984
Class Secretaries
Therese Feng
therese_feng@yahoo.com
Roberta Tabell Jordan
rjordan@clinic.net
Shere Abbott was confirmed by the U.S.
Senate in April 2009 as the associate director
of environment under John Holdren,
assistant to the U.S. president for science and
technology. She runs the global change
research program and is co-chairing the
interagency Committee on Environment,
Natural Resources and Sustainability with
F&ES professor Paul Anastas, who is chief
scientist at the EPA. She leads the U.S. delegation to the IPCC.
1986 25th Reunion Year
Tom Duffus writes: “This summer I competed
in the World Bagpipe Band Championships
in Scotland. I didn’t make the finals. This
followed closing the largest conservation
easement deal in Minnesota history—
188,000 acres. I am into my second year as
a commissioner on the Land Trust
Accreditation Commission.”
1987
Class Secretaries
Christie Coon
cacoon7@aol.com
Melissa Paly
mpaly@aol.com
Yoel Seton writes: “I am director of a
company offering study tours of Israel.
Sustainability continues to be a major interest. Those from ’86 to ’89 will remember me
as Joel Seton. I changed my first name to
Yoel, the original Hebrew spelling and pronunciation, when I immigrated to Israel five
years ago.” n Eric Schenck works with
Ducks Unlimited in Illinois, with responsibility for delivering conservation projects
across the state. He crosses paths with Tom
Duffus ’86.
1988
Class Secretaries
Diane Stark
salserad@yahoo.com
Philip Voorhees
pvoorhees@npca.org
Holly Welles
hpwelles@gmail.com
Heidi McAllister is the assistant director of
conservation education at the U.S. Forest
Service. n Cristin Rich writes: “My current
connection to environmental work is through
my local planning and zoning commission
and appreciating life in Salisbury, Conn.”
1989
Class Secretary
Jane Freeman
jane@ewalden.com
C.J. May has been recycling coordinator at
Yale since graduating in 1989. He uses his
love of magic to perform the “Recycling is
Magic” show as Cyril the Sorcerer and
while at work to make recycling orientation
sessions more interesting. He is drafting text
for Sustainability Outreach Through the
Magical Arts, a guide for magicians and
educators. cyril.may@yale.edu n Laurie
(Reynolds) Rardin writes: “I am the
research translation coordinator for the
Toxic Metals Research Program at Dartmouth
College, which is federally funded through an
NIH grant.” n Dawn (Amato) Gelderloos
runs her own company, Real Life Works, in
Boulder, Colo. She is a professional development coach for corporations and coaches
executives in the area of leadership development. She also specializes in relationship
and family coaching.
1990
Class Secretaries
Judy Olson Hicks
checkpoint@dmtcalaska.org
Carolyn Anne Pilling
capilling@gds.org
Catherine Bealle and Larry Statland live in
Victoria, B.C. She writes: “We are surrounded
by native trees, plants, barred owls, woodpeckers and deer. We look forward to getting active in helping to restore the great
urban green space in our new neighborhood.” statland@shaw.ca n Seema Bhatt
writes: “I am based in New Delhi, India,
and am an independent consultant on
issues relating to biodiversity, climate
change and ecotourism in South Asia.”
seemabhatt-ecotourism.blogspot.com
n Peter Jipp writes: “I spent a couple of
weeks this summer in the Adirondacks and
Green Mountains of Vermont with family
and friends. I’m back in Bangkok, working
with government counterparts in projects
dealing with forestry, forest law enforcement, carbon finance, conservation and
land titling.” n Christine Laporte writes: “I
am the regional program coordinator on
coastal projects at the University of Georgia
Marine Sciences.” cslaporte@uga.edu
n Marco Lowenstein and his family live in
Albuquerque. He buys and sells wood from
Latin America and keeps his hand in a few
sustainable forestry projects. n Mary Miller
lives and works at her family’s ranch in
Arizona. She is also active in conservation.
www.elkhornranch.com
1993
Class Secretaries
Dean Gibson
dgibson@sandiegozoo.org
Molly Goodyear
bvidogs@cox.net
Heather Merbs
h.merbs@comcast.net
Jamison Suter writes: “I work in environmental management and community relations with BHP Billiton Iron Ore on its West
African mine development projects, particularly in the Republic of Guinea and Liberia.”
1994
Class Secretaries
Jane Calvin
jcalvin@prospeed.net
Cynthia W. Henshaw
chenshaw@eqlt.org
Jane Whitehill
janewhitehill@yahoo.com
Jane Calvin is a certified fundraising executive, which she applies to her ongoing work
as executive director of the Lowell Parks &
Conservation Trust. n Sherry Login writes:
“In May I returned to work part time at
Con Edison in New York City after 18
months of maternity leave.” n Lindsey
Martinez writes: “I’m the head of global
client service and relations at Cambridge
Associates in Boston. I’ve been volunteering
with the New England Forestry Foundation
and joined the Quebec-Labrador Foundation advisory board.” n Nick Shufro is a
director with PricewaterhouseCoopers’
Sustainability & Climate Change practice,
focused on carbon and water accounting.
n Ken Snyder writes: “I lead PlaceMatters,
a nonprofit specializing in the tools used to
help communities make informed decisions
about sustainability and land use.”
n William Stevenson writes: “I manage
lakes and ponds for invasive and nuisance
plants throughout New England, having
purchased Lycott Environmental.”
westevenson@yahoo.com n Fabio Vancini
writes: “I was elected to the global board of
directors of the International Society of
Sustainability Professionals and am on the
advisory board of V-360.org. I’m working
for the economics and privatization department of a large international consulting
group.” n Jessica Wilkinson and family are
enjoying life in Amherst, Mass., particularly
seeing more F&ES classmates—Ken Pruitt
’95, Jane Calvin and Buzzie Hayes ’95.
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1996 15th Reunion Year
Class Secretaries
Kathryn Pipkin
kate@goodisp.com
Julie Rothrock
jarothrock@myfairpoint.net
Ali Jalili and his family have recently
moved to Bangkok, a welcome change from
Moscow. He writes: “I am studying Thai.
Next year, I will work on law enforcement
cooperation issues.” jalilichubb@yahoo.com
n Alison Ormsby returned from seven
months in India as a Fulbright-Nehru
Research Scholar studying sacred forests.
She was on sabbatical from teaching at
Eckerd College, where she is an associate
professor of environmental studies.
n Anne Reynolds writes: “I’m assistant
commissioner for policy and planning at
the Department of Environmental
Conservation in New York.” n Kath
Schomaker is serving her third term on the
Hamden, Conn., legislative council. She
took the summer off to spend time in the
garden, do some regional traveling and
attend a family reunion in Ohio with
Augustin. In late August her job search got
under way in earnest, with a focus on the
emerging green jobs sector in New Haven
County. Any classmates who want to begin
plotting a Class of ’96 party for the next
F&ES alumni reunion can get in touch.
kathleen.m.schomaker@gmail.com
1997
Class Secretary
Paul Calzada
paul.calz@gmail.com
Christina (Cromley) Bruner, Ph.D. ’02,
writes: “I gave birth to my first child, Steven
Nicolas Bruner, on March 11. I’m enjoying
my maternity leave hanging out with him!”
n Jon Kohl has co-founded a nongovernmental organization called Querencia
Experimental Center for Carbon Neutral
Communities, which aims to research and
share strategies for carbon neutrality. Both
are based in Costa Rica. www.jonkohl.com
n Mary Tyrrell writes: “I ran into Tom
Medeiros ’78 at the Appalachian Mountain
Club August Camp in Beaverfoot Valley,
B.C. We discovered that we both grew up in
Fall River, Mass., and are probably the only
two people from Fall River to end up at
F&ES.”
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Class Secretaries
Nadine Block
nadine.block@verizon.net
Claire Corcoran
corcoran_claire@verizon.net
Pascal Collotte writes: “I am leading the
coordination of research and innovation for
the Directorate General (DG) for Transport
(MOVE) as part of the European
Commission. This entails working at a
strategic level to shape the future of the
green transportation modes in line with the
stringent political goals set for Europe for
2020.” n Claire Corcoran writes: “This
summer I wrapped up another contract
with the Massachusetts Natural Heritage and
Endangered Species Program for a conservation planning product called BioMap 2. I had
a fun time reconnecting this summer with
Kristen Clothier ’01 through the Lakes
Region Conservation Trust in New
Hampshire.” n Jessica (Hamburger)
Davenport writes: “Michael Davenport and
I were married in Coeur D’Alene, Idaho, on
July 31. Vanessa Johnson from our class
was my maid of honor. Mike and I live in
Oakland, Calif., and I’m working on adaptation to sea level rise as a planner at the San
Francisco Bay Conservation and
Development Commission. Mike is the
founder and director of Magic Jester Theater
in Oakland, where we both perform improvisational theater.” n Elizabeth Gardner
writes: “I have moved back to my hometown
of Shreveport, La., to join the Louisiana
Teaching Fellows, teaching environmental
science and chemistry in a high-needs high
school. I deal with many of the well-known
classroom challenges: lack of supplies, economic and academic impoverishment, no
textbooks and large class sizes.” n Vanessa
Johnson was hired by the land trust Essex
County Greenbelt Association under executive director Ed Becker ’78. Based on the
North Shore of Massachusetts, Greenbelt is a
highly successful, 50-year-old organization.
The office is on a salt marsh, and she hears
birds and the wind in the trees through her
office windows. n Brad Kahn works at
Pyramid Communications in Seattle, where
he is helping the Forest Stewardship Council
build support for credible third-party certification. n Jessica Lawrence writes: “My
husband, Shawn Sullivan, and I celebrated
The School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
the birth of our daughter Zoe in June. I am
a researcher with Earthjustice’s International
Program. I recently coordinated petitions on
behalf of conservation groups in Montana
and British Columbia that urged the U.N.
World Heritage Committee to oppose
mountaintop coal mining in the headwaters
of the Flathead River that flows into Glacier
National Park. British Columbia has now
banned mining in the watershed.”
n Gregory Smith is a producer and videographer. His independent, original docuseries,
called Subway Stories, dares to expose the
colorful realities of subway commuters in
New York, San Francisco, London and
Shanghai. Subway Stories explores the influence of culture, music, philanthropy, food,
eavesdropping and racial profiling.
www.gregclif.com
1999
Class Secretaries
Jocelyn Forbush
jforbush@ttor.org
Christiana Jones
christiana@jonesfamilyfarms.com
Jennifer Garrison Ross
jennifergarrisonross@yahoo.com
Steven Bosak writes: “I’m in Washington,
D.C. I attended Marty Kearns’ 40th birthday
party, where I saw Noah Matson and Drue
DeBerry. I recently joined Noble Conservation
Solutions to offer energy and operations
efficiency consulting services to commercial
property owners. I’m helping building owners
find significant cost savings by conserving
electricity, gas and water. We also assist
companies in developing environmental
management strategies.” www.noblecs.com
n André Heinz is in the Nordic countries
investing in cleantech expansion cases.
n James Levy is controller at the Boston
Globe and Boston.com. He writes: “We are
consuming a lot less paper than in 2003,
when I started at the Globe!” n Eli Sagor
rides his fixed-gear bike to the University of
Minnesota’s St. Paul campus. He took up
running again after a long hiatus this spring
and finished his first triathlon in August.
n Jamie Shambaugh and his wife, Sarah,
just welcomed their second child,
Nathanial, into the world in late August.
2000
Class Secretaries
Erika Schaub
easffe@hotmail.com
Zikun Yu
info@ayuglobal.com
Monica Araya writes: “I live in London and
work for E3G, an action-oriented policy
group with a focus on climate and energy. I
cover finance and low-carbon growth plans.
I try to get together with Stephanie
Campbell ’99 and Sasha Silver. I am writing my first novel.” n Ji-seok Kim writes:
“I’ve taken a position with the climate change
team of the British Embassy. I am encouraging
businesses to invest in low-carbon technologies and emissions reduction. In addition to
my embassy work, I write a newspaper
column on global environmental affairs and
recently translated Al Gore’s Our Choice.”
n Caroline Kuebler and Peter Hill ’01
welcomed their daughter, Claramae Pamela
Lillian Hill, on May 3. She checked out
Kroon Hall. n Roger Williams and wife
Laura celebrated the arrival of their son,
Ryder, on August 24 and are living in Mill
Valley, Calif. Roger has been working at
Blue Source for over four years, developing
and marketing forest carbon offset projects.
rwilliams@bluesource.com
2001 10th Reunion Year
Class Secretaries
Leigh Cash
lcash@jhsph.edu
Adam Chambers
achambers@aya.yale.edu
Jennifer Grimm
jennifergrimm@aya.yale.edu
Matt Fladeland is the joint recipient of a
NASA Honor Award for the Sierra team’s
contribution to the CASIE mission to measure sea ice characteristics around Svalbard,
Norway. His current project will demonstrate an advanced airborne radar for soil
moisture and vegetation structure measurements in anticipation of several upcoming
satellite missions. He and his wife, YinLan
Zhang, are expecting their second child in
December. n Jen Osha writes: “I married
Nick Buysse on the top of Spruce Knob,
W.Va.! We are very grateful for our new little
home bordering on state forest, where we
grow large gardens and roam the mountains.
I am about to graduate with my Ph.D. in
geography at West Virginia University,
where I studied the impacts of mountaintop
removal in the Coal River Valley of southern
West Virginia. My research involved participatory multimedia work and resulted in the
2010 e-Appalachia Award for Outstanding
Website for www.JourneyUpCoalRiver.org.”
jenosha@auroralights.org
2002
Class Secretaries
Catherine Bottrill
catherine.bottrill@googlemail.com
Roberto J. Frau
rfrau@aya.yale.edu
Catherine Bottrill attended many a U.K.
festival this summer to interview festivalgoers for her Ph.D. research. She works for
Julie’s Bicycle, a company that encourages
the music industry to take action on climate.
Her software projects for building energy
management—imeasure and SMEasure—
continue to go well, and she is working on a
U.S. pilot in California with Betony Jones ’03.
n Sarah Canham is living in Bend, Ore.,
and is the natural resource specialist for
botany with the Bureau of Land Management,
out of Prineville. n Liam Carr writes: “I’m
wrapping up nine months in the field in St.
Croix for my dissertation. I’ve worked with
fishermen to develop locally relevant fishery
management alternatives to existing and
proposed regulations.” n P.J. Deschenes and
his wife welcomed a son, Felix, this summer. n Erika Diamond writes: “I work in
New York City for a startup called
ThinkEco that develops hardware and software plug-load solutions for cutting the
energy waste from plugged-in electronics.
I’m working on business development—
sales, partnerships and setting up wireless
printers.” n Roberto Frau was promoted
this year to sustainability practice lead for
ERM and is now doing more administrative
work, but allows for fieldwork. This past
year he traveled in Argentina, Colombia and
Chile, with fun hangouts with Marcela
Bocchetto ’01. He’s working mainly on
environmental and social due diligences
of large-scale infrastructure or industrial
development projects requiring international
financing. n Michael Funaro and Zhanna
Beisembaeva have been living in San
Antonio for two years. Michael is with
ESRI, and Zhanna is taking care of their
new house and three kids. n Kensuke Fuse
writes: “I graduated with a Duke MBA in
2009 and came back to my sponsored company, Fujitsu Limited. I am working in the
global business management unit to support and monitor foreign subsidiaries.”
n Shalini Gupta gave birth to her son,
Anand, on March 14. She wrapped up her
Archibald Bush Leadership Fellowship and
became the director of the Center for Earth,
Energy and Democracy at the Institute for
Agriculture and Trade Policy. n Rachel
Novick filmed a fun and educational video
on sustainability this summer that will be
shown to all Notre Dame freshmen every
year. www.youtube.com/NDsustainability
n Shimako Takahashi writes: “I am based
in Tokyo and have worked with UNU-ISP,
developing and implementing research projects of environmental and natural resources
management in line with community-based
sustainable agroecosystems in Asia (Laos,
Thailand, India, Cambodia and Vietnam).”
n Cherise Udell writes: “I am putting down
roots in Salt Lake City! I started a group
called Utah Moms for Clean Air.
www.utahmomsforcleanair.org
2003
Class Secretaries
Brian Goldberg
brian.goldberg@aya.yale.edu
Benjamin Hodgdon
benjamin.hodgdon@aya.yale.edu
Weslynne Ashton, Ph.D., writes: “I arrived
in Chicago in August and moved into my
new apartment. I hosted a networking dinner
for the Yale Black Alumni Association with
local alums and a group of 11 undergrads
who were in Chicago for a weeklong service
project encouraging foster kids to attend
college.” n Becca Jensen Bruhl writes: “I’m
hoping to finish my dissertation on innovative air toxics reduction initiatives in the
coming year at the University of Texas
School of Public Health in Houston.”
n Richard Chavez writes: “I’ve moved from
tropical forests to the temperate rainforest
of British Columbia. I am the planning
forester for Brinkman Forest/Coast
Tsimshian Resources in northwest British
Columbia.” n Andrew Clack writes: “I submitted my Ph.D. thesis in September and
accepted a postdoc at Penn State with professor Beth Shapiro. I’ll focus on ancient
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genetics.” n Brian Goldberg writes: “I led a
spring semester project course with F&ES
and Yale SOM students, looking at opportunities and challenges for urban agriculture
as a landscape intervention. I’m finalizing
designs for a new public park with a historic carousel in Coney Island.” n Bishop
Grewell writes: “My wife, Karen, and I
welcomed a baby girl in March, Penelope
Frances Grewell.” n Christopher Menone is
working as a tutor and home school teacher
in New York City. n Florence Miller writes:
“I work for National Audubon Society’s
TogetherGreen initiative, managing the
innovation grants program. I’m also writing
and researching for Disney’s Friends for
Change (Project Green) project, helping
with Audubon’s oil spill response and developing online games that are supposed to
help kids learn about environmental
issues.” n Fuyumi Naito works for the
Ministry of Environment in Tokyo. He covers
environmental finance now. n Tim
Northrop writes: “I am completing my
fourth year at F&ES as deputy director of
development and am now also responsible
for alumni services. This summer I participated in five triathlons, including one in
New York City—loved swimming with the
current! My son, Will, is going off next year
to play lacrosse at Gettysburg College.”
n Takeshi Okumura writes: “My daughter,
Sayuri, was born in January. She will make
her first visit to Brazil to see her mother’s
family at the end of the year. I am going
too!” n Holly Sage writes: “Matt and I
welcomed our son, Joshua Corey, to the
world on April 21. I am working at the
Environmental Protection Agency and manage a team working on policies related to
water quality criteria.” n Abdallah Shah
writes: “I live in Dar es Salaam, working for
the IUCN as head of the country office.
Occasionally I meet with F&ES alumni and
students.” n Liz Shapiro received her Ph.D.
from U.C. Berkeley and joined the faculty at
Duke in the Nicholas School of the
Environment. n Nicole Vickey and her husband, Jesse, welcomed their son, Beck Abiti
Vickey, adopted from Ololo, Ethiopia, in
March. Nicole works for The Nature
Conservancy in Orlando.
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2004
Class Secretaries
Jennifer Vogel Bass
jennifer_vogel@yahoo.com
Keith Bisson
keith_bisson@yahoo.com
Daniela Vizcaino
daniela.vizcaino@aya.yale.edu
Laura Wooley
le.wooley@gmail.com
Heather (Kaplan) Coleman had a baby boy,
Maxwell Asher, on March 10. Heather is
located in Boston, working on climate policy
for Oxfam America. n Tasha Eichenseher is
writing about the environment for National
Geographic and keeping tabs on the global
water crisis. n Ona Ferguson writes: “Garth
and I were married on Memorial Day, with
150 adult friends and 30 young children in
attendance. Abby Weinberg, Michela
DePalo, Keith Bisson and Beth (Owen)
Bisson, Steve Roberge ’05 and Heather
(Kaplan) Coleman were there.”
n Margarita Fernandez writes: “I am a consultant for UNDP-Global Environment
Facility Latin America and for Quality
Assurance International. I will be starting a
Ph.D. in Agroecology at the University of
Vermont in January. Benjamin Hodgdon ’03
and I have been in Vermont for a year and
we had a visit from Kevin Woods.”
n Alphonse “Buddy” Fletcher writes: “Star
Childs ’80 and Ian Branson ’03 are teaming
up with me to develop 5,100 acres of raw
residential and commercial land, as well
as commercial properties concentrated
primarily in Georgia. Funds managed by
Fletcher Asset Management acquired the
portfolio in April from a southeastern community bank as part of the firm’s initiative
to invest in community banks and assets
that those banks would like to sell.”
n Liz Kalies writes: “I earned my Ph.D. in
wildlife ecology from Northern Arizona
University in May. Alex Finkral ’97, Ph.D.
’05, and I welcomed Cale Hewitt Finkral on
May 26. We live in Flagstaff, Ariz., where
I’ve started a postdoc with the Ecological
Restoration Institute. Alex began his sixth
year as a professor of forest management.”
n Amit Kapur has relocated from
Melbourne, Australia, to Washington, D.C.,
and has joined the Science & Standards
Department at Green Seal. n Mike Kisgen is
an energy and environmental analyst at
The School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
Paladin Law Group, where he works with
clients that range from clean-tech startups
to city redevelopment agencies. He spends
time between the firm’s offices in Santa
Barbara and San Francisco’s East Bay.
n Amanda (Farris) Mahaffey writes: “I am
working for the Kennebec Woodland
Partnership, a joint program of the Maine
Forest Service and Kennebec Land Trust,
whose mission is to help people make
informed decisions to keep Kennebec
County forested. I also finished up a master
of music degree and am filling the rest of
my time with conducting, singing and
teaching.” n Susan Tambi Matambo writes:
“I’m in Bethesda, Md., and this is the first
time we have lived in one country and in
the same residence for more than two years
since 2002! I am a consultant on climate
change issues with WRI and the GEF.”
n Jen Molnar writes: “I edited and coauthored the recently published Atlas of
Global Conservation. The atlas was the culmination of global science and mapping
work of my team at The Nature Conservancy.
This fall I am moving from Seattle to D.C.
to lead TNC’s central science program.”
n Christopher Riely writes: “I have been
organizing a street tree planting in my
Providence neighborhood this fall. Out at
the city watershed, deer and invasive plants
may have become our greatest on-theground management challenge, and we’re
planning the first-ever managed hunt on
the property.” n Abby Weinberg writes: “I’m
working to partner with the 30 largest landowners in the East to publicly display the
location of their holdings in order to make
the case for increased incentives and support
for preventing ongoing fragmentation. We
have eight owners representing 10 million
acres signed up!” aweinberg@osiny.org
n Laura Wildman opened the New
England regional office of Princeton Hydro,
a water resource firm focused on ecological
restoration. She writes: “Our new office is
in my hometown of Glastonbury, Conn.,
and I am looking for an engineer, a fluvial
geomorphologist and an aquatic
scientist/fisheries biologist. I was just
appointed to the Environmental Water
Resources Institute board of governors.”
2005
Class Secretaries
David Cherney
david.cherney@colorado.edu
Dora Cudjoe
dcudjoe@worldbank.org
Virginia Lacy
virginial.lacy@aya.yale.edu
Benjamin Urquhart
bnurquhart@gmail.com
Patrick Burtis writes: “My wife, Jennifer
Thomas, and I have moved to San Francisco
after four years in London. I’m working for
Amadeus Capital Partners, a venture capital
firm, and I lead the clean-tech practice. For
the rest of this year, I’m serving as interim
CFO at one of our portfolio companies in
the Bay Area, GreenRoad, which uses technology to help people drive more safely and
burn less fuel. Jen and I are living in the
Haight.” pburtis@amadeuscapital.com
n Jamie Fergusson and his wife, Sarah,
were expecting a new member of the family
at the end of October. Jamie works at the
International Finance Corporation, leading
investments in renewable energy in emerging markets. n Richard Karty writes: “I am
a postdoctoral fellow in ecology in The New
School’s environmental studies program in
New York City.” n Emily Levin writes: “My
partner, Charles, and I welcomed a daughter, Susannah, on July 15. We’re living off
the grid in a 480-square-foot house on 10
acres of land in central Vermont, while
Charles builds us a house next door. I
returned in October to my job doing program planning for residential energy efficiency.” n Michelle Lichtenfels writes: “I’m
at Platform Environment Control Interface,
focused on energy efficiency (commissioning and building rating systems). We see
Allie Robbins (SOM), Nick and Emily Brod
(SOM) and Bailey McCallum ’07.”
n Joseph MacDougald writes: “I’m at F&ES
teaching ‘A Clinical View of Land Use
Planning and Policy,’ designed to teach land
use principles by focusing on a few real-world
applications and bridging the gap between a
clinic and a more traditional land use
course.” n Alex McIntosh and his partner
moved to San Francisco this spring. Alex
has founded Ecomundi Ventures to catalyze
and accelerate the transition to a sustainable
society. n Azalea Mitch writes: “Bill and I
welcomed the birth of a son, Samuel
Alexander, on August 6. To celebrate, we
planted a sugar maple and brewed Sam’s
Peach Ale.” n Tanja Srebotnjak, Ph.D. ’07,
has joined Ecologic Institute, a German
nonprofit environmental policy and research
institute, after moving to California. Based in
San Mateo, she conducts applied environmental research in the areas of indicator
development, climate change, trade and
environment, and environment and health.
She has also teamed up with a physician at
UCSF to continue her statistical work on
health disparities, with a focus on changes
in access to emergency medical services in
California due to hospital and emergency
department closures. n Carlisle Tuggey
writes: “I work and live in Portland, Maine,
and practice law at the firm of Preti Flaherty.
My practice focuses on land use issues
involving federal, state and municipal water,
air and hazardous waste laws, regulation
and policy. I married Duncan McLean in
September.” n Zoe Ju-Han Wang writes: “I
started my Ph.D. in geography in March at
the University of Sydney. My research will
examine the social impacts of climate change
projects on the ethnic minority communities in China and on how the institutional
dynamics of an environmental NGO influence its local practice. I travel frequently
between Southeast Asia, China, Taiwan and
Australia.” n Carishma Gokhale-Welch and
Aaron Welch left India, where Carishma
worked to improve pollution reporting in
the state of Maharashtr and Aaron completed
a Fulbright. Now in Paris, Aaron will work
as a UNESCO Fulbright Fellow.
2006 5th Reunion Year
Class Secretaries
Flora Chi
ying.chi@aya.yale.edu
Reilly Renshaw Dibner
reilly.dibner@aya.yale.edu
Susan Ely
suzie.ely@gmail.com
Krista A. Mostoller
anderson_kb@yahoo.com
Jill Savery
jillsavery@yahoo.com
Jessica Albietz was happy to see Rita
Lohani in Manila and Lex Hovani in Jakarta
and will be spending three months in
Bhutan helping Chimi Wangmo set up a
women’s shelter for her nonprofit organization RENEW. www.renewbhutan.org
n Saima Baig writes: “I am working in
Colombo, Sri Lanka, as head of the IUCN’s
environmental economics program for Asia.
I travel a lot to Bangkok, where I saw Ikuko
Matsumoto. I also saw Sarah Price and her
daughter in Switzerland.” n Joel Creswell
writes: “I’ve finished my Ph.D. in environmental chemistry at the University of
Wisconsin, Madison, and moved to Seattle
to work for Brooks Rand Labs, a company
that specializes in environmental trace
metal analysis and research.” n Reilly
Dibner writes: “After four years in Ireland,
I’m back on my home continent and have
started a Ph.D. in ecology at the University
of Wyoming.” n Yuko Dvorak-Miyata
writes: “I live in Prague with my Czech
husband. I work as an environment, health
and safety consultant and country manager
for Japan at Enhesa, SA, a Belgian EHS consultancy. My work involves a lot of trips to
Brussels and Japan.” n Ross Geredien
writes: “I’m working as an ORISE Fellow at
EPA headquarters in Washington, D.C. The
fellowship is a program through Oak Ridge
Association of Universities and the
Department of Energy in partnership with
the EPA. I am in the Office of Wetlands,
Oceans and Watersheds, emphasizing
mountaintop-mine permit review and development of Appalachian surface-mining
geospatial data.” n Gonzalo Griebenow
writes: “I work at the World Bank Group in
Washington, D.C. I manage a trust fund to
develop initiatives on evaluating climate
change, ranging from participating and
organizing international workshops to the
elaboration of studies in mitigation and
adaptation with the support of a group of
consultants. In August and September, I
was in Ghana for the third time for an
ongoing research project. While traveling, I
met up with Hugh Brown ’10, Godfred
Ohene-Gyan and Patricia Buah, attended
the wedding of Melody Ocloo ’07 and participated in the first Accra TGIF.”
n Gudmundur “Mummi” Gudbrandsson
writes: “I work at the Institute for
Sustainability Studies at the University of
Iceland, involved in research projects on
Energy Information Administration performance, climate change impacts and invasive
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plant species. I also teach and work as a
park ranger in the Icelandic highland.”
n Alissa Hamilton, Ph.D., writes: “I spoke
at TEDx Cambridge in May. The theme was
‘How Do You Eat?’ I spoke about orange
juice and how little we know about how
popular foods are produced.”
www.tedxcambridge.com/blog/how-do-you-eat
n Alder Keleman writes: “I’m in my second
year of the joint F&ES-anthropology Ph.D.
program, following a summer of scoping
research in Peru, Bolivia and Guatemala.
After many years of studying maize, I’m
seriously considering a transition to potatoes.” n Taek Joo Kim writes: “I am in my
second year of Ph.D. work at the Department
of Forestry and Environmental Resources,
North Carolina State University. This follows
two years of work at a research institute and
NGO in my country (Republic of Korea).”
n Christopher Meaney writes: “I work in
the Office of the Under Secretary for
Oceans and Atmosphere, NOAA, assisting
with program coordination and providing
policy advice on issues related to federal
fishery management.” n Krista (Anderson)
Mostoller writes: “On April 30 my husband, Matthew, and I welcomed a daughter,
Maren Breen Mostoller, to the world! I plan
to return to work at the Government
Accountability Office in January.”
n Shuichi Ozawa writes: “I married
Sachiko this spring, and we started our new
life in Nagoya, Japan. I am tackling CO2
emissions from the transport sector at
Toyota Motors.” n Dhyana Quintanar lives
in Mexico City and coordinates environmental projects, such as the Ecobici pay-asyou-go rental bikes. A new fleet of 1,200
smart red Ecobici at 85 docking stations
marks the most ambitious addition to a
global trend of municipally endorsed
cycling. Since February 7,000 people have
signed up in Mexico City and have taken
more than 200,000 trips. n Alexis
Ringwald writes: “After my Fulbright to
India, I co-founded an energy management
software company called Valence Energy
and moved to Silicon Valley. I was named
by Fast Company magazine as one of the
Most Influential Women in Tech 2010.
I also co-founded a nonprofit with a
group of high school students called
SmartPowerEd.org to train young people
on how to do energy audits on their schools
and implement smart-building technologies.”
www.fastcompany.com/article/alexis-ringwald
environment:Yale
n Kristen Welsh writes: “In July I got married, started a Ph.D. program and moved
from the Bahamas. Jehan, my husband, and
I relocated to Idaho so I could start my
Ph.D. in hydrology and watershed management at the University of Idaho and CATIE
in Costa Rica. The assistantship is through
the National Science Foundation’s IGERT
(Integrative Graduate Education and
Research Traineeship) program, which
encourages interdisciplinary research. I will
be doing my research in Costa Rica starting
next year.” n Christina Zarrella returned to
Connecticut and works for the U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service as a special assistant to
the assistant director for the Wildlife and
Sport Fish Restoration program. n Xizhou
Zhou writes: “I am an associate director at
Cambridge Energy Research Associates and
work out of the firm’s Beijing office. In midJuly, I met up with a few F&ES friends in
the Chinese capital when Professor Marian
Chertow, Ph.D. ’00, held a reception for
area alums. Kara DiFrancesco ’08, Marc
Hiller ’07, Angel Hsu, Jun Song ’07 and
Jack Yeh ’09 were all there.”
2007
Class Secretary
Rosi Kerr
rosi.kerr@alum.dartmouth.org
Anamaria Aristizabal writes: “I’m a freelance
consultant in business and environment and
am in the middle of a project on mining
and environment with the government. I
teach a class on sustainable business for
undergraduate business students. I was
invited to the Women’s Forum for Economy
and Society in October in France as a
‘Rising Talent.’ In May I visited Mexico for
training in sustainability consulting and
hung out with Ramon Olivas ’09 and
Dhyana Quintanar ’06. Alexis Ringwald ’06
visited Bogota and I joined her for some
great dancing!” n Amanda Moss Cowan is
midway through her doctoral studies at the
University of Oxford, U.K. She hopes to
complete her dissertation next year.
n Valentina Giannini writes: “I’ve completed
an integrated water resources management
project from a workshop in Kathmandu. I
spent early 2010 writing reports, papers and
book chapters to disseminate our findings. I
am in Venice for the research phase of my
Ph.D. on knowledge integration for flood
risk management.” n Ilmi Granoff practices
The School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
finance law in the energy and infrastructure
group of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.
n Charlotte Kaiser became a mother to
Linus Hazard Peterson, born July 26, 2009.
Charlotte works for The Nature Conservancy
in conservation finance, developing new
revenue streams from nonphilanthropy
sources. She lives in Brooklyn. n Colleen
Morgan is in New Orleans, where she started
a program called Bayou Rebirth Wetlands
Restoration and Education. Bayou Rebirth
coordinates wetlands planting projects for
volunteer groups from all over the country.
www.bayourebirth.org. n Mackenzie
Schoonmaker writes: “I am living in
Washington, D.C., where I am an associate
attorney at Beveridge & Diamond. My practice includes environmental litigation and
regulatory counseling.” n Dahvi Wilson
writes: “I have been working on two projects:
coordinating a local community planning
effort and running a political campaign for
a state legislative candidate. I also work
often with Angie Rutherford ’08 here in
Teton County, Idaho.”
2008
Class Secretaries
Angelica Afanador
angelica.afanador@aya.yale.edu
Kelsey Kidd
kelseykidd@gmail.com
Georgia Basso writes: “I live just outside of
Philadelphia and work for Five Winds
International, a sustainable strategy consulting firm.” n Annette Bellafiore writes: “I
moved to New York in September.”
n Jessica Boehland writes: “I live near
Detroit and am a program officer for the
Kresge Foundation. My work focuses on
improving energy efficiency in the built
environment.” n Gerald Bright writes: “I
am the Cobbs Creek Watershed’s implementation coordinator, tasked with the
coordination of efforts related to the implementation of the Philadelphia Water
Department’s combined sewer overflow
long-term control plan, ‘Green Cities Clean
Waters.’” n Duncan Cheung writes: “I am a
senior analyst at a management consulting
and strategy firm called GreenOrder that
specializes in environmental sustainability.”
n Anton Chiono is living in Berkeley, Calif.,
and working in San Francisco as a policy
analyst for the Pacific Forest Trust.
n Marcia Cleveland writes: “I am a lobbyist
with the Friends Committee on National
Legislation for climate change legislation.”
n Kimpton Cooper writes: “I work for the
U.S. Forest Service in Walla Walla, Wash. I
am the district environmental coordinator
in charge of planning and policy for
350,000-plus acres of public lands.”
n Michael Davies writes: “I am a manager
with SCC Americas in Houston. The company is a renewable-energy and climate
change project development company. I
work chiefly on agricultural biogas projects.” n Laura Alex Frye-Levine writes: “I
live in the heart of the Bluegrass region of
Kentucky in the first passive-active solar
house in the country (Raven Run House,
built 1974).” n Nigel Gurnett writes: “I
work at Sustainserv. One of our areas of
expertise is creating sustainability reports
based on the Global Reporting Initiative for
corporate clients.” n Amy Heinemann
writes: “I live in Raleigh, N.C., and work for
the North Carolina Solar Center. I do
renewable-energy policy analysis for the
Database of State Incentives for Renewables
& Efficiency (DSIRE project) and provide
outreach to local governments around the
United States interested in developing solar
programs.” n Olivia Kaplan writes: “I work
for the Clinton Climate Initiative as forestry
program coordinator. The program supports
developing nations with avoided deforestation projects and national monitoring,
reporting and verification systems for land
use change. We work in Guyana, Tanzania,
Kenya, Cambodia and Indonesia.” n Scott
Laeser lives in Washington, D.C., and is
working for the Theodore Roosevelt
Conservation Partnership as government
affairs manager. n John Chung-En Liu
married Yating on July 10 in Taipei. Adrian
Deveny ’09, Emily Enderle ’07, Erik
Winegar, Hiroshi Sugano ’09 and Chisato
Tomimura went to his wedding, with
600-plus other guests. John and Yating are
doctoral students at the University of
Wisconsin, Madison. n Mira Manickman
writes: “I am living in the Marin Headlands
of California and am an environmental
educator at the Headlands Institute. I make
music videos.” n Jihoon Min writes: “I am
in a Ph.D. program at Carnegie Mellon
University in Pittsburgh in the Department
of Engineering and Public Policy. My
topic will be energy and climate policy.”
n Matt Oden writes: “I am the sustainability
manager at the University of Southern
California in Los Angeles. My responsibilities
include GHG emissions reporting, renewableenergy finance, lecturing in courses and
more.” n Sara Bushey Ohrel works on the
economics of climate issues at the EPA.
bushey.sara@gmail.com n Shanti Karanjit
Ojha writes: “I am a new mom to a son,
Yajur. I work in ICF International, India
office, as a senior associate in the climate
change and energy efficiency practice.”
n Leila Pinchot writes: “I am pursuing my
Ph.D. at the University of Tennessee, where
I am researching silvicultural parameters for
American chestnut reintroduction. I married
Matt Wilson on May 22.” n Paula Randler
writes: “I’m in D.C. enjoying my work with
the U.S. Forest Service and traveling a lot
for work and play. I attended the zany
wedding barbecue of Darcy Dugan ’09 in
Anchorage. In mid-August, Madeleine
Meek ’06, Janet Lawson ’09 and I did a trirelay together. I completed my first Olympic
triathlon on September 12 and raised
money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma
Society in honor of Rachel Holmes ’10.”
n Catherine Rawson writes: “I live in New
Haven and am an assistant attorney general
for the State of Connecticut.” n Ashley
Roberts writes: “I live in beautiful Sheridan,
Wyo., but will be spending mid-October
through mid-January in Denmark. I have an
interest in elements of environmental health
and am exploring the effects of toxicity and
nutrition on the function of the human
body. I am researching job opportunities in
this field and applying to Ph.D. programs
for the fall of 2011.” n Angie Rutherford
writes: “I’m in Driggs, Idaho, and work at
the Teton County planner. I saw Julie
Witherspoon this summer on her way
through to Bozeman.” n Teresa Sarroca
writes: “I work for The Forests Dialogue but
am based back home in Uruguay. I travel a
lot for work, but I’m happy to be near my
family for a change.” n Jeramy Shays
writes: “I live in Washington, D.C., and am
a policy associate at the American Council
on Renewable Energy, which has over 550
members.” n Yuliya Shmidt writes: “I’m the
coordinator for renewable energy at the
Division of Ratepayer Advocates in the
California Public Utilities Commission. I
work as a regulator on renewable-electricity
projects, mostly solar and wind.” n Chisato
Tomimura writes: “I work for the Rainforest
Alliance SmartWood Program at the
Asia-Pacific Office in Bali, Indonesia. I handle legality verification audits in the AsiaPacific region, mostly in Indonesia and
Malaysia.” n Kelsey Kidd Wharton writes:
“I am an environmental planner with Logan
Simpson Design in Tempe. On the weekends I volunteer for Audubon Arizona.”
n Julie Witherspoon writes: “I live in
Denver, working for Bio-Logical Capital, a
real estate company with a new approach to
environmentally regenerative investment
and development businesses. I’ve been
involved in conducting initial due diligence
and business planning.” n Chris and Kim
Yuan-Farrell are caring for their home in
the Mile High City. They pay their school
loans by working for two local environmental
nonprofits.
2009
Class Secretaries
Rajesh Koirala
rajesh.koirala@aya.yale.edu
Neelesh Shrestha
neelesh.shrestha@gmail.com
Simon Tudiver
tudiver@gmail.com
Jude Wu
judewu19@gmail.com
Syeda Absar writes: “I am a water policy
researcher in Islamabad and have recently
published a report, ‘The Impact of Climate
Change on the Glaciers, Water Resources
and Livelihood of Pakistan.’ This research
has been accepted by an international conference called Globelics 2010, hosted by
Malaysia, where I will be presenting my
work.” n Murefu Barasa writes: “I am
based in Nairobi and work for a consulting
company offering services in renewableenergy and climate change issues. We manage
projects in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania,
Rwanda and Brazil, and our clients include
governments, the private sector and nonprofits.” n Ke Cao has been based in
Vientiane, Lao PDR, for almost one year and
trying to promote payment for ecosystem
services in this country. He also monitors and
assists overseas Chinese investors to mitigate
their social and environmental impacts.
n Sarah Charlop-Powers writes: “I work for
a small consulting company in Kingston, N.Y.,
doing outreach and marketing, with a focus
on energy efficiency and renewable-energy
production.” n Jeffrey Chatellier completed
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a Fulbright research grant in Indonesia on
the carbon dynamics of forest conversion
and is a partner with the Indonesia-based
environmental consulting firm Forest
Carbon. n Adrian Deveny writes: “I’m
working on clean-energy and energy efficiency policy in the U.S. Senate’s Energy
and Natural Resources Committee.”
n Sean Dixon writes: “I am the coastal
policy attorney with Clean Ocean Action,
headquartered on the New Jersey shore. We
work on ocean pollution, offshore energy
and marine spatial-planning issues for the
greater Atlantic Ocean coastal zone.”
n Darcy Dugan writes: “I married Toby
Schwoerer on August 20 on the top of a
pass after a two-hour hike with our wedding party in south-central Alaska. We
spent a honeymoon week backpacking in
the Chugach Mountains.” n Mark Evidente
is based in the Philippines. He is on the
faculty at De La Salle University and consults on climate change, environmental
compliance and tourism policy. n Joe
Famely writes: “Kathryn and I welcomed
a daughter, Sophia Fern Famely, last
September. We have moved to Falmouth,
Mass., where I am working with a coastal
planning and engineering consulting firm.”
n Benson Gabler writes: “I am manager of
corporate sustainability for PNC Bank in
my hometown of Pittsburgh. In April I
purchased my first house, so my free time
has been consumed by home improvement
projects. First guests included Neda
Arabshahi ’10, Audrey Davenport and
Lucas Knowles ’08.” n Haley Gilbert
writes: “I’m in California researching the
urban heat-island effect for the Lawrence
Berkeley National Laboratory’s Heat Island
Group in Northern California and promoting ‘Cool Communities’ strategies.”
n Eva Gladek writes: “My partner, Tom
Bosschaert, and I run a company in the
Netherlands called Except, an integrated
sustainability consulting, research and
design firm. We also co-founded the
Rotterdam Collective (or Ro-Co), focused
on social and environmental goals. We’ve
built all of our own furniture out of waste
materials and renovated the entire floor of a
formerly abandoned building in the city
center with only eco-friendly materials.”
n Bella Gordon writes: “I work in the U.S.
Forest Service’s international programs in
D.C. I’m working with the Russia, Europe
environment:Yale
and Central Asia Program, so I’m continuing
my interests developed during my Fulbright
to Russia.” n Kate Harrison writes: “Barry
Muchnick ’01 and I are expecting our first
child in February. We live in New Haven
while he finishes up his Ph.D., and I am
running the Green Bride Guide. We are
the largest green-wedding website online
and just launched the country’s first
green-wedding gift registry with free carbon
neutral shipping.” www.greenbrideguide.com
n Lisa Henke writes: “My husband,
Nathaniel Strauss, and I are parents! Ruben
Hendrik Strauss was born on July 19.”
n Molly Howard writes: “I’ve left consulting
to teach second grade science at a charter
school in Washington, D.C.” n Rita Hudetz
is at Booz Allen Hamilton in its commercial
consulting group, focusing on clean-tech.
She is program manager for its new Center
of Excellence on Climate Change, overseeing intellectual capital and business development. She lives in D.C. n Rajesh Koirala
writes: “I live in Washington, D.C., and
work with the carbon finance unit at the
World Bank.” n André Mershon writes: “I
live in Silver Spring, Md. I am a climate
change program specialist, focusing on
training and communications, for the U.S.
Agency for International Development.
Kristin O’Planick and I are planning a June
2011 wedding.” n Anna Milkowski writes:
“I teach biology and environmental science
and work on school sustainability at
Andover, a private high school near Boston.
A summer of travel to Costa Rica and
Alaska has charged me up with ideas for
teaching and future adventures.” n Amir
Nadav writes: “I was appointed by the
mayor and city council to the Energy and
Environment Advisory Commission in
Eagan, Minn., one of the largest suburbs in
the Twin Cities metropolitan area.”
n Claudia Octaviano writes: “I am in a
Ph.D. program on technology, management
and policy at the MIT Engineering Systems
Division. I will be looking at climate change
and sustainable-energy policy in Mexico in
the context of the North American Free
Trade Agreement and regional trade issues.”
n Joseph Orefice writes: “I bought an old
farm in the town of Saranac, N.Y. I spent the
summer restoring some of the abandoned
agricultural land and raising vegetables,
pigs, chickens, rabbits and bees. I also
co-taught the first-ever Adirondack
The School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
Woodsmen’s School. This fall I’ve resumed
my teaching position at Paul Smith’s
College, and I intend to make quite a bit of
cider from my orchard.” n Anastasia
O’Rourke, Ph.D., and Adrian Horotan ’10
had a baby boy on January 16 named Henry
Ian Horotan. They live in North Branford,
Conn., and are enjoying the homegrown
tomato bounty. n Darcy (Newsome) Peth
writes: “My husband, Ian, and I were married on July 24. We bought a house in
Seattle and are living here with our cat and
new dog. In April I began working at Ross
and Associates, a small environmental consulting company in Seattle.” n Megan Selby
writes: “After climbing as many
boulders as possible in one year in the
Pacific Northwest, I am moving to New
Zealand to begin my Ph.D. I’ll be in
Auckland whenever I am not off researching
protected areas or exploring my new
home.” n Neelesh Shrestha writes: “I’m in
D.C. working as a junior professional associate at the World Bank, getting involved in
some biodiversity conservation projects in
East Asia.” n Simon Tudiver writes: “I’m
living in Ottawa and working for Environment Canada on federal policy for environmental science and technology, with a focus
on energy. I’m on an extended leave from
work to look after my son, Kai, while my wife,
Sarah, completes her Ph.D. in biology.”
n Fengyuan Wang writes: “I live in Hong
Kong, working with Business for Social
Responsibility on a variety of corporate
social responsibility-related issues. Promoting
supply chain energy efficiency in China
is one of the focal areas of my work.”
n Bo White writes: “I am on a Fulbright
scholarship to Tajikistan this year, studying
the evolution of legal systems (since the
breakup of the Soviet Union) governing
natural resources in the Pamirs.” n Jude
Wu moved to Washington, D.C., to join
Conservation International as director of
strategy analysis, where her team is tasked
with operationalizing CI’s new mission
linking conservation to human well-being
and to develop conservation-based models
for sustainable development.
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2010
Class Secretaries
Daniella Aburto
daniella.aburtovall@gmail.com
Paul Beaton
beaton.paul@gmail.com
Changxin Fang
changxin.fang@yale.edu
Kristin Tracz
kristintracz@gmail.com
Matt Carroll writes: “I am a smokejumper for
the McCall Smokejumpers in McCall, Idaho.
I worked this summer in California near Big
Sur, southern Idaho and southern Oregon,
where I could see the ocean as I exited the
plane.” n Mary Fischer writes: “I work at
Stonyfield Farm in Londonderry, N.H., in its
Natural Resources Department. I am the lead
on carbon footprinting and the resident
expert in its carbon footprinting tool. I also
work on its renewable-energy plan and internal team to reduce GHGs and fuel use in distribution. I live in downtown Manchester.”
n Casey Pickett is in school in New Haven
for one more year and developing a not-forprofit drink company with classmates Adrian
Horotan and Stu DeCew. n Tatjana Rosen
writes: “I have joined the Wildlife Conserv-ation Society office in Bozeman, Mont., as
its community liaison. My work involves
negotiating human-wildlife conflicts in the
‘High Divide’ region—between Montana,
Wyoming and Idaho—and promoting better
land use policies.” n Toshitake (Toshi)
Tanuma writes: “I will be a consultant at
PricewaterhouseCoopers, Tokyo, beginning
in April. My plan until then is to study
Mandarin by myself and go to Taiwan from
January to February to spend time with my
distant family.” n Meredith Trainor writes:
“I moved to Seattle in September to work
with the Boreal Songbird Initiative on the
Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement, which
is a 2010 agreement to protect 72 million
hectares of boreal forest in Canada, including a moratorium on harvesting 28 million
hectares considered integral woodland caribou habitat. I will work to determine how
individual forest parcels should be managed.”
n Ranran Wang writes: “I finished my
10-week internship in NRDC’s Beijing
office. I am working as a postgraduate associate at the Yale School of Engineering.”
James Carlaw ’49 (1922-2010) died on
August 30 at the age of 87 after a long illness. A native of Maplewood, N.J., James
served his country during World War II as a
first lieutenant with the 82nd and 101st
Airborne Divisions in the European
Theatre. After completing his master’s
degree at Yale, he served in the Korean War
in the Army Reserves. He was an operational officer in the replacement battalion in
Pusan, Korea, and was honorably discharged in 1953. He joined International
Paper as its first professional forester and
was instrumental in opening up company
land for public recreation in Adirondack
Park in New York and at Stratton Mountain
in Vermont. He was a trustee of the College
of Environmental Sciences and Forestry at
Syracuse University. He was predeceased by
a son and is survived by his wife of nearly
62 years, Theodora; two daughters, Ann
Evans and Robin Calderwood; and six
grandchildren.
Daniel Dick ’49 (1924-2010) died at home
on July 26 at the age of 86 surrounded by
family and close friends, after a long and
arduous struggle with myeloblastic
leukemia. Daniel was born in Worcester,
Mass., and served in the Navy during World
War II. Twenty years after obtaining a master’s degree in forestry at Yale, he earned a
degree in library science at the University of
Rhode Island. During the 1950s and 1960s
he was a partner in Dick Brothers, a church
interior and architectural woodwork firm in
Worcester. He also participated in the peace
and women’s rights movements. In the late
1960s he became the reference librarian and
creator of the energy studies curriculum at
Worcester State College and was an officer
in the faculty union. His avocation was
building and sailing wooden boats. He
spent his life cultivating and preserving all
things Worcester, and on the last day of his
life he received a key to the city from Mayor
Joseph O’Brien. He is survived by his wife
of 61 years, Marjory; five daughters, Carol
Buell, Marjory Masterman, Mary Dick,
Katherine Brosier and Elizabeth Ancarana;
four sons, Gary, John, Peter and Joseph; 14
grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.
Benjamin Eggeman Jr. ’42 (1918-2010)
died on April 7 at the age of 92. Benjamin
received a master’s degree in forestry at Yale
in 1942 and served in the Pacific with the
Navy during World War II. He served in the
amphibious forces and participated in the
occupation and consolidation of
Guadalcanal. He was a landing control officer for amphibious landings in the invasions of Bougainville, Saipan, Leyte, Luzon
and Iwo Jima. In later years, his duties
included service on Atlantic fleet destroyers
and cruisers and command of the USS
Putnam, USS Denebola and Destroyer
Squadron Two. As plans officer for
Commander Division 18, he participated in
the recovery of the first American in space.
He attended the Industrial College of the
Armed Forces and received a master’s
degree in business from George Washington
University. In retirement, he was active in
the Coast Guard Auxiliary, teaching sailing
and boating safety. His decorations include
the Legion of Merit, Bronze Star with V,
Navy Unit Citation, Philippine Presidential
Unit Citation and Philippine Liberation
Medal. He is survived by his wife, Jeanne;
three sons, Benjamin, John and James; and
six grandsons.
Richard Griffith ’40 (1916-2010) died on
August 22 at the age of 93 of natural causes
in Helena, Mont. After graduating from
Yale, Dick served in the U.S. Army during
World War II in the Aleutians. He joined
the J. Neils Lumber Company, which later
merged with the St. Regis Paper Company.
In his 43 years there, he worked his way up
to chief forester and retired in 1982, having
spent the last few years at the company’s
operation in Maine. He and his crew of
foresters reforested large sections of land
with seedlings they had collected. He was a
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longtime member of the Society of
American Foresters and a member of the
Outlook Club in Lewiston, Maine. He
devoted himself to numerous volunteer
activities, notably with Habitat for Humanity.
He was predeceased by his first wife,
Phyllis, who died in 1973. He is survived by
his wife of 36 years, Joane; three daughters,
Brenda Holland, JoAnn Chambers and
Allyson James; a son, Larry; nine grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.
John Guiher ’48 (1917-2010) died on April
3 at the age of 93 of congestive heart failure
in Urbana, Ill. John was born in Youngstown,
Ohio. He served in the U.S. Army from
1942 to 1946 as a second lieutenant. He
was an artillery instructor after graduating
from the Cavalry School in Fort Riley, Kan.
Following an honorable discharge after a
tour of duty in the South Pacific, he continued to serve in the United States Reserve
until 1953. He earned bachelor’s and doctoral
degrees from Michigan State University and a
master’s in forestry from Yale. He retired as
an associate professor of wood technology
in the Forestry Department of the University
of Illinois, where he was employed from
1955 until 1989. He was a 32nd degree
Mason and a member of the Coventry-Akron
Lodge 83 in Akron. He was an avid golfer
and longtime member of the StarDuster
Dance Club, and he also enjoyed gardening
and pets. He is survived by his wife of 64
years, Lois; a daughter, Carla Thomsen; a
grandson; and two great-grandsons.
Charles Holsworth ’47 (1921-2010) died on
May 3 at the age of 88 in Vineland, N.J.
Charles was a resident of Vineland for 56
years. After receiving a master’s degree in
forestry from Yale, he worked as a forester
for the state of New Jersey for over 30
years. Following his retirement, he owned a
forestry consulting business in South Jersey
until shortly before his death. He also
served in the Coast Guard as a lieutenant
commander for over 20 years and was an
active member of the First Presbyterian
environment:Yale
Church of Vineland. He is survived by his
wife of 65 years, Margit; a daughter,
Katharine Holsworth; two sons, Charles
and David; four grandchildren; and five
great-grandchildren.
Evert “Doc” Johnson ’47 (1921-2010) died
on March 11 at the age of 88 in Auburn,
Ala. Doc served in the U.S. Army during
World War II, signing up with the 10th
Mountain Infantry, and subsequently served
in the Field Artillery in the Solomon Islands,
Philippine Islands and Japan. Under the GI
Bill, he earned a master of forestry degree
from Yale, and in 1957 he earned a Ph.D.
from the New York State College of Forestry
at Syracuse University. He worked for the
Sable Mountain Corp., a consulting forestry
firm, primarily in large-scale timber inventory operations in which aerial photographs
and sampling were heavily involved. In
1956, he joined the forestry faculty at
Alabama Polytechnic Institute (now Auburn
University). In 1963 he co-authored the book
Forestry Education in America Today and
Tomorrow, and in 2000 he authored Forest
Sampling Desk Reference. He was the author
of 18 peer-reviewed journal papers, numerous
Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station
bulletins and eight Auburn University
Forestry Department series publications. He
was inducted into the Alabama Foresters’
Hall of Fame. He is survived by his wife,
Janice; a daughter, Robin Ferguson; a son,
Sten; and four grandchildren.
James Kingston ’50 (1923-2009) died on
May 9, 2009, at the age of 85, surrounded
by his family at St. Vincent Hospital in
Ottawa. Jim received a master’s degree in
forest economics from Yale and later held a
teaching fellowship at the College of
Forestry, University of Syracuse, where he
pursued a Ph.D. A World War II veteran, he
served for over two years in the Canadian
Army as a corporal instructor at the
Advanced Infantry Training Center, Camp
Utopia, in Pennfield Ridge, New Brunswick.
He served for five years as the Canadian
The School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
representative for the Food and Agriculture
Organization of the United Nations. He
later served for 21 years as a trade economist and special advisor with the Canadian
Department of Industry, Trade and
Commerce. He is survived by his wife of 60
years, Phyllis; and a daughter, Alexandra.
Richard Mark ’60, D.F. ’65 (1928-2010),
died on May 25 at the age of 81 in
Liverpool, N.Y., of Parkinson’s disease.
Richard was a senior research associate
emeritus with the Empire State Paper
Research Institute at SUNY College of
Environmental Science and Forestry. He
earned master’s and doctoral degrees from
Yale, where he was granted a National
Science Foundation Fellowship. He was a
test engineer for the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers; a faculty member in the
Department of Wood Research, University
of Kentucky; and a visiting research associate with New Zealand Forest Products in
Auckland. He authored over 50 scientific
journal articles and several books on the
mechanical properties of paper, paper testing and recycled fibers. He was predeceased
by his first wife, Dolores Marie. He is survived by his wife, Harriet; two daughters,
Laura Guinan and Christine Rolen
Catanzarita; two sons, Richard and Gregory
Rolen; four grandchildren; and several
nieces and nephews.