Southwestern Vermont Medical Center (SVMC), part of Southwestern Vermont Health Care (SVHC), has announced that David Record, MD, has joined its anesthesiology practice and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Putnam Physicians.

Dr. Record earned his medical degree at the University of Utah School of Medicine and a bachelor’s in biology from the University of Utah. He completed his residency in Anesthesiology at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in New Hampshire.

The Governor’s Institutes of Vermont (GIV) is excited to announce its new Development Director, Tamira Martel! Tamira was selected from over 60 candidates to help the nonprofit organization ensure that its programs are accessible to all students, no matter their family’s financial status.

The Vermont Outdoor Business Alliance (VOBA) will present its inaugural Trailblazer Award to U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) at an outdoor ceremony at 2pm on Wednesday, November 10th at the Trapp Family Lodge in Stowe.

Norwich University’s School of Architecture + Art continues this year’s lecture series with “Jeezum Crow! The Architecture of Birdseye,” a presentation by Brian Mac, principal architect at Birdseye, who will discuss the advancement of creative processes at 4 p.m. Nov. 12 in the Chaplin Hall Gallery.

This event is free and open to the public. The event will also be livestreamed here: https://bit.ly/3pNjpaY.

On Thursday, Nov. 4, residents, staff and board of Wake Robin joined together to honor former CEO Patrick McKee.

McKee, of Charlotte, served as the organization’s head from 2014 until 2020. A Dawn Redwood tree, planted on the property’s lower meadow, will act as a longstanding thank-you for his work.

The Curtis Fund, a supporting organization of the Vermont Community Foundation, is pleased to announce Leilani Pearl has joined its Board of Directors. Pearl, who is the senior vice president and chief communications officer at the Parkinson’s Foundation, brings decades of nonprofit marketing and communications experience, as well as a passion for healthcare and education. Her appointment is notable in that Pearl herself is a former Curtis Fund scholar.