Ruth Dinerman has joined the staff at Yestermorrow Design/Build School

in Warren, VT as the organization’s first Development Director. Ruth

holds a BA from Oberlin College and an MFA in fiction from Brooklyn

College, City University of New York. She comes to Yestermorrow by a

circuitous route that’s taken her to various places in the Midwest, New

York City, China, Boston, and most recently, the Berkshires in western

Massachusetts.

She’s taught high school students who were failing in the Newark, NJ

Staff from CVMC Hospital and Woodridge Rehabilitation and Nursing recently

completed a six week course to improve their understanding and practice of

the culinary arts. New CVMC graduates of the New England Culinary Institute

Certificate Program are: (left to right) Shawn Wolf, Barre; Eileen O’Connor,

Barre; Ann Kennedy, Braintree; Beth Sicely, Barre; Darlene Ashworth, Barre;

Heath George, Barre; Chef instructor Justin Turcotte, Montpelier; Kathy

McAllister, Williamstown; Melissa Fassett, Barre; Trevor Lamson, Barre;

Danielle Salvas, a registered nurse in

Dartmouth-Hitchcock’s Pediatric/Adolescent Unit, was with a patient when she

received a message that the State Board of Nursing was on the phone. On her

way to the phone she couldn’t help wondering what she had done. As it turns

out, the caller was from the New Hampshire Nursing Association announcing

that Salvas had indeed done something – she had been named New Hampshire

Direct Care Nurse of the Year.

“I was really surprised, really honored and humbled,” says Salvas. “The

Brooke Mossman, M.S.'70, Ph.D.'77, University of Vermont

professor emerita of pathology, received the 2010 Graduate Alumni Award

during the Graduate Student Research Day held October 14 at the College of

Medicine. The award recognizes alumni from the College's Ph.D. or M.S.

programs who have demonstrated outstanding achievement in basic, clinical or

applied research; education; industry; public service/humanitarianism;

and/or outstanding commitment to the College of Medicine community.

John King, president and CEO of Vermont Public Television, has been elected

to serve a three-year term on the PBS Board of Directors. He has also been

elected chair of the Organization of State Broadcasting Executives (OSBE),

which is the affinity group representing the nation’s statewide public

broadcasters.

The PBS board includes both professional directors, who lead public

television stations, and general directors, who represent the public. The

directors are responsible for governing and setting policy for PBS. In

Neal Robinson, formerly of Vermont Electric Power Company (VELCO), has been

named vice president for finance for Saint Michael’s College; SMC President

John J. Neuhauser announced October 13. Mr. Robinson started at the liberal

arts Catholic college on Monday, October 18.

Mr. Robinson brings 30 years of financial management experience to the job,

including the last three at VELCO, a job he was recruited to take; eight

years previously as Saint Michael’s as VP for Finance, and 15 years with Banknorth Group.