Three Stratton skiers were inducted into the 2009-10 Century Club for skiing 100-plus days in the 125 day ski season. Steve Obletz of Stratton Mountain, Vermont, a member of Stratton’s 50+ ‘Trailblazers’ club led the pack with 106 days on the mountain, while David and Carey Ponelli of Bondville, Vermont were a close second with 105 and 103 days respectively.

Stratton’s 2009-2010 Skier/Rider Visit Awards

Adult

Steve Obletz – 106 days

David Ponelli – 105

Carey Ponelli – 103

Super Senior

Bernard Heller – 97 days

Shems Dunkiel Raubvogel & Saunders is pleased to announce that Jessica A. Oski has become Of Counsel to the firm. Jessica joined SDRS in 2010 to continue her practice in the field of health care law, including regulatory and corporate compliance, provider reimbursement, privacy and security, human resources and governmental relations. Her practice at SDRS will also include general business, corporate, not-for-profit and municipal counsel.

On April 7th and 8th, hospitality industry professionals gathered at the Stoweflake Resort in Stowe, Vermont for the 27th Annual Vermont Travel Industry Conference. After a series of educational and motivational workshops led by industry specialists representing hotels, online booking engines, PR companies and more, the opening day concluded with an awards banquet honoring some of the great people and projects in Vermont hospitality.

Vermont Law School has named Edna Baugh, Michele Gatto and Colleen Connor as the newest members of its Board of Trustees. Baugh is assistant director for clinic administration at Rutgers School of Law in Newark, N.J., and managing member at Stephens & Baugh, LLC, in Maplewood, N.J., where her concentrations are real property tax appeals, transactional real estate and non-profit corporations. She received a B.A. degree from Hartwick College and a J.D. from Vermont Law School.

Jack Tenney, the publisher of Business People-Vermont, announced that John McDevitt was hired as advertising representative. McDevitt has worked in advertising and sales for several years, including as a radio ad consultant for an ESPN-affi liate. He hosts his own sports show, Sports Talk with the Chat Pack, originally broadcast on local radio and now online.

Peter Langrock of the law firm of Langrock, Sperry & Wool, LLP has just returned from participating as a guest arbitrator at the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot in Vienna, Austria. More than two hundred fifty law schools from over 60 countries competed in the annual event this year, which is designed to train law leaders of tomorrow in methods of alternative dispute resolution.