This year’s Con Hogan Award for Creative, Entrepreneurial, Community Leadership will go to Michael Monte. Monte serves as Chief Financial and Operating Officer of Champlain Housing Trust. He has more than 30 years of experience in the community and economic development field.
People in the news
Family nurse practitioner Rachel Salloway, APRN, is now seeing patients in Gifford’s Randolph Primary Care clinic. Salloway moved to Vermont from Boston, where she most recently worked at Hale House Assisted Living and Spaulding Hospital. While she grew up in a small community near Providence, RI, Salloway has always felt connected to Vermont.
Cynthia Gerstl-Pepin, associate dean of the College of Education and Social Services, will receive the 2016 Jackie M Gribbons Leadership Award on Oct 11 at the Vermont Women in Higher Education Fall Dinner for her leadership and contributions to UVM and higher education.
Sheehey Furlong & Behm PC, a full service law firm, announces an expansion of its Estate Planning, Trusts and Probate practice group through a merger with the firm Melendy Moritz in Woodstock and the addition of Leigh Phillips to the firm.
The Vermont Chamber of Commerce announced Friday the selection of Bill Stritzler as its 2016 Citizen of the Year. Stritzler’s contributions to Vermont will be celebrated at an awards dinner on Wednesday, November 16 at Smugglers’ Notch Resort.
The Clinical Simulation Laboratory at the University of Vermont has announced the appointment of Vincent Miller, MD, assistant professor of anesthesiology, as interim director of clinical simulation, effective September 1, 2016. Miller succeeds Ted James, MD, who served as director of clinical simulation from July 2012 through June 2016.
Jill Mazza Olson has been appointed Executive Director of the VNAs of Vermont, the 10-member association of non-profit home health and hospice agencies serving all Vermonters. Olson, who worked most recently as the Vice President of Policy and Legislative Affairs at the Vermont Association of Hospitals and Health Systems (VAHHS), assumes the role on October 10.
Pure Water for the World, Inc (PWW) recently honored two distinguished groups with the “PWW Ripple Award,” for their overwhelming dedication to bring sustainable safe water solutions to children and families living in the most underserved communities in Haiti. “It’s a crazy concept that, in America, we can flip a switch and have clean water.
University of Vermont President Tom Sullivan has announced that Nicholas Heintz, PhD, professor emeritus of pathology and laboratory medicine, is the recipient of the 2016 President’s Distinguished University Citizenship and Service Award.
Avi J Springer has joined Langrock Sperry & Wool, LLP as an associate, working primarily in the areas of criminal defense, family law, and other litigation. Prior to joining the firm, Avi worked as a public defender in New York City, where he represented clients in the appeals of their felony convictions and other post-conviction matters.
Johnson State College President Elaine Collins and the JSC Alumni Council presented the 2016 annual “distinguished faculty and staff” and “outstanding alumni” awards Sept. 22 during Alumni & Family Reunion Weekend.
Primmer, a New England-based law firm focused on meeting the legal needs of businesses, institutions, organizations and high net worth individuals, announces that several of our attorneys in Vermont and New Hampshire have been named 2017 “Best Lawyers in America”.