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DuBois & King, Inc., consulting engineers has announced that Richard W. Dall, P.E., SECB, LEED AP, has been chosen by a jury of peers as the 2012 Vermont Engineer of the Year. The Engineer of the Year award recognizes exemplary talent, effort, and involvement in the engineering profession and in the community.

Charles MacCormack, a 1963 graduate of Middlebury College and longtime president and chief executive officer of the international humanitarian organization Save the Children, will be an executive in residence at Middlebury for the next year.

VHB is pleased to welcome Sherward Farnsworth, PE, as Senior Project Manager in the engineering group. Farnsworth, former Vermont Agency of Transportation (VTrans) Structures Project Manager, will bolster the firm’s transportation engineering design capabilities throughout Vermont and Northern New York.

TD Bank, America’s Most Convenient Bank®, has named Eric J. Johnson as Vice President, Business Development Officer in the SBA Division in Burlington, Vt.

Ken Gibbons, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Union Bank is pleased to announce the promotion of Jessica Bunnell to the position of Residential and Consumer Loan Officer for Union Bank. Bunnell will be responsible for originating, processing, closing and servicing consumer mortgage and installment loans.

Ledyard National Bank is pleased to announce that Dennis B. Mitchell, CFP® has been named President & Managing Director of Ledyard Financial Advisors, the wealth management division of the bank.

Executive Director Sarah Carpenter announced Cynthia Reid of Huntington has been promoted to Assistant Director of Development at Vermont Housing Finance Agency (VHFA).

MMIC (Mobile Medical International Corporation) is pleased to announce the addition of R. James “Jim” Nicholson, former Secretary of Veterans Affairs, to their Board of Directors. Mr. Nicholson joined the board in the fourth quarter of 2011.

Champlain Community Services, Inc. (CCS) in Colchester announces the promotion of Elizabeth Mead Sightler to Assistant Director. Her responsibilities include intake coordination, supervision of service coordination, oversight of the CCS crisis bed/respite house, and coordinating all agency trainings.

North Country Orthopaedics welcomes the latest addition to their team, physician assistant Norm Dupuis PA-C, MHP. He brings with him extensive experience from working as a paramedic in Boston, working in an orthopaedic practice, to working as a physician assistant in the warzones of Iraq and Afghanistan.

ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center, at the Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, is pleased to announce Nina Ridhibhinyo (rid-a-bin-yo), as the Group Programs Coordinator. She joins the ECHO Team education team to oversee the launching of summer camps, overnights and teen environmental summits at ECHO.

Cheshire Medical Center/Dartmouth-Hitchcock Keene (CMC/DHK) welcomes Alexandra Van Dyck, MD, Internist, to the Department of Family Medicine.