Secretary of the Agency of Natural Resources, Deb Markowitz, and the Vermont Urban and Community Forestry Council will recognize the recipients of this year’s Vermont Tree Stewards Awards on Wednesday, December 12, 5 PM, Cedar Creek Room, State House Montpelier. Each year the Council sponsors the awards as a way to recognize Vermont’s community tree champions.
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Charles P. Kelsey of Deerfield, N.H. is the new President of the Board of Trustees of Kurn Hattin Homes for Children. Kelsey is Vice President of Resident Life at Riverwoods at Exeter, a continuing care retirement community in Exeter, N.H., serving some 600 seniors. He was officially sworn in at Kurn Hattin’s 117th Annual Meeting of the Corporation.
Kelsi Brett, daughter of Andrew and Philip Brett of Burlington, learned this month that she is the recipient of one of the very competitive Gilman International Scholarships, administered for the U.S. State Department, enabling her to study for spring semester 2013 at Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea.
Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission:
REAPPOINTED: Dennis Devereux, Mount Holly
REAPPOINTED: Rolf Diamant, Woodstock
REAPPOINTED: Howard Coffin, Montpelier
REAPPOINTED: Jane Williamson, Burlington
SerVermont:
REAPPOINTED: Julie Lineberger, Wilmington
Board of Nursing:
APPOINTED: Stephen Morse, Burlington (LNA slot)
Middlebury College has named Bill Burger vice president for communications. Burger is currently associate vice president for communications at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass. When he assumes his new role at Middlebury, on Jan.
The Board of Directors of the Ethan Allen Institute is pleased to announce the election of Robert Roper, of Stowe, as its new President.
The Board of Trustees of Dartmouth has elected Philip J. Hanlon ’77, PhD, as Dartmouth’s 18th president. President-Elect Hanlon, 57, serves as provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at the University of Michigan, where he is also the Donald J. Lewis Professor of Mathematics.
The ribbon is cut at the Rutland Region Chamber of Commerce Ribbon Cutting and Grand Opening Celebration of Vermont Adult Learning's new location, 16 Evelyn St., Suite 101, Rutland, VT. Vermont Adult Learning is occupying the newly remodeled space formerly occupied by Community College of Vermont.
Deborah Shenk and James Beebe-Woodard have joined HowardCenter’s Development Office.
Shenk is Director of Development and Communications. Her fund-raising experience includes positions at diverse non-profit organizations, including Shelburne Museum, the University of Vermont and, most recently, Planned Parenthood of Central North Carolina.
DEW Construction is excited to announce that Matthew Wheaton has recently joined the company as the newly appointed Manager of Preconstruction Services. Mr. Wheaton will be responsible for the flow of communication between the client, DEW and designers.
CCTV Center for Media & Democracy announces that Matt Kelly will join the organization as Director of Channel 17/ Town Meeting Television and Executive Producer of CCTV Productions.
Kim Ladue, RN, MSN, APRN, FNPC recently began working with Doctors Hayes, Heitzman, MacDonald and Mueller at Central Vermont Cardiology. She has over 33 years of nursing experience, and was most recently employed in a local family practice.