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ClassNotessmall kids (4 and 6 years old) and had to get to theWest Coast for sick parents as soon as I could. So thetiming just didn’t work.”Whitney Tilt moved to Bozeman, Mont., four yearsago.While the move meant giving up being director ofconservation with the National Fish and WildlifeFoundation, he prefers his new work on communitybasedcollaborative conservation with the SonoranInstitute and consulting for NFWF and the U.S. Fishand Wildlife Service. His lovely wife, Stuart, is busywith real estate and serving on the Gallatin LandTrust board. His son, Mac, is heading to the Universityof Colorado this fall to study aerospace engineering,and daughter,Allison, started Bozeman High Schoolin September.Henry Whittemore, the director of the governor’sforest certification initiative, is deep in Maine. He saidhe is trying not to become a bureaucrat now that he isback in public service. Henry and Darcy’s youngsters,Katie, 17, and Sam, 14, are great kids. Henry notesthey are starting to look at colleges with Katie, and heand Sam are building a boat together.And keepingpace, Darcy is working three-quarters time at thearboretum in Augusta, teaching environmentalscience and ecology.Ruth Yanai, Ph.D. ’90, is an associate professor atthe SUNY College of Environmental Science andForestry. Noting that she never took silviculture anddidn’t get an accredited degree, she teaches forestecology to majors after many years of teaching soilscience to nonmajors. Mostly, Ruth does research, andhas undertaken projects with, among others, MaryArthur ’84 and Steve Hamburg ’77, Ph.D. ’84,and still sees Therese Feng ’84, Ph.D. ’98,Guillermo Castilleja ’83, Ph.D. ’91,andsometimes Shelly Dresser and Dave Gagnon.Ruth also has been single-handedly raising adaughter, now 7.198620th Year Reunion.CLASS SECRETARY:CAROLINE NORDENcnorden@maine.rr.com1987CLASS SECRETARIES:CHRISTIE COON cacoon7@aol.comMELISSA PALY mpaly@aol.comChristopher DeForest writes:“Life is busy and full.I’m running the Inland Northwest Land Trust(inlandnwlandtrust.org), involved in old-houserenovation projects with my wife, CarolineWoodwell ’86, and teaching Terre Eco 101 to our2-year-old son, John Elliott DeForest. I also have asideline as minister-for-hire, and had the fun ofmarrying off my best friend, Kirk Johnson (beachhousemate and geology grad student while we were atF&ES), to my cousin, Chase DeForest, whom he met atmy wedding to Caroline in April 2001.”Kevin L. Griffin writes:“My family and I are inNew Zealand for the year. I am on sabbatical, andhave a visiting Erskine Fellowship at the University ofCanterbury in Christchurch. During my stay here, Iwill conduct research on respiratory temperatureacclimation in mast-seeding snow tussocks. NewZealand is a beautiful country, and we are enjoyingbeing outside and seeing the sights.”Robert T. Lester writes:“I’ve been in Guatemala forabout three years now, after having started my ownconsulting company dedicated to providing environmentaland corporate responsibility advisoryservices. Happy to meet with any alums comingthrough town for work or pleasure.”1988CLASS SECRETARIES:DIANE STARK dsstark@comcast.netPHILIP VOORHEES pvoorhees@ncpa.orgJenny Allen writes:“I’ve been in Portland, Ore.,since 1997, originally with Ecotrust, then with theState of Oregon as sustainable business liaison, andnow with Portland State University to develop aCenter for Sustainable Processes and Practices. Myhousehold consists of my Canadian husband,Wayne,dogs Argus and Jasper, and Kitty the cat. I also movedmy 81-year-old parents from New Hampshire toPortland this summer, where they seem to be veryhappily settling in. This is a welcoming place, and it iswonderful to have family here at last.”Jeff Campbell writes:“I ran into Brian Lockhartat an F&ES get-together at the International Union ofForestry Research Organizations conference inBrisbane,Australia. He is doing well, working onbottom-land hardwoods in Arkansas with the U.S.Forest Service Research Station. I am the seniorprogram manager for environment and developmentat the Ford Foundation.”During the last five years,Jeff has directed a $25 million program to financecommunity forests and promote locally controlledmultiple-use forestry on the lands being set aside.Martin Christ writes:“I am in Morgantown,W.Va.,where I work for a watershed organization and domiscellaneous other consulting jobs on water qualityand environmental issues. Kathy and I live in thecountry, with cows for neighbors on three sides anda family of llamas not far away.A feral emu passedby once.”Anne Buckelew Cumming writes:“I work for theU.S. Forest Service in the Urban and CommunityForestry (UCF) Program. My husband, Jack, is chairof the biology department at West VirginiaUniversity, and our daughter, Margot, has just startedmiddle school. I work with a bunch of Yalies frommany classes. Chris Donnelly ’85 is the UCFcoordinator for Connecticut—he used to frequentour TGIFs.”Eric Jay Dolin writes:“I’m living in Marblehead,Mass., with my wife, Jennifer, and two children, Lily, 8,and Harry, 5. I am a policy analyst with the NationalMarine Fisheries Service in Gloucester. My book onBoston Harbor, Political Waters (see Fall 2004Bookshelf), was recently chosen by the AmericanLibrary Association as ‘One of the Best of the Bestfrom the University Presses: Books You Should KnowAbout’ for 2004. I just published The Ph.D. SurvivalGuide, and am working on a history of whaling inAmerica for W.W. Norton publishing. I can be reachedat ericjayd@aol.com.”Betsy Greer Edwards writes:“I am in Seattle andam the executive director of a nonprofit, raising fundsfor the national parks. I moved into the nonprofitsector two years ago after almost 20 years in theprivate sector, but may have to go back as thealternative energy market heats up.We have threeredheaded kids (8, 7 and 4) and are trying to get backinto some serious skiing (skating) and running witharthritic 40-plus joints. I saw Holly Welles mostrecently in San Francisco, shortly after she gotmarried. I saw Phil Voorhees in Washington, D.C.;he lost his wife to an illness recently. I did a five-daytrek across Olympic National Park via the Elwha Riverwith Betsy Carlson ’89.”Heidi McAllister writes:“I need to toot anotherF&ES grad’s horn for her. Lily Whiteman,whogot joint masters degrees from F&ES and PublicHealth, just published a book on how to get a jobin the federal government, Get Hired! How to Landthe Ideal Federal Job and Negotiate a Top Salary.You can find more about the book atwww.fpmisolutions.com/shopcart/publications.asp(scroll down to Get Hired!).”Holly Welles writes:“I live in Mill Valley, Calif., justacross the Golden Gate Bridge. I’m working in theenvironmental policy group at Pacific Gas andElectric, where I’ve worked since completing a longand arduous Ph.D. at Berkeley in 2000. I married agreat guy, Rob Thomas, originally from Pennsylvania.The ocean is close and so is wine country.”1989CLASS SECRETARIES:SUSAN CAMPBELLsusan.campbell@comcast.netJANE FREEMAN jane@ewalden.comC.J. May has entered his 15th year working as Yale’srecycling coordinator.Yale has now hired a sustainabilitydirector (www.yale.edu/sustainability),approved a set of environmental principles and hasbecome aggressive about reducing its ecologicalfootprint. On the home front, Ella Fionnuala May wasborn on August 20. C.J. continues to tell Celtic storiesas a part of the Celtic Learning Project(www.celtlearn.org).Fall 200537