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Gelaye, Rockland-Miller present at legal conference

Dean of students Enku Gelaye and Harry Rockland-Miller, director of the Center for Counseling and Psychological Health, were co-presenters on July 16 at the National Legal Aid and Defender Association’s Student Legal Services Section Conference in Burlington, Vt.

Their presentation, "Assessing and Responding to Disturbed and Disturbing Student Clients: Understanding Student of Concern Teams," focused on recognizing and assisting university students in distress. 

UVM's Micheletto named hockey coach

John Micheletto of the University of Vermont was named head coach of the men’s hockey team on July 16 by athletic director John McCutcheon.

Micheletto is a 21-year coaching veteran who has spent the last nine years at Hockey East rival UVM, including the past six seasons as associate head coach. He replaces Don “Toot” Cahoon who stepped down in mid-June.

“After our meetings with John and our consultations with those in the college hockey community, we are thrilled to announce him as our new head coach,” said McCutcheon.

Norden delivers plenary at bioethics conference in Rotterdam

Communication professor Marty Norden gave a plenary presentation at the Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (FAB) conference held in Rotterdam,  Netherlands, during the last week of June. 

His talk dealt with the representation of abortion, birth control and eugenics in the 1916 film, Where Are My Children?  A worldwide hit seen by millions in its day, Where Are My Children? was written and directed by the pioneering filmmaker Lois Weber.

Fountain leads private government session at World Economic Forum


Political Science and Public Policy professor Jane Fountain led a private session on the future of government on June 5 during the World Economic Forum Summit on the Middle East, North Africa and Eurasia in Istanbul.

The meeting brought together heads of state and government, senior ministers, business leaders and key academic experts for productive debate and discussion on how governments can build capacity to meet more effectively the increasing challenges of global and national macroeconomic inequalities and transnational political conflicts in an increasingly inter-connected world.

Kynard named to board of Nature Conservancy of Massachusetts

Boyd Kynard, adjunct professor of Environmental Conservation, has been named to the board of trustees of the Nature Conservancy of Massachusetts.
 
His research focus includes the life history and fish passage of migratory fish. He has studied sturgeon and other migratory fish in New England, as well as in China and Brazil. Kynard has donated time to the World Wildlife Fund Danube River sturgeon program and has served on sturgeon restoration committees of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and the National Marine Fisheries Service.
 
He is also the owner of BK Riverfish,

Gordon gives keynote at conference in Dublin

History professor Daniel Gordon delivered one of two keynote addresses at a conference on “Changing Universities: Changing Sociologies” held June 27-30 in Dublin, Ireland, under the auspices of the International Sociological Association.

Gordon’s address, “New Disciplines, New Indulgences: The American University Since 1945,” focused on tensions between the university’s rising standards of disciplinary research on the one hand, and the need to serve a massively growing student body on the other.

Obituary: Joanne Dwyer, former library assistant

Joanne (Kistler) Dwyer, 78, of Leeds, a former library assistant, died at home June 3.

She was born in Reading, Pa., and was a graduate of Kutztown High School in Kutztown, Pa., and earned a bachelor's degree in elementary education from Miami University of Oxford, Ohio. Later in life, she earned a master's degree in library science at Simmons College in Boston.

In her early career, she was a schoolteacher in California, Pennsylvania and Thailand, where she lived for a year.

She married William H.

Obituary: Patricia V. Cobb, retired Extension clerk typist

Patricia V. (Belcher) Cobb, 84, a retired senior clerk typist with 4-H Extension, died June 25.

Born in Foxborough, she worked on campus for 13 years before retiring in 1989.

She leaves her husband of 61 years, Justin Lyman Cobb; their two daughters and four sons, Christine Therrien, Paula Goodhind, Justin P. Cobb, Christopher Cobb, Jeffrey Cobb and Paul Cobb, two sisters, nine grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be held Friday, June 29 at 10 a.m. in St. Brigid’s Church, Amherst, with burial following in St. Brigid’s Cemetery, Hadley.

In lieu of

Obituary: Bertha Baranowski, retired institutional domestic aide

Bertha (Kowal) Baranowski, 97, of Hadley, a retired institutional domestic aide with Physical Plant, died June 11 at the Center for Extended Care in Amherst.

Born in Hadley, she graduated from Hopkins Academy in 1933.

Se joined the campus staff in 1971 and retired in 1982.

She leaves her son, Richard Baranowski of Hadley; two granddaughters, a sister, two nieces and a nephew and two great-nieces.

Memorial donations can be made to the Council on Aging Senior Center, 46 Middle St., Hadley 01035 or to the Dakin Animal Shelter, 171 Union St., Springfield 01105.

 

Obituary: Stephanie J. Staiger, retired dining commons staffer

Stephanie Jeanette (Kulis) Staiger, 94, of Greenfield and formerly of Turners Falls, a retired food service worker, died June 17 at the Buckley Healthcare Facility.

Born in Montague, she graduated from Turners Falls High School and was a lifelong resident of Montague. She was an active communicant of the former St Mary’s Church in Turners Falls.
 
She served in the U.S. Navy during World War II.
 
She retired as a head dining room attendant at Berkshire Dining Commons in 1981 with 14 years of campus service.
 
She leaves two daughters, Coleen Smead of Barrington, N.H., Cindi Staiger of San

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