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Doctoral
Curtis Wells Roney, Ph.D. 2001 is associate professor of management at North Carolina Wesleyan College in Rocky Mount. He has held positions of increasing responsibility as a planning executive in major U.S. corporations including vice president of planning & development, Phillips Industries; director of corporate planning, Holiday Inns; and division planning director, Cerro Corp; Corporate. He also has served many of American corporations' top executives as a strategic planning consultant and acquisition/divestment advisor. Some of his better-known clients include: US Steel Corp, Phillips Industries, Inc., Delta Steamship Lines, Continental Trailways, Inc., Lennox Industries, The New Orleans Transit System, the City and County of Spokane, Washington; Clearwater County, Idaho; and the United States Department of Commerce.
William Elliott, Ph.D. 2007 is owner/operator of HealthBuilding.com and HealthBuilding®; an independent fitness and wellness-based practice offering a variety of services. His research interests include computer-based interactive health and science education, body composition, metabolism, nutrition, fitness programming, resistance training, musculoskeletal therapeutics, and the physiological aspects of such areas. Recreationally, Elliott enjoys mountain biking and mountaineering. He has reached the summits of Mount Kilimanjaro and many of Colorado’s highest mountains. Additionally, he enjoys snowboarding, trail running, and strength-related athletics. He has competed at the national level in the sport of natural (i.e., drug free) bodybuilding, and in regional weightlifting championships. He is also a survivor of life-threatening testicular cancer which was found to be spread throughout his body in 1992.
Undergraduate
Courtney Edwards, B.A. 2007 lives in Kittery Point, ME with her husband of 19 years and three teenage sons. Edwards is currently employed by Kittery Schools as a Paraprofessional in the Special Education Department; and is serving as chair of Traip Academy’s Project Graduation 2008. She plans to continue her education to achieve her goal of being a private practice counselor. Edwards is an AmeriCorps VISTA alumna, and a member of the KEYS of Promise Advisory Board and the First Congregational Church of Kittery Point.
Suzanne Furrow, B.A. 2007 is a health/child development and psychology teacher for Maine Central Institute. She also serves as an advisor for the Key Club, one of the largest high school service organizations in the world. She is currently a learner in UI&U’s Masters Online program.
Angela Sanborn, B.A. 2007 is employed by the Windham County State's Attorney’s Office, VT, as a secretary and plans to further her career within the criminal justice system. She attends training sessions at the Vermont Victim Assistance Academy and is a member of the Newbrook Fire Department Ladies Auxiliary.
In Memorium
Jannit Rabinovitch, Ph.D. 2004
PDE: “Transformative Community Practice: Moving the Margins”
Dr. Jannit Rabinovitch, respected for her work with marginalized populations, died January 26, 2007 after a seven month battle with cancer. She was executive producer of two award-winning videos: One Hit Leads to Another and Right From The Start – which are used around the world to identify and promote discussion of wife assault and dating violence.
In her hometown of Victoria, Canada, Rabinovitch was instrumental in the formation of the Victoria Street Community Association. She also helped organize Medewiwin, a long-term housing project for homeless men and women. Rabinovitch was responsible for the program content at the groundbreaking summit, “Out From the Shadows,” which protested the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP), an executive-level pact between the governments and corporate sectors of Canada, the United States and Mexico.
She coordinated the Victoria Downtown Women’s Project - documented as a national best practice model, and was involved in the development of Sandy Merriman House, an emergency shelter for women. Rabinovitch worked with the Prostitutes Empowerment, Education and Resource Society (PEERS) as a development consultant on innovative training and employment projects for people leaving the sex trade. She was responsible for Stories from the Margins: Art & Writing by Sex Trade Workers, Past & Present.
Robert B. Ingram, Ph.D. 1978
“The Artist and the Art: A Transdisciplinary Analysis of How Police Trainees Develop Their Self Image”
Robert B. Ingram, affectionately known as “Dr. Bob,” died September 5, 2007 in Miami-Dade, Florida.
Ingram was an innovator who made sure that unique opportunities were available to underprivileged students. For years, he took students who had shown academic improvement on “Read to Lead” trips to historic St. Augustine and Orlando. He also forged a strong relationship between the public schools systems in Miami and Dade counties and a school in Kigali, Rwanda, and enabled exchange opportunities for district teachers and students.
Ingram left behind a string of “firsts.” He was the first voter-elected mayor of Opa-locka, Miami’s first African-American motorcycle officer, and the first African-American City Manager of South Miami, Florida. In addition to his duties as a school board member, Ingram served as a professor and assistant to the president for urban affairs at Florida Memorial University.
He was the former mayor of Opa-Locka and the former president of the National Conference of Black Mayors. In addition, Ingram served as a pastor, the chair of the 5000 Role Models of Excellence Program, and was a member of the Value Adjustment Board,Miami Alumni Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi, Sigma Pi Phi, Alpha Rho Boule Fraternities, Dade County Performing Arts Trust, Salvation Army, Boy Scouts of America, and the N.A.A.C.P. He also served as the Pastor of Mt. Zion A.M.E. Church in Miami Gardens.
Ingram was the recipient of more than 500 awards, including the Peace and Unity Award from the St. Martin de Pores Association; awards from the United States Justice Department Drug Enforcement Administration, and the Immigration and Naturalization Service for Outstanding Community Service. Further, Dr. Ingram received, from the Metro-Dade Community Action Agency, the Outstanding Volunteer of the Year Award. He wasthe recipient of the Living Legend Award from the W. J. Redmond Christian Academy (for 30 years of community service); and the Richard G. Hatcher Outstanding Mayor Award by the National Conference of Black Mayors for outstanding and dedicated service; the recipient of the first President's Achievement Award for outstanding and dedicated service at Florida Memorial University; and an award from the Cuban Doctors in Education for Outstanding Contributions to Education. He has been the subject of numerous articles in magazines such as Jet,Cosmopolitan, Reader's Digest, African Profiles International, and Ebony.
Tig Replogle Baker, Ph.D. 1984, d. November 2007
Howard Knapp, Vermont College, 1931, d. December 2007
Evelyn Hoffman McGrath, Vermont Junior College 1947, d. 2007
Louise G. Price, Vermont College 1932, d. January 2008
C. James Shapland, Vermont College 1941, d. July 2007
Dorothy B. Wolff, Vermont College 1931, d. February 2008