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After 37 years at Saint Michael’s, Bill Wilson is looking back, and ahead By Caroline Crawford When Bill Wilson looks out the windows of his office on the first floor of Founders Hall, he has a clear view of Mount Mansfield and beyond. It’s been his view since he was asked to become provost/vice president [...]

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In steps large and small, Saint Michael’s is exploring smart ways to go green By Mark Tarnacki Classrooms at Saint Michael’s are a few degrees cooler now in winter and slightly warmer in summer. Fewer lights are being switched on and energy-saving light bulbs are replacing less efficient ones. Colorful recycling bins are becoming fixtures [...]

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1952 Bill Gilmartin sent in a clipping from his hometown paper, the Naples Daily News, which featured a Saint Michael’s service trip to Immokalee, FL, over winter break. A group of students and staff had volunteered at many places around Naples, including at the Immokalee Friendship House, a homeless shelter where Bill and his wife, [...]

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An oversized puppet head waits backstage while Saint Michael’s students rehearse with members of the renowned Bread and Puppet Theater of Glover, Vermont. The troupe came to the McCarthy Arts Center to perform their Divine Reality Conedy Circus, using an enthusiastic group of student volunteers for the performance.

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William Wilson, vice president for academic affairs, was awarded the Campus Leadership for Civic Engagement award at the 2008 Vermont Campus Compact Gala in March, the Compact’s top honor for advancing community service at one’s institution. Other Saint Michael’s recognition: Alex Monahan ’08 for his community involvement; a partnership between Winooski schools and MOVE program [...]

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A Conversation with high school English teacher Diane Bahrenburg M’01 By Diane Goodrich Diane Bahrenburg appears to be almost always in motion. “Mark!” she hollers over her shoulder to the blond boy in Colchester High School’s Room 115 holding a file. “Here’s your reviewer!” Then she turns to me and directs me to a chair. [...]

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Doing Radio in the Digital Age By Buff Lindau Winning a nationwide myTracks music contest is only part of the way WWPV, the college’s 50-year-old FM radio station, is displaying its prowess in the digital world. The station’s eight-member executive board invited the campus community to register on the online music web site myTracks.com. WWPV [...]

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By Kyle Johnston ’08 One of my first Saint Michael’s memories is a history class on the modern Middle East. I remember the professor exclaimed to us with an ironic smile on his face, “If you leave my class a little more confused than when you started, you are learning something.”

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Doug Facey is deeply into Lake Champlain’s ecology By Caroline Crawford Every angler who’s ever dropped a line into a lake, river, stream or ocean has some kind of fish tale to tell. Doug Facey, professor of biology and an expert in fish communities and water quality, has plenty.

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MOVE outreach program helps immigrant children adapt By Buff Lindau “Our students are so fired up—this population touches them, really gets them going,” said Heidi Ludewig St. Peter ’96. She was talking about the Somali immigrants in Winooski that Saint Michael’s students are now serving through a new Edmundite Campus Ministry MOVE program titled International [...]

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