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LSC DISASTER DRILL 2008
Lyndon State College hosted a full-scale exercise November 1 to test responses to a simulated campus shooting and teach human services and journalism students how to deal with psychological trauma. The exercise, now in its second year, is the brainchild of Peggy Sherrer, assistant professor of psychology and human services, and Dan Williams, assistant professor of English and journalism.
In the exercise scenario, a gunman entered a classroom in the Harvey Academic Center and shot several people before fleeing with a hostage, his ex-girlfriend. Participation by Vermont’s Homeland Security Unit boosted the size of the exercise. An estimated 120 people took part, including Vermont State  Above, Custodian Janis Henderson, playing a hysterical mother whose daughter is in the classroom under attack, tries to get information from News7 reporter Police troopers, the State Bureau of Criminal Investigation, the State Police Bomb Squad, Lyndonville Police Chief Jack Harris, the Red Cross, and paramedics from Lyndon Rescue and two other services. Volunteer actors portrayed victims and traumatized bystanders. Participating students from Professor Sherrer’s Psychological Trauma class gained experience providing support to people suffering trauma, and students in Professor Williams’ Responding to Disaster class learned better methods of covering trauma. In addition, the exercise offered valuable emergency preparedness training to LSC, the surrounding community and state agencies.
During the exercise, Public Safety activated the e2Campus emergency text message/email alert system. This early-alert system sends text messages and/or e-mail messages to warn those who have signed up of danger. Lyndon currently has 217 people signed up for this free program. Director Public Safety George Hacking, who was closely involved in the disaster drill, says that his report indicates that out of the 217 people registered 183 received a text message while 97 received an email (some elected to receive both types of messages). Sign up at www.lyndonstate.edu/alert. This service is provided free of charge by Lyndon State College to improve safety on campus.
For participant reaction to the disaster drill experience, follow this link.
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International Conferences
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PROFESSOR ALEXANDRE STROKANOV SPEAKS AT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
History Professor Alexander Strokanov presented a paper at the final conference of the Mirico Project, a joint conference of the Wilhelm-Merton Centre of European Integration and International Economic Order of the Frankfurt University and the Institute for Minority Rights. The meeting took place in Frankfurt, Germany, in October.
Only two Americans took part in the conference. Professor Strokanov presented a paper titled “Kosovo right to Self-Determination as a Precedent for Future Recognition of the Unrecognized but really Existing States: Pridnestrovie, Abkhazia and Southern Ossetia,” and another American author presented on the Balkan situation.
The findings of the Mirico Project have been reported back to the European Union, which funded the project, for consideration in planning in relation to Kosovo.
Strokanov also attended a meeting in Moscow and later in Perm, Russia, held to commemorate the now-defunct Komsomol, the Soviet youth organization that turned out so many of the Soviet Union’s and now Russia’s leaders. As a former official with the Komsomol, Strokanov received a medal for his service. This is the 90th anniversary of the organization.
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LYNDONVILLE HISTORIAN'S LIBRARY ENRICHES LYNDON STATE
Lyndon’s Samuel Read Hall Library is the very fortunate recipient of the Harriet Fisher collection of Vermont, New England and Mark Twain related books and materials. Mrs. Fisher, who recently passed away, was a Vermont and Northeast Kingdom scholar and historian and is the author of several books about the Northeast Kingdom.
The collection includes a vast array of books and pamphlets including an 1874 edition of Samuel Read Hall’s The geography and history of Vermont with what appears to be the signature of Horace Greeley inside. S.R. Hall, the namesake of the LSC Library, is the Concord, Vermont, schoolmaster who pioneered teacher education and published the first textbook on the principles of teaching.
Part of the donation is Mrs. Fisher’s collection of Mark Twain material including an 1870 edition of The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrim’s Progress. This collection expands the SRH Library’s Vermontiana and archival collections and will be a major resource for Vermont scholars and researchers. The library extends its thanks and gratitude to the Fisher family for these valuable gifts.
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Construction 2008
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FIRST-IN-STATE LED PARKING LOT LIGHTS INSTALLED AT LYNDON STATE COLLEGE
Lyndon State College is still in the middle of a big construction project, the new academic and student activities center, after spending the summer in the midst of parking lot and underground utilities upgrades. One thing that is finished, however, is the installation of new LED lights in the Vail parking lot. Other lights in both college gyms and in the pool area have also been replaced, bringing energy savings, better lighting and helping move LSC to a green campus.
The LED parking lot lights are the first of their kind in the state. Lyndon chose a four-bar light with two drivers so that the lights automatically power down to three bars at 11 p.m during the early morning hours. That leaves plenty of light for security when there is little or no activity on campus. The lights are also governed by light sensors that turn them off and on in response to the natural light levels.
Physical Plant Director Tom Archer says the LED lights are attracting a lot of attention from other colleges and institutions looking to reduce their energy usage and save money. George Mason University of Fairfax, Va., and Dartmouth College both plan to visit, and he gets calls frequently.
And the interest is no surprise, with energy savings predicted to be two/thirds over LSC’s previous high-pressure sodium lights and 50 percent over what new high-pressure sodium lights would have used. That much, even from just the parking lot, will make a difference on campus, which pays an electric bill of about $500,000 each year.
Another benefit to the new LEDs is that there is no above-the-fixture light loss, so that nearby residents will no longer have to deal with light pollution from the lights that have been replaced. Plans are to replace all the parking lot lights with LEDs as soon as possible.
New lighting in the Bole and Stannard gymnasiums and the Bole pool have increased the amount of available light and decreased the amount of power used there, too. The old lights were metal halides, and the new ones are energy-efficient super T5 fluorescents, which produce broad spectrum lighting. The lighting retrofit brings the Stannard Gym up to NCAA standards and saves energy while doing so.
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LSC Music on the Mountain
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Don't miss the newly created “Snowy Mountain Concert Series” on Wednesday evenings in the Sherburne Base Lodge at Burke Mountain. LSC Music Business and Industry students are producing, performing and hosting the series and hope to see it continue throughout the ski season.
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 Celebrate the season with the Samuel Read Hall Library this winter. The special display for December is "Let Everyone Be Merry” which touches on all the traditions – Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, the winter solstice and even Festivus!
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 Many on campus will recognize former LSC President Clive Veri (left), who entertained recently retired Vermont legislator Don Bostic, at his home in Arkansas. Veri served at Lyndon from 1983 to 1989. Veri keeps in touch with friends at LSC, and returned recently to celebrate past college presidents. |
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 Instructor Chuck Kezar, who has studied alternative sources of energy for a number of years, presented a poster session at the annual meeting of the Geothermal Resources Council in Reno, Nevada, October 4 to 7.
The poster session addressed the potential of tapping directly into volcanic magma to gain ten times the steam power over a shallow geothermal well and to also produce hydrogen as a by-product. The quantity of direct hydrogen production from this new method is very large, meaning 35,000,000,000 cubic feet from one cubic kilometer of magma. In the American west, there are many places where this can be accomplished at 5 to 8 kilometers in depth, not a drilling difficulty. However, the engineering has never been done. The National Renewable Engineering Laboratory showed considerable interest, as they had never heard of the technology prior to the meeting.
Professor John DeLeo attended the Vermont Center for Geographic Information board of directors meeting September 23 in Waterbury and the Northeast Arc Users Group conference September 24 in Hyannis, Massachusetts.
English Instructors Bill Biddle, Dan Swainbank, and Miriam Benson and Professor Dan Williams coordinated their eight sections of ENG 1051 this semester around the theme of the right to vote, bringing in an outside speaker and setting up an essay contest with prizes and judges from the community to engage students not just in the election, but also in the writing and reading they are doing for the course.
Professor Bruce Berryman attended two meetings October 13 to 17 in Boulder, Colorado: The National Center for Atmospheric Research meeting and the heads and chairs meeting of the American Meteorological Society.
Professor Cathy DeLeo gave a presentation October 1 at the Governor's Conference on Recreation in Fairlee.
Professor Rachel Siegel CFA attended the October 12 to 14 meeting of the CFA Institute Council of Examiners in Dallas, Texas. She was also invited back to Oxford University last summer, to present her paper “Demand Elasticity in Higher Education: A Case Study of the Vermont State Colleges” to the Oxford Round Table. Siegel was first invited to Oxford in 2007 to present her paper “Adam Smith's Capitalism and Income Inequalities: A Closer Reading of The Wealth of Nations,” which she also presented at the annual meeting of the Economics and Business Historical Society in Montgomery, Alabama, last April.
Professor Ben Luce attended the seventh Annual Renewable Energy Vermont Conference and Tradeshow in Burlington October 15.
Professor Andrea Luna attended the Colloquium at Capella University in Lansdowne, Virginia, to consult on a literature review curriculum October 14 to 16.
Professor Pat Shine presented at the October 2008 Vermont Women in Higher Education Conference in Fairlee. Her session was entitled “Ah…Sure…Yeah. I’m Comfortable Talking about Race, Racism and Privilege….”
Professor Janet Bennion's latest book, Evaluating the Effects of Polygamy on Women and Children in Four North American Mormon Fundamentalist Groups: An Anthropological Study, will be published December 16 by the Edwin Mellon Press.
Professor Meri Stiles' paper entitled “Substance Use Protective Factors in a National Multi-Racial/Ethnic Sample of Adolescents” has been accepted for presentation as a paper during the 2009 Annual Conference of the Society for Social Work and Research to be held in New Orleans, Louisiana, from January 15 to 18.
Instructor Bill Biddle recently took second place in the New England Association of Teachers of English Poet-of-the-Year awards. NEATE is the oldest teacher’s organization in the country.
Professor Phil Parisi presented a paper he wrote with Professor Alan Giese on their interdisciplinary pilot study combining Natural Science and Digital Media at the International Digital Media and Arts Association (iDMAa) conference in Savannah, Georgia, November 6 to 8. The title of the paper was "The Invasion of Glossy Buckthorn: An Interdisciplinary Pilot Study Combining Natural Science and Digital Media."
Professor Kelly Glentz Brush was invited to give a presentation on color theory at the International Graphic Arts Education Association (IGAEA). She also received the President’s Award for services as the Regional Vice President from the IAGEA.
Professor Harry Mueller is currently designing a book for the town of Lunenburg entitled Maple Sugaring. In addition, he just completed the design for the book The Angels for Canadian author Gary McKeehan.
Instructor Bob McCann’s book, Round Trip, is complete and out to publishers and competing for the annual Duke Book Award.
Instructor John Potter has been awarded the Robert Kuhn Award (Best of Show) this past summer for a pen and ink drawing that he submitted in the "Artists' Sketches" portion of the annual Western Visions Miniature Show and Sale at the National Museum of Wildlife Art.
Professor Barclay Tucker was recently accepted to be a member of the Society Of Illustrators. He also submitted student designs from his Branding and Corporate Identity class to the Creating Impressions: A Visual Discourse on the Value of Graphic Design exhibit at the Studio Place Arts in Barre. This was the first AIGA New Hampshire/Vermont show. The work of Lara Fors, Robert French, and Erik Kirk was accepted into the show.
Professor Jonathan Norling presented at the National Recreation and Park Association Leisure Research Symposium in Baltimore October 14 to18. The paper was titled "The benefit of recreational physical activity to restore attentional fatigue: The effects of intensity level" [Norling, J. C., Sibthorp, J., Suchy, Y., Hannon, J. C., & Ruddell, E. J. (2008, October 16)].
Cheri Goldrick, staff assistant to the associate academic dean, attended the 75th Annual Meeting and Conference of the National Association of Educational Office Professionals in Broomfield, Colorado, July 6 to 12. Goldrick represented Vermont as the president of the Vermont Association of Educational Office Professionals and served on the awards and special projects committees. She is also a member of the Higher Education Council. This year, she served as monitor for the three general sessions and was a member of the platform party. This annual conference is designed specifically for educational office professionals who work in elementary, high school/technical center and higher education settings as well as supervisory union and Department of Education settings.
On October 25 and 26, Goldrick presided over the 70th anniversary of the Vermont Association of Educational Office Professionals Annual Conference and Meeting at Green Mountain Union High School in Chester in her first year as VAEOP President. Workshop sessions were held both days of the Conference and included topics such as internet safety and ethics, emergency planning, digital photography, professional standards, wellness through reflexology and records management. The Association made a donation of 50 new hardcover books to the Vermont Department of Libraries, which will be distributed throughout the state of Vermont.
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MARATINEZ EARNS NAC WEEKLY HONOR
 Cesar Martinez (left), a senior guard on the men’s basketball team, was named the North Atlantic Conference Player of the Week for the period ending Sunday, Nov. 16. Martinez, a resident of East Harlem, N.Y., scored 25 points, collected eight rebounds and had four assists in a tough 74-71 loss to Mount Ida College in the opening round of the New England College Alumni Tip-off Tournament on Saturday, Nov. 15. In the tourney's consolation game, held November 16, Martinez tossed in a game-high 20 points and handed out four more assists in a 72-68 win over tourney host New England College. His efforts landed him a spot on the All-Tournament Team. A year ago, Martinez led the Hornets in scoring with a 15.9 points-per-game average, was second on the squad in rebounding at 6.4 caroms per outing and had a team-high 65 assists (2.8 apg). Thus far on the 2008-09 season, he is averaging 22.5 points, 5.0 rebounds and four assists per game for LSC (1-1).
FALL SPORTS WRAP-UP
by SID Bill Johnson
2008 was a banner season for LSC harriers
The Lyndon State College cross-country team made quite an impression on the North Atlantic Conference in 2008. The Hornets won the men’s team title as well as both the men’s and women’s individual titles at the NAC Cross Country Championship meet held at Johnson State November 1. Lyndon won the men’s race 33-54 over perennial NAC power Maine-Farmington, while the women placed third (72) behind UMF (25) and Castleton State (58).
 On November 5, the conference recognized LSC’s accomplishments with several selections to the All-NAC Cross-Country Team. Runners scoring among the top-seven finishers earned first-team honors while the next seven to cross the finish line for each gender earned second-team accolades. Lyndon State freshman Craig Johnson (above, North Kingstown, R.I.) became the first runner from an institution other than Farmington to win the event in the past six years. His efforts earned him both the 2008 Runner of the Year and NAC Rookie of the Year awards. He sprinted to the NAC men's individual title with a time of 29:03.
Joining Johnson on the All-NAC First Team were teammates Michael Farmer of Colchester and junior Jeremiah Powell of Concord. The duo placed fourth and sixth, respectively, at the NAC Meet recording times of 29:37 and 29:55.
Two LSC freshmen were named to the All-NAC Second Team for their top-15 finishes in Johnson. Wilden Fils (30:27) of Stamford, Conn., came in ninth, and Sean Fitzgerald (31:09) from Saco, Maine, ran to a 13th-place result.
To round out its list of honors, the men earned the NAC’s Team Sportsmanship Award for the 2008 campaign.
 On the women’s side, LSC senior Lyndsay Calkins (left) was named 2008 Runner of the Year after winning the women’s race in a time of 18:52. The former two-time Women’s National Title holder in the United States Collegiate Athletic Association, the Danville native won by a margin of 1:20 over her nearest competitor.
Freshman Allynne O’Hearn of Pelham, N.H., closed out an outstanding first season in an LSC uniform, with a 13th place finish (22:28) at the NAC Meet, and she garnered a selection to the All-NAC Second Team.
In a vote of the conference coaches, Ummer (left) was honored as the NAC  Men’s Cross Country Coach of the Year and shared the Women’s Co-Coach of the Year award with Maine-Farmington’s Ryan Wagner.
LSC men’s soccer team fares well in NAC play
The men’s soccer team completed its first season in NCAA play with a final overall record of 10-8 and a mark of 4-5 in the North Atlantic Conference. For their efforts, the Hornets were awarded the No. 3 seed in the NAC Championship Tournament. After defeating arch-rival Johnson State 2-1 in the quarterfinal round October 28, the Hornets dropped a tough 10-0 decision to Husson University on November 1 in the semifinals and were eliminated from post-season play.
Darren Roberge (left) led the team in scoring with 13 goals and two assists for  a total of 28 points, while seniors Kyle Hessler (2 goals, five assists, nine points) Chris Cowan (four goals, eight points) were second and third, respectively. Senior goalkeeper Jeff Giroux was steady all season, amassing a record of 7-6 to go along with a goals-against-average of 2.05, a saves percentage of .722 and two shutouts.
Roberge, a junior striker, made his inaugural season in the NAC a memorable one, leading the conference in goals with 13 and in game-winning goals with a total of seven. To honor Roberge’s performance throughout the season, the coaches within the NAC named him the 2008 Player of the Year. A resident of Sheldon, Roberge was also second in the NAC in points (28) and fourth in shots (48). Possessing an uncanny ability to score big goals in crucial situations, his most notable goal came in overtime October 8, when LSC upset previously unbeaten Norwich University 2-1.
Also earning All-NAC honors for Lyndon was Giroux, who hails from Derby. He was fifth in the conference in saves (70) and seventh in goals-against-average (2.05) and saves percentage (.722). Overall, Giroux had a record of 7-6 in 15 starts and earned two shutouts.
Hessler and Cowan completed Lyndon’s list of all-conference selections, as the two earned Honorable Mention status on the All-NAC Team. The standout midfielders were solid on both the offensive and defensive end of the field for the Hornets throughout the four years they competed in a LSC uniform.
Season ends on a tough note for Lyndon State women's soccer
The women’s soccer team’s season came to an end October 29, with a heartbreaking 3-2 overtime loss to the University of Maine - Farmington. Despite being outshot 36-3 in the contest, the Lady Hornets, on two goals by senior striker Kelly Warren, held a one-goal advantage with less than five minutes left to play.
In the final seconds of the game, Farmington poured on the pressure and managed to net the game-tying goal with one second remaining in regulation time. Less than four minutes into sudden-death overtime, the Lady Beavers tallied the game-winning goal, thus ending LSC’s inaugural season in the NAC.
The Lady Hornets ended an injury-plagued 2008 campaign with a respectable overall mark of 7-10-1 and a NAC record of 2-5-1.
Warren led the team in scoring with seven goals and four assists for a total of 18 points. Junior midfielder Kathy Kline was second on the scoring list with five goals and three assists for 13 points, and sophomore back Tracy Zisselsberger had three goals and three assists for nine points. Sophomore goalie Natalia Shams had a solid first season in the Lyndon State net, collecting six wins, a GAA of 2.80, a saves percentage of .706 and five shutouts.
One week after their stunning loss to UMF, the Lady Hornets were awarded four selections to the 2008 All-NAC Women’s Soccer Team.
Leading the list of honorees was Warren, who hails from of Carroll, N.H. She was named to the All-NAC Second Team despite a nagging ankle injury that caused her to miss two games.
Joining Warren on the second team was junior midfielder Shauna Buck of Newport Center. Buck’s career blossomed in the 2008 season, scoring two goals and earning one assist while controlling the middle of the field with her physical style of play.
Another LSC midfielder to earn Second-Team honors was Zisselsberger, who resides in Bethel. She transferred to Lyndon State from Utica College in January and gave the Lady Hornets a legitimate scoring threat in the midfield.
The final Lyndon player to garner All-NAC honors was freshman stopper Naomi White, a native of Danville. A solid defender, White controlled play in front of the LSC net and took a tremendous amount of pressure off Shams.
Lyndon State women’s tennis finishes strong
Despite a shortage of players and a rocky start to the 2008 season, the Lyndon State women’s tennis team won two of its final three matches to end the season with a record of 2-6.
Junior Ashley Dewhurst led the squad with a 7-3 record in singles play, and teammate Sue Promphong had a respectable mark of 5-4. Sophomore Jenn Falsetti was tops in doubles winning five of her eight matches.
Dewhurst was named the NAC Player of the Week on Sunday, October 12. She recorded wins in No. 3 singles (6-2, 6-3) and No. 2 doubles (8-4 with teammate Jill Newell) as Lyndon State defeated the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts 5-4 for its first victory of the 2008 season October 11. On October 7, she earned the lone LSC win on the day in No. 3 singles with a 7-5, 6-4 triumph over Plymouth State's Nikki Kolb.
Promphong was named the NAC Player of the Week for her performances the week of October 13-19. She earned two of Lyndon State's four victories (both in singles) at the Vermont State College Tournament, held at Castleton State College, and recorded one singles win and another in doubles, with partner Jenn Falsetti, as LSC defeated arch-rival Johnson State 5-4 on Tuesday, October 14.
Young LSC volleyball program experiences growing pains
Women’s volleyball ended its 2008 season October 25 with a 3-0 loss to the University of Maine at Farmington. For the season, the Lady Hornets were 7-17 overall and 0-6 in the NAC.
Junior Michelle Petty topped the team in kills with 82, and freshman Kayla Brobst had 79. Junior Morgan Reilly collected a team-high 152 assists to go along with 44 aces, and sophomore Ally Ciaramitaro amassed 229 digs.
Brobst also led the team in aces (63) and blocks (20) and garnered NAC Rookie of the Week honors for the first time in her LSC career on September 18.
At season’s end, the Lyndon State received the NAC Team Sportsmanship Award, an honor bestowed on the program by a vote of the coaches within the conference.
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