Plymouth State wants to know what you’ve been up to since graduation!
Send us your professional and personal accomplishments—career changes or promotions, advanced degrees and awards, military service, volunteer work, marriages, births, and other information—so that we can share it with your classmates, alumni, and the University community.
1960s | 1970s | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s
1960s | Back to Top
Stephen Bamford ’65, ’75G has spent 10 years in teaching, coaching, and high school administration, and 27 years in college athletic administration.
1970s | Back to Top
Doug MacLeod ’74 has owned Public Spectacle Opticians in downtown Plymouth since 1981.
Andy Byrne ’75, all-time winningest coach in the history of the Ithaca College men’s soccer program, announced his retirement after 31 years.
Larry Kontos ’78 is looking forward to hosting the 38th gathering of Plymouth State musicians, friends, and family in Campton, NH, later this year.
1980s | Back to Top
Edwin Hulse ’80 retired in October 2014, after 30 years as an agent with the IRS. He plans to move to New Hampshire after having been in Texas for the past 20 years. At retirement, he received the Albert Gallatin Award for his IRS agent work.
Toby Russell ’81, ’90G is finishing his second year as vice president of finance at AGC AeroComposites, a growing aerospace and defense manufacturer in Coeur d’Alene, ID.
Daniel Madden ’84 is on sabbatical from teaching at a Maine high school, and studying at Dongbei University of Finance and Economics in Dalian, China, in their Chinese Language and Culture program.
Scott Maltzie ’86 received his PhD in business administration from Northcentral University (Prescott Valley, AZ) in 2014.
Kelly Whitcomb ’86 is owner and director of White Mountain Montessori School in Holderness, NH. She lives in—and loves—Plymouth, and has enjoyed seeing the University grow.
Thom O’Mara ’87G has been program chair of the teacher-education program at Carteret Community College in Morehead City, NC, for the past six years.
John DelMastro ’88 is an artist and a ranger for Acadia National Park on Mount Desert Island, ME. His work is currently on exhibition in the Southwest Harbor (ME) Public Library.
Kimberly Willard ’88 is the director of education for Jenny Wiley Theatre, a small professional theatre company in Eastern Kentucky; a professor of theatre at the University of Pikeville, where she is developing a theatre minor set to launch next fall; the minister of music at Pikeville United Methodist Church; and a private voice teacher.
1990s | Back to Top
Craig Cushman ’90 is vice president of marketing at Hunter’s Specialties, a producer of hunting accessories in Cedar Rapids, IA.
Karen Mead ’90G, a 30-year telecom industry veteran, is senior vice president of external relations and community high-speed Internet development at Fairpoint Communications. She works with economic and community development leaders across northern New England.
Andy Clark ’91
Andrew Clark ’91 is a research associate at DuPont Pioneer in Greeley, CO.
Kerri Louise (Mather) Cotter ’91 is a comedian and has appeared on reality shows, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, The View, and in live stand-up performances. She performs in a monthly webisode called “My Mommy Minute,” about the trials and tribulations of being a mother.
Ellen (Pietrzak) Kotzen ’92, ’94G is an adjunct French professor at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, NY. She and her family live in the Syracuse area and have hosted an international student this year, which has been a rewarding experience.
Susan Garand ’93 was recently promoted to senior finance manager at Ora, Inc., but says that “the more exciting news is that I started a New England Chapter of the National Canine Cancer Foundation.”
James Kelly ’95 is an attorney who owns Kelly Law in Nashua, NH. He was recently elected to the Greater Nashua Habitat for Humanity board of directors.
Paul Andrew ’96 has been appointed Harvard University’s vice president for public affairs and communications.
2000s | Back to Top
Ellen Ward-Hill ’04, a teacher at Pleasant Street School in Laconia, NH, and her husband, Jeff, adopted a 13-year-old former student after serving as her guardian.
Francis Page ’05 was promoted to senior eLearning designer at Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, where he collaborates with peers and colleagues to design and develop self-paced online learning for internal associates. He and his wife, Lindsay (Bruneau) Page ’05, welcomed their first child, Milo David Page, on March 19, 2015. (see page 23)
Christopher Viesselman ’05G will be an assistant professor in kinesiology and director of an entry-level undergraduate athletic training program at Grand View University in Des Moines, IA, starting in August 2015.
Jennifer DuPont ’08 is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Molecular Cardiology Research Institute at Tufts Medical Center in Boston, MA. Her research is focused on molecular factors that contribute to the development of cardiovascular disease, specifically hypertension, with advancing age.
Kristen Abbott ’09 was hired as Pinkerton Academy’s head softball coach. She was named the 2014 New Hampshire JV Coach of the Year for softball by the NHIAA.
2010s | Back to Top
Brianna Frost ’11 teaches at Mountain Village Charter School in Plymouth, NH, a public, tuition-free, nature-based elementary charter school.
Erin O’Connell ’11 works as receptionist, promoter, and on-air “textress” on Boston radio station WEEI’s Planet Mikey sports program.
Kayla Thornton ’12 has been promoted to benefits specialist and front desk trainer at ProEx, a physical therapist-owned private practice in Epping, NH, specializing in orthopedics and spine and sports medicine.
Cara Stoner ’13 is the associate solution architect at Pegasystems, a software company in Cambridge, MA.
Cynthia Stuart ’13G is deputy commissioner of the Vermont Department of Financial Regulation’s Banking Division in Montpelier, VT.
Alyssa Hammond ’14 works for the US Forest Service in Tallahassee, FL, as a wildfire dispatcher. She previously worked for the Bureau of Land Management in Rawlins, WY.
Dennis Manning ’14 was elected Tilton-Northfield (NH) Fire Commissioner in March 2015.
Ryan Wakefield ’14 signed a professional baseball contract with the Washington Wild Things of the Frontier League. The Sanborton, NH, native is the first Plymouth State alumnus to sign a professional contract in the last 25 years.
