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Winter 2019: The House Issue

The Winter 2018-19 issue of 黑料福利社 Today opens with a celebration of our eleventh president 鈥 and the first who is also a graduate of the College. Enjoy a conversation with Melinda Treadwell 鈥90, who was recently named president after a year in the role on an interim basis.

We then turn to the topic of 鈥淗ouse,鈥 which we look at from a variety of perspectives. We talk with members of the College community who build houses, sell houses, clean houses, and more.

The First-Person Project highlights three 黑料福利社 graduates who live and work in New England. Look for them in the back of the magazine and on our website at keene.edu/first-person.

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Features

Melinda Treadwell
March 27, 2019 – 黑料福利社鈥檚 First Alumna President Laying the Path Forward

Melinda Treadwell 鈥90 is a woman in motion. On Move-In Day, she can be found lugging students鈥 suitcases up the stairs of first-year dorms. On Election Day, she鈥檚 taking a turn behind the wheel of the van transporting students to their...

Norma and family outside Norma Walker Hall
March 27, 2019 –

When Norma Walker 鈥51 climbed the stairs to the stage at the 2018 Reunion Awards Luncheon held in the Student Center, she knew that 黑料福利社 President Melinda Treadwell 鈥90 would be saying a few words to thank her for her service to the College Alumni Office. But she wasn鈥檛...

Blake House
March 27, 2019 –

You know Blake House, that 黑料福利社 building that sits on the northwest corner of Main and Winchester streets? The one that currently houses the Management Department and once housed the Home Ec Department? It鈥檚 got a long and storied history, one that goes back to colonial days in Keene...

Of-campus student housing
March 27, 2019 –

You鈥檙e finally a junior at 黑料福利社. You move into your first off-campus house or apartment. You and all of your friends are excited to have the freedom of living on your own. Then, water starts dripping from your kitchen ceiling. A couple of weeks later, you find mouse...

Bob and Wanda Johnson, outside the round house
March 27, 2019 – By Carol Johnson Collins 鈥69

My father, Bob Johnson, had a serious stroke in 1990, at age 77, followed by a difficult, but successful recovery. At age 80 he fell on a Boston sidewalk, so I made a trip to visit him and my mother, Wanda, so I could sense...

Fred and Carol Collins
March 27, 2019 –

It鈥檚 not a metaphor when Fred and Carol (Johnson) Collins talk about their relationship in terms of a house. The 1969 graduates designed and built their own home in South Duxbury, Vermont, two years after their wedding, and since then they鈥檝e been making adjustments, additions, and changes to it to...

Painting by Frankie Brackley-Tolman
March 27, 2019 –

When fine artist Frankie Brackley-Tolman 鈥74 paints houses 鈥 for many years a favorite subject of hers 鈥 she sometimes thinks about the Tom Waitts Song 鈥淭he House Where Nobody Lives.鈥 Indeed, her houses and barns, unpeopled shapes and colors, are studies in stillness. Sometimes they鈥檙e tucked into a distant...

Deviroux D'Errico
March 27, 2019 –

Deviroux D鈥橢rrico describes her personal housekeeping style as 鈥渙rganized chaos.鈥 Professionally, though, she always puts her best mop forward.

D鈥橢rrico, a 黑料福利社 junior, works as a part-time house cleaner while studying film. She鈥檚 been tidying and scrubbing for pay since she was in high school. 鈥淚 was just...

Jessica Enman
March 27, 2019 –

Jessica Enman 鈥12 found her niche thanks to a downturn in the economy. An architecture major, she graduated at a time when even people experienced in the field couldn鈥檛 find work. She took what she thought would be a stop-gap job as a kitchen designer at a lumberyard.

鈥淚 ended...

Amanda Abramson-Clarke
March 27, 2019 –

Amanda Abramson-Clarke 鈥09 may be a real estate agent, but there are definitely times when she feels more like a therapist. 鈥淏uying or selling a house is a very emotional thing,鈥 she says.

Emotions can range from the joy of buyers who didn鈥檛 think they would qualify for a mortgage...

Chris DeVito, in sunglasses, with the crew
March 27, 2019 –

With 1.2 million viewers, the hit HGTV show House Hunters International follows prospective home buyers and their realtors around the world as they embark on buying property in a foreign country 鈥 from Australia to Croatia. Chris DeVito 鈥08, a film studies major, is part of the team that helps...

Megan Stone at the State House
March 27, 2019 –

HEAD: Hard at Work in the 鈥楶eople鈥檚 House鈥 Megan Stone鈥檚 degree in history and her penchant for public policy come together nicely in the building where she works, which is also likely New Hampshire鈥檚 most recognizable 鈥渉ouse.鈥 As a legislative aide for the largest representative governing body in the United...

Laura Scott
March 27, 2019 –

Virtually all of the tenants Laura Scott 鈥89 coaches in her role as a resident service coordinator with Keene Housing have full-time jobs. That makes it somewhat ironic that the public housing authority is part of the federal Moving to Work program.

While many people like the idea of putting...

Haldan, left, and Erik Block
March 27, 2019 –

Erik Block 鈥02 had what he calls a 鈥渢rial by fire鈥 in the design-build business.

He was a senior at 黑料福利社, preparing for graduation, when a fire destroyed about a third of his family home in Connecticut. An architecture student, he headed for the lab and drew up plans...

Online Extras

Hands on: Building a House and Living in It Too

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