Forum, Jan. 7: Explore cancer care careers during upcoming conference
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I am delighted to invite teenagers from 37 communities of the Upper Valley to join in the first-ever Careers in Cancer Conference for Upper Valley high school students on the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, Jan. 18, from 11 a.m.-3 p.m.
This is a free, half-day Zoom conference to introduce students to the wide variety of opportunities for work in cancer care and to provide information about how to train for these jobs after high school. We have 27 of Norris Cotton Cancer Center’s most enthusiastic professionals ready to give short presentations about what they do and to talk about their jobs. These include nurses, researchers, lab technicians and physicians working in diverse areas of cancer care and research, including artificial intelligence, immunology, patient support, bioengineering
Jim Kenyon: Checking in at year’s end
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Before we get too far into 2021, I wanted to check in with a few people who I wrote about last year to see how they’re doing.
In the good news department, Oxbow High School senior Sierra Longmoore is back home in Newbury, Vt., after suffering a life-threatening head injury in a one-car crash as she was driving to her babysitting job shortly before 8 a.m. on July 8.
“She’s throwing softballs with her sister, throwing footballs with her dad and running around with the dogs,” her mother, Amy, told me last week. “It’s pretty amazing when you think where she was a few months ago.”
Patricia A. Cushman, 74, passed away on Saturday, Dec. 19, 2020 at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H. after a courageous battle with Leukemia.
Pat was born on Feb. 10, 1946 in Hadleyville (Lyndonville), Vt., the daughter of Osmer and Wilma (Garron) Farman. Pat spent most of her childhood on the family farm on Bible Hill. It was on the hill where she would meet and later marry her lifelong love, Bug. They married on Jan. 20, 1962 and spent their entire lives on Mt. Pisgah Road, just a few miles from where they were both raised. She attended schools in St. Johnsbury and Lyndonville, Vermont. She was a graduate of Thompson School of Nursing with her LPN and later graduated from Berlin Technical School receiving her RN. She devoted her life to taking care of others. She worked as a geriatric nurse for many years at the St. Johnsbury Convalescent Center and the Pines in Lyndonville. She went on to work as the Nurse Manager at the Concord Health Center in Concord before r
A Life: Merle Schotanus’ ‘wheels were always turning’
Merle Schotanus has been the town s moderator for 19 years. He s pictured in front of Grantham Methodist Church, on May 21, 2004, where voting is held. (Valley News - Tom Rettig) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.
The Schotanus family, from left to right, Merle, Anna, Helen and Sue, during Helen s graduation from University of Illinois in 1965. (Family photograph)
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GRANTHAM In more than four decades in the Upper Valley, Merle Schotanus seemed to live several lifetimes.
He ran Sugar Springs Farm, a fruit and maple sugar operation in Grantham. He served as town moderator for 20 years, won seven terms in the state House of Representatives and served on the University of New Hampshire System board for 11 years. He also shepherded a group of cyclists who raised thousands in donations for the Norris Cotton Cance
Lionel D. Lewis, MD, MA, MB BCh. Photo by Mark Washburn
Lionel D. Lewis, MD, MA, MB BCh, has been elected as a fellow of the British Pharmacological Society, a premier global society in the science of pharmacology, for his substantial contributions, demonstrated distinction, and peer recognition in clinical pharmacology and therapeutics.
“It is an honor to be recognized by the British Pharmacology Society as a major contributor to the field and discipline of clinical pharmacology, which is the study and optimal use of drugs in human beings,” says Lewis. “This international societal recognition reinforces the institutional recognition I have received for my expertise and reputation in this field.”