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Dr. James Betts, Anne Dodge, and John Snow have been appointed to six-year terms on the board of trustees, replacing Milt Goggans, Bruce Lisman, and Pam McDermott. Also joining the board are student trustees Colin Robinson and Christine Hertz for one-year and two-year terms respectively.

Betts 69, College of Medicine 73, one of the foremost pediatric surgeons and trauma physicians in the country, currently is surgeon-in-chief and senior vice-president for surgical services at Childrens Hospital in Oakland, Calif. A 1993 television movie, Miracle on I-880, was based on his heroic and successful efforts to treat and help free a brother and sister trapped on the collapsed Nimitz Freeway in the 1989 San Francisco earthquake.

Betts, who was born and raised in Bennington, Vt., has served on numerous university committees, including current stints on the Medical Deans Council and the National Campaign Steering Committee. He received the A. Bradley Soule Award from the College of Medicine in 2003.

Dodge, a UVM parent, has been an administrator and a board member for independent schools for more than 25 years. She has been especially active in the Brookwood School in Manchester-by-the-Sea, Mass., which her three children attended. She also served on the Parents Council at Milton Academy in Milton, Mass.; on the board of trustees at Proctor Academy in Andover, N.H.; and on the board of the Middlesex School in Concord, Mass. She currently co-chairs the capital campaign at St. Johns Church in Beverly Farms, Mass.

Dodge has been a member of the External Board of Advisors at UVMs College of Arts and Sciences fore the past two years. She and her husband, Steve, live in Manchester- by-the-Sea and have a farm in South Pomfret, Vt.

Snow, a 1974 graduate of UVM, owns and chairs Bristol Tours, Inc., a charter bus and tour operator in Bristol, Vt., and Orlando, Fla. He is a member of the global advisory board of Millennium Associates, a Swiss-based specialist investment banking firm.

Snow retired in 2003 as vice chairman of State Street Global Advisors, chairman of State Street Global Alliance, LLC; and executive vice president of State Street Corp., all in Boston.

He served on the UVM Boston Regional Board and the Alumni Council, representing alumni on the board of trustees investment committee.

Snow and his wife, Carol 74, live in Charlotte, Vt.

First-year student Hertz majors in early childhood education with a pre-law concentration in the College of Education and Social Services. Before beginning college, she traveled and then worked in a third-grade classroom in rural Vermont. She participates in Alternative Spring Break and is both a Community Service Scholar and a Vermont Scholar.

She graduated from St. Johnsbury Academy in St. Johnsbury, Vt.

Robinson is a sophomore anthropology major with an African studies minor in the College of Arts and Sciences. He is a member of the John Dewey Honors Program and Students for Peace and Global Justice. He is the Ward 1 representative to the Burlington Progressive Party Community Council and was Congressman Bernie Sanders campus campaign coordinator in 2002.

Robinson is a Vermont Scholar and graduate of Brattleboro Union High School.

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