The Vermont
Council of Censors
       " 14th Provisional "
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Our Current Members

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Rick Scharf

Rick
Scharf


Council President

Rick Scharf lives in Duxbury, VT with his wife and two children, ages 3 and 5.  After building their home, they have continually developed their homestead with the goal of meeting most of their food and heating needs from their land.  They have 9 layer chickens and tend nearly a quarter-acre of vegetable gardens.

He holds a Bachelors of Science in Physics from Union College and a Masters in Education from Lesley University.  He begins his 11th year of teaching at Montpelier High School this fall as a member of the
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Rick Foley

Rick
Foley

Rick Foley comes to the Council of Censors as a long time Vermont resident starting with his high school years at Burr & Burton Seminary (yup, that long ago) in Manchester with tours of duty at Brown University BA (concentrations in Early American and Renaissance/Reformation history); Teamsters, Construction Labor and Pipe fitter unions; University of New Hampshire (Masters in Occupational Education); U-Mass-Amherst (doctorate with focus on national energy planning and local solutions).  Since settling down in Brattleboro...
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Susan Ohanian

Susan
Ohanian

My passion for defending public schools comes from a long career  working with students in those schools who hated school and thought they hated books. My job, my sacred calling, was to convince them otherwise.

Currently I am a freelance writer, a senior fellow at the Vermont Society for the Study of Education, and a Fellow at the Education Policy Research Unit  and the Public Interest Center at Arizona State University and the University of Colorado...

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Hans Ohanian

 Hans
Ohanian

Hans Ohanian lived in Germany and Bolivia before coming to the United States to study physics at Berkeley and at Princeton.

He became a US citizen in 1974, to celebrate the resignation of the about-to-be impeached Richard Nixon. Thirty years later, I seriously considered surrendering my US citizenship in view of the failure of the impeachment of George W. Bush, whose crimes against the US Constitution, federal and international law, and humanity were much more grievous than the petty Watergate scandal of Nixon...

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Bill
Brueckner

Bill, was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey but at an early age my family moved to Vermont. Schooling started with kindergarten in New Jersey. Grade school in Charlotte, South Burlington and Burlington grammar schools and high school at Cathedral and Rice Memorial. I joined the Navy Reserve in the last year of high school. When the Navy presented the opportunity to attend electronics technician training school, I availed myself to the opportunity. The successful completion of the course opened the door to a job as a technician building and testing computer memory...
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Peter Moss Peter
Moss

Peter Moss holds postgraduate degrees in chemical engineering (University of Rhode Island, 1955) and in business administration (University at Buffalo, 1964).

He worked for Exxon, Allied Chemical, Chemical Construction Corp., BASF, Armour Pharmaceutical, and American Hoechst.

After 34 years in the private sector, in 1986 he joined the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency...

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Gus Jaccaci

Gus
Jacacci

Gus Jaccaci is a teacher of teachers and leader of leaders active for over forty years worldwide.  He started his teaching and coaching at Rutland High School and finished at Burke Mountain Academy with Harvard, the Rhode Island School of Design, Phillips Academy Andover, Boston College and U.V.M. along the way.

Currently, he is an independent candidate for a seat in the US House of Representatives calling himself, not a politician, but Vermont's first Planetician...
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Lynn Rosenblum Lynn
Rosenblum

Lynn Rosenblum, mother, mother-in-law, grandmother, artist, gardener and peace activist.

My love for my daughter, son-in-law and grandsons has opened my heart. I want to be the person that they believe me to be.

You will find me Friday mornings between 7:30 a.m. and 8:30 a.m. demonstrating with a few other dedicated  colleagues on the Ledyard Bridge which crosses the Connecticut River...
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Coming Soon Abigail
Winters
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Coming Soon Gary
Flomenhoft
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Marion
Hendrix
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News and Updates
05/04/09

The Needed Rebirth of the Council of Censors Begins!                  
Ten of us sat around a table at Goddard College in May of 2009, surrounded by chart paper upon which we had written ideas which we felt should be a part of Vermont’s future governing structures.  We were Dreaming Vermont’s Destiny,

 

 

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