Maggie Paine '79

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Maggie Paine has worked in communications since she graduated from Middlebury as an English major in 1979. She began as a disc jockey and reporter for a small New Hampshire radio station, then spent almost 15 years as a reporter and editor for newspapers and magazines in Vermont. In 1994, she went to the University of New Hampshire as a senior writer/editor in the publications office and later became director of development communications, editor of UNH Magazine, and director of alumni communications. She returned to Middlebury in 2003 as director of the newly created Office of College Communications.

Maggie's work as a journalist has taken her to a Cree village on the shores of James Bay; inside Interpol in Lyons, France; into a studio kitchen with Julia Child (she really did recommend bourbon whisky for everything); to a school of log building in western Canada; and aboard a 66-foot sloop preparing for one of ocean yacht racing's toughest courses. "I've written about murders and arsons and betrayals of public trust, but also about bears, lightning bugs, and legitimate small-town heroes," she says. "Journalism is a great field for anyone who finds everything fascinating."

During her years away from Middlebury, Maggie remained closely connected to the College through her participation in alumni activities. She was a class secretary from 1979 to 1989 and from 1994 to 2004; served as co-chair of her class's fifth, 10th, 15th, and (gasp!) 25th reunions; and was a member of the Middlebury College Alumni Association board of directors from 2002 to 2003.