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Hello! I'm married and faculty member at Vermont Technical College (VTC). I teach physics and various other courses in the Science department. Most recently, in the computer area, I taught computer operating systems and Ada computer programming. Last semester, Spring 2006, I taught two physics courses, second semester calculus based physics and modern physics, and spacecraft technology (Rocket Science 2). I've been at VTC twenty-nine years. My wife, Ann (who taught Italian at VTC two years ago and again last year, along with English composition, and taught Effective Workplace Communication and Music Appreciation at CCV) and I live in South Randolph, Vermont.

What's New :

Fricka is expecting puppies May 30, 2006!

We have a new baby! Jack Stuart Brandon was born on October 12, 2004.

We tested our Saab 9-5 Aero by hitting a moose at 80 mph, July 27, 2003.

Ann sang the role of Third Lady in Mozart's The Magic Flute at the Barre Opera House in June, 2003.

Fricka had 10 puppies!

See Ann's book, Artful Italy, which was published last year, it is a wonderful book to lead you on a tour of Italy's art, while avoiding the crowds.

Read our annual holiday letter, 2001 holiday letter, and our 2002 holiday letter.

Ann is sang the role of Ruth in Gilbert & Sullivan's Prates of Penzance at Unadilla Theater from June 27,through July 13th, 2001.

On July 2, 1999 we picked up a new puppy, and another puppy in August.

Photos of the June 27, 1998, flood at our house.

Educational and WorkBackground

Professional Interests and Projects

Personal Interests and Projects

I love opera. My wife, Ann Brandon (formerly Ann Eustice) and I (192k) usually sing in the chorus with our local opera company, Opera North. In the summer of 1997 we sang in the chorus for Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann. In the summer (1998), I sang in the chorus of both Verdi's Rigoletto, and Gilbert & Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance. In the summer of 1999, Ann sang in the chorus of Mozart's Die Zauberflöte and Floyd's Susannah. In the summer of 2000, Ann sang in the chorus of La Bohème, and had a non-singing part in Richard Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos, in 2001 Carmen, 2002 Eugene Onegin, 2003 La traviata and 2004 Romeo and Juliet choruses while I video taped and photographed all performances for Opera North. I am Board President and just finished a term of eleven years as the secretary of the board of Opera North. We had a subscription to the Metropolitan Opera for 21 years, and traveled to New York to see their performances about seven times a year. We particularly like Wagner as our license plate indicates: ), and have traveled to Bayreuth, Germany, to see Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen in 1991 and 2001 in the theater he built for it. Ten years ago, (1995), we flew our PLANE (a Cessna 182 Skylane) (82k) to Seattle to see the Seattle Opera's performance of Wagner's "Ring." The year befor last, we flew our plane to Florida for spring break. The last three Augusts I flew with a friend to Oshkosh, Wisconsin for the EAA Airventure where one tenth of ALL the airplanes in the world showed up. There were 11,000 planes parked at the field along with ours. Check out the Opera Glass web page. We both love to ski and sail and have sailed in the Caribbean (St. Martin & St. Bart's & Antigua) and on the coast of Maine.

I am interested in electonic voting technology and its problems and have just been elected to the Democratic State Committee in Vermont. Although I lost a bid for reelection as a Justice of the Peace two years ago, I became a Universal Life Church Minister and a Church of Spiritual Humanism Minister so I can still perform weddings, for some of which I make the cake (see below).

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carl.brandon@vtc.edu

Web page (text and photos copyright 2006 unless otherwise noted) by Dr. Carl S. Brandon

Last revised May 21, 2006

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