IN MEMORIAM Jan E. Bernasconi
Born January 25, 1962, in Barre, Jan Eliz- abeth Bernasconi Aughey, 50, of Stowe died September 29, 2012. A 1980 gradu- ate of Spaulding High School in Barre, Ber- nasconi attended the University of Ver- mont, from which she earned a BA in politi- cal science in 1984. From there she went to Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, where she earned her J.D. in 1987. During the summer of 1985 she worked as a law clerk at her father’s law firm, Ber- nasconi and Koch. She clerked with the Vermont Supreme Court in the summer of 1986. After graduating from law school, she became a litigation associate at the Boston firm of Carolan, Sullivan and Gree- ley. In 1992, she returned to Vermont to join Paul Frank and Collins in Burlington, where she headed up the effort to estab- lish the family law practice at the firm. She became a member of the firm in 1996. In mid-2000 she took a leave of absence to raise her children and never returned to the practice of law. She is survived by her hus- band, Bob Aughey, two sons, her father, a brother and his wife, and a sister and her husband.
Matthew H. Harnett
Matthew H. Harnett, 54, of Rutland, died November 19, 2012. Born in Brooklyn,
New York, August 2, 1958, Harnett attend- ed SUNY Brockport College and Vermont Law School. He served as a law clerk for the Vermont Attorney General’s Office in 1982- 1983 and the Rutland County Public De- fender’s Office the following year. He was admitted to the Vermont bar in 1984 and served as a public defender in Rutland from 1984 to 1987. He started private practice in 1987 and was an adjunct professor at Castleton State College from 1991 until his death. He was a serious felony attorney for the State of Vermont and a frequent pre- senter at continuing education programs on criminal defense and trial practice. He is survived by his wife Lorraine of Rutland, a daughter, his father and his wife, his moth- er and her husband, two sisters, two neph- ews, and a niece.
Alan Panebaker
Born February 22, 1983, in Kalispell, Montana, Alan Panebaker, 29, of Montpe- lier died September 19, 2012, while kayak- ing in New Hampshire. Panebaker graduat- ed from the University of Montana School of Journalism in 2005 and came to Vermont to attend law school. He graduated from Vermont Law School in 2011 with a J.D. and a master’s degree in environmental law and policy. He passed the Vermont bar in November 2011. Panebaker worked as a reporter for
VTDigger.org, covering ener-
gy, health care, and the Vermont legislature and in July 2012 began work as Northeast stewardship director for American White- water, a river conservation group. He is sur- vived by his parents, a brother, maternal grandparents, and his partner, Magdalena Dale of Montpelier.
Rolf Sternberg
Born in Hoosick Falls, New York, No- vember 14, 1945, Rolf Max Sternberg, 67, of Bennington died November 29, 2012. Sternberg attended Syracuse University and became an elementary school teacher in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York. Taking night classes, he earned a masters degree at NYU and a law degree at Brook- lyn Law. After law school, he moved back to Hoosick Falls to start his own law prac- tice. In 1982, Sternberg started a new firm in Bennington with his wife, the late Patri- cia Barr. He continued to practice with Barr Sternberg until he fell ill in 2011. He is sur- vived by his two daughters, two sisters and the families, his sister-in-law and her family, and his brother-in-law and his family.
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