The University of Vermont board has named Dr. James M. Betts, Anne N. Dodge, and John R. Snow to its board of trustees. All will serve six-year terms. Leaving the board are Milt Goggans, Bruce Lisman, and Pam McDermott.

The Associated Directors for the Appointment of The University of Vermont and State Agricultural College Student Trustees, Inc. appointed Colin Robinson and Christine Hertz as new student trustees. Robinson will serve the remainder of a one-year appointment and Hertz will serve a full two-year term.

Betts, UVM class of 1969, College of Medicine class of 1973, is considered one of the foremost pediatric surgeons and trauma physicians in the country. He is currently surgeon-in-chief and senior vice president for surgical services at Children’s Hospital in Oakland, Calif.

Betts has received national recognition throughout his career for heroic medical efforts, most notably following the San Francisco earthquake of 1989, when he freed two children trapped in the debris of the collapsed Nimitz Freeway. His story was made into a movie titled Miracle on I-880, released in 1993.

Betts is one of UVM’s most devoted alumni and volunteers. He has served on a number of undergraduate and medical committees and is currently a member of both the Medical Dean’s Council and the National Campaign Steering Committee. He received the A. Bradley Saule Award from the UVM College of Medicine in 2003.

Betts now lives in Alameda, Calif. He was born and raised in Bennington, Vt.

Dodge, a UVM parent, has over 25 years of experience working with independent schools, both as an administrator and a board member. Dodge has been especially active in the private elementary school her three children attended, the Brookwood School in Manchester-by-the-Sea, Mass. Dodge was treasurer of the school, was a member of the board for 13 years, and served as chair of the board.

She has also served on the Parents Council at Milton Academy in Milton, Mass., on the board of trustees at Proctor Academy in Andover, Mass., where she chaired the Governance Committee for two years, and on the board of the Middlesex School in Concord, Mass., where she concentrated her efforts on the Residential Life and Diversity committees. She is currently co-chair of the capital campaign at her church, St. Johns Church in Beverly Farms, Mass.

Dodge has also served as a member of the External Board of Advisors at UVM’s College of Arts and Sciences for the past two years.

She resides in Manchester-by-the-Sea with her husband, Steve, an entrepreneur who founded and served as chair of the board for three companies with national and international scope. The family owns a farm South Pomfret, Vt.

Snow, UVM class of 1974, is the principal owner and chairman of Bristol Tours, Inc., a charter bus and tour operator with operations in Bristol, Vt, and Orlando, Fla. He is also a member of the global advisory board of Millennium Associates, a Swiss- based specialist investment banking firm.

Previously, Snow had a lengthy and successful career in investment management. In 2003 he retired 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.

Prior to joining State Street in 1996, Snow was president of NatWest Investment Management, Inc.; director and executive vice president of NatWest Markets, Inc., and deputy chief executive of NatWest Asset Managers. He was a founding director and the chief executive officer of PanAgora Asset Management, Inc. and PanAgora Asset Management Limited.

He served on the UVM Boston Regional Board and the Alumni Council and was the council’s representative to the board of trustees investment committee. Snow lives with his wife Carol ’74 in Charlotte, Vt.

First-year student Hertz is majoring in early childhood education with a pre-law concentration in the College of Education and Social Services. Hertz took a year off between high school and college to travel and perform community service, spending six months working in a third-grade classroom in rural Vermont. She is an active participant in UVM’s Alternative Spring Break program and is both a Community Service Scholar and a Vermont Scholar.

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

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

A Vermont Scholar, Robinson graduated from Brattleboro Union High School.