UMass Amherst: The Magazine for Alumni and Friends

Spring 2008

FEATURES
Wax to Wool
What They’ve Learned: Words of wisdom from entrepreneurial alumni.
—Grace Friary

Photo: Stacy Madison
Stacy Madison’s twin daughters, Samantha and Morgan, like their mom’s chips for snacking . . . and playing.

STACY MADISON IS THE COFOUNDER and brand name behind Stacy’s Pita Chip Company. The former social worker built the brand with her partner, Mark Andrus, from a sandwich cart in downtown Boston to a $60-million-a-year business employing 100 people. She has held such diverse jobs as scooping ice cream (in high school), waitressing (in college), and working in a facility for homeless, pregnant, and drug-addicted women. Stacy’s Chips recently experienced two momentous events, suffering a four-alarm fire on December 3, 2005, in which nobody was hurt, and being bought by PepsiCo, Inc.

 

 

Life, Science, and Who Does the Dishes
The fine art of being a professional family.
From Wax to Wool
Life on the farm can humble even the most driven corporate executive.
French Connections
New documentary brings WWI ambulance drivers into sharp focus.
Sustainable Style
Make your home greener—warmer, brighter, and prettier too.
Staying in the Green
UWW to teach adult learners the new art of sustainable entrepreneurship.
 
Finishing Touches
Tales of an undertaker’s apprentice.
Horse Sense
Holding the reins at W. F. Young.
Nifty at Fifty
Highlights from “Nowhere Else But Here: 1958-2008.”
Saving Graces and Savvy Economics
Grateful alumni couple make a generous planned gift.
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Jim Lavrakas ’74 spends three decades as a photographer for Alaska's biggest newspaper
UMass Clicks
Check out the amazing range of UMies online
 

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