Robert M. Ruzzo '81 has been appointed deputy director of the Massachusetts Housing Finance Agency, the leading provider of affordable housing in Massachusetts. He has served MassHousing as general counsel since September 2000 * A Chronicle of Philanthropy article detailing the fund-raising success of Vermont Academy in Saxons River, Vt., featured "the soul of the school," Thomas C. Oxholm '86. He has been on the staff at the academy, his alma mater, for 12 years, nine as development director.

Births: A son, Philip Taber Koechling, to Jeff and Kit Williams Koechling '84 * A daughter, Emily Sheehan, to Andrew '85 and Barbara Wilkes Sheehan '85.

Marriages: Joseph J. Deburro '83 to Kristen Hachadourian in Osterville, Mass. * Margaret S. Foster '88 to R. Pretlow Majette in Portland, Maine * Ellen J. Meigs '88 to Paul F. Carchedi in Millis, N.H. * William F. Reed '88 to Jennifer K. St. Martin on Cape Cod, Mass. * Kimberly L. King '89 to Orion E. Poplawski in Boulder, Colo.

Deaths: William F. White Jr. '83, October 22, 2001, in Sunapee, N.H., at 39.