"Committed to encouraging young gay and lesbian people to be open, healthy and proud of their sexual orientation"

Douglas C. Howe and Frank E. Shivers:

To honor the life of his loving partner Frank and to remember their lives together, Doug generously endowed Samara Foundation and established the Douglas C. Howe and Frank E. Shivers Trust, both to benefit Vermont's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities.

Douglas C. Howe

December 22, 1949 - January 12, 1996

Frank Shivers

January 22, 1950 - May, 1994

Douglas Howe attended the public schools of Canton, NY, graduating from Kimball Union Academy in 1968. He received a BA from the University of Vermont in 1972 and his BS in Nursing from Case Western Reserve University in 1978. He was a 1982 graduate of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Nurse Anesthesia. He worked as a certified registered nurse anesthetist for Anesthesia Associates in Burlington, VT from 1983 - 1994.

Douglas took great pride in his work, his home and his flower gardens. He loved the out of doors, hiking, skiinig and swimming. Traveling at home and abroad was a top priority.

In November 1995, after losing his beloved life partner in May, Douglas had a wish to make an AIDS Quilt block in memory of his partner, Frank Shivers. With Douglas designing and with the help of his mother Theo and sister Fay Weber, his dream was accomplished in less than a week. It was finished in time to be displayed at the AIDS Quilt showing in Colchester, VT at St. Michael's College in December 1995.

When Douglas died less than two months later, his mother decided rather than to make a block for Douglas, that his name be added to the one he designed himself for his partner Frank. With some prodding of The Names Project Foundation, this was accomplished.

Doug's far reaching vision and generosity to Vermont's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities is honored in perpetuity by Samara Foundation in naming Douglas C. Howe, along with Robert Mundstock, as one of Samara's "Founding Benefactors".

Douglas C. Howe was the beloved son of Harry and Theo Howe of Quechee, Vermont.