takeaway: Lester Kenway ’75
Development From Railroad Suburbs to Smart Growth, at the Watertown (Mass.) Historical Society. He works as a planner for the National Park Service’s Boston Regional Office....Ira Waldman received the Outstanding Real Estate Lawyer Award from the Los Angeles County Bar Assn.’s Real Estate Property Section. He is a partner in the firm Cox Castle Nicholson.
Do it right and you won’t have to do it over media outlet:
Portland Press Herald
headline:
Maine’s Lester Kenway a quiet legend on the Appalachian Trail
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Reunion 2019, June 7–9 class secretary Tina Psalidas Lamson tinal2@mac.com class president Don McDade dmcdade@llbean.com Court Lewis, a clinical professor of orthopedic surgery at UConn’s School of Medicine, spoke at a series on aging in Bloomfield, Conn....Former Denville (N.J.) Mayor Carol Prochazka Spencer was named Woman of the Year by the New Jersey Federation of Republican Women, which cited her accomplishments in politics and business. She is the digital and social media manager for Morris County.
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Reunion 2015, June 12–14
A Portland Press Herald profile celebrates Lester Kenway ’75 for his trail and conservation work around the country. An Appalachian Trail legend, Kenway is responsible for technical advances in trail building that can be found in the nation’s best-loved parks, including Maine’s Baxter State Park, at the AT’s northern end. His achievements include a pulley system that aids hikers attaining the summit of Katahdin, the highest mountain in Maine, a technique replicated in Yellowstone National Park and elsewhere. This former Outing Club member has dedicated his life to making the outdoors accessible. He was trail supervisor in Baxter from 1978 to 2000, and from 2001 to 2008 he was program coordinator for the Maine Conservation Corps. His motto, the trailblazing trail builder tells the Press Herald, is: “Do it well, do it once, do it to last.”
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class co-secretaries Deborah Bednar Jasak wjasak@comcast.net Faith Minard minardblatt@comcast.net class co-presidents Susan Bourgault Akie susieakie@aol.com Janet Haines janethaines@alumni.bates.edu
“Everybody can be pushed to get better,” says Pat McInerney ’75, the new head of Kents Hill School, and it’s up to teachers to both push and support. Rich Forde, retired senior vice president and chief investment officer of Cigna Corp., was appointed to the board of Connecticut Water Service Inc....Pat McInerney talked with the Kennebec Journal about being the new head of Kents Hill School in Readfield, where he arrived in 1992 as a biology teacher and assistant head of school. Besides teaching and administration, he has coached soccer, tennis and skiing at the coed prep school. “My education philosophy is you want to meet every student
where they arrive — whether that’s in biology or that’s in skiing or that’s in their personal hygiene if they’re a ninth-grade boy — and move them forward in all those areas.” Everyone can be pushed to get better, he says, and it’s a teacher’s job to push and support.
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Reunion 2016, June 10–12 class secretary Jeffrey Helm jeffrey.helm@verizon.net class president Bruce Campbell brucec@maine.rr.com Kathy Fisher, head of the Wealth Management Group at AllianceBernstein, talked about “China’s Challenges, America’s Advantages” at the Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning in Manchester Center, Vt....Jordan Fiore was elected to the Taunton (Mass.) School Committee where he served three two-year terms in the 2000s. A lawyer, he also served 14 years on the city council.... Richard Pettengill, chair of the Lake Forest (Ill.) College Theater Department and a musician, is the co-editor of Taking It to the Bridge: Music as Performance. In the book, musicologists and performance studies scholars examine the role of performance in musical culture....Karen Stathoplos is in her 25th year in charge of membership and financial statements for the environmental nonprofit Laudholm Trust. She and her husband spent 16 days in Provence and Paris. She performed three concerts with her group Mosaic and two with Two for the Show.... Steve Stycos runs a two-acre vegetable farm in Warwick, R.I., that provides fresh produce to the city’s main food pantry. He also serves on the Cranston City Council and reports he had his ward blanketed with overnight parking tickets when he voted against the police contract.... Claudia Turner published Scars and Stripes Forever, a suspense novel set against the backdrop of President Kennedy’s assassination. Kirkus Reviews called it thought-provoking and entertaining.
1977 Reunion 2017, June 9–11 class co-presidents Joel Feingold joelafeingold@me.com Dervilla McCann meistermcn@aol.com class secretary Steve Hadge Steve_Hadge@alumni.bates.edu