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travel. She and Paul ’62 visit granddaughters in Houston and Boulder, Colo....Dick Love and Lois divide the year between Ridgway, Colo., and Malibu Canyon in California. He reports the painting business of son Sean ’92 in San Francisco continues to thrive....Al Marden received the Bates Alumni Community Service Award for his tireless commitment to the town of North Adams, Mass. Al has served in many capacities over many years, including as director of the Chamber of Commerce and the North Adams Redevelopment Authority, on the Berkshire County Development Commission and as a longtime city council member. He also has served as an Alumni-in-Admission volunteer for Bates....Lee Nute and his wife split time between Pittsburgh and the California desert near Palm Springs. Long retired, he loves the free time.... Loie Payne Lindner tends her flower and veggie gardens. Dick creates beautiful wooden bowls on his lathe....Dick and Betty Anne Little Rowlands moved to a condo in Saco, Maine. They winter in Florida....In Weekapaug, R.I., Ed Rucci does occasional charter flights for a local airline. He hosted the second Rucci Golf Tournament, dedicated to the memory of Paul Castolene. Howie Vandersea, Web Harrison, Al Marden, Thom Freeman, John Curtiss and Monty Woolson attended....Bert Sampson, newly retired, and Marti hope to take a two-year boat ride encompassing the eastern U.S., St. Lawrence, Great Lakes, Mississippi River, Bahamas and Atlantic coast....Rosemarie Schaefer Bates hopes to move soon but doesn’t know where....Marion Schanz Ratcliff and Jim looked forward to two grandchildren’s weddings....Paula Schmidt Mansur enjoyed visits with Elaine Woodford Tracy and Ruthie Raymond Kapnis....Al Seelig got together in Ogunquit with Dick and Marge Brown.... Evie Shepherd Malloy and Jim enjoyed an Alaskan cruise with sister Freda ’61 and brother-in-law Paul Maier ’61.... Natalie Shober Moir and Jim met Dottie and George Stone and Bill Holt at Bates’ Muskie Archives to begin working on the class history....Douglas Smith continues appraising real estate in Missoula, Mont., and is president of the Rotary Club.... Shirley Snow Nicolai says her work as president of National Garden Clubs Inc. is challenging but rewarding....George and Dottie Selden Stone had a special trip with grandson Roland, son of Sarah Stone ’90 and Don Munsil....Howie Vandersea was inducted into the Maine Sports Hall of Fame in May. A four-year letter-winner in football and baseball at Bates, he earned
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All-Maine accolades three times at linebacker and center and was named to the Williamson All-America team. He was head football coach at Springfield College, then headed the Bowdoin program for 14 years, winning seven CBB championships. He founded the Maine chapter of the National Football Foundation in 1988 and continues as its president....Arlene Wignall Nickerson and Nick eat healthy, keep fit and spend time with five grandchildren. Daughter Amanda ’94 is the first director of the Jean Alberti Center for the Prevention of Bullying Abuse and School Violence at the Univ. of Buffalo....After a year as president of the College of the Marshall Islands, Ken Woodbury resumed his position as director of community development for Piscataquis County in Maine.... Elaine Woodford Tracy continues most of her volunteer activities. She got together with Paula and Jack Mansur at Moody’s Diner and enjoyed a day with Bernie Schulte Bowdoin ’62. Elaine and Arlene Wignall Nickerson keep in touch.
1964 Reunion 2014, June 5–8 class secretary John Meyn jemkpmeyn@aol.com class president Elizabeth Metz McNab ejmcnab@cox.net Kevin Gallagher bought a house in Cape Coral, Fla., near Red Sox spring training, and expects to move in sometime this year.
1965 Reunion 2015, June 11–14 class secretary Judith Morris Edwards juded@comcast.net class president Joyce Mantyla tiojack@aol.com
1966 Reunion 2016, June 10–12 class president Alexander Wood awwood@mit.edu Carl Straub, professor emeritus of religion, dropped us a note about his former student David Fulenwider, who was conferred the “Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette” by the government of Japan. Dave is president of the Japan-American Society of Maine, which since its establishment in 1982 has promoted grassroots exchanges, the introduction of Japanese culture in the state, networking between Japan and the U.S., and economic opportunities. Dave says that his Bates JYA experience “did much to lay the foundation for this, and
it was the late Dean of the Faculty George Healy who assisted me in setting up the program to get academic credit.” It was an eventful 2011: Dave retired after 32 years of teaching U.S. government at Buckfield High School as did his wife, Eiko, from TD Bank. “Our daughter, Margaret, a Tufts grad and civil engineer in Boston, gave us our first grandson. Our son, Mark, a Dartmouth grad, is a stuntman in Hollywood. Eiko and I have been practicing cross-cultural, cross-ethnic and cross-racial awareness since 1972, and it’s been fun! Remember the Beatles: ‘All You Need Is Love.’ And if ‘all politics is local,’ I’m keeping it so by serving on the Buckfield Village Corporation.”
1967 Reunion 2012, June 8–10 class co-secretaries Alexandra Baker Lyman toads@snet.net Ingrid Larsson Shea chezshea4@comcast.net class president Bob Bowden rbbowden@aol.com Linda Bartlett Burrowes spent early months of retirement visiting children and grands in Japan, Colorado and Brooklyn, N.Y. She and Mel ’66 were relieved that youngest child, Dan, and his family in Kyoto were insulated from the effects of the earthquake and tsunami....Bob Bowden and Carrolle love time with Ethan (11) and Hannah (13), their two step-grandchildren, and with Carly (2) and baby Lucy. Bob practices three days a week in the dental office, which he has turned over to Jonathon, leaving more time for golf.... Tim Hall joined Hudson Realty Capital as a vice president in its Fort Myers, Fla., office. He and Jill are visited often by their four granddaughters and friends, including Bryan Carlson and Anne, who have a home nearby, and Tom and Barbara Hill McKittrick....David Howe makes good use of his free time to see family, friends and sights in Florida and Arizona....David Hoyt remarried in 2004 and retired from New Milford (Conn.) High School in 2007, where he taught chemistry for 39 years. He now teaches part time at Immaculate High School. David has traded basketball and hiking for walking the dog and ballroom dancing. He enjoys his three grandsons, CJ, Sean and Seth, and takes them to the beach in Maine every August.... Pat Korol Wilson says life in Long Beach, Calif., is simpler and less stressful than Dallas. She and Scott look forward to returning east in three years to build their retirement home in Ghent, N.Y....Alan Lewis enjoys visits from grandchildren Piper,
Carter, Geoffrey and Teddy.... Harry Marsden has a second career as a volunteer, teaching ESL students and mentoring and training new tutors. His classes are often full of the spouses of international students at the Univ. of Michigan....Rick Powers reports that daughter Zoe Donaldson ’11 now lives in Brooklyn, N.Y. Rick and Darcy are adjusting to being empty-nesters. Darcy, now retired, is pursuing a master’s in women’s and gender studies at CUNY. He continues at Combe Inc., shepherding several new products to completion. Three of Rick’s sons are married: Ted ’01 was wed to Kat Kim, and T.J. to Alexandra Merz. Greg ’99 is the lone holdout....In Binghamton, N.Y., Richard Ryder continues his full-time practice in cardiology. He also golfs and flies his Cessna 182....Cindy Smith Ridder and Ted spent a day with her Bates roommate Charlotte Singer Krause in Phoenix. Cindy also keeps in touch with Judy Lanouette Nicholson and Suzanne Johnson Nixon. Cindy and Ted are both retired from teaching.... Rocky Stone and Leanne took a river cruise in the Netherlands and Belgium, “a great way to experience the region’s history and culture.”
1968 Reunion 2013, June 7–9 class secretary Rick Melpignano rickmel713@comcast.net class co-presidents Gerald Lawler Jill Howroyd Lawler lawlerjer@aol.com Continuing friendships that began at Bates, Mike Carr and Sue, Rocky Stone ’67 and Leanne, Michael and Anne Kingwill Morin have met for dinner in Sturbridge, Mass. Mike reports that in 2010 John and Carol Barry Lyons hosted a golf tournament in Hyannis, where the guests were mostly Bates football players. The camaraderie provided a flashback to 1968.... David Doe is enjoying his 33rd year of teaching and ninth year as chairman in the Westfield (Mass.) State Univ. biology department, with no plans to retire. He’s also chair of the Westfield Conservation Commission. Regularly interviewed by Westfield students taking a course on the 1960s, he always talks about Dave Nash. Both trained at Fort Benning, Ga., and served in Vietnam. Dave was wounded in March 1970 and died in May.... Linda Fisher Hathaway Bunza gave two lectures for the Oregon Bach Festival, “Beethoven’s Revolutionary Ninth Symphony” and “An Introduction to Brahms’ Requiem.”...Denis Fortier took a one-year position at Central