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She bought a house in Austin in anticipation of becoming a Texas resident upon retirement. She travels extensively and in 2014 she and Kaylee Masury ’73 plan a trip to the Serengeti after which she will go to Uganda to see her son who lives there....Dirk Visser lives in Brussels, Belgium, and continues to work trading grain. He and his wife have two sons, including new Bates student Nicolas ’17....Katanya Woods and Paul have made the leap across the ocean to Rockport, Mass., and officially retired. Their two children, Paul and Lisa, live and work in New York City. Katanya and Paul are happily reconnecting with many Bates friends and look forward to our 40th Reunion in June. Katanya is also ready to help make it the best one ever!
1975 Reunion 2015, June 12–14 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
The annual “Boys Do Bumps” ski trip to Saddleback Mountain is “named for our longforgotten penchant for skiing moguls,” says Mike Genetti ’75. George Anders, who works with a database marketing company, and Donna have built a new home in Farmingdale, N.J. They enjoy family vacations to national parks....Deb Bednar Jasak, longtime president of the Hopkinton (N.H.) Garden Club, is retired and spends as much time as possible in her organic vegetable, herb and flower gardens. She and Bill enjoy traveling.... Jeff Brigham and Ruth had a wonderful “pilgrimage” to Israel in 2012 with a group from Pilgrim Pines Conference Center in New Hampshire....Carol Burgess Goetz is vice president of development at the Family Planning Assn. of Maine. She spends as much time as possible at her “retirement home” (in five-six years) on Deer Isle....Fred Demers, who lives in Baltimore but spends half his time on Highland Lake in Bridgton, Maine, is busy with leadership and career transition coaching. He stays in touch with Joe ’73 and Sally Danforth Grube and Roy Madsen....Chris Fahy’s daughter, Zoe ’13, graduated from Bates with a double major in environmental studies and dance....Debbie
Gray Alexander, who retired in 2010, and Mike ’74 have been traveling to places they always wanted to go, like a gorilla trek in Uganda and Rwanda....Jackie Henrion still writes songs, recently expanding into poetry after taking a writing class with Berklee’s online Music College.... Jon Howard celebrated 30 years of marriage to Gayle Gifford as well as 16 years of being business partners with her in their strategy consulting firm for nonprofit clients, Cause & Effect Inc. in Providence, R.I....Longtime Twin Citians (Minn.) Jeff and Lindy Larson Howe get together with Chuck and Sandi Korpela Radis ’77 and Gina Chase ’77 whenever they can. “We all laugh so much it hurts!” Lindy works as a librarian at the Stillwater (Minn.) Public Library, an ever-challenging and exciting job. Jeff works at Dovetail Inc., the nonprofit environmental “think tank” he founded that disseminates science-based information about land use, especially forests....Becky Hutto is the principal at Robert Hunter Elementary School in Flemington, N.J. She and her husband, David Gottlieb, spend as much time as they can at their second home in New Portland, Maine....Bob Marso retired from the marine business and is busier than ever. He does some landscape designing, refinishes antique furniture and is writing a new cookbook....Faith Minard happily works as a psychiatric nurse practitioner in Manchester, N.H. She and husband Stephen Blatt, a physicist and software engineer, spend many weekends on Long Lake in North Bridgton, Maine....Sandy Shea is the year-1 curriculum director at the Southern Illinois Univ. School of Medicine, “so I hang out with really smart medical students all the time and help them learn what they need to become good physicians.” She’s a double cancer survivor....Gary Sinclair is now working with the public defender’s office out of Malden and Somerville, Mass. He says it doesn’t pay much, but it’s interesting work....Liz Spamer Enas works part time and loves life in Colorado. She volunteers with the city parks and travels quite a bit....Marty Welbourn Freeman works part time for the Alaska Division of Forestry. She quilts, sings in the UU choir and skis cross-country....The 30th annual “Boys Do Bumps” ski trip took place in March 2013 at Saddleback Mountain in Rangeley. The event, “named for our long-forgotten penchant for skiing moguls,” is a weekend filled with skiing, lobsters, kegs of beer, Foosball, whist and renewed friendship. The boys included Ken Queeney, Guy Roberge ’73, Mike Genetti, Bob Littlefield, Joe Burke ’73, Jim Dachos, Rick Jack, Matt Gilligan, Steve McCusker, Bob Watt ’76, Pete Williams ’74 and Alan Hill.
1976 Reunion 2016, June 10–12 class secretary Jeffrey Helm jeffrey.helm@verizon.net class president Bruce Campbell brucec@maine.rr.com
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 Singer-songwriters Barbara Cassidy and Eric Chasalow are the heart of the Barbara Cassidy Band, which released a new album, Fly Away. The six-song EP features four songs the couple wrote together. Eric and Barbara began songwriting and performing together in 2010. Besides their originals, they perform American and Irish traditional songs. Eric is also a professor of music at Brandeis Univ., where he teaches composition and directs BEAMS (Brandeis Electro-Acoustic Music Studio). Last summer he composed a piece of music inspired by the Dead Sea Scrolls. “Where it Finds Nothing But the Wind,” which features lyrics taken directly from the scrolls, was performed Oct. 5 at Brandeis’ Slosburg Music Center....Laura deFrancesco McLaughlin says it’s been a year of surprises: Youngest stepdaughter Megan gave birth to a second pair of twins, and Laura’s husband George had a surprise hip replacement. “Fortunately, the twins are healthy, and the hip replacement went well. I continue to volunteer as president of the Kent (Conn.) Chamber of Commerce and to perform paid consultant work at the Kent Memorial Library. There was no summer travel, but we plan to get to Halifax to meet the twins this fall, winter in Florida again and are exploring an African safari for 2014!”...Along with her regular work teaching and doing therapy in Pennsylvania, Landi deGregoris Turner co-directed a gender studies summer course in Maine. “Students lived in community a few blocks from the beach, and we read, wrote, explored and talked together for three weeks. It was wonderful, although a bit odd to be in Maine and not vacationing! My oldest son graduated from Muhlenberg College and is living back home with a good job, and the youngest is a sophomore at Dickinson. Life is good!”... After a nice, relaxing hiatus of nine months, Lynn Glover Baronas returned to work as the assistant director of student and alumni engagement at the
Univ. of Hartford. “Feels great to be back on a college campus!”... Jane Goguen Baronas writes of a busy year in Boston. Anna graduated from Boston Latin and is off to SUNY Purchase to study in the Conservatory of Theatre Arts. “We are very proud of our artful daughter! I hope she is as lucky with roommates as I was; Pam Walch Constantine and I moved all over the Bates campus together for four years. Our son, John, will be doing it all in another two years, so we have a busy stretch coming up. As a result (!), Matt and I have no immediate plans for retirement, but we both enjoy our jobs, so that’s a bonus. I see Pam and sister-inlaw Lynn Glover Baronas as often as I can, especially for our ever-daring Cape Cod weekends!”...Steve Hadge “began my 30th year in the Manchester (Conn.) public schools — seventh year as a library media specialist, which I love! My daughter recently entered the teaching profession, seventh-grade math, after several years as a research chemist. I am thrilled and very proud. Everyone in my family is well and healthy. Couldn’t ask for anything more!”...Joe and Anne Allen Majsak say life is just fine in White Plains, N.Y. Joe is winding down his insurance career at GenRe, and Anne’s engaged in multiple nonprofits and churches. They expect to add the grandparent title when eldest daughter Carrie gives birth. David, their young man with Down syndrome, works at IBM in food services and is proud to bring home a paycheck. He loves riding with dad. Emily is in her third year at Northpoint College in Haverhill, Mass., and enjoys her collegiate experience. Joe and Anne ran a three-day, 1,000-plus-mile motorcycle endurance event through the Finger Lakes, Catskills and Allegheny Mountains....Ken Maloney reports Maggie is a sophomore at Connecticut College and Lucy a senior at Dana Hall School, bound for Vanderbilt next year. “Sara and I are each hanging tough with our businesses.”... Heather Ouimet McCarthy writes, “Life in Maine is good ... if absurdly wet. I am still at the Sun Journal, loving my eclectic job that includes everything from news page design to creating story illustrations to writing editorials. Bill and I are grandparents to two beautiful girls, Katie, 3, and Elizabeth, 11 months, and having the time of our lives. We still travel afar whenever we can: up next, Aruba in March. Also love to tour the New England roads in our fire-orange Solstice convertible.”...Marybeth Pope Salama had a busy year. “Still at Family Hospice and Palliative Care struggling with the sequester impact on reimbursement for what is already a labor of love. Happily we are still healthy and thinking longingly of retirement (too soon, I know). We are think-
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