takeaway: Kel House ’66
1962 Reunion 2017, June 9–11 class secretary Cynthia Kalber Nordstrom cknordstrom@verizon.net
ANNE BERLEANT/ THE WEEKLY PACKET
class president Edmund J. Wilson ed-wilson@kellogg.northwestern. edu
media outlet: The Weekly Packet
headline:
Insulating foam-based panels replace timber framing
date:
July 23, 2015
takeaway: You can build a house from insulation “You want to have a warm envelope,” Kel House ’66 tells reporter Anne Berleant of The Weekly Packet. He’s talking about home insulation, specifically the “structural insulated panels,” or SIPs, that he used in building his Brooksville, Maine, home. The solid panels have a high R-factor for insulation and are twice as strong as wood, with a load-bearing capacity that, when used for a roof or ceiling, can support a second story — or four feet of heavy snow. In House’s case, his home features seven dormer windows and a second-floor deck atop a first-floor sunroom, and it uses SIPs, which can be cut to any shape an architectural design demands, for walls, floors, and ceilings. House’s company, House & Sun Inc., has supplied panels cut to a specific size and R-factor for commercial and residential buildings all across Maine.
Cindy Kalber Nordstrom ’62 met Sylvia (Woodaman) ’63 and Lee Pollock ’64 on a plane this way: Cindy was putting away a Bates ID holder when her seatmates arrived and the woman said, “Bates! We went to Bates!” Scottie Doscher Payne had a fabulous trip to Paris and a Rhone River cruise with daughter Samantha ’90 and family. Scottie and Jan Carroll Moreshead, roommates all four years at Bates, vowed not long ago to write each other every month and have kept up....Ericka Hanlouser Kleim sees her two sons and grandchildren who live nearby....Rae Harper Garcelon traveled to India and Nepal. She flew close to Mount Everest in a small plane, less than a month before the destruction caused by the massive earthquake....Cindy Kalber Nordstrom traveled to Colorado to visit son Keith ’93 and family. “In airports I use the ‘Bates and You’ ID wallet we received at a Reunion years ago. I was about to put it back into my bag when my seatmates arrived and the woman said, ‘Bates, we went to Bates!’ Once settled we introduced ourselves and a mini-reunion began. My seatmates were Sylvia (Woodaman) ’63 and her husband Lee Pollock ’64!”...Carol Smith moved to a senior residence in downtown Boulder, Colo., near two of her kids and their families....Al Squitieri and Harriet celebrated their 50th anniversary....Ed Wilson and Jean spent a wonderful two weeks touring Sicily.
1963 Reunion 2018, June 8–10 class secretary Natalie Shober Moir nataliemoir@netflash.net class president Bill Holt wholt@maine.rr.com Ed Rucci hosted the annual Rucci Senior Golf Outing last summer in Weekapaug, R.I. Golfers included John Curtiss, Bill Farrington ’66,
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Thom Freeman, Web Harrison, Al Marden, Monty Woolson, and Howie Vandersea. The Rucci Open is a Class of ’63 tradition that began several years ago as a tribute to the late Paul Castolene. It begins with a toast to Paul’s life....Elvis and John Farr, while at their condo in Pass Christian, Miss., attended a week-long party for old-car buffs. John went back in time and found a ’55 Chevy, the car he learned to drive in.... Bill Holt is busy bottling wine, following a prosperous harvest from his vineyard in Cape Elizabeth. He and Jean Cushman Holt ’62 celebrated their 50th anniversary. They plan to sell their house and build a new one next to the vineyard....Marti and Butch Sampson traveled to the UK. He’s still the oldest student at Pensacola (Fla.) Christian College, majoring in flugelhorn....Natalie Shober Moir attended an international scientific conference in Kobe, Japan. She joined scientists from the North Pacific Rim nations to discuss oceanography, ecology, and fisheries biology related to the five species of salmon in the Pacific. She’s editing the proceedings for publication this summer by a fisheries commission in Vancouver.
1964 Reunion 2019, June 7–9 class secretary-treasurer John Meyn jemkpmeyn@aol.com class president Gretchen Ziegler gretchenz958@gmail.com John Meyn “fulfilled a bucket-list item when I woke up from a heart operation which successfully resealed a valve.” His recovery time goes well into 2016....Jon Olsen’s book Liberate Hawai’i! “has had what I might call trickle sales, but the YouTube video of nine minutes has had over 1,100 views.”...Bill Young used to travel to Delaware on summer weekends to enjoy the beach resort of Rehoboth Beach. “Now that we live here we don’t go. Too many tourists!”...Gretchen Ziegler visited Peggy Root Raybeck on a trip to Alaska.
1965 Reunion 2020, June 12–14 class secretary Evelyn “Evie” Horton ehhorton@me.com class president Joyce Mantyla tiojack@aol.com Nick Basbanes received a Public Scholar Research Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support his work in progress for Alfred A. Knopf, a dual biography of the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and his wife Fanny. Meanwhile, Cushing Memorial Library and Archives at Texas A&M announced the acquisition of Nick’s professional