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Phil Averill volunteers at a land trust, is sexton at his church, and is in charge of an oceanside cemetery....Cindi Byrkit looks forward to road trips after retiring from the group health insurance industry....David Dysenchuk says 2017 may be his last year on Metro North. He remains involved in commercial real estate finance.... Paul Erickson is having a blast as an aquarist/educator on the Sea Shuttle Endeavour, a 45-foot catamaran out of Salem, Mass. “What’s better than seeing kids have those magic moments when they get to hold a spider crab, sea star or a slimy moon snail for the first time?”…Jim Gilligan still works in the biotech industry as chief scientific offficer at Tarsa Therapeutics in Philadelphia.... Janet Gross Dzubow volunteers for several tennis organizations and loves being “Nana.”…Heidi Harms Remy and George get up to Bates on occasion to attend various programs. They were impressed with student presentations at the Mount David Summit....As CEO at Axis Health System in southwest Colorado, Bern Heath finds work incredibly exciting and rewarding....Peg Kern volunteers for the Forest Service in the Sedona, Ariz., area and for the sheriff’s office as member of a search and rescue posse....After a 41-year career in insurance/risk management, Steve Kirsche is excited to be in charge of national sales for a new company that brings a doctor into the room of a nursing home patient....Rodger Lawton still enjoys practicing full time prosthodontics in Olympia, Wash.... Jon Lowenberg continues to enjoy life in Baltimore....Don McDade is happily working at L.L. Bean....Norm Olsen continues his work in international business management at Dell/ EMC as global program manager. He planned a ski trip with Al Green ’75, Neal Ouellett, John Egan, Carol Rosseland, Jerry Quinlan, and Karen Harris.... Marilee Osier teaches Latin and English online for The Virtual High School Collaborative and travels with Ken all over the USA in their RV....After playing varsity badminton at Bates, Carolyn Sauer Hoefer has revitalized her badminton career, participating in masters tournaments throughout the U.S. and Canada....Debbie Wood Burns retired and is ready to travel.
1975 Reunion 2020, June 12–14 class co-secretaries Deborah Bednar Jasak Deborahjasak@gmail.com Faith Minard minardblatt@gmail.com class co-presidents Susan Bourgault Akie susieakie@gmail.com Janet Haines jbh580@aol.com
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Sandra Shea ’75’s view of August’s solar eclipse will rival anyone’s: The longest period of the total eclipse in the world will be about three miles from her house. Deb Bednar Jasak spends as much time as possible in her gardens. She’s the longtime president of the Hopkinton (N.H.) Garden Club....Susie Bourgault Akie retired from her high school position and is now more available to be a grandmother. She and several other Wilson House girls convened at Patty Simmons Risley’s waterfront estate in Rhode Island: Mame Kiltz, Louise Rutland, Kathy Burns, and Mindy Cole. Bob “Wilson” Pickett even checked in....Fred Demers returned to Baltimore, closer to his sons, church, and professional opportunity. He’s in close touch with Roy Madsen....Jane Fangmann White and Randy are into boating (power) and love their time on the water....Gary Ferguson, executive director of the Downtown Ithaca (N.Y.) Alliance, talked with the Voice for an article about prominent Ithacans and their first seven jobs. His included washing dishes in the Bates dining hall where he met his future wife, Lisa (Pelletier ’77). “It certainly made going to work a fun and much anticipated part of my day.”…Matt Gilligan got together with Rick Jack, Steve McCusker, Bob Littlefield, Jim Dachos, and Bob Watt ’76 at Alan Hill’s house in Friendship, Maine....Janet Haines is the director of real estate at Brookline Housing Authority. She, Bob Pickett and his wife Paula had a great weekend with Peter ’77 and Linda LeBlanc Manning ’77....Jonathan Howard and wife Gayle Gifford celebrated 20 years of successful business partnership as well as 33 years of marriage....Becky Hutto retired from her principalship in Flemington, N.J., and now works part time as a consulting teacher for the Center for Responsive Schools....Margaret McCann Wilcox is a team leader in Glastonbury, Conn., with Williams Raveis Real Estate. She and Dave ’74 have three grandsons.... Faith Minard and Stephen entertained Becky Hutto and her husband David....In Springfield, Mass., The Republican profiled Rus Peotter as he retired after 15 years as general manager of WGBY, western New England’s public television affiliate. At a gala to mark his retirement, “there was no absence of superlatives to describe Peotter. Awesome. Unconventional. Special. Networker,” said writer Cynthia
Simison. She noted that his wife, Jennifer, may have described him best: “I’m married to a cando, I-do man. Rus is genetically wired to help other people.” The newly established Rus Peotter Community Engagement Fund at WGBY exceeded $100,000 even before it was formally announced. The fund will be used to continue some of the important work Rus undertook during his tenure, including providing stipends for interns at the public TV station in coming years.… Enzo Rebula has no plans to retire as he still pays the bills for the last child in college....Jim Reuter enjoyed going back to school for a French immersion course at the Univ. of Québec à Trois-Rivières....Nick Richards drives the local Council on Aging bus a couple of times a week. He finds it sobering to realize that as a lover of the Beatles and Stones, he himself is eligible to use the bus. Janine Ventura Richards retired from Hamilton-Wenham HS but dove back into the all-male Malden Catholic classroom. “One of my freshmen has a Batesie mother who is just a little younger than we are.”…Susan Russell-Robinson retired from the U.S. Geological Survey and looks forward to spending many months each year in Norway, Maine, away from the Virginia heat....Dotty Sammons, a faculty member at Idaho State Univ., has fun camping and hiking and only needs to step out the door to be in some amazing country....Peter Schroeter was selected as the president of the Maine Assn. of Mediators and recognized by The Best Lawyers in America as Mediation Lawyer of the Year for 2017 in the Portland area.... Sandra Shea teaches at the Southern Illinois Univ. School of Medicine. Thousands of people are expected to descend on southern Illinois to see the solar eclipse on Aug. 21, 2017. The longest period of total eclipse in the world will be about three miles from her house....Now in her second year as president of Swarthmore College, Val Smith says she enjoys using long walks for productive conversations. “I firmly believe you can go places in conversation with people when you are walking that you can’t go when you are sitting with them. So I am thrilled that so many people on campus are willing to take walks with me,” she told NBC Philadelphia....Jim Sutton writes: “Still working, still single, but done looking.”
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Bruce Campbell received a Bates’ Best award. As gift chair and a class agent, Bruce rallied the Class of 1976 to achieve a whopping 67 percent Bates Fund participation. “In his unofficial, but no less vital roles, Bruce led the coordination of a Reunion planning effort focused on re-engaging classmates by producing a robust class newsletter, increasing Class of ’76 Facebook page membership and activity, and organizing the 40th Reunion Committee’s personal outreach to classmates,” his citation reads in part.
1977 Reunion 2017, June 9–11 class co-presidents Joel Feingold joelafeingold@me.com Dervilla McCann meistermcn@aol.com class secretary Steve Hadge schmuddy@yahoo.com Betsy Alberty, who works with emerging technologies in the life sciences market, and her partner are making progress with funding for a periodontal disease diagnostic test....Peter Brann lives in Harpswell, practices law in Lewiston and around the country, and teaches law at Columbia and Harvard....Jeff Brown practices as a pediatric hospitalist, now for a large national medical group, MedNax Medical Group....Carl Grove is building a house in Elloree, S.C....John and Susan Young Haile enjoy life at Brooks School in North Andover, Mass., where he’s returned to full-time English teaching. “It’s cool to be able to teach Olive Kitteridge (by classmate and fellow English major Liz Strout) to my AP English students!”… John Howe works as a mergers and acquisitions intermediary for private companies and is serving as chairman of an industry association, the M&A Source, during 2017....Henry Mauer now lives in Harpswell....Vicki Tripp Gordan still works at Unum, now as chief auditor....George Van Hare and Middy Estabrook ’76 are now a triple-legacy family, youngest son Christopher ’16 having just graduated. Both are on the faculty of Washington Univ. School of Medicine in St. Louis....In Vermont, Janet “Zooey” Zullo develops educational programs for a number of organizations including the Vermont Institute of Natural Science.
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class secretary Jeffrey Helm bateslax@gmail.com
class secretary Chip Beckwith chipwith@yahoo.com
class president Bruce Campbell brucec@maine.rr.com
class president Dean M. Berman deanocean@aol.com