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1950s THOMAS BARTLETT ’59 has been retired for 17 years after a career as a Maine school superintendent. He is a Master Gardener Thomas Bartlett ’59 and serves as a director at large of the Maine State Beekeepers Association. As a hobby, he restores Gravely walk-behind tractors and attachments. He enjoys RV traveling, the Bangor Symphony, Penobscot live theater, and taking free UMO senior courses, all with his wife Linda.
1960s ELEANOR BLAKE MEEKINS ’60 “I am very involved as the program director of the ICF Columbus (icfcolumbus.org) as well as a very active church volunteer. I am also involved with Franklin University, one of the universities from which I graduated. Talk about engagement, they are experts. They featured me as a nontraditional student in a large recruiting brochure they used for four years when I graduated in 1990. They have now requested that I submit my headshot and bio so that they can feature me as an alumnus in a magazine that goes all over the country and several countries. I am honored.” JAMES ARCHIBALD ’63 was appointed by the International Relations Office at the University of Turin, Italy, as a visiting professor
LARRY GALLAGHER ’64 and his wife, Kathy, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on July 24, 2021. While there was not a grand celebration (due to COVID), friends and family joined forces asking for friends to share cards and congratulations. Hundreds of cards were received from well-wishers! ROSEMARY BOOTHBY RANKIN ’66 “I was so happy and relieved to attend my 55th reunion in August. I will always be grateful for (l to r): Brittany Lewis Joas ’90, Lonni Lutte Lewis ’59, my four years at FA where I received an excellent and Beckett Joas ’25 education and made some lasting friendships. I in the Department of Foreign Languages, hope that more of my classmates will be able to Literatures, and Modern Cultures for the attend our next re2021-22 academic year. In this capacity, he union. I am pleased will work with the faculty in cooperation with to announce the Professor Maria Mattioda in developing a birth of my second new diploma (Professional Master’s Degree) grandchild on in cultural diplomacy and management to be October 14, 2021. offered in French. The program aims to promote Adelaide Rose, who educational exchanges within the larger Frenchis two weeks old speaking world and other countries that are in this photo, has supportive of linguistic and cultural diversity, given my husband including Canada. James will also participate of fifty years and me in the University’s delegation to the European one more reason for Rosemary Rankin ’66 Commission’s conference on Translating Europe. gratitude.” He leaves McGill University at the end of August after 35 years of service to the institution. James will continue to serve as an expert in translation with the International Organization for GARY DEABLER ’71 “I’m retired after 47 Standardization (ISO), as well as a member of the years which included 20 years in the military Superior Council of the French Language and the (Vietnam and Gulf War vet), 15 years with Office des professions du Québec. His lifetime Boeing in St. Louis, and the rest of the time passion for public and academic professional spent working in commercial aviation. I enjoy service has garnered him recognition as a riding my BMW motorcycle, going to the firing Chevalier in the Ordre des Palmes Académiques, ranges, shooting my handguns and long rifle, and among other awards. During his tenure at playing golf. I’m currently married to my best McGill, he held a number of administrative friend of 15 years.” leadership positions. James leaves behind a rich JANET TAYLOR SCHMIDT ’71 has been legacy of teaching and programming that has married to her best friend, Keith Schmidt, shaped countless lives and careers.
Several members and supporters of Fryeburg Academy’s ski team gathered for a luncheon at John Atwood’s home. First row (l to r): George Weston ’60, Paul McGuire, Brett Russell ’56, Kristen Russell McDermott ’83, Bruce Smith ’67, John Weston ’93; Back row (l to r): Silas Eastman ’13, John Atwood ’71, and Russell Ross ’68. 40
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Kevin Turner ’76 and his daughter, Zala Samuels ’09