Faculty guests included Mac Davis and wife Nancy, Jim and Lucia (Baker) Owen, and Bonnie Pooley as well as cameo appearances from the Advancement Office and members of several 80’s classes. Other 70’s alumni spotted during the weekend were Robert Casella ’75, Sue Hatch ’70, and Dan Vogt ’71. Robert and Sue are both parents of students who are presently attending Gould. Various photo albums of the weekend can be viewed on Kim Siebert’s Facebook page – you must join Facebook to be able to see them – and by going to www.mygould.org. Once there click on “Flickr”, then choose “Alumni Weekend 2008.” Charles Ewing ’73 lives in Crown Point, Indiana and works for Sekerez and Associates, managing their surveying operations in Illinois. He has two fine children: a son, David who was married in October 2007 and a daughter, Kamilah, who started college this fall. Charlie has exchanged emails over the years with Wendy Ault, Sandra Thomas, and Brock Allen and would love to hear from Gould friends. He says it seems like 35 minutes ago that we were all at Gould – not 35 years. Bill Hawk ’73 was thinking about coming to reunion but a sailing accident resulted in the need for reconstructive hand surgery. He sends his best to everyone and hopes for better luck to be able to attend the 40th. Nancy Wagner ’73 couldn’t make it to reunion this year because daughter Chloe Caras was married to Justin Constantino on the very same weekend. Nancy is a painter, living in Portland, Me.
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Cindy Bragg Joyce ’73 almost made it to reunion but the timing was off since she had just returned from her family’s annual visit to New England. Cindy and Bob’s two older children are in college but younger daughter Erin, in 9th grade, still keeps mom busy with many skating practices and competitions. Cindy lives outside of Washington in Fairfax, VA.
Jang Jallow ’73 is a teacher, living in Wisconsin, and married to Fatima, a nurse. They have two beautiful daughters. Sally Peacock ’73, who has been in touch with Jang through the years since graduation, sent photographs of Jang and his family, taken while they visited Sally’s family home last summer in Lubec, Maine. Sally now lives in Portland, ME and is an EKG technician at Maine Medical Center.
1974 Class Agent Needed Deb Hewson Merrill ’74 writes that life is busy! “I’m working four part time jobs, including teaching a semester class at the University of Southern Maine in Intro to Digital Art, four classes at Maine College of Art, freelance design for a summer camp history book, and my regular home business doing Neuromuscular Therapy on muscle injuries. There’s never enough time for my art and bicycling and family! My son Parker is applying to colleges, and we had a fun day recently looking at MIT and BU.”
1976 Class Agent Needed Tim Dolven passed along news of what he has been doing since graduating from Gould. “Personally I have not been back to Bethel since I left in the spring of ’77. My goal was to ski my way west which I successfully did. I made stops in Boulder for four years and Utah for a year after which I managed to find my way to the Napa Valley and into the wine business (imagine, a real career). I have been in Napa since the spring of ’85. I have worked for a variety of wineries in a variety of positions over the years but since the spring of ’04 I have been the Winemaker for Steltzner Vineyards in Napa making big red wines – Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot mainly. Along the way Amy Westwater found me thru her remembrances of my dad and we have become best email friends. We still haven’t gotten together even though we
only live about an hour apart. I met my wife, Mandy, during a winter off that I spent in Tahoe. We have been married for 17 years and have an 11 year old son, Alex, who is entering the 5th grade. I can never make it back to the fall reunions as they happen during the peak of the annual grape harvest which is flat out my busiest and most important time of the year. I do want to get back and ski Sunday River – which I imagine has gone thru some changes since ’77! We are all good, happy, healthy, employed (my wife does graphic design – specializing in wine label design). When I’m not working I still ski about 30 days a year and do mountain biking and golf in the summer when I get a chance.
1977 Class Agent: tish carr journeysendfarm@roadrunner.com Sam Adams reports: “I am loving life and doing well, except that I don’t get to see my Gould friends as much as I would like! My wife Kelly and I live in Weston, CT with our son Nicholas (who is nine) and a couple of happy-go-lucky Labradors. I commute to New York where I run a hedge fund I started a few years ago called the Cedar Lane Entertainment Fund. The business is doing quite well and the work is interesting, but it requires a lot of air travel, which loses its thrill after a while. I am still getting in as much skiing and fishing as I can and I spend weekends and a little vacation time at our summer house in Small Point, ME. I hope classmates and other Gould buddies will contact me at: Fireflyfarm@mac.com, Home: 203-3410304, or by mail at Firefly Farm, 10 Cedar Lane, Weston, CT 06883.
1978 Class Agent: Glenn Dwyer glenn.dwyer96@gmail.com The Class of 1978 was well represented by four members at Alumni Weekend on September 26th, 27th, and 28th; Karen Eisenberg, Teel Teator DeJoy, Amy Vogt Downie and I. Teel’s daughter, Gigi is currently a sophomore, and was the focus during the Girls Soccer game vs. Hyde.