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Maine Alumnus, Volume 66, Number 1, December 1984

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8 UMO Featured on

MacNeil/Lehrer Report By Sherman H asbrouck The university is lauded for leading the way in radon work.

10 Maine’s Main Museum

Is Mainly UMainers By Betty A dams An exciting new exhibit opens at the Maine State Museum, and four alumni play key roles. Page 4 14 The Eagle Man By Susan Hand Shetterly UMO’s Charles Todd ’79 spearheaded the drive to bring back Maine’s bald eagle.

16 East Meets West:

Henry P. Sheng ’54 By Norah D eakin D avis He holds six engineering patents and, as a concert pianist, is bringing contem­ porary Chinese music to the U.S.

18 The Advancing Giant By Bernard R. Yvon. E d.D. Chinese educators are turning their backs on Russia: one of the startling changes a UMO professor found on a recent visit to the People’s Republic.

Departments

2 Letters 4 University of Maine News 9 General Alumni Association News Alumni ambassadors . . . new council members . . . new campaign launched Page 14 . . . and more

13 Homecoming Photographs 19 Gallery 20 Deaths 21 Class Notes Ann Green Robison ’24 . . . “ Stump” Merrill . . . and more

Cover Photo by A1 Pelletier Season’s Greetings Page 16 Aubert Hall

Maine Alumnus is published four times yearly by the General Alumni Association for alumni and friends of the University of Maine at Orono. The magazine’s editorial office is located at the Crossland Alumni Center, UMO, Orono, ME 04469. A voluntary gift of $10 to the Annual Alumni Fund is a subscription. Third class postage is paid at Orono, Maine 04473. Circula­ tion is 150,000 issues yearly. Telephone (207) 581-1132. Maine Alumnus Magazine SHEPARD MOTORS Letters Robert J. Holmes, Jr. ’70G Editor U.S Route 1 Norah Deakin Davis ROCKLAND. MAINE Vietnam information needed Assistant Editor Faith Hutchins Webster ’60 Editor: Photography Jack Walas, A1 Pelletier and Keith Dresser I am a freelance writer conducting ex­ Design Consultants tensive research on the anti-Vietnam F. Stephen Ward ’76 and Arline Thomson War protest movement of the late 1960’s Alumni Association Officers and early 1970’s. Anyone who partici­ William D. Johnson ’56, President Henry L.P. Schmelzer ’65, First Vice President pated in anti-Vietnam War activities dur­ Chairman, Annual Alumni Fund ing this period is asked to contact me. Fred P. Tarr ’53, Second Vice President Richard W. Sprague ’51, Treasurer AUTHORIZED DEALER Eugene E. Pfaff, Jr. Patricia N. Shaw ’70, Clerk Robert J. Holmes, Jr. ’70G, Executive Director 3109 Shady Lawn Drive C H E V R O L E T - T O Y O T A Josephine M. Profita ’38, Former GAA President Greensboro, North Carolina 27508 C H R Y S L E R - D O D G E Alumni Council D A T S U N - A M C Kenneth W. Allen '56G Edward C. Hall ’48 Deborah Scott Aseltine ’80 Margaret T. Homans ’54 Ronald E. Bishop ’53 Susan A. Johnson ’85 Barbara H. Bodwell ’45 Ernest K. Khoury, Jr. ’53 HONDA MOTORCYCLES Owen H. Bridgham ’68G Jeffrey D. MacDonald '68 Margo F. Cobb ’52 Robert I. Olsen ’50 HERE Mark H. Cohen ’54 Carroll R. Pickard ’52 S a le s - P a rts - S e rv ic e Norinne H. Daly ’59 Jeffry W. Raynes ’76 poems by Arthur E. Dentremont ’51 Karen W. Reis ’67 F. Paul Desmond ’59 Steven D. Ritzi ’85 "Quality G olden Rule Dealer" Dana C. Devoe ’56 Charles E. Stickney, Jr. ’44 Margaret Robison Karla H. Downs ’71 Stephen M. Towle ’73 Dorothy B. Erikson ’42 Janet R. Willis ’74 "Robison has a distinc­ James H. Goff ’63 TEL: (207) 594-8424 tive voice: her verse is Ex Officio Members r e a l." Arthur M. Johnson, President, UMO C.F. Terrell Malcolm E. Jones ’52, President, Visit and Buy in cover photograph by University of Maine Foundation "Beautiful M id-Coast Maine" Barbara Sherburne Charles F. Bragg II, Chairman, UMO Development Council Roy Shepard '41 Send $5 plus $1 postage & handling to COPPER BEECH ENTERPRISES P.O. Box 469, E. Longmeadow, MA 01028

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The topic of the convocation was mathematics, and logic, skills needed Preparing Ourselves for a Changing “ no matter what kind of institution you World. According to Dr. Arthur will work for.” She also urged that they Johnson, UMO president, the convoca­ consider the fields of education and tion is the first in a series of events human services for careers. focusing on the subject of change. Johnson also noted that the re- institution of convocations was recom­ mended by the university’s Task Force ssue Passes on Academic Excellence. Johnson introduced an innovation On November 6 Maine voters approved during the program when he presented a $9 million bond issue for improving four students with recognition pins university facilities at Orono. Passage of honoring their achievement of academic the referendum will mean the first major capital expansion for the university in excellence. Johnson said the pins will be over 10 years. given to all UMO students who achieve a B plus average for a given semester. The $9 million package is part of a $16.5 million system-wide facility request The four students, all with straight A averages for the 1984 spring term, who proposed by the Board of Trustees in received pins at the convocation are Pat August and okayed by the Legislature in September. ti Barnes of Caribou; Katrina Pratt of Said President Arthur M. Johnson, Essex Junction, Vermont; Dawn Beaton “ The UMO community is delighted with of Easton; and Diane Ronan of Orono. the approval of the capital facilities Conway, the first woman president of referendum for this campus. It reflects Smith College, was born in New South recognition by the state’s voters that it is Wales, Australia. She earned her Dr. Jill Ker Conway, president o f Smith past time for their public university to College, presented thought-provoking ideas bachelor’s degree at the University of move ahead in pursuit of excellence that for the start o f the new academic year. Sidney, and a Ph.D. in history at Har­ will aid the state’s people and vard University. In 1968 she joined the economy.” faculty of the University of Toronto, Of the $9 million for UMO, $3 million where she also became the first woman Challenges of Changing is allotted for renovations to Jenness to hold a vice-presidential post. Author Hall, $3 million for a Hitchner Hall of numerous articles and a book, Con Academia Examined at addition, $1.5 million for general way has collected 10 honorary degrees renovations on campus, and $1.5 million and served on a number of corporate F all Convocation for upgrading UMO’s computer boards of directors. capabilities. Four threats facing higher education The college president said the four Modernization of Jenness Hall will in­ today present opportunities tor positive trends could be turned to advantage clude facilities for chemical engineering, initiatives, said Dr. Jill Ker Conway, “ only if every constituency of the as well as a pulp and paper laboratory. president of Massachusetts’ Smith Col­ academic institution understands the The pulp and paper industry has shown lege. Conway spoke at UMO’s fall con­ situation and is willing to devote its substantial support for this project by vocation held September 11, 1984 at the time, energy, and creative ability to . . agreeing to spend $1.5 million to equip Alumni Memorial Gymnasium. implement an agreed-upon plan.” the laboratory upon completion. The college president claimed that the She described several programs at Hitchner Hall will be expanded to four problems, though serious, even Smith College for maintaining the vita serve the biological sciences, con­ “paralyzing” in their accumulative ity of faculties in the face of shrinking solidating life sciences and relieving effect, are actually opportunities for im­ opportunities for younger scholars in al pressures for space on campus. provement and “ with enough will and steady-state or shrinking enrollment. En­ The remaining renovations include a determination and strategic thinking, can couraging early retirement with second new exhaust system in Aubert Hall, be turned to our advantage.” careers has provided openings for where increased numbers of students, She cited the positive responses her untenured faculty at Smith, making “ a aging equipment, and increasing com­ college and others have taken to deal very striking difference in the way peo­ plexity of experimentation have created with the challenges. For example, to ple related to the institution.” serious laboratory ventilation problems. help meet the enormous capital invest­ In addition, Conway suggested, in­ Also included are renovations to Alumni ment required by the development of stitutions must pool their resources to Hall upon the relocation of the Maine new technology, Smith College has set replace lost federal and state support, Public Broadcasting Network to the up a consortium with four other institu­ developing “ multi-institutional ap- Bangor Community College campus, tions to provide joint computer training proaches.” One such is a computerized/ making the vacated space usable as for their faculties. library catalogue system developed by administrative office space and accessible Conway outlined similar innovative her college with several other institutions to the handicapped. The final project in approaches to the three other threaten­ to reduce the acquisition of duplicate the list of highest priority needs is ing trends: decreasing enrollments with copies. Quality and service are improved modification of the Memorial Gym­ consequent loss of tuition income, poor without increasing costs. nasium to consolidate offices for men’s educational preparation by entering Conway concluded with an appeal t and women’s physical education in a students, and reduction in federal sup­ students to develop their capacities in single building, freeing campus space for port for higher education. “ the core disciplines” of language, other needs.

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of Westbrook Community Hospital and Brennan Names Panel former member of the Maine Board of Ivan Illich Featured a t Environmental Protection. to Review University • Jean Sampson of Lewiston, overseer Philosopher and cultural historian Ivan of Bowdoin College, former trustee of Illich headlined the list of visiting On August 17 Gov. Joseph E. Brennan, the University of Maine, and former lecturers at the first Maine Summer In­ heeding the advice of his special com­ executive director of the Maine Civil stitute, a series of conferences held in mission on education, appointed 11 Liberties Union. July at the University of Maine’s Orono educators and other prominent citizens • Robert Clodius, president of the Na­ to an independent Visiting Committee to tional Association of State Universities and Augusta campuses. Sponsored by the University of Maine the University of Maine. and Land Grant Colleges, and former and Maine Humanities Council, the Former Colby College President acting president of the University of week-long think tank dealt with issues in Robert E.L. Strider II, who now lives in Wisconsin. economics, education, politics, and Brookline, Massachusetts, was named as • Evelyn Handler, president of science. Targets for discussion included chairman of the 11-member panel which Brandeis University and former president the “institutionalization of war” and will review virtually all aspects of the of the University of New Hampshire. “ Is Scarcity or Abundance the Key to 16-year-old university system and assess • Francis Keppel, U.S. education Our Economy? Exploring Assumptions the need for change. commissioner under President John F. about Maine.” The visitors’ findings and recommen­ Kennedy and former dean of the Har­ In addition to Illich, author of dations are due by December 1985. vard School of Education. speakers included “In 16 years since its creation,” the • Eleanor McMahon, commissioner of Deschooling Society, Robert Rodale, editor of Prevention and governor said, “no comprehensive higher education for the state of Rhode magazines; John review of the University of Maine system Island and former provost of Rhode Organic Gardening McRnight, a critic of social services; has occurred. The Visiting Committee Island State College. John Ohlinger, an education philoso­ will examine a variety of questions posed • Nils Y. Wessel, former president of pher; Majid Rahnema, a former educa­ for it by the Commission on the Status Tufts University and president of the tion minister of Iran; and Arthur of Education in Maine, ranging from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. issue of access versus quality of educa­ Johnson, UMO president. tion, to the use of electronic classrooms Illich will visit the campus again in to reduce operating expenses. Bangor Daily News December to lead several seminars. “The result of this review will be a more clear public understanding . . . of the opportunities and limits of our state H e r sc h e l Bricker 1905-1984 university system, of its potential to im­ to say. We saw not only an evening prove the quality of life in Maine, and of fine theatre; we witnessed good of the investment needed for it to reach teaching in action. its full potential,” Brennan said in a It marked a key point in my educa- prepared statement. tion for it revealed possibilities I had Money to finance the committee’s never imagined and set for me a work was approved by the Legislature vision of quality. last May, at Brennan’s request, based on It was an experience duplicated the recommendation of his commission among the hundreds of students who earlier in the year. entered his classroom or participated Charles Lawton, policy-analysis direc­ in the Maine Masque during his more tor for the State Planning Office, was than 40 years at the University of named as full-time executive director of Maine. the visitors’ committee. He was formerly Herschel Bricker was a teacher. He associate professor of economics at the taught because he believed that teach­ University of Maine at Farmington. ing is life’s greatest opportunity for Besides Strider, the panel is comprised adventure, for discovery, for service, of five Maine residents who are not af­ for creating the future—for testifying filiated with the university and five from to what is best in a cause that is outside the state. Hamlet: Herschel Bricker was touring noble. In his devotion to that cause, The panel includes: in northern Maine with a production he was, himself, ennobled. • Edmund S. Muskie of Kennebunk, he was preparing for presentation at Arnold Colbath former governor, U.S. senator and U.S. the University of Maine. Cultural Professor of Theatre secretary of state. events were rare in our remote com­ • Dr. Edward Andrews of Falmouth- munity. To those in the audience, Foreside, president of the Maine Medical that performance was a window on Center in Portland and a former presi­ the world. We had not anticipated Funds are now being received to dent of the University of Vermont. the vitality, the life, the high establish a scholarship fund in the • Wilma Bradford of Bangor, a theatrical color in that ancient play. memory o f Herschel L. Bricker. Do- trustee of Westbrook College, Husson Afterwards, Herschel talked infor­ nations may be sent to the Develop College and the Eastern Maine Medical mally with the audience, inviting ment Office, 207 Crossland Alumni Center, and a mediator in the state court questions and comments. He was Center, University o f Maine at Orono system. genuinely interested in what we had 04469. • Jean Childs of Westbrook, a trustee

DECEMBER, 1984 5 held at UMO in late July. It was the UMO Chamber Concert first time the institute has been held in WOMEN'S Features Two Alumnae Maine. B U SIN E SS Approximately 350 people from & RESOURCE For a woman, the trumpet is a physically Canada and the United States heard demanding instrument, said Patricia A. presentations from 37 states, four Cana­ DIRECTORY Bailey of Belfast, prior to her perfor­ dian provinces, New Zealand, and mance at UMO on September 14. Bailey Ireland. Hosted by the department of was the featured trumpet soloist at the sociology and social work, the four-day second program of the season in the conference included a program by the Lord Hall Chamber Music Series. Passamaquoddy Indians. After receiving her degree at UMO in In the final session, Richard Margolis, 1980, Bailey earned a master’s at the St. a nationally known writer and column Louis Conservatory of Music, playing as ist, cited a rise in rural consciousness an extra with the St. Louis Symphony. and pointed out that there has been an She now teaches at Crosby Junior High accompanying increase in rural unrest. School in Belfast. After the conference, UMO associate professor William Whitaker, institute PURCHASING & CONTRACTING She was accompanied by Ruth Ellen OPTIONS WITH WOMEN- OWNED BUSINESSES organizer, said some discussion is being AGENCIES, ORGANIZATIONS McClure, also a 1980 graduate. For & NETWORKS SERVING three seasons, McClure has worked for held on campus regarding the formation WOMEN the Camden Shakespeare Company as a of a rural studies center at the univer- The directory is the only one o f its kind in pianist and composer. the U.S. The trumpet, said Bailey in an inter­ view with the Bangor Daily News, women can be successful in business in “takes a great amount of air and Alumnae Sought for physical strength, especially in the higher Maine.” Caudle is overseeing fund raising to fi­ register, to get a good tone. Also plenty New Women’s Directory nance the second edition, approaching of muscle. It hasn’t been that common “ We hope to have a strong represen­ leaders in the business, financial, and for women to play the trumpet.” tation of UMO alumnae in the second educational communities, as well as in­ Appearing with Bailey were Allen edition of the Maine Women’s Business dividuals and organizations. “ The uni­ Graffam ’75 and Donald Stratton on the & Resource Directory, ” said Nancy versity provides approximately half of trumpet. Stratton, professor of music Habersat Caudle, editor and coordinator the financial support,” she said, “ and and assistant chairman of the depart­ for the directory. The first edition, the rest must come from outside con­ ment of music, noted that the weekly published in 1982, Caudle added, is be­ tributions.” chamber music series is sponsored by the lieved to be the only one of its kind in Caudle has introduced several innova­ department and highlights performances the United States. tions for the second edition. One fea­ by faculty members, students, alumni, She anticipates that the new directory ture, which has earned the directory an and visiting artists. will contain over 5,000 listings of Maine endorsement from the Maine Associa­ business and professional women and tion of Handicapped Persons, will be a women-owned businesses. set of aids for Maine’s handicapped, “ UMO has provided strong support elderly, and non-English-speaking peo­ for both editions,” said Caudle. The ple. Each listing will contain symbols directory is published by UMO’s indicating building accessibility, avail- Women’s Development Program, under ability of materials for the blind, and the direction of Dr. JoAnn M. Fritsche. equipment to assist the hearing im­ Commenting on the project, UMO paired. Whether products and services President Arthur M. Johnson noted that are available by mail and whether sign the directory, which will be marketed to language or foreign languages are corporations that are major contractors spoken will also be indicated. to the federal government, “ should help A significant spin-off of the directory Ruth McClure ’80 on the piano accompanies to create a national awareness of the will be a computerized data base con­ Patricia Bailey ’80. While studying at the St. diversity of skills, products, and services taining statistics on women-owned bus Louis Conservatory o f Music, Bailey played available in Maine.” inesses, to be made available to those in with the St. Louis Symphony. Gov. Joseph E. Brennan has also en­ the public and private sectors promoting dorsed the directory, terming it “ an ex- Maine’s development. promotional tool for the state of Listings are free. To be included Maine,” enabling “ us to make known businesses must be at least 50 percent the many resources and skills available woman-owned. Also eligible for listing to businesses currently operating, or are professional women; executives in Maine s First Rural Life seeking to locate, in Maine.” Another corporations, agencies, schools, and endorser is Thomas A. McGillicuddy, organizations; elected and appointed Institute at UMO district director of the U.S. Small governmental officials; women in non- Rural life, the people, the issues, and the Business Administration, who noted that traditional occupations; and volunteers problems was the focus during the ninth the directory is a valuable and much and retired women who have skills and national and second international In­ utilized tool in the SBA office. It is business expertise to offer younger stitute on Social Work in Rural Areas, “ documented proof,” he said, “ that women.

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sidelines, Leone expends his extra energy Sea Grant Receives $1.6 exhorting the home fans to get behind World Food Day Events the Bears at crucial times. Says the Million for New Marine diminutive kicker, “ If I didn’t get ex- Held at University cited, I would probably be a nervous Not one, but two days of activities at Research wreck.” UMO commemorated World Food Day. In three years of play, Leone has set The UMO Sea Grant College program is On October 17, the day after the official new school records for the most extra slated to receive approximately $1.6 international celebration, observances in­ points in a season and in a career. He million in federal grant money over the cluded a keynote address by an expert now has a total of 85 extra points, next two years, said Ronald K. Dear­ on hunger, Dr. Michael Latham of Cor­ breaking the old mark of 49 set by born ’65, the program’s executive direc­ nell University. Latham, a United Na­ Roger Boucher in 1961-63. He also tor. The dollars will fund research and tions and White House consultant on knocked down the long-standing career public education to develop Maine’s African famine, holds an honorary de­ field goal mark with 24. The old record marine resources. gree from the Royal College of Physi­ of 17 by Tom Shepherd stood for 71 “The national review panel,” Dear­ cians and has been honored by Queen born said, “ was impressed with us as a years. Elizabeth II for his nutrition work in Leone may be one of the best all- sea grant college, especially with the Tanzania. He spoke on “ Hunger in the round athletes ever to compete for strength of the faculty and its focus on Third World: Production or Poverty?” Maine. Head coach Ron Rogerson calls the real marine resource issues of this On the previous day, the university him one of the most talented athletes state.” community and media representatives he’s seen. Besides playing football, Thirty-five faculty members from 17 gathered to participate in a three-hour Leone also competes in track, his departments have been involved over the national satellite teleconference. The specialty being the high jump. During past several years in the UMO Sea Grant teleconference featured a panel moder­ his high school years at North Quincy, program. First established in 1971 and ated by Eddie Albert and including Massachusetts, he played football and later merged with the University of New Secretary of Agriculture John Block and golf, was on the swim team, and ran Hampshire Sea Grant, the UMO pro­ Dr. Frederick Hutchinson, among both indoor and outdoor track. He won gram is one of only 16 sea grant colleges others. Hutchinson was formerly UMO the state high jump championship in his in the nation. vice president for research and public senior year and, on the gridiron, kicked The grant, Dearborn said, will be used service. a 51-yard field goal to set a New to support four areas of marine resource Anne S. Johnson, campus coordinator England high school record. development: 1) commercial and indus­ for the observances, said, “ World Food trial research, including seaweed prod­ Day is the one chance every year for us ucts and wave prediction modeling for to stop and see the effect on Maine of Portland harbor; 2) research on the ef­ the global food crisis.” fects of the Fundy power dam project and rising sea levels on estuarine and sandy beach systems; 3) fisheries man­ agement, including aquaculture and development of wild commercial species; Cause of Fogler Fire and 4) technical and legal research on multiple-use planning, especially future Still Undetermined U.S.-Canadian management of marine An unexplained fire destroyed more than resources in the Gulf of Maine. 500 volumes on the third floor of Fogler Library on the evening of July 25. UMO fire officials have found no apparent Farewell to Leone cause for the conflagration, which damaged books in the Learning There are times when Jack Leone looks Materials Center. like a little boy who has lost one shoe Prof. Elaine Albright, director of and stocking. But to UMO football libraries at UMO, praised the fire fans, Maine’s place kicking specialist is department’s handling of the emergency. at least 10 feet tall. Firefighters scaled ladders to reach the As a sophomore, Leone broke the third floor, where dense clouds of smoke NCAA record for consecutive successful billowed out the windows. In an inter­ kick conversions after touchdowns for view with the Bangor Daily News, Division I-AA schools. In that 1982 Jack Leone ’85 Albright said: “ They were very, very season, he converted 45 straight extra careful not to use water unless they ab­ Beyond college, Leone, an accounting points, 10 more than the previous solutely had to. They were actually tak­ major, would like to play pro ball, but record. He eventually made 47 straight ing burning books and throwing them if that does not become a reality, he has before being stopped by Rhode Island in out of the window, rather than wetting 1983. His 1982 record was also the first alternate plans, he says, to “ try the them down unnecessarily.” time a Division I-AA kicker achieved a business world.” In a related development, university One thing is certain. Jack Leone will perfect mark for a season. officials announced that the newer sec­ The bare-footed 5 '7" kicker has been always be a success. tion of the third floor, after eight years almost as visible on the field as an extra Bob McPhee and of remaining unfinished, is scheduled for cheerleader. Bouncing up and down the Drew Finnie completion by the end of December.

DECEMBER, 1984 7 University of Maine News UMO Featured on MacNeil/Lehrer Report University Radon Activities Recognized

By Sherman Hasbrouck

N August 15 nationwide television Near the end of the decade, Hess and turned its eye on the University of other UMO scientists initiated a series of OMaine at Orono. During the summer, a radon studies. The researchers examined crew from the MacNeil/Lehrer News a wide range of radon unknowns: the lo­ Hour visited the campus to record the cation of high levels, relationships to university’s groundbreaking work in geological factors, radon “pathways” in radon research and public education. the home, and health risks. The UMO Subsequently, the news program, which involvement was broad-based and inter­ airs at 7 o’clock weekday evenings on disciplinary, extending to a number of the Public Broadcasting System, fea­ graduate students and faculty members, tured a segment based on interviews with including Dr. Jerry Lowry of civil engi- UMO faculty members. neering and Dr. Conrad Weiffenbach of Radon is a radioactive gas that is nat­ physics. Dr. Stephen Norton of the urally present at low levels in much of geology department (now acting dean of the earth’s crust. It is created in a chain the College of Arts and Sciences) played reaction of radioactive decay that goes a primary role in research into geological back to the formation of the planet and relationships to radon levels. that will continue as long as the earth A number of findings were highlighted exists. P in the MacNeil/Lehrer report: While scientists have known about □ Radon in groundwater is released radon since the early decades of the cen­ when exposed to air, entering house­ tury, it was generally assumed that levels holds when faucets are turned on. of natural radioactivity are too low to Maine’s granite bedrock: potentially □ While radon can be present in both constitute a health hazard. However, in high radon levels. household air and drinking water, it is recent years evidence has accumulated airborne radon that poses the greatest that radon levels may be high enough in potential for health hazards. some areas and in some homes to repre­ □ Airborne radon levels are affected sent a health risk. counter given to him by his father. The by how tightly a house is insulated. As indicated on the MacNeil/Lehrer boy happened to place the device next to □ Lung cancer is the primary risk in segment, the presence of radon is related a water storage tank. (Radon is soluble those homes where airborne levels are to bedrock geological patterns. Areas in water and is found in groundwater.) high. underlain by granite are often associated The counter began ticking rapidly. Two divisions at UMO have also been with high radon levels, and granite, of In the early 1970s, a UMO physicist, working on the radon problem. The course, is common in parts of New En­ Dr. Charles (Tom) Hess, who was study­ Land and Water Resources Center has gland, including Maine. ing impacts of the Maine Yankee atomic sponsored some of the research and has The phenomenon first came to the at­ energy plant, found varying degrees of published two information digests. One, tention of public health experts in the radioactivity throughout the area and in prepared with the assistance of Weiffen- late 1950s. A youngster in the Sebago situations that were clearly unrelated to bach, summarizes known facts and Lake region was playing with a Geiger the nuclear plant. health risks, while the other, based on work by Lowry, describes low-cost meth- ods for removing over 90 percent of radon in well water. UMO’s Cooperative Extension Service has also been active in disseminating in­ formation about radon to the public. Ex­ tension staff under the leadership of Dr. Patricia Wolman, who initiated the work prior to her departure from the universi­ ty, is carrying out an education program that includes a slide show and work­ shops throughout the state. Part of the MacNeil/Lehrer segment was filmed at one of those workshops.

Hasbrouck is an environmental specialist with MacNeil/Lehrer crew films radon workshop. the Land and Water Resources Center.

8 MAINE ALUMNUS Illustration by Sherman Hasbrouck ______X General Alumni Association News ______UMO Alumni Ambassador Program Announced With the dwindling pool of college- bound students, the University of Maine at Orono is stepping up its recruiting program by enlisting the aid of UMO alumni and faculty members. Workshops will be held to train a nationwide net­ work of Alumni Ambassadors to assist the Admissions Office in identifying superior students. The Ambassadors host receptions for high school students and their parents, interview prospective students, visit area high schools, and assist at local college fairs and college nights. In addition to New England, other areas of focus will be Minnesota, Bill Johnson ’56, president o f the General Alumni Association, presents the Pine^Tree Alumni Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Service Emblem Award to Russell Bodwell ’44, ’47. Jersey, and Washington, D.C. The ultimate goal is to extend the network to early September, the administration response of UMO alumni nationwide— every state. created a position of assistant director of on the enthusiasm and commitment of Ambassador programs have been admissions to coordinate the program, alumni to their alma mater.” established by such schools as Dart­ naming Susan B. Hall ’84 to head the She also notes that those desiring fur­ mouth and the University of Penn­ effort. ther information may contact her at the sylvania. The success of these recruiting Hall says that the success of the cam­ Admissions Office, Chadbourne Hall, efforts prompted university officials to paign, which is to be well underway by University of Maine at Orono 04469, investigate a similar plan for UMO. In September 1985, “ depends on the (207) 5 8 1 - 1 5 6 1 u ~c Annual Giving Heads for $1.25 Million Hot on the heels of last year’s successful “ Million for Maine” campaign is a $1.25 million goal for 1984-84, announced Hank Schmelzer, GAA Na­ tional Campaign Chairman. “ ‘A Million for Maine,’” said Schmelzer, “ will once again headline the campaign as alumni continue to make UMO number one among New England land-grant universities in annual alumni support.” Schmelzer said that contributions from 12,500 alumni will be the key for the million-dollar-plus effort, putting the annual fund drive on course for a $2 million campaign by 1988-89. Alumni fund committee members from Massachusetts are: Henry L.P. Schmelzer ’65 of Charlestown, Fred Tarr ’53 of Lexington, Jeffrey MacDonald ’68 of Scituate, Deborah S. Aseltine ’80 | of West Springfield, Jeffry Raynes ’76 of Hanover, and Karen Reis ’67 of Newly elected members o f the Alumni Council the 34-person board that guides and directs the Wellesley. Members from Maine are: General Alumni Association, get acquainted during the annual meeting held at Homecoming. From left are Ronald E. Bishop ’53 o f Montpelier, Vermont; Ernest K. Khoury, Jr. ’53 o f Margaret (“ Peg” ) Homans ’54 of Bath Bangor; Jeffry W. Raynes ’76 o f Hanover, Massachusetts; Karen W. Reis ’67 o f Wellesley, and Willard C. Farnham ’59 of Brewer. Massachusetts; and Karla H. Downs ’71 o f Auburn. Not pictured is Edward C. Hall ’48 o f From Vermont is Ronald E. Bishop ’53 Holden, Massachusetts. of South Burlington.

DECEMBER, 1984 9 MBIENCE—that indefinable Maine’s Main Museum feeling that comes from actually A being there. That’s what the curators at the Maine State Museum in Augusta seek—the ambience of Maine homes and is Mainly UMainers workplaces in the 1800s. To achieve that feeling, the museum’s T hough the tongue twister is an exaggeration, lower level has been excavated to accom­ modate a 40-foot-high woodworking mill several key people at Maine State Museum and a two-story cupola-casting furnace. Nearby, white square columns divide a are UMO grads. low-ceilinged weaving room; glassed-in glimpses of a kitchen hearth and cob­ By Betty A dam s bler’s shop surround the mill. Water powers turbines beneath your feet. The ambience is only a promise now. The exhibit is still in the preparatory stages. But when “ Made in Maine” opens as planned in October 1985, it will be the culmination of a dream for Paul

10 MAINE ALUMNUS A major new exhibit o f machinery and other artifacts "Made in Maine” is scheduled to open October 1985 at the Maine State Museum, Augusta (at left, above). Museum director Paul Rivard ’65 has collected many o f the artifacts himself (opposite). One o f the completed displays depicts the history o f Maine’s sardine industry (above).

Rivard ’65, museum director. tury ago there were probably 1,000 tex­ houses, and repairing and reselling an­ Rivard’s aim is to present people with tile workers to every lobsterman.” tique automobiles. “ real things.” And the “ Made in Rivard says the exhibit took more After graduation he learned of a mas­ Maine” exhibit reflects this aim: It will than four years to plan and two more to ter’s program in museum administration include a woodstove made in Bangor, a construct. He collects many of the arti­ at the State University of New York and slate sink from Monson, linoleum from facts himself and can usually be found graduated from there in 1967. He went Winthrop, and carriages from Thom- in dark blue work clothes crawling on to museum jobs at Mystic Seaport aston and Portland. The woodworking around antique pieces of machinery ac­ Museum in Connecticut, the Slater Mill mill was dismantled from its South War­ quired by the museum. He prefers this Museum in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, ren location; machinery from the mill to paperwork and frequently takes ad­ and the Rockwell-Corning Museum in most recently made coffins in Wood- ministrative jobs home, to do at night Corning, New York. stock, Maine. since “I can’t take the museum home.” After the Maine State Museum opened The job of fitting all these things into His position as director is a fulfillment in its present home in 1971, Rivard ap­ the available floor space, while providing of his childhood ambition: “ I can recall plied for positions until he nabbed one. walkways for viewers, belongs to Alfred someone asking me when I was in high “ It was the fulfillment of a childhood R. Borgese Jr. ’75, ’78G. Borgese has school where I wanted to be in 20 years. dream to come back to Maine,” he said. been head of design and exhibit prepara­ I said I’d like to run the biggest museum Borgese, 47, a New York City native, tion at the museum since 1967 and in Maine.” The recently opened Port­ took a slightly different track to the helped plan the layout of the building land Museum of Art is about equal in Maine State Museum. “ I spent a lot of itself. size to the state museum. time going to museums [in New York]. Borgese said, speaking of the 12- to As a youngster growing up, it triggers 15-foot piles of rubble in the museum The dream actually began earlier, your imagination,” he said. Instead of basement during the “Made in Maine” when at age 12 Rivard was the youngest history, Borgese earned an architectural excavation, “ It was a messy time of member of the York Historical Society. degree from Mechanics Institute and development.” Small bucket loaders He was always interested in history then studied design at Cooper Union. carted tons of earth and broken concrete and museums. Today, even on vacation, out through the rear exit. Efforts were he “ lives and breathes museums,” he He came to Maine “ because it was a made to minimize disruption of two says. His home, in Hallowell, is on the unique opportunity to plan the museum other state agencies that share the National Register of Historic Places. It from the very beginning.” And since building and to avoid distracting the was the residence of John Hubbard, a museums are closely linked to education, public walking through exhibits upstairs. Democrat who governed Maine from he decided to study at Orono, earning a Rivard is certain it will be worth all 1849 to 1851. bachelor of science in art education in the work: “ The exhibit will surprise peo­ Rivard, 41, earned a degree in history 1975 and a master’s in the same subject ple with the wealth of Maine manufac­ from UMO in 1965. At the time, that in 1978. turing. . . . There is a tendency to think field was the only preparation available His memories of UMO consist largely of the state as a ‘vacationland.’ But if for a career in museum work. He paid of traveling Interstate 95 his final weeks, you’re dealing with history, Maine is his way through college by working in a when he commuted to Orono for two essentially a working-class state. A cen­ cafeteria, playing the banjo in coffee- morning seminars and then drove back DECEMBER, 1984 11 That will come once the ground floor is open to the public. Today, on a tour of the main floor, you’ll see natural history scenes pep­ pered with peep-holes to allow those under three feet tall a glimpse of underground burrows of chipmunks and snakes. Live trout swim past in some scenes. Many of these exhibits are the work of Gary Hoyle ’68, a research associate in natural history. A little farther along the corridor you’ll find floor-to-ceiling vignettes: lob- stermen, a fisherman in his dory, sardine canneries, cider making and granite quarrying. You may notice that the man­ nequins resemble staff members— Borgese said plaster castings of the staff were taken to make the figures look nat­ ural. He does much of this work himself and even teaches a course in sculpture for an adult education program in Gar­ diner. You’ll pass by a 40-foot section of the Downeaster St. Mary. Launched in 1890 from Phippsburg, she shipwrecked five months later while sailing around Cape Horn and washed up on one of the Falk­ to Augusta every afternoon to work at Rivard appointed five curators— land Islands. There the hulk rotted until the museum. “ I put 10,000 miles on my knowledgeable caretakers for portions of a group of marine architects and his­ torians received a grant to investigate car in six weeks,” he said. collections. For instance, Edwin Churchill ’79G is curator of decorative wrecks in the area, Borgese said. arts and oversees all painted furniture The Maine State Museum received and silver and pewter items. permission to take 40 feet of the keel. A HE state museum is the brainchild British ship supplying nearby bases Rivard himself is curator of technol­ of Charles T. Jackson, a geological loaded up the 30-ton section and sailed ogy. He solicits items, sometimes pur­ Tengineer and naturalist who surveyed with it to England. From there, the chasing them and other times showing Maine for the legislature in the 1930s. Maine Maritime Academy’s training potential donors how to will pieces to His three annual reports, as well as his vessel, the Maine, carried it to Portland, the museum through their estates. With photos of Maine from the same period, and the National Guard ferried it to a total budget of $941,000 for fiscal were displayed last summer in a cabinet Augusta. Borgese recalled the difficulty 1985, which includes salaries, Rivard has in the anteroom of the museum. His they had fitting it into the building and little discretionary money for buying ar­ recommendations were the start of a the need for a special cradle to handle tifacts. Occasionally he will swap with “ Cabinet of Curiosities” in the State the weight. another museum, thus slowly building House in 1936. Some animal displays On the second floor you’ll find his museum’s collection of Maine-made and flags were included, but no one was “ Maine-ly Children,” an exhibit that items. in charge of the collections. As a result. opened in September. A slight departure Rivard says, much was lost, including a Although the Maine State Museum is from the museum’s usual fare, the show full collection of firearms. run by a 15-member commission ap­ is thematic, filled with 19th-century pointed by the governor, funds for the photographs, toys, and even a section Today’s museum, housed together budget come from the state Department dealing with the high mortality rate of with the Maine State Library and the of Educational and Cultural Services. Maine children a century ago. Maine State Archives in the Augusta Other plans are in the works. Borgese capitol complex, was commissioned by The museum is open seven days a is putting together flow charts for an ex­ the legislature in the mid-1960s, after week and there is no admission fee. hibit entitled “ 12,000 Years in Maine,” cardboard boxes of old state records “ Every taxpayer in the state has paid 50 which will follow “ Made in Maine.” were uncovered in closets and stairwells cents for the operation of the Maine Borgese and the other UMO alumni at during State House renovations. Vestiges State Museum,” says Rivard. “ I figured the Maine State Museum are helping of the initial museum remain on the first it out once a few years ago. They own Rivard realize his dreams. They are floor of the house, where Atlantic this material. This is their place. Fees creating a museum Maine can be proud salmon, moose, black bear, deer and would be inappropriate for the state’s of. porcupines greet visitors to the south en­ own property.” trance. Free admission means that the mu­ Adams teaches journalism at the University seum is popular with school groups and o f Maine at Augusta. When Rivard took over in November families. A familiar sight is that of 1977, he changed the emphasis from a parents pushing baby carriages and tug­ learning laboratory to an artifact ging toddlers. intensive museum. He believes people want to stand in front of a piece of Volunteers at the front desk keep history, citing the millions who lined up count of visitors—about 100,000 last across the United States in the 1970s to year, Rivard estimated. He is not ag­ see the mask from King Tut’s tomb. gressively promoting the museum—yet. Photographs by the Republican Journal, Belfast. 12 MAINE ALUMNUS (clockwise from left, above) A captive “Bananas, ” ransomed by Phi Mu sorority fo r Project Hope, attempts escape. Homecoming Queen, Susan Tarr ’85, is the daughter o f the Alumni Association’s second vice-president, Fred Tarr '53. Hockey’s debut as a Homecoming event, successful against Providence, caps o ff a winning day. Fans applaud the football Bears’ victory over UMass.

DECEMBER, 1984 13 With the help of UMO’s Charles Todd ’79, the Maine bald eagle is making a comeback, but it is not home free yet.

By Susan Hand Shetterly

HE Cessna red through a thin the plane’s approach. One lifted its UMO’s College of Forest Resources, T column of March sunlight, throw­ wings heavily and coasted away. The Todd wants to see the birds thrive once ing a shadow like a soaring bird onto other hunched down and did not fly. again. the choppy water of Cobscook Bay. The “ She’s sitting!” exclaimed Charles “ After nine years on the project, I am plane pivoted, turned to cross above a Todd ’79. As the plane carried him back still excited every time I see an eagle,” small island. There, beneath the crown to Old Town, he tallied the day’s count Todd said as he sat in his Nutting Hall of an ancient white pine, a bald eagle’s of active nests. office, a cubicle crammed with wildlife aerie rested on a whorl of branches. Two hundred years ago, these birds books, eagle population maps and files Seven feet across. Three feet deep. No flourished along Maine’s bays and lakes, of eagle facts. Todd, a tall, thin man, other bird in North America builds like fishing the waters without peril. Today, originally from Virginia, earned his this. many aeries are vacant. As one of the master’s in Wildlife Management at From the aerie, two eagles watched directors of the Bald Eagle Project at UMO in 1979, the year after the bald 14 MAINE ALUMNUS Illustration by Robert B. Shetterly eagle was listed by the federal govern­ In late fall, for the last three years, will be able to draw on clean fat, and ment as endangered in 43 states, in­ Todd and his assistants have trucked her eggs will be stronger, healthier. cluding Maine. carcasses of old horses, detritus from the In the past Todd has introduced His thesis, a carefully detailed study poultry industry, and hunks of butch­ eaglets and eggs from other states into of Maine eagles, rallied the university ered cows to selected sites, where they Maine nests. Some survive and help re- and the state with its urgent tone. Today spill the meat out across the frozen populate a decimated nesting area. But the project survives on a slim budget, fields. The winter-feeding program ex­ Todd believes that this method of in­ funded by UMO, the U.S. Fish and pends 60 percent of the project’s man­ creasing population is no longer neces­ Wildlife Service, and the Maine Depart­ power and 70,000 pounds of meat a sary here. Maine’s eagles are beginning ment of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife. year. It lacks an academic patina—but it to produce eggs that hatch. Todd and a graduate student, Mark Mc- works. Todd believes that project efforts Collough, who assists in the project, are At one of these feeding sites and then should concentrate on education of the where they want to be, monitoring a another, Todd and McCollough crouch public, monitoring of successful nests, species in jeopardy, and fighting to keep behind a blind in the crusted snow, wat­ winter feedings, banding of eaglets, and, it from slipping away in Maine. ching ravens circle and land. They wait occasionally, the tracking of young birds “ What I like about the bird,” Todd for eagles. Many times at dusk they by strapping radios to their backs. The said, “ is that it is everything it’s known crawl out cold and stiff without a staff of the project includes a profes­ for: strength and defiance, impressive sighting. But last year, McCollough’s sional tree climber, Bernie Thompson, size. But when caring for an injured records showed 250 birds, most of them who at 54 not only exhibits agility and one, you discover how docile the bird immatures. courage in high, windy places (some can be. nesting trees are over 100 feet tall), but also a deft touch with eggs and young. “ I will know that my work has been a His thesis, a carefully detailed success when I have phased myself out Thompson’s job is to band eaglets and of the job,” he laughed quietly. “ If we study of Maine eagles, rallied check the eggs. can bring this bird back to 200 nesting the university and the state “ The eagles won’t hurt you,” Todd yelled as he stood at the base of a nest pairs, we will have met the challenge.” with its urgent tone. In 1984, 63 nesting pairs were tallied, tree. Halfway up, and clinging with his up from 33 in a count done for the Na­ spurs to the trunk, Thompson could hear the slap of wings above his head as tional Audubon Society in 1965. But fig­ A bald eagle takes three to four years the parents swung away from the nest ures can be misleading. The old count to achieve its magnificent white head and swept back again. Suddenly, Todd was random. Surveys are more sophisti­ and tail. The immatures, brown in color, saw what he had never seen before: one cated today than they were 19 years ago, are sometimes mistaken for golden of the adults, on its return, lowered its and the public more aware. Todd keeps eagles. These first-year birds face winter huge talons and assumed a strike posi­ folders crammed with letters about eagle without the experience to make them ac­ tion. Helpless, he clamped his hands sightings sent to him by people around complished feeders. Winter is a season over his eyes. When he withdrew them, the state who have heard of the project. of attrition. the eagle had angled away. Thompson Most are more educated too: for in­ Todd believes that the project’s feed­ was continuing to climb. stance, they know that eagles mate for ing sites alleviate some of the seasonal “ It is the only time I have ever seen life and that the mated pair returns year­ hardships. Certainly the number of im­ an eagle attempt to defend its nest,” ly to the same territory, refurbishing the matures that survive into spring is in­ Todd said. aerie and performing an aerial courtship creasing. And it may be that the tons of What he sees today is the slow come- over the land the birds claim. Their food strengthen next year’s eggs. The fat back of a heroic bird. People are respon­ high-pitched squeals pierce the solemn reserves in the female’s body are broken sible for the bald eagle’s decline. Now landscape of early spring. Most property down and the nutrients used during the they work to save it. And that, for owners whose acreage includes a bald stress of egg-laying. But contaminants Charles Todd, is the good news. eagle’s nest cooperate with the state and are also held in the fat and pass in lethal the project to protect it. Fewer shootings concentrations into the developing em­ have been reported this year, although bryo and its shell. If winter feeding Shetterly is a free-lance writer for the Maine many of the deaths and injuries we bolsters the weight of a female bird, she Times and Yankee magazine. know of are still from gun wounds. Perhaps we share with the eagle a common destiny; we have introduced into its habitat—and our own—the poi­ Ban on lead shot? sons that destroy its eggs. Non-viable eggs from Maine nests, sent to Patuxent The federal government is consider­ Lead poisoning is a “ continuing Wildlife Research Center in Maryland, ing a ban on waterfowl hunting with problem” for Maine bald eagles, ac­ show devastating concentrations of poly­ lead shot in Washington and Han­ cording to Charles Todd. “The chlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), mercury cock counties. potential for a problem (in Maine) is and DDE—a breakdown product of The ban—if imposed—would go worse than what’s actually happened DDT that has a half-life of up to 30 into effect a year from now. The pur­ in certain localities,” he said. “ To be years. These, thinks Todd, are the pose would be to protect bald eagles honest, one instance of lead poison­ primary causes of the bird’s decline. In from lead poisoning. ing in each county over 10 years isn’t western Maine loss of traditional aerie Studies have shown that significant indicative of a major problem—still, sites has contributed, and there the eagle numbers of eagles have died after it could have been avoided if non- population has plummeted. eating ducks containing concentra­ toxic shot had been used.” But along the eastern bays, from tions of lead. In some cases, the More serious problems for Maine Passamaquoddy to Cobscook, the bald ducks were crippled or dead birds bald eagles, according to Todd, are eagle is making a gradual comeback. which had been shot by hunters; in shooting and electrocution. The headlands and islands contribute 25 others, the ducks had eaten lead David Platt percent of the young to Maine’s yearly pellets in bottom mud. Bangor Daily News count. DECEMBER, 1984 15 “It’s like a reckless driver racing down the street, then look­ ing back and wonder­ ing why there are so many dead bodies. ”

East Meets West: Henry P. Sheng ’54

Engineer, inventor, and concert pianist, this native of China is a Renaissance Man.

By Norah Deakin Davis

ETTER than 30 years ago, a young Sheng has played with several sym­ so many dead bodies.” man from Shanghai arrived at the phony orchestras, most notably in 1976 The solution to the growing rift be­ BUniversity of Maine. In his own words,when he performed the U.S. premiere of tween technologists and non-technol­ Pa-houng Sheng was so unsure of his the Mongolian Suite by Ma Sitson (Ma ogists, Sheng feels, lies in education, the English that, “ When a co-ed said, ‘Give Szu-Tsung) before an enthusiastic au­ kind he received at UMO. “ I am appre­ me a ring and we can play tennis,’ I dience of 1,100 at Youngstown State ciative of Maine’s education—not only thought she meant a ring for her University in Ohio. in technical subjects but also in the finger.” Few other individuals can claim to humanities and social sciences. I had a His alarmed dorm mates soon enlight­ have resolved the conflict between tech­ very balanced diet. It is a must for ened Sheng on the salient points of nology and humanism as well as Henry engineers today.” slang, and at the same time gave him the Sheng. Nor can many claim to have as­ Sheng, who has taught at several uni­ name he now goes by—Henry—because similated two cultures as thoroughly as versities and worked for a number of they couldn’t pronounce Pa-houng. he has. These two themes—bringing corporations including Westinghouse and Today, in addition to a B.S. in chem­ together East and West, reconciling Corning Glass Works, specializes in ical engineering from UMO, Dr. Sheng culture and technology—in fact have resources recovery. His latest patent is a holds a master’s from Purdue and a guided Sheng’s life. “ Phase Separation Apparatus,” a device Ph.D. from Oklahoma. He is a bona One of the courses he has taught at for separating two immiscible fluids such fide inventor, having been granted six Cal Poly is an interdisciplinary study of as oil and water. The invention has par­ patents by the U.S. patent office. How­ technological society. Of the impact of ticular application in the petroleum and ever, most improbably, this engineer- rapid scientific progress on humanity, mining industries. A simple unit four inventor and professor at California Sheng observes: “ It’s like a reckless feet in height and weighing only 15 State Polytechnic University, is also an driver racing down the street, then look­ pounds, the separator may be used to accomplished concert pianist. ing back and wondering why there are clean up oil spills, he points out, if the

16 MAINE ALUMNUS Photographs by Jose S. Pena "I wrote to Secretary [of State] Henry Kis- singer; he sent me to former ambassador George Bush. ”

oil is not too heavy. poser was able to reconstruct the missing example, the effects of rich food, smok­ Notable as his accomplishments in en­ portion from memory. ing, aggressive personalities. “ A Chinese gineering are, they are equaled or sur­ herbalist,” Chao noted, “ will prescribe passed by his efforts to promote modern different quantities of herbs for individ­ Chinese music. He is one of the few in HENG had to have the same kind uals. We have a system of fine tuning.” the U.S. to perform the work of con- of persistence to wade through bu­ The ebullient Sheng, who admits to a temporary Chinese composers. Most Sreaucratic red tape when he decided tohot temper, became an ardent supporter Chinese musicians choose instead to play marry Sue Hwa Chao, the daughter of a of herbal medicine when his wife arrived traditional folk tunes to express their dispossessed Shanghai banker. The two, and began calming him down with the ethnic heritage. Sheng’s interest, how- whose parents were old friends, met in proper herbs. ever, is in contemporary composers who 1972 during Sheng’s first return visit to “ When we argue, we say, ‘We need adapt Chinese music to Western instru- his homeland. After a year of cor­ some special tea,’ and we sit down and mentation. responding, they decided to marry. Five have some,” related Chao. A collector as well as a pianist, Sheng years of bureaucratic run-around en­ Born in 1931, Sheng was in his forties has donated copies of his 600-page col­ sued, as Sheng besieged Chinese of­ before he could even consider looking lection to the Stanford Music Library ficialdom to gain approval of the union for a wife. Prior to that, he was sup­ and the Library of Congress. Some of and permission for Chao to leave China. porting his parents, who had moved to the music in the collection was in danger He wrote letters, visited Chinese dip­ Taiwan in 1948. His father had brought of being lost forever. lomats, had interviews with U.S. State machinery from the mainland to start a The Mongolian Suite is an important Department officials, but all to no avail. paper mill, but Taiwanese officials soon example. Ma Sitson, one of China’s “ I wrote to Secretary [of State] Henry shut down the operation. UMO’s excel­ most prolific and highly regarded com­ Kissinger; he sent me to former am­ lent reputation in pulp and paper train­ posers, wrote the symphony in 1937, bassador George Bush,” Sheng said. ing was what brought the young Sheng drawing on Inner Mongolian folksongs “ Bush contacted the U.S. Liaison Office to Maine in 1950. for the work’s thematic material. In in Peking, and Liaison officials had me Having studied English grammar in 1967 during the Cultural Revolution, Ma contact Senator Henry Jackson, and so high school, he found no problem with was forced to flee China, leaving his on.” technical texts. Other subjects presented music behind. Most of the composer’s This Kafkaesque nightmare finally more challenge, however, but once again works—symphonies, concertos, chamber ended when Sheng penned a letter in his dorm mates helped him acclimate. music, sonatas, ballet music, and choral desperation to Vice Premier Teng Hsiao- In his senior year, he and his brother pieces—have never been heard in this ping. That plea, together with the im­ Clement, an accomplished violinist who country. proving Sino-American political climate, had also come to Maine, presented a re­ This is where Sheng comes in. Some broke the deadlock. In 1978 Chao and cital in the Memorial Union. On the time before, in the 1950s, his mother Sheng were married in Palo Alto, back of the program was a quote from had sent him the third movement of the California. Confucius that pertains to the musical Mongolian Suite. He subsequently lo­ Today, Sheng and Chao occasionally aspect of this remarkable multi-faceted cated the second movement at a library team-teach a course in Chinese herbal personality: in Taiwan. The Rhapsody, the first medicine. Prior to emigrating, Chao It is by the Odes that the mind is movement, was lost, however, and nu­ worked in a government clinic as an aroused. merous inquiries to libraries and music herbal physician. The practice of herbal It is by the Rules o f Propriety that the schools failed to turn it up. Finally, medicine dates back more than 2,000 character is established. Sheng visited Ma, who had settled in years. Herbs are frequently used as It is from Music that the finish is Philadelphia. To Sheng’s relief, the com­ preventive medicine to counteract, for received. DECEMBER, 1984 17 The Advancing Giant China's educational system is on the move.

By Bernard R. Yvon, Ed.D.

9 T UNIVERSITIES in the People’s and Chinese educational philosophies According to a 1979 study, China still Republic of China, scientists read­ contrast markedly in that we seek to has 140 million illiterates under the age A ing research literature no longer look educate large numbers of our popula­ of 45—almost 14 percent of the total exclusively to Russia. Instead, today they tion, whereas conditions in China population. turn increasingly to the U.S., Japan, and presently dictate the schooling of only a Especially noteworthy is a Chinese West Germany for technology and select few—by the university level, only turn to the West for higher education. research. Moreover, in Chinese schools five percent of those eligible for We were told that approximately 11,000 English has so eclipsed Russian that it is advanced education. students are presently studying in the now the second language. The selectivity goes even further. The United States, 6,000 under government So I learned from Chinese educators Chinese begin to identify and select sponsorship and 5,000 via other support, in August of 1984 when I toured the talent early in the scholastic career, mostly in the natural sciences. The People’s Republic of China with a carefully nurturing and encouraging the government wants to increase these delegation of 16 U.S. mathematicians creme de la crѐme in what is known as figures annually. Again one needs to and math educators. Our delegation, “ key” schools and “ key” universities. note that, while 11,000 (the approximate visiting for three weeks as observers and These key schools are favored with size of UMO) appears to be a large consultants, had an opportunity to in­ government subsidies, hand-picked number, it represents just shy of 1 per­ teract with professors and teachers from teachers, highly selected students, and, cent of the total Chinese university the pre-school through the university at the university level, first rights to send population. level. students abroad and receive foreign lec­ The Chinese have many of the same concerns about education that we do. China has often been referred to as turers. Admission is based strictly on the Their educators are debating similar the “ sleeping giant.” Today it is the results of national entrance exams given issues, e.g., how can curricular decisions “ stirring giant.” In 10 years it will be each year in July. In 1980, 97 univer­ be decentralized without sacrificing the “ advancing giant,” a force to be sities, 200 technical schools, 5,200 mid­ quality? What kinds of ongoing profes­ reckoned with, perhaps even calling the dle schools, and 7,000 primary schools sional development would most improve shots in international affairs. Now is a were so designated. Though the numbers the quality of university and public good time, it seems, to take a close look seem large, proportionately they are school faculties? How does one deal at the Chinese educational system. quite small. with the dichotomy of quality of educa­ The trip was sponsored by the U.S.- Our broad-based liberal arts programs contrast with the Chinese narrower but tion in urban vs. rural areas, and how t China People’s Friendship Association does one guarantee consistency of educa­ of Washington, D.C. The host in China deeper approach. For them, a typical university program usually prescribes tion considering the great diversity in was YOUXIE, the Chinese Association peoples and geography? Evidence exists for Friendship with Foreign Countries. basic and advanced courses in a student’s specialty. Of late, however, of struggles in school policy decision The purpose of both associations is to making, especially regarding those help Americans and Chinese learn from more electives are being allowed in some universities. Yet the overriding concern policies that are centrally approved and each other and strengthen the bonds of nationally enforced. Increasingly, more t friendship through personal contact. is still narrow in that over half the universities specialize in training scien­ and more decisions are being made at We visited urban centers as well as tists, engineers, and teachers. the local level in spite of the highly cen­ rural areas, covering over 3,000 miles by Interestingly, the Chinese system of tralized Chinese system. bus, train, plane, and also on foot. Our academic ranks of assistant, associate, itinerary included Beijing (formerly N PRIMARY and middle schools, the and professor is similar to ours. In 1980 teacher-student ratio is usually 1:40 to Peking), Luoyang, Xian, Kunming, their institutions of higher education had Shanghai, and Suzhou. While a three- I1:50, though this is easing in lower 246,900 full-time teachers and 1,135,740 grades because of effects of the family week visit does not a scholar make, my students. This breaks down to one mind was like a sponge, absorbing all planning program. With such numbers teacher for every 4.6 students—quite to educate, it is not surprising to find a that it possibly could. Yet I feel as good by any standard. They view this though we merely scratched the surface. severe teacher shortage. low faculty-to-student ratio as crucial to Much of the teaching is of the time- Noting similarities and differences be­ their catch-up “ modernization” pro­ tested memorization method of educa- tween the two systems is like comparing gram, and to their need for trained per­ the proverbial apples and oranges. U.S. sonnel for the eradication of illiteracy. (Continued on page 34) 18 MAINE ALUMNUS The camera o f Jane Gilbert illustrated “ When Neighbors were Neighbors, ” a study sponsored by the University o f Maine at Orono and the Maine Humanities Council to document the changing role o f the elderly in rural Maine. 1931 FRANKLYN FOSTER BARROWS, 75, of 1941 HARTLEY LANPHER BANTON, 65, of Sanford, died July 23, 1984. B.A. English. Sigma Lafayette, Indiana, died May 23, 1984. B.S. Deaths Chi. Owner, Alnita Bookkeeping Service. Assistant mechanical engineering. M.S. 1946. Alpha Tau editor of the Maine Alumnus magazine in 1931. Omega. Department head, mechanical engineering technology, Purdue University. Among survivors are 1931 JAMES NELSON TRUE FALES, 74, of Cen- a brother, Richard L. ’49 and a sister, Madeliene B. 1909 ORRIN LINWOOD MILLER, 96, of terbrook, Connecticut, died April 15, 1984. B.S. Brackett ’42. Westbrook, died August 25, 1984. Ph.C. pharmacy. mechanical engineering. Beta Kappa. Sales engineer, Pharmacist, 39 years, retired at age 88. DeLaval Turbine, Inc. 1941 BYRON WHITEFIELD CANDAGE, 66, of 1931 WILLIAM PAIGE HAMBLET, 77, of La­ Mechanicsville, Virginia, died August 4, 1984. B.S. 1915 MERTON FORD BANKS, 91, of Searsport, civil engineering. District engineer, Virginia State conia, New Hampshire, died June 5, 1984. B.S. died August 8, 1984. B.S. civil engineering. Sigma Health Department. Alpha Epsilon. Antique dealer, founder, Maine An­ mechanical engineering. M.Ed. Boston University tique Dealer’s Assoc. Surviving is a son, William 1941. Delta Tau Delta. Treasurer, Hamblet Machine ’55. Company. Among survivors are children, Patricia 1942 JOHN HILDRETH MAYO, 63, of South Port­ H. Petry ’54 and William ’65. land, died June 23, 1984. B.S. agricultural econom­ 1918 m o n a McWil l ia m s f o s t e r , 89, of ics. Sigma Chi. Proprietor, Your Host Restaurants. Beverly, Massachusetts, died May 22, 1984. B.A. 1931 KENNETH ANDREWS KEENEY, 75, of Among survivors is a daughter, Martha ’71. German. M.A. Boston University 1934. Alpha Missoula, Montana, died June 6, 1984. B.S. 1944 GEORGE HANSON OBEAR, 62, of Hyatts- Omicron Pi. Teacher. forestry. M.F. Yale 1933. Sigma Alpha Epsilon. ville, Maryland, died August 27, 1984. B.S. civil U.S. Forest Service, Northern Region Division engineering. M.S. Rutgers University 1949. Sigma 1918 ISAIAH LEAVITT NEWMAN, 89, of East Chief. Wilton, died July 19, 1984. B.S. mechanical Nu. President, Consoic Engineering Services. Dona­ engineering. Industrial arts teacher, 42 years. 1931 EVELYN FOX THIBODEAU, 74, of Green­ tions are being made to a memorial fund in ville Junction, died September 3, 1984. B.A. engineering, c/o Development Office, Crossland 1919 CARL EDWARD HARDY, 89, of Florence, psychology. Kappa Psi. Teacher. Among survivors Alumni Center, Orono, Maine 04469. Massachusetts, died June 4, 1984. B.S. horticulture. are her daughter, Faith T. Tripp ’68 and sister, Ruth Horticulturist, Butler & Ullman’s Greenhouse. Flor­ Fox ’46. 1945 IVAN BLISS BUBAR, 64, of Littleton, died ence. Among members surviving are Malcolm D. June 28, 1984. B.S. agronomy. Alpha Gamma Rho. ’44, Priscilla Hardy Bennett ’43 and David M. ’70. 1932 CEDRIC LORING ARNOLD, 76, of Marble­ Area fieldman, Agway. Among survivors are his head, Massachusetts, died July 1, 1984. B.A. son, Stephen ’68, daughter, Stephanie B. Knight 1920 RAY MAURICE BOYNTON, 85, of Tenafly, economics and sociology. LL.B. Harvard 1935. At­ ’73, and brother, Treston ’42. New Jersey, died July 12, 1984. B.S. civil engineer­ torney, Lynn, Massachusetts, 46 years. Surviving is a ing. Honorary Doctor of Engineering, UMO, 1959. son, Robert L. ’66. Lambda Chi Alpha. Partner, Steinman, Boynton, 1946 DONALD IRVING DODGE, 59, of East Wil Gronquist & London Consulting Engineers, New 1933 JAMES WILEY McCLURE, 73, of Bangor, ton, died June 21, 1984. B.A. modern languages. York. “ A builder of bridges” —e.g., the Waldo- died July 18, 1984. B.A. economics and sociology. M.Ed. 1953. Teacher. Hancock Suspension Bridge, Bucksport. Former President, McClure, Eaton, Robertson Insurance president, New York City alumni association. 1970 Agency. House treasurer, Beta Theta Pi, 42 years. 1951 JOHN BENJAMIN LEET, 59, of Augusta, recipient, Alumni Career Award. Surviving are his wife, Mary Robinson ’29 and sons, died June 1, 1984. B.A. history and government. Roderic J. ’63 and Alan R. ’65. M.Ed. 1956. Phi Gamma Delta. Former executive 1921 HORACE CUSHMAN CRANDALL, 86, of director, Maine Criminal Justice Planning Agency. Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, died May 22, 1984. B.S. 1933 ARTHUR LOUIS MERRIFIELD, 73, of Cin­ Among survivors is a son, J. Timothy ’78. civil engineering. Sigma Chi. President, Crandall cinnati, Ohio, died April 13, 1984. B.S. chemical Engineering, Boston. engineering. M.S. M.I.T. 1935. Board chairman, 1951 HARRIETTE DOLE PICKARD, 54, of Her- Merrifield Manufacturing. mon, died July 7, 1984. B.A. business administra­ 1921 HESTER WESSENGER STRICKLAND, 86, tion. Vice president/treasurer, Pleasant Hill Dairy. of Farmingdale, died July 10, 1984. B.A. Latin. Pi 1934 THOMAS SMYTH MORSE, 72, of lslesford, Surviving are her husband, Carroll ’52, and Beta Phi. Teacher. died September 3, 1984. B.A. mathematics. In­ brothers, Arthur ’42, Lawrence ’52 and Roger ’68. surance broker, Phoenix Mutual, 40 years. 1922 MARY McLEAN NOYES, 83, of Bangor, died August 31, 1984. B.A. English. Teacher. Among 1934 RICHARD LINDLEY RICE, 70, of Bangor, 1952 ROBERT ALEXANDER ORR, 56, of Fal­ survivors are her husband, Garth ’17 and son, died May 24, 1984. B.A. economics. Alpha Tau mouth, died August 4, 1984. B.S. physical educa­ Harold H. ’51. Omega. Food service manager, Jordan Meat Com­ tion. Phi Mu Delta. Retired treasurer, Henley- pany. Kimball Co., Portland. 1923 LLOYD GRAHAM HAY, 85, of South Portland, died June 6, 1984. B.S. animal husbandry. 1936 CAROLYN CURRIER LOMBARDI, 69, of 1952 CHARLES ORLO SPEAR III, 56, of Suffield, Phi Gamma Delta. McAllister School of Mortuary Bangor, died July 22, 1984. B.A. mathematics. Connecticut, died May 31, 1984. B.S. mechanical Science, New York. President, Hay & Peabody Alpha Omicron Pi. Founder and first president of engineering. Sigma Chi. Engineer, Pratt & Whitney Funeral Directors. the Patawa Club. Corporation.

1923 RODNEY ALDEN YOUNG, 83, of Dexter, 1937 PAUL WEBBER BURKE, 68, of Newport, 1953 JOHN MILLS BREWER, 53, of South Bur died June 15, 1984. B.S. education. Surviving are died June 21, 1984. B.A. zoology. M.D. University lington, Vermont, died May 28, 1984. B.S. educa­ children Dale A. ’59 and Ila Young Burns ’63. of Pennsylvania 1941. Charter staff member and tion. Lambda Chi Alpha. President, American former chief of staff, Sebasticook Valley Hospital. Brokerage Service, Inc., Burlington. 1924 MARY LILLIAN COPELAND, 82, of Among survivors are his daughter, Rebecca B. Con­ Holden, died August 30, 1984. B.A. mathematics. don ’75 and a sister, Mary B. Bourneuf ’42. 1954 EARL DONALD BRAGDON, 60, of Vienna, M.A. Boston University 1938. Teacher. Virginia, died August 9, 1984. B.A. history and 1938 KERMIT RODNEY COTES, 69, of Gray, died government. M.S. 1956, Ph.D. Indiana University 1925 ELIZABETH PENDLETON HAMM, 81, of May 15, 1984. B.S. chemical engineering. Phi Eta 1962. Sigma Nu. Professor of history. Portland, died June 1, 1984. B.A. English. Pi Beta Kappa. Engineer, S.D. Warren Company, 30 years. Phi. Teacher in U.S.A. and Tokyo, Japan. Surviv­ 1960 JULIE MARRINER FAST, 45, of Ports­ ing is her husband, Clifton ’23. 1938 LELAND VERNON PAGE, 68, of Camp Hill, mouth, New Hampshire, died May 11, 1984. B.A. Pennsylvania, died July 2, 1984. B.S. civil engineer­ speech. Phi Mu. Owner, Bottom Line Bookstore, 1927 LORINDA ORNE EUSTIS, 78, of Waterville, ing. Phi Eta Kappa. Hydraulic engineer, U.S. Geo­ Portsmouth. Among survivors are her parents and a died June 22, 1984. B.S. biology. Delta Delta Delta. logical Survey. son.

1927 RUTH LEMAN GRADY, 80, of Palermo, 1939 ALLEN LYFORD DYER, 69, of Venice, 1980 SANDRA LEE KERN, 26, of Lewiston, died died September 1, 1984. B.S. home economics. Florida, died June 19, 1984. B.A. psychology. Delta May 11, 1984. B.S. child development. Head Start Delta Delta Delta. 4-H agent for Hancock, Waldo Tau Delta. Equipment designer at General Electric teacher, Cumberland. and Somerset Counties. for U.S. space program. 1982 THOMAS J. HAMLER BLODGETT, 24, of 1928 CLARA ELIZABETH SAWYER, 76, of Sears­ 1939 RICHARD QUIGLEY, 67, of Jacksonville, Framingham, Massachusetts, died August 25, 1984. port, died September 1, 1984. B.A. English. Pi Beta Florida, died August 9, 1984. B.S. forestry. Beta Psychology. Co-owner, Convenient Food Mart, Phi. Teacher, USM, 20 years. Among survivors is a Theta Pi. Col., U.S. Marine Corps, Ret. Arlington. A tree will be planted in his memory in brother, Charles K. ’33. front of Oak Hall. 1940 HARRY SERVATUS NELSON, 65, of North 1930 EUSTIS FRANCIS SULLIVAN, 76, of Bever­ Adams, Massachusetts, died May 22, 1984. B.S. 1983 PETER ANDREW MARTIN, 24, of Milli- ly, Massachusetts, died July 31, 1984. B.S. forestry. mechanical engineering. Phi Mu Delta. Design nocket, died July 13, 1984. B.S. education. Tau Alpha Tau Omega. Construction inspector, Fay, engineer, James Hunter Machine Co. Surviving is Kappa Epsilon. Employed by Great Northern Paper Spofford & Thorndike, Inc., Boston. his wife, Priscilla Bickford ’40. Company. 20 MAINE ALUMNUS Frigidaire division of GE Corp. and enjoyed the and Patty’s from Georgia. At the end of the week challenges and above all the pleasures of design the grandchildren immediately voted to repeat next reduced to practicality and widespread use.” year, but the adults felt an overlap of two days Class Notes In the aftermath of WWII, it seemed to Doris would be a better survival plan. It certainly was one Twitchell Allen ’23 that bringing together children grand celebration. from all over the world would be a step toward Mike Lavorgna was the only classmate with pen in Maine Alumnus Cub Award peace. Five years later, in 1950, the first Children’s hand this summer. He wrote from Milwaukee that Village was held in Cincinnati with children and he is enjoying semi-retirement. He sold M.L. adults from nine countries. There has been a Chil­ Lavorgna, Inc. to Whitehouse Engineering Service Every now and then, the editors at dren’s International Summer Village every year Co., Inc., but does consulting work for them on a Maine Alumnus receive an especially since, and now a CISV-Maine chapter has been 10- to 3 basis before getting in some golf. After the creative and original column from one formed and recognized by the organization. It was holiday fun is over, they enjoy February in Naples, o f the class secretaries. Starting with born in a continuing education psychodrama course Florida. Mike feels the University gave him an this issue, we will recognize that ef­ Doris taught in the summer of 1982 at UMO. Chil­ education that now allows him “ the best of two fort with our highest (and only) award, the Maine dren’s Villages are still based upon her original con­ worlds.” I enjoyed a mini-reunion in September Alumnus Cub Award (for Black Bear Cub Report­ cept that personal exchanges can build international with Edith Hoyt Humphrey and Elizabeth “Betty” er). First to be so lauded is Hilda Sterling, Class o f understanding and friendships. Collins. Edith drove over from Augusta. Betty has ’55. Nice going! taken up residence here after years in California. Also beginning with this issue, the Alumnus staff Now the sad part of reporting. Helen Peabody will consolidate into one column the classes that Davis’ husband, Gifford, died July 18. He had been have passed their 60th reunion. head of the department of romance languages at Class correspondents are increasingly finding the Duke University. He and Helen attended our 50th variety o f responses inadequate for composing a class reunion. Clara Peabody Chapman wrote that newsy column. Please continue to send news to your she expected Helen and daughter, Anne, for an class secretary or to the alumni office, c/o Faith August visit in Maine. From the Bangor Daily Webster, Class Notes editor. News, I learned of the death of Grayce Hamilton, only daughter of Leita French Hamilton of Be- thesda, Maryland. Leita’s husband died several years ago. Two of my sorority sisters, Lorinda Orne 25 Mildred Brown Schrumpf Eustis of Waterville, and Ruth Leman Grady of Palermo, my first college roommate, died this sum­ 24 + 84 College Avenue mer. Our sympathy to those who suffered the loss Orono, Maine 04473 of loved ones. From Margaret Blethen ’21, the following news: Hope to see ’27ers at Homecoming. In the mean­ “ As the only member of our class to attend alumni We are all excited about our class’s 60th Reunion time, how about some mail before you get caught reunion last June, Roger Castle ’21 was an honored June 6, 7, 8 and 9 at Orono. Little did we think, as up by the holiday squeeze? Welcome to Norah guest at the champagne luncheon of the Class of shy freshmen in 1921, we’d be back to Orono in Davis, editor of the Maine Alumnus. 1932 and sent me a copy of the clever report of that 1985 as senior alumni. You’ll hear more about the class’s doings. I was happy to see Roger at the Sebec event. On August 1 your class officers, “ prexy” Lake camp of Larry and Peg Davee ’22 when I Stan Bailey, vice president Chet Baker, treasurer burst in on them at lunch en route to a date for a Velma Oliver and your class secretary, met with 28 Matthew Williams bridge game in the neighborhood. other reunion class planners, the ‘0s and the ’5s, to 171 Pleasant Street I had a welcome letter from Lindsay March ’21. formulate plans. So, you’ll get letters. Come join in Dover-Foxcroft, Maine 04426 Their news was a once-in-a-lifetime event: their 60th the fun. Chet will bring you information on the wedding anniversary. Fourteen of the family gave fun(d)! Ardron Lewis has written a book titled Our Money them a fine dinner and arranged a large card shower and Our Misery. It has been published and copies from friends. Since the date was near Faith’s 85th A letter in July from Walt Scannell says he’ll be are available at $12.50 from Exposition Press of birthday, they honored her with a huge panel here in June. Erdine Besse Dolloff ’28 and I took a Florida, Inc., P.O. Box 130063, Sunrise, Fla. 33313. displaying her pictures from age two up, which in­ The book is a frank discussion in nontechnical lan­ terested the grandchildren. They have now been in trip to their camp at First Roach Pond, Kokadjo, in August for a few days with Doris Dow Ladd and guage of Ardron’s observations and opinions made their apartment in Charlottesville, Virginia for more daughter Betty Jane ’50. Doris lives with Betty Jane, throughout his interesting lifetime, both in this than a year since giving up on winters in Florida and country and abroad. Ardron resides at 22 Smith are glad to be near their two children. They are able a director of social sciences in Glastonbury public schools, Connecticut. Doris and I lived at North Farm Rd., Weston, Conn, and says he is interested to get around but are not jogging anymore. They Hall for two years, now the Crossland Alumni in hearing of his former college classmates, though send best wishes to all in 1921. reading on occasion of the deaths of some of our I have learned that in 1982 Harold Kelley ’21 Center. How our tongues wagged with news about classmates! members. moved to live with a nephew, but following a Cheryl Wixson ’76, daughter of Hope Craig Wix- broken hip and surgical operation was moved to the In September, the Orono-Old Town branch of the American Association of University Women ob­ son and Elwood Wixson (both deceased), is now liv­ Hopkins Health Center, 610 Smithfield Rd., North ing in Bangor. This past summer she contributed a Providence, R.I. We all hope that you have re­ served the chapter’s 60th year. Five members of the Class of 1925 were among the members attending— lot of volunteer work to help Bangor celebrate its covered long since, Harold. I keep in frequent touch 150th anniversary. One of her voluntary duties was with Dot Hart Cook ’21 through letters. She still Marcia (Mrs. Mark) Bailey who got her master’s in our class and was a charter member of AAUW in to try to keep a huge birthday cake, made out of works two half-days a week at Dana House, talking ice, from melting on 80° + days! to visitors about Woodstock and Vermont history. Orono, Velma Oliver, Alice Hill Hallock, Harriet There seems to be kind of a drouth insofar as She also enjoys overnight guests, whom she finds Page Hume and your secretary. Velma was again class news is concerned. Seems darn funny some of stimulating despite the care involved. honored with the Velma Oliver Research and Proj­ you out there do not bother, or will not bother, to It would mean much to me if the rest of you ects Endowment Fund, the first such AAUW fund send along a tidy morsel or two. Of course I could ’21ers, able to be up and around, would write and for the Maine division. She has served as president speak of our fifth grandchild and how beautiful she keep me aware that you are still in the land of the of the Orono-Old Town branch and as state presi­ is, and then some of you male members would say, living! Wake up!” dent. Just because the reunion is next June don’t let it “ Hey, no wonder—she looks like her mother, keep you from sending in news about yourself now. Ruby!” Maybe they have a point there. Or want me Donald F. Alexander ’23 wrote in May: “ Marjorie Our plans to see Hope Norwood Bannister this sum to tell you what I did last week—aw shucks we all and I have been in fairly good health but we realize mer didn’t work out. We hope she’ll get to our did that—read the paper forenoons and napped af­ that there is great attrition now among relatives and 60th. ternoons! So fellas and company, send along a bit friends. I was especially upset to read of the passing of folderal occasionally! Guess I can survive if you of Ceylon Archer ’23. We were electrical engineers can, starving for news. and shared many interesting experiences. 27 Peg Preble Webster “Our three sons have produced 10 grandchildren for us, scattered from Portland, Oregon to Indiana. 93 Norway Road Bangor, Maine 04401 In turn, these have declared six dividends in the 29 Helen Moore form of six great-grandchildren. My amateur radio hobby began with my first amateur license in The annual problem of how to put the contents of Crescent Trailer Park Bangor on October 1, 1919. I have now been active the cottage refrigerator into the one at home is with RFD 4, Ellsworth, Maine 04605 almost 65 years with this world-wide hobby. It was me. This year the problem is multiple as the children natural that our trip to the South Pacific in 1967 hired cottages on either side of us in order to be Thelma Ham Hayward, who lives with her husband should be filled with meetings with fellow amateurs. together for our 50th wedding anniversary. After in a beautiful, colonial house in Bayside, Belfast, I was co-founder of the University of Maine Radio weeks of planning and coordinating schedules there entertained for those Delta Zetas who were members Club in 1922—I hope it continues to this time. were 23 of us, plus an exchange student from of the sorority prior to 1940. Five of those present “ I was supervisor of development and research, France. Bud’s family came from Pennsylvania, were from the Class of 1929, Ramona Leadbetter electrical engineering for over 37 years for the Tom’s from Connecticut, Richard’s from Minnesota Wadsworth, Maple Percival, Erma White Howe, DECEMBER, 1984 21 us celebrate. Horace Croxford talked with him recently while on a trip to Hawaii. Harold is still in the real estate business in the Islands. Norwood “On the Go” with Ann Green Robison ’24 Mansur sent me a long letter from Coral Springs, Florida. He seems to be enjoying life in the sunshine On June 26 Ann Robison stood in the East accomplishments. In 1975 she received an state. His son, Norwood, Jr. ’66, whom I met sev- Room of the White House, listening as President honorary doctorate from the University of eral years ago, has two children. Noddy also enjoys Reagan honored her accomplishments as a vol­ Maine at Orono and in 1983 an honorary doc­ a stepson, two stepdaughters plus four step-grand- unteer. A week later she attended a reception at torate from Universitas East Asia. In New Jersey daughters. He sold his business in Augusta in 1972 the Bangkok residence of the U.S. Ambassador a dormitory has been dedicated in her honor at and built a house in Daytona Beach in 1973. He to Thailand. Globetrotting is a way of life for Fairleigh Dickinson University, and a science bought a condo in Coral Springs near Fort Lauder­ this distinguished civic leader and has been dur­ and engineering building on the same campus is dale in 1982. He looks forward to joining us at re­ ing the 60 years since her graduation from named Robison Hall for her and her husband, union in 1985. UMO. Adolf (“ Al” ). She is listed in Who’s Who of I just received a card from Frank and Ruth United Nations representative, writer, editor, American Women, Who’s Who in World Jewry, Shurtleff ’35 Goodwin telling that they were visiting philanthropist, and educator are labels as ap­ and many others, and she was Woman of the their daughter in Germany for a month. While there plicable as world traveler. Year for the United Jewish Appeal in 1964. they attended the Passion Play in Oberammegau. From 1947-51 Ann served as UN represen- In addition to numerous television appear­ Hope you all are planning to attend reunion next ances and speaking engagements on five con­ June. Send me a line saying that you hope to be tinents, she has for 20 years written a weekly there! column “ On the Go” in the Jewish Standard and is editor of a semi-annual magazine for the International Council of Jewish Women. A native of New York City, she graduated 31 Kay Whitcomb Butler from UMO Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi 17 Young Street and received a master’s from Columbia. She taught for 14 years and continues her interest in Bangor, Maine 04401 education by serving on an advisory board at Rutgers University and participating in campus Here is news from classmates whom we haven’t affairs at Fairleigh Dickinson University. She is a heard from for years. member of the governing council of the alumni John L. Cutler, while waiting for the right job, association of Teachers College, Columbia received his master’s, then his doctorate, married University. and, in 1938, began teaching in the English depart­ ment at the University of Kentucky, retiring from She is vice president of the Robison Founda­ there in 1975. After the death of his first wife, he tion and of Robison Industries. In addition to remarried and describes himself and Ann as frus­ business activities, she shares with her husband trated builders. They have extensively remodeled an interest in and support of the arts. He is a houses and are now planning a greenhouse and composer, poet, and playwright. In 1982 the gazebo. Does that sound like an English professor Robisons visited Orono for a performance of his or the editor of a scholarly journal? Their address is play, Jigsaw Puzzle, at the Pavilion Theatre. 220 Delmar Ave., Lexington, Ky. 40508, and he They have given generous support to the Per­ would be pleased to hear from former classmates. forming Arts Center. From Paul R. Goodwin: “ At the present time my But what of the White House and Bangkok? In wife Bobbie and I are enjoying our retirement days her July 20 column, Ann tells us that she was in Ann Robison '24: with Prime Minister in a modernized farmhouse, Box 399, Milton, N.H. Thailand to attend the triennial convention of the Shimon Peres o f Israel in 1984. 03851. With several acres to care for plus our in­ International Association of University Presidents, terests in crafts and travel, we find spare time a where she represented the president of the University scarce item.” Paul was employed by U.S. Forest tative for the National Council of Jewish of Maine. Service, spent time in the army during WWII, with Women and in 1950 in the same capacity for the Of the ceremony in the East Room, convened the Civil Service Commission in Boston, North American Association of University Women. to honor senior citizen volunteers, she wrote: Carolina and Washington, D.C., where he remained While attending a session of the General “ Then the President walked in looking fresh until 1971. He retired as a personnel staffing Assembly in Paris, she visited West Germany as and spry. He greeted us as nonagenarians, oc specialist. He and his wife enjoy crafts, antique a guest of General Lucius Clay, and her subse­ togenarians and ‘fellow septuagenarians.’ ” He shows, auctions, church activities and woodworking. went on, she wrote, to speak of Andrew Jackson quent radio broadcasts on the Berlin Airlift and Gardening and genealogy occupy the remainder of who left the White House at the age of 70. the Displaced Persons Camps were heard his time. “ Grinning from ear to ear, he added ‘Imagine throughout the U.S. A most interesting letter came from Paul J. that!’ ” Her honors have kept pace with her many Findlen, 43 Coolidge Ave., Caribou 04736. His career with the foreign agricultural service, USDA, made him a world traveler. He mentions years in London and Rome, five years promoting sales of your class secretary and our hostess. Each member U.S. agricultural products in Tokyo, Paris, Madrid, brought a picnic lunch and Thelma furnished dessert Lisbon, Munich, Athens, and Belgrade. Paul is in­ and coffee. It was wonderful to see so many of our volved with Rotary Club, Caribou Historical So­ old friends. ciety, history of Aroostook railroads, Nylander Erma and Maple, who have been “ best” friends Museum, Maine Humanities Council, and Aroos­ for almost 60 years have been living at 7 South St., took County history at UMPI. He missed our 50th Pittsfield since 1977 where they share a two-story reunion but looks forward to the 55th and 60th and house. Erma’s husband died on April 6, 1982. They beyond. We will be looking for you with your wife, Paul. both keep active in the Tuesday Club and in church 30 Jeanette Roney Pero work. Herman C. Allen writes from Wake Robin, Apt. George S. Cunningham retired from teaching at 11 West End Avenue 503, Washington Highway, Lincoln, R.I. 02865: UMO as Professor Emeritus of Mathematics in Westboro, Massachusetts 01581 “ Receiving your letter made me realize that I have 1974. He lives with his wife at 4 Glenwood St., not been in touch with anybody from UMO or the Orono. He is busy with gardening, has taught math­ At least some of you got my message and I received Class of 1931 for a long, long time. My wife, Pearl, ematics for at least one year at Bangor H.S. since a few nice letters in response to my plea for news. and I were married in 1935, celebrating our 49th an­ retirement, and expects to teach at least one class of Please let me hear from more of you. niversary this year. I was employed in the textile in­ calculus at UMO this year. Our president, Ken Haskell, reports that plans for dustry in Rhode Island from 1931 to 1950, then at I am indebted to the Alumni Office and to Dave our 55th reunion are progressing slowly. Let’s make Bird and Son, East Walpole, Massachusetts and Fuller ’28 for a clipping from the April 1984 issue of this a real reunion—a meeting of old friends without retired in 1975. Our travels have included visits to The Episcopalian. A picture which is part of the pressures and appeals and a chance to enjoy the fel­ several Caribbean islands, but now we spend a cou­ clipping is of Gerald Francis Burrill, retired lowship of those of us who are left. Ralph Corbett ple of months each winter at Indian Shores, Florida. Episcopal Bishop of Chicago and of his son William of Orono is serving as chairman, overseeing our My activities consist of taking care of my plants and George Burrill, who was recently consecrated Bishop class activities. Harold Inman and Lawrence hooking rugs. I would like to hear from any ’31ers Coadjutor of the Rochester, New York diocese. This Boothby will serve with him. We should all support living in this area.” adds the Burrills to a very special list of fathers and them. Herbert E. Gallison writes from 7403006 Village sons who became bishops. Many thanks to Dave I was sorry to hear that Frank Knight’s wife is in Rd., Sykesville, Md. 21734: “ My wife died March Fuller from all of us in the Class of 1929. poor health and hope she will have improved so they 19, 1984. We had been married 47 years and lived, May I wish for all of you a very merry Christmas can attend reunion. Llewellyn (“ Harold”) Lloyd re­ voted and owned homes in 17 states and Canada.” and a healthy and prosperous New Year. ports that he plans to be in Orono next June to help Herb goes on to list many different types of posi­ 22 MAINE ALUMNUS tions he has held. As a freelance writer, he has tailgate lunch and a good game in spite of the score. 128 High St., Exeter, N.H. 03833; Colgate S. Jor­ published in the Bangor Daily News, Maine Life, We stopped by after to enjoy the hospitality of Jack dan, Seal Harbor 04675; Ted Earle, 5 Simscroft Baltimore Evening Sun, Washington County Mag­ and Amy Lambert. Place, Simsbury, Conn. 06070; Ralph Perry, Brown- azine and others. His personal card reads: “ Herbert Jim McLean gets high marks for sending me a ville Junction 04415; Rodney Noyes, 53 Mayo St., E. Gallison—retired, no phone, no money, no ad­ card from Skagway, Alaska with the information Dover-Foxcroft 04426; George Plumpton, Box 244, dress and no business.” that he and Leota were leaving Whitehorse on the Brattleboro, Vt. 05302; Ewart Brunn, 40 Downing A thank you to each of you for answering my let­ Yukon to return down the inside passage. This in­ Rd., Lexington, Mass. 02173; James Morin, 9 ter. I’m sorry that space did not allow me to include cluded Glacier Bay National Monument, Juneau, Brooklyn Ave., Lavalette, N.J. 08735; Charles and all the information. Three $410.00 scholarships were Sitka, and M.V. Columbia which was the route of Melba Gifford Straffin, 6813 10th Ave. West, given this year from our 1931 Scholarship Fund. I’m the 1898 Gold Rush Pioneers. Hope you struck Bradenton, Fla. 33505; Drusilla Roderick Noyes, happy to say grandparents of each recipient are still gold, Jim! Bob and Betty Pendleton did not send Apt. 216, Juniper Hill Village, Storrs, Conn. 06268. active alumni. news but they made some. They were feted in cele­ Richard Moore planned to come, but his wife’s ill­ bration of their 50th wedding anniversary. The party ness prevented. He lives at 419 Calle de las Profetas, was given by Robert, Jr. of Scarborough and Nancy Green Valley, Ariz. 85614. Drop them a card or let­ Pendleton McGraw of Mars Hill. The Pendletons ter. 32 Lin wood S. Elliott moved to Island Falls in 1949 as Bob became super­ Here are a few corrections in the memory book: 85 Leighton Road visor of the northern division of Maine Forest Ser­ Armand Giguere lives in Michigan, not Mississippi; vices. Betty later taught in the high school. The Henry Marsh lives in Rockland, Maine, tel. Falmouth, Maine 04105 Pendletons have been dependable, loyal, working 363-4266; Andy and Mabel Robinson Watson live at members of the class. We all join in congratulations 102 17th St., Zephyrhills, Fla. 34248; Orissa Frost I am writing this in September during the first and good wishes. Kingsbury lives at 647 Dunblane Dr., Winter Park, shower we have had in two months. Had a tele­ One of the 13 engineers and scientists of the Fla.; Robert Crockett is at Robert Gardens, Glens phone call from Helen Stearns Lester saying that AT&T Bell Labs who received the company’s “ Dis­ Falls, N.Y. If you know of other changes, please let Win Robbins was visiting his daughter here in tinguished Technical Staff Award” was Rod Wayne Rich know at P.O. Box 391, Concord, N.H. Falmouth (where Win lived during the ’50s and MacLean. Rod lives in Atkinson, New Hampshire 03301. ’60s). He had just come from Mt. Katahdin. You and has been with the company since 1958. He The memory books have 50 pages of pictures and recall that part of his master’s requirement was mak­ works in the subsystems technology department information about our classmates, many of whom ing an exact model of that mountain, based on a where he analogs communication filters and hybrid made significant contributions to our country and U.S. geological survey. The map as a whole was integrated circuits. Congratulations, Rod, you are humanity. If you would like one, please send $5.00 made of 24 sections, each approximately 10 inches far beyond my knowledge! to George (“ Swank” ) Osgood, 21 Crestline Circle, square, and is on display at UMO. Sadly I report the death of Doris Ballard Graf- Beverly, Mass. 01915. Win Libby is now a columnist for the Ellsworth fam. Dot was born in Hampden but lived most of American. In a June issue he wrote that we are on her life in Rockport. She taught school there for the margin of another revolution, the so-called com­ many years and was active in community organiza­ puter technology age. In this article Win reviewed tions. She leaves two sons and five grandchildren. Mai Long’s June 1932 valedictory commencement We extend our sympathy. address in which he talked about the coming radio Please put me on your list for a Christmas pres­ age. Win said: “ In 1932, we had only 587 AM sta­ ent! Please make it news and before December 15. tions. Today there are 4,700 AM stations and 4,500 FM stations besides 844 commercial TV stations.” So now it is the computer overshadowing TV. Oh, I forgot to mention that Helen and Don Lester have spent the entire summer renovating their Virginia Trundy Stone camp which is something all of us have gone 34 Fern Allen Turbyne 35 through at least once. 70 Boston Avenue 5342 Lakeside Dr. Clarine Coffin Grenfell shared her experience and Winslow, Maine 04901 Lake Wales, Florida 33853 memories of more than 70 years at the Old Town Museum in June, reading from her three autobio­ Peter Karalekas attended the American Water Committee members have been working diligently graphical books: The Caress and the Hurt (1982), Works Association conference in Dallas, Texas on plans for our 50th Reunion in June. Hope you Women M y Husband Married (1983), and Roses in where he was made an honorary member. He has have all sent in biography information to Phil December (1984). She has written many other books been reappointed to the Massachusetts Water Pendell. It is needed to make our memory book a including poetry and prose, including a text on Resources Commission by Governor Dukakis. These real treasure. novelty grammar tests in 1936, which was in demand are top honors, and we are proud of you, Pete. Summer visitors to Saturday Cove included Marj for 45 years. If any of you out there would like to Since June I have received heartwarming letters Church Honer from Portland and Bob and Helen have Clarine come and entertain your club or group, which I will share in part with you. Joe Massaro, Arey from Stamford, Connecticut. Much reminisc­ contact Grenfell Reading Center in Orland 04472. our class agent, speaks for the entire committee in ing ensued. Alice Sisco Nord telephoned she had David Hanaburgh wrote that he was off the last of thanking all class members for the participation, been pleasantly surprised to meet Henry Fales, who August on a complete tour of England, Scotland loyalty and support that resulted in the greatest re­ has built a new home in Jupiter, Florida. Alice lives and Wales. He expected to be back in September. union ever at UMO. Joe says, “ For those of you in a condo in Tequesta, Florida, which leaves her Speaking of tours, Florence and I took a bus trip who weren’t able to be with us, we were thinking of free to travel. She has a son and married daughter. with Brunswick Maine-Line to the Amish country in you; for those who couldn’t be there for medical From the alumni office we learn that Angelo Pennsylvania in October. It was a wonderful trip, reasons, we were praying for you, and those who Miniutti of North Berwick has been retired since but of course, can’t be compared to England, were there shared the warmth and affection that ex­ 1978 and is still a bachelor. Betty Davis Story, Scotland, Wales. ceeded all expectations. Our fund raising will con­ Augusta, retired from the Veterans Administration Last June at the reunion, I told you that my com­ tinue until December 31, so please keep your checks in Togus as assistant chief dietician in 1975. She ing book on the UM engineers and their work was coming. At the reunion it was voted that all con­ spends winters in Port Richey, Florida. Florence Siss going to be published by the UMO Press, but it tributions over the $50,000 for our cultural fund will Whitman of Turner also winters in Florida. Ruth seems there are four other books ahead of mine, so be for the Class of 1934 Athletic Scholarships. May Shurtleff Goodwin and husband Frank ’30 visited it probably will not be printed until spring, although God keep you all in the best of health so that we daughter Penny in Germany for several weeks in I have contacted several local printers and the proj­ may enjoy many reunions together. Affectionately August and September. Huck and Margaret Sawyer ect may get off the turf by fall or this winter. When yours, Joe.” Joe would be glad to hear from you were delighted to be asked to “ house-sit” for the one has worked for three years researching and typ­ with or without checks at 52 Park St., Manchester, Goodwins while they were abroad, especially after ing 468 pages by the “ hunt and peck” method, one Conn. 06040. being confined to travel-trailer living since leaving learns what patience is as one obstacle after another From Dot and Phil Parsons: “ We are deeply in­ Florida in June. The Sawyers spent a month in En­ jams the road ahead. debted to the committee for organizing a successful gland and France in the fall. “Swampy” Marsh was Rumor has it that Abby Sargent Neese was not reunion and raising a big $60,000 for the University. again chairman of Maine Day at the Eastern States idle this summer for she made her home a bedroom We are grateful to the Alumni Association for win­ Exposition in Springfield, Massachusetts during and breakfast spot for the tourists, I presume in ing and dining us during our stay and we are really September. This New England states fair, which is Sargentville. glad to be associated with such a great class. We attended by more than a million people, features a Sorry about the lack of exciting news. You can hope to see you in five years.” From Kay and circus, band concert, horse and livestock shows, as help next time by dropping me a line. Charlie Prinn: “ What a glorious time we had at the well as products and crafts from New England. 50th. It has a special place in our memories.” The Swampy has been a Maine trustee of the event for reunion committee was reappointed for the next five over 30 years. Our energetic Reunion Fund chair­ man, Carl Whitman, works three days a week at 33 Marj. Moulton Murphy years, with the request that any class members who would like to join the committee be added. If you Merkert Enterprises in Canton, Massachusetts and RFD #3 Box 370 are interested, please let me know. the rest of the week with Upper Cape Realty in Buz­ Gorham, Maine 04038 Some who planned to attend the reunion, but zards Bay. He is active in Canton Association of In­ were prevented by ill health were: Russ Libby, 12 dustries, of which he was a founder in 1972, and is Just returned from the Maine-New Hampshire game Johnson Rd., Falmouth 04105; Irving Harvey, 213 also one of the owners of Holly Ridge Golf and where we joined Dolly and Rusty Rumazza for a Ridgewood Rd., Media, Pa. 19063; John Crosson, Recreation Community in South Sandwich. DECEMBER, 1984 23 We were sorry to learn of the death of our first News (6/21/84) letters column in which he shared onel, living in Jacksonville, Florida where he was class secretary, Agnes Crowley McGuire, and extend with the paper’s readers some profound thoughts on town manager. Our deepest sympathy to his family. sympathy to the members of her family. Australian frozen embryos. I will be glad to share Harlan Fitch retired after 30 years as assessor in Congratulations to Carl and his reunion fund these thoughts with any of you who will share your Groton, Massachusetts where he has lived all his life drive, which has progressed well. But we still need thoughts with me. with the exception of his army stint. Surely he and support, especially from some of our ’35ers who are Alan retains a seat on the D.E.C. board and is his computer type memory will be missed, but he holding off to make their contribution during our still property chairman of Delaware Planned Parent­ plans to stay around the hometown and continue to final year prior to the 50th. We need your generous hood, which has completed a new clinic building do the things he always enjoyed—“ raking leaves, support, which will give our class the largest sum of and renovated another. He is also a member of the mowing grass, shingling roofs, cutting wood, sitting money ever presented to the Alumni Fund on this Olympic Committee but finds his enthusiasm waning in the shade and watching the sun go down.” special occasion. in the face of rampant nationalism. Sounds like a very comfortable life! Betty Homans Contact your ’35 friends and make plans now to Alan and Vera have two active daughters: Diana, Hancock and her sister took a trip to the British attend our 50th in June. a photographer with KQED-TV in San Francisco, Isles and Ireland in September. She wrote that and Susan, an author who had a book on the New Eunice Gale Colomy and husband will be forsaking 36 Robert A. Burns York Times best seller list last spring. He didn’t California for the winter and coming to the Port­ P.O. Box 1125 identify the book, but there was only one author land area. No address available at this writing. East Dennis, Massachusetts 02641 named Susan on the list from March through May Carl Toothaker heard from Allen Dyer after being so I decided it must be Almost Paradise by Susan out of touch for many years. Al, retired in 1975 Isaacs (Harper and Rowe). The other members of after 24 years with General Electric, settled in Reno, Somebody out there loves us. From Anna Eliason Andover’s literati have tied up all three library Nevada. A health problem required a lower eleva­ Clarke, bless her heart, comes this welcome note: copies, and I can’t tell you more right now. tion, so now he is at 1301 Laurel Ave., Venice, Fla. “ Whenever we meet Bobby Burns at the beach here Still no word from our 50th Reunion Commit­ 33595. He has a son, who flies for United Airlines, a in East Dennis, we reminisce about our classmates at tee—maybe I dreamed it! Thanks Alan and Ernie, daughter and seven grandchildren. Carl also heard UMO and recent news of you all. Bobby needs and Merry Christmas to all! from Andy Longley, D.O., Newburyport, Massa­ news, so I beg you to drop him a few lines. chusetts. Andy planned to get back for reunion, but “ For 12 years Dick and I have been living on conflicting dates prevented it—he was in England Cape Cod, and have found life here most fulfilling. that weekend for the Rotary International Conven­ Our two children and six grandchildren come as tion. often as they can since they live fairly near, in 38 Miriam Hilton Coffin (Mrs. John) 10209 Montgomery Avenue Jeanette Sanborn Spear writes that she was sorry Massachusetts and New Jersey. We are busy with to miss reunion. After 28 years of teaching at Traip countless local activities, gardening, swimming, and Kensington, Maryland 20895 Academy, she has retired and still lives in Kittery long walks on the beautiful ocean beaches. At Point. Betty Curtis and Charlie Huntoon are still in home, classical music and operas are our first loves. News is scarce. I hope that once you all have seen Portland. Had hoped to make reunion but were I am still banging away at the piano and often in­ my name in the September issue, I’ll get a lot of let­ standing by, awaiting the arrival of a grandchild. dulge in a few Maine songs. Who can forget Born a ters. Embert Buck and Ruth Elliot ’41 live seven months Maine Girl? We are off this September for a tour of I’ve two items, courtesy of the alumni office. in Brewer and five in Bradenton, Florida. Bert is the Canadian Rockies, but will rejoice to return to Olive Conley was presented the MEMA special retired after 34 years with the Farmers Home Ad­ New England, especially the salty atmosphere of recognition award at the Maine Educational Media ministration. They are busy with volunteer work in Cape Cod. Come down and reunion with us.” Association/Maine Library Association spring con­ the Sarasota area, proceeds going to grants and Anna enclosed a newspaper article she had written ference at Orono. Olive was cited for her work in scholarships in the field of arts and theater. Allan for the Ellsworth American last spring entitled, developing the fine facility at Ellsworth H.S., her Goud had hoped to make it back for reunion since “ Memories of Growing Up in the Black House” leadership in the profession, and her counsel and en­ he retired from teaching a year ago and so for the (Colonel John Black’s stately mansion, Woodlawn, couragement to her colleagues. Congratulations, first time in 17 years would not be involved with built in 1828 in Ellsworth with proceeds from the Olive! A note from Frances Higgins Raskop tells of school activities in June. However, he extends an in­ Maine woods). Thank you, Anna, for writing and getting together at Brewer H.S.’s class of 1934 50th vitation to any ’39ers who might be passing his way, for sharing your memories. I wish there were space reunion with Gerald and Marjorie Thompson Hart, Florida-bound perhaps, to stop by. Has a big house to include your article in the class notes. Fascinating Margaret Hinkley Dean, and, as a guest, Margaret’s (the four children have left the nest) and could put reading. sister, Ruth ’36. you up. The address is 1417 Broad St., Camden, We’re a bit tardy in reporting the following item. I have talked with Cora Sharon Leukhart, who South Carolina 29020. Ed Stanley, retired as of Oc At the annual meeting of the Southwest Florida lives a local call from me in Arlington, Virginia. tober 1979, now lives in Southport, North Carolina. Alumni Association in Sarasota in March, associa­ Cora was in Maine early in the summer, to visit a Address is P.O. Box 147, Boiling Spring Lake tion president Ray Perkins was presented with a niece, and saw Diana Hight Hinckley in Blue Hill. 28461. He and Betty are involved in local affairs and copy of The First Century, A History o f the Univer­ Di and her husband, Jerry ’37, are summer residents golf. He would like to know the whereabouts of sity o f Maine 1865-1965. of Blue Hill and spend winters in Yuma, Arizona. Louis H. Thibodeau. If anyone has any informa I’m sorry to have to report the loss of Carolyn Cora was planning to go to her 50-year reunion at tion, please drop a line to Ed at the above ad Currier Lombardi, who died July 22, 1984 in Walpole (Massachusetts) H.S. this fall. dress—also to me as Louis is on our “ lost” list. Bangor. I extend the sympathy of the class to her I also had a nice chat with Annette Youngs Red I am writing this in September—you will be read­ husband, Dennis J. Lombardi. man who spent most of the summer in Michigan. ing it in December. So it is time to wish you all Hard to believe that I am sitting here in swimming She and her husband, Edward ’37, live in Alexan­ Happy Holidays—and please do keep in touch in trunks on a hot and humid August day, typing these dria, Virginia. order that we may keep the Maine spirit alive and notes while it will be close to Christmas when you John and I went to Maine as planned for our well until our 50th which will be here in the blink of read them. Ah, the wonders of this high-tech age in class reunions at Hinckley and Skowhegan. At my an eye! which we live! So please consider this my season’s reunion we enjoyed seeing Eloise Hutchinson Myers greetings to you, and best wishes for a happy, who had come from Old Town with her husband, healthy and peaceful New Year. And now, mates, Frank ’35. On our way back south we paused for a how about dropping me a holiday news-gram for a few hours to see Edith Thomas Sanborn in Ports­ really sensational class notes column in ’85? Mean mouth, New Hampshire. Edith was my high school while, Joyeux Noel. classmate as well as a Phi Mu sister. Edith’s pre­ carious physical condition prevented her from going 37 Emery N. Wescott to Skowhegan for reunion. Cora Leukhart planned to see Edith on her next trip north. 16 Alderbrook Road Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all! Andover, Massachusetts 01810 Please make New Year’s resolutions to remember 40 Alice Ann Donovan Poeppelmeier your secretary whenever you have news of class 650 Sibley Forest Drive Except for the above name and address and a bit of mates or yourselves. transcription (to make myself feel useful), this col­ Marietta, Georgia 30067 umn has been contributed by Delaware Electric Corp. ex-president Alan D. Duff, Jr. and good old Charlie Weaver did come back from reunion with Ernie Dinsmore. plans and ideas for our 45th and has prevailed on Peg Maxwell Atwood to chair our festivities as she As usual Ernie and Joan had a busy summer in­ 39 Barb Corbett Barker cluding a wedding in Reading, Massachusetts, did so magnificently for the 40th. Peg has already followed by a visit with the groom’s parents at an 49 Captain Road begun the writing and contacting that is so vital and upper New York state lake and a two-day trip with Longmeadow, Massachusetts 01106 says there will be a phonathon later. Nat Doten will them to Ottawa. After attending all possible UMO chair the fund raising—he is an accomplished ama­ football games, they were heading back to Florida. After a five-year respite, I’m back! And I am NOT teur magician and, as Bill Chandler noted, that is They saw Dr. Karl Larsen ’36 every Sunday at the class agent as was reported in the last issue—that what we need. It is not too early to make plans; church while in Maine. Ernie’s cousin, Henry T. position is still held by our very capable Harry Halli- write your friends and arrange to meet in Orono. Lowell, and his bride were going to Europe via QE day. I am only your class secretary and personals Any ideas for Peg can go to her at 135 Broadway, II in September. editor. I’ll start off with the sad news: Dick Quigley Bangor 04401. Peg retired from everything in Ernie enclosed a clipping from the Bangor Daily died suddenly, August 9. He was a retired army col­ September of ’83 and has been busy as a bird dog 24 MAINE ALUMNUS ever since. She reports that Howard Kenney has in her honor at which time she was presented a Hilton. He was killed instantly on June 17, 1984 moved to Florida. We attended a surprise 25th wed­ Revere bowl. Speaking to the graduating class, she when a moose hit by an oncoming car crashed ding anniversary celebration for Roy and Jane said, “ The future beckons—enjoy its challenges. through the windshield of his pickup truck. Al­ Holmes Kinsley in Baldwinsville, New York on Climb a mountain. Ride a wild horse. Be bold and though Jim was with the class only one year, many August 11. Betty Libbey Stallard and Elbert were daring. But above all, be yourself.” of you may remember him. In 1971 he retired from there too, and we had a wonderful time catching up. Your secretary can always depend on hearing active duty as a colonel in the USAF. Since then he Jane’s three children were so delighted to see their from Connie Philbrook Leger at least once a year, had been involved in many civic organizations in the parents with old friends and relatives. letters always enjoyed. She and Nancy ’42 are still Bingham area where he lived. Survivors include his A nice article on Elder Philmore Wass came from running the Philbrook Farm Inn in Shelburne, New mother and a sister. the alumni office. Philmore started out in Iowa, Hampshire and were so pleased to say it has just Francis Brown was one of two Maine attorneys then went to the University of New Hampshire and been included in the National Historic Trust. They honored by being elected to the Fellows of Amer­ then Central Connecticut College where he served had a wonderful vacation this year with two weeks ican Bar Association. There are only 15 members of until 1952. He left to become an editor for in St. Croix and then a fabulous 10 days in Holland the foundation in Maine. Congratulations! He is an American Education Publications at Wesleyan at tulip time. Connie’s daughter, Ann ’67, is still in attorney in Calais and a member of the UM Board University. Until 1955 he prepared all teachers’ edi­ Kankakee, Illinois where she is a speech pathologist, of Trustees. Last summer his daughter, Catherine tions for high school current events papers. From and her son, Larry, is there helping run the farm. ’78, was married to Ronald Lemin, who works at there he went to the University of Connecticut in the Connie sent news that Hartley Banton died early the UMO College of Forest Resources. They live in field of economic education. He later became this summer in Kokomo, Indiana. He was a pro Bangor. His other daughter, Barbara ’81, works in department head of curriculum and educational fessor at Purdue University and department head, Portland. Another to join the ranks of the retired is foundations until his retirement in 1978. He has mechanical engineering technology. During W.W. II Henry H. Fogler. He joined Eastman Kodak Com­ authored numerous articles and a social science tex­ he served in the army in the European theater and pany in 1948 and was named assistant superinten­ tbook. He presently is working on a book describing received a purple heart. Before moving to Purdue in dent, film sensitizing division, film manufacturing the life of his family on Libby Island Lighthouse 1971, he had 17 years of industrial experience, was a organization, in 1979. He and Mary Moynihan live Station where his father was keeper for over 20 nationally known fluid power educator, industrial in Irondequoit, New York. Five of their six children years. Philmore and his wife, Dorothy, winter in consultant, and author of numerous publications. and spouses are UMO graduates. They are John ’67, Hawaii, returning to Stoddard, New Hampshire in He was listed in Who’s Who in the Midwest and married to Kathy Holtan ’68, Helen Fogler Austin the summer. The Wasses’ hobby is sailing. They Who’s Who in Engineering. He is survived by his ’69, whose husband Jim is a UM law school grad­ completed a week’s cruise on Penobscot Bay and wife, a daughter, son, and seven grandchildren. uate, Ernest ’70 and Jane Fogler Quackenbush ’72, this fall chartered a boat in Australia and sailed the Mary E. Fogler ’79 and Sara Fogler ’81. Neal did Great Barrier Reef area. not attend UMO, but along with Mary and Sara he Veronica Adams Froelich also wrote to catch us works at Kodak in Rochester. Mary and Hank have up on her life and times. She had two careers: one 42 Marion Libby Broaddus six grandchildren. This fall they enjoyed a trip to in teaching in Vermont, New Jersey, Florida and 40 Oakland Avenue Switzerland. Michigan and another in journalism, mostly part- Westbrook, Maine 04092 A note from Bill Ellis saying he and his wife, time reporter and feature writer, but at one point Margaret, were leaving for Rome where they were to managing editor. Veronica says she is a perpetual A very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to be delegates to the World Food Assembly. From student and at present is writing her thesis for a all classmates. Please add me to you Christmas list. there they were to visit UN agencies in Geneva and Master of Liberal Studies in American Culture at A little news goes a long way in this column. Pres­ Paris. Bill is executive secretary of Transnational the Packham School of Graduate Studies, University ident Dottie Erikson reports that artists and Network for Appropriate Technology (TRANET), of Michigan. She has five children living in Massa­ architects are working on plans for a chandelier, an international organization devoted to helping chusetts, New York, and Washington. Veronica which is our class gift to the Performing Arts undeveloped nations. Rangeley is the network’s plans to build a home in the Bahamas and will Center. Elizabeth Honan is chairperson of the nerve center. Bill said, “ Networking is a concept become a resident there working as a free-lance business education department at Westbrook Col­ which grew out of the counter cultures of the ’60s: writer. lege. She teaches legal secretarial courses, as well as people searching for new solutions to problems I am grateful for these two long chronicles and doing departmental work. I am sure Elizabeth must because government is not going to help. We have hope for more like them to liven up this space! have been instrumental in the addition of the new people around the world cooperating with one Although it is September, it is time to say Merry electronic office management program. Her address another for peace. We are going to create a positive Christmas and think of our 45th! is Westbrook College, 716 Stevens Ave., Portland future regardless of whether governments get stupid 04103. or smart.” Bill delights that the program can be Several of our classmates got together for a coordinated at sites totally removed from centers of belated Old Town H.S. reunion this summer. international trade. This has been proved by the suc­ Florence and Arthur Worster, whose new address is cess Bill has had from his home in Rangeley. 41 Lib Peaslee Cain P.O. Box 886, Flat Rock, N.C. 28731, Robertine Frank Holden is manager of ceramics and glass 25314 Oak Drive (“Bobby”) Theriault and Al Gray, Cranberry Island technology research at the Battelle Memorial In­ Damascus, Maryland 20872 04625, Virginia Stevens Laris, Ricardo Palmeria #10, stitute’s Columbus Laboratories. He has been with Mexico, D.F. 01020 and Howard and Edith Merrill, Battelle since 1951, and was head of the physical metallurgy section. He will be developing improved From the Bar Harbor Times, we learn the Rev. Box 212, Stillwater 04489. Midge Messier and technologies and manufacture for high performance William R. Booth performed his last Sunday service Carleton ’39 Merrill have the ideal setup. Now that they are “semi-retired,” Carleton is doing account ceramics, glass and composites. Frank and his wife, at the Bar Harbor Congregational Church in May Donna, live in Columbus, Ohio. They have one and has retired with his wife, Zilpha, to enjoy ing work for one of the finest regulation length golf daughter. writing, gardening, hiking, and canoeing. After Bill courses in their area. So, guess who have a class A I want to wish you all a very happy holiday. In graduated from UMO, he proceeded to the Hartford membership and play lots and lots of golf! Midge is assisting in the research of retirement homes in writing your Christmas cards, please drop a note Theological Seminary where he received his B.D. in telling me about yourself and your family. 1945. He was awarded the William Thompson Fel­ various states across the U.S. Their address is 1355 lowship for two years of graduate study at Crescent Dr., Largo, Fla. 33540. I attended an Westminster College, Cambridge, England and at Elderhostel week at Colorado Mountain College, Yale Divinity School. He became involved with the Steamboat Springs, Colorado in July. What a de­ Adams Theological School in Natal where he lightful experience it was. I recommend Elderhostel to everyone. I think you will enjoy. became principal and with the new ecumenical inter­ 47 Barbara Mills Browne racial Federal Theological Seminary of Southern Africa where he served as chairman of the academic 15 Somerset Street board and later as principal of the Adams United Bangor, Maine 04401 Betty Bearce Harrison College. In 1964 he returned to Maine, going to Bar 43 Harbor in 1972. Bill and his wife have four children. 86 Grant Street A perfect zero! Not so much as a single note from His son Jim suffered brain damage as an infant and Bangor, Maine 04401 all of you ’47ers for lo, these three months. Even if due to his handicap they were instrumental in the you’re doing “ nothing,” write and tell us about it. creation of the MDI Sheltered Workshop in Otter Ed Piper worked with the UMO Agricultural Exper­ Your “nothings” of retirement, etc. sound fat and Creek. They have moved into an old house on Nor­ iment Station for 27 years until he retired and full to me. way Drive that they have been renovating for the became executive director for the Maine Blueberry Thank heaven I came across an article in the past six years. Enjoy your retirement, Bill and Commission. He does the administrative work and is Times-Record of Brunswick about honors for Zilpha. responsible for the blueberry tax program, which Evelyn Desmond, who is one of the few women to Congratulations to “Dud” Utterback on receiving supports research and marketing development. He hold a key management post at the Bath Iron Rotary Club’s Paul Harris Fellowship Award. Dud and Helen Deering recently returned from a 40th Works. Morse’s School/Community Liaison Council is the editor for the weekly Rotary newsletter. He wedding anniversary celebration at the home of their recognized Evelyn’s considerable achievements in and Barbara live in Brewer. Alma Hanson Langlois daughter, Crystal Slatick ’68, in Harrisburg, Penn­ May by designating her as the fifth recipient of the retired this year after 22 years of teaching at Central sylvania. Their son, Don ’70, and his wife, Cherrie Mainsail Award for her outstanding community ser­ H.S. in Manchester, New Hampshire. She was the Milheron ’71, three grandchildren and daughter, vice involvement. Evelyn, a psychology major, says adviser to Central High’s award-winning paper, The Jean Piper, were also present. she recharges her batteries now by taking cat naps at Little Green. A surprise testimonial dinner was given Our deepest sympathy to the family of James B. any time or place—sitting or standing. Does this just DECEMBER, 1984 25 come naturally, Evelyn, or is there a technique for to pack for moving. Let us know if you made it, Whitford Hills Road, Exton, Pa. and is a sales it? Jessie! associate for Strawbridge & Clothier. She writes that I’ve started my final year at Bangor H.S. which, A new address, also, for Mollie and Bob Mac­ while raising four children, they have lived in 14 dif­ obviously, brings on a variety of feelings, but I Donald: 3765 East Bottlebrush, Flagstaff, Ariz. ferent places in their 34 years of married life and don’t anticipate any fallow time for brooding as I 86001. Bob is general manager of Fairfield Snow have friends throughout the USA. was artistic director for Annie Get Your Gun, a Bowl where he has conducted an extensive expan­ The sympathy of the class is extended to Pro­ community musical venture which went on the sion program, including a new lodge, new lift and fessor Carleton M. Brown and his family on the boards in mid-November. On September 22, Bob new runs. Anyone for skiing? death of his son, Stephen ’86. and I were at our granddaughter’s christening in Until next time, may the Christmas season and the Again, I have run short of space, but I want to Greenwich, Connecticut where the clan, both New Year be filled with joy, good health and good add a note to those who did not return their reunion Swedish and American, gathered for the festivities. cheer, and won’t you resolve to share it with us in forms. Won’t you all please consider adding my Please, my dears, have a heart and send the next column? name to your Christmas card list this year? What a chocolate. I’m beginning to wonder if anyone ex­ wonderful way to let us know where you are and isted after 1947. what you are doing! May the new year bring blessings to you all, wherever you are. 49 Dorothy Averill Hawkes 296 Mt. Hope Avenue Bangor, Maine 04401

As promised in my last column, I will continue with news of the ’49ers who did such a great job re 48 Gloria MacKenzie Ferland sponding to our 35th reunion forms. The class ex 48 Cottage Road tends sympathy to Verna Wallace Andrews of Cape Millinocket, Maine 04462 Elizabeth, whose son Mark was killed in September 1983, the victim of a drunk driver. Nancy Carter 50 Ruth Holland Walsh (Mrs. William M.) Whatever happened to all those requests for updates Bishop lives in her townhouse at 71 Aiken St., Nor 4 Sloop Lane so many must have received? Could it be that they walk, Conn, and travels with Lexey Carter, who Mystic, Connecticut 06355 are on the bottom of the “ back burner” pile? lives in Arlington, Massachusetts and owns a travel Won’t you check and return them for the next agency there. Nancy would love to see any class issue? Thirty-six years should bring forth scads of mates living in her area or passing through. There is a dearth of news from the Class of ’50. Please make a letter to your secretary the #1 item on achievements, family changes, interesting jobs and From Terre Haute, Indiana, professor of chemical your New Year’s resolution list! lots of future plans. engineering, Warren Bowden, writes that he rides his News from Milton (“Mickey”) Goldsmith, pres­ bicycle to work 11 miles round-trip and has written Bob G. Slosser has been named president of CBN ident of Goldsmith Sporting Goods, 10 North Main a book on thermodynamics. John Buckley of Coral University, a graduate level institution located in St., Old Town 04468, reminds us that time is pass­ Gables, Florida is a consulting engineer. He travels Virginia Beach, Virginia. Bob has written such well- known books as ing with four children and five grandchildren to his to Rockport, Massachusetts in the summer and en­ The Miracle o f Jimmy Carter, Reagan Inside Out, and Miracle at Darien. We are credit. Mickey’s success in the sporting goods joys playing golf. After 33 years as superintendent proud of you, Bob. business has received national recognition. He has of optics at Eastman Kodak Co., Ted Carter has received sporting goods dealers awards and has been retired to his home on Lake Winnipesaukee. Paul Lenny Minsky has been named to the board of guest speaker at the National Sporting Goods Chantal also retired last year and is now living at 1 directors of the Northeast Bank of Bangor. He is Association in New York. He and his wife spend Salt Spray Lane, Cape Elizabeth. Barbara Gammon president of Superior Paper Products, Inc., and four months in Florida each year, while son, David Clifford writes from Bay Cliff Farm in Atlantic, SuperLease, Inc., both of Bangor and Portland. Are you planning for our 35th? It is coming soon! ’73, takes over the business. Virginia: “ My husband, Paul, is retired and we are The Eastern Maine Vocational Institute has now engaged in farming—working harder and long­ honored Jack C. Johnston, RFD #1, Box 483, er hours than ever before but enjoying it more. Both Ellsworth 04603, its long-time teacher and coach, by my husband and I are 4-H leaders and find this a 51 Pepper Burbank Milbank naming the gymnasium the Johnston Gymnasium. very worthwhile project.” Jack retired from teaching and coaching in 1977 and Bernard Cough is now living in Bar Harbor. Judy 37A Aspinwall Road is now associated with Merrill Blueberry Farms, Inc. Newton Crompton has been living in South Africa Loudonville, New York 12211 in Ellsworth. He and his wife, Joyce, have three since 1955 and married a South African who was sons and a daughter, “ Jude Johnstone,” a Holly­ born in London. Judy writes that it is a beautiful We attended the wedding of Elton (“ Gus”) and wood singer and songwriter. country in spite of its problems. Her address is 1 Paulina (“Boo”) Robbins Gosse’s daughter, Holly, Albert B. Bartlett, 55 East Sussex Way, Fresno, Beaufort Avenue, Craighall Park, Johannesburg, to David Braley (both ’83) in Gorham last summer Calif. 93704, writes that he is the senior pesticide use South Africa, 2196. Robert Franz is retired and liv­ and had a chance to visit with Boo and Gus as well specialist for the California Department of Food ing in Hampden. Having lived in Massachusetts for as Richard (“Buzz”) Sawyer and Jack Farrar. Buzz and Agriculture. His favorite hobby these days is 29 years, Betty Torrey Fuller moved to Gorham is a real estate appraiser and consultant in Gorham. racing sailboats. Retirement is on the shelf until after her husband Don’s death. Fred Glover, who Jack is director of counseling, Continuing Education 1987. How nice to receive an update from Alton serves as pastor of the United Methodist Church in Divison, USM. Davis, 11 Bradford Avenue, Bradford, Mass. 01830. Savannah, Georgia keeps up with his music, plays a Myron P. (“Mike”) Dean was recently honored in After leaving the state employment office in San­ little golf and visits his mother, Edith Glover ’17. Madison, Wisconsin for 30 years as University of ford, he entered the teaching profession. He was a Foster Gordon is living in Houlton and for the last Wisconsin extension specialist. Mike was joined at teacher of science in Georgetown, Massachusetts un­ 11 years has been president of Katahdin Forest the celebration by his wife, the former Joyce til 1974 when he was hospitalized and placed on a Products. Julie Shores Hahnel of Lewiston, after Johnson, daughter Susan and son Paul. The Bitter kidney machine. He is doing some substitute teach­ raising two sons and two daughters, now does vol­ Sweet of Norway, Maine published an extensive in­ ing in North Andover H.S. unteer work. For the past 18 years, Barbara terview with Helen Friend Langlais. She told of her A note from Betty Small Cunningham, 1517 Glen- Hastings Honkala has been working as a botanist life with her husband, the noted wood sculptor Ber­ allen Avenue, Silver Spring, Md. 20902, brings us for USDA Forest Service. She writes, “ In January, nard Langlais who died in 1977. Helen lives in the up-to-date on her and her family—three sons, two we sold our house in Church Falls, Virginia and home they shared in Cushing. She is presently work­ finishing college and one married and living in New bought a place with 1 1/2 acres on the water at ing with Sylvie Skira, of the Maine Coast Artists Jersey. Her husband, Cortlandt, has been retired for Kilmarnock, Virginia on the lower Chesapeake Bay. Gallery in Rockport, on a major exhibit of six years, allowing them to travel and enjoy life. It is a lovely quiet community, and we can have our Bernard’s work. Looking forward to lots of news on Betty still spends time each summer in Machias and sailboat at our new dock. My husband, Rudy, en­ Christmas cards! has a chance to see other ’48ers living in that joys his retirement there and I commute 150 miles area—Marie Crane Harrington and Helen Wall­ on weekends.” ingford Mawhinney. Lois Nicholson Healey of Lexington, Massa­ Ruth Preble Finney and husband, Bob ’50, en­ chusetts, writes that while working for the past 10 52 Harriet Johnson Currie joyed a trip to England in April, a 35th wedding years as workshop supervisor for retarded young anniversary gift from their four children. Even adults, she still also sings in the church choir and Box 49 Rt. 2 Morris Road though Bob became “ cathedraled out,” they had a does solo work as well. She recently met Miriam Hockessin, Delaware 19707 great time. Alice Fonseca and Frank Haines have Kichakian, who lives in Methuen, Massachusetts. added two new members to their family—a new Fred Hermann, father of eight children, has worked The following item just missed the spring column. daughter-in-law, Patricia Redden ’82 (wife of son, for 34 years as an aerospace engineer for various On April 20, 1984, Donald G. Stitts closed his year Bill ’80), and a second granddaughter born to son, companies. Fred was cited in the first Who’s Who in as president of the University of Connecticut chapter Frank, and wife, Karen. We’ve added a new mem­ Aviation /Aerospace in 1982. He writes that the last of Gamma Sigma Delta, the honor society of agri­ ber to our family, too. Our son, Wayne, was mar­ ’49er he met was Bob Thomas who is living in culture. He conducted the initiation ceremony at an ried to Elaine Heier on September 8, giving us a Houston, Texas. For the past 10 years, J. Franklin awards program and banquet on the Storrs campus. lovely daughter-in-law. Jessie Cowie Ramsay’s new Howe has been president of Bath Savings Institution After leaving UMO he received his master’s and address is: 2640 Fountain Lane, Plymouth, Minn. and lives at 53 Washington St., Bath. Jean Cun­ doctoral degrees from the University of Minnesota. 55447. When last heard from, she was just beginning ningham Jackson (married to Ken ’50) lives at 523 He is a professor of agricultural economics in the 26 MAINE ALUMNUS College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, where scheduled to serve with the 265th Combat Com­ finance, and daughter Pamela ’86 in biochemistry. he has been on the faculty since 1969. munications Squadron in South Portland. Richard Buzz’s mom, Hazel Emerson Hall ’29, rounds out Colonel L.W. (“Lee” ) Dyment, Jr. from Hamp­ H. Knight, director of Northern Maine Vocational the picture. Buzz is manager of corporate engineer­ ton, Virginia, has served the U.S. Army for 30 Technical Institute in Presque Isle, retired in ing with Nashua Corporation, Nashua, New Hamp­ years. He retired from active duty in August of February. Richard’s retirement caps a busy 25-year shire, where the family resides at 7 Birchwood 1982. One of his two daughters is a restaurant career in education. Drive. He plays coronet with the Presumpscot River manager, and the other the manager of a boutique. Frank E. Pickering, vice president and general Bottom Boys Dixie Band in Portland. He mentions seeing Paul Hand, who was living in manager of G .E.’s aircraft engine business group’s Pennsylvania. Arden and Barbara Burrage Young Lynn production division, was cited by the U.S. hope to make the 35th reunion. The Youngs have Navy for outstanding contributions to fleet readiness lived in Binghamton, New York since 1970. Arden as a result of his work in the design, development owns a rental equipment store there. Before that he and manufacture of the F404 jet engine. His con­ worked for Sperry Gyroscope on Long Island for 18 tributions to the aircraft engine business have years, and Barbara was employed by General Elec­ spanned more than three decades of service. He and tric in Pittsfield, Massachusetts until they were mar­ his wife, Clara, reside in Danvers, Massachusetts. ried in 1959. They have three children, a son who is Frank, we are really proud of you and all the a Maine Maritime graduate, a daughter in a nursing outstanding members of the Class of ’53. Let’s hear program, and another in high school. from more of you! Another son-and-two-daughters combination belongs to Conrad Bosworth who lives in Seattle, Washington. He is an engineer for Boeing and has 55 Hilda Sterling been enjoying the great Northwest since 1955. He 472 Apple Valley Drive also spent four years in the air force. He had seen 54 “Miki” Mclnnis Lavoix Belford, New Jersey 07718 John Gowen who was living in Portsmouth, New 78 Oak Street Apt. 3 Hampshire. From Minocqua, Wisconsin, Beverly Ellsworth, Maine 04605 Chadeayne Cameron writes of her four children— The hottest item off the production line at Santa’s two girls and two boys—living in Wisconsin, Vir­ workshop this holiday season is the Class of 1955 ginia, and Wyoming. All are working as hard as Politics has been in the news for two members of trivia game, Bear Facts, a fitting tribute to our June they can! She also has one grandchild. Beverly our class this fall. Carolyn Mahaney ran for reelec­ reunion. Come on and play. Reminisce a little. How enjoys playing bridge, collecting antiques, and tion to the Maine House of Representatives from many names and special events that took place dur­ traveling. Her husband owns and operates the Great District 144. A native and resident of Easton, with ing our senior year can you recall? The name of the Northern Stove Store, selling antiques and new an active background in family farming, a long-time class member who sends me the most correct stoves. Beverly last saw Al and Margaret Pease from teacher of history and English, she has served effec­ answers—along with a newsy note—will be announc­ ed at our get-together on Friday evening, June 7. Tenants Harbor. tively on agricultural and education committees. At this writing the information from the ’82 reu­ Gerald Clark is the new city manager of Presque Do you remember the classmate(s) who nion is now depleted. From now on this space can Isle. He has been employed as the city assessor since — were the editor and business manager of The only be filled by letters from you and your 1957. He and his wife, Carole, and son Jeffrey, 11, Prism? classmates. Please help pass the word and send it on reside in town. — set a new record for the pole vault against North to this reporter. The Reverend Eric Bascom was elected moderator eastern University? It would be nice to start the new year with NEW of the Massachusetts Conference of United Church — directed the successful Good Will Chest Drive? news! of Christ. This position is comparable to the chair­ — presided over both the General Student Senate man of a legislative body and includes more than and Interfraternity Council meetings? 53 Janet Hanna LeBlanc 600 churches throughout Massachusetts. Eric holds a — cheered Maine’s teams to victory? — was general chairman of the Military Ball gala? Box 402 doctoral degree of ministry from Andover Newton Theological School in Newton, Massachusetts, my — received the coveted Senior Watch Awards? Newport, Maine 04953 home city. — captured the Yankee Conference singles tennis I am writing this column by water’s edge on a championship? Sorry that I missed the last column, but an beautiful Maine September afternoon during my — studied in merry ole’ England on a Fulbright emergency came up and I was away from home in short week’s vacation. One of our classmates, Clif­ scholarship? June. I hope to bring you up-to-date on our ton George, has chosen a solitary year-round life by — organized the hard-working Winter Carnival classmates this time. the water as sole owner and cook, guide, dish committee? W. Lloyd Oakes of East Longmeadow, Massa­ washer, etc., of T-Pond camps near Eustis. His — convinced a Bangor radio station to announce chusetts, has served the Hartford Council of the companions are two dogs and a cat. (If these are the that classes at the university were suspended for U.S. Navy League as the Navy League Sea Cadet same Tim Pond camps where my parents honey­ the day due to a February snowstorm? Corps Committee Chairman since 1981. Lloyd is mooned 62 years ago and where I caught my first — was editor-in-chief of The Maine Campus? employed by Hamilton Standard Division of United native Maine trout, I envy you, Clif. There was no — played consistently fine basketball all season? Technologies Corp., Windsor Lock, Connecticut as electricity in 1943 either!) Clif has had many in­ — delivered the valedictory and salutatory addresses product marketing manager for navy systems. He teresting vocations—lobster fisherman, tennis during the 104th Commencement exercises? and his wife, Gloria, are involved in many civic pro—and he helped found what is now the third — coordinated the first joint General Student activities. Lloyd’s work with the sea cadets has largest health club in the United States. In 1979 he Senate-Women’s Student Government Associa­ helped to make an outstanding and rewarding op­ took a 97-day canoe trip from Kittery to Eastport tion Leadership Conference? portunity for the youth of Greater Hartford. and back to Rye, New Hampshire, a distance of — gave the university something new and as Darrell Hilliker of Corinna will be a candidate for 1,100 miles. It was during the winter of 1979 he successful as the “ Ace of Spades” ? election to the Maine House of Representatives in found T-Pond camps by snowshoe and purchased — were the officers of the smallest graduating class District 107. Recently retired after 34 years as a high them. since World War II? school business teacher, college professor of Henry Sheng, our classmate who traveled the — had a record-breaking javelin throw in the business, and college dean, Darrell and his wife have greatest distance to our 30th reunion, has been a Yankee Conference championships? returned to Maine. He has also been appointed head professor of chemical engineering at three univer­ — made Maine Day a memorable undertaking? of Husson College’s department of business ad­ sities, among them California Polytechnical. He has — received the women’s highest athletic award? ministration. For a “recently retired” man, Darrell, made two trips to his native China on business—one — portrayed Patty O’Neill in the Masque’s produc you’ve become extremely busy. in 1972 and again in 1983 for lecture and tour (see tion, The Moon is Blue? Linwood Carville has been promoted to associate page 16). — enjoyed a winning season on the varsity baseball director of athletics at UMO. Woody has been a Storer Emmett writes from Houghton in western team? member of the UMO staff since 1960. Congratula­ New York that in the course of practicing medicine — was Maine’s 1955 International Farm Youth tions. Ralph Baxter is the new headmaster of M.C.I. for 26 years he and his family have spent seven years Exchange delegate? in Pittsfield. Ralph was formerly principal of South in Africa, seven in Haiti, and eight in Houghton. He — planned the varied activities for the 8th annual Portland High School and has served on many com­ returns twice a year to Haiti to give the missionary Aggie Fair? mittees of the Maine Secondary School Principals doctors a vacation. The Emmetts have one son and — sparked the Rifle Team to several range records? Association. He is currently on that organization’s three daughters. Two of his daughters are in the — maintained the traditions of the All-Maine executive committee. M.C.I. is receiving the services field of medicine, one is married, and son Bill is a Women and Senior Skulls? of one of Maine’s most respected educational ad­ computer science major in college. — composed Sons o f Maine, a song that honored ministrators. Valerie Bickterman Murphy, mother of five sons the university and its students? A letter from Lonrie Skolfield Lowell informs me and one daughter, made it to our 30th class reunion — steered the planning committees for the Com­ that her husband, Lloyd, has retired, and they are from Webster, New York even though she made the mencement Ball? joining the “ snowbirds” by spending winters in trip in May to see one of her sons graduate from — pledged Beta Theta Pi, the oldest campus frater­ Ellentown, Florida and summers in Phippsburg. UMO. The oldest two sons are also graduates from nity? Best wishes for a very happy retirement. Robert W. UMO in ’78 and ’81. Three out of six isn’t bad. — were the co-captain combination of the 20th state Cook, Air National Guard sergeant, has graduated M. Bradford (“Buzz”) Hall certainly has a com­ championship football team? from the Wideband communications equipment plete UMO family: wife Jean Turner Hall ’55, sons P.S. Make reunion weekend your No. 1 New Year’s course at Keesler A.F. Base, Mississippi. Robert is Doug ’81 in chemical engineering and Bruce ’83 in resolution! See ya’ in Orono. DECEMBER, 1984 27 56 Ann Keyo Lounsbury Columbus, J.R. McGowan Council in September the Northern Peat and Energy Project. Sally has 128 Bennoch Road was Albert L. Godfrey, Sr. of Winthrop. Al and his been collecting information on the environmental Orono, Maine 04473 fellow officers took over direction of the council in impact of mining peat, information which will be July, following the election. Looking at Al’s bio used by the company to apply for a federal en­ notes from reunion, I see that three of his five vironmental permit. Sally also does work for the Many thanks to Vaughn Holyoke for writing last children have become alums at UMO: Al, Jr., ’76, Critical Areas Program and the Nature Conservancy month’s column, and I extend the invitation to all Larry ’78, and Jackie ’80. Allan Snrallidge is the in rare plant identification. Sally and her family live of you to write one, especially to those who might new town manager of Winter Harbor. Allan, who in Houlton; Fred lives in Presque Isle. meet ’56ers through social or business connections. has his M.Ed. ’69 from UMO, was director of the Your circles are different than mine, so let’s hear English department at Shrewsbury, Massachusetts from you. Dr. Earl Gardiner, formerly of Thorn­ H.S. before he retired from teaching and accepted dike, is a research scientist in poultry nutrition at the manager’s position. the CDA Research Station in Agassiz, British Col­ Russ Kinaman and family reside at 22 Wildwood umbia, Canada VOM 1A0. Congrats go out to R.H. Dr., Essex Junction, Vt. these days. Russ was a (“Bob”) Foster, recipient of the Vernon P. McFad- pharmaceutical salesman with Upjohn for 22 years, den Award for 1984. This award is given yearly to and lived in Washington, D.C. and the Philly area the individual who has made an outstanding con­ before moving to Vermont seven years ago. Russ tribution toward improving the quality of life for brought his family to reunion and the kids, Jeffrey, citizens of the communities of eastern Maine. Bob is 13, and Kristen, 9, had a good taste of dorm living the president of Foster Fuels and a partner in the for. the weekend. Larry Tompkins has been a Maine Wild Blueberry Company. staunch supporter of UMO and passed this on to his We in the immediate area wish to thank Fred Ot­ children, Glen, a sophomore, and Lynn ’84. The 60 Betty Colley Shibles to, College Avenue, Orono 04473, for his work in Tompkins reside at 13 Madigan St., Houlton, and 39 Clearview Drive scouting. In scouting for 30 years, Fred has just Larry has spent the past 26 years as a vo-ag instruc retired after seven as head scoutmaster. In the 70’s Willimantic, Connecticut 06226 tor. Richard G. Davis may be found in Hackett- he was the leader for his daughters’ Cadette Troop. stown, New Jersey where he is an engineer for the Our 25th reunion is coming up June 7-9, 1985. June One of his projects was teaching both girls and boys Picatinny Arsenal. Dick has two daughters, Robin how to rappel down cliffs. Thanks, Fred, and all Adams Johnson writes, “ I feel younger in many and Dawn. you other scouting leaders out there—job well done! ways than in 1960. Let’s plan a reunion that em­ Bruce Hamilton, 255 Washington St., Brewer, Judith Harvey Curtis, Milbridge 04658, has been phasizes our spirit and energy. Let’s do something says he finds time to ski, canoe, ride a motorcycle, elected for a three-year term on the board of direc­ silly and fun.” It has been suggested that we and play tennis—all this in addition to his executive tors, Maine Lung Association. Judy has been very schedule a whitewater rafting trip down the west position at Eastern Fine Paper, plus raising Steve active with the Maine Health Systems Agency, the branch of the Penobscot on Sunday, June 9. Hope and Amy. Bruce says the last U. of Mainer that he this is what you had in mind, June. I love the idea! Down East Resource Conservation and Development saw was Jay Herr who is the mill manager for St. Any more takers? Council, the Governor’s Task Force on the Regis and is living in Bucksport. Dave Sleeper, who Washington County Economy, and many other state Weddings provide a great opportunity to see old also has two children at UMO, Kim ’83 and Beth, agencies. Dr. Carl Wood, 47 Rogers Road, Kittery and make new friends from our class. Donald and plus Ed, who is still doing his thing at home, is a Nancy Morse Dysart attended the wedding of Joan 03904, has been named principal of the Greenland real estate agent with the Dawson Co. of Bangor and Preston Mavor’s daughter, Kim ’84. Dick and Central School, Greenland, New Hampshire. Carl and resides at Coldbrook Rd., Hermon. Being a and Janet are parents of three daughters: Carrie and Carol Jack from Wappingers Falls, New York, Allan sales executive with D.D. Bean & Sons Co., playing Amy Marie in the UMO system and Jennie, a and Jan Hourin Adams, and Joe and Judy Ward tennis, and helping to raise Sheryl, 24, Michelle, 19, Lessard from Portland were all there. Al and Jan graduate of McIntosh College. Jim, 17, and Dana, 16, has Filled the past 26 years are living in Framingham, Massachusetts where Al is Remember my invitation and enjoy the rest of for James C. Ellison of 489 Colonial Road, ’84. principal of Milton H.S. and Jan is a stockbroker Ridgewood, N.J. 07450. for Prudential-Bache Securities, Wellesley. They Dale Doucette is living in Portland at 79 George have two sons, Brad and Brett. St. Dale, who holds his M.A. ’68 from UMO, is a 57 R. (“ Jiggs” ) Cecchini Michael M. Collins, general manager of Pennsyl­ teacher in the Portland school system. Walter Ab­ vania operations for Collins Pine Company, has 4 Heather Lane bott, who has had the advantage of seeing the been elected a vice president of the corporation. East Granby, Connecticut 06026 university grow and change, has been a professor Harry Diehl has been selected Northern Maine Voca­ and coach for the last 23 years at our dear old alma tional Technical Institute’s assistant director. He has Colonel Bernard C. Wentworth was recently mater. Walt has three children, Scott, Steven, and been an instructor at the institute since 1970 in the assigned to the 86th U.S. Army Reserve Command Sherry, and may be found along with Carol Steven­ areas of mathematics, electronics and science. Glenn as Commander of the 424th MID(S). Col. Went­ son ’59 during the off season at 9 Sunrise Terrace, Philippon Stevens, now a non-bridge player, retired worth was previously assigned to the 5054th USAR Orono. from the business world to enjoy her husband and School, Madison, Wisconsin. He is a professor of Much of the above information was taken from family. She is busy with local, county and state research and teaching at the University of Wiscon­ the bio sheets sent in preparation for our class Republican politics, Red Cross bloodmobile and is sin. He and his wife, Alice, reside in Madison. reunion. If you haven’t already, please send them to living in East Boothbay. Robert C. Fuehrer of Peacham, Vermont was named me so that your classmates can know what you are Donna Tilton Everett of Middlebury, Vermont is the new president and chief executive officer of up to or retired from or starting out on. teaching secondary level special education at Ad­ EHV-Weidmann Industries, Inc. Bob was co Have a happy holiday season. dison County Vocational Center. Donna has two founder of the EHV Industries 15 years ago and has children: Robert, who is in the navy, and Susan. served as senior vice president for manufacturing. Sandra Page is also teaching in Brattleboro, Ver­ The Aroostook County Action Program recently mont, but spent her past summer vacation in Han­ announced that Lloyd Chase, superintendent of cock. Stanley Chenoweth is a marine biologist in schools in SAD #70, will become chairman of the 59 Nancy Roberts Munson Boothbay Harbor since finishing his master’s degree board of directors. He has been an active member 30 Tanglewood Drive at U.R.I. in 1962. He is with the Maine Department of the ACAP board for more than 10 years. Lloyd Glastonbury, Connecticut 06033 of Marine Resources, and married with a 15-year-old was awarded an honorary doctor of education daughter. Bill Anderson and family are in Caribou. degree from Ricker College. More recently, his con­ News of two weddings to start the column this edi­ Bill runs the Anderson Beverage Company, a beer tributions to the field of education were recognized tion: Nonnie Hilchey Fitzgibbon and John Daly distributorship. He has just built a new by UMPI when it presented Lloyd its Distinguished were married in July and are living at 16 Carter home—100% energy efficient. Congratulations! Educator Award. Joseph A. Yovino of Port Clyde woods, Bradley 04411. Also in July, Carl Edler and Some of us could use your ideas. Frank Antonucci was admitted to the Maine Bar. Joe has worked for Francine Sharp were married in Cheshire, Connec­ of Monmouth accepted the position of adult educa the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for 25 years. His ticut. Best wishes to all. tion director at Maranacook School in Readfield. wife, Betty, has just finished coursework in educa­ William Worden is the new superintendent of Frank was at UMA for 13 years. tion at George Mason University, Virginia. They schools for Union 51, serving the towns of Jeffer­ Keep sending in your reunion news. I enjoyed have two children: Michelle, 22, of Mansfield, son, Palermo, Chelsea, Whitefield, Windsor and writing my first column in a number of years Massachusetts and Glen, 21, who is in graduate Somerville. Richard Salisbury of Albany, New York, because I recognized so many of you interested in school at UNH. received Sigma Chi’s highest honor for service to the returning for reunion: Bill Bryant, Connie Ham, Joe The column is short, news is sparse, but Bev and I fraternity at its annual leadership workshop. He is Dion, Sharon Ward, Priscilla Fish, Carol Robinson, would like to wish you and yours a Merry Christmas currently chairman of the fraternity’s membership Anne Burke, and Norris Thurston. and a prosperous New Year. development program and past chairman of the Robert O. Gray is with Bridge Construction in standing committee on rushing and pledging. Augusta as vice president, engineering. He’s married Classmates recently in the news were Fred Bustard, with four children. Clark Liscomb is executive vice 58 Mrs. Leo M. Lazo (Jane Ledyard) vice president of engineering and operations of the president of Iwaki Glass Co. in Tokyo. This is a 49 Martin Street Maine Public Service Company, interviewed about joint venture of Corning Glass Works and Asahi West Roxbury, Massachusetts 02132 the future of the company, and Sally Rooney, a Glass. Gail Carter Cilley of Gardiner has just professional biological consultant, who is working finished a term on the city council. She has heard Installed as Grand Knight of the Father, Knights of for the environmental firm that has been hired by from Mary Davis Schlotter in Oregon, who says she 28 MAINE ALUMNUS is going to try to make reunion. June Adams is particularly involved in the areas of marketing 63 Priscilla Sawyer Frederick Johnson is beginning a new career; she just finished research and creative mortgaging. Nick Dann is the 6 Bridge Street law school and is waiting to hear the results of her service manager of South City Mechanical Service Salem, New Hampshire 03079 bar exams. We have also heard from Art Harris, Company of San Francisco. He and his family have Alplaus, New York; Hilda Santoro Emerson, recently moved into a new home; the address is 151 Darien, Connecticut; Darrell E. Webber, Fairfield; Santa Clara Drive, Danvilee, Calif. Michael and Bill and Carolyn Costain MacManus have recently Carol Robinson Jones, Cape Elizabeth; Alan Chap­ Joanne Dillon ’64 Mandel live in San Francisco. relocated to 47 Barrows Drive, Topsham 04086. man, St. Louis, Missouri; Brad Hooper, Silver Mike, who has had his own law firm since 1969, Sons Bruce ’85 and Andy ’88 are both students at Spring, Maryland; Don Mooers, Potomac, Mary­ specializes in personal injury cases. Joanne is UMO. Yvon Labbe was selected as a Franco- land; Barrett Gates (ATO) from Morrisville, New teaching in a pre-school program. The Mandels have American of the year for the state of Maine. This York; and more, which we’ll include next time. two children: Michelle, 11, and Jonathan, 7. “Golden Frog” award is made to Franco-Americans Responses run toward the Penobscot river cruise and During our stay in California, we spent five who have devoted their time to the promotion of the most feel $25,000 is a realistic goal for our 25th delightful days in Sausalito with Gale Brewer. We French fact in North America. reunion. See you there! arrived just in time to celebrate her birthday and a Calvin W. Gray was promoted to director of promotion. Gale has been appointed senior technical quality assurance for the EOM Group of Sheller- consultant of the western area of Control Data. Globe Corp. of Ohio. Calvin has been with the 61 Judy Ohr Guilmartin Keep the news coming—it’s your column. company since 1973. Wilbur Smith, a newly pro- 15430 Baybrook Drive Houston, Texas 77062

It’s my greatest wish that as you, my classmates, BEAL'S LOBSTERS—CLAMS read our news this month, you are enjoying the holi­ day season with your family and friends. LOBSTER Live or Boiled We ship lobsters Had a nice note from Roger Murray saying that he and his wife Barbara Hackett ’63 recently pur­ PIER ***** airfreight nationwide chased their own travel agency in Portland. Travel Agents International is located at 295 Forest THE CAPTAIN'S GALLEY * Federal Express Avenue, so be sure and drop by when you are in the city. Roger and Barbara are proud of their three Sandwiches— Chowders * UPS children. Eric graduated magna cum laude from Rose-Hulman in June, and twins, Heidi and Holly, Desserts— Picnic Tables * Delta are dean’s list students at Portland School of Art ***** and Anna Maria College respectively. Congratula­ FRESH FISH tions to Pete Louridas on his promotion to assistant Right Off the Boats Ask for . . . vice president for power supply and planning with the Maine Public Service Company. Pete worked for Clark Point Rd OPEN YEAR ROUND SAM BEAL ’72 the MPS as a student engineer prior to graduating in 1961. Pete, his wife Glenna, and Athena, the Southwest Harbor 207/244-3202 PETER MADEIRA '75 youngest of their four children, live in Ashland. Roy Chipman participated as a guest lecturer at Maine 04679 VISA/MASTERCARD ACCEPTED the Northeast Basketball Schools, Husson College, this past summer. Roy is head coach at Pittsburgh. The schools provide knowledge and guidance for young persons 10-18 who are interested in improving their performance on the court. Joseph Perham delivered the graduation address at Oxford Hills H.S. this year. Joe formerly was head of the school’s English department. Arthur Parlin ran for election to the school committee in Worcester, Quality Service Massachusetts this year. Art has been director of admissions at Middlesex Community College in Bed­ ford for the past 13 years. Wallace Hinckley has been named assistant director of the Bureau of Health’s Division of Health Engineering. Wallace Does Make A Difference. has been with the Department of Human Services for the last 18 years. Ray Davis began his duties as president of the Calais Regional Hospital in August. Ray earned his MBA in 1961. Jerome G. Plante is completing his ninth year as town manager of Old Orchard Beach. Jerome is credited with bringing The Merrill Family of Banks Maine Guides Triple-A baseball to town. The Merrill Trust Company and Merrill Bank, N.A. 51 offices in central, eastern and northern Maine Members FDIC

62 Diane Ingalls Zito 24 South Hill Drive Bedford, New Hampshire 03102 BANANAS: His Own Story Donald Ouellette has been promoted to manager of systems development and operations for the united Old friends technologies division of Pratt and Whitney. Don 20 pages of anecdotes and wife, Betty, live in Vernon, Connecticut. They Heritage with and photos of UMO's write that both children are now off to college: Bank black bear mascot James, 18, attends Dartmouth and Susan, 20, is a new ideas student at Bentley. Allan Johnson has accepted The History of the appointment as postmaster of East Holden. He will Maine Black Bear head an office with an annual mail volume of nearly 500,000 pieces. John Dudley assumed duties as head Union St.-Bangor football coach at Brunswick H.S. this June. John Waterville N ewport By Alpha Phi Omega fraternity has been coaching since 1964 and worked as assis­ Fairfield Rockland tant football coach at Bowdoin last year. The Brunswick job represents a homecoming—he played Oakland Camden Send check for $3.00+ for the Dragons as a student during the 50’s. Pittsfield' Bar Harbor 50C postage to: While traveling this summer, I made contact with BEARBOOK some of our classmates. Judy Culley Redmond is Ellsworth Thomaston c/o Student Activities living in Charlotte, North Carolina with her two Hammond St.-Bangor Memorial Union daughters: Christen, 17, and Katie, 13. Judy works Searsport UMO Orono, ME 04469 in the executive offices of a mortgage company. She DECEMBER, 1984 29 moted lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Reserves, “ Reading is Fundamental’’ (RIF) program. A multi­ resolution for 1985 to write me a note. lives in Burke, Virginia with his wife, Miriam, and level reading fair arranged by Joyce provided an works for the General Services Administration in opportunity for parents and community members to Washington, D.C. The new assistant superintendent observe the scope of the reading curriculum in of schools for School Administrative District 9 is grades K-8. A Silent Sustained Reading program was Harvey Hayden. a good model for students in promoting the value of 67 Carol Heber Laughlin reading. Reading Teas, conducted by Joyce and an R.F.D. 1, Box 1625 associate, provide a relaxed and friendly atmosphere Brewer, Maine 04412 after school when parents can discuss the particular reading program of their children. Back to school in a new capacity: Paul Luttrell 64 Elsa Anderson Sanborn Pat Mills Stevens is currently serving in the Maine (M.Ed.), of Rockland, has been named superinten­ 21 Main Street Legislature from Bangor. Husband Win is a partner dent for SAD 50 after having served as principal of Gorham, New Hampshire 03581 in the law firm of Rudman & Winchell, Bangor. A George’s Valley H.S. since 1978. James Brian Smith note from Alice Rideout Spear brought news that (M.Ed.) is the new superintendent for School Union Have you sent me a card that tells me where you she received a master’s of social work from the 104 in Eastport. He has been an elementary level are, what you’re doing, and how your family is? It’s University of Buffalo and was appointed director of teaching principal, directed adult education and that time of year again, and I would like to be able social services at Frisbie Memorial Hospital in taught in Falmouth, Portland, Iran and Scotland. to include your news in the next column. Rochester, New Hampshire. She bought a home at 2 Francis M. Lyons, formerly an assistant principal at During the summer I did learn that Dana Dolloff Fogarty Rd., Barrington, N.H. 03825 where she lives South Portland H.S., is principal of Morse H.S., has been promoted by International Paper Company with her two youngest daughters, Sandra, 16, and Bath. Paul A. Pendleton returned to Deering H.S. to manager of chemicals, production materials and Sharon, 13. (his alma mater) as principal. He was previously purchased fibers. Susan Martin was named principal PROMOTIONS: Dustin Creamer has been named assistant principal at Portland H.S. Prescott L. Ver- of the Farwell and Wallace schools in Lewiston; she manager of materials and real estate of Central rill, Jr. has resigned as Windsor grade school prin­ and Kenneth have a two-year-old daughter, Anne. Maine Power Co. He and his wife, Diane, live in cipal for a new post as principal of China Elemen­ James R. Berry is county supervisor for the Farmers Winthrop with their son and two daughters. The tary School. Home Administration in Kennebunk. This fall board of directors of Associated Growers of New Patricia O’Connell Keene has been named general Caribou resident Reginald R. Reed, superintendent England, Manchester, New Hampshire, have named manager of the combined operator services depart­ of schools in S.A.D. 32, Ashland, has been teaching Richard Ennis vice president of finance and ad­ ment of New England Telephone and New York an administrative theory course at UMPI. Maurice ministration. Dick lives in Canterbury with his wife Telephone. Her new responsibilities span a six-state E. Webb, finance vice president of Norton and their four children. Tom Reed has accepted the region and include management of 6,300 employees, Christensen, Inc., lives in Salt Lake City, Utah with position of superintendent mechanical pumping at providing directory assistance to business and his wife, Diana Beane, and their two daughters. the Rumford Mill, Boise Cascade. Tom also earned residence customers. Pat, husband Warren and three Stephen York, who works for MCM Construction, a master’s in pulp and paper from UMO. Born, children, Tim, 7, Jeff, 5, and Deanna Lee, 3, reside lives in Newburg with Judith Steele, his bride of six raised, and educated in Maine, David Page has been in Harvard, Massachusetts. months. named the new president of Ocean National Bank, It seems that when we last checked in with Marge Biblical scholar Thomas R.W. Longstaff is in the Kennebunk. The selection of David reinforced Lipton she was still producing for ABC News in news again, having been promoted to the rank of Ocean National’s commitment to remain a bank of Poland covering Solidarity and martial law. She still professor at Colby College. He has devoted much of and for southern York County. He resides on likes to be “ where it’s at” and has since been based his research to the origins of the Book of Mark in Candlewood Lane in Moody with his wife, Barbara, in London covering stories in Europe and the Mid­ light of the Griesbach Hypotheses, which state that and daughter Darcy Ann. dle East. This included on the spot coverage in the Mark derives from the Books of Luke and Matthew. The Falmouth School Board has appointed Falkland Islands. She was even in Iran after the He is author of Evidence o f Conflation in Mark? A William F. Bagley principal of the Plummer-Motz revolution. She was recently a journalism fellow at Study o f the Synoptic Problem, and has participated Elementary School. It was felt that Bill’s teaching Stanford University, California and expects to cover in several noted biblical studies and archaeological and administrative experience would give him a the nearby Democratic Convention in San Francisco. expeditions. He has a doctorate in biblical languages good understanding of classroom needs. He was Marge has been well rewarded for her efforts. Two and literature from Columbia University. He joined cited as “ the kind of administrator who can be very documentaries that she had a hand in won an Over­ the Colby faculty in 1969. supportive of teachers and help them to grow pro­ seas Press Club Award and a Peabody. Also her Mary Lyford Dewey of Hooksick Falls, New fessionally . . . somebody who has real empathy for biography on Henry Kissinger was nominated for an York, a teacher for 13 years, serves on the board of children.” Portland attorney Owen Wells has been Emmy. Windfield Designs, Inc., a small folk art manufac­ elected president of the board of trustees of the At the end of July, the Rev. Stanley J. Parker turing firm. Her family, which includes sons Portland Museum of Art. Owen is also chairman of retired after 17 years as pastor of the First and Sec­ Howard, Jr. and Chris, has traveled extensively and the Committee for Academic Excellence, a private ond Congregational Churches in Hadley, Massa­ last year spent a week in Caldwell, Idaho with Hope educational advisory panel. Among the June chusetts. After a break, he plans to travel the Adams Franz, her husband Fred, and their children graduates of the School of Dentistry, University of western U.S. with his wife and then possibly on to Sid, Emily, and Kim. William Brewer is a licensed the Pacific was Ellen Brackett Leaf. Europe, after which he’d like to follow a course in professional engineer in Rochester, New York where Please remember to place me on your holiday computer studies. Walter (“Pete”) Smythe takes his he is active in a recreated Civil War regiment and in card list so that I will have news for our next issue. extensive marketing and underwriting background a 4-H group with his daughter, fourth-grader Laurie If you do not send out cards, make a New Year’s with him as he joins Peerless/Netherlands Insurance Anne. North of the border is Laura Hubbard Co. as resident vice president and regional manager Uberoi in Springhill, Nova Scotia, a mother and of its Portland office. housewife kept busy with children in grades 1, 9 and Add me to your Christmas card list . . . always 13. Shirley Elias Ezzy of Augusta was named Agent anxious for your news. of the Year for the second year in a row by Aetna Life & Casualty Insurance Company’s northern New England division; she is a senior field underwriter for Aetna, and serves on several civic boards. 69 Bill and Andrea Hayes Lott About that card to me . . . now, do it now! 11 Bayberry Drive Eliot, Maine 03903

Joanne Ericson Howard of Boothbay Harbor, mother of two sons and two daughters, finds time for dance aerobics, jazz and ballroom dancing, and teaching Sunday school. Bev Bennett Steele, former president of Jaycee Women, works part-time at a preschool in East Longmeadow, Massachusetts. Lorna Mitchell Hills and husband, Don, own a hydraulics company in Union. Lorna participates in school, community, and Scout events and enjoys 65 Sylvia A. Tapley playing tennis, running in road races, and cross­ 82 Euclid Avenue country skiing. Ray ’63 and Connie Cooke Caron Stamford, Connecticut 06902 and daughters, Elizabeth Jane and Lindsey Rae, have moved to Kinney Shores in Saco. George E. Joyce Knight Foster conducted a workshop on the Stanton is a professor and chairperson of the components of a successful junior high school department of biology, Columbus College in reading program at the New England Reading Georgia. Association’s (NERA) annual fall conference in Colleen Cameron Murphy lives in Caribou where Providence, Rhode Island. Joyce has 19 years of she is an assistant lab manager for the Aroostook teaching experience in junior high reading. As Right Medical Center. She has taught hematology at to Read Director of SAD 53, she established the Thomas Longstaff *64 UMPI. Barbara Leyden Piper is a special education 30 MAINE ALUMNUS teacher for Albuquerque Public Schools and plays washboard and percussion in the Watermelon Mountain Jug Band in Albuquerque. Bill and Pat Thomas Harding are both principal product engineers at Gen Rad Inc. in Concord, Massachusetts. Judy Grout Savary taught first grade for several years and then worked in a library and in business before retiring in 1979 to become a mother. Judy and family live in Shelton, Connecticut. Suzanne Claire Bazzinet, a nutrition educator for Maine Department of Education and Cultural Ser­ vices, lives in Winthrop. David and Nancy Willey Irish live in Mashpee, Massachusetts with their children, Michael and Karyn. Mary Jane Seeley Ames missed the reunion because she was in Las Vegas at the General Federation of Women’s Clubs’ national convention. She and her family also spent two months in Munich, Germany during the spring of 1984. Robert Eaton lives in Bangor and is an ac­ count executive for Cardin Advertising. Peter and Susan Harper Naiden live in Yarmouth where Peter is science department chairman at North Yarmouth Academy. He also teaches part-time at USM and at the University School for Gifted, Creative, and Talented. Sue volunteers in the Yarmouth school system and is president of Alpha Phi alumnae chapter in Portland. F. Mark Whittaker is director of development for Sweet Briar College in Virginia. Daniel Latham is a design engineer for R.E. Dietz Company and lives in North Syracuse, New York. "Stump” Merrill with Bob Krause ’45 and, from left, Chet Woodman, Jr. ‘57, Eli Robert Giguere received a master’s degree in elec­ trophysics from Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn. Karter '62, Don Innes ’43, Keith Mayer ’82, Carol Milliken Glenn ’63, Judy Kimball He works for Aerospace Corp. in California. Elaine Field ’65, and Virginia Hall Benton ’38. Collins Mason of Rome, Georgia, works as a health care educator. She received a master’s degree in counseling at Auburn, Alabama when husband, Carl (“ Stump” ) Merrill ’66 Honored Phil, was completing his doctoral work there. Gloria Thirty University of Maine people turned out at (for cold Maine nights) and a beer stein (for Schneps Zwirn runs her own crystal and brass a ball park in Columbus, Ohio on August 18 to warm Maine nights). During the presentation the business and teaches preschoolers. Gloria and hus­ bestow some Maine remembrances on Carl night air was filled with the Maine Stein Song, band, Stan, are very active in the National Founda­ (“Stump”) Merrill ’66, manager of the Colum­ courtesy of a recording by the University of tion for Ectoderma Dysplasias—a rare genetic bus Clippers in the International League. Michigan band. That takes nerve in Columbus, disorder. James Peavey, former advertising super­ Merrill, who was a catcher at Orono for the which is the home of Ohio State University. visor with Agway Inc., has changed professions and late Jack Butterfield, received a UMO blanket Bob Krause ’45 is now a head nurse at Highgate Manor Nursing Home, Cortland, New York. Jim, president of cen­ tral New York UMO alumni organization, and wife, After nine years practicing law for corporations son, Kiel Stuart. Thomas Wooley, Nan, and Ellie ’68, and daughters live in Preble, New York. and the Maine legislature, J. Michael Huston has children Kyle and Erin are back in Bangor (42 Silver Joe Foster, head of the English department at Ken- joined a Freeport law firm. Roger and Eleanor Road) after seven years in Portland. Tom was pro­ nebunk H.S., plays a lighthouse keeper in a film McDonald (USM) Turcotte live in Dunbar, West moted to marketing manager, gasoline division of shot in Kennebunk by a cinema student at Ithaca Virginia with their two daughters. Roger is a process Webber Oil. College. engineer with DuPont and holds a master’s in ocean Maria Ferris Bouchard teaches reading in China. engineering from the University of Rhode Island. Dolores Hughes is principal of the Hussey School in Dennis Fitzpatrick is president of Daniel O’Connell Augusta. Richard Johnston now heads the Big and Sons, Inc., a general contracting company in Brother-Big Sister organization in Portland. David Massachusetts. Pamela McKay Briggs of Wiscasset is Griffin joined Southworth Machinery, Inc., as information coordinator for Maine Yankee Atomic general parts and service manager, where he will be 71 Carolyn Stickney Ackerman Power Co. Her job includes answering letters from responsible for operations in Massachusetts and 5 Parcher Street the public, meeting with community groups and Rhode Island. Daniel Michaud was recently elected a Ellsworth, Maine 04605 presenting the company’s position on nuclear power. vice president of Bangor Savings Bank. Ray Davis, Jr. is chief executive officer of Calais Deborah Dehmer and Don Winslow were married My summer mail included letters from classmates. Regional Hospital. He was previously chief opera­ in July. They live in Kezar Falls; Don is a forester Thanks for writing! Regina Toole McCormick writes tions officer with Affiliated Healthcare Management for S.D. Warren, and Deborah is with Yieldhouse- that she and Michael have moved back to New York in Bangor. Whittier Co. City after seven years in Washington, D.C. Regina Paul Dow is state chairman for the Society of A very short column for such a large class. With was a tax law specialist for the I.R.S. and consultant Financial Examiners of the Maine Bureau of Bank­ winter upon us, please drop me a line and let us on government employee grievances. Michael works ing. As a senior bank examiner, his duties include know what the last 11 years have brought you. for the I.R.S. Their address: 322 West 57th St., examination of all state-chartered financial institu­ Apt. 26J, New York, N.Y. 10019. Writing from tions. Gordon Young of Bar Harbor is assistant Massachusetts: Marilyn Holmes Turner is chief dieti­ manager of the Heritage Bank Ellsworth office. cian and food service director for Shriners Hospital Ronald Hawes is employed by H.A. Hawes and 74 Janet Reid Willis for Crippled Children in Springfield. The Turners Sons, Union, and is a part-time assessor for the have three children who are great soccer players. town of Union. He and Irene have three children. 50 Gray Road Marilyn says Spencer Bernstein and his wife live and M. Barbara Moulton Frey teaches a course on Gorham, Maine 04038 teach in Bridgewater. Pam Randlett and Jim fundamentals of nutrition at Bangor Community Cleveland also wrote. They are building a new home College. Roger Ballou received a Ph.D. in higher We knew him as “ Squirrel,” but now the kids call in Swampscott. Jim is an engineer with Stone and education administration from Purdue University. him “ Mr. S.” Who, you ask? Well, John Squires, Webster in Boston, and Pam is busy with three Elizabeth Chadwick is teaching principal for of course. John was featured recently in the Ipswich sons. Farrington School in the Augusta area. Chronicle for his successful work as recreation direc­ Another marriage: Michael McNally to Janice tor of the Ipswich Housing Authority. John lives in Maloney in Bangor. The McNallys are employed at Lynn and teaches at a Swampscott elementary the Maine Youth Center. Scott Fahey has a new ad­ school. Jan Coates, former associate dean for cam­ dress: Hill School, High St., Pottstown, Penn. pus programs and organizations, has been named 19464. He is director of college counseling at the dean of students and CPO director at Albion Col­ 73 Rachel Davenport Dutch Hill School, an all-male private school. James lege in Michigan. Emery of Northampton, Massachusetts is owner of 22 Bowker Street Daniel Daigneault, vice president of Camden Good Things Collective, a store selling 100 percent Brunswick, Maine 04011 National Bank, has been promoted to senior loan cotton clothing; maintains a theatre organization officer. He has been with Camden National for six where he acts; has established a men’s dance group; Wayne and Grace Dixon send word from their years and lives in Warren with his wife, Carol, and and studies African-inspired percussion music. Gainsville, Florida home of the birth of their third sons Adam, 4, and Evan, 1. Annette Ross Ander- DECEMBER, 1984 31 son has been named director of legislative affairs by Bouchard, a supervisor for Onion River Interior Anita Leamy wrote us she married Marshall Central Maine Power Co. Michael Richards, former­ Specialists of Essex Junction, Vermont. Lisa would Reinsdorf and lives at 4812 College Ave., B4 College ly of Bridgton, has become associated with the law love to hear from any of her section-mates of 4 Park, Md. 20740. Anita has started an alternative firm of Richardson, Tyler & Troubh in Portland. North Oxford. Her address is: 13 Pine Tree Terrace, school for young children. Liz Ericson wrote that Sam Belknap, Jr. has been selected to open a new South Burlington, Vt. 05401. Anne McCourt-Lewis she married Bob Cataldo and is living at 302 Ports­ office of the Glidden Insurance Agency on Rte. 130 has been promoted to associate professor in the Col­ mouth Drive, Slidell, La. 70460. She is a computer in New Harbor. The Bank of New Hampshire Na­ lege of Education at the University of Delaware. programmer for SYSCON Corporation. Amy tional Association announces the election of Stephen Sprecher wrote that she married Robert Bly last P. Turner to the trust department as trust invest­ May. She is an assistant account executive with the ment portfolio manager. He and his wife, Pamela, advertising agency of Muir Cornelius Moore. They reside in Concord. 76 David N. Theoharides live at 450 E. 81st St., N.Y. 10028. Ernest W. Hilton received a doctorate of law at 5 Wilson Street Larry Miller wrote us that he and his wife, Sandy, the Dickinson School of Law last June. Dennis Lincoln, Maine 04457 now have two daughters, Laura and Paula. They Hoskin is a research chemist for Mobil Oil and lives moved to Petersburg, Pennsylvania where they in Lawrenceville, New Jersey with his wife, the UMO still looks beautiful in white! The snow- established a forestry consulting firm. He reports former Jeanne Geronimo. Dennis has his P h .D . in covered campus, with trails packed down by things are going well, and would like to hear from organic chemistry from Penn State. students going to classes, is a vivid memory for me. some of the guys who lived in 2N Aroostook. Remember those cold days in January when the Robyn Solomon wrote that she married Paul Steve wind was screaming off the river . . . and you had in May, and they now reside at 82 Cresent Drive, to walk from York Hall to the Gym! Albany, N.Y. 12208. She received her MBA from Susan Brown writes that she is living in New York SUNY-Albany, and now works for the research City and working as a computer programmer and foundation of the SUNY system. free-lance musician. She was invited to attend a Ruth Morin Lyons has been promoted to director picnic last summer sponsored by the Long Island of administration by Depositor’s Trust of Maine Alumni Association. This organization is in­ Aroostook. Laurel Johnston has been promoted to terested in contacting all area alumni. If you’d like assistant personnel officer by Merrill Trust in to know more about the group, contact me or the Bangor. Tom Pelletier has been elected to the board Alumni Center at UMO. Susan adds that her room of directors of Tri-County Mental Health Services. mate, Donna Dobbins, is also living in the city and He also is a vice president at Northeast Bank. working as a technical writer. Susan extends an invi­ Steven Butterworth and his wife, Pat, have a new 75 Nancy Pistaki Chard tation to any ’76ers to drop in if they’re ever in New daughter, Anna Warren, and a new home in 830 Washington Avenue York. Alan and Deborah Hanscom write that they Marblehead, Massachusetts. Louise Desjardins Portland, Maine 04103 are living in Massachusetts where Alan is the earned a master’s in adult education from USM. manager of the Boston office of O’Brien and Gere Michael Poulin has been appointed technical assis­ Engineers. They have a baby boy named Marcus tant for a computer automation project for the The board of directors of the Sceva Speare University of Rochester libraries. Memorial Hospital, Plymouth, New Hampshire have Alan. ’76ers in the news include Michael Webber and Anne Stone is the new clerk of Rutland District announced the appointment of Christopher Mailer, Court in Rutland, Vermont. Steve Conley has joined DMD to the medical staff. While serving as a cap­ Mark Hutchison who were both featured in a news release from the James River-Otis Paper Company Barclay, Brown and Kavanaugh as a sales represen­ tain in the United States Army, Chris completed a tative in Portland. Peter Hutchins is now assistant general dental practice and was appointed to the in Jay. Mike has recently joined the company as a boss machine tender, and Mark has been promoted superintendent of schools in Claremont, New Hamp­ position of chief of operative dentistry at the shire. Pete Sparta has been named claims manager William Beaumont Army Medical Center in Texas. to technical assistant to the production manager. Cheryl Wixson has been named Maine’s Young for Morse, Payson and Noyes in Portland. John Upon discharge from active military service, Chris Harris was ordained to the priesthood in Westbrook entered the surgical anesthesia residency for physi­ Engineer of the Year by the Maine Society of Pro­ fessional Engineers. Cheryl and her husband, Philip last August. Janice Blanchette is petroleum systems cians at Boston City Hospital. Chris’s wife, Isabelle, coordinator for Dead River. John Olofsson manages is working part-time at the same hospital in the McFarland, reside in Bangor with their daughter Laurel. Deborah Thomas has been named the direc­ the Pittsfield district for Public Service of New research lab. They live in Rumney, New Hampshire Hampshire. Ellen Duncan Mitchell manages with their daughter Meredith. tor of human resources development at Eastern employee communications for Carrier Corporation. Cyndi Hall, employed by the Department of Maine Healthcare in Bangor. Paul Bean is the new boys’ basketball coach at Maranacook Community Laurie Knapp Autio earned a Ph.D. in geology from Human Services, has been elected president of the UMass. Debra Paulson is a lieutenant in the navy, Augusta Area Jaycee Women. Sharon Wilson School in Readfield. Paul had been the girls’ team coach for the past two years. Lyn Rowden received working at the Naval Space Command in Dahlgren, Barker was a guest speaker against child and women Virginia. abuse at the Women Unite rally in Bangor. Bert her master’s of art from the University of Marriages and new hometowns are as follows: Gagnon played the historian in the play The Lost Oklahoma. Lyn is assistant curator in charge of museum education and public programs at the Elaine Mahar and John Moloney, Worcester, Colony at the Waterside Theatre in Roanoke Island, Massachusetts; Dan Murray and Elaine Moore, North Carolina. Michael Remillard of Biddeford is a Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma. David Kervin has been appointed maintenance Gardiner; Michael Edes and Laurie Flint, Scar­ corrections officer in Alfred. Dr. Brenda Snowman borough; Jeff Colburn and Tami Keen, York; is doing her residency in Framingham, Massa­ superintendent in the shop area at the Boise Cascade Mill in Rumford. Foner Curtis, a UMO biology ma­ Sharon Oliver and Brian Suddy, Midwest City, chusetts. Pete Williams, a navy lieutenant, is a co­ Oklahoma; Mark Farley and Susan Gillis, Portland; pilot for the Blue Angels. Mark Mickeriz has been jor, has taken on the role of director of a produc­ tion at the Camden Opera House called Nude with Marilyn Beyea and James Thompson, Bridgton; promoted to senior loan officer for Ocean National John Gabarra and Lisa Cook, Wilton; Lennard Bank, Kennebunk. David Brenerman, executive Violin. Janet Jones and John Stebbins were married Bridges and Sally Seekins, South Penobscot; Eileen director of the Maine Democratic Party, is mayor of last summer in Georgetown. She is the associate Coughlin and Dana St. James, Alexandria, Virginia; Portland. director of college advising and English at Cushing and Sara Maynard and Bruce Paul, Minister, Ohio. Philip Higgins is principal of the Marion T. Morse Academy in Ashburnham. Barbara Brink and Elementary School in Lisbon Falls. Jeanne Bailey Ronald Riley were married last May in a ceremony McGowan has been appointed executive director of that took place on the bandstand behind the Paul the Family Planning Association of Maine. Bob Bunyan statue in Bangor. They are living in Booker edits and publishes Maine Running, a Lawrence, Massachusetts where Ron is employed by monthly magazine packed with road race results, Service Merchandise. 78 Meredith Burgess flyers describing upcoming races, and the latest news Not much news this time. Write me and let your 12 Country Charm Road from the running clubs and runners of Maine. classmates in on your news. Enjoy the winter . . . Cumberland, Maine 04021 Charles Greer was named Old Orchard Beach’s spring is coming soon. Teacher of the Year for 1984-1985. Richard Seasons Greetings! Hope all is well with your Templeton, employed by the state of Maine District families. The latest news is Gary Bagley has been in­ Court, married Tammy Libby. Birth an­ 77 Ron Aseltine ducted into the foreign service of the U.S. Depart­ nouncements: Roger and Barbara Koeritz Went­ ment of State. He will have an 18-month tour of 47 Harrison Place worth, their third son, Kyle. Scott and Sharon Sell duty as a consular officer at the American Embassy Merrill, their second child, Cecily. Paul and Joanie West Springfield, Massachusetts 01089 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Lynn Durand is a Na­ Rhoda, daughter, Erin. Paul is an engineer at FMC tional Health Service Corps physician. Donna in Rockland and Joanie is a systems analyst for the The first letter I received was from Rich Stone who Stoneham VanderClock is administrative assistant to Department of Transportation in Augusta. They is now living in San Francisco. Rich lived in Buenos the town of Weston, Massachusetts. David R. own a farm in Washington. Aires where he was an auditor for Exxon. He then LaCasse is a regional sales manager for Honeycomb Mary Newhall Boss and her husband Rick ’74 live traveled for a year before becoming an account ex­ Systems in Biddeford. Diane Whitmore is arts direc­ in Rocky Hill, Connecticut with their two children. ecutive for Merrill Lynch. Libby Tisdell, living in tor and general-assignment reporter for the Bar Har­ Rick is a cardiologist at Hartford Hospital, Connec­ New Orleans, Louisiana, and Martha Whaler, living bor Times. Thomas D. Harper is interim director of ticut. Lisa Halvorsen, press editor for the University in Washville, Tennessee, met Rich in Sacramento development at UMO. Pauline Pare has completed of Vermont Extension Service in Burlington and an where they sang the Stein Song in the State Mall— initial formation process with the Sisters of Saint assistant professor at the university, married David just like old times. Joseph. She will resume her work with the USDA 32 MAINE ALUMNUS Soil Conservation Service in Skowhegan. David L. In May, Michael Willard to Rina Abbott. He is Brattleboro, Vermont. Pamela Foster to Ivan Tar- Hillman received his master’s in computer science superintendent of the Sabattus Sanitary District. diff. Pamela is employed by WCSH-TV, Portland. from University of Vermont. Christopher P. Mills Caroline Hugo to Reuel Young. She is employed at Maryanne Weir wed Richard Huggins. Maryanne is received his Doctor of Osteopathy degree from New DiMillo’s Restaurant, Lewiston. In June, Prudence employed with the Western Hotel, Seattle, Washing­ England College of Osteopathic Medicine. He will Taylor to David Wicks. She is a lieutenant in the ton. They reside in Poulsbo. Debbie Daigle to Rick begin his internship at Rocky Mountain Hospital in U.S. Naval Reserves. Louise Veilleux to Mark Amoedo. Debbie is employed by Orange County, Denver, Colorado. Adamsky. She is employed by NASA jet propulsion Florida, as a dietary consultant. Deborah Hart to Marriages: James Boutin to Sara Andrews; they lab in Pasadena, California. Mary Ellen Milliken to Ronald Bealieu. They are living in Chicago, Illinois. reside in Binghamton, New York. Martha M. Gonya Gregory Smith. She works for International Paper, Joyce Swearingin to Thomas Cloutier. Rosaria Con- to Thomas E. Riley, Jr. Martha works for Jordan Jay. Ruth Ludwig to Thomas Morrissette. She is atelli to John Chantrill. They live in Elkins, West Marsh Co. in Boston. They reside in Quincy, Massa­ special projects editor at Bath Iron Works. In July, Virginia. chusetts. Deborah Watt to James Thomas. She is a Susan Taylor to John McCaffrey. She is a Donna Melanson wed Michael Kelly. Donna is dietician with ARA Services, St. Cloud Hospital, St. marketing executive for Xerox in Lexington, employed by Blue Cross-Blue Shield, Portland. Kim Cloud, Florida. Their address is 5992 Branch Drive, Massachusetts. Cynthia Wilkinson to Reed Jordan. Greig wed Mark Winslow. Mark is employed by the Orlando. Brian J. Knowlton to JoAnn Jendrzejczak. She works at Merrill Bank, Bangor. Gary Robinson Leen Co., Portland. Bonnie Adams to Michael Brian serves in the U.S. Army in Alexandria, to Karen Reynolds. He is with Key Bank of Carleton. Both are employed by Davis Electrical, Virginia, where they also reside. Carol Greene to Southern Maine. Peter Capano married Susan Olsen Raleigh, North Carolina. Laura McDonough to Brian Nason ’72. Their address is 14 Woodland in Italy. Paul Morrow to Cheryl Thibodeau. He is Graham Alvord. Dorothy Desjardin wed James Road, Cape Elizabeth. Christine Cannon to George attending Franklin Pierce Law Center in Concord, Foote III. She is employed at Joseph’s of Camden. Gainnoni. New Hampshire. And in August, Susan Cunning­ Melodie Styles wed John Dustin. They live in Con­ That is all for now. Please keep in touch and let ham to Peter Dionne ’81. He is with Combined In­ cord, New Hampshire. Lisa Martin ’83 to Martin your classmates know what you’re up to. Have a surance Co. in Augusta. McCrea. Kirsten Davis to Charles Davis. They reside great winter! in Georgetown, Massachusetts. Carol Gagnon wed Scott MacBride. Both are engineers for Boise Cascade Paper Group. They live in Dixfield. Jody McNealy to Michael Herbert. Ellen Thurston wed 79 Kim Marchegiani Timothy Bourett. Kathryn Hastie to Craig Hutchin­ 5 Allen Road #52 son. Martha Novy to Richard Broderick. They prac­ Orono, Maine 04473 tice law in Lincoln. Jane Austin to H. Thomas Sklebar. Louise Morin to John Morin, Jr. I received a nice note from former Sophomore Happy Holidays! Hope 1985 is a special year for Eagle Laura Jennings Matthews. She’s presently an you. eighth-grade teacher at Hichborn Middle School in Lawrence Gering is finishing his dissertation in Howland. Laura’s husband, Andy, is director of forest biometrics at University of Georgia. He 80 Rosemary M. Hydrisko Wells Complex at UMO. reports that Dennis May is with the U.S. Forest Ser­ 27-D Jacqueline Road More news next time. For those who have written, vice in Arkansas and Louisiana, and that Greg Waltham, Massachusetts 02154 please be patient—there is a 12-week lapse between DeBlois is on his way to Germany as a captain in our deadline and the printing date. the army. Don Van Hassent writes that he has been Best wishes to all for the happiest holidays ever! Hello, Class of ’80! Once again, we have lots of promoted to chief of resource utilization, Maryland Let’s keep in touch! Forest, Park and Wildlife Service. Suzanne Pushard news, especially with weddings, weddings, weddings. is a caseworker for the Dept, of Human Services in Congratulations to the following members of our Portland, working with foster children. class: Laura Ann Reidy to John Tozer. Both are Other career notes: John Reed is manager of the seniors at Tufts University School of Dental Greenville branch of Northeast Bank of Guilford. Medicine. They live in Malden, Massachusetts. 81 Barbara E. Brown Laurie Littlefield was elected to the Bangor Big Valerie Williams to Gregory Paul. They reside in 73 Harthorn Avenue Brother/Big Sister board of directors. Deidre Tozier Fremont. Elizabeth Nolan wed Peter Doak. Pete is a Bangor, Maine 04401 has joined the staff of Morrison Geotechnical claims representative for Hartford Insurance Co. Engineering, Winslow. B.J. Broder is executive They live in Milford. Anne Marie Bowen became Greetings from a new and temporary address. By director of Trinity Learning Center, Saco. Mrs. Timothy Geraghty. Anne Marie is employed by the time you read this, I hope to have my affairs Ralph Libby is laboratory services director at Lin­ the Harvard Community Plan in Boston. They more in order! My permanent address should be in coln’s Penobscot Valley Hospital. David LaCasse reside in Allston. Susan E. Clark to John Hender­ the next issue, but until then, the kind folks here joined Honeycomb Systems in Biddeford as a son. Tina Fournier to Thomas Callahan. Tina is (sister Cathy ’78 and husband Ron Lemin) will regional sales manager. Joanne D’Arcangelo is the teaching at the Dayton Consolidated School. Lisa know where to reach me. new executive director of the Maine Democratic Marie Mardas to handsome David Melville. David is I have a bunch of summer weddings to report. State Committee. Lisa Myers joined the Peace employed by educational Channel 7 of the Portland Patricia Spencer married Raymond Yost. She works Corps, serving in Costa Rica. Philip Roy is fiscal School Department. They are living on Munjoy Hill. for Sun Savings in Portland and he for A.B. services director at Millinocket Regional Hospital. Carol Saunders to Dennis McCahon. Carol is Richards, Inc. in Yarmouth, where they reside. Nan­ Jo-Ann Reny is credit department manager at the employed by Lotus Development Corporation in cy Norman wed John Donohue IV. She is an ad­ Hampton, New Hampshire office of Bank Meridan. Cambridge, Massachusetts. They reside in nearby ministrative assistant in Boston and he is a geologist Andrea Cronkite is now assistant city editor of the beautiful Waltham. Linda-Jo Davis to Michael with the Massachusetts Department of Environmen­ Lewiston Sun Journal. Gregory O’Neill is account­ Sandberg. They are both employed at AT&T tal Quality Engineering. They live in Magnolia. ing manager for Colony Communications in Provi­ Technologies, North Andover, Massachusetts. Marie Frechette married Richard Hart. He works for dence, Rhode Island. Daniel and Rhonda Gillis are Patricia Redden became Mrs. William Haines. pursuing professional singing careers in Nashville. Patricia teaches elementary school in Fremont, Elizabeth Downing, on the faculty of the Northern California, and William is a sales engineer with Conservatory of Music in Bangor, entertained for Ameron, Inc., Fremont. Anne Gosselin wed Roger Changing the summer at the Claremont Inn, Southwest Girard. They reside in Ipswich, Massachusetts. Harbor. Janice Abbott to James Ellis. Janice is a teacher in Degrees: Timothy McGuirk, doctor of osteopathy SAD 68. Martha Boulanger to Craig Anderson. Your Address? from New England College of Osteopathic Craig is employed by American Messenger Service, Medicine, and is interning at the Naval Hospital, Portland. They reside in Westbrook. Jennifer Please attach your Charleston, South Carolina with plans to be a navy Nichols to Anthony Ferguson. They are both recent present mailing label and flight surgeon. Ralph Erickson, nursing degree from graduates of the University of Maine School of Law Westbrook College, and is employed at the Maine and are living in Lewiston. Tony is a law clerk to print your NEW address Coast Memorial Hospital. Linda Vivarelli, master’s Justice Louis Scolnik of the Maine Supreme Court. on the lines below. in education from University of Lowell (Massachu­ Sandra Raynes wed Mark Soares. Sandra is setts). Colleen Tucker and Lauren Chenard Folsom employed at the Wayside Studio. They live in N am e______both graduated from University of Maine School of Centerville. Mary Ellen Fitzgerald to John O’Gor­ Law. It’s been a busy year for Audrey Richard. She man. Mary Ellen is a senior financial analyst with Street ______received her doctor of medicine degree from the Wang Laboratories, Chelmsford, Massachusetts. City ______Vermont College of Education and followed with a Karen Niidas to Bruce McKeen. Karen is a first- wedding to Dr. Jay Paul Colella. She will do her grade teacher in Sarasota, Florida, where they S tate______Z ip ______residency at Shands Hospital in Gainesville, Florida. reside. Penelope Radziucz to Michael Kinney. Other weddings: In April, John J. MacDonnell to Michael is employed by Fels Co., Inc. They are liv­ Editor, Maine Alumnus Marilyn Jossa. He owns C&M transportation in ing in Cape Elizabeth. Carrie Rizzolo to Gerald Crossland Alumni Center Arlington, Massachusetts. Joel Oliver to Lynn Haynes. Gerald is an engineer-designer at Eastern Wilson ’83. He owns Oliver Forest Products in Fire Protection Co., Auburn. Melody Griffin to Lt. University of Maine at Orono Houlton. Charles Crowell to Teresa Harper. He is Jefferey Wright. They reside in Newport, Rhode Orono, Maine 04469 employed by Caterpillar Tractor in Peoria, Illinois. Island. Barbara Park to James Toner. They live in DECEMBER, 1984 33 Cianbro Corp. in Portland. Linda Thacker became Nightingale, Joanne Collette to William Doukas, Advancing Giant Mrs. Patrick Grotton ’82. She is employed as a Dianne Farwell to Steven Mahoney, and Jody Quir- ______(Continued from page 18) marketing associate for Channing L. Bete Co. in rion to James Killam. Patricia McCormack became South Deerfield, Massachusetts and he works for Mrs. Brian Elwell, Wanda Kimball became Mrs. Digital Equipment Corp. They reside in Milford, Ricky Lyons, and Margaret Raymond became Mrs. tion, derisively called by Chairman Mao New Hampshire. Barbara Jeschke married Dennis George Ayoob U. William Doukas married himself the “ stuffed duck” or “ dead Curran. Barb earned her master’s at Michigan State Elizabeth Collette and Suzanne Caturano married book” learning. (Mao Zedong began his and works for Chevron Corp. in San Francisco. Neil Walker. career as a primary school teacher and They reside in Walnut Creek. Mary Mynahan wed That’s all for now. Keep the letters coming! Hope Michael Bonneau. Both are employed by Northeast you all have a Merry Christmas and a super year was later an assistant librarian at Beijing Bank and reside in Lewiston. Lisa Ochmanski ahead. University.) became Mrs. Rob Card. They both work in the Teachers, I might add, are relatively Lewiston school system. Susan Marble married Paul low-salaried and do not generally rank Meihorn. Paul works at the Rectory School in Pom- fret, Connecticut. Sandra Wakefield wed Robert high in esteem on the social scale. McFetridge. He works for the police department in 84 Pat Dunn During our visit, the educational com­ Camden, where they reside. R.F.D. 5A, Box 128 munity was most curious about Amer­ Julia Holmes writes that she is starting graduate Gardiner, Maine 04345 ican approaches to mathematics, science, school in chemical engineering at University of and technology because of the obvious Wisconsin, Madison. Michael Lowry received a Hi, everybody, and best wishes for a great holiday master’s of divinity from Bangor Theological season! It was great seeing so many of you at importance of those fields to the catch­ Seminary and serves as pastor of First Congrega­ Homecoming and to see that some of us are still up modernization program. We were tional Church, Houlton. James Mitchell graduated single. Lots of news this time around. asked many questions, particularly about from University of Maine School of Law. Michael Our beloved Senior Council President Becky computer use in schools and society. Lecompte completed air force basic training and re­ Wyke is resident director of Gannett Hall. Scott mains at Lackland A.F. Base, Texas. Owen Logue Benbow is a legislative consultant for Senator Chiles In mathematics, the emphasis is heavy joined the staff of UMO’s Upward Bound program of Florida. Deborah Thomas is director of human on application. Math is recognized as as a counselor/special projects coordinator. David resources development at Eastern Maine Healthcare important and needed for solving the Peckham received his master’s in systems manage­ in Bangor. Christy Cross has joined the editorial many complex problems to be found in ment from University of Southern California and staff of the Belfast Republican Journal. The class of works for civil service in Frankfurt, Germany. Deb ’84 is making its mark in northern Maine as well. Chinese society. Geometry assumes a Sorrells has a new position as director of develop­ Sharon Bossie is teaching kindergarten at St. Mary’s prominent position in the curriculum at ment at Catherine McAuley H.S. in Portland. School, Houlton. Beth Ann Varney is teaching at all levels because they regard it as crucial Jonathan Herrick is an ecologist in Glacier National the Lambert School, Houlton. Brittany Henderson for development of the mind and for Park, Montana. Terry York Zacker received her has joined the staff of the Aroostook Valley Seed master’s in student personnel services from Universi­ Company. And Chuck Terry spent the summer teaching students to “ think logically.” ty of Vermont. feeding peregrine falcons in northern Maine. Over and over it was stated that much That’s all for now! Homecoming news will be in Robert Libby directed Pinocchio for the Theatre of the more significant math learning is the next issue. Have a safe and happy holiday of the Enchanted Forest in Bangor this summer. done individually and that their better season and make a resolution to write to me in ’85! Kim Carpenter ran Carpenter’s Homes and Cones Ice Cream Shop before starting her teaching career scholars are “ self taught.” Indeed, sev­ at the Red Balloon School in Springvale. Anne eral talented secondary school young­ 83 Brenda Downey Hutchins is working for the Anderson Company of sters indicated using U.S. college texts 43 Carroll Street Boston. Gerry Laliberte has completed an internship on their own. Of four perfect scores Falmouth, Maine 04105 at the Auburn city manager’s office. Richard Morrill is a whey consultant for H.P. Hood Dairy in attained on a recent international math It was so great to see so many of you at Homecom­ Newport. Mark Hackett has joined the coaching examination, three were achieved by ing! I trust a good time was had by all. Now, let’s staff of the Maine Maritime Academy football team. Chinese students, two from Shanghai see what everyone is up to. Wendy MacDonald will Kim Lynch was a supervisor for the Maine Conser­ and one from Beijing. Upon meeting the be teaching high school math and science in Ells­ vation Corp. project at Squaw Brook. Pat Michaud worth. Todd Chamberlain, a platoon sergeant, is on is the music instructor for SAD 21 in Dixfield. Lou two Shanghai students, we heard both duty in Bamberg, West Germany. Maggie Moran Athanas is employed by Multi-Call Inc. in Fort identify self-learning as the reason for has been chosen as director of the Sunshine Center Lauderdale, Florida. their success. Any educator must ponder in Natick, Massachusetts. Judy Donovon has Jon Tierney is the naturalist at St. Gaudens this! Many in our delegation speculated celebrated her first vows in the Congregation of the Historic Site in Cornish, New Hampshire. Susan Sisters of St. Joseph of Lyon. She is on mission Monroe is employed by Locke Manufacturing Co. in that perhaps it might be attributable at assignment in Lewiston working with St. Andre’s Woburn, Massachusetts. Troy Grindle is employed least in part to the lack of formal Group Home. Terri Fournier has been named to the by AT&T in Richmond, Virginia. Steven McEarch- schooling available during the 10-year staff at Squaw Mountain. Her department handles ern is a technical assistant for Westvaco in Clov- span of the cultural revolution. Are public relations, group sales, customer services, and ington, Virginia. students now showing patterns and advertising. William (“Bo”) Yerxa II has been Congratulations to Sue Hall who is a new assis­ elected to the Calais Regional Hospital board of tant director of admissions/alumni ambassador habits developed during that recent dark directors. Beth Kenney is Greenfield’s first town ad­ coordinator program at UMO. Also joining the period of Chinese history, carrying them ministrative assistant. Mike Coutts is back home in UMO admissions staff is Andre Pelletier. Jimmy over into today’s formal learning pro­ Auburn coaching and teaching for Edward Little. Dolinar is working in the claims department at And now, news from those classmates who have Liberty Mutual in Newton, Massachusetts. Also cess? continued their educations. Congratulations to Jef­ joining the Liberty Mutual team is Jeff (“Fitzy”) No math educator can conclude an ar­ frey Pochepan who completed his first year at the Fitzpatrick in Tyler, Texas. Peter Tirschwell is work ticle on China without relating a few University of Buffalo’s School of Science, where he ing for the Whitney Group in Northeast Harbor. statistics. The Great Wall, built from Pam Lasky and Theresa Henchey are pursuing is studying sports medicine. Congratulations to Pat 403-221 B.C. by 300,000 men, stretches Richards who was recently awarded a master’s of graduate degrees at UMO. Ed Orcutt is attending social work from Boston College. And a hurrah for University of Idaho. Peggy Cyr is attending Univer uninterrupted for 31,250 miles. The only Tim Condon who recently graduated from the sity of Vermont Medical School. Scott McMunus is man-made structure visible from orbiting Maine Criminal Justice Academy and is now with attending University of Pennsylvania Veterinary satellites or to astronauts on the moon, the Windham Police Department. Gregory Farrell is Medicine School. currently enrolled at the New England College of I want to extend my warmest congratulations to the wall is broad enough to accom­ Optometry in Boston, Massachusetts. Robert Rich Vannozzi who recently got married and spent modate five cavalrymen or ten infan­ Voelker H has been awarded silver wings following his honeymoon in Bar Harbor and did not stop by trymen marching abreast. Its average graduation from U.S. Air Force navigator training. to say hello. In all seriousness, Rich, the best of height is 22 feet, and its width is 21 feet luck to you and your new bride and to all my other Other career news: Michael Hoyt has been named at the base and 18 at the top. The brick associate director of the Maine Oil Dealers Associa­ classmates who are now married as well. Other wed­ tion. dings include D. Peter Plummer to Martha Flye. and stone employed to construct it could From our marriage corner: Gary Savage to Peggi Brian Thurston wed Linda Ward and is employed by circumscribe the earth with a dike eight Benner, Bonnie Duncan to Eric Washburn, Mark Fairchilds Semiconductor in South Portland. feet high! Certainly an appropriate Many more weddings which have occurred since Friend to Kristine True, Sue La Pierre to Scott pathway for an “advancing giant.” Poulin, Lorraine Spellman to Frank Knapp, Terry graduation and I promise a full accounting next McGuinness to Michael O’Neil, Mary Noyes to time. Well, ten o’clock clubbers, that’s about it. Joseph Fontaine, Jr., Adrienne Abromowich to Keep those letters coming and cheer on the Black Yvon is Professor o f Education and Child Michael Michaud, Susan Burlock to Matthew Bears. Development with a specialty in mathematics. 34 MAINE ALUMNUS Did you know that UMO books and journals go to over 50 nations and all National Poetry Foundation continents? The Washington Post, Sept. 16, 1984 said: “The University University of Maine at Orono, Orono, Maine 04469 of Maine at Orono is an active cul­ tural and intellectual center.”

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