More often than not these days, it seems that when I contact a classmate I hear that someone close to us from our UMO days has passed away. Sadly, that was the case when I phoned Carolyn Skolfield early in December 2023. I had gotten a shock when I opened our Boothbay Register and saw…
Class of 1957 Winter 2024 Class Note
February 15, 2024It’s always great to have an update from Doris (Dottie) Richard Marshall who kindly wrote that she enjoyed reading the latest Maine Alumni issue. She said in her email: “All is well here – enjoy having my daughter Kristin and daughter-in-law Sharon (and their two dogs) living with me. Son James and his family also…
Class of 1957 Summer 2023 Class Note
September 5, 2023Rod Spearin and I had a wonderful conversation when he called me after reading our column in the online winter 2023 MAINE Alumni Magazine. At my request he kindly followed up with a letter sharing his news. “Sorry I missed the 65th Reunion of the Class of ’57, but I am technology challenged and unfortunately…
Class of 1957 Winter 2022 Class Note
February 23, 2023This is our Reunion Edition! The class of 1957 had its 65th reunion on Thursday and Friday, September 8 and 9, 2022. There was a bus tour of the campus on Thursday afternoon, a cocktail hour at 5 p.m. followed by the All Alumni Dinner, both in a large banquet room at the Black Bear…
Class of 1957 Summer 2022 Class Note
August 9, 2022The big news is that our 65th Reunion will be held Thursday, September 8 – Saturday, September 10. Our interim class president, Jiggs Cecchini, has been working with Ashley Twombly at the Alumni Association on plans. By now you should have received an email and a letter regarding our schedule. If you haven’t already made…
Class of 1957 Winter 2022 Class Note
March 9, 2022Has anyone else noticed how fast six months go by? Terrifying! Dottie Richards Marshall wrote that she had a fun summer with a trip with family members to Maine and a later visit to Holderness, NH, on Little Squam Lake at The Boulders Motel where she and husband, Scott, vacationed for years. She said in…
Class of 1957 Summer 2021 Class Note
August 17, 2021Pat Wade Fraker 204 Beath Road Boothbay, ME 04537-5030 (207) 633-0321 rpfraker@roadrunner.com Dear classmates, this has been a challenging year for most of us, and I hope that you all have managed to stay safe and healthy and your families as well. News has been scarce, and I was about to despair when I had…
Class of 1957 Winter 2021 Class Note
February 4, 2021When I sat down at the computer to write this article, I thought of Liz Hibbard Smith, who faithfully wrote our class notes for many years, and decided to pick up the phone to check in with her. She and husband, Les ’63, are living at Thornton Oaks Retirement Home in Brunswick. As seems to…
Remembering Ronald B. Levinson
December 8, 20201896-1980 Walter M. Macdougall Fifty odd years have smudged from my memory the office number painted on the glass of his office door. What I do remember is Dr. Ronald B. Levinson standing and looking eastward out his office window. In the late 1950s the view eastward from the third floor of Stevens Hall at…
Class of 1957 Summer 2020 Class Note
September 17, 2020Patricia (Pat) Wade Fraker In January 2020 in a letter to the various class correspondents, Abby Zelz, our wonderful Managing Editor of the Maine Alumni Magazine, reminisced about “scurrying to classes through the snow as the wind whipped across the mall.” Does that bring any memories back for you? It certainly did for me, and…
Taiganides Newsletter
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William Michael Kearns, Jr., Named a Lifetime Achiever by Marquis Who’s Who
March 4, 2020William M. Kearns has been endorsed by Marquis Who’s Who as a leader in the investment banking industry MORRISTOWN, NJ, October 13, 2017, Marquis Who’s Who, the world’s premier publisher of biographical profiles, is proud to name William Kearns a Lifetime Achiever. An accomplished listee, William Kearns celebrates many years’ experience in his professional network,…