Class of 1996 Summer 2024 Class Note

Norman Gagne G has retired after 50 years coaching high school boys’ ice hockey. The Auburn native ended his coaching career with the Red Eddies of Edward Little. He ranks second nationwide in total wins for boys’ high school hockey with 812. His teams have won seven state championships: three with Gardiner, three with Waterville, and one with Scarborough. He was a 2017 inductee into the Maine Sports Hall of Fame.

Timothy McGonagle is a partner and senior vice president at United Insurance of Portland.

Aram Calhoun, Ph.D. is director of the Forest Society of Maine and professor emerita of UMaine’s Department of Wildlife Ecology, Fisheries, and Conservation Biology. She recently co-authored the paperback Our Maine: Exploring Its Rich Natural Heritage.

Darci Yost Hamm is executive vice president and chief operating officer at Norway Savings Bank.

Scott Wilcox is the new CEO of the Old Town-Orono YMCA. He comes to the Y with nearly two decades of law enforcement experience, most recently at the Old Town Police Department, where he served as the police chief and public safety director. He is a member of the Old Town Rotary, president of the Old Town Little League, and a board member of the Caring Community Cupboard.

Wendell W. Harriman II ’14 is senior project engineer in the building design service line at Haley Ward, Inc.

Vaughan J. Woodruff, vice president of workforce development for ReVision Energy, was appointed by Governor Janet Mills to serve as chairman of the State Workforce Board. He is a seventh-generation Maine native raised in Pittsfield.

Anette Ruppel Rodrigues G, a lecturer in German at UMaine, published an article in The Hessians: Journal of the Johannes Schwalm Historical Association in 2023.

Anette worked with UMaine history professor Richard Judd on the independent studies project “The Late 18th Century Down East – Could the ‘dreaded Hessians’ have made it to Maine?” A copy of the Journal as well as the electronic version is at the Fogler Library.