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1965
Sylvia A. Tapley
47 Beals Avenue
Ellsworth, ME 04605-1701
(207) 610-1322
satapley@juno.com
Facebook: Sylvia A Tapley
Lots of news coming from classmates who
have attended their 50 th high school reunions.
Ellsworth High School: Sally Austin Archer
is trying to stay ahead of tremendous changes in
marketing for her main clients and a nonprofit.
Alfred Chamberlain has been married
to Sandra Dow Chamberlain ’66 for 43 years
“and counting.” He spent 41 years at a paint
manufacturing business and retired in 2006
as the vice president of manufacturing.
(sandal168@comcast.net)
Caroline Fuller Hutchinson is semi retired
as an adoption caseworker at the Maine
Children’s Home for Little Wanderers. She was
recognized as Employee of the Year at Maine
Children’s Home.
Patricia Ramsdell Foster worked at the
Ellsworth Public Library for 23 years before
retiring as director. (patricia.foster92@yahoo.
com)
Kenneth Shea ’69G is an engineer for the
construction company E. L. Shea, a business
started by his grandfather 85 years ago. He
enjoys taking seminars to earn the necessary
continuing education units to maintain his three
professional licenses. (kjshea@myfairpoint.net)
Sylvia Tapley: my biggest achievement
is continuing to live semi-independently in
my wheelchair-accessible home. Without a
personal van and no wheelchair-accessible
public transportation, I am “property bound.”
However, I did “roll” over a mile for the Hancock
County CROP Hunger Walk in Ellsworth in
September.
Traip Academy, Kittery Point: Carrie Burton
Floyd-Wiles of North Carolina had a great visit
with Jean Woods Boobar of Rockport, ME.
Carrie’s granddaughter Abby is a freshman at
UMaine.
Edward Little High School: Roberta Roak
Foltz of Grants Pass, OR; Pat Carlin Bruce of
Franklin, ME; and George Buker of Minot, ME,
attended their reunion here.
Orono High School: Pam Woolley Viehweg
lives in Marietta, GA, and Joyce Britton
Stevens has lived in Washington state for 42
years. She retired in 2009, her last position
was a mathematics coach for K-12 teachers.
Her husband passed away last April, so she
is readjusting to single life. Joyce still enjoys
hiking, skiing, and snowshoeing, which she can
access within a few miles of her house on the
east slope of the Cascade Mountains.
Joyce reconnected with college friends
Rosemary Pelletier Merchant, Cynthia
Duncan Armstrong, Donna Weaver Stephen,
and Bruce ’64 and Camilla Guerette Corson.
Rosemary retired as a Hancock County Court
clerk in 2009. She moved to Portland to be
close to her daughter, Jennifer. Her son, David
’05, lives in Bangor and his daughter, Kayla
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Merchant, is a freshman at UMaine. Cynthia
is a retired teacher living in Haverhill, MA.
Donna is a retired elementary principal living in
Scarborough, ME. Camilla and Bruce are retired
from the Beverly, MA, school district.
Lisbeth Wiley Chapman has launched
Extra Daughters, a senior move manager and
organization business based in Wellfleet, MA.
(bethchapman@extradaughters.com)
I am pleased to announce that Christine
Gilbert, granddaughter of Raymond A. Jean,
received the Class of 1965 Scholarship for the
2011-2012 academic year at the University of
Maine.
An email from Susan Harburger Scott
recapped news that she and Lorna Peabody
Philley had a great time catching up with Sue
Holmes Bornstein, Sandy Foss Brown, Cathy
Gaw Savage ’88G, and Marty Milliken Round
’64. Susan and Lorna stayed at Cathy’s house
in Brunswick and went into Topsham and met
Carolyn Robertson ’67G for lunch. Later that
night, they went to Alan and Cindy Romano
Sawyer’s home in Harpswell and saw Stu and
Maggie Edgar Gerald and Waleria Lukas
Swift.
Gib Chase ’68G emailed that he retired in
’05 after 43 years of federal service. His career
included the US Fish and Wildlife Service, where
he did the planning and public coordination
associated with the establishment of the
Sunkhaze Meadows National Wildlife Refuge in
Milford, ME.
I had a phone call from Steve Merritt in St.
Isadore, Ontario. He had recently spoken with
Ron Calef, living in California.
Priscilla Easter Missita is greatly missed
by her UMaine friends. She passed away on
January 10, 2011. Pris graduated from Wilton
Academy in 1961.
Remember to access the UMaine Alumni
Website for more in-depth 1965 classnotes.
1966
Dan Hillard
P. O. Box 138
Chandler Farms
Wilder, VT 05088
(802) 295-9044
micmac43@myfairpoint.net
By now the memories of our 45 th Reunion may
have faded a bit, but thanks to Roland “Chip”
Cyr we can turn the calendar back to June and
view his video of the weekend events. Chip’s
email is chipcyr@yahoo.com and he’d love to
hear from you. Again, Chip, many thanks and
it was great to see you again after so many
years.
We are sorry to report the death of Dean
Stoddard in May of 2010. Dean majored
in mechanical engineering and was a letter
winner on the track team. He began his career
in the corporate world, and later started two
businesses. The first one was in Maine, and
then in the early 1990s, he founded Stoddard
Construction in Spokane, WA. He belonged to
the Spokane polo club as well as a Canadian
polo team. Dean and his wife, Dorothy, bought
and restored an old home on Prince Edward
Island, and a week’s stay there was part of our
Class of ’66 auction last spring.
James “Jim” Ballinger ’69G was inducted
into the UMaine Sports Hall of Fame for his
outstanding contributions as a member and
coach of UMaine track and cross-country
teams.
Michael Kessock ’73G purchased a
popular local restaurant in June. The Muddy
Rudder in Brewer seats 230 customers and
hosts wedding receptions and banquets. Mike
donated $300,000 to his alma mater in 1998
and was honored the next year when a lighted
softball field was named in his honor.
John Violette was honored as president
and chief engineer of Rotating Composite
Technologies. His company shared the 2010
Collier Trophy Award with the Silorsky X2 Team
for work in the aerospace industry. John’s
company provided the Pusher Propeller that
helped it achieve high speed. John and his wife,
Jean ’69, both grew up in Rumford, and reside
in Granby, CT, where they raised four children.
They have six grandchildren and return to Maine
where they have a summer house in Weld.
Curt Brown ’66 is semi retired and continues
his 20-year career as a designer and seller of
antique mirrors in New England. Curt and his
fiancée, Kathryn, started a special needs school
in 2009 in Honduras called Honduras Outreach
Providing Education. You can access their
website under Hope School Morazan, Yoro,
Honduras, CA. (curtbrown@aol.com)
Congrats to Paula Noyes Singer, who
continues to write about tax law. She recently
published an article on tax issues for foreign
nationals.
Last May, we received news that Nancy
Hiester Jordan’s son Seth was remembered
by gifts to fund a mental health case manager
at the Shalom House in Portland. Nancy told
friends, advocates, and consumers of mental
health services that her son’s death will always
make her sad, but talking about the illness that
affected him and so many others helps reduce
the stigma of mental illness. I hope you’ll pray
for Nancy and her family.
Janet Rogers ’71G wrote: “I’ve been
volunteering for the Merrimack River Feline
Rescue Society in Salisbury, MA, for almost
nine years and have been volunteer coordinator
for the past six years. MRFRS is a nationally
recognized, nonprofit volunteer-driven
organization devoted to the care of feral and
domestic cats. We get our money through
donations, grants, and fundraising and most of
the work is done by volunteers; half the small
staff is unpaid (I am one of those).
“I recruit, train, and schedule the 100+
volunteers at the Salisbury headquarters
adoption center. We provide low-cost spay/
neuter services to people in northeastern/
central MA and southern NH through a mobile
surgical clinic. I am also a foster care provider
and specialize in the very shy, terrified cats as
well as do hospice fostering, providing those
cats care in a home for whatever time they may
have left.
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