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If you haven’t read the MAINE Alumni Magazine, you will be fascinated and proud. Besides our class news, there is information about the campus and what’s happening at the University of Maine.
Robert McCully G just retired after 59 years, most recently as a classroom math teacher, basketball and tennis coach, and advisor to the student council. You may know that in the 1958-65 period he played on the Old Town semi pro team called “Jack’s Five” with revered Maine players Skip Chappelle, Dick ’60, ’66G and Don Sturgeon G, ’74 C.A.S., Wayne Champeon ’61, and Larry Schiner ’61, ’62G, and is still in touch with Skip Chapelle. Bob has also served on the board of the Maine Education Association, a real asset to our beloved state!
Mary Brooks Wilbur asked that I pass on NOT to obey the mammogram-not-necessary after 75 medical guidelines. At 83 she has breast cancer which might have been found sooner if. She says she is still enjoying life and you can contact her at marybrookswilbur@gmail to send your hugs.
William “Bill” Brewer and wife, Sandy, have been spending time with family including a graduating grandson in Rhode Island and East Aurora, NY. He and Sandy and compatriots from the Rochester Chapter of Sons of the American Revolution helped welcome Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves Roch-Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette (imagine signing those checks!) to Rochester as part of the celebration of the 200th anniversary of the marquis’ grand tour of the United States of America.
Maury Webb, a mechanical engineer who earned retirement 25 years ago, lives nine months a year in Nokomis, FL, a town between Sarasota and Venice, and spends summers on Cape Cod in Orleans, MA. His major activity, he smiles, is walking three 18-hole rounds of golf each week. Donald Quigley was reading his online Bangor Daily News in his South San Francisco home and noticed an obituary for Lawrence Emery, Jr., our classmate, and a picture Don described as “remarkably unchanged.” He described Lawrence as someone whose unfailing friendliness and good cheer made him a great encounter every time, one of those people worth remembering, for any of you who also knew him. You might want to contact him (donquigleydeq@gmail.com) to join a wonderful gathering of old friends each year. Don and wife, Linda, moved west to be near their daughters, but every July meeting UMaine grads and some Aroostook Central Institute grads is a boon of their travel, and you could join in. Talking to Don is like spending time with a pro TV personality! He just retired a second time from teaching health law “how to” in California.
Helene Nardino Thompson and the late Robert “Hank” Thompson ’62 have divided their year between Connecticut and Naples, FL. She is a volunteer for the local library book sale in their Connecticut home, and is adjusting to a hip replacement. Helene plays bridge, knits, is learning to quilt, and volunteers at a thrift shop in Florida.
Amos Orcutt reports from Orland, ME, that he is treasurer of the board of directors of the Page Farm and Home Museum. This museum is the University of Maine’s window to past family life in rural Maine from 1865 to 1940. It is a collection of household and farm artifacts housed in the 1833 Maine Experiment Station barn on campus.
Robert and Jackie Towle Anderson planned a drive up Route 1 in Maine to celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary. Both growing up in Aroostook County and always taking highways, they were eager to drive Route 1 from where it enters Maine all the way to Fort Kent.
Slowing can be appealing, and Jackie has already dropped one of the bell choirs she serves and will do two more this year in spite of the joy it has brought her for 40 years. Robert is still very involved with the local alumni association, especially the annual lobster event, which has been attended by as many as 40-100 alumni each year.
It is very interesting to learn what keeps the smiles in our lives. Please send me your list of joys when you have time.