1953     Well, here we are, April 6, with news of our classmates. Snow is here, generator humming (no power, third day), a broken arm, age 92, but all is well, it really is. Hope this finds you well, too. There are some 137 of you out there and I plan to call a…

 The leaves and acorns are falling as I write, always late and every six months. Then I forgot how to do it. Computer-illiterate, that’s for sure, but I’m 92. Four classmates were at our 70th class Reunion in Orono in September: Helen Strong Hamilton, Exeter, NH; Jean Dolloff Kreizinger, Newtown, CT; Warren Noyes, Madison; and…

Hi everyone. Time does march on, doesn’t it. I wish it would retreat. (I’ll just pretend I’m back on campus in Orono with all of you.) I wasn’t a good student, never getting even close to that 3-point mark. But I can talk, write, and type. So, here goes with what I heard by way…

We are the Class of ’53. Yes, we certainly are and some of you were at our 69th Reunion September 8-10 on the Orono campus. Present were: Helen Strong Hamilton, class president; Woody Carville; Peggy Given White with her son Tom ’80 and his wife, Joanne ’83; Jean Dolloff Kreizinger with her brother Dana ’63,…

May I quote 1980 physics laureate James Cronin, Nobel Prize: “When I ask myself, ‘Who are the happiest people on the planet?’ my answer is, ‘Those who can’t wait to wake up in the morning to get back to what they were doing the day before.’” Sometimes I’m one of those happy people, especially when…

Here we are, Class of 1953! It’s October 2021 as I write. I have no real problems. Leaves are falling, but I have lawn guys. Winter’s coming, I have a new generator. Food’s no problem, I have seven offspring. So relax (if you can), sit back, and enjoy reading what I, and others, have written.…

Nancy Schott Plaisted 7 Ledgewater Drive Kennebunk, ME 04043 (207) 967-1380 207) 251-7655 cell nancyplaisted53@gmail.com The pandemic (Covid-19, and other variants) is still with us, as I write in late March, but with more people being vaccinated, life is becoming more normal. It’s been a year like none other for everyone. TV, with Hallmark, Netflix,…

Here we are, with no 67th Class Reunion held this past summer, but hopefully one in 2021, when/if scientists have created a lifesaving vaccine. However, with this column, I felt, in a way, as though I was at Reunion, talking to classmates on the phone. So nice to hear their voices from one coast to…

Nancy Schott Plaisted You know, it pays to go through your closets once in a while. Thanks to classmate Peggy Given White I have quite the collection of alumni magazines. In the fall 1991’s 125th anniversary issue — 125 Alumni Who Have Made a Difference — three of our classmates are listed. I do want…

Nancy Schott Plaisted Embedded in my cluttered office, with the September sun and 70 degrees outside, I’m writing to you people who are reading this in the throes of winter, bundled by the fire with snowflakes in the air. (Or to the lucky ones in the tropics or farther south!)   Our 66th Reunion was…

Nancy Schott Plaisted Happy summer, everyone! As a holiday gift from one of my grandsons and his wife, I received tickets to the University of Maine vs. Yale University men’s hockey game in Portland in January. It was a first for me, watching my alma mater play. And, of course, seats were in Row 1,…

Nancy Schott Plaisted 7 Ledgewater Drive Kennebunk, ME 04043 (207) 967-1380 nancyplaisted53@gmail.com   Our 65th Reunion is set for September. (I will write all about it in my next column in six months.) I’m writing this in advance, and have talked to a few classmates who plan to go; it should be fun, celebrating our…