Sometimes we have to share sad news, but if we are smart, we always pick out the blessings part. Charles Edwin “Ed” Spear, Jr. passed away recently. His adoring wife, Sylvia Niles Spear, also our classmate, wanted us all to know that 59 years of happiness almost salved his last years of struggle. After enhancing…

Not only is Freeport, ME, gorgeous, but about 14 of your classmates met there last June for a mini-reunion. Class President Peter and Mary Thomas Bourque ’65, Jackie Towle Anderson and husband, Bob Anderson, Ken Beal and his wife, Helen Johnston Beal ’66, Bill Brewer and his wife, Sandy, Linda Beam Clapp, Norman French, Ellen…

Classmates Phillip and Susan Keene Morse, who funded the rebuild of the University of Maine football stadium, have provided a $1,000,000 donation for the UMaine Athletic Facilities Master Plan, which will combine with other generous gifts to upgrade all of the athletic facilities on campus. Inspired by Dr. Harold Borns’ This Sculptured Earth geology course,…

Hello, dear Bears! I feel like I am talking to friends. Thank you. I used to feel like a survivor because age tried to sneak in, and I had to fight hard. I have chosen to be 58 years old forever, use hair color, and now am trying to explain to God that when I…

Ginny Bellinger Ollis 4022 Front Street San Diego, CA 92103 (619) 295-3904 ginnyollis@gmail.com facebook.com/groups/UMaineClass1964/ I originally met Reinhard Zollitsch in German language class, just arrived from his native country to sharpen his English and related skills. He was our instructor. But cleverly, before he had us open our books, he spent several days sharing with…

Our classmate Bob Clark reports that he and his high school sweetheart-now-wife, Sandy, are planning to celebrate their 58th wedding anniversary in Las Vegas, if this challenging world we are now in allows. Their life has given them three wonderful children and nine grands, who all visit them Down East in Grand Lake during the…

Ginny Bellinger Ollis Happy anniversary of our 56th graduation. It is so nice in this riven world that we come together in so many ways. Please note: you may not know us all, but those who do know you would be so happy to read your news. And photos are welcome! Many of us have…

Minutes (notes) from Class of 1964 Business Meeting September 13, 2019 Key Decisions: 1. Double the amount in the class of 1964 scholarship fund, to $60,000, within 3 years. 2. Hold a “mini reunion” in 2022, three years from now, when many of us will be 80 years old. The event will likely be a…

Ginny Bellinger Ollis Hello, classmates! If you are in Maine, you are probably used to this, but in Southern California having Mainers, especially in the public eye, is rare. I was so excited yesterday, when I was kind of watching the San Diego Padres National League baseball team, to hear that one of the men…

Ginny Bellinger Ollis Do read the fall 2018 MAINE Alumni Magazine — add to your strut. Of course you love the University of Maine, but this magazine will puff even the biggest chest! Did you know that UMaine is featured as one of the best and most interesting colleges by the Fiske-Guide and the Princeton…

Ginny Bellinger Ollis 4022 Front Street San Diego, CA 92103 (619) 295-3904 ginnyollis@gmail.com www.facebook.com/groups/UMaineClass1964/   I cannot thank the people who write to me to give me your stories enough! It takes me hours to email and call and so often get no response. Thank you, thank you! Joyce Farmer Berg, one of the marvelous…

Ginny Bellinger Ollis 4022 Front Street San Diego, CA 92103 (619) 295-3904 ginnyollis@gmail.com www.facebook.com/groups/UMaineClass1964/ Hello, Black Bears! As I am writing this, fires have been devastating the Golden State, floods running all over the south and coastal areas, and never mind the “bomb cyclone” putting the central states and east coast under cover! All I…