Although you are reading this in summer, I am writing it after a week of early April winter storms in Maine with high wind, a foot or more of snow accumulation, and widespread power outages; a 4.8-magnitude earthquake in New Jersey whose epicenter was just 40 miles from my hometown; and a solar eclipse whose…

While I’m writing this from 90-degree Florida, those of you in Maine might be reading it while experiencing higher-than-average snowfall and lower-than-average temperatures, according to The Old Farmer’s Almanac, with blizzards in January and, maybe, March. Hope you’re staying warm! We spent two and a half weeks driving around Ireland (the Republic and Northern) last…

Greetings from the Sunshine State! We ventured back to Maine over Christmas and I promptly caught one of the viruses (not COVID) prevalent there in December 2022. It stayed with me for about three miserable weeks. I’m told the blood thins in warm climates, leaving us ill-equipped to handle the cold on short notice. Too…

As I write this, people in a great swath of Florida are fighting back after devastation wrought by Hurricane Ian. We were lucky in DeLand, about an hour northeast of Orlando and 30 miles or so inland from Daytona Beach — Ian passed over us, but most of the resulting damage was only to trees…

Greetings from Florida! As I write this, I am in the throes of buying a house down here, juggling paperwork and inspections with work for The Republican Journal in Belfast, ME. With one reporter gone in February, the editor having retired in April, and our remaining reporter out with COVID-19, I’m both acting editor and…

Winter greetings!  Dick Perkins ’66, called to tell me he and other Phi Eta Kappa brothers had shared their recollections of Alan Zimmerman’s death in Vietnam. In further research, someone close to the family confirmed Al was killed when the helicopter he piloted was shot down, Dick said, but Al was not missing in action.…

Research and transcripts of phone conversations and email messages remembering Al Zimmerman, Tom Ferguson and Vietnam Name         Thomas Bernard Ferguson From          Oxford County, Maine Born           January 14, 1943 Death         March 30, 1968 War            Vietnam War Rank …

Greetings from Midcoast Maine! Following up on my last class notes, with extensive research and help from other classmates, Jim Jandreau has concluded that we lost two members of the Class of 1965 in Vietnam:  2nd Lt. Thomas Bernard Ferguson, U.S. Marine Corps, who died of wounds as a ground casualty on March 30,…

E. Carolyn Zachary Greetings from Midcoast Maine! I heard from two classmates at Christmastime. From Sally Day Brown in Glastonbury, Conn., came the sad news that she lost her husband Roger in mid-March 2019 to complications of dementia. Our sincere sympathy, Sally. From Beverly Smith Hance and husband Jim in Charlotte, N.C., came holiday greetings…

E. Carolyn Zachary During our 50th Reunion, some of us wondered whom we’d lost in the Vietnam War. Jim Jandreau volunteered to do the research and compile a list for our 55th in the hope that we’d find a way to honor them, perhaps with a scholarship, or a meditation room in the Union, or…

Carolyn Zachary With temps bouncing from single digits to the 50s and back again, it’s challenging to be thinking ahead to a summer publication date for this missive. For my family, spring brought my daughter’s late April wedding in the Brooklyn (NY) Botanic Garden. The garden has special meaning for Jennifer, a Manhattan resident; she…

Carolyn Zachary P.O. Box 236 Belfast, ME 04915-0236 (207) 342-5565 (908) 625-8980 (mobile) czachary@fairpoint.net www.facebook.com/groups/UMaineClass1965/   We have news from Down Under of Arnie Delaite, who now lives in Kiama, Australia. He recently took home six gold medals from the Australian Masters Athletic Championships in Perth. Arnie excelled in track and field at UMaine, where…