Amid the Covid pandemic, Gary Thorne’s 10-year career as the Baltimore Orioles’ play-by-play announcer came to an end. His voice is well known by many — and his accomplishments impressive. Gary started off by being the “voice” for UMaine hockey — moving on to “play-by-play gigs with the NHL’s (National Hockey League) New Jersey Devils…
Class of 1970 Winter 2021 Class Note
February 4, 2021First of all — and, most importantly — I want to thank all of you who jumped onto our Virtual 50th Reunion! I’m going to take the liberty of stealing some words from my friend, Carol Swaffield Ridlon: “I attended the Reunion. The best part was the social hour for our class. Actually there were…
Class of 1970 Summer 2020 Class Note
September 17, 2020Sudy Taylor Graham Well, without a doubt, the biggest news is our 50th Reunion (Unbelievable! How did that happen?! Right?). I’m sure that I’m not the only one sitting here in disbelief that we are actually that old. I mean, weren’t we just yesterday having coffee in the Bear’s Den — or studying at the…
Class of 1970 Winter 2020 Class Note
February 4, 2020Sudy Taylor Graham Afraid that these class notes are going to be short and sweet — and just from a couple of newspaper clippings. ☹ I do keep up with many of you through emails, phone calls, and Facebook, but that’s because our friendship goes back to our university days and we’ve either kept up…
Class of 1970 Summer 2019 Class Notes
August 1, 2019Sudy Taylor Graham Well, here we are again. At the time of this writing, I find myself buried under a ton of snow, temperatures (if we’re lucky!) reaching into the 20s, a fire always kept blazing, and coffee always available! As for my friends in Arizona and Florida — I’m not talking to you (just…
Class of 1970 Fall 2018 Class Note
October 18, 2018Sudy Taylor Graham 33760 County Road 43A Steamboat Springs, CO 80487-9783 sudy_graham@yahoo.com 970-846-4789 www.facebook.com/groups/UMaineClass1970/ I am afraid that this will be a much shorter column than usual – and, for that I apologize (I was definitely behind the “8 ball” this time)! But, here’s what we have. I received a long and newsy…
Class of 1970 Spring 2018 Class Note
May 31, 2018Sudy Taylor Graham 33760 County Road 43A Steamboat Springs, CO 80487-9783 sudy_graham@yahoo.com 970-846-4789 www.facebook.com/groups/UMaineClass1970/ Trying something new. I’m asking you to shoot me a quick something to put in our column from time to time. It can literally be anything — no matter how brief and simple (we don’t all have to be Nobel Peace…
Class of ’70 Fall 2017 Class Notes
November 7, 2017Sudy Taylor Graham 33760 County Road 43A Steamboat Springs, CO 80487-9783 sudy_graham@yahoo.com 970-846-4789 www.facebook.com/groups/UMaineClass1970/ Well, here we are again! It has been wonderful to receive emails, texts, and phone calls from classmates I knew—and others that I hadn’t had the pleasure of personally meeting. You have no idea how much that means not only…
Fall 2017 Class Notes
February 11, 2016Sudy Taylor Graham 33760 County Road 43A Steamboat Springs, CO 80487-9783 sudy_graham@yahoo.com 970-846-4789 www.facebook.com/groups/UMaineClass1970/ Well, here we are again! I sometimes wish we were doing these columns four times a year! Seems that by the time we read the news much has already changed! Some of our classmates I have been able to stay on…