Greetings, Class of 1986! Shovels are out here in my corner of Maine! Matthew Heizler G, ’93 Ph.D. was the recipient of the 2022 Distinguished Research Award at New Mexico Tech (NMT). This top faculty award went to Matthew for his almost 30 years of academic service and advocacy to NMT, geoscience, and the world.…

Greetings, Class of 1986! We’ve put winter and spring behind us and here we are, in the midst of summer. It was great hearing from Christopher Berry, who was recently named a Managing Director for Morgan Stanley, running a municipal bond trading desk. Chris, who was an economics major, moved to Boston after graduation and…

Greetings, Class of 1986, We’re sending you good wishes — health, adventures, and fun times — for the year 2022. Circumstances did not allow us to have a regular column for this issue, but we should be up and running again for the summer issue. We do have one news item: Rick Nickerson ’99G was…

Julie-Ann Baumer  P.O. Box 82 Lisbon Falls, ME 04252 jabaumer@gmail.com facebook.com/groups/UMaineClass1986/ Greetings, Class of 1986! It was an easy winter here in my corner of Maine. The plow guy only visited once, signifying just one unmanageable snow storm. It was a great winter to get outside every day and I did a lot of that.…

Greetings, Class of 1986! It was a beautiful summer here in Maine, in spite of the pandemic. Boating, bicycling, walking, gardening, grilling — I had plenty of it. As some of you know, I have been “staying home and saving lives” since 2013, when I made a conscious decision to telecommute to my job and…

Julie-Ann Baumer Hey, Class of 1986 friends! I just checked the old mailbag and found a few surprises tucked in with the bills. Dedham School’s PE and health teacher, Tim Pearson ’00G, helped secure a $25,000 grant from Specialized Bikes that allowed the pre-K through 8 school to purchase 27 mountain bikes, helmets, curriculum, and…

Julie-Ann Baumer Brrr — winter is definitely here and I am throwing a flannel scarf over my flannel shirt as I type these class notes. Talented NBC Sports Boston anchor Gary Tanguay announced in an April Twitter video that he is battling Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. His initial announcement reported he was being treated at both Brigham and Women’s…

Julie-Ann Baumer What a treat it is to get my envelope of clippings from Buchanan Alumni House. Although the size of our class makes it impossible to remember everyone, one consistent thread runs through the stories that come across my desk about the Class of 1986. Success! Speaking of running, last September, Paul Elkin was…

Julie-Ann Baumer P. O. Box 82 Lisbon Falls, ME 04252 jabaumer@gmail.com facebook.com/groups/UMaineClass1986/   Zipping north on Interstate 95, a Maine State Police cruiser passed me by. I was glad they were not after me. They were just doing their job, keeping the highways and the state safe and secure, thanks in part to the leadership…

Julie-Ann Baumer P.O. Box 82 Lisbon Falls, ME 04252 jabaumer@gmail.com facebook.com/groups/UMaineClass1986/   Have you ever thought you’d like to be more involved at “the college of our hearts always”?  Something different, more than just writing a check or attending a sporting event? Two members of the Class of 1986, both graduates of the Maine Business…

Julie-Ann Baumer P. O. Box 82 Lisbon Falls, ME 04252 jabaumer@gmail.com facebook.com/groups/UMaineClass1986/   Did you know there was a Maine Basketball Hall of Fame? Where have I been? Located within the Cross Insurance Center in Bangor, the Hall of Fame is now in its fourth year. A rich repository of Maine’s basketball history, the Hall…

Congratulations to Heather Hughes Brown ’95, whose daughter, Paige, a Bangor High School senior, won a first-place Medal of Distinction for Global Good in the Intel Science Talent Search. Paige, who presented a study on the water quality of Bangor-area streams with high E. coli and phosphate levels, is developing a cost-effective filter to remove phosphate from stormwater systems. She…