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Class of 1961

Welcome to the Class of 1961. We’d love to hear from you. Please take a few moments and share your news with classmates.

For questions or to get involved in class activities, please contact Ashley Twombly ’10, ’12G at (207) 581-1144.

Class Officers 2021-2026

President Margaret "Meg" Thompson Villarreal

Vice President Larry Schiner

Secretary/Class Correspondent/Co-Class Agent Judith E. Ohr

Treasurer Jean McNeary Woodard

Senior Alumni Representative Etta Libby Davenport

Senior Alumni Representative Andy McGarry

Executive Committee June Toulouse Heintz, Shirlene Gosline , Kay Allen- Co-Class Agent, Donald T. Sturgeon

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Class of 1961 News

Class of 1961 Winter 2022 Class Note

Your executive board was quite bummed that Reunion was postponed until 2022 but we were understanding about the COVID concern. Please make plans for next September. In lieu of our class election that had been scheduled for the canceled September Reunion, the executive board selected officers in a Zoom meeting. Meg Thompson Villarreal is president;…

Class of 1961 Summer 2021 Class Note

Judy Ohr 19332 Hempstone Avenue Poolesville, MD 20837-2133 judyohr@aol.com facebook.com/groups/UMaineClass1961/ Lots of news. David Smith and Nancy Quigg wrote to reminisce about their years at Phi Gam and as a Tri Delt. Nancy was a cheerleader for all four years and David was the Winter Carnival king. Their two sons graduated from Orono and were…

Class of 1961 Winter 2021 Class Note

You might have read about the university’s plans to change the name of Little Hall, named for Dr. Clarence Cook Little, a former president, because of his involvement with the study of eugenics. Richard Little, his son, penned a letter to the Bangor Daily News (July 13) in defense of his father and his dad’s…

Class of 1961 Summer 2020 Class Note

Judy Ohr So nice to hear from a fellow journalism major, Ron Drogin, who wrote a weekly sports column for the Campus. He says he chose not to pursue that career after graduation, fearing he might be working in some small Maine town, not being able to afford a lobster dinner. Now he is back…

“The rafters ring in Maine” Sports Illustrated Article

Weekends at Maine University begin early Friday afternoon when a big, boxlike green truck, with the fancy yellow inscription, “Eastern Maine Egg Company,” goes rumbling south toward Orono on highway 2A. The driver is an enterprising young man known to most of Maine’s 4,400 students as Cannonball. Cannonball is working his way through school by…