Class of 1965

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Class of 1965 Spring 2025 Class Note

A few years ago – before the pandemic stopped church suppers — I discovered my husband and I were sitting beside a classmate and his wife at a locally renowned fish chowder supper at the Congregational Church in Searsport, ME. Turned out Elwyn Wooster and I had a lot in common — and not just…

Class of 1964 Spring 2025 Class Note

UMaine is a Carnegie R1 top-tier research institution, a classification that reflects UMaine’s commitment to cutting-edge research, innovation, and academic excellence. And it’s something more we should be proud of. If you haven’t put this on your visit list lately, you are missing one of the best and most stunning sites and heartbeats. Our loyal…

Class of 1965 Summer 2024 Class Note

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…

Class of 1965 Winter 2024 Class Note

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…

Class of 1965 Summer 2023 Class Note

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…

Class of 1965 Winter 2022 Class Note

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…

Class of 1965 Summer 2022 Class Note

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…

Class of 1965 Winter 2022 Class Note

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.…

Class of 1965 Summer 2021 Class Note

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 …

Class of 1965 Winter 2021 Class Note

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,…

Class of 1965 Summer 2020 Class Note

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…

Class of 1965 Winter 2020 Class Note

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…

Class of 1965 Summer 2019 Class Notes

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…

Class of 1965 Fall 2018 Class note

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…

Class of 1965 Spring 2018 Class Note

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/ Belfast, ME, native Dave “Zippy” Thompson was interviewed by the Bangor Daily News in August 2017, a month prior to his induction into the University of Maine Sports Hall of Fame. Dave, now a resident of Wayne, PA, was captain…

Class of ’65 Fall 2017 Class Notes

Carolyn Zachary P. O. Box 236 Belfast, ME 04915-0236 (207) 338-0820 czachary@midcoast.com www.facebook.com/groups/UMaineClass1965/ Floyd Keniston G made broadcast and print news when he was honored by the Maine Legislature as a Pearl Harbor survivor. Floyd earned a graduate degree from UMaine in 1965. Twenty-four years earlier, he was serving as a seaman first class…

Nursing Class of 1965 50th Reunion

Members of the University Of Maine School of Nursing Class of 1965 celebrated their 50th class reunion on Saturday, August 29, with a porch party at the summer home of Linda Atherton Hacket on Little Diamond Island in Casco Bay, followed by dinner at DiMillos in Portland. Traveling from Colorado, Massachusetts, and many parts of…

Commencement 2015

Four of our Class of 1965 classmates marched at this year’s commencement ceremony and posed with President Susan Hunter as part of the Class Adoption Program. The Class of 1965 mentored the Class of 2015 for four years and it was a pleasure and an honor to march with them!

Spring 2015 Class Note

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Class Officers 2020-2025

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