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Class of 1966 Winter 2024 Class Note

It’s me again, ‘66ers! I’ll start off with a little travelogue on the most recent two Viking Cruises Marge and I have taken. On March 21 we flew to Prague, spent three days there, then bussed to the Elbe River and boarded our boat on the way to Berlin. Along the way we stopped at…

Class of 1966 Summer 2023 Class Note

Hey, ‘66ers! Have any of you developed Fuch’s Dystrophy or know what it is? That’s the condition I mentioned in the last column where the cells on the inside of your corneas stop doing ‘their job’ and your vision gets progressively blurrier. From the end of October to the end of January I had surgery…

Class of 1966 Winter 2022 Class Note

Dear ’66 alumni! As I write this in October, Marge and I have returned from a week in Traverse City, MI, where the fall color is more like that of New England than that in Northwest Ohio. While there, I received feedback from four of our fellow alumni. Given that this is a relatively small…

Class of 1966 Summer 2022 Class Note

Hey ’66ers! Thanks to all of our classmates for responding to my recent email blast. I will try to fit you all into this column, but if I run out of space, I’ll keep the remainder on hand for the next issue. At this writing Marge and I have recently returned from the previously mentioned…

Class of 1966 Winter 2022 Class Note

With any kind of good fortune, by the time you see this the COVID Delta variant will have morphed into one called Levee, that not only causes no symptoms but also blocks the mutational development of any other form! OK, I was an experimental endocrinologist, not a virologist, but we can hope, can’t we? Speaking…

Class of 1966 Summer 2021 Class Note

Lee A. Meserve 756 South Wintergarden Road Bowling Green, OH 43402 lmeserv@bgsu.edu facebook.com/groups/UMaineClass1966/ Hello again, ‘66ers! After the first of the year our class leadership team of officers — Emil Swift, president; Bruce Staples, vice president; Barb Bristol Paiton, secretary/treasurer; Nancy Erikson Ladd, class agent; and myself, class correspondent — had a productive Zoom meeting…

Class of 1966 Winter 2021 Class Note

Hello, fellow 1966 graduates! I have assumed the position of class correspondent for the alumni magazine. Since I agreed to do this close to the deadline for submission for the next one, this column will serve primarily as an introduction to me. I composed the little rap below for my wife, Marge, and my 50th…

Class of 1966 Summer 2020 Class Note

Dan Hillard’s last column appeared in the winter issue of the MAINE Alumni Magazine. Dan did a stellar job of writing the column for the Class of 1966 from 2006 until his death last December. In recognition of his outstanding work, he received the class correspondent award in 2013. The Class of ’66 needs someone…

Class of 1966 Winter 2020 Class Note

Dan Hillard When will spring arrive? It’s been a rough winter already, but we bundle up with a good book and enjoy life! Last fall I received a call from Robert Harrison, who’s still practicing law in Kentucky. As a reminder Bob was our campus mayor, Snuffy Smith. He was commissioned through ROTC and served…

Class of 1966 Summer 2019 Class Notes

Dan Hillard Hello from the North Country, and happy summer, everyone! Nancy Erikson Ladd shared that the $1,296 Class of ’66 Scholarship was awarded to Bradle Denholm, a senior majoring in computer engineering at the university. Bradley is from Orono and is the grandson of classmate William Bacigalupo. Philip Grant graduated with a degree in…

Class of 1966 Fall 2018 Class Note

Dan Hillard P. O. Box 138 Chandler Farms Wilder, VT 05088 (802) 295-9044 micmac43@comcast.net www.facebook.com/groups/UMaineClass1966/ The August mini reunion has come and gone and what a neat event it was, thanks to our gracious hosts, Carole Spruce and Bob Kittredge. Very well planned and well attended. For starters, on Thursday evening, about 36 of…

Class of 1966 Spring 2018 Class Note

Dan Hillard P. O. Box 138 Chandler Farms Wilder, VT 05088 (802) 295-9044 micmac43@comcast.net www.facebook.com/groups/UMaineClass1966/ It’s not too early to start packing for our mini class Reunion in Portland in August. A pizza party has been set up at Pat’s Pizza in Yarmouth, on Route 1 on Thursday evening at 5:30.On Thursdaynight at 8 PM,…

Class of ’66 Fall 2017 Class Notes

Dan Hillard P. O. Box 138 Chandler Farms Wilder, VT 05088 (802) 295-9044 micmac43@comcast.net www.facebook.com/groups/UMaineClass1966/ After a hugely successful 50th Reunion last September, there is a great deal of enthusiasm for another get-together. Plans are in the works for a 52-year mini-reunion in Portland next year. I am pleased to share that Bob Kittredge…

Spring 2015 Class Note

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