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Class of 1987 Spring 2025 Class Note

Welcome to winter, everyone! All of us have fond memories from our days at Maine. One of my winter memories is walking across campus in a snowstorm. By the time I got to the Student Union my beard was packed with snow! And that was the one day they closed the campus and cancelled classes…

Class of 1987 Summer 2024 Class Note

I hope you are enjoying summer! We had a mild winter in most of New England, but as I get older, I find myself looking forward to warmer weather with greater eagerness each year. I hope everyone can get out and enjoy the great weather, do some traveling, and visit with family and friends. Maine…

Class of 1987 Winter 2024 Class Note

Welcome to the winter edition of class notes. Last year I wrote about the drought that most of New England went through. It was so dry that some of our lilac bushes looked like they might not make it through another season. This year we had record rain in Massachusetts and many parts of the…

Class of 1987 Summer 2023 Class Note

Happy summer, everyone! I hope you are getting out and enjoying time with family and friends this year. Kimberly J. Cook is a professor of sociology and criminology at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. Kimberly was an author and the lead editor of Survivor Criminology – A Radical Act of Hope. The anthology is…

Class of 1987 Winter 2022 Class Note

Welcome to winter, everyone! In the greater Boston area, we spent most of the summer in severe draught. Lots of heat, not so much rain. While that’s great for a vacation, it’s not so good for the lawn, garden, or the great outdoors. Hopefully, winter will bring the precipitation we need, but not too much!…

Class of 1987 Summer 2022 Class Note

Class of ’87 35th Class Reunion! Can you believe that it’s been 35 years since you last took an exam as an undergrad? What a long, strange trip it’s been! Think how much has changed in that period of time. The class officers have been discussing plans for our Reunion. One thing that we would…

Class of 1987 Winter 2022 Class Note

Happy 2022, Class of ’87. Let’s hope that the new year is a bit less challenging than the last two have been. Hardly anyone has been unaffected by COVID-19 in their personal and professional lives. For many young people getting ready to graduate from UMaine and take on their first professional role, COVID-19 has added…

Class of 1987 Summer 2021 Class Note

Andrew P. Nagelin 56 Gibson Street Medford, MA 02155 anagelin@verizon.net facebook.com/groups/UMaineClass1987/ Hello, Class of ’87, Hopefully you have received your vaccinations and life is back to some semblance of normal. Fingers crossed! For the past year, most of us have been hunkered down at home and not doing a whole lot. I’m optimistic that we…

Class of 1987 Winter 2021 Class Note

Hi, Class of ’87. How’s your quarantine going? It’s hard to believe how much the world has changed since I last sat down to write our class notes. I’ve been driving my daughter to work in Boston to avoid public transit. In April, what would normally be a 30-40 minute trip could take as little…

Class of 1987 Summer 2020 Class Note

Andrew P. Nagelin Hello, Class of ’87! I am writing this article in early April, in what I hope is the middle of the Coronavirus pandemic. Hopefully by the time you read this, life will be back to normal or whatever the new normal may turn out to be. Joan Gass LeMole ’94G was hired…

Class of 1987 Winter 2020 Class Note

Andrew P. Nagelin Greetings, Class of 1987! I took an extra semester to graduate and didn’t walk until December 1987. Our ceremony was held in the then-new Hutchins Concert Hall. While not as large as a spring graduation, the graduates, friends, and family managed to fill all 1,435 seats. I mention this since this is…

Class of 1987 Summer 2019 Class Note

Andrew P. Nagelin Happy summer, Class of ’87. We don’t have a lot of news to report this time around. If you have something going on that didn’t make the newspaper but that you’d like to tell us about, please send me an email. In December, Jim Boylen was promoted to head coach of the…

Class of 1987 Fall 2018 Class Note

Andrew P. Nagelin 56 Gibson Street Medford, MA 02155 Anagelin@verizon.net facebook.com/groups/UMaineClass1987/ Class of ’87 Notes Greetings, Class of ’87. As I write this I am heading off on another business trip. It seems each summer becomes busier than the last. Unfortunately, this constant travel makes these precious summer months pass too quickly. Over the…

Class of 1987 Spring 2018 Class Note

Andrew P. Nagelin 56 Gibson Street Medford, MA 02155 Anagelin@verizon.net facebook.com/groups/UMaineClass1987/ Welcome to spring, everyone. I’m writing this article the second week of January, and there is still a lot of snow on the ground from the “Explosive Cyclogenesis” or a “weather bomb” that worked over the East Coast. I am dreaming of spring! Before…

Class of ’87 Fall 2017 Class Notes

Andrew P. Nagelin 56 Gibson Street Medford, MA 02155 Anagelin@verizon.net facebook.com/groups/UMaineClass1987/ The 3-0 Reunion is coming up this year. If you plan on going you should start making plans. There may be a few more hotels in the greater Orono area than when we were students, but Orono is still a small town in…

Spring 2016 Class Notes

Andrew P. Nagelin 56 Gibson Street Medford, MA 02155 Anagelin@verizon.net Hello, Class of ’87, and welcome to spring! This article was written before the winter of 2016 settled in, but I’m sure we got dumped on! Amy Cushman Black’s daughter has been battling breast cancer for over a year. Heather Black…

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