Welcome to the Class of 1998. 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 Rebecca at rebecca.huffstutler@maine.edu or call (207) 581-1146.
Hearty Maine Hello! I hope everyone had a good summer and fall. We have a lot of news to report on our classmates this issue! The Chewonki Foundation named Nancy Kennedy as their new president in May. Nancy has served at Chewonki for nine years in several roles including director of girls programming, vice president…
Hearty Maine Hello! Congratulations to Shauna Cameron, FACHE on her appointment as the chief executive officer of Houlton Regional Hospital. She started that role in early January 2024. Shauna has over 20 years of progressive healthcare experience and is well versed in rural healthcare. She most recently served in executive level leadership roles in New…
Hearty Maine Hello! What a great 25th Homecoming! It was great getting back to Orono and catching up with friends and family! A special thank you to the Alumni Association and University of Maine Foundation for their efforts welcoming us back to campus that weekend. I would like to recognize members of our class who…
Hearty Maine Hello from Northern Virginia! Congratulations to Keith Pelletier, president and general manager of Dielectric, who received the Edward T. Bryand Distinguished Engineer Award at a May event at UMaine. Keith leads the Raymond, ME–based company, which builds antennas and radio-frequency systems for radio and TV broadcasts. Congratulations to Cyrilla “Cyril” Francis G for…
Hearty Maine Hello from Northern Virginia! This past summer I (Robert Brewer) started a new position at Defense Threat Reduction Agency on Fort Belvoir, VA. I am the chief of the overseas operations division in the cooperative threat reduction directorate overseeing the offices in embassies working closely with our partners globally. Congratulations to Eric Simonds,…
Hearty Maine Hello from Northern Virginia! I hope everyone is having a good summer. Hélène Acker Farrar presented a solo exhibition titled “What We Carry” at the Maine Jewish Museum in Portland from January 9 to February 25, 2022. The exhibit displayed over 20 paintings exploring “the weight of burden” carrying a sense of play…
Hearty Maine Hello from Northern Virginia! Congratulations to Jaime Carroll Stone on being named Maine’s National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP) Principal of the Year for the School Year 2021-2022. She is the principal at Campden Rockport Middle School, where she has served since 2014. After graduating, Jamie was an eighth-grade teacher, athletic director,…
LTC Robert E. Brewer c/o Buchanan Alumni House 1 Alumni Place Orono, ME 04469-5792 umaine1998@yahoo.com facebook.com/groups/UMaineClass1998/ Hearty Maine Hello from northern Virginia! Congratulations to Jeremy Rich G on his promotion to associate professor and awarded tenure at the University of Maine. Jeremy is an environmental microbiologist in the School of Marine Sciences based at the…
Hearty Maine Hello from Northern Virginia! My family and I returned to the United States this summer after five years living overseas in Kazakhstan and then Germany. I just completed three years at U.S. Army Europe as a branch chief of international military affairs. In July, I started a new position as the program manager…
LTC Robert E. Brewer Hearty Maine Hello from COVID-19 lockdown in Wiesbaden, Germany! The Class of 1998 had two of the three finalists for Maine Teacher of the Year 2020! Unfortunately, neither were the ultimate winner, but definitely a significant achievement for two of our classmates. First, Rob Taylor G is a math and Science…
LTC Robert E. Brewer Hearty Maine Hello from Wiesbaden, Germany! I hope your 2020 is off to a good start. Congrats to Daniel LaMontagne on returning to Maine in June to his new position as president and CEO of Seven Islands Land Company. Seven Islands is a Maine-based forestland resource and management company for the long-term sustainable…
LTC Robert E. Brewer Hearty Maine Hello from Wiesbaden, Germany! I hope you all enjoyed yourselves and were able to reconnect with friends at our 20th Reunion at Homecoming last fall. Kimberly Sebold, Ph.D. was featured in an article in Fiddlehead Focus last June discussing her academic journey. After graduating from Orono she took a…
LTC Robert E. Brewer c/o Buchanan Alumni House 1 Alumni Place Orono, ME 04469-5792 umaine1998@yahoo.com facebook.com/groups/UMaineClass1998/ REUNION October 26-28 at Homecoming Hearty Maine Hello from Wiesbaden, Germany! I hope everyone had a great summer and is getting ready for our 20th Reunion at Homecoming! Congratulations to Cindy Blodgett and Sandi Carver on their…
LTC Robert E. Brewer c/o Buchanan Alumni House 1 Alumni Place Orono, ME 04469-5792 umaine1998@yahoo.com facebook.com/groups/UMaineClass1998/ REUNION October 26-28 at Homecoming Hearty Maine Hello from Wiesbaden, Germany! I hope everyone is having a good spring. Congratulations to Marc Halsted on being named Spring Coach of the Year of a boys’ team by The…
LTC Robert E. Brewer c/o Buchanan Alumni House 1 Alumni Place Orono, ME 04469-5792 umaine1998@yahoo.com facebook.com/groups/UMaineClass1998/ Hearty Maine Hello from Wiesbaden, Germany! My family and I moved to Germany in July for my new assignment in the headquarters for U.S. Army Europe, where I am the chief of International Military Affairs Branch in the…