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Whether you attended Washington State Normal School, Washington State Teachers College, Washington State College at the University of Maine, or the University of Maine at Machias, we would love to hear from you.
If you have some new exciting news or even a memorable moment you experienced at UMM, please send it our way and we'll post it here.
Send your submissions to:
Michael May
116 O'Brien Avenue
Machias, Maine 04654
(207) 255-1210
michael.j.may@maine.edu
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Alumni Updates:
1964
Sandra Sylvester '64
Sandra earned an M.A. in Corporate and Political Communication with a professional certificate in writing at Fairfield University in Connecticut. She retired from the printing and publishing business a couple of years ago and her novel, The South End, was recently published.
Contact Sandra at TheKit007@aol.com
1965
James Chiaravalloti '65
James retired in 2004 after 35 years with Pratt & Whitney Aircraft in West Palm Beach, Florida. He still plays the guitar and sings and would love to hear from 1964 and 1965 classmates.
Contact James at thechev@aol.com
1967
Eva Jane (Plourde) Gallant '67
Eva Jane is retired and lives in Saco, Maine. She was in education for 17 years, owned her own business for a brief period, worked in banking for 12 years, and retired from insurance sales last April. Eva is married and has two sons, one stepson, and seven grandchildren.
Contact Eva Jane at evag@maine.rr.com
1968
Richard M. Schlenker '68
Richard works as a science curriculum coordinator in Seoul, Korea. He is retired from the U.S. Coast Guard and would like to hear from folks from the classes of 1966-1970.
Contact Richard at richard.schlenker@pac.dodea.edu
1978
Karen L. Robinson '78
Karen recently expanded her business and opened an office in Tampa, Florida. Both of her sites (Clearwater and Tampa http://LivingLifeForce.tripod.com) offer Swedish, spa, neuromuscular, and activated isolated stretching techniques. Karen was married to to Richard A. Salisbury of Westbrook, Maine, on June 25, 2009. She will relocate to Maine's coastal area in the spring of 2010 and is looking forward to attending the annual Mac Sennett Lobster Feed in August!
Contact Karen at LivingLifeForce@aol.com
1979
Lucy Ann Baker '79
For the past 12 years, Lucy has spent summer vacations in Stavanger, Norway, and has also traveled to Cyprus, Turkey, Denmark, and Amsterdam. She has a home in Bulacan, Philippines, that she visits every other year. Lucy has been a 5th grade teacher at Beatrice Rafferty School on the Passamaquoddy Reservation in Perry since 1980. She loves the Native American children she teaches and has learned much from them. Lucy has been at the school so long that she has taught many of her students' parents. She appreciates her unique situation and feels she is home with her people.
Contact Lucy at bakerl@localnet.com
1985
Kevin Reynolds '85
Kevin is working for the U.S. Navy and lives on the Mississippi gulf coast.
Contact Kevin at reygun@bellsouth.net
Stephen Treat '85
Stephen Treat has been named Controller of International Paper's Ticonderoga Paper Mill located in the Adirondack region of upstate New York. His responsibilities include accounting, budgeting, purchasing, and mill security. He and his wife, Jackie, recently relocated from Memphis, Tennessee, to Queensbury New York.
Contact Stephen at stephentreat@yahoo.com
1987
Kenneth W. Fredette '87
Governor Baldacci recently recommended Kenneth for a position on the Maine Human Rights Commission. The recommendation was unanimously approved by the legislature's Judiciary Committee and is awaiting confirmation by the Maine Senate. The Maine Human Rights Commission is the state agency charged with the responsibility of enforcing Maine's anti-discrimination laws. Kenneth is a lawyer in private practice with offices in Newport. He also serves a a major in the judge advocate general section of the Maine Air National Guard.
Contact Kenneth at fredlaw@verizon.net
1988
Paul W. Vienneau '88
After graduating from UMM, Paul taught junior high school in Eastport, Maine for a several years. In 1991 he took a full time position with the U.S. Immigration Service and was stationed in Montreal for over 10 years. He is now an officer with U.S. Customs and Border Protection, stationed in Bangor, Maine. In 1991 he married the former Virginie Jangot of Paris, France, who was his pen-pal for many years. They have two sons, Ryan 16, and Ethan 13. The family resides in Milford, Maine.
Contact Paul at pwveno@aol.com
1989
Stacy M. Brown
Recently moved into a positon as Director of Fiscal Services at Mount Desert Island Hospital located in Bar Harbor, Maine.
Contact Stacy at sbrown7402@roadrunner.com
1990
Justin Kristan '90
Justin is Transportation Planner for the Fargo-Moorhead Metropolitan Council of Governments and lives in Fargo, ND. He was married in June, 2007, to a Fargo native. The couple honeymooned in Bar Harbor, Maine.
Contact Justin at justinkristan@yahoo.com
1992
Donnette Hill Walto '92
Donnette is a certified Kripalu yoga teacher and a writer living in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. She is an active member of the International Community School (ICS) where whe teaches both adult and childrens' yoga. Donnette's husband Dennis Walto is the Regional Director of Save the Children US, covering the continent of Africa. Their daughters, Lalibela and Sahara, attend ICS and the family has lived overseas on and off since 1992.
Contact Donnette at dndwalto@aol.com
1994
Eric Carlson '94
Eric and Tammy Carlson (both alums) recently moved from Orlando to Clermont, Florida. Eric works at the Omni Orlando Resort at ChampionsGate as the golf and corporate sales manager and Tammy is an office manager for a commercial landscape company, TruScape, in Winter Garden.
Contact Eric at etcarlson@comcast.net
Tim Heavrin '94
Tim is working in Arizona as a Department of Corrections officer, a job which he's had for thirteen years. Tim keeps fit through healthy living, logging miles on his bike and hiking. Tim has been married to the love of his life for sixteen years and sends his warmest regards to all of his UMM family.
Paul Sylvain '94
Paul has been an adjudications officer for the Department of Homeland Security/U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services in Boston since July 2001. In March of 2009 he was promoted to Senior Immigration Services Officer and now serves as a course developer/instructor at the USCIS Academy Training Center in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas. His wife, Nola, and his two cats, Mindy and Phoebe, now make their home with Paul in Euless, Texas.
Contact Paul at psylvain@yahoo.com
Keith Williams '94
Keith recently took a job as an Environmental Conservation Police Officer for the State of Connecticut where he is attending the Police Academy. He and wife, Kendra Williams '94, relocated from Cape Cod to Connecticut in the fall of 2008.
Contact Keith and Kendra at keithkendra@comcast.net
1995
Tammy Carlson '95
Eric and Tammy Carlson (both alums) recently moved from Orlando to Clermont, Florida. Eric works at the Omni Orlando Resort at ChampionsGate as the golf and corporate sales manager and Tammy is an office manager for a commercial landscape company, TruScape, in Winter Garden.
Contact Tammy at etcarlson@comcast.net
Jason Kokosinski '95
Jason lives on Cape Cod with his wife, Dasha, and their son, Nicholas Thomas.
1996
Christopher Beal '96
Christopher is married with four children and works as a firefighter/emt for the Barnstable Fire Department on Cape Cod. He is also works with FEMA as Resue Specialist with the Urban Search and Rescue Massachusetts Task Force 1.
Contact Christopher at cbeal@barnstablefire.org
1997
Kim Kupperman '97
Kim Dana Kupperman is the recipient of the 2009 Katharine Nason Bakeless Prize in Nonfiction, awarded by Middlebury College's Bread Loaf Program. Sue Halpern was the judge. The book, tentatively title I Just Lately Started Buying Wings, will be published by Graywolf Press in 2010.
contact Kim at kkupperm@gettysburg.edu
Kimberly Wescott '97
Kimberly graduated Kimberly Wescott-Huttman and now goes by Wescott. She moved to Texas, received her master's in education, and is working for the family firm while earning her doctorate in education.
Contact Kimberly at Kjw0622@aol.com
1998
Jennifer S. (Cole) Hikel '98
Jennifer Cole '98 married EJ Hikel in May of 2008. The couple recently had a daughter, Alexandra (Lexi) Marie Hikel, born March 13, 2009.
Contact Jennifer at jhikel@roadrunner.com
Matt Williams '98
Matt works for Bank of America as a section manager in the recoveries unit based in Chester, UK. He and his partner, Sarah, were recently married.
Contact Matt at matt3.williams@bankofamerica.com
1999
Melissa Lothrop '99
Melissa is Program Director for the Town of Norwood Recreation Department. She completed her Master's in Recreation Management at Springfield College and was recently married.
Contact Melissa at missito34@hotmail.com
2000
Christa Gerrish Elwell '00
Christa is employed as Director of Public Service Management at Maine Child & Family Services in Augusta.
Contact Christa at christa.elwell@maine.gov
Jim Kroon '00
Jim Kroon and Lori Brown '00 were married in 2004. Lori has been working at Delaware State University since 2002 as a fisheries research technician. Jim has been working at the Delaware Department of Agriculture since 2003 as the survey coordinator for a USDA exotic pest program. He was also accepted into the Master of Geographic Information Systems Program at Penn State University, an online program he attends while working in Delaware.
Contact Jim at jimmy.kroon@gmail.com
2001
Reid Albee '01
Reid has been working at Burgess Computer in Bath, Maine, for the past year as a remote systems engineer and recently received his Microsoft Certified Professional certification.. His son Jacob is a sales associate at U.S. Cellular in Bangor. Reid is proud to announce that his daughter, Jessica Lynn Albee, graduated from Humboldt State in Arcata, Calif. on May 15th, with a B.A. in Fine Arts. Jessica graduated with high honors and an overall GPA of 3.98.
Contact Reid at ralbee@burgessinc.com
Michael Colucci '01
Mike lives in Topsham and works as a supervisor of a team of credit analysts. He recently wrote and self-published a novel, "Bad Little Fall", that is loosely based on his time at UMM as an RA. His book is available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Borders.com.
Contact Mike at mikecolucci@gmail.com
2002
Jason P. Stark '02
Jason is teaching U.S. and World History at Essex Agricultural and Technical High School in Hathorne, MA. He lives in Salem, MA, and spends time enjoying local history, attending the theater in Boston, and working for his synagogue.
Contact Jason at jasonpstark@gmail.com
2003
Sara Farmer '03
After graduating from UMM, Sara continued her education at University of Maine at Augusta where she earned an AS in Criminal Justice. She hoped to complete her BS in Forensic Investigation in May, 2009, at Mountain State University in Beckley, West Virginia.
Contact Sara at breathofrane@yahoo.com
2005
Michaela Chaplain '05
Michaela is in her fourth year of vet school at the University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine. She will graduate in 2010 and hopes to then practice small animal medicine.
contact Michaela at mmcdvm@gmail.com
Mike Kennedy ‘05
Mike is working for an IT company in Massachusetts managing their online training program and Web sites.
Contact Mike at mkennedy1981@yahoo.com
Kenrick Liburd '05
Kenrick Liburd, a native of London, England, who graduated from UMM with a degree in business, recently accepted a position at Tennessee Temple University in Chattanooga, Tennessee, coaching women's basketball and women's volleyball for the Crusaders. He will also teach business classes. The move to Tennessee Temple reunites Kenrick with his former University of Maine at Machias basketball coach Randy Lee, who in the spring of 2009 became the men's basketball coach for the Crusaders.
Stephanie (Curcione) Miller '05
Stephanie and Kenny Miller, class of '06, were married in 2009. They now have a two month old son.
Contact Stephanie at scurcione@gmail.com
Ashley (Choiniere) Franklin '05
Ashley married in June 2009. She is currently attending the University of Maryland, College Park, where she received her MS in Animal Science in December 2008. She is now working towards a Ph.D. in Animal Science.
Contact Ashley at ashley.franklin09@gmail.com
2006
Howard Gray '06
Howard completed his Master's in Exercise Physiology at East Tennessee State University last year and now works as a Strength and Conditioning Coach for Crystal Palace Footbal Club (soccer) in London. He is planning to visit Machias in May or June of 2010 and would love to get in touch with old friends.
Contact Howard at hg15_83@yahoo.co.uk
Brice Hellstrom '06 and Julie (Strauss) Hellstrom '06
Brice Hellstrom and Julie Strauss, both graduates of the Class of 2006, got married on December 31, 2008 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Several UMM alumni attended the wedding. The couple now resides in Manchester, Connecticut.
Contact Brice at brice_hellstrom@yahoo.com
2007
Katie Hartwig '07
Katie Hartwig is currently employed in the scholarship internship program for the Environmental Science Department Sea Turtle Research Project at the Conservancy of Southwest Florida. Katie graduated from UMM with a major in Marine Biology and a minor in Environmental Studies.
2008
Caitlin Heller '08
Caitlin recently moved to Pulaski, Tennessee, an hour from Nashville. She is a third grade teacher and her boyfriend is an admissions counselor at Martin Methodist College. Caitlin thinks of UMM and Maine often and hopes to visit soon!
Contact Caitlin at Caitlin_heller18@hotmail.com
Anthony McCoy '08
Anthony is currently working for the city of Dallas as a Program Coordinator.
Contact Anthony at mrmccoy21@yahoo.com
Joscelyn Lauren '08
Joscelyn is living in Westlake Village, California. She attends National University and plans to work in the field of school psychology. Joscelyn graduated with honors from the Behavioral Science Program at UMM. She calls herself a "late bloomer", but feels that it's never too late to earn a degree and pursue your dreams.
Contact Joscelyn at joscelyn_lauren@yahoo.com
Innocent Ndzana '08
Innocent wrote...
I am currently working as a research assistant in the craniofacial sciences at the University of Connecticut Health Center.
Contact Innocent at ndzana_99@yahoo.fr