From Chris Ryder

I am currently living in Dexter with my friend Mike Blake. I travel to work in the office at Lumbra Hardwoods Inc. in Milo, ME. I have been there for about 2 1/2 years. It is a small hardwood sawmill.

Here is a picture of me and my girls. Whitney (21), myself, Heather (22), Jami (16), and Brooke (18).

I am looking forward to our 25th class reunion. Skip and Tammi-Jo have done a great job keeping the web page going. It is amazing how people have changed over the years!

Please try and get in contact with someone on the list if you are planning on attending the reunion. Let us know which events you would like to attend. This will give us an idea of how much food we need, how many shirts, and etc. to plan on...

Hope that you can make it-if you can't, send pictures!

Chris

From Susan Bishop

Hello to the class of 1982,

Where has the time gone? 25 years??? It seems like it was yesterday that I was sneaking out of Ms. Burrow's study hall to walk to Butterfields for one of my favorite peanut butter ice cream cones. I can’t believe how easy and simple life was then.

Well I’m no longer living in Maine. My husband and I (Bill) have been married 19 years this summer. Bill and I met at the Blethen House while he was on a hunting trip in Dover-Foxcroft. We live in Thompson, Connecticut with our four children. Sarah (18) our oldest daughter just graduated from Marianapolis Preparatory she is pursuing a degree in psychology. Audrey (16) is a junior at Marianapolis Prep she is full of talent!!! She plans on pursing a degree in music, art and photography. Logan (11) makes me laugh everyday with his honest humor, he is entering the six grade and attends the Wolf School in Providence RI. Blake (7) will be starting second grade this fall. He is an “actor” Blake loves to perform on stage; he is also a talented T-ball player.

I went back to school in 2002 at a community college near our home. I graduated with my associate’s degree in 05 and now I am starting my senior year in a bachelor degree program at Charter Oak State College in human services/psychology. I am actually considering working on my masters after I graduate…..

I work fulltime for a non profit social service agency located here in Thompson. My title is Community Advocate which means I help people from birth to death. My favorite part of my job or my passion is empowering parents to become their child’s advocate. I work as a parent coach helping parents to understand their child’s special needs and assisting them with the public school system. www.teegonline.org

I was surprised to see the picture on the blog of myself and four of my close friends from school Vicki, Joanna, Lisa and Wendy. I can’t begin to tell you how much fun the five of us had together. One of my fondest memories was the day we all skipped school and went to Bar Harbor to play on the beach.

I am hoping to be at the reunion in August. I would love to reconnect with some of my friends I already made an email connection with Vicki Yakulevich after about 23 years. So if anyone else wants to reconnect my email address is susannewit@peoplepc.com I’d love to hear from you.

Hopefully I will see you all in August,

Susanne (Bishop) Witkowski

Help us locate these classmates:

Wayne Decker - Cindy Dean - Janice Curtis Smith
Star Ethier - Debra (Smith) Ireland - Tracie Pemble
Tom Anderson - David Cummings - David Farris
Lisa Dutton - John Evans - David Sylvain - Michael Schaff
*If you have ANY information on these people,
PLEASE email one of our contacts, Thanks!

From Troy Hartley

Hi all,

My apologies for coming so late to this party. I've been waiting for my summer work travel plans to settle a bit so that I would know whether we can make it to the reunion or not. Unfortunately it is not looking too good right now. I am a research faculty and administrator at the University of New Hampshire and have a research trip to Nova Scotia's Cape Breton Island that currently is scheduled for Aug 3-22. It is unlikely to change, but if it does, I'll let you know.
I glanced over Skip's blog briefly tonight. That was fun and I'm glad to see so many people interested and posting materials. It looks like there will be a lot of class activities and participation over the homecoming weekend. Great job!
I guess I win the class "Guess your classmate's future pool"¦ and you all laughed at me when I said Skip would be a pastor, Dale would have long beard & ride a Harley in S-F, and I would have more gray hair than the both of them.
I've attached a photo from last fall. My wife, Diane, and I have been married for 15yrs, we won the price for more recent newlyweds at the10th reunion. We waited eight years before having children. So our kids are still little. Emma just finished 1st grade and Griffin is in pre-school. Emma is a monster swimmer for the Exeter Swim Team. I think she can backstroke faster than I can run. Griffin hasn't decided whether he wants to throw and bat left handed or right, it's sort of depends upon his mood at the moment, I guess. Switch-hitters are good though. He's typical little boy who likes to sail his pirates hip, canons blasting, into Emma's fairytopia land or any thing that resembles a gathering of dolls.
We've been in NH for 5.5 yrs now. I am a research faculty in natural resource and environmental policy. Most of my work lately has been on marine and fisheries policy and management. I also am an administrator of a research funding organization at UNH that funds a wide range of biological, oceanographic, fishing gear design engineering, and socio-economic studies on the Gulf of Maine. I work some with the local fishermen and get good deals on my lobster from the local coops. Diane is the deputy director of a non-profit workforce housing organization in the seacoast area, advocating for and building workforce and affordable housing, housing for starting school teachers, police officers, fire fighters, etc.
Prior to NH, we were in the Washington DC area for 2 years, after spending 6 years in Ann Arbor & Detroit, Michigan where I did my Ph.D. work. We were in the DC area prior to Michigan too. I worked for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in hazardous waste enforcement and policy for 6 years. So We've bounced around a little bit. We're less interested in moving so much now that the family is bigger. But research faculty are paid on grants that we raise and are not tenured or tenure-track faculty paid with money available in a university's budget. So, there have been a couple times since we've been in NH that we thought we would have to move on to another job and it is likely there will be more such funding uncertainty in the future. But that's life and we ride the funding wave.
I look forward to keeping track of the reunion planning and if my research travel plans change, we will try to make it.

Cheers, Troy

Troy W. Hartley
Associate Director, Northeast Consortium
Research Asst Prof of Natural Resource & Environmental Policy
Dept Resource Econ & Development

From Bill Savage

I dont know if you received the info I sent on myself earlier but here is a recent picture of my family. My wife Michelle and me at her 3rd Graduation. My son Camron, straight A student, MVP quarterback last season, oh yea he loves to fish. He is 10.
I will not be attending the reunion as school for my son starts on the first monday in August. I will be in Dover the first 2 weeks of July though if anyone would like to get together then just call my parents there number is in the book and I will be staying at their house out at the lake.

We live about 45 miles south of Louisville in the little town of Rineyville population counting dogs, cats, and cows is about 800. I plan on coming up to Minn. next year hopefully. Depends on work and school. I want to do some fishing at Leach lake and maybe Lake of the Woods. Good to here from you and great site that you have put together for the class.

Talk with you later.

Bill