{"id":5626,"date":"2010-04-23T19:09:21","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T19:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hub-dev.bates.edu\/magazine\/?page_id=5626"},"modified":"2017-09-06T11:44:27","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T15:44:27","slug":"class-of-1979","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/back-issues\/y2003\/spring03\/departments\/class-notes\/class-of-1979\/","title":{"rendered":"Class of 1979"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p><strong>Class Secretary:<\/strong> Wendy K. Harris, 3489 Whytecliff Way, Sun Prairie, WI 53590-9490, <a href=\"mailto:harris@terracom.net\">harris@terracom.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Class President:<\/strong> Ronald J. Hemenway, 18 Neillian Way, Bedford, MA 01730-2306, <a href=\"mailto:rblueeagle@aol.com\">rblueeagle@aol.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Next Reunion in 2004.<\/strong> <em>Got news? Tap out a note to <a href=\"mailto:magazine@bates.edu\">magazine@bates.edu<\/a>! <\/em><strong>Karin Bjorkman Steiner<\/strong> has returned to school to pursue a long-held interest in graphic design. She keeps in touch with fellow Batesies <strong>David<\/strong> and <strong>Kathy Bourque, Amy Gordon, Mary Henderson Pressman<\/strong> &#8217;78, and <strong>Deni Auclair<\/strong> &#8217;78&#8230;. <strong>Bill Bogle<\/strong> is a senior partner with New England Pension Consultants. He caught up with <strong>Ed Leslie<\/strong> in San Francisco&#8230;. <strong>Sharon Bomer Lauritsen<\/strong> is deputy assistant, U.S. trade representative handling agricultural trade matters for the U.S. government, Canada, Mexico, Japan, and Australia&#8230;. <strong>Heidi Brockelman Schmelz<\/strong>&#8216;s son, <strong>Tyler<\/strong>, is a freshman at Bates&#8230;. <strong>Paul Brown<\/strong> owns one of Vermont&#8217;s top tourist attractions, Cold Hollow Cider Mill in Waterbury Center. All are welcome anytime for the &#8220;cook&#8217;s tour.&#8221;&#8230; <strong>Bob Burns<\/strong> is now teaching eighth-grade language arts in Fall River, Mass&#8230;. <strong>Ann Bushmiller<\/strong> works as an attorney in the general counsel&#8217;s office of the FCC. She and former roommate <strong>Brenda Garrand<\/strong> visit often&#8230;. <strong>Marcia Call<\/strong> is a partner in McKinley Marketing Partners, which provides marketing contractors to Fortune 1000 companies. She travels frequently to New York and Dallas&#8230;. <strong>Steve DiPirro<\/strong> works for Oracle Corporation&#8230;. <strong>Debbie Furlong Wentworth<\/strong> works at Lucent Technologies as a supply chain manager. She and Nate report that their daughter <strong>Ashley<\/strong> is a member of the Bates Class of 2006&#8230;. <strong>Susan Gregg Englund<\/strong> is busy as a grant writer, program coordinator and has an educational consulting firm that works with parents and students as they search for and apply to college&#8230;. After laying low in the aftermath of the &#8220;dot bomb&#8221; crash, <strong>Brian Handspicker<\/strong> has moved forward to start two new companies: FieldWave and PracticalMarkets. Neither is a dot-com&#8230;. <strong>Ron Hemenway<\/strong> teaches college economics and business courses&#8230;. <strong>Robert Long<\/strong> has been appointed the city editor at the <em>Brunswick<\/em> (Maine) <em>Times-Record<\/em>. At his previous job as managing editor of the <em>Capital Weekly<\/em> in Augusta, he won awards for editorial and headline writing, and the newspaper won the 2001 General Excellence Award from the Maine Press Assn&#8230;. <strong>Lee<\/strong> and <strong>Betsy Rybeck Lynd<\/strong> are back in New Hampshire after an unforgettable six months living in South Africa. Lee teaches engineering at Dartmouth and Betsy teaches second grade&#8230;. <strong>Janice McLean<\/strong> completed a lifelong goal of earning a master&#8217;s degree in library science in May 2002. She reports that she is still employed as a data architect at Allmeric Financial in Worcester, Mass&#8230;. <strong>Jackie Miller<\/strong> works as a healthcare reimbursement consultant for Per-Se Technologies in Atlanta&#8230;. <strong>Dana Pet<\/strong><strong>erson Moore<\/strong> is a partner at Whiteford, Taylor and Preston in Baltimore&#8230;. <strong>George Poland<\/strong> is &#8220;buried&#8221; in parenthood. He works for Epson America&#8230;. <strong>Mark Price<\/strong> spent time on a mission trip to Honduras and is in his 17th year of pediatrics in St. Johnsbury, Vt&#8230;. <strong>Mary Raftery<\/strong> won election to a four-year term on the Westerly (R.I.) school committee. She teaches in nearby Pine Point School in Stonington, Conn&#8230;. <strong>Richard Rothman<\/strong> lives in Bombay, India, and is the principal commercial officer with the United States Consulate&#8230;. <strong>Ted Stein<\/strong> reports that he is growing his independent financial planning practice with American Express. He and <strong>Susan MacDonald<\/strong> &#8217;80 celebrated 20 years of marriage&#8230;. In Guelph, Ontario, <strong>Stephanie Stohr Allin<\/strong> is a personal trainer and instructor of fitness classes, certified by the Canadian Fitness Professional Organization&#8230;. <strong>Peter Weimerheimer<\/strong> resides in Hinesburg, Vt., where he works with residents and medical students at the Univ. of Vt in Burlington. He is an assistant professor and ER doctor&#8230;. <strong>Nate Wentworth<\/strong> is in his fourth year as an elementary school teacher&#8230;. <strong>Leslie Wilcox Briggs<\/strong> is a stay-at-home mom in Glastonbury, Conn., and sees fellow Batesies <strong>Bonye Wolf Barone<\/strong>, <strong>Susan Venturo<\/strong> &#8217;78, and <strong>Rich Stanley<\/strong> from time to time&#8230;. <strong>Robert Willsey<\/strong> is still at Travelers, and spends a fair amount of time in Texas.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Class Secretary: Wendy K. 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