{"id":6083,"date":"2010-04-23T19:14:59","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T19:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hub-dev.bates.edu\/magazine\/?page_id=6083"},"modified":"2017-09-06T11:44:33","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T15:44:33","slug":"class-of-1974","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/back-issues\/y2003\/winter03\/departments\/class-notes-4\/class-of-1974\/","title":{"rendered":"Class of 1974"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p><strong>Class Secretary:<\/strong> Katherine Psalidas Lamson, 1 Intervale Way, Ipswich, MA 01938; <a href=\"mailto:lamson@attbi.com\">lamson@attbi.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Class President:<\/strong> Donald W. McDade, 838 Brighton Ave., Portland, ME 04102<\/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>The Class of 1974 celebrated special 50th birthday celebrations summer 2002. Take a look at some photos at www.bates.edu\/x27935.xml and www.denville.net\/bates.html&#8230;. Late summer also brought Bates alumni together for a special birthday celebration and United Way fundraiser on behalf of <strong>Bert Andrews<\/strong>, who, to the deep sadness of his classmates and many Bates friends, lost his three-year battle with cancer just a week later. His obituary is in this issue&#8230;. <strong>Cindy Alemian Rice<\/strong> recently sold her gourmet brownie and specialty food business, International Brownies&#8230; <strong>Anne Allman Van Twisk<\/strong> works on certification as a medical ophthalmology technician and retinal photographer&#8230;. <strong>Judy Bickford Sassorossi<\/strong> occasionally sees <strong>Cheryl<\/strong> and <strong>Chris Ham-Ellis<\/strong>, as well as <strong>Linda Streeter<\/strong>&#8230;. <strong>Barb Billinsky Landers<\/strong> and husband have started their own businesses. &#8220;So life begins at 50,&#8221; she says&#8230;. <strong>Susie Dombovy Whitelam<\/strong> and husband Keith are heavily involved in athletics. She ran the &#8220;Race for Life&#8221; 5K three times in support of <strong>Bert Andrews<\/strong>&#8216; cancer fight&#8230;. <strong>Ann Donaghy<\/strong> is chair of the board of directors for the United Way of Greater Portland&#8230;. <strong>Paul Erickson<\/strong> lives in Beverly, Mass., and has started a new career and company called Erickson Communications&#8230;. <strong>Janne Jensen Sahady<\/strong> lives in Newport, R.I., where she recently started a new business named Yoga at Your Place&#8230;. <strong>Elizabeth Lemerise<\/strong> continues to enjoy teaching child development to undergraduates&#8230;. <strong>Barb McKusick Liscord<\/strong> earned her master&#8217;s in divinity in May 2001 and became the minister of the Unitarian Universalist church in Milford, N.H., in September 2002. Oct. 10 marked the two-year anniversary for <strong>Paul Liscord<\/strong>&#8216;s surgery for prostate cancer. He is doing well and continues his construction business&#8230;. <strong>Norm Olsen<\/strong> and his wife Tasha have moved back from Germany and are living in Portsmouth, N.H&#8230;. <strong>Carolyn Sauer Hoefer<\/strong> works at a young startup telecom company called Fiberspace in Woodland Hills, Calif. Older son Mark will attend UC-San Diego next year, and younger son Jeff is a sophomore at Malibu High School&#8230;. <strong>Barb Welch<\/strong> feels turning 50 is just right to reapportion: time, work, material things, energy. She plans to make it a jubilee year!&#8230; <strong>Joel West<\/strong> at 50 states his &#8220;health and family are great.&#8221;&#8230; <strong>Katanya Woods Hamilton<\/strong> called from Wales during the 50th birthday celebration at <strong>Tina Psalidas Lamson<\/strong>&#8216;s to say hello to all her Bates friends. She says she would love to see anyone traveling her way.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Class Secretary: Katherine Psalidas Lamson, 1 Intervale Way, Ipswich, MA 01938; lamson@attbi.com&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":0,"parent":3384,"menu_order":48,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_dimp_site_id":"","_dimp_override_contact":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"class_list":["post-6083","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6083"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11886,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6083\/revisions\/11886"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}