{"id":6240,"date":"2010-04-23T19:18:30","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T19:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hub-dev.bates.edu\/magazine\/?page_id=6240"},"modified":"2017-09-06T11:41:08","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T15:41:08","slug":"class-of-1975","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/back-issues\/y2004\/summer04\/departments\/class-notes-3\/class-of-1975\/","title":{"rendered":"Class of 1975"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p><strong>Class Secretary<\/strong>: Susan Bourgault Akie, 8 Mayfair Rd., Dedham MA 02026, <a href=\"mailto:susieakie@aol.com\">susieakie@aol.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Class President<\/strong>: Deanna Grayton, PO Box 164, Danvers MA 01923, <a href=\"mailto:heydee53@aol.com\">heydee53@aol.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Lawyer <strong>Tom Grande<\/strong>, who&#8217;s been in Hawaii since 1976, has won some high-profile cases, including Medicaid fraud settlements of $4 million and $3.4 million. Last October, he and his associates got a new class action certified for a class of 4,000 people. The case is against a national drug distribution firm alleged to have repackaged drugs with unknown expiration dates, mostly to elderly and infirm people. Tom is a partner in the law firm of Davis Levin Livingston Grande of Honolulu&#8230;. <strong>Kathy Slivka<\/strong> put her professional computer skills to work as a volunteer at the Center for Women and Families of Eastern Fairfield (Conn.) County, sorting out their seemingly incomprehensible database. For her dedication, she received the center&#8217;s 2003 Volunteer of the Year award. Kathy is an adjunct professor at the Univ. of Western Connecticut and the owner of a computer business&#8230;. <strong>Bet Taylor Gailor<\/strong> is a staff attorney for Connecticut Legal Services Inc. in the children at risk unit. Her clients are poverty-level children with disabilities who need services from the state&#8230;. <strong>Gayle Vigeant Clark<\/strong> is a member of the board of directors and the publicist for Schoolhouse Arts Center at Sebago Lake. She was production manager of <em>A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum<\/em> last summer, with son Sam in the cast. She&#8217;d love to hear from any Bates theater alumni living in commuting distance of the arts center, if they are interested in teaching, acting, teching. or fund raising for the program&#8230;. <strong>Marty Welbourn Freeman<\/strong> continues to work for the state of Alaska, as forest resources program manager in the division of forestry. Her husband, John, does energy efficiency consulting. They both work three-quarter schedules, so that they have plenty of time for Sarah (4) and Lindsey (8). If you&#8217;re headed to Alaska, she&#8217;d love to hear from you.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Next Reunion in 2005:<\/strong> &nbsp;<em>Got News? Tap out a note to <\/em><a href=\"mailto:magazine@bates.edu\"><em><strong>magazine@bates.edu<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em>!<\/em><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Class Secretary: Susan Bourgault Akie, 8 Mayfair Rd., Dedham MA 02026, susieakie@aol.com&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":0,"parent":2534,"menu_order":49,"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-6240","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6240","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=6240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11879,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6240\/revisions\/11879"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}