Class Notes
KEEPING IN TOUCH 1950’s
for two years. She served on the Board of Visitors at the University of Maine at Farmington and was the district chair and a past state president of the Maine Association of Family and Consumer Sciences and a member of Delta Kappa Gamma International Society for Key Women Educators and the Coalition for Maine Women. Congratulations on the welldeserved honor!
Steve ’56 and Charlotte Andrews Mayhew ’59 are thrilled they have a new great granddaughter, Lily Jean born 2/3/21. Terry Gardner ’57 and his wife Hannelore celebrated their 61st wedding anniversary on 2/21/21.
Kandyce Plummer Powell ’65 was a recipient of the University of Maine Maryann Hartman Award which recognizes Maine women whose achievement in the arts, politics, business, education, health care and community service provide inspiration. She has served as the executive director of the Maine Hospice Council and Center for End of Life Care in Augusta since 1992. Her focus on quality end-oflife care, particularly for the rural and underserved populations, has motivated a successful lobbying of the State Legislature, where she co-authored Maine’s hospice licensure law, (LD1821) and more recently, LD782, An Act to Improve the Quality of Life for Persons with Serious Illness. She developed a hospice program at the Maine State Prison, which she directed from 2000-2018. Following, she served as a visiting professor at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, Scotland, to continue her collaboration focused on humanizing health care. Kandyce was the 2012 recipient of our Dr. Mary Chandler-Lowell Award, given for outstanding career accomplishments.
1960’s Author Sue Kinney Humphries ’62 was celebrated at a book launch party at Central Hall Commons last fall. Her book, entitled Making a Monster – The first last word on 3D MONSTER design, is newly republished from her first edition, and features behind-the-scenes documentation of sci-fi and horror classics in theatrical make-up effects. Her book is sold on Amazon and Barnes & Noble. She says she has “finally” retired from her part-time position as a licensed clinical social worker at Northern Light Mayo Behavioral Health & Counseling. Congratulations to Betty-Jane Stanhope Meader ’64 on her induction into the Maine Women’s Hall of Fame during a virtual ceremony. Retired in 2012 as an Associate Professor, Betty-Jane taught for 44 years, 41 of them at Thomas College in Waterville. Upon retirement, she served as state president of the American Association of University Women of Maine
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