1961 KEVIN BERGEN, Alexandria, VA, recently shared a photo of when he and other freshmen (as they were known in that era) gathered on the second floor of Old Hall in 1957. (See photo.) U.S. SEN. PATRICK LEAHY, D-VT, Middlesex, VT, is
writing a memoir titled The Road Taken, according to a recent news release from his publisher, Simon & Schuster. The release date is set for April 2022. The memoir will take readers “inside the room” for key moments in the nation’s modern history, from post-Watergate reform to Congress’s role in “greenlighting a disastrous war in Iraq,” the release states.
1967 REV. CHARLES RANGES, SSE, Essex Junction, VT,
was featured recently in a story by writer Mary Regina
Morrell in Vermont Catholic magazine, a publication of the Diocese of Burlington, for his ministry as pastor of the Essex Catholic Community at Holy Family St. Lawrence and St. Pius X parishes.
1969 JACK T. SCULLY, Colchester,
VT, has news about his ongoing writing enterprises: “Mianus Village, my collection of poems about a boy growing up in a low-rent housing development beside a ‘tinsel-glistening river’ in the years after WWII, is now available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and elsewhere. The publisher is Antrim House Books.” Read more about it at the publisher’s website: https://antrimhousebooks. com/scully.html.
1972 BILL BRIDGEO, Augusta, ME, announced his retire-
ment in April. According to an article in a Maine newspaper this summer, Bill’s retirement comes after 23 years as the City of Augusta’s manager and 43 years in municipal management. From the article: “The 71-year-old Maine native said he still loves his job, but the time is right for someone new to take on the job and for him to join his wife, Janice, who retired six months ago after two decades as an elementary school teacher in Winthrop. He submitted his resignation to city councilors Monday, one day before completing his 23rd year as Augusta’s manager, with his last day on the job to be Sept. 10. He started on the job in Augusta in 1998, after serving as manager in Canandaigua, New York, for 11 years. He is Augusta’s longest-tenured city manager.” Bill and fellow St. Mike’s alumnus ROBERT DEVLIN ’73 had a long, friendly, and productive work connection through
Annie Rosello ’94 of the Institutional Advancement staff (development and admissions officer for the mid-Atlantic region) shared a photo she received this summer from Kevin Bergen ’61, who offered this caption: “Freshmen gather on the second floor of Old Hall in 1957. This is their 60th reunion year. You might want to see if people can identify themselves or friends. Kevin is third row, sixth from left in horizontal striped shirt.” Writes Annie, “Kevin’s wife Patsy found it in a box recently, and he was kind enough to send it to me … Even though the date on the photo is 1958, he said it’s from the fall of 1957. Maybe he didn’t get his film developed till he got home for the summer!” Thanks to Kevin for sharing the memory.
their related jobs in the same area, though they did not know each other during their college years. 51
1973 ROBERT DEVLIN, Gardiner, ME, has announced he will retire at the end of the year and leave the job he essentially created as the administrator of Kennebec County in Maine, according to an article this summer in the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel. The article states Bob said he had initially planned to retire about four years ago, but committed to commissioners to stay four more years. Before Bob came to Kennebec County, he was the deputy county manager for Cumberland County and lobbyist for the Maine Municipal Association. He also served as the director of the Medical Crisis Unit in Portland, and through his job, he spent a great deal of time in Augusta. Bob has
