1970s & 1980s

Ronald W. McDougal ’75 reports that he recently retired after 31 years in state government, the last 27 as supervisor of the state’s public health sanitarians in the Department of Health and Human Services, Bureau of Health. He and his wife Nancy live in Augusta, where Ron has opened a part-time consulting business, RWM Food and Lodging Consulting. His e-mail address is NanRon81@verizon.net.

Allyn Hutton ’77, ’94, principal of Falmouth High School, was named Maine’s High School Principal of the Year 2007 by the Maine Principals’ Association. Hutton received the award, according to the MPA announcement, “based on her accomplishments as an educational leader in the areas of collaborative leadership, curriculum, instruction, and assessment; personalization; and contributions to the MPA and the profession.”

Wayne L. Clark won the 2007 Edward L. Bernays Award, the Maine Public Relations Council’s highest honor, for his outstanding contributions to the public relations profession. Clark was Maine Medical Center’s associate vice president of communications and marketing. He has been an MPRC member for 25 years and is a founding member of the Maine Healthcare Communications Association.

Joseph Breunig ’80 works in the information technology field and in 2006 published his first book of poetry, Reaching Towards His Unbound Glory, through Booksurge.

William David Richards ’81 of Dixfield reports he is an operator in the shipping department at New Page Corporation of Rumford. He has been married 24 years and has two sons, Christopher, who is attending the University of Maine, and Justin, who is in middle school. Justin attended the USM Band Camp on the Gorham campus last summer. “Taking him there brings back memories for me,” William writes. “Bailey Hall looks the same as in 1977.”

The Patriot Mutual Insurance Company hired Kathryn J. LaPierre ’83 as vice president of commercial lines. She was formerly the head of Maine commercial lines business for Middlesex Mutual Insurance. In her 20-year career in insurance, Kathryn also has worked with Hanover, OneBeacon, and Acadia.

Roxanne Wheeler ’85 provides home health nursing services with Community Health and Nursing Services in Brunswick. She also is a part-time clinical nursing instructor at the University of Maine at Augusta. The two positions, she says, “give me the best of both worlds.”

Rita Stevens is an officer in the reconciliation control department at TD Banknorth in Falmouth. Rita, who lives in Biddeford, joined TD Banknorth in 2005 and has worked more than 20 years in finance and banking.

Renee (Gauthier Jack) Dantonio is a director and kindergarten teacher of the St. John the Evangelist Early Learning and Child Care Center, which she founded through her church in Naples, Florida. Renee is married and has a son (14) and daughter (5).

Millie Jones-Farnham ’88 writes that she’s been working at St. Andrews Hospital in Boothbay for 18 years, the last four as director of nursing on the Gregory Wing, a 30-bed long-term care unit and Safe Haven, an 11-bed dementia unit. Millie, her husband, and four children live in East Boothbay.

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