Carter Newell is still living in Damariscotta, Maine. Carter earned his Ph.D. in marine biology in 2005 and is president of Pemaquid Oyster Company and Pemaquid Mussel Farms. He has been developing a submersible mussel raft with a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from U.S. Department of Agriculture, and he developed an aquaculture GIS system (shellGIS.com). Carter still plays the fiddle with Jeff McKeen ’76 and recently played some tunes with Bill Tiernan on bagpipes and Paul Fackler ’78 on fiddle. Bill bought a house in Maine and still teaches physics in Colorado; Paul was up at the Maine Fiddle Camp and continues to teach economics in North Carolina. Carter’s oldest daughter, Maisie, 30, has two kids with another on the way, and all four of his children play music in a family band. * Janet Josselyn is now an empty nester, as her son has left home to attend Union College. Her novel, Thin Rich Bitches, is doing well on Amazon, and she invites everybody to check it out. * Ken Colton thinks his former chemistry professor Wayne Smith might be surprised to learn that Ken was recently quoted in the American Chemistry Society’s weekly magazine. Find it online. * As many of you know, our classmate Mike Bolduc passed away May 29 at his home in Sandy River Plantation, Maine. See his obituary on dailybulldog.com. His friend Charlie Burch sent this to me soon after: “On May 29, the Class of 1977 lost a great classmate, teammate, fraternity brother, and friend when Mike Bolduc passed away after a long and courageous battle with cancer. Mike was a lifelong teacher, coach, father, and partner. He left us way too early, but as Bruce Springsteen said on the last track of his Magic album: ‘Brother when they built you, they broke the mold.’ The world will be a lonelier, quieter place with Mike no longer in it.”
Fall 2014