Whit Evans was selected as the 2012 alcalde (honorary mayor) of Sonoma, California. This recognized Whit as the founding president of the Sonoma Valley Fund, a community foundation that partners with 22 local nonprofits to support their development of legacy/endowment programs. He also keeps busy with the Boys and Girls Club. He still has time for golf. He shot his age three times last year, including a 71. He invites classmates who golf to stop by Sonoma, as he “needs retirement income.” 


John Orcutt had his photography in a four-month long exhibit in the legislative council chambers of the Maine State House in Augusta. The photos feature the High Peaks area of western Maine. Cynthia and John have their gallery in Kingfield, Maine (www.schoolhousegallery.com).


Mary and Will Ogg spent last summer getting into new digs in Oakville, Ontario. They did get away in July to visit family on Penobscot Bay and were able to have dinner with Arlyss and Ray Becker on Deer Isle, Maine. Arlyss is very involved with other local artists in displaying their individual works in Deer Isle Village. 


Terry Troy is busier than ever with his apartment investment business and with 15 grandchildren. One of his companies, Elite Destination Homes, a fractional vacation home ownership company, manages homes from Paris to Cabo San Lucas. He also is chairman of the Retreat, a 12-step-based recovery program for alcoholism and addiction that is changing and saving lives.


Les Larsen reports that Bill Brigiani continues as a divorce lawyer in Newark, New Jersey, and attends Rutgers games as well as steeplechase races in Bedminster, New York, in his vintage Cadillac and in appropriate costumes with his gold drinking goblet. He has been pictured in the Newark Star-Ledger and The Wall Street Journal. 


Tom L’Esperance retired from a 30-year career as an insurance agent with AXA Advisors, LLC, in San Diego. In retirement he was a concierge for seven years at a couple of posh resorts in La Costa and La Jolla, California, and is now waiting for wife, Merry, to retire in two years as a speech therapist. He is glad that Dick Hoehn is our Alumni Council representative. He feels that “Dick’s language skills are as precise as his tennis shots were in the last century.” 


Of Howard Greene’s 10 books, his most recent is College Grad Seeks Future: Turning Your Talents, Strengths, and Passions into the Perfect Career (St. Martin’s Press), which aims to guide recent college graduates on career paths. He has also updated the successful The Hidden Ivies: 50 Top Colleges From Amherst to Williams (Harper Collins). 


Wally May “is completely out of work, no job, no consulting and no charitable work” and likes it. He is a golfer and “getting poorer at it by the minute.” Wally can give advice to two new retirees: Stew Economou after running his own law practice in Alexandria, Virginia, and Bob DiMauro after 44 years as a pediatric radiologist at Kapi’olani Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii.


—Allan Munro, 675 Main St., New London, NH 03257; (603) 526-2176