AFTERMATH - Plymouth State University

Community Savings Bank here in Plymouth. Just to make sure he doesn't getboard(!), he's also on the board of an economic development projectshepherding the construction of new facilities for the hospital; if you're in town,take a drive to the Wal-Mart parking lot and look behind it; that's where theproject is going. Marilyn is involved with the local hospice and an adult literacyproject. They'll be spending some time camping in North Carolina and Virginiathis October.Norm Cote has been immersing himself in writings in French and Russian. Hismost recent book read is "Thaïs" by Anatole France. He gets across the border toQuebec occasionally for lunch with a friend and for a bit of French environment.For exercise, Norm takes daily walks, sometimes around his house, sometimes inthe local Wal-Mart superstore.Yours truly has been up to his usual leisure time activities- gardening, fishing,hunting, mushrooming, wine making, cooking, yada yada yada. Also a little bitof politics; to quote Will Rogers, "I am a member of no organized political party…I'm a Democrat." Pat and I are hoping to get off someplace, probably Maine,for a couple of weeks this September.Thank You, Ted!By Gloria FerlandDr. Ted Giebutowski compiled and edited AfterMath for many years prior tohis retirement from PSU in December, 2004, and we in the Department would liketo take this opportunity to thank Ted for his dedication to this endeavor. Asevidenced in the previous article, he has kept in touch with those MathDepartment retirees who “went before him”, and he graciously agreed to writethe article sharing news of them.We in the department regret that the task of compiling the 2005 newslettersomehow got overlooked, hence the combination of two years’ worth of newsin this edition. I agreed to compile this year’s newsletter and have enjoyed myone-year stint doing it (Keith and I will be retiring in December as mentionedearlier). It has brought back memories of my high school years as alumni editorof my high school newspaper and layout editor for my college yearbook. Surelythis important task of compiling the newsletter will not be overlooked next year.But, we do need the help of our readers / alumni! Please let us know what’sup with you so that we can expand our news of alumni and not have to rely onnews “through the grapevine “of former students and colleagues. Be sure toindicate your year of graduation when you share your info. Dr. BarbaraBoschmans (bboschmans@plymouth.edu ) has agreed to collect any info sentto her and pass it on to next year’s editor. And, thanks to Wendy Burnham, ourDepartment Administrative Assistant, for her time and work in getting AfterMathactually set up for Internet publication. As usual, a job well done!