Gwen Haaland:  

Life Greetings Classmates, The biggest & most interesting news is that I married Roald Haaland, my Barlow high School sweetheart (Barlow Teacher Virginia Haaland's son who is 1 year older than me.) We are still happily together after 29 years! We were married in a pine forest "cathedral" after I was nearly finished with graduate school. We have a son (now 14 years old) and a daughter (now 10 years.) Roald was always a sweet sensitive respectful guy and has been a wonderful husband and Father. Our children would not exist if I had not been a student at the wonderful (but sadly defunct) Barlow School. So many great memories of camping in the old lean-to, working in the old art barn, dancing upstairs in the schoolhouse, natural history class in assoc. with the Hudson Highland museum & the best field trips. Where is Toni Vincent? I went to Marlboro College in southern Vermont in '77 with it's beautiful rolling campus redolent of the Barlow hills and forests. It was reminiscent of Barlow, with only 200 students so I felt at home there as a freshman & Roald visiting on week-ends. A couple of years later Roald attended Bennington College on a full scholarship nearby in southern Vermont. He later got his Master's degree in early childhood development at Tufts & has been a teacher for the past 21 years & has been awarded a number of grants. At the risk of boring you: I graduated with honors in biology, botany & ecology from Marlboro College in 1981. I spent my summers and winterim terms working as a Research Assistant at The Cary Arboretum of the NY Botanical Garden in Millbrook NY (not far from Barlow.) I was a visiting student at The University of Vermont in 1980, taking botany & geology classes not offered by small Marlboro College. Then took graduate courses there in '81. In 1982, I moved to Northeast Connecticut to do graduate work in Paleobotany and I never left this relatively undeveloped part of New England. I also worked as a Research Associate at the Uni...Expand for more