I’s on the World: Maine Meet-up

Making their own Maine event: (from left) Alyssa Thurman, Falguni Deshpande, Rebecca Ward, Zoriamin Rivera, Holly Rosencranz and Warren Lavey. (Image courtesy of Holly Rosencranz)

Holly Rosencranz, ’78 LAS, MD ’82 UIC, and spouse Warren Lavey, U of I adjunct professor of law, were hiking in Maine’s Acadia National Park in May 2022 when they “met by chance and became immediate friends with” a group of recent Illinois alumni—Falguni Deshpande, ’21 AHS; Zoriamin Rivera, ’20 LAS; Alyssa Thurman, ’21 LAS,; and Rebecca Ward, ’20 LAS.

“We shared our love of the outdoors, and the region’s amazing flora and fauna,” Rosencranz says. “The rocky shoreline and views of the Atlantic were a dramatic change from the Illinois prairie and offered a wonderful vacation spot for all.” The fifth smallest national park in the U.S., Acadia welcomes more than 3 million visitors annually.

For more photos of alumni around the world, check out our Flickr album. Send pictures of yourself clad in orange and blue to IllinoisAlumni@uillinois.edu. You also can post to www.Facebook.com/IllinoisAlumni and twitter.com/uiaa using hashtag #IlliniWorldwide.