46 l reunion 2016, June 10–12 l
Class Secretary: Muriel Ulrich Weeks, 4941 Simmons Cir., Export PA 15632, muweeks@comcast.net Class President: Jane Parsons Norris, 93 Field Ave., Auburn ME 04210, janenorris@roadrunner.com Rohna Isaacson Shoul found a home for the peace work she did in the ’60s and ’70s at Radcliffe’s Schlesinger Library and the Newton (Mass.) Public Library.... Scottie Miller Rowell and Waldo were excited to move to “a land-based cruise ship”: a continuing care retirement community near St. Petersburg’s downtown waterfront.... Gerry Nickerson Coombs is active in the Bath Community Forester Committee and enjoys Senior College courses.... Jay Packard Stewart received the East Hartford YMCA’s MacDonald Award for her leadership and dedicated service. Charlotte and Art Bradbury ’49 were among those who saw her receive it.... Helen Pratt Clarkson had a memorable 2010 with three family weddings, Arizona-Maine car trips, and her 85th birthday party.... Tooie Stewart Craven, who has lived in the same home since 1956, was pleased to receive old Bates pictures from Mike Lategola.... Fran Sudhalter Pliskin is coping with the loss of her husband, Irving. Married 62 years, they met at a Bates intercollegiate event (he went to Bowdoin).... Muriel Ulrich Weeks keeps busy with bridge, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and Public Theater, several church jobs, and friends…. Priscilla White Ohler drives almost daily to see her husband, John, in his home for Alzheimer’s. They love to be together, especially listening to music.... Elizabeth Widger Arms had cataract surgery and, still a birder, looked forward to seeing the birds much better.... In Sidney, Maine, Pat Wilson Sanborn says all is as usual on the organic dairy farm, which her son tends. Her youngest grandchild, Hallie Balcomb ’14, is at Bates…. Connie Wood Norte and Dan ’45 lost their daughter, Cynthia, who struggled for years with MS, in August 2010, two days after Cynthia’s daughter was married. Dan, in his 11th year with ALS, requires much more help but fortunately still has his mind.
48 l reunion 2013, June 7–9 l
Class Secretary: Roberta Sweetser McKinnell, 33 Red Gate Lane, Cohasset MA 02025 Class President: Vivienne Sikora Gilroy, 1009 Ridge Dr., Union NJ 07083, vgilroy@verizon.net
49 l reunion 2014, June 6–8 l
Class Secretary: Elaine Porter Haggstrom, 21 Candlewood Rd., Trumbull CT 06611, ephag@aol.com Class President: Arthur B. Bradbury, 221 Country Ln., East Hartford CT 06118, chartbury@comcast.net The class extends its condolences to the family and friends of class co-secretary Barbara Cottle Aldrich, who died Aug. 30, 2011. Her obituary will be in the next issue…. Barbara Badgley Williams is happily involved at a Friends of the Library bookstore in Hilton Head, S.C.... Art Bradbury and Charlotte sing and play in The Hibernians, a family group of musicians with several gigs at J.J. Foley’s, an Irish pub in south Boston.... Barbara Cooper Decker is a special-ed teacher and is active in the volunteer program at the Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts.... June Cunningham Walch and Allan visited Florida where she enjoyed the swimming pool.... Jim Facos, who retired in Vermont after teaching at Norwich Univ., is the author of The Silver Lady, a novel based on his WWII flying experiences as a tail gunner; two plays; and several volumes of poetry.... Lois Foster Johnson and Charles are active in the Friendship Force, a nonprofit cultural exchange organization promoting friendship and goodwill through homestays.... Bud Horne and Betty looked forward to a Road Scholar trip from Boston’s Freedom Trail to the Canadian Maritimes and Bar Harbor.... Nancy Jepson Leslie and Dorothy Collins Buchanan met at Bates, married classmates, and stayed connected. After both lost their husbands, Jep and Mich began traveling together: Elderhostels, cruises, Alaska.... Danny Reale and Lee took their annual sojourn in Las Vegas and also cruised through the Panama Canal.... Bill and Shirley Pease Sawyers feel lucky to be active and well. Bill sings in the choir, and Shirl
finds ushers at church. They find Lakeland, Fla., a nice place to live with concerts to keep them busy. They spend summers at their cottage in Pennsylvania.... Ken Simpson, a son of the late Bates hoops star Bill Simpson, is looking for film of his father playing basketball and any other items relating to Bill’s All-New England basketball career. Ken can be reached at 109 Canal Rd., Easton PA 18042-9752; phone 610-252-1003 and email simpson.construction@yahoo.com.... Leon Wiskup and Dorothy had an adventurous trip to Egypt last November. “Aren’t we fortunate today to be observing Egypt’s future!” he wrote.
50 l reunion 2015, June 12–14 l
Class Secretary: Lois Keniston Penney, Apt. 302, 52 Missionary Rd., Cromwell CT 06416, hulopenney@ sbcglobal.net Class President: Weston L. Bonney, 263 Clifton St., Portland ME 04103, wbonney@maine.rr.com Bob and Gladys Bovino Dunn ’51 returned from Hawaii a few days before the tsunami hit the island.... At Covenant Village in Cromwell, Conn., Lois and Hugh Penney and Helen Papaioanou ’49 welcomed Dick ’44 and Marjorie Walther Keach ’46 back from Hilton Head.
51 l reunion 2016, June 10–12 l
Class Secretary: Dorothy Webb Quimby, PO Box 417, Unity ME 04988, dwquimby@unity.edu Class Co-Presidents: William R. Dill and Jean McLeod Dill, 25 Birch Ln., Cumberland Foreside ME 04110, wmrdill@gmail.com, jmdill@gmail.com Jane Emery Moore was unable to attend Reunion because, she says, “I’m on track to become another ‘Bionic Woman’! This year it’s knee replacements. Best wishes to all who managed to attend!”... Jean Johnson Bird had her aortic valve replaced. “All went well, so Phil and I hope to take our trip to Mongolia, Tibet, China, and Cambodia in the fall.
Kiss from a Rose DEODONNE BHATTARAI
Sun Journal. After Pearl Harbor, schools like Bates emptied as most men either volunteered or were drafted. The V-12 program eventually brought 782 young men to Bates, from July 1943 until the war’s end in 1945. Bates’ V-12 alumni include businessmen, teachers, lawyers, a justice on the Maine Supreme Court (Scolnik), and even a presidential candidate: Robert Kennedy. The Bates V-12ers have gathered for a lunch at Bates since the 1980s; this year’s event brought 11 men to Muskie Archives. Lou, a Lewiston native, still sounded incredulous. “I packed a bag. I walked six blocks. And I was in the Navy,” he said.
47 l reunion 2012, June 8–10 l
Class Co-Secretaries: Elizabeth Hill Jarvi, 286 Dublin Rd., Ludlow VT 05149, bjarvi2@tds.net; Jean Labagh Kiskaddon, Apt. 1AA, 375 Riverside Dr., New York NY 10025, jean.kiskaddon@gmail.com Class Co-Presidents: Stanley L. Freeman Jr., 7 Longwood Ct., Orono ME 04473, freemansun@verizon .net; Vesta Starrett Smith, 222 Dartmouth College Hwy., Haverhill NH 03765, vestasmith@charter.net Maine Sunday Telegram art critic Phil Isaacson reviewed a solo exhibition by Moroccan-born photographer Lalla Essaydi at the Bates College Museum of Art. He called it “an exquisite visual event.”... Sad news from Betty Kragelund Bois: Her husband, Joel Bois, died on March 10, 2011.... Jean Labagh Kiskaddon had an exciting adventure when she traveled to the South Pacific with her son and granddaughter to meet the descendants of a long-lost uncle on the island of Lifou, in the Loyalty Islands of New Caledonia.... Vesta Starrett Smith visited her two children in New York City in February and took a river trip in Ukraine from Kiev to Odessa in the spring.
At his 100th birthday party in February, Elden Dustin ’32 of Concord, N.H., gets a kiss from his granddaughter Rosamond Cain, who was named for Dustin’s late wife, Rosamond Nichols Dustin ’32. Wearing his Bates Phi Beta Kappa tie pin, Dustin was a French major who served as principal of Bunnell High School in Stratford, Conn., where the school auditorium now carries his name.
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