decorated veteran of the Korean War, he was head track coach and football coach at Fairhaven where his spring track athletes rewrote every record during his tenure. He continued his coaching career at Barnstable where his track teams had three consecutive undefeated seasons and won a Class C state championship. Hal lives in West Yarmouth, Mass.
52 l reunion 2012, June 8–10 l
Class Secretary: Florence Dixon Prince, PO Box 594, Monument Beach MA 02553, fdprince@alumni .bates.edu Class President: John F. Myers, 37 Eagle Wing Ln., Brewster MA 02631, johnmyers52@comcast.net Peter Ault is “hanging on to engineer and surveyor’s licenses which require 30 to 40 hours of professional training every two years.” He and Eloise enjoy visiting son Will ’82 and his wife and two girls in Southport, Conn.... Dewey and Martha Barton live on Lake Norman, north of Charlotte, N.C. Martha has a “paint horse” which they keep in a nearby barn.... Mary Berryment Needham has a George Burns quote on her refrigerator that says it all: “Remember you can’t help getting older, but you don’t have to get old.”... Nate and Harriet Howell Boone remind us to support Bates in whatever way we can, just as alumni helped us out when we, too, needed financial aid.... At her family’s summer home overlooking Narragansett Bay in Jamestown, R.I., Carolyn Carlson Leys was joined by Eleanor Wolfe Watt, Dotty Pierce Morris, Marilyn Coffin Brown, Ruth Potter, and Flo Dixon Prince for their annual potluck lunch.... Marilyn Brown enjoys computer classes and library courses. The homework they required made her feel like she was back at Bates.... Norma Crooks Coughlin and Dick ’53 manage to get over to Bates for various events, even though her health limits her to Dick providing “chauffeur service.”... Enjoying life in a continuing-care retirement community in Doylestown, Pa., Jean Decker Brooks quotes a special aunt: “I just love being an old lady — you can do and say whatever you want.”... Flo Prince and her family spent a joyous weekend in Boulder, Colo., at the wedding of her grandson Tom and fiancé Andrea.... Frank and Judy Allen Dudley ’53 enjoy family who live in the nearby Dunwoody, Ga., area. Dud writes that Cirque du Soleil borrowed two of their colts for a show.... Ginny Edge Shedd, whose husband died in 2008, met a man, Wil Bloom, she knew as a child and the two had a commitment service (like a wedding but with no legal papers) last May. Nine of her grandchildren and all five of her children joined them. She and Wil had previously traveled to Prescott, Ariz., where she met all of his children and grandchildren.... Bill and Jean Eveleth enjoy winters at the Glades Country Club in Naples, Fla., where golf and tennis keep them active. They spend summers in Vermont but have found it too much trouble to maintain two homes and hoped to sell their Quechee condo.... Larch Foxon Miller finds life good up in Wilder, Vt. She says it’s exciting to see how much more her grandchildren know than she did at their age, mostly because of the Internet.... Gene and Connie Harley say they are slowing down but they’re still riding trail bikes and took a two-day canoe trip to the Okefenokee observing alligators.... Carol Hollingworth Collins and Kenneth are still in Brazil at the Chemistry Institute of State Univ. of Campinas. Holly writes and speaks at scientific meetings in Brazil, Europe, Mexico, and the U.S. She met up with Bates roommate Doris Hardy Crosby, who was on a cruise visiting Sao Paulo’s art museums.... Paul Koehn reports his son-in-law published The Fence, a tale of a Boston police murder case that involved city race relations.... Nancy Kosinski was adjusting to sleep apnea hardware every night. She quotes Gilda Radner: “It’s always something!”... Lucille Mainland Kelly and Jim ’51 have their three children living nearby in Texas. On a riverboat cruise from Paris to Normandy, they were moved by the American Cemetery and Omaha Beach.... Jack and Nancy Larcom Manter moved to Atria in Rocky
Point, Conn., for proper care after he took a bad fall last April.... Susan Martin Ames, who lost John ’53 in July 2009, has her own apartment in the Sarasota, Fla., Lifetime Retirement Facility among friends.... Jack and Noy McLaren continue to make their annual trip back to her home in northern Thailand. When Flo Prince’s grandson and his wife decided to honeymoon in southern Thailand, Flo wrote Jack, “who sent me a wonderful list of all the places they might take in while there,” she reports.... John Myers spent his 18th week (one week a year) at Gettysburg College Civil War Institute.... Now retired and recuperating from a knee replacement, Earle Onque researches family history, works at his computer, and paints watercolors. He keeps in touch with Nate and Harriet Howell Boone and Jim Nabrit.... Ruth Parr Faulkner and Lee ’51 planned an Aegean cruise to celebrate his clean PET scan after he had a throat cancer removed and radiation.... Stan Patterson had a gliosarcoma tumor in his brain removed followed by radiation and chemotherapy. An MRI showed a dramatic reduction of the area, a most positive outcome. Stan writes: “The support of old friends in many ways is the best medicine and therapy that I for one can point to as aiding recovery.” Katie Lang Patterson ’55 had cataracts removed from both eyes, improving her vision.... Dotty Pierce Morris and Ron Clayton ’53 celebrated the 100th birthday of Ron’s mother. On the same trip to Florida, Dotty had a good visit with old friend Betty Zinck Momenthy at her home in Bradenton.... Ruth Potter works part time, sometimes at home, and keeps fit by taking a daily run with her dog.... Austin and Zell Wilcox Rich have been coping with health issues. He had his fifth back surgery in January, then therapy. She suffered an attack of shingles.... Bill and Sue Rust took a “wonderful but wearing trip” to Bhutan in the Himalayas, trekking in the mountains for two weeks, “during which time I made the startling discovery I was no longer 23.”... Bob Rudolph’s widow, Nancy, reports Bob’s family is still expanding with the birth of grandson Stephan. Nancy remarried in May.... Mal Shaylor Mullen taught some friends to play bridge and now there are two tables playing every week. She and Ernie launched the tugboat he spent four years building.... Marshall Solomon is recovering from two separate major surgeries for five different spinal stenosis vertebrae and too many laminectomies.... Edwin Swain and Eleanor welcomed their first grandson in January and celebrated their 50th anniversary in May with both sons and their families in Salem, S.C.... In Hernando Beach, Fla., Bob Williams took a few lessons at a music studio in order to enjoy playing his Lowery Parade organ.
53 l reunion 2013, June 7–9 l
Class Secretary: Ronald Clayton, 5 Augusta Way, North Chelmsford MA 01863, rondot@comcast.net Class President: Virginia LaFauci Toner, 11 Juniper St., Portland ME 04103, vatoner@aol.com Sally Bidwell McBride and Dick have the best of both worlds: winters on Marco Island, Fla., and summers in New England. She says Dick plays golf and is very good at it, while she paints watercolors and is not very good. She planned a mini-reunion with Alice Huntington Vannerson, Kaye Kirshbaum Harvie, Barbara Koch Milne, Mary Lewis Meltzer, Nancy Lowd Hanby, Martha Schoman Keelan, and Barbara Swett Pappas.... Mary Ann Brynnen Ferro is retired from teaching, but still does quite a bit of tutoring. She lives in East Haven, Conn., with her special son, Matthew; she looked forward to visiting Ginnie Toner.... Ron Clayton and Dotty Pierce Morris ’52, who celebrated their 10th anniversary, walk two miles or more most days and spend a lot of time with their kids and grandkids.... George Conklin visits friends in New York and elsewhere regularly. At home in California he’s a director of his neighborhood association, works at his church, and camps with his daughter and her husband.... Dick Coughlin and Norma Crooks Coughlin ’52 were among the project donors honored at the dedication of major
Garcelon Field improvements in October, as were Marjorie and Jim Moody, Dave Harkins, and Charlie and Barbara Swett Pappas .... Bob Ernst and Janice are back living in the United States (Pittsford, N.Y.) after years in Toronto. They enjoy all the green spaces and the nearby Finger Lakes.... Chuck Fischer is still adjusting to cooking, shopping, and cleaning for himself. He is doing well with his artwork and also does carpentry.... Joan Fretheim Barlow is active again after a successful hip replacement.... Clark Griffith reports Gerry has been in pain ever since major back surgery. He serves as caregiver, taxi driver, cook, shopper, and cleaner.... Gordon Hall and Linda enjoyed a Florida sojourn to escape the Ohio winter.... Maurice Hight reports Pat is recovering well from a broken hip. He remains active in the YMCA Retirees Organization and the Cape May Lutheran Church.... Alice Huntington Vannerson does volunteer transport at Emerson Hospital, next door to her and Bob’s digs at Newbury Commons in Concord, Mass.... Norma Judson has been busy organizing the material at the Westport (Mass.) Library’s new history room.... Joanne Kennedy Murray reports their youngest grandson is enrolled at an Arizona college, so she and Floyd see him often in the winter.... Bob Kolovson recalls the camaraderie of freshman year at Bates, when the men sat around and talked about girls and sports and “life lay before us like a yellow-brick road.”... Ginnie LaFauci Toner and Don Hamilton ’54 are active in the Woodfords United Congregational Church in Portland as well as in various community groups.... Bob Lennon and Emma enjoy sunny Florida in the winter and dynamic North Carolina in the summer.... Nancy Lowd Hanby swims daily and stays active with local and regional church events.... Selma Machanoff Raskin says Ed retired from his dental practice but she is still doing interior design in and around New York City. Both play bridge and golf.... Curt Osborne is having a good time with his new knee, which works a lot better than the old one. He is traveling again.... Cynthia Parsons Menck and Herman moved to their own condo in Marina del Rey. His work as a cancer researcher involves a lot of traveling, and Cyn can go along now that she has retired from teaching and public speaking.... Bob Russell lost Betty, his wife of 51 years, on April 24, 2010, after a nine-year struggle against several illnesses.... Fred Russell is almost fully recovered after having an implanted heart defibrillator replaced twice, first in January and again after he suffered a severe staph infection while he and Barb Atkinson Russell ’56 were on a Caribbean cruise in February. He’s back to volunteering and other activities.... Pat Scheuerman Pfeiffer and Rob spent an idyllic month on Molokai to celebrate their 50th.... Happy with their move to a continuing-care retirement community, Lee Smart Udy and Stan have added new interests and made stimulating new friends.... Barbara Earl Sturgis and John enjoy yearlong outdoor activities, beautiful scenery, and many volunteer activities living in the foothills of Sedona, Ariz.... Marguerite Thoburn Watkins continues to write as well as hike with her Appalachian Trail group and enjoy church and volunteer activities. She and Gordon live in the Virginia countryside.... Bill Thurston and his wife are moving to a place where all the maintenance will be taken care of, giving them more freedom for reading, writing, woodworking, and travel.... Mary Van Valkenburgh Kashmanian and Kash are busier than ever at their church and retirement community in New Jersey.... David Welch and Alice have moved back to Palm Coast, Fla., after three years in Massachusetts.
54 l reunion 2014, June 6–8 l
Class Secretary: Jonas Klein, 19 Whipple Farm Ln., Falmouth ME 04105, lojoklein@maine.rr.com Class President: Neil A. Toner, 17 Bluegrass Dr., E. Longmeadow MA 01028, cat3sat@aol.com Lynn Willsey was among the project donors honored at the dedication of major Garcelon Field renovations in October. W I N TER 2011 Bates 35