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Larch Foxon Miller, in Wilder, Vt., keeps busy with craft projects and answering the phone at the homeless shelter every Friday.... John Myers reports the Class of ’51 was represented by 18 classmates at its 65th Reunion — a new attendance record of 24 percent. He asks, “Can we break that?”...Retired history professor Robert Whealey goes to the Ohio Univ. Library every day and does a weekly TV program discussing the meaning of democracy. So far there are 352 tapes.
1953 Reunion 2018, June 8–10 class secretary Ronald Clayton rondot@comcast.net class co-presidents Virginia LaFauci Toner vatoner207@gmail.com Richard F. Coughlin dcoughlin@maine.rr.com Barbara Earl Sturgis relocated to Kingwood, Texas....George Conklin was elected to a threeyear term on the Conference Council of the UCC’s Northern California-Nevada Conference....Zip06 caught up with Chuck Fischer of Madison, Conn., who taught history at Daniel Hand High School for 36 years and coached everything from Little League to college-age students. Known as “Coach,” he loves to share his historical knowledge through talks at many organizations such as the Lions and the Shoreline Institute of Lifelong Learning. “I used to love to teach,” he said. “I’d say it was like doing five live TV shows every day without a teleprompter.”...Joan Fretheim Barlow enjoyed her annual Caribbean cruise with her sister and daughters....Class Co-President Dick Coughlin plays in the annual golf outings that benefit Bates football and basketball, as does Bob Russell....Ron Clayton and Dotty Morris ’52 still split their time between homes in Chelmsford, Mass. and on Cape Cod.
1955 Reunion 2020, June 12–14 class president Beverly Hayne Willsey stonepost@cox.net Carolyn Gove Bennett had a wonderful Road Scholar trip to Costa Rica and Panama....Janet Lockwood Johnson is getting involved in a Quaker continuing care community in Sandy Spring, Md. She loves the country and having a garden....Bev Hayne Willsey and Lynn ’54 celebrated their 60th anniversary.
1956 Reunion 2021, June 11–13 class secretary Frederic Huber fredna56@comcast.net class co-presidents Alice Brooke Gollnick agollnick725@gmail.com Gail Molander Goddard acgpension@tds.net
Reunion 2019, June 7–9
Alice Brooke Gollnick says the 60th Reunion was very special with about 30 classmates plus guests. “Housed in the new dormitory built next to Rand Hall with a familiar view of ‘our’ original campus, we had ample opportunity to visit and reminisce in our own hospitality lounge.”...Diane “Dinny” Felt Swett received a Bates’ Best Award at Reunion. Her award citation reads in part: “Dinny, as the lead class agent for the Class of 1956, you have done a marvelous job leading a large team of class agents to success. Under your leadership, your class now stands at a record-breaking 90 percent Reunion Gift participation — well on its way to your personal goal of seeing 100 percent of your classmates give to Bates this year.”...Rick Hilliard, who became a tenured college professor in the “third quarter” of life and taught for 30 years, took what he calls “early retirement” at 82. He says his fourth quarter will focus on writing and publishing....Marcia Rosenfeld Baker sees Alice, Sybil, Wej, and Gail for lunch now and again, and they fill her in on class happenings.
class secretary Jonas Klein joklein@maine.rr.com
Reunion 2017, June 9–11
class president Marion Shatts Whitaker petmarwhitaker@gmail.com
email coordinator Douglas Campbell dougcamp@comcast.net
Dick and Jan Truesdail Liebe ’56 now live in a North Carolina retirement community. He lost a foot due to an infection and is learning to use a prosthesis. Jan has been stalwart and healthy throughout....Bruce McIntyre proudly watched granddaughter Kelly do an outstanding job portraying singer Janis Joplin on stage in Albany N.Y.
class co-secretaries Wilma Gero Clapham claphamwilma@bell.net Margaret Leask Olney pegolney@verizon.net
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class co-presidents Judith Kent Patkin actionpsj@aol.com Richard H. Pierce rhpierce52@gmail.com
Wilma Gero Clapham and Doug Campbell celebrated turning 80 with Dick Pierce and Cynthia, Judie Roberts Williams ’60 and Bob, and Margo Muth....Ralph Davis enjoys an active life with golf, exercise, and church....Judy Kent Patkin enjoys monthly luncheons with classmates in Dedham, Mass., and meetings of a Bates reading group of women of all ages....Peg Leask Olney, coping with the loss of husband Dave Olney ’56, is busy with choir and choral society, church and women’s club committees and activities, driving people to doctor’s appointments.... Pepi Prince Upton is busy with church work, bridge, and rug hooking....Grant Reynolds says being chair of the Tinmouth (Vt.) school board, including working on a merger of five school districts, has been a nearly full-time job....Richard Rowe still goes into the office about six hours most days.
1958 Reunion 2018, June 8–10 class secretary Marilyn Miller Gildea marilyn@gildea.com class president John Lovejoy lovejoy@crocker.com
Shel Sullaway ’58 married Carol Thibault, “a 71-year-old sexy blonde. The bad news is that our physicians suggest we do not start a family right away.” George Adams still flails away on the golf course; Lorrie Allen Adams sings in the church choir....Don Dickey sees Phil Main monthly at the Granby (Conn.) Senior Center men’s breakfast. They and their wives have lunch occasionally with Bill MacKinnon and Marilyn.... After 30 years on Peaks Island, Kay Dill Taylor says her new passion is the Peaks Island Ukulele Group. Gene ’56 does lots of reading, crossword puzzles, and laundry....Norman Jason is involved in fundraising and choir work for his church. He and old roommate Ken Parker keep in touch....Joan Kennard Michel moved to an active senior living complex near her daughter....Tom King, now in Fair Oaks, Calif., and Dar celebrated his 80th with a San Diego getaway that included renting Segway “magic carpets” to go whirling about fabulous Balboa Park....Jim and Betsey Gray Kirsch keep in touch
with Marti Boardman Swift and Gail Larocque Schroder, and see Pat Lysaght and John Fresina often. Jim reconnected by phone with roommate Arthur Agnos....In Truro, Mass., James Kyed serves on the energy and conservation committees and as a public library trustee....Ruth Melzard Stewart still enjoys doing real estate, working with first-time home buyers and retirees....Donald Moses retired after 50 years in the practice of psychiatry. Sally Dean Moses ’60 is in charge of their real estate holdings and continues her Oriental brush painting. Son Erik ’83 is head of IT for a major vitamin company....Pete Ryers and Jane “do pretty much what most old retirees do: read, work out, volunteer, waste time, and hang out with friends.”...Ann Shultz Keim is chair of Rotary’s main training arm for northeast America....Shel Sullaway married Carol Thibault, “a 71-yearold sexy blonde. The bad news is that our physicians suggest we do not start a family right away.”...Jo Trogler Reynolds loves ringing handbells with the Tinmouth (Vt.) Handbell Ensemble....Tom and Carole Carbone Vail keep busy with the gym, golf, and good friends.... Nancy Wickens Taylor is adjusting to full-time retirement in North Carolina....Bruce Young, coping with the loss of his wife Hattie in March 2015, moved back to Pennsylvania with his daughter and her family.
1959 Reunion 2019, June 7–9 class co-secretaries Jack DeGange jack.degange@valley.net Mary Ann Houston Hermance donmar23@gmail.com class co-presidents Barbara Van Duzer Babin barbarababin@comcast.net Christian O. Miller milleridge@sbcglobal.net Reggie Abbiati Lucas has a new job (sort of ) writing grants and managed to get a couple for her favorite organization, The Beethoven Society....Jerry Davis is typing up his journals from 10 years in the Maine Legislature.... Jane Lysaght DeGange and Jack moved three miles to The Woodlands, an independent retirement community in Lebanon, N.H....Fred Drayton is coping with the loss of Augusta, his wife of 53 years....Bob Finnie and Gloria moved to their beachside condo in Indialantic, Fla., while still able to enjoy walking in the sand together.... Burt Harris “had the pleasure of seeing my granddaughter graduate from Bates in June and was on the platform (as a trustee emeritus) when she received her degree so I could be the first family member to give her a big