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1940 Reunion 2025, June 6–8
1941 CLASS PRESIDENTS Elizabeth Gardner Margaret Rand alpegrand@aol.com
1942 Reunion 2022, June 10–12
1943 Reunion 2023, June 9–11
1944
CLASS SECRETARY/ TREASURER Jean Labagh Kiskaddon jean.kiskaddon@gmail.com CLASS PRESIDENT Vesta Starrett Smith vestasmith@charter.net Jean Labagh Kiskaddon visited daughter Kate Kiskaddon Wood ’71 in Norway, Maine, in August. “I flew nonstop from Detroit to Portland, where Kate met me. We had a pleasant, relaxing summer week with much discussion of next year’s Reunion. It will be my 75th.”....Vesta Starrett Smith is still driving locally in Haverhill, N.H. Driving is not a problem, she remarks — “it’s getting in and out of the car that’s the problem!”
1948 Reunion 2023, June 9–11
Reunion 2024, June 7–9
1945
1949 Reunion 2024, June 7–9
Reunion 2025, June 6–8 CLASS SECRETARY Carleton Finch cfinch612@gmail.com
1946 CLASS SECRETARY Helen Pratt Clarkson hpclarkson7@gmail.com CLASS PRESIDENT/ TREASURER Jane Parsons Norris janenorris@roadrunner.com Mary Francis Langille Randall’s daughter, Susan, let us know that Mary, now 95, is living in Sarasota, Fla. She and Henry moved there three years ago. He passed away in 2019. Susan visits Mary each day. Mary’s hearing makes it impossible for her to talk by phone, but she’s generally in good spirits despite losing her husband after 71 years together.
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1947 Reunion 2022, June 10–12
Fall 2021
CLASS SECRETARY Carol Jenkinson Johnson rollincarol@comcast.net CLASS PRESIDENT Bud Horne budhorne@gmail.com CLASS VICE-PRESIDENT Beverly Young Howard
1950 Reunion 2025, June 6–8 CLASS PRESIDENT Wes Bonney wbonney@maine.rr.com Wes Bonney and Elaine received 87 cards celebrating their 75th wedding anniversary on June 29, Wes reports....Writing for The Boston Globe Magazine in June, Samantha Shanley related how her resilient bond with her great-aunt Elaine Hubbard has changed with the older woman’s worsening dementia. Phone calls with “Birdy,” Shanley writes, reveal a spirit undimmed by the
affliction. “When I call Birdy, we meet wherever she is in time, reliving lush memories of the life she lived.”...Sylvia Stuber Heap and Dr. Walker Heap celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary on June 9. They were married the year after graduating from Bates, with Walker, then a medical student at Yale, telling Sylvia that if they didn’t get married he would flunk out (he was neglecting his studies because he spent most weekends visiting her wherever she was working). With that ultimatum, of course, Sylvia said, “Yes!” They were married the following June….Writing from Texas, David Turell was grateful that the pandemic eased a bit for a few months in spring and early summer. “But we still must stay here, no traveling.”
1951 CLASS PRESIDENTS Bill Dill wmrdill@gmail.com Jean McLeod Dill CLASS VICE PRESIDENT Wilfred Barbeau wbarb@cox.net Margrett “Peg” Moulton McFadden lost Bob in March 2019, just short of their 65th wedding anniversary. “Tim and Sarah were here to share our grief,” she says. With the pandemic, she continues, “quarantining was doubly lonely, but we do go on. I’ve been playing virtual bridge to keep my mind from freezing up.” Tim works for American Airlines, and Sarah lives in Colorado but spends several months each year at the family cottage on Seneca Lake in New York state.... Norma Reese Jones “fared well through COVID thanks to my three daughters” — Laura Jones, Linda Jones, and Pamela Jones. “I’m still here on Seven Tree Pond in Union, Maine. Would welcome any news of classmates.”…Rob Wilson is “still chugging!” He adds, “Buy my new book — The Irish Brahmin. It will make me richer and you might even enjoy it!”
1952 Reunion 2022, June 10–12 CLASS SECRETARY Marilyn Coffin Brown mcbrown13@verizon.net CLASS PRESIDENT John Myers johnmyers52@comcast.net Next year’s 70th Reunion is on the minds of the Class. “If I’m here,” says Peter Ault, “I’ll be there.”...Class officers Marilyn Coffin Brown and John Myers have been discussing the gathering. “We hope some of us are healthy enough to attend,” notes John, who’s also in touch with Mason Taber, now living on
Cape Cod. Marilyn “Mal” Shaylor Mullen sent John the large “1952” banner that she made decades ago and has displayed at many Reunions....Gene Harley is thinking about that gathering, too. Still at the Presbyterian Village continuing-care facility near Atlanta, he lost Connie in January after 67 years of happy marriage. But son Craig is close by in Newnan.
1953 Reunion 2023, June 9–11 CLASS SECRETARY Ron Clayton CLASS PRESIDENTS Ginnie Toner vatoner207@gmail.com Dick Coughlin dcoughlin@maine.rr.com Jean Chapman Neely turned 90 on July 10, an occasion that the Potomac Valley Audubon Society marked with “a great party,” she says. With some 65 people in attendance at a local nature preserve, PVAS declared that date “Founder’s Day” in recognition of Jean’s role as founding president, 39 years ago. “Quite a festive time — and honor.”...On Aug. 5, George Conklin’s daughter, Karen, and her husband “crafted” a big 90th-birthday party on Zoom. “My living room was turned into a studio with a blue backdrop covered with photos they somehow collected of place names, logos, and images from 30 global locations where I’ve studied, taught, visited, and produced videos,” says George. “One image was from Silliman Univ. in the Philippines, where a colleague was teaching. When I visited, they asked if I knew a funding source to update their Linotype machines,” the hot-metal typesetting system used for newspapers, etc., until the computer revolution. “I could smell the hot lead used in their pre–World War II print shop. During occupation they hid the heaters in the jungle. I said there was a new ‘laser’ printing, so we rewrote their grant application and several faith organizations in Europe provided the necessary funds.”...Virginia Forbush Goddard is “glad to be alive and in my 90th year of lovely living. ‘Happy Day’ and ‘Happy Thoughts’ are my daily greetings.” She adds, “I’m s-o-o-o happy that I attended Bates and learned a lot from Professor John Willis in Cultural Heritage — to stay positive and add to the common good every chance I got.”
1954 Reunion 2024, June 7–9 CLASS SECRETARY/ TREASURER Jonas Klein joklein@maine.rr.com
