DELAYNA EARLEY / THE ISLAND PACKET OF HILTON HEAD, S.C.
peter post ’eh He and Espey traveled to the region to reprise his tenure as a distinguished visiting professor in Singapore. Back home, they spent summer months in Jamestown, R.I., with children and grandchildren flowing through for fun....Lynn and Bev Hayne Willsey ’55 celebrated their 60th anniversary at the Basin Harbor Club on Lake Champlain with their four sons and daughtersin-law and seven of their eight grandchildren. Lynn, to the delight, affection, and everlasting debt of ’54 officers, is incredibly indefatigable and resolute in leading the class campaigns for the Bates Fund.
1955 Reunion 2020, June 12–14 class president Beverly Hayne Willsey stonepost@cox.net
‘And We Do’ When Peter Post ’58 was inducted into the National YMCA Hall of Fame last July, there was smoke, but certainly no mirrors. That’s because Post’s contributions to the YMCA are the real deal. And since the YMCA elects just 12 luminaries to its Hall of Fame every three years, his induction was a big deal, too. During the ceremony, attended by nearly 4,000 at the Kansas City Convention Center, Post and his fellow honorees were introduced one by one, each entering the stage to a dazzling light display, theatrical fog, pumping music, a billboard-size display of their name and photo, and a standing ovation. “It made you take a step backward,” Post told the Beaufort Gazette. Post’s contributions to the YMCA are nearly lifelong. As a Bates student, he worked summers as a counselor at Camp Hazen YMCA in Chester, Conn. He joined the Y after graduation, becoming president and CEO of the YMCA of Greater Boston before serving as chief operations officer for the YMCA of America. Post and his wife, Jane Anderson Post ’58, now live in St. Helena Island, S.C., where his primary volunteer work is with the United Way of the Lowcountry. As he told the Gazette, he relishes the work. Agencies like the United Way are “the last resort for people who are down and out, who really need help, and deserve help. And we do.”
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Adrienne Adams Wright and Dave ’54 celebrated their 61st anniversary. She plays bridge, and they go to a fitness gym.... Madeleine Beaulieu keeps busy going to lunch with friends and attending concerts at Bates and another venue....Sprookie Ham Dalrymple and Lee are coping with his diagnosis of Parkinson’s. “He is not real bad yet but it surely changes our view of the future.”…Ruth Haskins Bass’ new book, A Silver Moon for Rose, is the final novel in a trilogy about 19th century New England farm girl Rose Hibbard. “The story was inspired by my grandmother’s need to take over the family household when her mother died. My grandmother was 14 or 15 and did that. Grandma never talked about how her teen years must have ‘sucked,’ as today’s teens would say,” Ruth writes. One of the blurbs on the back cover is from Dave Wyllie.... Bev Hayne Willsey had a wonderful time visiting with June Ryan Gillette....John and Ann Akehurst Hodgkinson ’57 enjoy golf course living in North Carolina’s Piedmont region....Ann Hoxie Brousseau loves living at The Residence at Otter Creek in Middlebury, Vt., “a combination between a college campus and a hotel.”… Jan Hunter Scheer, now a great-grandmother, says Parkinson’s has limited what she can do, but it’s under control and she’s well cared for....Calvin Jodat retired as music director of his church but continues as a deacon, sings in the choir, and now serves as bookkeeper.... Caroline Keiger is busy, healthy (all things considered), happy.... Janet Lockwood Johnson lives in a Quaker community in Sandy Spring, Md., and goes to plays, concerts, and activities at Friends House....Warner Lord continues as a volunteer at the Museums of Old York’s Library and the Gundalow Company of
Portsmouth. He visited John Houhoulis in Florida....Nancy Ann Ramsdell Chandler and Bruce ’53 enjoy living at Huntington Commons in Kennebunk where Bob Russell ’53 also resides....Living near Bates, Mert Ricker says it’s a treat to enjoy the many college events. He still travels to Japan....Roger TannerTheis and Nancy still enjoy their garden and orchard....Bob and Marion Buschmann True enjoy their retirement community in Westborough, Mass., and many new friends.
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 Nancy Mills Mallett and Russ enjoy the slower lane in their retirement community. They go to New Hampshire for the summer and drive between Boston and D.C. to visit family. They have 13 grandchildren.... Jessie Thompson Huberty was the keynote speaker at a San Francisco conference on World War II in the Philippines. She talked about Maj. Gen. Basilio J. Valdes, the Philippine army’s chief of staff, personal physician to President Manuel Quezon, and close friend of Gen. Douglas MacArthur. He was also her uncle. “The conference was held as part of an effort to get the Second World War in Asia, and more particularly in the Philippines, into the 11th grade history books of the public schools in California. I am happy to report that we succeeded,” she writes.
1957 Reunion 2017, June 9–11 email coordinator Douglas Campbell dougcamp@comcast.net class co-secretaries Wilma Gero Clapham claphamwilma@bell.net Margaret Leask Olney pegolney@verizon.net class co-presidents Judith Kent Patkin actionpsj@aol.com Richard H. Pierce rhpierce52@gmail.com
1958 Reunion 2018, June 8–10 class secretary Marilyn Miller Gildea marilyn@gildea.com class president John Lovejoy lovejoy@crocker.com