volunteering two hours daily with second-graders at Blue Point School in Scarborough, Maine.... Theodora Rizoulis Howard enjoys life in Memphis, Tenn., near son John and family.... Priscilla Simpson Boyan and Norm ’43 are hanging in there, enjoying friends in their retirement community and each other.... Dorothy Tuttle Tarr lives in an assisted-living apartment at Sugar Hill Retirement Community in Wolfeboro, N.H., and enjoys seeing fellow resident Jane Woodbury Quimby.... Ruth Ulrich Coffin has been overwhelmed by the many personal messages she received since the loss of Frank ’40. “He meant so much to so many people. His spirit will always be with me.”... Jane Veazie Nelson treasures her memories of dear friend Pat Bradbury Baldwin, who died in June 2009. “At Bates at the first ‘Prom’ I danced with Chandler Baldwin. He spent our dance telling me how wonderful Pat was. He kept his love for her forever after.” Jane still sees Fran Harlow Evans.... Getting ready to move to a retirement community in Dayton, Ohio, near family, Rose Worobel wondered, “How did I ever accumulate so much stuff?”... Ruth Wyer Haines is happy to live in the same house in Rockland, Maine. She plays duplicate bridge three times a week and goes to church on Sunday.
43 Class Secretary: Jean Lombard Dyer, Apt. 5, 89 Central Ave., Peaks Island ME 04108 Class President: Webster P. Jackson, Apt. 520, 103 Brooksby Village Dr., Peabody MA 01960, wpvmjackson@verizon.net A note from Roy Fairfield notes that he and Maryllyn celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary last November. “M. Donna, probably the first baby in our class, born on my birthday in 1942, is now in her fourth year of retirement after 36 years of teaching social studies in a Connecticut high school.” In his career, Roy has published more than a half-dozen professional books, including two histories of Saco, Maine, and served as editor of the DoubledayHopkins student edition of The Federalist Papers. In his “reFIREment,” a term he helped to coin that suggests the opportunity to “refire,” not “retire,” during one’s later years, Roy has published a book on the Saco-Lowell Shops of Biddeford, where he worked before, during, and after Bates, as well as two books of poetry and three novels. His life ride has also included training Peace Corps volunteers, co-founding and developing experimental master’s and doctoral programs (in conjunction with Antioch and the Union graduate schools). He has also traveled extensively. At the moment, he’s involved with the development of an archive of his personal and professional papers at the Roy P. Fairfield Maine History Room at the Dyer Library, so named for Roy in 2007.
44 Class Secretary: Virginia Stockman Fisher, PO Box 7631, Portland ME 04112, diginny@aol.com Class Co-Presidents: Edmund H. Gibson, 13 Wheeler Pk., Brunswick ME 04011-1635; Richard L. Keach, 52 Missionary Rd., Cromwell CT 06416, richardkeach@att.net
45 l reunion 2015, June 12–14 l Class Co-Secretaries: Carleton K. and Arline Sinclair Finch, 612 Rindge Rd., Fitchburg MA 01420, zeke137@aol.com Kurt Lord’s cancer of the vocal cord seems to be arrested after radiation. He and June are moving into an assisted-living complex in 2011.... Charlotte Stafford Brauneis and Harry celebrated their 50th anniversary with a cruise through the Panama Canal and across the Caribbean to Fort Lauderdale. But getting to and from the ocean by air was no fun, she adds.
46 l reunion 2011, 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 04210-4522, janenorris@roadrunner.com It is amazing how productive and active someone our age can be. Barbara Varney Randall volunteers for the Public Theatre and the Community Little Theatre; serves on the boards of Seniors Plus Advisory Board, Androscoggin Historical Society, and the School of Nursing of Central Maine Medical Center; and is chair of Frye School Housing. She’s also on the scholarship and community committees of her retired teachers association. She was Poster Girl in 2009 for the United Way, having served on major committees. Through the Readers Theatre of the Community Little Theatre, she presents programs to entertain residents in nursing homes and at senior living centers. She belongs to one of the oldest book clubs in the area. Barbara teaches a fall course at the Lewiston/Auburn Senior College connected with the Univ. of Southern Maine, where she also takes courses. She is a former president of Delta Kappa Gamma International, an honor society for women educators, and is still involved in her local chapter. Our Barbara serves on a community committee of Lewiston/Auburn College, which is intent on dealing more effectively with non-traditional students. Congratulations to Barbara!
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@ecunet.org 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, vesmith@together.net Elizabeth May Hansen says she and Glen ’48 “are both reasonably well and enjoying life. Playing golf and bridge.”
48 l reunion 2013, June 7–9 l Class Secretary: Roberta Sweetser McKinnell, 38 Hornbeam Rd., Duxbury MA 02332 Class President: Vivienne Sikora Gilroy, 1009 Ridge Dr., Union NJ 07083, vgilroy@verizon.net
49 l reunion 2014, June 6–8 l Class Co-Secretaries: Barbara Cottle Aldrich, 2213 Ashlar Village, Wallingford CT 06492; 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 At this writing, Sonya Bianchi Hulswit and Frank were looking forward to grandson Evan’s marriage, with son Chris performing the ceremony.... Art Bradbury and Charlotte are active in church, Rotary, Woman’s Club, book club, and community theater.... Frederick Chenery, who retired from the State Library of Iowa in 2000, returned to his home in Dubuque.... Dorothy Collins Buchanan is honored to have her fifth grandson, Collins Reed Buchanan, carry her maiden name as his given name.... Barbara Cottle Aldrich keeps busy with activities at Ashlar Village retirement community in Wallingford, Conn.... June Cunningham Walch had a fall requiring surgery on her ankle but she and Allan still planned to go to Florida.... Rachel Eastman Feeley still works full time teaching piano. She has attended college each summer for the past 35 years to get more training in the Suzuki method of piano.... Serine Ferrigno Rossi planned a trip to the
Oberammergau Passion Play, part of a Rhine River cruise and tour.... Maury Flagg is slowly recovering after a heart attack last September and doing some writing.... Lois Foster Johnson and Charles have served as hosts and gone abroad as friendship ambassadors with Friendship Force, a group that promotes better understanding between people across the world.... Judith Hawkins Allen is happily retired in Virginia. She loves her Kindle for reading.... Nellie Henson volunteered at a Christian farm called Echo in North Fort Meyers, Fla., which does experimental gardening to help poor farmers around the globe produce better crops.... Bud Horne writes that son Don ’83 couldn’t believe the pictures he sent of Alumni Walk.... Carol “Happy” Jenkinson Johnson’s volunteer activities include feeding the homeless at her church, giving children extra help at school, and Habitat for Humanity. “Fridays are kept for fun.”... Evelyn Kushner Perlman and Sumner were excited to attend a Bates Outing Club 90th anniversary event featuring North Pole trekker Tyler Fish ’96. She continues a small private practice and does some pro bono clinical work at the Children’s Charter, an agency that helps children and families who experienced trauma.... Coping with a divorce, Shirley Mann Nelson has been “reweaving the tapestry of my life, working daily at a local elementary school with special-education children and at night in adult education.”... Helen “Topper” Odegaard Russell reports that granddaughter Kimberly Russell ’09, a chemistry major who served as a BatesStar host at Reunion, had a one-year grant to do research at Dartmouth.... Danny Reale planned to attend a Squadron Reunion in Biloxi, Miss.... George Rowan and Pat remain active as members at their UCC churches in lower Connecticut. They participate in outreach programs, and George helps Pat, who is registrar for the Fairfield West Assn. of the Connecticut Conference of UCC.... Albert Sparks still works in his retail business in Malden, Mass., with daughter Amy, but takes most of the winter off in Boca West in Florida.... Peggy Stewart Jones and Dana love living in Melbourne, Fla., where they play golf, exercise, and do a little volunteering. She keeps in contact with Poke Bayer Delaney, Jane Diefendorf Simonds, and Molly Ramsey McPhillips.... Jean Thompson Hawie moved to an assisted-living facility in Haines City, Fla., closer to son Richard, after suffering a stroke.... Leon Wiskup writes from New Mexico that Bates “was the all-important turning point of my life.” Professors let “this diffident son of millworker immigrant parents know that he was not without some brains and a few talents. Whatever good I may have done in my 40-year teaching career, that goodness sprouted from the Bates College faculty and from dear fellow students.”
50 l reunion 2015, June 12–14 l Class Secretary: Lois Keniston Penney, Apt. 302, 52 Missionary Rd., Cromwell CT 06416-2143, hulopenney@sbcglobal.net Class President: Weston L. Bonney, 263 Clifton St., Portland ME 04103, wbonney@maine.rr.com Sylvia Stuber Heap of Watertown, N.Y., was honored by Jefferson Community College for outstanding work on behalf of the college. She moved to Watertown in 1959 and almost immediately began advocating for a community college. Besides helping recruit and retain teachers by creating a welcome program, she has served on a college advisory committee that acts as a liaison with the community. She was a leader in establishing a task force that led eventually to baccalaureate and graduate-level educational programs in the community. A volunteer with the College Women’s Club, the American Assn. of University Women, and St. Lawrence Valley Educational Television, Sylvia has been an adjunct faculty member at Jefferson. “It is amazing how one person’s vision can become a wonderful reality for so many,” said the chair of the Jefferson trustees.
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