66 l reunion 2011, June 10–12 l Class President: Alexander W. Wood, 76 Marlborough St., 16, Boston MA 02116, awwood@mit.edu The Warwick (R.I.) Beacon did a feature story in May on the 100th birthday of Peter Latham’s father, Jerry ’33 (see 1933 column). The story noted that Peter is a retired Navy captain who runs his own dental practice and is chief of dental operations at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Providence.
67 l reunion 2012, June 8–10 l Class Co-Secretaries: Alexandra Baker Lyman, PO Box 214, Woodstock CT 06281, toads@snet.net; Ingrid Larsson Shea, 4735 McKinley Dr., Boulder CO 80303, chezshea4@comcast.net Class President: Robert B. Bowden, 29 Clearview Rd., White House Station NJ 08889, rbbowden@aol.com In Willington, Conn., Peter Andersen chairs the Willington Conservation Commission, while Judy (Harvell) chairs the Willington Scholarship Foundation, among other obligations. They’re beginning to spend more time at the family cottage on the Maine coast, and Peter is becoming involved there with the Downeast Coastal Conservancy. Son Eric is vice consul in the U.S. Embassy in Khartoum, Sudan, and daughter Kristen ’00 is a leadership gifts officer for Bates, operating from her own satellite office in Boston.... John Baldwin and wife Marika are tax attorneys in Towson, Md., and enjoy their place at Delaware Beach. He planned a golf match with Bates roommate Alan Lewis.... Still an investment counselor, Ken Burgess is also an organic micro-farmer on his 10 acres in the Virginia Piedmont. Ev helps with gardens and orchard.... Marian Clough Hillsdon is making lemonade out of the lemons of being laid off from her job of 25 years. Preparing for retirement, she enjoys granddaughters Katelyn and Kelly. She planned a grand celebration for the 90th birthday of her father, Leonard ’40.... In Lewiston, Sue Dallaire Lagueux looks forward to retirement next year after 27 years as the owner-operator of a small manufacturing company. She sings in her church choir and volunteers for numerous organizations.... Transplanted Texan Greg Egner enjoys retirement in Sanger with wife Sue. He admires Andrew Kusmin’s paintings.... Leslie Haas Koelsch retired after 35 years with the Newark Unified School District, but returned to work as foreperson of the San Francisco Civil Grand Jury.... Holly Hagedorn Zaitchik writes lyrically about Wayland, Mass., her family’s home for 32 years. “Even after much farmland has gone the way of development, coyotes sing their eerie celebrations in the woods and marshes just below us, deer amble past our windows, and giant prehistoriclooking snapping turtles clamber out of the marsh to lay their eggs at the edge of the lawn.”... Tim Hall joined a bank consulting group that does a great deal of work with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. He works exclusively in Florida. “It is very interesting work and it has returned me to the world of banking and finance.” He and Bryan Carlson are trying to get a new higher education company off the ground.... David Howe chairs the board at Saco Biddeford Savings Bank and volunteers as a host on the Downeaster and at the Saco station.... Lucille Howell Sansing continues as president of Argosy Univ. in the San Francisco Bay Area. She and Tom welcomed their first grandson.... Dick Kilbourne’s new business venture, United Atlantic Studios, mounted its first première at Cannes in May with a film starring Gabourey Sidibe of Precious.... John Ladik works for Northrop Grumman in performance engineering for biometric identification software.... John Lanza finished writing Shot Down Over Italy, a narrative of his uncle’s experience in World War II.... When she’s not traveling, Ingrid Larsson Shea plays volleyball at the senior level, does consulting, and performs with a Sweet Adelines group.... Wyland and Barbara Hoadley Leadbetter have grand times visiting their six grandchildren.... Alan Lewis has lots
of time for his four grandchildren, golf, swimming, sailing, and fishing.... Shirley Murphy Mongillo and husband Tony had a visit last summer from Marty Braman Duckenfield. Gary and Cynthia Hignite Archibald also stopped by.... Sally Myers McGinty is working on an international edition of her essay book and researching U.K. and EU schools.... Bill Paris transports special-needs children in Glastonbury, Conn. He has also become a gardener.... Rick Powers remains busy as president of North America at Combe Inc., a privately held consumer products company. Wife Darcy works in private equity. Daughter Zoe ’11 is at Bates. Rick and Darcy often get together with Keith Harvie and wife Judy.... Dick Reynolds was tapped by Tufts, his other alma mater, to be interim vice president of operations. Pam Johnson Reynolds serves with him on the board of Circus Smirkus.... In Portland, Ore., Rita Sorensen Leonard works as a special-education paraeducator for the public schools and as a photojournalist for The Bee. She’s in touch with Judy Mitchell Faust, Kathleen Kelly, and Helen Woodruff Paganucci.... In Auburn, Anne Stauffer Behnke retired from teaching fourth grade and has a new job down the street as teacher assistant in a Lewiston elementary school.... Leslie Stewart Simonson and husband Charlie, both UCC ministers in Tiverton, R.I., are “firmly planted in the sandwich generation.” They care for four elders in their 80s and delight in two grandchildren.... Nancy Stewart McRae and Howie have retired to their old farmhouse in Vermont. They visited Dana Dertinger Letvin, Nancy’s Bates roommate, in Michigan.... In Mill Valley, Calif., Fran Strychaz is winding up the 10-year remodeling of her home and contemplating her next move.... Dave Sutherland divides his time between the eight stations of the Monadnock Radio Group and the family’s gift and toy store in Keene, N.H. Saturday nights in summer find him announcing at Monadnock Speedway.... Ann Warren Turner’s newest book, The Father of Lies, is the story of a bipolar 14-year-old girl in Salem during the witch trials who, because of her heightened senses, knows when the accusers are lying but risks being hung as a witch herself if she exposes them. HarperCollins will publish the young-adult novel in February 2011.... Helen Woodruff Paganucci and her husband moved from Maine to Las Cruces, N.M. “No snow, plenty of sunshine, and friendly people.”
68 l reunion 2013, June 7–9 l Class Secretary: Rick Melpignano, 79 Farm St., POB 119, Bellingham MA 02019, rickmel713@comcast.net Class Co-Presidents: Gerald A. Lawler Jr. and Jill Howroyd Lawler, PO Box 167, Dublin NH 03444, lawlerjer@aol.com The class extends condolences to the family and friends of Robert A. Neal, who died of cancer April 22. His obituary will be in the November issue…. Jill Howroyd Lawler welcomed the rest of the Bates 8 (Barbara Burnham Leary, Nancy Harris Riley, Beth Krause Reid, Norrine Abbott Williams, Kathy Simmons Schultz, Susan Miller Long, and Linda Russell Findlay) to of “Jill’s Team” in the April 17 Portsmouth, N.H., Multiple Sclerosis Walkathon. Jill’s family walked for her — Jerry, daughters Liz and Jessica, Jess’ husband, daughter Nora, and son Gavin. The prior evening, the Bates 8 stayed at Barbara’s and celebrated Jill’s retirement from teaching and her courage all these years to keep on going with her MS diagnosis.... “The Three Amigos,” Toby Tighe, John Donovan, and David Clay, saddled up for another adventure in June at Toby and wife Lina’s home in Baltimore. With Susan Syren Donovan and Lina, they toured Baltimore’s Little Italy and Inner Harbor, dined on crab cakes at Mo’s, and watched the Red Sox beat the Orioles at Camden Yards.... Last winter, David and Jo-Ann French Driscoll did logistics and operational support for the Univ. of Miami Project Medishare field hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, then David returned in May and worked with the International Medical Assistance Team in Pétionville at the Internally Displaced Persons camp. He then
spent a week digging rubble with Hands On Disaster Response in Léogâne.... In Ridgewood, N.J., Susanne Driscoll Ziskis and husband Les celebrated their 40th anniversary in July. Son Mark was married in 2009 to Angela Chiong. A career coach with a major consulting firm since 1993, Susanne is happy to report that following the tsunami of layoffs last year, companies have begun hiring again…. Jill Jillson, Betsy Hervey Harrington, Sue Farwell, and Nancy Hohmann met for a mini-reunion at Magic Wings, a butterfly conservancy center in South Deerfield, Mass. Jill is finishing her 21st year of teaching religious education at church. Besides substitute teaching in the local middle school, she teaches bridge at the local senior center, co-taught a photography course as a volunteer at the local Lifelong Learning Institute, and has made several travelogue presentations for local organizations…. In October 2009, Dorothy Nicholas traveled to Johannesburg as a member of the U.S. Delegation of Science Educators. The delegation met with South African counterparts in a cultural and professional exchange. In October 2010, Dorothy has been invited by the president of the National Science Teachers Assn. to be a member of the U.S. Delegation of Science Educators traveling to Beijing…. In South Dennis on Cape Cod, Robert and Stephanie Schofield Walenski ’70 report that daughter Jennifer earned a master’s in library science from Simmons, and son Matthew has a Ph.D. and runs a research lab at UCSD in the cognitive science/ linguistics field. Bob produces films for cable and the Internet. He paints acrylic abstracts, and his work is hanging at the Three Fish and a Ram Gallery at Mashpee Commons. One of Stephanie’s prints was juried into the Cape Cod Museum of Art “Printmakers of Cape Cod” show.
69 l reunion 2014, June 6–8 l Class Secretary: Bonita E. Groves, 507 Eastview Dr., Wilton NH 03086, beegroves@comcast.net Class President: Richard A. Brogadir, 43 Richard Sweet Dr., Woodbridge CT 06525, dbrogie1@aol.com
70 l reunion 2015, June 12–14 l Class Co-Secretaries: Stephanie Leonard Bennett, 76 Elm St., Medford MA 02155, slenben@comcast.net; Elizabeth E. Brown, Apt. E6, 1909 Oregon Pike, Lancaster PA 17601, efant127@hotmail.com Class President: Stephen J. Andrick, 15 Eastway, Reading MA 01867, steve.andrick@chartisinsurance .com In Skowhegan, Glenn Ackroyd and Libby teach in a tiny Christian school, helping in a tiny church, working on a large farm and garden plot, and having fun together.... Steve Andrick is vice president in the legal department of Lexington Insurance Co. in Boston. When not coaching his sons’ baseball teams, he’s fly-fishing at his house in Newfound Lake in New Hampshire where he spends a lot of time on Steve Karkos’ pontoon boat. Steve Boyko helped them bring up the dock for the winter.... Chris Belcher Bosanquet reports that the grandchildren of Thom Bosanquet born since he died in February 2008 have been named after Thom: grandson Levi Thompson, born March 6, 2009, and granddaughter Thommie Noel, born Dec. 27, 2009.... At The MetroWest Daily News in Framingham, Mass., Mark Bergeron is “now the second-oldest reporter in the newsroom. I sometimes feel like the last scribe, a stubborn monk scribbling away at things that interest me as the Internet devours circulation like a termite infestation.” Xiuping works in the Infectious Disease Lab at B.U. Medical Center.... Bonnie Briggs Galway and Warren are both retired. She does some substitute teaching in foreign languages at Edward Little High School; he does reaccreditation visits to secondary schools in New England. They live in Auburn in the house where she grew up but spend a lot of time at their condo in Stuart, Fla.... Betsey Brown loves her job as a house manager at the Fulton Theater in Lancaster, Pa. Managing Sunday night summer concerts at the SUMMER 2010 Bates
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