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Class News and mild weather, an opportunity to meet new coaches JB Wells (football) and Erin Cady (volleyball), and shop at the bookstore and art museum with a 58 percent discount chit. No calorie qualms, especially for the awesome spread for all returnees at Thorne Hall on Thursday and the Sunday brunch. While at Reunion, Jay Dings shared details of his most recent cruise with Grand Circle, which began on the Seine at Brittany and continued to Saint-Malo and Mont Saint-Michel. Highlights were the Cathedral at Chartres, Bayeux Tapestry, and a full day at the Normandy beaches including Arromanches, Omaha, the cemetery, and Pont du Hoc. A few weeks prior, at the scholarship luncheon, it was good to see Anne and John Snow and Wende Chapman, as well as ‘locals’ Harry Carpenter and Bill Cooke. Anita and John Albert’s
Polar bear mascot, 1984
daughter Julia is a member of the lacrosse team at Mary Washington College, and Mary Anne Smith wrote that a granddaughter will begin at Bates this fall. “Reed Chapman’s youngest son, Clark (now a junior at Dickinson College), was named to the AllConference tennis team and is looking forward to a semester in Brisbane, Australia. Meanwhile, Andy (his oldest son) successfully defended his PhD in education at the University of Maryland. “In our travels around New England, Nancy and I enjoyed seeing Daisy Crane and Janie Webster; both are fine, as is Marcia Pendexter, who is back for a summer in Maine. John Collier reports that he remains active with golf and that he and his family are all doing well. And Flora Cowen writes that the schedule is solidly blocked in
WBOR control room, 1970
to be in Brunswick in 2016 for the graduation of granddaughter Talia [who contributed the reporting to the illustrated quotes from Inauguration and Homecoming Weekend appearing in this issue.] “A pleasure to receive a copy of John Simonds’s newest book of poems, Footnotes to the Sun, which is a selection of observations, insights, and impressions. In particular, we enjoyed ‘Indian Summer,’ which recounts a day
Tom Giacobbe ’63 and Bill Higgins ’63 at the top of Tunk Mountain, near Ellsworth, Maine.
Soccer practice, 1962
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College through your will or trust, or naming Bowdoin as a beneficiary of your retirement account, allows you to make a long-term commitment without affecting your current standard of living. You may choose to designate a particular program as the beneficiary of your gift, or leave your gift to be used at the discretion of the College. Gifts made through a will, living trust, or beneficiary designation can be simple to arrange. If you decide to include Bowdoin in your future plans, please notify us so we can help.
Please contact Nancy Milam or Jennifer Crane in Bowdoin’s Gift Planning Office at 207-725-3172 or at giftplanning@bowdoin.edu. Go to our website at bowdoin.edu/gift-planning.
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at Yankee Stadium and concludes (reinforcing the hard-held convictions of my Bostonian bride) with the lines ‘…breathing easier as we drive north from the city, doors locked in case of who knows what…’ Late e-mail from Shari and Gene Helsel, who are well and settling into a new home, still in San Diego and next to a great bike path. Their
Four Kappa Sigs from the Class of 1962 during a reunion at Rosa’s Restaurant in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on August 10, 2015: Sabra and Dick Ladd, Margie and Peter Webster, Pat and Anne O’Brien, and Howard and Joanne Hall.
Birthday celebration, 1985
The Bowdoin Pines Society recognizes alumni, parents, and friends who have expressed their loyalty and gratitude to Bowdoin by including the College in their estate plans.