alumni at large denly in January), Rita McCabe ’45, Helen Strauss ’45, and Dee Sanford McCunn ’45. Y Chuck and I are well and so are our five children and seven grandchildren. Y Please send me your news so that your classmates can be in touch with you! —Shirley Martin Dudley
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Dana Robinson writes that he and his wife, Harriet (Nourse), are now happily settled in a very comfortable one bedroom and very large living room at Heritage Heights retirement community in Concord, N.H. Instead of just crossing the street in Juno Beach, Fla., for Harriet to swim or for Dana to play tennis, they can walk across the street to visit Harriet’s sister, Frances Nourse Johnston ’49, and her husband, Gunnard.
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In April 2005, Al and Marianna Nutter Wyer sailed to England on the Queen Mary 2 and spent a week in London. Said Marianna, “In the spring of 1944, Al had ‘an all-expense paid trip’ to Scotland on the Queen Mary 1 with more than 14,000 others. The recent trip was much better!” They also spent about six months at their family place in North Wolfboro, N.H., where they had visits with Miriam and Everett Rockwell. Marianna spoke recently with Kay Brine, who lives in the Cleveland, Ohio, area; she and Marianna went to Swampscott High School together. Marianna also was in touch with Vera T. Biemann, who lives in Alton, N.H, and in Swampscott she sees Ruth Barron Lunder, who lives nearby. Last spring, Marianna and Al planned to move to New Hampshire. Y Elizabeth Coombs Corke Myers celebrated her 20th anniversary where she spent her honeymoon—Hawaii. She wrote, “A great experience, but how Honolulu has boomed. We should have bought a little lot 20 years ago.” Elizabeth has 46 in her extended family of her and Charles’s children and spouses, grandchildren, and great grandchildren. In November 2004 she visited Alice-Marie March Miller, whose husband, Jim, died in May 2004. Y Last February 16, we held a mini-reunion at our house at Admiral’s Cove in Jupiter, Fla. Burt Krumholz and his wife, Shelley, attended, Aaron “Sandy” Sandler drove over from Bradenton, Dorothy and Jordan “Ike” Kaplan drove up from Boca Raton, and Phyllis and Bob Sage ’49 came from Palm Beach 42 COLBY / summer 2006
newsmakers For the past 50 years, Douglas Borton ’48 has contributed significantly to the actuarial field. It is fitting, therefore, that he received the first Lifetime Achievement Award of the Conference of Consulting Actuaries. A Fellow of the Society of Actuaries, he is also a book reviewer for the Actuarial Digest and serves as a trustee of the Actuarial Foundation. The Massachusetts Lodging Association honored Robert Sage ’49, president of Douglas Borton ’48 Sage Hotels & Lodges, with its Hall of Fame Award for his many years of contribution to the Massachusetts hospitality and tourism industry. At 79, Sage said he is “coming full circle in his forty-seven-year career” as he prepares to tear down the first hotel he opened and build a new one in its place.
milestones Deaths: Edna Slater Pullen ’40, April 1, 2006, in Ellsworth, Maine, at 87. Marion Mc Ardle Burnham ’41, May 11, 2006, in Waterville, Maine, at 84. Edwin A. Toolis ’41, December 6, 2005, in Modesto, Calif., at 88. Robinson D. Burbank ’42, February 9, 2006, in Summit, N.J., at 84. Richard E. Hayward ’43, July 11, 2003, in Mobile, Ala., at 82. Elizabeth Tupper Nichols ’43, June 30, 2006, in Augusta, Maine, at 84. William T. Belger Jr. ’44, M.D., May 29, 2002, in York, Maine, at 80. Hyman L. Hillson ’44, November 2, 2005, in Sarasota, Fla., at 85. Priscilla Tallman Miller ’44, November 11, 2005, in Rhode Island at 83. Evelyn Gates Moriarty ’44, February 23, 2006, in Westwood, Mass., at 84. Katharine Faxon Anderson ’45, March 9, 2006, in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, at 81. Hannah Osborne Boynton ’45, March 29, 2006, in Homestead, Fla., at 83. Arnold Grossman ’45, March 11, 2006, in East Falmouth, Mass., at 81. Ruth Rosenberg Medalia ’45, December 3, 2005, in Hartsdale, N.Y., at 81. Naomi Collett Paganelli ’45, February 11, 2006, in Bloomfield, Conn., at 82. Anne Calder Dick ’46, March 1, 2006, in Lowell, Mass., at 81. Elizabeth Scalise Kilham ’46, March 4, 2006, in Peabody, Mass., at 81. Courtney H. Simpson Jr. ’46, June 28, 2006, in Yarmouthport, Mass., at 84. Kerry S. Briggs ’47, September 30, 2001, in Jackson, Miss., at 76. Arline Richards Copple ’47, April 14, 2006, in Augusta, Maine, at 93. Elinor Farnham Frolio ’47, May 30, 2006, in New Bedford, Mass., at 80. R. Fay Klafstad Carpenter ’49, March 10, 2006, in Meredith, N.H., at 78. Gardens. Some of the group hadn’t seen each other in 40 to 50 years, and we spent time catching up on what had gone on in our lives before we adjourned to a special lunch table Dorothy had arranged at the Clubhouse—complete with blue napkins, a mannequin with a Colby College sweatshirt and Colby hat, mugs for the “boys,” and a Colby alumni decal and mints in a Colby wrapper! Y Doug Borton was the first recipient of the Conference of Consulting Actuaries newly established Lifetime Achievement Award for distinguished service to the conference and the actuarial
profession. Son Douglas accompanied him to Asheville, N.C., for the presentation at the conference’s annual meeting. Y “Maine Basketball Icon Still Has Lessons to Offer at 83” was the headline for an article about Gene Hunter in the Jan. 12, 2006, Portland Press Herald. Gene began coaching in 1948 at Houlton High School, the beginning of a career that landed him in the New England Basketball Hall of Fame. He won Maine state basketball championships at Morse High in Bath and in South Portland and a New Hampshire state championship
at Portsmouth High. Now coaching seventh graders at the Scarborough Middle School, Gene said, “I feel I still have something to offer. I’m probably a better coach than I was 30 years ago.” We all remember that Gene played for Lee Williams and was a great star for Colby. Y Jean and Burt Hinckley celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary on Dec. 19, 2005. Our congratulations to Burt and Jean also gives us an opportunity to tell you that Dorothy and David Marson celebrated their 55th anniversary in January 2006. Y All is well with Harold and Peg Clark Atkins. However, Peg included a December 2005 letter from Gordon Milliken describing the one-car accident on Aug. 5, 2004, that led to the death four days later of his wife, Marie Machell Milliken. Marie retired from Regis University as professor emerita of nursing and dean emerita of the School of Health Professions so that she and Gordon could travel. Marie received her M.N. from Yale University School of Nursing, an M.S. in psychiatric-mental health nursing from the University of Colorado, and a Ph.D. in administration in higher education from the University of Denver. —David and Dorothy Marson
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The well is dry! The inevitable result of only a trickle of news each quarter! To inspire you to help me increase the flow, I want to report that the turn-around time for class notes has been reduced. The time lag between my submission and publication is expected to be less than the previous six months. That means that this column, submitted on March 1, 2006, will be published in the summer issue of Colby. And you will get reunion news in the fall issue! I am grateful for this streamlining and I hope you will be, too. —Anne Hagar Eustis
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who serves as interim pastor of Hanover Congregational Church in Hanover, Conn., wrote us a brief note: “With my brother, Bert, now living in Waterville, I have a double reason to travel to central Maine from Providence. I find the 50-plus reunions enjoyable, and, as you know, the price is right!”
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So many of our classmates write to me from sunny Florida or sunny Arizona that it makes me wonder what