ALUMNI NEWS
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1940
Jean McKay Eckhardt writes: “After seven months in hospitals and six months in two nursing homes, I have surfaced from the depths. I now live in a pleasant assisted-living home in Peterborough, N.H.”
1941 | Reunion 1942
William Bayliss sends his best to his classmates. He has served for six years as a senior examiner with the Baldrige Award through the Department of Commerce and National Institutes of Standards & Technology. He continues to work at Duke University and enjoys his 10 grandchildren. “We are living in Thirwood Place Retirement Community in South Yarmouth, Cape Cod, Mass.,” writes Douglas Dorchester. “It is an excellent facility on 40 acres surrounding Flax Pond, and the services are extraordinary. We recommend it highly.”
1943
Ramble: A Memoir by William J. Gehron is available from Amazon.com or Lulu.com. It touches on life at Loomis, 1942–43. Dorothy Schoenfuss Howell writes: “I talk to sister Lee Schoenfuss Smith ’40 and brother Art Schoenfuss ’35 often. All are well — just older!”
1945
“I would never have accomplished all I have at Skidmore College or here in Illinois without the rigorous, disciplined education I received at Chaffee 34 |
in my four years there,” writes Jean Parmelee Sodaro.
1946 | Reunion 1947
A sample of paintings by Eleanor Young Lord can be seen at www.eleanorlord.com. Judith Munch Pinney moved back to West Hartford after 32 years in Avon, Conn. She is a Hospice volunteer, and she still enjoys downhill skiing and tennis.
’53
Nate Putnam writes: “Met the Sam Blumenthals in Winter Park, Fla. Toured Rollins College. Tuition is 50 grand now!” From Edward C. Rhodes: “I am in relatively good health. Still playing bridge, poker, and cribbage with friends and neighbors. One grandson is married and working for Boeing; another is on his way to New Zealand; my granddaughter is at the University of Oregon.”
1948
Last summer, Carol DeMar Mulready and Shirley Thrall Hugot had a “delightful renewal” (as Carol puts it) with Marcia Moore Bain and Martha Lyon Braun.
1950
Raymond Bagg retired last August, receiving an appointment as professor emeritus, Department of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation, Texas Tech Health Science Center, Paul Foster School of Medicine, El Paso. James Didriksen moved to Atlanta, Ga., into the Dunwoody Dogwood Forest Community
Tom Wilson ’52 stands next to a mahogany sideboard he made for his dining room in Birmingham, Ala. Class of 1953 graduates Phyllis Gould Johnson, Barbara Griffin Cox, Betty Jane Townsend, Gloria Barnes Harper, and Francine Berth Myles enjoy a December 2010 gathering at Gloria’s home in New York City. Stanley Johnson, Bob Myles, and Nelson Harper also attended.
for assisted living. He writes: “I am doing well here and just completed left- and right-eye cataract operations that worked out well. Marianna, my wife of 43 years, passed away in November 2009.”
Poetry — or — Probing for the Humerus.” John plans a May visit to the Island to present his latest two volumes of poetry to the Katharine Brush Library.
Bert Engelhardt still works part time as an editor for SAIC in Reston, Va. He has a consulting business, Engelhardt Cross Cultural Services.
From Dale Andrews come greetings from sunny Florida.
1951 | Reunion
John Foster, author of three books of poetry (so far), has been selected by the Florida State Poets Association to present a workshop on humorous poetry at the association’s annual convention. His workshop title: “The Funny Bone in
1952
Bill Thompson is in his 51st year of teaching U.S. history and political science on the college level.
1953
Richard D. Crutchfield writes: “I was delighted to read Mr. Scanlon’s [Jeffrey Scanlon ’79, head of the Loomis Chaffee English Department] very appropriate comments in an Annual Fund solicitation re-