Class Notes
1940 Ned Handy writes, “Margaret and I are grateful for continuing good health. We’re trying to find time to write two new books (one a collaboration), but continue to be involved with the WWII memoir, published in 2004. This year, the Sandwich High School made it the summer reading assignment for all of its 1,100 students and 100 teachers, and this has generated much involvement for us.” J. Walker Stuart passed away in January. He was predeceased by his wife, Jozefa Malinowska, with whom he shared a long and happy marriage.
1943 Romi Kunhardt Lang reports she has recently moved into an attractive retirement community and is enjoying the bucolic atmosphere.
1945 Congratulations to Rod Nordblom, who was the honoree at the 13th Annual United Way Real Estate and Building Industry breakfast this past December. At the breakfast, Rod made a speech about his relationship with the United Way and received a standing ovation from the crowd of 1,000 people.
1950 Nancy Chase writes, “In late September of the past five years, I have left Hingham, Massachusetts, on a friend’s boat to cruise to Florida via the inland waterway, journey to the Bahamas to enjoy three to four
months cruising there, and then head north again via the waterway. All summer I live aboard my dad’s old Morgan and sail the coast of Maine. Life is good!” Ann Cobb is enjoying life in Cambridge, Massachusetts: “We’ve added a Bichon puppy to the mix—a great pleasure.”
1952 Sarah Garrison and her husband, Lloyd Garrison ’50, are enjoying life in Norfolk, Connecticut. Lloyd has started a monthly newspaper for the town, while Sarah is taking cello lessons and playing lots of chamber music. They have six grandchildren and another on the way. “It’s a great treat to be grandparents,” Sarah says.
1953 Elinor Lamont Hallowell writes, “Most of 2006 was devoted to getting a friend elected to Congress, the first Democrat to represent several southeastern Arizona counties in 22 years. Our reward was a trip to D.C. in early January for Gabrielle Gifford’s inauguration. Last summer, I ‘dusted off’ my singing voice (first ‘found’ at Milton under the guidance of Jean McCawley and Howard Abell), when a friend asked me to join her Boston-based chorus for a European tour. We had five concerts in France, Holland and Belgium. The most moving experience, by far, was singing at the American WWII memorial and cemetery at Omaha Beach, Normandy.”
Members of the Class of 1954 recently gathered for a mini-reunion. Front row (pictured left to right): Sally Sprout Lovett, Louise Hibbard Hays, Kadie Maclaurin Staples, Jean Wothington Childs; Back row: Dick Fremont-Smith, Larry Altman, Jim Perkins, Bill Farnham, David Ehrlich, Kitty Ohl Whitely, Cynthia Hallowell, Liz Biddle Barrett, Gussie Crocker Stewart; Not pictured: Bill Hartmann.
1954 Several members from the Class of 1954 recently gathered to celebrate a mini-reunion. The group included Sally Sprout Lovett, Louie Hibbard Hays, Kadie Maclaurin Staples, Jean Worthington Childs, Dick Fremont-Smith, Larry Altman, Jim Perkins, Bill Farnham, David Ehrlich, Kitty Ohl Whitely, Cynthia Hallowell, Liz Biddle Barrett, Gussie Crocker Stewart, and Bill Hartmann.
Peggy Law reports, “We have just reached the wonderful milestone of becoming great-grandparents. It is quite something to get used to a daughter who is a grandmother!” George Smith writes, “I’m entering my third year as President of the Friends of Manchester (MA) Trees, Inc., and my second year as a working director of the Manchester-Essex Conservation Trust. For retirement income, I’ve become a landlord by renting out the adjoining Booth
Milton alumni gathered for the 90th birthday celebration of Marion Fuller Brown, wife of the late Henry Morrill Fuller ’32. Pictured from left to right: Caleb Hodges Clark ’93, Judith Rivinus Fuller ’64, “Bay” Williams Bigelow ’65, Henry Weld Fuller ’65, Martha Fuller Clark ’60, Emily Fuller Hawkins ’69, Robert G. Fuller ’57 and (kneeling) Alexander Lafcadio Cortesi ’79. Milton Magazine
65