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CLASS CORRESPONDENT
CLASS CORRESPONDENT
Percy Nelson 617-244-4126 percylnelson@comcast.net
John Guilbert 520-887-0628
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1950 CLASS CORRESPONDENT NEEDED
CLASS CORRESPONDENT
Putty McDowell 781-320-1960 pbmcd2@verizon.net
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1951 CLASS CORRESPONDENT
Galt Grant 781-383-0854 galtgra@gmail.com
CLASS CORRESPONDENT
Gregg Bemis 505-983-7094 gbemis@swcp.com
1948 CLASS CORRESPONDENT
Bill Bliss 781-326-1062 wlbliss@comcast.net
34 Nobles WINTER 2017
1952 & 1953 CLASS CORRESPONDENT
Winston “Hooley” Perry perrydise@tampabay.rr.com The sky was a beautiful blue, the temperature was comfortably warm, the venue was exceptional, the stars were in perfect align-
ment, the company was ebullient and happily content, old Nobles classmates and older friends were in abundance and thrilled to be all together in one place, the perfectly cohesive group once again, and Plymouth, Massachusetts, became the center of the universe for many of the world’s finest ladies and gentlemen that one could gather together all in one place. For those of you who missed this wonderful event, the members of the Class of 1952 who attended (in alphabetical order, of course) were Wink and Peg Childs, Bob and Carolyn Cumings, David and Terry Horton, Hal and Carol Knapp, Bill and Mary Stevens, Peter Summers, Ben Taylor, and Peter and Carol Willauer. The Class of 1953 members were Sam and Joan Bartlett, John and Jean Childs, Evan and Grace Geilich, Bob Hoffman, Emmie Newell (Gosh, how I miss my “Louis-Boy”), Hooley and Andrea Perry, and David Thibodeau. The very close friends who rounded out this exceptional group were Larry and Wendy Bidstrup, Jim and Loli Hammond, and Peter Partridge, plus our special guests Greg Croak ’06 (director of graduate affairs), who came bearing exceptional Nobles gifts for everyone, and Joyce Leffler Eldridge (senior writer of the history of Nobles), who gifted every Nobles classmate with a first-edition copy of her newly published book In Their Voices: The Sesquicentennial History of Noble and Greenough School 1866–2016,
plus gave a short talk on portions of its content. So, again, we were doubly blessed by gifts from the school, plus an in-depth compendium of 150 years of the school’s history. How great is that? One of the many email comments, and more interesting suggestions for future luncheons, came from Peter and Carol Willauer, who thought that for our very next 2017 September luncheon, we should have a buffet luncheon, heavy on the hors d’oeuvres and finger food, with a bunch of chairs and small circular tables placed around the room, where everyone could sort of play musical chairs (or as Benny Taylor suggested, “A Moveable Feast”) while moving around to different tables and visiting with everyone at the party. One of the highlights of the luncheon was the uber-fancy “tricked out” walker that Bill Stevens ’52 brought to the party. It was very elegantly engineered and brightly
Bob “Stretch” Cumings ’52