CL A SS NOTES
1956
It was good to hear from Marion Mulholland Bolyard. She and husband Dudley have retired in Centennial, CO. His career in the oil industry meant moves to Texas, Wyoming, and then on to Denver. Their three daughters and three grandchildren are all in Colorado, as well. Dudley still looks for oil and gas independently. Sadly, Marion reported the death of Ruth Granston Higgins, who will be remembered by many classmates, despite having transferred to Duke. She married a man with an “oil” career and spent many years in Oklahoma. They enjoyed Ruth’s family home on the Maine coast, returning many summers, especially after retiring in CO. Word was received of the February death of Margaret O’Connor Drouin, a long-time resident of Derry, NH. She worked for 20 years in the Londonderry superintendent of schools office, and is survived by a son, daughter, and three grandchildren. In May, Kenneth Smith, a graduate of the Thompson School passed away. Ken was a farm equipment dealer in his home town of Brentwood, NH, and enjoyed restoring vintage farm machinery. He is survived by his wife, four children, and 10 grandchildren. Word was recently received reporting the May death of classmate James R. “Jim” Miller. After graduating in 1948 from Kimball Union, Jim served four years in the Army, most of that time in the Korean conflict. On the UNH campus, he was a member of ATO and played lacrosse and hockey. After graduation, Jim began a 30-year career with Travelers Insurance in Hartford, CT. Upon retirement, he and wife Joanne returned to his hometown of Canaan, NH. She, as well as two children and two grandchildren, survive him. I know there’s news to be shared out there! Please send your news. —Joan Zing Holroyd, 5 Timber Ln., Apt. 213, Exeter, NH 03833; j.holroyd__zing@alumni.unh.edu
1957
Ronald Courtney lives in California and is still working in his own retail business. “Thank God for the San Francisco Giants and the 49ers,” he says. He is still happily married to Betty Crowe and has nine grandchildren with five of them in college starting in September. Leah Mancini lives in Salt Lake City, UT, is doing fine, and working part-time as an occupational therapist in two rehab centers. Between work, grandkids, and volunteering she keeps very busy. Anne Gassaway Deware says “all is well” and is preparing for a trip to Spain in September to walk the Camino de Santiago. C. Russell Shillaber, from Strafford, NH, is still practicing law four days a week. Even his three grandchildren have “left the nest.”Paul Aliopoulios lives in Freeport, ME. He and Janet continue to enjoy year-round living in Maine after retiring in 2000 and 2001, respectively. Paul continues to play in the cul de sac quartet and the Pine Tree Winds. Janet, a docent at the Portland Museum of Art, continues to paint and study. Several Theta U’s still try to hold minireunions.The latest was in Kennebunkport, ME, in June with Carly Rushmore Hellen, Nancy Jillson Glowacki, Cindy Cameron Clement, and Ann
Garside Perkins in attendance for lobster rolls. Our president, Fritz Armstrong, says thanks to his class officers, class fund-raisers, and UNH friends of 50-plus years, who made possible his 2012 Alumni Meritorious Service Award last November. —Ann Garside Perkins, P.O. Box 105, Kennebunkport, ME 04046; musiklovers@alumni.unh.edu
1958
Our 55th class reunion, held in Durham on June 15, was attended by 34 class members. The day started with scones and coffee at the Alumni Center, followed by a visit to the new Peter T. Paul business school building located across from Stoke Hall. James “Tink” Twaddle then led the group in a memorial service at the library. We have lost 50 classmates since our 50th Reunion. Later in the afternoon, about 65 class members and partners met at Mary Ann Stone and David Chase’s home on Durham Point for a cocktail party, followed by a UNH-sponsored cookout. The Chases were generous hosts, providing hors d’oeuvres and an open bar. According to those who attended, it was a wonderful setting, wonderful food and drinks, and, most of all, wonderful friends reunited. Gifts (both received and deferred) of $67,557 were contributed to the university in honor of our 55th year. (More information in Class Notes online.) I was sorry to miss this milestone event. In January 2013, I accepted an invitation to present a scientific paper at a space climate conference held in Oulu, Finland; the dates coincided with the reunion weekend. After the conference, my husband and I drove along the shore route of Norway from Kirkenes (on the Russian border) to Bergen. We did this with no advance planning and had our share of (mis) adventures. I am sorry to report the passing of two of our classmates: Eugene Sullivan Jr. passed away in Laconia on June 6. Gene received a degree in accounting. He worked as assistant city auditor for Concord, a program administrator for both Raytheon Corporation and Sanders Associates, and finally finance director of the N.H. Public Utilities Commission. He is survived by his wife of 58 years, Elissa, two sons and a daughter. Alphonse Langlois, a professor emeritus of Duke University, passed away onJuly 2. There is an “In Memoriam” on p. 61. —Peggy Ann Shea, 100 Tennyson Ave., Nashua, NH 03062; peggy.shea@alumni.unh.edu
1959
Please send news.
—Carole Vitagliano Carlson, 15 Thatcher Rd., Gloucester, MA 01930; c.v.carlson@alumni.unh.edu
1960
Although I am writing this letter from New Hampshire, by the time you receive the fall UNH Magazine, we will have moved to the address listed below to be closer to our children and grandchildren in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Doug Blampied, president of the Southwest Florida alumni chapter, reported that UNH football coach Sean McDonnell ’78 was guest
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speaker at their annual meeting. Sally Crowley Conlon of Pinehurst, NC, got together with Diane Emery DallaMura and Janice Edwards Desjardins in Venice, FL. Allwynne Fine took a trip to Utah, Wyoming, and Idaho. She has kept busy producing plays for the Community Players of Concord, NH. For fun in the spring, summer, and fall months, Dale Hardy of Lee, NH, flies helicopters and tows gliders with the Civil Air Patrol. David Hoeh and his wife of Belmont, VT, met their daughter at Mount Katahdin and witnessed the completion of her almost five-month hike of the Appalachian Trail. They went on a three-week tour of China in March 2013. Rudy Matalucci of Albuquerque, NM, continues his annual backpacking adventures down the Grand Canyon and elsewhere with his son and grandson. Mary Zoukis Papastavros and husband Ted vacationed in Hawaii and London. During their stay in Florida, Sam and Sally Anthony Paul attended the UNH Southwest Florida alumni chapter’s annual meeting and met alums from the class including Doug Blampied, Peter and Barbara Benson Davis, Fritz Armstrong, and Jim Yakovakis ’57. Good news from Gail Silva of Aiea, HI, saying she is now in cancer remission. Martha Taylor toured Iceland in 2012 and Ireland in September 2013. I offer my apologies to Joyce Nylen Timson of Princeton, WV. In our previous letter, I mistakenly wrote that she lived in VA. Joe Upton’s grandson graduated from UNH in June. Charles Wibel opened the first of what will be a small chain of NH shops plus an online store called Granite State Goodies. Shop No. 1 is in Wolfeboro at 25 N. Main Street. —Estelle “Stella” Belanger Landry, 315 Chickory Trail., Mullica Hill, NJ 08062; (603) 494-2161; stella.landry@alumni.unh.edu
1961
Col. Jim Soule, U.S. Army, Ret., and his wife, Marianne, are enjoying their retirement years as volunteer ambassadors at the Napa Valley Visitor’s Center during the winter months and docent lighthouse keepers at the Pemaquid Point Lighthouse in New Harbor, ME, during the summer and fall. —Pat Gagne Coolidge, 80 River Rd., Rollinsford, NH 03869;pat.coolidge@alumni.unh.edu
1962
Bill Doran of Wilmington, NC, thanks his UNH classmates and friends for their comfort and support on the death of his wife Cathy Frawley Doran ’64 last December. Vic Battaglioli of Colchester, CT, enjoys his latest 1-year-old granddaughter. His Bacon Academy Class L basketball team played for the state championship at the Mohegan Sun Arena. Carol Wetherbee Bense of Mirror Lake, NH, is busy working on “Glamour in Mud Season” a Wolfeboro, NH, event that they are hoping to grow into an annual event: glamourinmudseason.org. Win Dodge attended wife Julie Foster Dodge’s class of 1963 50th Reunion and met with several ’62 classmates. Asuma “Kathy” Melkis Briedis of Maplewood, NJ, plays violin with the New Jersey Intergenerational Orchestra, and serves as a