Colby Magazine Volume 92 Issue 4 Fall 2003 Article 10 October 2003 Alumni @ Large Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/colbymagazine Recommended Citation (2003) "Alumni @ Large," Colby Magazine: Vol. 92 : Iss. 4 , Article 10. Available at: https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/colbymagazine/vol92/iss4/10 This Contents is brought to you for free and open access by the Colby College Archives at Digital Commons @ Colby. It has been accepted for inclusion in Colby Magazine by an authorized editor of Digital Commons @ Colby. 1940s Alumni at Large 20s/30s racial restrictions in Virginia were in 1940s Correspondents effect at that time, the church remained Deaths: Helen E. Davis ’26, March 28, 2003, in Pittsfield, Maine, open to all races—and in the vanguard 1940 at 99 Edward M. Locke ’29, December 1, 1997, in Marquette, of civil and human relations, leading Ernest C. Marriner Jr. Mich., at 92 Harold F. Lemoine ’32, July 7, 2003, in San Diego, to the formation of the Fairfax County 10 Walnut Drive Calif., at 94 Ruth Leighton Thomas ’33, April 30, 2003, in Council on Human Relations. Rev- Augusta, ME 04330-6032 Pittsfield, Maine, at 91 Luke R. Pelletier ’37, January 31, 2003, erend Beckwith’s achievements listed 207-623-0543 in Port Orange, Fla., at 86 Albert W. Berrie ’38, July 21, 2003, in the award citation include “serv- [email protected] in Breezewood, Pa., at 87 William S. Hains ’38, June 6, 2001, ing as the first president of the Fairfax 1941 County Council on Human Relations, at 85 Roger E. Stiles ’38, April 5, 2002, in Augusta, Maine, at Bonnie Roberts Hathaway second president of the Virginia Coun- 83 Rhoda Wein Kraft ’39, April 22, 2003, in Palm Beach, Fla., 400 Atlantic Avenue #34C cil on Human Relations and member at 83 Frances Stobie Turner ’39, January 25, 2003, in Hickory Leominster, MA 01453 of the Southern Regional Council in Corners, Mich., at 84. 978-343-4259 Atlanta, Ga. He was a moderator of [email protected] the Middle Atlantic Conference of 40 Again this year Doris Rose out of trouble.” . Mike Berry wrote Congregational Christian Churches 1942 Hopengarten and Alleen Thomp- a great, newsy letter a while back. He and chair of the Potomac Association 1943 son led our class contingent (this lives in Copper Harbor in the summer Church and Ministry Committee, c/o Meg Bernier year, only me) in the parade of and Houghton in the winter. As I’m Central Atlantic Conference, United Colby College classes during Reunion Weekend. sure you all know, both communities Church of Christ.” Reverend Beck- Office of Alumni Relations In spite of the death of her husband are on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula with and his wife, Elizabeth, reside in Waterville, ME 04901 earlier this year, Doris was her usual jutting out into Lake Superior. Mike Springfield, Va. They have two sons 207-872-3185 cheerful self—always a pleasure to has 10 grandchildren—five male and and four grandchildren. [email protected] talk with. Jonathan Taylor ’83, son of five female—symmetrical, as he says. [email protected] Mary (Robinson ’41) and Bill Taylor, He has some balance problems but still The Lawrence High School 44 1944 shared reminiscences with us during walks up and down stairs and around Alumni Association in Fairfield, Josephine Pitts McAlary the lobster luncheon—especially about town with his two toy poodles. We’d Maine, presented Harold Joseph 131 Russell Avenue Gerry (Stefko ’41) and Gordon Jones like to see Mike, Ruth, Roger and all with its 2003 Bulldog Award. Harold, Rockport, ME 04856 and their six children on the back- the rest of you at our 65th reunion in a 1940 Lawrence graduate, is president [email protected] yard hockey rink in Needham, Mass. 2005. Start planning now! of Joseph’s Clothing and Sporting . Joanna (McMurty ’41) and Lin —Ernest C. Marriner Jr. Goods in Fairfield. I would like 1945 Workman have changed their winter to remind you all that next June will Naomi Collett Paganelli headquarters from Ft. Myers, Fla., to 42 Jack Stevens and his wife, be our 60th class reunion. Save the 2 Horatio Street #5J Thomasville, Ga., but their summers Lucille, are enjoying life in San date: June 4-6, 2004. So many of you New York, NY 10014-1608 are still spent in New Harbor, Maine. Diego, “America’s Finest City.” They made the tremendous effort to return 212-929-5277 Jo recently had successful surgery for planned to visit friends in San Antonio to the campus in 1994, and I hope we [email protected] colon cancer, but she couldn’t come to will have a great turnout for this next in September. Robert Rice writes, 1946 Maine until mid-June, so they missed one. The campus is beautiful and grow- “We must all be in our 80s, with a few Anne Lawrence Bondy our Reunion Weekend for the first time ing steadily. Reunion Weekend wishing we were in our 20s during the 771 Soundview Drive in many years. Marjorie Gould this June was fun. Among those who post-War ’40s! We’re grizzled, grunt- Mamaroneck, NY 10543 Shuman ’37 told us that Roger and returned were Kay Howes Brooks ing and groaning. The great-grand- 914-698-1238 Ruth Gould Stebbins are doing well and her daughter, Wendy, Efthim children are helping us send/receive [email protected] in Sequim, Wash., although Roger has e-mail, and the jokes are duplicates (Tim) Economu, Bob St. Pierre, had some vision problems that have of our ‘20th-century humor,’ only who came with his daughter, Dick 1947 interfered with his avocation of paint- updated to sound current. Colby’s still Mountfort and his sister, Harris Mary “Liz” Hall Fitch ing pictures. Frank Farnham’s great. Enjoy your sunsets!” . Beniah Graf and wife Merrie, Gabe Hikel and 4 Canal Park #712 two-pronged career as farmer and Harding was honored for his 20-year wife Zanie, Naj and Harold Joseph, Cambridge, MA 02141 writer was written up in the Augusta, service as the chairman of Thomaston Fred McAlary ’43 (who was back for 617-494-4882 Maine, Capital Weekly. He recalls Academy Trustees. When Thomaston his 60th) and I. Others were listed as fax: 617-494-4882 meeting Colby’s $200 tuition with a Academy was founded in 1983, Ben was coming, but I did not see them. Pete [email protected] half scholarship and by selling root Bliss had called early in June to say that the guiding force behind bringing the 1948 vegetables and trading vegetables for he couldn’t make this reunion but plans University College to Thomaston and David and Dorothy Marson meals at Ma Frost’s Eatery. An English to return for next year’s celebration. to renovating the building that houses 41 Woods End Road major with aspirations for a career as The fact is that we are all 80 years old the institution. Dedham, MA 02026 a reporter, he ended up publish- or more, and many of our classmates 781-329-3970 ing short stories in several national are not in good health. It is very clear 43 The Reverend Hubert Beck- fax: 617-329-6518 magazines, including The Saturday that old age is not for sissies. with received the James Floyd Pillar [email protected] Evening Post and The Ladies’ Home of Faith Award at Howard University —Josephine Pitts McAlary Journal. Although Frank has made his School of Divinity. The award honors 1949 mark as a writer, most local folk know his commitment to religious leader- 45 Our traveling ’45s: As I write Anne Hagar Eustis him as the proprietor of Farnham’s ship and to civil rights and human this in June, Helen Strauss was plan- 24 Sewall Lane Market, the popular roadside stand relations. In 1955 Reverend Beckwith ning a tour of Oregon in August. It Topsham, ME 04086 in Belgrade, Maine, that Frank has founded the Congregational Christian will be largely a nature appreciation 207-729-0395 operated for decades. He still hoes, Church of Fairfax County, Virginia, trip but will also include an outdoor fax: 978-464-2038 plants and tends crops on a three-acre later renamed the Little River United production of the Oregon Shakespeare [email protected] plot, he said, “just enough to keep me Church of Christ. Although official Festival. Helen will add a visit with her COLBY • F A L L 2 0 0 3 | 37 Alumni at Large 1940s-1950s nephew in Colorado. Joan Gay NEWSMAKERS University Park, FL 34201-2067. Kent writes, “I went to San Diego last Phone: 941-358-3358. We attended year, and if all my friends, relations and Rev. Hubert S. Beckwith ’43 received Colby’s 182nd commencement with memories weren’t in Long Island and the James Floyd Pillar of Faith Award at our daughter, Deborah Marson ’75, if New York wasn’t the greatest city in Howard University School of Divinity who is an overseer of the College. the world, I would seriously consider for his commitment to religious leader- Commencement was on the lawn in moving there.” Joan’s writing her ship and to civil rights and human rela- front of Miller Library, and David and second local history, about the town tions. The church Rev. Beckwith founded Deborah marched in the academic of North Hempstead from the earliest in 1955—the Congregational Christian procession. The sky was threaten- settlers circa 1645 to 2000. She rec- Church of Fairfax County, Virginia, later ing, and the cool wind was somewhat ommends consulting the back issues renamed the Little River United Church of uncomfortable, but the weather failed section of your library to learn what Christ—was open to all races and led to the to dampen the spirits of all in atten- things were really like in “the good formation of the Fairfax County Council on dance.