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Colby Magazine Volume 98 Issue 1 Spring 2009 Article 11 April 2009 Alumni @ Large Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/colbymagazine Recommended Citation (2009) "Alumni @ Large," Colby Magazine: Vol. 98 : Iss. 1 , Article 11. Available at: https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/colbymagazine/vol98/iss1/11 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. alumni at large 1920s-30s Meg Bernier Boyd Colby College B&B Bound Office of Alumni Relations Waterville, ME 04901 1940 Ernest C. Marriner Jr. [email protected] 1941 Meg Bernier Boyd [email protected] 1942 Meg Bernier Boyd [email protected] 1943 Meg Bernier Boyd [email protected] Howard Johnson, a Ph.D. psychologist in Rhode Island with a master’s in theology, is in the process of re-revising a book on radical philosophy and theology. 1944 From left, Sara Orton Glickman ’71, Ann Arbor ’70, and Lin Stone Gallagher ’70 en route by taxi from the bus to their B & B in Banos, Ecuador. Have an interesting photo to share with Colby classmates? Send it Josephine Pitts McAlary [email protected] along to [email protected]. My classmates are not good correspon- dents! So, I have a scarcity of news. Of course our numbers are rapidly declining Colby contacts in the area. We hope to hear passed away three years ago, and Jean was as our age advances. At Christmas I heard 1946 from more of our classmates before the next saddened to learn about the death of Ann from Kay Howes Brooks and she was Shirley Martin Dudley news is due for the summer Colby magazine. Y Rodney Gould ’49 in the recent Colby maga- hoping some of our class would come to our [email protected] This is what we heard from Everett Rockwell zine. Jean says she still enjoys a martini, but 65th reunion this June. There were very few in Zephryhills, Fla.: “Things are going well in Y Cloyd Aarseth wrote: “When Joan and I not very often. Please send us your news classmates (three) present this past June. Y Betmar, the best park in Florida. Directing sent our granddaughter, Kim, to Cornell, my about activities, classmates, and family. Betty Wood Reed is doing okay on dialysis, a one-act play for the Dessert Theatre with thoughts traveled back 65 years to my arrival although her eyesight has been effected. Y a chorus of 100 voices. Keeping real busy. at Colby. My tuition, room, and board cost 1949 Pauline Tatham Stanley is also doing well Son Toby is in South America and will go less than $1,000, but I believe Kim’s educa- Anne Hagar Eustis and enjoys her extended family. Y Donna to Antarctica before coming north again. tion will not be 50 times better than mine.” [email protected] Caldwell wrote that her mother, Nancy Bell Daughter Becky is in Acton, Mass., and has Y Jean O’Brien Perkins recently met with Martin, died Nov. 17, 2008. She had been an empty nest as the two kids in college. Thanks to three of you who heeded my sug- Eric Cote ’69 to see what Saco, Maine, has in failing health for over a year. Y Judy Jones Becky and her daughter Samantha were here gestion of a New Year’s resolution to send done with alternative energy. Eric has made Zimmerman was pleased to be accepted the last week of January. Y Aaron Sandler some news for our column. Janet Pride Davis an avocation of researching alternative ways into the DAR. She had been working on her corresponds with us via e-mail and we hoped hopes to get to our reunion in June, but, in of generating energy and has saved Saco a admission for the past year or so. Y I have to have another mini reunion of the Class of the meantime, here is some of her news. She lot of money with wind and geothermal power. just returned to Rockport, Maine, after a ’48 and any additional participants from other has lived in Gloucester, Mass., since 1987 five-week trip south to visit my family and classes sometime this winter. Today, Feb. 2, when she retired from the Wellesley, Mass., meet my newest great-grandchild, Wyatt 1947 we received a call from Jordan Kaplan, who is school system. She worked part time first Briggs, born in October. I now have six great- Meg Bernier Boyd vacationing in Boca Raton. We will definitely in a real estate office and then at the front [email protected] grandchildren ranging in age from Wyatt to meet with Jordan and his wife, Dorothy. Y desk of an athletic club until 2004 when a 15 year old! I traveled with my daughter We were pleasantly surprised to receive a she “retired” again. Every March she visits and her husband to Florida over New Year’s. 1948 telephone call from Jean Hillsen Grout ’49, friends in Florida, but in spite of urging she’s Coming back from there to the five-foot snow who now resides in Bradenton, Fla. Jean had not ready yet to move and leave her family up David and Dorothy Marson banks took a bit of an adjustment, but the north. Travels farther afield with family include [email protected] just finished reading the class news in the snowshoeing was fantastic! recent edition of Colby and decided to call London and Paris. Her family includes four We did not receive many responses to our to bring us up to date. For many years David children and six grandchildren—four in col- 1945 recent request for news. We arrived in Florida and Jean worked together on various Boston lege, one accepted for next year, and the last Meg Bernier Boyd in early October and will be here into June. Colby alumni projects and it was good to hear a freshman in high school. Y A short note from [email protected] We still play golf frequently and have many from an old friend. Jean’s husband, Stuart, Arthur Blasberg says that he and his wife 34 COLBY / SPRING 2009 spring 2009 class notes still live in Boston with a year-round house Mary “Skippy” Jordan Megargee and her reports that the Colby Fund participation rate local Cape Cod paper had an obituary for in East Orleans on Cape Cod. Arthur keeps husband have moved to Tampa, Fla. Y Last for our class remains strong. Please continue Jerry Holtz, who passed away at 77 from active as a member of the board of directors spring Harriet (Sargent ’48) and George to give what you can. Y Charlie Tobin winters myelofibrosis. We send his wife, Jane, and of two large companies, writing a book, and Wiswell had a wonderful trip on a canal in Sun City Center, Fla., and summers in Den- the rest of the family our condolences. Y keeping up with all the grandchildren. Y And barge, which took them through Belgium nisport on Cape Cod. Charlie’s only grandson Dave Lynn reports that as a self-appointed lastly I heard from Ann Jennings Taussig in and Holland. They visited historic sites and, graduated from Colby last May, and the Colby Eight representative, he and his wife, California. She will be back at her home in of course, the beautiful tulip gardens. Last entire family celebrated on Mayflower Hill. Sara, attended the centennial concert of the Wolfeboro, N.H., in April for the summer. She fall they planted bulbs purchased in Holland. Last summer Charlie had lunch at Clancy’s Yale Whiffenpoofs in New Haven. Dave says looks forward to our reunion and is excited George was asked by a friend to do some with Jan “Sandy” Pearson Anderson ’52 and the concert compared well to the 50th and to be returning to Colby. Y Remember, June engineering for a large storage shed at his George ’52 and Betty Winkler Laffey ’53. Y 60th Colby Eight reunion concerts, except in 2009 is our 60th reunion and I’m looking boatyard in Westbrook. In return, the friend Cynthia and Walt Russell traveled to Egypt proportion and fashion. Their venue sat 2,600 forward to seeing you there! loaned them Carina, a 48-foot aluminum last April. Their fabulous trip included a week and the “Whiffs” (their own nickname) wore sloop, to sail in their annual yacht club cruise in Cairo, day trips to the Valley of the Kings, white tie and gloves. Interestingly the Whiffs 1950 last summer. It was great fun, particularly the pyramids, and the Sphinx of Giza, and are seniors selected each year from the more Betsy (Dudie) Jennings Maley because they had sons and grandkids aboard a train ride to Alexandria. A cruise up the than a dozen a cappella groups at Yale. The [email protected] for most of the two weeks. Harriet and George Nile rounded out their vacation. They also finale of all the Whiff concerts is their theme recently attended the second annual Fairfield took an extended trip down the West Coast, song, The Whiffenpoof Song. Whiff alumni in Dick Leonard has been retired for 10 years. County Colby Club gathering. The two women beginning in San Francisco and ending in San the audience were invited on stage to join He spends time in Center City, Philadelphia, who put it together were Class of 2005. “We Diego at the Lawrence Welk Resort.