Colby Magazine Volume 99 Issue 1 Spring 2010 Article 10 April 2010 Alumni @ Large Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/colbymagazine Recommended Citation (2010) "Alumni @ Large," Colby Magazine: Vol. 99 : Iss. 1 , Article 10. Available at: https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/colbymagazine/vol99/iss1/10 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. ALUMNI AT LARGE 1920s-30s 1943 Meg Bernier Boyd Meg Bernier Boyd Colby College [email protected] Office of Alumni Relations Colby’s Oldest Living Alum: Waterville, ME 04901 1944 Leonette Wishard ’23 Josephine Pitts McAlary 1940 [email protected] Ernest C. Marriner Jr. Christmas did bring some communiqués [email protected] from classmates. Nathan Johnson wrote that his mother, Louise Callahan Johnson, 1941 moved to South San Francisco to an assisted Meg Bernier Boyd living community, where she gets out to the [email protected] senior center frequently and spends the John Hawes Sr., 92, lives near his son’s weekends with him. Her son’s e-mail address family in Sacramento, Calif. He enjoys eating is [email protected]. He is happy to be meals with a fellow World War II veterans her secretary. Y Betty Wood Reed lives and going to happy hour on Fridays. He has in Montpelier, Vt., in assisted living. She encountered some health problems but is is in her fourth year of dialysis and doing plugging along and looking forward to 2010! quite well. Y Judy Jones Zimmerman has a great-grandson graduating from high school 1942 this June and doesn’t feel old enough for Meg Bernier Boyd that! I’m with her. I have a great-grandson [email protected] graduating from high school in 2011. Y Joe and Nancy Pattison McCarthy have “I was surprised to have so much fuss made on my 107th birthday,” said Leonette Ruth Sanderson Rudisill enjoys living in the moved from Carlyle, Pa., into a military mountains of western North Carolina. Her Wishard ’23, Colby’s oldest living alum, in her 2009 holiday letter. Wishard, pictured retirement complex in Fort Belvoir, Va. large family keeps her busy. She and her with President William D. Adams, still knits stocking caps for children, hosts AAUW book They just celebrated their 62nd wedding husband celebrated their 25th anniversary club meetings in her apartment, and attends a balance exercise class. A resident of anniversary. Congratulations! Y A letter in May, her granddaughter married in August, Bridgeport, Conn., she takes advantage of programs and trips offered at her retirement from Lois Peterson Johnson confirmed that and her first great-great-grandchild was home and even kept her two great-great-grandsons for an overnighter in her apartment. their move to Naples, Fla., took place as born in October. She looks forward to two planned in June. Unfortunately her husband, weddings and two more great-grandchildren Ed, had a mini stroke in November, so they (adding to the current 24) in 2010. Ruth is 1946 was a cadet at Colby, died last November, grateful for her good health, which allows moved into assisted living. She hoped that and three months later Dot visited me. Now his rehab would enable him to be home Shirley Martin Dudley her to drive, do housework, participate in [email protected] she’ll be living year-round in sunny Florida. her church women’s group, and be a part for Christmas. Y Gene Struckhoff’s wife, Dot has kept in touch with Roberta “Bobbe” Joan and Cloyd Aarseth enjoy their three of a prayer quilt ministry. Y George Parker Norma, let me know that Gene has been in Holt Sachs ’45. Bobbe also married a Colby grandchildren: Jackson, 3, Annalee, 1, and, spends six months each year in his condo long-term care with Parkinson’s. They are cadet and Bobbe’s sister and brother also recently adopted from Ethiopia, Olivia, 1. at Holmes Beach, Fla., south of Tampa. He both 89 and live in Towson, Md. Y We lost went to Colby. Bobbe wrote that “her health, is president of the condo board, rides his two classmates that I did not report on—but The Aarseth’s traveling days are limited but on the whole, is pretty good. There is so bicycle almost every day, and has learned their obituaries appeared in Colby. In August they did cruise to Halifax and to Chicago to much to be thankful for.” Y Another room- to cook since his wife, Geraldine (Fen- Bob St. Pierre died. He and his son, Mike, attend the Solheim Cup, where American mate, Nancy Loveland Dennen ’47, lives in nessy ’43) died. George spends the other attended reunion just two months prior. women golfers defeated the European Asheville, N.C. Nancy introduced me to oil six months between PA and NJ, where he Merritt Emerson died in December. Y The team. They hope to attend our 65th in 2011 painting, and I have painted ever since. has houses, and two weeks in September weekend before Christmas I happened to as Colby’s “best and brightest” alums. Y at his house at South Yarmouth on the be visiting in the Washington, D.C., area and Frank Heppner savored a family reunion Cape. George firmly believes that if you are watched with interest and amazement as last August with his two daughters and 1947 physically and mentally able you should be 21 inches of snow accumulated in less than three granddaughters. They spent several Meg Bernier Boyd [email protected] as active as possible. Y Barbara Holden 36 hours. Speak of paralysis! days swimming the springs in Florida’s encountered some health problems after state parks and renting a cottage on the Dick Reid’s health did not permit him to Labor Day 2008 when she struggled with Gulf coast. Y In June Jean O’Brien Perkins attend the Colby basketball game in Atlanta paralyzing arthritis followed by shingles in 1945 plans to visit Denali with friends from the last December, but he was happy to have Meg Bernier Boyd her right eye. A period of recovery in the Peace Corps. Jean hears from Cass Lightner his grandson represent him and speak with [email protected] winter was followed by hospital and rehab ’51 and also heard from Anne Lawrence Coach Whitmore after the game. Dick was in April 2009. She is still in her own home, Maurice Whitten received an award Nov. Bondy, who had a difficult 2009 with the there in spirit. Y Larry Kaplan taught his thanks to her niece, a retired nurse. Barbara 24 from the Presumpscot Regional Land death of her husband, Gene. Anne had a NATO history course last fall at George- is thankful to have so many nieces and Trust for his work in the land trust and for heart attack and then sold her house and town. He is in his 57th consecutive year nephews in the area. Despite her ailments his research on the gunpowder mills that moved to Gainesville, Fla., to be near her in the classroom and still feels it is good she took her last trip to France in 2007, were located at Gambo Falls in Gorham- daughter Buffy. After an adjustment period therapy! He is expecting the publication visiting with French friends and introducing Windham from 1824 to 1905. This work she is settling in and, much to her surprise, of a monograph on NATO and the U.N. in a niece and her husband to the beauties of resulted in the publication of his book, cheering for the Gators. Anne has a guest the spring. Y Donald Klein recently retired Provence and Paris. In September 2009 she The Gunpowder Mills of Maine, in 1990. room and welcomes visitors. Y My fresh- from Columbia University and is a professor attended weddings of two grandnephews Maurice and his wife, Doris, left Gorham man roommate, Dot Allen Goettman, now of psychiatry, emeritus. He is pleased to just two weeks apart. Barbara is always for St. Petersburg, Fla., in December. They lives 15 minutes from me in Mission Hills in have joined the department of child and busy—the days are never long enough. will return to Gorham in April. Clearwater, Fla. Dot’s husband, Andy, who adolescent psychiatry at NYU. 34 COLBY / SPRING 2010 1948 profit. Harvey’s son, Ben, 18, graduates 1949 for her church fair. She is most proud of David and Dorothy Marson from New Haven’s Hopkins School in June. Anne Hagar Eustis her two fine sons and their families.Y [email protected] The children from his first marriage live in [email protected] Jack Mahoney lives in Wayne, Maine, Westport, Conn. He has two grandsons. despite his distaste for cold and snow. He Aaron Sandler wrote to say hello. He THANK YOU! I’m grateful to all of you who His wife, Ruth, teaches French at Yale. has traveled a lot, works outdoors when planned a trip to Jupiter, Fla., and we hoped responded to either my e-mail or the recent Harvey keeps in touch with Jerry Braff ’50 weather permits, and volunteers checking to arrange our annual Colby gathering at mailing. Y Jean Sheppard Silva reports on and Ronnie Farkas and was in touch with the water quality of Androscoggin Lake. the same time. Y George ’50 and Harriet her singing tour of Serbia, Bulgaria, and the late Phil Shulman. Every so often he Jack has six grandchildren.