Colby Magazine Volume 97 Issue 2 Summer 2008 Article 10 July 2008 Alumni @ Large Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/colbymagazine Recommended Citation (2008) "Alumni @ Large," Colby Magazine: Vol. 97 : Iss. 2 , Article 10. Available at: https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/colbymagazine/vol97/iss2/10 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 Reunion 2008 More than 1,000 alumni from all over the country and as far away as South Africa, Peru, Vietnam, England, and Japan came to Reunion Weekend, June 5-8. They attended faculty and alumni lectures, played in the president’s golf tournament, and had fun at the new reunion carnival. Volunteers from the Class of 2008 welcomed alums to campus, staffed dorms, and provided golf-cart transportation. Clockwise, from above, the Class of 2003 sets off in the traditional parade of classes, a young reuniongoer eyes an intimidating stack of lobsters, and Paul Svendsen ’58 of Bangor, Maine, shows he still cuts a fine figure in his Class of 1958 beanie. Nine galleries of photos from Reunion 2008 are online at www.colby.edu/mag, keyword: reunion08. PHOTOS BY JIM EVANS 44 We are approaching our 64th and great-granddaughters. Y I, JoJo driveway had been plowed about three Harbor, Fla., for four days to help class reunion. Doubtful any of us Pitts McAlary, had a spectacular year times a week for a total of seven times me open my condo. I spent two dreamed we would live to see that of travels. My latest trip included a and I had missed all of that fantastic weeks over Thanksgiving with my day! Y Louise Callahan Johnson flight to Singapore, sailing from there weather for snowshoeing. —JoJo Pitts daughter Laurel and her family in lives in San Francisco near two of along the Malaysian coast on a four- McAlary York, Pa., and then three weeks her sons. She had a hip replacement masted clipper ship to Phuket. I then over Christmas with my son Bill and found she could no longer live visited Kuala Lumpur and Chang Mai, 46 This has been a sad and difficult and his family in Carmel, Ind. In alone. Y Betty Wood Reed has her where I rode an elephant, then on to time since my beloved Chuck ’45 died February I traveled to Pasadena, ups and downs with dialysis, but was Bangkok. This trip was with my son, in July 2007, one week after our 60th Calif., for a week with my son Jon doing fine at the time she wrote. Y Fred Jr., and a great adventure. Over wedding anniversary. Our children and his family. In March I spent 10 Esther and Dick Mountfort were Christmas, with my daughter and son- gave us a lovely surprise party to days with Laurel to see my grandson in Florida for the winter, but they in-law, I traveled to Austin, Texas, just celebrate our diamond anniversary. Joseph in a hockey tournament, and I delayed their departure to celebrate to see what is there. Happened to be We always tried to go to both 1945 went to Connecticut last April when their twin daughters’ 50th birthdays. in San Antonio the day of the Penn and 1946 reunions, and one year my grandson Mark was confirmed. Y Kay Howes Brooks had surgery in State vs. Texas A&M Alamo Bowl President Cotter commented, “you Chuck and my children have been October but by Thanksgiving was fine game. It was a busy place and a lot of are here again,” which he said kindly a godsend to me. God bless you all. and had a wonderful celebration with fun. To my dismay I returned home and with a big smile. In October my Y Jean O’Brien Perkins is taking her daughters, niece, granddaughters, to find that, due to snowstorms, my daughter Donna flew here to Safety a course on the Odyssey by Homer 38 COLBY / SUMMER 2008 30s milestones you? Y Am I the bionic member of the 1920s-30s-40s Correspondents class? Early in March I had my fourth Deaths: Rosalie Mosher Reynolds ’29, February 28, 2008, in replacement joint—two hips and now 1920s-30s Huntington Station, N.Y., at 100. v Flora Trussell Larrivee ’31, two shoulders. All working well, but it 1942, 1943, 1945, 1947 March 27, 2008, in Manchester, N.H., at 99. v George C. Putnam does take time to go through airport c/o Meg Bernier Boyd ’34, March 9, 2008, in Naples, Fla., at 95. v Mary Small Copithorne security! Y I haven’t heard from a soul, Colby College ’35, February 27, 2008, in Exeter, N.H., at 95. v Ellen Dignam except for Kay, since my last column. Office of Alumni Relations Downing ’35, April 23, 2008, in Appleton, Wis., at 94. v Virginia If you want news, you’ve got to do your Waterville, ME 04901 Swallow Seepe ’35, May 1, 2008, in Boothbay Harbor, Maine, at 95. part! Now’s the time to sit down and 207-859-4312 v John P. Roderick ’36, L.H.D. ’66, March 11, 2008, in Honolulu, send your news either by e-mail or [email protected] Hawaii, at 93. v Myra Mallett Snyder ’38, January 28, 2008, in snail mail. —Anne Hagar Eustis [email protected] Worcester, Mass., at 91. [email protected] 50 Phil Dine writes: “I finally [email protected] completely retired in April. Barbara 40s milestones and I purchased a condo at Arbor 1940 Hills in Kingston, Mass., wondering Ernest C. Marriner Jr. Deaths: Charles H. Card ’40, February 9, 2008, in Amarillo, Texas, at why we didn’t do it years ago. Our 10 Walnut Drive 90. v Nannabelle G. Carter ’40, October 2, 2007, in Machias, Maine, oldest daughter, Andrea, and her Augusta, ME 04330-6032 at 88. v Barbara Towle Wheeler ’40, April 1, 2008, in Waterville, husband recently moved back to this 207-623-0543 Maine, at 90. v Charles E. Barnfather ’41, April 19, 2008, in area. Andrea is director of career [email protected] Biddeford, Maine, at 90. v Norris E. Dibble ’41, February 20, 2008, development at Wheelock College in Springfield, Mass., at 88.v Paul E.D. Sheldon ’41, August 16, 2007, and her husband, Jeffrey Wildstein, 1941 in Pawtucket, R.I., at 89. v Elizabeth Coles Harris ’42, February is the rabbi at Temple Beth David Bonnie Roberts Hathaway 21, 2008, in Nashua, N.H., at 87. v Ronald D. Lupton ’43, April 21, in Westwood, Mass. Our youngest 8366 Trillium Road 2008, in Slocum, R.I., at 89. v Maurice E. Towle ’43, April 17, 2008, daughter, Karin, and her husband, Ft. Myers, FL 33912 in Bangor, Maine, at 87. v Madeleine Turner Arnold ’44, July 24, Brian Barry, are at Fort Huachuca, 239-936-2732 2005, in Burbank, Calif. v Tacy Hood Finney ’44, March 24, 2008, in Ariz. Brian is an instructor pilot [email protected] St. Johnsbury, Vt., at 85. v Mary Sewell Bacon ’46, October 9, 1999, for the Army and expects to be assigned abroad this summer. Karin 1944 in Hampden, Maine, at 75. v Richard A. Durso ’46, August 26, 2006, Josephine Pitts McAlary in North Wales, Pa., at 81. v Hilda Robertson Lyons ’46, February is a full-time mom. They have three boys—one set of twins, 7, and the 131 Russell Avenue 5, 2008, in Fountain Hills, Ariz., at 83. v Richard D. Sampson ’47, youngest, 5. We expect to visit with Rockport, ME 04856 March 1, 2008, in Appleton, Wis., at 85. v Jane Pottle Lee ’48, May them often. I keep busy volunteering [email protected] 1, 2008, in Norway, Maine, at 80. v Philip J. Shulman ’48, February at the Jordan Hospital in Plymouth, 1946 21, 2008, in San Francisco, Calif., at 84. v William L. Mitchell ’49, and Barbara still works a 20-hour Shirley Martin Dudley March 27, 2008, in Saco, Maine, at 81. v Donald J. Zabriskie ’49, week at our temple in Hingham. I 68 Giddings Avenue February 12, 2008, in Newburyport, Mass., at 84. cannot believe that in just two years it will be our 60th reunion. Where did Windsor, CT 06095 all the time go? Best to all.” Y Chet 860-688-4025 and is reading Robert Fitzgerald’s Hawaii in 2006, he and Selma spend Brigham writes “My wife, Anthea, [email protected] translation. She and her family are winters in their new home in La Jolla, and I live in Gloucester, Mass., where 1948 well. —Shirley Martin Dudley Calif., and in the spring they head I mess around in my outboard skiff David and Dorothy Marson back to Falmouth, Mass. They have and kayak, and get in some tennis. 41 Woods End Road given up golf and beaching but still 48 On Feb. 21 we had a pre- Over the past year we have had the Dedham, MA 02026 reunion here in Florida with Jordan keep a hectic social schedule. During pleasure of getting together with 781-329-3970 Kaplan, Aaron Sandler, David November and December they Alice and Paul Christopher ’51, Dottie [email protected] Marson, and Burt Silberstein ’49. We rented a large home in San Miguel (Washburn ’52) and Dick Leonard, met at Burt’s home at Hunter’s Run in de Allende, Mexico.