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Alumni @ Large Colby Magazine Volume 100 Issue 3 Fall 2011 Article 10 September 2011 Alumni @ Large Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/colbymagazine Recommended Citation (2011) "Alumni @ Large," Colby Magazine: Vol. 100 : Iss. 3 , Article 10. Available at: https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/colbymagazine/vol100/iss3/10 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 Colby College Office of Alumni Relations Family Homecoming 2011 Waterville, ME 04901 1940 Ernie C. Marriner Jr. [email protected] 1941 Meg Bernier Boyd [email protected] 1942 Meg Bernier Boyd [email protected] 1943 Meg Bernier Boyd [email protected] 1944 Josephine Pitts McAlary [email protected] I actually have some news! Nan Grahn Christensen moved into assisted living D (almost 10 years ago) and says it is BOY greg something like going back to college, being BY S O T with her peer group again. There are a lot O of Senior Challenges, which include com- PH petitions in many fields. She won a gold A looming snowstorm didn’t cool medal in a swim meet. Congrats Nan! She spirits at Family Homecoming Week- can visit with her family and grandchildren, end Oct. 28-30. Tailgaters Robert who live near by in Wellington, Fla. Y I had a Woodbury ’78, daughter Elizabeth note from Barbara Baylis Primiano saying Woodbury ’15, and wife and mom she has moved into assisted living but is Catherine Woodbury were prepared still in Barrington, R.I. Y A wonderful long for the weather (a good thing, as letter came from Nancy Curtis Lawrence, it turned out). Activities included who lives in Sequim, Wash. She sent along pumpkin carving with a Colby theme, sympathy to me on the death of my 17-year- including the Mule at right, carefully old great-grandson in an accident in 2010. crafted by Susan Duffy P’12, mother She lost her 41-year-old grandson in a train of Tom Duffy ’12, footbal tri-captain. accident in March 2011. Irreplaceable An estimated 3,000 people were on members of our families. Our sympathies to campus for a variety of activities, her and her family. She does have arthritis including football’s 37-14 win over in her knee and hip joints, which restricts rival Bates. Visitors also saw snow on her activities to some extent. But she still Mayflower Hill as the historic October swims frequently and rides her tractor to snowstorm swept into Maine that Saturday night. mow the “back 40.” Y Nancy Pattison McCarthy came to Maine with her daughter Nancy in June to visit her sister, who is in a nursing home in Camden. We did have a chance to chat on the phone. She is so happy to be located in the Fort Belvoir them! At the lobster bake I caught up with 1945 July 12 they attended reunion at Wilton area, as she is near a lot of her family. two of our classmates: Harold Joseph and Meg Bernier Boyd Academy, where Maurice taught science Y My daughter and I returned just three his wife as well as Gabe Hikel and his wife. [email protected] from 1945 to 1948. Maurice also talked We are all well into our 80s and realize how by phone with Beverly Booth, who is in a days before alumni reunion weekend from Maurice M. Whitten and wife Doris were a magnificent trip through nine national fortunate we are to still be around. My left nursing home in Weston, Mass. arm, which I broke in April (an inch or two busy this summer attending reunions. On parks in the West. As the Saturday of June 4 they attended the alumni reunion reunion was clear and warm, I drove over below my shoulder), is now recovered, but I went on that trip to the parks with my arm luncheon at Colby. On June 24 they attended 1946 in time for the parade of classes. That is reunion at the University of Southern Maine, Meg Bernier Boyd always fun as well as moving. I was the in a sling. That seemed like freedom after it had been strapped to my body, which as it marked Doris’s 70th year since gradu- [email protected] only representative of the Class of 1944, ating from Gorham Normal School. And on but the Class of 1946 insisted that I join was a challenge. 40 COLBY / FALL 2011 CM_40-68_A@L_RPH.indd 40 11/8/11 2:31 PM 1947 couple has four)—so many that Kay doesn’t reports the “old” news that 16 years ago Foggia, Cerignola, Italy, on its 23rd mis- Meg Bernier Boyd always remember to send birthday cards he started a new business manufacturing sion. The pilot was Lt. Gerald Maroney and [email protected] on time. As someone said to her, I don’t fireplace mantels. These mantels are built the navigator Paul Golden ’49. The target have a memory, I have a “forgetery.” Kay by two furniture factories in China, and was the airdrome at Salon De Provence, The Cambridge Senior Volunteer Clear- wrote, “at least I remembered to send this his company distributes them to building France. A nest of Ju-88 aircraft had been inghouse in Cambridge, Mass., awarded and hope you are both well.” Kay wanted supply companies, hearth shops, and raiding shipping in the Mediterranean. The the Beverly Benner Cassara Award in us to tell all the Class of 1948, “Thank you Internet companies, all of which keeps him group was greeted by heavy flak at the June to Judy Norris of the Women’s Center for your support of the College.” Y Janet busy and out of trouble. His best news is French coast near Nice. The Flak Finder in Cambridge. Established in 2008 and Gay Hawkins doesn’t have much going on that due to “a wayward daughter who gave was hit in the wing and tail and left the named after Beverly, the award recognizes but she’ll have more to report after her trip us a grandson, Carter, three years ago, and formation, turned toward land, hoping a senior volunteer who “embodies Beverly’s to France in September. We look forward because of circumstances, we have had to fly to Switzerland. The engine caught unique and long-term commitment to the to hearing about it. Y David received a custody for almost the entire three years. fire and Paul informed the pilot that they ideals of productive aging, lifelong learning, letter from Bobo Folino in response to What a blessing!” Thank you Jean and Jim were losing altitude and couldn’t clear the and the understanding that volunteering is his letter of condolence regarding Buddy for responding to my blast e-mail. Y Hope mountains. Ten men parachuted and the an enduring resource for the entire com- (Fran Folino). She lives in Vermont. She (Toby) Harvey Graf and I went to reunion plane crashed into the Pic de l’Aigle east of munity.” Beverly received the first award in sent a long letter as well as the program as we usually do. ’49ers were scarce—only Thorens near Le Mas, 30 kilometers north 2008 and remains active with the organiza- for Buddy’s memorial service. The cover seven were on the registration list and all of Grasse. The plane burned for three days tion. Y Dana and Harriet Nourse Robinson of the program was a reproduction of the those were Mainers. We visited with Ruth and the airmen were scattered over an moved to Concord, N.H., six years ago to a May 1948 Colby Alumnus with a picture Endicott Freeman, who was there with area of 20 miles. The Germans captured continuing-care facility called Havenwood- of Bobo and Buddy titled “Seniors.” It was her daughter, and spied Kay and Walter four of the airmen but the other six were Heritage Heights. It’s a special place with a very appropriate tribute! Y We attended Borucki at the lobster bake. Y That does hidden by the French Resistance and given numerous activities. They found a single this year’s commencement at Colby, the it for now. In three months I’ll send out food, clothing, and some shelter for three story home across the street from Harriet’s 190th, to see our grandson, Mark McNulty another e-mail requesting news and will months. All 10 safely returned to the U.S. sister, Fran Nourse Johnston ’49, and her ’11, graduate. Our daughter, Deborah hope to hear from some of the rest of you. after the war. Fast forward to the present, husband. The move worked out well, as one (Marson ’75), and David marched in the when Paul’s grandson found an account son in Portland and another in Middlebury baccalaureate and commencement pro- of a memorial and anniversary celebration visit more frequently than when the couple cessions and the combined Marson, Moller, 1950 of this rescue in a French newspaper and lived in Florida. When they made their last and McNulty clans totaled nine attendees. Betsy (Dudie) Jennings Maley also a PBS personal oral account by O.B. trip to China, in 2002, Dana and Harriet Although it rained a little on Saturday, the [email protected] Streepers, the tail gunner and only living attended the opening of their oldest son’s sun came out on Sunday and, as usual, Joan Seekins Golden McDermott had crew member.
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