Colby Magazine Volume 89 Issue 1 Winter 2000 Article 15 January 2000 Alumni at Large Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/colbymagazine Recommended Citation (2000) "Alumni at Large," Colby Magazine: Vol. 89 : Iss. 1 , Article 15. Available at: https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/colbymagazine/vol89/iss1/15 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 BEFORE THE '40s Depression was sweeping the country, "the memory, I am reminded that I was part of all Reunion 2000 is closer than you think! Mark new Roosevelt administration began imple­ this, as a native of Waterville, an alumnus your calendars for the weekend of June 2-4, menting a hail of New Deal agencies to create and one who physically labored in the estab­ 2000, for a wonderful Reunion Weekend on jobs for the unemployed. It was my privilege lishment of the Rock upon the Hill." ... Mayflower Hill. ... For the 60th reunion of to work under one of these, the Works Progress We're looking for more news for our next the lass of 1939 last June, Nat Guptil '39 Administration (WPA). It poured in a mil- issue. Please remember to fill out the ques- organized a special gathering on tionnaire enclosed in this issue of Saturday afternoon at which class­ the magazine and mail it to Meg mates enjoyed refreshments in the BEFORE THE '40s MILESTONES Bernier'8 1, 4310 Mayflower Hill, beautifully renovated Dana Hall. Waterville, Maine 0490 1. Deaths: Mary Jordan Alden '18, April 18, 1999, in Fairport, N.Y., Other '39ers in attendance were at 102 . Charles S. Lewis '24, August 9, I 999, in Augusta, Ed Boulos, Bennie Burbank, Vio­ . Maine, at 98 ....John D. Swartz '29, October 2, 1999, in Fishkill, let Hamilton Christensen, Doggie 45 Following up on my first N.Y., at 92 ....Carol Hill Craven '30, July 19, 1999, in West Dore, Elliot Drisko, Helen Carter mention in the fa ll i sue of Colb)' Roxbury, Mass., at 88 ....Harold L. Grant '30, August 10, 1999, Guptil, Lester Jolovitz, Ginny concerning our 55th reunion com­ in Bangor, Maine, at 92 . ...Pauline Morin Miller '30, August 27, Kingsley Jones, Anne Simpson ing June 2-4, 2000, I want to repeat: 1999, in Palm Harbor, Fla., at 9l. ...Henry G. Bonsall '31, July Koch, Mary Crowley Lafleur Do try to make it. Several of us hope 28, 1999, in Waterville, Maine, at 90 ....Muriel MacDougall (with her daughter, Karen La Fleur to be there, with a little luck .... Lobdell '31, September 6, I 999, in Florida, at 93 ....Douglas B. '66), Estelle Rogers MacDonald, Now for some classmates' news. Allan '32, July 22, 1999, in Waterville, Maine, at 89 . ... Annie Kay Coffin Mills, Dwight Sargent, Connie Stanley Shane, who lives Tuck Russell '34, March 25, 1999, in Orlando, Fla., at 87 ... Judith Quint Schreider, Marge with her husband, George, in Kathryn Herrick McCrodden '35, July 27, 1999, in Oakland, Towle Stinchfield and Lucile Watervliet, Mich., proudly reports Calif., at 86 ....John P. Dolan '36, August 22, 1999, in Des Naples Weston ....Members of that there have been no divorces Moines, Iowa, at 87 .... Willard H. Dunn '36, July 15, 1999, in the Class of 1934, the 65th reunion among their seven children. Connie Augusta, Maine, at 84 .... Ruth Michalek McAlary '36, August class, seen on Mayflower Hill in­ visits them yearly in New York, 26, 1999, in Hyannis, Mass., at 84 . Hayden B. Wright '37, cluded Louise Williams Brown, Rhode Island and California, tim­ August 15, 1999, in Seattle, Wash., at85 ....Philip P. Charbonneau Paul "Red" Feldman, Pete Mills, ing those trips to occur in October, '39, August 28, 1999, in Northboro, Mass., at 85. Frank Norvish, Fred Schreiber and December and February, respec­ Francis Smith ....Jo seph Camp- tively. Connie's activities have in­ bell, Fred Howard and Rosalie '40s NEWSMAKERS cluded teaching, church work and hospital volunteering. She writes Mosher Reynolds represented the Lawyers, judges and former court employees packed courtroom Bat Class of l 929 as they enjoyed their that these days she especially enjoys Superior Court in Derby, Conn., to witness the unveiling of a nature walks and water exercises .... 70th reunion ....The highlight of portrait of the late judge Joseph. J. Chernauskas '40. Affec tion­ Grace Keefer Parker's endeavors the parade of classes was the arrival ately known as "Judge Joe," he served 27 years in the state's Circuit have also included teaching and of Merrill S.F. Greene '20. Fol­ Court, Court of Common Pleas and Superior Court and was church work. Currently she's a lit- lowing the 50-Plus Club reunion remembered as a man of "canny wit and wisdom." dinner, alumni danced to the tunes eracy volunteer. Grace tells us she's of Al Corey and his band ....The a strong activist, keeping in fre­ Civil War, the theme for last '40s MILESTONES quent contact with her representa- summer's Alumni College, at­ tive and senators.... I' m really tracted the largest attendance in Deaths: Helen Tracey Lykins '40,January 6, 1999, in West, Texas, impressed with (make that envious Louise Holt McGee '40, the history of the program. Sigrid at 81. ... July 21, 1999, in Yarmouth, of) Woody Tarlow's many automo­ Maine, at ...Charles A. Lord '42, September 27, 1999, in Tompkins '38, Peg Higgins Wil­ SL. bile trips- 16 in the last eight Philadelphia, Pa., at 79... Albert I. Ellis '44, September 9, 1999, liams '38, Barbara and Lester years-across the U.S., covering in Lakeland, Fla., at 77 . ..Paul N. Prince '44, July 17, 1999, in Jolovitz '39, Alleen Thompson '40 every state and, he adds, most routes. and Florence and Leonard Cohen Peabody, Mass., at 77 ....Joseph T. Page '46, July 30, 1999, in He and Helen, who live in Palm '43 headed back to class to enjoy a Waterville, Maine, at 74 ....Arthur A. Parsons '48, September Desert, Calif., have three children. lively and informative week. Other 24, 1999, in Burnt Hills, N.Y., at 75 ....Robert L. Cook '49, Woody, fo rmerly a judge, and "classmates" included a 1999 gradu­ August 23, 1999, in Framingham, Mass., at 74. Ronald Roy are both lawyers. ate of the College ... George '34 Ronald and his wife, Mildred, live and Vesta Alden Putnam '33 were hosts for lion dollars (worth probably over $20 mil­ in Winslow, Maine ....Among his the Colby Club of Waterville's annual lobster lions today) into the Mayflower Hill project, many faraway travels, Bill Whittemore tells us bake at Alden Camps. Local alumni enjoyed building roads and sewerage foundations. It is about his '98 trip to Saudi Arabia with the first the Putnams' warm hospitality and delic ious unknown when Colby could have moved if it American tour group ever allowed into the food. Barbara and Mal Wilson '33 helped kick had not been given th is boost. Benefactors do kingdom. Bill asks, "Did you know audi Arabia off the local club season at the fa ll potluck. not normally make donations for roads and has 10,000-foot mountains and a five-star hotel Special guests were the editors of Colby's stu­ sewers! Mayflower Hill is located on a rocky at 8,000 fe et, owned by a Texan, Ro e Hunt?" dent newspaper, the Echo .... In a letter to ledge, which thousands of years ago was al­ No, I urely didn't know that. Fascinating. He former 50-Plus editor Fletcher Eaton '39, most covered by ocean waters. They left their also writes that it was President Bixler who Leonard C. Cabana '33 of Waterville, Maine, residue of sea shells, and the retreating gla­ "smoothed the way to Harvard Graduate recounted the story of the competition be­ ciers, in their turn, left massive boulders scat­ School, where I was a fe llow student with the tween Waterville and Augusta to become the tered across the Hill. As part of a work crew, founder of the company I've worked for these home of Colby's new campus. He went on "to it was my job t0 roll these two-ton boulders past 42 years." . Helen Strauss's and my assure the younger generation (and lest we into the prepared road beds that are the foun­ latest tour for "mature" Colby graduates in the forget) that Colby is built on solid ground." dation of the road network surrounding the N.Y.C. metropolitan area took place in Octo­ Cabana writes that by the time the Great College buildings today. In my treasured ber-lunch and a visit to the Museum of Jewish 39 WI TER ZOOO C 0 LBY ALUMNI AT LARGE Heritage. Shortly thereafter I'm going to Rome nine more. She is tutoring one of the residents, 1940s Correspondents and Amalfi with my niece. Will all the work I a woman in her 60s who i working hard to earn do studying I ta! ian pay off? her GED, and also teaching English to Cambo­ 1940 - aomi Collen Paganelli dian and Thai refugees. One day a week she Ernest C. Marriner Jr. works forCi tydance, a scholarship program for RR #1, Box 1815-P 46 Cloyd Aarseth and Joan are enjoying third grade children from Lynn and Boston North Monmouth, ME 04265 lots of global adventure-the Benelux coun­ who want to learn ballet. Of 300 who are 207-933-2401 tries, World Figure kating Championships in cho en, 12 receive full scholarships.