Colby Magazine Volume 93 Issue 2 Spring 2004 Article 9 July 2004 Alumni @ Large Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/colbymagazine Recommended Citation (2004) "Alumni @ Large," Colby Magazine: Vol. 93 : Iss. 2 , Article 9. Available at: https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/colbymagazine/vol93/iss2/9 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. ’20s/’30s-1940s Alumni at Large NEWSMAKERS Keep up the great work, Bob. 1940s Correspondents Congratulations. Harris Graf A 100th birthday party last November brought together friends and his wife, Merrie, sold their home 1940 and relatives—and the Green Valley (Ariz.) News and Sun “Talk on Lake Winnipesaukee and moved Ernest C. Marriner Jr. of the Town” columnist—to celebrate the life of Marion Sprowl to Peabody, Mass., to be nearer 10 Walnut Drive Williamson ’27. After a 39-year career as a teacher, mostly of Latin family and medical services. Augusta, ME 04330-6032 and mostly in high schools in Maine and New York, she volunteered Judy (Corinne) Jones Zimmerman 207-623-0543 at the local library and at her church, where she continues to model wrote from Gainesville, Fla., that [email protected] after graduation she taught for three in the church’s thrift store fashion shows. She visits relatives in 1941 years and found she didn’t like it at Maine and Minnesota, where she took her first jet ski ride two years Bonnie Roberts Hathaway ago, and last summer her family treated her to a ride in a hot air all. She and her family moved several 400 Atlantic Avenue #34C balloon. Every Tuesday she’s a volunteer office worker for the Green times. The last 17 years before they Leominster, MA 01453 Valley Assistance Services. “I just hope she knows we need her back retired to Gainesville, she worked 978-343-4259 at work after this partying is over,” said the GVAS director. “She is at the University of Vermont in the [email protected] truly a remarkable woman.” medical library. They have been retired and living in Gainesville the 1920s-30s last 18 years. Pete Bliss sent me 1942 MILESTONES some wonderful pictures taken back 1943 in 1940-1941 at Roberts Hall men’s c/o Meg Bernier Deaths: Lillian Cyr LaVerdiere ’23, November 28, 2003, in dorm. Then Bill Hibel sent along Colby College Waterville, Maine, at 102 Lena Cooley Mayo ’24, December others taken about the same time. Office of Alumni Relations Waterville, ME 04901 4, 2003, in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, at 101 Marjorie Everingham Wonderful recalling how young we 207-872-3185 Edgerly ’25, April 23, 2003, in San Bernardino, Calif., at 97 Julia were 64 years ago. I plan to bring the pictures to our 60th reunion next [email protected] Mayo Wilson ’27, May 1, 2002, in New York, at 97 Alice [email protected] Paul Allen ’29, January 19, 2004, in East Providence, R.I., at 96 June. Bill wrote from Riviera Beach, Fla., saying he had been in Florida Beatrice Palmer Frederick ’29, November 17, 2003, in St. 1944 34 years. He doesn’t travel much any Cloud, Fla., at 96 Muriel Farnum Medrow ’30, August 14, 2003, Josephine Pitts McAlary more, maintaining he’s too set in his in Annapolis, Md., at 95 Viola Blake Woodward ’30, December 131 Russell Avenue ways! He, like so many others who 12, 2003, in Bangor, Maine, at 94 James E. Fell ’32, January 28, Rockport, ME 04856 entered Colby in the fall of 1940, [email protected] 2004, in Providence, R.I., at 93 Justina Harding Jenkins ’32, left to enter the service shortly after January 14, 2004, in Rockport, Maine, at 91 Carl W. Ackley ’33, Pearl Harbor, but they always will be 1945 December 11, 2003, in Centerville, Mass., at 90 Barbara Johnson known as members of the Class of Naomi Collett Paganelli Alden ’33, December 23, 2003, in North Andover, Mass., at 93 1944. Seriously consider making the 2 Horatio Street #5J Mabelrene Clough Dysart ’34, February 15, 2004, in Pittsfield, trip back for our 60th in June. New York, NY 10014-1608 212-929-5277 Maine, at 91 Thomas J. Hickey ’34, February 17, 2004, in —Josephine Pitts McAlary Augusta, Maine, at 92 Richard H. Johnson ’34, November [email protected] 10, 2003, in Duluth, Ga., at 91 Katherine Rollins Brown ’36, 45 As I write, we’re having an early 1946 January 26, 2004, in Fairfield, Maine, at 91 Harold W. Hickey December blizzard here in the North- Anne Lawrence Bondy ’36, December 2003, in Binghamton, N.Y., at 90 Annette east, and I’ve had a special afternoon 771 Soundview Drive Tebbetts Audette ’36, November 23, 2003, in Maine, at 88 indoors catching up with four class- Mamaroneck, NY 10543 Harold C. Allen ’37, February 22, 2003, in West Halifax, Vt., at mates on the phone, Hazel Brewer 914-698-1238 88 Richard S. Hacker ’37, September 28, 2003, in Kissimmee, Warren for one. She recently resigned [email protected] Fla., at 89 Eleanor Rose Viles ’37, January 2, 2004, in Portland, her volunteer position as president of 1947 the Centerville, Mass., beautification Maine, at 88 Richard J. Currier ’38, February 13, 2003, in Ft. Mary “Liz” Hall Fitch committee. Thanks to their efforts, Lauderdale, Fla., at 86 Roland F. Nadeau ’38, November 23, 4 Canal Park #712 2003, in Oneida, N.Y., at 88 Marjorie Rollins Snyder ’38, vest-pocket parks, trees, plantings, Cambridge, MA 02141 January 14, 2004, in Concord, Mass., at 86 Ruth Pike Berry ’39, new benches, etc., enhance many 617-494-4882 January 8, 2004, in Brunswick, Maine, at 87 Price Y. Tozier ’39, public spaces. The local historical fax: 617-494-4882 December 30, 2003, in Fairfield, Maine, at 86. society held a reception in Septem- [email protected] ber to honor Hazel and dedicated a bench and a Tupela tree to her. 1948 raising to establish a scholarship I also talked with Rita McCabe in David and Dorothy Marson 20s/30s fund in her name for the AAUW blizzardy Essex, Conn., where she’s 41 Woods End Road Leonette Warburton Wishard ’23 Educational Foundation. a volunteer at the very fine Florence Dedham, MA 02026 notes that there isn’t much news Griswold Museum as well as at her 781-329-3970 contributed to the class notes from 44 Bob Brunell has been a church. Rita’s in regular touch with fax: 617-329-6518 the classes of the ’20s, so she reports teacher of English for a full 50 years Kay Metteo Hancock and in at least [email protected] that she is still an avid reader, knitter at Cayuga Community College! In Christmas touch with Jane Farnham 1949 and sewer: she knits caps for local April 2003 he received the Alumni Wood and Marge Owen Fallon. Anne Hagar Eustis children and sews baby quilts and Outstanding Educator Award from It’s no surprise that Rockland, Maine, 24 Sewall Lane recently finishedThe DaVinci Code, Colby. In June he was presented where Doris Taylor Huber lives, Topsham, ME 04086 which she recommends. She’s a with a Colby captain’s chair at an has turned white this snowy week- 207-729-0395 long-time member of the American award luncheon given by the Cayuga end. Doris works at an independent fax: 978-464-2038 Association of University Women, faculty and staff. Bob says he loves bookstore where Gerry Boyle ’78, [email protected] and her local AAUW branch is fund teaching and has no plans to retire. managing editor of this magazine, COLBY • S P R I N G 2 0 0 4 | 37 Alumni at Large 1940s-1950s MILESTONES a trustee emerita. She says that they including Dickinson Memorial were good years, but it is now time to Library, Hospice, Council on the Deaths: John E. Gilmore ’40, February 9, 2004, in Cape Elizabeth, give younger people an opportunity Aged and AARP. Carol Carpen- Maine, at 85 Melvin P. Graffam ’40, November 6, 1999, in West to serve the college. She attended our ter Bisbee did get back from Alaska Virginia, at 85 Maurice D. Gross ’40, December 28, 2003, in 55th reunion with her husband, Russell after all! She reports that “Alaska was Spring Hill, Fla., at 84 Dorothy Bake Kesaris ’40, October S. (“Bud”) ’49. She added that Bud still another absolute dream—not quite 4, 2003, in New Hampshire, at 87 Heber C. “Gus” Brill ’41, enjoys his golf, and both of them hope as pristine as Antarctica and no lov- October 29, 2003, in Rockport, Maine, at 84 Muriel Howe to begin traveling again—health and able penguins, but the snowcapped Delano ’42, January 2, 2004, in Benson, N.C., at 83 Donald world conditions permitting. In mountains, bears, caribou, sheep and R. McDonnell ’42, December 11, 1997, in Hamden, Conn., Florida in December we had dinner eagles were extraordinary.” She visited at 78 Beatrice Sosonowitz Wofsey ’42, January 1, 2004, in with Phyllis and Bob Sage ’49, spent Juneau and Glacier Bay National Park Stamford, Conn., at 85 Eliot Young ’42, September 19, 2002, a day with Carol and David Pulver and took the train from Skagway to in Somers, N.Y., at 82 James W. Moriarty ’43, December 11, ’63 and recently had a visit from Sue Whitehorse. However, the real 2003, in Westwood, Mass., at 83 Robert E.