MILEPOSTS |
WE MADE IT! Our 50th class reunion is coming fast. Make your plans for this
June. Please come and we'll do a conga line across the chapel lawn. Betty
Scalise Kilham, our class president, is doing organizing from her home in
Chelmsford, Mass., and would love to hear your ideas
(508-256-2911). . . . I called Mary Young this
summer in Dover-Foxcroft, Maine, and got her away from raspberry picking and
unpacking--she had just returned from a two-week canal trip in England. "We got
on in Oxford and sailed to Stratford. You don't travel far but it is fun," she
said. Mary has been doing a lot of traveling and lives near Clearwater, Fla.,
in the winter. . . . You Florida people, contact Chuck '45
and Shirley Martin Dudley (813-726-4116) in Safety Harbor, Fla., about
another winter reunion on the west coast. . . . I had some
minor disaster-adventures this past July. First, I broke my nose (hairline)
walking briskly through an open door that turned out to be a very clean plate
glass wall. Then the week before Tex's and my vacation, I ran into a stopped
car, creaming the front of our new van. Can you top this? Come tell me about it
at reunion in June. . . . Glenyce Miller Kaplan, how are
you? Let us have some news of you. You are such a lovely lady.Correspondent: Nancy Jacobsen
Margaret Scott Carter makes two five-week buying trips yearly to
England, where she drives about 1,000 miles a week collecting antique
woodworking tools and "anything I like"--mainly country things. In her shop on
the waterfront in Portsmouth, N.H., cabinetmakers and restorers can find the
tools they need for authentic copies and restorations. Although just an hour
from Boston, she says she spends more time in London. When we talked in August,
Scotty had just returned from Chatham on Cape Cod and visits with her
grandchildren. Last year she took a mail boat up the coast of Norway and around
the North Cape. After contemplating how dismal the winters along the coast must
be, she said she can appreciate why the Norwegian antique furniture is so
brightly painted! John and I took the same trip up the Norwegian coast in 1974.
A memorable part of the experience for us was being awakened and invited to the
crew's quarters to watch President's Nixon's resignation speech on their TV. .
. . I hope to have much more news for the next column. Everyone is eager
to hear from you.
Correspondent: Mary Hall Fitch
We aren't receiving any information these days from classmates, so we have to
make the news. We'll be sending a letter reminding you that our class column
can only be sustained if you send us information. We haven't seen any of the
Class of '48, but we did have Elaine and Lenny Warshaver '49 on our boat for a
spectacular sailing weekend. We had tentative plans to meet Lenny and Aaron
Sandler in Florida this winter, but those plans didn't materialize. Perhaps
they will this year. Our daughter, Deborah Marson '75, returned to Colby for
her 20th reunion. It seems as if it were only yesterday that she was an
undergraduate. We are writing this very brief column from our boat Hero
in Newport, R.I., where we stopped on our first leisurely vacation--after all,
David is now retired. Please let us hear from you!
Correspondent: David and Dorothy Marson
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