Marjorie Maynard Englert is retired after a long career in early childhood education. After Colby she did graduate work at the Nursery Training School in Boston, then affiliated with Boston University. (The Training School later became the Eliot Pearson Department of Child Study at Tufts University.) Although she had no children of her own, she has known about 1,000 preschool families in her 40-plus years of teaching in cooperative nursery schools, daycare centers and college child development labs. She retired early due to her husband's health and has been widowed since 1985. She keeps in touch with Chuck '45 and Shirley Martin Dudley '46 and had dinner with them and several others from their class just before their 50th reunion. She also has seen Joan Hunt Banfield and others in her gang in several mini-reunions over the years. Present activities include volunteering in a daycare center in Clearwater, Fla., where she lives in the winter. Marjorie also plays tennis and golf, swims and is part of an exercise group. Lately she has been painting in watercolor and learning to sketch children's portraits at the daycare center. Many years ago her aunt and uncle founded the retirement home where she now lives and which is on the same lake in Columbia, Conn., where she had spent every summer of her life. . . . I have heard a few times from Dorothy Rodgers Jordan. She and her husband recently visited Dana and Harriet Nourse Robinson in Beijing and were planning to go to Cote d'Azur in October. . . . In retirement, Cecelia Nordstrom Harmon lives in New Gloucester, Maine, and volunteers at Peabody House, a home for terminally ill AIDS patients. She walks and plays bridge for recreation and says that retirement doesn't leave her as much time as she once thought. (Probably many of us share the same problem!) Her son is an accountant married to a first grade teacher; they are the parents of three children, ages 10 to 6.
Class Correspondent: Mary Hall Fitch

We heard from Dick Billings, who is the executive director of Informed Notaries of Maine. Dick and his wife, Norma (Taraldsen '46), a psychiatric social worker at the Augusta Mental Health Institute, were scheduled to travel to Norway this June. Dick received his Ph.D. from LaSalle University in business administration. He also has written a book, The Village and the Hill, a story of childhood memories of growing up in Seal Harbor, Maine, in the 1930s. He still maintains property at Seal Harbor. Dick also included his updated résumé, which is three pages of absolutely remarkable achievements. . . . Dr. Shirley M. Bessey, now residing at Thor-nox Farms, R2 Box 220 in Thorndike, Maine 04986, is currently farming and substitute teaching. She was formerly USDA extension agent in Maine, state recreation specialist in Kansas, college instructor and professor at State University of New York, Springfield College and Boston University and director of volunteer training in Maine. . . . Those were the only two responses we had to our most recent inquiries. Dorothy finally got me to leave the Western Hemisphere, and in April she made her seventh trip and I made my first to Israel. We arrived during the fighting in the north and the heated political campaign, which made for a worthwhile and informative journey.
Class Correspondent: David and Dorothy Marson

Owing to a misreading of my notes by the editor, my August Colby column reported that Haroldene "Deanie" Whitcomb Wolf was "unmarried and looking." Imagine the consternation that she and her husband, Marshall, must have felt when the magazine reached their home on their 37th wedding anniversary--or, later, when she received a proposal! The unmarried-but-looking individual was one of their children. . . . Barb Fransen Briggs spent two weeks in Costa Rica in March and says she had a super time. She has retired from teaching and plays a lot of tennis but still works as a tutor. Two sons live in Denver, Colo., and another is a missionary working with immigrants from Russia in Atlanta, Ga. . . . Ann Jennings Taussig and her husband, John, are now retired and spend the summer lakeside in New Hampshire. Her four children are spread from New Hampshire to California, and her grandchildren increased to 11 last July with the arrival of twin girls. John's 50th reunion at Bowdoin brought them back to Maine, and they look forward to her Colby 50th. Ann says she gave up quilting for golf but thinks she should have stayed with quilting. . . . Three years ago Beverly Barnett Ammann moved to Ford's Colony in Williamsburg, Va., where she continues to play the cello and rounds out lots of golf and tennis with theater and the handbell choir of her Presbyterian church at William and Mary College. She and spouse Chick, a retired foreign tax accountant, enjoy participating in the many courses at the college. Her daughter Julie is a professor in Maryland and has three daughters, her daughter Laurie is a musician and RN and has two daughters, and her son Chip is an Outward Bound instructor in Florida. Beverly is president of the local music club, which raises money for aspiring and talented musicians. Beverly's roommate, Anne Jennings Taussig, also moved to Ford's Colony in Willamsburg. . . . Ray Deltz has lived in Raleigh since 1966 and retired from IBM in 1987. Ray and his wife, who have one unmarried son, travel frequently, both domestically and overseas. Ray enjoys reading and golfing and says his hobby is writing letters to newspapers and politicians "to keep them on their feet or off balance." President Cotter visited last June, and Ray was host of the event attended by 25 Colby alumni. Ray keeps a spare bedroom open for classmates. Y'all come! . . . Where are you, Robert Bedig?
Class Correspondent: Robert M. Tonge, Sr.