|
Because this winter has brought in the most responses to my request
for column news, we'll all have a chance to bone up on classmates' activities
before June. . . . Francis Ward is a retired
small-business owner and reports seeing Charlie '48 and Libby Hall Cousins '48
and Harry '48 and Peg Horsch Lightbody '48 during the winter in Florida. Fran
is married and has a daughter who graduated from UNH and two grandchildren
there now. . . . Still living in Beijing and planning a
vacation in Thailand are Dana and Harriet Nourse Robinson. She
says he works a day and a half a day (!) and plays tennis weekends while she
teaches English to their hotel staff, serves on the board of International
Newcomers Network and does crafts. They recently had a visit from Tom
Burke. . . . Lester Soule spends winters in North Carolina,
where his neighbors are Dick and Marge Collins Marcyes.
Activities include golf, tennis, biking and repairs on a 205-year-old home. Les
and his wife have two daughters and three grandchildren. . . .
Carl Wright lives in Skowhegan, where he is a trial attorney. I doubt if
anyone can beat his record of attending all but one Bowdoin-Colby
football game since 1950. He still plays golf, spends considerable time with
his grandsons and has constructed three Little League ballfields in town. He
serves on the board of trustees at Maine Central Institute in Pittsfield. . . .
Alice Billington Rex sees Shirley Lloyd Thorne occasionally and
lived until recently near Stan and Ellie Farnham Frolio in S.
Dartmouth, Mass. She is widowed, but she and her husband, Don, raised six
children. She now has five grandchildren. . . . A five-week
trip to New Zealand was Louise Kelley Rochester's 70th birthday gift
from her six children, who are all married and have families of their own. She
has 10 grandchildren, and husband Nat, a retired IBM engineer, has five. She
says they are busier than ever, visiting friends and family and playing
tennis. . . . After years of working for the N.Y. State
Library in Albany, Jane Rollins now volunteers there one day a
week. . . . Sylvia Gray Noyes reports on having time
for reading (at last!), church work, traveling and writing. She has stayed in
touch with Dorie Meyer Hawkes, Carolyn Armitage Bouton '46 and Jean
Rhodenizer Fontaine '46. One of her four daughters is married to a Colby grad
and another to Jeff Earickson on the Colby staff. . . . David
Weber is director emeritus of Stanford University libraries. His oldest son
must have inherited his love for books, for he runs a firm carrying antiquarian
books, especially on science, medicine and technology. David continues to
write, publish and volunteer and recently won a 5K road race for men over 60.
He and his wife recently vacationed in Scotland. . . . Richard
Sampson is involved in various aspects of political activity such as poll-working,
candidate petitions, rallies, etc. He continues to be involved in church,
support of Public TV, concerts, visits with family and Elderhostels, the last
one in Lake Geneva studying Mozart, old-time
radio and astronomy. . . . Tossie Campbell Kozen
reports that a good three-day program is planned for June 5-8, and Dorie is busy assembling our reunion book. I hope you'll all be
there to receive your copy in person.
Sidney J. Rauch '43 received the Outstanding
Article Award from the Journal of Reading Education for "P.S. Tell Judy
Blume I Say Hello" about his experiences with children as a visiting author in
elementary schools. . . . Eugene Hunter '48 was
inducted into the Maine Baseball Hall of Fame.
|
