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It is a cold, rainy February day as I write this, but I take pleasure
in knowing that when you read it, May will have arrived and you will be
preparing for your trip to celebrate our 45th. . . . Only
one classmate used e-mail to contact me. Davy Crocket wrote from
Pennsylvania that he'd like to have e-mail addresses from any of us who have
caught up with the times. He has retired from the faculty at Lafayette College
and plans to come to reunion. . . . Nita Hale
Barbour, also a retired academic, writes from Deer Isle, Maine, that she
will have a new publication in the fall of 1997, a text with a timely title,
Families, Schools and Communities: Building Partnerships for Educating
Children. . . . Robert Bechard, from Nashua, N.H.,
writes that he has retired after 29 years of teaching high school
biology. . . . Carolyn Stigman Burnham lives in the
Florida Keys from January to April and from May to December at Sebago Lake,
Maine, where she and her husband run Wind-in-Pines, a family
camp. . . . Bob and Nancy Weare
Merriman report a great mini-reunion at their place in Rye, N.H.
Celebrating with them were Paul and Mimi Russell Aldrich from
Bristol, Maine, Diane Sargent Larsen from Jacksonville, Fla., Barbara
Mellin from Boston and Barbara Scott from Calgary, Alta. Great time
was had by all! . . . Pete and Chris Christenson
Honsberger are both retired now and live in Waldoboro, Maine. Grateful to
return to New England, they took their grandchildren up to the campus and
lunched at the "new" Spa . . . starting early to introduce them to the fun
stuff. . . . Bob Keyes wrote from Vero Beach, Fla., that
he and Mary enjoy golf outings with Al and Joan Martin
Lamont. . . . Bill and Barbara Cheeseman
Hooper spend six weeks in Florida every winter. They have just experienced
what Barbara termed "the agony and the ecstasy" of planning and building a new
house in Wilmington, Mass. So many of us do this after all the kids are gone.
Wonder why! . . . Some of you have answered my question, "What
have you done that you never would have anticipated at Colby?" Richard
Crummet never anticipated that, after flying 50 missions in WW II, he would
fly some 40 more for the military. . . . Rodney Howes
wrote from Nevada, where he lives with wife, Mary Ann, that he never expected
to build an experimental airplane. He didn't mention whether he flew
it. . . . Caroline Wilkins McDonough, who has
continued her lifelong devotion to the theater as president and artistic
director of the Cameo Theater in Connecticut, never expected to live abroad for
30 years. . . . Dale Dacier Meagher, whose husband
is a cattle farmer in Utah, said she never expected to "work so
hard." . . . Colby sent a copy of an article from the
Underwriter's Report about the retirement of Walter Sherwood
after an "impressive 40-year career" with Lumbermens Mutual Insurance Company
in California. Also from southern California, the Rancho Bernardo News
Journal announced that a certain Bill Taylor was holding an
organizational meeting to form a New England Club. Maybe with some planning you
can take it with you! . . . Nancy (Ricker '50) and Ben
Sears will receive a Colby Brick at the awards banquet at reunion. Join us
to celebrate and honor them for all their volunteer work for the College.
Marty Burger '58 is co-chair of the business and professional
division of the United Jewish Appeal Campaign Cabinet.
Deep-Seated Success
Retirement is no big vacation for Philip Hussey '53. Last fall,
after giving up his chair as president and CEO of the Hussey Seating Company,
one of the leading suppliers of spectator seating in the world, he headed off
to the Far East--on business. [CONTINUE]
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