Ardes Lockhart Burnes, Framingham, Mass., has been found! In May 1997 she was awarded an M.S.W. degree from Southern Connecticut State University and is now a social worker in a skilled care facility. She has been the director of public relations at Fleming H. Revelle Co. book publishers. . . . Class agent Ernie Fortin, Sarasota, Fla., sends to all of his '51 classmates his "thanks and a bow" for bringing the class Alumni Fund to 84 percent participation. He also writes that plans are being formulated for our 50th class reunion. I also received from Ernie a flyer invitation to a "special get-together" to honor Ted Shiro, "All-New England/All-Maine four-sport star," who has been inducted into both the Maine Sports Hall of Fame and the Maine Baseball Hall of Fame. And from Ted Shiro himself: he now splits the seasons between Wayne, Maine, and Naples, Fla. He has been in the restaurant business and now works part time in public relations. He has been appointed and elected to: Maine Recreation Authority, Maine Guarantee Authority, Maine Athletic Commission and Governors Commission on Sports and Physical Fitness and served as chairman of the U.S. Olympic Committee for Maine. In answer to the question of what happens at Colby now that could not have happened when you were there, he wrote, "boys and girls living in the same dorm." . . . Bump Bean, Concord, Mass., now retired from Arthur D. Little, Inc., was the only responder to the new questionnaire. (Don't be bashful when you get yours, it is intended to be fun.) Bump's response: On my first day at Colby I . . . " met my Paris, Maine, roommate, who first unpacked his quart bottle of "Father John's Medicine"--cod liver oil. On my last day at Colby I . . . "cried when I hugged so many of my classmates and friends to say goodbye for who knows how many years." His most risky harmless prank was . . . "participating with the 1947 freshmen `gang' to repaint the Bowdoin Polar Bear from white to blue." Bump, whose Colby diploma is on the mantel of his study fireplace, says he would not want his kids/grandkids to know that he was involved in such a prank but would be proud to have them know that he received track letters three years, was one of the original Colby Eight, served as president of the Glee Club and president of the Student Government Association and received the Condon medal. . . . And from Bill Heubisch, Anaheim, Calif., came a great photo and invitation to attend his Halloween party and to say a prayer for the Alumni Fund and Mules football team. . . . Having already been to the Antarctic, I have now been to the Arctic--as high as Resolute. No pranksters up on that ice--none of the polar bears was painted blue. The excitement on Baffin Island was seeing the results of the first hunt for a bow head whale allowed in 70 years. It was not a pretty sight but extremely significant to the few remaining Inuit. . . . The 50th reunion coming up soon will be significant to the Colby Class of '51.
--Barbara Jefferson Walker
Sports enthusiast and philanthropist Harold Alfond L.H.D. '80 was the special
presenter when Ted Shiro '51 was honored last fall by Maine Sports
Legends and the Maine Baseball Hall of Fame. Shiro, a Waterville native, was a
standout Colby athlete. . . . Philip W. Hussey Jr.
'53 was named outstanding philanthropist of the year by the New England
chapter of the National Society of Fund Raising Executives. Hussey, a Colby
trustee emeritus, is a trustee of both the Portland Symphony and York Hospital
and has chaired the York County Technical College's capital campaign.
Deaths: Warren J. Finegan '51, January 9, 1999, in Boston, Mass.,
at 75. . . . Harvey M. Kirstein '51, November 25, 1998,
in Boston, Mass., at 68. . . . Robert V. Reid '51, January 1, 1999,
in Salem, Mass., at 69. . . . Patricia E. Moss '52, October 7,
1998, in Glen Ridge, N.J., at 67. . . . Arthur W. Wyman Jr. '52, in
Phoenix, Ariz., at 69. . . . William C. Clark '53, October 16, 1998, in
Lowell, Mass., at 74. . . . Jean Pratt Moody '56, February
25, 1999, in Sarasota, Fla. . . . Robert S. Bates
'58, January 22, 1999, in Waterville, Maine, at 64.
Art from the Heart
At 65, Barbara Kleinman Lainere '55 has the heart of a
30-year-old man. A professional artist in Beechhurst, N.Y., Lainere says she
isn't one of the high achievers usually chronicled in Lifestyles, the
Toronto-based magazine that recently told the story of her heart--and her heart
transplant. But, she says, "I did have so many miracles." [CONTINUE]
