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Ernest C Marriner Jr.
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Plan now to enjoy Alumni Weekend on Mayflower Hill for our 65th reunion in June 2005. It's less than 18 months in the future. It may be our last chance to have a crowd from 1940 at Colby! . . . John '38 and Edna Slater Pullen celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary last spring. (We apologize for the long gap between the event and this reporting of it.) Edna taught English for many years at Ellsworth (Maine) High School, and John's career was as an attorney and judge in Hancock County. . . . Frank Farnham, who still operates Farnham's Market on Route 27 in Belgrade, Maine, was featured last summer in a long article in The Capital Weekly, an Augusta newspaper. The market is a seasonal business, selling high quality, homegrown vegetables. But Frank's real career, in between planting, hoeing and harvesting, has been as an author of short stores, which over the years have been published in national magazines. . . . My winter vacation in 2003 was in Sri Lanka, and about the time you read this I'll be accompanying other tourists on a cruise to Antarctica. I keep busy as the part-time accountant for the town of Clinton, Maine, and in my volunteer jobs as a member of AARP's National Legislative Council, as national president of Funeral Consumers Alliance and as president of the residents' association in my retirement community, Granite Hill Estates in Augusta. . . . Let's hear from you. If you don't have any news, submit a memory!
--Ernest C Marriner Jr.
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CLASS CORRESPONDENT
c/o Meg Bernier
Colby College Office of Alumni Relations
waterville Maine, 04901
207-872-3185
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Blanche Smith Fisher has two grandchildren who followed in her footsteps and chose teaching as their profession, and both are working towards their master's degrees. Blanche and her husband, Edwin, an atomic engineer, reside in Rhode Island. She has not returned to campus but "would love to see it now." . . . Bob Rice writes, "at 83 my Ômilestones' are very limited, like my activities. Upon rising every morning I regale myself in checking the local obit for my name and then scanning my skin for any new Ôcemetery warts.' After visiting 104 countries (centurian-qualified), I am content to see our Washington state sunsets compete with our famous rain clouds." Bob has been back to campus for major reunions and to receive a Colby Brick Award. He also returned to Mayflower Hill "to try to shelve class agent chores (for 30-plus years) upon some other unsuspecting classmate." . . . Dorris Heaney Batt also has returned to campus many times. Last year she came for our 60th reunion and said "it was wonderful as always to see the campus and how the College has advanced." She has three children living in Virginia, Texas and Colorado; her two great grandchildren, Ethan and Emily Timmons, live in Colorado. . . . George Parker and his wife, Geraldine Fennessy Parker '43, returned to Colby last June for Geraldine's 60th reunion. Only George, Sue Rose Bessey and Anita Pooler Laliberte were there to represent the Class of 1942. George still works a few days a week, but since he and Geraldine have three houses and a condo, they don't spend much time in their Flourtown, Pa., home. They like to ride their bicycles, play bridge and stay active.
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c/o Meg Bernier
Colby Colege Office of Alumni Relations
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207-872-3185
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Josephine P. McAlary
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Our 60th reunion comes up next June. Imagine! Try to be there. . . . Nancy Pattison McCarthy was at the Pattison family summer home on Penobscot Bay at Lincolnville Beach, Maine, for a brief visit and took a moment to call. She and Joe are well and are involved with the Army Heritage Museum and Education Center in Carlisle, Pa., where they live. . . . Bob Sillen wrote that Doug Barton '48 stopped by in Braintree to visit as he was returning from his 55th Colby reunion. . . . Pete Bliss and his wife hope to move from Jaffrey, N.H., to a retirement community in Brunswick, Maine, in the near future. . . . Bob Kahn and his wife live in Sherborn, Mass. Their children all live within a radius of a two-and-a-half hour drive. Bob retired from his practice of allergy and clinical immunology three years ago, and their retirement was relatively peaceful until recently when he developed serious health problems. . . . Betty Wood Reed returned to Colby last June to attend the graduation of her granddaughter. She is the seventh member of the family in three generations to graduate from Colby. Unfortunately, once in Waterville, Betty became very ill, was rushed to the hospital and spent graduation day in intensive care. Pneumonia hospitalized her for most of a week. . . . Ralph Braudy writes that Elliot "Huck" Kraft '43 and Irving Liss '43, both famous for their Kraft and Liss sandwiches, visited him recently on Cape Cod. They reminisced for hours about the golden 1940s at Colby.
--Josephine Pitts McAlary
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