{"id":5297,"date":"2010-04-23T18:48:42","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T18:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hub-dev.bates.edu\/magazine\/?page_id=5297"},"modified":"2017-09-06T13:43:17","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T17:43:17","slug":"class-of-1961","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/back-issues\/y2001\/summerfall01\/departments\/class-notes\/class-of-1961\/","title":{"rendered":"Class of 1961"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p><b><i>Class Secretary:<\/i><\/b><i> Gretchen Shorter Davis, 315 Chandlers Wharf, Portland, ME 04101-4652, <a href=\"mailto:norxloon@aol.com\">norxloon@aol.com<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><i><b>Class President:<\/b> Evelyn Yavinsky Biddle, 362 Acorn Ln., Shelburne, VT 05482<\/i><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><i>Next Reunion in 2001. Got news? Tap out a note to <a href=\"mailto:magazine@bates.edu\">magazine@bates.edu<\/a>!<\/i>&nbsp; <span><font size=\"3\">At a gala &#8220;Celebration of Heroes&#8221; with Walter Cronkite as host, Priscilla Hjelm Sylvia was honored as the driving force behind the Friends of Oak Bluffs on Martha&#8217;s Vineyard&#8230;. At Lawrence Academy in Groton, Mass., Dick Jeffers completed 40 years as an educator and college counselor. During that time he has directed more than 30 students to Bates&#8230;. Robyn Jewell Abrams retired after teaching for 38 years at Wolcott (Conn.) High School&#8230;. Nathaniel Puffer retired from his position as librarian at the Univ. of Delaware after 27 years. He sells old and rare books by catalog and Internet part time&#8230;. In Meredith, N.H. , the James D. Sutherland Memorial Park was dedicated last summer in memory of a man who touched the lives of many townspeople. Jim was a former president and CEO of the Meredith Village Savings Bank, and both the bank and town contributed funds to develop the town park. <\/font><\/span><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Class Secretary: Gretchen Shorter Davis, 315 Chandlers Wharf, Portland, ME 04101-4652, norxloon@aol.com&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":0,"parent":4095,"menu_order":36,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_dimp_site_id":"","_dimp_override_contact":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"class_list":["post-5297","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11982,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5297\/revisions\/11982"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}