{"id":5450,"date":"2010-04-23T19:05:38","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T19:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hub-dev.bates.edu\/magazine\/?page_id=5450"},"modified":"2017-09-06T11:41:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T15:41:00","slug":"class-of-1963-reunion-2008","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/back-issues\/y2004\/fallwinter04\/departments\/class-notes\/class-of-1963-reunion-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Class of 1963 reunion 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Class Secretary: Elizabeth Buker Creighton, 2419 Marion St., Columbia SC 29201, <br \/><a href=\"mailto:lizdickc@earthlink.net\">lizdickc@earthlink.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Class President: Howard Vandersea, 13 Appletree Dr., Brunswick ME 04011, <a href=\"mailto:vanderse@suscomme.net\">vanderse@suscomme.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Linda Antoun Miller satisfies her love of art by volunteering as a docent at the Worcester Art Museum. She also tutors privately and is vice president of the steering committee of the Worcester Women&#8217;s History Project and co-chair of its events committee &#8212; practically a full-time job&#8230;. Never a dull moment, says Peter Aransky. He and Jane recently completed construction on a new skin care\/day spa for Jane&#8217;s business&#8230;. Joan Curran Pratt remarried her ex-husband after 17 years&#8230;. To his amazement, Jim Curtis and Betsy are moving to Bridgton, Maine, after 41 years in the Hartford area. They&#8217;re building a new home near Shawnee Peak (Pleasant Mountain). &#8220;We expect to be there by next spring, enjoying the unobstructed view of the White Mountain range and Mount Washington.&#8221;&#8230; After five years of retirement, Jean Dawson Fleming was gently persuaded to return to her former position as a church administrator on a part-time\/shared basis&#8230;. Virginia Erskine Harrison officially retired from Bates College admissions office in March 2004, and plans to travel. &#8220;It will be great to be able to stay for a long or short time in different places, which is such a change from being tied to Maine for so many years.&#8221;&#8230; Last June marked the end of David Hosford&#8217;s stint as chair of the Federated History Department &#8212; a consortium of historians at the Newark campus of Rutgers and its close neighbor, the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He and Maureen are spending a year in England, where they&#8217;ll serve as co-directors of the Rutgers Study Abroad Program in Great Britain and Ireland&#8230;. Barbara Hudson Fuson has retired after 34 years with Decatur, Ill., public schools. &#8220;I will leave curriculum development, school improvement plans, and &#8216;no child left behind,&#8217; behind.&#8221;&#8230; William LaVallee is studying for his real estate license, hoping to make some money from the Bay Area&#8217;s still-hot real estate market. &#8220;We started foster parenting again about five years ago, and still see our first two boys (3 and 4) almost every week.&#8221;&#8230; Richard Love enjoys his toys: 1950 Vincent motorcycle, 1946 Ford pickup, and 1947 Ford tractor. He works part time, thanks to the Internet&#8230;. Paula Schmidt Mansur works part-time as medical director for the school health services in the Rochester, N.Y., school district &#8212;about 38,000 kids&#8230;. Natalie Shober Moir&#8217;s latest project discusses the relationships among the fish, little critters, plants, and commercial fishery in the Great Lakes &#8212; and has an encouraging ecological message&#8230;. Nancy Wetherell Manning has retired after teaching second grade for many years in Foxborough, Mass.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Class Secretary: Elizabeth Buker Creighton, 2419 Marion St., Columbia SC 29201, lizdickc@earthlink.net&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":0,"parent":2798,"menu_order":35,"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-5450","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5450","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=5450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11969,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5450\/revisions\/11969"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}