{"id":5890,"date":"2010-04-23T19:13:39","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T19:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hub-dev.bates.edu\/magazine\/?page_id=5890"},"modified":"2017-09-06T11:44:42","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T15:44:42","slug":"class-of-1934","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/back-issues\/y2002\/winter02\/departments\/class-notes\/class-of-1934\/","title":{"rendered":"Class of 1934"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p><i><b>Class Secretary:<\/b> Ruth Carter Zervas, 66 School St., Gardiner, ME 04345-2106<\/i><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><i><b>Class President:<\/b><\/i> Doris Neilson Whipple, 75 Nottingham Rd., Auburn, ME 04210-4137<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Got news? Tap out a note to <a href=\"mailto:mazagine@bates.edu\">mazagine@bates.edu<\/a><\/span><span>! In Florida, <strong>Verna Brackett Kirby <\/strong>is active in College Club, church activities and bridge clubs&#8230;. We are saddened to learn of the death of <strong>Bernard Drew<\/strong>, for many years pastor of the Asylum Hill Congregational Church in Hartford, Conn., and send our heartfelt sympathy to his wife, Gladys&#8230;. <strong>Spencer Furbush<\/strong> wrote that life is quieter now that there is no more southern traveling. He entertains at Moody Beach in the summer and said that &#8220;the better they cook, the more often they get invited!&#8221;&#8230; Living with his daughter and husband in Bradenton, Fla., <strong>Rob Johnston<\/strong> swims occasionally in their pool and keeps in touch with his &#8220;far-flung family and few surviving friends by mail.&#8221; He may hold a class record for descendants: 16 great-grandchildren plus three adopted ones, one great-great grandchild with two more on the way. Three great-greats are in college and three grands are teachers&#8230;. <strong>Jackie and Ed Lelyveld<\/strong> have traveled to family weddings in Indiana, New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, and to that of grandson <strong>Morris Lelyveld &#8217;64<\/strong> in Vermont&#8230;. <strong>Louise Mallinson Jagger<\/strong> gets much pleasure from her children, grandchildren, and two great-grands&#8230;. <strong>Doris and Nate Milbury<\/strong> have moved to a continuing care facility in Rye, N.H., to be near their daughter and family&#8230;. We all look forward to <strong>Doris Neilson Whipple<\/strong>&#8217;s annual accompaniment to the Alma Mater at Reunion. In winter 2001 she spent four months at a lovely condo in Holmes Beach, Fla., where she saw her daughter in Bradenton and had visits from her Maine son&#8230;. <strong>Elizabeth Saunders Smith<\/strong> writes a family newspaper (now Volume 40) on the computer and sends family news to about 15 kinfolk. She formerly wrote a weekly column for the Milbrook (N.Y.) local paper when she and her late husband, Abbott &#8217;34, lived there. Living in Kingfield, she watches the ski traffic on the way to Sugarloaf and spends a lot of time reading, her favorite occupation&#8230;. <strong>Donald Smith<\/strong> said that he is &#8220;still crying over the election results.&#8221; He is working on a family history, which includes a relationship to President Cheney. (Bates&#8217; Special Collections received &#8220;The Smith Papers: The Personal and Professional Papers&#8221; of Senator George Edwin Smith 1873, LL.D. 1918, and of Judge Clarence Cheney Smith 1888, nephews of President Cheney. The papers were donated to Bates by Stanton T. Smith &#8217;50 and his sister, the late Jane Smith Lefebvre &#8217;45.)&#8230; In Pittsfield, Eileen Soper lives with 15 other residents at Sebasticook Community Home with a caring staff and visits from her niece who takes care of her needs. She goes out occasionally, but is content to &#8220;stay put.&#8221;&#8230; Charles Whipple is still involved in church, community, and charity activities.&#8230; Larry and Toby Zahn Griffiths celebrated their 61st wedding anniversary, flying to Iceland and Sweden, cruised to Russia, Poland, Estonia, Finland and back to Sweden&#8230;. Class secretary Ruth Carter Zervas keeps up with club activities, bridge, reading, sewing, and eating out, &#8220;although I do like to cook,&#8221; she adds.<\/span><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Class Secretary: Ruth Carter Zervas, 66 School St., Gardiner, ME 04345-2106 Class&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":0,"parent":3879,"menu_order":8,"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-5890","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5890","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=5890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12166,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5890\/revisions\/12166"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}