{"id":6602,"date":"2010-04-23T19:25:31","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T19:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hub-dev.bates.edu\/magazine\/?page_id=6602"},"modified":"2017-09-06T11:41:13","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T15:41:13","slug":"class-of-1946","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/back-issues\/y2004\/winter04\/departments\/class-notes-2\/class-of-1946\/","title":{"rendered":"Class of 1946"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p><strong>Class Secretary:<\/strong> Ruth Small Harris, PO Box 11, Sunset, ME 04683<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Class President:<\/strong> Jane Parsons Norris, 93 Field Ave., Auburn, ME 04210-4522, <u><a href=\"mailto:janenorris@adelphia.net\">janenorris@adelphia.net<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Next Reunion in 2006.<\/strong> <em>Got news? Tap out a note to <\/em><a href=\"mailto:magazine@bates.edu\"><em>magazine@bates.edu<\/em><\/a><em>! Selections from the recent Class Letter:<\/em> <strong>Sally Adkins MacFarlane Wilbur<\/strong> and <strong>Keith<\/strong> &#8217;45 enjoyed a tour of three Scandinavian capitals and were especially impressed with the ship Vasa in Stockholm. It was commissioned by the King of Sweden in 1647. Keith recently completed a small booklet about the war years at Bates for his class, which the Bates Alumni Office printed and sent to his classmates. It contains pictures of Bates coeds, the V-12, and other memorabilia of the time when we also were at Bates&#8230;. <strong>Dave Brigham<\/strong> likes Brooksby Village more every day. He initiated a monthly &#8220;Live and Learn&#8221; forum soon after they moved there&#8230;. <strong>Joyce Cleland Goad<\/strong> writes, &#8220;Ken takes care of his animals (goats, a burro, a few cows &#8211; one is a longhorn &#8211; and four Appaloosa horses) and I play bridge, having ceded volunteer jobs to the younger generation.&#8221;&#8230; Uncooperative knees restrict <strong>Gracie Hall<\/strong> somewhat, but she does a lot of sewing and crocheting for charities&#8230;. <strong>Priscilla Hemenway Poore<\/strong> writes, &#8220;Mort&#8217;s Parkinson&#8217;s has gotten progressively worse, so our activities are limited and we only travel locally.&#8221;&#8230; <strong>Mary Hoyt Jewett <\/strong>walks two miles every day, volunteers at Meals for ME, and works in the Sunshine Club&#8230;. <strong>Herbert Knight<\/strong> enjoyed three ski trips last winter, including a Bates get-together at Sunday River. He admits to being a bit muscle-weary, but was pleased that &#8220;the old body&#8221; held up as well as it did. He and Olga play couples bridge, square dance, and ballroom dance&#8230;. <strong>Marilyn Meyer Spooner<\/strong> completed a &#8220;Grandmother Remembers&#8221; memoir for her grandchildren. She&#8217;s working on a family history&#8230;. <strong>Jane Parsons Norris<\/strong> and Leon find the comforts of home most pleasant and enjoyable. She is still a bank director and is on several bank committees. She also has fun quilting, and attending quilting classes and quilt shows&#8230;. <strong>Don<\/strong> and <strong>Penny Gumpright Richter <\/strong>are very busy. Don retired after 50 years with his law firm, but still goes to the office three days a week. Last May, he went off the Suffield Academy Board after 28 years, three of those years as chairman. He still continues as a member of the Walks Foundation, after serving as its chairman. He serves as a trustee for one church, chairs the Rotary reading program for a local elementary school and serves as a trustee and a member of the International Committee of the Hartford YMCA. Penny continues to do Meals on Wheels and play tennis, but finds it harder to get a foursome&#8230;. <strong>John Scott<\/strong> assists in St. Benedict&#8217;s Parish in Plantation, Fla&#8230;. <strong>Anne Smith Nanavaty<\/strong> writes, &#8220;Kris and I are active members of Lion&#8217;s Clubs International. We attend our local Southbury, Conn., club, as well as regional and national programs. Most recently, Kris was chairman of the Connecticut State Mid-Winter Carnival at the Farmington Marriott.&#8221;&#8230; <strong>George<\/strong> and <strong>Jeannette Packard Stewart<\/strong> help to chair four blood drives a month with the Red Cross. George is church treasurer and active in Rotary&#8230;. After living in Chatham, Mass., for two years, <strong>Ruth Stillman Fernandez<\/strong> is back in their Newton house&#8230;. <strong>Muriel Ulrich Weeks<\/strong> finds that her seven church jobs, an investment club, bridge, an auxiliary to the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, friends, and, of course, family keep her busy and challenged&#8230;. <strong>Barbara Varney Randall<\/strong> is &#8220;busy as usual with committees, United Way, and volunteer activities as well at senior college classes.&#8221;&#8230; <strong>Marjorie Walther Keach<\/strong> says she is grateful that she&#8217;s still able to swing a golf club and do some volunteer work.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Class Secretary: Ruth Small Harris, PO Box 11, Sunset, ME 04683 Class&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":0,"parent":2152,"menu_order":19,"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-6602","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6602","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=6602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12108,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6602\/revisions\/12108"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}