{"id":6610,"date":"2010-04-23T19:25:31","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T19:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hub-dev.bates.edu\/magazine\/?page_id=6610"},"modified":"2017-09-06T11:41:13","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T15:41:13","slug":"class-of-1954","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/back-issues\/y2004\/winter04\/departments\/class-notes-2\/class-of-1954\/","title":{"rendered":"Class of 1954"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p><strong>Class Secretary:<\/strong> Jonas Klein, PO Box 456, Georgetown, ME 04548, <a href=\"mailto:lojo@gwi.net\">lojo@gwi.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Class President:<\/strong> Neil A. Toner, 17 Mast Rd., Scarborough, ME 04074-8782, <a href=\"mailto:cat3sat@aol.com\">cat3sat@aol.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Next Reunion in 2004.<\/strong> <em>Got news? Tap out a note to <a href=\"mailto:magazine@bates.edu\"><strong>magazine@bates.edu<\/strong><\/a>! <\/em>From her cabin in the woods, <strong>Audrey Bardos Allen<\/strong> writes that she and <strong>Craig<\/strong> &#8217;55 &#8220;landscape by nature &#8211; with our old oak trees setting the theme.&#8221; She continues to tutor students with learning differences at home. Son <strong>Laird<\/strong> &#8217;83 and family live in Thailand where he teaches at Mahidol Univ. International College. Audrey and Craig enjoy their summer visits with<strong> Ann Chick<\/strong> at her house in Lovell, Maine&#8230;. <strong>Rouben Cholakian<\/strong> sadly reports that his wife <strong>Patricia Francis<\/strong> &#8217;55 is gravely ill. They do take some comfort in knowing that she will &#8220;conclude her exceptional scholarly career&#8221; with the publication of their joint biography of Marguerite de Navarre (1492-1549), poet, dramatist, reformer, and sister to Francis I of France&#8230;. The highlight of the summer for <strong>Bill Cummings<\/strong> was hosting a Latina basketball team from Los Angeles. The group was one of 368 teams meeting in the San Diego Classic, a girls tournament. Bill still enjoys gardening and woodworking, and now serves as an advisor to two graduate students in fisheries biology&#8230;. The always busy <strong>Art LeBlanc<\/strong> and Angela returned from Campobello Island where she &#8220;plugged&#8221; <strong>Jonas Klein&#8217;s<\/strong> book, Beloved Island. The LeBlancs officially retired with the sale of their popular restaurant, Seascapes, in April&#8230;. Traveling as much as ever are Dick and <strong>Barbara Meader Roof<\/strong>. They&#8217;ve been to Elderhostels in Hawaii, San Antonio, and Switzerland. Barbara faces back surgery to improve a spinal stenosis condition.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Class Secretary: Jonas Klein, PO Box 456, Georgetown, ME 04548, lojo@gwi.net Class&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":0,"parent":2152,"menu_order":27,"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-6610","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6610","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=6610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12043,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6610\/revisions\/12043"}],"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=6610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}