{"id":6756,"date":"2010-04-23T19:27:47","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T19:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hub-dev.bates.edu\/magazine\/?page_id=6756"},"modified":"2017-09-06T11:40:53","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T15:40:53","slug":"class-of-1948-reunion-2008","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/back-issues\/y2005\/spring05\/departments\/class-notes\/class-of-1948-reunion-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Class of 1948 reunion 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Class Secretary<\/strong>: Roberta Sweetser McKinnell, 38 Hornbeam Rd., Duxbury MA 02332<\/p>\n<p><strong>Class President<\/strong>: Vivienne Sikora Gilroy, 1009 Ridge Dr., Union NJ 07083, <a href=\"mailto:vgilroy@highstream.net\">vgilroy@highstream.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>George Billias<\/strong> reports that &#8220;after 20 years, I succeeded in finishing the manuscript of my book: <em>Heard Round the World: The Influence of American Constitutionalism Abroad, 1776-1989<\/em>. I could not have done it without Margaret, my wife, my textual editor, my everything. We pushed the 800-pound gorilla out of the house, and it&#8217;s now in the hands of a publisher being evaluated&#8230;. <strong>Brenton Dodge<\/strong> and Karen enjoyed an 18-day Elderhostel trip in June, following the Lewis and Clark expedition route from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean. <strong>Bud<\/strong> and <strong>Ella<\/strong> &#8217;50 <strong>Wilmot<\/strong> were also along&#8230;. <strong>Jeanne<\/strong> <strong>Mather Roach<\/strong> was awarded third place in still life at the San Gabriel Valley Fine Arts Assn.&#8217;s spring show last year. Along with five other water colorists, she is planning a group show for August 2005. On a sad note, husband Joseph died in February 2004&#8230;. <strong>John Radebaugh<\/strong> writes: &#8220;Continuing to write a memoir, <em>House Calls with John<\/em>, now in its sixth rewriting. Dotty and I have settled in Ocean View, a retirement community near Portland, Maine&#8230;. The fascination with maintaining an old house and a lot of land and trees has diminished, says <strong>Peregrin Schwarzer<\/strong>. The obstacle to downsizing is that &#8220;we (no, I) have collected\/acquired a lot of good stuff &#8211; antiques, art, scientific instruments, furniture &#8211; that takes up a considerable amount of space.&#8221;&#8230; <strong>Leighton Shields<\/strong> still teaches full time at Massasoit Community College in Brockton, Mass., where <strong>Charles Wall<\/strong> &#8217;67 is president&#8230;. Since retirement, <strong>Robert Vail<\/strong> has served as a Peace Corps volunteer, a member of the Auburn School Board, a court-appointed special advocate for abused and neglected children, and president of Graham Junior College.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Class Secretary: Roberta Sweetser McKinnell, 38 Hornbeam Rd., Duxbury MA 02332 Class&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":0,"parent":1760,"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-6756","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6756","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=6756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12086,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6756\/revisions\/12086"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}