{"id":6767,"date":"2010-04-23T19:27:48","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T19:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hub-dev.bates.edu\/magazine\/?page_id=6767"},"modified":"2017-09-06T11:40:54","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T15:40:54","slug":"class-of-1959-reunion-2009","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/back-issues\/y2005\/spring05\/departments\/class-notes\/class-of-1959-reunion-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Class of 1959 reunion 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Co-Class Secretaries<\/strong>: Janet Spiers Forsman 24 Washington Pl., Plattsburgh NY 12901; Nancy Tyler Harris, 436 Center St., Slippery Rock PA 16057, <a href=\"mailto:nkh436@zoominternet.net\">nkh436@zoominternet.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Co-Class Presidents<\/strong>: Gerald Davis, 15 Hamlin Rd., Falmouth ME 04105-2205, <a href=\"mailto:gmdavis@maine.rr.com\">gmdavis@maine.rr.com<\/a>; Frederick Drayton, 909 E St. SE, Washington DC 20003, <a href=\"mailto:f.drayton@worldnet.att.net\">f.drayton@worldnet.att.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ronald Cook<\/strong> has published <em>Oil, Jihad and Destiny<\/em> (Opportunity Analysis, 2004), a book on the economic impact of oil depletion. &#8220;It provides an assessment of world oil production, characterizes the economic devastation of oil depletion, and suggests solutions to the emerging energy crisis. It is available for purchase at BookSurge.&#8221;&#8230; In more ways than one, <strong>Burton Harris<\/strong> knows something about chairs. He&#8217;s <strong>chair of the Bates Trustees<\/strong> and, recently, was elected board president of North Bennet Street School in Boston, the nationally acclaimed educational institution for fine craftsmanship. Burton, a skilled furniture maker, is a 1997 graduate of the NBSS Cabinet and Furniture Making program. The nonprofit, post-secondary North Bennet Street School has been training individuals in hand-skill trades since 1885. Students range from recent high school graduates to career changers of all ages&#8230; <strong>John Makowsky<\/strong> writes: &#8220;Retired on April 15, 2004! Working as a consultant for same company, Arthur J. Gallagher Co., two days a week. So far, vacationed in Tuscany and Vermont.&#8221;&#8230; <strong>Barbara Richman<\/strong> writes: &#8220;Two years ago I retired from teaching English for speakers of other languages, in Tucson, Ariz. I moved up to Eugene in the beautiful Willamette River Valley of Oregon. I work part-time as a caregiver for a 94-year-old man with Alzheimer&#8217;s. Enjoy bicycling and hiking. We have lovely forests, mountains, and beaches. Daughter Laura is expecting a baby in December, my second grandchild. Granddaughter Claire (4) is a lively red-head.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Co-Class Secretaries: Janet Spiers Forsman 24 Washington Pl., Plattsburgh NY 12901; Nancy&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":0,"parent":1760,"menu_order":30,"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-6767","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6767","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=6767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11997,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6767\/revisions\/11997"}],"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=6767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}