{"id":7527,"date":"1996-09-21T18:45:11","date_gmt":"1996-09-21T22:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hub-dev.bates.edu\/magazine\/?page_id=7527"},"modified":"2017-09-06T13:43:32","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T17:43:32","slug":"fifties","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/back-issues\/y1996\/fall96\/departments\/class-notes\/fifties\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifties"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\"50\"<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\nClass Secretary<\/strong>:\u00a0Lois Keniston Penney, 75 Hickory Hill Rd., Kensington, CT 06037-1209<\/em>Class President<\/strong>:\u00a0George M. Gamble Jr., One Wyeth Rd., Hanover, NH 03755-2301<\/em>Next Reunion in 2000.<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"51\"<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\nClass Secretary<\/strong>:\u00a0Dorothy Webb Quimby, P.O. Box 417, Unity, ME 04988-0417<\/em>Co-Class Presidents<\/strong>:\u00a0Wilfred and Melissa Meigs Barbeau, 1 Grove St., Barrington, RI 02806-1921<\/em>Next Reunion in 1997. <\/em>At California Lutheran Univ.,\u00a0Barbara Collins<\/strong> of the biology department was chosen professor of the year. A botanist and expert on wildflowers of the Sierras, she has assisted in many environmental impact studies and has written ten textbooks.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"52\"<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\nClass Secretary<\/strong>:\u00a0Margery Schumacher Clark, 2 Thompson Ln., Durham, NH 03824-3021<\/em>Class President<\/strong>:\u00a0Norman E. Brackett, 13 Pillsbury Dr., Scarborough, ME 04074-9253<\/em>Next Reunion in 1997.<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"53\"<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\nClass Secretary<\/strong>:\u00a0Ronald Clayton, 65 Willow Grove, Brunswick, ME 04011-9795<\/em>Class President<\/strong>:\u00a0Richard F. Coughlin, 47 Wildwood Dr., Cape Elizabeth, ME 04107-1162<\/em>Next Reunion in 1997. <\/em>When\u00a0Hank Stred<\/strong> retired recently as executive director of the Maine Medical Assn., the organization’s headquarters building in Augusta was named for him. Stred, alumni secretary from 1955 to 1968, is known to many (now older) alumni from his visits to Bates clubs throughout the country during those years, and fondly remembered by former colleagues.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"54\"<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\nClass Secretary<\/strong>:\u00a0Jonas Klein, N. Bay Rd., P.O. Box 418, Georgetown, ME 04548-0418<\/em>Class President<\/strong>:\u00a0Neil A. Toner, 1070 Sumner Ave., Springfield, MA 01118-2150<\/em>Next Reunion in 2000.<\/em> Ginny Bailey Olney<\/strong> enjoys her new position as director of the United Nations After-School Recreation and Study Program. She has taught dance in the program for the last five years….\u00a0Don<\/strong> ’55 and\u00a0Ellen DeSantis Smith<\/strong> have relocated to Scarborough, an “exciting return home” for Ellen…. At their cottage in South Bristol,Bob<\/strong> and\u00a0Pat Tobey Greenberg<\/strong> ’57 had workmen drill and blast through 1,000 feet of bedrock for water and a holding tank, a job they hoped would be finished by July when their sixth grandchild was due to arrive…. On July 20, 1995, the Rev.\u00a0William Hobbs<\/strong>opened the day’s session of the U.S. House of Representatives with prayer. “Interesting experience,” he says. One is limited to 125 words of non-partisan prayer” (he used 130). “It was a privilege and I’m praying that epresentatives can more frequently set aside partisan politics to find common crause to benefit all the people.”…\u00a0Peter Knapp<\/strong> has retired early from the Quincy, Mass.,\u00a0Patriot Ledger, <\/em>but he still writes a weekly column and music reviews…. Six weeks of respite from a tough Maine winter took\u00a0Harry Meline<\/strong> (aka Harry Keyes) to Abaco. He has moved his piano act to the Aquarius restaurant in Arundel where he plays Friday and Saturday evenings from 6:30 on. See the profile of Harry reprinted here from the\u00a0Biddeford Journal Tribune<\/em>…. The year 1995 set something of an unusual record for Marco Island-based\u00a0Bob Sharaf<\/strong>, who cycled 4,000 miles, including 1,200 miles in Europe. Pedaling through Provence, Dordogne, Perigord and the Loire Valley, he settled in “digs” in Paris, where son\u00a0Adam<\/strong> ’81 and family live. From there Bob cycled in the Savoie region of Switzerland, Alsace-Lorraine, and into Heidelberg, Germany. His trip is reminiscent of the public television program\u00a0Fat Man in France<\/em> with Tim Vernon (no comparison intended). In the summer of 1996 Bob planned to “do” Scandinavia from the Paris base…. Having sold their Waldoboro farmhouse, Jim and\u00a0Pat Small Skilling<\/strong> have moved to Newcastle on Lake Damariscotta, nearer to town, but still close to lots of wildlife. Jim is now tenured at the Univ. of Maine at Augusta and Pat plays tennis, participates in book discussions, counts loons, and enjoys Maine life in general. During the summer of 1995 the Skillings visited Switzerland, staying in a 16th-century apartment overlooking Reichenbach Falls (where Sherlock Holmes met his first end). The highlight was entertaining their whole family of children and grandchildren, 11 in all….\u00a0Pete<\/strong> ’53 and\u00a0Marion Shatts Whitaker<\/strong> are very much occupied in life after retirement. They have combined Pete’s hobby of restoring old tools and Marion’s love of antiques into a side business. They take university courses, are guides in a historic church, and raise a bountiful crop of fruit and vegetables produced in their fertile Vermont soil. Travels mainly are to keep in touch with their widely scattered children and grandchildren, although they also work in visits to historic sites and Civil War battlefields.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"55\"<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\nClass Secretary<\/strong>:\u00a0Joan Davidson Christenson, 148 Parker St., Newton Centre, MA 02159-2553<\/em>Class President<\/strong>:\u00a0Edward K. Ward Jr., Ashpoint Rd., RR 1, Box 487A, South Harpswell, ME 04079<\/em>Next Reunion in 2000.<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"56\"<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\nClass Secretary<\/strong>: Thelma L. Pierce, 19 H Wiggins Farm Dr., Simsbury, CT 06070-2471<\/em>Class President<\/strong>:\u00a0Jack K. Merrill, 63 Prospect St., West Newton, MA 02165-2338<\/em>Next Reunion in 2006. <\/em>In a joint resolution of the second regular session of Maine’s 117th Legislature, physician\u00a0Robert E. McAfee<\/strong>, past president of the American Medical Assn., was honored and thanked for his many years of dedicated service to his patients and to the citizens of Maine and the nation.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"57\"<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\nClass Secretary<\/strong>:\u00a0Arlene Gardner Foulds, 115 Marshall St., Torrington, CT 06790-2509<\/em>Class President<\/strong>:\u00a0Paul D. Steinberg, 106 Peninsula Dr., Babylon, NY 11702-3336<\/em>Next Reunion in 1997.<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"58\"<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\nClass Secretary<\/strong>:\u00a0Katharine Johnson Howells, 5337 Baywood Cir., Salt Lake City, UT 84117-7621<\/em>Class President<\/strong>:\u00a0Harry W. Bennert Jr., 22 Stormy Brook Rd., Falmouth, ME 04105-1245<\/em>Next Reunion in 1998.<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"59\"<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\nCo-Class Secretaries<\/strong>:\u00a0Clifford A. Baxter Jr., 22255 Shadow Valley Cir., Chatsworth, CA 91311, e-mail<\/em>CaSaint2@aol.com<\/a><\/tt>; Margaret D. Montgomery, 400 Central Park W., 9K, New York, NY 10025-5838<\/em>Co-Class Presidents<\/strong>:\u00a0Gerald M. Davis, 15 Hamlin Rd., Falmouth, ME 04105-2205; Henry J. Keigwin, 25 Narragansett Bay Ave., Warwick, RI 02889-6608<\/em>Next Reunion in 1999.<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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