These members of the College community recently represented Bates at college and university inaugurations.

Richard F. Daly '48 at the inauguration of Jon Westling as president of Boston Univ.

Richard J. Malatesta '46 at the inauguration of William P. Leahy as president of Boston College

Evelyn Anthol Pontz '35 at the inauguration of Theodore E. Long as president of Elizabethtown College

Elise Reichert Stiles '56 at the inauguration of Mickey L. Burnim as chancellor of Elizabeth City State Univ.

Elaine C. Hubbard '50 Scholarship Fund
Given by Elaine C. Hubbard '50. Income only to be used for scholarship assistance on a need basis, with preference to undergraduates showing strong interest in pursuing a career in one of the myriad health professions (medicine, nursing, social work, health education, physical therapy, and related fields).

Ruth Beane Irving '15 Fund
Given by Ruth Beane Irving '15 in memory of her grandmother, Alice Shedd Rolfe, with income to be used each year for such purposes in carrying on the work of Bates College as shall be deemed by the president and Trustees to be of the most benefit to the College. Transferred upon her death in accord with a life-income agreement.

Lawrence C. LeBeau '29 Scholarship Fund
Created by the Trustees with the bequest of Lawrence C. LeBeau '29, with income for scholarship aid for deserving students.

George C. Marsden '14 and Anna D. Marsden Scholarship Fund
Given by Anna D. Marsden in memory of her husband and added to by Donald D. Marsden and Malcolm M. Marsden in memory of their parents. Income only to be used for scholarship aid to needy and deserving students at Bates College.

Muriel Blossom Millett Memorial Fund
Given by Harold F. Millett '34 in loving memory of his wife, to provide for the general purposes of the College. Funded by the remainder of Harold Millett's gifts to the Pooled Income Fund.

Julia M. Anderson '27 - $160,000
Distributions from trusts upon the death of a friend create the Julia M. Anderson '27 Scholarship Fund.

Annie Proctor Badger '32 - $130,300
Annie Proctor Badger taught English, Latin, and French at Windham (Maine) High School until her retirement in 1963. She bequeathed $10,000 to the Alumni Association. A $120,000 distributed from the remainder of an annuity on her life has been designated by the Trustees for renovation of the new Alumni House.

William J. Lanigan Trust - $19,200
Distributed from a trust of a Waterville businessman upon the recent death of a friend. Added to the Maine Scholarship Fund.

Lawrence C. LeBeau '29 - $150,000
An officer of several banks in New Hampshire, Lawrence LeBeau retired from Keene Savings Bank as chief executive officer in 1970. With his bequest for scholarship aid the Trustees have created the Lawrence C. LeBeau '29 Scholarship Fund.

James T. Mitchell Trust - $25,370
A dentist in Warren, Conn., James T. Mitchell was the husband of the late Harriet Baker Mitchell '37. His gift to Bates was distributed upon the death of a cousin and has been designated by the Trustees for renovation of the new Alumni House.

Herbert Sprince '34 - $44,400
A Lewiston native, Herbert Sprince earned a Ph.D. at Harvard Univ. and pursued a career in biochemistry research in industry, government, and academia. The Trustees have designated his bequest for renovation of the new Alumni House.

Bertha "Kaye" Whittier Cross, July 5, 1996.
Bertha Whittier Cross raised one son, Jay, and later was a volunteer for several years at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. She took classes at Boston Univ. in the 1960s and enjoyed her hobbies of needlepoint, tole ware, and stenciling on velvet. She leaves her son, two grandchildren, and a great-grandson.
 

Edward P. McDonough, June 5, 1996.
An innovative educator and coach throughout his career, Edward P. McDonough initially taught physics and chemistry and coached varsity sports of basketball, baseball and track at David Prouty (Mass.) High School. At the high school he initiated the first, and continuing, high school cheerleading tournament in the country. Vice principal in 1932, he served as principal, then superintendent of the Spencer, Mass., school system from 1946 to 1953, and as superintendent of the Spencer-East Brookfield Regional High School District from 1962 to 1972. During that decade, he started one of the first kindergarten programs in central Massachusetts and was instrumental in securing approval of regionalization by voters of both towns. Prouty track teams won state championships and his basketball teams won titles at the Clark Univ. tournaments. For 25 years he officiated at more than 300 high school and college football games. During the 1960s, he was elected to both the Massachusetts Coaches Hall of Fame and to the Basketball Hall of Fame. McDonough Gymnasium at Prouty High was named in his honor in 1973, and the State Senate honored him as one "who has exemplified the highest ideals of the American educator." A member of county and state professional organizations, Edward McDonough earned his M.Ed. from Fitchburg State College in 1949. He had served as a corporator of Spencer Savings Bank, was on the local board of the American Red Cross, and had been joint marshal of Spencer's Bicentennial Parade. He was a member of Our Lady of Rosary Church. He is survived by his wife of 50 years, Mary; a son, Peter; three daughters, Ann, Patricia and Ellen; 11 grandchildren, and one great-grandchild.

Ethel Manning Giuffra, Aug. 12, 1996.
An honors graduate, Ethel Manning Giuffra was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, Delta Sigma Rho, and the Bates Key. She earned her master's degree in French from Middlebury College. First teaching in Auburn, she directed a summer playground there and was a pianist locally. She moved to New Jersey, where she taught French and Latin at Montclair High School. Active in Girl Scouts for many years, she was a member of the Alliance Francaise, Business and Professional Women, the College Women's Club, and headed the New Jersey Alumni Club in 1949. In the 1950s she conducted a monthly radio program in Montclair answering parents' questions about children and reading at home. She is survived by her husband, Frank; two sons, Peter and James; two daughters, Carol and Kathleen; 19 grandchildren, and 13 great-grandchildren. She was predeceased by a daughter, Mary; a brother, John Manning '30; and a sister-in-law, Catherine Salter Manning.'31.

Marian Ripley Gray, July 2, 1996.
A member of the Bates Key, Marian Ripley Gray taught at Andes (N.Y.) High School, then lived in Lewiston and Portland after her marriage to Malcolm Gray '26, who was the son of Bates president Clifton Daggett Gray. At one time she was secretary of the Alumnae Club and was assistant secretary of Central Maine General Women's Hospital Assn. Following the death of her husband, she moved to Sarasota, Fla., with daughter Joyce Gray Allman '54 and two grandchildren, all of whom survive. She was predeceased by a sister, Rachel Ripley '20; and two brothers-in-law, Paul Gray '26 and Clifton D. Gray Jr. '36.
 

Charlotte Lane Ball, Sept. 15, 1996.
Charlotte Lane Ball attended summer sessions at Columbia and Harvard and did graduate work in theater at Yale School of Drama. In the 1930s she was instructor and dean of women at Dickinson (Va.) Academy. A resident of Boylston, Mass., for most of her life, she earned a master's degree in educational psychology at Clark Univ. and served at Clark as a guidance counselor. From 1968 to 1972, she was counselor and assistant director of special projects such as the Job Corps for the Boylston YWCA. She maintained her interest in theater as drama coach for several years with the Worcester Players. She had been a member of both the local and library committees and belonged to the Congregational Church in Boylston. She is survived by a son, James; a daughter, Katherine; and three grandchildren. Her husband, Arnold, died in 1994.
 

Myrtle Huff Austin, Aug. 19, 1996.
A teacher, drama coach, school librarian, and community leader in China, Maine, Myrtle Huff Austin was on the faculty of Erskine Academy for 34 years, where she taught Latin (her Bates major), French, English, speech, and ancient history. She wrote and directed 35 senior plays and was advisor to the National Honor Society. After she retired, she worked in the Erskine Library for another nine years. In the 1980s, the library was dedicated to her and a Myrtle Huff Austin Scholarship was established at the academy. She was a 4-H leader, treasurer of the public library, and served the community church by playing the piano, teaching Sunday school, writing and directing church plays, and serving on many committees. In 1988 she received the Outstanding Citizen Award from the Modern Woodmen of America for her "dedicated work to Erskine and in the community and charitable organizations." She is survived by her husband, Ralph; a son, Leroy; a daughter, Aurie; and seven grandchildren.

Lawrence C. LeBeau, Sept. 10, 1996.
A cum laude graduate, Lawrence LeBeau was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and belonged to College Club. He earned a B.S. in civil engineering from MIT in 1932 and served in the U.S. Army during World War II. In New Hampshire he had been associated with Meredith Trust Co., then served as assistant and chief state bank examiner between 1940 and 1953, when he joined Keene Savings Bank. He remained as an officer in the bank until his retirement as executive vice president and chief executive officer in 1970. He was a member of Knights Templar, Chocorua Lodge, Eastern Star, American Legion, and VFW.

Evelyn Webb Carpenter, June 26, 1996.
A Phi Beta Kappa graduate with honors in Latin, Evelyn Webb Carpenter first taught Latin and French at Thetford (Vt.) Academy, where she also was supervisor of girls' dormitories. She then taught in the high schools of Lancaster and Hanover, N.H. A homemaker, she was a 60-year resident of Springfield, N.H. She had been a member of the Altrurian Club and the Hospital Auxiliary. She is survived by a brother and several nieces and nephews, including Martha Webb Snow '63 and Kendall Snow '62. Predeceased by her husband, Paul Carpenter, she was the daughter of Iona Webb Kierstead, a housemother at Bates during the 1940s.
 

Doris Mooney Berry, Sept. 26, 1996.
No biographical information is available about Doris Mooney Berry other than a note that her husband, Herbert '33, died in 1980.

Lawrence C. Parker, Nov. 10, 1996.
Lawrence Parker was elected to Delta Sigma Rho and was a member of the Eastern Intercollegiate Championship Team that debated English universities. In 1934 he earned his M.A. from Tufts University Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Initially he had worked as assistant general manager for Lionel Electric Train Co. in Irvington, N.J., then as general manager of the Oxford Wood & Plastics Co. in West Paris, and as assistant productions control manager at A.C. Gilbert. For 20 years, Mr. Parker was on the staff of the Univ. of New Haven as director of development, alumni relations, and governmental relations. After he retired in 1978, he continued to work as a part-time counselor at the university. He was active in New Haven, where he was past president of Kiwanis, served on the boards of Junior Achievement, the University Research Institute of Connecticut, Quinnipiac Council of Boy Scouts, Connecticut Radio Foundation and Station WELI, the Connecticut Motor Club, and AAA. A Mayflower descendant, he belonged to the Yale Club, the Graduate Club, and was a member of the First Congregational Church UCC. He is survived by a son, L. Craig Parker '60; a daughter, Judith; three brothers, and three grandchildren. His wife, Virginia (Moulton '33) predeceased him.

John W. Phillips, July 18, 1996.
Following work with W.T. Grant Co. in Andover, Mass., New York, and New Jersey, John Phillips served in the U.S. Naval Reserve during World War II. After his military service, Mr. Phillips was a manager at Farrey's Wholesale Hardware Co., then vice president and buyer for the company in 1970. He retired in 1974. He lived in Florida for many years and was vice president, then president of the Florida Bates Club from 1975 to 1979. He married the former June Barley in 1939.

Kermit R. True, May 10, 1996.
A native of Gardiner, Kermit True lived and worked in Maine throughout his life. After graduation he owned an insurance company in Farmingdale, where he was also tax collector. He had attended Peabody Law School and served as a staff sergeant for two years in the U.S. Army in Europe with the 215th General Hospital. On his return to Maine, he worked in the Veterans Administration as registrar, training officer and, finally, as a field examiner for the VA legal department in the office of the chief attorney. Following his retirement in 1973, Kermit True was a member of the planning board of the Gardiner City Council. He belonged to VFW, American Legion, American Association of Retired Federal Employees, and Knights of Columbus. Active in St. Joseph's Church, he wrote a book on the history and early Christianity of the area, published during renovations at the Church in 1976. He is survived by his wife, Ellen; a son, Kermit Jr.; and nieces, nephews, and cousins.
 

Madeline Bean Mitchell, June 2, 1996.
Following graduation, Madeline Bean Mitchell worked on a FERA historical project for the Univ. of Maine to provide a supplement to Wilkinson's Bibliography of Maine (1896). She surveyed Androscoggin County historical manuscripts, diaries, maps, state archives, and service volumes, including the files of Alfred Williams Anthony, Cobb 1885, and those of the Garcelon family of Auburn. She was a secretary at Central Maine Power Co., then joined the U.S. Navy during World War II as a lieutenant in Washington, D.C., where for three years she was supervisor of secretaries. On leaving Washington, she was at the Connecticut College Library in reference and circulation departments and taught at a junior high school. On moving to Seattle in 1951, Madeline Bean married Arthur Mitchell and helped build their house. She enjoyed carpentry, gardening, sewing, cooking, and canning garden produce as well as salmon fishing. When their daughters were older, Mrs. Bean worked in the attorney general's office both as a secretary in the educational division and later for the general counsel of the Seattle public schools. She took courses at the Univ. of Washington and for 20 years she was an active member of the Seattle Christian Science Church. She is survived by her husband; two daughters, Gloria and Joyce; and one granddaughter.

Maxine McCormack Lockwood, May 6, 1996.
A Maine native of Ashland, Maxine McCormack Lockwood was a longtime resident of Farmington. She taught English and French in Washburn and Penacook, N.H. Following her marriage to Paul Lockwood, she was a homemaker. A member of the Farmington Women's Club, she was a communicant of St. Peter Church. Her hobbies included needlepoint, attending the ballet, and reading about Imperial Russia, an interest that led to a tour of that country in 1987. In their 52 years of marriage, she and husband Paul enjoyed travel that included the Ashland Hometown celebration, winters in South Carolina and Florida, and summers on Lake Winnipesaukee, N.H. She is survived by her husband; three sisters; and nephews and nieces.
 

Wendell C. Crawshaw, Sept. 8, 1996.
After he graduated from Bates, Wendell Crawshaw worked in business with D.G. Stoughton Co. as a purchasing agent; at Atlantic Refining Co.; at Trumbull Electric Manufacturing Co. as a cost accountant; and as a systems engineer at Moore Business Forms Inc., in Providence, R.I. For 35 years he worked for the company in the Caribbean area including Mexico, Cuba, and Puerto Rico, then served as vice president and general manager at Moore Business Forms de Puerto Rico until his 1975 retirement. He was a member of Union Church of San Juan, and had served as president of the Hartford Alumni Club from 1940 to 1942. Since 1984 he and his wife, Barbara, made their home in Port Richey, Fla. He is survived by his wife; two daughters, Candace and Lynn; and five grandchildren. He was predeceased in 1979 by a son, Duncan.

Dorothy Hoyt Spear, May 28, 1996.
A graduate of Katharine Gibbs School in 1937, Dorothy Hoyt Spear worked as a secretary in Arlington and Cambridge, Mass., until her marriage in 1941 to Earl Spear. She was a member of the Ladies Alliance of the First Parish Unitarian-Universalist Church and the Phillips Congregational Church in Canton, Mass. Also in Canton, she was a member of the Nursing Assn., Garden Club, and Historical Society. She is survived by her husband; a daughter, Judith; a son, Charles; and four grandchildren.

Dorothy Stevens Dore, May 4, 1996.
After attending Bates, Dorothy Stevens Dore graduated from Westbrook College. A concert pianist and accompanist, she also studied in San Diego, Calif. Following her marriage to Kenneth Dore '31, a Maine physician, she continued her professional interests, playing organ and piano in local churches. She accompanied for concerts, school plays, weddings, and for Louise Fuchs and Frank Petillo in the North Conway (N.H.) area. After the Dores retired to Melbourne, Fla., where they spent the winters, she was organist and choir director at the First Congregational Church there, also playing cello and violin. She is survived by her husband; two daughters, Emily '61 and Ellen '63; a son, Steven; and eight grandchildren.
 

Paul E. Carlson, Nov. 16, 1995.
After he attended Bates for a year, Paul Carlson earned a B.S. degree from MIT in 1941. He served as an ensign in the U.S. Navy, based in Arlington, Va. He and his wife, Dorothy, were married in 1941.
 

Erna Larrabee Buker, Aug. 28, 1996.
A native of Auburn, Erna Larrabee Buker was committed to education, enjoyed gardening and was an avid basketball fan. Following her marriage to George Buker '37, her life was centered around her family and the family farm. For several years she served on the Minot School Board and on the building committee of Minot Consolidated School. She belonged to the Congregational Church. A member of a five-generation Bates family, she was the daughter of Ernest E. Larrabee '09. She is survived by three sons, George Jr., Robert, and David; four daughters, Elizabeth Buker Creighton '63, Margaret Buker Jay '70, Barbara Buker McIntosh, and Deborah Buker Grubb, a brother, Clifford '44; 14 grandchildren, including Melissa Creighton '87; and one great-granddaughter. She was predeceased by a sister, Florence Larrabee Keene '34. Her husband, George '37, died on November 13, 1996.
 

Kendall M. Tilton, June 12, 1996.
For two years following graduation, Kendall Tilton was principal of Cunnington (Mass.) High School, then served as submaster of Traip Academy in Kittery. He served in World War II, after which he was a textbook salesman for Macmillan in northern New Jersey for several years, then the company's assistant sales manager. After 1969 he covered the territory in Salem, Ore., as Northwest regional sales manager for Crowell Collier Macmillan. He is survived by his wife, Barbara; a son, Kendall Jr.; and three daughters, Sandy, Joanne, and Andrea.

Annette Barry MacMillan, July 24, 1996.
After she graduated, Annette Barry MacMillan assisted with the registration of voters in Lewiston, then was a social worker with the state Welfare Department's division of old-age assistance. During World War II she counseled unwed mothers in rural areas of Maine and served as assistant director of the USO Center in Brunswick. After she married Myles MacMillan in 1945, they lived in Rochester, N.Y., where she worked at Highland Hospital. From 1952 to 1954 she was secretary-treasurer of the Chicago Bates Club. She enjoyed gardening, walking, sailing and loved traveling. She was a communicant of Holy Martyrs Church in Falmouth. She is survived by a son, Bruce; a daughter, A. Barry; a niece, nephew, and cousins. Her husband died in 1992.
 

Norman E. Robinson, April 21, 1996.
Following a year at Bates, Norman Robinson enlisted in the U.S. Army during World War II. He served as first field sergeant in the 41st Division, 163d infantry in the Pacific Theater, and was with the first unit deployed at Hiroshima in 1945 and 1946. After the war he was a hospital food-service director in Florida and at St. Marks Hospital in Salt Lake City. A board member of Utah Technical College, he received an award from the AHA Assn. of Dietary Departments, establishing Unit Menu Systems for Patients. He was a member of Utah Beehives Chefs' Assn., and first president of the Intermountain Chapter of the American Society of Hospital Food Service Administrators. He enjoyed golf, fishing, gardening, travel, and camping in wilderness areas of Utah. He is survived by his wife, Glenice; a son, Sennett Norman; three daughters, Barbara, Cynthia, and Marcia; two grandchildren, and a great-granddaughter.

Orrin P. Snow, Sept. 3, 1996.
During World War II Orrin Snow was a captain in the U.S. Army. He then worked in the dairy industry, initially with the New England Milk Producers Assn. as a field representative and laboratory technician. In the 1950s he was a sales rep for the Sealright Co. in Connecticut. From 1964 until he retired in 1979, he was purchasing agent for Brookside Dairies and director of purchasing and statistical analysis for Litchfield Farm Shops Inc. in Middlebury, Conn. The Connecticut Assn. of Dining and Food Sanitarians presented him with their Man of the Year Award in 1960. Orrin Snow was president of the New Haven Bates Club from 1956 to 1958, a life member of the Meriden Power Squadron, past president of Kiwanis Club, a trustee and deacon of the First Congregational Church of Wallingford, where he lived. He and wife Ruth always returned for Reunion, including the 55th in 1996. He is survived by his wife; a son, Allan '66; two daughters, Marjorie B. Swift and Barbara Snow Beverage '71; a son-in-law, Robert Beverage '70; and eight grandchildren.
 

H. Peter Hirschler, Aug. 25, 1996.
Following graduation, Peter Hirschler was a chemist for the Schering Co. in Bloomfield, N.J., until 1949. He received his Ph.D. in chemistry from the Univ. of Rochester in 1950 and he joined the faculty of Rutgers Univ., teaching there until 1951. For 29 years he was a research chemist at the Newport (R.I.) Naval Underwater Systems Center, specializing in battery research and technology. He retired in 1980, then worked at Vitro Corp. for five years. An avid sailor, he was twice commodore of the Newport Yacht Club and a member of the Ida Lewis Yacht Club. Peter Hirschler was a member of Redwood Library and the Newport Art Museum. He is survived by his wife, Margery; a son, John; a daughter, Barbara; and a granddaughter.

George A. Kolstad, Aug. 7, 1996.
A magna cum laude graduate, George Kolstad was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and College Club. As part of the World War II effort, he worked on radar countermeasures at Yale. An internationally recognized expert on physics, he earned his Ph.D. at Yale in 1945 and joined the Atomic Energy Commission in 1950, where he was instrumental in research and development for the peaceful uses of nuclear energy. He helped initiate the U.S. government program in high-energy physics, controlled thermonuclear fusion research, and he started many major scientific facilities. He headed the U.S. delegation to international committees to foster development and exchange of basic data on nuclear processes. From 1973 until he retired in 1990, Dr. Kolstad headed the interagency geosciences research program for continental scientific drilling to learn more about the earth's structure. He received the Outstanding Contribution Award for establishing the geoscience research at the Department of Energy and was the author of articles in Physics Today. In Bates affairs, he served on the Board of Trustees from 1958 to 1963 and was president of the New Haven and Washington, D.C., Bates clubs. He was a member of Cosmos Club, the American Geophysical Union, and the Laytonsville (Md.) Lions Club, where he was a member of the civic improvement committee. He also served for five years on the school board there. In Sandy Spring he was a member of Friends Meeting and a trustee of Friends School and Friends Retirement Home. On his small farm he raised bees and Black Angus steer. He is survived by his wife of 52 years, Christine (Stillman '45); two sons, Charles '69 and Peter; a daughter, Martha; and four grandchildren.
 

James D. Sutherland, July 19, 1996.
In the Lakes Region of New Hampshire, James Sutherland was known for his effective leadership on boards and committees in Moultonboro. After graduation from Bates, where he was elected to College Club, he earned an M.Ed. from Boston Univ. and was a graduate of the Savings Bank Graduate School at Brown. Prior to entering the banking profession, he taught chemistry and physics at Lakemont Academy in New York and served as vice president of administrative affairs and treasurer at Belknap College. In 1973 he became assistant vice president at the Meredith (N.H.) Village Savings Bank and a decade later he was president and CEO of the bank. He served two terms on the boards of Federal Home Loan Bank in Boston and New Hampshire. An active volunteer in his community, he was a member of the Volunteer Fire Department for 18 years, served as a trustee on the boards of Geneva Point Center, Lakes Region General Hospital, and Taylor Home in Laconia, and as treasurer of the local school district and as a member of the junior high task force feasibility committee. He supported local projects, including a new town hall, the revitalization of a portion of Main Street, and moving the historical society to a new building. He also was treasurer of Boy Scouts, vice president of the New Hampshire Music Festival, president of Social Ventures, and a member of Red Hill Outing Club. In Moultonboro he was a member of the United Methodist Church. He is survived by his wife of 33 years, Laurie (Sunderland '61); his mother; a son, Michael; two daughters, Lisa Ann and Julie Sutherland-Platt '88; a son-in-law, Halsey Platt '88; and a brother and sister.
 

Jean Byers Sampson, Nov. 4, 1996.
Jean Sampson was a graduate of Smith College. As the wife of Bates faculty member Richard Sampson and mother of sons Stephen and Caleb, she fulfilled superbly the expected roles of faculty wife and mother, but she also devoted her considerable energies to service on all levels -- to her local Lewiston-Auburn community, the state of Maine, and the nation -- working primarily in the fields of education, civil rights, and civil liberties. At one time she was on the national staff of the NAACP and authored an NAACP-sponsored study published by the then-Department of War. She served as national director of Catalyst in Education and served as director of Maine Civil Liberties Union. A member of the Maine State Board of Education for four years, she also chaired the University of Maine's board of trustees, the first woman to serve in that capacity. An overseer and trustee of Bowdoin College for nearly 20 years, Jean received an honorary doctor of laws from that college in 1995. She is survived by her husband and two sons.
Jane Ault Lindholm '35

The following deaths have recently become known to the College: