Class Notes: The Forties

Class Secretary: Esther Strout Allen, 5620 Arrowhead Dr., Zephyrhills, FL 33541

Class President: Harry B. Shepherd, Shoal Cove Rd., PO Box 674, West Bath, ME 04530-0674

Next Reunion in 2000. Report of mini-reunion: As an outgrowth of those pre-50th reunions, some '40 members and/or spouses still meet about twice a year, 10 a.m.to 4 p.m. for coffee, news, pot luck dinner, pictures and plans. Anyone within easy driving distance from Chelmsford, Mass., (where Doug and Cookie Bragdon live) is welcome. Usually present are Leslie and Jean Fessenden Thomas, Martha Greenlaw Allman, Ruth and John Hibbard, Lillian and Eric Lindell, Lib MacGregor Crooker Bates, Bob Plaisted, Carl and Barb Rowell Kirkpatrick, Marita Dick Stratton '39, and Doug and "Cookie" Bragdon.

Class Secretary: Barbara Abbott Hall, 7004 Wellington Ct., Baltimore, MD 21212-1929

Class President: Gale Rice Powers, 33 Francis Ave., Newington, CT 06111-1213

Next Reunion in 2001.

Class Secretary: Martha Blaisdell Mabee, 94 Fifer Ln., Lexington, MA 02173

Co-Class Presidents: Virginia Day Hayden, 8 Eden Ave., West Newton, MA 02165; John A. James, 559 W. Auburn Rd., Auburn, ME 04210

Next Reunion in 2002.

Class Secretary: Jean Lombard Dyer, RR 1, Box 191, Chebeague Island, ME 04017-9722

Co-Class Presidents: Gilbert S. Center Jr. and Marjorie Cahall Center, 24 Folsom St., Laconia, NH 032463005

Next Reunion in 2003.

Class Secretary: Virginia Stockman Fisher, PO Box 7631, Portland, ME 04112-7631

Co-Class Presidents: Edmund H. Gibson, 13 Wheeler Park, Brunswick, ME 04011-1635; Richard L. Keach, 51 Randy Ln., Wethersfield, CT 06109-3763

Next Reunion in 1999.

Co-Class Secretaries: Carleton and Arline Sinclair Finch, 137 Marshall Rd., Fitchburg, MA 01420-2032

Class President: Eugene L. Woodcock, PO Box 1979, Helendale, CA 92342-1979

Next Reunion in 2000.

Class Secretary: Ruth Small Harris, PO Box 11, Sunset, ME 04683-0011

Class President: Jane Parsons Norris, 93 Field Ave., Auburn, ME 04210-4522

Next Reunion in 2001. Mert and Pat Hemenway Poore celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in August. Mert graduated from UMaine in 1945. Their grandson recently graduated as a lance vorporal from the U.S. Marine Corps at Parris Island, S.C., and is now at security school in Virginia. Their granddaughter is a first year student at Univ. of New Hampshire. We were sorry to learn of the death in February of Pat's mother, who had celebrated her 100th birthday a month earlier.... We send our sympathy to Myrtle Holden Birdsell on the death of her husband, Dale.

Class Secretary: Elizabeth Hill Jarvi, RR1, Box 414 Tyson, Ludlow, VT 05149-9601

Class President: Richard L. Baldwin, 348 Heath Rd., Bremen, ME 04551

Next Reunion in 2002.

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Class Secretary: Lois Youngs Dennett, 275 Port Rd., Wells, ME 04090-9542

Co-Class Presidents: Richard F. Daly, PO Box 546, Sagamore Beach, MA 02562; Richard F. Woodcock, 12 Beech St., Woodstock CT 06281-3000

Next Reunion in 2003.

Class Secretary: Edith M. Routier, 2 Wellington Ter., Apt. 2, Brookline, MA 02146-6747

Class President: Hugh Mitchell, 31 Mattoon St., Springfield, MA 01105-1715

Next Reunion in 1999.