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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. Got news? Tap out a note to magazine@bates.edu Since returning
from their Elderhostel trip to Honduras, Bob and Velna Adams Evans now have a
motor home to trek in. In October they did 4,440 miles, then planned to visit Tucson,
Georgia, and back through northern states. Vel does the driving and Bob is navigator....
Orma and Stan Austin celebrated their big anniversary trip with a two-week sojourn in
France last summer, went from Paris to Giverny and the lovely Monet countryside, ending
in Germany.... Ruth Bailey McKay continues her peace activism including war tax
resistance and civil disobedience. With others she was charged with criminal trespassing
and spent five days in jail for a similar activity. We have to admire her for having the
courage of her convictions.... Trudy and Charlie Baulch enjoyed their Christmas and
New Year's with eight of their 14 grandchildren.... Art Belliveau says he is a full-time
housekeeper due to Bernice's illness, but his daughters will spell him so that he can make
Reunion. Artie still enjoys tennis.... We are sorry to learn that Jeanne Bertocci
McVeigh's husband, Francis, died a year ago. She remains in Rutland, Vt., to be near her
family.... Glad to hear from Warner Bracken who drops in on Kay DeLong
Thompson and Jane and Ed Raftery when he is in Hartford. He sent an interesting
article from the San Francisco Chronicle commenting on Bates' admissions policy of not
requiring SAT scores. Many feel that by making the scores less important, the College
takes into account all applicants' accomplishments, not just two hours of test answers....
Last summer, Ruth Carter Snow had a "mother-in-law apartment" added to the back of
her house.... Stella Clifford Gray's husband, Charlie, is in an assisted living residence
in Kenosha, Wis., where she visits daily.... Retired Maj. Gen. Bob Davenport chaired
the National Convention of Reserve Officers Assn. and participated in the national
convention of Train Collectors Assn. Although he was the oldest person on a trip to Spain,
he was frequently the one who walked the furthest, stayed up the latest, and snapped the
most pictures.... Dick Dearborn writes that one of the cruelties of old age is that you
sometimes outlive your friends and he encourages us to please hang around for a while
longer.... Kay DeLong Thompson sees many of Dick's people on trips to Maine....
Charlotte Dolloff Turadian stopped by the College store last summer and also visited
Beth Potter Gardner enroute to her cottage in Standish.... Rowena Fairchild
Hewitt keeps herself occupied with church work and garden club. She enjoyed trips to
Calloway Gardens in Atlanta. The entire family vacationed in Maine last summer....
Nancy Field Ahlquist, who broke her shoulder some time ago, was able to fly to Ohio
and revisit the places where she used to live. Her biggest problem is finding a home for her
late husband Dick's prodigious library.... Bud Fisher echoes our sentiments of sadness
on the death of Harry "Tiny" Boothby, "one of the nicest people in the world." Bud
and Ginny are doing well.... On a phone call to Harry Gorman in Scottsdale, who
hadn't been back on campus since graduation, we learned that he was a Marine Corps pilot
in the Pacific in World War II and he and his wife are members of the Golden Anniversary
Club. Harry sends regards to all of his classmates.... Wynne Hansen Seaver has
relocated to Keene, N.H. Florida was a great place for the kids to visit, but they are happy
to have her nearer to them now.... The traveling Rands, Al and Peggy (Hubbard)
continue to pile up mileage and also maintain their schedule of civic, church, and family
commitments. Peg would rather volunteer at the hospital than do housework and the pay is
exactly the same! She helps with altar guild and Al is a lay reader, as well as treasurer and
newsletter coordinator for the New York chapter of Professional Engineers.... A pleasant
and unexpected phone call last spring from Frances Hubbard Thompson let us know
that she had enjoyed the class letter and that she lived far away from the tornadoes that hit
Sugarland, Texas, where she lives.... The Maine ice storm of 1998 kept former classmate
Maizie Joy Newcomb from visiting Betty Swann Jones last January. After she left
Bates, Maizie earned her degree from Gorham Normal, now the Univ. Southern Maine....
Mary Kingston expressed an interest in Maine history. She might like to know that
Winter Harbor was known as "Mosquito Harbor." It is the gateway to Schoodic Point, a
part of Acadia National Park, but much less congested.... Bud and Gloria LeClair
Cotton have bought a house on Marco Island but will keep their Isle of Capri condo for a
while.... Last year Peg and Dick Lovelace cruised up the Hudson River, Erie Canal, and
St. Lawrence River on a small 70-passenger boat. Dick continues his lectures at their local
library's Lifetime Learning Program. The subject: Robert Frost L.H.D. '36!... Beth and
Charlie Lovely report that "we at the Lovely household are all doing well. Our children
are ideally wonderful; the grandchildren are better than anyone else's!"... Edna
McIntosh is a resident in an assisted living facility in Venice, Fla., a lovely place with
many activities.... Marilyn Miller Pomeroy is very happy in her condo on Goat Island
in Newport (R.I.) Harbor.... Willard and Carol Storm Mills spent beautiful days last
September on Five Islands, visiting their Maine daughter. Later they caught up on
wonderful sights in their area: the Nicholas and Alexandra exhibit in Wilmington, Del., a
reconstructed Swedish Kalmar Nyckel, a three-masted tall ship that brought settlers to the
state in 1638, and dinner at the Swedish American Historical Museum's julbord buffet in
Philadelphia.... Marjorie Moulton Perkins has found a wonderful place for retirement
in the Berkshires, the Devonshire Estates. It's an active community and she is near
daughter Deborah '64, who has a new home in Bennington, Vt. Marjorie volunteers with
Hospice and helps set up activities for "us elderlies to keep our minds alive and well."...
Bobbie Norton Turner and cat Sam love their cottage/apartment in Chiefland, Fla. She
spent some time in the Georgia mountains last August and did some horseback riding....
Brud Oberst still goes into the law office and attends monthly board of directors meetings
of the Marlin Corp. Retired as secretary and general counsel 10 years ago, he continues to
design guns for them, and relaxes in his workshop where he makes beautiful miniature bird
carvings. Ginger helps take care of her mother, who lives nearby.... Still in good health,
Beth Potter Gardner is class agent and phonathon caller; she also plays golf, swims,
exercises in the gym, and bowls.... We were all very sorry to learn of the death of Daisy
Puranen Bennet last May. She and our class secretary were roommates in Milliken....
Ed Raftery's response indicates that he hasn't lost his sense of humor. His e-mail
address is wwwrafbrokesenile. His daughter Mary '79 is a member-at-large on the
Alumni Council.... After living in God's country of Petosky, Mich., for 30 years, the
move of 250 miles south to an urban community was a shock to Dick Raymond. He
spends much of the year going to ice hockey games with a 13-year-old grandson and
attends weekly hockey games at Cranbrook Prep School where his 17-year-old grandson
plays. He also hopes to go to another grandson's graduation from Boston Univ. and
include a trip to Bates.... Class president Gale Rice Powers writes that they had quite a
fall season and didn't return to Connecticut from Chester, Mass., until November. They
keep busy with Miniature Theater, mowing, fund-raisers at the fairgrounds, a fair, and
swimming every day. Gale always participates in the Hartford phonathon a good time
and a chance to call your classmates free, so volunteer!... Their island home on St. Simons
Island, Ga., is a dream come true, reports Don Russell. He volunteers at a Hospice
while Dorothy finds her tutoring business and volunteering very rewarding.... Mary-Jean
Sealey Janssen managed two trips to France where their Bates daughter Sue '68 has a
home in le Bar sur Loup. They returned to Florida after a summer in Vermont.... Eleanor
Stockwell Payne took a trip to Alaska: cruise, inland, helicopter, and "moon walk" on a
glacier. Grandson John is a second-year student at Bates, enjoys drama, and hopes to go
to Hungary with a group next year.... We were sorry to learn of the death of Stan
Thompson, who went to Bates for a year. He ran an antique clock repair business in
Worcester for many years.... Betty Swann Jones also has a grandson at Bates, Geoff
'02 (a "first year" as freshmen are now called). When Betty visited the campus last summer
she found that Frye Street houses looked smaller than she remembered!... Al Topham
says, "The Penguins are down to five from a high of 11 stalwart members all the more
reason to come to Reunion." Al still does some small cabinet work and is a semi-active
skeet and trap shooter.... Skip and Dick Wall write that they are still in the same
comfortable rut. Dick plays 18 holes of golf three times a week and Skip is still at the
Guggenheim Mansion Museum.... Helene Woodward Kimball is helping with plans
for our BIG Reunion.... Now about the Halls: Dick and Barbara (Abbott) were relieved
to find that their Taj "MaHall" in Franklin was nearly unscathed by last year's ice storm
with less tree damage than they expected. The traveling Halls saw the Big Ditch and the
coast of Costa Rica and visited the land of pharaohs, pyramids, sphinx, and tombs. They
cruised the Nile but drew the line at camel rides. For their 50th their scheming daughters
outwitted them and had a gala affair in Maine, where lots of old friends and relatives really
did surprise them. Their kids are all doing well, the grandkids are burning up soccer fields,
and they have had a relatively good year healthwise.
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Class Secretary: Jean Lombard Dyer, RR 1, Box 191, Chebeague Island, ME
04017-9722
Co-Class Presidents: Gilbert and Marjorie Cahall Center, 24 Folsom St., Laconia, NH
03426-3005
Next Reunion in 2003. Got news? Tap out a note to magazine@bates.edu Norm Boyan,
professor of education emeritus and former dean of the Graduate School of Education at
UC-Santa Barbara, was honored as the seventh recipient of the Road F. Campbell Lifetime
Achievement Award from the University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA).
In his long career as an educator, Boyan has taught in public and private schools, and has
served as a secondary-school administrator and school district administrator, university
professor and administrator, and a federal educational executive. In making the award,
UCEA executives noted Norm's "momentous contributions" as well as the pattern of
"extraordinary commitment, excellence, leadership, productivity, generosity, and service"
of Norm's career, which began with high-school teaching positions in New York and
Massachusetts in the 1940s and early 1950s. Prior to joining the faculty at Santa Barbara in
1969, Norm held professorships at the Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, where he was also
director of student teaching and internship (1959-61), and at Stanford (1961-67), before
serving as a an administrator with the U.S. Office of Education (1967-69). During his long
tenure at Santa Barbara, he also served as a visiting professor at a number of universities.
He earned his master's and doctoral degrees in education from Harvard, was the author or
co-author of 45 journal articles, book chapters, and technical reports, and served as editor
and contributor for a number of leading reference books in the field of educational
administration and research. He received the Campbell Award at the annual UCEA
conference on Oct. 31, 1998, in St. Louis, which he happily attended with his wife of 55
years, Priscilla (Simpson '42).
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