Edited by Christine Terp Madsen ’73

1930

Grace Hatch Perkins 
July 7, 2012
After eight years in a one-room schoolhouse at Head of Tide near Belfast, Grace Hatch Perkins conquered high school as valedictorian before graduating from ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ with honors in English. She immediately went back to teach English and Latin at her high school, Crosby High, until she married Norman Perkins in 1936. Following the birth of her children, she taught at other schools and studied at UMaine–Orono and Colby.

Pipes of the Erben organ in the Gomes Chapel. Photograph by Phyllis Graber Jensen/ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College

Later, she was an instructor in English at Husson College from 1964 until retirement in 1973. She served as president of the Waterville and Bangor branches of the American Assn. of University Women, as well as the state division. She was a member of the Society of Mayflower Descendants, the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Bangor Garden Club. She was active in All Souls Congregational Church in Bangor for 68 years. She is survived by a daughter, Caroline Gilmore Perkins; a son, John Perkins; five grandchildren, including John Lobley ’86; and six great-grandchildren.

1932

Robert Hopson Axtell 
April 9, 2012
Robert Axtell grew up in the Panama Canal Zone, where his father worked building the canal, and he returned to the States to attend ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, from which he graduated Phi Beta Kappa in mathematics. During World War II, he returned to the Canal Zone to help protect it from German submarine attacks. Later, he lived for many years in Guatemala, setting up radio transmitters and towers. There, he met his wife, Carmen Elena Rodriguez, and they moved to Cutler, Maine, in the 1960s, where he worked for the U.S. Navy at its communications station and then in Brunswick at its air station. Finally, he and his family moved to Venezuela, splitting their time between there and Cutler. In Venezuela in 1988, through what he called “an incredible series of coincidences,â€� he was instrumental in exporting 37 tons of cashews from a country that had never exported them before, more or less inventing a new industry for a poor country. Survivors include his wife; sons Frank and Daniel; daughters Ruth and Xiomara; and three grandchildren. Two sons, Samuel and Carlos, predeceased him. Nancy Jepson Leslie ’49 is his cousin; her husband was Malcolm Leslie ’50.

1934

Ruth Carter Zervas
August 12, 2011
Ruth Carter Zervas’ ancestors were part of the original missionary group to Hawaii, and she was able to visit their first missionary home, now part of the Mission Houses Museum. She was a member of the Children of Hawaiian Missionaries Society, one of a number of historical societies that interested her, along with DAR and the Arnold Expedition Society (preserving the memory of Benedict Arnold’s march to Quebec). A member of the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Key, she taught at Long Lang School in Connecticut before returning to Maine after her husband, Carter Zervas, passed away. She then worked for the Maine Department of Human Services, helping foster children find homes. Building on skills she learned at the Modern School of Applied Art in Boston, she enjoyed designing and making clothing, as well as painting. For more than 25 years, she served as class secretary for ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, singing the praises of erasable paper in each letter, as well as lamenting the rules of capitalization. Survivors include daughter Cynthia Brown and two grandchildren. Her cousin is Belinda Osier Aicher ’80. Son Carter Zervas predeceased her. Her parents were the late Albert 1913 and Pauline Chamberlain Carter 1911. Her late uncle was Frank Chamberlain ’22, and her late aunt was Elva Osier Chamberlain ’26.

Irene Linehan Sutton
May 7, 2010
Irene Linehan was at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ just long enough to meet Gil Sutton ’33: They married and enjoyed life together until he passed away in 1979. Born and raised in Lewiston, she moved to Delaware, her husband’s home state, where she raised her family. Survivors include son Carlton; three grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. Her husband and son Laurence predeceased her.

1935

Margaret Perkins Skillings 
March 5, 2012
It was the last night of the 4A Players’ production of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, and lead player Peg Perkins wasn’t going to let anything stop her, certainly nothing as silly as an appendix about to burst. The stage manager had ice waiting for her anytime she stepped off-stage between scenes. She rushed to the hospital as soon as the play finished, for her second successful curtain call of the evening. (Shortly before her death, she learned that the Robinson Players were to present the same play, and mused about sending champagne to them.)

It was the last night of the 4A Players’ production of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, and lead player Peg Perkins ’35 wasn’t going to let anything stop her, certainly nothing as silly as an appendix about to burst.

She was also part of the first female debate team that the college fielded; it happened to be in its eighth debate against Oxford, where ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ opposed the point that all national armament production should be kept national. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a degree in English and, five years later, was married in the Chapel to Neal Skillings, a Bowdoin man. She taught English in South Portland and in West Boylston, Mass., and continued her drama career with the Holden (Mass.) Players Club. She and her husband were active with the Worcester (Mass.) Dance Assembly, and she was a past president of the Outdoor Sports Club of Worcester. He passed away in 1998. Survivors include her children John and Judith Skillings Frawley; three grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

1936

Selma Shapiro Blatt 
November 13, 2011
Selma Shapiro Blatt’s parents were among the first Jewish families to settle in the Lewiston area, European immigrants intent on educating their five children. Her older sister, Leah Shapiro Weinsier, graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1925. She herself was class valedictorian at Edward Little High School. Another sister, the late Helen Shapiro Bean, started with the Class of 1933 but went on to graduate PBK from NYU. All three sisters became teachers; Selma taught at the junior high school in Lewiston for several years before marrying Arthur Blatt, who passed away in 2005. Although she was Jewish, she was required to attend Chapel daily, even on Jewish holidays, and recalled her grades being docked because she stayed home on those days. She and her husband raised four children, and after they were grown, she went back to teaching in Lewiston and Auburn schools. She was active in Beth Abraham Synagogue and later in Temple Shalom Synagogue, was a past president of Hadassah and later joined Beth Israel Congregation in Bath. Survivors include her children, Joan Fields, Stephen, Charles and Gordon Shapiro; 11 grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. Additional family members who were alumni, all now deceased, include cousin Isadore Shapiro ’31, brother-in-law William Bean ’32, cousin Harold Shapiro ’33, cousin Marcella Shapiro Glazier ’33 and sister-in-law Phyllis Miller Shapiro ’44.

Rita Brown Hickey 
July 8, 2012
Rita Brown attended ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ for one year and married Daniel Hickey ’34, who was at the college for two years. She worked for the Maine Department of Health and Human Services for 27 years. Her husband died in 2004. Survivors include sons Daniel, John, Thomas and Timothy; six grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. Another grandchild predeceased her.

1937

Arthur William Danielson
January 20, 2012
Art Danielson was a teacher and school superintendent who retired to a successful career in real estate, boating and fishing. He first taught in Mexico, Maine, before becoming the principal at Pittsburg (N.H.) High School. In 1947, he was appointed superintendent in Epping, N.H., and in 1963 in Sharon, Mass. He also held a master’s in education from UNH. At ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, he captained the cross-country team and was active in the Jordan Ramsdell Society. He received an award for his service to the American dependents school in Iran. As an alumnus, he served as class president in the 1950s. His first marriage, to Hope Flanders Bailiff ’39, ended in divorce. His second wife, Harriet Larsen, predeceased him. Survivors include his third wife, Ora Danielson; son David “Davioâ€� Danielson ’59; and a number of grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

1938

Irene Lee Quill
January 28, 2011
Fifty-eight years after she graduated, Irene Lee Quill attended a small reunion of sorts: Her grandson, Ward Quill ’88, invited a number of his classmates to his wedding. She was a psychiatric social worker, having earned her M.S.W. from Carnegie Mellon Univ. in 1941. She also studied at Yale, but worked primarily in Pennsylvania, and was the assistant director at Norristown State Hospital. When she came to ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, she had already completed two years of study at Brooklyn College, says her grandson, but was required to register as a “provisionalâ€� first-year student. However, she advanced so quickly that she graduated in two years. She and her husband, Edward Yee Quill, became members of Southampton Friends Meeting, an interfaith and interracial community in Connecticut, after retirement, and built their home there. She was also active in the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom and the Gray Panthers, and considered working for peace one of her main occupations. Survivors include her children, Melodie Rothwell, Eliot, Carolyn and Edward Quill; 10 grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren.

John Joseph Smith
January 26, 2012
Jack Smith won debating awards in high school and college, then had a long and successful career in publishing as an editor at Encyclopedia Americana and Grolier. That career forced him, a New Hampshire farm boy, and his wife, Ann Woodward Smith, to live in an apartment in New York City, but they managed to keep their love for nature in full bloom with seven window boxes, an apple tree and a water lily tub on their third-floor terrace. He also developed a side career as a professional photographer, publishing in many magazines and books. He returned to the family farm after he retired and finally, just months before his death, his book, Wildflowers of New England, was published. An Army veteran of World War II, he was a member of the Sierra Club, National Wildlife Federation, Audubon Society and a Smithsonian Institution National Associate. His wife died in 1996.

1939

Albert Basil Jerard 
March 6, 2012
Jerry Jerard left ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ after one year to attend the Univ. of Vermont. He was an underwriter for New York Life Insurance Co. Survivors include his wife, Lucille Clara Bristol; children Albert III, Robert, Stephen, Carolyn Jerard, Mary Kenny and Deborah Jerard; 12 grandchildren; seven step-grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren. Son Paul predeceased him.

Gilman McDonald
June 28, 2011
A Phi Beta Kappa graduate in mathematics, Gilman McDonald joined the Navy after earning a master’s in sociology from Harvard and went on to become a commander. He spent part of World War II sequestered in a room in Ohio trying to build “the bomb� — that is, reproduce parts of the Nazi’s top-secret Enigma machine, the famed message encryption device. He received the NSA’s meritorious civilian service award in 1976. He owned a sumptuous collection of Middle Eastern rugs and hangings that were coveted for showings by galleries in the Washington, D.C., area, where he lived. His wife, Jane Merow McDonald, died in 1991. His son, Douglas, is among his survivors, along with three grandchildren.

Donald Rawlings Purinton 
February 6, 2012
Don Purinton caught the flying bug during World War II while serving with Gen. Patton as a radioman. He was inspired by Charles Lindbergh, got a private license and flew all over Nevada, thrilling his young sons. He worked as a vocational counselor for the Veterans Administration and for Social Security. He sang with the Brunswick Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barbershop Quartet Singing in America and was active in the Merriconeag Grange in Harpswell before moving west. He was divorced from his first wife, Jean Davis Purinton ’40, at the time of her death in 1994. Her mother was Margaret Dickson Davis 1913. Among survivors are his wife Vera Cheel Purinton; sons Russell and Donald Jr.; five grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren. Son Richard predeceased him. His father was Carl Purinton 1909.

1940

Elizabeth MacGregor Crooker ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½Â 
October 21, 2011
If there was ever dirt under Lib MacGregor Crooker ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½â€™ fingernails, you knew she came by it honestly: She was an inveterate hiker and gardener. Her father was the first manager of the hut system for the Appalachian Trail, so she grew up hiking its trails, starting seriously at 10 and continuing until at least her 92nd year, when she won L.L.Bean’s 2011 Outdoor Hero Award. An English major at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, she married classmate Charlie Crooker and went on to Yale Divinity School with him. Rather than becoming a preacher as he did, however, she became a tax preparer, serving a different master. He passed away in 1994. Four years later, she married Frank ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, who passed away in 2011. Her skill at organizing was known to her classmates as their president; her community benefited from her skills as business manager of the Sandwich Players, president of the Sandwich Women’s Club, president of the Ladies Aid and a member of the Friends of the Library, the Sandwich Historical Society and the Land Trust Committee. She helped found the Over the Hill Hikers, a group of retired hikers, and served 16 years as its “den mother.â€� Why, asked The Boston Globe in 1989, did she like to climb? “It’s just…whee!â€� she answered. Survivors include children Carol Farnsworth, Constance, Catherine and Charles Crooker; three stepchildren; and 11 grandchildren.

Marie Dodge Joy ’40 long remembered the dash from campus to convent for afternoon conversation with the nuns for French class — except on mild days when she tended to loiter.

Evelyn Dodge Joy
November 29, 2011 
A French major, Marie Dodge Joy long remembered the dash from campus to convent for afternoon conversation with the nuns for French class — except on mild days when she tended to loiter. She also remembered how kind geology professor Doc Fisher must have been, since science was not her forte. As class secretary, she enjoyed surrounding herself with notes and letters from classmates. She taught at Cape Elizabeth High School, Portland High School, Bourne High School and Greely Institute, and was a librarian in Portland. She and husband Elwyn “Al� Joy built a home in Falmouth, where they lived for 53 years until his death in 1999. She is survived by several nieces and nephews.

Ira Kissag Nahikian
April 13, 2012
Nick Nahikian distinguished himself on his second day at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ by fracturing his wrist while leaping over the high-jump bar during a required “physical efficiencyâ€� test. No note taking, no typing, no writing for the first few weeks of class — “such an auspicious beginning!â€� he wrote. He did go on to enjoy intramural sports, however, and later became a handball player. He served in the Army Air Forces as a radiotelegraph instructor during World War II and then converted his ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ history degree into an accounting degree at Bentley College, which led to a 34-year career at General Electric in treasury operations, primarily in Schenectady, N.Y. He sang with the Octavo Singers of Schenectady and was a communicant and lector at the Church of St. Clare in Colonie. His wife, Mary O’Clair Nahikian, is among his survivors.

1941

George Elliott Coorssen
May 10, 2012
An economics major, George Coorssen spent a year at MIT before hopping the bus north. Good thing he did, because that’s where his college sweetheart, Helen Ulrich ’42, happened to be. They married shortly before he joined the wartime Navy, a choice that made good sense, since his family owned a marine intercommunications systems business. He served in the South Pacific and then entered Harvard to earn a degree in business administration. A career with Henschel Corp., the family company, awaited him, and he worked his way up to president. He retired in 1983, only to start up another company a few years later. Their love of the sea meant that he and Helen never lived nor vacationed far from it. Survivors along with his wife include sons Gary ’78, Mark and George; five grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. His sisters-in-law are Ruth Ulrich Coffin ’42, Muriel Ulrich Weeks ’46, Grace Ulrich Harris ’51 and Margaret Bartlett Ulrich ’55; his brother-in-law is W. Arthur Ulrich ’55; his late brothers-in-law were Frank Coffin ’40 and Prescott Harris ’52. Son Craig and daughter Karen predeceased him.

Raymond Emerson Ressler
November 15, 2010
Raymond Ressler was at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ for one year. He was a machinist for Sikorsky Aircraft and the Remington Arms Co. He and his late wife, Jeannette Anderson Ressler, were avid square dancers and hikers. Survivors include several nieces and nephews.

Alan Reed Sawyer
January 31, 2002
Alan Sawyer turned his geology degree into a renowned career in ancient Peruvian art. He continued his education at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Univ. and Harvard, where he received a master’s in art history in 1949. ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ honored him with a doctorate in fine arts in 1969. He held curatorships in Texas and Chicago. He taught at those places and at Columbia, the Smithsonian and the Univ. of British Columbia. He was the director of the Textile Museum in Washington, D.C., for many years, and was a consultant to National Geographic for a 1975 article on the ancient geoglyphs found in the Nazca Desert known as the Nazca Lines. In 1966, he published Ancient Peruvian Ceramics through the Metropolitan Museum in New York; in 1968, he curated an exhibit at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Mastercraftmen of Ancient Peru, an apparent abrupt departure in material for the modern museum, but one that was well received. His wife, Erika Heininger Sawyer, passed away in July 2012. His survivors include children Dana, Diane, Brian ’76, Lynn Thompson and Carol; 11 grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. His father was John B. Sawyer 1909, and his aunt was Louise F. Sawyer 1913. His brother was Clark J. Sawyer ’38, whose son is Clark J. Sawyer ’74.

1942

George Seymour Chaletzky
May 1, 2011
George Chaletzky, an economics major, was a real estate financier and president of Norge Realty in the Boston area. At ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, he was active in varsity sports, campus publications and the photography club. In Massachusetts, he was a former member of the Governor’s Advisory Commission on Real Estate, and was honored by Temple Reyim in 2001 as one of its early presidents. Survivors include sons Stephen and Kenneth. His wife, Gloria Zallen Chaletzky, predeceased him.

Myra Hoyt Buonocore 
March 5, 2012
Myra Hoyt Buonocore was a social worker who worked well past the “normalâ€� retirement age because she so enjoyed her work. She spent most of her career in the Rochester, N.Y., school system after earning a master’s of social work from Boston Univ. in 1948 and working at Concord (Mass.) Family Welfare. She surrounded herself with people not only at work but also on the dance floor, becoming a gold-level ballroom dancer. A sociology major, her activities at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ ranged from debating to the Greek, photography and politics clubs. Survivors include children Janet and Michael; four grandchildren; and brother Ralph Hoyt ’51, who is married to Dorothy Fryer Hoyt ’51.

1943

Richard Henry Becker 
December 30, 2011
Dick Becker followed older brother Howard Becker ’38 to ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, a fortunate decision since it was at the college where he met his future wife, Ruth “Bootsâ€� Kennedy Becker ’45. They married in 1944 when he entered the Army Air Forces during World War II. After the war, he used his degree in economics to build a 25-year career as a sales manager for Jones and Laughlin, a steel company in Pittsburgh, and then finished his career with five years at Cold Metal Products in Ohio. Retirement in Kennebunkport gave him a chance to fish and play golf, as well as become very active with South Congregational Church. Besides his wife and brother, survivors include sons Douglas and Stephen, and 10 grandchildren. His niece is Carol Becker Olson ’65; her husband is David R. Olson ’65, and their son is Peter S. Olson ’92. Kathryn Thomas Becker ’37 was the late sister-in-law of the deceased. Two sons, Stuart and Richard, also predeceased him.

Myles Standish Delano
October 2, 2011
Myles Delano had his own way of measuring his effectiveness as a teacher: One student named his dog after him, and another named his son after him. He thought he would teach at a small liberal arts college, but instead worked with graduate students at large universities, everywhere from Seattle to Michigan to New Zealand. His field was economics, cum laude from ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, with a master’s from Boston Univ. and a doctorate from Brown. His other favorite field was ice fields — he was an avid mountain climber, reaching the glacial peaks above the clouds. After retirement, he returned to his native Maine, where he haunted the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ squash courts. Survivors include his wife, Virginia K. Delano; and daughters June and Elizabeth.

Henrick Rhodes Johnson Sr.
January 19, 2012 
Del Johnson once bragged about the killing he was making on the golf course: He’d won $11 over 40 years. He had better luck elsewhere. He was drafted by the Pittsburgh Pirates out of high school, was named to the Little All America football team at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, survived three years in the Pacific with the Army during the war and married his high school sweetheart afterward. He joined his father’s insurance agency and served on the Chelmsford (Mass.) School Committee for nine years. This sparked his interest in politics and led him to join other campaigns. His insurance business grew to multiple offices, and his son, Henrick Jr. ’70, joined him in it. He was one of the first members of the Chelmsford High School Hall of Fame. His wife passed away in 2009. Survivors include children Richard and Henrick; five grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; and five great-great-grandchildren.

Jean Lombard Dyer
May 16, 2012
Fired from her first job, Jean Lombard Dyer picked herself up just to fall flat again when she tried teaching. A quick secretarial course snagged her a job with Wayne Davis, Class of 1912, as secretary and copywriter in Boston, handling publications for independent schools and colleges, including ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½. She loved it. “Nothing could have lured me away,â€� she wrote, “except meeting my husband!â€� A life with Henry Dyer on her beloved Chebeague Island “was irresistible,â€� she said, and it fit perfectly. She became a successful teacher, both at the town school and the Methodist church. She also played organ at the church, was a lay leader and served on committees. She was active in several groups focused on what her son called “saving the worldâ€�: Casco Bay Island Development Assn. (which she served as president), Inter-Island League and the Casco Bay Estuary Project, which in 2005 gave her its lifetime achievement award. She also edited the newsletter for CBIDA, and traveled island-to-island to keep abreast of developments along the coast. And for nearly 60 years, she was class secretary for the Class of 1943. Her late father was Clarence Lombard, Class of 1911. Her cousins, all deceased, were Parker Mann ’32, Betty Mann Jacobs ’32 and Bernard Mann ’36. Among her survivors is her son, Willard.

Mary McGrail Rote
April 4, 2012
A degree in biology helped get Mary McGrail in the door at General Electric in Bridgeport, Conn., after graduation, where she worked on experimental amplifiers. That’s where she met Jim Rote, whom she married in 1944. They settled in Roseland, N.J. Once their children were old enough, she worked as an accounting clerk at a manufacturer and credited her education for enabling her to adapt to the field. Her husband passed away in 1998; her son, Thomas, passed away in 2002. Survivors include daughter Linda Rote-Rendowski; two grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

Patricia Peterson Rawson
February 10, 2012
A government and history major, Patricia Peterson married classmate Freeman Rawson and built a life with him in Knoxville, Tenn., where he was a prominent cardiologist. She was a painter, especially of landscapes and flowers, and a life member of Presbyterian Women, with a longtime membership in Sequoyah Hills Presbyterian Church. She served on the board of Senior Citizens Home Aid Service. Her husband and son, Freeman III, predeceased her. Survivors include children William, Andrew and Jane McCurdy; seven grandchildren; and sister Jane Rawson Tompkins ’44.

Margaret Soper Witham
November 2, 2011
Peg Soper took advantage of everything that ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ had to offer: sports, theater, student government, newspaper — all drew her attention, all benefited from it. She remained active as an alumna, as a member of the College Key and as part of the committees planning reunions. She married her high school sweetheart, Paul Witham, after serving in the WAVES during World War II, and worked in the family clothing store in Newport, Maine, for several years. She then switched to teaching, more in keeping with her degree in English, at Maine Central Institute. She earned a master’s in education in guidance from UMaine–Orono and was named the dean of women at MCI in 1974. She served Peoples United Methodist Church in Newport as treasurer and was a member of Eastern Star, the Sebasticook Garden Club and the Friends of Newport Library. Her husband passed away in 1996. Her late sister was Eileen Soper ’34. Survivors include children Anne Jenkins, Pamela Dahl and Susan Witham Goddard ’73, whose husband is Terry Goddard ’72; and seven grandchildren.

1944

Esther Foster Backelin
March 2, 2012
Terry Foster’s degree in geology got her a job as a hydrologist studying the Columbia River Gorge between Oregon and Washington, which left her weekends free to teach skiing on Mount Hood. There she met Harry Leonard Backelin, a native of Sweden, whom she married in 1950. He worked for various airlines, and his peripatetic lifestyle suited her fine. They traveled and lived in many places, from the exotic to the mundane, but always circled back to her childhood home in Bay Head, N.J., and their beloved Portland, Ore. She was an ensign in the WAVES during World War II and worked for the U.S. Weather Bureau after the war. Later, she worked for the Social Security Administration. She studied library science at C.W. Post College and computer science at NYU. Despite the crowds, she liked Long Island for birding because it was right on the Atlantic flyway and has marvelous birding areas. Her husband predeceased her. She is survived by children Doug and Patricia and other family members.

Phyllis Chase Landick
February 7, 2011
Phyl Chase Landick excelled in history, majored in English and had a strong career in social work. She earned an M.S.W. from Simmons while Bob Landick ’44 was busy in the U.S. Navy during World War II. He was part of the college’s V-12 program; they married at the end of the war. She was a social worker at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Hospital while Bob earned his medical degree at Tufts. After a few years in Marblehead, Mass., they moved to Charlotte, Mich., where she helped found the community’s first cooperative nursery school. When they moved to Lansing, she started work as a therapist. Despite remaining in the Midwest, she was always a New Englander, she said. At a family reunion one year, she found herself considering a horrible thought as she surveyed her brood of children and grandchildren: What if her relative hadn’t talked her parents into sending her to ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ and she had never met Bob? Her husband survives her, as do children Robert, Steven, Gregg, Vicki Janzen and Bruce; and five grandchildren.

Cyril Vincent Finnegan Jr.
January 30, 2012
In 1958, in a big, heavy 1949 Chrysler limousine with a big, heavy canvas Army surplus tent, Cy Finnegan, his wife, Ruth Sullivan Finnegan ’44, and six of their eventual nine children pointed their compass toward the wilds of western Canada and set off to follow the scent of a new job at the Univ. of British Columbia. There, Cy set up shop in developmental biology and indulged his special interest in salamanders. His research was in epigenetics, the theory that genes have memory, a theory he had nurtured through his work at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ and then at Notre Dame, where he earned a doctorate in 1952. In the 1970s at UBC, he moved from teaching and research into academic administration. By then, he had created a tradition: cooking a Sunday meal for whoever showed up, and the number of hungry guests occasionally reached 30, gathering for a hearty fare of roast beef, mashed potatoes and Charlie’s Angels. By the time of his retirement, he had served as dean of science and as associate vice president of academics. He and Ruth divorced in 1973. He is survived by children Maureen, Patrick, Cathaleen, Kevin, Eileen, Gormlaith, Michaeleen, Mairead and Conal; 10 grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.

William Emerson Gilmour
February 8, 2012
Bill owed his life to a caterpillar — a silk caterpillar, that is — or perhaps to several caterpillars, those whose silk went into making the parachute that saved his life when his plane was shot out from under him on his 23rd and final mission during World War II. He landed on a rooftop in Berlin and spent 13 months as a POW. Only then could he return to Maine, not to ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, where he had completed two years, but to Bowdoin, where he earned a degree in math, but where he nevertheless caught the eye of Ruth Hancock ’49, whom he married following her graduation. Survivors include children Jill Johnstone, Betsy Ramsey and Nancy Quinn; and nine grandchildren.

Robert Fall Goodspeed 
February 14, 2010
Bob Goodspeed started at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ but completed his degree at Harvard, interrupted by service in the Army Air Forces during World War II. His brother, Harold Goodspeed Jr. ’40, who was married to Barbara Abbott Hall ’41, was killed during the war. Survivors include wife Joanne M. Goodspeed; children Steven, Peter, Scott and Jonathan; stepchildren Martha Indelicato, Kate Mortenson, Jennifer Chinburg and Matt Quinlan; and 24 grandchildren, one of whom is Kathleen Goodspeed ’01. His first wife, Joanne W. Goodspeed, and two grandchildren predeceased him.

Alice Hinton Blakely
January 6, 2010
After one year at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, Alice Hinton Blakely transferred to Butler, much as her brother, the late Herbert Hinton Jr. ’43, had done. She became a registered nurse and worked in Burma and India, not unusual for the child of missionaries (her father was Herbert Hinton Sr. 1917) born in Mandalay.

Clifford Everett Larrabee
June 5, 2012
Cliff Larrabee coached swimming with one goal in mind: for each swimmer to do his or her best. When his Connecticut College team was 11-0, he said, “While it’s good to have a perfect record, it’s more important that the kids enjoy themselves and learn something.� He also coached track at the college, and in 2002 he was inducted into its athletic Hall of Fame. This was after he retired from a career as a research chemist at Pfizer. But he’d been coaching all along, after serving in the Army as a medical technician and then getting trained at chemical warfare. After the war, he and his wife, Carolyn Towle Larrabee ’44, moved to Rochester, N.Y., where he completed a Ph.D. in organic chemistry, and she worked on the Manhattan Project attached to Strong Memorial Hospital. While with Pfizer in Groton, Conn., he coached the New London YMCA swim team and the Greater New London swim team before taking on Connecticut College. His daughter, Martha Larrabee LaRiviere ’74, is a swim coach at the Sanford-Springvale YMCA in Maine, and he was coaching children there a week before his death. His wife predeceased him. Other survivors include children Clifford Jr. and Joan; eight grandchildren, one of whom is Valerie Anne LaRiviere ’07; and six great-grandchildren. His son-in-law is Wayne LaRiviere ’74. His late father was Ernest Larrabee 1909; his late sisters were Erna Larrabee Buker ’39 and Florence Larrabee Keene ’34.

Carolynn Parkhurst Cameron
April 26, 2012
Carolynn Parkhurst married a ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ graduate, the late Jack Cameron ’44, and they sent all three of their daughters to ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½. After Jack’s Navy service during World War II, they settled in her hometown of Presque Isle to manage Parkhurst Farms. She was an active member of Presque Isle Congregational Church and a longtime volunteer at Aroostook Medical Center. Her husband passed away in 2002. Survivors include daughters Julia M. Cameron ’72, Rosemary Cameron Hooson ’74 and Candace Cameron Alden ’69; five grandchildren; one step-grandchild; two great-grandchildren; and sister Marilynn Parkhurst Bonenfant ’43. Her son-in-law is James D. Alden ’68. Her aunt and uncle were the late Evelyn Parkhurst Folsom ’25 and J. Paul Folsom ’26.

Ervin Lewis Perkins
May 23, 2012
Erv Perkins, a research chemist, devoted his working life to helping people see things more clearly through a camera at Eastman Kodak. Then, in retirement, he taught Braille transcription at the Division of Blind Services in Daytona Beach, Fla. He and his wife, the former Jean Jacobs ’47, even wrote a Braille-to-English dictionary. He worked for Kodak for 33 years, retiring in 1977 as director of training to move to Florida, but still spent four months each year on Taylor Pond in Auburn, near where he was born. Phi Beta Kappa at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, he also held a master’s in education from the Univ. of Rochester. In addition to his wife, survivors include a son, Douglas. His niece is Janice Upham ’62. His wife’s late uncle and aunt were Clifton and Betty Mann Jacobs, both ’32; their sons are Clifton W. Jacobs Jr. ’59 and Thomas M. Jacobs ’63.

1945

Elizabeth Benoit Joyce
December 28, 2011
Jack Joyce, one of the greatest athletes ever to catch a football at Garcelon Field, caught something even better at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½: Betty Benoit. Oh, yes, she had to wait while he went off with his V-12 unit, but it was worth it, because he came back to star in three sports, play in the Glass Bowl, join her as co-class presidents, help her plan Reunions. They escaped to Cape Cod whenever they could, to the ballroom whenever they could, to the beach whenever they could. Survivors include children Paul ’76, Deborah Smith and Carol Kelley and six grandchildren. Jack passed away in 2003.

Norman Virgile Houle
November 28, 2011
Norman Houle attended ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ briefly before joining the Army during World War II. He finished his education at Bentley Univ. and worked at Champoux-Bouvier Insurance in Lewiston. He had retired to Florida. Survivors include wife Lillian Provencher Houle; daughters Linda Quinn and Jacqueline Stern; two granddaughters; and four great-grandchildren.

Harold Judah Hurwitz
May 30, 2012
Harold Hurwitz lived most of his life in Berlin, but spent many summers in Wellfleet, Mass., indulging his interest in oystering. Along with his cum laude degree in sociology from ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, he held a master’s in the field from Columbia and a doctorate in it from the Free Univ. of Berlin. A lecturer and researcher there, he wrote a series of books about Berlin and the “German question of a materially and spiritually flawed reunification.â€� His goal was to help the Social Democrats in Berlin win the fight against communism. He is survived by his daughter, Kathleen Hurwitz, and close friends Jennie and Robert Wallace and their children, Alexandra and John Stone Wallace. His wife, Grete Klase, predeceased him.

Barbara Phillips Aalto
February 11, 2012
A friend at her retirement community summed up Barbara Phillips Aalto this way: She was a “forever teacher.� Even as she was recovering from quadruple-bypass surgery, she was planning to return to the faculty of Stonehill College for another semester. This was after a 35-year career there, six as chair of the psychology department. She held a master’s from Boston Univ. and a doctorate from the Univ. of Minnesota. Her late husband, Ensio, whom she met while pursuing her doctorate, was also a psychologist; they also shared interests in travel and dancing. To continue her lifelong love of learning, she was one of the first residents of the living and learning community at Lasell College in Massachusetts. Survivors include children Laura Aalto ’76, Eric and Anne; and two grandchildren.

Sylvia Reese Tesman
January 4, 2012
Sylvia Reese Tesman attended ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ briefly before transferring to Hunter College. Her marriage to Bertram Tesman ended in divorce. Survivors include children Patricia and John Tesman and Matt Ciesicki.

Christine Stillman Kolstad
March 9, 2012
When Christine Stillman Kolstad retired, her husband mused, she was going to need to plan to retire from her retirement, because she found even more things to do. She took college courses, weekly piano lessons, joined several boards and so on, all while having her rather frail mother (the late Harlene Kane Stillman, Class of 1916) living with them, and raising steer for market. She had been a high school teacher — history and social studies, which makes sense when you consider that she was a direct descendant of Roger Williams, founder of Rhode Island, and of several Mayflower passengers. She was also a longtime member and leader of the Sandy Spring Friends (Quaker) Meeting in Maryland, where she became clerk of the meeting, the most important leadership position. Her degree from ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ was in government; she also held a master’s in international relations from Yale. Her husband, a prominent scientist for the federal government, passed away in 1996. Survivors include children Charles Kolstad ’69, Martha Wilhelm and Peter; four grandchildren, including Kathleen Kolstad ’04; one great-grandchild; and sister Ruth Stillman Fernandez ’46. Her sister Rae Stillman Weber ’51 predeceased her, as did her father, Raymond Stillman, Class of 1916. The Stillman House on campus is named in honor of her mother.

Olive Wise FitzGerald
June 15, 2012
Olive Wise FitzGerald, who grew up on a farm in South Paris, left ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ to become an occupational therapist, one of the first in the country, and found herself in Pearl Harbor two years after the attack, tending to wounded soldiers. After the war, she returned to Maine, married a doctor, moved back to California, earned a bachelor’s in English from California State and raised four sons, Brian, Douglas, Steven and Kent, all of whom survive her. Her late relatives were her mother Alta Walker Wise, Class of 1904, brother Albert Wise ’42 and sister-in-law Stephanie Noucas Wise ’44.

1946

Constance Amelia Lane 
June 14, 2012
Constance Lane was a research chemist at Rohm & Haas (the inventors of Plexiglas) in Philadelphia. In her 40 years with the company, she developed a number of coatings and owned 15 patents. A group leader in chemical research, she was an expert in organic and polymer chemistry. She was an active member of First Presbyterian Church in Germantown, Pa. Survivors include her cousin, Kelly Reed ’03.

Leslie John Anderson 
March 17, 2012
Les Anderson grew a goatee to play Leon Trotsky in a theater production one time, and found that everyone liked it so much that he kept it for the rest of his life. That was his approach to life: Find out what worked, and go with it. He was a lifelong amateur golfer, a later-in-life amateur painter and a 32nd degree Mason. He was assigned to the V-12 unit upon arrival at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ and served in the Pacific during the war, returning to finish his degree in history and government. He went on to earn a master’s in education from Fitchburg (Mass.) State College and a doctorate from the Univ. of Oklahoma in 1970. He taught high school in Massachusetts before joining the faculty at New Jersey State College and later Rose State College in Midwest City, Okla. After retirement, he worked with high school and college drama classes, in addition to acting in productions himself. Survivors include wife Kathleen Lions Anderson; children Lynn Marie Anderson and Elaine McEnteer; and two grandchildren. Daughter Maureen Harvey passed away in 2011.

Donald Irvin Marr
March 10, 2012
Donald Marr and his twin brother, Harold, pulled off a magnificent Mayoralty stunt in 1942 that won them the mock election. Using the slogan “Two heads are better than one� and with the full cooperation of the Lewiston Fire Department, they faked a fire in a third-floor room in Parker Hall, using lots of dry ice and water buckets. They bravely climbed the ladder to rescue imperiled Mayoralty documents, to the applause of the crowd summoned by the screaming fire trucks. Donald joined the Army Air Forces, returning later to graduate with a degree in economics. He went on to earn an M.B.A. from Cornell and a master’s from Syracuse. Most of his work was as a librarian, primarily at IBM and Main Endwell School District in New York. He was active in the Main Street Baptist Church in Binghamton, N.Y. His wife, Elizabeth, predeceased him. Survivors include sons Peter and John and brother Harold Marr ’44.

1947

Richard Lee Baldwin
June 21, 2012
When Kenneth Conner ’25 took his young nephew Dick Baldwin to visit a ham radio station, he had no idea he was setting Dick on his life’s path. But from then on, telecommunications became Dick’s focus. He got his first radio license at 15 and enlisted in the Naval Communications Reserve at 18. Called to active duty in 1941, he served as communications officer aboard several destroyers. He remained in the reserves after the war, eventually achieving the rank of commander. His degree from ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ was in physics, as was his master’s from Boston Univ. Most of his career was with the American Radio Relay League, the national association of amateur radio enthusiasts, from which he retired as general manager in 1984. He was then appointed president of the International Amateur Radio Union. During his work, he and his wife, Phyllis Smith Baldwin ’48, visited all continents except Antarctica. She is among his survivors, along with children Judy and Glenn and brother-in-law George Billias ’48. He was president of his class for 20 years and has many relatives who attended ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, all now deceased, including his parents, Grover ’15 and Grace Conner Baldwin ’13; his sister, Joyce Baldwin Billias ’48; his uncle, Kenneth Conner ’25; and his cousin, Natalie Conner Young ’52.

Robert Shackleton Blake
July 27, 2011
Bob Blake was a V-12 student at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ who went on to become Navy aviator and test pilot for McDonnell Douglas. He fought in both World War II and the Korean War, and was an exchange duty pilot with the British Royal Navy. He was a graduate of Bowdoin College. His mother was Hazel Leard Blake, Class of 1911, and his brother was William Blake ’53. Survivors include children Laura Hilgendorf and Robert; 11 grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. Children Peter Blake and Kimberly Foley predeceased him, as did his wife Dorothea Cross Blake.

Elizabeth Hill Jarvi
July 1, 2012
Betty Jarvi was the personification of the deep roots of New England. After she graduated from ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ with a degree in sociology, she threw off the shackles of her mid-Atlantic upbringing and declared herself a Vermonter. She settled for good in Tyson, where her mother had owned land since 1917. There, she became involved in every aspect of town life, from the school board to the zoning board, from the strawberry festival (which she founded) to the historical society. She became a social worker at the children’s division at the Vermont Department of Social Services until marriage and motherhood called her away. She returned to this work in 1972, when she became the first social worker at the new Mount Ascutney Hospital in Windsor, where she built the social work department over the next 14 years. She served on the Plymouth School Board and was a trustee of public funds, town service office, health officer and a board member of the local senior center — and she was secretary of the Class of 1947. Survivors include her husband, Voitto William Jarvi; children Kristen and Lauren; four grandchildren; and one great-grandchild. Her nephew is Scott Phillips ’71.

Madeline Richard Freeman 
March 14, 2012
“I learned early on that if you don’t do as you are supposed to, then you fail everyone,â€� said Madeline Richard Freeman in a 1996 newspaper interview, a lesson learned growing up on a farm. Despite being a high school valedictorian, her parents didn’t expect her to go to college — no one in the family ever had — but two teachers, ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ graduates both, coaxed things along. At ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, she majored in government and history and was a dean’s list student. She also met Stanley Freeman ’47, whom she would marry in the Chapel in 1948. She became a “professor’s wife,â€� as required by the customs of the time, when they moved to Orono, where he joined the faculty at the Univ. of Maine. She joined the League of Women Voters of Orono, serving as president, and then president of the statewide group. When her children reached adulthood and the town of Orono conveniently underwent a change in its form of government, she ran for one of the new at-large town council positions. Within two years, she was chair of the town council. In 1977, she became president of the Maine Municipal Assn. and served on boards and commissions that oversaw judicial ethics and responsibility, and was the first non-lawyer to chair such a committee. ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ awarded her an honorary degree in 1978, and she served as a ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ trustee. She earned an M.S. in adult education from the Univ. of Southern Maine in 1981 and worked as the executive director of the Eastern Area Agency on Aging in Bangor for 11 years. She served on the White House Conference on Aging, appointed to prepare a blueprint of elderly services for the 21st century. Besides her husband, survivors include children Martha and Richard; and six grandchildren.

Sally White Byrkit
January 25, 2012
Sally White Byrkit was a competitive swimmer until adulthood. Her children, however, chose frozen water and became figure skaters. She just pulled up the sewing machine and made their costumes. In fact, she designed and made them for all the members of the figure skating clubs two of her daughters joined, and in 1981, she was inducted into the City of Madison (Wis.) Ice Skating Hall of Fame — all without touching the ice. She’d ended up in Madison because of a blind date — a blind date that turned out right, leading to a wedding the following July. That wedding pulled her away from the farm in Auburn she’d grown up on, eventually to Wisconsin, where her husband, Edmund Byrkit, had been hired to help design and build the interstate system. Once her children were grown, she used her knowledge of fabrics and sewing by working at Northwest Fabrics. She spent part of every year in Maine except during her final illness. Her husband passed away in 1996. Survivors include children Cynthia Byrkit ’74, George, Nancy Hohenstein and Carol Haumesser; and four grandchildren. Her sister is Jane White Stoddard ’43, whose husband is Samuel Stoddard Jr. ’43. Their son is William F. Stoddard ’75. Tobin Frye White ’94 is her cousin. Other family members also attended the college and predeceased her, including mother Marion Wellman White ’17; brothers John W. White ’39 and Wallace H. White ’42; sister Claire G. White ’42; and sister-in-law Evelyn Jones White ’38.

1948

Anna Smith Ackerman 
May 10, 2012
Anna Smith Ackerman was a psychology major with a great interest in English literature, especially its masters of wit, such as S.J. Perelman. She was a member of the Wareham (Mass.) School Committee, where she advocated strongly for children with disabilities. Her marriage to classmate John H. Ackerman ended in divorce; he passed away in 1998. Survivors include children Mary Jane and John.

Jane Louise Cathcart 
April 22, 2012
“Peachy.â€� That was Jane Cathcart’s response to most requests at her work as a librarian, according to those who worked with her. She left ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ with an English degree and taught in Connecticut before garnering a library science degree from Simmons in 1955. She worked in libraries in Vermont, Ohio and Germany before settling in the Syracuse area in 1967. As the adult services librarian of the Onondaga Library System, she oversaw its merger with the Syracuse Public Library, eventually becoming head of the extension services of the merged Onondaga County Public Library. In 1984, she received the literacy award of the International Reading Assn. for her work in improving literacy. Through that work, she placed computers in prisons and youth detention centers, to supplement volunteer tutors. She worked closely with the N.Y. State Library for the Blind and Visually Handicapped, and with Literacy Volunteers. She retired in 1988. Survivors include a cousin, Robert Baker.

Jacob Davidson
May 6, 2012
Jack Davidson was the first American citizen in his family, born in Auburn after his Russian parents had opened their American dream grocery store, a store that still stands in Auburn. He earned a degree in math from ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ and master’s from Boston Univ., becoming a math teacher and then a mechanical engineer. His first wife, Bernice Beckerman Davidson, whom he married in 1950, passed away in 1988. His second wife, Jeanne Rubin Davidson, a childhood friend with whom he reconnected in 1990, survives him, as do children Anne and Jack, and one grandchild.

1949

Barbara Cooper Decker
March 13, 2012
“Coopâ€� to her classmates, Barbara Cooper Decker was a close follower of the arts, especially music, and volunteered at the Kentucky Center for the Arts. Her degree from ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ was in English, and she held a master’s in teaching from Spalding College. She had taught special education in Kentucky. Her late husband was classmate Dan Theodore Decker, who died in 1982. Survivors include children Donald, Dana and Amy Hulsey; and three granddaughters.

Laura deMarco Belsky
June 13, 2012
Laura deMarco Belsky eschewed the usual path into academia, that complete arc through education or research right out of college. No, she waited 20 years to pursue a master’s of science from Mount Holyoke College, then went on to become a professor of biology at Holyoke Community College, retiring in 1991. A lifelong conservationist, she was a water commissioner for the South Hadley, Mass., Fire District for many years. Survivors include husband Theodore Belsky ’50; sons Michael, Charles ’78 and Richard; and six grandchildren. Her niece is Valerie Wilson DuPuy ’64; Mr. Belsky’s late brother was Robert C. Belsky ’42.

Mary Fisher Currie
February 4, 2010
Mimi Fisher Currie worked at UMass–Dartmouth for more than 23 years, first as head administrative clerk and later as affirmative action director. She also served as president of the university’s library associates, a program that supports the library’s mission through fundraising and cultural events. She was active in the Congregational Church in South Dartmouth, Mass., where she had lived for 45 years. Her husband, Andrew Currie, passed away in 1988. Survivors include children Andrew, Scott, Alan and Elizabeth McDowell.

Donald Ralph Feeley
January 30, 2011
Donald Feeley had an unusual medical career. A graduate of Albany (N.Y.) Medical College, he practiced medicine in Olcott, N.Y., from 1955 to 1963, but then closed his practice to re-enlist in the U.S. Navy, assigned to the submarine service. He was the medical officer on the USS Lafayette until 1968, when he and his wife, high school sweetheart Lucille Battles Feeley, moved to Palo Alto, Calif., where he practiced occupational medicine until 1975. They then moved to St. Louis, where he became medical director at Western Electric for two years. One last move took them to Lewiston, Idaho, where he became medical director at Potlatch Corp., retiring in 1991. They had purchased a ranch as soon as they arrived in Idaho and raised llamas; at one point, they had a herd of 92. His wife passed away in 2007. Among his survivors is a brother, Thomas.

Harris Lee Goldman
June 13, 2012
Harris Goldman distinguished himself in the Army Air Forces by winning the Air Medal and the Distinguished Flying Cross three times before coming to ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½. An economics major, he was active in Hillel, chairing the state Hillel board during his senior year. He sold insurance and real estate at agencies he founded and owned and at agencies owned by others in the Swampscott, Mass., area, most recently at the Lynnford Schmishkiss Agency. He was a past president of Temple Emanu-El in Marblehead and past chairman of the general campaign of the Jewish Federation of the North Shore. Survivors include wife Carolyn Trockman Goldman; children Joan Finn and Charles; and five grandchildren.

Jeanne Klein Shellenberger
April 1, 2012
No matter how far Jeanne Klein Shellenberger roamed, there was always another campfire to be banked before bedtime. She started out assisting her husband’s work with the YMCA as he directed two camps on Lake George in New York. When they moved to Framingham, Mass., she ultimately became the director of a nursery school and kindergarten there. Later, she became the director of a camp in Becket, Mass., while her husband was the director of YMCA camps in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. In September 2011, the Becket-Chimney Corners Alumni Assn., from the camp she ran, gave her a distinguished service award. Besides her degree in English from ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, she held a master’s in counseling from Framingham State. She was active with the Dennis (Mass.) Union Church, the Cape Cod Museum of Art and the Garden Club of Brewster. Her husband, Donald Shellenberger, died in 2001. Survivors include children David Shellenberger and Susan G.S. Bowers.

Edgar Ernest Noel
May 10, 2012
Ned Noel came to ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ after service in the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II. An economics major, he played basketball and football. After earning a master’s in education at Fitchburg State College, he returned to his hometown of South Hadley, Mass., and taught in its elementary schools and junior high until moving into administrative positions. He was very active in Boy Scouting throughout his adult life, and was the South Hadley Lions Club citizen of the year in 1994, the same honor his father won in 1958. He was also president of the South Hadley Historical Society. His wife, Jane Beckwith, died in 2011. Survivors include children Norman and Kathryn.

Neal Smith
May 19, 2012
Neal Smith enlisted in the U.S. Navy out of South Portland High School and spent five years on a minesweeper doing convoy escorts during World War II. He graduated cum laude from ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ in geology and did graduate work at Washington Univ. in St. Louis before working for Chevron, then Standard Oil, as a geologist and geophysicist in the West. He also threw in work as a volunteer firefighter. Survivors include wife Elise Smith; children Kim Harty and Jason; four grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

1950

Robert Franklin Hamlen
January 21, 2012
Bob Hamlen served in the U.S. Army before college, then came to Lewiston, where he met and married Gwendolyn Staveley ’49 shortly after her graduation. Bob graduated with a degree in English and went on to a 35-year career with Aetna in the Midwest, retiring in 1990, then turning his interests to travel and sampling fine foods. He also served on the board of the Friends of the Palatine (Ill.) Library Charitable Organization. His wife passed away in 2007. Survivors include children Roberta Cinnamon, Marcille, Geraldine, Mark and Kurt Hamlen; and six grandchildren. His late father, Frank ’21, and two uncles, Joseph ’19 and Charles ’20, were alumni.

William James Lynn
December 22, 2011
William James Lynn attended ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ briefly and was on the football team. He retired as president of the Waterbury (Conn.) Tag Co., having worked there for over 40 years. Survivors include children Margaret Batsford, Helen Bodnar, Barbara Carson, Janet Johnson, William Jr., Thomas, Michael and John; 20 grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.

Harriet Stowell Blake
October 29, 2011
Harriet Stowell Blake, a dean’s list student who graduated with honors with a degree in classics, earned a master’s in library science from Simmons in 1956. She worked in the library at Boston Univ. and in Yale’s rare book room before marrying Kenneth Blake Jr. and returning to Weld, Maine, to live on Webb Lake. Noise from the lake forced them to retreat inland, and a divorce forced her to retreat even farther inland to Farmington Falls, where she took up goat farming in a historic farmhouse. Her classics training never left her: She taught Latin at Colby once or twice, and in 1986 wrote, “I am still an unashamed Epicurean (as opposed to a hedonist). Things are now a bit better materially, and I plan to continue to live a relatively secluded life, enjoying a slow pace, a sense of leisure, and a lot of outdoor activity in good weather, of course.�

Albert Joseph Trocchi
November 12, 2011
Al Trocchi dedicated his life to the children and people of Sheffield, Mass., and they let him know they appreciated it. He was twice named Kiwanian of the year, and was named Master Kiwanian. After his death, his life was remembered with a weekend festival over Memorial Day. His students claim he was “the best math teacher anyone could ever have.â€� The Sheffield Kiwanis Club has established a scholarship in his name. He held a master’s in education from North Adams (Mass.) State in addition to his degree in math from ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, taught math in Sheffield and was principal there, twice assuming the role of acting superintendent of schools. In 1974, he moved to the state department of education in Pittsfield to take on a role as an education specialist, from which he retired in 1995. His wife, Edie, predeceased him. Survivors include son Mark and one grandchild.

1951

Asa Norman Green
March 26, 2012
Asa Green found that the road from Mars Hill, Maine, to Livingston, Ala., was a fast one. He was there within four years, studying for his master of arts degree at Livingston Univ., and he stayed around long enough to become president of the university, now called the Univ. of Southern Alabama, from 1973 to 1993. He also became president of the board of the USA Foundation. Maxey Roberts, managing director of the foundation, noted his “incandescent personality� will be missed. He was interested in the role sports played in academic life, and served on the President’s Commission of the NCAA. Under his tenure, the university increased its enrollment, added a school of nursing and expanded its support of graduate assistantships. He was awarded an honorary degree by Jacksonville State Univ. in 1975. His wife, Betty, predeceased him. Survivors include son Steven and two grandchildren.

Maurice James O’Connell 
July 1, 2012
After graduation, Jim packed up his troubles in his old kit bag and enlisted in the Army — only to find classmate Ralph Perry in the lower bunk at Fort Dix. He went on to head a top-secret unit charged with testing the “atomic cannon,â€� which had to hit its target accurately from eight miles away, with the same power as the Hiroshima bomb. All Jim had to do was figure its aim and trajectory! He left the Army in 1953 for a long career with the Mercantile Stores Inc., first in New York, then Mobile and finally in Kansas City. At ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, he was an eager if “porousâ€� backup third baseman (the description comes from the write-up he himself quotes from the Student), and his love of baseball stayed with him throughout his life: During the summers while in school, he ushered at Fenway Park and at Braves Field, and he later went to a fantasy Red Sox baseball camp. His first wife, Cynthia Spitz ’53, died in 1982. Nine years later, he married Rosalie Doctor, who survives him. Other survivors include children Mark and Dan O’Connell, Elizabeth O’Connell-Ganges, Linda Scardino, Diane Young, Sue Beatty and Bruce Doctor; 16 grandchildren; and one great-grandchild. His late father, Maurice W. O’Connell, was a member of the Class of 1916; and his late sister was Barbara O’Connell Nickerson ’46.

Arthur Joseph Knoll 
November 10, 2011
Arthur Knoll was born and raised in Connecticut, educated in Maine, New York and Germany, enamored of German history, smitten with fencing and at long last a devoted runner. He held a degree in history from ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, a master’s from NYU and Ph.D. from Yale. He was granted a Fulbright fellowship and was given a von Humboldt research fellowship from the Univ. of Heidelberg three times. He wrote and edited books on German colonialism; on why Middle Easterners do not like Americans; on European imperialism in Africa. He was the first recipient of the David E. Underdown Chair in Modern European History at the Univ. of the South (Sewanee) in 1993, where he had taught since 1977. Previously, he had taught at Southern Conn. State College, Middlebury College and the Univ. of Heidelberg. He also served in the Army during the Korean War. He coached fencing at Sewanee for most of his time there, and served 20 years on the Sewanee community council. He retired in 2007. His wife, Ursula Baust Knoll, survives him, as do children Martin and Roland Knoll and Karin Money; and several grandchildren.

Robert Edwin LaPointe
October 7, 2011
Bob LaPointe’s yearbook write-up notes that he was a table tennis champion. He also played basketball, baseball and tennis. He continued to play tennis into his 60s, and was ranked No. 1 in New England in his 50s, in 1978 and 1979. He coached Little League in Beverly, Mass., and is a member of the Little League Hall of Fame there. He worked for General Electric and Polaroid. His wife, Alice Dawson LaPointe, died in 2003. Survivors include children Gary and Michael; four grandchildren, including Matthew LaPointe ’03; and one great-grandchild. His nephew is Richard LaPointe ’60.

William Stephen LaRochelle 
May 7, 2012
Bill LaRochelle finished his undergraduate degree at Boston Univ. after a short time at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½. His late brother was Joseph LaRochelle ’44, and his niece is Mary Jo LaRochelle McBride-Beece ’68. Survivors include children Susan O’Sullivan, Steve and Lisa LaRochelle; six grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.

Raymond Snow Moore 
May 2, 2012
Five days after graduation, Ray Moore was inducted into the Army, and it took him six whole months to wrangle a three-day pass to get back to Lewiston to marry Carlene Fuller ’51 in the Chapel in a ceremony packed to the rafters with alumni and current students, both as participants and attendees — and then it was back to Uncle Sam without so much as a quarter-honeymoon. (“Don’t worry,� he wrote in 2001, “we’ve been on one ever since.�) He went on to work for Getty Petroleum for 35 years, in its real estate and marketing divisions. He and Carlene traveled extensively, including many trailer caravans up and down the East Coast, and Ray coached youth sports. Carlene passed away in 2006. Her late father, Carleton Fuller, was in the Class of 1915. Among Ray’s survivors are children Catherine Lisak, Christine Coflan and William; and five grandchildren.

Ellen Tapley Berrie 
May 13, 2012
Ellen Tapley Berrie combined her love of books with her love of children to build a career as an elementary school librarian in Harpswell, continuing as a volunteer reading tutor after retirement. A geology major at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, she earned a degree in library science in 1977 from UMaine–Orono. Survivors include daughters Brenda Buggia and Karen Pierce, and two grandchildren.

1952

Howard Alton Burke 
November 6, 2011
Howard Burke graduated from New Haven College after a short time at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½. He was a senior buyer at Bristol Babcock Inc. Survivors include wife Elizabeth Nordstrom Burke; children Patti Lambert, Robert Burke, Elaine Tomaseski and Dawn Lang; and eight grandchildren.

Eugenia Emery Taylor 
January 3, 2012
Eugenia Emery Taylor attended ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ from 1948 to 1949, then attended the Univ. of Connecticut. She taught early childhood education in Tolland, Conn., and retired as a supervisor at Travelers Insurance. She was predeceased by husband Alan Taylor. Survivors include sons Scott, Glenn, Craig and Bruce; six grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. Her late father was Phillip Emery ’24, and her sister is Sally Emery Edmondo ’55.

Alan Hayward Glass
June 20, 2011
Al Glass, an economics major at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, was a manager at Control Data in Bloomington, Minn. He had previously worked at Farwell Metal Fabrication and Alcoa, both in Minnesota. His wife, Beverly, died in 2008. Survivors include children David, Pamela Robinett and Connie Reiten; and seven grandchildren.

Beverly Hauer Gruninger Bailey
November 10, 2011
Even if you knew her as “Bubbles� when she was 18, you also probably knew there was a no-nonsense nurse in Beverly Bailey. She worked at Hartford Hospital, McCook Hospital and finally at UConn Health Center until she retired, earning another nickname — “Kitty� — showing again that people were drawn to her kind nature. It’s not surprising that her family notes that among her survivors is her beloved cat, Callie. Other survivors are children Patricia Gruninger Clement ’77 and James Jr.; and four grandchildren. Her first husband, James F. Gruninger, died in 1991, and her second husband, R. Dick Bailey, died in 2010.

Eleanor Lovejoy Woodman 
March 23, 2012
Eleanor Lovejoy married Tom Woodman ’53 nearly as soon as he graduated from ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, then moved to Philadelphia with him while he worked on his degree in dentistry. Following that and a stint in the Navy, they settled in Lake Placid, N.Y., where Tom established a successful practice and Eleanor began a life of motherhood, civic responsibility and church leadership. She was vice president of the Placid Memorial Hospital Auxiliary, secretary of the board of the Skating Club of Lake Placid and treasurer of the American Assn. of University Women. She volunteered at the Adirondack Health Uihlein Living Center and the Ecumenical Food Pantry. Besides her husband, her survivors include many with ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ connections: children Christopher, Cheryl Penney, Daniel ’80 and Thomas; six grandchildren, including Hannah Woodman ’12; daughter-in-law Susan Ellis Woodman ’80; and cousins Melissa C. Doukmak ’84, Phyllis Day Danforth ’50, and Leonard and Carolyn Day Chase ’53. Her husband’s late father was C. Everett Woodman ’25.

Elizabeth Townsend Henderson 
June 25, 2012
Betty Townsend Henderson was the third generation of her family to attend ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½. Her grandparents, Arthur and Ina Cobb Townsend, were both members of the Class of 1888; her father, Clarence Townsend, was a member of the Class of 1914. Her degree from ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ was in economics, and she also held a master’s in business administration from NYU. After her children were almost grown, she worked part time for a toy importer, joking that it offered “a solution to the dilemma of disowning offspring through the college years or producing part of the price.â€� Surviving are her husband, Norman Henderson; children Alan, Karen Garrett, Eleanor Kelly, Andrew and Norman; eight grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren. She also had three uncles, now all deceased, who attended ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½: Erland Townsend 1916, Myron Townsend 1918 and Newell Townsend ’28.

1953

Barbara Furbish Geyger
January 3, 2012
Her own words tell the story best: “After graduating from ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, I spent several years as a telephone service representative. This, however, was not for me. After a two-month vacation in Europe, I decided to look for a new career.â€� That soul-refreshing vacation reminded Barbara Furbish Geyger that she was an English major, and that she liked books and libraries. That led her to Simmons College, where she got a degree in library science, which led to a job as a children’s librarian in Washington, D.C., work and a city she would enjoy for the next 32 years. She retired in 1991 as chief of the children’s division of the District of Columbia Public Library. There, she had met and married Alexander Geyger. Their love of the written word was so evident that in 2008, Grace Episcopal Church in Silver Spring, Md., where they lived, renamed its library the Alexander and Barbara Geyger Library. He died two weeks after his wife. Among her survivors is a brother, George Furbish.

Frederic Karl Littlefield
February 27, 2012
Frederic Littlefield, “Fritzâ€� to some classmates, was at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ for a short time before leaving for the U.S. Navy. He then began a career as a fisherman and charter boat captain in Newburyport, Mass. His wife, Marilyn Bamford Littlefield, passed away in 1995. Survivors include children Sarah Quill, Lisa Colom and Frederick Jr.; two grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

Ann Parnell Davis
February 18, 2012
Ann Parnell Davis was a nursing student who spent more time off campus than on, because of her degree requirements. But she made up for it as an alumna, serving on several Reunion committees. And she put her nursing degree to good use. After marrying George Davis and moving to Potsdam, N.Y., where he taught at Clarkson College, she was recruited by the local hospital to set up a recovery room. She then took a mommy break, working only when a flu epidemic became so severe that the college had to set up an infirmary in the gymnasium. Later, she became involved with establishing Planned Parenthood in the area and soon was in charge of heading up services for four counties. She also helped found a hospice for the area, and served as program chair for the local heart association. In 1989, the Potsdam Hospital board presented her its service award, noting that she “represents the highest standard of volunteer service in health care.� Besides her husband, survivors include children Richard, Karen Riggs ’79 and Gregg.

1954

Clyde Hill Eastman
August 23, 2011
Clyde Eastman did everything a smart young man from a small town in Maine (Fryeburg, in his case) is supposed to do: make the dean’s list, get a master’s from Columbia, then get a doctorate in education from SUNY, all within 10 years of graduating from high school. He married well, had children, then got a job with a good school system. The perfect life for many — but not for Clyde. That first marriage ended in divorce. With his second wife, Zita Eastman, he spent more than a decade attempting to live a self-sufficient life on a 100-year-old farm in rural New York, with their own chickens and goats and vegetables, all the while teaching English at the local school. When he retired in 1987, they threw it all away, hopped in their VW camper and headed west. Two years later, they landed in Sonoma County. Clyde was the kind of man who feels more comfortable outside than inside. He loved to run, ski, bike and backpack. He was a campground host in Alaska, ran 50 miles on his 50th birthday and hiked the entire Appalachian Trail at age 63. Shortly before his death, Clyde self-published Hopalong Cassidy: Creation of a Western Hero, a 25-year writing project that focused on the life of Clarence Mulford, author of the original Hopalong Cassidy novels and a Fryeburg acquaintance of Clyde’s father, Harry Eastman. Clyde is survived by his wife, Zita Eastman; four children from his first marriage, Philip, Peter, Carolyn and Glenn; stepchildren Alison and Christopher; seven grandchildren; and one great-grandchild. His cousin is Donald Hill ’81.

Richard Arthur Hayes Jr.
July 28, 2011
“The pool room taught me some things I didn’t learn in the classroom — or in Chapel,� wrote Dick Hayes in a note to the college in 2001. He was writing to lament that when he visited campus, the pool room was locked up, and didn’t display tournament champs earlier than 1971. He recounted memories of teaching a talented freshman (Richard Hilliard ’57) all he knew about pool when he was a senior, and how the freshman went on to win the tournament. He earned a master’s in finance at the Univ. of Michigan and doctorate in college administration at Wayne State Univ. He worked first for Dun & Bradstreet as a credit analyst, then for Ford Motor Co. as a financial analyst and a senior labor relations analyst before joining the Detroit Institute of Technology, where he was the director and then dean of the office of cooperative education and placement. He was a member of the Economic Club of Detroit, the Cooperative Education Assn. and the American Assn. for Engineering Education.

Virginia Kimball Davenport 
November 6, 2011
Ginny Kimball Davenport was a lifelong resident of Reading, Mass., and took an interest in its residents. She was active in the Reading College Club, primarily a social club for college-educated women, but she emphasized the scholarships it gave to high school graduates. She also was active with her church, First Congregational in Reading. After her husband, William Davenport ’54, passed away in 1989, she worked as a sales secretary for Crown Lift Trucks, retiring in 2002. Survivors include children Teresa Hagerty, Peter, Paul and John Davenport, and Marcia Kennedy; nine grandchildren; and one great-grandchild. Her late mother was Inez Farris Kimball ’26; her late aunt was Mamie Farris Hulsman ’27.

Gordon Linley Peaco 
November 20, 2011
Gordon Peaco was an economics major, which led him to a long and rewarding career as an English teacher at high schools in the Maine towns of Casco, Oxford, Dixfield and East Machias, as well as Littleton, N.H. He was also a principal at schools in Searsport, Maine. He coordinated regional and state drama festivals throughout his teaching career, and he and his wife, June Johnson Peaco ’54, were instrumental in establishing a community theater in Searsport in the 1970s. She passed away in 1995. He continued to be involved in community theater after he retired in 1988, by joining the Lake Region Community Theater in Bridgton in 1996. In 1997, he was invited to become a member of the board of the Deertrees Theatre and Cultural Center of Harrison, Maine, and served as president in 2004. He credited Lavinia Schaeffer for introducing him “to all aspects of backstage work as well as acting, writing and directing. She even introduced me to June,� he wrote. Survivors include children Penelope, Steven, Thomas, Daniel and Deborah; and five grandchildren.

Donald Miller Bridgeforth 
February 11, 2012
Donald Bridgeforth left ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ to finish his degree in economics at Boston Univ. He went on to earn a law degree at Valparaiso in 1962. An opera fan, he was a real estate attorney and worked for Allstate Insurance Co. as associate counsel for many years. He was divorced at the time of his death, and is survived by many cousins and friends.

Ellen Conron Brunelle 
March 18, 2012
Ellen Conron’s major in speech took her directly into the arms of her leading man, albeit via a secretarial route. She was directing a play at a radio station where Jim Brunelle was an announcer. The play was The Boyfriend, and soon enough he was — the boyfriend, that is, in real life, if not in the cast. He went on to a career as a political reporter, and she went on to earn a master’s in special education from the Univ. of Southern Maine, and then help establish the first special-education programs in her area. She was a teacher and supervisor in Cape Elizabeth for 21 years before leaving to help found a program of a school for children with learning disabilities. Her husband survives her, as do children William and Lynn, and two grandchildren.

Joan Haymarch O’Hara 
February 28, 2012
Joan Haymarch O’Hara could fly. She had instrument, mechanical and commercial pilots’ license ratings. And she could swim, a certified scuba diver who went on dives all over the world. She grew up in the Green Mountains of Vermont and lived her adult life in the desert of Arizona, studied political science at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ and taught elementary school as a career. She earned a master’s in education at Arizona State Univ. in 1968 to assist that career, after circumstances forced her to move west from Boston with her children after divorcing her first husband. Survivors include her second husband, Robert O’Hara; sons Michael and Donald Hogan; eight grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; and twin sister Lois MacLeod. A third son, Mark Hogan, died in 1986.

Janet Merry Cooke 
January 20, 2012
Janet Merry Cooke attended ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ for two years. She also attended Katherine Gibbs in Boston. Her first husband was Robert G. Hildreth Jr. ’53. Survivors include her second husband, Robert H. Cooke; children Betsy Groh, Robert Hildreth, Nancy Hockenberry and Susan Lavoie; and 10 grandchildren. Christopher J. Poulin ’86 is her cousin.

1956

Marion Cadman Tarleton 
December 13, 2011
Becky Cadman Tarleton worked in law enforcement for many years in the Rockingham County (N.H.) Sheriff’s Department as a secretary and deputy sheriff. She raised quarter horses and golden retrievers, and was the voice of the Deerfield Fair for many years. Her husband, Robert Tarleton, predeceased her. Survivors include daughter Karen Egerton, stepsons Michael and Gregory; six grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.

Lawrence Gove Evans 
November 20, 2011
Lawrence Evans was above all a scholar, graduating summa cum laude with election to Phi Beta Kappa his junior year, receiving a degree in English and philosophy. His doctorate from Harvard came in 1961; his dissertation was titled “Some Letters of Walter Pater.â€� The 19th century British essayist continued to interest him throughout his life; in 1970 he published a book of Pater’s letters, and in 1988, he presented a group of them to ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ as a gift. He taught at Harvard until 1962, then joined the faculty at Northwestern, teaching courses in late Victorian literature. In 1969, he became the director of undergraduate studies in English. He spent a year in the mid-1970s researching the relationship between Victorian church history and literature. He retired in 2001. He is survived by his brother, Roswell Evans Jr.

Remember Neil Armstrong’s first space flight? Arnold Fickett ’56 invented the fuel cell that powered that flight.

Arnold Perry Fickett
April 22, 2012
Remember Neil Armstrong’s first space flight, Gemini 8 with David Scott in 1966, cut short by a malfunctioning roll thruster? Arnold Fickett invented the fuel cell that powered that flight. He was working for General Electric at the time, having received his master’s in electrochemistry from Northeastern the year before. He’d joined GE right out of college, although he did take time enough to marry Jean Penney ’56. In 1974, he grabbed a chance to join the Electric Power Research Institute in Palo Alto, Calif., where he continued his research on fuel cells, hydrogen and hydroelectric power, and was named vice president for energy utilization. His wife survives him, as do children Thomas, Robert and Shirley; eight grandchildren; and one great-grandchild. His brother-in-law is Hugh Penney ’50, whose wife is Lois Keniston Penney ’50. Their sons are Hugh Penney ’74 and Bruce Penney ’76; Bruce’s wife is Jan Malatesta Penney ’77, and their daughter is Melissa Penney ’03.

1957

Penelope Anne Thompson 
February 12, 2012
Penny Thompson worked at the United Nations for many years before joining DuPont in its international customer relations department. She lived in many places along the East Coast, and in England, Cleveland and Columbia, Mo., before retiring to Cincinnati in 2003. Among her survivors are brothers Peter, Jeffrey and David, and sister Susan Thompson.

Victor Baron Chernoff 
August 2, 2011
Victor Chernoff was so well-known in contract bridge circles that his answer, when asked if he had been berating an inept partner (and Chernoff had been, repeatedly and loudly calling him “an idiotâ€�), was to say, “Well, he is an idiot.â€� That reply became known as the Chernoff Defense. But he was good, so good that he ranks 480th on the American Contract Bridge League’s all-time list of Masterpoints. The league has 165,000 members as of September 2012. A math major at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, he earned a master’s from Harvard in 1958. He worked as an actuary at John Hancock, Lipton Co. and the Internal Revenue Service, before becoming self-employed. He was living in Los Angeles at the time of his death. Among his survivors is his wife, Barbara Sokolowska-Chernoff.

Norma George Monbouquette 
November 26, 2011
Norma George Monbouquette attended ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ for three years before transferring to Boston Univ., where she graduated with a degree in French. Her husband, John Monbouquette, passed away in 2002. Survivors include children Linda Cangiano, Paula, Richard, John and Harold; and eight grandchildren.

David Edwin Goddard 
February 6, 2012
The sign in front of his store often read “Genuine Tourist Trap,â€� which just about assured that the tourists would drive right by, leaving the place to the locals, which was fine for David Goddard, who poured his life into Wilton, N.H., giving anything he could to the town. He and wife Elaine Jeffries Goddard ’58 had moved their business, the House by the Side of the Road, one town over from Milford, N.H., in 1978. An economics major at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, he and Elaine married the day before he graduated. He was self-employed his entire life, working as a dairy farmer with extensive routes until he could purchase the House, then a small gift shop, in 1971. He and Elaine turned it into an extensive gift and flower shop, one of the most successful garden centers in New Hampshire. She is among his survivors, as are children William, Abby Macfarland, Jimmy and Claire Heck; 11 grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.

W. David Talcott 
February 13, 2012
Dave Talcott traced his roots back to the Worshipful John Talcott, one of the fore-founders of Hartford, and joined other Talcott descendants in the fall of 2011 in the first-ever Talcott reunion commemorating 375 years since settling Hartford. He served eight years in the U.S. Army and Army Reserves. His career started with Timex, and included periods with UPS, the Connecticut Petroleum Council and the American Petroleum Institute, from which he retired as the associate region director. His wife, Lydia Davies Talcott ’57, passed away in 2006. Survivors include children Anne, John and Ellen Polak; and four grandchildren.

1959

Ellen Rosenfeld Jodaitis 
November 1, 2011
Imagine what your small organization would be like if the president mentioned it in his State of the Union Message. “I am reeling, I must confess.â€� That’s what Ellen Jodaitis told The New York Times in 1985 after Ronald Reagan pointed out Clara Hale, the founder of Hale House Center in New York, the child-centered, family-focused nonprofit where Jodaitis was director of program development, “an American hero.â€� Mother Hale, as she was called, went to Washington because she hoped “it would help the children who need help,â€� she told the newspaper. A government major at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, Ellen Rosenfeld married Peter Jodaitis ’58 and went on to earn a Ph.D. from the Univ. of Connecticut. She also worked as an economic planner. Her marriage ended in divorce. She is survived by children Nancy and George; and three grandchildren.

Richard Earl Shearer 
May 21, 2012
Dick Shearer’s studies at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ were interrupted by the Korean War, and he was unable to return to graduate. He was a recipient of the Bronze Star. Survivors include his wife, Evelyn Brett Shearer, and a number of nieces and nephews.

1960

Russell Helmar Ahlquist 
January 2012
Russell Ahlquist entered ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ with the Class of 1960 and left the college before graduation. Survivors include his wife, Sally Wood Ahlquist.

Marjorie Keene Stevenson 
December 25, 2011
Marge Keene Stevenson found a way to stay in school most of her life. If she wasn’t a student, she was a teacher. If she wasn’t a teacher, she was a school librarian. And if she wasn’t a school librarian, she was the secretary to the superintendent. That, plus being a mother to three and grandmother to six, kept her pretty well informed of the field trip schedule. She also was a member of First Parish Congregational in Wakefield, Mass., and a lifelong summer resident of Blue Fish Cove in Marshfield, Mass. Survivors include her husband, Lloyd Stevenson; sons Robert, Todd and Craig; and six grandchildren.

John Winfred Steadman 
November 23, 2011
John Steadman left ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ after two years. He earned a law degree from the Univ. of Florida and practiced law in that state.

1964

Kenneth Frazier Hamilton
September 8, 2009
Kenneth Hamilton headed west with his biology degree, added a master’s from Cal State to it and began teaching at Placentia High School. He was an instructor at Cypress Junior College for a number of years and finished his career at Clark High School. His marriage to the former Milly Brock ended in divorce in 1979. Survivors include children Matthew and Laura.

Charles Robert Harte III 
March 19, 2012
Charles Harte came to ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ to play basketball and baseball, but missed Pennsylvania too much. He left after one year to transfer to Penn State, and remained in that area for the rest of his life. Survivors include his wife, Cheri Harte; children Krista Sassaman and Cara Beth Fitzgerald; and four grand-children.

Jonathan Colby Peabody 
May 24, 2012
Anyone who has taken time out to lean back in an office chair in Boston to study the odd pattern of dots in the ceiling tiles probably has Jonathan Peabody to thank. His company has been providing office furniture to Massachusetts businesses for a century, and his twin sons are the fourth generation of Peabodys to run the business. But Jonathan was more than a businessman. He opened the doors of the company’s library to industrial design students from a local college. He was active in Rotary, and in the Congregational Church in Topsfield, Mass., and a past president of Flycasters. In fact, he made sure the pond on his property fed his favorite hobby — trout fishing. He met his wife, Norma George Peabody, while studying at Babson for his M.B.A. through a very early computer dating program. Besides her, survivors include sons Stephen, Christopher and Daniel; and five grandchildren. Jennifer Philley Zolot ’96 is his niece, and Glen Andrew Philley ’98 is his nephew.

1966

Roland Turney 
October 12, 2011
Roland Turney, who attended ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ for two years, was in recent years proprietor of Bear Creek Lodge in Victor, Mont. He was an avid private pilot.

1968

David John Driscoll 
April 21, 2012
No one could keep up with Dave Driscoll. Except, maybe, his wife, Jo-Ann French Driscoll ’68. The disaster that blew away New Orleans compelled him into action: He drove to Biloxi, Miss., for what was supposed to be a three-week cleanup mission that turned into a three-month effort. That work was with Hands On Disaster Response, now known as All Hands Volunteer, and he and Jo-Ann spent the next seven years with them traveling to disaster areas in Indonesia, the Philippines, Peru, Bangladesh, Haiti and Japan as well as in Missouri and New York — digging, building, hauling and generally doing whatever was needed. Dave learned to bring photos of his “oddâ€�-looking New England home to tropical areas, especially ones of the yard covered with alien snow, to help ease tensions with local people. A cum laude French major at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, Dave married Jo-Ann three weeks after graduation and then entered the Army for four years. After earning a master’s in education from UMass–Amherst, both he and Jo-Ann worked for GTE Sylvania Training Operations, with postings in Algeria and Iran; they were evacuated from Iran during the revolution in 1979. He also worked as trainer for Teradyne, Cullinet, Lotus and Powersoft, as well as independently, with travels throughout Asia and the U.S. His wife survives him. His sister is Susan Driscoll Nolan ’71. His brother-in-law is Michael F. Nolan ’69. His aunt is Elizabeth Driscoll Bodwell ’53. His late father was John T. Driscoll ’49.

Lauraine Thomas Pluto 
October 1, 2011
Lauraine Thomas Pluto went about things in her own way. Married at 17, she had two children and a husband, Charles Gameros ’68, by the time she was 19 and a freshman at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½. They both whipped through in three years, moved to Arizona and were divorced by 1971. She returned to Brunswick, Maine, where she had gone to high school, and became involved in the local music theater and ice skating club. She was a figure judge for the U.S. Figure Skating Assn. for many years, and was a member of the Mayflower Society. She also married Joseph Pluto, a Navy officer. Besides him, survivors include children Laurie Pluto, Jim Gameros and Bill Gameros; and six grandchildren.

1970

Louise Gardner 
December 13, 2011
Louise Gardner held two bachelor’s degrees, one from ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ in sociology and one from NYU in nursing. That was her chosen field, and she started as a registered nurse at Waldo County Hospital in 1983 for two years, when she started to manage the intensive-care unit. She remained in this position until illness forced her to resign. She then turned her attention to maintaining the family’s homestead and shipbuilding history in Stockton Springs. Her marriage to John Foster ended in divorce, but he remained close in her illness, and survives her. Her late mother was Ruth Haley Gardner ’42.

1971

Peter Folsom Hutchins 
June 14, 2012
Peter Hutchins gave lie to the adage “Those who can’t, teach.â€� His educational philosophy merged academic excellence with sports and arts. He was a founding member of the Educational Theatre Collaborative, a program at Plymouth (N.H.) State Univ. that brought arts into area schools. During his 18 years at Plymouth Elementary School as teacher and principal, it was recognized as a U.S. Blue Ribbon School of Excellence and a U.S. Distinguished Title I School. In addition to his ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ degree in psychology, he held a master’s from UMaine–Orono and had pursued doctoral work at Vanderbilt Univ. He also taught at schools in Old Town, Maine, and Claremont, Newport and Cornish, N.H. Survivors include his wife, Salina L. Millora; children Peter Jr., Katheryn, Sean and Scott Kull; and five grandchildren.

George N. Schumer
May 29, 2012
In 1985, a friend asked George Schumer, a nonpracticing Jew, for help with a project transcribing tapes of Holocaust survivors. The friend thought that George, a court reporter, might have some ideas about dealing with the 300 cassette tapes piled up in the office of the Holocaust Media Project in San Francisco. George agreed, and wrote a short article for a trade journal seeking trained volunteers. Within a month, he had 175 responses from all over the country. When he showed the stack of letters to the project’s director, she burst into tears of relief. Today, the program is known as the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project and has more than 2,000 interviews on file. George’s main interest became the music of John Denver, and he formed a nonprofit organization dedicated to his music, Singing Skies Foundation, which sponsored concerts of Denver’s music and awarded grants to musicians. Survivors include son Jacob, former wife Jeanne Sutter and mother Doris Schumer.

Joo Eng Tan
January 8, 2012
When Joo Eng Tan was traveling from his home in Malaysia to ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ to continue his education, he visited with a relative along the way. He vowed to her that he would marry a Malaysian woman. It was not to be. Like so many others, he would fall victim to the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ charm, curse, whammy — call it what you will — and married classmate Sally Ann Kayser. They had even managed to take their junior year abroad together at the Univ. of Nottingham, he a psychology major, she a history major. He went on to earn an M.B.A. from NYU and worked briefly for Price Waterhouse before joining Celanese Corp. in 1975, a subsidiary of Hoechst AG, one of the largest chemical companies in the world. He stayed with the company for the rest of his career, retiring as vice president for business support, based in Dallas, in 2002. He then worked for two years as the comptroller for Fisher College. Besides his wife, survivors include children Alexander and Elizabeth Tan; three grandchildren; as well as a large extended family.

1974

Herbert John Canaway
April 6, 2012
Herb Canaway was president of the Campus Assn. as a junior and a member of the student governing body. He was active in the Outing Club, and still somehow made the dean’s list. He went on to earn a master’s in education from Harvard, and used those skills with Destination ImagiNation Inc., a creative problem-solving organization for children and adults that tries to create critical thinking, develop teamwork, leadership skills, research skills and attention to detail. He supported himself as a freelance data analyst. Survivors include brothers Kenneth and Robert.

1976

Michele Louise Dionne
July 4, 2012
It is all too tempting to wrap Michele Dionne’s life in robes of predestination when one compares her high school efforts to save land in her hometown of Chelmsford, Mass., from commercial development with her adult career as a director of an estuary research center. But she was more than that. She was a talented biological educator and mentor, an editor, researcher and scientist. She established and for 21 years led the research program at the Wells (Maine) National Estuarine Research Reserve, one of only 28 such reserves around the nation dedicated to advancing understanding and improving the management of estuaries and coasts. Except for a brief appointment in the biology department at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ itself, where she did some early research on Morse Mountain, it was the only job she ever held. She received an award for outstanding service to the National Estuarine Research Reserve System in 2008. Under her direction, the research program grew to include post-doctoral and staff research associates, interns, contractors and numerous graduate students. She earned a master’s from UNC in 1982 and a Ph.D. from Dartmouth in 1991, then returned to Maine, where she met Michael Wright at a meeting about conservation issues. They married in 1993. He survives her, as do daughters Ciarra and Moira Dionne.

Tango. Contra. Morris. Whatever dance group the city of Burlington, Vt., had to offer, Polly Howlett ’76 was there.

Polly O’Neill Howlett
November 21, 2011
Polly Howlett loved to dance. Tango. Contra. Morris. Whatever dance group the city of Burlington, Vt., had to offer, she was there. It was no accident that she lived in Burlington: It gave her easy access to the mountains for skiing and hiking, and to the lake for sailing, all interests of hers. It also offered employment at St. Michael’s College, where she received her master’s in teaching English as a second language/first language (TESL/TEFL). She spoke German flawlessly, learning it after arriving on German shores in 1981 in a small sailboat, having navigated the trans-Atlantic crossing solo, speaking kein Deutsch. She had taught TESL/TEFL at St. Michael’s since 1993, after teaching it in Germany and Egypt. Her degree from ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ was in psychology. During her final illness, modern dance alumni from ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, including John Carrafa ’76 and Geri FitzGerald ’75, commissioned a dance in her honor. Friends, including many of her students, posted a Facebook page full of tributes praising her teaching, sailing, cooking and dancing talents, as well as her warm friendship. She is survived by parents Frank and Elizabeth Howlett; sister Amy Howlett; and countless others.

1978

Lyman Myron Munson
January 18, 2012
Many online condolence books contain heartfelt entries. Few are as full of lively, amusing anecdotes as Lyman Munson’s. One talks about how he always considered the cup “three-quarters full, not half-full.â€� Many mentioned his impassioned cry of “Fire it up!â€� at work, especially amusing when you consider he was the vice president at Fireman’s Fund Insurance Co. in Novato, Calif. One entry was from the barista at the local coffee bar, recalling how he always had exact change, and another marveled how he took the time to journey across country to Portland, Maine, to emcee at his 30th anniversary with Liberty Mutual, where Lyman Munson used to work, calling it one of the highlights of his career. Nearly all remarked on his love for his family, his crazy greyhounds, his work. His cum laude degree from ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ was in mathematics, and he held a master’s from St. Mary’s College and a law degree from Golden Gate Univ. He practiced pro bono family law through the Bar Assn. of San Francisco, and served on the board of Central City Hospitality House and Oakes Children’s Center, both in San Francisco. He was also past president of the Orinda Assn. Survivors include wife Patricia Low and father Myron Munson.

1980

Roy Gates Perham III
January 28, 2011
Roy Perham was an industrial psychologist who developed and ran assessment centers to help large public utilities and pharmaceutical companies select and develop managers and supervisors. He held a Ph.D. in industrial and organizational psychology from Stevens Institute of Technology and received postgraduate training at the Center for Creative Leadership in Greensboro, N.C. He was an adjunct assistant professor of psychology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City, teaching graduate courses in statistics and research methods. He majored in economics and psychology at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

1988

Gudbjorn Amundsson Karlsson 
February 29, 2012
Whether practicing medicine in Maine or studying grey seals in Iceland, Bjossi Amundsson Karlsson was, everyone said, “the real deal.� He excelled in tennis and downhill skiing and in medical research. He published papers on neurological and cardiovascular topics in several journals, and earned an M.Sc. in aquaculture from the Univ. of Bergen in Norway as well as a D.O. from the Univ. of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine. He was an attending physician and assistant director in the emergency department at the Inland Hospital at Waterville. He kept in close touch with his extended family in Iceland, especially his two grandfathers, Gudbjorn Godjonsson and Asmundur Bjarneason, both of whom survive him. Other survivors include wife Julia Woods Karlsson; daughters Nika Kroyer Karlsson and Anja Kroyer Karlsson; and parents Karl and Bergthora Asmundsson.

Ellen Marie Lorenzen 
February 23, 2012
Ellen Lorenzen left ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ after two years and graduated from the Univ. of Michigan in 1989 with a degree in kinesiology. She is survived by sisters Carol Lorenzen and Julie Reznick.

2001

Apostolia Hantzara 
June 17, 2006
Lina Hantzara was a member of Sanghai Asia and the International Club, earning a degree magna cum laude in political science and art. As a Community Research Fellow in 2001, she investigated models of successful community arts centers in college communities similar to Lewiston and Auburn. The college learned of her passing in February 2012.

2015

Evan Padraig Dube 
May 19, 2012
When someone so young passes away, we look to our most profound thinkers for the reason why. First-year student Evan Dube was perhaps a bit prescient when he posted this quote on his Twitter feed in fall 2011: “How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.â€� It’s from Winnie-the-Pooh. While studying abroad on a Short Term field archeology course last May, Evan collapsed after swimming in the waters off the Shetland Islands. He was planning to be a classics major, and had already impressed the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ theater community with his performance as the cowboy Verne in Bus Stop. He also rose to the challenge by being the first of his classmates to recite the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ mission statement by heart, but wasn’t around to receive the attendant reward — he’d gone off to do coursework. Survivors include his parents, John and Eileen Dube; twin brother Conor; and grandparents John and Mildred Dube.

2016

Troy Johnathan James Pappas
October 5, 2012
In just a few weeks, Troy Pappas had impressed people with his interest in life’s big questions, recalled Holly Gurney, the dean who spoke at Troy’s memorial service, six days after the first-year student died of injuries from a fall down a stairwell in Parker Hall. “He didn’t bother with the superficial stuff,� she said. “He wanted to know the big questions: ‘What do you want to do in life? What do you want out of life?’ That is an exceptional thing in a first-year student in his first semester.� He intended to major in biochemistry and become a surgeon. A resident of Eliot, Maine, and a high school quarterback, he was learning the skills of a receiver for the Bobcats, who dedicated its season to him (see pg. 16). Survivors include parents John and Mary Pappas; maternal grandparents Gareth and Beverly Blackwell and parental grandparents Thomas and Sally Pappas; sister Rayna Pappas; and aunts and uncles.

Faculty

Garold W. Thumm 
May 18, 2012
Professor Emeritus of Political Science Garold Thumm was a self-proclaimed mediocre gourmet cook, fair bridge player and a terrible golfer, but he always loved trying. He was involved in efforts to restore the American chestnut tree, destroyed by blight in the 20th century, and was honored by the Maine chapter of the American Chestnut Foundation in 2010 by receiving the first seeds from a potentially blight-resistant strain. He then donated the seeds back to the Maine chapter, which hopes to plant them on ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College land in his honor. Tenured at the Univ. of Pennsylvania, he left there in 1961 because he wanted more contact with students. His students know how he embraced this philosophy: He made a point of calling on every student in class, “which many feel is a brutal way to conduct a class, but I did it anyway,â€� he said. As U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance ’82 told this magazine in 2009, “He wouldn’t let you take the easy way out. He taught us to analyze an issue before taking a side, not take a side and then try to fit the argument to it.â€� Thumm received his bachelor’s degree from Morris Harvey College and doctorate from the Univ. of Pennsylvania. He is survived by many nieces and nephews, including Suzanne Woods Kelley ’71.

1932

Katherine Ilene LaMontagne
June 25, 2011

She grew up in Lewiston, but Katherine Ilene LaMontagne didn’t hesitate to accept a job teaching English in Puerto Rico under the federal Department of Education in 1935. After several years, she returned to Lewiston to teach at Lewiston High School and later moved to Washington to work at the Library of Congress. She later earned a master’s in library science from Boston Univ. and organized libraries at several high schools before retiring in 1976. She returned to Lewiston in the 1990s and remained active in church and literary activities. Survivors include nieces and nephews. Katherine Ilene LaMontagne was one of the oldest ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ alumnae.

1933

Samuel Charles Gilman
October 11, 2009

Sam Gilman was president of Charles Gilman & Sons, at one time one of the largest liquor distributors in Massachusetts, where he worked with his late brother, Arthur ’35 (whose obituary is below), at the company founded by their father. A biology major, he was active in the Outing Club and the Phil Hellenic Club while at the college. He was a member of Temple Shalom in Newton, Mass., and of Pine Brook Country Club. Survivors include wife Charlotte; children Barry Gilman and Paula Gilman Bayles; and one grandchild.

Richard Tuthill ’33, who had outstanding knowledge of the geography of the Pacific, designed commercial air routes still in use today.

Richard Lovejoy Tuthill
March 17, 2011

Many ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ men had their studies interrupted by World War II, but few simply because they could read a map. Richard “Tutâ€� Tuthill understood the geography of the Pacific islands and Japan, and that attracted the attention of the founder of the OSS. His outstanding knowledge of the area was immensely important to the war effort. After the war, he designed commercial air routes still in use today. An English major at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, he earned a doctorate from Columbia in geography and enjoyed a long career as a professor of geography at the Univ. of Kentucky (1946–53) and Duke (1953–77). At both, he became the first registrar. He specialized in the economic geography of Canada, Africa, the Soviet Union and the Pacific Rim. He was a member of many professional organizations and served as an officer for many of them. He was married twice, first to Sylvia Bickford and then to Sandra McWhorter, both of whom predeceased him. Survivors include daughters Rhoda Rankin and Marcia Butterfield; four grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.

1934

Robert Morrill Butler
September 23, 2011

He had speed and endurance, enough to earn letters in track and cross country, enough to serve as an officer of the Varsity Club and the Athletic Assn. and as captain of the crosscountry team, enough to compete at the New England Championships, with enough left over to enjoy the Outing Club and La Petite Academie. Robert Butler graduated with a degree in French and went on to teach in Dixfield before marrying Priscilla Smith and moving to New Jersey. There he rose to become the headmaster at Newark Academy, teaching Latin and algebra along the way and supervising its move to nearby Livingston and its transition to coeducation. He also found time to serve as publishing chair of the New Jersey ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Club (1962–65), as class vice president (1989–2007) and class president (1963–68). He retired as headmaster in 1967 and returned to teaching, from which he retired in 1974. Both of his children, Robert “Skipâ€� Butler ’63 and Elisabeth Butler ’67, are graduates, as is Skip’s wife, Judith Mosman Butler ’63. Other survivors include two grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

1935

John Edward Cooper Jr.
April 12, 1994

John Cooper lived most of his adult life in Illinois and Pennsylvania and owned his own insurance brokerage. He was active in his church and in Rotary. His aunt and uncle were Bessie Cooper 1904 and Christopher Cooper 1905.

Stella Clemants Kishon
November 26, 2009

Stella Kishon, an Auburn native and graduate of Jordan High School, threw herself into everything the college had to offer. She was very active with the YWCA and served on its cabinet for two years. She chaired the Tea Dance Committee of Lambda Alpha during her senior year and was active in the Orphic Society all four years. She was a sociology major, but her interest in science drew her to the Ramsdell Scientific Society during her final two years. Her late husband was Anton Kishon ’37.

Arthur S. Gilman
December 23, 2010

Arthur Gilman left ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ in 1934. He and his brother, the late Samuel C. Gilman ’33, who died in 2009, owned Charles Gilman & Sons, which was once one of the largest liquor distributorships in Massachusetts. Survivors include wife Marcia Tuck Gilman; children Paul, Carol and Jeffrey Gilman; and three grandchildren. His late first wife was Jeanette Lodgen Gilman.

1936

Ruth Rowe Wilson
February 19, 2012

Ruth Rowe Wilson grew up on one college campus, ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½â€™, then became the wife of the president at another, Skidmore, before returning to ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ as a widow to build both a career in college publishing and friendships across generations of students, alumni, faculty and staff. In 1964, after the death of husband Val Wilson ’38, with five of her six children still at home, she returned to Lewiston, Maine, from Saratoga Springs, N.Y., to work for ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ as the editor of its magazine and college publications, a position she learned as she went and held until 1980. At Skidmore and at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ she was a role model but disliked the term. “It never occurred to me that I was playing a role,â€� she said in 1998. “I was just doing what I was doing.â€� She later served as class notes editor, until 2002. She enjoyed several years in her gardens at her home on College Street and in Ocean Park, Maine, her longtime summer home, before moving to California to be near family in 2007. From Skidmore she received the board’s Denis B. Kemball-Cook Award, honoring a leader who “has given sacrificially of wisdom, time and talent,â€� and in 1986 she received the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Alumni Assn.’s Distinguished Service Award. One of her many acts of friendship and fellowship at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ was to host the college’s international students, often joined by James Reese, at her Ocean Park seaside home for an annual picnic. When she moved to California in 2007, they signed a guest book for her. “My first month at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, you welcomed me to Ocean Park, where I signed your guest book,â€� said Sorina Crisan ’07 of Arad, Romania, as she presented the book to Ruth. “At the end of my ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ education, it is a privilege for me to be able to say goodbye in the same way.â€� She was the daughter of legendary ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ dean Harry Rowe 1912 and Hope Chandler Rowe. Ruth is survived by sister Esther Rowe Tallamy ’38; children David, Alden, James, Carol Grandin, Nancy Schaffer and Kathryn Schmidt; 16 grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren. A memorial service will take place in the summer at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½.

1937

Daisy McPherson Clark
October 12, 2010

Daisy Clark was living in Michigan at the time of her death. Her husband, L. Verdelle Clark ’36, passed away in 1996.

1938

Margaret Bennett Mansfield
January 21, 2011

“Bennieâ€� Bennett Mansfield taught in Maine schools for several years before following her husband to his hometown of Bar Harbor, where she became president of the YWCA and the literary union and served on the boards of the library and the concert association. After retiring to Florida in 1977, she continued her service to the local library and to her community association. An English major, she was active with the Student, the Buffoon and the Mirror at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½. Her husband, Kenneth Mansfield, predeceased her. Survivors include daughter Susan Mansfield Pogue; two grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. Her daughter wrote, “My mother always felt that she had received a superb education at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ and was proud to be an alumnus.â€�

Herbert Austin Miller

August 10, 2011

Herb Miller spun scrap metal into luxurious textiles. He took the knowledge about running a business he gained working with his father and uncle at their junkyard and bought up spinning mills around the state. He soon became a master at improvising old equipment to new technology and at combining new fibers with waste fibers. At one point, his businesses were producing more than 100,000 pounds of yarn and 100,000 pounds of cloth per week, and his company was producing blankets for clients such as L.L.Bean, Macy’s and Lands’ End. He and his second wife, Jo Pollock, owned the blanket store in the remaining portion of the Worumbo Mill in Lisbon Falls. His cousins were Lester Miller ’34 and Harold Miller ’38. Nephew Stephen Schaffer ’64 and grandniece Sara Isaacson ’07 survive him, as do three stepchildren and three grandchildren. His daughter, Deborah Bornstein, predeceased him.

1939

Frank Harold Jewett II
February 10, 2011

Frank Jewett graduated from ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ with a degree in biology with plans to become a doctor, but illness forced him to withdraw from Boston Univ. School of Medicine. Instead, he taught science and worked in the chemical field for many years. He also enjoyed beef and chicken farming. Three children, Jonathan Jewett ’68, Meredeth Libby and Carol Jewett, predeceased him. Survivors include wife Ruth Arenstrup Jewett ’42; son Frank Jewett III ’66; six grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren. His father was Frank Jewett 1913.

Barbara Mary Leonard
June 9, 2011

With her degree in mathematics from the college, Barbara Leonard went on to earn a master’s in education from the Univ. of Maine (1958) and a master’s in mathematics from Bowdoin (1963), all of which augmented her teaching career. She taught first at Brunswick High School and then at the American High School in Paris before returning to Brunswick to chair the mathematics department. She retired in 1972, at which point she joined the Peace Corps and traveled to Kenya to teach mathematics. Afterward, she worked as a travel agent in Brunswick and traveled the world. She is survived by a brother and many nieces and nephews.

Lionel Abney Whiston Jr.
July 5, 2011

Lee Whiston followed in his father’s footsteps, being ordained in his father’s church in Fitchburg, Mass., in 1942 after completing studies at Andover Newton Theological School. He taught for eight years at Catawba College in North Carolina before joining the faculty at Eden Seminary in Missouri to teach the Old Testament and Hebrew. He retired in 1983, at which time he turned to pastoral counseling. His interests were in social justice, and he and wife Dorothy Weeks Whiston ’41 traveled to Alabama for Martin Luther King’s voter registration drive. He was also involved in Christian-Jewish dialogues and was intrigued by the intersections of religion, science and literature. He was also known for his expertise on film. He earned a doctorate in theology from Harvard in 1951 and in 1965 spent the school year in Jerusalem on sabbatical with his wife and three of his sons, William, Charles and Stephen. They survive him, along with a fourth son, Lionel III (Lee) ’66, who was in college at the time. Other survivors include eight grandchildren and one great-grandchild. His wife is deceased.

1940

Carl Edwin Andrews
September 12, 2011

The ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ name “Andrewsâ€� — of Lake Andrews and Andrews Road fame — signifies multigenerational service to the college. Carl Andrews was the son of Bertha May Bell Andrews, who established the women’s physical education program, and the nephew of ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ treasurer Delbert Andrews, Class of 1910. A star football player, president of the Jordan Society and secretary of the Varsity Club at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, Carl became a respected surgeon in Florida following medical school at Yale and residencies during his Army service. He loved growing things, and was an improver of the world around him. He gave out bags of homegrown citrus — he called the offerings “preventative medicineâ€� — from the 100-plus citrus trees on his Florida home in a residential airpark. His property had a fishing pond, where he taught his grandchildren the finer points of casting, a talent he possessed thanks to his experience as a Maine Guide; he had a special love for Mount Katahdin and the Allagash River. He established a ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ fund in memory of his mother to support lectures emphasizing the moral aspect of education, and he established the William Sawyer Class of 1913 Memorial Biology Lecture Fund. Survivors include wife Jane P. Andrews; children Richard Andrews, Jean Andrews and Ruth Andrews Morris ’72; seven grandchildren including Mark Andrews ’09 and Kristy Andrews ‘12; and a great-grandchild. He was predeceased by son Carl “Bertâ€� Andrews ’74, whose wife was Cindy Holmes Andrews Whyte ’74. Bert’s name is on the exercise room in Merrill Gym.

Thomas Puglise
August 9, 2011

All Tom Puglise wanted to do was teach. It took him two years of working in Stratford, Conn., to earn enough money and an associate’s degree to transfer to ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ and continue on to a bachelor’s in French, his fourth language (along with Greek, Italian and English), so he could return home to a career of teaching at his own high school. Service in the Air Force interrupted his career for a bit, but little else did, until he retired in 2002. He did take time to earn a master’s from the Univ. of Bridgeport. He became head of the English department and directed both the local summer school and adult education program. His wife, Lucille, passed away in 2009. Survivors include children Thomas Puglise, Ernest Puglise and Kathi Loughlin; five grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

George Allan Rollins
December 31, 1999

Allan Rollins ran track and cross country at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½. A father of six, he was deeply involved with Boy Scouts, Little League and Babe Ruth Baseball. He also organized sports and outings for senior citizens and trained umpires for youth leagues. He owned his own real estate agency in Redwood City, Calif., for many years. His wife, Vivian Sampson Rollins ’42, died in 1995.

Frank Avery Saunders
April 28, 2003

A history and government major, Frank Saunders was active in debate and managed the track team while a student. The college regrets that it has no further information on Mr. Saunders.

Carol Jean Stifler
July 5, 2011

Both grandfathers were ministers. All three uncles were ministers. All her aunts married ministers. Her father was a minister. So Carol Jean Stifler was going to be a doctor, no doubt about it. Until she transferred to ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ and Professor Rayborn Zerby — ah — opened her eyes. In addition to her degree in religion from ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, she also held a bachelor’s in divinity, the steppingstone to ordination, from Yale. She worked for many years for the Fund for Renewal, a capital funds campaign designed by the American Baptist Church and the Progressive National Baptist Convention Inc. to help Baptist-related minority institutions become self-sufficient. Before that, she had worked with the ABC in other capacities. Her work allowed her to travel extensively throughout the world. Survivors include a number of nieces and nephews.

1941

Dorothy Carey Roeske
May 16, 2001

Dodie Roeske was a librarian at Principia College in Illinois. She earned a master’s in library science from Simmons in 1957, started work at Principia in 1959 and became the director of its library in 1987. Her cousin is Janet-Lee Fay Stanley ’54. Her late sister was Ruth Carey Drake ’43.

With a trace of astonishment, librarian Nancy Cole ’41 wrote that she spent an entire week on the beach during vacation but “never got to the library.�

Nancy Hutchinson Cole
March 8, 2010

Nancy Cole could never quite give up books. No matter how many times she stopped being a librarian, she always seemed to start again, either at another job, or as a volunteer or in the Peace Corps. In one note home from vacation, she wrote with a trace of astonishment in her voice that she spent an entire week on the black sand beach but “never got to the library.â€� She worked in libraries in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Florida and California, as well as St. Kitts in the Peace Corps. She was president of the Philadelphia ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Club in the late 1960s. Her marriage to the late Arthur F. Cole ’42 ended in divorce. Her son Richard predeceased her. She is survived by two sons, David and Peter, and a grandchild.

Gilbert Parker Wood

November 14, 2010

Gil Wood attended ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ for one year. He was a Linotype operator at the Lewiston Sun Journal, until the machines became obsolete, and then became executive secretary of the Araxine Wilkins Sawyer Memorial Foundation. He is survived by sons John, Alan and Mark; four grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren. His late sister was Carolyn Wood ’42.

1942

Althea Comins Cliff
February 14, 2011

Her degree from ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ in French led her to a job teaching French at the high school in Mars Hill, where she met Lloyd Cliff, who decided to see America before marrying her. He wrote letters and postcards from Florida to California to Alaska, where he helped build the Alaska Highway and finally proposed. She followed him to Fairbanks, where they were married. They moved on to Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, before returning to civilization in Massachusetts, eventually building a house in West Suffield, where they lived until he died in 2007. She continued to teach and eventually became chair of the foreign language department at Windsor Locks High School in Connecticut before retiring in 1980. Survivors include children Linda Hartz, Nancy Neumueller, Bruce Cliff and Janet Cliff; and five grandchildren.

Louis Joseph Hervey
June 27, 2011

Lou Hervey took the long view on life and once claimed that he got more from scrubbing pots and pans in Commons than from many classes at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, though he did credit lifelong friendships, four state baseball championships and encouragement from Harry Rowe, Norm Ross and others for influence on his success. His time at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ was interrupted by heroic service in the Army, where he won multiple Bronze Stars, landed on Utah Beach just after D-Day, was on the first cargo ship into Toulon Beach after the French fleet was scuttled and was on the first cargo ship into Antwerp after it was liberated. He remained in the Army Reserves until 1963, retiring as a major. His career was as a teacher in Black River, N.Y. He taught English at Black River High School from 1946 to 1951, at which time he became its principal, a position he held until 1958, when he became principal of the new Carthage Junior-Senior High School. He retired in 1978. In 1949, he received an M.Ed. from St. Lawrence Univ. A three-sport athlete at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ in baseball, football and basketball, he continued to play both baseball and basketball for many years. He also was active in town politics and was mayor of Black River and a trustee of the town. He also was a member of the town of LeRay planning board and president of the Jefferson County Teachers Assn. and was active in the Fort Drum Regional Liaison Organization, which worked to keep the base open during base closure sessions. His wife, the former Irene Sheldon, predeceased him, as did daughter Catherine Job. Survivors include children Elizabeth Harrington ’68, Tamara Hervey, Maureen Sandon, Louis Hervey and Sheldon Hervey; 11 grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

Jean Keneston Fisher
July 20, 2011

College can set the course of a person’s life, and it certainly did for Jean Fisher. At ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, she met the man she would marry, she met the woman who would become her lifelong friend, and she found the place she wanted to live: Maine. Hildreth “Budâ€� Fisher ’42 would stay at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ for three years, but that was plenty of time for them to fall in love. And whether it was luck or divine inspiration, she was paired with Ruth Ulrich Coffin ’42 as roommates, a friendship that would last a lifetime. She had a head start on loving Maine: her late parents, Sheldon and Maude Howard Keneston (1916 and 1915), had blazed the path. Active in student government and choral groups, she earned a degree in sociology and was elected to the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Key. She was a social worker for the state of Maine following graduation, working with at-risk children and families. Later, she became very involved with Girl Scouts and eventually became the field director for Girl Scouts of Maine. She received a 65-year pin from the organization recently. She retired in 1985. Additionally, she was active in Al-Anon and at addiction recovery centers. Bud Fisher passed away in 1998. Survivors include children Susan Hall and Stephen Fisher; seven grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren; and a great-great-grandchild. Another daughter, Katherine, died in 1951 and son, Thomas ’81, died in 1990. Her former sister-in-law was Virginia Fisher Briggs ’43.

Ardith Lakin Cronin
June 27, 2011

Ardee Cronin started out in politics as many women of her generation do — active in the League of Women Voters. From there, she became the first woman elected to the Falls Church (Va.) City Council and then the first woman to chair the local regional planning commission. There, she helped create a master plan for the city that has stood as a model for 30 years. She drew friends and “adopted� children to her wherever she traveled and claimed her dog was the perfect dog. Survivors include sons Jefferson Cronin and Gregory Cronin.

Lorraine McGee Roberts
January 31, 2011

Lorraine Roberts taught in Rhode Island for many years, after moving there in 1950. Survivors include children Bill Roberts and Linda Thomson; four grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.

Anne Momna Howard
December 16, 2009

Annie Howard came to ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ from Westbrook Junior College and earned a degree in English. She taught in schools in Old Orchard Beach, Maine, and Boxford, Mass. She is survived by two sons, including Jonathan ’75; a daughter; and seven grandchildren. Her husband, Stedman, died in 2001.

1943

Elizabeth Bliss Garzio
May 26, 2011

Betty Garzio left ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ and headed for Simmons, where she added a master’s in social work to her resume before moving to the Midwest, eventually settling in Kansas. There, she became a champion for the rights of people with developmental disabilities. She was a founder of the Riley County Assn. for Retarded Citizens and an advocate of quality healthcare. She worked for many years at Kansas State Univ.-Lafene Mental Health Center, from which she retired. Her stepsister, Muriel Bliss Wilbur ’32, predeceased her. Her niece is Deborah Bliss Behler ’69. Other survivors include children Judith Nole and Eric Garzio; six grandchildren; and a great-grandchild.

Gilbert Sayward Center
February 1, 2011

Marjorie Cahall Center|
August 16, 2011

Laconia, N.H., is a big enough city in a small enough state that an active, intelligent couple can shine a bright light over it. Gil and Marjorie Center’s many talents were invaluable to Laconia: He was its unofficial historian, writing a local column for the newspaper for 25 years and serving on city and state historical commissions; she was the booksmith, the one who always knew just what you should read next. He taught history at Laconia High School for 25 years before becoming executive director of the N.H. American Revolution Bicentennial Commission and then director of the N.H. State House Visitors’ Center in Concord. She worked at Gale Public Library for 42 years and especially enjoyed its outreach to children and retirement homes. Gil volunteered at the library, researching its photographs and historical items. Both were active in the Cheney ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Club and as class officers. They were also active in the American Baptist Church, especially in its world mission. Marjorie was the choir director at the South Baptist Church in Laconia for 35 years. After college, Gil served two years in the U.S. Navy before earning a master’s in education from UNH. During that time, Marjorie worked at the university’s library. In 1958, Gil won a William Robertson Coe Fellowship for the Study of American History at Stanford. Their son Rob is a member of the Class of 1973. Other survivors include daughter Jodi Center and two grandchildren.

Webster Palmer Jackson
February 5, 2011

Web Jackson was proud to be a graduate of the college, but it was a few weeks at Notre Dame that really changed his life. It was while he was there for Navy training that he met Gina Moomaw, up from DePauw Univ. for a dance. She became, he once said, not only his wife but his “best friend.â€� A history and government major, he was class treasurer while a student, played football and basketball and was on the staff of the Student. He returned to his hometown of Wakefield, Mass., after graduation, where he took a job with A.C. Lawrence Leather, a job he kept for 43 years. He served as class president as an alumnus and on the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Fund Committee. He was a lifetime member of the local Baptist church and a longtime member of the Masonic lodge. He loved watching the changes, alternately subtle and dramatic, from his hilltop retirement home in Ipswich, Mass. Gina passed away in 2008 and son William ’70 in 2009; William’s widow is Martha Collier Jackson ’71. Other survivors include son Mark Jackson and his wife Karen Wakefield Jackson ’73; granddaughter Emily Jackson Sanborn ’94; three other grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.

Burton Henry Knust
May 30, 2011

Burton Knust left ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ after two years to become a naval aviator, winning the Distinguished Flying Cross and five Air Medals. He then built a successful career in the office furniture business in the Hartford, Conn., area. Survivors include daughters Laura Knust and Tracy Knust and two granddaughters.

1944

Arthur Lawrence Bram
July 7, 2011

Lawrence Bram’s time at the college was interrupted by military service during the war, but he completed his degree in 1947. He then went on to NYU to become a dentist and practiced in the New York-New Jersey area. He also taught briefly at Mount Sinai Hospital.

For Caroline Gray Atkinson ’43, her sociology degree did not even hint at her eventual job of caring for infant giraffes — in her home.

Caroline Gray Atkinson
January 1, 2005

For some graduates, their degrees from ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ lead naturally to a career. But for Caroline Atkinson, her sociology degree did not even hint at her eventual job of caring for infant giraffes — in her home. She started at the Bronx Zoo as a volunteer, but soon was hired to care for her “babiesâ€� in a special home nursery. After teaching in Connecticut and Maine, she worked briefly as a New York City social worker in the 1950s before marrying Joseph Atkinson Jr. During World War II, she worked for the U.S. Signal Corps in Virginia. Her husband died in 1978. She is survived by a son, a daughter and two grandchildren.

Abraham Samuel Keller
April 15, 2004

Samuel Keller traveled the world in search of that precious commodity: oil. He was a geologist by training, having enhanced his ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ education with further studies at the Colorado School of Mines. He put in four years with the U.S. Geological Survey before joining Union Oil Co., which eventually sent him to Australia, where his crew struck gold, so to speak, by establishing enough wells to form the first oil field in the country, one that brought Queen Elizabeth II all the way south to commemorate the event. He was the author of several books and many technical papers. His late brother was Israel Harry Keller ’36. He and wife Irene had two children, Kathy and Tracy.

Esther Linder Bray
February 27, 2011

She was new to town, and all 25-year-old Essie Bray wanted to do was volunteer at her daughters’ school library. But the principal asked her if she happened to have a teaching certificate — which she did and never used. But that was just fine for the administration in Killeen, Texas, where she taught for the next 19 years until she retired in 1989. She had moved back to Keene, N.H., after graduation, to work at the local radio station as a copywriter and editor of its program guide, before moving to Cleveland three years later. There, she was the assistant to the promotional director, which gave her a chance to meet interesting people, such as Bill Veeck, owner of the Cleveland Indians, and Cornelia Otis Skinner, a writer and actress, as well as her future husband, Dan Bray. They married in 1949. Essie was secretary of the Ohio ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Club and class secretary in the 1940s. She is survived by daughter Betsy MacPherson and a grandchild. Her husband and daughter Ellen Bray predeceased her.

1945

Leonard Avery Hawkins
February 9, 2011

Football and baseball were the games of the day while he was a student. Golf and bowling carried him through his later years, with hockey and softball filling out the middle. He also was a skilled bridge player and kept his yard in top shape. He worked for Aetna for 37 years, joining the company soon after receiving his degree from ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ in 1948 (delayed because of military service during World War II). He is survived by wife Helen Spencer Hawkins; sons Peter Hawkins and David Hawkins; six grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren. Son John Hawkins predeceased him.

Margery Lincoln Hansen
April 11, 2011

The onset of World War II forced Margery Hansen to withdraw from ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½. Many years later, she received a degree from Keene (N.H.) State College and taught elementary school. Her husband, Roger Hansen, predeceased her. She is survived by two sisters.

Daniel Vieira Norte
February 20, 2011

When Dan Norte was chosen by his Rotary Club in Cortland, N.Y., to travel to a small town in Brazil to study its culture and needs, he came back with the idea to collect old and new musical instruments for donation, just what the music teacher there needed. The program was a big success. A few years later, he was named Rotarian of the Year by his local club. He devoted his life to service to others, working primarily at YMCAs throughout the Northeast. For many years, he was the executive director of the YMCA in Cortland. Helping a music program was right up his alley: He played in the band and the orchestra at the college, where he received a degree in history and government, delayed until 1947 by the war. He also held a master’s from Boston Univ. His wife is Constance Wood Norte ’46. They were active in the Buffalo ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Club in the 1960s, and he was class president in the late 1970s. He also served on the board at his church. Along with his wife, survivors include sons Harvey Norte and Clifford Norte; four grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren. Daughter Cynthia Bodine died in 2010.

1946

Barbara Cosgrove Robinson
November 9, 2010

Despite living in Delaware for more than 30 years, Barbara Robinson never let go of New England. She was proud of her heritage and returned to Maine after the death of her husband, Allan Robinson, in 2002. She had worked as an activities counselor at YWCAs in Massachusetts and Delaware over the years and had spent three years in Germany when her husband’s work with DuPont took him there. She enjoyed traveling throughout Europe during that time. Survivors include children Winston Robinson and Diane Robinson DiNardi ’75 and a grandchild.

Mary Stanley Merker
August 7, 2011

Mary Stanley Merker started at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ when she was 16 and finished in three years, with a degree in English and dean’s list credentials to brag about. She taught in Connecticut, New York and Utah, where the local Mormon bishop made sure his children were in her class. She and husband Jarrold (“Jerryâ€�) Merker moved to Lincoln, Neb., in 1969, when he became chief of psychology at the VA there; he passed away in March 2012. In Lincoln, she became interested in quilting and was appointed to the yearbook committee of the Lincoln Quilters Guild. Her survivors include daughter Sally Jane Merker and several nephews, among them Richard J. Stanley ’79 and Edward M. Stanley ’81. Her father was Richard Stanley 1924, and her uncle was John P. Stanley Jr. 1926.

Frances Wheeler Kelsey
May 24, 2011

Frances Wheeler Kelsey enjoyed a busy life on campus as part of singing groups, the Student, The Garnet, the Women’s Athletic Assn., the Quimby Debate Society and the Campus Assn. She graduated with a degree in economics and sociology and worked briefly in the Office of Public Affairs in Washington, D.C., and at the Back Bay Ledger before becoming a teacher in Hanover, N.H., where she remained for 25 years. She earned a master’s degree from Plymouth (N.H.) State College. Survivors include daughter Kathe Houst, son Mark Kelsey and two grandsons.

1947

Preston Abbott ’47 had been missing in action for three weeks, but the calm letter home gave little hint of the dramatic events. His B-24 had crashed over Yugoslavia on its 25th mission.

Preston Sargent Abbott
June, 9, 2011

He’d been missing in action for three weeks, but the calm letter home gave little hint of the dramatic events: Gunnery Sgt. Preston Abbott’s B-24 had crashed over Yugoslavia on its 25th mission. He and its crew had been rescued by Yugoslav partisans and smuggled to safety. He received the Purple Heart, the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal for his actions. He had started at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ with the Class of 1942, but the interruption of war allowed him to meet Barbara Beattie ’48, who became his wife. He also earned a master’s from the Univ. of Hawaii and a Ph.D. from Brown. He was a research psychologist for the Air Force from 1951 to 1955 and then joined the Human Resources Research Organization as program leader for the training methods division. He remained there for most of his career, although he also served as director of the American Univ.’s Center for Research in Social Systems from 1970 to 1975. In 1975, he left both organizations to start Abbott Associates, a consulting firm that conducted research for the U.S. Army and Air Force and the Kingdom of Jordan, among others. His wife survives him, along with children Judy, David and Mark, and four grandchildren.

Josephine Ingram
April 21, 2011

Josephine Ingram taught in five different states — and in France, Germany, Turkey, Libya and Morocco, as part of the Department of Defense School System. In addition to her degree in English (Phi Beta Kappa) from the college, she held a master’s from American International College. At ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, she was secretary of the Philosophy club, president of the Robinson Players and active in student government. Survivors include brother Paul and several nieces and nephews.

1948

Leonard Andrew Charpentier
May 28, 2011

Len Charpentier waited until after World War II to come to ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ — after he had flown 29 combat missions, had been shot down, taken prisoner, nursed back to health by a German medical team and liberated by American forces. Discharged as a captain, he came to ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ to resume the studies he had started at Springfield College, then went on to Boston Univ. for a medical degree. While in residency in obstetrics in Galveston, Texas, he met and married Gwendolyn Stratton, the chief dietician at the university hospital. They remained in Galveston until they retired in 1994. He was a diplomate of the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology. In 1985, he became a full-time teacher, specializing in gynecologic surgery. He was president of numerous organizations and served on many boards, both medical and community. He also received awards recognizing his excellent teaching. His wife survives him, as do children Alicia Haley and Laurence Charpentier and five grandchildren.

Emery Willington Flavin
January 29, 2011

Emery Flavin was of the right age to enlist in the Army Air Corps before college, and so he came to ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ after the war. A history and government major, he went on to Boston Univ. to earn a master’s and then taught high school in New Hampshire for several years. Eventually, he joined the faculty of Ulster County Community College, where he taught sociology and from where he retired in 1987. He was a consultant on college textbooks. Survivors include sons Eric, Dana and Bevan Flavin and five grandchildren. His wife, Shirley Putonen Flavin, predeceased him.

Phyllis Simon Albright
March 23, 2011

She thought she’d be a teacher — two years in Future Teachers of America — but Phyllis Albright, who earned a degree in mathematics, instead went to work for GE, as she put it, as a “calculator,â€� formally known as an engineering assistant. At GE, she met Donald Albright, whom she married in 1953. Their life in Schenectady was full of golf and bowling and bridge — and kids. They raised four children. She still found time to serve as secretary of the Hudson-Mohawk ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Club in the 1980s. In 1989, she and Don started their own firm with two of their children, making a diagnostic tool for large turbines, today considered the leader in its field. He passed away in 2010. Survivors include children Janet Albright Ruckel ’76, James, David and Carl Albright; 11 grandchildren; and a great-grandchild.

1949

Barbara Cottle Aldrich
August 30, 2011

Barbara Aldrich was active in Robinson Players and also its business manager, a logical fit for an economics major. A resident of Connecticut, she was a fan of the Univ. of Connecticut’s women’s basketball team. She had been active with the Women’s Fellowship at the First Congregational Church of Wallingford. She was co-secretary of her ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ class at the time of her death. Her husband, Curtis Aldrich, died in 2001. Survivors include son Samuel.

Lydia Fox Stoughton
July 16, 2011

Lydia Stoughton liked to divide her time among boating, volunteering at the local art museum and working as a teacher’s aide in Duxbury, Mass. She served as president of the Buffalo ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Club in the 1960s before moving to Duxbury. A biology major at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, she was active in the Outing Club and the Orphic Society. She leaves her sons, Scott and Peter Stoughton, and two grandchildren. Her husband, Ralph Stoughton, predeceased her.

Phyllis Garland
February 12, 2011

Phyllis Garland spent a brief time at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ before transferring to Bridgewater State College, where she earned a degree in history. She then returned to Oak Bluffs on Martha’s Vineyard to work at her family’s store. She was active in the Trinity Methodist Church and Eastern Star. There are no immediate survivors.

Ann Sargent Bensen
June 11, 2011

Annisquam is a small, waterfront neighborhood isolated from the rest of busy Gloucester, Mass., but it had everything that Ann Bensen wanted: a yacht club for sailing, a library where she could research and volunteer, and old churches where she could practice her brass rubbings, which were displayed in Gloucester and in New Jersey. She was also an expert genealogist. She had earned a teaching degree from William Paterson Univ. and taught kindergarten for 25 years in New Jersey, returning to the family’s summer home in Annisquam when she retired. She served on the board of the Annisquam Library and volunteered with the Cape Ann Historical Museum. Her first husband, Richard Lowcher, passed away, as did her second husband, George Bensen III. Survivors include sons Philip, Mark and Matthew Lowcher; four grandchildren; and a great-grandchild. A son, Peter, predeceased her.

Ann Small Stinson
April 11, 2011

Her roots in Auburn reached back to the Revolutionary War: Ann Stinson’s great-great-great-grandfather built the 1785 house she lived in as a child, after he returned from battle. She shook off those roots for a while, after graduating from the college, to earn a degree in library science at Columbia, where she supported herself by working at the library in Newark, N.J. She even worked as the children’s librarian at the New York Public Library until 1955, when the roots pulled her back to Maine and she opened the Munjoy Hill branch of the Portland Public Library. Later, she became the director of the Lewiston Public Library and, in 1963, the South Portland Public Library, a library she designed and built. In 1973, she retired and moved to Deer Isle with husband Willard “Sonny� Stinson, an organic farmer, whom she had married four years earlier. (Her first marriage, to Henry Bauer, ended in divorce.) Survivors include Mr. Stinson and her son, John Bauer. Her late parents were Wesley ’20 and Mable Plummer Small ’23.

Jane Waters Wright
July 6, 2011

It makes sense that Jane Wright was a sociology major at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½. What she enjoyed doing the most was having her entire family together, enjoying the dynamics and interactions of the group, bound to be substantial with four adult children and 11 grandchildren. She had her quiet activities, too — painting and gardening — but holidays or times at Ocean Park were her favorites. Survivors include husband Frederick Wright; children Karen Reed, Stephen Wright, Tom Wright and Judy Cox; and 11 grandchildren.

1950

Jesse Eustace Castanias
July 16, 2011

Jesse Castanias arrived at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ fresh from piloting 35 successful B-17 missions over Germany in World War II to join the almost-unstoppable football team that made it all the way to the Glass Bowl, before losing to the Univ. of Toledo, 21–12. He used his degree in economics to build a 47-year career in the food and beverage industry, primarily in the Midwest. Survivors include sons Greg and Richard Castanias and four grandchildren. His wife Janet Carol Johnson preceded him in death.

Robert Beaton Sanderson
March 16, 2011

Robert Sanderson was busy working in the family’s business even before he graduated, and so it was logical that he would open a similar business of his own several hours north when the time was right. He founded the Springfield (Vt.) Printing Corp. and was able to turn it over to his sons when the time was right. His degree from ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ was in history, and he studied further at Bucknell. Survivors include wife Barbara Calderwood Sanderson; children Wendy Murphy, Martha Erickson, Mark Sanderson and Bruce Sanderson; and six grandchildren.

1951

Elaine Baraby Littlefield
June 20, 2011

Elaine Littlefield left the college to marry classmate Charles Littlefield, who passed away 10 years later. She remained close to her Wilson House roommates — the “Wilson 6,� she called them. Survivors include son Bruce Littlefield and daughters Anne Littlefield and Jeanie Littlefield. A son, Scott, predeceased her.

Alan Irving Dunham
July 19, 2010

Alan Dunham was a lifetime firefighter in Carver, Mass., and a lifetime member of the American Legion Post there, too. He had a deep streak of stick-to-it-tiveness not often found today; he even stayed with the same company, Clark Babbitt Foods, for his entire career, starting after he left the Navy in 1946 and retiring from there as vice president in 1972. He served 21 years on the school committee in Carver and also on the planning board and was its treasurer for 11 years. He was president of the Bristol County ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Club in the mid-1950s, the Cape Cod ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Club (1969–72) and president of his class (1961–70). His first wife was the late Joyce Gilman Atwood ’51. Survivors include wife Alice Huxley Dunham; children Susan Shane, Alan Dunham ’75, Philip Dunham and Joyce Mazalewski; six grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

Patricia Dunn Ferguson
September 28, 2011

Pat Dunn married classmate William Ferguson shortly after graduation, and the two enjoyed a long marriage, living in New Jersey and in Lausanne, Switzerland, where his work for Alcoa took him. In 1967, they moved to Fox Chapel, Pa., where Pat volunteered in plant therapy and eagerly taught her grandson to play bridge. Her husband passed away in 2006. Survivors include daughter Katherine Charapko and a grandchild. A son also predeceased her.

Donald Peck ’51 spent years perfecting a surgical technique that did away with the need for ostomy bags, a medical procedure now used around the world.

Donald Alan Peck
March 26, 2011

People around the world can thank Dr. Donald Peck for something they don’t have: a little bag hanging off their abdomen walls. He spent years perfecting a technique that did away with the need for the ostomy bags often required after colorectal surgery, a medical procedure now used around the world. His medical degree was from New York Medical College, and he held internships and fellowships in the Navy and at the Mayo Clinic. He was an assistant professor of surgery at Stanford Univ. and was at Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Gatos, Calif., for 12 years. He was a fellow of the American College of Surgeons. He was married twice, to Judith Winkler and to Margaret Peck; both predeceased him. He is survived by children Beth, Michael, Mara, Jonathan and Joshua; 10 grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

1952

George Lewis Corey Jr.
September 30, 2011

“Here I was scrubbing floors in the cafeteria,â€� said George Corey once, describing his time at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½. “A cloud didn’t come down out of the sky or anything. I just knew at that instant that I wanted to be a pastoral minister.â€� He majored in religion and went on to Andover-Newton Theological School to earn a master’s and was ordained as a Congregational minister in 1955. Raised a Presbyterian, he converted to Congregationalism at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ because he liked that the church members are the ultimate authority in church matters. He served churches in New Hampshire, South Dakota, Missouri, Ohio and Massachusetts. He took into the ministry with him his tennis skills and his singing voice. Sometimes he made deals with people: I’ll play tennis with you if you’ll go to church. He started youth clubs centered on athletics to bring kids together. He got members of theater groups to sing solos at his churches. His first wife, who died in 1990, was Jean Chapman ’52. Survivors include wife Deborah Friedrich Cory; children Margaret Sheldon, Bruce Cory, Joanna Conley, Elizabeth Curran, Emily Haskell and Matthew Cory; 21 grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren. A grandson predeceased him.

John Harvey McDonald
January 12, 2002

An English major at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, John McDonald went on to earn a law degree from Fordham in 1955, where he was the assistant editor of the Law Review. He held positions at several firms before becoming vice president and general counsel at Singer Credit Corp. In 1979, he joined Pitney Bowes Credit Corp. as vice president, general counsel and secretary.

Richard Insley Trenholm
February 25, 2011

Rich Trenholm was bored in high school, wanted to be “where the action was,â€� so he joined the Navy. He found himself in Hiroshima very soon after the atomic bomb was dropped. What he saw there made him wonder why he bothered to even get up in the morning if this was what was coming. He decided the only thing he could do was try to “teach peace.â€� He became a charter member of United World Federalists, finished high school and came to ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, where he founded the World Government Club and was class president. He served on the student council and on the political affairs committee. He added a master’s in history from BU in 1954 to his credentials and then started his teaching career at various schools throughout New England. In 1973, he earned another master’s in secondary school administration from the Univ. of Conn. At Minnechaug High School in Wilbraham, Mass., where he was the principal and chair of the history department, he met and married the former Christine Clark, who survives him. In 1977, he became a history teacher at the Whitingham School in Jacksonville, Vt. and retired in 1990. He had remained active in UWF and the organizations that resulted from it and eventually became involved with Traprock, a peace center in Massachusetts, where he became part of its Core Group. In an article in this magazine in 1996, he said that his goal had always been to help make the United Nations “a workable, limited, democratic world government.â€� He was active with Coalition for a Strong United Nations, a grassroots network that reviews the role of the U.N. as it now functions and determines how it could function more effectively. As an alumnus, he served as class president and was active in the Cheney ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Club. Other survivors include sons David and Mark Trenholm and a grandchild.

Edna Williamson Zemanian
August 1, 2011

Edna Zemanian found a way to teach wherever she went, whether crawling on the floor with a 3-year-old or putting together a special presentation on DNA research. She taught in elementary schools in New York and New Jersey before she joined the staff at SUNY Stony Brook, designing and managing community outreach programs for local teachers and students to take advantage of the school’s resources. Her skill at this job won her recognition as “Woman of the Year in Education� in 1993 from the Village Times Herald, and she received the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Education in 1995. She was instrumental in the expansion of the Long Island Science and Engineering Fair for high school students and was one of its first trustees. She also was active in the Setauket Presbyterian Church, especially its soup kitchen and Sunday school. Survivors include husband Armen Zemanian; children Peter, Thomas and Lewis Zemanian and Susan Drennan; and nine grandchildren.

1953

Warren Hasty Carroll
July 17, 2011

Warren Carroll, the son of Herbert ’23 and Gladys Hasty Carroll ’25, once told the Central Maine Morning Sentinel that his parents had given him full freedom, yet the guidance and education he needed to develop his talents. He started by graduating summa cum laude with a degree in history and a PBK ring and going on to Columbia for a doctorate in history (he wrote his dissertation in their paint shed). He attended law school for two years and worked for the CIA and the California State Senate. During this time, he met and married Anne Westhoff, who converted him to Catholicism, which radically changed the course of his life. He went to work for Triumph, a conservative Catholic magazine founded in reaction to the changes implemented by Vatican II. When the magazine folded, he founded Christendom College in 1977, located today in Front Royal, Va. He served as its president and one of its five faculty members. He was chair of the history department until 2002, but resigned the presidency in 1985. At the time of his death, he had published five volumes of A History of Christendom with the final sixth possibly completed by his wife next summer. The series is known for its frank Catholic explanations of critical historical events. He is survived by his wife. His sister was Sarah Carroll Watson ’62, whose obituary appears on pg. 89.

Dominic John Gacetta
June 24, 2011

The seventh son of a seventh son, Dom Gacetta was a successful salesman for General Mills and for Scott Paper Co. He came to ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ after serving in the Marine Corps during World War II. He continued his football career at the college (his Stephens High School team in Rumford was state champion) and married the former Betty Ryder while a student. He taught at Lewiston High School before he graduated and continued to teach at Readfield until he joined General Mills in 1956. In 1964, GM sent him to Barre, Vt., where he and his family lived for many years. In 1971, he joined Scott Paper Co., where he was named salesman of the year several times. In 1995, he was one of the principal organizers of a “super reunionâ€� of Stephens High School graduates. In addition to his wife, survivors include children Donna Gacetta, Sandra Ayer, David Gacetta, Cathy Kukla and Mary Beth Gacetta; five grandchildren; and a great-grandchild. Son Peter predeceased him.

Judy Schadt Graham
December 24, 2010

In one way or another, Judy Graham’s work kept taking her back to the knowledge she gained as a biology major at the college. She worked in a medical office and as a diagnostic technician shortly after graduation and then, after raising her daughter, she worked for the American Red Cross, coordinating special services for individuals. Her husband, Dr. Howard Graham, predeceased her. Survivors include daughter Wendy Matthews and three grandchildren.

Stanwood Gordon Ladd
May 21, 2011

Stanwood Ladd spent a good portion of his time at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ traveling between Lewiston and Portland to visit his sweetheart, Gwendolyn Reed. They married the week after graduation. He built a 45-year career in insurance for himself and retired from the Mashigonne Agency as regional group sales manager. An athlete and outdoorsman, he enjoyed boating, skiing and camping and was a member of several country clubs. At the college, he played football, baseball and golf, and coached all three of these sports as a young man. In addition to his wife, survivors include children Kayla Loeffel and Robert Ladd and four grandchildren. His grand-nephew is David Argereow ’99.

1954

John Doane Barlow
June 27, 2011

No matter how many pots there were to stir, John Barlow kept them all simmering. He was passionate about classical music and supported several concert series and radio stations. He worked hard to revitalize Hartford, Conn. He was a tireless speaker on lesbian and gay rights. He served on countless boards for a multitude of purposes. He is invariably described as a Renaissance man by friends. His eager conversation about what he loved drew the listener in with him. He found that when talking with young lesbians and gay men, for instance, that recounting what his life was like when he was their age often grabbed their interest when other approaches failed. He served in naval intelligence for a few years after college and then became an editor for Ginn & Co. He moved from there to Harper & Row and then to Houghton Mifflin, where he was an educational salesman for 20 years. He served as president of the Southern Connecticut ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Club in the 1970s and was active in other alumni affairs.

Jean Darnell Sweeney
March 17, 2011

Jean Sweeney was one of a small group of students to graduate with a degree in nursing, a degree that she used throughout her life. She worked as a nurse in New Jersey and in Massachusetts, until the birth of her first child in 1958, and then part time for the Pittsford (N.Y.) Ambulance Service. In the early 1970s, her family moved to Amherst, N.H., where she became involved with the Amherst Congregational Church, especially its handbell program. She worked part time for the Crotched Mountain Foundation from 1984 to her retirement in 1996. She was a past president of the Amherst Women’s Assn. and served on the boards of the Amherst Public Library and the Souhegan Nursing Assn. Her husband, who survives her, is David Sweeney ’52. Other survivors are children Janet Sweeney, Michael Sweeney, Peter Sweeney and Kathleen Sweeney; and two grandchildren.

Allan Taylor Kennedy
August 30, 2011

Allan Kennedy was an Army veteran when he came to ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, having enlisted right out of high school. He was active in the Psychology Club and Future Teachers of America — good choices, since he majored in psychology and became a teacher — and moved to California not long after graduation with his first wife, the former Elizabeth Foyer. There, he taught at Huntington Beach High School, Marina High School and Golden West College. He also earned a master’s in psychology at USC. He and his wife amicably divorced, and he later married again. His second wife, Marylou, survives him, as does his blended family of six children, 12 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

Cornelius Andrew Toner
May 22, 2011

As if enduring four years of college, four years of medical school in Albany, N.Y., a year of internship and another of residency, both in Portland, and then three more at Tufts in neurological training weren’t enough to test his strength — not to mention dealing with Boston traffic during those last three years — Neil Toner returned to Maine in 1963 to become the only neurologist in the entire state, traveling its length and width to attend to patients. He lasted five years, until a job in Albany called him back. Shortly afterward, he moved to Springfield, Mass., to join a group of neurologists and neurosurgeons there, where he worked until retirement in 1998. He retired seven days after his 65th birthday, married a woman he’d known for 30 years and built a house in Scarborough. His first marriage, to Ginnie LaFauci ’53, ended in divorce. Survivors include wife Shirley Toner; children Nelson Toner, Valerie Toner ’83, Wesley Toner ’86 and Amanda Toner; four grandchildren; and four step-grandchildren.

1955

Richard Samuel Barton
April 9, 2011

If you watch very, very closely, you just might catch a glimpse of Buzz Barton in the movie The Brinks Job, where he plays a police officer. In real life, however, he was an attorney, taking his degree in biology with him into the Marine Corps first and then to Boston Univ., where he received his law degree. He established his law office in Malden, Mass., and was past president of the Middlesex Bar Assn. He was active in the Melrose Community Players and a board member of the Melrose YMCA. Survivors include wife Joan Dowling Barton; children Amy Amesbury, Alison Rudolph, Michael Barton, Andrew McNeilly and Liam McNeilly; and seven grandchildren.

Aideen Blanchard Coyne
May 4, 2011

Deenie Blanchard Coyne worked briefly before the birth of her son in 1956 and then again after her children were grown. Her degree from ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ was in psychology. Her children, Kenneth Baker and Cynthia Locke, survive her.

Carol Hollister Conklin
May 17, 2010

When life presented an opportunity, Carol Conklin shrugged and said, “OK.� She moved to the front to save a school principal’s job when her daughter was young and busing was an issue. After 23 years of marriage to the Rev. George Conklin ’53, they separated, and she decided to move cross-country, back to New England, where she bought — sight unseen — a new house and took on a teaching job. When she discovered at the age of 47 that she could actually sing, she immediately joined a choir and was soon its president. She earned her teaching certificate in 1975. Before that, she was the Christian education director at United Church of Christ in Hillsdale, Calif. In Connecticut, she taught in Washington, Kent and Falls Village, retiring in 2006. Daughter Karen Conklin survives her.

1956

Phoebe Ann Johnson Fernald
February 12, 2011

Phoebe Fernald devoted most of her career to cancer patients. It is bitterly ironic that the disease claimed her life. After graduating from ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ with a five-year nursing degree, she married Bruce Burnett ’54, with whom she had four children. She also became active in AAUW, serving as president of the Rhode Island division. She earned her MSN at Boston Univ. and became a nurse specialist at Rhode Island Hospital in the oncology department. She later served as president of the N.E. Regional Oncology Nurses and president of the Oncology Nursing Society of Rhode Island and Southeastern Massachusetts. She was a leader in the formation of the R.I. Pain Initiative. She won two awards from the American Cancer Society for her work, including Oncology Nurse of the Year. She was certified as an advanced oncology clinical nurse specialist. Early in her marriage to her second husband, Everett Fernald, she enjoyed sailing the New England coast from their house on Narragansett Bay. Later, they replaced the sailboat with a 44-foot powerboat that they took to Fort Lauderdale in the winter. He survives her, as do children Katherine Burnett Angelini, Thomas Burnett, Susan Burnett Pullyblank, Benjamin Burnett and Amy Fernald Parent; and 15 grandchildren.

1957

Betty Lou Baulch
August 10, 2011

Betts Baulch came down from Houlton for the five-year nursing program at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ so she could return home and train several generations of young people to care for others. When her youngest child reached kindergarten age, she started teaching practical nursing students at what was then Northern Maine Vocational Technical Institute, now Northern Maine Community College, and soon became chair of the nursing department. She championed its transition from a diploma-awarding program to an associate’s degree program in nursing and received the Director’s Award (forerunner of the President’s Award) for her efforts. She earned a master’s of education from the Univ. of Maine in 1980 and served on the Maine State Board of Nursing for more than a decade, including three years as president, and on the National Council of State Boards of Nursing for eight years. In 2008, she was named one of four inaugural inductees to the NMCC Health Care Professionals Wall of Distinction. She was president of the Aroostook County ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Club from 1977 through 1979. Survivors include daughter Corris Marie Smith ’80; sons Walter and Michael Clark; and seven grandchildren. Her grandmother was Luella Green Ebbett 1904, and her cousin was Charles Baulch ’41.

Eric Matthew Lederer
February 24, 2011

Eric Lederer was a successful actuary, but he wanted something different. He had taught high school briefly right after graduation and decided to try it again. He became a successful college professor, teaching mathematics at Red Rocks Community College in Colorado for many years and publishing several college-level textbooks. He retired in 1992. He had long been interested in English history and in the space program and became a docent at the Space Odyssey exhibit at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. Wife Mary Arturo Lederer survives him, as do children Rachel, Seth, Naomi and Adam Lederer; and two grandchildren.

Jeffrey Dana Mailey
July 29, 2011

Jeffrey Mailey left ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ after two years for a career in insurance sales with Equitable Life. He lived in the Philadelphia area with his wife, Nancy, who predeceased him. Survivors include children Pamela Shivone, Jeff Mailey, Jill Mailey and Todd Mailey; and six grandchildren.

Jane Wichert Muller
July 16, 2010

Jane Muller was married to the late George Muller ’60. A resident of Denver, she is survived by daughters Kimberly Muller and Pamela Young.

1958

Her many friends on the online auction site eBay knew Jean Doane ’58 as “mainelady,� and indeed she was.

Jean Leighton Doane
June 26, 2011

Her many friends on the online auction site eBay knew her as “mainelady,â€� and indeed she was. Jean Doane lived most of her life in and around Yarmouth and Cumberland, except for the precious weeks on Chesuncook Lake up north. In between raising two sons, she built a career in banking, first at Maine National Bank and later at Key Bank. When she retired in 1988, she was vice president of private banking. It was then that her love of eBay took over and she started to prowl yard and book sales, looking for anything she thought she could sell at a profit. She was well past the 4,000-items-sold mark several years ago. Valedictorian of her high school class and Phi Beta Kappa in economics at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, she married classmate Dick Doane six days after graduation and went to work for Union Mutual (later UNUM) in the actuarial department. She also worked part time in her children’s schools as they grew up. Her husband survives her, as do sons Richard and Jeffrey, along with three grandchildren.

1960

Bradford Churchill
September 11, 2011

Don’t worry, Brad Churchill told parents of late bloomers in the Taunton Daily Gazette in 1980. “Sit back and wait.� He knew from his own experience that late bloomers eventually bloom. It took him a four-year diversion through the Coast Guard before he was ready for college, but his career as a chemist took off right from there. He eventually put his name on three patents, including one for the very first generation of “wash and wear� shirts. He worked for General Aniline & Film, Lucidol and Ethyl Corp., retiring from the last as regional sales manager. When his work took his family to rural New York in 1966, he got his three sons interested in 4-H and turned them into prize-winning cowhands. He led one of the biggest 4-H clubs in western New York, and at the Erie County Fair, for five years, three out of the four top beef animals came from his club. In retirement, he enjoyed directing the Cornish Fair in New Hampshire. His wife, the former Martha Myers ’56, died in 1999. Her brother is John Myers ’52. Other survivors are sons David, Duane and Deane Churchill and four grandchildren.

Sally Hendricksen ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½
August 4, 2011

Sally ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, a history major, married William ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ ’60 a few months after graduation. They divorced after having three children, one of whom, Randall, graduated from the college in 1989. She lived in Hawaii, California and Newport, R.I., before returning to Cape Cod in 1988, where she had summered as a child. There, she volunteered at the Thornton Burgess Museum for many years. In addition to Randall, survivors include children Kristi and Todd and six grandchildren.

1961

James Walter Carignan
August 14, 2011

Jim Carignan was musing about Ed Muskie ’36 when he said that ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ “has historically had a commitment to…taking the poor kid from [Rumford, Maine] and giving that kid a chance, on the basis of intellectual promise and ability, to go up the ladder to a different place and play a different role.â€� And, Carignan added, that’s what happened to him. The son of a millworker and a store clerk, neither of whom graduated from high school, he was discouraged from applying to ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ by his high school guidance counselor. But he’d seen the campus on a debating trip with his debate coach, Ruth Patterson Estes ’29, whom he affectionately described as a “battleaxe.â€� He had some doubts about his future when he received a D on his first exam, but he went on to earn honors in history, become class president, serve on the Outing Club and History Club boards and play soccer. At the urging of two history professors (Jackman and Muller) and with the encouragement of his father, he went on to get a Ph.D. in colonial American history from the Univ. of Rochester. He was happily teaching history at Kenyon College in Ohio when he received a letter from the new president at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, T. Hedley Reynolds, asking him to apply to become dean of men. He wrote back declining to apply and furthermore chastised the college for still having a “gender bifurcated deanshipâ€� in 1970. That made President Reynolds even more interested in him, and although he started as dean of men, he was dean of the college within six months. He was also an associate professor of history, teaching classes that brought elements of diversity to the classroom. He was instrumental to the creation of the Muskie Archives as a repository and research library of the former senator and secretary of state and as a venue for political programming. He served on dozens of local and state boards, most in education and community development. He was a member of the state board of education. In 1985, a sniper lodged a bullet near his heart, almost killing him, which resulted in two heart transplants within a few years. He responded by increasing his involvement with the community, becoming a Lewiston city councilor and a member of the L/A Excels steering committee. He retired from ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ in 2003. “It was a great, great ride,â€� he said to the Lewiston Sun Journal at the time. Survivors include wife Sally Larson Carignan ’62; children Steven, Mark and Paul Carignan and Sarah Carignan Belanger ’95; and nine grandchildren.

Claire Jaggard Krisewicz
December 27, 2010

Claire Krisewicz, a history major, taught in several towns in New Jersey before marrying Joseph Krisewicz in 1967. Three years later, they moved to Salisbury, Md., where she eventually earned an M.Ed. from Salisbury Univ. Her career was in teaching children with special needs. Her husband survives her, along with children Brant Krisewicz and Kathi Adams and two grandchildren.

1962

Sarah Carroll Watson
August 17, 2011

That Sally Carroll Watson would follow her parents and her brother to ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ was nearly inevitable. That her life would go in a completely different direction was unforeseen. Her parents were Herbert Carroll ’23 and Gladys Hasty Carroll ’25, and her brother was Warren Hasty Carroll ’53, whose obituary appears on pg. 87. An English major, she was the editor of The Garnet, worked on the Student and the Mirror and appeared poised to follow in her famous mother’s footsteps. She even got a job at Little, Brown after graduation. But then she realized her spiritual path lay with the Mormon Church, and her professional path lay in special education. She earned a teaching certificate from Brigham Young Univ. in 1973 and a M.Ed. from Salem State in 1976. She was in the forefront of the “mainstreamâ€� movement and built programs in several Massachusetts towns. She returned to Utah to work on a doctorate at BYU and was named Utah Teacher of the Year in 1985 during that time. She finished her teaching career at the Frisbee School in Kittery and at Dover (N.H.) High School. In retirement, she turned her attention to Dunnybrook, the historical foundation started by her mother at the 350-year-old family farm. Survivors include children Caroline Jones and James Watson and six grandchildren.

1963

Paul Castolene ’63 taught biology, coached football and found that coaching allowed the students to see him as a “regular person.�

Paul Joseph Castolene
July 5, 2011

Paul Castolene was a standout athlete throughout high school in Bristol, Conn., and at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, in both basketball and football. He was named to All-Maine, All-New England and All-East teams in football. He taught biology in his hometown and coached football and found that coaching added a dimension to his teaching: It allowed the students to see him as a “regular person,â€� he said. He went on to earn a master’s in biology from Wesleyan in 1975 and later became principal at an elementary school in Bristol and finally a vice-principal at the high school. He retired in 2000. He coached midget football and served on its board and was vice president of the Connecticut Pop Warner League. He also was very active in civic affairs, especially in the Chrysanthemum Festival and the Miss Bristol Pageant. He served on the board of the Miss Connecticut scholarship program and was a commissioner for the Bristol Bicentennial Celebration. Survivors include daughters Tami Miclette and Traci Castolene; a grandson; and companion Diana Rode.

Robert Lorenzo Couturier
June 5, 2011

When he was 13, Robert Couturier was offered a four-year future scholarship to Assumption College. He turned it down, because he had already decided to attend ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½. A Lewiston native, he quickly became involved in local politics and was elected an alderman in 1964 and mayor in 1965, the youngest mayor the city has ever had. Two years later, he became a state senator. He also managed to squeeze law school into his schedule and received his law degree in 1970 from the Univ. of Maine. In 1967, he became the police commissioner for Lewiston, a position he held for over a decade. He was serving his third term as a probate judge for Androscoggin County at the time of his death. His deep roots in Lewiston were French-Canadian, and he broadcast a French radio program for more than 15 years. He was active in several French-Canadian groups in Lewiston, and in 1983 his flag design was adopted by Franco-Americans in New England. He served as chair of the governor’s committee on Canadian relations in 1973. In 1988, he was elected secretary-general of L’Association Canado-Américaine, for which he also served as general counsel; he served on the board of Le Conseil de la Vie française en Amérique of Quebec City. The Province of Quebec awarded him its Ordre des Francophones d’Amérique in 1989 and in 2000, the government of France named him Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. His first wife, the former Rose Belanger, died in 1995. Survivors include wife Monique St. Hilaire Couturier; stepsons Gerald and Denis Touchette; one grandchild; cousin Paul St. Hilaire ’58; and niece Rachel Langlais Maier ’89.

Roland Norman Simard
March 16, 2011

Roland Simard fought in Vietnam for three years after college and then set about building a successful career in commercial real estate in Connecticut. He managed and developed various properties in New York and Connecticut and in 1972 was the director of the Better Business Bureau of Southwestern Connecticut. He also had business interests in Miami. Survivors include sisters Loraine Livingston and Janine Reny; and brother Roger Simard.

Barbara Reid Schmus
January 30, 2011

For her 25th Reunion, Bobbi Schmus wrote that ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ had given her the confidence to attack a problem and “attempt to find a solution and not be defeated by temporary failure.â€� She drew on that confidence when she stepped into the role of company president of Connex International, after its founder passed away in 1990. She had more or less stumbled into the nascent teleconferencing field nine years earlier, after working as a portrait photographer during the 1960s and then raising her sons. She remained as president of Connex until 2001,

when she retired. She turned her attention to watercolor painting and went on to win several awards. Survivors include husband Harry Schmus; sons Jeffrey and Jeremy Heyel; stepson Bob Schmus; and five grandchildren. She was divorced from Peter Heyel ’65.

1964

Nancy Dillman Larson David
June 18, 2011

The high school musicals she produced made more money than the football team, said Nancy David, and were the prototype for the entire state of Connecticut, well in advance of Disney. They involved as many as 400 students and, she joked, helped establish the costume rental business in the Hartford area as other schools followed suit. She also edited the newsletter for the schools in Wallingford and won 11 first-place awards for it from the Conn. Education Assn. She taught in Wallingford for 34 years and completed a master’s in education at Southern Connecticut State College during that time. She was active in local, state and national educational organizations. Her first husband was Kenneth Larson ’63; he passed away in 1992. At her 30th Reunion, she bumped into classmate John David, and again the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ magic worked: They married in 1997. She retired shortly after, and they moved to Amherst, N.H., where she became active in a number of local causes, including walks against hunger and homelessness. Her husband and stepchildren John David and Katherine Burden are among her survivors.

1965

Edward Brian Deevey
October 6, 2010

Brian Deevey, the child of a world-famous biologist who helped figure out carbon dating, chose to look at the world in a very different way: He became an anthropologist. To prepare himself, he studied history at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ and was president of the History Club and vice president of the Art Association. He entered the Peace Corps after graduation, which taught him to get by on nothing and introduced him to life in Southeast Asia. He spent two years in Thailand in public health and returned home in time to be drafted and sent to Vietnam. He earned his master’s from Central Connecticut College and a doctorate from the Univ. of Missouri. His research took him back to Thailand, where he studied life in a small village on the Malay Peninsula. A Fulbright grant helped fund his doctorate. Among his survivors is his sister, Ruth Lehmann.

1967

Carol Johnson Cooper
June 26, 2011

Music shaped Carol Cooper’s life in many ways. Active in the Chapel Choir and the Choral Society, she also was a member of the Merimanders all four years at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½. And it was in the Chapel Choir that she met the man who would become her husband, R. Bruce Cooper ’65. She continued to sing throughout her life and even worked in a music store. The first in her family to attend college, she graduated magna cum laude with a degree in English and a Phi Beta Kappa key and was a Travelli Scholar. After winning a trip to the Caribbean, she and Bruce traveled to all seven continents. Her husband survives her. Other survivors include her mother, Evelyn Johnson; daughters Cathryn Moyski and Cynthia Cooper; and four grandchildren.

1970

Daniel Alley Johnson III
February 12, 2011

Daniel Johnson tried out a few careers before finding the one that fed his soul: teaching history. First he worked in hospital administration in the Boston area and then he did business consulting, using his spare time to earn a master’s in education at Boston Univ. He was a lifetime member of the Pilgrim Society and a collector of presidential autographs, so his enthusiasm for history was easy to transfer to the classroom. He taught at Bedichek Middle School in Austin, Texas. A religion major at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, he was also a Dana Scholar. Survivors include his mother, Elizabeth Johnson; wife Ginger Edwards; daughter Elizabeth Johnson; and former wife Barbara S. Johnson.

Give Bob Kinney ’70 a job to do, and he got it done. He never fumbled the football, never lost a yard while playing. Just get the job done.

Earl Robert Kinney Jr.
March 19, 2011

Give Bob Kinney a job to do, and he got it done. He never fumbled the football, never lost a yard while playing. Nothing flashy; just get the job done. He started college with the Class of 1967, but felt compelled to leave ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ to join the Marines in 1964 to serve in Vietnam and got the job done there, too. He returned to finish his degree in sociology. He made ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ history of a sort by

opening The Cage near campus shortly after graduation. He sold it to another alum a few years later and took off to start a career in warehouse management. He retired from Nashua Corp. in 1999, which gave him a chance to try teaching at the local high school in Merrimack, N.H., as well as coach lacrosse. He and wife Sally Greenlaw Kinney ’69 were active in World Wide Marriage Encounter and the Lung Assn. of N.H. and attended Riverside Christian Church; she survives him. Among other survivors are parents Earl Robert Kinney Sr. ’39 and Mary Reid Kinney; children Samantha Kinney Leone ’93, Mari Reid Kinney and E. Robert Kinney III; and four grandchildren. His aunt is Elizabeth Kinney Jones ’44.

Richard Winslow Suffern
January 30, 2011

Win Suffern transferred to ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ for his junior and senior years and was a history major. He quickly made his mark with the Robinson Players and went on to perform and coach theater for many years. He also taught English, history and Latin in New Hampshire and Vermont. He received master’s degrees from UNH in 1971 and 1975. Survivors include wife Leona Martin; children James Suffern and Erika Suffern; and stepchildren Micki Centrone, Timothy Powers, John Powers and Penny Shultz.

Julie Ann Waltz
September 22, 2010

Julie Waltz prepared for a career teaching history by majoring in it at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, spending her junior year at Oxford. She then went on to earn a master’s at UNH. She taught at schools in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. She also became an award-winning photographer and director of adult and community education in Duxbury, Mass. She received a certificate in computer science and became a computer trainer after her marriage to Gary Robinson dissolved. Survivors include sisters Pamela Hodsdon and Marie Theriault.

1972

John Clifford Johnson Jr.
February 22, 2011

After graduation, John Johnson returned to the Hartford area to earn a master’s in special education and to work as the co-director of the Mansfield Day Treatment Center. His degree from ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ was in psychology. Later he became director of online services at McGraw-Hill Publishing Cos. in Farmington and Columbus, Ohio. Survivors include parents Jean and John Johnson Sr.; and sister Beth Briggs.

1973

Douglas Albert Moody
June 4, 2011

An internship at the Governor Baxter School for the Deaf on Mackworth Island convinced Doug Moody that he wanted a career working with the deaf community. He earned a master’s at Gallaudet Univ. and then worked as director of evaluation and assessment at the American School for the Deaf in West Hartford. He eventually returned to the school on Mackworth Island, now renamed the Maine Educational Center for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, and was its guidance counselor when he became ill. Survivors include his son, David Moody.

Thomas Jonathan Shaw
June 4, 2010

Tom Shaw was an anesthesiologist in Denver. A chemistry major at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, he attended Kansas City College of Osteopathic Medicine and did his internship and residency at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio. Among his survivors is his son, Thomas Shaw.

1976

David Kevin Horne
July 30, 2003

David Horne was a principal economist working for Freddie Mac at the time of his death. A dean’s list student, he graduated from ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ with a degree in economics and went on to the Univ. of Pennsylvania to become a teaching fellow, earning a doctorate and becoming a professor there. He also taught at Lehigh and Temple universities. His first wife was Mary Beth Pope Salama ’77, whose sister is Susan J. Pope ’79. Survivors include wife Leigh Ann Coates and children Caitlin and Lucas Horne.

Donald Edward Orifice
June 12, 2011

Don Orifice taught at the Lincoln Technical Institute in Somerville, Mass. Previously, he was the executive director of the North Shore Computer Society. Survivors include wife Linda Hill Orifice; daughter Jennifer MacRobbie; and a grandchild.

1979

Linda Hope Harris Lewis
July 19, 2011

Linda Lewis was struggling to recover from an eating disorder when she died of an infection. She had been working as a freelance writer for a number of years, following a successful career as an industrial engineer in academic systems at companies such as Wang, ADP and IBM. She earned her master’s in the

field at Lehigh Univ. A dean’s list student at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, her degree was in theater and speech. Her son, Timothy, is a member of the Class of 2010. He is among her survivors, along with husband Mark Lewis; daughter Deirdre Lewis; and mother Irma Harris.

1988

Richard Allen Bjork
July 14, 2011

Richard Bjork used the rules of chemistry he learned at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ to work magic in the kitchen and turned himself into a successful pastry chef despite being tethered to a breathing apparatus. In 1993, he became one of the first people with cystic fibrosis to receive a double lung transplant, which enabled him to ditch the breathing apparatus, move to Pittsburgh and get a job at a restaurant. There, he fell in love with one of the waitresses. They married and adopted two daughters. He and a few others bought the restaurant, and he enjoyed a normal life until his health deteriorated in 2010. In the end, his kidneys failed, a side effect of the anti-rejection drugs he was forced to take. His wife, Zuleikha, and daughters Summer and Marissa survive him. Other survivors include parents Janice and Karl Bjork; and brothers Bill, Andrew and David Bjork.

Jeffrey Scott Caron
March 6, 2011

“Grades are important,� Jeff Caron once said, “but it’s important to have a life, too.� He managed a 3.1 average, worked as an athletic trainer, served as a junior adviser and resident coordinator, played drums in a rock band (“Dorm Damage�) and spent a term studying the Costa Rican rain forest. This was a somewhat slower pace than his high school years in Thomaston, where he served as a junior firefighter and EMT, leaving class whenever his emergency beeper sounded. A biology major, he went on to graduate from medical school at the Univ. of Vermont and then complete an internship in emergency medicine in Orlando. His residency in family medicine was at the Univ. of Tennessee. At the time of his death, he was the director of urgent care at a facility he owned near Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Survivors include parents Sandra and Louis Caron; sisters Michelle Grant and Heather VanBuskirk; brother Chris Caron; and close friend Brian Humphries.

1989

Kenneth Jay Seaman II
July 19, 2011

Ken Seaman liked to combine his passion for good food and winning sports teams by cooking up tailgate parties for Patriots games. He played rugby at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, where he was an English major. He worked as a reporter for The Cape Codder, Worth and Boston Magazine before becoming a consultant for John Hancock. Survivors include wife Jill Coppelman Seaman; daughter Morgan Lillie Seaman; parents Kenneth and Judith Seaman; and brother Christopher Seaman.

1996

Andrew Mark Shriver
June 14, 2011

Andy Shriver’s love of travel took him to Ireland, France and Australia. He worked as an event coordinator for the World Congress Center in Georgia and then the Atlanta Track Club before taking a job with the San Francisco Symphony. He returned to Atlanta to work as an aide to state Rep. Pat Gardner. Survivors include parents Mark Shriver and Patricia McKay; brothers Brian and Pepper Shriver; and sister Tamerie Shriver.

Former Faculty

Sydney Jackman wore the traditional black academic gown of an English don to class every day, refused to learn to drive and called himself Toby, after his childhood Teddy bear.

Sydney Wayne Jackman
February 27, 2011

Sydney Jackman was an American professor who lived in Canada and acted British. He wore the traditional black academic gown of an English don to class every day, refused to learn to drive and called himself Toby, after his childhood Teddy bear. He received a Ph.D. from Harvard and arrived at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ in 1953. He left in 1963 for the new Univ. of Victoria in British Columbia, where he had been raised after his parents died. He retired in 1990. Over the course of his career, he wrote 16 books — longhand, because he refused to learn to type. Only one secretary could read his scribbles. He also refused to fly, unless absolutely necessary. To visit Scandinavia, for instance,

he traveled from Victoria, B.C., on a cargo ship to Genoa, Italy, and then by rail. He was 80 at the time. He also refused to stay at hotels built before the end of the Austro-Hungarian empire. Near the end of his life, when he was confined to bed, his friends worked out a schedule to be sure he always had someone to talk to. “He could talk the hind leg off a donkey,� said John Money, a longtime friend.

Honorary

David Salzer Broder
March 9, 2011
Doctor of Humane Letters, 1992

David Broder’s newspaper column was read by millions in The Washington Post and 300 other newspapers for more than 40 years. Called the “dean� of the Washington press corps, he won a Pulitzer Prize for his commentary in 1973. In his acceptance speech, he admitted that newspapers didn’t print “All the News That’s Fit to Print,� but instead delivered “the best we could do under the circumstances, and we will be back tomorrow with a corrected and updated version.� He was a regular on Meet the Press and authored or co-authored eight books. Survivors include wife Ann Collar Broder; sons George, Joshua, Matthew and Michael Broder; and seven grandchildren.

1926

Virginia Whittier Ames, June 6, 2001
At a time when women were forced to choose between marriage and a career, Ginny Ames chose career all three times she could have married. A history major, she taught at Aroostook Normal School (now UMaine–Presque Isle) for 17 years before completing a master’s and doctorate in education at NYU and joining the faculty at Douglass College (now part of Rutgers). She started as an assistant professor of hygiene and physical education, and became the head of the department before retirement 21 years later. She had shown her athletic ability while at the College: She lettered in soccer and tennis, earned her “B,â€� served on the athletic board, captained the hockey team and the hiking group, and managed the basketball team. She chose ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ over the Institute of Musical Art (now Juilliard), the better to prepare for a career. She continued playing violin and viola (and golf) well into her 80s.

1929

Libby Rachel Goldman, Jan. 5, 2011
Born in Lithuania, Libby Goldman moved to Auburn when she was 3 because a relative had written her family that they could buy a house for cheap. The relative had actually written that one could buy a horse for cheap, but the move worked out well. She was encouraged by a junior high school principal to go on to college; her parents had set aside money for all three children to get started in life, but her brothers gave up their shares to make ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ possible for her. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a degree in French, and taught Latin, French, and algebra for one year at Jay High School. She hated it. She enrolled in business school, but the same high school principal stepped in again. She promised that if Libby taught at her school, she would like it. And indeed she did; she taught at that junior high school and then at Edward Little High School for the next 40 years. After retiring in 1971, she traveled extensively. At her 100th birthday celebration, she credited her longevity to a string of “nevers.â€� She never smoked, never drank, never learned to drive (all the walking kept her fit), never got married, never gave advice. “I just love people,â€� she told the Sun Journal. “I think that’s what kept me living. I love so many I don’t want to leave them.â€� She also prayed daily to “have the good sense to enjoy whatever is enjoyableâ€� and to be given “the courage to take all the hard things.â€� She is survived by nieces, nephews, and cousins, among them Fran Morrill Schlitt, to whom she was especially close.

Lithuanian-born Libby Goldman ’29 and her family moved to Auburn after a relative wrote that they could buy a house for cheap. The relative actually wrote horse for cheap, but the move worked out well.

1930

Norma Merrill Harvey, March 15, 2007
Norma Merrill Harvey received a nursing degree from Central Maine General in 1933 and taught nursing at hospitals in Virginia, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Maryland. She retired in 1965. Her husband, Marshall Harvey, predeceased her.

1931

Lorna McKenney Brown, April 28, 2002
A French major, Lorna McKenney Brown was active in Lambda Alpha at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, serving as its secretary, vice president, and finally president. She married Theodore M. Brown ’32 shortly after graduation; he died in 1973. Her daughter, also deceased, was Margaret Brown Bondaruk ’54, whose husband, John Bondaruk ’54, survives. Her late sister was Charlotte McKenney Parker ’35.

1932

Vesta Brown Mitchell, Oct. 3, 2010
An English and Latin major, she sought employment in Texas and New Jersey after graduation, but returned home to Maine with perfect timing: She ran into her childhood friend and ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ classmate Elmer Mitchell while renewing her teacher’s license at Portland City Hall. They married two years later; he passed away in 1998. She taught briefly before her marriage, and worked in banking after her two daughters, Lynne Ramsey and Diane Welch, were grown. They survive her, as do four grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.

1933

Dawn Elizabeth Orcutt, Nov. 25, 2010
Her college career cut short by the Depression, Dawn Orcutt remained close to ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ and her classmates. She taught school briefly in her hometown, Ashland, before working as a stenographer at Sears and at Old Town Canoe. During World War II, she was a stenographer and clerk for the war department. She moved to New York City in 1954, where she was the executive secretary of Housing Security Inc. She retired to Millinocket in 1975, where she worked for the Millinocket Times. She regaled cousins, nieces, and nephews with her “joke of the weekâ€� from her home there. She is survived by many of them, including Ryan Spring ’98.

1935

Grant Milton Dixey, Jan. 29, 2011
Grant Dixey was a urologist in the Boston area and became chief of the department of urology at Boston Univ., from which he earned his medical degree. He served as president of the New England section of the American Urology Assn. and as president of the medical staff at South Shore Hospital in Weymouth, Mass. He and his wife, Eleanor, owned a ski lodge in New Hampshire. Shortly before his 50th Reunion, he was making plans to resume skiing following knee surgery. “If there were an opportunity for a second time around the track,� he said, “I would be most happy to grasp it.� An avid fisherman and golfer, he was a member of three golf clubs. His wife predeceased him. Survivors include daughter Pamela Abbott; two grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

Louise Williams Sweetser, June 8, 2010
Louise Williams Sweetser credited ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ with finding her a husband: “If I hadn’t gone to ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, I wouldn’t have gone to Presque Isle to teach, where I met my husband.â€� An English major, she remained involved with literature throughout her life. She was a trustee of the Ipswich (Mass.) library for over 25 years, and was active in the library at her summer home in Dennisport, Mass. She also co-owned a bookstore in Ipswich for a number of years. She was active in DAR and in Eastern Star, where she was a 50-year member. Her husband, Lawrence W. Sweetser, predeceased her. Survivors include daughters Carol Gilbert and Meredith Sweetser and brother Robert W. Williams III.

1936

Valeria Kimball Glaser, Dec. 20, 2010
Volleyball, archery, hockey, soccer, basketball, baseball — the list of sports that Val Kimball Glaser played while at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ goes on and on. She served on the WAA Board and was its treasurer. She also served on numerous dance committees. In 1959, she earned a master’s in education from USC, supplementing her degree in Latin from the College. She taught Latin, English, and reading at high schools in Maine and California, retiring in 1969 when she married Leo Glaser. Together they traveled the U.S., enjoying time at their homes in Florida, California, and Maine. Survivors include nieces and nephews.

1937

Clara Marshall Whitney, April 22, 2010
Tommy Marshall Whitney lived in Nashua, N.H., for many years, where she taught at the Pilgrim Church and served as director of volunteers at Southern New Hampshire Medical Center. Survivors include daughter Judy Marzec and son Stephen Whitney; four grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.

Margaret Melcher Chamberlain, Sept. 13, 2010
Peg Melcher Chamberlain was deeply involved in Adelynrood, an Episcopal retreat and conference center for women in Byfield, Mass. She was chair of the chapel there for eight years. This work followed a career as a kindergarten teacher in Rhode Island; she also briefly taught English at South Portland High School. She married classmate George W. Chamberlain in 1942. Following retirement, they moved to Harpswell, where they raised sheep. George passed away in 1987. While a student, she was vice president of her class and of the WAA. As an alumna, she served as secretary of the Rhode Island ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Club and as a class agent. Survivors include daughters Maralyn Fowler and Margaret Chamberlain; two grandchildren; a great-grandchild; sister Rosamond Melcher Toomey ’33; brother-in-law William Chamberlain ’48; and nephew Garry Chamberlain ’67. Her late brother-in-law was Charles Toomey ’35.

Granville Wallace Oakes, Nov. 17, 2010
For over 100 years, ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ has watched members of the Oakes family walk its campus. Granville Oakes was a member of the middle generation of five. His grandfather Henry graduated in 1877, his father Raymond in 1909. His sons graduated in the 1960s, and his grandchildren in the 1990s. He served as class president and as class agent for many years. His degree from ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ was in economics, which he supplemented with an M.B.A. from Harvard in 1939. The majority of his career was with Hartford Steel Ball, where he was a production manager. Later, he and wife Betty Stockwell Oakes ’37 opened a children’s clothing store, The Acorn Shop. Betty, herself part of a strong ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ family, passed away in 2000. He was active in several churches in the Hartford area, as well as the local soup kitchen and literacy program. He especially helped Laotian families resettle in Connecticut in the 1970s. Survivors include children Betsy Oakes, Peter Oakes ’66 and wife Sara Jones Oakes ’66, Raymond Oakes ’68 and wife Lynda Anastos ’67, and Robert Oakes; 11 grandchildren, including Kate Feiring ’93, Stacia Johnson ’91 and husband Kurt Johnson ’94, and Alison Oakes Charbonnier ’92; and 18 great-grandchildren. His late brothers were Robert ’49 and Henry ’32. Robert’s wife is Avon Cheel Oakes ’50, and their daughter is Thalie Kleijwegt ’79.

1938

Mary Chase Conover, Nov. 9, 2010
Mary Chase Conover’s love of chamber music was a constant. She retired as a math teacher in 1974 and then enjoyed a second career teaching and playing flute in a number of ensembles, some with her husband, Towne Conover. They especially enjoyed the Appalachian Mountain Club music committee, which organized events combining chamber music with skiing, hiking, and other AMC events. Shortly after World War II, she led an American Youth Hostel trip to Holland, Luxembourg, and France to rebuild hostels damaged by the war. When she returned, she worked briefly for AMC, where she met her husband. In 1990, she received the first exemplary citizen award from the Friends of Music of the Acton-Boxborough Regional High School.

Alfred Lee Colesworthy, Jan. 15, 2011
Al Colesworthy thought nothing of skipping class for days at a time in 1936 to watch the flooding Androscoggin and its impact on the surrounding towns. His fascination with water — and anything you could use to travel on it — influenced his entire life. He vividly remembered watching as a 10-year-old the last six-masted schooner burn in Portland Harbor. Even when the weather prevented sailing, he indulged his passion by going “boatyarding,� to watch what was being built, repaired, or stored. During World War II he enlisted in the Navy and spent part of his time as captain of the Trim Fore, a boat he had studied before he enlisted. He took his future wife Dorothy sailing on their first date, and he taught his grandchildren how to handle a boat on the lobster boat he bought when he was 76. An economics major, he was a manager at Porteous and later earned his real estate license. Survivors include son Peter and five grandchildren.

Grace Jack Hight, Nov. 28, 2010
Grace Jack Hight once described her life this way: “All winter getting three off to Sugarloaf each weekend for skiing. Summer evenings watching Little League games, and weekends hanging over rails at horse shows. Fall and spring being sure all fishing and hunting equipment is available and ready.� She took up full-time motherhood after teaching high school in Norway and Skowhegan, where she met her husband. She served on the Skowhegan school board for nearly 15 years, and had a significant role in building its high school in 1971. Her husband, S. Kirby Hight, owned and operated two car dealerships, and she ran the auto parts business associated with them for 40 years. Over the years, they amassed a collection of vintage and classic cars. Her husband survives her as do children Jane Edmunds, Louis Hight, and Walter Hight; six grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. Her late sisters were Bertha Jack Marshall ’27 and Lucille Jack Swallow ’33. Another son died in infancy.

Donald Dutton Pillsbury, Jan. 4, 2011
Don Pillsbury managed the crime and glass division of the Insurance Services Office (formerly the National Bureau of Casualty Underwriters) for 40 years. He was active in his church in New York City as a teacher and superintendent of the Sunday school and as an elder. He also was chapter leader of the John Birch Society. He served on the board of the Greater New York Sunday School Assn. In the 1960s, he was vice president and then president of the New York ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Club. During World War II, he was a sergeant in the Army Air Force. His wife, Madeline Brown, predeceased him. Survivors include three sisters and nephew Andee LaFleur ’73.

1939

Dorothy Harms Alexander, Dec. 12, 2010
Her father was Professor of German and Spanish Samuel Harms and her mother was Aletha Rollins Harms, Class of 1913, and Dot Harms Alexander always enjoyed reading letters from students who received scholarships in her parents’ names. A psychology major, she worked as a psychiatric aide before marrying Charles Alexander ’38. After her three children were grown, she worked to index over 20 years of the Lexington (Mass.) Minuteman and then was a copy editor. In the late 1970s, following the death of her husband, she became a home health aide to senior citizens on Cape Cod. Survivors include children Cheryl Paplinski, Richard Alexander, and Janice Schott; seven grandchildren; one great-grandchild; and brother Donald Harms ’44.

Chester Randolph Parker, Jan. 21, 2011
Classmates Chet Parker, his wife Eleanor Smart Parker, and the late Dana Wallace called themselves “the Hardy Perennialsâ€� because they tried to — and usually succeeded — in attending any and all ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ functions. Though Dana passed away in 2007, Chet and “Smartyâ€� were present at, and helped to organize, their 70th Class Reunion in 2009. Chet served as class president for decades, as well as on gift committees and Reunion committees. His degree from the College was in history and government, and he received a master’s in education from Boston Univ. in 1959. By that time, his long career in education was thriving. He served as teacher, principal, and superintendent in over a dozen towns in Maine, and was a past president of the Maine Parent Teacher’s Assn. and Maine Prevention of Blindness program. A proponent of school consolidation, he was a leader in establishing three school administrative districts in Maine. A longtime North Bridgton resident, he volunteered on the Bridgton Appeals Board and the Harrison-North Bridgton Water District. He played tennis into his 80s and skied and sailed nearly as long. Besides his wife, survivors include children Eleanor Schiavi ’64 and Randolph Parker; two grandchildren, one of whom is Deborah Schiavi Cote ’89; five great-grandchildren; and sister Marion Gibbs.

1940

Sylvester Martin Bronson, June 15, 2010
Martin Bronson attended ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ for only one year, when he was known as Saul Bronstein, before his father’s illness forced him to return home. A radiologist in Tennessee for many years, he grew trees and plants in retirement. He also worked with victims of child abuse and counseled drug and alcohol addicts.

Leo Philippe Dube, Jan. 16, 2011
Leo Dube had to leave ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ early to help run the family’s Lewiston-based flower business. He was named Young Man of the Year in 1954 in Lewiston. The next year, he and his family moved to California, where he began a career in real estate. Survivors include three children and 12 grandchildren.

1941

Richard Lawrence Raymond, Oct. 9, 2010
A Massachusetts native transplanted to Michigan, he was known there for his “Boston humor.� A 1947 graduate of the Cornell School of Hotel Administration, he spent his career in food services. During World War II, he served in England in the Army’s finance division. An avid golfer, he was a member of two golf clubs, and also fished and bowled. Survivors include wife Kathryn Johnson Raymond; children Patricia Christopherson and Larry Raymond; five grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.

1942

Chandler DeNike Baldwin, Sept. 19, 2010
Chan Baldwin grew up about 15 miles from Yankee Stadium and liked to recall watching Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig play there. His interest in baseball was lifelong, and in retirement he enjoyed watching spring training games in Tucson, Ariz. His ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ degree was in economics, and he later attended the Wharton School. During World War II he served in the Army in the Philippines and in occupied Japan. His professional life was in group insurance, and he worked for Metropolitan Life, Travelers, and Phoenix Mutual, eventually becoming regional group sales supervisor for the Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington areas. His wife, Patricia Bradbury Baldwin ’42, died in 2009. Survivors include children John Baldwin ’67, Mary Ellen Urquhart ’77, and Tracey Newhall; 12 grandchildren; and 15 great-grandchildren. Another daughter, Joan Slingsby, died in 2005.

Mary Bartlett Gardner, Sept. 6, 2010
Mary Bartlett Gardner moved to Lewiston when she was 9 and her father joined the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ faculty to teach business economics. An economics major herself, she worked in the field for four years before “retiringâ€� to raise her family with husband Kenneth Gardner. She later earned her teaching credentials at the Univ. of Maine and enjoyed teaching more than she ever expected, she once wrote. She taught elementary school for 20 years in Windham, retiring in 1981. Her husband passed away in 1999. Survivors include children Gary, Joann, and Carol Gardner; two grandchildren; brother Stephen Bartlett ’44; sister Barbara Hammond ’47 and brother-in-law Burton Hammond ’49; and nephew James Hammond ’81.

Robert Nathan Langerman, Nov. 4, 2010
After back surgery when he was 90, Bob Langerman was impatient to get back on the golf course — his home in Naples, Fla., overlooked a 32-hole course. He and wife Goldythe Berman Langerman had retired there after his successful career in life insurance. One of the highlights of that career was being named Man of the Year by the northeast office of Prudential in 1975. He graduated cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa in economics, and delayed his career to serve in the Army during World War II. He took a crash course in Chinese and served as a liaison officer in Kunming for a year. He joined the family clothing business as its CEO before joining Prudential. He and son Fred later became partners in the business. As an alumnus, he was a member of many Reunion gift committees, a class agent, and president of the New Haven ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Club. His wife and son Fred survive him, as do sons Lawrence and Peter and nine grandchildren, including Elliot Langerman ’03.

Hartley Cabot Ray, Aug. 21, 2010
Lee Ray left ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ with a degree in religion, Phi Beta Kappa, and went on to the Univ. of Chicago for a bachelor’s in divinity. He cited the mentorship of professor Rayborn Zerby, whose creative concept of religion and progressive ministry shaped his own. In 1955, he preached at a nascent Unitarian congregation in Chicago on the importance of recognizing prayer that does not match the theological norm, and called this contemporary sort of prayer the sure cure for loneliness. He grew up in Auburn and was ordained at the High Street Congregational Church in June 1947. He served as a minister at Congregational and Unitarian churches in Texas, Illinois, Connecticut, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Certified as a family therapist and a pastoral counselor, he provided pastoral services to psychiatric patients at the Philadelphia State Hospital. After retiring from the ministry, he served as director of the Philadelphia Protestant Home for the Aging. He also studied at Andover Newton Theological School and Columbia. Survivors include wife Katherine Haiges Ray; daughters Bethel Hentz and Nadine Blackburn; and five grandchildren.

1942

Ruth Stevens Gardner Haley, Jan. 5, 2011
With a degree in sociology, Ruth Stevens was a social worker at the Letchworth Village in New York and the Roxbury Neighborhood House in Massachusetts before marrying Robert Gardner in 1945. After her two daughters were grown, she became certified as librarian at Salem State College, and was a school librarian in Rowley, Mass., until retiring in 1984. Two years later, she married Robert Haley; he died in 1998. She then moved to Belfast, Maine, to be closer to her daughters, and especially enjoyed the large variety of senior courses available in town. As an alumna, she was a class agent and co-chair of Reunion gift committees. Survivors include daughters Louise Gardner Foster ’70 and Judith G. Moore.

Erland Stanley Wentzell, Aug. 7, 2010
If visiting the Bethel (Maine) Historical Society, keep an eye out for Erl Wentzell’s masterpiece: a carving of a horse-drawn sled loaded with 11 cords of wood. It is only one of the artistic accomplishments of his retirement, and no doubt was created from his memories of working with his father on the farm in Bethel. His ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ chemistry degree afforded him a long career in the field, including six years in Calcutta, where he managed a jute company. He also was a chemist for American Cyanamid and Ludlow Textile Co. In 1958, he joined S.D. Warren, eventually becoming an assistant superintendent. He retired in 1981. His first wife, Marilyn Howe Wentzell, died in 1960. He married Margaret Robinson Steeves in 1964. They were leaders in the Sebago Maple Grove Grange for over 30 years and helped to start the AFS programs at Lake Region High School. He served on the Falmouth School Board and the Lake Regional School District. His wife survives him, as do children C. Stanley Wentzell, Judith Wentzell, Rowena Strout, and Shirley Keene; stepchildren Bonnie Dwyer and Gerald Steeves; 17 grandchildren; and 15 great-grandchildren.

1943

Weston Attwood Cate Jr., Sept. 23, 2010
Weston Cate was a forward-looking historian: Long before it was fashionable, he was collecting seeds from historical strains of vegetables, “heirloom seeds,� recognizing that the extensive hybridization under way by seed companies would make them endangered species, as he called them. But his career as an historian was his second. His first career was foreshadowed by the neighborhood newspaper he wrote, printed, and distributed as a teenager. An English major, he wrote for local newspapers and teachers’ organizations throughout his first career as an English teacher. In 1953, he won a national contest sponsored by the American Legion Auxiliary on the topic “Why I Teach.� In 1958 he became executive director of the Vermont state education association, then in 1974 began service as executive director of the Vermont State Historical Society. He produced a book on the history of the society and one on the history of Calais, Vt. In 2006, he received the lifetime achievement award from the Center for Research on Vermont. He served as an officer of many educational, historical, and religious bodies. His wife, Jean Stetson Cate, died in 2004. Survivors include children Weston, Paul, and David Cate, and three grandchildren, one of whom is Alison Cate Fanning ’09. His sister-in-law was the late Dorothy Stetson Conlon ’50.

Before it was fashionable, Weston Cate ’43 collected heirloom seeds, recognizing that hybridization by seed companies would make them endangered species.

Gordon Leroy Corbett, Oct. 23, 2010
Gordon Corbett dutifully filled out questionnaires from the College over the years and at least once added some questions and answers of his own, such as, “When the going got tough, what helped you survive?� His multiple-choice answers were (a) humor; (b) family and friends; (c) religious faith; (d) professional counselors; (e) sheer determination that you would not let the bastards get you down. (The correct answer, we think, is “all of the above.�) He was a 1948 graduate of the Yale Divinity School, having served in the Army Air Corps. He served Baptist and Presbyterian churches in Alaska, California, Connecticut, Kentucky, Indiana, and New York, and held executive offices in the Presbyterian church in Kentucky and Alaska. He considered his work with refugees from the Hungarian Revolution one of the highlights of his career, along with his role in creating the Appalachian Regional Hospital System. He was a trustee of the hospitals as well as of Sheldon Jackson College. His wife, Winifred Pickett Corbett, survives him, as do children Christine, Douglas, Patricia, and Carolyn Corbett, and two grandchildren.

Arthur Leighton Watts, Sept. 30, 2010
Art Watts took advantage of all ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ offered — he played tennis and basketball, served on the student council and as a proctor, sang in the glee club, took a flying course, presided over the publishing association and the Outing Club — before graduating with a degree in economics. That course in flying was especially valuable: He became an aviator during World War II. Afterwards, he began a career in insurance, using an introduction from classmate Tommy Thompson to open doors at Aetna. Some 36 years later, he retired as vice president of the central region. He was class president for 20 years, and served on his 50th Reunion Gift Committee. His first marriage to Eleanor Darling ’44 ended in divorce. His second wife, Lois Jackson Watts, survives him as do sons George and Richard, and four grandchildren.

Bradford Russell Adams, Nov. 2, 2010
Brad Adams attended ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ for one year before leaving to serve in the Navy during World War II. He worked for Nissen Bakery and for George Business Forms. Survivors include wife Marguerite Armstrong Adams; daughter Charlotte Asen; stepsons Maxwell Lewis and Donald Lewis; five grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

1944

Philip Milford Goodrich, Jan. 5, 2011
Phil Goodrich spent the day of his graduation from ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ aboard ship near Naples, Italy, as an ensign in the Navy. He served 18 months on an amphibian attack ship, and landed at Okinawa, among other battles. His economics degree, supplemented with a master’s from Columbia, gave him entry into the business world, and David Whitehouse ’36 hired him at Container Corp. of America, where he remained for his entire 36-year career. He was president of his class for five years in the early 1960s. Survivors include wife Carolyn Knapp Goodrich; sons Donald, David, and Craig; six grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

1945

Priscilla Crane Merrill, Sept. 20, 2010
Pat Crane Merrill worked on the Manhattan Project shortly after graduation and later as a research chemist developing diamond abrasives. She held international and U.S. patents on her work. After her children were grown, she returned to work as a teacher in Indiana. In between, she was president of several PTAs and served as secretary-treasurer of the Worcester ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Club and as president of the Ohio ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Club. She also volunteered with the American Red Cross, her church, and a local park. Her husband, Charles Merrill, passed away in 1995. Survivors include children Karen Barkman and Susan Peters.

Mary Guiney O’Leary, Oct. 22, 2010
Mary Guiney O’Leary set her mind on a career in social work, and took her ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ degree in that field to Boston College, where she earned an M.S.W. in 1947 and met her husband, Thomas O’Leary, who also was working toward that degree. She worked briefly at the Boston Family Society, but left when she married, to avoid any perception of conflict of interest between their jobs. She reported she was busy enough with five children. She later worked as a substitute teacher in Andover, Mass. She was very active at the College, in the dance club, the Spofford Club, the Newman Club, among others, and she was class president her senior year. She was just as active as an alumna, serving as class agent and on Reunion gift committees. Her husband and a daughter, Beth Morrissey, predeceased her. Survivors include children Thomas O’Leary, Marilyn Earle, Mary Elizabeth O’Leary, and Dinae Barrett; nine grandchildren; and great-niece Jennifer Wilkins Morse ’10.

Jean-Elizabeth Rupp Bollinger, Nov. 18, 2010
Jean-Elizabeth Rupp Bollinger was at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ for only one year but remained in contact with the College and her classmates throughout her life, and vowed to send all eligible students its way. Some 45 years after the fact, she could still recall where she sat in Chapel, and who sat next to her. Her husband, Benjamin Bollinger, predeceased her. Survivors include children Elizabeth Andrews, Bruce Bollinger, and James Bollinger, and seven grandchildren.

V-12

William Milliken Moody, Oct. 4, 2010
Bill Moody started at Bowdoin, transferred to the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ V-12 program, and then went to the ROTC program at Brown, earning varsity letters at each school, a feat that earned him the nickname “3B Moodyâ€� by Ripley’s Believe It Or Not. He saw active duty in the Korean War, and returned to his native Portland to marry Jane McLane Smith in 1951. A few years later he bought Rufus Deering Lumber Co., and became very active in civic and business affairs. He co-founded Greater Portland Landmarks, and volunteered for many organizations. He was vice president and later president of the board of trustees at the Waynflete School. Survivors include his wife, three children, and four grandchildren.

Francis Edward Winslow Jr., Jan. 11, 2011
Frank Winslow came to ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ as part of the V-12 program and graduated from Harvard. He earned a medical degree at Duke and completed training in pediatrics at the Univ. of Maryland. In 1961, he established his practice in Raleigh, N.C., where he served as chief of pediatrics at Rex Hospital and WakeMed. He was a founding board member at the Tammy Lynn Center for Developmental Disabilities. Survivors include children Cecelia Covington Winslow and Francis Winslow III, and two grandchildren.

1947

Wallace Adolph Johnson, Jan. 2, 2011
Wallace Johnson transferred to ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ from Springfield College and graduated with a degree in history. He earned a master’s in education from the Univ. of Vermont and a doctorate from Calvin Coolidge College. During World War II, he served in England and France, and received a Purple Heart. He taught in Chester, Vt., was a guidance counselor in Auburn and Worcester, Mass., assistant principal in Grafton, Mass., and principal at Dennis-Yarmouth Regional High School. In 2005, he was named volunteer of the year by Elder Services of Cape Cod. Survivors include wife Marion Anderson Johnson; daughters Louise Johnson Bacon ’75 and Nancy L. Johnson; and two grandchildren.

Charlotte Grant Walker, Oct. 26, 2010
Charlotte Grant Walker settled in Poland Spring, where her husband, Ted Walker, and his family had lived for generations. Together they built a home on family land. She used her degree in mathematics to help run his mechanical contracting business. She was instrumental in building the Alvan B. Ricker Memorial Library in Poland Spring. She served as president of the ladies’ auxiliary of the Maine Assn. of Plumbing, Heating and Cooling Contractors and was a member of the National Assn. of Women in Construction. Survivors include her husband; sons Peter, Thomas, and David Walker; six grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.

1948

Shirley Travis Blake, Dec. 6, 2010
Valedictorian of her high school class in Sanford, Shirley Travis Blake returned to teach in its schools after graduating from the College with a degree in political science. She was a member of Beta Sigma Phi, an international women’s friendship network, and of the Order of the Eastern Star. Her husband, Robert Blake, passed away in 1992. Survivors include children Frances Thibaudeau, Shirley Shelley, and Steven Blake; eight grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.

Arthur Carl Hansen, Sept. 5, 2010
Arthur Hansen happily returned to his native Maine after World War II to start his college years at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½. A bomber flight instructor, he was en route to the Pacific to pilot a B-29 when the war ended. With a degree in economics and a minor in history, he enrolled in a master’s program at Columbia but found himself distracted by ads seeking pilots for the Berlin Airlift, a chance to make history rather than study it. However, distraction also appeared in the form of a fellow student, Roberta Gerdy, whom he married in 1953. He returned to Maine with both master’s degree and new wife, and started a 41-year career as a history and government teacher at North Yarmouth Academy, from which he retired in 1990. The school has an annual award in his name. He remained in the Air Force Reserves until 1966 and retired as captain. He was known for his handmade and restored furniture, and enjoyed working with his wife in her antique business. She predeceased him. Survivors include children Evan, Carl, Diana, and Terry Hansen; five grandchildren; and brother Glen Hansen ’48 and wife Elizabeth May Hansen ’47.

John Joseph Margarones, Nov. 15, 2010
As a boy in Old Orchard Beach, John Margarones listened to his immigrant father, a barber with a fourth-grade education, converse in his native Greek with ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ President Clifton Daggett Gray, a classicist, during haircuts. It was President Gray who admitted John as a student after service in the Army Air Corps during World War II. He went on to earn two bachelor’s degree (ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, B.A. in history and government, Gorham State, B.S.), two master’s degrees (Univ. of Conn and Boston Univ.), and a doctorate (Boston Univ.) Appointed to the faculty in 1966, he transformed the education department to integrate a hands-on approach. The goal, he said, was to give aspiring teachers skills that can’t be learned in a college classroom. He continued to help out in his father’s barber shop until 1971, and lived in OOB nearly his entire life. He published several books on the history of the town, and was inducted into its high school hall of fame. Before ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, he was on the faculties of the Univ. of Connecticut and Hartford Univ. He was the first president of the Maine Chapter of the Assn. of State Teachers and New England Colleges, and president of the Maine Teachers Assn. Survivors include wife Viola Fedorczyk Margarones; children Estelle ’88, Joseph, Margot, Katherine, and Melissa ’96; and nine grandchildren.

Charles Isaac Pendexter, Sept. 30, 2010
A geologist by training, Charles Pendexter was a gardener by choice. His undergraduate degree was in geology, and he received a Fulbright to study in London. He then earned a master’s and a doctorate at Washington Univ. His career was as a research geologist with Exxon. Following his retirement in 1981, he rented an apartment in Gorham and set about building a garden on a patch of land the landlord regarded as a dump. He spent up to six hours a day in the garden, and was especially fond of roses and lilies. His uncle was George Pendexter, Class of 1900. Survivors include a cousin, Jane Pendexter Delson ’72.

James Miller Towle, Jan. 23, 2011
An economics major, James Towle worked in sales, primarily with radio stations and automobile dealerships. He was a member of the East Longmeadow (Mass.) School Committee, a Little League coach, and a church volunteer. He enjoyed model railroads, Masters swimming, and golf. His wife, Arlene Mack Towle, died last year. Survivors include children Bradford, Phillip, Andrea, and Gregory; five grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

Ellen Swift Marston, Jan. 13, 2011
Ellen Swift Marston was a founding member of the Topsham Ward of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She and her family served a mission together at the temple in Washington, D.C. Survivors include husband Bruce Marston; children Susan, Marilyn, Serena, and Thomas; 10 grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren.

1949

Irving Charles Davis, Oct. 7, 2010
Hank Davis served in the Air Force during World War II, and was recalled to active duty during the Vietnam War. His military career spanned 30 years, and he retired with the rank of lieutenant colonel. An economics major, he worked for Travelers Insurance and for the Maine Department of Economic Development. He was a longtime member of the Herman Masonic Lodge and American Legion Post No. 4. Survivors include children Dale Goodwin and Mark Davis; three grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

Charles Edgar Fehlau, Dec. 5, 2010
Chuck Fehlau was able to leave high school after three years and take courses at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ before military service intervened. He was in the Navy during World War II, stationed in Argentina and Newfoundland. When he returned to the College, he threw himself into his studies and graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude in physics. He had a long career with General Electric, eventually becoming the engineering manager in the heavy military electrical department. A licensed navigator, he was a member of the U.S. Power Squadron for many years, and a member of several yacht clubs near his home in Syracuse. He served in the Lutheran Campus Ministry at Syracuse Univ. for many years, and was an active member of his church. Survivors include his wife, Lois Javier Fehlau ’49; children Eric Fehlau, Patricia Nickles, Karl Fehlau, and Kenneth Fehlau; eight grandchildren; one great-grandchild; and sister Lois L. Kemp ’53. Another sister, Ruth E. Prince ’51, predeceased him.

Maurice Stillman Flagg, Aug. 16, 2010
Maury Flagg took his degree in English and turned it into a long career in public relations and fundraising, primarily for the Red Cross. He took a five-year leave from the Red Cross to serve as director of information services to President Johnson’s Committee on Mental Retardation. During that time, he also served briefly as director of communication and information for the Council for Exceptional Children. He was also very active in town and county affairs in Arlington, Va. Survivors include children Maurice (Buck) and Anthony Flagg, and two grandchildren. Another son, Richard, predeceased him.

Robert Duane Ramsdell, Jan. 9, 2010
A psychology major at the College, Bob Ramsdell switched fields and earned a doctorate in philosophy at Boston Univ. He went on to found the philosophy department at Framingham State College and was on its faculty for 30 years. He was a contributing member of the Philosophy of Education Society. Following retirement in 1990, he taught at the Harvard Institute of Learning and Retirement. His marriage to Nancy Haines ’54 ended in divorce. Survivors include partner Shirley Bean and stepchildren Eric, Marilyn, and Ethan Zimmer.

Winifred Sweet Register, Sept. 25, 2010
Despite living in California for most of her life, Winnie Sweet Register never lost her Maine accent. She and husband Frederick Register tried to move back to New England once, early in their marriage, but decided California was the place to be. She worked on and off over the years as she raised her family, including as a payroll clerk for the U.S. Navy, as an associate engineer at Lockheed, and as a substitute math teacher. She also taught piano and volunteered for community concerts. Her husband survives her, as do children Daniel, Damon, and Valerie Register, and five grandchildren. Her late sister was Arline Sweet Noss ’49.

1950

Robert Daniel Cook, Nov. 11, 2010
Robert Cook turned 17 just in time to join the Navy near the end of World War II. He returned home to attend ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, where he was a history and government major. He was active in the Newman Club and played intramural sports. In 1952, he joined Aetna Life Insurance Co, and retired 37 years later as a director of the company. Survivors include wife Joline Huard Cook; children Kathie Brielmann and Robert D. Cook Jr.; and two grandchildren.

Donald Edwin Davis, Sept. 24, 2010
Don Davis deferred college until after service in the Navy during World War II. A math major, he returned to campus shortly after graduation to marry Barbara “Scotty� Mason in the Chapel. In 1960, he completed a master’s of science degree at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. His career was at Pratt and Whitney, where he was an engineer, retiring in 1987. He and his wife led the beautification committee in Bloomfield, Conn., planting some 28 gardens and seven highway medians. He was a ski instructor at Butternut and Blandford ski areas. Along with his wife, survivors include children Donna Davis Keenan ’75, Scott Davis, and Andrea Davis-Griffin; son-in-law Russell Keenan ’75; eight grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

Diane Wolgast Parker, Dec. 20, 2010
Diane Wolgast Parker and her husband, David, took full advantage of sabbaticals and vacation time to travel spontaneously and leisurely throughout Europe. Both were teachers in New York. Diane earned her teaching credentials through SUNY and taught in Great Neck, N.Y. She advocated for civil rights and universal healthcare. Fully involved in the life of her retirement community, she especially supported its scholarship fund for its employees. Her husband died in 2007, and son William in 2006. Survivors include daughter Pamela Parker and three grandchildren.

Frank Leslie Walker Jr., Oct. 24, 2010
A biology major at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, Frank Walker made his career at Liberty Mutual as a claims adjuster and then manager of claims in Manchester, N.H. He used his knowledge of biology to grow roses at his home there. He taught himself to invest by reading, one of his favorite pastimes, and in turn became an experienced investor. His wife, Madeline Cutler Walker, died in 2007. Survivors include children Cheryl Walker and Brian Walker, and four grandchildren.

1952

Donald Hiller Graves, Sept. 28, 2010
Generations of ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ students have worked in Commons, but Donald Graves probably had better memories than most: It’s where he met his future wife, Betty Lewis Graves ’55. After a master’s in education at Bridgewater State Univ. and a doctorate at SUNY–Buffalo, he found his calling as an advocate for children’s writing. At the Univ. of New Hampshire he taught early childhood education, established the Writing Process Laboratory, and soon became an internationally recognized expert on the subject of children’s writing. His best advice for elementary school teachers: Write. Just as art instructors create art, and music instructors create music, teachers who teach writing should write. He was the author of 26 books, the best known being Writing: Teachers & Children At Work, which revolutionized the way writing is taught in schools and is still in wide use. In 1982, he received the David H. Russell award for distinguished research in the teaching of English from the National Council of Teachers of English; today, the NCTE presents an award in his name. Eager cyclists, he and his wife prepared for their European trips in September by bicycling the Kancamagus Highway. She survives him, as do children Marion Chang, Alyce Graves, Caroline Hodsdon, William Graves, and Laura Graves; eight grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.

Donald Graves ’52 gave this advice to teachers of writing: Write. Just as art instructors create art, and music instructors create music, teachers who teach writing should write.

Dorothy Wood Gugelman, Oct. 23, 2010
Dotty Wood Gugelman was a kindergarten teacher in Phoenix for 24 years, having moved there with her first husband, Glendon Collins ’51. She brought computers into her classroom in 1982, and found simple computer programs her students could use. She married William Gugelman following the end of her first marriage. He had a condo in Hawaii, where they headed as soon as school was out. She retired in 1991, but continued to tutor at-risk kindergarten students in Prescott, Ariz., where they had moved. She also was a reading aide at a local elementary school and a volunteer at the Veteran’s Hospital. She joined the Daughters of the American Revolution in 2005. Her husband survives her, as do children Gary and Alan Collins, and two grandchildren. A daughter, Virginia, died in infancy.

John Stanley Patterson, Jan. 11, 2011
Stan Patterson said his experience in debate at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ served him well throughout his life — more than his degree in economics. Following service in the Army, he had a long career with Lockheed Missiles & Space Co., starting with personnel work and retiring 31 years later as director of marketing support. In the 1970s, he and his wife, Katie Lang Patterson ’55, and their children lived in Beirut, where he was regional director for the Middle East and Africa. He returned determined to do whatever he could to bring a peaceful end to the conflicts in the region. He became active in the World Affairs Council of Monterey Beach, and in 1989 received the Outstanding Leadership award from the National Assn. of Arab-Americans. He and Katie returned to Lebanon last year to serve as managing director of a public-private organization assisting in rebuilding Lebanon’s government infrastructure. He was on the executive board of the Arab-American Chamber of Commerce, and a past president of the LA chapter of the National Assn. of Arab Americans, as well as a member of the national board. His deep involvement in Middle East affairs complemented the delight he took in his Scottish heritage. He played in bagpipe bands and was instrumental in the formation of the Western U.S. Pipe Band Assn., which he served as president for many years. Along with his wife, survivors include children James ’75, John Jr., and Jeffrey Patterson; six grandchildren, one of whom is Micahela Cyr Patterson ’05; and two great-grandchildren.

1953

Joan Huston Tainter, Oct. 21, 2010
Joan Huston Tainter remained in Auburn, her hometown, and taught French and Latin at the Walton School and then English at Falmouth High School. The sojourn in Falmouth was brief: She returned to Auburn and Edward Little High School after one year to teach English there. Her husband, Burchard Tainter, predeceased her.

Rosemary Feck Caldwell, Jan. 15, 2011
“Bibâ€� Feck Caldwell left ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ after two years and finished her degree in English at Simmons. In 1971, she and husband John founded ETC Mailing Services, of which she was CEO at the time of her retirement. Her husband and her son, Mark Caldwell, predeceased her. Survivors include children John and James Caldwell, and four grandchildren.

1954

Robert Murdoch Miller, Jan. 19, 2011
Robert Miller left ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ after one semester to join the Navy. He graduated from Stetson Univ. and earned a master’s from the Univ. of Florida. Survivors include partner Roderick C. Clark and siblings Arthur and John Miller and Mary Miller Kelly.

1955

Alfred Herbert Kafka, Oct. 27, 2010
Al Kafka was well into his second successful career when he found his third standing in front of him. A government major, he went on to law school at Boston Univ. and then entered the Army. He served in the Judge Advocate General’s office at the Presidio in San Francisco. He started his second career by forming a law firm with two of his brothers and was a practicing attorney for over 50 years. But when one of his legal clients offered to barter for legal services, he realized the untapped potential of business-to-business barter, and started Bartermax. The company offered a network of bartering, not limited to direct swaps of goods, and set up a system for companies to “bank� their bartering. He served as chair of the board of the National Assn. of Trade Exchange as well as its president, and was a recognized leader in this field. Survivors include wife Valerie Jackson Kafka; children Rebecca Manor, Benjamin Kafka, Elizabeth Escarzega, and Victoria Allen; and five grandchildren.

1957

James Milton Muth Jr., Sept. 11, 2010
Jim Muth brought basketball to the Arctic. It happened while he was serving in the Navy, though history is unclear if they played on ice or aboard ship. Following Navy service, he joined Connecticut General Life Insurance Co., and continued there until retirement in 1991. He and wife Margo Driesen Muth moved to Cape Cod, where they had summered for many years. She survives him, as do children Deborah Reilly, Robert Muth, and Timothy Muth; four grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.

Richard Albert Levine, Nov. 4, 2009
Dick Levine left ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ after three years and finished his degree at Adelphi. He was a financial consultant on Wall Street. His son, Michael, is a member of the Class of 1980.

Edward Mace Pike, Sept. 1, 2010
After two years at the College, Edward Pike earned a B.S. degree from Boston Univ. in 1962 and an M.B.A. from Northeastern in 1972. After working for General Electric and United Shoe Machinery, he purchased two foundries near his home in Newburyport and made custom fittings for boats. Survivors include children William and Robert Pike and Mary Fisher; seven grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren.

1959

Martin Wayne Kane, Jan. 28, 2010
Wayne Kane was captain of both the football and the baseball teams his senior year and received football’s Goddard Award in 1956. He started with Mutual Life Insurance Co. right out of ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, and continued in the insurance field his entire career. In 1976, he started his own agency offering group insurance. In 1958, he married Beverly Jacobson ’61.

1960

Ruth Brockner Ellwood, Oct. 8, 2010
Ruth Brockner Ellwood attended ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ for one year before transferring to Central Connecticut State Univ. She also held a master’s from Trinity College. An elementary school teacher, she was the master teacher in a nationally recognized pilot program for students who were poorly adjusted socially and emotionally. She taught special education for 35 years in Bloomfield and Vernon, Conn., and served several terms as president of both towns’ educational associations. Survivors include husband Donald Ellwood; son Michael Ellwood; and two grandchildren.

1962

Gilbert A. Clapperton, Dec. 29, 2010
He wasn’t “warm and fuzzy� with his students, said one colleague of Gil Clapperton. He was a “warm and compassionate man,� according to another. At Loyola Univ., his students knew they would get a solid education even without pampering. A clinical psychologist, he held a master’s from UNH and a doctorate from Baylor in that field. He was recruited by Loyola in 1968 to establish its department of psychology and serve as its chair. During his tenure, he established both the university’s master’s and doctoral programs in clinical psychology. In private practice, he specialized in psychological evaluations and stress management for police departments in the Baltimore area. A Lewiston native, he married his sixth-grade sweetheart, Helene Cloutier, in 1960. Despite living in the midst of crab country, she said, and considering himself a pretty good amateur crabber, he still preferred lobster. She survives him, as do sons Scott and John Clapperton. His late father was Gilbert Clapperton ’32.

Arthur Woodbury Ridlon, Nov. 27, 2010
When Art Ridlon spoke to the Daughters of the Confederacy in Dayton, Va. — the first Yankee to ever address the group — he received a standing ovation. His interest in the Civil War, among his many interests, was sparked by the movie Gettysburg. He had chucked Maine winters for those in West Palm Beach after a successful tenure at an insurance agency in Bath, and found small-town life there not unlike Maine — except, he said, “Ace Hardware doesn’t sell snow shovels.� Just before he moved to the South, he took up tennis, a sport he would enjoy for the rest of his life. He won the Bath city championship in 1980 and the Palm Beach County championship in 1982. Ten years later, after he and Cindy Ohlin Ridlon ’65 divorced, he and second wife Ann moved back to Boothbay Harbor, where he joined the firm of J. Edward Knight. His tennis again started to shine, and he won two gold medals at the Senior Olympic Games in 2001. He competed at the 2003 National Senior Olympic Games and made it through the first round. He also devoted time to instruct high school players. At his death, Art was class president and had served previously as class agent. His long involvement with children with disabilities will culminate when the first gymnasium at Ability Tree in Siloam Springs, Ark., is named for him. Besides his wife, survivors include sons Sam Ridlon and Joe Butler, and five grandchildren.

1964

Barbara Clapp Kawliche, Jan. 9, 2010
Barbara Clapp Kawliche recognized early on that the Internet could be used to make the world better. She created a comprehensive website devoted to youth development, Youthwork.com, at a time when few other sites were available. She made the site she wished she had been able to find. Her interest in youth sprang from her degree in psychology from ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ and her M.S.W. from Boston Univ., and she worked professionally in the field before and after tending to her sons’ growing up. She also worked with AdCare, which provided recovery services for professionals in the field of substance abuse. Her belief in human rights and equality for all was enhanced by home stays in Ecuador, Costa Rica, and Lithuania. Her husband, Stanley Kawliche ’48, survives her, as do sons David and Gregory Kawliche; one grandchild; stepson Boris Kawliche; and two step-grandchildren.

Barbara Clapp Kawliche ’64 created a website devoted to youth development at a time when few other sites were available. She made the site she wished she had been able to find.

John Robert Strassburger, Sept. 22, 2010
John Strassburger came to ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ intending to study mathematics, but history professor Ernest Muller set him on a new path. Some 20 years later, John returned the favor by becoming president of Muller’s alma mater, Ursinus College. He earned a master’s at Cambridge Univ. and Ph.D. at Princeton. He taught at Hiram College and worked for the NEA as acting director of its education programs, where he was awarded the Distinguished Service Award. He served as dean of the college and executive vice president at Knox College for 10 years. In 1995, he was inaugurated as president of Ursinus, retiring in June 2010. There, he instituted a first-year course called “Common Intellectual Experience,â€� an interdisciplinary inquiry into the beliefs and truths that underpin life, just one of many changes — in academics, student quality, endowment, and facilities — that he brought to campus to strengthen its commitment to a liberal arts education. A tribute to him noted that “we hear often of transformational leadership. John embodied it.â€� His early experience at Cambridge, still wrapped in class distinction and social inequality, convinced him that education could be a great equalizer, and he sought to bring that democratic ideal to Ursinus. He regretted that being the college president meant he didn’t have time to teach, but he served as chair of the board of the Council of Independent Colleges, as well as on the boards of the American Academic Leadership Institute, American Council on Education, President’s Council of Project Pericles, and the Lenfest Foundation. Survivors include wife Trudy Mackie Strassburger; daughters Sarah and Trudy; and two grandchildren.

1965

Philip James Brookes, Sept. 16, 2007
Philip Brookes spent most of his career attached to the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. He was the director of the graduate degree programs there, having previously served as deputy director of the program and as director of the communicative arts program. While earning a doctorate at the Univ. of Kansas, he was an instructor. At CGSC, he was twice recognized by the Army for his outstanding performance. His marriage to Lois Paynes Lindner ended in divorce.

Peter John Gomes, Feb. 28, 2011
Despite all the accolades, despite 39 honorary degrees, despite being named one of Time’s seven most distinguished preachers in America in 1979, despite being a best-selling author, what defined Peter Gomes to Peter Gomes was that he was a ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ie. “My ultimate epitaph,â€� he said to a Reunion gathering in 1998, “should be that I went to ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½.â€� Except for his parents, he explained, he owed “everything valuable, precious, and honorable to ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½.â€� A history major, he threw himself into life on campus, and was president of the Choral Society, Campus Association, and Chase Hall Dance Committee. He sang wherever he could, assisted in the music department, and reveled in what he called a “peculiarâ€� college, one that admitted women and minorities decades ahead of others. As he did in other realms of his life, the friendships he made in his very first days at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ he cultivated and nourished forever. He once recalled walking into the Chapel “to cry in privacyâ€� after his parents dropped him off at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ his freshman year. “There I saw a tall, spare, bald-headed man slowly picking up the litter in the pews. I took him to be a janitor. He noted my distress, and in a solemn but friendly voice said that I’d soon feel better about college.â€� That man turned out to be Dean Harry W. Rowe ’12, “with whom I would be friends for the rest of his life. At my most vulnerable moment, he was the human face of ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½.â€� Although his family and friends back in Plymouth, Mass., assumed he would become a minister, he wasn’t certain until he spent the year after graduation at Harvard Divinity School, a challenge proposed to him by a ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ professor. He received the S.T.B. degree there in 1968 and was ordained in his hometown. He taught history at the Tuskegee Institute for two years and served as choirmaster and organist. He returned to Harvard in 1970 as an assistant minister and two years later became its acting minister. In 1974, he was appointed Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Minister in the Memorial Church, the university’s leading religious officer. In 1991, as much to his surprise as anyone else’s, he announced that he was gay during a Harvard rally in Tercentenary Theater. This, he said a few months later, gave him an unambiguous vocation: to address the religious causes and roots of homophobia. “I will devote the rest of my life to addressing the ‘religious case’ against gays,â€� he told The Washington Post. Gomes authored many books, including the best-sellers The Good Book: Reading the Bible with Mind and Heart and Sermons: Biblical Wisdom for Daily Living, as well as numerous articles and papers. He received an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ in 1996, the college’s Benjamin E. Mays Award in 1998, and had been a ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ trustee. Survivors include several cousins, as well as his numerous sermons and books.

1967

Douglas Michele Camarco, Dec. 9, 2010
In addition to his B.S. in math from the College, Doug Camarco held an M.B.A. from Rutgers. He was a CPA and worked for ITT for 19 years. He then moved to the Maine State Retirement System, and ended his career at Boston Univ. Survivors include companion Cheryl Kerrick; children Michele James and Jeffrey Camarco; and three grandchildren.

William Sanford Rafter Jr., Nov. 26, 2010
Successful as a businessman and mayor, Bill Rafter found a way to combine the two to turn around the financial status of Gloucester, Mass., and save its residents money in the process. His first career was in trash and recycling, which grew out of his grandfather’s landscaping business. He developed cutting-edge recycling systems that gained national renown. His business became so profitable it drew the attention of the rubbish giant BFI, which bought him out. He worked in the mortgage industry for a few years before running for city council in Gloucester, and then for mayor. He proclaimed that he would never be a skilled politician, but that the real issue in town was managerial. “I believe in government by consensus,� he said during his first mayoral campaign in 1991. He inherited $1 million in debt when he took office; a year later, he submitted a budget that showed an operating surplus of $200,000 and cut long-term debt in half. Survivors include wife Christina Foley Rafter; children Robert Foley, Caitlin Sumner, and W. Sanford Rafter III; and six grandchildren.

1968

James Edward Day, Jan. 28, 2011
Jim Day attended ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ for part of his undergraduate education, and earned a degree in business from the Univ. of Maine. He was a registered Maine CPA and had his own firm in Biddeford. He served in the U.S. Air Force Reserve, retiring as reserve captain. Survivors include a number of nieces and nephews.

1970

Judith Schultz Botwick, Oct. 3, 2010
Judith Botwick left ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ after two years to marry William Botwick. She later completed her degree at Oakland Univ. She was a healthcare executive in Tucson. Survivors include her partner, Bob Rossi, and son Jason Botwick.

1971

David Walter Carlson, Sept. 26, 2010
David Carlson studied city planning at Pratt Institute after receiving a degree in psychology from ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½. He then joined Planners Diversified in New Jersey, and later established the firm’s Cooperstown (N.Y.) branch. In 1991, he and his wife, Linda Pierce Carlson ’70, started their own firm as consultants in city planning in central New York. The firm obtained over $200 million for its client communities. Along with his wife, survivors include children Steven and Lauren.

1975

Kenneth Joseph Gallant, Jan. 16, 2011
Ken Gallant, a biology major, worked briefly as a research assistant at the Univ. of Chicago medical school and then taught for several years before starting osteopathic training at the Kansas School of Osteopathic Medicine. He once told the College that there is “an unlimited reward for being able to help people through medicine.� He worked in emergency medicine in Sanford and Lewiston before establishing his solo family practice in Arundel. As an alumnus, Ken sponsored several interns over the years. He also enjoyed a sideline as a Maine humorist. Survivors include children Aaron and Chloe and stepdaughter Alexandra. His great-uncle was George Nash, Class of 1901.

Donna Gregory Lubow, Sept. 7, 2010
Donna Gregory Lubow moved from job to job until she found her calling in teaching. She worked at the Board of Cooperative Educational Services and, in 1996, joined the staff of Lindenhurst (N.Y.) High School, where she soon became a favorite English teacher. “The news of her passing brought dismay to every person it reached,â€� wrote the school newspaper in an article recounting anecdotes and lessons learned from her. The school plans to start a scholarship fund in her name. In addition to her English degree from ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, she held a master’s from SUNY. Survivors include partner Lars Hjelmquist; son Akil Lubow; and mother Pearl Gregory.

Al Maxwell ’75 described himself this way: “I am an earthy crunchy techno-dweeb.�

Alfred Winthrop Maxwell III, June 26, 2010
Al Maxwell described himself this way: “I am an earthy crunchy techno-dweeb.� His earthy crunchy side is evident in his early career building energy-efficient “off the grid� structures, including his own shelter at West Carry Pond. The techno-dweeb came a bit later, when he joined Lotus Corp. and then IBM, from which he retired in 2008 as a senior software engineer. In between, he held several jobs with the state of Maine, most notably with the Energy Audit Program, designed to evaluate and curtail excessive energy consumption in schools and state buildings. He also became a financial planner during this time. In 1998, he married Janet Vermeulen, and they moved to a farmhouse set on 60 acres in Bridgton. There, he kept his Maule M4 airplane in a hangar he built himself. He took a number of trips to the Far East to feed his interest in Eastern philosophies. He felt a special connection to Nepal after trekking through its mountains. A physics major, he was a registered professional engineer in Maine. Survivors include his wife; mother Dianne Maxwell; and brother David.

1976

Russell John Erickson, Dec. 20, 2010
Russ Erickson worked for the Social Security Administration for 33 years and received several Commissioner’s Citations. He developed WAC, the agency’s national and international case management system. He also taught computer programming at St. Joseph’s and Andover colleges. A committed cyclist, he biked to work and took long trips through Florida and Maine. He rode in The Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa, a seven-day trip that bills itself as “the oldest, largest, and longest bicycle touring event in the world.� A history buff, he led walking tours through Portland as part of Portland’s History Docent Program. Survivors include wife Teeter Bibber; children Rilla and Dana Erickson; and three stepchildren.

1980

Patricia Marion James, July 30, 2010
“PJâ€� James joined the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ admission staff after graduating with a degree in psychology and spent two years as an assistant dean. Then, she told another staff member, she had to move on because of her fears she would “become a lifer.â€� She moved on to a career with Bristol-Myers Squibb, where she became the manager of curricula for USP Learning. (United States Pharmacopeia is a non-governmental official standards-setting authority for prescription and other medications sold in the U.S.) While a student, she was a Benjamin Mays Scholar and was nominated as a New York City Urban Fellow. She directed and coordinated educational and referral services at the Androscoggin County Jail while at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, and was an intern at Riker’s Island. Even though she didn’t want to be a “lifer,â€� she remained close to the College, most notably as a member of the Alumni Council. She was also a class agent, an Alumni-in-Admissions volunteer, and a member of the College Key. Survivors include son Jared James; mother Cecilia James; sisters Melissa Webb and Courtney Steele; and dear friend Joanne Stillmun ’80.

1982

Mark Kevin Dickman, June, 18, 2010
Mark Dickman left ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ after one year and worked in the electrical distribution industry, most recently with Electrical Wholesalers Inc., in Hartford. Survivors include fiancée Marianne Enes; mother Marjorie Dickman; and brother Jeffrey.

In Acton, Mass., environmental activist Mary Sinnamon Michelman ’82 kept a close eye on the W.R. Grace pollution cleanup. “The irony of her contracting cancer,� said the chair of the Board of Selectmen, “is not lost on the community.�

Mary Sinnamon Michelman, Dec. 17, 2010
When Mary Sinnamon Michelman graduated with a degree in biology, she was named a Dana Scholar and received the Abigail Smith Award, given to the senior man and woman who have done the most to contribute to residence hall spirit. She went on to earn a master’s in biological oceanography from the Univ. of Rhode Island. She spent two years on a fishing trawler, then moved inland, to Acton, Mass., where she became known for her volunteer work on environmental issues. She organized Earth Days and stream cleanup days. She was president of Acton Citizens for Environmental Safety, and kept a close eye on the W.R. Grace pollution cleanup. “The irony of her contracting cancer,� said Lauren Rosenzweig Morton, chair of Acton’s Board of Selectmen, “is not lost on the community.� She had survived breast cancer and a double mastectomy only to have the cancer return. Survivors include husband Tom Michelman and daughters Julie and Valerie.

2002

William Adams Thomas III, Aug. 21, 2010
Adam Thomas had a peripatetic four years at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½: He studied in six countries on three continents. Beyond learning about different cultures and languages, he said more than anything else he learned understanding. He put that knowledge to work after graduation by earning a law degree from the Univ. of Pittsburgh School of Law and becoming a telecommunications attorney dedicated to the public interest. He focused on democratizing knowledge, and worked with Public Knowledge, an organization that defends consumer rights in the emerging digital world. The organization has started a fellowship in his name. He previously worked with the Electronic Frontier Foundation and was a fellow with Free Press. He fought off three bouts of a rare brain cancer, but its fourth recurrence proved too strong. Survivors include wife Katie Strumpf; father Bill Thomas; and brother Ian Thomas.

2006

Nathan Dowd Dorpalen, Oct. 7, 2010
Nate Dorpalen died while backpacking on the Lofoten Islands in northern Norway. He was a master’s candidate in environmental agroecology at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. Pursuing this degree was a natural progression after earning a bachelor’s degree in environmental sciences from the College. He was interested in small-scale organic farming, and had worked at farms in Maine, Alaska, and North Carolina. While at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, he apprenticed himself to the town of Palermo, where he learned forestry, carpentry, and orchard management. Immediately after college, he worked in Alaska, assisting with cleaning up gold mine sites and monitoring peregrine falcon nests. He hiked Denali and also hiked in Siberia. Survivors include parents Peter and Mary-Louise Dorpalen; twin sister Erica Dorpalen; and grandmother Rose-Marie Dorpalen. To celebrate his life, family and friends hiked up a mountain near his parents’ home in Connecticut.

Friend

Sally Donavan Goodrich, Dec. 18, 2010
Sally Goodrich and her husband, Donald, took inspiration from their son’s outlook on life when they were confronted with unspeakable despair on Sept. 11, 2001. Their son was Peter Goodrich ’89, who was aboard the second airplane that hit the World Trade Center. They said, and his friends would agree, that Peter had “insatiable curiosity about life in all its various forms.â€� Sally and Donald decided to find a way to spark that curiosity in Afghan students, taking funds donated or awarded after the attacks to build a 26-room school for girls in Afghanistan. “The idea that we could go to Afghanistan…where the planning for our son’s death took place and provide an alternative way of looking at the world was very appealing to us,â€� said Don. They sponsored over a dozen exchange students from Afghanistan to the U.S., housing many of them themselves, and helping them obtain scholarships to American colleges. Among them is Mohammed Mustafa Basij-Rasikh ’12. To date, the foundation they formed in their son’s name has raised over $1 million. Survivors include her husband; son Foster Goodrich; daughter Kim Trimarchi; five grandchildren; and Peter’s wife Rachel Carr Goodrich ’90.

Staff

Joseph Woodhead, Oct. 18, 2010
In his 25 years as an assistant coach of track and field, Joseph Woodhead created a legacy of unparalleled success. His specialties were the indoor weight throw and the outdoor hammer throw. During those years, 15 ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ throwers won 43 All-America awards, including six NCAA championships. In February 2009, following renovations to Merrill Gymnasium and Slovenski Track, the throwing area was named in his honor. He won many coaching awards. Woodhead himself was a record-setting hammer thrower at Springfield College, as well as an All-New England football lineman. He also had a standout career at Lewiston High School. He coached at Lisbon High School for many years, winning four state championships. Among survivors are wife Mary Ellen Woodhead and sons Andy and Mike.

Emeriti

L. Ross Cummins, Sept. 21, 2010
L. Ross Cummins stepped into various roles during his 37 years at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½. He was a professor of education, chair of the department of education and psychology, and director of guidance and placement. Educated at Yale — bachelor’s, master’s, and doctorate — in psychology, he served a term as president of the Maine Psychological Assn. During World War II, he became chief clinical psychologist at Battey General Hospital in Georgia, and left the Army in 1945 to establish the Veterans Administration Guidance Center in Savannah. A world traveler with a special fondness for London, he continued to participate in campus events after retirement. His wife Margaret died in 1983. Survivors include daughter Jane Cummins Fowler; two step-grandchildren; and four step-great-grandchildren.

Honorary

Richard Charles Albert Holbrooke, Dec. 13, 2010
The College honored Richard Holbrooke’s dedication to peace with an honorary degree in 1999. ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ President Donald Harward used these words to describe him: “Diplomat, scholar, forger of the prism of resolution, you have extended to international conflict opportunities for accord. Your efforts at the unfinished work of peace have offered the promise, through diplomatic negotiation, of the sanctity of inviolable rights, as well as the responsibilities of justice.â€� He was the driving force that ended the war in Bosnia in 1995, and was a key player in the Obama administration’s efforts to convince President Karzai of Afghanistan to take responsibility for security in his country. President Obama called him “simply one of the giants of American foreign policy.â€�