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1930s – 1940s
1935
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Ray Collins
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1937
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Gilbert Rist
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1939
70TH REUNION
JUNE 4 – JUNE 7, 2009
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A reminder that we’ll celebrate our 70th reunion at UVM in June. This will be a great weekend for all of us to reconnect in Burlington.
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Mary Shakespeare Minckler
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1940
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Mary Nelson Tanner
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1941
Rae Sheehan Cummings and Carole and Bill Hauke were honored on September 19th at an anniversary party celebrating their help in founding Burlington’s Hope Lodge twenty-five years ago. It was only the second in the country when it opened in a small East Avenue house offering free lodging to cancer patients and their caregivers. The new American Cancer Society’s Hope Lodge on the same street will continue to give free lodging and support to those seeking help. The lodge is paid for by generous donations from the Burlington community to ease financial burdens and give support to those who need it most.
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Maywood Metcalf Kenney
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1942
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Gwendolyn Marshia Brown
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1943
As I write, I am having difficulty accepting the fact that I am now in my eighty-seventh year. I am sure that others out there are having similar feelings and thoughts. This week has been nostalgic for me since, in an effort to get organized after the flurry of the holidays, I started going through some old letters, papers, pictures, journals, etc. I found a huge scrapbook I had kept of all the events of my college years. Do you remember the lovely dance cards we used to have for Spring Formals? I also found a big “Quarantine” sign that was put on the door of my room my sophomore year. Those of us who lived in Grasse Mount were quarantined for measles during Kake Walk. I discovered also that old corsages don’t hold up very well. What a mess! On to news of the present. One of the “happenings” of the Christmas season for me was a phone call from Mary Butler Bliss. She never ceases to amuse and delight. She told me a wild tale of a burglar entering her home while she was upstairs in bed. He took off with quite a bit of cash, and as a result, her family is insisting she give up living alone. Mary has lived in this home for sixty years, so I am sure it will not be easy. Her son is getting an apartment ready for her in his home. An ideal solution! Mary is doing well and is hoping to help out again in the classroom with adult education students. Last fall, I had a nice visit by phone with Dorothy Franklin Cole. Dot was happy to report that she has been cancer-free for four years. We are all happy to hear such good news. She stays active and maintains her own home in Shelburne with two sons and grandchildren nearby. My special Christmas card this year was from Harry Twitchell, whom I have dubbed “The Class Traveler.” He lived up to his moniker in 2008. Starting the year with a short visit to Austin, Texas, he then went on to visit one of his sons in New Orleans. As some of you know, he attended our 65th Reunion in Burlington last June. In July, he traveled with another son to the San Juan Mountains in Colorado to visit nineteenth-century gold mines. He was overwhelmed by the thought of the brute force that must have been necessary to run these mines. In October, he visited a third son in Oregon. The real adventure took place in October when he traveled with Elderhostel to eastern China. He found the cities too glitzy, the Three Gorges Dam colossal, and the Yangtze and Li Rivers most impressive as were the mountains. Continue traveling, Harry. Some of us will be doing it vicariously through your reports. As for my other classmates, please share your lives with us.
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June Hoffman Dorion
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1944
This is just a reminder that our class will celebrate our 65th reunion at UVM in June. It will be a great weekend for all of us to reconnect in Burlington.
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UVM Alumni and Parent Programs
411 Main Street
Burlington, VT 05401
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1945
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Kay Hennessey
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1946
Haven’t had much good news from our classmates. We said goodbye to Betty Dole Durfee last October. She was the loving wife of Herbert Durfee, MD ’48. She was a good friend since high school days and a sorority sister. Betty had been active in art and music in Burlington. She researched American paintings for the National Museum of Art in Washington and was curator of a portrait exhibit for the Fleming Museum. As a Regent for Colonial Dames, Betty met for a photograph with President George Bush and First Lady Barbara Bush. Natalie Harris Rifkin attended her high school reunion and was happy to find two UVM alumni there, Thelma Sondic Squires and Lorraine Taplin Weisen. That’s it until I get more news from the rest of you.
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Harriet Bristol Saville
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1947
The class of ‘47 has become one of UVM’s smallest classes, but that doesn’t mean we have to be the one with the least news! Let’s hear from you. We all send our condolences to our class president, Dorothy Frazer Carpenter, whose husband, Torrey Carpenter ‘48 died on September 4, 2008.
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Louise Jordan Harper
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1948
A few years ago, Marian Bellville Hazelton of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was the recipient of a cochlear implant. After severe hearing loss, she is grateful for the successful restoration and continued improvement of her hearing. Former UVM roommates, Marian and Diana Griffis Tiedemann of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, remain in close contact. Betty Whitney Bolognani of Readsboro, Vermont, reported that she has retired after 50 years as a 4-H leader. Her seventy-three-year relationship with 4-H began when she was nine years of age. While attending UVM, she helped organize a campus program. Not one to go ‘cold turkey,’ Betty maintains a seat on the Bennington County 4-H Foundation. Robert Ker and his wife, Jane, of Brewster, Massachusetts, plan to visit Ruth Reynolds Moore ‘45 in Charlotte, Vermont, after the snow melts. FYI: In January I retired as guardian ad litem, serving Family Court for several years and for the past four years serving the two Probate Courts in Bennington County. I now have extra time to process news of interest to your classmates. Please send!
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Marilyn Mills Houston
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1949
Hello out there! Do you realize that our 60th Reunion is coming up in June? I’ll be there, will you? Ralph Conant said he’s coming all the way from California, as are Norma Carmichel Wilson and husband, Dave, from Washington, New Jersey, but they’re the only ones I’ve heard from so far. Our class luncheon will be Saturday, June 6, at the Hilton (formerly the Radisson), the President’s Reception for volunteers that evening, and the Green and Gold Brunch Sunday morning. There will be dorm rooms available. More information later. I’ll be south until mid-April, but please contact me by mail or email if you want to find out where your friends are staying. On a sad note, George Brigham died November 25 in West Hartford, Connecticut. He was predeceased by his wife, the former Jean Davis ‘48. George was a member of Sigma Phi and a Kake Walker. He served in the Army Air Corps in 1945 and then went into the insurance business, retiring from Aetna in 1985.
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Arline (Pat) Brush Hunt
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