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1930s – 1940s
1935
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Ray Collins
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1937
Wow! Seventy years have passed since our class graduated from UVM. From a total of forty-two “survivors” in our class, six classmates and two guests enjoyed a get together and lunch at Waterman in celebration of our 70th Reunion. Those attending were Hank Swift from Hilton Head, South Carolina; Christine Brown Perry from Greensboro, Vermont; Ann Livak Glagola from Rutland, Vermont; Pauline Bristol Noonan from South Burlington, Vermont; Clarence Watters from South Burlington, and your class secretary from Burlington. We were invited to give an account of our lives over the past seventy years. Surprisingly, we managed to recall most of the highlights. Thanks to all of you who attended our gathering and made it a happy affair.
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Gilbert Rist
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1939
70th Reunion
June 4 – June 7, 2009
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Mary Shakespeare Minckler
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1940
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Mary Nelson Tanner
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1941
Frank Nye wrote with good news from New Mexico. He was able, with the assistance of Pat Brennan and her staff, to sponsor a reception for UVM alumni in the area at the Albuquerque Country Club last April. They hoped that many UVM graduates would attend. Frank’s daughters helped him plan his 90th birthday celebration to be held in late June for his family and friends. I received word that William Pratt passed away in April in Rutland, Vermont. He was a member of the Boulder Society, and after graduating from the UVM College of Medicine in 1943, he was an intern at Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital in Hanover, New Hampshire, then served in the U.S. Army Medical Corps. He also earned a master’s degree in basic science and internal medicine from the University of Pennsylvania. For many years he had a private practice in internal medicine in Rutland, and he was founder and co-president of the Vermont Heart Association. In 2002, he received the Vermont Medical Society’s Physician of the Year Award for community services. After retiring in 1991, he continued to be active in many Rutland organizations. He is survived by his wife Margaret, seven children, and ten grandchildren.
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Maywood Metcalf Kenney
maywoodak@comcast.net
1942
Barbara Gallagher Kennedy of Bristol, Vermont, was featured with her quilts in the
Addison Independent, a local Vermont newspaper. Barbara has been quilting for “more than half a century, but has never sold a quilt. So much time and effort goes into making one,” she said that she “couldn’t put a price on them.” Bobby is a Rutland home economics teacher, and she is passing the joy of quilting to her granddaughter, a UVM graduate student in Historic Preservation.
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Gwendolyn Marshia Brown
Class.notes@uvm.edu
1943
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June Hoffman Dorion
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1944
65th Reunion
June 4 – June 7, 2009
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UVM Alumni and Parent Programs
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1945
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Kay Hennessey
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1946
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Harriet Bristol Saville
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1947
Janice Beebe Crane wrote to let friends of her father, our classmate Wilson Beebe, know of his death on December 21, 2007. Wilson interrupted his studies at UVM to serve in World War II. He worked for the Vermont Extension Service after the war, then joined the John Deere Company in 1951. He retired in 1983 as divisional sales manager, and he and his wife Pietrina moved to Spring Hill, Florida, where they lived until his death. His wife, four daughters, a son and their families take comfort in knowing that Wilson made it “home” for Christmas. With his wry sense of humor, a twinkle in his eye, and deep love of family and friends, he will live forever in the spirit of Christmas.
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Louise Jordan Harper
Class.notes@uvm.edu
1948
Jean Tucker Fletcher of Newark, Delaware, sent this interesting item: “There is a special reason to unite Newark and its University of Delaware, where Bill and I have been living and working for nearly forty years, with Burlington and UVM. The schools have a common president, William S. Carlson, who was at Delaware from 1946 until 1950, and at UVM from 1950 until 1952. From Vermont, he went on to presidency of one of the State University of New York schools and the University of Toledo. Before these positions, he was already an accomplished polar explorer and scientist. Bill and I were lucky to see the kickoff of the historic American Geographical Society’s Fliers’ and Explorers’ Globe. At this campus ceremony, President Carlson’s name was added to those of Amelia Earhart, Peary, Amundsen, Sir Edmund Hillary, and Neil Armstrong. Events like these are great rewards for living near universities — the never-ending joy of learning!” Jean hopes that UVM friends who travel the I-95 corridor will visit her. George Cunavelis recently completed a five-year term on UVM’s Athletic Hall of Fame Committee. Thank you, George, for the following information about two of our classmates who are Hall of Fame inductees, John Durkin MD ’51 for basketball and baseball and Gordon ‘Mickey’ Cochran for baseball, basketball, and skiing. Later, Mickey coached the United States Women’s National Ski Team. The four Cochran children, all UVM graduates, are Hall of Fame inductees, having skied on both the national and Olympic teams. UVM awarded Mickey and his wife Virginia Davis (’49) Cochran honorary Doctor of Law degrees for their contribution to young Vermont skiers. Speaking of sports, Audrey Gutterson Batchelder of Richmond, Virginia, has a Hall of Fame and Olympic connection. Her uncle Albert Gutterson, for whom UVM’s Gutterson Field House was named, was a gold medalist at the 1912 Oslo Olympics.
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Marilyn Mills Houston
laney4@verizon.net
1949
60th Reunion
June 4 – June 7, 2009
alumni.uvm.edu/reunion
Ralph Conant is one of us who refuses to retire. In fact, he writes almost every day and is preparing a temporary move to “somewhere in Europe” for a five-year longitudinal study of new accessions to the European Union. Now living in Trinidad, California, and anxious to hear from old friends, he wanted us to pass on his new website www.conantassociates.com and his e-mail rwc@conantassociates.com. Over the years, Ralph has served on the faculty of several colleges and institutions and was president of the Southwest Center of Research, Shimer College, and Unity College in Maine. His most recent works include co-authorship of “The Future of Poverty in American Cities,” “A Civilian Service Corps,” and “Revolution and the Search for World Peace.” His wife, Audrey, died in 2001, and he married Sheila Marie Stevens in 2006. There has already been interest in attending our 60th Reunion next spring. Start making your plans to join classmates on campus for this special celebration. After a couple of months in the sunny south, Al Callahan and I are back in New England for a summer in Connecticut and Vermont that will include golf, swimming, and boating. We continued our frequent bridge challenges with Neal and Marilyn Mills (‘48) Houston in Arlington, Vermont, and Douglas Tudhope and wife Billie in North Hero, Vermont, and Captiva, Florida. Write or send me an email with your news for the next issue.
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Arline (Pat) Brush Hunt
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