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Alumni
Fall Festival
Thanks to those who responded
to my request for news. I would
love to have more e-mail addresses.
If you have one, please send
it to me or to the Alumni Office.
Janet Canham Williams writes,
“Here I am a block away from
campus in a good assisted living
residence but macular degeneration
says no more driving. Two
sons and families live within 10
miles so I see them often.” Good
to hear from Harriet Wickham
Gorman (Wicky at Colby, now
Toddy). She lost Bill 2 years
ago. She is still in their home at
Tangerine, FL, and spends her
time developing their 8 acres into
a parkland area. She is still playing
golf and would love to hear
from old friends. Betty Thomas
Densmore and Jane Winey
Heald were the only 2 from
our class at our 60th reunion.
They were thrilled that Marjorie
Magnus Senior’s 2 daughters
looked them up to represent
their mother, now deceased.
Betty is now living in a retirement
community in Concord
and is very active in their activities.
She played the clarinet for
30 years and is now singing with
several groups. She sang a part
in “Brigadoon” with her community
singers and volunteers at
a health service center. Harriet
Tillinghast Fuller enjoys seeing
her great-grandson who lives
nearby. She is still in the same
home in West Hartford that she
has had for the last 56 years.
Margaret Van Duser Hurlbut
has a busy life in Palm City, FL,
and loves her retirement community.
She has 8 great-grandchildren,
but they all live up north
so she doesn’t see them very
often. Jeanne Schwob Homer
stays active with a book club, and
Save the Date!
Our next Alumni
Fall Festival is
September 30–
October 2, 2011!
Reconnect with friends and
classmates, and celebrate
your college memories.
www.colby-sawyer.edu/
alumni/fallfestival/
regularly attends the symphony
and ballet. She had a wonderful
90th birthday celebration with
her family and friends. As for me,
I hit 90 in Feb. and had a wonderful
celebration with the family.
We’ll continue the celebration
when we all get to our Canadian
cottages in the summer. I now
have 3 great-grandchildren and
enjoy seeing them on Skype.
Please See In Fond Memory
1941
Class Correspondent Needed
Please send your news to the
Office of Alumni Relations
and Annual Giving
541 Main Street
New London, NH 03257
e-mail: alumni@colby-sawyer.edu
Editor’s Note: Special thanks to
Janice Wilkins, who is stepping
down as your class correspondent
after serving faithfully since 2007.
This is Janice’s final column.
Still at Chester Village West in
Chester, CT, is Arlene Dawson
Knapp, who celebrated her 90th
at Thanksgiving. Her children are
good about helping and there
are 6 great-grandchildren. At 90,
Charlotte Cuddy Pozniak is still
living alone in her home with
the help of her daughters and a
granddaughter. Her whole family,
including 3 great-grandsons,
lives nearby. She’d love to make
a trip to NH. Like for many of
us, macular degeneration makes
it hard to read or track things
on the computer, but Jacquie
Sipley Cotter is still painting.
She lives in a “wrinkle farm”
in Philadelphia. Mary Louise
Williams Haskell stayed in
assisted living until Mar., as 2
of her children (Sarah Haskell
’70 and Weston) were sailing
from Cape Town, South Africa,
to Barbados. She feels fortunate
to have wonderful family and
friends who care about her. At
Christmas I heard from Joan
Russell Desmond that all is well.
Her husband passed away June
2010 so now her companion
is an adorable cat, Zoe. June
Skinner-Peacock writes, “I will
be 90 in June and am in good
health. I’ve been widowed 3
times. I’m living in Raleigh, NC,
near my daughter Ann and her
family. Summers I spend in my
mountain house. I paint, write,
and enjoy life—a wonderful
adventure!”
Please See In Fond Memory
1942
Bobbie Boyd Bradley
Jan. 1–May 1:
601 Seaview Court, C-311
Marco Island, FL 34145-2939
(239) 394-2881
E-mail: mimibrad@aol.com
May 2–Dec. 31:
865 Central Avenue
Apartment l-203
Needham, MA 02492
(781) 400-5249
E-mail: mimibrad@aol.com
Betsy Short Cissel writes, “I now
live in Belfast, ME. I have no
grandchildren. My health has
now taken a fall—no, I have not
fallen, just not as good as I was!”
Please See In Fond Memory
1943
Peg Morse Tirrell
Post Office Box 37
Lower Waterford, VT 05848-0037
(802) 748-8538
e-mail: dptirrell@juno.com
Sincere apologies for having
no report in that wonderful
last Colby magazine. That
deadline fell during the period
Doc had been sent home from
the hospital to home health
and wonderful hospice care.
He passed away Dec. 29, 2009.
Joan Creesy Eriksson writes,
“Obviously I’m still alive and
kicking, if not as high. I’m living
in a retirement home with
my own little apartment. My
son, Andrew, has an antiquarian
bookshop and talks about old
books on the TV and radio. He
has 2 girls. My daughter, Jennifer,
is still training dressage riders in
Germany. My husband died in
1979 so I am used to being on
my own. I work for UNICEF and
another local charity from time
to time. And of course I have to
have an English ‘Conversation’
group. I’d love to see old Colby
and wish I could go to another
reunion, but ‘recession’ is the
word.” Jean Aronson Rea spent
1 week in ME in Aug. 2009. She
tried to find Margaret “Peg”
van Dine Jardine ’44, but no
luck. As Natalie “Nat” Cordery
Naylor wrote, “I am now living
with son Gregory and his wife in
Ledyard, CT, and am very happy
here. I did have a Christmas card
from Doris Douglas Butler.”
Life is incredibly busy but fascinating
for Elizabeth “Diana”
Stretch Henry. She traveled to
the Bahamas by yacht, then to
Las Vegas for “Phantom of the
Opera” and on to Yellowstone
National Park. She has a new
Newfoundland puppy, which
she took to Geyser National Park
this spring. “Not much exciting
activities,” writes Mary Scheu
Teach, as she had to give up
active sports because of double
hip replacements and poor balance.
She’s doing Tai Chi and
Yoga. She writes, “I have taken
short trips with a daughter or 2
to visit family in VA and Buffalo.
I hope to get down to see Sally
King Cramer in Williamstown,
MA, on her birthday. I continue
to do volunteer work for our
local Visiting Nurse Association
and the First Baptist Church.”
Now that Priscilla Coan Barnes
is alone, she keeps very busy
with volunteer work and is
thankful for the good health to
do it. Her daughter and married
granddaughter live an hour away.
They went to Branson, MO,
twice last fall to see their favorite
shows, and she flew to Chicago
in June for another grandson’s
wedding. Elizabeth “Diddy”
Godfrey Brown is well and still
driving around seeing friends
and family. She has 2 greatgrandchildren.
She was going to
see Bobby Lutz Moore. I agree
with Jean Thurman Ramsey
that it is a sad note to write
when it mentions her husband,
Frank, died in May 2010. Other
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