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Alumni Relations and Annual Giving:
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New London, NH 03257
daughter. My condo is nice, as
is the retirement home, but I do
miss CT and my friends.” Inez
Gianfranchi Snowdon says
that although she has aches and
pains, she’s still going strong and
manages to spend summer at her
camp in Acton, ME, “watching
the lake go up and down with
all the rain.” She adds, “I am
still volunteering at the church
‘budget box’ and doing a terrific
business.”
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1939
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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
Ai-Li Sung Chin sent an e-mail
recounting her experience at
Alumni Fall Festival and the
memories that it brought back.
She writes, “Here is what I
remember about my reunion
weekend. I remember going to
the President’s reception and
looking for gray-haired ladies
to talk to, to find out if they
were near my class. Three such
ladies were 5 years behind me!
I was the only one there to represent
the oldest 5 classes! I had
brought along the picture of 9
of us taken at our 60th reunion,
hoping to see some of you and to
show you the picture. I was then
driven around by a member of
the Colby-Sawyer Advancement
Office to see Appletree House,
which was a dormitory where I
stayed in my second year. There
was a sign on the house saying
it was built in 1840, reminding
me what a privilege it was to stay
there. My roommate for that year
was Mary Russell, who took me
home with her in Jamaica Plain,
Boston, for my first Thanksgiving
holiday weekend, since I had
no family in the U.S. to go to. I
also thought of Ms. Ann Silver,
our class adviser, and Viola
Pfrommer, my special Foreign
Student Adviser who became a
good friend and insisted that I
call her Vi. I corresponded with
both for several years after I
graduated in 1939. I also recall
Dr. Duane Squires, who taught
us International Relations. Then
there was the special field trip a
small group of our class took, as
reward by the college for running
the first Colby Camp for refugee
children from Nazi Germany.
We held the camp in the field
house by Lake Sunapee before
the building was moved closer to
campus. During reunion weekend
I stayed overnight at the
New London Inn. It looks about
the same as in the old days,
except for some updating of facilities.
Oh yeah, the class picture!
Since I was the oldest alum there,
I had the honor of having my
class picture taken with President
Galligan himself!
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1940
Judy Conover Reinicker
107 Cardiff Court West
Newark, DE 19711-3442
(302) 239-0965
e-mail: jreinicker@aol.com
Please See In Fond Memory
1941
Janice Wilkins
20 Longwood Drive,
Apartment 274
Westwood, MA 02090
(781) 320-3240
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
My thanks to Shirley Parsons
who sent me news unsolicited!
She reports that all is well but
she has slowed up a lot and has
a breathing problem. It’s hard to
imagine you “slowed up,” Shirl,
but you have lots of company.
It comes with our old age! Shirl
also sent me an obituary from
the local paper for Phoebe Neal
Burns. Phoebe was a registered
medical technologist at the
Franklin County Public Hospital
in Greenfield, MA, and had
been living in South Deerfield.
The poor response I had sent
me to the telephone to try to
wrestle up some news. Fun for
me! Katherine “Kitty” Gordon
Ridgway enjoys water walking
for exercise. Her son and his wife
are organic farmers and he is also
1st selectman of West Cornwall,
CT, where Kitty lives. She has
5 grandchildren. I talked to
Virginia “Jinny” Leighty Severs
and was happy to learn she’s
feeling better. She had been in
the hospital and spent a month
in a nursing home for rehab, but
was happy to be home with her
girls. We hope to get together
this winter. Marcia Barnes
Shaw-Straube and Hal took
a trip to AK with Vero Beach
friends. They are heading south
to Vero Beach, FL, for the winter.
A long visit via phone with
Barbara “Bobbie” Molander
Warner brought me up to date
with her. She is still in her apartment
in Middletown, CT. She
has 3 girls, a boy and 2 grandchildren.
Her granddaughter is at
Grinnell College, her grandson
has finished college. Bobbie summers
in Oak Bluffs on Martha’s
Vineyard—a fun place for her
kids to visit. We agreed to make
our next reunion—2012—God
willing! Harriet Figley Urschel
still enjoys good health and
she has been married 66 years!
Congratulations! She has 3
children, 3 grandchildren and 2
great-grandchildren. The Urschels
winter in Melbourne, FL, and live
in Perrysburg, OH. What fun to
talk to Helen “Bucky” Starbuck
Moore. Her sister-in-law lives
here at North Hill and keeps
me posted, but I haven’t talked
to Bucky for a long, long time.
She recently fell and reinjured
her back, but is now home after
rehab. She was in great spirits
because her daughter was visiting
from AZ. Her daughter has
been battling MS for some time
so Bucky hadn’t seen her for 5
years and was so excited that
she was able to make the trip
to Southport, CT. A long phone
visit with Nancy Nelson Price
gave me lots to report. She lives
in Jamestown, NY, and until
this year she and her husband (a
Williams man, as is mine) have
wintered in Siesta Key, FL. This
year, however, they will have
their first northern winter in a
long time. Let’s hope it’s an easier
one than last year! They have
3 boys, the oldest a lawyer nearby,
and 6 great-grandchildren.
Lucky ones! Our 1st granddaughter
was married in July. If we’re
lucky, maybe we’ll have a great
before we die. Nancy Bowman
Rutherford is still in her own
home in East Longmeadow, MA,
and still drives. She is doing
well but, of course, misses her
husband, George, who passed
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