CLASS NOTES
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1930s – 1940s
1933
Ethelda Miller Graves represented the class of 1933 at the Green and Gold Luncheon at Reunion. Elda was a member of Alpha Chi sorority, and she was on the UVM debate team and played on the UVM women’s basketball team. She retired from teaching and tutoring at Peoples Academy in Morrisville, Vermont, at age ninety. She lives at Shelburne Bay Senior Living, and she enjoys the company of many other UVMers.
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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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Sadly, Bernard Lisman reported the passing of his wife, Natalie, on March 31, 2008. She was ninety-years-old and had fallen and broken her hip. Natalie had attended every reunion of our class with Bernard, and in earlier years, she enjoyed class gatherings at their home on Summit Street.
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Mary Shakespeare Minckler
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1940
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Mary Nelson Tanner
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1941
Major General Francis Nye reported that he celebrated his 90th birthday with a dinner party and festivities at the Albuquerque Country Club on June 28. His two daughters and many friends joined him, and he received many cards from those who could not attend. Ray Laramie wrote from St. Louis, Missouri, that he was concerned for the people in his area whose homes were flooded, but he was grateful that his residence was not near the flood area. Ray has been a Boston Celtic fan for many years, and his granddaughter, who works in the Massachusetts Public Health Department, sent him a Celtic championship jersey. Our class president, Carol Stetson Spaulding, sent word that she, Rae Sheehan Cummings, and Dr. Gordon Page attended the Green and Gold Brunch at the Dudley H. Davis Center as the represenatives from the class of 1941. Our classmates were sad to learn that Liz Gurney Lauritzen died on March 3, 2008, at her South Burlington residence.
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Maywood Metcalf Kenney
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1942
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Gwendolyn Marshia Brown
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1943
Since I did not attend our 65th Reunion, my dear friend of more than sixty-five years, Patricia Pike Halleck, very kindly agreed to write a few words about “The Big Day” for this issue of the Quarterly. She did so well at capturing everyone’s thoughts and emotions, and I am very grateful to her. Patty wrote, “Memories of days long past swirled in our heads as we socialized with our classmates at our 65th Reunion. About thirty-five of us, some accompanied by sons, daughters, or spouses, gathered in pleasant surroundings overlooking lovely Lake Champlain, and each of us stood to say a few words. We even sang a song or two. The words of Ralph Waldo Emerson come to mind. We were ‘acutely aware of the multitude of ghosts who mingled with the guests.’ Thank you to our steadfast secretary, June, for asking me to pen a remembrance of that special day at our alma mater.” I am looking forward to writing about more classmates in future issues of Vermont Quarterly. Let me hear from you.
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June Hoffman Dorion
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1944
65th Reunion
June 4 – June 7, 2009
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1945
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Kay Hennessey
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1946
I am pleased to report that three members of the class of 1946 attended the Green and Gold Brunch at Reunion week. Mary Lou Robinson Adsit, Betty Johnson Bahrenberg, and I represented our class. We missed those of you who used to join us at the brunch. Mary Boardman Ciaschini was unable to be there because she was busy getting back to her place in Greensboro, Vermont, and she had to miss it in 2007 because she was caring for her ill husband. Hilary Shelvin Kaplan wrote to let us know about the passing of her husband. They had been looking forward to a sixty-year celebration in August. Her son Richard and grandson, Daniel, live in Oxford, England. Richard teaches International Relations at Oxford, and his wife teaches English literature at the University of London. Hilary continues to study tap dancing. She stays in touch with Maxine Margolis Hirsch, her UVM sorority sister. I am still waiting for more good news from the rest of you .
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Harriet Bristol Saville
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1947
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Louise Jordan Harper
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1948
A small group of us celebrated our 60th reunion in June with a luncheon at the Burlington Country Club. Alan Nelson, who makes his home in Florida, took the prize for having traveled the farthest. (We sorely missed the rest of you!) Word has come from Jane Smith Long ’49 of Tryon, North Carolina, of the death of her sister, Mary Ann Smith Marburg, last April. She was the widow of Donald Marburg, who died in 2000. Mary Ann had been an invalid since Don’s death. Dick Long ’49 and his wife, Jane, met at Don and Mary Ann’s wedding in 1948, and they lived near the Marburgs. We remember her as “Smitty” and as the 1947 Kake Walk Queen. Other family members who will miss Mary Ann include C. A. Smith ’93 and Sally Smith Brown ’93. On a happier note, it’s always delightful to find a UVM connection through chance conversation. To wit, an Ohio doctor on a recent tour of Vermont spoke of his Rotarian fellowship with Alex Zucker of Oak Ridge, Tennessee. This past year, your scribe became acquainted with a Houston extended family member, Marcus McCorison G’51, of Worcester, Massachusetts, a retired longtime director and librarian of the American Antiquarian Society. He has many fond memories of UVM campus life and the faculty at that time, most especially professors Evans, Putnam, and Huden. UVM conferred an honorary degree on Mark in 1992.
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Marilyn Mills Houston
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1949
60th Reunion
June 4 – June 7, 2009
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Ivers Rifkin is still engaged in the practice of dentistry part time. He has been practicing dentistry for fifty-six years! Hope to hear from more of you next time.
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Arline (Pat) Brush Hunt
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