1930s – 1940s

1934
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Ellinor Bean Hauke
alumni@uvm.edu

1935
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Ray Collins
class.notes@uvm.edu

1936
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John Williams
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1937
The reward for serving as class secretary is the invitations I receive to University functions. On Friday, October 7, a UVM reception at the Shelburne Farms Coach Barn found your secretary looking for a possible classmate or two. In the crowd at the Coach Barn, despite the rewards of refreshments and fine art, no classmates were found. The next day at a meeting of the Wilbur Society, two loyal classmates, Kay Babbitt and Clarence Watters, met for lunch. Hope to hear from more classmates for the next issue.
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Gilbert Rist
alumni@uvm.edu

1938
I am sad to report the death of our classmate, Hastings Keith, last July. He was a retired Republican Congressman, representing the 12th District of Massachusetts for seven terms. His lifelong love of Cape Cod led him to sponsor a bill establishing the Cape Cod National Seashore in 1961. He also is remembered for launching a post-retirement crusade to restructure the Federal pension system.  Hastings wrote Make It Fair:  An Angry Call for Federal Pension Reform in 2003. Our classmate, Ethel Starbird, died last June. For more than 20 years, she was a writer and editor with National Geographic, one of the few female staffers who traveled the world doing research and writing. Ethel was such a beloved staff member at National Geographic that for years they presented an annual award called “the Ethel” to a colleague who embodied her spirit of “integrity, good humor, and guts.” Our condolences to the family and friends of Hastings Keith and Ethel Starbird. They will be missed by all who knew them.
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Elaine Griffith Nawrath
class.notes@uvm.edu

1939
Charles Zabriskie ’53 wrote to inform us of the death of our classmate, Robert Pierce.  Charles wrote, “A great American has laid down his tools. A quiet man, Robert was a real friend to UVM ROTC.” Robert served in the 97th Infantry Division during World War II and was engaged in both the central Europe and Rhine campaigns. He served the U.S. Army for 20 years and remained in Japan as an Army civilian contract specialist after retirement.  He sponsored Mitsuo Kawamoto ’54, in his studies at UVM, and he was especially proud of UVM’s ROTC program. He will be missed by his many UVM friends.
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Mary Shakespeare Minckler
class.notes@uvm.edu

1940
Elinor Sullivan Adams retired in 1980 after 43 years of teaching in the Vergennes, Vt., area. She hopes all is well with 1940 classmates. Jack Berkowitz, a frequent contributor to UVM, enjoyed our 65th reunion last June. His daughter is also a UVM graduate. Everett Bailey sent best wishes to members of the class of 1940. He is remembered as a coach of the UVM ski team. During World War II, he served in the 10th Mountain Division of the U.S. Ski Troops. Reid Leonard continues to work with his son creating colorful tables and other furniture in his shop in Pensacola, Fla. His work is exhibited at the Atlanta Flower Show and at the Furniture and Furnishings Show in Philadelphia. His shop survived Hurricane Ivan in 2004, and it is currently weathering Hurricane Katrina. When he wrote in early September, there was no gasoline available in his neighborhood. Roger Davis, a chemistry major while at UVM, has retired as a building-supplies salesman. His current project is reading the history of the Civil War. During the Christmas season in Charlestown, N.H., you will find that Santa Claus is a member of the class of 1940, Arthur Bailey. Arthur retired from the aircraft and machine tool division of Pratt and Whiney. 
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Mary Nelson Tanner
marytanner@earthlink.net

1941
Francis Nye and Carole Stetson Spaulding are the dedicated co-chairs of our 65th Reunion Committee, who have been busy making plans for our upcoming reunion. Francis and Carole would like as many classmates as possible to join them on June 1-4, 2006, to renew our ties to UVM and experience the vibrant signs of progress on the campus. Suggestions from classmates who are willing to join the committee will be helpful, and contributions to support UVM will strengthen our reunion effort. Grace Meeken Hutchins reported that she is a member of a Pittsfield, Mass., group that teaches conversational English as a second language to immigrants in her area. She has made plans to attend our 2006 reunion. All of Carole Spaulding’s classmates were saddened to learn of the death of her husband, Albert “Bud” Spaulding ’38, a longtime UVM supporter. 
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Maywood Metcalf Kenney
maywoodak@comcast.net

1942
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Gwen Marshia Brown
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1943
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June Hoffman Dorion
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1944
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Alison Carr Wood
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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
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Louise Jordan Harper
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1948
Betty Bohn Douglas retired from the Addison-Rutland School District in Vermont. She has a master’s degree in Educational Leadership, which involved film, video, and writing instruction. Betty now lives in Shoreham, Vt., and tends the family orchard with her husband of 60 years. She enjoys her three children as well as travels to California, Bermuda, Jamaica, and Salt Lake City. What a life! Michael Conley ’76 wrote, “My father, Dale Conley, died on June 24, 2005, at 86 years old. My mother, Lorraine, died the next morning. We send our condolences to the Conley family.
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Theresa Guzowski Johnson
normangjohnson@earthlink.net

1949
I had an interesting encounter Labor Day weekend when my friend and I attended a Red Sox game. We got our tickets through the UVM Alumni Office, and we enjoyed attending the UVM reception prior to the game. The following night in Boston, we were eating at Legal Seafood and began a conversation with our waiter, Chad Boynton, who said he had just graduated from UVM. He also mentioned that his mother and grandfather were UVM graduates. Who was his grandfather? None other than Ralph Conant, a prominent member of our class whom we missed seeing at reunion last year. Last September, I had fun working on and attending my 60th reunion at William Hall High School in West Hartford, Conn., with my high school friend, Albert Callahan. There were 90 classmates from 1945, including guests and spouses. Among them were Burke “Bill” Bigwood ’50 and his wife, Carol Fink (’62) Bigwood.  Congratulations to Reginald Kierstead, dubbed “Mr. Minisink Valley” by the local newspaper in Middletown, N.Y. Recent festivities honored him on the 50th anniversary of the founding of the school from which he had retired as superintendent. His name now adorns the front of the Minisink Valley Central School, which serves more than 3,000 students. Hartley Shea enjoys playing golf and caring for his gorgeous poinsettias and flowering plants at his home in Sarasota, Fla., where he lives with his wife, Trudy. If you visit in March, you may be lucky enough to go home with a bag of luscious grapefruit. On a sad note, we received word of the death of Rita Gilman Kuperberg on September 22 in Huntington Beach, Calif., from complications from emphysema. At UVM, she was on the staff of the Cynic as well as the yearbook. Following college, she worked with Air France as a secretary and translator. She and her husband, Sidney, a U.S. Air Force attorney, lived in Europe and throughout the U.S., where she was always active in the Jewish and synagogue life. She leaves her husband of 54 years and five children and their families. She faithfully attended several UVM reunions, the last was our 55th in 2004. 
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Pat Brush Hunt