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1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1940Harold Aikins visited Maine in August 2001. He was embarrassed to be driving a rental car with Massachusetts plates! He is very busy with church, Lions Club, family, hospital volunteering, and some tutoring in an elementary school. His e-mail address is maineac-in-ohio@att.net. He has a large white pine in his yard to remind him of Maine. He lost his wife three and a half years ago. At the ages of 83 and 85, Bertha Bourne Hilton and her husband are still enjoying life. They enjoy their family a great deal, spending time with their three sons and a daughter who live nearby. Their grandchildren are scattered across the United States. Bertha and her husband particularly like spending time with their great-grandson, who is one. 19411942Ruth A. Bishop Charlotte Douglass Cote has been married to her husband for 58 years. They continue their love of travel, as they recently returned from Yosemite and San Francisco. Over Christmas and New Year’s, they planned to take their youngest granddaughter on a cruise. Their other granddaughter is a sophomore at Colby College and is a pre-med major. E-mail helps them to keep in contact with friends all over the world, including Denmark, New Zealand, and Australia. Catherine Lewis Hill spent the winter in Florida. Edith Thayer Hunter would like to let her former classmates know that she is enjoying life to the fullest in Florida where she plays plenty of golf. 1943Last summer five old classmates got together at the home of Betty Kennedy Tufts in Wells. They were Annette Hall Brooks, of Thomaston, Pearl Hartt-Wilbur, of Hampton Beach, N.H., Barbara Libby Hoffman, of Florida, and Virginia (Ginnie) Clark Ward, of Damariscotta. They had a wonderful day remembering how GNS was in the 1940s. Katherine Huston Kankainen and her husband did quite a bit of traveling in 2001. In February they took a Caribbean cruise with their eldest son, Eric, and his wife. They then traveled to southern Spain for three weeks in March. Following their grandson’s high school graduation (they are proud to report that he was valedictorian and is Dartmouth bound), they left for two weeks for the Helsinki area of Finland where they hosted a large gathering of relatives and friends. While there, they took a side trip to Estonia. In July they attended FinnFest USA at Villanova, then Katherine began treatment for colon cancer with surgery on November 6. It was quite a year! Jean Thompson Lyford has enjoyed 57 years of marriage, and says that they have been fortunate enough to remain in fairly good health. Daughter, Susan, teaches at Beal College in Bangor; son, Peter, has the Scott’s lawn service franchise for the state of Maine. His children run a few of the Scott’s businesses in the Portland and Brewer area. Jean and her husband enjoy the company of their great-granddaughter, Haylee, who is two years old. 1944Joscelyn T. Boyd-Mccourtney 1945 Lois Knapp Thurston 1946 Elizabeth Sundgren Winslow First of all, I would like to thank those of you who sent me Christmas cards. I enjoyed hearing from you. Also I was saddened to hear of the death of Natalie McLain Belhorn after a long and courageous struggle with cancer. She had been very faithful in corresponding with me over the years. Her sister’s note said she was well liked and had many friends. In October, we again met for our annual mini reunion. This time we met at the Cascades in Saco. Caroline Cunningham and Betty McCann live nearby. Caroline is in Old Orchard Beach and Betty lives in Pine Point. I picked up Charlotte Mason and Edith Meserve Rice said she could drive over as she lives in South Portland. Alden and Marian Mitchell and Lois and Porter Thurston were unable to attend. Joe Durocher ’45 and his wife came from Brownfield. Betty Chapman ’45 and Maisie Searles ’45 came together from Eliot. Helena Wilcox had just been in the hospital and had planned to attend with husband, Scotty. I also visited Ruth Beals in Springvale. Ruth keeps busy with her church and does a great deal of cross-stitch work. We have that in common. Betty, Caroline, and I already looking forward to the Spirit of Gorham Reunion in June and even though this is not a reunion year for us we hope you will all consider attending. It is really a fun day. 1947Clayton S. Brown is not planning any big trips this year. He often exchanges his time-share in the Pocono Mountains for a change of scenery each year. Clayton bought himself a new “toy,” a digital camera. Having always enjoyed photography, he is interested in keeping up with the latest equipment. He also writes that, due to illness, for the first time since WWII, he was unable to go to their summer home on Little Sebago Lake. “These so called ‘Golden Years,’ seem more like tarnished silver. Hope next year will be better. May this find all in the Class of ’47 well and happy.” 1948Nellie Ames Hart Members of the class of 1948 met in September at a restaurant in Gorham for lunch. Among those attending were: Nellie Ames Hart, Ruth Pillsbury Boothby, Betty Berg Deschenes, Alva Dodge Smith, Norma Farwell Seekins, Phyllis Foster Hill, Jackie Hatch Hefferen ’47, Bea Heal Mailman ’48, Jean Littlejohn Radley, Barbara Lynch Carpenter, Ginny Martin Foster, Mary McCartney Gedaro, Caroline Wescott Vozella, and Lucy Williams DeRoche ’47. 1949Thelma Resnick Shenkman |