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1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1950M. Grace Piselli Keene 1951Marilyn Weymouth MacLeod The Gorham Alumni Association's 75th birthday luncheon was attended by Linwood "Linnie" White, Joyce Wentworth Cunningham, Barbara R. Wyman and your class agents. A. Carolla Haglund, Barbara Wyman, and your class agents were at the December meeting. We wish more of our class members would come to these meetings—only four meetings a year. If you ever have the opportunity to attend the USM School of Music Holiday Gala, don't miss it. Marilyn went in December and notes that it was fabulous. Last August, Marilyn entertained a group of Gorham grads who have been meeting annually for lunch for years. The group included Barbara Wyman, Patricia Tardiff Crowley '55, Faye Harriman Bean '53, June Gill Harper '53, Jen Lebel Sproul '54, and Jeannine Belisle '52 and her friend Rosa. Your class agents hope you will join them for Reunion Day, when the University will be commemorating the 125th anniversary of USM. Please get your news for the next Mainestream to your class agents by the middle of July so we can submit them by the August 1 deadline. Classmates enjoy reading about your latest trip, newest grandchild, volunteer work, and other activities that keep you young. 1952Fleurette Roux Forrest It is with great sorrow that I report the death of Amelia Anne Mitchell Moore. She died on Nov. 24, 2002, after a valiant battle with cancer. Amelia and her husband, John, reared a family of five children and had 14 grandchildren. They moved to Utah in 1977. In spite of being bedridden, with great courage and the help of the children, Amy fulfilled her goal to attend and celebrate her 50th wedding anniversary with family and friends. Amy was such a great lady! She will be greatly missed. I want to thank Jeannine "Buz" Belisle one more time for the amazing job she has done as our class agent for so many years. I especially thank her for sharing the news she had recently received from classmates so that I would have a report for you. Buz has continued to come from her home in Connecticut to her condo in Old Orchard Beach quite often. She serves on the board of trustees at her condo, continues to serve as Eucharistic minister at her church, paints exquisite pictures, and sits on multiple boards and committees. She is very attentive to her nieces, nephews, grand nieces and grand nephews. They love to see AJ (Aunt Jeannine) arrive! Jean MacDonald Colville and her husband, Jim, enjoyed the winter in Florida. They flew home to Maine to celebrate the holidays with their family. They planned a cruise to the Bahamas in February. Nancy Hall Malone, who lives in Australia, planned to come to the states in March. She was to fly to Hawaii for three days, to Florida to spend time with her brother, and to Maine for her 55th high school reunion. Edna Lilley Leary reported that her husband surprised her on Valentine's Day 2002. He arranged for the Downeast Barbershop Quartet to serenade her and to present her with a long-stemmed rose and two tickets to a performance by the Down East Chorus. What a nice romantic surprise! Edna keeps busy with family activities, church activities, and among other things, working at the polls on election day. Joyce Carlson Marsano, Evelyn Jepson Lemieux, and Satch Page attended the December meeting of the Gorham Alumni Association. Joyce found her membership card which she bought in 1958 and thus no longer needs to pay dues! Her card was signed by Celia Gross. Joyce, Connie Leslie and Ruth Bryant continue to meet once a month for coffee and decide what to do that day. In December, Buz, Marilyn Littlefield Hughes and Edna Lilley Leary gathered at Joyce's house for a pizza party and talk-fest. In January, Joyce attended her son's installation at the Saco Masonic Lodge. She met John Anagnostis who has been very active in the Maine Masons. Joyce is signed up for spring semester courses at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. Joyce also reported the sad news that John "Jay" Darling died. Anne Leach Nation has pieced together two quilts and is now doing the quilting on them. Along with volunteering for her church and in the community, she enjoys reading. Two exciting trips East were the highlight of her year. Her family has been blessed with good health and happiness. Joyce Clark Swett spent the summer at her camp in Lucerne. She took a trip to Prince Edward Island, stopping for a night in St. John, New Brunswick. During the height of the foliage season, she spent a week in Southwest Harbor and explored Acadia "from top to bottom and in between." She is living up to her motto, "Have wheelchair, will travel." You go girl! Roberta "Bobby" Hardy Willis stayed in Maine for a while after the 50th Reunion. She went to the Lincolnville Bicentennial and then enjoyed some fun with her grandchildren in Massachusetts and Connecticut. Mary Lou Marks Smith took time out from packing for a trip to Florida to respond to my e-mail (the one begging for news). Her son, Gary, graduated from Maine Maritime, following in his father's footsteps. He lives in South Portland with his wife and four children. Mary's son, Mark, teaches at Cheverus and lives in North Yarmouth with his wife and two children. Her daughter, Shelly, lives in Hamilton, Mass., with her husband and three children, and daughter, Holly, and her family are building on Sanibel Island in Florida. Mary and Pete have built a house to replace their camp in the wilds near Patten. Mary still loves to fish and she hunts a little. Virginia "Ginger" Briggs Somers stopped by for a visit with Buz and me on her way to a vacation in Bar Harbor. She has been in the process of selling her house and working on various projects following trips to Colorado, Virginia, and North Carolina. I am continuing to keep busy with hospice volunteering, and taking and teaching Osher Lifelong Learning courses. I work a few hours a week at the YMCA's front desk. I still enjoy serving as a lector at my church, doing counted cross-stitch, and as always enjoying life and fitting in as much fun as there is time for. My e-mail address has changed to: fforest@psouth.net. My "snail mail" address is listed at the start of this column. If all else fails, call (207) 324-0418. Please help me in my attempt to carry on where Buz left off—very big shoes to fill! 1953 Harry G. True Florrie Flood Belisle writes that plans are shaping up for the 50th Reunion on Friday, June 13, and Saturday, June 14, in Gorham. Committee members are Pinky True, Dick Ladner, Mickey Vermette, and Sherry Henry. The committee plans to hold a class auction, with proceeds going toward a class gift. Please bring something you feel others might want to bid on. Your auction gifts might reflect a sport interest, a garden interest, or something of interest from where you live. Or it might just be a basket of goodies! "Let's see what you can come up with," says Florrie. "It's all for (fun) fundraising! The difference between having a good reunion and a great reunion is the number of people who attend. So, Golden Grads, let's have a great reunion!" Questions? Contact Florrie at (518) 399-7105 or fax (518) 399-4246. Write her at 425 Stage Rd., Charlton, NY, 12019-2704. 1954Carl H. Winslow Once again, we are saddened to learn of the death of another classmate, Eleanor Hammond Clinch, wrote Nelson Wentworth. Eleanor taught in Cornish for 36 years, retiring in 1990. She continued tutoring after her retirement. She had also earned an associate's degree in theology and taught Sunday School classes at the Lighthouse Christian Center. Frank Day retired from his position at Clemson University after 38 years of teaching and is at home in Parsonsfield. He continues to write, and recently signed a contract for a book on Edmund Wilson. Roland Grant and his wife, Kay, left their home in Billings, Mont., and took a tour of France in September. They had an opportunity to live in the Basque country at their French family's home. They planned to rent a car and travel to Luxembourg, then across northern France to Omaha Beach, Brittany, and other places of interest throughout France. In January, they were to go to South Africa for two weeks on a church trip. In November, Nelson B. Haynes was presented the Merle E. Porell Divisional Distinguished Service Award at the 85th anniversary of the Portland Kiwanis Club. The award recognizes an outstanding Kiwanian who has served his community, club, division, and district. Nelson joined Kiwanis in 1965. 1955Suzanne Gilbert Corcoran David Scarlott George McPhail is chair of the 50th Reunion planning committee, which is already preparing for the 2005 occasion. Jackie Brooks Greenwood, Mildred Hammond Black, Connie Hanson Harrison, Pat Tardiff Crowley, Norene Grover, Pat Lord Welch, and Doris Hopkins Frye have volunteered to help. George writes: "We would welcome any classmates to join us in this endeavor." For more information, contact him at (207) 892-9115. George notes that he saw Sylvia Amadie Pickett and Bob Green at their Deering High School 50th Reunion. He sees David Scarlott and his wife, Bumpy, on a regular basis in Maine and Florida, and notes that Mildred Hammond Black and her husband, Jerry '57, are active members of their Good Sam camping group. Dick Jenkins and his wife, Merle, visit George time and again from Maine to Labrador. George also notes that John Fortier '59, and his wife, Janet, live in South Portland. John, a retired superintendent of schools, is a minister in Portland. 1956Betty Lou Dodge Banks Patricia Carmichael Swett 1957Charlene Boisvert Thompson 1958Pauline Deschambeault Pollock Lois Ware Thurston and her husband, Ancyl, celebrated their 43rd wedding anniversary on January 31, 2001. Lois says, "Can anyone top this? (Yes, we were married while we were still in school.)" The couple has three grandsons. Lois volunteers at the Maine State Museum. For many years they have spent time sightseeing across the United States and in Europe. Their last trip was to Arizona and New Mexico just three weeks after September 11th. 1959Joan Morse Bragdon |