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1940 Reunion 2025, June 6–8 class secretary Leonard Clough lgcclough@gmail.com
1941 Reunion 2021, June 7–13 class presidents Elizabeth Gardner Margaret Rand alpegrand@aol.com
1942 Reunion 2022, June 10–12
1943 Reunion 2023, June 9–11
1944 Reunion 2024, June 7–9
1945 Reunion 2025, June 6–8 class secretary Carleton Finch cfinch612@gmail.com
1946 Reunion 2021, June 7–13 class secretary Helen Pratt Clarkson hpclarkson7@gmail.com class president/treasurer Jane Parsons Norris janenorris@roadrunner.com Barbara Carter Moore retired as a radiologist in her 80s. She has been able, with help, to stay in her home in Marblehead, Mass., and enjoy the views of the harbor, as well as reading, radio, and friends.…Gloria Finelli DeVoe shares an apartment in Lakewood, Colo., with sister
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Alma Finelli ’49. Gloria enjoys genealogy as well as theater and music at the University of Denver, where she got her master’s. Still driving, Gloria will resume lunching with her “clubs” as soon as it’s safe. There’s a lot left of the spirit of the girl who boarded the train to Colorado after Bates with the late Pat Wilson Sanborn ’46.…Peter Guglietta is still in his own home, in Somerville, Mass. His retirement is “a quiet one but a good one.”…Mary Frances Langille Randall, now 95, lives in Sarasota, Fla. Daughter Susan visits regularly from Virginia. Mary’s hearing makes phone calls impossible but she’s generally in good spirits despite having lost her husband, Henry.… Jane Parsons Norris reports that, while her activity is limited, she has plenty to hold her interest. She’s comfortable at home in Auburn, Maine, and appreciates frequent family visits.…Agnes Patterson Warren and John still live in their own home in Lyme, Conn., with help from their kids. She manages with a walker and they still drive. Agnes is an alumna of one of the Bates classes that started their term in June. Later she taught for 20 years and is glad not to be teaching under today’s conditions….Now 97, Roula Petropulos Kottaridis resides at Wentworth Senior Living in Portsmouth, N.H. She keeps in touch with son Jim and daughter Kathy. Though Roula uses a wheelchair, her physical health is mostly good even as she struggles with short-term memory loss. Her long-term memory remains sharp, including her Bates years. A townie, Roula lived near campus and still recalls faculty who lived in the neighborhood.… After 30 winters enjoying the Arizona climate, Helen Pratt Clarkson “reluctantly accepted that I needed to cut down to one home and that I should be near family.” A nephew brought his RV south from Denver to drive her to Freeport, Maine. Helen notes, “I am lucky to be comfortably settled by the water next door to my daughter.” She adds, “there have been so many things to enjoy, such as the car parade on my 95th birthday and
receiving 228 birthday cards.”… Dorothy Strout Cole claims to be the world prize-winning procrastinator, but was the first of her class to respond to a call for news. She manages well with a walker and still travels from Orlando to Harpswell, Maine, in the summer. In a chat with Helen Clarkson about how their Bates degrees helped them find jobs, Dorothy recalled that her first job was dissecting cockroaches at Tufts for $25 a week.…Mary Tibbetts Kelly writes of being “a town girl” and having to take a year out of college to earn the $300 tuition to go back. Though a fall has left her mostly housebound, she lives more or less independently with her daughter and son-in-law in Fairfax, Va. She enjoys knitting colorful afghans for nursing homes, thankful she can give rather than receive.… Muriel Ulrich Weeks lives independently in a retirement community near Pittsburgh. “I feel surrounded by love and support from my family and my community,” she says. Though they’ve lost sister Ruth Ulrich Coffin ’42, the remaining Ulrich sibs — Muriel, Helen Coorssen ’43, Grace Harris ’51, and Art Ulrich ’55 — all live independently and stay in touch. Formerly an advocate in the mental health field, Muriel has observed how “the pandemic has highlighted the long-term consequences of under-supporting the needs of the mentally ill.”…Elizabeth Widger Arms gets out of her New Hampshire home most days, enjoying the lake and mountain views and the visiting birds. Widge does miss Priscilla White Ohler, who passed away last March. Widge recalls how other students would serenade their Bates house with “Deck the halls with Widge and Holly” — the late Holly Hawkes Stoughton.
1947 Reunion 2022, June 10–12 class secretary/treasurer Jean Labagh Kiskaddon jean.kiskaddon@gmail.com class president Vesta Starrett Smith vestasmith@charter.net
1948 Reunion 2023, June 9–11
1949 Reunion 2024, June 7–9 class secretary Carol Jenkinson Johnson rollincarol@comcast.net class president Nelson “Bud” Horne budhorne@gmail.com class vice president Beverly Young Howard 9415 Ashley Drive Weeki Wachee FL 34613
1950 Reunion 2025, June 6–8 class president Wes Bonney wbonney@maine.rr.com
1951 Reunion 2021, June 7–13 class presidents Bill Dill wmrdill@gmail.com Jean McLeod Dill class vice presidents Lissa Barbeau wbarb@cox.net Wilfred Barbeau wbarb@cox.net Betty Kinney Faella and Tony welcomed four new great-grandchildren in 2020....“The world without Jane seems a lot gloomier,” notes Rob Wilson, who lost Jane Seaman Wilson last August. “She’s not here to share my joy in finishing the new book.” The Irish Brahmin is his novel about a young woman in the 1870s who travels from Boston to Fort Benton, Mont., where Rob’s grandfather was born in 1876. “I researched a lot about his birth and how his mother brought him back to Boston, but I could never find out why she went out to Fort Benton in the first place. So I made it up.”
1952 Reunion 2022, June 10–12 class secretary Marilyn Coffin Brown mcbrown13@verizon.net class president John Myers johnmyers52@comcast.net Peter Ault just turned 90, but nevertheless, “I seem to have some classmates still hanging in there and looking forward to 70th Reunion in 2022. I hope to make it and visit with the Class of 1947.” A resident of Wayne, Maine, Peter says he’s “still driving and shoveling snow, so no complaints, but lots of memories.”
1953 Reunion 2023, June 9–11 class secretary Ronald “Ron” Clayton rondot@comcast.net class presidents Ginnie Toner vatoner207@gmail.com Dick Coughlin dcoughlin@maine.rr.com
1954 Reunion 2024, June 7–9 class secretary/treasurer Jonas Klein joklein@maine.rr.com
