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Class of 1952 members met with Class of 2012 officers at Alumni House on Maine Day in April
to make plans for the Blueberry Garden near the New Balance Fitness Center. Seated are class
agent Perry Hunter (left) and co-president Al Cole ’69G (right). Standing, left to right are: 2012
class members Zachary Campbell, who designed the Class of 2012 Blueberry Garden; secretary,
Kaylee Michaud; vice president class gift, Sarah Pacheco; and treasurer, Nate Kinney.
summer working for the Federal Forest Service.
Perry drove a carload of these classmates in
his four-door sedan. They spent their first night
at Cornell camping in a small campus picnic
area, then went on to Niagara Falls, then to Detroit
via Canada, crossed the Mississippi, and
headed for Yellowstone National Park where
they saw elk and bears. (Marshall invited a bear
to share his peanut butter sandwich, which encouraged
the bear to try to join the group.) Perry
took the men to Portland, OR, where he spent
the summer looking out for fires from a mountain
watchtower.
The rest of the group went on to California
where they had work with the Forest Service
in Sierra National Forest working to stop pine
blister rust. Shortly after this they were sent to
Montana to fight forest fires and spent several
weeks traipsing through rough country avoiding
bear and snakes. They were supplied with
meals, which came by pack mules, and were
served by prison trustees. Needless to say they
were happy to get back to Dinkey Creek Ranger
Station. Sounds like a great experience for
soon-to-be upperclassmen.
We recently heard from Anthony Merry,
who planned to attend our Reunion with his
wife, Marilyn. They summer on Lake Huron and
planned to make several stops on their way to
Orono, visiting friends and then returning in time
for Marilyn’s Keuka College reunion.
Don Spear wrote to inform us of Tom Lydon’s
recent death. He and Don had attended
law school at Georgetown University and
roomed together during that period. Don knew
a lot about Tom’s background since they were
fraternity brothers while at Orono. Tom retired
as senior judge, U.S. Court of Federal Claims.
He and his wife (who died in 2008) resided in
Fort Washington, MD.
This will be my farewell as your scribe.
After five years at the job I look forward to
hearing someone else’s slant on the affairs of
our classmates! Thanks for being such good
correspondents!
1953
Nancy Schott Plaisted
7 Ledgewater Drive
Kennebunk, ME 04043
(207) 967-1380
nan53@gwi.net
The fall Reunion is set for Wednesday, September
12, at Linekin Bay Resort in Boothbay
Harbor. Postcards will be sent to all classmates
sometime in July/August with full details. Mark
your calendars now and plan to enjoy all the
Maine coast has to offer, including the Coastal
Maine Botanical Gardens in nearby Boothbay.
Congratulations to John ’54 and Hazel Brown Standeven
’54, who celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary.
Another date: Homecoming on Saturday, October
20.
Mary Noyes Robbins, Barefoot Bay, FL
(winters), Madison, NH, Rangeley cottage (summers).
She walks, bikes, aquatic zumbas, and
golfs. A home ec major, she roomed in S. Estabrooke
with the late Anne Libby Kneeland
sophomore year; Lois Keirstead Butler, junior
year; and home management house (part of her
senior year). Her email: mrobbins64@cfl.rr.com.
Ron Bishop, Cornelius, NC, said, “I’m an
old geezer and officially in a few years I’ll be
a crotchety old geezer.” They’re still doing their
“bucket list:” China in July and polar bears in
Churchill, Canada, in October. In between:
Stockton Springs, ME, in June/August/September,
cutting grass, clearing meadows at the
farm (in the family since 1858). Also his surprise
80 th party.
Isabelle “Izzie” Stearns Foss, Temple, ME
(near Farmington), is “still here.” She volunteers
weekly on the patient support team at Franklin
Memorial Hospital in Farmington; took chaplain
assistant training; made four baby quilts for the
hospital; is on the board for the Senior College
based at UMaine Farmington; no computer—
she guesses she belongs in the Amish country.
Harold Eames, Bonita Springs, FL, is in an
over-55, five-star park, with all the activities,
“I certainly don’t appreciate your cold Maine
weather.” (This from a classmate originally from
Lowell, MA, who lived in North Hampton, NH!)
He does venture to his son’s at Sugarloaf and to
his sister-in-law’s in North Hampton, and then
goes back to “paradise.” Harold does a lot of
swimming/walking, and goes around and “bugs
the neighbors.” He saw his oldest granddaughter,
Jessica, graduate UMaine in May, and her
sister Emily, a snowboarder in national competition
in Colorado, graduate from Carrabassett
Valley Academy.
Sally Pray Fogler, Exeter, ME, is off to Africa
on a safari the end of August with her daughter
Martha Fogler and husband. In April she went
to Switzerland. Like Sally said, her big thing
is celebrating 80. Mother of six (four in Maine,
one in San Francisco, one in Switzerland), she
“finally stopped working two years ago,” having
worked 26 years in a lab at Dover-Foxcroft
Hospital. Sally grew up in Massachusetts and
New York, with all her relatives in
Maine (thus UMaine). In college,
she roomed two years with Mary
Gerrish Canning. She also spoke
of Pat King Berke living near Del
Mar, CA.
Charles “Bubba” Barrett,
Shalimar, FL, said he’d make
“every effort” to be in Boothbay
Harbor this fall. (His wife, Barbie,
from Alabama, has never been to
Maine.) When I said I don’t know
if I’d recognize you, he said: “I’m
as pretty as I ever was.” Charles finally
retired in 2006, having taught
13 years at the University of West
Florida, College of Business. He
retired from IBM in 1989, sent his
wife to find a place on the water,
hadn’t been there two hours when
he got a call from IBM, which led
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