Fall 2005 PDF - Milton Academy

Class Notes1935Sarah (Sally) Campbell Hansen’sgallery, The Glass Gallery, is celebratingits 25th anniversary.On April 16, 2005, in Australia,Sarah and Edwin’s eldest granddaughterwas the first of theirgrandchildren to be married.Eleanor Blackall Read sold herhouse on Mason’s Island andmoved three and a half miles toa new retirement home inMystic. She reports, “Many ofmy friends are here, life is congenial,there are many activities,excellent meals, and I’m stillvery involved in local history.”1936Susan Miller Jackson says thatshe is becoming accustomed tono longer sharing her life withher husband of 57 years. Shebelieves, however, “He really stillis, and always will be, a part ofme. Many of you are probablyalso experiencing this, whichprovides many happy remembrancesof things we did togetherand often with our children.I was lucky to have such a reallykind, generous, caring and fun,lovely man and doctor as myhusband for so many years. Dayby day, life goes on in the sameplaces as before April 1, 2004,when he died. I also have manypleasant memories from Milton,where I enjoyed the chance toplay Scrooge in the fall and LittleRed Riding Hood in French inthe spring.”Rosemary Crocker Kemp lives inFitchburg, Massachusetts, in ahouse more than 200 years old!Her children and grandchildrenlive nearby in New Hampshire.She also spends time in herother home in Franconia, NewHampshire.1937Daphne Withington Adamsmoved in January 2004 to a continuous-caresenior residence inFort Worth, Texas, to be nearerto her daughter and her family.She is enjoying it despite beingin rehab for five months afterhaving her right hip replaced inOctober 2004. The first replacementshifted, requiring a secondsurgery.In John Cobb’s so-called retirementfrom teaching (as professoremeritus of preventive medicine,University of ColoradoSchool of Medicine), he is workingon a method of utilizingsolar energy to produce safedrinking water. His goal is todevise an affordable, simple,effective, fail-safe method of distillingcontaminated water thatcould be constructed out of locallyavailable and affordable materialsin underdeveloped ruralareas, by any local villager who ishandy with tools. He reports thatit is coming along!1938Tarbell Clay (Mrs. John S.) Hoeshas moved into a wonderfulhome in Cooperstown, NewYork. Despite an unusual disease,Wegener’s granulomatosis,she gets around pretty well.Anyone in the area is invited tocome see her. Her phone numberremains the same.Don’t Miss the PartyFrom annual receptionsand networking nights toyoung alumni gatheringsand other regional programs,events will takeplace in dozens of citiesacross the country this year.Go to www.milton.edu andclick on “alumni” for detailsand updates.Posing at the 2005 Milton Academy graduation ceremony are Class of 1940graduates, from left to right, Stephen Gifford, Thayer Mackenzie andJ. Walker Stuart.1939Evan Calkins and his wife,Virginia, were expecting twograndchildren in summer 2004,which brings the total to 30!1940Sixty-five years after their owngraduation from MiltonAcademy, Stephen Gifford,Thayer Mackenzie and J. WalkerStuart enjoyed reuniting at graduationin June.Estelle Lawson Johnstonbelieves, “What is new is nothingnew—a time of incrediblequestions about the future. Theonly thing certain is change,”she writes.Mary Hunting Smith lives in aretirement community in Lenox,Massachusetts. She says, “I livenear Tanglewood, and summerconcerts are popular. We alsohave in-house concerts, asinging group and a bell-ringinggroup as well as many nonmusicalevents and organizations.”She continues her choralsociety interests by singing in alocal chorus and a church choir.1941Benjamin Burr reports he is“well, happy, optimistic, humble,grateful and solvent.”Ed Squibb continues to competein New England Section 80’ssingles.1942R. L. Day reports that sonStephen Day ’78 and hisSpanish wife, Clara, run TheAmerican School in Oviedo.Recently, they were placing U.S.students for family stays. Theschool has more than 100 studentsfrom age 7 to over 45.Stephen and Clara’s two bilingualsons (ages 6 and 8) spendAugust in the States.Irving Forbes was featured in anarticle, “Grants in Action: ForbesFamily Fun,” in the spring 2005issue of Northeast Historic FilmMoving Image Review. Irving andhis family gathered in Brooklin,Maine, to view footage of islandsheep drives and coastal boatingthat Irving’s father, AlexanderForbes, had shot in 1915. Theoriginal 28mm film was transferredto 35mm film by a laboratoryin Bologna, Italy “It wasvery good, with none of thatclick-click-click [of the handcrankedprojection],” Irving said.70 Milton Magazine