Class of '40

The class of 1940 will enter the new millennium with the celebration of our 60th reunion. We hope to have at least sixty classmates return for our 60th. Your response to the fundraising for the Class of 1940 Scholarships has been marvelous. For fiscal year 1998-99, you contributed $18,788. The total amount raised since 1997 is $41,172. We are within sight of our goal—$60,000 for the 60th. Col. Paul Fahey wrote that he maintains his ties to Vermont through his wife, Virginia, whose family roots go back to Ethan and Ira Allen. He regrets that he will not be able to attend our 60th. Laura Dustan, a resident of Craftsbury Common, Vt., hopes to join returning classmates for our reunion. The university community was saddened to learn of the death of Laura’s sister, Dr. Harriet Dustan ’42, MD ’44, on June 27, 1999. Anso Belardinelli has taken nineteen cruises since retirement in 1980. Joseph and Dorothy Wagstaff will celebrate a belated 50th wedding anniversary with a cruise to the Caribbean and South America in March 2000. They enjoy monthly lunches with Winn Hebb ’35. George Hart has traveled in thirty-five countries and all fifty states since his retirement in 1982. Lois Redding Grace wrote, “Thanks to the Vermont Quarterly, I learned about my old (young!) roomie, Charlotte Weisman Wise.” After teaching home economics in Massachusetts, Katherine Davis Widness and her husband are living in a retirement community in Sun City Center, Fla. They have been married for fifty-six years and have four grandchildren. E. James Roberts reported that he and his wife are the proud great-grandparents of Keagan Puffen, born April 13, 1998. Dr. Reid Leonard and his son have a thoroughly equipped shop for furniture construction. Robert Dunning has retired from his second career in metal sculpture. He enjoys living in Concord, N.H. Sadly, Richard Zentmire, husband of classmate Frances Ruder Zentmire, reported that she has been ill for several months. And, last but not least, Alice Hudson Morrow’s comment: “Surviving.”

Class of '42

Classmates were saddened by the death of Harriet Dustan, MD ’44. Dusty had many accomplishments in her medical career, and she will be greatly missed. Janet Rust Wood is a trustee at the Brownell Library in Essex Junction, Vt. Anne Lovell Jackman is not well and would love to hear from her UVM friends. If you’d like to write to her, please send your letter to the UVM Alumni Office, 411 Main Street, Burlington, VT 05401, and it will be forwarded to Anne. Fifteen classmates spent a great day in Barre, Vt., having lunch at the Lobster Pot and visiting afterwards at the home of Pearl Marvin Welch and husband Clayton. The group included Barbara Brewster Howard, Larry and Ruth Orr Burgess, Bill Bister, Ray and Marguerite Doheny Tremblay, Hilda Paquette Thayer, Joyce Kenyon Livak and sister Avis Smith, Barbara Gallagher Kennedy, Peter and Ellen Isham Bardin, and your class secretary.

Class of '43

Not much news from you, my dear classmates, so I will report that Red and I enjoyed going back to UVM in May to see our grandson, Jeff Look, graduate from the department of physical therapy. Harry Twitchell visited us in early August as he made his annual trek through New England to visit relatives and friends. Harry and his youngest son went on a cruise on a very small ship in September 1998 to New Foundland and Labrador. Harry himself went with an old school chum to Scandinavia during the past year, thus fulfilling a lifelong dream. Beverly Jarvis retired in 1992 but has been busy in retirement. She did some consulting for the Arizona State Department of Education, and she is active in her church. Beverly and her mother, Constance Ellworth ’28, have enjoyed several cruises and travel to British Columbia and Hawaii. Joe Alpert, who lives in Savannah, Ga., wrote the following to me earlier this year: “I’m still employed at Memorial Hospital on a limited basis, although I’m not doing surgery. I’m a great-grandfather plus five months. My son, Jeff ’85, is still living happily in San Francisco. My two doctor sons are saving lives right and left and are still practicing in Penn’s Woods. Middle son, Jonathon, is still keeping Apple and Eve fruit juices on the shelves of all the well-known supermarkets, and daughter, Bess, is a kidney transplant coordinator at the Beth Israel Hospital in Newark, N.J.

Class of '44

At reunion, the following officers were re-elected to another five-year term: Monroe Allen, president, Ione Lacy Keenan, vice president, and Alison Carr Wood, your class secretary. Nearly fifty classmates and guests attended our 55th reunion last June. Special thanks to all the volunteers who made this reunion so special. Sue Berg Leve recently remarried. They planned to cruise in Scandinavia and Russia last August.

Class of '45

I have asked to step in as class secretary to help get the reunion planning going for our class. June 1-4 will mark our 55th reunion, and we hope that everyone will plan to be there for this special occasion. Charlotte Robinson Swett of Scottsdale, Ariz., wrote that she teaches homebound high school students and runs a tutorial program on Saturday morning. In February 1999, she took an astronomy tour to see the total eclipse. Judith Gilbert Whitney sings with a group of retirees called the Senior Songbirds. They present small musical programs at hospitals and daycare centers in the Tempe, Ariz., area. Judith has had her poems published in ten different anthologies.

Class of '46

Nancy Hall Baldwin and husband Ken celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary with their children in Bermuda. Betty Clark Vialle, who lives in Concord, Mass., enjoys her summers from May to November in South Hero, Vt. Virginia Benedict Peltier recently spent two weeks in Richmond, Va., with her son’s family, helping them celebrate their 20th wedding anniversary and enjoying grandchildren. Elizabeth Dole Durfee and husband Herb, recently welcomed their first grandchild, Herbert Durfee IV. Betty Johnson Bahrenberg recently underwent successful shoulder surgery. All of the above plus Edith Colegrove Noyes and your class secretary gathered in Burlington for a 57th high school reunion on August 12. Mary Jean Dunsmore Cox is now at her home in St. Albans, Vt. She is restoring a beautiful family home. She recently had a visit from Mary Boardman Ciaschini, who spent the summer with husband Walt at their summer home on Caspian Lake.

Class of '47

The class of ’47 was saddened to learn of the death of Marion Merrill Greeley in December 1997. She was very active in class reunion activities. As co-chair with Dorothy Hansen Eichorn of our 50th reunion gift committee, she helped us raise a record-breaking gift to UVM.

Class of '49

We certainly had a great celebration for our 50th reunion. We were the special focus at the Presidential Celebration of Classes. In honor of this special milestone, the President joined us for our class dinner on Saturday evening. During the weekend, we elected new class officers, who will serve for the next five years: Malcolm and Gladys Severance, co-presidents, Arthur Heald, vice president, and Rose O’Connell, secretary. Special thanks to outgoing officers Marilyn Davis Huntley and Margaret Harris Twitchell as well as all of those who served on the reunion committees. Lyndol Palin is happily retired and living in his hometown of Derby, Vt.