Shirley Gray Adamovich, Durham NH: "Retired New Hampshire State Librarian, 13 years; retired Documents Librarian, UNH Dimond Library, 26 years. Live in Durham with husband Frank." (02)

Sorrowful best wishes to Phyllis Branz Ainspan, whose sky-diving daughter was killed in the women's world championships. (98)

Ten years ago, Ralph Asadourian took his son Mark '84 into his Manchester dental practice and allows that eventually "he'll be inheriting my drill." (99)

Deborah Atherton Atwood: "A fractured hip from a fall on my own deck in February, and cataract surgery in April and May, have kept me 'creeping in my petty pace from day to day'--but all is well now." (Deb was at Homecoming and very much recovered, thank you.) (04) More recently she writes: "Life is good on Sheepdog Hill. Had lunch in Portland this summer with Priscilla Hudson Whitmore and her husband. Lois Chase and I are coming to Durham on Thursday to join Val England and lunch at the new "commons". Val says it is a cut above the mystery meat and canned spinach we remember so fondly. I enjoyed your commentary on the Student Union... which will never be as wonderful as the Notch, of course. And I do wish there was a bit more parking for aging alumni that didn't require all the mountain climbing leg muscles that the daunting pyramid of stairs entails." (07)

Attorney Jacob Atwood was mentioned in People magazine article about a high-profile case in which a Massachusetts doctor allegedly shot his ex-wife. Jacob had represented the murdered woman in her divorce, and later filed a wrongful-death suit on behalf of the children. (01)

Ralph Austin reports that he works full time with the Rescue Mission Alliance of Syracuse, NY. (98)

Bruce Barmby has retired from the University of Florida as professor and horticulturist. He lives in Windemere among lakes, orange groves, and Disney critters, trekking north occasionally on genealogy projects. (99)

Eileen and Ed Branch are the proprietors of "Where Art Thou?", a splendidly named antique shop near Bass Harbor ME. They have five children and numerous grands, the most recent being Benjamin Branch, whose name goes back to 1763. Ed is president of the Maine Society, Sons of the American Revolution. (04) Ed's mom, Meta Gertrude Branch, decided to go to college not long after we did. At the age of 55, while working five nights a week in a mill in Newmarket, she got her GED and became a UNH freshman, graduating six years later. (06) "Have recently completed documentation for Mayflower membership.... My grandson Matthew ... has recently sired a new son, my great grandson.... One of his brothers ... has recently adopted a boy to call their own, he joins an adopted sister, that Mark and Stephanie traveled to Russia to have her join their family.... My youngest daughter and her husband has recently had a new child, a boy, increasing their family to nine." The Branches are certainly lucky they have a genealogist at the top of the line! (07)

"Headed back to MN (for the winter!)," writes Sue Bucknam. "It has been a beautiful fall here - I've loved every minute! Hopefully by next year, I'll sell the house in MN and make NH home year-round." (06)

John Burpee: "I now live in Goffstown and am married to a great artist, Jeanne Lachance. [Jeanne studied at UNH under John Hatch. Her work can be seen at the website www.magicartists.com/.] I spend summers golfing as much as I can, do some gardening, and volunteer at the Elliot Hospital in Manchester. Winters are another thing but we like NH and don't plan to become snowbirds." (04)

Nice email from Ed Caldwell in Scarborough, Maine, reflecting on his long friendship with Dick Kumin, who died last July. Then he went on to say: "I've been a bit busier in my life, was divorced, retired from Pulmonary Medicine, and then decided that I wanted more in medicine and started a psychiatric residency program at the Maine Medical Center. I'm now in my third year and love it." Wow. Let's hope that Maine Medical treats 70-something residents more gently than the 20-something brand! (05) More recently: "Joanne and I are still working. She is a UNH grad (1975) working as an outpatient dietitician at Maine Medical Center and now pursuing her MPH at Tufts in nutrition. I'm in my fourth year of adult psychiarty, will graduate in June, and am applying for a position in the child/adolescent psychiatry program here at the Maine Medical Center. I keep thinking of our days at East/West Halls a number of years ago. When I speak to recent UNH grads and mention East/West Halls I get a huh?, or never heard of them.... Stay healthy, do good things and stay in touch." (06)

Dave Cohen emailed: "Did you know that Fred Bennett had a bit part in a Hollywood movie starring Tab Hunter? He played an Army officer named Fred Bennett at some post in California." (03) More recently: "Paul Racioppi from the UNH Alumni Association invited a small group of alumni to take a tour of the new Kingsbury Hall last week (Sept. 22). I remember the old Kingsbury as the new Kingsbury as I started my freshman year in 1950. I was impressed. As I looked at the networked arrays of PCs, the new labs, and the study alcoves, I thought back to the $5 slide rule I carried. Now all the students walk around with wireless laptop PCs with more computing and communication power than any of the huge mainframes of the 60s, 70s, or 80s. How the world has changed! How beautiful the new Kingsbury is! How I wish I could go back to being 17 and starting again." (06)

Connie Miltimore Best retired from her real-estate firm. She and her husband live in South Bristol ME and have 12 grandchildren between them. (94) "We still love living on the coast of Maine. Busy with grandchildren, church and garden and of course visitors!" (02) More recently, Connie emailed that she was working on her 16th grand, due to arrive by jet plane from China. (03)

John Boehle Jr, Ridgefield CT: "Last year the class of 1956 gave a granite bench to UNH. It is placed outside the main entrance to the old library, [Hamilton Smith Hall]. There is room for two more benches. I suggest that our glass give such a bench.... It would be a lasting and functional gift to UNH.... I am in FL now but back in CT by mid-April." (02)

Marcel Boisvert started out with the class and wants to return to the fold. We'll take anyone we can get! (03) More recently, Marcel's story was written up by Hal LaCroix in the Boston Globe and posted on the Tufts University website as part of a project for a book about PWs in Nazi Germany. It seems Marcel was a tail gunner on a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress; on his fourth mission, in February 1945, he was shot down during the Anglo-American fire-bombing of Dresden, taken prisoner, and told he would be shot in the morning. It's a great story. Read it! (07)

"Forty years since UNH graduation? No way," writes Ted Bond. "I feel only 40." Perhaps because he's had but one job (Liberty Mutual), one wife (Jane Richardson), and one house (in Melrose MA) since graduation. Retired two years ago, he dotes on his family and such hobbies as "stained glass, reading, writing, gardening, photography...." (94)

Earl Boudette gave up teaching in favor of golf, skiing, studying German, and a bit of newspaper writing and photography, all in Charlestown NH. (94) More recently: "Spent the past year generating a database about the Phi Mu Delta brothers I graduated with. Amazing what one learns about their accomplishments. Have made contact with all the living as we plan our 50th reunion." (02) Presumably this is being done on an Apple computer--see photo at right. (03)

Gerald Bowen, Shrewsbury MA: "I retired from the practice of gastroenterology due to poor reimbursement and declining professional environment. The medical profession has now been industrialized and medical care is subjected to dumbing down of care for patients." (02) Dr. Bowen is "planning on helping out the Gulf States" after the hurricane and flood damage, having "already gone to New Orleans, Gulfport, Biloxie and Mobile. Physician volunteers are needed." (06)

Marilyn Campbell reports that "Caroline Norman Boyle and husband Bob live in Ashland NH. She retired after 20+ years of teaching." (02)

And that "Carolyn Hall Buck and John Buck live in Moultonborough NH in summer and spend winters in Florida." (02)

Clark Burbee emailed that he is taking flying lessons in a Cessna 152. (99)

John Burke of Salem MA was back from sailing a catamaran from St. Martin to Antigua with his sons. (97)

Sorrowful best wishes to Nancy Evans Burns, whose husband Bill died in June 1997. Earlier she wrote that she runs their B&B enterprise--"still very stimulating, and a healthy jump start every day." (Nancy got a new hip last year, after which she climbed Foss Mountain in Eaton.) (98) More recently: "Summertimes family visit me in my schoolhouse in Eaton NH. Three grandchildren are in camps in NH. I visit four camps in NE for accreditation purposes so I keep on the camp mode.... I travel when I can and enjoy NH rural living.... See you at the 50th. Can you believe we've made it?" (04)

"I'm working at the Maine Medical Center in Portland as a pulmonary physician, with an active pulmonary practice," reports Ed Caldwell. He adds a lament for the wooden barracks where we both lived for four years: "Each time I find a college student from UNH, I ask them if they know about East-West Halls or the East-West Halls park and invariably they do not have a clue. So it goes!" (96) Later: "I've been a bit busier in my life, was divorced, retired from Pulmonary Medicine, and then decided that I wanted more in medicine and started a psychiatric residency program at the Maine Medical Center. I'm now in my third year and love it." (05)

Sorrowful best wishes to Marilyn Turner Campbell, whose husband Bernie Campbell '55 died in November 1996 after a long battle with cancer. They ran her family's farm in Salem NH for many years, until in 1994 they turned it into Campbell's Scottish Highlands Golf Course. Marilyn continues as company president. (98)

Alan Carlsen writes: "My wife Harle and I attended the 100th birthday celebration of UNH's legendary track & cross-country coach Paul Sweet, at which time he ceremoniously broke ground for the long-overdue $2,100,000 track and field facilities. (01) More recently: "My wife, Harle, and I continue to operate a small nursery and Christmas tree business on Cape Cod, begun before I retired from teaching and coaching in 1991. Lucky to be healthy enough to follow the snow to Maine and Utah." (06)

Bill Carlson reports the birth of a seventh grandchild. (06)

Joan Clark Cary notes that she hasn't retired, hasn't moved, and has no grandchildren. (99)

Pat Gonyer Chaisson and Dick have moved back to this part of the world, having bought a new home in Hampton. (97)

Ann Bradford Jones Chase: "Thank God for email which enables me to keep in touch with dear friends, especially Deb Atherton Atwood, Annabel Gove Grady, and Jane Spinney Huber." (04)

Sorrowful good wishes to Lois Dalton Chase, whose son John died of a heart attack before Christmas. It's cruel when we outlive our children! (06)

Richard A. Cilley, Aurora CO: "Skiing free in Colorado at age 70. Join me." (02) More recently, he drove the point home: "300 plus days of sunshine ... and everyone aged 70 or older skis free." (03) And again: "Alive and well, planning a cross-country motorcycle trip." (04) And yet again: Dick donates blood 27 times a year! (06)

H. J. Clark summers in Laconia and winters in Aiken SC, "the best of both worlds." (97)

"Recently Bill Clark arrived at my doorstep with his wife," emailed Earl Boudette. "I hadn't seen him since graduation from UNH. He worked as a geologist in Montana, had a career in the Navy and now lives in the Buffalo, NY, area where he teaches math at the college level in retirement." (97)

I got email from Ruth Nash Clark and George Clark: "We spend winters in Bonita Springs FL which we really enjoy. Summers are spent in Wolfeboro enjoying the lake with our grandchildren. I recently attended a mini-reunion of Theta U's at the home of Polly Harris Salter [with] Margie Kenyon Salathe, Connie Miltimore Best and Marilyn Needham Darling.... We also see Lois Dalton Chase in Wolfeboro during the summer." (03) More recently: "Our oldest grandson has joined the 'immortals' [UNH students crossing the street while talking on cell phone] as an enthusiastic freshman this fall. He has shown us some of the newer buildings on campus, and we've pointed out the older landmarks, which he hadn't yet identified. He's as excited as we are about UNH and its sports program, and all of us look forward to a great football season, followed by an equally good hockey season. Our enthusiasm will be long distance, however, since we leave for six months in Florida the end of October." (06)

Lila Johnston Cobb also checked in by email: "Since my husband Willis Cobb died in 1986, I got back into the music teaching business and added a computer/digital music system and have fun, when I am not mowing lawn, writing/printing or recording my music. In short, I am a sort of eremite composer, although I have reached out to have my music performed on limited but signifigant events of the Maine Composers' Forum and Universalist convocations. I am pretty much retired from my private studio music teaching and yes, I retired so I can work full time." (03)

Dave Cohen: "I attended the first day of our 40th last June and discovered everyone else was as old as me," he wrote from America Online. "I'm still on the employment roles at GE Aircraft Engines in Lynn, MA." Indeed, this is his 39th year on the job. (95) Dave is celebrating grandfatherhood, courtesy of his daughter Sarah '85. (98) Later: "After our 50th reunion I started a new career in journalism. Since last August, I have provided the � Danvers MA Herald with a monthly column on energy matters" online. (06)

Dennis Comolli retired after careers as Air Force navigator, science teacher, and coach in Falmouth MA. "New home in Naples 8 months and 4 months in Falmouth MA, Cape Cod. Still umpiring baseball. On the shelf with a complete knee replacement 1/22/02. Still like to get to UNH to see football in the fall.... Still get away with '54 and '55 UNH's for a football trip to the Big Ten. Great fun." (02) More recently: "Primary residence in Florida, but spent 5 months in Dover N.H. tak[ing] in games at UNH and watching 5 grandchildren play sports in the area. Still umpiring baseball and softball." (06)

Jim Connor, Newmarket NH / Ellenton FL: "Winters in Florida are great (miss the snow). This fall had a great time in Napa Valley CA (thanks to Annabel Gove Grady) with our middle Navy pilot son and his wife. Enjoying our only grandchild in Florida. Our youngest graduated from the United States Maritime Academy in June and works in Washington DC." (02)

Ralph (Tim) Craig and Ginger have moved to Hilton Heads, SC, have built a new home, and are now "playing tennis and enjoying the wonderful climate." (98)

John DesJardins is alive and well in Henderson NV after a career that included a stint flying Republic F-105 "Thud" fighter-bombers in Southeast Asia, later working for MGM Grand and the Dial Corp in Las Vegas. "Married a gal from Minnesota in 1958, have 4 sons and 5 grandsons. Winnie and I are both retired. She donates her time and I play golf." (99)

M. Sargent Desmond retired in February and is Pastor Emeritus of the Congregational Church of Brookfield CT. He and Nancy have made two trips to Britain and Holland to track down Mayflower Pilgrims in the family tree. Sarge is a magician, available for gigs in a 50-mile radius. (97)

Donald D. Doane: "Retired in 1994 from Phillips Exeter Academy after 13 years as director Food Services and 12 years as director Auxiliary Services. Still working part-time as Health Services student chaperone, and treasurer of town of Newfields NH since 1984." (04)

Mary Bickford Dow lives in West Brookfield MA with husband Edwin, a Worcester lawyer. When her first daughter was born, Mary retired from her job as assistant director of occupational therapy at the VA Hospital in Rutland MA; she now counts three married children and nine grands. (99)

Rosemarie Dowaliby Murphy lives in Connecticut and spends the winter in Florida or Brazil; she notes that her brother Jim Dowaliby still lives in Suffolk, VA.

The American Jewish Committee presented its 1996 Learned Hand Award to John P. Driscoll April 18 at the Westin Hotel in Boston. Paying tribute to his "outstanding professional and humanitarian achievements," the committee noted that Jack serves the Boston Bar Association, ABA, Catholic Schools Foundation, Children's Hospital, Irish American Partnership, Boston Coalition Against Drugs and Violence, and Northeastern University Commission on Athletics, not to mention the law firm of Nutter, McClennen, and Fish. (97) Community Resources for Justice (CRJ) awarded its annual CRJ Justice Award to Boston attorney Jack Driscoll in recognition of his outstanding career in the service of social justice. Driscoll, a partner at the Boston law firm of Nutter, McClellan & Fish, was cited for his outstanding contributions as the founder and chair of the Boston Coalition Against Drugs and Violence and working toward innovative approaches to criminal justice issues. (05)

"Same old house, but new address," says Bill Dupuy. "Fed, State, and Town have now agreed on 911 addresses"--34 Skyline Drive in Moultonborough NH. (06)

A classmate used email and telephone to find Diana Colburn Duval. After her husband died in 1988, Diana relocated to Derry, NH, and fell out of the UNH computer. She wasn't altogether lost, however, for Carl Weston '53 stopped by the country store where she works and gave her a copy of the latest Alumni Companion. Welcome back to Alumni Records, Diana. (95)

The winter 2005 issue of UNH Magazine contained this photo of Valerie Wilcox England and her family, lauding them for establishing the England Family Fund in honor of Val's and our 50th reunion. The fund will provide a professorship in the School of Health and Human Studies. From left: daughter Jennifer Decker '77, Val, daughter Hilary Norman '86, husband Fred, and son William. (05) More recently: "Last Spring my daughter-in-law and I took an Elderhostel trip to Oxford MS to the Southern Writers and Book Conference. At 'Ole Miss' we had several days of writers on every subject imaginable: theatre, politics,poetry, music, writing itself ... In May, I went to Sonata, a music camp in Vermont. Twenty or [so] pianists study, learn, play for ten days.... And I'm boning up on French. I study while pedaling on a recumbent bike at Synergy, Exeter Hospital's fitness center. My manicurist is French. She gives me homework, and we converse while my nails are being done." (06)

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