Ethel Manning Giuffra, Aug. 12, 1996.
An honors graduate, Ethel Manning Giuffra was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, Delta Sigma Rho, and the Bates Key. She earned her master’s degree in French from Middlebury College. First teaching in Auburn, she directed a summer playground there and was a pianist locally. She moved to New Jersey, where she taught French and Latin at Montclair High School. Active in Girl Scouts for many years, she was a member of the Alliance Francaise, Business and Professional Women, the College Women’s Club, and headed the New Jersey Alumni Club in 1949. In the 1950s she conducted a monthly radio program in Montclair answering parents’ questions about children and reading at home. She is survived by her husband, Frank; two sons, Peter and James; two daughters, Carol and Kathleen; 19 grandchildren, and 13 great-grandchildren. She was predeceased by a daughter, Mary; a brother, John Manning ’30; and a sister-in-law, Catherine Salter Manning.’31.

Marian Ripley Gray, July 2, 1996.
A member of the Bates Key, Marian Ripley Gray taught at Andes (N.Y.) High School, then lived in Lewiston and Portland after her marriage to Malcolm Gray ’26, who was the son of Bates president Clifton Daggett Gray. At one time she was secretary of the Alumnae Club and was assistant secretary of Central Maine General Women’s Hospital Assn. Following the death of her husband, she moved to Sarasota, Fla., with daughter Joyce Gray Allman ’54 and two grandchildren, all of whom survive. She was predeceased by a sister, Rachel Ripley ’20; and two brothers-in-law, Paul Gray ’26 and Clifton D. Gray Jr. ’36.

Lawrence C. LeBeau, Sept. 10, 1996.
A cum laude graduate, Lawrence LeBeau was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and belonged to College Club. He earned a B.S. in civil engineering from MIT in 1932 and served in the U.S. Army during World War II. In New Hampshire he had been associated with Meredith Trust Co., then served as assistant and chief state bank examiner between 1940 and 1953, when he joined Keene Savings Bank. He remained as an officer in the bank until his retirement as executive vice president and chief executive officer in 1970. He was a member of Knights Templar, Chocorua Lodge, Eastern Star, American Legion, and VFW.

Evelyn Webb Carpenter, June 26, 1996.
A Phi Beta Kappa graduate with honors in Latin, Evelyn Webb Carpenter first taught Latin and French at Thetford (Vt.) Academy, where she also was supervisor of girls’ dormitories. She then taught in the high schools of Lancaster and Hanover, N.H. A homemaker, she was a 60-year resident of Springfield, N.H. She had been a member of the Altrurian Club and the Hospital Auxiliary. She is survived by a brother and several nieces and nephews, including Martha Webb Snow ’63 and Kendall Snow ’62. Predeceased by her husband, Paul Carpenter, she was the daughter of Iona Webb Kierstead, a housemother at Bates during the 1940s.

Lawrence C. Parker, Nov. 10, 1996.
Lawrence Parker was elected to Delta Sigma Rho and was a member of the Eastern Intercollegiate Championship Team that debated English universities. In 1934 he earned his M.A. from Tufts University Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Initially he had worked as assistant general manager for Lionel Electric Train Co. in Irvington, N.J., then as general manager of the Oxford Wood & Plastics Co. in West Paris, and as assistant productions control manager at A.C. Gilbert. For 20 years, Mr. Parker was on the staff of the Univ. of New Haven as director of development, alumni relations, and governmental relations. After he retired in 1978, he continued to work as a part-time counselor at the university. He was active in New Haven, where he was past president of Kiwanis, served on the boards of Junior Achievement, the University Research Institute of Connecticut, Quinnipiac Council of Boy Scouts, Connecticut Radio Foundation and Station WELI, the Connecticut Motor Club, and AAA. A Mayflower descendant, he belonged to the Yale Club, the Graduate Club, and was a member of the First Congregational Church UCC. He is survived by a son, L. Craig Parker ’60; a daughter, Judith; three brothers, and three grandchildren. His wife, Virginia (Moulton ’33) predeceased him.

John W. Phillips, July 18, 1996.
Following work with W.T. Grant Co. in Andover, Mass., New York, and New Jersey, John Phillips served in the U.S. Naval Reserve during World War II. After his military service, Mr. Phillips was a manager at Farrey’s Wholesale Hardware Co., then vice president and buyer for the company in 1970. He retired in 1974. He lived in Florida for many years and was vice president, then president of the Florida Bates Club from 1975 to 1979. He married the former June Barley in 1939.

Kermit R. True, May 10, 1996.
A native of Gardiner, Kermit True lived and worked in Maine throughout his life. After graduation he owned an insurance company in Farmingdale, where he was also tax collector. He had attended Peabody Law School and served as a staff sergeant for two years in the U.S. Army in Europe with the 215th General Hospital. On his return to Maine, he worked in the Veterans Administration as registrar, training officer and, finally, as a field examiner for the VA legal department in the office of the chief attorney. Following his retirement in 1973, Kermit True was a member of the planning board of the Gardiner City Council. He belonged to VFW, American Legion, American Association of Retired Federal Employees, and Knights of Columbus. Active in St. Joseph’s Church, he wrote a book on the history and early Christianity of the area, published during renovations at the Church in 1976. He is survived by his wife, Ellen; a son, Kermit Jr.; and nieces, nephews, and cousins.

Maxine McCormack Lockwood, May 6, 1996.
A Maine native of Ashland, Maxine McCormack Lockwood was a longtime resident of Farmington. She taught English and French in Washburn and Penacook, N.H. Following her marriage to Paul Lockwood, she was a homemaker. A member of the Farmington Women’s Club, she was a communicant of St. Peter Church. Her hobbies included needlepoint, attending the ballet, and reading about Imperial Russia, an interest that led to a tour of that country in 1987. In their 52 years of marriage, she and husband Paul enjoyed travel that included the Ashland Hometown celebration, winters in South Carolina and Florida, and summers on Lake Winnipesaukee, N.H. She is survived by her husband; three sisters; and nephews and nieces.

Dorothy Hoyt Spear, May 28, 1996.
A graduate of Katharine Gibbs School in 1937, Dorothy Hoyt Spear worked as a secretary in Arlington and Cambridge, Mass., until her marriage in 1941 to Earl Spear. She was a member of the Ladies Alliance of the First Parish Unitarian-Universalist Church and the Phillips Congregational Church in Canton, Mass. Also in Canton, she was a member of the Nursing Assn., Garden Club, and Historical Society. She is survived by her husband; a daughter, Judith; a son, Charles; and four grandchildren.

Dorothy Stevens Dore, May 4, 1996.
After attending Bates, Dorothy Stevens Dore graduated from Westbrook College. A concert pianist and accompanist, she also studied in San Diego, Calif. Following her marriage to Kenneth Dore ’31, a Maine physician, she continued her professional interests, playing organ and piano in local churches. She accompanied for concerts, school plays, weddings, and for Louise Fuchs and Frank Petillo in the North Conway (N.H.) area. After the Dores retired to Melbourne, Fla., where they spent the winters, she was organist and choir director at the First Congregational Church there, also playing cello and violin. She is survived by her husband; two daughters, Emily ’61 and Ellen ’63; a son, Steven; and eight grandchildren.

Annette Barry MacMillan, July 24, 1996.
After she graduated, Annette Barry MacMillan assisted with the registration of voters in Lewiston, then was a social worker with the state Welfare Department’s division of old-age assistance. During World War II she counseled unwed mothers in rural areas of Maine and served as assistant director of the USO Center in Brunswick. After she married Myles MacMillan in 1945, they lived in Rochester, N.Y., where she worked at Highland Hospital. From 1952 to 1954 she was secretary-treasurer of the Chicago Bates Club. She enjoyed gardening, walking, sailing and loved traveling. She was a communicant of Holy Martyrs Church in Falmouth. She is survived by a son, Bruce; a daughter, A. Barry; a niece, nephew, and cousins. Her husband died in 1992.

Orrin P. Snow, Sept. 3, 1996.
During World War II Orrin Snow was a captain in the U.S. Army. He then worked in the dairy industry, initially with the New England Milk Producers Assn. as a field representative and laboratory technician. In the 1950s he was a sales rep for the Sealright Co. in Connecticut. From 1964 until he retired in 1979, he was purchasing agent for Brookside Dairies and director of purchasing and statistical analysis for Litchfield Farm Shops Inc. in Middlebury, Conn. The Connecticut Assn. of Dining and Food Sanitarians presented him with their Man of the Year Award in 1960. Orrin Snow was president of the New Haven Bates Club from 1956 to 1958, a life member of the Meriden Power Squadron, past president of Kiwanis Club, a trustee and deacon of the First Congregational Church of Wallingford, where he lived. He and wife Ruth always returned for Reunion, including the 55th in 1996. He is survived by his wife; a son, Allan ’66; two daughters, Marjorie B. Swift and Barbara Snow Beverage ’71; a son-in-law, Robert Beverage ’70; and eight grandchildren.

George A. Kolstad, Aug. 7, 1996.
A magna cum laude graduate, George Kolstad was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and College Club. As part of the World War II effort, he worked on radar countermeasures at Yale. An internationally recognized expert on physics, he earned his Ph.D. at Yale in 1945 and joined the Atomic Energy Commission in 1950, where he was instrumental in research and development for the peaceful uses of nuclear energy. He helped initiate the U.S. government program in high-energy physics, controlled thermonuclear fusion research, and he started many major scientific facilities. He headed the U.S. delegation to international committees to foster development and exchange of basic data on nuclear processes. From 1973 until he retired in 1990, Dr. Kolstad headed the interagency geosciences research program for continental scientific drilling to learn more about the earth’s structure. He received the Outstanding Contribution Award for establishing the geoscience research at the Department of Energy and was the author of articles in Physics Today. In Bates affairs, he served on the Board of Trustees from 1958 to 1963 and was president of the New Haven and Washington, D.C., Bates clubs. He was a member of Cosmos Club, the American Geophysical Union, and the Laytonsville (Md.) Lions Club, where he was a member of the civic improvement committee. He also served for five years on the school board there. In Sandy Spring he was a member of Friends Meeting and a trustee of Friends School and Friends Retirement Home. On his small farm he raised bees and Black Angus steer. He is survived by his wife of 52 years, Christine (Stillman ’45); two sons, Charles ’69 and Peter; a daughter, Martha; and four grandchildren.