Forties

		Class Secretary: Esther Strout Allen, 5620 Arrowhead Dr., Zephyrhills, FL 33541 Class President: Harry B. Shepherd, Shoal Cove Rd., PO Box 674, West Bath, ME 04530-0674 Next Reunion in 2000. Report of mini-reunion: As an outgrowth of those pre-50th reunions, some ’40 members and/or spouses still meet about twice a year, 10 a.m.to 4 p.m. for coffee, news, pot luck dinner, pictures and plans. Anyone within easy driving distance from Chelmsford, Mass., (whereDoug and Cookie Bragdon live) is welcome. Usually present are Leslie and Jean Fessenden Thomas, Martha Greenlaw Allman, Ruth and John Hibbard, Lillian and Eric Lindell,Lib MacGregor Crooker Bates, Bob Plaisted, Carl andBarb Rowell Kirkpatrick, Marita Dick Stratton ’39, andDoug and “Cookie” Bragdon.
		Class Secretary: Barbara Abbott Hall, 7004 Wellington Ct., Baltimore, MD 21212-1929 Class President: Gale Rice Powers, 33 Francis Ave., Newington, CT 06111-1213 Next Reunion in 2001.
		Class Secretary: Martha Blaisdell Mabee, 94 Fifer Ln., Lexington, MA 02173 Co-Class Presidents: Virginia Day Hayden, 8 Eden Ave., West Newton, MA 02165; John A. James, 559 W. Auburn Rd., Auburn, ME 04210 Next Reunion in 2002.
		Class Secretary: Jean Lombard Dyer, RR 1, Box 191, Chebeague Island, ME 04017-9722 Co-Class Presidents: Gilbert S. Center Jr. and Marjorie Cahall Center, 24 Folsom St., Laconia, NH 032463005 Next Reunion in 2003.
		Class Secretary: Virginia Stockman Fisher, PO Box 7631, Portland, ME 04112-7631 Co-Class Presidents: Edmund H. Gibson, 13 Wheeler Park, Brunswick, ME 04011-1635; Richard L. Keach, 51 Randy Ln., Wethersfield, CT 06109-3763 Next Reunion in 1999.
		Co-Class Secretaries: Carleton and Arline Sinclair Finch, 137 Marshall Rd., Fitchburg, MA 01420-2032 Class President: Eugene L. Woodcock, PO Box 1979, Helendale, CA 92342-1979 Next Reunion in 2000.
		Class Secretary: Ruth Small Harris, PO Box 11, Sunset, ME 04683-0011 Class President: Jane Parsons Norris, 93 Field Ave., Auburn, ME 04210-4522 Next Reunion in 2001. Mert and Pat Hemenway Poorecelebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in August. Mert graduated from UMaine in 1945. Their grandson recently graduated as a lance vorporal from the U.S. Marine Corps at Parris Island, S.C., and is now at security school in Virginia. Their granddaughter is a first year student at Univ. of New Hampshire. We were sorry to learn of the death in February of Pat’s mother, who had celebrated her 100th birthday a month earlier…. We send our sympathy to Myrtle Holden Birdsellon the death of her husband, Dale.
		Class Secretary: Elizabeth Hill Jarvi, RR1, Box 414 Tyson, Ludlow, VT 05149-9601 Class President: Richard L. Baldwin, 348 Heath Rd., Bremen, ME 04551 Next Reunion in 2002. 48 Class Secretary: Lois Youngs Dennett, 275 Port Rd., Wells, ME 04090-9542 Co-Class Presidents: Richard F. Daly, PO Box 546, Sagamore Beach, MA 02562; Richard F. Woodcock, 12 Beech St., Woodstock CT 06281-3000 Next Reunion in 2003.
		Class Secretary: Edith M. Routier, 2 Wellington Ter., Apt. 2, Brookline, MA 02146-6747 Class President: Hugh Mitchell, 31 Mattoon St., Springfield, MA 01105-1715 Next Reunion in 1999.