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Editor’s Note: Quite a landmark. at the regional hospital. and David would go fishing, Mary Donald Peabody
Seven sibling picture and all Their son and two daughters catching and releasing trout 3 Ridgeway Court
alums of HHS! were born during that time. save for one two- pounder Houlton, ME 04730
Gatherings during the year David's career then took they took home and cooked. mdpeabody5@gmail.com
were difficult due to Covid but them to Portland where he In 1994 David suffered a
Geneva, Sue, Margie, and Lois became process engineer at heart attack, and in 1995 they Dave McGillicuddy
managed to go to breakfasts E.C. Jordan. Having ruptured returned to the Portland area. Between the Houlton High
at Irving. Rachel Sylvester and a disk on the job which They bought a home on an School Gala event and
Tom Good have a new great- required spinal fusion, Linda island on the Spurwink River other summer festivities, I
grandson, Tanner Good. Sally left nursing and went to work a quarter of a mile up from connected with quite a few
Wakefield White is enjoying at Cross Jewelers. She stayed, Higgins Beach. classmates this past summer.
her new apartment and new off and on, for nearly 28 years, In 2011, the Smarts were It was great to see everybody!
friends. learning all aspects of the en route to a hunt in Africa
business—bookkeeping, sales, Carolyn Dickerson is
Sadly, we lost another and even the nature of gems. when David suffered a heart residing in Wells, Maine. She
classmate this year on attack at Dallas/Fort Worth and Dorene Humphrey
4/23/22- Jim Donald. For ten years on their sailboat Airport. Another attack and a were enjoying a night out
that slept the whole family, stroke followed, and he was
Linda St. Peter, ‘60 Rep they sailed the Maine coast in Linda's care for the next for dinner at the winery in
for up to two weeks at a time. ten years. She was glad of Hodgdon while listening to
Class of 1961 Both David and Linda took her nursing background. In our band play for a couple of
Barbara McGillicuddy Bolton courses in navigation, Linda 2013 they purchased a place hours. Carolyn is doing well
385A 5th St. so that she could step in in Titusville, Florida, where and was visiting with Dorene
Brooklyn, NY 11215 should David suffer ill health. they spent six months and for the weekend. You might
(718) 788-2282 A Type One diabetic, he had one day of the year. A couple remember that those two
mcgillbolt@yahoo.com been on insulin since age 32. of years later they sold the were best of friends during
our high school years and
His health stable once again Spurwink River house and
One day last summer Linda and his skill as a chemical purchased a camp at East have remained so.
Smith Smart came over from engineer much sought after, Grand Lake. During the six Dorene Humphrey, Mary
her camp on East Grand Lake he and Linda hopscotched month-minus-one-day stay Peabody, Nancy Fitzpatrick
to visit me in mine. We had a across the US and all over at the lake Linda volunteers and I set up the window
good chat and following is a the world. They also traveled at the Orient Food Pantry. display for the class of
summary of her and David's for pleasure, going twice to Until the last year of his life, ‘62 - part of the Gala week
life together. I enjoy reporting Scotland, David's ancestral David remained mentally happenings. I contacted Jerry
on one or two classmates at home. David played the alert and active, a fishing rod Miller and asked if he might
a time, but be aware, dear bagpipes for Shriners attached to his wheelchair. He have his jacket from the
friends, that you are welcome Children's Hospitals. A bow died in Titusville on May 29, Future Farmers organization
to submit to the column at any hunter, he killed a caribou, a 2021. The Smarts have four that we could put on display,
time!! deer, and a bear, each with a grandchildren and a nearly but he informed me that
One day when Linda Smith single arrow. two-year-old great grandson it had long since been
and David Smart were in In 1993, David's career took whose middle name is David. discarded!
second grade at the Fair them for a couple of years to Save the date, everyone, for For those who did not see
Street School, he climbed New Zealand, where Linda felt our 80th birthday party at the window - we decided to
up on an orange crate and as though she had stepped my camp at East Grand Lake enlarge our yearbook pictures
kissed her on the cheek. In back in time. Mornings she on Saturday, July 29. I will and put all class members on
1966 after he had completed would walk down the beach email you in the spring with the inside of the windows at
the 5-year Pulp and Paper to place a bread order with a reminder and details. If you Bates Fuel Company. Inside
Program at Orono and she the baker. A short drive away got my Save the Date email in we displayed our former band
had become a nurse at Maine was a spot where farmers September, then I have your teacher, Joe Tufts, directors’
Medical and was employed at trucked in produce for sale—a email address. If not, please uniform for display. Included
Taylor Osteopathic Hospital bucket of avocados for one send it to me. in the display was a majorette
in Bangor, they got married dollar, for instance. In fact, and band uniform as well as
in a Congregational service an avocado tree grew on the Barbara Bolton the front page of the Houlton
at the Unitarian Universalist Smarts' property along with a McGillicuddy, ‘61 Rep Pioneer Time from May of
Church in Houlton. They lived Meyer lemon tree. Linda could 1962 featuring our senior
for ten years in Millinocket walk into the ocean in front of Class of 1962 queen candidate Jill Peabody
where David was head of her house and gather pippies Dave McGillicuddy being crowned as the Circus
process and control at the or green mussels or oysters. 8 Green Street, Apt. 2 Queen for 1962. Dorene
mill, and Linda worked nights Often after evening tea, she Houlton, ME 04730 kindly donated her portable
davemcgillicuddy@gmail.com
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