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Class News, continued...

After the military I completed Now I have a tale for you. I So, when you think you are Mary Peabody reporting in:
a finance degree at University was probably the only little having a bad day, take a . . . AND IT’S FALL AGAIN! The
of Maine, Orono. Worked in league coach in the US to get deep breath and enjoy life, time seems to pass SO quick-
accounting, finance, business paid. I worked at the A&P one cause Life is Good. ly. I hope this edition finds
till retirement at age 70. Could summer under Store Manag- I guess to end this disserta- those reading it well, mentally
have retired earlier but why er, Cal Hobart. He sponsored tion I will have to say I have and physically, and able to
quit when you like what you and managed the Pioneer been married to Donna Barat- find some peace and happi-
do. Times team. I would show up ta (little Italian honey) for 57 ness with all that is happening
I have 2 children. Son and and punch in and he would years - I might add that I am in our world. These are sad
daughter. Both graduated give me the keys to his car still in training, and I would times!
from Trinity college in Hart- loaded with baseball equip- add that all those smart My contribution to this fall
ford, Ct. And boy oh boy did ment. I would go to the park people mentioned above got news will be short, as the
that put a dent in the wallet. and boys showed up at 8:30 the “smarts” from her. She only news I have collected
Son graduated from NYU law and we would practice till did not have to contend with is my own! The summer has
and is now General Counsel noon. This was every day, all Mrs. Rich either, as she was passed quickly. Most of my
for a large company in south- summer, when a regular game educated in Omaha. So, all enjoyment came from my
ern Ct. Daughter got a para was not scheduled. Need- you young 80-year-olds, send family, T.W., Bubba, my birds
legal, then real estate license less to say, the parents knew Barbara some “stuff”, while and gardening. Dad always
and somehow picked up where the boys were and if I you are sitting around doing told me that simple pleasures
accounting, budgets etc. and remember right, we won the nothing. –Oscar Grant were the best! I think he had
is now CFO at a 3-town school whole thing. The picture in Barbara McGillicuddy a point! We had a couple of
district in northwest Ct, where the paper? I was not in it, but Bolton, ’61 Class Rep wonderful family gatherings
the Kevin Bacons of the world I got paid all summer. Good at East Grand Lake, and also
live. Sadly, she does not have gig. Class of 1962 a few at Lakeside Restau-
the dollars those individuals Combat Corpsman Dave McGillicuddy rant(Country Club restaurant)
have.
Goes where he doesn’t want 8 Green Street, Apt. 2 at Nickerson Lake. I love both
My son has a son and daugh- to go Houlton, ME 04730 lakes and being on either
ter. He is in 3rd year of med- Sees what he doesn’t want to davemcgillicuddy@gmail.com of them reminds me of how
ical school leaning towards see lucky I have been to have had
ENT. Runs in the rain Mary Donald Peabody the many years on both that
My granddaughter graduated Crawls in the mud 3 Ridgeway Court I have had. Both daughters
from Georgetown and is now Eats out of a can Houlton, ME 04730 and their families have a spot
at Yale, about 4 months away Teeth brushed with a twig mdpeabody5@gmail.com at East Grand now and that
from her PhD. Do not know Bathes out of a helmet makes ME happy!
where all these smart people Afraid, always On Palm Sunday while singing I am now between cataract
got those smart genes but not Prays, always Amazing Grace, it felt like pins surgeries. Great success with
from me, as Mrs Rich gave me Asks “why him and not me” and needles went through my left eye and am hoping to
a little b in English. Never gets an answer my body. I have used either a get the same results with the
Comes home and is asked cane or rollator due to having right eye in early November.
Read the letter Paul Daven- -what was it like? You trouble walking. From that
port sent. I played ball with wouldn’t understand, so the day on I have walked on my As I was leaving, the last time
his brother Bobby, who made question is not answered own. God healed me! I asked, that I was at Lakeside, who
all Eastern Maine basketball if War veterans usually only talk “why me” and then I realized I should I run into but Bar-
memory serves. Also, played to other war veterans. have the biggest mouth that I bara Reed Cooper. It was
with Felker-Taylor-Hersey- Heros? Over 58 thousand of am sure all of you know! awesome to see her. We only
Brown. They now play for the them came home draped in visited a minute, but the years
guy in the sky. US flags. Linda Haley Jackson seemed to slip away. Her
party was just arriving so we

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