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Class of 1951 I was contacting the class food box delivery, 10 to our in 2015, How kind that was
Gertrude "Trudy" Ervin with invitations to attend our local people. We have others of you. Hot off the press:
Reichert 50th. In the invitation to Edith scheduled Oct. 20th and 27th. Margaret Ann Russell and
6605 Meadowland Circle I wrote a note to tell her of Our Soup Nite fund raiser had her husband Murray Ramsay
Erie, PA 16509 my grade school crush. She to change from inside to ‘you have left their home near
(814) 864-1681 returned the invitation with pick up at local providers who Keene, New Hampshire. Their
trudy59000@gmail.com a note which simply said, donate the soup’. We had to son and daughter found a
“Ralph, you made my day”. cancel a trip to Norway and small ranch similar in design
Trudy wrote in to say: Ann Her reply brought a long-lost cruise back to Boston. Hope to their last home in Dover,
Longstaff Stoddard passed smile. to do a riverboat cruise on the NH. Margaret said it was
away, and her husband died Even though Joanne Mississippi in late March but hard to leave their friends.
this fall also. Thomas graduated in 1949 doubt if that will happen. She said the friends will miss
Also, her cousin Ric Shean ‘52, I remember her when we We have been exploring them, as the Ramsay’s hosted
all the parties! We had a
passed away. His brother, Bud were kids and living in the Conn. and its history of delightful Covid backyard
Shean, lives in Houlton. same neighborhood. I found monuments and graveyards.
a photograph of her in an Always loved history and do wedding celebration in our
John Lindahl is a very old shoe box. My parents remember Mr. White. A lot of back yard when my oldest
upcoming singer, dancer had attached a hose to history in Conn. even found grandson Josh and his fiancée
and performer and recently our kitchen sink and fed it my brother Harold did officers Makena eloped in the nearby
released a track with his through a window to the side training at Fort Trumbull in mountains. We were able
grandfather, John Dombek, in lawn. We were in our bathing ‘42 or ’43. Hope all are well to enjoy all the activities
a duet called “Just Like You-My suits laughing and jumping and dealing with this virus as of a two-hundred-person
Grandpa”. Go to this link to over an old sprinkler. So safely as you can. Have never wedding, twenty people at a
hear their beautiful song. It many years ago, when life was stayed home so much. time! Much fun, many fingers
will bring tears to your eyes. crossed, and no casualties.
simple and filled with childlike Avis & Bruce Arnold: We
https://www.youtube.com/ happiness. are 86 and “still in the mix.” Enjoyment spending my
watch?v=SYNArVJeFTY&list= Bob Fields stays in touch, but News from Avis and I includes time on Ancestry research
RDSYNArVJeFTY&start_ I worry about his battle with the fact that Avis gave up continues. Today I sent
radio=1 an aortic heart condition. driving her car and gave it packets to HHS friends,
Trudy also wrote that Bob He seems in good spirits. to our daughter in Boston. making it about ten going to
various degrees of cousins.
Fields as everyone knows is a Thoughts and prayers cannot That left an open bay in our The unexpected connections
prolific writer and has some hurt. garage. With a new indoor/ continue to amaze me,
27 books to his credit. His My son visited recently and outdoor carpet, a couple of including my sister’s husband,
latest is called The Crypt. just turned 66. We surprised portable tables and a few my husband’s grandmother,
Ralph Bickford him with a birthday party. My other amenities, we have a King James of England,
It has occurred to me as I daughter is 36. She is smart nice meeting place for safe Maxine Devoe Goodin’s
distancing and lunch/brunch
write that our 1951 class as a whip and works at the events with family or close husband Eddie, and my
alumni news has become Hodgdon Middle School as friends during COVID-19 Boston father-in-law’s dental
mostly focused on the passing an Ed Tech III. Presently she when the weather is right. assistant! Two of the hardest
of classmates. With our 70th pursues becoming a teacher. I Also, my very long-standing parts of living so far away
reunion coming up next June have no doubt she will do it! prostate cancer, after many (Colorado) are not being
we seem to have only our My best to you all. different treatments finally near family and friends when
children and grand kids to metastasized early this year they are ill or memorialized.
write about. Age has sadly Class of 1952 and I went on an expensive Also sad is receiving returned
overtaken our lives. Bruce Arnold but very gentle chemo drug. packages from classmates
244 Wencin Terrace and not know what that
At the beginning of the West Chester, PA 19382 I take four pills at noon with means. How wonderful that
year we lost Edith Varney. (610) 420-8166 lunch and my PSA has shrunk services can now be zoomed.
Edith was our circus queen brucearnold@aol.com from 23.7 to 2.0. The only side My heart goes out to every
in 1949 and later our class effect of the chemo drug is one of you that struggle with
president. I was 10 years old Shirley Adams Mason: Bruce, that it makes me a bit sleepy. the deficiencies of aging. I
when I met Edith for the first good to hear from you and I may live into my 90s yet. We am well--enough and have
time. I had transferred from Avis. Good to know you are send our love. very excellent lodging. Fond
Longfellow school to Fair doing better. Seems our ages Margaret McCluskey Cleary: thoughts, Margaret
Street and a cute little blonde are really beginning to show. Thanks, Bruce, my love and
sat beside me in fifth grade. I So far, I am doing quite well prayers are with you both. Doris Beaulieu Kilfoil: Hi
developed a full-blown crush and am still busy volunteering I came across the Family Classmates and All. Bruce
but never told her. In 2001 when needed. We just did a Tree you developed for me and Avis, we just love what

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