1940s
Mrs. Frank Bautze, BB'40, of Bridgton, Maine, writes, "Twelve classmates and three family members gathered at Waterville Valley, New Hampshire, for a three-day fifty-fifth reunion in September 1995, just prior to Sister Anne Marie's death. She joined us from Haiti."
George A. MacCallum, E'40, of Escondido, California, says he received a telephone call from Stanley Wood, E'42, who got the address from a Class Note. MacCallum is eighty years old "and still playing golf two times a week year round."
Daniel W. Miles, E'40, of Brockton, Massachusetts, notes he recently returned from visiting civil engineering projects in Romania and Singapore. He was invited to return to Cairo, Egypt, to assess the management and operational skills of a client's construction company.
Raymond Dion, E'41, of Summerville, South Carolina, says he was sorry to miss seeing his classmates at the fifty-fifth reunion in Gloucester, Massachusetts. "N.U. now has cast a significant shadow on Huntington Avenue," he comments. "God bless N.U."
Edward M. Sprowl Jr., BA'42, notes that he and his wife, Mary, moved from their home of forty years in Westminster, Maryland, to a retirement community in Hanover, Pennsylvania. "We would love to hear from other alumni in the area," he says.
Larry Ashton, E'46, and his wife, Mary, of Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary on July 4. Ashton retired from General Electric after thirty-six years. The couple have two children and five grandchildren.
Erwin Allen, E'47, of Swampscott, Massachusetts, retired after twenty years with the Massachusetts Division of Occupational Hygiene.
Murilyn Meuse MacKay, LA'48, of Londonderry, New Hampshire, retired in February after working for many years in the field of child welfare social work. "Over the years, I have been in touch with many classmates, but there are many I've missed," she says. "I would like to be in contact with people whose lives I've touched and who've touched my life."
Thomas J. Maloney, E'48, of Fort Collins, Colorado, spent five years working with a search and rescue team. He is now on the executive committee of the local Sierra Club and training for the sheriff's Victims Assistance Program in Lorimer County.