1940s
Philip N. Savage, LA'40, L'46, of Newton Centre, Massachusetts, was
elected to a second term as treasurer of West Suburban Elder Services by
the organization's board of directors. He also volunteers for the agency,
which provides services for the elderly.
Virginia Kane Williams O'Connell, BB'41, of Charlotte, North
Carolina, reports she "went to Hawaii for ten days on a second honeymoon
with my new husband. Fun at seventy-seven and eighty!"
David J. Morrissey, E'42, says he's been "living in my RV
for two years, traveling the U.S. and Canada, wintering in Mexico. Building
a house in the spring on Willapa Bay in Washington State."
Sumner L. Barton, E'43, of San Jose, California, says he's "sorry
I was unable to attend reunion. Trust my e-mail note was received. Regards
to all who attended."
Mel Levine, E'44, of Brighton, Massachusetts, plays cornet and
tuba with a klezmer orchestra between his city-planning assignments.
Roy L. Wooldridge, E'45, MEd'59, H'85, has two daughters who
are Northeastern graduates. Ann Gillespie, BB'77, owns Community Rehab
Care, a head-injury clinic with offices in Newton and Medford. Janice Wooldridge,
BB'80, works in a pediatric office in York, Maine. She adopted a girl from
China, Emilee Hailand Wooldridge.
Nancy L. Rynearson, BB'47, of Grand Blanc, Michigan, reports
spending time on Cape Cod with N.U. grads Marilyn Barry, Jesse Moore, and
Joan Lombard.
Maurice B. Greenbaum, LA'48, of Cherry Hill, New Jersey, is a
volunteer active in community social planning and travels frequently. "We
have, to date, attended forty-one Elderhostels," he says.
Jack Burgess, L'49, of Brattleboro, Vermont, says his daughter,
Helen, a graduate of Suffolk University Law School, is working with him.
"It has been enlightening, to say the least, but wonderful,"
he writes. "The new generation cometh, right into my office."
Peg Heffernan Laughlin, BB'49, moved to a condominium in Medford,
Massachusetts, in September. She has seven grandchildren. During the winter,
she and her former roommate and best friend, Mary O'Rourke, BB'49, visited
Alice Knight Voll, BB'49, in Naples, Florida.