If you should be lucky enough to visit the coast of Maine this summer, plan to stop by for a gander at Abbott Meader’s paintings and drawings on exhibit at Sotheby’s in Damariscotta. Abbott, professor of art emeritus at Colby College, is known for his landscape drawings of inland Maine and the Katahdin region. Lately he has been doing a series called “Invention on a Child’s Drawing, which involves imagery appropriated from our children’s and grandchildren’s drawings, re-combined and placed in new settings.” Look for some of Abbott’s work in the next edition of the class newsletter.


Nancy, Abbott’s wife, is an accomplished potter and still teaches at Colby. The two of them have held joint shows.


For more than 11 years James Taylor, M.D., has been a volunteer physician at the Duffy Health Center in Hyannis, Massachusetts. This month Jim will be the recipient of the 2015 Senior Volunteer Physician Award presented by the Massachusetts Medical Society. “Duffy,” said Jim, “provides services to the homeless and potentially homeless, the majority of whom are addicted to one or more substances and suffer from the many trials and tribulations associated with these problems.” Jim spent most of his professional career in private practice as a primary care physician. “The patients at Duffy were some of the most appreciative I have treated in a long career in medicine. This was one of the most enjoyable and rewarding chapters in my professional life.”


For his 80th birthday Frank Bruni took his four blackjack-loving children to a casino at Atlantic City, New Jersey. “I’ve got a trick,” said Frank as they entered the casino. “A secret guaranteed to make money.” He then gave each kid two crisp hundred-dollar bills so that their initial bets would be on him and they would start out even. “See?” he said. “You’re already a winner.” 


How was your birthday?


Our sympathies go out to the families of our deceased classmates Kwan Ha Yim Ph.D., Stephen Zaslow, M.D., John LaMonte and William Draper Jr.


—Bruce Sloane, 124 Hull School Road, Sperryville, VA 22740; (540) 987-8859; bsloane@wildblue.net