Class Note 1974

Bill Cater is one of the volunteers working on the class project for our 40th reunion, the class of 1974 Moosilauke bunkhouse. Bill has a special bond with Moosilauke through his uncle, R. Peter Brundage ’45, and his mother, June Brundage Cater. As a young student Peter was very active in the DOC. June and her Wellesley friends visited him on weekends in Hanover where they got to know Peter’s Outing Club buddies and Ross McKinney. Peter died in WW II in the battle for Okinawa, but through friendships formed earlier the class of ’45 selected June years later to sculpt the bust of Ross McKinney that still keeps watch over the Ravine Lodge. Bill has lived in New Jersey most of his life and has worked for AT&T for the past 27 years, currently in the strategic pricing group. He is very active in community service through Kiwanis. Bill is still connected to New Hampshire, though, through a vacation house in Grafton he shares with his brother and sister and trips to the annual show in Sunapee of the League of New Hampshire Craftsmen. Bill lost his wife of 28 years, Eileen, in 2006. Happily he found love again and married Debbie Carter in 2007. When they married Debbie was living in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. In preparation for retirement they bought and designed a condo in part of the top two floors of the former Darmstaetter’s Photo Supply in downtown Lancaster.


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—Rick Sample, Retreat Farm, 1137 Manakin Road, Manakin Sabot, VA 23103; samplejr@msn.com