I chatted with widow Marian Page at our mini last fall. She’s very active and has five children and 15 grandchildren all living near her home in Hamden, Connecticut, with the exception of one grandson who works in Texas. Pete Foster reported on their summer vacation last year as follows: “Ann and I had a most memorable 12-day cruise exploring the British Isles in August on a new 3,500-passenger Oceania liner. We flew to London, visited Hampton Court and departed Southampton, visiting Edinburgh and Inver Gordon, Scotland, via the North Sea and six other ports in the Orkney Islands, Isle of Skye, Belfast, Dublin, Cork and Portland, England. Each day we had guided tours ashore and experienced fascinating sites, history and outstanding food. The ship was spacious, elegant and excellently run with a well-trained staff, delicious menus and a pool swim each morning. In three ports we were transported to shore by enclosed diesel lifeboats, providing practice for the crew. It was quite an experience for us and an unusual type of vacation compared to our general formats involving family and familiar destinations.” Sunny Drury is doing well and getting his regular exercise walking despite his limited eyesight. He reminisced about the summer of 1944, when the Navy lent a truck to the DOC for weekend outings hiking, mountain climbing and canoeing. Sonny, “Murphy” Robins and “Gus” Gustafson drove down to Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire for kayaking and were embarrassed (I presume) skinny dipping by a group of girls canoeing by. Murphy and Suzanne are doing well in Deerfield Beach, Florida, and Gus was recently honored on his retirement from academia. Perhaps our most athletically active classmates, John Van Raalte and Lanny Brisbane, had hip replacements last June and were back on the tennis courts by year-end. John retired last year. He started his financial career in 1949 with Goldman Sachs, then worked with several other national investment and brokerage firms, concluding with Raymond James, with whom for the last 10 years he worked out of his home as an independent advisor. 


—Dave Kurr, 4281 Indian Field Road, Clinton, NY 13323; (315) 853-3582; djkurr@verizon.net