Updating our class directory, last year Walt and Joyce Baker moved from Yarmouth, Maine, to a retirement community with an address of 54 Mathew Drive, Brunswick, ME 04011; (207) 373-1945. Walt came to Dartmouth in June of 1944 and graduated in 1947. He married Joyce in 1949 and they raised a family of four children, two of whom, Tim ’74 and Wendy ’77, went to Dartmouth. Wendy married Brant Healey ’75 and both stayed in Hanover for a few years after graduation. She worked at the Hanover Savings Bank while Brant worked for Dartmouth in the development office.

After graduation Walt worked for a savings bank in Connecticut for 20-plus years, leaving when his family acquired a boat yard and marina in South Freeport, Maine. After he ran into health problems that required an artificial heart valve implant, the boat yard was sold in the mid 1980s and he eased into retirement by serving part time as executive secretary of the Marine Trade Association for several years. After 35 years the valve is still working fine and he is “doing well.” Coincidentally, Wendy and my daughter, Penny, were in the same class and both spent time in the Foley House, an offbeat, non-sorority house with vegetarian leanings. Six foot-plus Penny was caught downtown eating a hamburger, which she claimed she needed because “my bones are growing.”

Since my last Class Notes the mini-reunion has been moved back a week to October 1 and a newsletter sent out accordingly.

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