Class Note 1955
Issue
Nov - Dec 2018
Shortly after our stay at the Trapp Family Lodge, we spent four days in the College Grant. July Fourth saw fireworks by heat lightning and fireflies. Hellgate Gorge has swift water for Brook Trout. We kept a 17- and a 14-incher for breakfast. We also had a good pool both above and below the rapids for day and private night swims—and should you choose, it’s a good canoe day trip down the Dead Diamond. All the cabins, managed by outdoor affairs, are well-stocked and comfortable, with good access, but Hellgate is the best summer spot.
Bob Fanger, Ted Ely, Jere Daniell, and I helped celebrate the 100th anniversary of the DOC there in 2009. Not many of us can still do Tuckerman’s or climb Moosilauke, but the Grant still awaits your visit.
Taro Shindo of Takarazuka, Japan, one of 11 classmates and widows who reside overseas or in Canada, sends greetings to the class in a recent email. He spends his days quietly, and, like many of us, is slowing down in activity. He adds, importantly, “It is my constant hope that America continues to be a symbol of fairness and justice and keeps the strong leadership over the world.”
News from Gere Coffey is that he will be the keynote speaker at the 30th anniversary celebration of HABCore, a support program for homeless individuals and families. Founded by his late wife, Margaret, and a small working group, HABCore started with one group home that Gere and Marge obtained and called John’s House, named for their late son. It housed five men. Today HABCore has grown to support approximately 300 homeless and low-income families, individuals, and those with special needs in Monmouth and Ocean counties in New Jersey.
John Baldwin arranged a special visit for Bill Cassell’s granddaughter, Semantha Collins, to the Military Medical College in Bethesda, Maryland, where John taught for many years. Semantha is completing premed courses at Tufts University and is enrolled in Air Force ROTC. She hopes to follow in John’s footsteps as an emergency physician.
Sadly, we report the passing of John Cornman, Bob Perkins, Robert Taylor, Ed Willi, and Roger Young.
—John Dinan, 20 Gardiner St., Richmond, ME 04357; (207) 252-7442; captdinan@yahoo.com
Bob Fanger, Ted Ely, Jere Daniell, and I helped celebrate the 100th anniversary of the DOC there in 2009. Not many of us can still do Tuckerman’s or climb Moosilauke, but the Grant still awaits your visit.
Taro Shindo of Takarazuka, Japan, one of 11 classmates and widows who reside overseas or in Canada, sends greetings to the class in a recent email. He spends his days quietly, and, like many of us, is slowing down in activity. He adds, importantly, “It is my constant hope that America continues to be a symbol of fairness and justice and keeps the strong leadership over the world.”
News from Gere Coffey is that he will be the keynote speaker at the 30th anniversary celebration of HABCore, a support program for homeless individuals and families. Founded by his late wife, Margaret, and a small working group, HABCore started with one group home that Gere and Marge obtained and called John’s House, named for their late son. It housed five men. Today HABCore has grown to support approximately 300 homeless and low-income families, individuals, and those with special needs in Monmouth and Ocean counties in New Jersey.
John Baldwin arranged a special visit for Bill Cassell’s granddaughter, Semantha Collins, to the Military Medical College in Bethesda, Maryland, where John taught for many years. Semantha is completing premed courses at Tufts University and is enrolled in Air Force ROTC. She hopes to follow in John’s footsteps as an emergency physician.
Sadly, we report the passing of John Cornman, Bob Perkins, Robert Taylor, Ed Willi, and Roger Young.
—John Dinan, 20 Gardiner St., Richmond, ME 04357; (207) 252-7442; captdinan@yahoo.com