Correspondence for the MAINE Alumni Magazine can turn a gray, cloudy day into blue skies and sunshine in the wink of an eye. A succession of alumni phone calls turned a lackluster spring day into pure gold. My first call was in response to a letter from William B. Mann ’49. An electrical engineer, he…
Class of 1951 Winter 2022 Class Note
March 9, 2022Traveling to Orono for our 70th Reunion proved to be too much of a challenge for the Class of 1951. The campus event was canceled. Elwood “Woody” Beach did email to say that he was still spending summers at his cottage in Raymond, ME, but like many of us he has cut back on his…
Class of 1951 Summer 2021 Class Note
August 17, 2021Frances Pratt Caswell 25 Thornton Way #106 Brunswick, ME 04011 (207) 725-6084 fcaswell@myfairpoint.net Greetings, classmates. I hope you have survived the pandemic and the disruption of usual activities. Thornton Oaks in Brunswick is congregate independent living so we have had rules and regulations to keep us safe. Now we have had our second vaccination shots…
Class of 1951 Winter 2021 Class Note
February 4, 2021From the Bangor Daily News we learn Bryce Beattie was inducted into the Maine Basketball Hall of Fame in January 2020. Bryce coached and accumulated more than 400 wins at George Stevens, Freeport, Windham, and Noble high schools. At Freeport, his teams won state championships in 1964, ’66, and ’69 with an up- tempo style predicated…
Class of 1951 Summer 2020 Class Note
September 17, 2020Frances Pratt Caswell From the Kennebec Journal we learn that fraternal twins, Richard and Robert Butler, were honored on Veterans Day 2019 by Winthrop American Legion Post 40 with other members of the Post for their service in WWII. The twins live in Zephyrhills, FL, and were not able to attend the meeting. Dick and…
Class of 1951 Winter 2020 Class Note
February 4, 2020Frances Pratt Caswell In June 2019 your correspondent flew west for an extended stay with her daughter and son-in-law Lucy and Dan Hilburn ’81G in Sunriver, OR. One of the highlights of the visit was a four-generation trip to the Oregon Zoo, with great-grandma in a wheelchair and two great-grandkids in a stroller. I enjoyed…
Class of 1951 Summer 2019 Class Notes
July 30, 2019Frances Pratt Caswell Paying for college has always been a challenge, but today the challenge is greater than ever. We continue to offer financial aid to Class of 1951 descendants. There were two recipients for the 2018-2019 year. Alexander Thacker is a senior majoring in computer science. He is from Brunswick and is the grandson…
Class of 1951 Fall 2018 Class Note
October 18, 2018Frances Pratt Caswell 25 Thornton Way #106 Brunswick, ME 04011 (207) 725-6084 fcaswell@myfairpoint.net Paul Kimball wrote: “While at UMO, I was a member of Phi Eta Kappa and ran on both the indoor and outdoor track teams. After graduation I was drafted into the Army in November 1951. After completing basic training at Ft.…
Class of 1951 Spring 2018 Class Note
May 30, 2018Frances Pratt Caswell 25 Thornton Way #106 Brunswick, ME 04011 (207) 725-6084 fcaswell@myfairpoint.net I’m writing this in the midst of a fierce Maine winter. It brought a bad wind storm that left a lot of us without power for weeks and draped trees and power lines over the roads. That was followed by an ice…
Class of ’51 Fall 2017 Class Notes
November 6, 2017Frances Pratt Caswell 25 Thornton Way #106 Brunswick, ME 04011 (207) 725-6084 fcaswell@myfairpoint.net Dear Classmates, This is the first time that I have no news to report since I began writing the column in 1996. Over the years I have enjoyed hearing from old friends and making new friends through the correspondence. However, our…
Class Gatherings
February 17, 2016The Class of 1951 enjoyed its Reunion gathering in September 2016 in Orono. Below are photos from the class summer gathering on August 5, 2015.