Thornton Academy Postscripts Alumni Magazine Summer 2012 | Page 18

C lass N o t es
The Class of 1951 celebrated their 60th reunion in October at the Captain’s Galley Restaurant in Old Orchard Beach, scheduling the event to
coincide with the Bicentennial Homecoming events. Constantine Byers traveled the greatest distance, from Illinois, and Miss Agnes Walsh,
Class of ’51 advisor and teacher, attended as special guest. 1st Row: Agnes Walsh, Virginia Waterhouse Procter, Mary Ellen Twomey Black,
Ann Constantine Byers, Constance Tripp Farrington, May Hurrell Paquet, Patricia Roberge Huot, Helena Cardin Gannon, Arlene Maddox Murchison, Virginia Brown Duppee
2nd row: Patricia Hobbs Bedell, Mary Atkinson Johnson, Anita Tito Ifantides, Robert Black, Mary Karvonides Shaw, Arnold Shapiro, Marjorie
Lamb Burgin, Josephine Chute Chase, Muriel Thompson Nado, Harvey Lamontagne, Nelson Beaulieu, Erwin Kennedy, Carleton Pellerin, John
Walker, Audrey Cole Fogg

1941
Myrle Sawyer Andrew is living in
a senior citizen residence. She
has three children who live within
an hour or so of her. She has nine
grandchildren, two who are currently
in Afghanistan and four great grandchildren, from three years to one
month old.
1945
Shirley Manseau O’DonnellI has
been living in Greenville, South
Caroline since 1953. Shirley writes:
“Sadly, my husband of 56 years
passed away in 2010. I have two
daughters, a librarian and an eldercare attorney, and one grandson, a
student at Georgia Tech. It was an
exciting experience for me to attend
the bicentennial reunion luncheon,
and to visit with some of my classmates. Cheers for our active Alumni
Association!”
1959
Donald Letellier celebrated his 50th
wedding anniversary in November
of 2011. He has two children, Scott
Letellier ‘82 and Judy Doyon ‘84,
and four grandchildren (all girls),
and four great-grandchildren.

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1961
Stuart Ruben and his wife Sharon
visted the Normandy American Cemetary at Omaha Beach. The highlight
of the trip was spending the day with
a private guide touring all the important World War II landing sites along
with other points of interest, not usually seen in group tours. While they
were there they had the opportunity
to meet and speak with the Deputy
Director of the Cemetery who asked
them to receive and fold the final of
two flags as it was lowered.
1964
Martha Olsen along with all the
other members of the All-American
Redheads were inducted into the
Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame on
June 11th, 2011. They were honored
for their contributions to the game in a
display at the Hall entitled “Trailblazers of the Game”.

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1969
Judge Robert G. Rancourt presented to meetings in Rome, Italy on
February 21st and February 22nd on
the topic of Drug Treatment Courts.
The meetings were hosted by the
Department of Anti-Drug Policies.
The presentations were made to
representatives and ministers of the
Italian government, the Italian Senate
Judiciary Committee, and practitioners.
1973
Scott Keithley writes: “After leaving
the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in
1984 I have continued to work in the
nuclear world. I moved to Columbia,
Missouri and graduated in 1999. I
am now living in Knoxville, Tennessee and working at Oak Ridge
National Lab.”
1976
Robert Laskey congratulates his
daughter Malorie Laskey Rooney
’04 and her husband Sean Rooney
‘03 on the arrival of their first child
on August 26, 2011; a son, Robert
Joseph Rooney. Congratulations to
the maternal grandparents Robert &
Melody Jordan Laskey ’79.
Rebecca L. Johnson Norton would