1933

Of our many productive classmates, one has exceptional talent. Gobin Stair, recent attendee of the Alumni College, not only looks like an artist, complete with Charles Evans Hughes-type of beard, but is a real artist. Watching Orozco in '34 work on the murals in the basement of Baker first ignited his interest in art. He helped mix paints, assisted in general, and located the embalmed fetus from the Medical School which was used as a model. Gobin relates that while Orozco was paid only a few thousand dollars for his work, the sketches preliminary to the work are now offered for $400,000. He is continuing his skills and now doing promotional work for a local housing project.

Louise, Bryon McCoy's widow, has been busy at the piano playing for civic and social functions. Recently, the Chamber of Commerce of Vermont named her citizen of the year, the first woman to be selected. Son Roger '60 has earned a Ph.D. in engineering from M.I.T. As is Louise's custom, she plans to attend the fall mini.

One would think that Bill McCombs had seen enough of the world when he retired in '70 from his company specializing in railroad items sold mostly in Central America and requiring many visits there. Not content with just the Americas, he has become a world-class traveler, mostly on cruise ships, and has just completed his 49th journey. He admits they always take the top suite on the QE2.

In 1975 Ted Okie retired from advertising and left the city for a more pastoral scene. Though he still lives in Darien, in 1963 he and Jarv Chapman bought some 1,000 acres off what is mostly an island down from Bar Harbor. What started as a cabin now sleeps 12, and is occupied a good bit of the time by eight grandchildren and a few of their friends. Good citizen that he is, Bill has put much of the land in a Maine conservation project to keep it in pristine condition forever.

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