He still has his strong singing voice, often amusing all with his great memory of old, yet timeless, college songs.Ī future mechanical engineer is student Brian Truong ’26 of Salem, thanks to your dollars in our endowed scholarship fund. Don especially enjoys his moving pictures on a small screen of his four adorable great-grandchildren, the growing up stages of his three children, Susie, Doug and Cindy (who are all UNHers), as well as his lively four married grandkids and the many enjoyable activities he and his wife, Nancy, have had over the years. His address is Sunapee Cove 1250 Route 11 in Sunapee, NH 03782.

Don Bent ’48 ’53G will be 98 in November. He also cheered for the Virginia Tech women’s basketball this year when they made it to the “Final 4.” Remember, Dick was captain of the UNH winning basketball team in 1949. He continues to cheer for the UConn women’s basketball as well as the men’s and women’s basketball teams at UNH. Dick lived and also taught school for many years in Berlin, Connecticut, before retiring with his wife, Beverly, to Virginia. Dick visits a nearby aquatic center with his good friend, Joe, five days per week to takes walks in the water. He has put technology to the side however, a card or note is always welcome to be sent to his home where he resides with his daughter Debbie and her husband at 2865 Mill Wood Lane, Blacksburg, VA 24060. He was regularly sending emails with photos and unusual happenings, exotic places, or even funny jokes and cartoons from around the world to his many friends. Dick Dart, our fellow class president, will reach 98 years young in late August. With his wife, Barbara, he traveled to many places around the globe. Win was an avid sailor, placing second in class in the Marion Bermuda Yacht Race. As a senior research fellow, he had more than 30 patents and publications in animal parasitology, some of which are still being used today. in veterinary parasitology from Kansas State University. He worked as a scientist for a pharmaceutical company and graduated with a Ph.D. After serving in the Army Air Corps in World War II, he earned his bachelor’s and master’s from UNH in zoology. Irwin, “Win” Wood passed away in November 2022. Barbara loved relaxing and spending time with her growing family in her 1940s-era cottage on Lake Massasecum. She also enjoyed her great grandchildren. Michael was the father of her two grandchildren, Johan and Maddie. Barbara had a son, Michael, and a daughter, Susan. She sang for 60 years in the Henniker Congregational Choir. In Henniker, Barbara was on the Recycling and Energy Committee as a very strong advocate for world peace. She received many awards including the first Barbara French School Health Advocacy Award in 2016 by the New Hampshire School Nurse Association. She was a sponsor or cosigner of many bills signed into law, especially involving the health and well-being of children, the environment and economic justice. In retirement, Barbara served 20 years in the state legislature representing both Bradford and Henniker. Department of Welfare and a school nurse at Rundlett Junior High in Concord from 1963 to 1990. She was a child welfare social worker at the N.H. Barbara was born in Norwood, Massachusetts, and moved to Henniker as a young adult, and stayed there from then on. She accomplished many good things to help children, her local community and the state of New Hampshire in her 95 years of life. I was saddened to see the name of my friend, Barbara Conner French ’48, in the winter issue she died on April 20, 2021. Clothes lines were a “must.” On the last pages of every UNH Magazine you will find the names of UNHers, who have passed away in the last two years, listed by class year. My parents, both high school teachers, (Dad was UNH class of 1920) didn’t have a washing machine. Mom would turn the address card over and send everything back clean from the laundry service. My memory is that it only cost $1.50 to mail it home to Yonkers, New York. I have not used it since 1949, though it did hold up carrying my sheets, towels, wash cloths and pajamas. It was made of a durable, weather-resistant cardboard that was held together with rivets and a leather strap with a buckle to fasten. Anyone who couldn’t get home on the weekend had a laundry case. The girl’s bathrooms had six or eight wooden dryer racks.

Do you remember how we did laundry at UNH in the ’40s? There were no washing machines or dryers in the dorms or frat houses and no laundromats in Durham.

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