Class of 1960
Class Chair:
Jim Bodenmiller 765/497-9853; Email 
Class Notes:
Eugene "Bob" Scattergood
Looking forward to seeing Earlham again and those of you who attend the reunion. Having retired from teaching writing at a technical college, I moved here in 1998 to marry Barb a second time. Yes, we married each other twice. Sadly, she died of cancer in 2005, she who always took such good care of herself. I keep busy working for a daily newspaper here in Westerly, R.I., playing trumpet in two town bands and doing what I can to try to reduce homelessness working with the local homeless shelter and soup kitchen. Earlham changed my life in many ways, especially meeting my future wife, Barbara Roberts '62. It also helped our daughter Ellen to find her way to Japan where she has lived many years teaching English. That makes me think if Jack Bailey and the volleyball team of yore and trips to YMCAs and the like. Great memories.
Best to you all. If you find your way to Westerly, Rhode Island, you most easily can find me through the local newspaper.
(Posted November 08, 2009)
Jim Bodenmiller
Class of 1960 Message
Sometimes it is strange how our minds work when something at the time we are doing triggers a memory from the recesses of our brain. It is usually something we haven’t thought about for a long time and such was the case with me when I was going through the list of EC classmates assigned to me to call (50th Reunion Planning Committee). Our intent was to catch up with what our classmates have been doing since leaving EC and to encourage everyone to start planning to attend the 50th reunion activities. I hadn’t thought about or talked to Bob “Ivy” Collins (Barrett Hall , second floor, middle section buddies) for a long time and was delighted to talk with Bob and Sue to catch up on the news when I called.
Following our conversation we planned a visit and my wife and I drove from West Lafayette to near Monrovia where they have built a lovely home on a beautiful site among the rolling wooded hills of southwestern Indiana. It was great to see them and renew a long time friendship. It is always amazing to me how with close friends you can pick up the conversation and relationship where it left off, years before, and continue the dialogue as if no time had passed at all.
The visit with the Collins was rewarding and it reminds me that after spending four years of our lives at Earlham there are special relationships and friendships we all must have experienced with classmates, faculty and others in the Earlham community. Now less than a year away our 50th reunion can be a very special time to renew these relationships and friendships, attend some of the activities planned and see some of our old haunts and changes that have occurred since leaving the campus. I know I am looking forward to seeing many of you and hope you are planning to attend the reunion on October 22-24.
(Posted November 06, 2009)
Carol Watkins
After over 30 years of living in downtown Washington, DC, I moved to Asbury Methodist Village, a retirement community in Gaithersburg, MD, where, following in my parents' footsteps, I look forward to an active life on the beautiful campus.
(Posted July 27, 2009)
Obituaries:
Michael Mckean
Michael E. McKean of Rolla and Newtown, Mo., died at his beloved farm near Newtown on Aug. 22, 2009. Mike was born in Chicago on Sep. 21, 1935, and was raised in Bucks County, Pa. and Isabel, S.D. Mike was a medical editor in New York City and Philadelphia, for many years. In the 1970s, he, his wife Janet, and their three children - Summer, Andrew, and Hugh - moved to a family farm near Newtown, where they lived until 1985. At that time, Mike became technical editor at the University of Missouri-Rolla (now Missouri University of Science and Technology), a position he held until his retirement in 2004. Mike is survived by his wife Janet, daughter Summer McKean-Kershner, husband John, and daughter Aria, of Albuquerque, N.M.; son Andrew McKean, wife Lih-An, and children Merlin, Ellis, and Iris, of Glasgow, Mont.; son Hugh McKean, wife Kristin, and children Hanna and Aiden, of Loveland, Colo. Mike is also survived by his sisters, Martha Bass, of Charlottesville, Va., and Sara Plunkett, of Charlotte, N.C., and his half-brother, Kenneth McKean, of Ketchum, Idaho. He was preceded in death by his parents, Kenneth McKean and Barbara Bush McKean, and by granddaughter Selje McKean. The farm at Newtown was always an important part of Mike's life, and he spent most of his retirement years there.
(Posted September 24, 2009)
Francis Ayres
Frank Ayres, 70, passed away August 9, 2009 at Calais Regional Hospital with his family by his side. He was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts on August 19, 1938. He grew up in Waterbury CT and Brighton MI where he developed his love of the outdoors including hunting, fishing and wildlife. He studied agriculture at Michigan State University. He was a paratrooper MP in the 173rd Airborne Brigade and stationed in the far east and Okinawa and returned home in 1963. He met his love, Judith Lawless, in 1964 and they were wed in 1965. He worked at Cape Cod Tuna and assisted in its transformation to Windjammer Sea Farms, which later became the largest shrimp processing plant in the world. He spent some years as a Real Estate Agent, but soon returned to his passion for the outdoors and was a pioneer of aquaculture in Maine. He raised salmon for Ocean Products and was later able to do this independently as owner and operator for Maine Salmon with his wife working by his side. They had two children, Judith Ruth and Christopher Francis. His survivors include his wife, Judith Ayres, his daughter Judith Ayres Ampungan, her husband Rodrigo Ampungan Jr. of Eastport and his son Christopher Francis Ayres and his wife, Donna Ayres of Saco. He was "GRANDFATHER" to Nicholas, Brandon, Savannah, Madisyn and Griffin. His surviving siblings include Mimi Ayres Sanderson '57, Susan Ayres Weyburn and Christopher Farnham Ayres.
(Posted September 14, 2009)
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