Colby Magazine vol. 80, no. 1 by Colby College Libraries

The Vear Was 1Q2Q ... Banks were in trouble.... The economy was headed into tough time .. New political development in Europe and the ri ing economic might of Japan challenged the existing world order.

Oound Familiar? "I n 1929 Colby launched a major fund-rai ing drive-a drive that d pite the Grear Depre ion and the econd World War woul<l . ucceed in huilding a new carnpu on May flower Hill. olby wa ·built during� )lne

the roughe t rime in nur country' hi rory, by fri nd an<l alumni, who, like many of u

today, were hard

pre- ed to make enJ

meet. The

under rood the imp rtanc fftis i n and \Vere willing

olby'

make

sacrifice to upport the college. Can v. e

claim that our time

are any

rougher? ls our commitment any less?" Michael L. Franklin '63

Alumni Fund Chair

Now More Than l;verl The Colby Alumni Fund To make your contnburion call: 1 - 2 0 7 - U P- 2-DATE or wrire: The A l u m n i Fund, Colby College, W terv i l lc, M E 0490 1 (You may use VI A or Ma rcrcard)

INSIDE COLBY C

Cover Story

an a publication be so

good it put it elf out of busi

ness?

Keeping the Faith: A mounted pr ie t, a m i nister who in\·i tes

Three years ago, the Col

-rudenr to preach and a rabbi \\'ho offer t utoring to Israel-bound Colbian lend \·ibrancy ro the College chaplainc y i n the '90s.

lege started a thrice-annual newspaper called Currems to complement Colby magazine. Colby was dignified and so phi ticated; Currents wa in formal, even a bit brassy. Colb)· generally covered the activi

pg. 6

tie of alumni;Currencsfocu ed

A New Face in the Al bum: Megan MacDonald '94 cont i n ues a family tradition of matriculating at Colby that began with her great-great-grandfather, Harvey Doane Eaton, Class of 1887.

more on the pre ent-day campus. Colby's production chedule dictated early dead line ; Currenrs' approach al

lowed more immediacy.

A Voice from " the Void": M ichael Rothsc h i ld '69, sculptor, painter, \\'titer, father, has publ ished his second book of hon tories after a 1 7-year ab enc�.

While Colby remained popular with alumni who e

pecially reli hed news it brought of former cla mare , CurrentS wa

a hit for it

porring of campu news. La t pring, an overseer

Features

pg. 9

visiting committee wondered why a single, magazine-format

A Visit from Mrs. President: Harriette M ic haels, widow of Colby Engl ish instrucror Herbert M ichaels, rakes a nostalgic look at the terror in pired by a visit from the president's wife in 1948.

publication couldn't feature

'54 submits a chapter of hi next book and discu es the up- and downs of wr it ing a sequel to someone el e'- novel. Philip Marlowe Rides Again: Robert B. Parker

the be t amibure of both. Thi i the fir t edition of rhe amal gamated effort. A second will follow in March. If you like the rede 1gned Colby magazine, we'll publish

Departments

a third in May and continue five or ix rimes each year. The

Periscope

G ifts and Grant

Reunion and Commence

ment. The re ult

News from the H i l l

M u le on the Move

and a net aving in produc

non co ts.

Fac ulty F i le

A lumni A t Large

ovember is ue would include

The President's Repon, and the

pg. 2 2

summer i ue would report on hould be

more new , better continuity

CurrentS may be retired, bur we hope those who liked it will recognize it thi

tudenr Life

vitality in

and future is ue

of the

new Colby . We await your comments. Colby, January l 99 l

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Paging Parents

Letters

PERISCOPE Gleaned by Dean Earl H. Smith from his weekly campus newletter, FYI.

Colby Pride

Newsweek magazine ( Oct. 1 ) touts the first wave of teachers i n the new Teach for America Program, which, the p iece says, "is designed to entice smart , idealistic college gradu ates to work as public school teachers" . . . Two of the "educational missionaries" featured in the article are Laura Kays of Smith College and Colby's own Marc W iniecki '90 . . . Marc i s teac h i ng biology, chemistry and physics at J amesville H igh School in M artin County, N .C . . . . "On opening day, " the art icle says,"the on ly advice that his fellow teachers gave W i n iecki was not to smile until Christmas, so the students would know who was boss. He laughed. ' I f I 'm going to go down, it's going to be smil ing, ' he says." . _ . No one who knew Marc at Colby would be surprised at that.

Hail Colby, Hail! The individual fall COOTgroups competed with each other to see who could provide the best rendi t ion of the alma mater . . . The winning group, chosen by judges at the famous Friday n ight group showing of trip pictures, was "Barren Chairback A&B," which did a "back woods" version of the song, complete with tun ing fork and pots and pans . . . They erenaded Bill and Linda Cotter at their house later that evening. Just to Bug You

ln case we have forgotten M icropeplu Nelson i , Bob N elson of the Geology Department has found and recorded another specie of beet le, also named for him .. . This one's Oxypoda N elsoni Loh e , an aleocharine staphyl i n id that is the largest known North A merican species in the genus at 3.8 mm . . . I t i s known from the holotype Bob collected i n northern A laska back in '79.

of the death of J odi Lynn Spear, age 20 . . . Jodi and her parents were k i l led in a l ight plane crash near Boston as she was about to depart on a commerc ial flight to J apan for a J un ior Year Abroad program at Kansai U n i versity . . . A memorial service was held in Lorimer Chapel in m id- eptember.

Pass/Fail Frozen

Last year, the fac ulty voted rochange the Pass/Fail system to Sat isfactory/Unsa tisfacrory . . . Aside from the change of terms, it was agreed that the atisfactory designation would be awarded only for a grade ofC or better . . . Under the earlier Pass/Fa i l arrangement, a Pass was given for a grade of D or better . . . tudents complained this fall that they had not been given ample not ice of the new system, and in eptember the faculty agreed to retain the older system for the sophomores, j uniors and seniors and phase in the new plan for all students next fall.

Familiar Faces, New Places

assoc iate v ice president for finance and treasurer . . Doug Terp '84, assistant d i rector of per onnel since 1 98 7 , has been named d i rector of the department following the retirement of Bob Kean e. A Phi Beta Kappa grad, he worked for the Republ ican N;;itional Comm ittee and the Vermont Repub l ican Party, then was a computer sale consul tant and account rep for M c A u l iffe, I nc . prior to ret u rn ing to h is alma mater . . . Gina Toman, commons coordinator since 1 988, h a been named assistant director of student ac t i v i t ies. She replaces Todd Blake '88, who ha taken a similar post at Brandei .

New Faces, Familiar Places Environmental Sound

Thanks to a gift from Eleanor . Campbell '8 1 , the College has purchased a mobile wood ch ipper, a l ready at work helping to rec laim for the earth the endle s piles of bru h that come from keep ing the campus spiffy . . . The machine will soon pay for itself, as the local landfill operators charge $75 for each t ruck load of bru h .

Becau e of a concern that student All in the Name m ight v iew the Writing Center as a service � r struggling new students only, the p lace has changed its name to the Wri ters' Center .. . The proprietor also worried that the word "writing" carries the connotation that the focus of the help given was on the product rather than the process.

Student ls Killed The enthusiasm that comes with the opening of a new college year was much dampened by the new

Doug Reinhardt

' 7 1 , a staffer since 1972, has been promoted to the position of

Colbywelcomes

Roland Allen, new assistant dean of adm ission , who will help

espec ially with minority recruit ing . . . Tom Smith is a new as istant footbal l coach , and h is wife, Andrea McNeal Smith, is helping the Adm is ions and the Dean of Student offices . . . Toni Federle i the new receptionist in the Admi sions Office . . . Carol Anne Beach '88 is an intern in the Communication Offic e and will handle ports publicity . . . Linda Lehman Goldstein is the new d i recror of corpo rate and foundation relation in the Development Office.

Moosecellaneous

U.S . News and Worlil Reporr has ranked Colby 1 8th among the rap 25 national liberal art colleges. Even though the ranking may be more fickle than fac t , all agree that i t is better to be on the l ist than n t on it . . . A lthough low thermostats and warm sweaters will still be the order of the day, i t's nice to know that Colby contracted for it heat i ng fuel i n the spring and locked in a full-year price of$ I 7 a barre l ! . . . Colby continue to be a"hot" p lace for college-bound students. Some 350 visited i n J uly, a new record. C o lby , J anuary 1 99 1

NEWS FROM THE HILL New Students Explore Poverty at Home A

i the College c u tom, the Cla s of '94 recei\·ed its fir t Colby assignment weeks before arr i v i ng on Mayflower H i l l-but this t i me the newest Colbians became teachers as well as student . More than 300 first-year tudents sub mttted paper on the subject of poverty m and around their hometown . Their work adorned the rear of the tudent Center' Page Commons Room when the orientat ion speaker, ociologist Ruth idel, delivered her addre s . I n her book, Women and Chil dren Lase, S i de! wrote about poverty m America, wh ich wa the theme of Orienta t ion Week and the fall emester all -campu lecture series. The largest among many misconcep tions about poverty in this country , S ide! told the students, i that i t is mainly wn fined to urban and/or m inority communi tle -a myth he a id many of their own paper had p ierced. idel read excerpt · from some of the first-year student ' effort , among them porrrai t of impoverishment on the fringes of affluent commun i t i e s where t h e rudent l i\'e. W h i l e 4 6 p e rc e n t of America's poor do re · ide in large cirie , idel noted, the ma1oriry do nor, and 2 6 per cent come from rural tare . W i th one in I 0 of the new tudent comi ng from M a me, report from a number of lo calities in the state confirmed idel' contention. Ethnic and rac ial rereorype about U . S. poverty are a l o off base, ide 1 a id , not ing that although mi nority children are more l ikely to be poor than white c h i ldren, "the va t maj o r i ty of poor people are white." I n h i addre to the new c lass, President W i l l iam R. Coner, trac i ng Colby's long tanding commitment to free dom and d iversity, noted rhe presence of Ben Garri on '94, a

Colby, January

1 99 1

d i rect d e cendant of W i l l iam Lloyd Garri son, whose I 33 address at Colby inspired the creation of one of the nation's first cam pus anti lavery soc iet ies. The Colby presi dent also discussed recent developments in Europe and the M iddle East and remarked on an upsurge of student interest i n part ici patoryacti\·irie , inc luding volunteer projects in Waterv ille and the new Teach for Amer ica program. "Bur you should nor adopt my view or anyone e lse's views on pol i t ical morality, community service, the M iddle East crisis, the C I A , rac ism, e x ism or other issues," Cotter told the Cla·s of '94 . "A l iberal art col lege abhors conformity and resi t im posed orthodoxy. We mve for an environ ment where students and faculty have max i mum freedom t o pursue their own bel iefs and i ntere t·, ·o long a each refrai ns from compromising the equal freedom of others. There are two key rule· in l i beral learn ing. The first i , a k que ·tion . The ·econd i , ask more que·t ions. "

Phoro b y David Leaming

Ruch Sidel

Broder Receives Lovejoy Award David Broderofthe Washingwn Pose, the 1 990 E l ij a h Pari · h Lovejoy fellow, used h i lecture a t t h e College's 3 8 r h Lovejoy Con vocation to address far more than the 3 50 in his audience at Lorimer Chapel. The pol i t ical columni t , who i yndicared in more than 300 newspapers, also spoke to h is fel low journal ists across the country. "We i n the pre s have to redefine our m ission , " Broder aid after rece iv i ng an honorary doctor of laws degree from the College. "We ha\·e to become ac t i v ists in the process." Broder, who has championed a national effort by the news media to verify c la i ms made by cand idates in t h e i r telev ision commercials, sa id that reporter have abdi cated their respons ibil ity by a l lowing can d idates and their med ia advisors "to set the agenda." As a result, he said, campaign rhetoric often has l ittle to do w ith the rela t ive merits of the cand idates or their quali ficat1 m for office. Reporter ought not to create their own agenda, Broder aid, but should base their coverage on issues of concern to the publ ic. "We need to go out into the fie ld," he said. "We need to let the people ask the questions and then we have to bring those questions back to the candidates. We need to find out what is on their m inds." The lecture c l i maxed the event held at Colby each year since 1 9 5 2 in memory of Lovejoy, an I 26 alumnus who was slain in 1 83 7 defe nd i ng his aboli tionist newspaper and who i considered America's first martyr to the cause of oress freedom. Broder's convoc a tion aud ience i n c l uded Colby facu l ty a n d student a w e l l a s news executives, com mun ity leaders and pol i t ical d ign itaries such as former Sen. Margaret Chase mith, who was greeted w ith a standi ng ovation when she was i n troduced at the outset o f t h e convocation b y President W i l l ia m R. Coner. 3

Ch icago. "We �b,c nhe the Lovejoy award, in part, as a hridge hetwecn freedom of the pre 'anJ academic freedom, and it is espe c ially plea,ing to note that, like Lovejoy, you are a scholar ;mJ a inurn<il1,t-demon trat ing once more that the,e worlJ, nceJ not be mutually exc lu,1ve."

"Watsons" Meet on Mayflower Hill David and Ann Broder admire gifts presenced by Presidenc William R. che Lovejoy Convocacion .

Cotter then recalled a passage from Lovejoy's 1826 valedic rory address to h is Colby c l assmate : " Le t us pur ue w i t h unwavering aim t h e course w e may determine to pursue. Let i t not be sa id of us that our a l ma mater has sent us forth into the world in vain. Let us cherish those k i ndred fee lings wh ich have so often been awakened over the page of c lassic eloquence or under the still purer influence of the M u e-and when called to give up our account for the talent committed to our care , may it not be found that we have buried it i n the dust." "What sort of words would have moved a mob to thrice destroy his pres e and, the third time, k i l l Elijah Parish Lovejoy a >A·ell 1" Cotter asked. "The e words were written more than a quarter of a century before the tart of the Civil War: 'Look at the lave driver who go up and down our streets, l ifting their heads and mov ing among us unshamed , unrebuked-a if they had not forfeited all claim to the name Man. All abhor the traffic and detest the wretch who pursues it: why then i he not dri ven from the face of day and made to h ide h i mself in some dark corner, whose murk y gloom m ight faintly emblem the avage darkness of h is own heart? If the laws protect the mi creant who coin hi wealth out ofthe heart' blood of his fellow creature , he can at least be cru hed beneath the od ium of public opin ion. 4

"l it any wonder," Cotter asked, "why Colby College has treasureJ the memory of this man for 1 5 3 years, and why so many of America's d istingui,hed journalists, joined ton ight by David Broder, cnn-ider this award we have named in Lovejoy's memory to he a singular honor I" l n the honorary degree c itation, Cotter praised Broder a a reporter "early to grasp" the i ncreased importance of television and pol l ing in the U n ited States and the d i minishing role o ft h e pol i t ical party structure. "More recently," the president cold the honoree, "you have focused concern on a mode of mud l i nging cal led, in c l a s i c double peak, 'negative campaigning.' Yet you remain po it ive about the soc ial sc ience of pol i t ics, exam i ning it the way the Greeks did, as a study more of the governed than of the ir governors." At a dinner before the award ceremony, Cotter tea ed Broder about h is love for the Ch icago Cubs and presented him w ith a Cubs warm- up j acket provided by Lovejoy selection committee chair Richard Ciccone of the Chicago Tribune. Then the president turned serious. "You were born, reared and educated in l l l inois, that state of Lovejoy's martyrdom, and your career exempl ifies the h ighest as pirations of h is own, tragically shortened l ife, " he told Broder, who earned bachelor's and master's degrees from the U n i versity of

Mayflower Hill i s anything h u t sleepy in the ummer, w 1d1 uch activitie a- pons camp,, 'l'ec ial pmgrnm, fur Joctors, master c lasse. for church organi ts, piani r- and strmg mu 1cian-, anJ computer eminars for c h i ldren and teacher . But it isn't every day that a Bel l Jet Ranger I l l hel icopter touche down on the lawn bordering Mayflower H i l l Drive, a one d i J o n a Friday in mid -August. The pi lut was former I BM chair Tho mas Watwn , J r . , on campu for a conference of Watson Fe llow,. In 196 l h is family estab l ished the Wat,on Foundation, which he now heads, 1n hon r of h is father. The foun dat ion stakes recent col lege graduates to a year of tudy and discovery abroad. On their return, the 1 989 fellows gathered at Colby, where the annual get together has been held for the past two year . l 989's W a tson F e l l ows <li s p e r e d throughout t h e world in what w a s arguably the most turbulent year i n recent memory, and those who gathered at Colby told tales of exc itement and frustrat ion. Several, includ ing Patty Carlson '89, aw their projects part ially dera i led by the restriction placed on fore igner fol lowing the T iananmen Square massacre m Ch i na-fe l lows with China-related projects were advi ed by the foundation to eek out other locales. Those who p lanned to travel extensively in Eastern Europe were also advised to stay away. But most agreed that i n the end, the snags turned out to be at lea t as u eful as the mooth sail ing they encountered. Carlson cro sed a China experience off the list of Colby, January 1 99 1

possibilities and concentrated, instead, on Taiwan. where

he found a family to ll\·e

with and. through them, arranged to obsen·e a number of local kindergarten . David Glass (Pomona ' 9 ) , who had intended to gather oral hi rory of the Chi ne e Communist Party, found himself in Malaysia instead, increasingly fru ·rrated by a lack of research lead·. Gla·s wld of a chance encounter in a Malay·ian bar (the "Wild We t Saloon") with an expatriate American engineer who offered to intro duce him to people who could help hi Photo 1:-r Oa,·id Leaming

project. Although Glas had been warned who prey on Americans

Tarna Biddle '9 2 u:as among 700 s r udent5 who received measles booster shois m September after one

abroad, he took a chance-saymg to him-

case of che highl:v infecrious disease was diagnosed. Set·en cudenrs who had no proof of immunit\' t.vere housed m makeshifc quarters in rhe Millerr Alumnr House, buc-chanks large/:" ro rhe College's rapid response-no ocher cases were reported.

about stranger

elf, as he recall , 'Tm a Warson! How can l say no?" The engineer quired Gla ·around for a month, giving him the access to Malay sian

ociery he needed ro complete hi The atmo phere m the chapel wa

project.

istration cook the -hame our of racism and

After the year abroad, mo·t fellows

heightened by a renewed concern at the

spread the lie char there is no longer any

return to this country and rake up m re

College about discrimmation, evidenced in

di crimination," he aid, adding char e\·en in

normal pursuits. For

a rwo-day work hop for

ome, career choi-e

raff and

tudent

the deepest days of

ourhem segregation he

build directly on the Warson experience.

leaders on campu racism conducted m ep

had never "experienced more overt hare

Deanna Cook'

, who pent her travel year

tember by the nationally prominent con-

than right now."

writing an international cookbook for chil

ulrant , Equity, Inc. The chapel was packed

dren, i now an editor at Mach Magazine, a

to the rafter

with

tudent , facult

and

Farmer urged students to exercise their rights in the political proce . He noted that

ew York.

member of the community, and the peaker

in 1964 three CORE workers, Andrew

tudied marble

ro e to the occa ion-frail and nearly blind

Goodman, Michael

sculpture technique in Greece and Italy, i

now bur -rill pos e sing the eloquence and

Chaney,died roearn uch rightsforblack in

a sculptor in Portland, Maine. And Tom

emotion that made him one of the prophets

Mi i ·ippi. "Politician ,whireor black,share

Claytor' 5 , who e War on study wa titled

of the American civil right movement.

one ability," Farmer said. "They can count."

cholastic, Inc. publicanon in Carolyn Treat ' 2, who

"Romance of the Bu h Pilot: Kenya, Brazil, epal,

ew Zealand," It t hi occupation a

chwerner and James

Farmer held hi audience pellbound.

He closed his speech with a poem.

He poke of hi early work m the movement

There was ab olure silence after its last line,

"Bu h Pilot/Film Producer" and hi addre ·

and his narrow e cape from a mob m Loui i

''I'll never let race define my soul!" echoed

a "Africa."

ana on the very weekend of the Rev. Martin

through the room. Then pontaneous, loud

CORE Founder Captivates Crowd

Luther King, Jr.'s "I have a dream" peech.

and prolonged applause erupted a the crowd

He outlined the advance

ro e to it feet.

made by the

movement in the sixrie , then spoke de

At a reception following the speech,

spairingly of what he characterized a a re

Farmer wa

emeroence of raci m fanned by gm·ernment

quisiti\·e sruden:: -·ome of whose parents

policy.

had not been born in l 942 when Farmer and

"We didn't kill raci m in the ·ixries, but

urrounded by excited and in

fellow black rudent turned their di gust at

Jame Farmer, who i n 1 94 2 founded the

raci m almo t killed me," Farmer .aid, re

the refusal of service by a Chicago re taurant

Congre s of Racial Equality, came to Colby

calling the night m 1 9 6 3 when he wa re

into a succe sful prote t. What Farmer and

thi fall, and for about 90 minute it seemed

lea ed from jail in Plaquemine, La., and

his compatriot had im·enred wa a form of

a if Lorimer Chapel wa, a large time ma

e caped a lynch mob by riding our of town

peaceful demonstratitm that would become,

chine, transporting the capaciry crowd back

hidden in a hear e.

two decades later, a fixture of the civil nght'>

three decade .

Colby, January 1 991

"The eight year of the Reagan admin-

movement-the sit-in.

Mf!4tue, 1990

Colby, January 1 99 1

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Megan MacDonald '94 Continues a Family Tradition at Colby

en Megan MacDonald '94 of Milton, Mass. , decided st spring to attend Colby, word of her choice evoked spate of congratulatory notes and calls from rela tives-includ ing a n u mber she never knew she had . MacDonald i s t h e 5 3 rd member of t h e Drummond-Eaton c lan to attend Colby, but the fir t in 2 2 year . he trace her Colby roots to one of the two giant of the c lan, her rear-great-grandfather, Waterville attorney Harvey Doane Eaton. A member of the Class of l 7, Eaton founded the Central Maine Power Company and created the nation's first public utility di tric t , ac hievement that moved Colby to vote him an honorary doctorate in 1 9 5 2 , two years before hi death at age 9 1 . Megan MacDonald's great-grandmorher, Harriet Eaton Roger ' 1 9, married a Colby man, A. Raymond Roger ' 1 7 , and they produced t h ree more Colbian : E t e l l e Roger MacDonald ' 3 9 (Megan MacDonald' grandmother), Manha Rogers Beach '42 and A. Raymond Rogers, Jr. '49. I r was the marriage of Megan's great-aunt, Martha Roger , to George L. Beach, J r. '4 1 , that connected the descendants of Harvey Doane Eaton to the heirs of another giant of Colb lore, J o eph Hayden Drummond of the Cla of 1 46. "When Mom went off t0 Colby from New Bedford, he mer r h i fel low a n d brought h i m home, thinking I 've met th1 wonderful new man," said Martha's daughter, Margo Beach Long '6 5 , a chool p ychologist in New London, Conn. "Of cour e , it wasn't rhar way at a l l . Mom didn't know it when he met Dad, but her parent and his all had gone t0 Colby at about the same t ime." George Beach's mother, Loui e Drummond Beach ' 1 4, wa the granddaughter of J o iah Drummond, whose mark on Colby wa undeniable. He helped found the fir t campus fraternity, Delta Kappa Epsilon, was a member of the College' Board ofTrustees for 45 years and i ts chair for the final 1 2 , from 1 890 until hi death in 1 90 2 , received an honorary Colby doctorate i n 1 7 1 a n d initiated the drive that financed con truction of Colby' fir t women's dormirory. Three of h is relations were Colby trustee -Wilford Gore Chapman of the Cla of 1 88 3 , who served from 1 90 3 until hi death in 1 92 0 and was board secretary from 1 90 7 on; A l bert Foster Drummond of the Clas of 1 888, who erved from 1 9 1 8 through 1 929;

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and Wilford Gore Chapman, J r. ' 1 2 , a trustee from 1 930 t o J 935. A fourth trustee, Neil Leonard '2 1 , a member of the board from 1 9 3 3 until his death i n 1 968 and its chair during the important post-war period from 1 946 through 1 960, was married to Josiah Drummond's granddaughter, Hildegard '19. Through the fiftie and sixtie , a steady tream of Drummond Earon de cendant found their way tO the new campus on Mayflower Hill-from N eil Leonard, J r. ' SO to Josiah Hayden Drummond J V '64 tO George and Martha Rogers Beach's daughter, Margo Beach Long, and, finally, Clark Drummond Chapman '68, nephew of the legend ary Profes or Alfred King Chapman '2 5 , L . H .D. '68. And then there were no more. Estel le Rogers MacDonald' time at Colby was a joyful one. She majored in French, acted in Powder & Wig productions and the Christma play, wrote for the Echo and organized her j unior class dinner and dance. Bur, for one reason or anorher, through the seventie and eighties none of Estelle Rogers MacDonald's nine children went tO Colby, nor d id any of their contemporaries among the Drummond and Beache and Chapmans and orhers in the family tree of J o iah Hayden Drummond. Then, a year ago, Megan MacDonald, a senior at Thayer Academy, began narrowing her choice of a col lege."[ was look i ng for the usual thing," he remember . " A smal l liberal art college. Colby wa the fir t one that came to mind." A visit to Colby piqued her intere t. "It wa small," she said. "[ liked that , and I loved the campus . . . . A lso, my father's aunt [Martha Rogers Beach] has a house in the Belgrades, so l had been tO that area. I r wasn't rorally new. Margo Beach Long, who brought her own family back ta the lake each ummer to the cottage her great-grandfather built , ays for a time she hoped her own on might "become the sixth generation of our fam i ly to attend Colby," bur he accepted a football scholarship from the University of Massac h usetts. Megan says that while he m u l led her college option , there wa no pressure from the family to choose Colby for the sake of tradition, and her grandmother corroborates that, even though another c hoice might have meant a two-generation gap i n her branch of the fami ly's Colby lineage. "Of the grandchildren, only Megan was interested,"

Estelle MacDonald sa id. "I was thri l led, but I can't say that l influenced her." She'd have chosen Colby in any event, MacDonald said during her first semester this fal l , but the idea of resuming such a strong fam i ly tradition helped her to decide. "That was defin itely part of i t , " s h e s a i d , adding t h a t s h e w a s also struck b y h o w m u c h t h e campus reminded her of her happy h igh-school surroundings at Thayer. And after returning from her coastal biking expedition during the Colby Outdoor Orientation Trip ( COOT), it was c lear to Megan that he had made the right choice. "[ think I'm beginn ing to love i t here already," she said, "although it is quite strange, going to a school that loads of family went and a place that [virtual ly] belonged to my great great-grandfather." When Megan's great-great-grandfather, Harvey Doane Eaton, came to Colby in 188 3 , there was no such thing as COOT, and Colby was a distinctly different place. The campus then overlooked the roaring Kennebec R iver, and women had only been attend ing Colby

for a dozen years. Eaton wa quick to make his mark on the College and the rown and became a big name not only in the MacDonald family tree but al o in the historyofWaterv i l le. After graduating from Colby in 1 88 7 , he went on to receive h is law degree from Harvard and wa admitted to the U .S . District Court, the Circu it Court and the Maine Bar. After opening a law firm in Waterv i l le, Eaton took two of hi ca es to the highest court in the country and was v ictoriou in both. After hi Supreme Court triumphs, Eaton teamed up w ith Walter Wyman to create the Kennebec Water District, the first munic ipally owned water company in Maine. The idea came to h i m in t h e midst o f a drinking-water shortage in Waterville. He happened to be on the heights we t of Waterv i l le at a pot where the towns of

Fairfield, Benton, Win low and Waterv i l le were all in view. "There," he told an assoc iate, gesturing to the expanse below, "is a d istrict." Eaton's inspirat ion, the multi-j urisd ict ional public -service d is trict, eventually became a standard tool across the country for managing regional public-service needs. Hi own public service continued when, as an extension of the library he had created in h is office, he helped to develop the Watervi lle Public Lihrary. He saw h i campaign for education fulfi l led when he w a s given t h e honor of breaking the ground for the Watervi lle H igh School after be ing one of its primary developer . The dedication to education and community was carried on by Eaton's daughter Harriet , who attended Colby 32 years after her father, graduating with the Cla s of l 9 l 9 . It was at Colby that she met Raymond Rogers ' 1 7 , who became her hu hand and with whom she had four c h i ldren. Harriet Rogers became a director of the Maine Chi ldren's Home and played an act ive role in e tabl ish ing the Parent Teacher Assoc iat ion during the 1 9 3 0 . She was also on the board of d i rectors for Thayer Auxi l iary Hospital and the Waterv ille H i torical oc iety. Her husband, Raymond, went to Harvard Law chool , and he ran for Congres� in 1 9 36, losing to h i Repub l ican rival. Roger� met with d i appoint ment again when he lo t h1 campaign for Republ ican mayor of Watervi l le. After a stint in the armed �ervice a a colonel , he became a chairman of the advisory board of the alvat ion Army and an attl)rncy in Waterv i l le, where he practiced until 1 962. Raymond and Harriet' daughter Estelle entered Colby · n 1 9 3 5 . She re member� that the relat ively low tuition, roughly $200 a year not includ ing book , helped make her matriculat ion po ible. But she graduated well in advance of the flowering offemini ·m and met resi ·ranee when she tried to convert her degree into career opportunitie . "I went for a job in a department store after Colby in 1 939 and wa told by the manager there that college girls were a d ime a dozen," he remembers. She entered secretarial school in New York, hoping to find work a a receptioni t. While her Colby experience could not help her d ismantle the gender bar riers to a career, Megan MacDonald's grandmother say it was helpful in preparing her to rear her own n ine chi ldren. She feels that her "excellent background at Colby," where she concentrated in French and English, has made her a good mother to her "large, healthy and prospering fam i ly." Megan should encounter fewer obstacle professionally. Person ally, her family tie are already paying off. She has developed a rapport with her Great-Aunt Martha and Great-Uncle George, now retired and still liv ing in Watervi l le. And when member of the Drummond Eaton c lan return to the lake ide cottages on Snow Pond in North Belgrade next summer, they'll know that 1 49 years after J o iah Drummond first entered Colby, another member of the family i carrying on the trad ition.

Colby, January 1 99 1

"'jOICE IROďż˝ "1FIE VOID"

Michael Rothschild Walks Abreast with His Days by Stephen Collins '74 i t h h is n e w book, Wondermonger ( V iking, 1 990), whipping up tidal wave on the sea of American literature, Michael Rothsc h i ld '69 leaves his farm out ide of Phi l l i p , Maine, for New York and Bo ton fairly frequently the e days. For the mo t part, the inter\'iew , radio how , reading and book- ignings have been mooth ailing for Roth c hi ld , who e work ha been compared favorably co that of William Faulkner, Gabriel Garcfa Marquez and Jorge Luis Borges. Bur occasionally, he gets a question that throw him, and it was during one of the New York interview that h e wa a ked, "How i it po ible to work for 20 or 30 year up there in a v01d?" After all, the question implied, New York is the c u l tural capital

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of America, the center o f art and l iterature, \\'here writers schmoo:e with writers and where literary careers are made or broken. And Phillip , a tiny town more than an hour northwest of Waterville on the verge of the U norgani:ed Territory of Franklin County, is nowhere. Back at the farm on Tory Hill, week after fielding that question, Rothschild was till haking h i head, brown hair braided tight down the back. After a big lunch of home-grown ham, garden ,Âˇegetables and his wife' freshly baked bread, h e settled into the study of h is 20room farmhouse and wondered, "ls this the void?" It was a rhetorical question. The notion of writers talking only to other writers, plotting their literary career and hanging on the proclamations of the critic i , i n his word , "bul ls-eye, dead-center 9

Ram , beaten lead,

x 36 inches . 1 98 7 .

,·o i d . " A rt and I i terat urc a r e n o t ahout a r t and li tera t ure, they 're ahout l ife. A nd Rothsc h i ld ' all but self-suffic ient farm is a place where l ife i experienced firsth and, where art is extrac ted from and hammered out of nature. L i fe i pul l i ng milk from Bertha the cow's udder. I r 's pull ing a

hakespeare Company 1 11 England hefmc a t tend mg tudent, \\'rote tortes la ter publ 1,hed tn The Pans

olby and, a · a

Rt!t•teui.

When h1-, la't semc,ter ended i n 1 969 he >ktppeJ

ommence

ment and set off for Fra n k l i n County lln a motorcycle, lnok 1 11g for a place w l i ve. The story of how he houghr 200 acre� and turned them

carrot from the soi l , a lamh from the womb of a ewe. I t ' d ra i n i ng the

i n to the center of h 1> u n i verse, l ike many of h i , per onal anecdotes,

l i feblood of a pig from i ts t h roat during sl aughter.

h i n ts that th ere's a l t t t le Wondermunger i n M i chael Rnth c h i ld

" ! want to get the egg from under the a · of the hen," Roth c h i ld

somerhing c h armed ahout h is brma and perhaps magn ified by h is

sa i d . A nd i t's that same gritty, elemental quality rhat puts Rothsc h i ld 's

world-class swrytc l l i ng a b i l i t te,.

w r i t i ng a· far away from P h i l i p Rot h 's angst - r idden urban landscape a f a rm l i fe i n rural Fran k l i n County is from condo l i fe on the Upper

c h i ldren-bucked the astronomical odds that dec i mated the ranks of

We t Side. Rothsc h i ld , now 43, grew up i n Bangor and attended Cnlby during the late 1 960 . H e is ful l of d ro l l stories <lbout col lege theater

Rorhsc h i ld and fa m i ly-w ife Catharine (O'Re i l l y ) and four hac k - to-the-l ander: and thrived on t h e i r h i l l top form. Of the legions of would-be homesteaders who trted and fa iled , Rl)thsc h t l d

ays

c rypt i c a l l y , "You sec, they were readmg Thnreau when they should

product ions, i n which he performed with the l i kes of profes ors l r\' i ng

ha,·e been reading Emerson." H e rem111ds a \· i ; i tor that for all of h is

Su s, A bbott Meader and F. Celand "Ed" W i th a m . One semester,

talk of o l i t ude and self-reliance, Thoreau mu Id-and often d id-fall

Rothsc h i l d p l ayed the part of the menac i ng brother i n H arold

back on h i s father'; fortune to susta i n h i mself.

P i nter's The Caretaker so con v i n c i ngly that Suss, whose characrer

W h i le he was learning the le som of fa rm l i fe-th a t apples, for

rook nightly bea t i ngs from Rothsc h i ld's, had ro be c ajoled into

imtance, could go from the tree; to the c ider pre ; to the hog trough,

retu rn i ng to the stage for A c t Two. A nd i t was probably those same

t hen through the hog

t hesp i an talent that made Rothsc h i ld a fearsome presence d u ring hi

u e d writ i ng. I n 1 9 7 3 h is first book, Rhapsody of a Hermit and Other

the m an u re -spreader-Rothsc h i ld con t i n

term as c h ief j us t ice of the stude n t j ud ic iary. One Waterv i l le a t tor

Tales, wa- published to c r i t ical acc l a i m . Then came a long si lence. I t

ney, engaged by a student cal led before the court, wa so i nt i m ida ted

would b e 1 7 years before h is next book, Wondennonger.

by Roth c h i ld that he packed h i · t h i ngs and left the hea r i ng room,

H a v i n g to get the egg from beneath the hen and keeping up with

con\' i nced t h a t the student rood a hetter c hance of w i n n i ng the case

all the other demands nfa fa m i l y farm leaves l i t t le t i me f o r a r t i t ic self.

w i thout h is pre ence. Rorhsc h i ld rec a l ls, from those years on campu , Professor A lfred hapman's e lega nce and frankness, h i s passion for the Romantics and encyc loped i c knowledge of t h e i r world and h is a b i l i ty to hare that pa s ion with h is student . And Rothsc h i ld st i l l share Professor

expression. "We grow 90 percent ofour food. We have 2 5 sheep, three or four beef an i mals, ducks, t u rkey

and ch ickens," Rothsc h i ld

e x p l a i ned. There are a lso the garden , orchards fu l l of old strain of apple , d a i ry cow , horse

and farm equipment to tend. A nd , as he watc hed t he leaves on M t . A bra m beginn ing t h e i r fa l l d isplay t h i s

Emer i t us R. Mark Benbow's sense of the i m medi acy of hakespeare.

year, Rothsc h i ld w a s buc k l i ng d o w n to fi n ish a monu me n t a l post

"Chappie" and Benbow were notordinary professots, and M ichael

and-beam barn before snowfall-a rep l acement for an old barn t hat

Roth ·c h i l d was no ord i n a ry studen t . H e spent a year w i th the Royal 10

burned early i n the year.

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•

AbtlU[ his S[lirie:.;, Rmhschild has been quu[ed widely as aying, " I wnrk on [hem \\'hen I h;l\·e [ime, mosdy la[e a [ nigh[; bur [here i� \·ery litde time. " Compounding t h e chrnnic [ 1 mc c runch i s t h e fact that \\'riting i j ust one of Rothschild's talent · , and not nece,sarily the ascendant one. About a do:en years ago Rothschild d 1scl1,·ered a ·er of \\'Ood car\' 1 ng tools that had belonged to his fa[her. Thar was [he beginning of a detour inw sculpture for which he use · the metaphor uf a fish with a hook in the s1de nfits mouth. " I used r,1 fight it , " he ,aid. " 011· ! -,,nm in tha[ d 1 rec nnn because l \·e learned i[ will hurt my momh less, and it rakes a lot less energy . " Working at h i s Tory H i l l homesread, Rmhschild began shap i ng chunk- of hardwood, slabs of slate anJ mas,i,·e sheeb llf le<Jd into mon ·e and ram· head�, bird::. of prey, life- ·1:e ::.[urgeon and cxprcs, 1 ,·e female forms. Dunng the l 9L Os h e met Clmsiderable succe,s \1·irh hi, �cu lp[ure-though succe s, in a commerc ial ·ensc , was nen�r \\'hat he was after. The scu lpture· and the pic tures he paints plumb Rothschild's deepe ·r fee l ing . They weren't concel \·ed or fabricated for gallerie' tlr col lectors. " lme nf m · sculptures wa e\·er made w sel l , " he ,;a id, though some piece' ha1·e , including a carved blue heron to author tephen King of Bangor. One buyer, about w .pend a sum that would pay for a modest house in Maine, ment mned ho11 well the piece in que tion would look in his office in Washington. Rll[hschild said he told the buyer that if the sculpture wa to leave [he state of laine , [he deal wa off-no sale. "And I really needed [he money, " he added . In 1 9 - 9 Rmhschild [raveled to China to lecture on his work at Central Academy of Fine Arts in Be 1 i ing-a tour arranged in pan by hi on, Harry, a Harvard undergraduate who was lil·ing in China at the time. Rothschild h a been inv1[ed w mount an exhibit in Beijing, and if he accept , H will be the first time he's shown hi work form a l ly. The fact that ten of thou.and. of Chinese would come to view hi work for its am tic value-not because of who he 1 or becau e they have any commercial int re t-appeals to rhe artbt. He still doe n't plan to exhibit in rhe United tare,, bur he did puhli ·h a book of photo raph- of hi artwork, Jubilme , [h1 year, and he ,how his pieces at home by appointment. De pite his uccess with the vi ual art , the questions about h1 literary hiatu per i t . Why the detour inro sc ulpture ' Why neglect the promi ing wn [in career? To Roth·child they are illy que tiom. They smack of our We tern predi po ition to ruffpeople into pigeonhole -a wme r or culptor, one but not both. Accu·ed of neglecting h 1 1nit1n career he coff , "l have no career. I don't care about my career." Writing, he ay ,i one ofthe elf-cxpre·m·e element ofhi· l 1 fe , not a j o b . Writing a n d reading, like walking around, are imply t h mg · he doe . He in 1 t he i no rnore a writer than he 1 . a father, a hu band, a builder, a farmer or a culpror. Writing, drawing and c ulpting arc all way· w expre feeling . "And when you bear down o hard on the page, o hard you go through the paper into the desk, then it's time to work on ·omething more obdurate," h e aid, de cribing the need to hift media, moving back and forth between rudy and tudio. Compari ons with Faulk ner ( whom he ay h e never pamcularly admired) and Borge eern to amu e Rothschild. And praise, con tra ted with the power of art to communicate feeling and to move people, "doesn't mean spit," he said. More important than critical acc laim are tear in the eye of the toughe t fifth grader a t Strong Elementary c hool after Roth child read him 0 car Wilde' The Nighringale and The Rose. More mean ingful than public recognition i the unchecked emotion of a blind

Colby, J anuary 1 99 1

woman as she caresse; an ahstract sculpture and rea l i zes that her si ·tcr was the model. And more powerful than money was the n ight Ch ina' most revered culptor, Qian hao Wu, stopped Rothsc h i ld in m id - lecture and, agitat e d , asked to review slide ofRothsch i ld's sculpture, Croucher. Bidding Roth c h i ld and the Be ij i ng aud ience tO wait wh ile he left to get some d ra w i ng -stud ies for a scu lpture he'd been work ing on for fi\·e years-Qian returned and , look i ng at photos of Rmh ch i ld's sculpture and comparing it to hi own drawings, sa id, " ! will never complete t h is culpture. I t is fi n ished . " Back home i n Ma ine, Rothsch ild contemplate a unified v i s ion of l ife, in wh ich a man can be a writer, a farmer and an artist; a father and a friend; a producer and a consumer; a disciple of W i l l iam Blake's Songs of lnnocence and his Songs of Experience. His thoughts return to C h i na and to Dong Xin Bin of N anj i ng. Dong i a respected phy i cian, herba l ist and author-and at the same t i me , one of Ch i na's premier landscape painters. Roth child reads from h i son's translat ion of an article in the C h i ne e an maga z i ne ] iansu Pictorial about Rothsch i ld 's v i s i t to Dong. Dong Xin Bin pointed ro a water painting scroll on silk and began to explain what he called Three Moonl ights and Lone Boa t .

nigh t , I , too , was drunk.

1 went u/) into our field anJ lay down , and Bertha

came our of the dark and lay down beside me . She was breach111g warm arr, which spurred out onto my face , while chewing grm\ w crall\form che fiekl into milk , inro the teeth and bones of my children . Afcer an unknown length of time a large hooting star traversed che heaven 1 . 1 could not see it directly . The cow ra1 ed her head and followed the juumey of che star. the cow's e)•e .

1 felt the wannch of che cow\ body and brearh , che milk she

gai•e me and my family , and 111 chac 111.\tanr che cow seemed all of heaven and all of earth . Thar instant of rhac cow-night was the past , che presen t , che fucure .

coo ,

ma ke a picture and a culpture w suggesr what I felt this

nigh t . Then tell me , Dong Xin Bin , where rs the cow and the star in a mountain /Jasture in Maine so different from your three moons in the south of China and your lone boa t "'

Recently a parcel <irrived on Tory H i l l-a pai n t i ng from Dong with a note. The pa i n t i ng depicted a cnw on a h i l l , sta r in the n ight ky and below, a lone boat on the water. The note, t ran lated , concludes: "The universe connect' a l l of us, anJ art connect h uman beings to the uni verse. Oe;pite the ,uffermg, t h is 1 s a gloriou world, and art is j ust proof of i t . " J ust as Rothsch i ld w a mo\'ed when Q i a n

" I , Dong Xin Bin , raise m y head and see the moon light the sky .

1 was lying

on my back at her knees and could see the star reflected in the greac bulb of

h a o W u produced

the drawings that were ident ical to a ::.culpture Roth c h i ld had done

lower my head, and I see the moonlight in the water, the reflection of the

half a world away, he is moved by the harmony m the que t of two

moon. I am drunk. My eyes , my drunken eyes , produce another, third type

art ists, one work i ng in N aniing and one i n Ph i l l i p , M ai ne.

of moonlight . The boat passes on . There is nothing. The past , rhe present ,

"It was nor by chance that someone l ike Dong X m Bin i mak i ng that sound in China," Roth child �a 1 J . " ! want to answer that ound . "

the future are all there at once, and suddenly there is nothing. Therefore I have painted this picture. Is that not different from what you do in )'Our country ! " Michael: "DongXin Bin , m y family has a cow named Bertha. For

-Stephen Collins live� m Oakland, Maine , where h e and h i s wife ,

years m y chiklren are nourished b y the milk of this cow. One warm summer

Candace Hill , publish The Summer T 1 1nes , a seasonal newspaper for the Belgrade region.

Feed ing, black walnuc on black slace , 18 x 48 inches. 1 98 2 . 12

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"Cha racter s to Whom Thing s Matte r, Despe rately" WONDE� MONGER " T here waiting

are few things wonh

happened but how Rochsch ild has

1 7 years for , " begins Eli::a

made

beth Hand's Washingron Po t re

it h a p pe n . H e i s l i k e

Faulkner in t h a t regard, invenr

view of Michael Ror.hschild's lacesc

ing a land all h is own: where

collec tion ofstories , "rme !ot•e I sup

Fau lkner' · was Yoknapatawpha

pose , or rrur)'be one's dream house or

Counry, Rothschild's i Sunbury

char tnp co Venice . To th!S shon lisc

Town and Tanrrarrle and J e h

we can

now add

Wondermon

imon Plantation and

ger . . .

Rm:es hat•e been the nom1 for che book. l n The

tarkmont.

Perhaps the mo t defining characteristic of the collection is

ew York T i me. ,

that of obse sion: i n all of the

Datid Daw on adt>ised readers co

most ucce �ful Storie , character

"look behind rhe rich detail of clie

are obses·ed with something, e i

nme . . . stories themselves . Un

t h e r w i t h settli ng a territory, a m

derneath chem all , " he concmued,

"How the Oval H i ll Wajosi Be

"dnwng these stones co che qwck of

came

yourso11l , yo11 '/lfind . . .

and revenge, as in "Wonder

ihe dei·ot edly bearing hearc of one t1.1hu has the

rarkmonr," or with love

monger," or with k i l l i ng a bear, as

careful abtlit)" to mo ld and chi.Se! h!S

in "The trike Hound." A ll of the

sw1ies mro Ii ting, breathmgworks of

major character ha\'e ome im Roth child\ work is hard to place,

arr.

thing they own or wanr that demands

gl1Sh Michael Burke fur his asses ment of

into today' mainstream but al o becau·e

protection or effort. The�e are characters

Wonde r m o n ge r .

i r harken

B urke , coo , found

Rothschild and hi scones intriguing, chal

lenging and impressn:e.

in part because it

age of themselve· to protect or have a

o clearly doesn't fit

Colby asked aSS1 stanc profes or of En

back to other writer and co

to whom thing maner, de perately. Per

ambttiou. attempt to create a world in a

haps it is thi concern of Roth c h i ld's for

wa� that 1sn 't attempted much anymore.

the significance ofaction and of the pa t

There are elemcnr of Faulkner here, and

that make the book eem o our of our

ofthe outh Americanfabuli.r-, but mo t

times.

1aine

One reaJ· Rothsch i ld' work with

much l ike our own-being recreated in

the ·ense that he is an unconvenrional

myth and fable.

writer: unconventional in taking a hi

compelling 1 To a reader coming fresh to M 1chacl Roth c h i lJ' work, h i .torie arc a hock anJ a urpwe, fi r it i, as though, for him,

the ·ound of a

The fir·c three work , the novella

subject rural Ma ine anJ i t mythic past;

20 year in American ficuon

"Wondermonger" and two tone , "The

unconvenrional i n avoiding or ignoring

haven't happened. Here i. a writer who

Price of Pine" anJ "How the Oval H i l l

the main tream of Amencan literature;

Wajo 1

tarkmont , " a r e all ct

and unconventional a· another way of

effusively; there is none of the . pare,

in the beginning of a Ma ine-like place.

�aying that he i· good and intere t ing.

m i n i mal

And a one read , one ha· the ensarion

The "W ondermonger" of the t itle, wh ich

plagued; none of that

that this t how it m ight have been, how

refers to the character Mordecai Rime,

modem, fashionable despair or the ago

Mame might have come ro be. And then

might ju t as wel l refer to Rothschild, a

nmng over the exi tenrial void.

one realize· that no, th i· 1s not how it

worker of wonders.

the last

i n't afraid to

lush, to use language

tylc by which the contempo

rary >hort tory t

Colby, January 1 99 1

Became

]{EEpiNG TbE FAi Tb Though Distanced from Its Baptist Origin, Colby Still Offe rs Religious Students A Niche by Mary Ellen Matava

oon after she arrived at Colby, Kim Eremina attended a home ryle breakfa t put on by the Colby Christ ian Fellowsh ip. The experience, she says, converted her from a "closet Christ ian" to someone w i l l ing to openly declare her faith . "[ wa really struck by the power that was in the room , " she sa id. "People were so lov ing and caring." Now a junior and vice pre idem of the group, Ereminas says her faith has deepened since. "[ never felt the conviction until I came to Colby," she said. "I am a hy person, but 1 rook a leader hip po it ion in the fe llow ship my sophomore year. It h a forced me to come out of my shel l and claim my fa ith . " Ereminas's experience seems t o b e un usua l . For many of her contemporaries, the college years are a t ime to question-and often reject-religious beliefs taught by par ents. For a variety of reasons ( includi ng something as simple as a desire to sleep in on weekend mornings), students sometimes tum away from family traditions, such a weekly church or temple attendance. 14

In h igh schonl, John Cook part1cirared in Sunday services as a lay reader and was a member of the choir and pari h counc il at Sr. Patrick 's Catholic Church in Burl ington, Conn. But once in college, he said, he "fell out of church." " I wa learning other things in classes," said Cook, who transferred to Colby last fa ll after rwoyearsat Trinity University in Texas. "[ read the essay 'Self Reliance' by Emerson. I started to see church as a crutch, a place where people col lect money, a corrupt inst i tut ion "When we come to college, we tend to neglect the religious aspect of our l i ves," aid Ronald Morre ll, Colby's Protestant chap lain. I n earlier days, Colby would have coun tered such neglect. Students had to attend da i ly services in the chapel and to go to church on Sunday-requirements that were e l iminated in the early decades of this cen tury. The College was l iberal for i ts times. Although Colby's precursor, the Maine Lit erary and Theological I nstitution, was strictly

Bapti t, member of other denominations were welcomed at Waterv i lle College, and the Colby College charter is nonsec tarian. I n h i h i tory of the College, the late Ernest Cu mming Mamner nores that Colby' most famous early graduate, El ijah Parish Lovejoy, was a Presbyterian, and that, a early as 1 909, Congregat ional ist outnumbered Baptists on the faculty. ince 1 984, Colby has employed three chaplains to min ister to students. Profes or Thomas Longstaff, chair of the Department of Ph i losophy and Rel igion and an ordained Episcopal priest, served a part- time chap lain for several years in the late 1 970s and taught in the department as well. He was the last College chapla in to al o have t ies to the Phi losophy and Rel igion Department, and he says the separation is wise. "That is the way it should be," he said. "It keeps c learer the l i nes between the prac tice and the tudy of rel igion . " With h e l p from t h e chaplains, student can find a n iche in the rel igiou ervices and activities. And for some, i t fi lls a void. Colby , January 1 99 1

" I r's surprismg. You look ar r h is cam ru · , anJ rhere are so many ac ri\·i[les e\·er\' da ·," aid Farher John 1arquis, rhe Carhulic chaplain, \\'ho d i \· ides his r i me among Colby. Uniry and Thoma. colleges. '' I n spire of all rhar, rhere's an awful lor of a l ienamm. Tha r , ro m e , i> \\'here l come m . " M arqu i e a r breakfast in t h e din i ng hall regularly, so srudenrs can ger w kno\\' h i m . " [ reali:ed rhis was a great rlace ro meer people," he :aid. "They're groggy, rhe\''re leepy, bur rhey're al o tense sometimes and worried abour whar's coming up durin):! the day." To become fa m i l iar to ·tudents, M ar quis immersed h imself i n campus events after the Diocese of Portland tran ferred h i m ro Waterv i l l e from r . J oh n r h e B;ipmt Church m Brun·\\' ick m 19 9 . I n fac t, he had J U t finished unrack i ng his bag· that fa ll when he loaded a backpack and tnok off on a COOT exped i r ion . "l wanteJ to be pre-.ent,

ter ' conference and had them de l i ver ser mons ar rhe China Bapr isr Church, \\'here he is pasror. One of rhose srudenr ·, Thoma� Chadron ' , is now enrol led ar Gordon Conwell Seminary in Sourh Hamilro n , Mass. " I find rhar \'ery fulfi l l i ng anJ sat isfying," Morrell ·aid. Morrel l and Rabbi Raymond Kri nsky, rhe J e wish c haplain, have orher congrega r 1ons that keep them busy, so rheir r i me ar Colby is de\·oted, for rhe mo r parr , to rhe srudenrs who seek rhem our. "Those rhar come ro rhe chapel are search ing already," a id Morre l l . " M y role is ro aid rhem i n rheir p i lgri mage." ome Je\\'ish srudenr- artend ervices at rhe Berh I rael Congregarion on M a m rreet in Warerv i l le . M a n y more g e t i n \'Oked \\'trh acr i\· i r ie pon·ored by rhe H i l lel Foundar10n, which, like rhe e\\'man Club, ha-, a stwng rudenr base narionall · . H i l le l 1s ho r rn an annual Hanukkah parry, pur� on a ·ederar Pa over and organi:esgroup rrip- ro rhe Waterv i l le ·ynagogue for Rosh Hashanah and Yorn K irrur ser nces. H i l le l abo ponsor Holocau.r Remembrance Week and bring� w campus fi lms and lecrurer� on Je\\'t,h rheme·. "There is a felr need for invoke menr m rhing Je\\' 1sh," a id Krinsky. o matrer how rel igiou rudenrs are, he added, " rhey have a ·rrong de ire for U ew ish] identiry." A parr ofhisduries, Krin·ky come rocampus regularly to meet with H i l lel officers or ind i\·idual studenr and offer Hebrew lesson ro rho e plan n i ng trip ro lsrael. L ike many of rheir Chrisrian peer,, ome J e\\'i h tudenr pend t h e i r College year- weigh i ng rhe \'alue of rel igiou· convicr ion . Bur for them, Krin·ky aid, rhere i rhe added que· r ion of whar ir mean m be Je\\'i h on a predominantly Chri r ian campus. Phnro by Ke"in Rothstein '94 "They come i nro conracr w i th Kim Ereminas '92 , Sc.ei•e Lilley '92 , Krisrin Shore '92 and Mark Murr '93 , all officers m the Colb:" Chnsrian Chri · r ian bel ief , and ome come ro Fellowship, sing hymns and study the Bible ac the group's meecings , which draw abow 30 students and faculty me with questions-abou r the after1 ife, for example , " Krin ky said. The members ro rhe chapel lounge each week.

Colby, J anuary 1 99 1

\· bible and a\·adable w the campu·," he ·aid. l n add i t ion to saymg Mass, hearing confessions anJ aJ\·1smg rhe ewman Club, a Cathol ic studenr organ i :a r i,m, Marquis does a lor of informal coumeling-in rhe d i n ing hal ls, for tn<;rance, or in rhe bleachers ar footbal l game · . "- tudent JU r come on up and sit next to me," he said. M in isrering ro Protestant srudents at Cnlby can be tricky because of the broad 'pectrum of denom ina[ l,m> represented, so Ron lorrel I rries to keep h 1s unday e\·cn i ng \\'Or,h1p sen·ice simple. rudents somerime, help plan rhe 'er\'lces, and occas ional l y Morrell will t u r n sermon chore· m·er to one of them. He incorpuratcs song or prayers from rhe \·arious wor hip traJ n ions. "Each year t t change' a l ittle, depending on the 'rudent' who come co the chapel ," he sa id. - tudent.; inreresrcd m pa�toral mint try have found an encouraging menror in t<. l orre l l . He ha raken them along ro minis-

Phoro by

haron Lab1ck '9 1

Thokozani Kadzamira , an exchange student from Malawi , greets the Rei•. Ronald Morrell afcer the Sunday evening chapel service.

rabbi , who spent 16 years as d i rector of H i llel at the University of V irginia before com i ng to Colby, is comfortable with tudents. When uch questions arise, he >ays, he helps stu dents understand the teachings of their faith. Betsy A . K u l ler '90 tried to ob erve kosher dietary laws in her co-op residence hall, where students can elect to have kitchen privi lege . he went to Kri nsky's monthly ervices and drove I 0 hours to New York o he could spend Passover w ith her fami ly. "Someth ing like that was important to me," he sa id. "To omc extent, by my own init iation, I was able ro practice my rel ig ion at Colby." 16

Bur a more re ligious J ew would ha,·e a h a rder t i me , acc ord i n g to sophomore Stephanie Pulver, president of Colby's H i llel. The Jewi h Sabbath, which begins at sun down on Friday and ends 24 hours later, is hardly a period marked by med itation and reverence on campu , he ob erves. " I wouldn't come down hard on Colby," said Kul ler, who is now working on a k ibbutz in 1 rael , "though I don't think it w i l l ever be a good place for people committed to J uda ism as a way of life." According to Krin ky, however, J ew ish students can fit in ac Colby, even tho e who choose to pursue their re l igion actively.

"ThL'\ J, 1n't h;1n: to hL' m111imal1,tic aht1ut i he 1 11g J cw1,h) . " hL' ' . l i t! . ruh·n ,111J ,ithL'r' u'c H i l lel to cel L'hr<itL'-<mJ exrl1cate-thc1r culture . They n< He th,n m < >'t of the ,tuJcnt' \\'htl attenJ the H.111ukk.1h p<1rty, 'L'Jer meal anJ other H i llel l'\'L· n t ' , i re gent ile. "We want to ex rn>e our cul ture tll l lther-,'' rukcr �a 1J. Dcn itcJ C h n , t 1 a n 'tuJent often feel that rhey, tn< > , are m a mmority on camrus, among a non\\'or,h 1ring maiority. Ereminas i, c lo l' tll many of the Colhy Christian Fe l low,h 1r memhero;; and �hare' a co-ed suite of room' with ,e,·eral. he also ha many friends who don 't 'h;ire her he l iefs. "They .1Ccept me, though they some t i mes laugh at me," ,,he ,,aid. "One of them c a l leJ me 'vtrtuou� . · " Ela 1 11e Jorgemen, a senior and presi dent of the Newman C luh, know how it feels to he set apart hy her principles, which he hel 1eve<. arc rooted tn Cathol i c ism. J orgcn en i' anti-abort ion. "Mo t of my friend are rm-abortion. We ju t don't d is cu s i t, " ,,he said. "People who k now me know the way I feel about it. I t's not my top priority to pread tt around. I feel that would al ienate a lot o f people." While Ere m tna ·aid .he doe n't "beat people wi th Bibles," she won't hesitate to get into a d 1 scu,,,10n ahout mora l i ty. "! f l knew a homo exual I would que t ion h i m , but I wouldn't condemn h im. I believe homoexuality is wrong," he aid flat ly . Abortion a n d homosexuality are two o f t h e more volat i l e i u e s facing the fa ithful and soc iety in general . A nd on a campus where college health in urance cover abor t ions and where under rand ing varied lifetyle i encouraged, one woul d think there would be plenty for chaplain to d iscu s. But they tend to steer clear of contro versy. Morre l l and Marqui choo e not to make issue the focal point of their sermons, and Krinsky leaves complex moral dec isions to the individual. Morrel l outl i ne basic Christian bel ief from the pulpit. "The ba i is what's important for mak ing moral dec i sions, rather than preach i ng on pecific i ues," he said. Colby , January 1 99 1

Marq u is spoke about abortion m a ser

" I f l can j usr open a l i n lc crack in their m i nds

mon only once, he ·aid, i n respon·e co an

or their sou ls or the i r hearts, to help chem

gemng a d 1 n1fce. The elde r of four c h i l

item in the student newspaper, the Echo, char

c h i n k a l in l e more eriously, then I c h i n k l \·e

d ren, Jorgen en h a d been go ing ro ch urch

done my work ," he a i d .

every ll'eekend, by herself, s i nce ·he was a

noted chat flu · h o rs 11·ere

3 at the heal t h

ce ntt'r and abortion were free.

young teenager. Her parents' announcement

my s t o m a c h

charlain can do is help rudent. cope ll' ith

c ru·hed her, test i ng her fa i t h . She arnided

c h urned," M arquis ·aid. "To me, it \\'a a real

grief. T h e d eat h of a fa m i ly me m be r or a

re l i gious sen·ice her e n t i re first semester at

c l assmate can bring

Colby. " I wasn't sure ll'har I bel ieved in

" W h e n I s a ll' c h a t ,

ymbol of hm1· m i xed up and confu ·ed our

O n e of the m o s t i mportant t h i ng

lege, Jorgensen's rarents told her they 11·ere

rudents co the chap

1·alue a re." But he usually ray · all"ay from

lains for trength .

cough i - ue , on rhe grounds char they cannot

held recently for nrn members of the Class of

he mer then-Catho li c c h a p l a i n J ohn

be cm·ered effecr i1·ely in a fiYe- ro seven

1 99 2 , Todd Is:ard and J od i Spear. Students

Skehan ar a fireside c har during Ja n P lan and

m inure ermon. [I n fac t , rhe Echo was mi s

packed the charel for bot h .

taken; Colby's h ea l rh center offer· coun e l i ng a n d referral

and d o e

n o r perform

abortion .] The col lege m i n istry . M arq u i· ays, '' not the place ro c l i mb on a ·oarbox. H e ke e p h i hom i l ie upbeat m o r of the nme.

lemori al services were

anymore," she said.

subsequently j o i ned the Nell'man Club.

" W e c r y to help c h e m s e e holl' their

"Once I got inrn lved i n eYeryth i ng econd

faith relates to l ife ," Morrell aid. "We heir

seme�ter, everyth ing c a me back cogerher for

student with the grief process and are there

me," she said.

si mp ly to ralk ."

Camru

ome c rises are nm so publ i c .

Christian and ]ell'ish groups

augment the work of che c haplains, who

T h e d a y before , h e left h o m e f o r col-

someti mes serve as ad1·isers, but are student-

Phmos by Mary E l len Matarn and Ke1· i n Rorhsrem '94

Hillel p-residenr S tephanie Pulver '92; Rabbi Raymond Krinsky ac che Hillel Bagel Breakfast. Colby, January 1 99 1

dri,·en. N e wm a n C l u h leaders meet e v e ry Sunday afrer Mass. a nd 'ome get tog e t h e r on

"We are Christi a m , and we feel rhar ', a m i n i>try we can h a ve on the c a m pLh," a i d

Sunday n ight in the gym f or what Jorgemen

A l l e n . w h o nfren i n v i te'

c a l l s t h e c l uh'-; nrnsr reward ing a c t i ,· i ry rlaymg haskerha l l w i th men t a l l y rerarJcJ adu l t. from Watervi l le . "There\ a large Jegree o f personal sat

Bi hie 'rudic., a n d d i nner. " W e '> i t to people talk their way t h rough issue,, t he i r goa l s and de-; i re'>. We enjlly t h m . We rry to h e friend> and l i.,tenen, ." Teac h i ng ,rudcnr, ahout her re l ig1on

i sfa r i o n d o i n g i t , " sa i d se n i o r D a v i d Shum\n 1y , N e w m a n

l ub v i ce

pres idcnr,

t ud e n ts

hi,

home for

she

l i ,·e-, 1 ' enllug h . "

;:i n d c u l t u re

is g ra u fy i n g . ' a i d N i k k y

G u n i ndcr

games s i n c e h is fi r r year a t

losophy and re l igion. l n fac t , ,he ,aiJ, .,haring

i ngh , assistant

pmfe,,or of ph i

Colby. A r week l y CCF mee t i ngs, s t ud e rrn . gcr together t o s i ng, study the B i hie and soc i a l i : c . " I t 's a place where reople c a n fi nd sec u r i t y . On a c o l l ege ca mpus i t 's s11 easy not rn he a Christ i a n , " Ere m i na; sa iJ. "To he w i th people who t h i n k t h e s<1me way ynu do, ir\ refres h i ng." M e mbers a rc encou raged w rake advan rage of I n re n-.� rs i r y C h r i s t i a n Fe l l ow ship retreat and other opport u n i t ies to get off campus and ;hare the i r fa i t h with urhcr c o l l ege student . Geology Professor Donald A l le n a nd

her re l i giou, be l ief> is one way she rrac r 1 ce-. the S i k h fa i t h . "Rather t h a n saying rrayer' with i srudenrs] . I ::. h r i re i t i n an ;:icadcmic sense , " h e sai d . i ngh , w h o con.,ider' her,e l f , · e ry 'r1 r i rua l , c <1 n ' r den )te a whole m o m to the _ i k h h o l y hook , a> ot he r ' o f h e r faith d u , b u r -,hl k eep> i t i n a prnmmenr place i n her Tay lor fac u l t y arartmenr . " [ ,lpen i t i n t h e morn ing and read it, and I c l ose i t at n i gh t , " she said . "Every 'pace i s >acred. l don't have to go to

h i ; w i fe ,

Amrit>ar, I nd i a] . "

f o r mme t h a n

year a nd a t tend as many

mee t i ngs as they c a n . They a lso h e l p tu dent> find c h u rc h c i n which to 1rn r · h i p .

,tuJenr; who arc re r on a l l y i n re re. red i n re l 1 giun c h oo'e n o r t o rn k e re l i g i on c ou rse - , "

and l i s t e n

who has hccn pa r t i c i p at i n g i n rhc ha,k e rha l l

haro n , ha ,·e been a d v i,er' to CCF

rmfe,.,ur of rh i lo" lrhy anJ re l 1 g1on . "Some

t h e Golden Temple l r h c

1 k h -,hrme a t

Enrol l me n t i n t h e re l ig i on c l a,_e, a t Col hy h a s

l it t l e t l l do w i t h t h e s r ud e nrs' spi ritua l i ty, ,aid De h m Camrhe l l . a:,,oc iatc

sa i J . "What they ha,·e in t h e i r personal

�n lu lJn 'r wanr Colhy to nr Long,raff 'a i d , he he l icve re l ig ion shou ld r l <1y a l a rger rol e on c a mpLh. "We face '>ome enormou prohlcm · at Cnlhy I ll t r y 1 11g t o r n w 1de a gnod c l i m ate for '' ic i a l - mural growth," LLlng rnff said. Church i n \'LJlvemcnr , he m <1 1 n r a 1 n , , doe more t h a n -, r re n g t h c n d n 1 n d 1 n d u a l . H i · ron c a l l y , c h urch reorle han:'. heen c a rn l y ts i n oc ial rnu'e' 'uch " ' the c i ,· i l ngh t ., anJ women's mo,·emenh. "We Pugh t to put our reso urc e Though h e

re t u rn

ro 1 t> fu nJamenta l i 't past , Profes

i n r < i a l rernatl\·e,, t < l garhermg t h e i r comm i t m e n t w mher r h 1 11g-,.

h u rc hes h a ve a strong

'nc i a l - mor;1I rnle to play 1 11 LlUr worlJ , a nd coulJ Jn -,n on our campu,," he a i d . Bur rc l tg1on' roren r i a l a a positive forc e Joe,n'r negate i r ' J ark side, w h i c h ha , on nc c a , i < m , 'urfaccd at Colhy a we l l . I n gen e ra l , r herc I '> coopera t ion and sha ri n g among studcnr' of d i ffl"renr fa i t h on cam ru ' but misLmJcrsrand i ngs do occur. Pu lver

Thomas Longs wff, an Episcopal priest , and Nikk)'-Gunind.er Singh , a practicing Sikh , are members of che faculty of the Department of Philo soph)' and Religion who say chat separation of academic and inspira tional religion on campus is the ap pro/Jriaie course.

Colby, J a n u a r y 1 99 1

\\'a> hocked la,r fa l l when e \·entual h-. A l l you need i - a a tirsr-year srudent who haJ few reo r le who h;l\'e cum ;mended a Carhul ic h igh mi tmenr." �chool sa id he d idn'c know Bur rhe sentiment rh<n J e ws . r i l l e x i s r e d . " H e contrih u rcd rn r he d i scord -,wrred hearing abour rht:'.m mar not h;we d i �arrearecl in rhe New Te-;rament of t'nt1rely. La,t fal l . ohiec [l,m' rhe Bible, afrer J e�us wa' were ra 1,ed by 'l1me Chrh bom , so he d idn'nhink rhey t1an 'itudents when fac ulry were around anymore . " were 1 ns c r u c ted not rn K u l l e r r e m e m b e rs sc hedule e x a m s o n Y o rn i mi lar comment� from her K irrur nr Rosh Hashanah. days on camrus, bur 'he rhe je\1 1sh H igh Hoh· Day,. rnr ,hort of call ing H a n t 1 The -wdent< comrla med e m i r ism. " A lor o fr h e h i rh a c ,imilar nm ices were n<1 r rory of rhe Jewish reorle IS sent during the week rrior no r very well known by to Easrer. non-Je,1· ," he aid. "I sort A nd some Ch r i stian of li nk anti- e m i r Lm \nrh � ru de nt ,a) che) , too. ha,·e ignorance. felt the sting of discrimma In rhe �pring nf 1 9 rion. J orgensen s r i l l remem Catholic and Prnre,rant bers a comment made ro her rudent grour teamed up �everal year� ago by ome for Proiecr Hero, ra ising one on campus. "He sa id , money and collec r i ng rwo 'The o n l y good rh ing about ton of c lothe. for needy Catholics ar Colby 1> rhe re fa m i l i e in Mame. It was by rhurn h, rdul Manhe11·, ' 94 aren't Yery many of them , ' " eu1nan Cluh prcsidenr Elnmc }11rKcn.sen ' 9 J sa y s working with mentall)• retarded far rhe mo t succe ful ser Jorgensen recal l:,. vice projecrofthe year. with adults 1s che duh'1 mo�! rt?u·ardmg uCClt'I!)'On rhe whole. howhundred of rudents par e\'er, Colby students say rhe r i c ipa ting . began to "r,dk and d ream [ab,1ur rhe rrojecr] . campus c l 1 mare surpons re l i g ious d i ,·ers1 r y . Bur whe n Meredirh Pmr '90 lif H i l le l rh e ) rea l i:ed rhe e x 1 [Ing >rudent Chmrian H indus, Mo�lem , Budd h i· t s a n d Sikh� ha,·e a ked to h e i r d i rect Proiect Hero. he wa'i grnur�. ar lea�r 1 n recent h 1 ,rory , had ne\'er also rrac riced their rel igion. here, and \1·h ile rurned away. The two organ1:er' '-aid 1 r wa' worked on any proiecr l i ke tlw, roger her." they can't always fol io\\' the same custom_ "There wa� ne\"Cr any discussion or they did ar home or idennfy wirh a c amru · a Chri ttan undertaking, anJ one of the thl1ughr of exc lud ing anyone frnm hemg charla in, rhey manage ro \\'or h 1 r in rheir partic ipar ing student told Po r r ri\' are ly mvoh-ed m rh1. prnjccr," Morre l l wrnrc, own way. thar she co u ldn ' r g i ve to the pro1ecr a "bur rhey fe lr ir wuuld be a good exrerience S1ddarrha Choudhury , a sophomore other could becau e he "J1Jn'r ha\'e Je u " majoring in economic and rel igion, was for the [Chmt1an] grours w ,ronsor th1 in her heart. camru - w 1Je drive." raised a. a H indu. He ay he stopped bel1e\· This rai ed rhe ire of Jew and Chri I n response ro the -nr caused by Project ing in God for a while and now calls h i mself uan alike, but the ubjecr wa · not a i red Hero, Colby's J nr e rfa irh Counc il \\'a reac r i a reformed H indu. Rather than recogni:ing a publ icly until rhe fol lowing fal l , when Kuller vated r h a r fa l l afrer a 20-year h iarus. pantheon of gods as h i morher in I ndia does, wrore an opinion column i n t he Echo de Looking back on rhe Project Hero epiChoudhury i a monorheisr. He med irare· nouncing the incident. The article gener ode, Kuller ay he real i:e rhe organi:ers and wear a locket representing the goddess ated a flood of lerters to r he Echo, both came to regret rhe m isunder rand i ng. In a Kali, a gifr from hi morher, bur otherwise i s condemning and defending the Chri tian way, she said, ir made her more determined an a typi ca l H i ndu, h e a y . tudent ' a ction -mcluding one from to ed ucate others about her rel igion. " I be " Eve ry re lig ion ha different way ," Morrel l . According to rhe Prote rant chap came more adamant abour promoring juda Choudhury aid, "bur rhey a l l lead to rhe lain, when the leader of Proiect Hero, Tho i m," he said. "Ir will all have an effecr ame goals." ma Charlton ' 8 a n d William De rry ' 8 Colby, January 1 99 1

From The County to Colby An Aroostook Priest Brings His Lively Style to Mayflower Hill

he r Jnhn M<m.JLm J uc ,n 'r fir

M<irq u 1 ' due' m n a l way wear h is

rhc profi le many 1'eo rl c ;1s,oc i ate \\' i [ h rrie:-t,. HL' i ' < l ' C ( )mfortahlc nn

c l enc1I garh, nur doc' he agree w i t h

hor, cba c k < b he 1 , a r rhe altar. On h i '

L' \Tryrh 1ng the Churc h docs. He'J I 1 kc to 'ce \\ omen ;mJ married people

officL' ll'a l l . a B l u e,, Brother' pl1'tcr

orJa ined

hang' nexr to ;1 porm1 i r nf Chri't.

he doL''n'r C l m, 1dc·r him elf a ren

And h e 10\·e, rn rell C a rhnl i c j o k e � at camru' b a n qu e t:,.

L'g;1 d e . H e " 1 Y ' he l<we, t h e rne'it

; j, '

r n e ' t ' , for example. But

hulicl.

C n l l->y\ C;1 dw l i c c h <i p l a i n c o n , 1 Jer' h 1 m,elf a c l i,c ip l e o f GnJ ,

"Ir\ w

u n iqu e k i n d of opportunity

cntL'r 1 n t l l peuplc\ ! t n:' i n a way

hur ar rhe 'iame r i me. rhe 4 1 -year

rhat mlN pe< ipic don't have.

olJ M <iri'r prie,r i s a :,cn:,i r i ,-c. Jown w-earth m a n who C t i u n r- nearly e \ ·

rcnp l e , m<Hned c uurle,, gay, stra ight, l'\ er) k 1 11J of rer'lm," Marq u i aid.

L'r\'one he meet� <h a friend. '' l ' m a m a : c J ar h o ll ' m a n y

")\iu IL'L'l humbled because there's \llmc ,[Liff rhl'Y tell yuu and you won der, 'Why 1, he tel l i ng me ?' " I t g J \'l'' you a l ic e of l i fe that not

people he knoll'' o n c a m p u ; , a n d nor nece,sar i l y Carh,1l io.,"

i ngle

a id Care

Tal hor A h to n '80, a,, i , rn n t d i re c

lut of rrnple ha,·e, and t hat', a gift. For t h a r , I consiJer myself ble sed . " a

t o r of career ser v i ce :,. A,h ton first mer Marq u 1 ' i n rhe fal l of 1 9 8 9,

Even when h e w a · a c l as officer in

when :,he and h e r hush;md , Dnn ,

t he rnid- 1 960� at Van Buren H igh

\\'ere plan n i ng t h e i r t w i n :,ons' bap

School m northern M a i ne's Aroos took County , Marqui ·' fel low [U

t ism. But ,he h a , a bo :-een Marqu1<,\ " c i ,· i l i a n " s idL'-,he and severa l other Co l by

dcnts confided i n h i m regularly, and he 11·a, cnmforrahle with their confi

staff member� eni nyeJ

h i:, company in an oll[door hot [Uh at

u ga rl o af

dence,.

during the 1 989 :,raff

" I thought about being a prie t a

rcrrcar.

l i ttle bir d u r i ng rhose year ," he a id. But that didn't top him from enjoy

S [Udent; :,ay M a rq u i i '> cx rremcly friend l y and i aprroa c h

ing high school to rhe fu l le t . H e had

ahlc. p a r r l y beca us e h e m a k e . ir a point w be

M a rquis, Jorgensen said, many more of them

girlfrienJ:,, wenr steady, drank beer and

,·is1hle ar nearly a l l of r h e i r h angour . H is

seem to he anend ing

stud ied j u't enough to get by.

habit of rak i ng meal in the d i n i ng hal ls, for i nstance, has made him a fi r u re on rhe

that's j ust where he wants them to be. "People have fa ith and somehow want

unday Mass. A nd

lanJ:,capc, anJ :,rudents don'r he i t a r e rn

rn find

j o i n h i m. " H e ' s m t the k i nd to make you fee l , 'Oh I ' m s i t t ing w i t h a prie ·r . l have to

he what's accepted hy the Churc h , but you can't come era h i ng down on people," Mar

ay,' " said :,cn io r E l a i ne

quis aid. " I f people step i nside rhe churc h , I welcome t hem w i t h open arms and work

w a t c h what I

Jorgensen. Beca use students Feel comforrable wirh

an e xpre,sion for it. Ir may nm a l ways

with t h e m . "

" I had a great t ime i n h igh chool ," he sa i J , laugh i ng. "A wonderful t ime. I made my own wine and had a k)( of people over a l l the t i me. [ A n ] e x p l o i o n i n the c e l l a r k i nd o f I :rought t h a t to a t o p o n e n ight. I w a s usi ng

too much yeast in rho e first few batches." Van Buren was and is an overwhelm i ngly Catho l i c town-Marqui ' teachers i n

olby , J a n uary 1 99 1

Sixch grader John Marqws and his cousins following cheir con firmarion ac S c . Bruno's Cmh olic Church; on che Van Buren fam1 wich brocher Loui.1 ( nghr) . the public h igh school ,,·ere prte>ts and nuns.

away from ful l - fledged priesthood-in 1 97 7

Church 1 11 Bru1rw 1 c k , Maine. as d i rec tor of

Mo·t people in the sma l l Franco-American

a n d spent a year at a rari;.h i n Ha,·erh i l l ,

a retreat house i n Fram i ngham, Mass .. and as

com mun i ty , inc l ud i ng Marqu is's late father,

Mass . , where he worked w i t h parish youth

Colhy's Carh o l i c chap l a i n .

made their l i \' i ng growing potatoes.

and t ra i ned people for lay m i n istries. A t the

Catholics a r e taught t h a t prema n w l

>ame t i me , he prepared for his ord inat ion

· e x 1; \\'rong, Marq ui s said, but he tries n o t t o

M ass.

t a k e a hard l i ne w h e n a studenr comes t o h i m

Potato farm ing wa

not young Jnhn's

c a l l i ng , however. He ga,·e some tht)ught co j o i n i ng the N a ,·y, but u l t i mately the ex

A l mo t a t h i rd of Van Buren '. 3 ,000

wirh yuest ions about whether or n o t to e n

am ple set by the Van Bu r en pr iest:, t ipped

people packed St . Bruno', Church on J une 3 ,

gage i n se x . Rmher, he ;ay· . he talb wi th the

the cale . They were, he said, "surerb, ·u

1 9 7 , t o c e lchrate their hometown boy's

:,tudent about emot ion, and fee l i ngs. Sex

perb priests who were down-to -eart h , >riri

ord ination i nro the rrie thoud. "The com

become; a rec reat ional act i\'ity for ;ome,

tual and very real reople. "

m u n i t y went all out for n , he sa i d . "Every

Marqu is tells them, and reoplc who ha,·e

The late 1 960 were t u rbulent r i me:,, 111

body cooked a turkey 1 n their tl\"en a t home."

sexual re lation h i ps before they are ready

A merica and in the Cathol ic Churc h . The

The wh i rlw1 11J of ac t i ,·i t y cameJ o\·er to the

can end up fee l i ng empty i nside. "We are

1 96 5 Vatican II conference of hishop wa;. a

next Jay, '' hen the new Father Marq u i s

much more than exual per om," he , a i d .

turni ng point for Cat holic ism. Out of that

hapt1:ed h i. l m le niece.

meet ing c a me the most sweep111g ch a nge> the Church had known for hundred year . Ma language

Marq u i s a i d he leaves the student w i t h

" I wa happy. I wa:, el ated." he said. But

he a lso rememhered

prnnt in the c er

que,t ion;, ask i ng. " W h a t does i t m e a n to you tn ha\'e premari t a l :,ex w i t h a lot of d i fferent

to be said in vernac ular

emony, j ust before ht' took h i. \'OWS, when

people, or e\'en w i t h one person ! Should you

instead of Lat in, the a l tar wa,

he laid on the floor in a d i splay of h u m i l i ty

be doing an act of comm i tment if you're not ready to com m i t 1"

turned around to face the congregation anJ

and obedience to the bishop. "l was do\\T\

prie t s were d i rected to in n1ke lay people 111

there on the floor, anJ I remember say i ng w

dec ision- mak i ng. It wa

d i ffic u l t , M art.JUI '>

my elf, ' Am I doing the right th ing here 1' I t

them they 're a · inner,"

say , for a young e m i narian to come w grips

wa' j u:,t a fi nal anJ fore,·er type o f th i ng," he

mate l y , t h e y h a v e to m a k e up t h e i r O\\'n

with the meramorpho i . " A l l h e l l wa

aid nf h 1 ord mat1on.

break ing loo�e. Priests

were lea v i ng in drove

the Church wa

"They Jon'r want to hear me te l l ing 1 a rq u 1 �aid. " U l t i

m i nds."

It wa a fleet i ng rhough t , bur Marq ui ; said that anecdore ·ho ws he 1. a real ist . "

Part of hi

obl igation as a rr i e ·t is to

gi ,·e "pasroral" care , and Marquis said that

redefi n i ng itself," h e aid. "They were very,

matter whar you Jo, I Jon'r c are whar any

mean

very painful year -the V i emam war, as a. -

one ays, they're lying if they tell you they're

He says, for instance, t h a t homosexuals

i nat ion

of John F. Kennedy anJ Martin

Luther K i ng, J r. I wouldn't want to go through

abso lut ly ure about anything," he saiJ. Bee<1u e he understand� h b m�·n weak ne e , Marqu is ;aid he i

them aga i n . " T h e y e a r h e wouldn' c m in d re l i v ing are

accepti ng-not j udgi ng-h is floc k .

many of whom feel a l ienated by the Church h ierarchy- ·hould be treated with lo\'e and

better able to

re.peer. "I try to help them understand r he 1 r

under tand other- when they fa l ter. "Penple

sex u a l i t y , " he s a i d . " I p e r ona l l y a m not j udgmental . "

chool of

Jon't need a k ic k i n the belly when they're

., doing gradu

down. I rry rn make that my own approach to

" I al ways ask myself w h a t J e us would

ate work i n theology wh il e coun e l i ng pa

people," he said. "The world 1 tough enough

do," Marq ui s -aid. "Jesus wou ld hang around

tho e he

pent at the We ton

Theology in Cambridge, Ma

t ient and fam i l ie at M a ach usett General

wi thout having priesrs come bearing down

with homo exuals. He'd be i n the gay bar .

Hospi t a l . "Th i ngs rea l l y made

on people. That' nor what prie tho )J or the

He hung around w i t h the pro t i tutes, the

en e , " he

aid. "Th ing c a me to l i fe for me in those He .va ordained a deacon-one

Colby, J anuary 1 99 1

Churc h or Jesus is a l l abou t . " That'

year . " tep

been h 1� at t i tude as assistant

pa tor and pa tor at

t . John the Bapt isr

margi n al people. They're on the fringe uf soc iety because they're d isc rim inated again t, and J esu wouldn't do that."

- -:,.. ..·

�- .i . . ... ... .

And Other Post--War Terrors Herben Michaels , whud1ed m 1 988 , caughc English at Colb)•fur three years in che lace 1 940s and lived wirh h1S wife , Haniecte , and cheir cwo daughters in Fairfield . Afcer he lefc Culb)' , Michaels wcnc on w beco me che

cir)' editor of rhe Jew i�h AJvocatc in BcJSCon and from chere

w a discm

gwshcd reach mg and /Jublic scn•ice career in S/Jring{ield , Mms .

o l kge. W e were a l l owcJ t u

rent th e 'L'

with

fear a nd

trepidar ion.

Our lanJlady ll'a' a founder

Although her assuciauon v.i ich che College um brief, Mrs . Michaels 's

memuncs of chose years are t•1vid, and she often draws on chem

t in J floor of that lovely old

huu<,e. The fact that th e owner l l \·ed on the f1N floor anJ shared the entra nce hall w ith u:,, ma k mg u ' h i g h l y , . 1 , 1 b l c at a l l t i me , fi l led u;

the luc a l temperance group,

\\'h ich wm. a o;t ron g �L lC ti!l and pt1 l t n cal force in our sma l l community.

while

Merc i fu l l y , 'he W i t ' a b 1 r harJ of heanng, anJ we tuok ·ome comfort

composmg her weekly column , "I Remember Herbie , " for the S p r i ngfiel J

from t h a t . We did get the apartment ll' 1 t h the u n J c r rand ing that we wou ld he -. c ru t i n i : e J and thar a l l r h in g ' re l a t i n g

( Mass . ) Journa l . One ofMichacls 's recenr colwnns-abow a fearful vis 1 c from Mrs . J .

S ee ly e Bixler-is reprinceJ here, followed b)' snme chuughcs from Lind.a Correr , alumni liaison in Colby ' s Office of Career Services , a bou c

the role

of che president 's wife in che 1 990s.

a l cohol were

hcinncd from the premi�es. She C\'Cn rokl u' that fru tt cock t a i l was not w be rn l erated on her property.

The apartment ll'a� perfect, excepr thcit \l'e fel t her pre:,ence a l l t h e t i m e . We knew t h a t w e were bemg \\'atched a n d ta lked about. l fe l t l i ke a character in "Who\ Afraid ,1f V i rg 1 11 ia W oo l f? " In t h i beautiful apartment that lnoked our on the lo\'el iness of ci M aine \ ' i l l ag e , Herb, Karen a n

d e\'entual l y Diana and ! l i ved , a l way

�mil i ng grac iou�ly anJ speaking i n moderate, wel l -enunc iated tones, Joubt acaJeme has c h a ngeJ in recent decades. Con nporary young people are more a sert i ve anJ more re a l t h a n we were i n o u r d a y . W e were controlled b y a gentee l ,

r i prne i ng a l l the t im e , fea r i ng that our e\·er-prcscnt landlady would

ee the raunchy, rol l ic k ing, robu�t real people that we were beneath our carefu l l y man ic ureJ phony exterior .

sm i l i ng academic tyranny i n o u r col lege c o m m u n i t y . Young faculty

It may have been poss ible to d isgu i e some t h i ng , but we could

w i ves were scru t i n ized by the w i ves of department heads, and we were

not d i gu ise the fact that mo t of our furniture was orange crate . We owned more orange crates than the Valencia Orange Company of

carefu l l y guarded at a l l fac u l ty w i ve · ' tea . We knew thatour husbands' When we a rr i ved at Colby College, where Herb was to teach

Cal iforn ia owned. We painted them and tenc i led them and covered rhem, and they always ended up look i ng l ike p a inted, ste n c iled,

after fin is h in g h is graduate work at I l l inois, we had an apartment,

covered orange crates. We had orange crates for everyth i ng, but we

thanks to the effort of the dean of the faculty. He sent Herb to see

seldom could afford to buy an orange.

career were affected by our appearance and by our manner.

a bea u t i fu l econd floor of a home owned by a friend and trustee of the

It was i n this sett i ng that we wai ted and dreaded and planned for Colby, January 1 99 1

the u l t i mate day when we \\'uuld hear the doorbell ring. and it \\'Ould be M rs. Carl J. Weber and M rs. B i x ler, the wi ,·es of the Engl i h Department head and the pre · ident of the College. We had Weber B i x ler d ri l ls t help u s prepare for that day. The arrangement was that Herb would grab both c h i ldren. who, of cour e , would be wearing tattered u n d e rgarment w i t h t h e i r fac es besmudged w i t h whateYer. They would exit out the back door into the barn after Herb would ha\'e t u rned on the hot plate, which rook 1 5 m inute to boi l the water for tea. I had carefu l ly et aside two unused tea bag and a box ofEng l i h biscu its for THE day. Meanwh ile, during the drill, I would grab a l l un ightly object , throw them i n to the next room, c lose the door, comb my hair on the way down tair to open the door for my \\'hite-glm·ed Yisitor . To com plete the horror of i t all. I k ne\\' chat our land lady we uld be watch i ng the entire drama, and both women \\'ere friend of hers. That \\'a the sce nario, and i t happened exact l y a, I had feared it would-with a few extra thrown i n . On c h a t memorable day when the drill became real i ty, I lanceJ ou t t he wi ndow a nd c a ugh t a gl i m p e of them a they approached the porch. I n rho e day they d i d not call to t e l l you that they were com ing. Thi wa the accepted mod e , ancl all the young fac ulty 11we· l ived in dread of that moment. I t wa an ac c e pted torment of the t 1 me . o there t h e y were. H e rb grabbed t h e c h i ldren; l hy·cerically reminded h i m to tart the hot place. H e ran w ith the ·tartled,

d ishe,·eled c h i ldren to the barn . l kicked all che crayon . paper . ratt les, unfolded d i aper , blankets and Golden Books into che next room, c losed the door and walked grac iously do\\'n the ·rair to welc ome my unwelcome guests. I ushered chem into the or ange crate room, where they sat st iffly on two card-tahle c h a 1 r'i. We probably ch<JtteJ ahuut the weather, and they prohahly asked about the c h i ldren. N o ,fouhc I cold chem they were out for a walk w 1 ch their Dadd1-, though l wa, sure I could hear the ir muffled ounds coming from the barn. When l thought I t was t ime for the water to ha,·e b-.1i led, I left to get the expected cup -.1f tea. I\ l y heart sank 11·hen l walked i n to a ,moke-fil led k 1 tchen. Herh had turned on the hoc plate and put the pot on the burner, but haJ neglecred ro fi l l rhe ror inch wa ter. I w as s u re t h a t we w e re doomed; h i - career a< a bri l l iant young English rrofe,-or had gone ur in smoke. As my guests Jerarred fi nal! ·. walking gracefully down the stair· w ithout e\·er ha,·ing their i n fern a l c u p of tea, the door opened i nto the smoky hallway, and l could . ee my landlady as she greeted her old friends. Her eye� rolled hack a bit in a nor-so-secret me··age to them. l w ished I had .er\'ed chem the fru i t cockta i l I had stashed away in the k i tc hen cupboard behind the box of Engl ish bisc u i ts. -Reprinted from the SpringfieU:l ( Ma . ) Journal

White Gloves Optional T

he late Ethel Oyer, who e hu band, Dick, was at Co l by for many years, told a h ilariou tory about the first tea she attended at the pre·ident' house, oon after her arrival in Waterville. l remember her de c ri pt ion of rhe hat he wore and the high heel and the glove _ he recounted her terror a he rang the front doorbell and wa ushered into the formal li ing room. But unfortunately, I can't recall Ethel' punch line. l e wa either "at Colby we net•er" or "at Colby we alway " u e lace doilie,. I forget. Harriette M ichael 1 right. Academe has changed in recent decade . Were I to et out to v i it the pou e of today' new young faculty member, i t' l i k e ly I would find no one at home. For one thing, about half the new fa ul t y "wive·" are actually fa ulty hu band , who have their own prof sional

Colby, January 1 99 1

live . And the new wive , except tho·e w i th very mall c h i ldren , are usually out e tabli hing their ca re e r , t oo. Lace doil ie , hat , glove and tea bi cuit are not matter of much concern to u at Colb the e day . But 'We still do our be t to create a en e of community. ewcomer are welcomed at the annual faculty/ taff loh ter bake held at Great Pond on the evening before opening as embl and at an informal reception in our backyard at the end of the first week of cla se . We chedule other oc ial event during the year. But never, never, never would I th ink of making an unannounced call. I'm happy to be invited, however. And I have ab olutely no objection to being erved fruit cocktail. -Linda

Cotter

PHILI P MARLOWE S < 111 J d 1 �sol ure. J c 11 1: e m ot The Big Slc.:/J , Raymond Chandler\ 1 9 W m <M e rr i c L c of Jetec r i n: fic t i o n . Chand l e r wrote o n l y 5ix more nm·c l , hcfore he d i eJ i n 1 9 59, yet h 1 ., c rc<H tun-Ph t l i r Marlowe, rri nne cyc- i � ( 1ne uf the mu't enduring c h arac t e r-, i n all lii American ka:y rurnu huuk Jeal cr,. M , 1h,rer'. The r i c h

The�e me t h e

fi c t i c m . M a r l l iwe, t h e g r i t t y , nu- n l m ,e n'c ., l e u t h \\'ho.,c heat w a s t h e seamy

�idc of Los A ngeb. in t h a t c i t y 's Golden Age, h;i., heen c e le hra te d in a host

of mov ie�. hut unt il two year' ago his c h a nce� ,if -,how mg ur between the cm·crs of a new book �cemcd remute. Dead men, after a l l , write no tale·. But th a r's where Rohert B. Parker '54 ' t c p reJ i n . A l i felong admirer

of Chandler's work who aJm1t. that h i � own early attemrr

at the

whod unit genre were " C h a n dle r c l ones," Parker got the nod from the Purnam ruhl ish mg hou ·e and the Chandler estate to resur rect four chapter� of a novel Chand ler

19 9's Poodle Springs ,

left heh ind. The resu lt was

f o r which Chand ler anJ Park r shared cred i t .

M a n y authors have h a d the i r work published po thumously, of cour e, but thi

month

Putnam w i l l take the Parker-Chandler c o l l aboration one

rep fu rther by pub

I ishing Parker' Perchance equel to

Dream,

The Big Sleep.

Parker may be part i c i pating in the bi rth of a new publishing trend.

The Further Adventures of Huckleberry Finn wa welcomed by

Recen tly,

c r i t ics and bookbuyer , and a con ti nuat ion of Gone with the Wind is in the work . But writ ing a sequel to so me one else'- book i a tricky

business, and Parker says that a far a. he i

concerned, Ph i l i p

Marlowe can rest in peace after

Perchance to Dream is publ ished. "l don't want to spend my l i fe w r i t i ng

ome other guy'

books," he says.

con

sc ious every m i nute of what Chandler woul d do. ! t was l ike being i n a ma quer ade. I had to question everything I would do natura l ly and i n t u i t i ve ly-sort of li ke driving in En g l a n d . " B u t where another w r i te r

m ight

have worried that th e seams w o u l d show, that h i s own writing would uffer i n

Colby, J a n uary 1 99 1

R IDES AGAIN ! T comparison with Chandler's, Parker suffered no such doubts. "Chand ler was one of America's be t writers," he assen-. "But l \·e alwa thought I was one of the best A meri can writer . I may not be great, bur I 'm confident." Perhaps the biggest chal lenge Parker faced was to write first-person narrative from P h i l i p M arlowe' point of v iew. U n l ike penser, the Bo ton private detect ive Parker created nearly 20 years ago, Marlowe's edge are rough i n way unacceptable to many contemporary reader . " Marlowe makes a sumpt ion about people on the basi of race and sex that Spenser wouldn't make," Parker notes. "He has a dark side that penser doesn't." While Parker has chosen to remain fa ithful to Chandler's portrayal , h e is i mpa t ient with any suggestion that he hould harken back to Chandler's t ime. "He wa writing about Los Angeles as he knew it, not 30 year later," Parker says. "I d idn't want to make [Perchance to Dream] a period p iece by research ing how a Lucky Strike pack looked back then." Besides, Parker add , "Chandler never dated hi own books. He wrote right through World War 1 1 and never mentioned it. When you read t h is book you can per ceive i t as tak ing place when you want . " Parker refuses to speculate o n whether Chandler would approve of Perchance to Dream . I t is enough, he says, that he wanted to write it, the publi her wanted to print it and the Chandler estate was enthusia t i c . And i t is a happy c i rcumstance t h a t enough characters were left standi ng at the end of The Big Sleep to populate a sequel-never a given in a Chandler novel . B u t here they are again-the w i l d and reck le S t emwood s isters , V i v i a n a nd Carmen, last een aton ing, Southern Cal i fornia style, fo r t h e murder o f Vivian's hus band, Ru ty Regan. Eddie Mar , the gangster who holds Vivian's c hits and a piece of her heart. A nd Norris, the fa ithful fam i l y re tainer who omehow keeps the piece to gether and the bra s poli hed. With the generous permission of Rob ert B. Parker and G . P. Putnam's Sons, we are pleased to print, here, the first chapter of

Perchance to Dream .

Colby, J anuary 1 99 1

h e water looped out of the hose in a long la:y silver s l u ice a the Japanese gardener p layed it over the emerald lawn. The Srernwood hou e looked the ame. The General had d ied. Which \\'as mo bad. And Eddie Mars hadn't d ied, which was a lso too bad. A nd Carmen had been rut away. But V i\' ian was still there. And orris the burler was still there. He had cal led me and asked me to come out. The place was full of remembrance. The same loll' solid foot h i l ls rose behind the house. The same terraced lawn dropped the long easy drop down to the barely v isible oil derricks where a few barrels a day t i l l creaked out of the ground. The sun shone on the ol ive trees and viv ified the birds that fluttered among the leaves. The bird sang as if the world wer� still young. W h ic h it wasn't. N orri answered my ring. He was tall and - i h-er ha ired, a vigorous sixty with the p ink sk in of a man whose c ircu lat ion wa good. "Mr. Marlowe," he said. "Good of you to come."

The hal lway wa the same as it had been the first r i me l saw i t . The portrait of the hot eyed ance tor over the mantel. The k n ight and the lady forever still in the stained glass window. The k n ight always trying to untie her. The lady alway captive. The lady was st i l l naked. The hair still conveniently long. I t had been a while since l had first stood here and Carmen ternwood told me l was tall and pitched into my arms. Only yesterday . . .

She was twenry or so , small and delicately put together, but she looked durable . She wore pale blue slacks and they looked well on her. She walked as if she were floating. Her hair was a fine tawny wave cut much shorter than rhe currenr fashion of pageboy tresses curled in at the bottom. Her eyes were slate-grey , and had almost no expression when they looked at me . She came over near me and smiledwirh her mouth, and she had little sharp predatory teeth, as white as fresh orange pirh and as shiny as porcelain . They glistened between her thin wo taut lips. Her face lacked color and didn't look wo healthy . "Tall, aren ' t you ? " she said. "I didn ' t mean w be . " Her eyes rounded. She was puzzled. She was thinking. I could see , even on that short acquaintance , that thinking was always going w be a bother to her. "Handsome wo , " she said. "And I bet you know it . " I grunted. "What's your name ? " ''Reilly , " I said. "Doghouse Reilly . " "Thar's a funny name . " She bit her lip and turned her head a little and looked a t me along her eyes. Then she lowered her lashes until they almost cuddled her cheeks and slowly raised chem again , like a cheater curtain. I was w gee w know that trick. That was supposed w make me roll over on my back with all four paws in the air. "Are you a prizefighter?" she asked, when I didn't. "Not exactly . I ' m a sleuth . " "A-a-" She tossed her head angrily , and che rich color of i t glistened in che rather dim light of the big hall. "You're making fun of me . " " Uh-uh . " "What? " "Get on with you , " I said. "You heard me . " "You didn' t say anything. You're just a big tease . " She put a chumb up and bit it . l t was a curiously shaped thumb, thin and narrow like an extra finger , with no curve in the first joint. She bit it and sucked it slowly , turning it around in her mouth like a baby with a comforter. "You're awfully rail, " she said. Then she giggled with secret merriment. Then she turned her body slowly and lithely , without lifting herfeet . Her hands dropped limp at her sides . She tilted herself towards me on her roes . She fell s traight back into my arms. I had w catch her or let her crack her head on the tessellated floor. I caught her under herarrns and she went rubber-legged on me instantly. l had w hold her close to hold her up . When her head was against my chest she screwed it around and giggled at me . "You're cute , " she giggled. "I'm cute wo . " 25

I diJn' 1 sll\' un:l' i hrnp: .

1h..: hwl..:r chu1..: 1hw rnm•ernt.'nt rnurn.:1u w wmc

hacf<

1hruup:h che

French Juun and St.'t.' ml' holdmg her . . W<.:1 1 , maybe nor q u i te ye'>terJ , 1 y . I f o l l o\\'cJ Norri,\ '>tr.1 ight h; 1 c k Jo\\' n t he ,,une C < imJm trn1·arJ the Frenc h Joor'>. T h e h o u ; e , e e m e J q u ieter nl lll'. Pmhahly m y i m ag 1 11a t 1 , m . I t 11·,1, t rn i h1g <I h u u '> e a n J t o o c h i l l cJ

t1 me , we t u rneJ u nder the , r . 1 1 r' ,111J went Jown h,1N'-faced m , 1 1d \\' < ! '> t h e re . She '>1rnlcd a ncl ht ihh<:J her

w i t h ,aJne" e1'l'r tll h < 1 1·e heen n, 1 1 '>y . Th I '> ,l 11ne 'ra 1 r' t<l t h e k i t c h e n . The

heaJ <lt m e . Nom' gLmceJ a r her a nd ,he hohhed her he,1J ,1g, 1 1 11 <inJ ll'enr o u t of the k i tc h e n . The k i tc h e n wa' h i g and l lpeneJ < J u t un t , l t he h.ick L1wn a' i t drn1'peJ a w;1y fn lm

i1r'>t fluur 1 11 front wa., The fl,1or'> were pl l \ 1 ,heJ hn 111·11 M e x 1c1 11 t i l e . There wa' a rnhlc 1 11 t h e center , i[ rh e m< im, a h 1 g pn ifl'"il lna l - look 1 11g cook

the h l 1u,e. L i k e '>l 1 many h i J \ , icle man'>l< lll' 1 11 Lo, A nge le,, the rhe ,eC < ) Jld fl l lur 1 n h.i c k . l . 1 rge 11'1 l< lJ e n ll'mk

srm·e ;1g<1 in,t rhe for \\'al l , tll'n refriger,1tor' w rhe ri gh t , ;md ;1 \ , mg cuunrer w i t h rwn 'inb anJ a 'et tuh a l ong the

lcfr 11·, 1 \ I .

"W i l l you h < l l' L' coffee , , 1 r 1" Num' , , 1 1 d . I '>aid

woulJ <mJ

N,im'

J 1 '<l('peared i nt o a pant ry off the k i tc h e n and

re t u rn ed i n <1 moment 11· 1 r h a , i l l-er u iffee ''rn cer.

H e poured the cufiec.:

'cn· 1cc

,111,\ a hone c h irn1 c u p anJ

i n t < J r h e cup 1 11 l ro nr ' 1! m e.: . A n d placed an a.,hrray

nearhy .

" P\c.:;hc 'muh: if �'< JU w 1 -.h rn, M r. M;ir\o\\'c," N nrrh .,; 1 1 d . I , 1 ppeJ rhe c , ,ffre. gi lt o u t a c 1 g< J re r r e a n d I n i t ll' 1 t h a k i tc h e n " H u11 arc the g i r l , �" I 'a i d . Nnrm, o; m i \ cd . "The

1·cry

,uhjec r I ll'i,heJ

tu d1'>CLN,

match.

, i r. "

N o r r i > ;,wod e r e c t h e , 1 d c rhe r;i h \e . I ll' a i r ed. "The General u-,ed to l i k e hrnndy i n hi, C l 1ffee, '>ir," N um .., ,,u J . "W,1u\J you c a re for '>llme 1" "J o i n m e , " I

<i i J .

N orri' started to shake h i s h c a J . " F o r the Genern \ , " I ,aid. Nom' nlldded , g u t a n n t h e r c up , put h r a n d y 1 11 m y c up a n c l a 'rl.1,h , 'trn 1 gh r , 1 11 h 1 , L U p. H e raised h is c up tnw;uJ me . "To Genera l G u y � rernwooJ , " he :,aid, g i v i ng G u y thl' French pronunc i at ion.

ra i ,ed m y c u r .

"Gene rn l Srcrn wood , " I o a 1 J . l h a J fir't met h i m tn rhe gree nh,1u e, <l t the f our oi r h e 1·ch-et lawn.

The air was chick , wee , sceamy and larded with the cloying smell of tropical orchiru in hlumn . . . ufter a while H'e c.:ime w of the jungle , under the! domed roof. Here, in a space of hexagonal flags , an old red T11rl<ish rng was laid

d<>tm

c/e,mng 111 che middle

and on ch<' rug H'm a wheel chair, and in

the wheel chair an old and obi•iously dying man 1rncched us come with b/;:1ck eyes from which all fir<.' had died long ago , b1a which

mil had che coal-blacf< and che sharp nose

directness of che eyes in the porcrait char hung over the mantel m che hall . The rest of his face was a leaden mas k , imh che hlooJbs lips

and the sunken tempb and the owward-t1�ming earlobes of approachmg dissulwwn. His long narrow body was wruppo?d-m thm hcac-m a rrat•eling rug and a faded red bachrobe . His chin clawlif<c hanili were folded loosely on che rug, /mrple-nailed. A few locks of dr:\' wh11e hair clung co his scalp, like wild flowers fighcing for life on a bare rocf<. I s i ppeJ m y coffee. N orris rook a d iocreet J r i n k , if h i 5 bra n d y . There \\'<15 nn nund in the h1g k i tc h e n . The Genera l ' · ghn,r wa:, w i r h us, and hut h of uo were q u i e t in it presence.

"What do you f<now abow my famil)• 1 " " I ' m wld you are a widower and have two )'OLmg daughters , both pretry and both wild. On<.' of chem has been married chree c1mes , the

las e rime

an ex-bootlegger who wem in the crade by che name of Ruscy Regan . Tha t ' s all I heard , General. " I ' m afra i d M i s> Carmen ha:, d i sappeared," Norris a i d . " Frum where 1" I sa i d .

"Afrer t h a t , a h , m i sfort une w i t h Ru-ty Rega n , " Norris a i d , " M i,; V i \· i a n p laced her i n a o<i n i t a r i u m a:,, l bdieve, you advised her to . " l nodded. The coffee wa strong and ton hnt to d r i n k exc ept in sma \ \ , ips. The

hrandy lay atop the coffee and made a d i fferent k i nd of warmth

when I s i pped it. I c ou l d hear t h e G e nera l 's voice, thin w i t h age, taut w i th fee l i ng long den i ed .

"Vivian is spoiled, exacting, smarc and qu11e ru thles s . Cannen is a child who likes to 1nill wings offflies. Neither of rhem has any more moral sense chan a car . Neither have I . There w a a noth e r ound i n t he voice. B e ide the t i redneo> and the i ron :,clf-conrro \ , t h ere wa:, a w istful ·ound , a sound o f what m ight have bee n , a sound nf 5 i n s re v i s i ted b u r irredeemable. And i r was that sound w h i c h held me, as I k new i t h e ld N orri·, i f only i n memory , long after the speaker had fa l l e n s i l e n t .

"Vivian went co good schools of che snub ty/)e and to college . Carmen went ta half a dozen schools of greater and greater liberalicy , and ended up where she swrced. I presume chey both had , and srill have, all che usual vices. If I sound a lictlc sinister as a /)aren t , M r . Marlowe, ir is because my hold on life is coo slight w include any Vicrorian hypocrisy . " He leaned his head bacf< and closed his eyes , then opened chem again suddenly. "I need nor add char a man "

who indulges in parenthood for che firsc time ac the age of fifcy-fuur deserves all he gets .

"She was doing very well at the san i t a r i u m , " N or r i said. "I myse l f had the rrivi lege of visi t i ng h e r every wee k . "

Colby, J a n uary

1 99 1

" A nd V l \· ian ?" l said. The daughrer,' name, ,cemed ro d i�rcl rhe farher', ghlist. "M 1s · V i v ian \'isi ted ll'hene,·cr ,he \\'a�. ah, ah le . "

for her. A nd she 1 · , t i l l see ing M r .

far-;."

nrri' turneJ the cur ,1u,,·ly i n h t, c le,m ,trung hanJ,. "Her fa ther\ Jearh 11·,h d i ffi cult

orris's voice \\'as careful \\'hen he 'aid i t , cmrry of any e1·aluat 1on. Th e 1 · o i c e Llf rhe rerfect en·anr, 11L)t rh i nking. mere l y recnrd i ng. " How n t Ce for her," I said. " Di d ,he tell you to call me 1" "

o, sir.

took that l i bert y. M i ss V h·ian feels rhar

"Hi price w i l l be h igher rhan m i ne," I said.

M r . l\. 1 a r, "·d i find M is' Carmen ;md return her tl) the ,;m n arium."

"Exdcdy so , s i r." "And mu kno\\' ll'har l c harge 1" "Ye . :tr. You ' l l rec a l l rhar l handled rhc General\ c heckbouk for h i m \\'hen he emrlo� ed \'l)U rre\'lllU,h-. " " A n d yuu ( a n afford me ?"

ge ne rou , rn me in h t ' w i l l . ,,r." l rook a lungful of smoke anJ !er n llU t , l o\\' h· and c t lred m1 c h a i r on 1 r -. hack leg.;.

"The General \\'as 1·ery

" Bur . r i l l you're WL1rking here," l '<1 1d. "l bel ie1·e the General \\'Ould h<we \\'1,hed that, .; 1 r. H is dnughter> . . . " orris let the res� nf the seruence d i sappe;ir i n tn <-1 11 eloquent 'en-<mt \ self-effacement. "Yes," l aid. 'Tm sure he would ha1·e. When d i J Carmen J i-,aprcar1" " A wee k ago. l \\'enr on my weekly , . , ,i t and found rhar -.he wa gLJne . The -.ra ff \\'d< ,omell'hat re t icent ahour her d 1 ,arpearance , hut l 11 <1'

able m a-certain that she had i n facr been gone for ar least nrn n ighb." "And no one had rerLmed i t '" " A rpare n t!y nm, ir . I in fo r m eJ M b. V l \·ian rem wood. of cour,e, and rnok the l i berty ofsreak i ng on th e relerhone w i r h Carra in Gregor) of the M is mg Per on. Bureau." "And?" l aid. "And i t was, as l remember h i \\'ords, ' the first he'd heard of n . ' " "And V iv ian ?" l atd.

"M iss Viv ian aid rh at l was nor to worry abnur i r . Th ar she had resources and rhat Carmen would rurn ur. '' "And by 'resource·,' you under mod her to mean Eddie M ars ?" l said. " I did, i r. " "How does she feel about you c a l l i ng me ?" l aid. "I have not yer informed her of rhar , sir." I drank rhe rest of rhe coffee laced w i th brandy. It had cooled enough to go down soft ly. I nodded more tO myself than ro N orri s . "What i the name of rhts a n tt ar i um ?" aid. "Re rhaven, ir. I r i s uperv1 ed by a Dr. Bonsentir." "Okay," I a i d, '' I ' l l take a runounhere." "Ye , ir," orri aid. "Thank you very much, sir. May I give you a re rainer ?" "A dollar will do for now," I .aid. "Make ir official. We'll talk ahour the re st of ir later." "Thar' very kind indeed, ·1r," or ri said. He took a long pa le learher waller out of hi in ide rocket and e x rrac ted a dol l a r bill and gave ir ro me. I w ro r e h i m out a receipt, took t h e b i l l a nd put 1t m m y pocket, negligently, l ike there were m a ny more in there and I had no need to think abour it. "May I call you here?" I aid. "I ndeed, ir. l ofren receive call h e re . An wering the phone i norma l ly a mong my d u t ie ." "And how i Viv ian ?" I aid. " he i very beautiful, ir, if! may be o bold." "And t i l l dating a loonigan," I aid. " I f you mean Mr. Mar , ir. I 'm afraid rhat is the ca e."

Colby, January 1 99 1

Publishing Is No Mystery for This Master "'"r 1 he publi

h ing business is ent i rely talent-driven, like ha e -

ball. I f you can hit a c urve ball you can play,'' says Robert B. Parker, who should know. He has publ ished at lea·r a book a year since he introduced mystery readers to Boston's detective penser i•1 The Godwulf Mamiscript i n 1 974.

Does he ever ger sick of writ i ng the same character gi rlfriend, fei · ty u an

ren er, h is sidekick, Hawk, and hi

Silverman? "Thar's like asking a sculptor 1f he gets sick of the marhle," Parker say-. Reader� encounter the characters "at one t ime, on an a i rplane or during a unday afternoon at the beach." he note , " ] ee them for five pages a day, and I don't think about them much when I 'm not work ing on them. " Parker i� a journeyman, a phenomenally suc ces ful practit ioner of trade that has left many people by the wayside wondering how it i done. The key, for Parker, . eems to he hi· "boring" life: each day he d i penses with h i five page ·, then he works out, cook , and pend t ime with h i wife Joan Hall Parker '54, and other friend . And , perhap mo t i mportantly , he enjoys hi work and ay he'll stay at it "until ·omehod come along and pay me not to do it. But don't take up a collection-it probably won't work." Parker can eem as jaded about h i line of work as some of hi character are about the i rs. He claims, for in ranee, that hook a le hardly ever h i nge on quality. " I f [the publ isher] prints 2 5 ,000 copies, you won't se l l more than 2 5 ,000 copie . But if they puhli h more-and the ale force get out there and marker the book aggre sively-they'l l sel l . " And he say that the puhli h ing busine is ju t that-a hu ines , not "a gen tlemanly game." " l f Thoma Wolfe walked into a publ i h i ng hou.e with h i 7 ,000-page ma nu cnrt now, they'd throw him out," Parker ·ay . "They don't have t i me for that, and there are no M ax Perkins' anymore." H e laments the fact that publ isher

eem le s

and less inc l i ned to nurture new talent. " tephen K ing turned down an advance once-I think it was a m i l lion dollars-and a id 'Give it to aspiring writers.' But they won't do that. They could give $ 1 0,000 to l OO aspiring writer , hut mstead, they'll give $ 500,000 to two writers whose books they know will e l l . " Neverthele , Parker advises young write rs not to be so d iscouraged that they don't try. "Keep writing and sending it in," he say . "It gets read. If you keep writ ing and sending i t in and nobody wants it, find omething e l e to do. It doe n't help to know omebody; it doe n't help if you have an

Robert B . Parker '54 igns a copy of one of his "Spenser" novels for a fan . Parker is among the world's leading mystery writers.

uncle in the publi h ing bu ine . And please don't send it to me . 1 can't get you published . "

Colby, J anuary 1 99 1

FACULTY FILE Newcomers Cover Atoms to Zeus

Photo hy

cntt Da\"ls

Loo.:ejvy-where Colby faculty members git•e lessons that last liferimes.

olby h i red 3 new facu lry member for rhe academic year 1 990-9 1 , including n ine renure-rrack rrofe or , visit ing sch lar from I reland and the ovier U nion, fh·e teac h ing and lanouage a istant and fi,·e vi 1 t ing art1 t for the perform ing arrs program. Vi ir i ng profes or come to Mayflower H i l l to rerlace faculty member who are remporarily off camrus. A u ual, rhi year'· grour of v i iror i d iver e and mulri-ra lented. ix are profiled below, and on rhe following page· Colby al ·o rake a longer look at ix of rhe renure track profe sor-. Robert Garrett Loui Barden 1 dean of rhe faculry of arrs ar U ni ver iry College Cork, one of rhe -chool wirh whic h Colby has an exchange program. Barden earned h is bachelor of arr in Eng I i h and French l irerature ar the Nar ional University of I re land, h i B.Lirr. i n o c i a l anthropolo y from Oxford Un iver i t y a n d h i docrorate i n philo ophy at t h e a t ional Un i ver 1ty of I reland. H i mo r recent work ha focu ed on pol itical phi lo ophy and the philo ophy of law. V i iring A i rant Profe or of Physic Robert Bluhm ran i n hi sixth ew York C i ty mararhon on ovember 4, cro i n rhe fin i h l ine in four hour , 1 7 minutes and c hange. " I t was hor," he ·aid, explai n i ng why he wa off h i per onal be t for the race. Bluhm i a 1 9 7 graduate of ew York Univer ity and hold advanced degree in both Engl i h l i terature and phy ic , earned ar Princeron, Columbia and Rockefe ller uni er itie . Elizabeth A. Fisher returned ro Colby from the privare ecror. A v i i r ing a i rant profe or of admini rrative c ience, Fisher taught Colby, January 1 99 1

on Mayflower H i l l from 1 98 5 w 1 9 7 and since then h a been direcror of organization development and educat ion for the c i ry of Portland and a privare consultant . She has raughr ar rhe Universiry of 'cw Hamrsh 1 re and ar Ca ·e Western Reserve U n i ,·ersity, where she earned a Ph .D. in organ i:ational behavior. Vi i ring anthrnrology insrrucror Constantine Hriskos came ro Colby from City Un iver iry of ew York, where he teaches c u l rural :mrhropology. He has taughr courses on Ch i na, J aran and Korea ar CL)lumb1a and Hohra universirie and has raughr and done research in Gu iZhou province, rhe pooresr i n China. He also worked as an anthrnpologi t for the American Museum of arural H isrory. Lloyd C . Irland, ,·is1ting assisrant profes or of economic , is founder and pre, ident of The Irland Group, a foresrry and economic con ulting firm in Augu·ra. Maine. Previously, he was an economisr in rhe state rlanning office and en·ed as d i recror of rhe M aine Bureau of Public Lands. He recei\'ed h i B . . from Mich igan rate U n i \'er · i ry. hi M . . from the Un iversiry of Ari:ona and his docrorare from Yale Un i,·er i ry, where he taughr in rhe school of fore t r · and en,·ironmental tudies. I rland' spec ialrie· are natural resource eco nomic , fore try economic and regional econom ics. Carole Martin pec ial ize· i n 1 7 th- and 1 rh-century French li terature and feminist c ritical theory. he earned an M . A . in modem lerrer ar the New orbonne and her Ph.D. ar ew York U n iversiry and ha taught French language and l iterarure at NYU ince 1 984. Her d i ertation examined women' tatus in pre - Revolut ionary French uropia . he i al o a tudent of the theater and c inema. 29

Hanna and Joseph Roisman " I t '>a\T' a I m of 'urpn;e,, l e a rn i ng ;in c 1 e nr h i ::.tnr)'. " So '>'1\'' J o,eph Ro 1 ,, m a n , an anc ient h "wrnm w h l l , a l o ng with h i ::. w i fe, Hann<i, a ::. p e c i a l i -. t 1 11 G reek a n J Lat 1 11 l i t e ra t ure , j o i neJ the Colhy c l a"io fo c u l t y l a::.t ::.e m e ::.t e r .

J meph R<mman '"Y' he fi nJ-, it d i ffi c u l t t < l read a n ewspap e r l lr watch telev i::.1un newsca::.t:-. w i thout a "e< 1n::.rnnr fee l i ng ufdeja t'L1 . " anJ he ;ays hi, arndem1c tr:1 i n i ng ha::. given him the a h i l 1 t y ro analy:e news events from a 1:->road per,pec t i \T. "A fe w year, ago, there wa::. a b i g ::.t1r 111 Han«uJ l a w sc hon l , " he " i i J . "A group o f ::.c holars c h a l le nged t h e pre ,en t lcga l sy'>tem, argu i ng t h a t there is nn real j u o. t i c e in t h i::. country. anJ t h a t l a w and ju,tice arc m a n i pul a t ed , or at least J ic t a ted , b y the i n t ere::.t nf c ertain

egment:, of the soc iety that h a v e power. Th i s i s a very nlJ debate. A nd I -and everyone who learned Greek cu l t ure, G reek c 1 v i l i :a t ion-thoughr i t was a l ready over."

Hanna Ro i s ma n agree-; t h a t ancient hi rnry ;md l i terature uffe r m an y lessons for the mo d e rn wnrld-and modern students.

" If I i r e ra r ure i s representative of I ife, a::. Amrotle thought i t wa,,

cont n i l n f the c i t y - s ta te and preven ted the c i t i:ens from tak i ng action

H omer i ::. a good place w tart," she ·a id . " V ery often, sruJcnrs 11•,1ukl

by soi r i ng t h e m with his talk of consp i racy. Re a d i ng that, Roi man

l i ke a yes or no answer-wa::. it r i g h t , was i t not right-and i t '::.

h ega n to w,111Jcr how other a u t hors ha J deal t w i t h tales of fear and

amazing how often a t the end nf a di c ussinn we rea l i :e that there\

i n t i m idat i c m and 'a\'' he w i l l st udy the way fear i:, described i n the

much mc1re gray space than h l a c k and wh i te i n e\·ery issue."

I 1 t c ra ture anJ how i t \\'d' u eJ 111 pnl it ic,, eJucation and other arenas.

"We Jon ·r teach them how to use a computer or how to send the

H e · ays h e ' l l bring that r e rspec t 1 ve i n to rhe c l as:,room.

::.huttle u p or whatever, hut I t h i n k that dea l i ng with 1s::.ue' rai::.ed hy

C la>sic 1 st, don't do their re;carch 1 11 an academic vac u u m ,

Greek tragedy or Greek epic not only sh arp em the m i nd hut gi \·e::. <1

Joseph Roisman notes. " W e a r c real ly mfluenced by anthropological

person more tools to consider and j udge i t u a t ions further o n . "

research and ::.c JC i o lo gi c a l re,earc h , " he saiJ. Knc1w i ng , for instance,

Hanna Roi man b r i ::. t l e · a b i t at the suggestion that, at her level

that ::.ome African comm u n i t ies ha\T i n c l uded a rest of bravery i n

of -cholarship, one wri tes mostly fo r other sc hohm. " ! a m deal ing now

t h e i r i n i r i a t i n n mes hc lrs c l assic i::.ts he tter understand the Spartan

with the subj ect of recogn i t ion i n H om e r, "

c ustom nf se nding young men outside the c i t y to fend for themselves

h e said. "What I am

t r y i ng to do is nm j u::.t to have a very s m a l l area of J i sc us · i on w i t h

with nur h i n g hut a d agger, Roi::.man �ay,.

academ ics. h u t f or m y ::. tu d e n t ::. , f o r myself. to figure out why d i d these

"We a rc c x po ::.eJ to other di c i p l i n cs and orher fie ld of sc ience,"

rexrs l i ve up to n o w 1 Wh;.H i; the beauty of r h i , text that rea l l y l u res

he sa 1 J . "The prc,·iou, emphasi,, on an a ly: i n g text::. w i thout rel a t ing

u,,, even now 7"

h e i abo c u rious, he say,, why onl y ·even of the 90

pl ays wri tten by Aesc h y l us ha,·e wrvivcd, and ::.he la ugh, when a

them to bro ade r h istor i c a l , l i ter a ry or l i nguistic quest ions faded away.

v1 i t or wonders if there i::. a s i m p l e e x p l a nat ion-that we don't ha\T

Both Ro1sman h<l\·e broaJ acade m i c backgrounds. H an na be

the other 8 3 hecause they are lost . "No," she s;1 i d , "it isn't a;, ea,,y as

gan her undergraduate career at I rae l 's Tel A v i v U n i versi ty i n tend

rhat."

Re ·ea rc h i n to spec ifi c topics e n l i ven,, one's classroom style,

i ng to study modern l i terature bur found that "from every poi nt I wa drawn to the c l assic.." She stud ied Greek and La t i n language and

J o-eph Roi ·man say-. Academics "wri te for a narrow audience of

l i terature at Tel A v i v , rece i \· i ng her bachelor's and master's degrees.

peers," he said, "and re earc h tends to he spec ific. It is on rhe teach i ng

Joseph Roi. man took h is bachelor' from Tel Aviv i n hi tory and

level where you can general ize and t ie all these loose ends, make a

·oc io logy and hi master's i n ancient h istory. The couple c a me to the

connec t ion to other t i mes , other periods, other c i v i l izat ions."

U n i ted States to earn their doctorates from the U n iversity of Wash

H e hopes to i n vestigate the subject of fear i n ancient Greek

i ngto n . S i nc e rhe early 1 980s, Joseph has taught at Ben G u rion

l i terature and soc iety. The idea came to him w h i l e he read a ecrion

U n i versi ty of the N egev, and H an na has been on the fac u l t y of Te l

i n Thucyd ides's h istory of the Peloponnes i a n Wars i n wh ich a leader

A v i v U n ivers i ty. Both have been vi i t i ng profe sors at Corn e l l

in Syrac u e tr ied to rouse the c i t i zens to defend themselves by mak ing

U n i versity.

rhem fear a n attack. A rival leader accused him of p lott i ng to se ize

Colby,

J anuary 1 99 1

Guilain Denoeux This pec u l iar h i,t,in· ha:o- generated a ,trong d i -tru:o-t uf We,tern intenr 1,ln, ancl !l1\l t1 \·e, . " A rabs ' e e "a l a c k

f e \·enhanJedne,,, pamcularl · a �'w- l ,r,1 e l 1

bia' in U . S . pnl ic ie;;" tl\"Cr rhc l a � t 40 year' a n d c'pcc 1 a l l y ;;incc

1 96 1 . tlf

he ,,1 id. "TheY ,u,pc c r t h e U n i ted State, o t hanng t1n1 'et,

pnnc 1 r le,, une for the Israe l i , and one tor them. 'Come on,' the :\ rah' ''<1\ . ' I srael has ,icc uried the West Bank for 2 3 \'ear;;. What ha\·e ytiu J,mc (l) surrort U.

rirnne< '

. re:,ulut ion.; ll'ith resrect to chest? l K C u r icd tcr

What a J,luhle 'tandard. You're rea l l y hypocri t i c al . ' "

"'v./e need

rn understand th i, rn unJerstand surport for Hu:,,c i n ," 1\.1,br Arab, rca l i :e rhat he 1� "a ru t h l 6s

Dcnocu:-.; c:-.;pl. 1 i ncd hst fa l l .

de r,lr , " Dem1eux nntcd, and manl' �a11· the injustice t)t h i � im·as1, 111 of Kull' a 1 t , hut the · \"lell'ed the I raqi in\'as1on in the broader context

ot ra:,t

injustices and fe lt sympathy for 'addam. E,·en in Egyrt. pro

Saddam cle mnnstration<; nccurrcJ in AugusL "The significance nf t h is," he saiJ, "has heen m i ssed by rhe med i a . "

WT' l hey probably

1'-v bny Arahs percei1·e · igned up for my c la.;.; t h in k in g i t \\"t)uld ht another

\'ersion of the 'M ac N e i l/Lehrer

e\\'::.Hnur,"' A,sbtant Prnfes-.m of

Government G u i l a i n Denoeux ·aid of hi' students, "hit I \\'ant them

addam H u ·sein as the only person 11·hn

can ·rand ur to the West and brae ! . L i k e Gama! Abde l Na:,:,er, the late Egyrtian leader, t ime

11·orb

addam aspires ro Pan-Arab leadersh i r , and

tn h is ad,·antage, Den,1eux said. "The main reason h e ' l l

to go beyond the head l i ne . I \\'ant them w under,ranJ the force' that

l e a d is that i n the l o n g r u n Arabs 11· i l l forget the im·asion of Ku\\'a i t .

drive pol i t i c s i n the M iddle Easr today. I \\'ant them m think about big

They' l l , e c a M u � l i m A rab country-I raq-besieged by the U ._ . , a

i sues, uch a- how c u lture i nfl uence · po l i t ic , . "

non-Arab, non-M us l i m country and the m a in supporter of Israe l .

I n h is first fu l l - t ime reac h i ng ru · i t 1on after cnmrlet i ng a Jocwr

They ' l l see a ;urerrn\\'er imposing hegemony m·er t h e M id d le East . " Denoeux said t h a t t h e A r a b world 1\·atche to see \\'hether the

are at Princeton, Denoeux last fall taught Pol i t ic, of the M iddle East and U n i ted

U n i ted �t ates is co1ri tent in aprlying the general princip les-such

rare Pol icy To\\'ard the M i ddle fai!'t.

Denoeux brought a . ide l i ghr ro Col h y that wa' of rart i c u lar

the i nad m i:, · i b i l i t y of force i n the area and the right ro self

i nrere t l a t fall-fir r-hand knowledge of l ra4 and i ts gm·ernmenr. A

determ i na t i on-that President Bush invoked tO ju·t ify h is a c t ions

native of France, he pent 1 9 4 and 1 9 5 work ing a c u l rural arrache

t, n1·ard I raq. "But hi tory ·ho\\' · a remark a b l e lack of consistency in

to rhe French emba sy in Baghdad, where he was i n c harge of t rai n i ng

ra,t U . . rolicies to\\'ard the M iddle Eas t ." he ll'arned, "and a l i m i ted

program for I ra qi c ir i:ens tudy i ng in hi country. He left I raq w i th

abi l i ty to learn from rast m istakes." N evertheless, he is opt i m isnc

a strong d is l ike of the I raqi reg i me , \\' h i c h , he say . comra nt ly

that the end of the Co ld War w i l l present unrrecedented opportu n i

i nterfered i n the w o r k o f the c u l tural servi c e. People ent ro France

t ies f o r ·tahil ity i n the M iddle EasL

on intern hip or for doctorates were cho en on the ha�is of rol i r ic a l " Iraq i a very secret oc iery," he add . "There i a ·rrong d istru t of outside force . Hu

Denoeux says that Colby was e x ac t l y the k ind of place h e 11·a· look ing for 11·hen he began h is job h unL H is wife, E l i:a, \\'ho

a n d fam i ly affi l i a t ion , he ay . e i n h a · been very :ucce sful in

ea l i ng the

graduated from

mi th and Georgetown and unti l recently worked as

a tec hnical rec ruit ing manager for a paper company, was equal l y

country, l i tera l ly. I raq i rhe c lo e r o ne get ro / 9 4 . " Fe\\' We·terners

e n t h u · i a - t i c about mo\' ing

rece ive i n v i tat ions ro I raqi home , anJ Denoeux mce wa asked by

the M a i ne ll' inter-they bought down coat· i n Freeport in Septem

M ai n e . T h e y a r e aprrehen · i \·e about

his ho t ifhe wou l d park hi car a m i le away o that I raq i inte l l igence

ber-hut the Waten· i l le area i n late summer was o beau t i fu l that

wou ldn't rake note of i t d i plomatic plate -the ecurity forces ha\·e

e,·en their German herherd perked ur.

hara ed I raq i

uspecteJ of g i \ ' i ng information to foreigner .

"l real l y fe l l i n love with the p lace, with the department,"

" I t's a very u pic iou pol i t ic al c u lture," Denoeux said.

Denoeux ay . " I l i ke the uprortive relat ions among the facu l ty . The

But I raq-and the Arab world i n oeneral-have plenty of

·rudent are friendly, they ray a t tention, they're intereste d . "

rea on to be su p i c iou of the We t, he contends. "Throughout i t.

A teacher h a r e tomorrow's th i nke r a n d tomorrow's t h i n k ing.

hi wry, the M iddle East ha been an area that out ide rower have

' I hope, " G u i l a i n Denoeux says, " that i n learn ing about the M iddle

tried to dominate and contro l ," he ai d . "Espec i a l ly i n the la t two

East, my student will have learned about their own soc iety and \\' i l l

centuries, M iddle Ea temer

b e able t o see other soc i e ti es in compara t ive p e r pec t ive."

have been coloni:eJ and genera l l y

pu hed around by We t e r n power . Land ha

been confiscated,

promi e made to them by We tern countrie were broken repeatedly. Colby, January 1 99 1

" l want them ro be able ro ask the i mportant que nons and ro be able to go beyond fact ," he a i d .

Laurie Osborne M oses didn't bring Shakespeare's Fi rst

Fol io down from Mounr inai a long with the Ten c,)mmandments. Thar' the message Ass istant Professor of Engl ish Laurie Oshorne

hope her students w i l l imb ibe as she ushers in a new era for Shakespeare studie ar Colby. Fol lowing in t he wake of R . Mark Benbow, who ret i red last year after 40 years as Colby's "Shakespeare man," Osborne is trying rn carve her own n iche with courses such as Shakespeare and Sexuality and Shake peare and Pol i t ical Power. Osborne ay

he tric-; to place

Shakespeare i n h i · t i me, helping st udents understand how the soc i a l , pol i t ical and cultural m i l ieu o f R e n a i sance England affec ted t h e playwright' work . A nd t h e n s h e goes a t e p further, exa m i n i ng t h e w a y s i n wh ich Shakespeare's p l a y s h a v e been altered to f i t the need� of readers through the years. " I don't want to take Shakespeare away from [ tudents) as a c ul t u ra l fixture," Osborne says. "l want to make them rea l ize that each generation remakes Shakespeare according to i ts own c r i teria." Osborne h auls d i fferent ed i t i ons of the plays to class. "What we see isn't the same as what the 1 8th century wanted to ee," she says.

"Those texts are as id iosyncra t ic as the performances. They're full of

lar, so I d idn't want to do i t , " she sa id. "But I wanted to come back to

b i a es, e d i torial material and what they t h i nk a student or a scholar

the N ortheast." Comment i ng on the "sharpness" of olby tudents, 0 borne adds that she is i mpressed w i t h the acce s they have to computers and, through them, to resources such as a nat ional electron i c Shakespeare

will need . . . . ! r's a great revelat ion to students to see what an ed i t ion has suppl ied and done to the texts." She i also i n terested i n the way performance and text i nteract . " A n y t i me w e produce a play we a l t e r text," s h e ays. Mu i ng o n a recent product ion of King Lear in which Lear was female and the c h i ldren male, Osborne asks, "Wa i t a gimmick ? It was very interest i ng for tea c h i ng. Students would d iscuss i nd i v idual characterizat ions. A nd what does t h is do w i t h the sexual language that Lear u es to blast

m i xed fee l i ng· about leaving Oakland. "Detrott- ba h i ng is popu

bullet i n . "Th is is a real academic i nstitution," -he says of Colby. "The College's support of scholarsh ip is good . " Osborne says s h e is eager t o develop n e w J an Plan projecr-,

his daughters ? l s the accusation of 'barren' that Lear hurls at them a

inc luding one on Shakespeare and film, in which students would examine plays and their fi lm versions and disc u-s ed i ti ng choices that

v iolent an assault on a man as it is on a woman ? Would you have ro change the text to blast a son 7" The k nack for ask i ng uch questions no doubt contributed to

also is i n terested in delving into Shakespeare as he appear i n popular culture--everyth i ng from the use of famous Shakespearean l ines in

Osborne'

receipt of a teach ing award from M ic h igan's Oak land

U n i ve rsity, where -he spent the past four years. A graduate of Yale who earned her M . A . and Ph.D. from Syracuse U n i ve rsity, she admits

were made "or how Olivier affected later performance ." he says he

advertising to the way h is image can he exploi ted in hawki ng producb.

Colby , January 1 99 1

Charles Conover

O ne day la t fal l , Assistant Profes or of Phy·ic · Charle

Com1\'er entered hi Princ iples of Phy ic c la- armed with a fire extingu isher and a wagon. itting in the wagon perched on a tabletop, Conover pointed the fire extingui her away from him elf and pressed rhe button. As gas whoo hed from the ext 111 g ui her, Conover hot acro·s the table. It was h is way of demon t rating one ofNewron' laws-the con ervation of momentum. "The momentum of the whole ystem rayed at :era throughout the proce ," Conover said. "As one t h i ng went one way, the other th ing went the other. W h i le it' wpid and k 111d of enterta ining and they laughed a lot, there 1s some fundamental princ iple that I hope they bring away from that." Conover's primary concern i for the �tudent , whether they are advanced or beginner . That intere t led him to favor ·mall college over re earch un1versitie when he began to look for h i fir t fu ll- t ime teach ing po i t ion last year. A 1 9 5 graduate of M idd lebury who earned h is doctorate from the Un iversity of Virginia, Conover has seen physics from both sides. " I enjoy reach mg, and that's what a mall liberal arts col lege does," Conover aid. "At a univer i ty or a re earch 111 t itution, w h i le it' part of the job de c ription, it' low on the I i_ t. At a mall l iberal

Colby, J anuary 1 99 1

art' cnllege, they care a l11t, I hnpe. ll"hat t h e 'tudl'nt' t h mk , it ml' anJ th<H I 'm ahle tn excite ,ruJenr- ,1b1 >ut the ,uhjl'ct anJ gl't them 111n1h-cd 111 d11m g phy,1c,." . " To a t trac t Cuml\'er, o lh,· Julee! <1ut 11 hat he call, <1 " generuu, 'um of muncy fnr thl' eq uipment he needs m set ur ,1 lah,1rarnry. CLmo,·er\ !!raJuate ' ' urk 11-.i- in the ,rudy nf m11lec ular c lu,ter' 'rec 1 fi c all y , the ll".1Y' 111 ll"h 1ch group' nf at11m1, and mnlcculc.; heh�1\·e Ll i fferenrly from �ingle arum� or molec ules. Bur a t C11lby, ht:> 'a\ ' · ht:> wants hi� ll"Ork w be "ca-;dy acce,;,1hle w sruJenh," and clu,ter' do n11t in the bill. �,1 he ha, e lected to study atomic anJ mnlec ular y,rems. Shooting laser beam, through a gas. Com1\'er and hi, students ll"i l l look a t the i n te rac t ion of l ight and matter. " I will do research here that is good and that ll" i l! resu lt in a furt hering of -;c ience," he said, "bur my j ob here is ro educate students. M y hope is two-fold. One, that I can di ·cm· er some ne1\· physiC'; , but more i mportantly, r h a r I c a n show somebody what physic ists do all day." While he wa, at M idd lebury, Conover did research that re ul red 111 the later publicat ion of two paper-. He says he th mks the small college environment helped h im focus h is interest and hopes the ·ame will he true for ome of h is students. "I think the people \\ ho get the most advantage out of com ing here are people ll"ho opportunity needs w knock on a l it t le," Cono1·er said. Conover's enthu ia m for physics is ob,·ious, even though he maintain that the life of a scienti t is not \'ery glamorous. "We spend mtrt ofour time try i ng tO figure out how to make th i ng look right how to get the plot tO come out right on the computer, how to phra'e the paper and lots of other dull t h i ngs l i ke trying to make ·ure the \'acuum system is empty." "The great thing about phy ics is that the same rule that telb you how far a hasehall goe will tell you how a satellite mm·es and hmnhe Earth orbits the un and the moon orbit the Earth." Bur, he aid, " the true, cutting edge experimental work is trying to find our, is that al\\'ay· true ? Can I finJ a yMem where, in fac t , it isn't true ?" "We're hop ing to find ·l1merhing that we don't quite get so that we can further our knowledge. I f everyth ing conforms to our world \' iew, \\'e don't get much farther. We're tryi ng to find some new phenomena that we don't under tand ·o that \\'e can c hange the rules or make the rules more general."

W. Herbert Wilson, J r. " I t \ remarb1 h l e t u finJ

t\\'l) ot her ecnlugi,t> <lt Colhy," ><1 1 J th e

Co l l ege\ ne\\'e'rn''"t<l n t rr1 )fc>sor l 1 f h io l 1 1gy, W. H c rherr W i l,on , J r. " A l m of , m a l l >c huu b h a ve o n l y l lllC or two." With W i l son , the t\\'o-Ru,,c l l Cuk anJ D;1 \·kl Firm; 1gc- . i re team teac h i n g B i olog y 49 3 , Prnhl e m> 1 1 1 Em·irnnmcntal Sc i e n c e , he l p i ng ,tudent::. tac k l e c n n t e m 1,urary en\" l ro n m e n r a l i >suc,. For e x a m r l e , a gravel p i t c u rre n t l y t h reaten> G reat Pond , anJ t hc founder> of the G rcm PonJ Protec t i on A>�oc i < H inn , n e i ther of them b io l og i o b , a�ked for h e i r . G ra v e l c r u>her' arc noby, anJ oil nrny seep i n to t h e water tahlc. W i l l c on t i n ued J i gg i ng nf the gnH-cl e,ker-a g l ac ier-made h i l l - ope n u r <l conJ u i t fur fert i l i:er and herb i c ide runoff a nd pol l u t ion ? Colby students look f o r an,wen. by >ttJLl y i n g land U > e , h ydrology anJ w a t e r q u a l i t y anJ by c ond uc t i ng w i l d l i fe i n v e n tories in -earch of rare or enJangereJ ,pec i cs. "Th i s i s rea l - w, )rlJ stuff," said W i bon . "StuJent> have got ten j o b · w i t h resumb, from Bio logy 49 3 . l t ', real e xrcrienc e . I r q u ;1 l i fies them as m i d d l e - level t ec h n i c ian>." W i lsun is n o stranger to t he "real world" U>CS of b io l og i c a l

A c t u a l l y , W i bon\ earl 1e't mterc't 11'<1> i n e n to mology. H e

r e earc h . One of t he many g r a n t s h e ha won i n rec e n t year> i m·ol ved

began c o l l e c t i ng i mecrs a> a c h i ld g n 1 w 1 ng ur in North Carol i n a . A

e v a l u a t i n g lead poison ing i n black ducks. For 80 year>, t he lead shot

graduate :,tudcnt in bornny brought a t remendnu> amount of e n t h u

from a skeet shoot i ng c l u b on property owned hy a major cmpma tiun

, i a::.m to teac h i ng W i bon ':. h ig h - -,c hnol b i ology c hh� and g a v e h i m

h a d gone i n to a n intertidal :one. Ducks, which swal low pehhle- and

l lUt:,iLle project� that bui I t on h i ' natura l l'rocl i v i t y . I n h is j u n ior year

keer them i n t h e i r g i zzards ro serve a, tee t h , were i n effec t "c h e w i ng

at the U n iver::. i t y nf N orth Carol i n a , he >tud 1ed advanced i n verte brate zoology 1 11 a grad uate cuur,e <1nd "got m >ec what b i o l og y wa

up lead . " W i l on rook blood sam p les from 2 7 black ducks, a t t ac h ed rad i o r ra n m i t ters to the b i rds and tracked them for s i x weeks. The

abou t . " After expand i ng his honor· the,io; I n to a ma ter'- at N orth

frequency of poisoning i n the ducks prm·ed tn be t h ree t i me h i gher

Carol i na , he went rn ] llhns Hopk in , where he e a r n e d a doctorate in

t h a n norm a l . Lead shot was suhsequen t l y ba nned from t h e gun c l u b .

ecology a nd C \'O l u t ion .

"Conservat ion b i ology i s a n u r - a nd -com i ng fie l d , " W i l son > a i d .

W i lson's w i fe , Bet y Bruwn , has a Ph .D. from t h e U n i versity of

For B i o l ogy 3 9 3 , in w h i c h t h e rrofes�or, c oa c h students on how ro ger

De laware and hopes to esta bl ish a n e n v i ronmental consu l t i ng com

s l ides and other mate r i a l , orga n i 2e t a l ks a nd g i ve 45-mi nute semin ar>,

pany. Brown has <tlso taken a re ear h assoc i a t e rosit ion at Colby and

h i s topic is "the effect of h a b i ta t fragmen t a t i o n on b i ological d i ver

w i l l teach a course in m a r i n e b io l ogy d u r i ng t h e spring semester.

sity." The red u c t ion of habitat h as a deleterious effect on " i nt e r i or

W i lson's po tdoctoral d i rec tor , Kev i n Ec h e l barger, who i s now d i rec

spec ies," such as those l i v i ng in t h e m iddle uf a fore t, but a pos i t i ve

tor of the I ra

effe c t on "edge spec i es," w h i c h are considerably more adaptable.

M a i ne , has rromised the couple l a b spa e .

W i l on ack now ledges t h a t he i s dea l i n g w i t h "conte n t ious i tems."

B. Darl i ng M a r i ne c ience Center at the U n i ve rs i t y of

Colby h a s furnished W i lsnn w i t h t h e resources he needs for h is

"For i nstance, a trop i c a l r a i n forest i s b e i n g defore ted. I f you're

researc h-m i t ne t · to captu re b i rd- w i thout harm i ng them, �pott i ng

able t o protect so many h e c t a res [ a metric u n i t equal to 2.4 7 1 acre· ] , how do you do i t 1 R e member SLOSS-'s i n g l e large or everal s ma l l . ' D o you make o ne b i g reserve or t e n or a h u ndred smaller ones w i th t h e same total area 1 There are good arguments for bot h . It depend on t h e pec i es and the organisms you ' re t ry i ng to protec t . " W i l on c a me to Col by l a -t fa l l after r h ree years at the U n i versity of Wash ington. In 1 98 5-86 he d id postdocroral work i n eastern Ca n ada's Bay of Fundy, study i ng sandpiper on mud flats and the i n vertebrates t h e y eat. " M y mother c l a i med m y fi r t w o rd w a ' b i rd , ' "

scopes, a v ideo c a mera to record be hav ior, a field computer and h igh

he said.

quality m icro cores for his work on mud fl ats. " M y et-up money was generous," he says. Further t i pp i ng the sca les i n Colby' favor, Wilson says, was the "wonderful new-" that t h e Portland t r i n g Quartet wa affi l iated with the Col lege. W i lson and Brown are cla sical music b u ff . "There were very few other places I would con ider leav i n g the U n i ver i ty of Wa h ington f or," W i lson said. " A l most a l l of my answers <luring my in terv i ew fe l l on the side of 'You should go to Colby,' and t h a t 's what my w i fe and I dec ided to Jo."

Colby, J a n uary 1 99 1

STUDENT LIFE Bixler Sc holar Is "A People Person "

herlyn Neely '9 1 has come a long way-from Lo A ltos, Cal i f. to

Waterville-and from a business school to a place of academic d i s t i n c t ion a t one of A merica' mp-ranked l iberal art colleges. N eely, a 1 990 J u l i u

eelye Bixler

cholar, . pent one year

c h i ldren whose rarents Jon't or can't read to them. Somet i mes, she say , . he gets personally i nvolved \\" Ith the c h i ldren, who don't a lway have i t easy a t home. "But the k ids are so recept i \·e to what we teach them," he said. "And you get o much out of it, k nowi ng that you are

stud y i ng at Menlo Bu i ness College near her hometown but wanted

mak i ng a d ifference i n their l i \·e ."

a l iberal art education as well as a ew England experience. After brow i ng through the College qewboo k , eely wa taken w i th the

For a w h i le, i t looked a i f Neely's i n terest i n helping c h i ld re n \\'Ould lead r o a career a a c h i ld psychologist. But a s t i n t work i ng in

beauty of M a yflower H i l l and transferred as a sophomore. Once he got to Colby, h e di CO\'ered how down-to-earth the people eemed

a mental health center proved too emot ionally taxi ng, and h e says

i n this part of the country . "It i one of the be t dec isions I e\'er made," she a id . " I rea l l y am a people per o n . " Be ide keeping up w i th the d e m a n d o f a double m a j o r i n p ychology and panish , N eely presides o v e r the Spanish Honor Soc iety and i an officer i n the Psychology Honors ociety. Her favorite part of both jobs is tutoring other student . Neely part icularly enjoy- the t ime he devotes to commu n i ty

he has decided i nstead to pur ue a law degree and a s ist others that way. eely plays both \·ar ity and c lub sports a t Colby and ays he l ike· the mix. For two years, he competed on the swi m team; she now devote her t i me to rlaying \'Olleyba l l , a sport she's enjoyed for more than four years. The game requires teamwork, and Neely g ives i t all she's got. " I j ust get very i n\·olved i n anyth i ng I do," she a i d .

erv ic e . For three hour e\·ery wee k , she part ic ipate in "Adults Readi ng to C h i ldren ," a program that matche volunteer w i th

-Rebekah Mitchell ' 9 1

Photo b y Kevin Rochstein '94

Cherlyn Neely ' 9 1 Colby, January 1 99 1

Kearney Keeps It All in Balance "R

u ss i an i s go ing t o h e m y l i fe , " says fi rst - ye <ir stuJent T rezlene

"Trez'' Kea rn e y . " W e l l , not m y en tire l i fe , " the 1 990 R<tlph J . Bunche c ho'..ir adds q u i c k l y , d i s p l a y i ng t h e h u mor an d ba l a nc e she brings to

sp o ke to her frnm a pas i ng c a r , she d i scu»e · the i n c ident to

underscore h er i nterest m e l i m i n a t ing rac 1>m on c o l l eg e c a m pu e

C o l b y , the

every pur u i t . K e ar n e y c a m e to Colby

w i th

t h ree years o f R u

i a n l a ngu<ige

he 1 act i ve in two groups t h a t rromote i m proved race re l a t i ons a t tudent

Orga n i za t i o n f o r B l a c k and

H ispa n ic U n i t y a n d

t udents Orga n i 2ed Aga inst Rac i 5 m . A-, p a r t of Colby's de lega t i o n to

> t u d y and p l a n s to con t i nue w i t h the l anguage , th ough she h<isn't yet

SOAR\ a u t u m n conference at Bro\\'n U n i ve rs i t y , Kearney attended

decl ared a major. One d a y, Kearney says, she hope to teach R uss ian

wor k shor s de s i g n ed tn h e i r col lege st udent ' e r ad i c a t e rac i sm. One oi t h e h ig h l ight> of KeCJrney';, fir>t semester on c a mpu was

to e l e m en t a r y - s c ho ol st u d e n t > .

A l i fe l o ng res ident of t i n y M acon ,

.C. ( " Dl m't e v e n t ry to >a y

i t " a t o w n or c i t y , " s h e wa rn> ) , Ke a rn ey graduated frnm t h e N orth

the

ert e m he r ;irpearance by c i v i l rights leader J a mes Fa rmer.

Kearney say> she en j o y e d W<1tc h i n g peop l e i n the a u d i ence nea r l y as

h e n o tic ed that \\'hen Farmer d iscus ed " to u c h y"

Caro l i n a Schoo l of Sc ience anJ M a t h e m a t i c s , a hoard i ng sc hool for

much a t h e speec h .

g i fted h igh -schm)l J u n i ors and se n iors l ocated i n Durham. Th ou g h

suhject - uch a· the per isrence of racbm i n th e U n i ted

she h ad never been to M a m e bef ore v isi t i ng

o l hy la:,t Fe b r ua r y , >he

;ay she i s h a ppy w i t h Colhy and undaun ted by t h e prospect of w i nter i n M a i ne .

'' I ' m

" pe op le

tates

got antsy," and she 'aw t h e m " q u i rm i ng and cough i ng."

" I don ' t k now i f l can make a h i g d i ffe rence," Kearney said of her commi tment to push for u n d e rstan d i n g among people frnm d i fferen t

r ea d y f o r t h e c o l d , " she 'a id.

Kearney, whL) i ; A fr i c a n -A m e r i c a n , was t h e ohj e c t of a rac i a l

e t h n i c groups, "hut if

c a n do o m et h mg '>mal l , I ' l l do 1 t . "

l u r d u r i ng h er first week on Mayflower H i l l , a n d though ; h e doesn't know whether i t wa; a Co l hy student or a W arcn· i l l c resident ll"ho

-John Cook

'92

Phmn hy Mary E l len M�rava

Trezlene Kearney '94 36

Colby , J a n uary

1 99 1

Appelbaum Is Enjoying the Options

ra ig Appelbaum '92 remembers v i v i d !

the day, three year ago,

sented a c lass ical mu ic ho\\' on W I H B, the student rad io stat ion ,

when he had to put some money do\\'n w secure a place at rhe college

performs w i th the Colhy Broadway Musical ReY i e\\' and i co-edi tor

of h is choice. The problem, he ays, was rhar h e couldn't make rhe

of rhe Colby yearbook, the Oracle.

choice. He held an acceptance from Colby in one hand and one from Colgate in the other. Then he agon i:ed .

An interest in learn ing German rook him w Lubeck in hi first year as a Colby student.

" ! k new all along rhat I wanted a small l i beral ans c o l lege.

I a lso

" l d idn't know if ! would have the time to Jo l was rea l l y eager to learn the

it my jun ior year," he said. "And

knew I wanted to come out Ea t. But I ju r couldn't make up my

language . " Appelbaum-a German and Eng l i h major- ays he 1s

m i nd," a id Appelbaum, a 1 990 Charle A. Dana c ho lar. " F i na l l y , it

happy he went when he d i d .

was l i k e Huck Finn. I j ust aid, ' Damn i t , rhen, I 'l l go to Colby.' " Look ing back on i t , Appelbaum admit that h is dec is ion may not haYe been e n t i rely random. Hi

older

isrer knew and

roke

" W e were there al mo t a y e a r before the Wall c a m e down , and there wa

·o much ten ion there that none of u , i n our \\' i lde t

i maginations. would e,·er ha,-e bel ie,·ed that it could harren," he

h ighly of Colby, and Appelbaum adm i red Colby for abol dl ing

remembered. " I 'm glad, though, that l was there when I wa . It was a

fraterni r i e .

r i me that's kind of a bygone era now . "

A graduate of Beach wood H igh Cleveland, Oh io, A ppelbaum \\'a

chool in a

mal l suburb of

im·oh-ed in the drama c l uh and

rudent government and pla •ed on the tennis team in h igh school, but in col lege he' developed ome new i n tere · r . In hi

ophomore year at Colb -, Appelbaum wa- asked hy a

W h a t w i th j uggl ing all o f h is acr i,·ir i e a n d maintain ing a n impressiYe

3 . 7 grade point average, Appelbaum h a s h a d l i ttle t i m e to

ponder h is future. " I 'm not sure what I want ro do, there are so many th ing that I ' m 1ntere red in. I 'd l ike to maybe teach someday at the un iversity level or go to grad chool for play

friend t0 write theater re,· iews for the

Echo.

He now

erve, a

writ ing or even oo bac k to Ger

the

edi tor of the Colhy stu

many," he aid. "There's>o much

dent new parer, and he a i d that,

more that I want to do at Colby

feature

that I haven't done , it's hard to

while i t rake up a lot of t i me , " I ' ll probably write for the

Echo

th ink about l i fe beyond."

u n t i l rhe day I graduate. L i tera l l y . "

-Jennifer Scarr '9 1

A pp e l b a u m has al o pre-

Photo by Mary El len Marnva

Craig Appelbaum '92 Colby, J anuary 1 99 1

Autumn Fun Draws

Photo by Sharon Labick '9 1

Clockw ise from tnp: Among Bunche Scholars hon ored on Parents Weekend are Al i:a Hernandez '9 3 ( left ) , Ho Wa Leung '94 and Li:zette Va:4uez '92 , a l l h igh-�chool graduates o f t h e Manhattan Center for c ience anJ Marh; Govern ment Professor L. Sandy Mai e l meets wirh parents at rhe President' Recep t ion; and rephanie Vore '9 1 ar.iJ her parents, J on '64 and Estelle Vore, join other multi -genera t ional Colby fam i l ies at a spec ial di nner. A t the Homecomi ng footba l l contest , Brian O' u l l ivan ( 5 3 ) and Carm i ne Colarusso ( 7 7 ) block Wil l iams defensemen while quarterback Rob Ward ( 1 2 ) throws a pass. W i l l iam tri umphs, 28-6. Colby, J anuary l 99 1

arents and Alumni

Clockw1 e from top right: The Colby rep band help drum up uppon for the foothall team during the Homecoming game against William�; mem ber of the clas e of 19 6- 1 990 enioy e1 mmi reunion catered by an old favorite, Big G ' Del i ; Tha i a n d Chine e finger foo<ls a n d other unusual fare prepared by faculty and their pou e i offereJ at the Taste of the World party ·pon·ored by the Alumni Office, tu-A, the tudent Organi:atton for Black and Hi panic U n i ty and the In terna tional Club; and alumni take advantage of a beau tiful Maine afternoon by doing ome t radittonal Colby tai lgating before the football game. Colby, J anuary 1 99 1

PAGING PARENTS Raymont Scolds U.S . Over Columbus Fete propriety of m\'ol vmg Cuha's Pre ident Fidel Ca<;tro m the <tnn i\'crsary celebrat ion. Later, he and Adam Wcisherger of the nciology Oq1artmenr exchanged view, ( as the d iplo mat:, U'>u< illy put 1 t ) on the i mportance of mark ing anmher, concurrent, qu incente nary-that of the pan i,h l nqui i t 1on. The,e d i scour'e' only added to the fa c i nation for the >tudent;, attending, inc lud i ng Raymonr\ \on, a leader of the Colby commun ity'> effort rn pre en·e Bra:d ian rain fore\t>.

' 9 1 Parents Back Phow h y Mary E l len Marnv.i

Teachers ' Fund

Henry Ramone (right) , flanked by son Daniel '9 J .

O ver the years, Colby parent have been more than w i l l i ng m contribute to the campu d i alogue, a trad i t ion rhat conti nued on Columbus Day with the \' i s i t of Henry Raymont, father of Daniel '9 1 . The elder Raymont, a former New York

A group of involved parents of thi year's eniors ha\·e establ ished the Class of told the tudents, "is th<lr

pain has �ei:ed

the i n i t iat i\'e with a erie of e\'ents rhat w i l l draw hundreds o f thousands of visitor , in cluding many Americam. Thus, we have the ult i mate irony-the Old World capital i : i ng

Times corre pondent who i. now a fellow at

on the SOOth anniversary of the opening up of the New World. Ir has heen \"ery fru trat

Harvard's Shorenste i n Center, 1

ing

cultural

chair of the President's Comm ission on the Columbian Qu i ncentennial. A t a lunch for

Raymont ascribed much of the U . S. government's lack of i n i t iative, coord ina

i n tere ted student i n rhe Ph i l on Lounge,

1 99 2 c o m m e mora t i o n of

t ion and fund i ng of Columbian Quincen tennial projects to pol i t ical concerns in

Columbus's voyage should help Americans

Congress. These include apprehension;,, he

understand and apprec iate Lat i n culture and

said, thar ponsorsh1p of specific programs would bring the go\'ernment down on one

h e s a i d the

i t i mpac t on the New World. But Raymont expressed frustration over what he characterized a poor planni ng and lack of commi tment to the q u i ncentennial commemorat ion i n the U n i ted States. Al

side or the other of rhe long-standing rivalry hetween the I tal ian-American and H ispanic A merican commun i t ies twer which group i enti tled to c laim Columbu as i ts own.

I 991 Parent Fellowsh ip for Distingui hed Teachers.

David and Barbara Preston, former chairs of the Colhy Parenr- A soc iat ion , will chair the 34- member project committee. They are parents of Chris '89 and L iz '9 1 . The object, Dav id Pre ton explained, "is to set i n place a trad i t ion that will both en hance the col lege from w h ich our c h i ldren will graduate and benefit generation ofColby student� to come." The com m i ttee m e t over Parent Weekend tl) comider a \'ariety of potent ial projects and dec ided that a faculty upport fund woulJ benefit the broadest number of future Colby student . Parents of 1 99 1 graduates a l o . a i d they hnpe t h e project w i l l l a y a foundation f o r · i m i lar efforts in the future.

though such in t i tut ions a Columhia U n i

As if to underscore for Raymont the

Preston said the parent cho.e the fel

v e r i ty a n d the Smi thson ian I n t i tution w i l l m a r k rhe anniversary with e x h i b it ions and

not ion thar emotional and pol i t ical con cerns are never fa r from the surface in suc h

low-h1p with the idea of enhanc i ng Colby's abi l i ty to recognize and reward good teach

conferences, Raymont said, there has been

endeavors, he had the chance to engage in a

li ttle coord i nation by scholars and v irtually no gO\'ern mental support or enthu iasm for

pol i te yet pointed d ialogue with two fac ulty member who attended the lunch. He and

i n g w i t h grant, for sabba t ical upport and summer research . The grants may a lso help

a celehration.

Jorge Oliva re of the Modern Foreign Lan guages Department agreed to d isagree on the

"What we have seen instead , " Raymont 40

Colby rec ru i t new teacher and maintain the tandard of academ ic excellence from whic h all tudents benefi t , he added. Colby, January 1 99 1

Making A Difference

campus d i ,·ersity by pro mo t ing the Col lege to minority �rudents. And, thanks to those who can afford to con

tudent enrolls, h is or her

tribute, the Parents An

parents auromat ically become part ofa group

When a

nual Fund augments the

designed tO help them through their four year

Col lege's general fund

at Colby .

each year. Though ind i

The Colby Parent Assoc iat ion gives

,· idual parents have con

parents a chance to get involved with Col

tributed up to $ 2 5 ,000,

lege act i v i t ies and, through the a ociation's

M e t : e ndorf says a $ 5

e x e c u t i v e c o m m i t t e e , to c o m m u n i c a t e

contribut ion can b e ap-

effect ively w ith admin istraror-, tru tees and

preciated j ust a much.

others in leader hip pos i t ion on campu . The a soc iat ion can al o foster lateral

Phnro by Scnrr Davb

Lee and Ellen Meczendorf

"The main target," she sa id, " is to have

t ia l l y in 1 990 and you are not able to pay the b i l l for your son or daughter, please contac t

I 00 percent part ic ipation.''

communication . "Lot of t i mes parent w i l l

Why are many parents who already

the Financ ial A i d Office for information

feel more comfortable talk ing with an )ther

foot much or all of a $20,000 annual b il l

about College grants, federal rudent loans,

parent about a problem or concern," said

ready to contribute more money t o Colby 7

Pamela Alexander, Colby' direcrorof annual giving and a Colby parent her elf. "That' part of what member

of the e x c u t i ve

comm ittee are for. They're acces ible." Lee and El len Merzendorf, paren s of Emily '9 1 , are cha iring the commis ion this

In a word, Alexander says, the answer

campus employment and parent loan pro gram . I f you anticipate a problem paying for the econd eme ter this year, plea e call the

is ""alue." "While their k ids are here, we talk to them about the value of the degree," she said. "If Colby remain

trong, it enhances

the value of their c h i ld' degree."

aid office immediately. "If you owe a balance on the fir t se mester bill, please talk with the Business Office staff, who w i l l work with you and the

year. " I t's a n ice way to get ro focus on the

Financ ial A id Office to help you obtain the

campu ," Ellen Metzendorf aid. While many

funds you need as quickly as po sible," Smyth

parent hear from the assoc i ation during it elicitat ion for the Parent

An n u al Fund,

there are no dues and no such contribution is required. "We look for a broad group of people

aid. "Pay as much as you can on the b i l l now ,

Aid Concerns Addressed

becau e you could incur late fee on unpaid balances. If you later receive Colby aid or a tafford loan, you w i l l r(?ceive a refund for any overpayment on the b i l l .

w i t h a broad geographic d istr ibu t io n , " Metzendorf a id . " W e a r e n o t j ust looking

"Parents of sophomore , jun iors and When Direcror o f Financ ial A id Lucia

for people who can give a gift but for tho e

Whittel ey Smyth

who can contribute a viewpoint."

mation

' 7 3 conducted an infor

ion during Parent

seniors who have never before applied for aid should be aware that financial aid ap

Weekend,

pl ications for the 1 9 9 1 -92 academic year are

Each pring, when incoming tudents

he was ready to an wer two important ques

due at Colby by April 1 5 , 1 99 1 , and the

receive acceptance leners, the ir parents get

tions: "What if my income ha dropped and

Financ ial A id Form mu t be filed with the

a letter from the association chairs expla in

l can't pay as much as I have in the past?" and

College Scholarship Ser ice during March

ing the group's work and l i t i ng all executive

"If we have not applied for financ ial aid until

(earl ier to qual ify for ome state cholarship

committee members. " I f there' a fa m ily from

now, i

progra ms ) .

the M idwest," A lexander said, "they can c a l l

remaining year at Colby?"

it too late to apply for my c h i ld's

ew applications hould include

an explanation ofchanges in family finances

an execut ive committee parent a n d ask ,

" uch que t ion invariably accompany

'How do you get your son back and forth to

an economic reces ion," Smyth said. "Colby

col lege?' Questions l ike that are best an-

is committed to helping students and par

aid package

ents whose abil ity to contribute to the co t of

include a h igher loan component than those

education ha been reduced dramat ically by

for students who are renewing the i r appl i

t he c u rrent c ond i t i o n of the c ou n t ry's

cat ions. Students can g e t appl icat ions and

economy."

information in Room

wered by another parent." The a ociat ion helps the admis ions effort by holding reception

for admitted

students and al o aid i n specific recruiting projects, uch as one designed to increa e Colby, J anuary 1 99 1

"If y ur income has dropped substan-

that have necessitated the a id appl ication." myth adds that under Colby' formula, for new applicant

w i l l often

207 in the Eu tis

B u i lding on c a mpu .

GIFTS & GRANTS " Dear Young Alumni : Please Give

" •

•

Photo 1->y Mary Ellen Matava

Professors G. Cali•in Mackenzie . L. Sandy Maisel and Chari.es Bassetc discuss Colby 's Alumni Fund appeal.

o v e r n m e n t Pro fessor G. Ca l v i n Mackenzie says that one of the h ighest points in h is teach ing career came on elect ion n ight in 1 988. A former student, watch ing the returns at h is home i n Ca l ifornia, c a lled to thank M ackenzie for teach ing him the i ns and outs of A merican pol i t ics. "He said he real l y under toad what was happen ing, and it was a l l because of me," M ackenzie re c a l led. So i t was "disappointing," M ackenz ie says, to see the man's name on a l ist of younger Colby graduates who have never contributed to the College's Alumni Fund . "I k now he had a wonderful Colby experi ence," M ackenzie s a i d . "Some people need to be rem inded about what Colby has meant to them . " A few hundred former students have been reminded recently. Three of Colby's most popu lar teachers-Mackenzie, Gov-

ernment Professor L. Sandy M a ise l and Charles Bas·en of the English Department have written letters to e lected young gradu ates asking them to support the College. The idea for the appeal was hatc hed three years ago, when Mackenzie, who served as vice president for development from 1 985 to 1 988, sent such a letter to a l most 80 former tudents. "I got a 50 percent respon e," M ackenzie said, "and many came with letters sayi ng that they wouldn't have thought of giving if 1 hadn't asked." Last summer, M ackenzie, a long w i th Director of Annual G iv ing Pamela A lex ander, inv ited M a isel and Bassett to help launch a i m i lar effort on a wider scale. Alexander provided a l ist of nongivers who graduated from Colby i n the last dozen years, and recently the three professors wrote to tho e they knew, enc lo ing an Alumni Fund envelope.

One fac ulty member who was asked to part ic ipate in the appeal refused. "l think he fe lt it would be counterproductive," Bassett said, "that fac ulty don't do that. Faculty teach and money-raiser raise money and we mix the two at our peri l . " B u t , Mackenzie said, " a n alum' recol lect ion is built around a faculty member or a coach -som e body was important to them, not a tree or a building." Ba sett and Maisel say they agreed to write letters because they think former stu dents should help Colby stay compe t i t i ve . "We're in a fight to get g o d fac u l ty, par t icularly good young faculty. I t is increasingly difficult to attract the be t," Bassett said. "One of the th ing that you try to do at a place l ike this is build up the sense of loyalty that is involved in g i vi ng money, o that the place can cont inue," M a i el said. "We are in a time of belt-t ightening, when it Colby, January 1 99 1

i \·ery e ential-for us to be able ro do the job that we do--r hat the people \\"ho think we do a good job upport us." At un i\·er ·iue., Ma isel ay , faculty members raise money for research, o why shouldn't teachers ol1cit fund to undergird their effort ? "I have no doubt rhar a few alumni will be angry that we appear to be play ing on a pec ial relation hip," Macken:ie aid. " l r is a pec ial bond. Bur if they don't want w give they hould say that. If they are offended that I asked they should say that. I ' l l respond to rho e letter . " o m e former students dec ide not to gi e to Colby because they are unhappy with admi n i tration pol icie -pa r and pre·ent or they feel their check will provide "a mandate for new deci ions," according ro Mai el. But, he ay in hi letter, the Al umni Fund "i- not a referendum about the admm i rrarion . . . I r i a referendum on the future of Colby rudent . " "I won't a k you t o forget t h e thing · you didn't l i ke," Maisel write . "Bur l do hope you will remember what you d id like." As omeone who ha been invoked in many del iberation over granting tenure and promotion to faculty member , Macken:ie ha read dozens of letter from graduate� who are asked to a sess professor ' performance . "[ have been truck," he said, "by the number of response from people who ay, ' I 'm un happy with Colby about rhi or that, but Profe or X wa terrific. ' " Mackenzie say he think s i m i lar mo tivations may be driving those who haven't given to the fund. "It make me angry," he said. "Here are people who have withdrawn their upport, de pite acknowledging that they apprec iate what we're here to do. When they w ithdraw the ir upporr from Colby, they withdraw support from what we do here." But like Maisel and Ba err, Macken:ie says he is opti m istic that h i letter, em ro about 50 former students, will have po it ive re ult . "If 50 percent give, that will be a significant rep," he aid. "Once you get them tarted they get into the habit."

Colby, January 1 99 1

Alfonds Pledge $ 2 00, 000 for Training Facility to Honor Carl Nelson When Carl el on went to d i nner one unday night in ovember, he had vi·ion of learning that a long-held dream might be fulfil led. Bur Colby' head trainer and director of medical services wa n't ready for what he was about to hear. When he joined Pre ident Bill Cotter, Dr. Kershaw Powell '5 1 , Athletic Director Dick Whitmore, Vice President for Development and A lumni Relation Randy Helm and ·everal other at dinner with Harold Alfond L.H.D. '80, Nel on hoped the Waterville ph ilanrhropi t and portsman wa about to announce a major contribution to Colby' planned new physical therapy center. It was Cotter who made that announcement, after recal l ing all the pa t benefact ion that Alfond and h i - wife, Dorothy "Bibby" Levine Alfond '38, had made to Colby and other worthy inst itut ion throughout Maine. Th i t ime, the pre ident aid, the A lfonds had committed $ 2 00,000 in the form of a challenge gram, matching dol lar for dollar an additional $200,000 the College is to raise from other ource to erect the new fac il ity. Then 1t wa Alfond' tum. The founder of the Dexter hoe Company and part owner of the Bo ton Red ox recalled Nel on' 32 years on Mayflower H i l l and the reputation he ha built among athlete and trainer throughout the counrr . "They all ask about Carl," Alfond aid, "and in all the year l have never met anyone who had a negative word to ay about this man, not one." That, Al fond said, wa why he and Mr . Al fond had decided to a k Colby to name it new training center the "Carl el·on Phy. ical Therapy Facil ity." el on, who i a member ofthe attonal Trainer Hall ofFame, eemed floored by the honor, pau ing everal rimes during hi brief re ponse to regain hi compo sure. The campaign to raise the matching funds for the facil ity i continu ing. Colby alumni can participate by sending contributions in el on's honor to David Roberts , Director ofPlanned Giving, Colby Colleg , Waterville, ME 0490 I or by phoning Roberts at ( 20 7 ) 872-32 1 2 . The current t i metable calls for construction to begin this spring and for the facil ity to open in t ime for the 1 99 1 -92 academic year.

MULES ON THE MOVE Unlikely Heroes Enjoy A Shining Season Ye

ars from now, someone >C a n n i ng the Colby f ootba l l log w i l l sec

tudent:, a n d fa c u l t y ra l l ied beh i nd t h e tea m . There were

an ord i nary 3 - 5 rec ord , hut an yone assoc ia ted wi t h the 1 990 varsity

c heerl eaders , a Pep hand and a large crowd f or the ope n i ng game. But

w i l l remember i t fore\'er as a team tha t tr

few among the wel l w i she rs bel i e\'eJ Austin or his pl ayers, who said

cended the com monp l ace

of sport , t u r n i ng h locks, tac k l e and touchdowns i n to meta pho rs for res i l i e nc e , determ inat ion and at ta i n me n t . Th is w a s a t e a m t h a t sent

they p l a n ned to win seve ra l game>. "b·eryone wa> sn

14 pl<iycrs h o m e f o r a semes te r t u

ponder the i m propri e t y o f i l l ic i t soc i a l b e h a v i L r, wa t hed t w o others 4 u i t <ind disco\'ercd j ust before the start of prac t i c e that i ts 4u<1rter

defcnsi,·e bac k Rob

De l

ure we were go i ng to he terrible," j un ior

l l o rec a l led a few we k s in to the sea on. " I

think w e bega n to wonder a bou t i t ourselve . " T h e defense m a d e prog res · e a r l y i n t h e ·eason. Fir t - year l i ne

h<1ck h ad hrnken h i , jaw. That left but f1\'e of 2 2 starter from the 1 989

men M a rk G a l l a g h e r ,

s4uad and nn l y e ig h t j u n iors and sen iors on a roster that wa. nearly

Wagenk nec h t and J on Granoffheld their L1wn and occ as ion a l l y made

ean

n phomore l inebac ker

De\' i n c , S h a w n J e n k i ns , R i c h

2 0 names shorter than nor m a l . For coach Tom A ust i n , neccs>it y

big p lays.

would bec ome the moth er of i n ve nt ion .

performed so c apably that Baker could devote more and more t i me to

H i s first move was to ass i g n the more able and expe rienced h ands both offe ns i ve and defensive pos i t ions. A l l - N ESCAC l i ne backer Len Baker wou ld a l so play fu l l bac k . Offensi ,·e l i nemen Tom G r i ffin and Carm i n e CL1larusso wou ld play the defensive ! me on key

Gregg uffre d i n i and Eric DeCo ta

h i fu l l ba ck c hores. And t h e econda ry o f Dele l lo, John Conaty, Pau l Fro io, M i ke Rega n and Peter

andhlom pl ayed sol id l y .

E a r l y l rn,..,e ., to Tri n i t y, H a m i l to n a n J Tuft

h ighl ighted t h e

Wh ite M u les' w e a k >Pot>, hut the i r play proved t h e y weren't inca

downs. Tight ends Greg Burns and Pa u l Bais ley would become guards

pac i t ated. For three soggy quarter' i n Connec t ic u t they

eemed

i n ;in offense fea tu r i ng one runn i ng hac k , four w ide receivers and an

dest ined for a n up > et 1.if undefea ted Wesleyan , only to lose ,

1 4- , on

untried quarterback rec o v eri ng frum k nee recnmt ruct ion .

a n 8 5 -yard pas p l ay i n the ope n i ng m i nu te' uf the fou rth period. When W i l l iam came to town at Homecomi ng and e x tended the nation' 1 1.r n g e s t w i n � t r e a k a t Co lby '

expen e,

the

Wh i te M u l e h a d not h i ng but an 0- 5 record to how for their work and enthu . iasm. I nj u ry was added tO tn�u l t when the center, Griffin, and Gal lagher, the bul wark of the new defen s i ,·e l mc , l i m ped off w ith knee inj uries, departing for the rest of the season. Austin had been there before, however. He replaced Griffin w i t h fir t y e a r student Brian

O' u l

l i \'an a n d told B a i l ey h e c o u l d be a t i g h t e n d agatn-pro"ided h e would abo play dcfensi\'e tack le. A s Colby prepared for the Parents Weekend game aga i n ·t Bate , the M u le were down to three e n iors but had added a

Photo by

fifth j u n i r. J i m Dion izio,

Len Baker '9 2, in his fullback mode , heads for rhe end zone ivirh a block frnm Dan Teguis '9 1 .

the quarterback w i t h the

Colby ,

J anuary

1 99 1

broken jaw, had slurped enough l iquiJ nutri enr- and pent enough hours l ifting weights ro maintain h is we ight and m uscle tnne during a urpri i ngly rapid reco\'ery. After an ini ury to starter Rob Ward, Dion i : io wa� inserted late i n the Wesleyan game and he played a half against W i l l iams. Colby beat Bates, 9 - 3 , \\'hen Da\·1d McCarthy p icked up a bounc ing punt and made tele\'ts ion \'i e wers think they were watch ing an old Red Grange mm·ie, as he spri n ted, wove , \·aulted and barrelled for a 7 3yard touchdown. The defense held Bate' i nPhnm b) Sc, m o,l\.1' ide the 1 0 twice to presen·e the lead. the econd t i me when i t newe ·t recruit, Bai:ley, Junior )1111 010111�10 rallied from a preseason injury w share qiwnerback dunes . ·acked the Bobcat quarterback on fourth down. Bai-ley batted down a pa· on the final play of the game and wa· \'oted E CAC Defen t\'e Player oi the Week for ball o n the next play and Bmdoin drn\·e 2 5 yard, w rake a 20- 1 7 lead hi performance-an improbable honor for a �enior \\'ho hadn't with 50 ,econd, left in rhe game . The Polar Bear offense had >tarted played defense since h igh school. its posrgame celehranon on rhe sideline by rhe r i me McCarthy At M iddlebury the fol lowing :iturday, the White Mule ra1,ed fielded the k ic koff and ran to the Colby 3 3 with 44 ticks remain ing. rhe level of improbab i l ity a notch . M iddlebury had up er Hamt lmn Ward hit Hatch on a 20-yard tum-around pattern at the Bowdoin and threatened to end W i l liam " 2 -game winning streak before 4 7 and the White Mule rushed to the cri mmage l ine in time to snap giv ing way in the final quarter. On paper, it eemed that the Panthers the ball when the c lock re tarted. This t ime Ward found McCarthy could count on an easy w i n , e pecially playing an emot ional farewell at the 26 and Colby ca lled rime out with 1 9 second · ro go. On the next game on old Porter Field, which i ro be replaced in 1 99 1 . But i t was play, W:ird >eemed about to go dnwn but eluded a Bowdoin sacker and Colby's Baker and Dioni:io who ga\'e Porrer Field i ts final memories. nf1ed the ball to Harch at the 1 0. Ward rushed his ream i nto After tra i ling most of the game , M iddlebury captured rhe lead in fonnat ion and fired the ball into the ground to stop the c lock a t 0:07. the final period and then hemmed White Mule in ar t h i rd and 1 7 on A field goal would have t ied the game and gi\'en Colby an the Colby 20. Bur D ioni:io connected with en ll)r Dan Tegub on a outright CBB m le. But that wa n't enough for this team. "Did we ralk 39-yard pa s play, h i t McCarthy for 1 1 more and rhen handed the hall about going for the t i e !" Austin -aid after the game. "We didn't eYen to Baker, who rumbled i n for a touchdown. After M iddlebury re think about i r . At Colby, we play to win." ceived Colby's k ic koff, Baker remained on rhe field ar l inebacker and Ward took the nap and urveyed the end :one, looking left . was in on three of the final four tack les to pre erve a tarrl mg 20- 1 7 Aga in there was pressure from the pa s rush , and one of the Polar v i c tory. Bears had reached him when he looked rhe other way and saw a That left Bowdoin a rhe only ob racle to a fi r t in Colby football m uddied figure srand ing alone near the right side l i ne. h istory-a th ird traight CBB t i de . On the final play of h is col lege career, Paul Baisley l i ned up on Pla ing in a c o l d r a i n in Brun w i c k , Colby l e d 3-0 at t h e half, the left ide. With O'� u l l ivan' snap, the orher rece i\·ers embarked on thanks t o a 29-yard field goal by andblom and rhree muffed Bowdoin pa s routes that took them from right to left . Bai ley \\'ent the other attempt to match ir. Early in rhe econd half, Dion i:io retired with way, and no Bowdoin defender followed. When Ward spotted h i m , a concu ion, and that set the stage for Ward, the 1 990 season' final Babley wa near t h e 5-yard l ine, a_bout a do:en yard · from t h e nearest u n l i kely hero. He connected wirh teve Hatch on a 70-yard coring player on e ither quad. He c aught the pass, turned and jogged aero the goal l ine. By the pa s and then, after a Bowd in touchdown, h i r Tegu i i n rhe end :one t ime the pessimists finished scann i ng the turf in a vain search for from 28 yard our. That core, et up when Bum separated a Bowdoin penal ty flags, Baisley had been t ac k led-by a warm ofColby players. punt returner from the ball, put Colby ahead by 1 7-6 with I 0 m i nute Nobody bothered to try for the extra point. The game was over and to p lay. Colby won, 2 3 - 20, conc lud i ng the most memorable 3 - 5 season Bowdoin made i t 1 7 - 1 4 on its next pos ession, bur when Colby topped the Polar Bear at the Colby 37 with three minutes remain i maginable. ing, Colby' lead seemed ecure. I t wasn't. Ward was stripped of the Colby, J anuary 1 99 1

Soccer Team Earns Trip to ECAC Semis After yearrnfbattl i ng on Loeh F i e l d , the men'

soccer team

moved "up the hill" to rhe new rlaying surface this season, and Coach Mark hi

erdjenian ' 7 3 and

quad never looked back. Ir wa

a record - hreak i n g

s e a o n . T h e r e a m rosted 1 3 wi ns-a single- easnn h igh-and wa ranked number one in New England and sixth i n the nat ion on rhe way to it first arpearance in r h e ECAC c h a m p i o n h i p tournament since 1 9 78 and a 1 3 1 -2 record. A preseason trip to England honed the tea m's sk i l ls, according tO Serdj en ian. "We learned con fidence and teamwork from our matche over eas," he said.

"lt

was a k e y t o our succes . " T h e Wh ite M ule� notched three wins-against M iddlebury , N orw ich and Farm i ngton-to open the sea on, then earned a hard - fought 1 - 1 t ie with Babson,

Senior co-capr.ain Eric Russman maneuvers downfiel.d past two Bates defenders .

a perennial New England power. A 2 - 1 win over Thoma , a scoreless t ie with Tufts and three more wins ·er the tage for the Homecom

Reed stepped up and blasted a 2 5-yard shot past the Polar Bear keeper

ing game aga inst arch rival Bowdoin. The team needed l i tt le extra incen t i ve to perform well against the Polar Bears, but the incentive

for hi fir t college goal . Bowdoin regrouped near the end of the game but couldn't pull even. The game ended with Colby up 2 - 1 and

was there-a win would give Colby a 1 3 -game unbeaten streak, the

headed into rhe rournament's :,econd round.

longe t in team h isrory. 2 2 seconds into the game, bur Bowdoin answered i n the first half and the two team took the 1 - 1 tie to the end of regulat ion. In the

Colby met three-r ime ECAC champion W i l l iam College four day later, and the passage of ti me brought with it a sharp change in the weather-and i n the team's fortunes. W i l l iam cored twice with the wind at their back in the first

overt ime period, j u n ior Chris Fl int made i t 2 - 1 Colby on a penalty kick, and after Bowdoin cored again, Oppenheimer scored hi second goal of rhe day with only 22 seconds left i n the overtime period

A lthough Colby put on a better howi ng in the econd half, a goal by rookie Pat Skulley was not enough , and the Ephmen held on to win.

J un ior topper Doug Oppenheimer scored j ust one m inute and

half and played h igh-pressure defense, shutt ing out the Wh i te M ule .

to c l i nc h a 3-2 win. Colby ended i t regular season w i th a 3 - 2 win over Bates and

W i l l i a m went on ro win the tournament, bearing Wesleyan 2-0.

entered the ECAC Div ision 1 1 1 tournament seeded first---only to

Sentinel after the game. " I t would have been nice to cap it off by

meet number e ight seed Bowdoin i n the ope n i ng round.

winning the tournament, but the undefeated regular eason is some

The rival met on an unseasonably warm Sunday afternoon in

"It wa an amazing eason,"

erdjenian told the Waterv i l le

thing the guys w i l l always remember."

N ovember. Each team was stymied through most of the first half, with

A lthough rhe W h i te M u !es w i l l lose seven players to graduation,

Colby break ing the drought a r the 29:20 mark as Eric Russman fed

five starters should return next season, including lead ing corer Fl int,

Oppenhe imer i n from of rhe Bowdoin goal for a score. The first half

who racked up 16 goals and 10 assists in 1 990. Colby's goalkeeper ,

ended i n a 1 - 1 t ie . The first 30 m inute of the second half were

J im Condron and Jason Eslick, who combined for 1 02 save and

careless and another overt i me period loomed, but senior back Pat 46

recorded six shutouts, are also among those expected to return.

Colby , January 1 99 1

Harriers Take Divisional, National Laurels T

Colby defeated . ecnnd-place

a n d t h e women' team welcomed one o f t h e most exc i t i ng compe t i

point-, \\' i th sophomore Ben Tren1r ( 1 2 t h , 2 6:00) and i u n ior Greg

he men's c ross-coun try team comp lered it be·t season since 1 9 4 .

tors in memory m t raver e the Mayflower H i l l tra i l · . The men captured both the on h i p and the

nutheastern Ma· achu ett

by ntne

Rideout ( 3 3 rd , 2 6 : 4 0 ) iom i ng rhe three seniors i n the srnring col

ew England D i v ision I l l champi

umn.

ESCAC t it l e , rak ing to an innovative tra i n i n g *

program i nstalled by Coach J i m We·con . " I r w a s omething I a lways wanted to try, b u r apprehensive," We Cott

I h a d been \·ery

aid of the new reg i men, wh ich im·olved

"We kne\\' com mg in it would be a rebu i ld i ng year," C�1ach Deh

ex tensive off- ea on cond i t ioning and l igh ter in-season workouts.

A itken sa id oi the women·� cruss-counrry team. ''But we ran well and

"The ream eemed t o respond to it \"ery \\'e l l . "

fa irly consistent ly."

e n ior K e n t Thomp·on, Da\· i d Donnelly and Marc G i l bertson sparked the team \\' i t h consistently strong performances. "The three are so cl 1sely marched," said Wescott , "that any of them could be our mp fin i her on any gi ven day . " N E C A C m e e t and w o n the ECAC c hamp ion h i p at Tufts in a t i me the key to Colby'

cw England's was

team vic tory, but it was a .ource oi personal

state mle a n d w a s the first Colby woman to be crowned N E CAC

mce he came in o n e �ec

her for nat ional competi t ion at Grinne l l College

qual ifymg t i me . Donnel ly

111 Iowa, where he earned

won t h e M a ine

rare

A l l-American honors-a

c h amp ion · h i p at Bare in

d i·t tnction matched by no

Ocroher, and he came in

other first-year student in

1 4th a t the

Colby hi tory. Severance

meet. G i lbert on wa one

finished in 1 7 t h place in a

of rwo W h i te M u les in the

n me of l : 1 7 .

top 25 fi n i her· at the

e n t ors Lesley Ey

ECAC c h a m p i o n h i p ,

denberg, There a u l l ivan

and he trai led Donnelly

and Col leen H a l leck pro

place fint h at the

England's. We corr c a l led Col by'

\·ided leader h i p for the Hart horn and Chri t ine Me

i e r , two fir t - year

student , had strong ea-

ew England Di vi i o n I l l

o n , and j u n i or Po l l y

tribute to the entire ream."

ew England

younger runner . J enn ifer

fir r -ever v i c tory at t h e c h a m p i o n h i p· " a real

m i th College in the final I 00 yards r o w i n

c hampion. Her fift h -place fintsh at the Di\· ision I l l

lmd over t h e nat ional

econd· for a 2 1 .t

rare champion from outhern M ai ne course

h e r Mayflower H i l l h o m e debut t w o week later. She won the M a m e

c hamp ionships qual ified

ew England

Severance, did consid

econds in her first intercollegiate race, then

out. printed a veteran from

d 1 ·appo1ntment for h i m ,

by 14

I ichelle

Topsfield, she shattered the Un iversity of record by nearly 30

Thomp on emerged as the t o p runner. H e placed second in t h e of 26: 1 6. Thomp on's ninth -place finish at the

One runner, fir·t-year student

erably better rhan that. A Ma ine Class C

heridan made ready im provement a l l year.

Michelle Severance '94 earned All-American honors for che White Mules , and David Donnelly '9 1 helped the men's team win its first-ever ew England Division 1 1 1 crown.

Colby, January 1 99 1

Women's Tennis Plays to Perfect Record Ti,e women\ tennis team enjoyed its hest season in a lmost 20 years, compil ing an 8-0 dual match record, win n i ng a t h i rd straight CBB

at the number three pot in place of Reena Chandra and Patricia O'Sul I i van because O'Sull ivan was home for her father's funeral. The

t i t le and sen d i ng four players to the N ew England Division I I I

duo rose to the occasion, winning i n a tie-breaker to give Colby i ts

tourname n t .

second 5 -4 victory of the season aga i nst Bowdoin. Two West Coast natives shared the team' number one singles

T h e team's t o p seed, ophomore M a r i a K i m , developed tend initis in her forearm and m issed the season's first t h ree mate he · , and senior Maryann Hutch inson wa sidel ined for the ent ire sea·on with an

spot. K i m , from Glendale, Cal if. , played the top position during part

A c h i lles tendon i nj u ry suffered last spring. But the deep Colby squad easily defeated three Division I un iversity team , Maine, N ew Hamp

ment . Black , frnm Seattle, played at number one for the balance of the schedule, going 8-0 i n singles and doubles and earn i ng a eed at

sh ire and Vermont, by scores of 9-0, 7 - 2 and 8- 1 .

the N ew Englan<l's.

I n fac t , Bowdoin would give the team i ts only real scare. Colby posted a 5 -4 early-season defeat of the Polar Bears i n Brun wick, but

with Kim to reach the New England sem i finals in doubles. Chandra

i n the Mayflower Hill remat c h , Bowdoin led 4-2 after the · i ngles compe t i t ion and seemed on the verge of evening the score in meets. The W h i te M u les needed vicrories i n all three doubles matche to top Bowdoi n .

of the season and earned an i n v i t a t ion to the New England tourna

Gogolak finished her final eason at 6-2 i n single and paired played to 8-0 and 5 -0 records and reached the semifinals in both singles and doubles i n the New England's. O'Su l l i van, a enior, also went undefeated ( 4-0/ 5 - 0 ) , preserving an unbeaten Colby career.

Vicrories by t he r o p t w o tandems, K i m a n d sen ior Harriet "Twisty" Gogolak and j u n ior Lisa Black and Ann Bonn iwell, a rookie from M in neronka, M in n . , left the M u les' fate up to senior Grace Liang and sophomore T i na Buffum. L iang and Buffum were playing

Fields , Links See Successes I n a n autumn of success and exc itemen t , team compet ing i n field hockey, women's soccer a n d g o l f a l s o h a d moment to savor. "Although we had a d i fficult ea on, there were plenty of indi vidual successe to make up for team losses," said Coach Deb Pluc k . The 4-6-2 field hockey ea on left Pluck ro ponder a c urious tatistic: although Colby outshot i ts opponents 1 9 1 - 1 02 , the W h i te M u les were outscored 1 6- 1 5 and fel l four t ime by a ingle goal . Sen ior t r i -captains A m y G i l l i , Erin K e l l y a n d Andrea olomita provided leadership and exc i tement. I n the t h i rd game of the ea on, G i llis and Kelly l ined up aga i nst their twin sisters i n t he Bate game, and their "seeing double" story appeare<l around the country in Sports llluscrated and around the world in t he International Herald Tribune. Two- t i me A l l-State and regional a l l -star

olomita concluded an

outstand i ng career, lead ing the team in scoring with five goals and three assists. Three seniors broke i nd i v idual records: Liz Frado set a new record foroffensi ve interception /tack les w i t h l 0 I for t he ea on, and G i l l is and j un ior a ttacker M ic he le Rowell each had 20 offensive intercept ions/tackles i n a game. Tearn M P Rowe l l , an A l l-State select ion and a 1 990 Di v i ion I I I Academic A l l-American, was the second lead ing scorer on the team w i t h four goals and two as i ts. Other contribut ions came from junior goal ie Deb S t i nchfield, the Phoro by Scott Davis

Lisa Black '92 48

team's Most I mproved Player, with 78 saves in her fir t season, Kelly, who led the defense with l 5 6 interceptions/tackles and senior Abby Cook, who returned from a year abroad to weigh i n with 1 02 tackles. Colby , January I 9 9 1

Michele Rowell · 9 2 and Michelle Saccerlee '94 helped che fiekl hucke)' ream co a

Photo by Jason Oberfest ' 94

J un ior triker Adria Lowell ( three goal ) al o earned All-State honor with her aggre ive style of play. The women's soccer team, coached by Dave Laliberty '79, j u mped off to a 5-0 tart de pite returning j ust five tarters. A las, the odd caught up. The squad lo t its next four and ended the season at 7- 7. But included in that eason-opening tring was a 1 -0 v ictory over Bate , making Colby the only team in ew England to defeat the

4-6-2

season .

Bobcat during the regular season. The late-sea on ho\\'ing, how ever, was what Laliberty sa\'lxed mo r. "Ir would have been so easy for the players ro quit emotionally after rhose four losses," he said. " But we regrouped and came back ro gee a big 2 - 1 win over Wesleyan and a fine performance in the final against a trong Plymouth State team." Senior J u l ie Collard led the team in scoring with four goals and two assi ·cs. Senior Chark1tte Reece earned All- EW l A honors and became Colby's th ird-lead ing career scorer. First-year �tarter Heather Hami lton recorded three shutouts in goal . The golf team won the C B B title and defeated Merrimack t o win the Bowdoin Inv itational i n a sudden-death playoff. enior capta in Jeff Hartwell, playing at number one, and jun ior Derek Bettencourt were rhe top finishers in the Bowdoin Invi tational, and junior Todd A lexander and sophomore Rob Carbone each had par puts on the playoff hole. Sophomore Jack H iggins, who played in the number rwo po it ion for the White M u les, was the CBB medal ist. Bettencourt placed first for the Wh ite M u les at the M iddlebury Tournament, fin ishing 2 5 th of 1 29. Coach id Farr ' 5 5 1 already looking forward to spring. "We have some good underclassmen," Farr sa id, "and there ha been more interest in the team than in past year ."

Sports Shorts B

a ketball coache Dick Whitmore and Gene Delorenzo ' 7 5 find t h e mughe t O i v i i o n I l l opponents they c a n to bartle-re-r their var itie. for later CBB and post ea on competition. The men'- team began it current ea on in the Great Lake hootout at John Carroll Uni versity in Ohio and the women'- varsity played in the Brand Rex tournament at Ea-rem C nnecricur Srate Univer ity. Colby wa. at .ome di advantage in both events, since NE CAC college do nor begin practice until November 1, two weeks later rhan other N CAA ream . "We weren't ready," Whitmore concluded after hi squad lo t to Albion of M ichigan and Wooster of Ohio. N umber ix in rhe nation at 26- 1 in 1 990, the White Mule had lo t twice within the fir t 18 hour of the new ea on to fini h number seven in Cleveland. The good new came with the final game, a 1 1 9-79 rout of Adrian of M ichigan, and the naming of senior Kevin Whitmore, who scored 26 points per game, to the all tournament team. There wa better new from Connecticut. After lo ing a rough 63-58 decision to the ho r team, Colby upset the nation' sixth-ranked quad , cranton, 62 -60 in overtime, tO take third place. Senior Kim Derrington made the all-tournament team

Colby, January 1 99 1

with 3 9 point i n rwo game , including the deciding b a ket against cranwn. * * *

Three-rnne A l l-American wimmer Sally Wh ite '9 1 i· on the cover of the 64-page Colby winter sport guide, ' hich ha been mailed ro all "C" Club members . . . The College' new director of ·port information, Carol Ann Beach '88, i a familiar figure at Wad w rth Gymna ium. She was a var ity basketball captain in her undergraduate days and the editor of a new letter for women athletes . . . When the compres or at Bowdoin's hockey rink collap ed in November, Colby came to the re c ue, allowing the Polar Bears to hold their tournament at Al fond Arena. Bowdoin apparently did not enjoy it home away from home, uffering a shocking 3-2 los to William in the opening game. Charlie Corey's Colby men's var ity won its own opener at A lfond, defeating Tufts, 3 -0 . . . Matt Hancock '90 is continuing hi fabled ba ketball career as a member of H igh Five, a California-based aggregation of former college stars that deliver an anti-drug me sage at halftime of the games it play against Division I team .

Winter Sports Schedule 1 2 :00 /lien\ lnJllor T r . K k " ' U N H .

Jan. 4 7:00

/\ kn\ Ba, k c r h. 1 11 .ir R.1m.1r"

B1l\vJ�11n

J a n. 5 2:00

Women\ kl· Huckcy .11 f\r1l\\ n Men\ Ice Holkcy

2.00

J\ 1 1,kllchury 5 : 30

Women\ B.1'kcrhall-M.irymounr

B�iwJlnn

7:00

f\h..·n\ .md Wo1rn:n\ Sw1mm111g ,11

7: 1 5

W, 11nc·n" B,1,kc1h.dl "' UM . '"· RP... tn n

l n v 1 t.it 1o n , 1 l ; Cnlhl". Buff.do St . . F r. mk l 1 n � tv t . 1r,h.i l l , M.ir\nH•unt

7: 30

Men\ Ba,k c t h.1 1 1 "'· UM,"'·

( V,! . )

7 :' 30

Men\ k c H < >c k cy , 1 1 U J\ L"'·

Jan. 6 Prov1Jcnet.:

7:00 7 :' 30

7:00

7: lO

Men'> B," k ct h.d l

5 : 30

"'·

W hca t u n

7: 30 7: 3 0

Jan. 1 2 1 2 :00 Wnrncn\ lnJllllr T rack-C"lhy Rcl,ip

1 :00

Wl > m c n\ B. "k ct h. i l l

1 :00

Men\ l nJ l lur T rac k

"'·

1'kn\ A•.,kc1 h:i l l .it M 1d d l chul)

r,,, h 1 p tit

J\kn\ .mJ Wo m en\ A lpine

Men\ .ind Women\ NorJ 1c ,_ J t

4:00

3:00

Men\ fh,kcth,1 1 1 '''· Cl.irk \Xillmcn\ I c e H llckey at

5 : 30

N or t hc a:, t ern Men\ Ice Hockey "'· Holy Crm'

4: 30

l\.len'� :mJ W omen\ S w i m m i n g <lt

Fe b. 1 6

Feb. 2 1 1 :00 Wo me n\ .. w 1 m m i n g .ll R\ m d1.1 1 n I :00 /\ k n \ S11 1 mm 1 ng .u Bl l11Jo1 n 2:00 M...: n \ Ice Hnck q cH ,,rn i c h 2 · !0 w , 1 m e n \ kl· H < 1c k l'\ . J I U N B. S t

1 2 :00 M e n\ Squa>h-Bah,on, West

l·OO

l:OO

Jan. 2 2

4:00

Men\ Squ.1,h-J\ l l T . 1 1 Tuft,

5:00

W o m en\ Bo,k crh.i l l "' · B, 1w Jni n Men\ Ba,k ct h,1 1 1 "'· B< 1wdo 1 n

Men\ kc Hoc kq "' New

w .. 1men\ I c e H1lCkcy , .... . BowdtHn

Jan. 1 3

Women\ B,"kcth.dl <ll U . M . 1 1 n< .

Tnu rn cy

7:00

Men\ Ice Hoc k ey at H l1 l y

7:00

Women'> Ice H < 1c kcy v,.

: 00

Dart1m>uth

Me n\ B;i ,ke rha l l J\kn\

Jan. 1 5

3 :3 0

Women'> . qu a ' h V>. HaverfnrJ Men\

7:00

Men'> Ice H oc key "' · Sr. Amclrn

H a Y erf< i rJ

Jan. 1 6 Men\ S4 ua ,h "'· B.He'

"' ·

5 : 30

Women\ Ba, kc rha l l

lv(en\ Ba,kcthall '" · Tho m ,"

Th<•ma'

I :00

ro"

m A mher> t

4ua,h ar Wc> l ey a n

Jan. 26 W,1mcn',

w 1 m m 1 ng at Clark

Sw 1 1n m in g at C lar k

2:00

M en \

2:00

Me n\ Ice Hoc key ar W i l l iam'

3 : 00

Men\ Ba,kcrball a t W i l l i a m>

4:00

Women'> Ice Hockey v .

Men'> , qua'h ar B.uc'

4:00

Women\ Squ.1,h ,.,. Ba r e'

7:00

Women\ B.1'kerhall at St. J o,c p h \

M 1J d lc hury

Sk i ing- Bo wdoin Meet ar

Women\ . 4u a> h m W e l J e, l cy

S ha w nee

Women\ I c Hockey "'· Y.1 le

Feb. 7 w 1 1nming

4:00

/\.kn'<

6:00

w,1men\

S k i Ce nter. N . H .

S u n apee, N . H .

Jan. 2 7

orJ 1 c

k i ing-Colhy-Sawyer meet ar

10:00 Men's a n d Women's lnJoor

N ors k Ski Center, New LonJon,

Track-N.E. TAC M ee r ar

N.H.

HarvarJ Jan. 19 qu ash at Amhe"r

Amherq Round Ro b in

BowJ01n,Bo,ton C,1llege

Feb. 1 9

U M.1111c ,.,.

Jan. 30 W om e n \ Basketball ar Bate>

8:00

M en '> Ba,k e tba l l at Ba re

5 : lO

Feb. 20 Women\ Ba,ketha l l at Bowdoin v,.

7:00

Men\ Ice Hoc k ey

7: 30

J\1cn\ Basketball at Bowdoin

Bowdoin

Feb. 22

" '·

Women\ lnJ01>r Track

7: 30

Women

ar Mr. Holyoke .E.

Men\ and Women'

nrd1c

k1 1ng-D1v1>1un I Champ1on

Men\ Ice Hockey "'· H a m il t o n "'·

I Cha m p1 on

>h 1 ps '" M 1Jdlebul)« Vr.

we,

Men\ Ba,k c r b,1 1 1

quash

Swimming-

k 1 1 ng- D1 v " 1 o n

Wc, l c yan

Women\ B," kc t hal l

7:00

Wom en'>

Ch amp1 omh1r ar W 1 l ltams Men\ and Women'> A lp i ne

5 : 30

M A IAW

7:00

. M , un e

sh1p> at B re a J Loaf Campus, V t.

Wc, l cva n

Wome n \ Squ<h h- Howc Cur nt

Feb. 2 3

Y,dc Men' an J Wome n\ A l p in e

k 1 i ng-

c11• E n g land College

2:00

Women\ Ba,kct ba l l a t Em m anu el

2 · 30

Women\

Mt . . N . H.

3:00

Men\ an J Womcn'::i

quas h "' ·

n11th,

A m h e rs t at A m h er>t

r<l[c hcJ

Meet at Par- Peak and

nrJ1c

Men's I ce Hockey at Conn. Co l lege Wo men' I ce Hockey D1v1s1on I l l

k1 1ng-New EnglanJ College

Champ1onsh1ps

Meet a t Henniker, N . 1 1 .

Women'> Indoor Track-N.E D i v . I Champ1onsh1r> at BU

Feb. 9 1 1 :00 Men's lndonr Track vs. T ufr,, Bares

Mainc TAC Meet at Bowdmn

Bates

1 :00

Women'> Basketball vs. Tri n i t y

2:00

Men

Ice Hoc k ey vs. Union

3:00 Men's Ba,kc t hal l vs. Trinity

6:00

Men\ Squash a t BowJrnn

Champ1omh1p> a t BU ,.<.

I m m i ng

6:00

k 1 1 ng-UNH meer at Jackson

S k ung-Col hy- aywer Meet at M e n ' s anJ W ome n\

- II

Feb. 8

Peak, Mame :V!cn\ a nd Women\ Nordic

Men\ and Women\ A l p i ne

.E.

I l l Ch,1 mp 1o n , h1r' at Bate>

1 1 :00 Men's lndoorTrack-N.E. D i v. I

Men\ and W<>mcn'> A l pin e

7:00

Men\ I c e H< 1c k e1 '" Sr . A n<e lm

4:00

Ba res I nvi ta tion a l

4:00

King> R1Jge

Wrnncn\ Ice H oc l.. e y- BowJ01 n

[)'" ·

Feb. 5

7: 30

Women'� Indoor Track ar Bare<:. w nn m 1 ng

Men\ Ice Hockey "'· Bah<on w,,mcn\ lnJoorTr.Kk-

Feb. 3 I :00 Wumcn\ Ice 1-!llch·\ .It U N f\, Fn.:1.. k m.. t.1m

Lawre nc e

Jan. 1 8 M e n \ anJ Wome n's

3 : 30

w,1mcn\ l nJ''' " Trdck-CPlhy. Rilll'', S m 1 t h .H R.rn.: ...

We ,lcy a n RounJ R11li111

4:00

Men\ Ba,kethal l " .

Mee r "' Bo wJ 0 1 n

Feb. 6

Wom e n \ S4un,h-W d l i a m'

M 1dd lchu ry

Wnmen\ Ice H uc k ey at

w 1m m i ng

B..nc�

Women\ Ba;kc r ha l l v,. Conn.

C > l lcgc

Women\ R."l.. c th,dl " t W P I

/\lcn\ l n,lo< 1r Tr.1ck-M,11nc Sr.1tc

BowJrn n

C< 1 l l cge

John

/\.lcn\ Bo,kct h. 1 1 1 ,11 N,i rw1 c h

M e n \ .rnJ Wo men\

v ... .

I ·00

3: 30

Jan. 2 5

k 1 1 ng-Ch,1 mp l a 1 n College J\lccr

7 : lO

PtH nt I :00

l nv 1 to[l ona l ; Colhy , RIT,

Jan. 2 3

Fa r m m gtl ln

8:00

Men\ .inJ Wllmcn', A l p i n e

"'·

B, " r <> n

H.1r\',1rl..I

U . New Brun"1·1ck

4ua,h

.it

Jan. 24

3 : 30

Tmll V a l l ey , Maine

1 1 :00 Men\ Indoor Track-N . E. Div. I l l

Engl.111J Cnllegc

J\ l lT

·"

Ch .1 m p11m>h 1p> . at BowJom

W,1111cn\ k c H < >c k cy

hamp1on

timJcn, M a i ne

k 1 1 ng-D1v"1on II Ch a m p1on

'h1r

S k 1 1 ng-S 1 M 1 l h . 1 c l \ Meer ,11

Cl,irk

3:00

Men \ anJ Wo men\ A l pi ne

Crafr,hul)' C1 m1 mon, Vt.

Meet

Men\ Ice Hockey '"· A mhe rsr

, k 1 1ng-D1v"1on 11

S k 1 1 ng-J1,1hn ...nn Stdtl' Meet

\X/, 1mcn\ lmh>r Tr.tck-TAC

1' 1 c n \ Ice H nckcy ,.,. U . )\ 1 M e n \ Ba,kcrh,111 ,. ,. USM

Wo m en \

7:00

Ml'n\ �md Women\ N t m.1 1 L

C1llcgc

2:00

9:00

Women\ Ba;kethall v,. Gordon

Women\ k c Huckcy . 1 t UNA,

Bo,tt)n

Jan. 2 0

\V11mcn\ Squ."h .11 B.1rc' Wom en \ B.i,keth.ill ,. ,. U S J\ I

Wnmcn\ B.1'k ct h.il l "' · Whc.it l ln

4:00

Women\ Squa, h dt Bowdoin

7:00

i n V l fd l " H lllCI\

5: 30

4:00

/\ l 1Jdlchury

4:00

Frcdt.:ncrtm

Wi.H11cn\ lnJonr Tr,1ck-Btm1l.ll1m

Jan. 1 1

2:00

.It

1'1cn" Ice Huckq

,l[

Sug.irhu,h , Vt.

Jan. 9 5 : 30

8:00

B.. 1... rtm

1 0:00 W llmcn ', kc Hnckcy , 1 r

W rnnen\ B.1,kcth.111 M 1JJ lcbury

Norwich

T,lurrn.:y

Feb. 1 5

Feb. 1 6:00

1 2 :00 J\ k n \ Sq u .1 ,h-A mhc N .1r

4:00

For the latest sports results, call ( 2 0 7 ) UP-2 -DATE

Feb. 1 0

Feb. 2 7 6:00

Women" Basketball "'· Bates or

8:00

Men'> Basketball vs. Bates

ECA

Tournamenr

2:00 Wome n'> Ice H oc k ey at UNH

Colby , January 1 99 1

ALUMNI AT LARGE

FIFTY--PLUS

Corre pondent M arjorie Gould Murphy ' 3 7 congrarulates the new SO-Plus officers, Pre ident Wilson C . Piper ' 3 9 of Wellesley H ill-, Mass., Vice President Howard A . M i l l e r ' 4 0 of Waterv i l l e a n d Secretary-Treasurer Joseph Cie chon ' 3 8 of Ridgefield. Conn . , and offer spec i a l t h a n k to Wil letta Herri c k Hall ' 3 8 of Rangeley, Maine, for reporting on the SO-Plus acti\'itie ar reun ion. And again she welcomes the group' newest member .

Pre 20

... Crary Brownell ' 1 3 celebrated h i l O l st birthday

i n Moodu , Con n . , December 1 . . . Harold E . Hall ' 1 7 , no\\' a re idem of the Home for Cre ative Living in N orway, Ma ine, ha been tudying Bra:i l ian Por tugue e in h i pare rime. A l o. he enioyed the recent PB ene on the Civil War and recom mend W i l l iam afire'- book, Freedom . . . M i l d red G re e n e Wilbur ' 1 7 o f North Chatham, M a s., enjoys hearing from her Colby friends, although he de pends on her daughter for help with replies _ . . Raymond C. Whitney, S r . ' 1 8 of Dexter, M aine, celebrated h i 9 S th birth day on eptember 1 S . . . Robert E . Sul livan ' 1 9 ofT renton, N .J - , advises young people t o "stay away from drugs, have faith i n rhe fu ture and fight for what i right." _ . . Trustee Emerita M i r a Dolley ' 1 9 ha been convalesc ing a t the easide N ursing Home in Port land . . . Mary Jordan A llen ' 1 8 moved from Phelps, N . Y., t o the Fairport Baptist Home in Fairport, . Y . , where she keep up a l ively intere t in world affa irs . . . Phyllis S t u rd i v a n t S w e e t s e r ' 1 9 of Cumberland Center, Maine, has been work ing on her fam i ly jour nal, u ing her own d iarie , and so far has reached 1 964. There are 30 in her fam i ly, ranging from the

Colby, J anuary 1 99 1

y o u ng e s t . 4 - m,)n th -old Eben weerser, to her elf. only 92. he i- already looking forward to a big celebration of her 9 3rd birthday, next February.

20s

Wayne W. McNally

'2 1 of Ludlow, Ve., now ret i red , enjoys che senior center rrogram�. Rocary I nternac ional , the Rec ired Teacher·' A soc iacion. the .::- c u dent Center, the couc Program and c h urc h a c t i \ · i c i e . W h i l e employed by t h e A merican E x port Company a s a rurser, h e w e n t a r o u n d the worlJ Pauline W . Abbott '2 1 of Port land i · glad char seYeral of her c o l l e a g u e s fro m W e c b ro o k , \\'here he caught for 3 years, are n e i gh b o r , i n c l u d i n g N e l l ie imonds Galliston '30 . . . Nellie P ttle Hankins '25 and her hu�

band, J ohn, celebrated their 60th weddin anni\'ersary in A ugu t in Oxford, M a i ne . he does church work, volunteer at the local hi corical oc iety and is her Colby c l ass agent . . . Gabriel R. Guedj ' 2 6 of Joshua Tree, Calif. , ends hisgreecing ro che member� of F i fc y - P l u . I rma D a v i s McKech n ie '26 of orrh Fon Meyer , Fla., ha worked a a l i brarian at the Lee County ature Center i nc e 1 98 2 , has c locked 7 .000 hour working a a Pink Lady at the local hospi ta! and sti lI play golf with her 92 -year-old h u band. They are looking for ward co their 6 3 rd wedding anni versary . . . Esther E. Wood '26 of Blue Hill, Maine, continue her week ly column, write letters and papers, walks regularly, takes care of her garden and enjoy having caller . . . Helen Robin son Johnston '27 of Daly City, Calif. , erves as hastes at the Retirement I nn, walks a mile each day and enjoys ballroom dancing every week . Her son and hi w i fe have taken her on trips to ee the

_ an Franci-co area and �ome l)f che nat ional rark" . . . N orton Rhoades '27 has announced the b i rth of hi first great-grandchild, who is also the great-grandch i Id of J oseph Campbell '29 of Au gusta. Norton recently sold se\' eral diagram less cm -\\'ord ru::les co The New York Times, and he and h is wife, Anne, entertained at l u n c h hi c o u s i n D o n a l d Rhoades ' 3 3 of Claremont, Ca l if., along with Dorothy Gould Rhoades '36 and sister Marjorie Gould M u rphy ' 3 7 , of We t Oneonta, N . Y .. m ertember. when the Californians were rour i ng the Northeast. Ruth M. McEvoy '28 of Bata\·ia, . Y . , i research i ng the hiswry of her c i ty and doing a good deal of Yolunteer \\'ork . Fortunately, she sti l l dri\·es . . Charlotte C lary Nevin ' 2 8 of haker Height , Ohio, has j ust recei\'ed a nat ional a\\'ard from the Paralyced Veteran of A mer ica. I t has a picture of President Bush haking hands with the national c..hair of the organi:a t ion. A l ·o, she i rre idem of her church book c ircle and rerresent the tare of Oh io for Colon ial Dames of XVII for Wade Park Veterans Ho-pica! . . . Frank J. Twadelle '29, a retired phy i cian, took a t r i p recently tO Bar Harbor with friends and remem ber with pleasure his reunion with c l assmate Phil Higgins '29 of Springfield, Mass . . . . Ernie Miller ' 2 9 ofNew M ilford, Conn., made a trip ro England, cotland and Wales i n J uly with h is son. "Our impressions of the British were all good," he writes.. "The c i t ies were clean and the flowers profuse. Roses were everywhere and magnificent. Of course we visited the usual rourist attrac t ions from London to Aberdeen. Being a history buff, I found much of interest from that standpoint. English c uisine is only fair." . . . Alic e Paul Allen ' 2 9 of East

Prm·idence, R.I . , i · coordinator of an annual charity ba:aar, at tends Life-Time Lcarnmg. goe> co exerci ·e classes t\\' ice a \\'eek and goes out to lunch \1· 1ch friends often . . . Ruth Bartlett Rogers '29 of Oxford, M i ss . , rlays bridge, k nits and doe> church work. he has cu·o adorabl e grea t-grand ch i ldren and \\'ith a cane \\'alb her S\\'eec coy poodle near! y e\·ery day . . . J ea n Watson '29 of Fore Myer · , Fla . , rerorcs chat �he anJ her two sisters, Mary Watson F l a n d e r s ' 2 4 and E l i z a b e t h Watson Gerry '2 7 , both o f Fort Myers, made four trips co Hou Iron, M a i n e , and Woodstoc k , ew Brunswick , la t >ummer. Jcan was entertained by Ethel Henderson Ferguson '29 and Mary Vose McGillicuddy '29, while Mary and El i:abech were entertained hy Jean cl)llen, who is the mother of L isa ' ( more news about this "form idable trium\·erate" in the next new lette r ) .

3 0s

Wallace W. Meye r ' 3 0

Brimfield, Mass. , says that he is t i l l going strong at 81 and plan to drive co Florida for the winter in ovember. He hope to v isit Colby next summer and to ride the trains again . . . Charles W . Weaver ' 3 0 of Cape El i:abeth, M a i ne , has put together some World War II recollections of active duty with the N avy, titled "Re m i n i cences of the Pac ific War." They have gone to the N imit: M useum a t the U . S. N a val Academy and the rown's hi torical preservation oc iety. H e l ikes to w a l k a n d ay that he i " a year older and no w iser." . . . J oh n A . Chadwick ' 3 0 o f Cromwel l , Conn . , has o u r ympathy on the loss of h is w ife on epcember 1 2 . H e continues t o run the P i lgrim M anor Store and gives lectures on c urrent events twice a week. On Tuesday evening , he holds 51

" ] i , t c n m i.; t t ) m u , 1 c " '<.>, i < lll' \\' i t h

A d \·anccJ T h i n k mg agam t h 1 ,

c a " e t t e , , A I ' l l , h e \ ' l , i h r:n 1enh

p;i:,t ' u m mer. H e i n \ ' i t e, : 1 1 ! Cl l l h)

1 11 t h e ,k i l led n u r,mg fac i l i t y an�I

fr i e nd, a nd grad uatc' w 'mp 1 1 1 ,

doe' , h t l p p i n g for t h e h ( ) u , e

-.ray u\'cr f u r d;1y' , 1r wec b , h u t t < >

huund . A ' for other c h <mge,, " t h e

h r i n g 'leering h;1g:,. Thcrc . i re

w a 1 , t l me h a -. a n expan,l \'l' 11'<1)' o f

4.000

mee t i n g c<1c h

col l ec t i <lm at M i l l e r L i hrary <H

'il)''i .

. .

n e w �l;1 y , " h e

Helen Chase Pardey

' 30

i t e m:, of t h e Rem Purter

/\.l idd l e h, )ro, M a :.� .. h a, heen

. . . Gwen Mardin Haynes ' 3 2 , if Rradcntun , F l : 1 . , 'pent n i ne

fi n d i ng i t h ; 1 rd t u adj u>t ru the

\\'eek.. t h 1 > -.ummer i n M <1 ,,,,:ic h u

Cn lhy

ln,, uf her , 1 ,ter, Ardelle Chase

'>ett' ,ind M a i ne \ · i , i t i ng fam i l y

( ll'ho d i ed on M a y 29 and

a n d fri e n d :, , i n c l u d i ng a \\'l'c k \

whom ,he \' t , i tcd e\Try day f ur

\' i , i t w i t h Gene Carran Water house ' 3 2 m M a t t<1pt 1 i ,e t t . Ma''· She Cl int i n uc' tu t r<1vel and hupc-. t o go un a tour t < l Co:,ta R i c . 1 d u r i n g C h r i s t m as week . Maxwell D. Ward ' 3 2 keep' fn h y garde n mg , r i d i ng t h e l a \\'n

'27

t\\'<l

·car,) h u t h·cp:. huo,y with

c a r i ng f or t h e Lirgc <ln:a grnund:. a nd doing need le work f or her c h urch

h r iot ma:. F:1 i r a> we l l a,

rt:ad i n g and see i ng h e r grandc h i l d re n . . . Verna Green Taylor '30 of Saco, M;1ine , i , prnud , if t h e c h u rc h l i hrary t h a t she e,rnh l i s h ed \\' i t h

mower, saw i ng cnrdwood w1th a n e l e c t r i c c h a i n ,aw, , p l i t t ing :,to\'C

wort h ll' h i l c

\\'l1,1d \\' i t h an e l e c t r i c :.p l i t tc r and

h e e x e rc i ses reg u l a r l y ,

t ra\'e l i ng. H e went to London ; 1

J o e , l i m i t ed garde n i ng , reads a n J

y c < 1 r a g u to \' i S l t h i s C o l b y grnnd

hooks.

many

tries nc\\' rec ires

. . Frances Page

Taylor ' 3 1 w r i tes t h a t h e r rer m a nc n t move to Tavare�. F la . ,

daughter

and

went to Hawaii i n

Apri l . Rebecca Chester Wyman

makes h e r fee l older, h u t ,, h e b i ke

'33

6. 5 m i les d a i l y , is a c h u rc h v i s i to r

Laguna H i l ls, Cal i f. , to take up

h as moved from M a i ne to

to sh u t - i ns, reads a n d does c ro . , _

residence i n Leisure Wor l d , where

word

she

puz:les . . . l n the next class

report, learn h o w t o puhl ish a hook from Ruby Bickmore Wig

gin '3 1 nf Benton, M a i ne . A c cord i ng to c l a ss ma t e A l ice Linscott Roberts ' 3 1 o f Snuth Por t l a n d , Isabel Clark ' 3 1 , o f S u n,e t , cont i n ue

a treasurer of her garden c l u b and had been treasurer of the Churc h A id So c ie t y s i n c e 1 966. h e l i kes to k n i t w h i le w a tc h i ng T V , a n d s h e had a flower and vegeta b le garden last

summer. Her longest job h as been a· trustee of t he local med ical ce n t e r . . . Howard L. Ferguson '3 1 of N ewronvil le, Mass. , e n j o y s read ing n e w s p a p e r> and magazi nes, wa l k i ng and watch ing port on TV. Since h i s wife of 6 1 y ea rs d i ed a year ago, he has ha d a grad u ate s t u de n t cou p l e from Harvard l iv i ng with h i m . . . Bernard H. Porter ' 3 2 of Belfast, Maine, conduc ted hi· I ns t i t u te of 52

1s trying to get

ac q u a i n ted he r new surroundings, doc' volunt e e r work in the l i bra ry and tries to keep limher. Her daugh ter and fo m i ly h ave also moved w ith

. . Char lotte Blomfield Auger ' 3 3 of Norw i c h , Con n . , is learn ing many new rec i pes for a sa l t - free d ie t to help h e r husband' heart cond i

Lewis Hemum Klemhul�

'30

Headliners Lewis Herman Kleinholz ' 30, t rai l b l a � e r 111 the field of crustacean endocri nology and n e umpcptid e,, won the Howard Vol l u m Award for Db t i ng u i �hed Accompli h m e n t m c i enc e and Technology from Reed Co l lege , which called him "the qu i n te�scnt ial teacher/,cholar, proving by ex amp l e that one can he a be t te r teacher by heing an ac t i ve scholar."

Newsmakers Ida Phoebe Keen '05, Col by ' mo. t e nio r grad u at e , marked her I 06th b irthday in March with a ce lebration at her retire ment c om pl e x in Pomona, Ca l i f. . . . Crary Brownell ' 1 3 received a n award on h is 1 00th birt hday i n Ea t Haddam, Conn., and shared thi advice with a reporter from the Middletown Press: ''Th main thing 1 moderation. Don't overeat, don 't drink too much and enjoy l ife." . . . Tho e fabulou Levines, haberda hersexrraordinaire Ludy '2 1 and Pacy '2 7 of Waterv i lle, received honorary degrees from Tho mas College . . . Portia Pendleton Rideout '34 wa, t h e u bj e ct (a feat u re art i c le in the Augu ta, Maine, Kennebec Journal on her vol unteer a ti vi tie . At 77, he's t i l l ma k i ng regu lar round at a local e lementary sch ol and a h ome for enior hut-ins . . . Dr. Edmund N. Ervin ' 36 and h is wife, H i lary, who l i ve on Mayflower H i l l Drive, jointly chaired the 30th anniver ary appeal of the Kennebec Valley Mental Health Center . . . Ralph Delano '40 i pub l isher of the Benson (N .C. ) Review.

rec e n t l y to C a l ifornia .

t ion, and she tries t o walk every day . . . Alma Fones Eshenfelder ' 3 3 of N e w London, Con n . , agrees w i t h P h y l l i s D i l l er ' s reputed comment, " I enjoy a hr isk s i t . " H owever, A l ma has traveled ex temivel y and t h i s past year has been to Londo n , Paris, Swi tzer land, Egypt, Scotland and, in the U . S . , to New York and Florida. " I n 1 99 1 I w i l l have completed 29 years ofbroadcasting, on radio, my very own program, 'Travel T i me , ' a 5 -minute, un i n terrup te d narra t ion, written and pre ented

Mileposts Deaths: Josephine Rice Newman ' 1 9 in Melrose, M a ·s., at 9 l . . . Carolyn Hodgdon Libbey '24 m B ra nford , Conn., at 87 . . . J. Ardelle Chase '27 in Lakevi lle, Mu . , at 83 . . . Ema Wolfe Fullerton '27 in Port mouth, N . H . , a r 4 . . . Robert W. Scott '29 in U n i ty, Maine, at 84 . . . The R eve re nd Lemuel K. Lord '29 in Concord, M a s., at 83 . . . John E. Rogers '29 in Northboro, Ma ., at 84 . . . Gertrude Snowden Giles '3 1 in Salem , M a s., at 8 1 . . . Norman " C y " Perkins ' 3 2 in Bangor, at 84 . . . Maurice Pearson '32 in E xe te r , N . H . , at 82 . . . Theron R. Stinchfield ' 3 3 of Ph i l l ips, Maine, and Lakeland, Fla., at 78 . . . John B. Ward ' 3 5 in Clearwater, Fla., at 78 . . . Alton "Bob" Blake '36 in Bryn Mawr, Pa. , at 7 5 . . . Laura Tolman Brown '36 in Scotia, N .Y . , at 76 . . . Clark H. Carter '40 in Swart, Fla., at 7 1 . . . Helen Brown Gilfoy '40 in Lincoln, Mass., at 72 . . . Louis A. St. John '40 in Fort Kent, Maine, at 7 3 .

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by me," she nores . . . Perry G . Wortman ' 3 3 of G ree n v i l l e , M a i ne, doesn't k now what spare t i me is. He say that he can't keep u p w i t h housework because of K i w a n i , Sen ior C i t i:en Club, Eastern Area on A g i ng d i rector ship, bei ng c hurch treasurer, etc. A lso, h e went on a n 1 -day AARP trip to Europe with 40 people and v isited seven coun tries. In September he took a trip to ew Brun wick, Prince Edward Island and Nova coria w i th three fa m i ly members, and in October h e planned to pend l 0 days in Porrland, Oreg . . with h is on and daughter-in-law . . . J oh n ) . Leno '34 of an D iego, enjoys good health and old age, play golf, w i m , watche baseball, footbal l , etc . , and belong tO the T urfClub. La t year he traveled to Europe, and thi pa t year he has made short trip to Lake Tahoe and Las Vegas as well as longer one- m ew England and Florida to vi i t relatives . . . Frances M. Palmer '34 of Pittsfield, Ma . , continue her hobby of bird and squirrel watc h i ng a well a gardening d e p i t e t h e l i m i ta t i on from arthrit1 . . Annie Tuck Russell '34 of outh Orlando, Fla. , ha attended a mini Colby reu nion every ummer when he and her hu band come north . N ow they are anticipa t i ng their 5 t h wed d i n g a n n i ve r a r y . . . B e t t Weeks ' 3 4 o f Claremont, Cal if., and Han.nawa Fa ll , N .Y . , pent th e summer i n her l ittle cabin in up tate ew York, nor fa r from her brocher, Lewis '42 , of Pot dam. he enjoyed e n1or c i t1:en groups and even went c ranber rying i n the Adirondack with her brother and h i wife. Avis Merritt Ch u rchill ' 3 5

of outhi ngto n , Con n . , walks regularly, reads, v i it her house bound frien<l and travel as much a po ible co M aine, M ic h igan and even Hawaii . . . Robert F. Estes '35 keep fit by wor k i ng up Colby, J anuary 1 99 1

a woodpile ( s i x cords ) and paint i ng i n h is house. He misse his w i fe of 53 years . Beth P en d leton C lar k '35 of Sel insgrO\·e, Pa. , has just accepted her 2 1 st i nterim m i nistry assignment, only nine m i les from home. As a resu l t o f · u c h m i n i try t ra i n i ng at t h e A l ban I ns t i t ut e , W ash ingron, D.C., she now does book re\' iews for them. I n August, he returned from a trip ro Au trnlia and ew Zealand . . . Mary Small Copi thorne ' 3 5 of Exeter, . H . , con t i nues her private practice as a c l inical ocial worker, keers i n much w i th h e r c h i ld re n and grandc h i ldren and keep - fit by doing yoga and vigorous wal k i n g . . . J u n e Wight Ma on ' 3 5 of V e rn Beac h , Fla . , compla i ns char �he ha no spare time. he walks, w i m , play golf and looL hrward to short trip w v i , i t fam i l y members, to D u k e U n i v e r s i c y a nd to Durh a m , N . H . ( ummer crir to Cape CL)d) . Sidney Schiffman ' 3 5 of f a i t land, F l a . , mi�ed h 1 5 5 th reunion becau e he went on a c ru ise of the Baine � ea in J u ly w ith his w i fe , Beu lah . They v 1 -ited Len ingrad, Helsi n k i , GJan k, rockhol m , Copenhagen. 0 l n , A m ter<lam and London . . . Kay Laughton Brigg '36 of Somer�. Con n . , is l ucky enough ro have one of her e,·en grandchildre n l iving with her. She abo gardens, play- che p iano, doe · genealogical re-earch and volunteer at the local school. he and her h usband, A rthur, recurn each year to h e r h 1ghc h oo l reu n ion i n H a rmony , w h e r e h e r fam i l y l i v e d fo r genera t ion • . . . Traveling John Dolan '36 h oped t o a u e n d Homecom ing i n October a n d had the ad news co i mpart of the death i n Sepcember of Michael G e ra l d "J erry" Ryan '37 in Omaha from a heart arrac k . J erry always wanted to return to Colby and never d id, but he kept in tauch with hi many Colby f r iends

and followed Colby's progre -s fa i chfully. J e rry passed the bar at age 50 and pracc iced la\\' u n t i l he had a stroke a few years ago. Our sympach ies t o h is w i fe , J e a n . Classmates also regret t h e pass i ng of Joseph B. "J oe" O'Toole '36 in Honolulu last spring. He \\'Ould have been proud of his son Steve's campaign for public of fice. Nancy Libby '36 of Fre d n ia , N .Y . , emeritu · professor of Engl ish, is active in the Shakepeare Club, the AA U W and the League of Women Vocers. he plays l:iridge, does some volunteer work, tra\'els and keep up wich the lacest sch o l a rs h i p in her field . . . J eanne Peyrot Hoffman '36 1f Kendall quare, Pa. , has j usc returned from her annual crip to France and will soon be giving slide how. on important aspect of her nat ive country. Earlier in the ;ummer she enterta ined a young couple from eascern Ger many and gave them a guided tour of Ph i ladelph ia, Washing ton, e w Y o r k , Boston a nd N i a g a r a F a l l s , t ra v e l i n g b y A mtrak, w h i c h w a - a luxury to them . . Val Duff ' 3 7 of H i ng ham, M a;;. , reads h i ·cory and cu�scs Reagan, Bu;h and che Red ox but hopes co grow old with a bit of c l a ss . . . Fred Demers ' 3 7 of Rock land, M a i ne, conduce a mail order company for -ramp col lector and hope- to gL1 to Florida aga i n t h is winter. He and h i wife, Muriel, had lunch re cently with c las mate Willard D . a n d Rebecca Libby o f Pemaquid, .Y. M a i ne , and Rochester W il lard report o n entertai n i ng fam i ly c h i · summer, part icularly those from Californ ia, and on succes ful a i l i ng and rac i ng . Betty Wilkinson Ryan ' 3 7 of ew York City con t inues some fre e l a n c e w r i t i n g , w r i t e t h e new-letter for her cooperative's ocial work program and turor foreign scudents i n Engl ish con-

versat ion. Her ·ummer \·aca tiLH1 was spent canoe ing and h ik i ng i n c h e A d i rondacb, a n d s h e hope ro j o i n che N acure Consen·ancy for canoeing on che Upper Dela ware R i ,·er . . . J. Marble "J im" ' 3 8 and Hazel W e pf e r Thayer ' 3 7 of Orr's I sland, M a i ne , hoth ,·olunteer a t the Bruns\\'ick hos p ital regularly. Ha:el i s � t i l l an ardenr bridge player, and J i m has been mak i ng neces-ary repair; on the Orr' I sland Library bui ld ing . . . Louise G . Tracey '37 of C h i n a , M a i n e , t r a ,· e l e d to Oberam mergau to attend the Pas ion Play c h is pa ·r summer . Gordon " S teve" Young ' 3 7 , of Bar H a rbor, \\'as proud nf h i s daughter when s h e organi:ed and ·er i n motion the annual Fourth of J u ly parade. Dad \\·a;; drafced co d i rect traffic and puk i n g ' A l Beerbaum ' 3 8 o f Pacific G n1 \" e , C a l i f. , c h a n k s u s for recon nec t i ng h 1 1n \\' ith ,,1me Colby friends, part icularly his two roommates, \\'hom he hadn't seen for 5 2 year , Ed Shuman ' 3 8 , "the redoubtable Lmd M ayor of Penny Farm , Fla . . " and Archie Follett ' 3 8 , a t home i n Lakeland, Fla. I nc redibly, the Follem recurned the \'is i c recently in Cal iforni a . . . Ernest "Bud" Frost ' 3 8 of orth Myrtle Beach , S.C. , re t i red physician, report · that he and h is wife , Ruth Fuller Frost ' 3 6 , celebraced their SOth \1·ed d i ng anni\'er ary this past sum mer with cheir c h i ldren, grand c h i ld and daughter- in-la\\'. H is si t e r, Elsie Frost Rapp '26 of B e t h e l , Con n . , i " s t i l l going strong." Bud and Ruth play golf whenever . . . Martha Bessom Gorman ' 3 8 o f M arblehead, M a s . , i invol\'ed wich com m i t tee for four organi:ation- but does cake t i me to watch che Red ox w h i le k ni t t i n o for her c hurch Chri t m a Fair . . . B i l l Little field '38 of an.ford , Maine, a ret i red b u i ld i ng contractor, now dotes on his 1 0 grandchi ldren and 53

h i-; ' i x great-grandc h i ld ren, hut

'39 of Thuu anJ Oab, Cal if. ,

C ii hy , earned her law degree fn im

caregi ver' f, ir hi-. wife, w h o ha:,

he alsn rake> ca re of h i wife, who ha, A l:heimer\ d i:,ea e. When

plans to go to J akarta and Malay sia in J anuary, ,1n a fl y-cru1�e

Rai l roaJ 'hoarJing hou e ' before

free, he l i kes to rlay golf . .

c a l leJ " Ba l i and BeyonJ. " Estel le

B,>,ton U n i \-cr-. ity 1n 1 94 1 , prac t 1 c c J law f o r m<my year:.. anJ served as A " i ' tan t A t t n rn e y

Edwin H. Shuman ' 3 8 of Penny Farms, Fla., write oi recent trirs to Georgia , V i rg i n i a and C a l i f or nia tll v i:,it h i c h i ld ren and then oi a trir to Maui \\' ith one son. He p lays tennis t h ree day> a week . Maynard C. Waltz ' 3 8 of Ba:,k ing Ridge, N .J . , a retired physi-

R o g e r s M a c D o n a l d ' 3 9 of Brai nt ree, M as,., io harpy to re rort t h a t her grandd a u g h t e r , Megan M a c Do n a l J '94, i ' at Colhy. Estel l e ha, ni n e c h i ldren, 10 grandc h i ldren <111d two great gra ndc h i ldren. A recorJ I!

works ran t i me as a recert ion 1st at a local nursi ng home and belongs to the League of Women Voters and to

5 0-Plus Correspondent

h e r c h u rc h S od a l i t a > C l u b . . . Jean Burr Smith '39 ofWayne, Maine, te l ls of the d i ffic ul t ies of mov ing from a 200-year-old farmhouse i n Connec t i c u t , where s h e a n d her husband had I ived for 2 7 years, to their vac at i on

Marjorie G o u l d M u rphy ' 3 7 P.O. B o x 1 02 , South Street West Oneonta, N Y 1 386 1 Phone: 607-43 2-893 6

c i t , co mp l a i ns o f h a v i ng too many hobbies: garden i ng, pho tography, tra ve l , model ra i l road i ng, genealogy and study of pre h i s t o r y and a n c i e n t h i story. M aynard and h i s w i fe , Lubov

farm in Wayne . Turmo i l n o w , b u t contentment later. J ean, i nc identa l l y , received Colby's Distingu ished Educator Award i n J anuary 1 990. A year ago, she and her husband were camping in A ustra l i a !

(Leonovich ) '4 1 , went to the Soviet U n ion, East Germany and Czecho lovak ia i n J une and found that the people wanted to ra l k to A mericans and dress l i k e them, and to c r i t ic ize their govern ment. Nathanael M. Guptill ' 3 9 of N ewton, N .C . , spent t he summer conva lesc i ng from surgery, but w i t h h is w i fe of 53 years, Helen ( Carte r ) '39, he expected to go to Florida after Thanksg iv ing for their regula r months with M a i ne friends who w i nter in Sarasota . E l i za b e t h " l pp y " S o l i e Howard ' 3 9 o fA c ton, M ass. , and her husband, Dick , wen t on a chorus trip to Europe in J u l y . She sang i n t h ree concerts w i th a young col lege-age Czech chorus from Brno, i n Prague and V ienna. T h e n they did s ig h tsee i ng in Budapest . . . Leila Ross Hyman 54

"The C l a s of 1 940 has been energetic and capable, be ginning 54 years ago when they were the large t cla s to enter Colby ," Marjorie write . "Wh i le in col lege they proved to be one of the most accompl ished, ac cording to the reunion c lass book, researched and asse m b l e d by Ernie Marriner of North Mon mouth, Maine, for their 50th re un ion in June. A lthough World War II affected all of their l i ves, the Class of 1 940 ach ieved much in their subsequent careers and l i fe work. For e x a m p l e , Ruth Levansalor Crowley of Clear water, F l a . , was per m i t ted to en ter law school e a r l y , w i thout c o m p l e t i ng h e r four year

General for the s t a t e of M a me from 1 966 to 78 . She '''"' on(' of l 3 Colhy a l u m 11 1 w reC(' l \'C their A . B . degrees from the C,1llcge in J une nf 1 990. A LJ U i c k ' ur vq ( ) f the c l a;;, hook rcv('ab that m<1re than 30 cont inued their educa t i,1n after leavi ng nlhy, 25 re ceiving graJuateJegrce!>. Twenty two hecmne teacher., or rrofe; sors, 1 2 went inm hu:,me:-.s and I 0 at lea>t were "dome,tic engin eer," wh,1 rai,eJ fa m i l ie' and worked oub1Je the home. Another 1 0 went into med icine, a s doctors, dentists, nurse" med ical tec h n i c i ans, therar ist> or hosp i tal e x ec u t i ve · . Four worked f o r the governme n t, rwn were editors or journa l isb, six were l i brarians, four were lawyers, one a c i ty man ager, one a poli cewoman and one an art i s t . "There were other. w h o di d n o t re·pond i n r i me f or the p r i n t i ng of the c lass book, s uc h as David Hunter Cotton of Houl ton, M a i ne , who i prese ntly the executive d irector of the Rteker College Endowment and Sc hol ar- h i p F u n d s , a C a r y L i hary trustee and a d i rector of an orga n i:at ion for retarded c i t i:en Alice Weston Huff of Home stead, Fla., had been decorating her home w i t h handwoven ma terials but took t i me out to come to M a ine to attend her grand daughter's graduation from Free

port H igh School (en route, she and her hu band , Charle , v i i ted Ruth Stebhins Caldwe l l '4 1 in New H ope, Pa . ) . . . G a rd n e r ' Ch ubby' Oakes of Potsd a m , N . Y . , erved in World W a r I I , then worked a s a n i n urance bro ker, as a bank manager and as the purchasing agent for the City of G len Cove, N . Y . He and h is wife have five grand c h i ldre n , but now i n re t i re m e n t he is the ' w e l l

M . He rememher:, eating in the he ioi ned K OR and ate in the frn tern 1ry k i tchen. A l though the re union was a success, member were ,aJdened at the news of the death 1 1f Helen Brown Gilfoy of L in c o l n Cen tre , Ma . Then in � erre m her came n e ws of the Jemh of Clark Carter, Stuart, F l a . , from a h ra i n tumor. "Jean Congdon Deneke of San Anrnnio, Texas, writes that

,he wa� -,orry to mis the reun ion, hut hores to ee her c l as:,mates at the next one. I n reca l l ing these friends, she feeb that he ha gamed imight into herself as a >tudent . . . Philip M. Grant of M c M i nn v i l le , Oreg., planned tO rend S I X week in New Zealand this fa l l and four week m Hawaii next March . . . Frances C. Gray of eal Cove, M a i ne , a retired reacher, now enjoy gardening, read ing, k n i t t i ng, chu rch work and writ i ng roerry. Recently, a Colhy friend, ara Cowan ' 3 7 of Por t l a n d , v i s i t ed her on t h a t beaut iful h o r e of M o u n t Desert I sland . . . Frank L . J ewell of I n terlachen, Fla., l i ke to pend h is summers in M a i ne with h is wife in their travel trai ler. He is treasurer of h is c hurch . . . Mar g a r e t J oh n s o n K e n o y e r of Boynton Lake , North Lantana, Fla., enjoyed her 50th reunion and is hapry to be a member of Fifty-Plus. he has been to China and hopes to do more travel i ng . . . Priscilla B. Mailey of Clovis, Cal if. , <'njoyed her trip east to the reun ion and managed also to visit her niece i n M a ryland. Besides be i ng ac t i ve i n her c h u rc h , Pris is

a docent at the Fresno Zoo and has two l ively k ittens to help her keep house. A heart warning re q u i red ome pac ing of activity, but she st i l l is characteristically c h eerfu l . . . Carl McG raw of Rochester, N .Y . , enjoyed hi 50th reu n ion and a lso was glad to see

Colby,

J a nuary 1 99 1

Can you find the hidden asset that will allow this couple to endow a scholarship at Colby and take an immediate tax deduction?

fri end. from adjacent c la ·se · . ummering on I rondequoit Bay , Lake Ontario, is rleasurc enough for him, but In the fall and rring he l ik e sun-trirs for golf. In the winter. he ·kis, both downh i l l a n d c ro ,s - c o u n r ry . . O l i v e Pul len Palmer o f Bath. Maine. eems to ha,·e an ideal arrange ment of ;,penJing ummer� there near her �on and fam i l y anJ win ter in Boswn in an apartment nf h e r d a ug h t e r ' s home . . . M . E l izabeth Perkins Stanley

Gather burg, M d . , \\'as look ing forn·ard to ,·i;,1ring relat1,·e� in ew Hampshire and , of course, enjoying the fall foliage. Beside� gard e n i ng , h i rd w a tc h i ng a n d walk i ng , s h e enioy \'oluntcer teac hing of Engl1 h peaker� of Other Languages (E OL) . . . Howard M il ler ha \'ery little pare t ime but lm·es to travel, a does his wife, Gi ele. They have three daughter and four grand c h i ld re n . . . ince ret i rement, Roger M. Stebbin of equim, Wash . , ha taken up oil paint i ng seriou ly and has many paint ing· d i played on the wal ls of homes of fam i ly and friend . H 1 ' ife, Ruth Gould Stebbins, is till the perfect ho te but now can enjny golf, ince it' right in t h e i r backyard. They celebrated the ir 50 t h wedding anniver ary o vember 9 in an Marino, Calif. , with their fam i l y and friend . . . Ruth Blake Thomson of Montpe l i er, V t . , is glad to vol unteer for t h e men t a l ly anJ physically handicapped, but she enjoy entertain ing friend and traveling. l n April he went to the Dom in ican Republic with her oldest on and family. I n May and J u n e , he went to Germany, w itzerland and Austria with her i ter. They aw the pa ion play at Oberammergau and attended the opera in V ienna. That' i t for now. Sea on' Greet i ngs to a l l . "

Colby, January 1 99 1

By giving Colby their house with a retained life interest, these folks can: •

continue to l ive in the ir home for the rest of the i r l ives;

•

take an im med iate i ncome tax deduc tion;

•

avoid substant ial e tate taxes and

•

name an endowed c holarsh ip or other fund at Colby .

If Your Age A re

And Your House ls Worth

Your Tax Deduction ls*

6 5 & 65

200,000 3 50,000

2 7 ,000 47 ,000

75 & 75

$200,000 3 50,000

5 3 ,000 $93 ,000

*Tax deduct ion a sumes retained l ife intere t for l ifet ime of both spouse ; tax deduct ion for unmarried donor may be ignificantly h igher.

To find out how the gift of your house or vacation home with retained life interest-would work for you, please c on tac t : David L. Roberts '55, Director o f Planned Giving C olby College, Waterville, ME 0490 1 , ( 207 ) 8 7 2 ,3 2 1 2 . 55

THE FORTIES 41

Corrt'spundenc R u c h " Bunnie" Rt ih e rt' H a t h a w<l\' n: port, fnim her l i,cening ptist in New Ipswich, .H., chat hy early autumn 34 cla,smate, haJ an nounced plam tt) arrenJ J une\ hig 50th reunion, 10 w1rh spt)u'e'. The e\Tnt seems co be >purring i nrerest, :,he add:,, because t he quest ionnaires e l i c i ted re,ponse:, from some cla -smates who hadn't commun icated with Bonnie in her decade on the i nb. "Before you read ahouc them , you will surely want en know \\'e have had two cla mates pas on," she notes. "George Y oun g d ied in May and Barbara Kaighn Warner in July. Surely several of us ha\'(' fond memories of chem. "Katherine Glazier Stevens,

who l ives in Oakdale, Maine, campaigned for the re-elect ion of her on - i n - l a w , C h a r l e s M . Webster, who i s minority leader in che Maine Senate. Katherine has been twice widowed. She and her h u s b a n d , M a y n a rd , a r e grateful for each d a y as i c dawns. Last summer while in Florida, ·he visited Rowena Buzzell Funston . . Witha Jardine Rowe and her husband, Erw i n , have retired in Lake Worth , Fla. They are trav e l ing 'full r i me' with a 3 5 - foot tra i ler and enjoy ing their change from a 'serried' life . . . A lso re tired in Florida is Mildred Van Valkenburg Demartini. he and hu band Fel i x thoroughly enjoy life there. he is keeping up with tournament bridge. They have one son who is princ ipal of a private day chool, another who i a va cular surgeon and one daughter who is an attorney. "It was good ro hear from Richard McDonald in H i l ton Head Island, .C. H is w i fe is Virginia ( Farrand) '4 3 . Richard devote t i me to the Ret i red Of ficers A soc iation, the ons of the A merican Revolution, t . Luke's Episcopal Church and , for 56

recrear 1nn, rho: � ca P ine' Racquet and Gnlf Club . . . Lubov Leo novich Waltz, in B<bk i ng Ridge, N .J . , ha, ret i red frnm ce;ich ing pi ano hur 'rill 'uh, <1' organ1,c . She and her hushand, 1aynard, enjoy \\'Ork i ng ;i, n 1luntcer' a t thc1r cnmmun ity l i brary and t<1ke ' L e isure Le a rn 1ng' -a ,c l f--,u' rnining program for thnse 60 years and older. They go rn Florida for three months each year ntiw. Abo from J e rsey i · Ruth Peterson Stanley and her husband, Ken neth ' 1 9 . Ruth collects in her neighborhood for ,·ariou' fund dri,·es and \'olunteer; in her local ch urch office. "And now for a few more New England folk: Maj . John Hawe. is, as he puts it, a retiree in m i rhfield, Maine, whn ha> 'it into cruise and 1s j ust try ing to ray awake.' He claim he keeps a low profi le, but he play · golf at Lakewood and with the Central M a i n e S e n i o r s . . W i l l i am Hughes, in Gorham, Maine, has been retired for 17 years. He was a pri on superintendent . . . The R ev. Keith Thompson, in Con cord, N . H . , has been retired since 1 98 5 , but he t i l l works w ith se nior· from the church he pa tored. However, he and his wife, Marie, are seriously thinking of moving to entral Maine to be near the ir daughter and her family. lnci den t a I l y, K e i t h sees W a r d Webber when he v i s i t h is d a u g h t e r in Dov e r - Foxc roft . . . Stanley Gruber c laim Bos ton as hi primary re idence, for he still serve as pre ident at Che muc H i l l Bank and T ru t C o . H i s second home i i n Woodstock , V t . , where he serves as chair of che board for the Bank of Woodstock . . . Do plan on coming to Colby for our SOth, J une 6-9! See YOU rhere 1 "

"Th i� rime I ,1m pur ring my ple a for more new' from you at the cop of the column." w r i t e '> C ti r r e > p t 1 11 d e n t C h r i '> Merr i l l Wy,or. " I am deeply grnrcful for the re,pnme rn my la>t 'S.O.� ' Howc,·er, after th1, i�NIC I need more impact. Thus far 111 my term a· your corre;;pon dent I ha,·e not had to lea\'e our .,pace hl<lnk , and I don't want to break our record. Please . for rhn e who ha\'e not sent any new at all, dn let u:, hear from you. For thn..,e wht) ha,·e, urely you ha\'C snme fresh news for u' now. "Harry Cohen writes that he and h is wife, ybelle, visited che Colby campu last summer for the first time ince he gradu ated from the old campus. He aiJ, 'What a magnificent campus, c learly one of the fine r in New England, if not in the U . S . A . ' After graduat i ng from Bo ton Uni\'ersiry law school he enrered the Army O.C. . and became a lieutenant in Patron' 3rd Army. After the war he started in the practice of law in h i· hometown of New M i lford, Conn., and i still pract i c i ng under the firm name of Cohen and Kessler. He has three son : one a mu ician, another an accountant and a third who i an engineer and realtor. He also reports chat over the year , he has been very involved in community and cultural activi t ies, espec ially theater, mu ic and photography. He wishe to ay hello ro al l his classmates through this column. We are already be ginning to plan for our 50rh in '92 , Harry, and hope ro ee you there. "A letter from Walter Em ery brought new of h i retire ment in 1 986 as research direcror of the Community Re earch Bu reau. ince then he and his wife, Vi, have moved from Montc lair, .J . , to Sea G irt, N .J . They travel exten ively in Europe and this

counrrv. When at home, they c ni oy h i k i n g , s w i m m i ng and hiking a' well a:,, gardening and photography. Th i pa t ·ummer they went tu Fa1rhank , A la ka, ru ,· hit their son, cntt, \\'ho 1· a ncurolog1 t and chief of staff at a hn.p 1 ra l there. They also rake ad\'anrage DfElderho·re l . Wal ter ay� he ha,n't been in touch with Colby people other than ex changing Chri tma card with Clarence 'Doodie' Reid, who was h is roommate ar the Zeta Psi hou e on Old outh College campus. Do hope to see you at our 50th, Walter, when you can look for wan.I to heing in touch with many of u aga in. " Early in eptember your c orresponde n r rec e i ved news from Marion Thomas Whipple. he and her husband, Warren, a photographer, recently publi hed a hook. They have put rogether a study of their rown ( M iddleboro, Mass. ) from rhe .Ice Ages to the start of a community after King Ph i l l ip's I nd ian War. Marion ay that without the inspiration of Dr. Longee and Dr. W i lk i nson ( 'W i lkie' ) , this would never have happened. "A letter from Germany in late J une brought welcome news from Dorris Heaney Batt. he and her hu band, George, were v i · i r i ng h is cou ins i n Heidelberg, then going on to northwe t Ger many to join friends from Kaui, Hawai i , where the Batt al o l ive in the winrer. In Backhom, they were all part of an exchange v isit of an organization called 'Friendhip Force.' From there they were going on to Denmark to attend a fam i ly wedd i ng. We certa inly hope your future travel plans w i l l i nclude our 50th reunion in 1 99 2 . " I n a recenr letter, C l i ff Came reported chat he had been che main peaker at a meeting of t h e organ i z a t i o n c a l led T h e Hartford Ci i i W a r Round Table. H e chose as his topic 'General Colby , January 1 99 1

J oshua L Chamberlain anJ the 70th laine.' A t imely subject 111 \·iew of the recent documentary on the C i n i War seen on public tele\· ision. He also wrote that he deli vered the sermon on Deacon< unday at h1� churc h . "

Living for the Word S

idney J . Rauch ' 4 3 ha spent hi profe ional life o n t h e front line · o f one o f the m o t important battles in education. For 43 year - tarting in ew York Ciry -chool and ioining the Hof: tra Universiry faculty 4 years ago-Rauch ha focu ·ed on one thing: getting k id ro read. Phoni , the method by which mo t of today' grownup. fin lab red through Dick and J ane, hold. "lmle appeal," Rauch ·ay . imilarly, he fear· for pre chooler force-fed word recognition even before they darken the door of the local kindergarten. Children should read, he say , not becau e teacher or parent compel them to. but becau e they are urrounded by book o inviting that they "can't ,.,ait to get at them." When children fail to read, he ays, it i probably becau e no one ha introduced them to the right books. What work , Rauch ha argued in more than I 0 textbook , workbook. and journal arricle , i good rorie . An Engli h major at C lby, the orth Bergen, N .J ., native graduated with the fir t cla to receive it diplomas on Mayflower H il l , followed many of hi c lassmate into World War l l , then took a job he ay wa "tougher than the army": teaching Engli h at East ew York Vocational H igh chool. There, and ubsequendy ar a junior high chool m the Bedford- ruyve ant ection of Brooklyn, Rauch was hocked to find teenager reading no better than fifth graders. He had, he say , "a urned everyone loved good book and good literature. "I wa!n't prepared co teach tho e kid 111 he adm1t·. "There were rime durino the fir t year and even later-when I wa n'r ure if this wa for me. Bur l needed a job, l had to ear. And a few very gentle, tender upervtl>Ors helped. omebody ha ro how you they care, or you'll quit." Eventually, Rauch-who last fall wai, honoreJ by the Colby Alumni As-ociarion a its Outstanding Educator of the Year-found hi niche teaching other to teach reading. ome 6,000 graduate students have tudied under him ar Hof era, he ha erved as a consultant or eYaluator for more than 3 0 chool d1smct m ew York, Connecticut, Florida, the Carolinas and throughout the East. ow the Virgin I land and he has been a Yi iring profe or at campu rhe enior member of Hof: tra' reading department, Rauch wa the first clinician h i red for the university' reading c linic and taught the graduate chool' fir t cour e in reading in truction. In 1 989, Rauch gave birth to a five-volume cries of books for preschooler relating the adventure of young Barnaby Brown and h1 twin from a distant planet. The boys learn how to be friend , how to cooperate and how to balance work and play. Rauch's goal with the Barnaby hooks i · to give children the kmd of literature he believe create lifelong readers. "K id� are more motivated when r hey read k 1cls' ton e · than when they read randard1zed material and ba.al reader ," he explain . TI1e more good hooks they read, or have read to them, he m 1 t , the better. And children are never too young to starr.

-Dei•on Phillips

"Once aga i n parental health ha pn)\'ided an extended Ma i ne �tay for me, and your \·ery welcome repl ies to my plea were forwarded , " corre·pondent Elea nor mart Braunmuller notes. _ ome ne\\" name c h i � t i me around-such as Lawrence Gur ney. mce ret iring from Gett) , Larry has been work ing as a r ranslator ( from German and pani h) and is fi n di ng it enjoy able. He seems to be enthral led with rhe We t and Southwest, although he admits chat he'd l ike to experience t he easo n of t he orchea t aga i n-to v is i t , no doubt, but nor to ray. Larry took h i eyes off the me a and vbta long e nough t) spot this auto bumper ic k e r he pas e along: 'I r's never too lace to have a happy c h i ldhood . '

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" P e r l e y ' B i l l ' Leighton wrote that he ha seen t he fru i t ion of I 0 years' work with the publication of t he genea l ogy of the Le i ghron fa m i l y , A Leighton

Genealog)': Descendancs ofThomas Leighton of Dover. N . H . , in two volume by th e N ew England Ge nealogical ociery. He reports that rev iew ha\·e been good. Bill met Kaye Monaghan Corey and Isabel Harriman at their 50rh reunion at Gardiner H igh School . . . Sidney Rauch' latest honor i a well-de en·ed reward for year of teac h i ng . id ha been .elected

by the Colby A lumni A ·sociation to receive the Out ra nding Edu cator Award for 1 990. Th i · pre sentat ion was made in conjunc tion with the joint celebration of

the 40th anni versary of the Colby, January 1 99 1

reaJing Jerartment at Hofora U n i versity anJ SiJ\ 40 years of

" D i c k Re1J ' 4 7 , l i vi ng m M c mgomery, Al u . . \\'rote that he

teac h i ng. ! abo rece i ved Cl)pil'.., of the late t aJd i t i o n ' to S i d ' ,

i;, rcti rl'J frl lm C l llll mun t t y dl'vcl He \\'<!'- a Cham her of Commerce cxec uU\'L' for over

c h i ldren's l i terature ,enc;, the Barnaby Brown bnub . An o t h e r new voice-Lo u Volpe

from BuJape..,t . Luu and h i,

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were on a month\ tllUr of We,t ern and L1-,rcrn Europe: Wc;,t a n d E a s t G e r m a n y , r ,) l a nd . C:cc ho.,lovak ia. Hu ngary , Yugo

;la v ia, Bulgaria anJ Rumarna. Lnu co mment-, that ' they are ukl anJ beautifu l hut encountering r roh lems w i t h their nell' frel'dom hut determ i ned t<l make t t . ' "Elizabeth Beale Clancy's c o m m u n ique c omes complete w i t h a phot,}--E l t :abeth w i t h a group of N a vy nLtrse� at a con vent ion of the American Acad emy of A mbu latory N u rsing Ad m m istrat ion . Her profession i photography, but her mtere t!> are w ide. In add n ion to hcing <l\'at l able for 'convention' phorogra phy, she is i nvolved i n we ight l ift ing for seniors, n1 lu nteeri ng at a day-care c e nr e r , pol i t i c a l ' w a l k i n g ' f o r a ca nd iJate f o r the N e vada senate, etc. More later! . . . Charlotte Arey Hoppe is now retired as a rhysical therapist af ter erving 42 year with the U .S . governmen t , beg in n in g with the W A V ES i n W W [[ and ending with re t i rement from the Veter ans A d m i n i s t r a t i o n M ed i c a l Center i n Newington , Conn. She fi l l · h e r pare t i me w i t h t h e N e w ington O l d Tyme Fidd l i ng Club and Avon ac t i v i t ies."

en ior C i t izens

nrment 11'<)rk .

grandchi ldren. Hi-, ;,i m and wife arc graduates ,if thl' U n l \·er, i t y of A labama, '>ll Dick 'hare, h i , luv a l t ieo; n ll d,)uht . . . Nancy Curtis Lawrence ha' rl' l <K<l t ccl from Menlo Park, Ca l i f .. to Sc4 u 1 m , Wa,h. S h e h a , returned w Colby, �he '<lY'" hut 'unf ortun ate l v nut at re union t i mc,-hut l J,1 rlan on t he 50t h . ' M y daughter J e an, who i ;, t n J apan , w t l l he 1· h 1 t tn g Bremerton, W a � h . , i n February. 'o we m ight get tll sec ancy bl'forc the 50th . _ . Lorraine Carson ha-; been a bu�ine,.., j\lur na l ist for all bur the fir�t two year-, >ince leaving Colby. he \\'orked for 10 year at Dun 's Ret'iew, then huppeJ uver to Forwne , where she's been ever -,incc, and trav eled all uver t he U . S . and Europe. I n 'Pring of '88 she tried to retire ro M a me , but the ' Bi g Arple' drew her hac k . She is bac k on the Fort une s ta ff . . . G e r t r u d e Szadzewicz Collison write' from N iagara F al l , N . Y . , that she hasn't c l i mbed any mou ntains lately but w i l l keep u; informed when a l i ttle spice is added to her l i fe . S h e m e t a woman i n h e r n i neties in a nur ing home and be l ieves that the woman, a Colby gradu ate, is a rel a t ive of Evelyn Gates Moriarty. Gertrude had l u nch wi t h Virginia Howard Atherton, whom she had nor seen in 40 years. 'We ha d no trouble recog n i zing each ot her,' he adds . James Springer drove to Water v i l l e last spring for one of the

most exciting days he haJ aca

have communicated and urges h i c l assmates t o keep those cards

demically and oc i a l ly. H wa; proud to receive h is A . B. degree on May 2 7 , 1 990, a long w i t h Dr. Ph i l Boyne '46. Phil ran cross

and letters com i ng . Here i report:

country with J i m's former room mate, Frank Quincy '43 , i n the

Correspondent Lou is M. Deraney thanks a l l those who

h is

Helen Henry Merritt '42

30 year,. H L' takl', rridc in thl' acc \ l lnpl i sh ment;, , if h i , sc1·en

Headliners H e l e n H e n r y Merritt '42 w o n an Exc e l lence in Teach ing award fro m Northern I l l i n o i s Un i ve rs it y , w h ere he h a, ra ught arr since 1 962 . Merritt, who e ceramic sculpture i J isplaycd throughout the campu , 1s ahour to have two book on Japanc�e ceram ic publi h ed by the Univer ity of Hawa i i

Pres

Dr. Burton A. Krumholz '48 of Roslyn H e ig ht , N .Y., a soc i at e chair of the department of ob.tetrtc� an d g yne colo gy at Long 1 land Jewish Medical Center, h a · been aprointed a fu l l p rofe. . or in h i �pe c i a l ty at th e Ll ng Island campus of

Albert Ein rein College (lf Medicine.

Newsmakers Beniah Harding ' 4 2 won the Weymouth Grange's community service award in recognition of more than three decades of dedicated commun i ty work in and a round Thomaston, Maine. Among many role he ha pla yed , Harding served on the school committee for 21 ye a rs and succe. fully led a drive to h onor Re vo l u t ion a ry War Gen. Henry Knox w ith a U. . po rage tamp. A retired sa le manager, he i now president of the State Soc i e ty of the on of the American Revol u t ion, a member of the l e g i l ative committee of the Maine chapte r ofthe American A ociation ofRetired Per ons and a member of the A merican Le gion and the Veterans of Foreign W a rs.

Mileposts Marriages: Dorothy Cleaves Rodgers '4 7 c o Clay Corson J ord an in Las Vegas, Nev . . . . Emily Cardell '47 to Bob Hueston in We tfield, N . J .

Deaths: Paul D . Burnham '4 1 i n Waterville, Maine, at 7 2 . . . Barbara Kaighn Wa rne r '4 1 in Qu e c h e e , Vt., a t 72 . . . George W. Young '4 1 in Mount Horeb, W i . , at 71 . . . Laurie L. Harris '42 in Hollis, N . H . , at 70 . . . Walter M. Pejk o '4 2 i n N a mucke t, M as . , at 69 . . . John W. McCallum '44 i n Bat h, M a i ne , at 68 . . . Ernest Bailey '45 in Claremont, N . H . , at 67 . . . Richard R. Wason '46 in Empire , M ich. , at 65 . Colby ,

Jan uary 1 99 1

Alumni Trustees Nominated good old days . . . Nancy Pattison McCarthy wri tes from Car l i · le , Pa . , t h a t s h e a n d h e r pouse are - r i l l act i\'e a · brokers in r e a l es tate. She recei\·ed a call from A n n e F o s t e r M u rph y , w i t h whom .he'd lost contact since graduamm. Anne was intere · red in reloc at111g but dec ided instead to be n e a r h e r d a u g h t e r i n Lewisburg, Pa. N ancy has three c h i ldren and fiye grandch ildren and tra\'els to Europe frequent ly . . . E\·elyn Gare- Moriarty and J im recently returned from Lon don , Wale, and England. he attended her h igh c hool 50rh in Gran\' i lle, Ohio . ad note J ohn McCallum, a remed Army major and recently reured insur ance claim - manager in Portland, M a i ne , ha-; d ied. He had fi\'e c h i ldren, one of whom graduated from Colby in 1 97 1 . John wrore in February that he attended our 40th and that he wa look 111g forward to our 50th, that he met Remo Verrengia in Europe dur i ng World War f l , that he re cently flew to Great Bend, Kan,. , in order to attend his former j eep driver' 5Uth anniversary party and that he wa gainmg weight and lo ing hair and enjoy i ng l i fe . M a y h i b le-, ed soul re t in peace . . . Former c l assmates keep on aying that they expect ro be at our 50th in 1 994. Be sure you are one of them ! S ince our was the cla d1 rupted mo t by the war, it is uggested that if you matriculated in eptember, 1 940, regardle s of what year you re ceived your degree, you are a member of 1 944. Opinion o l ic ited . "

T h e Class o f '4 5 h a d a plea ant 4 5 t h reu n ion. A dozen members ofthe c la were pre ent with spou e and friend , and Colby, J anuary 1 99 1

Three alumni tru tee , currently ervingthree-yearterms that expire at Commencement 1 99 1 , were nominated for re election by rhe Nominati ngCornrnitteeofthe Alumni Counc i l at r h e fall meeting of t h e counc i l during Homecoming Weekend. W il l iam D. Wooldredge '6 1 i the principal of The Carleton Group, inc . , in Cleveland and is a residenr of Hud on, Ohio. He i· a member of the Friends of Art, a Career ervices volunteer for the College and is currently serving on the pec ial G ifts Committee for h is 30th reunion. Barbara Howard T rai ter '65 , profe sor of Engli h at Lehigh University in Beth lehem, Pa., l i ves in orth H il ls and volun teers as an adm i - ion interviewer for Colby. Jerome F. Goldberg '60 work and re ide i n Portland, Maine. He is an atrorne and pre ident ofBramlie Assoc iate . He is a past chair of the Alumni Counci l and a member of Friends of Art, i a former c las pre idem and served as 2 5 th reunion c hair and a a member of the 30th Reunion G ift Committee. I n accordance with the by-law of the Alumni A oc ia t ion, other nom ination may be made by peti tion to the Executive ecretary of the Alumni Counci l w ith the igna ture of I percent of the member of the a· oc iat ion on or before February I , 1 99 1 . In the event of no nomination· by pet i t ion, the above candidate w i l l be declared elected by the c hair of the Alumni Counc i l .

among m h e r r h 1 11g,, they clall,e Dee an ford McCunn a, rhe c lass corre pondent. "We had a gnod r i me and are a i m 1 11g for a much larger tumour at our 50th re union," he notes. "We were a mall graduation c la , ·o each one 1 important to a ::.ucce ful reun ion. Those pre·ent were: Chuck Dudley, Evelyn Sterry Belanger, Doris Taylor Huber, Douglas Smith, Hazel Brewer Warren, Frances Dow Wells, Maurice Whitten, Mary Fraser Wood , Roslyn Kramer, Marilyn Bryant, Helen Strauss and me. "Dori Taylor Huber keep bu y with fivedaughters and eight grandchildren. he ha been a h igh- chool librarian, and he is currently worki ng in an indepen dent bookstore. Her daughter i J ean H uber Edmondson ' 0 . . Roslyn Kramer l i ves in Bo ton and is a c hemist at the U. . Army Research and Development and Engineering Center. The result of her tests help guide companies

In rrnces> ing t h e i r proJ u c r s . Roslyn's hohhies inc l uJc attend i ng the ballet, theater and con cert,. _ he h a attended nearly all nur c la,� reunion ·. We \\'anr to thank her for her attention to c l a � matters a> a repre�entati\'e fnr all of u . . . Mary Fraser Woods attended with her daugh ter Katherine Wood · Fawcett '7 1 . Mary is the mother of even chil dren ( three boys and four girls ) . When she was asked which were the easiest ro raise , she re ponded that girl talk more and explode about their problems, w h i le boys are apt to keep their wome to themselves. Do we all agree ? "Douglas Smith i a retired company presidenr. He ha at tended fi v e C o l by r e u n i o n . Helen Strauss ha been re tired for l - 1 /2 years from an ad vertising agency where he was a media director. She feels it was the be t job going. A l l her cu tomers were book publ ishers, and she advised them about the best

way to budget the ir money for the he t results. She l l \·e, in e\\' York City, stuJies French and attends art lecture at the Metro rol i ran M u,eum. She tra\·els to Europe at le<bt once a year. She enjoys retirement anJ i leisurely catch ing up on all the th ings she was unable to Jn \\'hen \\'or k 1 11g. he desen·es a re\\'ard for atrenJ i ng a l l c l a·s re u n i o n s s i n c e 1 945 . . . Hazel Brewer Warren, a retired h igh -school l ihramm, I' now living in Cenrern l l e on Cape Cod. She ha, rwn son' and t1n 1 grandch i ldren. She i ' acm·e 1 11 AAUW and also play, bridge and tennis . . . Maurice Whitten, in 1 98 5 . tra\·eled .1r,1und the \\'orlJ hy plane in 86 , ,1y>. He �pent two months in Au,rralia and lookcJ up his father'. bn� htlllJ home. He has J USt ruhl i>hed a blXlk titled G unpowder Mr/ls of Mame. the result of 2 2 years of re,earc h . He also inhen red >en�n adult 'rer c h i ldren and says he feeb that i the best way to acquire a large family. "Marilyn Bryant has retired after 26 years at Boston Un1\'er s1ty chool of N ursing. he is currently l i \·ing in L1kerort, . H . h e o c c a s i o na l l y h e i r h e r brnrher in hi - hu:111e s and 1- the treasurer of the Bapr1-;r church in her c o m m u n i t y . . . E v e l y n Ste rry Bela nger h a s l i \·ed i n se\·eral locations in Maine and has been a French teacher and a lso a l i brari a n . he has one daughter and one granddaughter . . . Na omi C o l l e t t Pagan e l l i spend h e r free r ime enjoying the pleasures of ew York City. he attends concerts, bal let, theater and m us e u m s . For e x e rc i s e , N aomi s w i m all year 'round, and he is actively involved in 'Friend of Jackson Square,' a lovely l ittle park in front of her apartment b u i ld i ng. We all thank N aomi for handl i ng the alumni news for o long . . . B e tt y C h a m b e r l a i n Ficker r e ponds t h a t s h e is ac59

t i vely i nvolved w i t h her ch u rc h , a n d s h e is al o g i v ing sa i l ing les

swer ro the questionna i re ask ing

an d l \·e a l ways c red i ted her in

sons to women at the local yac ht

what you expected to do when you left Colby <ind what ac t i v i

c l ub. Sound l i ke a great summer ac t i v i ty . . . Laura Tapia Aitken is president of the New J e rsey

t ies you engaged i n t h a t you never a n t i c i pa t e d , " c o rre s r o n d e n t Hannah Karp Laipson writes. " I

my m i nd . ' What Betty d idn't e x rec t w as that s he w o u ld w o r k in the fi e ld of dyin g, de ath and be

A ffi l iate of the N a t ional Asso c i a t i o n of E a r l y C h i l d h o od Teacher Educator . he keeps in

think w e a l l reflect <Xcasiona l l y now o n w h a t o u r goals a n d ambi t i ons were i n our ' a lad day· , ' and

touch w ith urba n problems a n d people's need· . . . l have a sug

how many surrrise and twists we've experienced along the way. "Elizabeth Scalise Kilham write�: ' l expected to rerform i n some way, an d l d idn't know if i t wou l d h e o n t h e stage o r where. I t tu rned o u t to h e broadca, t i ng, and I d id i t f o r 40 happy yeM . Dr. Li bby's forceful tra ini ng gave me a c lear manner of · peec h . Dr. Marshall's rersonal efforts gave me two sc hol ar ·h i rs to t udy

rersonal experiences and spent JO year reac h i ng funeral d i rec tor, how co comm unicate effec t i n l y w i t h t h e hereaved . Emily Holbrook Pelessier fu l fi lled herambi non to b e a reacher, and a l though he formal ly re t i red after 3 7 year , he s t i l l manage to . erve a a subst i t u te reacher . Cloyd G. Aarseth say. that he never a n t i c i pated t h a t in h i s media work he would find h i m e l f 'standing i n a field in a Tibetan re ettlement \·i l l age in Bylekuppe,

drama at Connec ticut College f or Women, where her fa ther had b een presiden t . Th·u t ra i n i ng hel ped put me beh i nd a mi ke,

I n d i a , d i recting coverage for a fi l m doc u mentary for the U n i ted rares I nf ormation Agenc y . ' "Benjamin C. Bubar knew

ge t ion to anyone who is able to v i i t the Colby campus: Try to visit the Chapel w h i le the organ is be i ng pl ayed . It has a truly magn i ficent sound and i very i m pressive. You wou l d also enjoy the College art muse u m . "

"Thi is a con t i n uar ion of the wonderful resronses l re c e i ved from many of you in an-

reave ment. She say · that after two widowhood;, he tran ferred the knowledge gai ned from her

he wanted to make more of an im pact in Mai ne pol i t ics, but he certa i n l y d idn 'r expect to become presiden t i al candidate for the \ ldest t h i rd parry' in the narion the Proh ibit ion Party1 • • • Shirley Martin Dudley wanted to marry, have c h ildren and reach when she graduated from Colby.

d i d a l l three but also went on to earn her M.A. in education . he now l i ve half of each year in F lo r ida . . . Faye O'Leary Haf ford, who left Colby in the m iddle of her j un ior year, later completed her educat ion on a part - t i me ba sis and received her B.A. in edu c a t ion. he retired after teac h ing for 25 years and then work ing for 1 6 more on the A l l agash W i lder ne Waterway. What he never antic ipated was that

he would

write, publi h and ell two books: Wacerwa)' Wanderings , a rory of the people on the A l iaga h, and a candid

Call Me a Moosecowner ,

Correspondents 1 94 1 Rurh R. H a thaway ( R u t h "Bonn ie" Roberts) RFD 1 , Box 3 8 1 New I p wich, NH 0307 1 97 1 5 Phone : 60 3 - 878-4547 1 94 2 M arie Wysor ( M arie "Chri " M erri l l ) RR 2, Box 1 90-B Sou t h Harpswe l l , M E

1 94 5 Dorothy McCunn ( Dorothy anford) 8 Honey H i l l Roa<l Canaan, CT 060 1 8

04079-9802 Phone: 207- 7 29-6506

Phone: 203 -824-7236

1 94 3 Mrs. A lbert R . Braunmuller ( Eleanor mart)

1 946 Mrs. Myron R . Laipson ( Hannah Karp)

I 1 5 Lake Road

2 5 Pomona Road Worce ter, M A 0 1 602 Phone: 508-7 5 2 - 1 204

Ba k ing R idge, NJ 07920 Phone: 20 1 -766- 3 586

1 944 Lou is M . Deraney 5 7 Whi tford treet Rosl indale, M A 02 1 3 1 42 1 0 Phone: 6 1 7 - 32 7-4486

1 947 J une Coal on (J une C hi pman ) 1 2 9 J anel le Lane J ac k on v i l le , F L 32 2 1 1 Phone : 904-7 2 5 - 1 4 79

1 948 Katharine W . J affe ( Katharine Wei man ) PO Box 1 1 3 M i l l R i ver, M A 0 1 244 Phone: 4 1 3 - 2 29-8 1 7 1

1 949 A n ne Eustis ( A nne H agar) 3 1 5 M irick Rd . PO Box 594 Ea t Princeton, M A 0 1 5 1 7 Phone: 508-464- 55 1 3

story of the people i n the v i l lage of A l l aga·h. "Frederick H. Sontag, who is a publ ic affa i r and re earch con u ltant and works as a spec ial a ide at the U .S. Department of Hou in g and U rban Develop men t , wri tes about the many im portant development that have taken place ince we left the pro tected env ironment of Col by and say that he apprec iates havi ng urvi ved in a country and world where 'it is i ncreasi ngly hard to be gut y , wrong and courageous.' Fred LeShane ays he ex pected to be a l i beral m in ister, and h e fi r m l y adds, 'I a m s t i l l an unrepentant l ibera l ! ' What he d idn't expect , he says, is that he wou ld be a m i n ister in U n itarian c h u rc hes across the country in c luding Florida, where he now l i ve . . I 'l l hare the re r of the e response w ith you next t i me . I would rea l l y love to hear from rho e of you who d idn't re pond to t h i la t question na ire."

Colby,

Jan uary 1 99 1

Are You UP--2--DATE? For up-to-date Colby sports scores, information about upcoming alumni events, derails of weekly c a mpus acti\·ir ies or to make a donation to the College. call 1 - 2 7 -UP-2 -DATE.

" I have two weddings to report," correspondent J une Ch ipman Coalson writes. 0 l n Marc h , Dorothy C leaves Rod gers was married to Clay J o rdan. They flew to Colorado prings for a v isit with h is on and then drove to Las Vegas and were married a t the L i t t l e Brown Church of the West. Many fa mou m o v i e tars have been married in th i churc h . W h i le there they v i s ited Monument Valley, Grand Canyon and Zion N a t ional Park. In M ay they made a grand tour, stopping in A t lantic C ity, V irgi n ia Beach , M u rfrees boro , A t l a n t a , O r l a n d o , S r . i mo n s I s la n d , R a l e i g h a nd W i l l iamsburg. But there is ad news too. Dottie' son, Scott, was k i l led in an automobile acc ident near Cocoa Beac h , Fla., on May 23. It happened \\ hile he was rowing a boat back from the Florida Key for Outward Bound, where he wa an official . . . Emily Gardell was married in March to Bob H ue ton in We tfield. .J . , with j ust fami ly p r e e n t . Wel l , maybe 'ju r ' fam ily is an inapt phrase. It included four daughters and their pause • e ight grand c h i ldren and h e r 6-year-old mother. he and Bob have known each other for 60 years. o you ee that 'it' never too late' for any of u . "A nnette Hall Carpenter i r i l l very active. he i welfare director for the c ity of Pla infiel d , N . J . S h e is a l s o p r e i d e m of the U nion County M u n ic ipal Wel fare As ociation and belongs ro one of two tare welfare organi z a t i on s . A nn e t t e h as t h re e daughters, a o n and t w o grand daughters . . . Betty R i c h mond A n thony writes from Texas that he and her husband, David, have recently taken a long-awaited trip to New Zealand. They flew to Chri tchurch, rented a car and explored outh l land , going to Colby, J a nuary 1 99 1

Queenstown, M ilford Sound and Duned i n . Then they fl ew to arch I s l a n d , t o p p i n g at Rororua, Auckland, before head ing and up to the Bay of I slands. Betty is \·ery involved i n support ing her loca l hosp i t a l-from knitt ing baby blankets to work ing in the gift shop as ll'ell as making j e l l ies and bean soup mix. he also works in her church and on the l ibrary board and keeps fit at rhe local health c lub. Betty reports that the last good book he read ll'as Confessions of rhe Lasr Uving Confederace Widow. Ir was a good background for the en ·u ing Civil War serie on PB . . . A for me, I rook a m p to Au ·tria and w i r:erland la-t · ummer. We ·rayed in small towns and v isited ' an inrere t ing place every day. The h igh l ight of the trip ll'as e e i n g the pas ion p l ay at Oherammergau. e x t time I ' l l rep r t o n p l a n- for our upcoming 4 5 rh reun ion in 1 99 2 . Hope all of you w i l l plan to come."

Corre pondent Kath arine Wei man Jaffe beseeche her c la · mares ro keep her po red. he concede that ome of rhe material in thi- report is old new • but here goe : " H a z e l Huckens Merrill

owns Merrill Cottage on ew found Lake ( Did you find i t , Ha zel 1 ) , where she and hu band John are busy with their five acre and 500 feet of lake-front. he also u e the property in her role a· an ob erver for 'Loon Watch' when not I i tening to mu ic, read i ng , gardening, appreciating a r t and enjoying her three grand on . . . Another work i ng ret i re e , G e n e Hunter, i s executive di rector for the Maine port Hall of Fame. He ran a bingo game to benefit cholar-arh leres and coache golf a n d ba ketba l l . I r

almost goes without sayi ng that he enjoys golf. tennis and other sports as well as playing cards and read ing. H is two .grandch i ldren have been checked out as being smarter and more beautiful than any . . . Burt Krumholz, M . D. is professor of obstetrics and gyne cology at A lbert E i nsre i n College of Medicine and frequently pre sents papers and participates in national and international forums and seminars. Actual ly, la t year he was proudest of his 'most im prO\·ed golfer' award at the Engi neers' Country Club. ( How did you engineer your way i nto that one, Burr !) "Phyllis M cK i e l Bedig. an other reading, gardening. card playing ' 4 e r , al o enjoys shop ping and cook ing ( the first to admit i t ) . he occasionally see Anne Fraser Baer, who l i \·es year round m Punta Gorda, Fla .. where Phy l l is wi nters . ummering in ew England . she and husband Bob Bed 1g '49 visit the ir chi ldren and the ir smarter and more beau t iful grand c h i ldre n . They at tended a Colby luncheon i n Fort Myer last year. More about that later . . . Ruth Rogers Doering writes hoping to get in touch with J anet De Witt after eeing her mentioned in this column pre\·i ou ly. A widow now, Ruth work only part t i me. With her c h i ldren -catrered around the country. ,,he enjoy using ome of her spare t i me \· i s i t i ng old fr i e nds . Norice Mahoney Smith does some freelance writ i ng, srudie conversa t ional Spanish. read , w i ms and is also interested in meeting w i th Colby colleague who are in the Fort Lauderdale area . . . F. W. ' Cy ' Perk ins doe volunteer work at Wells Estuarial Re earch Re e r e and l nsighr eminar· i n Bo ton. He was the econd to check off enjoy i ng hopping and cooki ng and the fir t to note enjoying c leani ng house and many other more novel

pastimes. H is five grandc hi ldren rangefromabout 1 6 years ro about a year and are, you gues ed it, smarter and more beautiful than any. He and all ofus w i l l b e p leased that rhis maga: ine, Colb)', plan a shorter lead t ime for these c las · notes . . . Speak ing of Colby ac t i\'ists, the '48 super pec ial i · Dave Marso n , who was c i reJ aga in during J une '90 reunion week a Ernest C. Marriner Dis tingu ished Sen· ice Awardee. He had answered the pink que t ion naire with a two-page letter de scribing sail ing with Dorrie (a Colby Bricker) and the Marvin J oslows, weekending m Canada with Bob '49 and Phyl l is age and Lenny '49 and Ela ine War sha\·er and meeti ng with Bob '49 and Phyllis McKiel Bedig and Anne Fraser Baer at that Fort Myers lunch mee t i ng . Dave's daughter, Debby ' 7 5 . is another acti\·e Colby graduate who has presented Dave and Dottie with two bright and beautiful future Colbians."

"Colby ' g re a t ly re duced lead r i me for c l a col u mns-from six months to two month !-allows me to write in October for publicat ion in De cember," note correspondent Anne Hagar Eustis. "] am ure you will all agree this is a wel come i mprove ment. U n fortu nately, I am st i l l reporting news gleaned with your answer to the questionnaire sent out a year ago. Perhap with th is impetu for timeliness, we can get more up to-date with our new I " A l t hough C h a r l e s M . Cotton i s a retired school teacher l i v i ng i n Pre que I sle. Maine, he does not consider h im e lf ret ired . And with good reason, a he i i nvolved with coac h i ng h igh school tennis, working in the pro 61

shop at the local coun t ry c l ub, t ruck farming and tak i ng care of h is property. Enough sa i d ! S ince he included his w i nt e r address of Palm Harbor, Fla., I would guess that i where he 'prac t ices' for ret i rement . . Cynthia Crook L ieck w r i tes from An napo l is, M d . , t ha t she and her husband, Charles, 'are quite content in our placid rut ' enjoying l i v i ng on the water, boating on the Chesapeake Bay in the trawler and t rave l i ng i n t h e U . . A . and M e x i c o . Cynt h i a does n o t really feel re t i red, as she is doing more volun teer work w i th a local art gallery, the Heart Fund and the elect ions board . . . My predecessor, Mary Hathaway ' Honey' Cherry, is fi ll i ng the void by be i ng active in ret i red teacher ' organ izat ions at the county and the state level . A lso her 'mee t ings for l i brary trustees have taken on a new i m portance as we're work i ng f o r a nell' l i brary buildi ng in town.' I hope you were succe sfu l , Honey, before t he fiscal c runch hit Mas sachusetts and i ts municipalit ies. Honey is proud of what she ha been able to do ' to help i n the preserva t ion of open lands in K i ngsto n , which a l ready have been exploited by gravel firms and malls.' "Nellie MacDougall Parks

moved back to B i ngham, M a i ne, after 1 5 years in the Phi ladelphia area. Now within 40 m i les from Colby, he and her h usband, Warren, enjoy concert there. N e l l ie comment on the 'big changes in mal l - town M ai ne as r e a l e t a t e c o s t s and t a x e s esc alate . . . r a t e a n d federal mandates tell towns what must be done, and local government c o s t s soa r . Farm land b e i n g c h a ng e d to hou e lots. Clearcutt i ng changingforests. No topping spread north of popula t ion and land inflat ion . ' It all ound o fam i l iar, and where w i l l i t all end ? . . . Edward A . Waller,

sem i - re t i red from market i ng for engi neer i ng and con rruct ion firms, works with young peorle. He al o encourage sen ior golf ers. Ed boasts of ge t t i ng four ch i l dren t h rough college a n d s t i l l treasures h is 1 5 -year communi c a t i on w i t h Dr. J u l i us eelye Bixler. They exchanged reading I is ts and comment . Ed reports Dr. Bix ler'· letter are 'clas ics' and offers excerrts on request. He further comments: 'I ug gested, and he enjoyed, Woody

A l len'� Wirhour Feathers. He rec ommended The Conversariun Becween Mozan and Franz Lis zc

( fi 1·e vol . ) in German. I saw i t in the l i brary. Certainly well bound. S e t t led for a l i t t l e Be e t h o ven . . . . J ean Sheppard Silva rerorts that one of the big act i v i tie in h e r l ife h a ; been t h e urry Opera Company in urry, Maine. ' l t 's a t iny gra · root concerr opera company made up of a vast con glomeration of people, only a few of whom are rrofe ional singers,'

�he wrne . 'We have been ro the Sm·iet Un ion three t i mes ( I 've been t w ice ) and ;ung in Lenin grad , Moscow and Thel i e . [In 1 989] 7 2 ovicts were here for the mon th of Augu t. Ir was ex c it i ng, exhilarat i ng, mov ing and exhaust i ng 1 ' Ch i ldren, grand c h i ldren, garden c lub, Owls Head Tran portation Museum Volun teers, blood drive;, etc. keep re t i rement 'a very busy l i fe ! ' "

Alumni Awards Nomination Form The A l umni Counc il Awards Committee eek nominat ions for four award, on a con t i nual basis. The Colby Brick is awarded each Reun ion Weekend to a few ind i 1· idual who have en·ed Colby i n a 1·ariety of volunteer roles, and the Marriner Distinguished Sertiice Aumd i g iven to alumni or friends of Colby who ha1·e demonstrated excertional commitment to the College. The Distinguished Alumni Award annually recogni:e, one Colby graduate for outstand i ng professional ach ievement. The Outstanding Educator Award i presented to an alumnus/a for outstanding teaching i n the cla;sroom, at any level. I nominate for the

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My recommendation i ba ed on the nominee'; voluntee r a c t i v i t ic� or professional ach ievements l isted below:

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Please complete and ma i l to: Alumni Counc i l Award Com m i t tee, c/o Office of Alumni Relat ions, Colby College, Waterv ille, M E 0490 1 .

Thank you! Colby, January 1 99 1

THE FIFTIES 50

Corresrondent ancy R icker ears thanks her 2 4 c lass mates who sent news for this is sue. " I felt the thrill )f remem brancea I opened all your letters," he add . "It \\'a· heartwarming and no ralgic to reca l l your once fami liar names and face- and to learn what you are all doing. "Almo t everyone who re ·ponded is reti red-are you the only one who have t ime tO \\'rite letter ? Not really. Many reron they are bu ier ( a nd happier) than ever, re ponding to new interests, trave l i n g , t u d y i n g , pur u i ng hobbies and meeting the chal lenge of agino. "Richard Lyon, J r. , teache h igh- chool math in Hubbard ton, Ma . H e wa re-elected se lectman l a t February in a recall elec tion that wept out the ent ire former board. Thi i the fir t t ime that an entire board ha· been recalled i n Mas achu etts h istory. Dick' wife, Marion, i town c lerk and a self-employedponer . . . J im Doughty i retired and l i vi ng in carborough, M a i ne , with h is wife, Florence. The Dough()' are celebrating 4 1 year of marriage thi year. The ir olde t grandc h i ld entered Colby this fal l . J im ay that he occa ionally play golf with Ru s Wa hburn, sees Bill Mitchell occa ionally and get toge ther w i t h Foster B r u c k heimer regularly . . . Mary Ellen ' Susi' Goldey Morrison report her occupation as a 'mini ter' wife,' and we agree that more than qual ifie as an occupation. h e and Kerm i t are acqu iring in law c h i ldren and grandch i ldren. They have been enjoying trip t Europe in recent year and are planning an opera tour for 1 99 l and hope to vi it A la ka in 1 99 2 . S u s i s a y , 'Life i Good ! A lway gain i n i n everything! I like hav ing white h a i r-the respect i wonderfu l . ' " B i l l ' 5 1 a n d E l l e n KennerColby, J anuary 1 99 1

son G e l o t t e a re ret i re d and

·rending most of their t i me in G u i lford , N.H. E l len IS rresiJent of the ew Hampsh i re Sri nners and Dyers G u i ld and O\\'ns and operates a small swre that carries yarn� and ·pinning equipment . he and B i l l also tra\·el frequently and w i l l go to A laska next year. Ellen ays she had meant to go to the reunion and d idn't but w i l l make sure ·he make our 4 5th. o echo many ofus, l expcct . . . You all w i l l be ·addened to learn of the death from lung cancer of Martha Apollonio Hillman on May 2 4 . Her h usband writes: 'Apple wa:i alway· proud of her a ociat ion with Colby. I n fact when we were in ew England in August, 19 9 , she a ked espec 1ally that we make a visit to the Colby campu . I k new that he would want me m end her greetings to all her old c la mate .. ' Bill wrote from 462 H ic k or y Lane , an Rafael , CA 9490 3 . "Margaret Rodgers J ones

and her husband, Walrer, are al,o retired in New Hamp·hire . They live in Peterborough, where they are 'active, well and happy. ' Af ter ome year. in Ohio they are thril led to be back i n ew Eng land. 'Oh io wa ·o ·horro f moun tains,' write Margaret, who is a l ibrary tru tee and on the board of a local ret i rement home, but he ay grandchildren are h r greate t joy. Her daughter, Ann, is work i ng in the De\·elopment Office at Colby . . . Nelson 'Bud' Everts, who served u o long and o wel l a cla pre ident, write that he and E l i nor l ive in New London, .H., but maintain an partment i n eedham, Mass., ro be nea r c h i ldren, grandchildren and hi office. After spendi ng February in arasota, they w i l l return to Ma sachusett to await the birth of two grandch i ldre n . "

"Mayflower H i l l i . do i ng its Arctic number,'' corre srnndent Warren Finegan oberves, "but i n a short six months it hould be warm ly emhracmg classmates 1\·ho sn wisely dec ideJ to attend our 40th reunion. Last J une >ome of us met w plan this tri umrhant return, and we\·e made a good start. If any of you ha\·e 1Jeas a to what you'd like to see or Jo over that \\'eekend, 1.:-r me kno\\' . "Bob Cannell already has Vl)l untcereJ to g i v e lambada lessons . . . Ed Laverty is s t i l l l i \· i ng in Gorham, M a i n e , and enJoying the grand olJ I ife fishing, hunting and le isure time. For the second year in a row, he \\'a succe - fu l i n t h e m o o e lotter • . . . Ernie Fortin retired from the phone company but is hack handl ing a pec ial project. ext fal l . 1 . 500 enior employees, t h e T e l e p h o n e P i o n e e r of A merica, w i l l convene in Boston to plan programs for community ervice w irk. Ernie is co-manager of the event . . . Bob and Nancy Nilson Archibald l ive in c ituate, M ass. , a few m i nutes from the harbor. Bob run a ·mall bu· ine , eacoa t cribe, involving tech n ical writing , and ancy i- in the legal department of a rea l t y firm . . . J oh n Pettengill send g re e t i ng from l nd i a n a po l i s , where he is a national accounts manager for Union Camp. I hope you will tell us more next J une at Colby, J ohn. This goes for all of you ! rart thinking about the reunion now ! Many happy re turn . "

" I hope you have h a d a wonderfu l u m m e r and fa l l , " w r i te correspondent Barbara Bone Leavitt. "My husband, Bob, and I had great v i s i t w i th Caroline Wilkins McDonough

anJ her fam i ly i n Gre.:-nw1ch. Conn. We 11 ere abo happy to ee Chuck ' 5 3 and Janice Pearson Anderson in their new home in H a r\\' i c h , M ass. They h ave cl lovely place there, and we cer ta111ly enioyed their hospitality and the heach.:-s, warm water! "Mimi Russell A l drich

w r i t e s from West S i m sb u r y , C o n n . H e r hu·hand anJ our classmate, Paul, is fir t cnior vice president and corporate ecretary, oc1ety for a\·ing . They have three c h i ldren and �e\·en grand c h ildren. They are hoping to re tire to Briswl, Maine, anJ are gradually h u tt i ng down their ant ique business. Paul is active in Rotary ( wa j u t made a Paul Harris Fel low ) , Scout and Sal \·ation Army and ha j u t donated h is 1 3th gallon of blood 1 M i m i belongs t o t h e M usical C l u h of Hartford. She sends news of Bob '50 and Nancy Weare Merriman from ew Hamp h ire. They have hought a house on the water in R y e . Ba rbara S c o t t w a re elected alderman of Calga ry , A lberta, by an SO percent margin. h e was at the Berlin Wall before the great changes. Diane Sargent Larsen i living in Florida. Thanks for the news, M i m i . . . J o h n Baum is i n Lawhaden, Dyfed, U . K . He and hi wife, lngred, have three c h i ldren. John went to tanford and received an Ed. D. and worked i x year· as a con ult ant with Teachers College, Co lumbia. He was able to retire 2 2 years ago and became a potter and beekeeper. He has had ex h i b i t ions of h is work at major art galleries and in J une '90 at the Cathedral in St. David's, Dyfed, Wale . In September he tarted a I 0- month stay in Gomera ( in the Canary I land s ) , and although he says he won't be open ing a Colby Alumni Club, v i itors are wel come . . . Arthur Wh i te has re t i red as headma ter of Hotchkiss chool. He and hi wife, Cynth ia, 63

h;ive nwved to Bath, M a me . Thev " h <ive t\\"ll new gran d c h i l d re n .

Richard L. Abedon '56

A rth ur 1s te;ic h i ng at a -,chnol i n Bath. "Caro l i ne , Je��e . Ben and I want tn remi nd yuu uf our 40rh reu n ion com i ng ur in J u ne 1 99 2 . T i m e fl ies, � o r lcase do find a c a lendar and rut a star on J une 1 99 2 . My first reun ion wa� the 3 5 th and it was great ! "

For those who were not able to c a tch ur with a l l the news at the reun ion and those unable to attend, An n D i l l ing ham I ngraham offers this synop sis, g l e a ned l a rg e l y from t h e que t i onnaire : "Louise 'Pinkie' Fall Achor is a text proces or for Sovran Bank i n C l i fwn, Va. She is c lerk f or the C l ifton town counc i l and pianist for a C a insv i l le ch urc h . She and her h u band, Robert, have four c h i ldren and were expect ing their I 0th g r a n d c h i l d when t h e y wrote . . . Arlie Porath h a s re t i red and spends hi t i me collect ing art and antiques. He is the fa ther of two, inc l uding Stacy '9 1 . . Lou Zambello, our past president, is v ice president of a le and operations at A v i a I n terna t ional and is l i v i ng i n Wi lsonv i l le , Oreg. He a n d K a t h y spend their free t i me s k i i ng, h i k ing, golfing and p l a y i n g t e n n i s . . . C a rol Mac i v e r M u rphy l i ve s i n Northampton, Ma . , where he is a c i rc u l a t ion l i brarian and keeps busy w i t h school c o mmi tte e , city counc il and ch urch ac t i v i t ie� . . Tony Leone works for the M as sac h usetr state government and reports talk i ng w i th Mark Saw yer, who is look ing for workers

for a m e a t - pa c k i n g company newly located in Le x i ngton, Neb. A nyone interested i n going we t ? "Jane Millett Dornish en joyed doing some ad mis ions work for Colby, but she

is pre5en t ly

Headliners George H. Lebherz ' 5 2 of Falmouth was nominated a. a c ircuit judge of the Massachu ett District Court. Mu ical conductor Fred Petra ' 5 5 , chosen as a fellow of the Nat ional Endowment for the Arts, spent a busy autumn immer ·ed in eminar and meetings in Washington. Richard L. Abedon '56, a Colby trustee, was elected chair and ch ief operating officer of the M utual Benefit Pension Corporation. Edward Goldberg '59, a vice president at Donaldson, Lufk in, Jenrette in Bo ton, received an honorary degree from Israel's Technion I nstitute.

Newsmakers The Rev. J . A llyn Bradford '5 0, retired minister and con ultanr, was interviewed by the Sunday Eagle-Tribune in Lawrence, Ma s., where he leads work hops on goal- etting . . . Two Colbian , Maurice F. Ronayne ' 5 1 and Kevin Connol ly ' 5 5 , are member of the Alexandria (Va . ) C i v i l W a r Roundtable. Good thing, too, Maury notes. el e w i e that Southern-dominated group would never have a nice thing to ay about their fellow alumnu , Gen. Ben Butler of the Clas of 1 838, the Yankee commander who earned the moniker"BeasrofNew Orleans" . . . Carolyn Wilkins McDonough ' 5 2 , executive producer of the Cameo Theatre in Greenwich, Conn. , spotted new ralenr as a judge of the annual hake peare competition for area high- chool students . . . Madelyn Wechsler Pressman ' 5 3 , a schoolteacher in Oceanside, N . Y . , won a $2 ,000 fellow hip from the National Endowment for the Humanitie to attend a four-week eminar, "Mozart: The ' Man, Hi Mu ic and His Vienna," in Vienna . . . David Harvey ' 5 3 signed on as a con ultant with Flath & A sociates in New London, Conn., after retiring as dean of the faculty of Mitchell College . . . Barbara Restall Home ' 5 5 was honored by the Newport Harbor Panhellenic a "Athena Woman of the Year" in Newport Beach, Cal if. She donates more than 200 volunteer hour annually to the local library, which nominated Barbara for the award. She has also been active in Girl Scouting, the Newport H i l l Garden Club, the Assistance League ofNewport Beach, the PT A, American Friend Service, a ummer camp for disabled youngster-, the American Cancer Society and the A I DS Service Foundation of Orange County. N t all of these efforts are behind the ·cenes. Barbara ings with a 1 0-member chorale that raise fund for the Corona del Mar High PTA and play the Ea ter Bunny, Ms. Santa and Witchy Poo at a local hospital . . . The memory of Donald P. Lake ' 5 5 is alive in M ilton, Mas ., where a youth club awards a scholarship in honor of the former football captain k illed in an Air Force plane era h in 1 9 5 7 . . . Terry D. Mayo '5 7 delivered seminars on estate-planning in Oswego, N.Y., and Waldo County, Maine . . . Judith Levine Brody '58, a sociate dean of admi ions at Colby, joined relatives and friend in toa ting the appointment of her hu band, Morron, a member of the Colby ad1unct faculty, to the Maine Supreme Court . . . . Patricia Orr Frost ' 5 9 , principal of the Henry We t Lal oratory chool in Coral Gables, Fla., was named a director of BankUnited Saving in Miami.

Mileposts Deaths: Lee R. Prescott ' 5 1 i n Lebanon, Conn., at 60 . . . Edward M. "Pete" Guild ' 5 2 in Nanrucket, Ma s. , at 60 . . . F. Allen Thompson '52 in Amher t, Ma . , a t 6 1 . . . Richard A. Jones '54 in Hyanni , Mas ., at 57 . . . David S. O'Neil '54 in Burlington, Vt., at 60 . . . Theodore L Brown ' 5 5 in Rockport, Maine, at 59 . . . Roger H. Carlson ' 5 6 in Duxbury, Ma s., at 57 . . . J u lie Orth Beach '59 in Plymouth , Ma s., at 52 . . . Paul Neri '59 in Columbia, Md., at 5 2 . . . Frederick Field '59 in Hyannis, Mass., at 5 2 . Colby, January 1 99 1

pend i ng her r i me work i ng w i rh rhe Warer\' i l le B 1YS and G irls Club and rhe Colby Club and as an ad\· i ory comm inee member concerni ng hand icapped and re hab i l i ra r ion proorams. Karl ' 5 4 and J ane h a v e three c h i ldren and two g r a n d c h i l d re n . . . B o b Johnson , one o four more prolific cla members, ha five c h i ldren and I 0 grand c h i l d r e n . H e i · pre idem of rhe R. J oh nson and on lumber company in Canaan, Maine . . . J ud y Orne S horey now live in Rock land, M a i ne, where he is d i rector of volunteer services ar Penobscor Bay Med i c a l Center. he keep b u y i n churc h , Red Cross a n d pol itical a c t i v i t i e . . . Nan c y C o n i n g McGinley is a busy homemaker who keep occupied k n i t t i ng and sell ing wearers. Outside acrivi rie are G irl cours, Red Cro , YMCA and YWCA and travel ing wirh her hu band, who i re t i red . . . Harriet Sears Fraser caught pec i a l education a r Brook l ine H igh chool, then part t i m e a t Norrhea tern. She i presently reaching ar We tford Academy. he ay , ' Maine ha continued to be an important part of my life-20year ofa sociar ion a nd r i me pent a t Pemaqu i d Point.' H e r on, J onathan, i C l a o f '82 . "James Tyson i s work ing in real estate i n Rowel l , Ga . . . . J udi Holtz Levow i an i n terior de igner and keep bu y w ith the Weston ( Ma . ) Com m u n i t y League , t e m p l e g ro u p s , golf, wimming and bridge . . . J oanne Bailey Anderson h a a married daughter and a on who graduated in J une from MIT w i th a master of c ience degree . . . Harriette Glass Siegel i a secretary for rhe Marblehead ( Mas .) Department of Recreation and Park Develop ment. She and Nancy Perron Ives returned from 16 days in pain j u t in t ime to a t tend the r e u n i o n fe t i v i t i e . . . T a ffy Colby, January I 99 1

Mahoney Beckman and hu ·

band J im a r e rreasurer a n d rre·i d e n t of a small manufac ruring company thar they starred three year ago. h e is im·oh-ed wirh rhe Lake unapee ( N . H . ) Prn r e c t i \'e A ssoc i a r i o n i n water monitoring . . . J oh n Dutton i s employed a a rax audiro r for rhe · rate of California and 1s acti\·c in Disabled A M ET_ . H i s acri\·it 1c. inc l ude camping, racqucrbal I and wildl ife and outdoor photogra phy . . . Al lan Landau , a rarmer i n a Bo·ron law firm and a Colby Q\"er ·eer, pend h i lei ·ure t 1 1ne fish i ng, boar ing, playing renni a nd e n j o y i n g h is grandc h i l d ren . . . J o h n P h i l b rook i · a captain with American A i rl ine and ha six c h i ldren and rwo grand c h i l d re n . . . G e r m a i n e Michaud Orloff write rhar h e wa orry to ha\·e missed t h e re uni n a she wa in Europe visit ing her daughter and son-in-law. Thi wa the fir t reu nion she had m issed in 35 years. She works as an as i tam profe or ar Thomas College in Warerv ille and i a c i ty counc i lor and a member of rhe l ibrary board of rru tee . he ha five c h i ldren and two grand c h i ldren. "Patricia Levine Levy ha worked for the pa r L S year for the ew York rate Department of Labor. She and her hu band , Sevy ' 5 3 , had j ust returned from a t r i p to Eu rope tO attend the 35th . . . Dot Dunn Northcott's comm u n i ry ac r i v i r ie s i nc l ude L ire racy Volunteers, and he find t i me for tenni , bridge, k i i ng, garden ing and travel . he ha rhree c h i ld ren, includ i ng Evan J one ' 2 . . . Dick Bartlett, who w rks for Jordan Mar h in Bo ton i n retail c redit, enjoys running and communiry theater in h i pare r i me . . . Reginald ' D ick' and J ean Hawes Anderson are in real estate as brokers/owners wirh three office . J ean add thar they would love to hear from anyone

\· 1siting rhe Bo::.rnn area, a; rhev are l1nl y 50 m iles from Bosron and al\\'ays ha\·e an exrra roum. They keep active in the Grafwn H iswrical oc iety, g<irden c lub, fmc:.t a:.::.oc iatilm and Massachu

sens Audubon ociery . . . Mary Dundas Runser 1s an a.::.i::.rant rcadino reacher in Waren· i i le . Minot G reene, who works i n bankmg a n d financ ial planning, is acti\·e t n rhe Colby Club of Washington and \\'as the c lass rep to rhe Colby Planned G l \·ing Counc i l . He dcsen·es a round of applause for rhe succes::. of the 3 5 rh. H is daughrer, Amy, i · Class of ' 9 . . . Jane W h ipple Cod dingron 's masrer's degree in l i brary ·cience ha enabled her ro organi:e small libraries for non profir organi:arion . he is \'ice presidem ofFamily er\' ice A o c iarion and her ac r i v i t ie inc lude · k i ing, ·wimming, scuba di\· ing, boating and Ua\'eling. "Margaret Grant Ludwig is complering her econ :l rerm in the Maine tare enare and i running for a rhird . Her commu niry activ i ties inc lude hosp ital auxil iary, c hamber of commerce and fi h, g a m e and g a rd e n c l u b . . . S i d Farr say he con r i nues to lO\·e work ing for Colby and fol l o w i ng c h i ldren' and grand c h i ldren's ac t i v i r ie . He erves on rhe hospital board of overseers and enjoys golf. reading and music . . . Barbara Burg King ays she i a home coordinator a a housewife, mother and grand mother. Her spare t ime is pent a a hospital volunteer, on c hurch board and comminees and at golf and bridge. She and her hus band, Frank , have four c h i ldren and ix grandch ildren . . . j ack and Ann Burnham Deering have rhree c h ildren ( rwo Colby grad ) and three granddaughrer . Ann i a real estare broker, and J ac k i a ale man . . . Elinor Small Hudson i a manager at L . L . Bean. he keeps b u y � irh church

a c u \' i r ies and rhe Y a rmourh ( laine ) H i:,wrical �Lic1ery ch "·ell as rhe Colby .A lumnae A,:,nc ia r ion d ourhwesrern l\. !a i ne . Barbara ' Sistie' Restall Horne

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i m· o ked in numerous acri\"lrie,, includ ing a purper troc1p, 'POrt> suppon grnup, garden club. A I DS

sen·ice found a [ l o n , American Field Sernce, Tri De i r A lumni Assnc ia[ lon and more. "Jean Hahlbohm Hampton,

who has raughr ,chool for 2 4 year' ( and count ing ) , de�en·e · a h uge hooray for all of rhe work ::.he ha, done for Colby, loggmg rhousands of m il e s for rhe Alumrn Cou nc i l , rearing rwo tudents, a n ending coundess reunion· and ba::.kerball and hockey games, chairing rhe 3 5 rh reunion and \\'ork i ng as a Colby interviewer and college fai r repres e n r a t i v e . . P e t e r a n d Susanne Capen Stutts ha\·e gone into parmership to own and lease m u l r i -fam i l y hou i ng following Peter's reriremem from rhe cor porare world. He says can ing a new enterprise after 35 years of srructured corporate l ife i excir ing-and scary, energ i: ing and rhr i l l i ng. They are looking for ward to rhe nexr 30 year . u ie enjoys garden i ng and L i teracy Volunteer , while Perer spend h i r i me with golf and wood work i ng, makino furniture and toy for the two grandch i l<lren . . . Ken Van Praag is rhe only re spond ing cla smate who i rerired. H e pends h is t i me with rhe K iwanis Club and h i pare time alpine k iing, bowl ing, traveling and camping . . . David McKeith, an I thaca College faculry member, wrote 'no 3 5 rh as l need to ray on campu ,' and added thar he may make a reunion as he has a son who l ives in Bridgton, where he work a a freelance wrirer/pho tographer/producer work i ng for col lege admi ions offices, i n cluding We t Point. David'sorher on i midway through a gourmet chef program. Da\·id has fin i hed 65

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c o m m i r r e J to o u r e x t e n J e J r ac k a g e . The fo l lo w i n g h a ve s i gneJ ur f or o ur re u n i o n , which hegins <� t t h e � amo,ct on the he a u t i fu l roc k h o u n J coa t of M a i ne : Andersons, Adels, ( Palmer) Bramhalls, Browns, G re e n e s , ( M i l l e r ) H u n t s , Hun tress, Haggets, J ubinskys, ( N ordgre n ) M e r r y w e a t h e r s , ( Pratt) Moodys, Pughs, ( Slavin) Reath, Rices, Sandborgs, ( Wa l k e r ) Sh ermans, Sorters, Volmers, Weys, Zambellos and Zulli ngers. H a , · i ng read these name , I k now y ou 'll all want to join us-just mail those orange

cards to me ! "Bill Wyman, headmasterof the Thacher School, poinr vi th pride ro an art i c l in the J une 1 1 , 1 990, issue of Time. It featu res the 'make teenager feel good about them elve ' a t t i tude, w h i c h he c re d i ts with the succe-s of his nearly cent u ry-old schoo l . A l though Thacher began a s a prep school for boys, i t has evolved i n t o a modern c o - e d c hool combi n i ng academ ic and eque trian stud ie . Bi II ha pent the past 30 years lead i ng pack t rips in the S i erra . . . After three-and a-half years i n Oregon, Lou ' 5 5 and Kathy McConaughy Zam-

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rec e n t l y g. me back to wor k i ng with em,1r ional l y d bturbeJ c h i l d re n o n ; 1 l i m i teJ ha" ' · FreJ. Bobh y \ h u�han d . h a,, rcce i \'eJ t wo all'ard:; r e c en t l y for hi \\'ork

with the Ma,,sach u;ett> Dc p a rt ment ofYtiuth Scrvices . . . Larry and Diane Sc hna uffer Zullinger ' 5 7 ha\'c te:,teJ the ir fi rnc.� each of the past four ye a rs h y b i k i ng throughout Eu ro p e . Last Augu't they were i n Sw i t:crlanJ. ounds

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" Dpn't forget w senJ pho n e w ., c l i p , , \'lde,1, ;mJ fi l m fo r uur reunion , · 1 d c , 1 'c ra p book . A SASE w i ll en,ure t heir return. I have mme q ue ., t i o n na i re :- f or next t i me , hu t fm those of you w h o h a \-e n't res po nd ed , rlca>e, r i ea�e Jo. Reuniun ' ' go i ng rn be great for r h t i se 'cm the fe nce ' get off and j o1 11 us 1 As a l ways, thanb to th ose of you w h o c on tin ue to make my tos,

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has been one very busy woman. I n add i t ion to se ll ing her own oil paint ings, Li: a lso gives private art lessons. Having -upport eJ her husband through l l card iac ar rests ( ' B y the way, he's fantast ic,' she writes ) . Li: ha a deep religious fa i t h , one she share with others t h rough the 'outreach ' Bible cla s she teaches. Four t i mes a grand mother, he has a lso taught at the h igh -school level in the Da lla public schools and has worked w i th the elderly as soc ial act i v i r ies d i rector ofa nursing home . . . Joan Kyritz O' Rourke, ret i red a year ago after 2 1 year of teach ing,

Mastermind of World Terrorism' in the ep r e m b e r i:, ue <)fReader 's Oii;est , " c or r esp o nden t Andria Peacock K i me advi es. "Nathan M. Adams, a senior editor, wrote an incredihly frighten i ng art icle after three months' research . H is spec ialty is invest igation of world t er ro ri s m. "Captain Marietta Pane is profe sor of naval sc ience and c o m m a n d i n g o ffi c e r o f t h e NROTC u n i t a t t h e U n iver· ity of l l l inois. he has set an example for her plebe by rappell ing a wall ( for the fi r t time). I magi ne-at her age1 . . Ann Wieland Spaeth

'cc' a Int nf Kate Knight Hal l . Roth ; 1 r e work ing togethcrns fund r;1 1 e r' ftir their h igh ,chool. Ann 'um mer' at � q u 1 rrcl Harhnr, near Bl 1,1thhay H arbor, 'l' ,he hasn't ltN the Mci inc a t tra c t i o n. he 'r i l l ,kb and play� tennb and p a ddl e tenn is and :,tarted rowing

fe w years ago . harlic ' 5 7 ,ind J u lie ' L ia' Belzer Twigg a rc 1 11 Welle·.ley, Ma � . . where Lia work. part t i me for a travel agency and ran r ime for Charlie, who owns h1::. company as a real e'>tate dc"elnrer. They had a ch <m c e to visit G reat Britain when their daughter penr a emeMer at Bath U 11 1 \' e r Jty . . . Dan and Ann Wilcox Loftin ha,·e been h u s y putt i ng their house in order after Hurricane Hugo. They live on ull ivan 1 land off Charleston H a rbor, .C he describes the pa t year as a 'Big Advenrure,' say i ng she is very thankful that they had insurance. After two years at Colby, Ann went on to fi n i h her degree at Gui lford . . The Re\'erend Linda Corcoran Smith-Criddle, Episcopal priest, is hosp ital chaplain and pastoral care d i rector at River ide Hospi ra! in Toledo, Oh io. he' co author of ' S h a r i ng Acee s to H o pita! Ethics Committee ' in the Hospitals Ethics Comminee Journal. She and A r t h u r Haw thorne Criddle, Jr., w i l l celebrate their t h i rd wedding anniversary on Chri tma Day ! . . . Joshua A. Nickerson, J r . , ha n't seen a soul from Colby ince h i col lege days. ( Lots of Colby folk on Cape od. You guys ought to get together for a mini -reunion. ) He lost hi apa

Colby, J anuary 1 99 1

An Advocate for Teachers When

Eleanor Duckworrh ' 5 7 won a Rotary cholar hip after graduating from Colby, he intended to rudy p ychology for a year at the orbonne. Bur a ir happened, the renowned child psychologi t J ean Piaget was lecturing in Pari . He convinced Duckworth to continue her tudie at the Univer iry of Geneva, and thu began a profe ional relation hip that la red more than 2 0 year until hi death in 19 0. Duckworth, a native of Montreal who ay he came ro Colby for "an adventure in international Ii ing," earned her undergraduate degree in philo ophy, magna cum laude. and wa elected to Phi Beta Kappa. But the mo t memorable part of her Colby experience, he say , was tudying John Dewey's theorie- of education with Profe or Peter Coffin. Recently, Duckworth wa promoted ro profe or of education at the Harvard Graduate chool of Education, who e faculty he joined in 1 9 1 after recei\'ing her doctorare in educational c ience from the Univer iry ofGeneva. 0 er the year , her proh ional act ivitie have been rich and varied and ha e included a year a a third-grade reacher in Quebec, anorber a a program evaluator for the African Primary c ience Program m six African nation , consulrancie, ro more than 35 organiza tion in rhi- country and abroad and a full chedule of lecture and work hop appearances throughout the U.S. and Canada. Her theories were influenced ;,trongly by her a octation wt th Piaoer a h is reaching a i-ranr and then a hi translator for lecture m the U. . In one fher cla room exercises, Duckworth a k her -tudent -themselve profe tonal educator -to keep a journal in which they record the time, po 1t1on and appearance of the mo n each t ime they see it. Duckworth a k them to try to figure out ho\\' they learn. "Learner come to recognize knowledge a a human con rruction," she said, " ince they have coru.tructed the tr own knowledge and know that they have ." Duckworth i committed to including the voice of teacher in debates about education. She helped found the HaJ\'ard Teacher ' etwork for Boston-area teacher- to hare their experience with each other. The organization al o help- teacher find way to publ ish their thought , give paper- at conferences and identify other outlet through which to hare their per-pecrive-. Th i chool year, Duckworth has returned to Canada a a vi iring professor of education at the Univer ity of Ottawa. She ay he i intrigued by the d ifferent way in which reacher are treated in the U. . and Canada but add that he ha n't drawn any definite conclusions. Sti l l , she ay , it i revealing to note that there were a whopping 6,000 applicants for 250 place in a University of Ottawa teachers' training program. Duckworth plans to return to Cambridge in the fall, and in the meantime, he is keeping up wirh ber 18 Harvard advisees-a commitment that offer a challenge in commuting as well as much arisfaction, she says. -Charlotte AgeU

Colby, January 1 99 1

penJ 1 x ar the \"l)ung age of 5 3 . What ears ur h t ' -;pare n me ' 'My \\· 1fe, tenrns, golf, hnc m ng.' 1 r' - his order . . . C . F l i n t and Helen Roberts Moger li \·e in Merrick. N . Y . . \\"here Flint 1s an educatur. Helen runs her own music .tudio, teaches, plays the oq;?an and 1 ;, c h o i r director. They became \"CT) in\·olved in Eastern rar. The) \\"ent the 'full c irc uit . . . fun bur exhau ·r ing' . . . Dale Stephen Patchell relocated from Chicago to Bridge\1·arer. .J . , to as;,ume the ro 1t ion of market inF? d i rec tor for AT&T. Ir '- been a big adjustment , to say the least, for te\·e and Nanc y . "

"r1ck1ng up where \\"e left off last rime." \\Tires usan Fetherston Fra:er. "[ now ha\·e more news ofHal Estabrook. You ma\" recall that he retired la t year after a long stint a� chair of the board of t ru s tees of the Brockton Hospital. He says hi real job i ( and ha been for some 2 7 years ) that of president of h i s own in urance agency, a growing business into which he ruts most of h 1s energy these day - . Hal and his \\"ife, Debbie, ha\·e four chil dren, all college graduates, \1·ho ha\·e now flo\\'n from the ne r. Th i · rermirs the Estabrooks ro do more rra\·elmg and . rend a good pan of the ·um mer on Nantucket. Hal asked for J ohn Metzger's address, which wa· duly fumished. The deal was that Hal would en courage John to write, bur l ha\'e yet to hear from him. How about ir, Joh n ? "[ h a d some very pleasant chars with classmates while in California on the way home from J apan. Margaret 'Peggy' Lippi n cott Brezel of Sama Cruz lives in a l o v e l y house overl ook i n g Monterey Bay. She say s h e feels as though she has l ived everal lives. My own impre sion is that 67

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made a major c o m m i r m e n r ro q 1l u ntceri:-.m, i> c urrcn r l y an ac r i \T memher of rhe League 1 lf Wt)men Vorcr:-. and of Planned ParenrhuoJ and i s cm the board of rhc a n ta Cru: Hou,ing Cor po ra r i o n , who,e mclj (lr cc 1nc crn i; lc>11·-cmt hous ing. Sh e ' ' a c t i ve in educar ion c i rc le, ar rhe >econJ a ry an d u n l \- c r,i r y levels. Sh e keep up w i r h h e r Fre nch by <H rend i ng whar ,he desc r i bes as a suc ial c l uh at w h i c h paper' and c o n ve n. a r ion are i n Fre n c h . Peggy', hu�hand is an optometri;r . The ir younge:-.r Jaugh rcr wi 1 1 ,oon he c o l l e ge - hou n d . T h e y a r e louk ing at a loc a t iun u n the e<1:-.r c na s r - i n C o n n c c r i c u r , a > a m a r rer of facr . . . O ur ; i' on e of rhe classes in w h i c h J ohn Martin of Carmel can claim membersh ip. He i an oceanographer and rhe J i rect11r of a sma ll lab ar San Jo. c rare U n i versiry. H is work i on the gree n h ou e effec r , which he a;,ures me i ' very real and nm ro he di missed our of hand. John and h is wife, an Engl ish teacher, have rwo sons, one in Carmel H igh School and rhe orher ar UC Davi,. J ohn's morher is till i n Old Lyme, Conn . , a n d J ohn gets bac k ca t now and rhen. He aw Bill and Dottie Reynolds Gay

l ast year . . . The Ca l ifornian are good rnlkers, hur Gladys Frank Bernyk of Saratoga is the best uf them all. Maybe she was alway rhar w ay ; maybe rhar's whar 2 5 year i n Cal ifornia does ro you. he is an alumni interviewer for Colby and says we need ro inter view more prospective srudent out rhere. G l adys has raugh r school in rhe A rmy and i an i nsrruc r ional assi ·tant in spec ial educarion, workingspecifically on resr ing and job coun e l i ng. Glady and her husband , Alex, a ped ia trician, have traveled extensively, mak ing many v i i r rn Lar i n and South A merica and most recently to S o u t h east A s i a . . . I a l so

c a ugh r up with Ann ' Marty' Worster Concepcion ( l f Re rk e

ley. When I ralked t l l her rhe mn:-.t importanr r h mg i n h er life wa' rhe up C ( ltl1 1 11 g Augu'r wed d i ng of her daughter and h er uwn nilc a> mnther ni the hride . I k now thar w i l l :-.mke a re,o und ing ch(lrd ' Marty has rem a in ed cl o, c to h e r C (ll lege intere't 1n American h i:-.wry. h e ha, hcen an a rc h l \· i :-.t <H the Libra ry of Congres!> ancl has worked for the

San Franc 1;co M<1 r i t 1 me H i ,tm 1 01l P<1rk. Her majcir int e rc>t'> me the decora t i ve art' and h 1 , t o ric rre,en·a t i c m . Of all the place' ,he h,1:-. vb1 ted ,he :-.ay' that Maine i' ,r i l l the h e, t. Anyh od y wa nt tl l 'ccond t h at � . . . Steve Levine nf Concord, ha\' i n g c h a i red the 1 5 t h and 2 0 t h reunium anJ ha\'ing heen ;1 warded ,1 C1 1lhy Brick in 1 98 1 , 1 ;, <l fo mou' ; 1 11 J acr l \·e member of our cl,1, . He b a l ightmg engineering ',ale, reprc-

Correspondents 1950

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N a n c y Sear ( Nancy L . Ricker) 31 Sweetwater A venue Bedford, M A 0 1 730 Phone: 6 1 7 - 2 7 5 - 7865

A nn l ngraham ( Ann S . Dill ingh a m ) 9 A ppletree Lane Manchester, M E 04 3 5 1 Phone: 207-622-0298

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Warren ] . F inegan 8 W h i te P i ne Knoll Road Wayland, MA 0 1 7 7 8 Phone: 508 - 3 5 -2292 1 95 2

Barbara Lea v i t t ( Barbara ] . Bone) 21 I ndian Tra i l Scituate, M A 02066 Phone: 6 1 7-545-4 3 74 1 95 3

] . N e l on Beveridge 1 34 Border Street Cohas et, MA 0202 5 Phone: 6 1 7 - 3 8 3 - 1 7 1 2

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M rs. Peter T.C. Bramhall ( Hope W . Palmer) 1 Mead w Creek Lane Falmouth, M E 04 1 05 Phone: 207 -78 1 -2 506 1 95 7

Brian F. 01 e n 4 6 Washington Drive A c ton, M A 0 1 720 Phone: 508-263-92 38 1 958

A n d r i a K ime ( Andria H. Peacock ) 7 3 7 Turnpike Street Stoughton, MA 02072 Phone: 6 1 7- 344-84 1 9

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Marlene J abar ( Marlene E. H urd ) 1 1 Pleasantdale A venue Watervi l le, M E 0490 1 Phone: 207-87 3 -447 1

Susan Frazer (Su an K. Fether ton) 6 Bellevue Place M iddletown, CT 0645 7 Phone: 203 -346-8 1 3 7

'ent<H 1 ve for a majm l ight i ng concern work ing in a large area in northern Ca l ifornia. He ha many Cnlhy contacts; h is most exotic reron wa� of a m i n i -re uni1m in Hung Kong three year ;1go with Emily and Dennis Ting '60, Frank tephenson '62 and T cd '57 and Susan Record Har riman. teve keer in wuch with N a n c y and Dave Bloom. He', a pretty good talker, too, and I 'm not doing ju nee to all he aid. If you want to hear more, he wel cnmes u'i all and offer ' ride- in the count ry.' " B o b C o c k b u r n ( p ro nounced l i k e J a n i ce Coburn Ananian ) wrote from the Uni v e rs i t y of New Brun wick i n Fredericton , where he teache Engl ish and was department chair from 1 977 to 1 987. He received a fac ulty merit award in 1 986 and has written exten i ve ly on the �ubject offar northern travels and e x p l o r a t i o n s . He ha b e e n coach ing r h e U N B Rugby Foot ba l l Club since 1 96 . As h is fa ,·o r i te recrea t io n , he c hoo es wi lderne c noe trips. He h a o n e daugh ter, a r a , now 1 7 . . . J ohn 'J ay' C h u rch is rre idenr of the Cinc innati Cordage and Pa rer Company and is a member of many hoards, a oc iat ions and c lubs related to the paper business and to Cincinnat i . As the cur rent c h a i r of the Nat ional Asso c i at i on of Wholesalers/Distribu tor , Jay pend a good deal of t ime i n Wa-h ington . He and h i wife , K itty, have traveled a lot, especially recently. Kenya and outh Afr ica were two of their most intere t i n g de t i nation . J ay i s s t i l l doing the thing he u ed ro, except no more hockey. J ay and K i tty have four c h ildren and five grandchi ldren. "Space l i mi t a t ions prevent me from mak ing yet another im passioned plea for new , but I wou ld apprec i ate ome volun teers." Colby , ] an uary 1 99 1

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Corre. pondent Kay White has added a third means of com·eying class note to her fax them to ( 3 1 3 ) 64 7 -6079. "Many congratulations and thanks to our c la-s pre ident for the p a s t fi \' e y e a r s , W e n d y M c William Denneen, for orga ni: ing a 30th reu n ion \\'eekend that was both fun and enl ighten ing," Kay write . "Wendy wa- ably a s isted at the d inner by Bev Joh nson A rnett, who shou ld be an emcee full t i me. Wendy re ports t h a t she and h u sband George saw Deb Wil s o n A l b ee, L i z B oc c a s i l e Mavis, C a role Richardson Merson and Char lotte Wood MacPhetres at their

annual 'mini-reunion,' \\'hich was held at the home of Doug '5 and J udy Ingram Hatfield. J udy ha a new act i,·ity-Engli h handbe l l ringing-and w i ll b e ri nging w i t h 9 0- 1 ,000 other ringer in the a t i o n a l H a n d b e l l Fest i ,·a l . Charlorre i s the therapy floor upervi or in a small day-program for everely brain- inj ured c h i l dren a n d write en ory-motor and developmental d a i l y pro grams for these k id . Li: i t i l l the gu idance department c h a i r at uffield ( Conn . ) H igh chool and i travel ing a lot, ince her h u sband i now with U n i ted Airline . "Admiral Ted and Carolyn Webster Lockhart have moved four t i me ince the 1 98 5 reunion and are now i n the Wa h ington, D.C., area while Ted is at the Pentagon . . . Ann lmpey Reed has a on who ts a 1 u n ior at Colby, a long with the on ofJane Holden Huerta. J ane teaches computer information sy terns at Bentley Co l le ge . . . Chet Lewis a l o has a on a t Colby and was editor of a corporate law quarterly for the tate bdr of M ich igan . . . Sally W a l k e r S i m ps o n c a me from Tallaha see, Fla., and went off on a windjammer cruise after the

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reu n ion . . . Both Bob and Ron L ittlefield are usino Colby phy�

ics tra i n i ng. Bob teaches physics and calculus m h igh school, and Ron \\'Orks for Bendix on the Earth Obsen·ing ystem Data and I nformation y tern for A A. "Marion Porter Potter i:. a realtor in Westport, Conn. Carol York Fortier teaches third grade i n Aubum , Maine, garden , seal her O\\'n dri,·eway and has a daughter who j u"t graduated frnm med ical school a nd a 'ion at T u ft s . . . T h e e ig h t g a r d e n s Ralph N elson bu i l t \\' ith h 1 ,, wife must be beautiful. and he deser\'es h is \'aca t ion trip ro A la-ka . . Ron Webersays rhat after 2 years on Wall rreer, the l 1 fe of lei-urc i look ing good . . . Ann Dudley De W i t t sent husband Charlie '6 1 to the reun ilm, i nce she \\'aS in e\\' Orlean. at a conventiL1n for the oc ial ec urin•. Admmi rra t ion . . . J. P. P ie rce d id a good job uf report t ng for the alumni news . . . A l l of us were urpnseJ t o see Peg B a r n e s D y e r ' s daughter ( \\' horn w e u se d to baby- i t ) a l l grown u p . Peg i a uper\'tser in the department of oc tal -en· ice i n Terre Haute, I nd . . . . Many thank- also go to Bev Jackson Glockler for her pa t fi\·e years of hard work domg this column. Plea e end me your m · formation or I will be forced to make up ome new ."

"Sue Walker Seifer has been developing an art career si nce 1 979," c la - correspon<lent Edwin ( ed) Gow reports. " he tarted by designing furniture and acce sories for craft how and bou tiques in the rri-srate area around her home in Hart dale, N.Y. Three years ago, she began freelance tex t i le designi ng for Cran ton Print Works. N ow he doe i x or o major coordinate a

year that a re p r i nted by the company' 'VlP' home , c\\'ing d i ,·ision. Th is year she designed a complete nursery layout fea tured by another company at the J u \'e n i l e/lnfant Market Shnw i n Da l l as i n Octnher. She and orman have three Sl)nS. The ir youngest, Cliff, entered Colby this fall . . . Ann M a ri e Eisentrager Birky has become a medi<i re c iali-t and finds the wurk both e x c i t i n g and c h a l l e n g i n g . Daughter Erica i , ,pendi ng her j u nior year studying at the U n i \'Crs i ty of N i amey, N iger . J udith ' Scotty' Macleod Folger b a re. ource

teacher for grades 91 2 . cotty and Brud get together two or three r i m e - a year \\'ith Norman '5 and Cici Clifton Lee, S a n d y and N a n c y C u n n e n Board ma n , M ary a n d Denny Dionne and Candy Castle Marellus at the Lee's camp on Ke:ar Lake, Maine. " ad I y, several of our c la s mare. reported the death or seri ou, il l ne - of spou es: Carolyn Evans Consol ino, l i v i ng in New Canaan, Conn., noted that her l ife ha, changed dramatically in the lasr two years aft er J oe ' 5 d ied in A p r i l 1 9 he tarted work mg full time in rown at The Whi tney hop ( ch ma, c ry-tal, s i lver, anttque furniture, ere. ) . Of three son and a daughter, only Da\'id, a h igh -school sophomore, re m a i n s ar h o m e . B i l l is a ophomore at Hobart College, Jeff i s an elec trical engineer at Xerox i n Rochester and arah l ive - m ew Canaan and works for The ew York Times . . . F.rom Bethlehem, Pa., Betsy Harper Hopler wrote, 'I he i rate to an swer becau e wh a r I'm doing isn't really noteworthy-I j ust take what l i fe d i hes out and urvive ! ' Widowed w i r h a l l fo u r c h i ldren in col lege, she says, 'We're mak i ng i r ! ' A freelanc e \\'riter, Betsy al o has a retail sales job. Daughter Amy attend Moravian College

in Bet h l e h e m , D e r c k '' at Muh lenberg College in A l len town, Douglas is at the U n i \'er sny of Dcla\\·are and Da\'id went north to Unity College in Maine. Th at gets Betsy back to Maine. h e ha� seen S a l l y Peabody Pendleton (her old roommate ) , who l t \·es and teache, p iano i n Bangor . . . Stephen Dellaquila lost hi wife in J une 19 8. A� president and CEO of his own construction firm, he keeps bu y. H i two daughter - are in college. usan is a graduate ,tudent at NYU, and Stephanie attends the U niversity l1f Hartford. He re married in September . . Sandy Nolet Eielson is a caterer and li ves in Lunenburo, Ma,,s. Her husband, John, a thoracic and general surgeon, has been disabled by an inoperable brain tumor. "Arthur and Lee Holcomb Milliken pent three weeks last March tra\·elmg 111 Ch ina \\'ith son Peter ( W i l liam '9 1 ) , who spent a year in Beij ino. 'It wa an incredible experience absorbi ng the complex i ties of the country,' he wrote. 'Eager, happy c h i ldren, i ns i d ious go\'emmental oppre ,ion, the beauty of the landscape , the G rear W a l l , the ummer Palace and the mas e, of people and b icycles.' . . . Profe sor Gor don Cummings, department of phy -ical therapy at Georgia tare U n iversity, d )e his share of trave l i ng-and gets paid for it, gi\'ing workshops. I n August he went to Bra;:i l to -tart a research project on low back pain. He calls Atlanta home . . . D ia n e Scrafton Ferreira and J ohn ex changed homes with a wedish couple thi summer while he attended e sion on l i teracy at the World Congre on Readi ng in tockholm. Diane is the t u d e n t literacy tutor coordinator on the faculty of Leeward Com munity College, which is part of the U n iversity of H awa i i . J oh n is c h ief of the Honolu l u F i re De69

Classmates Fulfill Colby Dreams "I

I 1ke rhe Jirecrnc . of pa inting," say. J ane Melan�on Dahmen '63 of Concord, Mass. "The feelings evoke<l by a subject and the paint it elf are as important to me as the actual subject L1f a paint ing, and the �pace, color, de ign and surface tension evolve as I work." Dahmen ha been paint ing an<l drawing all her life, and about 1 0 years after graduating from Colby with a B.A. in an history, she d c i<led to make arr her life's work. When he sold her fin print in 1 974, her children, Emily, now 20, and Joe, 1 6, were very young, and Dahmen says she preferred working around their schedules at home. "The children often painted along with me," h aid. ince that first sale, Dahmen's stature in the art world ha · steadi ly increased. In 1 984 the United Nat ion International Chi ldren' Emergency Fund published her serigraph, Daffodils, as a greeting card, and the organization' Boston branch later pon-

Teel I land l l l ored a one-per on how of her work. Last year two of her painting were bought and published a poster by Graphique de France they are now being old worldwide. Her work has been hown at

B,mon it Hall, the Kennedy Librar) and rhe w,,r[J Trade Center a� well as ar gal lcrie� in Ma achu ert., Maine an<l Con nect icut. Perhaps the most pre t1gious locale to sport a Dahmen paint ing 1 rhe White Hou e. La r -ummer, Nancy Bush Elli of Linco l n , Ma � .-who has encou raged Dahmen in her work through the years boughr one of Dahmen'· painting a a gift for her brother, Pre ident George Bu h. The pa int ing, Teel Iskmd lfl, is an oil on paper Jepiction of a Ma ine coasral cene. Dahmen ay he took the painting to Kennebunkport to see if the president l i ked it, "bur he wa very bu y with Pre ident M merand, o Nancy decided nor to disturb him." In read. Dahmen had it enr from Power Gallery in Acton, Ma . , directly to Wa hington. The pre ident l iked it o much that it now hangs in hi private . rudy. Megan Davi of the Greenhut Gallery in Portland, where Dahmen's work ha been hown and sold for three years, de cribe her a "a magical kind of arti ·r . . . so colorful, so full of life and o fun. All type of people re pond to her work-women, men, young, old, hospital and busine se . Her work i Mati e-l ike, yet gentle and soft at times. he i an emerging name in the Maine art world." The ocean, sail ing and "bright Maine day " are the inspiration for much of Dahmen's work, and she rakes her ·ketch book with her when she and her hu band, Joseph, who te t crui ing gear that he de ign , a i l Down Ea t in the ummer. Another influence on her art is Damari cotta Pottery, designed by Rhonda Friedman, who e work in c lay sometime appears in Dahmen' painting . The two friend recently had a joint howing of their pa int ing and pottery at the Greenhut Gallery. Reflecting on her life and paint i ng, Dahmen aid, "I began the proce s of learning to li·ren to my inner voice while at chool, and much later I found out what was important for me co Jo with my life. I appreciate rhe four years that I had at Colby, the friend hips that I formed there and my as·ociation with professor Uame ] Carpenterand [Abbott] Meader." Dahmen ays that in the future, she hope to work more with pottery but add , "I don't have any plans. I just know that when I wake up I want to go to my tudio and create a good paint ing-through experi mentation I learn." -Lisa Twomey ' 9 1

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With Palettes and Photographs Pe

ter J . Kecchum '6 3 d idn'c -et out co follow in h i- facher'· footsteps. And ac fin glance, it seem' chat thi arti t -on of an Epi copal clergyman ha indeed trayed from h i. mm . But in a way, the younger Ketchum al-n redeems lost souls-not from the pulpit, but with a palette . To a cramped stud io aero the road from hi orfolk , Conn. , farmhou e, Ketchum bring rrea ures reclaimed from yard ·ale· and flea markers: old photograph , the fading por trait of the ordinary people who wove the fabric of an A merica gone by. On canva., Ketchum aim to bring these people, long dead, back to l ife. Ketchum ee· each of his "painted picture " as "collabora t ion with unknown photographer· and ubject . " Fir t, he has a profes i nal photographer enlarge the photograph to a workable ize. Ketchum then add to, deletes from or paints on the phL ro graph, and the image is cut and gl ued to a bright painted back ground. "The ettings I paint repre,cnt, and at the ·ame time mask, reality, 5uch a. a ea hore where there wa none nearby or the trappinos of weakh for a backdrop that i betrayed by a cloth coat," he said. "Bur the true tory i i n the face. I gi\'e them background , and, though I pla) with the original picture a li ttle, I never touch the face." The picture "arc about a lo ·- of innocence, nat ional ly and individually," Ketchum notes i n what he call· h1 "long-winded" publicity release. "l refer to the photograph a ' lo t oul ' because the picture were ju t being thrown a\\·ay, w ith no one to care enough about them to hold onto chem. o one wa left ro lug around the vi ual evidence of a l ife lived, no one to ay, 'Th i i a picture of your Grear Aunt errie a a young girl."' ll1e tie chat once united u, have slackened, Ketchum ugge·t , and he ·ay that in their place we ·eek olace in material thing . "I would l ike u to top and con 1der where we are a a nation," Ketchum ·aid. "Once ur heart and ·oul came from a ver mall plot of land. What are our value now ? We've become a very acqui itive nation." A Ith uoh he pursued a different career path for many year , Ketchum' own heart, 1t eem , has alwa been in painting. He majored in art at Colh " and after graduation he joined Harcourt Brace Jovanovich in ew York, fir t m their book d iv 1s1on, later a. ediror- in-chiefo f H Bj ' film branch. He went on to esrabli h hi own film company, who e client included The ew York Times, Random Hou e, Prent ice- Hall and Disney. H i · film addre ed tough 1 ue uch a· teen fatherhood, u ic 1de, homo exual1ty and child abu e. A favorite proiect, a film ·erie dPaling with familie in cri i , won prai,e from several family an<l mental health organization , includ ing an award from the at1onal Mental Health A oc iation.

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"There i s a power i n film, and l felt I could expose some of the i l ls in the world and perhap change them for the better," Ketchum recall . But the train of film work wore on him. Foryear an off-hour painter, Ketchum gave himself a year-long hol iday to concentrate on art. N i ne years later, the h iatu continues. Kerchum's publ ish i ng credits in clude ome 500 written works for edu cational use, and he i currently work ing on a project with a tautological rwi t: a ch i ldren' book aboutchi ldren' books. Painting remains Ketchum' first love. Recent work has freed h i m from an earlier devotion to detail, a l lowing h i m to dwell on each picture' · overall effect. Painting, he maintain , " is a way to how vi.ually what I feel." -Dei.•on Phillips

partment. They boast · i x grand c h i ldren . . . David and Patricia Houghton Marr hmh own busi nesses. Da,·e ha Marr Law Of fices, and Pat tarted her own consult ing business, Professional Tax Serv ices. Dave's golf hand i c a p h a s sl ipped to 1 4-he's too busy to play often enough. Or maybe he pends too much time d r i v i ng h i s t urbo F i at Spyder convert ible 1 Pat aw Ch ristel Bachmann Krahulik in 1 989 and reports she 'looks great' and work in management for H&R Block in New Jersey. " Bruce and Martha Ray mond Scherpenisse l ive in Grand Rapids, M ic h . , where both are property managers. They have a daughter and three sons. Oldest son Peter and daughter J enn ifer are both married and l ive i n G rand R a p i d s . Jennifer made Martha a grandma for the fir t t i me this year with a baby boy. Second son is a j u n ior in college while th ird son entered first grade t h i s fa l l . . • M a r n a H a n s o n Maclean a n d Robert '60 l ive in Waccabuc, N.Y. Son Christopher got married in J u ly . . . Bev Lap ham left banki ng after 28 years and bought V i l lage Canvas in Meredith, N . H . He makes boat and truck covers, awnings, etc. Bev ays he has a new apprecia t ion for what i t means to own your own business-great to be in control and different levels of tress. Liz Rowe Lapham '63 is sti l l in the basket business. The ir son, Skip, and wife Joanne be came new parents this summer . . . Joseph and Carol Rancourt A hern l i ve i n Orlando, Fla. , where she's a teacher's assistant in arc h i tectural design and com pu ter-aided d raft i n g at M id Florida Technical Institute . . . From Scar dale, N . Y . , Henry Wingate writes that he ha re t i red from the Ardsley public school system after 2 1 years. Now an educat ional consu ltant, Hank 72

a d m i t > t n hecoming slower on the tennis courts. He and Margo have two �ons. Peter is a sopho more at Colhy , Rohe rt a reporter with the Philadelphia Inquirer."

'The scads of response that l received to the la t que t ionna i re are a l l going to be publ ished in this newsletter so that no one feels that the ir re sponse was s l i gh t e d , " L i n d a N icholson Goodman reports. " [ must say that although o u r c las has not broken any records in our fi n a n c i a l g i v i n g ( st a b l e b u t modest ) , few o f u s are ret icent about sharing our ongoing l ife changes and hard-earned lessons about happiness. "Jean Young Lawrence has received a master's in computers from N ortheastern Un iversity and become a technical writer of computer manuals after a career as a teacher of the deaf. Children are Cal, 2 3 , and college students Lara, 2 1 , and Ken, 19 . . . Rick Levesque is a manufacturer's rep in Ohio and is playing tennis, runni ng daily and enjoying hi and N ancy' wine cellar now that Kim i a senior at H i l lsdale Col lege and Mark a sophomore at D e n i son U n i v e r s i t y . . . P r i s Gwynn Maulsby describes her self as an 'equ ine sanitary engi neer.' She and retired husband Dick spend t ime w ith the ir horses in Southbury, Conn. Pris h ighly recommends Ann Tracy' book about H iggins Classical I nst i tute, Higher Ground. Ann's fir t novel , Winter Hunger , was published in October by Goose Lane Ed i tions of New Brunswick, Canada . . . Anne Ticknor McNeece is in spec ial education at the j unior h igh level i n Acton , Mass. Hus band Rob is a systems analyst, and their combined fam i l ie are either in college or at various

stages in the J nb market field. I 'll know more after we stop there on our way to H omecoming t h i s y e a r . . . Artie Pickman, presi dent of CAP I ndustries in Holly wood, Fla . , has topped mak ing t u i t ion payment> and started winnowing h is golf handicap in preparation for the 'Senior Tau Delt tour.' "After receiv ing her B.A. from Trinity in 1 98 7 with Ph i Beta Kappa honors, Ency Schick Richardson is continu i ng in the field of environmental studies. Full-t i me partner Nevi lle is a Brit ish sai lor with a penchant for sa i l i ng the Ma ine seacoa t in their boat, Cimbria . . . Ida Mae Gore Raoof owns a Ben Frank lin store in Chatham, Mass. She finished her B.S. in accounting in 1 976 and worked for I 0 year at Marine M idland Bank in Buffalo. After what she describes as a friendly divorce, she came to Cape Cod, where she can take i t easy 'work ing 1 00 hours a week.' Son A l i , 2 6 , i s i n banking in Boston wh i le daughter A nisa, ' 2 3 , is in psy chological re earch and earring design . . . Linda Laughlin Seeley sent news of how our c h ildren become our ears and eyes on the world: son Chri reported how the October 1 7 earthquake felt from a Stanford tenn is court and son Scott, studying as a Stanford student abroad, reported from atop the Berli n Wall on Novem ber 9 and 10 as i t began to fall. I can certa inly relate. Our son, J im, a second-year law student at the U n i versity of San Fran c isco, called as the first of the tremor were subsiding and before we were even aware of the enormity of the quake striking as the World Se ries began. A nd my n iece was in Hungary during the fall of the Wall and subsequent pol i t ical events. We now have a small piece ofconcrete as a souvenir . Anne Cross Toole sent news of her remarriage to W i l l iam Toole,

c ity plannerforCenterville, Mas . Anne i. a French and Spanish teacher and travels exten ively, conducting tours to Mexico, Eu rope and Canada. Her daughters, Bri n , 2 5 , and Andrea, 1 7 , have remained close friends of El iza beth Weigle, daughterof Eleanor Hicks Weigle. "J immy Johnson reports he is current I y conducting polygraph exams on i nmates in prisons throughout the New England state for attorney who are pre paring defense cases. Al though all confessions are confidential, J im says he hasn't heard anything like it since ome of his Tau Deir fraternity brothers' blubberings follow i ng downtown excursions i n the ixt ies . . . Gail Smi th Gerrish and husband A llan have taken advantage of an enhanced pension offer from Bel l Lab and plan to take a year and travel before making plans for their new free life tyle. Gail intimated that Boulder, Colo. , would probably be their new address . . . Another voice from the Colorado Rockies is that of Henderson Colley, longtime res ident of Denver, where he is in marketing and sales. ( What e lse ? Skis! ) Envious of this comment ? ' I 've taken my second trip on the Orient Express with the love of my l i fe.' No names-Mr. Colley remains an unencumbered bachelor . . . Dirk Leiser reports that after gradua t ion he returned to Sao Paulo, Brazi l , where he worked for 20 years for Avon and G iannini. In 1 98 5 , u n favora b l e economic cond i t ions convinced h i m to move to Durham, N .C . , where he entered the travel industry. Hi c h ildren are Dirk, 2 3 , and Jessica, 2 1 , students at the U n i versity of S a o Paulo; C h r i t ina and W i lson, students i n h igh school i n Brazi l , and Daniel, 7 , a first grader in Durham. Dirk a ked if I had any news about B i l l Waldeyer, and guess whose ques-

Colby, January 1 99 1

Gordon W . St. John '60 t 1onnaire wa 1mmed 1ately under hi ? B i l l d i rects A bury Park M iddle chool' guidance de partment near Mana quan, .J . , and own , with h i wife, Barbara, B&B Trophy and Award Engrav ing Company. Daughter Li a i a graduate of Su quehanna Uni ver ity and on Robert is a junior at Wake Forest . . . Mary Bal lantyne Gentle, a long-time fir t grade teacher, wrote that after l i v ing through two sons and umpteen year of finger painting and temper tantrums at school and grateful that her marriage to Stephen is till intact, he is go ing to take a leave of ab ence and p lan for a second career. Mary, you de e rve i t ! M a r y ' a n d Stephen's on Rob i a 2 3 -year old ophomore in college after four year in the Marine Corps, while on reve, 2 1 , i a sen ior at onheastern."

"I think we are all l iv ing uch bu y live that we JU t don't take the rime to sir down and write letter anymore," cor respondent J o - A n n W i n c : e French lament . "Dee D e e W i l son Perry thought the same thing and ha tarted a round robin letter to pa s among ome of the 'old gang.' he included a Colby 8 rape to make u all no talgic, and it will be interesting to see how long it rakes the chain to circulate and what news comes out of it ( ome of it probably not printable). In northeast Ohio, we had an alumni gathering (along with some Bate alums) and spent a very plea ant eveni ng at the beautiful outdoor Blossom M usic Center, the ummer home of the Cleveland ymphony. I was the on!y rerre entative from our class, but tho e representing cla es close to our were Mary 'Weezie' Lippschutz Silliman '64 and Bill

Colby, January 1 99 1

Headliners Gordon W . St. J o h n ' 6 0 wa elevated to chief executive officer and trea urer of Bo querr and Company, a 36-employee Detroit property/casualry in urance agency. He till heads the life/health in urance firm that bears hi name and coache Central Catholic H igh's hockey team. J e rome Goldberg '60, a Colby trustee, was elected to a three-year term on the board of the Portland Symphony Orchestra. Pauline Ryder Kezer '63 was elected secretary of tate by the voters of Connecticut. A Republican, she had been a Harvard Fellow last pring, lecturing on ''Volumeerism in the inetie : Reviving the Call to Public ervice." Charles W. C ar ey '63 was named vice chair and executive vice president of the Fleer orsrar Financial Group in Providence, R.J. Robert Furek '64, pre idem and chief executive officer at Heublein, Inc., and James Crawford '64, c hair and chief executive officer of the James River Coal Company in Richmond, Va., are new Colby trustees. Alex Lloyd '64, who chair· rhe management committee at Sh ipman & Goodwin, was featured in a fascinating Harrford Courant profile of the city' hot law firms. Stanley Garnett '65 wa elevated to chieffinancial officer by Allegheny Power Sy tern , Inc., a N ew York-based utility holding company. J eff Lathrop '68 wa named president of the Mount Attitash Lift Corporation in Bartlett, . H . Rocco Landesman '69, t h e theater owner/producer, w a profiled b y The e w York Times in a piece headlined, " How a H igh Roller Bets on Broadway."

Newsmakers Mari lynn Sandra M ay e r Zin.man ' 6 0 wured Czecho lovakia, Hungary and Austria with the Westchester Chorale Society and the Oratorio Society of ew York-and encoumered two other alumnae-Elizabeth "lppy" olie Howard '39 and Beth G ilroy ' 7 . . . The arri try of Norman Macartney '6 1 , who run Dal ijen Landscaping and De ign company in Katonah, .Y., was the subject of a unday color feature in the Yonkers Hera/.d-Sracesman . . . Paul Pineo '63 is executive vice president and general manager of Home Leasing, real estate developers and managers in Rochester, .Y . . . . W ay n e Fil lback '64 i the track coach at toneham (Mass . ) H igh . . . Lynn Seiden tuecker Gall '66 of Augu ta, Maine, was honored for her ervice to the Kennebec Valley Mental Health Center . . . Linda Hall Lord '66, librarian at Mount View H igh in T horndike, was named co-winner of the Mame Educational Media Association' annual award . . . French horn player J ohn Wheeler '66 ha j oined the Blue Hill ( Maine) Brass Quintet . . . Frank Finizio '66 i chieffinancial officer for Leamar lndustrie in Marlboro, Mass . . . . Thomas Easton '66 live in Belfast, Maine, writes cience fiction (Sparrowhawk i h i late t) and teache biology at Waterville' Thoma College . . . Derek Schuster '6 7 wa named v ice pre ident of corporate development by Alexander Wolf & Son , general contractor , in ew York . . . J udith Gerrie Heine '67 was honored as Canton (Mass. ) reacher of the year and Norfolk County educator of the year . . . Alan McWhirter '69 i president of the Connecticut J unior Soccer A sociation . . . Nancy J ea n Money '69 wa promoted to pre idem of Tygate Motel Corp. in Burlington, Vt.

Mileposts Births: A daughter, Karin Leigh, t o Clifford and Bonnie Zimmermann Henrickson '66 . . . A daughter, Magdelaine "Mimi" Harris to Ann and Robert Anthony '69. Marriages: Stephen Dellaquila '6 1 to Donna Marie Lord in Saybrook, Conn . . . . A n thony Patrick Carnevale '68 to Ellen Segalla in Rockford, I ll . . . . Dorothy Weathers '64 to Bruce M. Ma ton in Garden City, N.Y. Deaths: W . Pierce Burgess '60 in Franklin, .H., at 54 . . . Ovil a J . LaPlante ' 6 2 in Waterville, Maine, at 7 3. 73

WoolJredge '6 1 . Next year w i l l b e a husy o n e for me a; my young eot c h i ld w i l l grndu<ne from high ,chuol, my older daughter \\' i l l he ge n i ng married and I w i l l he mak ing the move ro <I cnndo. o, unlc,-, you wam w he hored ll' ith my own fam i l y 'ruff, rlea'<: '>Cnd me your new� ' "

Matchmaker, Matc hmaker S o, do y o u h a v e Colby Wedgewood p l a tes, cup

"Since t h e 1 990 lass Opin ionnaire \\'a · ma i led, a whole new play ha · begun on the world stage and m a n y more t i me l y q u e t ions c o u l d now b e a�ked ," Sara S h a w R h oa d e s n o r e s . "Howe\-er, t h e 3 1 repl ies l 've re ceived m date have brightened my world t h is -;ummer and fa l l . TW L l c la smate a r e of srec i a l i n terest becau�e they h a v e n ' t been heard from in years. O n e i Gardner Gray, who wri tes from N ew Hamr h i re that he hasn't been hac k to Colby since a Colby 8 reun ion long ago. Hi career was e tabl ished early when he chose m i l i tary service a; a duty and fly ing a an ortion and has c o n t inued w i t h commerc i a l aviation. H e also write though t f u I l y abou t t h e w o e s of t h e American way o f l i fe: ' I nd i v idual r ights . . . are be ing cast aside and d i l uted by the system' defi n i t ion of moral i ty and public good. Presidents should be impeached if, for example, they lie. Polluters hould pay for the i r pol lution. We should seek a l ternative en ergy. Our car should all get at lea t 40 mpg. The I RS hould be a service, nm a Gestapo. We should have a balanced budge t . . . . But a l a s , t o o m a n y w a n t too much for not h i ng.' Gardner and others express the opin ion that the pres needs to be i n t rusive pol i t ic a l l y b u t not person a l l y . . S u z y Noyes Mague says the press should limit its coverage 'to tho e a peers of l ife that affect 74

and comedy . . . . It i ' re<1',uring to find that at lca�t 2 3 of the re,�1ondent' \\'<luld 'till chuose Colhy and thu, would h<ive made < lur ao.1ua 1 nt a nce. J im Simon ays he ll'uuld p<1rty more' M uch more t< 1 C < nne fnim y<iur4ue,t ionnai re;. I t \ not roo lcne to 'end them bac k . " or

saucer

that you can no longer use or have no r om to store ? Or do you need ome pieces ro complete your own et ? We have received requests from everal alumni for addi tional pieces of the Wedgewood plates, cup and aucer with Colby bu i ld ings on them. Though we aren't able at t h i t i me to commi i o n a reprint of the d i hes, t h e A lumni Office would be happy to provide a match-mak i ng service for alumni with Wedgewood t o buy or se ll. W r ite us if Colby plates ar e on y ou r mind. We'll see if we can find a perfect match.

the performance of public du ties-currently a lot of people won't take the risk of rartic i pa t ion in publ ic l ife. ' Betsy Croc kett Smith ays 'yes, i t 's nece sary on government i-sues, but they cou lei bac k off personal tragedies and give people more re pect and pri vac y.' The opin ions are sharply d i v ided on this one. N ine people say flatly, 'yes, intrusion of the press is the price of li berty, ' and five say outright , ' N o ! I t's not necessary ! ' Some dec ry the e nsat ional i m and tabloid mental ity, which is so prevalen t . " T h e other long-lost cla s mate i s S k ip Thayer, head t ra i ner f o r the P i t tsburgh Pen g u i ns. Work i ng for good ole Carl N e l so n got h i m s t a r r e d . He tran ferred tO UMai ne and earned h is M .S . at I nd iana Un iversity. He taught for two year at N ichol College i n Dudley, Ma . , then went to the Chicago Black Hawks for 18 years, spent a year i n Hart-

ford at a phy, ical therary c l i nic and then moved to the Penguin two year ago. He is twice d i vorced, h a s six s o n a n d two granddaughters and ha recently married for a t h i rd t i me. No grass growing under yourfeet, Skip1 • • • Notice that Betsy Crockett has a new la t name ? he married David Field i ng Smith, a writer and pri vate school admi sions officer, onJ uly Z . Be t wi hes' . . . Dottie Thompson writes that she is too pooped to have any opin ions, having j ust moved back to N ew England ro a t iny, beautiful rown in Vermont . . Jean Brennon Call and Gail Koch Cooper both said they l isten to N PR a lot and did that count as talk rad io I No, I meant those call- in-ancl-blow off-steam shows. A i t turn out , they are more popular than I ex pec ted. Twelve of the 31 said they I i ten. But N PR's C l ick and Clac k lost out in this group. Only five ( s i x cou n t i ng me ) tune in to th i · auromotivc c i rc us of advice

" T h a n k ' to C a n d y Wilson Haynes'� hu hand, John '64, uur glonou 2 5 th reunion l i ,·e, nn in a two-hour color and 'ound VH� \·ideorape," corre 'pondent Dick Bankart reports. "The tape features the cla ra rade, the cla s rhoto gathering on the M i l ler L ibrary reps and the ent ire even i ng program at Camp Caribou ' T om Hill' 'fir t date' �ketch alone i worth a re rlay ! Lot of good close-ups of our 8 7 returning cla smate in cluding c la-- gue t -the Joseph fa m i l y , Dean N ickerson, B i l l Bryan '4 a n d Professor Benbow. You may order a copy for $ 1 2 from Pamela Plumb Carey, 6 Lantern Lane , Cumberland, R I 02 864. "The re un ion commi t tee had such a good t ime in J une, they had a m i n i-reun ion i n Sep tember. G a t h e r i ng at Sunny Coady' were Rick and Nancy Win slow Harwood, Jan Buf fington Browning and Bruce , M a r c i a H a r d i n g A n d e rson , Margo Beach Long and Dick, Chris Brown, Ginger Goddard Barnes and Howie, N ick Locsin

and Sue and our newly elected c lass president, Rick Davis, and G a i l . . . Sunny put together an i nternat ional ausagefest buffet that the gang munched while re v i e w i ng each other's reun ion photos and the reunion video tape. Photo of thi group in Sunny's hot tub have yet to reach thi correspondent.

Colby , January 1 99 1

" M arc i a H a rding Anderson and Sunny Coady rep ort \' i · ir i ng w i t h Rhoda Goldstein Freeman and Leah Aranovitch i n Plm

land. Rhoda and h usband Bob own and opera re M a i l Boxes, E re . , a pos t a l business a n d com m u n i

cat ions franch ise i n Brunswick , Maine. Rhoda, in add i t ion to her ac r i viries as a real estate broker i n rhe Saco, M ain e, a r e a i a profe· sional personal tra i ner spec i a l i : ing i n body b u i ld i ng. L e e i· a n ac t i \'e compe t i tor i n wome n ' body b u i ld ing compe t i t ions . . . Your c o rr e spo nd en t recently re turned from a n 1 8-day, 2 . 700m ile self-drive rour of cotland to fi nd a new dea dli ne for t h i s

c n l u m n . l mp ro \ ' e me nt s in Colh nffice pmcedures ha\·e redu c e d rhe c lass nmes c olumn le a d r i me from six months to (\\'\). I 11·e l come your news, b y lerter, ph on e L1r v i s i r

''Tll'enty-fi\·e years agL) no\\' we ll'ere rea l i : i ng r h a t e n ior •ear wa� ':,eriou� bu�ine:,,' as we ,tudied for comp. anJ b ega n to make p l a ns for Life After Co l by , " correspondent M a rga re r Fa l lon

Wheeler remembers. "Some of u · a re once agam b u rn i n g rhe mid n i gh r o i l for Co lb y a· we m a ke

r i me in our h u,1· 1 1\ ' C� rn plan for ll'har p m m 1 se � ro he a really spe c i al 2 5 rh re un ion on Mayflm1·er H i ll J u ne 6-9, 1 99 1 . H ats L)ff to c lass offi c e rs Rick Zimmerman, Kay McGee Wilson and St u

C(lnn. ' r a n handle ocean ma rme c l a i m' and em·ironmental l i t igat ion for General Remsur ance. Ma rry is personal c on s ul t ant 11" 1 r h J .R . V augh a n & A sso c iate" ( J i m Vaughan , Colby

Wantman f or ral l y mg rhe rrnops

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and spu rri ng all rhe p l a n n i ng comm irree members onward. F i n a l a rr an ge m e n r s a re t a k i n g shape, and phones are ringing. T h e call is our ro a l l '66ers to panic1pate in rhe survey , rhe c la s s book, rhe c la�s gifr and e �pe c i a l l y in rhe Reunion Weekend irseli. "Tll'o c l a ssmar e , ll'ho are ll'lHk ing h ard on the reunion plan a re Stan a n d M a r t h a

ing, s k i i ng , h o m e carpentr\' a nd HO t rains ll'hen he's nnt globe trntting on his j ob a; 1·ice presi dent L)f Bank of e11· York. Ron, hLs ll' ife and their three daugh ters l i ve in S u m m i t , . j . . . . A nd \.\'hat's nell' in M e rc h a nt v i l le , N .j . ? K a r i n Leigh. hor n ro Cliff an d Bonnie Zimmerman Hen ricksen on May 3 1 , 1 990. Th e H e n r i c k s e n · n o 11· h a \· e fo u r d a u g h t e rs anJ fi\·e sons. S a y , Bonnie, 'We are indeed hlessed. ' "Robert �ears, do you ha\'e your t icker home from M a n i l a f o r re un i on yet ' Bob is p res i de n t o f M err i l l Lynch Ph i l i p p i nes Inc. . . . I n add i t ion to her ll'Ork as operations accounting manager ar Branson U 1 trason1cs Corpora t ion , Diane Leach W ilbu r has emharked on an ambi t iou· E x ec u t i 1 ·e M . B . .A . program a t the U n i \·ers i ty of e1\· Ha\'en. Diane l i\'es i n R id g efie l d , Conn . H e r >On Christopher i> a fre hman at the U n i \·ers i t y of Rhode I s l a nd ice to :,ee Gerri Davies DeGeorge at rhe S e p te mber re u n io n meet i ng i n Cam b r id ge . Gerri wo rk s in real esrate and l i 1·es in W i nchester, Mass. Toni Russell Merrick is a school

Walker Marchut ofGlastonbury,

volunteer in her hometown of Freeport, M a i ne , a nd i · al o a t ru st e e a r orth Ya rmouth

Class of '66 Reunion Meeting, September 1 990-Row 1 : Nawlie Bowerman Zaremba, Virginia Grelotti Connolly , Katherine McGee Wilson , Swnley Marchut , Francis Finizio, Lynn Seidenscuecker Gall; Row 2 : Grecch n Wollam O'Connor, Jan Atherton Hoffman , Linda Mitchell Potter , Elinor Caito Thompson, Martha Walker Marchu.t, Geraldine Davies De George; Row 3: Deborah Anglim Higgins , Barbara Ackerson McClure , Stuart Wantman, Terry Saunders Lane; Row 4 : Linda Buchheim Wagner , Barbara Wise Lynch, Margaret Fallon Wheeler; and Row 5 : Carol Lordi . Colby, January 1 99 1

A c a d emy . . . O t h e r '66ers i n volved w i th education a r e S u e Turner o f Charleston, ..:>.C. , \.\'ho teache Spanish a well as Eng l i h as a e c o n d l a ngu ag e; Jan Jolico e ur Cote, a k indergarten teacher from Ch e rry H i l l , .J . ; Susan Rumsey Strong, a dean of the ew York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University; and John Perkins, teacher and coach at the Kent School in Kent,

Cunn . . . . Barbara Wise Lynch \\' i l l he ma k i ng freq ue nt t r i p' t < l M ; 1 y fl o\\'er H i ll nu\\' t h a t h e r J a ughrer, C hr i ;. t y, i , a me mher t lf the Cl a;.;.of I 990 a t Co l b y . Barhie i ., 1\·or k i n g h a rd o n o ur 2 5 t h r eunion . . . A , Y < l U r i n g 1 11 t he ell' Year. r e m e m b e r w m ake your N u mber One R e " 1 l u t iun a t r i p t < l Waten· i l le in J u n e . "

plaud i t i ' <H torney Peter Roy,

ll ' h o, when nut engaged in d he n rn n g l i ng l e g a l k not' \\' 1 t h m th e confi ne., of h i , eMccmc d l a w oi f 1 c es in El lswort h , th e Gate\\'ay

tor of the C mgreg<t t ional Ch urch of C h r i s t , N e w i ngto n , Con n . M < m y o f u s arc aware t h a t K e n i s a t h i rJ generat ion pasror . . . I n eg l ecre J w mention p re v i o usl y , hut w i l l now do ;.o, t h at J udg e J o h n Leopold, w h o l a s t year marrieJ . um mert i me pal from

Bay. R;1y , nm t o he m i -,taken f or one of t h e mma ll y Juh iou., yet

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R ichard W . Bankart 20 Valley Avenue S u i te D2 We twood, NJ 0767 5 Phone: 2 0 l -664- 7672

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Edwin K . Gow 38 H igh rreet Rte. 7 RFD Box 395 Canaan, CT 060 1 8 Phone: 203-824-0 1 95

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Margaret F. Wheeler ( Margaret L Fal lon ) 42 Belvedere Road Box 493 West Boxford, M A 0 1 Phone: 508 - 3 5 2-2052

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Linda Goodman ( Linda H . N icholson ) Femwold Heights Farm 96 Lynch H i l l Road Oakdale, CT 063 70 Phone: 203-848-0469 1 963

"Sandra High Walters en joys an academic l i fe with her family at Wayne S t a t e U n i ver

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Greek and Latin department . . George Rideou t ' s ev a n ge l i cal work cont inues. H i wife and four c h i ldren share his enthu iasm for spreaJ i ng the Gospel. " M e a n w h i l e , w o r t h y of

Sara R h ade ( Sara K . Shaw) 76 Norton Road K i ttery , ME 03904 Phone: 207 -4 39-2620

a<> i mm u n e w th.:

Kather i ne P. W h i te 1 2 2 Sandringham Way Birmingham, Ml 480 ! 0 Phone: 3 1 3 -646- 2907

Jo-Ann W. French (Jo-Ann W incze ) 864 S. Parkview Drive Aurora, OH 44202 Phone: 2 1 6- 562 -992 5

sity in M ich iga n , where her hus K e n n e t h , i s c h a i r of the

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of yore, Terry Mood, haJ as hio hcst man our c l as s mat e Pete Rouse.

th<it prnc t 1ccd 11· 1 t and \,\.·e l l -honed nc inch,dancc f o r ll'hich h e 1\'<J .,' k m l\\'n 1 11 h i .., er.,t wh i lc ad m i n i .., t r<H i \"C c areer " ' p r e i d c n t uf th e nnw- d, irmant Al pha T a u Omega

I mg> anJ <trnl\\'' of outrageou age . anJ our Jemeanor; as sunny."

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t<l Acad i a , ha, heen ,pureed ma m· u 1·ermg hi, nuhle and -, r u rd y yach t , D1xit> Chicke n , t h ro ugh t h e ;. t rn i b and ;.hoals nf Fre n c h m a n \

" D r . Debbie N u tter Min er was a gue;.t on W BZ rnJio i n Boston l;bt w m t e r, spea k i ng on the r<i J i o ;.tat ion's ' F i rot Da y' progra m on e ,· e n ts i n E<tst e rn Eumpe anJ c h ;mge; in t he So v i e t U n i o n , " corresp1 mdent Bm har<i B i xby report>. " Dr. M i ner i; c h a i r oi the gm·ernm e n t J e pa r t ment <lt i m mons Col lege a n J an a:," ic i a te w i t h H ar v<ird U n i ver ., i t y l n t e rn a r i o rni l Affair;. De pa rtm e n t . . . Frank Dunton and Pa t r i c i a wanson were m ar r i ed rec e n t l y a n d h a v e se r r i ed i n Fra n k \ own Roc k port, M a ·s. T h e R e v e r en d Ken Brookes c o nt i n u es all his fi ne work as pas

gmid 1 1ld hoy'> w i t h wh(1m h e >omct i m c;. ri Je, r h e \\' i l J t u rf ( II' hen a nc hored m port ) , ha� hy

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M rs. Ro A . Dean ( Susan R. Dagg et t ) 293 0 1 N . 1 l 4t h treet Scottsdale, AZ 8 5 2 5 5 Phone: 602 - 585-03 1 3 1 968

Barbara E . B ixby 1 2 Eighth Street Bayvi l le, N Y 1 1 709 Phone: 5 1 6-628- 1 597 1 969

A nna T Bra gg ( Anna E. Thompson) PO Box 267 61 South Main Street Washburn, ME 04786

A nn a Thompwn Bragg .,ays she seems rn d o her he,t c l a mat e - t ra c k i n g by ph one , "and I rea l l y h it the j ac kpot when I c a l led Sharon Timberlake, who

i'> l il' l ng in Port l <t nd . haron is the Jeputy director of the Joh erv1ce in Ma ine and ha a pen chant for traveling. She found herself in Argentina , England and Puerto Rico j ust la r year. Plans for t h i > year ? � he ,a id nor really, but then amended i t to ay that ,he wa� t h i n k i n g of v i s i t ing Nicaragua . . . haron was a h i e to report on three other c las mates . . . Connie Tingle Grabowy lives in Concord, Ma. s., and has heen ,-ery act ive in sport �ince he left Colby . Her favorite are ba ket bal l , occ e r and golf . . . Diane Kindler al o l ive in Portland and ha a 3 -year-old on. Needle s to ;ay, she is bu y . . . Alden Wil son i l i ving i n North Edgecomb, M a i ne. He is exec u t ive J i re c w r of t h e A rt - and H u man i t ie Commis ion and has heen ac t ively inrnlved in the ant i -cen sorsh i p move ment to prevent censor h i p in art . . Another ' M a ine-iac ' is Warren Turner, a lawyer spec ial i:ing in real e tate. Warre n is u rrounded by fe m a l es-h i w i fe and t h re e daughters ( 1 3 , 8 a n d 5 ) . He h a j ust completed several year i n pol i t ical ac t iv i t ies a n d is now fi nding more t i me for hi family. They e pec ially enjoy h ik ing and outdo )r act i v i t ies. Warren scuba dive off the coast of Maine . Warren ee Tom McBrierty, w i th whom he serves on the board of U n i ted Way. Tom is vice pre ident of New England Tele phone in charge of Maine and l ives i n Cape Elizabeth."

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"Our 20th reunion has come and gone," corresrondent Robin Armi tage Cote rerons. "We had approximately 75 c lass member- along with their spouses, fr iends and unnumbered chi ldren enjoy the campu on a slightly damp M a me weekend. We were housed m M ary Low and Foss. where the rLxm1 - seem to ha\·e gotten mailer and the halls much noisier than I remember from l i\'ing in Foss fre-hman year. How do the k ids get all of their stuff in those rooms? " ome of the h ighlights of the weekend included the trad i t ional fir t n ight back get togeth er, which was held in the , tudent Center rather than the alumni hou e, the parade of classe · from the t u d e n t C e n t e r to t h e fieldhou·e for cl as· picture , a sit in led by ari Abul-Jubein '69. the lob ter/BBQ lunch and, of cour e, our c la-sdinner in Robert U n ion. " peak ing of ari, The Bos ton Globe rerort new of Sari' Casablanca bar ( which was forced to close la t pring due to urban renewa l) a 'almost certain rn reopen at the new Brattle The ater in Han·ard quare. ' A long with chi new , the article toa t ari and h i e tabli h ment and note that the revival of the Ca ablanca will be mo t welcome in Harvard quare. Good luck ari . . . We al o have news from Chri Crandall expla ining why he missed the reunion, 'too far and too pregnant.' Chri married Chri topher H ams i n 19 and moved to Redmond, Wa h., in 1 9 9 after l iving i n Bo ton for nine ear . H e r fir t baby, amuel, wa born i n October. he say , ' Hey, I' m 4 1 , why put it off any longer?' Current plans i nc lude six montrs off from her job as a technical writer for M icrosoft and trying to get enough leep. Chris note that he i t i l l involved

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with issue< o f femmirn1 and gay right� but that ac t i\· isim w i l l ha\·e to 11· a i t u n t i l l i t t l e ,i m get> bigger . . . As you read thi-;, the hL1l iJay sea , m is upon u-. How about one more card or a copy of 1·our hol iday newsletter to update your c las�mmes on the latest in your l ite � Hope tL) hear from all of you . Till then . . .

"Doe- this sound fam t l iar ?" asb c lass corre>pL1ndent L i nda Chester. " ' l ha\·e grown older, ,l ightlv fatter, a rad ll'i,cr and rake extreme del i ght in m1· fam i ly.' Then plan to jL1in u� at our 2 0th reuni,1n thi J une! " Be � i d c .; p ro \' l d 1 n g t h 1 wh1m,ical rem i nder about the ra"age of t ime. J ames Markos abo writes that he 1s an attorney m E l ls\\'orth, M a i ne . and h i s fa mily mclude hi wife, Ekaherh, and children, Melina and J ake . . Mary 'Ket' Kennedy Steff ins ha been putting her computer pr,1gra m m 1 11g expe rt ise to u c m Rutherford, N .J ., where he works with hu band Bob in rhe famil · manufac t uring bu i ne�s. The ir work ha. taken them all O\'er the world, and Kel rake spec ial pride m the role -he played in bringing their I 02-year-old comrany i nto the Compurer Age . . . Alan Mo s ha- been experienc i ng 'double trouble' in Guilford, Conn., where he i a market planning manager for aab- candia of America. Alan and h i wife, E i leen. ha\'e had the plea ure of on Aaron gett ing a driver' l icen e at the same t i me that daughter Aly a h i t the terrible two . . . Patric ia k i l l ing and Ronald Sills ' 7 3 are l iv ing in Ea t Wilton, Maine, with on Denni and Dana. Ron i the principal of Mr. Blue J un ior H igh c h ool in F a r m i n g t o n , a n d Patricia is a speech and hearing pec i a l i t for the W i l ton elemen tary schools . . . Andrea Marie

Solomon i s 1\·ork ing i n the New Yurk City school system as an Engli h ( rec ial Education ) h1gh -c hool teacher and re,ide-; in J acbon H e ights, .Y . . . And j ust to 11·het reunion arret it ics. Linda Wallace wrote in with a few Colhy memoril'-;: ' the '>mell of \l'Ct fa l l lca\"C , <eeak on , atur da1· lunch, math \1·ith Dr. _ mall, all-nigh t hridge ga me,, one inch of hccr on the fratern1t\' floor at a 'frat party,' stand ing room only for 'GeL-irge of the J ungle' on Saturday morning at Zeta Psi . ' When she\ nor pro\· iding great n,1,ta l g i c m at e r i a l . L i nda i, 11 ork ing at a n e w job. h e' >Witched from internat iona l !>Up porr tl1 m a r k e t and p rod u c t planning h e r F i le ct <1nd i en joymg l i fe 111 Fountain Valley. Calif. , \nthout jet lag. he abo repnrt> meeti ng Larie Trippet after l years. "Steve Mansfield ha, taken on the ' ne\·er-end i ng' task of renonHing a 200-ycar-old Cape in Warren, Ma ine, wi[h his \\'ife, Deborah '70, and daughters J en nifer and Kate (both state-le\'el gymna t ). S[e\·e i - also kept bu-y by his p o · i t ion as \'1ce pre 1dent for plann ing and marketing for Northe<t t H ealth, and Deborah 1 s a teacher . . . King William Lambert report- a career change. He has left rhe ministry to become an appp l i c a t ion en gineer i n Oxnard , Cal i f. , where he has ·ett led with h is wife, Ade le, and c h i l d ren D a \' i d , Rhoda a n d M i riam . . . Grace Cappan nari Ell iott of Branford, Conn . , ent i n a c l ipping from the Hanford Couranr of a feature artic le on R i c h a r d ' K e n ' K e n w o r t h y 's

cook ing t t ps on barbequei no/ mok i ng. Ken and hi wife, Beth, who celebrated the birth of the ir ·on A l b e r r t h i s s u m m e r i n Glastonbury, Conn., are planning to open a re taurant i n Hartford featuring barbeque c u i i ne . . . A nd Alexandra ' Alex' Merton

1\·a, seen rcm ini�c ing wnh the Gbt of Colb) alumni and alum nae t housand� ar the N a n c y N e c k e s - B r u c e Duman ' 7 2 nuptuals t h is sum mer in Dedham, Mas-;. A lex recently recci\·ed her M.A. in the management nf hu man ,;en· ice.; from the Hel ler SchL)Ol at Brandeis Unl\Tr,ny."

"Happy Hul iday, to nlu

a l l " from J anet Holm Gerl--er, \\'ho notes that t h 1� column inc ludes final response to her Fa ll '89

que,t ionna i re and join� uthcr corresrondent'> in 11·elcnming rhe new Colb:\' procedureb de,igned to reduce " la,g t i me" by about two rhirds. "Now," he add�. "1t lo,lb l ike ne\\'S can be a fe\\' montlb not year·-old ! "Larry Linnell i a phy-.i ci<m i n Dm·er-Foxcrnft, l\ 1 a i ne . l n add i t ion w a fam ily practice \\'hich i n c l udes obstetrics, he 1s a chair of the -urg1cal committee ,1f the Mayo Regional Hosp i t a l . A nd, inspired b y a t r i r ro Bra:i l a year ago, he is chair of a commit tee for Maine/Bra:il heahh ex chanoe . H e pend his leisure t ime camping, boating and fi -h i ng for landlocked sa l mon i n M aine. m a l l town l ife i pretty good after all . . . Cathie Joslin ll'rites from Clarion, Pa. , that she's enjoy ing a slower pace, with hus band Tim Roschke, during her Fa l l '90 sabba t i c a l at Clarion Uni\'ersity. Typically she teache art, exhibit her own tex t i le work and serve on endless comm ittees . Sibyl Sanford is also a prn fe· ional artist now after year of teach i ng I ndian c h ildren. Her artwork ha always been impor tant to her, but no\\' she's mak i ng i[ her l ivelihood. he and her son Ph i l ip continue to l ive in Bel l i n g h a m , W ash . . . R u s s e l l Cleary is managing money for the firm of Kanan, Bloch, Carre i n Bo ton. In addi t ion to ome 77

thoughtful reflec t ion, nn roJay\ world, he ,hared a treasured quote: ' Su c c e , 1;, ne\·er permanent; fa i l u re is n m fata l ; h u t courage i' what counts.' Take heed a l l of u;,. "J im Colburn relncared to Fort Col l i m , Colo . , frnm Denl'er about a year ago ro p ur,ue a new job. A couple l)f recent 'rrea>ure,' he\ proud of are completion of a 1 2 , 485 - f oo t moun tain c l i mh a nd purcha e of h is fiN home. J im writes about home ownership. 'What a joy 1 I r 's fun . ' . . . And Apri l N elson McKay says of her rec ent Venice, Cal if. , house p ur c h ase , ' I a m learn ing a Im more than I ever wanted to k now about plumbing, land,c ap ing and elec tric i t y . ' She bought a 'cute Spa n ish-style house' near the heach that was bu i l t in the 1 920s. ' [ love L . A . - i n spire of its earthquake> and smog,' she ay;,. 'The c l imate is wonderful , and the people are friendly and fa ir. The arts are rea l l y e x c i t i ng h ere-theater, music , mov ies, art-it's great. I only mi s those n ippy, c lear fall days that you get in M a i ne . ' "My b ig news to y ou a l l i s that our c lass officer. m e t t o he gin plans for our next reunion J une of '92. Make a note now. We're gearing u p for a huge turn out and a whole lot of fun. We need your input. You'll be hear i ng from us, but write to me a n y t i me with your ideas."

Correspondent Anne Huff J ordan says she learned re cently that J oe Sma l l d ied last J anuary, and she offers be lated sympathy to his family and friends on beh a l f f the c la s . . . She of fers the e postscripts to the follow up from the last column: " Linda Kagels J ohnson's address is- 1 2 3 G leckler Road, Portland, M E 04 1 03 . Ann Rubenstein Wood was married to J ohn Wood, J r . , l a s t y e a r in W i l to n , N . H . They 78

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hen April J . Nelson McKay '72 graduated from Colby as an art major 1 8 years ago, he probably couldn't have told you where to find a corporate ladder, much less how ro climb one. Now, recently named vice president of corporate planni ng and development for a $ 3 . 5 bill ion international conglomerate, he's perched sol id l y on the top rung of a pretty tall one. M c Kay's educational and career paths to the top of Greyhound Dial Corporat ion in Phoen i x , Ariz., have been neither traighr nor narrow. Her primary intere t when he graduated Ph i Beta Kappa from Colby was culpture. "Now," he aid, "the only sculptures l have time to work on are i n my mind." After college she moved to Hawa i i , where he worked in a real e tate office and for a ·rate enator. Concerned about keeping rrack of what eemed like huge amount- of money, she went to the l ibrary for a book on accounting. That led to courses, which led to an M .B . A . from tanford and a career in busines consulting and planning in Boston and California. M c Kay now l ives in Phoenix ( t hough he t i l l maintain a beach hou e in Venice, Calif. ) , and h e r energy and drive are most apparent when t h e conversat ion turns t o leveraged buyouts, debt restructuring, mergers and acqu isitions and corporate portfolio . I t's enough to make a non M . B.A . ' head pin. A t Greyhound Dial ( " Dial" for the oap, "Greyhound" a holdover from rhe bus l i nes the firm old two years ago) , McKay is in charge of corporate trategy, which she de cribes a deciding how to "grow" companie and which ones to grow. She also plan the conglomerate's long-term portfolio management through merger , acqu isitions and d i vestment of sub idiary companies. She said her job could be de cribed as a con u ltancy for Greyhound Dial' 20 subsidiaries. She work with 20 different presidents and a wide array of products, services and markets all over the world. " I f variety is the spice of life, my taste buds w i l l be challenged," she said. M c Kay ees her new j ob as an exercise in problem-·olving. "Business can actually be fun," she aid. "It's a kick."

-Sieve Collins '74

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are presently [i,· ing in !anche> rer, .H .. although Ann Wllrb for Digital Equipment tn Mas>a chu ett·. Ann is hop ing rn c,1me to the 2 0th reun ion in 1 99 3 to see everyone ,he m i ssed a t t h e 1 5 th . . . ow for t h e ne\\' ruff: "Andy Koss i now in Alexandria, Va. , working as a foreign en·ice officer for the U . . I nfor mation Agency. He's married and ha, two c h i ldren, Cait, 9, and Lax 1e, 5 - 1 /2 . A ndy served as pre·, attache at the U . . Embassy m Beij i ng during the T iananmen Square ma · acre of J une 19 9. Although A ndy l ikes the c ity of Wa h mgton, he feels the ·uburb are congested and the cost of l h·ing is h igh . . . Jonathan Fin k , a profe . or of geology at Ari:una tate U n i,·er 1ry, i married to ina Delange. He spent se,·en months on abbat ical lea\'e in Canberra, Au tral1a, where he enjoyed commut i ng by b icyc le pa t kangaroos, lakes covered by black wan and eucalypru fore·r with cockatoo and kookaburras. Jon a l o [ i ,·ed in I rael for an extended period of t i me. Hi Ii t of succe e · i nc l ude marathon , acti ve parti c i pat ion in w i ldl ife con ervat ion program , tra\'el , marriage and a lecture at Colby. Jon and N ina c ollect African finches. Jon' defimtion ofsucces is ' upporrive and upbeat family l ife, t imulating job w i th a lot of autonomy and financ ial security. . . . Peter Gerken add , 'being ati fied with what you've got,' and Susie Yovic Hoeller tretche that to mean a person 'who con tribute to the community, fam ily and bu ine and \\'ho·e focu t t he need of others.' Peter, t i l l a teacher in w e tern Germany, gi e remedial help to d i advan taged youth. He' also still writ ing hort stories. He' collec t i ng 'momeilt in t i me ' and getting rid of ' i l lu ions.' H e wonders if any one at Colby h a ·ugge t ion on action to ave A merica from

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morn! d i>1ntegra[ lon. " M a rg a r e t M c P a r t l a n d Bean is married a n d has rn·o c h i l dren, Chri,rnpher, 9, .md J ulta, 6.

�he is the d i rec tor l1f spec i a l projects in t h e Aroostm1k County Action Program, a fa irly new. -;t1ll part-time j ob for her. The \'<l ricty of proj ects withtn the program gi ,·es her st imulat ion and sativ foct 1lm. Like so m,1n · l)f us, .;he i ugg[e.; part - r i me \\·ork with team ;,port>, ;,w1m le,sLms, l>allet and ,1rher youth-re lated act1,·it1e:- .. �he has nu compla int:,, though . I c )uld CYen ,·1sual i:e her great smile through all uf the hec[lc ne,, . . . S u s a n Rennau i, a mar ried labor and deli,·ef) R . N . with 3-year-uld twin . Mercede, and H i l lary. he appreciates Colby for spark ing her i n i t ial interest in women' health care and the ability to think, learn and \\Tlte. Like o many other:, usan re member· Colby \\'1th fondnes- for the good friend· ·he made there. Other memorie� from your c la, mates include: snow, cold, the beautiful fa ll, the gL)Od educa tion, playing fn bee , mu ic, j ock ,. _ freak , dope and beer ( ugh ! ) , 'gi mme a break ! ' , morawri um, 'right on ! ', freedom, outdL1or l ife, damp, c loudy, autumn day·, small c la ses, h i t c h h i k ing on 1 - 9 5 , worki ng a t W M H B and the aca demic tri\' lng. Mtrtly a po it 1\'e I i t, ngh t ? . . . J udy McDivitt t> a re·earch assistant professor at the U n h·er 1 ty of Pennsylvan ia. he work m a proj ect e\'aluating health communicat ion program. in developing countrie . Like a number of orher c las ·mates, J udy choo e folk danc i ng, pec ifically Pol i h and H u ngarian, a an ar t i t ic and phy ical outlet. he al o love to cook . She went to l ndo ne ia last February and to Jordan la t June, both trips work-related. " ome of u from the c la e of ' 7 2 and '7 3 got together for a d inner party in eptember at Larry ' 7 2 and J an Perethian Bigelow'

h,11ne. J ,ihn zmd J anet 'hre,·e l\.Lirrland ' 7 2 . Bllb J u l iann '12 and Dan and I \\'ere the l ucky gue'r'. Th1, gathcnng ;,eems to he taking lln an <rnnual nature, ll' ith mt1re added each t i me . . . G e o r g e Weimann \\·as recently mamcJ to Dehorah J ayne K roll. He 1s pre,enr h· J1recrnr ,1f market ing in m,mne -;hipping for . . We,t. GeL1rge and Deborah null' J i ,·e 1n Ryehronk , _ y _ . . . Eni ,1y the \\'tnter >eason anJ take t 11ne tu reaJ, exerc ise. relax anJ l isten to e,Kh mher. 1 lm·e tn hear from a l l ofy,1u-and so J,i yourcla ,mares. J u>t w pull a fe \\' name · out uf a hat. hL)\\. ab,1ut a fe"· I mes from K e i th A ro n s o n , G l e n A r m b r u s t e r , Or. J ea n B e c k m a n , Brian C o n e , R i c k Engl und, Pe ter Garrity, J anet Gil lies Foley and Anne Gamer ! Thank - for

your efforts to keep in touch \\' ith YL)Ur c lassmates."

"Being ne\\·on the job, " cnrre pondent usan Gearhart Wue ·t \\Tl tC , "rhere wa n't much rnne for gathering new , but I d id recei,·e a fe\\' re·pon ·e, to ome of the po·tcards that I mai led our. My next step is ( yes 1 ) a sun·ey, which \\' I l l be sent to a sec t ion of the c las at a time . o watch your mailbox and please re ·pond. BUT you don't have to wait for a ur \'C)'. J ust write. "Flo

G u towski

Jerarrmenr . Her 1nh i' 'quite , 1 chal knge . ' _ he', re,run, 1hlc i,1r a l l inpatient a"e"menr, ,1utpa t 1 ent counse l in g, com m u n 1 t \ prugrams and >peakmg, man.ig mg the cl in 1c<1 l yual 1ty <h>Urnnce pwgram. a, "·ell a, try in g r,1 r<1 1'<' re,·enue fnr rhe hllsr1rnl . . . Barb Miller Deutschle and famd\' h<t\ e adiu,red well to the ,i-1\\'er race of life along \\'i th a ne\\ c l i mate 111 Sararnra, Fla .. ha,· ing mtweJ there a year ago. They are ,·ery i1woh-t>d m theirc hurch and \\'ere eagerly ant1c irat ing bec om mg fo,rer parents thi> fa l l . " I h a d a great phone C<m,·er 'atl()n ll'ith Sandra ?vkGowan recently _ . . anmher Roche ·rer, N .Y . -area re idem l ike m) elf. andy is a homeo\\'ner-the fa m ily homestead, her great-grand fa ther's home bu ilt in I 90, 1s in the rnwn of Peniield. When nm working for Gannett Newspaper' a, a c lassified accounting rep in the a d ,· e n i i ng depar t m e n t , anJy can be found work ing around hor·e·. At one rime �he owned her own rhornughbreJ mare but 1 presently leasing a hor,e. andy does mostly hunter i umping and occas1lmallv com pete in a local sho\\' . . . A> for th1 writer, my l ife >eem to re \'Oh-e around my k id· ( Karen, l 0, and Eric, ). I am doing ome figure skating the ·e day· along with ,·olunreering i n the school librarie>. ow get bus) and \\'rite."

Harlor,

husband Dave and their three c h i ldren ( teven, 5, Carol, 2 , Tom , 7 months ) are enjoyi ng life in their (at last ! ) renO\·ated/re modeled 0-year-old home in Den\'er, Colo. Flo i working for Digital Equipment Corp. as a ·ales account manager in a New Busi ne Development Group . . . Sarah Ellis, Brimsfield, M ass. , completed her M.S. two year ago and ha been working in a mall community ho p i ta! a a d ietic ian and head of the c l i nical d iatetic

"Thi ne\\' i> >O L1ld," Pamela M. Came admit , "that l \·e had to increa·e the age of people' ch ildren by almost a year. Please help me out by complet i ng the new questionnaire when you receive it. "My only recent new is from Kate Cone Theberge, who write from Harpswel l , M ai ne. he and her hu band , Bob '74, j ust had a l i t t le g i r l , M egan . . . A nd re w 79

Gleeman reported from Westport,

Conn . , where he wnrks as a mar ket i ng manager at Pepperidgc Farm . . . J oy Sawyer Mull igan is director of adm issions and fi nanc ial aid for a s mall hoarding school i n Cal iforn i a . he and husband M ichael have a daugh ter, Annie Sawyer. wh() was born last J a n u a ry . . . S u s an Hoitt Stone is a cl inical d irector at a M e n t a l H e a l t h Com m u n i t y Center in North L . A . County. She provides graduate train ing programs for students from area universities. Susan also helps low i ncome fam i lies receive needed health services. he and husband Norm have rwo c h i ldren . . . Roy Meyers isa rol i t ical sc icnt ist and budget ana lyst for the U.S. Con gres ional Budget Office. He and wife Harriet have a 4-ycar-old and twins who arc almLl,t 2 . . Jeanne O'Brien McCarthy is a fore ign la nguage teacher and mother of two. he find both joh, t h r i l l i ng and sa t i ;,fy i n g . Jeanne, husband Tom a n d fam i l y l i ve i n Sc ar boro ug h , M a i n e . Mary Tuttle Lemonick and husband Daw arc back in New York after �pend i ng two years in Vermont. D<H'e is a heart urgenn. Mary lefr h e r j o h a assoc iate puh l i c i t y d i rector a t Simon and Schuster to rai;,c their two c h i l dren S a m a n J Sally, w h i c h she says is 'much more demand i ng.' . . . Robin Sherwood Ziolkowski

and husband Andrew l i ve with their two daughters, onja and Emily, in Norwalk, Conn. Robin has started her own fi nanc ial p l a n n i ng/co n su l t i ng b u ine David Arseneault is men's bas ketball coach at Grinnell College i n Iowa. He and hi wife, E l l ie, have two c h i ldren, David, 4, and Jennifer, 2 . . . Dan Dittman is an advert ising exec utive with Brems Ea tman G lade, which wa c re ated a year ago by a merger that included the firm that employed h i talents, G lade Advert i ing. 80

D<tn <ind his wife, Mar ha, <ire l i v ing in Seatt le . He wri tes th;:it he mt· e, hearing from hi;, good friends Walter Gorman and Bill Campbe l l . He's not the only one, I'm sure . How about it, men 1"

"So sorry it ha;, been ,o long si nce you la;,t heard from me," corre pondent James Scott

write;,, "hut I 've hearJ from almo;,t nn L mc. Plea<,e;,cnd me�ome new . " F ro m Q u i t o , E c u a d o r , Abigail Rome write that s h e i ;, work i ng w i t h t h e Peace Corp;, gathering informa tion on bio d i ver,ity for conservation rur po'e ' . h e ays Ecuador is a beautiful anJ vaned country and ' I f anyone wanr- to visit, I 'd love to act a host and tour guide.' Call the A l u m n i Offi c e i f you ' re

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Robi n Cme ( Robin C. Arm i tage) 45 Hayes Avenue Beverly, MA 0 1 9 1 5 Phone: 508-922- 874

u an Wue t (Su an C. Gearhart ) 65 Country Down Circle Fairport, NY 1 44 5 0 Phone: 7 1 6- 2 2 3 - 1 967

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L i nda A. Chester 46 L i ncoln Street H ud on, MA 0 1 749 Phone: 508- 562-9872 1 97 2

J anet Gerber (Janet Holm ) 1 1 1 1 2 Broad Green Drive Potomac, M D 20854 Phone: 30 1 -299-6240 1 97 3

Anne H . Jordan ( Anne Huff) 36 H i llcrest Road Medfield, M A 02052 Phone: 508- 3 59-5025 1 974

Stephen B. Col l i ns RFD 3 Box 6600 Oak land, ME 0496 3 Phone: 207-465-3870 Thoma K. L izotte RFD 1 , Box 4970 Oakland, M E 04963 Phone: 207-46 5 - 3 1 09

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Pamela M . Came 2 3 Fuller Road Watertown, MA 02 1 72 Phone: 6 1 7 -49 1 -8 00

1977

L i s a Rapaport ( L isa M. Tripler) 2 Tal l Pine Road Cape E l i za be t h , M E 04 1 07 Phone: 207-767- 2406

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J ame E. Scott 674 Tremont rreet Boston, M A 02 1 1 8 Phone: 6 1 7-262 - 7 1 1 0

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E m i l y M . Sprague ( Em i ly M. Grout ) 7 5 Gotham treet Watertown, N Y 1 360 1 Phone: 3 1 5-788-5 1 1 9

headeJ ;,outh . . . Sally Pearce recently published her third book, titled A Guide to Historic Aspen and che Roaring Fork Valley. ally works for the Colorado Depart ment of H ighways, where she ·top them from paving h istoric ;,i te . She al ·o, a pre idem of an h i s t o r i c rrese r v a t i o n g ro u p , helped pass one o f t h e few state income tax credi t acts for reha bilitat ion of h istoric buildings in the country. Good job."

"There' not a lot of news to report," says correspon dent Emily Grout Sprague, "but what there is, i good. Some of the good new arrived i n the form of a letter from David Ashcraft, who was haprv tu tell u that after 33 year of the single l ife, he married Teri Halpin on J une l 7, 1 990. They were married i n the oldest ch urch in Chicago, with Dave Allen and Bruce c hine '78 in attendance. No shows Steve Singer and John Smedley had good excuses: teve was a mem ber of his father's wedding rarty, and John was busy becoming a father h i m elf. John, if you're reading thi , you hould reali:e that we till don't know the v ital stats on the new arrival-plea e drop me a l i ne or two o that I can share the news. As for David and Teri, they are l iv i ng in Chicago, where Dave' sti l l managing the Nat ional Account Department for Hartford Spec ialty and Teri is a ocial worker who's helping hearing-impaired c h i ldren. When they are not working or travel ing to various vacat ion pot around the U . ., David play vibe in a seven-piece jazz band that makes i ts round in the local c lubs. " I n the baby fi le: our class president, Betsy Bucklin Gray, her husband, Peter, and their daughter, Emily, welcomed baby Margaret Paton, otherwise known Colby , J a nu ary 1 99 l

Headliners

G regory White Smith '73

Paul Speiss '7 1 was elected chair of the board and CEO at Colonial Mortgage, Inc. in Amher.t, Mas . Deborah S h allcro s '7 1 was named di tnct judge m Oklahoma by Gov. Henry Bellmon. Howard I. Mosher ' 7 1 , president and CEO of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars, I nc . , was elected presidenr of the

Manufacturers A ociarion. Gregory White Smith '73 was nominated for the ational Book A\\'ard for Jackson Elizabeth Krupnick ' 7 3 wa named vice pre idenr by Aetna Life & Casualty. Michael Cantara '75 wa elected York County ( Maine) Di trier Attorney.

British Auromobile

Pollock: An American Saga.

Edson Mitchell ' 7 5 , enior managing director for Merrill Lynch m ew York City, wa elected a trustee of the College. Dr. Les l ie Morgan '76, hL wife , Dr. Cindy Morgan, and their three chi ldren have begun a three-year tour as public health

consultant in Banglade h.

Newsmakers Charles H. R i t c h '7 1 was promoted to d i vi ion executive by the Bank of Bo ton . . . A n thony Maramarco '7 1 wa- promoted econd v ice pre ident/ enior officer at Ma achu ett Mutual Life . . . John Zacamy '7 1 , managing director for corporate re rruc turing for Morgan Stanley, i a new Colby over eer . . . Richard Abramson '7 1 i· executive direcror of the Kennebec Valley YMCA . . . The Rev. Richard Fournier '72 ha become the 2 2nd pa tor in the 3 5 4 years of the Fir.t Church of Chri t in pringfield, Mass. . . . Gary Petzold '72 lefr the cla sroom at Minnechaug H igh in Wilbraham, Ma . , to become an a si rant admini trator . . . Ruth-Marie Griswold Fincher '72 wa promoted ro a ociate profe or of medicine and granted tenure at the Medical College ofGeorgia . . . A l ice Hanson Freeman '73 ha returned to the Pennington chool in ew Jersey ro reach biology . . . Kenneth Melvin '74 i a member of the Virginia Hou e of Delegates . . . Flutist Peter Schultz '74 returned ro his alma mater ro perform in a midday concert . . . Thomas Huebner ' 7 5 wa named v ice pre idem at Comprehen ive Health Re ources, I nc., with respon ibility for the firm' ub idiary in Rutland, Vt., where he, J ean Crowley Heubner ' 7 5 and family n w re.ide . . . culpror Chris Duncan ' 7 5 had an exhibit in Troy, 1.Y . . . . Steve Tait '75 i vice pre ident for trategic planning at Thomas Cook, I nc. . . . Bruce Robinson ' 7 5 w a d e ignated Chartered Property C a ualty Underwriter b y the American I nstitute for Property and Liability Underwriter . . . Laura Hyer '76 was elected to the board of the Greater Bo ron Diabete · ociety . . . Kenneth Johnson '76 i a merchandising director for Hannaford Bros . . . . Sue Taurer-Ano '76 wa honored by the A ociation of l nternational Schools in Africa for her work in rhe Ivory Coast . . . Dr. Ronald Paret '77 was named a fe llow of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons . . . Thomas L. Jacob & Associates ha promoted } . Philip Bruen '77 to national d1recrorof new bu ine· development . . . Lawrence Blanchard '77 wa elevated to assistant v ice president by the State M utual Life A urance Company of America . . . Karen Couture Baker '78 has joined the faculty of otre Dame College in Manchester, N . H . . . . Glenn Connell '79, who own h i· own firm in Wi lton, . H . , is teach ing math at Daniel Web ter College . . . David W. Allen '79 joined The ew England, a financial ervice firm, a vice pre idem for product development . . . Attorney Robert Lizza '79 ha become a partner at herbume, Power and eedham. to

Mileposts Births: A on, Thoma Andrew, t o Susan and Gary Petzold ' 7 2 . . . A son, John Turnure Higgin , t o Robert and Terri Ashburn Higgins '73 . . . A daughter, Megan Maria, to Robert '74 and Kathleen Cone Theberge '76 . . . A daughter, Megan Lois, to Lee and Cal Crouch '75 . . . A daughter, Katherine, to Scott '76 and Janet Santry Houser '78 . . . A daughter, Annie Sawyer, to M ichael and Joy Sawyer Mulligan '76 . . . A son, Benjamin Prestwood, to David and Barbara Trippel Simmons '76 . . . A on, tanley Kenyon, to Susan Kenyon '78 and Richard Abrams '78 . . . A daughter, Emma Madel ine, ro Kri and Jean Hanna McCrum Henderson '78 . . . A daughter, Mary T refethen, to Phil ' 7 7 and Janet Deering Bruen '79 . . . A son, Matthew David, ro David and Mary Zukowski Hurd ' 79. Marriages : The Rev. James Martin '70 to heila Murphy in South Hadley, Mass . . . . Nancy E l len Neckes '7 1 to Bruce Dumart '72 in Needham, Ma . . . . George Weitman '73 to Deborah Jayne Kroll in Ryebrook, N . Y . . . . Joseph " Mick" Chapuk '74 to Sandra E. Del Cueto in Lo Angele . . . Margaret N ena '74 to Dr. Gerald Fo ter in Suffolk, Ya . . . . Alan D. MacEwen '78 to Holly Ea tburn in Yarmouth, Maine . . . Richard H. Horton ' 7 7 to Meli a Hopmeier in Saco, Maine . . . Carol Samaras ' 7 7 to John M akride i n LowPll, M a s . . . . N a n c y Garnett ' 7 7 t o DonalJ Thoma in Wakefield, R . l . . . . Alan D . MacEwan '78 t o Holly H. Eastburn i n Yarmouth, M aine . . . Thomas Palmer ' 7 8 t o Belinda Brown in Bangor, Maine. Deaths : David E . Boucher '73, in Bo ton, Mas ., at 40 . . . A rthur J . Gerrier, J r. '77, in Portsmouth, .H. at 35 . . . David A. Deslaurier '78, in Sherman Oak , Calif., at 3 3 . . . Marc A . Garcia '79, in Brooklyn, N .Y . , at 3 1 . Colby, January 1 99 1

Alumni Council Exerncit'e Com mittee mem bers meet with College officials at a tu'o-da:v retreat ac Colby 111 Au.g1N w discus; che College ' s fwure and the ways in which al.umni can gee i1wolt•ed in che {Jlanning proces; .

as Ma ggi e , into the world on August 28. All a re doing well, and Bet y will he back at work in her posit ion a · director of devel

opment at the Agnes Irwin School (a private girls' d ay school in the Phi ladelphia uhurb ) by the time you read this. Peter i i n h is sec-

OnLl year of a f o ur - yea r res i d e nc y in nral surgery at Hahnemann College Hospital in downtown Ph i l a d e l ph i a . . Stacey Cox Slowinski and her hu ban d , Joe, welcomed -econJ son M atthew Peter on Septemhcr 29, 1 990. The fam i l y husine s, ] Woodcraft

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plea ·e write or fi ll out the ques t ionnai res you will receive hortly, and the new · you send hould be in print much sooner than the turn of the century, or more than l ikely, within a few month

C L U B B E R S

Colby's alumni clubs continued to conduct an array of cultural, recreational and ocial event . • In August, traditional first-year rudent encl-off parrie where students and their parents get the chance to a k alums about Colby-were organized in Boston and Hartford. The Boston club welcomed parents and students to a picnic organized by Mary Beth Mcintyre '82 and N ina Colhoun '88 with reinforcement from Mayflower Hill in the form of two student intern , David Unruh '9 1 and Kent Thomp on '9 1 , and a recent alumnus, Dan Spurgin '90. In Hartford, Bob and Susan Fairchild Bean ' 5 7 again opened their home for the event, which Linda Hadley '8 1 helped organize. • ln Augu-t, the Waldo County Club celebrated summer with a family picnic organized by Carol Bi-bee '49 and Jennifer Curti '93 . Alumni Director Sue Cook '75 joined the fun. • Two c lub were treated to melodious sounds under the tars. On July 1 5 , the Cleveland Colby Club enjoyed the music of vio lini t l tzhak Perlman and the Cleveland Symphony Orche tra at the Blossom Music Center. The Colby and Bate clubs joined forces. The event was planned by Weezie Lipp chutz Silliman '64 and Bill Wooldredge '6 1 . The Washington, D.C. Colby Club gathered for a National Symphony Orchestra concert and picnic at Wolftrap in an event organized by Jame and Laura Littlefield Bourne '8 1 . • The Boston Colby Club organized a pecial event at the Museum of Science in October. Club members watched "Race with the Wind," a movie about ocean-going ai lor . In July, the club had cheered the Boston Red ox to victory over the M inne sota Twins. Ruth Bender '89 was able to ell all 1 00 re erved ticket , and she said she could have sold many more.

De 1gm, b thri,· i ng; bustne ; anJ b a b y arc k e e p i n g e v e r y o n e busy . . . After matern i ty leave, I am hack teach ing eventh -gradc Eng l i sh wh i le work i ng on my master\ d gree in Engl ish educa t i o n a; we l l . I wo uld welcome the d i version of 'ome 'real mail,' so

• I n August, the Seacoast Colby Club ofNew Hampshire et out for a day of whale watching. The event was organized by Nancy Howe Erdmann '7 1 . • till more watching took place with the New York Club' annual outing to the U.S. Open Tenni Tournament in Flushing Meadow. Bob Anthony '69 again arranged for 7 5 ticker . All old quickly, and everyone enjoyed fine tenni action. • Colby faculty and ·raff remain tn demand as featured peakers at club events. Guilain Denoeux, a member of the Government Department with a pecialt in Iraqi and Middle Eastern affair , shared hi insight with the Waterville Area Colby Club at a potluck dinner November 9, thanks to Jane Mi.llett Dorni h '55 and Jeanne Lorey Sear '75 . . . On the same e,·ening, Professor Lee Feigon traveled to Boston to peak on "The Chinese Student Revolution" to a Bo-ton Colby Club group gathered byThoma Dailey'80 . . . The Boston ColbyClub' Lunch Group kicked off its 1 990-9 1 eason by welcoming Colby'. new vice pre ident for admini tration, W. Arnold Ya in-ki, who spoke about the College's long,range planning proces . The event wa organized by Mitchell Kaplan '72. • Twenty-one Colby alumni joined the Williams Club in New York a resident affiliate members. Now the new c lub's facil ities are being made available to nonre ident affiliate mem ber -Colby alumni who l ive and work more than 1 00 miles away. If you can use a rea onably priced New York base for busine trips or weekend vi its, call the club at ( 2 1 2 ) 697-5300 foran illustrated brochure and information about due . Colby, January 1 99 1

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Corresrondent Patricia Valvant mith ends along the e notes: " Anne Morgenstern Curtin is a registered nurse m the neo natal i nten i \·e care unit of the 97th General Hospital in Frank furt, Germany. he and her hu · band, both Army captains, ha,·e a year-old son and enjoy 'travel ing in Europe with the baby in row' . . . B i l l Beck i a banke r and is l i,·ing in Cro-s River, .Y . . . . Liz Shackford married M ichael Reinhardt i n September i n her hometown of Acton, Mas . . Li: and M ike met at Norrhea rem Univer ity Law chool and have been working together in a Bo ton law firm since 1 9 . My hu b a n d , M a r k S m i t h , a nd I joined in the celebration a long with E liza Dor ey ' I ( now an occupational therapi t at ew England Rehab H o piral i n Port land, M a i n e ) and J ane S u llivan Allison. " Geoff B e c k e r , a n a c a d e m i c a d v i er/writer at t h e U n i versity o f I o w a , w o n t h e 1 9 9 el on A ward for hon fiction from the Chicago Tribune. He ha al o continued h is musical i nc l i nation a ho r oft h e weekly Blue Tuna Blues Jam at the lowa C i ty Yacht Club . . . J ohn Carpenter recently became a partner in the Portland, M a i ne , law firm of Bern r e i n , h u r , Sawyer and e l on . . . Aimee Lamorte ha emerged from ' ix years of laid back self-employment' to work ful l t i me as an a ide to a Denver c ity counc i lman. She'd l ike to know if anyone ha an address for A ndy Frenk i e l '8 1 . . . Robert Motley, a commerci a l real e tate broker i n South Wind or, Conn . , would like to h e a r from other cla smat s i n the Hartford/New Haven area . . . Ell worth, M aine, medical ecretary Dottie Foster Vachon and hu band N ic k are expecting their fir t c h i ld in early

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January. � he'd l i ke w know the whereabout> of Annette Goodro, Martha Muskie and Jennifer March . . . A lice Domar, a p,y chologi ·t, and hushand Da\'id J uSt returned from the ir honey1mxm in Greece and Turkey <ind are enjoying t h e i r new house i n udhury , M a s . . . . The j u ly hirth of the ir first c h i ld kept Tamara and Glenn Rieger from attend ing our reunion. G lenn [ i ,·es in Wayne, Pa. , and 1- rre ·iJent of Atlantic Financial Sa,·mgs Bank . . . Two other new members of the bab\ brigade are Deborah Clark Ne! on <ind Penny J anzen. Deborah i work i ng in finance for an in ·urance company and try mg to find t i me to garden and to mg with the Greenwich Choral o c iery. Penny is the editorial d i r e c t o r of I n t e r n a t i o n a l Da t a Group's news service in B o ton . . . Caroline Weeks Diprospero and her husband own their own golf busine 111 Connect icut and recently acted as brokers in the ale of a 1 ,400-piece ant ique golf collection, which will be hou ed in a j apane e m u eum . . . I 'm look i ng forward to corresponding w ith all of you . New item of any magn i tude will be warmly re ceived."

"New is s k inny t h i time," Paula H inckley concedes. " I have not been gett ing many letters lately. J anet Blau Cobb and her hu band, Daniel, have a n e w baby d a u gh t e r , L i ndsey P i e rsol Cobb, born J u l y 1 9 . Christopher Morrill was married to Susanne Dowden i n October 1 989. H i s best m a n , J effrey Monhart, is attending law chool i n M i sou l a , M o n t . C h r i is working as assistant bureau ch ief a t the Hartford Courant. Susanne is studying chemi try. They l ive in West H a rtford, Con n . " . . .

Paula note_ that she would like to retire her pen and g 1 \'e someone else a chance to write the c las column. Anyone who is inter e,reJ can rnntac t her at ( 60 3 ) 666-050 o r c a l l t h e Col lege Alumn1 0ffice at ( :Z07) ' 7 2 - 3 1 90. The pay isn't great, but you get to hear from a lot of wonderful peopl e '

"The r e p o n·e w the quest ionnaire has been over whelming," secretary- treasurer Amy E. Carlson reports. "I'll try to fit in as much new as I can in thi column. l f you don't see your name in thi i sue, keep look ing. I r may take me a while, but I promise to include a l l respon e ( eventually ) . "Paul Arthur is tudying ethics at Colorado U ni,·er ity, Boulder. He returned recently from the oviet U n ion, where he spent a monrh as a counselor for a pioneer camp on the Black ea . . . Colin Cook l ive in ew Hamp hire and work at the N ew England Deacone s Hospital as an M R l/N MR engineer. MRI , for tho e of us unfamiliar with the term , means magnetic resonance i maging. Col i n says he like the ver atil iry of h is work and par ticipare in anywhere from six to I 0 re earch projects at a t ime . . . Monique Lapointe i a law stu dent at Fordham U n ivers i t y . During t h e ummer, w h i l e work ing for a U.S. Di trict Court j udge, he aw the Marcos trial and was di appoi nted to d iscover that Imelda had caken to wearing plain blac k pumps. Monique ha j usr celebrated her first anniver ary w ith husband B i l l Kavaler . . . Cheryl Synder Hogan writes that he, Ann Brachman, Michelle Wolpert, Tanya Thompson and J enny Dorr Dolbashian attended a bridal hower for Betsy Rose.

Betsy married J ohn Fttch in � ep rember. Cheryl is an intemat 11.1nal mark e t i n g manager for FAG Bearings and is rudy111g mec han1c<1l engineering. "Andrew Christy wm� the award for the respome that tra,· eled the longesr d1srance. Andrew is a sales and rromott,m manager for Clin ique 1n Hong Kong. He writes that he and Wong M e 1 Ling are planning t o marry i n April . . . Runner-ur for longe t di ranee response goes to Cecil Holstein. Cec i l is l i v ing in Bra:i l a n d [o,·e his j o h a s treasurer fnr C iba-Ge igy. He tra\' e ls every three month to Europe or the U. Cec i l married Baroness Elisabeth von \X'agner Wehrbom in May . . . Laure l l ie Jacobs is work i ng as an adj unct profe sor/ teacher for New York Univer ity and the ew York City Board of Education and is working on her dis ertation at YU in educa t ional theater. he ays her job is e x c e l l e n t but h e does fi n d working in t h e c i ty 'super tress ful. The k ids are great, but it's hard not burning out on all of rheir oc ial, family, educational problems, et al.' . . . E lizabeth Kidder-Keuffel is also working a a t e a c h e r-at the W h i te Mountai n School in ew H amp shire-and is studyi ng for her ma ter' i n Engl ish at the Bread Loaf School . . . Sharon Kehoe l ives in E te Park, Colo., and work as a park ranger for Rocky Mountai n ational Park. In re ·ponse to my question about how to avoid the accumulation ofstuff, Sharon said she has moved e ight t imes i n the last two years. She doesn't keep what she can't fit into her p ickup truck . "Roy Dow i work ing a t Wheaton College a s i t s first men's varsity basketball coach. ( Whea ton was a women's college until a few years ago ) . Prior to his ap po i n t m e n t a t Wheaton, Roy spent two years at Colby as an 83

a>>i>tant rn Coach Dick Whit more. He feeb he has obY iou ly been well prerared for h i:, current pos i t ion . Roy al o had the latest SCL lOp on :,e\'eral other c lassmates i nc l ud ing Jim Gaudette and Lou Halle . J i m and h is wife. Christine ( M arshall) '8 3 , areexpecting their first c h i ld i n February. J im i> a -, a l e s m a n <1 g e r w i t h O i g i rn l Eq uipment Corr. i n Pro\'idcnce. Lou, after ,pend i ng much t i me in Eurore. ha, settled i n Boston. H e is the president o f Boston Arrarel I m port>, I nc . . . . Melanie Fahim wa married un Sertember 1 5 . Ann Brachman was her maid nf h on o r , L i a L u n d g ren was a bridesmaid and Cynthia V i l lareal made the dre>'>CS for the wedding. Mel works f or a crnnrurer sofrware manufacturer, McCracken Com ruter, I nc . i n Burl ington, Ma,s. . . . Todd Hal loran wrote that he had j ust returned from a journey to the Far East after earn ing h i, M . B. A . at Harvard. Todd i'> now l i \' mg in New York and wor k i ng for Goldman Sachs. Last ,pring he ran t h e Bo- ron M a rathon wean ng a Colby tee sh i rt and aid the cheers for Colby really en couraged h i m .

Bill '87 and John Girard '89

Case of Missing Immunities

S c ientists across t h e country are working t o solve the mysteries o ft h e human immune -y tern, but few have more of a stake in the outcome than Bill '87 and John G i rard '89.

The brothers carry a genetic defect that re u lts in the absence of B- lymphocytes, a type of white blood cell, leaving them prone to certain infection -Bi ll Girard ha had pneumonia eight time . "So there's an underlying reason for our interest in immunology," Bill said. John G i rard joined his brother at Colby when B i l l w a - a junior, then

ucceeded h i m a

president of the Colby Eight. "We keep in touc h , we're the be t of friend ," Bill Girard aid. John opted for a Harvard Med ical School program after leaving Colby. Bill, a biology-biochemi try major, say Co l by Assistant Profe sor ofChemi try Dan Libby '68 recommended the M idwe t and encouraged him to enter an M . D. - Ph . D . program at Wa,hmgton Univer ity in

t. Louis.

At the university's Emil R . Unanue Laboratory, people who work with acids, radioactive materials or infectious agents really do wear rubber glove and white coat -"But most of the day ro-day work in the lab i fairly casual," Girard said. He is part of a 1 2-member team re earching the immune system's re ron e to antigen -protein, and other molecules from v i nise or bacteria that are foreign to the b dy. Every chool c h i ld learn that the immune s

tern depends on white blood cell . The B

lymphocyte (B cell ) and T-lymphocyte ( T cel l ) are involved in recognizing and binding antigen , which attack cell . The prototype cell m the proce s i the macrophage-Girard call it "a big

"Our fifth reu n ion a t Colby was fun, b u t it wasn't t h e same w i thout everyone there," c lass corre po nd e n r Mary Al ice Weller- M ayan writes. "We had a good turnout, though, w i t h more than 1 2 5 . The p lanned outdoor lobster bake turned out J U't l i ke Commencement-we at in the gymna ium. The dance at the 'new' tudent Center wa a great succe s, though a group of '85ers ended up danc i ng i n Fos d i ni ng room f or old t i me' sake. Let' all try t o mak e it back in 1 99 5 . "We hadn't heard from Vera Hoffman ince graduation. From 1 98 5 t o 1 988 she was a fo rei g n 84

eating cell." Ant igen, from "eaten" microbes or particles are shuttled to the

urface of the

macrophage, and the T cel ls and B cells re pond by producing antibod1e that render the antigens harmless. Girard hope to discover how a macrophage makes antigen , where in the macrophage this happens and how the macrophage then pre ent the antigen to the T cell. "If chi proces were to be worked out completely," G i rard said, "we would then have a muc h better way of attacking the A I DS viru ." Even though the A I DS viru s invade o nly th e T cell a n d the macrophage, it devastates the immune system. "The beauty of the A I DS virus i that it has learned to infect the exact cells that deal with infec tion," G i rard said w i th re peer for the adversary. The viru doesn't ki ll, he explains, it j ust makes the immune y tern h elp l es to fight infect ion. Understanding antigen-proce

ingmay

help researcher d i cover why the immune system is unable to respond to certain pathogen li ke the A I DS v irus. "Ult imately," G i rard said, "understanding the proce

is central ro the treatment

of A I DS and other d i ease ." I mmunology is an ever-expanding field, in large part because attention focu ed on A I DS has dramat ically increa ed funding for re earch. "To the nonscientist, including congres men, A J D e e m t o b e t h e d i tillation o f anything involved in immunology," G i rard a i d . " I want t o understand a n d better trearor prevent the entirety o f infectious d i ease , including A I DS," h e said.

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fishing vessel observer ( fisheries biologist for the National Marine Fisheries Serv i c e ) in A laska and worked on Soviet, Korean •. Pol i h and Japanese fishing vessels i n rhe Beri ng Sea. Afterone-and a - h a lf y e a r s of s c h o o l i n Bell ingham, Wash. ( Huxley College o f Envi ronmental Sc i ence ) , she returned t o Ala ka a s a dome tic fishing vessel observer. he is now work ing i n Durch Harbor as field coordinator for A l aska Observers, I nc . and i s writing a book o n t h e Bering Sea . . . Faith Delaney w r ites from B i l lerica, M ass., that she i s a systems analyst for Hane-Hanks Dara Technologies . . . Wendell Perkins recently accepted the po i t ion of v ice president of fi nanc ial ervices for a large Chi cago bank. H e and h is wife, Dawn, traveied back to England, where they met . . . Ryan and Shireen Shahawy Stinneford have pur c h a ed a home in Por t la nd , M aine . . . Beth Towle is very ewport , R . L , doing busy i n renovations on a new home and sel l i ng adverti ing for two na t ional publ ication . he plans to take a major a i ling trip i n the nearfuture . . . J ohn O. Robinson is also busy renovating a 1 60year-old hou e in andwich, Ma . He is a ocial tudie teacher at Plymouth outh H igh chool . . . Sarah Wood i an ac[Uarial assistant w ith Aetna Life and Ca ualty. I n January he pent a week camping on t. J ohn in the U.S. V i rgin I lands with L inda Kindblom '86 and Amy Scott ' 6 ( who u ed to work in the Student A c t i v i t ie s Office ) . a ra h h a · taken h e r fifth actuarial exam. "Peter Viele wa the fir t paramedic to enter the Un ivers ity of Connecticut Graduate chool of A l l ied Health. He attended the wedding of Stuart Krusell in February. [Uart honeymooned i n Switzerland with h i wife, Sue Geraghty . . . Suzanne Krumm

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Yerdon was promoted t o man ager of business systems for prod uct marketing at Pacific Telesi i n Lafayette, Calif. Sue, J anet Lamoreau Cyr, Marita Stapleton and Chris Rona Alban went back

to Colby for a m i n i - reun ion and dec i ded rhat the p izza at the new pub has nor sign ificantly im proved . . . Joseph Weinberger i an attorney with an in urance firm i n Los Angeles. While in law school, he wa taught by the now upreme Court J ustice Anthony Kennedy . . . Congratulations to Catherine Stehman Breen, who was married on May 1 2 , 1 990, to Kev i n Breen. They honeymooned in the south ofFrance. Catherine graduated from medical school in J une and is doing her residency in internal med ic ine at the Uni ver ity ofWashington . . . Hathy MacMahon Simpson plans to attend grad uate school for a ma:,t r's degree m public health at UConn . . . Glenn Wilson has been promoted to d i rec tor of employee benefit for Baysrate F i nanc ial er\' ices . . . Gregory Shefrin graduated in May 1 9 9 from Cornel l ' Johnson School of Management and i s employed by the Bank of ew York. "Writing from the we.tern A tlantic Ocean, Joel Paine, a na\·al fl ight officer, ha· joined his operational quadron-rhe Zap pers-flying EA-6B's off the USS John F. Ken ned)·- H e i n v i tes cla mate to look for him i n lo cal a i r how a he rra\·els a l l over the world. When not flying, he return to Oak Harbor, Wa h . , where h e bought a home . . Barbara Knox i a graduate stu dent of l i terature a t the U n i veri ty of Pari I I I and is teach ing Engli h to adult . he returned home to New Hamp h i re and M a i ne t h i s p a r s u m me r . . . C hristine Petersen spent the ummerof l 9 9 traveling through ourheast A ia. She graduated from Columbia U n i ver i ty with

an M . B . A . and has tarred with American Express as a marketing manager . . . T h o m a s S t u r te v ant, J r . , is an attorney and is l i v i ng in Yarmouth, Maine . Talk about a different job, Paul Marleau is a Rm·al Canad ian Mounted Pol ice Officer. H e was posted to Osoyoos, Brit ish Co lumbia, right on the border of Washington state. He i to be married December 29 to Cheryl G i les in Don· a l , Quebec . Suzanne Orcutt married Daniel Kelly on September 9, 19 9 , and honeymooned in Bermuda. They are l iving in Worcester, Mass . , a n d a r e restoring an 80-year-old home. Su:anne i a repre entarive for Lucas Aerospace . . . Carla Thompson has found ucces in Boston as a ful l-r ime edi rorial freelancer. he plans ro spend a month in England next year . Susan J ames fi n i · hed graduate chool in January and recei\·ed a master's d egree in c orporate communicat ion. She i a ·en ior employee communicat ion pe c i a l i ·t for American Express. ue t rave led thro ugh Europe and ch ipped a piece off of the Berlin Wall in J an uary . . . M ic h elle Linder is an M . B . A . s[Udent at Wake Forest Universit · in orrh Carolina . . La r J anuary Marita Stapleton was promoted to print product ion manager for an ad vertising firm in Prm·idence. he is now in charge of production on the Ked shoe account . . . Drop me a l ine and tell me what you have been doing. Has anyone seen J u lie Copeland or Beth A n n Tutunjian late ly . I r i · so much

fun to rum to thi column and see a lot of news. Please keep me posted."

"Mark your calenders now ! " G r e t c h e n Bean L u r i e commands. "Reunion Weekend

is J une 7-9, l 99 1 , and I guarantee you won't \\·ant ro miss any of the fun. Tim Kastrinelis and the Reunion Committee have been organi:ing the big e\·ent · ince J une, and report i nd icate thar it w i l l be a wonderful three day5. Until we meet 'up on the H i l l , " keep your newsy leuers coming. Be t w ishes to e\·eryone for a happy and healthy hol iday sea son.

" urely we w i l l always think ofourseh-es as e ighties k ids, bur ninetie adults !" corre pon dent Emily Isaacs muses. "After only a fraction of exi tence in the n inet ies I can't help but wonder, how can that be 1 Nonerhele s, reading your letters of news it seems that ochers are, at lea-r, fe 1gn i ng adult ex isrence. Many of our classmates are pursuing careers in the soc ial sen·ices, giv ing back to the world ome of what has b e e n g i \• e n to t h e m . K a t e Walker writes that she is getting her ma ter's in chool counsel ing from Fa i rf i e l d U n i ,· e r s i t y in Connecticut while she coache women's tennis at Wilton H igh chool . . Kirn Ellis has fin i h e d her master's i n elementary educat ion at Lesley College and i · fi nd i ng employment i n the Bo ton Public chools-surely a plu for that exceed i ngly compl i cated a n d problematic sy t e m . O n e master' i n o t enough fo r K i m , w h o i n o w p u r u ing a d e gree in rec ial educat ion. She l ives i n the Bo ton area with Beth Kellogg and Stephanie Pierce, and they , Heidi Irving tells me, 'are doing fine. ' More about Heidi i n a m inute. " A yme Allison, who u ed to l ive w i t h Beth, Stephan ie and Kim, i now i n the U niversity of Connecticut's education program . . . Dave Scannell , our beloved

Headliners Violini t Linda Hurwitz '82 wa appointed to the New Orlean c labb 'peaker (Jo you rememher that hot May 3 1 ? ) , is teaching s e v e n t h grade bOC i a l >r u J i b somewhere near Gary, l n J . ( we hope Da\·e ib more geographi cally specific in teach ing than he i in writing to his c la ·:, '>ecre tary ) . Dave is a lso, helieve it or not ( a nd it seem he cannot q u i t e ) , teac h i ng i n troduc tory French . What Dave may lack in expertise surely he will make up for in enthusiasm. Da\·e al o vis ited the Un ited Kingdom, spe c ific a l ly Cambridge and Oxford, and dropped i n on Mary J ane Carty in Edinburgh. He reports: ' Everyth ing went perfectly ( even the weather) until I attempted to leave. An egregiou travel agent error forced me to spend a night at Heathrow. However, that same error was also respon ible for me being able to shake hands, for a s p l i t s e c on d , w i t h N e l so n M ande l a . ' Last s u m mer Dave pent a few days with Tom J ester ( a h istorical arch i v ist now i n graduate sc hoo l at Pen n ) i n Ponland, where Tom was work ing for the state. From there, Tom was 'off to Italy to look at old build ings.' Surely Tom did more than that; we await a more com plete report from the source . . . Jeff Packman left D.C. for Babson in Wellesley, Mass., where he will, l am sure , get h i M . B . A . Through Dave, Jeff informs me that John Davie i not at Penn' law school but at Temple' . Sorry for that e rror and any others I have made-let me k now, and I w i l l correct them. "Heidi I rv i ng has a job a an a d m iss ions c o u n s e l o r a t the U ni ver i ty of Rochester, where she w i l l also be working with the market ing d i rector on all the publicat ion ( the English major i n her, no doubt, will not d i e ) and traveling in the New England area to recruit prospective students. In a di t inctively Mac-produced letter, she reports: 'I am wim-

ymphony.

Michael Bruno '85 wa awarded a fellow. hip in max i l lofac ial pro thetics from Memorial

loan Kettering Ho pita! i n New York City. Peter B. Coley '86 was promoted to v ice president at Smith Barney Harri & Upjohn in Bo ton. Cori Brackett '89 is a full-rime resident actress for the 1 990-9 1 eason with the acclaimed Penob cot Theater Company in Bangor, Maine . Tina Clifford '89 is o n world tour w i t h " U p With People." Brett Rankin '89, now i n his second year a t r he Un iversiry of Vermont College of Medicine, won the New Hamp hire-ba cd Seacoast Foundario� 's h ighe t academic cholarship.

Newsmakers lain '82 and Ann "Amy" Albee Hoefle '80 toured the nation a· volunteers at eight ite , including Heifer Project lntemational in Arkansas and Habitat for Humanity in New Mexico . . . Joanne O'Donnell '80 wa appointed v ice pre ident and commercial loan officer at Fleet Bank i n ew Haven . . . Stephen J. Fogg '80 was promoted ro branch manager of the Dunlap Corp. in Auburn, Maine . . . Californians Michael '84 and Dawne Ogden Page '84, on a vacation odys ey i n the Blue Mountains of Austral ia, potted a C !by weatshirt worn by a recent grad . . . Elliott Pratt '80 was n a med v ice president in charge of the N a t ick ( M as .) office of the COMFED Mortgage Company . . . Grace Koppelman Drown '80 won a Presidential award for excellence in cience teaching in Farmington, Maine . . . Dr. Tracey Wiles '80 wa appointed to the raff of W i nsted (Conn. ) Memorial Hospital . . . A ll-time White Mule great David Harvey '80 tepped down in style as varsity basketball coach at Portsmouth ( N . H . ) H igh , fin.i h i ng w ith a 1 5-3 record . . . The A lbion ( Maine) Grange named Bob Wallace '8 1 citizen of the year . . . J ay Polimeno '8 1 was named d i rector of sales and maketing at the Tremont House in downtown Boston . . . Gary Smith '8 1 , a rock music producer, was profiled by the Boswn Globe . . . Todd Marble '8 1 , a hi tory teacher, won the Swain award as outstanding young teacher at King wood-OxforJ, where h e al o coache football . . . Glenn Currier '8 1 earned h is M.D. degree from the Univer ity of Pitt burgh . . . Michael Beland '82 wa promoted to district manager at Central M aine Power . . . Robert ''Bongo Bob" Noyes is featured drum m ist on the latest album by the Blue Flames . . . Mary Radlhammer '82 earned a ma ter' degree in reaching from S immons College . . . John Gagne '84 graduated from the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery . . . Drew Fitch '84 joined Applied Economic Research i n Laconia, N . H . . . . Catherine Walsh '84 wrote an article on Catholic femini m for the t. Anthony Messenger, where he i a, i rant editor . . . Jim Schweizer '84 was appointed ales and marketing manager for Oxford Homes, Inc. of New Hamp hire . . . DanaHanley ' 84 wa easily elecred to h is third term in the Maine Hou e . . . Hannah Blake '85 was named a sisrant project manage r at Bennett Contracting, I nc. in Albany, N .Y. . . . DEAN Technology, I nc. of Hanover, N .H . , promoted Kimberly Lyford '85 to re earch associate . . . A ll America sprinter Terrie Hanna '8 5 heard cheers again at Boston University' Walter Brown Arena this t i me when he picked up her law degree . . . Kevin F. Bruen '85 got his law degree, graduating cum laude from Suffolk U n i versity . . . Barbara Falcone Smith '86 earned her master'· degree i n physical therapy at Bosron University . . . Heather Anderson '87 i on the taff of the Ware R iver ( Mass . ) News . . . Ernie Perry '87 wa named varsity b a ketba l l coach at Malden ( Mas . ) Cathol ic H igh . . . Martin Long '87 graduated from the New England School of Law . . . Caroline Clapp '87 is teaching and coaching at Berwick Academy in South Benvick, Maine . . . Lori Otten '87 has joined I DS in A lbany , N .Y . , as a personal financial planner . . . James Sullivan '87 i s in the U niver iry oflowa Writer ' Workshop . . . Jon Jorgensen '88 is a proprietor of Jorgen en's Gourmet Goods on Main Street in Waterville . . . Melissa Brown '88 teaches Spani h , coache field hockey and lacros e and upervi es a dorm at St. Andrew's School in Middletown, Del . . . . Christine Burke '89 left after a single term in the Maine Legi lature to enter law chool . . . Susan Scott '89 i a manager with the New Jersey Symphony . . . Leslie Dougherty '89 is a fiscal and budget coordin.ator at American U niversity, where she is pursuing a master' degree in international development . . . Michelle Kuchta '89 is wardrobe supervisor for Syracuse (N . Y . ) Stage . . . Linda Rensink '89 received an M . S . in accounting from the University of H artford.

Colby , January 1 99 1

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Mileposts Births: A n, Benjamin Ric hard. to Richar<l andTerry Weber Ewing '80 . . . a son, Benjamin Ro be rt , to Mark and Lisa Paskalides G rimmig '80 . . a da ugh t e r , El i : abe th anc y , tO Ra v mond and Ellen Mercer Papera '80 . . . a d a u gh t e r, Lind ey Pier ol, to Dan ie l a n d J a n e t B l a u Cobb '8 1 . . . a d a u g h t er , A llie Go . l i ng , t0 Lori and Michael Federle '8 1 . . . a d augh te r, J ul i e Mane , to J im and Dani Nemec Micsan ' 8 1 . . . a on, Benj amin H enry Procter, to Bruce and Ellen Freedman Rayner '8 1 . . . a ·on. Jo hua W 1 l l i a m, to Richard '8 3 an<l S u an Sheehan Schwermer '83 . . . a on , Jeffrey Do ugl as , to Jeffrey and Maureen Betro Barrett '84 . . . a dau gh te r , Meghan Eli:abeth, to B0b and E lizabeth Stillings Brooks '84 . . . a daug h t e r, Anna Loui e, to N ils '84 and Janet Kelley Gjesteby '86 . . . a on, H unter Fletcher, to Rod and Gretchen Bean Lurie '86 . . . a da ug h t e r , Taylor Ann, to Paul and Tricia King Rowe '88.

Marriages : John Colwell Ill ' Om J e a n i ne W r igh t i n Mnrri. Town h ip, .J . . . . Diana Small '80 to R ic h a rd now i n M a rtha 's Vine yard, Ma·s. . . . Louise Swift '80 to Peter Price L I in G la·tonbury, Conn. . . Pamela Woods '8 1 to Thomas M o dale in Wet he rsfi e ld , Conn. . . . Margaret Farr Torrey '82 to Andrew Cra in in We ton, M a -· . . . Andre w B. Hanson '83 to Barbara Bernhard in Fl e m i ngt on, .J . . . . Bruce D. Stewart '83 to Che ry l P. Gra o in Plum Island, Ma . . . Pau l Baker '84 t o Caren Lee Delahunt m W eymou t h , M a -· . . . Ann Lear '84 to Ph i lip De imone i n Dedham, Mass. . . . George S . Mose 1 1 '84 to L i nda Jordan in We ton, Ma . . . . Pamela Littlefield '84 to J oh n Ga. n e r on Bl oc k Island, R . l . . . . Jennifer Swanson '84 to Andrew iemann m Cincinnati, Ohio . . . C h ristine Cheney '84 to tephen Put u r , J r., in Manche ter, Conn . . . . Nancy ilverrnan '84 ro Kenneth Levin k y i n Auburn, M aine . . . Victoria J . Whited '85 to David A. B l ak ne y in outh Portland, M aine . . . Su an Roberts '86 to Evan Dangel m Wate rvi l l e , M a i ne . . . Kristen Walsh '86 ro Gregory Pre l l in M il l is, Ma . . . . M. Birgit Uehl ing '87 to Pau l M . Cah a nd ro m Manc h e · t er , Ma . . . . AU son Goodwin '87 to Mark hort i n Mount Hermon, Ma . . . . Carolyn Knowles '89 to William Clapp '87 in P rovid e nc e R . I . . . . Sven Dubie '87 m Vicwria Brown in J ac k onv i l l e, Fla . . . . Jeffrey Thax'ter '87 to Maria We rc rlu n<l m Lek anJ, weden . . . Paul Gallant '87 to Cindy Munroe m C ambridge , Md . . . . Michael Donohue '87 to adene Worth m M i d la nd Park , .J . . . . Stewart MacLehose '87 to Kathleen Hayden in G ree n lan d , . H . . . . J eanne M. Morrison '87 to Mitc hell W. Cook '87 m Wayzata, M i nn . . . . Mary A. Federle '88 to J effrey W. Porter in Waterv i l le, M aine . . . Stephen L. Goldman '88 to Heidi K l e in in Waltham, Mas . . . . Charles McHugo '89 to Erm Conkl in i n Geneva, Switzerland .

Colby, J anuary 1 99 1

,111J 'uc 1,1l hr,1c kl't.' She 1 , al''' !.!C t r tng hL'r m.hrer\ 1 11 l'ciucannn dt R,1c h e .; r l' r . . . B e t s y L oc k h a r t 1, ll'< l r k m g fn r , 1 ['h <i rmaCeU t l C <l l c n m r a n y , 1 n B, ) , t,)n · , : ,)u t h , hnre airer a hu,y h u t enJn\·ahk m r w H n ng Kong . . . H e 1 J 1

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Evans. \\'ho 1, \,·nrk i ng for ,ome im·e:,tment fi r m r,111 111 w Rick

,m St;He S tre et ( Bn,ton ) . ' R i c k mlJ H e 1 d 1 ( \\'h,1 w l J me- a n d , ye. , t h i, may he ,,·hy n me ,ii my informC1tion is not absolutely <1c c u r.ite ) rh a t Pat and Patty Haffey C l e n d e n a n h ad a baby ( n,H named Par ' ) As for a:, I k no \\' , thi

i the fir,r ' ' hahy. b thi;, true 1 I'm w rong ' ''Martha Mason \\T1tes that

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mountain, s h e h as a c q u i red an 0- ro u n d go l d e n retricl'cr. Rc ccnth· at a hluegrass fe , t i 1 · al , she enc o u n r e r ed J onathon Selko witz, who was on h i: '''a\' from O re go n rn J a c kso n H o l e . '. . Sue Allison, als o westward bound, left 1'- fassa ch u se tt s , hy car, for an Francisco . . . Marion Robbins,

\\' h n m I sa w la,r summer, reports that he ' a n d my c roquet ·et mo 1·eJ tll M ar hfi e ld . ' . . . Mere dith Magie, after two y ea rs in M a ry l a nd te a c h i ng , i · no\\' off to tea c h h istory and coC1ch fi e l d

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Ro"ve. '.:'he re Snowe l\'<h re · c e n t l y cng.1ged ,mll rh;H hL· 1 , r Lm n 1 n g f,,r < l S q:1t e m he r ' 9 1 ll'ed d 1 11g. " P a u l L a f o n t a i n e I ' at [\1rtmnuth \ med i c a l ,c h, l\ )l Michael B ukowski 1n 1 t 1> . 'I c u r .Y., rent h re :, 1 J e 1 11 l rh .1 c1 , ll' he r e . he,1dl'' enJuring 1\ eeb up<ln 1\ eeb ,)f un re l e nn ng m·e r · C<l. t and ra iny d,1y:,, I ha1·e C < l m r l e t eJ my SeClmJ ye<H uf \'Ct , c h , )o l at c,1rne l l . l y fir,[ 1·ear 11'<15 ha · i ca l l y srenr i n a n ;1 nawmy lab 11· h e re I J i ,,, e c t e J e 1· e r1· 1 m a g i nah l e domesric animal you can t h i nk of. 11·nh ,o m e h1sw l n g y . p h y s 1 n l ,1g\' , i m m unology. e m b r y o l o gy a n d n e u ro l o g y rhrnll'n i n f o r k i c ks. econd year enta iled stud y 1 11 g e1·cry r,1ss 1b l e Tri c ia K i ng

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nrus, hacteria, rrnto:oa and worm that can im·aJc ·o ur helm·ed pets and that your he lol ' ed pets can pass on ro yo u . . . For fun, and to rel i e l' e pnstexam te n si o n , I hal'e i o i n ed a , ·e r er 1 11 a ry 'fraternity,' O m e g a Tau 1 g m a ( OAT, ) , ll' h i c h isn't a fratern1ry m the Cn lby sen ·e of the ll'ord. Fo r one. ; 1 11ce the majorit · of l 'et s tude n t" s i nc e rhe earl y ei g h t ies ha1·e he en female [hurrah fonrnm en ] . OA Ts h a · heen p e r s u a d e d tll admn ll'omen. El'ery spring OAT put on a talent sholl', which has al loll'ed me to ·tart up a 1·et s choo l

l' e rs i o n of T u x e d o J u nc t i o n

hockey and/or lac ros>e at T i l w n

knoll'n as t h e U l trasound. We

ound pretty gol1d for a bunch of diehard s t udy g ee ks . 01· era l l , l \·e heen hal' i ng a great t ime learning the greatest profes ton that l can th ink of while gett ing de epe r a nd ' d eeper inro debt . Long 1 1 1·e the day at Colby when your parents paid for el'eryth ing. H a i l ! Colby

ew H a m p s h i r e . . . Carol

Anne Beach h a ta k en a j o h at Co l h y and i l i 1· ing i n R unn a l s

and working as the ports infor mation d irec tor . . . Mary Federle Porter, a t the Offi c e nf A l u m n i Relations, con t i n ues d o i ng a fine job. he and Carol A n ne a r e th e oice on the Colhy U P- 2 - DATE campu · h d ine. Mary m a rri d J e ff Porter in Lorimer Cha pe l last um mer. Sue Jacobson and Hansi Hals w e re both b ri d e ma i d > .

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gra ping at that ee m ingly unat tainable Ph. D. The i l'o r y tower a t thi u n i versity is ofte n sull ied with d i color, and o I have be -

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C amraign f or graJume e m J' l oy ec,. A 11 of you in graJ uar e ,chi 1, ii ,ire fo m i l i ; 1 r ll" 1 t h thL' un i q u.:- l y c x rlui rn t i \ T r<1' i t il ln of gra d u ; H c T A \ a n d R A ' , ; e "c n t 1 .i l l y u n i n n c 1 t 1 un ' ' ; 1 mc; 1 n ., rn rec r 1 fy t h t ' . Change, 1t �cc m , , '' l i t t l e a n d gre<H ' 1 1 n u l t a nel1u,l y . "

' " T he re ' ' n nt h i n g ; 1 wh o l e lut hcr tc.'r t h a n 'ttt ing dnll"n ll" i t h a h u n c h of re;m u r ' and ll"atc h i ng �umu 11-re'rl mg.' " Thar, curre�rondcnt Dchorah G reene

writes, wa� her fir't inclicat ion that J eff Koch h<id adj u:-red to J apan, where she ha, joined h i m a n d a n u m h e r o fu t h e r c la.,>matc�.

" I 've l:ieen here for ahuut a munt h

trave l i ng and w i l l h ope fu l l y he teac h i ng here -,oo n , " Deborah writes. " I n the mean t i me , I ' m heing introduced to the real J a pan: a k c , ush i , ,a h i m i , suhway , senros, arporo and , of course , sumo! I spent the past summer i n A l a ka, work i ng a s a hackcount ry ranger in Denali National Park and put t i ng my COOT s k i l l to good use . My j ob was l i tera lly to ' rake a h ike' i n a w i lderness t ha t is closer t h a n I care ro adm i r to t h A rc t i c Circ le. Folks t here l ike to boast that the park i tselfi roughly the same s i:e as my home state of Massachu etts. I h a ve yet to fig ure out why Massachusetts keeps gett i ng picked on. Certainly there arc other state thar qua l i fy for t h is hit of coc k t a i l parry trivia. A l a k a to J apan was quite a c hange: the land of the M id n ight Sun to the land of the Rising Sun-pri tine w i l dernes to ur ban j ungl e . "Jeff i on his second year i n the J apan Exchange a n d T cach i ng Program (J ET ) . H e is one of many Colby grads teac h i ng over here. A lan Adler is entering h is econd year in G ifu, as well as

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Patricia V. � mith ( Patricia Valavanis) 6 Hammond Way Andover, M A 0 1 8 1 0 Phone: 508-4 70- 1 484

Mary A . Weller- Mayan ( Mary A l i ce Weller) R D 2, Box 1 49 Camden, DE 1 9934-96 1 1 Phone: 302 -697-0 1 42

1 98 1 Paula H i nckley 7 Eagle Ne t Way Manchester, NH 0 3 1 04 Phone: 603-666-0508

1 982 E m i ly E. Cumming 21 Temple Street ::r5 Boston, M A 02 1 1 4 Phone: 6 1 7 - 7 2 3-267 1

1 98 3 arah Merc hant ( Sarah Lovegren) HCR 62, Box 244B Mr. De err, ME 04660 Phone: 207 -244- 3678

1 984 A my E. Carlson 5 8 Granvil le Road ,.z Cambridge, MA 02 1 38 Phone: 6 1 7 -868-0 5 56

Shaun Dakin in S h i mane . Maria Vallis pent the year fol

low i ng grad u a t i o n u p i n t h e northern island o f Hokka ido, as d id Lyle Muir down in Ok i nawa , the southernmost island, but both have s i nce ret urned home . N e w l y arri ved here are Z e k e W i n g , d o w n on the sou thern coa.t, and P a u l Beac h , who worked in Boston and traveled in Nepa l before settl ing down in Gunma . . Over i n Hong Kong is Daniel Rudick , work i ng as a marriage broker for I BM A , which handles the production of some of my favorite de igner c lo t h i n g . However, he's planning on re turn i ng to the states i n early 1 99 1 to -rart a joint venture trad i ng c o m p a n y . . . On my w a y t o

1 986 Gretchen A. Lurie ( G retchen A . Bean) 2606 San Marcos Drive Pasadena, CA 91 I 07 Phon� 8 1 8-2 2 - 2 5 9

1 987 Lucy T . Lennon 9 Well tone Drive Portland , M E 04 1 0 1 Phone: 207-77 2 - 7 1 2 7

1 988 Emily J. I-aac 2 74 Prospect treet ;2 Northampton, MA 0 1 0602 1 27 Phone: 4 1 3- 5 6-00 1 3

1 989 Deborah A. Greene 38 orrel Road Concord, MA 0 1 742 Phone: SO - 369-6978

A laska I spe nt ome t ime 111 Se attle catch ing up with some Colby folks there: Mark Cosdon, my favorite neighbor from Wood man, was work i ng for the eattle Repertory Theater and traveling cro s-country before gett i ng en gaged to girlfriend Hana-con gratulation ! I ·pent an evening at the Blue Moon ( ofJack Kerouac fame) with Kirk Koenigsbauer, who is with Arthur A nder en, and I a lso part ied w i th Kate Roosevelt and Kelly Doyle before head ing up to the frozen North . . . Tim Fisher, who originally old me on A l aska ( ' I t ' l ike a huge zoo wi thout bars ! ' ) , worked in the c ity wh ile doing hi best to avoid gett i ng a t ic ket for j aywalk i ng. He l ived with Mark Cosdon

in the 'StmipiJ Boy House' but is now i n Wa,h ington, D.C., pur u mg a degree in c reative writ ing at A merican Un ivers i ty anJ h a r i n g an <1 partment w i t h M i ke M is her '8 7 and Leslie Dougherty . . . Al o in D.C. 1 Rob Hoopes, who 1 s working for Senator Joe B1den anJ the J udic iary Com m i ttee . . . Eric Hanson i> with a n e n v i ro n m e n t a l pro t e c t ion group, ICP, and had many word of wisdom for me abour avoiding ' c l me encounter ' with the gri::ly hear, in A la,ka, having been up there the previou ummer. A l though he misse livi ng tn a tent on Runnab H i l l , he and room mates Andy Simons and Jake U l ick hope to maintain a ' rustic expo;ed fee ling' in their apart ment in northern V irginia . . . Dave McCauley wrote to ay he spent last summer in prison. I t's not as bad a i t sounds. He taught panish GED c lasse to Hi panic inmate and is now back in Madrid teac h i n g a nd transl a t i ng for m u l t i n a t io n a l b u ine e s . cott Kessel '90 proposed to h igh sc h oo I sweet h e art M a r i a n n e Hoffm a n while l y i ng i n t h e emergency room, and you c a n bet they won't be servi ng peanuts at their J une 1 99 1 wed d i ng . . . Af ter five months of driving, h i k i ng and b i k i ng on the du ty roads of America, Dana Hollinshead i content to put her backpack i n t h e c lo et f o r a b i t . Currently l iv ing on Martha' Vineyard, he' been work i ng on Peace Corps appl icat ions and volunteering with local women' support groups on the island . . . Brian Axel fi nally ettled down i n Madison, Wis., in an apartment big enough to hold h is ever-expanding col lect ion of musical in truments. He continues to del ight me with samples of h i poetry. La tly, I heard that Tim Barnard found h i dest i ny for $ 5 00 i n the want ads ! That' all for now, plea e keep those letters coming." Colby , January l 99 1

OBITUARIES Cy Perkins , Beloved Figure in Colby Athletics Norman "Cy" Perk i ns ' 3 2 , October l , 1 990, i n Bangor, M a i ne, at age 4 . H e attended Kennebunk H igh School and Kenrs H i l l School. A t Colby he served as president of h is c lass, the student counc i l , the athletic

Cy Perkins '32 counc i l , a n d wa awarded the Condon M edal. He lettered in football but wa- better known a a track man ( h is Colby record in the hammer throw stood for 3 7 years ) . In 1 9 3 2 he went to Cal i fornia t o compete i n the Olympic trials and placed fifth in the ham mer event. In 1 93 4 h e returned to the College, where he was an athletic trainer, a physical edu cation i n s t ructor and a t rack coach for 10 year . H e received a master' in education from the U niver iry of M ic h igan i n 1 940. During World War I I , he was a physical education in tructor for the 2 1 st College Tra i n i ng De tachment of the A rmy A i r Force, which was stationed at Colby. I n 1 944 he joi ned the Bangor school system as athlet ic d i rector and supervisor of physical educa t ion, erving u n t i l h i reti rement in Colby, J anuary 1 99 1

1 97 2 . During those years h e also coached foo t ba l l , bask e t ba l l , baseball and track. One o f the fou n d e rs of the M a i ne H igh c hool Coache Assoc iat ion, he became i ts president in 1 9 5 2 . I n 1 964 h e was named M aine Trac k Coach of the Year. He wa - i nstru mental in the founding of the Ma ine pec ial Olympics Program for Eastern M a i ne and became head of the M a i ne A oc iation for Health . Physical Education and Recreation i n 1 9 70. I n 1 97 1 h e received a Colby Brick for h i servtee and devotion to the Col lege, and in 1 9 3 he was named Colby "C" Club Man of the Year for h is out randi ng work i n ath letic . A Colby award e tab I ished by his son, John Perk ins '66, i_ given i n orman Perk ins's name to the most improved track man of the year. In 1 98 5 he was i n ducted i n t o the M a i ne port Hall of Fame for his contribut ions as coach and athlete. A a longt ime member of A l l ouls Congrega t ional Ch urch in Bangor, he erved a deacon, tru tee and moderator. He is survived by his wife. G race, h i s son, a daughter and several grandchi ldren.

Preservationist A rthur J. Gerrier, J r. ' 7 7 , October 1 5 , 1 990, i n Port mouth, N . H . , at age 35. He was born i n Rumford, M a i ne , a n d graduated from Mex ico H igh School . At Colby he wa a summa cum laude graduate. H e earned hi ma ter's degree i n h i storical pre ervat ion at the U n i versity ofVermont and later enrolled in a doctoral pro gram of A merican and N ew Eng land stud ies at Boston U n iver sity. He had been employed at the M a i ne H istorical Soc iety,

G reater Port land L a nd mark , Strawbery Banke M useum and Adams and Roy Consultants in Portsmouth, and was a member of the board of trustees of the Port mouth Adnxates, a group inrerested in the preservation of h is t o r i c a l l a n d m a r k s . I n t h e course o f h is work , he devoted much time to essays on Federal period arch itects, an im·entory of M unjoy H i l l , a hi tory of the W ad wort h - Longfe l low House and the re toration of the V ic toria M ansion i n Portland. Director of the Maine Hi toric Presen·ation Commis ion Earle G . hettle worth, J r. '70 said Gerrier per formed work of inestimable \'alue by documenrino the architectural h istory of Portland. hettleworth said Gerrier "fluently and sin cerely poke our languages of ar ch itectural h istory, build ing con ,·er ation and h istoric preserva t ion . He was very talented in the field of New England arch itec tural hisrnry, and his lo s i tragic." He is surv i ved by h is mother, Barbara.

Colby Brick Recipient Clark H . Carter '40, August 3 1 , 1 990, i n Stuart, Fla . , at age 7 1 . Born in Waten·i l le, M a i ne, h e wa t h e son of Benj a m i n Carter, professor o f mathematics from 1 9 1 0 until his death i n 1 92 6 a n d M a ry Casw e l l Cane r , a member of the Class of 1 904. H e was a math a n d business adm i n i s trat ion major at t h e College and played football and i ntramural ports. After Colby he attended the Harvard Graduate School of Bu iness. During World War 1 1 h e served as a l ieutenant com mander i n the U .S . N avy at the Boston N avy Yard and i n Sierra

Leone, West Africa and was an instructor at the upply Corps School at Han·ard. For 3 6 year. h e was a n e x e c u t i ,· e \1· i t h R i c h a rd s o n - M e r re l l , I n c . , a pharmaceut ical corporat ion. H e retired i n 1 98 1 . He j o i ned the Colby Board of Trustee · i n 1 96 5 a n d recei\'ed an honorary M . A . , and i n 1 980, t h e College awarded h i m an honorary L . H . D. A trustee u n t i l 1 989, he worked on se,·eral major board committees. He also -er\'ed on the Alumni Counc i l . w a s a member o f t h e "C" Club and ,,·as an organi:er of his class's 2 5 t h reunion gift of the M i llett Alumni House. I n 1 9 7 3 he was awarded a Colby Brick for his sen·ice and genero s i ty to the Col lege. I n 19 6 he establ ished the C a n e r Profe - - o r s h i p i n M athematics with h i s brother, W i ll i a m '3 Predeceased by his first wife, Raye W i n low Caner '40, he is un· i ved by h is wife, Barbara, a stepson, a tepdaugh ter, h is brother and h is cousi n , Kathryn C a w e l l MacDonald ' 3 6 .

Community Volunteer Helen Brown G ilfoy '40, May 2 , 1 990, i n Concord, M a s., at age 72. She was born i n Pro\'i dence, R . 1 . At Colby she was e n ior c lass president. She and her late husband, Donald A . G ilfoy '40, were active in the Colby A l u m n i Assoc iation, i n i t iating the p u rc h ase of the M i l le t t A l u m n i House i n 1 96 5 and help ing plan their class's 2 5 th and 50th reunions. The couple was awarded a Colby Brick in 1 9 2. A re idem of L i ncoln and N an tucket, M a s . , s h e erved on the school committee fo r the town of L i ncoln and was act ive i n the L i nc o l n Old Town H a l l , the 89

Women's Exchange and the New England Genealogical Soc iety. She is survived by a on, Peter G. G i lfoy '70, two daughters, Faye B. G i lfoy and N ancy B. G i lfoy, a daughter- i n - l a w , Peggy Wiehl G i lfoy ' 7 1 and two grandsons.

Patent Attorney Th eodore L . Brown ' 5 5 , September 1 1 , 1 990, i n Rockport, Maine, at age 59. He was born in Arl ington Va., and attended h igh schools in Maine. He served i n t h e N a t ional G uard, t h e n inter rupted h is Colby career for Army serv ice during the Korean con flict. A t Colby he majored in physics, wrote for the Echo and was president of the Powder and Wig Dramatic Soc iety and the phy ic honor soc iety. After graduat ing from Colby he attended the U n i v e r ity o f Mary land, where he studied physics. Later he rece ived a law degree from George Wa h ington U niversity in Washington, D.C., and became a patent attor ney in W a h i n g t o n and i n Camden, Maine. H e i s survived by his wife , N ancy Clair Weller Brown ' 54 , five son and three daughters, i n c l ud i ng L a u r i e Brown Crowell '86, a son-in-law, David A . Crowell '88 and four grandch i ldren.

Distinguished Geologist J o eph M . Trefe then ' 3 1 , July 3 , 1 990, i n Friend hip, M aine, a t age 84. H e wa born i n Kerns H i l l , M a i ne , and attended Kerns Hill Sem i nary and Coburn Clas sical I ns t itute. His father taught mathematics and astronomy at the College from 1 9 1 1 to 1 93 1 . A member of Phi Beta Kappa, he followed his i nterest in geology after Colby and completed his master' a t the U niversity of I ll i n o i a n d h is Ph.D. a t t h e U n iver sity of W i scons i n . H e taught ge90

ology at the Un iversity of M a i ne at Orono and at Portland for 3 3 years, served as M a i ne State Ge ologist, and publ ished a book and numerous papers on Maine geol ogy. He was a fe llow of che Geo1 gical oc 1ety of A merica and the S igma X i scient ific soc iety. Predeceased by h is sister�. A . Ruth Trefethen ' 1 5 and Fra nee E . Trefethen ' 1 6, he is survived b y h i s w i fe , H e l e n B r i g h a m Trefethen ' 30, t w o sons, a daugh ter and several grandc h i ldren.

years, eventually head ing the French department at Mohawk Trail Regional H igh chool in Shelburne Falls, Mass. She also studied at M iddlebury, and i n 1 96 3 s h e received a master's d e gree i n educat ion from t h e Uni versity of Massachusetts. he i surv ived by a sister, Helen Chase Pardey ' 30, cwo brother , Lovel l C. Chase a n d Harold F. Chase ' 3 3 , a stepmother, a half-sister, and everal n ieces and nephews, inc luding W i ll iam V . Chase '62 .

Noted Sailor

Outstanding Coach

Leslie Lyman Black ' 1 9, May 1 , 1 990, in Boothbay Harbor, M a i ne , at age 96. Born in South Brooksv i l l e , Maine, and a gradu ate of Maine Central I nst itute, he was a veteran of the Army A mbulance Corps i n World War l and a member of the Coast Guard A u x i l iary i n World War I I . He was a food manufac turer and processor i n Quincy, Mass., before he returned to M a i ne , where he pent h i winters as cap tain of a private yacht ervice along the East Coast from Canada to Key West, Fla. H e had been grand marshal of the W indjam mer Days parade and part ic ipated in M a i ne Marit ime Academy's R e t i red S k i ppers Race for 24 consec utive years. He i urvived by four daughters, 1 2 grandc h i l dren, 26 great-grandchildren and a great-great grandson.

Charles W . Heddericg ' 3 1 , Marc h 9, 1 990, i n Brewer, Maine, a t age 84. H e wa born i n Whitman, M a s . , and attended Maine Central I nstitute before entering Colby, where he played football and hockey and wa catcher and captain of the 1 9 3 1 baseball ream. He played m inor league and emipro ba eball and later erved as an unofficial scout for the Boston Red ox. He re ceived a ma ter' i n educat ion from Bridgewater State Teacher Co l l ege. A ft e r teac h i n g and coach ing at Coburn Classical In stitute and Steams H igh School i n M i l l inocket , he taught and coached football and baseball at Brewer H igh School for almost 3 0 years. He was named to the Ma ine Baseball Hall of Fame and the Roll of Honor for the M a i ne H igh School Coaches Associa tion. The M a i ne House ofRepre sentati ves named him Outstand ing Schoolboy Coach of the Year, and in 1 988 Brewer H igh School's baseball field was named after him. H e is survi ved by his wife, I rene, a nephew, two nieces and a stepson.

Teach er of French J. Ardel le Chase '27, May 29, 1 990, in Lakev i l le , Mass., at age 8 3 . Bom i n Wa hbum, Maine, she was the daughter of the Rev. W i lliam B. Chase, Cla s of 1 899, and granddaughterofSimeon L.B. Chase, Class of 1 86 3 . She was act ive i n drama and i n many Colby c lubs and athletic teams. She was a French teacher for many

Textile Executive Deane R. Quinton '30, April 20, 1 990, i n A uburn, M aine, at

age 8 1 . He wa born in Woon socket, R . I . , and graduated from Waterv i l l e H igh School. He was t h e p l a n t m a n a g e r of B a t es Manufacturing Co. before start ing his own text i le compan y , Q u i n c o Fabric , I n c . , from which he ret i red in 1 980. During World War II he was a member of a textile group that developed the nylon parachute. He was a mem ber and past pre ident of the K iwanis Club, a member of the H i gh t re e t Congrega t i o n a l Church a n d on the board o f di rectors at Casco Northern Bank. H e is survived by h is wife, Evelyn H a ycock Quinton ' 3 1 , a on, Robert E. Quinton '62 , a si ter and two granddaughters.

Teacher, Music ian Gertrude ykes Elwell '3 I , April 9, 1 990, in Holli Center, M a i ne, at age 79. She attended Coburn Cla sical In ·ritute and graduated from North Berwick H igh School. Ac Colby she won numeral in several sports. For 30 years she taught Larin, French and U. h istory and coached basketball a t Buxton H igh School in Buxton, M a i ne. She later be came school l ibrarian at Bonny Eagle H igh School. he was an accomplished p ianist, accompa n ist and singer with chorus group i n h i gh schools and community churches and wa choir d i recror and organist at the West Buxton Baptist Church. She is survived by her hu band of 5 6 y e a rs, George, three daughters, inc lud ing E lizabeth Elwell '57, and four grandchi ldren.

Internist A l ton D. "Bob" Blake '36, September 1 7 , I 990, i n Bryn Mawr, Pa., at age 75. A native of Waterv i l le , M a i ne, he majored in chemistry a t the College, then Colby , J an uary 1 99 1

entered the U n i \'ersity of Pennyh-ania MeJical c hool, where he recei \'ed hi, M . D . He com pleted h i - i nternsh ip and h i - re i de nc y at Bryn !awr Hospital before begi nnmg a 40-year career at the hospital in rhe pri\·are practice of internal med i c i ne. He was in\'oh·ed \\'ith th e J oh n harpe Research Foundation for many years, \\'as a hoard m e mbe r

of the community health a -socia tion for 1 year and wa a mem ber of se\'eral med ical soc ieties. H is father, Alton D. Blake, r., graduated from Colby i n 1 9 1 0 and his unc le, Albion W . B l ak e , in 1 9 1 1 . He is survived by his wife, El i:abeth, a son, Da\·id, and two g ra ndch i ldre n .

High School Princ ipal Theron R.

tinchfield '3 3 ,

J une 2 , 1 990, in Bangor, Mame, at age 7 . He wa bo rn m Ph i ll ips, M a i n e , and g r a d u a t e d from S t rong H igh chool. Capta in of the 1 93 3 Colby track team, he fini hed fifth in the 1 9 3 2 Oly m pic ja\'elin trials. He earned an M.A. from Columbia U nivers i ty in 1 939, then erved d u ring Wor ld War 1 1 in Europe as a taff ser

geant in the U . . Army. After the war he began a 3 -year career in education, coaching and en· ing as princ ipal ar Gorham, Cape Elizabeth and Piscataquis high schools in Maine and at Brat tleboro Union H igh School in Vermont. He wa a member of several educarion a sociarions. He was predecea ed by h is brother , Raymond D. rinchfield '39 and Philip A. rinchfield '40. Survi vors include his wife, Virginia , t w o s o n s , i nc l ud i ng R i chard Stinchfield '69, a daughter- in law, Lynne McKendry Stinchfield '70, a sister, Lillian Stinchfield Salmon ' 3 7 , a nephew, Peter Salmon ' 5 3 and four grandchil dren. Colby, January 1 99 1

Founded Anglers ' Club Edward 1'- 1 . " Pe re " G u i ld ' 5 2 , J une 2 0 . 1 990, in anrucket, M a ss . , ar age 60. Born in Bnsron. he attended Glwernor Dummer Academy. H e wa> on acti\·e duty \\'Hh rhe U .S. Cnasr Guard and later was a memher ,)f the c,)a>t Guard Resen-c. After \\'ork ing for the � econd at 1cmal Bank l i Boston and sen· ing as managing director oi 1 usic Theaters, I nc .. he mo\·ed to N antucket, \\'here he ran a sport-fi sh in g boar for i nsh ore and offshore cha rter parties. Later he owned and managed rhe Nantucket h irs Chand lery . He was a member of -everal local as·oc iat 1on - and noted as rhe founder of rhe N an tucket Anglers' Club and as 2 2 ) ear head o f rhe Nantucket Bill f1 . h Tournament, which became onL nf rhe he,r-kn,)wn fi,h i ng rnumaments on rhe Ea-;r Coa:,r. The r urnament \\·as later named after him. H e 1s sur\'i\·ed hy hi' da u gh t e r , C o r i n a hand , a granddaughter and three ,1,rer,.

Football Hero Robert W. wn '29, July 2 5 , 1 99 0 , m Mount De e r t , M a me, ar age 4. H e wa horn in Montreal. At Co lby he \\'a, a r ar in track and hockey. In 1 92 he captai ned the foor ba ll ream, and a- a fe arso me halfback-he wa:, known as "Bounding Bobby " was named to the 1 92 7 and 1 928 All-Maine reams. After Colby, he received h i master' degree

from rhe U n iver i t y of N e w Hampshire a n d went on t o reach and coach football for many year ar Bar Harbor and orway high schools, Hebron Academy and Gould Academy, and he a lso taught ar Unity College. He was a member of the Maine Teachers A soc iation. H is brother was Albert H. Scott '24. He is sur vived by h is wife of 57 years,

Marguerite, a brnther, a '1�ter, three nephe\\'s and three niece,, inc lud ing Mary Scmr Ja h n ' 5 1 .

Pastor, Author Ernest B. Baile · '45, Febru ary 1 7 , 1 990, in Claremnnt. N . H . . a r age 6 7 . Born i n Claremont , he graduated from � te\·ens H 1g h School. After one year at Colby, he pur ued h is rel igious stud ies at the AndO\·er- ewton Theologi cal eminary and the Harvard D1vm ity Sch,)ol, where he re cei\· ed h is doctorate in r,ychol ogy. I n add ition ro sen·ing as pas tor of the R oc kro r t B a p r i r Church, he \\'as the author of se\'eral book - and deli\'ered many lectures on psychology. He \\'a, also a biochem ist. Predeceased bv his wife, he is sun·1\·ed bv hi.., n� oth e r , Ida Bailev. a -ister and se\·eral nieces and nephe\\'�.

Reading Educator M arguerite de Rochemont 3 3 , August l 5 , 1 990, in Rock land, Mame, at age 79. Born in Roc k land, -he wa:, an education maior at the College. I n 1 94 3 she earned a master's degree in edu cat ion from B a re- College. An early reacher of remed ial read ing, :, he raugh r ar chool- in ew York. Connect icut and Rhode l land and wa, act ive i n educational or gani:at ion all her life, ervmg as pre ident of a chapter of rhe American A soc iarion of Uni '

versity Women. he was a mem ber of several local and rate historial societies. he was also a life member of Pratt Memorial United Methodist Church and was serving as a trustee at the time ofher dearh . Predecea ed by her si ter, Donna de Rochemont Wetzel '39, she is survived by her sister, Helen de Rochemont Cole '36, her brother, Clarence de Rochemont, and several niece and nephew .

Company Admins trator Ge,1fge W . Young '4 1 , May 1 990, in !ount Hnrch, W1,., 1, t ag e 7 1 . Bnrn in Chebea, Ma" · · he sen·eLl \\'ith U . S. N;:l\·al I nt el l i gence for a ye<Jr, t he n � b ,m ccun,)mt>t for the Petroleum A d m i n 1 , r ra r i o n for \X1 a r in Wash ingrnn. He rece1n·d his la\\. 1 3.

degree from the U n 1 \·er,1ty of Detroit in 1 949 and completed the Columbia U n l \·ersHy e xecu t i\·e program in busine ·s admini · rration in 1 9 5 5 . For 1 1 years he worked for Parke, Da\· is & Cll m pany in Detroit as an artorney and accountant. In 1 956 he joined Mead Johnson l nternatilmal and sen·ed as financ ial manager, ad ministrati ve d1 ·ecror and Pacific area d i rector until he became rre.ident of A bbor r Laboratone:,, I nternational Di\' i,1on, in Ch i cago. H e i ' :,un·i\·ed by h i, \\'1fe, W i lda, t\\'O sons, three grand chi ldren and a brother.

Social Worker Joyce Perry Goss '3 , A rri! 2 3 . 1 990. in N arth Tarrytown, . Y . , ar age 7 2 . Born in R a l e i gh , En gl and, she graduated from Bel lo \\'- H igh chool in Rye, . Y . A sociology major ar Colby. ,he went on ro study oc ial work ar Boston U n i \'ersiry. During World War I [ ·he was a soc ial worker for the c ity of White Plains, N . Y . , rhen moved to offic e ma nagment. he lived in Elmsford, N.Y. for 50

years. She is survi \·ed by her husband, Frederick, a daughter, a son, a brother and o ne grand daughter.

C ivic Leader Barbara Kaighn Warner '4 l , J uly 1 1 , 1 990, in Quechee, Yr., at age 7 2 . Born in Abbington, Pa. , s h e graduated from Westown School i n Westchester, Pa. A 91

rsycholngy anJ 'ociology major, ;,he a bo earned her ri lnr \ I icen;,e wh ile a t Colhy. With her h u · band, the late John B. Warner '4 2 , she was a memher of the pl)rtsman Pi lots Assoc im ion and tra\-cled e x ren,ively. he wa� i n volved in numerous c i v ic anJ \·ol unteer ac r i v i ties, including the Boy couts, G irl cours, PT A. and League of Women Voters. She \�·as president of the Serv ice League and for several year was a member of the board of d i rectors of rhe Boston M useum of Sc i e n c e . he a l o volunteered h e r service for l o c a l l ibraries a n d re c yc l i ng effort . She is surv i ved by two ons, M ark and Chrisropher, two daughters, Sandra W. Verger and Pamela Warner Champagne '70, four grandch i ldren and three sisters.

N oted Lawyer M . Gerald Ryan ' 3 7 , A ugust 8, 1 990, i n Omaha, Neb., at age 74. Born i n A uburn, M a i ne , he was the son of M ike Ryan, a marathon runner on two U .S. Olympic reams, w inner of the 1 9 1 2 Boston M a r a t h o n , and Colby's athletic d i rector and track coach from 1 9 1 9 to 1 9 34. A h is tory and government major at Colby, he was also a varsity foot ball a n d hockey player a n d holder of several c lass offices. H e worked on the Oracle, was manag i ng ed i to r of the Echo hi sen ior year, and was a correspondent for sev eral New Engl and newspapers. AfterColby, he was a h igh- chool coac h and journal i t in Maine, I daho and A laska. H e rec e i ved a master' degree in h istory and government from the U n ivers i ty of I daho in 1 9 39. In World War II he was a N avy communica t ions officer in the Mari anas, Ok i nawa and Chi n a . After the war he was a commu n i ty-center and recreation superintendent for 92

the c i ty ,if Palo A l tn. I n 1 9 5 1 he received h i. J . D. frnm the Uni \-er;ity of Denver. He wa. an a; ,i tant exec u t i \·e for Santa Clara County frnm 1 9 5 3 to 1 9 5 7 and later hecame a management ana lyst for Lo, Angeles County. He served <lo a nt a Clara County Law L i hrarian from 1 96 1 to 1 968, a� a j uven i le-court clerk in Dem·er and as a court-system effic iency expert in Omaha. He worked at the U n i versity of Nebrask a , then i n the pub l ic defender's office and as a deputy county attorney in Omaha unti l his ret i rement in l 984. Predeceased by a s ister, Roberta Ryan '36, he is surv i ved by h is wife, J ean . a daughter, a s o n , fo u r b r o t h e r s a n d o n e grandch i ld.

C hemist Pa ul D. Burnham '4 l, Au gu t 1 2 , 1 990, i n W a terv i ll e , M a i n e , a t age 7 2 . Born i n Bra t t leboro, V t . , h e a t t e nded Bratt leboro H i gh Schoo l . At Colby he was a chemistry major and was on the football and track teams. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War I I . A text i le chemist for Maine compan ies, he was a project manager in the re search d i v is ion of Keyes Fibre when he retired i n I 98 3 . He was a volunteer a t the M id-Maine Medical Center and wa on the board of d i rectors at the YMCA. H e is survived by his wife, Marion McArdle Burnham '4 1 , one son, one daughter, h i s mother, one brother, two si ter , a daughter in- law, N ancy Newell Burnham '65, and four grandch ildren, in c l uding K i mberly Burnham N a hed '86.

Loved Art, Travel E l izabeth Darl i ng Bares ' 39, May 28, 1 990, i n Bangor, M a i ne, at age 7 1 . he was born in East

Orange, .J ., and graduated from George tevem Academy. After Colby. ,he wa<; a rrir leader and ::id m i n i ,trator w i th the A meri can Youth Ho,reb Organ tzat ion. During World War II she held ro,i non; as a nurse' aide and a' a-.,i;,tant ro the cura tor of the Fogg M useum of Art at Harvard . he a bo worked for De Wolfe and Fiske Bookstore i n Bosron. In l 9 7 1 he moved to Blue H i l l , M a ine . a n d w a s emrloyeJ a;, a travel agent. he d ied a a result of inj uries su r a i ned i n an auto mobile acc ident. She is survived hy a daughter, Mary J a ne Bare ' 2, and a son , John Bares ' 5 .

Faculty and Staff

English Professor Richard Cary, J u ne 2 7 , 1 990, i n Waterv ille, Ma i ne, a t age 80. He was a member of Phi Bera Kappa at N ew York Un iver ity, where he also earned h is ma ter's degree. He became a profe or of Engl ish at Colby after recei v i ng hi Ph.D. from Cornell U n i ver sity. An authority on the work of Sarah Orne J ewett and other Ma ine author , he was also c ura tor ofrare books and manuscripts, editor of the Colby Library Quar terly and d i rector of the Colby Library Pres . Hi wife , Frances, died in October 1 990. H e i ur v ived by two s isters, two brothers and several n i eces and nephews.

Sec retary to Registrar Frances P . Cary, October 9, 1 990, i n Waterv i lle, M a i ne , at age 77. She was employed as a ecretary to the registrar at Colby for many years, and for over 2 5 year she was a volunteer a t M id Maine Medical Center. I n 1 95 5 she married Professor R ic h ard

Cary, who died in J une 1 990. urvi\·ors i nc lude her brother, Roger W. Perk i n , and her sister, Prisc i l l a M c Laugh l i n .

Professor of Biology Robert L . Terry , J u ly 6 , J 989, in Waterv i l le , Maine, at age 70. He wa;, born in Mount Holly, N .j . , and received h is B.A. from Earlham College in 1 9 3 9 and h is Ph . D . from the U n i vers i t y of Pennsylvania in 1 948. From 1 94 1 t o 1 94 5 h e served i n the U . A r m y M e d i c a l Corps. Before comi ng to Colby, he taught at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science, the U niver ity of Penn ylvania, Union College and I owa State College. He wa pro fessor of biology at the College for 30 years unt i l h is ret irement i n 1 98 3 . H e i survived by h i wife, W i l hem ina, a son, a daugh ter and three grandch ildren.

Phys. Ed. Instructor Margaret Mann, September 1 6, 1 990, in A uburn, Maine. She was an instructor i n physical edu cation a t the College from 1 94244. Survivor inc lude her h u band, Parker M ann, two daugh ters, Meredith Mann hore '68 and M i l l icent Mann, a son, Parker Mann, J r. , and grandc h i ldren.

Honorary

Renowned Behaviorist B.F. Sk inner, c . D. ' 4, August 1 8, 1 990, i n Cambridge, Mass., at age 86. Con idered the grandfather of behav ioral p y chology , he wa professor emeri tus at Harvard U n i ver ity. Surv i v o r inc lude hi· wife, Yvonne, two d augh t e rs a_nd a grand daughter, Kristi na Varga ' 8.

Colby , J anuary 1 99 1

LETTERS Pulling for Pam Pamela Haury Cunningham ' 8 0 learned lase spring that she has chronic m)·logeno11s leuke mia . She is undergoing chemotherapy , buc a cure can only be effecced with a bone manow cransplant , and cime is of the essence. A simple blood test can determine bone manoU' compac ibilicy , and che more people u•ho are reseed, rhe beccer Pam's chances of finding a march If you would like to help, call che Nannnal Manow Donor Program at 1 -800-654- 1 247 for an information package or call che American Red Cross in your area for information abour donat ing blood placelecs through pheresis . You can also defray che com ofa bone manow resting drive in Pam's home town. Send checks made ow w che National Marrow Donor Program to: Bill Limbacher, c/o New England Telephone, 350 Cochicuace Rd . , Room 20 1 , Framingham , MA 0 1 70 1 .

I feel compel led w contact Colby i m med i ately on a matte r rhat l be l ie,·e you w i l l agree is quite urgent. o I s i t i n my office at work after hour to quickly compose a letter. You may a lready be aware of Pam Cunningham's search for a bone marrow donor. A friend of m ine from Brai ntree brough t her story to m attent ion, ince Pam is a Colby alum. I don't know Pam bur 1 t h i nk Colby could help her. Should t ry to help her. Perhaps through your contact- across the country and the c urrent studen t body, you could spread the word to get a many people a pos ible to take the blood test with the hope of becom i ng bone marrow donors for Pam or for omeone j ust l i k e her. If you know of Pam' plight and are already on the move, I 'm sure she's thankfu l a n d a l i ttle more hopeful. 1 applaud you. I f n o t , 1 strongly upport a n y effort made by the Colby commun i ty around the world to not only become act ive in the earch for a donor for Pam, but al o to become proponents of the

a t ional Donor Program.

Junk Mail?

Conni butiom. Howet•er, becaz1se che demand

O n two of three succes · i,·e mail deli,·eries, l rec e i ,·ed yt)Ur reports [Colby and Colbv: The Repon of Conrnbunons]. I wa s i nc redulous at their la , · ish nes s . By the lnok of rhese t wo far, color p h tito -ctw ered . o\·ersi:e ( the Repore ) and perfec t - buund ( Co l by ) - l ' d say Colby is trying ro impress the alumni, parents and friends with a few "pretty faces." ext t i me, don't bother spend i ng \\'hat mu:.t be the equi,·alent of one student's ful l t u i t ion a n d board a n d room o n s u c h fri,·t1lous ex tras. At the least , you could use recycled paper for you r publicat ton:. urely your printers rnuld get i t for you; and if they cannot ( or will nm ) 1 can offer ·ome sugges t io ns . ( I a sume they are not printed on rec yc l ed because I expect you would say so somewhere . ) Resources are ge t t i g scarcer these day , we are told. Perhaps Colby could better al locate it· fi nanc i a l resource . Di gu s te d once aga i n .

Plymouth, Mass. Colby, ] anuary 1 99 1

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ow- printer was unable to deliver sufficient quanrities of rec)•cled paper for chis publication . \\l'e did , of course . choose co prrnc che Report ( excepc for che cover) on uncoated

swck , which

makes che paper much easier co rencle . Regular readers ofC o lby al read)' know rhac che College has an excensit•e paper r.?c;.·ding program on campus , scarred a \: 'ear or tl.l'O ago by a mt.dent who has worl<Kd ll'lth che culminiscra cion to prot•ide reC\'cling containers for wasce paper in vircualh every adminiscram•e andachletic department chror�ghouc Colb)' . The College has also made a commirmem to purchasing recvcled paperfor all its copying machines . Jn che Detoel opmenc and Alumni Relations Office in particu lar, we haw found char by using elecrronic mail w circulate memoranda , reports and meeting

norices , we have cur down on the i1se uf paper and on xero .\ing coses subscannally . The one thing chac we overlooked chis )'ear (and we appreciate che suggesrion from sewral alumni who poimed ir ow to us ) is a " Please recycle " no rice ac che end of the Report to encourage people

Kip Penney ' 74

to join in in our recycling efforrs .

Brooks , Mame

Vice President for Development and Alumni

Letter of Thanks

Relations Rand)' Helm responds : The Annual Report of Contribut ions is an important publication for us . We feel it ' s appropriate and importanr to thank more chan

6 , 400friends and alumni who support che College so generously each year, nor w mention the volimceers who raise alumni conrributions for the College. We have gone w considerable lengths to keep production com down. Giving records are automatically downloaded from che com purer to provide che data for class liscs; page layow is done at Colby by desktop publishing so char camera-ready copy can be delivered to the printeT. The glossy four-color cover is our one concession w luxUT)'. We share your concern abouc rhe

Tracy Don Williams

for recycled paper had owstripped the suppl)' ,

environment and waste ofpaper. l n fact , we did order recycled paper for this year's Report of

wan to thank Barbara Holden, Colby '4 2 , fo r the k ind words about me and two of m y d e a r friends a n d col leagues on the Colby faculty of long ago, Mary M a rshall and A l ice Compare t t i , i n her letter i n the Summer 1 990 issue of Colby. It is good to be remem bered after a l l these years. I want to a ure her and other former Colby student that 1 am t i l l well and ac t i ve , and am con t i nu i ng to roam the world and to w iden my hori:ons. To c ite some some recent e vidence, I ha\'e j ust returned from a most unusual 3 I /2-week v i i t to China. [ was especially interested i n the pecial feature on Bob W i l l ia m i n the Summer 1 990 issue of Colby . I remember Bob ver) well

from h is Colby days. Through h i m l mer h i s wonderful father, D r . M aurice W i l l iam, who

Anglo-Saxon, Prote rant, American c itizens whose parents' combined annual income

have received the identical condemnation

certainly deserves a spec ial place in the hi -

exceeded $ 1 00,000. The point is that when

of staffand faculty, instead of encouragement

tory of the Chinese nationalist movement.

any i nstitution of h igher educat ion concerns

and support 1 Perhaps those students changed

itself with brainwa hing studentsabout which

Colby far more than the alumni realize.

soc ial or pol i t ical organizations they should

Colby has gone from an outstanding aca

or hould not j o i n/support, rather than teach i ng how to reason intell igently and

demic in t i t u r ion to one concerned more w i th soc io-political c hange. After three generations of my fam i ly eek ing an educa

Nonnan D. Palmer '30 Member Colby Faculty , 1 933- 1 947

thoroughly, that i nstitution is no longer one of h igher education. It is merely one more tool in someone's soc io-pol i t i c a l power