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MAY 1992

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INSIDE COLBY The Educational Pres

Cover Story

A ocia

tion of America has declared "A Change Is Brewing" (March 1991)

6 At Home Abroad: London holds an allure for students (such as Brent McLean '95, Sara Regan '93 and Jen Curtis '93, pictured, clockwi e, on the cover) , from performing

one of the four be t news stories about education in this country last year. Recent winners in this category include the Miami Her ald and Lee Mitgang, education editor of the Associated Pre s. Guided by individual who

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art majors drawn by Colby's own theater program to economics majors at the London School of Economics to others who go off on the ir own to study literature or art in Oxford.

brought background in journal ism to Mayflower Hill, Colby ha produced tories on ubjects that might be considered bold at other college magazine . In addition to the winning piece on campu alcohol abu e, topic have included tudent from broken familie , the faculty tenure proce s and, thi month, The Bridge. Tackling interesting and rel evant tories fairly and credibly i one way Colby can reflect well on the college it serves. There are other way . Colby accentuates po i tive, upbeat features about stu dents, faculty and alumni. Colby i not a fund raiser per se, but some storie encourage readers to send money-to the College, not the magazine. And while it is true that Colby does not muckrake about Colby (we leave that to the Echo, the Morning Sentinel and other ) , it i al o true that we are not cenored. Storie are not hown to subjects before publication, and officials are con ulted only to check accuracy or legality. We continue to welcome your letter and comments. Colby, May 1 992

Eleven on the Isle: Nearly 50 College alumni live and work in England. We catch up with 11 of them bankers and entrepreneur , authors and artists-for a glimp e of the ir lives in the realm of k ings.

26 A Double Life: Sculptor Harriett Matthews, remarkable artist and educator, lives a series of rew;:rding, demanding and energi:ing parallel lives.

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Obituaries

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Letters

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

20,000th Customer George Coleman, never one to pa-!>over interesting trivia, ha�calculate<l thatCol hy\ 20,000th graduate should march at this year' commencement. Seems that when he took up hi� job a:, registrar 26 years ago, George inherite<l a running li ·t of Degrees AwardeJ ince 1920 anJ, for no part icular reason except to -atisfy his own compul:,ive in tinct , has kept it current. Now he has discovered that in the /920 General Catalogue of Colby College i a listing of all per:,ons who ever attended Colby, from George Dana Boardman, la s of 1822, up through the graduates of 19 19. o George did some calcu lation , of course, and d iscovere<l that through October 199 1 Colby ha awarded 19,543 undergraduate degrees. With a sen ior c las!> of 463 and a handful of others receiving degrees who finished their course work a member!> of other c las e , it seem l ikely that the 20,000th will be toward the end of the line this spring-unless, of course, more than 10 eniors fail to graduate. That, George says, is "a di tinct po ibility but not a high prob abi lity. " Colby Pride Mathematics Department chair Keith Devlin's book, Logic and Information (Cambridge University Press ) , has won the American Association of Publishers award for "mo t out tanding book in the computer c ience and data pro cessing category for 199 1." . . . Patrice Franko-Jones ( Econom ics) is one of only 24 American scholars to be awarded a presti giou Pew Faculty Fellowship in International Affairs for the com ing academic year. She was selected from among more than 200 applicant for the program admini tered by the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. Just in Time Alumni Secretary Sid Farr ' 5 5 is the new owner of a fine old pocket watch once presented to Colby President Frank lin W. Johnson, Class of 189 1. S id bought it from a collection of estate pieces at a local jewelry shop. It is presumed that the watch was presented in 1942 when Johnson retired. The inscription reads: "For h is efforts for the old and new Colby, from Waterv i lle-Colby alumni and fr iend ." To Name A Few I n a shuffie ofresponsib i l it ies in the office of Dean of the Faculty Bob McArthur, Jon Weiss has been named director of off-campus study and academic affair . In addition to supervising program abroad and other off-campus study, he w i l l be responsible for curriculum planning and imple mentation. Associate directors are Linda Cotter and Libby 2

Todrank. Lin<la will handle the on-campus Jan Plan and domes tic off-campu. !>tudy opport un it ie , as well as January and summer intern hi ps. Li bby will continue to a<lvi e on study opportunitie ahroad and will help coor<linate the overseer v isiting committees to academic department� . . . . Barbara Nowland has retired as adm inistrative ecretary for the Modem Languages Department. Her was a fine helping hand fornearly aquartercentury . . . . John Frechette, acting director of Safety and Security since the fall, has been named permanent director. . . . Andrea Solomita, a January graduat , has joine<l the Communication taff as an intern handling sport information. . . . Sa l l y Baker, editorofthis maga zine, and Nora Cameron, who lead the de ign and production enJ, have each been named associate director in the Communi cations Department . . . . Paul Gregoire, audio vi ual specialist, is now video service coordinator.

Bones The Geology Department ha received an impor tant collection of early mammal from the White River Forma t ion in western Nebra ka, d nated by Dr. Robert M. West, father of Chris '93, who i preparing and cataloguing the collection. These 32-m i l l ion-year-old specimen will be on display in the Mudd Building. Wonderful teaching aid . . . . Gourmet Eye Food Never m ind that the Joan Whimey Payson Collection makes one of the finest Colby art how ever, the fare surrounding the new Davis Gallery i sensa t ional as we ll. There is a stunning exhibition of culpture and drawing by Colby's own Harriett Matthews, and, in the down stair gallery, a wonderful retrospective display of Alex Katz drawings. If that isn't enough, a si tant mu eum director Lynn Marsden-Atlass ha as emb led a charming exhibition of animal art from the College collection. Moosecellaneous A rumor that the student newspa per, the Echo, wa up for sale got wide c irculation in the early winter. Although some thought it a fine idea, the tory wa unfounded . . .. The women's basketball team posted a collective GPA of 3 .21, the best of any winter squad . . . . Colby folks have helped raise funds and collect food for Watervi lle's Ru sian Si ter City, Kotlas. On Valentine's Day, 1 ,762 package went through the Colby mail room headed for Koda . . . . Hail Dining Service for its innovative new feature, "Chef's N ight Out." Student ate it up when cooks left the kitchens and went out into the dining halls to compete in the preparation of special meals. Colby, May 1 992

NEWS FROM THE HILL Violist Is Happy to Be a Second-Stringer

hen the Portland String Quar

tet wanted to perform a Dvorak srring

quintet for their annual winter con cert in Lorimer Chapel, they didn't have to look far to fill the fifth chair. Mary J o Carl en, concerm1aster of the Colby Symphony Orchestra and an a ociate in the College's M usic Department, happily took up her bow to play second v iola. It i

not uncommon for the

P Q-violistJulia Adam , celli t Paul Ros and violini ts Stephen Kecske methy and Ronald Lantz-to invite another musician to join them. Form ing a quintet open up a whole new assortment of musical literature to the group . " I t's

ery refre h ing,"

Adams said. "We're together all the time, and our literature is wonderful,

M a ry Ellen Matava

but the quintet and sextet mu ic i even richer. It's stimulating to u ." Carl en knew the members of

Members of the Portland String Quarce t (from left: Stephen Kecskemethy, Ronald Lantz, Paul Ross and, at far right, Julia Adams) in concert with Colby music associate Mary Jo Carlse n.

the PSQ long before he performed with them in December-and long before

that I could look over and have eye con

Viola Quintet in E-flat Major, op. 97, by

they came to Colby as arti ts in re idence

tact and communicate," said Carlsen. "It

Antonin Dvorak. Not knowing either

in 1986. "We've played with her and have

would take time to develop rhat with

piece, she cho e the Dvorak.

known her over the year ," Adams aid. "It

anyone."

was high time we got together again. It worked out well." But not without some effort. Carl en

"I wa

Carl en adm its that

he "bit her

o glad to do that piece," aid

Carl en, adding that when he later heard

tongue" when she disagreed with the

the Mozart quintet, she realized it second

quartet'

interpretation of a phrase, but

viola part was not significant. "In the

said i t took ome rehearsal time for her to

she did a k questions and make sugge -

Dvorak, all the voices had their moments.

feel comfortable with the group. They've

tions. "They've been together o long, it

It was a wonderful piece."

played together for 23 year , she says, and

must be very hard to adjust and stretch,"

during that time they have developed

she said. The PSQ is second onl

to the

Though they are seriou musicians, Carl en says, members of the PSQ aren't

special way of communicating and inter

famed G uarneri Quartet in longevity

above clowning around for a few minutes

acting.

among intact American string quartets.

during rehearsal, and they are

Chamber music involvesa mallnum

Carl en ha played violin for many

ery gra

cious. They spend many hour teaching,

ber of instruments, each with its own part,

years, but her mastery of the viola i

including a tring work hop each summer

Adams explained. A one mu ician lead

relatively recent accomplishment. She

at Colby, which awarded them each an honorary degree in 19 6. " o much of

the movement, the others physically lean

now play

toward him or her a they play rheir part .

ington

ymphony Orchestra. The pur

what they do i teaching and coaching,"

There is frequent eye contact, head nod

cha e of her fir t viola last J une was

Carl en said. "They're u ed to being open

ding and other ignals. "It ha to do w ith

Carlsen's catalyst for the performance with

and inviting people. That' part of what

thecommunicationofindivi dual ," Adams

the PSQ.

they do."

principal viola in the Farm

The quartet gave Carl en the choice

said. "We had enough time with the piece Colby, May

1 992

of performing a Mozart quintet or the

Five Honored With Graduates A wi tnes to the hlack experience at an exclu ive New England educational enc lave, a bu i ne executive who i now a key federal educat ion official, a pioneer ing scholar in the field of American stud ies and the ch ief executive of a computer giant will receive honorary degree at Colby's 17 lst commencement exerci es on Sunday, May 2 4 . A fifth honorary degree w i l l be pre sented to the actor and comedian Bill Cosby, who e select ion as Commence ment peaker was noted here in March. The four other rec ipients have been in vited to participate in a eminar on the future of American education aturday afternoon, M ay 2 3 , and to attend indi vidual dinner in their honor in Roberts Un ion that evening. They are:

Lorene Cary, author of Bl.ack Ice, an account of her experiences as a minority student at St. Paul's, a New Hampshire boarding school. Cary holds bachelor's and master's degrees in English l i terature from the Un iver i ty of Pennsylvania and a econd master' in Victorian l iterature from the Un iversity of u ex in England. A former staffer at Time magazine and TV Guide, he has taught at Ant ioch College. Cary lectured at Colby last fa ll, ampl ifying on the theme of her acclaimed book. Her ti tle was "Mak ing Room for Our elves: Black tudents in Wh i te Institutions." David T. Kearns, former chair and chief executive officer of the Xerox Cor poration who i currently U. S. Deputy Secretary of Education. Keams is a gradu ate of the Un iversity of Rochester. He j oined the I n ternational Business Ma chines Corporation in 1954 and stayed with the corporation for 17 years, rising to 4

Lorene Cary lectured to a College audience last fall in Robens Union.

v ice president of marketing in the Jara proce· ing div ision before join ing Xerox in 197 1 . As second in command to ecre tary Lamar Alexander, Kearn oversee day-to-day operations at the Department of Education. He al o , erve on the President's Education Policy Advisory Com mi ttee, the Business Council, the Counc i l on Foreign Relation and the American Phi losophical Soc iety. He ha served on the board of Time Warner, I nc . , Ryder y tern, Inc . , the Cha e Man hattan Corpor a t i on and the Dayton Hudson orporation, ha been a tru tee of the Ford Foundation and ha chaired the boards of the Un iversity of Roche ter, the N a t i onal Urban League and J u n i or Achievement.

Leo Marx, Kenan Profe or Emeritu of American Civil ization at the Massa chusetts I nstitute of Technology. Marx's book The Machine in the Garden: Technol ogy and the Pastoral Ideal in America, pub lished by Oxford University Pre s in 1964, is con idered a pioneering work in the field of American studies, technology studies and environmental tudie . A re i dent o f Sweden, M ai ne, as well as Boston, M arx ha been hailed for his role in link i ng humanism with technology. His other ignal work is The Pilot and the Passenger:

Essays on Literature, Technology, and Cul ture in che United Scates (Oxford Univer ity Pre , 1988 ). He ha al o edited vol umes on Thoreau and Twain and co-edited a tudy of the railroad in American art .

John Sculley, chief executive officer of the Apple Computer Corporation. A graduate of the Rh de I land School of De ign with a degree in architecture from Brown and an M.B.A. from the Un iver s i ty of Pennsylvania., Sculley tarted his career with a New York-based adverti ing and public relations firm and i n 1967 was hired by Pepisco a director of marketing for Pep i-Cola. He became president and ch ief executive officer of Pep ico's soft drink division in 1977 and in 1983 moved to Apple Computer, where h is leader hip i cons idered a major factor i n that company's enormous growth and, more recently, i ts abi l i ty to achieve a mea ure of stability in the face of economic, techno logical and marketing challenges. Though Apple is based in California and he i a native of New York, Sculley ha t ies to Maine. He has owned a farm in Cushing and has sailed out of Camden. Colby, in tum, has ties to Apple. The Macintosh is the computer of choice on Mayflower Hill. Colby, May 1 992

Bowdoin

Dean Runnals Remembered She died a dozen years ago, but

rudent , perhaps a

part of a

resulted in a dramatic hift in enrollment

fraternity initiation. How else to explain

to public institution , which now enroll

why it turned up in a closet on the

79 percent ofU . . college students. Much

Brun wick campus? I t was turned in to

of the exodus, he said, is formed by stu

Bowdoin's lost-and-found office, where

dents from middle-income familie , who

omebody connected the name with Colby

must pay $35,000- 45,000 more for pri

still ha had an

and called Mayflower H i ll. After it is pro

vate education. A variety of public pol i

active spring, garnerino a po thumous

fe sionally cleaned, Dean of the College

c ies have contributed to this inequity,

honor and reviving a my tery.

Earl

Cotter a id, including federal deductib il

inetta May Runnals 'O

Runnal , legendary Colby dean of

mith said, the pic ture will be re

turned to the walls of Runnals Union

ity of tate taxe that fund state universi

women for all but rwo years from 1920

once the women'

tie .

through 1949, wa elected into the Maine

the home of Strider Theater.

tudent union and now

" A continuation of thi trend," Cot

Women' Hall of Fame on March 21. J ust

ter wrote in a position paper on the ubject

day before the induction ceremony at the

that has been di tributed to key offic ial ,

Univer ity of Maine's Augu ta campu , a

"w ill alma t certainly shrink the private

hand ome portrait of the late dean was discovered in a closet at Bowdoin and returned to Colby. It had di appeared sev eral years ago from Runnal Un ion, the

sector to the point of in ignificance as a

Cotter Widens

force in higher education. The burden on all taxpayers will increase (the private

His Audience

sector now aves taxpayer more than 12

campus building that honor her memory. Runnal was nominated for the hall of fame by the Waterville chapter of the

bill ion a year) and a choice that is at the Bill Cotter is emerging as a national figure in policy d i cu ion· on the

tate

heart of our plurali tic society will be lost or available to very few."

and Profe -

and future ofU. S. higher education, e pe

Cotter has urged Congre sional lead

sional Women, which i a co- ponsor of

c ially in championing the cause of inde

ers and White Hou e official to consider

t h e orga n i z a t i o n . J ea n n e L i t t le f i e l d

pendent colleges.

M aine Federation of Busine

extending Pell grant aid to middle-in

Hammond '49, long-time member of the

Cotter, completing h is 13th year as

come familie again and providing several

Colby registrar's staff, re earched Runnal 's

pre ident of Colby, has been elected chair

forms of income-tax relief for familie with

life and career, and A ociate Dean of

of the board of the

Students Victoria Mare Her hey read the

of Independent College

and Univer i

"The importance of pri ate institu

citation at the ceremony.

ties, a 16-year-old Washington, D.C.-based

tion i underscored by their special flex

" I u ed to like to ay that we were both members of t h e C l a s of '49," Hammond aid. "That wa the year I gradu ated and Dean Runnals retired."

ational As ociation

tudent at private collf'ges.

group that repre ents 830 in t itutions on

ibility to be innovative [and] insulated

public policy matters.

from political pressure, thu helping en-

During the week in which Cotter wa elected in February, he conferred with

ure academic freedom for all of higher education," Cotter wrote. " And while

Runnal was lauded at the ceremony

Secretary of Education Lamar Alexander,

nobody is sugge t ing that the Stanfords

as a pioneering admini trator who lobbied

Speaker of the Hou e Thomas Foley and

and Harvards will go out of business or

inten ely and uccessfully for a w ide range

enate Majority Leader George M i tchell.

of advance for women tudent and de

Cotter, who al o er es as M itchell's

manded the highest level of conduct from

designee to the

Colby'

R e pon i b i l i t ies for F i n a n c i n g Post

female

tudent . Runnal , who

ational Comm is ion on

that pre tigiou

mall colleges such as the

one I erve, Colby in Maine, will lack for applicants, the nature of students who attend already ha

changed. And if the

in the twenties and

econdary Education, u ed the February

erved a a College trustee from 1953 to

meetings to appeal for more federal aid to

forces further cutbacks in the face of an

tudents who attend independent college

expanding applicant pool, the vety group

taught mathematic

1959, died in 1980 at age 95 in her home town of Dover-Foxcroft, Maine. Her toried impatience with prank i hne s would have been everely chal lenged if, as ome u pect, her portrait was expropriated from Runnal Colby, May 1992

Union by

and univer ities.

y tern

in whose name public education has been

Extensive development of tate uni ver ity ystem combined with le ernment aid to

economic squeeze on the public

tudent

gov

expanded at private education' expen e may be shut out altogether."

in private col

leges, Cotter told the officials, have

At Home Abroad From Racing at Henley to Painting Wales , England Presents Hands -on Experience - by Sally Baker -

ommarket Street bustled on a cold Friday night in December. The bus station was full of travelers waiting for the London-bound Citilink and Oxford Tube buses; freshly killed and unplucked Christmas geese hung on hooks not 15 feet from the entrance to a posh clothing

store in the covered market that teemed with hoppers stocking up for the weekend; and the sound of the

bumper-to-bumper traffic almost drowned out a lone carillon marking the hour. Katie Thomas '93 chose to buck the crowds, weaving against the pede trian tide toward the center of Oxford for a few blocks before ducking into a quiet side street. From there to the archway leading to Oxford University's Exeter College, Thoma negotiated the narrow, looping streets like an old hand, exchanging smiles with the few student she saw, occasionally greeting someone by name. ").R.R. Tolkien belonged to this college. So did C.S. Lewi I think Richard Burton did, too,"Thomas .

aid, making sure a vi itor knew she meant the explorer and linguist, not the actor. Standing on the square walkway enclosed by stone buildings, she pointed out Exeter's 14th-century tower, the college chapel and library and the immaculate lawns--0n which no one is allowed to set foot. Thomas had obviously conducted the tour before, but her enthusiasm was unfeigned. "Every day I say to myself, 'I'm at Oxford University,'" Thomas said. "Sometimes I can't believe I'm here. It's a dream come true." Nearly 900 current Colby students have spent or will pend a year, semester or Jan Plan abroad before graduating. Not all of them will share the heady joy Katie Thomas manifests at Oxford, but each will be better for the experience. There are academic and ocial incentives for going abroad. By choosing programs in countries where English i not the main language, some convert the College language requirement into an oversea adventure. Others, admitted a "February Freshmen," also use a first semester in London, Caen, France, or Cuemavaca, Mexico, to stay on track to graduate with classmates who start on Mayflower Hill. But most tudents who go abroad are lured by the chance to experience life in another country, cope with a different culture and gain more independence. And England is a popular choice-perhaps because there i no language barrier or because several programs enhance the work students do back on campus in area uch a economics or the theater. Colby, May 1992

A Sense of Heritage

discussing them. Exam for one term take place in the fir t week of the next, o student· mu t tudy independently over midterm

Katie Thomas, wh

is majoring in English and con idering a

career in journalism, fe ll in love with England during a J an Plan

break . "I think I push my elf more here, " Thoma

aid. "I'm taking

course on Gothic architecture in London, bu[ [he roO[S of her

a Shake pea re course, for instance, and I think if l took it at Colby

fascina[ion with Oxford run much deeper. "All of my ancestor

I'd rea<l the play and take an exam and that would be about it.

were English," Thomas said. "l had a great-great-great-whatever

Here, not only do I have co read the play , but we're assigned six

grandfather who was a student here, at Trinity College. This is my

or even book of critiques. The tutor really expects you to be prepared, too. l had a fr iend who went to a tutorial unprepared,

heritage." When she began mapping her route to the Bri[ish university

and after about 10 minutes the tutor said, 'l that it? ls that all you

early in her sophomore year, Thomas had no idea how resolute

have to ay?' and cancelled the tutorial. Here you work--or e lse."

and resourceful she would have to be toge[ there.

he tarted with

Friend told Thoma that the most important aspect of the

a v isit to Colby's Off-Campus Study office. "They asked me why

tudy abroad experience wa getting involved in universityactivi

l didn't just apply to K i ng's College in London, " Thoma said, but

tie , and she ha taken that advice co heart. She attend plays, goes

she persisted. A friend who e cousin had been co Oxford as a

to parties and debate at the Oxford Union and stays abreast of

Williams College student suggested she investigate that option.

Briti h politic o she can hold her own in conver ation with fr iends in the college's commons room.

William

hardly greeted her with open arms. "They aid

they'd never taken anybody into the program who wasn't from the

I n the fall she played for the Exeter women's field hockey

college," Thomas says, "but they took my name down. l thought,

team-"We were undefeated and un cored upon, "

'Okay, they'll stick me up on a bulletin board and l'll never hear

proudly-but her most satisfying moments out ide the classroom

from them again.' " At her father's urging, she called the program

have been spent on the narrow branch of the Thames that nakes

admin istrator a few times during the semester. ln February 1991,

through Oxford. She has discovered crew.

her tenacity paid off. She received word that

he had been

accepted.

he said

"Everyone said, 'You're small, you'd probably make a good cox ,"' she remembered. A rank beginner in October, by Decem

The year-long program began last October, and for Thomas

ber he wa challenging an eight-year veteran for a spot guiding

it has been a time of self-discovery. I nitiated into Oxford l i fe at a

the college's second boat, and later in the winter he was coxswain

ceremony in the Bodleian Library in which she donned an academic gown and pledged to honor library rules that stretch

on a univer ity women's team at the Henley Regatta. Yes, the

back centuries, Thomas soon found that the university's insis tence on academic rigor was at least as strong as its sen e of

to practice with the Exeter men's team, de pite a grueling study

tradition.

Henley Regatta. Most mornings she ri es before the sun comes up schedule that calls for at least one "all-nighter" per week. "A lot of my time is taken up with sports,"Thomassaid, "but

"This is the first time l've ever worked really, really hard and

that's a whole other experience of Oxford, in and of itself. Even

not gotten straight A's," she said, explaining that under Oxford's

though I hope to continue with crew when I go back to Colby, this

system, students write a 10-page paper every week for each cour e, meet i n pairs with a tutor and read their papers aloud before

Katie Thomas '93 (above), Amy Partridge '93 (opposi te page).

Colby, May 1992

is the one t i me in my l i fe when I'm going to get to do thi wi th the e people, and it' special." Thoma

year ,"who, she said, "are like freshmen everywhere-they drink

ay the only bad thing about coming to Oxford wa

leaving her boyfriend behind. "We're bui ld ing up a tran - A t lantic debt," he joked. "We probably call each other twice a week." It i

herself hou·ed with other international tudent and with "fir t

harder for her to c ite the mo t positi\·e part of the

too much, they're sil ly. they're i mmature, they're loud, and they're i rritating." But also like her classmate at the univer iry up the treet, Partridge extended her e lf in order to meet reople.

jogged through Wheatley e\'ery morning before classes and be

experience. W a i t the srudie ?The cre\\'?The relationships w i th

came a fixture in the ,·illage. ("Pearle, \\"Omen out in the garden,

Oxford tudent (even if they do sometimes call her "the Ameri can Barbie Doll")? The en e of history, tradi tion and heritage 7

people on the ir way to \\'ork, they'll ay, 'How're you doing!' and ,, .a,·e when I go by," she said.) Although he is hy, he pushed

"I guess the best thing." he said finally, "i that I actually d id

herself to talk to other tudenr- in her cla se , many ofwhom ,,·ere

it-becau e it was a hard thing to get here-and that I'm doing it my elf. I'm the only Colb

person here, and I've had to put

in their late twentie and th irtie .

he enjoyed an occasional lager

at one of Wheatley' three pub and found there the

ense of

my elf on the line to meet other people. I ' m proud of my elf for

commun i ty unique to an Engli h v i llage. "] w i h we had more of

that. I'm proud that I've been able to keep up with the academics

rho e kind· of places in the

right along w ith the Oxford student , that I ' m competit ive."

tare·," he a id.

But the \'alue of her exrerience at the Oxford Poly lay, she said, i n what i t taught her about her an and her elf. "For me it's never been Tm an arti t, thi

Finding Her Footing

i_ my thing,' "

Partridge a id. "Thi wa a way to check it out and ee if I wanted to go on." urrounded by students who seemed more erious about

Amy Partridge '93

rudying art at

thei r work and more po i t i,·e about their goals and who were

Oxford Polytechnic and [i,·ing i n the village of Wheatley, six

much older, Partridge wa- intimidated. And she soon discO\·ered

pent the fall

emester

m i le from the center of the c ity.

that in c las

One weekend in December included plans to visit the tudio to add some finishing touches to a painting, a couple of long run and ma •be church on

unday. Becau e Lady

he wa on her own, far from the nurturing atmo

sphere of a mall l iberal an college.

"! came to my painting c lass," she remembered, "and the professor ·aid, 'Okay, I want a paoe description of what you are

pencer Churchill H all, an unappeal ing 10- tory tudent re idence known le i

than affectionately a "the Tower,"

mo tly populated w ith other international

tudent ,

Partridge had taken to attend ino church occa ionally to meet the locals. "Everyone tum around and wants to talk to you," Partridge

a id. "Oxford i

cra:y. I t ' an international

mecca, and they're -o ick of touri ·rs that they can't be bothered to even a k where you're from. But in Wheatley you get a en e ofwhat the people are really l ike." Partridge and Thoma never got together dur ing the three month

they were

ix m ile

apart.

N either had come to England to be with other Colby students. "When I fir t c a me here I was ort of dreading coming," Partridoe

aid. "Leaving my boyfriend

wa hard, and I' e never been much on travel ing-when my family goe on vacation we go to this one place at the beach, and that's that and i t'

afe. Thi wa n't afe--even though i t wa

England and i t wa my language and it wa only a term." For Partridae, too, the first top on the road to Oxford wa Colby' Off-Campu office.

he pored over material

she found a admini tered

tudy

there until

eme ter-long program in art

by the

tudent A rts Center

International. She was one of only five tu dents who went to the Oxford Poly with ACL Her cour e of tudy rre

ed tudio art

but included weekly trip to London gallerie for tour w i th an e minent art h i torian. Like Thomas, Partridge wa chagrined to find

Colby, May 1992

going to do this term . What i� your intent? What polit ical is ue are you going to Jeal with, what soc ial issues?' AnJ I said,

'What?' At Colby Ahbott [Meader] will say, 'Do a land scape, do a ·t i l l life,' and here it was, 'Do whatever you want.' For the first three week I really f1oundered." She found her foot ing, however, and be an work on a landscape inspired by a trip to Wale . I t was to be her first abstract painti ng. "My paint i ng::. are alway· very clean and cri p," Partri dge explained, "and all along I've been trying to create this perfect i mage. I gloss everything over. I f I were to paint a gourd in still l i fe, l w uld make the gourd total ly perfec t , no l i ttle mistakes. The lines would all be hard and the edge::. would all be ·mnoth, and i f a drip of paint happened to get there I woulJ try to cover it up, hide it. I 'd be happy with a painting if it looked like what it wa , not if i t meant something more to me." Partridge aid he trieJ to make the "per fect" Wales land::.cap

cene and couldn't

something el e kept bubbl i ng to the urface of her m ind. "I wasn't happy with i t anJ I didn't know why," he a id. "So I kept trying thing-. I put sand on it, I bu i lt it up, and it ju, t didn't work unt i l I realized that what I was trying to get at was omething you can't really see , something that you look at the painting and ense but not something you can put your finger on." Partri dge said she'd al o learned to be more assertive in her semester at the Poly. "At Colby, if you're having trouble the teacher w i l l often come to you," he aid. "Here, if the professor a k how I 'm doing and I ay, 'Okay,' he'll leave. l found that I had to ask for help when I needed it-you just don't have a choice." As her eme ter drew to a clo e , Partridge acknowledged that the impact on her work had been far greater than

anticipated. "I thought I could go to England, meet ome people,

the dorm i torie, and apartment blocks where they are housed empty out on the weekend .

ee things, pretty much blow off the work," ·he admitted. " I t

"Right now I have cla es on Monday and Tue day," Foohey

hasn't turned o u t that way. I d o a l l k ind o f independent work

explained in December, "so I 've been able to get around ome. I

here-I have time for that because I ' m not doing port . I read lot

went to vi it friend in [Colby' program in] Cork over Thanksgiv

of book , sometime I ju t it and think about what I 'm doing. I

ing; I've been home with a friend from here, and during the long

haven't been able to let things s l ide. This is art, and it's in me."

break thi

pring I plan to interra i l through Europe."

Like many A merican

tudent

who encounter the \es

personal Engli h ryle of teaching, Foohey experienced ome

An Impersonal Touch

initial frustration before adjusting. "Before I wrote m y fir t e ay, I went to the profe or to try to get a feel for what was expected,"

East of Oxford, on the other ide of London towards the sea,

she a i d, "and he really cou ldn't articulate what wa expected.

Beth Foohey '9 3 is studying at the Univers i ty of Kent in Canter

When I go and talk t

bury. The univers i ty wa

with a paper or I don't under tand what's expected, I have a much

bu i l t i n the fiftie during England's

trongest f1irtation with egali tarianism in higher education, and the archi tecture i more prac t ical than inspiring. But the b u i ld ings are clu tered on a high hill overlooking the medieval c ity, and from any number of vistas it's possible to ee Canterbury

better idea when I leave the m . Here, I've left a couple of t i me thinking to myself, 'They didn't even answer my question.' " Kent's pr gram is structured to help American

rudents

overcome such hurdles-cl a ses are similar to A merican sem i nar , for instance-but Foohey t i l l sees differences and ays he

Cathedral, the seat of the Church of England. Foohey says Canterbury i a bit quiet for her taste-"Every thing huts down at I 1, and there's n

my profe or at Colby if I have a problem

24-hour supermarket"

but London is 90 m i nutes away by train, and i n two hours she can

prefer Colby' way of doing things. "For the Brit i h student

here, 90 percent of the i r grade

depends on the exam, o they don't have to participate i n cla s or

get to France by catching a train to Dover and a ferry from there. Since the university actively recru i ts international

tudents

most of whom want to see the sights while they are in England-

Bech Foohey '93 (above), Colby in London s tudents in a voice and moveme nt class (opposite page). Colby, May 1992

even do any of the reading unti l the end of the term if they don't

crysta l ize her appreciation for Colby. "Right now my friend and

want to," she said. "[ can't ee spend ing all that time not doing

l are trying to decide where we'll live next year," she aid. "We've

anything and then cramm ing for an exam at the end."

had to do it all by mail because most of us are abroad-that's been

Foohey says the A mericans in her classes peak out more and

a pai n-but we're looking forward to being together aga in."

eem less afraid of being wrong, but that they are also universally bothered by the lack of d i rection from teachers. This, she says, amuses her British peers, who accuse the Yankee of being spoon足

Immersed in T heater

fed by a y tern that forces them to study for frequent exams. " I tell them I don't think we're babied," Foohey aid vehe足 mently, "but I admit that thi

ystem encourages a lot of indepen足

A sense of isolation from Colby is d i m i n ishe<l for those who choose one of the College's own programs abroad. Over 40

dent work. If you are motivated to do it, you can learn a lot . l th ink

students

l am. But then, I had to be motivated at Colby , too, or l never

program last semester, and if they needed even more contact with

would have gotten my work done."

other Colbians they could look up one of the 1 3 students enrolled

More so than Partridge or Thomas, Foohey has found her e lf defend i ng the United States. On her uip to Cork, she met an Irish

igned up for the Colby in London performing arts

in other city universit ies, including the London School of Eco足 nomic , K ing's College and University College/London.

student who rai led against A merican excesses. "He said, 'I bet you

For ome, going to the British capital on a Colby- ponsored

have an e lectric can opener,"' Foohey recalled. "I'm sorry, but l

program was a matter of convenience-financial aid packages

don't think of an e l ectric can opener as a luxury of life. I tried to

remained easy to manage and their grades transferred. Others,

tell h i m that it's a l l in what you're used to. We're raised with this

majoring or m i noring in perform ing art , jumped at the chance to

stuff around us, and we're ra i ed w i th certain expectations. At

immerse themselves in the London theater scene and study w i th

Colby, for instance, you're expected to type your papers, so you do.

British profes ionals. Other

Here nobody expects that, so nobody does it. Back home I'm used

strike out on their own.

to havi ng a phone where I live. Here 1 don't have one. It's just different." Foohey ays he has enjoyed her time away but that, aside

just weren't sure they wanted to

Many of the Colby in London participants j oined other Colby tudents l iv i ng there for a taste of home last November during a Thanksgiving dinner at a Bayswater hotel. Most said they

from the normal maturation process, she hasn't changed much.

were thrilled w i th London and prai ed Colby perform ing arts

She' been more home ick than she expected, and that has helped

profes or ] im Thurston for his benign yet firm support.

Colby in Lundon nffcr� a m i x nf togetherness and indepen

make my L1Wn choice . I can do whatever I want and be whatever

dence. Students I i ve in apartments, conk for themse l ves, ride the

1 want. I didn't rea lly rea l i ze how much opport u n i ty I haJ from

subway tn c lass and d isperse to the countrys ide or to other

being in M a i ne. I had an idea that I

countries l)n breaks. They are req u i red to attend one play per

never rea l l y saw i t . "

week, hut many go tn the theater three and four t i mes as often. "I can't bel ieve I ' m i n a c i ty where l can see the greatest actors in the world every night if l want w," said Jen

urtis '9 3 . "I never

ould Jo what I want, but I

The on ly aspects o f London life that disturheJ Curtis right up until the end of her stay were the noise, the crowds and th

off

chance that she would be caught in the subway when a bomb

spent much t i me going to performances at Colby, but I'm sure I

exp loded. Dur i ng the pre-Chri�tma� IRA hombing campaign, a

w i l l when I get hac k . This has been wonderfu l . "

device exploded j ust around the comer from the Dri l l H a l l in a

J un ims Sara Regan a n d Heather Bucha were t h e only de

used-c lothing ·tore. Curt is shrugged that off. She l i tera l l y huJ

c l ared perf orm ing arts majors i n the London program last fa l l .

dercd, however, when ·he spoke of riding the "tube," and he said

W h i le some students expressed d isda i n f o r ac t i ng a n d move ment

her happiest day wa� when he learn J the bu system.

c lasses-"They t h i n k they're a j oke," Bucha sa id-the two majors exto l l ed the program.

Being an American abroad al o has g i ve n her add i t ional i nsight i nto the way i n terna t ional

"We're le;i rn i ng so much that we' l l use later on," said R eg an. " I n the U . � . , ac t i ng is seen as a talent that you ei ther have or you

tuden ts mu t feel at Colby,

Curtis says. " I al way� wondered why they stick together," he aid.

"They have prnhlem� I didn't understand until I came here . "

don't. H ere i t 's seen much more as some t h i ng you can train and perfec t , l i ke playing an i nstrumen t . " She

ingled out

aro l i ne

England, a profe ·siona l actress who taught <Jc t i ng and voice <Jnd movement c l asses, as one of her best teacher, ever.

Starting Abroad

"She's j ust so enthusiasti c , " Regan sa i d . "She knows how to m i lk a perf ormance out of you, tno, and he's teac h i ng us how to

Wh ile mo t first-year student sett le for four day of h i k i ng or

do that for nurse Ives. A couple of weeks ago, after we finished a

c<Jnoe i ng, a sma l l grnup start their Colby careers on what amounts

scene from

Macbeth,

she · a i d , ' Y o u a l l a r e d o i n g so well that you

make me want to leave act i ng and become a d i rector."' Bucha said that thanks to England's tra i n i ng, she was able to watch a performance of Becket and detect a physical m istake on

to a three-month COOT. They start Colby abr ad i n the fa l l , t h e n move to Mayflower H i l l at mid -year u n d e r Colby's program to capita l i :e on housing pace l iberated by fal l attrition. There can be drawbacks.

ome fir t-year

tudents have

the part of ac tor RL1bert L i ndsay. "He was holding his stomach in

trouble appre c i a t i ng the opportun i t ies or meeting the respons i

i nstead of speak i ng from hi d i aphragm," she said, "and there was

b i l i t ies o f l i fe i n London.

a l l this tens ion i n his nec k . By the end of the performance he wa

with th program becau e of i t emphasi on perfonni ng art ( " I ' l l

o m e expre e d strong d i sat i faction

losi n g his voice. You wou ldn't see that i f you d i d n ' t know what to

never, ever u e this stuff aga in," o n e proc laimed ) , a n d o m e were

look for."

accumulat i ng their hare of war stories stemm i ng from Briti h

J en Curti · , o n e of t h e non-major , s a i d s h e choose the

l aw · that made them legal dri nkers.

program because she thought i t was t i me to try ometh ing d i ffer

But they eemed to be the except ions. More common were

ent. An A merican studie maj or, he d id sign up for a cour e closer

those fir t-year students, l ike Darragh Fiusimons, Alysa Cohen

to her field a t the Poly tec hnic U niversity of London but found the

and Laura F i n n , whose London experience gave them far more

theater courses more enjoyable. For one t h i ng, Curt is said, ·he

than the chance to keep pa e with member of the Cla s of

d is l iked c hasi ng all around town to find the proper books, and for

they had yet to meet on Mayflower H i ll .

another, the course, w h i c h dwe l t on Th i rd World c u l ture , did

'95

" A t first I wa a l i t t le up et that I wasn't com i ng [ to campus] right away," a id Fi tzsimon , "but at Colby you're pre t ty much

not seem up to Colby' standards. Curti , who is from the coastal town of Belfast, Maine, had rare l y traveled outside the state, let alone the country. " I don't k now i f I would have gone abroad if Colby d idn't have a program here. I t h i n k I would have been t o

cared ," Curt is said,

looked after. Here, J im [Thurston] is alway there for us and we can ca l l h i m if we need to, but we don' t ee him every day. We're pretty much on our own. " " I come from a s m a l l town i n Rhode I s land," Cohen said, "so this was a l l so new and exc i t i ng. We're out doing someth ing every

i t t i ng i n a vegetarian cafe downstairs from

m in ute. 1 haven't had t i me to get homesick. A couple of weekend

the Dri l l H a l l , where Colby'

ago Darragh and I went to Pari on the pur of the moment-and

perform i n g

a r t s c lasses a r e conduc ted . I n the lobby above h u ng homoerotic posters-the like

by the seat of our pants. I would never have thought I could do someth i ng like that."

of which are rarely if ever seen i n Belfas t ,

Finn a i d the beau t y of the experience lay i n i t power to

Mai ne-advert i s i ng the p l a y showi ng

create bonds between tudents. "] think I m ight have gotten lo t

in the Dri l l Hal l 's small the

at Colby," she said, " b u t we're a l l in t h i together, and becau e the

ater. "Now I know I

perform i ng arts c la se are so reve a l i ng, we can't pretend to be something we're not. We know each other o wel l . " M o s t of t h e students w h o g o to London w i t h t h e Colby program are not i nterested i n the perform i ng arts as a career, b u t many a i d there were c lear advantages to tak ing t h e act i ng and movement c l asses. " I t's made me feel more self-confident and more confident i n front of other people," Cohen said.

Colby , May 1992

] uni ors Rick Wallace, C hris Wheeler and Siddhartha C houdhury.

tion, but he i critical of rhe system rhat forces student in the Un ited Kingdom to choose the field they want to study in university long before they get there. "Ar home," he -aid, "l study art as well as economics. These students have been specializing in economics and math since they were 15 or 16 years old. Things l ike English and arr have been left behind. Even j u t being here this year I've feel I 've lost something from not having art cour es." Like Katie Thomas, juniors R ick Wallace and Chris Wheeler discovered that the transition from small college to university was eased by participation in sports. Wallace signed up for the otherwise all-British LSE rugby squad, wh ich practice once a week and competes against schools in London, Kent, Sus ex and other nearby locales. Wheeler rows for the LSE crew team, a group more reflective of the school' international student body, and says the only

fru tration is that they must travel an hour to a spot on the Thame near Heathrow A irport to practice. Siddhartha Choudhury '93 reported in December that he was "waiting for cricket season tn roll around." He hadn't played the port ince leaving his native India to attend Colby. Because he was raised i n the Brit ish academic y tern, Choudhury may have been better prepared for the LSE than h is American counterparts. He nodded a Bindler and Karl Oliver '93 complained that they wished their profesor were more approachable and that the i r cour es were trucÂ tured more along American l ines. "I was u ed to this," Choudhury sa id. "I chose Colby becau e I wanted that atmosphere, bur I knew what to expect at a British univer ity." But ifhe had an advantage in the classroom, Choudhury also experienced a darker side of life as an international tudent in

International Flair

Europe. When the others expressed wonder at how easily they could hop from place to place on the continent by merely flashing their American passports, Choudhury grew quiet.

The largest number of Colby students in London outside of

"I don't carry an American passport," he said at last. " I t's hard

the perform ing art pr gram is enrolled at the London School of

for me to get v isas. I have to get letters from the Indian H igh

Economics in the center of the c ity' financial d istrict. The seven

Commissioner every t ime I want to go somewhere. It's been a

Colbian who were tudying at the chool last fall arranged rhe i r

hassle, but it's t i l l worth it. I th i nk going around and seeing other

o w n travel plan , housing a n d cour e of tudy.

countries is the best way to learn, wh ich is why I came here."

The LSE attracts the majority of it undergraduates from

H e was less sanguine about prejudice i n London. "It's much

foreign countrie , but it i probably the Briti h tudent who set

more blatant than in the Un ited State ," he aid. " It' pretty much

the tone for the school. Only about 15 percent of all British

present i n the U.S. , but it's more subtle there. I haven't come

secondary chool pupils go on to h igher education, and gain i ng

across any kind of prejudice i n the U.S . , but that' been d i fferent

univer i t y admission--especially to a prestigious school like the

here-maybe because the Asian population here is much more

LSE-may be the bigge t challenge of the ir academic l ives. But once they are in, say the Colbians studying w i th them th is year,

ignificant than i n the U . S ." Choudhury

a id that he l iked the school and the c i ty ,

they tend to top worrying about how they stack up against each

however, a n d if anything really bothered h i m i t w a s comments

other.

about bow "Americanized" he had become. "I hate it when people

"Cla es aren't a competitive here a they are at Colby," said

tell me I have an American accent," h e aid. "If I'm wearing a hat

Don Bindler '93 . "Grade don't eem to mean much. It' being

they'll say, 'Oh, that' American style,' and I 'll ay, '

here that matter to them."

a hat is wearing a hat.' 1 never realized how much l changed at

Bindler said he doesn't m i nd the lack of aggre sive competi-

Colby, May 1992

o, wearing

Colby."

Eleven on the Isle Alumni Find Life "Across the Pond" Can Require Some Adjus tments - by Sally Baker -

most 50 Colb alumni live in England, half of them in London. They are a diver e as any other large group-male and female, young and old, profes ionals and tudent , married and unmarried, living in rural and urban area . Mo t are American bu ine

executive

who were transferred to po ition in England by United State corporation and expect to mo,Âˇe to another po ting within a few years, but ome ha e been there for o long that they find it difficult to contemplate life any here el e. "Morgan Guaranty moved me here, and after about eight year they wanted to move me back to

ew York," said Ralph Bunche, Jr. '65. "My wife aid, '

o way.' Had Morgan not ent me to

London fir t we would have gone anywhere else in the world, but right now it' very hard to move my family. Americans tend to like th i place, once you get used to the fact that they speak Engli h but it' a different counuy. Kid tend to grow up slower, the country ide i ju t like Maine and within about an hour' drive of London I can go back about 200 years in term of the way people li e." The Bunche family' pa s ion for their adopted country i felt in differing degree by mo t of the Colbian

interviewed by Colby. "In London you don't get all

weaty and horrible on the

underground," aid David trage '82 in an apprai al of just one of the city' elemental differences from New York. Charle

Hogan '73 joined man

other Colbian

in extolling the Engli h

appreciation for family life, which ha produced a society that frowns on workahol i m. And Yvonne Noble '5 6, who e deci ion to leave the United tate for Canterbury, England, 20 years ago still evoke mixed feeling , ay that even the country' legendarily dreadful climate actually has a ilver lining-all that rain, he point out, i good for gardens. The weather is terrible, everything co t too much, the air i filthy with unfiltered exhaust, you can hardly turn around without bumping into a touri t, and the people who actually live there can be, well, reserved. But the private

chool are out tanding, the butter and cream are the best, competing

new paper abound, theater and mu ic thrive, the treet and ubway are clean and the civility i palpable-people wait patiently, peak oftly and ay "plea e," "thank ou" and "pardon me."

Colby, May 1 992

A Boom Leads to Britain

Roh ert, I d o n ' t care w h a r t h e l og i c is, that 's j ust the way w e d o t h i ngs . ' T h a t c a n b e fr ustra t i n g. "

U n d e rhi l l ' 78 j o i ned LiS a l le Partners e ight

Friend5 have mid U nderh i l l that they are env ious of h i m , and

years ago, r he idea that he would be l i v i n g and wor k i n g i n England

he'll accept that u p to a poin t . He'll effusi ve when he talks about

When Robcrr

one d ay was about the fu rthest thing from his m i nd. La ' a l le was a small if a m h i t iou� rea l estate company i n

loo k i ng out his bedroom wi ndow on a weekend morn i ng and wat c h i n g Her Maje · ty 's Hor�e Guards troop by on their way to

h i cago, h e l p i n g l arge cnrpnrn r ion� to fi nd and deve lop proper

Harn�tead H eath, and he ;,ays he sti 11 can't get over the novel ty of

t ies for t h e i r own u s e or for pemion fund i n vestm en t . The firm

: i pping off to Paris or Bru els for a long weekend. But he is

tripled i n si:e duri ng the real est < 1 te houm of the l 980· and tonk

env ious, too.

o n a n u mber o f prest i giou� proj ects, including t he transformation

"Our fri end� i n the State;, have l i ve that they are pursu i ng

ofWash i ngtn n '� decre p i t U n ion Station i n to an up-.ca le sh( p p i ng

as � mgo i ng concerns," he 5 a i d. "They're im provi ng thei r house, pla n t i ng a y ar d , creating a l ife they are expect i ng to perpetuate.

c e n ter.

" I rememher s tanding in the men':, room of the old U n ion

W e are l i v ing a l ife that we don 't expect to con t inue. Wh ich is

Sta t ion , surrou nded by homeles� peopl e , w i th the ·e guy� �aying,

fabulous, but there'� a cost to i t . A lo t of people w i l l ay, 'God, I 'd

' I magine this a:, a M i c hel i n one-star re�rau ran t , ' " said U n d erh i l l ,

do that in a :-.econ d , ' and they ;,hou ldn't say that. People th i n k

v i ce p re s i dent who spec i a l i :e � i n arranging fin<inc i ng. " I adm it I had a l i ttle r ro u b l c i magi n i ng t h a t , h u t ir', tu rned

h a v i n g tea at the C ( m n au g h t . Before I came here, I always

n o w a La S a lle

l i v i ng i n LonJ( m m e a n going to t h e theater every n ight and though t of London al> double-decker bu e and l i ttle electric m i l k

out to be a c rac k i ng succe�� . " A n d s o h as LaSa l l e , e v e n i n t h e depressed

'90�. T h e company

ca rt� w i th n i c e , gentle m e n w h o delivered m i l k t o y o u r door tep.

ha · opened offices i n variou:, U n i ted Sta te� c i t ie� and two year.

I d i d n 't �ce i t a' a h uge , prawling, overcrowded and exceedingly

ago expanded internar ion::illy b y setting up shop in London .

expemive c i ty. The rea l i t y i , you take the 'tube' t

U nderh i l l was part of a t\\'o - m a n team senr there to get European

and ynu can't afford tea a t the Connaught."

the theater

operat ion · u nderway. H is c l ie n t ha�e h asn't cha nged-he � t i l l works mostly w i th American corpor a t i ons-but he n o w h e l p. them estab l i h themseh-es in Europe. "Say Quaker Oats i� look ing for a n e w headquarters i n Eurnre or Merck want� to find a , i re for its German office-th at's m y focus," U n �erh i l l expl::iined. La a l le i

one of a nu mber of U.S. corporat ion

attrac ted to London by i t s pro x i m i t y to the rest of western Europe , and U nderh i l l con t i nent-hops consta n t l y , both for pleasure and for business. Yet for an A merican who "never expected to get much farther east than Wall S treet ," i t can st i l l be a l i t t le overwhe l m i ng. " S o m e t i m e s your ear

s t a r t smok i n g , "

U nderhi l l a i d . " I n a single d a y you m ight deal i n pound p e r year p e r foot i n London, Belgian francs per meter per year i n Brussel and deutchmarks per meter per month i n Germany. " U nderh i l l says he rel ishes t h e opportun i ty t o l i ve ahroad and has become "less j ingoi t ic" becau e of the experience. " I 've learned that there are alternative ways of doing t h i ng , not j u t the U . . way,'' he sa id . " l 've become a lot more open to other idea . " B u t l i ke most of the two dozen or so Colby a l u m n i i n London, he h a fo u n d life there a an A merican expatriate has its ups and downs. " England," U nderh i l l said , "is the only country i n the world where, to set up a bank account , you have to give

them a toaster." H is s m i l e ays he enjoys the exaggeration, but i t's c lear that adj usting to d i fferent expec tat ions, both in and outside of busi ness, has been a challenge. 'There is a way of doing things here, " he said. " I've gone into mee t i ngs where a t torneys for both s ides were there and I ' ve fel t it was i mportant that a busines person be there. I didn't real i ze that the English s ide of the transact ion was completely offended that a busine s per on would go to a meeting w i th lawyers. A mericans l i ke to c hange t h ings. I've been i n a cou p le of nego t i a tions here when people have a i d , ' W e l l ,

Colby, May 1992

Along for the Ride Many American - who bring the ir fam i l ies to England prefer to l ive well out ide of London, and for Bob Hughes '68-a tra in buff who began hi career a a ignalman on the ew Ha ven Railroad-commuting is half the fun of working in the Engl ish capital. Hughe i production di rector for Time maga:ine's At lantic d iv is ion, which inc lude· Europe and Africa. H is j ob de mand long hours and lot · of travel, he ays, "so I p lace a high value on a reasonable home life." Hughe and h i wife and two chil dren live in Peterborough, 7 5 mi le� north of London--exactly 43 min ute via Bri ti h Rail. "The tra in goes 1 2 5 m i les per hour non top from K i ngs Cro ration," Hughe explained, sounding like a man who' proud to ay he' een the inside of every train depot in ew York rate. "When I lea e my office at 6:10 to catch the 6:40 train, I'm in the house by 7 : 3 5 . " Hughes a lm o t never ets o ff fo r home w ithout tuck ing hi laptop computer under hi- arm. Acting a major domo for the production of a veekly new maga:ine is a high-stre , time-con um ing j ob, e pec tally when one i · asked a Hughe i -not only to troubleshoot current product ion but to come up w i th creative way ro ave money and re-ource . Hi workday cont inues late into the even ing-he write memos and reports on the train and, once at home, plugs the laptop into h i telephone l ine to catch u p with electronic m a i l me age from Time's New York headquarters. " l guess we're living in that electronic cottage of the future that people keep talk i ng about," Hughe aid. "Everybody on the production l ine i on thi y tern . " Hughe ha worked for Time i n c e 1979, a i d e from a two year tint in a i m i lar pos i tion at Life and a honer a ignment in Time-Warner' adverti · ing ervice center. When Time' interna tional edition began to falter on the news rands in the late 19 0 , Hughes wa named to a ta k force that traveled to Zurich to tudy the problem. What they found, he ays, wa a maga:ine hampered by ob olete tran m i ion y tern and printing method . Alma t i mmed iately, Hughes and the others convinced Time to inve t in tare-of-the-art production equ ipment, inc luding high-speed fac imile mach ine that allowed the magazine to add color, and Hughe e t about c hanging the way Time d id bu iness worldwide. He asked printer ro bid for Time j ust as they would for any other job, and if they couldn't-or wouldn't--deliver the product he wanted, he looked el ewhere. "For a long time," Hughe a id, "we were on of the cozy cu rorner who doe n't make many demand . But production i · Colby, May 1 992

very exren ive the-e day-, and the business that doe n't pay c lo-e attent ion and put some real management energy and experience into controlling costs and improving the production proces is going to get ki lled." I n late 19 9, the company decided to decentrali:e its inter national product ion department-\\'hich had been located in ew York-and end production managers to live in the area for which they were responsible. Hughe was offered the London job, and after he anJ h i \\·ife talked it over for one even ing, he accepted. He ay he till learn ometh ing every day. And while he i- plea ed that the maoa:ine ha made a great deal of progre s in the pa t two and a half year , he eem alma t equally plea ed that there i ome di ranee yet to travel. "I love the chal lenge, " he aid. "I love it that we're till e,·oh- ing." Once a week, when he and Time ' other production manag er from around the world are linked in a conference call, Hughe act a cheerleader, motivator and teacher. "Well, that' going to ruin your weekend," he said to his Latin A merican counterpart on one uch call, after hearing that Pan American airlines, which carried Time to the region, had been grounded by bankruptcy. "But Ii ten, there are ome thing you -hould try." He pent the next five minutes laying out option before cheerfully c h id ing another colleague for j oining the call late. Until he wa ent to London, Hughe had never worked anywhere except New York. ow he ay he ha a hard t ime think ing about going home. "The job I go back for ha to be at lea t as intere t ing and challenging as the one I have now," he said. "There' no job right now in ew York-any job--that I would want a much a the one I have now. And that' n ice." Robert Underhill ' 78 ( oppos ire page), Bob Hughes '68 (above) .

Articulating Art

you at every stage. 1 f omeone wan ted to, they

c ou ld

look over

your houlder a t every brush stroke you m a k e. It wa� an i nc red i bl y I t's been llllll-C than 20 year' :> i ncc M ar i anne Perry graduateJ from

o l b y , h u t she :> t i l l hzi:-. a nagg i ng sense of gu i l t

i n t i m iJa t i ng

tmosphere . "

S h e w y eJ there f or five year�. t h e n enrol led i n an M . F. A .

zibour h e r experience n n r h e H i l l . A c la:>!> ics m a j l lr who J i J e x t ra

progrzim a t Brnok lyn

work in Lat i n a nJ G reek d u r i ng s u m mer; anJ J a n P lans �o he

that pt>rhap. the mo�t valuable th in g he learneJ at Brooklyn was

could earn her degree in t h ree year�. Perry ays -,he worries that her

that art ists m u;t promote t h e i r work.

ol lege t h a t t r e s e J fi gu ra t i ve a r t .

he say

former profe sors are d i :>appo i n ted w i th her career c hoice. I nstead

"They real ly i nsi :>ted on c lear v e rh a l tatements about what

of earn i ng a Juctnra t e and get t i ng a joh on a c l as,ic� fac u l t y , Perry

you were d o i ng," �he :>a i J . "You can't be i nart i c u late-that'· part

be ca me zi profess i L m a l m t i � t .

of the fift i e s anJ s i x r ie,; i t's not the way i t is anymore . "

Perry , who wa

born i n T a i wan and reared i n northern

PctTy mov ed to London fo u r y e a r ago w i th her h u band , a

Connec t i c u t , went to Co lb y with a lo\'e of cb sics imt1 l led hy her

B ri t i ; h busi ne�s per nn, and

fat her and by an o u t. rand i ng Lar i n teacher -,he cncnun tered in

since. In Bri t a i n , she

h igh schoo l . l m med i a re l y after leav i ng Culhy, ,he pursued gradu

dntng t he i r own PR. "Even th 1ugh there i p re s; ure to be profe -

ate work i n the fie l d .

h e has l i ved there on and off ever

ay�, arti ts s t i l l grapple with the idea of

siona l ," she noted , "there', ; r i l l a very old-fa h ioned prej udice

B u t u l t i ma t e l y , she sa i d , she hegan to s e e her s t u d i e , a s too

agai n.t being a bu�iness person . " Bu r he say

he l i k e the overa ll

confi n i ng. "There is �omerh i ng very c lau,tmphohic ahL ut c lassics

arr ·cene i n London . " ! fi nd t h e pai n t i ng here q u i re exc i t ing and

department

i n tere� t i ng," she ,,ud . " I n many ways i t is more adventurou than

a t t he graduate l e ve l , " she <.a i d , "anJ I wanted to

break free of t hzit . " �he couldn't forger a J a n P l a n course in

dra w i ng that she had taken as a ,ophomore-in the bzick of her m i nd , she sa i d , he wan ted tn srudy art.

he moved to New Yor k ,

rate right now."

what\ happen tng in the U n i ted Perry rec e n t l y j o i ned the

h e l se a Arts Club, but he has not

affi l ia ted w i th a local ga l l er y , preferring to reta in her t ies to New

he ay · h e ha n't de

where s h e worked n i g h t s t n a l a w firm i n order to de\'ote d ay to

York's coope rn t i ve First Street Gal lery.

pa i n t i ng a t the Art

c iJed whether ;;he wan ts to ray in Britain over the long run or

r udents League. "You me e t mstan t ly o n view," Perry ; z i i J

of her work ar rhe league. "Your canva; is right our i n the open and there are peL)ple around

return tn t he U . . , but o n c e he makes up her m ind he plan to ·ray put for a t ime. " [ don't think I w lrk well he i n g haken up by my environ

ment," Perry aid. " I t ha to ink in. M y painting

o f London came after being

here a couple of years. The that i

thing

di .ati fying me now 1s that i f I

make a change, I'm going to have to find my root aga i n. I've been in too many m iddle per i od , which have noth i ng to do w i th my profes ional or technical abi l i t ies." A l though she ay

he apprec iate m d

ern arr, Perry' own bent i toward more tradi

t i )nal genre .

h e paints t i l l l ifes and land

cape in watercolor· and oil , and he often u e theme from Greek and Roman mythol ogy. "Myth provide archetypal i tuarion and character that can be understandable,"

a i d . '' Pe ople can respond w i thout q u i re know i ng the myth . l don't want people to think about what l'm fe e l i ng but about a certain h u man cond i t i on . I ' m not really i n ter ested i n dra w i ng attention to myself." Perry ay that she has made a steady enough l i vi ng to what

he call

upport

her "Bohemi an "

l i festyle-and that she rea l l y never expected t o b e a commer cial succe . " [ thought I'd be a great artist in terms of what I d id , n o t in term o f recogni tion," h e aid. "The bottom l ine is to be able to continue to work. "

Marianne P e rry ' 7 1 (left) , David S crage '82 (opposite page) .

Colby , May

1 992

Expat Once Removed "You probably houldn't be a k ing me how I got from Colby to London," said David rrage '82, a top-level manager at Digital Equ ipment Corp. and a econd-generation American expatriate. "The real question is how I happened to go to Colby in the fir t place." When trage was 3, his father was a signed to a six-week project ba ed in London, and omehow the family never left. trage wa educated in English chool , where students are expected to pecia lize early-too early for hi ta te. "I didn't know what I wanted to do when l grew up," trage aid. " I gue s I 'm still not ure. But I felt I wanted the liberal arts experience." He came to the United tares and vi i ted various ew England college . One look at Colby wa all he needed. "That campus really make quite an impre ion," he aid. " I figured I could d o a lot worse than spend fo u r years there." After graduation he joined an executive training program at M an ufacturer Hanover in ew York and went into the cash management division. Three years later, having observed that all ofthe bank' d i v i ion collected information about customer and competitor but that there wa no c learinghou e for sharing what they Learned, he e tablished a "competitive trategy center" for information collect ion and di emination. " I thought when I tarted that the biggest problem would be getting the information, becau e information i money," he aid. "The reality is that people are happy to tell you what they know. The problem turned out to be, 'Hey, now that I have all this information, what the hell do I do with i t ?' I d idn't have any trai ning in broader corporate strategie ." He dec ided to get that tra ining in a one-year M . B.A. program at the I nstitute for Management Development in Lau anne, Switzerland, which he described a "an educational boor camp." "The chool brag that you do more ca e tudie in one year Colby, May 1 992

there than they do in two years at Harvard," trage aid. He and h is fiancee were accepted into the program at the same time and mar ried ! O day after it conc luded. "We figured that if our relation hip could Sur\'ive when we both had so much academic pre ure on us, it could survive any thing," Strage said. Degree in hand , Strage wa wooed by Credit Sui se First Boston in Lon don, and for the next three years he plied the trading floor. ' I loved it," he said. "Every time I walked onto the floor it was like getting a bu:z. The adrena lin started flowing at 7 in the morning and d idn't stop for the entire day." But ulti mately, Strage says, he had a d ifficult time mainta ining the necessary level of aggressive ne s. "My bos once aid to me, 'You're too n ice a guy for this bu ines ,' and I gues that was true in a way," he aid. "When 1 walked out onto that rage I could be ruthles , bur that wa n't my nature." trage left Credit u is e in 1 989 , a few month before his first daughter was born. After working as a consultant for ix months he joined Digital, where he is "challenging the way thi company conducts busine s today." pecifically, he ay , he would l ike Digital to move away from a concentration on the selling of computer hardware toward an empha i on providing ervice . "Corporation can buy comput er from all k ind of source now," trage aid, "and people are looking for the cheape t price . What we should be doing is olving the ir problems, not shoving more boxes down their throat ." " I 'm swimming against the tide," he said. "It' very hard to effect change in organizations becau e people are so accu tamed to doing things in certain ways and they tend to re ent young whipper napper comi ng in and telling them they've got to do thing differently. But I enjoy the challenge of the work I'm doing now in the ame way that I enjoyed the challenge of the trading floor. I enjO)' trying to get people to do thing differently."

An American at Heart A vice president for Morgan tanley I nternational who travel con tantly, Ralph Bunche, Jr. '65 m ight be expected to appear bleary-eyed on occasion. But at lunch at a bu y central London pub one day last ovember, he confessed that it wasn't jet lag that wearied him, it was football. He'd been up half the n ight Ii tening to the Chicago Bears on Armed Force Radio. After l iving in England for 14 years, Bunche says he still relaxe be t by I i tening to or watching American port . To this day, much to hi wife' d i gu t, he convert every price tag from pounds to dollar in h is head. He ha convinced hi children that the United tares is the land of opportunity ( his son once piped up, at age , with the theory that one hould make money i n the State and spend it in England) . And even as he bemoan the provincialism that persi ts at home-he return nearly a dozen

and a half r i mes a year on business Bunchc say� he · r i l l v iew� world events from the perspective of their effect on the U n i ted States. The son of rhe American statesman and honorary Colby graduate whose memory the Bunche Scholarsh i p program honors, Bunche grew up w i th one eye cocked toward the internat ional scene. As a c h i ld he spent summers in Europe w i th h is fam i ly , and after prep school in Connec ticut and four years at

olby, he

did graduate work in po l i tical i nstitu t ions at the Un i vers i t y of Keele in England and in i nternational rela tions at the Fletcher School of D i plomac y . He then took a j ob w i th C i t i ba n k , work i ng in the Africa/M iddle East d i v ision. After being drafted and sent to Vietnam, where, as a 26-year-old lieutenant, he led a rifle patrol, he returned to Fletcher for a short r i me before join ing J . P. Morgan's Africa tea m . "That w a s t h e be t j ob 1 e v e r had ," he s a i d . "The Africa of the seven t ie:, wa fun for a fi nancier becau e there was some money around. They had gone through the turm o i l of the si x t i es, and they were j ust gett i ng some d irection, so the bank were tak ing notice. U nfortunate ly, that d idn't carry through to the late sevent ies and e ighties [when the bottom fe ll out of ome Afri an

Nat ion:> Development Program, at the European Bank for Recon

economies ] . "

struction or nn a graduate chool fac u l ty. I n the mean time, he

Morgan m v e d h i m t o London i n 1 97 7 , a n d nowadays he i · re ponsible for advi i ng clients, mostly governments and large corporat i ons, on strategies to finance large projects l i ke a $ 15

remains an avid observer of i n ternat ional events and ays he is grateful for the chance to l i ve near con t i nental Europe. "l think thi ts a very exc i t ing t i me, a fa ·cinating time, with

b i l l ion a i rport renovation in Hong Kong or the con tru c t ion of a

all the change

p i pe l i ne across A lgeria and Morocco.

Market , " he said. "From a financ ial point of view, the opportuni

Bunche deal primarily with bank-re lated financ ing, set t i ng up structure to m i n i m ize co ts for his c l i ents.

in eastern Europe and the coming Common

ties a re i mmense. On the orher hand, from the political or m i l i tary perspec t i ve, I think we've got a couple of years to get thi right.

"There is a problem with banks throughout the world," he

We have a nice l i ttle hiatu now to give eastern Europe a chance

sa id, "and they've turned aga in i nto very short-term lenders.

to develop, but with the except ion of east Germany, I don't see

W h i le the amount that they can put up is q u i te large, the return

where the money is going to come from. And i f the capitali t

for which they can put i t up is not excessive, which means that if you are going to do something complex or unusual today you have

ystem doe n't work and people can't feed themselves, they're going to go back to something e l e . "

to do i t in a variety of market . You'd th i n k the large corporations would know how to use the banks, and i n fact they do. But they don't k now how to u e them well on someth i ng unusual, becau e

Is It "Mum Bell?"

they don't tend to do unusual things every day. I 'm the guy who can help them w i th those t h i ng ." Though there is a certa i n satisfact ion i n knowing that he i the only one in his office who does what he does, Bunche says, he's not entirely happy. "I enjoy m y job, but is it the job l want to d o ? N o , " he s a i d . " I d o n ' t think anybody i n t h is busine would s a y i t's the j ob he rea l ly wants to do, becau e a l l y u are doing is mak i ng money For the moment, he says, i t is a means to an end-providing the best possible upbringing and education for h is three chi ldren. "[f there is one t h i ng m y father taught me," Bunche said, "it was

Sometime Deborah Ralphs Vic tor '78 h a s to pause in the m iddle of a sentence to remember how to pron unce a word. I it to-mah-to or tomato, bah- ii or bas i l , al-y u - m in-ee-um or alumi num ? Three years in England w i l l do that to you , Victor ays. Expressions l i ke "acros the pond" and "at the end of the day" creep i n to your vocabulary and are diffi c u l t to dislodge. But l ight c u ltural d isorientation is a small price to pay for the chance to work in one of the world' mo t exciting c i ties. V ictor i d i rector, busi ness market for AT&T I n ternational

that you have to educate your ch i ldren. H e bel ieved that educa

Communications Servi ces,

t ion is the way you rise up."

managers who help busine

Bunche say he'll probably investigate other options once h is c h i ldren are finished w i th school . He th i nks h is s k i l ls could come in handy at the African Development Bank , a t the U n i ted 20

transferral

upervi ing a team of 12 account c ustomers set u p i nformation

y terns. "We work w ith our c l ient and w i t h our

Ralph Bunche, Jr. '65 (above ) , Deborah Ralphs Victor '78 (opposite page) . Colby, May 1 992

counterparts in the U . S . in provid ing ·olutions in international ervices," Victor explained. "A lot of cu tomer· that have offices over here and office in the U . S . have a need to send data facsimile, v ideoconferenc i ng, voice-and we work with them to design the most cost-effective solution to meet their application need. " Victor went t o work for New England Telephone in Waltham, Ma ., after graduation and eventually moved to New York Telephone, joining AT&T Information ystem as a ale man ager when the industry was deregulated in the 1 980 . "I'm very proud to work for AT&T," she said. "I really think i t's a good company-in terms of having good produce and ervice and in trying to be very focused on the customer. Reaching a certain level at a certain point in my career 1 n't all that important to me. What's important i · having a rewarding job, having a meaningful job where I can contribute and I can real! add value, feel like I'm earning my money." The chance to move to England came in 1 989. After her fiance was named country manager for AT&T in the Un ited K i ngdom, Victor applied for her current posit ion . They learned of their new po ting in April, married in May and moved to England in J une. "People aid I was hitting a lot of tres point c losing down my house, changing job , getting married, moving to another cou n try," V i c tor said, "but they were good tres point . It' been a wonderful opportunity and I consider myself very lucky."

Colby, May 1 992

Some Bumps on a Fast Track A few year ago, J ame McHugo ' 5 settled on a morn ing routine he really enjoyed. He would rise at 5, ride his bicycle to a local gym, run three m i le on the track, lift weight and then be at hi de k by 7 : 30. That relentles ense of d iscipline i a hallmark of McH ugu'� character-and he has needed it. At 29, he is already a battle tested veteran of these troubled fi nancial time . H is mo t recent employer, the late Robert Maxwell. posthumou·ly rocked Britain a allegation after allegation ofhis financial improprietie emerged late last year. Previous crises for McHugo revolved around the ouring of the world economy and an ill-fated collaboration with an eccentric inventor. McHugo, corporate finance adv i er in the chairman' office at Maxwell Commun ications , did not act or talk like a man who ha uffered from busine s reversals as he d i cu sed h i · career in December. Instead, he wa optimi tic and hard-driving, always look ing for the next deal to shake loo e. "l try to do someth ing e ery day, pull omething off," he aid. "That's o important, and o many people don't do it. They'll do something and get burned or get hurt, and they get disillusioned and say, 'Okay, I ' ll go back to be ing an accountant' or omething. You've got to keep battering away, and one day you're going to break through." Mc Hugo has been battering away at obstacle since he wa a boy. Born to British parent in wit:erland, he attended Engli h boarding schools from the age of 8 and say he hated them except for porr-. After fini h i ng econdary school-and despite hi parent ' strong objection ·-he decided to take a year off from education, working and k i ing in St. Morit: for ix month · , then traveling around the world. "l reali:ed then that you can do what you want," McHugo said, "you don't have to be re tricted b · i lly teacher or anything el e." At Colby, he says, he picked up two abiding values-hard work and elf-disc ipline. He received a D on the fir t paper he wrote, but he doe n't remember the grade o much a he remembers the instructor ·itting down and explaining how to write an e say. "That was the first tim� anyone had ever communicated to me how I was actually upposed to go about thing ," he aid. "From then on l did ery well." He took a degree in economic and went to London, where he worked in the commerc ial department of a small bank owned by financier Werner Rey. Hi uper vi or was a heavy drinker who left much of the work to McHugcr-"a fanta tic opportunity for omeone so new.to bu ines and so green," he said. One year later, Rey old the bank and took McHugo with him while he et up a new corporate headquarters in wi t:erland. McH ugo focu ed on merger and acquisition along with corporate inve tment . "Those were two year of the mo ·t remarkable expe riences you could have," McHugo aid. "The market was soaring. I think we d id about 300 acqui i t ion . Obviou ly l wasn't involved in all of them, but they a l l came through my desk. I had the opportunit to travel all over the world, and I had carte blanche. If l saw a company I liked I would get on a plane and fly there -" He remember going to a j unk bond conference in Lo Angele in thi period, hearing M ichael

Warming to the Brits Su an Teare Morris ' 82 and her husband , J ohn, have l i ved in LonJon f or e igh t years. A lthough the i r w a s a typical path to an oversea

posting-John was

transferreJ to EnglanJ by Merri ll L ynch-the i r experi ence ha!> been atypical in that they count as many Briton as A mericans among their friends. The famed Bri t ish reserve is no ea y nut to crack , Susan Morri says, part icularly f or A merican busines pe ple, who often Hay in EnglanJ f or only a few year and

ocialize

primarily with each other. 'The En g lish aren't the type to come over wt th a homemade cake when you move in and ay, 'Welcome to the neighhorhooJ ,' " M ( rris aid. " I t takes t i me. And i t's not that they're not nice. They are. It' j ust that we Americans wear verything on our leeve." But the Morrise�· gooJ luck tarted on their first n ight i n t h e coun try. Venturing out f or d i nner, t h e y wound up haring a table with an Engli hwoman who, when they explained how new they were, �aiJ he haJ ome young relatives they hould meet. "We though t, 'Oh u re, nothi ng will come of that, ' " Morri remembered. " But . ure enough, she had a dinner party for us." Now they are part uf a large oc ial network. " I don't think peuplc mean to he unfriendly," Morri · aid. "A

oon a we tell

them we ' v e been here eight year and we plan to stay here, they warm up." Moms worked for a time tn a London publ ishing hou e , but once she and her hushanJ -tarted a fam ily-they have three children- he Cllncentrated on renovating hou e . M ilken speak and dream i ng about his own future oppnrt u n i t ies. Eventually the bus iness cooled off anJ a profess ional man ager wa brought in. M c H ugo, chafing under supervision, went to Rey and a ked for another a

ignmen t. Rey sent him to EnglanJ

he has over

een the remode l ing of fo ur home -, and the fam i ly live in the late t , a three- tory Victorian house i n Batter ea, outh of the Thame . The ir neighborhood i

quiet, fam i l y-oriented and af-

fordable, Mom

ay , th

private chool

to shore up an amalgam of seven busine ses that all turned out to

nearby are excellent, and it is a 10-

be unsalvageable. "I spent two and a half years l i ving i n hell and

m inute drive to the center of

learn ing the sharp side of bu ine s and the harp ide of l ife," he said. "I became a real cynic." M c H ugo was able to se ll six of the concerns, but the seventh-an incorporated inventor-intrigued h i m . He went i n to partnership with the man and began promoting the inven t ion , which included a foam brick that could be thrown at a television to tum it off and a one-per on hydrofo i l . The inven t ion - won international compe t i tions but were too expensive to produce and did not attract investor . The partnership went sour. "That's when I learned about work i ng w i th creative people," McH ugo said. "All of his invent i ns were his own babie , anJ he wasn't interested in me part icipa t i ng or in the commercial ization. To him the gl ry wa in winning awards." M c H ugo put the busi ness i n to receivership and took the job with Maxwe l l i n 1990. He's not sure what w i l l come next, but he has j o i ned a group of inve tors look ing into the poss i b i l i t i e of buying i nto a corporat ion. A nd he is unwaveringly confident. " I 've made and lost money and I 've worked hard," he aid. " I n t h i s country people aren't upposed to succeed a n d m a k e lots o f money; it's j ust n o t t h e c u lt u re. But I t h i n k y o u have to l ive through fai l u res, learn from them and, i n a l ittle while, pop your head back up and tart look ing around again . You've got to keep pushing your way . "

London.

That proximi ry hou lJ help Morris with her la test b u s i ness v e n t u re , free l a n c e children's photography. he h a d a brochure printed earl ier th is year and is already sought after, thanks to wurd of mouth through friends. "We have no immediate plans ro go home," Morris aid, "though I don't think we'll be here forever. This i j ust a great place to l i ve. It's safe, it' c lean, and we love it here . "

To Markets, to Markets "The interesting th i ng about being in voked in the financial markets in Europe i that when you wake up in the morning the day ha already begun-it's m id-afternoon in Ja pan," aid Bob Diamond '74, who was ba ed in London a· head of fixed- income trading for Morgan Stanley' Europe and Asia divisions before mov ing to Credit uisse First Boston's Asia unit earlier this year. "No matter what rime you go home at n ight it' rill trading in the .ate . The one time zone where it continue eemingly forever i, here. So it' very hard for me not to be thinking about the marker." D iamond tole everal glance at quotation scrolling down a creen during an interv iew late last fall in hi midtown London office. ow and again his voice wou ld trail off al together as he as e sed developments on ome faraway exchange. Ir was the eve of the Maa tricht economic ummit, and Diamond aid he was optimistic that Europe would work out the problems as ociated with monetary union. But in the me'lntime, with various curren c ie- devalued, artific ially inflated or fluctuating unpredictably, life wa an adventure for bond traders. He who d id not keep track wa, lo t. "The marker are very j ittery nght now," Diamond said. "Thi has been one of the most volatile week we've had . " More than 1 00 trader worked under Diamond' superv i ion before he left Morgan Stanley, and he give them much of the cred i t for hi con iderable succe in bu ine . "You have to have good people with good tra ining and good technology," he aid. "Without those, there is nothing my computer can tell me that i going to help me." One of even chi ldren of Massachu etts educators, Diamond took loans, earned ome scholarship money and held down full-time work wh ile attend ing Colby. He expected to become a teacher when he graduated. Bur the combination of a poor j ob market in education and a strong wanderlu t et him on a different course; he and a friend worked for ix month , then went cro s country in an old pick up truck . "That was probably the be t decision I ever made," Diamond aid. "There were o few things available to our graduating c la anyway. I t seemed that the only job available was to go to B ton and sell in urance. l reali:e now that that's not a bad place to tart, because it get you going in ome k ind of profe s ional life. But the whole thought of elling, the whole thought of the insurance field and the whole thought of bu ines were nor positive to me at the time. Frankly, I wa rather t i red." Colby, May 1 99 2

Experienc ing what h e calls " the normal panic o f wondering what I would do when I got back and the fear of ending up back in my hometown without a job," Diamond had nai led down a place in the M . B.A. program at the Univer it of Connecticut. He graduated at the top of the class wh i le carrying nearly a full teaching load as a oraduate assistant in h is second year. H is profe sor were so impressed they offered h im a teach ing posit ion. Diamond ay he enjoyed teaching, but he knew there were other options to be explored. "I thought, wel l, I love to teach and here are ome people who are willing to learn, but I ' m teaching a subject I 've never prac ticed," he said. "How can you teach people to manage when you've never managed ? That finally made the dec ision for me . " He became a management trainee at U.S. Surgical in Stam ford, Conn., and within six months was in charge of runn ing the training program. Two years later, in 1 9 79, his bo s was hired by Morgan tanley and Diamond went with him. He worked in N ew York until 1 98 , when he wa transferred to England. "I fe ll into an area of bu iness l ab olutely love, which is the market ," Diamond aid, " I love the way market work. Even as a j un ior trader, there i a strong en e of being your own bo s. Feedback is immed iate and reasonably concrete. You don't need a pat on the back and you don't need an evaluation-your feedback come from the market, which i an extremely accurate and arbitrary evaluator of your talent." Diamond ays anyone who isn't intere red in h i tory and pol itic and international relation probably ought to find an other line of work. "If you're not raying on top of what's going on in the world," he aid, "you're going to m iss omethi ng. R ight now every word that' being uttered by the foreign min ister of Germany or the economics mini ter of J apan is omething you have to hear right away." Diamond served on the overseer's commi ttee that evaluated James McHugo '85 (oppos i te page , rap ), Susan Teare Morns '82 (oppos ite p age, bottom) , Bob Diamond ' 74 ( above ). 23

ulby's Economics Department, anJ he say::. he'J l i k e to be more inv, l veJ w i t h the

n l lcge once he returns to t he U n i ted

at ion she headed for Yale to earn her ma::.ter' degree. She then

rates

worked a::. an editor i a l a::.sistant e x a m i n i ng the Benj am in Fran k l i n

to l ive. "My t ime away has made me sec a lot of benefit -both nf the trad i t ion of the N e w England l ibera l a m ::.chool and of

cata logue Fran k l in's private l i brary f or the Li brary Company of

papers col lected at Y a l e , wa

subsequen t l y h i red to trace and

olby-that I wasn ' t fu l ly aware of when I was a studen t , " he sa i d . " o f e w peopl e a r e a l lowed to ha\'e that rich an educat ional and

Phi ladelphia anJ moved from there to the W i nterthur M useum

soc i a l experience. I hope my

t i ve art.

ervice a::. an over eer gave the

adm i n istra t ion a c ha nce to evaluate me, to ::.ee if I can add value down the road."

i n Delaware , where she had a crash course in American decora "But I fi n a l l y real ized ,"

he said, "that there wou ld b

endless Hream of peop le who'd l i ke tu pay me no money to do research, becau�e I was good ar i t . l knew I should get some tra i ning and plan f or a long- term career."

Ahead of Her Time

where she even t u a l l y earned her doctorate.

he returned to Yale, '

l n those days, Noble says, women Ph . D. 5 were tee red firm l y Twenty year ago, Yvonne

ob le

'56 made a choice she says

she has had to make agam and again-between profe

iunal

opportu n i ty a nd fam i l y u n i ty.

toward women ' college , h u t he resisted t h a t pre sure hecause she he l ieved i n coeducation. Her fir t teac h i ng job was at the Un iver'>i ty nf Penn ylvania from

She left a tenured po· irion i n the Engl i::.h department of the U n i ver· i ty of I l l inois to set up housekeepi ng w i th her hu band

1 962 to I 967 , and from there he

went tl> l l l i noi-.. l t wa::. a fine t 1 me to be a young prnfes or at a pre t igiou

rate

and infant son in Canterb u ry, England. Now, w i th her younger

u n 1 ver 1 ty . "The top fac u l ty were a l way being raided by other

c h i l d in secondary school and her h usband only a few year from

col lege and u n i vers i t 1 e ," she a i d , so there were lot of oppor

ret i remen t , Noble i!> contemp l a t i ng depart ing the quiet isola t ion

t u n i t ies for J u n ior fac u l ty . And I had lot::. of re5pect for the work

of her book-fi l led home to ret u rn to the arena she love -the

that wa

c l assroom.

�choo l , for i n ranee, was developi ng new gra i ns for Africa, and l

" Anyplace that fel t i t needed me I wou ld be happy to go to," Noble said. '' I 'd l ik e to be able to use what I have to offer." A l though Noble say

he ha not ta ught or a!>:>( c i areJ with

other scholar as much a· �he would have l i ked wh il e l i v i ng in England , her resume is packed w i th professional credit�. with

be ing done acrm

the c u rr i c u l u m at I l l i noi -the ag.

thought that was very exc i t mg. l had gone there w i th a lot of Ea tern snuhbery abou t the M idwe t-my work had been w i t h Easterner::. who could hard l y bel 1e\·e t ha t there wa any c u l ture beyond the A l leghenies." But the pre. ure of campus l i fe i n the Vietnam era were

i n progre!>s. Her �cholarsh i p i::.

wearing , and after w i nn i ng a Guggenheim fel low h ip, N oble

confined pri mari l y to 1 8th-century topic -her magnum opus,

dec ided w �renJ a year in the Eng l i h country ide, where he

publ icat ions and w i th work

st i l l in preparation, is a rudy of The Beggar's Opera by J ohn Gay

could

but he is al o deeply i nterested in women' stud ies.

scene. Her future h u band , H ugh Davie -they met i n I l l i nois

" I t h i n k I 've a l way been about 10 year ahead of my time," N ob l e

a id of her femi n ism. A seriou

and highly dedicated

student at Colby i n a t i m e when hori:on for women scholar were

eparate her elf for a t i me from the American academic

while he was nn a fac t-fi n d i ng tour of A merican un iver i tte f ound her a house, and she retreateJ there for ome quiet tudy. After she returned to l l l i noi i n

1 97 2 , t he two dec ided to marry,

severel y l i m i ted, she wa t h r i l led by

and-once aga i n a head of h e r

the r i gors of R. M a r k B e n bo w ' ·

t ime- o b l e tried t o k e e p teaching

Shakespeare course, and after gradu-

i n the

rates w h i l e Dav i e

rayed i n

Britain. When he learned that he was pregnant, he h elped I l l inois et pre cedents for a matern i ty leave policy ("Nobody had ever k nown any ten ured women who were pregnant," she

a id ) , b u t

he eventually de

c ided t hat her fam i ly

hould l ive

together in England. "I had

ome

rea on to b e l ieve I could get a job at the U niver i ty of Kent but fel t H ugh wouldn't be able to get a job i n the U . . comparable to the one h e al ready had w i th

hell U . K . ," Noble

said. The job never materialized, but she has stayed c u rren t i n her field and ha served as a visiting profe or a t W i l l iam and Mary, SU

Y/Platts

burgh and, mo t recent l y , N YU . For many years h e wa a part - time tutor

Colby, May 1 992

in England' Open U n i ,·er- i ry, ·he ha- lec rured throughout England and ·he has been a

are many women like me out there who ha"e a lot to offer but \\'ho haYe been exc luded by c ircum tance from chol arly communitie ."

Perspective on Liverpool St. "Maybe I 've been a litt le bit brainwa.hed b y thi- cu lture," ay Charles Hogan ' 7 3 . who mm·ed to England in 1 9 0 and i married to a Briti h woman . "Bur I en e that, becau e i t ' a mailer country-and for ome reason the fam i ly seems to be a tighter unit here-ir'- more com·entional for you to ee your fam i ly a lot, to live near them, and I find that a really bio plu . In the tate we're more accu·tomed ro mov i n around w ith our j obs, with brother and i ter \\'inding up on different coa ts, and maybe work take greater ignificance m term · of your ocial life. The que t ion, if you ha\'e to generali:e, become . where doe work fit into one's perspectiYe 1" lt was not alway o. In the early 1 9 Os, Hogan pent alma t 80 percent of hi time tra,·eling. Vice pre ident for Europe, Africa and the M iddle East for McCormack and Dodge Corp . , a com puter oftware concern ba ed in Ma achusett , Hogan pioneered the firm's international ·ale effort. But it left him little opportu n i ty to be with h i wife in London. Once the fir t of their three children wa born in 1 9 4, Hogan ay , he was ready to make a change. "Literally e\'ery unday night I would be off to where\·er Pari , Frankfurt, M i lan, the M iddle Ea t, Australia, ingapore, maybe Johanne burg to New York and back," he aid. " ot to make it sound romantic, becau e after the fir t couple of trip , it wasn't." Hogan took a position at Merril l Lynch, where he tayed for only two week before hi entire group was recruited by hear on Lehman. He is now a v ice pre ident in hearson's private c l ient department, and although he till puts in very long hour-, he has been able to place much more emphasi on home life. Hogan' office in the gleam ing new Broadgate busine complex i tep from the Liverpool treet train ration, an ea y commute from hi London home. Hi c lient -mo tly Briti h with ome American and many other nationalities thrown in are comfortable with and apprec iative of hi coun el. Colby, May 1 992

"l work ,,·ith people who don't want to be gladiator- " ith their money . " Hogan aid. "There are people \\'ho do, and there are good money manaoers for them to go rn \\"ho deal in commodi t i e o r options o r various speculation · . B u t people come in here, they had to \\'ork hard to get their money, they ju t \\'ant to make a rea onable return, sleep at n ight, and be ure the money is there from day to day. " Hogan a y that in order t o do h i job properly h e ' h a d t o be omething of a loner, pending hour reading, think i ng about trend , analy:mg markers. Like mo t of the Colbians who work for large financial in ·ti rution in London, he say he rnlue h is independence abm·e all and would not be happy in a erring that d idn't allow him great latitude in which to accompli h hi- goal-. And-also like most of h is College peer -he cem to have made his own luck in thi regard. "When 1 look around," he said, "l ee a lot of people who don't appear to be very sati fied. I'm sympathetic to their p light, whate\'er the case may be-trouble at home or at work or w ith where they live or whatever. Bur you fight your battle as you go. Ir' been my attitude that if you make your own bed and you have to leep in it, you hould be happy with it. People who are unhappy with what they are doing ought to deal with that." Hogan ays he find h is work espec ially intere t ing oiven the current international economic c l i mate. Pu hed to enoage in ome doom and gloom about down markets and rece ion , he refu e . " I t' a more uncomfortable t i me when you're at the end of an expan ion, if you're a tock market investor, becau e that' typically the peak of euphoria in the markets. From a stock market point of v iew, thi i probably an interesting time to be think ing about investing, because people' expectations are gett ing pro gre- ively lowered."

Yvonne Noble '56 (opposite p age) , Charles Hogan ' 73 (above) . 25

A Double Life Harriett Matthews Thrives In a Series of Parallel Worlds - by Beth Critchlow -

he is a gutsy '>culrwr who at Colby, :.he Joe n't boa t. Even in cut� and hammers steel into her workaday uniform of jean· and a visual poetry; she's also a defr turtleneck, .,he look profe- orial. and subtle draftsman. he i� a ol i tary he wear her straight brown hair in art i�t who holes up in her tudio for a .,hort, no-nonsen. e pageboy, and nine or 10 hours a day, weekend� gla.,�e frame her dark eye . Her man inc luded, going one-on-one with h r ner i preci�e-a · he peak , she art; -he'- al o a prnfe sor thoroughly cul pt · the air with her trong hands. at home in the clas room, a skilled "My work i the ·ource for my and generous teacher who ha!> intro teaching," he ay . "The more culp duced a genera tion of Colby student" rure I make, the more l learn. The to the plea ures ( and occa ional ter more ! learn, the more I have to give ror ) of the c reative process. he l i \'e to the rudent . culpture is a earch part of the year in a snug farmhouse -a fru trating, rewarding earch. tucked into the rol l ing h i ll- of centra l And teaching i· the ame. It' all Maine and the rest halfway around c i rcu lar, and it all work together." the world on the mountainous Greek Matthew ' earch ha led her isle of amos. She i- an enth usias t ic in novel direction . "Mo t sculpture art h istorian, a woman whose conver i ei ther figurative or ab tract," ex sation is punctuated with references plains Martha everen , curator of to Byzanti ne mona teries and I talian col lec tions at the Portland Mu eum cave painting ; he' al o a woman of Art, where Matthews had a wel l V( url iote I I , painted steel , H53 1/!" x 29" x 3 8 " , who has decorated her k i tchen with received one-woman how in 1 990. enough toys-shelve of toy old iers, completed: October I 989 . "What make Harriett' work un a small fleet of Matchbook truck , u ual i that she evoke a landscape." hand puppets, snowglobe , casti nette , p la tic watche from K AcCLnomed a people are to looking at landscape painting , Mart with faces hape<l I i ke piders and robots-to keep an entire Severen adds, experienc ing landscape in the form of a three k indergarten class entertained for a week. "I love toys," -he ay . dimensional ·cu lpture i omething very different. "Harriett en In theory, Harriett Matthew ought to be at least half a do:en ergi:e the space ·o that we almo t feel we're moving thr ugh it." people. But in prac tice, she somehow manages to reconc ile all "Harriett is an art ist's artist, omeone who' c learly passion these competing interests and talents, all these yins and yangs, ate about what she' doing," say Duncan Hewitt '7 1 , a culptor into one sat isfying whole. "It' all related," he says simply. and former pup i l of Matthews who founded the culpture program Matthews is a warm, g od-humored woman and a mode t at the University of Southern Maine. "She really under tand the one: though she talks freel y about her work and her 25-year career language of c ul pture. he' ery good at creating a pace and then push ing and pull ing at it. he reache right to the heart of scu lpture." Beth C1itchlow is associate editor at Down East magazine in Camden , Adds J ame Pierce, an art h istorian, scu lptor and art dealer Maine . 26

Colby, May 1 992

who i' a long- t i me fri nJ of

Her drawings do not erve a

M atthews: " Harriett' sculpture

tud ie fur her culpture , but

ha· that t h i ng we always lm)k

Matthew

for in art-that qua lity wh tch

h o r ro w t e c h n i q u es fro m

the c ulptor doe

can't be r ranslated i n to words."

Matthew· the draft man. In

Thro ughout her c a re e r ,

several recent work , path

M atthew� ha. heen drawn to

way

the land cape, or more accu

pear to be moving toward· a

rate l y , to the landscape of h is

vani h ing point.

wry and arch i tecture. "A lot of

corporate t h e ground plan

that comes out of the fact th<tt

of friend·' home

as a student, I had a very strong art h istory background,"

taper o that they ap

he ha

he al o i n or place

rayed into her p iece .

"The culprure are al mo t au

·ays. Beg i n n i ng in 1 9 7 1 with a

tobiograph ical in a en e," he

Colby travel grant, M atthew

Road to Ambelo�. painccd steel. H50 " x 30" x 4 "

rook the fi�t of whM wouW be

completed: March 1 99 1 .

many trips to Europe ( he ha

ay . 'They're often arc h i tec tural memone . " M atthew ' ·reel swoops and ·oar , echo

a lso traveled to New Zealand and Mexico) to visit the museums,

i ng a narrow, wmJing footpath or the jagged profile of a moun

monasteries and archaeological si tes ·he had read about in col

tain, then pauses in m t d - fl ight for one of M a tthews's griJlike floor

lege . During subsequent trips, he began tu photograph what ·he

plans.

saw, and "wi thout k nowing what wa

goi ng tO happen," she

"It i c learly not j ust the Greek land cape that in p i re the e

explaim, " ! started using those photographs, as well a· ground

works," M artha

plan from books, to create forms in my c u lpture . "

land M useum show, "but a l ·o Greek c u l t u re and h i rory. On

everens wrote in an e. ay for Matthew ' Port

ince 1 98 7 , M atthew · h a s confined h e r travels t o t h e i le of

amo the path are frequently punctuated by an icono ta i -a

Samo· , a 2 4 - m i le tretch of green mountain· ri ing out of the blue

·topping place where icon are displayed-marking a point along

Aegean . " I t's got everything th

M a i ne coast ha

because of tho e color ," . he says. I t ha deep ·ense of history. During the

and more,

ometh i ng else as wel l : a

ix th century B.C. , Samo wa

a great commerc i a l and cultural center noted for it scu lpture.

a pi lgrimage route or, ometi m e , a place where an acc ident has occurred and been ·urvi ed. " A l t hough m o t of t h e fi n i h e d culpture· are le

than five

feet in height, art hi rorian J ame Pierce believe "they have a

Her l i fe on Samos has transformed Matthews's work, bring

harpne , a preci ion, a monumenta l i ty" that i out of all propor

i ng i t into sharp, inv igorating focu . From mid- M ay unt i l late

non to thei r cale. Her earlier work , which u ed organic form ,

A ugu t , she l i tera l l y immerse herself in the Greek landscape,

were more rea l i t i c , he note . As her culpture has evolved, " i t ha

h i k ing up i n to the mountains with her easel to draw the grand

become more ab tract and able ro bear broader a ociation .

sweep of space, the terraced v i n eyards and ol ive grove tumbl ing

These

down to the ea. I n the even i ng he visit w i th her c ircle of amian

q u a l i ty." Pierce rop and chuckle . "Of c urse, Harriett wouldn't

friends, which widens a M atthews' G reek i mproves. " I ' m ter

l i ke that."

rible at language ," he confides. "For the fir t two u mmer I was embarras ed to speak . " Several n ights a week, he stud ies Greek w i th a local woman, and now, she

ay , "I can put together

ork

have a profound feel i ng about them, a mystical

M a t thews'

culpture lend i t elf to all orts of interpreta

tion , to notion

of h me and to journey

figurative. Like the mountain of

both l i teral and

amo , her piece aim for the

heaven , and it' tempting to read the prom i e of p irirual ascent

entences eptember, Matthew gradu

i nto th wor k . It' tempti ng u nles you happen to be the c ulptor.

ally converts her i mpres ions of the landscape i n to welded stee l .

"There really i n't a whole lot of con c iou symbo l i m there,"

When she return to M a i ne i n

M atthew

formally. People may find content in my work, and that' fine. But

I ron Worker No. 496. The stud io i a cozy ( and fireprooO space,

my own consc iou ne

i ts wal ls decorated w i th art po ter and team pictures of the Red Sox and the N ew England Patriots. Each of her steel c u lptures begin w i th a mal l wax model. 28

with a

hrug. "[ approach the

Her s t u d i o i h o u ed i n t h e e l l of h r C l i nton farmhouse, located, fit t i ngly enough , j ust Jown the road from the union hall of Local

c u lpture very

i formal."

For the pa t everal years, M atthews ha been experiment ing-ever so gingerly-with col r.

he paint her c ulpture in

layer ofgray, green and other subtle pa tels, which she then and Colby, May 1 992

away, lend i ng the steel sur Fate inten·ened in the face new and u nexpec ted form of the Kuder Preference depth. "The introduction of Te t. " l t was one of tho e te · ts color has enl ivened the ·culp you took during orien tation ," ture enormou ly," -ay David he explain . "You punched i mon, J ette Profe or of A rt holes in a card with pins, and at Colby, who l ike to tea e the re ults upposedly indi M atthew that for a culptor c ated what your interest she' turned out to be a natu were." The hole Matthew ral colori t. punched spel led A-R-T in One thing Matthews is capital letters. Matthew u not i a natural elf-promoter. pect she would eventually 'Tm not comfortable with try have found her way to ,culp ing to ell my elf," he ay , ture, but the test results, along her u nease etched c learly w i th the trong encourage Kolonaki l , pai nted s ceel , H24 " x 20" x 23 " , aero s her face. "You know, ment of her faculty adviser, comple ced: December 1 99 1 . ending out lide , nurturing gave her a push. And once �he contacts in New York , really pushing the work . " ( Her discomfort began her formal tudie , it quickly became c lear that her intere t extend even to d i cu ing how much her sculptures ell for. ) "To lay not in two- but in three-dimensional work. "I li ke working get the work exhibited, you really have to do ome of that," she with real pace," she ays. "Plu the phy icality of sculpture appeals to me." add , "and I haven't." A a result, Matthews' exhibition , though frequen t, have been confined largely to the Ea t Coast, and he After graduating from u llins, Matthews transferred to the ha never hown her work in ew York " I r'- a tiny ore pot," he Un iversity of Georgia, where he earned both her B.F.A. and ay . M . F.A. , graduating in 1 964. he tudied with Leonard DeLonga, There are easier places from which to launch a h igh-powered a culptor who became her mentor and l ifelong friend. Her trai n ing under DeLonga wa in some respect far from tradi t ional. career than Clinton, Maine. But Matthew believe- that location Instead of carvino wood or casting bron:e, she wa "handed a has actual! worked in her favor. "The isolation has affected my blowtorch and told to tart weld ing." work in the be t way," she ay . "People don't expect to hear that. But liv ing here meant I could feel les elf-con c iou about the I t proved a good matc h. While working with tee! i phy i cally draining-Matthews has tendiniti from 30 year pent normal search one goes through to find one' direction. I d idn't hammering metal- reel ha quali ties that lend them e lve to the have to refine the piece prematurely. I could keep working in a form she prefer . he also l ikes working additively, build ing ur a con i tent line, and what came, came. " Matthews even held off form rather than paring away. "And tee! i very forgiving," he vi iring Europe until he fe lt ure of her own vi ion. "If I 'd been in ay . "It' not malleable, but if I do something I don't l ike, I can an area where there wa a lot of pre sure to go publ ic early," she alway- cut it out and tart again." ay , 'Tm not ure the work would have developed the way it ha ." DeLonga' influence wa not only technical but theoretical. While living in Maine may not have advanced her career, it He encouraged h i student to look to art hi tory rather than helped make her the arti t he i today. contemporary art for their in pi rat ion. Matthew took him at his That M atthew would grow up to be an arti ·t wa far from a word, gravi tating toward ancient cla ical ite and to Byzantine given. he was born in Kan a City, Mo., where her father was a and Medieval art. The next 5 00 or o years of art he find bui lder and her mother taught k indergarten. he enjoyed art a a con iderably les compelling. "There' wonderful cu lpture later, ch i ld but didn't thi nk much would come of it. "I ju t never espec ially during the Baroque period," he say . "But from the a· urned 1 would go into art," she recall-, "perhap becau e I wa Renai ance on, the emphasi is on the i ndividual arti t, and I ' m never one of tho e fac ile children. Other people call them n o t a intere ted in \ ork i no from one person's interpretation of talented. I call them fa c i le . " When he wa 1 3 , the fam i ly moved art. I prefer working from an entire culture which I can reinterpret to a farm outside Kansas C ity and M atthew took up hor eback in my own \·ocabulary." riding wirh a vengeance. "I wa one of those typical horse-cra:y Perhap the main le on M atthew learned a an art tudent teenager ," he say . When she left Mi souri to attend ullin wa the importance of good teaching. Then as now, teaching wa Junior College m Virginia, he planned to become a horse trainer. Colby, May 1 992

a good choice for a young art

I 've never l!een dra w i ngs a t

i�t with an M . F. A . hut w i thl ut

another undergraduate i nst i

i mmed iate rrospects fora fu ll

tut ion that c a n compare to

blmvn career. But M atthew�.

�ome of tho e that come out

whn haJ worked as DeLonga'�

of Harriett' cla e . "

a ss i s r n n t , ge n u i n e l y l i k e d

M atthews'� cla�se

teac h i ng a n d work ing w i rh

tra t a wide variety of tu

people who were i n terested in

dent -or, a

learn ing. "Not to sound syr

"people whn are a l i ttle out of

upy," he says, "but because I

the ord i nary. Often they're

had ·uch a wonderful exreri

athletic or very i n tere ted in

he p u t

at it,

ence as a student , I l i ked the

the outdoor , and they're

idea of try i ng to give hack some

drawn to the phy ical nature

of what had been given to me. "

of sculpture . " Hewitt wa a

Her t i m ing w a s good. I n

hockey player; another of

t h e 1 960s, m a n y colleges and tvt1f) E l l�n M<1c,1v<1

u n i ver i tie , spu rred hy i n creasing Baby Boomer enro l l ments, were expand i ng the i r

"Superficial jus 1 doesn 'c make ic in her clnsses , " one alumnus says of /us work wich Mauhew .

a r t department . I n 1 966, after

M a tthew 's rece n t p u p i l , He1d1 Langiu

'86, who has

rnce gone on to get her M . F . A . , was a stalwart of the College wood m e n '

team.

a year as a vi i r i ng i nstructo r at the U n i ver�ity nf Oklahoma,

"Becau�e our i� a mall program, people don'r u ually come to

Matthews wa h i red by the late J a mes Carpenter, then chair nf the

Colby to major i n art ," he .ay . "And ! l i ke thar . Then they take

Art Department, to teach Colhy's first course i n l>c ulpture . "It wa�

an art cour e and sudden ly they're exc i ted and everything now

ideal," she say . "Because of my l i beral art background, I didn't

bal ls . For me as a reacher, that d i covery i- o electric."

rea lly want to teach at an art school . I wanted a mal l , l i beral art col lege w i th an art program that hadn't evolved yet. That way I could evolve with i t . "

Matthews's commi tment to her student ha not gone unno t iced . " Harriett is one of the reason I came here 1 1 years ago," ays imon, who wa with the Metropol i tan M useum of Art' med i

M atthew · a n d t h e Colby A r t Department c a m e o f age t gether, and she c red i t Carpenter for being an unusually sup

eval program at T h e Cloister before j o i n i ng r h e Colby faculty. " I l i ked that Colby w a w i l l i ng t o upport a dedicated artist."

port i ve leader. "J i m a l lowed me the chance to make m istake� and

uch ded ication chews up a lot of hour , however. When

to learn from them," he says. "He gave me the freedom to deveh)p

Matthews i

m y own way of teac h i ng."

reach i ng, he looks pu:zled. "You k now, there's not a lot of free

Scu lptor Duncan Hewitt sees some of those same qual i t ie · i n h is former profe

or. " Harriett is very protec t ive of the learn i ng

process," Hewitt says. " he'

very comfortable with awkward

work and good at recogn izi ng when there' someth ing there and

a ked what he doe when he'

not culp t i ng or

t ime," she says. And alway , there is the drive , the al mo t phy ical need to work. " I f someth i ng comes up that keeps me from the tud io for a few day , I find I'm un ert led and frusrrared," he say . '' Maybe I 'm addic ted to i t . "

encouraging that. She let me work through the good tu ff and the

M atthew already ha h e r plane t icket for t h is summer' trip

bad stuff, and that wa i mportant for me." Beg i n n i ng sculpture

to amos. She has Greek m u ic on her tape player and a chart of

tart out lowly, work i ng w i th throwaway material l ik e

the Greek alphabet on her wal l . I t can a l l get a l i t t le chizophrenic

stri ng and cardboard, t h e n advancing to carv i ng i n wood and

at t i me , she adm i t . " I have my l i fe here, and I have my l i fe there.

student

stone. Second-year students may move on to stee l. Professor David S i mon consider Matthews a "tough" teacher.

Here I'm mak i ng sc u lpture and I'm teach ing. I 'm peak i ng my own language. There I'm drawing and learn ing a d i fferent lan

"But," he adds, "I mean that as a comp l i ment." Should any students wander i n to one of her cour es w i th the m istaken

guage. I have a d i fferent

i mpre sion that art is a gut, he say , Matthew gently but fi rm ly e ts them straight. " he fu l ly bel ieves that the study of art i a

tho e change . "

serious discipli ne," he says. "Superficial j u t doesn't make it in her course . The res u l t is that her students produce i mportant work. 30

et of friends who know me i n a

completely different way. As I get older, it get harder to ad ju t to But in l i fe a in arr, change i often for the good. "I u pect," ay

M atthew , "that instead of being a negative t h i ng, that

diffi c u l ty ju t make the whole experience much r icher." Colby , May 1 992

STUDENT LIFE The Bridge : Seen, Heard and Unders tood - by

S teve Collins

' 74 -

Colby's gay· and le�bians ha,-e come in j ust a few year�. Because of the group's early, more ecretive nature, the history of The Bridge is difficult to trace. A group by that name 1en he was a Colby student, Tom Haggarty '88 ·ays, he was func t ioning mostly underground at Colby in the !are 1 970� dec ided to reach out to other gay. and to le bians on campu by and \\·a� re\'i\'ed in the late ' 0 by Haggarty and other-. At that tarting the Le bian/Gay I nformational Hotline. He publi hed time it met in a tiny storeroom for televisions, and it major focus the hotline number every week in the Echo, and he waited. The was on helping indiv idual member deal with the problems and silence wa · deafening. challenges ra 1 ed by their " o one e'l.•er called the sexuality. phone line," H aggarty ·aid, owaday , The Bridge a d d i n g t h a t he omet i me ha an office in Dana and wished he'd get a crank call holds meet ings in the Mar) j u·t to relieve the b redom. Low coffeehouse and other Colby then had no vi ·i ble lounges. The oroup spon ors all-campu · eYent -speaker·, films, discussion group -that were on campu in the late ' 0 attract impre i,·e crowd of ay they could tum to each student , straight included. other and to gay and le b ian La t December, a talk by Dr. facu l ty member for ad,·ice and Victoria Zarnsnik and her son upport, but an "invi ibil ity fac Eric '93 on their experience tor" prevailed on Mayflower a a le�bian mother and a on Hill. Gay and le bian were rai ed by lesbian partner was attended by more than 1 00 neither een nor heard in any member of the College com overt en e. "There were no munit and wa featured on students who were 'ou t,' " H ag the front page of the Echo. garty aid. During first seme ter of P l e n ty of student are this year, The Bridge explored "out" now--enough to fonn the topics uch asgay l ife at Colby, core of one of Colby' mo t stereotype , relation h ips and a c t i v e organ i : a t i o n , T h e homophobia. econd seme Bridge. A n d t h e atmo phere ter's chedule ha included on campus ha changed o peaker , parties, an ask-any much that the ornup's pre i thing-you-\rnnt panel d iscus dem, Katie Morri o n '94, say ion and almost daily event he finds-much to her cha Mary E l le n Mat;wa during Gay Pride Week . grin at t i me -that he i a role John Cook ' 9 2 and Katie Morrison ' 94 "Two or three year ago model, both for tudent who [The Bridge] u ed to pon or are having trouble coming to partie , but nobody went," said Paul Argiro '92 , Echo opin ion grip with their own exualiry and for member of the campu editor. Back then, aid another Echo staffer, the stigma of homocommunity seek ing to better under rand the gay/le bian experi e x u a l i ty wa trong enough to keep s t u d e n t away i n ence at Colby. droves. " I ' m alway on tage, putting on a good face," said Morri on, Support for the new vi ibility and activ i m of The Bridge � ho wa elected head of the group la t sprino when it entire isn't confined to the many ympathetic straight tudenr who leader hip graduated. " Being the perfect dyke is hard." attend meetings out of curiosity or in upport of friends. "People There' a certain in-your-face bravado about the word dyke. are more accepting," aid one tudent who has never gone to a It eems de igned to be provocative ( though the consen u among Bridge meeti ng. "There' a general feeling of upport." le b ian on campu i that it houldn't be ) , but i t ind icate how far

Colby, May 1 99 2

I Support

Student A'"iciat iun Pre-, 1dent J a,nn Soule, '92 -,a id he ll'e l cum e.., The Bri dge\ a l l - c a m r u (1 1rum' fur d 1 �cu,,ing g<1) /Je,hi<m l 1 fe . " wdenr' are c u r i nth , " he ,,1 1 d . " T h e � e are i-, ..,ue-, r h a r are g< 1ing ttl be fac rng rh e m whereYcr rhey t;1 i. I r' i m p1 1 rr a n r ro hm·e the 1nfmmat i l 1n a \·a ibhle. " j , 1 hn Bn 1c kc l m a n '92 , pre�idenr uf the 'u l by Re pu h l i c a n ,, '<l id he -,upport� rhe ex i�rence ot the grnup, in ran becau'e ir chal lenge� pel1ple '� 01�in 1nn-, <ind ,· iew:,. " l encourage rhar," h e �a id. "My pro b l e m , " Broc kelma n �aid , "i� when rhe admin isrrar ion and The Bridge a c r wgerher ro enf orce a k i nd nf polit ical cnrrccrne�s on rnmpu,." He ci reJ an edicr last fo ll thar a " crew Your Ron m m a rt' " parr y couldn't nffer a di�counted price rn couple� because rhar di crim inated aga in�t gay-, and le ·b ians who might not he comfortable buying ticket!> together. Brockel man a lso expre�sed apprehen ion abour the possible ccn oring of contro\'er ial 'peakers-an idea t h a t 'urfaced after the Colby Republicans sponsored an appearance by con ervative academic Dr. Erne't van den Haag last fal l . Brockelman said he feared that only the conser\'ative ide of any 1 ue would be quelc hed under those c i rcumstances. ome gradua tes v iew The Bridge's recent succe s a part of a broader hi fr in ·ociety and a- a resultof their earl ier effort to ru�h i nto the main tream of camru� life. " ! think it's definitely the re-ult of the surge of [pol it ical correctnes ] on campus this year," said H aggarty. "You get the prngres i \·e straight people. It' very trendy now . " former Bridge pre idenr Mark LaPninte '9 1 -aid that the atmosphere of tolerance helped make pink armbands and buttons like the one pictured above de rigueur i n ome c irc les during Awareness Week la t year, and he' · happy about that up to a point. " I t's good that it gave us a boo t, but I hope it' beginning to wear off," LaPointe said, add i ng that all i ance f ormed with mainstream organization d id as much to move the group forward. A talk by tare enator Dale McCormic k , the first avowed lesbian elected in Maine, was a watershed event, LaPoin te aid. Filling the Spa w i th traight and gay studen ts for performances by down and-d irty lesbian comic Lea Delaria i n 1 989 and 1 990 wa another major advance, he said, since it establ i hed the common ground of humor between heterosexual and gay . S tra ight t udent who belong to The Bridge say theirs is a unique role. "For so long, the gay/le ·bian/bisex ual popu lat ion has been pushed to the margin ," said Liz Thornton '92, whose father 32

i ' gay. "Going ro [ Bridge ] meetmg is an opport unity f or me ru show up pnrt , rn cont inue educating my elf <1 bout gay/lesbian/bisexual issue and t u ger mvol ved with a� much a c r i ,· 1 -. m <h there is on this campu , which i n't much. I think the tron gl''t 'urrort come from being a pre l'nce. I r ' une thing to he supportive, but tf you don't how your upport it' mean ingle,�. Being there a a herero -,exu a l helps take the pre ure off them." " I ha\'e friends who are gay, and i t really hu rt' me when I ee behavior that i hurting rhem , " 'aid G a l e n e lsnn ' 9 2 . "I ee a growing awarene <Jf gay Nlle� on campu�. Becc1 u..,e The Bridge ha� helped e·tabli h an armo�rhere, we're ..,eeing th mg' like fac ulty members inviting gay 'peaker�." F,1r the mo�t part, ra'r and pre. enr Bridge members expre -.ar i -.foc tion-a l he i t w1tl1 some re en·ation -with the way the ol lege ha!> treated the group and re ponded to the is ue it ha ra ised. "The verbal commi tment and ·upport (if the admini tra tion has made olby a \'ery tolerant p lace," said Fred Fead '92 . "I a l way. f ound the adm 1 11 1stration to be very upporr ive," �aid LaPoi nre, who nnw live i n an Francisco. "They may have been kind ,)f low ·omet i mes, but they alway had the righ t i ntent ions." "The adm 1n i�tration trie to help, but I don't think they k now what to do," ·aid Morri on, wh took The Bridge' cau e to a meeting of the Campu Commun ity Commi ttee this year. The Le -Bi-G ay ·ubcommittee was formed -hortly thereafter. As ·oc iate Dean of the Fac u l ty Margri t Lichterfeld Thoma , who cha i rs the ubcnm m i r ree, ay it i too early to Ii t spec ific obj ct ive� or strategies, but the gr up i work ing to make the camp u · atmL) phere more comfortable for homo exual . "We want to com·ey that [homo exuality] i n't in the c loset anymore, and we're hop i ng that visib i l i ty brings acceptance," he aid. The · ubcommittee already ha spon ored a vi i t to campu by a con u lt i ng firm cal led V ision , I nc . , which offers program for addre sing oppression and di crirn inat ion i n the workplace. Bridge members say they are plea ed with the respon e and encouraged by the goal of the new subcomm i t tee. "The fact that there i a com mittee is a major step," said Fead. " l t ound m i nor, but for this campus, it' someth ing." Gay and lesbian student ay they do find the campu c l i mate comfortable, accepting and tolerant. While ome en e an under curren t of anti-gay sen t i ment, they ugge t that i t i the holders of tho e opinion who are in the closet now. And while some Bridge Colby, May 1 992

members s t i l l chafe at metnlXie.; nf anti -gay graffit i from pre\·ious years and report hearing about

lurs, none c i te� any negat i\·e

ubgmup�. Colhy may ne\·er ha\·e the number� for mure than a

· ingle mterest group. One problem , accord ing to John Cook '92 , i that "no one

per onal experience·.

Mani on aid he is less concerned about inc ident� of bia from ua i gh t tudents and fac u l ty than she is abl1ut \\"hat she term ·

come · to Colby 'out. ' "

" intemal i:ed homophobia "-the perception and paranoia of the

le::-bian/bisexual ac t i \· ism at fir't.

- t udents often rake a year or two--or

more-to come out of the clo et and may he ten ta ti Ye ahL1Ut ga\'/

g ay or lesbian.

" I call that 'homo-rea l i ty,' " she said. A�ked about i n- u l t a n d graffi t i , s h e re·ponded: "Thar'- [ the homophobic ']

ne\\', higher profi l e has been good for Colby, c r i t i c

pro b lem , not our . "

Che -hire Calhoun, a phdo�nphy prnfe::.sor \\"ho auenJ· mee t i ngs.

While there �eems to be general agreement that The Bridge's 'uch a

B u t Lichterfeld Thoma. sound · a note of concern on the

. ay the group may be try i ng to do too much. By tak ing resronsi

ue. "My real fear," �he aid, " i � that i f the College doesn ' t cake

H l i ry for informing the campu' heterosexual community about

more in itiative in promot i ng ens i t i \ · i t\·-if i t doesn't take a Yery

issue · that are i mportant ro gays and lesbians, these critics charge,

trong po i t ion-l'm wonied that there m ight be ome form of

The Bridge has abdica ted i ts posnion as an int i mate forum for

backlash from heteros e x u al

tudent: fee li ng threatened by the

new vi i b il i ry. "

student� to d iscuss per-onal problem�. grapple \\"ith iden tity i ·sues and cope 'nth com i ng out of the c lo et.

Member of The Bridge ·ay t hey ' re s t i l l a long \\"ay from their

goal of " l e g i tim i : in o and norm a l 1 : i ng" homosexua l i ry on c ampu . The group i direction .

'The needs of gay and lesbian · tudent ju · c aren 't gemng addressed by The Bridge anymore ," Calhoun - a id .

\\"tangl ing over i t· c u rrent iden t i ry and future

hould it be a support orou p ? A 'o c i a l c l u b ? A ·ponsor

While she acknowledge the i mportance of a support group for people \\'ho are in the proces - of comi ng out , Bridge member

of cultural ac t i\ · i r i e ? A political fac tion ? A hotbed of m i l i tant

Katie Tyler '92 say

activ i m? Wberea ·ome college· ha\·e eparate g a y, le bian and

com ino-out tory," Tyler aid in a comp laint that Tom Haggarty

bi exual organi:ation·, each \\'Ith enl1uoh member to form uch

wou ld probably con· ider progress, "] think I'll get sick."

i t's t i me to mO\·e on. " I f I hear one more

A Campus Club for Almost Any Cause tudie· and ·ocial pur uits rank fir t and econd (pre

inging en emble, ha- eiaht--one fewer, trangely enough,

umabl in th.at order) among carnpu- activitie , but Colby'

than irs male counterpart, which i called "the Colby ." The

1,700

radio tation, WMHB, receiYes the highest appropriation,

rudents also ha,·e enouoh time to participate in no

fewer than 60 recogni:ed club and organization . The number might be even higher, Director of tudent ieman told the tru tee· at their annual Activiti Tullio January meeting in Bo ton, but for a free2e on new club instituted by the tudent A ociation thL year becau e of the train on i -

17 ,000 annual budget. He ,aid all parties were

1 5,000, and the Colby Comedy Club the malle t ,

100, a

fact its member may not find funny. There are 14 academic c lub , 1 1 ocial awarene- group and nvo political club -the Colby Democrats, who claim 60 member , and the Co lb 1 Republicans, with 75. club

Ii ted a

everal

oc ial awarene s group , i ncluding the

concerned about that and were "re earch.ing all avenue to

Ramfore t Action

attain a olution."

the

etwork, the Environmental Counc il,

Fifty- i.. x of the club are li ted in nine l: road catego rie - ocial awarenes , academic, literary, mu ical, religiou , theatncal, political, cultural and recreational. Four others

chapter of Amne·ty International, might eem equally at

tudents Organized Again t Raci· m and t h e campu

home in the political category, as might the 70-member women'

group, which is I i red m tead a· one of three

the campus radio station, the yearbook, the photography club and the rgani:ation that hows recent film on cam

cultural organization .

pu -defy categorization.

in the Engli h Department, the venerable tudent new pa

The large.t group, the Outing Club, ha more than 1 50 member , and the ma lie t, the Colbyette female a capella

per, the

Colby, May 1992

In a li ting almost certain to evoke editorial comment

Echo, i defined a a literary organi:ation.

PAGING PARENTS Academic Warning Can Be a Shocker P

1rent' L1f h i gh '>chuul -, r u d n h can enfl1rce a c u rfe \\' , c urh weekn ight a c t 1 , · 1 r 1 e' anJ 'ee w i t that their c h i ldren -.rudy. But once a\\"ay at cnl lege, rhe >tudenr a.,..,ume,-or f i l -, tu <b, u me per,un a l n.:>r< m, 1 h d i ty . "Thar freedum can h1: o v er \\ ' h e lmm g , e,1�ec 1 ;1 lly for fir-,r-year .,rudenr-,,'' ''1id A,.,, 1c 1are Dt'an nfSrudent'> 1' 1 a rk R. Serdjenian ' 7 1 . "There are '>U many <1ther t h i ng> rn do." About 6L .,tuden h !o!e t letter-, frnm rhe Dean of ' r udent' Office each ,eme,tt:r inf urmmg them rhar they ha,·e rec e 1 n� d \\·arn mg' nf un,ar1-,foc ror · performance in rwo ur mnre cour-,e-,. Par en r- al,o rec e 1 ,·e a cury nf r h 1 -, l e r r e r-and r h a r can end -,h,JCk \l'a,·e!> through a hou,ehnld. E\'en t h L)Ugh rhey 111 1ghr hm·e ex rec red a b um r or t\\'l l in their c h i ld\ tran ition fmm h igh -,chool w col lege ' fe\\' parent., are rrerared tn hear rhi-, k i nd nf had ne\\'5, erd j en i an ·a ·- . Their !>On::. or daugh ter!> departed home for Mayflower H i l l-·mmeti me!> only week be fore-a academic '>tar , and now they are a �rep away from aca dem ic pmbation. Many parent:, are nor sure how to re pond . " Parent i ng from a d i::. tance i not an ea y thing to do," said erdj enian, the Col l ege's ch ief academic coun e lor. "They a k me, ' I 'm thi far away, what can I do?' " erdjen ian ays he g lean information from di cu- ion· wi th the wdenr in j eopardy and the faculty involved before advi::.ing parent of the most helpful cour!>e of acnon they can rake. I f the r udent ha \\'L rked d i l igently and is rill ha\'ing trouble, the dean ugge r- parental encouragemen t. I f the · rudenr ha k i pped cla -e or fai led to carry out a signment , he d isc usses a terner approach. Parent of a struggl ing tudent are al o ad\'i ed of the everal p lace on campu their on or daughter can go for academic coun e l i ng. Adv ice can come from the tudent' academic advi er as we l l a cour e profe or . erdj enian h i mself will take a deeper i nterest if the tudent come to him for help, and he keep up with ome tudents on a regular basis. P ychological coun e l i ng that addresses is ues like te t anxiety or time management i offered by coun elor at the Garri on-Foster Health Center. Occasionally, a parent who e c h i ld i trugg l i ng academ ically

'' i i I come w c1mpu'>. _ erJieni an doesn't encourage uch an emergency ,1rre<1rance un le�' the >tudent ha - pre\'1ou ly rroven that he or -,he 1-, capable of doing the work. "When grade:. have ;,uJJenly taken a pre c 1 r 1 tllll� J i ve, at that point the parents prohah l y rea li :e '>omething e l e i botherino that get 111 the wa y ," erdjenian said. "Parent can ' t Jn much ahout their child' academ ic ., 1 tuat 1nn , hut they can heir 1f the problem i an ernl ltinnal nne, l ike a di,·orce or sub tance rrob lem. " Mo-,r uf the t i me , student who receive \\ arn 1ng letter durmg the eme ter w md up with '<ltl'ifactory g r de in the cour e that 111 1 r n 1 l ly ga\'e them trouble-thank 111 part to the wammg �y tern . But 1f a tudent' grade puint a\'ernge ,J ,r, below 2 .0 or he or he drop a c Ja.,, and ama>. e., fewer than 1 2 cred it hour , the next rep i academic probation. A ·rudent on probation t a l k with ad\'i er and de\·i e a rlan to improve per formance. The student may be a ked to outline rep he or she will take to improve tudy habit or to budget nme. For intance, 1f a cour e i graded with only a m idterm and a final exam, erdj enian ay , ome rudents imply don't rea!t:e that they can't wai t until the end to do a l l the work. Mark Serdjenian ' 73 , associate dean of srudencs "We encourage the tudents to go ro profe or for help," he added. "And we ha"e to conv ince ome of them who don't have that attitude." Like the academ ic warni ng, probation i another cau e for parental notification. I f the ituation doe n't improve i n rwo eme ter , the srudent ri k being d i missed from the College for a year. erdjen ian ay about 40 students out of 1 ,700 are on academic probation, and from two to ix face di-m i al each eme ter. Mo t can apply for rei n tatement after a year. ome tudent regroup by worki ng or traveling, and ome ucce fully complete college-level cour e work near home. Parent shou ld know that u nder the federal Fami l y Educa tional R ight and Privacy Act of 1 974 ( commonly known as

Colby , May

1 992

FERPA or the Buckley Amendment) the College is not author ized to relea e grade to parent·--or any other informauon from tudent ' academ ic records-unless a student requests it in writ ing. 1 the College bemg inconsistent-or breaking the law when it notifie parent about their children's academic d ifficul tie even thouoh it i prohibited by law from relea i ng grades? Dean of the College Earl m i th sees noth ing amiss in Colby's policy. "When tatu a a tudent is imperi led or m ight change, l ike probation or suspension," mith aid, "the College notifie parents."

Regi trar George Coleman, who ays he belie\'e that the law was never intended to \\"ithhold information from parent , note that most students return a release form ·ent to them with other material at the beginning of the ir Colby careers authori:ing the College to ·end information about grade to their parents. Parent of high-achievers hould also take note: oood new travels fa t, too. Dean of Student J anice eit: inger writes to congratulate all parent of dean's list tudents, those who attain a 3 .20 G PA or higher.

Students Give the Grades in Exit Interviews Rr the third

ucce ive ·pring on Mayflower H i l l , graduate are leavi ng omething behind a ide frm 1 the c lass gift they help fund w ith the ir en ior pledge . They are again undergoing enior interviews. The exit interview are not imply hart-answer respon e to questions of fact or opinion. In tead they allow interviewer vol unteer from the College admini trative staff-to draw the enior into meaningful narrative about their experience at Colby. Adm ini trators who interv iew seniors are given �even broad que t ion a point of departure: Do you feel that Colby has given you a good educat ion ? 1. 2. Have you had per onal contact with faculty here ? I 'd like to hear your comment o n life o u t ide the 3. cla room at Colby. a. Cultura l/intel lec tual life. How would you eval uate the qual i ty of re idential b. life ? c . W h a t i your v i e w o f drinking o n campu ? 4. Do you feel the Jan Plan program are ucce fu l ? 5. D o you feel Colby has helped you t o understand people who are different from you ? 6. How would you describe Colby to someone who had never been here ? 7. What are Colby's mo t p o itive a pec ts ? What do you feel mo t need improvemen t ? Would you attend Colby if you had to do it over again ? In previou years the College has cored well generally-for example, overwhelming majoritie have aid yes, they'd attend Colby, May 1 992

Colby again-but ha al o been taken to task for perceived weakne ·e in ome areas, inc luding academic advising. Officials say the re ult ofthe interv iews, in which tudents' name are kept anonymou but which include the gender and major of the respondent and whether he or she ha studied abroad, already have played a role in di cussion to consider change in various campu program . And thi year there wa an added twist. A do:en en ior agreed to hare their experiences with fir ;,-year student j u t finding their way. " o many enior· aid during their interview , '[fl only knew when [ tarted what [ know now,' or word to that effect, that we decided to oive thi a try," Dean of tudent J anice eitz inger explained. Seit:inoer added that she i toying with the idea of add ing another wrinkle to the program-parent exit interview . " [ think it would be in tructive to hear from the parent ," he aid. "When they sent their sons and daughter to us they had certain idea and expectations about what the college experience would accompli h. Wel l , I'd l ike to know, after four years, how they think it turned out. What difference they ee in their child, our tudent, that please them and what they w i h m ight have turned out differently. " While there is no formal "senior parent interview" in place this year, e i tzinger ay she would welcome all comments. And, he adds, she thi nks still another interview i definitely in order. "Parents ought to it down with their graduate ," he said, "and talk about the e four years-what i t meant to tudent and parent and what it bode for the future." 35

BOOKS & AUTHORS When Settlers Fought for Maine 's Woods - by Sally Baker -

revol ut ion 1 11 1 78 3 . Fur 20, 30, L'.VL'.n 40 year:, in 'ome locariom, .,ct t ler., carricJ un a guerri l la war tn rema in on land they had

improved w i th their lahor and hoped to buy at fa i r price'>. They

n h i � fir'r day nf graduate ::.chonl at Br;rndei' U n i ver-, i r y , h i �rurian A la n T a y l o r ' 7 7 w e n r w 5 c e Prnfc��or Da v id Hackett

terrnri:cd .,urveynr:- 'ent to chart houndaries and �heriffs who bad th<: unen iahlc ta'-k of �erv i n g evict ion notices. They puni hed

Fi�cher, hnp i n g F 1 �cher wou ld h e l p him decide on a top ic for hi:. fi r�r - ·ear 'em i nar pape r.

'e\'l�rc ly anyune ;1 mong them who wa., perceived to he siding with

" H e's a man whL) i� c h n in ic a l l y i n n hurry, and he wa� in <1

c rnp� in a region where end -of-winter Harvat ion wa> common.

the p n iprieror,, hurn ing harn:,, k i l l ing l i ve�tock and destroying

hu rry that day , " T<1y lor sa id. "He j u�t :-aid tn me, ' M r. Taylor, what

They cal led them>c i ve > " L 1 hcrty Men" after the

d id )'l lU do your �enior the�i� on at Colhy 1' I told him I 'd written

with whom thl'.y ident i fied. The proprietnr cal led them "Wh i te

on::. of L i berty,

about po l i t i c � i n M a i n e ;ind Ma�"ic h usctt� during the War uf

l nd iam'' hecau'e they d i�gu i,cd rhem.,elves in N at i ve American

1 8 1 2 . He s a i d , 'Wel l , there were two pol i t ical pmt ie::. in Maine at

co!>tunH.:' <inLl hec au'e " l nLl ian" wa:- a pejorat i ve term .

that r i me. Why were 'o many people J effer::.on iam ?' I '<lid I

Tay lor pre,L'.nt' a v i v id account of the c i rcum�tance· that

understLiod there were some land rint�. He �aid, 'That'� ynur top i c ,

fueled the re� i > rance. A, it i> roday, M a i ne i n the latter I th and

M r . Taylor. Gnod day."'

early 1 9th century wa'> puor and �par ely popu lated. The land was

Tay lur's first book,

d i fficu l t to form and the c l i mate made for a very short growing

Li/Jerry Men and Great Pro/n-iewrs: The Reiiolutionary Sectlemem of the Maine Fron tier , 1 760- 1 820 ( U n i versi ty L)f N nrth a rn l i n a Pres::., 1 990 ) , h a d it. genesis in that hric(

sea:.on. I n one uf the hook\ mu�r grippi ng chapter , Taylor

conver ation. Taylor, now an a · i tant professor of h i 5tory at

of the few time� penrle eem to hm·e had enough to eat-they

Boston U n i ve r· i ty, .ays that when he began no� i ng around in

were p lagued hy 'w;rnn::. of imect., and legiom of\\ orm ; in the fal l

l i braries, arc h i ve�. private CL)llect ions of papers and other repmi tor i es of i nformation i n M a i n e and M a. :,ach usert , he found "a

they worked them,e l ve� nearly t o death bringing i n a harve t and preparing for the cold wemher; in the w i nter they fro:e for lack of

fabulous array of snurce g i v i ng i ns ight i n rn ordi nary people\ l i ve'

c lothing and adequate 'hel ter; and i n the srring they often

de:,cri he� the pri vation::. the 'ettler:, ,uffered. I n the ummer--one

and i n to t he i r pol i t ical t h i n k i ng." The lode wa so rich rhat Tayl nr

starved or were forced tn eat ;.eed crop because the food tores

was able to expand the original toric-what made ::.o many people

were exhau:,ted . They had h uge fam i l ie· to bear the workload, and

Jeffer on ians rather than Federa list 1-into an exammat ion of

when fno l wa-, carce i t went to the laborer . Young c h i ldren

the econom i c , soc i a l , re l igious a nd pol i tical c l imate of M a i ne

::.uffered accord i ngly. Taylor c ite· J ohn Langdon

before statehood.

M a i n e , whn wrote that ome c h i ldren there "were constantly

The story he tells i

compe l l i ng. Prior to the American

Revo l u t ion, much of M a i ne wa carved i n to h uge rnya l land

i bley of Union,

gnaw i ng the under bark of the wh i te b irch an I eating i t t i l l i t brought nn con. t iration a n d d i ease."

gra n ts adm i n is tered by the crown government i n Massachu.ett .

Settler. who managed to urv i ve this hardscrabble ex istence

After the war, veterans who'd fought to oust the British de

were nm shifted eas i l y . The resi ranee was poradic and d i organ

manded free or c heap land to homestead. They expected the new

i:ed but effect i ve. The ·ettler h ung on for years.

colon i a l governor of M assach u ett to confi c are land from the

Finally, a combinat ion of factors broke their w i l l . Fir t , ay

"Great Proprietor "-the men to whom the tract of land had been granted-who had most ly sided with the Engl ish. That

Taylor, after a series f beati ngs of heriffs and urveyor by more

d i d n ' t happen . ln read, w i th the Federal ist� i n power under George W a ·hington and then J oh n Adams, proprietors such a

at the hands of a mob i n Malta ( now W ind or) , many people

Governor of M assachu ens J ames Bowdoin and Secretary of War Henry Knox m a i n ta ined legal ownership of the lands. The exact boundaries of the i r properties were often in d i pute owing to

m i l itant L i berty Men c u l m inated in the death of a land urveyor wanted no part of the resistance.

econd, i t wa c lear that the

ettler could not win in the 1 ng run-too many forces were arrayed aga i n t them, i nclud i ng the imple fact that land i n M a ine was so diffi c u l t to obta i n and to farm that mo t fam i l i e could not

m u l t i p le sales of the same land by N ative Americans and to prim i t i ve surveys done before the war, but what was c lear was that

stay together. The ori g i nal h mesteaders' grandch i ldren rou

the proprietor had the right to ejec t " quatter " from any acreage

ch ap farm land. Resistance could not be su tained by people who had voted w i th their feet, of course, and those who stayed behind

w i t h i n their hold i ngs. That, however, d id not

top the settlers, who had begun

erec t i ng homesteads before the war and who surged i n to the interior i n search of free land once the Treaty of Paris ended the 36

t i nely left for places as far away as Californ ia i n search of good,

were more prosperous and more con ervative-they quietly paid for t he i r land. Taylor al o e x a m i nes the pol i t i c a l and ide logical h i ft that Colby, May 1 99 2

brought the di enfranchi ed farmers i n to the mainstream.

the bidding of the people-the settlers responded, turn ing away

"At the time the L iberty Men are operat ing," he explai ned in

from Federalism and electing Jeffer on ians to , tare and n ational

an interv iew, "the word 'democracy' doesn't have a ver1 favorable

office . But, Taylor says, wh i l e this brought them clo·er to

connota tion with most people, including the people who were

partic ipation in democracy as we know i t , the i r increased roli ti cal

leading the rev lution and cond uc t i ng the early republ ic . People

act i v i ty also moved the homesteaders toward conform i ty with

l ik e [George] Washington anJ Henry Knox see thenrelves as

law . Once the settler saw that their choices were helping to

certa i n l y dependent upon the good will of the people to hold

make the laws, they had more of a stake in obeying them. Even

power, but once they are cho en for office the public i

then

after the Jefferson ians fel l out of favor-thanks to the unpopu lar

supposed to tay out of it. The pol i tical leadership is not ·upposed

War of 1 8 1 2 and a brutal post-war reces ion-the new tyle of

to be constantly under the crut iny ofand ubject to the influence

pol itical part icipation continued.

of the masse , which is what we under tand by democracy." The early M a i ners "don't perc e i ve that there is a great deal

Resistance d ied out, people left the land i f they could nor afford to stay, and the land that wa

old-even under a compro

of d i fference between b e i ng ruled by Royal Governor Thomas

mise that muted some of the proprietors' demand -prnhably

Hutchin on and be i ng ru led by Governor of Ma achusetts J ames

brought more than i t was actually worth. And there has been a

Bowdoin, " Taylor said. "They sti l l see authority as ometh i ng that

legacy. "Though Ma ine eventually followed the nat ional pattern

i conducted by wealth ier gentlemen, conducted at a d istance and

of developing fam i l y farms and small landhold i ngs," Kennebec

often conducted at their expen e . They bel ieve that people l ik e Bowdoin and K n o x hm.•e to rule a n d t h e o n l y w a y to counteract

Journal editor Douglas Rook '76 wrote in a re,·iew of Libert-:i Men and Great Proprietors, " i t' always been dominated by large land

what they do is to local l y re ist the enforcement of those laws that

owner . The Great Proprietor were succeeded in the 1 9th cen

they deem to be unju t." When the ] effer onian arrived on the Maine frontier in the

tury by rai lroad and later by paper companie -a pattern wh i c h con t inues to this day . "

early 1 800s with the i r me age-that e lected offi c i a ls ought to do

Beyond Lobsters and Lighthouses in

"One of the thing that I wanted to do

read the book think that I am very sympa

[Liberty Men and Great Proprietors] was

thetic to the ettler , much more o than to

pro ide a hi torical context for a real Maine

Henry Knox," he aid. " I think 1 made an

that i

effi rt to be fair to Knox, but I do agree with

ignored," aid Alan Taylor '77. "If

you go into a book tore, there are lovely

the settler . I do think Henry Knox wa rich

photo book and colorful hi tory books, and they are m o tly about the coa t-picture of

enough-I don't think he needed to enrich himself further at the expen e of people

lighthou e and rocks and colorful tale of lobstermen and o fonh. The great majority

who were just craping by."

of Maine people lived in the interior, and

about the political career of William Coo

life was not very romantic."

per of Cooperstown, N .Y. As he did when

Taylor grew up i n Buxton, M aine, a small commun ity west of Portland. "It gave me an under randing of what rural M a ine is

Taylor i now at work on a new book

he re earched

Liberty Men, Taylor i again

mining a variety of source documents and say

he hope

to bring Cooper and the

all about," he a id of his c h i ldhood, "and it certainly predis po ed me to be sympathetic to the settler ."

politic of his day to life for reader .

The majority of the review of the book have been po·iti ve, but Taylor recalls one that called hi pre entation one- ided. He di agree . " I think j ust about everyone who

tion year. "People say that campaign are na ty now--or

Culby, May 1 992

H is preliminary findings seem appropriate for an elec nastier than they used to be. That' not true," Taylor said . "Things got pretty na ty in the 1790

too."

MULES ON THE MOVE Rimas and Daileanes End an Eight-year Run - by Edward Hershey -

They haJ not a l way> been he t-friend c lo e in h igh choo l , but in t h e ummer before the i r 'en ior ea o n t h e bond firmed

Ti1ey trotted off the court to the cheers of 3 ,000 fans, conc lud i ng a eason, a career and one a ·pect of an extraordinary relat ion hip.

I t was not the way J ohn Dai leanes and J ohn R imas wanted it

when they both went to a ummer ba ketbal l camp in Trenton, N .J . That is also where Col by coach Dick Whitmore fir t watched them. "He had come to ee John," Dai leane

to enJ. Colby had lost the Ea tern College Athletic Conference New

the tar in high chool. The day he

England DivisiLm I l l champion

came to ee our h igh school team ,

ship game. Yet Dai leanes and

I had a very good game and 1 think

R i ma , who had com b ined for a

he noticed me then. If I 'd played

career-h igh 66 poi n t- in the 99-86

badly that day, who know ?"

loss to Brandeis, knew they did not

Each decided Colby wa

have to bow their head .

good c hoice for a ba ketball p l ayer

"Before the .,.ame, when we

with academ ic credent ials. " I loved

warmed up," Dai leanes said the

the p l a c e , " R i ma

fol lowing day, "! said w my e l f,

mi nute I saw it, 1 aid, 'Thi is i t . '

a i d . "The

' I 've never wanted to w i n a game

I t w a - o much n icer than Bate .

more. ' But when it was over I wasn't

My mother gave them the depo i t

as d i ·appointed as I thought I would

before w e left . " A few days later,

be."

Dai leanes made the Foro ne t h i ng, Dai leane- �aid,

ame dec i -

· ion.

Brande is wa� c learly the better

I n the i r fir t year, R ima '

team.

6' 5 " height and oft hooting touch

" I t was ci great season," added

brought i mmed iate playing time.

R i mas, his teammate for four years

Dai leane , wh

in h igh school and four more a t

frame made h i m look scrawnier

Colby. "When w e left f o r Christ

than he was, rode the bench. But

mas break , we were 4-2 . We a l l

i n practice and a few game , he

plained . "In the town I l i ved in, no

I n the four sea ons Dai leane

one really knew how to play bas

pent on Mayflower H i l l , Paul Matthews '94

Co lby w o n 9 1 t imes i n 1 0 5 tries. But on the day after the loss to Brande i s , Da i leane

I 've al-

ways been a scorer," Daileanes ex

Then to g o 2 2-4 . and R ima

e angular 6' 2 "

howed no fear. "! gues

s a i d , ' Hopefu l ly , w e c a n surv ive. '

and R i ma

Daileanes ( left) and Rimas accept the runner-up plaque from John Gamer of the ECAC.

other on the opening day of basketball prac t ice in the fall of 1 984 at Central Catho l ic H igh in Lawrence, Mass.

ketbal l . From l i ttle league on, when I

h wed 1 l iked to hoot

and score, they pretty much gave me the ball and said, 'Don't pas

were starting to contemplate a more profound loss, of something they had shared since eyei ng each

I I

aid. " I 'm not even

ure if he noticed me. J ohn wa

the ball to us. You core . ' So that's the way I 've always played." After that fir t ea on-Colby was 20-5-Whitmore told Daileanes and R i mas what he tell many young players, that a

" It's over," observed R imas, a history major from Methuen.

summer in the weight room would work wonder for them. Many

" It's scary," said Dai leanes, a soci logy major from Dracu t .

nod and make

That exchange amounted to a ful l conversa t ion.

summer of '89 into a per onal boot camp. "I wanted to p lay o

ome effort. Dai leane

and R i ma

turned the

"We're both extremely quiet," Daileanes acknowledged.

badly," Dai leanes recalled. "I lifted weight constantly that um

"That's probably one of the rea ons we get a long so wel l . We do

mer, ran every ingle day, j u mped rope . " R i ma , too, wa on a

have different perso na l i ties. I let my emotions get the better of me

m ission, having given way in key moment of several game

sometimes. I w ish I could be more l ike J ohn in that regard. He's

because he lacked the agi l ity to keep up on defen e.

always i n control." 38

"I g ive them all the cred it," W h i t more say . "They knew Colby, May 1 992

what had to be :lone [\\·hich lo ·::.] would and they made all hurt the team more." the sacrifices." I n 1 99 1 , j oining That eptem Kevin W11 itmore to ber when the two form a form idable returned as ·opho trio, Oai leane and mores, it looked a Rima helped Colby if a culptor had re win a econd ECAC moved three inche champion h ip with from Rimas' hip a 2 3 -4 record. Wllen and leg and mou l Whitmore, an All ded them onto Oai R1mas ( lefc) made an immediate impacc wich his soft sho es , American , and ev leane ' neck and bur his high-scoring ji-iend, Daileanes , emerged as rhe "John people know . " eral member· of the arm . Rima·, a bulky supporting ca t grad pivot player i n h igh chool. started leading rhe fa t break. Dai leane , uated la r j une, pro pee r for a uccessful l 99 1 -92 ea on dimmed. always a nen·y hooter, wa· ink ing ba ket from well beyond the But Dai leanes, scoring 2 . 3 point· per game , and Rima , a\·erag three-point arc. The pair became important cog on a 26- 1 team ing 1 .6 poinr- and 1 1 rebounds, led the Wh i te M ule into the that won Colby's fir t ew England men ' · c hampionship. champion hip game. The final record of 2 2-4 oave them four 20The followino fall, Oaileanes and Rima· became roommate ·. victory ·ea on . "Before that we'd taken whatever rooms we'd ootten in the draw," Ine\· itably, ome wondered whether either m ight ha\·e rued Rima aid, "and we'd alway l iked ot1r roommates o there wa· no missing a chance to play ar a higher le\·el. Da i leane· and R imas ay rea on to witch. Be ides, it increa eJ our circ le of friends." for them it i an irrelevant que ·tion. "We really ot to know each other better that year," Oaileane "When you're playing under a .cholar·hip you might feel added, "and we became better friends." obl igated, almo·r l ike they own you," Daileane said. " Here, The added c lo ene� came in the face of a potential pull on whenever it came to choosino between practice and c las·, there the relationship, a j uxrapo ition of their tatus on the court. wa no question. Ir was cla s. Other places, I don't kno\\-. I\·e R ima , the glamor player in h igh ·cl1ool and an immediate factor heard the storie . If I e\·en ·carted to think about Oivi ion I, l j ust in their fir t year, wa now playing second fiddle to Daileane , who ·aid to my elf, 'Hey, I'm hav ing fun here.' In tr1 1th, I couldn't have could electrify a crowd and demon i:e defender by turn ing a game been any happier anywhere." around w ith a barrage of three-point bomb . When Oaileane ome th ing· are i m i lar in b ig-time bal l and E CAC ball, sank an off-balance j ump hot at the bu::er to beat T ufrs by a Rima sa id ("We t i ll practice three hours a day and try j u t as hard single point in the opening game of the 1 990-9 1 ea·on, the role a anyone and care ju t as much" ) , and tho e that aren't are out rever al wa complete. of a player'· control ( "A lot of people don't reali:e how good tho e " ome people aid to me, 'How do you l ike John being the player are, but we've played again t ome of them in the summer, "John" people know now ?' " Rimas remembered. "But it didn't so we know" ) . bother me becau e that wa j u t about how people saw u , not how What w i l l they m i · mo t ! we really were. For instance, yesterday, after the la t game [when " aturday a t the last practice we kept aying, 'Th i i the l a t Rima cored 2 point ], omebody came up to me and said, 'I rretch dri ll' and 'Thi i the la t defen ive ranee, ju t j ok ing ne er realized you were the player you were.' I n h igh chool, I got about it," Rima· remembered. to be the one who got most of the notoriety. I ju t said to my elf, "There' really been no time to think about it, becau e until 'Thi i · J ohn' tum now."' now we were too bu y worrying about the next game," Oaileane " l t j u t how how un elfi h he i ," Oai leane aid. "l felt k ind aid. "Ir did hit me ju t before the Brandei game that we were of bad , knowing how good J ohn wa and how much he had meetino for the la t time a a team. That' what I ' m going to m iss acrificed him elf and changed h i game for the good of the team. mo t, the camaraderie." " I 'm ·rill waiting to go to pract ice," R imas aid at 3 p.m. on In high chool, he was a post-up player. Here , he learned a whole new po nion [playing � rward in read of center]. ow, he hoot their first day as former teammate . three-pointer . The thino i , people don't under rand that if you " I r st ill feel ," Oaileane aid, "like a day off after a game." took me off th is team or you took J ohn off, you real ly couldn't sa Colby, May 1 992

GIFTS & GRANTS Making the Mos t of a $ 1 7 Million Agenda H oll' dP

y o u tup a cq� i ta l

cun p a ign thar rai'e' more funJ, than

task f orce uf tru�rec'> <md other-. to �eek major gift� and grants. The

all pre,· iuu, rnpital camp;1 i gn> crnnh ined ? Try ra i-,ing more than

need., l i -.t ll'a� rackaged a�

half aga in <1' much c1r� 1 rn l withow a campaign.

'>trnng ca�e �tatemen t , ,·ery wel l done," Goldfarh aid. " I t was a

That i, wh;1t n i ne Cl i l hy trLNee,, Pre,idcnt W i l l i<1m R. otter a 11LI the Office of Dc,·elopmcnt h a \ ' e a co ) m p bhe d 111 the pa,r fl 1ur ye.1r,, add ing more th<m a erie'

l 7 m i l l inn tu Co lby', cnffer> for

olby's Capical A1;enda. " J r wa a very

compe l l ing brief flll. what the Col lege needed to mainta i n i t 111l)mentU ll1 � m m , prmpect' had heen ident ified, rev iewed and a signed.

nf prngrnm' and proj ect that were

W ithout the u ual campaign hoopla of

t e rme d " the c a p i t a l agenda . "

black-tie d i nners and k i c k -off rartie

the ' ta k f orce-tru te6 Larry Pugh '56, Ridge

" l t hrnved t h a t our maj,1r gifr - g i \'er.,, tbl1'e ca r • a h l e of and ll' i l l i ng to contribute

Bul loc k ' 5 5 , Dick

2 5 ,000 or ml1rc, are more brnad-b,1,ed

' 5 1 , Bob

�

chmalt: '62 , Boh Lee

<1ge '49, J e rry Holt: ' 5 2 , Paul

than ll'e m ight ha,·e imagined." ,a id W i l

Paganucc i and Robert Friedman--qu i

oldfarb ' 6 8 , w h o c h a i r:-. r b e tru�tee

e r l y but effec t i v e l y began contac i ng

l iain

Develc)rme n t Comm i t tce and led the c a p i

friend-,, a l u m n i and foundation capable

t a l agenda. " I r w a ' a c h a l l e nge t h < i t in

of mak mg major gift .

volved ra i ing mnre money frnm fe\\'er

The re ·ult., mc lude more than

penple. It requ i red LI'> to f ocu' our effort�

m i l l i l lll in endowed fi nancial aid, more

mnre than we had hefore . "

than

T h e agenda \1·a · l t te ra l ly an agenda of

4.4

3 . 5 m i l l ion 1n endowed fac u l ty

upport�nu b l i ng the number of en

pre · ing need that emerged from a tru tee

dowed prnfe or hip and setting the rage

mee t i ng on the campu' in May 1 988. G .

for doubling agai n within the decade

Ca h· i n M a c k e n : i e , n o w D i � t t n gu i·hed

more than

Presidential Profe sor of American Gov

mu·ic complex and m i l l ions more for

ernment and then o u tgoing vice pre�ident

mailer project

for development and alumni relations, I i ·ted 1 4 m i l l ion in unmet capital needs-cur

2 . 5 m i l l ion for the art and uch a construction o f

the A !fond Track a n d the Ne! o n Train

William Goldfarb '6

i ng Center and an automation y tern for M i l ler Library.

ricular item l i k e financ i a l aid and fac u l ty d e v e l opment as we l l a such struc tural need a expamion of the

I t rrl)\'ed helpfu l , Goldfarb say , that the w ish I i t mc luded

B i x ler Art and M us i c Center and con truct ion of an outdoor

both program and projects. " ome people re pond to brick -and

run n i ng trac k .

mortar needs and other· rea l l y feel that the endowment is most

As M acken:ie explai ned t h e importance o f e a c h proj ect, shock and dismay ·wept across many of the face

than

i m portant for Colby' future," he aid. "We were i n a po i tion to appeal to both."

months earl ier, the e College tru tee� had

The capital agenda accompl i hed another important devel

o lby 2000 campaign i n triumph, ra ising more

opm nt gl)al , accord ing to Helm. In the aftermath of the Colby

audience. Bare ly conc l uded the

in hi· sele t

2000 campaign, he ay , the College had two major fund- ra i i ng

30 m i l l ion. "What we found out," Goldfarb ,aid, "wa · that a l t hough the

c a mpaign was over, the need of the College were not o,·er. I t was

F i r t , Helm

ays, the A l u m n i Fund-compri i ng annual

donat ions of unrestric ted gift -had to be broadened and deep

a wi h l i �t." When M a c k n:ie'

objective that would improve it c mpe t i r ive po i t ion.

uccessor, Randy H e l m , tepped into the

ened, and econd , "lt seemed t

me that Colby t i l l had consider

v ice president' offic e the following eptember, the fi r t question he ay· the president and tru tees posed were , " How w i l l we ra i e

able untapped potential for major gift -and that by

eek i ng

major gifts for the new l ist of needs, we could ident ify leader-hip

the money for these proj ects ?" and " Do we need to launch a new

for the next ful l - bore capital drive."

campaign ?" en i ng that the alumni were not ready to plunge ful l t i l t i n to a new comprehensive fund drive, Helm · a y , he proposed

contribu ted maj r gift to the capital aoenda are l ikely to contrib

a d i fferent scenario that he'd seen u ed w i t h succes elsewhere: a "non-campaign c a mpa ign" or " maj r gifts campaign . "

of meeti ng the e pressing need ," he

T h a t fa l l , Goldfarb a n d H e l m teamed up t o recru i t a small

Goldfarb second

H e lm's notion that many of tho e who

u te aga in a need ari e. "What we have developed in the proce aid, " is a w ider ba e of

support for meeting future goa ls."

Colby, May 1 992

COLBY REUNION J U N E

WEEKEND

5 -- 7 ,

The schedule of general events for

the weekend is I i -red here. Add itional information will be mai led to each reun ion cla - ( 5 0+, '42 , '47 , ' 5 2 , ' 5 7 , '62 , ' 6 7 , ' 7 2 , ' 7 7 , '82 , ' 7 ) . Last-m inute weekend notes and the final chedule w i l l be available at the registration desk during the weekend.

CHILD C ARE SERVICES A full prooram of upen·ised acti\' ities has been scheduled for children ofall age , from morning until eveni ng daily. Registration for child care program w i l l be in the Caporale Lounge in the Student Center Friday a.m.- 1 0 p.m. and aturday :30 a . m. - 5 p . m . There i a 20 acti\' ity fee for each child through age 1 2 and a 1 5 activity fee for teenagers to part ic ipate in the child care program for all or part of the weekend. Unregistered children may attend chi ldren's meals and should make adYance re er\'ations for those meal . Babysitting-for children up to age 5 Group baby ittino arrangement are a\'ailable for chi ldren up to age 5. Plea e register your child in advance with the reser\'ation form. Hours available: Friday 6- l l p.m. and Saturday 9 a.m.-midnight. l t is recommended that parent bring a portable crib for their ch ild(ren ) if possible. Youngsters-age 5 -8, Pre-Teens-ages 9- 1 2 This child care program will begin on Friday morn i ng and will run through lunch on unday. Activitie will be organi:ed by college students assi ted by h igh cho I tudent and w i l l inc lude meals, game , movie , wimm i ng, art and crafts and enterta inment. The Colby Care Corps will be housed on the ame floor a the children to whom they are a igned and will be re ponsible for them on Friday until 1 1 p . m . only. The ' ill re ume their dutie after breakfa t the next day. The Corps will have a break at aturday l unch from noon to 1 _:3 0 p.m., during which time parents are respon ible for the ir own children. Please regi ter your child in advance w i th the re ervation form. Teenagers' Program There w i l l be a variety of activitie available for teenagers, upervi ed by college tudent organizers. The e activitie are organized to encourage teenagers to be active and to ocial ize with one another. Colby, M ay 1 992

Accommodations are avai lable on campus in the residence hall for 25 per adu lt for the weekend or part of the \\'eekend and 1 5 per child under age 12 for the \\'eekend or part of the weekend. Accommodations incl ude single bed, one p i llo\\' -heets , one blanket and towels. Each residence hall is confioured differently, and rooms range from ingle rooms to six-person u i te . If you would be wi lling to share a room w ith a classmate or a friend, please i ndicate so on the re ervation form. Housing reservations will be made in the order that they are received. We will house reunion c la se together in the same re idence hall as space perm ir-. We urge you to make reservations promptly, as there are l im i ted accommodations on campus. 50+ Club ar.d 5 0th Reunion Class You and your ·pouse are guest of the College for the weekend, but you mu t complete and return the re ervation form for all meals you p lan to attend and for your on-campu accommodation need . You m u t le� us know which n ight you will need lodging o that we can re erve a pace for you . Making reservation By mail : Your check should be made payable to Colby College and returned with the re ·ervation form, or you hould ind icate credit card paymen t. Plea e include one check to cover campu accommodation and meals and send to: Reunion Weekend Re ervation , Alumni Office, Colby Col leoe, Waterv ille, M E 0490 1 . 41

B}' /1/wn<'. RL',en·;1r11 1rh \\ i l l he accepted hy phone bur o n l y

I 0 for any re'>ervat tun received after

t i l lll . There i.., a hire fee of

\\' i t h crl·d i r card payment ( V I SA , M a,terc ard nr A m e r i c a n Ex

M a y 22. N o confi rmation of re,erv; i t i un w i l l he ... enr to you . There

prl',, ) . Thcrl' arl' n,1 refund:- f, ,r ph11ne - i n re�erv; 1 t inm. Plea:-e cci l l

me no refunds after May

j ,1d 1 G 1 fforLl a t 2 0 7 - 7 2 - H 90.

or for phone reservations.

Reservation!> m a y be pic ked up at the registration desk a t t he Studl'nt Cen tl'r. If yuu p l a n rn arrive after 1 1 r . m . on Frid;1y or 5

FOR MORE INFORMATION

p . m . l l rl S<i t u rJ,1\ , pl e<be rn 1 t i fy t h e A l u m n i Office in advance to

Call Jodi Gifford on the Reunion Hotline at 207-87 2-3 1 90.

�et ) llUr l'lllltll a:-�ignment;.,. Please make reservations by M a y

22.

We cannot guarantee

th<H t h t' re \n l l be mt>a l .., l lr room� a v a i lable w i r ht u t rrior re�erva-

REUN ION SCHEDULE Thursday, J u ne

4 : 30- 5 : 3 0 p.m.

l . 1"

Noon- I p.m.

for Scmin.ir P.uucir.mt,

Lunchetm

f '67 Wc k , nrnng

Opcn 1 l"u"" 1 11

l,h,

Rcun 1.m H\,J 5-6 p.m.

1: 1 5 - 4 : 3 0 p.m. re•ltl' e E,t,ltc PlJnni ng

Cl a " ut '47 Recert1<m

St•m i n .ir Cllnduc te<I hY

5 : 4 5 - 6 : 4 5 p.m.

Te rn D. l\ l ayo ' 5 7

\Vdcume Fl.Kk Cc>ekt,111 Parry

5 p.m.

Cla" , ,f '42 Rccept1l1n .ind

6:45 p.m.

D111ncr

Rcuni<Hl Award, F\anqui.:t 111

5 : 3 0 p.m. Receptinn and D111ncr f,,r :em1 n,ir Parnc1rant'

hon<ir nf the 1 99 2

A l u m n i A""Cldt1nn All'ard

RcL iricnr' Distingui hed A l umnus:

6-i : 30 p . m .

Gregory W. S m i t h '7 3

Cl;N nf '6 7 Recerrinn,

Marriner Dist inguished

-no11 Squa l l Rc,raurant.

en·ice: H. R1Llgcly F\ullnck

'55

Snuth Purtl,md

L 1 11da

nttcr, Gerald J .

E l eanor Ew111g Vigue ' 5 7

Brcakf"a,t

Cla" of '42 meet hu, for r n r rn b11.it cru1,e from Bt1nrhh<1 1 Harhnr

Reunion Open Hou>e and Enrertainmenr by Port C i t\' A l l --nm

8 a.m.

10 a.m.-2 p.m. Cla" nf '42 Boat Cruhe from Bcinrhbay H a rhc1r 1 0 : 30 a.m.- 1 : 30 p.m.

Ca,,cn Bay frum Pcm land oon - 1 p.m. Lunch 1 p.m. olhy Film -enes Harr' 1 : 3 0 p.m. Tour of rhe Colby M u eum 11f Arr and J ette and Da,·1

Gallene , includ i ng the Payson Cnllection

1 1 :30 a.m.- 1 : 3 0 p.m. Ll l h,ter Bake/B.irbccue Lunch

Saturday, J une 6

Li>, l ,f ' H Tllur of the Cla,,, of '62 , pec 1,1I

la''

Event IJs' ,,f '6 7 Sufthall ,md

omm1t

tee Meeti ng,. Meeting for ew Clas Officers.

la · of '42 Campus Tour

1 : 3 0 p.m. A l u m n i Pane l : Arr

111

"Libernl

rhe Real World"

Adm issio n s for A l u m111 and

for I ndian ' Cla i ms and Rea ons for Land Owners'

by die Alumni Counc i l

Resisrnnce" wi rh Henry J .

A d m 1 ·ion Comminee

ockbe o n ' 7 3 , A llan "an

Gestel ' 5 7 pring

Phmograph 6 : 1 5 p.m.

Clm,s of '67 Reunion Photograph

Cla» Reunion Dinners After d i n ner Cla s of '42 Dance with A l nrey Quartet Class Parties: Clas e · of '4 7 , '

52 , ' 5 7

Clans o f ' 6 2 a n d '67

Dance to '60 Mu·ic

3 p.m.

Recepr1on in Cla·� Reunion

Meeting with Pre 1denr

Faculty Talk on "The New

Cotter

World Order"

Cl.1,,, of '41 Reunion

Evening

2 : 1 5 p.m.

TheH Children, pon ,ored

ociation

Chi' 0f '6 7 Reception 5 : 3 0 p.m.

Alumni Panel: " I ndian

9:45 a.m.

3 -4 : 30 p.m.

Cla" tif ' 2 Dance l a > of ' c 7 Dance

Sun day, J une

Land Claiim-The Basis

A lumni A

Pay-;on Cul l ecttnn

7 : 3 0 a.m.- 1 : 3 0 p.m.

Dana Lrn n

Understanding College

4-5 : 3 0 p.m.

1 1f ,A, rr .md J ertC: and Da\'i:. Gal lcnc,, 111cluding the

5 -6 p.m.

Cla ., of ' 2 Volleyhall nn

9 : 3 0 a.m.

Cla,,; pf '62 Welcom ing

3 p.m. Tllur of rhe Co lby Mu>eum

Math Deranmenr

with Denni> Connolly '62

9 a.m.

Oen oeux

Recernnn

olby Film Sene> 'tJrts

A l u mn i Council

T1crcnberg, G m·crn

-liftball Chal l en ge m the

1 p.m.

Morning

l\ lcCarrl11 , Ecniwm1c' Prnf. Thllma'

M u,ic 'hell

l a , o f '"7 Cla:., Acm·itit.:

7 -9 a.m. Breakfast

Ru"1,m .md .'i\\'1er rud1c' Pn1f. 'heda

rncnt Pro!. Gui l<1in

Afternoon

either mformal game'

hN, of ' 7 2 Open Hou'e

All

tvbc ken: 1e,

Reunion Phot•igrarh,

las,e> of ' 7 2 <md ' 7 7

9 p.m.

A lu m n i Golf TournJment

Pn>f. G. Calnn

Cla,,.

for '47. · - 2 . ' 5 7 , '62, ' 7 2 ,

Cnlby Mu,eum ,,f Art

9 p.m.-midnight

7 : 3 0 a.m.

C l a.' of '67 C ru1>e

Anne L<1ll'rence F\nndy '46, C l i ff ord F. Ca m ... . J r . '42, Ho l t: ' 5 2 , G u y ' 5 7 and

6 : 4 5 -9 a.m.

Um cm m en t

' 7 7 . '82, '87

Colby Bricks:

Friday, J u ne 5

11 a.m. The r.iradc ( lf C l <l"C'

wirh

Cla ses of '72 and '77 Dance

Brunch Buffet . Boxed Lunches available for pick-up 8- 1 1 a.m. Class of '67 Conrmenral Breakfa r 8 : 3 0 a.m. Thank You and Review Meeting for Outgomg Cla

Officer· Morning Class of '72 Lake ide Conrinemal Breakfo t Class of '82 Tree Plan t i ng

Ceremony 1 0 : 1 5 a.m. Boardman Memonal ervice

Colb)' , May 1 992

,---------------------------------------, 1 99 2 REUNION WEEKEND RESERVATION S N ame ( first, maiden/Colby, last ) : ____ Cla s Year: pou e/Guesr's N ame:

____

Pk�e i� �are pre�rr� nam� for Mme�� Address:

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Adults Meals N umber Rate Thursday, June 4 Lunch* $ 7 .00 Dinner* 1 8.00 Class of '42 Dinner no charge Friday, June 5 Breakfast* $4.00 Cla of '67 Boar Cruise $ 1 5 .00 Lunch* $4.50 A\\'ards Banquet* $ 20.00 Chi ldren's Cookout ( same price for all c h i ldren) Saturday, June 6 Breakfast* 4.00 Lunc h : Lobster Bake* $ 1 6.00 or Cookout* __ 8.50 Children' Dinner ( a m e rrice for a l l c h i ldre n ) R e u n i o n Class Dinner ( c irc l e one ) 5 0 + Club, Cla - of '42 no charge Class of '47 $ 3 5 .00 $ 2 2 .00 Cla s of ' 5 2 , ' 5 7 , ' 6 7 , '77 __ 3 4 . 00 Cla s of '62 $ 2 5 . 00 Cla s of '72 2 6 . 00 Clas of '82 30.00 Class of '87 Sunday, June

'42

and

50+

Busine s phone:

or under

Rate

Total

$ 3 . 50 $ 1 8.00

$_ $ __ $_

$ 3 .00 1 5 .00 $3.50

5 . 50

$ 3 .00 $ 1 6.00 $8.50 $ 4 . 50

TOTAL

TOTAL $

$-$__

$_ $_

$ $_

$ __ $_

$4.50

6.00 $_

5 .00 $4.50

Rate Per Weekend On-campus $ 2 5 .00* $ __ Accommodations 0 Check here for Thursday am val. 0 Ye , I wou ld be glad to hare a room. Plea e assign me with *Cl.ass of

City/State/Z ip:

Children N u mber

Total

Breakfa t Buffet* Class Continental Breakfa t : Cla s o f ' 6 7 , ' 7 2 Boxed Lunch for rraveler

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Home phone:

Colby Class Year ( if applicable ) :

$ 5 .00 $4.50

$_ $ __

$ 1 5 .00

$__

$_ $_

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0 another classmate.

Club-no charge.

$ 3 5 .00

Golf Tournament

$ __

$__

Estate Planning Seminar 0 Check here if you plan to attend the Estate Plann ing Seminar on Thur day C h ild Care Programs

Late Fee (after May

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22):

TOTAL Cred it Card Payment

Rate $ 20.00 20.00 $20.00 $ 1 5 .00

Total $ __ $_ $_ $ __

$ 1 0.00 per reservation

Payment form:

$ check

cash

cred it card

= - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Mastercard

Colby, May 1 99 2

N umber

N ames/Ages/Sexes

Baby i t t i ng ( age 0-4) Youngster ( age 5 - 8 ) Young ters ( age 9- 1 2 ) Teenagers ( over age 1 2 )

V ISA

$_ Exp. Date

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American Express

ALUMNI AT LARGE FIFTY--PLUS

5 0+

brother Lewi� '42 and winter in �nuthern California. _

Correspondent: Marjorie Gould Shuman ' 3 7 W e ap,1lug i :e f o r m i-.raken ly re p,1rr ing the death of Ola Swift Dacey '29 in the J anuary column anJ \\ ere plea�ed w hear from Ola informing us that o ur new was inaccurate . . . . Thank you for c on t i n u ing to re t u rn the Up<late cards or for w r i t i ng notes in�read . A few items from the March col umn had to be trimmed for �race, and this col u mn w i l l begin with rho e but will then be dev ot e d m �even c l as�e , ' 3 5 through '4 1 . . . . George Mann ' 3 4 ,1f Hou ·ro n , Tex . , says " ]u J y " Taylor' L a r i n cour e. were t h e most valuable he took ar Colby . . . . W i ·e gar dener Frances Palmer ' 3 4, P i m.fi e l d , M a i ne , reported i n Nm-ember that she had already covered her flower heJs for the w i n ter. he l ikes to remember the excel lent courses taugh t by Prof. Chester. . . . Harriet Pease Patrick ' 3 4 , aco, M a i ne, writes that he i a docent a t the Port l a n d M useu m of Art and gives talk and slide lecture · about the Isabella tewartGardner M u eum and rhe Bosron M useum of Fine A rts. Becau ·e of her c i vic act i v i ties, he looks back o n D r . Herbert L ibby's course on argumentation and debate as the mo t valuable to her. It was parti c ularly helpful when she had to represent the c i ty of Saco at the legal affa irs com m ittee of the state legislature regar d i n g c harter c h anges. "Cou n t l e s t imes, both profesionall y and in community work, t h is course has been of i m mense v a l u e . " . . . Betty Weeks ' 3 4 , Clare mont, Cal i f. , and H annawa Falls, N . Y . , say that she r i l l en joys attend ing the m i n i - reunion of the Clas of 1 9 3 4 each J uly in M a i n e . Betty spends her summers i n upstate New York near her 44

From rhe Cla � of ' 3 5 : J oe Bishop, Waterv i l l e , M a i ne , report� on a fine Jay ·pent t h b past �ummer with Lois Lund Giachardi ' 3 6 , B i l lericay, E � e x , EnglanJ, who came w ith her �iMer- in- law rn visit the U n i ted rate'>. In true M a ine style, they all enjoyed <J gooJ l nb�ter feed . . . . Harold Brown, Bradenton, Fhi., tell of h is trip la t May to the West Co as t an d ro Chicago r,1 e e hi� son, a solo cell i�t in the Ch ica go ymphony Orchesrra. ln ertem ber he went to I re l a n d . . . No rman B row n , R y e , N . H . , former hosr i r n l a d m i n i s t rator, dotes on h i· 1 0-year-olJ grand daughter. . . . Beth Pendleton Clark , e l i ngsgrnve, Pa., ha re cently returned from a tour of China, Hong Kong and J apan. A t present he is serving her 2 1 st interim pastorate. Her grandson h as ju r e n t e red Cornel l . Morris "Mike" Cohen, Ocala, Fla., i proud that when he went to the grocery store, he gor every t h ing on h is I i t. Next r i me he'll try a longer l ist 1 . . . Congratula t ion to Robert Estes, Rangeley, M a i ne, on h is marriage in A ugu t to Grace Ross Campbe l l . ( H is first w i fe died two years ago after 5 3 year of marriage . ) Thi u m mer they plan to d r i v e t h e i r motorhome to Alaska ro v isit h is daughter. . . . Arthur Feldman, San Diego, Cal if., is now pre i dent of the N orth County Chap ter of rhe World Affa i r Counc il of San Diego after hav i ng served as v i c e pre idenr . . . . Blanche S i l ve rman F i e l d , B roo k l i ne , Mass., attended her 60th Port land H igh School reunion last September and enjoyed seeing m a n y l o ng - t i me fri e n d s . . . . Marie Duerr Henry, Worcester, Mas ., retired from teach ing in

1 979 anJ fru m hu�i ne�� in 1 989. She h ure� tll atten J an<>ther Cnlhy reunion with her twin, Margaret Duerr Hill, Amesbury, M a-;� . . . . David and Ann Trim ble Hilton , Snurhrort, M a i ne, write t ha t t h e y arc st i l l cnioying l i fe on the Maine con�t and kecr hu�y with the Y, the ho� r i ta l , library, school . etc . I n November t h e y had a 'ma l l reunion with Dick Noyes, J oe Bbh or a nJ Mar guerite Mo�hL'r ( w1dnw of Bert ' 3 6 ) and planned to ;:mend the olhy- Bowdoin game in Water \' i l l c . . . . Theophile K raw iec , Bethlehem, P<J . , has suhmitteJ 1 2 of h 1s Ver/Jal Porrraits ( a h n d g ment'> of the autobiographic� of e m i nent [l�ycholog1�tS) [L) h i; P e g g y J ordan rubl 1�her. Lewis, an Diego, Ca l if. , and her husband, M i l ler, went to ram last May, then in the fall toured New England, vi;1ting fa m i l y anJ fr iend , i n c l ud i ng her col le g e

. . . Cedric Po rter, T o p�h a m , M<:1ine, a n J h i� witc, Marion, en joy um mering in Maine anJ win tering in Pinel las Park , Fla. If the weather i� had and he can't work in h is garden, he like to "Jahhle in oik" . . . Carl Reed, Fernan J i na Beach, Fla., wa., recently cho.,cn hy Rotary a a Paul Harris Fel low, anJ he b executive ecre rary of the Florida A ociarior. of Academic Non-Public chools.

From the Cla�s of ' 36: Lewis N . Brack ley, trong, Maine, and h is wife mu t he survivor , for they �ecm to have endured the handi caps t h a t afflicted t h e m after h e remed from teach mg a n d coach mg. He now hope to keep wel l enough to care for her. . . . Betty Thomp on Clark, Watervi lle, Ma ine, has three grandkid , in c l ud ing her h igh chool grandson, who i a d ru m mer. A!ready ·he i· looking for ward to her 60th reunion at Colby . . . . Raymond Farnham, Bat h , Maine, and h i wife, Ruth, spend December to April in Fort Walron Beach, Fla. He is Marjorie Gould h u man '37 a member of the cholar P.O. Box 1 0 2 , outh treet sh ip commirtee of t . An We t Oneonta, NY 1 386 1 drew' ociety and of the 607 -432- 936 Morse H igh School alum n i c ho larsh ip com m i t t e e . . . . Congratulations to golfer Hal Hickey, Ve tal, roommates Elinor Chick Ros , N .Y . , who achieved r w o birdies Concord , Ma ., and D o t t i e on t he fr nr n i n e ! . . . N ancy Washburn Polley, Contoocook, Libby, Fredonia, N . Y . , does vol N . H . . . . Adventure ome Kay unteer work at the hospital and Herrick McCrodden, Berkeley, ha taken recent trip to M a i ne Cal if. , recently spent a month and Florida. When classmate Lois visi t i ng variou provinces of the Lund G iarc hard i ( ee above ) former U . . .R., Siberia, Uzbek came from England to vi it with istan, Georgia and the Ukraine, her s i ter- i n - l a w , N ancy took a wel l a Moscow and S t . Peters them to N iagara Falls and to burg. " I r was eye-opening to see C h a u t a u q u a . . . . Congra t u la the people and ituation firsthand t ion to Ruth Millett Maker, on a trip covering many mile , Marion, Mass., and her h u band, including three days and n ights Paul , for celebrating their 50th on the Tran - Siberian Express.

Fifty .. Plus

Correspondent

Colby , May 1 99 2

wedd ing anni\'cr ary in October. . . . L e o n P a l m e r , Broo k i ng·, Ore . , and h i wife, Charlotte, re cently went on a camping tour of the an J uan ls land · in Puget Sound , and they a lso \' isited Puerto Val larta, Mexico. When they went to M aine for a family reu n ion, 1 4 5 rel a t i \'es c ame ! . . . Howard P r i t h am , G ree n v i l l e J unction, M a ine, l ikes t o travel, too . . . . Don ' 3 3 and Dorothy Gould Rhoade s , Claremont, Ca l if., had their fir,t introd uction to Florida in J anuary when they v is ited her · ister. Host� Ed '38 and Marjorie G o u ld S h u man '3 7 took them to the w h i te and of Daytona Beach and to hi roric t . Augustine . . . . E m ma Small Schlosberg, Che tnut H il l , Mas · . , ha received an award from the Boys and Girl Club of America for 46 year ofservice to the We t End Boy Club of Boston. During the year he pend ome time in M a i ne and some i n Florida, and she goes regularly to an Fran ci co to vi it her brother, Arnold S m a l l '3 7 . . . . Robert S t o n e , Manchester, Conn., recommend that reunion take place every five years . . . . It is alway good to have a reply from Amy Thomp son, La Vega , Nev., who i re t i red and eems to be un· i v i ng the difficultie of bei ng hand i capped . . . . Thomas v a n Slyke, Walpole, Ma ., and hi wife, Made l i ne , have e tabl i·hed a cholar h i p fund at Bo ton U n i v e r i t y in memory o f t h e i r on, Maj . Thomas B. van lyke, J r .

From t h e C l a of ' 3 7 : N o w that her foot has healed from ·urgery, Jane Tarbell Brown, Cropsey v i l le, .Y., and her hu band, Win, are planning to return to Ireland thi sp i n g to make a p i lg r image ar und Yeat ian and J oycean pots. They may also vi i t ome h i tone mounds near hannon

Colby,

M ay 1 992

Newsmakers T h e I 08th birthday o f Colby's oldest l iving gradu ate, Ida Phoebe Keen '05 , did not go unnoticed by the

Daily Bull.etin of Pomona, Calif. A photograph of Keen enjoying her birthday cake at Mt. San Antonio Garden appeared in the paper' March 4 edition, which reported that Keen was recognized a Pomona . cence

the oldest resident of

. . Louise Tracey ' 3 7 shared her remini -

of ·ervice in the United

ations Relief and

Rehabilitation Administration during World War Two with The Town Line , a weekly new ·paer in China, Maine . . . . Kay Holmes Snell '33 was named Outtanding Citizen of Hallowell, Maine.

Mileposts Deaths : Frank L. Bragg ' 1 7 in Waterville, Maine, at 97 .

. .

. Mildred Greene Wilbur ' 1 7 in Chatham,

Mass., at 97 . . . . Nellie Davis Spiller ' 1 9 in We tbrook, Maine, at 94 . . . . Evan J. Shearman '22 in Portland, Maine, at 9 1 . . . . Leander Armand Guite, Sr. '23 in Watervi lle, Maine, at 9 1 . . .

. Gertrude Weller Harrington '23 in Alexandria, Va., at 87 . . . . Celia Clary Fossett '24 in Oakland, Maine, at 8 . . . . Alice Crocker Kelley '24 in Meriden, Conn., at 89 . . . . James H. Halpin '26 in Bronxville, . Y., at 89 . . . . Agnes Osgood Blake ' 2 6 in ara ota, Fla . . . . Helen Robinson J ohnston '27 in China, Maine, at 85 . . . . Perry F. Shibles ' 2 7 in Augusta, Maine, at 92 . . . . Irma Sawyer Andrews '28 in Holly Hill, Fla., at 8 5 . . . . J ohn N . Erickson '28 in New Bedford, M a s., at 86 . . . . Franklin Cobleigh '30 in Pal atine Bridge, N.Y., at 83 . . . . Edith M. Woodward '30 in Bridgeport, Conn . . . . Henry C. Bubar ' 3 1 in onhampton, Ma s . , at 87 . . . . Orville J . Edes ' 3 1 in Englewood, Fla . , a t 8 4. . . . Charles C . Hicks '3 1 in N ew weden, Maine, a t 8 2 . . . . Ruth Nadeau Twombly ' 3 2 in Brun wick, M aine, at 8 1 . . . . Perry G. Wortman ' 3 3 in Bangor, Maine, at 80 . . . . Fred Banzi ' 3 6 in N orth Wale , Pa. , a t 7 7 . . . . Ruth FuJler Frost '36 in North Myrtle Beach, S.C., a t 76 . . . . Hyacinth Batchelder Kennedy '36 in

Kennebunk, Maine, at 7 7 .

and return b y \\'ay t1f LonLllln . . . . Harriet Weibel B uyniski, Cinc innati, Ohio, \\'rites that he has j ust moved to the Marjorie P. Lee Retirement Community in the same city . . . . George Burt , Prm·idence, R . I . , wa;, happy to report a good con\·ale cence after an i l l nes last year and exrectcd to enjoy fi h ing and cruising in Tarpon Bay, Fla . , th is \1·inter. He is urging his granddaughter to con-ider a t tending Colby. Sara Cowan, Portland, Ma ine, reported on some of the t h i ngs he learned during Homecoming Weekend: Colby planned to ha\"c two college n ights t h is winter in Blrton and ew York to encour age Colby ons and daughters to aprly, and the A lumni Fund met it goal of 1 .4 m i l l ion i n 1 99 1 . . . Fred Demers, Thomaston, Ma ine, and hi w ife, Muriel, arc recovering from hospital i:ations and are hopina to take their usual trip to Mexico and Ari:ona. I t wa - good to hear from Helen J evons Luther, Beaufort, S .C. She and Roy '38 are hoping to go north in the ;,ummer for the cool nes of N e .v England . . . . ArtLt Eleanor Barker McCargar, Arple Val ley, Cal i f. , rec e n t l y completed t1rn 7 ' l ife-si:e por trai ts of Dick Rutan and J e a na Yeager, the p ilor- of Voyager, wh ich made a n ine-day, non ·top trip around the world, and she was scheduled to paint two other portrait i n Oc t obe r . . . . R u t h Yeaton McKee, East Boothbay, M a i ne , went we t in the fall to a t tend an E l derhostel on the Apache re ervation in Ari:ona. Then she went on to Cal ifornia to visit her two son . As for re un ion · , h e w i h e that there could be better arrangement· for seeing people casually, uch a a publicized drop-in room . . . . Rod Pelletier, Orland, Maine, and Daytona Beach , Fla., ay that he has pretty much completed h i log lodge in M a i ne and i ready to 45

spend t h e w i nt e r in h i� FlmicL 1 condom i n i u m . . . . W a y n e a n d Betty Herd Sanders '38, West � pri ngfiekl , Mass . , arc a l ready planning to attend the reu n ion i n J une . . . . Dick ' 3 5 and Janet "Jay" Goodridge Sawyer, New London, N . H . , arc glad that they could spend Thanksg i v i ng w i th their daughter Ann and that the whole fam i l y could come to them for Christma . They expected to head f or Orange Park, Fla., in January for three month .

From the C l a s of ' 38 : Edith Barron, Waterv i l le, M a i ne, ·ug gests t h a t the ideal col lege should combine basic l iheral arts with train ing for some voc a t ion . . . . J oseph C i e c h on , R i dgefi e l d , Conn . , and h is wife seem to get ar und the country once a year b y v i s i t i ng t h e i r c h i l d ren i n M ic h igan, Florida and Maine . . When he wrote i n November, Charles "Moose" Dolan, Ports mouth, N . H . , thought that he and h i wife, J ane, m ight "winter in" at home for the first t i me 111 three years, but he wasn't sure whether w i n tery bla. ts and the i r e mpty motorhorne m ight cause them to ch ange their m i nd an<l head for Florida. H e a l o said that he would be w i l l i ng to help plan hi 5 5 th reu n ion . . . . It was great to be rem i nded of Dutto n House days when Kay Deeny Gefvert, Quakertown, Pa., returned the p i nk card . . . . Spec ial sympath ies to J oyce Porter Fox, Wa hburn, M a i ne, whose husband d ied re cently of cancer. They had been married 5 1 years. . Con gratu l a t ions to E d Hooper, Char lotte, N .C., who was married to Carol Acker on J une 291 They planned to go to H a wa i i in No vember and to visit Disneyland o n t h e i r way back . . . . E t h e l B r a d s t r e e t M a n e y , B e ve r l y , Mass., i s a tutor i n t h e Adult 46

Le<irn ing enter w i t h studcnb whn are W< lrk i ng to p<w, the GED. A l o, she docs aqua-aenih1cs <lt the Y three times a week . . Mitchell Phillips, Newton Cen tre, Mass . , continues to volun teer at the Shriner:,' Burn l n�ti tutc for Ch i ldren in Bll tnn. He looks forward to ::.ce i ng his c l ass mates m reunion . . . . Ed Shuman, Penney Farm�. Fla., and We · t Oneonta, N . Y . , volunteers a t the woodwork i n g hop on campu and ha helped rn construct 5 5 wooden, memor i a l henche,, for variou · pots on the retiremenr community grounds. . . May nard Wal tz, Bask ing R idge, N .J . , recently gave a talk on t h e e<irly historyofEngland, and he b !>tudy i ng the early h i. tmy of Ru,,ia, China and Africa. He and h i:, w i fe , Luhuv ( Lconnv i c h '4 1 ) , c e l e b ra t e d t h e i r SOth wedd ing an n i vcr·ary by going to Ru s1a tll search for her fam i ly root,,. . . . Margaret Higgins W i l l ia m s ,

West Bath, M a i n e , was hnnmed recently for her work a · a l itcrncy volunteer. She hopes to attcn<l Reu nion Wceken<l in J une.

From the la,s of' 3 9 : As gleaned from her Christmas letter, Sally Aldrich Adams, Medfield, M ass. , and her husband, Dwigh t , tra v eled to M a i n e t w i c e t h is pa,t year, once i n J une for the reun ion and later i n A ugust to attend the l 7 5 t h reu n ion of h r old home town , G u i lford, fol lowed by two weeks at a cottage i n Harp wel l . The ir whole fam i ly gathere<l a t home i n cptember t o celebrate Dwight's 80th bi rthday . . . . Lois Britton Bayless, Lubboc k , Tex . , and h e r husband, B i l l , were among everal Colbians who explored A laska last summer . . . . Edward Boulos, South Portland, M a ine, st i l l has a sen e ofhumor-thanks for the reply . . . . G. Allan Brown, Mart i nsv i l le, Va., an I hi wife

h a ve hecume enahlcrs in nlder adult m rn istry f or l 25 churche, 111 V i rgi nia. On January 4 they celebrated t h e i r 50th wedd ing anniver ary . . . . Gardiner Gre gory, Orlcmd , Mame, who wi-,hes more mcmora h i l i a of the o l d Colhy rn mpu could b e on d is play at Reunion Weekend, re ports that he had the rewar<ling experience of pott ing two pray i ng mant1 e' t h i -, pa.,t ummer, for the first r ime m 1mmy years. A l o, monarch hutterf1 1e· were more ahundanr th<m u'ua l . He raised many 'pcc ic' of .,;iturnidae caterp i l l ar f or c u�romers i n the Un ited rate' ;md Europe . . . . Nat <md Helen Carter Guptill, Ne\\'ton, N . . , hc;1ded for M ame last �ummer to .,pend t i me with f our nf the i r five great-grand c h i ldren. . . Gilbert <md Marion

"Micky" Crawford Hutchin on, DuBoi,, Pa . , repnrt that G i l has done -,o we! I in h 1s bla k-and wh i tc photography that he had a

one-man ·ho\\' at the Arr- en ter recently. M icky say" that ::.he trugglc� to w r i te poetry and is plca,ed to h a \·c had one or two poem� p u h l ishcd . . . . T i re l ess t ra ve l e r L e i l a Ross H y m a n , Thou and Oab, C1 l i f. , has j u�t d i .,covcrcd M e x i co's newest re sort, H uatu lco . . . . Now that he is ret i re<l, Maynard Irish, Bruns wick, Maine, enjoys gardening and r<.1 ising brook trout . He also looks forward to see ing h is grand c h ildren grow u p and is plea cd that so many olby friend stop hy to see h i m . . . . V i rg i n i a Kingsley J ones, East Boothbay, M a i ne, serves on her local hospi t a l board a n d o n several hospital com m i ttees . . . . Marion Moore Kennison, Bradenton, Fla., writes that he l i kes to have news of her Colbyfriend . . . . J une Saunders Marshall, St. Peter burg, Fla., ays she stays a l i ve and healthy keep i ng track of her four c h i ld ren, 1 2 grandch i ldren and one great grand . . . . Arlene Paine Osias,

L1ghthou e Point, Fla., is one of the Colbians who explore<l the I n l and Pa sage i n A laska l a t summer . . . . Friend w i l l be ad dene<l to learn that Sandy Par sons '7 l , son of Esther MacBride Parsons, Key Colony Beach, Fla. , d ied i n an auto acc ident i n J u ly . O u r sympath ies, surely . . . . Jean Burr Smith, Wayne, Maine, ex pect to see more of nearby Colby friend now that he and her hus band are comfortably ettled in their renovated farmhou e . . Ret i rement give Edith Hen d ri c k son W i l l i a m s , R a l e i g h , N .C., t h e chance t o t h m k about trave l i ng . . . . J ohn Worst e r , Frankl in Lake , N .] . , a n d Royal Palm Beach , Fla., ha retired from h is real esta te business and o ha time for playinggolf, reading, trav e l i ng and .,pend i ng t i me with h is three c h i ldren and grandchildren.

From the Cla s of '40: I abel Abbott, U n ion, Maine, wa re cently accepted a a member of t he Mayfloll'er oc iety of the D . A . R . In eptember he pent omc t ime i n Ea tham on Cape CoJ, and now she i. looking for ward to "doing" another Elder ho tel, rak i ng a M a i ne-L i ne tour or going to Europe . . . . Prince Beach, Houston, Texas, i sti l l active as professor of urology and hopes to keep on a a part-time con ·u ltant to the residents' pro gram in urology . . . . Margery Smith Cavanagh, Tequesta, Fla., and New Hampshire, seems to enjoy the delight of ret i rement, such as relax i ng and reading. he a lso see c l as m ates Mindella S i l verman Schultz, Mashpee, M ass . , and Ruthie Hendricks Maren, G a i nesv i l le, Fla . , fairly often . . . . David Hunter Cotton, Houlton, Maine, doesn't rea l l y seem retired, for he i currently the exec u t i ve d i rector of the R i c ker Scholarship Endowment Colby, May 1 992

Census Is Coming Tho e wonderful fo l k

w h o brmg you Reunion,

Homecoming and the Colby calendar ay that, thi time, the alumni cen u really i on the way.

The que tionnaire, announced two years ago and again Last year, wa delayed each time by que tion about computercapabilitieson the Colby campu . It made little

Fund , a trustee of Cary Library, a

ense to olicit information that could not be properly compiled and analyzed, explains Randy Helm, College

member of the board of direcwrs of AARC ( mentallv retarded) and an acti,·e church member, and he doe- woodcan·ing i n h is

vice pre ident for development and alumni relations.

ow, he ay , Barbara Friedman, director of information

spare time . . . . Did any of you notice the artic le about Chri-t ma

y rem for development and alumni relation , has found

a way to develop computer data field- that will olve that

decorations at the Wh ite

House in the December

Home Journal ?

Thomas C u rtis, Houston, Tex . , wa a guest a t the Wh ite House a� one of the a i ndy mchers of t. Mart i n ' Epi copal Church in Hou ton, who made needlepoint decoration- for the pre -ident's tree . . . . Congratulation� roJohn Fo st er , Keene, . H . , and to h is son, who wa elected to the board of m·er eers of the Maine Bar A ociation! . . . It m u - t he great to celebrate a 30th wedding an niversary tw ice, a- d id Gertrude and Virgil Hinc k l e y , K i t tery , Maine. There was a urpnse gath ering ar their daughter'- m ew Hamp hire last J u ly, with their four other daughter , n i ne grand chi ldren and many friend in at tendance. Then the real occa sion wa on Dec e m b e r 6 in K i t tery . . . . Our ympath ie to Frank J ewel l , I n terlachen, Fla . , w h o lo t h i wife in April 1 99 1 . La t ummer he pent t i me in Maine, and he hope - to go aua in thi ummer, perhap- to ing in thechoirofa Portland church . . . Lydia Farnham J o h n on, Boca Raton, Fla., and her hu hand cel ebrated their 50th wedding anni versary by going to A la k a i n J une and to Hawai i in Octoher. . . . Margare t John on Kenoyer, Lan tana, F la . , write that her model college i one l ike Colby with high rand ard in a liberal an ett i ng and affordable for her grandchildren and their peer ! . . . Carl McGraw, Roche rer, . Y . , report on the trip of a life time, a three-week afari in Kenya and Tanzania. Thi winter he hoped to do a much k i i ng a he d id last year . . . . Plucky Priscilla Colby, May 1 992

problem.

Ladies

But recent graduate

We l l , E l e a n o r

houldn't ru h to their mail

boxe j u-r yet. Becau e it takes t i me to enter the informa tion, the censu - i being ent to alumni over a taggered,

1 -month period, v ith members of earlier c la e first in

line to oo on l ine.

The cen u , you may recall, is being conducted to

give the College an updated picture of its alumni and allow alumni to expres

iew

importance to Colby toda y . I t i

on matter

of critical

the first effort of the

College to poll alumni i n uch a manner ince 19 0.

M i ley ,

Clons, Calif., manaoe

retired from teaching ar l'd iddle

w ' •alk two miles a day and is

boro H igh

e,·en contemplating a rour to

regain her health after

Florida 111 February . . . . Gardner

C h u b by "

Oake , Por-d a m ,

. Y . , keep- bu-y by helping hi fa m i ly imwe, bur he al o keep in touch with h is fraternity broth ers. ( He still is di appointed in Colby'

dec i ion about frater

nit ies. ) .

. .

N atick,

Ellen Fitch Peter on, 1a- . , b hoping to see

Colby friend on her way -outh to Florida thi winter . . . . Roger and Ruth Gould Stebbins, equim, Wa -h . , drove sou th to pend Chri·tma with rheir two chil dren in rhe Los Angele- area, then vi ired Ruth' i -ter and brother-in-law, Don '33 and Do ro thy Gould Rhoad e - '36 i n Claremont before making a tour of Ari:ona, evada and Oregon. . . . R u t h B l a k e T h o m ps o n , Montpelier, Vt., volunteer wirh the handicapped.

From the Cla s of '4 1 : Mary Anacki, Wareham, M a

., now

chool, i, hoping to urgery.

. . Elmer Baxter, ewinoton, Conn . , announce- that hi fourth .

grandc h i ld arrived in Augu t . Concerning reunions, he wishes that Colby could provide e\•ents for alumni that are more timu lating than rhe usual affair , per haps omething on the order of an E ld e r h o t e l . . . . F l o r e n c e Boa k , Camarillo, Calif., ·ay im ply that

he wants ro ha,·e fun.

Why not ? . . . id B ri c k , Delray Beach, Fla., i- recovering from retirement partie but keep busy with golf, tennis and walking . . . .

Ruth Stebbins Cadwell, ew Hope, Pa., i- glad to talk wirh anyone about hercrui e to A la ka in late August. . . . Norris Dibble, Longmeadow, Mass., achieved his 5 th reunion ar Colby in J u ne and teali:ed rhat he had been cla pre ident for 43 year ! . . . Ruth "Bonnie" Roberts Hathaway, N e w I p w i c h, .H., i plea ed to report that her hu band, Hank, wa made official photographer ar the c la s' 30th

reunion. They are both happy ro welcome two more grand c hi l dren, one adopreJ, i nto rhei r fam i l y . _ he says tha t

he w a s sad

dened ro learn of the death of Mrs. Eleanor Warren, in who�e home ·he li,·ed as a ·tudent. . . .

Hiram Macintosh, Philadelphia, Pa. , expects ro be playi ng on the winning ream ar the Colby alumni golf tournament m J une! I n o vember he went on a futile turkey hunt, but he hopeJ to go deer hunting 111 December �nth better ·ucces . . . . Beatrice Kennedy Maltais, East Boothbay. Maine, reports rhat he ha knttted or crocheted afghans for fi,·e c hi l dr e n a nd the i r fa mi lie · . S he i now cha iring r w o flower shm,·-, one local and one for the state garden c lub . . . . Linwood Potter, Sanborn ,·ille, . H . , i, proud thar he ha secured an upgrade ro gen eral amateur radio broadca rer. H e and hi- wife, Eleanor, headed for obleton, Fla .. in m·ember for rhe w i nter. . . . Thanks ro Robert Pullen, Punta Gorda, Fla . , a n d P a u l E. D . Sheldon, Cum berland, R . l , for returning the Update card . . . Priscilla Patter son Salgo, ranford, Calif., write that he i - in,·olved in chorale conducting with a 70-membet choir in the Pre-byterian Church in unny\'ale. . . . Wende l l Starr, Lo Altos, Calif., report that he was a United tate delegate to the l n terna tional E lectrotech nical Commis ion in Madrid. Hi wife, Anna, did not go becau e she i- saving her frequent flyer ticket for a place chat she ha n't been yer . . . . Ronald Wallace, Augusta, Maine, planned ro go on a nowmobile trip through Y e l low tone at ional Park in February . . . . Robert Wheelock, Edina, M in n . , plea ed one of h is c la mate by ending ome good picture taken ar their 50th re un ion la t J une.

THE FORTIES

4 2_

nu\\ fu l l y re t i red, l i ,·e in Florid<!

my ' u rprN� . th1, " my L"t c o l

d u r ing rhe ll' t nrer. They ,ummcr

umn. Thc,c 11,1,t fi,·c year' h;n•c

i n M�1'''1ChLN?tt,. They wi,h c l . 1 ...... -

, l i p11ed hy '< l

m a r e, to k nm1 they arc p l a n n i ng

q u i c k l y . Becau'c of

hndgc player, fl�"L'r and \1Ur '>UC

the

)' l H l r gcnL'fl lll'> re,pon 'L''> I have n,ic l lnCL' h,1d t < i l c;n·c , 1 ur c u l u m n h l a n k . SrnnL" of you h , 1 \'c w r i r t cn ncll'' more th<tn once, <llld many h;we 1n 1 r ten pcr,nnal rn nc' that h , 1 ,·e been tnl h[ hc<1rr-warming.

ce,,ful c l a" agent , hrn, grac 1 l >u,ly

Thoma,con ( M a i n e ) Academy

Thank \l 'll for making r h e pa'>t

,md Th1 Hn<hton Puhl1c L i hr;u .

f11·c year' " ime pf rhe mo'>t rc

and he i'> al ,n a

\1" < 1 rd 1 ng

Correspondent: Chris Merrill Wysor Bob Ri c e , 11·\ 1rld trn\·clcr, h i ker, m o u n rn i n c l 1 rn h c r , fi r, c - c l a''

;1grecd t l l he ma,ter l if c e remo n 1e' at ou r re u n i n n . I n a recent

rq>orcs

li.:tter he

Cll come

ro t h e SOth . . . . Beniah

Harding cont i n ue, tn he very li( h t, com munity. Prc,e n t l y he ' ' ch,m , if

ac r i ve in the affair' h o a rd

tru

t r u -, r e e '

tee

f Mont

that h e "· t l l he

pe li er, former home of faj . Cien.

C liff Came, \\"ho ll' i ! I he honored

h i ,wrical memorial w Knox .

dm· ing en Colhy tn J u ne ll' i t h

Ben i a h ll"i,hc, u-, to kno\\' rhar

c hc presentat ion o f a

ll' h i l e �en· i n g i n the

a\'y i n

Roh ><lY' h ar Robert Pizzano h a, j u i ned

K i tsap, W a,h . , c hap

World War Two, h e met r h rce co l l ege c la�>matc�: Bill Tucker,

ter of rhc Ret i red Officer' A>so

L a u r i e H a r r i s a n cl R i c h a rd . Dorris Heaney Batt Kohn.

c he

c i at io n . Buh alM1 say' to every

cla .mare he meet , " H ang in

\\"r i te' from H a wa i i t h at ,he con

t h e r e u n t i l re u n i o n t i m e i n

t i nue:, to be actin· in manv com

J une." . .

murnty affa i r

. A n n Jones Gilmore,

n ow busy workmg on reu n ion p l a n n i n g, e pe c i a l l y our c l as · book, t l o k t i me o u r to at tend a n Eld erh o r e l w i th h e r h u,band . John '40. he abo report that they have a g ran d �on . Cory now, w h o gr ad u ated la t J u ne from Col by . . . . Melvin Loc k , nl)W ret i red and l i v i ng i n Florida, for merly manufactured earl y - A meri ca n furn iture. H e and his w i fe , y l \ ' i a , h a ve done extens i \'e i n t ern a t i o n a l tra,·el i ng. N ow he i ac t i ve l y engaged in many charity organi:a t i o n s . For r e l ax a t i o n he and S yl v i a p l a y golf a nd b r i d ge . There w i l l be t i me for both your hobbies a t our SOth , M e l v i n , so do b r i ng both your " ticks" and

cards . . . . Martha Rogers Beach i s also a n act ive member of t he local reu n ion p la n n i ng comm i t t e e . he w i l l b e , with the a b l e assistance of F r a n c e s Brewer Barker, i n charge of our memora b i l i a d i play. Al o, with the help of her hu-hand , George '4 1 , he w i ll be hostessing o u r fi r c ge t to g e th e r d i nner at her home, T h ursda y even i ng, J une 4 . . . . Wes and Jean Cannell Macrae,

l i fe. A u renm un

H e nry K nox. The h ll tn e i'> nO\I' a

during Reun ion WeekenJ \\' 1 t h ulby Brick.

l lf my

til 11· c meet ,It < lU r re union.

near her

�\· i n te r

home 1n Hanalc i , Ka u a i . Hcr '>pc

c1al t n tcre-,r... are che Kauai l'v 1 u '> e u m , t h e Ka u a i H btoncal S,K i e c y and the K i lauea Point \\' i l d l i fc

Corre�ponden t : Eleanor mart Braunmuller T\\'n ye;1r-, <1gu Clayrnn LaVcr m c l c ah{iut Colhy rhm " ,·cry mcerc,t i ng f or rho e of u' who ll'erc i1wolved in "the mm·c." Did you rcal i:c ch<tt the mo\' e tn fa yflo wer H t l l had It. d 1e re 11Tnte an a

refuge. She ay , "We are enjoy-

beg inn mg> ll' 1 t h a n "econo m ic

in a mmt

educ a t ional ,u r\"ey nf M a i ne\

wonderfu l way . . . . Now I am

h ig he r �du <lt lonal fac 1 l i r 1 e " in 1 92 7 ? The e xpe rt . rcpo rre<l: "The phy,ical plant of o l by College i \'ery me a g e r , i n adequate and poor l y p la n ned . I f C ilby i to c o nt i n u e t o o ffe r h ig h - q ual i ty col legiate \\'Ork, th l im i t a t io n \\' h i c h t he '>tte and pre ent build ing, put u p o n i t program nf ser vice m u,t be r e m m· eJ . " The ·u n·eyor' add ed the recommen dation " t h at o lby College ·hould mo\'e to a larger and more de i r ah le ;.ite." The dec ision to mo\'e was made in I 9 3 0 and ll'a "one of h i g h emotion." Did you know that there wa even consideration of moving to Augusta 7 H o we v e r , " c h u rc h bell r a n g a nd fi re whistle blew i n Waterv i l le on the even i ng of April 1 0, 1 9 3 1 , wh en official announced that t h e Co l b y Co llege fund had tapped the 1 00,000 mark . . . . Colby would stay i n Watervi l le . " I gue

111g the ' go l d e n

yem. '

look i ng f rw ard to

a ttend in g my

S O t h r e u n i o n . " . . . Raymond Flynn, ret t red after 2 yea r , a ' po rma-ter in anford, M a ine, no\\' l i ve \\'ith ht· w i fe , Ro· e l l e , p a r t of the y e a r in Kennebunk, M a i ne. They spend the ll' i nter mon ths a t their home i n G e org i , , and t hey summer on q u i r re l I land. M ai ne. T he y ha\'e six c h i l d ren a n d 1 5 gra n d c h i l d re n who l i ve do e en ou g h for them to enjoy freq ue n t v i s i t . Ray say · he plays a lot of golf. Do hope you and Roselle are planning to come to reunion and tO b r i ng your c l ub . . . Marlee B ragdon Mon roe w r i t e that he i making plans to be at our reunion and abo tO w el c o me her granddaughter, J es · ic a T aphorn, into the Colby fam i l y . " he' No. 7 i n the long l ine that tarted with my gra ndpa r ents," Marlee notes. . . . M uch to

111 0 ,c of u, were glaJ j u">t co be ac

olhy, an<l, al tho ug h we g ri ped, f or che mo�c part we w i l l i ng l y

m- er l uokeJ

t he ,., hnr c c o m ing . I wou l d love to hear from you a' to ' orne of yo u r op i n 1on ,., a nd memo m:' a hou t the "meager, inad equate and poorly pl an ned" fa c i l 1 C 1e,. 'o m u c h for hi toric a l rem m i c i ng . . . . M any of your ho l i d a y gree t i n g c a m e from Florida rh1 year. Loui e Trahan McCombs wrote that ·on Tim, who received the B ro n :e tar, ts home from � a ud i Arabia and Ge rma n y ; -;nn Pa c and h i fam i l y were e x p e c te d to re turn in J anu ary from J ur y w irh the Corp of Engmeer' tn Turkey that included eight month> of JU[y with the Kure!, and other refugee·. on M ike b now a C t \'il ian and i t e ach ing flyi ng and working for rhe Hou ton pol ice. Daughter J ane work at the W iley Hou e in onhea t Harbor, M a i ne, as u pe n· i so r and d iagno tic i ntake c a e worke r . Al '44 and Patricia Ford Elli r.ow l ive in Lakeland, Fla., but were i n Maine in J une and aga i n fro m m i d -J uly to m id Augusr to ·ee da u g h ter andra in the lead of r h e annual G i lbert and u l l i ,·an pre e m a t i on i n E l l worth. Pat hope t o make our 50th reunion . . . . Again i t wa good to hear from Larry Gurney with another original poem t it led "Lache i ." For·omerea on, read ing it cal led to m ind painting by Andrew Wyet h . L i m i ted space pre\"em · sharing it w i t h you here-copie ava i lable on re ques t ! . . . Betty Tobey Choate wrote that hu band Dave wa cal led back to work part t ime, and t h e y keep bu y with town affa irs, tenn i s and t h e i r two grandchildren. . . . Priscilla Mol denke Drake' holiday letter con tained news of double coronary bypass surgery, but he recovered wel l and wa able to enjoy her 70th birthday with a l l 1 7 family memberspre ent . . . . l clo e wi th

Colby, May 1 99 2

t\\"O rem111der · . Keep the 50rh reunion dare. on your calendar� ( J une 4-6, 1 993 ). Plans arc be111g made. and i t should be great if \1·e a l l participate.

meeting of all

cla ·smare · interested in help i ng to p lan the reunion wi ll he held at

Work Conies Her Way La t year, J oan G a y Kent '45 paid a \'i it to the Richard York Gallery in Manhattan to

view a collection of paintings from the Colby Mu eum of A rt. That thought that culminated, earlier thi

tarted a train of

year, in a magnificent exhibition- J OO

Year of

Colby during the weekend fJ uly 3 1 -Augu·r 2. Conracr me i f ynu would l i ke to part ic ipate. ALo, it's Alumni FunJ time. and re membering \\"hat the people did in 1 9 3 1 to raise 1 00,000, let'- do our best to keep Colby the proud i1rtitut ion they em·i ioned.

Ame1ican Art: The Colh)1 Collection-at the Port Washington Library on Long I land. "The how proved to be a ma h hit," -aid Kent, who i president of the Library' board of tru tee-. "My only regret wai; that it wa up for only two month ." Kent ha her own public relation con ulting bu ine --he u ed her marketing skill to entice art critic from the

ew York Times and

eu•sday to rev iew the exhibit-but

working to enhance the quality of life in her community give· her at lea t a much atisfaction a her profe ·ional activitie . ln addition to the library, Kent devote a great deal of t i me to h i toric pre en·a ion effon on Long I land, where he ha Ii ved all her life. A h i tory maj r at Colby, Kent say- ome of her female clas mate

eemed to have no

career goal , bur for her, not working out ide the home wa unthmkable. "We orew up thinking you go to college and you get a job, even if you intend to get married, " aid Kent, who e hu band,

tephen, died in 19 5.

he began her career at the

ew York Dail)'

ews infom1ation bureau. She did public

relation for the U 0, worked in the publi hing field and ·erved as editor for the Manhasset

Mail and the Port Washington Mail, weekly new paper on Long I land. bu ine

he went into

for her elf nearly 20 year ago.

Retirement cro e her mind, but he aid he ha no rea on to do it. Her work is interesting, she' able to pick and choose her client and he ha plenty of time to pend with her grand on, who e childhood she mi . ed while he grew up in Africa. ("After being carefully in rructed not to call me 'Grandma,' we get along J U t fine, " Kent aid. ) "I've reached a rage in my little PR career where I don't have to eek work, " Kent aid. "My phone ring . " Her clients include a regional theater, non-profit organization thatheli: people with ubstance abu e problem and those who are on public as i ranee, a well a a com mere ial bank. "One of the great v irtu� of working the way I do, as a mall entrepreneur, i that my time i my time, " Kent aid. "If I want to go to my nephew' hor e how, I go." Kent i plea ed wtth her profe contributions he make

ional accompli hments but take- particular pride in the

to her beloved Long I -land.

he was in trumental in getting

landmark pre ervation legi lation enacted in the village of and Point and township of North Hemp tead, where the treets are ltned with pre-Revolutionary hou e and Gold Coast man ions. And Kent note that the Port Washington library i considered one of the be. t of it

ize in the country.

"I'm proud to have had a pan in mak ing it that way and look forward to helping keep it that way," he aid.

Dear c la

mates, d id you know

that Malcolm Camrbell drove " B l u e b i rd" a t 2 7 6 .

mph

Daytona Beach, Fla. , in 19 35 and that Jame- J. Braddock won the world hea\)'Weight boxing ti tle that year on points \"S. Max Bae r ? I f you c a n re:nember that far back you have no excuse not to recall ornething spec ial in your li fe since 1 944. 1 recei\'ed a reminder from the Alumni Office that in rwo hort years our 50th reunion will be ob erved. Shirley E llice Lord ha- been m i ndful of thi for a long time now. In an earlier letter she 1note that our class hould be th inking about our gift to the College and ugae red that se1·eral benches be placed about the c a m p u s-w i t h a b r o n: e plaque gi\'ing c red i t to th e Clas of '44-so rudents may stop, · i t a n d mell the rose . he a ls o \'Ol unteers to look into the i mpl e mentation of her ugge tion . . . . Robert St. Pierre retired in 1 974 a a teacher/coord inator and now live in e nice , Fla . , wi th h is wife, who i al o a retired teacher. Bob'

Colby, May 1 992

Correspondent: Lou Deraney

big boa t is that Colby 49

"owns" Capri

bk,

Par 72 gpJf

rnurse . D, m Roi i t a i l le

'35

ha'

had t ll'P hnlc-.. i n one, H arnlJ Dav i s

' 38

had nne m1d R1 1h had tll'o. . I ran ae ro:,> a ll'arrnne new:- c l i p and wa; urpri�ed tn be

hand':- health. , he plays the pi ano ( teac hing and accompany

'> P m c r h i n g t h < i t ,he n e v e r dreamed o f doing "'h i le at Colby.

ing profe sional si nger� and ha l lct clas>e>) and hasdPne extcnsi \'e

She i' now ret i red, and -,he ha� recent ly moved to Cincin nat i

tra\'c l i ng through England, H o l l a n d , Be l g i u m , Au stri a , l t < 1 l y ,

from Piqua, Ohio. A l l her c h i l dren a n d grandc h i ldren a r e l i v rng in t h e -,amc ,rate, a -;i rmit ion

Erma Sit her Barron. They l i ve in Jen en Beach, Fla . , where he plays tournament shufflehoard. He is the rroud grandfathero f five and great-grandfatheroftwo. I t ound

that gi ve-, her comfort. he d ne volunteer work m a Inca! ho-,pi

like he has rorped many of u on that core . . . . The Rev. Donald Hinckley write from Augusta, Maine, thac he pent all hi work

M a j . Rich ard M . Crummett ' 5 2 , U A F , ret i red a n d l i ,· i n g 1 n

rnl. and -,he h.i-. 'uccc�sfu l l y re CO\Trcd and benefited from two

ing l i fe a a mini ter in the U n i tarian- U n 1 ver a l ist A sociation.

Readv i l l c , P a . , ha:, a o n who i'

opcn -heart opcrmiom. She keep"> 1 11 touch \\'ith Barham Blahde ll L 1 hhy '44, Doris B l a n c h a rd H u tcheson, A n nabe l l Morrison Wolfert: ' 44 , M 1 l l 1e , reenland E l l bon '44 and Doris Taylor Huber. . . . Another member of our c l a", Bob Barton, report-. that he 1 ' ret i red, a ts his wife,

He is a part-t i me m i n ister in Oak land , a n d he d o e volunteer work arGoodw ill l ndu trie in Augu ta. . . I t's heen a plea ure to hear

reminded of Jo e Marshall's two ba e hit i n ! 94 3 in Colby's 7 - ) victory o v e r

a m p Cari hou . .

abo a U, AF ret i ree and a grand son wh(1 is flymg in C- 1 30. with the Coast Gu ard . Maj. Ric hard had a triple bypass upernt ion in

but has managed to -urvi ve

and t r i u mph over it all. Hi boast is: "In a ba1Tack fu l l of men, had some stupid character pull pin

S ll' i t : c r l a n d a n d F r a n c e . That\ a l l for n o w . fnl b-\\'ritc a note ur two.

45 _ Correspondent: Dee Sanford McCunn Connie Daviau Bollinger wrires rhm ,he taught chool for 21 year�.

from Con n i e , Bob a nd Don. Plea e keep the new com i ng o l w i l l be ahle to keep the c la s up to date on items of intere t from c la mate·.

and release handle on a l i ve U ., . frag. grenade; l snatched it from h i. hand and unscrewed the fuse assembly before it exrloded." He

Correspondents

and his wife, J a ne, worked hard all their married l i ve to make the world a better place and now hope ro travel a bit and j ust enjoy l ife.

1 942

D i c k , plan to be at our 50th, and we ' l l all e n j oy your e x c i t i n g

Marie Wysor ( M arie "Chri

srorie . . . . M i tch J aworski ' 4 7 l i ves i n Plantation, F l a . He is a

1 946

ouch Harpswel l , ME

04079-9 02 207- 7 29-6506

Maine, Turner' Falls, M as ., and Farm i ngda l e , N . Y . , where he

1 943

players-J ac k Lanabe and Al Wei . M itch, I apprec iate your t e l l ing me how great a guy I a m . Flattery w i l l g e t y o u a b o x seat a t our 5 0 t h . B e there ! . . . Nancy Pattison McCarthy" husband is a retired A rmy general. he a k if any of our c l a mate are in ter e red in a reunion i n Hershey, Gettysburg or Ph iladelph ia, Pa. N ancy has two married daugh ters, one married son and six grandc hi ldren . he ha traveled the world and is happ i l y married. . . . Mary Katherine Smith Lyon write from Glendale, Ariz . , that in 1 970 she and her husband moved to Arizona for her hu -

Me rri l l )

RR 2 , Box 1 90-B

reti red teac her/coach who taught in North Berwick and Belfast,

coached two big- league baseball

N ancy J ae b en "

Mrs. Albert ( Eleanor

Braunmu l le r

mart)

1 1 5 Lake Road Basking R idge, NJ 07920 2 0 1 -766-3 5 86

1 944 Loui M. Deraney 57 W h i tford Street Roslindale, MA 02 1 3 1 -4 2 1 0

6 1 7-3 2 7-44 6

362 7 Northlake Drive Arlanra, GA 30340

Corre pondent: J une Chipman Coalson

404-934-9075

ln my la t column I reported that Clay and Dottie Cleaves Jordan went on a ·ojoum to the ouch

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Pacific. he wrote and told me what a wonderful t i me they had.

June Coal n (J une Ch ip ma n )

1 29 J anelle Lan J a cksonv ille, FL 32 2 1 1 904- 725 - 1 4 79

1 948 Katharine W . J affe ( Katharine Wei man ) P.O. Box 1 1 3 M i l l River, MA 0 1 244

4 13 -229-8 1 7 1

1 945

1 949

Dorothy McCunn

Anne Eusti

( Dorothy Sanford) 8 Honey Hill Road Canaan, CT 060 1 8 203 -824-7236

3 1 5 M irick Rd. P.O. Box 594 Ea t Princeton, MA 0 1 5 1 7 508-464-5 5 1 3

( An ne Hagar)

H ighl ights included a four-day m i n i crui ·e of the i lands around Fij i, where they went snorkeling a nd ropped a t the beaut i fu l beaches each day. Then they spent eight days in Fij i . After the cru i e they flew to Auckland, New Zealand, where Clay visi ted w ith hi former ecretary, who had worked for him i n I ndia. Then they j o i ned an eight-day tour of the north and south island by bus, train, plane and boat. They rea l ly enjoyed the spec tacular coun try ide and snow-capped mountains of the south island. They flew from there to ydney, Austra l i a , and toured that city, then went on to the Cook I land . Come to the reunion i n June and you c a n hear more about Colby , May 1 992

it, a they w i l l be there . . . . A l l ie and D ic k Sampson also w i l l be there. The h ighl ight of their year was the birth of twins to their daughter, Tammera. Thcy are st i l l engaged in their regular activities at t. Thomas Epi-copal Ch urc h . T h e y a r e acti\'e i n t h e Curs i l la movement ( Chri ·tian renewa l ) , enjoy t h e workshop� connected w i th it and planned to go rn the Cur-ilia weekend in Fehruary. A h igh l igh t of the fall wa a pi lgrim age to the hrine of Our Lady of Wal ingham in Sheboygan, Wis . , for t h e 2 5 th anniver a r y o f it� founding. Dick also trave l · to Confratern i t y of the Blessed ac rament in the state's north woods. He is t i l l busy w i th many other activit ies: member of the board of the Friend of Channel 3 , the public TV channel, member of the r a t e board o f � A N E FREEZE, lay d legate to the leg islative body of the Epi copal Synod of America, memher of the p latform comm ittee of the state Democratic party and an a c t i e m e mb e r of A m ne ty l nternationaL . . . l want w re mind you again of our reunion in J une and hope to see you all then.

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Marie MacheLL Milliken '48

Headliners Marie Machell Milliken '48 received a d istin gui hed alumna award from the Yale U n iver i ty School of N ur ing. h e wa honored for having "dedicated her life to the per istent pur u i t of excellence in health care education."

Mileposts Deaths: Celia Rather Hutchinson '42 in Cave Creek, A ri z . , at 69 . . . . Lowell R. Cumming '43 in aratoga pring , . Y . , at 70 . . . . Jacquelyn N erne y Wallace '43 in Nat ick, Ma s . , at 72 . . . . Donald "Pat" Choate '48 in Augu ta, Maine, at 7 1 .

winter holiday· in their Vermont "getaway." . . . Plea ·e, rake some paper and a pen and write ome thing of yourself and/or your fam ily-an exchange of ideas in this is ue-laden year would be kind of fun � )r the next Colh)• issue. Please write.

Correspondent: Kay Weisman Jaffe Another i sue of Colby and an other non-column for our c l a because o n l y o n e note wa wri t ten--ergo thi i ue' c las sen t e n c e : Ble Evelyn Helfant M a l k i n , w h o wrote wondering if we could po ibly be old enough to have our 4 5 th in a year. She obviously doesn't think so, a she t i l l ki "when the un h ines" and enjoyed "hou e-parenting" two granddaughter and two of their fr iend ( m id - teen ) for the Colby, May 1 992

Correspondent: A n ne Hagar Eustis I t's time for another visit with the Cla of '49. My Chri tma cards l a t year brought news of yet an other cla mate who has reti red to Maine. Barclay and Martha Loughman S hepard have foraken S ilver Spring, M d . , for

Boothh1y. Wh i le reno\'ating their summer cottage they are winter ing in a one-room efficiency apart ment over their garage. Martha report that it's cozy but rather fun. . . . J oan Abbott North and her husband have retir cl to Old aybrook, Conn. , and they find retirement i bu · ier and more ac ti\'e than they pic tured it. They enjoyed a "wonderful trip to Scot land with Colby alumni three years ago" and this summer went to Canada with Elderhostel. Joan writes, " I have always had great memories of Colby--espec ially the intellectual timulus I remem ber from Dr. Bix ler and our fac u l ty of the time-Ful lam, Chap man, Norwood, Mr . Comparetti, Breckenridge, Pul len and mith in French." . . . Thornas Sarnuel sen write that he i partially re tired from h is practice as a c l ini-

cal p ·ych iatri·t . He h a · t\\'o mar ried daughters-Chri t ina, wh,1 li\'eS and works in St. Lou i�. Mo., and Elna, who l i\'eS m Hull. Que bec , and works i n O t t a w a . . . . Looking forward to retirement but with no firm plans yet, Ann Beveridge Titterington of M i l ler Place, N .Y . , is finish ing her 1 1 th year of teaching in one of the smal le ·t schools in ea tern Long Island. A I though �he Ii t. her oc c u p a t i o n as a p h y i c s/ m a t h teacher, s h e teaches fi\'e d iffer ent subjectsand enjoy field trip . he ·pends her ummers off the coast of Maine ( st i l l N orth Ha ven, Ann ?) but \' i ir- her daugh ter, Katherine, ·on-in-law and rwograndchildren i n Colchester, England, a· often as she can. Her on , Ronald, is finishing his last year at the U n iver ity of M i nneota Veterinary Col lege . Ann continues tO play her c larinet in the community band . . . . Alice Rogers Parker ha a new addres : 22 60 Cherry H i l l Road, Dear born, Ml 48 1 24. A l ice and her hu band are retired; . he from her prac t ic e as an a t torney . . . Lorenzo "Charlie" Raste l l i has retired toOrange City, Fla . , where he \'Olunteers in SNAP- en ior N utrition Activi ties Program for the Council on Aging. He' a member of the Friends of Orange City Library, to whom he recently gave a slide pre entation on Egypt. He has attended a few Elderho tel program at Stet on Un iversity about five miles from Orange City. Charlie comments, "I do not think you will find another i n the country that para l lels Colby in age, philo ophy, aim , h i tory. You name it-it eems to follow, except frats." . . . The new from "out there" is beginning to get a l i ttle thin, so if you run aero your copy of the Class of 1 949 que tionnaire,don't procra tinate any longer. F i l l it in and mail it now!

THE FIFTIES

Correspondent: Nancy Ricker Sears The f o l lowing letter from Gerry Frank ful fi l l' the dream� of e\'cry c l a�s c o rrc,pondent w i t h ; i r1 empty ma i lbox: "You a�k . where am I at 7 l ,uppose where many uf our clas�marc' arc at. I �old the adver t i s i ng company 20 happy month ago anJ am M l del ight ful l y hu�y I could u'c thr..:e hour� more each day i n which to do what I want to do. ( The only possi ble t h i ng I m is� from my in busine-s day is that wonderful i nst itut ion k nown as the secre tary . ) What is i t I want do Jul Wel l , to �tart w i t h , I have three grown c h i ldren, a splendid daugh ter - i n - l aw and two � p a r k l i ng grand ons, and they a l l l ive, hap p i ly for me, w i t h i n two m i le� of my home i n the L i ncoln Park cction of Chicago. I also manage some fam i l y real c ·rare, inc l ud ing my w o n d e rfu l t r e e fa r m i n LaPorte, I nd . ( My l l l i noi · l iccn ·c plate reads: GRO TREE . ) I am also very active with the Opcn land� Proj e c t , a not- for-profi t group ded i cated to prese rv i ng open space in and around hi cago. l serve on t h e project' board and am adm i n istrat ive vice pre i dent. A mong o u r many project are the t u rn i n g of c i ty-owned vacant lots i nt o park-, commu n i ty garden� and/or playground , the planting of trees and the care of our urban forest by vol u n teer we t ra in and the extendi ng of Chicagoland's e x ist i ng 3 SO m i les of cattered greenways i nt o a con t inuou 1 ,000-m i le pathwayalong the riverbanks and abandoned ra i l road rights-of-way in the n ine coun ty Ch icago area. I also enjoy h ic ago ymphony and L y r i c Opera performances and spend big t i me learn ing ( ?) about my Mac intosh computer and sti l l , ye', S2

write poetry a n d hopefully may put a hook together. I have been a bachelor these la�t 20 year;. And nh ye , I spend my summer' on my t i ny island i n the Georgian Bay ofOntario--the c ln,est th ing I could find to Ma tne. I urcly w i l l h e g l a d to cc any a n d a l l olby folk who pass through or arc out t h is way. I am hapry that I do get to chat with and/or ee Barbara tarr Wolf and Bob Rosenthal from t i me to t 1 me. Am I enjoy i ng l i fd You bet 1 " • • • M a ny thanb to Gerry for hi; s r i mu la r i ng con r ri butinn. H i, was the ole entry for t he c urrent column. We all are i nteresting people with intcrcsr i ng events in our l i ve�. Do send any piece of news, short nr long, so that we can become reac qm1inted and redefined as a chis,.

Correspondent: Barbara Bone Leavitt David Scott Crocket cnt a great p i c t u re of h i grandch i l dren. He is on a sabbat ical and i v i s i t i ng profes or at the N e w Jer cy De partment of Environmental Prt rect ion . . . . Ray and Merry Crane Evans h a v e h a d a busy year. Retired Ray went hack to M c Donnell Dougla to do some con u l t i ng work. M rry had j ury duty. They have pent some t i me vacation i ng in Palm Spring� anJ v is i t i ng their two daughter in Oregon . . . . After 41 years, Jan Pearson Anderson went back "on the board. . " he played B i rdie i n The Little Foxes w ith t h e Chatham ( Ma s.) Drama G u i ld. She rea l l y w a s exc i ted about being b a c k i n t h e theater, a n d h e r rev i e w were super. One aid her "beau tifully acted cene i n Act II wa the h ighl ight of the play." Congratu lation , Jan ! . . . Our reunion i

right around the corner. I t w i l l he great to cc you there. Wouldn't i t he wonderful i f we could 'ur pao' nur c [;i,, g i v i ng goal I

53_ J.

Correspondent: elson Beveridge

Kent Dickerman i' retired and pend� wi nters 111 � t . Pau l , M mn . , a n J ;ummcr' i n Danbury, W b . K e nt rcporb tht!t he p l a y tcnni; three t i mes a week, doc a lot of > k i i ng, rnw in hi� ,he l l anJ wind �urf.,. Sound; I ike a great life to me . . . . Martha ( OeWolf' S 5 ) anJ Phil Hussey \'i i ted w i th Al Hibbert and h is wife, Pat. Al ret i red la,t Augu;t and played golf on I of h is first 4 retire ment Jay�. Ph i l and Mnrtha abo had d i n ner with Dot ( For. rer ' S 4 ) and Roger 01 o n 111 Fort Lauder Jalc. "Roger i really i nro tenni ." . . Loretta "Tommi" Thomp on Staples is perfect ing her com puter s k i l l- nnJ ha. the fa m i l y budget well mgani:cd. Tom m i a n d Bo! ' S 1 p e n t January n a golf vacation to Myrtle Beach, S.C. . . . Carolyn English Caci reports that " last �ummer, John, my h u hand, and I a iled to Cape od where we vi i red w i t h J a n ( Pear o n ' 5 2 ) and C h u c k Ander son as well as George '52 and Betty Winkler Laffey. The trip back required our I e i ng towed into c i t u ate H arb Jr due to an a i r bkxk i n � he engi ne. Very : mbar :, rass m g ! . . . . M a d e l y n 1 M i ke Wechsler Pre sman ' 5 2 · e n t the fol low i ng note. "Thi i my 24th year of teac h i ng. A a teacher f a humanitie -based i nterdisc i p l i n a r y c o u r e, I w o n a N a t ional Endowment of the Human i t ies grant last year to -tudy Mozart i n V ienna for a month. I take my act all over t he tare, e l l i ng the

cour�e anJ acting a a consultant and will b in the NCTW confer ence this bpri ng i n wa�hington, D.C. In the pa�t three year I have travelcJ to France, England, Aumia ( tw ice ) , zecho I vakia ( tw i c e ) anJ am planning a trip to i c i l y . I have four grandchildren and f our daughters and hu band �cattcred on the East Coast." . Chuck Spencer i work ing as a re earch geologi t for the U. . Geological urvey in petroleum geology. " l 've publ i�hed more than I 00 technical paper and a few book . My work w i t h the H u ngarian Oil and Gas Tru r is comp! red . J oyce ( Wh i tham ' S 4 ) i ret i ri ng from her job with t h e Jeffer c n County chool ' G ifted and T al nred program. Maybe we can spend more t i me on our boar. We haJ a great get-together with Gwen ( Van Eerdcn 'SS) and Dana Ander en on our boat recently. They a l o have a real nice boat and Jo a Ix ot trave l i ng." . . . Leone Knowle retired last J une and ran for and won a cat on the Rock land, M a i ne, chool board . Leone al o 1- doing "quite a bit" of olunreer work i n church and with a l i teracy group, which ha taken up a l l her free t i me . . . . Ted Lallier and hi wife, Ema, are law partners ( La l l ier & Ander on) i n Amesbury, M a s . , -pec i a l iz i ng i n l i tigat ion c a e . "We have two boy age 10 and 1 3 , anJ both are mak i ng great trides in ba ket ball. I st i l l teach basketball to gra m m a r chool a n d m i dd l e grades after chool i n league play. Erna and l have been very hap pily married for 16 year , and we've traveled to the Caribbean every year. We are planni ng a camping trip w i th our c h ildren thi w i nter i n the V irgi n Island . Time goe fa t when you're hav i ng fun."

Colby, May 1 992

5 4_ Correspondent: Marlene Hurd Jabar

First of all let me announce to all of you that "Gig" Roy E ustis ha resigned as president of our cla [ could go into oreat derail about 1 99 1 being "the pits" for G ig and herfamily. For example, he broke her foor ( right one ) in Augu t . But on a happier note, t h e wan derlu t fever ha hit, and Gig may be writing to u from the Au tra l ian outback c linic . We certainly h ope that 1 99 2 h o ld m u c h h e a l t h and happ ine for the Eu tis fam i ly. o w h o i · our n e w p re i d e n t ? N one o t h e r than ( rand up and take a bow ) Da ve W al l i ngford. Dave v e ry gra c iously ha taken over until our next reu n ion ( 1 99 4 ) . . . . N e d Shenton ha also volunteered to help out with the '94 reunion. He ha already been doing research, etc. . . . I heard from 14 clas.smate from the letter sent out, o I 'l l have enough informauon f o r a couple of i ue ofColby . l f at any time you have information you think the clas might be inter e ted i n , p l e a e e n d it ro me . . . . Geneva mith Dougla write from Las Vega . Geneva wa in N ot t i ngham, England, wind i ng down a four-year term a international program l i a ison for the oropt i m i t I nternational Board when husband Doug joined her, and they "toured" both En gland and cotland. They went hopping at "The Patteries," took in a Mozart concert, then rented a car for a gloriou · three week . TI1ey vi ited the Lake Di trict ( oh, how I want to go bac k ) and ewca tie in England and Dum frie and Gal loway in cotland. They al�o vi ired tratford-on Avon. ( I ju t fini hed reaching Hamlet. ) What better t i me to ar rive back in the State than the Colby, May 1 99 2

Norma Willi.amson Brown '57

Headliners Martha Friedlaender '53 received the 1 992 Alumni Medal for Con picuou Service to the Univer ity from the Alumni Federation of Columbia University . . . Wit, Ham Haggett '56 wa named pre ident of St. John Shipbuilding, Ltd . , in Canada. . . . Norma Williamson Brown '57 was elected moderator of the Synod of the orthea t, Presbyterian Church ( U . . A . ) .

Mileposts Deaths: Henry W. Macko '50 in Colonia, N .] . , at 68 . . .

James F. Gruninger '52 in Farmington, Conn.,

at 6 1 . . . . Edmond D. Patenaude, Jr. '53 in Falmouth, Mass, at 62 . .

Joseph R. Peyton ' 5 7 i n New York,

.Y., a t 54.

hour Hurricane Bob al o arrived ? Their plane was d i verted to Toronto, where they waited out Bob. From reading their itinerary for the day they got to Bo ton until Chri tma , I'm exhausted and j ust a l ittle jealou . They planned to jaunt from Rockport, Ma . , to I nd iana, on to N ew Orlean , out to Lo Angele and finally home to La Vegas for the winter month , where Geneva will re ume her job of e coning group on tour of the Nevada Te t S i te . ( W h e n d o t h e y rest ? ) . . . Richard N eitlich and h i wife, M i ldred, wrote from Plainview, N . Y . Richard is a re tired assistant v ice pre ident of per onnel for Metropolitan Life. Now he and M i ldred do much more tra eling in addition to en-

joying the v isual and musical arts available in the New York area. . . . Mary Belden W il liams and husband Gordon have been in the news again. Mary writes that their farm i n orth H atfield, Ma . , wa named a "bicenten n ial" farm by the tare. A paper back book, Founding Fanns, fea tured five farm , and their wa one of them. A nd they were in vited to be part of a video emphai:ing the concept of pre erving agricultural land. Three farm from Mas achu ett and a dairy farm in California were featured in a 20-minute documentary pro duced for the American Farm land Tru t. They al o celebrated the arrival of granddaughter M a rtha Anna, who was born October 3-thi wa al o the 60th

wedding anni versary of the baby's great-grandparents on Mary's ide of the family . . . . Ruth Brindley Cheney planned to ret i re in March. She beat me by a couple of months! he write, that he ha been back to Colby to watch a niece play basketball. ( Her niece a t t e n d e d T h o m a s C o l l e ge . ) Ruthie and her husband. Peter, will be pend mg the cold month at their home in Cape Coral, Fla. Ruthie says that after she retires he m ight urpri e Tony and me and call or v isit. he m igh t get a call from us next w inter! . . . And speaking of Florida, Ted Tur chon, who l ives in Orlando ( you know, Di ney World ) , would re ally like toget together with Colby people who live in central Florida. There are many of you out there, so let Ted know. Ted i· the owner of Courier, a fre ight contractor and mail order bu ine s. H is wife, Lu ly, i a teacher in a m iddle chool. TI1ey have two grandson· and another grandchild on the way. Ted ha never been back to Colby but says he might make our 40th. Oh dear, ha· it been that long?

Correspondent: Ann D i l l i ngham Ingraham

The following i the win<l-up of the fall questionnaire. l am sure c l a m a t e are i n te re red i n everyone' new , n o matter when it arrives. o keep the card and letter com ing . . . . Scottie Lee Austin write from W i l liamsburg, a., that he i a retired nurse. Her hu band also i retired (from C o l o n i a l W i l l i a m - b u rg ) b u t work a a con ult ing curator. cottie ha had knee recon truc tion urgery and report that ·he i nearly back to normal by main53

Trip to Colby That Changed Two Lives

A B

ack in 19 54, m t tudents didn't hedge their college admis ion bet quite a thorough ly a they d now. o when tan Moger ' 5 8 decided that Dartm uth wa the place for him, the Br k l ine (Ma .) H igh chool senior mer ly applied and

aturday morning, he recall , Frank called from New York. "He aid, 'Can l talk to you? I need some advice,"' Moger r membered. "He wa in Chicago by lunchtime-and thi wa before the jet age. He'd received an ffer to go r work for CB

waited to hear.

network sale and he wanted to ralk about it. l had to how him

"People kept telling me, 'Don't worry, you'll "et in,' but when months passed and I hadn't been accepted, I started to worry," he ·aid. "I applied to about 10 other place and wa

how to read a rate card, but he to k the job."

accepted at a l l of th m. I remember that Middle bury was on the

Eventually, Moger, too, wound up in New York at Storer Broadcasting, and, in 1968, it was hi tum to call Frank for advice. An as ociate, weary of hearing Moger complain about

Ii t and

how l i ttle adverti ·ing executive knew about strategic media

wa Colby. To be hone t I can't recall exactly why I

applied to Colby. An Engli h teacher I had may have recom mended it." He decided to v i it

olby.

lt wa a trip that changed two l ive and led to the creation, 1 5 year

later, o f the N e w York

ba ed SFM Media Corporation, which has become the nati n' leading media-buying agency, serving clients

uch a

Nike,

Hunt-We on, Mobil, Pfizer, Avi , I uzu, Fram, Sea World, Walt Disney World and the Re publican Party. When he arrived for his look at Mayflower Hill, Moger aw a familiar face. Bob Frank

'54, the adrnis ions tour guide, lived on the next block in Brookl i ne. " H e gave me a pe cial tour," Moger said. "He told me, 'You'll love it. It'

terrific

here.' So I went." Frank, an economic ma

John McCabe

jor, was about to graduate. He

Stan Moger '58 (left) and Bob Frank '54

had been vice pre ident of Tau Delta Phi, written ports for the

Echo, played in the band and gained election to Pi Gamma Mu honor ociety. Moger followed Frank' path to Tau Delt and

Frank met Moger at the ba e of the escalaror from Grand tation to the Pan Am Building. "Five hour Later,"

al o enjoyed an active four year that included the cofounding

Central

of WMHB, the College radio station.

Moger aid, "we were till on the ame slab of marble. I think we

An internship at ABC during Frank' graduate

buying, had offered to back him in hi own busine s.

chool

alway knew we would go into business together some day. Thi must have been the 13th venture we'd talked about. We'd

years at Dartmouth led to a po ition in ale there and further cemented the bond with Moger, who had been ticketed for the

almost bought Channel 29 in Philadelphia and Channel 2 in

entertainment industry practically from birth. H is dad, veteran Hollywood publicist Art Moger, wa director of publicity in the

and, believe it or not, even the Bo ton Celtic . And the more

Northea t for Warner Brothers. After leaving Colby, Moger

we stood there and talked that day at Grand Central, the more

had a fling behind a microphone before deciding his future was backstage. He went to work for NBC Film in Chicago. One

we knew this was it."

Denver. We'd talked about buying the San Diego Charger

In the early days of television, as Frank explain it, adver-

Colby, May 1 992

and Made Mickey Mouse Famous Again ti-er bought block

of time from net

work and produced

programs. A the in

du try mu hroomed, ex

pen es increa ed and the net

work packaged the program ,

ell ing

individual advertising pots. Most agencie ,

Frank ay

were low to realize that the placement,

timing and co t of an adverti ement had become a impor

tant a the me age.

FM-the

Reebokha and earn

ing Isuzu every edge against

ubaru. Di

vorced once ("I

rificed my marriage

to the bu ine ," he ayscandidly), Frank

I SU Z U

i now happily remar-

There's no comparison.

ried with two tepchildren and a 5-year-old daughter. But he

endure a long commute to and from exurban Connecticut, and

Walter Staab, a third

till doe , ro the tune of more than

600 million in annual

"they'll have to carry me out-maybe tonight." He works until

knack was the

work until 7, "and 1 want to be here when they call." Be ide ,

parmer-wa e rabl i hed to fil l thi void, and 23 year later it bill ing .

One of the first client

pot

Republican Party. The nature of national politic - avvy judg

FM'

ment, last-minute deci ion and almo t round-the-clock work

schedule -wa

made to order for

Democrat, landed the

FM . Frank, who was a

1xon campaign as a cl ient in 1 97 2 and

later ma terrninded national media buy

Reagan campaign . Today hi

office i

for the Ford and

lined with political

memorabilia, including letter of appreciation from four pre i

Moger ay he su pects hi partner, nearing 60 now, will retire oon. "Me," he added in hi father' be t Bor cht Belt patoi ,

10 mo·t nights, explaining that ome of hi We t Coa t c lient

he ays, that way he avoid taking work home. He and hi wife, Marcia, live in Purchase,

.Y. Their two daughter , one a

television director, the other a decorator, live in Manhattan.

Both men hare one other curious parallel. After four

happy, productive year at Colby, each developed a sense of disaffection.

Frank wa up et fir t when hi ROTC commi ion never

dents.

materialized (for reason

Frank and Moger mastered the art ofbarter agreement , trading

application to Harvard Bu me

Creative thinking ha been a trong uit from the tart.

client ervice to network for atr time. Then, in 1 97 5 , as he puzzled over a floundering cli

ent, Di ney World, Moger had

an m piration. He would build

Wa lti

lv)isney

a better mou etrap, or, at lea t , a better mou e club. He bought the rights to the original Mickey Mou e Club how of the fiftie and et up hi own

till murky nearly four decade later)

and then when he felt campu figure

did not

upport hi

chool with enough enthu i-

a m. S t i l l , Frank ha participated in two campu projects honor-

World ® �! !

��:�

n :r 1�:��n �:; 1��1 the family operated the pa during his year on Mayflower Hill.

Moger' own residue of bitteme

tern from an incident

that kept him from graduating with hi class. He entered hi.

enior-year chemi try final confidently, carrying a eme ter

Mickey Mou e etwork on ration aero the nation, giving them the how for nothing along with four of the ix adverti ing minute an<l keeping the other two minute for FM to ell.

average of 70. "A hundred hort an wer ," he aid. "I got to the

how," he aid, "and for the fir t three month I thought they

wrong place . He went to the profe sor and ugge·ted two

"Everybody aid I was cra:y to take a black-and-white k id ' were right. Then it took off. We made years."

.2 million in two

The underlying concept, producing a new TV how for a company with no obviou place to advernse a pecific product, became the comer tone of SFM Entertainment, a branch of the corporation Moger runs. ports tar , a competition for pro

la t one and I still had one more pace on the an wer ·heet." He

had kipped

o. 2. Thu , h is la t 9 answer were entered in the

remedie : the profe or could regrade the paper, kipping

o r Moger could retake the exam.

o. 2 .

"He aid, ' cience requires exactne ,' and told me I'd

gotten a 1 4

n the final," Moger aid. He called hi parents to

tel l them the new and left campu .

Many year later, according to Moger, another pre ident

athlete

acknowledged that the College had been wrong and offered to

many uch SFM creation .

called him and told him about the offer. He aid, 'Stanley, take

in events outside their u ual ports conceived to market Fram auto parts, and Mobil howca e Theater, which gave the oil giant a fuzzy, family-oriented vehicle, are two of Frank and Moger maintain grueling chedules, a fact of life in a bu ine dependent on buying N ike better air time than

Colby, May 1 992

make amend ,

ugge ting that he march in the next com

mencement. "My father was till a l ive then," Moger aid. "I

it.' But when I went home that night, I couldn't leep. I j u ·t

couldn't bring my elf to do it."

Correspondents t;1 i n i n g a regu lar 11"<1 l k ing :-.c hec l u l c . The A u , u n \ u lde,r �n n , M i ke. l i n:-, i n _ a nta F e a n J ha'

C l lmpleted h i , ma ,t er of O r i e n ta l

me J i c i n e d e g r e e . . . . Margot White Cottrell i� <l l1m m u n i t \' a rt' ac t i 1· i:-.t 1n Sll'an:-.ea, Ma�'·· and ha, e igh t grandc h i ldren from I 0 y e ar.; rn 6 mt nth, ( <i i most a record for ' 5 5er� ) . M a rgnr writ e' th;n �he cnnt r<Kted c h rn n 1 c f a t igue 1 · i rus tn l 9 8 4 and 11'<1' an a�:;a u l t 1·ic t i m in 1 98 7 . �he say, the,e el'en t , c h a nged her l t fe, and �he i · work ing on mak i ng peop l e aware n f v i c t i ms' rights and need�. � he a bo wa, hon med hy the Chamber ofCl 1 m merc e a nd Bus i ness a n d Profc · iona l Women' Club for c o m m un i t y work . . Ross Bear is p resident of Homer Bear and Co. , I n c . , and T ravo · of Ba l t i mnre, a reta i l tore. H is old e t son , Doug , j o i ned Homer Bear-repre ·ent i ng the third gen era t i on to do o. Ross remarried in 19 I . H e pl ays golf and tennis anJ enjoy- sk i i ng, and at 58 he say , "l am extremely happy and hal'ing fun . "

Correspondent: Brian Olsen Th is may be the last column from me before the reun ion but not the l ast you ' l l hear from Colby. We ·hould be fina l i : i ng plans for the reunion in J u ne even a we

speak, and J hope we have the largest turnout ever! . . . Diane

J ensen Snow write from Pitts burgh that now that her husband , Robert, is reti red from U A i r af ter fly i ng for 3 1 years, he is go ing to cut down on her ac t i v i t ie too. Diane has been the chairman ( her word ! ) of half the chari t ies in Pitt burgh but w i l l stick to fund raising for a few selected benefits

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1 95 2 Barbara Leavitt ( Barbara J. B ne)

2 1 I nd ian Tra i l c ituate, M A 02066 6 1 7-545-4374

1 95 3 ] . Nels n Beveridge 1 3 4 B rder treet Coha et, M A 02025

composer and pianbt, and An drea i a voice major at I thaca

A n n I ngraham (Ann

. Dill ingham )

College . . . . Bainbridge, Ga., is a

9 Appletree Lane Manche ter, ME 04 3 5 1 207-622 -0298

long way from Dover-Foxc roft in more way� chan one, hue that' where you' l l find Janee Earley

Forrester, c ha i ring the c ience depa rtment of the h igh school anJ teac hing chem iscry and field

1 95 6 M r . . MacDonalJ Grout ( Eleanor Edmund )

botany. J <m et ha four grow n c h i l Jren, c w o of w h o m a r e married , and she recencly became a grand he w i l l ret i re in two mother.

RD 3, J one Road G u erneur, NY 1 3642

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1 95 7 Brian

year> . . . . Don Dinwoodie write

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from Colorado pring , Colo., of his work 111 elf-e·reem work hops. Don's work b primarily with vic t i ms of c losed head injuries and people who suffer chronic pain

4 6 Wa ·hington Dnve A ton, MA 0 1 720 508- 263 -92 3 8

due to automobile ac c ident . . . . Tony Glockler confe se that he

1 95 8 AnJ na K ime ( Andria H. Peacock)

6 1 7-383- 1 7 1 2

7 3 7 Turnpike crecc toughton, MA 02072 6 l 7 - 344- 4 1 9

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th inks about ret i n ng from r i me to t i me but is t i l l busy at Educa t ional Testing erl'ice i n Prince ron, N .J . , a a y rems analy t. Tony is married to the fonner Bev Jack·on '60, and their two daughters are both Colby gradu ates. Tony' ac t i v i t ies inc lude c h a i ri ng the town hip :on i ng board of adj ust ment and erving on the pre byrery'· comm i c tee on

u an Frazer ( u an K. Fether, ton)

Marlene Jabar ( Marlene E. Hurd) 1 1 Plea antdale A venue

6 Bel levue Place

Waterv i l le , M E 0490 1

M idd letown, CT 064 5 7

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m i n istry. Tony w i l l be at the 3 5 t h . . . . Dr. Cedric " M a c "

i ng i n Ticonderoga, N .Y. , h a s re

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Bel l

Harring h a s n o t y e t retired but is working four day a week in h is aeneral dentistry practice. Mac l ive i n Acto n , Ma . , and has his practice in Concord. He and hi wife, Barbara, till enjoy down h i l l k i ing and last w inter experi enced the thrill of heli-ski ing.

tired from her par t - t i me work as a secrerary in her hu band's com

Labs . . . . Michaline " Mickey" Chomicz Manno has no p lans for retirement, though she would l i ke

( That's on my l isc to try-right after bungee-j umping ! ) . . . Ku dos and more kudos to Les li e

to make a move from her superv i ory job with the federal govern

W y m a n Randolph , who has worked tirelessly thi year as cla agen t 1 Along with her efforts on behalf of Colby, Leslie and hus band Warren have been "host family" to two Bowdoin tudents from fore ign lands, one from Pa k istan, one from Texas! Leslie has also been working a a teacher of English a a second language to

from now on ! h e and Robert plan plenty oflei ure travel in t h e com ing year . A l l three of Diane's c h i ldren were married la·r year. . . . Nancy Miller Reale, now l i v

pany i n to fu l l - t i me work a wife, mother and volunteer. N ancy is bu y w i th a commun ity services board, grand j u ry, school board and l ibrary bui l d i ng commi ttee. he is chair of two of those and foreman of the grand j ury ! . . . Defi n itely not retired and defi nitely planning on mak i ng the 3 5 t h i s loyal Colby on Ken Haruta. Ken and Patience have

three grown c h i ldren who, with the i r spou;e , have at least eighc advanced degrees a mong them ( I counted from Ken's lette r ) . Ken i· sti l l working happily in soft development

ment i nto a management posi t ion i n the mu-ic field sometime i n the future. M ickey is general manager of the Garden State Chorale and is ac tive i n the New Jersey Seate Opera As oc iati n. Her on and daughter are both mu ici ans-J ame i a teacher,

Colby , May 1 992

Cambod ian refugee and ao a mentor for sixth grade gi rls, \\'Ork ing to insure their ucce s i n later year . Leslie is hoping c,·cryonc will outdo themsch-e in thisyear' campaion for the reun ion gift . Thank for all your work, Leo l ie . . . . And peaking of kudos, the Alumni Office tells me that G u y a n d Eleanor E w i n g Vigue w i l l recei,·e Colby Bricks durmg Re u n i o n Weekend. Congratula tion ' . . . ee you all in J un e '

Correspondent : Andria Peacock Kime

Would you belie\'e planning ha begun for our 3 5th reunion ? If you have trong fee lings about what you would like to ee hap pen ( or nor happen) an l have not v o i c e d your opinion, make sure ro get in touch with Tom LaVigne , N orm Lee, Lois Munson MorriLI or m e . . . . A

go <l number of you re pondeJ to the la t que t ionnaire in Novem ber. I wi h [ could get all the news out at once . . . . Howard Reed l ive in consdale, A ri:., and i · a retired project manager, though he is still con·ult i ng. He remar ried in ' 9 after hi wife of 28 year d ied of cancer. H is wife, J ud ith, i a human re�ource· man ager. "Now I k now what a truly unconditional relation hip feels l ike," he ay . H is comment on the most exciting/satisfying thing: "accepting rota! re pon ibil ity and ace untab i l i ty for all a peer� of my life, knowing that I a l wa ys have choice and that I create my own reality through my el f- talk and the choice that I have made and con tinue to make-inc l ud ing the cancer that I took on and e xpel l e d from my body." He ay he trie to l ive hi bel ief s yst e m

Colby, May 1 99 2

anJ t o "be t h e change that I w ish to �ee in the worlJ" ( he quotes from Gandh i ) . He gets much sat isfact ion "experiencing those rare occa ions when l am able to see beyond the day-to-day gameo of i l l usion and get in touch with my purpose for ha,·ing chosen to rar tic ipate in this school called the l ife experience. I feel l ike the ·en ior \\'ho is about to graduate and in the last semester j u·t hc gin� to sec \\'hat the real orportu ni ties were in the long education process." Howard isn' t sure if he e<111 be m the 3 5 th. The t i me may conflict with plans to engage in the fin 2 00-mile phase of a ix phase walk from Land'- End, Eng land, toJ ohn o'Grnat' , cotland. H is si-ter and brother- in-law, N o r m a n a n d E l e a n or Reed M c C ra c k e n , g rad u a t ed from Colby in '60. Hi son tephen is a g�aduate of the Cla - of ' 5 . . . . Ro ert Wyman i a retired v ice p re · 1d e n t o f F l e e t B a n k i n Waten·i l le . H e and wife Anne l ive m Unity. They rai ed two chi ldren and are now the proud grandparent· f two girls. After 32 year· in bank i ng, Bob is part time with Unicel, a cel lular phone company in Bangor, Maine. H is family has given h i m the mo t ·ati·facrion in l ife, and he also derivedsatisfaction from hi bank ing career. . . . L u c ia Johnson Stuart l ive in Grand Rapid , Mich., with her stockbroker hu band, J ame . They have three son : Greg l ives in G reenwich, Conn., and work in computer for the Swis banks; Doug is liv mg in New York City and i a d i rector of telecommunications; and Brad, their younge t , i an ticipating a move to New Mexico. Luc ia li t snorkeling off t. John in the Virgin Island and boat trip and crui e in the Caribbean as exc i t i ng and sati fying. he gets a lot of ati faction from her garden c lub work . . . . h irley and Pau l Rockwell have old their

busine in Bri�tol, N . H .. and ha,·e retired to Englewood, Fla . After sel l ing Wheel House, Paul ays, " e l f-employment has it� re wards-retirement i one of them. We have adapted well after our year of parmer·hip i n business." . . . Chris Maginniss and wife E l l ie ( Davi '6 1 ) live in Fa irtax, Va., \\'here he work � at M icrodyne Corp. as exec uti\'e v ice president and CFO. He aid El lie has no occupat ion, but we a l l know tak ing care of Chri and their two oons is a ful l - r ime occupation ' �on No. 1 , Chris, i· a computer programmer. on o. 2, Matt, is a l ieutenant in the Air Force. They now ha\'e an empty nest. Chri · ays changes come too fa·r to count. "Be t to enjoy it all one day at a t ime and to not try to make sense of it all j ust yet." . . . u an ( Macomber '60 ) and Dick Vogt ha\'e opened a bed and breakfast in the i r Hopkington, . H . , home ince their younge·t went off to college in eptember 1 99 0 . T h e y h a \' e n a m ed i t W i ndy ledge. D i c k says t h e y worked for t w o years t o g e t thing ready. They repa i nted, revar n ished every t h i ng , red id the kitchen and added a deck on back. Th i year they had gue·ts from 24 rates and six fore ign countries! "Guests are absolutely fantastic ! " Dick works a commodity out placement manager for Digital Equipment Corporation but plan· to retire i n five years. Dick and ue have twin on , Jeff and J ay, and two daughters, Jennifer and Katryn, a ophomore at Nova University in Florida. Jeff and J ennifer are married, and each has two children. Of cour e, the B & B and extended family are mo t exciting and sat 1 fying. Dick says he ju t needs space. "We live in the country on n i ne acres n a hilltop in a town of less than 4,000 people. Visit a c ity only if ab olutel necessary and then can't wait to e cape back home ."

. . . C. David "O.B." O'Brien

and h is ll'ife. P;usy. had their Oll'n mini-reun ion at the la;;t Colby Bowdoi,1 f otba l l game: they "a"· Bob and Kudha Stetson Bates and Dick Campbel l and h is wife. O.B. aid they all look great and that it \\'as wonderful to catch up \\'ith them. He also saw B i l l Bryan '48 and said he is in great ·hape. The O'Briens ha\'e three on ( two graduated from Colby in ' 6 and '90 ) , one daughter, one daughter- in- la\\" and one grandon-another grandchild \\'as due in February. He is a managing director/im·estment ad,·isor at H. !vi. Payson & Co. Patsy manage� the ir hor·e farm. AnJ ye , they \\'i l l be at the 3 5 th! . . . The re union comm ittee and your c la , _ mates are hoping for 1 00 percent attendance. Ho"' about you ! Lots more new to share with you folks. I'm push i ng it trying to get thi· much inc l uded m each c lass col umn. But keep the news com ing! What a great and d i \'ersified c las· we are !

5 9_ Correspondent : S usan Fetherston Frazer

Picking up on the sugge t ion of another cla ·s correspond e n t , J ackie Bendelius David on sent me a copy of the Dav idson' Chri tma· letter. Their move to Deer l le, Maine, i complete, and they eem to love i t there. mall wonder! J ackie ha been bu-y c hairing the Island Recy c l ing Committee and re earch ing their family histories with the help of a new computer prooram called Root I l l . Last May, the Davidsons pent 1 0 day i n Eng land celebrating their 30th wed d ing anniver ary. They arnided the touri ty ·pots, preferring to 57

poke arnund l , 1d. ing f or old m<1p�. need le\1·,)rk tool-. and lace . . . . I t "::cm> Skeeter Megathlin m is,ed the 1 989 reunion hcrnu,e, wel l . he h a d ;i hetter i iw 1 t a w m . N , )t L)nly wa-. he att end i ng hb >on'� grnduatilm frum U N H . hut he 11-;1, al-.o re eiving an award frnm the U N H A l u mni A5>oc intinn for h i , 1rnrk ll' ith the Parent A�>oc i m inn . � keeter ha, g i ven u p u rban planning i n hwor ofreal e , t a t e d e v e l op m e n t a nd ha wnrked e l m.cl y t m the develtlp ment of Biorech Park, a re,earch and manufoctunng fac i l ity near

Bu,ton. keeter wa act ive in pol itics for many year,. At pre,ent he is a member of ,everal art mu,eum bL)<Hds and a trustee of <i r r 1 1· a t e . state-ch artered ope n space preservation organi:ation. He Joe n't play hockey anymore, hut he doe' ski and play tcnn 1�. He ha., a home on the water 111 Cmu i t , Ma,s., and he says there are lot' oi Colby people m hi l i fe . . . . Denny Kellner Palmer and l �cc each other a couple of t i me; a year when rhe A lumni Counc i I meet, and Denny tra\·eb from her home in Y<irmou t h ,

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Mame. The Palmer' ha\·e rhree ch ddren, one m<irried, two ro g11 . Denny h a ., a l o n g h i-,t• >r) of 1 11 n1l\·emcnt 1 11 education. Once urt m a t i me 'he worked ll'ith dy'> lex i c:-, , and a� a c o u 11',elor at Planned P<irenthuod in Portl<rnd -,he worked 1\·1rh teen,. More re cent!) -,he h<h been working in -.pec i < 1 I educat ion in the G r<1y Ne\1 Gloucester .md Yarm1)uth -.chool 'Y'tem-.. 'ome nf her n1l unreer ll'ork is \1•1th L neracy Vol untecr-, of A menci . F1 1rfour year' .,he ha, been tutoring an d l 1 teratc man, and he 1 '> nt )\\' \l'llrk 1 11.�\\'ith a 7 2 -year-uld wuman. I a'>ked her h, Jll' he keep-. '>ll young. � he say ,he trie, ru walk three m i le, a day, hut I thmk there\ mure to it rhan that. l n 19 9 the Pa I mer' went t1) Japan, HLmg K.mg anJ Au.,tra l ia, c11mh i n i ng hu-.incss and p l e asure . . . . Bill Barnett of Relchertoll'n, Ma, .. ha., own J hi' own imur ance agency in rringfielJ for 20 year>. Before that he taught h is tory ar Bo,ton U n iversity for four years anJ al-,o at Inter-American U n i versity 1 11 Puerto R ico for a courle more. The Barnett have tll'o c h i ldren, one i n e ighth grade and the other a j uni Jr in h igh ·choo l . B i l l is active in the Ma sons and the briner ; he play bagpipe., in a hri ner band . He i a ho-pita! fund raiser and a mem ber of the rent control board and is active in Republican pol i t i c and t h e Epbcopal church. Thanks to fam i l y property in Wi nthrop, M aine, B i l l has had frequent oc ca ion ro v isit th Colby campus. . . . Bt!l encouraged me ro call John " Bud" Johnson of Duxbury, Ma . I never actually talked to Bud him elf-he ' - a busy man. He and h i wife, Patricia, have a successful restaurant in Duxbury that keeps them hopping. Bud turned to thi bu ines when he became t i red of the i n-agai n-out aga i n qual ity of being w i th the Public Hou ing A d m i n istra t ion. A t the beginning of t h i venture,

the cntire fam i l y wa hopp ing and Jo111g all manner of other thing . "You have to be reaJy to do it a l l , at lea.,t at t h e heginning," Patricia rolJ me. Two �ummers ago, the J,)hnson were hmt. at a get-to gether of about I 0 Colby grads with a di nner to rival Babetre's Feas t . They . ang Colby '>ongs, hung banner , you name it. l can't hel ieve it, but the John,on do actually get out of Duxbury now anJ then . . . . J ean Smith Hum mel anJ her hushand, J i m , l ive in a hou-.e in outhhury, Conn . , right acros from t h e b u t l J i ng where Jean'� grandmorher went rn -.choo l . Few A merican fam i l ies ha\·e ,tayeJ w clo e. Jean i a long-t11ne memher of hoards and agencie,. Her man)' ac t i v i t ie keep her out of the house most of the day and mcl ude a majorcom m n ment to the Waterbury G i r l ' Cluh, an organi:ation ba�ed in an old V ic torian hou·e. he gives after--chool instruction to girl age 5 - 1 2 . This club, the olde t of its sort 111 the U . . , work!> to per petuate tradi t ional, wholesome values in a constructive and pre \'Cntive capac i ty rather than act ing a a cri i intervention cen ter. Jean is an avid h i ker and an even more avid member of a row ing tea m . he work out regularly and has competed i n important race all over the country . . . . Greg Mac Arthur h a not given up hockey-far from it. He' been coach ing hockey and ba eball for local youth group for 1 5 years. The Mac Arthurs have a do e family, according to Greg. Their ch i ldren are a l l out of chool. The i r daughter i get t i ng married in eptember; their on w i l l marry next year. Greg i v ice president of Paine Webber in Boston. When l talked to h i m he wa opti m i tic about the economy, feel i ng that the worst i over. l certai n l y hope o, and with that, l leave you unti l next t i me .

Colby , M a y 1 992

THE SIXTIES

60_ Correspondent: Katherine P. White

l gue many of you have been hibernating this winter. Or, if you have been busy, you haven't let me know what you are up to so I can report to all of your inter ested fellow classmates. Please write . . . . I did hear from Carol Anderson Panciera, who reports that she and Fred are now the grandparents of two. Carol still continues as a librarian in Granby, Conn . . . . P eg Barnes Dyer ha fini hed a two-year paralegal pro gram and continue to be part of the executive tax service team at H & R Block as well as doing her "regular" job a a social worker in Terre Haute, I nd. Peg and Cal have also taken several trip in their trailer ( although when they found the time I don't know) . . . . J udy Dignam Shappell called to say that she is living in Beverly H il ls, M ic h . , and is till working a a Kodak representat i ve. Her younge t , A my, finishe college in J uly and then J udy will truly be an empty-nester, a stage in life he thinks he will enjoy . . . . And I received a very newsy letter from Andrew Sheldon in Hami lton, Mont. He i a profe or of biology ac che University of Montana and director of the Wildlife Biology Program, a joint venture of the division ofbiological cience and the school offorestry. He married Linda rover in December 1 990, and as he de cribes, "We didn't take the J .P. on our wedding trip, but the re t of the party, her two daughters and my two son , shared a few days of cross-country k i ing and critter-watching in Yellow stone."The country around them is beautiful, and they seem to use the outdoor for skiing, hik ing and canoeing quite often. All ound pretty good, but he did Cofby, May 1 992

promise to try tO get back to Colby for the next reu n ion . . . . Of cour e I hope tO hear from each of you before then, so please write.

Correspondent: Penny Dietz Hill

Wow ! What a great response to the questionnaire. I have enough for several columns and will try to use the letters in the order I re ceived them. (The fact that oth er have responded in no way excu es those of you who have not yet sent your in. Plea e let us know what you. are doing! ) . . . I have to admit thar one of the best by roduct of the que tionnaire was hearing from an old friend who ha never responded to a questionnaire because she ( m is takenly) assumed that because she didn't complete four years at Colby we wouldn't want to hear from her. Wrong, wrong, wrong! J ean Kennedy Harley wa with us freshman year, then he went to Bo ron Univer. ity to complete her B.A. in sociology. She has been in the food/hotel/restaurant business with Sheraton and Holi day lnn and now work at the Univer ity of ew Hampshire a the commissary manager. Jean and her husband, Donald, alway manage a yearly drive through Colby-with a stop at Rummel' for ice cream-while they are summering at their camp on Lake Cobbos ee. Others out there who were only w ith us briefly, please write. It brings back pleasant memories of fre hman year in Lou ise Coburn to hear from J ean . . . . Michael Holland writes from London, Ont. , that he is owner of a pharmaceutical bu i ne s, and h i wife, Lilli, is a ski instructor. They recently eel-

ebrated their 30th wedding anni versary and have launched two daughters, one of whom i about to present them with the ir first grandchild . . . . Henry Sheldon, a pi lot for United A irl ines l i v ing in Glen Ellyn, l ll., may rake the p r i z e for you ngest c h i ldren (Christelle, 9, and Brian, 7). They were in Australia last ummer when we were reuning, or he and his wife, Eli e, would probably have been there. They live near Sue and Bob Hartman '60 and get together with them frequently. . . . Diane Scrafton Ferreira send news of her move to a new home on the Big Island ( in the country) after years of living on Oahu ( in the city ) . he is taking a sabbati cal from Leeward Community College, U n i ver ity of Hawaii, after receiving the outstanding instructor award from Phi Theta Kappa, Leeward's honor oc iety. Moving from a small condo to a five-bedroom home on five acres i a real challenge but one that will not slow Diane down. he i constantly on the go--with trav eling back to the mainland, aero bic walking, weight , clothing de sign, decorating and landscaping. . . . Debby Berry Denniston did what I always had tO do--answer the que tionnaire the day it came in or have it get buried forever. he is a column ist with The Chatha m ( . Y . ) Courier when she i n't minding the purebred dairy heifer she and her husband, Roy, raise. Would love to read the col umn, since she de cribes her elf a " orr of an agrarian Erma Bombeck . " Remembering her sense of humor, I ' l l bet i t i good! . . . Debby saw Sue Miller Anderson and her husband , Ralph, in October. They are in the proces of retiring to Boulder, Colo., after they ell their house in Virginia. ue also an wered the que tionnaire, seating that their target dace for the big move i ch i summer. I n the meantime,

Sue i working for a travel agency and ha been active in Fa1 rfox County politic . They have two �ons: Doug, who is about to gradu ate from law chool at the Uni versity of Chicago, anJ Craig, who is a junior at Drew Uni verity in N .J . . . . The pre idcnt of Advanced Busine Concept , I nc., in Fairport, N .Y . , George N i x , wrote to a k how many people might be intere ted in or gani:ing a sai l ing charter in con junction with our 3 5 th. Let me know what you think, and I will pass it on t0 the next reunion committee. He ha now een both of h is daughter graduate from college: Laura from Reed in '89 and Andrea from C o l b y in '9 1 . . . . That bring me to my new . Paul and I have bought a new home in Reston, Ya., and we hope tO have sold our house in Connecticut and be settled in Virginia by the time you read thb column.

Correspondent: Linda Nicholson Goodman

I f you have crocu e beginning to pu h through in the sheltered area of your garden, then the winter doldrums are almost over and it' time tO give eriou con sideration to where you'll be J une 5-7 . The Colby calendar that ar rived early in January carried many photos of our college year ( now recalled as the "oldie " era on popular mu ic stations) . Many of us have begun over again new relation hips, new career , new families. ome of u are flirt ing w ith retirement, warmer c l i m a t e , extended travel. Gue s we're ju t a cro section of 50plus year-olds, o let' get together at our 3 0th reunion and "do our 59

t h i ng ! " . . . Speak i ng t1f re t i re ment anJ travel , a letter receiveJ from Gail Smith Gerrish i s fi l kJ with new� about A l \ early reti re m e n t frnm Be ll Te l e pho ne la�t year, abuut their three month� in Europe and about l i ving in an Franci�co ( where the i r daughter al,o l i ve�) for a ti m e while w;1 i t i n g for their mountains1Je home in Btiulder, Co l o . , to be reaJy for occ upancy t h i, spring. W h i l e enjoyi ng the varied experience, of a n Francisco, A l rnught for a semesterat UC- Berkeley and con su lted for a h igh-tech company w h i le G a i l took c l asse. in ikebana (Japane�e flower arranging) anJ yoga . . . . At the other enJ of the spe ct ru m , Robert l pcar " fo u nd" h i� grey que t ionna i re under a ton of ma i l on h is Jesk in Brook lyn, N . Y . , where he free lances as a d irectur of p ho togra r h y for fi !ms, spec ia l i z ing in pol it ical commer cials and corporate re�earch anJ Jevelopmenr . H is seconJ wife, J a ne Landis, is a bound recordist for fi l ms but i presently p e rfor m i ng and wri t i ng c h i ldren' music wh ile raibing daughters Katie, 8, anJ J e n n a , 4. B o b a lso has two c h i ldren from h i first marriage daughter J u l ie, 2 2 , who has re cently marrieJ, and son M a tt h ew, 20. M ent i oni ng the economic downtrenJ's i mpact upon free lanc i ng opport uni t ie s , Bob indi cated that he is mak i ng a seriou effort a t wri t i ng cience fiction as another vocat ion . . . . Peter Thompson ha· practiceJ law f o r 26 years in A u burn, M a ine. He checked th r ee categories c on c e r n i n g h i vocation: "extremely a t i fied," " i t pays the h i l ls," and "varies depending on the day." Da ugh te r I lse, 24, i preparing to enter a doctoral program at the U n i ver ity of M a i ne th is fa l l . Pe ter, currently i ngle, is contem plat ing whether a "s i gnifi c ant re lation hip" is part of hi for m u la for a fulfilled l i festyle. Exercise and workout five days a week

Russ Monbleau '66

Headliners William P. Clough l ll '6 1 wa appointed to the cha L, of the New Eng land AB ociation of School and Colleges . . . . William Wooldredge '6 1 wa appointed acting chair, president

Cammi ion on Independent

and chief executive officer ofTransohio Saving Bank, Ohio' large t aving and loan .

. . . John W. Field, Jr. '66 was named chair and chief executive of]. P. Morgan of Delaware . . . . Russ Monbleau '66 was named man of the year by International

Spectrum

magazme, a publica

tion of the International Data Ba e Manag ment

AB ociation. . . . Stuart Ro enfold '69 wa promoted to full profe or in the chemi ·try dei:artment at

mith

College in Northampton, Ma .

along with h u i !J ing furn iture and pre p a r i n g l a n d s c a p i n g p l a m ( when t h e snow and fro·t are gone ) keep h i m in pea k form. Except for "fear and money," Pe ter said, he wou ld be a a i l boat capta in an<l explore the realm of global c i rc umnavigation. ( DiJn't Magel lan a l ready do tha t ?} . . . For t h e pa t 1 2 years, Bobbi Loveland Vest h a been a reaJ ing spec i a l i t in the Fai rfax, Va., public school . Hu band B i l l is v ice prc·ident of Hughes/STX (described a a "beltway ba ndit" company ) , son Brad, 22, will re ceive h i. M .S. in e lectrical engi neering from Cornell th is month and daughter A my, 1 9 , is both a s k ier anJ an art i t at I thaca Col lege. Bobbi has j ust finished Wild Swans, recommend A my Tan's book , l i tens to the soundtrack from Phantom of the Opera and hopes the movie Prince ofTides i

as gooJ as the hook. ( I 'vc decided to not he J i appointed and j ust m i �� M . trei and's d i rectorial ver�ion . ) . . . Another father in h is fift ies, Colby over eer An thony Kramer, who wa j ust be ginning his fa m i l y a few year ago, write ro report on tephanie, 4, and tephen, 3. Tony anJ wife Linda l i ve in Chicago, where he i a partner in an Engl ish com pany repre enting real estate in terest with a U . . portfolio worth a hal f bi l l ion dollar and i chair of an independent gas and oil company. o that ' s wh at you were doing wh i l e the re t of u were struggling w i th three chi ldren and a mortgage back in the '70s! Ac t i ve in the school board and other c i v ic board , Tony v ac i l lates be tween physical exercise ( tenn is, k i ing) and a penchant for poker games. Latest book read was Bar barians at the Gate. ( Is t h is an-

other J a pa n- h a� hin g trcati c w ri t ten hy omcone with two foreign c arb in their garage?) . . . Patricia Doucette Light, at the other end of that spectrum mentioned ea r I icr, i� retiring th i J une after 26 year. a� a h i gh c h oo l m at h teacher in M ich igan hut w i l l con t i nue teachi ng algebra two nights a week at the state univer ity. Both of Pat' d a u gh te r. , Kim, 28, an d Sh e ry l , 25, arc special ed u ca t ion teachers, and K i m is t h e mother of Pat ' two grandc h i l Jrcn, J c· ica, 5, and R ya n , 2 . Pat mentioned that "burnout" be come inevitable with teaching, and he ant i c i p a te s a joyful e xi t encc of trave l ing, re nd i ng t i me with her grandchildren and no students , papers or grades ! Pat woulJ l i k e to catch up with Lynne Dav1<l. on '64, and I ' l l do my be t to expedite that reunion. Mean wh i le, the re t of you hould be t h i n k i ng about that other re u n ion , J une 5-7! Watch for in formation com ing hortly.

Correspondent: Jo-Ann Wincze French A the weather warms up a l i ttle, I am feeling exc i ted antic ipation a ! look forward to spring and a l l

t h e wonder i t brings . . . . J im McConchie ·tarted a new bu i n e s a couple o f year ago. He now o w n and operate Mad Maggie' B i l l iard Parlor in Bos ton. One wa voted the No. I new pa r l or in the U . . by Billiard Digest . J i m say that when he left Colby, he did ju t what he ex pected-wife, kids, house, tation wagon, dog and mortgage "wanted all of them, got all of them and managed to hold onto all of them." . . . Pauline Ryder Kezer i doing ometh i ng he

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never planned

to do when she left Colby- he is now secretary of tate in Connect icut. But her hus band, Ken, a teacher and ba eball coach, i doing what he always wanted to do. A couple of year ago Pau line's la t daughter gradu ated from college, and Paul i ne became a grandmother with two new granddaughter-, spent a se mester at Harvard as a fel low in the I nstitute of Pol i tics and then came home and announced her candidacy for secretary of tate. h e e entual l y won by ome 50,000 votes and wa· the only Republican to win tatewide of fice-and the first Republican secretary of tate in 30 years! Last ummer the Kezers traveled to Germany, A m terdam and Bel gium with the U. .A. ba eba ll team. And last J anuary, when Pau line was the guest ·peaker at the Retired Men Club in West Hartford, m y own father wa� pre em and had the opportunity to talk to her-he wa very im pressed. Maybe omeday we'll -ee Pau line in a national office and we can a l l ay we knew her when . . . . Making her mark in the world in her own pecial way i Barbara Haine Chase, who i a Chapter l teacher of fir t and econd grade. Barb and hu ·band Bill '62 (a urgeon and woodcut ter) have two daughter , Sally and J enne. Barbara ha been a re earch biologi t and a creative dance teacher-a love for wh ich he wi h e he had more t i me . Barb went back t o college t o work on her education certification. The Cha e had an unusual trip to the Alp over a year ago and attended a wedding ceremony "in a mountain h ut under azure kie "-a magical experience, Barbara ay . Barbara a l o has ome word of wi dom for all of u : "The c ript i ne er played the way you write i t ! " . - . Dee Dee Wil on Perry forwarded a note from Cathy McConnell Webber

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regarding Cathy' husband, Sam, who won a seat on the Hallowell, M aine, city counc i l . C<1chy and am and Dee Dee all seem to be doing well and keeping bu y . . . . Entering and remaining in the restaurant busines is not what Byron Petrakis expected to do, but he loves it and has been ex tremely ucce- ful at it. Byron has help from hi wife, Gayle, in r u n n i ng The K i ngston 1 686 House in K ingston, N . H . , and I'm -ure h is k ids, Ca andra and J a on, are also involved. Byron wa looking forward to h is 2 5th wedding anniversary, hi 50th birthday (weren't we all ! ) and hi fir t marathon. Byron pends h is spare time reading, running, cy c l i ng, danc ing and relaxing with h is fam i ly on Bai ley I sl a n d , 1' 1aine . . . . "Life i great," Ivan Freed ay . He keeps busy as a ma l l busine owner. He ha four c h i ldren and was remarried i n ' 4 to h Lrley. When he wrote tn me, he wa contemplating a career change. I van ·pend h is pare time playing racquetball, reading, do ing yard work and land -caping and I i tening to music. I van say to ay hello to John McDonald and Mike Seder. . . . Probably the mo t admired of all has to be Maggie Brigg Grabowski. he and her husband, Eugene, a gen eral and va c u lar urgeon, raised even c h i ldren, rwo dog , a cat, a rabbit, etc . , etc . , etc. A her c h i l dren a r e graduating from college and beginning to leave home, Maggie i eager to go on to a new pha e in her l i fe, perhaps even going back for a ma ter' degree in reading or guidance. he works now part t i me a a tutor and doe·n'r know what " pare time" means . . . . And the la t letter I have from that que tionnaire of October 1 990 i from Frances Jone Vitaglione. he keep bu y a a chool program a i tant at the Nonh Car l i na Mu eum of atural c ience . Her hu band,

Thoma , is an administrator in the children and youth ection of the N .C. tate Board of Health. Their on Guy i president of stu dent government at G u i lford College in Greensboro, and on Sandy is a student at David on College near Charlotte. T\\'O years ago Fran traveled to Co ta Rica on a natural history exped ition. Fran ays she spends her spare t ime working with the League of Women Voters, the Emergency Feeding Program for low income people and the Tra ns i t i on a l Housing Program . . . . That'- it and thac' - chat. l need lot more new- now. Please write!

Correspondent: Sara Shaw Rhoades

Well, I 've hit "the wall." For clas correspondents that mean fac ing a deadline w ithout one scrap of new to report. I 'm two and a half year- into my five-year term and I 've run out of material! It' · t ime to end out a h ighly imagi native que t ionnai re that will excite you inro writing a letter or at lea ·t a paragraph. The College has ju t ent me a Class Corre sporu.lem Handbook that i a pretty well organized l ittle volume con taining "Everything You E er Wanted to Know About Th i J ob." l wa appalled to di cover more than I wanted ro know; i.e., that l am chair of the Nominat ing Committee for the next late of officers. Perhap I 'll nominate an one who doe n't write me in the next three month . (I hear a low rumble a hundreds of you tart prac t ic ing your "lf nom inated I will not run" peeche .) Meanwhi le, what do you remem ber were the controversial i ues of our day at Colby? During my

�on' four year�, there wa a lot of pace in the Echo devored to gay/ lesbian i ue� and equal ity con cerns. A friend of mine who v is ited the campu in 1 979 remem ber· the studenr- all carrying their toothbrushe i n their �h i rt pock ets. Seems the admini tra t ion, having decreed that male and fe male tudents could not l ive in the -ame room, wa chal lenged ( by the students) to define the exact place of residence. Adm in. replied, "Where your belonging are." tudents queried, "Wh ich belongings1" Admin replied i n exasperation, "Your toothbrush ! " Hence, the h i re pockets. o what were the issue that we got ten e about? ( A bout w h i c h we got ten-e. Ye , M is Curran. )

65 _ Correspondent: Richard Bankart

With the outbreak of peace, Col. retired from the A i r Force after 26 years. He has resettled in N ashua, N . H . , and will b e looking for troke from Bud Marvin. Bud j u ·t com pleted hi - 20th year as pre idem of Manpower of ew Hamp h ire and Vermont and has been at tending meeting i n California, Quebec ityand Puerto Vallarta. . . . Debbie Davis wa part of a 3 3 - member peace delegation to V ietnam la t Augu t. he v is i ted everal c i ties, including Hanoi and Ho Chi M inh Ciry, in sup port of normali:ing relation _ . . _ Ralph Bunche, J r. continues a an inve tment banker w i th Mor gan tanley I nternat ional i n London . . _ . Leah Aranov i t c h has now incorporated her busi ne as a per anal trainer under the banner The Body F i rm , Inc. he placed econd i n Mi Maine Dana Abboa h a

'90 and third in the N ew England Champion hips '9 1 . . . . Randy Antik i executive vice president ofmarketing, .alc and c l ient sat isfaction at A DVO I nc . , a d b mburor of co-op aJvertising pro grams. Randy and Nancy ( De Witt '66 ) report vacationing in Martha's Vineyard with Allen Post last summer. . . . Gordon Bowie d i rects the Bangor Band, play trombone in the Bangor ymphony, teache publicly and privately and cont inue working on a docroral di serration. H i. hobby i hi sailboat, SerendipLr)'. on which he and Mary ( t 1 mson '64 ) cruise the M aine coa t. Gor don admit to a "sailboat person al ity but a powerboat schedule." . . . John Bragg married Theresa Gardiner last September and then became president of the family firm, H. Bragg. He is in h i second year on the Bangor City Counc i l , which he serves as chair of the finance comm ittee . . . . Pauline Belanger Beaudoin ts a peech-language pathologist for Region o. 1 0 in rhe Burlington, Conn., area ·chool d istrict. he recounts a vistt la t ·ummer from Margot Lutz Ott and family, who arrived in "a humongous camper." . . . Mamie Hale Fowler teaches grade seven language art , read i ng and math i n M i l l inocket, M a ine. h e canoed the Al iaga h with Susan McGinley last year. Su an invited her to join an all women "war canoe" team in the Kenduskeag canoe race on April 1 8. " I suppo e it's appropriate to add it to my l ist of thing to do before I tum 50." usan, "blue berry grower, freelance theater d irector and general dabbler," hoped to add J ill Long to the " 1 4woman war c anoe . " . . . Prof. Tom and Nancy Ryen Morrione have old their hou e i n W i nslow to get out of the way of the new bridge over the Kennebec and have moved to the H eights fac ulty apartment. 'Thirty year af62

ter we came as fre hmen, we're hack in the dorm . " . . . Dave Fearon i� profes or of manage ment at the chool of Busine s at Central Connec t icut tate Unt ver ity, where he teache roral quality management. I n '90-'9 1 he was a visit ing profe orat Colby and "hope to move back to my Ma ine roots again ome day." . . Pat McClay Gauer i back teach ran1·h at i n g Fre n c h anJ Waterv i l le H igh. " tarttng to teach form r tudent ' children. That' when you know you're gett ing old." he anJ Ernie '5 will he helping to chaperone 40 h igh school k ids on a trip ro Pan ( the one in Franc e ) a you reaJ c h is . . . . Linda Goodine Johnson report from Benningrnn, Vt . . thatshe keepsbu y tcachingcla room mu tc to K-6 rudem- in one school. teaching smng in -trument in another school and directing an adult choir. Hail, Colby, Ha t ! !

Corre pondent: Susan Daggett Dean

Whi le working on our 2 5th re union plan , I talked to and heard about many cla smates who are planning to attend, and I thought I would tell you about ome of them in this column . . . . Phil Kay i now living inGlouce ter, Ma s., He sounded great. . . . Mike and Pam Cooper Picher are t i ll l iv ing in Canada. M ike wa given the "opportunity" to contact some of hi old friends in order to raise money and encourage them to join Pam and him in Waterville in J une . . . . I 'm looking forward to eeing Su an and Paul Cronin. Paul i in h is 20th year of teach ing. H is son Brian will be apply ing to college t h is year. Their

girb, Erin, 4 , and Amy. 7 , arc terrific . . . . Ann Russell tarr was contemplating a move intu the medical ab field when . he wrote. he and her hu band, M i k e , h a ve t w o d a u g h t e r . Victoria 1� now 4, anJ Jc 1ca, who b 8, is an ice kater. Ann wrote that he would love to ee any cla�smatc> who are vi:.ttmg the W;i,hington, D.C., area. Fred Hopengarten 1� still living tn Lincoln. Ma . H t� 1ster and hrnthcr- i n- L:1w, Jane and Pete Mos . have been namcJ full pro fes�nr> at Colhy. Fred ha been working on ome new venture . It appear� that he has been a man of many mtere ts and talents over the year . . . . Terry Carreira Garland is al o planning to at tend the reunion. he wa k inJ enough to make some phone call rn encourage friend to attenJ anJ to complete their Update . hects . . . . Also planning to at tend 1 Carol Beer . he is living in cattle, as i Rick Luba , who wrote that he was a l i ve and well. . . . Victor Mar hall is al o pla n n i ng tn attend . . . . Lou Richardson McGinity wrote from Wellesley, Mas ., that Phil Kay, S a n d y M i l le r Keohane and Laurie Lewin imm are all com ing to the reunion . . . . K u rt Swenson wrote to say that he had heard from J im Helmer, who plan to attend. He wrote, "Oth er attending: Doug Howe, Doug Schair, J im Katz, Dick Lemieux

t to name a few. Too many to li t." . . . Pam Wheeler Atwood wrote that she will attend, a did

Tom Samda, Chalmers Harden bergh and Caroline Kresky . . . Diana Walsh Lockwood wrote

that her on Andrew will be get ting married in J une , o he will be unable ro make i t to Watervi lie. . . . Other hoping to attend are J. J. Mueller Tillinghast, Patty W h i t t e m o r e J en k i n s , J u d y Kolligian and Terry h a w '67 and Jane Machia George . . . .

Phillip Bromwell wrote that h is Jaughter , Leah and Paula, at tend Lexingt0n Christian Acad emy and enjoy it. Ph i l live in Norwood, Mas ., and hope to at tend the reunion . . . . Eric Meindl al o hope tO attend. He is till enjoying life in the New Orlean · area. He is completing work on his ma ter' in marine c iences . . . . Ledyard " Le d " Baxter i working on a doctor of mini try degree at Hartford Semi nary wh i le continuing tO erve a pa tar of the First Church i n Ludlow, United Church o fChrist. He a l o hope to ee u in J une . . . . Another "hope to at tend" i Gaylord Simonds, who live in York, Ma ine. He and h is wife, Chri tal, rai e and train hor e . H e rides five days a week . . . . Nick Hadgis wro te that he lectured on hotel management at the University of Istanbul a year ago la t November. In De cember of '9 1 he lectured at the Institute of Hotel Management in Ahmadabad, Ind ia. N ic k a l o hope tO be at Colby in June. ( I r won't be quite a exotic as ome of hi other trips . ) . . . Chuck Levin wrote that h i on Jonathan i starting tO look at colleges, o our reunion will be a great time tO show him Colby. Chuck ha a law practice . . . . A full-time hand writing and document examiner, Ruth Elliott Holmes travel from coa t to coast for court work and lecture . Her aide t on is in col lege and her daughter i a h igh · c h oo l j u n i or . . . . R o b e r t a "Sookie" Stockwell Danielson

wrote from W inthrop, M aine, that he graduated from nursing school i n 1 990 ("not an easy task"). he is u ing all her past experience and new knowledge at the V.A. ho pita! in Tagus, M a ine. Her son Todd i a opho more at the University of Maine majoring in c ivil engineering. Her daughter Heathet is a high chool junior interested in cros -counColby , M ay 1 992

Success Isn't As Easy As ABC G

eorge Cain '66 ay the reported demi e of networks in

the age of cable tele\'i ion ha been grossly exaggerated.

the ability to quickly mobili<;e and to pool has allowed the network to cale back without reducing coverage, Cai.n ay .

ident, network group for ABC Televi ion.

equation, hopi.ng to increa e revenue from new program by

"We have een an mflux ofnew channel that rranslate into

overcoming a reluctance by ome adverti er to a sociate

to 1 0

their product with di tasteful tories. When war loomed

'It' an exciting time to be in thi bu i.nes ," said Cain, enior vice pr

a growing diver iry. The publtc u·ed to have

i.x

channel t o choo e from. That number i now 3

t o S O for

mo t viewers and it will be over 500 in 10 years." While thi has led to a 30 percent reduction i.n the three major network·'

hare of audience, Cain

ay , the total

ABC i

also working on the other

early la t year, he

ide of the

ay , ABC produced a marketi.ng tape

tre ing the eparation of commercials from unappealing d1 patches from the war zone. "lt worked with ome adverti ers," he aid, "but not others."

television audience i up 1 50 percent, meaning that ABC,

Ca in' own ri e ha been characterized by hard work and

BC are reachi.ng more individual than ever and

challenging the notion that "cable TV could be a rifle hot

wi e calculation a well as adaptability and prudent ri-k taki.ng. He

at a particular group," uch a an up cale market likely to view

Colgate Palmolive, an as·ignment that took him all over the

financial or cultural programs.

" I learned a lot." A nine-month tint in advertisi.ng led to a

and

"Let'

ay you were trying to reach people who purchase

tarted in the corporate audit department at

world. "It wa a terrific way to get into the bu ine ," he aid.

stock 20 time a ear " ith average tran actions in exce s of

po·ition as product manager, fir t for Colgate' Curity brand

1 0,000," he aid. "You would thmk that your be t buy would be the Financial ew Network. The truth i that tudie tell u the frequency [of ad placements on FN ] i o high, the ads

lo e their effectivenes . If you tarted out runni.ng on unday morning with David Brinkley plu the 6 to 7 a. m. early new

reari.ng fi e children on "the outskirts of civilization" in Reading, Conn., a daily round trip for him of more than four

and maybe one untt of Peter J ennings, the ame money could reach all tho e tock purcha ers and give you 1 times the

for an opportunity in Connecttcut. That' when ABC called,

total audience as well." Cain concede that ABC and the other networks have had to make ome adju tments, e pecially in the area of cost control. The new division are one target . "Walter Cronkite used to ay that new wa like the fire department," Cain aid. "Yuu have to have eight engine in the hou e to re pond to a four-alarm fire e en though it doe n't come every day." Bur

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fir t-aid

upplie , then for U ltrabrite toothpaste and

finally for the fmn' name ake toothpa te. All the while, he ay , he and hi wife,

u an, were

hours. By 1 979, after 1 1 years at Colgate, he tarti.ng looking o, in·tead of moving hi office do er to home, Cain moved the family to Greenwich. Cain ha remained an active alumnus, ervi.ng as an alma mater at college fairs. "I loved Colby," he aid. " I came

admi ion interviewer for the College and repre enti.ng his

away from Colby with a way of thi.nking that I've u ed ever i.nce and till u e today."

Correspondents try sk i i ng and art. . . . There arc

others 1 have nor I istcd who h n p e or plan ro attend. Afrer March 25 Rn�' and I w i l l be ped olby a nd to a l i ng our way to that fomou� lobster bake ( RnN:, many

moti, · ar i n n ) . Sec you there ' A

may somc of my c l a. note that

of i nrerc'r r o

mares: M y mmher

cal led in Deccmher ro t e l l me rhar she had j ust received r h c l 992 Colby Calendar.

he wa, ,o

excired 1 My parent,, J ohn '4 l and Nata l ie Moner Daggett '42, a rc

the couple pi turccl on r h e frnnt c over i n the b l ack -ancl - w h i r e photo representing Co lby 5 0 years ago.

68_ Correspondent: Barbara E. Bixby l oved your s h a r i ng remem brance' of freshman orientat ion with me, dear '68ers. Now back . R i c h a rd t o t h e p r e se n t .

Goldberg, a p i ano teacher like myself, is a tunesmith to boor. H e a lso owns a t r i c k cat, L i l l y . . . Ellen and Walter Greist have two teenaged c h i ldren, both at tend ing private �chool · in New England. The Greists own and operate a communi ty-supported farm , M i l l Ri ver Val ley Gardens, i n Connect ic u t . . . . Peter and Ann Wilson Hobart ofNew Lon don, Con n . , have two ons, one a Colby student who spent h is j u n ior year in China . . . . M ary and Dick J ude and their rwo son , Patrick and Cra ig , are up i n Ellswort h , M a i ne, where D i c k i o w n e r a n d m a n ag e r of T h e E llsworth Agency and Branch Pond M a r i ne . . . . I wa i ntrigued and spe l l bound by Shawn Onat Kendrick ' letter. She and hus band Dav i d , a graphic de igner, have raised their three daughters

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Phy ic Dep rtment. Dr. Ban croft i now 80 and l i ve s an ac t i ve l i fe w i t h wife Margie in Brook v i l le, M a ine . . . . I po ted

G e orge Rid e out 's upl ift i ng crip tural me age ( prin ted from his Open Church Foundation publ i cat ion ) i n my school, Holy Child. Our dear head of sc h ool , ister J eanne Marie H atch, SHCJ , f ten inspires us teachersofall faith and deno m i n a t ion to happy heights with i m i lar me sages of hope and cheer. Come, labor on! Thank you one and a l l .

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Anna T. Bragg

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on M ichael l ove Colby. The Murphy fam i l y v i ited Dr. Den ni,tm Bancroft, Colby profe sor emeri tus and former chair of the

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96 Ly nch H i l l Road Oakdale, CT 06370 203- 4 -0469

the econo m ic downturn is an ef fort, and keep i ng rhis a li vable corner of a planet becoming le o i� a major ta k . " . . . Donal and Patricia Davi Murphy ay that

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Correspondent: Anna Thompson Bragg A w i nter production of The King

in a home-school ing env iron ment w i th spectac u lar results. All

daughter �tephanie are college students . . . . Dr. Rick Moriarty

three have been ent i rely taugh t at home and have excelled scho

reported the sad tatistic of pedi atric patients with the H I V vi rus.

la tically and artistically a they

R i c k was a speaker last u m mer at the Emergency Medicine I nsti t u te at Colby, which Bud H iggin

have left home for col leoe . . . . Susanne G ilmore MacArthur

and husband K. C. MacArthur l l l are teacher/admin istrator at the h igh school and college lev e l . Susanne enjoys teach ing a gifted and talented program at her own old h igh chool . She reports that Carl Glickman, "the pre-eminent authority on school improvement i n the whole coun try," graced her school sy tern with a v i it. . . . Anne Orchard Morris teaches e l emen tary school i n Jaffrey, N . H . Son Zachary and

'69 d i rects . . . . Brad Muscott ( who on more than one occasion was obl iged t

i t and l isten to me

sing Bob Dylan songs and surfing songs c i rca 1 96 5 ) i a graphic art ist and pre ident of M uscott Assoc iates, I nc . Brad reports that he is still married, "st i l l has his

TR-3 and still rides h i bike." .

Vermont state senator M i k e M e t c a l f a n d w i fe M a ry L e e ( Merri l l '70) write t h a t " e n uring a k i nder, gentler Vermont du ring

and I u nde r the d i rec t ion of Howard Koonce featured ourown Mary Walker Rector as Anna Leonowen . Mary is l i v ing in Waterville and is obviou ly keep ing busy with activities on "the H i l l . " l t i good tosee the fa m i l iar names assoc i a ted with Colby ac ti vitie . l w ish we could have seen you perform, M a ry ! . . . Pol l y

Dyer Desmarais wrote t o m e with a most welcome update. he has been l i v ing in Dublin, Ga. , for the past 1 4 years. he is a k i nder garten teacher and the mother of two teenagers. She is working on a ma ter's degree i n her pare time. She i anxious to hear from old Colby friend . Thanks for wri t ing, Pol l y . . . . L ike several of u , Susan Magdefrau Werkhoven is Colby , May 1 992

You ' re not too young to plan for retirement

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You're just too busy. You 're b u i ld in g a c a reer, you're rai

ing a fam i l y . If you're

And best of a l l , your gift a n n u i ty w i l l ult i mately help build

like many Colby a l u m n i in their 30s or 40s, you're too bu y

Colby's endowment-for

to spend m u c h time p lanning for retirement.

and other College need .

cholarship , faculty development

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adju t ing to having a son in col lege. he note that "the food bill i way down, but we still miss him ! " Her son Scott is attending Lafayette College, and her daugh ter i a enior i n h igh chool. u an i a math teacher and the math department chair at The Gunner; in Wa h i ngton, Conn. he i also a memberofthe Wash ington Zoning Commission. Her h usband, Davi d , is a c ie nce Colby, May 1 99 2

teacher and a baseball coach .

. .

J udy Holden Wray i probably

one of our more traveled c la s members. he i now liv ing in Chicago, where she is an admin istrative assistant in a local ho pita!. She and her family have also l i ved in Washington, O.C., North Carolina, Hungary and Yucatan, Mex ico. I r would be fun to hear about your stays in Hun gary and Mex ico! Write back

some time . . . . The director of hou ing and service at the Air Force pace Command in Colo rado prings is our own Peter Shearston. Peter has been a ser vice officer mo t of hi Air Force career. He is ba ically re pon ible for management of feeding and hou ·ing ervices, as well a the hotel, base exchange and com missary. Like Mary Holden, he has l i ved in many places, includ-

ing Labrador, Thailand and Eng land. When Peter was the com mander of the 5 5 th erv ices quadron from 1 986 to 1 9 9 at Offutt Air Force Ba e in Omaha, the hotel di vi ion wa elected as the be t innkeeper (a larger cat egory ) in the Air Force in 19 , and the squadron wa elected as the be t services c;uadron in the Air Force in 1 9 9. Good job! . . . Enjoy the spring day , everyone! 65

THE SEVENTIES

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Correspondent: Nancy Hammar Austin

Correspondent: J anet Holm Gerber

Correspondent: Susan Gearhart Wuest

Thi, column is ' i mply ne11·, from

A t i me l y cn tn c i den c c ! J u.,r a, l

the front and a n ap pc<i l ro ret u rn y o u r new quc,tion n a 1 re' a� �non

\\'a' beg i n n i ng rn think of g;1rhcr

Van a n J P a m e l a S i m p k i n s Gothner l i ve in Brook lyn, N .Y . , 11· 1 t h r h e l f daughter, Karherine, who turned 2 in Ol'emhcr. Van i> an inl'c,rment h<1nker, and Pam i' a "hnmemakcr/1•ol unteer." A docent <H the Bruoklyn M u�cum i n rh e Amerirnn f\1 i n r ing., G a l l e r y a n d in rhc Dccorar 1 1·e Art> Cnl lecrion, ram I abo on rhc h1;1rd nf rhe J u ni or League L1f Brook lyn. f1<1m wrore thar "rhey now have a formhow.e in Keene, .Y., where -.he <ind Kare penr mn' r of la;t ,ummer . . . . [T]he garden, which h,1., heen c u l r i vared for more rhan 1 00 year , produced wnnJerfu l vegetable,." They also l01·e ro enterta tn friends ar h1 m e , -. o P a m enjoys lor, of cook i ng and bak ing . . . . A trouble ome mu n i c i pal ll'atersysrcm led John and Al ison R e y n o l d s P e t e rma n , Porr,mouth, N . H . , ro rhe ir cur rent employment w i th Envir m menral Prnducr ... A 'earch for a h e a l t h y a l t e rn a t i v e furn i ·hed rhem wirh a tremendou - business venture ( water fi lrrar ion '>Y>tem , a i r y rems, recyc l i n g ) , becau e orher commu n i t ies a lso suffer from h ighly ch lorinated water. J ohn is manager, A l i on i in re gional sales. Anyone interested, ju t conracr Ali on ! A jeweler as we l l , A l ison work · in rhe trade doing repair and c ustom work besides being involved with grant writ ing for rhe -chool enrichment program. They enjoy spending wi nter vacat ion t i me k i ing in rhe New Hampsh i re mounta i n w i r h t h e i r three c h i ldren: Mor gan, 1 1 , J a i me, 8 , and Henry A l lan, 6. A l ison wri tes rhat i t is a "great fa m i l y vacat ion t i me . . . the k ids sk i down anyth i ng ! " . . . Deborah Seel Palman l ive i n Aurora, M a i n e , where he is a

a, po, , 1 h l c . . . . Fred Copithorn i � pleased rn report thar he', l il' ing i n � yrncusc, N . Y . , a n d cnm rlctel y Cnjl1y i ng h1 new JOb in

rhc gcolugy Jepmtment ar Col gate U n i l'rn. i ry . . . . Carol Leslie and Debbie B i rtcnbender Col l i ns

' 7 2 were v i, i r i ng Linda Chester when l phuned ro find out rhe lare.r Colby new>. Deb and Dave Coll ins arc l i v i ng m Pordand , M a i ne , where he i an a,,i,ra nt U . . a r rorney. He Wl)rb on fed eral cases in vol l'lng enl'ironmen tal l i t igat ions ( among orher fed eral i·sues ) and see Rich Emery '69, who i, al o an a.�istanr U.� . 3trorne y . Carol worb in the al rernarive education program for Waterv i lle/Winslow, and Linda i, reach ing Lar i n in Leominster ( M ass . ) H igh chool. They had all gorren together ro give �ur port ro Nancy Necke Dumart and her hushand , Bruce '72, dur ing their preparariom for rhe ar rival of"Gump." The first Neckes/ Dumart offapri ng, a son, is a l ready nick named f o r a famou· New York Ranger hockey player. . Brian McQuade, exec u t ive d i rector of the Worce·ter Hou ing A u thority, is a l way in rhe local new · . Wherher he's com men t i ng on cockroaches or in sensi t ive mes ages to renanr from b u i l d i ng managers or rhe h igh vacancy rate in rhe public hous ing fac i l it i e , Brian a l ways seem to i n p i re comments and cartoon rhar end u p in rhe Worcester Tele gram and Gazette. l 've asked Brian to pre ent h is perspect ive on hou i ng and homeles ne in A merica for a future artic le.

i ng new> for th1' culumn, I fou nd David Graves hch ind me 1 11 rhe >upermarkct c hccku u t l i n e ' He\ a rh ar m < ic i > r wirh rhe G i <1nt ,u rermarker chain and l i ve ' in � i l v c r pring, M d . , w i r h h i' w i fe , A manJ<1 , a n J t w o 'on, . . . . A , for coinc idence,, here\ u n c rhar occurred la,t H1mmer ar M y'>ric Seaport in Conncc r i c u r . ChrL :rnd Deb Trescott Pinkham were 1·1>irmg rhere and had j u>r rc m<1rkeJ ro one another rh<it "rh 1, i, rhc k i nd of place wh e re you <ilw<iy 'ee 'omeone you know wnnder why we haven't run i n to anyone" when rhcy 'porred David Withnel l . Dal'e and Liz ( Ro s ) were there wirh J enn ifer, 9, anJ Andrew, 5. The P i nkham· have three c h i ldren : 9-year-old Em i l y a n d 5 - yem-old rwin B e n anJ A lexander. They l i ,·e in Freernrt, M a i ne , and are heav i l y mto sai l i ng and rac i ng. The Wi rhnelb are near me in Rock v i lle, Md. ( rhey sec a lor of Dave G rave · ) . Dav i d works in Wa -h i ngro n , D . C . , for a l a w firm ·pec i a l i:ing in energy law. Li: recenrly com pleted 'ome freelance legal re search and has now raken on lors of major comm u n i t y volunteer project,-inc lud i ng a p , i t ion on rhe C i t i zen·' Advisory Board of rhe Wa h i ngron Suburban ani tary Comm ission, rhe water au thori ty serv i ng a l l of metropol i t a n Wa h i ngron. L iz a n d l a r e in r o u c h wirh E l l e n McCarthy Kinney, who cont i nually report rhat a l l ' fine with her in K i rk land, Wash., near Searrle . . . . l r's about t i me ro pack your bags and head u p ro M ayflower H i l l for our 20rh-great r i m e guaranteed. See you !

game warden

pec ial ist for the

.,tare. H ushanJ Gregory is an in surance field representat i ve. Four Jog round our rhe ir fa m i l y u n i r : n n e Lih, o n e Brirrany a n J rwo German ,hepherd . pare r i me is penr tra in i ng dog . . . . I n J anu nry I heard from John Loker-he and hi fam i l y ( rhe boys are now

7 and 1 1 ) li ve in Carme l , I n d . , where J ohn work f o r Boehringer Mannhe in, a med ical d i agno r i c company, a- a quality erv ice manager mvolved w i rh technical rrouhle hooting and new prod uct rran,fer. He had j usr heard from Mike "Moose" Hanf, who travel about the world for work anJ trie ro c a l l ome Colby friend, whenever he make i t back ro rhe tares. . . . Carol Houde, a,h ua, N . H . , married rephen Gronberg a year ago Apr i l . They spent rhcir honeymoon cuba div ing off Bonaire in the Nether land Antille . Carol works a a c l m ical p ychologi t; tephen i an environmental chemi t. They are in the proce of renovating the house that her farher and grandfather bu i l t . . . . Pete Coz ent me an update: in eprember he spent four day backpac k i ng in the Grand Canyon w ith L i nda and Boyd Allen. They had a great t ime, and Pere only took one in adverrent wim i n the Colorado R i ver! . . . ln her Christmas note ro me, Flo G u towski Harlor wrote that her fourth c h i ld, Suan, was b rn l a t April, almost three m nths early, and weighed j u r under two pounds! She was home after rwo months and on oxygen for the first seven, and thei r "great joy and thankfulness comes from knowing that he'l l be a perfec t l y heal thy baby ! " Having outgrown their house, they moved i nto a very small rental and hoped to be in their new home by Apri l . ( I t had been gutted, and a second tory was being added . ) t i l l w ith Digital, Flo has

ome new account re-

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ponsibilitie· with the main focus on oil and gas accounts. he ended by saying that they were driving l ,000 mile to a wedding over Christmas-in a mini-van w i th four k id !

Bruce Black '71

Headliners _

Correspondent: N oe l Ba rry Stella Candace Ca m p be l l write

from Virginia that he remarried in J une. She and her hu band, Rob ert Morris, are parents to five children ranging i n age from 6 to I . . . . John Bu rgha rdt plan to begin bui ld i ng a log home on h i property j u t west o f Denver. In h i pare time, that i . John i a geologist for the mining and min erals branch of the N at ional Park ervice and travel 16 to ZO weeks a year, all over the counrry. H i family unit con i t s o f am and Caleb, two amoyeds. . . . Writ ing from Brook l ine, Mass., where he and her h u band , K e v i n Jenness, h a v e l ived fo r everal year , Becca Guild ay he left teaching last year to care for her newborn on, Charle . She re turned to the ame chool as a con ultant on a part-time ba i this fall. . . . Aero the Atlantic, Dennis May i a manager at Ep on Europe B.V. i n the Netherland after n ine years in J apan. Denni hopes to return to Mayflower H i l l o me t i m e oon . . . . A n d rew Gleeman, a marketing manager fo r Pepperidge Farm I n te rna t ional , reports from Westport, Conn., that the birt h of h i ( and wife Beth's) on Drew last year was more fun than turning the l ibrary tower l ight green on r. Patrick's Day, 1 974. Funny how one' pPr pective change . . . . Ned Lipes and h i wife, Pau la, have three children. Ned i pre i dent ofO teonics Corporation, a Colby, May

1 992

Bruce Black ' 7 1 won the cientific Achievement Award from American Cyanamid Company for hi work John Zacamy '7 1 i managincr director, Bankers Trust Securitie Corp. . . . Robert Diamond '7 4 wa named pre ident and chief executive officer of C First Bo ton Pacific . . . . David Marshall '75 wa elected executive vice pre ident of in developing biological insecticides . . . .

Duquesne Light Company in Penn ylvania.

Newsmakers Daniel Blake '71 was named to the board of tru

tees of Bristol Community College by Massachu etts Gov. William Weld . . . .

Barbara Fitzgerald-Mertik '7 1 Life maga::ine in an article

made the February i ue of

about a young Olympic hopeful ice skater. Fitzgerald Memk , a former competitive kater, now coaches youngter in Cleveland, Ohio . . . . Christopher Pinkham '72, president of the Maine A ociation of Community Bank , -poke on "What' Really Going On in Banking?" at a recem meeting of the Credit Grantor of Southern Maine . . . .

Steve Culver '78 was named category man

ager in the grocery deparanent at Hannaford Bro . Company in Scarborough, Maine.

Mileposts Births: A daughter, Allison France , to Dan '76 and Debbie Cronin Dawe '78. Marriages: J ani ce E. Barker '79 to Brian ] . McFar land in Scarborough, Maine.

manufacturer of orthopaedic im plants for hip and knee . He trav els "too much" but omehow find t i me to attend the annual Chop per Open on Cape Cod. ed noted chat Scott Houser was a

no-show thi year and urrnised chat "hi golf game wa probably so bad he was embarra ed to how it." . . . Dave Peckhamhasn't seen anyone from Colby ince 19 0 and wants to know who el e l ive

i n the anta Barbara, Cal if. , area. He works a a pension con ult ant, and his w i fe , J ud y , i a photographer. . . . Tim O ' B rien onl y attended Colby for one year but is intere ted i n the going -on of other clas members. Tim and h i fam i ly, wife Kit and rwo son , Joel and Jackson, l ive in Boulder, Colo., where Tim is a music ian, profes ional telephone jockey and ongwriter. He is currently pro moting a new recording, "Odd Man I n," on Sugar H i l l Records. He saw David Smith and Eric Rolf on ' 7 3 recently . . . . Finally, Lynn Leavitt Marrison wmes that -he and her husband, Chad, l ive in Brewster, N.Y., where Lynn teaches preschool. They have rwo daughter , Tucker, 5 , and H ea th e r , l . Lynn s a w A n n Dunlap Lebourdais at Candace Campbe l l 's wedd ing in J une. Lynn thoroughly enjoy working part t i me and being around for her c h ildren. "] can be more am bitious later," she ay . Those of u at home now realize j ust how mode t that comment i !

7 7_ Corre pondent: Lisa Tripler

Hello, aga i n ! By the time you read this, our 1 5 th reunion w i l l b e j u t around t h e comer. I hope most of you are planning to at tend. It should be great fun. . . . You may remember that last issue found me once again desperate for news from our c l ass. I have taken three teps to help the itu ation: I put together a cla que tionnaire; I invested megabucks in the phone company; and l tud ied the graffiti on Valerie (Jone '76) and Steve Roy' refrigerator. o here we go . . . . Cla pre i dem Bob K e efe took r i me out from h is hectic fi h ing and ports-

Correspondents sp ec r a m r ,c hed u le m hel p h i , w i fe d c l i ve ra hea l th y ha by hoy. Ncmu i · c u rren t l y the p roduct sale:- man ager for N i ro Atom i:cr ( DDS Fil rratinn D i v i� i on ) i n M i n nesuta. He's hnping-that is, planni ng to head cast for the reu n ion . . . . Dave Lillich l i ve:- in Burke, V a . , w i t h h is w i fe a n d daughter. ( C u t e p i c t u re, Dave ! ) Dave cnm p le ted bmh busi nes' and law �chool <md now docs contract wmk for Har ris Corp . . . . Herb Magid and h is fa m i l y l i ve in �herburn , Mas�. S t e ve Roy wants t n p et i t i o n H e rh's company, Energy l nves tnrs Man ageme nt I nc . , to resch ed ule t h e i r annual fi rm mee t i ng in Cal i forn ia because tt confl ic ts w i th our re u n ion. Good luc k 1 • • • teve and Va lerie J ones Roy ha v e move d to a pe El i:abeth , Maine, with their two sons, Dan and Derek. teve is a soc ial worker for the ommun i ty Coun elin g Cen ter i n Porr lnnd . ( The Tripi r Rapaport fa m i ly is very exci ted to h a ve the Roys i n the n e ighbor hood ! ) teve i nform s me that the response to our upcoming reunion has been v e r y pos i t i ve. He' · sure lot of people w i l l make a last d i tc h attempt to attend once they k now p lan arc underway to re enact the in f a mous pool "break in" of graduation week. The b i g question is whether to t r y wear ing bath ing suits this time. Deb Buccina Rogers is a partner in the law firm of Hewe , Dou glas, W h i t ing and Quinn in Port land, M a i ne, and l i ves in Fa l mouth with her husband, Ed . My contact report that Deb is very h i gh ly respec te d i n the lega l commun ity . . . . I am concentrat i ng my energies on fa m i l y and volunteer efforts at the moment. My area of experti ·c was ju ven i le law, so I thought l wou ld try it out fi r thand at home for a w h i l e . H o p e to s e e y o u oon.

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tru k by how someo ne can mean ·o much at one t i me and o l i ttle

"I lo ve

larer on . . . . Steve Sparkes i an O B/G YN i n Corv a l l is, Ore . , where he l ives with h is wife and

being a country bumpk in," re ports Fritz Martin, who moved from Santa Barbara, Ca l i f. , to

three boy . Among hi greatest accomplishments in l ife: urviv ing a trip up Mt. St. H elens w i th

Richmond in 1 988. Fritz is mar ried wi th two c h i ldren and wr i te oftware for Macin tosh comput

Anne Marie Hobson . . . . After Colby, David Van Winkle got h is Ph.D. at the U n i versity of Colorado. Now he's based in Tal lahassee, F la . , a an associate pro fessor of phy ics at FSU. David i married w i t h two c h i ldren, S t i r l i ng a n d Taylor. . . . Craig Snider penned in from the home of W i l l iam Penn ( Ph i l l y ) , where

Datel ine: Richmond, V t . :

ers, a far cry from h is days as a river guide on the Snake and Sal mon river in Idaho . . . . Out west, Lee Roberts wri tes that he now l igh t i ng up Sante Fe, N . M . , wi t h h is custom-made lamps. Lee

eled the globe in recent year and

now ay� she lead a h igh - tres , competitive l i fe during the week and head back to nature on week e nd s-a confl ict he ee as Ann Taylor v . L. L. Bean . . . . Further east is Lise Greenfield Shanahan in Ledyard, Conn., where she's a homemaker for her h usba n d , daughter E r i n a n d their two Labs. . . . New Hartford , Conn., i home to Donna Dietzko Vincenti, her hu ban d and the i r three on . Donna has practiced real estate law and estate law in the pa t but now ha; her eyes open for a job in t ru t ad m i n istration . . . . Dren

Hampton, N . H . , where he's been ever since. Now a v i ce president

a l ·o paints on t h e i d e a n d h ikes i n h i spare t i me and ays he i

Correspondent: Susan Gernert Adams

Parrish '79 i · . . . . Al o in Ph i l l y is Susan Plummer, who's trav

1 979 Em i l y M . prague ( Em i l M. Grou t )

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dium management and market i ng . H e wonder� where Mark

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he recently tarted work in sta

nan Lowell got his M . B.A. after Colby and wa h i red by Wheel abrator Cleanwater ystems in

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was once an antique dealer but is

usan W u e t

in finance, Drennan is also a fam ily man w i th two boys and a t hi rd bahy on t he way . . . . S h e i la Wentworth Polson ha landed in L i ncolnv i l le, Ma ine, hav i ng once worked for the National Park ervice in Wa h i ngton, the Ger man N a t ional Parks and the Ala k a Department of Fish and Game. She gave it all up to be a mom in Mai ne-to two c h i ldren, two dogs and four hens. hei la till doe ome free lance writing and i ac t i ve in the Natural Re sources Counc i l of M a i ne . . . . And Michele Rolfson Steer also moved back to Maine three years ago to marry J oh n Steer '76. M ichele had been an actre and worked in hote l management in NYC. . . . My m i n i -pol l show us to be Pro-Choice aero s the board (special kudos to Donna Vincenti, who' even c h a m p i o n e d the cause) but split on the re-elec t ion of Bu h. Please k ee p tho e card , Letter and questionnaires coming. Colby , May 1 992

Piloting I f occer i

ics, then

"Sunk Ship" into Port

the tepchild of American intercollegiate athlet am Koch '79 probably ha:; a cleated gla

the bottom of his well-traveled gym bag. help give the port a decent burial, Koch guided ht

draggled band of UMas Minutemen ro an 1 1 -4-4 record, ew England and, mo t

improbably of all, helping to ave the port. Koch got hooked on coach named Mark

Koch returned to h i native Ma achusetts and picked up on hi

Hired a year ago by the U niversity of Ma achu etts ro

winning coach of the year honors in

two cholarship . That' when I decided to leave."

hoe at

graduate

tudie

in ;ports management at th

University of Connecticut, a urning hi coaching days were over. Then the phone rang. UMas had eliminated var ity occer, but the players and their friends had rai ed enough money to finance one farewell ea on. Would Koch agree to coach?

ccer at Colby, where a young

Athletic director Frank Mcinerney left no room for

erdjenian '73 turned a team that had

dream . "He told me, 'Thi i not a inking hip, it i a unk

won a ingle match two year betore into the New England

hip,' " Koch aid. He rook the job anyway. "l felt the kids had

champion in Koch'

omething to prove," he aid. Then he wondered. "I cned the

enior

ea on. He tucked away hi

degree in history and environmental tudie and et out to

fir t day of practice," Koch aid. "Two of our kid ran into

become a occer coach, igning on as an a i tant at Brown

each

and then Bo·ton College.

were playing on the ame ide."

ide job as an auto mechanic and

a tra el agenthelped paythe rent. Finally, inJanuary of l 9 4, Koch faced the future.

ther and almo t knocked each other out-and they But the team that had rai ed its own budget had grit,

determination and even ome talent. "There are lots of wa

"I decided to go all out for a head coaching job," he aid,

to hide bad players," Koch said. More important, he added,

"and I told my elf that if I didn't have one by June I would be

the good and mediocre player

fini bed with soccer."

ethic and tremendou heart. You can't coach that. What ou

He wa about to accept an admini rrative po ition at a prep chool when

tanford University invited him to fly to

hared "a tremendou work

can do i teach them how to win." From their opening match, a 1 -0

ictory over

California for an interview. Two day before he left, Koch

Bonaventure, the Minutemen eemed to be on a m·

nearly bit hi

After beating

tongue in two playing in a ummer-league

t. ion.

ew Hamp hire 2- 1 , the players told their

occer match. The cut required eight titche and left him

coach, "Thi is a game we would have lo t last year." Mas a

barely able to peak. " I had to choo e my word· carefully," he

chu etts qualified f, r the Atlantic 10 Conference tourna

recalled. He got the job and helped breathe re pectability

ment and faced Rutgers, the nation' fourth-ranked team.

into a lo·ing program. ln

Trailing 2 - 1 in the final minute, the team narrowly mi ed a

years,

ta.nford had a 59-52

record that included victorie again t powerhou e Like

Then, following the 1 990 eason, Koch got ome bad news. There were budget problems and, at a university where football, ba ketball, ba eball and even volleyball are the glamor ports, occer wa a natural target. " I 'd been on the road for 40 weekend ," Koch aid, "and we had our best recrui

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tying goal. But when it wa over, the Lo ing ide felt more like winners. With their unlikely coach as the caraly t, the

Franci co and UCLA.

ever. Then they took away my la t

Minutemen had achieved urvivaJ, then respectability and finally ucce . Then Koch discovered, to paraphrase Yogi Berra, it was not over even after it wa over. A benefactor emerged to endow the program, and the university announced that varsity occer would continue.

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ing the local arboretum to le a rn

Pacific U n i vers i ty. He also serves

w h i c h p l :rn ts c a n surv i ve the

on the board of d i rector. for rhe

Tex as heat and black clay. She'd love to hear from area Colbians. Ellen returned home to greater Boston last fall to be in J ac k ie

Boys & G i rls Society of Oregon i ng tennis i n to his spare time . . . . J oel Solomon , fa t h e r of t w o

Jim ;ind Jenni Scully Elmore re

Low's wedd ing. J ack ie is a payroll

daughter�. is spec i a l i z i ng in pcdi

side in Pcnnsy l van i;1, where J i m

supervisor for Staple� . . . . John

mr ic� and sporrs med icine at of

i s a vasc u l a r s u rgeon <l t t h e

Monroe spent three m mrhs in

fices in W i nchester and

G e i s i nger M e d i c a l Center i n

town, Mass. He recently ran i nto

Mayo Cl i n ic , they sound 4uire

Okinawa, J apan, la�t yc<ir pro vid i ng medical support to the 3rd Marine Oiv isi n and tak ing side trirs to Hong Kong, Tokyo and Be i j i ng. He says he' happy to be hack i n Florida, however, where he ' s an opthalmic surgeon . . . .

content and set t led ! J e n n i cares

Jane Ann Deshler Bode, a c lass

Correspondent: Patricia Valavanis Smith

Dan v i l le . After J i m 's four years a t rhe U n ivcr i ry of onnccticut Medical Schoo l , five years of gen eral surgery in Port l a n d , M a i ne , and two years o f fe llowsh i p ar the

for 3-ycar-old J as m i ne wh i le dab

mate freshman year, is working a

b l i ng as a " part - t i me c ook i ng teacher, artist and a mill ion orher th i ngs as ti me pe rm i ts . " . . . l n ad d i r i on to c a r i ng for her t wo

a hydrnlogi t i n A l buquerque. A skyd i v i ng enthusiast, he married

1 990. he hear from Lindsey Van Wagenen, now a Ph. D . can

bitt i

keeping busy a a trustee

d i date i n New York City . . . . Af

and fund raiser for the Ch i l d ren's

ter completing an i ntern hip in internal med icine, Roni Wech sler i now one year away from fi n ish i ng her dermatology re i dcncy at r h e U niversity o f Mary land. he's engaged tO marry Roger Ford in August . . . . Bill and Mary Lou Eckland Jackson are bu y with Ben , 4, and Josh, 1 , in Norfolk, Mas . Bill is vice pre i dent ar TSSG, a subsidiary of American Exprc s, and Mary Lou is working part time as an a sis t a n t dean at Sto n e h i l l Col lege. . . . Phy ical therapist Juli Greenwood Kreutz is the educa t ion manager for a large rehab center in Decatur, Ga. She aid with the arrival of her second daughter la t year she's "learning how to do everything with a k id in each arm and that l'll never be on t i me for anything." Her hus band h a worked w i th J ean Minkel several t i mes, as both are physical therapists involved in wheelchair seating and mobil ity for the d isabled . . . . TomMarlitt, a new homeowner, l ives i n Port land, Ore . , and works as the a o c iate director of admissions at

als serves as treasurer for the w o me n 's group at her church and t eac h es preschool Sunday School. Karen has a lso become a devout run ncr and fi n i hed herfirstmara thon i n four hours in Newport, R . I . , over a year ago . . . . New Yorker Jonathan Greenspan is mourning the demise of rhe real estate marker wh ile valiantly try ing to carry on in the fie l d . He's working off his fru trations by playing hockey and baseball; he partic ipated in the "over 30" ba e ball world serie thi past No v e m be r i n A ri zo n a . . . . S ince Ellen Gordon Ol d f i e l d l ast checked i n with the alumni col umn, she's gotten married ( May '90 ), changed jobs (January '9 1 ) from an accounting placement fi rm to research/recru it i ng for health care executives at First Group, a specialty search firm in Dal las, and obtained her Dale Carnegie instructor certification. She and her husband arc prepar i ng to build a house, and Ellen says she's looking forward to join70

harles

Larry Bradley, an attorney in

Bmton w i t h Powers . . . .

herburne and h1-

of last fa l l ,

cago attorney Tamara Hannah was look ing to leave Citibank National Marketing for a similar position in advertising or rhe art . he doe� pm bono work for vari ou art groups and has traveled to Bal i and around the U . .

M i k e Bode "in frecfall" in Augu t

preschoolers, Karen Caine Bab

Museum i n Dartmouth, Mass. She

and t ries to fit playing and coach

81_ Correspondent: Beth Pniew k i Wilson

Congratulations to Tony '80 and Mickey Mullen Cunningham,

who are proud parents to Flannery Claire, born on Thanksgiving. Her name wa inspired by author F l a n n e r y O ' C o n n o r , one of Ton y 's fav o r i t e . Tony a n d M ickey moved to St. Jo·eph, M i n n . , from Waterville la t year. Tony is teaching at St. John's College. M ickey writes that M in nesota is a lot colder than Maine! She recently had a book accepted for publication by the University ofDelaware Press . . . . J im O' ul l i van '82 and Melise Maggioni arc expecting a econd c h i ld thi spring. Meli e writes that they are remodeling their house i n antic ipation o f t h e n e w arrival. . . . Liz Stiller i i n Wa h i ngton, D.C., working a an administra tive manager for ServiceMaster. She is respon ible for the com puterized maintenance sy tern and forhandling the department's

financing. . . . Barbara Bullock ha a Ph.D. i n l i nguistics and is a professor of French and linguis tics at Penn State i n State Col lege, Pa. She specializes in pho nology/phonet ics, the study of ound sy terns, especially Ro mance and Native American lan guages and Zulu . . . . While work ingfor the Block Island Southeast Lighthou e Founda t io n , Li a Nolan ha raised $2 m i l l ion to move Block Island's Southeast Lighrhou e back from the erod ing bl uffs. Li a writes that Karen Orloff and her hu band, Brian, had a baby girl, Phoebe, in Octo ber. They recently moved to Dobb's Ferry, N . Y . . . . Diane Young i manager of business development, real estate finance, for U.S. We t and i l iv i ng in tamford, Conn. She writes that Heidi Proctor Baxter i enjoying her new home i n Welle ley, Ma . , and that Scott '82 and Lynne D'Angelo Many are ex pec t i ng their third c h i ld thi month. She also ay that Dani Nemec Micsan planned to move to Greece this month . . . . Ken Bruder is l iv i ng in Arlington, Ya., and i v i ce president at Kaier A ociates, a management con ulting firm. He recently com pleted h is M . B.A. at Harvard af ter spending eight years in the N avy . . . . Johanna R ich '80 and Barry Tesman l i ve i n Carli le, Pa. Barry is an a sistant professor of mathemat i cs at D i c k i nson Col lege . They are parents to Emma Victoria, born last year. . . . J o h n C l e venger is l iv ing i n Norwalk, Conn., and i s a market ing manager with Pepsi-Cola. He and Terri Lewi Clevenger '83 are parent to Caitlin Margaret, born last year. They are renovat ing a 1 1 0-year-old farmhou e and are enj y i ng parenthood when John isn't traveling on business. . . . J im Dwyer is also living in Connecticut and working for the Davis and Geck d i v ision of Colby, May 1992

John C. Nivison 11 '82

Headliners Elizabeth Burton Siladi '8 1 was named director of annual giving and regional John C. N ivi on II '82 i a new partner i n the law firm of Pierce, Atwood, cribner et al. in Augu ta, Maine . . . . Sonya Thomp en '83

development at Brandei University . . .

wa promoted to enior v ice pre idem, bu ine Cinema in

ew Line

affair admini tration, at

ew York.

Newsmakers Cynthia Auman ' 0 wa· named to the board of director of the 34th treet improvement di trict in Manhattan . . . . Paul Damren '82

Parmer�hip, a bu ine

recen tly dep loyed to the M di terranean w ith the 24th Marine Expeditwnary Unit . .

Mike Schafer '83 w

pri ate chool . He coach

named

ew England coach of the year for econdary/

occerat Belmont H i l l chool in Mas·ach.u em . . .

Stephen

D' Andrea '84 wa promoted to group marketing brand manager at Reynold Metal Company i n Riclunond, Va . . . . Carol Tegen '87 i teaching Engli·h in Poland under the au pice University. . . .

of WorldTeac h , I n c . , a private organization ba ed at Harvard porting a Colb

hirt and wielding a ctrcular aw, John Seidl '88 wa

pictured in the "Fire Bulletin Board" ection of a recent Oakland Tnbune. the California c i ty' effort to rebuild after la t fall' deva rating fire .

eidl i part of

ls er Gallogly

'89 wa promoted to credit analy i officer in the loan admini aation divi ion of hawmut Bank in Bo t n . . . Jeff Winkler '89 ha joined Ellen' Interiors in ewport, .

. H . , in oftware development and multimedia production.

Mileposts Births: A on, Andrew Jonathan, to John and Elizabeth Duce Sedlins '80. . . . A amantha, adopted by Mark and Colleen Plourde Harvey '82 . . A daugh. A on, ter, Kathleen, and a on, Patrick, to J amie '83 and J oyce Hartwig O'Neil '84 . Ryan Andrew, to Eric and Jill Myerow Blinderman '86 . . . . A son, Keith Warren, to Michael and Jennifer Pattison Gilvar '89. Marriages: Lauren Russo '85 to M ichael Choch lak in Hartford, Conn . . Karyn Weafer '86 to J ames Stahle '86 in Lynnfield, M a . . . . Heidi Irving '88 to Kevin

daughter,

. .

Na ghton in Waterville, Maine.

Deaths: Susan Brigham '85 in Bo ton, Ma . , at 29.

Colby, May 1 992

American Cvanamid a� an en�1neer. He and 11·ife Tinn ha\·e t\\'n daughters, t-- lnlly and G ina . . . . l recently ran mto Steve Pfaff at my office at the Westla\\' Tra m i n g Center in Boston. H e \\'a� attending a training cla s and 1� working a� an attorney for the c i[\' of Boston concentrat i ng in ' c i \' l l right-. . . . I recently Cl\\. E l l e n Owens D i o n , Darlene Howland Currier. J anet Blau Cobb and Lauren Hampton Rice at a baby sho\\'er for Lynn Bruen W inter. Lynn and her husband. Adam. are l i \·ing in Northboro, Mass .. and \\·ere expec ting a baby clo.e to leap day! Lynn \\'Ork for r u rdy Memorial Hospnal in Attleboro . . . . Keep tho.e letter:.. coming i n 1

Corresponde n t : Emily Cumming H i everyone. Happy spring! I hope to see eYeryrme next month at our 1 0th reunion. Can you be l ieve it has been lU year · ? Plea e c i rc le your calendar- for J une 5-7 and get p yched for a great week end. ince l \·e finally exhausted my huge heap of newsletter-, here' j ust a bit of fre h new . . . . From A u b u r n , Mas . , S t e ve Barbash sent a long letter to catch us up on h is family' doing . He and Cindy J e n k i n are the proud parents of two boy , Andrew, 4 , and Danny, 2 , w h o k e e p them " laughing and on their toes." Cindy is a physician' as i tam working part t ime at the Great Brook Valley Health Center in Worce ter. teve ay that he " it i l l on the road a a manufac turer' agent selling vinyl fabric ro a wide variety of indu trie ." Hi brother Larry and teve's Dad are al o in the bu ine . teve wa 71

�enLI <liPng ne w�

prncticc resident a t t h e M ;1 i nc

everyone. U n t i l J u ne and May

of nther c b�sm �Hes. He s;1ys th;1t

Dartn1l1uth Fa m i l y Pra c t ice Res i denc y. Ann say' t h � i t s h e h a s fi

flower H i l l . Sec you ;ill there !

n i c e cnuugh tll

" a n i l i ne (Sterge '84 ) and C a rl 'Hub' Gluek < l re st i l l [ i ,· i ng in South Euc l i d , Oh io, e n j ny i ng their 1 8- mnnth-nld daughter, J e:; sic;1. Scott Delcourt and Sherry Kelly-Delcourt are J i ,· i ng in O l d Town , M a i ne. T h e y , t u n , hm·e an 1 8- month -old daughter, K<1tie. SCl1tt is work ing i n the sc ience dc r a rrm e nr a t the U n i ,·ers i ry uf M a i ne ar OrnnLl, and berry i, a n u rse at Easrern Ma i ne Medical Center i n Bangnr." Thanb for the u p d a t e , ' t e ,·e . . . . A l i son Brown is c u rren t l y WL1rk ing as an e n v i ronmenta l ge o lo gist i n the firm nfBro\\'n and Caldwe l l , based i n l r\'ine, a l i f. The major i ty of her ll'nrk involve t h e c l eanu r of h a zardous waste and the c leanup of cont a m i nated grnundwater. . . . I r e c e i \ ' ed several n ice Ch ri st mas C atLI · and u pda t e s . F i rst Dr. Diane Za votsk y and her husband, Daniel McClenahan, h a\'c a new b a b y g i r l , H a y l ey I r en e , horn Ocroher 7 . They arc thorough ly enjoy i ng their new ci r ri v a l . An d rea B r a n t n e r ' s hl)l i d a y c a rd caught me up on her l 99 1 doi ng � . F i rst Andy said that she i · doing fine in N ew York ity and is h appy to h a v e continuous work when there a re so many unem ployed l a wy e rs in Manhattan. Last A p r i l Andy spent t h ree weeks in J apan vi i t i ng a l l o fher o l d friend

and the J a pane e fam i l y w i th whom she had l ived for a year. J une brought knee surgery and N ovember a new ararr m e n t . A ndy a l o report t h a t s h e is ac t i ve i n the N YC Colby Club w h e re she oft e n ees D i a n a Herrmann '80 a n d David Fanger. . . Ann Rhinehardt-Clark ent

me further dera i ls about her l ife s i nce retu rn i ng to Ma i ne. Ann , Michael Clark and son Jackson, as wel l as two golden retriever , Maggie and Tyler, and cat Ariel, have settled i n the Augusta area. M ike is now a fi r r-year fam i ly 72

nally given up -,c ience for art and i, hnme tak i ng care of J ac k son a n d e n j n y i n g work i n g w i t h sta i ned gb� , pastels and wmer colnrs. Accompan ied b y t he two dogs, she runs w it h J ackson i n a bahy jogger when weather per111 i t�. A n n a l so enjoys S K and I OK rnce� and part icipmcs in team b i a t h l ons and tri<ith lon�. and the fami ly enjoys h i k i ng, sk i i ng and c a m p i ng.

. That's i t f o r now,

Corre pondent: Amy Carl on G reeti ng� everyone ! There\ not m uc h new' in my m a i l box re

c en t l y , 'o you a l l know what that means. Yes, ;inuther que. ti m -

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Patricia V. mith ( Patricta Valavani ) 6 Hamm nd Way Andover, M A 0 1 8 1 0 50 -470- 1 484

Mary A . Weller-Mayan (Mary Ali e We l le r ) RD 2 , B o x 1 49 Camden, DE 1 9934-96 1 1 302-697-0 1 42

1 98 1 Beth A . W ilson ( Beth Pniew k i ) 1 Oxbow Road Wayland, MA 0 1 7 7 5 0 - 3 5 -2845

19 6 Gretchen A. Lurie (Gretchen A . Bean) 2606 an Marco Drive Pa adena, CA 9 1 1 07

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Emi ly E. Cumming 2 1 Temple treet #5 Boston, MA 02 1 1 4 6 1 7 - 7 2 3 -267 1

Lucy T. Lennon 9 Well tone Drive Portland, ME 04 1 0 1 207-77 2-7 1 27

1 983 Sarah Merchant (Sarah Lovegren) HCR 62, Box 244B Mt. D e rt, ME 04660 207-244-3678

nairc i' headed yourway>oon! . . . Marian Leerburger-Mahl wrote rn tell me th at he ma rri ed David Richard Mahl on Arril 20, 1 99 1 , in Balti more, Md. Valerie Jean Miller wa� a hridc maid, and ev era l other olhy graduates, in c luding Mark Claflin and Peter �

rahl '8 3 , <ittended the wedding.

Marian re c e i ved her A.B.D. in

October and is currently working Llll her Ph . D . dissertation on U . . mHional ecurity pol icy and the i n ternational narcotic. problem wh ile continu ing to work for the Deran m e n r of Defense . . . Deborah Sleeman married Yuri Dani loff on October 5 . Deborah and Yuri l ive in Mnuntain V iew, alif. Deborah is a -ales engineer for Furon, and Yuri i a re earch manager at Metro Bio y rems in Pa lo Alto. Yuri i originally from Mo cow and defected to the U . . ix ye ars ago . . . . Greg Walsh wrote from ienna, where he i working for t he American I nter national chool a a counselor and college advisor. I n add ition to weekend t r i ps to Pragu e , Budape r , Bra t islava and the S a l z k u m m e rg u t , G reg spent hristma w ith an Earthwatcl1 exped i t ion studying amph i bians and rept i les of the M ontagne d ' A m b re j u ngle in northern Madagascar. Sound very inter est ing! . . . Finally, congratula t ions to J a m i e ' 3 and J oyce Hartwig O'Neil, who are the proud parent of twin , Kathleen and Patrick, born on October 20.

1 988 E m ily J. I aacs 2 9 Grave Ave., Apt. 1 Northampton, MA 0 1 060 4 1 3 -586-2443

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A my E. Carlson 605 Jone Ferry Rd., #RR5 Carrboro, NC 2 7 5 1 0 9 1 9-942-4982

Deborah A. G reene 38 Sorrel Road Concord, MA 0 1 742 508-369-6978

85 _ Correspondent : Mary Alice Weller-Mayan

Thanks to a l l who have fa ithfu l ly fil led our your questionnaires. A new ne i being ent out to one ecrion of the cla s at a t i me. Colby, May 1 992

However, if you have timely new - end me a letter or post card. Lots of news this time . . . . Deb Lindberg-Thoresen's son, Derek J ens, was born ovember 3. he is a compensation and benefit analy t at Critical Care America. Deb and her husband, Jens, compete i n triathlon dur ing the summer. . . . Beverly Rice graduated w ith an M .A.T. from Bo ton U niver ity chool ofEdu cation. he i teaching biology and phy ical cience at Plymouth Regional H igh chool in Ply mouth, N .H .-and loving it. . . . Lauren Russo Chocholak moved to West Hartford, Conn., to marry M ichael Chocholak last o em ber. . . . James Martin i a gradu ate rudent in Tuscaloo a, Ala. . . . Barbara W i l k es S heehan moved to Lexington, M a ., in October and work as the store manager of Key West Coffee & Teas. he and herhu band,Andy, keep bu y traveling "e pec ially to Texa as Andy ha become an avid, ob e ed Texas Longhorn football fan after having attended graduate school at the University ofTexas." Barbara keep i n touch with Barbara Knox, who lives in Paris, France, and is getting mar ried thi ummer on Peak' l land, Maine . . . . Mike Muir is a computer resource specialist at kowhegan Area M iddle School. He and hi wife, Penny, have a 1 year-old son, Christopher. Penny and M ike built their own home and barn and now have two hor e . M ike published a book in 1 99 1 t it l e d Fantastic Journey Through Minds and Machine , an artificial intelligence textbook for high chool and college . . . . John O. Robinson survived the rece ion budget axe and i now one of the tenured teacher at Plymouth ( Mass. ) outh H igh School. John is officially divorced and i learn ing what it's l ike to be unattached in the '90 . He wants u to know that thanks to A. Mavrinac' con-

Colby, May 1 992

stitutional law cour e, he beat a speeding t i c k e t in court last year. . . . Brian Morin graduated from Tufts Dental School on May 1 2 , 1 99 1 , and married a fellow graduate, J acqueline Tjon S ieuw on May 1 . I n J uly he began a po tdoctoral fellow h ip in orth odontics at Harvard U niver ity's chool of Dental Medic ine . . . . After graduating from Kellogg Graduate School of Management at N orthwe tern U n i v e rs i ty, Todd Lachman began work at Procter and Gamble a a brand a i tanr. He is now l iving in Cin cinnati, Ohio. . . . Martha Merri field Martin i a high school Eng l i h teacher in Rowayton, Conn. . J im Meltsner and Lisa Kleine were married in Waltham, Mass., on eptember 1 5 and had a fan tastic honeymoon biking from inn to inn through Vermont. He l ive in ashington, D.C., and work a a lawyerand lobbyi t . . . . John Schleck is a ale manager for C i t i corp/Cit ibank in Quincy, Mass. He became engaged to Beth Torrence on Augu t 2 . . . . Terry J. Martin, hi wife, M e l i a, and h is 3-year-old son, Dylan, l ive in outh Portland, M a ine. They expected their econd child in February, but l haven't been up dated yet. Terry works as a teacher at M t . Ararat School and ha qualified rudents for the National Foren ic L e a g u e N a t i o n a l (speech and debate ) . Terry re cently met w ith Hathy MacMa hon Simpson and took a picture of rwo ( possibly) future Colby students: Dylan L. J. Martin (Class of 20 1 1 ) and Graham impson ( Class of 20 1 2 ) . . . . After gradu ating from Colby, Gail Usher pent three years in the U.S. Vir gin I lands, then went to law school at the U niver ity of M i a m i . She m ved t o Washington, D.C., and works at chagrin A oc i a t e s p ra c t i c i n g i n te r n a tional trade l a w. . . . O n Septem ber 7 , Roy Hirshland married

Chri tine Otto ( M iddlebury ' 6) at Mead Chapel on the M iddle bury campus. Many Colby grads were in attendance, including three ushers, Bob Hirshland '76, Doug P a r k e r ' 6 and G r e g Shefri n . Also in attendance were Bruce Hi c k ey , Tom Colt and Paul Swartz. Last summer, Roy wa promoted to assistant vice president at paulding & lye Colliers, a commercial real e·rare consulting firm. He has become active with Beth Israel Hospital, where he i a member of the cor porate giving committee and the fac il ities committee. Roy has also been named a tru tee of The League chool of Bo ton, which i a renowned school for autistic children . . . . Stuart Krusell is the younoe t commissioner for the Commonwealth of Massachuetts. He i married to usan, a paralegal for Massachusetts Fi nanc ial ervice . . . . Charissa Pepin Wellford completed her Ph.D. in economics at the Uni ver i ty of Arizona in 1 990 and moved to the Washington, D.C., area with her husband, Brandon Wellford. She now i an econo mist for the Federal Trade Com mi ion. Chari a twice presented re earch to Colby faculty and rudents . . . . Marc Murray writes from New York City, where he i finishing business school and con sidering applying to law chool. Hi biggest changesince Colby " l became a Chri tian four year ago. I feel I am l iving life with more compas ion for others and confidence in my elf." . . . Ted Goodrich wa married on De cember 2 to amantha Brown. Tim Crowley ' 4 wa be t man, and Andy Castle wa among tho e pre e n t . . . . B r o n w y n Quirk Mohlke met h e r hu band, S teve, w h i le volunteering at Habitat for Humanity's headquar ter in A mericus, G a . When Bronwyn and teve returned to the Northeast, they volunteered

for the Heifer Project Interna t ional in Massachuse tts. The Heifer Project makes gift- of l i n� stock to families in the U n i ted tare · and around the world to help alleviate hunger and pm· erty. The fami lies receive the animals a- an outright gift and pa s on the gift by giving the fin female offspring to another fam ily in need. The Mohlkes ha\·e left Ma achusetts to work on a fam1 in Mexico that is a holding center for the animals before they are distributed . . . . I am till in volved with the Doverarea Habi tat for Humanity. We are finally break ing ground for the fir t house, and our new goal is to get the family moved in by early fall. Have a great summer. Remember to put me on your list for wedding and birth announcement .

Correspondent: G retch e n B ean Luri e

I 'm writing thi column about 1 0 hour before my deadline and feel much more Like a college tudent under pre ure to make the grade than a "domestic engineer." It is true that l ittle Hunter ( he' 1 1 /2 now) demand a lot of my time, but fortunately he' not old enough to make req ue ts that may send me into a frenzy! Eric and J il l Myerow Blinderman under stand where I 'm coming from, as the welcomed Ryan Andrew into [he world last November. After a nice long break from her job in pharmaceutical ale , J il l returned to w o r k i n M arc h . Thanks t o h e r n e w y letter in the ew Year, I'm able to report on ome addi[ional cla mate . Tom ' 7 and Kathy Pinard Reed also had a baby boy Last fall. Before too long Daddy Reed will be to -

ing a Colby football to little Carlton, preparing him for a de b u t on S e a v e rn F i l d . . Suzanne Battit completed her last semester at Harvard Bu iness School this spring and is em ployed, 1 hope ! . . . Jamie and Karyn Weafer Stahle had a good Colby turnout at their November wedding. Suzanne Bat t i e and Kathleen Hooper were included in the bridal party . . . . J ill's last piece of information was that Kelly Chopus is back in Utah contemplating grad chool. ( Any address for you, Kelly ?) . . . l was pleasantly surprised by a letter from Colette Cote, who ha moved from Grenoble, France, to Paris, where she started a new job as European director of PR and marketing for an American com putercompany. Colettestill man ages to travel a lot through Eu rope and saw Bill Northfield in London. Bill is in business school there . . . . I apologize for the brev ity of this column, but unle s I hear from you before too long, l'll have to start crearing class news. (Some of you know that could be embarrassing ! ) Best wishes to everyone for continued happiness and success!

Correspondent: Lucy Lennon

By the time you read this column, we'll be about a month away from our fifth-year reunion. I hope you all find that as hard to believe as l do! l also hope a lot of you will be able to make it back to May flower Hill to join in the festivi ties. . . . I 'd l ike to thank those who have sent back the question naires and I 'll get to news from them in a second, but I 'm going to begin th is column by apologiz-

ing to David Wolfson for not including him in the last column. (I figured if I started with you, Dave, you might be able to for give me ! ) When I last poke with David he was in Texa , but he has since moved to Hollywood. David landed a job as an assistant pro duction c ordinator upon first arriving in L.A. and has already moved up ro being a motion con trol/ pecial effects camera opera tor. The international commer cial film company he works for, LUCKA Films, has sent him to numerous locations, including San Francisco and Hawaii, and he will soon be off to I taly to hoot a commercial for the Audi Corporation. Dave is looking for ward to our reunion, so I know his travels will al o bring him back to Waterv ille in J une . . . . So that I can mention a lot of you in chi column, the following will be just short blurbs I 've managed to ex tract from your questionnaire : Birgit Uehling Caliandro was recently married and is living in Charlestown, Mas . She is an environmental consultant for Eastern Research Group in Bos ton and is taking graduate course towards a degree in environmen tal policy . . . . Sharon Ducey is working at Harvard Community Health Plan in Waltham, Ma s., and planning a J une wedding to Andy N ile . . . . Beth Healy is a reporter at The Hour, a small daily newspaper in southern Connecti cut . . . . Melissa "Misty" Jenkins is in southern California in gradu ate school for c linical p ychol ogy . . . . Carol Kenerson is teach ing high school English in the Berkshires in Massachusetts . . . . Althea Shaw Lathrop is an ad mini trator/soc ial worker in a nurs i ng home in M a ine . . . . Kathy Lowney is currently work ing at the American Cancer So ciety in Philadelphia coordinat ing cancer prevention and risk reduction programs. I received

the most wonderful letter from Kathy filling me in on what she' been up to since graduation from Colby. In brief, right out of ch ol, he and Michael Ashley traveled in Canada for a while and then moved to Kill ington, Vt . , for a season of skiing. Then Kathy moved back to Bo ton and worked at Tuft· New England Medical Center in the emergency room evaluating patients with psychi atric problems, which he said wa an incred ible, eye-opening experience. February to J une '91 marked one of Kathy's biggest accompli hments. It was her fifth year anniversary of being diag no ed, treated and cured of can cer. After the e years of being cancer-free, Kathy feels healthy and confident. he decided to challenge herself last ummer by h iking down into the Grand Can yon and back in one day with her mom, and she al o did a 60-mile bike-a-thon from Phi lly to At lantic City in four hours! Did that bring back memories from your COOT trip, Kath ? . . . Peter Marshall i living in N YC work ing for Emcor, an international financ ial consulting and money management firm . . . . C i n d y Marrazzo Garfield is living in Portland, Maine, with husband Angus. Cindy left Digital Equip ment' finance department after four years to start her own busi ness, Action Sports Unl imited, a team porting good dealership, with Angus. Cindy is also doing outside sales for Four Seasons Travel Agency and still finds time to be on the board of directors of a soup kitchen . . . . Scott Lainer is an advertising copywriter for I Q&J in Boston . . . . L y n n Ouellette Nadeau i s living in Houlton, Maine, and is enjoying being a housewife and mother of a 9-month-old daughter . . . . An gela Piscitello is getting married in J une but hopes to attend the reunion. She works in NYC at

the First Bo ton Corp . . . . Kelly ystem ana lyst with a direct marketing com pany in Boston . . . . Krissie Ralf£ is living in Washington, D.C., as an environmental public affairs consultant working on various public awareness campaigns. She plans to apply to George Wash ington University next fall to get her master's in environmental policy and resource management. For now, he say , she feels like Washington is the place to be for what he wants to do. ( Krissie, I can't believe it' been over nine years since we fir t tarted that German cla s-time flies ! ) . . . Jonathan Russ i working on hi Ph.D. in hi tory at the Univer ity of Delaware after receiving his ma ter' there in '90. He's also looking forward to the reunion. He di covered how much fun they can be la t year, when he at tended the Clas of '86' fifth year reunion with hi wife, Wendy Lapham Rus '86 . . . . Liz Sedor i an account executive at Leo Burnett Adverti ing in Chicago and is working on the Cellular One account. . . . Josh Shapiro is a marketing director for Zene jenex health care communica tions campaign in Massachusetts. . . . Nancy Sirnarano is employed at Shawmut Bank in Worcester, Mass., as a loan officer in the middle market commercial area. . . . Glenn Cummings has com pleted all of his course work for hi Ph.D. in English at the Uni versity of Virginia. Next he'll write his dissertation on repre sentations of Quakerism in l 9th century American literature, and he hopes to be on the job market in the fall of'93 . . . . Christopher Devine will graduatefromRutgers Law School this year and will work at the Hartford, Conn., law firm of Rogin, Nassau, Caplain, Lassman & H irtle . . . . Marghie Schoolfield Compton wa mar ried to Steve Compton in June. Powers is a bu ine

Colby , May 1 992

A Capital Career A

colleae internship can pay bia dividend

graduation. That's omething

when it come

to finding a job after

usan Jacobson '88 learned fir thand when he landed a

po ition as a producer at Cable News Network' Wa hington, D.C., bureau just two and a half years after he earned her Colby degree. "l knew for as long as I can remember that I wanted to be in televi ion, that I wanted to produce," aid Jacob on, who works on the busine · new

how

Moneyline With Lou

Dobbs. In the fall after he left Colby, Jacob on mo ed to Washington from her hometown of Warwick, R.l . , and went to work for the now-defunct Financial often cro.s ed paths with bu in

etwork. She

new producers from CNN , where he had interned as a

student. W ith old and new conne ti n to draw upon, he wa in the right place at the right time when a producer'

lot opened up at the network.

Now, the woman who ay

he never took an economi

cla

at Colby and never

picked up a Wall Srreet]oumal keep a do e eye on the tock market and on uch

oterica

as ugar price upports. She' done torie on the economic policte of this year' crop of pr

idential candidate , and he covered President Bush' econ mic ummit in Hou ton. Jacobson ay it i a challenge to keep up with the frenetic pace of a daily televi ion

how.

he' one of three bu me

news producer in the Washington bureau who do their

own tories and are called upon to help when a producer in

ew York, Chicago or Lo

Angeles needs a W ·hington angle. From the time ·he gets into the office at 1 0:30 a.m. until

Mon.eyline goe on the air at 7 p.m., Jacob on ay , he has to be ready for anything. " l f the Fed lower inter

Marghie is a fourth-year rudent at the Medical College of Wis con ·in, and teve will graduate from Marquette Law chool this spring . . . . B i l l C lendenen i managing a scuba d i v ing store in Toronto, and hi w ife i working on her Ph. D. at the University of Toro n t o . . . . B e t h H a r r i s o n C u tliffe i a group underwriter for State Mutual Co. in Massa chusetts . . . . Web F l e t c h e r i working on his M . B. A . a t George rown University . . . . Jen Harman is working for t he ational A I DS Hotline in Chapel H ill, N .C . . . . Charles Herrera i working for a computer networking company in the " i licon Valley" area of California . . . . Jim Kaufman is working in Providence, R . l . , as a sale manager for Multi ource I n ternational, a company that speciall-:es in food service pack aging . . . . Kris Kelley is a senior fi nanc i a l analyst at H e w l e t t Packard in California. he re ceived her M . B.A. from the Uni versity of California at Davi ' in June . . . . Kelly Malloy will gradu ate from Cornell University's vet school i n May, and M a r t h a McTavish i s in vet chool at Iowa rate . . . . Unfortunately, I've run out of room and that's all the news I can report for now. Hope w see a lot of you the weekend of J une 5-7 ! Take care t i l l then.

t rate , that comes with ab olutely no warning at all and end

our office into a tail pin," he aid. "You can li terally be at your de k one minute eating your lunch, and five econd later you're running out the door." She and the other producer. creen and edit tories in the Wa h ington bureau, bur they feed all the material v ia satellite to CNN headquarters in Atlanta for broadca t. Sometime they cut it do e. "Last week my story made it on the air by three econds," Jacob on aid. "That happen a lot. I t' really crazy." Jacob on ay she feel a trong en e ofaccomplishment, but herjob isdemandingand allows little time for relaxation. The pos ibility of burnout i alway lurking in the back of her mind-there aren't many producer at CNN older than 35, he says. For now, though, he' eager to get experience in the field and i looking forward to the opportunity to travel within the United States and perhap to Ru ia later this year. "I don't knuw what I'd be domg if I wa n't domg thi ," he aid. "I feel like I learn omething every day. It' hard-and l l ike thaL"

Colby, May

1 992

Corresponden t : Emily Isaacs

I apologize for my neglect of late. W ith the stre s ofleading a union of 2 ,200 graduate assi rants on trike ( ucces fully, thank good ness) and the dread of bill collec tor ' notices, I did not pick up my ma i l much and conseque n t l y missed t h e la t column dead line. 75

1 99 1 Alumni I f you m i::.�eJ buying a yearbook, here 's your chance. For a copy of the 1 99 1 Oracle, send a check for $ 3 5 , payable to The Colby Oracle, cf Colby College, Waterv i l l e , Maine 0490 1 . For more information, c a l l Amy Vreeland at 207-872-9036 or write t

l am sorry. But on to more inter esting matters . . . . I n October a somewhat nervou� but c learly overjoyed Michael Burr married Kristen Naroki in Easton, Mass. Al lison Murray and Rob Young, both almost as nervous as Mike and more ·o than the ever-calm Kristen, performed the ir respec tive dut ies as maiJ of honor and usher beautifully. Randy Barr ' 9, W i l l Holmes ' 8 7 , Jo e Walsh, Kristin Shea and I were all happy to help M ike and Kristen cel ebrate their marriage. . . . I re cei ved a phone call la t fall from Mike Paquin and Dave Rand. They had just returned to the Alaskan hore after a several month fishing trip ( ounds like a plea ure trip, but they both re ported that it was the hardest work they had ever done in their l ives- 1 5-hour day of trenuous labor, little sleep and more fun than even these pleasure-seeking boys had ever had ) . After their stint at commercial fishing, they "adventured around the great state of Alaska" and then settled i n A nc horage , w h e re D a v e teaches skiing and works for Mobil Lubricants Di ·tributor ( Dave, 1'11 talk to you about the irony of moving from commercial fishing to Mobil Oil later) and M ike is, among other thing , an E.M.T. Frankly, they sound l ike two of the happiest '88ers I know. I un derstand M ike and Dave fled to A laska to get away from eem ingly terminally "recessed" and depressed Massachusetts: w i l l any other Colby N ew Englanders see the l ight ? . . . Marc Cadieux ( an other happy deserter) write from Santa Clara, Calif, where he is l i ving with Doug Turley '87, to say that both are havi ng fun when they're not a t work as special credit officers at Pacific Western Bank i n San Jose. While I haven't the l ightest idea what a special credi t officer is, I'm glad omeone in banking has a job . . . . Jane 76

Hayden , a re ent graduate of Bo ton College Graduate School of oc ial Work, writes that he i back in Maine anJ is a psychiat ric social worker at a private psy chiatric hosp ital. She al o reports that she has recently become en gaged and plan to wed thi� sum mer. orry, but she did not men tion whom she will marry ! . . . On a beautiful October 1 2 , with help from M a ry F e d e r l e P o r t e r ( Alumni Relation assistant at Colby who, among other things, very gently urge me to write more often ) and c ruc ial help from Jonathan Goldman, Sheryl Pow e rs b e c a m e S h e r y l P o w e r Goldman. After t h e i r wedding i n Lorimer Chapel, heryl write that they hon ymooned in Au tralia, and having traveled uch great distance, "certainly under stand why Pre idem Bush was so tired on h is mo t recent excur sion." The Goldmans now l ive in Douglasron, N .Y . , where heryl, who earned h r law degree from Suffolk University, is working as legal editor for We t Publi hing Company . . . . Kathy Bradley also recently passed the New York bar exam. With a J .D. and a master's in env ironmental law from Ver mont Law School. Kathy is now working in the env ironmental de partment ofDevarsetz, tinziano, G i lberti and Smith in Syracuse. . . . The re t of my news is word of mouth: Karen Linde and Jeff Pac km an are planning a eptem ber wedding in the Berkshires (congratulations! ) . . . . Meredith Magie has been seen hanging around with Marion Robbins and recently in Cambridge with Brian Connors, Karen Reilly and M el Brown . . . . Dean Schwartz, our e v e r - re pon i b le cla s agent, writes that he is "still at law chool working harder than he ever did at Colby." ( Don't feel bad, Dean, I'm sure you'll get your degree before me. ) . . . Please write me so that your letters can provide

the above address. Supply i l i m i ted.

guilt incentive to write more fre quently and relieve Mary Porter of the duty!

Correspondent : Deb Greene

Greeting , cla�smates! l am en joying heing back in the Bo ton area. After living in remote cor ners of the world, it is quite a change to bump inco fellow al ums every t ime l turn around. l recently ran into Mickey Beck with Putnam on the Red Line; newlywed Sarah Nelson Dal rymple at t h e B o ton ba llet; and uffolk law student Dave Loser wh i l e soa k i n g up ome c i ty nigh t l ife . . . . Fir t off, though, some news from someone who left Beantown. "After pending two years l i v ing on Beacon H i ll along with the rest of Colby, I quit my job at ports Channel New England, hopped in my new car { my oldonewent up in flames) and landed here in beautiful Tel l u r i d e , Co l o . , " w r i t e R u t h Bender. When not o n the lopes, he's working at a outhwestern arr and jewelry store and finds that "everyone here seems to know someone from Colby." Jenn Cooke ha already been out for a vi i t , taking a break from her j ob at an ad agency in Boston, and Katie The Losen, who moved to San Francisco, planned a similar trip. News from back east included Melinda Cheston's promotion at the Sheraton Corp. ofBoston and rumors of Kate Appleton' en gagement to John Fitzpatrick '86. Although Ruth gave up Bruin and Celtic games and seeing Colby faces every day, she's en joying the foot of fresh powder at her door and the pro pect of hik ing, mountain biking and explor-

ingoncespringrollsaround. Make your vaca t ion plans now ! . . . Robin Trend, or rather Mr . Maxie Baughan I l l , filled me in on her April 20, I 990, wedding at which her sister Melissa was maid of honor and Alison Wright was a bridesmaid. Robin and Max ie met at U . . Healthcare, where they both are in sale , and now re ide in Middletown, Conn. Also a t tending the wedding were Kristin Palmer and Linda Ren sink. Kri tin is a ales assoc iate at the Prudential in Bo ton, and Linda i at Arthur Ander en along with Melis a, who passed her C.P.A. exam last year. Alison Wright i a paralegal in San Fran ci c o . Fol l o w i ng Robin and Maxie' example, Shari Sadowski and Eric Stram were married on July 27 the following ummer. Melis a Trend was a bridesmaid, and many other Colby alums showed up t wi h the couple well, including Dave Fernandez, who is a claims adjuster for a car in urance company, and Cindy Cohen, currently working on her ma ter's degree. Shari and Eric now l ive in Burlington, Vt., while Eric finishes hi medical tudies at UVM. Much thank to Robin for the news . . . . Bill Morgan i fini hing up his master's in Eng li h at the Univer ity of New Hampshire, writing his thesis on a 900-page novel whose title e capes me at the moment. Despite this arduou challenge, Bill re main nonchalant, remarking, "Well, at least my profe or won't be able to dispute me too much." He and Lane Wilkinson recently urvived a ski trip to Utah and even had ome ]agenneister left over. Greg Stump, watch out 1 • • • Down i n Princeton, N .J . (where they have a mighty fine airport, I might add ) , i Tom Karafin, who is working for Ernst & Young. He write , "I wanted to apologize to Jeremy Banks for not inviting him to the wedding. Jeremy wa Colby , May 1 992

THE NINETIES going to be invited but Morgan objected when she found out about Jeremy'- past din ing hall escapades." You heard it here first! . . . Kerri Hicks decided not to wait until he got married to fill me in on the cene in Provi dence, R.l. Although bu y a the copy editor for the Proi.•idence Business ews , he find time to write drama, entering a director' fes t i v a l w i t h M a r k C o s d o n through eattle's N ew City The arer and Art Cemer la t year. he mentioned that John Reynolds i still bu y on tage, finishing up his econd year at ACT (Actor' Con ervatory Theater) in an Francisco. Bravo! On the home front, Kerri can be found at Ro ie O'Grady' on Thursday nights, "where a band ca l led Perfect Circle has a weekly gig. That's right, the Perfect Circle of Colby fame-Scott J a b l o n s k i , M ik e Henry '9 1 and GregJacob o n '9 1 ." con reportedly pend hi week day hours working for Versys in We twood, Mas . Kerri a ured me that the Colby Club of R . l . was al ive and well, ho ting a func tion last ummer where " I ran into a bunch of people who e name I couldn't remember, but it really was fun . . . . Much thanks to Melita Marks, who em me a new -filled letter la t ummer. Melita is working at C C I ndex, a management con ult ing firm, in the multiclient department and i ba ically lo ing Bo ton. Former roommate Rob n Torrisi report edly ha two big rea on to cel ebrate-her engagement to Bill Odger , who i in the Navy ( a May 1 99 3 wedding i s planned) and her promotion to re earch supervisor at Brown U niversity' Alcohol and Cocaine G rams. Melita's other roommate, Sue Banta, al o engaged (I believe the big day i coming up soon ! ) , i enjoying the hectic pace of her job at the FDIC in the bank l iqui dation department. With both Colby , May 1 99 2

Newsmakers Amy Fa rme r ' 9 0 was promoted t o a s i tant photo editor at the

ational Geographic

ociety in Wa h i ng

ton, D.C.

Mileposts Marriages:

Scott Kessel '90 to Marianne Hoffman

in Winchester, Mas .

Correspondents 1 990

1 99 1

Debbie Adam

roo m ma t e engaged , M e l i t a writes, " J u t a little pre ure h a been p u t upon me." According t o Melita , Christina Theoka com pleted her master' in psychology and education la t year with a the is titled "Child Development and Interaction in Outer pace." Wow ! Cerramly above my head, no pun intended. Shelle Horton, adju red to life i n New ]er ey, is now a upervi or of other bank examiner , working for the T reaury Department in the greater New York area. Al o in ew Jerey is Terri Edmunds, in the fi nancedeparrmentof AT&T Bell Labs and rumored to have been swept off her feet by an English man. After getting their ma ter's degrees at Le ley College, both M a r y B r o w n e and H e a t h e r Atwood landed teaching jobs. Mary i at Dedham Country Day chool teach i ng k indergarten, and Heather moved out west to

take a po it1on at The Vail foun tain chool and welcome any friends travel i ng in the area ! Mel ita al o wrote that Cathy "CC" Cook, i over at MIT in the international scholars depart ment . . . . The " m a l l world" award goe to Jennifer Pattison Gil ar, l iv ing in Dallas after mar rying M ichael G i l var. he is now related to four-year Colby room mate Leslie Middleton Gilvar, who married Jennifer's brother in-law and al o Ii e in Dallas. Leslie i al o "Auntie" to Jennifer's son, Keith Warren G ilvar, born April 8, 1 99 1 . Best wi hes to both families! . . . Last year' 4th of]uly ba h at Laura Thornton' hou e turned into a mini Colby reunion judging by the photo he em ( wh ic h , unfortunately, Colby couldn't use ) . Laura 1 s in YC working for Mar h and Mclen nan, l nc., and included new of ome fellow New Yorkers: Cathy

A n d rew i at Brooklyn La\\" chool ; J eff En g l and is at M ac r ' ; and Jen Pierce 1 a feature� a·sis tam at Vogue . . . . When the Ber l in W a l l c a me d o w n , T i n a Clifford was i n W e t Berlin ro

ee it happen. JU t one of the many exc iting e\·em he wit ne sed ,,·hile on tour \\"ith Up W ith Peop l e . Tina pent · ix months on tour tra\'elmg around the U . . and then another . ix in Europe performing how in Nor way , weden. Denmark, Ger many, wit:erland and I taly. "Our main goal is to break barrier cul turally," Tina said in an inter view with the Bei•erh• Times . She pro\'ed her commit �ent ro the organi:ation by ·igning on for another year as promotion direc tor after her year of performing ended. De pite her bu y ched ule, l noriced that Tina till found time to send me my enior Pledge form · . c o t t Kesse l '90 dropped me a note to say that married life was treating him wel l. After he and high school \\"eet hearr Marianne wed on J une , 1 99 1 , they went to r. Martin to honeymoon and then went back to Woburn, Ma s., where they now live. corr i a manager for Agency Rem-a-Car in Revere, and Marianne is a buyer for Corbett Drug in Belmont. Clas mate· at the wedding included: Dan Cummings, Brian Kaplan, S arah M o u l ton and K i rs t e n Sherman Murra . . . . Thank for

all the letters, and if you haven't written yet, plea e do! You don't need to be married, engaged, l i\' ing m an exotic place, back in school or even employed to get your name in print. As Dave Lo er ( who ha yet to end omething, l might point out ) recently said to me, "you j u t have to write."

OBITUARIES James M . Carpenter, Professor and Art Historian and fiftie. , Colby came of age, embracing

former president of the New York State

art, music and the humanities in a way that

Baptist M i ni ters Council and of the Mas

had nor been prominent before." In

1 959

Carpenter founJe<l the Colby Col lege M u eum of Art, and he museum's director until Art and Mu ic

erveJ as the

1 966. The Bixler

enter, with it c la ·srooms

anJ the J ette Galleries, also had i ts gene ts

1 1 in a n ocean

swimming accident in Puerto Rico. He was

Congregati onal Church in Westboo k , M a i n e , unt il

1 976. For hi work w i th the

ceived a Colby Gavel. He repre entedColby

arpenter wrote a college

in numerous events on and off campus, and

textbook, Visual Art : A CriLical l ncroduc

on the SOth anniver ary of h is graduation

Lion, which wa

1 982 by

the College awarded him an honorary doc

Harcourt, Brace. Carpenter's <laughter, Jane

torate. H is wife, Margaret mith hearman

puh l i hed in

Pol iquin, also perished in the drowning

'26, died in 1 984. Other College relatives

accident and i survived by her hu hanJ,

include hi

Bruce, and by a on.

1 888, ' 1 5 , Clark '2 1 and E. Richard Drummond '28 and E l l worth Prince ' 1 8. urviv ing are a on, Philip A.

arpenter is urviveJ

and six grandchildren.

e u m of A r t , d i e d February

1 967, although he

first to hold the J ette Profe sorshtp. After

by hi wife, Dorothy, two sons, a <laughter

ment of Art and founded the Colby M u -

Springfield, retiring in

continueJ a pastorate with H ighland Lake

Ma sachusett Baptist Convention he re

arpenter, who in

hi retirement,

tus of art who developed Colby' Depart

Baptist C nvention. Later he

returned to the First Bapti t Church of

1 976 hecame the

with

James M. Carpenter, professor emeri

sachusett

uncle , Henry C. Prince and

Albert F. Drummond, both Cla s of

and c u in Prince A.

hearman ' S O , a daughter, M arjorie

Baptist Pastor

Shearman Bums '5 1

Evan J. Shearman '22, a Bapti t min 50 years, died February 1 in Portland, Maine. He was 9 1 . Born in Port

, 1 1 grandch ildren and 1 0 great-grandchildren.

ister for over

Distinguished Minister

7 7 . He was born in G lens Fall , N . Y . , and

land, he attended local chools anJ Deering

received a bachelor's degree and doctorate

H igh School. At Colby he wa a member of

Gabriel R. Guedj '26, a leader among

from Harvard Un iversity, where he taught

Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity and of mu

Bapti t conservative mini ter and a mov

for seven years. When he was recruited t

s ical club , was editor of the Oracle his

ing force in establishing the Con ervative

enior year and graduated as a member of

Baptist Assoc iation of America, d ied Feb

chair what was then Colby's Fine Arts

1 9 in Joshua Tree, Calif., at 90. H is

Department, he wa the College's only art

Phi Beta Kappa. He received a bachelor of

ruary

history professor. By the time he retired in

d i v i n ity degree from Andover N ewton

parent were Pari ians who ettled in French

1 980 he had developed a full department, 1 1 members and the i x th

ate of divin i ty degree fr m American Inter

which today ha

Theological Inst itute in

1 92 5 and a doctor

Algeria, where he was born in

1 902. At 1 3

he ran away to sea and joined the merchant

largest number of majors at the College.

national College in

1 940. He ministered at

marine, sailing under French, Briti h and

During a memorial serv ice i n Lorimer

Emmanuel Baptist Church in Brook lyn ,

American flag during and following World

Chapel on February 2 7 , Pre ident W i l l iam

N.Y., andwaspa torofFirstBapti t churches

War I. In

R. Cotter

aid, "The current facu lty and

in Woburn and Springfield, Mass . , and the

hi home, learning English and determin

staff in all our departments know that they

Church-in-the-Garden, Garden City, N .Y.

ing to educate h imself, he was converted

stand on the shoulder of giant ; and in the

1 95 8 he became d i rector of placement

dur ing a Salvat ion Army meet ing i n

1 920, after adopting America a

case of art , the shoulders of] im Carpenter,

and alumni secretary at Andover Newton

Framingham, Mass., and soon after was

a most gentle, mode t and caring giant."

Theological Institute. He also wa ea tern

called to the ministry. H is first pa torate was the Bapti t Church in Smithfield,

Former President Robert E. L. Strider lI

representative of the department offinance

said that before Profes or Carpenter came

and promotion of A m e r i c a n Bapt ist

Maine, where he preached while he was a

to the College, "there was no art depart

Churches and for several years erved the

student at Coburn Cla sical Institute i n

ment at all, and one can ay without exag

American Bapti t Convention on the fi

Waterv ille a n d at Colby. As a tudent he

geration that in the decades of the forties

nance and promotion counc i l . He was a

wa active in debatingand public speaking.

Colby, May

1 992

He studied at Harvard and at Andover

Dartmouth High School, and in 1 97 1 he

Newton Theological Institute, was ordained

received the

to the m inistry in 1 929 and received a

c ity of Newburyport. He served Colby for

Roland F. Wortman '69 and I a Squier of

doctorate in divinity from Northwe rem

years as a class agent. He is survived by his

the Colby Health Center.

Theological Seminary of Minneapolis in

wife, Mona Herron Erickson '28, two daugh

1 948. Hi

pa torares between 1 929 and

1 95 7 included Bapti t churchesand temple in Newport,

. H . , Pawtucket, R . l . , Fall

River, Mass., Brooklyn, N .Y . , and Fresno,

ters, a son, seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

Foundation and l a ter wa

an interim

preacher in Southern California Baptist churche and pastor of the Fir t Southern Baptist Church in Joshua Tree. He al o was a

ocial

ervice worker w ith the depart

ment of public social ervices in Los Ange l

County. He i

survived by h i

wife,

Mirth.

Perry G. Wortman '33, a Maine edu cator and public servant, died February 9 in Bangor, Maine. He wa

0. He wa born in

Wytopitlock, Maine, and attended Green v ille High School. A chemistry and math major at Colby, he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, served two years as treasurer of Lamba Chi Alpha fraternity and was a class officer and officer of everal other under ter of education degree from the U niver ity

John M. Erickson '28, a high chool

of Maine in 1 947. Hi

career i n Maine

education included teaching and princi palship in junior high chools in Greenville

principal, died last winter i n New Bedford,

and Bangor, high school

Ma . , at the age of

Harbor and Belfa t and 10 years as head

6. He was born in

in Boothbay

Newburyport, Mas ., where he attended

master at Higgin

high chool. A t Colby he was a member of

Charleston. From 1 969 to 1 9 7 2 he was

Cla ical In t i tute in

Alpha Tau Omega fraternity, played on the

superintendent of SAD 2, serving the

ba eball team and was captain and quarter

Greenville-Moose head area. I n addition to

back of the football team hi

memberships and committee service in ev

enior year.

everal nieces and

Colby Volunteer volunteer, died January 1 6 in Myrtle Beach,

graduate organization . He received a ma -

School Administrator

ister, a brother, and

nephews, including John M. Wortman '70,

Ruth Fuller Frost '36, a loyal alumni

Public S ervant

Calif. From 1 95 7 to 1 96 1 he was endow ment director of the California Bapti t

ative Son award from the

He received a master' degree in education

eral

from Bate College in 1 94 1 . He taught one

tion , he was a long-time trea urer, trustee

tare and national teachers' as ocia

S.C., at 76. She was born in

outh China,

Maine, and attended Winslow High chool and Cony H igh School in Augusta. At the College she participated in every women's port, erved as a class officer and was an officer in Chi Omega sorority. After gradu ation

he taught school in Albion and

Win low, Maine. Following graduate tudy in busine s mathematic at Boston U niveriry, she did secretarial and payroll work for the government before leaving to raise a family. In later years she was an avid golfer and was a past president of the Ladies Golf As ociation ofBay Tree Golf Plantation in outh Carolina. For years she served the College as a clas agent. Her College rela tives include her cousins, Robert E. Anderon '47 and the late William Man field, Jr. '47 , and her sister-in-law, Elsie Fro t Rapp '26. Other survivors are her hu band, Ernest "Bud" Frost '38, a son, a daughter,

ikk i

Frost '66, and a granddaughter.

Colby Benefactor

year at Lawrence High School in Fairfield,

and deacon of the U n ion Evangel ical

Maine, then spent 1 5 year as principal of

Church in Greenville, a member and past

Ruth A. D'Amico, wife of the late

the Northfield, Vt., high

pre ident of the Rotary club of Boothbay

Augu tine A . D'Amico '28 and mother of

chool before

moving to Dexter High School in Dexter,

Harbor and Belfast and a member of the

A nthony M. D'Am ico ' 5 7 and Lynn

Maine, for three year . Ln 1 948 he was

Rotary Club of Bangor. After h is retire

D'Amico McKee '58, d ied in Bangor,

appointed principal at Dartmouth High

ment he wa pre ident of the Moosehead

Maine, on J uly 2 7 , 1 99 1 . She and her

chool in Dartmouth, Mas ., where he

Lake K iwanis Club. In 1 982 he received

husband, a Colby tru teeemeritu and hon

erved until hi retirement in 1 970. He was

the Jeffer on Award for outstanding volun

orary degree recipient, were generou bene

president ofthe Vermont Headmasters Club

teer service to the Moosehead Lake region.

factors of the Colby Museum of Art, and

and ofthe Sou theastern Massachusetts Prin

He erved Colby as class agent, member of

Mr. D'Amico was a member of the Mu eum

cipal A ociation, and he was a member of

the Alumni Council and president of the

Advisory Committee. A large collection of

the National A

Penob cot Valley Colby Alumni Associa

prints and ceramics wa given by them to

ociation of Secondary pre ented a

t ion. Predeceased by his brothers Herbert

the museum, where they also established

re olution by the Mas achusetts enate in

Wortman '26 and Llewellyn F. Wortman

the A. A. D'Amico Art Fund. Mrs. D' Amico

recogn ition of hi

3 5 , he i

wa awarded a Colby Brick in 1 959.

Princip;ils. In 1 970 he wa

Colby, May 1 992

22 year as principal of

urvived by hi

on, Edward, a

LETTERS Colby welcomes letters from readers . We reseri'e rhe righr ro edit for l:rre vity and clariry . Please send correspondence ro: Managing Edi tor , Colby, Office of Communications , Colby College , Watm1ille , ME 0490 1 .

Colby Mute on Gays This morning I was reading an e say ti tled "Courage on ampu." in On Being Gay by Brian McN aught. I found myself remembering what it was like during the two year l penton campu at Colby { l 94648 ) , having tran ferred there from Bangor eminary' J unior College after my dis charge from the U.S. Navy. Having read the article on di vorce and the art icle on the tru tees' plans for the future in the U anuary 1 992] i sue of Colby, l realized that l was trying to find some th i ng to which l cou ld relate and to which l would want to contribute if I were finan cially able. l couldn't. The article on d i vorce hows ab olutely no awarene s o f the broad areas of knowledge that are being uncovered about our "trad itional value" fam ilies-the abuse f alcohol and exual and emoti onal abuse, among other -nor of the resources that are avai lable to deal with those problems. The article on plans for the future shows no recognition that at least 10 percent ofour general popu lation is what is common ly called gay or lesbian, and that we are be ing confronted with serious question about the future of tradi tional values i n more areas than fam i ly. I feel no sense of identity with Colby . I d idn't at the time that I was a student there. I did what I had to do to urvive and get a degree. I made no friendship that lasted beyond graduation. I didn't dare. I did the same with a master' degree from Boston University. It was a commercial exchange. I gave what was asked and got what l wanted. It meant no more than that to me because I never felt that either insti tution wanted or expected any more from me. It worked for a number of years, and I 80

achieved a high degree of success d ing what others wanted and hiding the fact that I was gay. Eventua lly, it all caved in. J udging by what I read in Colby, I feel no sense of ident ity with the College as it is today. It deals with a world that exi ts more in the minds of holders of "traditional val ues" than in the world 1 ee Jeveloping around me. I wish you well, but there i no way I could support it, even if l diJ have the financ ial mean . Colby is not a col lege which I could recommend ro a young gay or le bian, based on what I read in Colb)'· Roben A. Batten , ] r. '48 Geyserville , Calif.

Grammar Police l very much liked the story you did for Colby magazine on tenure, but in the inter

e t of accuracy, and to forestall the thou sands of letters from a lumn i who wi l l glory in catching me in a mi take, I could not have aid "really qu ite unique." Unique i an ab olute that cannot be compared. Charles Bassett Waterville, Maine

Corrections Colby strives to be as accurate as possible in its reporting. If you see a mistake in the class columns in the magazine's "Alumni at Large"

Lovej oy's Legacy "Think not that it is becau e I am an abolition i t that I am so persecu ted . They who started thi report knew and still know better . . . . But the true cau e i the open and decided tand which the paper ha taken against the encroachment of Pap ery . . . . I repeat it, then, the real origin of the cry, 'Down with the Observer,' i to be looked for in it opposit ion t Papery. The fir t ( ic ) that is now blazing throughout thi c i ty was kindled on Popish altars and now has been blown up by Jesuit breath. And now, dear brethren, the que tion is, should we flee before it or stay and abide its fury, even though we perish i n i t flames? For one, I cannot hesitate. The path ofdury lies plain before me, and I mu t walk therein, even though it lead to the whipping po t, the tar barrel or even the take . . . . I can not, I dare not, and His grace sustaining me I will not. " Elijah P. Lovejoy, i n a statement before fleeing St. Louis, 1 83 5 . Reprinted in the Waterville Sentinel, 6/8/42 . Before "Pursuing Lovejoy' Legacy" ( J anuary 1 992 ) m uch more, perhaps a deeper look into what that legacy actuall y stands for i s i n order. Tom Cahill ' 89 Greenwich , Conn.

section, please bring it to the attention of the Alumni Office. For errors in all other depart ments , please notify the managing editor at the above address .

C O L B Y Volume 8 1

umber 3

Colby is publi ·hed five times yearly for the alumni, friend , parent of students, en ior , faculty and staff of Colby College. Address correspondence to: Managing Edi tor, Colby , Colby College, Waterville, M E

0490 1 -4 799. Colby Staff:

Edward Hershey, d1recwr of communicarions , execurive editor; ally Baker, managing editor; Nora L . Cameron, associ ate edicor, graphics and design; Mary Ellen Matava, associate editor, photography; Andrea Solomita '9 1 , sports editor; Robert G i llespie, College editor; Bonnie Bi hop, creative director; Gretchen Anderegg, de sign assistant .

Contributing

Ph ot ogra phers : Catherine

Ashmore (front cover), David Wilkinson ( inside front cover), Rhett Weiland ( in side back cover), David Wilkin on and Sally Baker (6-2 5 ) , Mary Ellen Matava

(65, 7 1 ), Don Treeger (69 ) .

Administration: W i l l iam R. Cotter, presi dent; Peyton Randolph Helm, vice president for development aru:l alumni relarions; Earl H. Smith, dean of the College; usan Conant Cook '75, director of alumni relarions.

Colby , May 1 992

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