Colby Magazine vol. 81, no. 4 by Colby College Libraries

INSIDE COLBY T

here'

Cover Story

a new element in this

month's is ue of Colby-full-color

photography on ome inside pages. Thi

A Day to Remember: Colby ' 20,000th graduate, Angela

seemed a good issue to add

Toms, is embraced by Bill Cosby, who had hugs-and ome advice-for the ent ire Class of '92.

inside color becau e it helps to prop erly illu trate the work of two alumni featured in this issue, puzzle designer

Features

Steve Richardson '61 (page 18) and doll maker Jocelyn Mostrom '57

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( p age24).

Professor Thomas Tietenberg, say nations must change before the world can solve it environmental crises.

lege magazines deploy ome inside color, this ought not be viewed as a kind of keeping-up-with-the- tan

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fords addition. Color w i l l be used in

At Work on Play: Steve and Martha R ichardson make

the future just a it has been in this issue: when it contribute

10 Reflections on the Earth Summit: Our man in R io,

While most of the better col

and market the world' hardest and mo t expensive jigsaw puzzle , Ken igro gets paid to go to America's newe t ball park and Jocelyn Mostrom has shaped a successful career using com husks. Alumni all, they wouldn't trade jobs with any of us.

to the

understanding and appreciation of a story. Both the initial photography and the printing proce es of color add to the expen e of producing a

magazine. We can afford it now be

Five Paths to a First J ob: Sure it was a tough year, but ome

cause of several clever cost-saving

graduate found a way into the work force.

production technique

introduced

in the past two years by As ociate

Departments

Editor Nora Cameron. When Colby wa retooled two

Periscope

Reunion Roundup

ceived and implemented our new

look. She supervised all the cover

N ews from the H i l l

A lumni At Large

year ago to increase brightness, rel evance and timeline

, Nora con

shoots and designed and created every page of the pa t nine i ue , more than a few of them in the predawn hour of the day they were due at the printer. By the time you read thi , Nora will be at a new po ting down in Cambridge, serving

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the heirs ofJohn Harvard. Her suc ces or

n Mayflower Hill will be

pre ed to meet the has establi hed.

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Faculry File

Homecoming

Pagmg Parent

Obituaries

Books & Authors

Letters

44 pg . 3 0

Gifts & Grant

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

Gender Language in Neutral

The ollege Educational Policy Committee endor:.ed Dean of Faculty Bob McArthur'� suggestion that a proposed Colhy gender-neutral language statement be rahled until the fall. Bnh argued th<it "while we have achieved a higher level of camru cnmciousnes�" through this year's di cu·sion , "we have also caused a growing concern ...that even the mere 'encouragement' by the nllege of more inclusive language threaten� real or per eivcd freedom� of thought and ex pres ion." He said he believe� "we now have an obligation to provide education-�! nprortunitie before gning further with proposed statement ."

High Marks For Dining Services College food providers-at Colby and ebewherc--do not often recei,·c high praise from their customers. But a roll of some 800 olby tudents ha contradicted that norm.The ·urvey, conducted in the spring, gave the service, which i managed by Seilers, an overall approval rating of 93 percent.Forry-three percent said it was "good," an equal number ailed it "very good," and even percent said it wa "excellent." The food it elf hrought an a�ron i bing 77 percent approval rating, and the highest marb went to the dining services staff, with 97 percent of the ·tudents ·inging praises for the wonderful folk who prepare and erve the meal·. Students have voted overwhelmingly in favor of a number of dining innovation that will include having Dana Dining Hall serving fa t food on a cook-to-order grill from 7:30 a.m. until 9 p.m. daily.Other changes include the creation of a general :.tore in place of the game room at the pa and the serving of the famou Spa bagels in all dining hall·. Colby Scores Twice

Two Colby ·rudent , Brian Carlson '94 of Jerico, Vt., and Danielle Jamison '94 of Gardiner, Maine, have been named 1992 Barry M.Goldwater Scholars.The two were selected from among 600 nominated applicants from throughout the country. Tom Tietenberg (economic ) ha been Colby Pride named to the cience Advisory Board of the U.S.Envir nmental Protection Agency.His principal a signment will be as a member of the board' Environmental Economic Advisory Committee and of the Clean Air Act Compliance Analy i Council. ...The League of Afro-American Women has awarded Cheryl Townsend Gilkes (sociology and African-American studie ) its annual achievement award "for outstanding contribution in the field of religion." ...Paul Greenwood (biology) has received a 91,000 grant from the N ational In titute of General Medical Sciences . . . .Ed Hershey' Colby magazine article on tenure won

a bron:e medal in the Best Articles of the Year category in a national cnmrctition �ponsored by the Council for the Advance ment �ind uppmt of Education.The council al o gave Colby it award ()f pccial Recognition for Tora! Development Effort for the wnrk done by Randy Helm & Co.

After Graduation Cindy Ya inski and her col league� in the areer ervices Office have compiled a profile of the c1a,� \)f '92 that show that 21 rercent of the new grad had full-time iub in ::.ight, compared to 22 rercent a year ago (see related �rnry r<igc 30). The number of ·enior who aid they would attend rrofe��ional or graduate chnols next year or thereafter remain-, at ahnut SO percent.Of tho e, the number who will begin further �tudie-, in the fall i down a bit compared to a year ago. Thanks for Making It Necessary Free pre martyr Elijah Pari h Lovejoy, Colby 1826, ha been included in the t.Loui Walk ofFame, spon oreJ by a nonpwfit corporation that imrall bra. tar· and plaque into the idewalk of the city' Univer.·iry Lonp to honor individuals who ha e made a major contrihution to the cultural heritage of the t. Loui area.The Rev.Robert Tab cott, a Lovejoy biographer and writer/producer of olhy' Lovejoy film,memorialized Lovejoy at ceremonie in May.Other 1992 honoree were baseball legend Yogi Berra and Joe Garagiola, Japane e architect Gyo Obata and acne Shelley Winters. (Berra thanked the Walk ofFame ponsors "for making this day nece sary.") Earlier inductee include Ulysse S. Grant, T.S. Eliot, Charles Lindberg, Stan Musial, Chuck Berry, Scott Joplin, Miles Davis, Tennessee Williams, Buddy Eb en, Betty Grable, Joseph Pulitzer

and Bill Mauldin.

Moosecellaneous Colbyettes fan will want to own the group's newe t relea e, Whistle or Ya Lose Jc, now available at the book tore .... Participation in the intramural p rts pro gram, I-Play, continue to increa e. Over the pa t year, 1,096 tudent played on 15 I team .... Nine of a dozen new tenure track faculty appointee for next fall are w men. ...Colby' Geology Department has been invited to become an Academic Associate of the American Geological Institute, a distinction held by only 77 other institutions in the country.Amher t i the only other NESCAC member....A white swan that vi ired Johnson Pond one morning last spring wa not a wild one.It had taken a vacation from a mode t wannery up the road. The whitetail deer seen drinking from the pond were the genuine articl . peaking of the pond, it look a bit healthier this ummer, although the mallard are in full force and hatching chick like crazy. Folk are pretty good about not feeding 'em. Colby, Augu t 1992

NEWS FROM THE HILL Artis t Alex Katz Donates 414 Works to Colby

lex Kat:. one nf ;\merica's

Kat: came to

most imrL1rtant li\·111g artist� and

J\ laine and 11·as

associated with the Sh1\-1·hegan

a long-nme friend c1f the C.)l\ege,

SchL1ol of Pair1ting and -culp

annL)Unced L1n July 'that he 1ql\

ture in 1949. He has been a sum

gi\·e the Museum c)f Arr-+ I-+ \\"lll"ks

mer resident of Lincolrn·i\le for

�panning ml1re than 3L1 years. In

four decades.

accerting rh gifr. President \Vil

In the 1950s. 1\·hen abstract

liam R. Corter ex�•res-;ed Colb1·'s

impressionism \\·as the current

deep grarirude, s,11·ing the da1· \1·as

sryle of painting. Kar: Jemon

one of rhe most nH:"mL1r�1He he has

strated his independence by re

'rent in hi� 1·ears m rhe Colleee.

sponding to the ll'orld around

.'\ tund-raismg campaign \\"i II

him in a reali·tic yet pers,1nal

be undertaken w build a ne\1· gal

manner. His response to his en

len· w exhibit rhe Kar: Cl)llec-

vironment at that time foreshad

ri,1n.

owed the majm trends in the A selection of the �·rnm1�ed

Kat: \\'Orks

ne\\' realism of wday.

forms rhe maj,1r sum

John Russell, art critic of

mer exhibition at rhe museum.

the

"Alex Kat: at Culb\' Cl)llege" alsu

"If \\"e had to be reincarnated,

ew York Tim�s. has ll'ritten,

includes paintings on !,)an from a

one of the better ideas \1·ould be

olby trustee, Paul J. -churf of

to come back to life in a painting

Hamilton, rhe

.Y. Among rhem is

by Alex Kar:."

3 -foot-long Pas de Oe1tx, bsr

Kat: has

had one-man

shown in a 19 5 exhihition ar

sho11·s in galleries and museums

Colhy.

across the United State and 1n

The c u rrent exhibit

opened onJuly :-i and 1\·ill cl,N= on eptember

Paris, Helsinki, Toronto and

] I.

Tokyo. In 19 6 the Whitney

"I've been painting in Marne

Mu·eum of American Art orga

ince 1949, and I al\\"<1\'5 felt a

ni:ed a major reuospecti\·e of hi·

little guilty ju·t raking rhing� out

work and publi hed a book con

of Maine," Kat= r,1ld a luncheon

taining more than 91 color re

audience at Colhy. "If you make

productions of paintings, cutouts and collages representati\·e of

painting , then reople ought tn

that work.

ee them. It is a pm·ilege to knm\· that these painting \\'ill be seen

Alex Kar�. Tracy on the Raft ar 7 :30, oil on can�'aS, 120" x 72".

Portrait -espec1ally,1fhis\\'ife,Ada,

paintings, like Ada in Black Swearer, 1956

and his son, Vincent, and a circle of friends

and

compo ed of artist'i, poets, critics and danc

sketches, portrait drawings and rrints.

er -ha\·e heen the main"taY of Kat:'s painting

1nce the 195

Kat: received an honoran· doctorate from Colby in 198-+,

by people in Maine."

. Among the

amden, Maine, 1953-54, as well as

has served on various museum commit tees in the past and at present is a member of the museum's ad\·isory council.

Kat= use other media, including col

The propo ed Kat: addition to the

lage and -ilk creen on aluminum or wood

Colby College Museum of An \1·ill be

large painting from rhe collection in the

cutout. The Colby exhibit features the

based on plans drawn by the late English

exhihit areTraqonrheRaf1a17:3 , 1982,

large cutout Wedding,

architect Max Gordon. In hi

His Behind the Back Pass, 197 , Baskerball,

People, 197 5 and Mill)' and Sally, 19 4 are

1991, �eagull II,

also included.

19 9 and Ada'

Black

Smulnls, 19 7. The exhibit als features many small

Colby, August 1992

A resident of

1969-70. Seven

ew Yori<

Times obituar ·,Gordon was referred to a an architect "internationally kno\\'n for

ew York City who

tudied at the Cooper Union Art

chool,

his mastery of exhibition spaces, both pub lic and private" and as "the architect of

choice for mu eums, dealer , gallerie and private collecti ms from Los Angeles, Chicago and New York to London, Madrid, Athens and Helsinki." The Katz gift is the ·econd major collection to become affiliated with the Colby art museum this year. The J an Whitney Pay on Collection of Impres sionist and Po t-lmpres ioni t Art wa exhibited in the Davis Gallery in February and will return to the College every other year for one emester. The Davi Gallery, completed last ummerand funded largely by a grant from the Davis Educational Foundation, wa part of a $4 million ex pansion and renovation of the Bixler Art and Music Center. The new museum wing, which will house the Katz collection, will be joined to the north wall of the Jette Galleries. The promised collection includes 15 large Katz painting , 40 small paintings, 32 finished portrait drawings, 1 46 small drawing in pencil and ink, seven cutouts, five cartoons and 1 69 prints.

Class of 1996 Numbers On Target Despite the challenging demographic picture and an equally unfavorable ec nomic recession, the College ha enroll ment acceptances from more than 500 new students. Dean of Admissions Parker Beverage reports that the overall appli cant pool for the Clas of '96 was 3 , 1 50. The number of students applyingfor"early decision" was up 12.5 percent. Forty-two percent of the new clas will come from outside New England. Orientation for the newest Colbians begins on September 1 , and the majority will leave on COOT trips the following day. 4

Mary

Ellen Marava

Jennifer A/fond '92 and Hilda Westervelt '92

"Watsons" to Track Pilgrims, Pollution Two member of the Cla of 1 992 with many ties to Colby have been awarded 1 992-93 Watson Fellowship to embark on year-long project . ] ennifer Alfond will develop an outdoor and environmental education program for children in rural and urban.area ofRu sia. Hilda We tervelt will retrace pilgrimage route between Vezelay, France, and antiago de Com postela, Spain, to study the Romanesque sculpture in churche along the way. Alfond i the 42nd member of her family to attend Colby; We tervelt is the daughter of Col by Clas ics Profes or Peter We tervelt and Nancy Fortuine We t ervelt '54, and her brother Peter i a mem ber of the Class of 1 9 5. The two are among 70 graduating seniors from 47 mall liberal art colleges chosen to be Wat on Fellows in a program sponsored by the Thomas J. Watson Foundation. Each will receive a stipend of $13 ,000. ARu ian tudiesmajor,Alfondsay she plans to use her knowledge of the country and its language to impre upon young people the importance of improv ing environmental conditions and then teach them how to go about making tan gible improvements. She traveled to Rus sia a a high school tudent and again during a junior year abroad. The country

and it people touched her deeply, she ay , and she was concerned about the poor condition of Ru sia' air and water. Alfond founded Colby' recycling program during her ophomore year and ub equently worked to ustain and en large it. A leader of Colby's Environmen tal Council as a tudent, he taught an environmental curriculum to first graders at Waterville' Brookside School and led nature group at the Boys and Girl Club of Waterville. he say she hopes her lo e for the environment and her zeal for pro tecting it will be embraced by the Ru ian children and teenager she teache . TheRus ian people are shedding their fear of the unknown and of the pa t and are lowly becoming aware of their envi ronment, Alfond aid in her War on pro po al. he aid her fellowship will allow her to "approach [Ru ian] youth at a time when activism is le dangerous and citi zen initiative is beginning to flourish all over the ociety." We tervelt' lifelong love of the clas sics, nurtured by her father, and her appre ciation for art hi tory led her to discover the beauty and wonder of culpture found at the top, or capital, of tall column in Romane que churches. She had een pho tos of these "historiated capital "in book Colby, August 1 992

and viewed examples in person for the fir t time in the pring of 199 1, when she vi ired The Cloi ters, the branch of the Metropolitan Mu eum of Art in Manhat tan that is devoted to the medieval period. The culpture, with its doll-like, disproportioned human figure , commu nicate a vigor and livelines that surpa clas ical sculpture in many way , We t ervelt said. The figure are engaged in action that tell stories from the Bible or about local legend or aint . To West ervelt, the culpture eem alive. " It stir me, " he aid. To view the world'sgreate t example of thi culpture, Westervelt will begin in Vezelay, France, and follow the routes of 12th- and 13-cenrury pilgrim to antiago de Compostela on the northern tip of Spain. There are five different pilgrimage route , and Westervelt willcri cro them to visit as many churche as po sible. The Wat on Foundation choo e fel lows who 'demon trate integrity, strong ethical character, intelligence, a capacity for vi ion and leader hip and a potential for humane and effective participation in the world community. " The fellows must go abroad and continue their projects for a full 1 2 month .

national college during his 14 years on Mayflower Hill. "Colby is 'hot,' and for good reason, " Bowen wrote in the Chronicle of Higher Education. "Ir has all the ingredi ents: a productive and caring faculty, bright and hard-working tudents, a dynamic president and deeply devoted trustee . " Bur Bowen expre sed concern that profe sors at the College now devote a much time to re earch as to reaching and are judged more for their scholar hip and le s for their interest in teaching when deci ions on tenure, promotion and merit raise are made. "In hort," Bowen wrote, "although outside ob erver may view

Colby' meteoric rise in status as proof of unqualified succes , insiders such as my self recognize that the college has paid a high price for its exalted reputation. " Three weeks after it ran Bowen's esay, the Chronicle, a weekly read by teach ers and admini trators across the nation, printed letter from four individuals tak ing is ue with Bowen's assessment. One, fromRobert McArthur, Colby's vice presi dent for academic affairs and dean of fac ulty, complained that Bowen had exag gerated the College's empha i on faculty research and concluded, "we remain stead fast in our commitment to the ideal that a

Old Debate Stirred Anew An old discussion at Colby and el e where-over whether high tandard of cholar hip and re earch by faculty take a toll on their teaching time-wa aired afre h thi ummer by a departing profe or. Roger Bowen, who ha left the Gov ernment Department to a ume a vice presidency at Hollin College in Virginia, described Colby' ri e from a regional to a Colby, August 1992

Campbell is Full Professor Murray Campbell, a member of the Colby faculty since 1980, has been promoted to the rank of full professor. The popular physics teacher is a graduate of Penn State and earned his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Cornell. He was named associate professor in 1986 and

has been chair of the department since 1988 .

. . Promoted to the rank of associate

professor is Linda Tarelbaum, a member of the English Department since 1982.

college should be fundamentally a place of teaching and learning." A letter from Daniel Traister '63 ug ge ted that Bowen had romanticized the days when profe sor were more teachers than cholars. Trai ter, who is curator of special collection at the University of Pennsylvania's Van Pelt-Dietrich Library, aid he had three remarkable teacher , one at Colby. Two of them, he noted, were widely published. "They taught well be cause they conveyed excitement and a en e of the importance of what they did," Traister wrote. "What they did-not what they read about what other were doing. The Colby profe sor whose teaching I value also did research. In fairness, he published very little of it. l don't think it misrepresents some 3 0-odd years of con versation to say that he felt fru trated then, may till feel frustrated now, by a system that did not ufficiently value re search and publication to encourage ei ther." Institutions that only teach, protested Donald K. harpe , a professor of educa tion at Weber State College in Ogden, Utah, "are no different than the squad rons of TV broadcasters who imply 'read' us the evening news. Developing, not just sharing, new information and knowledge is the key to all higher education."

All the State's A Colby Stage A production of H.M.S. Pinafore at the Lakewood Theater in Skowhegan this Augu t had a decidedlyColbyflavor. There were four College admini trarors in the cast and another in the orche tra, which was conducted by an alumna. 6

"I love theater because of the thrill of experiencing an audience directly," said Marilyn R. Pukkila, a College reference librarian, who landed a part in the Pinafore company. "I haven't sung on tage ince fifth grade, but this seemed like a perfect opportunity to branch out into something new." The how was produced by the Popu lar Opera of Pitt field-the acronym's a not-so-inside joke-and included visiting actors in the major role . That left le er parts up for grab . In addition ro Pukkila, College Regi trar GeorgeColeman,A o ciate Director of Annual Giving Nina Tilander and As istant Director of tu dent Activities Patricia Helm won pares. Music librarian Tony Hess was a violini t in the orchestra, which was led by Mary Walker Rector '69. Among tho e who might have had trouble recognizing the operetta at Lake wood were Gilbert & Su IIivan-the POOP version was set in the 23rd century and most resembled an epi ode of Star Trek et to music. "We did the show four years ago, and it was a hit,"Coleman aid. "It works well; it' just tran located from the 1 8th to the 23rd century. It's ea y to say 'starship' instead of ' hip,' and instead of looking out over the sea you look up at the sky." Pinafore was not the only production

nor Lakewood's the ole tage for Colby's theatrically inclined raff this ummer. Richard ewell, a profes or of per forming art , returned from a. eme ter of directing the Colby in London program just in time to re ume hi dutie as arti tic director at the Theater at Monmouth, a profe ional repertory company 45 min ute outhwe t of Waterville that ewell founded 22 year ago. Thi summer, he directed A Midsummer Night's Dream and Playboy of the \Ves tern \Vor/.d. cott Wood '92 pent the summer as an intern at Monmouth. A performing art major, Wood had leading roles at Colby inA Streetcar Named Desire and The \Vake of Jamey Foster. Hi part at Monmouth were mailer, but he ay the experience is invaluable. "It's a lot of fun and hard work,"Wood aid one afternoon after a Playboy rehear al and before acting in Macbeth that night. "There are tech calls, co turning, et and cene work. It really give a perspective on what theater i like in practice." Among hi fellow actors in two of the play wa Howard Koonce, who chair Colby' Performing Arts Department. Colby, August 1992

Biology Profe or Jay Labov had a long hiatu from the stage before coming to Colby, but he's been involved in local productions on and off in hi 13 year in Waterville and ha kept his voice in hape a a cantor at the Beth Israel temple in town. When he heard that Lakewood planned to tage Fiddler on the Roof in July, Labov tried out. ot every Lakewood play i advanced five centurie . For the role he landed as the butcher who woo but doesn't win Tevye' olde t daughter, Labov had to grow a full beard such as those worn by many l 9th-cenru ry eastern European Jew . He topped havingafter Commencement and thanked his lucky tar that it wa a generally cool ummer. "There were a few brief days when I really wanted it gone from my face," Labov aid.

Rose Receives First Parents' Fellowship Sonya Ro e, as ociate professor of ociology and anthropology at Colby, is the recipient of the fir t Class of 1991 Fellow hip for Di tinguished Teaching. For the pa t two year , parents of enior ha\·e establi hed endowment to as ist faculty member in keeping current in their field of study. Led by David and Barbara Preston, the Class of 1991 parents rai ed 102,507. The cla of 1992 parents raised 107 ,000 under the leadership of Ted and Barbara Alfond, and their en dowment will provide faculty as i ranee beginning in 1993. Parent oive to the Annual Fund each year, according to annual oiving director Pamela Alexander, but they also like to

Commission Okays Interim Report The ew England A ociation of School and Colleges Commission on Intitution of Higher Education ha ac cepted Colby's fifth-year interim report and commended the College "for it con tinued attention" to those area of con cern cited during the evaluation vi it in 19 7. The next comprehensive evalua tion i cheduled for fall 1997. In the elf- rudy prepared in advance of that vi it, the commission ha a ked that Colby give emphasis to it succe in meeting it own goal for increasing diverity and in applying information obtained through it elf-evaluation activitie "to enhance the institution's effectiveness a it relate to tudent achievement."

Colby, Augu t 1992

Mary

Professor Sonya Rose

see their contributions go toward some thing la ting, like an endowment or capi tal gift. "Teaching is central to Colby, " Alexander said. "It's probably the mo t important thing they can support. " Ro e was elected to receive the fel low hip by Dean of Faculty Robert McArthur and other faculty leaders. A graduate of Antioch College who earned her M.A. and Ph. D. from Northwe tern, he ha taught at Colby since 1977 and has sen·ed as associate dean of faculty, acting dean of faculty, as ociate dean of the col lege, director of women's tudies, chair of the Department of Sociology and An thropology and chair of the interdiscipli nary studies division. he has taught courses in the ociology of the family, women and men in so ciety, the sociology of work and introductory women's studies. McArthur called her "a particularly accomplished teacher and an important member of the College com munity." Rose will rake a full-year sabbatical leave in 1992-93 and will travel to archives in the United States and England to tudy the American military presence in England during World War 11, focu ing on is sues of aender, exuality, race and national identity. She will examine what the British and Americans knew about each other from the popular culture of the time and what the American authorities did to prepare male and female ser vice personnel for encounters with the Briti h. Ellen Matava "I am very honored to be recognized by the parent for

my effort for Colby student and the Colby community at large," Ro e aid. " 1 feel privileged to be on the faculty here."

'Legends' Is Born On Temple Street Is has been said many, many time that for all it attribute , one of Colby's major failings is that it is not within driv ing distance of a decent bowl of pasta, pa trami sandwich or plate of dim um. Pasta and pa trami may till be on the back burner, so to speak, but thanks to the savvy judgment and quick reaction of Mei Yiu Chau '95 of Manchester, N.H., dim sum have arrived in Waterville to the accompaniment of a piquant, peanut-fla vored sauce that i leaving former habitues of Chinatowns from Boston to an Fran cisco almost speechless. At about the time Chau arrived at Colby for her first semester late last sum mer, her uncle, Peter Cheung, and two of his friends, Dale and Michelle Edward , were studying locale for a new venrure a restaurant featuring food of the Hunan style that ha dominated Chinese tea houses in the major cities for ome years now but has been low to upplant the more traditional, less tangy, American ized Cantonese cuisine in the smaller town of New England. Chau had a taste or two of the local offerings and rushed to the phone to call Uncle Peter. "We were looking at a few places, including Brattleboro, Vermont," Edward recall . "She said to forget them. We were needed in Waterville." The three partners paid the Elm City a visit and rapidly reached the ame con clu ion. They staked out an old spaghetti joint on Temple Street in the heart of 8

town, went to work, and five day before Christmas opened Hunan Legends. Word of mouth-watering temptati n rapidly pread up one side of Mayflower Hill and down the other. By pring, the place was packed with urban expatriate hungry for a fix of noodle with e ame auce or General T o's chick n and Watervillian happily expo ed to authentic Chine e dishe for the fir t time. It didn't hurt that Cheung and the Edwards were managmg to put a multicour·e lun heon on the table for less than four dollars. oon after, olby it elf gave Hunan Legends it highest vore of confidence. The neophyte re taurant wa added to the h rt Ii t of area e tabli hments with Col lege charge privilege , allowing earch committees to impre s pro pecrive profes sors and administrator by raking th.em there to dine. A earch i on among member of the Clas of '96 to determine whether anyone has a cou in with a brick-oven piz:eria or an uncle with a kosher deli.

Rounded Trip, Square State The Colby Outdoor Orientation Trip (COOT), which began almo t off handedly with a dozen backpacker 1 7 years ago, now involve almo t every first yearstudent. Thi proliferation ha spurred staff and student organizer to expand the range of outings to suit all level of interest and skill. Thi ummer, member of the Clas of '96 received notice of a late addition, the "Four-Comer "COOT, that will take participants to a different corner of Maine on each of the four day . Day one i a tour of Acadia National Park downea t, and day three is a hike in western Maine. But

the organizers seem to have rounded a couple of comer . The second day is "an outing to a mall island off the northern coast of Maine" and the la t "a community project in central Maine." Central Maine, of cour e, i hardly a comer, and while there are many beautiful i lands off the coast of northern Maine, the only body of land on the state's northern coast i nei ther mall nor an island. It i called Canada.

The Green and Fragrant Land tudent workers, ophthalmologi ts in-training and other summer regular di covered one morning in June that large waths of lawn in front of Miller Library had been tom up and painted an unap pealing shade of off-olive. No one could help but notice that the trange looking patche didn't smell so good, either. urely Keith tockford, the campus green thumb, could hed ome insight on thi piece of oddness. "I noticed during Commencement that the audience eemed to be sinking," Stockford said. "Over the years the lawn receded everal inches below the walk way . We decided to build it back up." tockford imported a high-tech fill that include ground-up new paper and a couple of odoriferous ingredient that need not be specified in a family magazine. The concoction was laced with gras eed, spread and topped with a green paint that i uppo ed to protect the seed and alert pa sersby to tay off the fledgling lawn. Within days, tender blades were pok ing through the crusty covering. A resodded, reseeded lawn had re urfaced, cured of it rece sion. Time will tell how resi tant it prove to the forces of nature and to generations of frisbee-player . Colby, August 1992

New Trustees/Overseers Colby' Board of Trustees ha announced the election of 13 trustees and overseers. The new trustees are: • Elaine Zervas Stamas '53, a homemaker and amateur musician who erved as aCollege overseer for nearly a decade and wa a member of vi iring committee that evaluated the Mu ic, PerformingArts, Modem Foreign Languages and Health ervice Departments; • John Zacamy '71, who wa Colby's director of student activitie for two year after his graduation, earned his M.B.A. at Amos Tuck and is now a manaoino director at Bankers Trust

The Sound You (Don't) Hear

ecurities in

ew York;

•David Pulver '63, who i beginning his third term on the board after a one-year hiatu (board member may not erve more than two consecutive term ) and i the new chair of Mor e Shoe, Inc. in Canton, Ma . In hi prior term , Pulver stre sed the

Colby' acclaimed Mellon organ, built to peci fications made by Albert

chweitzer and installed

in LorimerChapel in 1 950 h in declining health,

importance of promoting diver ity on campus; and

in recent years been

uffering from

tressed-out

• Deborah England '85, who was elected as an alumni trustee and i an attorney with the firm of Hale and Dorr in Boston.

reed re onaror and hole- in the leather pouche of the pneumatic top action motor . The re ult ha beenocca i nal rrange

The new over eers are:

undsand, ometime ,no

•Paul Boghossian '76, pre·ident ofConcordia Manufactur ing Company and a member of the Alumni Fund Committee;

ound at all. The instrument went completely sour in the pring and trustee approved $40,000 for repair , which will begin in the fall. Pipe organ peciali t

•Curt Gowdy, Jr. '75, the producer of ABC's Wide World

of Spores and the winner of the 199 1 Carl

state-of-the-art control

olenoid motors and

voice the reed

olid

International in London; • Alan Mirken '51, executive vice president and a ociate

tate

tops, reoulate the flue

publisher of Abbeville Press in

take two month .

The gift of the Matthew T. Mellon Founda

in New YorkCity who, with her husband, Hilton, is co-vice chair of the Parent Executive Committee; •David Miller '51, a founder of Geraghty and Miller, the

tion of Pitt burgh, the in trument wa built by the Walcker Organ Company in Ludwig burg, Ger

ew York;

•Mildred Rosen P '93, a lawyer and former city councilor

pipework and clean the facade pipe and wood work. The work is expected t

portsAchieve

• Leon Allen P '86, the chair and CEO of Del Monte

David E. Wallace of Gorham Maine, will replace the 4 7 electropneumatic top lider motor with

el on

ment Award;

nation' leading groundwater con ulting firm;

one of the fir t European neo

• Robert Friedman, who ha served Colby a a tru tee and

baroque organs to arrive in North America after World War 11. It wa dedicated onJuly 28, 1950, by

an over eer and is senior partner and chief financial officer at

many, and wa

Goldman,

ach in

ew York;

•Carol Beaumier '72, cofounder and managing director of

Swi - organi t Karl Matthaei (above) in a day-long musical celebration commemorating the 200th

the

anniversary ofthe death ofJohann eba tianBach. The instrument was redesigned and enlarged by a

provides con ulting service to financial in titution

grant from the Loui Calder Foundation in 1967.

galleries in

ecura Group, a Wa hington, D.C.-ba ed company that ·

and

•John Payson P '88, a philanthropi t and owner of three art ew York, Florida and Maine who was the prime

mo er behind the arrangement that bring the Joan Whitney Payson Collection to the art mu eum every other year. Colby, Augu t 1 992

Reflections on the Earth Summit - by Thomas Tietenberg -

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lw nc.llc , than

Cliff)'

()W,

n or more do 1 t h rful of s iL ccess , nor more

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Fur the re former has c n c m ic

in all who fm >fi t h;i the old order , and on l)' lul<e wmm clefenders in all chose who would profit from the neH' order . The l 1 1 l<c wcirm 11css arises /Jartl;i from fear of their

acl11ersciries

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ern \ I l 1 r 1 J h;h 'en·eLI L i ' ll'e I I 1 11 m . m y ll'<li''·

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the fi 1·e-,tar l · w r e l c hu.. en a-, r h e head

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e l ' ldence d u r i ng r h e neg1 1t 1 ,i t i un;,.

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G i 1·e11 r h e cn1 1rmuu' J i 1·er� i ry a m nnµ rhe

fnre'>r 111<lll age m e n t p r i n c i p l e , , a c un 1·e n

r h e beach was rn u t i ne l y :,har rered by loll'

n a r i l 1m pf rhe ll'l irkl . f mµ i n g dfec r i 1·e

r i , l n 1 l!l h i , 1d i 1·er, 1 ry anJ d fra me\\'1 1rk C< >11-

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� ce k i ng r < ' m e c r r h ; n c h a l l e n g e , d e l

A:, made c l e l l" hy rhe mon rh, of rrepa

1 78 counnie' mer in Riu d e

rar1 1ry c , in ferenct"'.,, r hc,.e ! , iry g1 1 a l s were

u rc h i ns, a rem i nder r h a r p1)\'eny ll'<lS a lso

J a n e i ru d u r i ng t h e f i r;,r r11'l1 ll'eeb of J u n e .

n 1 1t e<b i l y ac h i eveJ . Beh i n d the p u h l i c

nn rhe agenda. Eer i l y , r h e n e x r morn ing

rheturic , 1f ""eek m_g comm,ln gro u n d " a n d . . ,, 1 l v i n.L! c o m mon pruh l e m :, " by t h e rea l

t h e c h i l dren were gone.

"relocared" for t h e d u ra r i on of r h e confer

eg;H i < lll ;, from

<ir Copacabana we were bes i eged by s r reer

l earned only

l a rer r h a t they h ad been rou nded up and

Thomas Tiecenberg is Christian A. John

i ry nf Ll i ffer i n.g i nr ere"r�-<mJ a n i n d r e

son Endeawn Fu1mdarion Dis t inguished

re� i � ra nce t u c hange r h ; 1 t has i t�e l f n o r

ence. So m uc h for d ea l i ng f orth righ r l y

Teaching Professor in Co/h,• ' s Depanmenc of

c hanged m u c h i n r h e fi 1·e cen t u r i es ;, i n ce

a n d compassi onately w i r h pnver t y 1

Economics . During che R iu rnnj�rence , he

M a c h i a ve l l i .

parcicipmed in the UNCT AD \\/ori<slwp c m

R io was a n appropri a t e �err i ng f or r h e

Of t h e issues raised a t rhe conferenc e , n o n e is m o r e c o n r e n t ious t h a n r h e foc us

S uswinable De1 dup111en r , which was org<1-

�u m m i t , nor o n l y heca use i r i ' i O!!e of r h e

of m y part i c i pa r io n , g lobal warm i ng.

n i :;:ed Irv che Uni red Narions and c hc Emfron

m o s t hca u t i fu l c i r i es in r h e wor l d , h u t a lso

on l y a re some of t h e s c i e n t ific u nderp i n

menral Defense F1mJ.

hecwse it m i rrors t h e tensions so m u c h i n

n i ngs o f forecasr i n.� i t� severi t y n o t fu l l y

Colh-:-i. A ugust l 992

David Rodgers

Thomas Tietenberg under tood, but it i

profoundly inter

mo t of the cu rrent build-up, the fa test

encourage more efficient energy technolo

twined with the linchpin of modern life:

rate

gie in ea tern Europe and the developing

energy.

occurring in the developing countrie . The

countrie , reduction in the high rate of

immediate implication i that any attempt

population growth in Africa and

in the

to control global warming must include

other parts of the developing world and

atmo phere. The e gase trap energy re

both the indu trialized and the !es -devel

effort to curb the exce sive deforestation

flected from the earth' surface, prevent

oped nation .

occurring in the Southern Hemisphere.

Global warming i cau ed by the accu mu lation of "greenhou e" gase

of growth in carbon emission

are

ome

pace. The result, a

Mo t carbon emis ions result from the

The developing ccuntrie , not urpri -

build-up of heat, is expected by most ci

combu tion offo il fuel . The oil and coal

ingly, have a different agenda. M ired in

enti ts to rai e global temperature

ing its e cape into

that fuel our home , our cars and our

poverty, they see the ba ic problem a the

yond the limit of human experience. The

factorie all trap thi reradiated heat. Tree

exce-sive consumption patterns of the

exact magnitude and con equence of thi

burning, a method many people in devel

industrialized nations-particularly the

warming cannot be predicted with com

oping countrie use to clear fore ted land

United

plete confidence, but po ible effects (with

for agriculture, also ha become an impor

was derived from u ing exces ive amount

varying degree of likelihood) include a

tant source of carbon in the atmosphere.

of fo sil fuel energy, thereby u ing up the

ignificant ri e in ea level, increasingly

Though many greenhou e gases con

ab orptive capacity of the atmosphere on

tate . Our wealth, they believe,

tribute to global warming, carbon dioxide

a 'first come, first served" basis. A

arid area and po sibly dramatic change

has been the focu

citizens of the e developing countrie now

in eco y tern a traditional habitats be

tions.

come unsuitable for c urrent specie .

tively important gas, but it is al o ea ier to

mayed and fru trated by argument

monitor than ome of the other . And the

ge ting that they cannot follow the tradi

capacity to monitor emi

tional path to increa ed wealth (the one

evere

torm , de ertification of already

Carbon dioxide is currently the mo t important of the greenhouse gases. The United

tate , the large t emitter, i

re-

pon ible for about 25 percent of all car

ot only i

for current negotia it the mo t quantita

ion i a neces-

ary ingredient in any international agree ment dealing with global warming.

eek their place in the u n they are di ug

taken by the industrialized nations) be cau e to do o would trigger a potentially

over how be t to limit

d i a trou c limate change. That, they ar

Europe,Canada and Japan are re ponsible

carbon dioxide have precipitated a num

gue, i patently unfair; as they ee it, the

for mo t of the rest. While these indu tri

ber of conflicts. The indu trialized nation

developed world ha exhau ted not only

alized nation bear the respon ibility for

have come to the table determined to

its fair hare of the global ab orpti e ca-

bon emi

ion , while ea tern and western

Colby, Augu t 1992

Negotiation

the

pacity but the less-developed nations' fair hare a well. And their fru·tration has led to unprecedented cooperation in present ing a unified front, called the G-77, during the negotiations. Th i basic confl ict between the North and outh is partially reinforced and par tially fragmented by other conflict wirl ing around the negotiation process. The Rio ummit was unique in that it simulta neou ly wa ho t to about 1,400 nongov ernmental organizatiom at a nearby ite and attempted to make them an integral part of the conference. Called the Global Forum, this gathering wa in part a recog nition of the growing importance of the e organization in environmental policy at all level and in part an attempt to give them a role, albeit a limited one, in the proce Not urpri ingly, these organization had their own agenda , and they did not speak with one voice. Japanese group were there in force, extolling the virtues of a high-tech s lution. New technologies that offer the potential for crubbing car bon dioxide from industrial stack before i t i emitted provide thd undation for the Japanese v ision of the future. Mo t other environmental group were el l ing a quite different vi ion-one based on a impler, less materiali t ic lifestyle. A couple of incidents serve t illus trate some of the conflicts. On the first Tuesday of the ummit, a World Bank official was cheduled to be interviewed by Italian television. In the pirit of harmony the interview was to be taped on the Rainbow Warrior, a ship owned by Greenpeace, a part icularly visible envi ronmental organ ization with a hi tory of antagonism toward the World Bank. Upon arrival, however, the World Bank official was unceremoniously escorted from the

Thomas T1erenberg

A banner flown from the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior in Rio harbor ent a

message to world leaders parcicipacing in the Earth Summit .

ship and the inter iew wa conducted on the wharf at the bottom of the gangplank. Another incident illu trate how tough it is to find common ground on develop ment pra rices that can rai e living ·tan dards while re peering the environment. Prior to the start of the conference, Brazil ian official proudly howed off a new paper plantation, a facility they touted as a model of u rninable forestry for the re t of the world. The urce of pulp i a eucalyptus plantation created out of pre viou ly denuded land. ucce ive harvest ing and replanting provide a perpetual flow of fiber without jeopardizing the sur rounding fore t . While the tour wa un derway, the Rainbow Warrior et up a block ade at the mouth of the harbor to call attention to the fact that thi enterpri e relies on a single pecies of tree that pro vide little or no habitat for wildlife. What one ide saw a a vi ion of the future the other ide aw a yet another form of destruction. Another coalition that played a role in the negotiation repre ent the interests of the oil-producing nation . An effective agreement on global warming would reult in le oil being old. This reduction in demand would result in lower oil prices. Both the lower quantities and lower price would hit oil producer hard. Although preferring no global warming agreement, barring that outcome they sought to assert

their intere ts a firmly as po sible. Forming an agreement in the face of o many conflicting view require a lubri cant, which in thi ca e i money. The United ation ha e t imated that it would take about 1 2 5 billion a year to imple ment Agenda 2 1 (which include , but i not limi ted to, global warming ). The United tate , expected on the ba i of it wealth to be among the large t contribu tor , has o far talked about contribution in the 1 00 million range, while the Euro pean ommunity ha mentioned a figure of 4 . 5 billion. But the issues go deeper than imply the amount of money. To a ure accounta bility the industrialized nation want to see the money channeled through the Global Environmental Facility, a program run by the World Bank. The developing countrie ee that organization a too sen i tive to the intere t of donor and not en itive enough to the interest of recipients. Though this confluence of disparate intere ts made the crafting of an accept able agreement an arduou task, an agree ment wa reached. No sooner had the ink from the fir t ignatures dried than the agreement wa imultaneou ly a ailed by environmentali. t as wholly inadequate and trumpeted by ome world leader a an important mile tone in protecting the planet.

Colby , Augu t 1 992

t ion for a more encompassing agreement. The other hopeful sign involves the agreement hatched at the summit to em power a new Un ited N ations organi:ation to monitor and to report on compliance with international agreement . While thi development has l ittle relevance for glo bal warming at the moment, given the ab ence of pecific targets and deadl ine to match actual performance again t, it will be extremely important once lim its and deadlines become incorporated, as I be lieve they will be. Truly path-breaking agreement

the one on global warming do not pring

such

Leaders of developing nations demanding che righc ro indusrriali e wich projecrs as chis road chrough che Zairian foresc are at odds wich chose pressing for stringenr , v_.1orldwide environmenral prorection regulations.

from the womb fully developed; they mu t evol e. I believe the stage has now been et for that evolution. I t will take

incongruous as the conc lusi n

seems, both group

are right. Environ

everal forms. First, the

that the proces to addres global warming

negotiation proce

i underway. Formal negotiation are con

believe it will ultimately lead to specific

mentali t are correct in identifying thi as

t inuing, a

a toothle

interpret the c ient ific uncertaintie that

carbon and, u lt imately, for other green

undermine deci ive action.

house ga es. Whi le l suspect strongly that

agreement. Though Europe

and J apan pu hed for an agreement that would require ignatorie to tabil i:.e car bon emi

ion at their 1 990 level by 2000,

an attempt to refine and

will continue, and I

Two other particularly hopeful ign have al o emerged from the ummit. Fir t,

emi

ion l i mi ts and deadline , fir t for

the initial limit will be very mode t, they will provide a ba i for subsequent revi-

tate scuttled

the global warming agreement open the

ion . ( N ot long after the Montreal Proto

the plan. A a re ult, the current agree

door to j oint implementation procedures.

col, the agreement regulating ozone-de

ment contain nei ther mandatory target

Ba ed on a Norweoian propo al, thi pro

plet ing ga es, wa signed, new scientific

nor pecific deadline . Rather, countrie

v i ion encourage and facil itates mul tilat

evidence sugge ting the problem wa much

have merely agreed to take measure to

eral efforts to control global warming. My

more s e v e r e t h an i n i t i a l ly t h o u g h t

mitigate c l i mate change and to report

forecast i

prompted a revi ed agreement with much

periodically on their progre . ( In an inter e ting ide development, the European

j oint venture in eastern Europe and Latin

Second, a serie of protocols will be

Community ha announced it intention to tabi lize emi ions unilaterally, even if

America that contribute to the allevia

established to implement the agreed-upon

tion ofglobal warming-either by increa -

limit . Aga in, the e initial protocol will

the U . . doe not follow u i t . )

ing energy efficiency, substituting renew

no doubt pec ify a min imalist proce s, but

weak agreement does

able energy sources for fossil fuels or

with greater fam i l iarity and growing con

have the compelling irtue that it tarts the proce s- o the world leader were right, too. Progre on intemati nal prob

encouraging refore ration and discourag

fidence, the proces can be trengthened

ing deforestation. ( Blending the e b i lat

over t ime. Other international agreement

eral or multilateral deal into an evolving

( Bretton Woods, which e tablished the

global agreement i one of the a pect of

international monetary sy rem, for ex

the U n ited

ample ) provide a comforting precedent

oppo ition from the Un ited

But even thi

lem

ergy ha wheel

fru tratingly

low. Enormou

to be expended ju t to get the turning. Thi agreement ignals

Colby, Augu t 1 992

that within a few year

the

European Communi ty will begin to set up

ation project in which I wa

i.nvolved . ) These dealswill provide a founda-

more stringent reductions. )

for thi admittedly opti m istic outlook. 13

A Day to Retnember 462 Graduates , Including Colby's 20, 000th, Are Upstaged by a Visitor in a Lawn Chair - by Edward Hers hey -

ere 's a q uestion f o r any c o l l ege grnJ u a t e 01·er 3 0 : 11·ho spoke a t your commencement 1 N o r i fl i ng drn wer' t < l r an o l d program, a nd d o n ' t gn peek i n g in your ye;ir

boo k . That' c h e a t i ng. You probably can't remember, can you 1 Don ' t feel bad. Most commencement speaker� are l i k e w m

n i ng contestants for M iss America or lo� i ng c a n d i d ;:i te� for 1· 1ce presi d e n t . Nobody pays much attention to what they ,ay, and ;1 few years l a ter a lmost everyone has forgotten t h e i r name,. That a lone will make Colby's C lass o f 1 992 � pec 1 a l f or many

t u

"Wd l . r ht:,e o n l y w�t

m e Y l l U r' t( ir

3 ' , " Coshy retorted. " W i l l y o u e l l

$ l ?"

l Hlll."Ulll' mcn t 1 uned t h a t if he whi pered h i

t h e re m igh he ;1 cum1•l 1 men tary pa i r

s ize to Pugh

r two in the ma i l .

" Wh : i t ;1hl 1 u r m y fr iend. here 7 " Cnshy asked, p u t t i ng h i s arm

fel \ , 111· h1 1norn ry degree rec ipient John Sc u l ley, the CEO ar i\p1•le Com p u t er. "C;m he have <;ome, too !"

� m 1 nd

Cmhy 1•( 1,ed for trndi tional car-and-gown photos w i th Scu I ley, the tm > urher honorary degree rec i pient., au thor Lorene C; 1 ry and A m erican Studies pioneer Leo M a rx , Pugh and Colby

years to come. Few i f any of the gradua tes will forget wh ( 1

rre� 1 d c n t W i l l i am C 1tter. then spoke w i th Margaret Young,

addressed them.

w 1 d , 111 · of the hire c i 1· i l r i,g hts leader W h i tney Young and grand

A n t i c ipation mounted from the day Bill Cnshy <icce1•ted

nwther nt M �irk Bl 1\c, '9 2 . I t ll'as the connec t ion between Cosby

t he i r i n v i ta t ion. Spec i a l t ickets were p r i n ted to assure all pare n ts

<me\ Bn lt<� fo m i l y , Cutter had noted during his Baccalaureate

a sea t , a c rew from N BC N ews set up i ts tri rod a l ongside tho�e

;1cklre�' the day hefore, that h e l ped hring Cosby to Colby.

from the Port l an d and Bangor telev i s i on srnt ions and W M H B r a d i o arranged to broadcast t h e speec h l i v e . A n d from t h e t i me t he actor a n d e n tert a i ner arri ved o n M ayflower H i l l on Commencement morn i ng u n t i l he e m braced

5 ,000

m �u gathered on rhe lawn got their first hint of

the 462nd and fin a l graduate to rec e i ve a d i p loma nearly four

Cn�hy'� i mprint un th

hours later, h e more than l i ved up to the expecrations. Open ,

I i hrary to the stage, when the acc l a i med telev ision star bantered

events d u r i ng the procession from the

i n terested, relaxed , patient-and, o f course, funny-Coshy made

w i th bysta nder. . W h i l e the Colby crowd tried to treat t h is l ike any

Colby's 1 7 l st Commencement h is own wi thout up raging the

nther

gra d u a tes or tho e w i t h him on the outdoor stage below M i l l e r

a bit hyper when Dean of the College Earl S m i t h , tra c i ng the roure

L i brary.

ommenceme n t . i t hecame c lear that even old hands were

fc r about the 30th t i me, took a wrong t u rn . Parents and s i b l i ng

H e bounded u p t h e steps of the l i brary wearing jeans, loafers

j os t l i ng for prime photo- tak i ng space c a ttered before the proces

and a soo n - to - be n a t i o n a l l y famous Colby sweatsh i rt that h i s

sion. " I f you don't k now where you're going, say so," Cosby

facu l ty h os t , Soc iology a n d African - A merican Stud ies Professor

adv ised S m i t h .

Cheryl Townsen d G i lkes, presented to Cosby on behalfofSOBH U . the S t u d e n t Organ i za t ion for Black and H ispan i c U n i ty . "They ' re not the r i g h t brand , " Colby board c h a i r Lawrence

On stage. it w a s S m i t h 's turn to sn icker. He h a d arranged for a webbed lawn c h a i r to be at Cosby's place-a rem inder of The

Cosb)' Show fi n a l e weeks before when t he comed ian's character,

Pugh '56 com p l a i ned in mock angui h over the j eans. Pugh is

Dr. C l i ff H u xtable, i ns i sted on tak i ng lawn c h a i rs to his son's

c h a i r and CEO at the VF Corpora t i o n , wh i c h manufactures Lee

grad u a t ion exerc ises at N e w York U n i vers i ty. The joke h a v i ng

Jeans.

been made , S m i t h and Cotter offered to

wap t he c h a i r for a

Colby , August 1 992

' t u rd ie r 11·1.1uden muJe l , hur the i r honoreJ [!ueq 'aid n u , it 1n1u l d

l t ir more than t h a t . \Ve -.,h,1uld he 1nd1 ll1r'. \'\ ' e •JH 1uld ab1i h a 1 c

Lin fi n e .

<1 free 11·eekend in sume 11-.irm c l i mate 11· i t h a 1• lane ra k i n g U '

A fter r11·u LL1y' uf ne<1 r- recnrll hea r . the remrera t u re h,1J p l u m me ted thrnul!h the n 1 dH . B1· the t i m e Cn·d• Y . Cor re r a nLI

arr1 1·ed nn t<1ge 1 t had reachcLI the wrung side of 50 ,rnd 11·a-; gn1ng rh lwhere h u t doll'n , a c c o m 1,ani eLI hy wa1·e u1•11 n 11·a1·e nf e 1·er dclrke n l llg

<111'<11'.

11.

luud�. Tha r only 'eemed tu m a k e the trnd i t io n a l l y

C, 1,b1·

had 11·armell LI[' th1: crl111·d ( ,,1 w .;;peak ) e1·en hefore

-n l e m n p n i c e , , i u n nf rhe [!raLl u ar e ' them,e i l-6 - e e m , l, lll·er ' t i l l ,

h 1 , ,reec h bega n , ll'hen �en 1l1r c hbs s1•eaker C h n ' t\" O'R,1urkl' ,1f

d foc t t h d t J 1 d n n t e<;e< 1 pe Cn,h y \ n t 1 t 1 c e ll'hen he !"l1'ie t< l de l i 1·er

.-\ l a nh ) , Ca l i f .. aLh·anced t11 rhe lectern f or her remarb.

the C11m m e n c e m e n t addre".

C la�' 1•re�iden t [\lu,gla' Oprenhei mer, 11·h,1 i n trllduced

fun n ) nr q u i c k . When you laugh \'nur tempera t u re goes ur and

O ' Rnurke. had 1•re,ented Co-h1· 11·nh a g i ft . \\/hen O ' Rl1urke arr1 1·eJ \\'I th noth i n g more than a text i n her hanJ. Cl''h\' fe i gned

your b l ood ru,he-,. There\ a l o r of uld renple our rhere and Cl1ld

i nsu l t .

"Fir t of <1 1 1 , " he heea n , " 1 r\ c o l d . 1 ll'a n t rhi' to e i ther he

i , no fun for old peop l e .

ecun d l y . I'm ll'atc h i n g the 11·earher

change right hef ore m y 1·ery eye'-. l r' · nrt of J US t going by. a nd l l t > my l i fe .

. Th i rd l y , I ll'a'> exc i te d abnur stan d i ng h e re and

,hak i ng hand-; and h uggi ng, hut a r rhe pace a t 11·h ich ·ou entered t h 1 , t h l ll g , l though t they 11·ere hand i ng [ t he d i plomas) out to you

a� you were c 1 J m 1 ng around. [ ForJ

C, ,/h:" Augu't 1 992

2 3 ,000 a year y e u ·he u ld get a

" O h my God , " O' Rnurke h l urred i n to t h e m i c rnphone . " l \·e bk111"n i r a l ready 1 " A n d a s the c rm,·d 1·0<1red ,he '>truck u p a n i mprl 1 m 1• t u 1 · e rsion of the Col lege a l m a marer, ' i ng i n g , " H a i l , C1.,sh. H a i l . " O'Rourk e dedicated h e r speech to h e r grandfather. 11·h,1 had d ied a shL rt

t ime before. and ro a c lassma t e , Jodi L1Tm _:.- !' ea r, ll'h1) 15

rerisheJ in a plane crash with three member of her fa mily two year · ago. O' Rourke drew laugh. by recalling her init ial day at Colby as a "February fre hman" just back from a emester in France, wh ) had arrived late for midyear orientation after being fogged in at a Wa hington airport. "My mom and I pent the night in a hotel wi thout hear and we both caught colds," O'Rourke aid. "The next morning we drove up, teeth chattering and mi erable, an<l my mom left me w i th a few comforting word while i t ting in the car: 'Honey, it i much too cold for any human being to live up here. Well, good luck and have fun. Love to tay , but I'm out of here. ' "[ was well equipped with my Paddington Bear coat, my blond bowl cur and my tort i e-shell gla es, and l tromped off to my fir t cla s--one hour late. I walked into the Lunder Room in a cold weat to see most of my friends from France. The ir mi ling face did not cu hion the blow from the wrath of Mr.David Mill . In h is erious tone, Mr. M i ll bo med out, 'Mis O'Rourke, l pre ume.Have a eat in the front row, and we will talk abom the late policy during break."' From hi eat in the faculty ection, Mills laughed. And aero s the way, sitt ing with the rest of their family among the pre idem'· guest , Damien and Kevin O'Rourke beamed. After her cla mate had elected Chri ty O'Rourke senior peaker early in the year, O'Rourke recalled the ummer of 1 989, following her fir t year, when a Colby publicati n arrived con taining an account of how the peaker that year, Tim Burton, urpri ed h is mother. O'Rourke remembered that her mother started to cry as he read the story.

h e decided h e would try to pull off a similar surpri e. he in tructed cla smate to ke r the ecr t and even announced to her family that !>he had won a raffle earning them recial eats up front. But the Jay before Commencement, ome of the plot unraveled. "We figureJ out that she had ome recial role," Damien O'Rourke sai d, "hut, hone tly, we <lid not know he was the peaker until we at down an<l aw the program . "

ollowing O'Rourke' peech it was C o by' turn.After com menting on the weather,the pace of the opening proce ion and the price of a Colby education, he got to the heart of the matter. "Why are we here?" Colby a ked."To leave! Your t i me i up and . . . there' no need tn cry when you ing whatever this �chonl's . nng i gc ing to be. They all ound like (to me) ' If You're Happy and You Know lt' real ·low.I think the ame per on wrote i t. And somebody i going to cry. ome of you till owe money to the li brary. You went once in your four year here and you till haven't brought the damn book back and you're not leaving until you ray your 4 fine." There was more of that ort of banter, and then Co by turned eriou .The ubject wa one Cotter al o had touched on the day before: under randing and appreciating one another. "There are place where human being are ju t not human beings anymore," Co by ·aid. "They're number , they're cubicle , there' m blood, there are n eye . We eem , to me, to be competing with God.And I th ink that human being have done thi from Day One. Jealou , afraid f God. And so, in 1 99 2 , we have come thus far that we are very clo e t making what God made into a machine and makin what man ha made into a human being.And if, in whatever number f year thi happen ,

Christy O' Rourke (above) kept her special role in Commence ment a secret from her parents , Damien and Kevin ( right) , until they took their seats amongother guests of the president and saw the Commencement program .

Colby, Augu

1 992

this i completed, that we can make God' product a machine and man' product a human being , we will have defeated God. "Example: A computer has a virus, while a child who may have difficult in chool has a glitch. We're even giving machine name to human beings . . . . [Y)ou all understand what I'm saying. You' e got to get to know each other [or] you can't survive, not if you care about yourself. Not if you care. " Cosby concluded w i t h a n anecdote about turning 60 that was really more about becoming an adult. "The only thing I know about 60 is what an old man told me," he aid. " H e had 0reat wisdom. . . . We were upposed to run in a race at 1 1 o'c lock, and they postponed it until 2 o'clock . We had been out there warming up, and thi old man looked at me and he aid, ' I ' m not running.' " I a id, 'Why ?' "And he aid, 'Because I'm too old to warm up twice."' "You're in your 20s. You can warm up a lot of times. But don't do it on purpose. Do you under rand ? Don't make excu es any more. That' all we expect from you . That is all we expect-that when you come home, don't lie to us, and don't make up excuses. When you're wrong, ay it and mean it. And we will love you fore er. Good luck . Take care . " C o b y retreated to h i lawn chair t o a randing ovation, but later when Cotter began reading hi

he wa up a few minute honorary degree c i tation.

"William H . Co by, J r.-" the president began in appropri足 ately puffy tone . "Ye-e-e-s- ," Co b

interrupted.

Cotter was nonplussed. "You're uppo ed to say, 'Here ! ' " he cold ed. After he received his honorary d iploma, Cosby opened h i gown to reveal h i Colby w e a r hirt to t h e appreciative crowd then held the d iploma aloft and houted , " l ' m outta here ! "

u t it was when the graduates marched across the stage that

Co by made perhap h i greate t impact on the proceedings. ln hi introduction of Co by, Cotter had recalled the distre s

Margaret Young ( left) , widow of civil rights leader Whitney Young and grandmother ofMark Boles '9 2 ( cencer) , helped briner Cosby to Colby as

Commencement speaker.

"Dr. Huxtable" fel t in the final Cosby how when he realized that hi

on would graduate merely by randing in place in tead of

accepting h i diploma per anally and hugging everyone on the rage. "Here, ' Cotter aid, "we do it the old-fa hioned way." He added that one of the mo t remarkable moments in the annal of Colby commencement had come the day the actre Bette Davi

out of hi chair to embrace the graduates, often turn ing to po e for a family member's camera. When one woman arrived on stage without a black gown足 one or two graduates a year prefer it that way-Co by took off his own and draped it on her. He went the rest of the way in his j eans

wa honored. Halfway through the calling of the names of the graduate he had turned and, in an audible stage whi per, said,

and

"My God, they're only up to the M 's ! "

N . H . , who graduated magna cum laude.

I t d id not take Cosby that long t o make a n impact. With the fir t of the A ' -Phillip C. Aberbach ofWayland , Ma .-he wa

tered the

weat hirt and even d id a j ig with Cotter and Colby'

20 OOOth graduate, Angela Toms, a biology major from Keene, Back in M iller Library after the ceremony, Co by encoun足 tudent who had carried the American flag i n the

Commencement procession. " How wa i t ?" Co by a ked. Video highlights ofColby's 1 992 Commencement足 induding Bill Cosby's address-are available on VHS tape. Send $ 1 2 to cover costs to: Commencement Video, Dean of the College, Colby College, Waterville, ME

0490 1 . Allow several weeks for delivery. Colby, August 1 99 2

"I feel awful , " Jeff Baron '93 re ponded. "Why ?" Cosby a ked. "What's the matter?" "I'm next year'

enior c las president, that' why,' Baron

said. "I'm going to have to find omeone to follow you." "J u t call me," Co by a id. ''I'll find omeone to stand out there and hug the people." 17

A Perfeel fit? Life Is Not a Puzzle to c3teve Richardson

Or liis Admirin8 Clients, Puzzles Are Life - by Steve Collins ' 74 -

or\\' i c h ,

u p ne11· tricks to outsmart a certa i n segment ,.,f h is CL1nsumer base.

\' t . . a n d \·ou ' l l find ,·,1urself face - w-face \\' irh 1\·har

" I ha\·e m y righr ll' i ng our rhere rhar real ly kwes rn be d1wen n U[ � , "

a lk into rhe loblw ar Sra\·e Pu::les, l n c . in

rhe G rn n ness Book of \\' .1rld Records recog 11 1 :es as rhe

he s a i d . h i s eyes fl ickering ��ercepribk

world's mo t exren;,i \·e _i ig"a11· ru::le. " Do l lhnuse \ ' i l lage" is abour

A r rhe same r im e . he's acr i \·ely srudying rnrnl q u a l 1 r y man

eighr feet long, t\\'o fee r h i gh , h,b 'ome 3 ,00L pieces and sells for

ageme nt rechni ques SL1 he can cont inue nunuri ng h i s gro11·ing

more rhan

bus iness w i rh rhe finesse thar made Perers more than j usr anL1rher

9 ,000.

S re\·e '6 1 and M anha H110\·en R i c hardson '6 1 , r u 1TeYOrs of

satisfied c usromer. \Vhen R i c hardson sa\1· rhe Vermont address

rhe fine r j igsa11· pu::les in rhe land , can also se l l you a Pier

on an order from Tom Perers a courle of years ago,

Mondrian "Blue M um" ru::le for

245, rhe breathraking "Grand Can ·on of rhe Colorado" by Thoma� � 1 oran fnr 2, 9 5 and

he said. " l a h . i r c o u l d n ' r be rhe righr one." and

h undreds of other handcrafted \\'Ooden ru:: le-;. But i f \'OU 11·am i n

our w be a summer home of the Tom Perers,

on the " Dollhouse \ ' i l lage" ' e n e s , don ' r procrasrina re-onh·

au thor of In Search of Excellence, and S ta\·e's

about l

of the l 10 l i m i ted edit ion 'ers are ' r i l l a\·ai lable.

Anne D. W i l l i am-;, America's foremosr a u r horiry on j igs<i\1· pu::le , de c n bes

ta\·e Pu::les as "firsr and mosr famous" among

speci alty l u x u ry pu::le fi rm . ln her 1 99 hook, Jigsaw Puz::.le s : An

the order ll'as processed normal iv. Wel l , i nu med

run -of- the- m i l l hand l i n g impressed him enough to e l i c i r \1·hat mav be the most co\·ered b less ing in the busine · · world. The

ta\·e Pu:: les logo is a c lo1\·n ll' i t h

Illimrated Hi-ror:· and Pi-ice G t1ide . she c red i ts R i c h ardson and h i s

arms outstretched that looks suspic iously l i ke

company w i th ha\· i n!l ",er nell' .rnndarJs of qual i ty in lux ury \\'Ood

a pu::le pi ece ( the logo sho11·s up as a piece in e\'er · S rn \·e

pu::le . "

pu:: le ) . I f R i chard on rhro11·s h i 01\·n arms our e\·ery unce m a te\'e a n d !artha R i chardson's

\\·h i le tr ·ing to mainrain -ome balance bern·een � !r . Artist and

journey from � !ayfloll'er H i l l rn r he pinnacle of p u : : ledom i s more i n tere r i ng because of ome fa! e rnns and a fe\1· tll'i ts along the

ob\·ious. " M r . Diabol ical h i nre lf," as he has b e e n described,

A with the ir un ique products,

Mr. Business, bemeen Mr. N ic e Guy and Mr. Diabo l i c a l , i t isn ' r

way. And desp 1 r e rece n r recogn i r ion-like a feature art i c le in Smithsonian and 1 99 1 Produ c t of the Year honors from bu i ness g u ru Tom Peter�-the R i c hardson· aren't rest i ng on t h e i r laurel .

come across as serene and cord i al-rhough maybe jusr a l i ttle

M a i nt a i n i ng h i s repu tat ion as the mo t c reat i \'e j ig all' ru::le desioner i n the world mean that R i c h ard-on is a l ways dream ing

makes a Sta\'e pu::le worth hundreds or thousands of dol lars, i �

obsessed \\· i t h pu::les. The key , both to \\·hat makes R i c hardson tick and to 1\·ha r t h e complex i t y beneath a decepti v e l y smooth surface. Look c lo ely and you ' l l find layers of refinements not u n l ike rhe

Sieve Richardson '6 l

Colby, Augu

1 992

i n fi n i t e s i m a l layers uf a pearl.

Jetc1 i l i� i n i g n i fi c a n t . E v e n t h e

nat ional aw<1rd

tave h o x h a s won

from the packaging i nd u · try. I t ' a turdy r ya!

b l ue affa i r with an embo sed gold l o g o ( but no p i rure to u e a� an assemb ly g u i d e-oh , n o 1 ) Beyond the techn i c a l wnoJ c raft i ng, there are layer gamesmansh ir and decept ion b u i l t in to every

rave pu:zle. Many

have irreg u la r ed g e so you c a n ' t tart hy assemhl ing the border. Those that ha\·e

trai h t edge

also contain ''whammy edges"

where :,e\·eral .traight -sided p ieces a c t u a l l y fit together in the m id d l e of the pude. I f a ru:zle doe

have comers, the c utter

makes ' U re that they are s l i ced d i agonal l y o they're unrecogn iz a b l e . By sawmg alung a color - l ine the c utter can take away one more hel rful c l u e about hnw the rieces go together. A l though i 1g a w pu:: les ha\·e been manufactured since the

1 760s, rave i� the fir t company to commi ion high-qua l i ty art 11'l)rk �pec i f1ca l l y fur use a· j igs w pu::les, R i chardson a i d . Th i opens a l l k rnds l)f opp or tunit i e � for making a pu::le more d iffic u l t , and the cull abora t t on of the a r t i s t and the cutter raises the stake ag�1 1 n . Smee all

ta 1·e ru:: les a r e hand c u t , they're a l l d ifferen t , and

most uf them are per·onal i:ed for the customer. Per onal touche m a y inc l ude c u t t i ng the owner'· name or 111 i t1 a l a a piece and mc l ud i ng c u!> tom si lhouette p i eces spec i fied by the buyer. Pieces

prinoer span i e l , hor.e hoes and the Fidelit\ m ight go in a Sta\·e pu::le bound f r the White

cut d the i rn t i a ls G HWB, a S ca 1 'e corn roller � [anha

Huul 'en RicharJ.son ' 6 1 ( aboi'e ) sa\'S her hest

speed boat

Ult 'e ' s Noah ' s Ark

House, for example. Once the p iece are assembled, the ghos t l ike

( fa cin a rwae ) shows the in rricac:-· of the hand C l l [[ing r ha r i a fearme of ewn p11 ��le . The pieces fie tugecher so well chm the finished p1i��l.; can be lifted hv a curner and ivaved aru11nd .

s i lhouette. often i nterac t w i th the p ic ture image. A piece haped

rimes are s/)ent in rhe u•orkslwp making p u ��les .

l i ke a boy sl ides down a bani rer in the pu::le scene, or a l ittle i lhouette fish w i ms into the mouth of a larger colored one. Every pu::le has rhe

rave c lown logo a a piece, and there's

more. Often the c lown show u p stand mg on top of a box . I n ide the box several s i lhouette piece go together to form a rebus. I n a Each ru::le Stan

w i th a fi \·e- p l y ·hee t of furn i ture-oracl e ,

mahogany-\·eneer r ly\\'ood, c ustom manufactured for Stave. Some of the fi nest art rr ints cost

300 before they're even bonded to the

p ly\\'ood; other p u : : les are hand -r a i n ted after j u -r the outline i l a m i na ted onto the \\'Ood. I n the c u tt i n g roo m , scroll -sa\\' operator spend ur to a week sha p i n g t i rw p ieces \\' i th a h lade so t h i n that the kerf is about the t h i c kness of a horse h a i r-the r ieces fi t so \\' e l l together t h a t y o u can r i ck a fin ished p u : : l e up by the comer and \\'a\·e i t around. I t takes about a year to l earn ho\\' to cut a

rave ru::le,

queen anoe lfish pu:cle ent i tled "Someth i ng F i hy," the rebu pieces are a hor e, a hoe and a fish. C a l l the hor e a fil l y and you get fi l l y -hc1e-fish ( you know, l i ke at McDonalds. ) T h e p l ayfu l n e s s r u m s d i ab o l i c a l w h e n you g e t i n to R i c hardson's second- , th ird- and fourth-generation puz:les. I n creasing in d i ffi c u l ty , t h e y employ tricks s u c h as: mu ltiple layers, where you have to b u i ld a pu:zle on top of a pude; drop-out areas where the absence of piece

actually

makes up part of the design; p i eces that go together in more than one way ( S tave e l l

accord ing to Martha, the com

severa l small puzzles that offer r h e puzzler 50 o r 1 00 ways t o p u t the

pany control le r . She says -he

p ieces together incorre c t l y and only one sol u t ion ) ;

l ik es c u t t i ng pu:: l e

than any of her other r sponsi b i l i ti es a t

rave. "When

I'm done w i th the bookkee p i ng and ac count ing work , " h

puzzles r h a t make more t h a n o n e i m age.

A Christmas

wreath breaks apart to become a decorated Christmas tree. S ince a tree trunk is brown, it makes sense to flip over to the natural wood side to form the trunk, b u t i t takes t i me to figure that out.

said, "then I get m y

reward-be ing able to c u t p u : : l e . "

Colby , Augusr 1 992

0""'

R k lmd;on 'nd M onho Hooven met

egy Hou e , Inc. they \\'ere s trugg l i ng a lon!o!, h i t

during their freshman year at Colby and both

ting pay dirt j ust often enough to make Richard-on

became math majors. A c ade m i c a ll y , Martha branched out more and says she \\'as most affected by rel igion courses she took with Professor G usta\'e T odrank. Ste,·e, who describes

rea li:e that pu::les \\'ere "a big c r ap -� h 1 1 nt, " 11·hen they got a c a l l from a Bostonian \\'hl1 said ht> \rnu kl pay them " 30C to make a \\·ooden pu::le for h1 · 11·1te

himself as a guy \\'ith a latent bent for art who was brought up in

A famous luxury pu::le comran�· 1 11 /\ 1 anhanan,

a very " left-brained" enYironment, stuck as c lose to math and

Par Pu::les Ltd . , had gone out of busine;; ', lea, · i n _g a

sc ience as he could. H e w ishes now that he had pursued some

healthy corps llf pu::le addicts l ikt' him in the thrne' l ,f

other interests but remembers fondly math c l asses with professors

w i thdrawal. R i c hardson says that after a trir to Boston rn <:>x,1 m ine

W i lfred Combellack '3 7 and L uc i l l e Zukowski '3 7 . The R i chardsons were married two weeks after graduation.

his c l i ent's Par pu::le coll c tion, he Cl1uld see rhe attra c t i nn people had to them.

He planned ro become an accountant, but one semester in a

Back in Vermont, Richardson and T ibbetts rut their heads

Northwestern Uni,·ersity graduate program was enough to con

and their names together ( "Sra,·e" not only comb ine - " te,·e" and

vince him otherwise, and he transferred into a computer sc ience

"Oa,·e" but a lso means '' to break in to piec<:>s " ) and ll"ent tll ll"llrk

program at the Uni,·ersity of M i c h igan. In 1 963 he graduated as

on Martha's father's old Rnckll"e l l scro l l sa1\·, 11·h i c h 'he , t i l l u'"''

a member of the nation's fir r master's program in computer

in the cutting room of the Stave plant.

c ience. With those whi:-kid credentials, his future in b ig bus i

With no more background in 1\·ood11·ork i n g rhan a fe11·

ness w a s bright indeed. He a n d Manha moved t o Massachusetts,

months experi menting in the garage, Richardson dec ided to run

where both worked for the Foxboro Company.

s i x one- inch ads in the New Yorker that fa l l . "I re m em h e r t h i n k

From there they \l'ent to New J ersey, where R ichardson \\'Orked in computer management for Arthur Andersen and American Cyanamid and M anha was busy rearing the ir two sons, M ichael, now 24, and Peter, 26. Then, in 1 969, he had a l ife altering re,·elation. W h i le stuck in traffic on the Garden State Parkway, it c ame to him, he rec a l t 'i , l ike a flash of l ightn ing

"This is rhe pies ." Whi l e Richardson may not be the only motori t to hear that voice on the Garden State, he's one of a the few who heeded it. hortl y thereafter, while vi iting h is i n - l aws in New Hamph ire, he came across a computer con u lt ing firm pe cial i:ing in time-sharing on big General E lectric computers. I t was a perfect fit, and Richardson soon had a job and an escape from the c i ty . He and Martha headed north and bought a house in Norwich. Six months later, when the consult ing busines

soured and R ichardson was

laid off, he found h imself i n a small town in Vermont w i t h two young ons, two n ice houses to pay for and no job. Out of the ashe came Stave Puzzles. Working with Dave Tibbetts, an art d i rector who was laid off from the computer firm at the same t ime, R ichard on started a company peci a lizing in cardboard puzzles, games and promotions. A StratColby, Augu t 1 992

i n g , 'By t h e t i me my a d is in, l hope I can ha,·e my act tug<:>tht>r and teach oa,·id,"' he said.

. 1 , , u m e rar\ m < m t le <1' t h e R( 1 1 1 , R 1 1ycc ()ft hc 11\ )( 1Jen

I ll tl l U C h \\' I t h l l l l l' fr1 e nL1, t h i.: I I ; 1 y ll'e'J \ 1 ke l l >-i n c l u J l llt; !'l' l lJl l e tn n n , i u r L \ ; 1 " : l t Cl ll h\ ll'h( ) me " irn e of \ lU r fi ne't fri e n d -. . " p,l:, i Llc, T , 1111 l ' e t L'r', S t : 1 l'L' p u : : l e l 111·ner' 11 \ lll' i n c l uJe Queen E l i :; 1 hc t h , 1·<1ri l lu' R 1 H "i.:1·e \t,, J u rrn1 t ' : 1 11ll l'v l e l lum ;rnJ t h o u

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'• tnll' , it • it h e r' ll'h( ) L d l l c 1 t hi.: r : 1 t fnrJ S t : 1 1·e p u : : l e ' l ir ' i m p l y c;:m ' r

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t h e n � t u d i ed accou n t mg a n J ec , 1nL 1 m 1 c ' a t Leha n l m Cu l l ege anLI

h . 1 I f-LI< i :cn

N nrn· i c h U n i ve r, i t y . ThL 1u,L! h 'he dec ided at the end t 1 f h e r , t u d 1 e-.

c u t 1r' 1•r1 c e , , R 1 d1,irJ,un c : i n ' r , 1 ft« ird nur to 'ee a poten t t a l

t h at ,he J iJ n ' t ll'a n t tn ,i;o i n t u accnu n t i ng , r h .: t ra m 1 ng h a , heen

C • irp< n-. n c ' I ''' h c h 1 n L I e 1·er1· c . i m e r a . "The e"e n c e

Lhefu l i n her c u r r e n t rnle a t S ra 1·e.

t h 1,

" T h i ng> j u, t came rnge r h e r fm m e tL 1 1.\'L 1 1-k h e re , " ' h e ''1 i d . " I S t a r t ed j ust d o i n g t h e p<1)'C h e c b , t h e n Cl'l' l l [ U c i ! l y I -,et u r t h e iu l l bookkee p i ng ,yst e m . " M a rt h<l 'aY' h t'. r inh I ' h u , 1 e -, t I ll t h e rrc

•ll 1 J'< l l 1 l c ' t ry 1 n !.! ru m 1 m 1 c ' t<ll'e\ pn 1d u c t anJ under

c l a craft l i k e 1, :1 'erie' ' it tee n \ I 1 1 t l e ll< lll - J'<H e n tcl h l e J e r a d , t h a t i r rake5 a

heg 1 n n e r \ e< 1 r' ,lnLI \ e,H' rn Ll l'Cul'er," he 'cl lLI . T h e t l l u r 11n 11·1Lle e 1 · 1 d e n c e r h < 1 t R 1 c h a rJ,Pn h a -, i n 1· en red 111,l!l\ -<l llLI m . h t l'ITLI , 1 1 1-of the 'tep' 1r t a k e ' tll c reate h i :,

C h r i � t m as season and a t the enJ l 1f fi,c 1 I repurt 1 n g per i od , , h u t

1•u : : l e , . L i t e r. ' n·er l u n c h . < 1 lr e r R 1 c h< i rJ.,on h ,i- l<1 hmed to exp l a i n

�t i l l , t h e p a c e L ) f t h e h u � 1 ne,, l e<.11·e, l i tt l e free t i m e . " B e 1 1 1 ,i; t h 1 ,

r h , H h t ' l l 1 < l'l u 1m p l e :-. p u : : \ e o, ML' gn 1unded i n m a t h e ma t i c a l

h u s y , h a l ' i n g t h i -; m u c h re>pun� i b i l t i y . ll'e d n n ' t h a l'c t i m e w keer1

the1 >r\ , n · e n /\. la rt h< 1 cunfo"e' r har h e \ l e ft h e r in t h e d u ;; t .

Colby , A ugu t 1 992

"There are prL>babh· one <)r (\\'O people at the shop 11·ho under sranJ ll'har he's talk m t! abo u t , " she says. "hut the rest of us ha1·e

We send t h e m b i rthday cards, f or example."

n ) iLlea."

They can c a l l the company and talk tn R i c hardson ah< )Ut h i' Lire.;;r

R1charJ,on i' L1u ic k t< l adm i t , thL)ugh , t h a t " a l most e1·ery

Customer c herish the c hance to match 11·1 r� 11· 1 t h a 1\'i=<HLI. effort , 1l'h i c h may hal'e kept them up late the night hel, 1re.

emrlnYee 1 s strnnger i n their nll'n area than I a m- i t took me a

El'idence that he's making the c ruc i a l rersonal connec t l l 111 11· 1th

11'11 i le w apprec iate the fac t . "

c ustomers abounds-in the number 11·ho make a t•o i nt of n s 1 t mg

:L1 , a s master n t SL) many trades. \\'hich o f t h e many h a t s does

11·hen they ' re in Vermont and in a long l is t of irn· i ta t ions u rgmg

the CEO. c h ief de�igner, rersonnel spec i a l i s t and p . r. d i rec tor

R ic hardson to stay i n c ustomers' homes from Flonda to H all' a 1 1 .

prefer, if g i1·en rhe d1L1 ic e ? "] enj,1y p l a y i ng 11· ith the customers the most-c reating ne\\'

El'en prosre c r i ve c ustomers sense they're st•arring \\' 1 th the i ngenious Richardson rather than j ust buying from a com�•a1w

ru:: le-; and trying them L1Ut (.)!l peorle ," R ic hardson said. And that

that has more than a do:en emrloyee�. Recently the m a i l hought

a�•rroach w c L1nsumer relations is one of the biggest keys to

a "Dear S tel'e" note ll' ith tll'O dol lars for a

Sra1·e\ succe.;.;; _ It h a" de1·eloped i n to a friend ly antagonism

enc losed. But, i n an " I -got-you-fi rst" r re-empriYe strtk e , the b i l ls

bet\\'een buyer and seller. bet\\'een designer and de1·otee. " I t's a 1n>nLlerful s i tu a t i o n ; they're i n our face all rhe t i m e , "

ta1·e Pu:: le< cara lng

1\'ere c u t into neat pu::le t• ieces. inc l u d ing one shaped l ik e the S ta1·e c l01l'n.

R 1 c harJson sa id. N o r h i n g g e t s to h i m m o r e t h a n a 1·alued c us

Norll' i c h is a long ll'ay from rhe Fortune 500 arena 1l'here

tomer 11·lw t e l l s h i m , "That l ast p u : : l e ll'as rea l l y c u t e , but i t 11·as

Richardson starred. But there, R i c h ardson has f nrged a nearly

k ind of easy . ' ' He much �·refers communicat ions l ik e the one-

perfect combinacion of in cerests, a b i l i t ies and career. " ] can'c

11•orLI te legram h e once rec e i 1·ed. "ARRRRRRRRRRRG H I " was

imagine \\'hat I 'd do 1\'hen I ret ired , " R i c hardson mused. "exce��t

all i t said.

make pu:: les."

" I t's nL)( j u�t pu:: le,-they're buy ing into a relat ionsh ip here , " R i c hardson said. "\Yj e rake 1·ery good c a re ofour c ustomers.

Colby, Augu

1 99 2

Sreve Collins ' 7-f is a regular conrrib11cor ro Colby .

')_ .)"

he talks Jocelyn Mostrom's Corn Hus k Dolls Are Folk Art Creations That Can Sell for $ 1 , 000 - b y Sally Baker -

he corn \\'as em·iably high for late J u ne. the tempera

w i l l b e o n shelves-but probabh· n o r for long-in Lio ! ! ·pec ial ty

ture c a l led for shorts and ·anda ls , and iced tea \\'as the

shops across rhe countr · and the \\'orld <HIL� copies of 50 to 7 5 of

drink of choic e .

lo t people in the t iny Washington

exurb of Darnestow n , Md., probably \\'eren't t h i n k i ng too much

her prototypes 11· i l l be d istributed to retai lers by Kurt S. Adler, I n c . in New York. Mostrom and her dolls ha,·e been featured in se,·eral nat iL1nal

ahout Christma·. J celyn Lary � !ostrom · 5 7 wa an exception. I n her second

maga:ine articles. She is recogni:ed by spec ialists as un ique in her

floor studio in the home he share \\'ith her husband, P h i l i p , and

field-a \\'Oman 11·ho a l mo�t singlehandedly raised the American

their three on·, Mostrom wa surrounded by antas and re indeer

craft of corn husk dollmaking i n to a fine arr. Her dolls, which can

and m i n iature Christmas trees trimmed w i th del icate ornaments.

take up to 60 hours ro make , are priced frum 5' 1 00 to o,·er

M o rro m , a corn husk artist \\'ho e award - w inn ing c reat ions are in

and each is one of a k ind.

demand a l l over the world, was preparing for another bu·y

1 .000.

" I make some things thar are supposed to be co�•ies of L>nes l \·e made before," Mostrom said, "but real! · , I can't make t\h1

summer. ''Thi place 1 . packed right now," Mo trom aid, tak ing in

exactly a l i k e . "

ian ,

Mostrom's method. as 11·e ll as the intricacy of t h e finished

American and Engl ish Samas, corn hu k angels, ornaments made

produc t . sets her apart. Each dol l begins a. a ll"ire armature

with a oe ture se,·era l long table· laden with medie\·al , Ru

to look l ike flowers and the paraphernalia of her c raft-dried

blooms, fahrics, hu ks and tools. " By fall this w i l l all be gone ." By then, 20 J ocelyn Mostrom originals will be d e l ivered to ieman M arcu reta i l tores from Boston to Beverly H ills, more

urrounded b · layers of husks that ha,·e been soaked until the · are pliable. Then, s!01dy, n1ore layers of husks and glue begin to turn the figure into the shape of a �·erson . A t that point, Mosrrom's arti try takes Ol·er. " I don't model my dolls after people," she saiJ. " !y trade

Jocelyn Lary Mostrom ' 5 7

olby, August 1 99 2

mark is to portray body m tion and fac ia l expressions. What I'm

1' l m r rom .\U\'� chw hcnrnse of chc complex lct\'c'ring und dniing /m 1ccssc.1 rl.'l) I Urcd , dull.1 mude a/mt 1.\C c nrirch- oj c1 nn lwsl<s lil<c " ) n l' l la " ( /efc ) a n d

after is a fee l i ng o f g rn c i o u � n e s� or c u r i ns it y , rhrn,e k i nd of thi ng,-the e.;�ence of a perso n . \Vhat the per�on 1s, not what the persnn k )ok s l i ke. A� I a m work ing with a dol l , l can move rhe head all amund, move the hody around, and sudde n l y , that is th':' person tn me. You sudden l y rea l i :e, 'That's i r 1 ' When you hit it righ t , you k now i t . AnJ that's gooJ, h e c au se once the doll dries, there\ no c hanging i t . " A l though � h e once m a d e a fi eld hLKkey player dol l f o r a neighhur whose d aughter was ahour to enroll in Colby and part ic ipate in the sport, Mostrnm set· must f her c reations i n the earl ier part of thi� century. A wall - mounted doll house i n a Jowmta i r> hedrnom is fi l ied w i th tiny corn husk dol ls enjoying an Ed ward ian Chri,tmas, and l arger Edward ian-style dolls are d i s p layed i n g l as · ed- i n case' in Mo�trom 's l i v i ng roo m . "I real l y l i ke the era," she sa id. "The costumes were -o beautifu l and elaborate . " Mostrom s a y s �h spend hours researc h i ng c loth i ng styles. 26

he pore - overold novels, Godeys Lady's Books, anything rhar w i l l g i ve h e r c lu es t o t h e w a y people dre sed. Before beginning work ,m her Swedish anta, she c a l led the Swedish I nsti tute in M i nne sota a nd rented I ngmar Bergman's Fann)' and Alexander to get a sense of armo phere. She says h i story wa her lea t favorite subj ect at Colby, but he enj oys study ing it now. W h i le expla ining the hac kgr und of her M ed ieval K ing ofChrisrma doll , for instance, she gi ves a thumbnai l sketch of the Engli h Restorat ion . Mostrom doesn't l ike the word "authentic" appl ied to her dolls. "What is an 'authent i c ' American or Russian Santa 7" she asked. " I r's different i n every household. What I like to do is immerse myse lf in a much research as I can, then - i r b a c k a n d d o my o w n interpretation. [Th research] g i v e me t h e confidence t o do t h a t , k nowing t h e dec isions I m a k e are based on fact. l f l dec ide to err a l i tt le bit, I do i t for artistic rea ons." Most of Mostrorn's dolls have porcelain heads, hands and Colby , August 1 992

nom i nated for

1 99 � dl) l l Llf the year by the l nterna n P t l <l l Dol l Academy, are made a lmo:-t e n t i re l y ,1f c o rn h us k s . J\ \ , )s trnm u 'e'

" [ ne\·er J1·e flll' a pn lj e C t , " � 1l " fr< \Ill exr1 l a 1 11eJ . .. I 1' 1 L k J ll.11 I ch-e h urgunLl ) . I Jn I � d 1 frerem burgunJ1e' ancl 'alt thc ''c ,111·ay, <mLI 11·hen I need <l h 1 rgu nch·. l ha1·e tt. If \\ lU dye f,1r <l

a m e t i c u lous tec h n ique ,he pioneerecl w d ry the l a1·ers l lf hLhk s .

1•arr 1 c u la r 1'r,11 e c t 1·,)u n e1·er Cllme l > U t 11· 1 r h the ri_g ht Clllnr."

feet, but som e , l i k e the I 8 t h - c e n tury pedd ler dl) l l th<t t 11·a-;

anJ

\"X'hen ]\ jl,,tr, im ,Je,c r i he, r h e 11·;1y .;he ;1nJ her e i gh t ,1" 1 '

and he c u lpts the d l) l b ' face-; ll" i t h d e n t a l tl)llb. You m ight think 1' \ llStrum could get all the wrn husb she

r a n t:, 11·nrk , she pai n t' a pic t ure

uf c , ir1 tr, 1l led and J ( )\" l a l ch,l l " · fl1r i n ,rance, , h e

needed from a loc a l farm, but she LN.'> fo, ld-grade hush frnm

\Vh e n h a l e:- Llf h u s k - m e ,le l 1 1·ered w her d,1nr,

Mexico because they are ' a n i t 1:ed and are llmger t h a n arw 'he c.rn

and her he lrer> >rreaJ 'heet, , ,n the ! t 1· m g n 1,1m tl, l,ir a n d ,,in

get e l sell'here. Her dye>, rnu, shLl\\' her >pec 1 a l touch. S e 1·eral 1·ear>

t h n 1ugj-1 h u ge pi l e s , .;epar,Hl ll\! them l ll t L l

ago, when she found she couldn 'r a c h 1 e n� the Cl1lnr.;

,1r rhe

I ) cl tffere n t hag' <lC C l lrd

l!W w the u'e the1· can he pur r,1. "It hurr.;, clea l 1 11 g 11· 1 th h u 'k ' . "

inten - i t)' of coklr �he ll"anred 11·ith c , m 1·en t i l m a l dye�. ,he c , 1n

]\ 1, 1-;rn1m .; a i d . "Y,lur han,].; c a n rea l l y get c u t up. But 1n:-'rc h<l \ ' 1 11\!

tacted a c he m i s t at the cotr1rany ll"here her J1·es 11·ere made , and

such a gl1ncl r ime r ,1 l k mg and laugh mg rhar i r m,1 ke' the ll'l1rk ca'\" . "

he came up w i th a proces.; that > U t ted her neeLl s .

O n d y e i n g J a1·s , hu.;b an' h,1i lecl fclr hl1ur.;

To cr.:' mt.' "J u l Tnm t e , "

rht.' Stt•t.'d1sh

111 ]\ 1l i < r w m \

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mrnt.'d w rht.' Stt t!dish lnsrir1at! m .\ ! m n t.'surtl for hackgTmcnd mfonnc mun . Sht.' Stl\S r/wru11gh rt.' s.:arch git·es her rht.' cun(idt.'nc.: ru

rah'

somt.'

Llnisnc lici!nse H'lfh ht.'r crt?arions .

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1 99 2

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re;i l h rn t • ' k l'L'I' 1t , 1 , 1 n f, 1rm . i l . 1 ' l'"" 1 h lc . "

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enr o l l ee! i n

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l\ 1 1 " t r1 , 1 1 1 \ m l' t h 1 11.I 1 1 l 1 1J'l' r:1 t 1 1 11 1 . U n t i l n.:c e n t h" . h 1 r 1 n ,r. 1 1 1 c l' , thl·

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, 1 r r i , t grcll' fl n11·e r' I ll . 1 l . irge h . K k L!.l rcll'n t 1 l cir\ , 1 1 11.I ll 'l' 1n her

i t - h u t 1 1 1 1 I ll !..! 1 1 1 1 1 . 1 L . 1 t 1 1 111' ,1 1 I c1 1 u l d g e r h a c k t1 i c r,ifn n g . "

c re;l t 1 1 ' l 1 ' . Rut ;1' h n 11 1 ,rk f1. 1r r h e Acl k r c 1 1 m 1,.i n 1 ;1 11d 1 1 t l1L' r 1 1 u r l l' t -. 1 1i c rt'<l ,e1.I . ,hl· ( 1 > u n d ' h e no l1 ll1.L!l'r h , 1 J t l l n e ti ' 1 1 > o k ; 1 fr 1.•r ;1

!_!;Hd e n . N1 lll , 111 1 ''t 1 )f t h l' 1.l ri l·cl tl nll'er' 'hl' ll'e' .ire' L!l°l lll' n f, ir h e r

Oh i 1. L

\V i t h h L' l l' fnim h e r . 1 " 1 , r . 1 11 t ' . 1 111.I h e r f. 1 m 1 h , � \1 1' t rt 1 1 1 1

li'L'cl t 1 1 r;1 ke Girl' pf h u , 1 111.'" - rl' l . l l l'cl 1 1 1 , t 1 l 1 1 1 g ' ; nu11· 'hl' h i re' . 1 m ;1 i l i ng fi rm t1 1 1.l h t r 1 h u t e h e r , m n u ;i \ 1 1 1.·11 , k t t L' r t 1 1 . 1 1 1 ,t 1 1! 1 n·er 4 . 000 i n t e re , t e1l pe r,un,-h u t ,he hc1,n't t u m l'1I t1 1 ; 1 C 1 l ll 1 J'L1 t e r t 1 1 m , 1 i n r . 1 i 11 h e r 1 111T1 d 1 , t ri h u t 1on r1.· c 1 , r1.k

k nn11· t h < l t d a \' ll' i l l C1 ll11 l' , " 'hi.' '; 1 1 d . '' I\ \ ) k i cl,

a re ;1 1 1 o;n c u m r u tL' r - l i t L T< l t L' , ; 1 1 1 1. I t h l' \' J' l l ' h m e . "

A frn h l' r ,cc 1 mcl , 1 111.I r h 1 rd " 'n ' ll'ere h1 1 rn , l\ 1 1 1, t n 1 m , a l re;1Jy : 1 11 , \ L C 1 > l 1 1 J' i hhl'1.I 1.1 u i l r e r , hL'L!.lll m,1 k 1 11g clrl'"e' f1 ir fr iend, .

c 1·1.· 11 h. 11.I . i d 1 c n r c l c 1 11 r h e Wh 1 t l' H 1 1LN'; hut, ,he o,;11Ll 11·1 h <l I . Hi g h , " 11 1 1· C.l l'L'L'r 11 ,h cut ,h1 1rt hi \Xt' ,nerg,H e . " I n t h e m 1 1. l - 1 9 / 0 , ,

� \ p , t n im en tered h e r q u d t , 1 11 a c r,1fr o,holl'

. i t .i pn 1 · . i t L' ,c l 1 u1 1 I i n Bet h e,Lb. Tll'n day' hl'f1 , rl' rhe ,h, )11 · . her f1r't e 1Tr, ,he 'ried ,, ,me c 1 1rn h u , k n1'e' I ll a ,h, 1p ;md thu u g h r the1 ll'uu l d l 1. 1uk n i c e ll' i t h her q u i l t,.

"Sll 1

b11ughr " 1m e corn

h Lhb ,md d \'ed them and made ,, 1 111e rno,e, , " o.,he re m em hered : Her

, 1 , t e r - i n - L - 1 11' , 11 h u had

n e 1 1f l\ \ 1 h t n , m \ l' < H l i e 't

m e m 1 1r i e ;, i ' uf t h e t i me ,he cur <1 h u ge

huk

in t h e c e n t e r 1 if a hr; m d

n e \\' r i e c e nf fa b r i c h e r m o t h e r ,

I\ \ u�rru m

h e l pe d

the I\ lci�trom

e n t e r t h e shL111', rold

organ i :er' abu u r r h e rn�e�. and

,!.!ut a .., u rr r i 'e cal 1 from rhe .,cl1nul 's head-

I\ Li r

g u e r i t e R i c e L Hy '2 1 , had h 1 u.L! h t . E ; K h C h r i o; t 1m 1 ' frum t h e n 1 11 1 . Lny . a 1-e

" Hna i d , 'We're d e l igh ted )'l1U 0re Ll.1 i niz corn h u s k dol ls becauo;e t h e

t i red t e a c h e r ll' h 1 1 l i 1·e, in F l m i J a ,

c h i l d re n ll' i l l l c 1 1 · e t h e m . ' "

gave h e r cb u g h r e r a nell' J n l l to

said. "Th i s 11>c10 t h e Lia\' before the

d ress. a long ll' i t h a hux scraps,

bee,

, if fo h r i c

h u t t 1 in;, ;rncl 1 1 r h e r

�h1.111'.

1ostrom

h ad n ' t done a corn husk d o l l

for years. Bur

ll'as n ' t ahout ro say

ha n g l e� . " l g u e'� my c ra ft i n g

that

� t a r t ed r i g h t t h e r e , " M n ;, t n 1 m

·ho\\' . I sta yed up a l l n ig h t and

� a i J , add i ng t h a t ;1� <1 c h i l d . , h e

made corn h u s k d o l ls . "

s p e n t h o u rs m a k i ng d o l b frum

bec a u e

ll'anted to do t h i s

Mc>strom t h e n e ntered h e r d o l l s and h e r home-gro w n

corn h usb a n d c l 1 l t h e'p i m .

pot

W h e n she c ; 1 m e tn C d h y ,

pourri in her fi rst j u r i e d �ho\\',

M m t rn m [' L i t d n l l m;1 k i ng heh i ml

the pre t igious Sugarloaf Moun

·how

i n G a i t hers

h e r and c n n c e n tnned nn her ' t u d

tain Wor k s

i e to hec 1 1 m e a teacher. S h e made

burg, Md. A few s m a l l e r fa i r�

all o f h e r oll'n c l ot h e s ll' h i l e

•J1e

f o l lowed, and M 1.1

m ll'a

alb , August

1 992

'll'am �'ed 1\' l rh ,l rLl e r' . She ,,,,,n lle c i lleL1 rh,n ,he 11·,1ukl ,J,l ,1n h the S u � ar l , 1,1f ,h,111 e<Kh 1·ear. Recernh· . 1 1 i d1 a l l , 1 ! her ne11· 1 e n r ure'. e1·en rh,n [,,,c,ime t11, ·,

much. f,1r

But � \u,tr,1111 h,1, kep her h,111ll 1 11 ,i- " teacher. ma n1· year< ,he u u �h r 11·,1rbh,1r, rn Ll, 1 l l m,1 k r ng

,it rhe .=- m i d1,,lt1 1 a n . ,1111..l e1 e n· 1 e, 1 r . th e tlne-LLI'. h.inds-,m c ,1urse 'he c,1n d uc r ' .1t h er 'rull 111 JrJ11 ' 'i t udenr' frnm ,1 l l ln·er t h e c,1unrr\' . "S,1me ,1! rhem

,i re W�' anhr, t n the i r ,111-r1 f1 e kk " ,he ,,1 d . "! le,1r n ,1 l o t fr,1111 nw ' ru d en t ' .

Lbr Ye<u. rhe t'e1lple ar Adler ,1,k._'ll if,he 11·,1uld m,1ke .;,1me p,1rc e b rn Ll, 1 1 ] , t1 1r her l i ne. She diJn ' r before, ,111J

h e ' l t<i te . " I 'd ne1·er 1..l c>ne t H1e I hac.1 rH1 i,b1 . 11·hen I 'a i d

m1uld J,1 i r . it l co11U J,, n , " 'he c,111-

d. "Bur I t 11·a, .;uch ;in e:-.c i t i n � ' Cl h y e , , I can do t h a t , ' a' i f ! '1..I J,1ne 5 .0(\'

fe-;.;

c h a l lenge r h a t I ' a i d .

nrhers."

he s igned up for a c11u1 <e rn

sculpnng and has made .;,1rne 1..l c > l l .; t>1 a r A d l e r 11· i l l -;oon c a rry.

� l osrrom .;ays her l i fe i - l'U'I . fiut rh gra1·e ad1·ice she onc e .; potted 111 J c rafr;

adds that she refu�e' to rake

maga: 111e, ll'hi c h said thar th,1,e ll'h,1 work from rhe i r

hnme' -;hould 'er

rigid schedu le-; for them,eh-e.;. ">:,1," 'he .;a i d , ''that'_ n,1t m e . I f l dec ide to 'ren :I the day 1 11 the garden hec,:iuse that' 11·hat

l need to do. l do I t . l knrn1·

ll'hen r h i n o ha1·e to he done. I can burn ,ome rr ndrnght o i l i f neces,ary . " " I t \ a l l �' l a y . " � fo,trnm .; a i d ,1f h e r

c ra ft in g . " � l y bi gtie'iC d e c i ,mn e n � ry d a ) ' W h a t fun rhmg 1\' l l l l 1..l n wdm· :· "

Br m c hmg ow from che sole t1se ofcu;·n ht1sks and fabric · , �lo rrom made herfirsi sc1 ilpc:" modd for a porcelain doll , "...\ nasca..1ra " ( jacmg page ) . chi )'ear. She savs rhac she is excited w be workmg m che neu' medium

hltt cannot imagine grou·ing bored tl'ith fashiunmg creanons such as rhe " \\:'oodland Santa " (righc ) . Colb·y, AugLM l 99�

�9

Ken Nigro of the Orioles Plans Fan tasies for Oth er People An d Lives Ou t His Own - by Sally Baker -

en N igro _'60 sat behind hi

overflowing desk on a . summer and tried to unday attemoon earlier this

housed in a renm·ated B & 0 Rai lroad warehouse. The bui lding is replete w i th exposed brick and beams, crisp \\'hite \\'alls and

ignore a persistenr phone cal ler. "That's a guy who

thick c arpets. Photos of past and present Oriole greats line the

igro muttered , g lanc ing at the phone as i t rang

walls, and everyth ing seems tinged \1·i t h baseb a l l nosralgia and a

want t ic kets,"

every 10 minute or so. " ] don ' t have any tickets . "

touch of fanras '.

N igro, w h o is d i rec tor o f spec ial projects f o r the Baltimore

"Take a look at the most incred ible men's room you ' l l e\·er

been hearing from a lot of old friends this year.

see," N i gro said, pushing the door open and check ing for occu

Typical i the story he t e l ls about a woman he knew i n New York

pant . Stand ing ar the - inks, a man has a panoramic \'iew nf the

a decade ago, when he was d i rec tor of p.r. for the Yankees.

b a l l field below.

Orioles, ha

"] had a l i t t le crush on her," N igro remembered. " I worked

The offices and the magn ificent b a l l park they adj oin ( " Don ' t

with her f r one year, 1 983 . I hadn't seen or heard of her since

c a l l i t a stad ium." N igro warned ) were designed t o c apture the

then . I got a c a l l from her last wee k . I don ' t think she was looking

essence of baseball as it used to he.

for a date."

park , which is located a fe\\· blocks from Baltimore' popu lar Inner

o domes for the Oriule�-the

The team is i n the m id t of i ts first season at Oriole Park at

Harbor de\'elopment, is \\·ide open to the e lements and the c i t\'.

Camden Yards, and the p layer have responded positively to the change. N e x t - to - l ast-plac e fin i her in the A merican League East

The grass is rea l , the fans are c lose to the field, the atmosphere

la t ea on , the Orioles spent much of the first half of this season jo ding for first place with the Toronto Blue J ays. The winning tea m , brand-new-park combinati on has drawn fan i n record numbers-and caused N i gro's phone to ring incessantly. "Now," he said, "I guess I'll hear from everyone I knew at Colby. " N e vertheless, he proud ly cond ucted a v i s i tor o n a tour o f the new park and its attached admin istrative office-, which are

Colby, Augu t 1 992

suggests that teamwork means something to e\'eryone irn·oh-ed. "This is a c lass act in Bal t i more , "

igro said. "I t's a l ways had

that reputation, right from the old days, when Pau l R i c hard \\'as general manager. And when you ha\·e a good organ i :at ion you a ttract good peop le. You ha\'e 2 5 guys on the team-and in any group that large you ' l l ha\'e good guy and some not so good-but if they c ome here , maybe they know about the organi:ation and i ts repu ration and they try to fit in rather than act the L)ther \\'ay . "

heo 11111: J < l LleJ n r c y n 1 c 1 l ; 1 h1 1 u r

r h e g < l l ll L , h u t he h , 1 , n o t . " I l rn·e

ha:,eh; i [ I , " he -,; i 1 J ' l l l l l' l y . "S, 1rnc t h 1 ng d i ffere n t : 1 ' 11'< 1 \ ' h , q> l'en ' 1 11 t h e ).!< l me. Y< >u n e \·er 'ec t h e ';i m e rhing t w i c e . " N igr1 ' pmt i u p;i teJ i n 'l'' i r t ' ,h ; 1 h( ly ; in J ll' < h ;1 m e rn her nf C" l hy\ l re -, h m a n h ; 1 -, k e t h; 1 1 ! ,q u ; 1LI 1 11 J 9 5 7 . Rut i n rc t ru �rec t . h e " l \'' h 1 , tl 1 1 r 11·;1' t« >r 1n 1 t i ng, ll\ lt 1• L 1 y 1 11 g . H e II' rote ("r h 1 ' h< lln e r1 111·n d rkl h 1).!h 'c h1 H 1I n e11·,1•, 1 rcr' ;i nd 11 "11 < l 'e11 1 1 1r c " ; 1 y ; 1 11·a rLI hefore ; i rrl \ · 1 n g nn M a ) fl1 111-cr H i l l ,

ll' h ne hl' llT< i r e ; 1 h, i u t 'I'' >rt' (, i r r h e Ec/i1J . H e 11< >11 'a\ , he 11· 1 ,h e, th<H c1 r h er he ( lr h 1 , c . 1 reer a J , · 1 " >r' h : 1d 1• 1 c k ed u�• 1 >ll h 1 , 11T 1 t tn ).! : 1 h i l 1 t\ , hl'c;1u'e he 11·;1' Je, r i n cJ t\ l d r i ft

fn 1 111 1 1 1h 1 n tc n· 1 e11· r" J< 1h 1 11 ren· 1 e \\' f( )r l 5 m< in t h > ; 1 fter , , in a c.ireer. g rn d u , H 1 11g hef( lre 'ettl 1 11 l!

" ] ll'L·n t for ; 1 1 ! nf r he-,e ' m ;1 11 , 1 g e rn c n t t rc1 1 11ee' 1 gr" ,, 1 1 d. "And t h e y \\'< iu kl a l \\'<l\''> ;hk the ' . i m e q u e,r 1 1 1n : ' \Xl l w Llo 1 ou 11-.mr tci \\'ork h ere 1'

J "h<'

\Ve i l , 1 1f c " u r'e I , l 1 d n ' r . I j u 't 11<1 11 teJ ,1 J 1 ih . " F m . i i l y . N l!.�rn 'l'\ lkl' t< 1 , 1 rec r u 1 r e r : i t P ru J e n r 1 ,1 I L i fe l rhu ra n c e 1 11 Nell'a rk , 11·hn :hkeJ N igrn 11·h ,1 r he ll'nu kl c h < >n'e if h e C < l u kl J n a m· j t)b. " I r " 1unJ, ' t range , " N 1 grn ,,1 1Ll , " h u t n 1 1h 1 1 J 1 h:1d L' \·er p u r 1 t t1) me that ll'<l \'. I ' a i d ,

' \Ve i l . I gue"

I 'd he :1 'I'\ 1rt,11T1 rer. "' 1gro ; 1 h1>u t , in emplPy-

The rec ru i ter t 1 i l J m n r age n c y 111 N e11· Y or k th<it J u u rn a l 1.;h, anLI 11·1 r h 1 11 t h ree ll'eeb

'l'ec i a l 1 :eJ 65

i,grn h n J a

placi n,g

a \\'eek j ob

C \ l l'e n n g h i gh �c h , 1n l 'port� f or the Long Branch Recnrd in Nell ' J e r-,e1 . Thar l e d , 1 11 le ... s than s i x m o n t h � . rn a 'i m d a r p11s i r i,1n a t the

Hagernown i\ ! orn ing Herald i n M a r y l a n d , and from there college and

N i grn j u mped ro the Baltimore S u n , ll'here h e co\·ered It ll'<'h ' t i l l tll'l) h l ) u r, tll game r i m e ll'hen

ign) maJe h i , fir�r

appearance o n the fi e l J . Underground t u n n e l , c o n n e c t the Ware house to the park , and

,.a,t 'tore

i g n i , ll'hl)'>e �low, ofth and 'peec h be l ie,

igro -,ays h

loved-but does not m iss-sports\\'ri r i ng . J u�t

a� h i� mo�t e n d u r i ng Colby memories are

of a l l -n ig h t card games

nf e n e rgy , set a fast race as h e ll'alked along, i n J icat i n,g

ll' i t h budd i e s . h is best t i mes as a writer c a m e , h e said, ll'hen h e ll'as

t e a m locker room-; and l ) t h e r p,1 i n t' of 1 11 te re�t. T h e r u n n e l w a l l s

" hangmg out w i t h the guys, t a l k i ng sports, j ust being around the

a r e p a i n t ed nff-ll'h i t e ll' i t h gre e n t r i m , n(1t O r i o l e orange a n J

game . " He s t i l l keeps i n c lose w u c h with

b lcic k , a' r h e y m i g h t b e at a more re l e n r l e s , l y part i sa n fac i l i t y .

t h e years. " portswri ters are the o n l y people I l i ke , " h e s a i d ,

"Y1.1u c a n h a , · e m o m u c h orange ," N igro �a i Ll .

''because they're c ur ious and t h e y're down to earth-no phon i e s . "

O n t h e fi e kl , ll' i th ha t t i ng rrac t i c e i n fu l l t i l t a n d a s u q>ri'

W h e n rhe S 11n c h a n ged h a n d s i n

ther 11Ti ters he mer over

1 9 3 and N igro learned

i ng l y pu l i te rnrps of l i t t l e boy, begg i ng " M r. R i pken" a nd "Mr.

t hat t h e nell' owners were p l a n n i ng to c hange cm·erag

Horn" for a u tngrciph<;, N i gro c ha t ted ci n d fie ld ed L1uest 1ons from a

ment� i n the sports department , h e dec ided w give p u b l i c re la

<; t r i n g of :-1•nrh11T i te r, , Yankee e m r l nyees, O r i o l e r l a yer' and

t i ons a try and w e n t to work for the Y a n k ees.

c e lebri t y ,· i�i tors- i nc l u d i ng ta l k 'iholl' ho,t Larry K i ng and

ass ign

" A t t h a t r i me , " he e x p l a i ned, " B i l ly M a r t i n wns the manager and G e orge [ S t e i n brenner] , of course, was t h e owner, ·o I wa� sort

rn l i t i c a l c n l u m n i ' t G e t ) r,ge W i l l . " W h n 's r i rc h i ng f o r L I ' ton i gh t 7" c a l led W i l l , n n e 1 1f m ci n y

of between t h e m . " N igro say� Mart i n \\'as madde n i ngly secre t i v e ,

Wa� h i ngtnn l u m i n a ri es ll'hn c 1 m , i d e r the O r i o l e s t h e i r home

even w i t h h is own p . r . peop l e . ( ' ' I a lways figure, w h a t ' s so h ci d I

team.

c a n ' t k now about i t ? What's o bad it c a n ' t go in t h e paper ?"

" M c Dnnakl , " N ig rn sci i d , t h e n . sorro

t •oce. " I 'm g l a d I k ne w . "

But one s uspec ts t h ; i r h e a l ll'ays J,)es knoll'. N igro � a y s h e h a

igro

s a i d . " People w i l l forget about it in two days anyway . " ) H e c a l l s S te i nbrenner "an u n us u a l man, " a n d says h e a d m i red h i m . B u t h e

b e e n c ra:y a h o u t haseha l l a l l h i s l i fe , from h is beg i n n i ngs cis a

cidm i ts t h a t h i s memories of t h a t y e a r m ci y h ci v e softened i n t h e

Y a n k ee fan groll' ing up in L i , · i ngston , N .J . , to h is c u rrent role i n

i nt e r i m and t h a t S t e i nbrenner w a s not an e ci s y boss.

Camden Yards. A long t h e 11'<1)' h

pn fe-,s 1on a l team-; for l 7 year-,.

h a d p l e n t y o f opp r t u n i ty ro

" ! remember one t i m e he c a l l ed me and d i c ta ted t h i s lengthy

Colby , August l 992

>: 1 � n ' -a1·<, 11·a.; dunn� the [ l/til1 \\ · ,)rU \ b:er,,,kt h 1 t 1, h,1me run t'' J te.H

statement for rhe press. " '.'J i ern s a i d . 'Tm scribbling lt dL111T1 .

e1·er c n eJ ,wer J. �am e .

ll'ri r ing in t h e margins. nw arm 's getting tired a n d 1 c an h.1rd h gL1 on. and he sa1·s. 'Oka1 . read rh.u back w m e . · I c ou l d n' t. D i d he

Sene" 11·hen Pmshur�h \ Bill

cur<e me our.

>; 1 grl)·s then-bek11·eJ Y.mkee<

>; l�fl) acknl111·[edges th,H he h.F the kmd L'tjl'b 111.l f\\ pe< 1p [e

E1·en for rhe flambovanr Yankees,

1 91..' 3 11·as a c '-1k•rful Year.

1n1uld enn-. .u1d he ,a1·, he " k t "e' the £rnunJ" el en d.11 11 hLn he

Sw1. he d1J ,1 'hl•rt , r m

There 11·as the 111famL1us pine rar game, in 11·h1ch l(an,as Cn1·

gets w 11·ork. Onc e . dunn� J , m k e at the

Rornls star George Brett 11·as acc used bv Ne11· York ,,f using an illegal ba r : there 11·as a h ighh- rubl tc 1 :ed inc ident 11·hen a :\'t'u

m t h e re1nforcmg sh,)�' at Bethlehem S t e e l . He < a 1·;; he learneJ then w appre c 1 <1te the tact that he 1 ::- L1ne ,)f the luc k\· te11· 11 h,)<e

York

career ha; meshed 1nth ht'

T1mt's repl1rter 11·as den ied access ro rhe Yankee kxker rnom

because she 11·as a 11·oman: and there 11·as an animal- rights protest ll'hen Yankee first baseman Da1·e \'\' infield k i lled a p i geon 1nrh 3

mteresb.

" I f they'd p.11d rhuse �u1·s at the steel

mtlb S l l\' .L L\" he , a 1 J .

" 1 t 11·ould s t i l l be terrible ll L)rk. I 11·Lln't >di' I get pad llL't t<' 11 ,1rk .

th b a l l . ".-\frer one 1·ear 11·ith the Yanks. 1 told e1·erl'bl1d1· 1 11·�1s

because this 1::- 11-Llrk. but 1 t ' s abl1 11·hat I 'J J,) 1f I c,1uld he J,)111£'

goi ng into a rehab c enrer," l\ 1grl1 said, bll!zhing.

annh mg. I 'd 11·ant w c '-• me 1n here . .-\nd I get p.1 1d tL' J,1 1 t . "

I nstead, he returned to Balt1 mL1re at the re1..1 uest of the OnL•le manaoement and 11·orked in bwadcasr relauons for the team. l m1·, he savs, he 1s a "hvbnd . ' '

"I\ ly J 1..1b 1 · a cross ben1·een t h e bus i ness s i d e a n d r h e basebal l side," he -aid. H e runs the On'-) les Fantas1· Camp. a week-k•ne, spring tra i n i ng program during 11·h 1 c h fans can su it U�' and rece i1·e instruction from the pws , and the team's celeb n ry c ru ise m J anuarv , among other spec i a l e1·enrs. He a lso tra1·els to the Orioles' m inor league parks as a representat 11·e of the Baltimore management. ( On c e , 11·hen the c i t\' '-1f Chark1rre. >; .C . . dragged ns feet about b u i ld m g a ne11· park for rhe Oriole farm c lub, rhe ream was mol'ed to Frederi c k . Durino the season,

� !cl . . on >; 1ew's suggest1L1n. \

l\ 1grn make' <ure

his <�1e c 1 a l prn1 e c rs are

promoted ar games and does ll'hare1 er else management c.:ills on him to do . .'\r home games-he attends all home games and n i ne r

road games each season-he c ru ises the stands. the pres ·

box and the the l uxury boxes. greeting people he kno11·s frnm the c ru ise or c am p , talking 11·1rh T'-1 ns11Tlters and manage ment , taking care of a problem here and there . The job stays fresh.

· 1gro says, because 11·1rh e1·ern h mL

he does, he's helpmg to promote rhe Orioles, rhe c lass act. " I f they w i n , you feel like you're part of 1 t , " he said. ' ' I n o m e strange w a y , I feel I h e l p t h e t e a m 1ri n . " A n d at ba e , of course, 1s hi;. pas,1on for t h e game. H i hero i leoendan· Balumore manager Earl Weawr a p i c ture of

ioro and Wea1·er ha· a prominent place

on the book helf behmd his desk. " H e 11·a_ the great 1oro a i d . "E1·eryrhmg l l:e l ie1·e abour base

est,"

ball I picked up from him. H e d i d n ' t l ike the bunt, I don't l ik e the bunt. H e kne11· ll'hen to take a pitcher out, I think I knm1· 11· hen a rircher should come out. He knew how to u e the 11·hole team." 1 igro t i l l become emotional when he talks

about the 1 9 79 World

erie , which the Onole · lost

to Pittsburoh. "We were ahead three oam s to one," he ·aid, hak ing his head . "We had our three best pitchers going and 11·e had the last two oames at home. And we lo ·r all three. I can't bnn° myself to peak about it. I don't l ike anyone asking me. To thi day there '

omething about P i t tsburgh I don't l i k e . " The only time he

Colh)., Augu r 1 992

Ph0w> coun:esr Llt Balnmore l nole< 33

Five Paths to a First Job Parents , Friends and Professors Can Help足 And So Can a Good Dose of Perseverance

u rvey of new Colby graduates confirms that 1 992 was a rough y e a r to e n t e r the job m arket. By early J une, 2 1 percent of Colby' graduat ing eniors足

barely one in five-had secured a ful l - t i m e posit ion. The

figure was j ust a shade off the 22 percent recorded the year before but well below the 3 5 percent of 1 990 graduate who left c ampus w ith a firm offer in hand. What does it take to land that first j ob in a down marke t ? M e e t five o f Colby's newest a l u m n i w h o found work .

A parental push can mean as much in a job search a

anything. Who better to make the right

connection than tho e wonderful folk who have contributed so much to your college educat ion ? Alicia M iller, a history major from Mechanicsburg, Pa., will attest to that. M i ller is an aide to Sondra Myers, cultural advisor to Penn足 sylvania Gov . Robert Casey.

he was alerted ro the opportunity

after her mother met Myer through a friend. Part of M i lier's role has been to et up conference

with official from other states

interested in replicating Myers's office, which oversees a tate足 w ide literacy project and coordinate gubernatorial support for the arts. I t's an ideal way station for her next goal, law school, but M i ller concedes that the pay is less than generous. A a result, M i ller's mother i also playing a familiar role because, like many of her high school classmate back home after college, M iller i again living under her parents' roof and commuting to the state capital , Harrisburg. " I t's very funny," M i l ler said. "We all work but can't afford to work away from home."

Leslie Leinbach

Alicia Miller with coworker Manha Miller

Col.by , Augu t 1 992

The want ads remain an obvious source of employment even in thi age of career ervices consortia and computerized networking. Sherri Bossie, a go\'ernment major from Caribou, Maine, re ponded to everal ad

in the Bosron

Globe , including one placed by the Peerless In urance Company of Keene,

. H . Two weeks later, she wa called for an intervie\\·.

" [ was surprised," Bo s ie said. "I didn't expect to be called that quickly." One item had jumped off her resume, an intern hip during Bo sie's j unior year at Colby with the Federal Office of Labor Relations and Collective Bargaining. She spoke with three com pany employees during a day- long series of interview , which lead to a second day' visit with six more inter\'iewers. "l thought, 'How much more can they ask me ?' " Bossie said. During spring break he got to answer one final question: Did she want the job ? Bossie i a compensation analyst in the company's office of human resources, de igning a data base that will help determine whether employee throughout the company are receiving equal pay for equal work. For Bossie, too, perseverance was a plu . She sent out 50 resumes and participated in college con ortia in Portland and Boston before landing the j ob.

Mary Ellen Marnva

Sherri Bossie

Experience and perseverance pay off, and o does quick thinking. A k Lizzette Vazquez, a math ematic

and

ociology major from New York City. For three

ummer during her year at Colby, Vazquez interned a a volun teer at Chase Manhattan Bank. With pro pects in banking limited by the time she was a senior, Vazquez spent even or eight hour a week at the Career Services library ifting other opportu nities. Eventually he went on 14 interviews, talking to banker but al o to recruiter from insurance and pharmaceutical firms. The longe t hot of all eemed to be a management trainee program at Abraham &

trau , the New York-area department

tore chain. "lt was a bit hard when l went into the interview," she said. "They asked, 'Why are you interested in retailing when you've been in banking ?' " Vazquez said she told them that the upward mobility of the po ition-department supervi or in ix month -appealed to her. Two more extensive interview and Vazquez wa hired. "They said, 'You're 2 1 and you've done a lot,' That really helped," she aid. "l had worked in a corporation and howed I'd worked [well] with others."

Colby, Augu t I 992

Mary Ellen Matava

Lizzette Vazquez

Faculty contacts play a s ig n i ficant rol e when pro fessors are o i mpressed that they are w i l l ing to stake the i r own reputat ions on a graduate's pros pects. Dav i d Edelste i n , a native of Connec t i c u t who graduated

cum laude

with dist inct ion in Mary Ellen Matava

environmental science, received uch upport from two members

David Edelstein with Pacrice Franko Jones

of the Economics Department, Patrice Franko J one and Thomas T i e tenberg.

the nd he had two offer for employment in the field.

Ede lstein was so taken with a course in introductory econom

He c ho e R e ource for the Future, an environmental policy

ics taught by Franko J ones that h e m i nored i n the ubject. Franko

think t nk where T i et e n b e rg had been a re earch fel l w. The

J ones, j ust back from a year' sabbat ical in the Pentagon, and

work i a good combination for Edelstei n , becau e it gives him to

T i etenberg, a global figure in the study of environmental econom

c hance to earn a paycheck while continuing hi education infor

ics, referred Edelstein to a number of sources in Wa hington, D.C.

mally. " I 'm exc i ted to learn more about economics," he said.

Further lead came from Washington- based Colby alumni , and in

"That' part of the rea on I took th e j o b. "

Some Career Ladders Veer Erhap Lizzette Vazquez will be a top-drawer retailerone day,

Secura Group, a financial services consulting business she co

Sherri Bossie will be running an insurance c mpany, Alicia

founded.

Miller will be high up in government, David Edelstein will attack the environmental problems of the 2 1 st century and Chantal Begin will be a major figure in clinical p ychology. But based on a ampling of well-placed Colby alumni, it eems just as likely that they will wind up pur uing careers that have little to do with their first jobs.

worked at the Camden Theater during the summers of 195 5 and '56 and formed the Broadway Company with two colleagues, staging a revival of Fallen Angels starring the late Nancy Walker. "l expected drama to be my career," Bullock aid. It wasn't. An attorney and

For Carol Beaumier '72, that fir t job was an avenue to a

financier, Bullock until recently chaired Colby's Board ofT rustees.

career. "Working didn't dawn on me during senior year," she

He is still interested in theater, but it is not even his chiefavocation

recalls frankly. Though she majored in in classics and English,

today. That honor belongs to an outstanding, small California

Beaumier was hired by a bank in Portland. It wa during that

winery in which he shares an interest.

most dreaded of times for a banker, an audit, that she started to find the field fascinating. Today he is managing d irectorof the

An Engli h major in the days before there was a performing art major at Colby-but a thespian at heart-H. Ridgely Bullock '55

Ellen Haweeli '69, a College over·eer who has been a ignifi

cant supporter of women' srudies programs on Mayflower Hill, say

Colby , August 1 992

Spreading the word about an appli.. cant' interest can unearth an unexpected opportunity. At least it worked out that way for Chantal Begin, a psychology major from Kingfield, Maine, in the shadow of Sugarloaf Mountain. She told Warren Cook, a family friend and president of the ugarloaf ki resort, that she wanted to do psychological re earch. That sent Cook to the phone and got Begin an interview with John Gunder on, a psychiatrist at McLean Hospital in Boston. A a result, Begin i now a project coordinator at McLean, concentrating on data entry and analy is in such areas as abnor mal p ychology, per onaliry de truction and elf-de tructiveness. She cho e the rwo-year appointment at McLean over an oppor tunity she developed her elf at Massachu etts General Hospital becau e it offered her exposure to an assortment of psychiatric di order , and he expect it will lead to graduate work in ocial work, psychology or both. Chanr.al Begin

Far from the Bottom Rung he "fell into a job" as a bilingual secretary, putting her French major to immediate use. By 1973 he had een enough of the world to know that investment finance was a more lucrative field. She joined Spear, Leeds and Kellogg and moved forward rapidly, ri ing to general partner. She now runs her own inve tment firm. "[It i more] important for one to pound the pavement," she advises, "than to ettle for something that i n't what you really want." Lawrence Pugh '56, who chairs Colby' Board ofTru tees, was married the week he graduated. "I was ju t looking for a job," he ays. H is signed on at General Elecrric for a three-year training program aimed primarily at accounting. Pugh was there for only three months before he was drafted. ln retro pect, he says, the G.E. job "d1J11't lead me anywhere." But his first position at the Borden Company did. He was recruited from Borden by the VF Corpora-

Colby, August 1 992

tion, where he i now chair and CEO. His advice to graduates of today? "Get training and get going." After working hi way through Colby, George Wiswell '50 joined hi father's advertising agency after graduating with a degree in psychology. But the profe ion never captured hi fancy, and when business took a dive, o did he. Literally. Wi well tarted a marine contracting firm, using his experience as a diver during World War 11. Business tripled in each of the first five years, and today he is CEO ofan engineering conglom erate that bears his name. Among other projects, 1t helped build the world's largest dam (in Afghanistan) and plug one of its biggest leaks (under Chicago) . "Don't settle for anything less than what you want," Wi well ays, "but be willing to climb to get it."

FACULTY FILE Professors to Lead Jan Plan Trip to Israel �\'\ ) C\ l l hy j'l'< lf°L'''' 'r' h; J \'L' 'i'L' IH m u c h , i{ r h i s , u m 111cr Lk1·e l, ,1,i n g ; 1 nL'll' .l : 1 n l'Lm c u u r,l', " l , rae l : A 1 1 L' i L· 1 H ; 1 1 1 d

1' ! , lc lc r n ," ll' h i c h 1V 1 l l

i n m 1d u c c , r uck n r ' l < > thL· h i , > l l >g i c1 I , h i ,t, 1ri c1 I , c u l t u ra l ; 1 11cl l'' ' l i r 1 c ; d

m a k L'llf' , ,f t h e

cuu n r ry . T h e C c > l l ;1hllra r iun hct ll' e e n T, 1111 L1 H1g

R e \ i g i 1 1u, S t uL\ i c' Dep;1 n m e n r a n d F\ i ulPg\' l' rl >fc'" )r j ;1 y L 1 b, l1' hc.i.: ; 1 n

st;1tf , i( C , 1 l b\' \

w i t h a t r i p L1brn· r , 1, 1k t l l br; 1 e l un < l K e l l ngg F, 1 u n d nr i , 1n fc \ l, 111·,h i r' in

1 990. Lah, 1\ ' , ll'hn

i, j e ll ' i , h . '"i'' he had a \ 11';1ys \\'an red r n g\1 r , 1 Israe l . " l fe l l i n l t 1 \' e ll' i t h r h e r l a c e , " h e ,,, i d . " I r \\'<ls a foc r - fi nd i ng r r i r h u t ; 1 \ :,u gc t r i n g b a c k tL l ro\ 1ts. A n d I fe l t . ' B\ 1y , t h i s i s su me �' lace we rea l \ \' need tn ra ke 'tudent, . ' " E n ter L1 >ngsraff, w h , i ha, p;1rt i c i pa tcd i n arc haenlug i c a l d i gs i n Isra e l � i n c e

1 9 7 4 and

has often rnken students w i t h him 1 i1·er the years. A nwng t h e m , he S < l ) ' S , he h a� nuti ccd

Phom'

" a rea l at trac t i\)n for this pa rtic u l ar hunk L lf terra i n that i' Ill IV brae I" and t < l the " rl l m a n c e " of archae\ 1 \ \ \gy.

5, , ll'hen Labl1 1·

hy Jay

L8bov

Torn Longsralf ( 1t•cunng cufl ) . c1 1•ere1w1 uf nearh tt('() d.:cades of archaeological research in / mid . t!'ur/m1g ur th.: N1r �mw S l ll' in Jurn tUPI .

t u rned w Col h\' and arprci;1ch ecl Longsrnff

agre ed e;1,ge r l y . l . 1't from K e l logg for Lahu1· ;1 nd mnney fn im the

about teac h i n g a j n i n t C < l u rse , L n n g�raff

buy C l llllj'U t e r ,, ,fr11 . i re t\ l C < lrlMruc r r h ree - d i men�ional models of

J an ua r y . w i t h a ,gra nt

the . J i g �, 1 -; r u d e n r ' cm -;ee boll' set t lements ll'ere huilt u p , one on

Dav i d and Carol P u l l-er Fund spnn�uri ng LL lllg,raff. the r 11·u �pl'nt

1 2 days i n l -rael des i gn i ng a program f or J a n u ar y 1 99 ). Both prnfe�sors i ns ist that there i s noth ing i ncnngru, iu about m i x i ng their d i sc i p l i nes-espec i a l l y nnt at

the r u i n ' uf annther, , 1\'er rhe c e n t u r i es . D u r i n g the 'ec< rncl ll'eek

i r: a n a , s t udents w i l l hreak i n to

grnu1'' to dn prnj ects in add i t i on ro r h e d i g, 'uch as set t i ng up a

i r:;rna. a n

penrnmen t n a t u re center f o r rhe com m u n i ty . Longstaff and Labov

e d u c a t i o n a l cnm m u n i ry i n rhe N q�e1· De�err where students ll' i l l

'-<l)' they hope �tuLle1l t'' a lsn ll' i l l rake advan taoe of the chance to

spend the i r first t w o weeks i n I srae l . " I t's a n a t u r a l place w l uo k a t t h e ll' h, i l c e1w i ro n m e n t a n d at

�pend t i me ll' i t h lsra e l i ,-i n c l ud i ng new i mm igrants fr m Russ i a and E r h i n p i a who g\1 rn N i r:ana f o r i n tensive tra i n i ng i n Hebrew.

t h e h istory of rhe count r y . " Labuv sa i d . " A t N i r : a n a . ll'e will be

The com m u n i t y is loe<1 ted less than one k i lometer from the

ope n i ng u p a n archaeolog i c a l s i t e that's never been e x e <ll'ated

Egy p t i a n border and i gu arded hy members of the I srael i Defence

before, and the desert i s right there-a l l t he plan rs and a n i m a ls of

Forces whu are the ame ages as most Colby students. "l think i t

the desert are nn the i t e . " And, he says, s t udents w i l l he <1ble ro

II' i l l h e i n tere ·t i ng for o u r students t o meet oth rs t he i r age who've

s t u d y i rr i g a t i o n tech n iques prac t i ced m i l le n n i u ms ago in N i t:ana

had ro put col lege off to do their mandatory service," Longstaff said.

a n d contrast them w i th modern m e t hods in use a t a nearby exper i me n t a l far m . T h e largest component of t he three-week c ou r ·e is t h e

The i r i t i nera ry may evolve up un t i l the day of departu re , he notes. because the professors don't want pass u p a u n ique oppor t u n i t y i f it presents i tself and because some areas of Israe l they now

archaeolcw i c a l d ig , a ugmented by l ec t u res from Isra e l i profess\1r

plan ru v is i t may be u nsafe i n J a n uary. But both say they feel

from Dav id Ben G u r i on U n i ver, i ty of the N egev. Longstaff says

strongly that s rudents should be exposed to a v a r i e ty of perspec

part i c i pa n ts w i l l get hands-on experience in a l l face ts of the w , 1 r k ,

t ive · on t he pol i t i c a l s i tu a t ion i n Israel and the M iddle East.

from s u rvey i ng the Byzan t i ne-era s i te and mak i ng a grid map to

"We want them to fee l that they've had an opport u n i t y to

rec ove r i ng a n d record i n g art i fa c ts and piec i ng together the h is

talk in a n u nrest r i c ted way w i t h people represe n t i ng a n umber of

tory they reve a l . A grant from t h e Hewlett Fou ndat ion w i l l help

d iffere n t facets of

l ·rae l i l ife," Long taff sa i d . In N azareth , for Colby , August

1 992

i nc l uJ 111g the profe.;<ors-ll"dl ha,·e t,1 p u t u�l "·1th c rampeJ quarters, c ommun i ty bathroom-;, unfa m i l i a r tL10J, 1n term 1 ttent hot "·ater anJ unpreJ ictable Jeserr "· eather . StuJent,; anJ a lumni ,,·ho "· a nt ro sign up for the cour�e \\" I l l be i nten· i e11·eJ by Longstaff a n d Labo,· w ensure t h a t t h e y knL,,, . ho"· harsh the c onJ i tions \\" I l l he and w get a seme Llf "·hethe r they can cope. " ] \·e n e ,·er been so exc t ted abour s ometh 111g I ' m JL1rng.'· LabLw said "·h d e Longstaff nodded agreement. " [ see tht< as an unpara l l e led oppc rruniry i f people are 'n l l r n g w 11·orL c ooperate . be flexible and be "· i l l ing to get dim· . " "There ,,· i l l be some hard t i mes . some gooll t i me--.'' Longstaff added. "But "·e think ir "·i ll result in an educat iona l and �leN1nal e xperience that they ll " i l l remember."

Alumni Are Welcome Tom Longstaff and Jay Labov say that several tudents already had approached them about igning up for "Israel: Ancient and Modem" before last semester ended, bm they anticipate that a few of the 25 slots in the course will be available for alumni. '

ot only do we want alumni along for their own

education and enjoyment," Labov said, "hut we want to gi e students the chance to [i, e and work as peers with people who are older than they are. They almost ne\ er get to do that." Some alumni have already been to Israel with Longstaff a few as students, others on an alumni tour he led everal years The Jan Plan irineran· mcl1ales rrai•el rhro1whour Israel ro sires

of hiswrical and rnlwral incerest, s1.1c/1 as che Roman rniru ac Caesarea . abot•e .

ago. He say mo t of them felt a strong attraction to the country. "There's a de ire to get back to your relioious roots if you're Jewish or Christian or Moslem," he said, "or e en because it's such an imporrant component of later Western society."

rnstance, the oroup is sched ul e d

ray at an inn run by I rael i

The tentative itinerary for the course, which begins with

Arab a n d t o p l a y host to members of t h e loca l Arab rnmmu n i ty

an orientation at Colby on January 4 and ends on the la t day

for a p o l i t ica l di cus ion . In J erusalem, students ll' i l l meet w i th

of the month, includes isi ts to Masada, Qumran (where the

Orthodox J e "·s. "We'll never be 111 the lap of lu xury , " Labov - a i d , de cribing the la t week of the tr i p . ll'hen the group ll ' i l l tay at a G a l i lee k ibbut:-among other p lace s-be fo re the i r final tll"O days in

Dead Sea Scroll were discovered) ,

azareth, Tel Aviv and

Jerusalem. Alumni will do course work along ide tudents and hould be in good phy ical condition, Labov ays. For more information about the course, contact Tom

J erusalem.

Longstaff in Colby's Deparonent of Religious Studies (207-

That part of the course may seem l uxurio us after 1 ir:ana, Labov camions. The ettl e ment, he say · , is not for omeone '\,·ho

872-3 1 50) or Jay Labov in the Biology Department ( 207- 723329).

expect to be p l ugging in a hair dryer a l l the rime." heryone-

Colby, A ug us t 1 992

Kind Words and a Concert for New Emeriti Professors Ei leen Curran, Albert Mavrinac and D rothy Reuman

publ ic management con ultant to the government of Jordan,

were honored, along with outgoing tru tee Gerald Holtz ' 5 2 and

Egypt and Vietnam, among other , and aid he hoped to continue

Bev N a lbandian Madden '80, at the annual fac u lty/tru tee dinner

that work. But he may be bu y with his new career. Mavrinac is

during Commencement Weekend. The three faculty members

retired at the end of the pring seme ter.

a sociated with the Waterville firm ofDaviau, Jabar & Batten. He

Curran, who called 1 992 "an unusual year, a record- erring

1 990 graduate of the University of Maine Law

chool and is

i al o helping the College develop formal guidelines for "treating

y e a r" b e c a u s e t w o

emeriti as continuing

women were retiring

members of the Colby

from the fac ulty ( " !

faculty."

think three have re tired

Reuman, a profes

ince '58 ! " she

sor of music, had a bit

said ) , came to Colby

34 years ago to join

through her thank

the English Depart

yous and farewells at

trouble

getting

ment. She re m e m

the dinner. She wa

bered o n e o f h e r fir t

clearly overwhelmed

discussions with the

by the surprise appear

department chair,

ance of Bernie Khoo

Alfred King "Chap

'90, a professional cel

p i e " Chapman ' 2 5 ,

l ist and former student

who told her that the

of h e r s . Khoo p e r

newest member a l

formed o n e o f R e u

w a y provided coffee

man's favonte pieces,

and cookie

"The Swan," by Ca

for the

weekly departmental

mille Saint-Saens, ac

meeting . "That wa

companied by Profes

fine , " Curran

aid,

the second year and the th ird year, and guess who wa

sor Paul Machlin on

I ngrid Kristan '94

"but then i t got t o be

the piano. "That'

Reuman said, trying to regain her composure.

still

"! guess, ince my maiden name i

making coffee and cookies?" Curran's academic specialty i

hard act to follow,"

Eileen Curran ( left) , Albert Mavrinac and Dorothy Reuman with Dean of Faculty Robert McArthur (second from right) at the faculty/trustee dinner in May .

Victorian literature. She

wan, it' appropriate that I

should have a wan song at the end. "

holds bachelor's degrees from Corne11 and Cambridge and an

Reuman i a graduate o f t h e Co11ege o f Wooster and earned

M . A . from Cambridge, and he earned her Ph.D. at Cornell. She

her M . A . from the Univer ity ofWi con in. he joined the Colby

sponsored Colby's fir t ]an Plan abroad and chaired the Humanities

Department of M u ic in 1 96 1 and was principal cellist with the

Division, the Engli h honor program and Program I I . She al o

Colby Symphony Orchestra under Ermanno Comparetti, Peter

served as director of M i ller Library from 1 97 3 to 1 97 6 . Professor

Re and Jonathan Hall trom. "She taught the department to

John

celebrate," aid former chair James Armstrong in a letter read by

weney called Curran a "respected and popular" teacher

whose " tandards were high and whose courses were demanding."

Hall trom. "She treated visiting alumni like prodigals."

Mavrinac graduated from the Uni ver ity of Pitt burgh into

According to another letter, this one from Machlin, Reuman's

the Army's l OOth Divi ion, where he earned a battlefield com

trademark wordplay also will be mis ed the Bixler Art and Music

mission to lieutenant during the Battle of the Bulge. Twice a

Center. "Her lively sen e of humor is often expre sed through a

Fulbright scholar, he earned his master'

and doctorate from

stunning array of puns," Machlin wrote. "Of course, Dorothy

Harvard and came to Colby in 1 9 5 5 . He served as chair of the

delivers these bon mots with such a knockout force that she no

H istory and Government Department until 1 979 and of the

doubt thinks of them as a punning array of stun . "

eparate Government Department until 1 982. He has been a

Colby , August 1 992

PAGING PARENTS A Taste of the "Real World"

hank to an increasing number of alumni, parent and friends

Peter Ashton '76, pre ident of Innovations and Information

of the College, Colby now offers a wide range of intern h ip a part

Con ultants, Inc. in Cambridge, Ma

of it venerable J an Plan program-giving tudent the opportu

interns he sponsors. He ha nothing but praise for the interns he

., work d irectly with the

n i ty to spend four weeks in profes ional "cla sroom " where they

ha had in the past: "Everyone benefit ," A hton aid. "We get

can learn what j ob will be like once they leave the H ill.

more work done, and the intern benefits by walking away with

Or. Alexandra Levintow Howell ' 7 7 ha offered an intern ship at the Dartmouth Medical

chool for the last three year ,

real, usable

kills." Interns

tudy information that relate

litioation the firm is working on and pend long hour in archive

allowing tudents to work in one of the nation' leading cancer

and libraries, re earching evidence.The work pay off, however,

re earch laboratories. With her guidance, students operate ophis

a Kimberly

ticated equipment uch a the flow cytometer, used to examine

January worked out o well that it led to a position with the firm

proteins on the surface of individual cell -information vital to

thi

arajian '93 can tell you. Her intern hip at I . LC. la t

ummer. Jay Hermsen '92 had even more ucce s with h i internship

under tanding how cancer preads. Students are required to do a

at the

He netted a permanent j ob there that began the day after

re earch they are taking part in. At the end of the project the

graduation. A

intern are asked to present their finding in an informal seminar

mammal re earch and working at the ervice's aquarium.

a good deal for all concerned, say Dr.

Howell. "The lab get four week

of dedicated work, and the

rudent gets experience in how a r al lab runs . . . . I t i not at all

Herm en'

duties included marine

'74 ha been pon oring Colby intern at

Woods Hole for everal year . t ime

ervice in Wood Hole,

an intern, Herm en'

Anne Richard

that covers what they accompli hed. The internship i

ational Marine Fi herie

1a s.

great deal of reading and to keep detailed records on everything they do, which, according to Howell, is a vital part of the erious

he tre sed that in hard economic

intern hip "got him a j ob that will lead him

place . . . . [It i J o important to know people in the field."

l ike Chem 1 0 1 . In chemi try lab the experiment have been done

Richards al o trie to help tudents learn about the working

for the last 20 years. In re earch it' the fir t time . . . thing do not

environment. "They are not accustomed to raying at omething eight or nine hour a day," he aid. "But they learn to see new side

alway run according to the book." Dr. Lewi Holme , father of Lewi ' 5 and W i l l iam ' 7, ha been

pon oring J an Plan intern h ips at the Embryology

Tetratology Unit at Mass. General Ho pita! for

even year .

tudent choo e to work on c l inical or laboratory research and

of problem . " Colby ponsor intern hips all over the country, from work ing on geologic urvey

in California to reaching French in a

nearby high chool to working with civil rights group in Wa h

write a paper at the end of their

ington, D.C. Linda K. Cotter, a so

studie . "Intern hip ," Holmes aid,

c iate director of Colby' Off-Cam

"give tudent a rare chance to ee

tudy office, say

he i alway

T hey're Carding You

on the lookout for way to expand

I f you would like more infom1ation about

alumni continue to offer intern hip

Gardner M u eum in Boston, which

offering internship or career advice to Colby

over everal years, but-Or. Holme

pecialize in the I talian Renai ance

rudent.s, please return the attached po tcard to

not w i th rand i ng-parents often

period, learn not only about mu eum

the Office of Off-Campus Study.

choo e to leave the program once

what profe

ion are really like out-

the i r i ntersh ip offe r i ng . M any

ide of academia." Intern at the Isabella Stewart

their children have graduated.

management but about the complex i

"We are alway happy to wel

t ie of artifact conservation, including material analy i and artifact deterioration and re toration.

come new parent into the program," Cotter aid, adding that

Here, too, rudent are required to complete a project-restoring

parents and alumni can al o help tudent learn about the job

a Gothic lectern, for example, or crafting a credible reproduction

market by meeting with tudent to d i cuss career . The Office of

of a work of art using modem material . According to the Acting

Career

Object Conservator Valentine Talland '8 1 , i t' the "hand on"

tate uch meetings.

ervice , in its Colby Connections program, help fac ili

nature of the work that make i t o rewarding, because tudent learn technique that can't be taught in the cla room. Colby, Augu t 1 992

-Michael Daisey ' 95

BOOKS & AUTHORS A "Fantastical" Ride into the 2 1 st Century - by Robert Gillespie -

Other product of the gengineers' art include potsters ( which grow l i ke porntoe and taste like lobste r ) , sausage bushes, udder

Ti,e FL)L )d and

trees, hamberries and snack bu hes. Gengineered agriculture is Drug Admin i�tra t iun'� recent announcement

"more prod u c t i ve, more cost-effect ive and more environmental ly

that it wou ld not te�t certain gene t i c a l l y engineered fond hef ore it is sold in supermarket� rai�ed a hright red warning ign , a far a

benign" than Machine Age agriculture because it doesn't deplete

the Envirnnmental Defern,e Fund and utheri> were conc erned. They contend that gene- pl i c i ng i� a potentially dangernu� pra c

c l anur nece��ary is provided by li tterbugs-street and yard

the fert i l i ty of the soi l or cau e pollut ion

r oil erosion. Any

c l eaner� that devour Jung and all other kinds of refu e-and

t ice ro which strong hrakes shou ld h e appl ied, w h i l e t h e F.D.A. ·ays the technol, )gy i� simply the newe t wave in cm breed i ng.

gengineered pigs that function a garbage d ispo als. They stand

Fm anyone who cannot get enough of the debate over genetic

whatever i put into them.

engi neeri ng in the pop u lar pre s, Woodsman will be a fea t .

under k i tchen �ink , their nouts point ing kyward, chew i ng up Woodsman de cend from the an i mal fable, from the epic

4 . 50 ) i� t h e most recently p u b

who e heroes prove their uperior ruff in fanta tical quests and

'66. Like parrowhawk and Greenhouse, the book portrays the post-Ma c h i ne Age world nf the l ate 2 bt century. C i v i kation has care

to '>trange land� uch a those depicted in Gulliver ' s Travels. I t's al�o "hard c ience fic t ion." Ea ton is the son of the late Colby

les ly depleted the planet's resource , and �urvival depends on the

biology professor Tom Ea ton and is a pract i c i ng c ientist him

Woodsman ( Ace Books,

! i h e d novel in a science fic t ion serie- by Tom Ea ton

technology of genetic engineering-what Easton call

underworld journey and from Storie invol ving fantastic voyages

elf-he teache biology at Thomas College, i co-author of

"gengrneen ng.

a new textbook, Fo

I n the Age of G e ng i neering, genetic eng i

cus on Human Bi

neers-"gengineers"-

o logy, and con

have the technology

sult

to transfer genes be

for a P B S

e n v i ronmental sc i

tween anima ls and

e n c e fi c t i on

plants and h u man be-

H ard

ings to produce new, often b i:arre form·

Easton a i d , "rakes science

of food, hou i ng and tran·portat ion. They

eriously and tries to

a l ·o create brave new forms of i ntell igent

Hard sc ience fic tion doesn't go be

l ife. Devotees of w i ld invention and spec ial

yond the conce ivable." M uch like those chem istry sets k ids u ed to

wonderful food products and housing Ea ton mal - t h a t propel other l i ving creatures across l a n d , s e a , a i r and

ray

within bound set by textbooks.

effects i n science fict ion w i l l delight i n the desc r i be and the "genimal "-the genetically engineered a n i

erie .

c i e nc e fic t i o n ,

play w i th down in the cel lar, or l ike the computers hacker play with today, a home gengineering k i t is possible, Easton bel i eves. A young gengineer could mix his or her own genes and

space in the future. bioforms such as squa hes and

plant gene to create new forms of life. "This become a marvel

pumpkins, and they get about on huge gen imals l ike the Bern ie,

lous toy," Easton a i d . " I have a strong suspic ion you're going t o

Peorle l ive in enormou

aint Bernard w i th a passenger pod trapped to i t s

e e t h i happen w i th genetic engineering. Once genet i c engineer

back. Wheels grow from t h e she l l of t h e Armadon ( "mad offspring

i ng gets away from today's paranoid controls, trange things w i ll

of a gene-splicer and an armad i l lo " ) , whose leg run backward

happen . "

a gengineered

atop the wheels to turn them. People al o travel i n the Bioblimp,

I n fac t , o m e genetic engineering a l ready is i n t h e work -

a j e l lyfi h w i th a hydrogen-fil led SO-meter ga bag and seats

and it sound just like the fiction . Easton c l aims that h i s creation

hanging from the tentacles l ike a huge merry-go-round. F i re

a l l are po sible-from vehic les to vittles, he's imply extrapolat

with mu c u lar hoses, are

ing and pushi ng exi t ing experimentat i on i n to the future. 'The

of e l ephants. G engineers a lso have given hu man

Brazi lian rain forest oil tree already exi t ," he aid. "You could

trucks, mammoth walking bladder descendent

gene and h u man appearance and intelligence to plants, c reati ng

transplant genes that make i t o i l-rich and find a way to make them

botan icals or "bot ." Conversely, ome h uman beings have be

grow along the road, with a hose attached, l i ke a coin-op. You could

come "greensk ins," people modified by plant genes who nouri h

have them i n the back yard and run the house and car on it."

themselves w i t h s u n l ight.

A subtext to the fantastical inventions and the occa ional

Colby, Augu t 1 992

comic moment, Woods

and he is us. In the case of

man also takes on the erious is ue

Woodsman, he might al ·o

that ge

have said: we have met

netic engineering rai e .

the victim and he is u .

"Man-muck ing," or hu

Woodsman isn't a

man genetic engineer

paean to a technology of

ing, is illegal in the or

harmlessnes if the prod

ganic future, and it's j ust

ucts of the gengineers' art

as illegal to give an ani

Thomas College phoro

mal the genes for hu man intelligence. The

threaten to take O\'er em ploymen t, phy ical space and even human con-

Tom Easton '66

conflict in Woodsman

sc i ou s n e

. From D r .

arises as PET A-People for the Ethical Treatment of Animal -

Frankenstein's monster t o t h e computer and t h e greenhou e

reports an illegal gengineered talk ing dog named Renny and sues

effect, writers have dramatized fears about technology destroying

to have him de troyed.

rather than saving human beings and human c ivilization. Both

To ave the perfectly hannle s and amiable Renny, Frederick S uida mu t act. Frederick, originally a pig '' ho was a gengineered

ides of genetic engineering are treated fairly in Woodsman, making it a noteworthy addition to the genre.

garbage disposal, has been genetically altered again and is now a

Woodsman doesn't even have a figurehead for either the

man. He is employed by the Bioform Regulatory Administration,

Engineer or the Gengineers-"the Big N a ty and the Big Hero,"

which helps guard against gemmals or gengineered plants run

as Ea ton calls his antagonists. I n the organic future, each group

ning wild and raking over fore t and field, but he sees no j ustice

ha to compromise. The world of Woodsman still contains elec

i n PETA '

attempt to exterminate Renny. Sure that his col

tronic computers, engines for Biob limp and j ets, strap-on passen

leagues in BRA are in ympathy with PET A, Frederick flee with

ger and cargo pods and a thousand other mechanical thing . The

Renny and a bot named Donna Rose to a space station, one of

bioforms ease the strain on energy and mineral resource but don't

those outpo t of civil ization where out-of-the-ordinary beings

make machinery totally obsolete. On the other hand, the Engi

still hope to live free of persecution. As the world rums increas

neer have to use some of the new technology, uch as genetically

ingly against tho e who are genetically modified, complication

engineered animals and food, whether they like it or nor. "Thi is

and conflict abound.

the way the world wags," Easton said. He' al o aying that the ability to rake in or accommodate

The mo t overt threat come from the Engineer , a reaction ary group of humans who ha e lost their machine-related jobs.

new idea

Their fear of gengineering and it products and their wish to tum

necessary to the survival of human civilization as protection of the

i necessary to a concept of humanity-perhaps as

back to the Machine Age lead the Engineer into deepening

environment. Ea ton sums up Woodsman's nasty characters as

prejudice and increasingly avage evil doing. Out of fru tration,

"neophobe "-people who can't stand the new. In h is most

either police

mpathetic characters, he said, "You may pick up the liberal arts

nor government come forth to protect the gengineered, who

view: the more you know and the more you accept, the better.

alienation and dispos ession, they suddenly erupt. must fight back to sa e them elves.

Characters who are sympathetic characters get broader in view.

Because genetic engineering i so clearly in the offing, all

Good guy are more embracing. Science fiction itself is very

Easton's characters are faces of the future, and all the d i lemmas in

embracing literature. I t accepts a great amount of stuff, it enter

Woodsman dramatize ome profound que tion currently being

tain a great many ideas. ls this ophomoric?" Easton hrugged.

raised about the practice. I genetically engineered food safe? In

"Good cience fiction feels a lot like a sophomore bull ses ion. If

what way does genetic engineering alter our idea about nature

that'

and nurture in the formation of human personaliry ? What social

bad, it'

an indication of how people close down after

ophomore year."

policies will be created by those wh_o are capable of genetic

The science fiction writer, like the gengineer, alters the

screening of individuals and groups? What protections will ge

nature of human life, but uch "man-mucking" offers original

netically engineered creation have under the law ? In the conflict

thinking on how and where to move the world. Let there be

between the irrational, reactionary Engineer and the gengineered

gengineering, Woodsman proclaim . Genetic engineering i not

who are persecuted for their enl ightened modification , Woods

only the inevitable future, it i a rational future.

man dramatize po ible future . Pogo aid we have met the enemy Colby, August 1992

GIFTS & GRANTS Donor Endows Museum Directorship L ast N ovemher, Colby rec e i veJ i ts large t gift ever from an i n d i v idual donor:

1 m i l l ion

to endl1\v a

Oist ingui-hed Pre�ident ial Professorship i n American Government and an add it ional

1 00,000 to endow a

research fund for the chair holder. There were two string . F i r- t , the donor wished to rema i n an 1nymous, and second , Colby would have to match the gift with four add i t ional endowed chairs by the end of the decade. Now, President W i l liam R . Cotterhasannounced, the College has secured the first of the four add i tional c h a i rs-and it, too, has been donated anonymously. " I a m pleased to announce that Colby has been given

$ 1 m i l l ion to endow the d i rectorsh ip of the Colby College M u -eum of Arr," Cotter said. "The donor, who wi he

to remain anonymou , fir t became in

volved with Colby in the early 1 960 , shortly after the museum opened , and per·onally played a major ro le i n the establ ishment a n d development of t h e museum' outreach program ." The donor a id , "My dedication to the museum i based on my conv iction that it is well on it becomina the very best mu eum of i t

way to

Mary E l len Matava

k ind in the

country. lt is a spe c i a l plea·ure to be among the many friends who have made this achievement possible." H ugh Gourley I l l , who became the museum's

Museum Direcwr Hugh Gourley, pictured above righc wich filmmaker Rudolf Burckhardc at rhe opening of the museum's Davis Gallery lase year , will hold Colby 's newest endowed chair .

first fu l l - t i m e d i rector i n 1 966 and has helped bui ld i t i n to o n e of t h e nation 's m o s t adm i red campus arr museums, w i l l be the first holder of the new chair. "Only a few college or un iversi ty art museum have endowed d i rectorsh ips," Gourley said. "The gift is very much the donor's own idea, a personal vi ion of what the museum can and shou ld be. We are grateful for the strong expres ion of confidence. " T h e d i rectorship becomes t h e n inth fu l l y endowed c h a i r a t

Foundations Give

$ 1 00,000

As reported in M a y , the Development Office is wrapping u p it four-year,

1 7 m i l l ion capital agenda. A $ 1 00,000 grant from

the Arth u r V i n i ng Davi Foundation of Fort Lauderdale, F la . , i

Colby a n d t h e s i x t h s i nce M ay 1 990, when t h e College began a

the la t key gift in the effort, which w i l l conclude w i th an appeal

concerted effort to increase its number of endowed cha irs. Four of

to alumni this summer.

the s i x endowed chairs added in the past two year came a a resu It

The grant will help complete one of the agenda's corner

of a 3 - 1 c h a l l enge grant from the Christian A. J ohnson Endeavor

stones, a $4 m i l l ion expansion and renovation of the Bixler Art

Foundation. Why have two uch s igni ficant contributors chosen to re m a i n anonymous ?

and Mu ic Center. The Bixler project, which involves $2.5 m i l l ion i n phy ical addit ions and renovations f o r Colby' music and arr programs and $ 1 . 5 m i ll ion i n addi tional endowment to

"People do that for any number of reasons," s a id Randy

support m usic and art programs, i expected to reach fu l l fund ing

Helm, v ice president for development . " I don't think we want to

before the end of the year, fo llowing a fund-rai ing effort among

ascribe motivation i n e i ther of the two recent examples except to

Colby alumni and friends.

say that a ense of modesty and of privacy is often at work. Our

A new w i ng of the M u eum of Art, expanded storage pace

latest benefactor has enjoyed the museum for many year and

for the College'

want that relat ionsh ip to continue j ust as i t h a been."

musical rehearsal space, expanded and improved art and music

extensi ve art holdings, new art studio and

Colby , Augu t 1 992

librarie and additional c las rooms in mu ic and art are involved

and Languages Department. " Historically, the Chiang Ching

in the proj ect. The B i x le r center wa second on the agenda only

Kuo Foundation ha concentrated its upport in large universities.

to the $4.4 m i l l ion raised for endowed student financial aid.

l t' a tremendous feather in our cap."

The original A rthur V in i ng Davis Foundation wa organized

Feigon, who prepared the grant reque t with Linda L.

in 1 95 2 under a l i v ing tru t esrabli hed by M r. Davis. Prior to h is

Goldstein, director of corporate and foundation relations, said he

retirement to Florida in 1 949, he had been president and then

believed Colby's trong reputation in both Ea t Asian stud ies and

CEO of the A luminum Corporation of America ( A LCOA ) . The

art history played a major role in the foundation' decision. He

three affiliated A rthur V i n ing Davi Foundations now provide

noted that Colby was one of the nation's fir t mall, liberal ans

grants nationa l l y for private h igher education, ho pice and health

college to incorporate Chine e tudie in it c urricu l u m nearly a

care, rel igion and public televis ion.

quarter-century ago. W i th upport from the grant, Feigon said, the College w i l l be able to add seven courses over a two-year cycle in Chine e art to

Chinese Studies Boost

complement c u rricu l u m offerings already in place in Chine e anthropology, h istory, language and re ligion. He a id he expects between 60 and 70 student to enro l l in new urvey cour es in

1 43 ,000 tart-up grant from the Chiang Ching-Kuo

Foundation for I nternational

cholarly Exchange will fund a new

early and later Chinese art and between 20 and 30 students to rudy in advanced cour es. "We are very grateful to the Chiang Ching-K uo Foundation

facul ty po ition in Chinese art. Under the term of the grant, the Taiwan-based foundation

for thi

grant and excited about what it portends for Colby,"

w i l l prov id e Co lb y w i t h it fir t three yearsoffunding for the alary

Pre idem W i ll iam R . Cotter aid. "Colby wa among the first

and benefits of an a i tant profes or of Chine e art a wel l as

college

library acqui it ion and research material to support the profe sor'

Chine e and East Asian s r udie . The curric u lum expan ion made

of it

k ind to provide

uch an exten ive program of

possible by this grant w i l l make certain that we can continue to

work. "Thi

an extremely positive step for Colby,"

aid Lee

Feigon, a profe s sor of h i tory and chair of the East Asian Culture

offer an undergraduate program in Chine e studies that is second to none in terms of its breadth and depth. "

Cottrell Awards Announced Two members of the faculty have been awarded Cottrell

The Research Corporation, a foundation for the ad

Science Awards by the Research Corporation of Tucson,

vancement of cience and te chno l o gy , was founded by

Ariz., to support research projects with undergraduate stu

Frederick Gardner Cottrell. Following Dr. Cottrell's death

dent .

in 1 949, the foundation established the Cottrell College

Charles Conover, as istant profes or of physics, has been awarded 3 5 ,830 to work with Colby students in

Science Program to

examining the dynamics of molecules in external fields. The grant to Conover is spon ored by the Joseph H. DeFre s

leges, both public and private. Involvement of students in

Tru t.

upport basic research in chemistry,

physics and astronomy in predominantly undergraduate col the research is encouraged. Conover and M i l lard each came to Colby in 1 990. He

J ul ie M i llard, Clare Booth Luce Assistant Profe sor of Biochemistry, has been awarded $25 ,000 to work with stu

earned h i doctorate in phy ic at the U niversity of Virginia

dent in the tudy of sequence preferences of DNA cross1 inking agents Diopoxides and Myomycin C. Her grant is

has a doctorate in biochemistry from Brown University and

sponsored by the Bristol-Myers Squibb Company.

College.

Colby, August 1 992

and his baccalaureate in physics at Middlebury College. She a baccalaureate in chemistry and neuroscience from Amherst

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steady downpour t h o <

drove ac t i v it ies inside a n d put a chill in the air d idn't seem to bother the more than 1 ,400 Colby alumni who came to Mayflower H i l l J une 7-9 to renew old t ies and rev isit old ·haunts

during Alumni Reunion Weekend. There were honors, such as the Colby Bricks given

( p ictured above ) Gerald

Holtz ' 5 2 , Linda Cotter, Guy Vigue ' 5 7

( who e wife, Eleanor Ewing Vigue ' 5 7 ,

C. Marriner Disting u i hed

ervice

Award for H. Ridgely Bullock ' 5 5 , former chair of the Board of T ru tee . There were thought-provoking panel

Szostak ' 7 2 , president

ofF!eet Bank of M aine, and James Vigue

also received a Bric k ) , Anne Lawrence

discussions on i ue

uch a the tate of

' 7 2 , pre ident of Fir tmark Corp . ) ; the

Bondy '46 and Cliff Came '42; the

modem bank ing (with Kelda Caldwell

"new world order" ( w ith Colby profe -

Distinguished A lumnus Award, which

'82, chiefinve tment officer of the World

sor

went to Pulitzer Prize-winn ing author

Bank, bank strategist and con ultant

McCarthy and Guilain Denoeux ) ; and

Gregory White Smith ' 7 4; and the Erne t

Peter Merrill ' 5 7 , Anne O ' Hanian

I ndian land c laims ( with, pictured on

C a l v i n M a c k e n z i e , S h eila

Colby , August 1 992

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facing page, Henry Sockbeson ' 7 3 , a lawyer with the Native American R ight Fund, and Allan van Gestel ' 5 7 , an attorney whose c l ient are the communitie in which land has been claimed by Nat ive Americans ) . M o t events had t o b e moved indoor , but the lob ter at

aturday's bake in the fieldhou e

till

ta ted good to Celia and Fred Howard '44 ( top right) and to Carol Rani '87 and Sharon Ducey '87 ( bottom ) . O n Friday night, after arriving from Evan , G a . , for the weekend, S tan ' 8 5 and S usan Robertson Kuzia ' 8 2 ( above ) relaxed on the lawn in

front of Runnal with their daughter, Virginia Mary, and checked out the chedule of event .

Colby, Augu t 1992

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ALUMNI AT LARGE FIFTY-PLUS

5 0+

Correspondent: Marjorie Gould S h u man ' 3 7

Fir t, a pec ial welcome to the Class of l 942 ! Fifty years ago they were the first c la s to graduate after World War II had begun for thi country, anJ no Joubt their senior year had tension not f I t before. N o w t h a t they have had their 50th reunion, we'l l be inter ested i n learn ing their achieve ments and their att i tude- today. Join u , and hare with us your thoughts and feelings as the new est members of our Fifty- Plus Club!

Pre.-20s

_ _ _

Ida Phoebe Keen '05 , Claremont,

Calif. , has been the del ight of all who have v i i ted her a t the re t irement home where she has li ved for many years, M t . San A n t o n i o G a rd e n s . E a r l y i n M arch, he c elebrated h e r 1 08th b irthday, her eyes sparkling a t the ensation s he w a s c reating in the community. What tale he musthave told to those who would l isten ! . . . A lthough N inetta M. Runnals '08 i no longer l iving, her memory i cheri hed by all who knew her as a fel low student , a a profes or of mathematics o r a Colby's dean of women. W e can rejoice tha t on March 2 1 , she wa inducted posthumously into the M ai ne Women's Hall ofFame [seeColby , M ay] . . . . When asked about hi favorite college c l ass, R a y m o n d C.

W hitney ' 1 8,

Dexter, M aine, c i ted geology . . . . R u b y M . Robinson ' 1 8 , M t . Vernon, Maine, hoped to make the reunion in J une (her 74th ! ) accompanied b y he r nephew, Qui mby Robinson '6 1 . She is p l e a ed t h a t her grand n i e c e , Anne, h a s app l i ed to Colby. he 48

rememhers Vivian S k inner H ill ' 1 6, outh Portland, Maine, as a fell w student anJ was pleased to read about her in thi column . . . . Chemi·try wa the favorite ourse of Robert E. Sull ivan ' 1 9, Tren ton, N .J . , and probably I d to h is choice ofoccupati n . . . . On the other hand, c la smate Phyllis Sturdivant Sweetser ' 1 9, Port land, Ma ine, feels that four years of English course were most valu able to her. N doubt they h(lve helped her now in writing the

Family Journal.

20s etting a good examrle for other nonagenarians, Leonard Mayo '22, Chagrin Fall , Ohio, recently prepared a paper on Win low Homer and pre ented it, along with illu trative [ ides, toa church group. For the pre ent he and hi wife, Lena ( Cooley ' 2 4 ) , enjoy the ir own home, but "when the t ime comes, we may consider lea ing our 'New England' v i l lage and moving to a ret i rement home. " They would like very m u c h t o attend another reunion at Colby. . . . Leonette Warburton Wish ard ' 2 3 , Bridgeport, Conn., paid pecial tribute to N inetta Run nals, from whom he learned how to deal with girl student . Leo nette taught in the Phil ippi ne , G reece and Turkey. N ow , at age 89, she keeps house, drives her own car, walks regularly, has nor mal blood pre ure and hopes to attend h e r 70th reunion in 1 99 3 ! . . . P aul Gates '24, I t haca, N .Y., writes that h i favorite pro fessor was Curti Morrow, but he adm i ts that he had no fondne s for h i s t o ry profe so r J . B i l l Black . . . . Economics and publ ic peaking were the courses favored by Mary Gordon Harvey ' 2 4, M ia m i , F la. Margaret Turner Howe ' 2 4 , N e w G loucester, Maine, much preferred her Eng-

li h cour e . . . .

im il"rly, Eliza

beth Kingsley Chapman ' 2 5 , East

Greenwich, R.1 . , liked her Eng l i h cour e , part icularly th i e taught by Carl Weber . . . . Mar jorie Everingham Edgerly '2 5 , Wrightwood , Calif. , ke r i n t o u c h w i th c l assmate N e l l i e Pottle Ha n k ins ' 2 5 , Oxford, M a i n e , who wri te. about the happy memorie of her 65th re union and hope5 that it won't be the last for her cla s. . . . Con gratulat ion to Rosamond Cum mings Morehouse '25, uth bury, Conn . , for be ing the proud great-grandmother of 1 1 ! . . . Prac tical Donald N . Armstrong '26, Longmont, Colo., write that higher education -hould include m or e h a n d s - on v o c a t i o n a l cour e s , but he doesn't say how to accompli h that at a liberal art college . . . . La t Thank givi ng, Edith "Ducky" Grearson Money '26, We t Medford, Ma ., was

proud and happy to be with 26 member of her fam i ly, all gath ered at the home of her brother, D o u g l a s G r e a r s o n ' 2 8 , in Dedham, M a s . . . . Helen Kyle Swan '26, and her husband, for merly of andwich, M a s., moved in 1 990 to their former home in M i lton, M as ., where Helen had once been president of the M i l ton Woman' Club and the fi r t woman to erve on the Norfolk County j ury. They are now l iv ing at W i nter Valley Ret i re ment C o m m u n i t y . However, they maintain their memberships in the Sandwich H istorical ociety and the B u rges o c i e t y of Sandwich . . . . Angie Reed Hoch ' 2 7 , New Hartford, N .Y . , l ikes to pend her summers in Bowdoin ham, M aine . . . . Rod ' 3 1 and Peg Davis Farnham '28, Hampden , Main e, wrote th at they were hop ing to attend the commencement o f t h e i r g r a n d d a u g h t e r la t M ay . . . . Walterand Myra Stone Knofskie ' 2 8 , M anchester, Conn . , a re p r o u d of h a v i n g

ach ieved four core years and five la t eptember and November. Congratulations! As for reunion , they wi h only that the weather w i l l c oo p e r a t e . . . . R e n e J . Marcou ' 2 8 , Newton Centre, Mass., r ports that he keeps in touch with everal Colby friends: A . Frank " A ugie" Stiegler '28,

N orth Haverh il l, Mass., Sydney Snow '28, West Boylston, Ma s . , a n d Cecil Rose '28, G louce ter, Ma . After teach i ng for 45 years at M I T and Boston College, he tends to favor both a model of higher education . . . . Cec il Ro·e '28 write that he continue a a retired upply-mini ter and conultant. He hope that h is grand on, Brator Bell, will choo e Colby next year. . . . Augie tiegler '28 write that he i grateful each morning that he and h is wife can wake up glad they are al ive. He feel that the recent death of h is friend Edmond " Dutch" Fiedler '28 was a great loss. . . . Alice Paul Allen ' 2 9 , East Providence, R. l . , remember the "under randing and love that Dean N in e t t a Runnals gave us a l l . " . . . Fred erick A . Howard '29, Norwood, Mass., write that the most valu able course at Colby was Prof. C o l g a n ' s in e d u c a t i o n , b u t H e rbe r t D . M e s s e n ge r ' 2 9, Marblehead, Mass., favored Prof. Libby' course in public speaking and Ernie } . Twadelle '29, Jekyll I land, Ga., till appreciate the biology courses taught by "Bugs" Chester. . . . ( N ote: Many of you have expres ed the wish to have more news of your c la mate . I there anything that can be done about that ? )

3 0s Donald E. A l l ison '30, West

erly, R.l., wrote last November that he hoped ro make one more reunion . . . . Mabel Dolli ff Craig ' 3 0 , Claremon t , Calif. , often Colby, Augu t 1 992

Harold Hall ' 1 7 and reunion hose Bech Montgomery ' 93 .

In a Class By Hiniself Ti1e day before his 7 5 th reunion, Harold Hall ' 1 7 wa concerned. Last December he broke his col larbone in a fall and ince then ha gotten about on a walker or in a wheelchair. He worried about the trouble he was causing the College, all those attendant they'd devote to him. Really, he said, hi daughter wa the one who'd insi ted he attend Reunion Weekend. "I feel I'm creating a three-ring c ircus," he said. A parade of the classe in ide the fieldhouse isn't quite a three-ring circus. But being at the the tail end of the march- ince that place goe to the returnee from the mo t enior c las -i the position of honor. "The alumni ecretary, id Farr, wheeled me around, and I wa facing group coming the other d irection. They waved and greeted me," said the 9 5 -year-old former Hebron Academy teacher, who wa delighted with the reception he received. Whole c la es applauded him igorou ly . Many stopped to take his picture. Being back at Colb prompted recollections of the old campu and of Arthur J. Roberts, Class of 1 890 and presiÂ dent of the College from 1 908 to 1 928. He was a wonderful man, Hall said, a real gentleman. "He wa a heavy et man, not a dandy, not j aunty, but he trolled down to the po t office eYery day to get the mail. Here he wa , the pre ident, but he seemed to be free. He worked without a phone or a ecretary, though he finally agreed to a ecretary. Ladies Hall wa right next to the pre ident' hou e, and when the College converted Ladies Hall to the Phi Delta Theta fraterniry house [in 1 90 ]. it put a lot more noise right under Prexy' window. One day

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the boys on the porch woke him up. Prexy went down and stood right in from ofone of the boys and said, 'President Gray of Bates will be here tonight. About 3 :00 a.m. I want you to sound off. And if you do,' he aid, ')1ou'll lem:e college . ' " Hall says he wa walking with President Roben- one day near the Elmwood Hotel when a motorcycle roared by. "He aid, 'Well, I would no more dare to ride on one of rho e damnable things . . . ' That's about as close as Prexy ever got to cu ing," Hall said. He also spoke admi ringly of J u l ian Taylor, Clas of 1 68, who e teaching career at the College spanned the year 1 868 to 1 93 1 . Taylor had a gentle manner of letting down tho e who e Latin recitation "imagined stuff that wasn't in it," aid Hall, who believes that the bron:e plaque honoring Taylor in Taylor Hall, l ike the the Lion of Lucerne in the ba ement of M i ller Library, "could be placed better." He wishe the e memorial from the old campu were displayed more promiÂ nently. What keeps him coming back to this "new" Colby on Mayflower Hill? Does he get together with classmates? He ays he ha n't visited with any classmates for years, then think for a moment. "The Levine boy are the neare t," he said. The "boy ," of course, are Ludy ' 2 1 and Pacy Le ine ' 2 7 . Hall had a good time a t the reunion parade and d i d ome applauding of his own when the returning classe pre ented checks to President Cotter. How d id it feel to be at Colby for Reunion Weekend? "Wonderful. Gorgeou . Fanta tic," he exclaimed. He ounded like a fellow who'd ju t enjoyed a three-ring c ircu .

meets Dorothy Gould Rhoades ' 36 , also d Claremunt, at cum m u n n y anJ c h urch fu ncnnn,, mrn,t recently at the annual l n ternat i1)n;1l Fe..,nval a t P i lgrim Place. . . Dexter Elsemore '30, Ch;:ircl H i l l . N .C . , is thankful for �ma l l ach ievemcnt�. �uch as walk ing to the end ofh is driveway and back or heing able to keer on wal k i ng . . . . Wallace W . Meyer '30, Bri mfie ld, Ma�� .. and Palm Harbor, Fla., avs he hores to l i ve to be 1 00 or more 1 He would like to attend more reunions . . . . c( n gratulat ions to N o rman Palmer ' 3 0 . Friday Harbor, Wa h., for receiv ing the c i r i:en of the year award from Comm un ir 1• , The]our nal of che San]uan lsla� . i n Janu ilry. A full-page feature article summari:ed Norman'· bri l l iant career. ( Tho e of us who were fellow student· or who were h is students at Colby cannot heir fee l i ng very proud of thb i n terna t ional scholar1 ) When he returns from h is teach i ng tint i n Korea, he will probably write another book ! . . . Adrian T . C loutier '3 1 , Portland, Maine, and hi wife, Marie, celebrated their 50th wedd ing anniver ary la t year. C o n g ra t u l a t i o n s 1 • Former teacher a n d coach Howard L . Ferguson '3 1 , W i l l i mantic, Con n . , uggest that t h e ideal college should be concerned with a student 's physical wel l - be i ng, thus enhanc i no h is or her con t ri butions to soc iety and encourag i ng maximum cholastic ach ieve ment. . . Dick C u m m ings ' 3 2 wri tes t h a t he a n d h i wife are plan n i ng an autumn trip to N ew England to help celebrate the l 7 5 th anniversary of the Central quare Bapt ist Church i n Cam bridge, Mass . , where he wa pas tor i n the t h i rt ies . . . . Congrat u lat ion to J o h n B . C u rtis ' 3 2 , P a l m Harbor, Fla . , w h o w a mar ried on August 1 6, 1 99 1 . He and Margaret then rook a trip through New England and Nova Scot ia. 50

College Awnue campus , looking nonh. Afrer hi-; ret i rement in ovem her a� an exam in er for the armed force� ( 1 11duct1on ) , they planned to tra,·el in the U ni ted tatc '> a nd abroad. He reported that a olhy fr i e n d , J a m e B u c k n e r ' 3 6 , aple . Fla., is well and act ive . . Harold F. Lemoine ' 3 2 . Hono l u l u , ha� unJerrakcn a ll'onJerful rroject for a l 976 Colhy KOR, J i m m y Haye�, whu ha� the mi' fort u ne to he �evcre l y haml i capped , by contribut ing to the J im H . H ayes Tru,r Fund, 29 Grace Ave., hrewsbury, M A . J i m l ives in hrewsbury w i t h h i si ter and her hu band . Harold a lso keep in touch w i th Colby friend�. such as 0 c a r C h u te ' 2 9 , Evan ron, I l l . , Leig h Ben Ray mond ' 3 2 , M i lforJ, Conn. , anJ Robert F i n c h ' 3 3 , pok a n e , Wa h . W h e n he wrote, he was looking forward to hi. annual v isit with rel a t ives in England. Mean w h i le , he has been assisting at t. Andrew's Cathedral in Honolulu. . . . Dorsa Rattenb ury O 'Dell '32, J u l ian, Calif. , wrote that she was about to lea e on a three and-a-half-monrh trip around the world on the . . Universe, a e mester-at-sea spon ored by the U n i ver ·ity of P i t tsburgh, a "most exc i t i ng i n te llectual adventure." South African Archbishop Des-

mond Tutu w i l l accompany the '>tudent pmt of the way . . . . La�t year Gwendolin Mardin Ha nes ' 3 2 , BraJentnn, Fla., spent an energetic �ummer. he went tO Cal ifornia 111 J une to attend her grandwn' high school gradua min, then took the Love Boar cru1�c ro Ala. ka i n J ul y . he spent A ugust 111 Ma ine with friend and fam i ly and even experienced the rage� of H u rricane Bob w h i le he wa· m ehago. he a id that he hoped to go to China rhi year. he al o keep in touch w i th sev eral cla smate : Marjorie Van horn Bernier, Augusta, Maine, Louise Dyer Ha l l , Port l a n d , Maine, I rene Tardiff Hamilton, Bel levue, Neb . , and Gene Garran Waterhouse, Mattapoisett, Mas . Moreover, she accompanied her h igh school granddaughter, Li·a, on a v i i t to the Colby campus recently. Li a would l ike ro be i n the Clas· of'97 . . . . Gladys True Phelps '32, pringfield, Mass . , h a s o u r sympathy over t h e loss o f h e r younge t son r o cancer i n A u g u r 1 990. "The bigge t ch ange in my l ife," she wrote. He had l i ved at home. When she was in M a i ne la t eptember, h e and Ethel Watt Curtis ' 3 2 , Zephyr h i l l , Fla. , vi i ted the Colby l i brary, chapel a n d a r t building.

Then he and her hu band had dessert at the home of Jack and J ustina Harding J en k ins '32 in Rockland after having d in ner i n L i ncol n v i l le . . . . Bernard Har den Porter ' 3 2 , Belfa t , Maine, rem ind Colby friends f his spe c ial col lec t ion of contemporary letter in M i l ler Library, now ex ceeding 2 ,000 t i tl e , intended for tudents, faculty and other re earchers. H e al ·o invite any who wi h ro v i i t h is I nstitute of Ad vanced Th inking ro bring leep i ng bag and come anytime be t ween May 1 and November l . . . . William H. Steinhoff ' 3 2 , R idge, . Y . , reports that he and h i wife, Blanche, expect to be moving to a cont i n u i ng c are fac i l ity . . . . Thank you, Philip C. Thibodeau ' 3 2 , Needham, Mass., for returning the update card. . . . Maxwell

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Bowdoinham, M a ine, i s happy that he wa able to see h i grand d a u g h t e r R e b e c c a Pea e '9 1 graduate from Colby. Wi e ly , he p l a n one d a y at a t i me . . . . G e n e v i e v e " G e n e " G ar r a n Waterhou e ' 3 2 i a volunteer i n t h e a d u l t l iteracy program, i o n the local Counc i l for t h e Aging, attends the Women's Club, does c hurch work and makes Christ ma gift for needy c h ildren . . . . Evelyn Stapleton B u rn s ' 3 3 ,

Norway, M aine, hope t o return for her 60th reunion in 1 99 3 and keeps in much with her Colby roo m m a t e , E l iz a b e t h H a l e y Brewster '3 3 , A hevi l le, N .C. . . . Thank to Charlotte Blornfield Auger ' 3 3 , Norwich, Conn. , for return i ng the pink card . . . . J . Patrick Davan ' 3 3 , Westbrook, M a i ne, send hi good wi hes: "Keep smili ng and good health to a l l ! " . . . Vesta A lden Putnam ' 3 3 , Oak land, M a i ne, write that she and her h u band, George '34, are upposed to be retired but they are s t i l l operat ing their sum mer re ort, A lden Camp . Off ea on, they l ike to vi i t their

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Newsmakers Raymond Whitney, Sr. ' 1 8 was honored on hi 7 5 th anniversary as a Mason. Whitney owned and oper ated a general store (and frequent gathering place of Colbians) in Cambridge, Maine, for over 50 years . . . . Another veteran Mason, Carl MacPherson '26 of Brockton, Mass., wa honored at a testimonial banquet thrown by the Abington temple . . . . Edward Hooper '38 represented Colby at the inauguration of President Douglas M. Orr, Jr., at Warren Wilson College in North Carolina . . . . Robert Wheelock '3 1 was Colby's dele gate to the inauguration of Gustavu Adolphus Presi dent Alex Steur.

Mileposts Deaths: Lewis Lester Levine ' 1 6 in Waterv ille, Maine, at 99 . . . . Helen D. Cole ' 1 7 in W ilmington, Vt. , at 99 . . . . Myra Cross Doe ' 1 7 in Danville, Pa. , at 97 . . . . Marion Starbird Pottle ' 1 8 in Ithaca, N .Y. at 94 . . . . Bertha Norton Long '2 1 in Bangor, Maine, at 92 . . . . Avis Cox Colby '23 in Downey, Calif. , at 87 . . . . Rosamond Cummings Morehouse '25 in Southbury, Conn., at 88 . . . . Phyllis Bowman Wiley '25 in Merrick, N.Y., at 88 . . . . Althea Lord Turner '26 in Waterville, Maine, at88 . . . . Albert Peacock '27 in Hartford, Conn., at 86 . . . . Roland Andrews '28 in Largo, Fla., at 86 . . . . Miles Carpenter '28 in Skowhegan, Maine, at 88 . . . . Conrad Hines '28 in Marblehead, Mass., at 85 . . . . Dorothy Daggett Johnston '28 in Bedford, Mass., at 85 . . . . Edward Sturhahn '30 in Sarasota, Fla., at 85 . . . . Henry Bubar '3 1 in Northampton, Mass., at 87 . . . . Charles Hicks '3 1 in Millinocket, Maine, at 82 . . . . Carlton Roberts ' 3 1 in Winthrop, Maine, at 80 . . . . John Frank. Murray ' 3 2 in Gouvemeur, N .Y . , at 85 . . . . Charles Geer '36 in Portland, Maine, at 7 7 . . . . Wilfred Comhellack '37 in Danbury, Conn., at 76 . . . . Royal Luther ' 3 8 in Marietta, Ga. , at 78 . . . . Marion Moore Kennison '39 in Bradenton, Fla., at 75 . . . . Hazel J udkins Daughaday '4 1 in Kirkwood, Mo., at 7 1 . . . . William Hughes ' 4 1 in Gorham, Maine, at 7 5 . . . . George Stumpp '4 1 in Bristol, Conn., at 74 . . . . Francis Colton '42 in Waterville, Maine, at 7 2 . . . . Christine Bruce Shea '42 in Rockport,

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children, who are scattered from Maine to Hawaii. They are glad to be near enough to take in the athletic and cultural events at Colby, and in the winter when they are at home , they walk Colby's indoor track daily. They are also able to "touch base" with many of their Colby c lassmates. (Thanks for the kind words and good w ishe ! ) . . . D onald H. Rhoades ' 3 3 , Claremont, Calif., and h is wife, Dorothy '36, de c ided that they needed to inspect the outheastcornerofthe United States, so in J anuary they flew to J ack onville, Fla., to spend a week w i th Dottie's s ister M a rj o r ie Gould Shuman '3 7 and her hus band, Edwin Shuman '38, at their winter home at the Penney Re tirement Community in Penney Farm . While there, they toured J ac k onv i l le and St. Augustine, the oldest city in North America, and v i ired a cousin in Dowl ing Park. The temperatures in north ern Florida were not much d iffer ent from home, but the Sunshine State l ived up to its name, while California was having welcome rain . . . . Thank to Kay Holmes Snell ' 3 3 , Hallowell, M a ine, for sending along a newspaper ar t i c l e a b o u t N orman P a l m e r ' 3 0. . . . Hope t o have a report from Ruth Leighton Thomas ' 3 3 , P i t t field, M aine, about h e r trip to Holland to attend the wedding of her grandson . . . . Andrew G. Daigle '34, Sebring, Fla., and h is wife p lan to continue spending their ummers in North Haven, Maine, with occasional v i its to Canada. He says he is "still breath ing" and p lans "to c o n t i n u e breathing." . . Hamilton Grant '34, Wiscasset, Maine, and hi wife, Pol ly, enjoy keeping up with family and friends. Gardening is a major activity for h im. He is glad to learn about l ife at Colby today from a young friend who is a stu dent . . . . Ann Duoba Lawrence ' 3 4 , Brockton, M a s., write that

she and her hu band went to I re land la t fall for a Holy Cros Fordham J V football game in Lim erick. This J une they planned to go to L ithuania . . . . Thank to George Mann ' 3 4 , Houston, Texas, for returning the pink card and for remembering that grear Lat i n professor, J ulian "J udy" Taylor. . . I t is not surprising that Frances Palmer ' 3 4 , Pittsfield, M aine, loves her garden so much, since she remembers apprecia tively Prof. Chester's b io logy course . . . . Harriet Pease Pat rick '34, Saco, Maine , continue her work a docent at the Port land M useum of Art. She also has given talk and slide shows at rhe Isabella tewartGardner Mu eum and the M useum of Fine Art in Boston . . . . Leslie R . Rhoda ' 3 4 , Houlton, M aine, and his wife, E l l e n , spend their w i nters in Florida and the ir summers in M aine . . . . Elizabeth Week ' 3 4 , Claremont, Calif., and Hannawa Falls, N . Y . , says she still enjoys the mini-reunion of her class each J uly. I n Apri l she hosted at din ner Marjorie ( Go u ld '37) and Ed Shuman '38 and Dorothy ( Gould '36) and Don Rhoades '33 on the occasion of a visit from the East by Marjorie and Ed . . . . " It's great to be a great -grandmother of seven," says Portia Pendleton Rideout '34, Augusta, Maine, "although it's a bit daunting to realize that my twosonsare grand fathers ! " She is thoroughly en j oying her transition from an apartment to a house, although he is discovering that there are al o new re ponsibi litie . he planned to fly west in May to celebrate her birthday with her daughter in Oregon. . . . S i nce Classes ' 3 5 through '4 1 were cov ered i n the last issue of Colby , the follow i ng are a few brief note to add to what may have been cov ered i n our new letter, Top of the Mountain, by the time you re c eive this. (Tell me whether you 51

prefer posccards, que,cionnairb or your O\\'n m pired noce� a a way of upplying new� fur thi� column, please. ) . . . Beth Pen dleton Clark ' 3 5 , e l i n>grovc, Pa. , wri te> chac after fin ishing an incerim mini ·cry a ignmcnt, she plans to take ic easy for a wh i le. Her first m p to Ch i na la·t fall was memorahle, although she d idn't count on pend i ng Thank givmg in the Beij ing a i rport . . . . Kay Herrick McC rodden '3 5 , Berke ley, Calif. , wri te , "The arrival of the February i sue of Top of rhe Mo1mcain make me real i:e what traveler we sen ior a re . " Her trip aero s the former U . . R . sim ply prove- her pomt. Thank for w r i t i ng abou c i t . . . And very pec i a l thanks to Ruth Ric hard son Paradise ' 3 6, Concord, Mass., for recuming che pink card. Hope co hear more of your d o i n gs oon . . . . Charles ' 3 5 and Winnifred W h i te Houghton '36 c l a i m c h a t chey are j u·c " u rv i v ing," buc chey have managed to c reate b e a u t i fu l garden desp ire the rock , and they celebrated their 5 7 th weddi ng ann iver ary by tak ing a crui e on the Saguenay R iver. They a l o make music on the saxophone a nd organ . . . . Thank you, Kay Laughton Briggs ' 3 6 , omer , Con n . , for your let ter telling ofColby contact , uch as entertaining Blanche S ilver man Field ' 3 5 , Brook l ine, Ma s . , l a t fal l , v is i t i ng A l i c e Boc quel Harwell '36 i n Ocean Point and reporting that A l ice was j u t back from a fre ighter cruise along che we t coast of Africa. Kay also reported that J ea n n e Peyrot Hoffman '36, Kennet quare, Pa., was fac ing leg surgery. ( Good luck, Jeanne . ) . . . It was great to get a c lipping showing the pic cure of the Westbrook H i gh chool Clas of 1 93 1 's reu n ion, w i th E l i nor Chick Ross ' 3 5 , Concord, M ass. , and Dorothy Washburn Polley ' 3 5 , Concoo cook, N . H . , standi ng i n the back 52

row ! . . . Dorothy Gould Rhoades 3 6 attended an overn ight con � rence of Pi Lamhda Theta ( hon orary educat ion �oc iety) in ac ra men ro o n the Delia King ri,·erboat and while there coured the capital bu i ld ings. . . . heer ful ara Cowan ' 3 7 , Portland, Maine, is cros ing her finger no broken bones o far1 he re port that Peg Libbey Darlow '3 7, China, Maine, c a me to ,. i · i t for a few day i n January . . . . Thank co Bob Anthony ' 3 , Wacerv i l le Valley, N . H . , and the "grape,· ine," we ha,·e l earned about the ret i rement of P h i l Henderson ' 3 8 , coneham , M a � . . from h i church i n Med ford. Three of Ph i l ' c l a .mace. actended h i recirement party . . . . Congratulation co Peg ch ryver Bostelmann ' 3 8 , Carle Place, N .Y . , for celebrating her 50th wedd i ng a n n i ver·ary with her husband, W. Evernt, i n February. Fifcy-five gue ts c a me to che1r home to wi-h them well. . . Bill Carter '38, Ba i ley l land, Maine, write· thac he now feel · recired afcer a year of travel i ng ( more of ch i in the new lecter). He and G inny have a new boac, a 2 7 ' A l b i n , a n d h e ha been taking Coa c Guard cour es to get u ed to it. They have joined the Orrs Bailey Yacht Club and see Colby friends Marble ' 3 8 and Hazel Wepfer Thayer ' 3 7, Orr Island, frequently. H e also has run for office in local policic . . . . Henry Kammandel ' 3 8 , Tue on, A r i:. , a retired phy ician, plans to enjoy retiremenc and the re t of h is life. H e says that rever e di crimina cion i n colleges should be topped, he wou ld l ike to see a return of fratemi t ie and ororities and he deplores whac he perceive to be che l iberal ization of educational i n t i tu t ion . . . . H a n n a h ( Put nam '4 1 ) and Bernard "Benn ie" Burbank ' 3 9, Bronxville, N .Y . , toured Luxembourg, Belgium and Germany last November, v i i t '

i ng World W a r I I battlefields and several German c i t ie� a wel l a the Dachau concentration camp ( detai l i n the newsletter) . . . . Thank co Gardiner Gregory ' 3 9, Orland, Maine, for end i ng naphor- taken of members of the Camera Club when he was a ·orhomnre. In referring to the recent death of Perry G . Wort man ' 3 3 , Green\' 1 l lc , Maine, he nmed chat hi daughter gradu ated from H igg1 ns Classical I n t i tute "'hen Perry wa pr mc ira l . Perry wa� abo a Lambda hi fra ccm 1 ty brocher. . . . Congratula c ions ro Donald Thomp on '39 and h1 · wife, who l i \'e i n Pem broke, M a m e , on their 50th wed d i ng anniver ary , which they cel ebrated last eptember w i th a garden reception ac che ir home '

ary , from Fort Lauderdale to S t . Auguscine, ending up m Orlando and Wale Disney World before flying home . . . . Roger and Ruth Gould Stebbins '40, equ i m , Wa h . , penc a noscalgic, happy chree week in Honolulu, where chey l i ved for 20 year , buc came home to che dramatic and chri l l i ng arrival of pring o n che Olym pic Pen i n ula. Rooer ay he has planted h is fir t vegetable garden i n many years . . . . Mary Hitch cock Baxter Colgan '4 1 , Ware, M a ., reported on her Chri tma card chac she had craveled to Cali forn ia l a c ummer to v isit her two on . While chere, she went to Yo e m i te N a t ional Park. . V i rginia Moore Fremon '4 1 ,

Hacketc town, N .] . , enjoy moun tain hor emansh ip and u es her computer for genealogi cal re earch. he and her hu band have made ix trip to France o far and hope to go agai n . he keep i n touch w ich her roommace, Helen Belyea Scott '4 1 , Fort Worth, Marjorie Gould human '37 Texa . . . . Look for the P.O. Box 102, outh creet report in the next new We t Oneonta, Y 13 6 1 letter on a trip to che 607-432- 936 Grand Canyon made by

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Correspondent

Catherine P . Fussel l '4 1 ,

40s Thank to Fran k J ewell '40, l nrerlachen, Fla., for ending a copy of hi Christma letter tel l ing ofche comfort h e ha received from h1 church and h i friend ince the death of hi wife a year ago i n Apri l . H e ay chat he d id enough trave l i ng during World War I I , so he l im i c h i msel f to leisurely trips in h is van between Florida and Maine each year, with tops along the way to vi i t old cla mate , work friends, church friend and relative . . . . Priscilla Mailey '40, Clovis, Cal if., took a rapid bus tour of Florida in Febru-

Elkins Park, Pa., and a friend lase summer. he and class mate Mary Williams Chance ' 4 1 , W y n n e wood , P a . , l i ve n e a r enough to each other to g e t to gecher frequently . . . . Hope to learn more of a crip to Oaxaca, Mexico, made recencly by Diane Wiesenthal Opton '4 1 and her h u band, Ed . . . . L a t l y , con graculations to Bonnie Roberts Hathaway '4 1 , New I pswich, N . H ., for her tremendou effort i n h e l p i ng people keep the i r h o m e s a n d the e n vironm e n t c lean ! Her work w a s t h e subjecc of a feature article i n the F itch burg, M a . , Senrinel and Enter

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Singing the Praises of Paradise D

orri Heaney Batt '42 returned to Colby for her golden reunion in J u ne-she come back every five year -and he brought with her a life' tory that probably made a few now-belt c la mate enviou-. A native of Beacon, N .Y . , in the Hud on Valley, Batt earned a degree in hi tory from Colby and a ma ter' in teaching from Columbia. She and her hu band, George, began their married life in 'ew ]er ey, where he wa an engineer with tandard Oil and he wa a teacher, housewife and mother of three. They mo\'ed back to Beacon o he could take over a family florist business, and through the years he helped out with bookkeeping and other clerical work during bu y times. Eventually, Batt ays, urban prawl took the field where they had grown flowers and one of their children joined them in the bu ine s, o the Batts were free to travel. They went to Hawaii for a flori t ' convention in 1 969. George was enchanted, but Batt wasn't so ure. She ay he had built a life in Beacon-and at the family's ummer home in we tern Maine-and Hawaii eemed very far away. They pent the next everal winter in a condominium there, and i.n 1 976 they learned that a hi torical hou e museum wa looking for a couple to serve a caretakers and guide . A cottage on the premises wa part of the deal, and the Batts decided that the situation wa too good to pas up. They sold the condo and moved onto the mu eum ground , where they lived until they built a hou e two year ago. "We have been living in hi tory," Batt said. The hi toric hou e where they work was built by Congregational mi ionaries in the early 1 9th century. Batt says he and George have taken course at the community college nearby and at the U n iver i ty of Hawaii to learn more about Hawai-

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ian history so they can answer v isitors' questions. Batt, a \'eteran of the Colby Glee Club, has also joined a Hawaiian language choir at the Congregational church near the mueum. "The whole thing ha opened up so many opporrunitie for learning," Batt aid. "Hawaiian hi tory is fa cinating. But the mo t intere ting part of gi\·ing tours is meetino people from o many place -they come from all over the world." The Batt retain their tie to the mainland with frequent trip to vi it their children and grandchildren. Their florist daughter, Wendy Elsa er, old the shop in Beacon a few years ago and i now one of five florists on the staff of the White Hou e. Last Christmastime, he invited her parents to help decorate the Fir t Hou e; they spent a week in Washington, attended a taff Chri tmas party and watchec from the outh lawn a the Bushe departed for the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Batt was particularly taken with Barbara Bush, who was hoste s ofa coffee for White House volunteer and staff. "Mrs. Bu h is ju t wonderful," Batt aid. "She eem to know what to ay and what to do, and he's ju t a great lady." Despite their frequent trip away from the i land , Batt says she and her husband now con ider Hawaii home. Her l ife there has changed her in way she did not expect, Batt say . "I remember our econd trip to Pearl Harbor," he aid. "We took the N a y launch out to the [Arizona] memorial. And what bothered me very much at the time was eeing J apane e people there too . . . . Having lived on Kauai in such a racial mixture, we have some very good friends who are J apanese. I 've realized that we real! do all ha e the ame hope and dreams."

THE FORTIES

Correspondent: Eleanor Smart Braun muller

My thanks to all 23 of you whn responded to my last plea. l assure you that as much as possible will be in thi and future column It i with sadnes that l report the deaths of three c lassmates: Vir ginia Farrand McDonald, J ac q u e l i n e Nerney Wallace and Lyndon Sma l l . I ' m ure you join

me in offering sympathy to their famil ies. ! find this a pec r ofaging very difficult . . . . The headline for thi should be "Lillian Beck Harding is found. " L i llian wrote that her intere t in pol itics, jour nali m and the theater started at Colby. For 10 year he wa v ice c h a i r of the Republican town committee in Plainfield, Conn., and he was chair of the l ibrary board for even. he remains ac t ive on both . he ha also served on the board of the New England Repertory Theatre. L i l l ian ha traveled cro s-country by train and toured parts ofCalifornia and N evada, and when she wrote she was antic ipating the London the ater season. . . . Ressa Flewel ling Edmunds joins others in com menting on the U . S . News & WorU:l Report article Ii ting Colby as one of the best liberal arts col leges. She and J oh n planned a spring trip to Hawa i i and Cal ifor nia to v isit their daughter and g r a n d c h i l d re n . . . L e o n a r d Caust was married last year and quoted W i nston Churc h i l l 's fa mous word : " [we shall] never give up." He help with tax prepara tion for the elderly under the A ARP' program i n conj unction with the I RS . Len remembers the Powder and Wig experience, w h i c h l e d to a t t e n d a n c e at London' Royal Academy of Dra matic Arts, thence to Equity Li brary Theatre i n N Y C and finally 54

to ad m i sion to Harvard Busine School, at which the interview ing dean wa fa c inated with Len'· theater experiences! . . . Mu riel McLellan De Shon conti nues to be active in li terary and garden c l ub and as one of 1 5 commi sioners of the M aine rate Mu seum. She th ught of Colby last fall when she and Howard vi ite<l Lucerne, wiuerland, and saw the famou l ion statue-how many of you know where Colby' copy now re ts ? Check it out at our 50th ! The De Shons plan a trip to N orway, weden anJ Denmark this fa ll. . . . George Popperplaru, tO be at the 50th reuni n. He and tephanie are both retired. They have t rave led in the we tern United rates and plan a trip m Germany, Poland and Czecho-

lovakia thi · fal l . They now have three grandc h i l d ren . . . . B i l l Finkeldey i· president of the lo cal condo m i n i u m a oc iation, deliver Meals on Wheels and i active in various Dartmouth film courses. Colby contribU[ed tO his tart in broadcasting-hi fir t job wa at WTVL. . . . l wish l could include all your memories. Fond memorie of the old campus eem t be perva ive-with the ac knowledgment that the fresh air and quieto f M ayflower H i ll were herrer than train moke and noi�e on the camru in town. Len Cau t cal led the small tudent body and mall c l a es real bles ing , while Muriel De hon spoke of the friendly atmo phere and the good friend h i p that were formed. George Popper remember vol-

Newsmakers Benjamin Bubar, J r. '46 of China, Maine, was honored at the China Lake Chamber of Commerce' annual Law Enforcement Appreciation Banquet. Bubar was presented with a copy of a legi lative re olution citing the former Maine legi lator' "decency, cornpasion and marvelous sen e of humor," which won him "wide respect at the State Hou e among both politician and the pre . " . . . Robert Sage '49 represented the College at the inauguration of new Brandei Univer ity President Samuel 0 iah Thier. . . . David Marson '48 is the author of a cover story in the Spring issue of Family Business magazine. "My Daughter, My Succes or" is Marson's account of the up and downs of passing along the family firm, Newcan, to the next generation.

Mileposts Deaths: Virginia Farrand McDonald '43 in Hilton Head, S.C., at 7 1 . . . . Lyndon Small '43 in East Providence, Mass., at 70 . . . . Alexander Anton '44 in Port Orange, Fla., at 72 . . . . Ronald Veysey '45 in Salem, Ore., at 69 . . . . Ralph Gray, J r. '49 in Norwood, Mass., at 65 . . . . Alvin Schwartz '49 in Princeton, N.J . , at 64.

leybal l games w i th President Bixler and , like many of you , the excellent teachers we had . pace has determined that more memo rie must wait for the next issue.

44_ Correspondent: Louis M. Deraney

lt wa a pleasure to have received o many response to my last que tionnaire. The following people responded: J im Whitten, Florida, Ralph Braudy, London, England, Paris, France, Georgia and M as sac h u e t ts , N a n c y P a t t i s o n McCarthy, Penn ylvanta, E. J oy Paddison Cook, New York, Doris ( Blanchard '45 ) and Bill Hutch eson , Mas achusetts, Paul Merri field, M a i n e , Nancy C urtis Lawrence, Washington, A lden Wagner, Texa , Phil N utting, Ma achu etts, Katherine Howes Brooks, Maine, Dr. Charlie Han nigan, Ma ine, Malcolm McQuil lan, Mich igan, J o Pitts McAlary, Florida, A l bert Ellis, Florida, J ohn T u m e r , Massachu etts, Bill Frazier, Florida, Eleanor Eisbert (Foster) Watson, M aine, Harry Levi n , N ew H ampshire , Ger trude Szadzewicz Collison, New York, and A r t h u r Eaton, Geor gia. o you see how impossible it is to fil l you in on each re pon dent's answers and activities when the column is allotted l im i ted space. If I fai l to include your respon e i n t h is issue, bear w ith me. Time is on my side. . . . N ancy Pattison McCarthy extend an invitation to those who l ive near her ( i .e., Hershey, Gettysburg, Harrisburg, etc . ) to contact her so she c an organize a Colby meet ing somewhat l ike one she had several years ago. Nancy's address: 23 7 N . M iddlesex Road, Carl isle, Colby, August 1 992

Cal Dolan and S ran F rolio of the Class of ' 47 presenr Presi denr William Correr wirh the 45rh Reunion gift dwing Re union Weekend in June .

Class of 194 7 45th Reunion Gift

PA 1 70 1 3 . . . . Ralph Braudy writes from Pari , France, that he ha ju t finished repre enting the c lass at a pec ial e xh ibit of Toulouse-Lautrec at the Biblio theque Nationale and planned to return to London to repre ent u at the Grand National Race and at various casinos. In Augu t he plans to be in hi native habitat on Cape Cod, Mas ., I pre ume. . . . Not of our class but a enior when we werefre hmen, J im Daly '4 1 , who is now retired from the Rainier Bank in Seattle, Wa h., remember Hartly B ither and yours truly a manager of the 1 940 football team. N ow in re tirement, J im plays lots of golf. J im, a you may remember, played on the Colby var ity All- rate championship team. He and l attended Boston Engli h H igh chool before Colby. Jim, who has been elected to the BEHS A thletic Hall of Fame, say that to him Waterville was "Camelot." Incidentally, Engli h High chool is the world' olde t public high chool. . . . Harry Levin' fonde t memories of his Colby experi ence are of the train rattling the window ofTaylor Hou e in pas ing and of President Bixler perColby, Augu t 1 99 2

onally retrieving Phil C a eyfrom the train stat ion becau e Phil thought he had been expelled for having failed to go to gym uffi c iently often . . . . Arthur Eaton, a native of Waterville who relo cated to Marietta, Ga., more than 30 years ago, agree that if you matriculated with '44 you are a member of '44. He ays his ties to Colby are l ight, but he i al o of the Cla of '49 at Harvard and '50 at BU Law. He agree public money should not be spent by incumbents to perpetuate them elve in public office and that there hould be ome curb on corporate contributions . . . . John P. Turner' fondest memorie of Colby were of h i kidnapping as ophomore cla s pre ident, col lege dance , fraternity partie and looking in the window with bin ocular at Fo s Hall from the in firmary, where he lived on cam pu . J ac k has two daughter and say he indirectly accompli hed the plans he made when a stu dent, although they were inter rupted by World War 1 1 . He now l ive in Falmouth, Ma s . . . . Charles Hannigan, M.D., has fond memorie of Prof . Wilkinson, Fullam, Appleton and Cy Perkin .

Doc does not agree with funding political campaign independent of big busines . . . . Paul Merri field went to Colby because he needed a--i ranee and Colby came through with half his tu ition. Paul says he accomplished what he -er out to do when plan ning his future career: to make 5 ,000 and buy a Buick. Albert Elli -, now residing in Lake land, Fla., i married to Patric ia Ford Ellis '43 . They have three children, a on and two daugh ter , and fo·e grandchildren. Al does not feel he accomplished what he planned at Colby. He wanted to be a doctor and found hi talents to be in accounting. H is son had the same experience. I found his an wer to the fifth que tion mo t intere ting and re lay it here: "I am ick to death of political campaign where no one tells the truth. I am ure we can not expect to get tate men if we elect pol itic ian . And they are the only one running, so we are in a pretty me s. I think it i called ne t feathering, and that is why they run. Maybe I j ust want ome of the meat and cannot get it becau e I do not run. We no longer have government of the

people, \\'e have gm·ernment of the bureaucrats." . . . Several of the February que tionnaire re spondent asked what que tion =5 has to do with our clas-. I r \\'a only an attempt to arouse some interest and generate a response from some of the class members who are reluctant to keep this column alive with input about their present activirie . In rerropect, the \'Ote came back with the great majority favoring pub lic monies for campaign spend ing. This was a sampling of edu cated people now l iving in many different area- of our country, and they favored a change and aid that the bureaucrats do not Ii ten to the people . . . . I'll close for now and catch up in the next issue. To those of you who are reluctant to give us a l ittle input about your pre ent acti ities, it would help if you wrote occasion ally. Remember that 1 994 is our 5 0th and i not too far off!

HOMECOMING 1 992 October 9 - 1 1 H omeco m i ng at Colby offers alumni the opportunity to return campus and v i s i t w i th students, fac ulty and

taff and rek indle

friend h i p- w i th cla smates and fel low alumni. We have a fu l l schedule planned for H )meco m i ng '92 , October 9- 1 1 , w i th event a i med to meet a w id e variety of i nrerests. More informa t ion abou t the weekend w i l l be ma i led in

eptember to alumn i in the New

England area. I f you do not rec e i ve i nformation about the weekend but would l ike to attend, please contact the A l u m n i Office at 2 0 7 7 2 - 3 1 90. We h o p e to -ee you i n October ! Homecom i ng Weekend highl ights w i l l include: •

Pau la Poundstone, 1 9 9 recipient of the American Comedy Award for Best Female Stand-Up Comed ian, star of her own H BO spec i a l and a performer in Com ic Rel ief, at Wadsworth G ymnas i u m on Friday even ing. Di counted t icket are ava i l a b l e to a l u m n i prior to t h e event. Please s e e t h e reservation

Paula

form;

Po u n d stone

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Danci ng to

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A d iscussion w i th Government Professor Cal Mackenzie on

The Trend;

"The Revolu tion N obody Wanted: Changes in Po twar Ameri can Politics"; •

Athletic event for the entire fam i ly to enjoy, e ithe r as specatators or a part ic ipants;

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pec ial museum tour ; And much more !

Make your reservation today !

Hotel Information The H o l iday I nn is offering a Homecom i ng Weekend spec ial of 60.00 per n ight, per room. To make re ervations, plea e call the Hol iday Inn at 1 -800-465 -4 3 2 9 , or call Campus Travel at 207-87 2 3 4 5 6 . Be sure t o mention t h a t y o u w i l l be i n town for Homecoming. I f you would prefer to tay at another hotel or perhaps at a bed and breakfast i n n , Campus Travel can help you book a room.

When You Arrive at Colby Information about locations of all event and other final deta i ls w i l l be available at the registrat ion desk located in the Student Center. Please stop by to ign i n and to pick up your t i cket and a chedule. The de k w i l l be open on Friday from 1 2 noon to 9 p. m . and Saturday from 8 a.m. to 2 p . m . 56

SCHEDULE O F EVENTS Friday, October

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All Day Campu Tours Cla room Open House

Saturday, October

Relive your college days without the exams 1

Breakfast in din ing halls

p.m. Lunch in dining halls

p.m. Homecoming Weekend Regi tration

1 1 : 3 0 a.m.- 1 :4 5

p.m. Homecoming Weekend Registration 12 noon-9

p.m. Tour of the Lunder House 2

2 : 3 0 p.m. "Nuts and Bolt of Financ ial A id: Demystifying the Proce s" with Director of Financ ial Aid Lucia Whittel ey ' 7 3

5 - 7 p.m.

Dinner in dining hall p.m. Colby N ight Social Hour 5 :3 0-6

6 p.m. 8th Annual Colby N ight Dinner sponsored by the Colby "C" Club, honoring "C" Club Person of the Year Dick McGee 7 & 9 p.m. Stu-A Movie, City Slickers 8 : 3 0 p.m. Comedian Paula Poundstone

1 1 a.m. Women' Soccer

8-9 a.m.

Clark

11 :30 a.m. - 1 :30 p.m. Tailgate Picnic , must order in ad\'ance

8-2

1 : 3 0 p.m. Football \'. Wesleyan

9 a.m.

2 & 3 : 30 p.m. Tour of the Colby Museum of Art and J ette and Da\·is Galleries

A lumni Council Commirtee Meetings 9 : 3 0 , 1 0 : 3 0 , 1 1 : 3 0 a .m.

Campus Tours 9:45 a.m.

Tour of Lunder House

p.m. Field Hockey \'. N ichols 3

p.m. tu-A Movie, Cir)' Slickers

p.m. Men'- Soccer \'. Clark

3 :30

"The Revolution Nobody Wanted: Changes in Postwar American Politics," lecture by Prof. of Government G. Calvin Mackenzie

p.m. Tower Tour

10- 1 1 a.m.

1 0 : 3 0 a.m.

fountain Bike Tour on Colby' le -traveled path , led by the Colby Cycling Tearn 1 1 a.m.

Alumni A sociation Meeting Open

all alumni and students

p.m. Homecoming Dance ll'ith The! Trend, -i:1nnsored by th e A lumni Office and the Clas� of 1 994

10 p.m. AA Meetino

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Cla of '92 Mini-Reunion Brunch

p.m. Stu-A � 1 m·ie, Cirv Slic·kas

7 &9 v.

4 & 5

View the Waterville area from atop Miller Librnry

p.m. Departmental receptions, ( American rudie , Biology, Economic , English, Gm·em ment, Hi tory and Mathemat ics)

4 : 3 0- 5 : 3 0

6 p.m.

Mu ic in the pa, featuring Eric Rolfson '73 and Jeff McKeen ' 76

sun day, October

8-9 a.m.

Breakfast in dinino halls 8 a.m. - 1 2 noon

Boxed lunche- for tra\·eler·, must order in ad\'ance 1 1 : 3 0 a.m. Catholic Mass 1 1 : 3 0 a.m.- 1 : 3 0 p.m. Lunch in dining halls 12 noon

Field Hockey \'. Will iams

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Class of 1 94 7 Offic ers Pre ident: Calvin Dolan Vice Pre ident: Dori� Meyer Hawkes � ecrerary/Trea urer: Beverly Benner Cassara

A lumni Counc i l Repre entative: Mary A l ice Campbell Kozen

45 _ Correspondent: Dee Sanford McCunn

Plea�e keep the post office bu,y delivering your letter . l received a good response to the latest q ue tionnaire bu[ will be unable to inc lude [hem a l l [his [ime. I hall use a l l the material in future is sues. Five columns a year require a Im of materia l . . . . Margery Owen Fallon writes that she keeps i n touch w i t h L a u ra Tapia A i t k e n . M arge enjoys e e i ng olby people as they pass through Washington, D.C. he live" in nearby Arlington, Va. , and ha attended Colby Club meet i ngs in D.C. he say they have excel lent meetin s with fasc inating peakers, mostly Colby professor . Old and young mingle at these meeti ng-. M arge last v i si ted Colby with hemvoyoungest chil dren during one of the J an Plans. Marge enjoyed a cruise on the NancucketClip/Jeras it sailed down the lntracoa tal Wa[erway, and she keeps busy with church work and the N rthern Virginia Hos pice Organ i:ation . . . . Dorothy Chellman Bonneau write· from Topsfield, Ma ., that she is re tired, bu y and happy. She enjoys her ons and their familie . Her sons have made her a grand mother e ight t i mes. Dot prac t ices aerobics and belong to the Crossroad Quilters Club. She remin isced about our fre hman days in Boutelle Hou e (old cam pus) and of our attempts to un bathe on the upper back porch, onJ y to end up with black freckles from the train moke and very little sun. Other fun things that Dot recalled: coffee at the old rai l road stat ion, visiting Onie' , eat ing V i rginias ( not sundaes) at the Puritan Re taurant and riding the Blue Beetle bus to the new 58

campu>. Yeo, I remember the Blue Beetle going e\·ery direct ion but forward when the ice wa >tarting w melt. Ont would l ike to hear new· abnu t Jean Adams O'Meara and Eleanor Carter C u rtic e. They, too, were fresh men at Bou te I le House. Are you gals rcad i ng th i-.? . . . Something I regret fu lly mi ·,ed thi; winter was the Col by arr di play at the Port Washington Library on Lon ' I land. Joan Gay Kent, pre idenr of the library' hoard, arrangeJ it. She had great fun helping to , e lect the items for display, and I understand it was a smash hit. Joan is till a public relation con sultant and is also act ive in the Port Washingrnn Hi·torical o c iety and the M anhasset Bay

Y<icht luh. While Joan has very l i tde ·pare ti me, ,he does manage w keep track of and attend the spec ial "doing�" of her niece and nephew . They are rhe chilJren of J ane[ Gay Hawk in '4 . . . . In amwer to rhe qu >tion, "How has Women\ L1 heration affected your life?" Marge Owen Fal lon ,tare that she i, more interested in equal ity rhan in Women's Lib. Dor Chel l man Bonne<1u cl<1im that 'he i> nld fa hioned and liked thi ngs the way they u ed to be, and Joan Gay Kent fee l ,he wa "l iberated" hefore the word was commonly u>ed but believe· most women w i l l have to exert more effort to keep from being an unJerclas . . . . l received the sad new that Hal ron Otis Lenentine

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Mrs. Albert R . Braunmuller (Eleanor Smart ) 1 1 5 Lake Road Basking Ridge, NJ 07920 2 0 1 -766-35 86

ancy Jacob en 3627 Northlake Drive Atlanta, GA 30340 404-934-9075 1 947

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Lou i M. Deraney 57 Whi[ford Street Ro lindale, MA 02 1 3 1 61 7-32 7-4486

Beverly Benner Cas ara RR 2, Box 1 1 6 Bethel, ME 042 1 7 207-824-295 7

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Dormhy McCunn ( Dormhy Sanford) 8 Honey H i l l Road Canaan, CT 060 1 8 203-82 4-7236

Katharine W. J affe ( Katharine Wei man) P.O. Box 1 1 3 Mill River, MA 0 1 244 4 1 3 -2 29-8 1 7 1

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Anne Eustis ( Anne Hagar) 3 1 5 M irick Rd . P.O. Box 594 East Princeton, M A 0 1 5 1 7 508-464-5 5 1 3

'46 passeJ away several year ago. He l i ved in Plymou[h, N . H . , where h e wa a Che vrole[/ Oldsmobile/Pontiac dealer. Our belmed condolence m Hal's wife.

Correspondent: Nancy Jacobsen

had a nice letter from Cloyd Aarseth, who reported that he and h is wife, Joan, are happily re[ired in the "apple capital of the world," Winchester, Va. Cloyd is serving a four-year term on the governing board of Lord Fairfax Community College in nearby Middleton, Va. He i al o playing golf and had the opportunity of a lifetime to witness his grandson Paul, 10, make a hole-in-one on a champion hip golf course. Cloyd and Joan are leaving this summer for a trip to orway to vi it the place his mother and father left 65 year ago to come to America. . . . 1 recently called Marge Dodge Radomski. She i working two days a week in the respiratory department of South Miami Hos pital. he recently visited her old est on, Mark , in ilver pring, Md., to celebrate his second child and her third grandch ild. Marge planned to visit Brooklin, Maine, inJulyforher brother' 50th wed ding anniversary . . . . I am going to[elephone cla mate from time to t ime, so if you hear my cheery voice, I'm not a fund raiser, I ju t want to hear your news . . . . Leo Daviau '48 wrote that he ha moved back to Waterville from Portland. "[ live in a residence o secure it doe n't even have a door bell, but the cat and I are enjoy ing being downtown. We're near the old post office."

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Colby Clubbers A talk on the future of higher education and an election-eve asse ment of the 1 99 2 presidential cam paign are among this fall' activities for the Colby C lub of Boston. • On Thur day,

eptember 24, Pre idem W i l l iam

Cotter will be the gue t speaker at a reception to be held at the Wellesley College Club in Wellesley. Cotter, who

4 8_ Correspondent: Kay Weisman Jaffe Wasn't it wonderful to see and read about Marie Machell Milli ken in the la t issue of Coltry I Her picture wa beautiful and her honor outstanding, but you do not have to be a hand ome or out tanding to be included in thi column. Your latest trek, new grandchild, community work or career-or retirement and veg etation--cannot be included here till you've ent some infom1ation on a postcard, note or letter. Maybe we can work our some E P sy tem; for the pre ent I'll add a fax number, and soon, per haps, we can communicate by rad io-TV- a te l l i te . . . . L e s t e r Burton u ed t h e more usual U . . mail to inform us about hi retire ment la t year from 40 year of elling industrial chemicals. ( ls that an environmental plu , Le ?) He and wife, Pri c ilia, have lived in Winthrop, Maine, for the last 35 year . H i free time i filled with fly-fi hing, hunting, golfing and gardening . . . . We can all drop in on them when we attend our 4 5 th, which will be the note wonhy event of the quinquen nium. Would you believe ix page of great ong have already been compo ed by class pres Marvin "Rogers & Hart" Joslow ? He called hi officers and local com mittee together in March, and Peg Clark Atkins, Dave Marson, Gil Taverner and I were able to get to the appointed Cambridge, Ma ., hotel at the appointed time-all alen and younger-look ing than a lot of the later reuning cla committee we saw there no canes or wheelchair ! Are we repre entative? Having reached the Medicare birthday in April, I am overly con cious of uch e nior ensibilitie . For those who

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chair the

ational A sociation of Independent College

and U niver ities and i a member of the

ational Com

m i ion on Responsibilitie for Financing Po tsecondary Education, will speak on "A

Ri\-er, MA 1 1 244. Fax 2 2 9- 362 2 .

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ational Agenda for

H igher Education: The Unique Role of Private College ." For more information, call the c lub's new pre ident, Cathy Woodward G i ll ' 6, at 6 1 7 - 2 4 5 - 1 26 5 . • O n Tuesday, October 2 7 , Government Profes or Tony Corrado will lecture on the election proce

at the

Harvard Club of Boston on Commonwealth A\·enue. Re ervation information will be ent to all area alumni and parent . Courtney Celi '

i ready to an wer further

question at 6 1 7-369-7 6 1 .

ha\·en't reached this total adult hood, you can look forward to all kinds of di count . However, if your family is like our , there can till be major cri e with the chil dren j ust when you've decided to limit your concern to your own ache and pain . Ah well, keep us young and looking forward to c mparing notes, in per on, with other '48er in les than a year a we peak-I mean, as you read. . . . At the preliminary planning meeting for our 4 5 th, we were as ured that you will all have an opportunity for input. The Col lege doe its thing, our cla mate clo e to Waterville will be very involved if they wi h, and we'll all be queried about all kind of thing for our class profile. If you want to do more, call or write to the Colby Alumni(ae) Office or Marv Joslow at 74 Elinor Rd., Newton Highlands, MA 02 1 6 1 . . . . Our cla will be hearing more from Peg Atkin , who not only looks great but seems to be the most informal and laid back, to tally organized and efficient peron I' e had the good fortune to know. Dave i Dave Marson, and we can be ure he will per onally bring back our college days even though hi clowning conceal a successful bu ine sman and seri ous sailor who is not ju t a Colby Brick but a pillar of the Colby c a mpu ( and Colby ire and maybe grandsire some day) ; wife

Dorothy was not at the meeting but certainly should be adopted into '4 j ust in ca e her Colby Brick ha not established her cor nerstone with u ere now. Marvin, who e career ha always been education-oriented, is teaching at the Belmont Hill chool. He arrived at this first (of very few ) reunion prep meeting w i t h a printed agenda and program for ourfun-filled campusday inJ une '93 , words and music and enthuia m and idea for the little de tail that will make our 4 5 th di t i n c t i v e and ucce sfu l . G i l Taverner, who w a joined b y hi lovely wife toward the end of the meeting, has been a pecial sub ject in thi column a couple of time . Having retired from teach ing and preaching at the Rhode I land prep chool who e hi tory he wrote, he keep bu y in Con cord, Mass. H is historian's view added to the meeting, as did hi experience and politic (not po l i tical) delineation ofhow we can combine wisdom and tradition with wit and brevity. . . . pring '93 will be exciting for all of us who meet together on Colby' campu . Won't it be more fun if we have a little better idea about how the other spent the inter vening year a we come face-to face w ith our past and pre ent? Your note to me can help. Plea e end any tidbit or a full biography to Kay Jaffe, P. 0. Box 1 1 3 , Mill

Correspondent: Anne Hagar Eustis This is going to be a hon col umn, for the well i going dry! When we last heard of Jeanne Pelletier Sutphin, she and her husband, Hoyt, \\·ere looking for their retirement pot omewhere in the Mid-Atlantic -rare . Well, they found it in Myrtle Beach, .C., where they have "proxim ity to ocean, tennis, golf and 'al ways-somet h i ng-going-on '-a definite plu ." Although they are too new to the area to be much invoh·ed in community or politi cal activitie , they are Literacy Volunteers. About three years ago, Jeanne visited Colby and "wa impres ed with Colby of to day but prefer to remember it a it was i n my student day . '' . When Marilyn Perkins Prouty wrote last tall, he wa hoping for ome decent snow, so she could enjoy dog ledding with her pet Ala kan malamute , who "is a wonderful dog sledder." Well, l hope you fared better than we d id in north central Ma achusett . Marilyn-we had more snow in March and April than we did all winter! In Augu t 1 99 1 , Marilyn spent " l days rafting and camp ing out in wilderne ldaho-54 mile on the almon River, it is one of the trips I would love to do again. That and Ala ka! " . . . . Well, that' it for new from the '49ers. Time to get out another que tionnaire! If you are one of tho e chosen to receive the next edition of the que tionnaire, be sure to re pond immediately. You don't want to be ro blame for an empty column, do you ? 59

THE FIFTIES

5 0_ Correspondent: Nancy Ricker Sears Fo ter Bruckheimer i

looking for cnntact� among Colby alums in Forida's Delray Beach area. Besides a few of our own class, there must be others down there. He and his wife, elma, l ive at 1 44 2 6 A mberly Lane, = 1 04 , Delray Beach, F L 3 3446-29 30. Foster found retirement "a bit dull" and was happy to get back on the road when hi old com pany, a watchband manufacturer, asked him to resume work with them as a part-time rep. He'd like to hear from you . . . . Bob and Barbara Hill Millett al o enjoy Florida and escape there for a winter vacation every year to avoid the misery of now and sleet in the Boston area. Their haven i Sugarloaf Key, where they en joy fi hing, golf and tennis. Bob has retired from coaching tenni at Lincoln- udbury H igh chool, where he wa principal and taught for many year . Hi career was h ighl ighted by being named the Boswn Globe coach of the year in ' 6 and '9 1 . ln ' 6 he al o re ceived a national coaching award. Retirement still permits him to reach a c o ur e in t e n n i at Middlesex Community College in Bedford, Mass. , and allowed them time for a spring vacation trip to H i l ton Head, .C. . Dave Armstrong, on the other hand, enjoy braving w i nter' worst with h is marvelou sled dog team. With h i 1 4-dog team he c l imbed the Continental Divide twice before reaching the first checkpoint in Montana' Race to the Sky. Dave is the only musher to have entered all even of the annual Montana event . As a kid, he spent ummer at the famed Chinook Kennel in Wonalancet, N . H . , where he no doubt formed 60

the dream· that ha\·e been real i:cd in the e trenuou,, exciting race . . . John Harriman and hi wife, Terry, do a lot of traveling from the an Diego area; he e pe cial ly enjoys ,k ii ng in the m 1un tain· l f the western United tare wtth hi three k id . Grandpar ent offive young chi ldren, John and Tcrry retired to an Diego, where tll'O of their chi ldren live and work. John had a long and ucce ful career with Pac ific Mutual Life in their group opera tio1r department, winding up in Newport Beach a 1•ice pre·ident of group ·ales for the last nine year . Previous ro thi , John man aged office in eattle, Detroit and an Diego.

her at 7 , gave grace at dinner and rememhered tho e m ourcla· who had died. After the dinner we came back w the dorm and had a uper soc ial t i me. Boh Leavitt played piano and there wa� rou,ing inging and equa lly great conversamm . . . . Retiring offi c e r C a ro l ine W i l k in· Mc Donough and J esse Jame (who wa. unable w attend-we mi;sed h i m ) were thanked for their work and dedication. Ben Sears, Ray Keyes, Edna Miller Mordecai and Barbara Bone Leavitt were welcomed as new

officer. . . It wa hard for u to say goodbye on unday, but we look forward to our 45th1

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Class Correspondent: Barbara Bone Leavitt

The 40th reunion of the Class of ' 5 2 was a great success. Fifty-two '5 2er returned, along with 2 7 gue ts . . . . At the reunion awards banquet our cla mate Gerald Holtz wa awarded a Colby Brick in recognition of the work he ha done for the College. . . . atur day dawned very wet, but our pirit were not dampened. A lively parade wa held in the gym, where our c las gift wa presented and Caroline Wilkins McDon ough wa happy to report we had exceeded our goal. Many thanks to those who he lped us d o t h i ! . . . The reunion dinner held in the Jo eph Family pa at the tudent Center was great fun. Everyone enjoyed seeing every body. The admini trative vice president, Arnold Ya inski, gave a very intere ting and informa tive ralk about what i happening at Colby today . . . . The Rev. Daniel Fenner, our olde t mem-

Correspondent: J. Nel on Beveridge Jeannette Mill Brennan write

from Texa that all is well and that her daughter Elizabeth wa to be married in June . . . . Peter Lowrey has just fini hed hi third year li\'ing in Andover, Mass., after 30-plu year in Cincinnati, Ohio. " pent 3 year with A.W. Che terton and j ust re t i red, former v.p. of national ale . My wife, Nancy Fisher '54, and I are looking forward to golf in cot land this J une." . . . Helen Kon iares Cleaves sent in the follow ing note: "l am sti l l very much involved in elling real estate for Coldwell Banker in the Portland, Maine, area. Our son Bob and hi wife presented u with our first grandson in December. on Harry has moved to Watertown, N . Y . , where he runs Cleaves Enter pri e , a wholesale lumber opera tion. Our daughter Pam and her husband, John Devine '7 , are moving to Baltimore. Other than a recent trip to the Bahama , 1

pent the winter selling real es tate and k i ing in my pare time." . . . J ohn Lee was pan of a five-member Army board for the correction of military records that cleared Dr. amuel Mudd of com plicity in any conspiracy to ab duct/as a inate Pre ident Lin coln. Mudd treated John Wilke Booth's broken leg and then was tried and entenced to life im pri onment. He wa pardoned by President Andrew Johnson, but h is de cendants wanted to clear him totally. " o I had a chance to make/change history an d'! got on CNN news." . . . . Marty Fried laendercontinue to receive great honor . la t February she was e lected to receive the 1 992 Alumni Medal for Conspicuous Alumni ervice to Columbia University. Th i medal wa pre ented at a commencement day luncheon in May. Congratulation , Marty.

Correspondent: Marlene Hurd Jabar

By the time you read this it will be Augu t- ummer will be on the wane-and I will not be thinking of "going back to school" for the fir t t i me in many years! Golf, anyone ? . . . J a n S t e v e n s o n Squier and her husband, Charles, who i a professor of English at the Univer ity of Colorado, have had some fine accomplishment . The most noteworthy would have to be their rwo ch ildren, Chuck and Ali on. Chuck, 28, i a painter, actor and rock drummer; Ali on, 30, works on conferences on education and labor i ue in the eattlearea. Bur Jan has other fulfillment -while teaching in France he wrote a sonata for vio l i n and p i ano. Congra t u l a tion ! . . . Carol Hourula Hart i Colby , Augu t 1 992

A Special, Modest, Human Warmth F

our decades after rece iving h i diploma, Gerald Holt: ' 5 2 enjoyed another momentous pring, retiring a s vice chair of the Colby Board of Tru tee , accepting a coveted Colby Brick at h i 40th alumni reu nion and ret iring after pending h is entire professional career at the Arthur Ander en ac count i ng firm. Holtz ( p ictured above with chair of the board Larry Pugh '56, right) majored i n chemistry , then turned to account ing and won the gold medal with the highest core among 5 00 C.P.A. candidates i, Boston and one of the nine top cores among more than 1 2 ,000 nationwide. He spent two years in the N avy and earned an M . B.A. at the Harvard Bu ine School before joining Arthur Andersen in 1 9 58. H is own penchant for service combined with the per sistent proselytizing of a fellow alumnu , Wil on Piper '39, brought Holtz back to Colby, fir t to help run the annual ummer tax in titute and Later as an active alumnus. "I 've always done a Lot of volunteer work with nonprofit organization ," Holtz aid. "l 've alway been active. Way back eariy on at Colby 1 was manager of the baseball team, drum major i n the band and pre ident of my fraterni ty [Tau Delta Phi]. I found that Arthur Ander en encouraged us to partic ipate in outside activitie both becau e it helped the firm fulfi ll its commitment to public ervice and, of cour e, it pre ented ome addit ional contact for u to expand our c lient base. "In tho e day a group of alumni used to get together once a month at Purcell' re taurant in downtown Bo ton ," Holtz said. "When Purcell's closed, Wi lson [Piper] tarted it up again by chedul ing lunches at the Union Club. I t was a mode t lunch, maybe 20 of u , maybe 1 2. A profe or, a member of the admini tration or maybe a coach would come down from Colby to talk to u . " The late Ray Greene '4 7 involved Holtz in the early

Colby, Augu t 1 992

stage of the Colby 2000 capi tal campaign and Holt= wa named a Colby over eer. He and h i wife, J ane, an adm in is trator at Mas achusetts General Ho pita!, were twice Colby parent by then, and in 1 984 Holtz wa asked to become a tru tee. Holtz pro,·ided fi cal guidance for an adm ini tration that quickly gained a reputation for doing more "·ith less wh i le some college with fatter endowment failed to balance their budget . He proved adept at fund raising as well, contributing to hi alma mater and executing everal key olici tations for the recently concluded · 1 7 million capital agenda. A oft-spoken man not prone to self-aggrand izement , Holtz aid h e w a urprised to b e elected vice chair o f the board. "I'm a omewhat neutral per on and I do run a meeting pretty well," he acknowledged. H is Colby Brick citation put i t more flatteringly, noting Holt:' role as chair of the Budget and Finance Committee. "You brought to that task careful analy i of our budget and operating result ," i t read, "a practiced and profe ional eye, a broad under rand ing of the College' educational goal , a detailed knowledge ofour fi cal control y tern and a pecial, mode t , human warmth." Now, at an age when other are learning more about fishing poles, Holtz i tarting a new career. He has joined the faculty of Boston College and will teach cour es on taxation. "It i ometh ing I've alway wanted to do," he aid, "and be ides, J ane a id that ifl d idn't get another j ob I 'd better have dinner on the table when she got home from Ma . General ." The Holtzes met when he was at Harvard and he � a taki ng a graduate course taught by the Harvard facu l ty at Radcliffe. "Harvard till was not admitting women i n tho e day ," he a id, adding proudly that his wife had the last laugh. he returned after the policy changed and earned a Harvard doctorate.

a wife/mother to Kenneth and eight-ye::., I aid e ight-c h i l d r e n ! Taking care o f Lindsey, Lowe l l , A l l i son , Stephan i e , Abigai l, Kevin, J e ica and Re becca certainly was a full-time job. Wow-how very proud he and her husband must be. The last time Carol wa back at olby was for daughter tepha n i e ' graduation in 1 984, 30 years after arol' . . . . Susan Johnson is pro gram director in the upport af fil iate area of the National Men tal Health Assoc iation and i busy w i th her four c h i ldren, Pau l , Mark , Debbie a n d Jonathan. She al o has th ree grandch i ldren. Debbie plan to marry in ep tember, so Sue will get her first opportunity to be "mother of the bride." Sue ha returned to Colby for mostofour reunions but till i· a l ittle aghast at the changes in Watervi lle. Sue also is on the Colby A lumni Fund Committee and hopes that the Class of '54 will dig deep and a l l send in a contribution ' . . . Abbott Ric e i director of placement at N orth ern E sex Community College in Haverh i l l , Mass. He is serving h is third term (sixth year) on the Hudson, N . H . , town counc il but writes that he will probably not seek re-election. Abbot and his wife, Annie, also had four chil dren ( my, we were a prolific c las )-J ame , B e v e r l y , who graduated from Colby in 1 98 5 , Abbott, ) r . , better known as R ick, and David . . . . Philip Reiner Deutsch had some interesting comments to make. For example, he commented that while he was at Colby, a lot of time was spent talking about "money" and "suc cess," and he wonder how our attitudes have been modified in the '90 . A most apt assessment was made when he wrote that he was pleased to ee that Colby st ill was awarded various grants as a continuing challenge to excel lence, which means that Colby's 62

commitments are not j ust a fluke. He ends by ·aying that h i two vi its roColby ( in 1 96 1 and 1 9 3 ) impres e d him with the expan sion and the expression of idea but "it ain't gonna be easy to maintain balance in the '90-." . Charles J. Windhorst has not lo ·t h is ense ofhumor--or maybe it' just second chi ldhood ett ing in. Charlie heard that Colby had a winning footba l l season. I t should b e better in '92 , because another Jabar will be playing for the White Mule . . . . l would like to end with just one comment to Mr. Windhor t. In "Meditat ion 1 7," John Donne wrote: "No man i an island, entire of itself; . . . and therefore never send to know for whom the bell toll ; it toll for thee." I did give Tony your fel ic i tation !

Correspondent: Ann Dillingham Ingraham

The latest questionnaire asked que tions about midl ife crises, fe l low alums and what you would l ike to know about other class mates. A plethora of wonderful statement came in and are now shared w i th you a l l . . . . Lou Zambello, who has moved to Marlboro, Mass., says he is very comfortable being married to a grandmother, which makes him a comfortable grandfather. He has two grandchildren and another due this month. Lousayshe think he will grow a gray beard. The Zambellos see J ohn and Joan Williams Marshall '56, who spend the n ight when they go on a shopping spree from Cape Cod. Lou urges c lassmates to call an o t h e r c lassm ate whom they haven't een in a while. " I t will make them feel good." In the

"What aren't you doing that you wish you were 1" department, Lou says, "playing for the Boston Celtics. I'm not because I am too old, too slow, to hort and too busy . " . . . J udy Orne Shorey ha n't made it to a midl ife cri i yet but ugge t that he may have missed it. he aw alum at the Bo ton Alumni Counc i l lun cheon, to which he went with Ellie horey Harri '57. he a ks classmates if they wi h for the good old day , the '50s, and re marks that it eem like a differ ent century. he wishes she were traveling full time and hopes that he may be in the future. J udy did g to an Juan and t. Thoma during the winter . . . . Jack and Ann Burnham Deering write that they realize they had better rake advantage of good health and appreciate their famil ies and friendships, espec ially their long term Colby friends. Being in the Portland area, they see many Colby people, including Karl '54 and J a n e Millett Dornish, Kathy ( M cConaughy ' 5 6 ) and Lou Zambel lo, J i m and J ean Pratt Moody '56, Bob ' 5 1 and Joan Kelby Cannell ' 5 2 a nd Carl Wright '47 ( in Florid a ) . J ack and Ann would l ike ro see clas mates come back to ee "our beautiful college, participate in area c lub and contribute to the Alumni Fund." . . . Mary Ellen McGold rick McGowan gets great pleaure from her four children and her granddaughter. She had a re union with Kathy Flynn Carrigan in Pennsylvania with great talks about the past, present and fu ture . "Melly" would l ike us all to support our schools "before it is too late." he wishes she would take more t i me to read and write but is enjoyi ng her 50 gifted stu dents and working with nine first grader with basic crit ical think ing skills/creativity-and "that keeps me busy, i t's great fun, but . " . . . Marcia J ebb ha had no

midl ife crisis and has made the decision to tart postponed ac tivi ties like piano lessons and learning I talian; and, of cour e, "the garden will be finished and perfec t." he is a humanities bib ! iographer for the Corne! l Library and sees Phil Dankert '58, who is on the staff, as well as Alice Colby Hall ' 5 3 , who teaches in the mod ern language department. Marcia wishe he lived nearer the ocean and plans to retire to N ew Eng land in a few years. In the mean time, she vacations in New Har bor every summer. . . . Bernice White Sanders decided to make a new career when the construc tion indu try slowed down in ' 9 and says, "I now am insurance and security-licen ed and can pro tecr the a ets of middle-class America." She ha pent time with Donald Bishop '57 working with the Maine House on school retirement plans. She says she's doing, going, being, just can't do it fast enough. he asks class mates, "Do you think we can make a difference for the better be cause we walked today?" . . . Andy Boissevain had a midlife crisis 1 2 - 1 3 years ago, when he left the c ivilian world and joined the Army. He has not stopped travel ing and says he has thoroughly enjoyed it. He al o ays he hasn't found any Colby alums in Ger many but did run into a Colby student while backpacking in the Au trian A lps two years ago. Andy a ks if anyone is traveling, and if retired, how do you keep the intellect stimulated ? The Boissevains are being reassigned to Hawaii. They plan ro travel east, make a short stop in Paki stan, pend one to two weeks in Nepal, try ro enterTibet, eventu ally go ro Hong Kong and if pos sible, take a coa ta! steamer up to Shanghai. If t i me allow , they will include a trip to Beijing, then Korea and finally Honolulu. He says they are flexible traveler , Colby , August 1 992

Robert B. Parker '54

Headliners Double Dance , the late·t thriller from Robert B. Parker '54, earned a laudatory

York Times review and Parker him e lf wa

the ubject of an admiring feature in hi hometown Boston Globe when the novel appeared . . . . Richard Campbell '58 was named group vice president at Textron, an aerospace, commerical product and financial service concern with headquaners in Providence, R.I.

Newsmakers James Lazour '50 was honored for hi 3 7 years of ervice in the Brockron, Mas ., chool y tern at a retirement pany given by friends and as ociates . . . . Deborah Smith Meigs '5 1 rerired after 3 1 year as di.rect r of the Colby Memorial Library in Danville, . H . , to the con iderable consternation of the town. According to the Plaistow Hampsrea.d ews, Meigs a lmost inglehanded ly trip led the community l ibrary' collection during her tenure . . . . Maurice Ronayne '5 1 i the author of a Washingwn Times feature on the li.fe and career of Gen. Benjamin "Beast" Butler, Colby Cla s of 1 3 . . . . David Crocket '52 was among six Lafayette College ( Pa.) profe ors honored with the Jo eph Hardy Memorial Fund Awards for longe t continuou ervice to the colleoe . . . . Victor Scalise '54 repre sented Colby at the inauguration of David Shannon a pre idem of the Andover ewton Theological Seminary in Brookline, Ma ., and Thomas Conners '59 wa Colby's delegate to Jane O'Brien's inauguation at Hollin College in Virginia. . . . elf- tyled Maine humorist Joe Perham '55 took his act to Potsdam, .Y., last pring. The Potsdam weekly North Country This Week aid the local record hops were havino a hard time keeping up with the demand for Perham' tapes . . . . Peter Lunder '56 received Brandei Univer ity' Leader hip Award for service during 1 99 1 -92 . . . . Peter Bridge '58 wa honored by the faculty and staff of Champlain College when he retired after 2 5 year as a profe or in the arts and sciences division earlier thi year.

Mileposts Deaths: Warren Stubbert ' 5 0 in

ew Boston,

.H. at 70 . . . . Herbert Panzenhagen,

J r. ' 5 1 in Kennebunkpon, Maine, at 62 . . . . Patricia Blake Thomas ' 5 1 in Providence, R . I . , at 62 . . . . Joan Gridley Leach ' 5 2 in Brun wick, Mame, at 6 1 . . . . Gerald Cowperthwaite '54 in Kennebunkport, Maine, at 60 . . . . Janet Cooney Thompson '54

in Jamestown, R . I . , at 59 . . . . Royal Harde '55 in deVesty Farley '56 in Pompton Plain , N .] . , at 57 . .

Boston, Mass., at 5 5 .

Colby, A u gu r 1 992

u ex, N .] . , at 59 . . . . Charmian . . Andria Peacock Kime '58 in

" o if one way doe n't 0 0 wel l . we try another." Andy ·ay that there is noth ino he wishes he \\'ere do ing, but he i getting tired of mo\' ing and ha bought a place in Ashland, Ore . , and plans to build a hou e there once he i through with U ncle am . . . . J o h n D ut ton appreciates that he ha made it this far. He returned to Colby last year for the footbal l reunion. He a ks what plan are being made for the next reunion. John i · play ing le s racquetball and more golf! The Dutton ' daughter cook John co M aine, where they did ·ome snorkel ing and scuba d i\'ing and saw some w h ales. Olde·t on Johnny, who er\'ed in De ert corm, flew h is dad out co the coast for lunch and once safely airborne let J ohn ha\'e the con trol . He hadn't lost hi couch. . . . J o a n n e Bailey Anderson says she uie co remember that the Chine e word for "cri · is" is op portuni ty, which means each cri sis is a chance co change and grow a the i t uation warrants . . . Louise "Pinky" Fall Achor hope co see J ane M illen Dornish, whose daughter Ii es about 1 5 m inutes away from Pinky. Pinky i busy working for pro-life candidates. he has ju r changed j ob and i now an admini tra t ive a sistanr in a real e tate company. he p lans co tep down as c lerk for the cow n ofClifron, Va., after a l mo t 20 year of service. he ay he can 't wait. . . . Ronald Swanson welcomes a new boat ( 20' ) , old est daughter's wedding and a new Dr. wan on ( ounge r daugh ter) . H e a ks other a l u m what it feel l ike to get gray and old. He' looking forward co retirement in about five year- and then tra\'el. . . . Don Hoagland ha heard from Lee Fernandez everal r i mes. Don a k c l a mates what they are doing be ides travel , tarting new career , learning new things and helping out in the community, rate and nation. He can't re63

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gone ;1way. Don i,, s t i l l ll'ork i ng

on hi� music ll'ith h i; �on , E r i k . He ll'rites ; 1 mon t h l y column f o r the Sacramenro TraJ l [ iona l J a : : , sen·es on the group\ eJucm ion committee anJ Joe� p.r. f or the Civil Air P ar m ! .

5 6_ Correspondent: Eleanor Edmunds Grout

The voice of '56 ha been si lent roo long. My a�'ologie . A few problems and a ·ma ll ·urgical pro cedure caused a temporary hia tu . We ha,·e just returned from a trip to the Outer Banks of Norrh Caro l i na and recommend the place to all our friends who enjoy birding. Don and I a w 1 2 new birds and are t i l l arguing over a wader we saw in the salt mar h. Many of you ha,·e written in repon e to the que rionnaire nt out, and it really helps to put a column together. Thank you, and keep t h e m c o m i n g . . . . S u e V e g h t e W i l s on wrote from Mendon, Vt., rhar she srill does it al l-sk iing, golf, renni and sail ing. When di cu -ing her job and calling herself ern i-retired, ue registered a familiar complaint heard in the East: "Real estate is not too robust in Killington." . . . M any of you know that Bob Raymond completed hi emi nary training in ' 2 after retiring from rhe Air Force. He and his wife, Fran Wren Raymond '58, live in Hulls Cove, Maine. Bob and Fran have no grandchildren, but ·on Scott and daughter Julie are married, Julie to an Epi copal priest . . . . You probably saw the work of Brian Stom ps ' compa nies, We tern Packaging and Dis play Corp., on the gift carton for 64

an J Tot t 's cham aJ fig ures f or Bcmle� &Jayme· . . . . Loi Latimer Pan anJ her hu band, EJ , wr i t e from Pough keep ie, N .Y.: "l am p l e a anrly surprbed how we enioy doing things w i t h ot h er Colby couples: ancy Carroll L uce and Ph il Luce ' 5 7 ; Joanna McCurdy Brunso and J o rge n ; Pete and Ginny Birnie Byrnes. Old friend from olby are rill rhe be ·r friend. ! We abo G a l lo 1\·me·

pagne and on the l ifc-�ize

·ee Vonnie Noble Davies when

he is i n thi� country. We've rayed w i th Barbara Preston Hayes w h i le visiting Wa hing ton, D.C." . . . TomNewmananJ his wife, I rene, have three chil J re n . Tom retired after 32 year with Mobil Oil Corp. and started a econd c areer a president of John on/Dix Oil Co. , Lebanon, N . H . . . P a t r i c i a R o b i n on Tucker isdirectorofaward man agement at Har\'ard Un iversity. P a r r ic i a and her hu b a n d , rephen , l i v e in Cambridge, Mass., where rephen is a partner i n an architectural firm . . . . Two of the t h i ng c la smate remem bered from Colby that wou ld never happen now rea lly h i t home. Martha Meyer Kugler re membered the " racious living dining" once a week-we even wore k in . Martha and Frank Kugler li,·e in Darien, Conn., when th y're not traveling with their poodles. Their rud poodle, Romeo, mu t be real! y something. While they were standing on the edge of Bryce Canyon omeone came up to them and said, "What a gorgeou dog ! " ignoring the b e a u t y and p l e ndor of the canyon . . . . B i l l Wyman enjoy being able to backpack into the ierra Nevada mountains. Loved Bill's comment that some of us who got so much from Colby and loved it so much would not have the chance today. "I am afraid Colby i much more elective. Three cheers for Bill Bryan '48 ! "

aid Bill. A lor o fu s feel the ame way . . . . J oan Kyritz O'Rourke, Pompano Beach, Fla . , i retired and finJ · volunteering very re warding. Joan i a signed two familie' of chi ldren who have been abu ed and is charged with 11wesrigarmg what will be in the best intere r ofrhe children.Joan ha aileJ her own hoar from New York to FloriJa, and when she is not on the wa rer she can be found working with prop for the Pom pano Players . . . . Ann Stiegler Richards and George vi it Colby often. ally graduated in '90, and dauohrer Nancy is in the Cla of '93 . . . . Now the letterbox is empty, so plea e write and let u know what you've been up to.

Cla s Corre pondent: Brian F. 01 en

Well , maybe the weather wa n'r perfect, but the weekend was. From a cold, ready dri:zle on Friday afternoon a we began ar riving, through a ready down pour all day arurday, to unday morning breakfa t when it began to warm and c lear up, 30 mem ber of the Cla s of '57 gathered on Mayflower H ill for our 3 5 th reunion and rwo days of renew ing friendship and rekind l i ng memorie ofourday arColby. . . . We gathered at the awards ban quet on Friday evening and cheered proudly for Guy and Eleanor Ewing Vigue as they were presented with Colby Bricks for their contributions to the Col lege over the years. After dinner we began to catch up on new from one another a we met at class headquarter in Grossman ( the former Tau Delt hou e) . . . . Saturday's parade of classe wa h ighl ighted by the presentation

of our class gift, a check for al most $ 34 ,000. This gift, the best we have ever done as a c las , is large! y the result of the hard work done by Leslie Wyman Ran dolph, our outgoing c las agent. Leslie was able to rai e our par t icipation rate to 43 percent. Thanks, Le lie, for a tremendous job. Shirley Verga Montini Turian ky ha agreed to rake on rhi difficult job for the next five year , o plan now to make her job easier, and get our participa tion rate up into the 60 percent range. . . . There were everal very interesting panel di c u ion and eminar during the weekend, and we can proudly note that three of them were led by members of our cla : Peter Merrill wa the lead off peaker at a seminar on the stare of the banking industry, Allan van Gestal wa one of the featured peaker at a pre enra tion on American I ndian land claims and Terry Mayo gave a lecture on e tate planning. All three of these c lassmate are rec ogn ized a experts in t h e i r fie ld . . . . aturday even i ng' cocktail party and cla dinner were the highlights of the week end, a we were joined by Profes sor and Mrs. Mark Benbow, Bill '48 and Karen Beganny Bryan '63 , Profe or Walter Zukowski and id Farr '5 5 . The setting was the Bixler Arr Museum, truly a magnificent pot for us to be gath ering for the evening. Our outgo ing c lass pre i d e n t , Eleanor Shorey Harris presided, and af ter handing out the pine cachet memento ( courtesy of G uy Vigue ) Eleanor announced the new c las officer , who will hold office until the next reunion in J une of 1 997. As you may have gue ed, there were not sufficient write-in vote to upset any of the candidate on the ballot, o we will be repre ented for the next five years by Sue Fairchild Bean, president, Bob Pettegrew, v ice

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Making It Better for Kids S

usan Fairchild Bean ' 5 7 dro\·e to WaterY il le from her home in CLmnec ticut to attend her 3 5 th reunion. You can do the math if you \\'ant, but don't tell the children ·he help · tend in a Glastonbury after-school prooram how old "Mrs. Bean" 1·-they\·e got her pegged as an energetic 30-year-old. "They keep me feeling youno," Bean a id of her charge , add ing that ·he think noth ing of mixing i t ur on the playground with a rousing game of Red Rover or k ickball . " I t' i ntere t ing to hear how old they think I am." Making life better for children ha long been one of Bean' greate t pleasures. As a high chool tudent he worked with d isabled children, and after graduating from Colby she taught at ewington Children' Ho pita! in Connecticut. Bean put that career a ide when her own children began arri\'ing-"I found it important to be home with my children," he aid. "I think they benefitted from it"-but now that they are grown and tarti ng their own familie ( Bean ha three grandchildren and expect another this summer) , he focuse much of her time on the next generation. he i in her fifth year as director of the after-school program, where 35 children in k indergarten through fifth grade spend their late afternoon hours while their parents work. he plan their activitie and entertainment-a j ob she calls "a real challenge." Bean ay he enjor giving chi ldren something be ide an empty house and a droning televi ion to look forward to after school and howing them that omeone other than their parent appreciates and cares about them. But he emphasi_e the importance of families when the children begin to receive homework i n the fourth and fifth grades, Bean make ure they get started on it under her upervi ion so they'll have t ime to spend with the ir parents and ibling in the even ing . According to Bean' daughter, Gretchen Bean Lurie '86, her mother is perfectly uited to her j ob. "My mom i very caring, nurturing, fair and loving," he a id, "whether i t' her own k id or omeone el e's. She trie to make i t a homey atmo phere for them." A former member of Colby' Board of Trustee who was elected pre ident of her class in J une, Bean ha conducted more than 40 alumni admi ions interview· in her liv ing room, and each A ugust he ho t a send-off party for area tudent tarting their first year at the College. he i al o active in the Colby Club of Hartford. In her pare t ime, Bean encourage Glastonbury high chool tudents to consider applying to Colby, where Bean say she spent "four of the very be t year ." Colby has become much more academically competit ive, she aid, and he's proud when students from her town are accepted . When pro pective tudents a k about her alma mater, Bean tells them about faculty members l ike retired ociology profe or Fred Geib and the late J im G i llespie, a p ychology profe or and dean, who remembered her long after she graduated.

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p r e ident, E l l i e H a m � . alumni council repre:,entam·e, a nd I 'll continue on a, ·ecre ta ry/cor re spondent. Thanks ag a in tn E l l ie Harris and Ellie V igue f.. 1r their work as pre · ident and \·ice prc�i dent , a nd to J ohn Con k l ing a s Alumni Co unc i l repre�cntat i\'e . . . . The dec idedly mcllo\\' group fin i hed off the c\·en mg back m the dorm, \\'here the party took on a \\'onde rfu ll y p lea.ant tone, \\'ith music a nd c om·ersa n on go ing on until the early hour� of the morning. All of u� who attended were del ighted to see the mag nificent campus in such fine ·hape and were e\·en mor e de l i ghted to see o u r fri e n d. 111 s u c h fi ne shape 1 • • • We are each going to try to c om· ince t\\'O other c las -

mares to make the next reunion, so we can triple the turnou t for the 40th ! We \\'i hed you all could have been rhere, but ,,.e \\'ere t h i nk ing ( and ta lking) about you. Next time, how about joining u for tw o of the nicest days you can imagine, okay ! We'll plan on it.

Correspondent: Susan Fetherston Frazer

I had to twist a few arm· to get the following news, but it was worth the effort. Many thank to t ho e clas mate who answered my call for help. How about some of the re t of you? . . . Stan Armstrong of Hartland, Wi . , write that at last thing are getting better. I n 1 9 7 hi midlife cri·i- tarted with the departure of his wife and their son. The rece· ion took it roll, and in the m iddle of it all he invol unta r i l y changed j ob That's the bad tuff. On the good ide, tan' son, who will be tart ing college in the fall, won a 1 99 1 world champion hip i n hi out65

hoard tunnel race boar. Stan says, "] t looks l ike the midl ife c risis ha prepared me for what may be the very bcot pan of my I ife. I 've come rn reali:e that i t is never roo late rn grnw and learn about my elf." . Bob Bruce, president of Wid ener Univer 1ty, with it · main campus in Chester, Pa. , wrcte a long and \Try interest ing letter, most of which wa, about other fam i l y mcmb r'. J udy Garland Bruce '5 cont i nues i n her role a. best friend and , trong �upporter ofthe presidenr and al o as "quinr e, e ntial grandmother" of six of whom the Bruce are j ustly proud. In the l O year ofhi presi dency, Bob ha re haped rhe int iturion, refocusing i ts academic offering and making it a truly comprehen ive univer ity. He ha al o te tified before Congre s on behalfof independenrh ioher edu cat ion. Next year he will succeed Colby' President Bill Cotter as chair of the National Associa tion of l ndependenr Colleges and U niversitie . Bob i also active in the ational Collegiate Athletic As ociation Presidents' Commis s ion, which i currently working ro reform intercollegiate athlet i c s . . . C a ro l y n C u m m i n g s C r a i n w r i tes fro m T a c o m a , Wa h . , where h e h a s been l iving and working ince her divorce in 1 98 5 . he has a small private practice in coun el ing and also does as e sments for an employee assistance program. he has a view of Puget Sound from her house, which he is bu ily making inro a home. Carolyn h as four c h i l dren-all in t h e greater eattle area-and two adorable grand daughter . She ay her ocial life could use ome sparking up. Any of you who enjoy cross-country skiing or norkeling hould give Carolyn a buzz if you're in her area. You never know what might happen l . . . I a lso heard from L inda ( Mackey '60 ) and William " l c k " F o e h l . They l i v e i n 66

Well sley H ill , Mas� .. where Ick, a lawyer, is h i> l wn and other people's hoss in the firm of Foehl & Co. , a legal and investment concern. I r's not easy to get lck to talk about hi 1melf, but I d id find out that the Foehls keep young hy si nging. They arc member� of the Centre treercr and were taped at the end of April hy the kical cable company. Did any of you ee the show ? lck is optimiotic about the economic future. What

really keep him on his mettle, though, is following their kids' original music hand, Acou�tic junction, around-as far a Red Rock-, Colo. ! . . . Marion Kim ball Guth write� th<1t he is till preparing mcome raxe and u pervi!>ing an office for H & R Block in or near Hight, town, .J . he ay she keep rernrning to it year after year and that each tax se<1�on �he wonder why. he ad m it� that it m ight be what keep

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her young, o r a t least h e hope o! Marion and her hu band, Frank, have bought a retirement home on Callowa ie I land, be tween Hi lron Head and Beau fort, .C. They are looking for ward to moving there "a soon as [they] get [their] ac t together and do it." Even though their three chi ldren are all married and some have chi ldren, Marion and Frank are still always busy with s me thing and sound very happy . . . . Jerry Lazarus, M.D. , Milron B. Hartzell Profes or and chair of the department of dermatology at the University of Pennsylva nia, i another c la mate who talks more about those around him than about himself. To make up for it, he ent me a copy ofh is c.v. I had to call in extra help ro get it into the hou e 1 I t seems that Jerry found him elf in a life-threaten ing medical ituation when he was 26 and consequently threw himself, body and oul, into his re earch in dermarology. The therapy, if that's what it was, worked. The medical problem abated, but he never lo t h is pasion for research and work in gen eral. H is award , member hips, profe sional meetings, lecture ships, paper , books and contri butions to the medical chool are absolutely staggering and obvi ously roo numerou and compli cated ro be described here. Jerry lost hi first wife, the mother of their four children, in a dreadful mishap about seven year ago. After five years of readju tment, he has remarried and acquired two more children. H is own chil dren are all either in or headed for professional career , including movie produc ing, educational p ychology, medicine and law. Thanks ro Jerry and all of you for sharing.

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THE SIXTIES

60_ Correspondent: Katheri n e P . W h ite

When I was in Boston I tele phoned a few of our c las ·mate to catch up on their new . Your rov ing reporter first spoke with A n n l m p e y Reed, who recently . old the home her family had liYed i n for 1 7 year . They are now camped in a rented one while their home in Chatham, Ma ., is being en larged and readied for permanent occupation in the fall. Then he will commute to her job at the local newspaper, where she does production and editing. Unfor tunately, during all this chaos he al o broke her foot, which is fi nally healing. The Reeds will join everal other Colby people who now live on the Cape, inc luding Keer '59 and B ev Johnson A rnett. The Reed ' younge t child gradu ated from Colby in May . . . . So did the olde t on ofJ a n e Holden Huerta. Another son is a fre h man at Colby. he is reaching at Bentley and is a computer con sultant but i very grounded with rwo k id in college. J ane aid Colby till require that the k id work hard and al o has kept the close relationship between tu dent and fac u l ty . . . . R o g e r D u mas is also very involved with Colby, ince he i an overseer, as i Charlie Leigh ton, whom Roger saw last fall at Colby. Roger had ju t returned from a trip to the College, where he wa reviewing the Dean of rudent Office-it' nicer to look at it from the other side than when we were under grad ! Roger, still single after h is divorce many year ago, retired about four year ago to have ome fu n . H e has a h i deaway i n Deerfield, N . H . , and h a been playing a lor of golf and traveling a we l l . . . . Nancy Bassett Mac k ha worked for a couple of major

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accounting firms but is now the accountant for a Concord medi cal group. h e aid \\·orking there fnr five years is a personal longe,· iry record. Their two daughter· are through schoo l, and one h as earned a Ph.D. in ps yc hology. he sees Sally Spall B a rn e s , ll'ho work- for e\\' E ngland Tele phone a nd has three c h ildren and t\\'O grand -on- . . . . Ivan Saitow aid he hadn't heard from anyone from Colby for years. He and h is ll'ife \\'O rk roaerher as sal e s reps for l ad ie ' c lorhing and cm·er ew England and upstate New York. He aid when he went back to Waten· ille a few years ago he c o u ldn't find Onie's-times ha,·e

ch anged ! . . . Mary Mac N u t t R i is ha- one child who ha· gradu ated and another who is a fresh man in coll eoe . he has een Jo

for ours . ) Tll'o of her four chil d re n have a lso formed a rock bank c al led Acou · r i c Junction. he a)" there's neYer a dull moment, es pec i a l ly now that ·he has a orandson . . . . The book my hu· band a nd l have been writ i ng about folk art cane� h as been pub

li-hed. Written ro accomrany an exh ibit of the c ane- at t h e M u ·eum of American folk Art in Ne\\' York from J une 4 to ep tember 1 3 . the 2 5 2 -page book rictures 305 cane- in ful l co l or. It wa · a !or of ll'Ork and a h uge learning experience, but \\'C are \ ' C ry r rou d of our p ro d u ct. If you are in New York, please see the exhibit. Meanwhile, I hope to hear from you soon! Have a good um mer.

Deans A u c hincloss, Pat Walker

and Sue Chamberlin . . . Operating hi own insurance agency in two locations, Art Calfee is \'ery bu y in local politic in Falmouth, Mas . He i a guid ing member of the Beauti fication Council, which is work ing to pre ure the rate to rebuild a bridge it took down and force owners to rebuild the 1 9 1 5 rail road ration. He i al o the ign review per on for the town, which controls billboard bl ight, and is on the board of tru tee of the local ho pita!. . . . I tried to reach Ed Marchetti at his company, Office Environment of ew En gland, but he wa bu y with cu tomers-a good sign . . . . Linda Mac k e y F o e h l rec e i ved her master' in education and now teaches kindergarten. (Can you imagine a more perfect kinder garten teacher?) Fifteen year ago, Linda, her husband, Bill '59, and two other men formed a country we tern band, The Centre Street er , wh ich has p layed all over ew England and other parts of the U.S., including the '59 re union. ( We should consider them Knowles Trauger .

Class Correspondent: Penny Dietz Hill

When we kne\\' that we would be moving to the D.C. area, l tried to call Carolyn (Webster '60) and Ted Loc khart. When I found their phone was di connected, I wondered where their travels had taken them. Luckily, I didn't have to be in suspense for long- oon the ir Christmas card arrived in forming me that Ted i now the Commander Soud1 A t l a n t i c Forc e , U . S . A t l a n t i c F l e e r ( U COMSOLANT for those who dig Navy j argon). Ted and hi raff conduct UNITA , an annual deployment of a task force of U. . ships in which maritime nations of outh America oper ate with the N avy bilaterally or in multinational exercises. They both get to travel ex ten i ve I y for, a Carolyn put it, "Because of protocol requ i re ment , M r C O M OLA N T t ravel too . "

Their home base i s Puerto Rico, but it ound- like the y srend litde t i me there, smce T eJ a lso has responsi b i li ty for the 1 9 coun tries in West Africa, and they need to ,·isit each one. 1 trust that they will bring slides to the 3 5 th reun ion to share with all of us (or Carolyn will 1\T L te her book) . . . . Richard Gibbs, like so many of u , i- happily remarried, ha,·ing traveled to Italy and Pari- for hi honeymoon. His sporting inter esrare skiing and quash. Rich ard ays he ha a per named Fredericka \\'ho is named for Fred Bonner. This i an interesting coincidence, as I also got a note from Dick Fields a k ing if any one knew the whereabout of Fred Bonner and Bob Foley. The Fred Bonner mystery I can soh·e, as I got a letter from him stating that he misses southern California, where he could get together w ith Bob Foley and Bill Sambioto maybe I need to open a missing persons bureau. Fred is now li\' ing in Ea t Denni , Mass., after years of l iving in Germany, New York City, San Francisco and Los Angele . He is a self-employed computer consultant and al o writes for the Cape Cod Times. ( Did I hear you volunteer to be the next c la s correspondent, Fred� 1 gue s I would owe you more than a beer for that ! ) He has four relative who are Colby alumni-can you top that ? Dick Fields recently married Kathy Mayes Fields, enior vice pre i dent of Federated Department Stores, and he ound very happy about it. They live in Lexington, Mas . , where he i executive Y ice president of the 1 92 Je\\'elry Co. He still plays hockey, runs five mile race and ki . H is daughter Alison is at Colby ( Cla of '9 5 ) and i s a varsity soccer fullback. His advice is to live life to the fulle t, a he ha recently experi enced the lo of a good friend, M ike Franklin '63 . . . . C a r o l 67

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Tracking Spies and Lies J

ame · John on, Jr. '62 caught fi\'e spie· during his career in the U.S. Air Force, and he ays he coulJn't have Jone 1t without his Colby education. The cour e· cha!!enged him and encourageJ him to work independently, he said, and the friend hip he culti \'ated at Colby taught him how to get along with-and evaluate-many kinds of people. "The insight 1 gained into human nature and what makes a per on tick played a part in my ucce ," sa id John on, now a lawyer who speciali:es in admini tering polyoraph tests. Johnson enli ted in the Air Force in 1 966 after he finished law school. He acknowledges that not many Colby graduates considered milirary career during that time but ay his strong sen e of patrioti m, the rigorous work and the job security prompted him to stay. And, he say , the military gave him opportunities that many African Americans in the civilian work force were denied. "The military wa very innovative and creative in that way," he aid. Johnson' fir t a signment wa a a countere pionage agent in Germany, and in four year he nagged five pie two East Germans, two West Germans and an American airman. He keeps the details private but say that next to flying, his job was the most colorful and exciting in the military. When using the ervice of a polygraph examiner in one of his cases, Johnson became intrigued by the testing. The Air Force later sent him to polygraph training at Fort Gordon, Ga., and the more he learned, the more he liked it. "I didn't do so we!! at Colby," he admitted. "But I wa at the top of my clas at polygraph school."

As a pulygraph expert he conducted exam in Germany and the United tare . Hi last a signment before he retired in 1 9 wa a commanJer of the Air Force Office of pecial Investigations at Han com Air Force Ba e in Ma sachu err . ow he u es hi· ki!!s in hi private practice in Londonderry, .H., and ha clients all over New England. Lawyer for criminal defendant are the most frequent u ers of John on' polygraph ervices a they try to craft the best defen e for their client . If an accused per on can pa s John on' test, the rate' polygraph houldn't be a problem and charge hould be dropped. But if the accu ed fails the te t, a lawyer can revamp the defen e. "I find it very cha!lenging to create a market for poly graph testing" even though the te t is inadmi ible in court a eYidence, Johnson aid. During his college year , the American civil rights movement was in full force, and Johnson ay he sometimes wondered if he houldn't be participating in boycotts and marche . "I was irringon the teps ofRunnals Union talking with a profes or," he remembered. "He aid my re ponsibility was to tay in chool, and that I could contribute later." Johnson remained at Colby, where he wa elected vice president of hi cla s. He ay he sti!! cherishes hi clas mates and keeps in contact with many of them. At reunion in June, ome member of the Clas of '62 po ing for their group picture clambered out of the bleachers and ru heel to greet John on when they saw him. Thirty years later, Johnson till rave about the wonder ful co!lege experience he had. "On a scale of zero to 1 0, it wa a 20," he aid.

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\\'rites from Orlando, Fla . , that she i no\\' a certified learning resource intrucror. he is very emphatic that if it had not been for her liberal arts education at Colby he could never ha\·e branched our in the direc tion · he has. he sums it up: "The greate·t le on an educator can learn in life i that you cannot infuse your tu dents with your kno\\'ledge or wisdom but rather lead them to thethre holdoftheirownminds." he and her hu band, who \\'Orks for Delta, have two children, Kim berly and Craig. A I \\'rite this, they are enjoying a crui e to the Bahamas and the West Indies. he ha recently taken up Ameri can ign Language . . . . Before leaving Connec ticut, I had hoped ro ger together with Regina Foley Haviland for l unch , but he wa n't available. he i a reacher of French and had the opportunity ro attend the American Council ofTeacher ofForeign Languaoe· conference in Washington, D.C., la·t November. Who ·hould he run into bur Janice Dukeshire Halliwell ? They had dinner and caught up on 3 0 year of new . I look forward ro eeing them both here next year if the conference i in D.C. again ! Regina, a you know, devoted I 0 years ro Colby a our cla agent and i still ac tive a an inter\'1ewer and in the Colby Club of Hartford. We thanked her publicly for thi er vice at the reunion, but I w uld l ike ro thank her again. he and her hu band, Gerr , have four children. . . . Paul and l are ettled m Re ton, Va., and love to have vi iror . We're 10 minutes from Dulle Airport. He works at ys rem Center, I nc . , and I am back in sale for IBM, sel ling Open y terns ofrware. l am happy to be back "home," a my daughter Courtney ( who al o work for I B M ) live in A lexandria, and my n Todd work in D.C. and Rancourt Ahem

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li\·es in Arlington. If you \\'ant to call, \\'e're at 703-620-3 569 . . . . If your ne\\' did not make it into thi ed ition, ray tun�d-1 have enough ne\\'S for t\\'O more ar ticle .

Correspondent: J udy Hoagland Bristol

We \\'ere mall in number. We came from e\'erywhere. Ir was a rainy \\'eekend. but reunion was oreat fun! Tho e of you \\'ho ha\·e not been back need ro kno\\' that you can ea ily lip back into your old identity-or come in \\'ith a n \\" one. You are accepted and apprec iated no matter what. People will remember you. Craig Malsch, w ith friend Bar bara, and Janice Turner Ran ley with hu band Derek came the farthe·t-from California. Jan ice, who i rill a beauty, ha· four children, 19 ro 30, and omehow got her M . D. degree, too. Wow! . Nanc

MacKenzie Keating

j u t earned her ma·ter' and i going into a new career in drug and alcohol abu e coun ·eling . . . . Sam McCleery, till a pilot \\'ith Delta, came from Atlanta with charming wife Vera and rheir cwo cute daughters . . . . Lael Swinne Stegall till i "doing good." . . . Diane Hilton O'Connor with her hu band, Leo, and Bruce Marshall , whom we were de lighted to ee back for the very fir r time, came from the Wa h inoron, D . C . , area . . . . J an e Germer Krebs and her husband, Bill, who l ive in Gro e Pointe, Mich., came via a busine s trip in Bo ron. They rented a van and brought Nancy Record Howell and ancy McKenzie Keating w i th them . . . . Danc ing up a

·rom1 at the '60'sdance \\'ere Patty Downs Berger, M. D., and J immy Johnson, a retired A ir Force colo nel. Roey Carbino, a professor ar UniYer·iry of Wiscon · in-Madi son, \\'a no !ouch on the dance floor, either. Peter Duggan and hi · wife. Mary, were al o part of rhe dancing group. They came from Columbus, Ohio. A special thank you to Peter, an executi\·e with Borden, \\'ho arranged for all rhe snacks. . . . From e\\' York: Ed Cragin, tockbroker, J ean Gaffney Furuyama, a denti r ( J ean brough t her hu band, Tosh i ) , and A n n Tracy, a profe sor at UNY-Platt burgh. Ann \\'as another tirsr-rime returnee. he ha had ar least three books published and i currently \\·ork ing on another . . . . B re n d a Wrobleski Elwell came from Ne\\' J e rsey and brought her near kid-. . . . Mike McCabe and hi charming wife, Ro-emary ( new lywed· at our 2 5 th), al o returned from Connecticut. . . . From the ew England area: Kathy Hertz berg, J udy and Dave Norman, Barbara and Cal Pingree ( newly wed ) , J udy and Harmon Withee, Pam TaylorandJudy Webb. (We lm·ed ha\'ing you back \\'ith u , Hooper Cutler. ) . . . Thanks are in order to Linda N ic holson Goodman, who did a fanra tic job with the reunion and, a class secretary, writing thi column for the pa t five year -a very, very hard act ro fol low; Jay and Sue Keith Webster, our pre ident and chief a i-tant-wirh all rhe up porting DKEs from the Bo ton area; Peter Leofanti; Peter Jaffe and, from point ·outh, J ohn McHale. l 'm not ure how our c las can survive without Dick Schmaltz, who ha· gi\'en and given and gi\•en of hi rime and financial resource , bur J oanie D i gnam c h m a l r : ' 6 3 a i d , "Enough." E d K le wa elected Alumni Council re pre entati\'e. Oh ye , Denni Connolly, our

ne\\' class president, got sick and had to cancel his plans to attend reunion a t the last momen t . Jeanne Banks Vacco, al\\'ay· a Colby supporter, \\'ill be our ne\\' \'ice pre · idenr . . . . Our c las of ficers \\'ill be planning for rhe next reunion, our 3 5 rh, coming up in J une 1 99 7 . o send us your ideas.Thi rime our acti\·ir1es in cluded rhe regular cocktail recep tion on Friday and on arurday, the traditional lob rer bake and parade of rhe classes ar noon. Then came a great bus trip to Camp Caribou for a steak dinner, all the fixings and real cream puffs! Our ouesrs included John and Mary Joseph, \\·ho ·rill remember all ofu " pa flie " andour peaker, Alan Le\\'i , c urrent head ot Colby's physical plant, who kept u laughing \\'ith hi- "Garri·on Keillor-type humor." Later we joined rhe Clas · of '67 for a dance featuring mu ic from our decade before adjourning ro our rooms in AYerill. . . . fi ed and discussed were Nancy Rowe Adams, who, \\'e heard, was ·rill in Germany; Rich Simkins (how'- about a pre1 997 reunion meeting at the Grog in ewburyport, R ich ? ) ; Cindy Lamb John on, J udy Cron k Lib erty, Al Neigher, Annie Ticknor Mc Neece, Brenda Phillipps Gib bons ( recently remarried and a sailino buddyofMar Ballantyne Gentle and her hu band, reve,

on Martha' ineyard) and all the rest of you who didn't make rhe 3 th. Tho e of you who l ive in rhe ew Enoland area really need ro get ready, 'cu: 1 plan to hold tho e in attendance thi year re ponsible for recruiting at least five more people for rhe 3 5 rh . ( You need to come while we can rill recogni:e you ! ) . . . Keep in touch. end me your new .

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Charles C.

C o rre s pond e nt : Jo-Ann Wincze French

incc I ha1·e fi nally run out of class new , you will have to write me or suffer the consequence>! Maybe this is a good time to re fleC[ on all the changes that have happened to the worlJ. to our country and, most important of a l l , to Llur own l i ves. Many of u have grown ch ilJrenstarting their own l ives separate from us, par ents who now depend on u., joh changes or loss of jobs, etc. Next year will be our 30th reunion. Plan now to attend. I t will be a wonderful opportunity to renew our friend-hips and hare in all our changes. A lso, let me know if any of you would be interested in serv i ng as clas· officer>-includ ing c las corre pondent-for the next five-year term. I certa inly have enjoyed all the mail and news I have rece i ved , and if any of you have any thought , sugge tions or whatever, please write me. l 'll be waiting to hear from you .

Leighton '60

Headliners Robert Jordan '60 received the U . . Army' Meritoriou ervice Medal for out tanding leader hip . . . . Charles Leighton '60, a enior vice pre 1dent at Merck Re earch Laboratories, received the Di tingui hed Career Award from the Drug Information A ociation for h i contribution

t o t h e pharmaceutical indu try . . . . G. Paul Keddy '6 1 wa

named vice

pre ident of finance at Glatfelter ln urance Group in York, Pa . . . . Ann Tracy '62 wa elected a a

tare Univer ity of New York d i tingui hed teaching profe or. . . . Richard

Simkins '62 was elected ro the board of director of Mon errat College of Art in Beverly, Ma . . . . Denni Connolly '62 wa the _ubject of a Q & A feature on "toxic tort ettlements"

in a recent i ue of the Journal of Commerce . . . . David Pulver '63 was named chair of the board of director ofMor. e hoe, lnc. in Canton, Mas . . . . Donald Short '64 wa elected fir t vice pre ident of the N a ti nal Fi herie In titute in Arlington, V a . . . . Chapin Hartford '66 i half of a Na hville ongwriting duo re pon ible for country inger Sammy Kershaw's latest hit, "Don't Go

ear the Water." . . . Earthly Po es ion , the collectible

hop nm by Sandy

Miller Lapchick Keohane '67 and her hu band, Ken, in Milton, Mass., was featured in an article in a recent i ue of Victona magazine . . . . Rocco Landesman '69, as a member of a partner hip known a the Dodger , i producer of another Tony-winning how this season.

Guys and Dolls i playing to jammed hou e at the Marilyn Beck 1l1earer, one of everal

Lande man' Juj amcyn chain.

Newsmakers Judith Miller Heekin '60 j ined Comerica Bank in Ann Arbor, Mich., as a per onal trust bu ine s development representati e . . . . executive vice pre idem of The

Accessorie magazine profiled Dick Fields '6 1 , 1 928 Jewelry Company, in its March i ue . . . . Norcross Teel

'6 1 , J ohn Bush '64, Laurie Lewin Simms '67 and James McCabe '65 recently represented Colby at rhe inauguration of the president of

Univer i cy, the University of Tampa and

'62 popped up in variou Orange County, Ya. , newspaper la t spring for his work conducting _

Correspondent: Sara Shaw Rhoades

La t year' - quest ionnaire asked what programs were being cut due to local and state budgetary woes in your areas. Twelve of you ( over half the re pon es, from M a i ne , N ew York City, New J er sey, Florida, V irginia, Vermont, N orth Carol i na and Massachu setts) said educat ion had been h i t i n m a n y different ways in your com mun it i es. Gail Koch Cooper wrote, "Twenty teachers were

t. Jo eph's College, Loyola Marymount

warthmore College, respectively . . . . Jeff Gould

tre -management eminar . Gould is administrative director of the Pinebrooke Psychiatric Center in Culpeper. . . . Patricia Downing Curtis '64 wa promoted to assistant vice president of Bar Harbor Banking and Trust in Malne . . . . Jonathan Moody '65 was installed a chaplain of Hiram College in H i ram, Ohio. . . . Lehigh Week, a publication of Lehigh University in Pennsyl ania, profiled Barbara Howard Traister '65 in a recent edition. "Trai ter emulate a favorite profe-·or ar Colby College who 'modelled a teaching life that was more than schmoozing in the clas room,' " the article said . . . . The

Taunwn (Mas . ) Daily Gazette devoted a "Profile of Life" to the work of Shawn Onat Kendricks '68, a devotee of the

rural life tyle who organize contradance in and around Rehoboth and has homeschooled her three daughter-.

Mileposts Marriages: Deborah Chase '66

to Frederick Herring in Aurora, Colo.

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'RI Fed' in our school y tem. This will mean classes which are too large and the cutt ing ofsome great and innovative programs. But property taxe are very h igh and all public ervices are hurt ing." Martha Schatt Shim in Georgia said, "Education has never been funded at the ame level here a it i in the North! o, it hasn't been cut." Dottie Thompson wrote encouraging!y from Brook field, Vt.: "ln my communiry edu carion seem to be a priority in pite of the economic crunch." P. J. Downing Curtis echoed that view from Blue Hill, Maine. My que tion on h peractive local govern m e n t s bro u g h t ome thought-provok ing re ponses. Both Florida re idem ( C raig M i l l e t t and Karen Eskesen ) wrote that busines has an active input in their com m u n i t ie Barbie Carr Howson aid, "Most of us have the feeling that dec iion have been made too often before the meeting and hearings are held." P.J . Curti agree with me that activ ity is increasing, "e peciallyplanning board andcom prehen ive town planning." John Gow in Ea·thampton, M a s . , agrees b u t obser e d , "Too much is cut-and-paste rather than far ·ighted planning and ethical de c ision-making." Bruce Lippin c o t t reported a di t u r b i n g ituation: "It eem that in our neck of the woods we have an over-abundance of 'profe sional' intervener that appear at ju t about every type of public meet ing, local or tare. They are agam t mo t everything and will invoke any emotional ubject to be heard. U n fortunately, they a re fre quently misinformed, ha lf-in formed or uninformed. The re sult i often a wa te of people' time temming from en uing ar guments. Having heard many of the e group , I can pred ict their 'te timony' in advance. While public meetings are ab olutely Colby, Augu t 1 992

nece sary for the democratic pro cess, perhaps the pendulum has swung too far off center." From Concord, Ma ., Art Fulman wrote, "Th is town is gm·erned by elected and voluntary position holder who serve wi thout pay. The quality of these indi,·iduals is excellent; however, becau e of increasing complexity of local government , many individual will no longer erve. Concord citi2ens are far from apathetic, but there are too many boards, meet ings and committee . A good town manager is es ential a i strong committee leader-hip." And from Jon P i tman up in M a ine, "Can you bel ieve i t ? M a i ne ' c o l l e c ted' t oo much money and o returned it to the taxpayers ( i t cost 30¢ forever,1 l returned ! ) . At the ame time we still had bond i ue . Why didn't the) pay ome of these up from in tead of adding to debt and the co t of intere t? I vote no on most bond is ues. We mu t tart paying as we go until we have reduced the tate and national debt. Lewi ton and Auburn govern ments are only moderately hy peractive. Apathy except on ' im portant' issue , uch a should a treet placed on the map in 1 936 but neveropened or u ed be taken off the planning board' map ! ( U ually get a big write-up in the paper too! ) " . . . From the peronal notes in your que r ion naire : P.J . Curti love her job as branch manager at a bank and love the people with whom he work . he would like to travel more . . . . Dot t i e Thomp on write from her new home in Vermont that he' enjoying all the reading and needlework that she didn't have time for during tho e year of ingle parenting. . . . Art Fulman report that he, too, would l ike to travel more and would like to devote time to pub lic ervice and work ing with young people. However, hi t ime

is pretty booked up, between hi job a an attorney, municipal er vice on board and committee , parenting and involvement with numerous religious and educa tional charitable activities, in c lud ing fund raising for Colby. . . . Jean Brennon Call enjoy gardening nearly year-round in orrh Carolina and donates a lot of time to WU C, public rad io in Chapel H i ll. . . . Bill Pollock take- time off from hi veterinary dut ies to reach ki mountaineering, winter wi lder ne medicine and winter search and re cue. When hi ki Patrol activitie end for lack of snow, he' out on the water. "For a truly humbling experience, we travel out to ea to \'isit with the hump back w h a l e s . " . . . A n n e t t e Peter e n Greenberg would pend more time on peace and enYi ronmental cau es if could. For nO\ , ch ildren, church and camp ino fi l l her non- work ing hour . . . . Barb Carr How on i reaching piano in Virginia and volunteering in all area of com munity life: church, chool and mu eum guide. he writes if she had her druthers, he'd "do lots of thoughtful things for people." Barbie, I'll bet there are many people who would re·tify that you do very thoughtful thing every day . . . . Our cla gradu ated four Colby on and daugh ter in the Cla of '92: Ben Beaver' son John, Cliff Olson' on John, Don Short's daughter Kri t i n and uzanne Bober, daughterofSally Mc Cobb Bober and the late J ac k Bober, who e death wa a hock. J ack lived a full and varied life, full of laugh ter and goodwill, and he will be mi ed.

Correspondent: Richard Bankart

Career changes are reported with increa · ing frequency. A rnold Repetto ha moved tO Granby, Conn., and is now a commercial real estate appraiser with Amadon & A oc iate in Hartford. A- a first step he completed a rwu week training course, alono with B u c k y S m i t h , in R ich mond, Va . . . . Gail Lenz Mitchell i also in real estate. he' affiliated with Hunneman/Coldwell Banker in Northborough, Ma s. Ellen i· al o a deacon at her church . . . . Jean ( Hoffman '66 ) and eil Clip sham mo\'ed to orth Wales, Pa., in '9 , where he has been pro moted to Y ice pre·ident, federal programs at En\'ironmental En gineering. He reports constant tra,·el. . . Elfie Hinterkopf i a training consultant and psycho therapi t in private practice in Au tin, Texa . he ha· received a grant to write a book on inte grating the pirirual experience in counseling. Elfie pre·ent· work hop· on the ubject throughout the United tate and Europe, includ ing two German language pre entation in I taly last year. . . . Myles Denny-Brown is an international economi ·t and re ceived a " u rained superior per formance" award in '9 1 from the Department of Commerce, In ternational Trade Administra t ion . . . . J oss Coyle B ierman writes rhat one ofher on' friends at the Univer iry of ermont i "Beaver." he figured "it could only be Ben Bea,·er' ('64] son ." The Bierman and Beaver had dinner over Parents Weekend. The two ons will room together next year. J os i back in rhe cla - room taking p ychology cour es at Fairfield U niver iry . . . . Also back in the cla room i Betsy 71

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Stevens Palmer. She\ �tudying coun,d 1 ng ar the graduate ,chool at Un h-er�ity \1fNe\I' H<llllp>h ire . he's also taking h e r ,c,·enth art c la�, there. Bet<>y had her iir>t \l'aterccilm shnw in Dcccmhcr. . . . Dave Parish , a health la\\' attorney, has joined McDermott, Will & Emery as partner in their M i a m i , F l a . , office. H b c i ,·ic ac ti,·ir ies inc lude hea\'y invol \'C mcnt ll'ith the M iami and Na t i onal Federa t i cin;, of J c\\' i, h Community Center�. . . . ick Locsin continue� in morion. He commute· weekly from Sudbury, Ma .. to N ew Jersey, \\'here he i, a sales manager. I su:ipcct he dri,·es bur would prefer ro bicyc le. La r ·ummer he biked ac rns::. Maine for the Maine Heart A:i-oc iation, overn ighting (sorry, M iss Ford 1 ) a t Colby, which provided a n op portu n i t y for h i m " to rev i it W a r e n· i l l e ' ;, f i n e s t w a t e r i n g hole-." He's induced the e\'er ac tive Bucky m i rh to join him for the '92 Wheel-a-rhon. He' also trying to interest Caesar Seferian and Jim Foxman in a repeat of la r year' scuba trip to Co:umel. . . . Chuck McDowell i proud of "stayi ng ·an all these year ." He is the manager of ne\I' aircraft sales and a demonstration pilot for Beech A i rcraft in Tempe, Ari::. Due to the 10 percent l u x u ry tax, he ha lot of r ime for "flying, hooti ng, hunting, fishing, g lf, renni and :icuba d i v i ng." . Ellen Mitchell Lehto writes she is a ma age therapist working with rhe elderly near Bar Harbor, M aine. She's a directorofFrench man Bay Conservancy land tru t, rend azalea gardens in Northeast Harb r, "framed all my paintings" and in '9 1 c l i mbed a l l the Acadia mountain·. She may be ready for a ma age l H a i l , Colby, hai l !

Class of 1 967 Officers Pre ident : M ichel Picher Vice President: Phyl l i J albert ec retary(r rea ·urer: Robert Grac ia A l u m n i Coun c i l Repre'>c n ra t i v e : L o u RicharJ�on M c G i n 1 r y

Peo Arm trong phoro of Meg _

Correspondent: Russ Monbleau l h<1" e d iscovered the art of timu laring re spon e to the c lass ques tionnaire-and after it was over, begging didn't eem too Jemean i ng at all. . . . 1 recel\·ed a great letter and demo tape from Erik Thorson. Erik went into ome d etai l about the song writ ing bu:ii ne s, and after listeni ng rn hi rape, I gained at lea r a sma l l apprec iat ion for h o w competi tive the bu iness is. H is songs and lyrics are outstand i ng. l could imagine hearing any one of them on the radio. Erik report that h is bride, Rhonda, whom we all mer at reunion, had uch a great t ime that he in i rs that [hey at tend all reu n io n from now on. I r's a nice confirmation of whar a won derful, open and lov i ng group we all are. Erik and Rhonda are ex pec t i ng their first c h i ld right abour now. A Erik points out, he ha a l ways taken the carefully planned approach to life, o as we are all becoming grandparent , he thought he'd give parenthood a whirl. . . . Had a nice chat w i th Janet Brooks Hupsel, who cheer fu lly reported that her husband is now officially a U n i ted Stares res ident after a one-year geo graph i c epara t ion . . . . M e g Fallon Wheeler ent a n ice note urging me on in my c la s ta ks. She also attached a fine Beth

and me, which truly captured my ri,ing forehead and " m i le lines." Thanb a Int Meg-I needed that. . . . peakingofpic rurc , be tween Beth and Frank Mu c h e , we have a :irack if great reunion photo�. Borh Frank and Meg a:ik what I th ink we �hould do with them. I ' l l try to see what they look like in black and wh i te and see if they'll work in the cla letter, which l a m working on, guy . . . Reccnr cla s change in c l ude: John Field i back in the Un ited rate , ha\'ing j ust moved to Delaware from London. Debbie ha e i · now Debbie Cha e Her ring. he married in November. B e s i d e· photogra p h y , Frank M usche eems to ha,·e another vocat ion in c aring for hand i capped c a t . He ha a l 0-year old, one-eyed male, an -year old, \'Cry O\'erweighr female and a 7-year-old, three-legged female. You k now, Frank, normal car are a dime a do:en. . . . On a ome what related topic under"descrip t ion of fa m i ly unit," Mac Donald son report that rhe two-legged memher are all off at college, while the four-legged one either ran away or got hit by a car. Conny Day Hamby, who ha dedicated mo r of her life to humane activ ism, will probably be sending both of you guy a erious note . . . . Robert Sears offered ome inter est ing thought relative to my gett ing more respon es to the que t ionnaire. Fir r he ob erves, in writing from the Ph i lippines

where he ha lived for rhe pa r 1 1 yea r , that ;ince he fi nally reporn.led, which is a ort of mile �tone, perhap now other w i l l . A bo, h e p o i n t o u t t h a t I need a fax number along with my ad dre · . Bob, first l need a fax ma chine! But it i an intere r i ng though t . . . . Congratu lation ro Carol Lordi, who wa · recently promoted to d i rector of consult ing ervice:i at IBM . . . . A lso in the congratulation department, Chapin (Paula ) Hartford Foster

wrote a =l national hit song, "Meet in rhe M iddle," which earned a Grammy nomination. . . . One thing that rand our in the quc rionnaire you returned is the fact that we are all becom i ng or have become emp[y-nesr er , and each of us i deal ing with It in a different way. Let me leave you with thi thought: I incere ly believe that within three years after my la r child goes, I w i l l no longer wake up in the middle of the n ight mumbling, "My wallet's on my de k . " Hope this edition find you all well.

68_ Correspondent: Barbara E . Bixby

Plea e be aware that you do not have to wait ro hear from me before letting me hear from you. ince l neglected ro mail out a questionnaire this time, and thus received a paltry few note from you, I w i l l be playi ng this one by ear, folks! . . . My husband, Art Abrams, and son Josh and I ju r got back from a quick, rare week end i n Florida. You must all be aware that the fraterni ty-sorority cene down ourh is quire the current rage, ifl may be so bold ro say. All tho e brotherhood do make a outhern college an atColby , A ugu t 1 992

Have Gavel Will Travel W

hen he wa a Colby student , M ichel " M ike" Picher handled a hockey t ick on the ice and a gavel on the men' j udiciary committee . Twenty-five years later, the Cla-s of 1 96 7 ' newly elected president still play hockey rn1ice a week, and he still wields a gavel. After erving a - a university law professor, admini trative law j udge and vice chair of the Ontario Labour Relation Board, he i- permanent labor arbitrator to uch major corporation as the Canadian Broad casting Corporation and Bell Canada and sole arbitrator to Canadian Railways. Last year he wa called in when four Major League ba eball player couldn't come to agreements with their team . "Baseball is a bit of a perk," aid Picher, the only Canadian of the 19 alary arbitrator for Major League Baseball and the Major League Baseball Players' Assoc ia t ion. He ays he was picked for the job becau e he's a member of the National Academy of Arbitrator , an honor ociery of leader in the profe sion. ln most ca es, he doesn't engage in formulating agree ment Picher explains-he adj udicates when somebodysay an already existing agreement i v iolated. The baseball cases are heard during February each year, and the arbitratror i n't told what c a e he'll have. "It' j u t, 'Go to Chicago,' Picher aid. The player's repre entative and the team sign every thing in the contract except the salary-they leave that blank. Then the agent and the team each propose a figure. "The arbitrator sits like a j udge," Picher aid. "Both sides have one hour to pre ent and a half hour to rebut. They throw a lot of stat at you of other player in the ame c la for comparison. Then I retire and make a binding award, which the parties have to live with." He mu t write in the salary figure w ithin 24 hours of the hearing. There's no spli tting the

Colby, Augu t 1 992

difference, o arbitration dri\'es a lor of ettlemenr-. Of the four team and players he was a signed this year, all four case were ettled prior to the hearing. "The teams say something like, 'We're half a million apart, we'll give you 2 50,000.' With o\·er 1 50 player assigned to arbitration thi year, only 19 went forward," he aid. Picher's main ac tivity remain railway arbitration. "I'm the only one to hear and dispense of all disputes," he said, "from the d i charge of a locomotive engineer to layoffs of a thousand emplo ee ." That job must han perqui ite , too. He once had the chance to run a freight train through the Canadian Rockie . Picher has sat in human-rights cases, erving like a public law judge in housing disputes. He al o does sport arbitration other than baseball, uch a a ca e involving the Canadian Olympic weightlighting coach who was banned for procuring steroid for his athlete . And periodically he handle academic tenure appeal -a doe hi wife, Pam Cooper Picher '67. Together the Pichers have run a private practice in Toronto, Adj udication Service Ltd . , since 19 3 . Picher came t o Colby after coach Charlie Holt came through Ottawa recruiting high chool hockey player . He light up remembering the night in 1 966 when he cored two goal and Colby beat Merrimack for the Division I I champi onship. He still play hockey and he coaches hi 1 3 -year old' team. His oldest boy, J ean-Michel, enters Colby in eptember with the Class of 1 996. What M ike Picher remember be t about Colb , he said, "wa meeting my spouse and the love of my life. I was chair of the men' j ud icial board and he wa the women' chair. Twenty-five years later we've still got gavels in our hand ! "

trac ti \·e nnr1on to the <Werage a l l -American teenager ( vi:. my 'on, who ar the age nf 16 cannot wait ro break ;1way ;1nd head for rhc sun ) . Bur, C,1lhy College on the h i ll .,t i ll ha, it� magnetic ap l'eal . Arthur, who keep clo�c tie w1th h i� Bronx c 1cncc a� I do w i t h m y N o r t h fi e l d M o u n t Hermnn chool . knoll' that "the good guys head North for the winter." AnJ although igma Kappa left the hill IL1ng ago, the AlphachaprerfounJeJ there 1 00plu year· agoremain inmy heart; it is up to me to tell my Little outhern i�ters all about it. Now all of this prattle i · to get you "G.0.1 . 's" to write ! . . . My life is complete because I just received the '68 Oracle that I reque red. Our ue Cook had an extra one in the A l umni Office. ( My origi nal wa given the heave-ho age ago. Some of you our there might ju r relate to rhi kind of book burning. ) Oddly, it i · a few of you who were listed a "camera- hy" whom I would like to hear from the most . . . . I heard from more than one ource that Pete Roy's daught rs Caroline and Sarah are bor h competition sk ier , winning and fini h ing near the top of race a t M a i ne's famous ugarloaf. arah i already a j u n i r instruc tor. . . . I t wa · brought to my at te nti on that Debbie Nutter Miner, one of those Northern college all -stars to whom I re ferred at the beginning of thi column, would like us to direct our thought to our grand cla reunion, j ust one short year from now. Many of us were born in '46 and rh i year turn 46. To me the 2 5th reunion hould be j u t the right occasion for the bigge t cel ebration of ourselve ( to use a collective allusion to my dear Long Islander Walt Whitman' opening poetic lines in Le aves of Grass ). Permit me to conclude w i t h a h e l l o to some Colby youngblood . John Haynes '88

and a c m .:le of chum� were having a ra iny-Jay reunion at The Break er' on Long I land's orrh _ hore ( where, Walt Whitman would tell you, there are no hreaker except during hurricane ., a.,on ) . John\ wa, a jn\'ial group the night after Valenr ine\ D<1y. Even " ith out the olby jer�ey>, I would have recogni:ed them a one of us.

Correspondent: Anna Thompson Bragg

It i-, evident that our cl as i· nor an idle hunch! Everyone cem to be invnl\Td in a myriad of act ivi ties and occupation"' everal of our ladie are ro be commended for return ing to �chool after years of e1ther work or mothering or both. Roberta Kent English is

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Katherine P. White 1 22 andringham Way Birmingham, MI 480 1 0

Richard W. Bankart 20 Valley Avenue uite DZ We rwood, J 07675

3 1 3-646-2907

201 -664-7672

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Penelope D . Hill ( Penelope Dietz) 1 1 1 4 5 Glade Dr. Re ton, VA 2 209 1

703 -620- 3 569

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Rus ell N. Monbleau 3 Lovejoy Road Milford, NH 03055

603-673 - 5 5 0

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J udith Bri-rol (Judith Hoagland) 3 4 1 5 unset Blvd. Hou ton, TX 7 7005

Robert Gracia 295 Burge Avenue We twood, MA 02090

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Jo-Ann W. French (Jo-Ann Wincze ) 1 04 1 7 White A h TraLl Twinsburg, OH 44087

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Barbara E. Bixby 12 Eighth treet Bayville, N Y 1 1 709

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Sara Rhoades (Sara K. Shaw) 76 Norton Road K ittery, ME 03904

Anna T. Bragg (Anna E. Thompson) P.O. Box 267 61 South Main Sueet Wa hburn, ME 04786

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one of them. he is now a peech pathologist living in ummit , N .J . After 2 0 year , Roberta returned tO chool and completed her master's. he now works with adult rehabiliration patients. She has a on ancl a daughter. . . . Another uch lady is Jane Master Rohrbach ofRobeson ia, Pa., who, over a year ago, rarted graduate school at M il ler ville Univer ity, where her goal wa to earn her ma rer' in education and certifi cation in econclary guidance. How are you doing, J ane ? J ane has been a housewife, mother of a son and daughter and a chool director for the Conrad Wei er Di trict. he has also been instru mental in starting a local l iving hi tory program for chool chil dren that ha been running for many year . . . . Lawrence Kass man ha been leading a bu y l ife in Watervi lle, where he is an emergency physician and direc tor of the emergency department at M id-Maine Medical Center. An interesting part of his career was spent volunteering time with medically under erved people. He pent two month in North Caro l ina at a c linic for migrant farm worker , two month in Arizona on a Navajo reservation and two months in ierra Leone, We t Africa, "at a rural 'hospital' with out electricity or many ba ic sup plies/equipment ( no x-ray, oxy gen, only micro cope by window for lab ) . " There mu t be hun dreds of stories from tho e experiences! . . . Lyn Bixby lit erally reports in from Connecti cut. He i a reporter for the Hart ford Courant. He moved from the Berkshire of western Massachu setts to Connecticut becau e the commute to Hartford became too much. He has bought an 1 8th century house and i fixing it up. When I heard from Lyn he had intentions to canoe the Allaga h. . . . Unles you report to me, I can't report to you ! Colby , August 1 992

THE SEVENTIES

Correspondent: Robin Armitage Cote

write that he vis ited Colby la t spring for the first time ince graduation. He was joined by hi wife and two daugh ters. Hi older daughter, Mika, rayed overnight on campus w ith a tudent and is considering ap plying tO Colby. Ilan notes that he wa amazed w see that hi record for the 60-yard dash is still unbroken and I i red on the wall in the fieldhou e. Quite a record! . . . Clare Bonelli ent me a copy of her family' Chri tma letter. She and hu band M ike weedo had a bu y year, includ ing a new baby, Alice, born in March 1 99 1 , planting and caring for a garden large enough, a Clare put it, "w can ome, give some away and ell ome." Nor tO mention the apple orchard! All of this i in onoita, Ariz., 60 miles ourh east of Tucson. I t ounds l ike a beautiful place tO l ive. This i a big change from her ingle, city dwelling day as a freelance ICU nur-e. Clare says her new job a mommy and garden- tender i much rougher! . . . Jane Stinch field Willett lives in Gorham, Maine. he and her older daugh ter, Beth, visited with Jane's Colby roommate, Audrey Gustavson Dipillo in Reading, Mass., la t summer. J ane ays Audrey ha three daughters and is enjoying painting for a hobby . . . . Anyone who read the Maine Sunday Tele gram probably saw the picture of Barbara Hamaluk working the tep machine at the L L . Bean employee fitness center. Barb i an inventory manager at Bean . . . . I received a great note from Don Bates. Don lives i n Harwich, Ma ., w ith hi wife and two chil dren. He write , "Here's what I 'm not doing: I 'm not pursuing an

llan Hadani

Cofby, Augu t 1 992

e�oteric degree. I 'm not getting brace for my teeth, strand by trand hair-replacement or a face lift. I 'm not re wring a 300-year old farmhouse. And I don't have a golden retriever named Colby." What he is doing is running the family hardware store, landscap ina and long-distance running. He does a lot ofroad races in New England. One winn ing race wa inside the \\'alls of M .C. l . in Bridge\\'ater (for those of you not from M assachusetts, th i is a prison ) . He et a course record and best of all, they let him out ! Don coache running, and both of hi children are runners, mo. One even ran a race at age 3. Did you start that young, Don ? Don would like tO hear from hi former roommate, Mark Fraser. Don mentioned our 2 5 th reunion and promises tO come if he doe n't have a road race. Maybe he and I la Hadani could organize one for alumni ' . . Finally, in ca e you hadn't heard, the Class of'70 was without a c la s agent until Alfred "Buzz" Brown graciou l y rook the job. I'm sure we'll all be hearing from him in the future. . . . But now, how about ending me your news? W ithout news there i n't much to tell unle s you want "what I did on my summer vacation" as told by me.

Correspondent: Nancy Austin

This pace is reserved for the idea , opinion , articles and per onal corre pondence of the Class of '7 1 . Please send me your com ment . If you end it, I'll submit it! . . . The class survey asked the quest ion: " Knowing what you know now, Colby College was ( wa not ) the best place for me during the late '60s because-."

Here' the reply I received from R. Daniel Savory of Winthrop, Maine: "During that pecific time frame ( '68- '7 1 ) I do not believe that any institution ofhigheredu cation was particularly well suited to handle the radical and rapid changes of our publ ic opinion and moral att itude. This e-pe c ially applied w Colby College becau e of its adherence to the e tablished values of the upper and middle classe that funded and nurtured it. This hould not be construed as a rota! vil ifica tion of the ent ity due tO the fact that we as a nation or a world had never before seen anything like it and may never again." . . . Mike Smith, of Auburn, Maine, is win ning the competition for most jobs w ith 39 l isted, inc luding ra dio talk show host, bar bouncer, new paperphorographerand psy chiatric regi tered nurse. Can you beat 3 9 ? If so, call me and we can talk about a suitable prize ! J eff Hood wrote 50, but only listed 1 2 job , including river guide and psychotherapist. J eff's pre endy se l f- e m p l oyed . I n 1 9 8 9 h e founded Adventure in pirit, which teaches elf-empowerment and group effectivenes through outdoor experimental learning in Taos, N . M . You can call him at 505- 75 -4250 for more informa tion and tO find out what the rest of tho e 5 0 j obs were. J i m Hawkins writes from Attleboro, Mass., that he's thinking about completing a Ph.D. and entering the job-number competition once he knows what the prize is. . . . Deborah Wentworth Lan sing of Portland, Maine, i an underwriter at UNUM Corp. he aid that the most useful thing she'd learned since he left Colby was mechanics. She' adopted a Briti h accent and enjoys Cole Farms restaurant in Gray. She al o asked for more information about her Colby friends, o please end in your new . . . . Mary

writes from Montc lair, .J . , that he loves living life to the fulle t and being open tO new opportunitie and challenges. She trie to do her part and hopes that others do theirs. She seems tO be doing j ust that with volunteer work for Habitat for H umanity and AIDS K ids . . . . If you haven't returned your questionnaire yet, there' till time. Right now the mo t often c hecked response i " I 'm too bu y." More of us have computer than have pet , and over 25 per cent of us own guns. I'll compile more information for the next column. . The Baby Watch: Congratulations tO Bruce '7 2 and Nancy Neckes Dumart. Clark Harrison Dumart was born on January 29-their first . . . . Scott Thomas' family, from Fitchburg, Mass., was expect ing its third child in May. Kennedy Steffens

7 2_ Correspondent: Janet Holm Gerber

We had fun at reunion! I didn't see a grim or uncomfortable face all weekend. De pite Saturday's rain, nothing was drenched but our softball plan . The lobster was j ust a ta ty in the fieldhouse, which was j ust as good a spot as any for our class parade. We all experienced the "Twil ight Zone" sensation of reacquainting after 20 years. The weather cleared Sunday for a gloriou morning at the Alfond camp on Great Pond. A few special "sightings": Chris and Deborah Trescott Pinkham at the Friday night gathering; Tracey Danyluk Mendel, Shan non E l liott Zweig and Pam Livingston G i l e s in the art mu

seum-each with three k ids in tow; Matt Zweig and Richard Giles on campus; Judy Moreland 75

Class of 1 972 Offic ers Pre� i d e n t : Bruce H aas V i c e Presiden t : Nancy Round H a ley e c reta ry/Trea�urer: J anet H o l m Gerber Alumni

o u nc i l Repre e n t a t i ve : M i tchell Kaplan

Spitz entertain ing us with ta les of

Cindy, l 0 , and

Katie, 8 . Paulette

fi xing up her old C l luntry hou e in

chi I J ren , 'on Kerry, 1 6 , and

Connecricur; Ty Davis sporting

i' an enth u,ia,,t ic volunteer at �choob and at the Clmhes Im.ct,

a much more con,,ervar ive look

\\'here the home Je,,-, can come f or

daughter'> Tracy, 1 2 , anJ Chris tine, 8. For exerci,e, M ark plays

than I remember; April Nelson McKay expla ining her dec i �i<m

1 11 the N BA ( Noont ime Ba·ket

Dance Camp in Mendocino, Ca l if., and planned to return this ra r

ummer. . . . Cindy Canoll

anJ

h e r hu b a n d , M i c h a e l Bakanas, have three c h i ldren, Phoebe, 3 1/,, and twin Ted and Tyler, I . Cindy ays the birth of

free c lllthing. In add ition, ,,he

hall A-,,,uc 1at ion ) at

thorough I y enjoy� her church < 1 nd

Alan Linsky,

tl) lnok d10ughtfu lly at rrioritic';

it,, related a c t i v i t ie and her tap danc ing lc·M1n,,. Paulette, who m a j or e d in m a t h at olby,

A loha Piano o. in Hawa i i , and Oehhie I kehara ' 7 4 , have a bahy, Amelia Lin,ky, 1 1 /, . . . . Al though

Donna Power, Donna Chris h o l m Sci monel l i , Deborah

compli mented Profc �or mall\ leadersh1r and teac hi ng excel

'91 a' pre,iJent of a carpet manu

Christensen Stewart a n d Cathy J oslyn trave l i ng together; and

Take care, everyone-plan to hook reunion a part of your '93

l e n c e . Paulette', f a m i l y s a w the

foc r u r mg cnmpany 1 1 1 Quehec, he

vacation plan !

what c a n l say ? A l l t h e pep tTILn of us have lost must h;1\'e been

Ki lauea \'Okano erupt \\' h i l e on vacnt ion in H n w a i 1 in 1 986!

. . . Beth Michaud U rie\ fam i l y were very active skier thb p a t

ha' now rclncarcJ to Hermo a Beac h, Ca l if. He i a princ ipal in The lnfi111ty Group, a manage ment consult mg firn1 that re truc

rumred into andy. � hc has more

wi nter; her fothera nd G lenn, her h u band, volunteered on the ,k i patrol ac ugarbu·h. Beth ha� e'

ru re� u n d e r p e rfo r m i n g a n d tro u h l ed h u i ne ·ses . . . . Betty Robin on i, an as'i rant profe sor at Lewi to n - A uburn ol lege, USM. he 1s married to Timothy

to resign frnm a v ice-pre�idenr positk1r1 at Greyh,1und Dial Corp.

Sandy Manoogian Pearce, we l l ,

"spunk'' than ever . . . . Thanks ro Bruce Haas ( c h ief rlanner) and Dick Valone ( head of fund rai ing ) . It was oreat.

tabl i. hed a reputation a' a fine landscare and ornamental gar den Jc igner while al ·o main· taining her l icensed daycare cen ter. Beth topped at Colby for a quick tour la ·t Augu-t en route to

Correspondent: Anne Huff Jordan First, who would li ke to be c lass

Prince Ed\\'ard I land .

he h ighly

recommend camping at the Bay of Fundy National Park. Beth sings a l to in a mall baroque cho

'9 3 ? I need your response ASAP. Drop me a l i ne. Thank . . . . Jim

ral grour in Montpelier and worb in of her daughters' cla,,,ro,)m · . . . . Jim King has a new addreb : 22 Cluny Garden , Morni ngside,

Putnam' wife, M ichele, was room

Edinburgh, E H I 0 6BJ , Scotland .

mother t h is pa t year for their

He has traveled a couple of ti mes recently to France . . . . Chris Hall Salazaranc.l her onsare, ofcour e,

correspondent start ing at reunion

t h i rd-grader, Kristin, and first grader, Douglas, bur has also en j yed

ummer golf, Newcomers

Club and the Foster Grandparent Program roy a uc t ion. Caitlin is their pre chooler. Until a year ago, J i m served a pre ident of the Maine

ociety of Eye Phy ician

and Surgeon , and he is now busy w i th the Rotary board of d i rec

thrilled to be back together as a fa mily s i nce her husband, Jo e, returned from the Per ian G ulf war. They shou l d be in San An tonio, Texas, at Lackland AFB by now . Chri and Jose took sevi l lana flamenco c l asses wh i le stationed in pain, and the whole

rors, the med ical -raff exec ut ive comm ittee at M id - M a i ne Medi

fam i l y traveled via Eura i l through

cal Center and the music com m i t tee at ch urch and with coach

and Swi tzerland la t Augu-r. Hope to see you before reunion '9 3 , Chris . . . . Mark Serdjenian,

i ng soccer. They have h a d many v is i tors, i nc lu d i ng Tom Ireland and fa m i ly a year ago at A lden

France,

pa i n , Germany, l raly

better known a a- oc iate dean of students at Colby, men' soccer

bault Shur and her husband, Bob,

coach and di rector of Colby Col lege soccer camp, and h is wife,

have three c h i ldren, David, 1 3 ,

Tina ( M urphy '72 ) , have three

Camps . . . . Paulette A rcham

olhy.

,,ab, manager of

Ken Gorman 'pent the wint e r of

Women anJ ha a �tepdaughter, arah, I . he was appointed a an employee representat ive to the M a me Board of Arhitramm and

twin boys has changed nearly ev in their da i ly l ive ! . . .

erything

74 _ Corre pendent: Steve Collins From corre pondence: Patrice Fischer-Johnson tudied w i ne making at Fresno rate and ettled in Gatlinburg, Tenn., where he's

com m i ttee of the Fir t Pari h Congreg<1t ional Church and i

a w i ne maker and manager of mokey Mountain Winery. he keep· fit h i k i ng in the Smokie and crush i ng grapes . . . . Anita Dillon reports from Greenbrae,

both a choir member and women' group member th re. In addit ion, Berry i· a member of the Maine

Cal if. , that he married John Dodge in A ugu t 1 990. She' president of Hughes Golf Tours,

Women' · Lobby anJ the execu t i ve com m i ttee and the bargain tng counc i l of her faculty u nion at

in ca e clas mate want ro book a group golf trip anywhere in the world. he says he saw Lynne D'Orland Miller and family l a t year. . . . Dianne Chaplin is a lieu tenant colonel in the U . . A i r

Conc iliation by the governor, and she serve on the ncial act ion

U M. . . Dan and Anne Huff J o rd a n , L a r r y ' 7 2 and J a n Pereth ian Bigelow a n d Bob J u liano '72 had d i nner in April at the home of John '72 and J anet Shreve Marti and ' 7 2 . We enjoyed meeting their talented and hand some on , Dougla and Charles, too . . . . Jan Bigelow was one of the lucky v isitor to Penny Wolf Burn 's home in t . Croix la t winter . . . . Joane Rylander, mar ried to Keith W i l l iam , i a sys tems analyst doing trategic plan n ing. She ha tarted teach i ng c las e in Balkan singing, featur ing music from Bulgaria, Croatia and Rumania. She al o enjoy international folk danc i ng. She ha traveled to Balkan Mu·ic and

Force who, after e ight moves in 1 6 year ( includ ing three over ea po r ) was in Sha l i mar, Fla . , when s h e wrote. he s a y he got lo t in Waterv i l le last year trying to vi it the campu . She also mar ried last year-an F- 1 5 p ilot who immediately left to play i n the "sandbox" ( Saudi A rabia) . . . . Steve Kelsey is in Warwick, N .Y . H e ' s p e n t h is years since Colby developing m i n i tries for Episco pal congregation in Vermont, Alaska and New York and coau thored the book Reshaping Minis try . . . . Laurence Kranich, who has a new addre

in Ro l indale,

Colby , August 1 992

Roberr Capers ' 7 1 , center.

Headliners Robert Capers '7 1 received a 1 99 2 Pulitzer Prize in explanatory journalism for a erie of rorie on the Hubble pace Tele cope in the Hartford Couranr. . . . William Narwold '74 wa named to the board of director at MicroGene Sy tern , Inc. in Meridan, Conn . . . . Lynn Coody '74 wa elected for inclu ion in a new directory, orthwest Women in cience . Coody i an agricultural cienti t in Cottage Grove, Ore . . . . Curt Gowd , J r. ' 7 5 wa- featured in J im Baker' " port View" column m a recent TV Guide. Gowdy called the program he produce·, ABC's Wide World of ports, "the only game in rown for viewers who want a break from mainstream port . " . . . R. Patrick Wood ' 7 5 was named chiefof the liver transplant program at the Univer ity of Texas Health cience Center in Hou ton . . . . William Muller ' 7 5 wa promoted to a ociate general coun el at U UM in Portland, Maine . . . . Michael Scott ' 7 8 w a a m a i n oraanizer o f the ational Examiner Conference o n behalf of t h e Office o f Thrift upervi ion in Wa hington, D.C. . . . Eric Rosengren ' 7 9 was promoted co vice pre ident of the Federal Reserve Bank of B ton.

Newsmakers Ma achu etts Gov. William Weld appomted Daniel Blake ' 7 1 to the Bri to! Commu nity College board of tru tee· . . . . Edward Hanna '7 1 ha establi hed hi own practice in p ychotherapy and family mediation in We t Reading, Pa . . . . A long article in the Ayer, Mass., Times Free Spirit-Public Spirit detailed the work of Valerie Sgrulloni Jenkin '72 at the Children' Extended Care Center, a facility for disabled children and adults in Groton . . . . Mark Curtis ' 7 4 wa named manager of telecommunications and technical ervices at Central Maine Power of Augu ta . . . . David Peck ' 7 5 i the new deputy clerk of the ew Hamp·hire upreme Court . . . . Pamela Simpkins Gothner '75 repre ented Colby at a college fair at the tarren Community Center in Brooklyn, .Y. Accordina to the S/)ring Creek Sun, Gothner srr ed Colby' en e ofcommuniry,faculty-·rudentratio and tudy-abroad program . . . . Gary Lamont i vice pre ident for marketing and sale at McKe on Water Product i n Massachusett . . . . The work of] ane Brox '7 8 i included i n the recently pub Ii hed Menimack: A Poetry Anthology . . . . Deborah Lieberman Smith '79, who formerly guided oil tanker�along the Pacific Coast for Atlantic-Richfield, i the new owner of The Inn at Che-rer in Connecticut. "I can tell you one thing ," mi th told the Pictoral Gazette of Guilford, "there won't be any nautical themes anywhere."

Mileposts Births: A son, Clark Harrison, to Bruce ' 7 2 and Nancy Neckes Dumart ' 7 1 . . . . A daughter, A lexandra Zoella, to Terri M icaelli and Michael Miniutti ' 7 2 . . . . A on, Jack on, to Tina and John Dean '76 . . . . A daughter, Katherine Merritt, to Irene and Peter Lombarde '76 . . . . A on, Donald, Jr., to Donald Thoma and Nancy Garnett-Thomas ' 7 7 . . . . A on, Ryan John, to Janer and Barry Knapp ' 7 7 . . . . A son, Daniel, to Joanne (Lynch ' 0) and Ben Thorndike ' 7 8 . . . . A daughter, Anna Maryam, to Alexander Alikhani and Angela Mickalide '79 . . . . A daughrer, Fiona Blair, to Paul and Corinna Boldi Tamburini '79.

Marriages: Kevin McCormick ' 7 1 to Jane McKean in Wallingford, Conn.

Colby, August 1 992

Ma . , report· that he'· on the atr at Wt-.. l ]X in Bo·ron after 10 year· work ing at WFTQ/W AAF in Worcester. . . . Katherine Dew i · in M iami Beach, Fla., \\"here she has almost finished writ ing a text book on entrepreneur hip. Ellen Suchow Forman, who ha· an M . . in marine science from UniYers1ty of ouch Carolina, i� in Cumberland, R.l. he did ome time in culinary school, ran a catering busine s from home and sold tar Market on the idea of a gourmet take-out bus mes , which turned her into a manager and chef O\'ernighr. he ha t\\"O kid · and ees Pam Brownstein and fa m i ly when she \' i · i r · N e w Jersey . . . . Ted Field i in Wa h ington, D.C., where he' pre i dem of the board of the Urban Philharmon i c ociety. ince Colby he got a Ph.D. at Cornell and traveled th rough Africa, and he i now the director of educa tion for the American Fore try As oc iation . . . . William Calla han reports he and his wife had twins in December '90 but that they had the ituation under con trol as the first b irthday ap proached. Bill was p l ann ing the 1 6th French-lri·h Open Tourney for intere ted aolfer . . . . At dead line t ime a bio '74 crowd was anticipated at the bat mit:\'ah for Brian and Marilyn Lebowitz Roth.berg's daughter Joanna in Penn ykania.

Corres p ondent : Susan Gearh art W u e st ow to hear from tho e who re turned their urvey to me over a year ago. I date them as I receive them and hope the new i not too antiquated! From Holl iston, Ma ., Jane Keary Conner decribed her-elf a a " h om emake r , 77

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mother and asri ringJres maker." After leaving her career as a huyer for BJ's Wholesale Club in 19 9 ro be a full-time mom , J ane tarted her own d res,mak i ng/c usto m clothing husi ness. Then child number three, son Dev i n , arrived on the cene in September 1 990, slowing down her new bu·ine s venture just a little 1 Daughter Erin, I 1 , is a compe t i t ive gym na t who tells her mom regularly that she is an Olympic hopefu l, and on M ichael, 7 , is a Jrawing and build i ng man iac w i th never enough paper, marker , wood and na i l . When work became more tress than enjoyment,Jane found that everyone was happier (save the family budge t ) with her at home . he still play guitar and sings whenever possible and has added an auroharp to her in tru ment collect ion. J ane i al o in volved with the Montessori par ents group in their publ ic chool sy tern . . . . In add i t ion to being president of the Hou e ofWindsor Commerc ial Construction Co. in Georges M i ll, N . H . , Doug Wind sor has been involved w ith a va riety of things. He tarted and coached a !aero se program for the local junior and senior h igh school with M ike Bolduc '77 and organized an e ight-team program in New Hampsh ire. Doug helped organize a student exchange to Kiev, Ukraine, which was "a fan ta t ic experience-the effect of Chernobyl being overwhe lm ing"-and headed up the recon d i t ioning of the 1 8 70 Newport Opera House, where he partici pates in commun i ty theater. I f anyone is in t h e area, Doug i n v i te you to top for kiing on Mt. Sunapee or Lake Sunapee, de pend ing upon the t ime of year. Call him at 603-763-4 1 7 1 . Doug wrote that he had spent consider able t ime with Bill Tuttle, who l i ves in San Francisco, has a Ph.D. in phi losophy/rel igion and is a professor in the U n i versity of 78

California sy>tem. As of a year ago, he wa> traveling about the c o u n t ry p l a y i n g p i a n o at churches. . . Malcolm Fo ter b a tockbroker in Annapolis, Md.; hi· • ife, Le�, is a full-time m1 m ro the ir four ch ildren. Malcolm wrote that hi eldest daughter has contracted juvenile J iahetes, , o they actively part ic ipate i n the local diabetes education and up port programs. Life in general i-. "spent ju t trying to keep up with the kid !" . . . A cardimhorac ic urgeon, Paul Hatton live in Whitefi:sh Bay, Wi · . , with wife Pamela, a phy ical therapi t, and the ir three children: two ons, age 6 and 9, and daughter Emily Ro e, born March 1 99 1 . A year ago Paul had a duck -hunting trip planned to Lake-of-the-Wood , Ont . , with Mark Drollinger ' 7 7 . I n t h e w i nter Paul coache youth hockey and play "old men's" hockey. In the true pirit of fa therhood, he took up the "bor ing" hobby of fishing at hi son ' request! . . . One year ago June , David White became a partner in the law firm of White & McDermott, P.C. in Welle ley, Mas ., with cott McDermott '76. David and wife haron, al o an atrorney, have two daughter : Cathy, , and N icole, 5. Last year their travel plan were well-de fined-sail ing in the Caribbean in April without k ids and Disney World in Augu t with!

Correspondent: Noel Barry Stella

Hi cla mate ! I st i l l have lots of news gathered from la t Septem ber's questionnaire and will try to squeeze in as much as po sible before it is a year old . . . . Carrie Miller Federici, nearly a neigh bor of ours, wrote that she and

President: Steve R y V ice President: Jay H otchk iss ecretary{f rea urer: Le l i e Ram a y ounc il Repre entative: Carol Ford

her hu hand, Ll1ui , an attorney, arc the rarents of two wns. Car rie i employed as nurse practition er/program in true tor at the Yale University chool ofNur ing and in her "spare" ti me is very active in church and professional organ izat ion . Yes, arrie, l would love to get together1 • • • Roland and Adele D' Amico Martel are also a two-career fomily. Roland i plant manager at Borg Warner in New Bedford, Ma s., and Adele gradu ated from the Brown Univer i ty chool of Medic ine a year ago and i rre ently inrern ingat Roger Will iam Hospital in Providence. They are parents l f three boys, Andrew, Gregory and Jo eph . . . . Writ ing from Cos Cob, Conn . , Sherry Deluca note that wh i le he earn her living a· a realror assoc iate, he pends all her time work ing on her house, wind surfing, rid ing her hor e, reading and playing with her dog, Kod i . Sherry i working o n a certificate of finance from NYU, and when she wro t e , he was p lann ing wind urfing trips to Aruba and Baja California . . . . Nancy Ben gis Friedman has founded the I Writer' alon, one of the few writing workshops easonally de cribed in the Village Voice . he and her husband, Robert, a l igh t ing consultant, l ive in ew York with their two son , J ed and Seth. Nancy i· al o working with sev enth- and eighth-grade Ru ian Jewish immigrant at a yeshiva in Brook lyn . . . . Writing from Chi cago, Gary Jones report that he and h is wife, Barbara, and two chi ldren ( Lauren, 1 2 , and Josh, 9) moved from North Carolina ro I llinois a year ago. Gary is a manager at ! FM Electronic there and Barbara is a junior high guid ance counselor. Gary eems ro have weathered the transition wel l , partially because "the jazz in downtown Chicago is great." . . . Leslie Reap Schmidt, a nurse practitioner at UC-Davis Medi-

cal Center emergency depart ment, and her hu band, Fred, are re ident of Placerv i l l e , Calif. Le lie is doing most of the work on the ir log-house - in-progress and is finding that he enjoys bu i lding more than working in the E.R. They hare their land with a orteJ mountain l ions, coyote , bobcat , deer and porcu pines . . . . Ann Beadle and Gary Mi llen '74 live in Freedom, N . H . , with daughter Mered ith, I 0 . Gary is a h igh chool teacher and head football coach, and Ann is a vice pre ident, long-term care opera tions, at UNUM Corp. Ann re cently aw J ulie Cassidy Domen ici and her 3-year-old daughter, Cara . . . . Yet another member of the med ical profe sion, Karen Smith Clark , i a labor and deliv ery nur e in North Reading, Mass. he and hu band Fred, a recently graduated arch itect, have two daughter , Molly, 1, and her big isrer, arah . . . . Al o in New England, Paul Kueffner and his wife, Su an, an editor, reside in outhport, Conn., with their two daughter , Emily and Alli on. Paul is area sale manager for Travelmation Corp., which mar ket a c mputer service that find the best a i rfare for its corporate and travel agent clients. Recently, Paul saw Rab and Martha Bell, who "used to come out from the c i ty to help the Kueffner rake leave a an outing. Now they have their own leaves to rake." . . . Joe and I recently experienced the tres of being a two-career family: thi seme ter I have been e ngaged in fu l l - t i me tudent teaching in order to gain my Masachusetts elementary teaching certification. I t is my hope that by the time our youngest child, Maggie, 2 , is ready for school, the economy w i l l have i mproved enough in western Mas achu ett to allow some hiring within the cho ls. Meanwhile, there are still cour es to take ! Colby , August 1 992

A Savvy Head for Business A

little over a decade ago, Heidi N eumann Han e n ' 7 7 w a among t h e legion of underemployed freelance writer· eking out a living in southern Maine. But thanks to a san·y head for business--combined with the ability to ee a need and fill it before anyone el e claim the turf-Han en now head the state' premier direct marketing firm. Letterwork I nternat ional, a Portland-based company that employ nearly two dozen employee , was founded in 1 98 1 with an investment of j ust 500. ow the company notche 1 million in annual ale . And it all began becau e Han en needed work. "The real i ty of the way thi bu i ne tarted wa that I couldn't get a j ob," he a id . "I wa doing freelance writing for people, and they needed the e erv ice , and the ad aaencie weren't doing it. I took advantage of an opportunity." There was a void in the market in northern ew England, Han en aid, and she was there to fill it. But her ucce in build ing the company, which grew 20 to 30 percent annually for everal years, and her ability to gu ide it through a rece ion that has seen many agencie fold, come down to her talent for thinking broadly. Han en tudied human development at Colby, a major she aid prepared her well for the bu ine s world. And he aid the facu l ty and curriculum at the College encouraged her to develop a ense of exploration and critical thinking. "A lot of facu lty influenced me in that re pect, and more outside the cla room than in it," he aid. "That was in pi r ing to me. They were encouraging about doing something, being someone, changing the world and giving me confi d nee in pur u ing things."

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Direct marketing may ha,·e been a fledgling business in 19 1, but it is now considered the largest sec tor of ad,·erti ing

bu ines·, with ad\'erti er pending more on direct marketing than they do on radio and tele,· ision combined, Han en aid. But he wa prescient enough to know that uch a hot field couldn't continue to !ITO\\' at the rate recorded in the ' 0 . and even a· her busine s boomed, he prepared for a low down . I n 1 9 she plowed nearly all of the company's profits into retiring it debt. In three years Letterwork I nterna tional was debt-free, enabling it to weather the recession and do better than most advertising agencies i n ew England. "It's nice to have all thi stuff," Hansen said, referring to her computer , office equipment and mailing machine , "but we don't want to owe the bank." Han en wa recogni:ed thi year for her busine ucces and her extensi,·e community invol\'ement by Portland' YWCA in it annual Tribute to Women and lndu try. The l ist of her community activit ies is long. ome of her favorite cause are the Portland tage Company, a profes sional theater group, and the Maine Medical Center, where Han en volunteer as a patient advocate in the emergency room. " I t' real hands-on volunteer work, rather than en·ing on a board," she a id. "It' a great way of doing omething ocially redeeming in life." Hansen and her hu band, Bruce, love to travel, and Han en rewards her hard \ ark with a generou amount of vacation time. The couple i plotting a dream trip--a year long cru i e from Maine to Alaska-as soon a they can get away. "I want to see more of the world," Han en said.

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,1ur 1 5 th re u ni o n . Co m e one. come all. cc your old p<t b l i k e Ch r i s Noonan, who'� li , · i ng out side Bo wn and ll'ork ing in real esrare de\'elopment and hi wric pre ·crvation. hris writes that ph otography keep� him busy in his spare time and he enjoy · l ong walb wnh hi� wife, � u ·an, and their d o g , F i n b a r . . . . Sarah Bryan Severance wa wonder ing, "ls there a party at KOR tonighr 1" Wind urfing, renn i-, running, rollerblading and the PTA keep her active in New Jer sey, where she live· with her hu hand, Bruce, and their two boys. a rah works as a freelance graphic designer, ha\'ing once been a e nior art Jc ianer for a New York ad agency . . . . Alix Land abo rrieJ the ad world until l 986, when he ·witched ro manage ment and marketing for architect Frank Gehry. Now she's back in ·chool to get her master's in so cial work. She's already got a head start in her field a a volunteer helping women who ha,·e been raped and children who are griev ing. Alix lives in Portland, Ore., with her hu band , Bruce, his daughter, rwo cats and an occa sional raccoon. . Annette Lum Ngai and her husband are both oftware engineers in Framing ham, Ma La t year she gave birth to her second child. Be tween work and motherhood, Annette says she plays the stock marker (hey, any hot tock tip , Annette ?). Annette pa sed along the news that Huguette Duteau i married to a gynecologist in Florida and that she tao has re cently given birth to her second child . . . . The baby boom con80

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crewing up too badly. " Grea r let ter, Nick, rhank . . . . While we were at Colby, Awew ime o '77, of Ethiopia, lived for a year wirh the Johnson family in Orono, Maine. They have lo t contact with Aweru and wonder if any one knows where they can write him. You can end the informa tion to me and I'll forward it to the John ons . . . . Plea e send gooJ vibe ro Liz Alpert in Bos ton to help her get through year two of her broken back night mare. . . . A for myself, I recently mer John F. Kennedy, Jr., on a story, omething I feel every woman should have rhe opportu nity to do. Plea e vote this fall even if you don't like rhe choice . 1 appreciate the thanks many of you have extended to me for writ ing thi. column. Pleeezz: keep rhe news commg.

Corre pondent: Emily Grout Sprague

It wa wonderful to hear from and Kim Ros i N ichols. Their third on, Benjamin, wa born in January. He joins his brother , Chri , 7 , and Jamie, 4. Ben' godmother i Bev Nalban dian Madden ' 0. Kim is busy with the boy and the PTA a well a fund raising � r the local hospital. N ick is the director of Aegis new construction at Bath Iron Work . They have talked recently with Ellen Grant Carley, who welcomed daughter number four into the world in August of 1 99 1 . . . . I have brief informa tion about Dave Clarendon, who earned his ma ter's in geography this year. Please write and tell u more of what you are up to, Dave. . . . L iz (Yanagihara '80) and Barry Horwitz encl greet ings from Green Bay, Wis., where N ick

ti nue with Lyn H i ldebrandt Holian, who had her fir t chi ld this past November. Lyn and her hu band, Kevin, live in Nahant, Mas . And Lucinda Kearns Hepp became a mother for the first rime on eptember 1 2 , when he deliv ered Elizabeth Anne. Doug and Marjorie Gonzalez Blackwell sent me a picwre of their two cutie , Laura and Courtney. Though they both work, parenthood seems to be rhe biggest part of their lives. When asked what their hobbie were, they re ponded, "Laura and Courtney." The Blackwell report that W o o d y " C l a u s M a n " Woodbury works for Mer Life, Pat and Joan Vicario Sweeney "l ive" on the slopes of Waterville

Valley, N.H., and Doug occasion ally bumps into John Devine and Ben Thorndike '79 on the Bos ton-N.Y. hurtle . . . . Justoutside our nation's capital, N ic k Levin tow can often be found shooting hoop and managing a local oft ball ream. N ick ay that these days he pends more time with his family and friends than he does on hi work a an attorney for the Un ired tates Department of Labor. N ick and his wife, Kathy, live in ilver pring, Md., with their two children, ara, 3, and David, l. When asked what the highlights of his life have been he said, "Winning some big ca e at work, finding the perfect per on to raise a family with and not

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Barry i- the \'Ice president ofplan ning and research for _ hoph1 tore . They are no\\' finally and happ ily errled into a ne\\' home in Green Bay \\'ith their two chil dren, l ichael, a fin grader, anJ Al ison, \\'ho i in nursen· school. They ay thar .;pring in W1-con sin enjoys the ·ame reputatilln a' a Maine pring. We'll trust that e\·eryone has thawed out by the time \'ou read this! . . . Ava-Marie Stone \\'rote age, ago from ew Mexico, where -he was living with her hu -band, Peter Torre· '7 he a ks about the whereabout of Steve Goller. he i- a doctoral ·tudent in clinical p ychology at the Fielding In tirute after spend ing a fe\\' year a a ·inoer ong\\'riter in a Portland, Maine, reggae band-which is how she met up with Peter again. Thcv \1·ere antic ipating a mm·e ro northern California, \\'hich may well have occurred by now . . . . Marie De ito' J une 1 99 1 mar riage ro Tony Falco in Mas achu setrs was the cause of much happy celebration and a couple of min iature c la- reunion for Bets B u c k l i n Gray, Stacey Cox Slowinski, teph ratto '8 1 and me. Marie and Tony will be liv ing in Waltham, Ma, . . . . An gela Mickalide Alikhani and her husband, Alexander, welcomed t h e i r new d a u g h t e r , A n n a Maryam, o n Thank giving Day, ovember 2 . Angela i the cam paign program director for the ational afe K id Campaign of The Children' ational Medi cal Center. Former urgeon Gen eral C. Evererr Koop i- the cam p a i g n c h a i r ; the c a m p a i g n promote accident- and mjury prevention for our nation' chil dren through lobb ino effort , in formation d i emination and a v a r i e ty of p u b l i c awarene efforr-. . . . That takes care of all the recent ne\1· I have; plea e end on any new you have of your elves or our cla mates.

THE EIGHTIES

U.S. Tru�t

Correspondent: Patricia Valavanis Smith Robin Doorly is the Pepsi-Cola

on-si re cl ienr service manager for pectra Market i ng. he bought a house two years ago in Norwalk , onn . , with husband Brian and their two cats, Buster Dougla and B u r c h y . A n "a ggress i v e w i ndsurf r" <1 nd fi t n ess b u ff, Robin i an accompl ished seam stress who recently added jew e l ry-making to her repertoire of avoc a t ion . . . . Dan Sali mone report that he' back i n the Burl i ngton, Vt., area. Formerly i n the health/self-defense field, he's been a cyc l i ng and fitness consu l tant and sales rep for the past two years, tak i ng some time to t r a i n "se m i -seriously" as a triath lete w i th a team in Boston. . . . A n o t h e r c a re e r c h a n g e r , Barbery Byfield, left the field of public health and now works as a screenwriter in New York. She earned an M .F.A. from NYU. Another New Yorker, Brenda Bowen, married author R i chard Goodman in eptember w i th Carol Sly. Linda Davis, Betsy Morrell, Betsy B wen '76 and J ane Hartze l l '8 1 i n attendance. Brenda is v ice president and asso c iate pub l i her in the "books for young readers" di vi ion of Henry Holt and Co. She say the com pany publ i hes about 80 book a year. . N e w J e rsey a ttorney Ellen Mercer Papera is tak ing a break from the legal profe sion to care for her two daughters, E l iza beth, 2 , and Katherine, 9 months. Earlier t h is year she and her hu band, Ray, saw Barry '8 1 and Johanna R i c h Tesman and Lauren Dustin a n d h e r husband, Abid Acosta. Johanna, a pediat ric psychologist, l ive i n Carl isle, Pa., and has a daughter, Emma, 1 1/2• Lauren is a v ice president at

o. i n New York and l i ves i n M n n t c l a i r , N .J . . Roundha l l i� st i l l in the e<mb f or fo rmer C o l b y hoopstcrs J o n Covell and Mark Lake. Jun, who own a land ·caping comr<rny in Brew ter, Mass. , double> as the boy�· a>sistant ha ketha l l coach at N a u�ct Regional H igh , choo l . He and h i s wifc, usan , have thrce daughters. Mark , who worb in ngineering at I nternational Pa per in Jay, M aine, plays rec league h-hall and enjoy� fa m i l y ac t i \· i t ies w i t h wife L i l l ian, Gregory, 5, and daughters J orda n . 5 , and Al l bon, 4 . . . . Sonia Turcotte Fois i doing "l cgi>lative law yering" at the Wa · h i ngmn , D. firm of Arnold and Porter. he keeps in touch with J oy Crafts Cantrel l , a trial attorney with a firm in Lewi-ton, Ma ine. J oy i> the mother of N ichola , 5 . . . Peggy Madden A hworth has been i nvol ved w i t h daughter arah's preschool and with car ing f or W i l l iam, 2 1/,. he and her husband, Craig, a contractor, were b u i l d i ng J new hou e last fal l and searching for a new ·pringer>pan i e l to join the fam i l y . . . . Peripa tetic parents Kel ley '81 and Ann N ichols Kash and their son and daughter j ust fin i hed c a l l i ng M r . Clemen , M ic h . , home after a l most a year's r a y . They're off t o a new de t i nati n pend i ng Kel ley' next a signment as a hospital aJ m i nistrator and captain in the U. Air Force . . . . Paul a nd Kathy McCulloch Wade and Carol ine, 1 1/2 years old, are en joy i ng exploring southern Cal i fornia a n d M e x i co. Paul is a ma r i n e b i o l o g i t/e c o l o g i s t , a n d Kathy works a a n investment banker. . . . That wonderfu l l y massive pile of ' 9 1 questionnaires is finally d w i nd l i ng. One more instal lment i n t h is space, then tay tuned for another missive from me via the A l u m n i Office in the next few months. Of course, independently generated notes

and phone cal l arc always wel cume1

81_ Corre pondent: Beth Pniewski Wil on

If some of you arc wondering why ynu haven't <.cen your name in rhc column, it is becau ·e the re ;pon;c to la>t fa l l ' que tionnaire wa' overwhe l m i ng. H a n g i n there-I w i l l u · c every question naire I rcceiveJ! . . . I recently saw J im Trumm at my office. J i m opened h 1 own l a w pract ice i n Boston l ast year and i doing mo;tly personal injury work. H e i; reac h i ng a legal re.earch c l a · and brought his studem� to the We tlaw tra i n i ng center, where I work. 1 demonstrated how the legal darabase work . J i m and h is w i fe , u ·an Doktor, are parent to fraternal rwin bnys , J o-!-1Ua and pencer, born on the 4th of J u l y 1 99 1 ! They ·ay they are hav i ng a "hla·t" raising twin� ! . . . Harvey Coco i prac t ic i n g lent i try i n Wellesley, Ma s., spec ializing in prn>thctic reconstruct ion i m p l a nt and urgery. He a n d Deborah Stokes were married two years ago and l ive in Welle ley with their two M a i ne coon cats and their dog, Sa·ha . . . . B i l l Maley is l i v ing in Woodbridge, Conn . , and is employed by Fam i ly M anufacturing as a project manager. They manufacture signs for the M BTA i n Bo ton. B i l l has two c h i ldren, David and arah , and a third was due last October. . Dale Oak is l i ving in A lexan dria, Va. He has been working for the Office of Management and Budget in Wash i ngton, D . C . , i n c e 1 98 7 . He a n d h is wife, J anet, have a son, Eric, born Apr i l 2 3 , 1 99 1 . . . . C h r i t i ne ( A h l trom '79) and Dana Russian are l iv ing

in Winchester, M as·. , and have a <la u g h t e r , K a t i e . C h r i i an orwmetrbt . . . . Mary Coe Con nolly is l iv ing in Duxbury, Mass., anJ has three c h i ldren, tephen, Kevin anJ Christine. he i work ing ran time ar South hore H u pita! on the matern ity floor. Christ i ne wa born ju t before our I 0th reunion, anJ tephen was born j ust before our fifth, which i why we haven't een Mary at reunion ! he i a i m ing for the 1 5th . . . . Mike Martinand wife Maureen are parent to three pre chool -aged boy , W i l l iam, J ohn anJ Joey, which keeps them very busy . M ik e i l i v i ng in Farmington, M aine, and ha· a denral rract ice. He took on a new a oc 1 a t e la t fa l l . . . . Mary Brooks Theberge is l i ving i n Orrs I land, Ma ine, and i· a h ighschool math teacher. he and husband D a \ · 1 d h a v e two d a u g h t e r , Ashleigh and Amanda. In her �pare t i me Mary i a Brownie leaJer. . . . J im and Laura Little field Bourne are l iv i ng i n Arl ing ton, Va. Laura is employed by the Food Marketing I n · t i tute a a lob byi t and ed itor, and J i m is an analyst with the EPA's Office of Water. . . . Amy Ha elton is the d i rector of community affa i r at Planned Parenthood of an Di ego and Riverside Countie and is l i ving i n Ocean Beach, Cal i f. he ay to look her up if you are in southern Cal ifornia . . . . J oe Kelliher is l i v i ng in Cambridge, Mas . , and is working for The Center for Psychological tudie i n the N uc lear Age, a nonprofit research organization affil i ated with Harvard Medical chool. He is studying acupuncture and trad it ional Chi ne e medi c i ne at the New England c hool of Acupuncture . . . . Leslie Breton i as oc iate dean of students and chair of the mathematic depart ment at the Storm K i ng School in Cornwa l l , N .Y . . . L y n n Quincy Albert i l iv i ng i n ilver

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A World of Experience L

eah Maher ' 2 , a n attorney with Prime Computer , was bu ily interviewing for an opening in the company' Paris office ix months ago. he'd bought everal French language book and recruited French- peak ing friend a tutor . Then omebody from the front office called. " l t wa the old 'Would you mind going there in, like, two and a half weeks-indefinitely ?' " Maher remembered. Only "there" wa n't Pari . lt wa Munich, Germany, home of Europe' ver ion of ilicon Vall y. Maher i now one of three lawyer in Prime' Munich office and i re pon ible for the company' branche in Europe, the Middle Ea t and Africa. Maher ays he took the Munich j ob becau e he know how broadening change can be. It's a les on she learned during the three year between her graduation from Colby as an economics-government major and her enrollment in the Univer i ty of Akron Law chool. " ! knew I wanted to go to law chool, but not right away," he aid. "My goal for tho·e three year wa to do a large a variety of thing as l po ibly could. lf it was something I knew nothing about, all the better· and if it involved moving, 10 bonu point ." Her fir t top was anta Barbara, Calif. , where he went door to door for the League of Con ervation Voter and managed two M rs. Field cookie emporium . She mo ed to Madi on, Wi ., for a year and wa a laboratory assistant for a profe or in earch of the perfect onion. "We're talking raw data here," Maher said. " ! defin itely perfected the no-tear method of cutting on ions." ix month a a carpenter' a i tant for an all-woman con truction crew capped Maher' extra-academic experi ence ("I decided that l had banged my la t nail, cut my la t on ion, old my last cookie, knocked on my last door" ) , and he returned to her home state for law chool. Her father •ked her to join him in h is firm when he graduated, but he

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decided to head for another unknown territory, Boston, where she worked in marketina for the Boston Opera Com pany before joining Prime a· a law clerk in 1 989. Within a few months, Maher was promoted from clerk to "full-b lo\\'n lawyer," and in two year he earned her tran fer to Munich. Maher doe not peak German, so the company pays for tutoring. "lt' fru tratina," he aid of the language crap, "e-pecially when you're u ed to operating with language at a high le,·el and arguing about where the comma hould go, and you're revertina to the level of a 3 -year-old. Even in the market, you ju t feel like, 'Maybe if I lie down on the floor and throw a temper tantrum I would get the sau age I was hoping for. ' " Maher al o ha been di comfited by what he calls Germany' "ru le-ba ed society" and by the xenophobic be havior of we tern Gem1an toward migrant from the former Ea. t Germany. At Colby, Maher wa a student activi t , a committed fem inist who wa v i ible for the cau e. Be ides attending reunion -she attended her 1 0th in J u ne- he return to campu annually for the alumnae ice hockey game, and he aid that event gave her a proud moment la t year. A former teammate approached her and asked if Maher remembered dressing down the team after some members belittled players on the Northeastern team who wore pink triangles-a gay/ lesbian rights ymbol-on the back of their helmet . "She said he didn't really think about it at the time,' Maher said, "but that what I 'd aid had haunted her later. he aid, 'You were right. We didn't have any right to talk about them that way. ' When you're 19 and you ay tho e thing , you feel that you are right, but then again, you're not really sure. I tried to stand up for things. lt' something I look back on and draw strength from."

Class of 1 982 Officers President: Karen Varn u m Matt V ic e Pre:,ident: J an i c e M cKeown e c retary(Trea,urer: M i m i Ra mu· en Alumni oun c i l Representative: M aryBeth Whi taker M c i n tyre

pring. M d . , ll' i t h her h u,h;rnd, Charley, :md rn·o claughter�. She i, wmk ing m a �m,d l he;1 l r h ,oft ware firm < 1 ' a 'en ior pn1gra111mcr/a n a l y,t and manage r uf tec h n i c a l d uc u n11: n t ' a n d q u a l it y contro l . . . . Wayne '80 a n c l L i z Bu r ton S i l adi ; i r e l i \' i n g i n A ,h l a nd , M , 1,,. L i : b the d i rector nf a n n u;d gi,· ing and region;1l development a t Brandeis U n iv erity in W a l t h a m . . . . Martha "Marty" MacMillin i� l i v i ng in S h a ro n , M a,,. , w i t h h u�hancl George P lc5ko. She is a gener ics counselor w i t h H arvard Commu nity Health Plan i n BLNLm. The y h ave a ·on, S t eph en Plcsko, born q1te mber l . . R i c h a rd Demers is l i, · i ng in Calabasas, Cal i f. , with hi 4 -year-olcl t ri p l e t ! He is working for Roc kwell I nt ernational a:, a physic i ·r . He says i f any c lassmares are in the Los Angelesarea they ·hould look h i m up . . . . Ancl congratularion to Adam and Lynn Bruen Win t e r , who a rc the pro ud parents of �

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Ethan J ame · , born February 2 4 1 They are living in Northborough, Mas .

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Correspondent: Mary Al ice Weller-Mayan _

Corresponden t : Amy Carlson Sally Ludwig White finally got a "ro u nd t u i r " ( h e r words, nor m i ne ' ) and sent a wonderful let ter. ally married in M ay of 1 986. After worki ng ll'ith her hu band as a pri vate chef and later as the admissions d i rector at a head in j u ry reha b i l ita tion fac i l i t y i n W orc e ste r , M a . , she gave birt h ro a d a u hter, Emily Lou ise, on December 1 6, 1 990. Sally added that she and her husband rook Lama:eclas es with Peter Mendes and hi wife, A l l ison, wh gave birth to a on in J anuary 1 99 1 .

Th i> f o l l , ally':,, h u,band w i l l re turn to ,chmil for hi, ma:-.ter\ of ch i n i t y a nd � al l y w i l l be h us y w i t h t h e i r :,ccond c h i ld , due i n J u l y . . . . Derek T a r on wrote that he ha, moved to Tren to n , N .J. , a nd opened a bu5ine5:, cal led Legal W ing,, w h ich pn 1"ides l i t i gar ion ::.en·icc' for attorneys. Prior to h i� mo ,· e . Derck worked for a fi rm t h a t pro v id e d s i m ilar ser ,·iccs i n M a n h a nan for two and a half year,. Good luck 1 • • • Peter Alexis wrote to 'ay th<H he mar r ied J e n n ifer Lennan, "an incred ible wnman," on Ocwber l 2 . M any member� of the c l a,, of '84 �mended , in c lud ing Mike Swift , E l a i n e L a v e l l e a n d C ha r l i e Tenn y , who flew in from Tokyll. J e n n ifer is t he registrar' as,i,rnnt m Emcr,on College in Bo rnn, and Peter worb in the llKal h i> tory/spec ial col lect ion:, room at

The Colby family has ·uffered a loss this year. Susan Brigham Briggs d ied on February l l , j ust

one month before her 30th birth day. ue had cy-t ic fibrosi and uffered all the debil itating s i de effects of the di ease. he kept fighting, though, and pushed her ·elf hard. ue was i n rhe top five of her h igh scho l class and was a good biology rudent at Colby. Com ing from an athletic fa m i ly, ue played h igh chool ba ket bal l , field hockey and soccer. At Colby, she was a manager for the women' basketball team and the ofrba ll ream. I met ue on the fir t floor of the women's quad (Champl i n ) when I wa a fresh man and he was a ophomore.

She wou ld welcome me inrn h e r w o m a n d share her care package; from home. he w a alway:. ki nd ; 1 11d friendly. l never reali:ed the cro,,cs ,hc bore: med ication with a l l meab, a high protein d iet ( try duing t h at ar Co l hy ) and a con 'rnnt need for re>t. ue did not

complain. A collap;cd lung and an operation in her en inr year lefr her recuperating for a cmc rer, which i, why ,he graduated ll' i t h our c l as,. uc went on ro become a re carch biologi t at N .E. Dcaconc. ' HLJ:>p i ta l , work in g in r ra mp l an t rciccrion rc carc h . Accor d mg ro Herbert

Rrigham , , ue's father, he was a dedicated hiologi ·r and e nioyeJ her work. ue' illne s was a I ife lnng ,truggle for her, he said, yet :,he "made it ea·y on her fa mily" with her non-compla ining man ner. Mr. Brigham said uc was "an inspiration to her whole fam ily." My wish i that uc c a n he an i nspiration to us all a· we remem ber her ·rrengrh and determ ina t ion in the face of adver iry. u san is survived by her mother and fa t h e r , Luc i l l e and H e rbert Brigha m , and three brothers. Anyone interested in mak i ng a donation in memory of ue may do so by writing ro Cystic Fibrosi Research, c/o Dr. Kon Taik Khaw, A C 709, Ma . General Ho pi tal, 1 5 Parkman St., Boston, MA 02 1 l 4.

86_ Correspondent: Gretchen Bean Lurie

Boston-area alumni win the award rhi t ime for best respon e to my latest plea for new . Nor surpris i ng, 1 m ight add, considering the large contingent that l i ve there. W h i l e I can't inc lude everyone's information i n this issue, I prom-

i e to ha re your news in a future edition. And now for all the h igh lights you've been waiting for. . . . Deborah Brooks work a an ad venture coun. elor with troubled teens in Bosron' North hore area. Her afterschool program of Outward Bound-type activities ai ms ro build elf-e teem, coping abi lities and group cooperari n. he find the job trying at time bur rea lly near, too. . . Cabot Philbrick l ive in Bo ton's North End, where he' learning about making full- length film and hort documentaries. He run into Pe ter Cooke and Peter' new wife, Mary Ann, at the local breakfast por . . . . Isabel Well s i a mark e t i n g c oord i n a tor in t h e c h i ldren' division a t tricle Rite Corporat ion. ince la t fal l , he's been living in Cambridge and enjoying the c lose prox imity to Harvard Square . . . . Rick Tol strup'- company, A M I N E X , which pec ial i:e in in urance per onnel searche throughout the U . . A., has po red rwo and a half profitable year ince incor poration in 1 990. A lthough he's not getting an M .B.A. r J . D., R ick enjoy life in Bo ton with h is wife, Robyn, and neighbor Christine ( Palmer '87 ) and Mike Savage. . . Matt Hartley run a mall company that doe wellne and health promotion programs in corporations. He and w i fe J ennie Web rer Hartley '89 l ive in Harvard, Mas . Amy ( Lumbard '88) and Guy Holbrook l ive i n Boston, where G uy i an invest ment representative with Scud der, revens a nd Clark . . . . Amy Barnes Hurley is a financ ial offi cer at Shawmut Bank and i al o pur uing her M . B . A . in Boston. W i th an 8 - mo n t h - o l d baby, Kevin, that makes for qu ite a busy - c h ed u l e ! . . . M a rk B u r k e reaches at Cushing Academy i n Ashburnham, Ma ., and coaches their ki ream. H e also spent part of thi past year a as i tant dean Colby , Augu r 1 992

Headliners

Maine girl ' ice hockey. Charwat coached theCa coBay girl ' team, one of only four

Glenn Davis '80 wa promoted to vice pre ident in the a et management area of State Street Bank and Trust in Massachusetts. . . . Robert Ruzzo '81 wa

uch teams in the tate, through it fir t eason, concluded last pring. he i as i ted by Anne Boatright Beaney '85. B o t h p l a y e d h o c k e y o n M a yflower

named partner in the law firm of Sherburne, Power & N e edham in Boston . . . . Paintings by Gae Zimmer

Hill. . . . Timothy Kastrinelis '86 wa promoted to enior account executive of Confederation Life in uranceCo.' north east region group sale office . . . . Helen Muir '87 wa named

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mann '82 were featured in a recent exhibit at Syncronicity Space in ew YorkCity, and theGalerie Jacque Bailly in Pari pre enteda showof culpture by Anne Baxter '83 . . . . Randy

director of annual giving at the Madeira School in McLean, Va . . . . Chris Vickers '87 made a recent i ue of Business and

Mitchell '86 was promoted to vice president, community banking at FleetBank of Maine. M itchell al o earned praise for

the Environment. Vicker· i marketing manager for Green Cotton, an organic fabric concern acquired in January by VF

hi work a head of the WatervilleCouncil ofBigBrothers/Big i ter of Kennebec Valley from volunteer c rdinator Denni Tompkins . . . . Paul Mooney '87 wa· awarded the 1 99 2 -93 Jame Michener-Paul Engle Literary Fellow hip. Mooney i completing a novel, The Juggler. . . . Steve Sanborn '87 took

Corporation, which i chaired by Larry Pugh ' 5 6 . Vicker told the magazine he hoped Green Cotton would " pill over into other VF divi ion ." . . . Stephanie Ellison '89, who returned from a two-year Peace Corp tint in Kenya, wa the ubject of a feature article in the ewark, N .] . , Scar-Ledger. Elli on told the paper he wa aiming for an M.B.A. but that "if the Peace Corp contacted me tomorrow and aid they had another pot t r me, I 'd be gone in a minute." . . . Kimberly Joy '89 wa named communication department assistant at ebago, lnc.

part in the United tate Information Agency' Fulbright Teacher Exchange Program thi year. anborn, a biology teacher at G uld Academy in Bethel, Maine, traded place with a counterpart in zolnok, Hungary. . . . Megan Patrick '89 won two top honor , the Pace etter and the Di tingui hed ales Repre entative award , at the annual meeting of the Clopay Corporation in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Newsmakers Economic tudent in Greenfield, Ma s., are benefitting from the experience of Timothy Rice '8 1 , according to the Greenfield Recorder. Rice, pre ident of Rice OilCo. and Rice' lee, volunteer for the pingfield-area chapter of J unior Achievement, which helped develop a high chool cour e called Applied Economics. . . . Karen Melino '84 wa named a i tant dean of student affair at Bab on College . . . . Two Colbian made headlin during recent trike by underpaid and overworked graduate teaching a· istant at Yale Univerity and the University of Ma achu ett at Am.her t. Mark Harmon '84 wa the ubject of a feature article in the Bridge port Post on the ituation at Yale, and tudent union leader Emily Issacs '88 helped explain the i ue at UMas for reader of the Boston Globe . . . . Shoshana Perry '84 tepped in when a predominantly non-Jewi h ca t of Univer ity of Maine the pian needed a quick cour e in Jewi h hi tory and thought to enhance their production of Fiddler on the Roof. Perry i a rabbi in Bangor. . . . Catherine Walsh '84, an editor at the S t . Anthony Messenger in Cincinnati, earned the opportunity t o vi it and write about India under the International etwork of Young Joumali ts' Winter eme ter, a program for young Catholic journali ts. . . . Jim King '85 wa hired as a general ��1gnment reporter by WHEC-TV in Roche ter, N.Y. . . . Lauren Watson Charwat '83 i helping to blaze new trail in

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in Westbrook, Maine.

Mileposts Maniages: Elizabeth Coates '83 to Michael Bunting in Hingham, Ma . . . . Neal Steingold '83 to Linda Kaplan in Brookline, Mas . . . . Eric Coumou '84 to ancy oye in orth ullivan, Ma . . . . Louis Geremia, Jr. '85 to Susan James '85 in omer et, Ma . . . . Lauren Russo '85 to Michael Chocholak in Hartford, Conn. . . . Michael Savage '86 to Christine Palmer '87 in We ton, Ma· . . . . Robert Bums, Jr. '87 to Li a orman in Framingham, Ma- . . . . Theodore Greve l i s '87 to Cynthia anguedolce in M e th u e n , M a . . . . Pamela Nichol '87 toDavid Manuelin ewCanaan, Conn . . . . Stacy Mathews '87 to M ichael Bu-hey in Bo ton, Ma . . . . Christopher Powell '87 to Su an Willey in Es ex Junction, Vt . . . . Kathlin Sweeney '87 to John Rothermel l l l inBo ton, M a . . . . SherylPowers '88 to J onathan Goldman in Waterville, Maine . . . . Joshua Marx '88 to Stacey Mendelsohn '88 in orthport, .Y. . . Robin MacWalter '89 to Timothy Martin in Pl mouth, Ma s. Births: A daughter, Flannery Claire, to Anthony '80 and Mary Mullen Cunningham '8 1 . . . . A on, Daniel, to Ben ' 7 and Joanne Lynch Thorndike '80. . . . A daughter, Phoebe Germaine, to Karen Orloff '8 1 and Brian Maddox . . . . A daughter, arah Michelle, to Skip '8 1 and Melissa Rihm Thibault '84 . . . . A daughter, Hayley Irene, toDiane Zavotsky '82 and Daniel McClenahan. . . . A on, Luke Timothy, to Timothy Fraser and Lee-Anne Famolare '83 . . . . A ·on, Carlton Day, to Tom '87 and Kathy Pinard Reed '86.

Class of 1 98 7 Officers Pre ident: Tom H ubbard Vice Pre iJent: M ike Ashley Secretary{[ reasurer: Lucy Lennon A l u m n i Counc i l Repre entative: Kelly Powers

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of the -;choo \ . . . . David Epstein w i l l head ro Beanrn\\'n chi� foll for w o r k on a ma,rcr' in cnun:-.c l i n g a t Bosro n o l l c ge . . . Heather Reay returned rn M i n neapolis hbt fal l anJ gnr a new j ob w i th a management con�ult i ng firm. he and Charlie Clip pert , a M innesota law st udent , feel a l i t t le strange wi thout the fam i l i ar Colby face found back East . bur they manage w keep the Colby spirit ali\'e in the Gopher S t a te . . . George and Kris Bums Gibson became parents to a baby girl, H i lmy Cornelia, la t fol l . George j u r completed h is fi r r yearofre idency in i n ternal med i c i ne ar the U n i\'ersiry of Colo rado, and Kri� i · enjoying mot h erhood. They manage to k i , hike and scuba di\'e when wearhe r and child perm it . . . . Karen and Ed ward Stinson celebrated the birth of their fin c h i ld, Mary Anna, last December. N ed is an ant iques dealer/appraiser in Delaware . . . . Kevin Mead is a buyer for Macy's Ease in N YC. He and fiancee u an Ke! logg were bu y organ iz i ng a n A ugust wedding and con templating relocating to the M id west or Cal ifornia . . . . Jeffrey and J enn ifer Douglas King have re located to arasota, Fla . , and en joy driving their convertible and playing golf. Jeffrey was promoted to region al m an ager for the Florida region of M as achu err Financ ial ervices, and J enn ifer i in m u t u a l fund s a l e s for Fidelity . . . . Amy Bleakney Neil and her husband, Mark, have moved to Boca Raron, Fla. Amy ha been very active volunteer ing for various ch urch projects, i nging in the c hoir, playing the piano and bei ng a mom to 1 1/r year-old Kara . . . . John and Sara Campbell Kelemen l ive in an Antonio, Texas, with the ir 1 8 month -old son, J ack. J oh n fin ished h is urgical intern hip and j u t tarted work at the burn unit at Fort Sam Houston. . . Clo er 86

[l) homc-my home rhat b-livc' Ann anborn. Ann is a pri,·me in\'eor1garor in Orange Count \ . Cal if. h e w<1' married ro al Ciulla in J unc ot la:-.t year and keeps bu�\ w n h the loca l Junil1r League, aeruhic:-. and golf. . . Thar\ all for no\\'. For rhme nf you who ha\'en 'r yet returned the March que·r ionna ire, don't he shy. We'J l n\'e to hear frnm you, rno 1 Be,r wi>he, to e\·eryl1ne for continued happine> and 'ucce''·

Correspondent: Emily J, Isaacs N ina Calhoun, Katie Maloney and Mary Federle Porter arc

pri marily re pon,ible for the follow ing new . Thank you for writing! . . l rhmk perh a p · N i na gets the award for the most up-to-date ' er. She writes: "Laurie Meehan Reed 1 1 \'e · happi ly in Portland, Maine, with Peter Reed ' 9. (Matt Stetson is also living in Port land . ) Margaret Schafer i li\' ing in New Yl rk but trm·eling a lot fol lo w i ng college foorball for A BC. Joann Koletsky is working at Mass. General Ho pica! and l i ve in the N orth End. J eff Pac kman, recently engaged to Karen Linde, is fi n ish i ng hi, M . B . A . at Bab on. Stacey Men delsohn married Josh Marx last summer; they now l ive in cattle. Dave Scannell is still out in Indi ana teac h i ng. Kathy Brad ley graduated from Vermont Law chool and now l ive in yra cuse, N .Y. Heidi Senkler l i v e in Portsmouth, N . H . , and work in Cambridge, M a . Tom J ester lives in Washingron, D. . Vic k ie Caron work in Portland for the Verril l and Dana law fi rm. Toby Bell and Randy Catlin work for Bath I ron Works and l ive in

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De andro b expecting her fir t c h i l J and working ar Mo es Brown

, chnnl . Chris Hurley live in Arl 1 11grnn, M<tS''-· and ell phar1mic c u r i c a b. J ohn Mc inch , m a rri e d in May 1 99 1 , worb at Lega l :eafomb. Bob Mu rray married Kristin herman ' 9. ancy Donahue, continuing at uffnlk Law cho 11, wa:, recently engaged. Kristin ween work for an in�urancecompany. icola Rotberg 1' at the Univcr,iry of Vermont Medical choo l . Ann Armstrong Baine 1' happ i l y married a n d l i\'ing in Penn,ylva n 1;i . ell Walker i' at the Uni \'Cr�ity ot Maine law chool in Portland. Garrett Hinebauch \\'a la,r :-.een reach ing at the Berk ,hire chool. Toby LaVigne i in publ ish ing. Jonathan Selkowitz live' 1 >ur in Jacbon Hole and te<1ches ,k 1 1 ng." Unfortunately, 111a wrote nothing about her ,elf. Pcrhap� one of rhe 2 7 abo\'e mcntioned people could end me a n o t e on what N i n a is up r I . . . Katie Maloney wrote that my mquiry a, to how the ew England rcce ion was affecting '88er� prompted her to write for the fir,r time. After li ving and work ing in Portland, Maine, for three and a half years, Karie wa laid off recently from the Port land M useum if A rt. Rather than bearing the dead hor e we know as New England, Kar ie i · moving to r . Thomas for a change of pace. Good l uck, Katie. Karie also pa ·sed along new from others: Demetra Giatas i· living in Hun gary with her husband. A class mate of Nell Walker at the Uni versity of M a i ne law c hool , Ginger Nowak worked dil igently to ga in her law degree. he then wrote ( on A p r i l 2 5 ) : "Todd Nicholson will be married to morrow. But you probably al ready know all about thar." Gue s what ? I didn't. A nd a for a l l the re r of you who moved, slept, got a new

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u,h i, ent out another 30 re umes to no avail, traveled to A l aska, married, fought off a bad winter cold or became parents, 1 don't know that either! l'm afraid I can only write what l know, and I can o n l y k now w h a t you write . . . . Carol Anne Beach ha returned to Colby a head coach of Colby's women' basketball team. l for one wa very plea ed ( hut nor urpri ed ) to ee that with CA B as coach, the women of Colby'· ba -ketball ream boasted the highe r collecrive GPA ( 3 .2 1 ) of any winter ·quad . A we all know, grade are not everything. Nonetheless, hats off to CAB and the women on her team for bear ing down the myth of athletes performing poorly academically. As a teacher of Engl i h l have learned from my student athlete of thi incorrect stereotype co ub w h i c h · o m e profe or scribe . . . . A l o a t Colby, of cour e, is the '88 contact in the A l u m n i Office, M ary Federle Porter. Ar my bidding, Mary wrote ofher own life: "Well, my life has been very different from what I thought it w u ld be. l met my hu band, Jeff Porter, while work ing i n enator M itchell' office. Jeff works for enaror M itchell in Portland, and when l wa work ing for M i tchell in D.C. l wa sent to Portland to work on h is cam paign in '8 Jeff and I began dating then, and then one thing led co another and we were mar ried in J uly of '90. Then a l ittle over one year later, Molly Kather ine was born. he' a great l ittle girl who miles and laugh a lot. he went on her fir t airplane in February, when l went to D . C . on Colby busines ; she pent the n ight at Sue Jacobson' apart ment ! " . . . Not only is Mary k ind and d i l igent in informing me to hit the M ac and pump our a news letter, he i al o working to rally us ' Ber to tart planning for our reunion next spring. Your class

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Comrades in Courage Ti1ey did not know each ocher, but both were members of Colby' Cla of ' 7. he was a head resident who had a double major in Ea·t A ian srudie and tudio art, loved to j og and was looking forward to spending a semester in Japan. He played wing on the ice hockey var i ty , majored in economic and planned to head for Europe after grad uation. Then their live changed. In ovember 19 4 , Jon Doehr di covered he had testicular cancer. A year later, Kathleen Lowney wa d iaono ed with m·arian cancer. Each underwent urgery, returned to graduate from Colby and is now pursuing a career. They met, finally, at their fifth da reun ion in J une, and they discu ed the ir experience . "I don't think it ever h i t home with me that I might die," Doehr aid. "Everything tarted happening so fa t." "In the fir t few week ," Lowney aid, "I kept a king myself, 'What do I need to d ?' You really are on your own . Ir' only you . l did keep a j ournal. I wen t back and read it the other n ight, knowing we were going to have thi conver a t ion. l did a k , 'Am I going to d ie ?' Then I kind of let that go. I aid, ' I 'm 20 years old. I 'm nor ready to die.' And I wa n't." Doehr's diagnosi began with a routine physical at Colby two day before the tart of hocke practice. When he mentioned to the campu doctor that one of hi te t ides eemed to be hardening, he wa whi ked off to Mid-Maine Medical Center for urgery. After te t revealed that the cancer had pread to hi lymphatic ystem, he had a econd operation duri ng Chri tmas break. He returned to campus for the econd eme ter and even played ome hockey. Lowney ay he went for a phy ical in the fall of her j unior year ju t to be sure that he wa not tak ing any health problem to J apan. " I felt fine," she aid. "l was runn ing every day and working out." I t turned our that she had a seven-pound tumor. "It was the weight of a basketball," he aid. "At fir t they thought I m ight be pregnant. l aid, ' lf I 'm pregnant, then there' been another immaculate concept ion. ' "

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Lowney required intensive chemotherapy after surgery. When she returned to Colby, what little hair she had left was temporarily bleached. "More than one person said, 'Who's that punk chic k ?' " he said. "It really hit me then how much people j udge you ba ed on your appearance." Lowney and Doehr both say their biggest concern was whether they could have chi ldren. Between h is two opera tion , Doehr aid, he went o far a to join a sperm bank in ca e he lo t both te tides to the d i ea e. After doctor assured him he could reproduce, he had the sample withdrawn. "It wa co ting 40 a month to maintain," he said. Doehr twice captained the hockey team and following hi en ior year was awarded the ECAC medal of valor. He went to Europe to play hockey before returning to Detroit to work in a bank, then returned to Frankfort, Germany, last year to play on a team ponsored by Chase Manhattan Bank. When that quad folded, he landed a po ition as regional cred it manager with Merrill Lynch in Chicago. Lowney did go to J apan. he comple�ed her degree requirements in the fall and marched in the 1 988 Com mencement. She worked at Tufts University's cri is evalua tion center for psychotic patient for two years, then took a j ob with the American Cancer ociety in Philadelphia, where he sets up program to promote education about cancer and its early detection. Both have physical scars, but each in ist that there are no emotional ones. "In a trange way I'm k ind of glad to have gone through it," Doehr aid. Lowney nodded, add ing, " I t enhanced my life." lf anything, Lowney says, she wonder why she was spared cancer's worst ravages, not why she sh uld have contracted it in the first place. "Once when my ister's best friend died in the Pan Am era h [in cotland] ," Lowney said, "and again when our cla mate, Dana Feitler, was ki lled [in a Chicago robbery], l remember thinking to myself, 'Why was l saved and not them ?' I don't know where God was at those moments."

Correspondents officer�. John Seidl ( i n a l ifor nia ) , Dave Rand ( i n Alaska ) , Tim Wissernann ( l h;wcn 't a clue where he i. -T1 1n , \ITite me ) , Vickie Caron anJ l arc going to need a kit of help tn pull th1� t h i ng off. While l th ink Mary \\'i l l certa inly b e invaluable, he doc::. have a job rn Lkl, �o we mu·rn't rely heav ily Lm her 1 l nt e re::.red ? . To end , new from afar. Ap parently, Paige Alexander, walk ing the . r reet of her hometown, Kumamoto, Japan, ran into Bill Baerg, who rolJ her that he was happily engaged to a woman from Kumamoto. Wel l , c la::, mates, it':, true , you d )n't have to write. You can j ust walk the street::. a lot hoping you'll run into clas�mate::. who w i l l .

Correspondent: Deborah A. Greene H e l lo e\·eryone 1 As l write I am dust ing off my h i k ing boots and fi l l ing up my backpack for an other summer i n Ala ka, looking forward to returning to the griz :l ies and glac iers. I t seem only fin i ng that I start thi column with omeone headed in the op posite direction: John Semple gets the "Jack Kerouac Dharma Bum" award for being on the road once aga in. Th is t ime he checked in from Caba, Mexico, one of the top on h is rambles throughCen tral America, "mostly to study the archaeology of the Maya , but also 'cause I like bumming around the world." He reported that the ruin are " i ncred ible" and that the rest of the Yucatan Peninsula was wonderfu l . warm and cheap. Sounds like my k i nd of place 1 • • • Wh ile many of us have had more job i n the three year i nc e graduation than we

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had in all the year before, other c lassmate have been q u ie t l y working away in t h e same locale. One such person i::. Lisa T roeger, who wrote from Mali as she was fin i·h ing up her close-of- ervice reports for the Peace Corps. A of April -he was heading in an east erly d i rection, with plans to see as much of Nepa l , I ndia, Tha iland, I ndonesia and Malaysia as pos sible, "until my money runs out or until one of the unidentified paraites swimming around my in sides gets to be too active. After that it is back to California, where I would love to have visitors." . . . Mark Cosdon wrote from Seattle to update me on s me of the b ig changes in h is life, the first being

the lo· of hi " eattle way" after two years without a haircut. N ext on the l ist, but by no mean ec ondary in importance, is h is J une 14 marriage to Hannah Treitel. a 1 989 grad of Connec ticut Col lege who works a a drama thera pist at the Fred Hutchin on Can cer R e s e a r c h C e n t e r . T h e wedding was to b e in her home town of Columbia, Md., and at tended by Colby classmates John Reynolds, Tim Fisher and Kerri Hicks. After a Caribbean honey moon, the couple planned to re locate to Medford, Ma s., where Mark will begin h is graduate tud ie in theater, l i terature and criti c i m ar Tufts. l th ink l mentioned in an earlier column that last No-

vember Mark d i rected a play by Kerri cal led NicAnon, a comedy about a upport group for mak er . What [ didn't know was that it featured an all-Colby ca t ( and Hannah, of cour e ) , includ i ng Greg R ussell, Jon Robbins '90, Dan Spurgin '90 and Nori ter ling '90. Jon Gale '90 wa on ound. I 'm hoping that Mark's move to the Ea t Coast w i l l mean I 'l l be able to catch some of the e world premiere ! A I it here and enJure another rainy day in Con cord, Mark's comment about the wonderful pring weather and c lear kies they were havi ng out there confirmed my suspicions. No doubt the great weather gods up in the sky got a l ittle m ixed up and gave us the weather that was intended for eattle! . . . Kath leen Dowley a l o planned t be married in J une, and classmates Sarah Nelson Dalrymple and Kirsten Sherman Murray were to be in the wedding. Kathleen' fiance, Matt Denno, is a medical student at Wayne State, and Kathleen i a Ph.D. candidate in pol it i c a l c ience at M ich igan State . Best wishes to this studiou coup l e ! . . . I recently bumped i n to Kelly Doyle's mother in aerobics cla s, and being the conc ientiou c la corre pondent that I am, managed to get the scoop on Kelly even while burn ing 250 calories an hour and go ing into oxygen debt. Kelly is l i ving with Kate Roosevelt in Seattle and working as a upervi sor for the Pacific c ience Cen ter. She's in charge of 40 to 50 teachers who do assembly pto grams for Seattle schools, and on the side he rakes c lasse at fil m school at n ight. A n d that's a l l I c o u l d remember in between power lunges and tricep lift ! . . . Take care, everyone, and please write and let me knowwhatyou re up to 1

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THE NINETIES

Correspondent: Debbie Adams

Hello cla mate ! Please accept my apology for being ab ent the pa t few column ; during ba ket ball eason m) life get a l ittle out of control. I ha e gonen a few lener from our class, but I defi nitely would love to receive more! l don't run into a lor of Colby people I haven't already written about, o take a few minutes to drop me a po tcard . . . . Kathrine Cole wrote about her travels to A ia with boyfriendJack Aydelott '9 1 . The trip ounded great. They spent time in Thailand, Malay ia and ingapore during the monoon ea on. "It was incredible," he wrote. ow Kathrine is in Portland working a a benefit y temsas i tant. . . . PeterSekulow tell me that he i living in Port land, Ore., and working on the campaign of enator Bob Pack wood. After the election he i planning to return to Washing ton , D.C. . . . It is with a lot of adne that I write the next bit of new . In February l attended the funeral of Steve Webb. teveonl attended Colby for rwo year be fore tran ferring to Cornell, but I know that he entered the live of many of u on Mayflower Hill. H i unexpected death wa diffi cult for all hi fr iends. H i Colby

roommate, Jon Gale, spent the past year w ith Steve in eattle, and my fresh man-year roommate, Marlene Feidelseit, also remained very close with h im. Being at hi memorial ervice with Jon and Marlene really reminded me how pecial our time at Colby was. There are many friend we made our first year with whom we per hap lost touch as we became uppercla men. I ran into Jeff M e r r i l l at a party at B rian Clement's, and he ·aid te,·e wa the fir t person he met at Colby. 1 ch ink that we all can remember the initial friend we made a we came together a very green fresh men: a fellow COOTer, our room mate , or in my case, Dan Spurgin. Plea e be reminded chat although time and d i tance ha come be rween a lot of our Colby relation ships, there are many people who will always remain clo e to our heart . And if you have the time, give them a call and remind them.

91_ Correspondent: Brad Comisar

Greeting cla mare ! ince l had little new in my mailbox thi year, a que tionnaire went out to a quarter of the class. Thanks to

all of you who responded and ub equently provided lot of news for chi column. If you haven't received a questionnaire, never fear, they are heading your way. Look for your respon e in the No,·ember i sue . . . . Patty Masters and Caroline O'Malley upplied the first letter to the column. They have been li,·ing in ewton and playino in Bo ton. Patty has been completing a management training program with CV (you know, "today's nei hborhood drug tore") and has bumped into Jeff Nash and Sally White in her store on eparate occa ion . Caroline is working at Harvard Community Health Plan a an account repre entative. She help manaoe accounts for 400 companies and loves her job and Bo ton . . . . J ust a few minutes from Patty and Caroline re ide Matt Greenlaw ShawnCrowley, Blake Liebert and Jeff D ' Ales s a n d r o . M a t t i work ing a t

cudder a long w ith Malcolm Chace '90 and Twisty Gogolak. hawn i at Fidelity lnve tmentS and Blake is doing research at Mass. General. Jeff is attending the chool of Public Health at BU . . . . Sue Cummings i in a management program with Well by' drugstore ( Patty' rival ) and i l iving in Portsmouth, .H . . . . C o l l e e n H a l l e c k and C a t h y Breen are keeping chem elve bu y in Washington, D.C. Cathy is working while going to grad

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school at Georgetown . . . . Elaine Jorgensen managed to find a com puter in Anchorage, A la ka, and sent some new . he i in the Je uit Volunteer Corps, working as a soc ial worker in a soup kitchen. Although her work is draining, she love her job and find Ala ka beautiful. he writes that Amy W a l t e r and L o r i Wright are li,·ing and \\'Ork mg in D . C . , as are " J u n g l e " J a n e Maloney, Cassie O 'Neill and Chip Smith . . . . Othercla mate can be found in the Bay area Lauren Knebel, Clark Weber, Becca Pratt, Emily Gallagher, R eb e k a h M i t c h e l l and J i m Lamberti are all \\'Orking in or near an Franci co . . . . Nancy Smith i reaching at Fryeburg Academy in Maine , and Dave Unruh i working in admi ions

at Colby and living in Watef\·ille. Elaine send her congratulations to Trish O'Sullivan and Rob Hyland '90 and to Paul Davis and Kristin Herbster, who are engaged. . . . Becky Streett brings more news from Bo ton. he i living w ith Liz Morse, Rebecca Winokur and Susan Willis in Che tnut H i ll. Becky work for a company that arrange interna tional tour- for high school sru dent to the U.K. and Ireland. u an is in market ing at the Harvard Common Pre s. Rebecca work with place lee in a medical lab and take cour e at BU. Li:' i a paralegal at Hale and Dorr . . . . Galen Fisher writes that he ha been busy tudying at U Penn Medical School. Over the um mer he planned to bike acros the United rate to rai e money for a minority cholar hip fund . . . . J ohn Fort tarted hi own com pany, Landlocked Marine Filtra tion ystems, in Park City, U tah. The compan de ign salt water fish tanks and filtration y tern . He shares a house with Doug Fenn, Sand Calhoun, a golden retrie\ er named Colby and ev9

eral fish tanks. Dl)Ug totaled 1 1 7 day-; of -,ki ing la t winter and is pending the summer camp mg, rock c l i mbing and windsurfing. . . . Bac k on the Ea t Coa t , Michele Friel writes that �he is enjoying her job at Planned Par enthood in Worcester, Ma s., where �he i a coun elnr and health educator. he lives with Diane Osgood and has a terror for a cat. . . Steve Collier i, in D.C., where he work as a parale gal for Ritter and Eichner. He planned to bike through Europe rhi , -um mer before attending law school in the fall. . . . Peter Car penter io a groupsale representa tive for un Financ ial Group in eattle, which has proved to be ,·ery rewarding. This pring he visited Colby with cott Hou er '76 to recru i t for un Life . . . . Kristin Beisler ha a great job as a computer programmer w ith U P in New Jer ey. Although she love her job, she mis'e spring at Colby, BBQ , parties, c lean air and un hine . . . . AshleyComell is completing a financ ial man agement training program with Lockheed aunder in Nashua, N . H . , and is tak ing cour e at Bentley College . . . . Ben Ames is learning the meaning of rejec tion from editors a he looks for a teady job in journalism. This year he has been freelancing in Or egon, and he i planning to move to New York with Matt Bourgault '93 and Fred Stewart. Ben is also teaching Engli h as a Second Lan guage, tudying pani h and dreaming ofa ma ter's in journal i m . . . . Megan Finley i a devel opment assistant at the Maret School in Washington . . . . Becca Brackett is l i v ing with her i ter in Dalla and working at a restau rant while pursuing a "real" job in art and soc iology . . . . After a tough year teaching third grade in Jeffer on Parish, La., w i th Teach For America, Jan Fortin is looking for a new career, po sibly 90

Newsmakers Jeff Cox '90 wa named as i tant directorof tudent activitie

at the C.W. Po t campus of Long 1 land

Univer ity . . . . M.F. Chip Gavin '90, a reporter with the Cen tral Maine Morning

entinel, interviewed cla -

mate Janet Boudreau at the height of the Lo Angele di rurbance . Boudreau, a teacher in Compton, Calif., told Gavin that he wa trying to be optimi tic and "think everything i g ing to be okay, that l could drive into C mpton right now and help my kid . But there is a voice in the back of my head aying, 'Don't be -rupid. You could be pulled out of your car, too."' . . . A a winner of the Jo eph K lingen tein

ummer In titute Award, Scott

Schinneier '90 wa one of 50 teacher participating in a ummer in titute at Columbia Univer ity . . . . Allen Carlson '9 1 won a

ational cience Foundation fellow

hip for three year of graduate rudy at Yale Univer ity.

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in bu ines . While in New Or lean , J an hung out with aranna Robinson Thornron '8 1 , played rugby and enjoyed a constant Last Day O'Loudne . What doe Jan mi s most about Colby? No one in the South can make a Skitch witch . . . . A lan Yu od n u k i s planned t o marry h is h ioh school 'Weetheart, Lynn Tetu, at Colby th1 ummer. . . . After a year ki ing in q u aw Creek , John Avery i spending hi 1 4th summer at W i l l iam Lawrence Camp in New Hampshire. What's the be t thing to happen to him since Colby? Real izing that he want to start a comic book hop and that even afterfour years in the liberal Gov ernment Department, he is really a Republican . . . . Dan Bowman is pursuing a master's in market ing communications ar North-

we tern Medill chool of Jour na lism. Among h i accomplish ments thi year, he "put love to the test and it passed." . . . Dale Bailey ha kept hi root in Maine and i tudying peech pathology at the Un iver ity of Ma ine. M ileton in h is life? He tied the knot on J une 1 3 , J 99 1 , with Ellen Hale. Congratulations . . . . Dave An derson pent the year as an intern at the M inne ota Zoo and is now in the Peace Corp in Thailand conducting an aquaculture pro gram . . . . Seth Canter i in the Windy City working for Clean Harbors as a chemical operation supervi or doing "environmental tuff." I f anyone is in Chicago, look S e t h u p . . . . S t e v e n "Frenchie" Witherell is working in Grafton, Mass., as a residential caseworker at the J uvenile De-

tention Center. He's been play ing rugby with the Worcester Men' RFC and trying to learn how co maintain the house he has rented . . . . Becky Pease i work ing in Portland, Ore . , as an as is tant tage manager for the Port l and Repertory Th eater. . . . Christine Bonner i gainfully employed by Cabot Partner Lim ited a a receptioni t and ad min i uative a i tant doing portfolio management and cu tomer rela tions. In add ition to her job, Christine is taking Engli h and education course at BU . . . . Lesley Eydenberg i working for the Federal Re erve Bank of Bos ton a a research a sistant. he' having a "blast" between work and l iving with Jessica Butler, J u lia Collard, Leaf lvesand Tree Sullivan. In the spring they threw

a party at the Dock ide Bar in Fanueil Hall and ton of Colby people showed. A fun time was had by all. . . . Keep those que tionnai res and letters coming. Continued uccess to a l l !

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OBITUARIES Alvin Schwartz, Popular Author

Alvin Schwartz '49, author of many best- elling children s book , d ied March 14 i n Princeton, .] . , a t 64. He wa born in Brooklyn, .Y., and attended Era mu Hall H igh chool. He erved in the avy before he entered Colby, where he wa Echo ed i tor and active in Powder & Wig product ions. He earned a ma ter's i.n journalism from Northwe tern U n iver ity in 1 95 1 , then reported for the Binghamton Press in N ew York. In 1 9 5 5 he became an editor for the Prudential Insurance Company and later wa an account executive for Doremus and Company. In the 1 960s he wrote magazine and new paper article while teaching part time at Rutgers Un iver iry and erved as director of public relation for the Opinion Re earch Corporat ion i n Princeton. His more than 50 books have old over three mill ion copie . Hi fir t books-A Parem's Guide to Chil.dren ' s Play and Recreation ( 1 964) and How w Fly a Kite , Carch a Fish , Grow a Flower ( 1 96 5 )-were manuals for parents. They were ba ed on hi experi-

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ences w i t h h is o w n children a n d they launched him on a 30-year career as the author ofhumorou books, cary stories and tall tales abounding with word play, riddles, rhymes, folk poetry, j okes and nonsense. Books on tongue twister and supersti t ions-A Twister of Twists , a Tangle of Tongues ( 1 9 7 2 ) and Cross Your Fingers , Spit in Yotir Hat ( 1 974 )-were well recei\·ed for their meticulou research as \\·ell as for their humor. The ew York Times praised Jn a Dark , Dark Room ( 1 9 4 ) a "a most! y ghostly" and "nicely nasty collection." A popular toryteller and ardent rromoter of his books, Schwart: traveled often, enter taining h i. readers in bookstores, l ibrarie and chools. H is stories were not without controver y for their \·engeful \\"itches and troubled gho ts-a group of suburban Se attle parents once tried to remove what they considered his unduly scary books from a local library-but tudent polls of ten named his books their favorite . The Seattle Post-Incelligencer and The ew York Times aid chwartz' works were " an excit ing way of samplino the worrisome utside world from within the safe confines of i magi na t i on" and appealed to "a primal need to be cared out of one's wits." He also wrote informative book , such a S tores ( 1 9 7 7 ) and The People's Choice ( 1 968 ) . Both Ghom and Scar ' S tories 3, h is third collection of gho t storie and legends, were be t sellers in 1 99 1 . And the Green Grass Grows All Around, a collection of folk poetry, ap peared shortly before h is death. He is ur v ived by hi wife, Barbara, four children, a s ister and a grand on.

Waterville Attorney Lewis Lester Levine '16, a long-time W a terville a ttorney , d ied M ay 23 in Waterv ille. He wa 99. Born i n Watervi lle, he attended local chool and received a B.S. in economics and, in 1 9 1 , an M .A. i n Engli h from Colby, where h e w o n several

peaking contests, was a member of Alrha Tau Omega fraterniry and served on the tudent counci l and as Y ice pre ident and pre ident of h is cla . After two years as a h igh school princ ipal in Meredith, N . H . , h e entered Boston Uni\·ersi ty, where he recei\'ed his law degree in 1 92 2 . He began practice i n Waterville as a trial la\\·yer. l n 1 960 h e became the enior partner i n the firm of Levine, Brody and Levi ne with hi two ons and h is son- in- la\\'. He remained acti\'e in law and real estate well into h is 80s. He wa a lifelong member of Beth Israel ynagogue and had erved a its rresi dent. A trustee o f the YMCA, h e founded and sronsored the Watervi lle YMCA youth basketbal l league and served a PONY league president in the 1 950 . He was a former president of the WaterY ille PT A, a director of the Waten·ille Public Library and a 70-year member of the Chocura Ma onic Lodge. I n honor of h is parents, he sponsored the J uliu and Rachel Levi ne Speaking Comest at the College for over 40 years and donated the juliu and Rachel Lev ine Room in Roberts U n ion. He also served on the A lumni Council. urviving are his \\·ife, Celia, two daughter , includ ing J ud ith Levi.ne Brody '5 , three ons, including Frederick Levine '6 , 1 1 grand children and a great-grandch ild.

Pioneering Social Worker Helen D. Cole '1 7, a ocial worker pec ializing in child placement and home maker service , died i.n Wi lmington, Del . , May at 99. h e was b o rn in Prospect Harbor, Maine, and attended Watervi l le H igh chool. At Colby he was a member of igma Kappa and active in ba ketball and dramatics. She wa employed by the N ew England Home for Little Wanderers i n Boston from 1 9 1 7 to 1 92 3 and from 1 924 to 1 950 wa an admini trati\ e supervi or w ith the Children's Aid Sociery of ew York City, where he was head of the foster

home department. She did further work at the Columbia Univer i ty chool of ocial Work between 1 92 and 1 9 3 5 . he was ac tive on the Alumni ounc il and al o served a a College trustee. ln 1 94 2 she received an honorary doctorate of oc ial c ience from the C liege , wh ich com mended her a a pioneer gifted with con structive imaoinat ion and organi:ing abil ity in the rac ial integration of both staff and serv ice in the expanding field of ocial work. Following four years with the Florida Children', Home oc iety in Jack onville, he retired to Wonalancet, .H., where she wa ac tive in the community. he was predecea ed by a brother, Eme t H. Cole ' 1 2 , and a ister, Cathryn Cole Mile ' 2 4 . ur\'ivors inc lude her niece Vivian Mi le· ' 5 7 and Janet Pfleger '42 .

Social Work Professional Myra Cross Doe ' 1 7, a p ychiatric social worker, died April 6 i n Danville, Pa. he was 9 7 . he wa born in West tewart town, . H . , and attended Cole brook Academy in Colebrook, .H. After two years at immon College, he entered the College, where he was act i\'e in sports and dramatics. Following graduation he taught in high chools in Skowhegan, Maine, and New London, Conn. he was a school counselor in Philadelphia public chool in the early 1 9 30 , then served a a psychiatric social worker and then as head of the soc i a l e rv i c e department a t Norri town State Hospital. h e w a em ployed as a medical social worker by the University of Pennsylvania Hospital, where she received her master' degree in soc ial work in 1 95 4 , and later served a chief social worker with the Veterans Admini tration in Wilmington, Del. She also worked in the social ervice department at the Danville rate Ho pita!. Surviving are a daughter, four grandchildren and 1 0 great grandchildren. Her late ister, Florence 92

Cros Cleveland ' 1 2 , and her late brother in- law, I rvin Cleveland ' 1 3 , also attended the College.

Surgeon Leander Armand Guite '23, a physi c i an and urgeon, died February 3 in Watervi lle, Maine, at age 9 1 . A Waterville native, he attended local chool . He earned hi medical degree at the Cornell Univerity Medical College in 1 92 7 . Following an intern hip at Fordham Hospital and a year of private practice in ew York City, he returned to Water\' ille, where he was a physician and urgeon erving on rhe raff of Thayer Hospital and i ter H pita! ( later Eli:abeth Ann eton Ho piral). Be fore the two ho p1tal· merged to form Mid Maine Medical Center, he erved for five years a chief of surgery at eton. After the merger he wa a enior member of the Mid Maine Medical Center staff until hi retire ment in 1 964. He wa a member of the Maine Medical A oc iation and of the American College of urgeon . urviving are three ons, Leander A., J r. , Paul and John , and five grandchildren.

Oakland Store O wner Celia Clary Fo sett '24, for many year a tore owner in Oakland, Maine, died January 2 0 in Baltimore, Md., at age 88. he wa born in Waldo, Maine, and graduated from Li \'ermore Fall H igh School. For everal year he was an English teacher at tevens High chool in Rumford, Maine. Following her marriage in 1 9 3 2 to Barry Fossett, the couple moved to Oak land and took over Mc Taggert's Drug tore on Main Street, which he and her hu band and their ons operated for more than 50 year as Fo ett' Ben Franklin tore. She continued working six days a week until retirement at the store's closing in 1 98 7 . he w a a p a t president o f the Oakland

Bu ine A sociation and a member of the Oakland Betterment Association and at one time received the Oakland Busine s A ociation' Woman of the Year award. he was also a member and past officer of the Oakland Tue day Club, the Waterville Zonta Club and the Oakland Garden Club. he wa · an acti\'e alumna and for year underwrote the Colby Book prize at Me salonskee High chool. he is survived by her s n, Bichard Fo ett, two i ter , ix grandchildren, a great-granddaughter and everal niece and nephews.

Pediatric Physician Albert U. Peacock '2 7, a pediatric phy ician, died April 30 in We t Hartford, Conn., at 6. He wa born in Pawtucket, R.l., and attended Mount Hermon chool for Boy in ew Hamp hire. At Colby he played hockey and football. He graduated from Rush Medical chool at the Univeri ty of Chicago in 1 9 3 3 , interned at Hart ford Ho pital, served his pediatricre idency at Philadelphia Children's Hospital and also completed advanced tudie at Bo ton City Ho piral. During World War 11 he served a a phy ic ian in the U . . Marine Corp in Hawaii. From 1 93 7 to 19 4 he practiced pediatrics in Hartford and was in trumenral in e tabli hing Hartford Ho pital's pediatrics department, which he headed from 1 9 5 9 to 1 96 1 . A longtime upporter of Colby athletic , he al o wa a generous contributor of financial aid for Colby tudenr and wa involved in alumni activitie in Connecticut. Hi daughter, Andria Peacock Kime '5 , predecea ed him by a few week . He i urvived by hi wife, Elizabeth, a son, three isters and four grand children.

Colby Daughter Dorothy Daggett J ohnston '28, an active College volunteer who e Colby roots ran deep, died February 2 5 in Bedford,

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Mass. he wa 8 5 . She wa born in Water v ille, Maine, and graduated from Coburn Clas ical ln t itute. At Co lb he wa act ive in dramatic and singing c lub . Following graduation she taught in schools i n Dedham and later wa a homemaker. During World War 11 he served in many civilian volun teer organization . For several years she Ii ed on Cape Cod, where he was a mem ber of the General ociety of Mayflower De cendants, Daughters of the American Revolution and the Cape Cod and Martha's V ineyard Genealogical and H istorical so cietie . A class officer and active partici pant i n class reu n ion , he had many Colby relative . Her h u band wa the late J ohn Dougla J ohn ton '27. Other late relatives who also attended the College include her father, Cec i l Daggett '03 , her aum, Marian R. Daggett 'l 7 , her aunt and first alumnae secretary Alice M . Purinton, Cla s of 1 899, her si ter, Martha Daggett R iefe '50, her brother Horace P. Daggett '33 and J ohn Daggett '4 1 . Survivors include her son, John D . Johnston, J r. ' 5 5 , her daughter, a brother, Ceci l Daggett J r. '3 , a s ister, Ruth Daggett Fuller '29, her sister- in law, atalie Mooers Daggett '42, a n iece, Su an Daggett Dean '67 five grandchildren and five great grandchildren.

Bank Official Conrad H. Hines ' 28, a uu t officer, died April 23 in Salem, Ma ., at age 84. He was born i n Mt. Jewett, Pa. , and graduated from Dalton H igh School in Massachuetts. He completed a year of pecial ized tudy at Harvard Bu ine Schooland gradu ated from Rutger Graduate School ofBank ing. He wa w i th the Agricu ltural National Bank of Pittsfield from 1 9 29 to 1 94 3 , joined the Bo ton A u to Gage Company for two year , then went w ith the Berkshire T ru t Company in P ittsfield, where he was in ve tment tru t officer until he left the com-

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pany in 1 9 50 for the Old Colony Trust Company of Boston. He became an as i tant v ice president in 1 95 6 and in 1 969 became a vice president. He was a member of the Bo ton Estate and Business Planning Counci l and was director of the Marblehead H istorical Soc iety and Marblehead Art A ociation. He also was active in Red Feather agency work. Following h is ret ire ment he was a consultant for the First National Bank of Boston, dealing with trust department management for subur ban banks. He was predeceased by his brother Karl H ines '30. urvivor include h i wife, Anne, and hi brother John-Paul H ines '36.

Maine Physician Charles R. Geer '36, a long- time Portland , Maine, phy ician and a member of the Maine Baseball Hall of Fame, d ied May 1 6 in carborough, Maine, at 7 7 . Born in Portland, he graduated from Deering H igh School. At Colby he was co-captain of the ba eball team. Later, wh ile playing semiprofessional baseball in Maine, he was offered an opportunity to play for the New York Yankees but instead chose to attend Tufts Medical School, where he received hi medical degree in 1 940. He erved h is medical internship at Connecticut' Hart ford Municipal Ho pita!. During World War 11 he served two tour- a a captain in the Army Medical Corps in Europe before returning to Portland to practice. He served on the taffs of the Maine Medical Center, Mercy H o pita!, the Barron Center and Devonshire Manor. He was a member and past president of the American Academy of General Practice and the Cumberland County Medical Society and wa a fellow in the American Academy of Fam ily Phy sician . He wa a generou Colby upporter and a lifelong sports fan-he wa inducted into Maine' Baseball Hall ofFame i n 1 98 1 .

H e i s survived b y h is wife, Mary Alice, a daughter, two sons, four sisters, a brother and two grandchildren.

BTC Superintendent William H. Hughes '4 1 , 7 5 , a former superintendent of the Boys Training Cen ter in South Portland , Maine, d ied May 9 in Portland, Maine. He was born in Boston and graduated from the Quincy, Mass., h igh school. He j oined the Civil ian Conervation Corps and attended Bridgton Academy in Bridgton, Maine, on a full scholarship. A four-year football letterman at Colby, where he was a lineman named to the All-Maine and Small College All America teams, he also partic ipated in ari ty baseball and track. He taught history and mathematics at J ay H igh School in Maine before enlisting in the Marine Corps in World War I I . He served with d istinc t ion i n Pacific campaign and received the Purple Heart, Bronze Srar, Pre idential and Navy Unit ciration and numerou cam paign tar . In 1 94 7, while serving as prin c ipal of the Belgrade, M aine, high school, he received a master's degree i n psychology and sociology from Boston Un iversity. He wa also appointed chief of the examina tion and recruitment d i v is ion of the State Per onnel Department. He re-entered the military for the Korean Conflict, rising to the rank of major. During h is 1 95 5 - 1 97 3 tenure a t the training center, he c r u aded for better education and treatment for the bo s, stressing rehabi l i tation over puni h ment. He addressed schools and civil func t ions and enlisted commun i ty support for expanding the facil i ty in the early 1 960s. His "open cottage" program involved fur lough and work-release for the boy . He al o institu ted an academic program, psy chological counseling, vocat ional training and after-care. He erved on the boards of several Maine ho p itals and public health

a n d w e l fare in t i t u r ion

anJ on rhe

Governor's Advi ory Com m i r ree for

ompany. Prior to hi5 retirement he

wa5 an analyric chem i5t with the l cal

chool in Waterv i l l , where he was presi

o., in Massachusetts. H e was a mem

dent of the Waterville Teacher A oc ia

rhe White House Conference on Children

ber of the American Chem ical the

Mental Health. Colby awarded him a Colby

al o was active in environmental i sue ·. He

ervice a · pre ident of ol

a fifth grade teacher at Plea ant Street

hem i

and Youth and the Governor's Counc il on

the M a ine Welfare A soc iation. The

II ,

and

dren and Youth, the Core Committee of

Gavel in 1 9 5 8 for hi

j I

hil

oc iety and

oc iety f or Analytical Chem i try and

t ion and wa

a member of Delta Kappa

Gamma International.

he erved her c las

ac tively a Alumni Council repre entative reunions. In I 98 1 -82

wa5 a member of Newman Congregat ional

and organizer of cla

Church. Hi5 Colby re lati\·es include hi

she was a Fulbright Exchange teacher in Grim by, England , reac h i ng language,

lege a lso awarded h i m an honorary nrn ·ter

aunt, Alta D<wis ' 1 8 . He was pred ceased

of art degree in l 96 5 . That 5ame year he

l y h i 5 aunt , H elen Da\·i ' 2 6 and Leola

mathematics, science and geography. Fol

was nominated for th

Davi '29. He i5 survived by his mother and

lowing ret i rement, he and her hu band,

Sporr..s lllusrrated

S i lver Anniversary All-America Award,

a brother.

Donald G . Leach '49, opened their home

which honored former player for excep tional achievement in the 25 years 5ince their I 940 collegiate football season. He is survived by a daughter, a half-brother and a grand on.

on Ba iley I land, Maine, as a bedand break

fa t. Be ide her hu band, she i

English Professor Patricia Blake Thoma ' 5 1 , a profe 50r at the Rhode I sland

chool of De ign,

died April 3 in Providence, R . l . ton High

Jacquelyn N erny Wallace '43 died March 1 3 in Natick, M ass. , at age 7 2 . She was born in A t tleboro, Ma

., where

attended h igh school. A homemaker, ·he al o worked with the Hosp ice Program in Dover and d i d volunteer work w i th the elderly and i l l .

he was a member of several

club , inclu<l i ng the Charle· River Counrry Club.

he is urvived by her husband, J o -

e p h R . Wallace ' 4 3 , three daughter , in cluding Tara Wallace Steen '74, a

ister

and five grandch i ldren.

chool in Ncwtonv i l le, Ma . At

Colby she majored m Engli h and wa· ac ti ve in

tudent government and the Cap

and Gown honor soc iety. Fr m 1 96 1 to 1 968 he taught at

im mon· College. In

1 97 3 she joined the Rhode Island

chool of

De ign, where he was a professor of En gl i h.

he wa a member of the Providence

Pre·ervation Society and a director of the Providence City Celebration in 1 97 2 .

wa a long-time um mer re idem of Mount De ert Island, Maine.

and seven grandchi ldren.

he wa 6 2 .

Born in Chelsea, Mass . , s h e attended New

Hospice Volunteer

urvived by

her mother, a on, three daughters, a i ter

he is urvived by

her husband, J ohn, a son, a daughter, a brother and two grandchi ldren.

Psychologist Andria Peacock Kime ' 5 8 , a chool p ychologi t, d ied March 23 in Bo ton, Mas .

he wa

5 5 . A native of Hartford,

Conn., he gradutated from Will iam Hall H igh

chool in We t Hartford. She wa a

psychology major at Colby, sang w i th the Colbyette and the G lee Club and wa an officer of the Student Christian As ocia tion and the Women's Union Comm i ttee. he received a master of education degree from the Univer i ty of Hartford in 1 960 and continued

rudying p ychology and

pecial educat ion at Bridgewater

tate

College. For many year she was a school

Chemist

psyc hologist i n the p u b l i c

Teacher

c hool

toughton, Conn., where she was a mem-

Lyndon A. Small '43, an industrial

J oan Gridley Leach ' 5 2 , a Waterville

ber of the Stoughton Teachers As ocia

chemist, d ied February 29 in Rumford, R . l . ,

elementary chool teacher, d ied May 1 5 in

t ion. With her hu band, John C. Kime ' 5 7 ,

at 7 0 . He was born in Plymouth, Maine,

Brunswick, Maine , at 6 1 . She was born in

and attended Newport and Waterville high

East Orange, N .] . , and attended

ummit

he was a founder o f the Stoughton As o c iation for Exceptional Citizen , helping t o

schools. He was a chemistry major and

H igh School in New Jer ey. Following

establish programs for young ters, teens

member of Phi Beta Kappa at Colby, re

graduation she worked for two years in the

and young adult . The couple al o was

ceived h i M . A . and Ph.D. from Harvard

Trea urer'sOffice at Colby. Wh i le her chil

active in Marriage Encounter.

Universi ty and d id postdoctorate w rk at

dren were growing up, she was a ub t itute

her class devotedly as secretary/treasurer

he erved

the U n ivers i ty of V i rginia. He worked for

elementary school teacher in Waterv i l l e

and was active in organizing reunions.

A merican Cyanamid Co. from 1 943 to

and active in G i rl Scouts and the Waterville

i survived by her husband, her son, her

1 94 5 , then went with Arnold, Hoffman

Women's Club. From 1 970 to 1 98 5 she was

daughter, her mother and a brother.

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LETTERS Colby welcomes letters from readers . We reserve che 1·ighc to edit for l:Yrevit)' and clarity. Please send correspondence to : Managing Edi tor , Colby, Office of Communicacions , Colby College , Waterville , ME 0490 1 .

Vie ws of Tenure Six week ago l received official noti fication that l wa granted tenure at Linfield College. I "knew" I would be granted ame, but neverrhele s, a cloud of doubt hung around me. Linfield holds a eries of profesional development reviews on the road to the tenure decision in the hopes of en ur ing there are no urpri e when the actual dec ision i made. l 'd have to say our ystem of interim reviews works. But nonetheles , 1t i still very difficult to know what to say to those [who don't receive tenure] . l n many way i t's l ike a death in the fam i ly. I thoroughly under tand the Findlay [Col by , March] putting the ir life on hold pending the outcome. Now that our dec i i o n is made, my wife a n d I a r e looking fo r a vacation cottage at t h e beach. ( I a m a CPA and wa in practice 1 5 year prior to entering academia, o our family planning deci ion are well behind u . ) A David ays, i t i crazy to let the tenure deci ion become so all-con urning, but i t definitely happen . My congratulations to David and other ucce sful Colby profes ors. Congratula t ion al o to Edward Her hey, who cap tured the proce most succinctly. I t wa all l could do not to kip ahead and find out the winners. Many people curse the system, but as Her hey indicates, it' the be t we have. Richard F . Emery McMinnville , Ore.

Her hey said that tho e who favor the [tenure] practice claim it is le about sec u rity than academic freedom ( whatever that

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mean ) , peer rev iew and tandard of exce l lence. If this were true, parent would be pleased insteaJ of angry over the education their chi ldren are receiv ing. When you examine tenure carefully you find i t is noth ing more than a l ifetime guarantee of a job. It does not encourage nor does it ensure excellence. On the con rrary, i t destroys the incenti,·e to excel, and becau e of it, teacher are not accountable. Peer rev iew breeds conform i ty. At the uni versity level , i f you don't conform, you don't get tenure. The result is that students are exposed to nothing but liberal philoso phies rather than a broad pectrum of ideas. The dean of faculty aid that tenure en -ure a qualified faculty. lf thi is true, how doe he explain the results teachers in private secondary school get ? They don't have tenure, but they tum out students who are better prepared to face the chal lenges they face in the college c la room than tho e com ing from school where ten ure exists. Tenure, when it was fir t introduced, may have erved a purpo e , but not today. Let' get rid of it so we can make the people re pon ible for teaching our children ac countable. Richard G. S tre ic h , '52 W in ter Park, Fla.

Student Solidarity Both of my parent are graduates of Colby, so we receive Colby. l am writing about the story " etbacks Temper Success for Activi t " [March] . I wi h to how my olidarity with the three women profiled in the tory. I under tand how difficult it is to be a leader, e pecially if you are making people aware of an unpopular problem. Anyone can be the head of a group of beer drinker , but it take real courage to put yourself i n the forefront of a group of people going aga in t the norm. I know thi becau e

I was one of the founders of the Jrug-free club at my [high] school. Sometimes I j ust want to shake people and force them to wake up and uppnrt a worthy cause , but then 1 rea l i:e that we are all different people, and what seem ob\' i ously worthy to me may not be as clear to other . Yet it is becau -e we are all so differ ent that when we, as leaders, help people to under-rand and support our cause it makes it all the more weet. Sarah D . Samson Aurora, Colo.

In Memoriam I wa deeply saddened to hear of Pro fe or Liames] Carpenter' tragic death [Colby , May]. My fonde t memories as an art major at Colby have to do with Profes sor Carpenter's c lear, generou and fair methods. He was always available to stu dents. He left a lasting impression on me. Hi descript ion of paint ings and love for hi- field remain w ith me. Every museum I enter and the j oy l find in them has ome thing to do with Professor Carpenter' classe . Lee Canning Breene ' 77 New York, N .Y l want to commend you on the beau tiful way you portrayed my cou in, J ames M. Gillespie [August 1 99 1 ] . The article and letter from the alumni howed how warm and caring he truly wa toward tho e he a sociated with at Colby. He was a remarkable individual who extended the same fine traits to h is family as those men t ioned in your article. The many fine re marks and reflection that were shared in your magazine were greatly appreciated. l hall treasure thi copy of Colby. James C. Gillespie Clearwater, Fla.

PC Or Not PC?

Prof. [G. Calv in] Macken:ieand Pre i dent Cotter have gamely taken on the ubjec t a to whether or not "polit ically correct" speech censoriousness ( PC ) exists at Colby. Prof. Macken:ie huffs and puffs his way through a seven-pager on the subject in [the Augu r 1 99 1 ] issue of Colb)'· From what l can make our, he ays that: a) PC does not ex ist at Colby, and that b ) if it exi t , it is okay. President Cotter, in hi 1 990- 9 1 an nual report [November 1 99 1 ] , seems not to like the subject one bit, preferring to deal w i th it i n the subj u n c t i v e : " [ a ] concern . . . highlighted by the Colby Re publican Club . . . and involves the notion of 'political correctness.' " Discounting the fact that PC ha even been acknowledged and identified by the national new media and by such high profile "liberal " a Harvard Prof. Alan Der howitz, Pre ident Cotter insists that the " . . . term is used by conservatives to attack what they consider a campu atmo sphere" ( attack an atmosphere ?) "domi nated by liberal values." Then comes the concession: "Even though college campu es in general" ( note the qualifier) "may" ( ad dit ional qual ifier) "have a somewhat" ( whew! ) "liberal atmosphere, I am confi dent that [every member of the Colby fac ulty encourages and would certainly defend the strong advocacyofcontrary . . . views].'' The remainder of President Cotter's disqu isition on balancing free speech with protecting the vulnerable from verbal ha rassment was quite reasonable, but he ap pears ever-skeptical that thi "notton" of PC even exists. No egregiou or even silly examples are cited; no outrage as to the threat posed to "the pursuit of truth, free and unrestricted" is evidenced. I suggest that if there i any doubt in the mind of Pre ident Cotter as to the

presence of PC at Colby he imply a k the "chair" of the Board of Trustees, or take a walk down "Roberts" Row or for that mat ter, a k any "fre hpersons.'' Russell E. Cleary ' 72 Arlington , Mas s .

Begs to Differ The March is ue of Colby [contained a] letter from Jean Archibald [about] the map of Israel in Bet y Ku lier's well-written article "No Ma k to Hide Her Emotion " in the January i sue. The territorie in question, namely the Gaza Strip and the We t Bank, are part of Israel and not "occupied" territories. They were won in a war not precipitated by I rael and lo t by her neighbor . They are a much a part of lsrael in 1 99 2 a California and Texa are a pan of the Un ited Scates, or has she forgotten how they became part of our country? To the victors go the spoils. I believe Colby wa very accurate in it reporting; it' her conception which is in accurate. Lloyd Cohen '5 9 Huntington Beach , Calif.

Colby Coincidence

ing, we met three American women tour ing the area together. Much to my surprise, one of the women re ided in London but was an alumna of Colby. We were ecstatic at the coincidence and traded many Colby memories. It's one of tho e brief " lice of life" mem ries that has never left me. Mary Tomlinson Sullivan ' 7 1 Wakefield , Mass.

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taff: Edward Her hey, director of communications, executive editor; ally Baker, managing editor; Nora L. Cameron, associ ace ediror, graphics and design; Mary Ellen Marnva, associate editor , photography; Andrea Solomita '9 1 , spores ediwr; Robert Gillespie, College ediwr. Contributing Designer and Photogra

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Contributing Reporter: Ingrid Kristan '94.

I read with interest your article in May tudying in Bri tain and on alumni residing in London. I grew up with my feet on both sides of the Atlan tic Ocean and have many relatives and friends in Britain. ln the summer of 19 4, I was touring England with my daughter, then 4 years old, and my 1 3 -year-old niece. In a village called Locksley, near Stratford-upon-Avon, we spent the night in a lovely, historic bed and breakfast. At breakfast the next mom'92 on Colby rudent

Administration: William R. Cotter, presi

denc; Peyton Randolph Helm, vice president for development and alumni relations; Earl H . Smith, dean of che College; Su a n Conant Cook '75, direccor of alumni relations . Alumni Council Executive Committee: Dougla S. Harfield '58, chair, Albert F. Carville, Jr. '63 , vice chair, Cynthia L. Auman '80, Elizabeth ) . Corydon-Apicella

'74, John B. Devine, J r. '7 , olomon J. Hartman '67, Ronald L. Lupton '7 1 , cott '76, tephen C. Pfaff '8 1 , '80, Judith Orne Shorey '55, P. L aVigne '5

F. McDermott Carol G . Sly Thoma

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The fir t Rus ian matr o hka doll was reated in the late 1 9th century by artist S . Malyutin and wood 1mer V. Zvezdochkin. repre ented a girl in a print dre s holding a roo ter in her hands. The new doll was immediately popular ecau e of its peculiarly tu

ian look and style.

When the Moscow factor

do ed in the

arly 20th century, the model for the dolls ·ere handed over to the educational model workshop in the 'ergiev ky settlement. be doll again gained in opularity and made its orld debut at the Paris �xhibition in 1 900. In 1 904 the workshop began to manufacture the doll for export.

E ach i mported Russian nesring d o l l and egg is hand pa in. red by a masrer artisr of the

e rg ie\' Posad Art isan G u i l d . m ade e x c l usi,·ely for rhe Colby Booksrore and

igned by the artist. Ord rs for hol iday d e l i ,·ery should reach rhe Colby Bookstore by September 1 5 , 1 99 2 . Quanr i r ies are e x tre m e ly l i n1 i red.

Russian nesting doll

$ 1 2 5 .00

Russian lacquered egg

$ 1 50.00

Order by Seprember 1 5 , 1 992 a n d recei,·e a 1 5 °0 d i count . C a l l l - ['IL - 7 2 7 -8 5 16 to order.

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