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olume 82, No. 4

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Hats Off

- to the 6,950 donors to the 1993 Alumni Fund, a new donor record for Colby;

- to the 314 alumni volunteers who wrote, called and asked their classmates and peers to participate in the '93 Alumni Fund; - to the Class of '68, who set a new 25th reunion fund-raising record, recording $140,768 in gifts and pledges;

- to the Class of '43, who set a new Alumni Fund participation record of 83 percent for their SOth reunion; and

- to the Class of '93, who set a new Senior Pledge record, raising $48,575 in pledges for the Alumni Fund to be contributed over the next four years.

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Cover Story

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Colby Staff:

Fitting the Bill

Three recent Colby graduate- are 'tudyino presidential transition

ally Baker execunve edicor

from the in ide-as member of Pre ident Bill Clinton's White Hou e staff.

Brian peer designer Roberr Gillespie Alumni ar Large edicor

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For some tudents, Colby eem to be in the middle of nowhere. But

Cynthia John on (cO\·er); Alan yiri (in 1de front co,·er); corr Davis (in ide back cover)

mo t ay the Warer\'ille campu i- right where they \\'ant to be.

Contributing Reporters:

A Sense of Place

Haines prunt Tare; Michelle everance '94; Karen Ro e'95

ovelist and Colby profe or Richard Ru o reflect on the place of his life and his art.

Administration:

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One for the Record Books

Colb)'

l 72nd commencement had a little bit of e\'erything

from Bob Dole to a houlder-hugging iguana to a blooper-free perfonnance by Dean Janice Ka man.

Alumni Council Executive Committee:

Albert F. Carville Jr. '63, chair; Eli:abeth J. Corydon-Apicella '74, vice chair; Cynthia L. Auman' O; Thoma M. Dailey ' O; olom n J. Hartman '67; Mary Alice Campbell Ko:en '47; Ronald L. Lupton '71; Be\·erly albandian Madden ' O; William E. Marvin 65; Carol G. ly' O; Thomas P. LaVigne '5

A Glorious Isolation?

Contributing Photographers:

William R. Cotter, president; Peyton R. Helm, vice president for development and alumni relac:ion.s; Earl H. mith, dean of che College; u an Conant Cook'75, direccor of alumni relations

Features

Ode to Jo

Greg

mith '73 , re cuer of a fine

outhem e tare and author of a

string of be r seller , ha a perspective on life that come from a brush with death. Departments 2

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Colby is publi hed five times yearly for the alumni, friend , parents of tudents, eniors, faculty and taff of Colby College. Addres correspon dence to: Managing Editor, Colby Colby College Waterville, ME 4901

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Peri cope 3 From the Hill 31 Gift & Grant 32 Mule on the Move 34 Memories 36 tudent Life 37 Faculty File

39 Paging Parents 41 Alumni at Large

Profiles: L. Muir '43 51 Robert L. Bruce '59 57 Gail Macomber Chee eman '62 64 Kendrew H. Colton '7 76 Amy Fam1er '9 77 Obituarie 80 Letters

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Gleaned by Dean Earl H. Smith from his weekly campus newsletter, FYI. Telling the World

l11e Dole rnmmencement brought a landlide of national publicity.

reJit Sally

Baker & Co. with enticing The New Yori<

Times to do a piece on the commencement speaker quest-56 column inche· on May 25, including a huge photo.Newsweei< car ried Dole' quip that, with his Colby hon enator George Mitchell

orary doctorate,

was going to have to ·tart calling Dole Dr. Gridlock instead of Mr. Gridlock. On June 3, Dole poke on the Tonight Show of his Colby vi it, and a week later Colby wa featured in a

egment on college com

tilation in Bixler; general ma onry water

the Colby name on the screen.Lyn wa part

proofing; asbestos removal; upgrading of

of an "American Agenda" feature on Take

the underground telephone wiring; comple

Your Daughter to Work Day. ...Guilain

tion of the expansion of the Psychology

Denoeux (government) ha been named

Department in Robert ; continuing the

one of

computer cabling project ; and cabling for

Gardner Howard Foundation fellow for

the primary electrical distribution y tern.

To Name a Few

even new George A. and Eliza

next year.He'll u e the award to pur ue hi project on Authoritarianism and Democrati

zation in the Arab World.

Let's quietly note that Janice Seitzinger

wa married in June to Larry Kassman '69, a Waterville phy ician. She ha taken his name.... Profes or emeritu

Dennison

We'll Miss 'em

Three member of the Development and Alumni Relation

raff, Mary Porter '88,

Bancroft and his wife, Marjorie, arranged

a si tant director of alumni relations; Leslie

Admissions Admissions

for the photograph of the late Profe or

Byrne, director of planned giving; and

ce fut que t for the Clas of 1997, includ

mencements aired on NBC Nightly News.

Parker Beverage ha reported a mo t suc

Roger Metz that now hang in the Phy ic

Kieran Shea, assi tant director of annual

and A tronomy Department ....Two din

giving, have re igned their po t , effective

ing ervice employee , CindyCoomb and

this

Brenda Deady, were recogni:ed a employ

them all the best.

tudent A sociation

ing a yield (the ratio of enrolled rudent to

ees of the year by the

the number offered admission) of 37 per

at an awards luncheon in the spring.

cent, the highest in Colby' modem hi tory. Applications, including 176 for tran fer, topped 3,000. More than 500 students have signed on for the fall, just a bit over the target.While theapplicantpool wa evenly plit benveen men and women, the enter ing class will be 55 percent female.Thanks to the admissions crew and all others who have helped Colby tay aheadof the pack in these toughe t of economic and demo graphic time .

Work to Be Done

Trustees have approved a number of capital project

for the coming year, including

improved outdoor lighting; renovation of

Colby Pride

ummer. We thank them and wi h

Moosecellaneous

Colby will be host to the NCAA Divi ion l

ki Champion hip

next winter at

novel,

Sugarloaf/USA....U. .citizensgave$110

The Kierersu, tran lated by Tarnae Prindle (East A ian rudies), wa included in a Ne w Yori< Times feature piece on the ubject in

income, the highest percentage figure since

(English) wonderful

education was econd....Colby' endow

An excerpt from a Japane e bu ine

May.... Ira Sadoff'

es ay in the May 5 Chronicle of Higher Edu cation is from the introduction to An Ira Sad.offReader: Selected Poetry and Prose, pub

billion to charity last year, 2 percent of total 1971. Mo t went to religious enterpri e ; ment has topped $100 million for the first time in history. It wa

100,240,000 as of

March 31....The College has joined a

and

cholar hip collaborative with the Rhode

reviewed in the May issue of Colby ....Jim

Island Children's Crusade for Higher Edu

lished by the Middlebury College Pre

Webb's (history) book, Desert Frontier, ha

cation and, beginning in 2001, will re erve

been approved for publication by the Uni

at lea t five cholar hips a year for qualified

versity

of Wisconsin Pres

. . .Cal

Mackenzie (government) w a o n National

tudent from that rate . . ..Campus Ac tivities Today, a magazine for campu pro

the physics and geology labs in the Mudd

Public Radio discussing Pre ident Clinton's

gramming, has cited Colby a one of the

Building; a canopy over the back entrance

fir t 100 days. Mackenzie's views on the

eight best colleges in the nation for its

to the Student Center, which, since the

pre idential appointment process have been

student activitie . Salute Tullio Nieman

closing of McCann Road as a throughway,

featured

aero s the

and hi colleagues .... Marriner and Pierce

has become a second front entrance; land

country....Lyn Mikel Brown (education

hall will be substance free (no alcohol, no

scaping to replace the lost elm trees on the

and human development) was on ABC

moking) next year.Coburn and Sturtevant

mall between Miller Library and Lorimer

World News Tonight in April, filmed with

halls will be reserved as "quiet" dorms.

Chapel; office renovations and studio ven-

the Keyes Building in the background and

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Controversy Prompts Diversity Discussions

espite occasional misinterpre tations in the news media, Colby has no plans to re move the cro s from Lorimer Chapel, but it has been at the

center of recent discussions having to do with religious symbols on the campus. In December, a traditional Christma tree and a Jewish Menorah were dis

Recent step to\vard the widely hared goal

been the site for the opening assembly for

of improving Colby's diversity o a to re

new students each fall and for the baccalau

flect more accurately the population of the

reate program each Commencement Week

nation as a whole have brought an even

end.

greater representation of faiths to Colby. On the original campus in downtown

It was, in fact, intended to be used by all faiths. At the groundbreaking ceremony in

Waterville, there was no free-standing

August 193 7, George Horace Lorimer said:

chapel and no building with a cross. The

"Religion is the comer tone of character not necessarily religion as expre sed

played on the teps of Miller Library.

through a particular church, but through

During exams, the Menorah was re

every church and every creed that is

moved and returned to its owner, but

based on the broad precepts of the

the tree stayed, only to be removed by

Golden Rule of charity tempered with

someone who left a sign deploring the

mercy."

emphasis on Christianiry to the exclu-

In the early 1980s, the College ex

ion of other faiths.

panded its chaplaincy program with

The incident prompted broader dis

Catholic and Jewish chaplains joining

cu sion and debate of religious ymbol

the ongoing Protestant chaplaincy a

ism on the campus, and some suggested

co-equal faith leaders for tudem and

that the cross atop Lorimer Chapel, a

others. During this time, the College

building often used for ecular event ,

also began to display Menoral'ls on cam

was troubling to some students and fac

pus in addition to the traditional Christ

ulty, Christian and non-Christian alike.

mas decorations. Today, mauo is served

In February, President Cotter formed

in the dining hall during Pas over, and

a special multi-faith committee charged

many participate in the interfaith Seder

with exploring the issue of religious sym

sponsored each year by Hillel, the Jew

bols at Colby. He asked members to "find a way to honor our historical tradi

ish tudent group. In addition, during first building on campus, South College,

the current year, space has been designated

tions and, at the same time, to celebrate the

housed a small chapel; a larger space was

for Muslim tudents to hold Friday prayers.

diver ity of religions on the campu today."

reserved for that purpose inRecitationHall,

Two other religious group , the Colby Chris

He said that the College should "nurture

built in 1836. Students and faculty were

tian Fellowship and the Newman Club,

the performance of faith by all who choose

required to attend morning services, a rule

also have active campus memberships.

to do so" and urged "an emphasis on inclu-

that was amended in 1928 when atten

The religious studies curriculum, while

ivene

dance was required three times a week.

continuing traditional biblical studies, has

Colby did not have a chaplain until 194 ?

been broadened to encompa

ironically, the year that compulsory chapel

gions and include courses on India, China,

and a rejection of exclusivenes in

an institution of multi-faith ." As a context for their discussions, mem ber

world reli

understood that, while the Baptist

attendance ceased. There were never any

Japan, Buddhi m, Islam, Biblical Hebrew,

religion was central to College life through

daily services on the Mayflower Hill cam

Romans and Jews, Sikhism, the Prophets of

out its first century, its founders had in-

pus, where Lorimer Chapel, constructed in

Israel and the African-American religious

i ted-and the 1813 charter required

1938, was the first building.

experience, among others.

that there be no religious test for faculty, tudents, tn.1 tees or taff. While the campus population remained

Lorimer Chapel, never consecrated a a

Concerns raised by the Student Asso

church, has always been a multi-purpose

ciation having to do with the practice of

facility and has been used increasingly for

cheduling examinations on important re

secular events, including innumerable mu

ligious holidays were discu sed throughout

post-war period brought to campus increas

sical concerts and recital and the recently

the fall and early winter. In March, the

ing numbers of student of other faith .

begun Spotlight Event program . It ha also

faculty approved a change in the policy in

chiefly Prote tant until World War II, the

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order w protect students \\'ho wish to ob

1974, and six year

cribe

s r\'e the important holidays of their faith.

later his successor,

ment.The doctor

Religious symbol committee di ·cussion were open and candid and often included painful descriptions of nfrunderstandings over attempts w be inclusive and the un

the treat

Bill Cotter, an

signs the chart. The

nounced that

patient gets well."

would be

olby's

S i x t r u t e es

first Kenan profes-

Frank Apantaku

aid at

con1fortable feeling· of some members of

or.Cotter

the community in certain circumstances

the time that Ben

'63, William Gold

and place .

nett was cho en be

farb '68, Robert

cause

After a series of meetings through the

'71, Susan Comeau

he exempli

Marden '50, David

·pring, the committee adopted everal rec

fied the wishes of the

ubsequently

Kenan Tru t, which

Marson '48 and

ommendations that were

mmunityCom

wanted "to support

apprlwed bytheCampus

mittee. It was agreed that"because the era s reflects the recent architectural history of

Robert Sage '49left the board and

and encourage a c h o l a r -t e a c h e r

the Mayflower Hill campus and is for 1T1any

who e enthusia-m

an important symbol, it hould not be re

for learning, com-

were thanked for

Miriam Bennecc

their ervice byCot ter at the dinner held on the Friday

moved." Further, the committee recom

mitment to teaching and sincere per onal

mended that a number of religious ym

interest in ·tudent will broaden the learn

bols-perhaps six to I 0-as well a

ing proce

the

and make an effective contribu

College seal should be added to the pedi

tion ro your undergraduate community."

ment (the frieze) of the emablature of

Bennett i the recipient of many profe -

Lorimer Chapel "to reflect the principal

sional honors and fellow hips, including

before Commencement.

New Officials Elected

religions of the Colby community, the na

Science Faculty Fellow·hip from the Na

tion and the world."

tional

These additions will be implemented only after broader, College-wide di cu sion

health center, arri\'ed on Mayflower Hill in

and education on the issues of religiou di\'

1959 to

erve a· an athletic trainer. He

The new tru tee are: Ellen B. Haweeli

ersity and understanding and after c nsulta

earned a national reputation in hi field: he

'69, pre ident f EBH Associate Inc.,who

tion with alumni through the Alumni Coun cil Executive Committee.Final action on

was a t\vo-time head trainer for die U.. al o has erved as a Colby over eer; Gerald Winter Olympic team and, among other ]. Holtz '52, a retired partner of the ac

the recommendations is expected to be taken

profes ional honor , wa named to the Na

cience Foundation.

Carl Nelson, retiring a head of Colby'

by the trustees at their fall or winter meeting. tional

Athletic Trainer

As ociation Hall

of Fame in 1985.

Fond Farewells

Association and the Major Gift Commit

willingness to help became o

Board of Trustees were honored at the

neces ary to build him hi·

annual faculty/trustee dinner in May.

own building and name it for

Miriam F. Bennett, who retired as the

him." The Carl E.Nelson

William R. Kenan.Jr.Profe or of Biology,

Center,Colby's tate-of-the

came to Colby in 197 3 after 19 year on the

art training facility, opened

faculty of Sweet Briar College in Virginia. in the athletic complex last year. "For the past 30 year at

Holyoke and her Ph.D. from Northwest

the health center, " Smith

ern. Bennett, whose varied re earch inter

said, "the drill on treating

e ts include biological timing mechanisms

muscles, cartilage, ten.dons

and the effects of hormones, tress and time

and bones ha

gone some

on the blood of amphibians, i the author of

thing like thi : the patient

scores of professional article

and of the

waits for the doctor.The pa

authoritative book Living Clocks in the Ani mal World, published in 1974.

doctor.The doctor send the

President Robert E.L.Strider II named

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counting firm of Arthur Ander en & Co. in Bo ton and a lecturer at Bo ton College

tee of Colby 2000 campaign and i a fom1er

widespread that it finally wa

A. Dana professor in

and seven new overseer .

"his healing power ,hi good nature and hi

of the College'

Bennett a Charles

announced the election of five new trustees

who was a member of the Colby Parents

wo retiring faculty members and six

Carleton College, her ma ter's from Mt.

fter its Commencement Weekend meeting, Colby's Board of Tru tees

"All the while," said Dean Earl Smith,

outgoing member

She received her undergraduate degree from

tient complains of pain to the

noses the problem. Carl pre-

Two Full Professors

olby' Board of Tru tee has approved the recommendation of the president and dean

of faculty to promote Priscilla

Doe! and Jorge

Olivares to the rank of full profe or. Olivare , a profe or of Spanish and Latin American literature and chair of the Romance Language and Literature

Department, received

his B.A.and M.A.from the Univer ity of Miami and hi Ph.D.from the University of Michigan. He came to Colby in 1982. Doel, who teaches Spanish and Portugue e, received her B.A.in Spani h and M.A.in Portu gue e from New York University.She joined the Colby faculty in 1965.

Colby overseer ; Robert E. Diamond Jr.

United

tate for Goldman

ach , Inc. in

broke chool y tern in Pembroke,

. H.,

'74, a former College overseer and current

ew York City; Douglas M. Schair '67,

anJ mother of Ben '93 and Lind ay '96;

vice chair and member of the Group Execu

\'ice chair, chief inve tment officer and

Patricia Downs Berger '62, an interni t at

tive Board, First Boston Group, and chief

director of Life Re Corp./lnsurance ln

Reece Medical Clinic in Brookline, Ma-.,

executive officer of First Boston (Japan)

ve tment A ociates, which ha its head

and the mother of Shana '96.

Ltd.; E. Michael Caulfield '68, a Colby

quarters in

tamford, Conn.; Thomas R.

over eer ince 1989 and now pre ident of

Rippon '68, president ofThomas R. Rippon

ervice in

As ociate , a company that peciali:es in

Liberty Corner, N.J.; and Joseph F. Boulos

re taurant and health-care co t contain

'68, pre ident of The Boulos Companie , a

ment; John Lattanzio, a long-time friend of

property development finn in Portland,

the College and a general partner with

Prudential Preferred Financial

Labov to Washington

Maine, former College overseer and recipi

teinhardt Partner in New York City re

ent of the 198 Developer of the Year award

ponsible for it· trading department portfo

from the Finance Authority of Maine.

lio; Colleen A. Khoury '64, profe sor at

The new over eers are: Paul Gerard

graduate

the University of Maine School of Law in

Spillane Jr. '79, vice president in charge of

National Academy of

Portland; Nancy Carter Clough '69, a

international fixed income within the

National Research COLmcil in Washing

p ychoeducational evaluator with the Pem-

ton, D.C. He will work with a committee of

iology Profe sor Jay Labm· will begin a leave thi month to direct the Under cience Education

distingui hed

tudy for the

cience

and the

cienti t from throughout

the country to recommend an agenda for restructuring undergraduate science edu cation. Labov i well qualified for the ne\\' a ignment after supervi ing Colby's u e of a Howard Hughes Medical Institute grant that included a component to assi t cience teachers in local chools. The committee i charged with exam ining several facets of undergraduate sci ence education with an eye toward re vamping the ystem. "We're trying to look atit ystematically and ee what need ro be changed," Labov said. The key issue the committee will be addressing i cience literacy: how much all

Voices Raised in England

tudents-notjust cience major - hould know when they graduate. "Our concern i

Athletic team aren't the only one who go on the road during pring break at

makino the general public science liter

Colby. Thi year, 53 member of the Colby College Chorale rook a program of

ate," Labov aid. "The e peopleare goingto

American and Briti h choral mu ic from the 1 th, 19th and 20th centurie on a

be the decision maker ... and they need

tour of England.The chorale performed ix concerts in even day , including a gig

to be able to make inforn1ed deci ion ."

at the Birmingham

ymphony Hall, the brand-new concert hall hown here.

Labov notes that lawyers, business people

The opportunity for tudents to perform a varied repertoire in different ettings

and politician allmake deci ionsrequiring

help them achieve a degree of accomplishment that en emble· can't aspire to

scientific knowledge. Unfortunately, he

normally, becau e material i u ually perfom1ed only once, aid Paul Machlin,

ays, many of the tudents preparing to go

profe or of music and director of the chorale, who i pictured above at left.

intothe e field overlook cience as a mean

"Musically, it's a whole different order of achievement for them, and . .. it'

ingful part of a liberal arts education.

an awful lot of fun," he aid. 111e cultural opportw1itie in London and at

Labov and the comminee al o \vill ex

tratford-on-Avon and the chance to live with Briti h familie augmented the

amine the basic of cience education, in cluding the way special groups in ociet:y,

experience for the inger . o that every tudent

uch a women and minoritie , experience

will have the opportunity to make one road trip in his or her four year at Colby.

it, and the science components of teacher

Previou tour have taken the chorale to California in the mid-1980s and to

education curriculums.

Machlin say he tries to chedule tours every everal year

France in 1990. 111i tour's high point, he judged, was a verywell-receivedperformance in Bath Abbey-" a setting of unparalleled beauty in an ancient gothic cathedral of major architectural importance."

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there on a h i l l a mile fro1T1 to\\'n!'" said Tom Kopp, Colby'

director of <:1drnissions, reciting visiting high school students' reaction- to

the College's kKation. "You can tell from the inflection of their voice whether

that's g ood or bad." Most col l e ge students are subject to the j olts and j oys of l iving away from home, and Colby' central Maine location, 1 0 miles from any major city, seems to ampl i fy both feel ings. Phy ically removed from Boston and New York, the College may appear to be

an isolated "outdoors chool," but that's an incorrect perception, says Kopp. Even though t he area gets lots of now and the winter lasts longer than most students are 'OLBY

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accustomed to, he says, Colby's location actual l y enhances the sense of communi t y a n d t h e close relationships that develop among s tudents a n d faculty. M a n y Colby faculty live on campus or within walking distance, Kopp emphasi:es, a circumstance that lend itself to s tudents being in\'i ted to faculty homes. Student also see facu l ty at campus event such as basketball games, concerts, lectures and plays. Director of Student Activities TulliL)

ieman, \\·hose department was cited by

Campus Activities Toda)' as one of the nation' eight be t in rudent programming,

Colby i a great place to go if you enjoy the outdoors, but [ that] i n't the only option."

aid, "I olation' a state of mind. You make a decision about what you ,,·ant to do.

Act p laying in Boston come to Colby,

most 5tuclenb ]'h1cl more rewar cls lJ1 om prnbJems :ln C0Jby'5 r11rmJ JocmHon

ieman points out , citing comedian -\ l Lo l S T

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1•cr and performing 8rt;,, there\

ome

thing lln campu'.'> for everyhody. Rut 1..1rnpme1..I tll a large univer:.ity

t1..l1\T1 like her hnmeto\\'n of Ann Arbor, iv!ich., ::i'1i d Jill Moran '93, Warer\'il le

• Blue Mt. State Park

'\loc'n 't ca tcr t1..l ::itudcnr;, and has no good re�t<lUr<.rnts"-a view 'in.l!cr in rhe

he ·hare

,,·irh (1thcr-, frnm larger citie;,.

11<1 <rnd <l hy1•no

"When you're here, you're here," she

ri:-.r 1 11 G1\ en Aud1-

,,1id l<ht �r1ring. "There' no place tu go to

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r011um \\ hile rlwSc11101

get <l\\'<lY from campu;,."

Cafe Night'' ,h 111 lull''' 1ng 111

/\-!\ 1rtln foun1..I campu even 1T1ore con

Page Cnmm1..m' Rnurn-",rn1..I the\'

fining during a 'ummcr he worked ar

all had 300-plu:-. pell1• lc in arrcndancc."

the Collcgc-unril she di CO\'ered life

Nieman �<lY� he a�•1•1-cci<ltc1..I the iruny

farther nff campu:,. Everybody seem· to

P a u l a

of a recent 1..'ditorial in rhe Echo, C1..1lhy\

he <l\\'<lre nf \\'inter �kiing at

Pound tone and

student nc\\'Sp<11•er. "It ,,1i1..I th<H ir ,,.,1,

<md of LL.Bean in Freeport, where, he

big-name musicians sueh

ugarloaf

too difficult tn cl-H11..•-,e '' h�H tll 1..ln <1111..I

''1id "rpmnf people make midnight trips,"

pin Doctor�. the

there were tnn lll<my thing' 1•l < 1nncd nn <l

hut 'he di,cu\·ered the Maine Mal l,

Band and Jimmy Cliff-onl y pmt nf

,l!i \·en night," Nicrn;111 ,,1id. "l rnk...' that"'

Ac1dia Narionc1l Park and the Belgrade

as Phi h, the

the menu of first-rate entertainment

"Tl1 e j)TD b J e rn 'i.s n ol

he and his staff haw �·lanned recently. He ticks off events ,1n camr•u' ranging from the lns�•iration::. program in J anu ary, \\·hich. offers noncredit Cl•urses such as CPR, ;1erobics, auw mech<1n-

Uml ll1ere's JJol l-i'm9 l o �lo. l IJ e p TD b Ie rn 1s

ics and fly-fishing, w the Spl1tligh.t E\·ent series, featuring s1•eaker-, such

Jin1i Ung }D Luse 11'

as \\·orkl-farnm1s 1x1et Seamus Heaney and Rohen lvleero1•l) l. son nf Juliu:i and Eth.el Rosenherg.

L<tkes. Bccau e of Colby's remote ne-.:., �he ;,aid, excur ions rake ome 1•bnning, 'o they usua l ly turn out to he a w1od rime.

he also point out

that a Cnlhy-BatesorColby-Bo\\'doin g;1me i:- hcirdly Notre Dame-USC. T\\'n nf Colhy's major ri\·als are only an hour a\\·ay. And, she said, "ewn though you <t l\\'ay-. hump into people because rhe carnpu-., is ;,mall an.J e\'erybody' here,"

"It's great to stay l•n campus and

-.he found th<1t coming to know orher

s e great producti1..ms," Nieman s<1id

-;ruden.r-; ,,·ell mure than compensate

of weekend Pm\·der and Wig shows.

for the initial feeling of isolation.

He also mentions the

There's al\\'ays ::i place you can go, she

harity Ball, a

night of tuxes and l on,g gowns, sr•on

say�, akays something going on in

'ured hy the V1..1lunteer Center, which

a hackhandcd compliment-there';; W1..l

one llf the lounges or at the

donates money from the ball w worthy

much to do, and maybe y1..1u\-l hetter

Center.

causes (th.is year \\·e l l over

2,000 for the

schedule ir l>etter."

tud nt

"Yuu ran to do things on campu -

homeless). Other \'ents include Honky

"The prohlem i'Iln t rh<H there\ noth

plays and concerts-d1at you might not nrhern·ise pick up on," she said in May.

Tonk Night, Western Bonan=a Night,

ing ro Jo, the prnhlem i limitin,R yourself

Caribbean Night and Chef\ Night Out,

J.ecaus there'' �o much y1..•u can do," said

"Nm\· if I go away I'm afraid I'm mis ing

featuring each chef- :,pecial 1..)ffering,

Kopp. "Students ha\·c w pick and choose

srnnethin.g, so I like to -rick around."

each from a different ethnic hackground.

carefully because e\·erybody wants you to

"Isol ation isn't a lack of things to do,

Colb\· celebrated its 180th. anni\·er ary

go to their play or lecture. o \\'hat do you

it's more a culrural thing," .aid Kebba

in February with fire\\'orks and a week

do on this campus1 Thar'- not a proh

Tolberr '94, from Bronx, N.Y. "Maine

end of \·ideos and dancing in the Stu

lem."

isn't the most cultural ly diverse place,

dent Center. "American Pictures," a

A an admissions officer, Kopp often

and e\·ents planned ar the College aren't al\\'ay whar I'd like to ee."

multi-media rresentation on racism and

explains that wirh about 400 people in a

poverty by Dani h photographer Jacob

cl8ss di\'ided among 28 \'arsity teams,

Tolbert say he misses the radio sta

Holdt, dre\\· over 500 peorle.

n1ore th.an 60 clubs or organi:ations

tions in New York City. Other African

"a many clubs as a large state univer

American srudent

ent choices at once, Nieman says, citing

sity," he said-135 elecred or appointed

recreation. that is not available in central

the recent performance

student governmenr posts, the newspa-

Maine, such as dancing at night clubs,

Student sometimes face three differ

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African-American fratern i t ies' step hows and films released only in large cities. They a lso say that talking with friends over a keg of beer i not an experience they are used to or enjoy. Trips to Portland, M aine's largest c i ty, can be expen ive-and if you're under 2 1 , you can't get into c l ubs. And Tolbert is not the only stu dent in Colby' 1 80-year existence who has said, "I hate the cold with a passion." Accord i ng to Ch icago native Kareem Poyta '94, African-Ameri can students from predominantly white environments don't have the same experience as those from pre dominantly black backgrounds, who, he said, "can't relate and fee l even more isolated." Every difference in such a setti ng is ampl ified. Some minority tudent feel l ike they've been dropped from the d iversi ty of the city into the a lien, surreal et ting of TV's Nonhem Exposure. " I 've had students borrow my car to drive 7 5 miles to get their hair cut or to go get their hair done in Bo ton," N ieman said. "There were no kin-care products l ike hampoos and lotions available [for African Americans here] unti l recent ly. That's isolation. When you're bored and can do omething about it, that's not rea l ly isolation." Like many others at Colby, Kopp says he is keenly sensitive to the problems minority students face, but he tresses that isolation may foster leadership. Because Colby is a small chool in a rural setti ng, he says, students can be h ighly i nfluential in developing programs and changing attitudes. "They have an opportu nity to be very vocal," he said. Talbert's activi t ie alone would seem to bear that out. Colby's s ize and location made it possible for h i m to pur ue his interests in both track and journa l i m, and even in h is fir t year he covered sports for the Watervi l le Senti nel a wel l as the Echo and held a work study position in the Communications Department. During h is j un ior year he

wa captain of the track team and pre i dent of SOBHU , and he erved on the Campu Community Committee. In the spring he was elected tudent A soc ia t ion cultural chair, a post that will allow him to help program campu -wide events. A philosophy major who wanted to at-

.TI"eiriry JB['<{J>Wil11 Wtiil § tiilm <lJ>lill � tiil Jb((j)§ ({])w nm]p>({])JrQallJlQ tiilllJl J ]p>['({])o/<IJ> CtiilQ 1o/te §Jp>ealkern Q({]) lechnire nllJlJejp>emll ellJlQ [y ({])[' lbirmn�lb �!be SJP><ll>� ln.�lb� �w-ellll � §eirne§. tend a chool where he could get to know his teachers, he's even erved on a departmental committee in the earch to hire a profe sor. The downside to the opportunitie , m inority tudents ay, is that they are a ked to repre ent their group more 9

than they'd l ike. Tolbert aid, " I get to meet a lot of people and know how college work . But ometime I wi h I could ju t go to chool and be an athlete. But then I feel guilty if I 'm ju t itting down. I think about changing things. " Common Ground, a film by Caleb Cook '93 that was widely \'iewed and di cus ed on campu , undercore Cooks's belief that the Col lege ha not accurately represented the isolation minoritie experience in Maine. Nevertheless,Cook , who fir t attended the College a a vi ir ing tudent, became Colby's fir t tran fer tudent from Howard Uni versity in his hometown of Wash ington, D.C. "I wasn't getting the college ex perience," he explained. "Rural Watervi l le would be an opportu nity for me to learn omething new. I like the opportunity to experi ence d ifference." He ays he'd l ike to ee cultural awarene s tre ed at the College 1 2 months a year. Assoc iate Director of Admi ions Roland A l len recogni:e that Colby traditional ly ha attracted people from the Northeast who are intere red in the outdoors but ay that the College appeals to urban minoritie outside the area and from as far away as Chicago and Los Angele . He think it location does not deter interest in the College if only becau e minority students are willing to take ri k . "The idea of Colby outweighs the i olation," said A l len, a native ofMob i le, A la., who came to Colby from outhern California and says he t ired of the traffic there and enjoy the M a ine winter . He ays the tudent he peak to are im pre ed with the theater and with the number of c lub . They l ike the idea that the can j oin thing , he ay , and the College ha ju t about everything a tudent could want. They l ike a commu nity they can get involved with. They l ike communi ty ervice. "They see upport in the environAUGU

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ment ," he said . "They see u as a ca ual place, but they find that comfortable. I solation gets overcome . " "We're going to hide the fact we' re i n the middle o f Maine ?" a k e d Bill H iggins '9 3 , president of Stu-A last year. "That's your selling point ! We're not Bate or Bowdoin or Harvard or Boston Univer sity or Notre Dame. We're Colby. " H iggins says the only real complaint he heard about Colby's isolation is that "'we can't be more diverse becau e of where we are.' But that's not the answer,"hesaid. "Ma ine offers the same experience to every one. I t's who take ad vantage of it. What doe it matter where you're from ? You have to go into it with an open mind." H iggins says he came to Colby from H ing ham, Mass . , largely be cause of the rural atmo sphere . A n d M a i n e grew on h i m , h e says, espec ially the fishing. He say he n e v e r thought he'd find himelf taking a drive j ust to see leaves turning. And how far away is Colby, rea l ly, he won ders, when Portland is a m i n i a t u re Boston, when you c a n h av e lunch in Boston and Bangor ha restaurants and malls ? Roland A l len's answer-Colby is pretty far away when it takes him all day to get back from Los Angeles-is given by those who find the two-hour trip from the Piscataqua R iver bridge in Port mouth an empty ride. But some people, parents in particular, Allen says, are in terested in the safety offered by the College's rural location. To ome, Colby can't be far enough away. Kareem Poyta was going to transfer after his first year, then decided to return to the College for his sophomore year after there were CO L BY

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shootings and gang violence near his home in Ch icago. Colby receives 200 transfer applica t ions a year, according to Kopp, but usual ly enro l ls only 1 2 to 20 tran fer students because the College doesn't have a lot of openings. Not many tu dent transfer out. Like Poyta, who will attend Iowa State University this fall to study chemical engineering, transfers go to larger state universities, to Brown or Penn or to inner-city schools like Co-

lumbia, because they want a city envi ronment or spec ific programs not offered at Colby. Exit surveys reveal that many transfer tudents are tom about leaving the College. " It's not rea l ly knowing what they wanted," Kopp said. "But more often than not it's location . " " I solation is something that students who stay put down as attractive," Allen said. "Students who leave say it's why they left." A map in Kaj J ensen's campus room bristled with pins marking all the places 10

he'd been in Maine. Many of his trips were taken with the Outing Club, which he served a president for two years be fore his graduation in May. What ap pealed to him is Maine's "you can't get there from here" image. The Scituate, Mass. , native say it's different from his home tate-more of a working-man's state, with the paper mills and fishing. "There's a rough edge to it," he said. " It's hard to explain. But it's there." On club trips he made a point of exploring that edge of Maine by bushwhack ing to the Allagash ice caves, hiking the Ap palachian Trail , biking, canoeing, kayaking and cuba d i ving off the coast. He says it's great to watch people get out on trip , leave behind the academic demands of Colby and face new · problems, l ike supply ing basic necessities. But Jen en ay that outdoor recreation at Colby doesn't need to be as organized or as group-oriented as the Outing Club's trips. He encouraged people to take advantage of the chance to spend a fall afternoon in the apple orchards or to borrow snowshoes or skis from the club. His main goal, J ensen says, wa to get students offcampus and off the beaten track because there's so much to see in the state. A geology major who studied in the Mojave Desert, at the Bermuda biology station, on Baffin I sland in the Arctic and in Mexico's Sonora Desert, Jensen aid, "You can't beat what's right here in Maine. Colby's perfectly located-an hour from Camden, 7 5 minutes from the Bige low Range and from Portland. You've got the art museums and the mountains-the best of both worlds."

Richard Russo stakes out small towns as the canvas tor his novels and his life.

By Robert Gilles p ie W a l k i no aero s h i s yard o n the 11·a1· t n a dmner party Clne even i ng two year

agu soon after he ,11Ti 1·ed in \VarerY i l l e ,

,hl1tgun in the middle of a d inner parry and a request for a brOl)l1\ 1 You 're not going to forger that ," he said. " O r if y o u d o , you're going to replace i t 11·ith some t h i ng e1·en better or some

n.m·el ist R i chard Russo en.countered a r::ihid raccoon. "The first cop that came had not h i ng but his h i p rel'oh-er, \\'h i c h 11·as a . 3 5 7 Magnum, which he dec l ined to we on a raccoon, " Russo said. "So they ;;ent out for a shotgun. The guy

I n ;\ 1ohau•k, The Risk Pool and the rec ently published Nobod:·" ' s

d e t a i l that is e 1·en more absurd . "

Fool ( Random House , 1 99 3 ) , Russo demonstrates s i m i lar narra

who had the shotgun ll'as in Fairfie l d or some thing, so it tnnk

t i 1·e instincts about l i fe both grim and :any i n small to11·ns in

forever. R ight in the middle of d arner there's a knock nn the

upstate

door, and they sa id, '\Ve're going rn do i t rn 11- , ' so 11·e're s i t t ing

rn1·n boyhLK1l:I hornernll'n o f G k> 1·ersY i ll e , 2 5 mi les nonh11·est of

there i n the middle of t h i d inner cor11·er·at ion 11·;-1 i t ing for the

.A lbany and a fell' mi les frnm Saratoga.

BOOM of the hotgun.. 11· h i c h final/:' came. Abou t 10 minu tes

later-nobody's goi ng ro the ll'indl>11· w see if the cnp car's

e11· York-places that he says ha1·e their origin� in h i �

'Tm one of t hose people 11·ho does bel i e1·e that place i;; c harac ter," Russo s a i d . "All of the [20th-c entury] e mphasis has

gone-there's an.other knock on the door. It's the cop, 11·ho say::.,

l een on the interior l ife of a c harac ter, and 1·ery often the first

'Excu e me. Do you ha1·e a broon1 ?'"

l ine of a story II' ill be i nt e rior, 11·hat somebody thought or fe l r . So

Rus o says he thought that 11·hen he gut home he shou ld .g et

l usually spend q u i te a b i t of t i me 11·hen I teach fic t ion ·uogest ing

a l l of t h i s down on paper for use in a future n.01·el or story, but of

to l..., e ople

course the next day he reali:eJ that there 11·as abso l u tely no

Settino arrnot be separated from character and that the proper

reason to write an:v of it doll'n.

that p lace c annot be ·eparated from c harac ter and

place to begin i· outs ide. You hope to end up i nside . "

"You 're going to forget a rabid rac coon and an explod i ng

Russo' solid brick h o u ·e in Waten· i l l e i s o n e testament t o

t hL' I l l 'l i, ' l l t h. 1 r 1 1 L i c c i' c h ; 1 rn c t c r . R u�'t \ ,

11· h , i .L: rL·11· u 1 1 i n < l l a m i l y 1h ; 1 r h ; i d l l < > L ; 1 r a n d h :lLI n L· , · c r �L'tH ;nw lllL' l l l h c r t < 1 C < l l i l'gL'. L'; l r!I L'cl ; 1 Ph . D . ; 1 ( A r i :o 1 1 ; 1

U n i ,·c· r� i t \· ; mcl t ; 1 u g h t f, , r fi \'l' yc; H� ; 1 t :S1 iu t lw rn l l l i n l 1 i s U n i \"L·r� i t y . I n

J l)l) t ,

; 1fr e r h e h ; 1 d c n j u y L· d c r i t i c i l ; 1 n d f i n ; 1 1 1 c i ; 1 l :- u c c c �� ,,· i t h T h e Ri.\I\ Puul ; m L I hl'

c1 usc l 1f h i s <1Ll m i r; 1 t i n n fur C( 1 l h y \

11 - r i t l' r - p w f.: � � nr I rn S ; 1 c l o ff ; i n d t h e

Cl 1 l l cg c \ c rca t i ,· e 1n i t i n g 11rug rn m .

R us:>c l w;b l u red frl1m l l l i nn i :-- t o t e a c h fic t i \ 1n 11-r i t i n g m i d l i t e ra t u r e ; J r t h e Cn l kgc l 111<.: :;emcstcr u i c h y e ; 1 r . R us�c ' s a y s l w � r i l l fe e l � l i k e a � m a l l

r u w n hll)" . H e ; 1 ppem:-i u n fo :ed h y d1L· ::i u c c e s ::- uf h i � t h i rd !ll W e l , w h i c h �ce n b

t n h ; l \ " e p b c cd h i m nn t h e c u ;:,r n f ; 1 g r ; l l l d c 1 re c r . NuhuJ·�/s Fool i::. t h e ::.c lrt of nc ) \ · .: l t h at c ri t i c s call sr1ra11· l i n g . T h e <1C t 1 l m

mo\'e::. a t a l <: i � u re l y f"'<lC e , d i rec ted hy ;1

tar o u t m i n Jeep i n your fi c t i o n , w h a t \\'nu kl )'( )LI ra t her J ( ) 7• I t h i nk t h a t t h e

"It's small-town life held

C < H l \ c n t i n n a l w i -,Jum i� t h a t y o u \l"anr t n ,i.;o i n Jccp. ' De p t h ' i ::i ome t h i n � t h ;i t i:-- < 1 'g• 1t 1d word . ' I n t h e 2 0th cen t u ry you

Ct llll J>rc::.� e \' c ryth i ng , and i t ha� to s tand

up to, if not ridicule, at least

f ur the re::i t . " I n t e rim of pa i nt i ng�. t h e 1 9t h

c e n t u r) nu,TI i .) t h e m u ra l . I t '

a comic eye about the way

; 1 fo 1 iJ t(1 l rn 1k u pL lll t h e 1H 1 r l J i n i t�

e n t irety. No nne haJ taught them yet r h ; n t hey cou l d n ' t 5ee i t all and d i d n ' t

little things tend to consume

h ; 1 ,·e t he r i g h t to t e l l u::. w h a t i t w a s l i k e , < 1 11LI '>c l t h ey j u!>t a.>sumed t h a t t h e y d id

h a '- e t h e r i g h t .They d id n ' t see any rea

�un ""h \' t h e i r i m a g i n a t i o n should not

people in small towns."

he l a rge e no u g h to e n co mras

great

pmt i ( ln-, nf t h e i r ::inc i e t y , and �o t h e y t endeJ to l n o k a t t h i ng� t h ro u g h a

"" i J e - ;rn g l e l e m . and they ,,·ere no t

• • •

a fra id l lf t h e t ihj ec t i \'e \\ 'O rl d or of pre tencl i n g to the \\'hole not ion of obj e c -

w ise a n d good - n a t u red narrat11r 11l10 i!> a::. apt tn p u l l a r u n c h <l::. land nne nn t h e

w id e .

Get1r.r;e E l iot and D i c k e ns w e r e not

t i ,· 1 t y and h e i n g a hie to p erc e i , · e 11·hat's o u t

Tw;1 i n and D i c k e n , _

1 ir t h

"[ t h i n k t h e nll i't i m 1• , , r rn n t t h i ng fur

t here ;mJ r e c ord i t a c c u ra t e l y and i m a g i

Bat h . T h e low a n d t h e sensat ion;1 I , t h e l 1Jd

me is SCLlpe , " � " i d R u;:,�, i . 11·h, 1 h e ! i c ' " C ' t h a t

n a t i ,· e l y . I l i k e the b ig . l l i ke the \\' ide

t y p i c a l e c c e n t r i c s nf t h e t \ l \\'!l uf

d e ta i l a n d the i d i os y n c ra t ic ge.; t u re t 1r h;1 h i t

t h e e m r1 h a � i � nf 2 0 t h - c e n t u ry t1c t i on o n

t h a t a c c u m u l a t e tu c re a te t h e c h arac t e r l lf

" i nt eril 1r"has leJ tt i an e m p h ; 1 � i ' ' m "Je11rh . "

t h i " recog n i : a b l y regiona l com m u 11 1 ty a re

" ] f y nu asked a l l 1t t it ' t uden t::- \\' ho heg l ll

rem i n i s c e n t ,1f Ru ·so's fm'l1r i t e 1n1 ter::-,

11- r i t i ng fi c t i c 1 n , ' I f you l1 < 1 LI t h e c ha n c e m gu

The "Tender, Messed-up People" of m,J..C H A R D Nobody's Fool

a n g l e . I like �cupe . and I l i k e t ry i n o tn look

out u1••1n the wnr! J and not he a fr a i d of i t

m i n t i m i d a ted by

i t or c a ,·e i n to the

nut it1n that i t \ a rrogan t snme h o \\' to re-

If e ,·er t i m e tra\' e l i

i n ve n ted, let Ric hard R u o be first

t h ro u g h t h e m ac h i n e to h r i n g back a true account.

o one writ ing

today c a t c h e" t h e deta i l of l i fe w i t h such stunning acc uracy.

R usso' , t h i rd novel , Nobod) "s Fool ( Ra ndom Hou e , 1 993 ) , is

a rude, com i c , h a rs h , gal l op i ng -wry of four generat ions of mall-

town losers, the best l i tera ry portra it of the backwater burg ince

Main Srreer. Here i, a mas terl y use of the wi-ecrack, the m inor

r1<, u s s o

inflec t ion , the between -the-l ine meanino. Heavy me " ages h a ng under

ma l l - talk l ike keels under

boats . Russo's poi n t i l l ist technique makes h is char

ac ters asto n i sh i ngly rea l , and gra d u a l l y the t iny events and deta i l coalesce , b u i ld up i n mea n i ng a n d awaken in t h e reader a desi re to c l i mb i n to the page and ask for a beer.

The sett ing for Nobody ' s Fool, as for Rus o's two critic a l ly

acc laimed earlier novel , Mohawk ( 1 986 ) and The Risk Pool

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( 1 988 ) , is upstate New Yor k . The depressed town of Bath is any of a thousand other to w n s pa t their best day : a

By E. Annie Proulx '57

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<\ l r H O R fH Milll '\WK \ " O liJI RJ..�.h..J�.Q_U I

ag in the

l a n d sc a pe w i th h igh u ne m p l yment , a grea y spoon, a few bars, a bank, an a u to-part -and - u ed-car lot . To

Clive Peoples Sr., the long-dead coach and driver-ed instruc tor who l urches through the story l ike Quasimodo in a letter weater,

port on it hugene

and on

about thi hard-luck town

wife, Barbara,

from a W\\'n that had a lot

it complexity." Russo'

that wa

return home from her job a

down rhe road

better luck, oeological and

ecretary of Colby' Mu-

other, l thouoht , t :: 1me

ic Dep rtment and it be

poin t , fa irly e a r l y o n ,

' laybe 1 ought to g o back

·ide him on the couch while the Ru o daughter , Emily,

there.' And I re, i red the

1 , and Kate, 1 1 , mill about

impul·e to �o back. A ,

in the kitchen. A her hu -

matter of fact, I re·i ted

band talk

about The Risk

the impulse until the book

Pool, Barbara Ru o mile

wa 95 percent Cl)mplere.I

and roll

wanted to li,·e 1t ima ma

her eye , ma be

becau e he' lived with the

ti,·ely fir,t."

creation of that world of

Even t h o u o h R u

magnitude and cope.

doesn't keep notebook of

" I actually thou ht when

1 tarted writing it that it might even be a novella or a hon novel," Rus o said,

incidents like the rabid ra -

" I Like the big. I like the wide angle . I like scope , " Russo says . His penchant is for swries ofgrand sweep rather than scruriny of a character's "interior. "

"with a simple straightfor

coon, he doe n 't worry about misrepre-en t mg an incident or a place in h1 fiction. He ay the reality

ward sror line, no point of view hifts, a

looking at a mural again ! "

father, a son, a mother who' a econdary

o f a place-a

Although Ru o ·ees certain imilari

character-and ju t let 'em go at it m er a

t i e between Maine and up tate New York,

period of however many year . Then all

memory upplies the familiar characteri -

these other characters started turning up.

tic and custom of

uddenly the mother's got a lawyer, and

ew York. Invention

oppo e d t o the place in

imagination-i likely to be nothin more than a ecurity blanket anyway. "If ou're there and you de cribe ome thino that you see right in front of you, you

makes up the rest.

"I make use of a place mo t-and mo t

can ay, ' H ey, I not only wrote about thi-,

the father' got a best friend, there's an aunt down the street and there' a boy that

effec tiYely-when I'm not there," Ru so

can hm the photograph or y u can how

aid. "When 1 was writing

the object that the writing i- ha ed on,

ed i going to chool with. And I 'm back

" . . . everything in the world wa repre ented, omehow, right where they lived," and this is how Ru so play the card.

obody 's Fool

load concrete block onto his beat-up truck. With tandino affliction-even eeking it out-count for much with

Small town di gorge the talented and the able. Ru so write

The overloaded truck

of the ones who stay behind, caught in invi ible economic net

hitchhike home a

like ga·ping fi h, parceling out the few job- and mate among each

wagons pa

other and trading both around from time to time.

I took a photograph-and here it i .' If you

o one ha any

ink

into the mud and

ull

ull . ha

housewi es driving grocery-laden ration

him by:

"The e housewives . . .concluded, de pite the fact that there

money, and if ome windfall drop from the lotter) , poker or hor e

wa no pri on within a hundred-mile radiu , that the man mu t

tree, tt 1 ju t luck and the money, like the luck, i evane cent.

be an e caped con ict , a murderer urel , who had pent the

regarded by most Bath

night in the mar h to e cape the dog . Either that or he wa a

re ident a nobod ' fool. The 60-year-old on of Big Jim, a long

The

tory re olve

around Sult

premarnre burial from the nearb cemeter who had cla, ed hi

dead brutal drunkard, Sull cannot get m·er being his father's son.

way out of hi ca ket and up thr ugh the black earth and into the

Every time he pa e the cemetery he throw hi father the finger

air. Where most hitchhiker at lea t attempted to look friend! ,

and he let the hou e he ha inherited from him fall into ruin a

r failing that, pitiful, thi one looked ju-t plain danoerou .

a fine filial in ult. Big Jim' mo t sickening deed-which keep· bobbing up in the tory like a corp e in a ri er-wa to cau e a young boy'

empalement on a fence, then, through con-arti t

blather, per uade the horrified townspeople that he wa

the

victim, in danger of lo ing hi employment for ju t doing hi job. Sully h3 a hugel defying pain. We

wollen injured knee but takes plea ure in tart to know him when

ingle-handedl),

without the aid of hi dim-witted, reeking friend Rub

queer , he

omerhing about the way he held out hi thumb uoge red that the fi t attached to it might contain a live orenade." Although

ully, ' ... a l nely,

eem alway " .. . lookino for a car t

tubbom

unlucky man,"

hit head on," he i al o

irreverent, tough, companionably clo e to hi bad luck and the

th.er side of the oambling coin-often fired with unwar

ranted optimi m: he ha grit and awe ome ·tamina, a en e of humor, a en e of elf. Hi main virtue is hi ability to endure, to

ba ically what you're

of hometown folk .

proving to people i

"You try to write

that you didn't u e

about places with a

your imagination. I

degree of honesty," he

would be much more frightened

said." I f you have any

f the im

decency at all a

plications of that than of the po sibility that I remember

being, you know that

ome

when you go back to

thing mi · takenly or

vi it the place that you

that the way I remem

have made use of,

ber it put a slant on it

ometime

for ·ome rea on or an other that may not

things that you didn't get at. ... The people

truth. I don't worry

that meet you and the

about that at all." The

people that you meet

American

repre ented by some

to comic

advantage, there are

corre pond to literal

small town ha been

arti t and as a human

are living te timony

At a book signing session in June , Russo shares a laugh wich LesUe Tane '93, a scudenc in his crearive writing class at Colby and her mother, Jill Tane . ,

writers a stultifying,

to the fact that you didn't get the whole to ry . . . . If you've

bleak and blighted. Others have viewed it as a Golden Age pre-industrial paradi e. Russo feel he come down somewhere in the middle between denunciation and adu

metimes becau e th.ere are no big rhino to con ·ider." Having made

tried to write hone tly you houldn't feel like you've done anybody wrong or you've

mall town

the butt of

J ne

eriou

dis ervice to anybody or

comedy, he enjo ed the fact that he wa to

you've told horrible lie that are going to

lation. Of Nobody 's Fool he aid, "I t' small

begin a 19-city book tour thi

hurt people."

town life held up to, if not ridicule, at lea t

visiting

a comic eye about the way little things

much of the humor in Nobody'

Fool. But

Review of Nobody's Fool have been positive and bear out the publi her's belief

tend to consume people in

he ay he doe n't worry about the reaction

that the new book will be a be t seller.

mall town

umrner hy

araroga-which come

in f r

ride through disa ter on wry wit. If, by ome peculiar hake of

he how u again and again that the eed of the dult is in the

Fate's dice, there is no helping of broken glass on his plate, he

child. Mo t of the children are in their 60s with children and

i nor beyond mashing ome up. The tory i peopled with a ide how of memorable charac ter : the druggi t who dispen e experimental painkiller from

grandchildren of their own, and their parents are in their 80 and 90

r dead. The grating antipathie are never resolved.

We hift back and forth from Sully and hi dead father to

his glove compartment; the father-in-law with the breathing

Sully's own unloved son, Peter, a failed univer ity teacher who

problem, something of a fixture in Russoland; lucky Carl Roe

doe n't under rand the nature f luck, and Peter's on , timorous

buck, who doesn't see that his money, beautiful wife and golden

Will and the little bully, Wacker.Ca , of Hattie' Lunch, hate

touch is nothing but a prolonged roll of the co mic dice; a hot

and wishe her m th.er would die so he can move out west and

and cold priest duo; a punch-up tyke; Sully's occa ional lover,

start being happy. But when the old woman is killed by the cash

the long-suffering Ruth, who e timing i always off; the abrasive

regi tershe love , Ca s tagaer with displacement.Beryl People

and abusive Janey ( Ruth says she's Sully' daughter) and her

ha alway liked

idiot-savant kid; and the alternating Greek choruses of all-night

ing son Clive Jr., who i almost 60 before he gets a ta re of the

poker players , bartenders and hort-order cooks.Smart old Beryl

wild honey, and then only by ab conding with bank funds,

ully more than her own resentful and hunger

Peoples, for 40 years a teacher, is the cement of the tory. At 80

driving a Lincoln with a broken axle, taunting a cop and

she is an authority on human nature, the voice of reason in this

thinkino, as he veers loo ely over high- peed roads, " . .. that he

tilted pinball game view of life.

wa neither in nor out of control" and reflecting that at last thi

In all of Russo's novels his creative territory is raked out

" . . . wa what it felt like to be Sully."

around the primary human relationship-child and parent. I n

The relation hips between men and women in Nobody's Fool

Nobody's Fool these complex a n d painful connection never

are as flawed a tho e between children and parent . It i not

mature and never end, not with age, not even with death; and

only the absence of love ( never there, burned out or distorted)

But Ru o has learned the virtues of an

parkino

even keel.

right to park here for your next book.

"Before Mohawk was published, there wa a very long period of time when my life as a writer was a life of rejection," he aid. "People were sometime

saying

directly that I didn't write very well and ometime

aying it indirectly j ust by

virtue of the rejection slip." He cites a recent incident relayed by hi literary agent, who had lunch in New York with an editor from a major publi hing house.The agent was trying to sell the editor what he described a a very good novel by a first novelist. '"Well,"'

"The good reviews say to the writer, 'Yeah, go ahead. Write another one. You're

aid Russo, quoting the

Doe's book?' and she aid, 'Oh go h, I gue s it' okay, but I didn't really like it

you have a

You' e been validated, you have a right to be here, and you're much le

likely to

have the kind of elf-doubt that can in fact paraly e a writer.

o the good re

view have the effect of aying to the writer, 'Yeah, go ahead. Write anc ther one.You're kay, kid. Keep domo th 1 .'

You haven't robbed the worl<l of a farmer

or an electrician." Ru o ay that when h come · back fr m hi b ok tour he might "rake a fly at a book that'

much darker." He can't

tell whether the book he' already 2 00 page into i more urgent than the book

okay , kid."'

agent, '"what do you think about Jane

ticker that

he hasn't even begun yet. "The book that 1 haven't begun, of course, is pure," he aid. 'Right now it'·

ery much. How come you never give

a perfect a book a it will ever be. lt'

me any writers like Richard Russo to

that fir t word where the problem be

.. .. ..

read ?' He said, 'I not only give you

gin." The first word et a writer on a

writers like Richard Russo to read, I gave

voyage of di covery. And it' a reader'

you Richard Russo to read, and you re

then justified in not raking much heed of

writer who ay

jected it.' She was stunned. She said ' No ! '

them, either.

ee what happens next."

and h e said, ' Y e , you rejected Mohawk."'

"What good reviews amount to," he

Russo says he has never paid too much

explained, "is an enormous relief. When

attention to good reviews. When the in

you get good reviews, let's face it, they

e itable bad ones appear, he says, he is

validate. It's like somebody punching your

that tortures but also the burden of too much love: Sully's ex wife, who sobs in his arms that she hates him, pesters and whips her father and her son with her fretful affection. Only with the fourth generation, Sully's timid and frail grandson, Will, does

"l try to write like I read,

Autographed copie of

obody's Fool

are available from the Colb) Book tore.

'"Which was a lie. He shook the fence until the kid lo t hi grip and fell.' "'You saw him?' '"My brother did.' Sully grinned. "All I

aw wa

the kid

there seem a chance that 60 years of neglect-fired hate may shift

hanging there by his jaw with the .;pike ticking out of hi

into a different gear.

mouth.'

Russo's interest in affliction and suffering invites comparison of hi work with that of Russell Banks and Andre Dubus, though Russo capers away, with self-biting humor, from resolutions of atonement, redemption or expiation. In Nobody's

Fool the

"Wirf took off his glasses and rubbed hi eyes. ' It' a wonder we aren't all insane.' "'We are,' Sully said, getting up from hi stool. His convic tion surprised him. 'I believe that."'

random hand of chance is everything, and the best that can be

After the last sentence i read and the book put away, the

hoped for in the end is a shift in luck. It' all crazy, anyway. No

reader continue to ee Ru o' tender, me sed-up people com

one can tell which way the needle will jump.A brief exchange

ing out of doonvays, getting into car , lurching through life.And

between Sully and his dying lawyer, Abraham Wirfly, gives u a

keep

eeing them becau e they are a real as we are.

glimpse of the direction. "'Now tell me. What'd Barton want with you this morning?' "Sully norted. 'He wanted to know about the day my old man piked that kid on the fence.' "Wirf nodded thoughtfully. ' ... What'd you tell him?' '"Nothing,' Sully said. 'That it was an accident.' "Wirf nodded.

E. Annie Proulx received the 1 993 PE /Faulkner award for her novel Postcards. Her review is reprinted from The Chicaoo Tri bune with pennission .

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Three Young Colbians Find life Grand at 1 600 Pennsylvania Avenue By Stephen Coll i ns ' 7 4

n a st icky morning in the \V'h i te House �..., r csS l)ffice earl ier thi -ummer, Da\· id Leavy '92 already had hi::. . sui t j acket off in deference to the comhinat1on of r i s ing temperatures and steady act i v i ty . He h a d arri\·ed at 6 : 4 5 a . m . to scan h a l f a do:en newspapers for clues as to the questions that might ari e at the daily White H ouse press briefing. ow, several hour lat r, a· he put a Tylenol bottle back into h is desk drawer ( next to the aspirin bottle ) , he grabbed a telephone headset off hi desk to take a call. " Dave Leavy, " he said, the headset still en route to his ears. " Hey buddy, how are you ?" On some calls Leavy's next l ine would be, "Can I call you r ight right back !" but this one -eemed important. Sti l l , throughout the call he stayed in motion-the fact that he wears a headset means Leavy isn't restricted by a phone cord, and both of his hands stay free. He checked the me sages on his computer, signed for a courier del ivery, filed some papers and carried on a conversat ion in his office with hand gesture . Thirty feet away, in the corridor between the briefing room C O L B Y

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anJ the Oval Office, H i l lary Rodham Cl inton was locked in con\'ersation \\"ith public relation guru David Gergen. Around the corner in the briefing roon1 itself, reporters and photogra pher' marked time with card oames and banter, telephone cal ls, junk food and machine coffee, waiting for the briefing that Leavy and hi colleagues were preparing. Lea\·y wrapped up hi phone conversation, took off the headset and not iced Maura Eliason of ational Public Rad io s i t ting by hi desk, waiting for an interview w ith h is bos , Whi te House Pres Secretary Dee Dee Myers. " Hey, you got a haircut," Leavy said. " I t looks good. " Eliason, who explained that she went home to see her mother for the weekend and got a trim there, couldn't resist a gratu i tous poke at t he chief executive's recent $ 200 haircut by Christophe. When the door to Myers's office opened, Leavy managed to sneak in w ith a few quest ions before the N PR interview. "I t's k ind of s low today," Leavy observed, back at h is desk. But w i th a Supreme Court nominat ion anticipated, that was l i kely to change, he promised. " I t ' l l start heat ing up," he said, obviously rel i bing the prospect . "We'll start get ting some juice."

For Kathy McKieman (left), David Leavy and Cassie O'Neill, the road from Colby to Washington went straight through Little Rock-all worked on the Clinton campaign, then on the transition team-and all ended up at the White House.

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Perhap no col lege is better repre sented than Colby in the young corps of White Hou e staff as istants . Kathy Mc Kiernan '90, a colleague of Leavy in the pre s office, its j ust off the briefing room . Over in the east wing, Kathleen "Ca sie" O'N e i l l '9 1 coord inates th in terac tion between the House of Repre sentatives and the White House. The youthfulness of the Cl inton raff ha not been lo t on the pres . When two ix th grader attended a briefing in J une, reporters couldn't pa s up the chance to needle Leavy about it. "Are these new member of the communicat ion raff?" asked one wag. "Is this going t rai e the median age in the press office ?" "Some of us are young, but so were people in the Republ ican administra tion. They had 1 2 year of easoning before they left," Leavy aid. A l l three of Colby' White House insiders take the j ibes in tride. "The fact of the matter is, it's a job," O'Neill said. "You're going to havegood week and bad week -days you'd l ike to quit and day you feel l ike you could do it forever." Working alongside the l ike of re porter Andrea M itche l l and Wolf Blitzer, White Hou e offic ials such as Dee Dee M yers and David Gergen, pow erful Congre ional leaders l ike George M itchel l and Bob Dole-and even Bill and H i llary Clinton-is j ust busines as usual, the trio agreed. But being able to accept it that way is not the same as being jaded or b lase , accord ing to Leavy. "We're all so appre c iative to be here," he aid. "You go home at the end of the day and you say, 'Wow, I did some pre t t y amazing stuff today.' We 're so lucky-it's such a rare experience that we've l ived. " " A s I rush around try ing to take phone calls and make meetings I for get sometimes that I ' m spending my time with

U.S. enator and representative ," said O'Neill. "You have to check in with yourself periodically." On a Tuesday morning this summer, O'Neill, 2 3 , chatted with the White House guard at the west lobby entrance as she wai ted for a de legation from Capi tol H i l l to arrive. Having spent the pre viou day helping to arrange the meeting between Pre ident Clinton and the Con gre sional leaders, he now was escorting the members of Congres into the Oval Office. "Good morning," said as Senator George M i tchell stepped out of his l im ousine. " How are you ?" W i th simi lar greetings and ome ca sual chitchat, she proceeded to meet and escort , among others, enators Alan Simpson and Bob Dole and repre enta tive Tom Foley, Newt Gingrich and Richard Gephardt up the driveway and in to see the president. A colleague who pa sed her in the driveway asked if she needed any help. "No," O'Neill replied, " It's j ust the lead ership." (The "j u t" wa meant to signify that the entire Congress wasn't coming, so he could handle her duties alone, not that i t was j ust the leader hip, ho hum. ) O'Neill' re pon ibil itie in the Legi lative Affair Office, where she i one of three staff assistants who work with the House, are primarily in scheduling and

logistics. Be ides coordinating vi it by members of Congres for variou events and meetings, she prepares briefing ma terials-who is coming, when they last saw the pre ident and what they talked about. At events with large crowds, Clinton needs to know who from the H i ll actually showed up o he can ac knowledge their attendance. O'Neill pre pare that l ist for him. When no visits or events are taking place or being arranged O'Neill m ight spend the whole day working on a re earch project or at another task. "The job changes every day. That's what's nice about it," he said. McKieman, who turned 2 5 in May, is an industrious but quiet presence in the pre operation. In her mall office and out in the reception area televi ions moni tor Cable N ews Network nonstop. On a Monday morning in J une, about half of the stories in the rotation were directly from the west wing or had thread back to the White House. As a tape showed the pre ident on his way to a memorial service for Robert F. Kennedy, she pointed to the screen, indicating the camera' point of view. "That' where we are," he aid. "We're the taff that has to keep the [pre s] pool under control." Reflect ing on her assignment of the night before, McKieman de cribed ac companying Clinton to Kennedy's grave in Ar l ington on the 2 5 th an niversary of his assassi nation. " I t was j ust a v e r y m o v i ng c e r e mony," she said. "Par ticularly for me, being Boston Irish Catholic." "That's one of the things about worki ng here," she added. "To see Ted Kennedy walk i ng around give you a sen e of the history of the place." A s a s tory and grap h i c on N A S A ' s pace tation program flashed on the screen, McKieman took a call fromN ASA's public in-

Cassie O'Neill ' 9 1 works in the Legislative Affairs Office , where she helps schedule Clinton 's meetings with Congressional leaders such as Alan Simpson (above) .

formation office. Someone getting her to a meeting, or there wanted to coordinate fitting her family and friend the agency' official position into her daily round of activi with the president' . Next tie , Leavy i re pon ible. " lt' came a call on the mall Busi incredible," ·he aid. nes Loan Refinancing Act. "What distingui he him i Money for the program had hi attitude. He' unfa i lingly i n i t i a l l y b e e n p a rt o f will ing to do whatever needs Clinton' economic timulu to be done," he aid. And, she package, and now the proadded, after the longe t, most gram was broke and the loan tres ful day, he appears bright proces tailed. Someone wa and early the next morning looking for an update. "with a mile on hi face ! I've At 1 1 : 3 0 , McK ieman never een uch ability to deal passed through a doorway and w ith uch a variety of demands traded the relative peace of in a per on o young. And he her office for the omewhat never gets rattled." frenzied atmosphere of the Su an Brophy, deputy di briefing room itself. A if try rector of legislative affair in ing not to add to the commo the White House, wa a con tion, he hung back near the u l tant to the Clinton cam doorway, keeping a low pro paign. She aid she noticed the file attheedgeoftheTV light . job O' eill wa doing in the McKieman is respon ible delegate selection effort at the for s igna l ing the end of the convention and recruited her recorded portions of press to work in the White House briefings. "U ually briefings Legi lati ve Affairs Office ba ed are five m inutes on-camera, on the kill she aw. during which the reporters "She really impres ed me a will hammer away," she ex "He basically runs my life , " Press Secrerary Dee Dee Myers ( left) a per on who could under tand plained. McKieman is the says of David Leavy '9 2 . what wa being accompli bed," one who gives the ignal to Brophy said. "You have to dim the l ights and shut off the audio don't remember having that kind ofcon move quickly. There' not a lot of time to feed. "That tends to calm things down," fidence in myself when I was 2 5 . " ask que tions about what's going on." she aid. J ones said h e i n ' t ure that people 1 0 O' eill was competent, had good po When the briefing ended she waded years older could d o these jobs with as litical sense, was organized, followed up into the crowd to ask a reporter to c larify much panache a Leavy, McKieman and and had the right per onality for the job, a question, then repaired to her cubicle O'Neill. He said he's amazed watching Brophy said, adding that in the White them walk into a meeting between Hou e, O'N e i l l has shown good instincts to get the answer. Joke from reporters a ide, some of Clinton and, say, Egyptian Pre ident and fore ight and interpret events well. "The tasks that Cassie doe are tre the more experienced hands in the west Hosni M ubarek, or Briti h Prime M inis wing have no reservation about their ter John M aj or or German Chancellor mendously important,' Brophy aid. j unior staff members. "I'm urprised at Helmut Kohl. "They j ust continue work "When you go ask someone for a vote omewhere down the l ine it's much ea ier how k i lled these younger folk are in ing without even blinking," he said. "The e guys are going to be, in 1 5 or if they fee l they've been treated well by general , " said 45 -year-old Arthur Jones, one of two deputy press ecretarie in the 20 years, the David Gergens of the the Legislative Affair Office. " world- k i l led, experienced, creative. For the three Colbian , the road to White Hou e. He prai ed McKieman' energy, com That gives me a lot of confidence," Jones the White House went traight through petence and abi li ty to initiate and an said. "If they were 45, a I am, where Little Rock-all of them worked on the ticipate. "She can see a situation devel would the next generation be ?" he a ked Clinton campaign team and then on the tran i t ion team. But they all agree w ith oping and w i l l go to the right ource, w ith a shrug. Asked about Leavy' role, Dee Dee Leavy, v. ho said, "You don't work on a make the right phone call, gather the right information- he ha great in- Myers aid, "He basically run my life." campaign expecting a j ob later." Leavy' odyssey to the thre hold of tinct ," J one aid. "With the confi Whether it's managing the information dence and motivation, it' a great mix. I that cro es her desk, cheduling and the 0 al Office i a tale of contact , 19

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confidence and chutzpah . Backing a win ner from the early rages f the primarie was one key to his ascent, but his will ing ness to take risks was c r i t ical too . Leavy got h is tart in politic look ing for a way to take a spring eme ter off from boarding school. His mother told him the Dukakis headquarters was j ust two blocks from hi home in Boston, so he applied for an intern hip there before the New Hampshire primary in 1 988. "That

Maine, including a top in the Height Community Room at Colby. "There was very low intere t. Nobody knew Hi llary Clinton from Eve," Leavy said, looking back. "There were barely 5 0 people there, but she was great." The first th ing Leavy did when he graduated in May wa call Arkan a . Things weren't going particularly well for Clinton at that point, and Leavy was told that there weren't any job .

No job; no place to tay," he said. "I wa feeling pretty low." Prowling the hallways, Leavy ran into Ethan Zindler (a colleague from the Du kakis campaign who now works in the White Hou e) who invited him to "bang the phones" as a volunteer. "Six days later, Dee Dee h ired me," Leavy said. A t the same time, McKieman had j ust burned out in her job as a reporter for a chain of weekly new papers in the � rem �ur� d & ton. �� pay was terrible; the hours were long," she aid, addi ng quickly, "Well, I thought the hours were long" ( not having had the White House experience for compari on ) . h e quit and was leaning toward a career in magazines when she de c ided he'd like to work for Clinton. Not well connected like Leavy, he u ed her reporter's skills: "I called directory assistance and asked for the C l i n ton campaign in New York, " he said. She tracked down the press operation and told a woman there that he was a re porter who was willing to work for Clinton as a volunteer. "I j ust really wanted to work on hi behalf in some way," he aid. McKiernan' l ife took an unex pected tum when she tried to call a friend in Little Rock the week after Kathy McKieman ' 90 waits in the wings as Dee Dee Myers delivers the day's press briefing. One the Democratic convent ion, only of Mc Kiernan' s tasks is to signal the end of the on-camera segment and follow up on any to have David Leavy answer the unanswered questions . phone. "I had all these things to do, was my first political experience, and H is response ? " I j ust packed my bags and I wanted to wait a month to go, but I 've been a j unkie ever since," he said. and went down there. " Dave aid, 'No, come now , "' he said. He got on the Clinton bandwagon The receptionist at Clinton head Dee Dee Myer hired her at about the early. He spent hi senior-year Jan Plan quarter in Little Rock wa very cordial. time Al Gore was chosen as Clinton's as the field d irector for the Clinton cam "Who are you here to ee ?" Leavy re running mate, and McKieman was as igned tO work in Gore's press office paign in Maine prior to the state's cau members being a ked. S i n c e he k n e w G e orge S t e p h during the campaign. Then she joi ned c uses. I t was heady stuff for a college student, running the grassroot effort in anopoulos from the Dukaki campaign, the tran ition staff in Arkansa and went M ai ne w ith three field office reporting he said , "George Stephanopoulo " with to Washington for the inauguration, where she learned she had survived the to him. He got permission to start hi last out really thinking it through. "So the guy ays, 'Great, ' and walks winnowing process and could continue seme ter courses late so he could work on the campaign through the caucuses in me right into Stephanopoulos's office ! " on in the White House. O'Neill was recruited to work for the Leavy recalled. "Thank God George M arch 1 99 2 . campaign's delegate department the day H e recal ls taking a c a l l from Little wasn't there." When Leavy finally did get a m in ute after S uper Tuesday in M arch 1 992 Rock that J anuary. "Okay," he wa told, with Clinton's communications direc through a contact at the Wa h ington "you've got H i l lary for a whole day." H e drew up an itinerary for the future tor, he found the job outlook hadn' t law firm where he worked. She says she First Lady that included six towns in changed. "There I was in Little Rock. planned to be with Clinton for a couple

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of months at most. That was more than a year ago, and now she wonder how long it will be before she returns to her original p lan to go to law school . Before that fateful invitation she had done ome volunteer work for pol itical campaign "but nothing of any subtance," she aid . At the Democratic -.:on vention she worked behind the cene with delegate and party leaders, which turned out to be perfect training for her current j ob-working with Representa t ives, Congressional leader and whips. Perfect training for a job she never expected in a career track she never imagined. And that's not all. "Pretty much my whole fam i ly is Republ ican," aid O'N e i l l , a native of H i ngham, M ass. Asse s ing where they are and how they got there, Leavy, McKiernan and O'N e i l l c ited several people at Colby who helped them along the way. I t's one thing, government majors O'N e i l l and Leavy said, to have profes sors who instilled confidence and en couraged students to get involved. It's another to get that support from profe ors who have hand -on experience in national pol itical campaigns and White Hou e trans i t i ons. Profes ors Tony

C o r r a d o , S a n d y M a i el and C a l Mackenzie a l l brought personal experi ence to their cla se and were able to take the material beyond academic d is cus ion and textbook reading , they aid. McKieman, an Engl ish major who pent her fir t year pent at Boston Uni versity and then tran ferred to Colby, aid Colby Engl i h profes ors had very high expectation and held tudent reponsible for doing their be t work. " I t gave m e confidence in what I w a s ca pable of doing," he said, adding that her responsibilit ies a new edi tor of the Echo augmented the classroom experience. When the trio started work on Clinton' transition team, the thread back to Mayflower H i l l was reinforced when one of Cal Mackenz ie's books howed up on the tran ition team's read ing l ist. At first, O'Neill said, her uper v isor was blase when he mentioned that she had tudied with Mackenzie. Soon, however, she wa asked if she would please pick hi brains-"What else should we read; what should we do about a particular issue ?" " l wouldn't have been able to do what I 've done without Colby," aid Leavy. Beside working c losely with a faculty

that wa tuned in to pol i tic , he found that the contact -a wel l a the inti mate cale of pol i t ic in Maine-pro vided unique opportunitie , such as hi Clinton field director po t. De pite the fact that Clinton's ap proval wa agging badly, Leavy, Mc Kiernan and O' e i l l hrugged off ques t ions about morale. "There were time in the campaign when it wa much wor e," said O'Neill. "You get u ed to living under a magnifying glass. " Leavy minimized the day-to-day criti c i m of Cl inton and h i staff. "The fact is that America is more engaged. People feel more connected. People want to participate," he aid, crediting Clinton for what he described a a new en e of hopefulne s in the country. "People really want to ee thi presi dent succeed," he continued " l feel very confident thi man will be the be t pre i dent of our l ifetime." Leavy is equally enthu ia tic about the adventure he and McKiernan and O'Neill have shared. "We've been on such an incredible ride," he said. "We've een hi tory unfold before our eyes. "

PHOTO COURTESY OF DAVJD LEA VY

"We're all so appreciative to be here , " Leavy says , explaining how he feels about rubbing elbows with VIPs-including President Clinton and Vice President Gore. "You go home at the end of the day and you say , 'Wow, I did some pretty amazing stuff today . ' "

D e s p i t e S o m e G ru m b l i n � A n d a F e w U n fo u n d e d R u m o rs , C o l b y ' s 1 72 n d

Off W i t h o u t a H i tch

C o m m e n ce m e n t We n t

By Sally Bake r

o e R a n k i n , a r e r o rt e r frn m Waten· i lle's Morning Scnrind, tonk a good look arn und C\11 c o I i m nce ment morn i ng as he \\'andered i nto the pres area on M i l ler L i brary b\\'n to pick up his credentials. Rank i n had hecn trac k ing a rumor all \\'eek-he'd heard that ACT U P , a group noted for bo i ster ous demonstrations to raise AI OS J\\'are ness, was expected to d isrupt the day's proceedings. And he wondered : \\'a it his i maginat ion, or were there a fe\\' extra �-,o lice n hand 7 There were. After two lead ing mem bers of the senior c lass recei\·ed late n ight phone calls from person c l a i m ing to represent ACT UP who said the group planned to protest at Colby, College a d m i n i s t r a t o rs h a d h u d d l e d w i t h Watervi l le pol ice and worked out a plan to provide beefed-up sec urity for com m e n c e me n t . U n i fo r m e d , off- d u t y Waterv ille officers formed a loose cor don around the speaker's platform while others monitored the area from c lass rooms in the Lovejoy Build ing. As i t happened , no demonstrat rs appeared on that fine and breezy Sunday morning, but the threat itself-along

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\\' i th �1 b st - minut e dri\·e hy some tu Jcnt::i and fac ulty meml:-,er� w ·d10\\' their ,J i � aprr l w a l nf the c ommen c e me n t �peaker, enate � l i nority Leader Bob 01.)l e-,.., a\'e a J m i n i � t ra t or - one last chance to addres� the Cla -� o f 9 3 about the i mportance of tolerance. Du ri ng a rehear al for baccalaureate and commenc e ment, Dean of Student J anice Kassman ( then S e i t = i ng e r ) p l e ad e d \\' i t h sen ior to let po l ice handle any ACT U P demonstrator . In h is baccalaureate ad d ress o n S a t u rd a y m o r n i n g , Pre s i d e n t W i l l i a m Cotter said the College wou ld "not tolerate a d i srupt ion" from an outside group. "We are prepared to handle that," Cotter said. " But the idea of [a] boycott has been ex pressed , not by outsid ers, but by some mem bers within our com munity . That strikes '

me as not only i mpol ite- ince enator Dole i a guest of the College and espe c ially of the eniors whose day it is-but in v iolat ion of the most ba ic under stand ing of the obligation to Ii ten particularly in an academic commun ity where our whole purpose is the pur uit of knowledge. . . . pec ial efforts to seek out contrary opinions and to encourage other to do o i a fundamental obliga t ion of educational leadership, and boy cotting speaker -before we have even given them a chance to be heard-seems to me almo t as offensive as interfering w i th free speech itself." If anyone did boycott Dole's peech, the number weren't large enough to notice. Many faculty member and tu dents wore discreet ribbons on their robes to protest Dole' presence; others sported large, red and white buttons featuring pineapples with lines slashed through them: "No Dole." ( Before he left cam pu , an amu ed Dole asked a few people where he could get one, and the next day a staffer in hi Washington office called to repeat the request. ) After he as introduced by Cotter, Dole took the podium and, in h is fir t breath, gave an object lesson on why he' been so succe sful i n politics. "A com mencement speaker i l ike a corpse at a fu neral," he began. "You can't have the cer emony w ithout one, but nobody expect you to ay very much." The line got a b ig laugh, and Dole went on, if not to charm his dissenters, at least to d is arm them �ith h is fa mous sense of humor. " S e n a t o r G eorge M i tchell, my friend and the majority leader, wa b o r n and ra i s e d i n Waterville," Dole aid. " He told me he mowed the lawn right over here,

in fact where you're seated today. H is father wa a cu tod ian here, and his brother is an as istant ba ketball coach. From time to time, prior to today, before I got this honorary doctorate, he' called me ' Mr. Gridlock.' But with thi degree, I w i l l insi t on b e i n g ca l l ed ' D r . ' Gridlock." With the crowd sufficiently loo ened up, Dole launched into the meat of his remark . First he ec hoed C o t t e r ' s sentiments o f the day before. "I do w a n t to u n d e r score , " he a i d , "that speaking up on the i ues is a tradi tion here at Colby. And after reading an issue or two of The Colby Echo, I am w e l l aware that some in this c lass may not totally share my pol itical philoso phy. And I have no problems with that. When I wa the age of many of the seniors in this c la I joined countle other young A merican in journeying to foreign lands to fight for the urvival of the right to think and peak a you choo e. I think it was worthwhile then, I think it i worthwhile now." Dole aid that the me age he has rece ived from the A merican people in h is travel is clear. "Wherever I go i n the country I hear the ame thing," he aid. "It' t i me for government to make do with what they have, to reduce pendi ng and to top mortgaging the future of thi country." Like many c redi t - trapped American , he aid, the U. . govern ment ha gotten into the habit of pend ing money it doe not have. After he explained that 1 4 percent of America's tax dollars go toward ervic ing the intere t on our $4 trillion na-

The usual enthusiastic crowd turned out (facing page , top) to see the graduates march (above , right) and to hear commencement speaker Bob Dole, who received his honorary degree from Bill Cotter (left) .

Laurie Girard poses with Streak, her iguana (above) ; Sue Kaimes beams in anticipation of receiving her dip loma (center) ; and four generations of the Mastrovita family Poppy Gerard , Poppy Mastrovita , Poppyann Mastrovita and Emma Poppel-are also all smiles (right) .

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tional debt, Dole aid, " l t's hard to imag ine what tri ll ions of dollars really mean, so j ust let me ive you a little example of what you could do with some of that. You could buy an average - ize, in gr und , concrete wimming pool for every homeowner in America; you could pay a 40hour-a-week, m i n i mum -wage paycheck t every person in t h e world, pay a year of tuition to Colby fo r e v e ry h i gh school tudent in America and buy every 1 99 3 college graduate in Amer ica a new BMW and a two-week Club Med vacation. And you'd still have more than $3 tril l ion left." "The message is simple," he said. "America needs comprehensive, long term, enforceable defic it reduction to sustain economic growth and to raise your standard of living and that of your children." But Dole said money to a id the Yeltsin government in Russia would be well spent. "Yes, democracy must be e tab lished and nurtured by the Russian them selves," he said. "Ye , there is a l imit to what we can do. Yes, other nations mu t help. But there i no doubt in my mind that America must lead the way. "Foreign aid has never been popular. l t's not popu lar in my state, it's probably nor popular in this state, it's not popular in the state the graduates come from , especially when there are s o many prob lems at home that cry for attention. But because something is unpopular doesn't prevent it from being right. And 1 hap pen to believe that assisting [Russia] is right on humanitarian grounds, and i t's

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right on geopol itical ground and it's right because it's in our own national interest to prevent a return of totalitar ian rule in Moscow, with all the dangers and instabil ity sure to follow." "What we spend to assist Russian de mocracy now is but a fraction of what we wou ld have to pend on mili tary hard ware if Bari Yelt in fal l victim to the hardl iners who get nostalgic every time you mention Josef Stalin," D le said. "Class of 1 99 3 , 1 am reminded today of the story told about the great French diplomat Lou i Lyautey, who once a ked hi gardener to plant a tree. The gar dener objected that the tree wa low growing and would not reach maturity for a hundred year . The mar hal replied, 'ln that case, there i no time to lose. Plant it this afternoon.' "Today," Dole concluded, "a fiscally trong America and a democratically trong Ru ia may be year away. But we have no time to lo e. l urge your genera tion to lead the way in planting our trees thi afternoon." After the ena tor spoke, Cotter awarded h i m an h onorary C o l by doctorate and a lso gave honorary de grees to B r i a n L a m b , c h a i r and CEO of the Cable S a t e l l i t e P u b l ic A ffa i r N e twork ( C- S PA N ) , and Dav i d Keams, former chair and CEO of X e ro x Corp. and former deputy secretary of education. And then it wa the 484 graduates' turn to ascend the platform , one by one, and receive their diplomas from C o t t e r . H i story

Profe or Pete Mos punched the button on hi topwatch as Dean Kas man read t he first name, Emi l ie Louise Abair, and again when he read the la t, Jeffrey Lou i Zlot. Her t ime, 44 minute and 40 econds, wa a new Colby record-and he wa blooper-free. Thi despite a few notable di traction , includ ing the gradu at ion of Andy the future seeing-eye dog ( along with h is friend and "puppy walker," Karen Laidley ) ( see Colby , ovember 1 992 ) , the presence of treak, a bright green iguana that rode on owner Laurie Girard' shoulder throughout both baccalaureate and commencement, the meanderi ng toddler's gait of Chri tian David Antalic , who helped h is mother, G aynelle Peebles, pick up her diploma, and a vi it from a low-flying jet. The rumor mill on the platform came to l ife when Gregg Suffredini's name wa called. The story was that Suffredini, a triplet, and his siblings, Mark and Caryn, all were graduating that d!J.y from differ ent college . "Who d idn't get a parent ?" someone asked, prompting a c a l l ro Suffredi n i later. " N o , no , " h e said, " m y brother Mark and I gradu ated on the same d a y . My s i s t e r g r a du a t e d on Thur d a y of that week. " Suffredini aid his father and i s t e r a t t e nd e d C o l b y ' c e remo n ies w h i l e h i s mother watched Mark g r a d u a t e from Lafayette. At Rutgers three days before, Caryn had the whole family, except Gregg, to cheer her on ( " I t wa t h e m iddle of Senior Week, and beside , I d idn't

have a car," he aid ) . How d id Gregg feel about n t having both of hi parent· in the audience ? "Well, I wi h i t could have been differ ent, but we k new for eight month that that would be the ituation," he aid. " I was prepared fo r i t . "

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When the parade of enior , now graduate , ended, the mortarboard� had been to ed in the air, the Bellamy Jazz Band had bowed the new alumni out with a l ively "Colonel Bogie M arch" and Bob Dole wa winging hi way to a Portland fund raiser-hi t ight chedule meant that he couldn't tay for the en tire ceremony-perhap no one had more Commencement Video Available

Paul Gregoire '7 1 of Colb 's Audio i ual Depart ment has produced a video of Commencement 1 993 featuring excerpt from the remarks of Bob Dole and Caleb Cook and highlight of the ceremon . Copies are 1 2 and may be ordered from the Dean of the College, Colby College, Waterville, ME 0490 1 . Plea e allow several week for delivery.

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i n u n c uf t h e ::.muothe::.t c n rn rn e n c e m e n t �

C o l hy degree and a t tended commence

e Y e r . A few Jays l a t e r t h e ::. wr y uf h 1 :-,

ment a� une of M a i ne \ most pro m i ne n t Rc p u h l ic a n.., .

arduous 'e<irch for a ::.pca k c r ll 'u u k l g< l

mir 1 , 1 na l in The NeH• York Times , and h e

a l re<idy \\'<l� p l a n n i ng a t r i 11 to W a :-, h i ng -

t< lr ; 1 1 1 ;1ho u r me," Bamn ::.a i d , h e a m ing .

" M y dad \\'<1'> ou t there te l l i ng the sena

" ltnagine a Plac e

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Excerpt from the remarks o f 1 99 3

Seni(1r S p ea k er Ca leb Q. Cooks of Wa h i ng ro n , D.C.

"In the fa l l of our

have a personal , a

j un ior year I was an

w e l l as i n te l l ectu al , re l a t i o nsh i p w i t h

exchange [student) at Colby from Howard b e fo r e

your teac her . I mag i ne a place where you have the opponu n i ty

c las es were ta rt i ng I dec ided I wanted to

other c hool , another

do some t h i ng d iffer e n t , I wanted to try

culture, another p l ac e . I magine a

someth i ng new, to go somewhere I had not

place where you can h a ve re l a t i v e ly no

been before. I wanted

p roble m ga in ing ac

to have the col lege

c e ss t o r e s o u r c e s . I magine a n environ

U n i ve rs i ty . Le s than one

week

e x p e r i e n c e t h a t so many of my friends at Howard were hav iQg who were from other parts of the c o u ntry. I dec ided to come to Colby. By the way, I was the first student to have ever e x c h a nged to Colby [from Howard ] .

"Actually, I was scared , terrified . I knew very l i ttle about Colby before I came here. The only t h i ng I knew abou t Colby was that it was located i n M a ine somewhere and that I would be part of a m inority. B u t

ment mall enough that i t ac tually brings

people c loser toge ther. I magine s m i l ing at omeone and having them smile back at you . This is Colby.

"But l ike a l l schools, Colby has i ts h are of problem . Colby as a c o m m u n i ty needs to improve its communicat ion skills. Colby as a commun i ty need

to knock

down the wall and let go of the facades that h inder communicat ion . The lack of

. . . I m a d e u re that I would learn as m u c h abou t as many of you as poss i b l e , a s y o u

c o m m u n i c a t ion results in the lack of us

have l e a rn e d abo u t m e . Corning here was

" Each year we have had the opportu n i ty to learn more abou t each other. We

one of the best moves I have ever made.

understanding each other. .

"All of you , the sen ior cla s , the fac

have become more sens i t ive to those who

u l ty, the staff, are responsi b le for my p leas

share the world with us. It i s our responsi

ant experience. I magine a place where

b i l i ty , as a c lass, to take every t hing we

most a l l of the people you meet are friendly.

learned i n and out of the c l assroom and apply it to our world when we leave Colby."

I magine a place where you are able to

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de To oy

By Bridget Booher

oye Couage i s noc a couage ar all. I r ' - a 2 .000-square-foo r , 60-room

house ser on fi ,·e acres of ro l l ing la\\'ns and landsc aped grnunds in A i ken, S . C . B u i l r i n r h e 1 O O s , rhe e s r a r e is no,,· rhe headqu arrers f o r \Vcxxhard/Wh ir e , Inc . , rhe company o w n e d by G regory Wh ire S 1n i r h ' 7 3 a n d S re,·en N a ife h . When rhe pair b o u g h r J oye Corrage rhree years a g o , i r h a d b e g u n i r slo\\' descenr ro\\'ard r u i n . The roof leakeLi and local h igh school k ids sneaked in rhrough w i ndows to ha,·e lare-ni h r parr i e s . Bur afrer an exrens i ,·e reno,·a r ion proj e c r thar' nearly c omplere , rhe h isroric srr u c ru re has ( so ro speak ) a new lease on l ife .

A P u l itzer Winner,

W h i c h m akes ir a l l r he mme s u rprising w hear S m i r h talk, as the hou ·e hums \\'i r h a c r i , · i r y , abour J oye Corrage's e,·enr u a l , ine,·i rable c o llapse. " I k now t h i s is a frame house and rhar i r \\· i l l e,·enrually fa l l do\\'n , " h e said. "The

Savior of a Fine Southern Estate ,

w isteria \\' i l l \\' i n i n rhe end . Bm taking someth i ng thar's nearly i n ru ins and bringing i r back to l i fe i s not underc u t by rhe fact that nat ure \\' i l l pre,·ai l . Death is o u t there, b u r rhar is n o reason ro compromise whar you 're d o i ng roday, if what you ' re d o i ng is "·ordrn·h i l e . "

S u rvivo r of a F l i rtation with Death ,

I r 's an appropriare metaphor for S m irh's O\\'n l ife . T h e 4 1 -year-old w r i ter has labored d i l igen r l y ro b u i ld a solid foundation for h is many inrerests. H is hard work has y i e lded several bes r - s e l l ing nonfi c t ion books-inc l ud ing a Pul i t:er Pri:e w inner-rhat are re,·ie\\'ed in rop-d ra\\'er p l aces l i k e

The on an

e tt'sweek,

e w York Times and An in America . He' c o l laborared ,,· i rh Phil Donahue BC serie and c ompan ion book and r i rred up rhe legal profession

wirh a g u ide to the c ounr ry' besr la,,-yers, and he is ,,·ork i ng \\' i r h the J u i l l iard Sc hoo l to e tabl ish a retreat for mu ic ian and cornpo er . 27

G reg S m ith '73 Is Flyi ng H i g h .

R u t S m i t h is w e l l a wa re nf h ow t r a n

s i t my p rnfc :-.:i i, m a l recog n i t ion and p e r

l u mbus, O h i o , S m i t h wa� J ra w n to a r t i t i c and l i te rm y p u rsu i t from a y ou ng ; 1 ge .

w u rlJ . "

of t h i ngs . A t a n a g e when h i s p ee rs m e

type w h e n he w a st i l l in grade schoo l ,

fi x<i ted l )n suc h m i d l ife c o n c e rns as mort

s t u d i ed w i t h Peter Re in t h e M u� i c De

In 1 98 7 ,

a n d from t h a t po i n t , h e s a i d , " [ took off

m i t h i s wre:i

partment and Peter Westerve lt in c la -

l i ke a house on fi re . " By the t i me he

s i c s . A fter gra d u a t i n g he t rav el e d in E u

fi v e years i n to a rn a ss i ve rese<nc h and

h u nd reJ - pa g c books, i n c l u d i ng an m

w r i t i n g proj e c t on a r t ist J ac k son Pl ) l

c h aeo l o ,gic a l adven t u re s t ory set in E ,g yp t

s o n a l t ri u mrh s a re in the L u ,ger s c h e m e gage;,, cH1d c h i l d - r e a r i n g ,

t l i ng w i t h h i s ow n 1T1 m rn l i ty .

l l K k , S m i t h \\'nke u r w i t h t h e r i g h t

H is m ot h e r , K a t h r y n , ta u g h t h i n1 how tu

reached h i gh school h e w as w r i t i n g

a b l e to f o r m w1. xJs . A h ra i n t u m , ) r

t h a t h8Ll he n p;1 rt i 8 l l y rem, )\·ed yezir e a r l ier wa:, gm\.\' i ng ag;1 i n , rress i ng i ng fac i a l p a rn l ys i s .

buried with

C l i n i c , w h e re J o c t nrs t n l J h i m t h e

he had o n l y t h r e e mo nt hs

l i ve .

S p e c i a l is t s at Sloa n - K e t t e r i n g c o n

How to Ma ke Love

c u rred . A l t h o u g h S m i th had under

to a Wom a n

gone a m a j or c ra n i o to m y fi , · e year:-. e a r l i e r , t h e re l a pse marked the fi rst

as my greatest

t i me d ea t h see med i m m i ne n t . R J t h e r than vvi t hdraw i nto hi mself, though , S m i th's i n i t i a l reac t ion wa:, to fret o v e r u n fi n i h e d w o r k . " M y fi rst

I realized

I didn ' t want to be

Pan i c k e d , S m i t h fl ew to the M ayo

t u mor had t u rned m a l i g n a nt and t h<1 t

S m i t h a bo leJ the Co l h y E i g h t and

rope a n d T u r k e y on a pre� t i g iou Wa t o n F e l lmv · h i p , compari ng Ea st ern Ortho

dox and R o m a n Ca t h o l i c l i t u rg ica l c ha n ts and Rena is ance performance

:, i Jc of h i s f a c e frl )Ze n , h i s m o u t h u n

J a ngero us l y aga i ns t n e rves and c a u�

about l ife and o t h e r people and the

accom p lishment . "

U ns u re a b o u t h i � c a reer r a th ,

te c h n i q u e s .

Smith app l i e d to and was accepted by Harvard Law

choo l . But rather than

prov id i ng h i m w i t h a continuation of h i � l i heral arts education, law chool

f orc ed

mith to narrow h is foc us.

W h i l e he s a y s h e loved b e i n g at H a r\'arJ , he founJ l a w schoo l ' s rigid req u i re m e n ts fru tra t ing. I t ·howed

him above all e lse that h e d i d n ' t w a n t

to prac t i c e l aw.

A · fate w o u l d ha\'e it, one of S m i t h 's Harvard c las mate , St ev en

N a ife h , w as

i m i l ar l y d i s i l lus ioned

w i t h d ry casebooks and end less lec t u re on arcane law . He and

m i th

discovered that they shared s i m i lar

tho u gh t , " he rec a l led rec ently, "was,

interests and ambit ions, and they be

' I have to fi n i sh Pollock . Can I d o i t i n

gan a p rofe ssiona l partnersh ip and

three mont hs ?'" A s it turned o u t , Smith d id fi nish the

and a '' D i c k e ns i an n( v e l about V ie t -

lo y8 l friend hip that c on t i n ue

nam.

( Their company mon i ker, Woodward/

today .

book-the P u l i tzer Prize - w i n n i ng Jack

L i ke many asp iring wri ters. S m i t h al o

son Pollock : An American Saga ( C l ark so n

served as ed itor of bot h t h e h ig h sc h o o l

m id d l e names . ) While till in law school ,

months

newspaper and the sc hoo l' I i terary maga

t h e y p u b l is h e d the i r first co llaborative

stretched into years, Smith sought other

c a m e t i me to choo e a c o l le ge , Smith

N . Potter, 1 990). A nd a- th

med i c a l opin ions on h is tumor and di c overed to h is great re l ief that the ex

W h i t e , I nc . , is fash ioned from the ir

z i ne, and he immersed h i m s e l f in m us i c

work : Moving Up in Style, a how-to guide

a n d theater groups a

for young profess ional .

we l l . When i t

" I t was a guide for yuppie before the

w a nte d a sma l l , l i b er a l arts c o l le g e where

term yuppie was invented, " Smith said.

mal ignancy ( a l though he d id undergo a

his interests in wri t i ng, music and l i tera

"We wrote about how to find the top

second c ran iotomy l ast year ) .

t ure could flourish. Colby fi t the b i l l .

restaurants, shop for the right c lothes,

perts were mistaken in their prognoses of

Today, S m it h sounds matter-of-fact

As an E ng l ish major ( " I t seemed l i ke

about the near-death ordeal, but it c le a rly

a good j umping off point , " he sa id ) , Smith

cont inues to shape h i s personal and pro

sought out professors who expec ted their

fess ional l i fe . " [ was never a patient per

students to do more than j ust read the

son , but not h i ng teache pat ience l ike

homework assignments and write the

recovering from major surgery. It's l ike

requ ired papers. W i thin the English De

buy the best records. I f nothing e lse, we can say we were ahead of the c u rve." Other books fol lowed, including Why

Fear of In timacy, How t o Make Love to a

Can 't Men Open Up 7 Overcoming Men ' s

Woman and The Bargain Hunter's Guide

watch i ng grass grow, " he a i d . " B u t even

partment, he d iscovered Charles Bassett,

to Art Collecting. With the ir eye-catch ing

though I'm i mpatient agai n-I hate to

Patrick Brancaccio and R . Mark Benbow,

t i t les and reader-friendly forma t, these

w a i t in l i n e , and I s t i l l get mad at people

scholars who " transmi t ted e xtraord inary

books brought Woodward/Wh ite steady

who waste my t i me-i t's given me per

joy about l i terature and who made you

i ncome and v is i b i l ity in publ ish ing and

spe c tive on what's i mportan t . "

see t h i ngs i n a way you'd never seen

med ia c i rc les. A 1 3 -part p u b l ic televi sion series on the Const i t u tion and the

Long before S m i th's health probl e ms

th.em before , " he said. "That's true in

e merged, he'd proven that he knew how

l i terature as i t i s w i th all great art. I t's not

Supreme Court cowritten with Arch ibald

to e mbrace d iffi c u l t ies and cha llenge -

j ust the par t ic u lar paint i ng or play or

Cox led to a meet i ng w i th Phi l Donahue,

at least i n t e l l e c t u a l ones. R eared in Co-

piece of music; i t's what th.at work says

who was p lanning a doc u mentary c a l led

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The Human Animal. Smith and N a ifeh

penned the companion book and helped out with the series itself. One evening, when Donahue came by mith's and N aifeh's Upper West . S ide apartment i n N ew York, he not iced the grid of Woodward/White book j ack ets the pair had posted in their foyer. In typical inquiring fa h ion, Donahue posed a provocative question: Which of the e book would you want mentioned on your gravestone ? "It was a l ittle un ettling," m i th ad mitted. "I realized I didn't want to be buried with How to MakeLove to a Woman as my greatest accomplishment. Those early books paid us good money, and within their specific genres, they are very good. l will defend everything I 've done. But it' l ike an early, adolescent fling. You look back on it and think, yes, I did that and it was fun, but it's not how I want to be remembered." Smith and N aifeh had been looking to stretch themselves creatively, and that elf-reflective exercise provided added impetu to go ahead with their plans. For year they'd talked about writing a seri ou , substantive biography of a respected artist. To keep re earch expen e own, they decided it should be an A merican arti t ( they'd con idered Picasso at ne point, but he was already "taken" by another biographer). The search nar rowed con iderably when they re tricted their field. Jack on Pollock, who d ied in a car wreck in 1 95 6 , be c a m e an o b v i o u choice. N o one had fu l ly chronic led the arti t's turbulent life, and the majority of people who knew h i m w e ll-fami ly , fr i e n d a n d c o l leagues-were t i l l alive. Smith and Naifeh signed a book contract in 1 98 1 and began the proce of piecing together the tory of the painter' life. By the t i me the book was publi hed

in 1 989, mith and N aifeh had con ducted 1 ,200 interviews ( which tran lated to 20,000 page of ingle- paced tran cript ); had amas ed hundred of thousands of dol lars worth of travel and l iv ing expenses ( "We have phone bill that look l ike book ," aid Smith ) ; and had cut the original manu cript from 2 ,000 page to 1 ,600. And Smith had suffered hi setback. "There were many, many day when I woke up wondering if I would ever be done with the book," he aid. "It was l ike building the pyramid , one stone at a t i me . I would pend all morning writ ing one [u able] paragraph, and then think, okay: how many paragraph to make a chapter ? How many chapter to make a book ? But I never thought about quit ting. I nstead, I would fanta ize about what it would fee l l ike to fini h . " A s w i t h m o t of their projects, Naifeh conducted the bulk of the interview while Smith took the raw material and turned it into compelling pro e. As Smith told Mirabella magazine, "Steve' infi nitely the better researcher, a well a an art expert. I'm j ust a storyteller." Though Pollock was their main ob e ion throughout the decade, they were writing other books to bring in steady income, and the quali ty of tho e sidel ine proj ects d i d n ' t uffer. The Mormon Murders, a true-crime book about the Mormon Church-related Salt Lake C i ty bombing in 1 98 5 , pent 1 0 weeks on The New York Times best eller list, and

Smith in his ] aye Cottage office .

their biannual referral guide, The Best Lawyers in America, ha been an increa -

ingly healthy ource of revenue. ( mi th' earch for th ird , fourth and fifth opinion about hi med ical cond i tion pro mpted Woodward/Wh ite to launch The Best Doctors in America erie a wel l . mith also i con idering writing an account of hi ordeal . ) When i t appeared, Jackson Pollock: An American Saga wa hotly debated by art critic and hi torian . In tead of lim iting them elve to d i cu in the arti t' technique or i mpac t on the art world, Smith and Naifeh hawed Pol lock in all hi i mperfect brill iance. An extremely talented-and tortured-alcoholic, Pol lock i best known a the leader of ab stract expres ionism in America. Much had been written about Pollock' drip technique and h i place in contempo rary art. But Naifeh and mith wanted a book that would appeal to broader audi ence , not j ust art hi torians. Even though aifeh, who has written for art periodical and lectured at the ational Gallery of Art, did graduate work at Harvard' Fogg Art M useum, a few art "experts" denounced the fact that two non-scholar pub Ii hed a nearly 00-page book on such a high-profile figure as Pol lock. In a Times book re v i e w , E l izabeth Frank b l a ted the Woodward/White effort as "glib, reck less, off- the-rack p yc hob iograph y . " What t h e average reader couldn't have known ( and the Times didn't d i c lo e in the author' b io ) , i that Frank had herelf written a book on Pollock in co operation with the Pollock-Kra ner Foundation, which had tried u n u c ce ful l to d e n y m i th and aifeh to i ts ar"We tepped on a lot of toes i n the ew York art world w i th that book , " a i d mith. "There were some ery we 1 1 - c o n ne c t ed

people who were not portrayed in Al o on Smith' agenda are a flattering light. The art world is two more true crime books. The extremely pol itical, so there's no first, Final]ustice, chronicles the que tion in my mind that' why tory of a Texa multimi llion we got some negative press in the aire who wa twice acquitted of New York media." murder and, despite FBI video Pollock went on to win the tapes showing him paying a hit Pul itzer Prize and wa one of five man, of solicitation of murder. A final i ts for the National Book Death in the Family, et in Geor Award. The honors, Smith said gia, explore the double life of a with a laugh, made him feel "mas brill iant, young nuc lear engi sively vindicated. I t reminded me neer. The "perfect son" of an of the old cheer that Harvard tu upper middle cla s, church-going dent would use when their team fami ly, he was arre ted and was behind in the Harvard-Yale charged with multiple murders game: ' You may be winning, but and rapes. Woodward/White had you still go to Yale ! ' Well, the his full cooperation-and that Times may have dumped on it, of his parent -for the book. but we still got the Pulitzer." There' even talk of another While mith admits that ome major art biography. "We're artistic factions continue to dis th ink i ng ab ut Van Gogh , " miss Pollock a a marginal effort, mith said. " I t would be very he is convinced it mark a new different from Pollock, because way of looking at the creative it would be all secondary rather process. " I n l iterary criticism, it's than primary re earch. And Van generally agreed that the writer's Gogh was quite expres ive-he life and work interact, but that's wrote letter and kept journals n o t the case in art," he said. " [ wherea Pollock kept everything Smith and Steven Naifeh ( left) have enjoyed a long profeswonder if it is becau e art, as op- sional partnership as co-owners of Woodward/White and to him elf." posed to literature, i considered co-authors of a string of successful books . Smith, a College over eer, till to be some kind of perfect thing, a travel ro Maine occasionally flawless entity unto itself. And that you mith wandered away from the art auc mo t recently to give the commence tarnish or pollute that pureness if you tion into the real e tate -ection. He ment addre at Waterville High chool talk about how the artist' broken love came acros a brochure for Joye Cottage, last spring. He received the College's affair or homosexual urges may have the former Whitney-Vanderbilt E tate Di tingu ished Alumnus Award in 1 992. affected the artistic process. But I think located in a oenteel c i ty about an hour's Although he doubtle feel ome ur gency to continue to pu h himself pro the art h istory community will sooner or drive from Columbia. later have to succumb to the real i ty that " I didn't even know where Aiken, fessionally, Smith ay he is satisfied with artists are people and not j ust art-making South Carolina was," mith said. "But the way his life has turned out. "There we were so eager to get out of New York was a time when I never thought I 'd tum machines." Smith says the Pollock experience that we worked to make it happen. When 40," he said. "So when people ask me if opened h i eyes to the down side of the we bought it, it was in terrible condition. I 'm afraid of dying, I have to ay no." When friends ask him what he thinks art world, but he hasn't turned his back It was tructurally ound but co meti on i ts p leasures. He and Naifeh have cally a disaster. One person told us we'd happen after death, Smith tell them he does not believe in an afterlife. acquired an impressive collection of art be better off call ing in a bulldozer. " "If this i all j u t a prelude, j u t ome Using the renovation proces as a work, including 1 9th-century bronze , paintings from the Ashcan School, Far starting point, Smith plans to write a crazy overture, it mean o much le , " he Eastern sculptures and Persian rugs. H is book combining several theme : the tran said. "The day would be les beautiful, latest purchase, a 1 9th-centuty marble sition from New York to a leepy, South the ky would be less blue, the sun would bust, " isn't really from the period or style em town, the tops and starts involved be less bright, if all thi is j ust Act I. But, I collect," he aid, "but I j ust think it's a in restoring a historic house and the on the other hand, if this i it, everything h istory of the Whitney family. In addi become much more intense. If you l ive particularly beautiful piece." About the time Pollock came out, tion, hi company i working with the your l ife waiting for some future event, Smith and Naifeh were trying to escape J uill iard School on a serie ofconcert at you will never l ive your life." Bridget Booher is features editor ofDuke from New York, where they'd l ived for Joye Cottage that will be taped for broad Magazine in Durham , N . C . almost 1 0 years. At Sotheby's one day, cast on public television. CO L B Y

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G R A N T S

Roney Williams Re invests in H is Colle g e - By Earl Smith -

n the early 1950s, Ralph S.

cour e in investments.He taught every

"Roney" Williams and the late

year and, becau e of the pres of admin

on extra assignments as teachers

ments cla

Pre ident ]. Seelye Bixler took

istrative responsibilities, met hi inve t

in Colby's adult education pro

in the evening at home.

'The word got out that Barbaraserved

gram.Williamstaughtinve tmentsand

a different de en every week," he re

Bixler, religion. Bixler liked to boa t

called."We had to tum tudents away."

that the curriculum offered ecurity in

To be sure,

this world and the next.

tudents were turned

away. But-Barbara'

A an architect of Colby' security,

fine cooking

aside-the popularity of hi course had

William teamed with Bixler and Presi

more to do with the opportunity to it

dent Robert E. L.Strider II to help lead

with a master and discuss the contem

Colby to a sound financial footing and

porary economic scene, using The Wall

to educational stardom.

Street Journal as a text.

At a dinner for Williams on Home

Doug Schair '6 7, vice chai r ofLife Re

coming Weekend in 1972 , Bixler said

Corporation, a $ l billion life reinsurance

that what made the teacher-admini trator so valuable to the College was "his

company in Stamford, Conn., remem their extraordinary achievement , both in

ber the cour e well. It was, he said, "the

ability to make its body function without

and out of class, to colleague . "Maine kids

lea t publicized and mo t practical cour e

losingsightofits soul."

represented only 1 6 to 18 percent of the

offered in my four year at Colby."

As bold evidence of Bixler's as ess

student body in my day," he said, "but it wa

Schair, who took the inve tmenrs cla

ment-as iffurther evidence were needed

not unusual to have Mainers comprise a

as a precursor to later study at the Harvard

Williams has recently given Colby a chari

quarter of the Dean' List."

table remainder unitrust valued in exces of

Williams and hi

fir t wife, Barbara

Bu ine s School, prai es Williams' "engag ing and challenging" method of in truction

$ 1 78,000. Thefundswill establish the Ralph

Howard, who died in 1 985, both graduated

and credits the course with "planting the

S. Williams Scholarship for students from the Good Will Hinckley School in nearby

in Colby' Clas of 1 93 5. After graduate school at New York University, he began a

seed of a busine career that would over come my intere t in law."

Hinckley, Maine, to attend Colby. Wil

five-year hitch with the U.S. Navy, where

Following his retirement, William

liams prepared for college at the chool and

he rose to the rank of lieutenant com

served two term on Colby's Board ofTrust

for years served on its board of trustees and,

mander.He returned to Colby in 1946 as an

ee and, over the pa t two decades, has

without pay, as treasurer.

instructor in business administration and a

served a trustee or director of eight Maine

year later became assistant to Bixler.

corporations.He also ha returned to cam

"The e student at Good Will are all needy youngster ," he noted, "and they

In 1 959, Williams followed the late

pus often for special events, including his

would not be able to attend college at all

Arthur Galen Eustis as both administrative

grand onRob Carbone' graduationin May.

were it not for scholarship help."

vice president and Herbert E. Wadsworth

Williams's Colby honors include the

Professorof Admini trative Sciences, posts

Alumni Council' Colby Brick and an hon

he held until his retirement in 197 2 .

orary doctorate, both awarded in 197 2 .

Williams was in charge of disbursing Colby cholarship in the days before the College had a full-fledged financial aid of

During his 3 5 years o f service h e wore

fice, and he know the importance of aid

many other hats as well. Early in hi career

Once, after hi

retirement, he com

plained that he was receiving multiple cop

especially for Maine students, who gener

he supervised Roberts Union and served as

ie of this magazine in the mail at home.

ally come from lower-income familie .

director of adult education and the fledg

Such duplication wa not unusual in the

" Colby's greatest need in the coming

ling summer program . He wa chair of the

day before wi er computers, but no one

years," William said in a recent interview,

Department of Admini trative cience for

was surprised by thi reaction from a man

"is for endowment to support faculty sala

a term and was secretary of the corporation

who e frugality with Colby funds was leg

ries and student financial aid."

from 1960 until he retired.

endary. And if any one name might con

Today, former tudents and colleague

found the mailing system with its multiple

admired Maine tudenrs and was particu

remember Williams be t as vice pre ident

categorie of tie to Colby, that name is

larly mindful of their need . He often cited

and as a teacher--e l?ecially of a popular

Ralph S.Williams.

Thr ughout his Colby tenure, William

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Fifty Years on the Run - By Robert Gillespie -

y the time a l l 650 entrants were lined up at the start of the Patri ots Day 5-mile race in Portland, ju t about all ofthem knewthat the runner wearing rhe Colby singlet was Philip Boyne '46. They'd seen the Maine unday Telegram feature ar ticle about the 1 94 3 race, when 1 8-year old Boyne, running with three of hi Wh ite M u le track and cross-country teammate , fini hed eighth in a 1 3 -man field. Now, 50 years later, still trim and wiry at 68, Boyne had come from Califor nia for the 64th annual race, one of the oldest in the East. The plan this time wa to team up with his son, John. In a port with a high injury anJ burnout rate, anyone till running after 50 years can be considered a legend. "He' the per on I alway looked up to as a role model. I grew up admiring his values and his drive," said John Boyne, a 4 5 -year-old tockbroker with Merril l Lynch in Portland. "He's done every thing himself, he had nobody to help h im. He's been a great example for me." Phi lip Boyne came to Colby from Houlton, Maine, where his father was a laborer. Intere ted in chemistry and zool ogy, he went straight into a pre-dental course, then headed off after two years to Tufts University School of Dental Medi c ine and a D. M.D. in 1 947. He served in the Army while at Tufts; the academic program he followed was a specialized Army cour e, and when the program was eliminated to ward the end of World War II, he wa allowed to finish his service obligation in the Navy. He stayed on when offered sur gery training in 1 949, eventually spending 20 years in the Navy, including tours in Korea and Viemam and service on three d ifferent ships. He spent 1 964 on an aircraft carrier caring for 3,000 pilot and 1 ,000 other per onnel in Vietnam. Immediately after the Tet offensive in 1 968 he was sent to the Navy hospital in Da Nang to treat facial wounds and et up a maxillofacial

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urvey ofcasualties. He remember that the Americans and South Vietnamese con tr lied the city by day, but the enemy controlled it by night. Though he believe Vietnam wa "a terrible war-the wrong war in the wrong

place for the wrong reasons"-Boyne say h is experience proved u eful in treating injurie in the c ivilian world such a auto mobile accident trauma and gunshot wound . H is Navy career included a stint in oral surgery research at the Naval Medical Re search Institute in Bethesda, Md., where he began his l ife's work in bone physiology and bone grafting procedures. Today Boyne i a professor of surgery and director of the department of oral and maxillofacial sur gery at the Loma Linda University School of Dentistry in California. With over a hundred publications and ervice in everal professional organization , he has achieved worldwide recognition in his field. In 19 2 32

he wa elected pre ident of the American Board ofOral and Maxil lofacial Surgery. In 1 99 1 he received the H.W. Archer Award, the highe t the American College of Oral and Maxillofacial urgeon can bestow. Colby honored Boyne with the Di tinuished Alumnus Award in 1 989. Like other who left the College in good standing during World War I I and com pleted profe iona l degrees, he was awarded his B.A. in 1 990. Next year he ay he'll take on the duties of clas agent, even though hi professional com mitments till take him running around the world-literally. "I could write a book on running in the citie of the world," aid Boyne, who has presented papers at meetings all over the w rid. "It' a good way to see the citie . Singapore is the best city in the world to run in-it has well-lighted treets and beautiful police protection. It'd be depressing if I didn't run. It perks me up. It's therapeutic ." "He' always done everything well, whether running or in his professional career," aid John Boyne. De pite a re cent kiing injury and arthro copic sur gery that had the younger Boyne on the ideline on crutche , he wa till part of Team Boyne for the Patriots Day event. The two drove over the Portland cour e the day before the race,John aid, and hi father "got his strategy worked out. He's having a good time running. He enjoy whatever he does. He has a really healthy attitude about his work and running." Race day was sunny in Portland, a per fect 56 degrees, though the runners would buck ome headwind in the econd half of the loop cour e. John Boyne predicted that his father's time in the race al o would be lowed by the arthriti he' suffered in hi lower back in recent years. But 1 3 years before, when the two started racing to gether, Philip Boyne was competitive in the 50-59 age group and, John said, could take him in half-marathons and marathons.

"I could always beat h i m in shorter race ·, but he ha rremendou tamina," he aid.

train i ng nms on the UCLA track left him hobbled \\'tth Achil les tend init i:,. I n 1 97 5 ,

"He'd get i n a peed and �tay with it. He'd

when h e was dean o f the Uni \·enry of T exa Dental chool, he �bucked his �hoes

j ust gc forever." ln a hot ummer race after the runner had pa sed through. a ·prink ler, John Boyne said, he'd come upon his father' footprints. Real footprints. Phi l ip Boyne Joe n't borher wi th running hoe . "I alway run barefoot," the elder Boyne said. "I save a bit of money that way," he added, rec alling conver at ion · truck up by other runners-"l gues you're not in the market for high-tech ·hoes" or "l gue the hoe company tore up yourconu·act," they'd ay. If race day in Portland had been cold or the course icy, he'd ha\'e put on moccasin . In tead, he wrapped tape around the bal l f h is feet. Of cour e there' an explanation. After he had retired from the Nm·y in 1 969 to become chair of the oral urge!)' di\·ision at the UCLA chool of Dentist!)', Boyne'

At nonn, \\·hen the gun went off, the nmner� headed our nn a dn\\'nhi l l or flat cour e f or the fiN rwo anJ a half mi les, then hit that head\\·ind a· the coune> ro e for a m i le anJ a halfanJ swung back to the firn,h ar the Boys anJ Girl� Cl uh on umberl,mLl

after watching the occer team train bare foot on gra s. Running barefoot forced him to ray on the ball of h i feet-\\'hich i correct form for him, he says. The tendinitis c leared up. ince then he's run hundred::. of races. Between 1 97 5 and 1 9 6 he com pleted 3 3 marathon , mclud i ng nine at Bo ton, where he set h i - pen mal be t of 3 : 2 2 in 1 979.

A \·enue. o,·er the !a,t 50 , ard,, amid ar plau:,e anJ cheer::. frum the hundred� nf spectator and runner� \\'ho 11 1ggeJ hack to \\·arch other: fini-.h. he picked up the race. In cheerino for Boyne, the l)ther runner::. \\'ere applauding an enttre career. They knew that '''tth his 600th-place firn�h and

'The marathon is a diabolical d i tance, concei\'ed to break you do\\'n," ·aid Boyne, who once completed six in as many months. He ay he has"really taperedoff,"slo\\'ed by hi arthriti . The e daysheusually notche 25 training mile a week and mainly runs shorter races. He expected a low time on Patriot Day. "l finished eiahth in 1 943," he aid. ''I 'll be thankful to fin.i h 800th now."

h i · under- 50 minute ti me, Boyne wa gt\' ina it no less than he diJ in 1 94 3 . And the bold blue COLBY on his · i nglet reminded them that he \\'as till on the ml1\·e 50 years and thou ands of m i le later. John Bo�·ne was right. At that moment, when h i father glided to the finbh amid the applau e and the TV camera · and the Port land new paper photographer, he looked a · + i f he m ight run forever.

Fall Sports Schedule Women's Soccer

Football Sept. Oct.

Nov.

Trinity a t Tufts Williams

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6 13

Middlebury Wesleyan Amherst Hamilton Bates Tufts Bowdoin

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Bowdoin Inv. Duke Nelson Inv.

A A

22 24-25 1

at Middlebury Bowdoin, Bates Husson Inv. State of Maine Tourney

H A A

18 25 2 9 16 23 30

Golf Sept.

Oct.

14 20 25-26

at Portland ECAC Qualifier Waterville Country Club CBB at Bates Bates, Bowdoin. UMF NEICA Tourney at New Seabury

Men's Soccer Sept.

Oct.

4 11 17 18 21 26 29 2 5 9 14 16 19 23 27 30

Husson Alumni Middlebury Norwich U. New England

Tufts U. Southern Maine Wheaton U. Maine Farmington Clark Thomas Amherst Gordon Colby-Sawyer Bowdoin Bates

TBA

Sept.

1 :30 1 :30 1:30 1 :30 1 :30 1:00 1:00 1 ·00

Oct.

1:00 1 :00

H Oct. 12:30

H H A A A H H A A A H H H A A H

Alumnae Elms College Middlebury Norwich Tufts Thomas Wheaton Amherst Bowdoin Clark Plymouth State Curry U . Southern Maine Colby-Sawyer Bates

Women's Field Hockey Sept.

A H

5 12 17 18 26 29 2 3 6 9 14 17 19 23 30

1:00 3:00 4:00 1 1 :00 4:00 3:30 4:00 1 :00 3:30 1:30 4:00 12:00 3:30 1 :00 2:30 1 1 :00

Time

17 22 26 2 3 10 19 21 23 26 30

Tennis Sept.

Oct.

10-1 1 17 18 26 2 3 5 22-23

Middlebury UMaine, Farmington Tufts Wheaton Amherst Williams U. Southern Mame Plymouth State Gordon Bowdoin Bates

H H A A

1 :00 12:00 4:00 1 :30

H H

1 :00 TBA

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A A H

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4:00 4:00 2:00 12:00 12:00 12:00 4:00 4:00 TBA TBA 12:00

Men's Cross Country Sept. Oct.

29 Nov.

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In from the Cold - By Stephen Collins '74-

n 1 969, as American citie smolder New York ity. They were subsequently He wa , however, acceptable to the U.S. ed from d isturbances following the di missed, along with 60 other , from the Army, and in 1 942, following the Japane e assassination of Martin Luther King CCNY faculty. attack on Pearl Harbor, he wa drafted. "I Jr., as protests over the war in Viet "You call it 'trouble,"' Foner replied to a remember omething my father said," Foner nam reached a ere cendo, as Ameri question about the epi ode. " ome people recalled. "He said, 'Forget about a job; ifyou can society seemed to teeter on the brink of could call it 'honorable experience.' There come out alive that will be enough.'" collapse, Jack Foner came to Colby to fi ll a was really no evidence to support it. It was Foner thought he might get a posting one- eme ter position in the Hi tory De j ust mass hysteria." De pite hi academic that would put his knowledge of hi tory to partment. credentials, Foner wa out of a job. good u e. The Army thought differently. "I Foner' hiring, though not in was assigned to be a baker," he said. it elf as momentous a civil up Later he was charged with develop heaval or war, was nevertheless an ing and teaching a basic literacy important moment. What it repre cour e for illiterate conscripts, since sented was the end of a peculiar they could only erve in the war if A merican madness-the ant i they could read and write. communi t "witch-hunt " of a de After four and a half year , Foner cade earl ier. Foner, a bri l l iant receivedan honorable dischargeand scholar, friend of W.E.B. Du Bois returned to New York. "Well, I did and pioneer in African-American come out alive," he aid. "Unfortu studies, was among the fir t Ameri nately, I till needed a job.'' cans to be blackli ted-he spent At that point the anti-commu nearly 30 years bouncing from job ni t movement wa heating up. The to job, doing what he could to 1 950s saw the execution of Ethel support his family. And although and J ul ius Rosenberg and the he continued to study and write McCarthy hearings, which added a when he could not teach, Foner's ho t of other academics and enter tainers to the blackli t. Still unable exclusion from academe couldn't help but affect his scholarly work. find a position in academia, Foner worked as a comedian and a master That may help explain why, at ofceremonie and played the drums 82, an age when many of his peers in a band. But he al o kept up his have long stopped publ ishing, cholarly research and writing. With Foner is working on a new book on hi background in African-Ameri the history ofJews in the American can history and his experience serv military. J ack Foner may still be ing alongside blacks in the recently trying to catch up to himself. integrated Army, Foner rook a par Foner and his twin brother, ticular interest in the hi tory of Phi l ip, were the sons of Russian blacks in the military. And he immigrants. The brothers put them upplemented his income as an in e Ive through college and earned dependent lecturer on a c ircuit that Ph.D.'s in American h istory from Foner's hiring represented the took him to Bo ton, Philadelphia Columbia in the 1 930s, concen and New York for speaking engage trating on the African-American end of a peculiar American ment . experience. Both went on to teach Trying to maintain a lecture history at CCNY. schedule i n the ummer proved madness-the anti�communist Then, in 1 940, the brothers were nearly impos ible, so during the accused of being communists by 1 950s Foner took various educa"witch�hunts" of a decade earlier. the Rapp-Coudert Commis ion in

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tion- and entertainment-director positions apologizing for the "flagrant violation of H e i concerned, though, that d e pite for progres ive summer resorts run by New academic freedom" and exonerating Foner integration and the other progres in civil York City-based labor unions. and the other completely. rights, "racism i till deeply embedded in During these years hi friendship with The historian who spent the prime ofhis American life. The people and the govern W.E.B. Du Bois blossomed. Both black life as a tand-up comic wryly volunteered ment need to come to grip with that. It' listed academics, they operated in the same that he was disappointed when a big check explo ive and it could undermine the sta circles in New York. Foner invited Du Bois didn't fall out of the letterofapology. "There bility of our country," he aid. to lecture at a ummer resort run by the wa no money that came along, but it was Reflecting on a society that he sees as furriers' union. "I knew him and his wife, gratifying to be exonerated," he aid. embodying raci m and developing wider Shirley Graham, who was an author, as ls he bitter? gap between haves and have-nots, Foner per anal friends," Foner said. There is a "No," he said, "it leaves me, a a histo aid, "We cannot delay. l t cannotcontinue note of reverence in his voice as Foner rian, able to understand how the force to fe teror it will only get worse, particularly recall conver ations with Du Bois, who work in a country. I hope it won't happen in a time of rapid technological change." was born in 1 868 and who regaled Foner again, and that we can learn from our Two of the things ofwhich Foner say he with stories of meetings with Rutherford B. mi take ." is most proud have Colby tamped on them. Hayes, Booker T. Washington and Herbert Last spring Foner was on campus to give One is the honorary Ph. D. he received in Hoover. A a performer and entertain 1 983 citing his scholarship, hi courage ment director, Foner also knew and in the face of "egregious violation of worked with blacklisted singer Paul academic freedom" and hi commitment Robeson and Harry Belafonte. to tolerance and compassion for other . "You call it 'trouble.' Some Foner never gave up on his dream of The other is a copy of The Ebony returning to teaching, and finally, in Pictorial History of Black America pre people could call it 'honorable sented to him in 1 9 76 by the Student 1 969, Colby hired him for a ingle semester to fill in for a profes or who was Organization of Black Unity "as a per experience. ' There was rea11y on sabbatical. After he taught his first manent remembrance of his unflagging course that spring, his students-par work in pioneering black history at Colby ticularly the African-Americans-dam College." no evidence to support it. It ored for more. Foner proposed a curricu Looking back seems a small part of lum of four courses covering African Foner' life. While he was on Mayflower was j ust mass hysteria." American hi tory from African roots to Hill he camped in Miller Library's Spe present times, and department chair cial Collections Department to research Albert Mavrinac bought the package. a book tentatively titled Jews and the The single semester led to a one-year visit a lecture, "From the Civil War to Civil Military in American History. His interest in ing professor hip and then to a full-time Rights: The First and Second Reconstruc that subject stems from an irony he discov faculty position. tions" in conjunction with the presenta ered in Civil War history: five days before "It enabled Colby to become the first tion of the Jack Foner Award, which is the Emancipation Proclamation was signed New England school and one of the first in given every year by the History Depart- by Abraham Lincoln, General Ulysse S . the nation to introduce black history," Foner ment to a enior. Grant signed General Order 1 1 , which said. And it was one of the few programs Foner looks like the same wiry, energetic expelled all Jews from Tennessee. Grant's introduced voluntarily, before tudents at man who moved from Waterville back to order, lateroverruled by Lincoln, physically other colleges began demanding black tud New York 1 7 years ago, and he still speaks displaced Jews from the territory, hipping about history with the same enthusiasm he them up the Mississippi from Paducah to ies courses, he added. Foner's courses proved popular over the brought to Colby classrooms. With quick Cincinnati, Foner explained. years as he conveyed to students his pa sion strokes he draws the similarities and differAs he prepared to leave the library to for history, whether it was the Harlem ences between Harry Truman's order to attend a lecture in Lorimer Chapel, he Renai sance, which he remembered, or integrate races in the armed forces a half mentioned that he knew the lecturer, Rob century ago and Bill Clinton's efforts to ert Meeropol, one of Ethel and J ulius Reconscruction. He retired in 1 97 6-whenColby' man allow openly gay men and lesbians to serve Rosenberg's two children. "He know my son, Eric" ( the DeWitt Clinton Professorof datory retirement age was 65 , he hastens to in the military. "That would be an inevi table next step," he said, while pointing out American History at Columbia University point out-after seven years on the faculty. During his stay he published two books a major distinction between the two issues. and current pre ident of the Organization The United States Soldier Between Two Wars "Segregation and voting restrictions vio of American Historian ). "In fact," Foner and Blacks and the Military in American lated the law, violated the Constitution. said, as if to cement the ense that he i as Therefore, segregation in the Army was in much a part of history as a cholar of it, "I History . l t wasn't until 1 985 that the city ofNew opposition to the law." Gays and le bians knew hi parents, the Rosenberg . You York' Board of Higher Education (which do not have the same legal protection , he know-growing up in New York. They were at City College when I was." + administers CCNY) adopted a resolution explained.

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hen Kendra K i ng '94 , J e nn ifer Walker '94 anJ Dana Professor of

Rd iginus

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- By Stephen Collins '74 "When they f ound that we were going [ the �kept ic

on campus] were d u mb

rud i e� Thoma� R.W. Longstaff headeJ to Atlanta for the ·eventh annual

f ounded ," King �aid.

National College and University

enthusia m the rair Ji rlayed when they

tudent Conference at the Martin Luther King J r. Center for Nonv iolent

oc ial hange la t Apri l , they were confident they would re turn \\'ith :-.omething to heir addre

is:-.ue�

of rac ial and oc ial tolerance on campu- .

F E

Longstaffsays he wa� impre�sed with the approached him tn �en·e as Colby's faculty

lently, either phy ically or verbally, to any provocation. " ! think the one thing r learned

b that nonviolence takes courage. It takes confiJence," King said. J enn ifer Walker i white. She ay that being in the minority at the conference,

repre entative to the conference. "When

where only 1 5 percent of the participants

tudents come and a�k you to do something

were

like that, you'd ha\·e to have a prerry com "

pel l i ng rea on n1Jt to , he aid. He returned

aucasian, gave her a glimmer of

in ight into what it is l ike to be an African American tudent in a predominantly white

They \\'ere not disappointed.

to Mayflower H i ll fu ll of pra i -e for the

Their mo t immediate accompli hment

chool like Colby. "! felt l ike, 'Maybe my

conference and Jf admiration for Coretta

opinion doesn't matter too much becau e

\\'a securing a commitment from the Rev .

con King, \\'hom he calls "remarkable. "

Ben1ice A. K i ng to lecture at

olby n xt

For the ·tudent , the chance t o learn

March as part of the Spotlight E\·ent con K i ng and the late Mart in

Luther K i ng Jr., chair- the annual con ference. Longstaff de-cribes her a "dy namic, youthful, relaxed and friendly," and all three Colby repre entati\·e� pre dict that she will have a profound impact

Ultimately, Walker says,

he felt in

cluded and re peered. She wa a ked to

eries. K i ng, the younger daughter < f oretta

I'm whi te,"' she aid.

present the summary for her conference

"We've got to stop dancing around the problems and get 'em out there."

on her Mayflower H i l l audience.

di cu sion group and was invited to give a closing prayer at Bapti t church er \'ice

he attended with an otherwi e

all-black congregation. The tudent participated in the es tabl i hmen t ofa network ofpeople from the King Center and from the other

But the student brought back more

col leges and universities represented. I t

than the promi e of a provocative lecture.

more about the civil right movement wa

w a helpful, K i ng and Walker say, t o learn

They brought a renewed de ire to improve

an important part of their vi-it to the K i ng

about

race relations at Colby and a strengthened

Center. "Meeting the people who were part

and important to be expo ed to trategies

commi tment to work for oc ial and rac ial

of it wa great," Walker aid.

that seem to be working on othercampu e .

truggle

e l ewhere in America

j ustice. "We've got to t p danc i ng around

"With our generation you ee o much

"TI1e problems we face at Colby are the

the problems and get 'em out there," Kendra

apathy-too much 'me, my elf and I ,"' aid

ame that they're facing at other college a

Kin

King. "To ee [the King Center taff and

well," Kendra K i ng aid. "l commend Colby

Martin Luther K ing'

for making the effort, because ome chools

-aid. "As long a

we keep putting

bandaids on, it's going to keep bleeding." K i ng and Walker heard about the con

family) continu i ng

the fight is o in piring."

aren't even trying." She prai ed group like

ference last winter and went right to work

The conference theme was "Non

The Bridge (for gays, lesbians and bi exu al ) , Society Organized Again t Racism,

trying to organize the trip. Other tudents

violence: The Unlimited and Neces ary

agreed that it looked l ike a good program,

Revolutionary Force Whose Time Has

but the typical respon e was "You'll never

Come," and CoretraScott Kingde cribed it

get the money," K i ng said.

as " intensive tra i n i ng i n K i ngian non

"We've made a lot of progress on cam pu , even though there' a lot left to do,"

surfaced in the aftem1ath of the j ury verdict

v iolence-the revolutionary phi lo ophy and method of conflict resolution and so

in the ca e of the Los Angele pol ice office1

c ial change pioneered by Dr. Martin Luther

King and Walker ay they returned from

accu ed of beating Rodney K i ng, and there

Atlanta prepared to take action against

was plenty of support for the student ' trip.

K ing J r." "It' a way of thinking," Kendra K i ng

K ing and Walker were granted funds from

said. "It's not an ea y concept. But, espe

and they immediately et about to prove

But Colby wa grappling with issue that

tudent Organization for Black and H is panic Unity and the Women's Group.

Walker aid.

raci m, sexism and homophobia at Colby

the Dean of Students Office and the

c ially as a student of color on this campus,

it. Both were involved in campus pro

president's d iscretionary fund. Longstaff's

the principles of nonviolence for a per on

tests against hate graffiti that attacked peo

trip was paid for in part by a Colby fund that

my age are very important."

covers faculty research and travel.

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TI1e key, she say , i not to react v io-

ple of color, women and the Fo Fe tival.

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A Distin g u ished "J ack of All Trades" - By Sally Baker -

rofe sor o f Eng l i sh P a t r i c k Brancacc io ha been named Colby's newe t Dist i nguished Teaching Profe or of Humani ties, succeeding the late Edwin ] . Kenney] r . , who r e igned the chair la t year because of failing health. Brancaccio came to Colby 30 year ago after taking hi under graduate degree at Brooklyn Col lege, his master' at Ohio State and his Ph. D. at Rutgers. Along theway he ha studiedand taught subjects as diverse a the writings ofNathaniel Hawthorne, the de velopment ofBriti h and Ameri can theater, African and Afri can-American literatureand the mu ic, language and psychology of African ociet ies. He p io neered Colby' Black Studies Program in the late 1 960s and served as its head for a dozen year , and he and h is wife, Ruth, were the second faculty leaders of the Colby in London Pro gram, which they will lead again thi year. Brancaccio grew up in Brook lyn, where he developed a taste for the theater on frequent trip aero s the river to Broadway. When it came time to choose a major in college, he picked En gli h with a pecialization in drama. " I had been in a couple of community plays," Brancaccio aid. " I wa always inter ested in theater. My grandfather wa an actor in icily and acted in plays in the United State , and I used to go to the I talian theater ometimes." Hi college years were exciting time for the American theater. " I feel l ike a hi tori cal monument now," he aid. " I ju t got through teaching modern American drama, and I t.: ed to ay to the class, 'I aw the original production of thi and thi and this.' It wa a fabulou t ime--every year had

an Arthur Miller play, a T enne see Wil l iam , an I nge-and of cour e all the great mu icals. This wa the fift ies. Samuel Beckett. l aw the original Broad\\'ay pro duction of Waiting for Godot . " A teaching a s istant h i p a t Ohio State

gave Brancaccio h is fir t clas room experi ence, and he wa bitten by teaching for good. After he earned hi M . A . , he and Ruth returned to New York, where he worked a a "jack of all trades" for a mall publi her. He call the job "glamorous" and say he learned a great deal by ed iting manuscripts, writing jacket copy and even going on the road up and down the Ea t Coast as a alesman, but, he aid, "I found that I really mi sed teaching." He went to Rutger hoping to work with Franci Ferguson, a noted drama cholar, but discovered that Fergu on wasn't a mem-

ber of the English department and cou lcln 't upe1Yise hi doctoral research-"which, of course, nobody told me until I got there." A eminaron Hawthorne piqued Bnmcaccio' intere t in the American \\Titer; he �truck up a friendship with the profe sor and signeJ the man up as his ach- i er. "It w� a whole new direction," he aid. "l had to retrain my elf." Perhaps equally influential to the future cour�e ofBrancaccio's career wa hi need to earn extra money a a graduate student. "While l was at Rutger we were very poor," he aid. "Liv ing on an assistant hip wa -we l l , you couldn't li\·eon an a·sistantsh ip." o, thanks to a e\'ere teacher hortage in New York City, Brancaccio applied for and wa granted a teachingcertificatede pite the fact that he had never taken education cour es. He igned up to ubstitute teach. " I would take the bu from New Jersey into Manhattan very early in the morning so I'd get there about a.m.," he recalled. "Then l 'd call schools and see if they needed ·omebody. Well , the place they alway needed ome body wa Bedford-Stuyvesant or Harlem, so that's where I went. "It was very hard, but I learned how to teach there. I found that you could ur\'i\'e if you taught a le on. If you went there to try to baby-sit or j ust distract them and play game , it wa n't going to work. It was really dangerous-even in tho-e day there were chools with pol ice in them." But along with the danger and difficul tie , Brancaccio ay , came the chance to meet bright young African-American who were tudying and teaching book that hadn't yet reached mainstream America. "Authors like Dame ] Baldwin and [Ralph] Ell ison, and black history," he aid. "They weren't underground; they \Vere known,

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but nobody thought of teaching them." " I applied to go to the Cameroons, be He has maintained, too, the love of o, in the fal l of 1 96 3 , when Branca c io cause I speak French and because Cam theater nurtured in his chi ldhood, heading brought his shiny new Ph .D. to Colby and eroons was very representative of We t the Colby in London Program twice and wa asked to teach a J an Plan course, he Africa-the patterns of colonization, the teaching J an Plan theater course in the ch se black American literature. 'They climate, the landscape, all those things," he Briti h capital. It was during his first tint as said, 'What's that?' Nobody had ever heard said. " But I got a call saying that the person leader ofColby in London, in I 988-90, that of it-very few colleges were doing that," who was in the Cameroons was going to he began on his current scholarly research Brancaccio said. "And later in the sixtie stay another year, would I be intere ted in into the work of August Strindberg. He when there wa all this agitation, I began going to Madagascar ? I went home that publi hed a paper about Strindberg in the giving the course as a regular cour e in the night and aid, 'Okay, guys, we're going to Publications ofthe Modem Language Associa Engli h Department." Africa. "' He and Ruth always took their tion when he returned, treated a Colby Colby's Black Studies Program began in three children, David, now a London-based audience to a talk about the playwright's 1 969, with Brancacc io, Jack Foner of the reporter for MonitoRadio and Marketplace, mi ogyny and i now working on a book on H istory Department (see "Memorie ," page Peter, a Hollywood ound engineer and the theme of "family madne " ( British 34) and the late Leonard Mayo ' 2 2 , who aspiring filmmaker, and Lisa, an actor, with psychologist R.D. Laing's notion that the had returned to Mayflower Hill from a them when they traveled abroad. The fam- roots of insanity are communal, not indid ist ingu ished human ervices career in vidual) as played out in Strindberg. But, Washington, as its prime movers. The typically for Brancaccio, his musings on program wa successful and popular, hi subject are deep and varied. The fact that he was white though Brancaccio says it wa difficult to "While I was in London it struck me find faculty "who would stay and would that there was a kind of trindberg work out academically." revi al going on," he aid. "He'd always and heading up a black Occasionally, he says, the fact that he been recognized, right from the begin was white and heading up a black studies ning, as a very important playwright, studies program excited program excited some comment-espe but why all thi intere t at thi time ? My c ially when he attended New England theory was that it was a reflection of the and national Black Studie Counc il political climate in England at the time, some comment. "The feeling meetings. "But," he said, "ba ically what a climate that wa very grim, that was they felt was that it was important to also, I thought, very mean spirited, that have white people involved at that tage, tended to look on the dark ide. People was that you had to prove o it wasn't ju t their thing. Especially in kept saying in the late eightie that the a school l ike this, if you don't have white atmo phere was very Dickensian, in the upport on the faculty you don't have yourself; you had to prove you ense that there were homele people anything, because [blacks) aren't ever and there wa a lot of poverty and the going to be the majority here. More people who had job didn't seem to care were competent and serious, because they were doing okay. Which importantly, I think the feeling was that wa a reversal of the real communal you had to prove yourself; you had to that you weren' t j ust j umping pirit that followed the war." prove you were competent and seriou , A ked where h i intellectual appe that you weren't ju t j umping on the t ites may take him in the future, bandwagon l ike a lot of people were." on the bandwagon like a lot Brancaccio ays he hope to tudy N ige Brancaccio says that most people as rian literature in London thi year, to sume-and even remember-that he pur ue the idea of male friend hip in the was present when African-American stu of people were." works of Hawthorne and Melville and, dents occupied Lorimer Chapel during "deep, deep into retirement," to tackle the 1 969-70 academic year and again when anotherprotest wasstaged in 1 9 7 5 . ln i ly packed for a year on the i land nation off classical Greek. A few years ago, he and fact, he was away from campu on both the southeast coast of Africa, where Ruth bought a house in Montpelier, France, occasions-the first to study in Hawthorne's Brancaccio taught at the University of an area known for theater, and they also plan to make several trip to London in the I talian ettings in Rome and Florence, the Tananarive. Brancaccio has not returned to Africa, coming years to keep up with new trends on second to spend a year as a Fulbright Scholar but his interest in the continent remains the West End board . in Madagascar. "] like what I'm doing," Brancaccio aid. As the ancestral home of the African strong. In 1 978 he tudied African litera American whose works he studied and ture in London, especially the works of "] don't have any dramatic plans; I love this taught, Africa exercised a significant pull Zimbabwean novelist and hi torian Stan life. I always have at lea t a dozen idea on Brancaccio-particularly West Africa, lake Samkange (whom he ubsequently waiting for me to get around to them." + where most African-American families have invited to speak at Colby ) , and he occa sionally teaches African literature. their origins.

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Special Measures for Special Learners - By Lynn Sullivan '89-

here are time

when Adam

Zois '94 finds it impo sible to answer theque tion, "Whatdid you learn in chool today?"

centrating in any setting other than a bare

detracts from nor enhances a tudent' in

walled room.

tellectual capabilities.

"I knew I might have a problem," he

Some tudents with such di orders go

said. "In high chool l was able to cope, but

through all four years at Colby and never need special help. But since passage of the

Zois i as attentive as any other

my coping kill didn't quite match what I

Colby student in class. The senior from

needed at Colby. I talked to [A sociate

Americans with Disabilitie Act in 1 99 1 ,

Wells Branch, Maine, Ii tens to lectures,

Dean of Student ] Mark [Serdjenian '73]

college

participates in discussions and takes careful

about my troubles studying and problems

provide ervice to tudents who do need

notes. But unlike most of his fellow stu

with clas e . Then in the summer I was

help in much the same way that they must

and universities are required to

dents, Zois ha a learning di ability that

accommodate blind or wheelchair

hinders ability to retrieve information

bound tudents.

stored in his mind.He can forget every thing that transpired in a class session

ing a key word from a lecture, seeing a pen or a notebook he had in clas -to trigger his memory.

a number of

upport

ervice for learning-disabled tudents,

burden of educating others

beginning of every emester to find out

within minutes of leaving the room, and he depends on external prompt -hear

Colby offer

"We shouldn't carry the

about learning disabilities."

Zois's condition was diagnosed when

and

erdjenian contacts each at the

what i needed. Between them, Ser djenian and the student work out an appropriate program. Typical requests include dean'

he was in the fourth grade, and over the

office di pensation for

additional time on examinations, ex-

years he has developed effective coping

tested. Being diagno e d gave me the basis

mechanisms. But he says it wasn't easy to

for what I had to work with and idea for

pre sure-intensive environments for taking

adjust to the demands of college-level work.

what I needed in order to do better."

tests.Other con iderations, including a pri

"When I first got here I was really trug gling," Zoi

aid. "I didn't feel I was made

tensions on writing a ignments and less

Galson now copies clas note twice and

vate tudy carrel in Miller Library and modi

tapes all lectures.His private study area in

fication of the foreign language require

quite aware of the ervices available. I took

Miller Library has nothing in it except a few

ment, may be given to some students. (Those

untimed tests, but I don't think some fac

textbooks and a black ''X," which he put on

who are excu ed from the requirement still

ulty understood the reasons for it. I felt

the wall above the desk to help him keep his

must take clas e dealing with the culture

pressured.Coming in now is much better

mind on his work.

and history of a foreign country. )

for students with learning disabilities.The

Galson says he doe n't want anyone to

school is more aware and better able to deal

"make a big deal" of hi learning disability.

with all the different problems."

"The faculty have been really flexible in helping

tudents out," Serdjenian

aid.

"I don't want to be con idered different,

"Modifications uch as writing the lecture

Last year, Zois was Colby's representa

I don't want to be catered to," he said. " I

outline on the board, writing down key

tive to a New England preparatory school

don't d o things like untimed te t s becau e I

phrases or word or the use of visual aids

conference on learning disabilities."While

kind of see that as cheating. I have adju ted

have really helped some of these students

I wa at the conference I met a lot of other

my kill to meet my need ."

and, in ome instance , it has helped the

students with learning di abilities," he aid.

Every year Colby admits tudents with

'We talked about the different colleges we

learning disabilities, but many are not iden

Today there is a greater understanding

were going to.Some kids were really having

tified in the admi ions proces becau e,

about learning di abilitie than ever before,

whole clas ."

a hard time getting any consideration for

according to Mark Serdjenian, they receive

and diagno tic techniques have improved

their disability. Other were getting any

no unusual consideration.

markedly in recent years. The number of

thing they wanted. Colby

eemed to be

somewhere in the middle."

"Student with learning differences are

tudems who have informed the College of

admitted to the College by the ame proces

di abilities ha j umped by more than 5 0

Scott Galson '95 of We t Chester, Pa.,

that admits all of our tudents-their high

percent in the last four year -partly be

was diagnosed after his first year at Colby.

school records, board core and potential

cause, according to

He is 0asily distracted and has difficulty

for intellectual growth," Serdjenian aid,

increased acceptance on campus.

retaining information from lectures or con-

stressing that a learning di ability neither

erdjenian, there is

"Things have gotten much better in

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term� of the school':. r �ron�e." SerJj eni<m

te t i ng the clocks but te· r i ng the tudents."'

said. "There i:i more flex i h i l ity with the

Laura chuler '9 3 fro m BuckfielJ, Maine,

facu l ty. We finJ that a lot of. tudents don't need much i n terms nf upport :>ervices but do need an acknow l ed gmen t from u · say

i ng, 'We know learn ing d i s a bi l it i c � cx i�t

and we are doing so met h i ng about it."' '.::i o me students, however, say they wish o ll e ge miulJ do more. " ome fac u l ty members need to become more aware of ,,·hat learning d isabi l i tie

the

there are and what need· to be Jone to help

omeone with a d isabi l i ty," aid one opho more who asked not to be ident ified . "All professors should have at lea t ome back ground on l e a rn i ng d isab i l i t ies, l i ke reading the cunent legi-lation or a ttend i ng sem i nars. Ti med tests are probably n o t t h e ki ll· we should be focu ing on. To borrow a phrase my father uses, 'We ·hou ldn't he

\\ ' a s offi c i a lly d iag nosed with dy lex ia when,

after struggling to m ct the foreign lan guage requirement i n pan i h, he tried to have the fi nal se tT1es te r wai ved . " Dean e rdj e n i a n fought hard so 1 wnu lJn 't have to take the la t eme ter of the l ang u age, " chuler said. " Ge t t ing out of it was much harder than it ·hould have been. M y parent had to come up, it was a real h a ·le. l don't know, now it' probably hetter, but i t shouldn't be that d iffic ult." "Profe sor have to und r ta nd t ha t there are d i ffe re n t forms of J y · l e x i a , " s a i d chuler. " o m e people have trouble read i ng, other:> hc1\'e o mp rchemio n prob l e m , and ·ome can't pel l . Many time. it\ ea·ier to ju t take the te·t than a:>k the profes or for more time."

Added another tudent, "Pr ofe sor need

realize that j ust becau e the disability i sn ' t vi ible doe n't mean it doe n't exi t. We houldn't carry the burden of educating other about learning d isabilitie ." SerJjenian sa id that in the letter regard ing learning di abi lit ies he'll send to the faculty next eme ter he will include the text of the Americans with Di abilitie Ac t. He also hopes to hold a workshop for facu lty to addre the is ue involved and to increa·e en itivity and awarene . 'There are ome problem , I 'm not J e n y i ng tha t , " he said. "! probab ly [wouldn't) get 1 00 percent attendance at the workshop, but, in general, the faculty have been very cooperative. I realize there is sti ll some awarenes raising to be done. It i fru tra ting , but it i better than i t was + four years ago. "

Setting the Tone for Parents A� ociation i ju t one more way to do that." Tone received his undergraduate degree from the Univer roster caught rhe attent ion of everal reporrer . "Are you . iry ofNorth Carolina in Chapel Hill and earned a master' in k i d d i ng," one asked, "m doe· Franchot Tone really play on education from Columhia and an M. . at M IT' loan School your lac rosse team ?'' of Management. Cunently director of He d oes. the uthea tern region individual asor that Franchot Tone, of cour e. t management for New York City Not the Franchot Tone who epito ba ed money management fi rm Neuberger& Berrnan, Tone wa pre i mi:ed ophi t icat ion and den·ing-do dent of Franklin College in wiuer in 1 9 3 0s and '40 H llywood and wa land from 1 969 to 1 978 and then erved once married toacrre sJoan Crawford. a vice president and rrea urer of the The Franchot Tone who u i t up for United States Eque rrian Tearn for 1 1 the White M ules is his grandson. He's year . He and h i wife, Lynn, and their a member of the Cla of '95 and the children (beside Franchot, rhe Tones son of Pascal F. "Pat" Tone, the new have a daughter, Le ley) live in Man chair of the Parent A· ociation Ex hattan and in outh Hamilton, Ma . ecutive Committee. Tone wa reared in Beverly Hill , "I am exc ited about my new role," Frachoc ,95 and Pascal Tone which he call "a wild and crazy place Pat Tone said. "! really envision the committee's function to be a conduit for comment, inquiry togrow up." Hi mother, JeanWallace-vvhoal o was married and discussion for all Colby parent . The Parent A ociation to actor Comet Wilde-acted in films and the theater, and i a great way for everyone to meet and j ust talk about what Tone himselff1irted briefly with a career in how bu ine . He their son or daughter is doing and has done and what the studied acting in chool and landed a few roles in movies but ays he was "never really bitten hard by the acting bug." He College can offer." "! essentially see my e lf as the point person for a group taught drama at Franklin College, though, and ay he rill effort," he said. "This is not a job for only one person, this is enjoys attending rhe theater and seeing film . Tone also is an avid golfer, tenni player, skier and pilot. He a huge group effort, and I will be j ust one of the players. I will say he wa delighted with Franchot's college choice-mo tly spend a good deal of time communicating with othermember because of Colby' reputation as a top-notch chool, but of the a oc iation." The committee, Tone sa id, "i really for the students-and partly, too, because of its location. After classe ended la t we are not alumni . We hould assume this job as a way of year, he and Lesley came to Colby, picked up Franchot and making Colby a better place for our ons and daughter . l l ike went whitewater canoeing on the Allagash Wilderness Wa being active in my chi ldren's lives. Being on the Parents terway for a week. When Col b y 's ·pring srorrs guide landed in variou;, new -

room a few months ago, one name on the men'· lacrn·se

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Maine's notoriously unpredictable ] une weather wasn't (for a change ) . The weather reports called for sun, and sw< there was throughout Reunion Weekend 1 993 , allowing for a host of outdoor activi ties, including a lei urely game of volleyball ( lower right ) , to augment a full program of panel discussions, celebratory meal and awards ceremonie .

A alway , member of Colby' 50-Plu c lasses led the Parade of Cla e acros cam us from the Student Center ( top left) to Seavem Field-that' 50Plu President George Beach '4 1 holding the sign ( below) and, in the car ( top right ) , clockwi e from bottom right, Mar guerite Rice Lary '23, Leonette Warburton W ishard '23, Helen Ores er McDonald

'23 and Ludy Levine '2 1 being driven by Bridget Wright of Fairfield.

For more reunion details, ee individual clas reports in the Alumni at Large ection, which begins on page 42.

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F I FTy Correspondent:

D o n a l d N . A r m s t rong ' 2 6 ,

panion." . . . Friends will besorryto

April and that Raymond Carlyle

Lo ngmon t , Col o . , i n M a rc h . . . . Donald C. Freeman ' 2 6 ,

learn of the death of Alice Rogers N elson ' 2 7 , Dover, N . H . , in

. . . Phyllis Sturdivant Sweetser

Haverh i l l , Ma s., maintain

his

March . . . . Ava Dodge Barton '28,

' 1 9, Portland, Maine, writes that

interest in the Whittier ociety and was honored recently by ev

Wiscas et, Maine especially enjoys

he i very much retired at age 9 5 , but she i s proud o f her wonderful

42 Perry Drive eedham, MA 02 1 9 2 6 1 7-449- 1 6 1 4 c o l u m n was written by

Marjorie Gould Shuman ' 3 7 ] Thank

Cross Doe ' 1 7 , <lied a year ago in Whitney ' 1 8 d i ed in March.

Fletcher Eaton ' 39

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to a l l of you who have

responded with the Fifty-Plus up date and to those of you who told of contacts with cla mate· and other Colby friends. For any who have just put off doing what you meant to do, there is still time to return the pink sheet-there are other column to write. And many thanks for the k i n d words about my effort . . . . Fletcher Eaton '39will keep track of all ofyou through his columns and new letters. He not only likes to write, he has had the good experience of being the cla s corre pondent for his fellow MIT alumni. ( Fletcher went on to study four more year at MIT after he graduated from Colby; apparently he needed a B.S. in engineering ! ) 1

shall miss hearing from you; I really enjoyed going to my mailbox. But of course I shall apprec iate reading what Fletcher has written about each of you !

eral communi ty groups, including

the advantage of the telephone when she can talk with her great

fam i ly of three children, eight

rhe Boy

cout , the Bar A socia

grand on in Georgia. Now he has

grandchildren and 1 0 great-grand

tion and B'nai B'rith. He and his

another great-grand on, born in

children.

he regrets the thinning

wife, Isabelle, recently celebrated

December. . . . Be t wishes to the

rank of her classmate and men tion that Mira Dolley ' 1 9 i till

their 6 5th wedding anniver ary.

Cla of l 928, which celebrated its 65 th reunion at a lobster luncheon in Roberts Unionon Saturday,June

in a Portland nur ing home follow ing a stroke, but she hasn't heard l a t e l y from Mi ldred Dunham Crosby ' 1 9, Alahambra, Calif. +

. . . Carl R. MacPherson ' 2 6 , Abington, Ma s., h a s j ust received recogn ition from the Abington Masonic Temple, where he was pre ented a 5 5-year membership medal. He continued hi col lege

5 , as arranged by class president Peg Davis Farnham, Hampden, Maine . . . . Walter '28 and Myra

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interest in ports by erving as a

Stone Knofskie '28, Newburyport, Ma s., and Manchester, Conn.,

football and ba ketball referee for

report that they try to erve other

many year . He ha

Melva Mann Farnum ' 2 3 , Port

through t. Mary' Regional har i ng. After implant operat ions

erved on the

volun

Colby Alumni Council and was its pre ident in I 96 1 - 2 . . . . Edith

teering and now is the pianist for

"Ducky" Grearson Money '26,

ocial events at the retirement com

West Medford and Nanrucket,

munity where he lives. She enjoys

Croary '28, Winthrop, Maine, re

ern Maine Colby Alumnae Asso

Ma s., is "delirious" that she has received a driving license for five more years. (She will be 90 in De

ciation meetings and treasures the

cember.) Every Friday during the

with the man who was to become

enrichment given to her life by the Colby men and women who e

year she drives into Boston to at

her husband. After many years of teaching and traveling abroad, he

land, Maine, still enjoy

eeing Colby friend at outhwest-

Walter is grateful thathecan drive, and they both now enjoy reading aga in . . . . Harriet Towle Mc members the romance of walking on Mayflower Hill for her first date

he attended at College.

tend the symphony. A class agent, he was happy to learn that her

"The most important event of my life wa marriage to a fellow stu

clas had rai ed 0 percent of its goal for the Alumni Fund as of

now i active in lineage ocieties, DAR, gardening and keeping track of her m a n y grandc h i ld r e n .

dent a t Colby that lasted 5 8 Crosby ' 2 5 , Milo, Maine, fo r re

March. he planned to attend the Colby reunion in J une with her brother, Douglas Grearson '28,

. . . Cla mate will miss Viola M . Philbrook '28, K i t tery P o i n t , Maine, w h o died in November,

turning the pink heet. Telephone number: 207-943-7 749 . . . . Eliza

Dedham, M a s., for his 65th. She reports that Stanley Brown '26 ,

and Ena Page Hawkins '28, St. George, M a ine, and Dorothy

Reading, Mas ., is active in church

Sylvester Carman '28, Bangor, Maine, both of whom died in

cla ses

years." . . . Thank you, Claire A .

beth Kingsley Chapman ' 2 5 , East Greenwich, R . l . , write tl1at she

work and frequently give organ concerts . . . . Elsie Frost Rapp '26,

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two or three weeks in September,

Lucy Taylor Pratt ' 1 7 , Weth

but while at home, she works at her

Bethel, Conn., is just ifiably proud of the fact that she ha kept in

ersfield, Conn., has written that she enjoys the Fifty-Plus newslet

church office one morning a week and at the local food bank two

contact with nine of her Colby clas mate for 60year ince gradu

ter, although she fear that no one

mornings a month. She keeps in

ation by means of a round-robin

ervice to youth: $40,000 was raised

at Colby knows her except id Farr

touch with c l a

letter. . . . Esther E. Wood '26,

' 5 5 , who has vi ired her in Con

McDonald Jones ' 2 5 , Archer, Fla. ,

Blue Hill, Maine, also keep

to help two local organizations, one to prevent A I DS and one to

necticut. She recalls her college

and plan

"to keep on keeping

touch with her Colby friends and

days a some of the happiest of her

on!" . . . Friends will be orry to leam

frequently i asked to peak at local

life and remember that one of her

of the deaths of Wendell Fay Grant

groups. Still a reader, he relies on

Fos

her "Toosie," which instantly be

' 2 3 , Portsmouth, N . H . , in Febru ary, and Malcolm E. Bennett ' 2 5 ,

books on history and biology, but

camehernickname . . . . We're sorry

Sanford, M a i n e , Nettie Pottle

she also has a garden. Her new

. . . Dorothy Deeth '29, Santa

to report that a classmate, Myra

Hankins ' 2 5 , Ithaca, N . Y . , and

cocker spaniel i a "delightful com-

Ro a, Cal if., like to travel: la t fall

Hall friends started

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m a t e G ra c e

Talking Books now, particularly

January . . . . Congratulations again to Oscar M. Chute '29, Evan ton, I l l . , on the re ults of the benefit Rotary dinner at which he wa honored last fall for hi lifetime of

upport a program for children at

risk. 0 car notes that he wa once a neighborofColby alumni at large editor Robert Gillespie in the vil lage ofKenilworth, near Evanston.

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she went to witzerland, and he hoped to go to the Ozarks last spring . . . . Apologie to Doris WymanLord '29 , Concord, Ma . , fo r overlooking t h e fa c t that her husband had died in 1 990. She does enjoy living in her apartment at Rivercrest . . . . Ola C. Swift Dacey '29, Augusta, Maine, must always rejoice on the 1 5th of April that he no longer works for the I R ! . . . Philip R. Higgins '29, Springfield, Mas . , hopes to travel to Maine this summer. During the year he is involved in h is Masonic fraternity, church activitie , read ing, playing bridge, YMCA classes and walking. In November he went on a cruise in the Caribbean. . . . Did you know that Ernie Miller '29, New M ilford, Conn., was edi tor of the Echo during his senior year? Last summer he traveled to England and Ireland, and this sum mer he hoped to visit Scotland. . . ·. F ra n k J. T w a d e l l e ' 2 9 , Winthrop, Maine, and Jekyll Is land, Ga., almost-retired surgeon, is trying to avoid responsibility, but he won first prize at the Jekyll Is land Arts Festival in March. +

THIRTIES Once a teacher, always a teacher!

Evelyn Rollins Knapp ' 3 0 , Kingfield, Maine, says that she thought she was through teaching, but she has been tutoring a Cam bodian lady in reading and speak ing English. She is also active in exten ion work, is treasurer of the Kingfield Historical Society and still manages to keep track of her 1 2 grandchildren and seven great grandchildren. "Carpe diem and keep active 1 " she says . . . . Lucy Parker Clements '30, Searsport, Maine, had a wonderful 88th birth day celebration, with parties, lun cheons, tapes, gifts, cakes and 5 1 cards! . . . I t still i difficult for

Evelyn Maxwe l l Bubar ' 3 0 , Northampton, Mass., without her hu band, who died la t year, for he i nowlegallyblind . . . . Thankyou,

Louise A rmstrong R a y ' 3 0 , Waterville, Maine, fortelling about your brother's recent death. Our s y m p a t h i e s to you and t h e fam ily . . . . Ina Hussey Weymouth '3 1 , Ea t Va salboro, Maine, vol unteers ac the Maine Veteran ' home in Augusta by playing piano for their choru , playing cribbage

with the patients and helping to decorate for special holidays. he is chair of the volunteer group . he likes to take three bus trips a year and as usual hopes to go to Canada for ''sugaring off' time. . . Carroll Mcleary '3 1 , ew Port Richey, Fla., ays tha t he ha nothingearth shaking to report but doe enjoy reading, bowling and gardening. . . . Vivian F. Russell ' 3 1 , Au gusta, Maine, and Howey-in-the

F . Lemoine ' 3 2 , Honolulu, Ha waii, will be tra\·eling to Enoland again, this time to make a pdgrim age m the historic and ancient shrineofOurladyofWahngham, which wa destroyed by Henry V I I I and restored i n 1 9 3 . H e also \\'ill \'isit hi favorite Engli h rub - for excellenr d mner at reasonable price-. . . . Once a fi herman, al ways a fishem1an! That is certainly m1e of G. Alden MacDonald ' 3 2 , Kingfield, Maine, and Anna Marie, Fla., who rated a feature article on his fi hing accomplishments in the Bangor Daily News thi past March. A fonner C.P.A., he eem to be really enjoying hi ret i rement. . WhatotherColbyalurnnuscan boastofhaving 5 books published but Bern Porter ' 3 2 , Belfast, Maine ? till runnino his lnstirute of Advanced Thinking, he invites

Hills, Fla . , probably can give some good advice on how to maintain two homes, one in the north and one in the south. While in Florida, one of her pleasure is to ing in her church choir. . . . Frederick R. Knox '32, Enfield, Conn., ha de cided to move to Havenwood Re tirement Home in Concord, . H . , a soon a s there i s a n opening. . . . Following his custom, Harold

NEWSMAKERS Robert ''Bob" William '36 was featured in a Los Angeles Times pecial sectionshowcasing the L.A. Open golftournament held in Feb ruary at the Riveria Country Club in Los Angeles, Calif. It was his 5 2nd consecutive year in atten dance at the tournament.

MILEPOSTS Deaths: Raymonde. Whitney ' l 8 i n Dover-Foxcroft, Maine, a t 97. . . . Olive Edgerly Fortier '21 in Bob William '36 Ellsworth, Maine. . . . Malvena M a s s e Robbins ' 2 1 i n East Vas alboro, Maine, at 93 . . . . Marian Drisko Tucker '24 in Hartford, Conn., at 93 . . . . Nellie Pottle Hankins '25 in Oti field, Maine, at 88 . . . . Emily Candage Ellis '2 7 in Augusta, Maine, a t 8 7 . . . . Grace Sylvester Ober '28 in Woodland, Maine, at 5 . . . . Violet Daviau Brodeur '28 in Newburg, Ind., at 5 . . . . Amy D. Dearborn '28 in Bangor, Maine, at 85 . . . . Webster J. Brown '29 in Lynnfield, Mass., at 86 . . . .Thelma Chase Bevin '3 1 in Marlborough, Conn., at 83 . . . . Lucius V. Lobdell '3 1 in Leesburg, Ra., at 6 . . . . Florence Ventres Sherburne ' 3 1 in Rockport, Mas . , at 8 1 . . . . Marion Thurlow Van Strien ' 3 1 in Portland, Maine, at 3 . . . . Maxwell H . Feinman ' 3 2 i n Swampscott, Mass., at 82 . . . . William } . Casey ' 3 4 i n Santa Ro a , Calif., a t 8 3 . . . . E. William Hucke '34 i n u n City, Ariz., at 1 . . . . George H. Hunt '34 in Augusta, Maine, at l. . . . Richard N. Ball '35 in Worcester, M a s., at 79 . . . . Eliza beth Mann Dresser ' 3 5 .n i We twood, Mass., at 7 . . . . Earl } . Sayer ' 3 5 in Petoskey, M ich. , at 80 . . . . Frederic B. Vigue '36 in Waterville, Maine, at 79 . . . . Geraldine Wells Morphy '40 in Fannington, N .H., at 74 . . . . Mary Williams Chance '4 1 in Ardmore Pa., at 74.

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any intere-ted alumni w srend a day, a \\'eek, or 1rhate\·er in Belfast at hi institute this 'iummer, hut they must hring tent- and -Jeering bags. Incidentally, manyofh1s 11Tit111 g" are already in the pec1al Col lection,, Department m the Colby library . . . . Maxwell D. Ward ' 3 2 , Bowdoinham, Mame, report" that he i- a member of the Clinton Lion Club, the Madlower oc ie ry0 . AR, the Ma ine Genealog1ca l ociety and the r. Andrews oci etyofClanCampbell. . . . Oursym pathie to El l i s M. Anderson ' 3 3 . Fre no, Calif., o n the sudden death by heart attack of his \\'ife, Rebecca June. They had been married 56 year . . . . Following their annual vacation in Hawaii, George C. '34 and Ves ta Alden Pumam '33, Oakland, Maine, looked up a Colby classmate, Louise Smith Velten ' 3 3 , who is in a nursing home in Oakland, Calif. This -ummer they are expecting a vi it from Rebecca Chester Larsen Wyman ' 3 3 , La guna H i l l , Calif., at their home in Sullivan Harbor. The Aldens still run their summer family camp in Oakland . . . . Friends will be sorry to learn of the death of Robert Finch ' 3 3 , pokane, Wash. H is wife, Louise, wrote that "his fondest memories were of Colby." The Colby rocker that he gave him was one of hi prized posse ions. They returned for his SOth reunion and had a great time . . . . Ruth Leighton Thomas ' 3 3 , Pittsfield, Maine, does volunteer work with her Federated Club on parrie for the local nursing home. la t sum mer she went to Holland to attend a grandson' wedding on July 4th: "A great learning experience." She hoped to attend her 60rh reunion ar Colby inJune . . . . Colbyfriend >A·ill mis eeing Katherine Holmes Snell ' 3 3 , who died in February, and George H. Hunt '34, who died in April, both in Hallowell, Maine, where each made outstand ing contribution to the commu nity . . . . Also, we are orry to learn of the death of Marion Ruth White Van Strien '3 1 , Portland, and of Leslie Richard Rhoda '34, Houlton, Maine . . . . Adelaide Jor dan Cleaves '34, Portland, Maine, is happy about the birth of a new great-grandchild and about the Jefferson Award recently given to her husband for outstanding public serY ice . . . . Our sympathy to

Muriel ''Mirn"Walker Dubuc '34,

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Louise William

so ,he and her hu>hand will wait

Ward ' 3 5 , P a l m H ar hor . . . . Avis Merritt C h u r c h i l l ' 3 5 ,

hoth <1 hruther and 'Her recently. She had to make three trir> north,

unt il '94 to tra\·el rn Maine. She

enjoy> \\'riting hiogrnphie, of fel loll' rc,idcnts in her Mayflower

Brown ' 3 4 ,

Dickinson �ites and book hunting. Her 5age advice to u; all i> to "sray

learll'atcr, and the widow ofJ ohn

about 30 forever !".

Darlow ' 3 7 , China, Maine, went

outhingron, Conn., rerons that she went to Ma ine last summer and

Court . . . . G eorge S. Mann '34,

has vi · iteJ her family in Virginia . Beth >everal ti mes recently.

Hnu>tnn, Texas, i' \·ery gratefu I

. Peg Libbey

to her daughter Ruth' graduation at R h o d e I · \ and C o l l ege in May . . . . Fred D e m e r s ' 3 7 ,

of h i> nffice on the 1 0 1 t floor of

Muriel, plan to move to Grand Canyoncountry, alth ugh they will

dren and grandchildren during

the World Trade Center ·afely af ter the bombing last ll'inter, but 1t

Ch r i s t rnc1

wasn't ea>y1 . . . Barbara "B.Z."

Fla., doe

keer their home in Maine for um mervi ·it . . . HaroldHurwitz ' 3 7 , New Bedford, M a s . , attended rhe 50rh reunion of rhe 1 2 5 2 nd M ili

White Morse '34,

pringvale.

Maine, has a foscinating hohhy thnt began in 1 96 7 , when she tarted col lecting and doing research on an ti les of the 1 9th century, in particular the Lo\\' An Tiles of Chebea, Ma,,.

ince then >he ha

written 35 article, on these t i le , which have been puhli hed in an t ique maga:ine, in the U n i ted tates and Canada. In 1 990 he wa a ked to write article for "Fla·h Point," the quarterly bulletin of rhe H e r i t age Fou n d a t i o n . . . aco, M a ine, is very much in demand as

Harriet Pease Patrick '34,

a peaker the e day . In May, he was a ked to speak at rhe annual

b a n q u e t of the A A U W c n "Change and Balance, from A l ice in Wonderland to AAUW," and she ha been asked to lecture at an Elderho tel t h is fal l . he a l o wrote of the recent surgery that c lassmate Lois Crowell '34, Cape Porpoi e, M aine, had at the Lahey Clin ic in B u r l i n g t o n , M a s · . , in l a t e March . . . . Annie Tuck Russell

'34, Orlando, Fla . , traveled ro an Diego to celebrate her 80th birth

day. At home he likes tO read, kn it afghans and walk 10 m i le each w e e k . . . . P o r t i a P e n d l e t on Rideout '34, Augu ta, M a ine, ex pects to have family visitors at her summer cottage on Webber Pond, and then he plans to fly to Oregon in eptember. . . . Harold Brown

the local chool , belong to the enter for the Arts and the Envi ronmental Center as we ll a Har bor Branch Oceanography.

Sidney Schiffman ' 3 5 , Maitland, rill thmk al out hi rran Atlant ic cros ing on rhe Croivn Jewel la t August . . . . Catherine Fla . ,

omer , Conn., has discovered that her in tere5t in family genealogy has led her into >tudies of American hi -

Laughton Briggs ' 3 6 ,

tory, o in March she gave a report on rhe Battle of tonington w a group of vil lager . . . Charles J . Caddoo ' 36, and his wife, Daisy, enjoy their life a nowbirds, ,pend ing their summers in El lsworth and their

w i n ter

C i ty ,

Fla. . . Winnifred White Hough ton '36, lnter\'ale, N . H . , ucce5 fully managed to ·urpri e her hu band, Ed ' 3 5 , on h is 0th birthday with friend and family members.

i the only surviving officer, in an Anton io in May . . . . Willard Libby ' 3 7 , R o c h e s t e r, N . H . , and Pemaqu1d Point, Maine, and hi wife, Rebecca, fled the winter now

in March to spend time on an island in the gulf but found them selve wime sing the beginning of rhe horrendous torm that swept up the Atlanric c a t on March 1 3 . On their way home they vi ired friend in Ocalaand PenneyFam1 , F\;:i . . . . Cla 5mare w i l l be sorry to learn of the death ofRobert Smith ' 3 7 , Well , Maine, m January. H is wife is poet Beulah Fenderson

Smith '36. . . Betty Wilkinson Ryan ' 3 7 , N .Y.C., went all the way to Boston to attend the pring F l o w e r Show w i t h El izabeth "lppy" Solie Howard '39, Acton, Ma . . . . MarjorieGouldShuman

' 3 7, Penney Farm , Fla., felt as if

ding anniver ary with a two-week ray n c. Thoma , U . . Virgin l lands. "Very enjoyable ! " . . . Alice Bocquel Hartwell '36, Waterv i l le and Ocean Point, Maine, spent a month in France thi pring visit ing relative in Pari , Beaune and

Marion Dugdale '38, Orlando, Fla., inv ited Helen Foster Jenison '38,

Nante . he also tookadvantageof the February snmvfall to nowshoe up Mayflower H i l l . "Nor a soul.

cituate, R.l., to vi it her in Florida.

rwo weeks in May on an 1 nterho tel . Norman R. Brown program.

M ine were the only track . I t wa beau t i fu \i " . . . Dorothy Gould Rhoade '36, continues to have respon i b i l i ties in the honorary

' 3 5 , Rye, N . H . , is proud to have

educational ociety Pi Lamda Theta

achieved 80 and hope to go on l iving . . . . Gordon Patch Thomp

and take

' 3 5 , outh Portland, Maine, and hi wife, Isabel, went to Vienna for

tary Police Company, of which he

5he were back m academia when he gave two paper recently, ne on Willa Cather and the other on the in ighr of three Chine e American writer . . . . Henry V. Wilcox ' 3 7, Big Pine, Calif., re ceived his 50-year pin for memberhip in the M a on . He al o d i rected a c h u rc h c a n t a t a . . .

A pacemaker now makes h i life much easier . . . . Cedric Porter ' 3 5 , Top ham, Maine, a n d h i wife, Marion, celebrated their 5 5th wed

Marjorie, Penney Farms, Fla., and

Amazing Grace, which ervice the

Pa., went on ;:i cruise with her chil

vol unteer teaching in

include pe tering hi 1 1 grandch il dren and four great-grandchildren! . . Ed human ' 38 and hi· wife, WesrOneonta, N . Y . , had the great exp rience of taking their first fre ighter voyage this winter: on the

Pendleton Clark ' 3 5 , eling grove,

Wight Mason '35, Vero Beach,

found thatshovelingsnow thi pa r winter was a full-time job. Hi plans

Thomaston, M a me, and h i> wife,

that hi' on, J ay, was able ro get nut

vac a t ion . . . . J u ne

Littlefield ' 38, Sanford, Maine,

Then she sugge ted having lunch w i t h rwo other Colby friends, Marjorie '3 7 and Ed Shuman '38, o they all met in r. Augu tine. . . .

Ernest "Bud" Frost ' 3 8, North Myrtle Beach, S.C., keeps on play ing golf and is a member of the Bay Tree Men' Assoc iation, which he

Windjammer in the Ea rem Car ibbean. "Beautiful island ! Beauti ful weather! " . . . Sally Aldrich Adams '39, Medfield, M a s., con tinues to write regularly and ha had everal pieces publ i hed. Her husband is improving slowly from a t roke . . . . A r l i n e Bamber

Veracha ' 3 9, Norwood, Mas . , meet her two college roommates, ally and lppy,each aturday noon for lunch in Wellesley . . . . "lppy" Solie Howard '39, Acton, Mass., pent part of the winter in M iami, Fla. , where her borani t husband wa doing re earch. he continue to sing in the Acton Chorus. . . Leila Ross Hyman '39, Tho u and Oaks, Calif., enjoy reaching Engli h to foreign-born people in the enior Center when she isn't traveling . . . . Arlene Paine Osia '39, Lighthou e Point, Maine, ays that she enjoys reading the 50Plus column . . . . Estelle Rogers

MacDonald '39, Braintree, Mass., and her bu band were given a trip to Europe in eptember by their on, Geoffrey, for their 50th wedd ing anniversary . . . . Mary Lillian Healy Orr '39, Reston, Va., is happy about the arrival of a third grandda ughter. . . . Jean Burr Smith '39 is plea ed that her text book, Arithmetic and Algebra for Adults, w i l l be publ ished oon. February wa a month for celebra tions: her 7 5 th birthday and her golden wedding anniver ary . . . Harley M. Bubar '39, Darien, Conn., finds that his heart condi + tion l i m i t h i activities.

FORTIES

Brown '3 7, Crop eyville, N . Y . , and

recently been appointed chaplain

and Babs Walden Palmer '40, Dunedin, Ralph "Ron" Williams

her hu band, Win, took a two-day vacation and drove to Amherst,

at Carpenter' Home Estate Life Care Complex in Lakeland . . . .

Isabel Abbot '40, Union, Maine, i finding that retirement doe not mean boredom: she is involved in the historical ociet:y, M id Coast Genealogical Society, Senior Citi zens, DAR and Mayflower oci ery. Last year he attended an Elderhostel in Gettysburg, Pa. , with out rand i ng profe or . . . . Bob

' 3 5 and his wife, Barbara, Dunedin,

Mass. , p i l g r i m a g i ng to E m i ly

u r p r i s i n g l y , W i l l iam R.

Bruce '40, Watertown, Conn., and

son ' 3 5 , Arlington, M a s., and Clearwater, Fla . ,

eems to have

found him elf in a Colby enclave in Florida, where he sees Paul ' 3 7

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her tum at reviewing

book for her I cal book club. She and Don ' 3 3 , are frequent hosts for fam ily visitors from variou parts of the country . . . . Jane Tarbell

served as president for five terms. He hoped to attend h i 5 5th re

union i n J une . . . . Phillips B. Henderson '38, Lakeland, Fla. , has

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Elderhostel in M a y , t h i t i m e to Vienna and Salzburg . . . . John T.

least 1 5 mile- a ll'eek anJ heh Jaily contact

t h rou gh hi., amateur

ll'a, makmg mar le 'nur! Laq De cember he and hi-; ll'tfe, Carol ine,

with her oldest son and his wife.

radio . . . . Priscilla Patterson Salgo

>rent Chri5tma> ll'tth cla, mare

rediscovering the U . . A. and find

Antigua la t pring, but he hoped to be in teuben, Maine, for the

'4 1 , and her husbanJ,

anJor, ex

pect tn be "hargmg" down the Loire in France and then later to attend

European trip . . . . Charles E. '4 1 and A l i c e Weston H uff ' 4 0,

Gaithersburg, Md., had the good

after uffering the loss of their home

Qaeen Mar)' for the trir of a life

Conley ' 4 2, Lan::.ing, I l l . , likes to \'Olunteer for the local AARP. cl1e

in Homestead during Hurricane

time . . . . Ruth Stebbins Cadwell

chamber of commerce and the re

Andrew. They were able to salvage

' 4 1 , Doylestown, Pa . , has j u · t mm·ed from her form.er home in

gional Pre byterian church . . . .

many thing , but they had to move to a new hou e in

New Hope to a mailer apartment

Va., and h i · wife, Mar\"' Louise, like to play oolf and were Looking for

ebring . . . . Our

sympathy to Virginia Gray Schwab

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Board. In 1 992 hell'entto Co:umel he planned to go with them to

ebring, Fla., feel lucky to be aliYe

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G u ard i a n s h ip T r u 5 t A J \' i snry

Foster '40, Keene, N . H . , ha; been ing that it equals all of hi previous

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summer. . . . ConstanceTilley '40.

the openmg celebration of the ante Fe Opera . . . . W illiam R.

fortune to go to Eurore on the

Harry L. Hicks '42, Will iamsbur,g,

.Y.,

niwr,ary in August . . . . Bob Rice ' 4 2 , Bremerton, Wa,h .. ,till h "·orkirn:a a h,�- r on cruhe ,h1r, f m \'arinu' line . H e regretted the ,ad

c irc u m:>tance ofthedearh, ,)fEero Helin '42 and ht' \\'ife 111 Pem broke. �lass. The Hel i n, ll'ere

m urdered . . . Esther G o l d f i e l d Shafer '42, Delray Beach, F l a . , and her hushand like ro play hndge ancl

'40, We tlake Valley, Calif., who

he can take care of easily. . Catherine Fussell '4 1 . Elkins

lo t her husband in December and

Park, Pa. , wrote of how much she

t i l l d e c i d i n g w h a t to d o i next . . . . Roger M. Stebbins '40,

enjoyed her 5 0 th re un ion at Colby . . . . Benjamin Hains '4 1 ,

Sequim, Wash., ha been painting

Waterville, Maine, wrote when a

be ing ·nowbirds. They ,· isi ted

in oil and acrylic for the past few

"mega-bli::ard" was cm·ering his

Frances Brewer Barker '42, in

Che"y Chase, Md., and her hu'i

years and has even had an exhibi

Zephyrhi l ls, Fla., last winter. Marlee Bragdon ( Hi l l ) Monroe

was asked to model dresses for a

city , but he already had planned to spend March in Miami and April on Marco Island1 • • • Linwood

local store. In March they Aew off

Cecil Potter '4 1 , Sanbom,· ille,

to Hawaii to see old friends and to

N . H . , and Nobel ton, Fla., is pleased that he reached h is 8 2 nd birthday

her granddaughter entered Colby in September 1 99 2 , j ust 50 years after she d id. Marlee is pre idem of

band ha\'e d i cm·ered rhe fun of cruises. La ·t rnng they "·ere on Cunard's \. "i.sra F}ard, going tram Atlantic to Madeira, then aple ,

in April and doe n't mind travel ing between Maine and Florida

the Alden Garden Club and Food Pantry . . . . J. Franklin Pineo '42,

then by bus to Rome . . . . John E. "Jack" Stevens '42, an Diego, Calif., keer active in WW! l com bat \'eterans' acth·itie and reurnons

each year. He rides his bicycle at

Odessa,

throughout rhe U. . and England.

tion. Ruth Gould Stebbins '40

meet Ruth' brother and hi wife

for a vacation on Molokai . . . . Ruth Blake Thompson '40, Mont pelier, Vt., is a member of the

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that

celebrating their 5 0th wedding an

Lewi- Week '42, Poe-Jam,

and h10 \\'tfe, Bem', \\'ho will he

ward to Medi terranean tra\'el t h is ummer. . . . Wes '42 and Jean Cannell McRae '42 , Lunenber.g, Mass., and Auburndale, Fla. , enjoy

'42 , Alden, N .Y . , is pleased that

. Y . , replied just when he

cana ta. They celebrated rhe1r 50rh anni\'ersary � year ago in May and her 7 5 th birthday in Febru<lr)-. . . . Betty Anne Royal Spiegel '42,

Class of 1 943

Our 50th reunion on June 3-6 attracted the large t percentage of

clas -"the fin on the H ill"-will be the centerpiece of the refurbished athletic complex. Hilda Niehoff True was recognized

retuming c las mate of any of the reunion classes. Fifty-three mem ber of the Cla of'43 and 4 1 wive and husbands traveled from a

for her persisrence in making the White Mule a reality. Tribute al o

far away as Florida and Cal ifomia to pend the long weekend on the campus. We were housed in Dana Hall, adjacent to Mary Low Hall,

was paid to Kaye Corey for her remarkable uccess in fund rai ing for o many years, and Ros s L. Muir received thank for putting

where the women of '43 were the first to Live on Mayflower H ill. Some classmate had not een each other ince World War 1 1 .

together the cla book. Chairman Moriarty called on Huck Krafr, who demon trated a life misspent in retailing when he should have been a tand-up

Once the question ' Who are you?" was ettled, every day w a a day of vi iting and remembering, laughing over a table full of memora bilia brought from various attics and exploring the wonders of

comic. Ross Muir commented on the bookmaking experience, and Sid Rauch explained, among other cl1ings, "cl1e meaning of it all

campus. On Thur day we held an informal class reception and dinner ( no program, no peeches) in M illett Alumni House. Friday

family and friend and love . . . and memorie ."

-Eleanar Smart Bmunmuller

we boated up the Kennebec River from Bath to Richmond, tracing part of the route-with comfort and far more laughter-followed by Jeremiah Chaplin in the loop Hero on his way to Watervi l le in 1 8 1 . At the awards banquet on Friday night, Eleanor Smart Braunmuller was awarded a Colby Brick for her dedication to Colby and 20 years of ervice as class corre pondent and ecretary. At the end of the Parade of Classe at noon on Saturday, Kaye

Monaghan Co rey, class agent, and Jim Moriarty, pre idem, pre ented the College with a giftof$39 ,8 2 from the cla s-an amount ub tantially more than our 3 5 ,000 goal. A n astonishing 80 percent of the clas contribured, a higher percentage than any other clas in hi tory, and Kaye ea ily won the first annual Michael L. Franklin '63 Participation Award. The highlight of the reunion was the class reception and dinner in the Museum of Arr in the Bixler Art and Mu ic Center. President Cotter reported cl1at the tatue of the White Mule donated by the

Josephine Pitts McAlary '44 , Bill and Priscilla Moldenke Drake ' 43 .

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since 1 988 and enjoy it. Joe in formed me that Oren '42 and Burt

orre pondent:

Louis M. Deraney

As my wife and l were preparing to travel to Mob i l e , Ala. , to vi i t with o u r N avy ·on and o u r newest

1 944 Louis M . Deraney 57 Whi tford Street Rosl indale, MA 02 1 3 1

granJoon-born Feb. 1 1 -1 had a moot welcome telephone conver

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he mformed me that she began a a tudent at Colby in eptember

Dorothy McCunn ( Dorothy

anford)

1 940 and left before graduation. he remembered Joe Freme of an earl ier cla s ( '4 1 ) . She andJoe both

Honey H i l l Road Canaan, CT 060 1 8 2 0 3 -824- 7 2 3 6

taught school in th

pringfield,

Ma s., school in the 1 9 50s, '60s and 70's. We had a pleasant con

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versation. Jean brought me up tu date on her current ac tivit ies a a

362 7 Northlake Drive Doravi l le , GA 30340

social worker. he is now attempt ing to place homele people in

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helter and otheraccommodation in and around Boston. he re ides

Beverly Benner Ca sara RR 2, Box 1 1 6 Bethel, ME 042 1 7 207 -824-29 5 7

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David and Dorothy Marson 4 1 Woods End Road Dedham, M A 02026 6 1 7 - 3 29-3970

1 949 Anne Eustis ( Anne Hagar) 3 1 5 M irick Rd. P.O. Box 594 Ea t Princeton, M A 0 1 5 1 7 508-464- 5 5 13

in the west end of the c i ry. Jean ment ioned tanley Fro l i o ' 4 7 among others, including H a l Bubar ' 4 2 , Oren Shiro '4 2 , Profe sors Breckenridge and Weber, etc. Her everal offspring are scat tered around th is great U . . A.-Dregon, Washington, D.C., Northampton, Mass . . . . Harry Levin is till work ing at controlling the population of the world. H is travels rake him to places around the world from hi home ba e in Franconia, N.H. He and Ralph Braudy met in Beverly H i l l , Calif., last fall and both en joyed having lunch together and reminiscing about the good times at the Tau Delt hou e on College Avenue. J ust before the deadline for this column in March, Braudy wrote from Paris, France, to inform me that President Clinton is con sidering me to fil l Byron White's seat on the Supreme Court and asked if l wa interested . . . . One of the benefits of being the class correspondent is to hear from mem bers of other classes, like Bob Rice '42, Lou Volpe '43, et a l . . . . Joseph Marshal, M . D . , ha been retired

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S h i ro and A l ton G. " T e e " Laliberte ' 4 2 a r e planning t o b e a t our 5 0 t h . A r e you 1 . . . I w a s read

ing the April issue of Life maga:ine and wa surprised to learn Nancy Curtis i a rancher. Not our N .C., of course, but Nancy Curti never

thele . Our Nancy went further west of Wyoming and b now tutor ing otudenr. at the elementary chool in equ im, Wash. In retire ment, she house- it : dog·, plants, cat and house . . . . R i chard Goodridge reside· in M i l l inocket, Maine. He and hi wife, Jane, hold down the fort at o. Tw in Lake, have two offspring and ix grand children. Dick is now retired but chairs the board of Katahdin Fed eral Cred i t Un ion and i bu y enough w i thout wishing to do more. He heard from Phil Watson, now president of the Maine Alumni A ·soc i a t ion of the Good w i l l Hinckley School. . . . Malcolm D. McQuillan write from Levonia, M ich. , and informs us that he is in contact with Ro s Mu ir '43 and is now retired from teaching in the high chool. He ha been invited to return as a ubstitute teacher. Malcolm spends his winter work ing in his greenhou e and tates that "women' liberation" ha not affected his l ife whatsoever. . . .

Eugene C. Struckhoff retired from a very active law practice in Con cord, N . H . , and i now beginning another career in addition to con sult ing with foundations. The new position is half-time executive di rector of the York ( Pa . ) Founda tion. Gene is the most energetic and innovative memberofourclas . When I pleaded for new Gene responded from his Maryland base and informed me of a recent family g a t h e r i n g at O c e a n G a t e in Southport, Maine, ro celebrate the 20th anniver ary of his, Remo

Verrengia's, Franci "Bud" F l ino '48's and the former Waterville postmaster's respective marriages

ro the four charming Brewer si ters of Waterv i l le, Maine. The young est sister in the Brewer family at

tended Colby in the late fortie . All married within a year of each other and have maintained strong parmerships as friends and family. While the group wa in Southport they all drove down ro Bob Martin's oceanfront home and chatted with that old Colby friend. Gene fur ther rated, "The eight of u sur vived, we all are married and, un usua l l y for 1 99 3 , to the same spou es. I t mu t be the a i r in Waterville or Colby or maybe the good dispositions of the Brewer women." . . . Richard S. J o n es spend winter in J acksonvi l le, Fla., and summers in Maine. Dick keeps busy while in Maine doing volun teer work at the Goodwill Hinckley chool in Hinckley, Maine. He finds working at the school's mu seum very timulating. He is proud of the accompli hments of hi sev eral children, all college graduate , two of whom have earned Ph.D.'s. . . . Harri Graf retired from a very active dental practice and found retirement lonesome because he had no patients to talk to. How ever, he took up thestudy ofl talian and found new acquaintances to talk to. Dr. Graf has everal hob bie : k i i ng, dancing, paint ing, wood carving and traveling in hi R.V. Harris, with all these activi ties, how could you say you were lonesome? . . . Space l i mits my ac knowledging all the re ponses to the questionnaire. 1 w i l l try to in clude your re pon e in a future col umn. To those who remain incom municado, please do not wait to be prompted-write and keep us in formed. I truly enjoy hearing from + a l l of you.

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Correspondent: Dee Sanford McCunn

I recently received a new y l e r r e r from

Helen Strauss, who re

ports that she is doing a lot better now after suffering evere back di comfort due to two herniated di cs.

psych iatrist . . . . The Re\·erend

of'46 and friend . And did we ha\'e

Robert

fun! ix teen of u met on February 29 at Chuck '45 and Shirley Mar

Holcomb

Glouce ter, Maine, write that he greatly misse his wife of 5 3 years. he had al ways been a great

tin Dudley' condo in nearby afety Harbor. We gor together literally

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Colby-Madeline '43, Edith '4 5 and our own Lillian Hinckley

Worcester. I am ·o lucky Madeline li\·es here in Bethel. he i a won derful friend. The bonu i· that I

helpmate and gave him support

by way of who had a telephone

al o get to vis i t with her

through college and eminary.

number, o let u knowyour Florida

when they come to town. You must

number for next year. We drank

remember the beautifully infectious

did a good job caring for and raising

i ter

their four children. Robert enjoys

and talked and ate and talked and

mile of Lillian, who now li\·es in

cooking and playing the organ and even tries his hand at writing. Our

then drove to the Brown Derby re·raurant in Clearwater for a fine

Ell worth with her husband, ha· three children and three grand

Helen occ upies her t ime with

sympathie are with you over the los of your wife . . . . Doug Smith

sit-down lunch. There were 1 1 Colbyitesandfive spou e andpart

children, taught chool for 1 year , and now gives time to her church,

French lessons and lectures at the

write from Phoenix, Ariz., where

ners. Mo t people came from the

ant iquin

Metropo l i tan M u eum of Art,

he live half the year, spending hi

Florida west coast, but Marge

collect ion . . . . We had a l i ttle

which is clo e to where she lives.

time with golf, gardening, birding,

Dodge Radomski left M iami at 5

Helen has spent vacation time in

bridge, Elderhostel and travel. Doug and Mary have four children and

a. m. and treaked a e ro s the Tamiami Trail to join u . Nancy

five grandchildren. He spends sum mers near the a l t w a t e r i n

Loveland Dennen and her hu -

Colby reunion at Jane Wallace Lamb' house in Brun wick with Shirley Lloyd Thome and Miriam Marsh Barteaux. hirley has re

band, Vinnie, had driven earlier

cently returned from Costa Rica,

Ellsworth, Maine. I t ounds like he has the b e s t of two world . . . . Cla mates, please keep your

from their now-permanent home o n A me l i a I s l a nd and pent

where she presented a paper on the s t a t u s of Ca m bod ian refugee

the night with Marge Maynard Englert '4 7 in Largo, Fla. Carl

women in the United tate at an international women' conference.

After a lot of rest and dreary bore dom, he i up and around again.

England and al o in a tiny village in the Pyrenee ection of France. he was pleased to discover that she was able to communicate in French. Helen note that he received a vi it from former cla mate Phil S h u l m a n ' 4 8 . Helen also keep in touch with Hannah Karp Laipson '46 and Carol Robin Epstein '46 . . . . Bar bara Newcombe Cook writes from

letters coming in. I will be in the Yukon when the next report is due,

Wright '47 drove up from his win

Miriam had a great vi it to Madrid

but I will try to get a report out + before I leave.

ter home deep in the glade outside Fort My e r s . H e is b a c k i n kowhegan for the summer. Dixie Roundy Bebee and B.A. Riker Howell spend the winter in the

and Pari as an e cart for art tu dents from the Bucksport junior and senior high school . I wa anx ious to hear all about Madrid be

Correspondent:

Clearwater-Sarasota area. Nancy Jacobsen and Pat Wotherspoon

Colorado Springs, Colo., that he has succe sfully raised five chil dren, and she is now the grand mother of even. Barbara keeps herself busy with all sorts of handi crafts and reading, as she has be come partially paralyzed due to back urgery 28 years ago. Her husband is a retired Army colonel and

and her cook book

Nancy Jacobsen Clearwater, Fla., was the place and February

the time of the First Great Florida Reunion of the Clas

NEWSMAKERS

lmhoffhadn'tseeneachother ince 1 943 and found they are within visiting distance in greater Atlanta. We all look good. Not one of u i working fu ll time, and all of u are putting lots of miles on our cars and onourfrequent-flyeraccount . J u t thin.k, if we are going at thi c lip, our jogging, vegetarian children

Richard Sawyer '43 is traveling the eminar/univer ity circuit as a repre entative of the International Fund for Agricultural Re earch in hope of timulating United State interest in agricul

are going to do very well in the health game. We hated to part. Let's plan for next year. Can we lure ome of you other Floridans? Contact Shirley and Chuck Dudley

ture. He has spent the last 20 year as the director general of the International Potato Center, the potato growth research and development station in Peru . . . . In May, Betty Lohnes Grudin '45 ran for a seat on the State College Borough Council in

vember, at 639-C Fairmont Dr., afety Harbor, FL 3469 5 . +

thi summerat l003 Windsor Ave., Windsor, CT 06095 ; or, after o

cause I was slated to be there in May for a meeting of the executive committee of the International Counc i l for Adu lt Edu cation . . . Didyouknowthat J eanMu rray Fallon was the first woman TV reporter in Maine, fir t as a "voice over" and then appearing on creen for WCSH-TV? She trained to be a nur e but along the way took a yearofinternship in radio and liked it o much he pent the rest of her career years in radio and TV. She and Mary Alice "Tossie" Campbell Kozen both graduated from Cony High chool in Au gusta in 1 943, and they ee each other once a month when a group of women from that cla get to gether. he al o noted that her daughter and Dorie Hawkes

M ey er 's daughter both graduated

Pennsylvania. A Democrat and a retired teacher, he aims to li ten to the concerns of tudents from nearby Penn State and hopes they will become more involved in local government.

in the same cla

. . . Robert Sage '49 was Colby' delegate to the pre idential

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inauguration of Dr. John DiBiaggio at Tuft University.

Beverly Benner Cassara

MILEPOSTS Deaths: Priscilla Tibbetts Durgin '46 in Durham, . H . , at 67 . . . . Murray J. Gore '47 in Augusta, Maine, at 63 . . . . Alice

live in Gray, Maine, in a hi toric ure to get the material

hou e built in 1 764 by John Proc tor. he enjoy her three grand

for this column. I have vi ited by telephone with fourcla mate and in person with fouror o.

retired from her po ition at the

I t has been a great plea

The "four or so" means that two

A. Downey '48 in Montpelier, Vt., at 65 . . . . Frederick W. "Cy'' Perk.ins '48 in Augu ta, Maine, at 72.

other per on I visited with were alums bur not ofour clas . So let me begin there. I had not known that therewere three Hinckley i ter at

from Bowdoin.

. . . Cecelia Nordstrom Harmon has retired from the insurance busi nes she owned in Portland and

children and is a library volunteer. . . . Margaret Harper Howard ha Maine Medical Center in Port land, where he was a clinical nurse speciali t in child p ychiarry for 20 years. She has one

on and two

daughter , both of whom al o are

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nur,e-,. One Ll.illghrcr ,enTd 111 rhc at11 mal Gu,1rd 1 11 LJe,en A rm y Sc, 1rm :md f11und that her p<it icnr' 11·ere l r;1q1 pn,,1ncr' nt ll'ar. W 1 rh t1ur cl cummlln hmgua.ge, ,he. ne1· l'rthc le", tl lund ,he 11·;i, ;1hle ll l ct1mmun 1cne l'lll>ugh ((\ care f�ir + the,c men .

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Sad ne-,� 011cm t h 1 > fir t

ro ... r-45rh-re u n i t ll1 (lll umn. Th1 l'>e ll'ho ar rendcd 11' 1 1 1 k rn >11· u( t h e de;1 rh' of

Margu e r i t e " M i d g e " O v e rn Kirkwood <llld Frederick "Cy" Perkins . . . . H ; 1 11p1er ne11·, from

Mr. Fiftieth

Ro L. Muir '43 confe-·e: that he was probably ideal for the job of compiling a book for hi c la s's 50th reunion. "l didn't know very many people, and nobody knew me,'' he aid, ·um ming uphi poradic attendance at Colby between 1 939 and 1 94 , " o if l tepped on ome body's toe , they wouldn't know who to get mad at." Until now. When the reunion commit tee asked him to take on the project, Muir agreed, "in spite of the fact that I gave up \'Olun teering about 1 942." Recently retired to Maine with h i - wife, Carolyn, he thought working on the book might prove inter esting, especially ince "there wa a long winter ahead and there wasn't much el e to do." Muir found his effort rewarding. Hi work re ulted in a thick tome bur ting with c las member update·, memories, photo graph , old new report and tati tics from the fir t clas to graduate on Mayflower Hill after attending clas es on the old campu (although ome members graduated in Deceml:er 1 942 in an accelerated program offered by the College ) . Muir says not knowing many o f hi c la ·mates actually enhanced hi detecti e work. While he couldn't e en picture many people, he said, " ome of them came back with urpris ingly good stuff" Hi own tory i g od stuff as well. World War II interrupted hi Colby career-Muir erved with the 1 2th Manitoba Dra goons of the Royal Canadian Am1oured Corp in England and we tern Europe. Muir say hi top-and-go time at Colby was hardly unu ual during tho e year , when many women chose (or were expected) not to finish their degree and men left college in large numbers for mil itary ervice or kipped ahead to graduate school. Following hi return to Colby, he reported for Waterville's Morning Sentinel and taught high school English. Later he moved with hi family to New York, where he earned a master's degree in Engli h at Columbia and went on to work as an editor

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one 11•hL1 Cl iukl n, it ,mend reuninn c 1 1me' t rom Aaron Sandler 1 11 McA l len, TL·x;i,, 'rn 111 ro I e l 1 1·mg 1 11 l\ lcaJm1·, area of SanN 1t<1, Fla. Any c l a"matt:' are in\'1 tt:d to e 1 r hcr h1 H11e 1 f ,m 1u nd ht:fore or afrer DeLemher '93 ( pl < m n ed mul'lng d.uc ) . Cal l fiN. N l lll' he\ , r i l l truck ing h11rder to horder. Hi> fil'c lll<lf ried 'on' pruduced hi, four grand c h i ldren-"' tar-<1 1 1 of wh,,m he

,·1-, 1 t' regul;:irly from Cmcinnari to

Rm t o n to Phoenix anJ nearhy Hou-,mn. Aaron and wife anJra me wel l and look forward to reme m e n r a n d to a t t e n d i n g o u r 50th . . . . Kay Brine wrote from Euc lid, Ohio, that he fol lowed a 20-year c a re e r 111 m ed ica l re e arc h \\'i t h a 1 9 7 3 nur�ing degree bur ret ired la�r year from U n i ver ity Ho. r 1 tab of Cl e v e l and after un-

at Forbes magazine. A career a a bu. ine s and corporate commu nications executive followed. He retired in 1 989 from an inve t ment bank. Prying biographical detail from his clas mates wasn't easy, Muir ay . Through que tion naire , letter· and phone call , he managed to catch up with mo t of the living member (of an initial 205, 52 had died). He wa able to put the book to gether in about 10 weeks (not a tight deadline, he ay , if you've ever worked for a ew Yark maga::ine). Muir ay he uncovered both arrow and joys from cla mates' liv . Some had lo t pou es and children r had become eri ously ill, and other continued to thrive in their familie· and activitie . ome in the c la were reluctant to delve into their l ife hi torie , and Muir ay that' human nature. "At the end of anybody's life, a you tand on the mountain and look back, there' a Ji content," he aid. "You ay to yourself, 'Gee, I could have Jone better."' And for ome people, Muir think , it' hard to look back on life with any detachment and realize that everybody' l ife i intere ting, whether you've won prize or not. To illu trate the book, Muir dug into Colby' arch.iv tofind photograph (a daunting ta k, a mo t of the pre-war archival photo are unlabled and unorganized) . He asked clas member to contribute picture as well. " I promi ed that when all of thi was over I would collect them all together and ell them to Madame Tu aud' Chamber of Horror ," he aid, ' and thi timulated a few picture , becau e everybody felt they were in pretty go d company!" In Ro Muir' view, a reunion, even the 50th, should be no cau e for trepidation. "Nobody care what you look l ike, nobody care what you did for a living or how rich or poor you are everybody art of get off in a comer and laughs," he aid. "A good reunion i simply a laughing fit over a period of four day ."

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dergoing rwo back surgerie .

in fine health, with a volunteer career a guide at an arborerum, she also enjoy hiking, cro -coun

own a mmor home and tra\·el in it

M. Cotton ays he is hopmg "ro

able for a sudden unplanned ad

attend h1 fir, t c la

\·enture ' " he 1· planning at least a

Carolina, where they have a home, and then on to Florida for the win

year, Charlie-June 1 994 ! Put

ter months. Dick i now 70 percent

o n yourcalendarnow. In the mean

fourth for bridge ·ome afremoon, plan and leave. you with an extra

from

ew Hamp hire ro

outh

reumon when

the next one occurs." Thar's nexr

rry kiing and bicycling and fondly remember hor eback riding at

disabled with multiple clero i and

time, he keep. bu y l\'ith ome truck

Colby, which she may yet

in a wheelchair full rime. He ha an

gardening in addition to maintain

try

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year of e\·ery-day - 1s- arurJay and say , "If you unexpectedly need a call me. l f someone cancels travel

again . . . . Susan Lynch Henry

excellent atti tude and doe every

ing an apple orchard. Th i · and

retired from Denver public school

ticket, please call me ! "

thing he can, includin operatmg

extensive biking and participation

in 19 6 and de cribe her greatest

both the motor coach and their car

in tennis league keep him and h1�

Lin hasn't changed. :he abo re port" that Carlton "Red" '50 and

joy as rra el. In excellent health, he work with Recording for the

with hand control . Thi ha also resulted in Marty <loin "mechani cal thing around the motor coach

wife, Joyce, in hape . . . . An up

Anne Whitehouse Miller are '\tt 1 1

date, too, from Tom and Linda Shaw Maguire. Lin i planmng on

marooned i n Tenants Harhor and

that l 've never had to do-while

retiring (maybe) thi fall and ha

fo l l owing D i c k '

on! y one goal-not ro be bu y ! he doe n'r want to be one of tho e

Blind in Colorado. Wandering over the la t five years has taken her to Japan, China, Ru ia, Thailand, Hong Kong,

p a i n , Portugal,

France and Egypt. She also finds

i n rruc t i o n .

Never thought our 'golden year ' would turnout like this!" . . . Charles

ounds I ike

obviou ly still lm·e 1t." . . . Well,

that' it for thb is ue. Hope m hear from some more of you before my + next deadline.

retired people who "are ne\·er arnil-

time for golf and designs jewelry to ell atcraft hows . . . . DougBorton

also retired in ' 6 after 30 year with Buck Consultant and rravel extensively, but in the U . . "for

Class of 1 948

fun and in connection with actu

arial committee work for the gov ernment and profe sion." He has been married to Dori since 1 960 and his one son, Dougla , ha just

had his sixth book publi hed: Shiver by Brian Harper ( his pen name ) . . . . Fred Sutherland h a also been traveling all over the U . S . Retired from high chool guidance coun eling and in good he�lth, he rill plays tenni ingle . ow he i in volved in a Mobile M is ionary A si ranee Program. W ith free hook-up for their trailer, he and wife Charlotte (Cowan '50) do "volun teer work in Chri t i a n school , churche , Boy ' Ranche , etc." They love it . . . . Helen Knox Elliott reports that he and her hu band till enjoy retirement liv ing in Plymouth, Ma s., near hi toric Pilgrim territory and Cape Cod cranberry bog . During her call for the 1993 Alumni Fund he enjoyed talks with classmates Louis

Sutherland and Tim Osborne. Loui , retired from teaching, en joy living in attractive Doanes Point, . orrento, Maine. Tim own ugarland Expre in his hometown of

ugarland, Texas.

president for the last five year-. and banjo playincr-were delightfully

di played at our fabulou 45 rh. All attendee expre pity for tho e who could not or would not attend! If you weren't there, you mi ed a great Colby experience. ow all of us ought to pay attention to regular check-up and take the proper megado e of vitamin A and C and carro t betarene (or whatever) to enure that we get to our SOth. Over 60 '4 er were there for the45th, about twothird of them c lassmates. Spouses joined right in and became pan of the wonderful re u n ion. Of the group we u ed to call clique in our college years, old friends got together as if 45 years hadn'r pa ed ince we last met. Other classmates, who hardly knew each other then, may have met at earlier reunions or ju t found so much in common that polite greeting became eager exchange of experience and idea . The Saturday night class dinner wa a highlight, as Prez Marv told us what he'd planned, then proceeded to the enjoyment of all. President Cotter' brief addr preceded by Profe or andy Mai el' more extended remarks provided mo t of the more erious moments i n a finely arranged fun evening.

Marv' Colby '48 word to great popular tune and music ( my differentiation) were appreciated (and sort of ung) by all to his banjo accompaniment. We'll have to repeat ar the 50th. Even Gil Taverner' invocation and benediction remarks contained humor as well as thoughts on our relation hip to a Universal Being. (Too many ofour cla mates have pa ed away; we note the recent death of Marguerite ''Midge" Ovem Kirkwood and Frederick "Cy" Perkins. ) weather) that made the reunion so great. Put the 5 th on your calender and tan or keep up with alumni

Anne Hagar Eu tis

giving!

ot too much news to report, o I'm afraid this

will be a hort column! . . . Martha Bennett Headley bring u up to date on her new . he and her hu band, Dick,

wan ong column ing the prai e of Marvin Joslow, our cl

Appreciation m u r g o t o the College and t o the Alumni Office fo r a l l the detail (including the

Correspondent:

H is talents-of organization, lyrical abiliry, leadership prowe

I t has been my pleasure hearing from o many of you these past five years. Please welcome Dave Marson (and his enthu iastic wife, Dorothy, who earned her own Colby Brick) as your cl corr pon dent . Write to Dave and Dorothy Marson, 41 Woods End Rd., Dedham, M A 02026, o the can write for you .

-Kay Weisman Jaffe

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use old through drug tore , dis counter and mail order. . . . Jim Dough t y , from S c a r boro ugh ,

Brian F. Olsen 46 Wa hington Drive

Maine, writes about having seven grandchildren, two of whom are in

Acton, MA 0 1 7 2 0 508-26 3-9 2 3 8

1 950 N ancy Sears

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college1 Makes those of u who are grandrarent of toddlers feel like underachiever , doesn't i t ? J i m sees

Margaret

weetwater Avenue

m i t h Henry

A l l ie and Paul Christopher 'S 1 in

1 304 Lake Shore Drive

Bedford, MA 0 1 7 30

Massapequa Park, NY 1 1 762

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Barbara Jefferson Walker

Ann Lieber

6505 Barcroft Lane

( Ann Marie

the summeronCI iffl land and plays g o l f w i t h Ru Washburn. peak ing of grandc h i ldren , Paul Titus tells about the prospect f a grear-grandch ild, which in deed ound great! He and Patricia have a marketing and advertising bu iness in olana Beach, Cal if. . . . Quoting from a wonderfu l ,

egrave)

Richmond, VA 2 3 2 2 6

7 K ing land Court

804-288-5650

South Orange, NJ 07079

news-filled letter from A l Riefe, Boca Raton, Fla., "Occupation,

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Corre pondent:

94 Woodridge Road

Nancy Ricker Sears

Wayland, M A 0 1 7 78 508 - 3 5 8- 5 5 74

1 95 3 Barbara E a terbrooks Ma i ley 80 Lincoln Avenue outh Hamilton, M A 0 1 982 508-468- 5 1 1 0

1 954 Marlene Jabar ( Marlene E. Hurd ) 1 1 Pleasantdale Avenue

Ruth Pierce Abraham sen write to ay that her new addres i s

Ashland, V a . , a s o f M a y . S h e and Fred are retired and have enjoyed watching their new home being built. Over the year Rufus ha been active in ho pita! volunteer work, having been the founding president of the Hospital Auxil iary in Fayetteville, Tenn. She became the very first life member of this rganization and mi ses her hospi

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tal family there. An event she re calls as especially significant was upporting Barry Goldwater in a

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cold winter in New Hampshire, when he rang doorbells, marched in a parade, fed the senator and his

Ann Ingraham ( Ann S. D i l lingham) 9 Appletree Lane

wife and met his plane at various l ittle airports. he ays, 'The thril l o f my pol itical life was casting m y

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vote fo r a m a n ahead o f h i s time." And in her heart she still knows he

was right . . . . Jerry Baker writes of having dinner with Jerry Frank in Chicago; they hadn't seen each other for over 1 0 years. Jerry Baker is launching a line of Japanese

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writer: TV the first 1 5 year after graduating; even years of (ech) advertising and the last 20 year a novelist. Barbara and I have four children, three grandchildren and one cat-Papatwo. Our o lde t daughter (Martha Daggett' daugh ter) live in Wakefield, Ma ., and teaches high ch ol. She has her master's. Our daughter Leslie lives in Larchmont, has her ma ter' , is rai ing Emily, 4, and i one day planning to return to work. Our daughter Sidney is married to an Au tralian carpenter-mason, has a baby and l ive in Greenwich. Jor dan, our youngest, i currently in Seoul, Korea, working on a docu mentary film and i a film writer at present (along with the documen tary) working on his second feature creenplay. I haven't touched my trumpet in 35 years. Isn't that good news?" In the past 20 years, AI has had 88 novels published, u ing no fewer than nine pseudonym . H i books have been l isted o n 2 7 bestse ller l i ts, including that of The New York Times. He has been active in liberal Democratic poli tics and served seven years on the governing board of the Greenwich N A A C P . . . . Priscilla Tracey

Tanguay writes: "! have asked Nancy to let me have input in her

column, a I know mode ty would deter her from mentioning the the atrical success of her older son, Benjamin. Along with Ben Sr. and Nancy, Pete and I attended 'Berlin to Berlin: Ben and Brad in Caba ret,' which played for a month in a mall, Boston-area theater. Thefirst Berlin refer to a monologue with music featuring Benjamin as Kai ser W i lhelm II, the German em peror during WWI. The econd Berlin refer to Irving, whose song are featured in a revue following the play. Quoting from a review in the Quincy Patriot Ledger: 'It tell a story. It sings a ong. It entertains and infom1 . It grab your atten tion and plays with it killfu l ly for two hours."' What can I say ? In deed, Ben and I are proud of our singer-actor on as well as of hi two sisters (humble teacher like their mother) and his younger ac + tor-singer brother.

Correspondent:

Barbara Walker Smee thi i a transition time in l ife for many of us, it is e pecially inter esting to hear how c lassmates are adapting to and adopting new lifetyles and interests. After learning the whereabouts of George fl.llsel tonfrom reading thi column,c lass mate Alan Halsey, now living in Texas, stopped by to visit George at Clemson, S.C. George will be working on an environmental project in Idaho this ummer for the U.S. Geological Survey . . . .

Maury Ronayne ha again had an article publ i hed in The Washing ton Times. His first one was on General Ben Butler, Colby Class of 1 838. H is latest i on Confederate General Patrick Cleburne. I en joyed reading the copies of both that he ent me along with his news. Another Civil War buff is Dick Armknecht 'SO, who wrote

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me to cxpre s h is intcre-t in the Civil War Elderhostel I menrioneJ in a recent column of t h b c l ass. ec ? People really do read and com m u n icare t h rough your . hared news. . . . Ed Laverty tried to catch up with Steve Hughes in Florida but without success. Perhaps te,·e w i l l con t ac t Ed after reaLi i n g t h i . . . . Norval Garnett is now

retired. What keeps him nut of a

a m;1rkcrmg rep r1nd 1( gi,·en the

rocking chair i' keepi ng up \\'ith hi

w i fe ,

orma

nrr<•rrunny \\'l lulJ brag dhout h i s

( Be r gq u i > t

w i fe , c h i l J ren a n J gr,mJc h i l

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Jren . . . .

tan orrentino 1 s cha i r man < 'f the brnrJ and CEO of UNCA, Mfg. Cn. in Prm·idence, R . I . H e i s acrn·e m Rotary ;md M<isnns anJ o;rill doe. magic. \Xlhm keer Srnn nut nfthcrockmgchair� He jng-, e,· e ry morn ing a n d \\'<ls

t i red and l i ves full r i me on Cape Cod, where he dues chores at The Old Wharf I n n , which he own' <ind ,1perates. H e tra\'eb exten s i ,·e l y in

the off season . . .

Ormonde Brown [,1\'es his \\'ork <is

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prcparmg f()r a fl\·e-mile road race w celehr;:ite hi- 6 5 r h hrrhda\' in J u ly. H e " s t a r t i n g tn reswre hmh ;m I 70 carr ia ge ht•use and a I 740 frnme CPunrr\' hnu-.e. St ,111 trnn�l,

f or h i s company\ m l crnar ion.11

.1ccuunr ;md It' recent!\' acquired

D1''11C\' WnrlJ \'(11de .1cc11unt. .

Henry Fales refers tn h1mselt ;1' "a

hig \'(1lunteer ryre ... ,· mglc, he 1 1\·e,

Harvesting Higher Education R comepre ident, wasat Colbywhen

is ues that we'd better be right on top of

Robert J. Bruce ' 59 was a tudent at the

Bruce' commitment to education i

College. Strider proved omething of a

no new tory. A hi tory major at Colby,

obert E.L.

trider I I , soon to be

in helping to ·tructure," he said.

mentor to Bruce, now president of Wid

hi firsr job was teachingand coachingat

ener University. "I remember him ay

Kents Hill

ing that the life cycle of a college always

that he could per uade hi

meant that each year was like planting,

wife, Judy Garland '5 , to leave her job

chool-on the condition oon-to-be

and then you watched it grow, then you

at Pan Am to teach Enali ·h at the chool

harve ted it, and then you tarted all

a part of a married-couple contract. he

over again," Bruce said.

con ented, and their career in educa

ln Febrnary Bruce was elected chair of

tional in titutions began. Bruce later

theboard oftheNational A sociation of

earned an M.A.in educational p ychol

ogy and in 1964 won a Fulbright grant to

Independent Colleges and Universitie (NAI CU ) , following the chair hip of

teach in Briti h chool a part of the

Colby President William R. Cotter. A

Stare Department' · Education and Cul

leaderof an organization concerned with

tural Exchange Program.

the future of independent higher educa

On hi return, Bruce found himself

tion, Bruce keep that image of the unending cycle fre h in hi

back at Colby as a development officer until 1969.ln 1975, after

mind.

stint in administrative po ition at Bard College and Clark

Bruce has been a member of the NAl CU board since 1990

Universiry, he became vice president for development at Wid

and had erved a vice chair under Cotter ince 1992. Fow1ded

ener, where he was named pre ident in 19 l . In 19 5 he

in 1976, NAI CU repre ents a diver e group of private college

received Colby' Distinguished Alumnu Award.In the mean

and univer itie on public policy is ue involving the federal

time, he and Judy reared two children, and they now are the

government. Board member often are a ked to testify before

grandparent of ix.

legislative subcommittee .Last year Bruce attended a White

Durina Bruce' time at Widener, the 1 7 2-year-old univer iry

Hou e meeting to discuss long-range i sue in the future of

evolved from an all-male military college to a 9,000- tudent

higher education.

coed civilian univer ity comprising liberal art college and

He ee funding a the a sociation' toughe t challenge, in

profe ional chools on three campu e , two in Penn ylvania

light of dwindling federal aid during the last decade that has

and one in Delaware. Bruce ay he' enjoyed the ride."It' been

forced independent colleges and univer itie to increase tu

fun to grow this place, o to peak, and wrn it into a major

dent aid nationwide from

comprehen ive university."

1 billion to $3 billion. "As a nation

we mu t again value the commitment to finance higher

ay he'

especially enjoyed the political and public

education, not a just another pecial intere t group, but a a

policy a pects of hi work; involvement in national commi -

nece ary force in providing the intellectual firepower to keep

sions (including a recent appointment to the NCAA Presi

America competitive in what i now a global economy," he

dents Commission) help him ee another dimen ion to what

urged in a recent pre s release.If private ector chool were to

he doe on campus.

go out of bu ine , Bruce peculated, "the co t to the federal and state governments would be just extraordinary." Bruce

ay NAICU is crutinizing the Clinton admin

"I think it's an important part of the leader hip of college pre idents to be willing to tick our neck out on public i ue ," he said. "I think you can't exhort the tudent to go forth and

i tration' de elopment of higher education funding program

do great thing

uch as national ervice or direct income plan . "The e are

yourself."

unle

you're willing to take some

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in the h om e l ,f a h a n J i rn r pc J rer son whom he heir . He i' a ham radio m:.trucror for 4 5 I 0-ycar-old student . He abo loan::. out com r ut er::. to ,tu J e nts and help::. them with e v e ry t h in g but the game , anJ he is a t e l erho n c organi:er for t h e Share New England Frn)J r rogram . . Priscilla Davis Runkle has re tired back tl\ G louce::.ter, Ma::. . She e n joy' mn't · e rv i ng on the boa rd and he i n g arc h i v ist f or the mu seu m committee of t he � argem M u rray-G i l m a n - H ough H ous e Assoc iation. Prisc i l la s u p pl i es re searchers w it h ma ter ia l s f o r t he ir ad,· anccd -deg ree studies on re lated subjects. . . Bob Staples reti red from h is in·urance busine::.::. anJ now is "having a ball " traveling exten iv e l y i n the U . . anJ Eu rore . . . . Bob Lee brag of a grand son who looks j ust l ike h i m ! . . . Bump Bean, now re t i red , wa the keynote ·pea k e r at a n imemational telecommunication· conference in Vancouver, B . C . , and D a l l a , Texas. He has ung with the ame barbe rshop quartet for 20 years and a ppe a red with them in an intema t ional s e n i o r compe t i tion. Danny H al l s t i l l teache at Lynnhaven H igh School in Mas sachusetts. Hi newest extrac u r-

r i c u lar ac t i v i t y i work ing w i t h Hahitat for H u manity, regularly on wee ke nJ· anJ with a trave l ing c rew for I 0 day::. at a t i me . . . . Joan Cammann Mcintyre conti n ue· to he i m·nlved with t each in g wim m ing a nJ w im mee t offi c i at i ng . Her newc t involvement i · with the Folk ong oc iety of Greater Bo::.ton. She stay::. rhys ic al ly ac tive and me nt ally flexible and, wh i le e l i m i n a t i n g u n n e c e . a r y or unfu l fi l l in g ac t i v i ti es , reali:e that a rocking chair i. good somet im e .

dr en , hec a u sc J i m works in West

Africa for Ca t ho l i c Relief Service . He i in charge o f refugees. He was planning a t ri p ro New Jer ey last pring, and a b i g celebration wao pl<Jnned. Their d augh te r , Sue, l i ve in anta Fe, N . M . , w i th her hus hand and c h i ld . c m Paul j ust com p l e ted ;chool a n d is wo rki ng as a ounJ en g in eer for Zeo Brother� i n Ph i ladelphia. M arge end· by ·ay ing that she and Fred are the pr 1ud ow n e r of a ye ar - old Lab n a m ed J e �tc r , anJ he i� a je ter! . . . Herb Adams h a s l eft t he rr i nc i palsh ip of Oxford H i l l J u 111or H igh in Maine and i · now the min ister of three c h u rch es. He writ es th a t daught e r in- l<J11• Laura r re · e nred h i m an d wife Mary with a 1 2 lb., 2 oz. g ra nd ::.on un November 3. That make e\'en granJch i ldren for them. Herb ne , · e r anric i pat ed becoming a Uni tarian or earning a docrorate from H a r v ard . We can relate ro Herb when he -ay , "We've been 'defi n i tely going next March' to New Zealand for t h e last five years." He rb, how would yo u l i ke to mi t wo- andthree- foot putts ? . . . Betty Lattar Longbottom wrote ome \'ery i n te rest i ng information. Betty is assoc iate director of develop ment for the ah·ation Army, but

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Marlene Hurd Jabar

Art Eddy wnte

that

after 34 years of te ac h

i n g . t h e l as t 29 a t Hotchkis chool in onnect icut, he 1 re t i r i n g . H is 1 - y e ar- o l d gra nd d a u g h t e r w i ll ke e p h i m occu pi ed . . Fred a n d Marge Hill Ashman also are teac hers , although Fred retired and now work in a n e u ro - l i n gu i s r i c progra m w i t h J immy Caner' orga ni:arion. They don't ·ee much of their on J i m, who is maITied and has two c h i !-

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For those who did not attend

"Mike" Pike Collegeman, who came from the farthest point thestate ofWashington-invited

our 40th class reunion, I want to say it wa memorable. Even the weather was uperb. About 3 5 percent o f o u r c la

he also is a professional actre he has played the Rev. Mother in Nun.sense i n Maine, New Hamp shire and Florida. Betty's oldest, Robert J r . , had a hit off Broadway called Pageam. It is to be produced by Andrew Lloyd Webber in Lon don thi year. I gue the apple didn't fall far from the uee! Betry traveled last May to Rome, Venice, Florence, SoITento and Capri. She w i l l be going hack to England for the fifth time in 1 994. ( ee you there-it will be our third time. Love it.) . . . John Krusell has re tired and is relieved (join the club ) . John ran h i s own insurance com pany in North Brookfield, Mass. John wi hes he were touring (any where) with antique car ! . . . Rob ert "Whitey" Thur ton i a chool admini trator, but he and wife Betry, who i an R.N . , left the State in February 1990 for 2 7 months' ervice w i t h the Peace Corp in Paraguay. They completed their a ignment in May 1 99 2 . Whiteywrite thatthe PeaceCorp experience wa extremely reward ing and perhaps the mo t difficult yet unforgettable event in their lives. Whitey hoped to retire in June. Whitey and Betty have four d a ughters and s i x grandc h i l -

J oyce and Penny Pendleton Schultz to her camp in Calai

returned to

after the fe tivitie . Chuck and Joyce Whitham

attend everal events, one of the fir t being a golf tournament that was won by Chuck and Sandy

Spencer were in attendance, too. In April Chuck received a Texaco Award, the American Petroleum ervice Award, and in May Interi

Pearson Anderson. On Friday evening Ph il Hussey received a Colby Brick for hi many contri

loaded on two bu es for a tour of

or ecretary Babbitt presented him with a Meritoriou Service Award. On unday, Pat and Al Hib

the old Waterville haunts. De

bert were off to Ottawa, Canada,

pite finding most of them "empty

via Vermont and northern New York state. And before leaving on

butions to the College, and on Saturday

ome cla s member

spaces," we ended up at the Rummel's site for ice cream. A t our 1 9 53 banquet dinner that night, afternominations of new clas officer (Chase and Nan Murray Las bury are our new class co presidents ) , one more Brick was given to Joyce Maguire Demers for being the only Colby woman ever put on ocial probation. Mary

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ick

arris '54 and

George Pirie dedicated a plaque to the late Clifford "Whitey'' Johnson, which was placed on the coreboard at Seaverns Field. Sadly, we have lo t rwo more classmates, Barbette Blackington and Peter Lo wr ey. -Barbara Easterbrooks Mailey

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_ he isa membernfthe board llf J1r

prmgs, Colo., tn pur,ue nutdnor

gram and " a mental healrh cnun

l ife . . . . After rettnng a' a unl\·er,iry

'elor. TI1e Baker,' younge'>t daugh

Elizabeth Young Baker I ' a Ph . D.

nf California- an D1e1::1 1, and the

foreman of a con�tructton com

(wife of Frank ' 5 3 ) is \\"Orking on our next reunion, our 40rh ! Be-

pany in

eneca Fall-, on Gu 1 a econd mate and career officer in

anJ h)ught conJu 111 _ te;imboat

ides chi , J udy ha been working

the Merchant Marines who ·pends

w i th homele

Boston women.

mo t of h1s time in the Medt terra

ome of her ocher accomplish

nean and daughter Heidi i:; a legal assistant in a Virginia la\\" firm . .

national corporate office; publish

Jack and Ann Burnham Deering

ing; running an organi:ation and getting paid for it and pursuing two

held a burn-the-mortgage party last

advanced degree -in fact, Judy ha Dr. in front of her name . . . .

real e ·tate hu iness but is keeping

Once again l clo e with ad new .

her broker'

Our condolences go to the family

The Deering are grandparenr to

of Geneva Smith Douglas, who passed away January 30. +

the four daughter· of Colby grad

nanny . . . . Mary "Peg"

in Porcsmouth,

.H., con,

celebration . . . . Ann

who lives in California, planned a June marriage . . . . Victor Ladetto is an elementary chool principal in Dartmouth, Mass., where his wife, Ann Marie, i a high chool chemi try teacher. on John is a econd-year student at Cornell Med ical c hool , and daughter Katherine i a first-year student at Bo ton College planning a medi cal career. Vic ay he i "nying to

ino Company in East Berwick, Maine, Hu,<ey has contributed to Maine communitie by increasing employment in hi company. He wa commencement peaker at Thomas College in Water\' i l le,

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which peciali:e in bu·ine · .

Seguin

Horne, a doctor's receptionist part time, has become a literacy ,-olun teerand read forthe blind (she ha recorded fh·e books at this point ) .

. H . , at 6 2 . . . . Pe ter S. Lowrey ' 5 3 in Andover, Mas ., at 6 1 . . . . Jane Dunston

Tallmadge '5 5 at 60.

h e and Charles, a quality control manager in Torrington, Conn., were in Europe last yearand expect to g to Turkey this year. With thetrchildren both unmarried, they ha\'e n grandchildren-"darn it," Ann adds. . Margot White

Join Us . . .

Cottrell says she i a "grandmorher at-large" profes ionally, her hu -

ing college cour e toward a doc torate and note that his children

band i pre·ident of Cottrell Paper Co. and they are rhe parent of a

will probably beat him to it . . Anthony Leone has retired from Mas achusetts state service. on T.J . work for a doctor doing reearch at the U of Oregon, and

daughter and of three ons who are married with familie (nine grand children). Margot, who is recover ing from two l i fe - t hreate ning event , assault and chronic fatigue,

daughter Wendy works for the town

write ofrravel with grandchildren,

of We tbrook and lives in Old Lyme, Conn. Hi youngest son,

exploring the four-comer area of the outhwe t lndian reservations and exploring and river rafting in

And , who taught at UN H la t year, i in his fir t year of a Ph .D. program at the U of Pittsburgh. Tony ha four grandch ildren. He add , "My batde with 3 1 year of mental illne

ha ameliorated, and

with re t l am beginning to feel better than ever." . . Ann Mandelbaum Cramer ha retired as media coordinator for a Roche .Y., ad agency. he writes ter, that he i on the eneca, .Y., vil lage board for a third term and

and graduated

from Colb) prior to 1 95 1 or if \- OU are a parent of a current or former Colb) student, \l\e're looking for ou. While man of t11e event are geared for people of all ages,

ou ma l1ave liad concern in the pa t about attending 8\ ent and not l1aving an) of our peers pr

ent; vve v\OUld like to

l1ange that. We are planning an outing to t11e t11eater for the fall and would like ou to join u . If ou are intere ted in receiv ing more

ager" and pend much of her time

as a hospice volunteer helping fami

information or if you v\·Ould like to ugge t anot11er e\ ent, plea e

lie cope with a dying member at

sold hou e in

to the new ? Do ) ou remember w hat took place on

8\1\< York Colby Club'

rories" (for

ervice and artracti ng touri ts on a i

campu

Joli n on Day ? If ) OU remember t11e e t11ing

product ion/book/ torytel l ing ca reer?) . . . . Jane Whipple Codding ton call herself an "e rate man

limited tax ba e.

on Han

or do ) ou kno\I\ it wa a bu t11at huttled tudent from t11e old

Margot is developing a serie of tales about her family heritage tided

home. heand Chad till ki, cuba and fish. . Change for Diane Reynold Wright: hu band retired,

enjoy the challenge of providing

Do ou remember Cl1emical Hall. Memorial Hall and Dutton Hou e? Do ou tl1ink t11e Blue Beetle i a ad rock &. roll tar

Arizona and Utah. he al o did a Brazilian river boat expedition.

"The Grandmother

Philip W. Husse)·)r. '53

Deachs: Shirley Town Rowe '50 in Brentwood,

drome-not ea y." He is till rak

cope with the empty ne t

Auguot, 1 a docroral candidate in

biology at Cal iforn1a-Berkeb . •

Maine Bu i.nes Hall of Fame. A

li\'ing in Freeport, Maine. he lo\'ed

years, writes that daugh

,ilJe,r daughter, 11·ho mamed la,t

president and CEO of Hussey ear

Emerson i a retired math teacher teaching, she \\"rites, "but now en joy my freedom to read, to garden,

rer graduated fwm the Un1ver,1ry

Philip W. Hussey Jr. ' 5 3 wa honored a a 1 99 3 Laureate in the

utting

Sid Farr, who ha been working at Colby for 3 3

cctnr- ufthe Dome't IC V 111lencl' Pn1-

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Phi l ' 7 7 and Janet Deering Bruen ' 79 . on Richard ' 6 is working coward a master's in education, and

and ha th.ree sons, and o n

all

brook Institute 111 _ an Franc 1.,co: "Better late rhan ne,·er," �he ·ays.

license for referral .

to\'i · i t friend ." The Emersons al o burned t he mo r tgage w i t h a

ter

candidate in psychok igy ar Sa,·

daughter E l l en 1 s a fu l l - t i m e

Correspondent: Ann Dillingham Ingraham

rrofes nr m r ych1amc nur,1ng.

fall with many Colby friends at tending. Ann ha · rettred from the

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dren . . . . Judith Jenkins Totman

ment include working in a multi

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contact Helen Strau

, 240 E. 79th

pt. 1 6A,

ev\ York, 1y

1 002 1 or contact t11e Alumni Office at 207- 72-3 1 90.

uburbia, rented

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; tnd J udy h;11·e ; 1 d ; 1 u gh r er , Su,an

Cnrn:,r• >ndcnt :

Erh Pet re nge r '80, a ,on, R,1hcrt

E l eanor Edmunds Grou t

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Apri l , L" "lt m ;md I h;1vc j u't rewrned frnrn nur ;mnual trek 'uu t h . We ";:e rclam-e' and rnke a much needecl hreak fn1m the n1 1rth c P un try weat her. Thi, ye<ir we incl uded a \\'eek on t he Outer R,tnb, \\'ht're we added 1 2 bird, to ()Ur l i fe 1 1,t,. We e n j oyed a fell' day' in W i l l i am,burg a fr er 1·i,iting my b ro th e r Paul and h 1 , fo m i l y in A t lanta . . . . J oh n and J oan W i l l iams Marshall hernrne grandparent' fur the fir,t time i n Dccemher. The i r daughter pre 'ented them w irh a gra n cbn n, Ry< m , j ust in time for the hol iday·. J u an and J nhn are e m i - re t i red and have mn1·ed rn Cape Cod, ll'here they run a se a · on a l bu-.ine,,, Brown ie', Cahim, in Well ·fleet. They main tain a firne,, regimen mcluding lap w i m m ing at the heci lth c l ub. J oan ays she never an ti c i pated a career i n thefitne > w1 1rld m running I Ks. John and Juan \\'Ould like cla,, mates to "come to t he Cape and ,hare this beaut iful pl;ice w i t h u s . " . . . Janet N o rdg ren Mery weatherand _ teen l i 1·e in _ ali>berg CLwe, Maine, another beautiful place. teen, a retired col lege prn fessor and phy ical thernpi r . and Jan have rnised six chi ldren and a ·sorted animab.Jan was past presi dent of Maine' chapter nf the Fed erated Garden Club,-a two-year commitment she enjoyed but is glad to have heh ind her. he keeps 1·ery busy running their home, reno1·a t i ng and land,caping. doing a much of th work as pos5ible her self. They saw Nancy H u bbard Greene and Abbott Otto Greene e1·eral time and have wapped vi i ts. W ithout disclosing where the Greenes l ive, Jan mid me their neighbor is the ex-a tronaut M ike Col l im. You w i l l perhap remem ber t h a t w h i l e two astronaut· landed on the moon, M ike c ircled, waiting. W h i l e the Meryweathers were visiting the Greenes in Florida, the three men went out fishing and teengave M ike ome helpfu l hints on hi docki n o s k i l l . It eem Jan is right--doc k i ng is different on the m o on . . . Bob Erb a n d J u dy MetT i l l Erb ' 5 8 live in andwich, N . H . Bob ret i red i n 1 978 from the text i le bu ine· and i n 1 990 from land development and construe-

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in prinr f1 1r a few year,, . . . . I d id

Erh l l l , a nd twograndchddren. Roh 'uuncl, <JS t h 1 1ugh he hm n l l t c h< rn g ed

i ng un t hl 1>e tm a while. l!rnp me a

I inc 1f yuu h< 1 1'e n' t 'een your na m e

h i t . . . . P r i sc i l l a

Chamberl i n Krau t , W i l rn in gt n n ,

Del . , retired on d ha b i l i r y after d e 1· c l o rm g M_ . hi: "'"' ;1 nur"c and <hMlC i < H e pr 1 1 fr , ,li r ilf n u r, i n g . Pmc i l l a i' k 1ok tn).! forward t o the Lhl\' her hu,,ba11LI, George r. Kra u t , a mechanical engi neer, re t i re" ; 1 ' d c pm r rn e n t he ad nt th e commu n i t y cn l k ge . . . . Heidi Pauly Lan sing and Gi:rakl Lan,ing 11T11tc frnm Wy na nrk i ll , N .Y . . that Jerry re t i red from I BM !> i x yea rs ago and that t he y keep ht"\' caring h ir r h e garden, and grnund, nn their 20 acre,. Like a Im of us t h c-.e d a y-. , Heidi and her ,pou,e arc 1 >n ,c h 1 1n l c11rnmit tee' and <1re trying to keep cho11l raxes Lknvn . . . . Buh and Bunny Henderson Morse arc l i v i ng t he ir clream in unny Floricla after e l l1ng their home in Na,hua, N . H . T hey \\'ould l ike to hear from any c l a,>mate who retired or plan w he i n the we,r Cllasr area near Englcwond, Fla . . . . Bob Raymond and Fra n Wren Raymond 'S a bu h;11·e hecorne gr;1ndparenr,. Mn. t of you k n oll ' that Boh ret i red frnm the U .� . Air force after 22 year5 and entered the >eminary to be come an Epi,C11pal prie·r. La,t year Lh c y enjoyed a wonderful trip tu the Holy Land. The Raym1md, l ive in Hu l l · Cove on Mt. De,ert I ·land with Acadia Nat ional Park at their doorstep . . . . Charlene Roberts Riordan teaches foreign languages in a Darien, Conn. , h igh chool. Robbi wa divorced in 1 99 1 and l i ves w i th her 2 5-yea r -old twin daughter . One of the girls is to be married non. Robbi enjoy, travel and has been w 1 taly, Paris, Greece and Egypt, the fir5t three many r i mes. Lucky gal 1 . . . Thanb for all your new and notes. Plea·e keep them com i ng. The cupboard is bare again. +

Corre pondent: Brian "Bo" F. Olsen

After a briefh iatu , here we go with some notes of intere t (I hope ) . l t il l have some jotting from our c las mare· who attended the J Srh reunion last year and w i l l be draw-

hear from Ron Rasmussen in Mmch. He 'ent h i,, regret'> about n11t hei ng ;1hlc w m a ke the reunion hur 'ee m ' to he 'urv i v i ng out in 'ctn Diego. Ron ll'a widowed in 1 979 and has 'i n c c remarried, and he and wife hanil arc the rroud parcn t!> of;1 9-year-uld st in, Lance, and a 3 - ycar- ol d daughter, A hlee Kl1ren. Ro n \ older 'on, cott, b curre ntly a coll ege -.rudent. The R;i,mu"en" hnpe to retire to north ern I daho in t he nexr few years. G 1 l l l d [<l h e ar frn m y o u , Run . . . . A lumni Counci l repre 'e n ta t 1 1·e E l l i e horey Harris g<it tu 'cc her name 1n prmt twice re c e n t ly . E l l ie was the proud re c ipi e nt t if the h uman re·ource ;111';1rd 11frxcdlenccar rratu,Com purer f1ir 1 992 and wa recogni:eJ hy t he Marlhmo, Ma·s., chamber of commerCL' as i ts out randing rn e m he r for 1 99 2 1 Con gra t '> E l l i e ! . . . I t w a s good to · e e Don Dinwoodie lc1't J une. Dlln ha· re l11c;ned back Ea t from Colorado ancl i' the principal in a new con ' ulun g g ruup in the P1nneer Valley 111 we-.tern Ma�>achusett . Don loub gre<1r, at lea r fi1·e year older than ll'hen you last saw h i m ! . . . S u rp r i se a t tendee Audrey Hittinger Katz had a great t i me catching up on the new from old friends and, a we all do at re unions. enjoying the rnmpany of nme clas>mare- we didn't know all that wel l m ·chool. Audrey left Mayflower H i l l promising to write ome old friends and to encourage more folk to come to reunions in the future . . . . Ann J efferson Barnes and husband Forre·r Bame· ' 5 6 ay to rel ! all who didn't make it that you missed a wonderfu I t i me. Ann and Woody st i l l live in Houlton, Maine, where Ann is busy with her church choir and clown work . . . . It wa great fun ·eei ng Fran Kernan after all the e year · 1 Fran i t r y i n g to keep Norwood Industries in We tmont, N .J . , < 1 brand-new company ( his own) , afloat and i enjoying raising five c h ildren, ages 5 through 1 2 1 What's wrong w ith thi picture ? . . . . I recently had the privilege of welcomingJohn Philbrook ' 5 5 back to Boston as he finished his last trip for Arnerican Airline after 2 year . Jo i n ing me Ln the welcoming parry were Ralph Galante '60 and

Bnh Garrett '6 , both pi lots for

American ba ed in Bo ton. Colby i> well represented on all side of the corporate ta hie at AAL, a - Bob i-, the dom icile chairman for the pi lots' pmfe · ional assoc iation, Ralph i a check/instructor pi lot and your> truly i the chief pi lot in Bo ton . . . . Peter Merrill, w i th whom I had a chance to v isit re cently, has moved from Washing ton to Chicago bur t i l l spends part of the surnmer at Chri tmas ove. Pete would love to move back to Maine permanently hut may have to wait n i l retirement for that. . . . Here's wi h i ng you all a great summer. Parr of mine w i l l be in Maine. More new in the fa l l . +

Corre pondent: Ann Marie Seg rave Lieber

Questionnaire, The e quel ! . . . Bruce Mont gomery works at Ford MotorCo. andchair the N.J . Com m t t t e e on H ig h w a y afe r y . . . . Carlene Price White own Animal Episode , which upplie 95 percent of the animal used in commercial-, TV, movie , etc. in the Bo ton area. . . . Tax-preparer Marilyn Berry Sewell remembers those late-night bridge games. She recently pent a month working in M o cow . . . . R e t i ree Bob and Mary Twis Kopchains bought a newhome on a golfcour e. They've traveled to Ru ia and Egyp t . . . . Philip Hender on i a wine consultant with a real interest in h i torical research . . . . Carol Holt Case owns Copywri ting Plu and pre ides over a business association and a c u l t ural association. The Case· plan to spend their 30th an n iver ary in Venice . . . . Hugh Nazor is a bu ine consultant and member of the Democratic Town Committee. Wife Linda Smalley Nazor belong to the Greater Port l and L a n d m a r k Com m i t te e . . . Class pre ident Skip Tolette i al o president ofhi own company. Hi fondest memory i of meetLng Joan . . . . Carol Jelinek Barnard i director of development at George teven Academy. Carole and hu band Brian ' 5 8 have returned to Maine after 24 year in Conn ect icut. . . . Jim Plunkett, director of the International Executive er vice Corp , i al o vice president of

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the American Chamber of Com merce in Peru and a member of the Fulbright Commi ion. He recall· his Colby Eight day . . . . Bill Nicholson has recently lost weight and tarted motorcycling (could these two things be related ?); he remembers h is sen i o r - year g i r lfr i end . . . . G l a d y s Frank Bemyk is a transition pecialist for the handicapped and an active member of AAUW with special interest in gender equity and choice

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is ues . . . . A t torney

Gary

manager at Union Camp, active in community affairs and recall h is DU friendships . . . . Ralph Rideout owns Llama Tree Ranch, which wa the cover tory subject in the February/March issue of Chevy Ouuioors . Pick up a cory at your local Chevy dealer. . . . Among the most interesting que tion you wanted me to ask were: Are our educational standards declining? What i rhe greatest contribution you've made to life since Colby?

Hagerman cleared a cropical jungle behind his Hawaii home and now

grows bamboo. He recall atur day n ig h t s at rhe Deke house . . . . Rita Reilly McCauley has recently remarried. She works on outdoor advertising and remem ber inging around the piano after d inner . . . . Russ Longley is a TWA captain and spends his spare r i m e b o a t i ng and now s k i ing . . . . Tony Ruvo i s general

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Would you like to pend your next vacation in Peru? Does anyone ever come to M inne ora ? l Colby where you would go to college today ! And, perhap- most telling of all: Are we there yet ? If you'd care to addres anyoftheseor ubject ofyourov.-n choosing, please feel free to con tact me . . . . Our 3 5 th reunion is le s than a year away. Make time for it in your bu y chedules, 'cause it's gonna be great! Be t regard . +

Class of 1 95 8

We gathered again on Mayflower H i ll-for our 3 5 th reunion. Thi seemed to be a very special reunion. Nor only are we at "35 and still alive," a our t- hirts declared, we came together to remember our classmate Andria Peacock Kime. Andria' hu band, John, and daugh ter, Kathy, joined us to dedicate in her memory a Japanese flowering crabapple uee donated by Marietta Pane. A plaque, donated by Lynn D' Amico McKee, will read, "Andria Peacock K ime-Clas of 1 9 5 8- a friend of special spirit-35th reunion." During the cour e of the weekend, close to 70 class member , many with spouses, rerurned to share in the fellowship and camaraderie. I n future c l a column I hope t o give you more details of where we have been and where and how we are now, but for now I would like all of you to know who came back to share in the lobster bake lunch on Saturday and the karaoke on Sarur day night, the class receptions and the continental breakfasts at our reunion headquarters. Some ofthose seen throughout the weekend were Tom LaVigne, Warren Weitzman, Lois Munson Morrill, Kay (Ger man '59) and Al Dean, Marty Burger, Bob Saltz, Pete Vlachos, Don Crowley, Cece (Clifton '6 1 ) and Norm Lee, Pete Doran, Mila Peter Doran '58 Winter Hoffman, Harry and Joan Shaw Whitaker, Ding and Betty Cooper Cochran, Bill and Cindy Allerton Rocknak, Joan Bryant Bedell, Lois Macomber, John Baxter, Paul Svendsen, Carlos Davila, Nat Adams, Lynne D'Amico McKee, Carole (Jelinek '59) and Brian Barnard, Helen Payson Seager, Maggie Smith Henry, Judy ( Ingram '60) and Doug Hatfield, Gerry and Rae West Jones, Beryl Scott Glover, Gail Crosby Davis, Ann

Wieland Spaeth, Ed Rushton, Wilma McDonald Sawyer, Al Tarr, Bob '56 and Fran Wren Raymond, Frank Walker, Judy Hince Squire, Brad Sherman, Ollie Sheerin, Joan King Darcy, Barbara Newhall Armel, Marcia Griggs Atsaves, Marian Woodsome Ludwig, Bob and Mary Anne "Kudah" Stetson Bates, Don Crowley, Patricia (McClay '65 ) and Ernie Gauer, Kate Knight Hall, Eleanor ( Davis '6 1 ) and Chris Maginniss, Wendy ( Mc William '60) and George Deneen and Judy Brown Dickson. 1 apologize to anyone I omitted inadvert ently. I am working from the list of tho e who thought they might attend and those I actually aw. I t' quite po ible l m i sed omeone,

and I am orry.

Particular highlight of the weekend were the awarding of Colby Bricks to Doug Hatfield and Lois Munson Morrill. Tom LaVigne and Warren Weitzman presented a check to Colby for $ 6,383, which represented 5 5 percent participation ofthe class. Thi money includes gift to the Alumni Fund and to the establishment of an endowed financial aid fund by a member of our clas . And a new slate of officer w i ll ee us through the next five years: Warren Weitzman, president, NormLee,vice president, Maggie Smith Henry,secretary,and Howie Clarke, Alumni Council representative. There were various class discussion and alumni and faculty panels on Saturday. Carlo Davila, presi dent of Cadimpex USA, and Nat Adams, senior editor at Reader's Digest and investigative journalist, gave us ome rather disturbing in sights into political and religious terrorism in South America and the Middle East as well as the facts of the Pan Am Flight 1 03 di aster over Scotland. Pete Vlacho , presi� dent and founder of Austin Invest < ment Management Company in � ew York City, participated in a 1:l panel on " I nvestment Strategie : Asset Allocation in the '90s.'1 And < whenDoug Hatfield retired a chair of the Alumni Council, he was pre ented with a Colby chair in appreciation of his leadership and dedication. Doug drove his car, with the chair riding in the back, acros campus from the Srudent Center to the field where our lobster bake and softball game were taking place. When he arrived, he was approached by campus security, who questioned him a to where he had acquired the furnirure. "Oh," Doug replied blandly, "l got it at the Srudent Center." This wa a grand and wonderful weekend. What made it o pecial, I think, was the realization that although we did share four years of our lives in one place, some of u never really knew each other, yet now when we meet it is as if for the first time. We eem to be more comfortable with our elves. The paths we have followed i.nce June of 1 95 have not always been traight or mooth. But we have arrived at June 1993 and eem oinewhat wiser, more relaxed and accepting of who we are. I like what we have become-part of a family that hared four years on Mayflower H i l l once upon a time.

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1 968 Mary

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Katherine P. White 1 2 2 8 Sandringham Way

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( Penelope Dietz)

lite reliability and failure analy is. They can now pend more r ime in

ional sailor anJ managing direc tor anJ hareholder of Carib Ma

Peter Stevenson w r i tes from Haverford, Pa. , that he and his

rine. As Hank say , "Who needs

wife, Judy, saw Gene Rainville and

money where I live?" . . . Russ Zych

6 1 South Main Street

and Ralph Nelson have called with

his wife, Margaret, last summer as they were moving from Kansa to

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ideas about our next reunion. Any idea for what you w uld like to do

New Jersey. I am ure no one could po sibly believe they suffered from

are most welcome. end them along

"sticker hock" at the Ea t Coast

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1 962 J ud ith Bristol Corre pondent:

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Rapid , M ic h . , comes news of

worked as curator at rhe local mu Barry Potter i· pre i

seum in Yorktown, N.Y., organiz

dem of the American subsidiary of the wis

ing exhibits and doing a wide vari ety oftasks he very much enjoyed. he fought for several long years

company Nesta!, which has two plants in the U . . supplying the

1 1 alisbury Road Keene, NH 034 3 1

real e rate price ! . . . From Grand

very ad to report the los of an other of our classmate , Margaret 29. Maggie, who wa an outstand ing hi tory major at Colby, had

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Barbara Haines Cha-e

with your news . . . . Finally, it is

Wetzel Plath, who died December

Katherine P. White

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their camp on North Pond . . . .

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both Com at and Intel at on arel

old Kelsey. He has three mher kids and is a grandfather. He is a profe -

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(J udith Hoagland)

three time , is divorced and liv ing

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( Anna E. Thompson)

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He rook an early-our deal from Comsar and is doing con ultingfor

with hi younge t daughrer, 8-year

Anna T. Bragg

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tennis, paragliding and

yacht racing. Hank, who married

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Penelope D .

include ala brese Baur

Martha Raymond Scherpenisse and her husband, Bruce, who have children from 28 down to 9 years old, with only the youngest at home. The other three live in Mich igan ( two within walking distance) and have produced "three beautiful grand c h i ld re n . " . . . J on Wolfe write to tell us that after 26 year of marriage hi wife went back to col

entertainment indu try with equip

with breast cancer, a terrible dis ease that also has taken other from

Sara Rhoades (Sara K. haw)

ment used for manufacturino com pact discs. The job keep him trav

our cla s. Margaret had two daugh ter , one a married law student and

hours per emester an<l making the pre ident's honor roll. Thi spring

eling around the world, although

both of his daughters and his wife

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the orhe r at Harvard in the M . B. A . program. He r hu band raid m e rhar

live i n Bolton, Mas . They also have a home at Sugarloaf, and the

Wyoming and one from Arizona rate . . . . From Carli le, Mass.,

entire family, including his two

he has received several hundred tribute about Margaret and that "even with her illne s , she did so

comes news of Lee Holcombe

sons, spends a lot of time there skiing . . . . Eunice Bucholz Spoon

much forothers." he will begreatly mis ed. +

Milliken. he and her husband, happy to have fini hed with col

er wrote a long letter de cribing

lege tuition , are enjoying eras -

her new home, which she designed Correspondent: Penny Dietz Sullivan

country skiing and bicycle vaca tions-looking forward to one in northern Italy . . . . We even have a class member in Traveler's Rest,

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and had built in Oakland, Maine.

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The house, which is almost en

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Russell N. Monbleau

beautifully designed for comfort and

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attractiveness and has room for the computers Eunice uses to teach

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adu l t and c h i ldren's computer clubs. As well as serving on the district school board, she has three

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sons who are in different tages of finishing school and getting mar

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ried. Eunice reports, " I t's going to

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be a bu y fall, but l will finally have

Judy Gerrie Heine

two daughter and reach the end of

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c o l lege

Medfield, M A 02052

Antigua, West Indies, Hank Van

p a y m e n t s . " . . . Fro m

Beever writes of an idyllic life that

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lege to fini h her degree, taking 20

will graduatefromcollege, two from

S.C., Bennett Rudd. He and his When the last issue ar rived and there was no article for 1 96 1 , Tom

Kirkendall dropped a note to ask if maybe I was out of news. Wi h I could c laim that as my excu e. Frankly, I must have missed the Chri tmas deadline that I didn't realize was

lipping by (which I

think you can all understand ) . He and Dotty (Boynton ) , having got

wife, Patricia, have a daughter,

Emily, who graduated cum laude from Boston U niversity la t May. He will try to make our 3 5 th, but the last rime he vi ired Colby wa 1 969, o he isn't makingany prom i e . He is very busy teaching and doing volunteer work at the Daniels Ob e r v a ro r y in G re e n v i l l e . . . . Carole Ann Pope Wilcox live

ten their three children through

with her h u band, Robert, in Putney, Vt. She recen t l y saw

college, decided it is time to retire.

Regina Foley Haviland and Sandy

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Come on a Safari with Me he itinerary for Friday,

world, being up there on May

T October 28, ounds like

flower Hill, having the moun

a full day: "Today begins an

tains o clo e," he aid. Ju t as

expedition into the little

important, she

known rain forest

of the

Colby' approval of her junior

ay , wa

outhern Amazon. . . . Our

yearabroad in Lau anne, wit

early morning charter flight

zerland, where she

era e over the highland of

French, a language he' found

north-central Brazil. . . . In

indispensable in traveling.

tudied

the early afternoon, leave

The Cheesemans' philo o

for the Teles Pires River, a

phy i clear in their brochure:

two-hour drive through farm

"Our goal is to contribute to

land and forests. On arrival

the preservation of the earth'

we will boat upstream and

rich wildlife areas," they write.

i n to the mou t h of the

"We are eager to guide ou to

Cristalino River. . . . " But i t '

wildlife, to enhance the posi

the k ind of

tive effects of ecotouri m and

day that Gail Macomber

avoid any negative effects."

Cheeseman '62 and her hus

Mo t of the tour take group

band, Doug (pictured with

of 1 2 ro 1 5 , with a guide for

her here), take alma t for

every

ix people. More than

granted when they're leading wUdlife and photography tours

mere iahtseeing, tours can be exhau ting, given the ample

in far-off place . Chee eman ay they tarted their company,

amount of time allowed for field observation. In the evening ,

Cheeseman ' Ecology Safaris, in 1 9 0 "before anybody had

aid Chee eman, 'We go over what we've een for the day, as

coined the word 'ecotours."' They began leading one trip a

far as mammal and birds, and then people just crash! "

year in the '70s, recruiting nonsmokers keen on conservation and on eeing lots of wildlife in the field.

Cheeseman ays the idea behind ecotouri m is t o encour

ow, helped by a

age protection of wildlife by making it a means of local

computer and fax machine, they schedule as many as nine

economic profit. "I find that it' really great to employ the

major tours a year, ome led by other naturali ts and cien

resident naturali ts and bring the local people into ecotouri m

ti ts, to places as diverse a Alaska, East Africa, Antarctica

a much as po ible," she

and India.

particularly well, he believes in areas where the cattle indus

aid. In Co ta Rica thi work

Upcoming trips include viewing a complete olar eclip e

try has faltered. "We tayed at a ranch owned by a man who

in the Brazilian Amazon and a 2 5-day cruise on a Russian

realized he' got incredible birds and mammal all along the

research hip to the Antarctic Penin ula. Cheeseman ar

ri ers on hi property,' he aid, " o he' turned hi hacienda

her favorite tour is in Tanzania and Kenya, where ecotourists

the traditional family residence-into a mall lodge [for view

can view wildlife from lodges located inside national parks.

ing wildlife] ."

Based in Saratoga, Calif., the Chee emans have worked

Cheeseman ay what he does i 'more than just work

for the Audubon Society for many years, leading local whale

it' a real holiday, once we get going." But it's fun with a eriou

watching tours and giving slide lecture . Doug, a zoologi t

aim. "When you tra el to all parts of the earth, you ee how

and photographer, still teaches full time. Between hi

we're really going down the tubes," he aid, describing her

dents who saved up money for trips and the connection with

concerns about the human encroachment on natural areas

Audubon, the tours got off to a healthy start.

that continue to threaten diversity of species. In the Amazon basin "there are extinctions going on constantly," she aid.

Chee eman coordinates the tours, "making sure people

Although he enjoy giving tours, Cheeseman ay conser

figure out all their connections." She's al o led tours in Co ta

vation remains her driving interest.

Rica on her own. She credits her intere t in nature and the

"That' where we need lots ofvolunteers," he aid. "There'

environment in pan to her time at Colby, where he was a

o much to be done."

history major. "It gives you such an expo ure to the natural

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elson in Kennebunk

owns her own business and doe

and they "both look great" and are

threechildren, heila, Terenceand

consulting regard ing worker health an<l afety i ues. Her children are both living in Manhattan. Sarah

Meg. What else, Terry? At this point in my life, l ue s I'm in trigued with those folks dealing

ever since. Everyone i saying, 'I wonder what thecampu looks like

graduated from Cornell la t May

with "young-uns." Terry still sees

in the

Charley Hauck '63 every year for

tudent government puts it, 'The

hu y ( who isn't ? ) .

he, like most

responJent , said

he not only is

looking forward to our 3 5 th but like the idea of going to Samo et for a few days before the reunion to

with degree in art history and in art and architecture. he did an

extend the fun.

internship at

After you left it began to rain and it has rained and rained and rained

un ! ' As the president of

fishing on the Batten kill. Where is

rain in Maine stays mainly over

hri ties, the auc tion house, in the ummer of '92 and isnowart coordinatorforGlam

the Battenkil l ? Terry did come to

Colby,' and I guess he's right. My

the 1 0th and 2 5 th reunion and planned to make the 30th but had

shoe

near the ocean in Maine. He will lob ter while she bakes blueberry

oar magazine. David i

at NYU

a conflict. He also promises to be

continuing hi graduate tudie in

back for th e 3 5 th . . . . Linda

muffin . Okay, you Maine real es

urban planning. Bill's children and now Jane's, too-are Liz, who

Nicholson Goodman, my efficient predece -or in this po ition, finally

chance1 • • • • WillieDekadt)uhlin

poke yesterday afternoon about all phases of Colby life. He empha sized the point that tudyingcome

is working on her master' in pho

teache

tojournalism at the University of Missouri, and Bill Jr., a enior at

·ent her form in, but l 'll excu e Linda, for after five year of writing

first, and we mu t accept thi as a fact, for if we try it anyotherwaywe

columns you can't be commended enough. Linda i a chool p ycholo

won'tbehereto aywe were wrong! Last night we had a vesper with Chaplain 0 borne peaking. He wa truly excellent, the be t I've ever heard. I am really looking forward to hearing him next Sun day. After the ervice we met with

he and her hus

band are planning to take early retirement and t ry to find a place

tate

a ge n t ,

here'

your

Engli h as a second lan

guage in Morristown, N .J .

he and

her hu band, Thor, have a fre h man at Lehigh and two in grad

Michigan. Harry and I tried to find Bill Jr. at the un Dog in Edgartown

school, o the ne t is empty but the

la t ummer, but it wa his day off.

bills keep coming.

Anne Larkin Connolly and her

Deja vu for all of us from Colby who worked a ummer or more on

husband, John , who i doing well a t the Army War College in

Martha's Vineyard-Lael Swinney t e ga l l , N a n c y K u d r i a v e t z

Carlisle, Pa. he is very involved in

Ramsey, Mary Ballantyne Gentle

community activitie , especially a lacrosse youthclub . . . . Pleasedon't

( who went back to the island for good ) , J ane Germer Krebs, of

he has seen

write to me right now. I have news

cour e , and Steve Carpenter.

that i growing old as it sits in my files. But please do write when I tell

( teve, do you remember eating tho e peanut butter and jelly sand

wiche to ave money that sum mer? What we did for love and money! l still hate peanut butter.)

you I am out of news. Deal?

Corre pendent: Judith Hoagland Bristol

Some of my new comes from Ch.ristma card , o I'm busy preparing an

other que tionnaire, which I hope w i l l insp ire those of you who haven't ent infom1ation in year . I ' m going to send the question naire ini tially to people that I haven't heard from in a while. Re member, however, that if you have news at any time, you don't have to wait to hear from me-just end it to me. Sandi Rollins Kilgore, my

up. Linda and hu band David, who i pre ident of his own electrical/ electronics corporation, had on

Incidentally, Linda' comment on the 30th wa tl1at you alway meet

. . . Ron Ryan al o has expanded hi family from Doug, 2 7 , and Su san, 2 5 , to Kaitland, 4, and Tenley, 3. It' got to keep him and wife J i l l young! R o n is chiefoperating offi cer of the Philadelphia Flyers and

same feeling, Linda. Neat, isn't i t ? I agree also that w e have people in our clas who will never change

lives in Medford, N .] . He goe back to Colby to vi it hi Waterville friend , o we're counting on you, Ron, to bring J ill to meet us all at

and we wouldn't want them to, for sure. And we always eem to have a wonderful mix of people come back t o re u n i on . . . . B r u c e Marshall sent me a n awe ome pic ture from the KDR reunion in Port land la t June. He ay , " i x old men," includ ing him elf, Pete

the 3 5 th . . . . Dick Poland is a pro grammer in Cami h, Maine, where wife u an is the a i rant town clerk. I'm not sure exactly where Comish is, but it's got robe close to Colby, since Dick mentioned play ing with Al Corey and running on the Colby track. Dick has two children, Sam, 1 0, and N icole, 1 3 ,

husband Bob have two children,

who recently received an award at Colbyforoutstanding P AT cores.

End of Boston, and Rob, 2 1 , a

Dick al o mentions playing in a band with Pete Collin ' 5 6 and an

andi and Bob sold their bu ine s

"absolutely fabulous Colby 8 re

five year ago and retired, but andi

union." When he thinks of Colby, Dick remember Ma Tripp and Peter Re. Dick. I would really like

tired and are

tarting again.

promises romake our nex t reunion. . . During the Christmas sea on Jane Germer Krebs and husband

to know more about your tudy of tap dan c i ng and e lectrical engineering . . . . Terry Cordner is a tax counsel for CIBA-GEIGY

Bill were in Bru els and Brugge on busine s. Both are involved in work

Corporation and live in Katowah,

tha t relates to General Motors.Jane

N .Y. Terry and wife Helen have

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Duggan, Tony Mainero, Peter Thompson, Graham Barkham and Ed Cragin. I think you all look great! Young! . . . Anyway, if you haven't seen your name in thi column for the pa t year, gue s why ? You got it. I don't have any

senior finance major at UVM .

say they're too young to tay re

Bill graduate from Colby in '9 1 . Linda said that many ofBill' class mate were children of our con temporaries of the 1 9 59- 1 962 era.

omeone you weren't do e to in your days on campu and you find that year of maturity make an immen e difference in your per spective. I really have en ed the

roommate from freshman year, ha regularly kept i n touch. Sandi and L i a, 25 and living i n the North

gist in the Norwich-New London area of Connecticut. I t's hard to believe that Linda is in my old romping grounds, where I grew

information on you, so write or phone. You can even call me at work: ( 7 1 3 ) 6 1 - 5 1 00. +

Correspondent:

Sara Shaw Rhoades A letter from a fre h man, September 1 960: "Dear Mom and Dad,

are

oaked from getting

caught last night, but otherwise things are fine. President trider

our faculty advi er during which we completed our programs. This morning we were up at 6:45 , with breakfast from 7 - 7 :30 and foreign language placement tests at 8:30. I had to take it in French, and it wa quite ea y. However, that doe n't mean l wi l l be in an advancedcla s. We'll hear about that tomorrow. At 9:45 were the Engli h place ments tests. Thi was an e ay [ ee below) to be written in one hour, brief and concise. That was to see if you qualify for the advanced course; I ' l l be l ucky if I get into any cour e! . . . Freshman English Placement Exam. 'Henry Adams comments in 1 905 : "The American

woman at her besr-Uke most other women--exerred great charm on the man, but not the charm ofa primitive rype. She appeared as the result of a long series of discards , and her chief interest lay in what she had discarded. When closely watched, she seemed making a violent effort to fallow the man, who had tu.med his mind and handw mechanics . TherypicalAmeri can man had his hand on a lever and his eye on a curve in his road; his living depended on keeping up an average of 40 miles an hour, rending always w become 60, 80 ,or a hundred , and he couldootadmiterrwtions , anxieties,or sulxonscious disrracrions, any more than he could admic whisky or drugs , without breaking his neck. He could not run his machine and a woman too; hemust leave her, even though his wife , to find her own way, and all the world saw her trying w find her way by imitating him. The result was often tragic , but that was no new thing in

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J u t four days after my land lide election to this enviable po t of corresponding ecretary, l am invited ( hmmmm, rather instructed)

to be a truly "bonding" experience, from all reports. ome members

to ubmit a report of the reunion gala by June 1 1 ! Nothing like a

of the group cho e to wander the island, enjoying the un and ea air.

little pre ure to in pire the creative writer! Well, my uitca e is yet to be unpacked, but here goe

Delta Phi ) Friday and aturday as the crowd grew. arurday morning

Twenty- ix members of the Class of '63 gathered during tl1e

we marched with the other rem1ion clas es in the traditional parade

weekend of June 3 -6 to enjoy the delights of Maine and renew friendships "of olde." Tho e in

and tl1en feasted heartily on lobster, corn and clams, remini cing in

everal challenging Outward Bound activities. The "Crack" proved

The i lander joined the landlubber at Grossman ( alias Tau

tl1e un behind Roberts Union.

attendance for parts or all of

aturday evening our

mall

this 30th reunion were: Noel

group dined at Millett Alumni

and Judy Allen Austin, Helen

Hou e. Cathy Webber (with

and Warren Balgooyen, Bill

Karen Bryan) led the "enter

'48 and Karen Beganny Bryan,

tainment," a she was the only

Al Carville (new president of

outgoing or incoming class of

the Alumni Council ) , Barbara

ficer in attendance, ave yours

Haines Chase, Rene Gonzale

truly.

and Coral Crossman , Sue

larger showing at our 40th!

urely we can make a

Pel son Gillum, Tom and

a l t hough we were a l a rge

J oanna B uxton Gormley,

enough group to hare numer

Mary Michelmore Hayes,

Monte and Cindy Richard

had never heard before.

tories, many of which I

Hopper, J ac k and Pat Ey

Speaking of stories, I will

Ingraham, Robert and Sandy

oon be sending out a letter of

McWilliam Lloyd, Sue (Saw

yer '64) and Brian McLary, John McDonald, Cile Tougas Nix, Rod Pierce, Frank and

ome kind encouraging you to

Sue Pelson Gillum ' 63 , Meg Wall Sheldrick '63 , Sue Sawyer McAlary ' 64 and Brian McAlary ' 63 .

share with our clas members the more recent event in your

live . As I told tho e gathered

Betty Johnston Rayle, Marsha Palmer Reynolds, Meg Wall

in the wee hour in the "parlor" of Grossman: if l don't get enough

Sheldrick, Peggy Fuchs Singer, Judy Spear, Lucy and Carl Stinson,

news, I'll ju t write up ome of the tales told at our 30th reunion!

George Swasey, Patti (Raymond '65 ) and Tom Thomas, Barbara

You'd better write: Barbara Haine Chase

{Howard '65) and Dan Traister, Mary Dexter Wagner and Cathy

1 1 Sali bury Rd.

McConnell Webber. Thirteen of these hardy oul convened in

Keene, NH 0343 1

Camden on Thursday evening, staying in Whitehall Inn. Friday

-Barbara Haines Chase

they sailed to Hurricane Island and were led by Pen Williamson in

feminine histary. Tragedy had been woman's lot since Eve. Her problem had been always one of physical strength and it was as physical perfec tion offorce that her Venus had gov erned nature. The woman 's force had counted as inertia ofrotation, and her axis of rotation had been che cradle and the family. lf her force were to be diverted from its axis it must find a new field, and the family must pay for it. So far as she succeeded, she must become sexless like the bees , and muse leave the old energy ofinertia to carry on the race . " 'In a coherent, well organized essay, define Adams's view of the American woman's role and its applicability or inapplicability to an American wornan of1 960' . . . . The wind i really ri ing and the rain is

ya! " . . . Classmate : Our 30tl1 is next May. Come back to remem + ber and renew!

pelting down. We ju t had a thun derstorm to top things off. I hear m a ny rumor that H u rr i c ane Donna has caused transportation halt and broken lines. Are these correct? What' happening out in the world? We have no TV or new paper-thusnonew . Tonight was the one meal all week we would have at Louise Coburn, and we had to return to Woodman at the height of the storm, stocking footed clutch ing our shoes and dam igns! Be cau e of the storm our meeting and dance were po tponed. So, we changed our room around. Dorm party wa called for :30. When you come in October please bring my radio, my Kingston Trio record and my helly Berman record. Love

Corre pondent: Richard Bankart

I t's August and your corre pondent is pack ing for Barc e l o n a , Spain . . . . Dan Durgin enjoy Ber muda and is plarming to pend the winter months there after he re tire from being uperintendent of schools in Rye , N .H . . . . J udy Eyges and partner Rob Dalton have al o enjoyed travel to Bermuda, Greece, Hawaii and Grenada "we're ac tua IIy heroes there!" Judy'

a t r a v e l agent in Bethesda, Md . . . . Alumni Council member Bud Marvin al o reports freebie travel to Florida, California and Washington, D.C., in his continu ing dual role of president of Man powerofN . H ./V t. and board chair man of the Manche rer, N . H . , hospital. . . . PattyCharltonJacob was widowed in April '90 and now 1 i ts herselfas "retired, a pensioner." he has e tabli hed a mall breed ing farm for Spani h Andalusian hor e on Whidbey Island in Puget ound. he al o edits the periodi cal Andalusian and enjoys local cro -country skiing and almon fi hing in Alaska. he'd like to hear from Cornelia Roberts Dietz and Lynn Smith Short . . . . Jan

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HEADLINERS Susan Comeau '63 was promoted to executive vice pre ident of global human re ources at State Sueet Bank in Bo-ton, Mass . . . . Doris Kearns Goodwin '64 wa the commencement peaker at Regi College, where she received an honorary degree. Her re earch for an upcoming book on the Roosevelts wa featured in an article in the Harvard University Gazette . . . . Mary Bryan Curd '65 received the Tribw1e Newspaper ' Educational Leadership Award honoring excellence in teaching. For her work at Rio Salado Community College in Phoenix, Ariz., he al o was named an Outstanding Adjunct Faculty.

NEWSMAKERS

Leon Nelson '60's efforts to revitalize minority communities in Dorchester, Mattapan and Roxbury

were featured in a March article in the Boston Business Journal. As president of the Greater Roxbury ChamberofCommerce, Ne! on ha initiated several programs to encourage economic regrowth in these downtown areas . . . . A $3.5 million learning center is being built in Andover, Mass., at Proctor Academy. The building, called The Fowler Leaming Center, is dedicated to David Fowler '60 and the late Alice Stebbins Fowler '60. The learning center will hou e a 3 5 ,000-volume computerized library, the learning skills department, the computer center and a multicultural resources center . . . . Diane Scrafton Ferreira '6 1 , a professor of reading and English at the Univer ity of Hawaii's Leeward Community College, was named an out randing lnsuuctor by Phi Theta Kappa . . . . After a tint teaching English in Japan, Judith Dunnington Vollmer '6 1 has joined Recording for the Blind in Bo ton as a studio as i rant. . . . Riv1er College in Nashua, N . H., announced the promotion ofJudith Dupras Stanford ' 6 2 from a si tant professor to associate professor in the Engli h department and Writing and Leaming Center. . . . A Christian Science Monitor article titled "Connecticut' Powerful Women" featured Pauline Ryder Kezer '63, Connecticut's secretary of state . . . . Lillian J. Waugh '63 was the 1 4th recipient of the Mary Catherine Buswell Award given by the Council for Women' Concerns for her outstanding ervice to women at We t Virginia University, where she developed the West Virginia Alliance for Women' Srudie charter and wa a key figure in the WVU Women's Centenary . . . . Bentley H. Beaver '64 has joined The Onstott Group/Boyden, a retained-executive search firm, as an equity partner. . . . Lee Emerson '64 wa featured in the Vermont Sunday Magazine for hi conaoversial stand on is uing methadone pre criptions to heroin addicts. Facing charges of violating state and federal laws, Erner on says he is protecting people against A I DS by issuing the prescriptions . . . . Jerrold Lee Shapiro '64 ha publi hed a new book, The Measure of a Man: Becoming the Father You Wish Your Father Had Been ( Delacorte Pres ) . His previous book, When Men Are Pregnant, i being published in a new issue. . . . Joan Phillipps Thompson '64 has published her fifth novel, The Mudpack and Me ( Pocketbooks ), aimed at middle-school readers. It will be followed by The Terrible Turnoff and Me and a trilogy of novels . . . . As a natural re ource conservation professor at Finger Lakes Community College in Rochester, N.Y., Martin Dodge '65 has been making news by leading educational trips to the Everglades and the wLlds of Alaska to encourage his students' concern for the environment. He' also scouted the rain forests ofCosta Rica . . . . Frank Neal III '66 joined Peter Elliot & Co.'s property management division. He will manage five facilitie in Boston, Wilmington, Danvers, Westford and Framingham, Mass . . . . William Snow '66 was the representative for Guilford of Maine Inc. as the bu iness was recognized for excellence by Governor John R. McKeman . . . . Caroline Kresky '67 was a delegate for the inauguration of Carol V. Patton as pre ident of Georgia State University in Atlanta, Ga . . . . Thomas A. McCrumm '67, coordinator of the Massachu etts Maple Producers Association, was interviewed on National Public Radio. In the lead tory of All Things Considered, he discussed the late maple sugaring eason . . . . Michael Thoma '67 was named senior vice pre ident of marketing at lnterleaf Inc . . . . Barbara E. Bixby '68 was named the new song director at the Locust Valley Reformed Church, where she will organize a youth musical group. . . . Susan Davidson Lombard ' 6 8 was the subject of an article in The Berkshire Eagle after he and her husband, David, donated the money to build a new outdoor track at Wahconah Regional High School in Dalton, N . H . . . . According to the Boston G lobe 's "Names and Face " colwnn, Sari Abul-Jubein '69, proprietor of the Casablanca restaurant in Harvard Square, ha been hearing from many old cla smates and other Colby alumni ince he was on the cover of Colby ' s March issue.

MILEPOSTS Deaths: David A. Berube '68 in Washington, D.C., at 45 . . . . Gary P. Jahrsdoerfer '62 in Frenchtown, N .] . , at 5 2 .

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Buffinton Browning (CPCU, CPlW) has been collecting "al phabet soup" in her job as office manager for the O'Neil Insurance Agency in Stoneham, Mass. "Not a big deal if you're not in insur ance" she says. Her husband, Bruce, say it is too a big deal! Jan's brood is all married and he is a grand mother times four. . . . Vacation travel ha taken Rod Gould to a dude ranch, Italy/Sicily, Mexico and Kenya/Tanzania in tl1e past 1 8 months. Rod, an attorney, con tributes his time as a board member of the local YMCA and as dean of the Southern New England School ofLaw. . . . Virginia ''B. G." Morse has published a book: The lndepen dent lnvesrigarion Method, a teacher's manual and student workbook for elementary students to learn how to do research. It's an outgrowth of a new business she started called Active Learning Systems. She gives workshops throughout New Eng land . . . . Kay Parker Gordon de votes her time to as orted Demo cratic party political activities in Ohio and is hoping to relocate to New England pending "suitable employment." . . . Sheila Webster Mooney and David (married June 1 990) own Computer Educational Services and provide technical sup port, training, software develop ment and desktop publishing ser vices to small businesses in the Warwick, R. [ . , area . . . . Dave Par ish, a lawyer, and Rhonda con tinue heavy involvementwithJew ish community affairs . . . . Ellen Mitchell Lehto is a massage thera pist, flies a Cessna 1 50, writes po etry, has a landscape gardening business and is involved with con servation efforrs at Frenchman Bay, Maine . . . . GailLenz Mitchellhas collected more awards with realtor Hunneman/Coldwell Banker in Northborough, Mass. She report that Nancy Gay Cottrell and hu band are happy running their Allen Mountain Studio in Otto, N .C., pecializing in lavish rained gla s windows . . . . Andheartycongratu lations to Susie Walker Ostrem "! finally did it! I graduated from the College of Great Falls in De cember 1 992 with a B.A. in social science 3 1 year after tarting at Colby!" She judges figure skating competitions and is an active com munity volunteer. . . . Hail, Colby, + Hail!

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Indecision is the key to flexibility. In my con tinued efforts to ferret out the shy and retiring ( they don't send me mail) I reached Richard Bishop the other night. He has moved up to high school principal by accepting the position at Sacred Heart High, a private school of about 500 students in Waterbury, Conn. Dick's oldest daughter got married on May l . He figures he has gained a son, a recent UConn grad and a second lieutenant newly assigned to Fort Benning, regained rights to the car keys and acquired a den. He seems to be handling his daughter's wedding very well. Dick also has a son who is a freshman at UConn and a 1 0-year-old daugh ter. The family likes to spend their time at the shore, either on the Cape or on some of the offshore islands. Dick also is his daughter's soccer coach. Wife Kathy is a school librarian in New Canaan, Conn. . . . Another of the infrequently heard from, Barry "Bass" Kliger man is a happy professional raising his second family. H is oldest son is in his second year at Amherst Col lege and his second son will be entering there as a freshman this fall. Both are football players. In the meantime, he and wife Vicki, a personal injury attorney, are rais ing their two youngest sons, ages 6 and 4. Bass spends his Fridays as a volunteer kindergarten assistant, which he really enjoys. For those of you who may remember his brother Lessie, one of the more well-known non-Colby students, he is happily married and a traveling art teacher in the Revere, Mass., school sys tem. For the second consecutive year, Barry will be a guest lecturer at the national meeting of the American Academy of Perio dontology. (Hope I got that right, my spell-checker pulled a blank on it. ) Barry's long-term goal is to re peat an experience he had earlier in life. Shortly after finishing his schooling, betook his avings and spent five months traveling around the world with no firm agenda went w ith the wind, so to speak. It was such an enjoyable adventure that he i looking forward to re peating it as his entree to retire-

m e n r . ( Pa u l C o l c h e r , c a l l Bas . ) . . . C h a r l i e and J a n e Farnham Rabeni sent a nice note explaining their udden entry into empty nesting. With daughter Erika spending an exchange year at the University of Hawaii, Rachel en tering the Air Force Academy and even the loss of their long-time family pet, their nest is as empty as it can get. They also reflected back on the 2 5 th class reunion and what a pleasant experience it was. Allow me to suggest a German short-hair pointer. This is whatJoyce brought home this winter to get some day time companionship---an intelli gent and loving but totally crazy a n i m a l . It w i l l c hange your lives . . . . Stuart " S t u " reported that wife Linda Kaiser Wantman was quoted in the December issue of Mademoiselle m agazine. He couldn't tell me what she said, and I didn't have the guts to buy the mag at the checkout stand. But I'll bet it was good . . . . Brian Shacter, utilizing one of the world's lost arts, handwriting, sent a nice letter an nouncing that he has returned to N e w England. He is l iving in Falmouth, Mass., having moved there from San Diego to accept a unique and challenging position at the P e n i kese I s land Schoo l . Penikese i s dedicated t o the reha bilitatl n of troubled youths, many of whom have committed serious crimes. Brian points out that the students and staff are the only in habitants on this road less and elec tricity-free island. Besides the nor mal curriculum, free time is spent chopping wood, sailing, fishing and chasing "lobstahs." The staff ro tates off the islandevery other week, which works out great for pursuing other interests. Brian reports that he was able to attend the alumni soccer game th is past fall. The good news was that he bumped into vis iting professor Jay Fell. The bad news was realizing that the current Mules are younger than his own kids . . . . I am now finally getting down to trying to create really in spiring questions for the class news letter. Any suggestions you might have will be gladly accepted. So when you receive the question naire, remember, if you don't tell me something, you run the risk of having me just make it up. Some one who thinks logically is a nice contrast to the real world. +

Correspondent: Robert Gracia Judy Gerrie Heine

Len ''Lane" Parks, with wife usan Ferrel and their two children, l ives in isolation on a smal l island north of Seattle. Both arrists, Lane and Susan work separately but col labo rate in producing gla s work , pa per masks, paper kimonos and prints. Lane has put together an impressive collection of 1 8th- and 1 9th-century bookmaking, paper making and printing tool . H i h a n d m a d e books have s o l d throughout the country, and re cently he was awarded a major prize for printing a book of poetry. Lane attributes his success, in part, to those cold winter days he spent welding in the basement of the Art Department. But as if to demon strate the versatility of a Colby education, Lane and Susan have built a house powered by a solar unit that ran the word processor on which he typed his informational letter. . . . Kathy Denehy Lewis writes that a a result of her hus band changing jobs she will be moving back to Connecticut from Missouri. With two daughters in college, Jen at Southeast Missouri State and Kelly at Keene State in New Hampshire, Kathy i brush ing up her resume . . . . Charlotte Killam writes, in a novel and po etic style, about her busy teaching schedule in Greenwich, N .Y., and her recent travels to Maine, Ha waii and California . . . . R. Bruce MacAdam earned his master's de gree from UNH eight years ago and now works as a special educator. He lives with hi wife, Holly, and two sons, Ethan, 9, and James, 6, in York, Maine. Bruce nourishes his creativity by engaging in photog raphy, chord singing and wood working . . . . J oa n n a S ny d e r Richardson writes from Australia that she create replicas of antique Native American beaded pieces for equestrian use. In addition, she is now pursuing a venture in inter national business; this was not a plan he envisioned 2 5 years ago. . . . Pat Rollent Hanlon lives in Alaska, where he teaches and enjoys the grandeur of the moun tains. She was living in California and moved to Ala ka about eight

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years ago . . . . Tim Crowell re ponded to my request for informa tion about Al Haughton by saying that he and Geep Simonds met with Al late in 1 992 in Boston. A l , who has changed h i name to J omo Zimbabwe, lives in hi hometov. :n, Boston, and teache at an alterna tive high school. He live with his wife and four children, who e age range from 2 to 1 5 . . . . The ques tionnaires have been coming in, and I will ummarize the response in an anecdotal way and present the information in a later column. Please send information o Judy and I won't have to make up srories + about you.

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plying to the la t que tionnaire! Sally finds her e lf in Denver, Colo., where she is a psy chologist at the University ofCo lo rado School of Medicine. ince her days at Colby, Sally has devel oped "a specific theoretical under standing of infantile autism, which is published, and developed a spe cific treatment approach for your children with auti m, which is ef fective in helping them develop language and make progre s." Out side of work Sally tries to find time to read non-professional literature, exercise and take naps. Sounds good to met . . . Ellie ( Bartel '70) and Charle� Miller are located in Port land, Maine, and are the proud parents of three children. Charlie i a partner in the law firm of Bernstein, Shur, Sawyer and Nelson, and Ellie is assistant direc tor of Pine Tree Legal Assistance Inc. Charlie is on the executive committee and the board of direc tors for Temple Beth El and is chairman of the temple' endow ment campaign ( the goal is to raise $2 million by the year 2000) . He is on the board of directors of Cedars ( the Jewish home for the aged) and is active in the commercial leasing subcommittee of the real estate section of the American Bar Asso ciation. Needless to ay, Charlie does n o t l a c k for t h ings t o d o ! . . . Another very b u y person is Sandy Reed Clougher, who has

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oftheCenrral Vermont Chi ld Pro tection Team, i i n her ixth year a a G i rl cout leader and is active in her church . . . . A ga in , l thank ev eryone for helping me with t h is c lumn. Plea e be patient i f I haven't yet included your name. +

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Don't forget to end your change of address to:

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Class of 1968

Reunion Manifesto: "Over The Hill . . . But, Back To It"-Title c. Arthur Jay Abrams, 1 993. Here I type my final column on and inspired by my 1 963 Olivetti Lettera 32 typewriter-the Soul of an Old Machine-and bow, passing the mantle to Mary Jo Calabrese Baur. I shall name a few of you elegant and beatific ouls; any name omitted (neither through neglect nor igno rance on my part but through dearth of pace) l entru t to Mary J o a he embarks on her tour of duty. The following people touched us all in richly varied way at our quarter-century reunion: Chris A u s ten Barbour and the preciou Yearbook Committee, our new officers Debbie Nutter Miner, Paul and Judy Dionne

ing Camber joined figuratively a Carnival King and Queen of Winter and the other three easons, too. We were pleased and proud once again to re-elect Ted Allison, ensuring that he retains his title as Colby Centerfold of the quarter century. (I hope your copy of this magazine is not one of tho e that is mi ing this important middle page.) A premier award goe to Jeanne Amnotte McCarthy for being a jolly good sport when appri ed of the fact that at least one teenage boy has a crush on her. (] eanne, it's the eyes.) In gratitude for his ha bitual generosity and ervice, Colby College hereby noti fie Pete Roy, a.k.a. Esquire, a.k.a. Pirate of the Caribbean, that it (Colby) will pay for the laundry bill incurred by him, and the other le er known �< but till infamous Pirates of Scoville, G. Arthur Brennan � the Caribbean, when he "' washbuckled up onto May and Mary Jo Baur. ( Lisa flower Hill with a duffel full of Fernald Williams and Mike � malodorou unmentionable Caulfield, you wait in the obviously retrieved from the wings, we will get you yet ! ) Richard Fraser ' 68 and Fred Wetzel ' 68 bilge of hi vessel afrer a week We salute Thom Rippon, Bob and a half of Horror-At-Sea. Aisner, Bill Goldfarb, Art Moreover, the co t of maid ervice to room 216 Fo Hall after the Brennan, Jan Volk, Rick Moriarty and Carl Glickman for their above-mentioned (class)mate slipperily vacated the premise under accompl i hments mo t powerful and illustrious. To Ellen Dockser, the cover of (albeit full-moonlit) night will be covered by our Debbie Ayer Sitter, Sue Davidson Lombard, Sue Volpe Hely, Dubious Activity Fund. Rank doe , after all, have its privileges, and Nancy DeAngelis Morgan, Pat Camey, Ted Broomfield, Vic one hand washe the other. Pinasky, Frank Dunton: we thank you for the joy we feel vicariously (intramural news: To Robert Koff '88 from Sari Abul-J ubein '69: in all your achievements, adventure and fun. Rich Lewis, you your one thousand and one Class of '69 t- hirts are ordered and will simply and tersely said it all back in '68 in the Echo. Barry be pony expre ed to you by the Arabian Knights via Casablanca. ) Panepento, Ken Borcher, Steve Zweibaum, Bernie Davidson, A I beam my elf down off my magic carpet, I feel more than a Steve Ward, Bill Palombo and Richard Riemer: you continue to ay tinge of sadne s. till (and here l tum, in my coda, erious) my heart it all now-mystically, whimsically, uccinctly, pre ciently. (How is now bound to the Tsa-La-Gi (Cherokee) way, l am tied to thi are all these j uxtapositions, proper and adverbial?) We all agreed mall but undying nation owing to the grace of Samuel Wilhoite upon, and were destined for, 1 968-the year before "all hell broke Beeler Jr., who last winter picked me up out of my flood disaster and loose." Remember, this Ii t is by no means comprehensive; the howed me that there are people on this injured planet who know aforementioned are those with whom l touched an antennae more dtat Mother Earth and Father Sky live, and still give. Ga-li-e-li-ga. than once during thi mile tone full-moon weekend. 0- a-da-dv. Please remember from whence these words come-the structur Dearest Colby, farewell but not goodbye. These five years have ally at risk brain of Bix-as now I proceed to the humor comer: been the joy of my life. I love you madly. beautiful} udy Mosedale Camber and husband Bruce Prince Charm-

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Nancy Hammar Austin

l 'd been having econd thoughts about the ap propriateness of thi par ticular column, which mostly re ports on our names, until I read the late.st Colby ew letter. Then I realized that looking simply at the question-What were our mo t common and mo t unu ual names? -would, in fact, reflect omething di tinctive about the Class of '7 1 . Members of the Class of '7 1 were not, as you probably guessed, named Tiffany or T ravi . In fact, o er 1 0 percent of the class, 45 men, were named either Richard William or John. Tho e mo t common names were followed clo ely by Robert ( 1 3 }, Michael ( 1 2 ) and David ( 1 1 ) . Other common men' names were Steven, Charles, Paul, Peter and Mark. Our parents were a bit more adventurous with female names. I don't think any female name was repre ented in double digits! Su san ( ) was the most common name, followed by Nancy, Deborah and Kathleen ( 7 ) . Margaret and Karen were next with ix mem bers, then Mary, Barbara, Patricia, Linda, Ann, Judith, Carol and Janet. If you can remember the individuals with the following names, I think that we re all re membering the ame faces! There wa only one Hanria, Anthea,

oftheclass inonecolumn! . . . Two piece of news, one sad, one happy. Bill tanton '72 wrote to inform me of the death last summer of Mark Frisch, who had AID . Bill writes, "My wife, daughter and I wem ro a very moving memorial service for him at the James Beard House in ew York City. He was remembered by his friends a a very caring, generous person with a keenly intelligent and insightful nature. It was clear that he had made a po itive impact on many people' live -although he had not achieved great thing in the eyes of the world." . . . Con-gratu· lation to Dave Nelson, who was recently promoted by heraton Hotel to general manager of a property in Beaver Creek, Colo . . Ti.II next time, be brave!

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Janet Hohn Gerber

Ed and Melaine Geisler Hodgdon have returned

ro Bri tol, Maine, after five years in Penn ylvania. Both are teachers and initially felt the Maine educational system wa roo weak. Thu , a move ro The H ill chool in Portstown, Pa. But they

mi- ed Maine and are now hack m Bri tol reaching, renovating their home and building furniture for 1t. From time to time they ee Rich ard Kaback and his wife, Deni e, and -year-old ·on, Alexander, who live in New York . . . . Ellen Kinne ' continue toenjoythe eanlearea. he tra,·el a lot, vi iring her broth er and i ter, who are located coast to coast . . . . l\·e justhad a remark able talk with Katherine Reed Cochrane. he had just returned from a 1 2- dayro urofViemam. he made the trip in April, just day after the ban on American tourist travel was lifted. Umil April 1 , only U . governmem officials could vi it. As an MIT employee, she repre ented the alumni office, which looks for unique travel op portunities for MIT alumni. he was enthralled by the trip and found it to be one of tho e special few life memorie- we all cheri h. A the trip approached, she ays, he felt a combination of"interest and guilt" about that place and period of time tharcaused o much sufferingwhile many of us at Colby felt o "re moved." Once in iemam, the names and places were so pro,·oca t i ve-Ho Chi M in h , H a n o i , Mekong Delta, Cuchin Tunnels. Her impre ion: a lovely country with warm, friendly people who are eager to put the war behind. They live with constant remind ers: hou es built between bomb craters that ha,·e filled with veg etation over the years, a era hed B52 bomber that remains a a re minder, war museums, etc. "De pite the enormou uffering of the e people, they eem to have forgiven us." Poverty i till enor mou , et the people eem happy. Food is finally plentiful, but there are few cars. Transportation i till largely by bicycle and motorcycle. Katherine found it refreshing to ee no fast food and no pollution. The experience was overwhelm ing, and after a week at home (when 1 poke with her) he ' as j u t be-

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liberal arts education receives high tribute when a patent attorney, looking back on hi defen e of a client' intellectual propertyintere ts, say , "Now that was some veryelegantchemi try." Kendrew H. Colton ' 7 7 , a double major in chemi try and government at Colby and holder of a law degree from Case West ern Re erve University, was re ferring to his work with renowned British chemi t Michael Elliott, who helped invent Deltamethrin, a ynthetic in ecticide. When patent question came up, the British company that owned the rights to Deltamethrin retained Colton' firm, Cushman Darby & Cushman of Washington, D.C., todefend its property rights. Armed with his undergradu ate degree in chemistry and hi training in the law, Col ton launched a year-longody ey that required thorough dige ting of even technical texts on the chemical and economic issue related to the case, 1 2- to 1 8-hour days huddling with his client and other experts through the hot Washington ummer and eight weeks living in a hotel in Manhattan during arbitration proceedings. "It was riveting from a scientific standpoint, and it was a thorny legal question," Colton aid, relishing the challenge of the case. While the outcome was important to the law firm and its client, it was clearly the chase that intrigued Colton. "I could have gone through a po tgraduate program [in chemis try] and till not learned thi stuff," he aid. While Colton's chemistry and political cience intere t are exquisitely integrated in hi pecialized law practice, he recall getting into the double major at Colby primarily out of indecisive ness. He may have described a significant egment of any under graduate group at major-choosing time when he aid, "I dithered

ginning to feel "in sync" again. It took a long time to proces the place , the people, the 20-year-old memories, the 100° days with great humidity, the powerful good and bad smells of the open markets and so much more. Thank you for sharing this, Katherine-so poi gnant for our clas , which wa "of age" in the Vietnam War era. +

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and we would worry if he didn't. Her la t di patch includes a feature article in the local paper about her triplets, who are now 2-year-olds. "] really think we hould give more credit to raising children instead of making money," he writes . . . . For Jeff Barske of Thompson, Conn., it' the live tock that comes in threes. With daughters age 10 and 1 2, "we now have three horses," he reports, "and a pony." Jeff notes that hi employer, Multibank, was bought recently by Bank of Bo ton . . . . Claudia Dold is in Atlanta rai ing "one fantastic kid," age 7 when Claudia wrote in Febru ary. . . . Jeff Cohen traveled from his home in Brunswick, Maine, to

around a little." When he got a smail re earch grant as an underclassman and did an independent project in polymer chemistry, Colton learned the difference between a vocation and an avocation. "I liked the chal lenge, I liked the knowledge I could acquire," he recalled, "but I found I didn't have the patience to sit at the bench." Professor of Chemistry Paul Machemer steer ed Colton to the bar, suggesting that patent law would survive re gardless of ups and downs in the economy and of who is in the White House. While tudying law at Ca e Western in Cleveland, Colton worked in the patent li censing department at Sohio and then won a clerkship at Cushman Darby & Cushman for the sum mer before his final year. Now a partner in the 1 0 1 year-old law firm, Colton i s spe cializing in intellectual property law, which involves copyrights, computer law, trade ecretsandpatents, uchas whoownswhat rights when it come to chemical compounds like Deltamethrin. When he' not in hi ninth-flooroffice in northwest Washington-the view i of the Wa hington Convention Center-he might be out of town or out of the country vi iting clients or developing relationship with potential clients. He even ha a business card printed in Engli h on one side and Japanese on the other. Last spring the American Chemical Society, the pre-eminent society for chemists in the United States, named Colton to its committee on patents and related matters. In his role as a member of the ubcommittee on legi lation and regulation he was recently involved in a tudy that recommended that the ACS support an initiative to make the U.S. Patent Office an independent corpora tion, thereby making it more accountable and more vi ible.

the inaugural in January. He says PresidentClinton came to the New England ball but "alas, did not play the sax." . . . Debbie Ikehara, who now lives in Kaneohe, Hawaii, re ports that she and Alan Linsky '73 had their second daughter on No vember 30. "After waiting so long, we love being parents ! " she says . . . . Denise Bradley Ridge also is in Hawaii, having moved there from Maine last year. . . . Bruce Drouin also has moved-from Texas to Yarmouth, Maine. Janet (Hansen '75) is an architect in Portland, and Bruce i a vice presi dent in corporate banking with Casco Northern Bank. They were expecting their third child last win-

ter. . . . Phyllis Hasegawa Auger wrote from Tigard, Ore., to say she was breaking ground on a new house . . . . Shelley Weiner was in New York, trying to get back to school for a degree in musical com position . . . . Carol Wood Philbin i a vice president and senior trust officer with Merchant's Trust in Burlington, Vt. Husband Paul '76 is on the UVM faculty, and they have season tickets for UVM hockey . . . . Bob Theberge says he just completed moving his contruction business home to Harps well. Wife Kate (Cone '76) wa recently appointed vice president of her law firm's real e rate diviion. . . . Down the road in

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M r . Warren, Seiler' , R.E.L. . , Rummel' , Big John' , The

pa,

to Greece oon, after a wonderful trip last year to Hong Kong and

-Fail, Zilches, Pacy and Ludy, The Pit, X- hirts, Mr. Tobey,

Japan. Chri Mattern Way and husband John traveled without their

Doggie Dore, ammy Man, Jelly Beans-these were but a few of the

three young boys-almost too much freedom for Chris to handle.

aying on the backs of our Colby 20th reunion t- hirts.

ome of us

However, he looked happy all weekend and got to be with her old

had to get educated on what ome of the e things were! We rayed in H illside (formerl

friend Jackie Nienaber Appeldorn, Debbie Mael-Mandino, Lisa

the "new dorms") with class

Kehler Bubar and Carol Chalker McDowell, who e daughters, Amy

head-quarters in rurtevant Lounge and had a total of 1 10 people at

and Molly, were mentally buying the good after they heard that Carol

the

won the weekend'

aturday Roberts dinner with ome pou e , guests and profe -

50 drawing for the Colby bookstore. Terri

or included. Friday night's cocktail parry was held on both floors

Ashburn-Higgins from Garri on,

of the

to a

pa in the

tudent Center, where food and drink were

beautifully displayed and amply upplied. Our aturday picnic, next

.Y., was walking with a cane due

evere ankle break La t December. Her hu band, Bob, and

children, Briana, 6, and John, 3, were with her. Janet Carpenter and

to the lFL field, featured musical entertainment by Chris Prickitt

Patience Gruber Stoddard Ua\·eled part way to reunion together.

and Eric Rolfson and children' dramatic torytelling by Debbie

Janet worked for three year in an Eskimo village in Alaska, de igning

Mae!-Mandino. Debbie came with darling daughter Michelle, who,

and helping to build her own p

along with all the other children, had a blast in the upervi ed

elementary teacher in Penob cot, Maine. Pat Co tello lives in

programs. Chris, who has a daughter at Middlebury College, came

ive olar house.

he' now an

Downington, Pa., and really loves it there near Amish counuy.

from Middlebury, Vt., just to entertain u and was counting on Ed

Nancy McGee Hanna also came from Pa. with children Jonathan, l 0,

reimbursing the

and Erin, . Other people I remember at reunion (and rooting for you to come

Allen being there. Ed, you could le en hi di appointment by

10 late fee charged to him.

to the 25th) were Sue Alling, Dave Baird, Holly Armitage Belmosto

Eric took charge of the podium at the track right after the Parade of Classes. Our class presented a 2 3 .4 7 7 check to the College, more

(our new c lass president) , Janet Perethian Bigelow, Ward Briggs, Ida

than we've ever raised. Ed Brennan was quick to check the old

Dionne Burroughs, Gary Fitts (whose older daughter will be off to

''Faces and Place " to ee what he looked like with hair. Believe me,

Mt. Holyoke in the fall), Ken Gross, Tom Ireland, Blair and

he hasn't lost that much, and he'

till cute. Al o there wa Doug

Cook Janes, Andy Koss, John Krasnavage, Bob Landsvik, Margaret

Gorman with his wife, Cheryl ( Booker '74) and children Bobby, 7 ,

Lichtenberg, Penny Bakewell Linn, Ron Majdalany, Rich Randazzo

and Katie, 3 . Ken Gorman flew i n from Manhattan Beach, Calif.,

(your new VP), Martha Wetmore Scott, Mark Serdjenian, George

with hi

Weitman, Alex Wilson (your new Alumni Council representative),

on,

ic, 9. Another Californian, Janet Hueners, i the

photo coordinatorof CBS Telev is ion in L.A. he has a husband and

Dick and Anne Badmington Cass (on their way to or from

two children, Adam and Amy. Carol Reynolds MucicaoITewksbury,

S u e Colucci Neumyer, Linda Kagels Johnson, Duncan Leith

Mas ., camewithherhu band, Paul, an '"old"cl

( thanks for all your work on reunion '93 ) , Joe Mattos, Barb Powers,

mateofmine from

.H.),

.) H igh.

Roger Sherman (who ev

Carol is a foreign language

eryone agreed looked ex -

Reading ( Ma

teacher at Chelmsford

actly the

High. Dean Eaton and his

Whittelsey (the directorof

ame ) , L u c i a

wife, Carol, came from

financial aid at Colby ) ,

Keene, N.H. Dean has his

Gerri Therriault, Roberta

own bakery and kitchen

Rollins Wallace and Juan

upply tore, and Carolsays

de Lavalle - Riv era .

he makes beautiful wed

aw J im Putnam wander in

ding cakes. Sue Feinberg

for part of the day.

ome

Please forward all new

Adams came with hu -

band Michaelandson am

information to: Margaret

and appeared to have a

McPartland B e an , 1 3 1

wonderful weekend. Mo t

Dudley t . , Presque l le ME

ofus thought we al I looked

4769-29 1 3 . Thank you

much better after two de

and ee you all at the 2 5th.

cades! Sue Schink came, too,

and looks forward to a trip

Duncan ' 73 and Jennifer Leith and Patlick Costello ' 73

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Falmouth, Maine, Tom Pettingill i� the new editor of Wilderness Marrers, the newsletterofthe Maine hapternf the Appalachian Moun tain Club. ays he hikeJ KatahJin' Knife Edge for the first ti me last year . . . . Leo and Leslie Nickerson Bowers are in Hampton, Va. Leo is in a olo family medical practice, and Le lie returned to teaching + after 1 3 years out.

Correspondent: Susan Gearhart Wuest

In February Buck Drew and Erika Dresser '90 met in Jackson Hole, Wyo., for a fantastic day of back country kiing. They "shredded" the back bowls of Teton Pass in knee-Jeep champagne powder. Both felt that their Jan Plan experience at Colby were now paying off1 • • ome excerpts from Marty and Karin Litterer Womer' Chri tmas let ter-both are enjoying their jobs in Rockport, Maine. Karin' 1 2th year at Down East Books wa con siderably more satisfying, due to change in per onnel, organization and her po ition as managing edi tor, plus a new and warmer office! La t year was Marty' first year as the full-time admini trative direc tor for the coastal Mountains Land T ru t, a nonprofit land conserva tion organization that works to bring about permanent protection of scenic, hi toric and environmen tally important lands through con servation easementsoracqui ition. Their mo t recentdramatic project was the acquisition of 45 acres on the face of Mount Battie, over looking Camden. Sixteen year af ter Colby, Marty is finally working professionally in his intended field of natural resource con ervation! Karin and Marty have granted a con ervation easement on their own 1 6. 2-acre property, which they hope will serve as a model for other landowners, as voluntarily granted con ervation easements are an in crea ingly important way to main tain natural features and open spaces. They till enter their four heep in fleece shows. Marty be came involved in party politics and is now on the Knox County Demo cratic Committee, and last Au gu t, when the land trust suddenly needed a licensed auctioneer for a

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fund-rai ing art auction, Marty quickly became licen ed and gave his first a u c t i o n e e r i n g per formance! . . . Colby�ent me ome brief updates on the fol lowing: Debra Babbitt is now working for T and E Investment Service . . . John O'Brien Jr. is with the law officesofEdward Kirby . . . . Lise Van Vooren works for Ger ton F i n anc i a l e r v ic e s . . . J o h n Sklepowicz i i n Central America. . . . AnJ Wayne Hi l l , who has been doing mi ionary work, i the fa ther of three: France ca, 8, Jona t h a n , almost 5, and Marc u s , I . . . . l n our local paper, I read that Earle Ingalls ha been promoted from director to vice president of marketing for the Curtice Bum nack Food Group . . . . To the section of the class that wa mailed my most recent urvey, thank for re ponding-it look like all the "C's" got theirs. Next column I'll use that material somehow, but in the meantime, ome additional newsthatclassmatessent . . . . Scott Carey wrote from Palm Harbor, Fla., where he ha been regional ale manager for N ike since 1 978. He and Molly are celebrating 1 9 year o f marriage i n Augu t. Their children are Chris and Ryan, age 1 5 and 1 3 . . . . Vincent Cassone and his family are enjoying their new home in rural Texa . . . . Paul Coleman pent a hectic year hav ing a new dental office renovated from a city-owned public works building, securing funding, mak ing construction decisions and fi nally moving from an 800-square foot office into a 2 , 500-square-foot + building.

Corre pondent: Leslie A. Ramsay

Since I last called the roster, I have heard from Phil Bruen, Priscilla Martin, Jay Hotchkiss, Vinnie M a r t u c c i and Dr. S t uart J . Georgitus. I apologize for there not having been a March column (I was the sorriest) , but we are about to dance around the May Pole, and in two weeks the heat will be over when I meet this dead line. I, for all of you, espec ially those ofyou who attended our 1 5th, am still humming into the breeze a belated happy birthday lullaby to

Meredith Bean Eley, who gave birth to her first child, Samuel Theodore, on J u ly 1 5 , 1 992. N doubt Merrie and her family have had a busy year, o let' keep blow ing ome cheer her way to keep her sails going in Blue H i l i , Maine. She wrote on her questionnaire that among the jobs she had considered but not pursued since graduation from Colby wa teaching grammar chool. And now in an indirect and very direct way, her wi h has been granted . . . . Perhaps Merrie and Donald may someday I isten on the victrola to a piece from one of Vinnie Martucci' Dolphins band albums ( n the DM P label) a their own lullaby. I am harking back to the Le I More coffee hou e group at Colby. Vinnie wrote and aid his band opened up for Dave Brubeck during a 1 992 tour of eight cities in Germany, wiuerland and Hol land. J ust a few day ago l read that Mr. Brubeck is a eptuagenarian and has no plan to retire. H is tune "Take Five" is one of the best and to think l first heard it in a dorm room a t o p Mayflower H ill. . . . When Merrie and her then 5 - year-old on come to our 20th, perhaps she will meet an "older sister" in Margaret Bruen, now 1 0month old daughter of Phil and Janet (Deering '79 )-that i , if Margaret' parents pioneer all the way back Down East from Chicago the summerof'97 . . . . Surmising is fun isn't it ? Over time l wi h to ply ( using a spinning and weaving term) all of the questions asked and answers given into a taut cord unique to us. But I only have so much room, so let me pau e on a blue note. Chris McKeown Burry will begin a stint at the Naval War College in Newport, R.l . , and she wrote "being happy with what you have in life" in answer to the ques tion "What is your definition of success." Now that is gender-free liberation. And using poetic li cense, in answer to the rhetorical, albeit interesting, que tion, "How has 'women's liberation' affected your life?" I wish to meld the words of two of our sisters into a complete sentence, with wit. "[I]'m ure it has [affected my life]-[t]hestruggle doesn't need a name anymore. [l]t's nice to know there is an old girl ' network out there to rely on ! " And one of our brothers wrote, "[I] try to encourage women to compete what can you do when a 'colleague'

asks a female engineer if she can take shorthand ! " And I like what a seer in our clas wrote best of all (sorry to take a stand ! ) : "[l]t has rai ed everyone else's expectations of u all." . . . Perhaps some of you are wondering what your class ec retary/treasurer is doing. I am our of the hoo egow. At thi moment, besides trying to meet the August deadline, I am two weeks into an eight-week intensive certified nur ing assistant program at the voca tional/technical college here in the city. I sit for the tate exam on May 1 5 . And just for a lark and a blue bird I submitted a manuscript to a literary journal in Tulsa, Okla. The prize would be seeing land where cattle rand like statues and com is as high as an elephant's eye. And I suppose if I were to fill out the Colby Q with re peer to women's liberation, I would respond with a quote, alway being cautious about writing in my own words. One of my favorites, here apropos, is the following by Reeve Lindburgh, youngest daughter of the famed flyer with derring-do, who said in her 1 992 book, The Names of the Mouncains, "[l]t is the daily things that matter, thing we have in com mon. Women in particular have the gift of making things real for their families. What's real is all of us eating and breathing and loving each other. That's what mat ters." . . . I 'll be right back, my but terscotch brownies are burning.+

Correspondent: Emily Sprague

As I write we are one year away from our 1 5th reunion, and asyou read this your class leaders will be plan ning our reunion. Any ideas and suggestion about what you'd like to do will be happily considered. Please write to me and I will pass on what you have to say . . . . I have enjoyed some wonderful letters in the last few months. Among them was a l e tt e r from D e bo rah Lieberman Smith, who wrote from Chester, Conn. The last time we heard from her she was at ea as a second mate on oil tankers sailing between Panama and the Gulf of Mexico. In the interim, she has had serious back urgery, and to prevent further injury he changed

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theater;. in and around A ugu,ta .

anJ 1f \'llU are fortunate you can

catch \)Ile nf her rerformance' 1n

Elizabeth J. Allan '74 wa

potlighted in an article in Business Week. At the mutual-fund group of teven & Clark, where she manage the Japan Fund' 5 1 4 mill ion in a ets, she has been investing in Japane e tock-and recently hit the jackpot with N ikkei . . . . Karen Smith '74 was honored by the College Reading and Leaming A ociation with it Long and Outstanding erv1ce cudder,

Award. Her many contribution to the nationwide organization include e-tabli hina learning resource center at all five campu e ofRutger Univer ity . . . . Riki 0tt '76 was honored as"activi r ofthe year" by the ational W i ldlife Federation for her work after the 19 9 Exxon Valdez oil pill in Alaska. An acknowledged expert on the topic of marine pollution, he has been interviewed by the major television network and wa portrayed as the her ine in a recent HBO film about the pill.

Lyman " 1 1\·ing th e life of gentle

man farmer wirh Elai ne and their . Al") in

Connec ncur. J ohn

.m d -,ecnnJ golf cour-e I'> unda wa \'. Between ] \ 1hn ,rnd Deb Lieberman _ mid�. 1t ,1ught tn be ea,y en,)ugh to ge t a Ctllb\' gather three children. :\dam. _-arah and

Laura. The hu·me" 1' dnmg well <l

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ing together 111 Connec ticut. Faith

(John\ younger sioter) anJ Bob Ham are li\·ing near Greem·ille,

.C., with their daughter. .

Michael Metcalf '70 was appointed to the University ofVermont board of trustee in February . . . . Jeffrey

Cecelski and hb family, includmg hi- \\' tfe, K i m , anJ the ir rwo children . . . . George Martin \\'<l:>

A ociation of ecurities Dealer Automated Quotation y rem . . . . Lee Brandwein '73 bought Berry' tationers in Waterville . . . . Maine state representative Gail Chase '74 wa the ubject of an

The Town Line, a local paper

married in Ocroher to artbt anc\'. Hohon. Bob had the hon r of attending a· best man. Ge,)rge I' comptro l l e r for the town of Hanm·er, Ma . . . Kathy Bleak

erving her district of Albion, China, Benton and

Winsl w . . . . Andrew S. Lipton '74 ha joined the Cincinnati law firm of Manley, Burke & Fi cher a a principal. The law firm is changing its name to Manley Burke, Fi cher, & Lipton . . . . Dave Galvin ' 7 5 was featured in Profiles magazine and in a pecial upplement to the Puget Sound BusinessJournal for hi efforts to keep eattle clean. A upervisor of hazardous waste managment for the Municipality of Metropolitan eattle, he help small bu ine e in eattle develop better, more en ironmentally concious way to dispose of their hazardou waste . . Financial Services in White

almon, Ore. ID

far from the Kmney , 111 - rring fielJ, \la., i� recent 1arymnunr U n i \·er 1ty M . B . A . graJ Mark

Lawrence ' 7 2 was named the a ociate administrator for legi lative affair for the ational Aeronautic and pace Admin istration. He will be monitoring what members ofCongre feel about A A projects and funding for the agency. . . . Fir tmark Corp., a Waterv ille, Maine, inve tment management bu ines headed by James Vigue ' 7 2 , wa the first bu ines in Waterville to be traded on the ational

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article in

ney Pawley wrote from the Vir ginia Blue Ridge Mountains ro hare the happy news of on ean Gordon, who am\·ed in Decem

. Bill Whidden '75 has established an office of is a division of American Expre . . . . Peggo

Horstmann Hodes ' 7 7 is "the mo t familiar voice in Concord' mu ic cene," according to a tory in the Concord, . H . , Moniwr. he i involved in a bevy of mu ic oroup , ranging from the Concord

ber. Kathy i doing the parent hood/career balancing act a- a banking lawyer 111 a Roanoke law firm with the able a·si ranee of her

Chorale to a rock and jazz group called Peggo u . he also hold· the po tion of vocal teacher at the Concord CommuniryMusic chool, where he teaches howrunes,jazz,popandclassical mu ic. . . . E an T.M. Katz ' 7 7 pearheaded a model health-care program in Medford, Mas . , that was awarded the

husband, Keenan.

Kenneth E. Pickard Municipal Innovation Award from the Ma achu em Municipal As ociation for

he would wel

come an · Colby \'i itor to her part

its ucces ful implementation . . . . Jay Hotchkiss ' 7 7 provided tip to interviewers in an article tided

of thecounrry! . . . From theoppoite -ide of the country, Catherine Courtenaye wrote that he has tem

"The Do' & Don'ts of Interviewing" in the March issue of Profile, a busine magazine published in outhem Maine . . . . Michael T. Martin ' 7 7 has joined The Fir t ational Bank of Damari cotta, Maine, as vice pre ident and credit officer. . . . I n May, Susan Wadsworth '77 exhibited oil and pa tel

porarily left her an Franc i·co art tudio to accept a reaching posi tion at outhem Oregon rare College in A hland. he i reach

at We rover, her high chool alma mater in Connecticut. . . . An art how la t pring at d1e outhem Vermont Art Center in Manche ter, Vt., featured d1e work of Ramon A. deMier '78 . . . . Douglas Light '78, as i rant profe or of biology at Ripon College, received the enior Cl Award for the out randing Ripon College faculty member a cho en by the clas . . . . Mark A. McAuliffe '79 wa

ing all levels of painting and draw

promoted to vice pre ident of planning and materials at Bath Iron Works in Maine.

ing. Her recent travels include Italy and Japan for arti tic in piration.

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What a wonderfully romantic sounding life! Ar the moment, it appeals to me far more than the joy of teaching the intricacies of

Births: A on, James Rafael Graziano, to Thomas Graziano '7 1 and Linda Chester ' 7 1 .

literature to the eYenth grade of central ew York! By the time you read this, however, I will have fi

career . Deb i now the proprietor

maga:ine and decided to help me

of the Inn at Che ter.

out. Thank you, Bob, for a mo t informath e letter; thi edition' column re lie on you a its primary

he ay that

her new career i challenging but fulfi l l i ng and

ugge t

a Colby

alumni gathering at the inn. ound like an excellent idea! . . . Bob

fall. When in California for la"· chool, Bob saw Peter Goodnow and hi wife, Catherine, \\·ho are the proud parents of Eli:aberh

will be immea urably ea ier ( in theory ) . Thanks to all \\'ho wrote.

ource! Bob wrote from Alexan

adopted in January.

More next time!

chair of the history department at Robert Loui revenson chool in

Pete is the

the champion letter

dria, Ya. He i an attorney for the U . S. Environmental Protection

writer in the Cla of '79. He no ticed the ab ence of our clas col

Agency in Wa hington, D.C. He

Pebble Beach, Calif. Bob al o ralked

and hi wife, Kay, are anticipating

with Meg Matheson recently.

umn in the March edition of this

the arrival of their fir t child in the

Kinney i

nally completed my M.A. in -ec ondary Engli·h education, and l ife

i legislati\·e coun el to the Maine

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Fewer people showed up for our 1 5th than for our I 0th-but we more than made up for it with great enthusia m. While Mike Slavin was holding I -year-old David Cook, on of Sue ( Conant ' 7 5 ) and James Cook, he surmised it was the "fat and bald" factor that kept others away. Y ung David promptly whoopsed on Mike. Judging by tho e who made an appearance, we are a prolific

Now they roll over and play dead.

class. In fact, one of us wanted a girl so badly he read books on the optimal positions to produce a daughter. The re ults: he n w has two ons. Joanne ( Lynch '80) and Ben Thorndike ay they live in a state of perpetual fatigue with their three children; Ben noted that "diaper are so ab or � bent these days that you can get a weekend out of them." Liz � Gruber and Russ Lodi are now � parent to 2-year-old Rachel and � 4-year-old Hannah. Chip Child's daughter , Lindsa y Al ice, wa Huguette Duteau ' 78 born on Halloween and travels in tyle in a souped-up trailer. Ellen Geaney Crocker and her 1 0year-old daughter, Kate, drove up from New Hamp hire. Ellen's claim to fame: she was at Cheer- the night the cast appeared on The Tonight Show. Mary Rolerson Hebert, who teaches seventh and eighth crrade in Kennebunk, al o has a 1 0-year-old, Scott, brother of 6-year-old Brian. And the third couple with the oldest child was Jack and Lisa Mathey Landry of Yonker , accompanied by Nat, 1 0, and Devin, 6. I was happy to ee Theanna Poulos-Hinman. We worked together in televi ion in Portland back at the tum of the la t decade ( ! ) . She now has a 6-year-old daughter and loves full-time moth erhood in Cumberland, Maine. Mark '77 and Liz Joyce Richardson, in an excellent effort to attend, drove up from Atlanta with their two children, Colleen, 4, and Megan, l. Nick Levintow traveled from Maryland and commented, as did others, that hi life consists of"diaper wipe and juice cup . " Locals Su an ( Raymond ' 79) and John Geismar brought their three children, Emily, 9, Anna, 6, James, 2 . And Steve Jacobs stopped by. He is father to two ch Lldren and doctor to many more as a pediatrician in Lewi ton, Maine. I gave a little talk on televi ion ethics, and Chris Noonan was noted to have asked more questions than he ever did at Colby. And Pamela Cleaves Devine, wife of our beloved pre ident, John Devine, asked people not tO refer to her hu band as "Dopey." It ..,.

Rolling over CDs used to make good sense, but now most banks are paying only a 3 . 5 % return. For a one,life gift annuity, Colby pays between 6.5% and 1 2% depending on your age when you make the gift. And you generate a charitable income tax deduction and reduce your capital gains tax liability.

Put some life into your investment portfolio with a Colby gift annuity.

couldn't be helped. 1 got a lump in my throat as I drove onto campu for the reunion. [ was trying to figure out why, because I consider my college years a time of upheaval and change . . . and [ was a transfer to Colby. But one thing I've learned as I've grown older is how important education i . My education was a gift from my grandparents, and l could see as I drove around what had been given to me. I al o could ee that Colby has been very well taken care of ince we graduated. At our class dinner, Janice Seitzinger, now dean of tudents, ba ketball coach Dick Whitmore and President Cotter poke to us. It was clear how much they love their jobs. We and the students there now are lucky to be recipients of their commitment to quality and their dedication co youth. It was a tumultuou time, but I'm

glad l went through it at Colby.

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Department of Planned G iving Colby College, Waterville, Maine 04901 Fax: 207/872,3555

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Sally Merchant ( arah Lovegren) HCR 62, Box 244B Mt. De ert, ME 04660 207-244-367 1 984

Amy E. Carlson 605 Jone Ferry Rd. , #RRS Carrboro, NC 2 7 5 1 0 91 9-942-4982 1 985

Mary A. Weller-Mayan ( Mary Alice Weller) RD 2, Box 1 49 Camden, DE 1 9934 302-697-0 1 42 1 986

Gretchen B. Lurie (Gretchen A. Bean) 2606 an Marcos Drive Pa adena, CA 9 1 1 07 1 987

Lucy Lennon Tucker (Lucy T. Lennon) 9 Well tone Drive Portland, ME 04 1 0 1 207-772-7 1 2 7

Correspondent: Patricia Valavanis Smith

Keep those note and questionnaires coming! Ir' been great to hear from all of you . . . . Arlington, Mas ., resident Liz Shackford Reinhardt is an assi tant attorney general for the state' public chari ties division. he previously worked in a small law firm in Bo ton with her husband, Mike . . . . Jay Moody took a new job last spring a a geologist w i th Woodard and Curran, an environmental engi neering firm in Portland, Maine. Chasing hi twin boy , age 3, con tinues to keep him busy . . . . Chih Chien Hsu, who's working with the Bulk Cargo Shipping Line in Taipei, Taiwan, got married in May 1 99 1 . He enjoyed vi iting the U. . la t eptember and catching up with Peter Forman and Mike '79 and Sue MacKenzie Donihue at Colby . . . . It was wonderful to hear from Cathy Fiske Liston, who e numerou transfers during her ca reer wid1 U UM have made keep ing up with her a d ifficultendeavor, to say the lea t ! ow an in urance direcror for UNUM and mom to a 5-year-old daughter, Cathy ays he' back in Maine to tay and is helping her husband, John, a car penter, renovate their home in Windham. he has been in touch with Lisanne Janke Mikan, who

had a baby girl la t year ro add ro herteenage children . . . . Dan Sali mone, a fitness manager and conultant with a cycling/fime · com pany in Vermont, just received certification to be a personal trainer. He's al o pending a good deal of time peed-skating and placed fourth in hi di vi ion at the Eastern States competition in Lake Placid. Dan say hello to former roomie Jay Votta ' l . . . . Mimi Brodsky Kress reports that her develop ment firm built and sold hou e in the Wa hington, D.C., area la t year, an impressive achievement given conditions in the real estate market. he spent a weekend in New York City with Debbie Pugh Kelton and Gretchen Huebsch Daly, where they "ate, drank beer and rayed up late-just like at Colby!" Mimi also held a dinner for Roni Weschsler Ford and Sonia Turcotte Fois and their spouses. Roni wa married la t August and recently finished her dermarology residency, and he plan ro go into private practice in the Wa hing ton-Baltimorearea. . . . Durrin and Robert Motley of outh Windsor, Conn., were expecting their first child in March. Bob, an avid golfer, is a sale per on with CB Commer cial Real Estate Group Inc . . . Bemoaning the Texas heat but en joying the long gardening eason, Tina Chen Starke i a hydrologi t with an environmental con ult ing/engineering fim1 in Hou ton. he also recently received her pro fe ional geologi t regi tration for the state of Wyoming. Tina, her husband, Larry ' 1 , and their four cats were looking forward to add ing a "little tarke" to the family this pring. . . . elf-de cribed "po l it ical crony" Aimee Lamorte Rathburn is the a i·tant to the city auditor in Denver. Out ide the office, he's president of her homeowner' a- ociation and pend a lot of time on neighbor+ hood i ue .

Corre pondent: Beth Pniewski Wilson

B r u c e and M a r i s a D' Andrea Barber are

living in ewmarket, Ont., a halfhour north ofToronw, where they built a new hou e la t fall. Mari a write that he was re cently promoted to marketing group product manager for the Canadian di\· i · ion of American Home Foods. he had been mar keting products manager in charge of all the Chef Boyardee product in Canada. Bruce and Mari ·a had dinner with Bob Clark last fall while he was in Toronto on busi ne . Bob i in the pen ion service divi ion of CIG A in Hartford and ha rwo children. . . . Jay Otis opened hi own law practice last winter in Bangor. After being with a mall firm for ix year , he de cided it was rime rogo solo. He will peciali:e in litigation with an empha i on per onal injury and domestic relation . Jay till lives in hi hometown of Veazie with his wife, Debbie, and their rwo chil dren, Lindsay and Andrew. After rwo terrns on the Veazie town coun cil he decided to "self impo e terrn limitations" and did not eek re election, although he remains ac tive in local and state politic . Jay write that he i in contact with omeclassmatesal o practicing law: Mark Fortier, who practices in kowhega n , M a i n e , J oy c e Sheehan Metcalf, who practice in southern Maine, and Bob Ruzzo, who practice in Bo ton. I got a call from Bob nor too long ago. He left the Bo ron firm of herbume, Pow ers, and Needham and i now se nior counsel for Bo ton' Central Artery Project. . . . Brick Moltz i living in Bryn Mawr, Pa., and teach ing at the Baldwin chool. He and his wife, Laura Ru ell, have a on, Cannon Ru ell Moltz, and were expecting a second child in April. They traveled to W t Yellow-tone,

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-,auccs. Chri,tian write that mar

an assi rant pro(essor at Colhy. he

her hu,hand, W i l l . are l idng i n

riage i' "heavenly b l i

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and hu hmJ M ike had a >On i n

Weot De� Moine�. Io w a , where Lioa

has taken fly i ng lessom and plans

A u g u � t of 1 99 2 , P au l F l i n n .

. Lisa Smith Worden and

i. an t'n\'in mmental agency l 1hhy

on ge t t i n g h is r i lut's l i c ense.

aranna write thaL �he was able tll rake adv<tntage of

I a n Lnrimore, a n d L i sa ll'rites, "My

. . . Trudi Chase is l i v i ng in A u -

b u rn , Ma ine, a n d is a hematolo

uu; matern ity bwe policy and take

l i fe ll' i l l never be t h e same l "

gist/,mcologist i n Lewiston. Trud i

. . Linda Clifford Hadley i� a part

recently returned to Maine after

isr. They had a baby in J u ly 1 99 2 ,

ner a t Le\'(:nt h a l , Krasoll' and Roo:,

heing out ofstate f or l O yearsand b

in HartforJ, C\lnn. She anJ hu -

enjoying Jownh i l l sk i i ng, biking,

banJ B i l l live in Longmeadow,

b a sk e t ba l l

MereJ i t h a n d Matthew. Li nda ays l i ve· i n West

Cnrre>pl mdcn t:

Mimi Rasmussen

Freeport, Maine, where M a r i h a her o w n part- time prac tice. They

a n d Chris Morrill, w h n l i ves i n

have three c h i ldren, Charlie J r . ,

Kali a n d J .T . , a n d a f ourth W<b expected last Fehruary . . . . Rick

Lo ts ,1( new has heen coming

in.

Thank

t o everyune who wrote.

. Ed Pate rson write

Schaub is l iv i ng in Centerv i l le,

from

O hi o, an J i the v ice president of sales and marketing for Do l l y I nc .

Rumford, Ma ine, that he is Cl sale> manager for Prudent ial Insurance

H e and h is w i fe,

and Financial ervices and that he and wife Diane h;i\'e two girls . With

u e , have two

c h i ldren, Douglas and W i l l . He

a young fa m i l y , he ha n't haJ t i me to p Li r> ue h 1 M .B .A. y e r, bu t n \ o n the agenda. Ed w r i tes of h is appre-

say they are adj usting to l ife i n the M iJwest after l i vi ng i n B,1 ton.

. Saranna Robin on Thornton

REUNION93 The Cla

w h i t e - wa t e r

i msbury, Conn . ,

West H a r t f o rd . . . . Ch ristian Melby anJ h i s ll'ife, L isa , a re l iv ing i n Jamaica Plain, Mass. hristian is a technical writer, anJ Lba b the owner of Le aucier in Boston's Quincy Market, which srec ial i:es in gourmet auces from arounJ the worl d . They h a ve t raveled to Mex ico, Bel i:e, Costa R ica, Ja maica, an Francisco, ew York

(m n ow . Plca'c keep those letters curn i ng in .

Samaras White are l i v i n g i n

een Brian Picard, who

ohe ha

and

the fall �eme:.tcr off. . . . That's all

raftmg . . . . Charlie '80 a n d Mari

Mass. , and ha\'e two c h i lJ re n ,

olhy's gener

iatil ll1 f or h i ; Colby years in t i l l

ing a c n n fidence in him elf and a

semc of ac c o m p l i shment a nd pr id e . . . . Lila Duffy has been pro

mo teJ to v ice president of Duffy DatTow Adverti;ing Inc. Lila' most

recent ac t i ng roles include playing

a noo ty yacht c l ub wife a an extra in Mel G i bso n 's The Man Without

a Face. L i la also had a

peaking role, with credit, in Stephen King's Pet Sematary. e ve ral TV commer c i a l she w r�te , directed and orga ni:eJ talent for received first prize in the cam pa i gn/TV category of the 1 992 Thomas P. Kane award i n Bangor . . . . Mary Beth Whitaker Mcintire and hu-band J on ' mo t exciting new i the birth of their daughter, Kelly Devin, on J a n u a ry 7. Kelly has had many Colbyvisitor -Janice McKeown,

Brian Coakley, Chris Murphy, Seth Medalie and Bill Moorman. . . . Joe Lynch i a contract man ager for GE, a nd he and wife u an have three d aughter . ince Colby,

Class of 1 983 and KatrinaJannen Donnelly. Chris John

of 1 983 turnout was excellent, aturday,

son noted that the ' 3 group eemed to

J une 5, was even better! Thanks to everyone

have more energy on Friday night than

and the weather at reunion on

who came-I don't have room to mention

aturday p.m. That's true, except for the

everybody's name-and thanks to our out

Joan and Rick Lyons vehicle. They crui·ed

going officer : President Barbara Leonard,

up the coa t for the

Vice President George Raiche and Alumni

crui ed back down to outhem Maine after

Counc il Representative De i rd re "Dede"

ward, the engine hardly cooling. Ellen

Sokoll aid he had no real de ire to ing

Arruda Perkins. Welcome to our new cla officers: Anne Geagan McGrath, pres ide n t , Scott Russell, v ic e president, and Scott Dow, Alumni Council repre entative. I will

karaoke on Friday night but that Dawna

Ea tman Gallo and Barbara Leonard did.

continue for another five year as secretary,

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Also entertaining the crowd were George Katz and John Northrop before the Class of 1 988 took over. A ped al thanks to Vicky Cole, who designed the Class of

t{J

George and Liz Murphy Kloak would

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and l will appreciate your cooperation in sending news ofyour live so we can keep the

� have preferred a panel discu ion to the

c las informed.

I hope we'll have news of theJune birth that were due and news of those of you whom

� museum tour. o everyone pl e a e contrib-

we didn't get to see. We missed you ! Mo t everyone, like Joyce and Paul Lezberg, really did enjoy the weekend. They stayed

aturday dinner and

Sally Lovegren Merchant '83 and George Raiche '83

with the '83ers in Averill, which "wa as Paul remembered" the dorm to be. He a i d Jen Thayer looked fabulou . George Raiche i now on abbatical and headed back to

California after reunion. Lee-Anne Famolare aid she had a great time and enjoyed being with Tim and Peggy Hessler Moore and Bob

ute ideas and uggestion for the 1 5 th in yourcorre pondence to me. Also, we hould keep up our annual giving o that our cla -

has a fanta tic check to pre enr to the College in five year . It was good to see ev eryone-a l l the kids and trailer , the people eeing each other for the first time in 10 year , ome grayer hair

(Chip Kelley) and a brief v isit by Pre idem Cotter. My best to all!

-Sally Lovegren Merchanr

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Joe has received his M .B.A. and law degree and has traveled extenively in Europe and the U.S. for hi work . . . . Barbara Fallows Ive and husband Geoff have two chil dren, Casey and Rory. Barbara is a full-time mom right now and is happy to report that ful l-t ime parenting has unexpected!y turned out to be very fulfilling and the most real thing that she has ever done . . . . Donald Vafides isa den ti t now and was an Air Force officer for three year following dental school. Donald volunteers for AIDSwalk and for the Human Rights Campaign Fund . . . . Joseph Haven hagoury wasbornonJanu ary 25 to Daniel Shagoury and Juliet Blake ' 6 . . . . Paul Maier is a group marketing manager for glo bal product for AT&T in New Jersey. As he spend quite a bit of time in other countries, his current concerns are the evolution of the EC and global financing. Paul re ports that he and Jon Schwartz, Marc Jeton and Tom Dougherty have managed to keep up the tradi tion of an annual ki trip, most recently to Vail. . . . Chris Murphy and wife Maggie have three kid , Conor, 3, Charlotte and Michael, both 1 . Chri write that having twins really i n't bad. Chri regu larly keep in touch with Brian Coakley and Pat Fortin. . . . Matt Donahue and wife Lisa were ex pecting their third child in J une. Matt is running as a candidate for Lowell City Council thi fall, has joined a band and cut a four-song EP of original music. Matt ran into David Marcus in Lowell and re ports that he is with the Mass. attorneygeneral' office. . . . Sarah Mace received her master's in En glish from Pennsylvania in '85 and her Ph.D. in cla ics in '92 from Yale, i currently a lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania and i tarting a assistant professor at Columbia U n iver ity this fall. . . . Katie Wheeler i working on her qualifying paper and dis erta tion for an Ed.D. from Harvard, called "Connecting with Cour age"-an ethnography on a re earch-based adventure program for 1 1 - to 1 3-year-old girls . . . . Carol Arness ha worked for the past six years for a large commercial con struction company in Madi on, Wi . he has completed her union apprentice hip in carpentry and i pre ently researching tarting a

woman-owned and -run construc tion company . . . . Haluk Nural i a marketing manager for Proctor & Gamble in Cincinnati, Ohio. He and his wife, Judy, have two chil dren, Engin and Deniz . . . . Ginny McCourt McCurdy and husband Bob '8 1 have added another to their family unit. Anne Elizabeth was born in February. She joins Katie, 6, Robbie, 4, and Ryan, 2 . Ginny i one cour e away from her M.A. in English/secondary educa tion . . . . Nancy Briggs Marshall andhu band Jay are in a whirlwind right now with a new baby and a new business. Craig Briggs Marshall wa born on eptember 1 9 , and Nancy and Jay bought a printing company, Carrabassett Printers, in January. Nancy i three courses away from her M . B.A. from Tho ma College and hope ro com plete them soon . . . . That' all the room for this column, but 1 have news from many more people to + continue next time.

Correspondent: Sally Lovegren Merchant

Maria J obin -Leeds work fo r the AID Ac tion Committee in Bos ton, Ma ., with health-care work ers who need to know how to deal with HIV- infected patients. She and hubby Greg Leeds '8 1 live in Cambridge, Ma . . . . Clo ter, N .J . , first grade teacher Joanne I yo wrote that herfavorite memorie ofColby include skating on Johnson Pond, cro -country skiing in the arbore tum, friends, making now sculp ture , mud sea on and pring ! . . . Cape Elizabeth, Maine, is home to Chip and Martha Driscoll Kelley and sons Peter and Patrick. Chip wa cho en to officiate the World B Pool Championship in The Netherland in March . . . . Diane Therrien Lamper admits that he's seen 1 0 1 Dalmatians doz ens of time with Andrea, 8, and Jonathan, 2. Diane's an active vol unteer and a Brownie troop leader in Hud on, N . H . . . . Carol and Bruce Leonard and on Tyler live in Rock Hill, .C., where Bruce i a diagnostic radiologist . . . . Work ing with the Media Presbyterian Church youth group and on the board of manager for Philadelphia Seamen' I ns t i t u t e i s M a r k

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NEWSMAKERS Elizabeth Burton Siladi '8 1 has

recently moved ro Radcliffe Col lege a a major gifts officer. . . . John Crowley '82 ha joined Conti nental Cablevision as general man agerof the alem, .H., cabletele vision y tern . . . . Susan A. Jedrey '83 was appointed circulation di rectorof the National School Board Associa-tion' magazines . . . . Tho mas King '83 has been named a i tant profe or ofbiology in the biological ciences department at Central Connecticut rate University in ew Britain. . . . In March, Stuart Krusell '85 was appointed chair of the rate Alcoholic Beverages Control Commi ion by Ma achu errs Governor Wil liam F. Weld. . . . Mario "Mick" Ferrucci '85 made the papers after weathering an ordeal in which he and everal tudents were tranded in a nowstorm during a hiking trip in Virginia. They were rescued after nearly three day by henandoah ational Park rangers. . . . Charmaine Twigg '87 was the ubject of a feature article in tl1e Manchester ( .H.) Union Lender. Twigg was named president of Twigg A ociates, a Bedford real estate firm founded by her father, Charles Twigg '57 . . . . Richard Bisson '88 has joined Earle W. Noyes & ons as vice pre idem of operations . . . . Kevin J. Powers '89 has completed the Officer Indoctrination chool course at the aval Education and Training Center in ewport, R . l . The course prepare tudent for duty in the naval field corresponding to their civilian profi ion . . . . Nicole Scbamban '89 wa appointed to the ew Mexico bar commi ion on profi ionali m.

MILEPOSTS

Births : A on, Shane Rober t , to Page and J e n n ifer Knoll Bouchard '83 . Marriages : Kenneth K. Sharples '8 1 to Lucia Pastoriza in nowbird,

Utah. . . . Karin A. Whiting '83 to Russel W. Burge in Dover, Ma . . . . Kathryn C. Hughes '85 to John W. ullivan in South Danmouth, Mas . . . . Julie Grossman '86 to Anwar Kapadia in Yarmouth Port, Mass. . . . Cynthia C. Lloyd '86 to Christopher J. Brogan '86 in Summit, .J . . . . Christopher S. Parker '86 to Heather . Jones in Utica, N .Y. . . . Ellen Galambos '87 to James Borghesani in Plymouth, Mass . . . . Maura S. Murphy '87 to Roy P.

Harvey in Scituate, Mass. . . . Jayne Gro sman '88 to Chri Martin in Yarmouth Port, Mass. . . . Amanda Howland '88 to athanial G. Huber in Wenham, Mass. . . . Darran G. Hanson '89 to Li Er Tan in New York, .Y.

Lingafelter, who lives with wife

A nne and on Thoma in Wallingford, P a . Mark works a t Chubb a s property and marine de partment manager of under writing . . . . Joan and Rick Lyons live in Portland, Maine, where Rick works as as i tant ice pre idem at Kidder, Peabody & Co . . . . Sharon Mahoney ti.LI find time to work out at a health club, take in a few

movie and travel when she i not working as a primary-care phy i cian at the Brighton Marine Public Health Clinic in ewton, M Astrid and Boyd McHugh live in Chevy Chase, Md., with children Carrena and Bradford. Boyd man age a ki shop in Wa hington, D.C. . . . Jean Christie Mejia made her third trip to Guatemala to isit husband Otto' family. Jean is in-

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volved in a bter-city relationship

w e re

between Somerv i l le , Ma� . , and

seventh and eighth grades. He re

Watertown, Mass., Brenda Segota

Perquin, El

ports that Stacy Kessel graduated

is a CPA at the Boston

1 992 . . . . Finally, on a personal

. . . Stacey Soren en-Ristinmaa,

from North we tern with an M. B.A. and i now living in Philadelphia.

note, I am happy to announce the

h u�band M a t t i and d a u g h t e r

. Edward Maggiacomo J r. i

alvador.

Jane

MacKenzie Morrill stays husy with sons Kenny, John and David as

wel l as with PEO anJ Daughters if the British Empire . . . . Christine

O'Brien is a market research su

t h e Row e ) .

ompany.

Amanda a r e in L u n d ,

helping to tum around an ail ing

weden,

where tacey i a research cienti t

manufacturing compo.ny with 90+

in physic . .

rervi-or for the higher education

. Scott Stein pro

employee in Providence, R . l . He

duced a three-part TV erie · on the

divi ion of Addison-We ley Pub

global economy that we saw on

Ii · h i n g

wa� plann ing to marry Kristin K l itzner in J une . . . . Lt. Kevin

Bruen is l i ving in

s n W i l l iam was born March 2 5 ,

birth of my daughter, Natalie, on February l .

Correspondent:

Gretchen B. Lurie

. . . KarinFosterPalme r l ive

and Pajes Merriman Sterman are

in Medfield, Mass., with hu hand

Calif., anJ works a a criminal de

Ralph and daughter Elirnbeth . . . .

in New York City . . . . Colin Cook ' 4 and Karen Wall Woodlock are

fen e coun el in the U . . Navy. He

Dede Arruda Perkins owns and

ha received a Navy Achievement

married and liv ing in Derry, N . H .

manage

clothing

Medal for his accompli hments.

done. I hope everyone had a chance

. . . Ann and Dan Weeks l i v e in

tore in Portland, Maine. Her fam

He reports that Michael Sanderson

Pittsburgh, Pa., where Dan i assis

to join family and friends for ome fun in the sun and of course ome

o m p a n y i n Peabody,

two ch ildren'

in 1 99 1 -92 .

teve, Isaac

an Francisco,

i ly inc ludes hu band Tony and

tant profes orofhuman genetics at

daughter Katelin and Carly . .

i a part-time accountant and a piring author m New York City.

the Un iversity of Pittsburgh. The

Also in Portland are James and Lori Kelley Plumer. Lori i a wait

. . . Matthew

couple traveled to Bolivia in May

Rochester, N . Y . , and is looking for

1 992 to adopt son Patrick . . . . Deb

ress at Muddy Rudder in Yarmouth,

Caldwell Wooten re ide in Burke,

a po ition teaching science. He i currently taking les ons in tae kwon

and J i m works aspresidentof outh

Va. , with hubby Darryl and sons

do . . . . Andrew "Drew" Worth

mith is l iving in

em Maine Construction Repo1r,

Brandon and Dominic. Debbie i

publishing a newsletter tracking

an OB/GYN re iJent in her third

campaign for an incumbent tare

the local housing indu try.

year at George Washington U .

Todd and Wendy Wittels Renz

Htrpital.

repre entative in Connecti-cut. . . . Julie Brigg i- an awards/pub

ington ran a

boast of the birth of son Tyler. . . .

lic relation manager for the Na tional Engineering ociety. In her -pare time he coaches a volleyball

Jes e and Becky Crook Rogers l ive w ith on Jamie in Morgan H i l l , Calif. A baby wa d u e in February. . . . Tony Bolton i assistant professor of neurology and chief of neurop ychology in the department of neurology at tate U n iver ity of Ne w York at tony Brook . . . . Amy

Corre pondent:

team, volunteer at a local elemen

Mary Alice Weller-Mayan

ucces ful political

tary chool and a i ts with food andclothingdrive . . . . MikeMuir is a computer resource pecialist at kowhegan M iddle chool. He

Margaret Davis Maley finished a ma ter's pro gram in land cape de

Fi her Kelly i more than halfway

ign, moved to Mt. Ki co, N . Y . ,

through her M . B.A. in organiza

a n d found a j o b working at John-

·rrive "to make our chool (or at lea t mine) a place where all kids can become active learner and

tional behavior and work · as an

on De ign & Planning.

he doe

c i tizen for the 2 l st cenrury." M ike

analytical chemist (a microscopi t )

volunteer work for various envi ronmental organization and land trusts. . . . Jennifer"Jeffner" Kirk

has published several article on educational computing and a text on artificial intell igence . . . . JuHe

Beacon, N .Y . . . . At Fleet Finan

Savoie i a tock broker in Center

Copeland Bauer wnte that her

c ial Group in Providence, R . l . , is Jake Filoon, an assistant vice presi

Conway, N . H . he wa married to J im avoie in April '92 and ha fini hed her M . B.A. at Plymouth

job involve rai ing money for a social ervice agency that operate

rate. Jeffner i a member of the

at Champion Paper i n West Nyack, N . Y . he and her family live in

dent of strategic planning and cor porate development. . . Chip

programs in Hawaii and the Ph il

By the time this column reaches you, summer va cation will be clo e t0

much needed R & R. I pent a month in Kennebunkport, Maine, frolicking with Hunter and Paige at the beach. My kid love the water, and my, how that un makes them grow! Hunter is off to pre chool thi fall, and the baby keep me bu y at home with all her 1 year-old tricks. Brigid Hoffman pent a fewday with me thi pring before moving on to her new job at Goldman achs & Co. he con tinue to enjoy the Big Apple but makes ti me for weekend golfgames in the country. She tells me that after ix years inManhattan,Nancy Levine has packed her bag and moved back to Colorado to enjoy a more peaceful routine . . . . Meg Frymoyer Stebbins ha been known to travel quite a bit in the past year-Greece and Australia for starter -but without any writ ten word from her. Meg, are you on U.S. oil now? . . . l heard from Sue Pearson Marchetti thi pring. I'm sure he and husband Mike would have written ooner, but l i ttle Amanda ( d .o.b. 1 0/3 1 /9 2 ) un doubtedly ha them otherwi e oc

Roon e y and wife Mary l ive in

North ConwayRotary Club and of

ippine . Her pet program, Healthy tart, prevent child abuse by iden

Brookline, Mass. Ch i p works as

a bu ine and profe ional women' group. . . Kevin Starr i the man

tifying at-risk families before the c h i ld i born . . . . Gretchen Bean

ageroffinancial analy i at Biogen,

Bergill moved t0

Inc. in Cambridge, Ma s. He and Daire Fontaine Starr '84 built a

because o f a j o b offer from Pata gonia. Currently, Gretchen is work

gan Guaranty in N.Y.C. and l ives

hou e in Westford a few year

ing for the company to implement a global campaign to save wild

newlywed include Pam Frederick

securitie v ice president at Com monwealth Equ i ty ervice in Waltham . . . . Steve Rowse lives with wife Anne Marie and daugh ter H i l lary in Harvard, Ma teve was named in spring 1 99 2 by Ad

verrising Age as one of the U . . A .'s

ago. . . . Brad Whitaker and h is w i fe , Karen, had a baby g i r l ,

top 1 00 marketers i n his role as vice

Katharine Ayne, on J u ne 2 9 ,

president of marketing for Veryfine

1 992 . . . . Stephen Langlois re ceived an M.B.A. from Dartmouth

eattle, Wa h . ,

salmon and their habitat . She writes that he wa a bridesmaid at

cupied! . . . Both Cary Hills and Elizabeth Walzer are attending Tufts Veterinary School. . . . Gus Wilmerding i working for Mor there with his new wife. Other

Robinson, Dana Burch, Tracy Burnham Nicholson and Mary Needham . . . . Madeleine Budnick reported! y has her own design com pany and with her creative talents

in J une 1 99 1 , returned to Digital

A n n -Meg W h i t e and S e a n Padgett's wedding in September. Rick Anderson was best man. Sean

son Matthew and wife Mary while

until May '92 and tarted a new

and Ann-Meg are rebuilding a

holding down a regional branch

career a a consultant with Bain &

house in Grafton, Mass., while she

manager position at lTI Commer

Company. Stephen i workingwith

finishescooking chool andhecon

Haake is working for Scudder,

c ia l Financial Corp. . . Gayle and Mike Schafer, i n Arlington, Mass.,

the p u b l i c m id d l e s c h o o l i n

t in ues

rea l

Stevens and Clark and Lindsey

Brighton t o develop and imple

estate . . . . J ulia Blanchard i s a l i

were expecting a J une baby ( as

ment a reading program for ixth,

brarian in Los Angele , Calif. Her

Carver is with the Four Seasons Hotel. . . . I'm sure there are many

in We tford, Mass. . . Mark Schafer enjoy parenthood with

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i mo t likely managing a uccess ful busine s . . . . I received word th.rough the grapevine that Harriet

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more of you cla mates \\'ith excit ing new items, but l can't read everybody' mind. Before l have to start creating ome embarrassing reports, why not take a few minute to write me of your recent accom pli hment , tra\·el , family addi tion and/or other noteworthy item tO hare? Until then, best wi he to everyone for continued happiness and succe- . +

Corre pondent: Lucy Lennon Tucker

Greeting , c la ! ' ' The questionnaire ha\·e be gun to flow in, -o I'll get right to work. . . Laura Brown Watkin and hu band Clifford bought a house in Marblehead. Un fortunately, the week after they moved in the house burned down. They rebuilt and have been hap pily back in the hou e for a ·ear. Laura is a econd grade reacher in Marblehead, and Cl ifford i a ben efits con ulranr with Wyan. They hare their new home with a ibe rian hu ky named T:adi. Laura re ceived her master' in education fr m Le ley College, Cambridge, in 1 992. The Watkins keep them elve busy with their dog, kting and working on the house. . . . Kris Davidson Young writes from Vinalhaven, Maine, where he lives with husband teven (a self-em ployed lob terrnan) and twin daugh ter Libb and Alex, 3 years old 1 Kri i a mu ic reacher on both Vinalhaven and orth Haven is lands and a private piano instruc tor on Vinalhaven. Be ide rai ing herdaughrer , Kri enjoy the many thing living in a beautiful part of Maine has to offer-walk along the ocean, picnicking and gar dening. . . . Bill Duncombe i in unny Vero Beach, Fla. , where he enjoy the un, playino golf, the beache and wam1 weather when he' not working hard as a stock broker for Raymond Jame & A oc . . . . From Dover, Ma . , Laurie Haley Allen writes thar he and husband Jay are happy to be living clo er to Bo ton and friend from Colby. Laurie and Jay became the proud parents ofEli:abeth Paige in O\ ember, and Laurie i com pletely enjoying full-time mother hood. Jay ' 6 i in fixed income ale with First Bo ton . . . . Will

Holmes igned a contract ro start h i · th ird year t e a c h i n g a r The W i nc hendon c hool i n Winchendon, Ma-s., come this - eptember. Will reaches algebra and coache� soccer and lacrosse as \\'ell a bei.nga "dorm parent" at rhe school. H is ·pare time, \\'hich i, rare during rhe . chool year, is pent \'iSiting frienJs. He's also an avid ·pore fan and did a 2 3 -day Out \\'ard Bound cour e lasr summer in orth Carolina. . . . Darin Jewell writes from m·er eas, \\'here he is tudying for hi Ph.D. in the phi losophy of religion at Cambridge Uni\·er ·ity. Darin rece ived his M . A . in philo ophy from the Claremont Graduate chool in May 1 992. He also has had n\·o journal publication and currently has a book, \Xlhich Is the True Reli gion, on the pre- e-. When not busy with his srudie , Darin enjoys playingba kerball, tra\·eling around the world and "having a fe\\' pints at the local pub." Al o worth not ing is Darin' idea for our 1 0th reunion: "Ha\·ing ir in Hawaii all expense paid ! " . . . I heard from Michael Paul, who' a fourth- ·ear graduate student in alt Lake City, Urah. Michael, who never tray too far from the micro cope, is a Ph. D. candidate in biochemistry and molecular biology. Michael enjoy rugby and skiing (plenty of it i.n Utah ! ) and always manages to entertain vi iri.ng Colby grads dur ing ki season, some of whom have been Michael Donohue, Matt Gove , G reg Pastore and J i m Kaufman, to name a few . . . . Linda Richard i liY ing in Fairfield, Conn., where he is working a a family nur·e practitioner. Linda received her M. . in nur ing from Yale in Mayof'92 and is working at the Yale University Health Cen ter, an HMO for the Yale commu nity. A I write this column Linda i bu y plannino her wedding to David Ryan and their honeymoon i.n Great Britain. Unfortunately, she and David al o have had to make time to rebuild their house, which wa de troyed i.n a Decem ber tonn. Linda keep in touch with clas mate Lisa Moncevicz, Priscilla Phinney and Jonathan Slate, who all work in Boston, and Liz Kotler, who i fini hing up her Ph.D. ar Rice Univer ity i.n Hou ton, T exa . . . . Adam Rosenbaum i in my neck of the wood . He started up hi own re idential car-

pentry bu:-.ines<;, Carpentry Solu tions, in Portland. Mame. :\dam spend- his spare time "trm·elmg b\' motorc\·cle, im·enting >em 1-u..,eful items, \\'riting a h1r of poerr\', play ing a much of che", mountain· biking, kiing, rollerhladmg anJ camping." . When Steve San born last \\Tote, he wa-; in Hun gary, where he spent la..,t year a' a Fulhrighr exchange reacher. No\\' he' back in Maine at GL ulJ Acad emy reaching biL1lngy once again. In ans11·er ro the question of \\'hat ears up te\·e's spare r ime, he reponded, "Li\'lng 111 a dL1rm \\"Ith 50 teenage boys." te\·e \\'<1" starting his master' in educat ion rhi.., :ummer. . . . When l sa\\' Liz Sedor at our fifth-year reunion she said ·he \\'a - getting ready to tm)\'e back to rhe Easr Coast after-+ 1 /2 years in Chicago. As it rum· L)Ut, Li: inrer \'iewed on reunion ll"eekend and mm·ed t\\'O weeks larer! Li: i ·till in ad\·enising a n account execu th·e, but no\\' she' 1rnrking in Bo- ton for the Houston Effler ad agency. Li: ha been keeping \·ery a c t i \' e p l a y i ng r e n n i , doing aerobics, running and kiing. he' recent! ' tarted piano les·on for rhe first rime in her life and is about to begin scuba divino leon 1 Li: applied to and was accepted ar Harvard, Tuck ( Dartmouth) and Kellogg bu ·ine s chool and has decided to anend Tuck this fall. Thi ummer he' off to traYel in the U . . . . . Theresa S p r o u l Heckler i s lh·ing i n Bangor, Maine, and working ar a h mele-- shelter as a night raff worker. Tree and hu !:and Larry, who is a home maker, recently became the par entsofJasmine Esrher, born Febru ary 3. Tree writes thar becoming a mother i "the mo r extraordinary thing l \·e done in my life." Tree enjoy keeping in touch with Colby friend via mail as she i a letter writing fanatic. . . . Rick Strock i l iving in Brookline, Ma s., and working as a journal ist/desi!mer for IR A, the A ociarion of Quality Clubs in Bo ton . . . . And la r bur mosrdefinirelynor lea r, I'm happy and Jen to say that Michael ' nifer Erlandson Ayers became the proud parent of a healthy baby boy, Matthew Erland on Ayers, on March 24. Matthew can1e into the world weighing 71b ., - o:. ot only do they have parenthood keep ing them bu y, but Michael was lated to graduate from Georgetown

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!ed1cal :chnol in lay. Then rhe A\'er, planneJ [L) go off ro Han' 1\·er, .H., \\'here i\ ! tch,1el \\'a� to heg111 h i ' re-.idenc y a r Darr m o u r h H 1 tchrnck J\ !eJ1cal Center rh1, ,ummer. CLmgratulminn' ro )\ l ike and Jen and �n all el,e ab1)\ e ,,n rhc1r recent mile,rone'i: marnage..,, b1nh,, graJuattnn,, nc\\' J< 1b,'. Keep the que..,r1nnna1re' cnm111g. l k)\·e + rhe mad!

orresp1)ndenr: Deborah A. Greene

o time for a l\'IUY 1 11troJuc rton here-let\ get>traighr to rhe fact': From the acaclem1c \\'OrlJ comes news of Mark Demian', ..,ucce,s � at Ca,e 'J estem Reser;e Un1\'ers1t\' chool of Lal\'. He \\'a, recently named president of rhe Ault )\ lock Trial Team, a nationally competi ti\·e rnal ad\·ocacy program, anJ i' credited \\'ith helpmg rhe ream reach top honor . . . The chilJren of eattle will nodL)ubr be healthier with Dr. John Girard at the Un1\·ersiry of Washmgton beginning a three-year residency program in pediatrics. Joh.n ju r graduated from Hat\·ard Medical chool and la. r I heard wa- looking for\\'ard to Cl m muting in a c1t:y with less 111,·ane dri\·er . ( l kno\\' \\'hat all you Bos ton dri\·ers are thinking: e\'eryone eL�e dri\•es much roo slowly. } . . . l heard much good ne\\'s from Chris topher Tompkins, \\'hO\\'rire that despite being ar all the .Y.C. par ries he wonder· ho\\' come his name hasn't been in thi_ column yet. Well. Chris, all I can say i : ChrisTompkins, Ch ris Tomp kins, Chris Tompkins, Chris Tompkin , Chris Tompkins. Doe · rhar make up for it? He'- been working ar Laurie Ravei ' alma mater, Green Farm Academy in We rporrConn., ande capingeach ummer to the Adm1s ions Office ar Colby, where he intef\' ie\\'s 2 5000 prospecti\'e tudems. Thi - fall he \\'ill probably be recruiting ru dents from outh America, i.nce he and his fiancee were appointed ro the fac u l ty ar A c a d e m i a Cotopaxi i n Quito, Ecuador, where they'll be for the next nrn year . He and Kate met ar Tripp and Heidi Lombard John on' wedding at Colby in J une 1 992, \\'ere engaged last fall and planned to mo\'e to

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EcuaJor the d ay after the i r J u ly 3 l

rack wh i le trave l i ng in Europe af

pany wh i l e he wa working in ad

their mutual horn town. Ann i a

wedding. Kare is a U n ion

ol lege

ter graduati n anJ was i tting on a

vertising that enabled hi m to land

firstgrade reacher in Santa M nica,

train hound for Scand i nav ia wh i l e

a Pew Fellowship. H is c l ients are

Calif., and i pur uing her master'

from the same in '9 1 . Wr i tes Chris,

his backpack w a s si rr ing on an

pri vatizatinn, nor the least of which

Universiry . G regha al·o gone back

grad,

la ·s l 'f '

8, with u m aster'

that he's meet i ng lots of interest

to school at UCLA for busine s. . .

ing people from Estonia and the

Da are planning a September 2 5

companies facing the ha l lenge of

in education at Loyola Maryrnount

tioned running i nto )ther Colby

never found out what happene d to

grad at the annual Connolly bash,

Chri

h i m elf. For the pa t year

international aid community but

wedding in M i nneapo l i . Both

such as Lizzy Clapham, Margaret

he'

been li vi ng and working in

work at I DS Financial Service in

Hartnett, Martha Brockleman anJ

Tal li nn , Estonia, a part of a U . . -

unfortunately "wa-, involved in my first Baltic car era h when a cra:eJ

Forsyth Kineon. And what's this

based technical a sistance rrogram

Ru ian sm;rhed into the Lada I

about J i m Connolly being hot and

that proviJe con ultancy services

wa driving . " All I can ay b I hope

planner and l l i na a a workstation

to the

his luck with foreign transporta t ion improves! . . . WeJding new

"I magine, an older, bettercJucated

other tra in b o und for Germany. Or

person! N o q u iet or meek wife for

was it the other way around?

this loud mout h . " Chris al n men

heavy with a M id weste rner n a med

Adryan ? Inquiring m i nds want to

his pack hut recent l y heard from

m a l l - anJ med i u m -si:eJ

enterprise sec to r. N ow, in ca e

k now! . . . The la·r t i me I hearJ

anyone's wondering how omeone

anything about Chris Preston, he'd

ends up in Eston ia , it was an a.sign

gotten

eparated from hi· back-

REUNION93

is being a ble to p;1y

menr with a Finnish coffee com-

hris. 1- l e writes

. Jeffery David Smith and I l ina

Mi nneapoli , Jeff a

a financial

analy t. Best wi hesroall the newly wed ! . . . Gumby, who e mono chromatic intere ts are well known

incluJe Gregory Weston '90, who

·ay

wi ll wed Ann Madewel l on De ce mber 1 8 , in Cincinnat i , Oh io,

finally " eeing green."

that after even year

Class of 1988 ment

W ith beautiful weather erring the tone for the weekend, the Cla of '8 returned in large number (approximately 1 40 alums

from the peanut gallery, kept the group laughing with

anecdotes about him elf and the class. The new slate of officer wa announced at the Jinner: Toby Bell, pre ident, Mary Federle Porter, VP, Sara Dick i on, corre pondent, and Heidi Irving

and pause /gue ts) to Mayflower Hill to celebrate our fifth reunion.

We enjoyed a Big G' reception on Friday night a we cauahr up on

Naughton, A l umni Council repre ntative. Following the di.1.1ner, other reunion cla ses joined

each other's lives. It i reported that Karen Reilly. Susie Zimmermann a n d J oc e l y n Wooten a l l ( they injected new life into i t )

with u for a dance in the tudent Center ( art of like

and allegedly would not relin

the good ol' day but without

quish the microphone for the

the inch or two of beer on the floor ! ) . Kristin Shea and

crashed the ' 8 3 karaoke party

resr of the evening.

aturday

Allyn Emery (all the way

morning came around a l i ttle too quickly for ome, but not

from California) cut a mean rug on the dance floor. Ba err

for J ill Taylor Harrison, wh led an aerobics cla

wa een n the dance floor more than once twirl ing former tudents around. And again we had some aspiring diva , who crashed the Clas of '68 karaoke party!

for all

reunion goer . Paige Alex ander was

potted heading

over for a workout ( at

:30

a.rn., mind you ! ) . Ourclas had a good haw

We woke up on Sunday morning to Bonnie' coffee

ing for the parade. We march ed to the football field, where

cake in our headquarter (Mary Low Lounge) and said

Toby Bell and Sara Dickison pre ented President Cotter a

our goodbyes. I heard from a bunch of people that they were so glad they attended

check from the class for $8,534. We then had a class picture taken and joined the re t of

reunion. They thought they

the reunion classe for a lob ster bake/chicken barbecue. The weather during the aftern on wa·

wouldn't know anyone or would fee l out of place, but without exception cla smates told me that they were glad to ee old friends a well as people whom they didn't know o well at Colby

ideal for volleyball ( j u t ask Tim Wissemann) , and in fact it wa difficult to tear cla mates away from the game in time for dinner.

amazingly, the barrier of different clique did not eem so impen

Also during the afternoon, Sue Jacobson participated in a panel

etrable anymore! If you weren't able to attend reunion thi year,

discu sion about TV new -the room was packed. Sue also pro

make a point to join u in-yikes !- 1998.

duced our great reunion video with the pictures that were ubmitted. We were joined for dinner on Saturday night by profe sor Charlie Bassett and Pete Moss. Charlie, amid catcall

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T H E N I N E T I E S Correspondents: 1990 Laura Senier 4 71 Lowell treet Reading, MA 0 1 867 6 1 7-944- 1 399 ( h ) 6 1 7- 60- 1 548 ( w ) 1991 Brad Comisar 1 7 5 2 1 t Avenue, Apt l A New York, N Y 1 0 1 2 - 5 298

2 1 2-34 -8968 1 992 Katie Martin 1 1 Larchmont Avenue Larchmont, N Y 1 05 3 8

9 1 4-834- 5 5 3 7 1 993 Kristin Owen 226 Hawkins Street Derby, CT 064 1 8

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Corre pendent:

Katie Martin Thank you, thank you, thank you. You guy are the best! I have had a continuous stream of letter and phone calls arriving at my house from '92ers all over. Without you guys, the ta k of writing this col umn would be a nightmare! It's been three months ince 1 wrote the last column, and so much has happened ince then. Lots of news to flll you in on. Unfortunately, ome of it may be a repeat from la t timebecau e my harddrive crashed, and 1 con equendy lo t everything, including all of tho e columns that I wrote. o, bear with me . . . . I'll go in chronological order. I n Feb ruary, I took a drive down to D.C. to visit Rachel Klein, Andrew Eldredge, Dave Edelstein and Ryan Strowger. My wallet got sto len ir) New Jer ey on the way down,

but nonetheles it wa a great vi it. l al o had a chance to visit with

Trey Vincent, Christy O'Rourke, Kyle Lissack, Chris Ward, Lisa M c M a h o n , L i s a B l a c k and Whitney Adams. We all had a great time, and I loved D.C. In the middle of winter, temps topped 60 degrees, o we got to spend a lot of time out, ide, which wa a nice treat. News from down there is that George Linge recently joined the ranks and is living with Trey. . . . In mid-February, I went into New York to an alumni parry that in cluded grads from schools all over New England. 1 met up with Deb Fuller beforehand, and when we arrived, they were showing clip from Colby ECAC games over the la t four years on big-screen TV. lr was wild. Deb and I ran into Sarah Block and Ben Ames '9 1 . I r wa great to catch up with them, and arah infonned me that K.K. Smith i working for the Federal Re erve Bank in New York . . . . In the be ginning of March 1 took off for Bo ton to tay with Kelly Evans. Along with Becky Graham I went to a Colby party and aw ton ofour cla mares, including Liz Cimino,

Michelle Rowell, John Rimas, John Daileanes, Kate Kane and the ho ts of the party, Amanda Bishop, Sarah Burns, Kristen Russo, Jessica D'Ercole, Bessie Moss and J ocelyn Childs. My

m a ter's program i n environmen tal studies . . . . Jennie Holman wrote me a new y letter (four rages, to be exac t ) , o here it goe : Roger Schulman is survi\'ing teaching Engli h for IBM for a year, and Steve Albani is li\'ing in N .Y.C. working at a law finn and ha com pleted an NYU film project. Glen Porter acted with the Company

Theater in Norwell. Ma ' · · rlaymg the leaJ rnle 111 Dearh£Tap. J .C.

K l i c k , K ri s Boynton , A n d y Wellnitz, D e b Carney, Bonnie Dewsbury anJ Carol Chamber lain all got together to cheer him

on. Glen L looking to mo\'e our to LA. sometime this summer hut 111 the meantime is waiting table' at Pi::eria Uno' . Glen ran 111rn Tara

NEWSMAKERS Peter Carlton '90 wa the author of a Stamford Sunday Advocate op-ed piece on Clinton admini rration programs . . . . Awarded a fellowship by the National Endowment for the Humanitie to participate in the 1 993 program of Summer Seminars for chool Teachers, Scott A. Schinneier '90 attended "Cultural Founda tions of Work, Wealth and Leisure: Durkheim, Weber,

immel,

Veblen" at SUNY-Oneonta. He al o was one of 220 teachers elected by the J. William Fulbright Foreign

cholarship Board

for an exchange program and i teaching thi year in Hungary.

. . . Cla sical guitarist Robert Scott J r. '90 will t ur India with

the Bombay Madrigal ociety Concert eries. . . . J ulie Moran '9 1 is a teaching a i tant in the Ph.D. program in molecular

toxicology at the Univer ity of Colorado Health cience Center in Denver. . . . Keith Thomajan '9 1 pent the last ch ol year with the Teach for America program in Oakland, Calif. . .

. Kristen J . Widronak '9 1 completed ba ic military police training at Ft. McClellan, Ala . . . . The Salem (Ma . ) News elected Kristen Woods ' 9 1 as coach of the year for leading the Hamilton-Wenham wimming ream to a rapid rise in only its econd year of competition . . . . Nat Fenollosa '92 wa quoted in a Con.cord Monitor article about The

apologies to anyone I left out. Al o l iv ing in the Boston area are Heather Ferguson and Brenda Burke, whom I didn't ee. The next night Kelly and I met up with Helen Suh and Steve Swartz and went out on the town. Ir was great to be back in Boston and to catch up with everybody. . . . As for let ter , here we go: Laura Armstrong wrote me from her cabin along the Snake River in Jack on, Wyo., where he i interning with the Jackson Hole Land T ru t by day and working for a new paper by night. he' applied to the Univer sity of Montana-Mi soula for their

tudent Conservation

A ociation. The biology major gained valuable work experi

ence in 1 992 working in a fi h re tocking program at a re ervoir in a national forest in Utah . . . . Peter Ginolfi '92 i the new varsity boys !aero se coach in Ma conomet, Ma s.

MILEPOSTS Maniages: Kerri Weise '90 to Jonathan Augusto in

udbury,

Mas . . . . Gina A. Rogers '9 1 to Paul M. Kin ella in Palo Alto, Calif.

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McDonough ar the Ne\\' Reper

(lll·y Thearer in Mi I wn, Mas>. She's

Geographically Inclined

the hnuse manager there, and on her nigh rs off Kris McGrew fil l, in for her.

arnl Chamberlain reaches ·e\·enr h grade English and geogra

phy. Send her a postcard from an interesting place to add to the post card map that her class is creating ( i nteresting means anywhere out

side nf Mass. ) . . . . A bter from camper Dan Belvin informed me that he ha been srar ioned in Radcl iff, Ky. ( wh ich makes Water ville look like Portland ! ) He is the a siswnr operation managera t the

Amy Farmer '90 is a little sheepi h talking about the first time she went to Colby' Career Service Office. "] told the coun elor, 'I want to work at National Geographic,"' recalls the fonner English major who rook pictures for the Echo and for the College. "They aid, 'Oh, no. You'll never get a job there." What makes the tory sweet i that she tells it in her eighth-fl or office at the National Geographic Society building in We hington, D.C. Fanner work in the illu tration department,

42nd Field Hospital at Fort Knox ,

helping to arrange and select ph tographs � r

Ky. , where he does everything in \·olved with communicat iori:, a

the wor l d-Nat iona l Geographic.

wel l as training and unit move ment during deployment. . . . Nancy

Putnam informed me that ·he was to begin Up W i th People la t J anu ary, training in Tucson, Ari:., for five weeks. One act ll'a to travel thr ugh Japan and Latin America and the other through Europe.

Kate Cain wrote to inform me that he was on her way around the world.

top· along the way were to

inc l ude A u s t ra l i a ,

i ngapore,

Nepal, Thailand and variou places

what i arguably the be t i l lustrated magazine in The advice Farmer got at Colby wasn't bad; the National Geographic Society trie· to di courage college graduate from a piring to work for the magazine fresh out of chool, although a few are hired. "I answered a blind ad," Fanner said. "I

didn't know I was applying to National Geogra/)hic." Thar wa in the fall of 1 990, the ame year he graduated. before moving to illustrations. Now her dutie

he pent a year in the re earch L ibrary

include helping photographers who are on

as ignment in the field et up hoot for upcoming magazine feature . She al o handles the photos that come back, working with the ph tographers and photo editors to winnow out the few outstanding h ts that ultimately illu trate a tory. "Once we get dmvn to what we're going to show

in Europe . . . . I got the same letter that the resrof you did from Kendra

to the editor, I get more involved," she said. She al o i re ponsible for as embling and recording the

Smith ahout our pledge . I hope we

for each tory to which he i as igned.

kept up the good example we ·er in the spring of'92 when we broke all records. Kendra a ls o included ome newsy info for me. Ted Bosco was ubstitute teaching at team High chool with plan

to move into

Boston with Dave Dore, who had

infonnation u ed to write caption that appear in the magazine, and she coordinate eparate budgets For a recent article on water in the Middle Ea t she arranged pennis ion to take aerial photos of the Atari.irk Dam by calling the government of Turkey. She also talked or corre ponded with representative of the Jordanian army and the Ministry of Water in Kuwait and the

yrian

ambassador to the U . . Fanner routinely deals with the top photojournalist in the world (some of whom he de cribes as "quirky") and al o helps with their equipment. One , when a Load of camera gear ju t back from

been to Egypt. Diana Barton taught

Africa arrived in her office, he discovered that one ca e contained a pider about the ize of a half

biology at Vermont Academy un

dollar. It ominou

t i l Fe bruary , then planned to head out to Colorado to v isit Jason Gleeson. Annie Southall pent last ummer on a chooner sail ing the coa t of Maine and is now l iving

et of fangs prompted her to call the

peciali t currying aero

mith onian, which ent an arachnid

town. Yes, the spider wa poi onous, he learned, but it was more likely

to bite animals than people. (At la t report the pider till lived at the mith onian' Wa hington National Zoo . ) Fanner works o n pecific torie from conception right through t o publication.

he has to be

and working in Rhode Island. Jill

cautiou talking about works in progre s because of the competitive nature of publication and the

Collett is li v ing and working in California. Michelle Corrigan is

published in 1 995," she said.

l iving in Virginia and working at ICF. he p l anned to head back to pain in the fall on a cholar h ip to study. Thanks, Kendra . . . . Nicole

Dauteuil got engaged ju t before

Long Lead time for National Geographic article . "Right now I'm working on torie

that will be

An interesting aspect of her budding career at National Geographic is that he can't expect i t to flower without a transplant pha e omewhere el e. The nature of the organization is thateditor mu t earn their stripes at other publications before being con idered for management level job with the ociery.

Christmas to Rob Begin and was

Even though Farmer already has National Geographic photographer a king her advice when it

making plans for an Augu t wed ding . . . . Anne Bowie was working

comes to selecting their photos, right now a hobby in archeology and a graduate program in

l ike crazy in the Col by Ad m is ions

Office, reading the applications of prospective students for the Cla s of '97. . . . I hope you a l l are we l l . K eep me upd ated on what's going

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program in anthropological and museum studie at George Wa h ington Univer ity and love it. Looking down the road, he said, "l'd like to get a Ph.D. and maybe work for the Smith onian." In the meantime, working with the likes of primatologist Jane Goodall and the Briti h archeologist Norman Hammond has been, Farmer aid, "a tremendou inspiration."

on in your lives.

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anthropology might be better indicator· of the direction he's headed. She' in a master' degree

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Charles C. Leighton '60, Pharmaceutical Executive and Colby Overseer Charle

C. Leighton '60, a medical doctor,

ciation of University Women fo r her work i n

leading pharmaceutical policymaker and Colby

cotland o n thi proiect. Her edltlon o f the

overseer, died J une 1 in Ambler, Pa . , at 54. He

James Boswe l l estate papers 1s forthcoming. Her

wa born in Boston and graduated from ewton High chool in ewton\'ille, Ma s. At Colby

career included teaching at the state uni\·en rie· oi ew Hampshire, Kan a , !assachu�errs and Maine, where she and her hu banJ moved

in l 956. 111eyretumed to their home m Ori field in 1 9 70. h� held member-hip m P.E.O., the Ot isfield Hisrorical ociet)', the Ori-field Bap

he was a member of Blue Key, a donn counselor and a junior and enior adYi-er, and he e1ved on the dean' committee on alcoholic be\·er ages, the Interfraternity Council and the

dent Chri tian A sociation. He wa a member

tist church and the AAUP. For many years he

wa a rru tee ofBridgton Academy, and in 1 99 l

of Pi Lambda Phi fraternity and was its president

in 1 9 59. He graduated cum laude with a B.A. in biology and wa elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He

she received the Hebron Academy Di rin gui hed erYice Award. he wasacti\•e m Colby

received h i medical degree from Harvard and interned at the Uni\'er ity of Minnesota, con

alumni affair as class agent, member of the Alumni Council and president of the 50-Plus Club and in 1 979 was awarded a Colb\· Bnck.

tinuing his rudie with re earch fellow hips in biology at the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory, in p ychiarry at Peter Bent Brigham

Three brothers and a i ter-Frederick 'l 7, John ' l and Albanu Pottle '22 and Estelle

Ho pita! in Bo ton and in pharmacology at Harvard. I n 1 96 5 he joi.ned Merck, harp &

Portie tone '28-all attended the College. he is survived by her husband, her i ter, a daughter, two sons, nine grandchildren and 1 1

Dahme Re earch Laboratorie a a profe ional education writer, beginning hi lifelong in

great-grandchildren.

volvement in the medical and phannaceutical field-. He erved as pre ident of Drug Informa tion As ociates i n l 97 3- 1 974 and on its board of directors from 1 9 7 1 ro 1 9 7 5 . He was a member of the American A sociation for the Ad\·ance ment of cience, the American A sociarion for the H istory of Medicine, the American Heart A ociation, the American Medical As ocia tion, the American Medical Writers A ocia rion and the American

ociety for Clinical

Pharmacology and Therapeutic . He al o was a tru tee of the International Life cience In ti ture-Nutrition Foundation and an appointee to the Congres ional Cammi ion on the Federal Drug Approval Proce

and to the

ational

Committee to Review Current Procedure for Approval of ew Druos for Cancer and Al D , a well a erving as director and ecretary of the Indu trial Biotechnology A ociation and a a member of the Food and Drug Law In tirute Planning Committee. He wa appointed enior vice pre idem of admini tration, planning and cience policy at Merck in 1 990 and in 1 99 2 recei ed t he Drug Infonnarion A ociate Dis tingui hed Career Award for hi contributions

to the indu try. He was chair of the board of the

Lower Gwynedd ( Pa. ) Township

upervisors

and a member of the Au able Club and Phila delphia Cricket Club. He al-o gave much of hi time and energy to Colby, erving as an alumni interviewer, an Alumni Council repre enta tive, an overseer and a generou contributor to the Alumni Fund. He ad vi ed the College on it

science curriculum and donated fund for better laborarory equipment and facilirie·. He is ur \"i\·ed by his wife, Pamela, and three children.

Nellie Pottle Hankins '25 , Boswell Editor

Raymond C. Whitney Sr. ' 1 8, Oil Distributor Raymond C. Whimey

r. '1 , a merchant and

oil company president, died March 7 in DO\·er Foxcroft, Maine, at 97. He was born in Cam bridge, Maine, and graduated from Coburn Clas ical Institute. After Colby, where he ma jored in geology and was a member of Delta Upsilon fraternit)-, he ·erved � r rwoyears in the

Nellie Pottle Hankins ' 2 5 , an editor of the Jame Bo well papers, died March 2 2 in West Paris, Maine, at he was born in East Otisfield, Maine, and educated at the Pugleyville School, Oxford High chool and Hebron Acad em • . At Colby, where she majored in Engli h and wa elected to Phi Beta Kappa, he erved a president of Women's rudent Government

Army. Later he became the owner of D.B. Whimey and Son General tore in Cam

and wa a member of Chi Omega orority. For two year he taught at pelman College in

wa a member of the Masonic Lodge, Tri Coun try hrine, Anah Temple hrine in Bangor

Atlanta, Ga., then taught at Lee Academy in

and the American Legion. urdving are hi wife, Bernice Lord Whimey, two sons, four grandchildren, ix ITTeat-grandchildren and one

Lee, Maine. In 1 929 he received her master' degree in Engli h literature from Yale Univerity. In 1 930 he married John E . Hankins, and for many year the couple re ided in Lawrence, Kans., where he was active in numerous \·olun teer acti\·itie . After rai ing her family, he earned her Ph.D. from the University ofKansa in 1 96 .

he was an editor for the Yale edition

of the private papers of Jame Bo well and received a fellowship from the American As o-

bridge, which he operated for many years with his on. He served as posrma rer of Cambridge for more than 25 years and was a director of the Fin arional Bank of Pittsfield. In the 1 960he moved ro Dexter, Maine, where he was pre idem of R.C. Whime · &

ons Oil Co. He

great-great-grandchild.

Wendell F. Grant, '23 , Life Insurance Agent

Wendell F. "Hank" Grant '23, a l ife in urance agent, died February 16 in Portsmouth, .H.

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He was 9 . Born in Orient, Maine, he attended Hou lton schools and gradu;ited from Houlton

ated as a memb r of Phi Beta Kappa. In l 9 30 she

H igh chool in 1 9 1 8. At Colby, where he wa:; a pri,·mc in the Colhy Army Training orp

from

from September m December 1 9 1 8, he wm. clas;

president hi - sophomore year and was a member of Student Council and of Delta Kappa Epsilon fratern i ty. Immediately after graduating with a B. . in 1 9 2 3, he began working for Aetna Life

In-urance ompany, which he served for 30 years m Concord, N . H . , until hi:; retirement in 1 96 l . He was president of the New Hamp hire Assoc iation of Life Underwriters. An ac tive member llf the Cone rd community, he volun teered much rime m church and c i vic ac tiv itie:;,

including serving on the c i ty counc i l . In retire ment he moved to Ven ice, Fla . , where he con tinued hi

involvement i n commun i ty and

church activ it ies. He wa; a faithful ·upporter of the Colleae and served Colby in several fund raising campaign- and a:; an admissiom repre sentative in New Hampshire. He i survived by h is wife, Grace Johnson Grant '2 1 , a :;on, two daughter and a -ister, Eva Grant Tripp '29.

received a bachelor of library science degree

Marian Drisko Tucker '24, a teacher, died in

ter, Barbara T. Burn , a son, David L. Thurlow,

additional cour;e work at Temple Univer;ity,

a si;ter, five grandchildren, great-grandchil dren, nieces and nephew .

Boston University and Harvard. She work d a a l ibrarian at Wellesley Senior High School in Welbley, Mass., and at Reading H igh School in Reading, Ma ., and erved a the secretary and treasurer of the New England School Li brary A;-ociation. I n retirement in Media, Pa . , s h e was active in everal c l ub;. including the local gardening club and the Pre byterian Women's A sociation. he also was a member of the Travel Club and vi; ired Ala ka, Europe, J apan, Hawa ii and the

aribhean.

he was

predeceased by her hu band, Arthur, and a sister, Al ice Bi;hop Drew '20.

Thelma

hase Bevin ' 3 1 , a nur· and dedicated

co m m u n i t y vol u nt eer, d ied March 29 in

Visiting Nurse; Association and a regi tered nurse until her death. Beside her caregiving

she lived most of her life and wa an Engli h

kill , he wa active in church and community

teacher in the Weaver and Bulkeley secondary

affa ir; and was a gifted arti t and devoted ports fan. She and her late husband, Abner G. Bevin he is urvived

Gamma, an educational organization for women

' 34 , :;erved the College loyally.

i n the teaching field, and a member of the

by a son, Biff Bevin, a daughter, Laura Day Zschock, and seven grandchildren.

ardent tudent of American history and geneal ogy all her life. She served both the G la tonbury H istorical Society and the Glastonbur Garden Club. A class officer and member of the Alumni Counc i l , he received a Colby Brick in 1 978 in recogn ition of her services "as a teacher, a civic worker and a loyal alumna." Her late twin i ter, Marion Ori ko Power '2 3 , and her late cou in, ] . Ori ko A l len '29, also attended Colby. She is survived by a brother, Frank Drisko, two cous ins, a n iece, a nephew, grandniece and grand nephews.

Elsie Bishop N ichols '25 , Librarian Elsie Bi hop N ichols ' 2 5 , a high school librar ian, died November 5 in Media, Pa. , at 88. She was born in Eastport, Ma ine. At Colby she was awarded the Freshman cholarship Prize, served as clas president her sophomore yearand gradu-

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E. William Hucke '34, Manufacturer

racle and member of Kappa A lpha of the sorority. he graduated from Yale chool of

land and at Trinity College in Hartford, where

Assoc iation. he held many offices in the Daugh ter of the American Revolution and wa an

ment from 1 9 39 until h is retirement in 1 968. He wa a member of Temple Beth El in

soccer, tennis, basketball and volleyball, editor

at Colby, she studied at the U n iversity of Mary

Connecticut and Hartford Retired Teacher:;

wampscott, Mass., at age 82. He

Bradford, Maine, she wa a distingui hed stu

Nur ing in 1 9 3 4 . A re ident of East Hampton,

a member of Delta Kappa

March 27 in

was born in Lawrence, Ma . , and wa a gradu ate of Boston Univer ity chool of Medicine. He headed the Lynn ane thesiology depart

dent leader at Colby, active in field hockey,

Conn. , for 56 years, ·he was a member of the

he wa

Maxwell Feinman ' 3 2 , former chief of anesthe siology at Lynn Hospital in Massachu etts, died

i ·urvived by hi wife, J ustina, two daughter and three grandchildren.

he wa:;

schools.

Maxwell Feinman '32 , Anesthesiology Chief

wamp cott, where he had lived since I 9 7 5 . He

Thelma Chase Bevin '3 1 , Nurse, Active Volunteer

born in Centervi l le, Maine. An English major

Hartford, Con n . , on March 26 at 9 3 .

band died in 1 982. Survivor include a daugh

immons College and over rhe years rook

Marlboro, Conn, at age 83. Born in North

Marian Drisko Tucker ' 24 , Teacher

year before hi death in 1 968. Her second hus

Marion White Van Strien '3 1 , Education Offi cial Marion White Van Strien ' 3 1 , who held tate level post in education, died March 3 I in Portland, Maine, at age 8 3 . She wa born in Bowdoinham, Maine, and graduated a

aluta

torian of her Cony High School class. he taught at Cony from 1 9 3 1 to 1 9 3 4 , when he married Clinton Thurlow. A long-time resi dent of Augusta, Maine, she was director of the Maine Congress of Parents and Teachers for 1 5 year . I n 1 960 Governor John Reed appointed her executive secretary for the Governor' Ad visory Committee on Education. Beginning in 1 96 1 she erved a deputy Kennebec County treasurer. he also worked in the Kennebec County Clerk of Court and Registry of Deed offices. Her interest in history led her to com pile, edit and publish the history of China, Maine. antique

he and her hu band also operated an tore in Weeks Mill , Maine, until a

E. Wil l iam "Bill" Hucke '34, an outstanding Colby athlete and student leader, died March 30 in unCity, Ariz. , at age 8 1 . Born in Dedham, Ma s., he moved to Maine and graduated from Waterville High School. At Colby he earned var ity letter in football and hockey and was captain of the championship hockey team in the 1 93 3 - 3 4 eason. A member of Delta Up i l o n fraternity, he wa pre idem o f h i s c l a and Student Council president his enior year. Af ter working for local radio rations, he served in the Navy during World War II. He was com manderof the American Legion po t in Clinton,

Conn. , where he wa chair of the board of education in the early 1 9 50 . In 1 9 5 3 he mO\·ed

the Masonic Lodge and

to Rockford, I ll., where he was vice president

brer , rwo brother and four grandchildren.

hrine.

Ur\'l\'Ors m

clude his wife, Dorothy, t\l'll daughter , t\\'o

and general manager ofWood & Brooks, manu facturers of piano key and actions, and al o director of engineering for National Lock Co. In 1 967 he wa elected pre ident of the Uni verity Club of Rockford, where he was acrive in Chamber of Commerce work, Kiwani

Club

and the YMCA. He retired in 1 9 7 3 and moved to Arizona.

urvivor include hi wife, Y\•ette,

two daughters, four granddaughrers and three great-grandchildren.

George H. Hllllt '34, Attorney George H. Hunt ' 34, a lawyer and former tare enator, died April 3 in Hallowel l, Maine, at 8 1 . He wa born in Gardiner, Maine, and graduared from Gardiner High School. At Colby he ran on the mile relay team whose chool record tood for 43 year and wa a member of the cross country team, the debate team and Delta Kappa . Rho fraternity. He al o played piano and during hi college year led an orchestra thar played during the ummers in Kennebunkport. In 1 9 3 7 he graduated from Bo ton Uni,·er ity Law chool and joined the law firm of Mclean, Southard and Fogg in Augusta, where he prac ticed law for 55 years before hi retirement last January. He also wa active in tate politic and was an advocate of vocational high chools in Maine. A Democrat, he erved as Augusta c ity olicitor and from 1 958 to 1 960 erved in the Maine rate enate. He wa a member of the Augu ta Kiwani , where he chaired the club' college erie , and was active i n the Row House, a local hi toric preservation group, The Home for Little Wanderers orphanage and the Au gu ta Red Cros . He wa also a member of the Unitarian Universali t Church. He is Ur\ ived by his wife, Angela, three daughters, including Faye Hunt Prentis ' 5 , two on , a brother, ix

Frederick Perkins Jr. '48, Management Specialist Frederick William "Cy" Perki n · Jr. '4 , a man agement speciali t, died March 7 in Togus, Maine, at 7 2 . Born in Lawrence, Mas ., he attended La\\·Tence High chool, where he was

Peter

. L0\1Tey ' 5 3 , a manufacturing comrany

l'ice presidenr, died March 9 in Andover, 1� . , at 6 1 . H e ll'a · born 111 Caribou, Maine, anJ

attended Colby for one year before jo111ing the United tares Marine Corp , ser\·ing 11·ith the

Tau Omega fraterniry and on the ·ki and tennt'

outhwest-Pac ific Combat Air Transport Group

he was employed by A.W. Che-rerton Co. He sen·ed the toneham. Ma--., company, rhe

and a� an airplane mechanic and na,·igatorfrom 1 942 to 1 944. He was memberof the Corp-' first enlisted na,·igatorsschool. He returned to Colby in 1 944 and the following year married Jean O'Brien '46. He majored in bu iness adminis

chool. At Colby he

ream . After a year at Har\·ard Business chool,

olde·r manufacturer of mechanical packing m

orth America, in Ohio and West Virgima before returning ro toneham as the l'ice presi dent of national ale

m 19

. He remed in

tration and was a memberofLambda Chi Alpha

1 992 after 3

fratern ity. After graduation he worked for se,·

Ur\'i,·ed by h i · wife, ancy Fischer Lowrey ' 5 4 , three children, a brother, a i ter,Judith LO\\Tey Ingram ' 5 7 , four grand·ons and e\'eral nieces

eral years as a dispatcher for tl1e Maine Stare Police. From 1 96 3 ro 1 9 74 he was a manage ment peciali ·t ar the Bo ron arnl hipyard

year \\'ith the company. He i

and nephew .

and retired as head of the employee er\'ices division of the Porr mouth a,·al Shipyard in Kinery, Maine. He er\•ed as a selecm1an for the rown of Kennebunk, Maine, and as a volunteer at the Laudholm Fam1 in Wells, Maine. He wa a member of the Marine Corp Aviation As o ciarion and the arional As ociation of Retired Federal employee , was a past commander of the American Legion and ser\1ed on the board ofdirecror- for the Maine rate Employee A o ciation. A a class agent, he ser\'ed Colby and hi clas for many year . He corresponded fre quently with the College and was the author of a cla letter containing Colby news and infor mation about fellow clas mate . He i un·h·ed by hi · wife, three ons, including Malcolm J . Perkin ' 7 3 , rwo daughters and four grandchil dren.

Robert J . Maxwell '49, Keyes Fibre Manager Robert J . Maxwell '49, a general ales manager

following graduation from Waterville High chool in 1 93 9 , he wasemployed at the Waterville Morning Sentinel. During four year as a sergeant

Brenda E. Connolly, Friend of the College Brenda E. Connolly died April 12 in Bosron, Mass. She wa the daughter of Jame B. and Eli:abeth Connolly. Her father, an Ol)mpian in the fin modem Olympic in l 96 who went on to a succe -ful career as a writer, contributed manuscript material, personal memorabilia and copie of h i printed work ro Colby' Healy Collection in Miller Library. Like her father, Brenda Connolly remained a friend and donor ro the College until the rime of her death.

Polykarp Kusch, H '6 1 , N obel Laureate Polykarp Ku ch, H '6 1 , died March 20 in Dallas, Texas, at 2. An atomic physici r and obel Pri:e winner in phy ics who was as widely re peered for hi cla room teaching as for hi research, he had been a profe or of phy ics and vice president, provo t and dean of facultie at Columbia Uni versit) for 2 year before joining the faculty at the Universit)• of Texas, Dallas.

in the Army in World War 11, he er\1ed in Europe and received the Purple Heart. After Colby he spent ix years with the Prudential In urance Co., then joined Keyes in Water\1ille,

at Wayne tate Univer ity in general insur ance, and in 1 94 7 he became owner and opera

where he was a

torof the ayer I n urance Company in Detroit,

the Waterville Chamber of Commerce and belonged to the Elk , Lion , VFW and everal

Mich. He retired in 1 970. H e was a member of

Peter S. Lowrey ' 5 3 , Manufacturing Executive

attended Caribou H igh

at 0. Born in Lacon, Ill., he was brought up in

ashville, Tenn., then was an engineer with Westinghou e Electric during the war. He rook course at the Univer ity of M ichigan and later

on, a

dauohter, four grandchildren, niece· and neph C\\' .

majored 111 bu iness and \\'as a member of Alpha

for Keye Fibre Co.,diedJanuary 2 in Westbrook, Maine, at 70. He wa- born in Water\dlle, and

high chool. After Colby he worked for the ational Life and Accounting In urance Co. in

ur\'11·ed by hi

1axll'ell Brown '44, a

ated from Bridgton Academy m Maine. He

Earl J . ayer '3 5 , the owner of a Detroit in ur ance agency, died March 1 in Peto key, Mich., Waterville, Maine, where he graduated from

;1orer, Vi,·ian

acri\·e in track and foorball. In 1 940 he gradu

grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

Earl J. Sayer '35 , Insurance Executive

hunnng and sports club-. He i

alesman and general

ale

manager for 22 year . He erved a manager of

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Throwing Down a Gauntlet

What's New?

KudL1, ro you in publi,hing the article about Lyn M ikel Brown'

ground-breaking work [Colby, Marc h ] . l applaud cl)lby f o r havmg t h e fore ·ight to h i r e �omeone with ProfesMlr Brown', insight into an area nnly beginning to be understood and/or appreciated in child rearing, education anJ the work place. Howe\'er, l WL)uld challenge Colby to go further in upporting Profes,or Brown' work. In Haine prunt Tate' artic le there i a Je·c npt ion of how Profe,sor Brown\ 11·L1rk ha ·hared the ll'ay ,he conduct> her cla >e>.

I would a:,k the dean· and faculty ro thoroughly immerse them elves in

Share your news and views with your cla mates! Please write in the blank and send this fonn to the Alumni Offi ce for forwarding to your class corre spondent.

her work and reflect upon what the finding· could mean for their >tyle of

education to begin ro con ider how it could a l ter pa t -ryb of education as they regularly interface ll'ith ,rudenr and colleague .

olby ha an

incredible opportunity as a leader m coed liberal an· education to begin

m wmider how it could alter pa r ryle, of education in l ight of profes or

Brown and G i l l igan's work. peaking as a student with a major in a male-dominated department who has now progre--ed to a leader h ip po it ion in an indu try not trad it ionally considered a women's field, l would appreciate knowing that my alma mater was w i l l ing to re,t the traditional way- of doino bu ine, w i th the insights profe sor G i l l igan and Broll'n' work offer. I, l ike o many of my peers, ha1·e struggled with how best to integrate into organi:ations and indu tries [that have not traditionally offered] career options for women. While my t i me at Colby did provide me with a trong academic grounding and lifelong friend hips, it d id l i ttle ro prepare me for performing in the work place and/or in voluntary organi:ations that are historically male-dominated. olby could make a difference in this area, which so many organi:a tions and individuals are struggling to addre . A commitment of that

nature could put Colby on the map in addre ing the education an I management of organization a it educ res its tudents and ·upport i t a l u m n i as w e all head i n t o t h e n e x t century. Dean and faculty, are you ready for this chal lenge and opportunity?

Deborah Wathen Finn '74 We rfield, N .J .

Who's o n First?

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Colby has rhe obit headlines backward. The important fact i who-

the age, occupation, etc. A Colby obi t headline "reacher" is almo t meaningles . ee The New York Times obituary page for a format that put

fir r thing first. The Times headlines the important fact that a certain individual ha died.

Cacharine P. Fusselt '4 1 Elkin Park, Pa.

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