Colby Magazine vol. 83, no. 1 by Colby College Libraries

Volume 83, No. l

January 1994

"IT'S

FOR

you!"

Colby students are calling alumni because they ha\'e an imronant 1nessage for all those \\'ho care about the future. Today, Colby is nationally ranked a- one of the top 25 rri\'ate liberal an- colleges in the nation. But without the -urrort of past generations we wouldn't he a1nong the best-there\\' re times in our history when the \Âˇery existence of the College depended on the generosity of alumni and friends. We asked them

preser\'e the future, and they re-ponded. Each

generation of Colby students b nefits frorn their gifts. Because the actual cost of

Colby education i-

$ 7 ,000 more th.an tuition and

fees, e\'ery student who attend - Colby recei\-e- -upport. Nearly one quarter of all financial aid funds conles from unrestricted annual gifts of alunu1.i, parents and friends and from endO\vment. We're asking you to strengthen Colby by making

ure we can

continue to pro\Âˇide all the things that make us one of the best colleges in the country: a challenging environnlent in which to teach and learn, programs and facilities that attract outstanding faculty and the resources to admit and support promi ing students. When Colby calls, it's for you. Please join generations of caring alumni by adding your gift to the 1994 Alumni Fund.

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Number 1

Colby Staff:

Flight of Discovery

Tom Claytor '85's voyage around the world has taken him from the coldest to the hottest places on earth, from joy to despair, from wonder to anger to a deep and abiding sen e of self.

Sally Baker

executive eiliwr Roben 0. Spurrier managing eiliwr Brian Speer designer

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Roben Gillespie Alumni at Large eiliwr

A creative and committed group of students and professionals is sending imponant messages about health to Colby tudents. Is anybody listening?

16 Storybook Careers

Five Colby alumnae in children's book publishing share their insights into one of the most exciting realms of current litera ture-it's not all fun and games.

Contributing Reporter: Michelle Severance '94

Alumni Council Executive Committee: Alben F. Carville Jr. '63, chair, Elizabeth J. Corydon-Apicella '74, vice chair, Cynthia L. Auman '80; Thomas M. Dailey '80; Solomon]. Hartman '67; Mary Alice Campbell Kozen '47; Ronald L. Lupton '71; Beverly Nalbandian Madden '80; William E. Marvin 65; Carol G. Sly '80; Thomas P. La Vigne '58

12 SHOC Therapy

Contributing Photographer: John McKeith (inside front cover); (cover photo counesy of Tom Claytor)

Administration: William R. Cotter, president; Peyton R. Helm, vice president far development and alwnni relations; Earl H. Smith, dean of che College; Susan Conam Cook '75, director of alumni relations

Features

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22 Call of the Wild

A detour led Nick Jans '77 to the small Alaskan village of Ambler, where, as he writes in his new book, he panicipates in an uneasy marriage between traditional culture and the influ ence of the Lower 48.

Departments

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Periscope 3 From the Hill

Colby is published five times yearly for the alumni, friends, parencs of studencs, seniors, faculty and staff of Colby College. Address correspondence to:

28 Gifts & Grants 29

Book & Authors

Managing Editor, Colby Colby College Waterville, ME 04901-4799

31 Mules on the Move

36 Alumni at Large 37 44 47 53 55

Profiles: Fletcher Eaton '39 Anhur Goldschmidt '59 Peter Jensen '67 Kenneth Melvin '74 David Epstein '86

Obituaries

34 Student Life

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Gleaned fry Dean Earl H. Smith from his weekly campus newsletter, FYI. What They Say About Us Everybody probably knows by now that, in its hugely popular America's Best Colleges

coach at Waterville High and holds the

the Roosevelt Administration.ln Decem

New England, Big East and ECAC colle

ber, 50 years later, she took her leave and a

giate women's pentathlon records.

well-deserved retirement. The veteran li brary secretary was the last remaining sup

U .S News & World Report pegged Colby l 7th among the nation's 140 most

Sensational Speakers

selective colleges.The rating was down two

While much of the rest of the country was

edition,

place from the year before, ahead of Bates

probably watching Seinfeld, senior Hung

and behind Bowdoin.ln a later edition, the

Bui (Bartlesville, Okla.) held a smaller

port staff member to serve the College on two campuses.The fact that she had a nine year leave in the 1960s does not diminish her astonishing record of service or the gratitude of the legions of faculty and stu

news m a g azine cited Colby among

audience spellbound in taking first prize in

"America's best college values." ln order to

the annualLouiseCobumspeaking contest

be considered in the "best buy" category,

in November. Senior Kendra King (Provi

colleges had tofinish at or near the top of its

dence, R.I.), took second place and first

To Secure COOT

category in academic quality. Elsewhere,

year student Kimberly Parker (Lexington,

The Class of 1994 Senior Parent Gift com

dents whom she served.We wish her well.

we should note, the Princeton Review cites

Ky.) was an impressive third. Others who

mittee has chosen the Colby Outdoor Ori

Colby among the 20 colleges with the ''hap

made excellent presentations were Jonathan

entation Trip program as the focus of their

piest" students, however that was derived

Kaye'97 ( Avon,Conn.),LauraMiller'94

fund-raismg efforts.Sara Waisanen of the

and whatever it means.

(Worthington, Ohio ), Matthew Lapides

annual giving staff will coordinate the ef

'94 ( Hamden, Conn.) and Elizabeth

fort to create a $100 ,000 endowment to

Labovitz '94 (Lexington, Mass.). We sa

help underwrite the annual cost of the

Staying Hot Applications to Colby in the first "early

lute them all and we thank David Mills '57,

program and to provide COOT scholarship

decision" round that ended in November

who coaches the debate team and, among

funds for students with need. Co-chairs of

were up nearly 50 percent from the previous

other things, sustains this fine program.

the committee are Penn and Cornelia

Small World

and Ginger Miller, parents of Laura '94.

year. Dean of Admissions Parker Beverage reports that 166 such applications were filed this year compared to 112 in 1992. Some part of the increase, he said, could be attributed tothe newpolicyof not requiring achievement test scores as part of the appli cation process.As much as one third of the next entering class may be admitted from the two rounds of early decision applicants. During November, a record-breaking 376 prospective students had interviews in the handsome new Lunder House facilities.

Bruce McDougal has joined the person nel office as director of safety.He held a similar position at Irving Tanning in focus will be on safety

training and accident prevention, keep ing Colby up to snuff with OSHA An gela Frame is newly appointed as an assistant women's track coach.A gradu ate ofWaterville High and the University of Connecticut, she had been an assistant

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DanaProfessor of Government emeritus Al

1994

We salute them.

Mavrinac was in Japan last fall, lecturing on and teaching American law and busi ness ethics. As he took a van from Narita Airport and began the trip through heavy traffic to downtown Tokyo, a fellow jumped on the vehicle and demanded that the driver stop. "Hi, Professor Mavrinac," he said, thrusting a card into Al's hand. "Call me; we'll have lunch." Then he disap peared quickly into the crowd as the van

Let's Welcome

Maine and hi

Kavanagh, parents of Alex '94, and Allan

moved on. The card was from Joe Meyer '79, Al's former student and now treasurer of Morgan Stanley in Japan. Al took him up on the offer and they were joined for lunch by Bob Stevenson '78 and Yoichi Hosoi '79, both also working in Tokyo.

Tenure of Tenures Earla Robertson came to work at Colby on the old downtown campus, in 1943, during 2

Moosecellaneous Al Mavrinac's tory of a chance encounter with a Colby alum in Tokyo traffic is not so surprising considering that the College has

20,000 alums throughout the U.S.and in some 70 foreign countries. Still, these are interesting tales.lf you have one, please tell u .. ..We don't remember another triple overtime in basketball at Colby. Dick Whitmore's men's squad nipped Wheaton

107-104 on November 20 after three five minute extras to open the new season with a bang....The Colby Eight was invited by

LL Bean to entertain holiday shoppers in Freeport on a December evening.

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Shanahan Receives Lovejoy Award

ileen Shanahan, Washington some hideous greenish-yellow hue that often will see very little local coverage. bureau chief of the St. Peters makes e verything it touches look Those newspapers are saving money, and burg Times, told a Colby audi sick. . . . [W]hat I am increasingly con short-changing their readers, by running ence in November that the cerned about is my sense that we in jour wire copy. You can buy a lot of wires for greatest threat to a free press in nalism, print and broadcast alike, seldom what one reporter costs. .. . the United States comes from the press cover anything but the horror and the ''With diminished local coverage, we itself. Shanahan was on campus to re failures, fostering in our readers and view in journalism do not give the public suffi ceive the 4 lst Elijah Parish Lovejoy award ers the conviction that there is no hope- cient inforrnation about either success or and to participate in a failure . . . . lf journal symposium on "Clinton ism asked the right and the Media: The questions, we might First Year." find some answers, or In her Lovejoy Con prod others into find vocation addres at ing them. Ln journal Lorimer Chapel, Shan ism, as elsewhere in life, ahan said she has we seldom find any perceived a profound thing unless we look for erosion in the public's it. . . . What we mostly belief in the value of look for-and find journali m. She cited now are the twice-told "our perceived arro and thrice-told and a gance and self-serving thou and-times-told pursuit of 'insider' ta 'ain't it awful' torie tus with the mighty, that contain nothing rather than with the very new. . . . [l]n our concerns of our readers lops ided choices of ... ; our lack of respect what we cover today, for the feelings of ordi we are already advo Colby Echo Editor-in-Chief Laura Pavlenko '94 (left) and Opinions Editor Han nary people, especially nah Beech '95 (center) t.alk with Eileen Shanahan during the Lovejoy Convocation. cates. Advocates of the in times of grief . .. ; view that nothing and-in our desperate attempt to stem no point in even trying to fix any of the works. Advocates of despair." the decline in our readership-the greatly things that are so terribly wrong in our Shanahan had the opportunity for a little advocacy of her own earlier in the increasing amounts of space we devote to country, or even improve them a little." Shanahan said she does not advocate day when she met with the staff of Colby's what we call 'new you can use': features tudent newspaper, the Eclw, and with on how to deal with your sweetheart, your ''happy talk" journali m. But, he said, divorce, your in-law , your teens and your less coverage goes to " mall, important Assistant Professor of Economics Michael younger kids; when to refinance your mort success stories" than they deserve, be Donihue '79's erninar on economic fore gage; what to do this weekend; where to cause "editors and broadcasters do not casting. The woman who as a prize-win think to look for them." ning tudent journalist locked horns with vacation; how to cook healthy." "One reason for this," she said, "is the the president of her alma mater, George Shanahan said journalists "need to dis Washington University, asked the Eclw play a more serious purpose more often than appalling decline in local new coverage. we do today" and quoted the Scripps-How Travel around thi country a bit and read crew "What kind of trouble are you get ard news service motto, "Give light and the the local papers. At first you may be ting into?" and discussed their division on people will find their own way," as a model impressed with the amount of serious na the question of whether hate speech ought "I'm afraid that today," she said, "the tional and international new they carry . to be banned on campus. Regarded as one light we journali ts shine is, mo t often, of But then, as you go through the pages, you of the top economics reporters in the

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nation, Shanahan went

of state and local gov

into Donihue's class

ernment, and joined the

promising to "crash " the

St. Petersburg Times in

whole idea of using

1991. She has served

econometric models for

on several prestigious

forecasting.

boards and committees,

During his remarks at

including the board of

a dinner held in Shan

the Nieman Founda

ahan's honor before the

tion at Harvard Uni

convocation, President

versity and the Pulitzer

Bill Cotter noted that

Prize jury.

Shanahan's reputation

The Lovejoy award

for directness and hon

is named for Elijah

esty had preceeded her to

Parish Lovejoy, a na

Mayflower Hill.

tive of Maine and an

"Walter Cronkite,

1826 graduate of Colby

with whom you ran a

who is considered Am

two-person radio bureau

erica's first martyr to

in the late 1940s, still can't get over the work ethic you displayed, learning

everything

A panel discussion on "Clinton and the Media" featured (l-r) Orlando Sentinel Managing Editor] ane Healy, Nieman Foundation Curator William Kovach, Eileen Shanahan and Collry Assistant Professor of Government Anthony Corrado.

freedom of the press. He was slain Nov. 7, 18 3 7, in Alton, Ill., defending his abolition

there was to know about the congressmen

tional economic policy, tax and budget

ist newspaper against a pro-slavery mob.

in the five states you covered and pepper ing him with information f or his on-air

issues and government regulation of busi

Colby established the award in 1952 for

ness.In her book The Girls in the Balcony,

an editor, reporter or publisher who has

interviews," Cotter said. "'The most

Nan Robertson, a friend and contempo

contributed to the nation's journalistic

trusted man in America' says your dedica

rary of Shanahan at the Times, says Shan

achievement.

tion to the integrity of journalism was

ahan "made an immediate impact" on the

'almost frightening' and that you 'spared

paper, "frequently getting out on page

no one and no horses in describing' what

one with such fluffy topics as John

you believe to be right....You have never

Kennedy's tax program, the debt ceiling,

been shy about offering advice and opin

the balance of payments and the trade

ions.Paul Tash remembers a time, before

tariff war."

you succeeded him as head of the St.

In 1976 Shanahan became a named

Petersburg Times' Washington bureau,

plaintiff in a suit brought against the New

when he began a phone conversation

Yark Times by seven women employee

with one of your contacts by saying, 'Hello.

who charged that the paper discriminated

I'm Paul Tash. I'm Eileen Shanahan's

against women in its hiring, promotion

boss, and she said to call you, and I always

and compensation policies. She has re mained an outspoken advocate fo r

do what Eileen tells me to do."' Shanahan began her career as a United

women's and minority rights.

Cotter on Speech

resident Bill Cotter put his Harvard Law School training to good use in

October when he defended Colby's ver bal harassment code in a debate with Robert Peck, legislative counsel of the American Civil Liberties Union. Peck attacked colleges for enacting "speech codes that prohibit or punish ex pression," actions he said restrict free speech and free inquiry on campuses."The purpose of the First Amendment," Peck said, "is to

Press wire ervice reporter in Washington

Shanahan left the Times in 1977 to serve

during World War II. Following the war

as assistant secretary for public affairs at the

she teamed with Cronkite, then-after

Department of Health, Education and

While agreeing with Peck's conten

interrupting her career briefly to have a

Welfare in the Carter Administration and

tion that some campus speech codes were

baby-worked as a reporter at the Re

later was assistant managing editor of the

too broad, Cotter made the case that a

search Institute of America and the Jour

Washington Star and the Pittsburgh Post

carefully drawn verbal haras ment code

nal of Commerce and was a spokesperson

Gazette, associate professor at Northwest

helps protect individuals from those who

and public affairs officer at the U.S.Treas

ern Univer ity's Medill School of

use words "as an instrument to injure." He

ury Department before being hired by

Journalism's Washington Program and re

said that codes such as Colby's, which has

James Reston, Washington bureau chief

porter for Congressional Quarterly.

resulted in disciplinary action only three

put ideas out there, to see if people want to accept them or reject them."

Shanahan co-founded and was execu

times in the past 15 years, "do not chill

At the Times, Shanahan covered the

tive editor from 1986 to 1990 of Governing,

free speech because tolerated verbal ha

Washington business beat, including na-

a national monthly dedicated to coverage

rassment on campus reduces opportuni-

of the New Yark Times, in 1962.

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Bush Is Coming

hi is Geor e Bush," began the familiar voice in a mes age that wa left on

Bill Cotter' voice mail one October e\·en ing. Just two day earlier, the College had invited the fonner president to peak at Colby' l 73rd commencement on May 22, and Bush called to ay that he would come. Colby's senior class ,·oted last fall to invite Bu h, who will receive an honorary degree as part of the commencement cer emony. He continue an impre sive tring of graduation speaker that includes Senate Minority Leader Robert ]. Dole last year and actor Bill Co by in 1 992. A summer resident of Kennebunkport,

Osgood Files a Story

Bush will be the second fom1er president to

Beware of numbers, warned Charles Osgood, a CBS journalist with a degree in economic from Fordham Univer ity. " I t seems that news tories have too many numbers in them and many of them are wrong," he said , delivering a December lecture in Lorimer Chapel. He urged student to pay more attention to the qualitative aspects of a story than to the quantitative. Osgood, whose daughter Kathleen Wood '96 was in the audience, aid the point was brought home to him at a major fire he covered for CBS radio in New York. Other j ournal ist pres ed the fire c hief for fact -how many people were in the building, how many firefighters turned out, how many injuries. The real story, he

aid, was the drama-the huge ic icle

that formed as firefighter

sprayed water into the frigid night, tenants shuffling around in winter coat covering pajama and lipper , the mell of moke, the eerie red glow of the fire trucks' rotating beacons.

have addre sed the College in its 1 8 1 -year history. In November 1 93 7 , former pre i dent Herbert Hoover spoke at ceremonies observing the centennial of the death of Elijah Parish Lovejoy. H is talk-from the College A venue campus-was broadcast to the nation on radio.

11--0 for NAFTA

hile the debate raged and the out come was in doubt until the day the

U.S. House voted to upport the North

Most reports about the fire relied on numbers to give the story weight, but

American Free Trade Agreement, all 1 1

many of the numbers pewed out at the scene would prove to be wrong in the

members of Colby's Economics Depart

final accounting, Osgood

ment signed a letter stating that, on bal

aid. Too often, he went on, number crunching

dictates what program get yanked off the a ir, what products are discontinued

ance, "the treaty would be advantageous for

or what busines es close. Politicians use number

from polls to stake out

the economy of the United State ." Seven

positions they think will be popular. Legion of su pect numbers were used to

Bate economics faculty members also signed

j ustify upporting or oppo ing NAFTA . Where do the numbers come from?

the letter to Rep. Tom Andrews ( D-Maine ) ,

"My guess is that they j ust make them up," he aid.

who ended u p voting against t h e treaty.

Osgood is a 2 6-year veteran of CBS radio and television news and anchor of

"This level of unanimity among econo

"The Osgood File ," a four-time - a-day commentary in which he expres es h is

mists i

sense of wonder, amu ement or di may over the events of the day. He has won

Grossman Profe sor of Economics J an

unusual, to say the least," said

the Washington Journalism Review's "Be t in the Business" award as best radio

Hogendorn, who noted that the faculty

reporter five years running.

support for the pact cut aero conservative a

liberal and

well as Republican and

Democratic line . Hogendom coordinated the Colby signing effort and rumped cen

t ies for free speech and true interchange."

disputes, replacing the slower and more

Cotter reiterated Colby's "commitment

legalistic student judicial proce . Cotter's

tral Maine for N AFTA, speaking to service

to maximum free speech in a harassment

view on speech code reached a national

clubs, journalists and student .

free environment."

audience when hi article, "Hate Speech

Hogendom, on fir t- emester leave, was

How to Handle It," was printed in last fall'

lecturing in Toronto on trade is ues when

lege should con ider empowering a three

edition ofNieman Reports, the magazine of

Congres voted. "A I looked on from Can

member panel to re olve verbal harassment

Harvard Univer ity's Nieman Foundation.

ada," he said, "I was overjoyed."

In the future, Cotter uggested, the Col

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FLIGHT OF DISCOVERY

TOM CLAYTOR'S ROUND-THE-WORLD JOURNEY Is

THE STUFF

OF DREAMS AND NIGHTMARES BY SALLY BAKER

"I was 35 percent over gross weight. I'd never been this heavy before-the lank behind me now fldl-when I finally got to the end of the nmway inslrnment to make sure

I sat there for most of seven minutes just looking at everything, touching every

I was registering what it was telling me. The guys in the tower must have thought me strange.

"So many thoughts race through your m i n d, like wings breaki ng off (crazy thoughts, but still they are there) At long last it was time. I eased the throttle forward, eve1y sense alert and monitoring our motion. There was a 30-knot wind from the left and soon, very soon, I was in the air and climbing rapidly The carb ice came and the power dropped off-the air was so cold that even with carb heat on it didn't warm above O'C. I slowed down and added full power and slowly slowly the temperature crept up and the ice went away. "All below was white. I had long si nce left trees to the south. The water was ice and the mountains snow, ice c1ystals suspended in the air . . "On the horizon t o m y left appeared a shimmering orange igloo-way off i n the dark I t was s o strange, I couldn't imagine what it was and wondered if my mind was playi ng tricks on me. I had watched the blue moon set late that morning and now, four hours later, it was back again. I looked at my map, and we had just crossed

66'N and were

nearing the Arctic Circle. I started to tingle i nside-ahead in the night lay Greenland. The cabin was now warm, and at I 1,000 feet I was so at peace. The moon flooded the sea with light."

Baffin Island, April

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hree year ago last month, Tom Claytor '85 climbed into his Cessna 1 80 airplane at Wing Field, near Philadelphia, to begin a journey that will, with luck, make him the first pilot ofa singleÂ

engine plane to fly around the world and visit all seven continents in the pr cess. He had a book contract from a maj r

ew York publisher and the

bles, ing of the National Geographic Society and the

ew York-based

Explorers Club, and he had a plan. Following up on work he'd done in Africa

a Thomas]. Wat on Fellow and, later, as a pilot and indepenÂ

dent filmmaker, he would rely on a loo e, worldwide network of bu h pilots for help in his travel . They would advise him about routes to take and to avoid, and he would stay with them when he could and use them as his primary re ource for learning about a given area and its people. Claytor' project, christened the "Bush Pilot Expedition: Seven ContiÂ nents," was underway. About 1 00 friend and family member gathered at the airfield to see him off. Claytor remembers that he couldn't summon any tears. Even the knowledge that he probably would not return home for more than six years didn't raise much emotion in him. "It had been uch a truggle to create this project and to meet the editors and television people and all the others I had to meet and to get all the support I needed. I felt like I already had fought an incredible battle, all by myself," Claytor said in a recent interview from Namibia. "I just got in the plane and left. I felt so alone-and so cared because of something someone in Zimbabwe had told me about this trip. He said, 'You either make it or you're just another guy who tried and failed."'

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The le .., �l lll' he .�<m

rn<Jn<1gc,

irn rneLI iately. Claytm

'>l i

I a�ked

(me man \ \ ' h y they

tlell' Ill 1rth, mTrC<m

LllLln't jll'>t U'>e �nO\\'

;1da to

muhJle.... He �;11d

Iceland and

Greenland. "l'd ne\·er

me, ' Y l l u c1n't eat

flmn1 in cunditi,1n:-,

�Ill >wmohi le.... ' A

like that," he s;1id. "I

day� later there \\'as a

few

tlell' thrnu.�h four

:-.torm; the ice I'd

storms,

landed my rlane on

hundred

mile-rer-hour wind:,.

blew out to ea. TI1e

It \\·as dark twenty-

plane wa� safe in a

four hours a day, and

hangar by then, but

there were no clouds

five fo,hermen didn't

-just ice crystals in

come home. They

the air."

were found two day

The money he'd raised and

'The Namib Desert is the oldest and driest in the world.

later -they'd kept alive by eating

hoarded so carefully for so many

The no11hern pan is called the Skeleton Coast. Fog creeps

one dog a day, feeding the left-

months dwindled fast. Fuel and

over the shore in the morning, it i cold and harsh Inland I 0

overs to the other dogs. That

food were expensive. The weather

miles, the sun is beating down on the sand dunes creating a

taught me the \'alue of being from

was brutal-on Baffin Island at Christmas the temperature fell to -39°C, and Claytor's present to himself was a blanket to keep the

mirage of reflected light. At

I\ \owe Bay a massive whale jaw

rises from the sand In a wooden shack there is a human kull sitting on a shelf. Along the entire J ,300-mile coastline there are skeletal remains of shipwrecks, the wood is preserved and the metal flakes away-massive structures silhouetted by

place. That'

their environ

ment-they know it be t." By July Claytor was stalled in Iceland with a broken-down en

Cessna's engine warm. His high

glaring sand Jen Bartlett heaves the end of a fishing rod

tech gear was no good against the

towards the sea. We are trying to catch our dinner but

ing 16-hour day

cold, so a woman in Greenland

without success. She and her husband have lived in this

processing factory to pay for re

gave him some untanned seal

desert for over nine years. Their camp is on the inland side

pairs when a fax arrived from a

skin clothing lined with dog fur.

of the barrier dunes. People very seldom come here, access is

"The fat was scraped out," he said, "that's all. I smelled like a dead seal, but it kept me warm." In the far north, Claytor says,

restricted. Along the shore, the hyenas and jackals feed on sea birds and seals; their tracks are everywhere.

. Mean

dering sand rivers flow from the east. When the rains do come, the raging torrents are swallowed by the sand Sometimes they break through to the ocean and days

gine and no money. He was work in a shrimp

National Geographic producer interested in i n v e tigating Claytor's project for a television pecial. The prestigious organi zation shipped a video camera to

he learned to tru t his plan-the

later are dry again."

Iceland, and Claytor, tired but

bush pilots he met were unfail-

Cape Tou•11. 50111/i Africa, Noue111ber 1993

buoyed by the pro pect of working with National Geographic,

ingly correct about how to fly in

departed for Europe, continent =2 on his trek.

the harsh conditions and had helped him meet people in remote regions. Evidence of the project's value abounded.

The Explorers Club and other friends had given Claytor letters

After living in a small village in Greenland for a month, Claytor

of introduction to many noted European adventurers, such as Lord

say , he was more sure than ever that part of his task was to bring

Hunt, who led the Hillary Everest expedition, Quentin Keynes

the lessons of life off the beaten track to an audience in the

(great-grandson of Charles Darwin), Winston Churchill (grand

developed world.

son of the British prime minister) and Sir Lawrence Vanderpost, author of Lost World of the Kalihari. With their help, Claytor says,

"This village had four thousand people and eleven thousand

he faced his next hurdle-how to chronicle the trip.

dogs," he recalled. "One day I went fishing with some men from the village, and I noticed that on their sleds they'd have fifteen

"You go to a place like Iceland or Greenland and everything is

different dogs on fifteen different lines. lt looked really difficult to

so strange you're not sure what you should write about," he said.

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" S i r Lawre n c e V ,rn d erpost

a i rplane i n h is l anguag e . ) l n e a rly February

told me not to worry about

J 99 2 .

over-noreraking, to \nire what

Clayt11r c u m pl 1:- e d t h e fir-;t in

interests me, and a - the trip

a -;eries nf l1C C<htun,1l nc,, . ,_

matures the strong stuff \\· i l l

letters tll prnj e c t ' U ['purter,,

come through. l h a d been try

i l l u::.trated h\ N ortun .

ing to \\'rite e ve ry th i ng do\\'n. l

"The lle,ert i' a l l arnunJ

real l y ru n n i ng be fo re I

u�," CL1\'tllr \\Tl i t e . " ..:\:- \\ c tle\\

could wal k . "

frnm Gh,mi.li;1 to El Cule,1, in Salah anJ Tam<ll1r<h�et, the

Claytl1r s::iys he was some what doubtful ofVanJo=rpost's

rocky, harJ flat bec ame ll 1ng

adYice, though, u n t i l he ar

stretchi.n� p1 lluwsl 1f,,md, \\"<l\\"

ri\·ed i n :\lgeria. He landed l 111

l i ke the .;ea. Then , fu rthe r

J a nuary 1 2 , 1 99 1 , days after

sl1urh, the s,mJ began tn flu\\ ·

the Chadl i Benj edid gl1\ · em

like ri\·er.; bern·een rnck \\·,ill..;

ment \\'as ousted and in the

anLI inw ,and lakes " · i t h nKk

m iddle of the Gulf Cl1nfl i c r .

pinnacle::- i n l1Jd p l , lCe 'i . Jr \\",b

Feel i ng cunsp i c ul1u s '1 ' a n

\\ · o n d e rfu l

American, hassled by so=c u r i ty

,11 m·e. . . In A1-;1k we Lindell

tl1 see r h i , fn1m

\\·ho thl1ught "bush

l1n a dry ri\·erbeJ and met ,,,1me

pi lot" meant "pi lot for Gel1rge

gel1logists lnl1king forg11IJ. Th e

officer

pe l 1 ple are frie n d h-; i t \ iusc the

Bush," surrounded by ad1T1ir ing po-ters of �addam Hussein, Claytor began to write. "The continual harred anLI in ::.pection made me feel strnn g in s ide," he -a i d . " l "·a 'i i r t i ng on <l rooftop in Tamanrn,set in ..;nuth em A lgeria \\"ith all the�e T uare"-! [nomads] rid ing arnund on camel-;, <1nd that's "'here I started \\Ti t i ng. l \\·a

The rh i no I '> s l e e p i n g 1 1<> dark eyes wa cc h 1 n g u<> all

omeone

co,·er<. them ll' 1 C h a c l o t h The c h a 1 nsa,,· 1 s s tarted a n d D r.

nffic iab \'OU ha \ · e tn watc h l 1 U [ fur." l\ \nne\· 1\·a:- st i l l r i gh t , and hy

Kock beg i n > to np both harm oil ol 1l lace \\'e do 1h1s n i n e

the t i me Claytor \\"nJce ::iga in, frnm

t i me<. 1 n ll\ ' O d a y <; On the b a n k > o l the Okal'a ngo R1l'er 1 11

T 1 m h u k c u , J\ \a l 1 , in .-\ pri l . he re

N a m 1 b 1 a s C a p 1w 1 S c ri p

I ponder t h i Al mo>l tl'eryone

1 nc l ud 1 11g me had thought that k i l l i ng poacher;; 11·oul d <;oh.. t h e problem \'\ ' e '' e re wrong

Con<>crv a u o n \\' i l l ne,·er

>ucceed u n t i l 1t 1> put 1 11 the hand<. ol the l o c a l people they mll'>t see its l'alue and want 1t to >Ucceed

r1on e J Chat he'd lo::-.t <l lL)[ l if\\·e ight from l i \·ing un bread . nrange Fan ta an�I m,1lar i a p i l k Bue he'd had a b i t l1f lu1:k in

iger-he \\"as h i r e d

to i• ar t i c i pate in an ,1erial " u rYe\'

of a national p < irk , underb i d d i ng

emot i ng on p<1per. l wa:

a ll)c a l p i l t 1c hy ' 2 2 ,000 anLI earn

tarting to learn how \'l1u take an

ing ennugh 1rn w1 ey tl) k eei• che Ce��na i n fuel for a fe"" mun rh -; .

experience and try rn g i \ · e a re.1de r th<1t experience-not a travelogue. You write abnut what l i fe i:; l ike in r h i -; area f or the

" Back i n [che cap i tal ] , " h e "'wee, " ! w a s i n trnuhle for "·nrk ing l\' l thouc a r erm i t . But i n Africa it i.; a whole lnt ea:;ier

reader' l:enefi t , and to teac h . "

ll1e lonel iness \\'<1$ gone. Zi mbab\\'ean ani�c Larry Norton,

ro get pardoned than i c i� to get perm iss con . . . . The

who w i l l i l lustrate Claytor\ book, haJ j oi n ed Cb\"tm in �forocco,

r roh l em i:;

that going from cciuntr\' tl1 CL1un t ry the rules c hange, and you 're

and that helped. Clayror <ilsc had been recei\·in g don;l[tons-a

ne\·er q u i t e s u re \\'ho or ""hat to bel i ev e . " C l aytor miked loca l

few do l l ars here, a tank of ga there-from people back hnme and

offi c ials out nf a

in the places he vi i red . He posted a run n i ng l ist L1f the i r names on

sad , but when I lefr the office the b i l l was for three dollars."

3 2 0 fine: " [ c o u l dn't t e l l if they \\·e re

<ingry or

the plane w i ndow, and, he say , that made him apprec iate that the

Claytor's innocence <ibouc rules-feigned and acrual-had

trip no longer belonged olely to h im-i t was for them, too. ( Even

worked to 11i- ad\'antage in France. l n\'i ted to land in a pri\'ate

the nammg ofh i- plane wa a collaboration : an old man at a hangar

cornfield, he alerted air traffic control le r- of his plans in mediocre

i n Greenland had christened it "Timm issarrok ," the word for

French and was m isunderstood: once he landed the gendamle,

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c 1 m e r u n n i n g- I ll

of I 2 1n h·or) Cua t

Franc\.? it i' i l lc.t.:al tl 1

ll'hl l gd \'C l he L'LJUi V c l

L m d an .i i q1 la1w l 1u r

k n t I ll ; 1 fL"w du br.,

' 1 Je ot < l l l ; 1 1 rfickl .

ll'h 1 k ; 1 p u l og i : i n g

The med ia fullrn\·cd

rh<it i t coukln r he

the ).!L'nclarmes, and

more. "We t( )( ik the

\\ hen CL1ytl lr\ 'tnry

I i ' t , iut t l igcther and

gor ( ) U l he 11icked UJ'

added h i, name t\l 1 t ,"

;1 t ( ) l l , i\\' i nt.:.

Cla\'tur \\Tl ltL' 1n a lem:r fn 1m T1 igl l. "A,

" I got .1 frcl.? t;mk 1 1f .l!< l' nut nf rhe \\'hl 1k

I l rn 1k < H the I i -, t

rhit\!..! , " hn;11cl. 'That\

l -,m 1 k ;md feel \·ery

\\'hen I karned the

' tra n.t.: e; there ; i re '>O

\ ·al uc of exp1 N1rc."

many people anLl 'o many pl.ice ... . "

T h e ) e ,,l i n \\'<h c e nw n red in Tl l).!l l , ll'h c rc h i , ar r i \·,1 1 a l ,( ) ' t i rrcd rnecl 1 a i n tLTe:-t

,111Ll he <1prcarccl nn rhc C\'e n mg n e\\':. hrnadca,r. A fe\1· day' l a t e r h e \\'<I' d e rn i n ed hy �, >kl ie r' ; 1 fter fi l m i n g <1 J'IT , i dc n t 1 a l m1 1turc1dc .

"Ta m a nra<,<,et 1<, a \ l ra n ge , ova l -,h a ried town w 1 1 h a d ri ed , dustv riverbed ru n n i n g t h rough o n e '> 1 d e ,\ \ e n 11 a l k down t h e

m a i n ' >l re e l w i t h t h e i r head" w rariped 1 n del i c a te w h i t e or b l J c k >heel> ol c l o t h , lea v i n g o n l y t h e i r eye'> exp\ >Cd lo t a x i �

.,o l d 1 11 N i ger loom m a g n i l 1 c e n 1 c a m e l <, w 1 t l1 ri nged rorie' t h rough 1 he 1 r nose<, J n d be a u t i l u l bra"' a n d decora t 1 \'C l e a t he r

C l < 1 y r , 1r <1 [ ,u h,1, 'cen Afri c a ' t r i hu l < H l l ll1:>. H c \ tlu11·n r h n i u g h c ( ) nfl 1 c t -ndden are<l'--th e plane h;1' h u l l e r hnk' t n 'h( )ll' for i t ,1 11d h e \ heard h1 1rrnr ' tnri e . l n L 1 hc n a , 'cene pf ; 1 \ ' i c i o u " c i \ · i l \\'ar, C L 1 y tor rnl l ed e < 1 rnen-1 wh i l e

L !eterrn i n ed tu ,how n u fc;1r, h e

ro 1 11 1ed howdah, o n t h e i r b o ck -,

Tt1111tlllld>lfl, Al!JCl /d Fd,, 11<11)' f ll O ]

e\l

l c rtede� J n d Peugeot'> o n t h e i r \\'Jy south to h e

aprrnac hed t h e h ighe�t-ra n k ing 1 1ffi c i a l .

111 l\\'

penple w l kl.'.d u f rttruc i t ie' they'd \\ ' t t n e , , e d o r h e a rd a h o u t-

] a,ked h i m h o w t h i ng'

ll'holesale tort u re and - laughter

were go i ng i n Togo a n d i f h e ' d � e e n the plane , " Clay tor sa i d . " H e ,,1 i d n 1 \ ;rnd ] ,a i d , ' You m u't

1 )f e n e m ic-,, �n ld i cr� he t t i ng nn the �ex of u n horn c h i ld ren and

cnme. You m ust come i n the morn i n g , ' and all uf a ;,udden we

:- ! i c i ng open t h e moth er�' wnmh� to :,ettle the h e r , c h i l d ren

were ta l k i n g a hou t whether he'd hring h i s e ight -yem-old w the

h;i ttered tn Lleath o n \\ ' a l l s ur skewered on hayonets.

a i rport i n t h e morn ing, and one of t h e guys sa i d , 'Oh , yeah, I �aw

"I d id n ' t knnw how I \\'as going to explain i t," Claytor wrote.

him on TV . ' All of a sudden I'm one of the i r fri e nd � . and they

'Tm �ti ll nnt sure I under:,tand it. In the end it was too much, and

h a ve n ' t arrested me, I ' m j u:,t v is i t i n g and ha\' i ng te<l w i t h the m .

I had to top [fi l m ing] .

I t ' o n l y after y o u l e a v e that y o u start sha k i ng . "

heard these stories. I filmed them because l really simply couldn't

. My adr nal i ne pumped o hard as I

bel ieve them. Yet you could see i t everywhere you looked."

T a l k i ng and wri t i n g a b o u t h i s expe r i e nces i n Afr i c a , C l a y w r i s a l ternate l y s a d a n d e x h i l a rated . After nearly a year there h e

Clay tor admi ts he may be out of his depth when it comes to

i s s t i l l l e t t i n g i mpres i o n s a n d cunver:,a t ions s i ft t h ro u g h h i s

Afri c a n po l i t ics, but h e has strong opin ions of the conservat ion

m i nd . M a n y of the j ou rney'

efforts he'

superlat i ves-good and bad

seen . '' I ' m v i ew i ng conservation -wries from the

inside," he said. " I can see, v isual l y , the confl i c ts i n t h ese area ,

have occ urred on the huge con t i ne n t .

and I 'm not j ust a journa l ist a rr i v i n g and l ook i ng. I ' m there , part

"Yuu'J think t h a t raising money i n A fr i c a is l ik e squeez i ng

of i t-that's a d i fferent perspec t iv e . "

water from a stone," he said, "but I 've been amazed ." Claytor won honorable mention in the Ro lex A wards for Enterprise contest

I n I c e land and Greenland C l a y t o r i nt e rv iewed peopl e w h o

this year, but aside from that and other somewhat pred i c table

had part i c i pated i n " s e a l harvest " and w e r e u p s e t at a U . S . ban

ources of funds--conservation ists who l i ve i n Africa, w i l d l ife

on the i mportation of seal products. ( "You peop le i n t he U n i ted Sta tes t h i n k c h i cken comes from a plastic bag in the s upermar

protect ion groups on the con t inent who've h i red Claytor for aerial urveys-he ha

k e t , " Claytor wa told . )

been touched by people who are i ntrigued

O n the Skeleton Coast of N a m i b i a h e fi l med a man e x p l a i n -

en ugh to give what they can. He remembers espec ially a father

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i ng that , w h i l e it was

there he'l l keeppu�h

fine for organi:at ions

ing eas t . Ea,t mean�

l ike G reenpeace to

home, he S<l)'', hut

protect seals i n areas

he still ha, ,1 l1 1n� \\"<l\'

\\'here they are en

to go hefore ruuch

dangere d , N a m i b i a

ing down aga in nn

h a s plenty of seals

W i ng' F i e l d .

and shouldn't be sub

rmj ect rc-,ume cal[,

j e c t to proh i b i t i ons

f or h i m tl1 \· i-, i t l ndi;1,

H 1s

again t k i l l ing them.

era!, Thai land, I n

"There's a reason

dones i a , A u s trn l i ::i ,

why people in the

N ew Zealand, Ne\\'

rates and in Europe

Gu inea, the Ph i l i 1�

work hard and save

ri nes, J aran , Russia,

their money and come

A laska,

to a place l i ke this," Claytor said. "They want to stand here and be urrounded by desert.

amihia is a

" V i vid images flash through my mind. A monume n t in Ben i n of sculpted Africans with machetes-white mercenaries landed on che beach to overthrow the government and were

A v i llage on a lake suspended e n t i rely on s t i lts. A

fabulous wildeme . But wildeme·

killed.

mu t pay. Just l i ke we have factories

h undred canoes rafted together with large women sitting

anJ industries to fuel our economy,

amidst piles of fish and bright-colored vegetables, a child

they have wildeme

and other re

doi n g a hands tand on the bow. A boat full of wires, batteries and precarious speakers mak i ng loud distorted sounds as

ource - eals, rhinos, elephants. By

politicians disappear around a corner.

using these resources they can make

and ecure its future." Claytor also is not the first trav eler to worry about the helter- kelrer

gun . \Vie have tracked aero s a field through the rain to the edge of the foresc. There are forest elephancs before us. Their tusks are straigh ter, c h i n ner, darker. Their ears are smaller; they are meaner. \Y/e approach closer, although I'm not sure

adoption of "Western" values by

why. The mother and her calf already fill my lens.

people in indigenous cultures. I n

pulses 1vi ch my heart

ny to breathe quietly.

I n the meant i me , l i fe goes on at home. H is brnther Brannan

' 8 8 ha · m a r r i e d . A nother brother, Warren '92, set off on h i s own adventure in N m·em ber-he hopes to fol low Chris topher

Columbu 's

through t h e A IT1ericas

"I am on my hands and k nees w i th the artist. Pradel has a

money that will sustain the resource

outh Am

erica and Antarc t ica.

\y body

If I top I will

route 1 11

a 24-

fo ot sai lboa t . Claytor says h e m i sses h i s fam i l y and friend , b u t he turned down an offer of round-trip a i rfare to Phi ladel phia from LL. Bean president Leon Gorman .

Greenland and Iceland, h e ay s , h e

begin to think and I lush with fear. There are no trees behind

" I t's a journey ," Claytor said.

watched young

us; there is absolutely nowhere to run The choice i s theirs-

"You leave home and you l ive i n

c h oo l -educ ated

vi l lage r reject thei r parents' ways a

outmoded, and in Congo and

N amibia he saw pe ple at odds with traditions that sustained them fur

the forest or us, at

35 mile an hour. T h ey are not looki ng,

and Pradel stands up. \Y/hen they look back he is s tanding but s t i ll . They do not see us-we are

70 feet from them-but

they hear \Y/ith each click of the lens their bodies freeze \Y/e

thousands of year .

all listen and wait. "

Brazz1w11/e, (01190, Noue111ber t 9 92

"Part o f this project, f o r m e , i to

these places w i th these peop l e . I f I w e r e a m i l l iona i re I don't think th. is trip would have any where near the mean i ng t hat it doe·, because I would

tay i n

h o t e l s a n d I wou l d n ' t depend o n peop l e . You meet th ese pe op le

maybe see some things we aren't

and you ha\·e these experiences along the way, and for t hem to

meant to see and to tell about them," Claytor aid. " I 'm interesteJ in remote parts of the world and the changes that are occurring in

have mean i ng, for you to sreak \\· i t h con v i c t i o n , you actually

these frontline areas. When I meet people who hm·e somet h i ng to

haYe to suffer a l i ttle bit."

ay-an d ometimes they say unpopular things-! let them tal k . "

From southern Africa Claytor is sl a ted

Tom Cla)'tor's joume�» will be che subject of a N a t ional Geo

to travel up t h e east

graphic Exp lorer special to be aired in August 1 994 .

coa t through Madagascar and Ethiopia to Saud i Arabia, and from

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Two stre sed-out roommates have been studying for a French exam) and one tells another) "Have a beer and relax.)) Later, two women students become skeptical when their friend describes how an evening with someone they know turned into a case of date rape. "But he's such a nice guy,)) they tell her.

Those are plot lines for two of everal k i t performed in

a big support system and trying to be visible." She and other club

residence halls all over campu this fall by the member of a club

members ay that di cussion in residence halls about tudent

called Student Health On Campu , better known by it acro

health issues are one of their most effective ways of reaching

nym, SHOC. W ith perennial concerns over an array of health

students, in part because they allow tudents to feel comfortable

i sues uch as alcohol abuse now j o ined by new dangers in the

approaching SHOC members later.

era of A I DS, both the SHOC tu-

"People come to you as a friend,

dents and Colby's medical staff are

and it's nice that they confide in

exploring creative new way to edu

you," said Guth, a human develop

cate student about tho e issue .

ment major who is considering a

Following each five-minute skit,

career in the health field. "We're

the SHOC cast tays in character

not counselors, but we are there to

while a student facilitator encour

listen and direct them to the health

ages the audience to explore uch

center if necessary."

question as "What are the implica tions of using alcohol a

Guth says that many of the

a stress

tudent

reducer?" and "Wa i t really rape?"

w h o p a r t i c i p a t e in

SHOC have one special area of

The SHOC members deal out in

intere t-alcohol use, date rape,

formation they hope w ill provoke

stress management, drug abuse,

di cussion-84 percent of women

safer

nationwide who have been raped

eating d isorders-but all received

ex,

exual orientation or

knew their assailants, for instance,

education in the w ider pectrum

and in informal urveys on the Colby

of student health issues. A week

campus mo t students said they

end retreat in the fall helped ce

drink less than their peer and can

ment the training.

hold their liquor better.

"The whole group is evolving to want more ongoing training

SHOC, which is run and financed

� for t h e m e l v e ,"

by students, was formed a year ago as

� -----....,;:�...,. § �

a broader-based replacement for the Peer Health Facilitators group. The student peer education organization dates back to 1 989, when it was a component of the Sexual Health and Reproductive Education (SHARE) program at the health center.

SHOC members discussing health issues try to reach fellow scud.ems in many ways, such as providing information on the Great American Smokeouc day in November .

a i d Lyd ia

Bolduc-Marden, a nurse-practi t ioner at the G arrison-Foster Health Center who helped orga nize the retreat in her role as a faculty advisor to SHOC. "[The health center staff] re ally respect us for what we're do ing," Guth said. "They give us all

"SHOC is still in a transitional stage," said its president, Alli on Guth '94 of Pound Ridge, N .Y .

the information. We help them educate."

"We're '" orking from t h e inside, learning pecific skills, building

SHOC members use a variety o f approaches t o get their

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mes�ages out, i nc l ud ing contri buting a rt icles tn the hea l th center's

SHOC i mpro1· group along w i th L y n c h , see-; t h e � a m e t rend and

popular monthly ne\\'sletter, d istributing ant i-smok ing materials

says that "a lcohol i-; be i ng de-emphas i :e d , a m i l l i m e ter at a

at tables in the student center, taping information sheets about

t i m e . " She, mo, ha· friend� who don't d r i n k , i n c l ud i ng one on

�·reventing sexua l l y transm i tted d i seases to bathroom rails and

the rughy team, and she says that tra d i ti onal d r i n k i ng games

orga n i : i ng a candlel ight procession across campus w Lorimer

such as " be e r die" someti mes inc lude non-dri nker�. who join in

Chapel tu mark l n tem.at ional A I DS Awareness Day .

and �·lay "water cl i e . "

The i r wmk i-; enhanced by t h e i r fam i l iarity w i th the is�ues

tudents al so s a y the i r sex ual beha v i or h a � changed since

some JT1 emhers of the gro u �• ha\'e \\'restled 11· i rh d r i n k i ng pruh

the day� when the

lems or been \' i c ti m to sexual assau lt-and by their presence in

fi l m Insatiable as a w i nte r turn -on and upperc l ass men pl otted

Colhy's soc i a l scene, which as

tudent A snc iat ion c reened the X - rated t t l l u re , intoxicate and score

� ures fel lo\\' students t h a t , in

with the women whose pho

G u t h ' s w o r d s , " w e ' r e go i n g

tos they c i rcled in the fresh

through the saIT1e t h i ngs you are . "

man "meat book . "

B u t Bolduc- Marden says she

" Peop le dnn't honk u p a

SL )tn e t i m e s wnnder� ht)11· much

randomly" as they once d i d ,

i n fl uence the SHOC-sponst 1red

sa id o n e student.

e1·en ts h ave. "You �ee the same

there ha� been "a maj or, maj or

people com i ng 01·er and 01·er

change" since her freshman

G u t h said

aga i n , probably the people who

year in the inc reased use of

least need to be t here , " she s a i d .

condoms a� protect ion aga i nsr

In eptember, aht)ut 7 5 pet p le

hoth pregnancy and sexually

attended an e1·e n i n g t a l k on

transm it ted d beases. The Col

AID

l ege i mralled condom vend

by California-based a c t i l '

i s t Sharnn L u n d , w h o is H IV

ing mac h i nes i n dorm l aundry

pl)S i t i 1·e and \\'ho pleaded w i th

rooms three year ago, and they

students to "wake up" and deal

also are a\'ai lahle, along w i t h

w i th the issue. SHOC 1·ice presi

informat ion a • o u t h o w to use

arah W h i te l y '94 of East

them and about sexually trans

Wak efie l d , N . H . , says she was

m i tted d i seases, at both the

frustrated by the s m a l l t u rnout

health c enter's recepti n de k

but somewhat encou raged the

and the student post office.

dent

next eve n i ng when she heard

SHOC members say there also is a greater awareness of the is ·ue surrounding exual assault,

people who hadn't been there tal k i ng about Lund' v i s i t . "E1·en when there is a small grnup," Wh i t e l y said, " I feel that someone

a poin t made c lear last spring when the group asked student to tie

is tak ing the message and generating a conversat ion outside of

purple ribbons on a tree branch at the Student Center to repre ent

the gro u p . "

people they knew who had been sexually a saulted. "It wa filled

Wh i l e Colby s t i l l has a w a y s to go in the a r e a of student

w i th more than a hundred ribbons after a couple of days," said

health , there have been some noticeable c hanges i n behavior

SHOC treasurer Ki mberly Valen t i ne '94 of West S imsbury,

on campus. The era of kegs be i ng rol led into the Student Center

Conn. "Even for us i t was amazing to see . "

early on Saturday n ight and students of a l l ages stagger i ng out

Valentine s a i d t h a t there " m a y b e a higher leve l o f awareness"

l ater is gone. Now the consumption of alcohol at Col lege

of health issues among first-year students, a point borne out by an

event is r igorously 1T1o n itored, partly because M a i ne's d r i n king

infusion of several freshmen into the SHO

age has been ra ised to 2 1 and partly because the adn1 i nistrat ion

'97 of Atki nson, N . H . , arrived at Colby havi ng done s i m i lar

rank . Tony Moulton

i tak i ng a harder stance on drink ing. While students say the

improvisational ski ts at h is h igh school and said he hopes "we can

c hanges have on ly pushed parties beh ind c losed doors on

bring people away from alcoholism and sexual promisc u i ty . "

c ampus and i n to off-campus apartments and brought new risks

I n a t i me w h e n , according to Sharon L u n d , o n e i n every 9 5

i nvol\'ing d r i n k ing and d r i v i ng, they also say there is a greater

college students nationwide is H I V pos i t i ve, both t h e SHOC

acceptance of students who c hoo e a more temperate l i festyl e .

stud nts and med i c a l staff rea l i ze a lot is at stake. Bolduc

"There is a lot more respon ibi l i ty with alcohol," a i d Greg

Marden, who is i n her seventh year at Colby, says student are

Lynch '94 of Enfield, Conn . , a co-captai n on Colby's swim team

increas ingly aware of the dangers of H I V and A I DS, but "it i�

who says he had his own troubles w i th alcohol as an underclass

not real because no one has come out and said, '[ am H I V

man. He notes that student have chosen to l ive in two "chemical

pos i t ive. Watch o u t because t h i s can happen to you . ' There b

free" dorms-Ma1Tiner and P ierce-and that he and many others

s t i l l an awful lot of den ial here . " Bol d u c - M arden explains t h a t t h e health center prov ides

on campus make sure oft drinks are avai lable at parties. E m i l y Goetcheus '95 of Brook lyn, N . Y . , who leads the

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confidential HIV test i ng and counse l i ng and that students are

SHOC members led a candlelight procession to Lorimer Chapel to mark Intemarional AIDS Awareness Day on December 1 . coming i n to get their birth control needs met and exually

health and behavior, drug use, drinking and fime s. Colby's

transmitted disea e diagno ed and treated. Referring to the

Phy ical Education Department, he explains, also i involved in

student

d iscussions about student health and i looking at its requirements

who come to the health center for information as

well a examination, he a id, " I have a respon ible population

with an eye to emphasizing sports one can participate in well

eeking me out."

beyond the college year . "We want to look at the whole idea of

More than 1 6,000 c l inical contacts were reported last ear

wellne ," Hume said. ' Why not teach them healthy living,

by the health center, including more than 1 0,000 walk-in .

nutrition and lifetime athletics uch as tennis and fitnes ?"

Other medical needs were met at the new Carl E. Nel on

Hume ays the health center "is erving a the coordinator

Phy ical Therapy Center in the fieldhou e, which provided

to put all these pieces together" as more and more College

some 6,000 ind ividual rehab i l i ta t ion treatment l a t year, and

offic ials and student j oin in the d iscu

the student-operated Colby Emergency Respon e team.

hope to put together a p ilot wellne

Director of Counseling Services Patti Hopperstead, who al o

erve

as a SHOC advisor,

year from now, then have an introductory cour e in place a

aid that la t year Colby

early as fall 1 995 . Bryn Mawr College began it

coun elors saw 222 tudents- 1 3 percent of the tudent body in more than 1 200 session .

ion . He said the group program a a J an Plan a integrated

wellness program a dozen year ago, Hume ays, and it has been

he aid that while there has been

ucce ful in "as i ting in the development of a self-responsibil

an increase in the number of tudents who arrive on campu

ity for one's life tyle during the for mative college experience."

having had therapy to help them with their problems, "a large

Bryn Mawr' program also includes making ce sation, weight

number of tudents j ust come one t ime for reassurance that

reduction and other component for faculty and staff that the

what they're experiencing i in the normal range."

Colby group al o i

exploring. Hume said

uch programs,

Bolduc-Marden and her bo , Medical Director H . Alan

including one at LL. Bean, have proven co t effic ient at a t ime

Hume, M . D . , say they are exc ited about d i cus ions j ust under

of kyrocketing health care cost . " taff, faculty and students all

way that would introduce dramatic change in the way health

would benefit" if an integrated wellness program were eventu

issue are addre ed on campus. Bolduc- M arden point

ally developed at the College, Hume said.

to a

ucces ful S HOC pre entation during freshmen orientation

Hume's current mes age to Colby students i

and over ub cribed Jan Plan on exuality and health a evi

tinged with

urgency: "Make your own deci ions, think about what risks you are

dence that the student intere t i there.

going to take. Come and talk to us, to friend in SHOC, to hall residents. Just think about where you're going. Develop relation

For his part, Hume is enthu iastic about a proposed compre hensive health curriculum covering such subjects as nutrition,

ship based on something other than alcohol and ex and let them

eati.ng d i order , tressmanagement, exual identity, reproductive

mature. Don't be a member of a herd. Stop and think."

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By Haines Sprunt Tate A long time ago , somewhere in the land that's now Nigeria , people never go hLtngry becaLtSe they can eat the sky . Then the sk)' grows tired of being wasted and moves far out of reach . Meanwhile , the three little wolves give LIP on bLtilding houses of concrete and armor to keep ow the Big Bad Pig and decide to outwit him once and for all-with fl.owers that melt his angi-y heart . Jn a small , coastal New England cown , T-Ball Knowles straps on her bicycle helmet to win a race for her gang offriends against bullies who think girls-and the boys who befriend them-are sissies . Jn another town , on the front porch of Miss Ida ' s house , girls listen to grown-ups tell of a time when even great mLtSicians like Duke Ellingcon and Marian Anderson couldn ' t stay in some hotels or perform in concert halls because they were black .

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There's a lot going on hern·een

are

the brightly cnlored j ac k ets uf

truly

l i t e ra t u re , "

, ;1 i d

Fel d m a n . "and l t h i n k c h i l d ren

c h i ldren\ hm)b these Lbys, and

l ea rn < l l l lt ! ll l ) re from ,1 ,!c!, 11 1d

se,·eral Colby a l umnae are helr•

c h i l dren \ buok than the,· m iu LI

i ng to augment the shekes nf per

e1·er le,nn from a · D i c k ,rnJ J <1 1le ·

ennial fm·nri tes "·irh ne"· swries

hl•uk . They 'l I get n lot nwre t l l l t

f or ne\\' genera t i uns ti c h i ldren.

l lf a g 1 H1Ll h i -, tnr1cctl no,'l' I <thuut

Beth Feld 1T1an ' 2 a n d R e

the Ci1·il Wm than they "· d i

b e c c a Banc rnfr '9 1 11·ork on the

frum a Li n· t e x t . " S h e added t h a t

mark e t i n g s i d e , Fel d m an f or the

man\· re<ic her� n o \\ · u'e c h i kl ren \

c h i l d re n ' s hook d i l' i s i n n of � ! ac m i l l a n

N e "·

Bancroft for The Horn

l i t e ra t u re in ' u hj e c t " rn n g i n.�

Y l Hk ,

Boui<,

frllrn rn�lthetn<l t i c ' tu h i , t c >r y .

'' k,ue'i that are h i g i n t h e

Bnstnn maga: i n e t ha t re ,·i e " · s

\\·nrlJ muund u� <l re the 1 ,,ue-,

books f o r c h i l dren and fe�l t u re'i

that

a r t i c l e s on t rends and i�sue� i n

c h i ldren\ h1 1\)k s , " FelJrnan 'i<l ill .

the ind ustry.

\' l l ll

ll' i l l -, e e in t i m e l y

B l 1 c 1 k , a h u u t n u n t rad i t i c rn a l '

� ancl H i h m·

fa rn i l i e , , ' u c h a ' �ay i•aren t -, , h m·e hec<.1!lle p11�.., u b r 1 11

B ree d '86 are e d i to r s . B\)\\·en i::. 1 · i c e r re , 1 J e n t a ncl a"u

rec ent munrh , , a ncl 'tl i r i e ' ahnut d i fferent c u l t un:''i and

c i are publ isher in H e nr y H t 1 l t '.; B\)(lb for Y t ) u n g Re,1ckr,

ethnic group::. are tlt)u r i � h i n.g.

B renda Bo \\ ' e n 'S 1 . ,-\ n n Sk i nn e r R ider

d i 1· is i n n ; R ider i s a ::-enit)r acqu i s i t il1n, ecl i tl 1 r fl1r L i t t l e ,

B, ll, en �'1Y' rhm 11·hat\ heh incl t h c.;; e trenJ, 1s "the need

Br0\n1 a n d c l) nt p an y an-.1 \\'l)rb fr\ ) m her h o m e i n

tll re,ich ;1[[ thu,e Cl1mmunit ie, th.at �lre n1rning up i n the

L u t s e n , M i n n . ; and Breed i , <b�u c i a t t· eJ i ru r < H L i t t l e ,

c u l ture. a l l the c h i kl ren 1 )f i m m iwanrs, ;1l l the c h i ld ren dll)

Bro"·n in i ts Bo:"ton headq u a rt e r'i.

'l""'eak d i fferent lan.�uages, anJ the need tn educate t he

Desp i t e l ayoff::. and c uthach in the puhl i , h rn .� m J u ,

majt1rin· pnpu b t i l m ah)u t \)ther c u l t u re.;; . " Puhbher" ha1·e

try, th.e.-e \\"l)nten a re i n a f i e l d that , 1 l m l1<;t C l ) u l d n ' r h::·

expre,,eJ a cle,ire t�1r 'uc h hl)Ub, ,he Sl\"�, and m i\\· ml1re

hotter. Dur i ng the 1 980,, rn rn l ,,1[e, nf c h i l d re n \ hl)\)b

pe l 1p l t> <lre \\Ti t i ng a1kl i l l u s tr at i n g them .

more than quadrupled; they t t l P�"°' e LI " 1 . 1 h i l l 1 l m la::-t year.

R iLler .;; rn·, her t m·n inr e re.;;r 111 ethnic trnd i rinn" e n r i c he,

accord i ng tn the :-\ssnc i;1 t ion nf :'\ mericm Puhl i ,h t> r ' .

her \\' l 1 rk : " [ l ike expll 1 r i ng Llifrerent c u lt u res in pic t u re

Breed -ay t h a t i n the '80, publ i ::. her, re;1 l i :ed th<lt the i r

hnnb, fl)f example, dl) i ng a Mex ican .;wry. doing a 't l..11\ '

c h i ldren's d i 1· i · i ons , once ClWl'i 1 dereJ -, 1J e ,·e n t u re,, \\'ere

frnm N igeria L)r an .'\:"ian picture ht l < ) k . :he ::.ays rhm ll'h i le "

becom i ng the hread and hurter nf the b u 'i i ne::.s. A rec e n t

her pre fere nc es may Cl1incide \\· i r h c u nenr trends, her

s p a t e o f art i c l e s and brnadcasts nn the 'i uhj e c r sug�e,ts

rea�nns f,ir pursuing a project m u:' t be SL) l id . "By the t i me you

that t h ose sale' ha1·e fo,tered a n e \\·f ound respe c t f nr

f o l l n \\ ' a rrenJ, it's usua l l y 1wer "·irh by the t i me you get a

l i terat ure a i med at the I

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book o u t , she said. A bl>ok she ed ited, \\,71:· che "

- a n d - u n d er ·e r .

SI<:' ls Far AH·a:' , by M a ry-J o a n Gerson, is a

" ] t h i n k people hm·e come to rea l

igerian folk tale th.at has a t i mely e1w irnn-

i : e that c h i l dren 's book s

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mental message abo u t not

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brary," Bowen said, <idding

wastin o natural resources. It

that i l l ustrator� now must be

won several awards and was

more innuvati\'e i n �tyle and

named "Best I l lustrated" by

technique to comrete .

The New York Times.

Rider say� i t i:- a chal

Rider al s o ha s pursued out

lenge to come u p w i th good

of-the- ma i nstream topics for

man u-,cri pts f n r i l l u�t rators .

the nonfi c t ion hooks she ed

" I t's i mportant to keer them

i t s f or teenagers. Rec e n t l y she

going, and it\ rea l l y ha rd to

worked on a rhotograph ic

f i n d ,l; o o J p i c ru r e - bo n k

essay about c h i ldren of m i

m:-rnu-,c ri pt � . " she �a i d . A rt

grant farm \\'orkers. " I fe l t

ists often ll'ork for se\'eral

that there \\'a� a n e e d for t h a t

d i ffe r e n t p u h l i � h e r� . s h

k i n d , ihonk-t hat there hall

�ays, \\'hereas au thun, are u s

heen a hook abo u t m igrant

ua l l y e x pe c t ed to � t a y l oya l

worker�. h u t that \\'e \\' eren ' t

t\ l \ l ne p uhl i h er.

h e a r i ng from the c h i ld ren

and what t h e i r l i ,· es a re l i k e,"

Brenda Buu·en ' 8 0

a l\\ ' ay� gu�1ranree that the

she s a i d . S h e ' s n o w at work on a b o \ ) k for young teens,

arti�t w i l l accept t h e prnjec t , a!ld a u th or� ll'ho ca n com

Peo/)/t.' Llkt.' Us, a ho u t the g<iy <ind lesb i an comm u n i t ies.

peten t l y i l l u'trate their own 'torie are rare. R i der �ay

"There are n ' t e nough books o u t there abou t being gay , "

mar ch i ng text and a rt i� the he�t t h i ng ahnut her j ob . "You

she sa i d . " I t's i mp\Xtant for teenagers w h o a r e confused ,

can take text so man y d i fferent d i rect ions, anJ that's

in the i r search for infonT1ation . "

where I feel ed i tors play a h i g rt )le," she a i d .

A n d as school c u t arts programs, says Breed , a series

New books use u c h d i verse med ia a � col lage, pastel,

of p i c ture books she e d i ted on women art ists, i n c l u d i ng

h<ind-made paper <ind wnodc ut-"mL)St of the

Georg i a O'Keeffe, Frida Kahlo and Fa i th R inggold , i s

would want to fr ame and put on your wal l , " Bowen said. R ider agrees, <;ay i ng one reason i

fi l l i ng a need.

tuff you

the price tag. ''People

don't want to pay fifteen dol l ars for a p icture book unless

Trends i n the content of c h i ldren's books may have

they feel l i ke the art is j ust that: art," she aid.

s t i rred more d iscuss ion t han i l l ustra t i on techn iq ues, but

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Fi nd i ng

� t y l i � t i c m <l r c h d oesn ' t

c h anges there have had i mportant market i mpac t , Bowen

What makes a good c h ildren's hook ! " ] look f or some

says. Recent i mprovemen ts in pri n t i ng techno logy h<we

th i ng really f resh," R ider said. She says she l ike working

made it easier to reprod uce fu l l -color art in a variety of

w i th new authors and i l lustrators in part i c ular, people who

med i a . "That real ly made a b i g d ifference in the v i s ib i l i ty

don't h;;ive an establ ished "look" or s ty l e . "I want to publ ish

of c h i ldren's books, because sudden ly there w e re al I of

a book that in the end I can look at and feel proud about," she said. "Part ofthat is that i t will e l l wel l ,

these gorgeous books that were very attract ive, that people wanted to buy and own

b u t that' n o t a l l o f i t . " Occasional ly

instead of borrow from the I i -

she ' l l read a book she's edi ted to her

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1 i .A merican Puhl i ..; her..;'

' -year-old son, Chrisrnrher, but says she wou ldn't e\·er

BuarJ ti. )r Ch ildren 's Bnob,

use him as a barometer t)f a

Bu,,·en �ays the heads l•f

book'-; success. " [ defi n i te ! ·

chi ldren'� l 1 ter;1ture d i ,· i -

belie,·e in the right book fur

5ions are mostly \\\)men.

the right child," she added .

RiL�er say..; 1•ne re<b1•n

801\'en ..; a y · her c orn

the field h<1sn 't ,mr,\Ctecl

pany ruts good writ ing tibt.

111' •re

"We look for a n ind i , · i d u a l

that c h i ldhn1lLI i� the dl•

n) i c e

and

a d i ffe r e n t

rnain of the mother." ,-\n

sound , " she s a i d , add ing

nther may be its perce 1 ,·ed

that a story a lso must ha,·e

hick t •f presti.� e compared

,. i . u a l

potent i a l :

"We

wou ldn't rake o n a manu

the glamnur of adu l t

puhl ishing. " I srill ger com

script that is tot a l l y static

ments l ike, ' So. \'Ou're re

or only rake · place i n l)ne

ally In train i n,g for adult

roo m . "

publishing,"' she said.

rrength is i m por

tant i n the art a

\\' e l l .

Bo\\'en names the l a t e

"We 're n o t s o m u c h i n to t h e finely \\'rought o r detai led

Ursula

t u ff. l l i ke very bold i mage s , " said Bm,·en.

ordstrom. k1ng - t i me h e a J of H a rrer & Ro\\·'s

c h i ldren's d i ,· ision, a: one of the mentor

Choosing a rotential book is uti:en a matter of ed i torial

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men may be "the idea

for \\'nmen

publ ishers. Nordstrom introduced no1\· class i c authors

taste. Breed prefers stories that portray real istic si tuat ions

l ike La ura I ngalls W i lder and Maurice

and be l ie,·able characters. " l 'm not one of those people who

mous audi ences \\'hen male publ ishers took l i tt l e intere - t .

l ikes cu te animal storie-," she �aid. Feldman says the manu

"She q u i e t l y \\'ent llff and c rea ted a l l these 1T1asterp ieces.

endak to enor

scripr- she buys must ha,·e sm1ng plor- and ,,·ell-defined

I think that's ,,·hat a k)t of us like to think \\'e're d o i ng , "

character . "A lor of reople thin , that writing a chi ldren's

s a i d BL1wen. "\XI e \1·ant to be part o f t h e corporate s t ru c

book is simple," she said. " I think you really haw to j udge

ture, and 1\·e don't \\'ant t o b e unnot iced. b u t a t the same

a chi ldren· book by the ame ·randards that you j udge adult

t i me we want to be left a lone to do c h i ld ren's bLx1ks,

l iterature by."

because i t 's an a rt i n and of i tself."

Chi ldren's l i terature \\'as long considered a women's

Feldman says children's book market ing d iffers ::itmngly

field, with men hol d i ng the top job . R ider notes that

from marketing in other businesse-;. "There's nothing about

trad it1 nal women's careers-particu larly teaching anJ l i

i t that is a hard se l l . The people that we are sel ling buoks

brary work-produced women \\+10 later became edi tors 1)f

to are teacher· and l i brarians and bookstores," she <;aid.

c h ildren's books, and Bo\\'en add that many 1\·umen also

"Market ing really means j ust mak ing ure that theys ee \\'hat

came ur thr ugh the rank · after starting as secretaries,

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we ha,·e each .;; e a on." Early in a book' - production Feldman's

learni ng the business from other ed i ro 1.. .

department must assemble bound gal [eys and

A member of the Assoc iation

l :\ � l. ..\ R Y

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prnofa i n t l l k i ts f or sale�

of the field m Colhy hy

represcntat i \'e� and re

tak ing Pn ife�<;or Su-,a n

\'iewer::-. Another round

Kenney\ J a n Plan :-ur

o f p u b l i c i t y fl 1 1 l n \1·s

\'ey of ch i ld re n \ l i tern

d1en the fin ished honk

t ure, then \\'nrked in

emerges. "We j ust re i�

hn,1bturc� i n Bosrnn

sued the nrigird Rag

afrer Colhy 11·h i l e get

g J y Ann mid Andy

t i ng , , ma�tcr\ degree

ho1Jks , so the publ i c i ty

in c h i ldren\ l i tc-ratu re

manager is d o i ng rire:,s

<lt S i m rnl ln� Col lege.

release� to send ro dnl l -

Ofered a marketing j uh

01llectl 1r�' ma.� ;ci ne�,"

<lt V i k i ng Pengu in in

she · a i d . And she wel-

N e \\' Yurk , Fe l d m a n

nme� her j nh\ \·mi cry.

�wa I l o\\ ' ed her fear L if

"My day i s ne\'er the

the c i ty and accepted,

same t\\· i c e , \\' h i c h is

hupi ng to mu\'e inw

someth i ng l low," �he sa id. "People t h i n k t hat

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H i/(ln Bri?c!cl '86 ( left ) with Lit tle , Brown desizner Cuns umcc Jucobson

ed i wria l work lacer. "[ fl 1unLI that 1 real! y lm·ed

publishing is \'ery gbm < i rous, hut i t's a Int nfhard work . [ du

the marke t i ng s i de of t h i ngs, t l l\ )," he ::-.aid. After fi\'e years

a Im of crawl ing around on the flnm pack i ng hl1ob u p . "

�he returned tll Bu�wn to free lance cmd t'\'entwi l l y hecame

E a c h nf the \1·omen t e l l s a s i m i l ar rnle of ri:-ing r h ruugh

marketin,1; and a dn:rt i � i ng manager l )f The Hom Boo!<,

the ra nks in puhlish i ng. Feldmm1 and Bancrd.t hnth -;ay

ll ' h e re �he later h i red Bancroft. At lvlac m i l L m , she oversees

they had designs on ed i t i ng career� hef ore he in g d i \'e rt d hy

trade and l i hrary marketing f or a bout 1 7 5 h\loks each spri ng

the u n ique cha I lenges of mark e t i ng. Bancroft says a fan1ri te

and f o l l sea:-l ln.

pan nfher job is he i ng <1hle to l eaf through the sracb of nell'

Fnr Bree d , \\'hu s t u d i ed art h i story a� well as Engl i s h a t

hoob i n the o ffice- The Hom Book recein�s close to 5 ,000

Cnl hy, a s u m m e r i n ternsh i p at T h e Horn B o o k led to a J an

t i t les each year. "Ynu see a l l the hl1nb cnme in from all rn·er.

P l a n at t h e maga : i ne and fin a l l y tn a ['OS i t io n as an

I t's a great i ntroduction, I t h i nk , to all the d i fferent a::-.pects

ed i t ur i a l as� i stan t as soon as she grad uated. After a few

of the field," Bancrl ft sa i d .

years t here and a hrief t i m e in New York , she retu rned to

A Colby teach i ng pract icum led Bancroft to pursue a

Bo�ton in 1 989, as assistant ed i tor at L i t t le , Brown. Breed

l i teracy tutor's certificate after�he graduated in a course that

acq u i res six or e i g h t books for d i fferen t age le\'els each

emphasi:ed the use of c h i ldren's books i n teach i ng read i ng.

yc-ar f or the company,

After rounds of i n terviews, some w i th Cl 1lhy contacts, she

manuscripts and see i n g t l 1 e m t h rough the complex i l l us-

ended up a t The Hom Book in 1 992, work i ng i n marketing

t ra t i on and prod u c t ion process. " I ' m k ind of t he h u b of the whee l , " she s a i d . "I love to read , and

and customer ser\'ice promot ions.

! l ik e to c r i t i q u e and d iscuss people's w r i t ing.

Feldman got a g l i mpse

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eek i ng out proj cts, ed i t i ng the

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And the art c l asses [ a t

the atmosphere was right.

Colby] taught me a r e a l ap

" l really l i ked the feeling

prec iat ion for what people

of i t . I thought, 'Oby, thi�

can do." She often finds

feels right, ' because there

manusc ripts through l iter

were books pi led e,·ery-

ary agents or authors with

1\' h e re and man usc ri p t'

whom she has worked be

flrn�·ing out ofdrawer:," ·he

fore and note

that the

said. From there she mo\'ed

company no longer accepts

on to ed i to r i a l j ob - at

the " s l u s h p i le " of u n

Harper J r. Books and vari

sol i c i ted

manuscripts,

ous chi ldren's and young

nearly 5,000 o f which used

ad ult d i ,· isions at Scholas

flow each year to the

tic I n c . , where she stayed

de ·ks of edi torial assistants.

for s i x year , ed i t i ng such

After Colby, where he

books a s W a l t e r D e a n M y e rs'

about p u b l i s h i n g , R i d e r

p o w e rfu l

t r i e d t wo internship

Viemam that is s t i l l ,·ery

the field, one in the chi ld

popular. Bowen, nnw on

Monthly Press, the other at

Rebecca Bancrnft

- rn ry

abou t

matern i ty lea\'e, supen·i ·e

'9 1

ortheastem University Press. "That was a pretty quick way

about

of figuring out that scholarly publishing wasn't for me," she

raff of 1 2 and brings

0 new title through Henry Holt each year.

cred i t - her Colby majors in Engl i ·h and art h istory w i th

said. "There were children' l:xx1ks with great illustrations

helping her as an ed i tor. "I was taught to think c r i tically

and fun and humor, and scholarly publishing was sort of a

and was trained wel l , and that s what I do," she said.

Book for

Asked about the future prospects for their ind ustry ,

two years, in benveen jobs in Boston bookstores and an

t h e Colbians note t h a t c h i ldren's publ ishing m a y b e

narrow, pecialized field."

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Fallen Angels.

heard a guest speaker talk

ren's divi ion at Atlantic

he worked at The Harn

assi tant editorship at Knopf in New York. She -tarted at

cool ing off Breed reports that L i ttle, Brown j ust weath

L ittle, Brown in 1 98 7 , and now, as part of the deal she set

ered the first round oflayoffs in company history; Feldman

up that allows her to work at her home in Minnesota, she

pred icts that pub l i her w i l l grow more selec t i ve as the

is paid only when a project he works on is accepted by

financ ial

the company.

freelancer, she's le

Bowen was sharing a tiny apartment w i th another Colby grad i n

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takes rise; and R ider says that as a v irtual w i l l i ng to take on a risky proj ect.

"The thing about publ i hing is that there's no guaran

ew York when she found a job as the

tee," R ider said. "You don't k now how something's goino

assistant to the pre ident of Bas ic Books. The

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to tum out, and you don't know how someth i ng's

work was clerical, she says, but Haines Sprunr

Tace

is a fi-eelnnce writer

in Waten•ille . Old Black Fly copyright 1 992 by S tephen Gammell . Book jacket photographs by Warren Roos .

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C 0 l R )

NICK JAN S S H E D S LIG H T ON A

BY STE P H E N COLLI N S '74

FAS T- DARK E NING LAN D S CAPE

Looking past a row of Macintosh computers through a window in his j unior high school classroom, N ick J ans ' 7 7 sees a middle-aged Eskimo man on a Âˇnowmobile haul ing a sled full of dead caribou down the street. The view, he writes in his first book, The Last Light Breaking:

Living Among Alaska's lnupiat Eskimos, is typical of the incongru i ties of life in northern Alaska. "Satel l i te di he next to cabins chinked with mos ; racks of meat and drying animal skins by trim prefabricated houses; sled dogs and the latest high -tech-snowmobiles, VCRs and outhouse ; a tiny video arcade with a woodstove. It's as if you're viewing the aftermath of a violent coll ision between the past and the present." Jans is both chronicler and participant in that collision. As a school teacher in Ambler, Alaska, he is part of the cultural c l ash between the Stone Age and the Infonnation Age. As a fel low hunter and gatherer with hi

lnupiat Eskimo friends, he i

an intimate w itne s to the

cataclysmic changes rocking their world. As a writer he observes two increasingly dear but endangered aspects of American consciou ne s-native culture and what's left of the wilderness.

J ans went to A l aska a decade and a half ago

" I used to wri te twenty-page

papers when he wan ted

find adventure and was se

five, and then he'd sit there

d uced by the land . l n subse

and cut it

quent years he ha

give me a B+. But I ended

run a

pieces and

v i llage trad i ng post, taught

up getting A 's from h i m , by

and c o a c h e d

in p u b l i c

god . " I n the process, J ans

school , traveled some

says, he learned how to ded

40,000 m i l e

icate h i mself to writ ing.

Arctic

through the

w i l d e rn e ss

and

" ] haven't worked that

learned many o f t h e ways of

h a rd si n c e-not u n t i l I

the l nu p ia t .

wrote thi

A few years after he took

book , " he said,

referring both to the year

up re idence, J ans, who ha

he spent rev ising old sto

publ ished es ays and poetry

ries an<l crafting new ones

in Alaska,

for the collec tion and to

the

Rolling Stone and

Chrisrian Science Moni

the early years in A laska,

tor and is assoc iate ed i to r of

when he "hammered out a

Alaska magaz ine, began to

p i le ofnotebooks filled with

write about his hopes and

purp l ish prose."

fears for the I nupiat and the magical, unforgiving land around them.

Nick Jam went to Alaska to run a river . He ended up staying and now makes his living as a writer and teacher in an Eskimo village .

The Last Light Breaking, publ ished last fal l by

A l aska Northwest Books, is a collec t ion of 23 informative,

Besides Benbow, J ans remembers Professor Char-

Bassett warm l y , "because Charlie was the antidote

Benbow. Charl ie was accessible . He wa a real plain-spoken

often powerful essays interwoven w ith strands of Esk i mo

guy. Where Benbow wrapped everything u p in layers

l eg e n d a n d n a rra t i v e . A c c ord i n g

a u thor Peter

wrapped it up in a very engaging way-Charlie k i nd of

Matth iessen , The Last Light Breaking offers "a fresh, wonder

debunked everything." He cred i ts Bassett's d i rect approach

ful new voice , all the more al ive against the grave and

ancient background of l n u p i a t trad i t ion, w i l d l ife and the

described as "spare."

l i terature for his own writ ing style, which has been After graduat ing sum.ma cum laude, and fifth in his class,

wai t i ng landscape." The son of a career d iplomat, J ans grew u p a l l over the

in 1 97 7 , J ans spen t a couple of years k ick ing around Maine.

world. H e arrived on Mayflower H i l l 20 years ago, transfer

He applied for a Rhodes scholarship but was turned down,

ring to Colby after a year at R u tgers and i mmersing h i mself

he learned , for lack of a focused proposal .

i n l i terature, footbal l , rugby and weight-l ifting.

" I k i nd o f shot myself i n the foot-I think i t was instinc

"In high school , " he said, " I was getti ng mediocre grades

tive," he said recently. "Looking bac k , it wou ld have opened

in c l ass while I was read ing Shakespeare and T.S. E l iot on

u p another whole set of goals that would have led some

my own, not q u i te understanding i t but banging my head

where e lse . " He took courses and taught h igh school in

aga inst it. When I got

Colby I was j us t burning to read

southern Maine for part of a year. Then, i n 1 979, he and a

that stuff."

col lege friend, Peter Torres ' 7 8 , decided

He was a ttracted to the courses taught by Professor of

" I always knew I wou ld go

Engl ish R . Mark Benbow, now ret ired , who emanated a

head to A l aska.

A laska ; I had no idea I was

going to l ive there ," J ans said.

pas ion for l i terature and whose exacting standards gave

J a ns c h ipped i n h i s last $200 for a floatplane ride w ith

J ans something e lse to bang his head against. "I took

Torres

everything 1 could from him because he was such a hard

thei r 7 00-mile canoe trip shows u p i n an essay c a lled

sonofabitch, because it was never good enough," J ans said.

"Arctic Heroes." After deta i ling how they got d uped into a

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the headwaters of the Kobuk River. The story of

heroic upstream ordeal and a herc ulean portage over the

and J oe McGu iness's Going to Extremes, for example ) is h is

Schwatka Mountains, J ans desc ribes the descent down the

residency . The d ifference between a N ew Yorker who visits

Noatak R iver:

Arc t ic Alaska for six months or a year and a resident is the

We leaned into our paddles and flew down the Noatak, fleeing

difference between impressionism and unsentimental realÂ

the pass as if it might rise up on its rocky haunches and give

ism. "It's an outsider looking around say ing, 'Jesus Christ ,

chase . With 300 miles ahead , we ' d had enough . The country

it's a bear ! ' instead of the more seasoned perspec tive of,

had kicked our ass , pure and simple , and all we wanted now

'Wel l , there's a bear on that hill; it looks l ike a sow that

was to get out before everything fell apart . Shoes , canoe and

might have cubs nearby,"' J ans said.

ankles were patched with duct tape , but that wouldn ' t cover the deeper damage . Peter and I weren ' t talking.

'The landscape is so big. If you go up there without religion, you will find it. If there is a god on earth, he lives in the Brooks

A detour up the Ambler River in 1 9 7 9 changed more

Range, as far as I can tell," J ans said. The magical quality of the

than j ust the two adventurers' route to Kotzebue Sound on

primordial landscape has evoked fear and respect in the

the coast. Passing through the Eskimo village of Ambler,

Eskimos and in Jans. The natives have never lived in the

J ans agreed to return at the end of his trip to run the Ambler

mountains, he says; they only venture in and out. Away from

Trading Post , owned by a non-resident from Holland . J ans

the coastal villages, only

4,000

people live in the Ambler

350), 50 m iles above the

region, an area roughly the size of Maine. "A lot of my friends

Arctic C irc le and 2 00 m iles from the nearest road. His

have been attracted back (away from the Arctic ) by loneliÂ

now l ives in Ambler ( population

writing describes early moments \.vhen he was ready to bail

ness," he said. Bur for Jans, the lure of creature comforts,

out and flee south, but it wasn't long before the land c laimed

professional opportunities, even human relationships that

its hold on h im and he saw signs of acceptanc e from some

would be possible in the less isolated regions of the world

of the v illagers. What separates ] ans's prose about the Arc ti c from other popular accounts ( J ohn McPhee's Coming into the Country

cannot draw him away. Women have left him, he says, because they feel he loves the landscape more intensely and genuinely than he can love another person-and he doesn't disagree.

Jans 's canoeingpart:ner, Peter Torres '78 , lines their canoe up the Ambler Rii1er into the Schwackn Mountains on the 1 979 trip tlwt wok]ans to Alaska.

'The BroL1ks Range

re ady

to faint from ex

is a d ream worl d , " he

h a u � t ion wh i l e the

said . " I t's suspended .

older women how no

If a herd of mam moths

sign of fatigue:

came over the h i l l fo l lowed h y

We contin ue , grad

bunch of

ually drawing in the

it from

guys weari ng sk i n and

net , freeing

carry ing spears I would

snags , scoo/)ing back

not be u rprise d . The

escaping fish . A t las t

the

landscape has a Pleis

we' re down to a few

tocene look to i t . "

hundred lwlusraak ( a

" Y o u c a n ' t k now

broad whitefish) and a

the country , you can't

dozen whitefish . Minnie

k now the a n i mals, you can't k now the Esk i -

In Jans ' s j1mior high schuol classroom . st1tdents ' hori�onsa rc expanded beyond their traditional /mi/)iat culciire .

mos-j ust the way th ings are up there-wi thout spend i ng

snatches a fish bursting with roe , lifts it , and

squeezes a cream of orange eggs into her mouth .

a lot of t i m e , " he sa i d . "I d idn't feel l ike I had any qual ifi c a

"Aaricraa l " (good! ) she exclaims , her lips glistening, an

t ions to w r i t e about i t f o r seven or e ight years. E v e n t h e n I 'd

egg s wck w her cheel< . Then she catches me watching her, and

write som ething and l ook at it and say, 'Well , that's how I

we both lower our eyes . "1 'm sorry t eat suvuks like that in

felt then , but now I feel d i ffere n t l y . ' Thing j ust don't hold

front of )'OU , " she says , embarrassed .

s t i l l . That's why i t ended up as a collec t ion of essays."

"No , no , it does n ' t borher me , " I re/)/y , but I know she doesn ' t believe me . I can ' t find the words to tell her why I ' m ashamed -it's not of her , b u t of m y own squeamishness , of

While Jans wri te- w i th an al most re l igiou pass i on about the landscape, his stories about helping Esk i m

women net

fish and about roam i ng the coun try w i th one of the few

1TI)' own inability to seize the land and s uck life from it

remai n i ng hunter/providers explain j ust as eloquen tly why

wriggles in my hands .

he never returned to the girlfriend, the law school , "the sort of l i fe I 'd been raised

l ive."

I n "Black River Autumn" J a n s writes about accompanying two Inupiat widows to the i r annual fall fish camp. After a night of

Perhaps the best essay in the collec t ion are about ] a ns's friend Clarence Wood. A c rusty, m iddle-aged I n u p i at patri arc h , Wood refuses

watch ba ketball even when hi sons

Jans pauses to talk with his friend Mark Cleveland, an lnupiat elder. ]ans 's relationships with villagers have given h im insights about Eskimo culture that he says are not likely to come to transienc journalists writing about the Arcric .

p l a y on t h e h i g h s c h o o l t e a m , even when the team wins

stories about wolf packs,

the state champion

dog-sled journeys and

s h i p . He c l i ngs to

hauls of fish in years

what he knows about

gone by, M innie Gra y

a good way to l i ve

and Sarah T i c k e t t

desp ite the tempta

spend t h e n e x t day

tions of the welfare

showing Jans how they

state and the en

seine the fish they'll eat

c ro a c h i ng Age o f

during the winter. A

Information. A s u c

they bustle back and

cessful hunter back

forth across the river,

i n the days of sled

e t t i n g the net and

dogs and snowshoes,

skewering thousands of

he i now armed w i th

fi h, Jans realizes he's

a h igh-powered rifle

arrd mounted on a snowmob i l e . J an

d esc r i bes C larence

Wood a "the u l t i mate predator, the apotheosis of Esk i mo h u n t i ng technology . "

to be a living museum while 1 teach his childre n

use computers

arul speal< sw1ulard English . ] ans's longing for that which is l ost i neatly sum med u�•,

The i r re l a t i onship is orre of master a n d apprent ice , holy

too , i rr the book' t i t l e . He rec a l ls s i t t ing in Roberr G i l l e p i e 's

n1an and truth -seeker. J an s h e l p, Wood k i l l a wolf and

poet ry c lass at Colby read i ng Dylan Thoma

cheri he hi reward : a few words of praise and , u l t i mately,

t i m e . "G i l lespie read the poem 'A Refu a l To Mourn the

a dec l arat iorr of re pect and fr iendsh i p . J an.s's reflect ions on

Death of a C h i ld by Fire i rr London , " ' he · a i d , quor i ng :

the hunt give one essay spec i a l re·onanc e :

Unlike some Eskimos who have co me

ei1er un til t h e mankind making

regard a job i n the

cash economy as an end in itself, Clarence and others like him see such jobs as a means only : a means w li,ve up to the values of their fathers , who knew

chac a

successful man , a real man , was a

Bird beast and flower Fathering and all h L1mbling darkness Tells with silence the last light breaking. "and I ·aid, ' Hold i t , hold i t , hold i t . ' And right then I

skilled hunter . And Clarence 's family and relati11es ( seemingly

decided that I wanted

a quarter of the village) depend on che meat he prnvides

B reaking ,

caribou , moose , beaver OT bear--a c etiery m eal . Quire simply , these people would be impoverished <U'ithouc

for the fi r�t

the land's gifts .

Yet at times I rest uneasy , haunted by the spi1its of running

wri te a book cal led The

Las e Light

though I d id rr ' t know \\·hat it was abo u t . That

sounds apocrypha l , that sound made up, b u t i t j ust is t ru e . '' The l i ne work

\\·e l l as

t i t l e for t h i

par t i c u lar book

about the A rc t i c . In one ·en e , J an may be chron i c l ing the

wolves , unsure what to make of this lat.est penmttation ofI11upiat

la 't l ight break i ng on l nupiat c u l tu re and on the la t earthly

culture. The aesthetics of clw.sing doivn animals with machines

front ier j ust out t he i r back door. But he a lso c e l ebrates the

doesn ' r concem Clarence, and I iuish ic did; bw he didn ' c inven t

beau t i fu l , ob l ique rays that i l l u m inate hi adopted hom e . I n

the mach ine s nor 01 A r concepts offair chase and consermtion . 1f

the i nt roduc t i o n t o The

I broached the subject he'd consider me

h is early, painfu l attempts

fool . The neiu

technolog)1 is just another means toward an ancient end . Eskimos

have embrnced nowmobiles and semi u tomatic 1ifles so that che seams between culrures are scarcely

VL ible .

a·wry ; nut)1be it's not the wolves at all , but that I'd like to belie11e theTe i · still a place in the Still , something seems lost or gone

world where a fur-clad figure waits pa tiemly with

spear ,

Lase Light Breal<ing J arr to

reflect- on

pin dmn1 the region i n prlre:

In a place where disram pea ks sometimes appear inverted above the hori�on , where you co1 1 ld v.:alk for hams tov.:ard a hill you 'd guessed was a mile awa: » ivhere the s1111 rises at all poincs of the compass and sometime, casts pale ghosts of itself, norhing would or co11ld ever be certain ; in chis world che

The Jade Mo1mrains , pare of the Brooks Range , provide a backdrop for wandering ca ribo u . "You could walk for hours coward a hill yo11 'd gue ssed was a mile awa:v, " Jans u�·ices .

laws of ph:• s i cs seemed to floa r freel:· , compre s i11g and expand

hamming spirit

ing, ref11.sing l0Mc .

s ong

A t firs t these am

ra ther

than cursing at

bigu i ties gnau•ed

pistons . Th.m is

a t me, bw slowl:•

as s u ra n ce

I learned to le t go .

chat vision ; per

The I nupim had

haps it would

a l w a :·

seTve as a land

wi thin these edd·y

rk to guide us

i n a c u rr e n t s of

m oved

home , or at least

time , space and

co mark o u r rrail. Bue l have

ligh t ;

s i,1 bs r a n t i a l i t )'

no right

�l'Gsn ' t a q11e ·rion ,

pect Clarence

but

them in

a fa ce of life .

G I F T S

G R A N T S

Lee Family Endows 1 5 th Faculty Chair - By Sally Baker-

n the four and a half decades since he

25 liberal arts college ], we've got to have

arrived on the Colby campus, Bob

some more endowed chairs," Lee said.

Lee ' 5 1 has again and again proved

"That's easy for me to unJerstand ."

himself one of the College'

2 50 people; now it average about 1 50. "Things have been quiet ince the late 1 980s because of the recession and the end

most

"Colby was such a modest place in

of the Cold War," Lee said. "But I think we

ardent supporters. A a student he

1 94 7 , " Lee said. "We had four build ings

learned before then, anyway, that there

played freshman basketball, served a.

were diminishing returns when we got

manager for the track team and as a

too big." Increasing the size of the com

coach for the interfratern ity basketball

pany could have taken a toll on his

program and was sports edi tor :if the

family, and that was a price he ays he

Oracle. S ince graduation he has been

wouldn't pay.

active in alumni organizations such as

"You really ought to do quite a bit to

the Boston and N orth Shore Colby

keep family together," Lee said. "Don't

Clubs, the Greater Boston Alumni As

let your bu iness

soc iation and the "C" Club; he was co

ahead of your family."

your ambition run

chair of his class's 2 5 th reunion, chair

Lee' job is four part organization and

of the Alumni Fund, Boston-area leader

one part cheerleading-he's well placed

of the Plan for Colby and nat ional

at the head ofa labor-intensive company

leader of the Colby 2000 campaign's

that relies on its ability to keep employ

special gifts phase. He has been a Colby

ees happy. As he takes a visitor on a

trustee since 1 9 7 5 ( save for a h iatus

factory tour, Lee stops here and there to

from 1 98 7 to 1 98 9 ) , and has w i l l ingly

speak to someone at a workbench. Lee

even cheerfully-put in hundred

describes his style as "paternal" but nods

hours as a member of the Trustee Plan

when someone else uggests "humane"

n ing Comm ittee and on last year's

might be as good a word.

College governance project. H e steered

Lee's community involvement i pro

two of h is three children, Peter '80,

digious, and he pent much of his mid

now a lawyer i n Yarmouth, Maine, and

and four m i l l ion dollars in the bank when

career years stumping for small business

Sally '84, who works at MIT, to the Col

I was there. N ow we have forty-four build

rights as a member-and president-of the

lege and d id the same for many h igh

ings and one hundred m i l l ion in the bank.

Smaller Business As ociation of New En

school students in h is native Danver ,

We've all seen this incredible steep curve

gland and as a delegate to various Congres

of improvement and a commensurate level

sional and White House conference on

Mass., as an alumni i nterviewer. Only Bob Lee could top himself-and

of excellence in the faculty and the k ids

the topic. Ten years ago Lee began jazz

he has. At the October trustee meeting,

who get in. We've had three great presi

piano lessons-he plays ina couple ofbands,

President Bill Cotter announced the estab

dents, and there've been no d isappoint

he says-and he's helping to produce an

li hment of the Lee Family Chair in English,

ments, no nonsense."

opera based on the Sinclair Lewis novel

the College's 1 5th endowed professorship

Lee is pre ident of Hotwatt Inc. in

Elmer Gantry.

Danvers. He started the business, a manu

Lee says his volunteer Colby work has a

Lee's w ife, Jean, a 1 989 graduate of

facturer of heating elements for machin

practical as well as a generous side. "All of

Gordon College whose education was in

ery and appliances, w ith h is father in

these [duties] brought me into new Colby

terrupted by child rearing, agreed that the

1 95 2 . Two years later, the company moved

communities," he said. "While they were

family

d ifferent c lasses-and all were task-ori

and the 1 2th to be funded since 1 989.

hould fund the endowment, and

from the basement of the fam i l y home to

he cho e the designation-English, her

a larger build ing, and in 1 96 2 Hotwatt

ented-it was fun doing these things with

major at Gordon. Bob Lee had hi reasons,

bought its current d igs, the former Stan

ColbypeopleandhavingnewColbyfriends.

for making the million-dollar gift.

dard Crayon factory j ust off Danvers' main

I think it made up for the gaps here. This is

"I believed Bill when he said that if

square. Orders for Hotwatt's resistance

a straightforward business, and I'm good at

too ,

we're going to compete with that gang of

based heating units, which are used in

it, but it's not enough. I think Colby fills

twenty-five colleges that he brings up all

everything from toasters to aircraft, poured

some of the gaps-just being close to some

[U.S . News & World Report's top

in. A t one t i me the company employed

cerebral things."

the time

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B O O K S

A U T H O

R S

ta@Hi�

A N ew Focus on Fathering

- By Robert Gillespie h e experience a man bring· ro

hood as "a place to learn, not a place to

riety of ource , including Shapiro' experi

this job is outdated, appropri

perform"and aysthat "There maybe ubtle

ence. The temptation i to jump ahead to

ate models to guide him are

deficiencies, imperfection that can be cor

the ection on bad fathers and good ones,

scarce and the goal of the job is

rected with insight, practice and a few good

but every paoe nudges your attention, whether it's explaining the impact of your

to make himselfob olete. The

model . " As he helps father become aware

question is, why do o many men---eagerly

of the personal hurt and rejection of boy

father on your own fathering

and earne tly-take on the nurturing and

hood that they tend unconsciously to pa

father wasn't more like your mother.

socializing re ponsibilitie of fathering7

on to their children, hapiro celebrates the

A generation ago, write c linical

wh your

Despite the occa ional remark point ing out the ob\'ious-"childhood

p ychologi t and profe or Jerrold

Lee

hapiro '64 in The Measure of a

pendent adult life" whose goal is

Man: Becoming the Father You Wish Your Father Had Been ( Delacorte

"adult intimate relationship "

Pre , 22.95 ) , the American father distant breadwin

before. For one thing, literature on fathering sk ills only began to

ner, its financ ial and moralsupporter,

appear in the 1 9 0 -among

and had no contact with pregnancy

was the family'

a training program for inde

this isn 't omething we've read

developmental, psy

them hapiro's own When Men Are Pregnant: Needs and Con cerns of Expectant Fathers. And

chological or behavioral problems, it was mothers. Today, ociety fault

de p ite ome simi larity to other books concerned with the im

the fathers-"cruel, abusive, ab ent, foolish, rejecting, capegoating, al

portance offamily hi tory in adult

coholic, unfeeling and narci i tic

not a self-help popular psychol

father ,"

ogy book about addict ion or ad

or birthor care. lfanyone wa faulted for children'

live , The Measure of a Man i

hapiro writes. Mo t fa

thers try hard, he believe , to give

d i c t ive p e rsona l i t ie . In h i

themselve to work, to their wives

profe sional counseling, hapiro

and to their own father as well as to

ays he deals mostly w ith people

t h e i r c h i ld re n . But for m a n y , parenting t i l l takes a back e a t to

in their 40s and 5 0s who "have a

other re ponsibilities.

what the strength

lot of ego trength. I want to ee of an indi

vidual are and work with that. I e chew one- ize-fit -all therapy."

hapiro i a licensed c l inical psy chologist, family therapist and pro fessor of counseling psychology at

Lifelong fathering is l ifelong

anta Clara Univer ity in Califor

learning. Offering insights into

nia. At age 38 he became a father,

different periodsofthe father-chi Id

and he calls that the signal event of his life. Twelve-year-old Natasha

relationship, Shapiro ranges over characteristics that children need

Jerrold Lee Shapiro '64

and five-year-old Gabriel have given him a "much greater sensitivity to men's

to learn from a father, like team

i ues and a much better understanding of

brotherhood offatherhood. In The Measure of a Man, he becomes a guide, a training

family l ife," he aid in a recent interview.

partner for fathers who want to be better at

age is with their wives," he writes) to the new behavior a father need to learn once

work, elf-trust and courage ("One of the places that fathers mo t need to how cour

am more connected to mankind, to my own

the job. If only because everybody had a father,

fatherand to the future" underlies the book's

it's likely you can find omething of yourself

longest period of fathering, which ends

di cussio

or your own father here. The MeasuTe of a Man is chock full of case hi torie and

only with the death of the parent or the

interviews and examples drawn from a va-

easily, another unhealthily hanging on.

hapiro' d i covery that "As a father I

of good and bad fathering and

the insights it offers about fathering today. hapiro counsel an approach to father-

the children leave home. Looking at that

child, he ob erves one father letting go too

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And once the chi ldren are on their own,

It' no longer just your own chi ldren, it's

he writes, a father faces questions that are

chi ldren in general. You start hu banding

most of what we do in isolation [so] a sense

entirely new even in a 30-year marriage:

the world." For Shapiro, it meant a change

of connectedness i

"What can a man learn about fathering

in phi losophy toward "doing things for the

friendships are crucial." Whereas women

during the launching

ages us only to bond with wives. We do very important. Our

tage? Who he is

future more than for the pre�ent" and trying

a sume that men together talk only about

alone. Who he is with h is wife. How to he

to "make a contribution to the world." At

women, he say , the three main topics in

a man without being a father."

home it meant " wanting to give time to my

men's groups are friendship, isolation and

A d i vorced fathers struggle w i th sepa

k id and to make sure they got it." Mak ing

relation hip with their fathers. ll1ese re

ration, try i ng to make the t i me and money

time for his family has meant that he no

cu1Ting topics he believe� speak to the im-

for the chi ldren they love, they

portance of men in men's lives.

often form new fa m i l ies. Step

"The more we can communicate,

pare n t i ng, Shapiro argues, adds to

the more we get a �ense of com

The Measure

the normal d iffic u lt ies offathering because all stepfa m i l i e

are bu i l t

on a foundat ion o f loss. "And a s a

the next best thing to

c u lture we're uncomfortable w i th t e p fa t h e rs a n d s t e p m o t h e r , "

father and w i cked stepmother. stepfather's outsider status and the d i ffi c u l t ies faced i n a l loca t i ng t i me

condition of fathering

d i t ion to the l i terature. Perhaps

you re

letter on an elec tron ic ma i l board to

"Your hardware isdetennined but you can do a lot with �oft ware." There are thing you will nut be able to change, he ay , but blaming your father isn't

Measure of a Man a significant ad

you are not

the answer. "If you get into blaming, you have to reject all ofhim," and that mean

"you have to reject part of

yourself. I t 's important that we for give. Not that we forger. Forgetting can be dangerous. I'm not going to

it alone.

men who were excited about

becoming husband

he often

u es computer metaphor , remarked,

The

e ight-year stepfather who posted a

the guiding

To the person whu �rill blames hi

matter what stage or

pou e combat

the best counsel the book offer

"ll1 is," he said, "i

father, Shapiro, who �ay

reassure you that no

Shap i ro's u nderstand ing of the

stepfathers is that given by the

only antidote to morta l i ty."'

Man is written in that ·p iri t.

therapy, will

types of the sexua l [ y abusive step

to c h i ldren and

munality," Shapiro said, then quoted a l ine from the book: '"Intimacy is the

principle in my life." The Measure of a

Shap iro expla ined, c it i ng tereo

these stereotypes and make

of a Man,

forget that my father d1J such and o.

and instant

I'm going to accept the fact that he did

stepdads: "run, don't walk, to a

the be t he could. The crucial truth i

coun el or before the prob lem ·

to find ways of seeing what there is of

come u p . " Shap iro beli eves that with

longer , chedules evening therapy sessions,

you there [in your father] and what you

therapy a man can be a better father to his

and he gets up early to see hi children off to

want to make peace with."

chi ldren than h is own father was to him.

school-he recently stopped by his son'

The Measure of a Man, the next best thing to therapy, will reassure you that no matter what tage or condition of fathering

k indergarten class to play the auto harp and teach them some songs.

The Measure of a Man is probably most beneficial for those whose chi ldren are i n the roddler-to-adole cent

The Measure of a Man devotes that same

rage and

dea l ing w i th identity and eparation, but

you're in, you are not in it alone. You're in

k ind of personal attention to the individual

it' for father i n the po t-launch rage,

the same boat w i th lots of other father -

father and to the hundred powerful forces

too, a well a d i vorced, s i ngle and non

one that has a keel and a rudder, the ort of

working on h im at once. Reading the book

c u tod ial fathers. I t's the ort of book to

help that come from a upport group. I f

w i l l t i r memories and inci te reflection on

look into agai n five years from now. A

confes i o n i s good f o r t h e soul, snippets of

current relationships. And listening to the

father and child grow, different model

conversation, revelations offear and ad mi -

troubles aired by the ons and fathers who

or adv ice grow more pert inent. Reading

sion

of inadequacy bolster the spirits of

came to Shapi ro for help is, finally, socially

and rereading w i l l reorient and reassure

other . W ith greater con ciousness and

beneficial a well as personally instructive.

you that fathering, never easy, was well

understanding of the perils of fathering,

This is an upbeat book. Shapir

worth the connect ion.

Shapiro

across a

proof i

ays, fathers can improve. 1l1e the "electric charge" of love that

leaps between a man and h is child. hapiro believes that many men reasse s

comes

one of those remarkably sane,

caring people that you want to call up and

"Being a parent is hard work," Shapiro writes. "A combination of factors helps u endure it: biological drive , c ultural dic

spill your story to. He has an observation about that, too.

tates, d iscipline, loyalty, guilt, and most of

their priorities once they become fathers.

"Ourculturedoes not encourage male friend

all love for the child. A man who desires to

"They give up skydiving or race car driving,"

sh ip," he explained, adding that neverthe

be the best possible father needs to access

he said. "ll1ey're vulnerable now. They're

less he is till in contact w i th his Colby

the love feelings within and learn how to

responsible, and that changes everything.

roommate once or twice a week. "It encour-

express those feelings to h is chi ldren." +

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Four Fie lds of Dreams

- By Mike Szostak '72 t ' 9 0 minutes before kickoff o n a

ixth consecutive Colby-Bate -Bowdoin

then it' all busine . At 1 1 o'clock he \rnlks

gray October aturday, and the only

football championshi�l have returned to

ign of life at Seaverns Field is a few

Waterville to check out thi New England

to the fieldhou e, which is on the edoe of campu , to get raped. At 1 1 : 30 Thomp on

mall College Athletic Conference grid

sits in on a meeting. "If you're not into it

parents and children trolling aero the track towards the 22nd annual

Colby Crafts Fair in the fieldhou e aero the street.

To my plea ant urpri e, the day be come

No tailgaters grilling steaks. No lines at the ticket window.

then, I don't know if you belong on the

iron j uggernaut. adventure, because

When the game tart , Thomp on con

are playing important

centrates on his assignment . Colby's of

an all-sport

Colby and Bate

field," he ays.

fen e has struggled

marching band perfect

score thi

ing a halftime how.

pre ure i on.

Thi i how I remem

Chuc k's

ber football at Colby

ea on, o the p a ren t •; ,

Tom and Ellen, ·it in

College. When I wa a

the old grandstand and

student here 25 years

cheer for their son and

ago, it wa

hi teammates.

low ke .

Something to do on a

"My dad has a pretty

aturday afternoon. A

loud Yoice. I can usually

good way to fill the hour

tell where they're ittino,"

between lunch and fra

Chuck ay . If the game is going well, Thomp·on

ternity partie . To Mule

check out the sideline

ay the W h i te

scene. If not, he focu es

truggled would be

kind. Ron Lupton '7 1 was a tar running back in

on football.

the late 1 960 , but there

from the qu iet ofthe foot

weren't enough Ron

ball field, Colby is pro

Lupton

Two hundred yards

tectinga 2-0 lead in men'

to make the

soccer. I am tunned by

White Mules any good. Victory

the

eldom vis

ize of the crowd.

ited Colby football in

About 1 ,000

those days.

and parents fill a mall grand tand and 1 i ne the

Two decades have lipped b

ince I last aw

All seats were free as the Parents Weekend crowd savored the traditional Colby Bates clash on Seavems Fie/.d. Notre Dame's games draw more fans , buc the Colby spectators know they've "got something that's very special here . "

a Colby game. In tho e autumns my job has taken me to every

games in men' and women'

outpo t in the Ivy League and Yankee Con

women's field hockey.

occer and

tudent

perimeter of the field. occer ha boomed at

Colby. Twenty years ago Colby men there was no women's team-played on a

ference. I have at among 85 ,000 fans at

Chuck Thomp on '94, a 6-foot, 3-inch,

lumpy watch of grass that was a quagmire

Penn tate and 5 5 ,000 at Pitt, een Bo ton

242-pound offen ive tackle, begins focu -

as often as it wa a occer field. If four dozen

College play

ing on the Bates game Friday night.

otre Dame and covered THE

Hill and check out a mall college game. I

" I t's Parents Weekend, o i t' a l ittle d ifferent," he ay . "There are more d i traction . I have to focu . I'm more of a

GAME, Harvard v . Yale. So it is time to come back to Mayflower could have gone to Wi.lliamstown, Mass.,

cerebral player. From Friday n ight to game

or Middlebury, Vt., or Middletown, Conn.

t ime I'm quiet. My dad ay it' the quiet

Or dare I ay Brun wick, Maine.

before the storm."

rudents showed up for a arurday morning game, that was a huge crowd. Today, occer i a big draw. The Colby men are 1 2 - 1 , playing for their be t record ever and a po t-season tournament berth. Mark

erdjenian was a three-time all

Maine goalkeeper at Colby before picking

But becau e Colby is playing Bates

Thomp on wakes up at about 8:30 on

up hi degree i n 1 97 3 . Three years later he

and beginning its quest for an unprecedented

aturday morning, has breakfast at 1 0, and

was back on campus as the White Mule '

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occer coach. He ha coached 1 1 winning

tickets because there are no tickets. AJmi -

teams, and in 1 990 he was named coach of

sion to all Colby athletic events is free this

game. "I find myself not being able to put it

the year in New England. An elementary

year. Officials determined that the $8,000

out

school teacher in Waterville for 1 1 years,

ticket revenue for footbal l, basketball anJ

for us," she says.

week th ink ingabout anythingbut the Bates f my mind. I t's such an exciting time

Serdjenian now is an assoc iate dean of

ice hockey just covered the co ts of print

Desautel meets her parents early in the

students at Colby.

ing, ell ing and collecting tickets, o they

morning. Then it's off for a bite to eat and

"I have a J i fferent perspective as coach than 1 did as a player. There's more ful l ness to t h e d a y now," Serdjenian says.

said the heck with it.

her pre-game routine of listening to tapes

A few minute before k ickoff, tight end

that inspired her high school team to a 1 6-

John Grady '94, helmet in hand, helps the

0- 1 season in 1 99 1 . "OneMoment l n Time"

'There' a realsenseofcommunity here.

Colhy Eightsingthe national anthem. Then

by Whitney Hou ton. "Desire" by U 2 .

When we finish our game we'll walk over to

he Jucks under the rope to join hi team-

When the game begins, Desautel doesn't

the football game or go back

pay attention to the noise

for the women's soccer game.

from the 500 or so spectators,

I t's l ike a sports festival on

"but 1 can hear my mom and

campus," he ays.

dad. I can hear my dad's bel

Soccer is so big at Colby

lowing. My mom's voice is so

that there' even an intramu

weet and quiet, but I can still

ral league. Alumni interest i

hear her 'Go, Dor! "'

beat

On the fo tball field Bates

Bowdoin, Serdjenian had four

is no match for Colby this

h igh.

A ft e r C o l b y

me ·sages from alumni on h is

day. Pacy Levine, Class of '2 7

answering machine.

and 87 year old now, finishes

Colby hangs on f or a 2 -0

his andwich in the pre s box,

victory. Thatnight SerJjeni<:m

says hello to Athletic Direc

players learned that

tor Dick Whitmore and care

Colby j u t mi eJbeing named to the NCAA Division l l l

fu 11 y descend the metal tairs to the ground. A few mo

tournament but would play

ment later, he is randing on

for the ECAC championship

the ·ideline.

and hi

Pacyand hi brother, LuJy,

a the top seed.

Class of '2 1 , are Colby's most

Beyond the fieldhouse, which is being renovated be cause ofthe 1 992 fire, the field hockey team is working hard.

1 mile. I know this field well.

Sarah Eustis (left) and fellow sojJhomore Lauren Iannotti of the women's soccer team waited a year w gain revenge against Bates and found themselves in a tense, overtime battle.

In 1 969 this was the freshman baseball

mates for the opening kickoff.

ardent alumni when it come to sports. They never miss a game. Owner

of a men's

clothing store in town, they

have upported Colby ports for more than

field. I can still see the mounds of snow pi led

"Bet that doesn't happen at Notre

70 year . The football scoreboard at one

high in right field as we played our game .

Dame," assi tant coach Dick McGee aysof

end of the field and the track scoreboard at

h is singing football player.

the other bear their names.

N ow it's the women's softbal l and field hockey field. Title IX at work. About 1 00 parents and friends sit and stand on the embankment. A father shouts encouragement to hi daughter. Colby wins, 2 - 1 , and finishe the sea on 7- 7, a n ice rebound from 2 - 1 0 in 1 992.

Fourminutes laterGradycatche a touch

"There's nothing l ike a Colby-Bates or

down pa s, and Colby is on it way to a 2 7-

Colby-Bowdoin game to me," says McGee.

0 first-quarter lead.

"When I tarted coaching at Colby in 1 967,

I head back to the soccer field for the

we played New Hampshire and Northeast ern and Springfield and Maine. I could

women's game. Dori De autel, a sophomore sweeper

have beaten them all, but if I had lost to

on the women's soccer team, played on

Bates and Bowdoin, they wouldn't have

is going through

four consecutive div ision championsh ip

meant much.

i ts pre-game d ri l ls . Colby spec i a l ists work

team in h igh choo l . She ha wai ted a

out at the other end while the rest of the

year for thi day.

I walk back to the football field, which has come to l ife. Bate

"I read in

Sports Illustrated about how

Florida and Georgia have the greatest cock tail party in the country. I read in The Boston Globe about the tradition of Harvard and

team stretches beyond the beautiful all

"Last year i t was v irtually the same

weather track. Rap music rolls out of the

situation. I f we beat Bates, we'd have a

loudspeakers affixed to the three-0tory

fai rly good chance to make the ECACs.

Dartmouth. But to Ludy and Pacy Levine,

wooden press box .

We lost, 2 -0, but individually I played my

to Dick McGee, this is the same. We've got

Students and their parents wander by as

best game, " she says. "Thi year, we can't

something that's very special here in Colby

if the football stadium i their turf as well.

let the same thing happen. Thinki ng about

Bate -Bowdoin. CBB."

At Colby, it is.

the Bates game has been a way to psyche

A few early arrivals ecure eats on the 40-yard l i ne. They don't bother checking

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myself up for other big games." Desautel ays she has had trouble this

And competitive ? Yes, indeed. In the m id - 1 980 , when McGee was AD and Colby's football team was terrible, Bate

had a good year. The Bobcats beat the

And so i t is again on this afternoon.

Mules badly. At the half it was 3 5 -0.

late 1 960s. The football team is 4 - 2 .

That timeless ritual of parents, relatives

O n the soccer field, tl1e Colby women

" l was sick to my stomach. 1 wanted to

and friends mingling with football players

play hard but lose, 4-3, in overtime. Tii.eir S-

leave, but we had to stay to show support,"

on the field after a game occurs. Colby

5 - 1 season is finished. Dori Desautel hugs

he says.

her parents and tries to smile through her

McGee is still so wrapped up in football

celebrates a 5 3 - 1 4 win, the most points the Wh ite Mules have ever scored in a

that on Saturday he wakes up at 5:30 in the

game. Chuck Thompson poses with h is

Bates game for another year.

morning-"! can't sleep," he says-and

father so a friend can catch them on a

arrives on campus early.

v ideo camera. Head coach Tom Austin, Dick McGee and the rest of the coaches

A longer version of this article originally ap

to eras the field to the fieldhouse. Then I begin to see people l haven't seen in a

shake hands all around. A half dozen

peared in the Providence Sunday Journal, where

players run up to Roberts Union and ring

Mike Szostak is a sports writer and column i t.

long time. And l talk to parents, alumni,

the Paul Revere bel l , a tradition observed

The article is reprinted with the permission of

family and friends."

ni.ore often in the 1 990s than it was in the

the Provi.dence ]oumal-Bullecin.

"After the game, i t takes us a long t ime

Quarterback Matt Mannering of

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Sports Shorts

tears. She knows she will have to replay this

�

With its top five runners finish

Walpole, Mas ., threw a record five

ing under 1 9 minutes on the 3 . 1 mile

in the football

course, the Colby women's cross

v ic tory over Bate and set a season

country team finished second in the

touchdown passe

mark with 1 2 . In a season in which

New England Division I I I champi

the outcome in four games came

onships, a race won by enior M ich

down to the final play, the White

elle Severance of Topsfield, Maine, with a l 7:26 time. Seven membersof

M ules were tied by Bowdoin for the CBB t i tle and ended up at 5 - 2 - 1 .

theteam helpedColby finish 1 2th at

C o - c a p t a i ns S e a n D e v i n e of W a t e rfo rd , C on n . , and B r i a n

the NCAA Divi·ion I l l champion ships in Grinnell, Iowa, marking the

O'Sullivan o f Marlboro, Mass . , and

first appearance of a Colby team in

fellow senior R ich Wagenknecht

NCAA post-season action since the

of Ellsworth, M aine, were named to

N ESCAC banon team competition

the ECAC Divi ion I I I all-star team.

was lifted. Severance finished 1 4th to earn her fourth traight All-Ameri

Wagenknecht was also named to the New England Football Writers

can honors in cross country.

Div ision 11 and I l l All-Star Tearn. After po t ing a 1 3 - 1 regular sea En route to their S-5- 1 record the

son record, t�e Colby men's soccer

women's soccer team set records

team added three more wins and a

with 40 goal scored and eight shut outs, and senior Megan Fitzpatrick of Glastonbury, Conn., ended her ca

A thousand fans watched

( top to bottom) Josh Radoff ' 95 , Brian Rayback ' 95 and Bill Lanagan '95 made it a team effort against Bates .

reer as the second leading points corer with 16 goals and 1 8 assists. Dori Desautel of Barrington,

tie to capture the ECAC post-sea son D i v i ion I l l t o u rn a m e n t . Sophomore M a rc S m a l l from Acton, Mass., was the leading corer

w ith eight goals and three assists while the defen e y ielded only 10 goals all year. Senior co-captain

R. I . , was named to the All-New England team.

Pat Skulley of

Wakefield, Mass . , and Ethan Spencer of Mar hfield, M as ., The men's cross country team fini hed fourth in the New England Division l l I championships, paced by the seventh

were selected to play in the New England Intercollegiate

place finish of senior co-captain Brian Carl on of Jericho, Vt.

N EISL's 1 99 3 Fair Play Award for the third t ime in the last

Carlson earned All-New England honors and an invitation to

four years. Skulley was named a first team Divis ion l l I All

Soccer League's all-star game, and the team received tli.e

the NCAA Di vi ion I I I championships, where he ran the five

American and received All-New England Div ision Ill hon

mile course in 2 5 : 56, good for 44th place.

ors along with Small and Spencer.

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Lovej oy Scholar Is a Dream Corne True - By Stephen Collins '74 -

fter spend i ng the

ummer

helping to b u i ld

andbag

barri c ades in the Mi

K i ng Jr. luncheon for two years. Robinson ay� she was all set

is i p p i

to go

to the Un iver ity of South

R i v e r town of Alton, I l l . , the

ern I l l inois at Carbondale when

College's fir t Elijah P. Lovejoy

Charlene Cannon approached

Scholar arrived on Mayflower

her about the Lovejoy Scholar

H i l l last fall hoping "to do great

ship. Though he

things at Colby."

apprehen i ve about travel i ng

ays she wa

Crystal Robinson '97 say that

1 ,400 mi les from home for col

aside from a temporary loss of run

lege, a visit to the campus last

ning water, she and her family

pring convi nced

d idn't uffer in the flood that de-

her

that

" i t would b e terrible for m e to pass up the opport u n i t i e

troyed many riverside towns last

summer. Working downtown for

Colby. I fell in love with the

the Mercantile Bank in Alton,

campus and the people. I felt

however, she aw major damage in

right at home here."

d istrict de pite the

Robinson aid Alton chi ldren

andbagging efforts. "We a l l

learn about Elijah Lovejoy be

pitched in," he said . "lt was amaz

ginning in grade chool and that

the bu ine

ing to see all the Altonians com

hundreds of the town's residents

ing together l ike that."

tum out for an annual memorial

That commu n i ty

service at h i gravesite. "We learn

pirit ha

helped to keep the memory of

about him, what he rood for and

Elijah Pari h Lovejoy, an 1 826

what he d i ed for," he said. " I t

Colby graduate who is recognized

makes i t spec ial for me t o carry

a America's first martyr to free

his name-to be the first."

dom of the press, alive in Alton.

A couple of weeks into her

And the l ink between the lll inois

fir t eme ter, Robinson, who al o

town and Colby brought Robinson

i a Ralph ] . Bunche Scholar, had

to Mayflower Hill.

already been cho en as a member

Ten year ago the Lovejoy Committee

administers the J .L. Cannon Memorial T ru t

at Colby cited Jesse Lundun Cannon of

in l llinoi , said this fall that fulfilling her

president of chemical -free Marriner re i

Alton for h is extraordinary commitment to

hu band's wi h was a life goal and that he

dence hall. She also i

maintaining Lovejoy's gravesite. Cannon

invested considerable time and effort find

board of d irectors of the Student Associa

was honored at the 1 983 Lovejoy Convoca

ing "the right tudent-someone academi

t ion. In the classroom, a course on global

tion for h is work founding the Lovejoy

cally worthy who was physically and emo

perspectives on race, gender and class

Memorial in Alton and h is 38 years of

tionally suited" to Colby.

of the Colby Chorale and elected vice serving on the

with A sociate Professor of English Phyl l is

service there. Cannon's widow, Charlene

Robinson fit the b i l l . She graduated in

Cannon, recalls the occasion as "the proud

the top 4 percent of her class at Alton

The journey from I l l inois to Colby

est day of his life."

H igh School. She was student counc i l

netted Robinson more than a couple of prestigious scholarships. She also ended

Mannocchi had her most exc ited.

Wh ile v i s i t ing Waterv i l l e and the

president her senior year and senior year

Lovejoy homestead in nearby Albion, Can

book editor and worked with the Alton

up w i th an adopt ive grandmother i n

non remarked that there should be an Al ton

Growth Associat ion on a major fund

Charlene Cannon, who remembers teach

student at Colby. From that uggestion was

raising effort for a local social service or

ing Robinson' mother, M innie, in third

born the Elijah P. Lovejoy Scholars pro

ganization. She was vice president of the

grade. "I j ust hope I can l ive three more

gram for outstanding tudents of color from

youth chapter of the Alton NAACP and

years to see her graduate," Cannon said

the Alton area. Charlene Cannon, who

chaired the community's Martin Luther

with a laugh.

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bad that I was only a fre hman. But I've

10 l ist; he sent a check.

kept her name." All phoners receive a pamphlet with

"] wouldn't do thi job if I didn't believe in the cau e. Plu , l get a lot of enjoyment

guideline that hould be followed during

out of talking to some of the alumni," said

month, one o f the key

the phone conver at ion . Most say they

Cicely Finley, a senior anthropology major

component of Colby' annual giving

read the in tructions and then do what

who is pre ident of the Colby chapter of

as student phonathon

feels natural and works best for them. All

Society Organi:ed Against Raci ·m. "It's

workers gather on the second floor of the

are prepared to fill alumni in on Colby

interesting. The older alumni have a lot

Eusti

Admini tration Building to share

news, and they agree with Tilander that

more time

pi:za and oda-and to reach out to alumni.

the response from alumni is generally

younger alumni Jon't ha\·e as much money

tarting t h i

campaign begin

talk and will tell storie�. The

ll1e annual giving

to gi\·e but really want

staff hires about 35 stu

to hear about what's

dents each year to call

happening on campus."

alumni and ask for con

Glockner said talk

tributions to the Col lege . From J a n u a ry

ing to younger alumni can be "a reality check."

through March, they work the phone

"It'

hard

call

five

someone for money

day a week for three to

and ha\'e them tell ynu

four hour a day.

they j ust got laid off nr

" M ost everybody k now

lost their j ob or j ust had

people don't

a baby or are till pay ing off school loans,"

want to receive un solicited phone call at

a id Glockner, who is

their homes i n the

new

ed i tor a t The Colby Echo. "It scares

evening," aid A oci ate Director of Annual

the heck out of you re

G iving N ina Tilander,

al i:ing that you are go

who coordinate

the

ino to be where they

phonathon. "But alum

are in a few years."

n i receiving call from

Other expres: awe

student - oon to be Colby grad -is really

a t how w e l l C o l b y a l u m n i do after gradu

beneficial to the pro gram'

uccess, and the

overall re ponse from the alumni i po itive.

ation . " eeing the sta

Cicel)' Finley '94 (second from left) helps her fellow Colby students call alumni from the phonathon's Eustis Building headquarters .

A lot o f times, along w i t h their g i ft , alumni will end a note saying how pleased and impre ed they were with the tudent." "Once I wa talking to a recent alum who had ju t graduated from law chool," aid Patri.ck Smith , a senior from Old Saybrook, Conn. "When I told him that

favorable, though they do receive some blunt refu a l , and once in a while a pro pective donor hangs up on them. The students say many alumni want to know about sport

core , abo u t the

weather in Maine (u ually if it i

o f some o f t h e

oraduate i k ind of encouraging," aid Larry

White '96 of J ay, Mai ne, a math and computer c ience major. "You can gauge where people go after Colby. It' nice to find out the possibilitie and where Colby education can get you . "

nowing

Involvement i n the phonathon a l o

yet ) , how campus ocial life is nowaday ,

I wa intere ted i n going into law he gave

what the tudents are doing for fun, what

seem to foster a ense of obligation to Colby among the future alumni . "I am

me all thi great advice-which areas of

c l asse they are taki ng and what various

definitely more apt to give money now,"

law to tay away from, which chool to

profes ors are up to.

Finley said. "I would ha.Ye given anyway,

look at, the name of profe ors to talk to.

One alumnus told Smith he wou ldn't

but being a worker with the Alumni Fund

I really enjoyed the conver ation. He was

give Colby any money until

mith found

has been good. I ee where the money we

really helpful."

out how the men' ba ketball team had done the night before. A few phone call

how the money is put to work. You can ee

Whitney Glockner '96 of Wood ide,

receive goes, what it does for Colby and

Calif. , recall the time he called an alumna

later with the previou night'

core in

it every day in the tudents. Everyone here

who happened to work i n an industry that

hand , Smith called the a lumnus back,

is sub idized in ome way-the new build

intrigued Glockner. " he aid he wou ld

reported the score and got the pledge.

ing , new faculty, the library. We wouldn't

et up an interview for me if I wanted

Another al umnus challenged Glockner

have a lot of thi

one," Glockner said. " I t wa great help

to give him "ten good rea on " to donate

money coming in from the alumni."

ju t talking w i th her. It wa k i nd of too

money to Colby. She ranled off her top-

tuff if we d idn't have the -Lynn

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Note: A dearth of material leads to thisshorrest ofall 50-pluscolumns. Thought for the day: Send Fletcher something to write about.

PRE..TWENTIES Charles Kyes, son of the late Eva Macomber Kyes ' 1 3 , reports that his son, Randy, and Randy's wife, Kelly, recently becan1e the proud parent of a on, the great-grand son of Eva, whom they have named Colby in keeping with the family's proud relationship with the Col + lege over the years.

TWENTIES Elsie Frost Rapp '26 recalls her wonderful classes in German and Latin with Dr. "Dutchie" Marquart and Profe sor J u l ian Taylor. . . . Going against mosr of the com ments I have ever heard, Edith "Duckie" Grearson Money '26 ays Dr. Herbert Carlyle Libby '02 was "a cruel man who made fun of shy student ." One day in 1 924, according to Mrs. Money, Hilda Worthen '24 was late for a class being taught by Dr. Libby. On her arrival, the chairs were in a semi circle as Dr. Libby had arranged them, but nor a seat was empty. Spying a chair in a far corner, H i lda pulled it over to the far side of the circle where the W's sat. Admon i hed Dr. Libby: "Mis Worthen. Proper young ladies do not drag chair acros rooms." Replied Miss Worthen: "If there were a gentle man in the room, I would have had no problem." . . . In a loving note, Barbara Fransen Briggs '49 reports

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wanted you to know how he loved Colby. H is (Colby) stories were bound Jes·, and h seemed rogather renewed energy in telling them. Hi idea of Heaven included im ages of Colby." For her next re union, Myra Stone Knofskie '28 wishes 'That everyhody will have a grand rime vi iting. Peo/J/e are more important than places . " +

THIRTIES Verna Green Taylor '30 writes: " I a m a 50+ alumna! Can't b e posible!-Teachers I 'll never forget: Dr. J u l ian 'Judy' Taylor and h i · Latin classes. From h i m I learned the qualities of a superb teacher. I shall never forge t J udy'squiet ques tion: 'Miss Green, do you consider that an adequate translation ?'Then there was Carl Weber, who devel oped my love for Browning and Shakespeare. Still in memory l can walk the old campu and chat with old friends." . . . The Very Rever-

end Harold F. Lemoine '32 has made eight trips to Australia and 40 t r ips to England and has preached at St. Paul' Cathedral in London . . . . EllisM. Anderson '33 quotes a wise man as saying that when you look hack on your life, the things you regret are not the things you did but the things you d idn't do . . . . Portia Pendleton Rideout '34 is rhe mother of rwo grandfathers, which is a neat way of saying that her chi ldren's chil dren have c h i ldren . . . . Elaine Stafford, daughter of Charles O. Pearson '35, called to report the death of her father on September 8, 1 99 3 . Mr. Pearson wa a upervi sor at the Bendix plant in Spring field, Ma s. He i s survived by a rwin sister, A l ice, and rwosisters, Theda and Loi . Other urvivors include rwo children, four grandchildren and two great grandch i ldren . "Colby meant a lot ro him," said Elaine . . . . Our love and concern are extended to Amy H. Thomp son '36, who writes from Las Vegas that she i retired and handi capped . . . . Peg Libby Darlow '3 7

de pairs that her long l ist of memo ries, many of them amusing, will be forever lost, now that Marjorie Gould Shuman '3 7 has retired from the proprietor hip of this col umn. Fear not, Mrs. Darlow, this columnist pos i t ive l y dote on memories. end them along. . Mitchell E. Phillips '38 was an insurance broker for 45 years bur has been retired for three years and i moving rather carefully the e days following by-pass surgery in December 1 99 2 . When up and about, he is a volunteer at the hriners Bum In titute in Bo ton, where children up to age 18 are cared for, courtesy of the Shriner , with no expen e at all. . . . ome people procra tinate a lot, but I am proud to ·ay thar I, Fletcher Eaton '39, and wife Nell finally got around to being grandparent on Septem ber 28 when urdaughrer, Martha, presented the families with a cute little bundle named Marie Nell Lapos a t a , named after both grandmothers . . . . Leila Ross Hyman '39 planned to leave for Russia and the three Baltic tare

NEWSMAKERS George H. Hawes '28, a co-founder of the Waterville Boy Club in 1 924, wa guest speaker at the Waterville Area Boy and Girls Club as a numberofareacitizens were inducted into the club' Hall ofFame. Several Colby alunmi were among the inductees . . . . Ralph E. Delano '40 wa Colby' delegate ro the inauguration of N annerl Keohane as president of Duke University.

MILEPOSTS Deaths:

Vivian Skinner Hill ' 1 6 in South Portland, Maine, at 1 00 . . . . Harold E. Hall ' 1 7 in Auburn, Maine, at 98 . . . . Howard F. Hill ' 1 8 in Belgrade Lakes, Maine, at 98 . . . . Martha Gregory Shibles ' 1 9 i n South Portland, Maine, at 97 . . . . Madeline Beach McEwen '23 i n North Conway, N . H . , at92 . . . . Em.iJy Barrows Bellows '2 5 in Scarborough, Maine, at 90 . . . . Malcolm E. Bennett '25 in Sanford, Maine, at 90 . . . . Dorothy Steinert Sims '28 in Santa Barbara, Calif., at 88 . . . . Bertram Harding '30 in Keene, . H . , at 86 . . . . Anna Tinkham Otis ' 3 3 in Tarpon Springs, Fla., at 83 . . . . John J . Alden '35 l n Portland, Maine, at 8 1 . . . . Boris "Bert" Sherman '35 in Silver Spring, Md . . . . Joseph Chandonnet '36 in Bedford, Ma ., at 80 . . . . Clarence E. Staples '38 in Lewi ton, Maine, at 78 . . . . Robert S. Winslow '38 in Yarmouth, Maine, at 78 . . . . Edson R. Small '40 in Watervllle, Maine, at 7 5 . . . . Lubov Leonovich Waltz '4 1 in Exeter, N . H . , at 73.

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ed to do" was the advice Fletcher Eaton '39 says he was given when he re tired in 1 982. "So I bought a typewriter," he said, "and tarted trying to write." Colby's new 50-plus correspondent, who reports on the doings of some 1 ,800 alumni of the c la e of 50 or more year ago, ay he ha enjoyed writing since he was a youngster. After a 3 3-year engineer ing career whose "main preoccupation and breadwinner" was mathematical work and computers, he has now accumulated a five-foot . helf of books on writing. Eaton say he felt encouraged about taking on the corre pondem' du tie after p inch-hitting when hi predece sor, Marjorie Gould Shuman '3 7, took time off to get married. He also prai e hi Harvard night chool writing cla e and a writer group that has met every week for years at the home of Sally Aldrich Adams '39 ("We inflict each other's creations on ourselves," he said). Eaton's fondne for anec dote and history spurred him to edit the Class of'39's 50th reunion book. And 1 2 years a secretary of his graduate school class at MIT also have kept him writing and in touch with engineering, too. Eaton tarted his engineering career with a po tgraduate year at Colby tudying physics, chemistry and math to prepare him elf for M I T. World War I I diverted him to Vought- ikorsky Aircraft in Stratford, Conn., where he worked on the Corsair fighter plane. After he completed his B.S. at M I T in 1 949, Eaton spent four year perfecting a top- ecret German-made cryptographic device for the National Securiry Agency in Washington, D.C. When British pies Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean defected to Russia and took with them everything they knew, he aid, "All my work on that encrypt ing machine went down the drain." Eaton spent the next 1 5 years as a mechanical engineer at Raytheon Co. in Wayland, Mas ., leading a group thatde ignedand made gear trains and electronic packaging for military radar equip ment. After solid-state circuitry appeared and his work in gear trains

on October 7. Last year she went to Australia, New Zealand and Fiji. (Note: From what I can tell, Colby needs an Association of Circum + navigators . )

FORTIES H istorical note: Ernest Marriner '40 has had a distinguished career, filling important po ts with dis tinction and dignity. Back around 1 9 3 7 , I had the honor of serving with him as an usher at the lecture series put on by Dr. Libby in the Baptist Church on Elm Street aero s from the Waterville Public Library. t one of the e affair , Ernie and I were standing at the head of an aisle waiting for our

next customer when a formidable look ing woman approach e d . "Mardon m e padam," a i d Ernie. "May 1 sew you to a sheet?" Pausing for a moment to examine Ernie, the lady aid, "I beg your pardon, young man." "Right this way," said Ernie. On hi return, Ernie moaned: "That wa a dumb stunt. I feel stupid. I 'm going out and take ar senic." "Don't take arsenic, Ernie," I advi ed. "lt rastes terrible and will up et your stomach." "Okay. I 'll think about it," said Ernie . . . . A card from Virginia Gray Schwab '40 ays she recently spent two weeks on Prince Edward I land with a former Navy friend and planned to go to Bath, England, to vi it another avyfriend. All three have

began to "d ry up," he ay , he moved to Polaroid in Cambridge, Mass. For 1 2 year he worked as a mathematical modeler, writing pecifications involved in quality control testing and analyzing Polaroid prod ucts by computer, in particular the revolu tionary SX-70 camera. "Polaroid said, 'Let the public find our what wa wrong, then we'll fix it.' l didn't agree," aid Eaton, who felt that the peci fications he wrote weren't being followed. Hi pucki h humor invites hi mock elf as essment that "nobody ever take me seriously." But he says he worked hard at Polaroid and was able to predict problems with film and cameras. "l got a lot of credibility because my predictions came true," he aid. "I could al o show them what to do to fix the problem." lluoughout his career he had powerful tool tosolve omeextremely complex prob lems, says Eaton, who brushed up on advanced computers at Northeast ern University, where he earned an M . . in mathematics in 1 972. "I find thatalmo t anythingyou learn at school can be put rouse," he added. He recall a Colby geology cour e with Professor Richard Lougee and biology classes with Profes or Webster Che ter, which he ay gave him insights that "heightened my enjoyment of life." Other illustrious Colby name Eaton knows of through hi father, Harvey Doane Eaton, Class of 1 7 and a Colby trustee, who, Eaton aid, "knew them all-Libby, Wilkin on, Averill, Julian Taylor. They were all friends." As 50-plus columni t, he hope to relate anecdotes about memorable profe sors as well as other new , uch as a report on the 90-year-old who got her driver's licen e renewed and drives to the opera in Bo ton on weekends. "Her handwriting was absolutely perfect," Eaton said, speaking as the appreciative columni t who delights in the latest word and rou es 50-plusers to get in touch o he can write it up. It' something he's always wanted to do. -Robert Gillespie

recently lost their husbands. . . . One of the casualties in the Bartle of the Wilderness in Virginia dur ing the Civil War was Pvt. William P. Lamson of Sebec, Maine, great uncle of Jane Soule Engert '42. The letters he wrote to his sister, wife ofJonathan Soule, Colby Class of 1 8 5 7 and Mr . Engerr' wear grandmother, have now been col lected and edited by Mrs. Engerr's husband, Roderick M. Engert, a retired military historian. Titled The Civil War Letters of Pvt. Wil liam Lamson, 20th Maine Infanrry, with a foreword by John J. Pullen '35, the collection has been pub lished by orth South Trader's CIVIL WAR, P.O. Drawer 63 1 , Orange, VA 2 2960. From the an-

nouncement I received: "The 20th Maine was one of the mo r colorful and courageous regiments in the Federal force , and Lamson's let ters portray the simple soldier's view of service and survival in such a remarkableunit." . . . BobRice'42 says that the two-page typewritten instructions on "How To Climb Florida's H ighest Mountain," by Nancy Grahn Christensen '44, are hilarious . . . . A recent i ue of Colby tated that the granddaugh ter of Marlee Bragdon Monroe '42 entered Colby in eptember 1 992 ju t 50 years after Mr . Mon roe entered. otso, saysMrs. Mon roe stoutly. "It was fifty years after + I graduated."

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Correspondent: Louis M. Deraney

Correspondents:

1 944 Louis M. Deraney 57 Whi tford rreer Roslindale, MA 02 1 3 l 6 1 7 - 3 2 7 -4486 1 945 Dorothy anford McCunn Honey H i l l Road Canaan, CT 060 1 8 203 -824- 7 2 36 1 946 Nancy Jacobsen 362 7 orthlake Drive Dora v i l le, G A 30 340 404-934-9075 1 947 Beverly Benner Cassara RR 2, Box 1 1 6 Bethel, ME 042 1 7 207-824- 2 9 5 7 1 948 David and Dorothy Marson 41 Wood End Road Dedham, MA 02026 6 1 7 - 3 29- 3970 1 949 Anne Hagar Eustis 3 1 5 M i rick Rd. P.O. Box 594 East Princeton, MA 0 1 5 1 7 508-464- 5 5 1 3

A� thc deadlinc for this column approached, I

hegan rev iewing the mai l . Someoneat somepoint asked for an add res on Ralph Braudy and you know wha t ? Over the span of my reporring for this column, I received four postal cards mailed by R.B. from four locations-Lon don, England; Pari�, France; Lo; Angeles, Calif.; and Hyannis, Mass. In 19 3, Ralph wrote, "I wa sad dened to read that Ralph Collazzo ['49] had d ied. He and I were great pals in school. He and I h i tchhiked to Boston during a school vaca t ion. By m idn igh t we were in Kennebunkport and slept all night in the back of a truck." From Lon don, he wrote: "] am staying in London until mid-Apri l absorbing c ulture and casino . I ' m slipping over to Paris for a weekend to sample the c u isine." Ralph, be sure to be at reunion in 1 994 . . . . Janice T o p p i n Lo w e l l w r o t e from Bridgton, Ma ine, informing me that he married Frederick New ton Whittemore in February 1 99 3 . Jan's chi ldren and grandchildren were all gue t· at the wedd ing.Jan'· son, Peter Lowell, graduated from Colby in 1 970, and his daughter Adrian graduated in l 99 2 . J an is looking forward to our 50th. he i retired from Fryeburg Academy and working part ti me at St. Joseph's College. . . Joy Paddison Cook mforrned me of the exploit ofBob DeConnier '4 3 , conductor emeri tus, New York Choral Society, and fo1mer conductor and arranger for Harry Belafonte, music d irecrorfor Peter, Paul and Mary and com poser of choral, ballet and Broad way cores. Colby profiled him in the November issue . . . . Vivian

i retired from educational sales for Scott, Foresman & Co. and rays healthy playing tenn isand golfand fishing . . . . Doris ( Blanchard '45 ) and William Hutcheson st i l l reide in Needham, Mass., where Bi l l was recruited b y one o f the late A l M c Coy's footba l l s c o u t , who thought Hutch could fit into the football program at Colby, a in deed he did. He wrote, " I 'm a ca reer hu band married to a career wife for48+ years. " Bi ll brags about two knee replacements, which are letting him play golf and even ome squa h w i thout pain . . . . Alden Wagner is still living in Texas and feels he has surpassed his l i m ited Maine expectations as to h is future career but is below hi Texa ex pectations. Wag does not trust the moralityofpoliticiansbur doesrru t the mora l i ty ofbig business in fund ing pol i t ical campaigns . . . . Phil

Maxwell Brown infonned us that James Ming, originally i n our class, is '49. H i wife had a stroke in February and is recovering slowly.

Nutting, who has been i n and out of hospi tals, hopes h i · k idney problem improves o that he can make the 50th. . . . Wendell "Bud"

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ented artist, and has approached her to draw an appropriate cover for our reunion program. Norma wi ll attempt to persuade "Struck" rn attend our reunion . . . . George H. Conley, who is now retired, re;ide in Ell ·worth, M aine, and say · he enjoyed h is one year at Colby and was sorry not to have returned after his Army service during WW 1 1 . George write, that he is active in the UCC church and volunteers at the food pantry. He stares that women' liberation has not affected his life "at a l l . "

. . . Barbara Blaisdell Libby en joy her daughter's family, who now lives w i th her i n Damariscotta, Maine, ince the demise of her husband. Barbara is a diahetic and need watching. She retired from teaching and says he always felt l iberated . . . . Ralph Hilton spend winters in St. James C i ty, Fla., and summers in Rochester, N . H . Ralph

Ph i l l i p s , who now l i ve in Moorestown, N .J . , says rhat h e and h is spouse arc planning to attend our 50th, and he looks forward to vi i r ingonceagain with some won derful Colby friend of the early '40' . . . . Please respond to any in quiries you may receive so your c las mates will know you are t i l l fu ll o f vigor! Better s t i l l , don't + wait-write ro me.

Correspondent: Dorothy Sanford McCunn

Hazel Brewer Warren report that she finds her t i me taken up with the village beautification committee in Centervi l le, Ma . , on CapeCod, where Hurricane Boh caused a lot of damage to the landscape. he is also chairman of the tree planting committee, is involved with the local h i torical society and helped plan a v i l lage walking tour. AAUW board meetings as wel l as bridge and tennis keep her from having a lot of free t i me on her hands. . . . Louise Groves Holtan i cur rently living i n Portland, Maine, to be near four of her six chi ldren. Loui e taught school for 30 years and spends her spare t i me sewing, reading, doing cro word puzzle and traveling w i th her kids. Louise comments that she really misses the carefree day pent at Colby. . In August, l visited with Bobbe Holt Sachs. We spent a great e ening together at her home in Seattle, Wash. Bobbe and Don are looking great. They are happily retired and l i ving in a hou e that look out on Puget Sound and it gorgeous sunsets. Bobbe hears from M i l l ie chnebbe Riordan '48 as wel l as Fran Whitehill '48. Bobbe's s i ter, Beverly Holt Wiegand '50, l i ves nearby. Bobbe also hears from Lois Pinkham Bridge , V i v ian Maxwell Brown '44 and Frances Willey Rippere. Bobbe wa mar ried one month to the day after

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graduation, and �he hasn't changed a bit-still friendly and outgoing! It's a real plea ure to find that after 4 year , we could pick up a friend ·h ip e x a c t l y w h e re we l e ft off. . . . Naomi Collett Paganelli wrote that last Christma she was heading for Hong Kong to visit with her niece and family. Follow ing that, the four of them were going to take a ide trip to l ndone sia, which included a v i it with old friend· l iving in Jakarta. On her return he was to vi ·it a cousin in Eugene, Ore., before returning to New York City. I t all sounded very + glamorous.

Corre pondent: Nancy Jacobsen

A l er t , you F l o r i d a people, i t ' party time1 111ere are lots of you we have not found yet, and we want you to come to the winter reunion. I t will be a fine lunch on a Saturday in February or March in Clearwater, Fla., with lots of time to talk. Contact Chuck '45 and Shirley Martin Dudley, ( 8 1 3 ) 7 264 1 1 6, or write to them at 639-C Fairmont Ave., afety Harbor, FL 34695 . . . . Faye O'Leary Hafford says she never expected to give a high school graduation addre but enjoyed it. Faye is researching a history of the Allagash River, right in her Maine backyard. She i in terviewing old timers to collect oral

historie of the region and i work ing with the Maine Department of Conservation to ·et up an informa tion center and museum. She has been married to Lee for 42 years, and she ha a chapter in a poetry book, Voices from \X'it/un . . . . A long-time Washingtonian, Francis Heppner has retired as an archivist with the National Archives. He and his w i fe, Jeanne, have had a ummerrraveling, and like so many of us he attended hi 50th high school reunion last year. It was in Hartford, Conn., where he also v i s i ted hi bro t h e r , G e o rge Heppner '45 . . . . Many people have written that they enjoyed retirement more than they had an tic ipated. With some of us, the jury is still out. Betty Scalise Kilham say that finding a "meaningful" activity and community invoh-e ment made it ea ·ier. Betty lead· a ew Hori:ons widows' group and is al ·o a certified counselor with the Rape Cri ·is Center of Greater Lowell, Mass. She also majors in lunch! . . . Nancy Parsons Fergu son is a busy retiree traveling tO see c h i ldren and grandch i l dren i n Ohio, Florida and New Hamp hire. She and Bob do a bit of foreign traveling, too-Australia, N ew Zealand and Fij i ! . . . Now we all must write to Joan Dougherty Rosen, P.O. Box 3 36, Nashville, I 47448 becau e, she ay , "Very little filters out here. Once in a while we get a Colby game score." She and Sam j ust moved from a

NEWSMAKERS Harold Joseph '44 was honored recently at the annual reunion of the U.S. Army' 43rd Di vi ion held in Providence, R . I . Jo eph served as a commander in the 43rd . . . . At a dinner in Boston, J une White Rosenberg '49, president of Atlas Liquors, received the Israel Unity award from the food and beverage indu try division of State of Israel Bond .

MILEPOSTS Deaths: William Finkeldey '43 i n Hanover, N . H . , at 72 . . . . Robert H. Carey '44 in Tampa, Fla., at 73 . . . . Irene Ferris Martin '47 in Ocean Ridge, Fla., at 67 . . . . Henry P. Seguin '48 in Decatur, Ga., at 68 . . . . Muriel Briggs Pitrat '49 in Florence, Mass., at 63.

three-story log cabin i n the wood� to a three-room apartment in town, "but we ·t i l l have deer 111 the side yard." he would l ike to hear new of Georgina Gulliford Fielding. . . . lfyouaregl1ingthrnughChina, Maine, look up Ben Bubar. He has retired after 35 years a superinten dent and director of the Christian Civic League of Maine and as a legislative agent at the tate House. •

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cial ist. Twoyear· agotheydid some really serious tra,·elmg in an effort rn >ee the whole United State>. . . . At this writing, I myself am on my \\'ay to make a presentation at the Assoc iation of Con t i n u i ng Higher Education in Jackson, M is,. I think we have no one from our cla in that ·rate, hut I mu,r ,ee 1f the Alumni Office can provide a contact for me. P . . -You will all be receiving a new questionnaire. Plea e end me some interesting + details of your lives.

Correspondent: Beverly Benner Cassara

Welcome to Lynn Ma govern '90, who i the new assistant director of alumni relations. I met her recently when I tooksomefonnercolleagues from D.C. to vi -it the campus. Great good luck to her in her endeavor . Thanks to Mary Porter '88, who has moved to Portland . . . . I fi na 11 y c a u g h t up w i t h M a r y "Sunny" Ellison Leavitt. Her three on are in Maine, New Hampshire and Ohio, and she has three grandsons. One son teaches com puter cience in high school and another i a computer expert at Wright Patterson Air Force Base. Sunny recently suffered a fall from which he is recovering so she can get back to her favorite sport of bowling. end her a card: 2 1 Manson Ave., .:r-1 54, Kittery, M E 03904 . . . . l always havetogetback to Ray and Tossie Campbell Kozen to find out what is going on. They recently spent two week baby sitting three little grandchildren while their folks were away. (Their son is a profe sor of computer sc i ence at Ithaca College . ) Come ovember 1 they go back to Florida for ix months or so, but i n Waterville they are involved with the food bank and with the three meals a day that are provided five day a week at various churches. Tos ie ay thatColby'47er in the area get together for tailgate pic nics at the football games and in v ites anyone interested to get infonnation from her at ( 207 ) 8730522. Keep thi i n mind for next season . . . . I also got to peak with Clayton Currier recently. He and Pri cilla (Weeks) have moved back to Newcastle, Maine ( wh ich was Priscilla' childhood home ) , after 39 1 /2 years i n Plaistow, . H . , where P r i cilia w a s a reading spe-

Correspondent : David and Dorothy Marson

We want to thank all the membersofthecl� for their wonderful re spon e to the questionnaire sent out in J uly. Wh ile we're certain that most of you were brill iant stu dent , we've come to the concluion that no one maj ored in penmanship--or is it penperson ship? In any event, we respectfu lly reque t that you print or type fu ture news since it really is quite d i fficu l t to read ome of the writing . . . . Joan Crawley Pollock, a retired teacher (reading special ist and coordinator), and her hu band, Joe, have five children and six grandchildren. he write that she has traveled to Russia, China, Japan and Australia and next sum merplans to visit ingapore, Dutch Indonesia and Thailand. She's tak ing courses and wims every day when she' at home. About Colby he recalls the mel l of sulphur (bad ) and the smell ofpi.ne (good ) . From her dorm window she saw the railroad tracks on the old campus. Her freshman roomm a t e was S h i rley C a r r ie r B rown, and W ilkin on (hi tory) and Smith ( art) were her favorite professor . Since the bigCalifomia earthquake two years ago, all the rooms in their house had to be restored and the structure bolted to the foundation. A year later to the day they had another earthquake, bll[ this time "the hou e held." . . . John Pincus is a translator/interpreter living in Los Angeles. He has four children and eight grandchildren. He re members the old campus, Professor Fullam, the railroad tracks and cold weather but say that he has never been back to Colby. (Come east for the 50th,John. You will be thrilled

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with the College and the experi ence. ) John travels to Europe two or three times a year, is expecting his ninth grandchild and spent the spring and summer working. ( Me, too, John. Some of us haven't re tired yet, but you can probably count those on the fingers of one hand.) . . . Helen Knox Elliott lives in Plymouth, Mass., with her hus band, Charles. She writes a "little bit of poetry for special events" and indicates that her Colby English major helps. She recalls the bus ride up and down the hill and cred itsherColby experience with spark ing her interest in teaching high school English. She la t visited the campus in April of 1 99 3 and says, "lmpressed !" Helen hada luncheon for members of the Class of '48 in May. Attending were Peg Clark Atkins, Mildred Hammond Bauer, Betty Parker Forman, Barbara Bond Goucher, Donna Elliott Harriman, Mary Conley Nelson and Ann McAlary Sevrens. Joan's re ent or antic ipated travel is to Denmark, Sweden and Switzer land . . . . . Evelyn Helfant Malkin writes from Wayland, Mass., where she is an oncology social worker. Of her five chi ldren, four are mar ried, and husband Sid is retired. They have a dog and cat but no longer have horses. Evie and Sid were at the 4 5th, and it was good to see them once again. She, as many of us do, recalls the Blue Beetle. On a more substantive note, Evie writes that she is concerned about the lack ofdiversity in ourstudent body and feels that one that is more heterogeneous is needed to better reflect the larger world. She ex pects to go to Australia in January to Kangaroo Island and Sydney. A 1 9-person family reunion at her daughter's place in Chesapeake Bay in J u ly was a recent big event. . . . Kay Weisman Jaffe, our retir ed class correspondent who set a standard of excellence that we are trying to emulate, revealed that she went to Boston's Girls Latin School, which impre sed this old Boston English graduate! Kay has three married kids and five grand children. She says, "lf my golden years continue as they have started, it will be fine-ju t some achesand pains. Theheadachesofchi ld-rear ing are over, and the heartaches of the world become a bit easier to

bear when we come ro understand we cannot personal ly change ev erything." Thanks, Kay, for your loyal service to the College and our class, your intellectuality and your + friendship.

Correspondent: Anne Hagar Eustis

Reunion Weekend June 3 , 5 , 1 994 Celebrating are the Classes of '44 and '49

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The news for the Class of ' 49 is getting scarcer than hen's tee t h ! I think you must all need to be revi talized by a rousing class reunion. Well, there's hope, for that is j-u-s-t around the comer! On September 1 9, 1 993, I went to a meeti.ngofour c lassmates in Cambridge chaired by class president Bud Nannig. At that time there had been a good response to Bud's first letter re: re union plans, with 3 5 classmates planning to come and nine more hoping to be able to. Just to reiter ate, the date are TI1ursday, June 2, 1 994, through Sunday, J une 5 , 1 994. You might want t o consider coming a day or two earlier and taking advantage of the Alumni Adventure Getaways. Last year's pre-reunion escapes included an in.n-to-inn bike tour, whitewater rafting on the Kennebec, an island inn getaway and a windjammer cruise on the Penobscot. Lon and I are all ready to sign up for the wind Nellie j a m m e r c r u ise ! . . Macdougall Parks writes that i n June 1 99 3 she and her husband, Warren, visited Jeanne Pelletier Sutphin and her husband, Hoyt, in Glen, N . H . , where they were vaca tioning. You may remember that Nell and Jeanne were roommates for four years at Colby and "shared hilarious memories from summer jobs earning Colby tuition." Jeanne and Hoyt had pictures from a recent 1 99 3 Caribbean vacation. Nell and Warren had just returned from an Oregon and Nevada vacation . . . . I am sorry to report that the Office of Alumni Relations has notified me of the death of two of our c lass mates: Richard Walter Clare Jr. on April ! 5 , 1 993 , and Donald Harold Daggett on June 22, 1 99 3 . On this sad note, I close this issue of our class notes . . . . Remember the dates of our reunion, June 2-5, 1 994. I shall look forward to seeing you ALL! +

The Alumni Counci l is considering an alumni travel program. We'd like your comments about what would make such a program interesting to you. Please take a moment to answer the following questions and return your response to Alumni Office, Colby Col lege, Waterv i lle, ME 0490 1 . Thank you. How many trips do you take each year?

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Other colleges report chat Alaska cru ises and African photographic safari are popular w ith their alumni. Please l ist three or more destinations of interest to you:

Other comments, ideas or notes to help us in our planni ng:

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Edna Miller Mordecai 94 Woodridge Road Wayland, MA 0 1 7 78 508-358-5574 1 95 3

Barbara Easterbrooks Mailey 80 Lincoln Avenue South Hamilton, MA 0 1 982 508-468- 5 1 1 0 1 954

Marlene Hurd Jabar 1 1 Pleasantdale Avenue WaterviHe, ME 04901 207-873-44 7 1 1955

Ann Dillingham I ngraham 9 Appletree Lane Manchester, ME 043 5 1 207-622-0298 1 95 6

Eleanor Edmunds Grout RD 3, Jones Road Gouverneur, NY 1 3642 3 1 5-287-3 2 7 7 1 95 7

Brian F . Olsen 46 Washington Drive Acton, MA 0 1 720 508-263-9238

Correspondent: Nancy Ricker Sears

Joan G� lden McD�rmott 1 l iving m Norwood, Mass., with herhusband, Francis,who i a qual iry assurance engineer. What keeps her young and active? Her third grade class, tent camping and a dozen grandchildren. Sounds like enough, but not quite. Joan is also involved with Pulse, the drug hotline in Norwood. . . . A terrific letter from Dick Pullen gives us his currentnews. He and Barbara (Bar row) are retired in East Swanzey, N .H., and keep very busy on a 1 30acre tree farm. Dick served the cornmuniry ofWindsor, Conn., for 34 1 /2 years as a primary care inter nist. He was also on the senior attending staff at Hartford Hospi tal and was school physician for Loomi -Chaffee School. Bobbie, who did her senior year at the Universiry of North Carolina and also taught school there for two years, has kept her hand in educa tion as an active volunteer teacher. Dick continues: "Our two lovely daughters were born while I was in residency. Cynthia graduated from Colby ['77] and then became a respiratory therapist, which she does now part time. She lives in Colchester, Conn. , and has two daughters, 9 and 7. Sharon gradu ated from UNH. She is now a housewife in Interlaken, N.]., and

has twosonsanda daughter,age 9, 7 and 3. Needle to say, holiday are busy for Bobbie and me." The Pullens claim that retirement i all that it's cracked up to be and enjoy skiing when they can take time off from the tree farm. Dick ends his letter by saying that he hopes oth ers will be prodded to write. (Just thought I would put that expres sive verb of his into print here.) Thanks, Dick, your letter was great. . . . Short column, hart on news. Hope you will feel ufficiently in ·pired, prodded, whatever, to send a short note. If you've lost the address, it is right here at the top of + the '50s.

Correspondent: Barbara Jefferson Walker

From my fellow Virgin ian Maury Ronayne of Alexandria, l learned that Oscar Rosen, Ph.D. and pro fessor of history at Salem State in Massachusetts, also serves a na tional commander of the Atomic ( M i litary) Veterans and as editor of the assoc i a t ion's newslet ter. . . . After George Haselton returned from a geology-related summer project in Idaho, he and wife Priscilla Ford Haselton en joyed an evening with Edie Harris E d g e r t o n and her hu b a n d , Brad . . . . l caugh t up byphonewith Jane Perry Lindquist. It sound as though she and Bob are happily involved with a wide variery of interests, activities and fami ly. Retirement d id not slow them d o w n , it j u s t c hanged t h e i r focus . . . . I have recently made a major transition in my life. I have sold my house, dispersed most of its contents among my three sons, rented an apartment and made a down payment for residency three years from now in a brand new lifecare cornmuniry. I feel good about having taken charge of my future and my final care. To eel-

ebrate all thi�. I spent a week in August on the middle fork of the Sa lmon R i ver in !Jaho-also known as the River of o Return! I was part of the first-ever all wom en's group to raft that particular river. It is a "technical" river. The water is white. The boulders are big. The solitude of the deep can yon is beyond description. It was quite a ride. My daily attire under the life vest and hard hat was my long polypropylene unders topped by my Colby Cla of'S l reunion t shirt. You have heard all this about me, because I had no news of you! + Please write.

Correspondent: Edna Miller Mordecai

This is my first solicita tion ofChristmas cards. If any of you have extra copies of your super-newsy Xmas letters, how about sending one to yourclass correspondent? . . . l've a most tempting invitation to you all ( but not all at once) from Louise Ginsberg Hirshberg, who is a health/educator/counselor and runs a bed-and-breakfast called The Nesting Place in Marblehead, Mass. There she facilitates workshops/ retreats in stre management with individually designed programs. Sounds good to me ! . . Betsy Fisher Kearney writes of a busy family life and respite time cruising the Caribbean. The family actu ally weathered Hurricane Andrew in those southern waters, where Betsy's 5-year-old granddaughter noted, as assorted debris flew by, that it was her very first hurricane. "Mine, too! " says Bets . . . . Jeanne D'Wolf Gronquist and husband Charlie have found a great way to get out of the winters in Minne sota. They have a daughter to visit in Hawa i i . . . . Anne Plowman Stevens and husband Robert were headed farther north on a long planned trip to Alaska . . . . Patty

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hear from more class mate . Paul Dionne wrote a newsy letter from Ft. tock ton, Texa . He says, "After gradu

i n n e r - c i t y k i d s and t o v i s i t pnsoners . . . . Mort Guiney writes from Paris---yes, France-that he was most pleased to receive an honorary doctorate in French lit erature from the U n iversity of Rouen. . . . Jean Blumenthal Young is en joying her professional life as a clinical social worker. l think that "us therapist types"cangoon work ing a long as our curiosity and audi tory acuity hold out . . . . Nita Hale Barbour speaks of a retire ment home on Deer lsle, Maine, but in the same paragraph ays, "My early chi ldhood curriculum text is being re-edited for a third edition . . . . I am completing the research and writing for the text" to be publi hed in 1 994 . . . . Don Hailer, who with his wife, Sheila, runsa graphiccommunication and <le ign business, writes: "no mar riages, no d ivorces, no grandchil dre n , no money." N o troubles e i ther, Don ? . . . Mary Sargent Swift and hu hand Ed run an ac tive antiques business that is based in Connecticut but has shows all over New England. Their daughter Louise '80 and our daughter Carol '80 were Colby roommates, and I d e l ight in t h e "not frequ ent enough" visits between th e gals and the ir wonder children . . . . Chuck ' 5 3 and Sandy Pearson Anderson report some wondc1ful experiences with Elderhostel trip . She says, "for anyone who hasn't discovered them yet-try it, you'll l ike it." . . . Ann Hawkes Paquin is an active beekeeper and gar dener in Windham Maine, where she l ive in her grandfather' 1 2 5year-old hou e. . . J ean Paula Whitcomb Thornton writes from Vem1ont about her family. Al though she didn't enumerate, I think I counted eight children living m Ariz na, New Mexico, Colorado, Nevada, I l l inois, Wash ington and Alabama a well as Vermont-and 1 1 grandchildren in the family news . . . . Ray and Merry Crane Evans live in Cali fornia. Both are amateur radio op erators . . . . I guess that's all fornow. So, from Maine to Paris and from H i lo to Nome, let us all wish each other the happiest of New Years.+

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and found a gocxl life." He contin ues, "I have four nice kids, seven grandchildren. I am now married to a n ice college professor gal ( teaches nursing) and we have a nice time together." He ays, "my practice isa limi ted one and I pretty well do as I please. I spend a few hour in the office an<l the rest of

ation in 1 95 3 , I wandered around Bal timore and then was sent by Uncle Sam down to Texas. After a couple of years in El Paso/A lbu querque, I entered U. ofTexas Law School an<l came out here to prac tice. I have been here ever since

the time in our greenhouse and on the golf course. I guess you could call me emi-retired." Like most of us, Paul says h is Colby connections have faded away, o he keeps up with Colby friends through this news column. Keep the news com-

NEWSMAKERS Dr. Kershaw Powell '5 1 spoke a t a ceremony in the Waterville, Maine, Rape Crisi Center, where a room was dedicated to the memory of his late wife, J ill, who had been a fund raiser for the center. . . . William Ames '54 was the subject of a column in the Northampton ( Mass.) Daily Hampshire Gazette. For the first time in 30 years, the retired teacher's name did nor appear on the city council ballot as he prepared to spend time in AriDr. Kershaw Powell '5 1 zona. . . . Novelist Robert B. Parker '54 spoke at a public library fund raiser held at Bridgewater tate College, where he was formerly a professor of English . . . . Paul F. McClay ' 55 wa named to the board ofditectorsofGardinerSavings institution in Gardiner, Maine. McClay own and operates Paul McClay, Consultant, an advertising, marketing and public relations firm in Augusta. . . . Peter Lunder '56, president, and Harold Alfond, chairman of the board of Dexter Shoe Co., announced the merger of Dexter and Omaha-based Berkshire Hathaway Inc., a company that deals in property and casualty in uranceand publi hes the Buffalo News and World Book Encyclopedia. Dexter "has a long, profitable history, enduring franchise and superb management," said a spokesman for Berkshire Hathaway . . . . Yvonne Noble '56 currently is a distin guished visiting professor at Wash ington andJeffer on College . . . . The Reading ( Pa. ) Eagle featured even ci tizens of Berks County, Pa. , who are chairs of college or university boards of trustees, including Lawrence R. Pugh '56. "The rewards are numerous," Pugh aid. "Working with students is great, although you never get enough time doing that."

MILEPOSTS Marriages: Barbara Newhall

Armel '58 to John Stevens in Upper

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Donald Bishop ' 5 7 in Pittsfield, Maine, at 6 1 . . . . Rita Hamilton Hager '55 in Arlington, Va., at 60.

ing . . . . It wa a great summer and my house kept me so busy, I wasn't able to venture far from Hamilton. But Joey Leader Creedon wrote a short note to me, hoping I would be able to join some Colby grad in the Cape Cod area next summer. . . . I was notified by the Alumni Office of a death in our class: Vir ginia Mclay Dunmire died in Glenwood Springs, Colo., January • � 1 99Q

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Diane Reynolds Wright

writes that she and her h usband, Dick, have beenenjoyingretirementandspent several "fascinating" weeks visit ing their son, who is working for the mayor of Hradec Kralove as a liaison per m to attract Western business and visitors to eastern Bohemia . . . . Joan Sandberg has starred a new job for the Arizona Depanmcnt of Health Services. She is the health program manager of the state birth defects monitor ing program in the division of dis ease prevention. She says she i u ing her medical expertise and has a secretary, an administrative a ·sistant and three medical record technicians who assist in abstract mg information from the medical records ofall babie born with birth defects. From thtS information vari ous reports are generated for tatis tical information . . . . John Hager report that his <laughterpre ented him with a grandson in May just two months prior to the death of h is wife, Scotty (Hamilton ) , on July 1 . John i still working at the Defense Mapping Agency Hydro graphic/Topograph1c Center and i the senior geodesist there. He add , "It seems odd that both John Dutton and myself should have gotten involved in uch a limited profession. Retirement is not in my plans, but I will have to wait and ee if M r . Cl i n ton has other ideas." . . . Vanda M i k ol os k i Solomon recently retired as direc tor of c u l t ural even t at the Kosciu zko Foundation, the Ameri can Center for Polish Culture in New York City. She plans to retire to San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Her married son, Peter, a Colby grad, received his M . B.A. from Babson and is working for an en vi-

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singer and songwriter for Made in Wood, a rock band in Seattle, Wash . . . . Lee Fernandez sent a Winslow Homer portfolio (which is beautiful and much apprec iated) of woodcut engravings. It has won everal graphic design awards and is available at New England mu seum gift shops.

Correspondent: Ann Marie Segrave Lieber

Man y apo logies for _ _ m1SS mg this space m the November issue.

Now that I have l ists of deadlines and other pertinent information, I don't think this will happen again. Fortunately, I inherited some ques tionnaire responses from Marietta Pane and will u e some of them for this column, as they sti l l appear timely and reintroduce us to some classmates we haven't heard from in a while . . . . Dick Campbell is a group vice president for Textron Corp., in Providence, R.l. As of February 1 993, he and his wife, Carolyne Jean, had relocated to York, Maine. Dick's oldest daugh ter graduated from McGill Uni versity and medical school and is a psyc h i a trist in O t t awa, O n t . . . . Nancy Derderian Bagdasarian has been collection coordinator for herfamilybu iness, Waltham Lime and Cement, for the past three years. She has acquired two sons through her daughters' marriage , Nancy's in J uly 1 990 and Lee's in August 1 992. Both daughters now live in Salt Lake City, necessitat ingmuch travelout Wesr. . . . Mary Lou Storm Donarski has relocated to South Salem, N .Y. The most interesting and satisfying thing for Mary Lou has been learning how to help her Down's syndrome daugh ter, Amy, reach her goals. Mary Lou ays she is sorting out the important things in life and enjoy ing them much more as a conse quence . . . . Leigh Bangs, who lives in Carmel, Ind., is a chemist/entre preneurforhi own business, which he and his wife started about five years ago. In 1 988 their three chil dren received B.A. , M.S. and M .D. degrees. Leigh reports that one of the usher at his wedding, Ted Lockhart '61 , is now an admiral,

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''Bones" Jones is a retired attorney and lives with his wife, Lois, in We ton, Mass. Bones reports that he had a new and more severe heart attack and now operates on one third of a heart-and is grate ful for that. Nevertheless, he and Lois, along with their three daugh ters and one son, took a trip around the world, and Bones and Lois later went to Korea to revisit sites of his military service . . . . Susan Carll Thomes was married in July 1 99 1 . She is an educational development special i t living in Cape Charles, Ya. Her husband is retired from the mili tary . . . . Tom Roy's wife, Jan, was promoted to ass istant vice presi dent ofsurgical services and spec ial projects at New Britain General Hospital in Connecticut. H is old est son, Steve, an aviator for the USMC, received two Navy com mendations for Persian Gulf duty and made it through eight m nths in the gulfunharmed. Tom andJan have five children, three of them daughters who all married between November 1990 and September 1 99 1 ! Their first grandchild was born in March 1 992. . . . Debbie W i l l iams P inkerton ha three grandchildren, who all live near her m Tulsa, Okla. She received her M . B.A. from the University of Tulsa in May 1 992. She say the most interesting thing to happen to her in the past 1 0 years was spending 1 5 days in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area with Outward Bound . . . . Jane Daib Reisman plans to retire from her 8:30 to 5 j ob a supervisor of customer service for an insurance company and return to the world of volun teering. Like many others, she mentions the empty nest, grand parenthood, seeing chi ldren happy in their chosen careers, gaining sons and/or daughters th.rough marriage of the children, travel and reconnecting with Colby friends. And also, like many others, Jane praises Colby for enabling her to learn to th.ink clearly and to ex pre herself. It looks as though our four year on Mayflower Hill made an impre ion on us that is life lasting, even though the campus as we knew it has changed so very moc�

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assu red that Colby wi l l pay you (and your spouse) a guaranteed fixed income for the rest of your l ife . Even more i mportan t , your gift w i l l help Colby remain one of t h e n a t i on's leading l iberal arts col l eges . To learn how you can accompl ish a l l t h i s , a n d for a confide n t i a l exampl e o f the i ncome a n d tax benefits ava i lable t o you , please call or writ e : Steve G reaves , D i rector of Planned G iving , Colby Col lege , Wa terv i l l e , ME Phone

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n hi first two years at Colby, Anhur Goldschmidt '59 recalls, he

had no interest in the Middle East or its people, whom he remembers being characterized as "crazy Arabs" by some of his fellow New Yorkers. But thanks to a conversation with Colby President ] . Seelye Bixler and a visiting lecturer from Princeton, Goldschmidt spent his junior year at the American University of Beirut. His career-as an academic Arabist-was sealed. Goldschmidt learned Arabic after graduating from Colby and then earned master's and doctoral degrees in M iddle East history from Harvard. He has taught and studied in Egypt, Lebanon and Israel and is now a professor of Middle East history at Pennsy l vania State University. As a scholar and author of A Con cise Hist.ary of the Middle East (the most widely used Middle East textbook in the United States), Goldschmidt is occa sionally sought by the media to comment on developments like last fall's peace effort that brought Yitzhak Rabin and Yasir Arafat to Washington. Goldschmidt takes a longer view of Middle East develop ments than do some political scientists and most journalists. "It was a momentous event," he said of the White House ceremony and the mutual recognition agreement between Israel and the Pales tine Liberation Organization, "but I was very cautious at the time. I was happy-I want peace to come to the Middle East; I was just conscious of everything that could go wrong." First published in 1979, Goldschmidt's text is Westview Press's best-selling ride, and he revises it every four years. The U.S. attack on Iraq in January 1 99 1 threatened to delay the last edition until the quick resolution of the Gulf war in March of that year allowed the presses to roll on schedule. For the next edition, Goldschmidt says that he plans to give "a lot of weight" to the current peace efforts, since they change "a lot of things I've said about the Palestinians and the Israelis being unwilling to cooperate." As a student, Goldschmidt was a writer and feature editor for The Colby Echo-an experience he credits with helping him learn to write clearly. He enjoyed newspaper work so much, he says, that he had

misgivings about going to Beirut in 1 957 when he realized it would take him out of the l ine ofsuccess ion to become Echo ed itor his senior year. Today he relishes his occasional role as a "Deep Throat" source on the Penn State faculty when students on the university's daily paper want the inside story, and he's amused when he recalls his own efforts to tweak the administration as a student journalist. "I remember Dick Oyer calling me in and bawling us out for publishing a letter critical of the administration," he said. ''We were led to believe there were a bunch of mastodons who were Colby alumni who would stop sup porting the College ifthey read something they didn't like." Now, along with his wife, Louise Robb Goldschmidt '60, he is a member of an alumni group that holds a different view of the College. Even though he has seen a lot of academe-as a graduate stu dent at Columbia, Michigan and Harvard universities and as a professor in Cairo, Haifa and University Park, Pa. Goldschmidt's ideals come from Mayflower H i l l . He ended up at a major university with 40,000 students only be cause he realized his field was too specialized for a small college. The best he can do, he says, is to bring a little bit of Colby with him to Penn Stare, where he makes an effort to personalize education for his students, emphasizing teaching and nurturing. He likes inviting students to his home for meals and discussions and going with them to the library if they need help learning how to do research. "Anhur never has left a small school-he tries to maintain that caring relationship with students," said Marvin Weinbaurn, a former Colby professor who directs the South Asian and Middle Eastern studies program at the University of I llinois. "It's easy at a large university to cut yourself off from undergraduate students, but he's just so approachable. I've watched the way the students flocked to him, even in Cairo. Anhur Goldschmidt carries Colby with him wherever he goes." -Stephen Collins '74

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Correspondent: Katherine P. White

While in Boston, your roving reporter had a chance to call ·ome classmates for a little new . (You never know whom 1 will call next, so write ! ) Barbara Blackburn Bagas teaches elementary educa t i on and remed i a l m a th in Brockton, Mass., although she aid that teachi.ng i not a much fun as in the past. Barbara, divorced for three years, has three grown kids living away and is havingfun being on her own . . . . Marguerite Lerro Dole is a secretary at Harvard Bu i ness School. She is married and topped work i n g when t h e y adopted their son b u t returned to work s ix years ago. She said she has a few gray hairs (don't we all?) and had recently met Ann lmpey Reed and Bev Johnson Arnett for a " g i r l n i g h t o u t " and "a few l aughs . " . . . J oh n Kellom i "overbusy, underpaid" but very enthusiastic about h is computer work in air traffic control for Raytheon. At present he i work i.ng on control systems for Norway and India fHe joked that he takes

home, but she love her job and the many challenges it offers. .A nice conversation with Peggy Hibbard Miller included informa tion that she is married to a pedia trician and is ell ing real e tate, which is begi.nning to pick up a l i ttle bit. They go skiing in the West every year and enjoy their two grandchildren. She has seen Carol Seaman McFarland and Sue Edmond Merrick. All the people I spoke with are considering goi.ng to our reunion, especially if they know the rest of you w i l l be there . . . . A visit from Peg Barnes Dyer's husband, Cal, brought new that Peg has left her job i.n social service and all its bureaucracy and is working for Prudential Insur ance in Terre Haute, lnd . . . . And Bob Hartman dropped in one day on a sales trip through this area and regaled me with tales of his career changes. He's now senior account executive for F.G. Montabert Co., which designs and produce the mostamazi.ngvarieryoflabels. He's married, living in Glen Ellyn, I l l . , and has been very active with the chool board there. Both son are in college, which is keepi.ng Bob working hard . . . . And in my area, Gordon St. John is conti.nui.ng with his love of hockey by coach i.ng the port for Redford Catholic Central, a class A finalist team last year. G ord i e is s t i l l CEO of Bosquette and Co. General Insur ance, o he will be verybusy . . . . All

train .) John, married, lives in Harvard, Mas . , and has two kid ( both l i ving away ) . We talked about Colby not havi.ng any com-

of us were addened to hear of the death of Charles Leighton. When I last spoke with Charlie, he was

most enthusiastic about being an overseer for Colby's science de partments, where h i expertise was probably most helpful. The absence of his intell igence and :est for life is a loss for all of us. . Finally, on a personal note, American Foll< Arc Canes: Personal Sculpture, which

my husband, George Meyer, and I wrote, won an American Institute of Graphics award as one of the 50 best books in the counn)' in 1 99 2. The book accompanied t he e x hi b i t o f o ur canes he ld at t h e De troit I ns t itute of Art through Thanksgiving of this year. From December 1 2 , 1 993, through April 1 2 , 1 994, the exhibition will be at the Museum of Our ational Heri tage in Lexington, Mass. We will be speaking there in March. Try to come by if you are near.

Correspondent: Penelope Dietz Sullivan

Here i si t on a warm ep tember evening realizi.ng that when you read tl1is it will be after Christmas, and you will have ent me ome new news for my future columns. (Right? ) I have a few more letters from the last request but they have aged like bad wine in my Colby drawer and are no longer relevant. The follow ing people, who have not been heard of lately, either need to end me their obits or news of what they are doing (or some friend of theirs needs ro get them off the hook ) : Jay Adolf, Carol Rancourt Ahem, Stewart Arens, Peter Armstrong, Pat Zapp Amott, Becky Bachman (whom I have tried to call everal times and would personally love to hear from ) , George Bagas, Dave Bergquist, George Bitgood, Howie Blatt, Si Blum, Margie Irwin Boilesen, Lawrence Bois, Scott Brackett, Connie Collins Bren nan, Bob Brown, Dave Bustin and Sturges Butler. Look at that1 only hit the A's and B's. Write

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soon before you are publically exposeJ for not keeping your c l assmates informed ! . . . Carol D a v i d s o n J a c k wrote from Hopewell J unction, N.Y., that she has a granddaughter who i , by now, a l m ost l year old ( h er daughter's) and that her son was to be marrieJ in August. She has been working part time and enjoying travels to vi ·it relatives, sk i ing, hik ing anJ garJen i n g . . . . Ha ns Veeder reports that he commutes from San Francisco ro an Diego each week to run the printing divi oion of K/P Graphics, of which he is president. He is into mountain biking, ski ing and tennis and has run three marathons. He haJ an intere ting trip in spring '92 to w i tzerland, Austria and I ra l y , where h is youngest and soon-ro be-a-graduate was studying. He is looking forward to a few days at Samoset when we celebrate our 3 5th . . . . I was on the phone to Bebe Clark Mutz, who asked me what I meant about amo et. For those of you who may have m is ed i t , the class offive years ahead of us celebrated for two or three days before their 3 5th reunion by going to Samoset Resort in Rockport. By the t ime they got to the reunion, they were really in a groove and having a wonderful time together! Many of us are planning to do the same when we have our 3 5th, and our president, Dave Zi k ind, and his reunion committee wi II be pub l ishing details as we get close to that fateful date . . . . Diane Sadler Martin and her husband, Fred, live in Richmond, Va. , where he i an Episcopal priest and she is in geri atrics as a consultant, author and graduate student. They have cel ebrated their 3 2 nd wedding anni versary. They must have had a full Christma table: they have four daughters, five sons, three son - in law and one daughter- in-law and, when she last wrote, one grand daughter. If that isn't enough to keep her busy, he also takes care of her mother and her mother's two younger sisters. Week ends she plays "preacher's wife" in Halifax, about two hours from Richmond. She and Fred have published a book, Do Preachers Reall'I Like Fried Chicken?, and are w;rk ing on Are There Realh Red Tractors in Heaven?-a �ompilation of reci

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good chat with her old (oops, fo r m e r ) roo m m a t e , H e a t h e r Campbell Camey, whose daugh ter attends Wake Forest. . . . Bill Bainbr idge is a phy ic ian in Malvern, Pa., where he is now an empty nestcr,oohe paintsand build ship models when he isn't sail ing, hiking, camping or ph1ying tennis. He has no plan to retire, as he . Debby Berry loves his work. Denniston has by 11l)IV received her yearly Christma:,, notes from Ellen McCue Taylor, Betsy Harper Hopler and Sue Miller Anderson. When she has finished

feed ing her heifers, her Jog and her hor e, mayhe Dehby will be able to hring us up to date on their new . To e cape winter in New York state, he and her husbanJ, Roy, who may now be retired, enjoy Caribbean crui·e·. Her daughter, Robin, graduated from ornell and is s u c cessfu l l y p u r s u i n g h e r career. . . . From Racine, W i ., we hear from Hy Plimpton, who is president and CEO of a business he joined when he left GE after 3 0 years. He and h i s wife are busy keeping up with a 1 3-year-old elite soccer and basketball player and three grandchildren. He join the large group ofus looking forward to Samoset and our 3 5th at Colby. Watch y ur mail for a question naire. When you get it, please fill it out and ·end it back quickly so we can get your news here. +

Correspondent: Judith Hoagland Bristol

Thanks to all who have responded to my requests for updated information. Please, if l direct a reque t to you, respond. We want to hear about you-the goods and the bad . Now it seems as if most of u are experi encing change in our l i ves, and somehow we have an instant ca maraderie because we're able tO iden t i fy w i t h one a n o t h e r ' changes . . . . T h e h ighlight o f this year for Nancy MacKenzie Keating was the graduation of her daughter Leslie from Lehigh. Le l ie is tem porarily l iving at home whi le she pursue · a position in public rela tions in Atlanta. N ancy, who moved from a big hou e in suburbia ro a rownhouse closer tO work, continues her new career working with "addicts and alcoholics" but

says that she is most interested in housing for people with AIDS. Nancy uses her spare time to do "creative things" I ike painting, sew ing and needlework- he recently completed a set of 18 needlepoint kneelers for an Episcopal church! Nancy has been a widow for a number of year but ay that al though it would be nice tO have a partner, the right one has yet to cnme <ilong. Nancy looked great at the reunion, so-o-o . . . . Patricia Doucette Light and hu�band Jerry are retired math teachers in M ich i gan. Laot year she took a math cl as at the university, traveled to La Veg<i , the Bahamas and Maine, babysat twice a week with her grandchildren (daughter Kim, 30, and Sheryl, 27, are special educa tion teachers) and till was active in the local c ivic theater. Pat keeps up with Sally Lafreniere Plock who started a new busine s with her husband in outh Bend, I nd . , t w o years ager-and with Sally White Butler, whom she de cribe a a "very independent widow in Bil lerica, Mass." Pat says he's thankful that he was able to re ceive scholarships to go ro Colby and feels that the career and life she has today are a direct result of her Colby experience. Pat, I 'm glad you're already planning to return to Maine to v isit family and attend our 3 5 th . You ' l l e n j oy i t . I promise . . . . Marijane Eaton Fall has started a new career th is past summer in a newpartofthecountry where he doe ·n't know anyone and a a ingle woman! Marijane is now an associate profes or of coun selor education at the Univer ity of Iowa in Iowa City. Sounds like she arrived in the Midwe t with the flooding. She mentions the constant tate of uncertainty wondering when the sewers and water would fai l . Marijane would love to know if we have other school counselors, counselor edu catorsor therapi t in ourcla . ! do know that we have lot of educa tor , Marijane. In fact at our next reunion-which you cannot stay away from for any reason ( and ye , we have lot of singles in atten dance, alway }-we can plan to have a mini-conferencefor chool related occupations. Marijane has threechildren: Greg ( Bowdoin '86) directs the YorkCountyRedCro , Gretchen (Colby '89) is working on a master's at the University of

Massachusettsand Amy i a opho more at the Univer ity of Maine. Good luck , Marijane, on your new life . . . . Tony Kramer is in real estate, and h is wife, Linda, is an energy executive in Burr Ridge, I ll. Tony, you need to compare notes w i th Ron Ryan and D e n n i s Connolly since they also ha,·e the littles and bigs. Tony has a son, Tim, whu i:, a commercial airline pilot, and a on , Tom, who is a sophomore at Beloit; then come on S t e ven , who i 4, and Stephanie, 5 , who is in kindergar ten. Tony anJ Linda spent a week thi summer "port hopping" on Lake M ichigan on their boat. Tony was just elected to his second term as a Colby overseer and is running fora econJ term on his local school board . . . . Allie Weller is now fly ing for Saudi Arabian Airlines and lives in Jeddah in a "compound" with a multi-ethnic group of the Saudi workforce. A l l ie pointed out that most of the workforce is im ported and that he tran;ports the workers to and from d isadvantaged countrie and thus routinely vi its Bangkok; Mani la; Dacca, Bang ladesh; Madra-, India; I tanbul, B mbay, Casablanca; Jakarta, In donesia, Karachi, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka; Kano, N igeria; Brus els, Taipei, London and "good old New York City." He get home to wife Toni, still a librarian in Amherst, N . H. , about once a month. ome f you may remember that Allie got caught when Eastern Airlines went "belly up"and, as he says, "my hopes, dreams, expectations ( finan c ial ) were battered." He's been scrambling ever since to get even his retirement fund back. If any of you are traveling to any of Al's ports of call, you might contact him at either 4 Atherton Lane, Amherst, NH 030 3 1 or P. 0. Box 1 67 , CC. 9 4 2 , Jeddah, Saud i Arabia. Allie says he will be at our 3 5 th . •

Correspondent: Barbara Haines Cha e

A 1 write, the day are growing honer and cooler, and the hill ides of southwestern New Hamp hire flicker with the early flame f au tumn color. It has been fun to come home to letters from cla mate respond ing to my call for updated

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new . . . . Dr. Lillian Waugh is in rerim co-direcror of the cenrer for women' studie at West Virginia Univer ity. In the spring she re ceived the Mary Catherine Buswell Award, honoring tho e who have soughr equality and ocial justice for women. Congra r u l a t ions, Lillian! . . . . Congratulations, roo, ro Ceylon Barclay on his recenr marriage ro Carolyn, a "cham1ing redhead and Peace Corp grad, with democratic leanings," who, he writes, counrerbalances his rilr to the righr. Ceylon recently re turned to St. Augustine after five years in the We t Indies, where he found rime in which to complete a

manuscript, now accepted for pub licarion. He and Carolyn are plan ning a trip to the ovier Union to gather marerial for yet another tory . . . . After 25 year of law of fice management, Virginia Baker has tarted her own computer busi ness ar home in New Yark and finds it wonderfu l. he now can chedule her own time to read, quilt and enjoy her three feline companion . . . . Warren Balgoo yen enr me two page of hi story "from then r ill now," which I hall try to condense for publication. In 19 3, after 20 years at the Brook lyn Botanic Garden, evenrually as director of their environmental

education cenrer, he, hi wife, Helen, and two children moved to orridgewock, Maine, ro a I 0acre fann . Ar presenr Warren is a self-employed narurali t, environ mental educaror, landscaper, car penrer, Christmas tree and maple syrup alesper on and operaror of a wholesale bait bu iness. He say he ha no plan or time for travel-no kidding! . . . . J udith Allen Aus tin owTI" a real estate bu ines· in Durham, N.H. In this area the market is till down, and tress is high. But her chi ldren are all through college, and now he and oel, her husband of 3 2 year , are enjoying travel and their grand-

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daughter, arah . . . . M ichael Archer' que tionnaire arrived in the "exotic" envelope from ao Paulo, Bra:il, where he i an ac count executive with AJams and Porter. He reports thar the work is stressful and exce ive, which i probably why his wife . R u r h , stare -and h e agree -rhar he doe 90 percenr of the work at home. Herding rwo young boy couldmean a lor ofwork! . . Mary Michelmore Ackerman-Hayes i; a reacher in Brardeboro, Vr., work ing with a special population oi at risk kids. he and her hu band, Don, live in a wonderful hillrop house, where sheenjoysswimmmg,

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scribes as "front-line medi cine" as the acting chief of the infectiou diseases clinic at the Veterans Affair Medical Cen ter in San Franci co, Peter C. Jensen '67 often find him elf telling patients the news they fear the most: that rhey are HIV positive. "They a k, 'How long do I have?,' and I say I don'r know, but their chance are grearer being hit by a truck than dying of AIDS the next day." "One ofthe things you learn," Jen en aid, "isthatyoucanmake patients feel better in the time they have left." Jen en ay he tries to encourage patients to move through the stages of denial, anger and depression unti I they "get to the other ide" and begin looking at their priorities in order to make the mo t of their remaining day . Jen en has seen firsthand the explo ive growth in HIV and A I DS, ince he has worked in an Franci co ever ince hi graduation from Colby. H is fascination with cience began with high chool lab projects in Pasadena, Calif., grew at Colby as a biology major in classes with Profe or A Han cott and flourished when he returned west to earn hi medical degree at the Univerity of California at San Franci co, where he has taught medicine ince 1 978. H e even managed to do hi two-year avy hitch in the Bay area. Jen en recall that in the 1 970 , when he wa honing hi kill in internal medicine, the field of infectious diseases was limited mainly to pneumonia and tropical di ease . With the onset of H IV, he ay , the field "became more interesting and more demanding." Once patients with HIV began eeking help in 1981, Jensen aw many of them because of the complication involved in their con dition . By 1 985 his case load was so great that he began a special clinic in the hospital devoted to patients with infectious disease . Jensen and his taff regularly follow about 700 patients who are HIV po ttive, employing various kinds of medical trategies to care for them, including experimental program for about 20 percent.

"Clearly, w e are i n a situanon where everybody who come to our clinic will eventually die," Jensen said. "That's hard." He notes that unlike those elsewhere, h is HIV patients are the ame age or younger than he is and equally accomplished in their profes ional live -but they are facing their mortality decades al1ead of chedule. " It's a very humbling experi ence," Jensen said. "Here you're confronted with omeone with the ame aspiration you have for the parent it' having kids, for the architect it's a building, for the artist it's your work, for the teacher it's your tudents." Jen en ees hi work as an affirmation of why he cho e to become a doctor: "to observe, comfort, upport, not always win, but ustain people." But in a profession who e centuries-old tradition i to provide the cure and care that will heal a patient, Jensen ay hi mission is "very rough when everything you do ultimately fail ." "People' resolve and personal trength is inspirational," Jen en aid. "It help us to keep our priorities traight." He also finds atisfaction in passing on hi knowledge to a new generation of doctors. "There's omething about eeing people grow and become more capable and pick up ome of the wisdom and kills that' very gratifying," he said. A part of a elect group of doctors who have dealt with HIV-related i ue for more than a decade, Jensen provide guidance to other ho pita! around the country. Jen en' wife, Bonnie, also is a doctor, but he ay they make ure to " leave the ho pital at the ho pita!" when they return to their Mill Valley home so they can devote time to their three children and to activitie such as travel, backpacking, river rafting and kiing. And while he says hi work affirms his goal of helping people, it al o has provided him a useful prescription that is more universal: "l have come to value my life more, come to value my kid more and come to value the day-to-day hassles less," he said. -Robert Spurrier

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A few qu ick lines tt) let you k n ow that o u r group is indeed prepar ing to assemble once again on the st�P> of the Libe or under the l in dens or in the warmth of the dining halls: J une 3-5 . . . . Morgan Mc Ginley say- he ha two k ids in col lege and is hrnke. ( We've been there, M o rga n , and are st i l l broke. ) . . . John Gow i s still teach ing at W i l l i ston N ortham p ton � chool and ha made a summer trip to Australia and spent two years as president of the Massachu setts A:,soc iat ion of Sc ience Teac h er to enrich hi· life. . . Dick York has had a quadruple heart by-pas and fi nd · h i mself in h i hest shape in 25 years. . . . Marge Co nv e ry i d i rector of the Vineyard Haven Public Library on Martha's Vine yard. ounds l ike the be t of all world -I iterature, art, i:,lands and the sea! . . . Clinical psychologbt Judy Milner Coche Anderson has been widowed and recently mar ried, ha> written two books in the last fi,·e year and has been invited to be a guest on SallyJesse Ra/>hael. The Today Show etc. plu being featured in The New York Times and Harper's Ba�aar. She writes, + " I t ' s a g iggle ! "

Corre pondent: Richard W. Bankart

A newsy note from Lew Krinsky. The enve lope bore a re t u m addre s of BATES-BOWDOIN-COLBY c/o Krinsky, etc. eerns Lanky Lew runs an annual fall dinner in Hou ton for 50 or more local alumni. He's become close to a num ber of young people who are part of the Teach for America program. Lew says several recent Colby grads are in this magnificent program, which sends young men and women into inner c i ty and rural schools for two years and leads to a teac h ing certification . . . . Robbie Gilson

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Clark Neil freq uently . . . . Myles Denny-Brown writes that he has "completed the Executive Poten t ial Program of the Office of Per .,onnel Management in Mmch '9 3 , b u t have yet t o see a n y n e w j obs. " Myles spent evening- la;t spring m<inaging his son', :,occer team to a second-place finish . . . . Ma rty Dodge continue:, making the world a nicer place as professor of conser ''ation at Finger L<ike,, Commu n i ty College in Canandaigua, . Y. M<irty conducted a ua\'el cour e to wi ldemes Ala,ka b,t um mer. H e al o scouted Costa R ic<in rain for

est:, in January '9 3 for a rrorooed course in January '94 and spent part oflast summer con tructino an elevated boardwalk in terp re t ive tr<iil i n Honeoye wamp. . Gerry Garon is a certified fi n a nc i a l pl an ner and tax manager. He's also an investor and treasu rer of two Bos ton Chicken franchise_ in Need ham and Dedham, Mass. ( I 'm st i l l waiting for a rel'iew from Rick Da v i s 1 ) Gerry runs and plays sofr ball and ·ay . "sr i II weigh 1 6 5 pound-, the same a s i n co l l ege . " . J im Foxman has co mp leted 1 4 years

as a c irc u i t judge-State of F lor i da and was the highest rated judge in a recent Bar As�oc iation po l l . He kee ps ac t i ve playing tennis. Hb oldest son i · dean' l ist at the U. of Florida Law Schoo l . . . . H a i l , + Colby, H a i l !

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l have seen the truth and it makes no sense. Joyce and I no w have two married sons-Gregg, our old e t, wasmarried July 23 in Warren, M ich., j ust north of Detroit. That was the fir t ofrwofamily weddings this summer, the econd being my niece's. Joyce has had four birthday parties, three of them surprises for her and the fourth a surprise for her twin sister in Arizona. We a l o l aunched my parents' surprise golden wedding anniversary in

NEWSMAKERS Elmer Bartels '62 was one of 1 2 business and commun i ty leaders recently cirpointed to the board of trustees of Boston's Wang Cen ter for the Performing Arts . . . Connecticut Secretary of State Pauline Ryder Kezer '63 served as keynote peaker at the M id dle ex County Chamber f Com merce's annual "Women a I nspiration" seminar . . . . Jay M. Smith Eric Spitzer '65 '63 ran for re-election to the Portsmouth, N . H . , c ity c o u nci l . . . Cynthia Smith Whitaker '63 , a second grade teacher at the Polk chool in Waterbury, Conn. , was named Teacher o f the Year b y the Waterbury chool board. . . . Robert M. Furek '64, p res i d en t and CEO of Heublein Inc., wa the keynote speaker at the 1 3th annual Economic Confer ence of the T unxi Community-Technical College Foundation in Farmington, Conn. The foundation supports college func tions that cannot be funded by state appropriations . . . . Alida Milliken Camp, M.A. '64, a Co l b y trustee, repre ented the Co l l ege at the inauguration of teven Katona a pre idem of College of the Atlantic . . . . Will iam Marvin '65 was chosen to serve as chair of the Greater Manchester ( N . H . ) Chamber of Commerce 83rd Annual Citizen of th e Yecir Dinner . . . . Eric Spitzer '65 has joined Keystone Health Plan Ea t in Ph i ladel phia, Pa. , as v ice president of health ervices operation . Prior to joining Key tone, piner wa president and CEO of Peer Review Analy i Inc . , a Bo ton health care utilization manage ment firm . . . . Steven Brooke '67 of the Natural Resources Counc i l of Maine presented a lide show and di c us ion at the College on re toration of the Kennebec River. . . . Kingman Penniman '67 was quoted in a page one Wall Street Journal article on j unk bond . . . . General manager of the Bo ton Celtics Jan Volk '68 wa a member of a forum in th Tufts University Lecture eries that introduced students to Bo ton's h istorical, cultural and ocial opportun i t ies. Volk spoke on the advantages of l iving in a b ig-time sports town . . . . Bill Burges '69 wa featured in a Cleveland Plain Dealer article on hi career a a pol itical consultant. Burge worked closely with current Cleveland mayor M ichael W h i te in White's bid for the office . . . . Sari Abul-Jubein '69 and Bob Hark '69 were the ubject of an article in the Cenrral Maine Morning Sentinel dealing with reaction to the peace accords in the M iddle Ea t. H ark, who is Jewi h, and Abul-Jubein, a Palestinian, were roommates thei r fre hman year at C lby. "I thought ooner or later, our people would have to settle their differences and find solution ," said Abul-Jubein.

MILEPOSTS Fredric A. Bonner '6 1 in Manche ter, Conn. , at 54. . . . Ronald G. Conn '62 in Marblehead, Mass., at 5 3 .

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August. I d o not want t o speak to another caterer for at least a year . . . . Speakingofparties, Linda Mitchell Potter reported that by the time you read this, we should

have had our 2 7 1 /2 reunion during Colby' Homecoming Weekend in October. Linda also remarked that her goal for the summer wa to lo e ome weight, but then she realized

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that what he gained over the win ter was really just fat converted to heavier muscle due to an ac ti,·e kiing ·eason. That's an excellent rationalization. I t's what I used

hands! Susan also has changed jobs, moving from the detox to the p y

when I went from a i:e 44 to a 46 the year I built my hou e . . . . Erik Thorson was featured in the ash

c h ia tric unit of her ho p i t a ! . . . . T i m "Tif" Crowell wins the

ville Banner as part of an article titled "Dear Old Dad," with the empha is on "Old . " A pec ial Father's Day article focusing on how fatherhood comes later in life today was quick to point out that Erik was a first-time dad at 48. lli.e color photo of Eric, son, and wife Rhonda shows that they are all very photoge n ic . . . . J oan Manegold Dukes i now a volun teer docent for second grader- at her local nature center. he writes that she didn't know what the kids enjoyed mo t, discovering tadpoles, observing a bird's nest or watching Joan fall flat on her face in the mud, although the latter was the only time the kids were quiet. I think you already have your answer, Joan. She and husband George had re cently returned from their norkel ing adventure on the i land of Guanaja off the coast ofHonduras. . . . As l am in the mid t of unpack ing from the wedding and execut ing surprise parties, the column will be short this month. I am still anxiously counting the returned cla s questionnaires-hoping that we do better than last year. Re member, it's never too late to send one in. +

Michael are in school at Mary Washington and Trenton tare.

in the last nine months, she ays, she ha· converted from an ugly hou e into a beauty-with her own

Family and her profession are the mainstays of ucce s for Sally. . . . Jeff Browning li,·es with his wife, herie, in Bend, Ore., where Jeff is audit manager at a ski and ummerre ort . Jeff"daughter, Lisa,

claim six pack goats and "lots of angoragoats." he also hast\\'Osons,

( whom you w i l l rec all as the

to his family and his work, J eff

youngernur eat the RobertsUnion infirmary) . Kip, a la\\-yer in Bangor, has three daughter , one of whom attended Colby. Tif adds that he saw John '66 and Betry avicki

counts the beauty of his urround ings as a ignificant aspect of his succe s . . . . Georgia Bizios is a profe sor of architenure and a o ciate academic dean ar North Caro lina tare Universiry, where she runs into Sue Nutter, who is head librarian at the chool. he has designed and built her own house and each ummer takes tudents to Greece for a "field trip." Her fre quent trips to Europe have also given her a chance to keep in con tact with Colby foreign tudents Francois Villanne Chotard, who is still in France, and Dorothy Staehelin Rothenback, who now live in wit.zerland . . . . Next time you're at your nearest Towet Record store, check out the latest album on the SUB-POP label by a hot new Portland, Ore., rock group called Hazel. The singer/drummer is Jean Howard Bleyle's daughter Jody, 2 3 , a graduate of Reed Col lege. Jean and her husband, John, who live in Westport, Conn., also are the proud parents of Susan, 2 1 , a recent graduate of Oberlin Col lege, and Allen, 1 3 , an eighth grader. . . . I n ca e you've earned your second million and you're looking for a private banker, you should look up Roberta Kochi, who loans money to the rich as a private banker in New York City. . Plea e don't feel that what you've done is not quite spectacu

Josh and Ben, to keep her mind occupied. . . Another lady \\'ho has spent a lot of rime with young

Carvellas '6 at a Vem1ont riding event. Tif goes on to say that being semi-retired, he find- time to sing in a barbershop quartet. Regretta bly, he did nor report hi secret path to semi-retirement . . . . Scot tie Brewer Brower \.vrite from Vermont that this past year she won an award for being the reacher

third generation of Rays in educa tion. Twin sons Matthew and

from Saco that he i the proud grandfather of Lauren A lexandra Cooper Mullett. Grandfatherhood, he ay , has led him to feel younger and more pry than in recent year . John volunteers at hi local library setting up a computer sy tern to Ii t the collection. Being excited about going to work in the morning and being able to leave the work at work count high on his list of uc cess definitions . . . . Susan Finlay Chavez has had an interesting and

mg \'ery hard ro make this reunion

our.randing' . . . Jeanne Bryant Stanwood and her husband O\\'n a bicycle shop in Castle Rock, Cnln.

is a Ph.D. candidate at MIT, and

· attention of local authoritie , Su san has moved to a new house that

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son Erich is a sophomore at the University of Oregon. ln addition

of Al Haughton, Tim write that he aw Kip Coughlin and his wife

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mi sing per-on· locator award. Af ter filling us in on the whereabouts

of the year in her counry, and she was treated for breast cancer. uc cess, she says, is the ability to learn something from wharever life end you, awards or illnes . Along with her husband, Robert, a \.\ff i ter and therapi t , Scottie lives with her daughter, Caitlin, 1 6. Her step daughter, Pepa, lives in New York City, and her tepson, Jo h, i in law school in eattle. . . . Susan and Paul Cronin have been keeping a do e eye on Colby ports as on Brian enters his sophomore year on his dad' old turf. Like h is dad, Brian is a mainstay on the Mules' hockey team. Brian made Dean's List last year, and it made Paul smile with pride that Brian didn't follow all the old paths! Back in Saugus, Mass., Paul and u an have two daughters at home, Amy, 9, and Erin, 6. Paul has taken on a new challenge at work this year as he teaches in a new program de signed to address the problems of low motivation and poor academic performance in at-risk high chool students . . . . Sally Ray Bennett continues in her position as coun selor at South Kingston High. She recently completed work for a sec ond master' degree, an M . Ed. in school administration from Provi dence College. Her daughter, Kirsti Morin, has graduated from Mary Washington and will become the

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people is Susan Mathews Szyd lowski. usan is living in Lebanon, Pa., where she has been a Girl cout leader for over 1 2 years and has two troops. She also has served on the board of the Lebanon Cowi.ry Cho ral ociety for many years. Her chil dren, Kristen and Ellen, keep her involved in numerou school ac tivities as well. N o time for a mid life crisi ! . . . John Burnham and his wife, Ann , are both invoked in the medical profession. John is an internist and Ann is a pulmonary nurse specialist in Dalton, Mass. A year ago they adopted twin girls, Claire and Emily, from Bolivia. John also has maintained a career in the Army Reserve and served in Gem1any during Desert Storm. For hi community, John is the medical advisor for the local rescue squad, and he particularly enjoys working with c it izen volunteers . . . . An other man who enjoys working with his community is Eddie Woodin. Ed lives in Scarborough, Maine, and is active in the Maine Audubon Soci ety as a trustee. He leads five trips a year to view puffins and bald eagles and lectures to school children, gar den clubs and bird club . As Eddie says, every day is a gift, and he enjoy giving back a little and inspiring others. It sounds as though he does + more than h i share!

lar enough to contact us. We want to hear from all of you (we're j u t plain nosey ! ) because the inquir ing minds of '67 want to know where you are and what you're up to! +

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The new y e a r h a started, and we are even closer to our 2 5 th re union. Start making your plans to

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Warner Book and has had his work translated into five languages. As a psychotherapist, he works

in nature important for her own spiritual renewal. Living in Gardnerville, Nev., he's a elf

extensively with the terminally ill. He is dad to three sons, Michael, 1 0, Gabe, 6, and infant David. . . . Congrat u l a t ions to N icky Pach. After a tough campaign, she was elected judge of the family

employed contract book writer for Wilderness Press and is employed a a geologist for the U.S. Geologi cal Survey. Her favorite mountain retreat is Snowpas , because it's "mult ifaceted, wild yet accessible and brings many fond memorie . "

court ofSuffolk County, N .Y. ome of her case will involve deciding

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sponse to the survey. I 've enjoyed reading them and now have lots of news to share. If you've sent yours along, be assured that despite a publication time lag and space limitations, too, youmews will appear. If you haven't sent news, what's keeping you ? . . . Leslie Seaman Zema, hu band Gary and 5 - year-old daughter Lauren live in New York City, where she is a dance teacher at George Washington High School. Respondingtotheque tion "What do you remember when you think of Colby?", Leslie said, "My room mate for three years, Kit Wells Poland." Interesting-first on Kit's list ofmemories wasLeslie! Kit and husband Michael and their two sons, Aaron, 1 1 , and John, 9, live in Madi on, Maine. Kit describes herself as the J ill ofall trades, wearer of many hats. Among her "trade "

whether to remove children from abusive parent . he and her hus band, Stephen Kunken, are par ents of two boys, Charlie, 9, and Jake, 3 . . . . Can you believe our 2 5 th reunion is coming up next year? We will be starting the pre lim inary plan and would love to have your participation and input. If you can help in any way, please call or drop me or class president Debbie Williams Anderson a note. Debbie can be reached at 95 Hi ll side Ave., Melrose, MA 02 1 76; 6 1 7-662 -9490. My address and number are in the column at the + head of the clas notes.

Correspondent: Nancy Hammar Austin

After recently having

Conway, Mass. He lists his occupa tion as author/psychologist. Paul

enjoyed a fabulously bril liant sunset and simulta neous fu l l moon r i s i ng from Cadillac Mountain in Acadia Na tional Park on Mt. Desert Island, I agree with the Rev. Bert Brewster ofOakland, Maine, that"the beau tiful ocean view" makes that a very special place. I 'm sure that Rich ard Handel would agree. He and his wife, Marilyn, are the owners of Eden Rising in the Mayfair Mall on the corner of Cottage and Rodick in Bar Harbor, M a i ne . When they're not off on travels to Hong Kong, etc . ( I expect in search of marvelous merchandise for their lovely shop) they are close enough to enjoy many pensive moments in the Cadillac Mountain area . . . .

has recently been published by

Andrea Eddy finds going out alone

she lists editor (as well as part-time writer, typist, assistant to the art director and general gofer) of the school district newspaper. . . . John Marriner checked in from North Aurora, I l l . , where he is a physicist. He and his wife, Ann, have two daughters, Wendy, 1 2 , and Eliza beth, 9 . . . . Fairfield, Conn., is home to Chris Nahabedian Mark ley. Chris is an English teacher and department chairperson. Husband George Markley '67 is an attorney; their son is a student at Tufts University . . . . Our survey finally caught up with Paul Roud in

. . . Ruth Moore Bamingham and her husband, Steve, enjoy watch ing Mt. Man field from their vet er inary c l i n i c i n J ericho, V t . . . . KevinJagla, living in Portland, Ore., with his wife and two ans, Patrick, 8, and Jack, 3, recommends Mt. Defiant for great day hikes. Since Colby, Kevin has completed two master's degrees and is work ing as an engineer. . . . You might find Dr. William Johnson biking at his favorite mountain, Camel's Hwnp, Vt., with his children, Todd, 1 2 , and Lynne, 9. He' a phy ician in Hampton, Conn . . . . Lee Faw cett, father of five-Chris, 1 9 , Andrea, 1 7 , Michael, 8, Jeremy, 6 , and Emily , 3-hasremarriedand is living in Palm Harbor, Fla. He en joys the great kiing at Keystone Mt., Colo . . . . FredCopithomand H. Stevens Borden think that Denali National Park is a fabulous mountain etting, especially be cause it's i n Alaska . . . . Linda C h e s t e r , a L a t i n teacher at Leominster High School in Ma s achusetts, looks at mountains dif ferently, I suppose. Her favorite i Vesuvius in I taly-its 79 A.O. erup tion was responsible for preserving Pompeii. . . . Otherclassmates have other news: Joan Alway has com pleted her Ph.D. in sociology at Brandeis. She's now teaching at the UniversiryofMiami in Florida. ( M ight be a nice time to visit her now ! ) . . . Philip Byers says that he's "chubbier, funnier and better dressed" than he was at Colby. A lawyer specializing in divorce, he lives in Andover, Mas . His oldest son, Weslie, is at Bates College; David is 14 and Jennie is 9 . . . .

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Mara '76 was promoted to vice president at Gemini Consulting,

The Boston Globe announced that Benjamin Bradlee J r.

'70 has been

has erved as Globe political editor, national con-espondent, potlight reporter and member of the State House bureau . . . . Robert H. Saglio '70, president of Avian Farms International, was honored with the

in the TV docudrama "The Flood," a story based on flooding in south Texas six years ago . . . . Hi torian Alan Taylor '77 poke at Bowdoin College in conjunction with Bowdoin' exhibition "The Legacy of James Bowdoin lIL" . . . Douglas B. Light '78, assistant profe sor of

Finance Authority of Maine' Entrepreneur of the Year Award. ln eight years the company, a world leader in the bioengineering of better chickens, has grown from four to more than 500 employee in three tate and does busines around the globe . . . . Thomas A. Silverman '76 was written up by Business Week as "the brains" of Tommy Boy Mu ic Inc. Known for its ultrahip rap music, the company, which has

biology at Ripon College, has been awarded a 1 50,000 ational Science Foundation grant, the large t ever received by a Ripon faculty member. He i re earching how substance cross cell membrane via ion channels. . . . An article by Middlesex (Mass. ) News sports editor Rus Lodi '78 paid tribute to the athletic career of his Colby teammateJim Hayes '76, who died recently. . . Waterville mayor David Bernier '79 was the subject of one of Gerry Boyle ' 7 8's column in the Cenrral Maine Morning Sentinel. Boyle himself has been making new -with a fir t place award in the local column category in the annual writing come t of the ew England As oc i ated Pre ews Executives As ociation and with readings, signings and reviews of his newly published mystery, Deadline. . . Paula Polak Bartlett '79 has been elected to the board of director- of Catholic Charities/North, which -erve more than 35 communities north and we t of Boston.

grown to 40 million in ale , i now entering the clothing market.

NEWSMAKERS F i l m and v ideo maker H u e y Coleman '70 aided rudent film makers in their production of a documentary, "Best of 1 5 Year : . TheMaine tudent filmandVideo Fe tivaL" Coleman erves as direc tor of the annual student event . . . . The Rev. J oh n Lombard '70 recently preached his first sermon in hi new appointment a minis

MILEPOSTS Dou!!las B. Light

Births: A son, Samuel Theodore, to Donald and Meredith Bean Eley '77 . . . . A son, Nathan, to David and Cathy Worcester Moison '76 . . . . A daughter, Sarah Ann Elizabeth, to Donald and Nancy Garnett Thomas ' 7 7 . . . . A on, Steven Delano, to Susan Wadsworth ' 7 7 and David Bourdelais '78 . . . . A o n , Patrick Ziehl, to Trish and Robert Lizza '79 . . . . A on, ean Gordon, to Keenan and Katherine Bleakney Pawley '7 9.

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executive vice president and director of retail services at Cheshire Financial Corporation, a bank holding company headquartered in Keene, N.H . . . . Anne O'Hanian Szo tak ' 7 2 , chairman, pre ident and CEO ofFleet Bank of Maine, has been selected by Senator George Mitchell to serve on the national Gia CeilingCommi ion, a federal panel that examine opportunities for women and minorities to advance into management . . . . Railroad quare Cinema parmer Ken Eisen '73 and Gail Chase '74 were spotlighted in a Morning Senri11el article about the flourishing downtown Waterville cinema, which opened 15 years ago in a former beverage warehouse . . . . Henry Sockbeson '73 was profiled in the orwich (Conn. ) Bullerin . . . . John

Thank to the great response from the recent survey, I have too much new . But that's no excuse for not sending back your form. I will men tion everyone, I promise. Until next time, I'll do e with news from an other cla mate who never left Maine, Richard Abramson. Liv ing in Manche ter outside of Au gu ta, he travels extensively as the executive director of MADSEC, a Maine association of directors of special education. Twice he has been to the tate ofKomi in Russia, the highlight of hi travels. H is 1 6year-old daughter, Trisha, was one of 10 students to visit Germany with Project As i t. Until next time, Happy Trails to You1 +

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where he specialize in integrating strategy, operation and manage ment principles to help financial institutions achieve aggre sive performance goals . . . . Norm Skaggs ' 7 7 , who has secured several feature roles in nerwork productions in the last three year , appeared

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ter at the Trinitarian Congregational Church in Concord, Mas . . . . Paul Spiess ' 7 1 has been named

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make electric motors, including fan motors. TI1e company made it through the summer of 1 992-the coldest in 100 years-but he' hop ing for hot weather. He recently traveled to Spain and also chaired the annual fund for hi high chool la t year, setting an all-time record for fund received. Doug' wife is Ann, and they have three boys and a girl. . . . Jack Williamson lives in

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DanaFittshasn't found his glasse yet, and Joe Benson still wan ts to

know who dented his red Maver ick during Jan Plan. That's an up date from Doug McMillan. He also talked to Mitch Fo x , who has moved to Sacramento and is doing well at his new medical job. At a high chool hockey alumni game he saw Scott Ryerse '74, who i

Birmingham, Mich., with his wife, Johanna, and son and daughter. Jack is an adjunct professor in the school of art at the University of Michigan. He writes, "De pite the fact that I am focused on the 'de sign arts,' my love of art history that began at Colby has continued,

happily man-ied with children and still a dam good goalie. Doug himelf is in St. Paul, Minn., operating a manufacturing company that

parallel to de ign hi tory and criti cism, and I am writing a book on the Ghent Altarpiece-and la t February traveled to Belgium to do research." . . . Cathie Joslyn has been elected chairman of the art department at her college in Pennylvania. he' still traveling lately to Japan todye wich indigo at an arti t' mountain rudio and to attend a textile de ign symposium. he is now single and lives in a house she love with her ten-ier named AbigaiL . . . Holland Gregg invite cla smates to call when in the Finger Lakes region of New York. He, his wife, Patience, and rwo children live in Skaneateles. He owns and operates World

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Media Communications, an inde pendent television prod uct ion company . . . . I'll end with Portia Iverson' interesting news: "In ad

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graduate school at Union Theo logical Seminary in N.Y.C., where

dent for Three-plus years now. Please send me some mai l 1 +

l am enrolled in the master of di vinity program. I am doing this so that regardless of my acting career, I can always do worthwhile work,

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and hope to be ordained a Presby + terian minister."

Correspondent: Susan Gearhart Wuest

CongratulationstoLisa TurtzBimbaumonthe

birth of her second daughter, Rose Emma Birnbaum, on December 1 7 , 1 99 2 . Lisa was on maternity leave until November, when she planned to return to work at a mental health clinic. Life is very hectic taking care of two girls, but she is loving every minute. Other recent happenings in Lisa's life include passing the psychiatry boards in October 1 99 1 and show ing her paintings at the Mari Gal lery in hometown Mamaroneck, N . Y . , in May 1 99 3 . . . . Michael Cantara continues to work as dis trict attorney for York County, Maine. H is office has cho en to concenrrate in the areas of sexual and physical child abuse, domestic violence and elder abuse-both physical and financial exploitation. Mike has enjoyed prosecuting over the past three years and plans to run again for a second term in 1 994 . . . . Turning to some trivia gleaned from my survey as to what in our lives now triggers memories of Colby. For C a ndy S k e l l y Crouch, it is seeing sons Ryan and Ian i n Colby sweat hirts and talk ing about colleges with both of them. For Ed Cronick, it is run ning into Howie Lazur ' 74 from time to time. Living with five little ones and a spouse in one house and sharing the bathroom remind Binkie Cammack Closmore of dorm life ! As poetry editor for a local rag, "Beta Rhythms," Vinnie Cassone is reminded of"how much bad poetry can be written by smart people." Chuck Clement ha a recurring dream of trying to find an oceanography class that he at tended once. For Gerry Connolly,

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i s a dachshund named Willie. Lisa now l ives i n Old G reenwich, Conn., and ha found a soulmate in John Salem. She i very happy and l am happy for her. . . . By now,

niors begin applying to colleges, some to Colby, which usually ini

N ick Jans' book of essays, The Last Light Breaking, is on the book shelves. And in answer to an inter rogatory on the questionnaire, "What things have you done since graduation that you would call suc cess, even if they can't be measured by promotions, income, or pre tige?", N ick wrote, "made a life for

This column will be a short take as my dead line is today. l am glad

myself in an Eskimo village and found purpose and peace there." And N ick would boast about see

we live in a world of next day delivery! l thought that I would start by answering Carl Witthoft's question on the questionnaire, "Where's Mike Rieck?" Looking at the latest alumni report print out, Carl, I would suggest writing to your cla smate at 4 7 6 Meadow lark Drive, Sarasota, FL 34236. . . . Diane McCoy Bither earned a master's degree, got married and had a baby ("in this order ! " Diane writes). Sarah McCoy Sither is now almost 3 and lives in Littleton, Mass., where her mother is a soft ware specialist. Diane's old friend Laurel Van Stone Lewis is a tech nical writer, is involved in recy cling exrracurricularly and lives in Framingham, Mass. They are prac tically next-door neighbors. On her que t ionnaire, Diane said she wished more people would write in to Colby . . . . Priscilla Martin a ks on the questionnaire whether any of us know of good leads for adop tion via the private route as she and her husband, Don Bordley, are hoping to adopt another baby. If you can help them out, please post a letter to P i ttsford, N . Y . . . . Alexandra Levintow Howell asks if anyone lives near her in Lyme, N . H . , and whether any of us know the whereabouts of Anne Back lund. According to the alumni re port printout (where I am still listed as working as a legal assistant for the town of Hudson, N . H . ) , Anne has not notified us of her new ad dress. So, Anne, please write (or w r i t e to A l ex ! ) . . . . J an e C . Hoffman sent m e a wonderful pic ture of her two children, Rachel Lauren Hoffman Crowe, 6 sitting beside her brother, David Eric Hoffman, 2 . . . . Jon Hubbard titled

ing 35 wolves last year . . . . Bob Kaake's "Family Unit" (I didn't writeouralumni questionnaire, but that's good, isn't it?) is a Blue Point Siamese named Chloe. A much loved unit in my family when l was in high school through age 27 was a Blue Point named Ping. TI1ey are great cats. And Bob, I still have on my refrigerator the star-walking on-plastic magnet that you kindly sent me . . . . I am looking at recent newsclippingsof us, and I see Peter Breu with his children, Anna, 2 , and Martin, 5 , trying their hands at creating a ceramic totem pole at this summer's Sunapee Craftsmen's Fair just a little northwest of here. It's a good newspaper photo; Anna looks just like her mother, Susan, probably looked as a tot . . . . A lo cal paper carried a black and white ofMargaret "Peggo" Horstmann Hodes. Peggie still has that same pretty, dramatic, warm smile-and I also well remember the Colby ettes.

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"Why would you want

to hike on that trail?" said the grizzled park ranger as Lee Roberts and l pored over a topographic map of the Rocky Mountain National Park. Lee and I had stopped at park head quarters for information-pru dently, or so we thought-before setting off on a brisk fall weekend of hiking in the Rockies. We were not getting the encouragement we had hoped for. "The aspens haven't turned yet, the trail is still icy from last week's snow, it's steep climb ing-why don't you take the bus to Bear Lake and hike around the

his wife's career "self-employed do mestic engineer." That is clever. . . . Lisa Hurley's "pet/son" (her words)

lake?" The bus, you say? " Yeah, the bus will do the climbing for you." Within minutes we had filed that advice where it belonged and were putting boots to trail on an all-day journey that featured spectacular views, at least 1 2 different kinds of snow and a lunch break at roughly 1 1 ,000feet. Highly recommended ! After a second day of equally spec tacular views, fickle weather and no bu ride, we eriously consid ered matriculating as freshmen at the Boulder campus of the Univer sity of Colorado. Lee asked me to pass along greetings to all and in vites anyone passing through Santa Fe, N . M . , to look him up . . . . Tony Lopez wrote to announce that he hastaken a newjob teachingSpan ish at the Darlington School in Rome, Ga. Teaching has been his profession since I 986, when he finished seven years as an airborne infantry ranger with the U.S. Army. Tony and his wife, Polson, have a son, Christopher . . . . I heard re cently from Ann McCreary, who is legal advi er to the Scudder in vestment management firm in the Big Apple. Ann regrets having missed the last reunion but prom ises to make the 20th! Be ides rais ing two girls, J ill, 4, and Mary, 3 , Ann spends most of her time at the track wagering her kids' educa tional fund. She recently hit the Exacta and offers to interpret the daily racing form for anyone on a consultant basis. Ever practical, my former housemate admits that if she had to start over at Colby the one thing she would do differ ently is get a pair of waterproof boots . . . . I also got a card from L.A. King, who recently was or dained a deacon in the Episcopal Church. She has moved to Florida and will be teaching ethics at E ck e rd C olle ge in S t . P e t e . . . W e l l , folks, that's the bottom of the mail pile. Please keep those cards and letters coming. +

Correspondent: Emily Grout Sprague

Reunion is c o m i ng ! Several membersofour . reumon plannmgcom mittee met with Sue Conant Cook '75 and Pam Alexander in Sep tember in Waltham, Mass., to start the process oforganizing a wonder ful weekend of old friends, fond

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lier Manor i n Portsmouth, V A , attended high school there and received a scholarship to attend Colby, which he describes as "a culture shock." Looking back, he said, '11aving gone to an all-black public school, going to Colby was an interesting experience. But l definitely benefited from it. I learned abour other cultures and people who were unlike me. It opened many horizons for me." After graduating from Colby with a major in history, Melvin earned a law degree from Georgetown and worked as an attorney at the U.S. Department of]ustice. When it came time to raise a family, he and his wife, Sylvia Hodges Melvin '75, decided to leave Washington and relocate to his neighborhcxxl in Portsmouth. The couple has two children, Derek, 1 0, and N icholas, 6, and in addition to his duties in Richmond, Melvin has a private practice in personal injury and criminal law. "Being in the courtroom is great," Melvin said, "and every time is a different experience." Melvin, who has so far spurned invitations to run for the commonwealth enate, says that "the general assembly and the law practice are a good mix right now." Although he is serving under a Republican governor for the first time, Melvin aid, "We're going to do what we're going to do." And when it comes to improv ing his and other neighborhoods, he has little patience for those who have given up: "What I am frus trated with is capable people itting around watching cable TV all night long when there are things they could be doing and ways they could behelping,"he saici "Things can be accomplished. It can be done."

is part of the reason. Melvin has served in the commonwealth legislature for eight years. He sharpened his political kills by helping elect two members of the Portsmouth, Va., ciry council in 1 982, then, emboldened by the success of that effort, decided to run against an 1 8-year incumbent representative three years later. "lt wa an uphill battle," Melvin recalled of the race. But an army of volunteers helped him overcome an eight-to-one disad vantage in campaign spending, and he upset the incumbent to earn the Democratic nomination. He has held the seat since-mo t recently racking up 79 percent of the vote in November. "I think I won because people are pleased with the job I am doing," he aid. "I have seniority in the assembly, I have backed a number of tough measures and introduced some landmark legislation." Thanks to bills Melvin sponsored last spring, schools in the commonwealth must now erve free hot breal.-fasts where there is a pupil poverty rate of25 percent, mothers on welfare can marry with out putting welfare payments in jeopardy and those receiving Aid for Dependent Children can amass up to $5,000 in savings for school ex penses or home downpayrnents. Melvin said the proposals en courage family stabiliry and "build elf-esteem and respect." Virginia' welfare reform package has won na tional attention for its innovation , but Melvin notes that his bills "are not always the most popular"-and his pro-choice and pro-gun control stands have drawn criticism from the religious right and the gun lobby. Melvin grew up in the black middle-class neighborhcxxl ofCava-

memories and renewed acquain tances. Betsy Bucklin Gray, David LaLiberty, Bev Schnorr Lannie, Kirk Paul, Maria Macedo Dailey, Stacey Cox Slowinski and I all had a very successful initial plan ning se ion. Our first decision was not to take the cold, wet New England weather as an omen. An other decision was to get as many of you involved in this reunion as possible, so we will be sending a questionnaire to all of you to help us in our planning. Please respond; we want to hear from everyone! . . . News gathered at our meeting included Dave laLiberry's newest career as a graduate student in ath letic counseling and his position as the assistant coach for men's soc cer at the University ofMassachu settsat Amherst. He'sworkingwith the recently married head coach,

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Sam Koch. Lalib was the best man at am's wedding to uzanne Patter on at Rollins College in Florida in December 1 992. uzanne was the Rollins volleyball coach and on the interviewing panel when Sam interviewed fora coach ing position. Little did they know what his position was eventually going to be! Al o present as an usher at the wedding was Dick Muther '8 1 . . . . Kirk Paul came to the planning meeting fresh from an Arrowsmith concert and an all night drive. (Some thing never change! Your enthusiasm is appre ciated, Kirk, thank you.) Kirk, who i married to Mary Fran, is the c laims manager for Whitehall Mutual, a properry and casualty insurance firm in Ambler, Mass. He asked me to put out a bulletin for Janet Ford Roberts and Dave

H u l l ; he want to hear from them! . . . Gordon and Katherine Wall Hunziker welcomed their new daughter, Elizabeth Kather ine, who joined her older sister, Margaret, on July 29, 199 3 (the same birthday asourdaughter,J ulia, 4 ) . Gordon is still in banking and now into late-night feedings again. Kathy is also busy with childcare but is teaching a humanit ies course as well. When I spoke to Gordon, he was anticipating at tending a Yankees game with Bob Lizza. We missed you at the meet ing, Bob, but we still will put you to work! Bob and his wife, Tricia, also welcomed their second child last summer. Another son, congratula tions! We're looking forward to meeting all the new potential mem bers of Colby's class of 20?? at reunion . . . . I am so relieved to be

fini hed that I must tell everyone I was fir.ally awarded my master's of science in education, in econdary English! I will now have more time to devote to planning this reunion. Please respond to the mailings. We are anxious for your input. If the questionnaire format isn't appro priate for you, write a letter! +

Reunion Weekend J une 3 ,5 , 1 994 Celebrating are the Classes of '74 and '79

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Shore . . . . A Colbycontingent was in full strength for the August '93 al fresco wedding of Carol Sly and

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Steve Marshall in Lincoln, Mass. Sarah Russell MacColl '79 served as the "best woman," and guests included Amy Butcher, Linda Davis, Brenda Bowen, Betsy

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1 982 M imi Rasmussen 63 Reservoir Street Cambridge, MA 02 1 38 6 1 7-492- 1 002 1 983 Sally Lovegren Merchant HCR 62, Box 244B Mt. Desert, ME 04660 207-244-3678 1 984 Amy E. Carlson 605 Jones Ferry Rd . , #RRS Carrboro, NC 2 7 5 1 0 9 1 9-942-4982 1 985 Mary A l i ce Weller-Mayan RD 2 , Box 1 49 Camden, DE 1 9934 302-697-0 1 4 2 1 986 Gretchen Bean Lurie 2606 San Marcos Drive Pasadena, CA 9 1 1 0 7 1 98 7 Lucy Lennon Tucker 9 Wellstone Drive Portland, M E 04 1 0 1 207-772-7 1 2 7

with the National Marine Fisher ies-a division of the U.S. Depart ment of Commerce-was on the cu p offinishing his Ph.D. whenhe wrote to me last year. Kathy is a vice president at Merrill Lynch han dling mortgage-backed securitie . High on their wi h list: more time to explore southern California and Mex ico, ski, windsurf and re lax ! . . . Accompanied by three horses, three dogs and a cat named Billie Holiday, Heidi Misslbeck is living on a farm in Southampton, N .Y. She's working as a landscape architect for the town planning board . . . . Tracey Wiles, an emer gency medicine physician, makes her home in Litchfield, Conn., with

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Calif., and is staying at home with her children, Allison and Christian, while husband John works for UNUM Life Insurance Company. If any other alumni live in Orange County, Mimi wants you to look her up! She visits Brian Picard and his family every time she is back in Connecticut visiting family. She also sees Jodi Johnson Groesbeck . . . . Victor and Ginny Bulford Vesnaver had a third chi Id, Veronica, born last January. She joins sibling Victor Junior and Valerie. Victor is assistant VP for Hyatt Hotels and Ginny is a human resource manager for Deloitte & Touche. The summer of 1 99 2 brought many visitors t o their Glen Ellyn, l ll., home, including Dawn Brydon, who paid her annual visit while attending the Food Market ing Industry Show in Chicago. Vic tor and Ginny saw Peter Buzzini in Connecticut and also saw Skip Neville and his wife, Donna, who had just had their second child.

her husband, Donald Lafayette, a proce s engineer, and her 2-year old daughter, Hil lary . . . . Henry Kennedy is director of Kieve Af fective Education in Nobleboro, Maine. H e live in Cumberland with his wife, B.J ., and Sam, 7, and Blair, 5 . . . . Dan Ossoff, a real es tate attorney for Rackemann, Saw yer and Brewster in Boston, wrote that he was trying hard to find time

to get back into running. When he responded to the questionnaire last year, Dan and his wife, Liz, a col lege psychology professor, were get ting used to having a baby around the house again. Ben, now 6, and Will, 1 , are helping their parents discover some of the better ice creamestablishmentson the North

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wor k i ng world for Bos ton University's School of Education and completed a one-year master of arts in teaching, specializing inhigh school English. Stephanie says she sees Colby rear-window stickers everywhere. . . . Chris Morrill is the Enfield, Conn., bureau chief

for the Harcfard Coumnt. He super vises a dozen reporters in north cemral Connecticut and lives in West Hartford . . . . J im Dwyerand wife Tina are living in Brookfield, Conn. They have two children, Molly and Gina. Jim is a research engineer and Tina owns a bakery. . . . J ane Hartzell is li ving i n Underhill, V t . , and i s a community health nurse. Recently she bought a 1 00-year-old country house . . . . David '80 and Sally Fernsten Buffum are living in Dudley, Mass. Sally i assistant vice president for loan review at the Springfield Insti tute for Savings. David is an eco nomics professor at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester. They have two children, Matthew and Daniel. . . . Jose Sorrentino is liv ing in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, and is a general surgeon in private prac tice. He and his wife, Laura Rivera, have two children, Sergio Rafael andJoseGabriel. Josewritesthathe hopes to be at our next reunion and that he visited with Amy Haselton in San Diego . . . . Dani Nemec Micsan is in Athens, Greece, with her husband, J im, who is a foreign service officer, and their two chil dren, Jessica and Julia. Dani writes that they are happy to be living in Greece after two years in Lahore, Pakistan, where her car was at tacked by demonstrators. She en courages anyone who is traveling to Greece to look her up through the A merican Embassy . . . . Mark Fortier is living in Skowhegan, Maine, and is a law partner at the firm of Merrill Hyde & Fortier. He and his wife, Jayne, have a two year-old son, Lucas. They were planning a trip to Prince Edward Island last summer. . . . Geoffrey Neville is a vice president of insti tutional sales for Merrill Lynch and lives in Atlanta, Ga. He and his wife, Michelle, have a daughter, Kelsey Leigh, and two cats. They were lucky enough to travel to the opening of EuroDisney in France in April of 1992 . . . . Thar's all for

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James Haddow is an attorney in Maine. He and h is wi fe , Michelle, have two children, Hamish and Max-and on e golden retriever, three cats, three heep, five chick ens and one rabbit. (Only one?) For the pa t two years he has been pre ident of the board of directors for TI1e Mad Horse Theatre Com-

pany, a mall profe sional theater group in Portland. J ame also ha run up the Mount Washington au to road twice . . . . Bruce Anderson is a managing consultant for Travel ers Corp. He and his wife, Le lie, who is an ophthalmic technolo g1St, have a on, Eric Robert. Bruce has been skiing with Ron Agnes and Richard Robinson . . . . By the time this column appears, Matt Lewis wil l be married to 1arie Laguerre. Matt, who lives in the ew York area, has been skydi"ing ( tandem), rarely gets topla) tennis anymore, must wear a suit e\-ery day (doe n't iron hisshins though ! ) and now sports a beard. When he returned to Cali forn ia for his 1 0-

year Pit:er reunion, Matt \'i ited Alison Brown and her husbanJ, Brian Hoare. . . . Sandy Whatley is a mason contractor and 1s mar ried to Cathy Dwyer. TI1ey have a son. Jame . ln his spare nme, andy has been carving granite and marble . . . . ColleenGlovinsCasey has been married for a year to Jo seph Casey. Colleen is an 1 . 0./ Ph. D. program adm m i tramr at H ar\'ard M e d i c a l c hool i n &1ston. . . . tuan ' 3 and Cathy Leonard Swain aJded a second child to their family--Gretchen Loui.e wa born shortly before our 1 0-year reunion. Cath y is al o the \'!Ce president of tl1e Wa:.hington County ( Maine) Child and Youth

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Board, who e mission i to work w i th pecial needs children and their familie ro create an optimal growth em·ironment. Cathy got her B.A. in biology, but after re ceiving a master\ in Spanish lit erature from the Univer;, it ) ot Washington- eanle, she 1s an ad j unct assistanr r rofesso r of r:m1 h ar UMaine-Machias . . . . Con grarularion;, ro Mary Rudolph Black, who ·tarted her own law rracrice in 1 99 1 and a of J unl' 1 99 3 is the first woman rresident of the Gloucester ( Ma ·s. ) Rotary Club . . . . Eric Ridgway, who ll\·cd in Kenya for a year in ' 6-'87, b in Idaho in private practice a;, a coun ·elor with h is wife, Patti. They are

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n hour before he goes on air at 5 : 30 a.m. on Bo ton's WCVBTV/Channel 5 , meteorologist David Epstein '86 is minkingof his audience. He's in me office working up the maps viewer· will ee on me screen, getting a feel for what me weamer i doing. "My tyle i to tell people what they need to know," said Epstein , who did three lots a day on weekends last August and presented me week day weather every 10 minutes on me 5:30 to 7 a.m. "eye-opener" segment as well a the three cut-ins every hour for local station break duringGood Mom ingAmerica. Should viewers wear rain coats? Will it be lippery driving to work? What should people pack for their weekend getaways? How hould the kids be dressed? "When you're out there forecast ing, you're trying to think what people are thinking. If it' rained for four day , you want to try to elevate them," he said. He'll joke with the anchorpeople to be personable, but he' not a comic weatherman. "I don't try to be a funny man," he said. "I know that people are saying, 'Jeez, just give me me weamer."' All meteorologists in large markets like Boston are profe ionals, Epstein says. His own weather knowledge was helped along by two Colby Jan Plans, one in Boston wim NBC affiliate WBZ during hi junior year and the other in Palm Beach, Fla., where he worked at a TV station and also delivered radio weather reports for morning commuters. After one year of teaching eighm grade science in hi hometown of Portland, Maine, and a year of formal training for meteorological accredition at Lyndon State in Vermont, he broke in with weatherman stints on TV and radio stations in Vermont, Maine and Connecticut. Epstein says he' been interested in me weamer ever since fifth grade. From his early teens on, he'd set situations-" It's a rain shower moving up the coast"-and practice delivering scripts. He minks his friends from Colby days probably remember him running out of Foss Hall like a little kid, shouting, "It's snowing!" "I like the weamer changes," he explained. "I like trying to figure out what's going on."

While rill freelancing as an on-air meteorologist last fall, E p rein entered a master' deITTee program in psychology at Boston College, where he also erves as a dorm re ident assistant. As part of his ma ter's program, he coun els students in Roxbury and Charlestown chool three day a week. What connects hi· intere ts in meteorology and p ychology, he says, is "predictability." "Both are pred ictingwha t you mink isgoingto happen," he said. "You can't change me weamer. But you can try to change a person." Given the power to influence people's daily choices, what does he feel while he's on me air? "Ir' more a ense of respon ibility manpower," he said, mindful ofpeople's weamer anxieties. The ocean and the mountain combine to make forecast ing weather around Boston especially difficult, he says, recalling Thanksgiv ing 1 987, when his predicted snowfall of one inch turned into half a foor "and a big me ." But he remembers another day in me office watchingdan gerou tornadoes building on the radar monitor. He told the news director mey needed to break into regular programing to get the word out. "And we did it," he said. "I had built me trust, and they did it." Two of Epstein' articles, including "The Onslaught of Hurricane Andrew," appeared last year in The New Book of Popular Science Annual. And he recently accepted a con ulting job for Weamer ervices International, one of me largest distributors of weather information in me world, to help develop t11e next generation of software that will be used in forecasting and on camera. Hi greatest satisfaction still i being on air, Epstein says, particu larly on me top-rated and mo t-watched station in Boston wim its audience approaching a million viewers. Being on camera is "a wicked high. I'm like a little kid," he said. "But while the little kid is saying to himself, 'I can't believe rm up here actually doing m is ! ', me adult supersede him. I say, 'relax.' The little kid becomes an adult." -Robert Gillespie

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Bourassa Dvorak '89 received the Vermont Law School's Academic Excellence Award during her second year at the school.

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Births: A son, Andrew Robert, to Matthew '80 and Susan Reese Krevat '82. . . A daughter, Aru1a, toJanet and Dale Oak '8 1 . . . . A

Ashland (Wis. ) Daily Press, The Mesabi Daily News in Virginia, Minn., and the Hibbing Tribune and Duluth Budgeteer Press in Minnesota . . . . Matthew C. Donahue '82 was elected to the Lowell, Mass., city council. Donahue's cam paign promoted pub! ic safety, economic development and professional inte grity. . . . Nancy Briggs Marshall '82,

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formerly a memberof the Maine Tourism Commi ion, has been named to administer the new marketing services contract for Maine's Office of Tourism. She will oversee services such as free lance writing and motorcoach tours in an effort to promote Maine in print and broadcast media . . . . Jon D. Schwartz '82 has been appointed director of N rth American ·ales for Forrester Research, which is devoted to helping companies develop and implement information technology strategie .

He will manage a cl ient base of over 1 ,000 corporate users of technology. . . . David L. Hyde '83 was promoted to director ofqualiry assurance at Kemper-Masterson, Inc., a Belmont, Mass., company that deals with the validation requirements ofcomputer systems and process equipment used in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries . . . . Donald L. Baker '84 wa promoted to vice president of small busincs banking at Bank of Vermont . . . . TI1e Peaks Island, Maine, home of Carol Eisenberg '85 and David Simpson '86 was featured last summer in the "Homes" section of the Portland Press Herald. . . . Deborah A. England '85 represented the College at the inauguration of Jean Dowdall as president of Simmons College . . . . Nationally yndicated comic strip artist Linc Peirce '85 gave a talk at Colby on "The Great American Comic Strip." . . . Evan Dangel '86, senior financial analy t at Merrill Lynch in Boston, spoke on "How to Make More Income and Pay Less Taxes" at the annual busine and professional women's banquet of the North hore Bu iness and Profes sional Women's Club . . . . William Docherty '86 received the Navy Achievement Medal for superior perfonnance of duty while serving with Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron Light-47 in San Diego, Calif. . . . Helene Landers '86, a golfpro at Los Angeles Countty Club, has produced "The Women' Golf Guide," a 60-minute video geared to businesswomen interested in learning the game . . . . Jeffrey O'Brien '86 joined the faculty at The Academy at Charlemont in Massachusetts, where he teaches math, Latin and theater. . . . Thomas C. Oxholm '86 is the new director of development at Vermont Academy . . . . Lucie

currently living on 6 1 /2 acres in the woods while finishing their home. They can sk i, rock climb and backpack in the mountains a ll locally. Eric and Patti are enjoy ing a much less frantic and more balanced lifestyle. Eric is till swim ming competitively in tl1e master's league . . . . Claudia Goulston did a fellowship in neurophysiology in Japan in '82-'83, worked at Mass General Hospital for two year , then graduated from the Univer sity ofVermont Medical School in 1990. Claudia is currently finish-

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in g her res idency at N ewton Wellesley Hospital as thech iefresi dcnt. Next she'll do a fellow hip at Stanford Universiryand in Zimbab we in infectious d iseases. Even though Claudia already has been to more than 30 countrie , she still wants to do more traveling. . . . David M. Strage write from Lon don that shortly after the 1 0th re union, he was offered the job of executive assistant to the chair man and CEOofDigital (UK). He and wife Laura Agostini have two children, Sonya Perry, 4, and Katya

son, Ian Lorimore, to William and Lisa Smith Worden '8 1 . . . . A daughter, Casey Marie, to Susan and Stephen Brown '82 . . . . A son, Robert Jame , to David and Jeanne Preso Hillinck '82 . . . . A son, Joseph Haven, to Daniel '82 and Juliet Blake Shagoury '86 . . . . A daughter, Chloe Marie, to Cyd and Brian Sharples '82 . . . . A son, Austin Anthony Ritzel, to Delisa Laterzo '83 and Wil liam Ritzel. . . . A son, AndrewJohn, to John '83 and Dianne Gundstrom Lemoine '84 . . . . A daughter, Lauren Hi llary, to Richard and Allison Lary Goldsborough '84 . . . . A daughter, Andrea Margalit, to Ken and Nancy Silverman Levinsky '84 . . . . A son, Theodore Fernando, to Peter Cheng and Valerie Jean Miller '84 . . . . A daughter, Mich elle Lynn, to Todd and Denise Brunelle Priess '84 . . . . A on, William Blanchard, toAndrewOkunandJulia Blanchard '85 . . . . A daughter, Catherine Fallon, to Chuck Parker and M. Meghan Casey '85 . . . . A son, J ameson Alden, to Bradford and Jennifer Imhoff Foley '86 . . . . A son, Timothy Kenneth, to M. Kelly and Timothy Kastrinelis '86 . . . A daughter, Amanda, to Michael '86and Suzanne Pearson Marchetti '86 . . . . A son, Nathan Douglas, to Douglas Scalise '86 and Jill Wertz-Scalise '88 . . . . A son, N icholas Samuel, to Stephen and Deidre Boothby Carter '87 . . . . A daughter, Jasmine Esther, to Larry and Theresa Sproul Heckler '87 . . . . A son, Ben jamin Alan, to David and P. Jane Nicol Manuel '87 . . . . A son, Chandler, to Michael Harmett and Charmaine Twigg '87 . . . . A son, Thomas Zachary, to Amy and T. Bryan Cook '89. Marriages : Marjorie Smith '80 to Ronald Bo e in Bar Harbor, Maine. . . . George Gignac I l l '84 to Mary St. Germain in Monson, Mass . . . . Emilie Letourneau '84 to Donald Baker in Burlington, Vt . . . . Deborah A. England '85 to Charles Gray in Boston, Mass. . . . Lewis B. Holmes J r. '85 to Breena Welch in Hanover, N . H . . . . Jennifer Creamer '86 to Randy Fink in Paxton, Mass . . . . Michael Manning '87 to usan Carolan in Milton, Mass. . . . Eileen Stark '88 to Douglas Glas man in Lexington, Mass . . . . Timothy Wissemann '88 to Michelle Wood in Scarborough, Maine. . . . Lisa Marie Bontempi '89 to Steven Conroy in Greenfield, Mass. . . . Stephanie Folsom '89 to Brian Whitney in Augusta, Maine . . . . Eric Hanson '89 to Anne Molleur in Greensboro, Vt . . . . Michelle Horton '89 to Bradley Olson '90 in Sudbury, Mass. . . . Leslie Ann Dougherty '89 to George C. Biddle in Atlanta, Ga.

Eve, 2 . Laura is a management consultant for Gemini Consulting. David would like u to know that due to tl1e birth of his daughters, he is less of a chauvini t than we may recall and is more aware of subtle d isc r i m i n a t i o ns . . . . N ic h o l a s Norton is a director o f human reources and is married to Elizabeth, an instructional designer. They are now living in Brookline, Mass. . . . Ken and Laura Gagliano Nord strom mis ed our reunion due to the birth of their daughter, Leslie. Laura, who isalsostepmom to Marc,

2 5 , Scott, 2 2 , and Pam, 2 1 , is a life insurance marketing specialist and is back at work part time . . . . Wal ter Judge and his wife, Jean C. O'Neill, are both lawyer and are living in Charlotte, Vt. They are making a slow ad ju tment to clean a ir, open spaces and gorgeous environment . . . . Lisa S. Goode Preston and her husband, An thony, live in Clearwater, Ra., where Lisa is the director ofprofes sional services for Paragon Home Health. She's learning to play golf-Anthony is a golf pro at the

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Happy New Year! Lots ofcareer news th is time. Stuart Krussel is the chairman of the Alcoholic Bever ages Control Commission i n Massachusetts . . . . Kelly Keenan graduated from UCLA with a Ph.D. in biochemistry. In the summer of '92 she bicycled across the U.S., covering 4,400 miles . . . . Carolyn Altshuler Currie plays the 1 2 stringguitar, writes urban folk music and sings. She is on leave from the UniversityofWashington's arthis tory Ph.D. program . . . . Peter Viele received a master's in allied health and is a paramedic for Worcester, Mass., EMS . . . . M.J . Georges Johnson is a librarian i n Gaithers burg, Md . . . . Brian Morin is an orthodontic fellow at Harvard Uni versity School of Dental Medicine. He is a graduate of Tufts Dental School and plans a return to the Watervi l le area in J une 1 994 to begin his orthodontic practice . . . . Sarah Stevens Clark is a kinder garten teacher in Wilton, Conn. . Todd Lachman is an assistant brand manager for Procter & Gamble in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was married to Christine Rodgers on July 3, 1993, and Andy Castle, Peter Scheet:z '83 and Rick Ber nard '86 were in the wedding party. Andy is a manager of materials finance with G.E. in Greenville, S.C. . . . Maria Morgan Grill is in an occupational therapy program at Boston University. She camps

out at Sarah Lan d's apartment in Cambridge during the week. . . . Susan Martin wrote a note from Portland, Ore., and said, "l have forgotten how to spell many words, which makes me very glad." . . . Stephen Reed is an attorney with Kearns & Rubin in Stow,Mass. He and his wife, Marcy, bought a Co-

rook a consulting job in N .Y.C. , where he now lives . . . . Bob Sid

Ionia! home built in 1 7 3 5 . Linda Carroll moved from D.C. to Vermont in order to pursue a ma ter's degree in higher educa

man is a fourth-year resident in emergency medicine at the Uni

tion and student affa irs adminis t r a t i o n at the Un iv ers i t y of Vermont. . . . Joan Ray is a pro gram manager for Digital Equip

versity of Cincinnati and hoping to move back to the East Coast with his wife, Laura, soon . . . . The

ment Corp. in Mass. She received her M . B. A . from Boston U n i versity . . . . Kristin Hazlitt is an attorney in Bethesda, Md . . . . Sara Babcock is a pastry chef in Durham, N .C. . . . Alison Cox is in an art

Hill should expect additional Colby legacy application in the future. ( I 'm still in the proce s of complet ing Hunter's and Paige's fonns,

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despite their father's determina tion to send them to his alma ma ter-West Point 1 ) N i ls '84 and Janet Kelley Gjesteby welcomed the ir second daughter, O l i v i a Katherine, last February . . . . Doug

graduate program at Columbia University in N .Y.C. Mark Howard is vice president of re search at Lehman Brothers and living in Brooklyn, N .Y. He fin ished business chool at N .Y.U. in December 1 992 . . . . I still have loads of questionnaires and I prom ise l will get to all of them. +

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Scalise and J ill Were-Scalise ' 8 are the proud parents of Nathan, born August 4, I 993. Doug, a pas tor at Prospect H i l l Baptist Church near Ph ilade lph ia, preached forfour n i g hts at h i s first re v i v a l in September . . . . Kevin and Joyce S utton Anderson added l i ttle James Colin to their family last May. They now live in Melro e, Mas ., but plan to move overseas in a year or two . . . . Brian '85 and Kristen Feifert Clark are en joying their daughter, Taylor, and were awaiting the arrival of =2. When Brian graduates from med ical school, they will be moving ro New Jersey, where Kristen will re-enter

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Either mysummerques tionnaire inspired a lot _ among you ofcreatt_ v1ty '86ers or else deep guilt set in for previous lack of correspondence. Whatever the case, your responses were terrific and much apprec i ated. Already six years since gradu ation, and still nobody has slowed down. Here' what's happening: Arlene Kasarjian, who wed Dean Soultanian in November 1 99 2 , is an attorney with the Deparrment of Social Services in Boston. . . . Despite all attempts to rake over

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for the "Gin Pup," Kelly Chopus is ecstatic about her new post as di rector of fund raising for the U.S. Ski Tearn. Still an activist on so c ial issues and c ivil rights, Kelly and husband Paul Start ( Happy First Anniversary ! ) are enjoying Salt Lake City . . . . Michael Dobbs enjoyed a gathering of family and friends at his home in Istanbul for his recent nuptials. He and wife Amy are busy purchasing a fine collection ofT urkish rugs and tour i ng the ancient s i tes . . . . Pat McClellan got married last fall in Chicago. Her summer was filled with lots of camping, biking, fish ing, wimming and canoeing in Madison, Wis . . . . Walter and Michiko Schwab were married last year as well. After graduating from

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college ar Rurgers . . . . After receiv ing an M . B.A. from DartmoU[h, A l e c M u rray was q u i re the globetrotter la r ummer, when he spent two weeks in Thailand (a trip th at included a jungle trek, hiking, bamboo raft ing and riding elephants). He also biked in the Loire Valley of France for I 0 days . . . . Julie Archer is a public health coordinator for the Ameri can Refugee Committee in Malawi. She spent last summer hiking in the mountains, enjoying the lake

on tourism in Guizhon Province. . . . Timothy Poutre and wife Wendy are li ving in Rockville, Conn., where Tim is doing his anesthesia residency at Hartford H osp i t a l . He grad uated from UVM's med school in 1 99 1 and wa married in June 1 992 . . . . Chris

accountant for Peat Manvick for two years , O t i s , A t we ll and Timberlake for five months and Citibank for four months. Then it was on to Taos, N . M . , where he

eling with a group of Vermont high school students called World Learning. After a year in Africa

has heen with Winter Accounting for two year . Chris, who's had enough of desk jobs for a wh i le, may pursue grad sch ol in envi ronmental studies. . Stefanie Greenfield sent word From Berlin, Germany, where she is learning the language and working as an architect. Stefanie is designing a social housing building and hopes to stay long enough to ee it

Schwartz-Kenney continue to I i ve the scholarly l ife in Virginia. Bob

built . . . . Peter Voss, also across the Atlantic, moved to Pari in

received h is Ph. D in social and organ i z a t ional psychology and joined 311 independent consulting firm. Beth is a third-year psychol ogy professor at Randolph-Macon Woman's College . . . . Look for more news in March. Until then, best wishes for continued happi ness and success1 +

December of '91 and is working as European headquarter · manager for American international Group. Peter pas ed on word that David Sullivan wa to be married la t fa ll. Rob Grenda, like Peter, was un able to attend our fifth-year re union due to being so far away; however, both ay they look for ward to attending our 1 0th. With his wife of three years, Yuiko Imai, Rob lives in Japan, where both are translator/teachers. Rob has ap plied to grad school to study be havioral/biological anthropology. . . Jane Nicol Manuel and her husband, Dave, expected their first child in October. I n 1 9 9 2 J ane and Dave moved to Indianapolis, where Jane works for Lotus as a market ing rep and Dave is the director of annual giving at Wabash College. After Dave finishes h is M.B.A. at the University of M ich ig311 Busi ness School, the Manuels would like to move back East . . . . J im Feeley, also pursing his M.B.A. at Michigan, will be getting married to Alison Sughove in Newport, R . I . , in J une . . . . Becky Moser received her master's degree in speech and language pathology in December of '92 and then moved to Florida with her husband, Dave. She is working as a speech and language pathologist in a private practice, traveling to rural towns to do home visits with people who

Dana Friedman is an executive VP ar Cre ative Impact Adverti -

ing and Public Relarions Firm. A copy of his ad for Air-B Bicycle inner tubes appeared in Adweek magazine in Apri l. Dana was mar ried in J une of '92 . . . . Wendy Barrows Lyles has moved to south ern Maine, where she and hus band Christopher live w ith their daughter, Kelly A l ice, born 4/ 1 0/ 9 3 , j ust nine minutes before the Lyles' first anniversary. Mother hood and renovating the hou e have kept Wendy busy while she was on materniry leave from her job as district sales manager for Carpet Products, I n c . . . . T i m Oakes, a grad student at the U n i versity o f Washington, was mar ried to J ul ie Smith '86 in August 1 992. Last fall Tim headed to China for a year of dissertation fieldwork

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ing a house built in 1 880. Anne is an investment banker w i t h Salomon Brothers and Ted i s an environmental attorney . . . . Carol Kenerson is l iving and working as a high school English teacher in Hull, Mass. Caro l , who received her master's From Boston College, spent the summer in France trav

Smith moved to Portland, Maine, i n the fa l l of 1 987 and worked as an

and reading John Grisham books, which finally made it to South Af rica . . . . David Lane is researching his doctoral thesis in Japan on a Fulbright Fellowsh i p . . . . Mark Leondires, a house staff member ar Maine Medical Center, received a fellow hip in reprod uctive endo crinology. He proudly accom plished the Boston Marathon in less than four hours last spring. . . . Bob K e n n e y and B e t h

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have had strokes . . . . Anne Clarke Wolff lives in Chicago with hu band Ted '86. They are remodel

that she said dra tically changed her l ife , she is toying with the idea of teaching with the Peace Corps in a West African U n i versity. . . . S c o t t B a t e s worked in Canakkale, Turkey, last summer for Turkey's largest cement ex porter, purring together a report to make their chedul ing of hip and inventory management more effi c ient. Scott is getting h is M . B.A. from Bab on . . . . Leslie Chin, Patti D' Agostino, Sue White and Eli Orlic spent the la t weekend in Ju ne in Portland, Maine. They sorely m issed Paula Will iams Friedrich, who could not attend d u e to her rec e n t m ov e to Michigan . . . . My roomie for two and a half years at Colby, Cece Crowe, called from Alaska. She was married on September 2 5 . Cec, I wish you all the best, and to all other clas mate , congratulations on your marriages, births, new homes, graduations and new jobs, and good luck in all your exciting + endeavors.

Correspondent: Sara Dickison

l t's nice that so many people have recently written in with all their news and career moves. On the academic forefront, Sean Collins is in a master's program in print journalism at Boston University. He will complete this program part time while still working as a writer for CSC Consulting in Newton, Mass. Sean also said that Becky Spoerri finished her master's in public health last spring, also at BU , and is now job hunting inNew Jersey . . . . Kirsten Dalton has one semester left at Boston College before she completes her master's in counse l ing psychology. She

hopes to utilize her language ski lls i n some c a pa c i t y down the road . . . . Nina Calhoun, a former Boston Colby Club organizer, tarted at the School for Interna tional Training in Brattleboro, Vt., this past September and should finish her degree by May 1 994. She loves it and looks fonvard to an internship afterwards! . . . Brian Smith began his Ph.D. program in ju tice studies at Arizona State U n iversity last fall. . . . Toby LaVigne wrote a newsy letter from Ithaca, N.Y., where he is getting his M . B.A. at the Johnson School. He and hi girlfriend, Jen Smith, recently set a wedding date ofJune 1 8, 1 994. Toby sees Rob Travis and Michele Leinbach '89 often. They're on Cape Cod, where they both work at Camex International, an ophthalmic marketing consult ing firm. Toby also talked to Norm Hugo and Jen Massengill. Norm is in Marina Del Ray, Calif., and working for Borell Advertising. Jen lives in Irvine, Calif., where she i getting her Ph.D. in immunology. he also competed in two triathlons la t summer. Toby says he visited Brooks Patterson and his wife, Amy, in Maryland and that Ken Ginder and h is fiancee, Claire, got married in November . . . . Kristin Scholl recently took time out of her hectic Ph.D. psychology sched ule at Pace University in New York to see Kristen Shea perform with the Newton Country Players in And the World Goes Round. Kristen is an assistant buyer for boys clothes with Talbots in Hingham, Mass. . . . Todd Jepson is at the Hold erness School in Plymouth, N . H . , where h e has been teaching En glish and American history since graduation . . . . John Goslin is on the high seas of Gloucester, Mass., as part of the search and rescue squad of the United States Coast Guard . . . . Mary Federle Porter, former as istant director of alumni affairs, is working part time for the Maine Children's Cancer Center in Portland. She d id such a fabu lous job helping to plan our re union-we'll really miss her in the Alumni Office! . . . While in Maine last September, I saw Peter '89 and Laurie Meehan Reed at Randy Catlin's wedding. They recently bought a wonderful house in Cumberland, Maine, where they enjoy the beauty of mowing lawns and fixing up a new abode. Brad

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Years milestone. We can no longer

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call ourselve "recentcollegegradu ates." So remember to mark your

ic major broke out of the norm in eptember 1 99 1 by auditioning for

calendars and start planning for our reunion, J une 2-5, 1 994 1 ow the new . Cathy Andrew, in her

and being cast in G reenwich,

brit:fs to fill me in on the ew York scene: "All accounts you have heard are probably true." Yikes! Cathy

writing with Kim Ellis . . . . Rick Keigwin wrote that he was pro

was a summer associate at ullivan & Cromwell, a Wall Street firm, and will be clerking for a federal

chemical industry," he wrote, "I'm acrually getting to work on some fairly significant environmental issues at la t, including the devel opment oflower risk pesticide and [ensuring) that the EPA's regi tra tion efforts are in compliance with the Endangered Specie Act." . . . Kate Walker started as an elemen tary school counselor in Wilton, Conn ., last September. She's been teaching tennis during the sum mers and will continue indoors for the winters. She spends so much time with kids that she says she's beginning to feel like one ! . . . Lauren Frazza is doing freelance work, keeping up her hand-painted t- hirt biz and till working on her master's. She has a sprawling two bedroom in New York City since her roommate left last August. For get hotels, everyone call Lauren if you're in the Big Apple! . . . There wasn't a big rumour at Homecom ing in October due to the fifth reunion and the many "mini-re unions" everyone had with all the wedding bashes across the country. It's great to hear from everyone. If you send it to me, I ' ll write about it! •

Correspondent: Deborah A. Greene

Happy 1 994 everyone!

And you all know what that date means-yes, we're approaching the big Five

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last year at Brooklyn Law chool, found time bet'.veen writing legal

American hi tory. She wrote that she doesn't ee a lot of '88ers but ha reinvented the arr of letter

moted to the position of special assistant to the director of EPA's pestic ide regi tration program. "Although that sounds like a posi tion to help farmers and the agro

Conn., productions of The Coast and, later, The Lion in

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ing ! " wrote David. "My sales background must be paying off." A few months later he debuted with a tand-up comedy actat The l mprov in . Y .C. and kept audience

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laughing for the next eight months at various clubs around the city. After omesucce s in commercials, he's now involved in a new busi ness and writes that if any class mates are interested in learning more about an "entrepreneurial venture with potential for a lot of fun," contact him at 2 0 3 - 6 2 2 1 5 7 2 . . . . Clas mates, that' it for + now! Keep in touch.

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district court judge when she gradu ates. This year she's competing in moot court on the national envi ronmental law ream, now that most of her Law Review work i done. Somehow she al o finds time to race sailboats all m·er the orth ea t coast, too. Cathy ent much news ofweddings and engagements: Laura Thornton wa married at

The Nominating Committee of the Alumni Council has placed in nomination three alumni for three-year terms to begin at Commence ment 1 994. Frank 0. Apantaku '7 1 is president and general urgeon for Apantaku Clinics Ltd. in Chicago and assi rant professor of surgery at Chicago Medical School and hold an M.D. degree from

her ummerhouseonJune 1 2 . 1 99 3 . J e n Pierce, Tina Clifford, Sandy Humphrey '90 and Cathy were the bridal party. Kim Murphy showed up from D.C., a did Tim Barnard, who's in the midst of a Ph.D. pro gram at William and Mary. Ala , Ed Barr '88, who is Jen Pierce's fiance, was not able to attend be cau e he' in Japan for a year. . . . I also heard that Zeke Wing and Maria Vallis are doing well in Se attle; Zeke' working for an import company and Maria' managing a Japanese arr gallery . . . . And Eric Hanson is rumored to be getting married-but all I know is that his fi ancee bake a mean lemon poppyseedcake! . . . RachelTilney

orthwestem Univer-

iry. Dr. Apantaku was an alumni trustee in 19 7-93, erving on the Budget and Finance, Educational Policy, Honorary Degree and Student Affairs Committee , on the Pre idential Advisory Committee and on the Overseer Visiting Committee to Health Ser\'ices in 1 99 3 . He is a past president of the Colby Club of Chicago, was a member of the Alumni Council in 1 990-93, is an active admi sion and career services volunteer and wa a member of the 20th Reunion Committee. Dr. Apantaku received a Colby Brick Award in 1 99 1 . Susan Comeau '63 i

enior vice president for Global Human Re

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tru tee from 1 987 to 1 993, Ms. Comeau served on the Audit and Budget and Finance Committees. As a member of the Alumni Council, she chaired the Awards Committee in 19 0-82 and the Alumni Fund in 1 982-85. A past director of the Boston Alumni Club and a former class

i teaching at the Westtown School in Westtown, Pa., and write that Colby has quite the reputation at Westtown due to a bunch of en thusiastic alumni. Good to hear! (She also said something about Bates, but I won't mention that.) Rachel and Camilla Johansson had a great trip to Dubai, UAE, after spending a year in Austria. Wel comehome! . . . Finally,newsfrom David Cleary, who spent the first four years after Colby working in New York City for the Portland, Maine-based UNUM Corporation as a group sales repre entative.

agent, he received the Frank S. Carpenter Clas Agent Improvement Award in 19 0. M . Comeau received a Colby Brick Award in 19 6. George E. Haskell Jr. ' S S i pre ident and CEO ofVER Y

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formerly was a parmer in Venture Consulting Corporation, president of The Haskell Group and president of Spectrum Interactive Inc.

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Haskell currently serves an alumni trustee and on the Educational Policy and Student Affairs Committee . He previously was an overseer for the College in 1 990-92, serving on the Vi iring Committee to Economics in 1 99 1 and to P ychology in 1 992. In accordance with the by-law of the Alumni A ociation, other nomination may be made by petition to the executive secretary of the Alumni Council with the signature of one percent of the member of the

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as ociation on or before March 1, 1 994. In the event of no nomination by petition, the above candidates will be declared elected by the chair of

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Correspondent: Laura Senier

News from '90 grads continue to pour in from around the coun try. I got a letter recently from Megan W ah l , who i s at the Wilmington Friends School in Wilmington, Del., where she has taught a variety of earth- and envi ron men ta I- c ience courses for grades 5- 1 2 . 1hs year she'll al o coach field hockey and lacrosse. . . . Diana Howell is living in Jack son, Wyo., working a a naturalist hike leader. She is thinking about going to graduate chool for physi cal therapy. Diana often hears from Anne-Louise Band, who's going to graduate school for forest man agement in Missoula, Mont., and from Amy Shedd, who's pecializ ing in cardiology in medical chool at the Un iver ity of Vermont.

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. . Deb Wood j ust received her master's in American studies from the University of Maryland and is now workingpart time at the Noah Webster House, a living mu eum in Conn cticut. Deb hears fre quently from Barb Shaw '9 1 , who i doing graduate work and teaching in the women'ssrudies department at the University of Maryland . . . . Mike O'Loughlin just completed a year-long fellowship in pathol ogy and is continuing thi fall with medical school at the University of Connecticut. Mike tells me that Bill Priestley is in his second year of law school at Boston U n i versity . . . . Lynn Magovern is now assistant director of alumni rela tions at Colby after working as a coach and dorm parent at West over c hool in Connec t i c u t . Lynn' been in touch with lots of '90 grads, and through her, I 've heard about the following people: Christa Chiarello just finished a year as a dormcounselor at a school for troubled adolescent in Stock bridge, Mas ., and will be heading back to chool soon for a degree in social work . . . . Jen Holsten has been coaching occer, ice hockey and iacrosse for the past two years at the Northfield Mount Hermon School in western Mas Tracey Bishop is working for Sena tor D i a nne Feinstein in San Francisco . . . . Sara Madden has been working for I. Magnin and wi II be opening another retail store in Palo Alto soon. Tracey and Sara, both former ice hockey players at Colby, have been showing Califor nians how it' really done-they recently won the "3 on 3 Red-Hot Rolling Toumament" in Roller blade hockey. . . . Margaret Cly mer is sharing an apartment with Nancy Penrose '9 1 in Seattle and i teaching history . . . . Jen Lally just got married to JeffKent in Norwell, Mas .-both she and her husband teach and coach at the Hyde School in Bath, Maine . . . . Emilie Davis

i teaching history and coaching at the Lawrenceville chool in New Jer ey . . . . Dyanne Kaufman re cently relocated from Washington, D.C., to New York City, where she is getting her teaching certificate at Bank Street College . . . . Cindy Demskie and Jeff Borhek bought a house in Sandwich, Mass. Jeff work for an insurance company and Cindy is very happy with her job at Abington avings Bank. . . . Page Higgins is working as a paralegal in N e w York C i t y . . . . ElizabethleRoy i inthe gradu ate program for public policy at the Univer ity of New Hampshire. . . Jodie Brown is working for an advertising company just outside of Boston. . . . Thanks again to all of you who got in touch with me for this column, and to those of you who have never wntten in, try to + keep in touch!

Correspondent: Katie Martin

Welcome Lynn Ma govern ' 9 0 to the Alumni Office. (She's the one who gets to deal with this column once I write it.) . . . When I was at graduation last spring, I made a promise to my buddy Ken Barber '90 that his name would appear in my next column. So to my first HR at Colby: congratula tions on your marriage to Amy Partridge '93 on October 9. 1 hope that your Colby ushers, Rich Cook '90 and Malcolm Hill '90, helped you survive the pre-marital jitters! peaking of weddings, I have heard of a number of engagements and weddings over the past year. Julie Trodella Bruneau wrote that she was married in October '92 to a man she met through Gretchen Anglund, her freshman roommate. Eric and Adria Lowell Turner, married in June, are both working at the Kents Hill chool in Kents

Hill, Maine, Eric in admissions and Adria in college guidance. Nicole Dauteuil Begin wa married in August to Rob Begin, with Rachel Klein as her maid of honor, Helen Suh and Kelly Evans as brides maidsand Andrew Eldredge, Dave Edelstein, Laurie Silverman '94 and Garin Arevian '9 1 among the guests. Chris and Angela Toms Forman were married last spring in New Hampshire and are living in D.C. As for engagements, Chantal Begin is engaged to her long-time boyfriend, Shawn, with wedding plans for next June. And Sarah Bramhall and Josh Reynolds have decided to tie the knot-probably sometime after her family recover from the recent wedding of my brotherand Sarah'ssister . . . . John Polischuk, who I neglected to mention was at a party that I at tended in Cambridge last March, wrote me that John Rimas is at UMass-Lowell pursuing a degree in education, John Daileanes is at Springfield in athletic administra t ion and Tom Capozza i s at Dartmouth Medical School study ing veterinary medicine. As for John, he is working at Brigham and Women's Hospital in leep deprivation research (not his in tended field but a good start) and has become a star handball player. He was recently named N HAC Player of the Month in ew England. . . . I got an article about Melissa Small, who is teach ing at the Leelenau School in Glen Arbor, Mich., and in her second year as coach for the cross country team. The article sang her praises as coach . . . . Camper Dan Belvin phoned me in September to in form me of his afe return from his mission in Somalia. As second lieutenant, he worked closely with the American Hospital as an op erations officer-and still found enough energy to run each day in 1 1 5 degree heat (on a cool day). He is now back at his base in

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coffee and doughnuts . . . . Hilda Westervelt wrote me from Dijon,

Elizabeth James '90 was named director ofannual giving and research at the Belmont Hill School in Massachusetts . . . . White House staffer Cassie O'Neill '9 1 was the commencement speaker at her alma mater, Notre Dame Academy in Hingham, Mass. . . . John Brockelman

France, with three months left of her Watson Fellowship. (She has since returned to Waterville.) Her project-studying 1 1 th century

Weld . . . . Following her year as a Watson fellow, Hilda Westervelt '92 was back to hang up her hat in Waterville-literally. Featured in a Morning Sentinel article, her fabulous creations, embellished with

Dorogi (at UMO pursuing his master's in medieval history) for joining him at the Bangor Air port at four in the morning for

sculpture on the medieval pilgrim age routes of Santiago de Com po tella--led her all o er France and into Spain. She was able to travel to Germany, Switzerland, Holland and Morocco as well. She has kept in touch with Colby friends and says Jen Zampell and Nicole Porter are living in the Boston area, Jen working as manager of a French pastry shop and icole try ing to find a job that's interesting. Amy Fang is in the process of getting a master's from Simmons in library science with a focus in archival studies and was fortunate to visit Hilda this year. Ethan Gettman is teaching English in Japan and, wrote H ilda, "wowing teenage girls with his incredible karaoke talents." . . . Heather Ferguson recently moved into a Chesmut Hil l apartment with Brenda Burke and Heather Glynn. Heather is still working at Dana Farber Cancer Institute and plans to attend grad school next fall in genetic counseling. She had talked recently with Edie Clark, who was home in Ohio for a brief visit from China, where she has been in school and teaching English . . . . Jen Pelson completed her master's of education in coun seling at UNH and hopes to be a guidance counselor in an elemen tary school. . . . Nancy Putnam loves traveling with Up With People . . . . Jen Kosek is a parale

gal in Philadelphia and consider ing moving to N.Y.C. . . . Karen Larson is working for Libeny Mu tual in Dover, Mass. . . . Becky Graham and Jen Greenleaf are

living with Deb Brown '90 in Bos ton. Becky now works fora produc tion company and Jen is in the libraryofa lawfum . . . . ChrisFlint was working at a golf course near his home in Brookline, N .H., hop

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elegant materials, piping and hand-made flowers and other seasonal

items, were on sale at the annual Colby Crafts Fair in the fall. . . . Caleb Cooks '93 is project director and technical consultant of a Colby video project that addresses social issues. The project is funded with a three-year grant from the Philip Morris Foundation, which is using Cooks's "Common Ground" video as a demonstrator video nationwide. . . . John Dingee '93 ran for a seat on the school committee of Braintree, Mass., where he attended high school. . . . Suzanne Liacos '93 has joined the foreign language department at Bishop Fenwick High School in Beverly, Mass. , and Timothy Seston '93 has been appointed assistant director of admission at Lake Forest Academy in Lake Forest, Ill.

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Gramlich '91 . . . . Dover York '90 to William orris in Portland, Ore. . . . Elin Baird '91 to Brian Cain in Villanova, Pa. . . . Mark Poulin '9 1 to Kimberly Smith in Fairfield, Maine . . . . Nicole Dauteuil '92 to Robert Begin in St. John bury, Vt. . . . Angela Toms '92 to Christian Forman '92 in Keene,

N. H . . . . Christopher Whelan '92 to Lee Ann Petropulos in Weston, Conn. . . . Christopher Caponi '91 to Heather Hews '93 in Lorimer Chapel. . . . Sarah Ann Steindel '93 to Joseph Blood I l l in Meshoppen, Pa.

Columbia in education and has returned to her teaching position while pursuing her master's. . . . I just quit my job as an office assis tant for the father of David Russell '89 in order to pursue a position at a magazine in ew York. I'll keep you posted. Thanks again to all of you who make a point of keeping + me well-informed.

Correspondent: Kristin L. Owens

Greet ings, Clas of 1 99 3 ! Here we are, more than half a year after graduation. I hope that all of you find yourse Ives doing what you always wanted to be doing. Okay, here' the good stuff. Chris Chin is employed by State Street Bank in Quincy, Mass. ( Before I go any further, I want to thank Chris for his help in writing this column . ) Amy Duncan i s also i n Quincy and is emp loyed by Reebok. . . . Cristen Herlihy, Diantha Neskey, Ryan Friel and Don

Bindler are all working i n Boston. Also nearby: Mark Muir is work ing as a computer consultant in Woburn; Linda Bourell is working in Braintree; Kristen Mobilia and I are in Brookline; and Beth Mont gomery is a computer consultant in the area . . . . Moving south: Ja son Goldberger, Justin Sheetz, Sung Park, Jennifer Knapp, Shawn Behling and Candace Killmer are currently living and working in ew York City . . . . Meghan Goughan, Hallie Hastert and Chris West are in Washing ton, D.C., and Glenice Nickerson is in Orlando, Fla . . . . Elsewhere in the world, Brian Waldes is in Colorado and Flint Hobart is in Korea untilJune. . . . Closerto our hub of Colby, Dave Bartlett and Todd Bosselait are working in Portland, Dave for John Hancock Life In urance and Todd for Hannaford Bros.MikeZhe remains in Waterville and is working with the Central Maine Morning Senti nel A few '93 grads are employed by Colby: Matt Isham is working in admissions, Jefferson Goethals

is coaching the ski team and Caleb Cooks is helping Colby to develop a video project . . . . Beth Her manson, like other classmates, re mains in school. Attending law school are: Chris Kueter in lndi ana, Rick Wallace at Wake Forest andJeff "Biscuit" Koscat DePaul. March McCubrey is attending Bowling Green in Ohio, where he is also teaching. Eric DeCosta is still in academics also, help in<> out at the graduate level as a coach at Triniry College in Connecticut. . . . Michelle Addario and Jill Moran are currently employed in the law field . . . . Two '93 grads have changed their names. Con gratulations to Heather Hews

Caponi and Kelly McEntee Good, both married last June . . . . This sums it up for my current informa tion. I hope to write about our other classmates in the next issue, but I need to hear from all of you. You all can find my address and phone number in the recent mail ings as well as at the top of the '90's columns in Colby. Keep in touch! + Until next time.

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Howard E Hill ' 1 8, Renowned Ophthalmologist Howard F. H ill ' 1 8, a world-renowned physi cian, d ied November 1 6 at his home in Belgrade lakes, Maine, at 98. He was born in Waterville, the son of Dr.James F. Hill, Class of 1 882, and attended Coburn Classical Institute. He left the College in l 9 1 7 and, as he later wrote, "enlisted asan exchange student in the trenches of France for a vivid crash course in the science of high explosives !" H is 1 1 months on the front lines of World War I with the First Division Quanennaster Corp , he wrote, were "very educational for a country boy." In 1 920 he received his Colby B.S. upon completion of his first year at Harvard Medical School. In 1 92 3 , following graduation from Harvard, he interned at Chesrnut H i l l Ho pita! in Phila delphia, and in 1 92 5 he was surgeon at Wills Eye Hospital in Philadelphia. He returned to Waterville in 1 926, became a Fellow of the American College of urgeons in 1 92 7 and in 1928 studied in Vienna. During a memorial service in Lorimer Chapel in December, Presi dent Cotter said, "There i no doubt but that Howard's finest institutional contribution to our greater community was the gift ofll-iayer Hospital, which he founded with hi brother, Frederick Thayer H i l l ' I O." The founding of the hospital marked the beginning of Dr. Hill's 50 years of service in ophthalmology to the Waterville community and the world. Known internationally for his revolutionary contribu tions to cataract urgery and paretic muscle surgery, he delivered many papers in ophthal mology in thi country and abroad. A member of the prestigious American Ophthalmologi cal Society, he also held memberships in the French, Pan Pacific, Spanish and Pan Ameri can ophthalmological societies and was a teach ing fellow at the famed Barraquer Institute in Spain. For his work developing a c l inic in Barcelona, Spain, a grateful government made him a Spanish Don. He was a trustee of the American Foundation for Medical Eye Care and held memberships in many local and state medical associations as well as the Masons, the Rotary and the American Legion. For 1 0 years he taught a course in Chicago at the American Academy ofOphthalmology. In the 1 950s, he and his brother, who was an internationally renowned otolaryngologist, persuaded direc tors of the Lancaster Course in Ophthalmol ogy to esrablish at Colby and were instrumental in setting up the various summer seminars, workshops and courses in medical specialties on the Colby campus. For years he taught a

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Lancaster course in cararact surgery, and his adopted son and colleague, the late Dr. Kevin Hill '50, maintained the Hill family involve ment in the program by serving as director in the 1 970s. In 1 956 the College awarded him an honorary doctor of science degree, praising him as "a person who has conferred special benefits on his fellow man." He was a Colby Friend of An and served on his 40th reunion committee and as chair of h is 50th. In 1 978 an apprec iative College awarded him a Colby Brick. That fall Colby named the H ill House in honor of the devoted service to the College by three generations of the Hill family. Fol lowing his retirement at 80, he continued his hobby of world travel. In all he visited 54 countries and was still traveling alone in his early 90s. Concluding his remarks at the memo rial service, President Cottersaid, "Howard Hill

has left his mark. The community, this College

and the world of medicine are all better than they would have been without him." Survivors include his son, Howard F. Hill Jr., four grand children, including M ichael Hill '86, a great granddaughter and his daughter-in-law.

Harold E. Hall ' 1 7, Hebron Academy Teacher Harold E. Hall ' 1 7, a teacher of foreign lan guages at Hebron Academy, died November 7

in Auburn, Maine, at 96. Born in East Oxford, Maine, he graduated from Oxford High School. At Colby he was a member of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity. Following service in World War I with Army Intell igence as a translator and censor of German mai l, he worked in the foreign department of National City Bank of New York and was active in local Republican party politics. He received an M.A. in French from Columbia University in 1 93 2 and, many years la ter, an M . A . in German from Middlebury College. He taught languages at Portland High School, the Princeton Prepa ratory School, Lawrence Academy and St. Paul's School beforejoiningthe staffofHebron Academy in 1 948. He caught German, French, Spanish, Italian, Latin and English, wrote news of Hebron alumni and served two years as Hebron's coordinator of development. Af ter he retired in 1 965 he continued as alumni secretary until 1 983. His History of Hebron Academy was publ ished in 1 979. His lifelong interest in history led him to found the Hebron H istorical Society and to member hips in the Maine, Oxford and Bethel historical societies. He also was active in the Hebron Republican Town Committee and served the town as selectman and member of the planning board and as trustee of the Moody Public Library. At the Hebron Community Baptist Church he was moderator, chair of the board, clerk and deacon. He also was a commander of the Oxford post of the American Legion. For his public ervice, he was awarded a Colby Gavel in 1 963. A loyal supporter of the College, he served as class agent, donated paintings and books to special collections, contributed ar ticles to the alumni magazine and attended many reunions, including his 7 5th in 1 992. Surviving are his daughter, three grandchil dren and three great-grandchildren.

Phoebie Vincent Parker ' 1 7, Hospital Trustee, Volunteer Phoebie Vincent Parker ' 1 7, a long-time mem ber of the board of trustees of the Windham Community Memorial Hospital in Willimantic, Conn., died July 5 in Farmington, Conn., at97. She was born in Island Falls, Maine, and gradu ated from Houlton High School. A member of Delta Delta Delta sorority at Colby, she was active in basketball and drama and graduated with honors in chem istry. After a year teaching

at Windham High School in Willimantic, she

1 93 7 as district accountant in Bath and ad

married and began work as secretary of the

vanced through various district assignments in Augusta and Livermore Falls. 1n 1 95 6 he

Parker-Ellion Coal Co. Following the death of her husband in 1 94 1 , she took over manage ment of the company, eventually becoming owner, vice president, treasurer and general manager before selling the business to Dah I Oil/ Cities Service Corp. in the 1 960s. She was active in Republican politics and in 1946 ran for the Connecticut House of Representatives. During World War II she was active in the Red Cross Motor Corps and throughout her life was a volunteer with several organizations, includ ing serving as treasurerofthe Willimantic branch ofthe AAUWandaschairofvolunteerservices of the Will imantic chapter of the Red Cross. She was especially active in Blood Bank work and the Visiting Nurses Association and was instrumental in organizing the first auxiliary to Windham Hospital. Predeceased by her son, she is survived by several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

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Lois Crowell '34, a retired senior physician at Tewksbury Hospital in Tewksbury, Mass., died in Boston on August 1 4 at 88. She was born and raised in Everen, Mass., where she anended high school. A chemistry major and member of Sigma Kappa at Colby, she went on to earn her M.D. at Boston University Medical School in 1938. She served as an obstetrician at New England Hospital for Women and Children in Boston and the Chicago Maternity Center be fore becoming a general practitioner at Tewksbury Hospital in 1 94 1 . When she retired, she estimated that she had been on call 1 20 hours a week for 30 years and delivered more than 2 ,000 babies. She moved to her long-time summer home in Cape Porpoise, Maine, where she took up model ship building and photo graphed and reported on the wildl ife of the nearby islands. In 1 98 1 she was honored by the College with a Colby Brick for her service as class agent, member of the Alumni Fund Com minee and constant and generous supporter of student scholarships at the College. She leaves her brother, Rohen Crowell.

Walter Worthing '35, Business Executive Walter Worthing '35, a vice president and director of Central Maine Power Company, died September 9 in Hampden, Maine, at 80. Born in Palermo, Maine, he attended China schools and was a graduate of Besse High School in Albion. While majoring in business administration at the College he was a mem ber of lam a Chi Alpha fraternity and twice was managing editor of the Oracle. He began work at Central Maine Power Company in

senior partner in 1 965. When Paige merged with the James Organization in 1 972, he was

became staff assistant at the company's gen eral office and in 1 963 was named southern

elected president and CEO of the organization's Maine operation and made a director of the James companies in Chicago. He was a member

division manager at Portland. He was elected

of various Masonic organizations and served as

vice president in charge of administrative ser vices in 1 97 3 and was made a CMP director in 1 976, positions he held until his retirement in 1 978 after 41 years with the company. He was vice chair of the Greater Portland Chamberof Commerce's area development council, presi dent of the Augusta-Hallowell Chamber of Commerce and a member of the Lions Club and the Bethlehem Lodge #3 5 and held lead ership posts in the Augusta Rotary Club. Sur v i v i n g a re a d au ghter, a s i s ter, two grandchildren and nieces and nephews.

president of the Maine Insurance Agents Asso ciation. An avid golfer, he was a member of several golf organizations and was the Maine

Senior Golfers co-champion in 1 970. Surviv ing are his wife, Janene, three daughters, in cluding ancy Winslow Lemieux '68, and two grandchildren.

Clare Donahue Libby Nurse, Teacher

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Lawrence C. Lightner Reading Specialist

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Lawrence Lighmer '38, a lifelong educaror, died July 1 8 in Bangor, Maine, at 79. He was born in New York City and lived in Spuyten Ouyvil, N .Y., and Mountain Lake and Morristown, N .]., where he anended high school. He re ceived a bachelor's degree from Oberlin Col lege in 19 36 and came to Colby for a year to be certified for teaching at the same time that his father, E.A. Lighmer, was assistant to President Johnson. He later anended the New York Uni versity Reading Institute and earned a master's degree in education from Rutgers University in 1950. He was a reading specialist at Morristown High School for 2 1 years following previous assignments at Dover Village (Ohio) High School, Westfield (N.J . ) Junior High School, Stevens Institute of Technology and the New York University Reading Clinic. He helped create the special curriculum for the Salisbury (Conn.) Summer School of Reading and En glish and in 1 964 began teaching reading and writing skills at onhfield Mount Hermon School in Massachusetts. 1n 1 992 he received the school's Community Service Award. Sur viving are a son, two daughters and eight grand children.

Robert Winslow '38, Insurance Executive Rohen Winslow '38, an insurance executive with the James Organization, died September 19 in Yarmouth, Maine, at 78. A native of Winslow, Maine, heanended Worcester Acad emy. At the College he played football and golf and was presidentofDelta Kappa Epsilon frater nity. HejoinedJohnC. Paige Company in 1 938 as an insurance broker. During World War I I he was a division commander in the Navy and captained motor torpedo boats in the North, South and Central Pacific operations. He was made a junior partner at Paige in 1949 and a

died December 4, 1 992, in Hinsdale Ill., at 7 1 . She was bo rn i n Presque Isle, Maine, and attended Presque Isle High School. At Colby he was president of the Women' Division during her senior year and graduated with a degree in English. She went on to receive a master's degree in nursing from Yale Univer sity in 1 944. After a year as a Yale faculty memher, she served as administrator of Presque Isle General Hosp ital until I 949. From 1 95 0 to 1 9 53 she was employed as public health nurse for Aroostook County. Following her marriage and move to Texas in 1 953, she taught for a year at Incarnate Word Col lege in San Antonio, then became an associate pro fessor at Lewi University in Romeoville, Ill., where she was instrumental in the accred ita tion of the nursing school. She was president of the Arthritis Foundation in Joliet, I ll. She is survived by her husband, Roscoe, three sons, a daughter and four grandchildren.

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Muriel Briggs Pitrat '49, a geology assi tant a t M t . Holyoke College, died April 29 i n Flo rence, Mass., a t 63. A native o f Waterville, Maine, and a graduate of Waterville High School, she devoted much of her life to the study ofgeology. While at Colby she majored in geology and was a charter member of the Geol ogy Club. For several years following graduation she served as an assistant geologist at Colby and for the State of Maine, assisting in surveys and the publication of several geological reports. She anended the University of Indiana's Sum mer Institute in Field Geology and also studied at the University of Kansas. 1n the early 1 960s she taught geology in adult education classes at the College. Later she was a geology assistant at Mt. Holyoke College in Massachusetts. She was predeceased by her mother, Martha Marden Briggs '24. Survivors include three sons, includ ing Stuart '93, a daughter, and her sister, Vir ginia Briggs Zulieve '45.

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been in operation in Pittsfield since that time. A member of the Kiwanis, he held the posi tions of l ieutenan t governor of Kiwan is Inter-

Rita Hamilton "Scotty" Hager '55, an assis tant Iibrarian at McKinley Elementary School, died July 1 in Arlington, Va., at age 60. She was born in Brooklyn, .Y., and lived in New Rochelle, .Y., Mount Kisco, .Y., and Co entry, Conn., and graduated from toneleigh Prospect H i l l School in Greenfield, Mass. At Colby she majored in history and was active in the International Relation Club, Powder

Wig and Canterbury Club. She taught school for one year in South Dartmouth, Mass., then moved to the Washington, D.C , area, where he was employed at the ational Academy of Sciences for four years. In 1 959 he married John W. Hager ' 5 5 . An active member in the Episcopal Church, she served on the vestry and in various regional and diocesan offices. he is survived by her husband, two son , one daughter, a grandson and a ister.

Nancy Gilligan Torborg '56, Innkeeper, Antiques Dealer ancy G illigan Torborg '56, an antiques shop owner, died May 1 7 in Massachusetts at 5 . A nati e of Great Barrington, Mass., she at tended rnith College before transferring to Colby, where he majored in mathematics and was a member of the Outing Club and the Student Christian Association. Shed id gradu ate work in education at the University of Connecticut and went on teach in high schools in ew York and Texas. W i th her hu band, J . Gerhardt Torborg, a corporation engineer, she traveled extensively, moving 24 times in 25 years to such varied locations as Albena, Canada, and Libya. ln Mendham, .J ., he caned a bu iness building and decorating dollhouses for private collectors. After mov ing to the Berkshires, she began restoring Colonial homes in the area. Among her resto rations were the Colonel Ashley Inn, which she ran as a bed-and-breakfast for nvo years, and the Hubbard House, where she operated an antiques shop. She is survived by her hus band and three sons.

Donald Bishop '5 7, Busines.5 Owner Donald Bishop ' 5 7 , ownerof the Maine Fence Company, died September 24 in Pittsfield, Maine, at 6 1 . Born in Sr. Albans, Maine, he attended the Good Will-Hinckley School and was a 1 950 graduate of A erill High School. At Colby he was a member of the baseball team and the Glee Club. After brief service in the Navy, he returned to complete his degree in business administration. In 1 96 1 he estab lished the Maine Fence Company, which has

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national and secretary to the ew England Kiwanis Foundation, a fund-raising branch of the organization. During his term the Kiwanis established the Pediatric Traurna Institute in Boston. Since 1 973 he had served as president of the Good Will Horne Association, a branch of the Good Will-H inckley School. A gradu ate of the institution, he was given the Alumni Award for outstanding contributions to the school. He also was a corporate member of the Waterville Osteopathic Healthcare Services and a charter member of CODA, a group formed to help control drug-related problems. He is survived by his wife, Geraldine, his mother, nvo sons, three grandchildren and nieces and nephews.

Fredric Bonner '6 1 , Busines.5 Manager Fredric Bonner '6 1 , a manager for the UNOCAL Corp. of Los Angeles, died September 28 in South Windsor, Conn., at 54. He was born in Beverly, Mass., and graduated from Waterville High School. After Army service in Germany he earned his M.B.A. in corporate finance from ew York University in 1968. He was a man ager in the stock transfer department for

UNOCAL Corp. in Los Angeles and had lived

in California for many years prior to moving to South Windsor in 1992. He was a nationally active member of the Corporation Secretaries of America and was listed in Who's Who in the WesL He is survived by his parents, Vivian and George Bonner '38, a son, a daughter and a brother, Robert '68.

Raphael Smith '88, Journalist, Graduate Student Raphael Smith '88, a graduate student at Co lumbia University, died September 14 in Bul garia as a result of injuries received in a motorcycle accident. He was 26. He was born in France, educated in schools in Taconic, Conn., and graduated from the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Conn. After completing his Colby education in three years, he spent a year at the Beijing Language Institute in China and also worked at the International Herald Tribune in Paris as an editorial assistant. Sev eral of his articles had been published recently in The Boscon Globe, The St. Louis Post-Dis pau:h and The Chicago Tribune. He had corn p le ted one year of grad uate school in international and public affairs at Columbia and at the time of his death was taking a year off from his studies to tour Europe and write freelance articles. Surviving are his mother, Anne Smith Fulton, his tepfather and his brother and ister.

Irving David Suss, English Profes.50r Irving David Suss, a professor of English from 1 95 7 to 1980, died November 1 7 at his retire ment home near Princeton, NJ, at the age of 78. A native of Newark, N .J., he earned a B.A. at the University ofNorth Carolina in 1 936 and spent the next six years with Max Rogel and Associates. He served in World War I I as a captain of cavalry and was wounded in action. In 1948 he received an M.A. from Columbia University and three years later completed a Ph.D. with a specialization in the drama, of social protest and the Irish tradition. He was an instructor at Rutgers University and a lecturer at both Columbia University and CUNY be fore he joined the Colby English Department in 1 95 7. For the next 23 years he was the theater at Colby, directing three or four productions each year alone or in cooperation with the late Ed Witham, who taught speech in the English Department. ln addition to teaching history of the drama and a number of other courses, he performed in profess ional theater and in several Colby productions and later served on the advi sory committee of the Theater Association of Maine. A small man with a powerful voice, he was a feared opponent in faculty debate, but he was also a generous host and renowned story teller whose infectious humor and radiant smile and laughter lit up the Lives of his Colby col leagues and friends. He will be remembered as an innovative and original producer, director and actor who made theater at Colby a gratify ing experience.

COR RECT ION S Cicely Y. Finley '94, Kendra A King '94, Bronwyn K. Jones '96, Tara . Marathe '96 and Roberto ieves '96 were inadvertently omitted from the listingofRalphJ. Bunche Scholars in 'The President'sReport" (Colby, November). ebraska was omitted from the geographical distribution of students, thereby omitting A Kent Bonham '94, Colby' lone student from that state. Re ports from the Deparnnent of Education and the Deparnnent of Psychology were inadvertently omitted from the listing of faculty publications and achievements. In the obituary for Marian Drisko Tucker '25 that appeared in the August Colby, her sister was incorrectly identified. Her late twin ister was Mary Drisko Hall '24. Colby regrets the errors.

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ew England food at i ts best and share the experience with old and new friends.

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