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In the 1800s, students could pay this bill with manual labor or a winter teaching job. Most currently enrolled Colby students can contribute at least $5,200 of their an� nual cost of education with summer employment, work�study jobs and loans. Still, a quality education is beyond the grasp of many. That's why your annual gift is so important. Annual giving helps Colby provide financial aid grants to promising students and also supports every Colby student with an annual subsidy of $7,000 for educational services not covered by tuition and fees. Help make a little history-give to the 1994 Colby Alumni Fund.

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Volume 83

Number 2

Colby Staff:

"There Are No Excuses"

What makes a good D i v is ion III coach1 Players and colleague ay Colby's Carol Anne Beach '88 has j ust the right mixt ure of compas ion, competitivene s, teaching ability and heart.

Sally Baker executive editor Robert D. purrier managing editor Brian peer designer

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Robert Gillespie Alumni ac Large editor

Making News

usan Gernert Adams '78 is among an el i te group of producer at Dateline. The story ofher a cent from a small stat ion in Maine to an office overlooking Rockefeller Pla:a i the tuff of TV dreams.

Contributing Photographer: David Wilkinson (cover); John !cKeith (inside front and back cover)

Contributing Reporter: Michelle everance '94 Administration: William R. Cotter, president; Peyton R. Helm, vice presu:lent for development and al11mni relarions; Earl H. mith, dean of the College; Su an Conant Cook '75, director of alumni relarions Alumni Council Executive Committee: Albert F. Carville Jr. '63, chair; Elizabeth J. Corydon-Apicella '74, vice cha1r; Cynthia L. Auman ' O; Thoma M. Dailey ' O; olomon J. Hartman '67; Mary Alice Campbell Ko:en '47; Ronald L. Lupton '71; Beverly Nalbandian Madden' O; William E. Marvin 65; Carol G. ly '80; Thomas P. LaVigne '5

Features 6

Harve ting the Apple Orchard

Colby wa a pioneer in campu computing. What's ahead i n h igh- tech on Mayflower H i ll I page 12

21 Russian Tales

St. Petersburg, home of the tsars, has attracted a small but enterpri ing crew of Colbian . They are nagged by pol it ical uncertainty and the grind of daily life i n a truggling city. And they ·wouldn't trade place with anyone.

Departments

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Colby i publi hed fi,·e time yearly for the alumni, friend , parents of rudent , senior , faculty and taff of Colby College. Address corre pondence to:

3 From the H i l l 26 Gift & Grants 27 Book & Authors

30 M ules on the Move

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

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39 Alumni at Large Profiles:

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Millicent Boll ing S mith '43 Elizabeth K istler Wallace ' 5 3 Paul ine Ryder Kezer '63 Edward Snyder ' 7 5 Felise Glantz '9 1

70 Obi tuarie 72 Letters

33 Memories

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Gleaned by Dean Earl H. Smith from his weekly campus newsletter, FYI. Our Alma Mater Dear When Admiral Ted Lockhart '61 took h is leave from the N avy this past fall, the band played Hail, Colb)', Hail at his re tirement party in Washington, D.C. Most of those attending thought, perhaps, that it was the Canadian national anthem, but at least four in the crowd knew better. Standing to sing the alma mater were Ted and his w ife, Carolyn (Webster) '60, and Air Force General Bob Drewes '64 and his wife, Robbie (Gilson) '65.

Preparing Doctors The last academic year was especially good for Colbians, both seniors and re cent graduate , seeking admission to medical schools. The Health Professions Preparations Committee reports that 1 3 of 2 4 applicant from the classe of 1 98993 were successful in gain ing admission to some of the nation's finest medical schools. The acceptance rate of 54 per cent is well above the national rate of 4 1 percent. l n the Class of '93 alone, five of eight applicants were admitted. Overall, Colby grads exceed national figure for grade point averages and MCAT scores. This success comes against the backdrop of a 60 percent nationwide increase in medical school applications since 1 988, a j u mp that has resulted in a 23 percent decrease in the national acceptance rate. Hats off to the diligent preparations com mittee and, especially , to co-chairs Art Champlin and Ed Yeterian. Thi group holds informational meetings beginning in a student's first year, conducts mock interviews, coordinates applications and recommendations and provides indi vidual counseling for applicants.

Small World II In response to our request for tales of unex pected crossings of Colby folks, President Emeritus Robert E.L. Strider has written to recount several instances. One of these

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dramatic and unlikely encounters was in February 1 966 when Bob and Helen were in Nepal, with their two youngest children, Bill, then 1 5 , and Betsy, 13. They were in a cabonone ofthemain streets ofKatmandu when omeoneshouted, "President Strider!" It wa Debbie Davis '65. They had a pleasant chat and an evening visit at the Snow V iew Hotel. Later on the same trip, while exploring the Coliseum in Rome, the Striders were hailed by Allan Landau '55 and his family.

The Taste of Fame A whopping 93 percent of students partici pating in a December survey ranked Colby's dining service as "good" to "excellent." The approval rating jumped six percent from the last poll, conducted in May 1 993. The survey, which attempts to measure progress in the continuing effort to upgrade both the service and students' perception of it, asks for evaluations in the categories of food and preparation, atmosphere, cleanli ness and service. Few colleges would dare conduct such a survey, much less get such good notices.

Thanks Just the Same It must be said that Colby teaches the work ethic. Consider that Jim Conrad '92, who has begun his career with Chase Manhat tan Bank, met up with his classmate David Leavy in New York not long ago. Leavy was in town with his boss, President Bill Clinton. Conrad was introduced to Clinton, who offered him a ride to Bo ton on Air Force One. Conrad turned him down had to go to work in the morning.

Harping on Cops Seems a student was returning from Au gu ta on I-95 and was stopped for speed ing by a state trooper. The cop spotted a Colby sticker on the rear window and the conversation went something l ike thi : Cop: "You must be mama's little angel. I'll

bet you play the harp, too."

Student: 'Tm no angel, but I do play the harp." Cop: "Don't get smart with me." Student: "Look in the trunk." Cop: "Sure, kid. Tell you what. If there's a harp in there, I'll let youoff. If not, you're in trouble."

So, of course, the student pops the trunk and points to the harp. N o ticket.

To Not Discriminate A new College policy prohibits alumni and parent groups from scheduling Colby meet ings at facilities that discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability or national or eth nic origin. Trustees have approved the rule, which will help assure "wide participation in College- ponsored activities by all alumni, parents and friend ."

Moosecellaneous There will be 1 3 faculty cand idates up for tenure next year . . . . Some 20 applicants for next year's entering class applied by using computer software provided by Colby's Admission Department .. . . While there are no women on the geol ogy faculty, it is interesting to note that 80 of the 194 geo majors in the classes from 19 76 through 1996 are women. At 41 percent, this is about double the na tional average for geoscience depart ments. Our department has recently become an institutional member of the Association of Women Geoscientists. . . . So nice to have Eric '73and Becky Rolfson '88 back from France, where they ran Colby's program in D ij on last emester. One of the student who re turned to campus with them was heard to expres his astoni hment that Eric speaks English . . . . Chips will be flying on cam pu in the spring (April 2 2-23) when the Colby Woodsmen will be hosts to a north eastern regional college meet.

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i e fac ulty mem ber theory , Gou,·ea 's bers were granted pecialty i number the t e n u r e by t h e ory. He is the co-editor Board of Trustees at of a book, Advances 111 it fir t meet ing of the Number Theor)'. year. A istant profe W i ng, who began ors David Bourgaize teaching at Colby in (c h e m i try ) , C e d r i c 1 988, has bachelor's and Bryant (English ) , An ma ter's degree from thony Corrado (gov San Franc i ·c o rate ernment ) , Fernando Uni\'ersity and earned Gouvea· (mathematics her Ph.D. in drama from and computer science) Stanford Un i \·er i t y . andJoylynn W ing (En She has directed plays a t gli h and performing Colby and in the fa l l of arts) were given tenure 1 990 and 1 991 was the and promoted to a so director of the Colby in ciate profe or. London theater pro Dean of Faculty and gram. Wing has pub V ice President for Aca Colby's newly tenured professors (l-r): David Bourgaize, Anthony Corrado, lished articles on drama demic Affair Robert Cedric Bryant, ]oylynn Wing and Fernando Gouvea. in Thearre Journal and McArthur praised the Modern Drama. five as "a very strong group that wou l be sity of California at San Diego. H is special tenured anywhere." The common de ties include African-American literature, nominator among them is "substant ial American southern regionali m, feminist t their winter meeting the Board of achievement a teachers and scholars," theory and i sues of race and gender in Trustees welcomed two new mem McArthur said. In the fall the group re literature. He is on the advi ory board and bers, Jane Whipple Coddington '55 of ce ived the upport of the ir departments, will contribute two major e says to the Murray H i ll, N .J . , and Robert Diamond the faculty' Promotion and Tenure Com forthcoming Oxford Companion to African J r. '74of ew York City. The tru tee also mittee and Pre ident Will iam Cotter, American Ucerarure. elected Edward Goldberg ' 5 9 of ewton, and those recommendation went to the Corrado began teaching at Colby in Mas ., and Leon N e lson Jr. '60 of Boston, trustees for review. McArthur noted that 1 986 and has bachelor' and master's de Ma ., as College overseer . all faculty who were eligible to be given grees from The Catholic University in Coddington has served as an over eer tenure received it this year, the fir t time Washington, D.C. , and a Ph.D. in political since 1 99 1 and has been an active volun science from Boston College. An authority teer with hospital, library and other organi that has happened since 1 98 2 . Bourgaize, who holds two bachelor's on presidential elections, campaign finance zations in her community. Diamond has degree from Ohio Northern University and national politic , Corrado is the author been an over eer since 1 990 and is v ice and a Ph.D. from the University of Mas of two books-Paying for President.s:Public chairman ofCS Fir t Boston, chairman and sachusett , has been teaching at Colby Financing in National Elections and Creative chief executive officer of C First Bo ton since 1 988. H is specialty i biochemi try Campaigning: PACS and rhe Presidential Se (Japan) Limited and a member of each and molecular genetics, and he is the lection Process. corporation's executive board. Gouvea came to Colby in 1 99 1 from author of a forthcoming textbook about Goldberg is v ice president of Donald Queens College. He earned bachelor's son, Lufkin and Jenrette Securitie Cor biotechnology. Bryant came to Colby in 1 988 and holds and master's degrees at the Un iversiry of poration in Boston. Nelson is president a B.A. degree from San Diego State Uni Sao Paulo and a Ph. D. in mathematics at of Lolech Enterprises of Boston and versity and a master's and Ph.D. in English Harvard University. The author of books serves as president of the Greater Rox about p-adic modular forms and num- bury Chamber of Commerce. and American l iterature from the Univer-

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Climbing Grades

ith grade inflation a hot topic i n forums from t h e Doonesbur)' comic

strip to The Chronicle of Higher Educarion, Dean of Faculty Robert McArthur like to talk about the difference between grade i nflat ion and grade-point- average , or GPA, inflation. G rade i nflation is the tendency of professor to give an A for work that m ight have earned a B 10 or 20 year ago, or to gi\·e a gen tleper on's B for what u ed to be a gent leman's C. G PA infl ation, McArthur says, re ults from rel axed pa / fail option and relaxed criteria for when students may drop a course in which they are floundering. When a struggl i ng tu dent e i ther can drop a tough course late i n the seme ter or settle for an ungraded " at isfactory," the a\·erage G PA i bound to rise. McArthur said grade inflat ion exists at Colby, but the Col l ege ha issued no suggestion or d i recti ves to prevent or curtail i t . The Dean of Fac ulty' office and the registrar continue to collect and exam ine college- w ide data on grad ing, and the data has been discussed at Educa t ional Pol icy Comm i ttee meeting . " I wou ld ay there' m u c h l e s actual grade i nflation at Colby than at other i n titu t ion ," Mc Arthur said. Bes ides the rel axed requ i re m e n ts adopted in 1 986 for dropping course, or taking them pas /fail instead of for a grade, the add i t ion of p l use and min use to the GPA formula in the late 1 970, had an effect on the College's G PA a\·erage, McArthur says. "While none of tho e factor would make an i m mediate, pre cipitous difference," he aid, "they all add up, even if there were no change in the way profes ors a sign grades." N ic holas Rohrman, profes or of psy chology, has kept rrack of the tati t i cs. Comparing Colby w i th other chools, he said, "We're certainly not among the wor t; we're not among the best, e i ther . " Rohrman aid h i concern over grade i nflat ion i that "it cheapens everybody's degree. I f everyone is getting A's and B's, it's not fair to the people who are really doi ng the work. " As the value ofan A gets watered down

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by grade inflation, graduate chool have to rely increasingly on standardized test score to rank appl icants. Not everyone tests well, and a student truly can have a bad day tak ing an exam, Rohrman says. That's i mportant-in the narrow band of scores that qual ify people for graduate chool , a few te t point loom large.

Still Very Hot

ompetition for adm ission to Colby will be more rigorou than ever this year. The Admi sions Office report that , ' ome 3,400 appl icants are vying for the 450 slot in the Cla of 1 998-a remark able 20 percent i ncrea e over last year. First ev idence of the leap came in the i n it ial round of 167 early decision appli cat ions, 50 percent more than in 1 993. Coupled with a econd round of 1 41 applicant , the total early dec i ion pro gram yielded 1 33 acceptance . Some part of the increase is attributed to the College' dec i ion to accept once

again the Common Appl ication form now used at more than l 00 colleges and un iversitie around the country. Colby d iscontin ued its acceptance of the forms in 1 985. Parker Beverage, dean of admis sions and financ ial aid, ays that the decision to return to the Common Ap pl ication was based on the need to re main competitive with many of the more elective col leges that have begun to use it. The change, he warns, w i ll make the delicate business ofpredicting yield ( those who enroll from among those accepted) "even more of a high art form."

Campus On Ice

hen student fu nd raisers c a l l a r o u n d t h e c o u n t ry seek i n g pledges for t h e A l umni Fund, the most frequent que tions they get are about the weather in Maine. Thi year, w i th record cold nipping much of the nation, alumni who remember winters in Watervi lle were more curiou than usual .

A HERO on the Hill Kathaleen S myth '93 is HEROic. S ince last November, Smyth has been trave l i ng across Maine i n the H igher Education Resources Outreach van encou � � aging the pur u i t of further education. She vi ited Colby in J anuary. An agency of the Maine Education Service , HEROic promote projects designed to boost literacy rates and to make apprenticeship programs attractive to high school student , di located workers and displaced homemaker . "We go to high schools, shopping malls, anywhere we can reach people," she said . The van is chock full of information for any age and situation. At Colby, Smyth says, she dispensed informa tion about graduate chools and how to fund postgraduate education-the HEROic van is even equipped w ith Fund Finder and Choices software for that purpose.

How cold was the winter of '94? It was so cold that frost damaged an underground high-voltage cable in Feb ruary, cutt ing off power to much of the campus. So cold that salt on the walks and roadways d idn't melt ice for weeks on end. So cold that the Physical Plant Depart ment had pretty well exhau ted its hudget for sand, salt and snow removal by early February. So cold that ice dams on cam pu roofs caused major leaks, not the least troubling of them in the art mu eum. Official readings i n Waterville show 1 9 days in January when the mercury dropped to zero or below, 13 of those morn ings -10 or colder. The offic ial low downtown was -32 on J anuary 20 and 2 1 , and the Morning Sentinel had a front-page story reporting that thermometer upriver in Solon and Eustis notched - 5 0. " I t's been an extraordinary year," said Alan Lewis, director of physical plant at Colby, tak ing a break between meeting with engineer working on a heating prob lem and roofers trying to top leaks. "We've had a long stretch of hard weather." The electrical outage wa the mo t widespread among a variety of weather related problems. On February 8 shortly before 10 a.m. much of the central part of campus lost power. It tarted a a br wn out when fro t c rept into an aging under ground cable and blew a major fuse in the primary electrical panel behind Roberts Un ion. PPD staff knew exactly what to do-- hut off the entire zone to prevent the reduced voltage from damaging elec trical equipment in buildings affected : all three sc ience bu ilding , a well as Eustis, Lovejoy and Miller L ibrary. Unfortunately, when they raced to the w itch box they found an eight-foot p i le of snow in front of the panel's door, Lewis said. It took a few minute to get a front-end loader to c lear the way. The Echo reported that sc ientists in Arey and Keyes were concerned about aquariums and freezers hou ing a variety of life form and tissue samples but that there was no damage to experiments. A couple of elec trical motors did bum out, Lewis said, among them an elevator motor. While most bu ildings got full power back after about two hour , parts of the

sc ience complex went without for alma t 1 2 hours. A large mobile generator wa set up between Keye and Bixler, and temporary wire were lung through the tree to power the sc ience bu ildings until permanent repairs can be made thi spring.

Ideas on the Loose

he j ury i in the j u ry box, the bailiff by the door. Smartly dressed attor neys whisper to pla intiff and defendant at the ir respective tables while expert wit nesse wait in the first row of the gallery. Judge Scott Gal on '95 presides over the case, Trevor v. Trevor, in which Linda Trevor stand accused of desertion by her husband, Harold. As L inda' best friend te tifies under oath that she and Harold carried on an illicit affair for four months, a murmur of t itillat ion wells through the courtroom. Harold, seated at the plaintiff's table, sputters a denial and turns beet red . His lawyer protests as the gavel raps for order. Welcome to Bill Klein' classroom, where research, role playing and impro v isational theater comb ine to bring the princ iples of psychological theory to life. The staged trial, based loosely on lb en' play The Doll's House, is j ust one of the pedagogical tool Klein use in Psychology 2 53 to ensure that his stu dent are engaged in the learning process and to make them demon rrate mastery of the princ iples that affect how people think, feel and behave. Klein's student ay that the trial along with a mock Senate hearing, a debate and an advertising project-make the class lively and even fun. But none equates "fun" with easy. "He [Klein) i tough; this cour e is a lot of work," a id Rebecca Apollon '95 , who played an attorney for the plaintiff. "But it make it tick. The principle we used in the trial-I won't forget those." "I was more challenged in thi c lass than I ever have been before, but I loved it," a id Eli abeth Kener on '95, a psy chology major and education minor who was a defen e attorney. "Thi i the most work I've ever had for a cla s," said Chris Hubbard '95 , an English major and psychology m inor who

played Harold Trevor in the trial. "But," he added, "I d idn't m i nd because it was o interest ing. " The fact that Hubbard actu ally blu hed when his character wa ac cused of marital i nfidelity was perhap the most eloquent testi mony to how deeply involved in the class project stu dent became. "It's something I thought about in graduate school," Klein said of the class room act ivitie that help define his style as a profe sor. A a Princeton teaching a sistant, Klein was awarded the A soc ia tion of Princeton Graduate Alumni Award for D i t i nguished Undergraduate Teaching in 1 990. The technique he began to develop there figured prom i nently i n hi academic future. "I wanted a mall liberal art college where I could do the e k i nds of th ing ," he aid. "The mock trial brings i t [the social psychology material) together in an intere ting and comprehensive way o people can really cement the ir knowl edge . " But it's not, he recognized early on, an activity that would work in a large undergraduate lecture course. "Twenty to 25 people-that's exactly the right number, " he aid. Klein has run the mock trial for three years now, refin ing the cenario along the way to make it more ambiguous. The fir t year he included phy ical abuse in the facts, which made the case cut and dried for students-Mr . Trevor wa not gu ilty of de ertion. The econd year there was no abuse and she was found guilty of desert ion. This year Klein pa inted a pic ture of verbal criticism that bordered on abu e-Mrs. Trevor went free again but wa required to pay child support. Turn ing tudent loo e with a et of facts and letting them stage a trial chal lenges traditional notions of power and authority in the clas room, but Klein doesn't ee that as a threat to his po ition. "I can't control everything that hap pens in the trial. If I could i t wouldn't be very intere ting," he said. "It's fun to watch how everything unfolds. I t's re warding watching people u e the very tuff that you've taught them-not j ust pewing it back in your face."

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With Careful Alchemy, TV

t's Tuesday afternoon, "game day" ar NBC� Dcueline in New York. Jane Pauley and

Stone Phillips, cu-anchors of the 1naga

:ine-style news program, are on the set recording introductions for the night's stories as well as prom(ltional spots to run during e\'ening newscasts. In a packed control room perched ahove,

Dateline's director and other �taff mem hers-including network lawyers and a

Producer Susan

Adams Has Used Grit, Smarts and Determination to Craft a Perfect Career

senior producer for broadcast standards-watch a bank of monitors. Producers and assistant producers come and go, briefly staking our a few square inches near the door as Phillips intrL duces a piece about adulterated orange juice and Pauley tinkers with copy for a story on deadbeat parents. usan Gernert Adams ' 7 8, one of two dozen producers on the weekly program, doe n't ha\·e a story on tonight's docket.

he's spent most of the day in her office overlooking Rockefeller

Plaza, at work on a future Dareline segment on firearms sales. Adams and an assistant producer are sti II researching the story, and as sh returns to her desk from the studio he pops in for a brainstorming session. He's hit a \vall with one research technique and needs suggestions. There's some urgency. A meeting to discus the story with the show's top brass looms that afternoon. Taping is to begin the following week, and Adams not only must line up interviews for Dateline correspondent Jon Scott but also orchestrate a hectic travel chedule for herself and Scott and ensure that camera crews are available when and where they are needed. Several phone calls to a key colleague in the Midwest have gone unreturned-without the informa tion he can provide, Adams cannot pull the schedule together. Despite the frustration , Adams is relaxed."We do this all the time," she says, "we're used to the pressure. One of the keys to success in this business is not to be out of control when there's pressure." Adams is helpful and patient with her young colleague. When he leaves he has a clear course of action to follow, and he's participated in its formulati n. The respect between them is apparent. "When I work with young people, people just starting out, I try to do for them what I used to hope someone would do for me," Adams says."[ understand that it can be really difficult to pick up a phone and make a research call. I know how they feel." A young person interested in television probably could not find a better mentor than Adams. At

3 8, with hard work, intelligence, tenacity and a flair for finding and using contacts, Adams has

risen from volunteer intern at a CBS affiliate in Maine to near the top of her profession-at Dateline she is subordinate only to two senior producer and the executive producer, Neal Shapiro. Her

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Adwns and Dateline corre pondenr Brian Ross brainstorm abow an 1t/Kummg scary.

colleagues ·ay the three t i me Emmy w i nner is among the finest produc ers in the country. " he'- · mart. She's re ally m a r t ," · a i d J a n e Pauley. "You c a n gi,·e usan \'ery compl ic ated storie ; that's what's o ..••••••lilliiiiil wonde1ful about her. She'll render something complicated coherent for a \\·ide aud ience." hapiro aoree . He and Ada m worked together on the ABC maga:ine -how PrimeTime Lit•e. She j oined Dareline in Augu·t 1992; hapiro was brought in ·oon after, ,,·hen Dmeline cleaned hou e after General Motor sued BC O\·er a egment invoh·ing the safety of GM truck . "One of the be t thing about coming here was working with usan again," hapiro said. "She's one of the be t producer I 've ever worked w ith-smart, insightful, -en itive. he's Yery good at storie that let people speak for them eh e , at letting others tell the st ry. he writes enough copy but n t so much that the tory i overwhelmed. And she ha tremendous range everything from pring train ing with the eattle !ariners to Ross Perot ." Jon Scott calls Adam "a velvet bulldog," expla ining the lengths-in both creativity and tubborne s-to which he will go to get a tory. " he's got this ma ive tenac ity," cott aid, "and that' pan of what make her -o good at this job." Adams likes to ay that she's ju t "gone with the flow" in her career, but in fact he has given i t the same kind of meti ulou attent ion he accord her tories. After graduating from Colby, where he majored in English and served as Echo photo editor, Adam worked a a waitress, then took t ime off to travel in Europe. She returned and settled in Portland, Maine, with not ions of becom ing a newspaper reporter or a photoj ournalist. But televi ion had the strongest hold on her fan y. "I wanted to know more about how televis ion worked, who was deciding what we see on the new ," he said. She created her own internship at WGAN -TV ( now WGME), Channel 1 3, the local CBS affiliate, writing new and copy for commercial and pitching in wherever she wa needed. She even tepped in front of the camera now and then to report a story. "I knew I didn't want to waste my time Xeroxing and making coffee, and I a aided that,' she said, "but I did just about e erything else. And for a while I thought I 'd go in the direction of becoming a reporter, because at the affiliate level the reporter doe everything-they make the calls, they set things up, they do the research, they do the interview, they write the tory and they go on the air with it. When you get to the network the producer is doing a large part of the legwork." After a sojourn in Bo ton working a variety of jobs, Adam- returned to Portland as WGAN's promotion manager.

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wanted to know more about how television worked, who was deciding what we see on the news. "I

"That was my first real j ob in this busi ness," she said. "I was twenty-five, and I was in management at an affil iate . " She was responsible for the station's on-air promotions, for its image campaign and for p.r. She attended national affil i ates' meetings where she could make professional contacts, and at the end of two " years on the job, she says, "the wheel started to tum a little bit. I looked around and said, 'I could improve on this, I know I could. There are bigger places with more money to spend.' I knew I could upgrade from Maine." She joined an advertising firm i n Boston but d isl iked the work. When she was offered a position in the creative services department at KYW-TV 3, an N BC affiliate in Philadelphia, she j umped at it. Adams was in charge of promoting Evening Magazine at KYW, and she won a national competition in the field. Part of the prize wa an all-expen es-paid trip to the awards preÂ sentation i n San Francisco for Adams and the how's executive producer. Adam , angling to move from promotions to programming, seized her opportunity. "I had the executive producer captive o n an a i rplane for five hour ," she recal led, "so I worked on him. I told him how much I wanted to move into programming." As soon as a producer's slot opened up, Adams got it. l n three years on the show he produced mostly entertainment stories and collected a Gold Award at the San Francisco International Film Festival for a tory about former M iss America Vanessa Will iam . She wa asked to write and produce a nationally synd icated documentary, "Ageless America ," for G roup W, and from there she moved to KYW's Eyewitness News program as a producer of news series and special projects. By then she was restless again, looki ng for a new challenge. While at Evening Magazine she had method ically "produced every story you can think of on N BC," and through contacts she'd made i n that process, along w ith a few well-placed calls to a former KYW colleague who wa work ing at N BC Sports, Adams landed an i nterview for a po it ion on the team covering the 1 988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. When six months went by and he'd heard nothing from N BC, she resigned herself to staying in Phi ladelphia. Then, one n ight, she came home to find a mes age on her answering machine: she was wanted by N BC in New York for another round of interviews. Two days later she had the job. "I cried when I got the offer," she said. "It wa sports. I love sports. And it was the network. I had done it, and I had done it by myself." Adams points to the O lympics as "the best professional experience of my life . " "The G ames were l i k e college ," s h e s a i d . "It w a s fifteen hundred people, roughly t h e ame age, all comm itted to doing the best we could do. We were work ing around the clock, putting in si xteen-hour days and then danc ing until dawn, grabbing a couple of hours of sleep and doing it all over aga in. I couldn't have a ked for more . "

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Greetings fr om Seoul:

Adams and her camera crew attract a crowd of school children while setting up a shoot during the 1 98 Summer Olympics.

When the Olympics ended, Adams was unemÂ ployed. She'd moved to New York but had hardly pent any t ime there o he had few friends or professional acqua intances in the area. The expense of liv ing in the c ity w ithout a job wa enormous, and Ada m contemplated returning to Phi ladelph ia. But once again, she found creative ways to make her availability knmvn around the televis ion indu t ry. The mother of a producer Adams had met while they both worked on "Agele America" wa Ted Koppel' secretary at i ghtline. She told Adams that Koppe l. ightline' anchor, occasionally pulled staff away f rom the late-n ight new program to help him with pecial . That left hole on Ni ghtline' product ion staff. Adam , with her Olympic calling card (and the two Emmy earned there) along with her maga:i ne - how experience, was the right per on in the right place at the right time. She was hired as a fu ll- t i me freelance producer on ightline, where he worked for nearly a year. The job, Adam ay , wa both excit ing and grueling. "The c lock wa t ic k ing i n the bigge t way on i ghtline," she a id . " Many t i me there'd be a break ing tory in the middle of the afternoon, and you'd have to throw out everyth i ng you'd been doing and work on that. We call that 'crashing' i n thi bu iness-dropping everything to attack a story-and cr;:i he are exhilarating. They are terrify ing, but they are also exhilarating. And they were con tant on Nightline. You can't i magine what that take out of you-it' very, very drain i ng." he recall -with fondne and ome bemused pride-the night Koppel c lo ed a tory on the Central Park jogger case by aying, "Jeff Greenfield ' report was produced by u an Adam ." "They never ay a producer's name on television,' Adams said. "My phone rang off the hook the next day." Adam ay it wa a privilege to be as ociated with Koppel's extraord inarily high tandard and with the ophisticated journali m of the program. U lt i mately, though, he realized that her per onal life wa uffering as a con equence of her j ob. "Look at me," she remember think ing , "I'm on N igh di.ne-and if I stay here I'm going to die." De pite pleas from management-and from Koppel himself-for her to tay, Adams left the program in 1989 and joined other former ightline production team member who recruited her for PrimeTime Live. "I had no life," she aid. "That' why I left. I was fine on the j ob, but everyth ing else wa uffering, i nclud ing a relat ion hip I wa in at the t ime. I d idn't want my ' hole life to go down the drain. Nightline i a how for young people or i ncredibly ambit iou people who are w i ll ing to make a lot of per onal sacrifice for whatever i t's going to get for them."

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Jane Pauley ( left) says Adams ' s crucial talent lies in her abilit'I w "render something �omplicaced coherent for a wide audience . "

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But i n going to Prime Time, Adams had leapt

...L•=.. from t h e fry i n g p a n straight into t h e fire. "The how was be com ing very topical," she aid, "so as it turned out t h e r e w e re a l o t of c rashes-j u t what I 'd been try i ng to get away from . In ome case l was working more . " Adams stayed at PrimeTime for three years, produc ing stories o n topics a d iverse as the controversial plan to hire a hearing pre ident at Gallaudet Un iver ity, John and Car ol ine Kennedy, rape at a mental in titu t ion, the tribulat ions of Lo Angeles Pol ice Ch ief Daryl Gates and the 1 989 San Francisco earthquake. Perhap her favorite PrimeTime story, "Judgment Day," took v iewers in ide the admission process at Kenyon College in Ohio. Adams says she grav itates toward torie about education because she is pa sionate about its potential to transform society-an attitude that has kept her i nvolved with Colby as a class correspondent and, now, as cla s v i ce president. When he was ready to leave PrimeTime, Adam could al most choose her next j ob. he and Dateline cho e each other. " I came over for an i nterv iew and I loved everybody I met here ," she aid. "Of course, by the time I came on board most of them were gone becau e of the GM thing. Fortunately, the network brought in Neal [Shapiro] . the greate t person in the world, as executive producer." Adams says she has never been happier. A a ingle woman with no children, she says, she can take full advantage of New York's cultural and ocial scene-her life outside of work is fil led with friend and ac tivities. Though Dateline has a crash un it, she i not i nvolved with i t . Most of the tories she produces-she worked on e ight in her first year on the program are the kind she likes best: behind- the-scenes examinations of a mul tifaceted topic. Her first Dateline segment, which aired i n October 1 99 2 , was about computer hackers. She al o ha produced stories on, among other ubject , baseball's spring training, d isman tl ing nuclear weapons, abducted children who are reunited w i th parents and adoption. She thinks her best piece so far may be "Greetings from Idaho," the story of -a touri t couple who i nadvertently caused a four-day forest fire and were ued by the tate for $ 1 m i l l ion. Although almost anyone on staff can pitch stories to the senior and executive producers, they make fi nal assignments. Adam explains that every effort is made to match a particular producer with tories most sui ted to their talent . Adams ha found a spec ial colleague-and a big fan-in correspondent Jon Scott . "When we d i d 'Greeting from I daho, "' Scott a i d , "the governor wanted t o challenege N BC based on our hand ling of the story, and if that story had been poorly handled it could have been a black eye for u . But Susan had everything documented to the point where the tate-

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Adams edirs segmenr foorage wirh correspondent ]on Scarr ( lefr) and operarions producer Frank Shambacher.

and in ome re peer , the governor-\\"ere left \\Âˇith, if not a black eye, at least a smudged eye over their handl ing of the ca e. " You don't want to do an interview and ay, 'We ha\Âˇe ev idence you t i l l beat your wife,' have ome guy ay, ' how me' and have to back off and ay, 'Well, we heard that you s t i l l beat your wife . ' A corre pond ent , we're the one who e faces a re attached to the torie , but we do so many tories that we can't know everything about them. u an ju t ob e es about everything. I've found that her re earch i s o thorough that I don't have to worry about m i ing someth ing." Dateline i very con c iou of the need to get tories right and make them fair. Having producer of Adams's cal iber on raff i important. At the meeting to review Adam ' progre on the gun ales story, hapiro, along with a en ior producer for programming, a network lawyer and the enior producer for broadca t standards, try to think of every pos ible pitfall that might make the p iece le s than balanced. The conversation take nearly an hour on an extremely bu y day. "We're an over-lawyered how," J ane Pauley ay later about the on- et monitoring that goes on a the show's final piece are produced. On this day, Pauley had rewritten the copy on the deadbeat parent tory everal time before he was atisfied, and in the end it was both clearer and more compell ing. "You look at omething in the morning and you say, 'Yeah, yeah, that' fine,' Pauley said. "Then, when you are about to say it on camera, you take a closer look. H aving a lawyer on the set reminds us that we have to be more than ju t ' not actionable."' Adams puts some of the blame for the suspicion news people face on freewheeling, payÂ for-interview program l ike Hard Copy and A Current Affair. Sometime , he says, people have trouble drawing the l ine between a program l ike Dateline and the tabloids. At a panel d iscussion Adams partic ipated in d uring Colby's reunion last summer, one man asked her whether she'd ever make anything up for a story. "It was l ike, 'Wha t ? N o ! ' That's a question that would probably never be asked of him in h is business," she said, "but there's an assumption that it m ight go on in this business." Adams obviously has found her ideal n iche. She is urrounded by people she l ikes, respect and admires, all of whom share her dedicat ion to producing informative, effective television. " I feel so lucky that the work I do is so interesting and challenging and has provided a lot of personal growth and great experiences," she said. "My work has been self-affirming-and it cont inually renews itself. When I talk to k ids who want to go into this business I tell them, 'Don't settle. You can do it. Go for what you want."' 11

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ith a c l ick of the mouse beside his calm monitor,

I BMs and I BM clones than f or the Mac , which had been on the

Thomas Longstaff, Dana professor ofrel igious stud

market for only a year. Facu l ry members \\·ho had been in \·ol \·eel

ies, :oonr in on a diagram of a third -century Roman market whose

in computing favored I BM s becau::-e they were fam i l iar w i th its

excavation he helped direct in I rae l . Another command and h is Mac intosh Quadra 950 draws a three-dimensional vie\\. of col

operating system , but students, as well as facultY 11· i thout omputing experience , m·erwh e l m i ngly fan ired the /\. l a c . Firmage, then a n I BM defender, no11· say" "They m<1de the

umns and walls, al lowing him and his students w v isuali:e how the

ahsolute right dec ision-the sofnrnre caught up. A lot of �chl)l)L

marker IT1ay ha\·e looked in antiqu ity.

ha\'e gone \\·ith I B M , and \\·hen I see \1·hat the\·\·e f20t I ' m the fir::-t

I n M il ler Li brary, reference librarian Toni Kar: helps a student navigate through more than a do:en CD-ROM d isks until they

to admit l was \\Tong.

unearth a U . S . Department of Transportation study of drunk

they'\'e ne\'er seen before and in a three-and-a-half hllllr labl )r;1-

. . We can hand students ;.1 ne\\' program

driv ing the student needs for an upcoming debate.

rnry session they can �le1·elop

··�e"'Te eompieteI�

On the fourth floor of the Mudd sc ience bui lding, physic major Ho Wa "Wally" Leung '94 ofNew York uses a Mac intosh to research h is senior honor's the sis, "Coherent and Squee:ed

dis..Ussed the ..oti.o .. ot. eomp.. te• lite•a.e� �e do .. "'t tea.eh ho� a.

States of S imple Harmonic 0 -

E q u a l l y i m p o r t a n t 11·a � Colby's i nsistence on a s mgle campus-\1·ide net11·ork and a c entral i:ed budget and a l loca t ion

system,

says

D a 1· i J

H anson, assoc iate d i rec tor of

c il lators." The pre\'ious n ight he po ted a question for physicists

their rnn1 mode ls and start \l'l1rk ing with them . "

computer sen·ice for academic

The eomp .. te• i.s a

on a world-wide network of com

comp u t i ng . Hanson saiJ e . pe ri ence at other colleges shn\\'�

puters called Usenet, and now

that "in a Yac uum of act ion by

an wers and suggestions are flow

the col lege , the departments

ing in from across the U . S . and

tep in and set up their own

from France and New Zealand.

networks."

Thanks in part to the Col lege's early and dec i s i v e e m brace o f computer technology, Colby students, fac u l ty and staff can take

011', \\' h i l e some

sc hools are still operating \\' i th

ma.:n..i p.. Iate ...._ o •ma.tto .. �th i.t. "'"'

h undreds of incompa t ib l e ma c h ines that can't be t ie d i n to a central n e twork , Colby is in the e1wiable pos i t ion of debat

u c h w o n d e rs for

granted. From al most any fac u l ty member's desk , from almost

ing how far to extend i ts network among campu b u i ld ing .

any admin istra tor's offic e and from several do:en other loca

Macs s t i l l can't do e1·erything. That's why there are extraor

t ions on campus, Colbians can do serious research, browse

d i narily powerful Sun 11·orkstat ions for use i n the sc i ences and

among a host of e lec tronic publ icat ions, p l ug i n to b u l l e t i n

mathematics, such as the one Physics Department chair M u rray

boards and e v e n h o l d l ive "conversation " w i th friends and

Campbe l l uses to constru c t models of the way stars are formed .

colleague anywhere in the world .

And i t '

why some professors prefer to go it alone-w i thout

technical support from Computer Services-w i th other com-

N ine y ears after Colby decided to adopt Apple Computer's

purer models.

upstart M a c i ntosh model a i t standard m i c rocomputer, the Mac is ub iqu i tous on M ayflower H il l . N early half of all Colby

A sistant Profe sor of Geology Paul Doss brings h i s own

students buy one through t he bookstore; others bring one from

Gateway 2 000 computer to work . "Much of the work i ng

home. There are 65 M ac s ava i l able for student use in three labs

sc ient ific community uses M S - DOS-based computer , " Dos ·

i n the M udd and Lovejoy bu i ld i ngs and i n M i l l e r Library , and

said, referring to the operat i ng system developed by M i c rosoft that works w i t h I BM -style computers. When student s i n

Macs are standard issue for fac u l ty and adm i n istrators. B iology Department chair David Fi rmage, who chai red

Doss's advanced groundwater hydrology c lass s t u d y the mov e

Colby's long- range planning c o m m i ttee for computers i n the

m e n t of pollutants through a groundwater system, he n e e d s h is

early 1980s, remembers the controvers ial decision to embrace

I BM c lone to run a program c alled Solure. ince Colby's dec ision a lmost a decade ago to buy and

the Mac on campus. " Most of the committee wanted to go with I BM , " he said,

support M a c intoshes, the role of the computer in h igher

noting that I BM was then the standard computer of bus iness

educ a t ion has changed dram a t i c a l l y . "We've completely d i ·

and science and that a great deal more software was avai lable for

m issed the notion of computer l iterac y , " said Raymond Ph i l l i p ,

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d i rector of computer services. "To some extent it's an appli

to evaluate graduate schools but also to correspond with grad school fa culty members to see what potential advisors have to

ance. We don't teach how a telephone works. The computer is a tool for scholar:i-what's important is the abil ity to manipulate i nformation w ith it."

offer. Kristian Parker '94 of Cel i ngy, Switzerland, carried on an e-mail correspondence last wi nter with a professor at Duke Universi ty's marine laboratory, where he'll enter a Ph. D. program this f a ll.

Computer Services, Phill ips says, might more aptly be named infom1ation services. "Acee to the information is just not enough ," he said, adding that today, students need analytical tools to manipulate and use data and-perhap more than ever be fore---critical skills to evaluate

I n his office, Longstaff loads a file from the University of M ich igan complete with maps and photos of artifa cts at archeological d igs in Tunisia and Greece. Words in blue are "hypertext"-if he clicks on one with h is mouse he bring up a screenful of explanation or detail. A Fotoman on h is desk al lows students to load photographs of the ir own arti facts into text fi les for viewing by Internet users. Laurie Osborne, assistant professor of Engli h, uses an electronic bul letin board for Shakespearean scholars and actors. She can post questions for the dozens of members, and answers flow back in a matter of hours. By reading the board she learns about journals and essays and stays abreast of lec tures and conferences. "It's veryuseful,"Osbomesaid. "I stay in regular contact with people I ee only once a year." Use of the Internet for looking into almost any subject i lim ited only by one's imagination and initiative, and as the network matures ( it' almo t 2 1 year old ) tools for navigating it are being refined. Hanson is a big fan of TurboGopher, a search application developed at the University of M innesota. It allows Internet u er not only to skip from one host computer to the next with the touch of a button but to use a utility called Veronica to seek references to any subject in all of "gopher pace." "It's l ike that sign when you come into Maine," Hanson said. "Electronic searches are 'The Way Life Should Be. '" "It's my belief that students have better access to more information, and they're learni ng how to u e it," said Director of Librarie Suanne Muehlner. tatistics back her up. Interl i brary loans-most resulting from computer searches o f coop erating l ibraries' on-line catalogues-rose 1 0 percent per year for the last 10 years. During the last school year Colby libraries borrowed 9 ,3 70 book f rom other li braries' collections. "There's a tremendous amount of infonnation out there," said reference librarian Frances Parker. "The hard part is finding it, or sometimes just defining what it is you want to find."

the information available. Colby is near the fr nt of the pack of colleges and universi tie entering the information age. "We've positioned ourselves well," said Longstaff, chair of the College' computer com mittee. 'The important ques tion for u a we enter the next phase is, how do we become a leader in the use of information technologie ?" Using equipment prink led among three computer labs on campus, student already can del iver assignment to profe sors by depos iting a word-pro-

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cessing file into an on- creen drop box that tran fers the file to the ir profes or' hard disk. They can pick up class hand outs and bibl iographies or can read reference materials left on the ir professor' computer or a departmental server. By calling up the library's on-l ine catalogue, students and f a culty any where on campus can earch not only M i l ler Library's index but collection at Bate , Bowdoin and the University of Maine as wel l . They al o can brow e Colby's daily and weekly calen dar , the campus d i rectory and a variety of departmental notices. Using electronic mail, common ly known a e-mail, students work i ng late at n ight can ask profes or questions, often receiving an an wer before they wake the next morn ing. Then there's the Internet. In the Geology Department, Doss call up a U.S. Geologi cal Survey computer i n Cal iforn ia and gets an up-to-date printout on earthquake activ ity around the world . H is stu dent can d iscuss why an earthquake happened just hours after the event. "I still find this amazing," Do s said as he examined the loca tion and depth of a dozen small tremors north of Klamath Falls, Ore., that occurred the day before. "When I was a student we had textbooks and an occasional newspaper story to work with." Brian Carlson '94 of J ericho, Vt. , uses the Internet not only

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Beyond the c h a l lenge of fi nding i n forma ti on, howe,·er, is

i nforma t i nn infrastruc t u r e .

that of p i c k i ng and c hoosing from what's ava i lable.

"Nnw i s the t i me to he t h i n k mg ah( 1 u t ho11· i t '� g o i ng to

" I t's a wonderful c haos, " Ph i l l i p · ·a id . "There is a v<ist

affect the c l assroom and :>rudent work , not after i t's here , "

amount of informat ion out there, but there's a lot of babble.

Longstaff s a i d .

There's so much noise-s1..) many un int erest i ng or irresponsible

Phi I I ips sa id t h m beyond k e e p i n g compu ter' up to date <md

parti c ipant s . And stru c t u ra l l y i t 's anarc h y as we l l . There arc

support ing fac u l ty and student comp u t i ng need , , p l ul.!g i n l.!

-ome convent ions, but there'

compu ters i n r 1. 1 the net1,·ork h a � b e e n a priority. Pha�c u n e of

no forced struc t u re . There are

technological standards but no s tandards for cont e n t . "

that wnrk-,,· i r i ng fac u l t y office�. c la s�r1.1om h u i ld i ng' ;1nd aJministra t 1 ,·e uffic e�-i' ; 1 1 -

Longstaff says teaching s t u dents how t o evaluate i nfor mation c r i t ic a l ly is v i t a l . " H ow

most complete. That ;1 lonc hn'

C om p.. te•§ a •e

taken 1 0 ye;m anJ

600,000.

do you separate the c haff from

W h i le studenr� me e1ger w

the wheat ?" he said. "Tha t'

p l u g compu ter� J i rec r l y t n t l l

the ed ucat ional process . " "It's

the ne twork in the res idence

l i k e u s i ng Time or

Newsweek for a research pro ject," F irmage added. "Students may quote them to give t h e i r

O:n.e §t.Ide:n.t a §ked �

halls, that wou ld be four t i mes the j o b , and there\ no t i me t a b l e for i t , Ph i l l ips s a i d . S t u

··�at h.. tto:n. d o

d e n t s already can l o g on to t h e

p a p e r a l ittle flavor, but those

network from t h e i r rooms u s

quotes better be few and far

i ng a modem a n d their room

between and backed u p by p r i

phone , though t y i ng up tele

m a r y sources p u b l ished i n peer

phones for "su rfing" on the

reviewed j ournals."

network or "computer c hats"

Computers c a n help s t u

w i th friends a t remote loca

d e n t s locate those materials in M i ller L i brary , where a do:en t e r m i n a l s spread a m o n g a l l floors replaced the old card cata logues

1 989 w h e n the

t ions a l ready is c a us i ng fri c

�

eomp-.. t e•� §he di.. d:n. . ....-a :n.t to .. §e i.t.

t ion a m o n g s o m e roommates. Ph i l l i p est i mates it would cost $2 m i l l ion to insrall the w i r i ng for h igh-speed daw access from residence halls and

l ibrary 's index went on l in e . O t h e r m o r e spe c i a l ized compu ter stand b y f o r searc h i n o C D

another $ 3 . 5 m i l l i on in m a i nt enance costs over 10 years. He

R O M indexes and services l i k e the Lex i s a n d N e x i s databases

say the proj ect mu t be weighed against the l ibrary's needs for

for art icle on c u rrent affa i r , law, government and econom ic

computer resou rc es, t he support of fac u l t y comp u t i ng and the

" U n l i ke ten years ago, thi

pote n t i a l for c lassroom use of compu ters.

]

l ibrary is packed now , " said Kat:.

are l ike magne t s . " During the fi rst ·emester

Ph i l l ips envisions future c la ·srooms w i t h blac k boards re

the l ibrary logged 1 98 hours on l ine w i t h Lexis alone and

p laced by w h i teboards-large-format d isplays on w h i c h pro

rece ived 1 ,2 22 prinred pages of text for students and s ta ff.

fessors c a n write, both t o proj ect t o a c l ass and t o p u t t h e data

" [The computer

"As the cost of p u b l i c a t ions and j ou rnal cont inues to rise

into a computer. Current technology al lows a computer ..:I i ·

beyond what l i brary budget can afford, this is more and more

play to be shown on a proj ector screen , but t h e -)"tern proj e c

import a n t , " M u e h l ner sa i d . "It a l lows u:, to buy what peop l e

t o r is c u mbersome a n d d iffi c u l t to use, Ph i l l ips s a y s . He

n e e d when t h e y n e e d i t . "

ant i c ipates computer that will rake h andwritten data, t u rn it i n to a graph , rotate the i mage so i t can be seen from ,·ary ing

B u t l ibrarians stress that computer are not t h e only tools

perspec t ive and allow d isp lays of mov i ng Y id o.

nor a lways the best tool -for researc h . "I find students some t i mes have very trange ideas about what c omputers w i l l do,"

But as Colby look- to t h e future of c lassroom c o mp u t i ng,

a i d Parker, rec a l l i ng one s t udent who asked, "What button do

technology is the wrong place ro foc u s , Ph i ll ips say . Instead ,

I push to get informat ion ?" about her top i c . "If it wa n't on the

ad m i n i trators ought to remember that d i re c t , person - to-per on contact is among the most i mportant features of educat ion

computer, she d id n ' t want to use i t , " Parker said.

on Mayflower H i l l .

" Librarians," M uehlne r added, "have a lways tried to ex

"We're a t a p o i n t , " Ph i l l ips said, "where we really need to

haust a l l resources, not j us t what looks j az:ies t . "

l in k i nformation technology w i t h the College's m ission and i ts

Colby i tself is grappl ing w i t h quest ions of how b e s t to

educat ional precepts."

manage i t s roles as a user and contri butor to a future national

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Colby Coach Carol Anne Beach 's Victories Are Many-But Most Never Appear in the Wi n-Loss Col u m ns C O L B Y

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"The only t ime I ever got sick on the bu as a player was

who'd m i ssed the trip becau e of a doctor's appoi n t

going to M iddlebury on Route 2," Colby women's bas

ment. Beach had e e n G o u l e t through k n e e surgery ,

ketball coach Carol Anne Beach '88 said on a frigid

pending s e v e n hours i n t h e ho p i tal w i th t h e young

morn i ng in J anuary. Her 1 7 - member team was assembled

forward a doctor repaired the knee with an arthro cope.

in Roberts Union, waiting to begin a weekend j ourney to contests at M iddle bury

The

urge ry was

cheduled at a day's notice, am! n e i ther of G o u l e t '

and Colby-Sawyer. "I

paren ts w a s a b l e t o

try to think of the be t

get away from work

route to take so the

in M a achu etts

player will really be

be w i th the i r daugh

able to perform. Route

ter. Beach had taken

2 isn't it."

the i r place .

But one thing had

She hoped Goulet

led to another that

would be on the bus to

morn i ng. Arriving in

M iddlebury. The in

her o ffic e at 7 : 3 0

j u ry already had set

B e a c h fo u n d t h r e e

Goulet apart from the

message from trainer

team, and Beach won

Patty Thornton on her

dered if the d istance

a n wer ing mac h i n e .

would cause problem

Thornton'

car h a d

in the future. "I t's im

blown i ts d istributor

portant that she feel

cap

and be a part of the

Dixmont,

M a i ne- h e couldn't make it to M iddlebury u n less the team bu

team," Beach said. "I

�

Time outs mean teaching : Beach makes a point during the game with Bates.

could fetch her. Which meant abandoning the h ighway

thought about holding the bus until after her

appointment, but I j u t couldn't. That bother me."

route Beach had planned for w inding, mountainous

Like mo t head coache in NCAA Div i ion III, Beach is

Route 2 .

personally respon ible for every facet of her program, in

"We had a b olutely n o other option," Beach said.

cluding scouting, recruiting, scheduling games, arranging

"We needed Patty." So, hour ahead of chedule, the bu

for the team's tran portation, lodging and meal on the

hit the road. The players settled back in their seats, some

road, running all practices and coaching game . Assistant

looking out the w indows w i th Walkmen plugged into thei r ear , some leeping, others catching up on their

coaches often are part-time employee with job el ewhere, so coaches like Beach routinely log 1 5- and 1 8-hour day

studie . Later in the morning, after Thornton had been

filled with duties that would be handled by assi tants at the

rescued and the team had taken a break at a McDonald'

Division I level.

i n New Hampshire, omeone slipped a copy of Hoosiers

Urgent attention to mall detail is, in large part, what

into the bus's VCR-even the mo t studious players

makes a uccessful Division 1 1 1 coach-especially at an academically demanding chool like Colby. Division I

couldn't help but glance at the movie now and then.

and I I colleges and universitie that offer athletic scholar-

Beach normal l y uses bus t i me to w r i t e letters to re cruits, read scouting report , plan upcoming strategies

hip skim the cream of the athletic talent, and Di vi ion

for games and catch up on Athletic Department paper

I I I colleges whose admis ion tandards aren't as h igh as Colby' have a far deeper pool of athlete from which to

work . I nstead she fretted about Heather Goulet ' 9 6 ,

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recruit. But a Colby coach is still expected to win.

She's made a good start. The women's basketball team

"Because of the academic requirements, you're only

last won the ECAC championship in 1 99 1 , one season

dealing with the top five percent of a h igh school's

before Beach was named interim head coach replacing

student body," aid Colby athletic director and men's

Gene Delorenzo ' 7 5 , who now heads the men's program

basketball coach Dick Whitmore. "I t's easy to be ordi

at Oberlin College. Beach was hired as official director of

nary at this level. If Colby is to be competitive on a

the team in 1 992, also assuming duties as varsity women's

national level, we have to work that much harder. And

soccer coach and, this year, as associate director of athlet

we want to be competitive. It 's a di tinct pride factor." "You can't tell any coach

ics and senior women's administrator. The team faltered in the early going under

that their team isn't as im

Beach but last season posted

portant as an Ohio State

a 1 3 -9 record and won its

tecim," Beach agreed. "There

third straight CBB t itle.

may be less med ia pressure,

Beach wants more, but she

less alumni pressure in some

acknowledges that some

sports, but every coach puts

variables are simply out of

pressure on herself or him

her hands.

self to make their team the

"A coach is really depen

most successful."

dent on seventeen- and

For Beach there is an

eighteen-year-old k ids com

added motivation to succeed.

ing to the school. And then

She operates in the shadow

you're dependent on them

of Dick Whitmore, Colby's

for your profession," she

most uccessful and honored

said. "You are j udged by how

contemporary coach.

well your players play and

"I swear," she said during

how well the team does. It's

a season -ope n i ng losing

hard. You don't see English

streak, "there are times when

professors out there recruit

I think he could take any five

ing good English students

players and teach them to

and then being judged by

win. Any five. If he were

the students' performance." "We started this season

coaching my team they'd win

0-6," Beach said. "I'd be

all their games."

downtown or at the Spa or

As the women gained mo mentum and confidence,

in the grocery store, and

how e v e r , Beach became

somebody would mention it. Sometimes it was a posi

more philosophical. "I can learn from him. I don't think there's a coach on campus

tive comment. Sometimes i t was, 'Hey, when are you

who can't learn from him," she said. "He's so supportive

going to win a game ?' And that j ust k illed me."

of our program. l brag about the relationship I have with

Beach made some adjustments, but he generally stuck

him and the space he give me and the respect he gives

with a carefully crafted program to teach and reinforce

me. At the ame time, it is not an easy thing to be on the

both basketball skills and a winning attitude among her

court after the men's team plays or practices. There is no

players. The team's dedication was tested day after day at

comparison, and I recognize that. I 'm j ust hoping that

6 a.m. practices and night after night as close games slipped away from them. Through it all, though, their

when I 'm twenry years into this profession someone can look at

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"Carol Anne ha been my coach for three years and has become a good friend," said Josette Huntre

"It was ju t so important going to Ohio State games,"

'94, a

Beach remembered. "It was like, if the Buckeyes lost to

guard from Limestone, M aine. "She has a way with

M ichigan in football, your day wa done." She say

people. She is completely dedicated to u as players-to

was d isturbed about the lack of importance placed on

every part of our lives, not j ust when we're on the court.

women's sport , but she nevertheless oaked up the

I feel lucky to have her as a coach. I t's easy to work hard

competitive fire of prominent M idwestern coaches like

for her."

Ohio S tate's Woody Hayes and Ind iana's Bob Knight.

"Tearn u nity is so important to Carol Anne," Betsy Maclean '94, the team'

ing center, said. " I f we had a d ifferent coach we wouldn't be the same team, we wouldn't be a tight as we are. We all get along well and enjoy being to gether. A lot of that has to do w i th Carol Anne." M ac lean says she won't choose coaching as a profe sion because i t's too tres ful. But, she said, " i f l were going to be a coach I'd want to be j ust like Carol Anne." Parent , too, have become Beach fan . The atmosphere urro u n d i ng game

The atmosphere at home helped stoke the flames. "She

tart-

demon

strates h e r interest in making the team's success a family af fair-parent often lug boxes of cookies, candies and frui t to

grew up in a family where if you

"H's hard. You don't see English professors out there recruiting good English students and then being judged by the students' performance.''

away games for the team to

didn't eat quickly you didn't eat," her brother David said. "It wa exhau ting to eat pizza. I t wa competitive eating." "I don't under rand people who aren ' t competitive," Beach said. "I can't understand not just diving in ready to conquer some thing." A standout in basketball and softball in highschool, Beach played both sports at Colby. She wa elected a tri-captain of the basketball team in her senior year and received the Norman R. White Award for "inspira tional leadership and sportsman ship." She also was named the outstanding women's stud ies graduate of 1 988. After working a a n assis

hare on the way home. And they appreciate Beach's

tant coach at Trinity and Brandeis, Beach returned to

devotion to their daughters.

Colby in 1 990 as a s istant director of pub! ic affairs for

"I can't say enough good about her," Carol Goulet,

sports publicity . The following year he wa tapped to

Heather's mother, aid after Beach' hospital vigil during

replace Delorenzo and to assist David Laliberty ' 7 9 ,

Heather' surgery. "I don't know whether she'll ever

whom she eventually succeeded a s women's soccer coach.

know how much we appreciate her. She' an exceptional

Beach, 2 7, ha risen through the ranks extraordinarily

person."

rapidly. She says she's been succe ful becau e he never

Beach is the youngest of four children, two boys and

lets up on herself, always believing that she can do better.

two girl . he was reared in Columbu , Ohio, where Tom

She expects a h igh level of commitment from her player a well. That wa evident when the team arrived in

Beach was on the faculty of Ohio S tate. The family wa -and remains-e x t raordi narily c lose . Beach's

M iddlebury and c limbed off the bus, stiff and saddle sore and a little dazed by the eight-hour trip. There were two

mother and father frequently attend game in Wad worth gym, and Tom Beach sometime goe to high chool

hours to kill-Beach hates getting to a road game early,

games to report on a player his daughter might want to

but the route change gave her l ittle choice-and her

recruit. Growing up, all of the Beach children excelled in

mo t pressing job was to pump the p layer up. She acknowledged their "bus legs" but told the team that the

sports, and the fam i ly lived and died with the Buckeyes.

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trip d idn't matter anymore . In the cramped vi i tor's

the third half in a row that we'd played unemotionally.

locker room j ust before the game , she paused in her pre

It wa n't so much that I wanted to show them I was

game speech to look at each player for a moment. 'There

mad-even though I was-I wanted them to play hard.

are no excuses," she said.

I don't want the team to produce because I'm screaming.

"The crowds, the d ifferent place has nothing to do

I want them playing the game and learning the game, not

w i th what we're here for," Beach said. "The game is the

reacting to me."

thing. We can't start worrying about who' in the stands

As the team returned to the floor, Beach took aside

and who appreciates us and about things we can't con

one player who, she knew, would be intimidated, not

trol. We should worry about the things we

halftime h istrionic .

can control-the of

They had a q u i e t

fense, the defense and

chat. The team had

m o t i va t e d , by the

our attitude."

a sloppy but success

Beach w a t c h e d

fu l half. They re

the warm-up w i t h a

turned to Mayflower

Hill w i th a 4- 7 record

k n e w w e w e re n ' t

and would reach .500

ready t o go o u t and

j ust days later with

s i n k i ng h e a r t .

play hard," she said

wins over Bates, the

later. "I was hoping I

Univers i ty of Maine

was wrong. "

at Farmington and

By halftime Colby

Wesleyan.

was d o w n by five

Back on campu

point , and lucky to

after the long bus trip,

be that close . The

the player returned

second half was no

to their dorms, walk tiffly on t ired

b e t t e r , and Beach

ing

paced the s ideline in

legs, and an exhau t

frustration, holding her head

her

O n the day she was named interim coach , Beach celebrated with Morning Sentinel sports edicor Ernie Clark.

ed Beach h e a d e d home. She thought

hands, her mouth set in a grim line. Time outs d idn't

about the weekend, planned the week's practice and

work . Motivational speeches didn't work . All Beach and

mused about her job. "No one can say coach ing i n't stressful," he aid. "I t's

assistant coach Adrienne Shibles could do wa watch a the White Mules succumbed to the Panthers with hardly

worth it. Coaches are lucky. We get to ee so many

a whimper, 80- 59.

positive things about the tudents and we get to share a

Hours later, though, Beach had gotten over her

lot w ith them over four years. The first time I saw ome

d isappointment. She wa thinking ahead to the next

of my player graduate it was really an amazing feeling.

day's matchup with Colby-Sawyer, a game the Whi te

And on the ba ketball court, there is nothing better than

M u les would win, 64-62, despite some tense moments.

seeing someone do omething you've j ust taught them." But in the back ofher mind, ofcourse, Beach is planning

The team blew a 1 0-point lead in the first half and left

for the future even as she appreciates the pre ent.

the floor down by two. Beach exploded in the locker room at halftime, tell ing her players that the way to win

"Part of building a program is laying the foundation,"

a contest is "to want it more than anything." The

she said. "I've been lucky with the players I inherited

language was colorfu l .

from the former coach, but I look forward to the t ime when the program is all mine. It can't come fast enough. "

"I w a s trying to snap them o u t of it," she said. "It was

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t e v e C h e r n off ' 9 1 ometimes knocked off work at noon this winter. He liked to take advantage of the fe,v precious hours of daylight to ight ee in his adopted ci ty, t. Peters burg, Russia, once home to Feodor Dostoe\'sky, Aleks ander Pushkin and Nikolai Gogol-not to mention a succession of tsars tarting with Peter the Great. Wan dering amid the hou es with their genteel, crumbling fa cades or beside canals dug a few decade

before the

A m e r i c an Revol u t ion , Chernoffmight be mistaken for a touri t. But in fact, he and several other Colbians are among a small but influ ential group of young for eigners helping to shape-

Steve Chernoff ' 9 1 says he enjoys long rambles amidst S r . Petersburg's historic buildings . Behind him is The Hermitage .

for better or worse-the future of modem Russia.

Jenny Alfond ' 9 2 , who went t o S t . Petersburg two years

Chernoff is the lone St. Petersburg employee of FYI , a

ago on a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship and taught school

Ukraine-based company that collects information about

children about environmental preservation, now works as

major Russian cities and sends it to Washington, D.C.,

office manager at M cK insey & Co. , a management/consult

where reports are compiled for busine e con idering set

ing firm that opened i ts first branch in the city last year.

ting up shop in Ru ia. His apartment is his office, which

These Colbian -and other Westerners-have brought

makes life easy in some ways ( " I can work in my bathroom

new opportunities and new ways of doing busines to St.

if I want to") and difficult in others ( "It's always a poten

Petersburg. But as enthusiastic as they are abou t their j obs,

tial twenty-four-hour work day" ) . When he feels the walls

there also is a growing sense among them that things in

closing in, he heads for one of St. Peter burg's relatively

this ci ty-and in the country a a whole-may be moving

new, decidedly post-communist Western bars.

too fast.

"Business necessitates it," Chernoff said. "It' required ,

Alfond, especially, is concerned about the American

going to a lot of schmoozing k inds of places."

influence in Russia. As a one-time chair of Colby's Environ

H ilary Greene ' 9 1 is co-owner of Personnel Corps, a firm

mental Council and the force behind the College's thriving

that helps Russians find work with foreign companies. "It's

recycling program, Alfond cringes at the potential for eco

exciting," Greene said. "At home I couldn't be doing what

logical damage as Russia develops a market economy. She's

we're doing here-running our own business, getting the

traveled to many locales in the Commonwealth oflndepen

funds, being taken seriously and doing cross-cultural con

dent States-including the Caucasus, central Asia and S ibe

sulting for the Ru ian and foreign sides to make them able

ria-and she speaks with deep admiration for the people

to work together." Last fall Greene hired Todd A lexander

he's met, who "know every root, plant, flower, track." But

'92 as an account executive. H is job is to place Russian

she wonders what will happen as they move away from their

workers with American corporations, including Phi l ip

agrarian roots.

Morris, Procter & Gamble and G illette.

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"I feel sort of tom," Al fond said, "becau e as much as I get

up et when I ee A merican and Western material culture,

appearance-with its billboards adverti ing foreign good

my perspective is a privi leged one. I 've had the chance to

and ervices, i ts hops and its modern, efficient Metropolityen

decide whether I want to make those things a part of my life."

subway-can "tease you into thinking that rhino will run

Russian are only now getting that choice. Until recent

like you're used to in the

tate . ' Alexander, a Rus ian

studies major who a a senior toured the c i ty as part of a J an

ly, for instance, shoppers had to provide their own bags to carry home food and other purchase ; today, even ome

Plan trip led by A soc iate Profe sor of Ru · ian

state-operated stores dole out plastic bags. Alfond worrie

McCarthy, said l ife there i difficult for most.

that thi will create greater and greater demands for non

heila

"To get things done, uch as buying food or doing laundry, you really have to set a ide a huge chunk of your day," he aid,

biodegradable wraps and packaging.

adding that the proces ha taught him to appreciate things

For Chernoff and Greene, politic , not pla tics, are cause for concern . Chernoff says he wa a surprised as mo t

more. A carton oforange juice co ting 1 , 500 ruble ( 1 .2 5 , up

Americans by the trong showing turned in by ultra-con

from about 700 ruble la t summer) might be available at a local

servative Vlad i m ir Zhirinovsky in December's national

kiosk one day, for instance, but not the next. "You can fi nd any

e lection . Then he poke to one of his neighbors,

thing in the c ity," Alex

a hi t o ry b u ff w h o ' d

ander aid, "but you don't

v o t e d for the R u s i an

know where it is." In A lexander'

nationali t.

fi r t

j ust fed up,"

apartment, a one-room

Chernoff said, with the

flat off t. Isaac' Square

"He i

h a r d s h i p s and u n c e r

not far from Peter the

t a i n ty cau ed by Boris

Great' W inter Palace, he

Yeltsin's democratic re

wa plagued by a lack of

form . "It's the ame rea

kitchen facilities and a

son a lot of people voted

fin icky hot-water boiler

for Perot. [Zhirinovsky] i

-not to mention lone l i

an outsider."

Late in t h e f a l l he

P o l i t ic a l i n t a b i l i t y

moved to a communal

d o e n ' t make for t h e best

apartment he hare with

busine s c limate, G reene

a R u s ia n fam i ly and

points out. Recall ing a

two graduate students.

J uly i n c ident in which

They've made h i m feel

the government decided

les of a stranger.

to replace a l l pre - 1 993

"Ru sia is a very group

c urrency i n an effort to

oriented culture," he said. "When I come home, ev

tamp out b l a c k mar he aid, "A

eryone its do� n and talks

lot of the o lder people

in the k i tchen," u ually

keteering,

ipping herb tea.

fe l t a sen e of pan i c .

Chernoff, who l i v e s

There w e r e long l ine a t t h e bank . F o r u s , i t w a

a l o n e i n a fu r n i h e d

a typical thing that we've

apart m e n t h e '

come to get used to. You

rated w i th po t e r

j ust never know what'

movie tough guy J ean

going to happen . " Todd A lexander ays

Jenny Alfond '92 , posed here in front of the Smolnyy Cathedral, says Russia's environmental future is of critical importance .

deco of

Claude Van Damme, ays h i

c h ief gripe is

w i t h the lack of fresh

St. Peter burg' bustling

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semester in st. PeimbuTfJ

Colby has one of the most wide-ranging programs offoreign study among colleges of its size in the nation. More than 65 percent of the student body spend a year, a semester, a summer or a]an Plan studying abroad in countries as diverse as England, South Africa , Korea and Brazil. Last semester, two Colby students participated in the Colby in St. Petersburg program , founded by Associate Professor of Russian Sheila McCarthy . Leigh Glenn gave Colby a snapshot of their lives in the stately Russian city. and

Since T ravi Larrabee '95 of Boxford, Mass., last visited Russia

history, l ived with a Russian family in St. Petersburg la t fal l . Every

Marsha Magnus ' 9 5 , a double major i n Russian

tudie

in the summer of 1 99 1 , the number of Western products available

morning before unrise, she left the apartment for classes at the St.

there ha mushroomed. Kiosks sell ing cabbages, beets, potatoes,

Petersburg Gymnasium.

carrot , pigs and chickens-even rare treat

Magnu taught English to n inth graders and studied history,

uch as honey, ba

nana and oranges-have sprung up around subway rations and

literature, composi t ion, grammar, phonetics and conversational

along busy streets. Many shop have been privatized and now stock

Russian. Having taught rambunctious students at a middle chool

Western foods, co metics and clothes, imported televisions and fax

in her hometown of Hampden, Maine, during Jan Plan in h r

machine and even fuzzy-headed troll dolls.

sophomore year, she had hoped that the Ru sians would be quiet

"There' more here," aid Larrabee. "There was money to spend

and orderly. But they, too, presented d i cipl ine problems-espe

[before] but nothing to buy. N ow it's the exact opposite. There's

c ially

ince the Russian administrators were trying to make the

school more l ike an American one by encouraging students to expres their opinions free ly. Keeping them busy and learning was difficult, Magnus said. When she wasn't doing Colby homework by preparing reports in Russian based on new paper article and television and radio broadcasts, Magnu attended theater, ballet and symphony perfor mances and took in ome of St. Petersburg's famous museums. Outside of school, Magnus says, her biggest challenge wa fee ling comfortable in an alien culture. Serendipity helped. She remembers a tipsy local man cornering her on a trolley and demand

stuff to buy, but it's just so expensive that average Russians don't have the money to buy it." A double major in Russian tudie and government, Larrabee, like Magnu , took courses in Russian history, literature and grammar and taught Engli h to Russian students. He said that the most important part of hi experience was living with a family. "I 've learned probably a hundred times more at home than at school," Larrabee said . "When you l ive with somebody for three months, it put a face behind all the theories." I n cla

, Larrabee was taught that Russians treasure tradition

and friendship more than anything e lse. "They live day by day, it

ing to know if she was from New York. They got to talking about the

eem ," Larrabee said. "They are willing to spend every last d ime

United States, and soon a small crowd gathered. 'They wanted to

they have to buy you a gift and they'll worry about feeding

know why I was in Rus ia," she said . "That was a nice experience." Magnus shopped in numerou state-run stores whose neon signs

announced ovoschi ifrukti (fruit) , gastronomiya (meat) and konditerskaya

themselves later. I t's not l ike in America, where m ney is such an important thing." Larrabee's hosts, a married couple in their 20s, were scientists.

(sweets) for sale. Bread was found elsewhere-shopping in Russia

The husband was a working biologist; the wife chose to stay home

usually means shuttling among as many as 10 different stores, depend

with their daughters. "They were interested in l ife i n general, what

ing on one' need . In state-run stores the customer decides what he

it's l ike being an American," Larrabee said. "l had conversation

or she wants, calculates the price, pay for the item, gets a receipt and

with them about whether people are really the same around the

gives the receipt to a clerk, who hands over the item, sometimes after

world or are different j ust because of nationality or geography."

a long wait. Magnus says she learned to swallow her impatience-and gained an insight or two. "The people don't smile at you when you go to a store, but they're pretty helpful," she said. "Life is harder in general (given] the uncer tainty of the political situation. Why bother to smile? It's just a job. There's no incentive to do anything."

Like Magnus, Larrabee often went on cultural outings, but he also appreciated St. Petersburg's proximity to Pushkin (home to Catherine the Great's massive blue, white and gold palace) and other, smaller towns whose parks and palaces once were frequented by tsars. "You can't drive 20 minutes outside of Boston and see a palace," he said.

"I 've been completely taken by thi- c ity," he said. "There i an incred ible sense of history here that's very well pre erved. You can j ust pic ture [Dostoev ky' ] Ra kolnikov walking around here." In January 1 992, Alfond, whose dream i t is to run an outdoor adventure service in the CI , pearheaded a 1 2 -day, American-Ru ian ki expe dition to the Hibbin Mountain above the Arctic Circle.

he ay

he' hoping to organi:e another

such tri�this time to Siberia-thi summer. Many Rus ian , Alfond ays, don't appreciate the value of the natural world. "They \vere not really protective of nature," she said of the group· of tudents she led on field trips to the fore t' outs ide St. Peter burg. "They saw it more a a sport or omething to be overcome or to beat. " Like many American who l ive in Ru s i a , Hilary Greene ' 9 1 rides S t . Petersburg's gleaming Metropoliryen subway cars to her Personnel Corps office .

Chernoff says he feels l u c k y to have option : h e can alway leave if t h e pol i t ical i tuation wors ens-or if h i yearn ing for "daily shipments of

fru i t and vegetables in the c ity. At

2 - $ 3 per k ilogram,

orange j u ice" get too trong. But for now , noth i ng i

price for American staples such as broccoli and c a u l i

powerful enough to lure h i m away.

flower are not u nreasonably h igh, but they, like mo t greens, aren't plentiful , and Chernoff ays he'

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Leigh G lenn is a freelance writer based in S t . Petersburg.

S t . Petersburg life pale compared to the adventure of being there at t h i s p ivotal moment in the c ity's-and the n a t ion' -hi story. ' I want to learn a lot about Ru sia and St. Peter burg," Alexander said. "In one respect I don't have time. I ' m worki ng for an American company, and that's very un-Rus ian. But I get to interview Russian and meet a lot of people." Alexander say he wants to ray in Russia and hope , eventually, to find work restoring and renovating old build ings. Greene, who has l ived in

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Per onnel Corp was founded a year and a half ago, ay a change i n the pol itical wind could send her home. And he adm i ts that he i occa ionally home ick, particularly for her 1 3 -year-old brother. "I feel l ike I'm m issing his whole developmental age," he aid. But as long a there's not another coup, and as long as foreign busine e are allowed to stay, Greene says she will, too.

"You can find anything in the city , " says Todd Alexander '92 , "but you don ' t know where it is . "

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Mitchell Predicts Can� Do Campaign - By Sally Baker-

dson M i tchel l ' 7 5 has his hands The camraign, which will begin th is fall ful l . As co-head and managing with spec ial "kick off" events in Waterville, director of the fixed i ncome d iv i Boston and New York, is designed to build s i o n at Merrill Lynch, M i tchell spends a Colby's endowment and help meet critical good deal of his time traveling to Eu rope and Asia. At home in hi New York office he manages 500 employ ees. He and his wife, Su-an, are rearing five chi ldren, includ ing Erik '97. His free time is precious. But almost since the moment he graduated frnm Colby with a degree in ecnnom ics and administrati\'e 5Cience, Mitchell has heen Yolunteeri ng hi:o. time and offering h is considerable tal ents-a well a� significant fi nanc ial supron-to the College. And now he has taken the cha i r nf the tru�tee com m i t tee charged w i th helpi ng Colby mount i ts most ambit iou::. cap i ta l cam raign to date. Why ? "Every time I come back to Colby I Edson Mitchell ' 75 can't help hut be impressed with its qual ity," Mitchell said , "and I am reminded of needs, including student fi nancial aid and the things I like about the College. We faculty support. "Colby is at a point in it" history when have excellent teachers who are publishing the ability of the College to us ta in a faculty and working hard in the clas room. The College i doing a lot of things right. It is with a high level of cholarship, to con efficiently managed, the administration is tinue to offer financial aid and to keep up lean. All that makes my philanthropic im the phy ical plant with tuition increases i severely limited," Mitchell aid. "In order pulses more significant." Mitchell is quick-extremely quick for Colby to make a commitment to excel to insist that his commitment to Colby isn't lence-to move to the next level-the unique and to brush aside efforts to portray endowment ha to increa e. This is an him as a hero. 'We're all busy. Everybody is exciting opportunity for Colby." And, M itchell notes, the campaign busy. I choose to take the time, and so do they," he aid, refeITing to the other mem should reinforce the notion that at a bers of the Campaign Steering Committee: small liberal arts college l i ke Colby, one Barbara Alfond P '92 , E. Michael Caulfield per on really can make a difference. "You see that in the faculty, among the '68, Robert E. Diamond J r. '74, Robert Furek '64, Will iam Goldfarb '68, George students, in the administration," he said. Haskell ' S S , Ron Lupton '7 1 , Paul Ostrove "That's one ofthe exciting things about the '53 , Paul Paganucci, Lawrence Pugh '56 school. As we've built the campaign' and John Zacamy '7 1 . "No one should be nucleus fund and Bill [Cotter] and Larry focusing on the work we're doing. The [Pugh] and I have visited people to ask for focus should be on the campaign and its support, I've made a point of saying, 'Your gift can have enormous impact."' goals. Those are so important."

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"Colby is an in titution with a lot of momentum," Mitchell added. 'The mon ey that is raised is going to be used for very good, very important purposes. And I think thi will be a succes ful campaign, in spite of uncertain economic time . Re earch has shown that there i a very po itive feeling about Colby among it alumni and other constituent . If we can tap that we'll be successful." I n add it ion to chairing the teer ing commi ttee, M i tchell erve on the tru tee development committee; he also has served on his cla reunion gift commi ttee and as a mentor to Colby students through the Office nf Career er\' ices' volunteer program. La t year he endowed the M itchell Family Pro fessorship in Economics.

Goldberg Issues Challenge

hose ofus who are fortunate should celebrate our good fortune with others," said Edward Goldberg ' 5 9 , who hopes to do some of that celebrating at hi 3 5 th Colby reunion this ummer. Goldberg, vice president of Donald son, Lufk in and J enrette Securitie Cor poration i n Boston, ha pledged up to 2 5 ,000 to the Alumni Fund as a chal lenge to h is c lass, offering to match any g ift of $ 1 00 or more if the c las achieves at least a 4 7 percent partic ipation rate. "He wanted to do something to spur his cla smate on, to get people to raise the ir sights and to get people to contrib ute," aid Pam A lexander, Colby's an nual giving director. "In some small way, I wanted to serve as an example to the members of my cla ," Goldberg agreed. " I generally feel that good in ti tutions exist because of the people who preceded us. A reunion year seemed like the appropriate t ime to + remember that." "

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arry M itchell '60 is a gay man and a pol itical liberal far to the left of center. He' publi hed five novels and two books of nonfiction, and he's had two plays produced. Good as they are, though-and they are very good M itchell's book don't attract maj or re viewers or a wide reader hip and are neither publi hed nor distrib u t ed by l a rge p u b l i s h i ng hou es. Like M i tchell himself, the books are deni:en of oc iety's fringe : they observe main tream cultu re with a mixture of sadness, qui rky hu mor and deep impatience. "American culture is all about opt i m i s m , " M i tche l l a i d during a recent interview. " I 've always been more into how you think about th ing if you're not a part of that, what kind of con c iou ne you de velop if you see c iv i l izat ion as winding down, omething that can't go on indefin itely." H is first no el, The Faggots & T h e i r Friends B e tween Revolutions, published in 1 9 7 7 , d e cribe the world dominated b y heteroexual men as an oppre ive wasteland where greed, power grubbi ng and deceit have made a few-mo tly white-men rich and terrorized women and noncon formists. M i tchell to es word l ike bomb ; nearly every pejorative term available to describe gays, lesbians and bi exuals is here in abundance-which, of course, neutralizes their power to wound. The book i an insider's guide to the homoexual experience in all it variety, and the archetype pre ented appear as fully fle hed character in M i tchell's later books, The Terminal Bar ( 1 98 2 ) , In Heat: A Romance ( 1 985 ) , My Life As A Mole ( 1 988) and Acid Snow ( 1 993 ) . In M itchell's books, heterosexual male culture demands total submi s ion, and

every raid on a gay bar, every gay ba hing, every anti-gay epi thet punctuates that po int. Mitchell has pent most of hi life mu i ng on the source of the hatred and o trac ism he and other gay men encoun ter. "Anti-gay prej udice is the same thing a --or is intimately linked with-women-

hating," he said. "A long as the culture and the soc iety is male-dominated you will have prej ud ice against homosexual . I think the prej udice again t gay men ex ists becau e we have not identified suffic iently with men and we haven't taken our role in the uppression of women." In The Tenninal Bar, two characters, Rob in and Barnaby, come up with a theory: ifstraight men could become more like gays, violence would cea e. "My father and the other grown-up men were always at work or on a golf course or in a bar," Robin ays. "And everywhere I saw them they were always trying to do each other in. l would hear who came in first and who came in last after each golf game. The loser were 27

always ready t o blast o r cream o r obl i ter ate or beat or stomp the winner the next t ime . . . . I became a faggot. And for thirty year- I have been going to bath house and bars and bushes and beaches fi lled, often crammed, with men. And they are not violent with each other." The theory i proved wrong later in the book when Barnaby is beaten almost to death by a bi exual mugger. The other character revert to absolute pes imism about their chance of finding wide-ranging acceptance. The beat ing al o undercores a common M i tchell theme: we are u- and they are them; let's keep it that way. M i tch.ell abhors the iolence and the prej udice against gays and lesbians, but he acknowl edge that belonging to maintream soc iety is not hi goal. "Pushing the margins i intere t ing," he aid. "You don't know where the mar gin are unles omebody's out there poking around at them, o it's very important to have people doing that. I f ociety were to change enough to accept us, I think we would find something new to make a pec ial niche for ourselve that would make u different. lt's ju t that we wouldn't be t igmatized o much for it-and phy i cally threatened." The Tenninal Bar and My Life As A Mole are populated by characters who can only survive by cl inging al mo t mili tantly to the margins and by believing that there are few legitimate new begin nings to be pur ued. When one charac ter, Scarlet, become pregnant, mo t of the others try to conv ince her to abort the fetu . When she decides to bear the child, they are i nc redulous. "For i ts twenty-fir t birthday we'll give it a dead planet," Robin says. And in the end-

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i ne v i tably, the reader feels-Scarlet aborts spontaneously. Acid Snow is a dark book, too, present i ng, as rev iewer Gary I ndiana says, a portra it of a communi ty "whose primary shared act i vity is waiting for the other shoe to drop." But in th is novel, which has A I DS as its central yet subtle theme, the main charac ter, Jake, is a believer in love and the future . H is anarchist father keeps trying to comm it suic ide, his les bian s ister is a perfect Wall Street yuppie, his friends are in destructive relati on ships with each other and with alcohol, and he himself is so convi nced that the earth is dying that he agonizes over whether to donate sperm so his si ter's lover can be artific ially inseminated. But Jake's cynicism i undone by love . He i infa tuated with the man next door, and when he goes court ing he is a pic ture of hope and vulnerabi l ity. J ak e ' s s l i m op t i m i sm m a y b e M itchell's nod to t h e respon ibility of a gay writer in the age of A I DS. Don't believe what you read in the paper and in novels and see on televi ion these days, M itchell eem to say with Jake-gay are not end le sly preoccu p ied with death. And to end that message he's will ing to let up a little on the negativity. " I wanted A I DS to be part of the landscape, an ele ment in the book," M i tchell said. "It's a very important ele ment because it's central to everyone's consciousness, but people do have l ives. They till fall in love and they fall out of love and do everything el e while deal i ng with all of this. So much of [current l iterature and film about A I DS] focuses so d i rectly on it that you begin to get the feel ing that there's nothing else to gay life except that." M i tchell has been writing about A I DS s i nce the beginning of the epidemic, but he has never accorded it central stage in a book. For one thing, he says, he doesn 't have the d isease, and to claim that he understands that experience would be di respectful to those who are ill. Paul , the A I DS-affl icted character in Acid Snow, dies messily and angrily, and M i tchell says that's partly a reaction to the pervad ing sense , in books and fi lm , that A I DS victims must be portrayed sympathet ically. "So much of the current stuffsays that

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death is ennobl ing," Mitchell said. "And when I started watching my friends d ie I found that it wa n't. It didn't make them better people; it wasn't about that . . . . Most of the people I knew got angry and were horrible. " Mi tchell also has n o use for most of the gay writ ers who have been published by the big houses. "There's a whole group who've come along who are mainstream, New Yorker-type wri ter�.-- '.1e said. "They are the ones who can make people out side the gay community think they're reading gay wri ter· so they can say, 'Oh, look, they're just like u . They live in

"Pushing the margins is interesting. You don't know where the margins are unless somebody 's out there poking around at them . '' Connect icut; they commute; they're ad vert ising execut ive ; they have table re lationship and aren't promiscuous'-all the thing they think we are and they hate us for." M i tchell himself i among the most widely known and re peered writers in the gay commun ity, but his background prepared him more for a career in schol arly writ ing than in fict ion. He was reared in Muncie, I nd . , and from earliest chi ld hood remember being desperate to leave the Midwest for the oph ist ication of the East Coa t. Waterv ille wasn't exactly what he'd had in mind, he ays, but Colby was the right size for a smal l-town boy, and he found the academics challenging. His soc ial life revolved around a frater nity he helped found as a sophomore. "We started it because a lot of the other fraternities d idn't accept J ews, and lots of my friends were J ewish" he re called. "But the subtext was gay. It turned out that many of us were gay, which was why we were being turned down by the other fraterni ties. We d idn't know that, couldn't say it, but we could deal with the anti -Semitic issue publ icly."

Mi tchell majored in philosophy and concentrated on his studies. He tayed firmly in the closet, he says, havi ng seen openly gay men suffer "active per ecu tion" by other students. "It was the fif ties," he said, r("membering the climate of the t imes, "so it wasn't o much Colby, it was America. Colby reflected that. " He graduated from Colby "knowing a lot and feel ing intellectua lly confident" and enrolled in a graduate program in ph ilosophy at Columbia. He switched to sociology after a semester and went on to earn hi Ph.D. Mitchell followed theu ual academic track, fir t a an assistant profe sor at Rutgers and later at the College ofStaten I land, a divi ion of the City University of New York, where he taught courses on marriage and the family, prisons and the sociology of men until his retire ment last year. When he joined the Staten Island faculty in 1 969 he moved into a ram shackle Victorian house near campus with several friends, and soon, he says, thi "gay commune" attracted attention in Manhattan. The owners of a small pre s invited the group tosubmita manucripr about their life together. "I began to write it because there wa no one else to do it," he said of the book that ensued, Great Gay in the Morn ing. "I loved writing and teasing stuff out of people and ed i ting the book." The author of one cholarly book, Mitchell was never to write another; from then on he wrote fiction and drama. In 1 9 74 Mitchell moved to Manhat tan, taking the first in a series of apart ments in We t and East G reenwich Vi llage, where h is novel all are set. Three year later, after Faggots wa turned down by several publi hers, Mi tchell decided to start hi own company, Calamus Books, named for the homoerotic poems in Walt Wh itman' Leaves of Grass. "I wa embarrassed about self-publish ing," Mitchell said. "There's a certai n rigma attached to it. So I decided to fake it-I'd publish my own books, but I 'd also publish a couple of other books so it would look like a regular publ ishing hou e." "This was 1 9 7 7 ," Mitchell aid. "There were almost no gay publisher , and every gay person in America had a book in the drawer that they thought would never be

publi hed-and they all sent them to me. " M itchell later helpeJ form G ay

Pre e of New York, whose fir-t publica tion wa Harvey Fire tein' Tony-win ning Torch Song Trilogy. Calamu publ i hed The Terminal Bar, Gay Pres e took on In Heat. M)' Life As A Mole, an uproariou collec tion of to ries that M itchell considered " tou d i rty" to attract another publ isher, appeared under the Calamus imprint. Mole fooled him, thouoh, w inning the pre t igious Lambda L iterary Award and the not ice of main tream publi hers. When Acid Snow wa ready M itchell igned up an agent and ent the book on the round . "Nobody would publi h it," M i tchell aid. "Everybody eemed to know me. They wrote letter aying, 'Oh, we want to publ ish a book by him, but not thi book. We l iked the last book . ' Which, of cour e, they wouldn't have publi hed if I'd ent it to them. They alway · l ike the la t book. Somebody thought i t was too pol itical, somebody else thought it was too depres i ng. So I publ ished it myself." Mi tchell ay he isn't ·ure how long he'll be able to go on writ ing. He cut h i academic career hart when a continuing battle with the incurable eye d i ea e retinitu p igmento a made the daily com mute and the teaching too difficult, and he may yet lo e hi v is ion. " l love teaching and [ know I 'll mis it," Mitchell said, "but it had gotten to the point where I felt it >vas unfair to the tudent for me to cont inue." ow, he ays, he and a friend are hopp ing a children' book around to variou publishers, and he' contemplating a move to a small town on Long 1 land, where life would be more manageable should he become s ighrle . "I'm feel ing very open to the po sibil i ties," he said. "It' been my experience that thing turn up."

An Ideal S leuth

newspaperman, at lea t in a Maine paper m i ll town, i a natural detec t ive. ln his fir t novel, Dead Line ( orth Country Pres , 1 99 3 ) , Gerry Boyle '78 delivers a convincing leuth and a grittily authentic town, a J ack McMorrow, editor of the Androscoggin Review, pokes and prie and pushes into the my teriou death of the new paper' photographer.

Who el e care that the dead man wa an unlikeable lo er, e pecially when the paper mill, the ole economic supportof the town, may also die-helped along by McMorrow' · inve tioative reporting ? A ever-present a the stench and the plume from it stacks, the mill lords it over

least livelihood. "Again t this backdrop of hangover to hango\'er exi tence, the mill smelled pretty oood," Boyle write of the town's economic desperation. When the dead man' acti\ ities and the mill' interect, everybody ·eems to have everything at take, and e\'en McMorrow' colleagues and hi new lady friend look dangerous. Thi is all a topical as today' newspa per, and ju t the art of me · that Boyle, a Central Maine Morning Sentinel columni t, know in ide and out. ln grim inlandMaine ( thecoa tal penin ulasofthebeatentouri t track are "finger of c ivility") , McMorrow pounds the pavement or the country ide, heading anywhere that anything' happen ing. He's somebody everybody in town know , the guy who its in the cafe where people come up and ask him what' happen ing. A man who a k the right que tion , McMorrow i the ideal leuth-and a fine advance in the private eye genre-as he devote himself to getting the facts ( i.e., truth) and wrapping up the tory ( i.e., ee ing ju tice done ) . "That's what w e d o . W e are detec t ives," Boyle a id in a recent interv iev . "Only we write ruff down that we find

out." ew paper people, he adds, de ,·elop "a jaded cynic i m that goes with the turf. Cop , reporter., emergency room nur e -they ha,·e a tough ut ide, a fl ip pant arritude abou t thing . " McMorrow, a bel ievable wi ecrac k ing tough guy. i proof that a news beat is �ooJ bac k ground for a my tery writer. On a lide him elf, McMorro\\' drinks ton much Ballantine ale and \\·akes up alone with a hangover but still head· out into a wrnld of ,·iolence and \\'rongdo ino, will ing to face malevolent roughneck and cop fu ll of ani mo· ity to get, as alway , the tor) . Reader. \\'ho like being initiated i nto different professions will note McMorrow' newsha\\-k trick , like ruffing his pen back in his pocket during an inten·iew so the inten·iewee will relax and thmk he' not being pumped . New. room term i nology puts u s i n t h e kno\\': M cMorrow expect the story of the death 11\\'ould make a two-inch brief' or will get "a couple of grafs, inserted on the local pa e or maybe the jump." Vocational detail i as authon tati\'e as an "adrenaline run , " what Mc Monow calls "that pumped-up, urging feeling you get when you hm·e a bio break ing tory." Forget that Jack get· beaten up, makes love, sakes murders and eYen ger hi work in on deadline. It wouldn't be a'.> much fun if he were too real. "In two months, everyrhinoexploded," Boyle aid of the good re\'iew. of Dead Line in The ew York Times and The Washington Post. Berkeley Book will pub l i h the paperback. A mo,·ie would eem a l ikely next tep, but that po ibility i. " till talk," he a id. Boyle i gra�eful for the help he re ce ived from Colby's creative writing fac ulty and from author Robert B. Parker '54, who helped Boyle l ink up w ith hi agent. The econd !cMorrow my tery, already accepted by Putnam, will take Mc Morrow out of Androscoggin to Waldo County , where a a freelancer he will range over more of the state. Boyle already has oone on a part-time ba i at the Sentinel, cutting down from three column each week to one. De p i te his new career direction, he ays he'll continue to write for the new paper. Both he and McMorrow need it. "l wouldn't abandon my column," he said. " I t keep me in touch. I run into tuff." -Robert Gillespie

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olby \� ill play host to more than im pac t on the athlete a l reaJy in the 1 50 of the nation' top collegiate program . Seeing what the nationals are k ier , i nc l ud i ng some fu ture all about is a real motivating factor for Olympic a-pirants, at the Division I cham them; i t ' something any athlete would pionships March 9- 1 2 at Sugarloaf Moun want to be a part of. " tain in the Canaba sett Valley, about an hour' drive north of the College. Previous hosr- have included the universitie of ColoraJo, New Hamp shire and Utah. The NCAA, which alternate between ea ·rem and we t ern schools in electing a ho t, approved a proposal submitted by Pre idenr Wil l iam Cotter, Athletic Director Dick Whitmore and Sugarloaf/U A Assis tant President Peter Webber. The White M u les s k i teams' 1 99 2 elevat ion to D i v i ion I s t a t u s fol lowed three consec u t i ve D i v ision 1 1 national skiing ti tles and est abl ished the men' and women's ski team as the chool' only D i v i ion I sports. Both team now compete aga i n t such eastern ski ing powerhou es as the U n i v ersity of Vermont, Dart mouth and M idd lebury. Whitmore aid the championships "give Colby real visibility in the ski ing community." According to Nordic ski coachJeffersonGoethals '93 , "this com petition is to the skiing community Brian Carlson '94 what the Final Four is to basketball. The absolute top young talent in the country Over the past four years, Colby has sent will be here. It is really a great opportunity four athletes to the Division I skiing cham pionships. Last year, downhill skiers Mark for our program." In the spring of 1 992 , Colby was the Radcliffe '93 and Jen Comstock '93 com i te of the N CAA Div ision l l I ou tdoor bined to score 64 points in the meet, which track and field championships. Colby placed Colby 1 5th in the nation. This year m e n ' s t r a c k and f i e l d c o a c h ] i m Brian Carlson '94 of Jericho, Vt., the cap Wescott, who was instrumental i n or tain of the men's Nordic team, and men's ganizing and oversee ing the event, said and women's alpine captains Adam Furber that " hos t i ng a nat ional championsh i p '94 of Eden Prairie, M inn., and Kate h e l p s a l l aspects of a program . I t makes Swenson '94 of Warner, N . H . , may be the a stateme n t to prospec tive s t ud e n ts best hopes for Colby. About half of the 39 schools that have about the College' comm i t ment to a sport. The e xposure to the nat ional Division I ski programs are expected to championships also ha an enormous send athletes to the competition, which

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include only tho e k ier who have quali fied for berths in prior meets. The eight events that are scored at the nationals include the men's and women' lalom, giant slalom, Nordic and free tyle competitions. Colby is supplying pre s k its, trainers and student volunteer to as ist in the competition. Individual title competition will be fought out among athletes whose rank incl ude pa t and pre ent mem ber of the U.S. Junior National Ski Tearn , which trad it ionally groom Olympic hopefuls. About 3 5 to 40 ind iv iduals compete in each event for the chance to become first- and sec ond -team All- Americans. Recently the universities of Vermont, Utah and Colorado have dominated the team compet ition, winning title in 1 6 of the pa t 1 7 years.

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ictory nu mber 400 for Colby men's basketball coach and ath letic d i rector Dick Whitmore came on February 1 3 , when the White Mules defeated Wheaton, 7 7 - 7 3 . Whitmore, n o w i n hi 2 4 t h year o n Mayflower H ill, has a career win/loss average that hovers around 70 percent. H is 300th win came during the 1 989-90 campaign, when the team posted a 26- 1 record, its best to date, and won its first ECAC championship. Whitmore's teams have won three ECAC championships and 1 2 CBB titles-and they have not lost more than five games in a season since 1 988. Whitmore's 400th was bittersweet for one Colby basketball fan-Roy Dow '84, a former White Mule player and assistant coach, is now head coach at Wheaton. +

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hile the stock market oared We do have a \.vealth of information in "There is alway omething for me tn to record heights in J anuary, our office j ust waiting for them." do even though there are no formal Jaily en ior Zachary Rubin of New Rubin, who hope to work in the finan dutie ," Rubin, an economic major and ton, Mass . , wime sed the exc itement first c ial world following graduation, spotted admini trative c ience m inor, explained hand as part of a Jan Plan internship with a the perfect internship po sibil i ty while in J anuary. "Recently I attended a con stock-trading alumnus in New York City. scouring files at the Career Service library. ference hosted by Goldman-Sach \\'here Rubin was one of hundreds of student Rob Engli h ' 2 was offering an internship companies were giving prod uct pre�enta who selected off-c ampus proj ects for Jan with his company, G rant Partner , a money t ions. I wa there for Rob, re earch ing Plan. Other t u tored Russian immigran t management finn that handles 30 million d ifferent companies in which he was con at a J ew i h community center in Provi worth ofbusines each year. Rubin got the sider ing inve t ing. It wa incred ible. I dence, R . l . , worked w i th Mother Tere a ' position. He ays hi life ha n't quite been was itt ing next to the CEO and pre ·i mi ionarie in Calcutta, India, te ted the ame ince. dent of these major compan ie . With their ea kayaking sk i l ls at the N at ional W ith an office on the 2 3 rd floor of a internships it' not always what you do Outdoor Leadership School i n Baj a, Ca New York City h igh-ri e overlook i ng but who you meet-it's the network ing. " l if. , and assi ted talk "Zach has had the how ho t Oprah Win opport u n i ty to meet frey in Chicago. the guys who are really I ntroduced i n 1 96 2 maki ng the dec ision ," as t h e nat ion's first J a n Engli h said. "He got uary program, Colby' to it next to the presi Jan Plan today offers dent of Bell port and tudent an array of they talked abc u t bike opportunit ies on and helmet ale in Europe off campu , aero the for a while. It ha ab o nation and around the lutely been a valuable world. Each J an u a ry experience for Zach." tudent choo e from Rubin arrived at the among a w ide variety of office by 8 a. m. in order courses, i ndependent to read The Wall Street study project , intern Journal before Engli h ship and fie ld t udy got in and they pre program . pared for the tock For Rubin and many market' 9 : 3 0 open ing. other tudents, the ex Rubin aid he wanted periences come w ith a R o b English '82 i s "shadowed" b y Colby senior Zach Rubin during Rubin's]an Plan to make sure he wa up l ittle help from alumni. to speed on world and with Grant Partners in New York City . Accord i n g t o L i n d a national events o he Cotter, assoc iate d i rector of academic af Fifth Avenue, the Trump Tower and could "have intelligent conversation with fairs and off-campus study, alumni are Central Park, Rubin described the atmo Rob about the market and d i fferent canva sed often to see if they are w i l l i ng sphere a "overwhelming and awe ome." stocks." to offer an intern h ip to students. More G rant Partner ( the "partner" i in Chi "It' all an information game, " said than 1 ,200 alumni have responded favor cago) is located in rented pace w ith parse Rubin. "You ju t need to be aware of ably to the request. furnishings, no support staff and much what's going on in order to make in " I wouldn't say that an i nternship is work to be done. Alone at h is desk , En formed dec i ion . We are alway d iscu s the right thing for everyone," a id Cotter. gli h worked w ith three computers and ing what is going on and why Rob is doing "But students continually need to be alert a bank of 40 phone lines that never certain thing . Often I'll ju t pull a chair up next to him and pick h i brain for an to the opportunit ies that are out there. seemed to stop ringing.

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ent i re Jay trying to learn as much as possihle about the market." Rubin ::iays a lot of h is time was spent shaJowing English , who typically spends h is day · trad ing stocks and stock options by phone anJ compu ter or talk ing with cl ients and prospec tive clients. After the market clo!>ed each day at 4, Ruhin usually stayed on for a few more hours tn research stocks and compan ies, track data and learn more about what had gone nn d uring the day. "Thi has rea lly given me a taste of the fu ture anJ a chance to see if thi · is what I really want to do," Rubin said . "Th i::. ex perience has solidified my in terest in go i ng to a c i ty and wor k i ng in the worlJ of finance after grad uation." Both Cotter and English say they be lieve ·uch insight are the mnst valuable part of an internship. "Grad uat ing �enior::. are asked to make one l)f the most crit ical decisions 111 the ir life-'What du yuu want to d1) for work?"' Engli::.h aid. "Partak ing in an internship i::. an opportunity to te ·t what you like and don't like-gainmg office skills i not quite the whL)le point." otter said she remembers one stu dent a few year ago who was trying to dec ide between law . chool and medical school . He d iv ided h is J an Plan into two intern hip -one in law and one i n med i c i ne-to see which was best for him and later opted for law school. "J an Plan is a wonderful opportuni ty to follow up on any interest you have," Cot ter said. " I t doesn't have to be pre-profes sional-there is a woman gett i ng her pilot's license and a person getting cert i fication for scuba d iving-bu t it's a great way to find out what you want and don't want, l ike and don't like. I t's a good way to d iscover what you m ight l ike to do with the rest of your life. It is a time to take advantage of opportunit ies." " I did a couple of Jan Plans," said En glish, a native of Queens, N .Y., who ma jored in English at Colby and now lives on Long Island. "I worked with underprivi leged children one time and developed a jazz improvisation on guitar another time. I think that internships are a fantastic idea. I know that to get where I am today I 've had to get a few breaks-I j ust want to give back what I 've received." S i tt ing i n the Grant Partner office in New York City, Rubin said, " I 've been

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thrown right into the stock market. Th is i defin itely the most exciting Jan Plan opportunity that I 've had. If I could do it over again I would have done an intern ship l i ke this la·t year. Gett ing academic creJit isn't the i ssue, gett ing the real world exreriencc is."

How Science Is Done

hen \\·iss chemists wanted a better method of detecting the amount of iron in water, they came to campus to ee Heather Ll)Unsbury '94. And early . this month, Lounshury flew off to Zurich to et up a flow injection analy is sy�tem at the Swi s Federal Institute of Environmental Science and Technology. Last summer Loun bury inve tigateJ the k i netics of the oxiJation of iron in seawater with A � i stant Profe--or of

Heather Lounsbury '94

Chemi try 0. Whitney K ing. To better understand how iron is cycled in the en vironment, she developed a system in which iron in water reacts with a sub stance called luminol to give off l ight. By measuring the l ight she can determ ine the amount of iron i n the water. "Iron controls a lot of processes in the oceans," Lounsbury said, especially be cause it is an important nutrient for algae and, i n turn, for fish. " It's very insoluble i n water, so we can study what happens when sunl ight sh ines on water and can study how i t affects iron chemistry." After K i ng presented Lounsbury's re-

search at a sympo i u m l a t N ovember in N aples, Italy, chem ists from the Swis Federal I ns t i t u te of Technol ogy , who also are studying the i ron cycle and the avai labi l i ty of iron in water, expres ed in te rest in the measurement capab i l i ty of the apparatu Lounsbury u ed. They trave led to the U . S . , came to Colby for a day and arrangeJ Lounsbury's March 4- 1 3 v i i t to Zurich. She b u i l t and a sembled the ystem's pump, flow cell and photomult ipl ier tube at Colby and then did all the power conver ion in Swi tzerl and . The fu l l y automated ys tem, which prov ide a en itive, fast and inexpensive way of measuring i ron in water, can Jetect fi ve parts of i ron to a t r i l l ion part of water. That's l i ke a fleck of iron the ize of a gra i n of sand d i olved i n a swimm ing pool . "The detection i better," Lounsbury said. "We can detect at lower levels. I t's the best available right now." The role iron plays in deter LTt inino the biological produc tivity of the ocean underscores the importance oftheir research, King ays, adding that Louns bury's fully funded trip to Swit zerland "is a nice way for our students to ee what science is like on a bigger scale. It's the way science i done. You have a tech nology and you cooperate." Their project in the photochemistry of iron was funded in part with grants from the National Sci ence Foundation and from Re search Corporation, a private foundation in Tucson, Ariz., that span ors work in the natural ciences. "It's not that common for undergradu a t e s to b e d o i ng t h i s w o rk , " s a i d Lounsbury, who came t o Colby from Framingham, Mas . She intends to use her i nstrumentation experience i n a graduate school program in analytical chemistry. "Colby's chemistry department is great," she said. "Students are extremely involved here. You don't get that else where." Lounsbury was at work on an honors thesis as she geared up for Zurich. " I 'm so exci ted , " she said. " I 've never been out of the country before ." -Robert G i l le pie

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Orchestra M arks Milestone - By Robert Spurrier-

he Colby College Orchestra con The orchestra started with mall num New Hampsh i re , remember Comparetti c ludes a year- long celebrat ion of bers of students and town people, plus a "a very sweet, patient and gentle man i ts SOth anniversary late next music ians Comparetti lured from Bangor, who didn't have a lot to work with." month by teaming up with the Colby Skowhegan and Brunswick. "We were Schultz, originally a bio logy major, Chorale for a concert in Lorimer Chapel. the only town-and-gown orchestra in swi tched to music and soloed with the And if the performance draws a large and New England, which wa a point ofpride," orchestra on uch piece a Comparetti' appreciative aud ience, that won't come Compar e t t i a i d from hi- home in Concertina for Flute and Orchestra. " I t was a a urprise to or a real ly po it ive ex chestra leader Jona perience," Schult: than Hall tram. He aid, "one that in and h is two prede pires you to push ce or have worked on ahead . " hard to make May Schultz was in flower Hill an attrac v ited by Hall tram tive locale for erious to perform a olo young musicians. concerto at the or "We are one of chestra's December the best, if not the concert. "The or be t, college orches chestra is m u c h , tra in northern New m u c h better , " he England," Hall tram said. "They're really aid of the S S - mem sound i ng good." ber group, "and the Peter Re, who equivalent of a me conducted the or dium- ize metropoli chestra fro m 1 9 7 4 tan civic orche tra." to 1 984, aid that The orchestra's h i s a i m wa " t o beg i n n i ng a half c o n t i n u e to i m century ago were as prove the orche modest as i t $SO tra's capabil ity and Then and now: Ennanno Comparetti ( left) founded che orchestra and made do on a shoe budget. M u ic pro repertoire . " U nder string budget. Current conductorJonathan Hallstrom ( right) presides over a polished , 55fe sor e meritus Erhis direction, the member ensemble. manna Comparetti, ensemble grew to the College's first ful l - t i me music instruc Ahwatukee, Ariz., where he still prac about S S , i nc luding a few music ians from tice the p iano every day. "We never had Bo ton and 1 0 to 1 5 tudents. tor, conducted the orche tra until 1 974. He had a prominent supporter in Pre i enough tring , o we had to be careful Re, who was a member of the Colby d e n t J . Seelye Bixler. about the choice we made i n e lect ing fa culty when the music major fir t wa "He wa very interested i n mu ic , " p iece . " The orchestra performed fall and offered, considered concerts an adj unct Comparett i said recently. "He w a s a c e l spring concert , played on Commence to classroom teaching. "Students study ment Weekend and slowly built an audi works i n cla , do five or ix rehearsal l i t , his wife wa a v iolinist, a n d all h i children played . " When Comparetti sat ence. "Very few students had ever heard and then perform them," he aid. "There's down at the piano to p lay h i Mayflower a symphony orche tra when they came to nothing to equal that." Re encouraged all students-espec ially Colby," Comparetti said. "It was quite a Hill Concerto, B ix ler took up the baton to those hooked on top-40 tune -to ample conduct the orche tra. ( The weathervane revelat ion to them." Flutist Peter Schultz '74, now a music the orche tra's m u ic. Noti ng that hi atop t h pre ident' hou e feature the i nstructor at Phi l l ip Exeter Academy in daughter was a member of the J ack on fir t four note of the concerto. )

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Browne band, Re said, "l had nothing against that other stuff. l j ust wanted them to have a balanced d i e t . " Re's composit ion teacher at Y a l e , Pau l H indemith, described cit ies as "cemeteries for music ians" and advised him to "go out and do miss ionary work . " H i ndem i th cond ucted an orchestra and glee c l ub concert at Colby in 1 9 59, and a Re tell the tory, the demand i ng conductor later told the Robert Shaw Chorale in a slug gi h practice es ion that he had "j ust come from Waterv i l l e , Maine, and those tudents were better prepared . " D a n a Russian '79, w h o plays tru mpet w i t h the Beacon Bras Q u i n t e t , the Spri ngfield ( M a s . ) Symphony , the Bo ton Ballet and other group · , said th a t one of the reasons he came to Colby wa that "it had a student and commun i ty orches tra, so l knew it wou ldn 't be a j oke . " Ru sian played first tru mpet o n May flower H i l l and has fond memor i es of the experience-and of Re. "He was a very i nspiring music ian and a very emotional conductor," Russian said. "He was a st ick ler who pu hed u as hard as he thought he cou ld . " Hal l trom, w h o c ame t o Colby 1 0 years ago, says he's tried to increase both the orchestra's quality and the quantity of its tudent members. They now num ber about 20, compared to 1 1 a decade ago. The en emble's rank include stu dents from all four classes, a well as several members of the Colby music fac ulty: concertmaster Mary J o Carlsen, vio l in; J e an Rosenb l u m , fl u t e ; K a r e n Beacham, c larinet; a n d Den n is Har ri ngton , tru mpet. Violin ists Amy Boyd and Karen Rodgers are members of the Mathematic Department. Bassist N ancy Zol l i tsch, now in her 1 3 th season, drives a 1 50 - m i le round trip from Orono, and many local music ians also part ic ipate in the group. " I want to make this orchestra suffi c iently attractive to attract students," said H a l l tram, who also is chair of the M u ic Department. The value ofthe com munity members, he add , i that the students frequently find themselves sit ting next to an adult who make a l iving in music: "The fact that the adult are pretty serious spurs the tudent on, al though the student are pretty seriou

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about doing the i r own work . " "The orchestra h a s proven to be u n usually w i l l ing t o undertake contempo rary works, and they've premiered works by Comparetti, Re and me," Hal lstrom said. For the 50th season Hal lstro m planned a performance o f five concerto in December, works by Prokofiev, N ielsen and Handel this month and a final con cert on April 30 and May 1 marking the orchestra's anniversary, Colby Chorale conductor Paul Machl in's 20th year and Hall tram's 1 0th. The orchestra and cho rale together w i l l perform Strav i nsky's Firebird Suite and Gershw in' Suite from Porgy and Bess .

"l try to challenge the orchestra but not to tax them," Hal lstrom said . "l try to make them mot ivated to do their best. I try to think of my elf as a fac i l i tator, for in the end it' their orchestra, and l don't play the instrument , they do." Hallstrom

said h is repertoire-he has never repeated a piece in 30 concerts-is organized to balance the abi l i tie of the ensemble and its educational mis ion. "Some of my best players have not been music major ," Hall tram said, cit ing a an example Carol Lockwood '90, who majored in Engl ish and will graduate from Duke Un iver ity law school in May. Lockwood, a violinist, says she was terrified of perform ing as a h igh school student but found the Colby group wel coming. "Everyone operated on the a sumpt ion that you belonged," she aid, credit ing Hall tram. "He makes the orchestra work very hard , but he's more concerned with mu sicians as indiv iduals," she said. "He wanted and expected you to do your be t, but the conductor never overpowered the friend . " +

Also of Note . . . Colby' orchestra is one of m any m u ical group on campu . The College's princ ipal choral group, the Chorale, is d irected by m us ic professor Paul Machlin and con i ts of 6 5 students elected by auditions in the fall. The Colby-Kennebec Choral Society, also directed by Machlin, consi ts of 70 faculty, staff and other inger from central Maine who perform major works for chorus and orchestra from the 1 8th to the 20th centuries. They will join the orche tra and choral ociety in presenting a s uite of choruses from Porgy and Bess on April 30 and May 1 . M achlin also directs the Colby Camerata, a group of 20 faculty, raff and town people who perform three or four concerts each year. The Collegium Musicum, under the direction of profe sor Eva Linfield, consist of 1 5 tudent , faculty and townspeople who specialize i n the perfor mance of vocal and instrumental m usic from the M iddle Age to the early Baroque period. The Colby Jazz Ensemble, a student group, features a w ide repertoire of m usical styles ranging from big band swing to modern fusion. The ensemble is directed by band director Christopher White, who al o d irect the Wind Ensemble. The Colby Eight, a student group led by Ross N ussbaum '94, has perfonned at other colleges and at the New York Colby Club so far this year and will be recording its third album i n seven year this spring. The Colbyettes, another tudent group that dates back nearly 50 years, i an all-woman vocal en emble led by Erinne Clark '94 . Broadway Musical Revue, begun in 1 986, consists of 18 student who will perform an April concert of 29 ongs from a variety of musicals. The group is directed by Rebekah Freeman '94, Katherine Thompson '95 and Stacey Warner '94. And Tuxedo Junction, a student a cappella ensemble, is led by Jennafer Dinn '94.

Colby Reunion '94 J une 1 , 5 , 1 994 Time to p lan your reun ion weekend at Co lby ! When you arrive, come to the reg istrat ion desk i n the S t udent Center for your reun ion packet with details about the weekend , locations for all event' and program updates.

Wednesday, J un e 1 ,Friday, J une 3 , 1 994 Alumni "COOT" Adventure Geraway : A l l -day e\'enr •

White Water Rafting on the Kennebec

•

I nn-to-Inn B ic yc le Tour

•

Chebeague I land Inn Geraway

•

Sa il ing Penob cot Bay

5 :4 5

Welcome Back Reception

6:45

Alumni Award� Banquet � l usic: Al Corey Robert N. Anthony ' 3 8 Marriner Distinguished Service Award:

John W. Deering ' 3 3 Brick Awards: Cherrie Duhoi '69, Cynth ia

Crockett M endel on ' 5 9 , Kershaw E. Powe l l ' 5 1 ,

Thursday, J une 2, 1 994 All day

Anne O'Hanian

Cla s of '59 gathering at amo er Re-on Inn

3:00-9:00 p.m.

Regi tration desk open, Student Center lobby

1 :30, 2 : 3 0 , 3 : 3 0 Evening

Campu tour Class of '64 recept ion at Pitt Tm·em, trawbery Banke, Portsmou th, N . H . Class of '69 reception/buffet dinner, Kennebunk

6:00

After dinner

Danc ing with t h e Al Corey

Evening

Clas reception

1 0 :00 p.m.

Alcoholics/Narcotic Anonymous meet ing

Saturday, J une 4, 1 994 7 :00-9 :00 a.m.

Breakfast i n the Dining Halls

8:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.

Registration desk open,

Dinner (on campu )

8 : 3 0 a.m. 8:30 9:00

Fun Run/Walk "Under randing College Adm ission "

9: 1 5

Tour of Harold Alfond A th letic Center

Morning

A lumni Counc il Committee

7 :00-9:00 a.m.

Breakfa t i n the Din ing Hall Alumni Golf Toumament

Class of '64 rrip, trawbery Banke, Portsmouth,

9:45

.H.;

Meeting o f all newly e lected cla

Alumni A ociarion

pring Meetina with

encouraged to attend

ourlet hopping. Clas of '49 Boothbay Harbor trip;

1 0:00

Clas of '79 cavenger hunt

choice of crui e , sea kayaking, hopping, etc.

1 1 :00 After the Parade

Reunion Award Ceremony

Admi ions Workshop Cla s of '44 trip to Belgrade Lake Lunch in the D i n i ng Hall

1 2 : 3 0 p.m. 1 :00- 5 :00 p.m.

Cla s of '44 luncheon

Parade of Cla se with Hot Tamale Bra

Band

Parade class reu n ion photographs

10:30 a.m.- 1 :30 p.m. Class of '69 Casco Bay c r u i e Noon- 1 :00 p.m.

officer

President Cotter; all alumni are welcome anJ

choice of historic rour , boar rrips, mu eum tour ,

Noon- 1 : 30 p.m. Afternoon

Lobster bake and chicken barbecue Cla s of ' 34 get-together Class of '44 Waterville 'Then & No"'·" tour

Colby Film Series - 1 :00 p.m.: Commencement

Cla

Address by William H. Cosby Jr. ( 1992 ) ; 1 :30 p.m.:

Clas of ' 5 4 tennis, golf, canoeing

Lovejoy: The Vigil ( 1 98 7 ) ; 2 : 3 0 p.m.: Victory Bell

Class of '59 tenni , golf, volleyball, softball, walking Class of '74 c las and fa mily activitie

( 1 962 ) ; 3:00 p.m.: We're the Be t: Colby Men'

of '49 tour of Waterv i l le

Baskerball ( 1 990); 3:30 p.m.: Three Presidents

Cla

( 1 982 ); 4:00 p.m.:

Cla s of '84 tenn is tournament

aga of Mayflower H ill ( 1 929-

Cla

early 1950' ); 4:30 p.m.: Perspective ( 1 968)

3:00

tudent Center lobby

for alumni and the ir c h i ldren

8:30 a.m.- 1 1 :00 p.m. Regi trat ion de k open, Student Center lobby 8:30- 1 1 :45 a.m. Creative Estate Planning Seminar, Terry Mayo ' 5 7

1 1 :00 a.m.

extet

Cla s of '49 arrives on campus

8:00

9:00-noon

:o rak ' 7 2 , C . Pen

Will iam on ' 6 3

Cla s of '44 reception/dinner, on campus

Friday, J une 3 , 1 994

9 : 0 0 a.m

cxtet

Distinguished Alumnus Award:

of ' 7 9 volleyball, oftball, soccer of '89 reu n ion port

Davi and Jerte Galleries tour, Bixler Arr Museum,

Afternoon

A u t hor booksigning:

with Curator Hugh Gourley; Joan Whitney Pay on

1 : 00- 5 :00 p.m.

Colby Film Serie ( see Friday 1 :00 p.m. )

eavern Book tore

Collection of Impressionist Art displayed in

1 :30

Tour of Harold Alfond A t h letic Center

the Davis Gallery

2 : 00

Davi and Jette Galleries tour, Bixler Art M u eum

4:30-6 : 3 0

Clas of '69 welcoming recept ion

2 :3 0-4 : 3 0 p.m.

Alumni and Faculc)' Panel Presentations:

4:30

Cla

5 : 30-6 : 3 0

of '79 reu n ion headquarter open

Broadway Today with Rocco Lande man '69;

Welcoming, K ids' Corner

Nature : A Wonderful Opporrunity to Appreciate

Receprion for award rec ipient , President's

and Make a Difference with Ed Woodi n '69;

Club donors, Heritage Soc iery member

Computers and Information Technology : Tools for

Scholars

with Professor o f M usic J on H a l lstrom

and D i rector of Computer Serv ices Ray Ph i l l i p

4:00- 5 : 00 p.m.

Depart m e n t recept ions

Evening

C l ass re u n ion receptions a n d d i nner

9:00

A l l-campus d ance with T h e Red Light R e v u e

Evening

C l a s a c t i v i t ies, i n c l u d i ng Class o f '69 DJ

1 0 :00

A lcohol ics/N arc o t ic s A no n y mous m e e t i n g

Sunday, J une 5 , 1 994 Coffee and dough n u t : Cla

7 : 00- 1 1 :00 7 :30 a.01.-noon

reun ion h dqtrs.

Brunch buffet

Travel ers' box l u nches m a y be picked u p 1 0:00, 1 1 :00, noon Tours o f M i l le r L ibrary tower 1 0: 1 5 Boardman Memorial Service by Eugene Struckhoff '44: "Keeping the Unity in the Comm UNITY"

Reservation Information

Miller Library: open Thursday and Friday 8:30 a . m . - 4 : 3 0 p . m . , Saturday

Housing reservations are made in the order rece i ved. We house c l asses in

Colbi ana open Thursday and Friday 8:30 a . m . -noon and 1 :00-4:30 p . m . ,

the same residence as space permits. Please make reservations promptly, a on-campu accommoda t ion are l i m ited. Ac commodat ions in the residence halls are not lux urious, and bathrooms are shared, but they are conven ient to campu

even ts. l n c l uded are a

single bed, one p i l low, heets, one blanket and rowels. Consider bringing

1 0 :00 a . m . - 3 : 00 p . m . ,

unday 1 0:00 a . m . - noon. Spec ial Col lec t ions and

Saturday 1 0 :00 a . m . - 2 :00 p.rn.

Campus tou rs : Friday 9: 30, 1 0:30, 1 1 : 30 a.m and 1 : 3 0, 2 : 30, 3 : 3 0 p . m . ; Saturday 9:00 a . m . and 3 :00 p.m.

Miller Library Tower: Sunday a t 1 0 :00, 1 1 :00 a . m . and noon.

an ex tra blanket, p i l low, towels, a bedside l ight or a teddy bear to meet

Mary Low Coffeehouse: re lax with friends at fo rmer Mary Low d i ning

your personal preference. Each residence hall is different; rooms range

hal l , Friday and Saturday 9 : 00 a . m . -4:00 p.rn.

from i n g les ro s i x -person s u i tes. l f you're w i l l i ng to share a room w i th a c lassmate or friend, please indic ate that in the space on the f o rm.

50+ Club and 5 0th Reunion Class members and spouses are

olby

guests for the weekend , but you must complete and return the reservation form for all meals you p l an to attend and for on-campu accommodations so we can reserve space for you.

Reservations deadline is May 20; after that, there is a $ 1 0 late fee per registration. N o confirmation will be sent . N o refunds after M ay 27. We can't guarantee meals or rooms wi thout reserva t ions.

By mail : Please return one check to cover campus accommodation and meals, payable to Colby College with the reservation form OR indicate c redit card payment. M a i l to: Reun ion Weekend Re ervat ions, Alumni Office, Colby College, Waterv il le , ME 0490 1 .

By phone: With credit card only ( V I SA, Mastercard or American Expres s ) . No refunds for phone reservations. Ca l l 2 0 7 - 8 7 2 - 3 1 90. Reservations will be at the registration desk in the Student Center. I f

Seaverns Bookstore, Roberts: open Thursday and Friday, 7 : 30 a . m . -4:00 p.m., Saturday 9:00 a.m. -4:00 p.m., Sunday 9:00 a.rn.-noon.

Career Services Office: on first floor Eustis, open Thur day and Friday 8: 30 a . m . - 4 : 3 0 p . m .

Bixler Art and Music Center and Jette and Davis Galleries: open Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday 1 0:00 a . m . -4:30 p.m. See schedule for guided tour t imes.

Child Care: ful l program of supervised ac t i v i t ies fora I I ages, from morning until n ight. List of private babysitters available thruugh the A l u m n i Office. Chi ldren not registered for c h i ld c a r e may purchase t ickets indi vidually and partic ipate in chi ldren's meals.

Infants and Pre-schoolers: Group babys i t t i ng, to age 5, Friday 6:00- 1 1 :00 p.m.,

aturday, 9 :00 a . m . - midnight.

Youngsters 5-8 and 9- 1 2 : Friday,

you plan t o arrive after 1 1 : 00 p . m . Friday o r 6 :00 p . m . Saturday, please

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not ify the A l u m n i Office in advance to get room assignments.

General Weekend Information Registration: through

tudent Center lobby throughout the day from Thursday

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Friday

5 - 1 2 years old

Under 20

3:00 p.m.

Games, arts and crafts Cookout Scavenger hunt

Cookout

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Make your own sundaes

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Admissions interviews: Monday through Friday by appo intment only. Colby's adm iss ions v ideo may be viewed in Lunder House.

Sports and Fitness: The newly renovated H aro ld A l fond A t h l e t i c C e n t e r w i l l be o p e n Th ursday a nd Friday 1 0 :00 a . m . - 5 : 00 p . m . , Satur

Children under the age of 16 are not permitted in t he center without an adult or child care supervisor.

d a y 8 : 3 0 a . m . - 4 : 3 0 p.m. and S u nday 9 : 30 a . m . - noon .

The s w i m m i n g pool i n the a t h l e t i c center w i l l be open Friday 1 : 3 0-

1 : 3 0-4 : 3 0 p . m . with Children under age 6 are not

4 : 00 p.m. and S a t u rd a y 9 : 3 0 - 1 1 : 30 a.m. and l i fegu ards on d u t y d u r i n g those h o u rs .

permitted in the pool.

3:00 p.m.-midnight, Saturday, 8:30 a.m.

midnighr and Sunday, 9:00 a.m.-noon. Please see reservation f orm for fees.

:00 8:45

Create a super sundae Movies

Field trip to Cinema Center

Saturday 8:45 a.m.

Breakfast "Under randing College Admissions" For You and Your Parents

Breakfa t

9:00 9 : 3 0 a.m. Noon

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The Wales Tennis Courts w i l l be avai l ab le a l l weekend.

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The N inth Annual Colby Mixed Scramble Golf Tournament: Watervi I le

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Country Club, Friday, J une 3, 8 : 00 a . rn . No rain date. Lunch is on your own a t the Country Club. See chedule for fees and cart rental . Informa

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Crazy Colby Carnival Lobster bake w/parents

Mac for kids Hayrides ( 5 -8) Hayrides (9- 1 2 ) Kickball, games, arts and crafts, swimming

Dinner Puppet show ( 5-8) Field trip to cinema (9- 1 2 ) Movies Snacks and board game

9:00-noon Games, arts and c rafts

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Lobster bake w/parents and computer

Learn the Mac

lab time

Free time wim Dinner Candlepin bowling

Movie and frozen oft drinks party

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Accommodations : On C ampus *

Cla s of '44 and 50+ Club-no charge, but you must indicate if you need on-campus accommodation .

Adults: $ 2 5

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Awards Banquet *

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Activities O I p la n to attend the Estate Plann ing Seminar on Friday. O I'm i n tere ted in the Cla s of '49 trip to Boothbay Harbor. O

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PRE .. TWENTIES Thanks to Annette Antonucci of Granby, Conn . , we learn that M ildred Greeley Arnold ' 1 7 reached the age of 1 00 on Octo ber 2 5 , 1 993 , at the Meadowbrook Retirement Home. M i ldred till enjoys current events, lecture , slide hows and reading. She is also bu y keeping track of eight grand c h i l d r e n , even gre a r g r a nd c h i l d r e n a n d a g r e a t great-granddaughter. . . . Phyllis Sturdivant Sweetser ' 1 9 write : "Here I am at 95 living in a fine retirement home ( in Portland, Maine) and able to enjoy life in a m ild way . . . . I well remember you a a young boy and your fa ther, Harvey Doane Eaton [Cla s of 1 882] at your home on i lver Street. I was there often with your i ter, Harriet Eaton Rogers ' 1 9, who was my c las mate and + orority ister."

TWENTIES Arthur Sullivan ' 2 2 fondly re call Prexy Roberts's c la on Byron, Shelley, Keat and Word worth: "He was great, and we v i s i ted the Lake Country of Word worth. We liked Herbert Carlyle Libby and hi cla se very much." . . . Dr. Paul W . Gate '24 hate the nickname "don key" applied to Profe sor Curtis H ugh M orrow. A fter a l l , he write , " Profe or Morrow inpired me to go on to graduate work at Columbia, Clark and

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Harvard, where [ obtained my Ph.D. ( F . Eaton: It doe seem strange that a respected and loved memberof the faculty should have acquired such a nickname . In my opinion, the shoe doesn't fi t . ) . . At 9 1 , Margaret Turner Howe '24 l ives in a nur ing home in Auburn, Maine---due, he ay , to her evere arthritis. Recently he read an obituary in the New G loucester ( Maine ) ews of the man she had been engaged to at Colby. "Had been," because on a fateful trip to Deer I sle, Maine, he met Malcolm Howe, M IT '20, who "swept her off her feet." M rs. Howe learned for the first time from the obi tuary that her former fiance had lived all the c years j ust down Rt. =2 3 I from her home in ew Gloucester. Marjorie Everingham Edgerly '25 live in her own home alone b r pent the months of January through March in a retirement home in an Bernardino, Calif. , as s h e did la-t year. . From h i wife, Ann, we learn that Archer Jordan '27 died on J anuary 3 , 1 99 3 , after a e\·en-year illness. He leave hi wife and a brother, Charles W . J ordan '29. Archer's father, Archer r. , wa also a Colby raduate in the Cla of 1 95 . . . . Ar a get-together of Univer iry of M aine graduates at the Los Angeles Com·ent ion Center, Wendell Grant '28 re marked that he had done a lot of cheering again t U of M in the pa t but felt nothing but good will now. At thi , a lady from Win low, Maine, came over and planted a k iss on hi cheek . . . . Katherine B . Greaney '28 writes that he is living in a nur ing home cal led Carriage H i l l of Bethesda ( Md. ) . ( F.E.: Katherine, are you the wonderful French teacher l had in junior high school in Waterville?) . . . Myra Stone Knof k ie '28 a ks: "Do you re member the mores we lived by in the '20 and 3 0s ?" he and her

hu band, Walter ' 2 8 , are both 87 year old. he meets Marion Daye McKinney '28 occa ion ally for lunch . . . . Harriet Towle M c C r o a r y ' 2 8 w r i t e s from Winthrop, Maine, that Dr. Libby once a ked her to open a window and yell "Fire ! " "You can imagine hi remarks," she write . . . . Ruth McEvoy '28 ha written a his tory of the c i ty of Bara via, .Y., wh ich wa - due to appear on local book ·hop shelve in December '9 3 . he believes it will be of inrere ·t to chi ldren tudying lo cal history, as all of them have to do . . . . Jane Lovett wants mem bers of rhe Clas of 1 928 to know that her father, J. Lewis Lovett '28, pa sed away on October _ , 1 99 1 . . Virginia Dudley Eveland ' 2 9 h a s moved from California back to Maine, where she live· w ith her daughter in Bar Harbor. . . . Fred Sterns '29 re call. a battle between the fresh men and sophomores in Hedman Hall during which, somehow, a pair of horses were found on the chapel roof. He i� the only hing fo u n d e r of the kowhegan, Maine, Lions C l u b and i t h e past pre ident of Redington-Fain-iew . Frank Twadelle Ho-p ita!. '29 plays tennis three time a week and golf twice a week and won fir t pri:e in a culpring con test at the J ekyll Island (Ga. ) Arr- Fe -rival last year. +

THIRTIES John Chadwick '30 want to know how many of you have read the encyclopedia from end to end. He treasure hi memories of Pro fessor Colgan. Having read Betty M a houdy' s or W i t h o i t t M y Daughter, h e i wonderfully happy that hi daughter have always lived in America and nor in lran ( where cruelty to women i alleg edly commonplace) . . . . Lee '3 1 and Barbara Merrick Brackett '33 are living life in the low

lane, but nine grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren are keer ing them nor only occuried bur B USY ! . . . J ohn '3 1 and Faith Rollins Davidson ' 3 1 planned to be in Florida in early January for the winter and the celebra t ion of their 60th ll'edding anni versary-and will foot the bill for flying fam i ly from Californ ia, Texas, Wa hington, D.C., and Indiana. John ays he talked to Harvey B. Evans ' 3 2 , who i> well and t i l l li\·ing in Lynnfield, Mas . . . . Thomas B. Langley ' 3 1 ha- mO\·ed back to Long [,_ land from Florida bur, says 1' [ r . Langley, "Don't a k me why." He is proud of Colby's foo t b a l l ream . . . . M . D. J a m e s E. Poulin '33 publi hed a book, H:meria and Ocher Cases, in 1 99 2 . ( F. E . : When I was 1 0, l lived o n ih-er treet in Warer\' i l le j ust a few door away from Dr. Pou l i n', house, although at that r i me the Dr. Poulin who e name heads th1, entry was nor yet a doctor. When we spoke of Dr. Pou lin's hou,e, it was the father to whom we re ferred. l loved playing in the Pou lin basement, where, among other fa ·c inating mys, there was a hand-cranked mone projector. ) . . A delightful letter from Leonard Cabana ' 3 3 tells a "train cro- ·ing" story. He ll'a- watching from a second- rory window of Chemical Hall ju-r as a train came chuffing up the tracks along Front rreet from Winslow. At the same time, their instructor cou ld be seen hurrying along College A\" enue, bent on cro sing the tracks before the train blocked his way. He didn't make it. The train was long and low, and the profe or had to wait the u-ual 10 to 1 5 minutes for the train to p a . The rule then was that if a profe--or wa late to clas-, the cla s ould walk out. Taking full advantage of t h e i r " r i g h t ," t h e y d i d . ( F.E.: Who among u 50-pl usser doe n't have a train-crossing -rory

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however, they have been sad dened by the death of Lou ise'

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sister in Florida and by the pass ing of Lois B. Crowell ' 3 4 . Dr. Crowel l's camera helped to pre serve memorie· of the annual mini-reunions. To keep in touch, member, Barbara White on

"The most renowned graduate that Colby College ever had," declared a feature art i c le in the Central Maine Morning Sentinel of the late Marston Morse ' 1 4 . An acclaimed mathemat i c ian, Mor e earned prac t ically every honor the mathematical com mun ity cou ld be tow . . . . Ludy ' 2 1 and Pacy Levine '27 re ce ived the Red Triangle Award from the W a t e rv i l le , M a i ne , YMCA for their many year of s u p port for the organization.

Morse ' 3 4 , has started a round

Oren Shiro

robin letter, which is now in tran �it. Last summer, Louise made the trip to Vermont to v i it her grandson, M i chael Brown '84, hea '86. and hi wife, Laura Wh i le there, he ays, she fe l l and broke her wri t, which taught her . One a lot about "coping." .

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person del ighted with the round r 1bin letter idea discussed above is Muriel Walker Dubuc ' 3 4,

. . . Waterv i lle's Alice Bocquel Hartwell ' 3 6 was in the news following another of her ea voyage by fre ighter-a trip to ea t Africa that spanned 2 4 , 8 1 2 statute m i les. In Mombasa, Kenya, she met Kenyan engineer Eric Levi '64 . . . . Colby trustee Wilson Piper '39 and his wife, Peggy, were featured i n local Wel lesley, M ass., papers as they celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. Family in attendance f; r a d i nner last November incl uded Charl ie Piper '70 and Libby P iper Deschene ' 7 5 . . . . The Colby athletic fe ats of Oren Shiro '42 and J ohn Lomac '43 were the

e pec ially when d istance or infir m i ty make in-per·on reunions diffi c u l t . he b determined , how ever, to he at Colby for her 60th reuninn . . . . George Mann ' 3 4 reca l l � "taking Lat in c lasse un der Profc,�or J u l ian Taylor, who, at age 9 3 , 1nr the oldest active profeswr in the Uni ted States. . Sumner He wa� a cla �ic." . Peter Mills '34 claim to be alive and well at 2 . . . . John J. Leno ' 3 4 keeps in touch with cla s orvish '34 and mate Franklin fratern ity friend Merton Curtis ' 3 1 . He al o spends time wit h hi nephew . J ay Leno, of The Tonight Show. John rec a l l that on a frigid night in January 1 929, he and a friend drove to a farmhou e to obtain some apple c i der badly needed at a party then under way at their fratern ity. The keg had a th ick coat i ng of ice on it, but John and a friend broke through

subject of a Central Maine Morning Sentinel art icle. The two were ucces ive captain of the powerhouse ba ketball teams of the early '40s.

MILEPOSTS Deaths: Raymond H. Daniels ' 2 3 in Manche ter, N.H., at 92 . . . . Hilda Worthen ' 2 4 i n Bangor, Maine , at 92 . . . . Douglas C. Grearson '28 in Dedham, Mass . , at 87 . . . . Isabel H. Clark i n Blue H i l l , Maine, at 84 . . . . George W. Lord '3 1 in '3 1 W i nterport, M a i ne , at 84 . . . . George F. Sprague '3 1 in Owls Head, Maine , at 85 . . . . Edwin W. Maddocks '32 in Waterv i l le, Mai ne, at 8 3 . . . . Eleanor Hubbard Rogers '32 i n Haverh i l l , Mass . , at 86 . . . . Cordelia Putnam Inman ' 3 3 in Houlton, M a i ne, a t 83 . . . . William T. Bryant ' 3 4 in Luray, Va., at 8 1 . . . . William E. Bowen ' 3 5 in West Hartford, Conn . . . . Geraldine Ormiston C lifford ' 3 5 i n Exeter, N . H . , a t 7 8 . . . . Sylvia Richardson Miller ' 3 5 i n Ocala, Fla. , at 79 . . . . Philip E. Colman '38 i n Bangor, M a i ne , at 79 . . . . A. Francis Thompson '4 1 in Weymouth, Mas . , at 75 . . . . Florence Carleton '42 in Camden, M a i ne, a t 74 . . . . Philip B. Babcock '43 in Penobscot, Maine, at 75.

t o tel l ? ) Len further recalls Dr. Libby occ u pying the front pew in the chapel while future orators gave their speeches from the pul p i t . When the oration became d u l l , Dr. L ibby indicated h is fe el

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ings by lying flat in the pew and fe i g n i n g s l e e p . . . . R e b e c c a Chester Wyman ' 3 3 bitterly re grets mi s i ng her 60th reunion

sell ' 3 4 marked her 5 2 nd year of

due to a confl i c t "but did spend 10 wonderful weeks i n M ai ne this ummer." . . . Dr. George I. Smith '49 is sorry to report that his aunt,

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skil led nursing section of a retire ment h me in Oakland , Cal if. Mrs. Velten has l i m ited v ision but part i c ipa tes m i n ima l ly in activit ies . . . . Annie Tuck Rus marriage on March 2 2 , 1 99 3 . She is an active golfer and bridge player. . . . For the past several s ummers, Louise W i l l iams Brown ' 3 4 has m e t with a dozen or o women cla smates at vari ous locations in Maine. Recently,

to the unfrozen liquid. After the brothers had washed down some doughnut with c ider, it became apparent that what they were d r i n k i n g was harder than a blacksmith's anvil. . . . Harold F. Brown ' 3 5 and his wife, Isabe l , spent two weeks i n V ienna last May thanks to a U n i versity of N ew Hampshire lnterhostel pro gram. A lso la t summer, they drove to Kan a , Evanston, I l l . , a n d P i t t burgh, then flew from Ma ine to Cal iforn i a for v is i t with three sons and a sister- in law . . . . Kathryn Herrick Mc Crodden '35 Elclerhosteled her way around, part ic ipat i ng in a total of four programs: one on international relation in Berke ley, Ca l if., where he l ives, two in

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music and a fourth in Cheyenne on the W i ld West, with cowboys, Ind ians, buffalo and rodeo . She set an age/gender record i n Aspen w i th her debu t a a parag l id er-a uper thri l l . . . June Wight Mason ' 3 5 spent la t u m mer tra vel ing: San Diego, Ca l if. ; Bozeman, Mont . ; Yellow stone Park; New England. "Now," she wri tes, "back to the winter act i v i t ies Florida offers." . . . Mike Cohen '35 wrote ( Oct. '93 ): "We are now in Florida for the winter. Phone call tell ing me our Vi r ginia hou e has a leak in the wa ter l i n e . Called plumber. He dug up a long d i tch from the road to hou e, 1 00 feet, preparing to put in new water l i ne. But cut phone l ine. Phone people came and re paired phone l i ne. Al o c losed up d i tch before new water l ine in stalled. Plumber mad. Phone guy ervice mad. l mad. Security people report a l l to me in care ful dera i l , long distance daytime calls. Collect. For all this, I thank olby education . " ( M ore my thought · from Morris will appear in a future issue . ) . . . Edna Allen Becker '36 ha l i ved in Florida for 1 5 years and loves it. She has enjoyed traveling-to l re land, Haw a i i , A us t r a l i a , N ew Zea l a nd-and ha taken several crui es, too. She count herself lucky that her son al o l i ves in Florida . . . . Robert Colomy ' 3 5 is 8 1 , hale, hearty a n d s t i l l ac tive. He recently attended the wedd i ng of his oldest grand daughter. . . . M usic is the domi nant i ntere t in the l i ves of Alfred Wheeler '3 7 , his wife, Barbara Towle Wheeler ' 40, and their three gifted chi ldren. Al says he married Barbara after a whirlw i nd cou rtsh ip las t i ng even year . . . . Eleanor Barker McCargar ' 3 7 has completed a l ife-size portrait of Col . Aaron Bank, "fa ther" of the Green Be rets and founder of the pecial Forces. The portrait was commis sioned by the J FK Special Forces M useum and Academic Fac i lity at Fort Bragg, N .C., where it hangs in the lobby of the new b u i ld i ng. Say Mrs. McCargar: "More than 12 generals were present at the unve i l i ng." ( F. E . : Mrs. McCargar sent me a color photograph of the imposing painting. ) . . . For those of you ai l i ng oon for Greece,

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m ith onia n I n t i tution, Mi l l ic ent Bol l ing m 1th '43 was asked w h a t di c i p l i n e he wanted to go into. "\Xfhere do you have a need?" he an wen::d. Today he lead tours of ative American exhibit at the m i t hson i a n ' M u e u m o f Natural H istory. mith'- interest in ati,·e American cu l t u re had been piqued by three Elderho tel he attended in Arizona and anta Fe shortly after she retired fol lowing a 3 7 -year career a an Engli h teacher, department head and principal of Jonathan Law High chool in Milford, Conn. he abo wai, happy with the tum of even ts at t h e mithsonian that gave her an audience of chool children. "I wanted to keep involved with children," he said. "I alway continue to be the learner. You can't get teaching our of your sy rem." Preparing to become an offic ial docent, he took classe every week for a year at the m i th onian, which mounts exhibit· covering all region· and at ive American culrnre in the country. Thi winter he trained to lead tours of"Ch1efly Fea ts," a travel ing exhibition about "potlatch," the ceremonial feast traditional among Indian tribe of the northwe t Pacific coast. Born. in Connecticut, m i th had been editorofher high chool paper and corre pondent to The Hartford Courant before he entered Hartford J unior C lleoe in her hometown. \X!hen he tran ferred to Colby rwo year later, he knew he wanted to teach Eng l i h . A Colby dean' Ii t tudent who wa profic ient in French and German, he minored in education and hi tory. Her Engli h major, she ay , wa " uperb." "It was a great chool. Everything I learned at Colby ha erved me well," Smith aid recently. he remembers crossing the Two Cenr Bridge over the Kennebec River to call the rol l in her fir t c las a a tudent teacher in Winslow. "l gave it my real Pari ian French," he aid-which wa greeted by mirks and giggle . " I learned never to pronounce t h e kids' name . Let them ay i t . 'Tell me about your elf,' I'd ay. Interaction i what' irnportanr." While at Colby Smith ang in the Glee Club and was a paid oprano at an area church. he remembers Pre·ident Bixler telling

Profe s s o r Edward C o l g a n , "Mill icem has talent. he needs trainino," which led to les ons from Colgan' wife, a former opera diva. Smith �ings today at a Congregational church m Washington. "I'm not comfort able unle I' m singing in a gooJ choir," she aid. mith erved on boards of the Red Cros , the Chamber of Commerce and other local or oani:atton and on the Demo cratic Town Committee. In 19 I he receiveJ the Woman of the Year Award from the ational Federation of Busi ne and Profe 10nal Women' Club . 1uch of her inclination

toward teaching and volun teeri m he attribute to her father, a unday chool uper intendent at a Congregational Church in Hartford, and her mother, a teacher' c o llege graduate who volunteered on the board of the local Women' League. ''I'm a people-oriented person. Mom was, DaJ was," mith aid. In 1949 mith took an M . A. from Middlebury, and in 1 966 she received a diploma in admini·rration and supervision at Bridgeport Univer ity. In 19 0 she beoan tudies toward a doctorate in educa tional admmistration. That, he say , wa a mi rake. "A people oriented job take a lot out of you. I was one of tho e people who would talk about juggling a career and marriage. But omething give ," he ·aid, "and what gives i your marriage. ' ow divorced, he live with her daughter, Bonita, a Wa hingron attorney. m i th al o volunteer as a docent at the Anaco tia Mu eum, a nearby mu eum of African-American cu I rural life, where he leads tour in mid-week between her Tue day and Friday tours at the mithsonian. bowing l ife in the outhern states before the Civil War, Anaco tia exhibits such a "Before Freedom Came" teach chi ldren-and their docent-about African-American hi tory. "A l do these things, I learn a lot," mi th aid. he remember that he often wrote in tudents' yearbook a remark by Louis Pa teur: "Chance favor the prepared m ind." "l believe in that," mith aid. "You j ust never know. Many thing i n l i fe are erendipitous. lf you have an open and educated mind, you can hook into beautiful thing . But only if your mind i· honed. That leads to many happy thing ."

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Louise Tracy ' 3 7 says , "Jon 't m i �s M c t eora-the scenery is �pectacu lar . " . . . Dr. Ernest "Bud"

Frost ' 3 8 i t ryi ng to adjust to l i v i ng a lone after 52 years of be i ng married to Ruth Fuller Frost ' 3 6. He has fond memories of Profes or Colgan . . . . At a ur prise party given last year by the i r three ch i ld re n , J ohn ' 3 8 and Edna Slater Pullen ' 40 were hon oreJ on the occas ion of their golJen wedd i ng anni versary . . . Unsolved my tery: How i it that no mention was made i n my col umn (Nov. '9 3 ) of the fa ct that

Walter B. Rideout ' 3 8 received the Outstand i ng Educato r Award from Colby in J u n e ? Who wants to know 7 J ean e tt e Drisko Ride out ' 3 9 , that's who. And who can b lame her? President Cotter aid k i nd t h i ngs about Walter, to which Walter re-ponded warmly. For h i s d i s t i n g u i h e d w o rk , Walter rece ived a Colby chair. . . . Leila Ross Hyman ' 3 9 wrore that she had "J ust re turned from a 1 7 -day tour of the Bal t ic states and three Russian c i t i e : Sr. Pe ter burg, Novgorod and Moscow, where I saw Len i n 's tomb and the burned White Hou e ! " . . . Gil bert Hutchinson ' 3 9 and h is wife, Micky (Marion Crawford Hutchinson ' 3 9 ) , keep very busy i n ret i rement, v isi t i ng fa m i ly a l l o v e r t h e country. G i l is an avid photographer, and M icky, who e love of poetry is j ust as avid, has had a n u m b er of her poems publ ished . . . . Tom Vose ' 3 9 and h is wife w i l l be at the 5 5 th re un ion ofhis class . . . When J ean Burr Smith '39 wanted to re turn to teac h i ng, she found that the lack of a course i n A merican his tory tood i n her way. The sub j e c t had been a part of many course she had taken, but none had the exact name. On speaking to the man in charge of certifica t ion in Connect ic u t , she learned that the requ i rement was a hold over from the McCarthy era and that there wa noth i ng that he could do about i t . J ean appealed to Professor Walter Breckenridge, however, who wrote: "The eco nomics cour e J ean B u rr Smith had w i th me at Colby was A meri can in i ts i n ception, i ts develop ment , i ts conc l u s ions." J ean got hercertification . J ean ays"ye " they would come to the 5 5 th reunion . . . . Margaret Johnson

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to see Latin and Eng I i ·h gra mmar struct ure�

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fa ll by the ways ide. Computers are great, she say�. but tucl ent need the basics for good w r i t i ng. . . . V i a Marjorie Gould Shuman ' 3 7' recent rrorrietor of this col umn: Virginia Gray Schwab '40 rec e n t ly spent two weeks on P r i n c e Ed ward I s land w i t h a former N avy friend and went to Bath, England, to visit <mother Navy friend. A l l three have lost their husbands recen t l y . V i rginia ay; she i · in good hea ld1 but is s t i l l lonely w i thout Herb. M a rj orie a n d h e r hu hand , Ed Shuman ' 3 8 , visi ted H i l l top, a beautiful retirement development in New London, N . H . , where they f ound one of Marj or i e':, former roommate·, Janet "Jay" Good ridge Sawyer ' 3 7 , and her hus band, Richard Sawyer '35. The awyers are happy to be w i t h i n d r i v i ng d i t a n c e of the i r daugh ter and grandchi ldren. I n Au gust, Marjorie and Ed a t tended a golden wed d i ng party put on by the c h i ldren and a brother of Lewis Weeks '42 and h is wife, Betty, in Potsdam, N .Y. Lewi ' sister, Elizabeth "Be t t y" Weeks ' 3 4 , from Claremont, Cal if. , and H annawa Falls, N .Y . , was present as were Lew i - ' · roommate, Frank Pineo '42 , and h is wife. Lew is a ret i red professor of Engl i h at Clarkson College in Por-clam . . . . Nathanael Guptill ' 39, president of his c lass, has had a quadruple bypass heart opera t i o n , from which he is recupera t ing lowly b u t sat isfactorily. H e sounded great on the phone w i th me. . . . From Portola Valley, Cal if. , M . D. Leland Burrill ' 3 9 says: "Welc me mat i always out. J u t c a l l . " L a t M arc h he i n v i ted friends from all over the country to h e l p t h e m c e lebrate t h e i r golden wed d i ng a n n i v e r s a r y . N i nety-four came. Mary Palmer Mills '33 represented Colby . . . . Belated fe l ic i ta t ions to Ken ' 3 9 and Doris Peterson Stanley '4 1 on their golden wed d i ng ann i v e r a r y b a c k in 1 99 1 . K e n is rec u pera t i ng from several stroke , o Doris wrote for both of them. She h as fo nd comments on Dean Runnals, Dean Marriner, Profes sor Lougee, "Pop" N ewman and Dr. W i l k i nson. In Wil k ie's course, Ken had the j ob of r i nging the bell between c lasses and wasn't

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W i th Dori ' "acc urate notes, which Ken stud ied from, Ken re ce ived an A as a fi nal grade w h i le I [ Doris] only got a B. The irony of i t all ! " . . . . Constance Tilley ' 4 0 r e c o m m e n ds Truman by David McCul lough . ( F. E . : If you can I ift the Truman book, you are in excellent shape . ) She reca l ls a four-day bus trip with 39 others to Monhonk Mounta i n Inn in New Paltz, N . Y . , and Bear Moun tain State Park . . . . I am deeply saddened to report the death on O c to ber 8 , 1 9 9 3 , of Barbara Skehan McDonough '4 1 . I n a long I ist of extrac urricular a c t i v i tie , Barbara w a s queen of the 1 9 39 Wi nter Ca rnival and served with me and Bob Canders ' 3 9 as a newscaster on "Colby a t the M i c rophone" on rad io stat ion WLBZ in Bangor. She brought warmth and talent to any group + she j o i ned.

FORTIES Last u m mer, Virginia Moore Fremon '4 1 aw her roommate, Marjorie Arey O'Connor '4 1 ,

i n Kennebunk, M aine, fo r the fir t time si nce 1 9 3 9 . She write , "Very spec ial memory of v is i t i ng the great Dr. W i l l iam T. Bov ie i n F a i rfi e l d ( 1 9 3 8 ) w i t h D i a n a Wiesenthal Opton '4 1 . We were enthralled by a l l Dr. Bovie' med i cal s l ide and storie . . . [and by] his u e of the electric kn ife." By coinc idence, I have here befo re me a card from Bill Bovie ' 3 9, on of the above Dr. Bovie-who invented the electric knife, now a standard tool in surgery. B i l l says he flunked German at Colby but now has a European penpal with whom he wri tes back and . J ohn forth-in G e r m a n . Colby Eaton '4 1 and h i s wife, Barbara, celebrated their golden wedding ann iversary last Novem ber a t M i llett A l umni House on the Colby c a mpus. Among the appro x i mately 7 5 i n attendance were best man and b r o t h e r

Fletcher Eaton ' 3 9 a n d m a i d o f honor a n d s ister Beverly Holmes Center '48. I dare not a t tempt a l ist of a l l the other Colbyites who were there fo r fear of leav ing someoneout . . . . W i th i x daugh ters and 1 1 grandchildren, M . D. Robert McDonnell '42 is s t i l l working p a r t t i me . However, h e

d isc ont i n ued n e u ros u rgery i n 1 99 2 because of age. He says h e w o u l d I ike to s e e the return of fr a t e r n i t i e s . . . . E m a n u e l "Manny" Fruman '42 had planned to re t i re but after one week found that "dat ole roc k i n ' cha ir" couldn't h o l d h i m . S o now he is d i rector f ales for a base ment wate rproofing company in Plains, Pa . I had a n ice chat with Manny in mid-October while vis i t i ng re latives in the nearby town of M r . G retna . . . . Jean Cannell MacRae '42 "demol ished" her shoulder and broke her right foot in a fa l l last Apri l . But her hu band, Wes '42 , has made a great n u rse and house h usband . . Does anyone know the where about of Mrs. Trevor E. (June Van Der Veer) Lamb •42 1 Her roommate Marlee Bragdon Mon roe '42 wants to know. Her other roommate, Celia Rather Hutch inson '42, is a widow living in Arizona. Mrs. Monroe recalls rac ing to c lass on a snowy clay with her pajamas rolled up under her coat. Her icy boot skidded on the classroom floor as she made her high-speed entry and she landed on her back, with the pa j ama legs down and very obvious. . . . Oren Shiro '42, new pre i dent of the Fifty-Plus Club, com pla ins that a bad back ha kept him from playing golf much dur ing the past year but, says he, "I have shot my age or better 1 62 t i mes since 1 98 7 . " 0ren was look ing the athlete of old when I saw him at the M anor Restaurant in Waterv i l le on November 2 7 , 1 99 3 . . . . Eleanor Smart Braun muller '43 was presented with a Colby Brick at her 50th reunion last] une. She exp re ses deep grati tude to all her c la smates who cooperated to make it possible over the 2 0 years of her service as cla s corre pondent and hopes that the i nspiring and successful reunion of 1 99 3 can be repeated in 1 998 . . . . Ronald Reed '43 re c a l ls Professor Eustis erasing the b lackboard with the sleeve of h i s blue serge s u i t . He writes, "Went on tour of the Canadian Rockies. SPECTACULA R ! " . . . At her 50th reunion, Hilda N iehoff True '43 and classmates j o i ned to give an e ight-foot sculpture of the W h i te M u le to Colby. It w i l l be placed a n d ded icated in t h e + fall of 1 994.

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Louis M. Deraney

TO ALL CLA ES: I f you matricu lated in 1 940 and began your Colby tud ies i n eptember of that year. you are cord i a l ly in v i ted to join the Class of 1 944 a t it 5 0th reunion, J une 2 - 5 , 1 994. Si nce the College i s pri v i leged ro have Pre ident Bush as the com mencement peaker in May 1 994, you may want to arrive on cam pus two weeks before our 50th and enjoy the Class of l 994's commencement ceremonies, then return on J une 2 to meet with the Clas of 1 944. Com mencement may be of spec ial in tere t to those among u - who j o i ned the N a ,·y V -6 program during World War I L A s you may be ware, President Bush wa a N a vv p i l o t a n d wa in t h a t program . . . . C o l . Frederick S. Wood, re t i red from t he U MC s i nce 1 9 7 2 , is now employed as an a d m i n istrator of a n u rs i ng home in Chamber burg, Pa. H i s s o n is pur u i ng h i P h . D . at Pi tts burgh U niver i ty and want to be a college profes or. Fred i recov ering from a hip problem and hopes to resume h i golf activi t ies soon. A for the upcom i ng 5 0th re un ion, Fred a ure me that he w il l make every effort to be there. So w i l l the fo l lowing:

Vivian Maxwell Brown, Alden Wagner, Doris ( Blanchard '4 5 ) a n d B i l l H u tcheson , N a n c y Curtis L a w r e n c e , W e nd e l l P h i l l ips '48, Phil N u tting, Ralph Braudy, Janice Tappin Lowell, J oy Paddison Cook, R e m o Verrengia, Eugene Struckhoff, George Conley, Barbara Blais dell Libby, Ralph H ilton, Harris Graf, Donald J ohnson, Mitch J aworski ' 4 7 , S hirley Ellice Lord, Harold Vigue, Harold Jo seph, H a rry L e vi n , J os e p h Marshall, D o c Hannigan , Mary

Weeks Drummond, Louise Callahan Johnson, J ean Hayes Wassel, Richard J ones, Jo Pitts McAlary, Malcolm McQuillan, Evelyn Gates Moriarty, Rev. R i c h a rd M o u n t f o r d , J a me s Springer, Frank Strup, J ohn T u r n e r , E ft h i m E c o n o m u , Albert Allis, Burton Shiro and Richard Nawfel. If your name has been overlooked, forgive the o,· e rs i g h t - b u t be t he r e ! T h o m a s P. N o r t o n ' 4 3 , m y master at A TO H o u s e a n d co manager of the champ ionsh i p A l l - M a ine football t e a m i n o u r era , happened to b e h o m e for the Thanksg i v i ng hol iday and in formed me that he had recently retu rned to his home base in Needham, Mas . , and wa return ing to hi southern abode after the hol iday . Tom, in re t irement, l ives the l i fe of a vagabond in New England, Florida and point in between. One of his c h i ldren ( two boys and one g i r l ) l ives in R ichmond , Va., and two live in N eedham. Tom has an apartment in Marco, F l a . , and i in e i ther V i rginia, Massachusetts or Florida at any given t ime of the year. He also has assured me he'll m a k e a strong effort to be at our 50th. . . B i l l H u t c h e on, a l so o f N eedham, i · healing well after maj o r urgery on h is knee. He and Doris also are planning to join us in J u ne . B i l l hopes that he w i l l be completely healed and able to resume h is golf swings by then . . . . For the past e v e ra l years 1 have been d i l igently writ ing the column about your c ur rent doings and escapades. A !though many o fyou 1 � ponded to the everal questionnaires that went out, many did not. I can only p lead that you write to me [ welcom e a ny new of y o u r whereabouts. I t is my sincere wish that whoever yo1 1 are and wher ever you m ight be, you join your c l as mates of 5 0 long years past and help make this 50th the great-

est re union e,·er. The "J udge" h,1, spoken ! +

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Dorothy Sanford McCunn

Many thanks to tho<;e of vou who re ponded

to my N ovember que> t i onnaire. J oan St. James, of Wort h i ngton, Ohio, write that she has been raking bal l room danc i ng lessons and , much to her surprise, has been w i nn ing ama teur dance competit ions in Or lando, Houston, Balt i more, Cle,·eland and N e w Orlean· and s t i l l had one compet i t ion ahead of her that was to be tele ,· i s e d . When J oa n re m i n i·ces about Colby, she remembers the Blue Beetle, snow, M i s R unnal and " W i l k i e . " He r travel p lan include a trip to A u tra l i a , I ndo nesia and ingapore i n April '94

and in October '94 a trip to Israe l . Keep y o u r dancing shoes on ! . . Arnold Grossman, D. D . . , l t v ing i n Falmouth, Mass . , write that h is three grown ch i ldren a l l a r e married a n d ha v e careers-a a psychologi t , an attorney and a dentist. One of these three is Thomas ' 7 9 . A rnold, who has lec tured on denti try i n China, R u s i a and l rae l , is ret i red from teaching at Tufts Dental School and also from pri vate prac t ice and is having a new house b u i l t on Cape Cod. H i memorie of Colby include the old campu across from the railroad station, b u ing to Mayflower H i l l and a lot of good t imes. Arnold is look i ng forward to o u r next c l ass re u n ion, the big one only a l i ttle over a year away . . . . I had a n ice phone call from Adele Grindrod Bates, who phoned j ust to keep i n touch and see how t h i ngs are progressing. It was n i ce to hear from her. Adele had returned re cently from trips to Cape Cod and to Washington, D.C., where

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she spem a Int of t i me at the S m i thso n i a n and v i e w i ng the other s ight of D.C. . . . I see that Grace Keefer Parker was a guest ·peaker a t the church I formerly a t tended on Long Island. Grace is the v ice pres ident of the Long I s land d istrict of U n i ted Meth od ist Women -this in add i t ion to all her other a c t i v i ties. I f [

come from phone c a l l s ,

were s t i l l l i v i ng on Long I s land, I would have attended . . . . I ' l l k ep

l i t t l e more than half the c l a s from whom I have not heard since l took over thi joh. I ' l l keep look i ng to hear from tho�e per ons.

the rest of the news for the next column. Keep up your good work. Responses are a l ways needed and a lways welcome. +

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to women to be sure they don ' t t a k e comments the wrong way. " We a l l apprec iate that, Tom . . . .

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Beverly Benner Cassara

that nowadays he finds i t nece ary "to be very careful in talking

Edward S. Sherwood retired from

Thank you-the letters are coming in pretty wel l , but still there is a

S i nc e i t seems women answer mtire than men, l am plea. ed a> punch to devote thi · column

ped i atrics eight year ago and three year ago moved to Ver mont, where he plays in a bag pipe band and i a trustee for the l i brary and the health center. He recently attended the Navy V- 1 2 re un ion in Norfolk . . . . Cecil E. Bums has retired from hi po i t ion as personnel d irector at Lear Seigler Corp. He was a school board member anJ chair of the

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Nancy J acobsen

World War lI veteran Wendell Phillip '48 wa quoted in an

c las member as w e l l

Armistice Day art ic le in New Jersey' · News Weekly . Ph i l l i p ,

as a m i x t u re ofw h a t wc\·e learned in 40- plu · years. Connie Choate

commander of the American Legion post in Mo restown,

Trahan remcmhers, with plea sure, Profe �or \Xleeb's c h e m is try c lasses. Her h usband, Robcrr , 1s retired m i l i tary, and Connie

featured in a Portland Press Herald "Maine M ilestones" story.

says her c o l l ege education en abled her ro enjoy to a greater d e gre e t h e fa m i l y ' m i l i t ary travel . . Hannah Karp Laip son th inks fondly of the unday e ve ni ng m us i cal · at President B ixler' house on College Ave nue . . . . Paul Adams remembers Pop Newman fond ly and has t h is advice after 40 years: "Relax and re t i re as e a r l y as you c a n . " . . Benjamin Bubar rec a l l · the shuttle and "shuffling" between the downtown campus and May flower H i l l for c l asses. Ben has kept up his l ifetime interest in po l i tic . Remember, Ben was the candidate for U . President in one e lection, running for rhe third o ldest parry i n the U .S . , the Pro h i b i t ion Party . . . . Norma Taraldsen Billings, who has re t i red as a ocial worker, ha found that " there j ust isn't enough time w do all the projects I' d l ike to fin i ·h, read al l the books I 'd l i ke to, see all the p laces l want to v i s i t and !cam a few t h i ngs I ' d l ike to know, ·uch as balanc i ng my checkbook wi thout finding any errors." Norma has a long time intere t in genealogy, doe q u i l t i ng and gardening and en joys housework - avoidance and long walk in eat H a rb o r , Maine . . . . M y n e x t report w i l l

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N .j . , landed on Omaha Beach w i th forces that contributed heav ily to the defeat of Germany . .

. Gene Hunter '48 wa

A long- t i me Maine re ident, H unter wa lauded for h i nearly three decades of involvemen t i n high chool ancl j u n ior h igh chool basketball programs. H is teams won 4 1 7 games and three state t it les.

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m e n . . . . Stanley H. Levine s a y , " i t hould make you and theColby Cl ass of J 94 7 chuckle t o learn I eamed a ma ·ter of fine art de gree this pa t J une at the a\•an nah College of Art and Design in my 70th year! My thesi- concern ing the dating of many b u i l d i ngs in avannah\ h i ·roric d istrict after nu merous d isastrou fires swept through the area over the centu ries was accepted by the Georgia H istorical Soc i e ty and the Savannah P u b l ic Library. Now I can look up my·elfon the i r compu ters when I have noth i ng el e ro do." . . . Tom Burke, t i l l w o r k i n g p art t i m e , ru ns t h e N e ighborhood Wat c h for h i community i n San Diego. H e re cently enjoyed an extended trip to A laska and the Yukon. I was intere ted to hear h i comment

David and Dorothy Marson

Ruth Rogers Doering wri tes from Schenec

tady, N . Y . , that she is an in tructor at the Spencer Busi nes · chool i n computer l i teracy and accoun t i ng. She has three chi ldren, all married, three grand c h i ldren and three rep-grand chi ldren. A daughter and son i n - l a w are A i r Force officers at Colorado Spring , a son is a so c i a te profes or of p h y s i c s at Clarkson and a daughter is a Ph . D . candidate in math at the Un iversity of Wyoming. She re turned to Colby for our 4 5 th re un ion and recently traveled to A laska, Quebec (Ga pe, Quebec City ) and Northem Ontario and Hudson Bay. She says her favor i t e p rofe ss ors w e re W i l l i a m W i l k inson ( h istory ) a n d A l an Galbraith and Kye Pinette Zu kows k i '37 ( ma t h ) . . . . David Choate, who writes to us from Engl ewood, Colo . , ent us a un ique busine s card that i n c l uded his picture. He and h i s wife, Diane, have t w o grandchil dren. Dave says that hi daugh ter, E m i l y , got married a t a

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A D ;4 3 in Rumford but moved to Florida in 1 99 2 . He say· he i a strong >upporter of women's l i b. Cec il comes back to Maine for four months in the s u m me r . . . . David Weber performs feats l i ke c l i mbing Mt. hasta in record t i me and gets much satisfac t ion from h i vol unteer work w ith the California H istorical Soc iety, the Book Club of Ca l i forn ia, the Audub n ociety, Sierra Club, and the Roxburghe Club. H is re cent travels have taken h im to India, Hong Kong, Spa i n, Alaska, Baltimore, cotland , Texas and Peak Island in Ca c o Bay, Maine. Most important, he ha e tab l ished an endowed book fund for the Colby l i brary in his parents' memory . . . . I'm I okingfor more of such interesting bio . Thanks. •

mountain overlook. He walked her down the aisle, gave her away and conducted the service-a triple threat, he ay , and we are inc l i ned to agre e . Hi c areer change inc l ude c lergyman, pub l ic adm i n i ·rrator and real estate broker. Recently he traveled to Ch ina and antic ipates trips to Europe and Costa Rica. Hi ad v ice: stay healthy, enjoy l ife to the fu lle t, travel and try to put some money away for retirement. Dave says that anyone coming to Denver hould give him a c a l l a t h is office, 800-766-020 1 , and h e w i l l pring for d inner. N o t a bad offer. We hope omeone takes him upon i t . . . . 1 received a very nice note from Everett and Millie Hammond Bauer. They are both retired and liv ing i n A t t leboro, Mass. M i l l ie attended our 3 5th a n d 40th but missed th e 4 5 th . T h a t is a good record, b u t w e mis ed h e r l a t pring. They have two chi ldren of whom they are rightfully proud. M i llie, thank you for the very thoughtful personal note. Dorothy and I really appre c iated it. . . . Heard from David'

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How ie, Cloyd Aarseth and David sharing the proctor's u i te ? Howie and hi w ife, N orma, live i n K a l ispe l l , M o n t . They a r e both

learned how to organize h is t i m e w i thou t parental upervision, and i t wa at Co lhy that he learned how to make the dec i ion regard ing his career. A l though he has not been back ince 1 96 7 , Ed wri tes that he has been impressed

very active p laying tennis, bike riding, h i k ing, golfin'"" -��i ing and sail ing and enjoy ing the outdoor l ife. Howie says he returned to Colby once in 1 984. Come back for the 50th in 1 998 and you w i l l feel r i g h t a t h o m e ! ( Yes, Howie, we d i d have a class p ic ture taken,

and feel that the sent i ment is shared by many ofou r c l a mates.

and we are sure the Alumni Of fice could prov ide you w i th one. W e m u t warn you, though, that there are ome changes i n your classmates. Even David doesn't have q u i te as much hair . ) The Clement have two c h i ldren and a 1 9-year-old S iame e cat. The outdoors ounds great, but Howie wrote that it rained for 3 1 traight days i n J u ly . Add sw i m m i ng to his ac t i v i t i e s ' . . . Ed K a p l a n writes from retirement in Boca Raton, Fla., that he has two sons and five grandchildren. H e walk , golfs and w i m s and tares that he has "no talent whatsoever" to expre s h i mself art istically. He says that he would love to hear from anyone v isi ting the area and offered h is t e l ephone number ( 40 7 - 4 5 1 - 1 54 7 ) . ( We hope you get a great re pan e , Ed. Dorothy and I are planning to pend next w inter w i th you in Boca Raton.

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Anne Hagar Eustis

County W i ld land Trust and Mas sachu ens Ret ired Teacher As sociation ha given her many busy

t ening to the conductor that Bangor was real ly pronounced "Bangah"! . . . I was very relieved

moments. One day a week in Bos ron puts her in c u lture shock, bur

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ro M a i n e t o spend T h a n k sg i v i n g w i th our daughter, I was mu ing how things have switched-because I used to leave M a i n e for t h e Thanksgiving rece s. As y o u all may remember, t hat was when construction of the M aine Turn p ike was ju t beginning and the M a i ne Central/Boston and Maine railroad was the main mode of transportation for holidays. Not being part icu larly worldly, I wa always impre sed that they put on

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that several of you were shock d into immediate action upon re ceiving those electric p i n k post cards. Alex Richard writes that both he and h is wife, h irley, "are retired bur cont inue to be active i n c o m m u n i t y ac t i v i t i e s and events and in volunteer proj ects." One of Alex's memories is of a "' Doubleheader' in Yale arena while warming up for a hockey game vs. Yale." . . . Fay Klafstad

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ward, have owned and operated the Rangeley Inn for 2 1 years as of January 3 , 1 994. Their daughters, Janet and u an, have taken a very active part in running the bu iness. Fay will nor be able to attend our reunion d ue to a large convention scheduled at the inn the same weekend. We w i l l miss you, Fay ! . . . Mary Hathaway writes that she wa. "horn to re t ire." Her volunteer work for the K i n g s t o n L i b r a r y , P l y mo u t h

she has "happily d i rected the Big Dig and completion of the Pru d e n t i a l M a l l c o n n e c t i o n to Copley P l ac e " ! In retro s pe c t , M a r y a y s h e w i h e s s h e "had taken a cour e from President Bixler or at lea t gone to chapel. Wasn't he a wonderful per on 1" He certainly was in my book . . . . I am orry ro report that the Office of A l u mni Relat ions has norified me of the death of two of our c las mate : Muriel Briggs Pitrat on April 29, 1 99 3 , and Paul E. Bou me on J u ly 4, 1 99 3 . They a l o have sent me notification that Bernard J. S i l va , husband of Jean Sheppard Silva, d ied on eptem ber 8, 1 99 3 , of amyotrophic lat e r a l s c l e r o s i s ( Lo u G e h r i g ' d i ea e ) . Ou r heartfe lt sympathies ro you and your fam ily, Jean, and ro the fam i l ies of M uriel Pirrat and Paul Bourne . . . . Remember the date of our reunion, J u ne 25 , 1 994. I sha l l look forward t o + seeing y o u all!

Reunion Weekend J une 2 , 5 , 1 994

extra cars j ust for the college tu dents! I remember the ant icipa t ion and exc itement of those trips, traveling with friends, play-

Celebrating are the C lasses of '44 and '49

a t i m e of recognition as we w i l l h o n o r recipients o f this year's Brick Awards, Marriner Distinguished Service Award and

Distinguished Alumnus/a Award. C The Distinguished Alumnus/a Award for 1 994, for distinction in professional achievement, will be presented to Robert N . Anthony

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Dr. Anthony's list of accomplishments is extensive. After receiving his M . B.A. from Harvard. he taught

at the Harvard Business School from 1 94 0 to 1 982. His colleagues described him as "a man who has defined and developed the field of management control and g iven it its place in the business world." Anthony has worked with the Defense Department, served on many professional and honorary societies and is also author of nearly 1 00 articles and 1 7 books in the field of accounting and management control. C The Marriner Distinguished Service Award for outstanding dedication and service to Colby will be given this year to Jack Deering '55 . Deeri n g has

received a Colby Brick Award, is a past "C" Club Man of the Year, was an alumni club leader, class agent and alumni trustee and recruits actively as an alumni interviewer. He is known as "Mr. Colby" to generations of Portland folks. C The Brick Award will be presented to the following alumni i n recognition of the i r outstanding service to Colby: Anne O'Hanion Szostak '72 was named a Young Alumni Trustee i n 1 9 7 4 , has served as a career services volunteer, alumni club leader, class officer and alumni interviewer and is an overseer of the College. Cherrie Dubois

'69 has served on the Al u m n i Council Executive Committee and as a class agent, class correspondent, alumni

interviewer and alumni club leader.

c. Pen Williamson '63 served as a class officer. Alumni Council member and alumni club leader and in the early 1

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of alumni relations and annual giving. Cynthia Crockett Mendelson ' 5 9 has served on the Alu m n i Council and as a club leader and an alumni interviewer. Kershaw E. Powell

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ment." He has accepted a "con sulti ng assignment" with AT&T that takes him to Belg i u m , Ar gentina and Austra l i a . He is on the Maine Turnpike board of d i rectors, has a multitude o f church re ponsi b i l i tie , at the "drop of a hat" w i l l take a pleasure lrive to Quebec and is col lecting re ource matenal for w r i t ing a nove l . . . . From librarian Sky Mott came a beautiful photo and news ar ticle about his h istoric Hamlin Memorial Library i n Paris H i l l , M a i n e . . . . J oan With ington Downes, a probate j udge in Kent, Conn . , also is involved w i th her library board and book commit tee , w i th the h istorical society and as a hosp i ra l volunteer. . . . Alyce Moskowitz Domenitz is active in the Scarsda le, N . Y . , League o f Women Voters, in the Assoc iat ion for the Education of Young Chi ldren and in recording for Books for the B l i nd . . . . Also i n Scar d a l e , N . Y . , is Bruce Carswell, exci ted about h is work i n the telecommunicat ions in

employee workplace legislation. He says i t is "hard to bel ieve" the

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leadership roles, boards and com mi ttees. He cla ims to play "lousy golf." . . . . Gene Chartier, Carls

Audrey Bostwick teaches in the

bad, Cal if., boasts of a great-grand son ! And, in order of importance, he writes of having bought a new

shows and is chair of the l icen ed offic ial committee for the Ameri can Driv ing Society. She is j usti fiably proud of her second place ribbon in the Hackney, George IV Phaeton Clas at the Royal W inter Fa ir in Toronto. Among Audrey' memories of Colby is hearing the chweitzer organ as the instal ler was giving it the fir t trial. . . . Dick Bowen, Andover, Ma s., after 25 years in munic ipal

O'N e i l l wetsuit for use in the Pacific Ocean and conducting a four-day busines seminar at the UniversityofMinne ota. He sings in two groups, "ki lls" opponents on the tennis court, collects food for people with A I DS, ride h is bike up the Pacific Coast and i ridd ing himself of anxieties and neckties. Gene adds that he be came a writer because of the in fl uence of Prof. Chapman at Colby. . . . Clayton Bloomfield is anta Cru z , Ca l if. , ret ired in where he "i in the relent less puruit of hedon ism . " . . . Connie Preble Anding retired from the travel indu try and moved from M i nne ota to Tucson, A r i z . , where she finds the c l imate t o be "pure heaven." She and her hus band are planning a travel tra i ler trip to explore Mexico and to panish . . . . John te t t h e i r Crawford has retired t o Boulder, Co lo., after 20 years in Dhaka, Saudi Arabia, with the Nat ional Oil Company . During De ert Storm, he entertained U . S . troops both in his home and at field locations . . . . Marjorie Shear man Burns, a member of the last nursing class to graduate from Colby, has retired from nursing at the San Jose, Calif., Med ical Center. Her original intent was to remain a bedside nurse, but eventually she became the man ager of the orrhopedic/neuro surgical and general surgical units. She plays the organ and works with the c h i ldren's music and drama programs of her church. Ever since learning it with the Colby G lee Club, Marjorie an n u a l ly part i c ipates in a M e s s iah s in g - a - long. H e r n e w e s t accomplishment is to h a v e be come c o m p u t e r l i terate ! . .

equestrian program at Delaware Val ley College, offic iates at horse

government administration, fin ished a J .D. at Suffolk Law School in 1 98 5 and i now a public de fender ( j uveni le ) . He is the grand fa t h e r of 1 0 . . . . Joan Drew " Drewsie" Boone ha retired from "Mass. taxes and polit ics to a l i fe of fu n and games" i n Hernando, F l a . he returns to Maine every summer and along w i th other thing keep out of the rocking chair by oil painting. . . As a certified genealogist, Fred Boyle, Springvale, Maine, "col lects other people's anc e · tors." He is on a Red Cross disas ter team as well as a multitude of boards and committee . Having taken vocal lessons, he is now a c h o i r member. . . . A l o in Springvale, Maine, is Harland Eastman. S i nce retiring from the U . . Foreign Serv ice in 1 979 and returning from Tangier, Morocco, he has been buy ing, el l ing and collecting old and rare books and has written four books on local history ( which old over 9,000 copies ) . In h is spare t ime, he it as a trustee on many boards. He is pleased that his youngest c h i ld, an adopted Moroccan son, gradu ated from Colby i n 1 990 . . . . From Sara ota, Fla . , c l a s agent Ernie Fortin announces that Bob Archibald has been appointed associate cla s agent . . . . Keep your news coming and remember that two issues w i l l pass between my writing and your reading. +

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E. Annie Proulx ' 5 Ts The Shipping News wa awarded the N a t ional Book Award for fiction. The novel al o won The lrish Times

write that her daughter Hlllly '86 is now a ped iatric resiJent at Maine Medical Center. Ellie has been elected to the Brun ·wick town counc il as a "�rrong" en,·i ronmental adYocate . . . . Susan Johnson \\'rote that one of her memorie - ofColby i of her fn:�h rnan year, when he met Pre>i denr Bixler on the path from the chapel to the Wome n ' U n it1n ,

I nternational Fiction Prize, wh ich goe to a book written in Engli h out ide of Great Bri tain. These pre t igiou prize follow la t year' PEN/Faulkner Fiction Award for Proulx's fir t novel, Postcards.

. . James Bishop J r. ' 5 8 won the W il l i am A l len White gold medal from the Univer ity of Kansas for the best magazine story in a regional/city magazine. The same tory-abou t G len Canyon Dam a! o won fir t prize at the Arizona Pres Club' 1 99 2 banquet

NEWS MAKERS Lois Carl on ' 5 4 i the new director of development at St. Joseph'

Lois Carlson '54

College i n W i ndham, Maine . . . . During the J anuary deep-freeze, an A. ociated Pres reporter a ked J oseph Perham ' 5 5 what he thought of the weather. Perham, who replied that he had een much wor e, added, "I remember one March when i t was o cold we couldn't even hear ourselve talk." . . . l n the counterpoint ection of the Boston Sunday G lobe, an a rticle by Allan Van Gestel ' 5 7 , a parmer in the Boston law firm of Goodwin, Procter & Hoar, d i·cu sed theories about the real ident i ty of Shake peare. Van Ge tel took hi. debate to court, o to speak, in a mock trial in Fane u i l H a l l in Bo�ton, where he argued the Earl of Warwick's c laim to authorship of hake peare' play ver u · an attorney for the BarJ. . . . anta's helper John Edes ' 5 8 was ·wamped by phone call from children in the days prior to Christmas, according to a ·rory in Rhode I s land ' · Joumal-Bullerin. Ede left a me·sage "from anta Clau " on the answering machine at the home of a friend, whose 6-year-old daughter shared the number with friends at chool. Edes received 23 cal l · from expectant ch i ldren who wanted a d i rect l ine to anta.

MILEPOSTS Deaths: Arlene Tobey Ratoff ' 5 2 in Exeter, N . H . , at 63 . . . . J ohn D. E l d e rk i n ' 5 5 in Boothbay, Maine, at 60 . . . . Hewitt A. Wetherell ' 5 5 in Poca set, Mass . , at 6 1 . . . . Richard Dana Hall Jr. ' 5 8 in t h e Dominican Republic at 5 7 .

Barbara Easterbrooks Mailey

We have some news from a few '53er not ret i red and from a couple who have left our working world. Robert A. Dow, who re turned to Maine to preach, write that he took a six-month sabbati cal leave and traveled 1 4 ,000 m i le in the State and Canada. H e ha done pastoral counseling in Penn ylvania, Ma achu ett and Maine. Like many of u , b i lls and re pons i b i l i t ie keep h i m from "the rocker." . . . From Madion, W i . , Dr. Folkert Belzer writes that he i employed a a profe or and chairman of the department of urgery there. He says he ha a c lo e family u n i t hi wife, Marion, and c h i ldren , Ingrid, J ohn, Eric and Paul. . . . Nelson Beveridge say that now that he is free of this cla corre-

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. . . T he other retiree i G e or ge Pirie. He and h is wife, Collette,

·tepchildren. The "rocking chair" has to wa i t for him because he r ill ha bill , golf and leaf raking in that order. ome of his Colby memorie :"all the friend· I made and t i l l keep in touch with, the Maine country ide;" and the fir t thought of Colby today: "that l probably couldn't get in, that it's uch an e l i te community." . . . I want to report activitie of a couple of cla srnate who ha,·e retired. Fir t, Kent Dickerman, who live with h i wife, Ariel, at 9 5 7 Fairmount Avenue, t . Paul, MN 5 5 1 0 5 . H e keeps in good health. by playing tenni and other sports. However, h is main inter est i becoming a ham radio op erator. H e would l ike to know if there are any other "ham " in the clas of ' 5 3 . Hi call letters are NQXTN. He would love to have your call letters and frequency and t i m e of d a y o p e r a t i o n .

did some extensi\'e tra\'eling af ter our 40rh reunion in J une '93. They vi ited England and cor land for a month, then traveled to Athens for a few days, then pent Augu·t in Hawa i i before returning home. He says, "retire ment is tough-you never seem to get a day off." o long for now, retiree and non- reti rees. +

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Marlene Hurd Jabar

Well, the Colby-Bow d o i n foo t b a l l g a m e ended w i th a 2 1 -2 1 tie. Tai !gating has been fun this year because Tony and I have renewed old (former) friendship . ( Most of the alumni who follow Colby sports are from other classe , but when one get our age the classe all meld together. ) The game was

and he said: " H i , Sue 1 How are things in Bethel ?" He nor t'nly knew Sue's name bur rememhered her hornet• wn in Connec t icut. ( I 'm ure relating this \\'d i brmg back memorie, tll many nf v o u abnut Pres ident B i x l er. It re rn mJed me of when Tun\ <m1..l I \\'Ould be 'ludying-1 u'e the term l n os ely- ;1 n d Pre s i d e n t B i x l e r wuuld ,t<l[' a n d speak m A rah1c to Tnny . ) Sue' ( anJ C . Freeman Sleeper\) daughter, Debh i c , \\·a, married a year ago. They ha1..I a big family reun ion: De bh1e and brother Mark � leeper ,ire buth in gr:11..l ·choo l . Paul Sleeper ha' t h re e c h i l d re n and J onathan Sleeper cont i n ues hh career a, a ,oftware engineer. Sue ha, been laid off from her job, but a' ·he say , she b enthu · ia,t icalh· a nd energe u c a l l y p u rs u m o a new career. . . . Philip Reiner Deutsch , s t i l l a travel clerk for Amtrak, doe not know if he'll retire or not. Philip remembers gettinr, together with "an eccen tric mix of other inderendenr types in Pepper Hall." H e also write that he never ant ic ipated abandoning the weather sen·ice field for dispatching buse for a rai lroad . . . . David and Betsy Powley Wallingford are really enjoying b e i n g grandpare n t . Their ·on Jeff ( they have two other on , Chri and Todd both unmarried) and his wife, Lauren, had a girl, Krista. David is also enjoying having more rime to h i mself-re laxing, pursuing hobbies, vacationing and travel ing. He and Bet y pent two weeks in Hong Kong and m a i n land C h i na i n ept ernber ' 9 2 . . . . Georgia Roy Eustis, always re lating interesting incident that happened to her, ha really done i t thi t i me. Georgia pent sev-

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era! days in her own ICU because she almost a�phyxi ated herself by carbon 1nonoxide poisoni ng from a kerosene heater. Yup, she wa t ry ing to beat Central Maine Power out of a b i l l of $250 a month. Beside almo t k i l l i ng herself, G ig write that he would l ike to finish the nove l she started in ' 8 7 . he ha� enjoyed the re search and personal intervi ews in pur uit of this task . G ig abo re members being able tO drink all the m i l k you wanted at Colby ( I hate m i l k ) , the bl i:zard of ' 5 2 ( so do I , becau e Ruth Brindley Che n ey had tO stay at my house for three days and we ran out of c igarettes), the hou emother who insisted "Abide W i th Me" he ung n ightly all year, the smell of , u l f u r from S c o t t Paper, Colbyette tours, lasting friend�hips-and a lso the following: "At the fre·h man soc ial, Sherman Saperstein was the first one to ask me to dance, and he told me I looked �o old that he thought I was a e n ior. If he te l ls me that at the 40rh reu n ion, he' i n for B - 1 -G TROU BLE ' " See you in J u ne ! •

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Margaret Smith Henry

A wonderfu l fr i nge benefit of thi job is rec e i v i ng phone calls in re ponse to quest ionnaire . N o sooner d id that orange sheet reach you than 1 heard from Marian Woodsome Ludwig. We'd had a n ice v is i t at the re u n ion las t ] une, b u t the follow-up phone conver sation made the years-ahem 1 3 5 years-roll away. In order to ee her seven grandc h i ldren, Marian has to travel to New Jersey, Maine and a town near H amburg , Ger m a n y . When she grad u a t e d , Marian d i d not antic ipate being a teacher of young c h i ld r e n , bur today s h e is reach i ng music to abo u t 700 c h i ldren in K- 3 in c hools near her home in Lunenberg, Mas . , an unexpected career that she find very reward i ng . . . . Jim Bi hop w r i te from Sedona, A r i z . , that he is c urrently an author and a col lege i nstruc tor. Thi i his fifth career ince leav i ng Colby {journalist, federal offi c i a l , solar energy lobbyist and screenwriter ) . J im never ant i c i -

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pated being in government-he worked for the Carter W h i t e House i n 1 9 7 7-79-and he never anticipated fa thering three qu i te accompl ished c h i ldre n : Annie received her M.A. from Col um bia and is in the Peace Corps, Jeb has worked for Mother Teresa and is now a paralegal in wa�h ington, D.C., and Bill, who is n uent in Ch inese, is in a master's program at Johns Hopk i n . J i m w i l l publ ish Epiwph for a Desert Anarchist : Life and Legacy of Ed ward Abbey in the p r i ng of 1 994 . . . . Ann Willcox Loftin is president of her own promotional products company, I DEA , INC. She and her h usband , Don, who i " re t i red but does more now t h a n he e v e r d i d , " l i v e on u l l ivans Island, S.C. Even in N ovember 1 99 3 , ,he wrote, they were st i l l repa iring from Hurri cane H ugo. Becau ·e her company has customer in 3 6 states, Ann and Don have traveled much in the Uni ted rate -Texa every year, Wyoming this year, Con nec ticut and Al abama la t year and, in 1 99 5 , A la ka by motor home up the h ighway. Ann never a n t i c i pated being married three t i mes or running her own busi ness or liv ing at the beach. he says "hel lo" to Chris, Embeth and Polly . . . . Burt Angrist is a phy ic ian at New York U n i verity Medical Center. He and h is wife, Anka, who is a grant writer, have a 1 3 - year-old daughter, Lau re l. ( " We got started late . " ) Burt, who ha done med ical research on the bi ological aspects of psy chiatric d i orders, say he never anticipated becoming a nut about outdoor activities-rock c l i mb ing, canoe triv, backpac k i n g ' . . . Janice Klem Benicek i a coordinator for Li teracy Volun t e e r o f G re a t e r W o r c e s t e r ( M ass. ) , a branch of Li teracy Volunteers of America. Janice ha; moved inro an "ac tive adu l t com munity" where he owns her own home, but the community as a whole is operated l ike a condo m i n i u m and that means NO yardwork, NO snow removal, NO e x te r i o r m a i n t e n a n c e of any k ind-"what joy and freedom from unwanted responsi b i l i t ies." J an ice is rightly proud of hav ing started and managed a thrift store at her c h u rch for the past 1 0 year

that has generated many thou sand of doll ars and benefi red the church and outside charitable needs. he also has housed three refugee fam i l i es and helped them find homes and become acc l i

beat, or even match , that out standing performance ? . . . Melly McKevett Grolljahn ha over come some pretty daunting situ

m a ted to l i fe in t h e U n i ted rates . . . . Daniel Yett is a dip

econom ic ) w i t h c harac teristic good spirits. Somehow she has

lomat for the U . S. I nformation Agency in Mogadishu. H is wife, Beverly, al o a d i plomat, is with the Department of State. After three year in Ri de J aneiro, Dan transferred to Mogad ishu , where he is the U . S . l ia ison officer in the equ ivalent of our embassy. He'll be there u n t i l J u ly-A ugu t

managed ro maintain a good per spec tive on life, and her sense of humor i intac t . She ee Kiki Kies Madden fa irly regularly, and both of them intend to be at our 3 5 th . . . . Received a lovely let

of 1 994-or the col lap e of the U . N . mi ion in omalia, which ever come� first. He write , "Life in a war zone i VERY differ ent ! " . . . Since her v isit back to Colby at the 3 5 th reu n ion, Bar bara Newhall Stevens reports a big and very happy change. She wa married on September 3 , 1 99 3 , t o John Stevens, a market i ng manager with Emerson Elec tric Corp . , and moved into h is home in Upper Montc lair, N .J . They had dated throughout j un ior and senior h igh school and met again at a high school friend' da ughter's wed d i ng two years ago-and "the rest is hi tory ! " . . If you care to update a n y in formation, or correct any, please feel free to write to me . I heard from many of you and from your re·ponses put together the clas letter a well as t h is column. But 1 can always use more, and t i me ly , information. •

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Ann Marie Segrave Lieber

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reunion p lanning se sion, w ith essentially the ame ca t of characters a Ii red in my November column, and spec ial event are indeed in store. Part ofthe evening involved fund-raising phone call . A a group we col lected pledges of about $ 2 , 500 toward our goal of $ 5 0,000 ( watch out, Ed Goldberg, we're looking to meet your chal lenge ! ) . That was gratifying, but hearing those fam i l iar voices and talking about old t i mes proved to be FUNdrai ing as wel l . . . . Fred Stutzmann has 10 chi ldren and

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ter from Carol "Kristy" Kris tiansen Bittner, who lives about five mi les away from those hor rendou Cal i forn i a fires. he teaches a sweet and funny group of first grader , who keep her s m i l i ng w i t h c o m m e n t s l i k e "When we g e t old we 'll have old skin l i ke yours ! " Kristy aw Sally

Weber Girard in Santa Barbara rece n t l y a n d ays she l ooks great. . . . Our mo t sincere con dolence to the fa m i l i es and friends of our c lassmates Bruce McFarland and John Martin, both of whom pa sed away during the la t year. . . . Keep those cards and letters coming, folk , and I ' l l keep giving y o u t h e t r u e scoop o n all y o u r old friends . . . . S e e you on the H i l l in J une, I hope ! •

Reunion Weekend June 3 � 5 , 1 994 Celebrating are the Classes of '54 and '59

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lizabeth K istler Wallace ' 5 3 has always been a woman on the move. A fourth-generation Californian whoseance tor trekked we tward by covered wagon in the 1 8 50s, she recalls a youthful interest in international affairs and travel stimulated by a year at a Swiss high school. "Once you have that educational experience you have your l ife changed," she aid. "It made me more of an internationalist." Now in her n inth year at the I n ternational V is i tors Center in San Francisco, Wallace orche crate visits by 1 ,800 up-and-coming leader each year who have been in v i ted to v i s i t t he U n i ted States. Recent v isitors to her center-the large t of 1 00 around the country-have included educators from Bra zil and Finland, journalists from Liberia and Monten egro, economists from Poland and I taly, an attorney from Colombia, human rights ac tivists from Pakistan, a mu seum c urator from South Korea, a librarian from Ar gentina and elected officials from Mexico, Australia, France and Spain. "And we're in a slow period now," Wallace aid. Helped by a paid staff of seven, 55 office volunteers and 1 ,000 center members, Wallace l inks up the visitor with their profes sional counterparts in the Bay area during their three-to-five day stops in San Francisco. The U.S. government foots the bill for the v i itor ' month-long tou.r of the country, while the centers are funded mostly by corporate and individual gifts, ensuring that Wallace keeps busy a a fund raiser a well. "We are the c it izen arm of the diplomatic corps," Wallace said. "We help to make friends for the Un ited States and the world, a well as establishing long-term economic, busine s and profes sional ties." She notes that since the program was establi hed 4 5 years ago, more than 1 3 5 of i t s invited participants h a v e gone o n to become heads o f state, including Britain' Margaret Thatcher, Germany's Willy Brandt and South Africa's F.W. de Klerk. She pointed out that Anwar Sadat's v isit, which included meetings with American J ews and Arabs whom "he saw could get along," preceded h is dramatic signing of a peace accord with lsrael. Wallace says that the program allow vi itors "a chance to become acquainted w ith the United State as we know i t" by

spending time with profes ionals at work and ordinary c i t izens in a variety ofsettings. The visi tors receive what she calls a "balanced v iew" of America, including urban and rural etting . For her part Wallace enjoys giving dinner parties at her home in Mill Valley, where she lives with her husband, Rus ell Wallace ' 5 2 . "You have t o b e interested i n people and what they are thinking," Wallace aid in de cribing her job. Asked to name a personal quality that enables her to do her work, she unhesitatingly replied, "energy." A French and education major at Colby, she took an array of international relations courses, ea.med addi tional credits in the Colby Swarthmore summer program and completed her degree in just three year , one of the first Colby students to do so. Her motivation ? "! was already tak ingaccelerated courses and was very interested in a fel low named Russ Wallace," she said with a chuckle. After they earned their degrees in 1 9 5 2 and got mar ried, Wallace worked briefly for TWA in New York and then went to Germany, where she uitored Spani h-speaking G ls in Engli h and Rus e l l erved in the Army. Later, as her husband earned h i M .B.A. and set out on a bu iness career that took them back to California, she was busy rearing three on and doing lots of volunteer work, usually with an international focus. She erved on the tate and national board oftheAmerican A sociationofUniver ity Women, chaired its International Relations Committee and was appointed by Secretary of State William Rogers to the U.S. National Commis sion for UNESCO. When her children were grown, she returned to work, first in international ales for a couple of software companies and then at the visitors center. Wallace (pictured here at right with Con u l General and Mrs. El Ora.bi of Egypt) ay her job is satisfying becau e "each day is different" and "this i an important thing to do for my country." Acknowledging that the public is more concerned with problems such as crime, AIDS and the homeless than with improving foreign relations, Wallace points out that her work has important long-range goals. "] ust as we want to be secure in our streets, we want our country to be secure in our world," she ·aid. "We need both to understand our world and to have foreigners under rand us."

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and three grandc h i ldren. Since they live near a wooded reser voir, I was treated to watc hi ng twin fawn gambol i ng on the lawn . . . . When I c a l led Ken Nigro, he reported that he i s very busy managing the fantasy camp and c ru i se for the Ba l t i more Orioles. Sound · li ke fun. You go to the camp and get to p lay ball with formers stars and other play ers for the Orioles, j ust like you a lways wanted to do when you were a k i d . After Colby, Ken started as a sports reporter, first i n New Jersey and t hen for the Bal timore Sun reporting on the Ori oles. This actually led to working for the club. Now he l i ves almost entirely i n arasota, Fla . , so I g u e s s l w as l u c k y to c a t c h him . . . . W h i l e i n N e w Orleans, l cal led J ohn Bailey at Pont chartra in Travel, which he owns, bu t he was prac t i c i ng what he preaches and was trave l i ng out of

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fore, by the t i me you read this, you will, I hope, have received a c l a newsletter-in which I used up all the news I had received to date. So, I have to depend on each of you to send me new news as soon as you get the letter say i ng that you are part of a very select group being sol ici ted for your news. Got i t ? . . . Carol D a v i d s o n J a c k w r i t e from Hopewe l l J unc t ion, N . Y . , that she is a happy grandmother who j ets to L A . as often as possible to v is i t h e r n e w grandson. S h e a n d her husband, R i chard, who works for Texaco, are looking fo rward to h is retirement i n Marc h . They p lan to travel cross-country for a year, then sett le in Maine near the coa t . I n the mean ti me , they have been ski ing out we t each March as well as vacationing at Cape Cod, Boston and Maine . Th e y al o travel to Colorado, Cal i fornia and Florida to v i s i t re lat ives. S h e keep u p with Bebe

Clark Mutz, Peg Bartlett Gray and Lee Kennedy Laugesen. She d idn't even mention that her n ickname, if i n m y old age 1 re member i t correctl y, used to be "Patc h"-wonder if she will tell us what i t meant. Speaking of

Bebe, Paul and I had the pleasure of a ttending the wedding of her daughter, Meg G a lloway ' 8 7 , to Marc Pearce. lt was a beautifu l , fun wedding t h a t included about 2 0 members of the Class of 1 987 and the two of us from 1961 . . . . Ginny Murphy Cragin and her husband, Ed ' 6 2 , are l i v ing i n Pelham, N . Y . , where th e y ar e s t i l l i n t h e process of launching their fa m i l y : Amy attends Davidson College, Brad is at the Taft chool and twins Lael and usan are at Deerfield. One of G i nny' fond e t Colby memories is of a superb rend i t ion of S c h u b e r t ' s " I m promptu O p 9 0 N o . 4 " by Carole Ann Pope Wilcox back i n Mary Low. G i nny is now i n her third year of p iano le ons, so watch out Carole Ann! She a l o serve on the board of the Onaway Camp Trust , which run "an outstand ino camp i n New Hampshire" that is featured in the '93-'94 ed i t ion of Choosing The Right Camp. Jeanette Benn Anderson sent me her Christmas letter, which tells of the value of the v i tamin-nutri t ion program he i s on and how it ha made a tremendous d i ffer ence for her. She and her hus band, Bob, are enjoy ing the i r Maine lake house, which is built on the s i te of the camp of her fa ther, who was in the Colby Class of' 2 5 . They al o enjoyed a memo rable occasion last April. After thei r daughter was married i n Charl otte, N .C . , t h e group of re lative who had come to the wedd i n g t rave led together to Nashv i lle. J eanette has kept in contact with her Chi 0 daughter Cindy Lamb Johnson '62 and h e a rs fro m D i a n e S c rafton

Ferreira . . . . Janet Haskins Mandaville reports from Port land , Ore . , that she has been spending her t ime hav ing i n ter esting experiences i n A u tral ia. She was planning on escorting tours into the Outback and coun try towns, with a focus on w ildlife

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Correspondent: Judith Hoagland Bristol

It's a different world from o u r year at Colby. I w as ju t glancing through the latest Colby Echo with the following head lines: "Model Mugging Teaches Self-Defense " and "Student In dicted for Manslaughter in N.J."

So sad and depressing.I'm at the age-which I know you all are, too-where I'm not sure how we can fix things, or if we can.... 1 did hear from Chris Wood that Joan (Tinker) i \'ery sick with cancer. And although her spirits are pretty good, she ha ome disability to her left side due to the tumor affectino the motor area of her brain. Chris said that they have hope and two very supporting sons and a daughrer in-law-Christopher, 25, who was married in March, and Joshua, 21, a senior at yracuse. Chri i an attorney, and Joan is a database programmer/operator. ( Chris al o aid that they Sa\\' Ho pe Hutchins B enton on Gaspari Ila !:land, Fla., la t pring. Hope's house is called Bangor House.He said that the minute they saw it they knew who 0\1·ned it.) How's about some cards an<l phone call to Joan and Chri , Box 312, 10 Bodine A\·enue, Peapack, NJ 07977.We all have uch wonderful memorie of one another. I think of you, Joan, as being always perfectly groomed very preppie with a special spark. You will both be in my prayers for ure during this difficult time. ...Tony Mainero is in career coun eling-he' a senior vice pre ident and general manager at Lee Heschr Harrison, Inc.His wife, Cathy, i a director of reli gious education. The Maineros have four children: Kim, 26, Kristen, 24, Stephen, 21, and Kathy Leigh,17.Tony says that he has been ble ed with a won derful life-"a great lady who has put up with [him] for 28 years and four extraordinary children." Tony i an ordained minister,so in addition to his lay career, he spend additional time preach ingeach weekend and in his min i try.Tony say he never intends to retire since life is too much of an adventure to stop.They cruise the Caribbean each year and sum mer in Wells. Tony said he had dinner recently with Ginny (Murphy '61) and Ed Cragin.He al o keep up with Bruce Mar shall in Wa hington, D.C., and Peter Duggan in Columbu , Ohio.... Gerry Tays changed jobs in July and moved from the National Park Service in Wash ington, D.C., to Washington state. Gerry is now superinten-

dent of Coulee Dam National Recreation Area. Hi wife, Nancy, i a nurse and has been in real estare but is now unemployed. The Tays have two children and two grandchildren. Gerry said that he talked recently with Dr. Donald on Koons-retired from Colby' Geology Department regarding a project that he i· working on and that he u ed to run into Lael Swinney Stegall occasionally in Washington, D.C. I think lots of us would like to see your part of the country now, Gerry.... Speaking of travel, Harry and I ju t returned from Hawaii-the big island, where we hared a gorgeou· house with even other of our Hou ton fnends for a \\'eek. Ir \\'a a hor rible rime for me to be gone, bur Puakn Beach was spectacular (Puako i toward Walmea and you fly in to Kona).Other than that, l am being "conferenced our," since my school wa named one of the 18 mentor high school in Texas. We are considered one of the leaders in restructuring rho e of you not in education need to know in case you didn't that what we have been doing is no longer working.Of cour e you can go back to my first paragraph about Colby and read your own daily new paper about society and understand why .... I do want to + hear from you.

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After ome initial de lay and confusion thi time with the mailing of the questionnaire, I am ud denly awash in mail and new from classmates.I shall try to in clude some tidbit from each of you who rook the time to write. Your replies are much appreci ated.I only wish I had the pace to share all that you have written. .. Steve Danforth has been a French teacher at Cam .

den-Rockport High School for 23 years, a job that he enjoys and that keeps him young.He and his wife, Sharon-to whom he ha been married for 30 years (! ) have two children, Darcie and Darren, both young adults.Steve has just returned from a trip to Russia and is planning to visit

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France .. Steve Eittreim, a manne geologi t with the U . . Geological Survey in Palo Alto, enjoys hi job but finds that ger rmg suppon for scientific re earch from the feJeral government i .

like "getting the O.K. from your boss at McDonald' to cook Chateaubriand'" Though gray of hair, teve enjoy the acrn·e Cali fornia life, biking to work, rennt'i, etc.and recently returneJ from a wonderful ailing vacation in the Virgin lslanJs. He and his wife, Carole, ha\·e three kid .... Jo Ann Wincze French, my able predecessor and advisor, is re gional credit manager (norrhea t) for General Electric Lighting. he travels often for her job and re cently vacationed in Cancun. he \\'rite� that ·he got the best tan she' had since she was 12! ... Maggie Briggs Grabowski, nearly a neighbor of mme in Benning ton, Vt., writes of the \·ariou activitie of her clan, eight off spring and husband Gene. Only ne son, Ben, is still at home, and Maggie now chooses to sub in the guidance office of the local middle school, work at the" Apple Barn," a local emporium, and pur ue her hobby of gardening. When her ne t i finally empty, he i conidering attending graduate school. Go for it, Maggie! ... Household manager and "per petual Boy Scout volunteer " Arlene Jenkins Graber filled both ide of her questionnaire with news. Two of her four children, her elderly mother and her work ar-home consultant husband keep her house abuzz. Arlene i a cubmaster (in Scouting for 17 years), loves tracing genealogy and pursues an interest in the Abenaki of New England.. .. Well, the editor only allow me one and a half page , and I still have new from Janet MacColl Krakauer, M idge Walton Holmes and Cindy Smith Whitaker. Stay tuned till the next issue of Colby for "the + rest of the tory."

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the Army in 1 992 and is working a clinical supervisor at the Maine Children's Home for Litt le Wan derers in Watervil le. He has been up rn his earlobes in college stu dents in his family: Lisa, Colum bus College '88, now in med school; M ichelle, Auburn Uni versity '89; Remi, Columbus '89 and Kevin, now at the Univer ity of Maine . . . . Larry Symington

is an associate technical director at the U.S. Army Natick Re search, Development and Engi neeringCenter inMassachu ens. He has a son in Bournemouth, England, beginning a un ique course in building conservation technology ( rebu i lding old build ings) and a daughter at UMas Amherst. Good to hear from this long silent classmate ! . . . Ted

Malley, whose occupation is al ways something of a mystery, c u r r e n t l y l i s t s h i ms e l f as a "fish spotter." H is three children ( 1 4, 1 3 and 6) seem to be enter taining him, although he reports the major change in his l ife as "brain shrunk to size of a pea (and still shrinking ) . " . . . Bob Woodward re ponded but re ported no changes at all-bur we

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ve always had to be busy all the time," said Pauline Ryder Kezer '63 as she began her campaign in January to become Connecticut's first Repub l ican woman governor. " I was always into everything." As she prepares to take her campa ign acros Connecticut, Kezer say he expect to face a field crowded with rival . Be tween incumbent Gov. Lowell Weicker's deci ion not to seek re-election and the state' eco nomic woe (Connecticut lo t 200,000 jobs over the la t three year ), the race is con idered up for grabs. Kezer, now Connec ti cut's secretary of the state, was fir t to announce for her party's nomination. The fir t Republi can to erve as ecretary of the state in amore than 30 year , Kezer "set out to change the way thi section of government works," encouraging voter participation and c ivic education and streamlining the processing of bu iness records. Looking ahead to the race for governor, she calls for "a new type of leadership" to control the growth in spending, lower the income tax rate, get tougher on crime and improve the educational system. Kezer's entry into the race i the re ult of a career nurtured more by energetic activism than by political ambition. At Colby she majored in psychology { "which has given me great insight to watch and see how people act," she said ) , and she fondly recalls cla ses with profe sor Allan Scott and ecology field uip . A scholar h ip tudent who served lunch every day in Mary Low, she was active in sports and became president of her orority. She married Ken Kezer, her high school sweetheart, and moved to Connecticut, where she raised three children and threw herself into an array of volunteer activities. She tutored teenaged mother at a center in New Britain for 14 years, served on the local wetlands commi sion and, a former G irl Scout, j ust fin i hed a nine-year stint on that organization' national board. In 1 978, at age 36, Kezer ran for state representative, spurred by her experience in environmental and women's i sues. "I didn't know anything about political campaigning, but 1 did

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knowaboutvolunteering,"shesaid. Scanning voter lists, she would "seepeople l knewonalmo t every street, and I'd call them and ask them to talk to five neighbors about my campaign." Her gra sroots ef forts enabled her to edge a former mayor in the primary and squeak by a Democrat by 1 1 2 votes in the general election. After eight year as a legisla tor, including a stint a as i tant majority leader, Kezer ran for sec retary of the state in 1 986-and lo t. She put the four years to good use both politically, serv ing as vice chair of the state Re publican party and as a fellow at Harvard' I nstitute of Politics, and personally, tepping back and looking at her life. "I've alway had energy and determination," she said. "I fel t I wanted to make a difference." The day after she completed her Harvard tudie in May 1 990 she announced her campaign for sec retary of the state, and though outspent $200,000 to $39,000 ("I 've campaigned on less money than anybody dream of," she said) she upset the incumbent who had defeated her four years before. She was the only Republican to win statewide office. When starting a new campaign, Kezer gets out her old brochure and reads them to make ure she's still doing what she promised. Her first flyer trumpeted that "Pauline Kezer listens and cares." She still doe . Recently he got a phone call from a New Britain woman who, as a teenaged mother 1 7 year earlier, had been helped by Kezer. "What a difference you made," said the caller, explaining that he now wa married and had a job and that her daughter was going to high school and avoiding trouble. Reflecting on the call, Kezer aid, "The e are the things that propel us forward." Along with such favorite diversions as reading historical novels and attending high school basketball games with her husband, a teacher, Kezer says she likes to find new things that challenge her. Last year she signed up for an Outward Bound trip that culminated in a climb up a 1 4,000-foot mountain. "I had never climbed before," Kezer said, "but I got up there."

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NEWSMAKERS Anthony Kramer '62 made a ucce ful bid for re-election to the Di.strict 1 0 School Board in Hin dale, I ll . . . . Connecticut art gallery pre ident and director Philip Janes '62 wa written up in the Farmington Valley Herald for his extensive involvement in vi ual and performingarts. Janes's Arts Exclu ive Gallery al o fea tures freq uent performance by the Hartford Ballet and the Hartford Symphony. Currently he i Adam Wilson '69 planning a new art complex that will include a gallery, museum and arts center. . . . Artist Peter Ketchum '63 hawed his "Painted Pictures/Lost Soul " at the Moviehou e Gallery in M illerton, .Y. Ketchum mounts old photographs on canva and paint over them w i th arcrylics, oils, photo dyes, pencil and pen and ink . . . . Heublin lnc.'s wines executive Robert M. Furek '64 was interviewed by Market Watch, a magazine for the wine, spirits and beer indu trie . The article focused on innovations in the wine bu iness that are bringing a renewed popularity to the beverage . . . . Speaking at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania, historian and biographer Doris Kearns Goodwin '64 compared health i ue prevalent in the Kennedy, Johnson and Clinton admini rration . She al o appeared on Nighdine with Ted Koppel following the relea e to the pub! ic of audio tapes of Pres id en t John on . . . . A Portland, Maine, Press Herald tory q uoted opinion re earcher Peter Hart '64, whose urvey showed that Attorney General Janet Reno wa upported by a 3-1 majority of tho e interviewed following the FBI's ill-fated assault on the Branch Davidian compound near

ted but chose not to attend. M dealings with Colby in both cases have been wonderful. lt s a better place, I think, than when I was a tudent." Come back, classmate , to ee, to feel, to celebrate what wa and what i and what will be in our elve and our common rooc . +

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Manpower of H(VT Inc., was recently elected a direc tor of the Manchester, . H .. Chamber of Commerce. Bud wa also elected vice chairman of the health y tern holding company that owns the Catholic Medical Center in Manchester. Bud wa chairman of the center for the past three year . . . . Chad '64 and Gayle Lenz Mitchell toured Bryce Canyon, Grand Canyon and Zion

ational Park last summer while visiting their daughter, J ulie, a enior at the Air Force Academy. Gayle and Chad are co-pre i<lents of the Ea tern Ma - achusett Cadet Parents Association. Ga le continues a a realtor w i t h H u nneman & C o . /Coldwell Banker in orthborough, Ma . . . . Susan B rown Musche is cha irman of women's golf at Wannamoisett CountryClub and handicap chairman for Rhode I land women' tate golf associ ation . . . . Pam Pierson Parziale report a visit from Skip Har rington '66 ( he's in our freshman "Face and Places"), who wa vi iring family in the Harpers Ferry area. "What a urpri e! He had a great time in all the anti q ue tores ( kip live in Winterport, Maine ). I gave him a tour of our pottery . Anyone el e coming outh on 1 - 8 1 ha a place to ray and vi it at the Sycamore Pot tery, Kearneysvil le, W.V." . . . J im Quirk continue as profe or

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Waco, T exa . . . . Joan Phillipps Thompson '64 "has found her voice," declared the Marblehead (Ma .) Reporter of The Mudpack and Me, the author's fir t foray into fiction for the 9- 1 3 age group. Thomp-on previously had published three adult novels . . . . Jame McCabe '65 repre ented Colby at the Founder Day Convocation at Ur inu College in Bryn Mawr, Pa . . . . Col. Gerald McElroy '65 wa the ubject of an article in the Vineland, .J., Daily Journal following hi retirement after 28 year of ervice in the Air Force . . . . James N. Drawbridge J r. '66 has been appointed vice pre ident for institutional advancement at ew England College in .H . . . . Carol Lordi '66 has moved to Hitachi Data Henniker, y tern in anta Clara, Calif. . . . Oil land capes by Wendy Ann Christensen '6 7 were hown at Ursuline College' Wa mer Gallery as part of the gallery' "Color and Light and Life" exhibition. . . . Frances Richter Comstock '67 recently joined Century 2 1 Taylor and Love, Inc. in Westfield, .] . . . . Roll Royce Motor Cars Inc. president Howard Mosher '68 wa recognized in an article in the Beverly Hill , Calif. . Courier for hi many year of dedication to the auto industry. Mo her joined Roll Royce in 19 4 a general marketing manager and participated in the development of the Bentley Turbo R for the U . . market. He i re pan ible for the entire Roll Royce operation in orth America . . . . Dale Kuhnert '68 ha been promoted to editor-in-chief of Down East magazine in Rockport, Maine . . . . Maine' Art Commi ion director, Alden Wilson '69, was honored by the ew England Foundation for the Arts with the Gary Young Award for hi contribution to the state arts council movement and leadership in the arts.

MILEPOSTS Deaths: Richard L. Hilton ' 6 0 in Monterey, Calif., at 5 4 . . . . William E . Bowen '67 in West Hartford, Conn., at 4 7 .

o f computer science at Kentucky Wesleyan College, Owen boro, Ky . . . . Colby commencement fe t ivities will bring ancy and Rod Gould to the campu to at tend daughter Jody's oraduation with the Class of '94 . . . . Dan Durgin retires this J une after 29 years in the education field, most recently as superintendent of schools in Kittery, Maine. While he t i l l continue to li ve m Kittery, he Looks forward to win ters in Bermuda . . . . Randy "I eem to l ive in a whirlwind of activity" Holden, profe or of mu ic at the Universiry of loui ville chool of Music, wa re elected president of the ational Opera A sociation for a two-year term. Thi group include opera directors from colleges acros the country . . . . Cla grandchildren mentions too numerous to count. How is this possible for a clas so recently graduated ? . . . Happy Mud Sea on . . . . Hail , Colby, Hail! +

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N ot one shred of evi dence upporrs the no tion that life is erious. Carol Lordi has retired and ac cepted a new po ition-what? After many year with IBM , Carol accepted an invitation common to the computer industry lately to help reduce headcount by vol untarily accepting an early re t i r e m e n t package . h e was quickly offered the position of vice pre idem of ystem engi neering and ervice by Hitachi Data y tern on the We t Coa t. The new job and new location were too much for her to pas up. Thi wrap up a ucce ful year for Carol, for not on! wa her succe s in business widely recog nized, she also won honors with the Gold Rule Award from JC Penney Corp. as well as from the local paper, The Fairfield Ad110-

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u pport of cancer pat ients.

. . . Linda Mitchell Potter reports that the mid - way reunion more or less collapsed over the last two

fishing-but I stand corrected . ) . . . Terry Saunders Lane was recently given an award by Bos ton Uni versity in recogn it ion of

weeks as the 3 0-40 com m i tments

her contributions to the School of Soc ial Work . . . . Gary Barnes

shrunk to 1 0- 1 2 by Homecoming Weekend. Seem many of us,

reports that after recently mov ing to Sharon, V t . , he decided to

myself included, developed un

renounce hi world c i tizenship for being able to vote in Ver mont-where his vote counts. Ayuh . . . . As for me, I seem to be moving in reverse, having j ust been elected president of the M i lford Co m m u n i t y A t h l e t ic As ociat ion, aga in. I thought I had retired from that three years

manageable fall schedules, and the trip to Colby had to be e l i m i nated. L i n d a s a y t h a t those who did make it had a great time but wished that more people had been able to come. L inda al o reports that they have j ust paid their 4 2 nd consecut ive semester b i l l fo r h igher education, but t h e end is i n s ight . It w i l l take a major life adj u tment to get used to not paying t u i t ion bills, but it is a challenge they are looking for . Lorna Dale, after ward to.

ago after all my k ids moved through the program. In i ts 3 7 years o fe x i tence, t h i i only the econd time that a fo rmer pres i d e n t h a s returned, a n d I know I am the only grandfather to hold

b e "Grampy J ohn" a s his elder daughter is soon to be tow upon him the d ignity of grandparent hood. Best wishes to the Coopers and to one very fo rtunate oon to-be-grandch i ld . . . . peaking of children, as you search for inter est ing gift i tems you might come upon Baku Baku the Dream Eater. Th is Oriental mythical animal see bad dreams and eats them up, thus preventing sleep d istur bances fo r both c h i ld and parent, or grandparent as the case may

be. Natalie Furlong Graceffa has designed this l i ttle peacemaker and plans to have i t marketed this year. . Wayland, Mass . , H igh chool's class of'63 h e l d i t s 3 0 t h reunion l a s t M a y , providing a n o p p o r t u n i t y for N a n c y

Heilmann Guite, Judy Gerrie Heine and Pat Jenks to hold a

spend ing her life l i v ing in various p laces and teaching panish, has e t t led back among her fam i l y in M a i ne. Her passion is reading, which she describes as moving through phases, the most current

the pos i t ion. I t is interesting to walk through the upermarket and have people approach you to

being mysteries . . . . Did any of you notice that Bob Dole's open ing remark at Colby's commence

v ides program to over 1 ,400 k ids does have its rewards as well as frustrations . . . . The trouble with l ife is that you are halfway through i t before you rea l ize it's a "do - i t + y o u r e lf' thing.

elementary school and is an ac tive hockey mother-next year her son move to a check i ng hockey league. Pat works for an insurance company in Lewiston and teaches an art course at UMaine's extension campus. Ide

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ally, she would l ike to teach art in a etting that would a l low stu dents to explore their creative

ment made the campus comedy sec t ion of the December issue of Reader's Digest ? He opened by saying, "Being a commencement speaker is like being a corp e at a funeral. They need you in order to hold the event but nobody expects you to say very much." . . . Sue Ebinger Spencer recent!y sold her restaurant and is in a state of semi-retirement, at lea t u n t i l the next idea comes along.

. . Linda Hall Lord has rede fined the concept of being active. She j ust completed a stint as the interac t i ve coordinator/distance education cons u l tant for Maine's Department of Education; she is on the executive board of the M a i ne Educational Media Asso c iation , on the S tate Board of Educat ion Task Force on Leam ing Outcomes, on the Depart m e n t of E d u c a t ion A d v isory Cou n c i l for Educational Tech nology and is a d i rector of the Tro u t Fo unda t ion, Yarmo u t h , Maine, which awards s m a l l grants to small rural schools over a three county area. ( I'm happy she ex p l a i ne d t h a t ; i n i t i a l l y I was think ing i t was great that w ith a l l h e r educational involvement she t i l l found t i me to do some fly

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tell you that you must be out of your mind . However, running a volunteer organization that pro

Robert Gracia

I had the pleasure of t a l k ing w i th R u t h S eagul l S i n ton re

cently as he followed up on her plan to organize a m idterm Bos ton-area gathering. Ruth is very exci ted about her pos i t ion as as s istant to the provost at Brown University, where she coordinates a program to increase student commitment to educat ion and acade m ic careers. The program, a cooperative effort among I vy League facu l ties, draws under-rep resented tudents from h istori cally black colleges. As one would expect, Ruth brings a certain pas sion along w i th her skill to this task . . . . Jeanne Philson Som mers suffered a broken ankle i n an unfortunate fall a n d recuper ated by going on a cru ise w i th her father and two isters. J eanne writes that she is now ready to face the real world again . . . . John Cooper tel ls me that he w i l l soon

m i n i -Colby '67 reunion. Nancy and J udy joined the hardy band on Mayflower H i l l last J une but had not seen Pat since 1 96 5 , when she left Colby. Nancy teaches

think ing processes and then ex press their ideas i n a variety of med ia. But since funding for the arts and art educat ion has not been a h igh priority po l i t ically, she has been working on her own pieces and showing at local gal leries. J udy has been selected as a teaching fel low at the Thomas J . Watson J r. I nstitute fo r I nterna tional Stud ies at Brown in coop eration w i th Brown's I nstitute for Secondary Education . This sum mer she will work with other teachers to develop student ma terials on current U.S. fo reign pol icy issues. Next year, along w i th her regular teaching dut ies at Canton ( Mass . ) H igh, she w i l l conduct workshops at a variety o f soc ial tud ies conferences to fa m i liarize teachers with curricu l u m materials and strategies that engage students i n critical think ing . . . . I n the m in i-reunion vein, a sturdy group of A lp ine enthusi asts took the Comstocks up on the i r offer and spent a weekend

last April ki ing, v is i t ing and sigh tse e i ng . The event began with Bob and Fran Richter Comstock welcom ing Paul Cro nin and wife Susan, followed by Linda ( M i tche l l '66) and Lee Potter. Mike Picher arrived be fore too long, as did Tim Crowell. The next day Bob Field and Sue Brown Coolbaugh rounded out the group, and from all accounts the event wa an unqual ified success . . . . As usual, J udy and I urge you to send us any news you + may have.

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Mary Jo Calabrese Baur

Linda Reynolds Gill,

an inclus ion-special needs teacher in Co hasset, Mass., was involved with a presentation at the State Council for Exceptional Children on trat egies for teaching those chi ldren in a regular classroom. Her oldest son, Sean, spent a ummer term abroad studying national health y tern in three European coun tries. Her twin ons, seniors at Thayer A c a d e m y , were busy along with Linda and her hus band, David, visiting college la t fall. . . . Steve Freyer, manager of pro athletes and broadca ters, is currently chairman of the Boston Organizing Com m i t tee, which hopes to bring the summer Olym pics to Boston in the first decade of the 2 l st century . . . . Alan Gray writes that he and his family are in the process of building their own home, which he is finding a true " lesson i n l ife . " Good l u c k , Alan . . . . Stewart Armstrong, his wife and daughter recently moved back into their home in Pembroke, N . H . , after being away for three years. Stu enjoys his work as a school principal and is in the econd year of his doctoral pro gram in educat ion . . . . Walter Greist of North Haven, Conn., operates a community-supported agriculture farm that markets or-

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ganically grown vegetables . . . .

Jeffrey Goodwin has a new posi tion as director of government re lations for GHI, a not-for-profit health insurer in New York. He's part of an industry that is pre sented with many challenges from both the government and the marketplace . . . . Thanks to all who wrote. Till next time. +

You're b u i l d i ng a caree r . you're ra ising a fam i l y . If you're l i ke many Colby a l u m n i i n t h e i r 30s and 40s , you're t oo b u s y t o o spend m u c h t i me plan n i ng f o r ret i remen t . O r , you're plan n i ng t o get t o i t - later.

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Anna Thompson Bragg

The c l as reunion committee has been working extremely hard under the guidance o fLaurie Killo ch W iggins, our class presi dent. She has been very organized and appears to have everything under control. I hope we'll have a lot of classmates in Waterville the fir t weekend in J une. Make your plans to attend! . . . While making some calls concerning the re u n ion, I talked with L o u i s e Devine Barnes, who i s living in Portland, Maine. She has ju t changed jobs after working for 1 9 years a t Westbrook J unior High School as a counselor. She is now at the high school and is enjoying the change of pace at the higher level. She is also in the proce s of building a new home, o she is experiencing all kinds of "new ness" in her life . . . . Another edu cator in our class is P e nel ope Post C rockett, who i an English teacher and department head at Camden-Rockport High School, where she has been employed for 2 5 years. She was the girl's ski team coach until 1 9 8 1 and is now the cross-country coach. For ev eral years she coached both teams but found her time was q uite lim ited from fall until the end of ski season. She said one team is quite enough! Her husband is the boy's cross-country coach, so I'm sure they don 't lack for conver at ion at their house. . . . A third teacher is Lee Cox Graham, who is living in Weld, Maine. Lee teaches English and history at Dirigo High School in Dixfield, where she has been teaching for seven years. Prior to that he pent all her time raising her children . . . . My best to ev eryone for an excellent summer. Again, please make plans to at tend our reunion. It will be time + well spent.

B u t plann ing now is i mporta n t . The re s t r i c t i ons on the deduct i b i l i t y o f I RAs a n d o t l 1e r rules re l a t ing to ret i rement plans have had an i mpact on many of our a l umn i .

Colby's Ret i rement A n nui t y Program may a l l ow you to save money on your current tax b i l l , avoid most cap i t a l ga ins t a x on apprecia ted assets and lock in an a t t rac t ive income guaranteed to you for l i fe by Colby . And best of a l l , your g i fts w i l l

You're not too young to plan for retirem.ent. You're just too busy.

u l t i m a tely build Colby's endowmen t-for s c h o l a rs h i ps ,

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Let Colby Help.

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Nancy Hammar A us t i n 29 I rvi ng S treet =5 Worcester, M A 0 1 609 508- 7 9 7 -4 7 1 l 1 97 2 J anet H o l m Gerber 1 1 1 l 2 Broad G reen Drive Potomac , M D 20854 30 1 -2 99-6240 1 97 3 Margaret M c Partland Bean 1 3 1 Dud ley treet Presque Isle, M E 04769- 2 9 1 3 2 0 7 - 768-602 1 1 9 74 Stephen B. Col l in RFD 3 Box 6600 Oakland, ME 04963 207-465-3870 1 975 Susan Gearhart Wuest 6 5 Country Downs Circle Fairport, N Y 1 44 5 0 7 1 6 - 2 2 3 - 1 96 7 1 9 76 Noel Barry Stella 2 8 Stuart Place Westfield, MA 0 1 08 5 4 1 3 - 56 2 - 5 62 9

This co lumn is ded i c ;i t ed to a l l o f m y c l ass m a t e s who ' r i l l maintain Colby frienLlships after 20-�omerhing year . Jim Haw

kins saw Dave Myles recently and maintain contact with Mark and Linda Ruggles Hiler. J i m reports from Attl eboro, Mas . , that h e has completed h i s fifth i ronman-d istance triathlon in Mon treal . Yes, that's a two and one-halfmile w i m , followed by a 1 1 2 - m i le bicyc le race and a 2 6 . 2 m i le r u n 1 ( I r ' s easy to a d d that J im is cerrainly morefir rhan most of us! ) . . . Leslie Anderson write from Somerv i l le, M a s . , thar she's in contac t w i th Larry Rider ' 7 3 and Deb Smi ley ' 70; w i th Debbie Messer Zlatin, who is hospice coordinator at W indham Com m u n i ty Memorial Hosp i t al in W i l l imantic, Con n . ; with Pat Trow Parent, who i l i v i ng in urry, N . H . ; wit h Mary J ukes Howard, of Devon, Pa. ; with J an Blatchford Gordon, who l i ves in Hampton Falls, N.H., and works in Raytheon's personnel depart ment; and w i th Sue Farwell, who

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Willmann and ask her to please get in touch . . . . I 've heard from �everal memhers of this large o l b y g ro u p : Bruce ' 7 2 and Nancy Neckes Duma rt, who are enjoying the ir new home and fa m i l y ( C lark Harrison, 2) in Sh rew�b u ry , M as5; Dave and

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reside i n Belmont, Mass . , with her Colby husband, John Philson, and two great chi ldren. ue runs an organic natural food co-op (out of the ir home ) and is on the board of trustees for a local hosp ital. John is a financ ial services and computer consultant with East mark Consult ing Co. of Boston. He enjoys singing with the Ar l ington - Be l mont chamber cho rus. John's work involves a lot of travel, and as a result the fa m i l y

Debbie Bittenbender Collins, li ving in Yarmouth, M a i ne ; Bill Glennon, a real e tare apprai er l i v i ng in Quincy, Ma s . ; Ken Kenworthy, owner/chef of Ca tering by Kenworthy, in outh G l a s to n b u r y , Co n n . ; L i n d a Chester, a Lat in teacher from Hu dson , Mass . , who recen t l y adopted a o n from Ecuador; Judy White Brennan, a registered nurse liv ing in M iddletown, R . l . ; Carol Fall Leslie. a homemaker in W i n l o w , M a i n e ; K a r e n

M a h a n k e B r o w n ; a n d Roz Wasserman Cooper, education director for Temple Beth in Char lotte, N .C. . . . Dr. Bruce Black, a principal research biologist with American Cyanamid in Pennsyl v a n i a , rec e n t l y saw Dr. J eff Nordstrom, an as ociare profes sor of biology at Fordham Uni versity in New York, at a Texas A&M conference . . . . Marion Agnew Baker, who l i ves i n W i l l iamsburg, Va. , and has two lovely c h i ldren, Jam ieson, 8 , and Gretchen, 5, mainta i ns contact w i th Hanria Halpern Holden, who l ives in Truckee, Cal if., and with Peggy Wiehl Gilfoy in Sherborn, Mass. . . . Dave Nelson is general manager at the Com fort I n n i n Avon at the base of Beaver Creek in Colorado ( 1 0 m i les west of Vai l ) . H is wife, J anet, is a waitress at the seafood r e s t a u ra n t M o n t a u k for t h e winter season. P . S . : T h i s year's restaurant recommendations in c lude S c i o le t i 's in Wes tboro, Mass.; Picante, in Davis Square, Somerv i l le; Ben ' i n Tampa, Fla; Lemon Grass; the Black Swan;

the I n n at Woodstock in Con nec ticut; Locke Ober; Legal Sea food; the V i l l age I n n on the Belgrade Lakes; the Hill brook Inn on Bullsk i n Run in Charlestown, W . V . ; the Balsam's Resort in Dixv i l l e Notch, N . H . ; and the A lgonqin Club in Bo ton . . . . If you'd l ike to know what hap pened to your fr iend , classmates and roommates, plea e j ust send me a note, return your c la sur vey or call and leave a message on my answering machine. A the project manager for Strength in Divers i ty , Worce ster's Finnish Community, a col lect ion of pho tograph and recollections based upon a recent exhibit ion at the Worcester H i torical Museum, l'm pretty busy these days. I'm hopefu l that t h i "J an P l a n " project w i l l b e ready to p r i n t i n t h e spring! Until n e x t t i m e , BE + BRAVE.

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Janet Holm Gerber

Fred Valone updates

us on his s t ud y to become a Catho l i c priest. He entered t h e seminary four and a half years ago, leavi ng a position as a research chemist at Texaco. In May 1 994 he ex pects to be ordained to the priest hood and beg i n work i n the d io c e s e of G a l ve s t o n - H o u s t o n. . . . With a 1 5 -year-old son looking at colleges, Maryanna Buck Abreo can't believe that " it's come full cycle so soon." She has been a fourth grade teacher for 20 years . . . . John Bunker feel succe sful s i nce graduation for, among other things, having "learned to l isten." H is interest include playing p iano, growing fru i t trees, teaching woodwork ing at a summer camp and doing a j azz rad io how . . . . A 20th wedd i n g a n n i v e rsary wa cel ebrated by Tom and Ellen Woods

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c u rren t l y as vice pre ident of the creative depart ment . El l e n ay · Tom'· job ha enabled them ro "live rhe good l i fe in M a i n e and rai e our sons i n a small M a i n e c o a ta l town ." . . . Affi liated w i t h t h e compet i t i o n , Liz J o s l i n Malinowski l ive> i n Dodge,· i l le , W i s . , where h e r hu band, E m i l , i d i re ctor of m a n ufac t ur i ng for Land' End. Li: has done -ome teach i ng and ha been a churc h organi t and a cho i r d i rector "bur mo t i mportant l y a bu y parent ! This brings me great pride, j oy and satisfac t i o n . " And L i : "wou Id love to s a y ' h e y ' to k i pper c h irmer ' 7 1 . " . . . Chri topher C i n r a v e y , son of K a t h l e e n O t t e r s o n C i n t av e y , e n t e re d Colby l a s t fall a a fre hman. Over the years Kathleen has had many prominent role i n her Ohio edu car ion system in addi tion ro c l ass room t e a c h i n g ( h i g h c h o o l Engl ish, French a n d read i n g ) . Re cently she worked on projecr re earch ing and affecting youth anti ocial behavior. he looked at olution w i t h i n the c la room serting and the j uv e n i l e court ystem and fin a l ly decided the home wa the mo t effec t ive i t u at ion for addre i ng y o u t h prob lem . he write , " I began to plan for my on' l i fe the m i n u t e I u peered he m ight come i n to be i ng. If that phi losophy could omehow become more wi de spread, perhaps h o m e w o u l d n o t be o fa r d own on the I i t of o l u t ion ." . . . BarbaraMoodywrote that he "bought a lovely hou e on a river in Manche rer, N . H . , where I c a n cook and be happy . " . . . I'd like to end with a tribute to Danny Smith, a q u i et member of our cla who ha ret a ined a elfle and nealog i c a l Maine. In known for

quiet tyle in hi ge career i n Gardi ner, h is field he i be t hi publicatio n The Yellow House Papers, which richly de cribes the enormous collec t ion of w r i t ings found i n t h e Gard i n e r home of c h i ld r e n ' au thor Laura Ri c hard . Danny ay the collect ion " m i rror the attenuation of the genteel trad i t i o n of l i terat u re a n d ph i l a n thropy i n N e w England and e w York from t h e c lo e of t h e A mer i can Revol ut ion u n t i l the end o f

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am ,·a\ . . . . Laurel Bedig \Hite from D.C. to say, "I am prac tic i ng e n \· i ro n m e n t a l law at a l a rge Washington , D.C., law firn1 and

gary a n d R umarna, where , h e sang and d a nced w i th anJ for the nat in�>. col lec ted bea utifu l folk c o:. t u m e ·-and eYen ,- i :. i t e d Drac ula' b i rthplace. he parr i c i

e ted in the project becau e he i> a v e ry clo ·e fr i e n d of B et t y Wiggins, r he la t surviving daugh ter of Laura Richards. From an article about Danny in Mame Times: "at 4 2 , the survivor of eight

pate in i nternational f o l k danc ing and teache a c las i n Balkan singing . . . . Jeff Stone has earned

orthopedic operation. and sev eral bouts w i th cancer, � mith find. h i m�elfnm urpri ingly pre occupied w i th t i me, mortality and peop le' l i ves beneath the public image they proj ect. H is focu is to re usc i tate l ives otherwi e grown cold, i n terpre t i ng them for a new g e n e ra t i o n . . In past yearm i th ha become more act ively i nvolved in G a rd i ner history and pre ervation, beco m i ng a pi l lar o f the Gard in er Library Associa t ion as a researcher, compiler, lect urer, typi t of h is own manu scripts, fund raiser and, most im port an t , a per·on who complete + what he undertakes."

Corre pondent: Margaret McPartland Bean

G reet ing 1 I have en j oyed h e a r i n g from you and apprec i a t e y o u r thouohrful and in ighrful comment . We are a very inter esting gro u p ! . . . E l l en Korn etsky LS in the process of changing her career goals from public af fairs to soc i a l work and enjoy her course work at the U niver ity of New England. he has located her b irth mother, traveled to the oviet U nion and worked a a volunteer wit h A I D patient . . . . Lois Leonard Stock al o i making changes, dee id ing to work doing her art, not teac h i ng or ad m i n i rraring i t . he i ng in the Portland Community Choru and does volunteer work a t the M a i ne Center for the B l ind . . . . Dennis Powers ha pent the last 20 years work ing in rhe gaming indu try i n La Vegas, Lake Tahoe, Reno and A t la n t i c City. H e has two daughter and enjoys coac h i n g irls' soccer . . . . J udy Mc Divitt i an a si tant profes or of healrh comm u n i c a t io n at the Tu lane chool of P u b l i c Health and Tropical M ed i c i ne i n Louisiana. She has found the change from re e a rcher to profe or to b e

an M . B. A . in health care man agement and work as a network r e p re se n t a r i ,· e w i t h P i l g r i m orwel l , Mass. Health Care i n . . . Malcolm "Jim" Perkins teache· m a th and ha bee n work ing to re-rrucrure h i h igh school into a theme magnet �chool inte grat i ng math, science, ,·ideo and computers . . orrn and Pat Flanagan Olsen are i n Tel A v i v , where o r m is a d i p lomat re spon ible for development in the Ga:a trip. The ign i ng of the I rael- PLO peace accord in ep tember catapulted his program to center tage, and he i · enjoy i ng the opport u n i ty ro help de,·elop U . . pol icy in the region. Pat i bu y tudying Hebre\\' and work ing on community proj ects, which range from the recreation center to the chool board. . . . ome of the things we a a group remem ber from Colby are: the cold w i n ter , good friend · w h o a r e st i l l good fr i e nd , M o n o p o ly a n d Hean- games in t h e D K E l i vi ng room, pecan p i e , aturday teaks, k i tchwiche in the old pa, the Fo /Woodman crowd, i n terac t ion in Mary Low, the v iew from the water tower and the morn ing sun after an ice rorm. I was i n ter e red that o many of u mention word like "fulfi l lment , " "reward ing" and " en e of commu n i ty" a we describe our l i ves. Keep in + touch !

Corre pondent: Stephen B. Collins

Early return from our l a test ma i l i n g w e re

ju t begi n n i ng to flow when the dead li ne rolled around. Good to hear from everyone who re ponded. L is a and Rob Bur gess ent the addre of the new hou e they j us t built in Brunswick, Main e ( 64 Friendship t . ) . 1 got to help them move i n d u ri ng De cember-ju t in t i me for their

enjoymg the C l i nton A d m in i '> tra tion" and "Molly Steffey-are you going to our 2 0th year c la>s re un ion "' { l t' � J une 3-5, M o l l y . ) Da,· id and Sue Alexander B u rnham rece n tl y bought a c i rca I 1 3 lo\\'-pn>ted cape in We't Bethel, Maine. "Ca n ' t shake the re t a u r a n t b u i n e s- to p hy

Mochers in Bethel if you're ski mg u nday R i ver," ·he wri tes . . . B i l l ' 7 7 and Nancy Spangler Tiernan also moved last year j u t down the treet in Amher�t. Mass. he graduated from n u r ing school in M ay , pa ·ed the l icensing exam in October and tarted as an RN in oncology and orthopedics a t Cooley Dick inson H o p i ral in N orthampton i n De cember. "Good luck, patient. ! " she wri tes, bri m m i ng with con fi d e n c e . . . . M a rk C u r t i s in Manchester, Maine, reports he had a good golf year. "Like to ee a l l my old LCA buddies a t the reunion," he said . . . . Diana Stork-Rockwell i t i l l i n Daly City, Cal if., and j ust released a new a l b um for olo harp c a l l ed Harpdancing. In December he wa work i ng on a major hol idav production featuring harp from a l l over the world. . Phyl li s Hasegawa Au ge r also e n d s an addre s-in T igard, Ore . ( 1 5 1 49 W Ashley Dr. ) -"our new and la t hou e . " . . . From C o r a l Gables, F l a . , David Famulari re por t · a career move. After 1 3 year a a commerc ial fi herman on George Bank (our of N ew port, R . L ) he got a law degree from the U n i versity of M ia m i and is now prac ti c i ng mari t i m e law in outh Florida, where he' l i ved w i th wife, N ancy, and on, Leo, i nce 19 7 . . . . Leo and Leslie N ickerson Bowers are in Hamp ton, V a . L es l i e tarted teach ino again-high chool Enol ish in ewport ew . . . . Katherine E . Dew, wh o te a ch e enrrepreneurhip at the U niver ity of M ia m i and recently pub l i he d her e c ond b o o k on small bu in e s s , is back i n chool for a Ph.D. in ad m i n i tr a t ion/m a n age m e n t a t Walden. " A b i g hift i n gear , but + fun ! " he wrote.

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Susan Gearhart Wuest

a tie to work 1 Congratulat ions to Ed

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business economics at the U n i vers i ty of M ich igan School of Busi ness A d m i n istration, on be ing appointed to a three-yearterm a s d i r e c t o r o f the W i l l i a m Davidson I nstitute. The inst itute, founded in 1 99 2 , was established to help nat ions around the world make successful trans i t ions from command to marke t - o riented econom ics. Ted a lso serves as chair of the business economics group at t he busi ness schoo l , where he h a s taught s ince 1 98 2 . . . . Leon Fishlyn is a n optom etrist in Leo m i nster, Mass. He and his wife, ped iatrician Deb orah S h ipman, have two c h i l dren, N athan, 1 1 , a n d Sarah, 7 . They all enjoy s k iing in t h e win ter and have "bought a house on the Cape to relax with family and

c h i l d , S k y , w a s 1 8 months old and "a firecrac ker." Barb is in her

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V a l erie Hink

wrote from Tucson, Ariz. , where she is an attorney and mother.

w i t h the s i tu a t i o n . For Barb, "parenting is IT-no endeavor

She and her husband, conserva tion biologist Andy Laurenzi, are now parents of two: Adrian An drew, born J u ly 1 990, and J u l i a M a r i e , born October 1 99 3 . S i nce J une 1 989, Valerie has been work

could be more important or more demanding." . . . Bob Duchesne wrote that Carole Foss i l i ving with them wh i le finishing her Ph .D. at the U n i versity of Maine.

ing as an imm igration attorney, see king po l i t ical asy lum for Cen tral American refugees. She has

For the third year in a row, Bob was a fina l ist for A ir Personality of the Year on the Country Music

found that being a parent com pletely rearranges prior i t ie . A to what she is doing that she

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never thought she would, staying home for several month with a

have to l isten for Bob's name the next t i me ! ) . . . Geo l ogis t Rick Gleason, manager of Hazardous Waste Serv ice for Ebasco Ser vices, Inc . in Mansfield, Mass.,

cast on CBS-and for the third year in a row, he lost. ( We'll all

baby is r igh t up there with al low ing her son to eat candy once a day ( this was written one month after Hallowee n ) and c l ipping grocery coupons! . . . In Sarasota,

Fla . , Barbara M iller Deutschle and husband Mark have been fos ter parents for three years. As of December, their current foster

NEWS MAKERS Waterv ille, Maine-ba ed broker age firm First mark Corp., was fea t u red i n the Maine S u nday Telegram for making Firstmark the largest securities broker based in Maine. Vigue, who entered the busine s world by selling foot long hot dogs out of his Colby residence hall, has built his com pany into an enterprise worth $3. l million in a little over a decade . . . . Bruce Frisbie ' 7 2 has been named d i rector/associate James Vigue ' 72 treasurer of the financial services d iv ision of Massachusetts M u tual Life Insurance Company of Springfield, Mass . . . . Regi tered Maine guide and fishing en thusiast Paul McGurren '72 is the new gear columni t for Fly Rod and Reel maga z ine . . . . M ine owner and j eweler Jan Brownstein ' 7 2 announced p l a n for a commercial mining venture in the Kimball M ine i n Maine's rural Oxford County. Brownstein said the vein of aquamarine gemstone known to l ie in the mine is probably the only one in New England with such clariry of color. . . . Cheryl Gorman '74 represented Colby at the inauguration ofJacqueline Liebergott as president of Emerson College . . . . Elizabeth Allen ' 7 4 appeared on CNN discussing Asian financial market . . . . Account executive Lynn Bruce ' 7 5 has joined the S.T. Vreeland advertising firm in Yarmouth, Maine . . . . Kenneth Johnson '76 is the newly elected vice

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Noel Barry Stella

After mis ing a col umn b e c a u s e of a

dearth of news, I am glad to be back w i th some pithy revelations from our classmates. I wrote post cards to everyone la st fa l l , and several people responded with heartfelt letters. I will share them all in the next few columns.

. . . Dan Shepard wrote from Houston: "I am happy in Hous ton with wife Laura and two beau tiful children, Jack, 3, and Lilah, l . We are more than busy with children, work, travel, home and our l ives together. See you in '96." . . . Rick Anzelc celebrated h i s 20th w edd i ng anniversary last August. He and Tina were

married after freshman year, and their first daughter, Amy, was

president of the Maine chapter of the National Multiple Sclero i ociety . . . . Composer Arthur Levering ' 7 6 has received a com poser fellowship from the National Endowmenr for the Arts. levering, whose work has been performed recently in Boston, London and Rome, al o wa the recipient of the 1 99 2 lee Ettleson Composer's Award . . . . "Remember Me," the second album by bluegrass duo Tim O'Brien '76 and his sister, Mollie, wa "one of the finest country-folk albums of last year," said The Washington Post . . . . Real e rate advice from Richard Healey ' 7 7 , pre ident of Foster-Healy Real Estate, was featured " I n the Spotlight" section ofthe Fitchburg, Mass., Sentinel and Enterprise . . . . Steven Plomaritis ' 7 8 provided the first care for figure kater Nancy Kerrigan after she was attacked and injured in Detroit in January. A M ichigan orthopedic surgeon, Plomaritis was retained by the United Scates Figure Skating Association to provide orthopedic care during the association' national championships.

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works every day with Boyd Allen I l l . Small world ! As to my query about be ing a parent, Rick com men ted t h a t his 1 2 - y e a r - Id daughter and 8-year-old son are "wonderful k ids-he enjoys their

companionsh i p and watching

MILEPOSTS Births: A son, Will iam Giovanni, to Giovanni Apicella and

Elizabeth Corydon-Apicella '74 . . . . A daughter, J ulia Maria, to Andy Laurenzi and Valerie Hink '7 5 . . . . A son, Alexandru Radu Cristian, to Mirela and Perley J. Sasu-Clark ' 7 6 . . . . A daughter, tephanie N icole, to Charlyn and Stephen Sparkes ' 78. Marriages: Alexander Price '7 8 to Cynthia Taylor, in Northampton, Mass. Deaths: S evero Ochoa, D . S c . ' 7 5 , in Madrid , Spain, at 88 . . . . Henry Allen, D.Sc. ' 7 6 , in Ipswich, Mass., at 77.

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ide, b u r t o b e effective we have to bring in people who know languages, hi tory, culture, pol itics, Chine e tudie and o on," aid Edward "Ted" Snyder ' 7 5 , who la t ummer was named director of the Will iam Davidson ln titute, an organization that tudie bu i ne se in other countrie in order to teach them how to urvive in a free-market economy. Founded in 1 99 2 a an independent entity, the David on I n titute draw upon the re ources of the Univer ity of Michigan School of Bu ine , where Snyder, an a sociate profe sor, teache bu ines economics and public policy to M . B . A . tudents. The institute i more hands-on than the busines chool, Snyder ay , and applies economics to a broader range of problem as it e rabli he partner h ip w i th indu trie in countries uch as R u ia, Poland, the Czech Republic and China. A team of three or four M ichi gan M.B.A. candidates and area studie ma ter' degree tudents work with the enior manager of an enterpri e to identify a prob lem or proce that the manager would like to have evaluated or improved. Mo t of the tudent have three or four year of work experience, and team u ually in clude two peaker of the language. "Ourrole i n't j u t helpingwith a proce s but doing our homework so we know what challenge the companies face," said nyder. By the time middle- and enior-level manager come to Ann Arbor for a three-week executive educa tional program designed to im prove their efficiency, he added, "we know the managers, we know their problems. The team really ets that up." The institute was founded with a $30 million financial com mitment from Guardian Indu tries Corporation, a private com pany who e pre ident and CEO, W illiam David on, Snyder characterizes a a tough bu ine man and ideali t with a long Ii t of philanthropies. Snyder view the 1 . 5 million a year for 20 year a "seed money."

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ket principle al o give firms a rrong political voice, ays nyder, who hope the companie "will be example for po itive change." peeding ocial and political progress in tran itional economie goe hand in hand with the market ide. "That' the moral ide of what we re doing," he said. An economics and government major at Colby,

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M.A. in public policy and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago and say hi pecialization in industrial organization is an extenion of his work in applied econom ics. "It' a new arena, it' a different setting, bur l till u e the economics," he said. "That' all I know." Profe or of Economic J ames M e e h a n - n y d e r ay he wa "trained by Meehan"--call nyder "a very good economi t and admin i trator and a olid cholar, too. He know a lot about institution . He's got the credential and good peronal kill ." till holder of Colby's triple jump record, nyder think hi experience in athletic , Enali h course and a phy ic J an Plan wa al o good background for hi work, which he call "a reflection of the liberal ar v i ion." ' It' very inten e, because the problem are real," he aid. "Wheth er we help, matters." Working at the in titute ome time call for 1 7-hour day , nyder ay , but not alway having the luxuryof tirr.e to think c learly about bu ines problem ha "confirmed everything I 've felt for a long time-the power of economics and being able to apply fundamental concepts." He ay he zeroe in on i ue with "intuition grounded in economics."

indu trie from the u ers' per pective and building a database of knowledge about companie in the hope of developing financial support. " l want thi place to become the world's leading in titute on transitional economie ," nyder aid. 'That' achievable."

helping reduce inventory levels for a Chinese automobile manu-

daughter Heather i a fre hman in high c.1001, and he ha a on, Richard I l l . R ick taught high chool math for four years imme-

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ucce ful," Snyder aid, "but is right philo ophically." Developing market economies and sy terns that support mar

Snyder' director hip has taken him to Poland, Ru ia and the Czech Republic. In February he was off to lndia, studying key

"We're l ike a little h ip coating around right now " he a id. Even though he call the institute "a little tart-up company with some financial backing," Snyder ay it uccesse already include

born the morning of our gradua tion. Amy i now a enior at kowhegan High and con ider ing Colby for next year. Rick'

facturer and helping design an incentive s y t e rn for a Polish company that manufacture environmentally ound boilers.

two- tory, four-bedroom home for his family. They enjoy the out door life: fi hing from their boat, c rabbing from the dock in Camden or ice fi hing. Rick con cluded, "l enjoy my life and fam ily very much and appreciate thi opportunity to share them with

d i ately following college and eventually moved into the com puter industry. He is a y rems analyst and co-owner of a com p u t e r oftware bu ine that specialize in nur ing home ap p licat ions. La t summer, with the help of a friend, Rick built a new

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dren: Becky, an A l l - A merican cheerleader at 1 6 , Tommy, an eighth grader, and 1 0-year-old Kara. Tommy's first summer j ob was rak ing b l ueberries with our acqu a i ntance Ray Merri l l ' 7 5 . Bain and a partner are opening a new convenience store/gas sta tion in Bucksport that will j o i n t h e e x isting bu inesses in South west H a rbor and form B a i n ' s "mini-conglomerate . " .

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issa Day Vokey wrote a wonder fu lly long letter that I w i l l try t condense acc urately w ithout lo ing the flavor. he and Mark cel ebrated the i r 1 5 t h wedding anniver a r y i n Paris. M e l i sa's h igh school French was passable, and the trip was a wonderful ex perience. Their children are grow ing up: Caroline is 13, N ic k is 1 1 and Cam is 6 . M e l i ssa ai d , "That

Sherrie Perkins, Mona Pinette, Steve Potter, Jonathan Reisman, Mark Richardson, Steve Roy and Patti Stoll. And Massa·oit j ust

the wildfires plaguing southern

wreath. So, writing to you a l l n e x t March . . . E l l e n w a s o n e of

California last year and also made a strong pitch for term l im its for

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Week, and I heard of her passion for ballet then. ( I 've been told l have a good memory! ) Ballet is as precise in its own way as den t istry, and El len has managed to combine the two creatively. Writ

with their two l it t le girls, Col leen, 5 , and Meagan, 2, as inspi ration . . . . Steve Roy went back

ing on the wou ld-be-pain of a mid- I ife crisis, Ellen has "watched many friend go through it, and from that I think the key thing is to recognize it for what it is and look to the future and not make

hav i ng some extra ti me for my own growth. I 'm in my second year of working on an M . B . A . at immons. I love learning aga in and w ish that I could get paid for going to school and that com pensation wa tied to ach ieve

also writes that she expresses her self art istically through music, dance and theater. And 1 hear E l len's and M ichae l's Thank giv ing prayer from the M idwest for their A l ice, 8, George, 4, and J am e s , 2 . . . . Sherrie Perk i ns

ment, because I am doing much

writes succinctly about the effect of women's liberation on her life: "l am it . . . got married and am able to handle a fu l l-t ime job ( academic medicine) and fam ily." . . . Remember Mona Pinette from Berlin, N . H . ? She writes that she is glad to be bac k , close to her family and the mountains. . . . J o anne K a r l i n G i u d i c e l l i never imagined she'd b e a parent to all boys ( t hree i n her fam i ly

t ime. Meanwhi l e , wou l d more of you consider picking up a pen and sharing some of your thought with us? We would look forward to hearing from some of those old friends w i th whom we have lost + touch.

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u n i t ) , and the effects of women's liberation for her are "awareness of women's issues and accepting the d i fferences i n the genders." I read between the l i nes, also, that there are always lessons i n life. Joanne is keen on competitive soccer and tenni . . . . Kudos to Steve Potter, who is head ofmain tenance of the Cape Cod P i lgrim Memorial A sociation and l ives in Provincetown, Mass. Hi loved ones are a girl and two cats. ls

s e t p l aces for J oanne Karlin

Steve doing what he expected to do when he left Colby ? He wrote, "Work i n my major-environ m e n t a l/ b i o logy . " That he i s . . . . Jonathan Reisman loves l i v ing in Cooper, M a i n e , w i th h is wife, Ernestine, and sons A her Jacob and Abram Lev i . He is as

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of directors of the Women's Cri s is Center. he wrote, "Violence to women and c h i ldren is a dan ger present even i n this little paradise . . . . I t is imperative that a l l of our chi ldren learn that vio lence cannot be a part of every day life." . . . I w i l l include more of our c l assmates' let ters next

Machia , and she is execu tive d i re c t o r of t h e W a s h i n gt o n

any b ig changes in your l ife wh i le you are going through a crisis. In other word , j u t get through it , focus outwardly and go on." ! l ike El len's posit ive attitude. Ellen

better than I ever d id as an undergrad." Meli sa, I know ex actly what you are say ing! Mel issa and her fam i l y reside in Newburyport, Mass . , where she ha become a member of the board

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to school to earn a master's de gree in social work and , a part of a team, started to study abu e . He has two dear to come home to, Daniel, 1 2 , and Derek, 8 . . . . Now here's Patti Stoll, whom Mona wrote so warmly of, still as perky and down-to-earth as ever. Her definition of success is "manag ing a demanding job while bal anc ing a fam i l y l i fe and t i l l maintaining a sense o f humor, a relaxing household and t i me for fun." Patti is a lender at the Bank of Boston. Patti's and M ichael's amantha is now 6 , Gabriel is 4. So n o w l e t ' s all-as I s a i d t h e other night-bow our heads, fold our hands and give thank . More + to come .

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Nicholas Levintow

Thank you all so much for the excellent re sponses to the surveys I sent out ! I now have more infor mation than I know what to do with . . . so, if you wrote me and fai l to see your name or an embar rassing personal fact below, please be patient ! Freshman dormmate Joe Kerwin says a l l is copacetic in Gorham, M a i ne . W i t h three daughters and a chiropractic prac tice, how could it not be ?Joe loves the Maine lifestyle but still ha t ime to serve as the current presi dent of the local chamber of commerce . . . . Stephen Sparkes claims that the left coast is where it's at, specifically Corvall is, Ore. Steve, who has three boys plus a girl due to arrive at press time, p layed semipro basketbal l last summer and would l ike to see more "action photographs" in this column. We may be able to work something out here. Steve is very active i n community act i v i t ies and is d i rector of the Phoenix Foundation . . . . N eed a tooth yanked in Disneyland ? Call Pete

our government leaders. Maybe we could move those wildfires to Washington? . . . The highlight of Lisa Klein Boldt's summer was a two-week vacation with husband Michael and 2-year-old Ian on Sipson Island, Mass., where they pent t i me with Ted '76 and Rae Caravaty Shanahan. Lisa claims to drives m iles from her home in Vernon, N .J . , looking for play g r o u n d s w h e re I a n can r u n around. A l l I can say is, I know the prob l e m ! L isa worked for the Clinton-Gore campaign in her spare time, and she would love to return to New England and the land of cross-country skiing . . Paula Jones has switched from teaching college math to being an actuary. Paula moved back to Connecticut this year and would like to hear from Lynn Baldwin

D a l l a s and Donna D ie t z k o Vincenti as wel l a s anyone in the Hartford area . . . . Doug Kaplan now has a law practice in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, and wishes that he had discovered Maine sooner. Doug gave journalists a low rating in my urvey, which may explain why he didn't write to the previ ous class correspondent (ahem ) . N ice t o hear from you, Doug. . . . Another entry in the attor ney- i n - M a ine category is Al MacEwan, who lives in Falmouth and is a partner with Verrill and Dana in Port land. A l' s w ife, Holly, manage nurse recruitment at the Maine Medical Center, and they have a new daughter, Ellie. A l also sings high praise for the Maine coast, and he look forward to the challenge of parenting . . . . Last, but not least, Sue Pollis Reed, also a Falmouth resident, reports that she cruised the Maine coast this summer in a 26-foot sloop and that 2-year-old Perrin c r u i ed from a harness-ta l k about the challenge o f parenting! Sue is into things Japanese and plans a family trip there next year. Maybe she could look up Rob Stevenson, last seen in Tokyo, where he was a manager for a chemical company. Rob, are you out there? . . . That's all the space for t h is go-round. Please keep those letters and cards coming! +

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By now many of you have heard about our p lan for reu n ion in J u ne of '94. Bob Lizza and h i s p h o n e - a - thon c o m m i t te e of Katie Cofsky a n d Sara Frolio O'Leary reached about L OO of our c l assmate and received some excellent pledge of reu n ion at tendance and contribut ions to our c lass gift to the A l um n i Fund. Thank you, Boh, Sara and Katie, and thanks to the Clas of ' 7 9 for your support of the re union anJ c l a gift. All th i phoni ng and reu n ion p lanning gi ves us an ex cellent chance to catch u p on ome c lass news. Ir seems that this time around two themes pre dominate-parenthood and the legal profession. Tho e ofyou who are do ing something e l e , please write to me and help me round o u t the c l a s profi l e ! . . . I n the new child category: Trish and Bob Lizza ( who is an a ttorney) have added to their fa m i l y with the arrival of Patrick, who joins h is 2 - year-old brother, Charl ie. Bob told u s about ue and Matt Smith's first c h i ld , T i mothy, who is 2 a l read y ! . . Flore Blaise married Dave W i l l i ams '77 i n New Y o r k C i ty a n d welcomed their baby, Sabine, i n ] une of '9 3 . O u r la t j ob information about Flore had her I i ted as an assi r a n t V P for u m i to m o Bank Ltd. . . Cheri Bailey Powers and her husband also have a new baby daughter, who j oined an older s ister in J u ne of ' 9 3 . Cheri is at Andrew Air Force Base in M ary land. Please write, Cheri , and fi l l u in o n specifics. A nd congra t u l a t i o n t o a l l the new parents. . . . Betsy Bucklin Gray d id a lot of my j ob this month by chatting w ith peopl e , tak i ng notes while they talked and then pas ing the

husband, J i m , and their two sons and a daughter, ages 2 , 3 and 5 . Cindy is spend ing her t i me look i ng after all of them and serv i ng as the v i c e p re s i d e n t of h e r ch ildren's nursery school board and serv i ng on the board of the Discovery M useum. Cindy men tioned that her sister, Su:y, i married to Gary McCarthy. Gary and uzy are l i v ing in Conne c t i c u t and a r e expec t i ng the ir t h i rd c h i ld . . . . S. Karl Mohe l , for

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merly known t o the Class of '79 as "Sid," is a partner in a Toms R iver, N .J . , law firm, where he pec ial ire in criminal law. Karl, who was formerly an assistant prosecutor for Orange Co unty, relaxes after trials in his new home on everal acres of the N ew Jersey p i ne barrens. " id" said that he was p l a n n i n g on a t t e n d i n g re u n ion . . . . K a t h y Bleakney Pawley is n o t so sure a b o u t the long trip from Roanoke, Va., to Colby. (I think she needs some encouragement . ) Kathy a lso i a lawyer, pec ial izing in banking and corporate law. She and her

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Greg Mills, associate r· d i rector of Banke . Trust Financ ial er vices in ew York City, bough t a home last Ju ne in Florham Park, N .J . , wirh his fi ancee, Susan Young . . . . Beverly, Mass . , resi dent Robin MacLeod Goodridge and husband Alan we lcomed the ir second daughter into the world last May. Robin says she enjoys the challenge of adjusting to a family of four but also savors her "mental health day" doing appraisals once a week at Descen za Diamonds in Framingham, Mass . . . . Last J une Peter Asher, executive correspondent for First Chicago Trust Co. , married An gela Mucci in Brooklyn, N . Y . , and embarked o n a two-week honeymoon to Athens and the Greek islands. They live in Brook lyn with their cat, I nga, and en joy community theater, ballroom dancing and walks through the park in their free time . . . . Living in Durham, Maine, with her hus band and 1 0-year-old daughter, Elaine, Elizabeth Bailey Stuart is enro l led in a soc ial work ma ter's program at the Univer sity of New England. She'd like to find out what's up with Pam Bembridge Murphy and Robert S c h u lze . . . . What has Grace Koppelman Drown done that she never thought she'd do when she left Colby ? Stayed in Maine, moved eight times in 1 2 years, built a house ( in Leeds), had two adorable k ids ( most recently, Polly, last J une) and decided to

be a stay-at-home mom. he'· �till involved, a� �ecretary, with the Maine Science Teacher As oc iation; hu hand cott '78 is principal of an elementary school in L isbon Fall . . . . Elizabeth Yanagihara Horwitz is busy with ch i ldren, M ichae l, 8, and Ali on, 5 , both of whom are taking after her mu ical talent and playing the violin. She\ volunteering at the Nonhea t Wiscon in hild ren's Museum and at Japanese language and culture classes, among otheractivities . . . . When he's not working as a broker ar Sigel Insurance Co. in College ville, Pa ., Glen Coral tries to find rime to do the " even-year make over" on the house, pend time with his two sons and fit in an occasional appearance on the golf cour e . . . . Kevin Davey is en joying being able to play softball year-round in an Jose, Calif. , and i s out on the field three nights a week. During the day he's man ager of technical support for CU Video-Teleconferencing. Kevin and his wife, Nancy, have two sons, Sean, 7, and P a t r i c k , 2 . . . . John Flerlage travels down from York, Maine, to be a pilot for Delta out of Boston's Logan Airport. He's also a major in the Marine Corps Reserve with the "Flying Gators" in Jack onville, Fla. This past New Year's Eve for him meant celebrating the sec ond birthday of his daughter, Lisa. John and his wife, Carol, also have a 5-year-old son, Davy. . . . After work-ing 10 years at home for her husband's golf busi ness, Caroline Weeks DiPros pero is in the classroom as a one-on-one aide for a special needs child in Watertown, Conn. She's been inspired by the work of Cindy Smith Whitaker '63 , in whose second grade classroom she spends part of her day. Caroline serving on the school's enjoys PTO, watching her 7-year-old

daughter's socc er games and + teaching unday chool. Corre pondent: Beth Pniews ki W il son Joe Kelliher, who took a five-month bike trip acros the Australian outback and throughout much of outheast Asia, graduated from the New England School of Acu puncture last May and pa ed the national licensing exam last sum mer. If all goes well, he will open the Acupuncture and Oriental Med ic ine Center of Read ing, Mass. Joe write that he attended Dave Bolger's wedding to Julie Rosenblatt last August on Whid by Island in Puget Sound. Dave will be starting a teaching certifi cate program. At the wedding Joe also saw Frank Wirmusky, who i an educational con ultant in New York City and teaches part time at NYU . . . . Amy Haselton just fin ished a stint as interim director of a Planned Parenthood chapter in San Raphael, Calif., and returned to her regular position as director of education for the San Diego chapter. . . . Jane Hartzell is an R.N. working for the Visiting N u rses Assoc i a t ion in the Burlington, Vt., area . . . . Neil Moynihan is an emergency room M.D. in South Windsor, Conn., and has two daughters, Kate and El izabeth . . . . J oanne Terry Swanson is living in Ashville, N .C., with her husband, John, and brand new baby, Anna. . . . Wayne and Jan J ohnson Gombotz are living in Kirkland, Wash. Wayne is a research scien tist for Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Jan is with lnfosystemsArchitects as an independent computer con sultant. They have two children, Carolyn and Richard, and two Chesapeake retrievers. Last win ter they planned ski trips to Jack-

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on, Wyo., and nowbird, U tah, \\'here they \\·ere planning on at tending Ken Sharples's wedding to Lucie Pa rori:a. Wayne and J an w r i t e that Ken and J eff Protentis have topped by to visit them \\'hen on bu ine s in Se a t t le . . . . A nother c las�mare l i v i ng in the earrle area is Whit Symmes, owner of Moss Alley Motor . He and hi wife, Marianne Jones, who is a--i rant director of the Washington Com mission for the Humanit ies, have a d a u g h t e r , E l l e y M a rgare t ymme . Whit write · that he i also \\'orking as a ja:: vocalist \\'ith a piano trio in the area and i also playing the piano at wedding . He completed a B.F.A. in ja:: mu ic in 19 9 at the Corni ,h College of the Arts in earrle. . . . Karen Pfeiffer Jones i · li\·ing in We t Harrison, N .Y., with her husband, Owen, and their son, Andrew E lston , who wa' horn May 8, 1 992 . Karen and Owen are both i n fo r m a t i o n pec i a l i r w i t h McKin e y and Co. and have been job sharing ince Andy' ar rival. . . . Ted and Lisa Gale Tay lor have moved to Carmel, Ind . , our ide lndianapoli . Ted is the office manager � r ABB Environ mental ervice , and Li a is a e nior geologist there, too. They have a on, Cameron, born on Augu t 5, 1 990. Ted writes that he see Rick Schaub in Dayton, Ohio, regularly . . . . Randy New bury and hi wife, Stacy, are liv ing in Mode to, Cal if. Randy graduated from phy ical therapy school at Emory University in Atlanta back in 1 9 9 and is now working in phy ical rehabilita tion. They have a son, Nathan, and another on was expected last January. andy and tacy were able to get away to Hawaii for d1eir 1 0th anniver ary. They also had a European trip . . . . J im and Laura Littlefield Bourne are liv ing in Arlington, Va. J im is an analyst with the U . . EPA Office of Underground Drinking Water, and Laura i a manager of legi la tive affair . Jim canoed the Noa tah River in northwe t Ala ka for three weeks back in the summer of 1 992 ! J im and Laura have een Lisa N olan and Karen Orloff Maddox. . . . ome of the urvey I ent late la t year are trickling in. + Plea e write!

Correspondent: Mimi Rasmussen

Karen Varn um Matt anJ her h u � band , Pau l, moved for the rhird rime in six years thi, pa't J u ly-\\'hich b quire a Job \\'ith rn·n actl\·e boys, ean, 5. and rephen, 3. Karen adds part-time \\'ork at the local YMCA as an early chi ldhood instructor. � he is also a call igrapher, a member of the J unior League of Worcester and the ed i to r and PR represen tat1\·e for an oruani �- at ion in "' volved in project th<. t imprnn: the quality of life for inner-c 1ry people. Karen al o ha> \\'Orked in a bank and as a fund-rabing d i rec to r f o r a national h e a l t h agency. Before our 20th reunion, Karen hopes to add running her own public relations firm to her Ii t1 • • D eborah A . Nader's mo t recent chancre is her mar riage to Tom Hartshorn on July 1 7 , 1 99 3 . She has a kindergarten and fir t grade teaching job at the George E lementary chool in Vermont. ince grad u a t i o n Deborah h a pent fi\·e months driv ing aero country on a mo torcycle, has been k i ing out we t on three different trips, h iked the Grand Canyon in a day, rock climbed, run races and been a ki instruc tor and a bicycle tour leader. he al o has managed to get her master' degree in early childhood educarion 1 he tries to see Ann and lain Hoefle in M iddlebury, Vt., whenever he can . . . . Kathleen N icholson Massey i an a sociare at d1e law firm ofCravath, Swaine & Moore in New York. Kathleen wa mar ried in J une of 1 99 2 to long-rime friend rephen John Massey. He wa a lawyer with a Ph.D. in phi losophy and bachelor' degrees from Notre Dame and Oxford who taught law at N ew York Law chool until his death from can cer in eptember 1 99 2 . Although married for a short ti me, they had known each other for year . . . . Susan Reese Krevat, mar ried to Marr '80, is busy with her three children, Bethany ( born 2/ 89), Derek ( 4/9 1 ) and Andrew ( 4/9 3 ) . he wi hes that he had more time t keep in touch with people . . . . Matt Figel i an in-

\·estmenc banker in r-.. lanhattan Beach , Calif. La t r-.. l arch he and his \\'ife, Linda McLaugh lin, had a daughter, ara M c Laugh l i n Fige l . Congrat'1 Matt has hearJ rumor-; out in Cal ifornia that Jeff Brown has hecome a Zulu \\'ar nor l inng 111 South Africa-any truth to thi' ? l\lan al,o woukl l i ke to remind c la, mate to g1\·e to rhe A lumni Fund 1 • • • • Dave Martin and \\·ife Bonnie ha\·e a daughter, E l i:abeth, horn J u l y 1 6-another member o f the Cla"' of 2 0 1 4 ' . . . Rebecca Badger Fisher i� happy \\'ith her ne\\' job a� a sy�tem analyst at Health net in Lo� Angeles, Cal if. he and her husband , Paul, were expect i ng the ir first child at the time this column was due . . . . Ann Renner Stillwater \\'ri te-; from Ohio ( I lo\·ed the post card, Ann! ) that he i a public hea lth nur�e w i th rhe Tuscarawas Cou nty Heal th Dept. Her hu ,band i · hard at \\'Ork com·erting their barn into a house-\\'hile they are still li\· ing in ir. Three-year-old Robin i in pre chool, and 7-year-old Chris i' in the econd grade. Ann wel comes anybody to v i it! In 1 99 2 , after almost n ine years in London , Suzy Teare Morris mm·ed to Dubai, where her hu- band, John, i manager of the Merrill Lynch office. u:y ha her own busines there-black and white child photography and they have three daughters, Logan, Nellie, and Catharyn (6, 4, 2 ) . Since they l ive o far away, they come back to the rate only once a year during the summer time, when u:y sees J a n i c e McKeown, who keeps h e r in fom1ed. J anice herself write to ay that he moved to Arl ington, Va. , in March of'92 and i havin fun traveling throughout the M id A tlantic tares in her Rockport van as a retail training rep for the Rockport Shoe Co. he mi es her New England friend but ha a whole group in the Balti more, M d . , area-Cathy "Smitty" Smith Badmington, Sarah "Foxy" Fox Whalen and Carter Knipp. J anice also ran into Donna Fabiani at a "D.C. Cares" meeting. . . . Paul Mcgov ern has moved from Bo ton to London to Omaha, Neb. He and wife Laurie have one on, J ohn Pau l. . . . Helen Dooley J u rsek

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and hu hand Ted hm·e t\\'O chil dn�n. Ke\' ln Dooley ( 4/1 5/9 1 ) and Christopher Martin ( 6/2 /92 ) , a n d last Decemher were expect ing their third child. Helen re ce1\·ed her law degrel' fn,m the ew EnglanJ _ chm'l ,1f L1\\' anJ \\'ill return tn wnrk nn a part-rnne ba>t> 111 1 994. he lm·e, hein)! a mother but miy;e� the free ti me and the intel lec tual ,nmu"1 t 1nn of \·olunreer \\'Ork. . . . I wrnrc up information frnm people 111 the order that I recel \-ed 1r. Thanb to e\·eryone whu contn bureJ. Iv nex t deaJline I > May 1 -1 lwpe to hear from more of you beiore + then. Happy Wint e r 1 Corre�ponJent: Sally Lovegren Merchant

r-.. l y mailbox y1elJed ome news from Yari ou c orners ot the country. J aney Reimer DiMarco \\'rote from W innetka, 1 11 . , ha\' ing moved back to the Chicago area. Her son, Andrew, iomed the family in May 1 993 . H is i rer, Eli::a, wa then 3 . J aney men tioned that he keepsc nract wirh Wendy Wittels Renz . . . . Delisa Laterza and husband W i ll iam Ri tzel moved to Charlotte, N .C . , four year ago. Their o n , Au tin Anthony, was born in October 1 99 3 . Delisa has returned to her job a director of c l ient ervices at Wray-Ward-Laseter Advertis ing, one of Charlotte's largest advertising agencie . Thanks for the ne·Ns, Delisa . . . . From Scar borough, Maine, came Ann and J amie Town' letter. The ir son, Dylan, i now a year old. Jamie i in hi 1 2 th year at Winter Co. as regional ales director, responible for location in Maine, New Hampsh ire, Massachu ett and Vermont. J amie aid that Ken Emery was engaged and l iv ing in Dallas. . . . Mary Lou (Waterman ' 6 ) and Mark Tolette were ex pecting in February-let us know, guy ! . . . Finally, in imi Valley, Calif., George, l i ttle Perer and Liz Murphy Kloak were happy to write of the birth of L u c i l l e ( "Luc ie" ) There e in October 1 99 3 . Liz wa in Bo ton and Chi cago for the Chri tma holidays and wa contemplating going back to work in J anuary, bur he

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would do1 Are there areas of your life that you are most proud of? In what area ( s ) do you feel you need help ? Do you ever wish you could get a Colby group together to talk abou t these t h i ngs ? I f so, how would you do it? What k ind of support from afar could we lend

never thought poss ible: reu n it ing a group th a t h a s grown older,

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NEWSMAKERS Program director of the Wel lesley, Mass . , commw1ity Children' Cen ter and actress Darlene Howland Currier ' 8 1 received great reviews from the Wellesley Townsman for her portrayal of Maria in The Sound of Music at the Turtle Lane Playhouse i n N ew t o n , Ma s . . . . C h a r l e s Rousseau ' 8 3 has earned the char tered financial consultant profesional designation from American College, Bryn Mawr, Pa. Certifica Oscar Weekes '85 tion require a prescribed program of tudy and examinations . . . . E e x Junction ( Vt . ) High School science teacher Adam Weiss '83 has been involved in the Univer sity of Vermont's H ELIX program, which connects teachers with current genetics research. He also participated in a "genethic " program through Ball State University. In his 1 0 years of teaching high school biology, Weiss said in an Essex Reporter tory, he has fow1d genetics an "unbelievably exciting field." . . . Director of N ew York's Transportation Alternatives Jon Orcutt '85 led a protest bike ride through downtown Manhattan last September. The New Yorker' bemused report of the even t , the fifth in a series of monthly mobile demonstrations designed to promote an "Auto Free N ew York," said the plucky biker made their point by creating a minor traffic jam along Central Park South . . . . Cartoonist Lin coln Peirce '85 returned to his alma mater, Oyster River M iddle School in Durham, N . H . , to give students tip about creating comic strips. Peirce is the creator of the comic strip " Big N are." . . . Oscar Weekes ' 8 5 has joined the Boston law firm of Peabody & Brown as an a sociate in the litigation department. Weeke i al o on the

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Amy E. Carlson

Hello, everyone! My apologies for not hav ing written for so long. By the time you read this column, 1 hope you will have received my latest questionnaire and have taken a few moments to let me know what you've been up to. I received a wonderful letter from Peter Saccocia this summer. Af t er graduating from Colby, Pete moved to Minneapolis, where he rec e i ved h i s M.S. ( 1 987 ) and Ph . D. ( 1 99 1 ) in geochemistry from the University of Mi n ne sota. Pete is currently a scientist at the Woods Hole Oceano gr ap hic I nstitut ion i n Woods Hole, Mass., and is enjoying liv ing on Cape Cod . . . . Some new additions to classmates' families: Maureen Betro and J eff Barrett had their third child, S te ph an ie Maureen, on May 1 0, 1 993. In

board of editors of Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly . . . . A photo graph of J ulie Smith '86 and Tim Oakes '87 appeared on the front page of the English- language China Daily last December. Oake teache at Guizhou Normal University in Guiyang and mith teaches ESL in Chengdu . . . . Richard Hastings '87 pas ed the Massachu ett bar examination and is now employed at the law office of Paul V. Giannetti of Hudson, Mass . . . . The Connecticut ociety of Certified Pub l ic Accountants honored Robert Gallagher '89 with the American In titute of CPA's El ij ah Watt Sells Award with High Distinction. Gallagher, an associate at Cooper & Lybrand in Hartford, received the national award for achieving excellence on the November 1 992 Uniform CPA Examination.

MILEPOSTS Marriages: Robert Bernardo '84 to Stephanie Ch.rupcala in Warren, R . l . . . . Beverly Rice '85 to Frank Tede chi in Hud on, N . H . . . . Mary Beth Boland '85 to Thoma Haut in Andover, Mass . . . . Edward L. Maggiacomo Jr. '85 to Kristin Klitzner i n Warwick, R . l . . . . Deanna Cook '88 to Douglas McDonald '88 in Woodstock, Vt . . . . Jeffrey Huebschmann '88 to Suzanne Silvern in Gloucester, Ma . . . . Hillary Barnes '89 to Robert Hoopes Jr. in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. . . . Cindy Cohen '89 to David Fernandez '89 in Raymond, Maine . . . . Susan Pine Scott '89 to H. Frederick Stucker in Bryn Mawr, Pa . . . . Jeffrey Smith '89 to I lina Das in Minneapolis, M inn. Births: A son, Sam, to Kim and Jon Schwartz '82 . . . . A daughter, Shannon Elizabeth, to Daniel and Suzanne Orcutt Kelly '85 . . . . A daughter,Jessica Marie, to Laurence and Elizabeth Harrison Cutliffe '87 . . . . A daughter, Eliza Scout, to Jeff and Mary Federle Porter '88.

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addition to caring for Stephanie and her two older brothers, Maureen has been busy oversee ing the construction of their new home in Marion, Mass. Mary Lou McCulloch and Lt . David Jones had their second on, Cameron Carr, on May 20, 1 99 3 . Dave i currently rationed at VX- 1 at the N av a l A i r Test Center, Patuxent River, Md. When she i not caring for Cameron and his older brother, Duncan, Mary Lou is very active in the W ives' Club and its communi ty service ac tivitie . . . . Maura Cassidy writes that she has become a world trav eler. I n 1 988 she left the field of architecture and started working for Continental A irl ines at Logan A irport in Boston. The flexibil ity of the job has a llowed her the opportunity to travel about 1 0 weeks a year. Most recently, Maura decided to take a com pany-offered leave of absence, which allows her to keep her flight benefits and to travel even more. She planned to travel from Sep tember 1 993 through September 1 994 to such destinations as China, the former Soviet U nion and the South Pacific for some div ing. Maura welcomes calls from anyone seeking travel ad vice or wanting to come with her on her adventures . . . . As for me, I received my M . B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel H i l l last May. I spent the s u m m e r a t the Penl and A rt School in Penland, N .C . , trav eled a l ittle and enjoyed a won derful month in New England before mov ing back to North Carolina at the end of August to tart work for N orthem Telecom. l hope l won't have too much of a southern accent when I ee you all at our l Oth-year reunion, J une 3 to 5, 1 994. Mark your calen + dars! Corre pondent: Mary Alice Weller-Mayan

I m ogen Mintzer Church received an advanced degree at an Jo e tate University. I mo gen, who is a residential life coor d inator a t UCSC, p i loted a program on peer education for ubstance u e and abu e . . . . Cici

Bevin Gordon moved to Boston when her husband, Chris, began his master' degree at MIT. he joined Cone Communications, where she manages the sports/ fitnes division with clients such as Rollerblade, Cannondale, un day River and others . . . . Tom Donahue, a tran portation plan ner/transit programs manager at the M aryland Department of T ransportarion, is planning and negotiating agreements to com plete a 1 0 3 -mile metrorail sys tem. Tom i married to haron Lee Smith (si terofRussell Smith '84) and is living near Washing ton, D.C. . . . Lt. Joel Paine got married on October 2, 1 992three day before leaving on an other six-month cruise. H is wife, Cynd i , joined him in France for a Christmas t i me honeymoon in Chamonix. Joel is living in Jack sonville, Fla., reaching electronic warfare to F/A- 1 8 pilot and rack ing up some hours in the Hor net. . . . Eric T rucksess rook a job w ith The Related Capital Company in New York City in the real estate investment field. . . . Dennis Fisher wrote a book called Latirude Hooks and Azi muth Rings and sold it to Interna t i on a l M a r i n e , a d i v ision of McGraw-H ill. It i basically a guide ro bui ld ing and using tradi t ional navigational instruments: compasse , sextants and all orts ofobscure widgets. It is due out in paperback s o m e t i m e in ' 9 4 . Congra ts, Denn is ! . . . J ames Gill' world traveling adventure is basically over, and he has ended up in London, England. He is working for a British computer company that buy equipment in the U . . and U . K . and then ex ports it to Europe, the M iddle Ea t , Russia and Asia. On cam pus J ames gave a talk sponsored by the Colby Career Services Office called "Building a Re ume w i th a B a c k p a c k . " He t o l d students h o w t o present travel experience and d i fferentiate themselve from other job can didate . . . . La t, but not least, Meghan Casey had a beautiful baby girl on October 1 , 1 99 3 . H e r name i Katherine Fallon, bur we call her Fal lon. She was 8 lb. 8 oz. at birth and is a real joy. . . . Have a great spring and drop me a line if you get a chance. +

Correspondent: Lucy Lennon Tucker

A heartfelt thank-you to all of you who rook the t ime to fi ll out the questionnaires and mail them back to me ! The funny thing is, I 've heard from only about an eighth of the c lass ! I 'l l fi ll this column and the next with the last few I 've received, but then I'm all out of news . . . . Keith O'Leary is l iv ing in Melrose , Mass. He received his M . B. A . from Northeastern in December 1 992 and opened h is own Mexi can restaurant, El Caliente Cafe, in Gloucester. Entrepreneurial venture are keeping Keith busy, but when he has spare t ime he like to fir in a few rounds of golf. . . Pam Blanchard gradu a ted from H arvard G raduate School of Education's one-year master' program in J une of '93 , then moved to New Hampshire, where she is the associate direc tor ofadmissions at Cardigan M t . Schoo l , an all- boys board ing schoo l , grades 6-9. Pam also teaches one sixth and one sev enth grade math c lass. Pam's liv ing in a beaut i fu l l arge old farmhouse with a brook and lot ofland and i enjoying the change from Boston . . . . As Pam left Boston recently, A ngela Pis citello Lurie arrived to pursue her M . B. A . at Harvard's School of Business and expects to com plete her degree in J une of 1 99 5 . For h e r move t o Boston, Angela left her po it ion at Bearing Secu ritie . She is very excited about the new chal lenges ahead of her. . . . Kris Kelley married Matt Wilkinson on J une 19 last year. Kris is liv ing in Mountain V iew, Calif. , where she is a senior fi nancial analyst with Project Lead. Her hu band is in the same field but with a different company. When not planning for the wed ding, Kri spent mo t of her week ends traveling with Matt to v isit family and friends. She wrote that she was looking forward to spend ing more time at home as thing quiet down after the wedding. . . . Priscilla Phinney wrote from Ma sachu etts, where he is work ing a a grants coordinator for Con ervation Law Foundation,

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a non-profit environmental ad vocacy organization in Boston. When not at work , Pri c i l i a spends h e r time volunteering for Boston's Habitat for H uman ity, the volunteer organization that builds housing for low-income people. She also pends time help ing her boyfriend start up his own physical therapy clinic . . . . Liz Daly Rosenberry wrote me from Seattle, Wash. , where she is liv ing with hu band Flip. L iz and Flip got married in 1 990 and left Boston for Seattle in 1 99 1 . Liz loves the Pacific Northwest, where she is busy working as a graphic arti t for M ic ro oft and F l ip is executive d irector for Se attle Young People's Project. . . . Newlywed Susan Lawrenz-Smith Weissman married Jon in Octo ber of 1 99 3 . Sue finished up her Ph.D. in microbiology and ac cepted a research fellowship in the molecu lar physiology depart ment at the Univer ity of V ir g i n i a . Sue wrote t h a t h e ' s encouraged b y t h e increase i n female faculty in t h e sciences a t Colby, a s s h e would one d a y l ike to teach at a liberal arts college . . . . Lori Otten's wedding fol lowed on the heels of Sue's as she married Blake M i raglia in No vember. Over the past few year , Lori has spent time running a print hop with her brother and then doing financ ial planning with IDS/American Express. Lori now owns a check cashing store in Atlanta, Ga. She met Blake at a check cashing convention and after rhe wedding will move to San Francisco, where he currenrly l ives . . . . Maureen Firth wrote from Bridgton, Maine, where he i a veterinarian. She received her M .S. in 1 990 in animal sci ence from UN H and went on to rece ive her V . M . D. from the University of Penn y lvania in May of'93 . Maureen is very grate ful for the science education he received at Colby and believes it was unbeatable! . . . J im Louis wrote from Ossining, N .Y ., where he is practicing law and living with h is wife, Pam, and h is dog, Madeleine. J im graduated from yracuse University Law School in 1 99 1 and got married in Sep tember of 1 99 2 . J i m is another alum who stated that he really appreciated his four years at Colby

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Correspondent: Laura Senier

Greeting , fellow '90ers! J e n M ilsop and J on M i l lard got married on Columbu Day weekend last fall and are now l iv ing in Farmington, Mich. Jen is working in a new posirionforSear , andJon iswork ing for N ational Bank of Detroit, a c o m m e rc ia l b a n k i n g fi r m . Maureen McGlynn wa the maid of honor at the wedding; he's working on her Ph.D. in eco nomics ar otre Dame. Al o in the wedding party were Dawn Pitcher and Dave Batchelder. Dawn i tudying to be a phyic ian' a i rant ar Northeastern Univer ity, and Dave i working as a ale rep for AT&T Anna Brookes and Tracy Roy were also bridesmaids in Jen' wedding. Anna is working for the Red Cro

as a d isasrer reservi t ( when l spoke with her in October she wa j ust fini hing up an assign ment in the M idwest, helping v ictims of la t ummer's f1oods ) . Tracy i working for a health care consulting company in ew York City . . . . Erica Hoffmeister an nounced her e ngagement to Da\·id Paul upple, a graduate of Holy Cro . Erica received her master's in education from Lesley College last spring and raughr fir t grade last year in eedham, M as . Her fiance is a lieutenant in the avy and currently ra tioned in Jacksonville, Fla . . . . Beth James enr in news of people rhar she's kept up with over the pa t few year uch a Kim Gilbo and teve Warner ' 9, who gor married on Ocrober and are l iving in Kalamazoo, M ich. Berh als tells me that Brian Cooley i living in Bo ton and working on hi M . B.A. . . . Randy Grover will be fini hing his work at the New England College ofOprom etry thi spring-he pent some ti me last fal l working at an extern h ip in Texa . . . . Lisa Bove ha gotten an a ignment a a phy ic ian' as i tant in orth Carolina and i planning an Au g u t wedd i n g w i t h M ic h a e l Baker. . . . Kara Carlson received her ma ter's degree from the Uni versity of Roche ter and is now teac h i ng at antucket H igh chooL . . . Lot of news about cla mate on the road to becom ing " legal eagle . " tephanie ( Vore '9 1 ) and Paul Apple are living in Lexington, Ky., while Paul finishe his last year of law chooL Stephanie is working on a temporary ba·is for various com panie in the area ( and i getting teased a lot about her "accent" ) . Paul i preparing t o take the bar exam in J u ly . Deborah Rebore i in her econd year of law school in Washington, D.C. Stephanie Lucas is in her fir t year of law

chool, a l o in Wa h i ngton, though nor at the same school a Deborah. B.J . Evans ju t finished law school and is working at a law firm in Penn ylvania whi le he await rhe results of h i s bar exam . . . . I 've heard from quite a few of you over the pa t few months, and many of you have mentioned plans for our fifth year reunion ( no, it's not all that far away ) . In the meantime, keep + the new coming! Corre pondent: Katie Martin

Cla mare , I hope 1 994 i a good year for all. You continue rn be big newsmakers, and the let ters till tream in. Keep up the good work . . . . A recent po t card from Chad Brown informed me that after a year of odd jobs, in cluding a tint a road manager for Tearn haklee Olympic Cy cli ts, he has landed a job as a research analy t at rhe Freedonia Group in haker Height , Ohio, where he i· also liv ing. He is eager to meet other Colby people, o if you're nearby, give him a call! . . . Mike Groff wrote me from h is home in Canby, Ore. He, too, ha spent the Ia t year floundering around and ended up at the University of Portland in pur uit of an M . A . in communi cation and international rela tion . On top of h is rudie , he manages to hold down two part time jobs-assistant coach for a high chool peech and debate team and Semester-at- ea re cruiter for the state of Oregon. He pent part of hi j unior year on that program, o ir' right up his al ley ! . . . Eric and Adria Lowell Turner ent me a picture from their J une 1 9 wedd ing. (Sorry we couldn't print rhe pic ture . ) I t look l ike a lot of Colby

people were there, inc ludmg Jamie Z inman, J ill Collett, Deb Stinchfield, Greg Mahoney, Sa rah B u r n s , B r i a n M u l v e y , Amanda Bishop, Bessie Moss , Kristen Russo, Erica Gregg, Derek Bettencourt, Kevin Smith, Bill Foster, Dave Dore, Todd Ver Hoeven, J im Burke, Jason Gleeson, Tim Sullivan, Liz Frado, Scott Phillips, Bruce R e e d , Mark F l a h e rt y , T i m Groves, Ted Bosco and Jason Mazzola. Also there were Keith G lea on '94, J a on Dorion '93 , M itch Rogers '93 and Rob Car bone '93 . Phew ' . . . . My mosr recent correspondence came from J .C. Klick j ust rnday. He i in volved in neuroanatomy research at the VA Ho pita! in Bedford, Mass. He was j ust accepted to med school, which he'll be start ing next fal l , although he didn't tell me where. He gave me lots of other Colby new : Chris Mal comb recently returned from ev eral month of teaching and traveling in Southeast A ia and al o spent ome time working in England; he i now living in ew ron, Mass. Andy Wellnitz is work ing for Banyan y tem , a software company in Westboro, Ma s., and live in Brigh ton with Brian Monks '9 1 . J im Albright is m hi second year of med chool ar Hahnemann Un iver ity in Ph ila delphia. Augie Cenname i work ing ar the corporate headquarter· of Circuit City in Richmond, Va. Andy Wallace i in law chool at r. John' in ew York City. Pete Carney is in law chool at Ameri can University in D.C. and live with Adam Belanger, who work for the N a t ional In r itute of Health and is preparing for the MCAT . Randy Note i work ing in D.C. while taking premed c l a ses at Georgetown. Yong Kwon is working in D.C. for ational Leader hip Conference. Meredith J ohnson is taking pre-

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med c o urse at Tuft s . P e t e Hayden is a student at Cornell Law School. Karen Wu is at UVA pursuing a master's in microbial ecology. Farah Paradise works for a law firm in Portland, Maine. Tricia Baldridge is at Franklin Pierce College getting her teacher c e r t ifi c a t i on. Pete H o c k n e l l works for Roche Molecular Sys tems in New Jersey, where he develops tuberculosis test kits. J odi Adams is in her first year at UVM M ed. M ic helle Fortier, who lives in N .Y.C. with Mark Boles and Jim Condron, ju t got engaged. Congratulations, Mich elle! Kim Zimmerman lives in Concord, Mass., and is working at a homeless shelter in Lowell. Dave (now Ben) Jorgensen is still working at the Stu-A Office at Colby and continues to love life in Maine. Kirt Frederickson is a econd-year student at the Medical College of V i rginia. Linda Brown is a first-yearstudent at Penn State Medical School. J .C. ran into Karen Larson at hi five-year high school reunion. She

works at Liberty Mutual i n Dover, N . H . He also saw Kristin N ixon, who is living and working in N .Y.C. Joy Marean is enrolled in a master's rrogram at Col umbia. Bill Baldwin works for Teach America in Loui iana, and Felicia Gefvert continues to work for TFA in D.C. Caroline Earle is in California gett ing her master's in international studies, and Karen Dunn is at BU Law. Julie Eells is in grad school and working at a comruter company in Burlington, Vt. Chris Frothingham is taking premed c lasses and working in a hospital near Andover, Mass. Thanks for all the news 1 Here's bits and pieces that I have heard: Beth Welch is now living in N . Y .C. and working as an as s istant buyer at Tiffany' , and Dave Moore is now enrolled at Harvard Divinity School. Finally, along with all classmates, l would like to end my deepest sympathy to Dave Edelstein on the tragic death of his i ter, Debbie, in November. Our thoughts are with + you, Dave.

NEWSMAKERS Andrea Ciampa '90 recently graduated w ith honors from uffolk Univer ity Law School in Bost on, Mass . . . . The American Forest & Paper A sociation has announced the appointment of Cinda Hart man Jones '90 as director of marketing for the American Wood Coun c i l , a produ c t group o f AF&PA. Jones will b e responsible for implementing Shirley Macbeth '93 the communications program for AWC. . . . Peter Indovino '9 1 is the new branch manager for Enterprise Rent-a-Car in Wakefield, Mass . . . . Kathleen Kaliff '9 1 ha been appointed geography and cience teacher at the St. Mary Academy-Bay View School in Providence, R. l. . . . Michael J . Shaughnessy J r. ' 9 1 received a n M . S . in biology last December from Shippensburg University . . . . Legi lative A si tant Amy Walter ' 9 1 received the Women's Information Network' Young Women of Achievement Award, which honors young women from the Washington, D.C., area for their accompli hment in the workplace and the community . . . . Kents Hill hockey coach Eric Turner '92 was quoted in a Kennebec Journal article concerning his star goalie, Meghan Smith. The fact that Smith is a girl playing on the boys' team i ofno concern, Tumer said. "Meghan feels comfort able with the coaching here because I don't care. If he's stopping the

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Correspondent: Kristin L. Owens

Hello, Class of '93. I hope that each of you is keeping happily busy and planning on writing me soon. Here is some new informa t ion that I've gathered since the last issue. Meg W i n c h ester, S ha w n Campbe l l , A n t hony Couv i l l o n , Deb Mades and Michele Ayan are all liv ing and working in the Boston area . . . . Sally Zimmerli is employed as a teacher's aide in Newton, Mass. , Laura Thompson 1 � m Lexing ton, Mass. , and Kristin Burati is in M ayna rd , Mass . . . . Mary Anne Sheridan is employed by Bay Bank and is liv ing in Bel mont, Mas . . . . Our class presi dent, J eff Ba ron , has found fu ll -t ime work with a pre tigious public relations firm and is hang ing in there after his apartment buildi ng in Brookline, M a s . , burned down . . . . Those t i l l i n academia include Mick Soth i n

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California and Kim Carlson at Dickin on law school in Penn sylvania . . . . Dave McCarthy is the running backs coach at West ern Connec ticut State Univeri ty . . . . Jay Moore and Diane Decker are in Colorado . . . . Bill Hokanson is liv ing and working in Connec t i c u t . . J orgen Bocklage is living in Arlington, Va., and is employed by Penncorp Financ ial. . . . Pat Robbins i in North Whitefield, Maine, and Libby Repass is living and work ing in Portland . . . . Skip Harris is in New York, having completed an intensive cuba teacher' train ing course in Florida. Bill Miller is guiding tour for older folks in Italy as part of the Trinity Col lege Elderhostel Program. That sums up what I know. Please write me with information. I t's a great way to keep in touch with your classmates. Remember, deadlines for each column are three and a half months before the column appears in the Colby magazine. Hope to hear from each of you.+

shots she'll play." . . . Andrea Krasker ' 9 3 has joined the taff of the Ipswich Chronicle in Ipswich Mass. The former Echo editor-in-chief is the reporter for Rowley, Mass . . . . Schwartz Communications Inc. in Welle ley, Mass., has appointed Shirley Macbeth '93 a sistant account executive. She worked previously at Tilbury House Pub lisher and Penwell Publishing Co . . . . Dave Rea '93 has returned to the States after spending last ummer in Tokyo working for the Japanese Diet as an assi tant to Rep. Takeshi lwayu. Rea currently is a legal assi tant with Ballard Spahr Andrew & Ingersoll in Philadelphia, Pa . . . . Rookie basketball coach Tobin Slavin '93 wa the subject ofa column in the Bangor ( Me . ) Daily News. Apart from the pressure of being fresh out of college and facing opposing coaches with year of experience, lavin said he is fulfilling a long time dream as coach of the Machias High School boys basketball team. "Sometime I feel I 'm the luckiest per on in the world," he said. "If you can find something you love, and you can get fed and find a place to leep, j ust that love will make you excel."

MILEPOSTS Marriages: Erica Hoffmeister '90 to David Supple in Needham, Mas . . . . J . Scott Rickards '90 to M. Katherine Leonard in Marblehead, Mass . . . . Franc-Eric Wiedmer '90 to Deborah Good in Waterloo, N.Y . . . . Katherine Rogers '93 to Will iam Roberts

IV in Dallas, Tex. Deaths: Thomas J. Watson J r., L.H.D. '9 1 , in Greenwich, Conn., at 79.

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a t J u ly when, accord i ng to Fel ise Glantz '9 1 , "their stock wa getting hit," the J ames R iver Company was determined to find out why. Armed with both her research on the reasons behind the stock' drop and the elf-confidence to deliver the mes sage, G lantz flew to the com pany's corporate headquarters in R i chmond, Va. " I provided an investor rela tion overv iew , made ome ug ge t ion and kic ked butt in that meeting," aid the 2 4-year o ld G lantz. " I t wa the biggest mo ment in my career." G lantz recently was named a partner of the Car on Group, a New York firm that provide capi tal market intell igence for J ame R iver and other major corporate c lients, telling them why certain institutions are buying or selling their stock and how those ac tions are affecting its price. "The big players on Wall Street can take millions of hare and move the stock," G lantzsaid. "We provide our c lients with answers to what's going on with their tock." Such information, he ays, is not only helpful to CEOs but could make the difference between their holding or losing control of their companie . "We d it through an analytical approach," G lantz said, shedding a l ittle l ight on a c losely guarded proce that involve canning a daraba e of more than 4,500 institut ional investors and mutual funds, calling selected money manager and what she de cribes as "pulling together c lues. " " l t ' l ike being an i n v e tigator," he aid. "It's fun when my gue s i correct." Two year ago, G lantz was working a a legal as istant and thinklng about law chool. She an wered a New Yark Time5 ad and found her e lf among 300 candidate for one of two job at the Car on Group. he remember her respon e when she made it into the econd round of inter iews: " I ran out and bought a new suit but kept the rags in the pockets in case I ended up returning it." Though he had never taken an economics course and "had never picked up The Wal! Street]ournal , " he was hired-the first woman at the firm.

"Being a woman on Wall Street is hard," he said. "[ wa wallowed a lot at fir t but toughened up. I 've learned that when you have your tuff and can prove it, they don't question your age or sex. The big joke is that I hould spray paint my hair gray." Cal l i ng the Carson Group "the right place to be at the nght t ime," G lantz in two year has seen the staff grow from 1 1 to 50, all of them under 3 5 . G lantz's hours are not unusual among Wall Street's young gun ; he start work at 7 : 30 a.m. and u u ally log 1 2- to 1 4-hour days. "I never want to be bl ind ided by a phone call," he said from her office overlooking Central Park. "When the market i open you have to be accountable." Amid large screens and televiion monitors updating the rock symbol and numbers in the market' frenetic pace, wall clocks moving to the t ime zone of dif ferent exchanges and "everybody yelling," G lantz acknowledges the "enormous stress and presure" of her work but ays she al o finds it invigorating. "Your mentality changes from being a cared animal to a hungry animal-that vulture mental ity," he said. Her reward have come from being named a partner, praise from c lients and getting job offers in "the middle six-figure range" from other firms offers she ha pol itely turned down. At the end of her day Glantz i o pent up with energy he always makes it a habit to walk home, which takes a half hour. On weekend she sees friends, but, she nored,"l t's hard to get rid of my game face." "Colby really groomed me and fine-tuned my skill ," G iant:, a government major, said. "That how you don't have to have a degree in my area to excel." Describing herself as "a walking adverti ement for a liberal arts education" who wa able to add a different dimension when she arrived on Wall treet, Glantz more than holds her own in a sea of Ivy League and large university graduates. "Of all the people here," she aid, "I think I have the mo t enthusia m for my chool."

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William Finkeldey '43, a radio and television program executive, died October 27 in Hanover, N .H., at 7 2 . He was born in Palmerton, Pa., and attended elementary school and high school in Hasting -on-Hudson, N.Y. He began his career as an announcer for WTVL radio in Waterville while he was a tudent at the College. After Colby, where he was an Engli>h and joumali m major andeditorofthe Echo, he served in World War II as an intelligence officer on the raff of Gen. Douglas MacArthur. He returned to WTVLas a full-time perfonner-executive, then in 1 947 became program director ofWLAM in Lewiston, Maine. Later he hecame an account executive for Consolidated Tclevi ion, which led h im to CBS, RKO and other organi:ations in New York City and to his principal occupa tion a· repre entative of the British Broad ca ting Corporat ion's Mascerpiece Theater, Civilization, Fawlty Towers and many other shows. In Hastings-on-Hudson he was chair of the Hastings School Board. A volunteer firefighter, he was captain of the Riverview Manor Hose Co. and an officer for the Society for the Preser vation of Antique Fire Apparatus. In 1 986 he moved to Hanover, where he was a volunteer at the Grafton County Senior Center. Survivors include his wife, Barbara, a daughter, Jane Finkeldey Stephenson '68, a son and a sister.

Everett A. Fransen '26, a phy ical education instructor and coach, died May 1 9, 199 3 , at 92. He was a graduate of Engli h High chool in Lynn, Ma . , and attended Springfield College before coming to Colby, where he was a member of the varsity track and base ball team . He received h i master' degree from Boston University in 1 936. For 40 years he taught at English H igh School and coached seven sport and was involved in several areas of phy ical education. Survivors include his daughter, Barbara Fransen Briggs '49 .

Viv ian Skinner H ill ' 1 6, Teacher, Bank Clerk

Douglas C. Grearson ' 2 8 , Salesman

Vivian Skinner H il l ' 1 6, a teacher and bank e mployee, d ied October 1 7 in Portland, Maine, at 1 00. She was born in Norridgewock, M aine, and attended Portland schools. At the College she was a member of Sigma Kappa sorority and graduated as a member of Phi Beta Kappa with a major in mathematics. She went on to teach mathematics at Houlton and Bangor, Maine, high schools as well a New Bedford H igh School in Massachusetts. She worked as a bank c lerk at Maine Savings Bank in Portland from 1 93 3 to 1 9 58. She retained her ties to Colby as a class agent and member of the Southwestern Maine Alum nae A soc iation. She is survived by her son, Douglas R. H i l l , four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

Douglas C. Grearson '28, a sale man, died Janu ary 8 in Dedham, Mass. He was 86. Born in Calais, Mai.ne, he attended Calais Academy and Hebron Academy prior to entering Colby. During the 25 years he was a salesman for Jordan Marsh, he also saw ervice as a lieutenant in the U. S. Naval Reserve and for a time al o studied at Harvard. In 1 95 3 he joined the John E. Lucy Shoe Co. Predeceased by his sister, Mary Louise Grearson Haley '3 1 , he is survived by his wife, Adaline, his sister, Edith Grearson Money '26, and five children.

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8, 1 99 3 , in Sanford, Maine, at 90. He attended Sanford schools before entering Colby, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and of Kappa Delta Rho fraternity. He served with the Maine National Guard and in the Army field artillery during World War 11. He worked for Ginn and Co. Publi hers in Boston before be coming an actuary with the Travelers Insurance Co. in Hartford, Conn. He also erved as an actuary with Scott and Will iams in Laconia, N .H., and retired in 1 967 from John Hancock In. uranceCo. in Boston. Survivingishis brother, Roger Bennett.

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in New York City, eventually becoming an assistant buyer at the tore. She went on to work as a buyer at Stern's, Bamberger's and Loe er' , then moved to Abraham & Strauss, where she worked for 20 years. Surviving are her son, Taylor, two sisters and two brothers, two grandsons, niece and nephews.

Bertram L. Harding '30, Businessman Bertram L Harding '30, manager of several F.W. Woolworth tore in New England , d ied October 6 in Keene, N . H . , at 86. He retired from the Berlin, N . H . , Woolworth's in 1 97 1 . A nat ive of Abington, Mass., he wa a 42nd degree Ma on, a member of the Bektash Temple Lodge in Concord, N . H . , a Shriner and member of the Elks and Kiwanis clubs of New Hampshire. He leaves his wife, Doris, two sons and two daughters.

Stephanie Bean Delaney '3 1 , Teacher A. Stephanie Bean Delaney '3 1 , a teacher and guidance counselor, died September 9 in Saco, Maine, at 83. Born in Waterville, Maine, to Stephen '05 and Ethel N icholson Bean '05, she was educated in Somerville and Boston, Mas . After taking a degree in Engli h at Colby, where she was president of Chi Omega sorority and active in the G lee Club and dramatics, she did graduate work at Boston University. After the death of her husband in 1 9 54, she resumed her career in education as a teacher and head of the English department in the North Reading, Ma s., school system, which she also served as guidance director and director of pupil personnel services. She also taught art classes. She moved to Saco, Maine, in 1 9 7 5 . Surviving are three daugh ters, seven grandchildren and two great-grand children.

Barbara Taylor Cahill '30, Business Executive

Edwin W. Maddocks '3 2 , Real Estate Broker

Barabara Taylor Cahill '30, a retail business executive, died September 1 1 in Southington, Conn., at 83. Born in Harmony, Maine, she was encouraged by her Harmony H igh School teacher, Lena Cooley Mayo '24, to attend the College. She began her career at R . H . Macy

Edwin W. Maddocks ' 3 2 , a real estate broker, died December 10 in Waterville, Maine, at 83. He was born in Fairfield, Maine, and wa a graduate ofLawrence H igh School. At Colby he was a member of Alpha Tau Omega frater n ity and received his degree in business ad-

ministration. He spent some 1 5 years with the Farmers Home Administration as an ad ministrative loan officer in Augusta, Hou! ton and Bangor, Maine, and Springfield, Mass. He returned to Waterville in 1 948 to start his own real estate brokerage firm. A Mason, he

ment in 1 978. He leaves his wife, Agne , two daughters and two sons.

vived by his wife, Phyllis, two sons, a daugh ter and a ister.

Philip E. Colman '3 8 , Banker

Lubov Leonovich Waltz '4 1 , Music Teacher

was a life member of the S iloam Lodge of Fairfield. Predeceased by his wife, Arlene, he is urvived by two daughters, including Jane Maddocks Seib '5 7, and two grandchildren.

Philip E. Colman '38, a banker, died November 1 1 in Bangor, Maine, at 79. He was born in Brewer and graduated from Brewer High School and H iggins Classical Institute. At the College he won prizes in several speaking contests, and in later years he was active in both the Higgins and Colby alumni associations. In 1 94 7, afrer five years with the Internal Revenue Service, he joined the Merrill Trust Company and worked in several branch offices before transferring to the home office in Bangor, where he worked for 2 5 years as loan officer, trust officer and control ler. A graduate of the Rutgers School of Bank ing, he was active in banking and civic affairs and was president and director of the Bangor chapter of the American Institute of Banking. Surviving are his wife, Marjorie, a daughter and two sons.

Lubov Leonovich Waltz '4 1 , a music teacher, died September 27 in Exeter, N . H . , at 7 3 . A native of Berlin, N . H . , she attended Colby for two years before transferring to the Univer sity of New Hampshire. After raising her rwo ons, she returned to school i n 1 96 1 , studying music and teaching organ and music appre ciation at Moravian College in Pennsylva nia. She gave piano lessons and was an organist at the Christ ian S c ie n c e c h urches i n Bethlehem, Pa., and Basking Ridge, N .J . She is survived by her husband, Maynard '38, two sons, a brother and four grandchildren.

William T. Bryant ' 34 , Physicist William T. Byrant '34, a physicist, died Octo ber 9 in Luray, Va. , at 8 1 . He was born in Bridgton, Maine. A member of Kappa Ph i Kappa honor society at Colby, he earned a master's in physics from Boston University in 1 9 3 5 . He worked for the American Mutual Liability Insurance Co. before serving in the Pacific Theater during World War II as a combat intel l igence officer. He then studied and taught physics at the University of Rhode Island and the University of Maryland. I n 1 949 he began work a s a physicist with the National Bureau of Standards in Washing ton, D.C. , then joined the Department of Defense's Harry Diamond Laboratories in 1 9 5 3 . He retired in 1 974. Surviving are his wife, Mary, and three daughters.

Sylvia Richardson Miller '3 5 , Social Worker Sylvia Richardson M iller ' 3 5 , a social worker, died December 1 0 in Ocala, Fla. She was 79. Born in Clinton, Maine, she attended the Good W ill-Hinckley School. After graduat ing from the College with a sociology major, she was employed in a child welfare program with the state of Maine and held positions in Calais, Houlton and Skowhegan. Following her marriage in 1 93 9 to Robert N. Miller '36, she reared four sons and ran a ceramics busi ness in Gorham, Maine. She leaves her hus band, her sons and seven grandchildren.

Clarence S taples '3 8, Biologist Clarence E . Staples '38, a biologist and edu cational program coordinator for Central Maine Power Co. , died September 25 in Lewiston, Maine, at 78. Born in Carthage, Maine, he graduated from Dixfield High School and attended Hebron Academy be fore coming to the College to study biology. He also served on the Student Council, was a member of Kappa Phi Kappa and was presi dent of Delra Kappa Epsilon fratern ity. He earned his M.S. in fisheries biology and con servation from the University ofNew Hamp shire while teaching science at Somerset Academy and Madison High School in Maine. He j o ined Central Maine Power Co. , retiring in 1 9 7 5 after 27 years of service as a biologist and educational program coordinator. He was active in many clubs and associations and was a licensed Maine Guide. Surviving are h is wife, Ruth, and four children.

Joseph A. 0. Chandonnet '3 6, I nsurance Broker

Edson R. Small '40, S tore Manager

Joseph A.O. Chandonnet '36, an insurance broker, died in Chelmsford, Mass., at 80. Born in Manchester, N .H., he moved with his family to Haverhill, Mass. He graduated from Haverhill High School and attended Sr. Anselm's prepa ratory school in Manchester. After Colby, where he majored in biology and participated in foot ball, hockey and baseball, he received a degree from the Boston School of Anatomy and Em balming and operated a funeral parlor in Haverhill. From 1 942 to 1 946 he served as a captain in the United States Anny. Following the war he worked as an insurance broker for Lester L Burdick, Inc. of Boston until his retire-

Edson R. Small '40, a store manager, died November 4 in Oakland, Maine, at 7 5 . He was born in Oakland and graduated from Williams H igh School in 1 93 5 . Later he at tended Hebron Academy, where he won a mathematic scholar hip to Colby. He served in the Army in Maine, California, Texas, Maryland and the Philippines. Upon h is dis charge in 1 946 as a master ergeant, he be came manager of the First National Store in Oakland. He spent 4 2 years with the corpora tion, managing stores in Waterville, Bath and Boothbay Harbor. He retired to Oakland i n 1 97 7 and operated a tree farm. He is sur-

I. Arthur Russakoff '45 , J eweler ! . Arthur Russakoff '45 d i e d November 2 4 in Waterville, Maine, at 72. He was born in Skowhegan, Maine, and attended Roxbury, Mass., schools. He studied at the J u l l iard School of Music in New York City and also attended Tufts University in Boston and the University of Maine at Orono as well as Colby. In the 1 940s he j oined h is father at Russakoffs Jewelers in Skowhegan and later became a partner in the business. A founding member of the Skowhegan Brass Quintet, he played in several Maine bands, including LoComotion, the Community Orchestra and the Wind Ensemble. He is survived by his wife, two sons and a daughter.

J ohn M. Whitworth ' 5 8 , Businessman John M. Whitworth '58, a businessman and store manager, died August 10 in Bangor, Maine, at 62. A native ofVancouver, B.C., he attended Hebron Academy. He interruped his Colby education in 1 9 5 2 to serve four years in the Air Force. For 25 years he was employed with Sears Roebuck and Co. In 1 983 he joined Porteous Mitchell and Braun in Bangor as a store man ager. Surviving are his wife, Mary, three sons, a daughter, his mother, five grandchildren, nieces and nephews.

Richard L. H ilton '60, Retailer Richard L Hilton ' 6 0 , owner of a n herbal retail business, diedJ une 2 2 in Seaside, Calif., at 54. He wa born in Portland, Maine, and graduated from Greely Institute in 1 95 6 . Af ter completing an English major at Colby, he served four years in the Army a a public information writer. He attended San Jose State College and taught at Carmel H igh School and Monterey Peninsula College in

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Severo Ochoa, Sc.D. ' 7 5 , Nobel Prize Winner

Colby welcomes letters from readers . We reserve the right to edit for brevity and clarity . We do not publish unsigned letters . Please send correspon dence to: Managing Editor, Colby , Office of Communications , Colby College , Waterville , ME 0490 1 .

evero Ochoa, Sc.D. ' 7 5 , a renowned bio chemist and N obel laureate, d ied November l i n Madrid, Spain. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for physiology in 1 9 5 9. The evero Ochoa Centre for Molec ular Biology, founded under his gu idance and patronage, is one of Europe's lead i n g centers of mo lecular b i o l

o g y . U p o n his ret i rement from New York U n iversity in 1 9 7 4 , he worked on ,·ariou aspects of protein synthesis at the Roche I ns t i tute in N u t ley, N . J .

Henry F. Allen, Sc . D. ' 7 6 , Ophthalmologist Henry F. A l len , c . D. ' 7 6 , a d is t i nguished oph thalmo logi t , d ied in h is I p wich, Mass . , h o m e at a g e 7 7 . He w a s a s i x t h - g neration · u rg e o n , the g re a t - grandson of H a rr i e t Beecher Stowe a n d a descendent of the War ren fam i ly of doctor of Boston who helped to found Harvard Medical School. He was Henry W i l lard W i l l iam C l in i c a l Professor of Oph thalmology at Harvard Medical School and, from 1 968 to l 9 7 3 , wa chief of ophthalmol ogy at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infir

mary. For l 0 years he served a ediror- in-chief of Archives of Ophthalmology, and for 25 years he d i rec ted Colby's Lancaster course in oph thalmology. The College awarded him a doc tor of sc ience degree in 1 9 76 . He is survived by his w i fe of 52 years, Emily, and two daugh ters and a son.

Thomas J . Watson J r. L.H.D. '9 1 , IBM President Thomas J . Watson Jr. L. H.D. '9 1 , former I BM president, died December 3 1 in Greenwich, Conn., at 79. A 1 9 3 7 graduate of Brown Uni ver ity, he followed his father a head of the lntemational Business Machine Corp. He led

Honoring Teaching l have j ust fi n i heel reading the 1 992/9 3 President's Report (Colby , November) and would l ike to i l l u m inate a glaring omission. The Clas of 1 99 3 began an important trad i tion w i th the premier presentation of the Sen ior Class Teaching Award. The award is presented annually to a member of the fac ulty, chosen by the en ior c las , for his or her outstanding teaching and �upport of Co lby students. Upon receipt of the award, this fac u l ty member must deliver the

final Spotl ight speech of the academic year. Seeing that such an award-voted upon solely by students, c e lebrating the impact of one professor on those studen ts-is the first of its k i nd at Colby, l believe that ome prominent mention in e i ther the report or the body of the magazine itself is warranted. 1 do not believe uch a c i tation shou l d be simply to recognize the estab l ishment of the award or to outl ine the efforts of the c lass in establ ish i ng i t , but more importantly to highl ight the rec ipient. Charles Bas ett, the overwhelming choice of our c lass, del ighted a full chapel with h is lecture. It i because of profes ors such as he, who bring the material in the c l assroom to life and earn the respec t , admirat ion and friend hip of a l l h is students, that Colby tudents walk into "the real world" a well prepared as they do. On behalf of the Class of l 993, 1 hope that th is letter has finally given Professor Bassett the proper recog n i t ion he deserves. Jeffrey S. Baron '93 Brook l i ne, Mas· .

Song of Praise l was del ighted to read the article on Robert DeCormier '4 3 ( Colby , Novembe r ) . My husband a n d I were privi leged to work w i th Bob at the Berkshire Choral I ns t i tute last J u ly. Bob and I d i covered our Colby connection early i n the week. He was p lea ed to meet a "mu ic major" Colby graduate ( m e ) and to learn that music study has grown at the College. Bob re t ai n his l i beral arts approach to mu ic and to life. Th is combines with h is J u i l l iard t ra i n i ng to produce a un iquely in·ightful interpretation of choral mu ic. Our week in the Berk·hires culmin ated in a performance of Dvorak's Requiem . Lea m ing and performing this p iece under Bob DeCormier' d i rection was an exhi larating way to spend a week's vacation. He deserve the recogn i t ion given by being featured in Colby. Thanks! Shirley Bieringer Rau Auburn, Me.

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the company during the longest and most spec tacular growth in modem busine s history and built the annual revenue to $ 7 . 5 billion- uc cess that prompted Fortune magazine to cal l him "the greatest capitalist who ever lived." He also served as amba sador to the Soviet U n ion dur ing the J immy Carter ad mini tration. Survivor include his wife, Olive, and six children, includ ing Thomas J. Watson lil '67.

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By the time you arrive for reunion, this sign will make more sense. Right now we're deep in that te t of character known as a Maine winter. But by J une, the lakes and ocean will sparkle again, and this sign will welcome you back for a weekend of fun and friendships renewed. Check this issue for a schedule of events , day trip , and children's programs planned for you and your family from J une 1 � 5 , 1 994. For more information, call the reunion hotl ine, 207�87 2 �3 1 90. And tuck a j acket in your bag, j ust in case . It's cooler on Mayflower Hill.

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