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COLBY Volume 83

Cover Story

Number 3

Colby Staff:

Teaching Tolerance

For the Tolerance on Campu -fi l m project, Caleb Cook� '91 and hi crew of tudent fil m makers shoot movie that matter.

Sally B,1ker executive

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Brian peer designer Robert Gillespie Alumni at Large ediwr

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tephen Collins '74 Lynn Sullivan' 9 scaff wmers

Class Acts

After staging bright Colby career , these eniors are reaJy for l ife off the H i ll .

Aneste· Fotiades '89 scaff phowgrapher

12 Master Exhibitionists

Contributing Reporter: M 1chelle everance '94 Administration: William R. Cotter, prcs1denr; Peycon R. Helm, t'ice presidem for development and alumni relations; Earl H. m1th, dean of the Colkge; usan Conant Cook ' 7 5 , direcwr of alumni relations Alumni Council Executive Committee: Albert F. Carville Jr. '63, chair; Elizabeth J. Corydon-Apicella '74, vice chair; Cynthia L. Auman ' O; Thomas M. Dailey' 0; Solomon J. Hartman '67; Mary Alice Campbell Ko:en ' 47; Ronald L. Lupton '7 l; Beverly Nalbandian Madden '80; William E. Marvin '65; Carol G. Sly '80; Thomas P. LaVigne '58

Features 6

At the Colby M useum of Art, great work are in good hanJs.

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2 Peri cope 3 From the H il l 21 Gifts & Grants 23 Books & Author 25 Mules on the Move page 2 5

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27 Student Life

31 Alumni at Large

Profiles: 3 2 Eleanor Barker McCargar '3 7 43 David Tourangeau '6 1 49 Rebecca Littleton Corbett '74 53 Jen Underhi l l '89 Lauren Patterson '89 61 Obituarie 64 Letters

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Gleaned by Dean Earl H. Smith from his weekly campus newsletter, FYI. Admissions Successes Colby received 3,404 applications for the Class of l 998, a whopping 20 percent in crease over last year and perhaps the biggest leap of any college in the country. Dean Parker Beverage report that ome l ,300 offers were sent to fill the new class of 4 7 5 .

Deb Did It l t has taken n i ne years, but Colby women's track coach Deb Aitken has finally convi nced the N CAA to include the h ammer throw in the Division l I I women's outdoor track and field c hamp i on h i ps. Once considered solely a men's event, the hammer throw has been gain ing popu larity among women , especially on the East Coast. The NCAA News ( April 6 ) leads from page one with the story, cred iting Aitken as the pri ncipal advocate for the change.

Calling For Colby Nina Tilander reports that the annual

student phonathon for the Alumni Fund has ended after having raised $ 1 6 1 ,856 in cash and pledge . N early 60 students were involved, c l a iming a pledge rate ( givers to calls) of 34 percent, the phonathon's h ighest ever. The team contacted 8 , 2 3 8 parents a n d a l u m n i w h i l e drinking nearly 1 ,000 cans of oda. Susannah Kowal '96 of Lex i ngton, Mass. (d aughter of Harold Kowal '65) was the top sol ic itor, ra ising $ 1 2 ,l.90 from 1 7 1 donors.

Small World IV Andy Miller '82, a doctor serv ing with

the N avy Medical Corps in Long Beach, Cal if. , wri tes to say that he's doing plenty of physical exams these days, repaying Uncle Sam for help with med ical school. Sai lor are checked at a dental c l i n ic and then come to Andy bearing charts with a hauntingly fam i l iar name. "l tore apart COLBY

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yearbooks in my search," he said, and there he wa -Fred Canby '84, a dentist work ing on the same base. Not long after ward , Andy caught the name of John Monroe '80 in the alumni news and found John j ust down the road at Camp Pendleton N aval Hosp i ta l prac t i c i ng ophthalmology. With ne or two more specialists, they could open up a Colby Doctors Club and a Colby Medical Cen ter in that neck of the wood .

tions available to undergraduates in the United States. Hannah, an English and internat ional stud ies major, studied in China during spring semester. . . . The J anuary issue of Medicine reviews Lind say Wilson's book Women & Medicine in the French Enlightenment and calls it "fasc i nating." . . . And the Camoes Cen ter Quarterly has a fine photographic esay a sembled by Priscilla Doel from her book Pore O'Call.

Officers Re,Elected

New Student Charges Set

Larry Pugh '56, chair and CEO of VF

Trustees have approved an overall in crease of 4. 9 percent in student charges for 1 994-9 5 , the mallest j ump in the past 1 9 years. The new tu ition charge will be $ 1 8,930; room, $ 2 ,890; board, $ 2 , 700; and general fee, $900, making the overall comprehensive fee $ 2 5 ,420. In a letter to parents, President Bill Cotter outlined the reasons why college costs outstrip in flationary growth and said that he expects Colby's charge to remain about in the m iddle of the 2 5 most selective private colleges and universities in New England.

Corpora tion, was re-elec ted cha i r of Colby's board at i ts April meeting. Sid Farr '55, alumni secretary, was re-elected board secretary. Newly elected as v ice chair of the board was Watervi lle native Paul Paganucci, retired v ice cha i r of W.R. G race & Co. and vice president emeritus of Dartmouth College.

Colby Pride An article by President Bill Cotter is featured in the February is ue of The

Journal of che His torical Association ( Blackwell Publ i hers, Oxford, U . K . , and Cambridge, U . S .A . ) . The piece, The

Somerset Case and the Abolition of Slavery in England, was an outgrowth of research B i l l conducted wh ile on sabbat ical leave in 1 989-90 . . . . Two Colby faculty mem ber have been awarded Cottrell College Sc ience Awards to support research projects. Brad Mundy in chemistry w i l l receive $ 28,000 t o assist h is work o n the "experimental and calcu lational investi gation of remote heteroatom effects," and Duncan Tate in physics w i l l be awarded $ 3 5 , 2 4 5 to support his work in correlating "two-electron systems probed by hyperfine structure measurements . " . . . Hannah Beech, a j u n i o r fro m Bethesda, M d . , has been named a Truman Scholar, one of the most coveted d istinc -

Moosecellaneous This year's valedictorian, Danielle Jam ison of Gardiner, i the eighth Maine stu dent to achieve this d istinction in the past 10 years, an astonishing record consider ing that only approximately 1 2 percent of any of the e graduating classes are M ain er . . . . Don't think for a minute that Col by can't beat the Un iversity of Maine in hockey. Laura Halldorson's skaters d id it in February, 1 0-3 . . . . The admissions de partment ha an Internet e-mail account for general inqu iries ( admissions@colby. edu) that will help keep Colby apace with competitor in the student-finding game. . . . Paper napkins in all of the dining halls are now made from recycled paper. The switch spon ored by the Environmental Council and Dining Services.

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or a p e r i o d of sever a l w e e k s scrawled in the center of a Star of David i n t h e e a r l y spr i ng, the c a m that a J ew ish faculty member had tacked pus c o m m u n i t y w a s repeated l y on his office door in remembrance of the hocked by t h e discovery o f swas t i kas Holocaust . drawn on interior urfaces of several Col The College reported t h e inc idents to lege buildings. N o one was caught, but the inc ident became a cata lyst for increased awareness of the Holocau t and the meaning of the despised Nazi symbol . The first s w a t i ka w a s found March 30 on the wall of a men's bathroom in the S tudent Center, prompting President B i l l Cotter to write a broadside in which he noted that "whether [the symbol] was drawn in mal ice or ignorance, i ts hateful effect i the same . " " I t is my hope, '' Cotter wrote, "that by calling rhi inc ident to the attention of the entire com muni ty, we w i l l pause to reflect upon the harmfulness of such act and that we w i l l renew our deter m inat ion to r id our campus of this and all other k i nds of harassment." He a l o noted that tho e respon sible for acts of haras ment were subject to disciplinary action. A econd wastika wa found everal days later in another Stu dent Center bathroom. A th ird, Professor Joseph Roisman lights a candle for his son also in that build ing, was left on during the vigil. the wall at the reque t of student member of the Jewi h H i l lel c lub who the local pol ice, to the off ice of the Maine di p layed H o locaust p hotographs on Attorney General and to the Anti-Defa nearby walls, thus creating an impromptu mation League in Boston. College sec u shrine to the Holocau t, contemplated by rity wa increa ed and augmented by the hundred of students, staff, trustees and h iring of off-campus private inve t iga tors. Fol lowing a 1 0-day h iatu w ith no other over the next several weeks. inc idents, two more swastikas were found The plague of hate graff i t i continued through Apr i l . In all, more than a dozen on April 2 5 , at which point the regional FBI office agreed to become involved in of the symbols were found. One of the the investigation. most eriou affron t occurred in the The campus- wide response wa one of Lovejoy Building, where a wastika was

frustrat ion and outrage. A group of about 1 00 held a cand lel ight v ig i l on April 7 , and, two days later, the Board ofTrustee , in Waterv i l le for i ts regular Apr i l meet i ng, adopted a resolution join ing with fac u l ty , staff and students "in a clear and emphatic condemna t ion of these deplorable acts of hatred." On April 1 3 the Fac ulty Meet ing passed a mot ion asking all teachers to u e some class time the following Monday "to di cuss the Holocaust and the recent ant i-Sem i t ic inc idents on campus." The largest community re sponse came April 1 5 , when more than 600 participated in a stu dent-sponsored noon time rally on the steps of M i l ler Library, where more than a do:enstudents and faculry spoke out again t the outrage. That afternoon, the Col lege arranged transportation and sub idized t icket costs for tu dents who attended a spec ial showing of Schindler's Lise at a local theater. Additionally, e\ eral films related to the issue were hown on the campus in early April, and the Thursday noon time potlight lecture on April Shalev 28 featured a discussion of the Holocau t by Steve Wes lerofthe hate crime d ivision of the Maine Attorney General's office and Sister Nancy Malone of N ew Rochelle (N.Y. ) College. "Any coward can draw a swa tika in a split second," Dean of Faculty Bob Mc Arthur said, reflecting on the incidents, "but if the people responsible could nor be found and made to top, we could at lea t e ize thi 'teaching moment' and do all we could to educate about the awful meaning of the swastika and the Holocau t."

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T he Voice You Hear

Theater," a weekly comeJy show Gerencer wrote and performed with fe llow students o ugge·r thar Thoma Gerencer '94 Sarah Inman '93, Patrick Robbins '93 and had a little trouble ettl ing on a ca Jon Zack '93. I t tarted a a lark and reer is probably not unfair. A 1 987 gradu became the subject of a Senior Scholar ate of Waterv i l le H igh School, he went projecr sponsored by J ame Boylan, assi to the University of Maine and studied rant professor of English . Using w i ld first physics, then accou nting and fi nally ound effects, overlaid music tracks and finance. Three and a half years into his loosely scripted comedy bit , the show undergraduate de had a zany qua l i ty gree he dropped that attracted a out and got a job healthy following. at P i :za H u t i n N ow , G e rencer Waterv i l le, in part said, when he lis so he could wri te. tens to tape ofthe "I had a l w a y · ·how "there's a lot w a n t ed to be a of tuff I laugh at writer, but I always but there's a lot of bel ieved you had stuff that makes to have a practi cal me cringe." career, " he said. Gerencer de I n t e res t ed in veloped h is affin radio a well as in i t y for rad i o a writing, he was at a k id at his fam tracted to M ay i ly's summer place flower H i l l first by on the Belgrade W M H B, Colby's Lakes. " I used to com mun ity rad io l i s t e n to N PR station. He got on when I was l i t the air and then tle-my mother decided to enroll Thomas Gerencer '94 wouldn ' t l e t us in Engl ish courses as a part-time student. have a TV out at camp-and they used to A year later Assistant Professor of English play all these old rad io dramas. X-1 was Russell Potter cajoled him into matricu my favorite," he said. He was primed for lating, and, after two and a half year at a wave of Engl ish rad io shows that came Colby, Gerencer graduated last month out during h is youth-including Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. w ith a degree in Engl ish-and as a 1 994English Professor Peter Harris helped 9 5 Thomas J. Watson Fellow. With a $ 1 5 ,000 Watson st ipend to Gerencer recognize that he could tum his passion into a Watson Fellowship propos study rad io theater in London for a year, al: Gerencer's Senior Scholar project was Gerencer doesn't have the same pressure as most of his classmates to get going on of h igh qua! ity and Watson fellowships are the career path that eluded him for so granted for study outside the United States only, which meant that Gerencer could long. But there are a few deta i ls to work match his interest in radio theater with out. '' I'd l ike to come back here and start up a rad io theater company," he aid. " I n that developing in London. Gerencer d iscovered that because a A merica, nobody's doing rad io theater. Brit ish Broadcasting Corportion mo There's no competit ion-you'd j ust have nopoly ended j ust three years ago, there to create your own market." Gerencer' creative side and work ethic are legion of undercapitali zed radio com got him the prest igious fe l lowship, and panies start i ng up i n the Un ited K i ng dom. That and the fact that he had radio there's every reason to bel ieve he'll suc theater experience to offer produced two ceed in a career for wh ich no market yet ex ists. Hi first steps into the world of simultaneous internships beginning this rad io drama, now the focus of his l ife, month at d ifferent companies in Lon were as part of WMHB's "Gale Force don. H e agreed to part-time stints at

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both companies and has budgeted enough pare time to concentrate on whichever j ob offer better opportun ities. Creating a fol lowing for radio theater is j ust one possibi l i ty Gerencer sees on his own horizon . As the market for au dio books grow , he says, he' interested in mak i ng tapes that will layer actors' voice , background music and sound effect to create a h igh level of record ed drama. "Tom Gerencer i one of the most talented and original young writer I 've ever worked with," said Gerencer's men tor, award-winning nove l ist Boylan. " H is i magination is w i ld and com ic. At the ame time he understands that humor is serious business and that, l i ke any craft, it must be perfected through hard work and rev ision. H is winning of a Watson is a cred it to Colby and shows that even the truly deranged are sometimes rewarded."

Tutoring Teachers

olby professors are accompl ished teachers, but there's always room for improvement. Last Apri l 1 -2, the room was the Lunder Room in M i l ler Library, where Lee Warren, associate director of the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learn ing at Harvard and mother of Caroline '96, directed a workshop designed to enhance classroom effectiveness. Five Colby professor gave 1 5 - to 20m inute presentation , each followed by a d iscussion of the teacher' trategies and techniques and of teaching in general. Some two dozen facul ty entered into the discussions during the two-day session. Using a v ideo of scene from fil ms and considering such devices as color and b lack and whi te photography, camera angle and mu ic, Associate Professor of Art and of American Studies Dav id Lubin contrasted representations of New York City. The Religion Department's N ikky Singh establi hed v ivid relationships be tween the Upanishads, the H indu trea t ise on the nature of manki nd and the univer e, and student concerns today. After Associate Professor of Philo ophy Dan Cohen's students wrote questions to Dutch philosopher and theologian Baruch Spinoza ( 1 63 2 - 7 7), Cohen orchestrated a eance to get answers. Abbott Meader

Bryant Fills Spotlig ht

The Cla s of 1 994 elected Associate Professor of Engli h Cedric Bryant as the year's final Spotl ight Event lecturer. Bryant was chosen from among 10 faculty nomi nees to deliver the talk and to rec eive the enior cia�� Teac hi ng Award, which origi nated la t year when Dana Profe · or of Ameri can tud ies and of English Charles Bassett was the final Spotl ight speaker. Bryant wove together everal texts and voice in hi talk, "Every Goodbye, A i n't Gone. " Ton i Morri on' Beloved, Primo Lev i'· Sunfral in Auschwic�, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsb}i and works by Jame Baldwin anJ W i l l i am Faulkner all make the point that the past is always present, Bryant said. Our ac tions resonate with consequence long after we are gone. Unre·olved i ues need to be dealt with or there can be no uch thing a future. "Try as hard as you can to beat back ugliness in the world," Bryant told the class. "But don't presume that even a positive response-like rallies when swastikas appear on doors-elim inates the problem. The worst that we are i al ways a part of who we are. We are consrantly obligated to fight again t uglines ." Bryant, who said he was humbled and touched by the recognition gi,·en to his teaching, wa appointed to the Colby English Department in 1 988 and received tenure this winter. As the final Spotlight lecturer, he joined a schedule ofspeaker that included the Rev. Bernice King, radio and TV journali t Charle Osgood and past president of Smith College J ill Ker Conway.

of the Art Department demon trated v i sual design, show ing h o w s i m ilaritie united-how people wearing s i m i lar col ors or hat were l inked, how different relationships eemed to create themselves. Professor of A merican Studies and of Engli h Charle Bassett's d iscussio of the pre entat ion of women and the ideal of the uperman in J ack London's novel The Sea Wolf revealed that even a medio cre book can stimu late d iscussion. "We set out to find what we should do to improve teach ing," said David M i l ls '5 7 , Engli h professor, director of Colby' Center for Teaching and organizer of the workshop, "and ended up say ing, 'Gee, I w ish I could do that . "' "I don't think people talk a lot about teach ing," a id Warren. "But people are w ildly curious. So the e k ind of thi ngs give us an opportunity to talk and to ee and to work through i ues, l ike how to handle the k id who dominate in a cla s, how to hook students and keep them hooked, how to move from lecture to di cu s ion. Having people to talk with is good. We had fun because the teaching wa good. It wa lively and energizing." " I t's u eful to watch omebody else go about what we all go about every day," a id Bas ett. "We don't do enough of this.

We don't talk about the craft very much . I t 's a pretty good idea." While young teachers might be ex pected to benefit by observing the ir el ders, it work the other way, too. Even though he ha been a successful class room teacher at Colby for almost 2 5 years, Bassett said, " I 've got t o learn to do more of the things the young are doing." Warren says the variety of tyles and technique in the presentation how that her daughter is in good hands at Colby. "The teaching I saw was outstanding," she said. "It was very exciting stuff."

Scent of Spring

t ometimes seems as if the now-and ice season end on Mayflower H ill in t i me for Commencement and not a minute before. Spring sports teams have grown accustomed to---but not happy about-cancell ing cheduled conte ts a they wait for the snow to recede. But this year, for the econd consecu t ive pring, the snow melted fa ter on Colby's athletic fields than anywhere el e on campus. W h i l e M i ller lawn and Pre ident' H ill tran formed from white to mud-brown at about the same rate as the rest of Waterv i lle, Colby' baseball

d iamond and !aero se pitch d i splayed heartening shades of green by late March. Thank you, M ilwaukee. And thank you, Keith S toc kford, physical plant ground and movi ng supervisor, who, for the econd straight year, bought com posted sewage sludge from the W iscons in city to dres the nowed-covered playing fields, speeding up Mother N ature's melt ing proce s. The sludge, also k now as M ilorgan ite ( "M i l " for Milwaukee and "organite" be cause it's organic ) , arrives at Colby black and powdery-not gooey. "The dark color helps absorb the heat from the un, and then the now melts," Stockford aid. "Of course, it al o helps that it' a fertil izer. I guess the people of M ilwaukee are the smart ones and de c ided to do omethi ng with their [waste] . " After M i l waukee produce t h e ew age, it is compo ted and the heat gener a t ed k il l any h a r m ful o r ga n i s m s . M ilwaukee' finest is then bagged and shipped to places in need of an earlier than-normal pring. tockford, who ays that more than a ton ofM ilorganite is needed for each play ing field, ing the prai e of the fertilizer. "La t spring Colby played the first base ball game in the tate of Maine," he aid. JUNE

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After Staging Bright Colby Careers, These Seniors Are Ready for Life off the Hill By Lynn Sullivan '89 "My Friends Think I'm Crazy" "I 've been busy since Pavlenko has played my first week at Colby," the clarinet for 1 2 years a id Laura Pavlenko '94, and performed with the "be it with the Echo, the C !by Sy mphony Or M u s i c Department or chestra since coming to w ith classes. There is al M a yflower H i l l . This ways omething going on spring she capped off her that I 'm involved in." Colby m u s i c a l c a reer Pavlenko' mo t conwith an evening perfor uming duty was as ed i mance in Lorimer Chap tor- in-chief o f The Colby el, accompanying flutist Echo, the weekly student Christina Wertheim '94 newspaper. In her first and performing a solo. month on the paper-and Clearly, though, it is at Colby- he was el j o u rn a l i s m that ha evated from taff writer to captured her fancy. Pav assistant news editor. And lenko wa a hands-on editor who didn't hesi she was hooked. tate to heap work on "I knew early on that I her elf in the cause of eventual ly wanted to be Laura Pavlenko '94 (right) campaigned for the top job at the Echo from good reporting. ed itor- i n - c h i e f, " P a v overseas . Her hard work as a hands-on editor has meant sleepless nights on "One time right be lenko said. "When I d i d deadline-and great satisfaction . fore the Echo deadline I my jun ior year abroad [at noticed that there wasn't an article about the Reverend the University of Sussex , England] I worked hard to keep in Bernice K ing com ing to Colby," Pavlenko said, recal l ing touch w ith the paper' staff so when elect ions came around in thi spring's visit by the younger daughter of the Rev. the spri ng my name would be on everyone's m ind. " Martin Luther King Jr. " I couldn't believe it. I thought it Pav lenko spent 20 t o 4 0 hours a week preparing the paper for wa important to have one , o I sat down and j ust wrote it its Wedne day printing deadline. On Tuesday nights she might myself." In March, she say , he held the paper well past get as l ittle as thr e hours' sleep or as much as six, depending on dead l ine so a story about a meeting between the Campus how smooth! y production went. When she wasn't superintend Community Comm ittee and student of color could be in ing the Echo he wa practicing the c larinet or studying. cluded in the i sue. "All my friend th ink I'm crazy ," said Pavlenko, a govern " I thought the story deserved i mmediate coverage," he ment and international studies major whose parents l ive in said. "I d idn't think it could wait until the next issue." Mo cow, where her father heads US WEST's telecommunica Pavlenko says the Echo has a ways to go in the area of tion venture in Russia and L ithuania. "Sometimes I think I ' m investigative journal ism, but he is atisfied that she's made a crazy. I ' m completely over-committed, b u t I t i l l think that I sol id contribution as editor. can do more and more."

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"I know Colby tudents are smart and able to put out a good p iece of j oumal i m every week ," she said. "Before, tudents used to pick up the Echo j ust to see how many mistakes there were. N ow 1 know that if the Echo doe n't p ick up where we left off, people w i l l notice." ln an interv iew a few weeks before graduation, Pav lenko

said she'd l ike to go to graduate school or find an "act ion-fil led" job as a joumali t. But first things fir t. "If I don't start work on J une 1 , I won't be disappointed ," she aid. "I've appl ied to journal ism chools and been Joing ome in terviews, but it' hard to comm it to looking for jobs when I have so much going on at Colby. "

No Swan Song "I'm alway trying to find a n e w w a y to g e t noticed," said think it would look o tough to have the t ight end inging the John Grady '94. nat ional anthem a cappella before the game," he aid . "After the Amher t game the coaches aid they hoped I wou ld sing at The international studies major/perform i ng art minor from the Hyde Park area of Boston had a very public college career. the Bate game, too." He sang for the Colby E ight, performed with Broadway Musi Grady spent last pring studying in Sapporo, J apan, on the i land of Hokkaido, s ite of the 1 9 7 2 Winter Olympic cal Revue, p layed for the football team for four years, was a Games. "There is really member of two student no s u b t i t u t e for t h e band and ang with the a a ctu a l e x p e r i e n c e . I cappella group Tuxedo l earned o much more J unction. than in the clas room," Grady ay he come he said. "My host family, by hi love for the l ime the M a tsumoto , were light naturally. "Everyone great. They laughed at all el e in the family i low my jokes-I used all my key and normal. Then material on them. I had there is my dad and me two younger host sisters we're pretty wacky; we who I would give ad,·ice have thi thing about per to about guys and help forming," Gradysaid. "He with their homework. I tell some of the worst j us t had a lot of fun." joke , and I recycle them Grady say he m ight in Watervi l le." 1 i ke to go back to ] apan for At last season's Home a year, but he's not p in c o m i n g foo t b a l l game ning h i mselfdown j ust yet. again t Amher t, Grady, "I think of d ifferent decked out in his footbal l thing every day," he aid. un iform , a n g the na "If I actually had my own t ional anthem with the choice I'd be an actor, but Colby E ight before kick I wonder if I 'd have the off. M i n u t e s later he gut to go to New York cored Colby' econd and be a waiter and l ive in touchdown-it wa the a tudio apartment." He's fir t time he'd ever started con idering teaching, too, in a footbal l game and John Grady '94 calls himself "wacky" and says he loves the limelight: here he and maybe a corporate the first TD of hi Colby performs with Colby's Broadway Musical Revue. posi tion. career. Two weeks later, " I ' m not real ly busines -minded, but I wouldn't tum down he sang agai n before the Bates game and then cored the fir t a j ob from Ford if they wanted me to talk to the Japanese Colby touchdown. about car . And then part of me ju t want to make it really "All along l had been nervou about approach ing Coach big," he said. [ Tom] Au tin about s inging because I thought they might not

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Self-Starter Timing is everyth i ng. J ust ask Jon Blau '94, who learned the stuff, I 've had the opportunity to contribute opin ion piece abiding business tenet while he was still in high schoo l . one on the need for a campus pub and the other on the need for "At t h e beginning o f winter a friend a n d I went around the the Heights' Community Room to ho t spontaneous parties and neighborhood contrac ting other func tions. I ' v e re o u rs e l v e s o u t , " rec a l l ed c e i v ed support for both Blau, a nat ive of Brook line, those ideas." Ma s. "Each house paid us During his j unior year, $ 7 5 and we promise<l to B l a u was p re s i d e n t of shovel their driveway ev Lovejoy Commons, repre ery t i me i t nowe d . We sent ing it to the adminis signed up 1 6 houses and it tration, organiz ing soc ial only snowed once all win events, adv ising presidents ter. I t was great. We wanted of the d ifferent residential to do it again the next win halls and dealing with bud ter, but nobo<ly wanted to gets. Blau was development sign up again." director ofColby's radio ta But an entrepreneur was t ion, WMHB, and worked born. Aftergrad uating from as a station deej ay. For two high school and com ing to years he was the manager Colby in the pring of '90, of Colby StuAds, the orga Blau tarted h is own busi n izat ion that produces ad ness, Spec ialTees on the vertisement for the Colby "I'll be psyched to graduate and gee my identity back," Jon Blau '94 says . directory and poster that h i l l , w h i c h design and "I'm known around campus as ']. B. , the T-shirt guy .'" prints T-sh irts for groups, hawk local businesses on teams and bu ine ses. SpecialTees enjoyed gross sales of over campus. The j ob kept Blau on Mayflower H i l l for two summers. $ 1 00,000 in four years and has more than 1 00 cl ients. "I loved being here for the summer, " he said. "It really is one "The T-sh irt th ing has been great, but I'm psyched to of the best t imes to be on campu . So I've had my fair share of Colby. I've been here for two summers and five years." ( A graduate and get my identity back," aid the economics maj or, February freshman, Blau took two semesters off, one t o work on who cla i ms he m inors in T-shirt . "I'm known around campus expand ing his bu ines , the other at a j ob in Boston. ) as 'J .B., the T-shirt guy . ' Nobody knows my real name." Blau said h e hope to work for a small bus iness that pro But Blau dabbled in other enterprises at Colby. For the past motes self- tarter and bel ieves in self-management, and he'd year, for instance, he served a the business manager for The l ike to continue in marketing and sales. Colby Echo. "I'm not really worried about getting a job,' Blau said, smil " It's been really nice being involved in something where I'm ing. "Ifl don't get anything I ' ll j u t start something on my own." not the boss," he said this spring. "In add it ion to all the business

Representing Hope, Craving Change Cicely Finley '94 says she i. striving to be a renaissance woman. The anthropology major from Chicago was a Ralph J . Bunche scholar, she acted i n Kendra King '94's play, Sista's, she taught aerobics for the Athletic Department and wa a member of the Colby Dancers, he wa head supervi or for the Devel opment Office's phonathon program, was president of the Col by ch.apter of the Society Organized Against Racism, served on the Campus Community Committee, worked for the offices of Annual G iv ing and Security, was a member of the pottery club and maintained a 3 . 1 0 GPA. She even practiced with the squash team over January o he could have the "team experience." "I think I 've u ed my time well," said Finley. "I d idn't want to graduate sayi ng that I wi hed I 'd done this or that." Born in Da N ang, Vietnam, in 1 9 7 2 , Finley spent the first

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three years of her life in an orphanage run by Catholic nuns before being brought to the United States and adopted by a Chicago couple. She says she grew up in a very Afrocentric household-her father ran the Chicago branch of African American Fam i ly Services, and both of her parents enjoyed travel ing in Kenya. Growing up, Finley says, she always knew she would visit Africa one day. In the spring of her sophomore year, Finley wa accepted to the Un ivers ity of Cape Town, South Africa, which she calls "one of the most progressive univers i t ie in the country, in South African terms . " Although he says her parents had their reservations, they supported her decision to spend her j unior year in the troubled nat ion. Originally intend ing to pend a year abroad, Finley returned to this country after one emester

because her father died. part of South Afric8 were "Be ing [ i n South Africa ] that' not what you ee on wa amazing and very in ter CN N . And I think it 1., im esting," aid Finley. "When portant tn rea li:e that al you are there you rea l ize j ust though every hlack ha' heen how much you don't know. lt affecteJ by apartheid, not opened my eyes to a lot of e,·ery bl ack has heen de th ings. I didn't reali:e how stroyed hy i t . " much black Americans were Fin ley ha!> applied t n law looked to a [role model ] be school anJ ro work w i th cause of how far we have come Teach for America. E\'entu since slavery. M any South ally, she say,, :ihe'd l ike tn Africans would say, 'Where pract ice in ternat ional law you are i where we want to while doing pro bono work be. ' I think I represented hope a· an imm igration lawyer. for them. ' "When I tried tn get my She says she wanted to ex passport at 1 6 , we ran into perience l ife as a b lack South problems because , desp i te African doe , so he tried to being adopted by American "I think I ' ve used my rime well , " says Cicely Finley ' 94 , picrured speak as little as possible and citizen , I wasn't one," Finley above , center, in S ista's . "l didn't want to graduate saying that I do everyth i ng he could to said. "I saw all the problems wished I 'd done this or that. " h ide her nat ional ity i n Cape that other people trying to Town: both black and white treated her d ifferently if they imm igrate to the Un ited States were having and how ·ome of knew she was from the Un ited State . their lawyers were just milki ng them. I already knew at that "The th ing we take for granted here are maj or obstacles for point that I wanted to be a lawyer, and I aw an area that black South African ," Finley aid. "Someth ing a imple as needed a true advocate." try ing clothes on in a store; at first they would be k ind of rude One day, Finley says, she would l ike to serve as a Colby and tell me how expensi ve the item was . As soon as I spoke and trustee . "Colby i a place that has area that need changing. they could hear I wa an American, their attitude changed. And wh ile I'm going out to expand my hori:ons and better They j ust assumed I had money and wouldn't [steal] anything." myself, Colby could work towards the same," she aid. " Hope There were urprises. "Cape Town is prettier than I real fully, I can come back and be an agent of change for the school. ized," Finley said. " I d idn't realize how beautiful and wealthy Change is always a good thing."

B attling Stereotypes J osette Huntress '94 i s n o standard - i sue beauty queen, and that' perfectly fine with her. "There should be no such thing as a typical beauty queen," Huntre s aid. "Since winning my first crown I 've been doing thing d i fferently. I am i n control of doing what I want when I want, and I have a reputation a an athlete. Becau-e of that people tend to see m e as not your typical Mi Maine." On a dare from a friend, Huntre s, who ha i l from Limestone, Maine, entered t h e 1 990 M iss Potato Blossom Pageant in Aroostook County and won. She went on to win the M iss Maine title in June 1 993, which took her to last fall's Mis America Pageant. Huntress turned ome head at the At lantic C i ty event. In a crowded dre ing room ful l o f pageant part icipant and official , he took the floor and demanded that everyone be called women in tead of girls.

" People tend to see me as not your typical Miss Maine , " noces scholar-athlete Josette Huntress '94 (left) . 9

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"At the pageant I was the 'feminist,' and the ' F' word is a baJ t �ne," recal led Hu ntres::.. " I n that atm(rphere it's looked upon negat ively. I have alw ay� been proud tn c a l l my::.elf a fe mi nist. I went intn the pageant becau::.e I thought I could change the �ystem better from within. I haven't always been recei ved very wel l . " De::.p ite h e r rebel image, Huntress placed among the top 1 5 at the pageant . he has u ·ed her posit ion to work toward" change. M is Maine dut ies take Huntre ·s throughout the state, where she g ives speeches and part icipates in parades, ·tore opening- and autograph �es::.ion.s. " During M i ss Maine engagements I peak of how young women ::.houldn't be treated as they've been in the pa t. Ar the pageant everyone's tap ing their tomachs and b, iob · anJ grea·ing t heir bod ies to look better. I 'd ay 99 percent of them had some sort of earing d i sorder," said Huntress, whose senior thesis is ti tled "The Femini�t Approach to Eating Di order ." Pictured in the April i::.sue of Glamour wearing jean , a baseball hat and a weatsh irt, Huntress, who is a captain of Col b y ' ba ketball and ·oftba ll teams, said, " T o a pageant judge,

physical fitness mean 'not fat.' To me it mean being able to play basketball for forty minutes without losing my breath." At Colhy, Huntress wa known as a cholar as well as an athl ete. The dean' Ii. t student majored in soc iology with a concentrat ion in women's studies. In her Female Experience in America clas. , ·he and f our classmates made a documentary fi l m about eat ing disorders, and Huntres al o was ch ief j ustice of the J ud i c i a l Board . "Being on J Board is great," she said thi spring. "l have had the advantage of being involved with things this year that have rea l ly given me a voice. I 've been able to stanJ up and speak out." A serie of concussion · sidel ined Hu ntress du ring the bas ketball season this winter, and in Apri l , while playing ult imate fri ·bee with the softball team, she broke her wrist, which took her out of action for the spring. " I 've rece i ved letter from people who think it's so cool I got two concussions during basketball," said Huntress. "With my wri t, everyone expec t that I did it curl ing my hair, but when they find out I was tack led playing frisbee, they're pretty urpri ed. But they l i ke i t . "

Mr. Determination Last spring, Hung Bu i '94 wa running a five-mile loop near campus when he suddenly felt someth ing go wrong. " [ was gasp ing for air," aid the Bartlesv i lle, Ok la., resident, who is a member of the tennis and occer teams. "l wa in the best shape of my life, 1 had been training hard, but I j u t couldn't breathe. The only thing I knew was that I was determined to fin ish the run."

The problem turned out to be a collap ed lung, and Bui confe ses that finishing the run probably wa n't the smartest thing to do. But that k ind of determ ination epitomize Bu i , who was born in aigon, Vietnam, and in 1 97 5 fled to the United States with his parents and three older brothers. (A s ister wa born a few years later in Oklahoma . ) Bu i stuttered a s a child and remembers being ridiculed by other children. "[ made a dec i ion to over come th is problem," he a id. " ! d idn't want to be teased any more. So 1 would stay up late at night reading out loud to myself, making ure I spoke slowly and that I pronounced every word right." Last November Bui won the Louise Coburn speaking contest, an all-campus speech competit ion that carrie a $ 200 prize. "My speech was about openings and c los ing and how, when one door close , it opens more door , gives you more avenues to pur sue," aid Bui, who says he hopes to work in an investment bank after graduation. "Winning was ymbol ic of overcoming [my stuttering] ." Bui ay going from Vietnam to Bartlesville (pop. 3 3 ,000) was easy, since he wa only 3 at the time. And de pite h is parent ' traditional ways, he feels more American than Viet namese. He say he espec ially appreciates the fact that h is c lo e-knit fam ily settled in the nation's heartland, because it represents those things that are important to him: family val "I've tried w get the most out of my college experience , " Hung Bui '94 says . "Colby ue , loyalty, a sen e of commitment and re gave me the opportunity , and 1 chink I ' ve given some things to make Colby better. " spect for other . And he doe n't ju t ay it, he

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lives it-after h is hospital -ray last year, Bui wrote 86 thank-you notes, one to each of his visi tors. A Ralph ] . Bunche Scholar, la t year Bui won the Kim M i l ler Memorial Award, which is g iven to "an outstand ing man from the j unior class who exempl ifies M i l ler' fine qualit ies-devo t ion to fam ily, loyalty to his college and deep and abid ing re peer for h i country." Bui say he takes the award eriou ly and feels he must l ive up to them. "Ralph Bunche was an important figure in race relation ," he aid. "I wanted to honor that award. [ wanted to have integrity. It's not j ust a grant-there i an obligat ion to honor the award. " B u i also is held i n h igh esteem b y h i peer a t Colby. After

la t spring' tenni ea on-which he had to it out as hi lung healed-he was elec ted a captain for 1 994. (A broken ankle forced him to the idel i ne aga in th i pri ng. ) In his fi nal oc cer ea on he cored five goal and helped the team to a 1 6- 1 - 1 record and the ECAC title. Bui maintain a ) .02 G PA and, in add i t ion to hi athletic comm itments, er\'e· on the Campu Community Comm i ttee, which he helped found two year ago. "I've tried to get the most out of my col lege experience," he sa id. " 1 wanted to grow-mentally and physically. [ 'm more mature, more independent. Colby gave me the opport u11 1 ty , and I think I\·e gi \·en some th ing to make Colby better."

Opting for Happiness Early i n h i s Colby career, Zach CPU I M won the Best Engi Geisz '94 wa think ing about ma neerino Software A ward la t fa ll joring in computer c ience or per from EDUCOM, a consort ium of forming arts. 600 colleges and un iver ities that "It wa really a choice between promote the u -e of computer financ ial ecurity and happines ," technology in the c las room. Gei z aid, explaining h is dec iIn the fall of hi j unior year ion to go with performing art . Gei : - igned up for the Colby in "I've ended up opt i ng for happ i London performing arts program, ness, and I 'm pretty sure I've made which, he says, reinforced his love the right decision." for the theater. The following Last February, Promenade, a ummer he interned at the The play Ge isz wrote, ran for three ater at Monmouth in Monmouth, night at Colby' Strider Theater. Maine, where he worked beh ind "With Promenade I accompl i hed the scene , learn ing such craft as what I set out to do-write a full l ighting and set de ign. length play that I wa proud of," " ! rea l ly enjoy the technical he aid. The p lay wa loo ely [aspect ] of theater," he aid. " I 've based on h is parents' l ives in learned that techn ical theater can Brooklyn, N .Y . , and written for be ju t a beautifu l as acting and the e ight graduating performing ju t a reward ing." art major . "I also wrote a full Gei z al o was a four- year length play that I'm not so proud member of the Colby College of that I don't want anyone to ee. Chorale and pent h i ophomore That play d idn't make it any far year a a res ident a si tant i n ther than Micro oft Word . " Coburn r e idence h a l l . H e was Gei z wrote h i fir t p lay, The "I haven't made a difference w others Like some of my guest conducter for the chora le's Pearly Gates Association, in eighth classmates , " Zach Geisz ' 94 says . "But I ' ve made a difference fall performance of "He Watch grade, and he acted throughout ing Over I sra e l " fro m Fe l i x co myself. " Mendel ohn's Elijah. hi four year at Staple H igh School in Westport, Conn. ( He now lives in Berwyn, Pa. ) Geisz w i l l begin the hunt for a full-time job after working thi summer at the Theater on the Pond in Embden, Maine, Gei z acted i n a number of theater product ions during h is with five other Colby students_ In eptember he plan to marry first and econd year at Colby while also pursuing a l ifelong Karyl Brewster '93 , who works and l ive out ide of Boston. intere t in computers. In the u mmer of 1 99 2 Geisz wa a " [My Colby career] hasn't been anythi ng earth- hattering. research as istant for Dale Skrien, a ociate profes or and chair I haven't made a difference to others like ome of my c lass of the Mathematics and Computer Science Department. To mate ," aid Ge isz. "But I 've made a d i fference to myself, and gether they worked on a computer program called CPU S I M , I'm proud of my act i ng." which lets student de i g n a n d run computer imulations.

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r.I�s-ter ��h j b1-t1o...s-ts B Y S E L B Y F RAM E

n the world L)f fin � art , Colby

art, dec iding ho

"You fine! that d ifferent spaces sug

Col lege M useum

he, t draw vi ewers into an exh ibi tion

ge t a d ifferent instal lation," Gourley

Art Direc

order paint ings

tor H ugh Gourley is l i k e a seasoned

and creating a flow among work who e

said. The Colby museum is fortunate to

c n n c i erge-d iscreet, knowledgeable

connectiom may not always be olwiou .

have such varied wall space, he says,

and eager to make gue -ts feel at home .

Gourley hi mself i

more modest.

ince the different gallery interiors lend

" I t ' s a lor of inst inc t , " he ·aid, pac ing

a sen e of di covery to many show . The

and Maurice Prendergasts and Camille

the floor of the Davis G a l lery, where

viewer is led from the airy openne

Pissarros and Fairfield Porters. Paint ings

the J oan W h i tney Payson Cc l lection

the Dav is Gal lery into the modern ,

The guests, of course, are Renoirs

by some of the world'· most important

wa· hang i ng for i t · second Colby exhi

wh itewashed Jette Gallerie with the ir

art ists have found the ir w<iy

bit ion. " I t ' s l ike picking the right word .

surprise stairc ase lead ing to exh ibit

the wall

of the Dav is and Jette galleries, where

lt happens to be part of your vocabu

Gourley has pre ided si nce 1 966, devel

lary . A fisherman know the right ba it

op ing a col lec tion of remarkable quality.

t u e . A gardener k n JW · the right o i ls

While acquisit ions are a v i tal part of hi

contri but i on-the m useum now

for h i s plants. This happen

be art.

You fi ne-tune those interests . "

pace below. Exh ibit ions begin with pack ingcrates. Lots of them. Greg Will iam , Colby' mu eum preparator, carefully unpacks the paintings, then l ine them again t the

contai ns about 3,000 p ieces-Gourley's

Exhibit ions, whether they are cre

wall of the gallery. He is aided by Lynn

fine eye often re,·eals i tself in a more

ated in house or i mported from other

Mar den-Atlas , the third member of the

invisible aesthetic. lt show in the way

museum · , rarely arri ve w i th a rigid trat

museum' curatorial trio. They contem

each painting hangs on the gal lery wal ls.

egy. The ir p lacement i s at the d iscre

plate the works, ometime for days.

Artist and curators alike say Gourley

tion of the museum d i rec tor and is

"Eventually, the paintings tell you

ha an almost magical gift for "under

influenced by the ambi ance and arc h i

where to put them," aid W i l l iams. "Of

stand i ng sympath ies" among works of

tecture o f t h e gal lery.

ten, I w i l l arrange a row , then H ugh w i l l

Exhibitions begi.n with packing crates . Preparator Greg Williams (at left in first photo) unpacks the paintings , then lines them up against the gallery walls , aided by museum assistant director Lynn Marsden-A ti.ass (at right in third C O L B Y

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come in and say, ' Th i over there . ' And,

I nstead, says W i l l i ams, the Payson

The bright red and greens of the pastor

yes, that' i t ! The theme creates i tse lf.

exhibition was designed around a subtle

a l painting easily p i l l toge ther. But

H ugh i the u l t imate ma ter."

v i su a l aesthetic that encompa se

But i n a show such as the Payson

all

the works: "It' a matter of the ize of

beyond color, their j uxtapo irion serve as a subversive bi r of art h istory: Prender

Collection, which draws i ts themes from

painting , the color, the way the color

gast, though an A merican and nor a o

the taste

work, merge, get darker." His hand

c iared w i th French I mpres ionist arr,

of it

collector, finding a

u ni fying thread c an be difficult. The

sweep the gallery, where bright l ight

was greatly influenced by the arri t .

col lect ion , featuring 2 6 l mpres5ionist

dapple

oftly on the wall . "In the

" He is one of the artists who really

and Post-I mpre ionist work , span two

cen ter there is more l i ght; i t's not

under toad I mpre , ion i m , o the three

centuries. It inc lude arti t as d i sparate

we ighted by darker p i c ture ."

works make ense together," Gourley

as J oshua Reynold and Marc Chagall.

I ndeed, there is an alma t mu ical

o, where did the ma ter begin ? "You

rhythm to the way the paintings are

pick the painting to begin the show,

eventually hung. One large pa inting,

The i nstallat ion o f t h e Payson Col

then you work from there," Gourley said.

uch as Chaga l l's The Goat and rhe Flow

lection is d ifferent from most others in

"You want something on the far wall

ers, is framed by two mailer canva es,

that i t returns to the mu eum for one

that will pull a person into the gal ery,

both by Albert Marquet. I t ' a pattern

seme ter every two years. That makes it

that repeat i t elf across three wall .

rather l i ke a vi i r ing raj a who regularly

omething that will attract attent io ." ormally, say Gourley, Monet' Le

Central ly hung on the far wal l is

Printemps a Argemeuil, a breathtaking

Renoir' lu h Confidences. I t

landscape, would be a magnet for the

by Maurice Prendergast' Rhododen drons , Boston Public Gardens , 1 899 and A lfred Sisley's Moret-sur-Loing, 1 875 .

exhibition. But that painting i on loan in Japan.

framed

aid. " I t's the way an A merican reac re<l to French I mpre ioni m . "

vacations at Gourley' hotel. How can he make each v isit memorable ? Th i t i me around, the museum taff painted the gallery walls a oft, brown color "to creare a different, more inti-

photo) . With director Hugh Gourley (at right in firn photo) , they study the works , sometimes for da)'S , to decide how to arrange them for the final exhibit (fourth photo) . 13

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a t the museum. A n estimated 7 ,000 M a ine children visi ted Colby to see the collect ion. The museum recru ited more docents and arranged for them

have training in art h istory and teachi ng techÂ

nique . Th i year, docents have begun monthly d i c usÂ sion groups to enhance their knowledge of individual arti ts. Each has done extensive re earch on an artist whose work i

in the museum' permanent collection,

and they hare their di coverie with the group. To reach young chi ldren vi iting the mu eum for the first time, docents "find some small key that humanizes the arti t and makes him or her more under tandable," a id coord inator A l ice Fitzgerald. "With a Maine arti t, we can tel l them: 'They come from Maine, ju t a you do. "' Teenager are more of a chal lenge. About 20 year ago, Bonnie B ishop dropped out of a

Bi hop remember a group of teen from M i lo, Maine,

hectic l ife a a N e w York art d irector to find refuge in the

who came to view the Pay on Col lection and work in the

Maine woods. But, though she was nourished by the

mu eum'

permanent collection. "A cou p le of the boy

came up to me and aid, 'You got any nude i n this mu-

ol itude i n her Cornvi lle, M a ine, home, she began to mi

eum ?'" B i hop recalled. "I aid, 'Yes, we do' and left it at

some of the c i ty p izzazz he'd left behind.

that. When we got downstairs, there' a huge nude by

"I needed to have some connect ion to art again," Bishop

Perlstein. I thought, 'Okay, thi i i t . '

said. "The Colby mu eum wa the fir t place I di covered.

"I said: 'Some o fy o u a ked if there are nude . W e d o have

A nd it's still a central place for me."

ome. ' And I explained to them how a nude i u ed in art,

B ishop eventually re u med her work a a graphic deigner and erved as Colby' director of publicat ions for

l i ke a landscape or a t i l l life. There wa a lot of giggling at

e ight years. This year, she joined a group of ome 2 5

fir t, and I aid, 'If you're intere ted in art , we'll have to get

docent at t h e Colby Col lege M u e u m o f A r t w h o give

over your embarra sment.' So we talked about how i t wa

week ly gallery tour to groups of vi i t i ng choolch ildren.

painted, the mood, the regular thing you would talk about in any canvas. And they relaxed and opened up. They were

Many, he ays, "have never been inside a museum before

full of question .

in their l ive . They're all so enthusiastic. You feel l ike you've

"The only difference," Bi hop said, eye

rea l ly opened their eyes to something new."

parkling, "i

that I u ually have so much trouble keeping them away from

The museum' Docent Program has been i n p lace for well over a decade bur wa expanded greatly in 1 992 when

the pa inti ng . When we were looking at that nude, they

the J oan Whi tney Payson Collection began i ts fir t exhibit

were all at lea t twelve feet away."

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mate effect," G ou rley said. I n future year , h e - a y , t h e p a i n t

h a ,·e fi y e d i fferent people

"I think all people look

h a ng a how and yuu'J end up

i ngs may h a n g in t h e contem porary

e t t i ng of the J e tte

G a l leries: "There'- nothing

\\' t th fi ,·e different e x h t h i tion -. All l)f them could he

at paintings differently .

quite good . l tr)

binding i n where we have to hang it. The col lection it elf doe n't change-it' 26 work · and that'

the artist

I try to see what the

tion a different fee l . " Other exhibition

tion o f the artbt

greater contemplat ion of bal

artist is trying to do . You

r e t ro s p e c t i v e o f w o r k

hang a t the College from J ul y

ee \\'hat

intent that

Gourley mo t hope

try to put yourself in the

to · rudent

to pass on

in the College's

Art Department. Wi th rhar i n mind, he opened up the

position of the artist to see

storage rooms of the mu eum'

Fairfi e ld Porter, for example. The c o l l e c t i o n , which w i l l

do. You

I t i this abi l i ty to connect

ance. Colby is the next to l a t top for a national ly acc laimed

�ee what

their approach is." with the arti t'

requ ire

tn· i ng

try to put yourself in the ros 1 -

it. The gallerie ,

though, can lend the collec

1·

permanent col lect ion to

what their approach is . "

group of tudent from the A rr Department over the winter.

2 0 to September 2 1 , i nc lude

"Working with art in truc-

both land cape and portraits.

tors David Simon and M ichael

"Scale will be very importan t , " Gourley

I t's a rep whose importance ro the

aid, eye i ng a heet of transparencie of

a r t i t i s not to be underest imated.

mester i n paintings, in storage, electing

em by the originating

Gourley' di crim inating eye i widely

work of art for an exhibition, writing

m useum. "You wou ldn' t want to have a

acknowledged as among the best i n aca

catalogues," Gourley aid, beaming. The

painting of a l i fe - i:e figure next to a

demic mu eums today. It i one rea on,

show, t itled Juxtapositions, contra t and

foot-h igh land cape. To have that i

ays arti t A lex Karz, that he chose ro

compare work of art from the permanent

j arring. You want i nstallation to have a

make the Colby museum a repo i rory for

certain flow, o that a visitor can move

4 1 4 of h is works .

Porter' work

from one [work] to another w i thout be i ng real ly topped. "

collect ion. "It i real ly great to dec ide what you

"He's a profe s ional , a n d h e know what he'

Marla is, the rudents worked all la t se

doing,"

aid Katz, who an

want i n an exhibition," Gourley said, t il t i ng his head to look a t Reynolds's

From t h e a r t i t ' s perspective, exhibi

nounced i n 1 99 2 that he planned to

Portrait of the Lady Elizabeth at Somerset

t ion de ign is alma t a second c reation.

donate the work to Colby. "H ugh ha a

and a t Robinetta, o n v iew a part of the

I t is the fir t word i n an interpre t i ve

lot of experience and i

d i a logue that begins when the paintings

what he doe . "

leave the studio. Some arti t i nsist on

very good at

Pay o n Collection. The c h i ld portrait give the e ntrance to the Davi G a llery a

The fine art of exhibition de ign take

bright, alma t comical outline. "I hate

arranging work them e lve , though mo t

on deeper d i mensions when Gourley or

u i ng the word 'creative,' but i t i s won

are content to l eave it to omeone of

ganize a how from cratch, as he did in

derful to be able to put painting next to

1 990 w i th a hugely succes ful exhibi t ion

each other i n a gal lery and let ideas

Gourley'

k i l l. And Gourley ay he is

aware of the d e l icacy of the task. " I th ink for mo t arti t there are two teps," he aid. 'There i the c reatio n of

of works by W i llard W . Cumm i ng , co founder of the

kowhegan

c hool of

Painting and Sculpture. Gourley wa

the work i t elf. A nd then it's the sharing

able to draw on hi personal k nowledge

with an audience. The c reation of the

of the arti t ro c reate a thoughtful vi ual

work i very much omething the arri t doe

in i olation. The econd part in

volve people."

ugge t them elve to you." He smiled. "It' l ike p laying."

urvey of h i work. "

I think a l l people look at painting

differently," Gourley a id . "You could

Selby Frame , a features writer for the Port land Pres Herald and M aine u nday Telegra m , has written widely about the ans in Maine.

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Caleb Cooks '93 , director of the Tolerance on Campus program .

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Saa r i , an a s p i r i n g f i l m m a ke r s i nce h i g h school who chose C o l by ove r a C a l ifo r n i a u n iversity beca use he wa nted a stro n g l i beral a rt s e d u ca t i o n , says the To l e ra nce p rog ra m h a s g iven him the opport u n i ty to fol low both head and h e a rt . And, h e says, h e ' s become m o re knowledgeable about the i s s u e s the p ro g ra m wa s d e s i g n e d to a d d re s s . " O r i g i n a l ly, " Saari s a i d , " I s a w t h i s a s a f i l m oppo rt u n ity . Then I lea rned about the J a n P l a n a nd t o o k t h a t a s a n opport u n i ty to b o t h c reate f i l m s a n d l e a r n a b o u t a n d i n itiate tolera n ce . "

The Dream Lives On is a bout an I ta l i a n American g rowi n g up in a state-l i ke Saa r i ' s native Monta na-that does n 't o b s e rve M a rt i n Luther K i n g J r. 's b i rthday. The p rota g o n i st, Tony, i s ta ught about the s i g n if i ca nce of the K i n g hol iday by an Africa n-American e m p l oyee at h i s father's g a ra g e . " To n y ' s been s u rro u nded b y b l i n d ra c i s m , b l i nd m i s u n d e rsta nd i n g , a l l h i s l ife. T h a t ' s a l l he knows , " Saa ri s a i d . " To m a ke t h i s f i l m I had t o learn a b o u t the w a y peopl e l i ke Tony t h i n k . A l o t o f t i m e s I c a n ' t re late, but n o w I u nd e rsta n d , beca use I 've had to m a ke them real people or the a u d ience wo n ' t b e l ieve in the m . " B efo re h e wrote h i s script for Seven Days o fJus tice, Alex C h i n i nterviewed severa l a l u m n i involved i n the chapel sit-i n . " That opened my eyes . " he sa i d . " An d I t h i n k my film will open othe r people ' s eyes . . . . [W) hen you l earn about somet h i n g l i ke [the ta keover ) . the idea of tolerance does r u n through yo u r mind. I t ' s you r m a i n g oa l . " Cooks, too, t h i n ks the resea rch i nvolved in ma k i n g movies has c h a n g ed the student f i l m makers. C h i n , he said, " i s not o n ly conq u e r i n g a level of u nd e rsta n d i n g of what it was l i k e to be black a n d i n the chapel at that time, he's t ra nsce n d i ng h i m self. beco m i n g a m o re e m pathetic i nd iv i d u a l . " M a r k Ta p pa n , who co-d i rects Colby's progra m i n e d u cation a n d h u m a n deve lopment, says it's n o wonder the To l e ra nce program h a s had

" To n y 's been s u rrou n d e d by

d e n ts i nvolved . " Raising these

issues

havi n g t h e students take the extre mely powerf u l , e spe足

b l i n d ra c i s m , b l i n d m i s u n d e rsta n d i n g , a l l h i s l ife, " Saa ri sa i d . " Th a t 's a l l h e kn ows .

Associate Professor of Art

p rogra m ' s main stre ngths i s ways written papers, " M ead足 stre ngths a nd g reat wea k-

lead i n generating stories, is cially in engendering d ia logue, "

i s r i g ht i n

line with c u rrent

learni ng . "

theories a b o u t experiential

of the project ' s facu lty spon足

from the students' perspective,

t e l l s t u d e nts i n my classes

Ta ppan s a i d . " That's what I w h o want to be teachers. I t

a profo u n d i m pact on the stu-

To m a ke t h i s f i l m I h a d to l e a r n a bo ut the way peop l e l i ke To ny t h i n k . "

Abbott M eader serves a s one sors. H e says that one of the its visibil i ty . " Students have al足 er sa id. " The papers have great nesses a nd professors com-

ment o n those, b ut students don't read them to the ca mpus on loudspeakers. These films a re full of boo-boos, too. but they g et screened. H u n d reds of people show up. You learn from that. It's g reat to have students' work see n . " The scre e n i n g s m a ke the Tolera nce p roject u n iq u e-it is i ntended to have an i m pa ct on the ent i re campus, not j u st o n the few dozen students work i n g on f i l m s . Apri l ' s festival i n c l u ded a post-scree n i n g pa nel discussion a mong

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Cooks ( with

camera) ac work on Per Saaii '97's film The Drc<1m Lives On.

a u d i e n ce and f i l m m a ke rs, and t h e movies a re ava i l a b l e for use i n cla sses and in M i l l e r L i b ra ry . C o o ks says the effect i s pote n t i a l l y " tre m e n d o u s . " " Th i s w i l l h i t t h e m , " h e s a i d , refe rri n g to h i s m o v i e , The Assimilator. T h e story revolves a ro u n d S ha d e , p l ayed by M ic h a e l T . M i l l e r '95, w h o h a s g rown u p i n a la rge c i ty s u rrou nded exc l u s ively by Afr i c a n Ame rica n s . As boys, S h ade and his best f r i e n d , M a rs h a l l , make a pact to attend M o re h o use C o l l e g e , a l a rgely b la c k i n s t i t u t i o n and the a l ma mater of M a rt i n L u t h e r K i n g J r . M a rs h a l l opts f o r C o l byesq u e " C o l d s o n C o l l eg e " i n stea d , expla i n i n g that h e w a n t s to l e a r n a b o u t major ity c u lt u re so h e can f u n ct i o n i n l a rg e r society . S hade f o l l ows h i m . k i c k i n g a n d s c rea m i n g a l l t h e way. Dete r m i n e d n o t t o " sell o u t " t h e way h e t h i n ks other m i n o ri ty students have, Shade i s a t f i rst l o n e l y and b i tt e r . B ut h i s w h i te , m a y b e gay r o o m m a t e tea c h e s h i m s o m et h i n g a bo u t stereotype s ; a w o m a n f r i e n d w h o h a s b e e n r a p e d t o n e s d o w n h i s m a c h i s m o ; a n d h e i s h a u nted b y a myst e r i o u s c h a racter n a med S h ad ow, w h o wa ltzes h i m t o a local cemet e ry to s h ow h i m t h a t h e ca n b u ry some o l d attitudes w h i l e rema i n i n g f a i t h f u l to h i s backg r o u n d a n d va l ue s . " I f n o t h i n g e l se , p e o p l e w i l l l o o k a t t h i s f i l m a n d say, ' T h i s i s M i c h a e l T . M i l l e r o n s c ree n . D o e s M i c h a e l T . M i l l e r f e e l l i ke S hade ? "' C o o k s sa i d . " As fa r a s t h e s t u d e n t s ' f i l m s a re c o n c e r n e d , i t c o m e s d o w n t o t h e majo rity ' s r o l e i n l ea r n i n g a bo u t t h e m i n o rity o n t h e m a rg i n . C o m i n g u p w i t h a story of what i t ' s l i ke t o l ive a day i n t h e l ife of t h a t other p e rs o n , that's tolerance. that's u nd e rsta n d i ng . This i s media that's doing t h e right t h i n g , s e n d i n g t h e r i g h t message . "

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Cooks was rea red i n N ew York, Atla nta a n d Wa sh i n gto n , D . C . , and tran sferred to C o l by f rom H owa rd U n iversity as a j u n i o r . He says l ife o n M ayflower H i l l ta u g ht h i m t h e va l u e o f d i vers i ty f i rst h a n d . " N o n-majo rity i n d i v i d u a l s who c o m e to C o l by really h ave to be w i l l i n g to learn about majority c u l t u re. " he s a i d . " I f th ey come h e re t h i n k i ng eve ry t h i n g is g o i ng to be l i ke it was back h o m e . we l l , t h a t ' s n ot g o i n g to h a p pe n . The m e s s a g e S hade del ivers i s t h a t h e made t h e r i g h t d e c i s i o n co m i n g t o C o l d s o n . He c h a n g e d . He learned about a n other c u l t u re. b u t h e k n ows h e ca n ' t let go of w h e re h e c o m e s fro m . That ' s t h e message t h a t needs t o go o u t t o every student in the c o u ntry c o n s i d e r i n g com i ng to a co l l ege l i ke C o l by . Every student, n ot j u st m e m bers of m i n o r i t i e s . " Cooks has earned h i g h p ra ise for h i s overs i g h t of the To l e ra nce p rogra m . Tappa n ca l l s h i m "a rema rk-

Luwaun Curry '97 (left) , A . Hardin Gray '94 and Doug Morrione '93 work on the sound track for The A imilaror.

able you n g ma n with the a b i l i ty to m a ke C o l by h i s home and make a n i m pact, " and the students worki n g o n the p roject cred i t him w i t h making i t a n exciti n g a n d thoug ht-prov o k i n g experience. " The J a n P l a n was one of the best cou rses I ' ve had at C o l by, " said topnotch g uest l ectu rers Cooks speak to t h e class. Cooks says he hopes h i s f i l ms To l e ra n ce p roject-have l ife o ut

Sa a r i , descri b i n g t h e parade of

" We ' re a l l l ea rn i n g a bo u t each oth e r, " Coo ks s a i d o f h is e n s e m b l e . " T h e

t i o n . At a meeti ng t h i s month of t h e 1 1 part i c i pa t i n g i n st i t u t i o n s , f i l m s be d i stri b uted to e a c h cam be f o u n d e d so t h e d i rectors ca n i n g a bo u t a n other f i l m festiva l for hopes to s h oot a la rger-b u dget

recru ited f rom Colby's facu lty to

a n d the ones that come out of t h e side t h e M i l l e r L i b ra ry v i deo co l l ec To lerance p rogra m d i rectors f rom

d ivers ity i s t h e re . T h e c o m pa ny i s foste ri n g t h e p o i n t of t h i s p rog ra m . "

h e plans to s u g gest that all of the p u s and that a monthly n ewsl ette r s h a re i ns ig ht s . He a l ready is ta l k next s p r i n g . After that, he says, he movie ( h e ' s wo r k i n g on a script

a bo u t i n n e r-city v i o l e nce as told from t h e poi nt of view of a pa i r of 1 3-year-o l d f r i e n d s . one Africa n America n , the other J e w i s h ) a nd atte n d f i l m school in N ew York o r Ca l i forn i a . " M y f i l m s , " Cooks s a i d , " a re g e a red towa rd a coll ective u nd ersta n d i n g o f w h e re w e a re as a h u ma n race a n d w h e re we wa n t t o g o . A n d t h a t ' s t h e p o i n t o f t h e To l e ra nce p roject, too. T h e f i l m s a re n ' t a b o u t ma k i n g one g ro u p feel g u i l ty, feel l i ke t h e a ntag o n i sts. I t ' s more: what a re we d o i n g to o u rse lves ? "

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Diamond Chair Is Colby's Latest J ewel - By Sally Baker-

en poised above paper, a n inter ter for lunch one winter day. Diamond v iewer a ked Robert E. D iamond says Cotter's overtures on behalf of the Jr. '74 what made h i m dec ide to College came at j ust the right time. give an endowed chair to Colby. "One of the few critici ms I had of "President Cotter told me I had to , " Colby is that they tended to lose touch Diamond said. w i th people," Diamond said . " I think I The i n terviewer laughed. was not unusual in that I went a good "That's the truth," D iamond insisted, fifteen year with very l ittle contac t with though he, too, was laugh ing. And in the Col lege . That meet ing really regen some ways i t is as s imple as that. erated my in terest in becoming involved D iamond established the Robert E. with Colby. " D iamond Cha ir in the Humani tie for several reason . As the foundation for his generosity, he l ists the education he re ceived at Colby, the value he places on the l iberal art , h i cognizance-gained from expe rience as a College overseer and now a trustee-of Colby's ur gent need to build i ts endow ment, as well as the regard he ha for B i l l Cotter. "The word that comes to mind when I think of Pre ident Cotter is ' leadership,"' Diamond said. "Whether it's a dec i ion I was adamantly opposed to, such as the decision [to ban] fraterni ties, or one that 1 support comRobert E . Diamond Jr. ' 74 pletely, I 've found him to exhibit great leadership sk i l ls. He has the abi li ty to draw people together who Diamond accepted an appointment as an overseer in 1 990 and served on the care about a decision, getting them invalved in the process. Bill' leadersl-cip in overseer ' comm ittee that evaluated the Economic Departmen t, squeezing two the higher education community at large i very well recognized. Above all, he has campus v i i t into h i busy international travel schedule. He says those trips ce a passion to make Colby the highe t-qual mented h is h igh opin ion of Cotter and ity institution that it can be." the Col lege faculty, and he came away Diamond, now vice chairman and head from the experience eager to become of global fixed income and foreign ex more involved w i th Colby and to j o i n the change busine s at CS First Boston, met Cotter in London four years ago. Diamond Board ofTrustees if an opportunity arose. He moved to Tokyo, as a member of was based i n the British capital as a Mor the executive board and head of Pacific gan Stanley managing d irector, and Cot ter was on a half-year sabbatical to tudy operations for CS First Bo ton, in 1 992, a pects of Engli h law. Diamond and h is ant icipating a tay of three to five year . But ju t 1 5 months later, at age 4 1 , he wa wife, J ennifer, joined B i l l and Linda Cot-

promoted to his pre ent posit ion. He and Jennifer and their three chi lJren, Robert I l l , Nell and Charle·, returneJ to the Un ited States, and Colby sei:ed the opportunity to offer D iamond a trus tee appo intment last October: he now erves on the Campen ation, Campaign Steering, I nvestment, Ed ucational Pol icy and Physical Plant committee . "I feel that initially I'm gett ing a lot more ou t of i t than the College is," Dia mond aid. "There are area-, such a investment, where I can help early on because I have ome specific knowledge. There are other areas, such a educa t ional pol icy, where I'm Ii ten i ng and learning. I see this as a long process of im·olvement and hope, down the road, that this he lp me contribute more." A regular supporter of the A lumni Fund, Diamond al o c o n t r i b u t e d to the L u n d e r H o u e building proj ect before endowing the $ 1 . 1 -m il lion hu manit ies professorship. Lunder House's Robert E. D iamond Interview Room i named for h is father, as, in part, is the new professorship. " M y fat h e r was w i th o u t doubt t h e most important figure in my l ife and was a true educator and trong sup porter of the humanities," Diamond said. "One of the wonderful thing about nam ing this the Robert E. Diamond chair is that i t span three generations: my father, myself and my son." Diamond calls Colby's ix-fold increa e in endowed chair -from three in 1 989 to 18 today-" incredible ," and he lauds Cotter for focusing on this area of fund raising, a long with the effort to increase Colby's endowment, in the upcomi ng capi tal campaign. "We pride ourselves on hav i ng the be t possible facu lty, and having only

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three endowed chairs was a major im ped i ment , " he said . "M any peer institu t ions have twenty to th irty cha irs. On this issue, and on the endow ment, a suc ces ful campaign will help us continue to grow and to provide a stimu lating and challenging environment that reflects our world today and tomorrow. I'm honored to be playing even a small part in shaping the future of Colby. We have looked , we have sa id, 'These are the maj or is ue fac ing the College,' and we are addres ing them in a very posit ive manner."

Counting on Donors

he pri mary emphasi of Colby's cap ital campaign, lated for kickoff in the fa ll, is to build the College endow ment. The tepped-up effort to raise endowment funds, mainly with gifts of $ 2 5 ,000 or more, may leave some alumni wondering ju t how important their continu ing support of the Alumni Fund w i l l be-thi year and in the years to come. The answer is simple: Alumni Fund gifts are critical. Nearly 95 per cent of the don.ors to the campaign w i ll be giv ing through the fund. Each year, the Alumni Fund rep resents a s ignificant segment of the College's budget. "I meet with the treasurer twice a year," said fund d i rector Pamela Alexander, "once in December, when he's work ing out his five-year income project ions, and aga in in J u ne, when I tell him how m uch money the Alumni Fund has ra ised. The trustees work his projections into their budget plansif we don't raise enough , cutbacks have to be made." I n addi t ion, a college's alumni giv ing rate is one of the key criteria on which it is ranked by such organizations as U . S . News & World Report ( publ ishers o f the h ighly influential annual report "Am erica's Best Colleges" ) . H igher national rankings help col leges attract the be t students and faculty member , which is of ever-increasing importance in "baby bust" years, when the nationw ide college ap pl icant pool shrinks. Foundat ion also look at alumni partic ipation when con s idering grant appl ications. Colby's part icipation rate lags behi nd many of i ts competi tors'- i n c l u d i n g

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Bowd o i n , W i l l i a m s , A m h e r s t and M iddlebury. Colby's giv ing rate is 42 per cent, compared to well above 50 percent for the others ( Amherst, the top l iberal arts col lege in the nat ion accord ing to U . S . News, had a whopping 62 percent giv ing rate la 't year ) . What accounts for Colby's showing? Many factors contribute, A lexander says, inc luding the Co llege's cla s sizes, i ts trad i t ion of coeducation and it cher ished prac tice of admitt ing students re gardless of abi l i ty to pay . H istorically, Colby has adm i tted more students per c la s than most of i ts peer in t itu t ion , o even though a large number of Colby alumni donate money to the Alumni Fund ( nearly 7 ,000 last year ) , the per centage they represent is lower than other

"It's not fluff. Colby needs this money to operate . And each new gift adds a donor to the rolls. "

colleges' . Mo t of Colby' competitors were all-ma le for mo t of the ir h istorie , and stud ies have shown that single- ex colleges are more successful, across the board, in nurturing alumni loyalty-and alumni giv ing. Many alumni think their gift won't matter. "They say, 'Look, I can't give a big gift. I can't give $ 1 ,000," Alexander said. "And we need to tell them ome thing that sounds like a c l iche: every gift counts. I t's not fluff. Colby needs this money to operate. And, of course, each gift, regardless of rhe amount, add a new donor to the rolls." A lexander says the Alumni Fund's capi ta l c ampaign goals are to raise $ 1 2

m i l l ion and to ach ieve a 5 0 percent par t ic ipat ion rate, and her office is taking several measures to ensure succes . They are targeting Colby's 20 young est classes for increased fund-rai ing ef forts by sign ing on mult iple class agents the total number of agents will rise to 2 50, up from 60 j ust two years ago. With the help of trustee donors, they are establish ing a campaign donor challenge that will draw on a pool of funds to match every contribution from new donors with a $ 1 00 gift. Alumni who have given to the fund over the years also will be part of the chal lenge: when each year's partic ipation target are met, an additional $ I 00,000 will be drawn from the challenge pool. The Office of Alumni Relations is col laborating with the Dean of Students Of fice to build more of a sense of class unity and identity whi le student are till on Mayflower Hill. And the annual giv ing staff i fine-tuning the Senior Pledge program, begun in 1 98 5 at the suggestion of then Alumni Fund head David Marson '48, wh ich has resulted in high par t i c i pat ion among young al umni c la e . Alexander says the work of vol unteer fund raisers-mo tly c las agent -wi l l make or break the ef fort. "Alumni l ike contact with classmates," she said. "A dedicated, very attentive clas agent make for good participation rates." She points to some h igh achievers: the Class of '4 1 , thanks to c lass agent J ane Ru sell Abbott, recorded a 70 per cent part ic ipation rate last year; ' 5 1 agent Ernest Fortin is a iming for 60 percent this year after moving hi class from 43 percent to an all- time h igh of 5 0 percent in h is first year a s c las agent; and Kaye Monaghan Corey' Classof'43 came in at an astounding 83 percent part ic ipa t ion rate in its 50th reunion gift. "The work is very, very labor inten sive. I ts hard . Sometimes volunteers th ink they are exploiting friendships by ask i ng c l assmates for money," Alex ander said. "But they do understand that building a trong donor base is as critical to Colby's future as build i ng the endowment. M any maj or gift donor started supporting Colby with fifty- and + one hundred-dollar gifts. "

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Remembering

"Soger Boy"

- By Betty Anne Royal Spiegel '42 ((

saw a rebel flag the other day. "

V irginia mud. We learn of h is stay in an

Jennie if Edd wanted to enl ist . "He had

S o wrote Private W i l l iam Lamson

A lexandria hospi tal and h is difficulty in

better not if he does want to," he said.

i n a C iv i l War letter dated Octo

finding writ i ng materials such as paper

Lamson sent his father a letter on J u ly

ber 5, 1 86 2 , to his sister, Jennie, back in

and stamps (some of his paper was taken

6, 1 863 , following the battle at Gettys

his hometown of rural Sebec, Maine.

from a hastily abandoned "Reb" encamp

burg, where the 20th M a i ne under Joshua

Lamson was 18 years old and a volunteer

ment at Gettysburg ) . There are abun

Lawrence Chamberlain won an unl ikely

i n the famed 20th Maine I nfantry. Writ

dant references to h is meals-and to

victory i n the defense of Little Round

ing from Sharpsburg, Md., near Antietam

non-meals. One entry reads: "I forget

Top. "The field was covered with dead

Creek, Lamson was destined

horses and men, " he wrote.

to participate in some of the

" I n two places there were

war's most dec isive battles.

three rebels on a space of 1 2

Maine to the Wilderness

feet, and i n one place, 1 7

( Pu b l isher's Press, I nc . 1 99 3 )

hor es lay alma t touching

i s a collection o f almost 4 0 of

each other. In a burned barn

Lamson's letters, all but three written to h is sister, Martha J ane Haven "J ennie" Lam on.

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Edi ted by m i l i tary h istorian

were the re m a i ns of five

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wounded rebels nearly a l l

�

awfu l . " Later in the letter,

burned up. The sme ll was

� though, the almost heroically � upbeat Sebec boy wrote: "You

Roderick M. Engert and ded i cated t o his wife, J ane Sou le

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Engert '42, and to the memory of J an e ' s fa t h e r , W i l l i a m Lamson Soule, Colby Class of 1 8 90, the l e t t e rs were

say the com is poor i n M aine. I t is here and i n Md. and Va. , b u t wheat i s good and ripe

saved by Jennie, J ane's grand

-< now." "' Lamson' letters grew in-

mother, and passed a long to

� creas i ngly rich i n h umor a

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J ane. Another Colbian, Rob ert P u l l e n ' 4 1 , a u t ho r of

The Twentieth Maine, wrote the book's foreword. The tex t is accom

the years passed, and they brimmed with love and cone.em for h i s fam ily. O n

what my Christmas d i nner was but my

M a y 3 , 1 864, from Cu lpeper, Va . , h e

panied by several photographs ( includ

New Year's dinner was fried eggs and

advised J e n n ie n o t to answer newspa

ing ones of Lamson and Jennie) and a

sweet potatoes."

per advertisemen ts from soldiers look

map that traces Lamson's movements with the regiment.

Most poignant are Lam on's refer

i ng for pen pals. "When you answer

ences to fami ly and friends left behind

advertisements you needn' t write to me,"

battlefront digs he

he scolded. "They only want letters for

frets about i l lnesses striking people at

sport or they can't get anybody to write

history by participating in some of the

home and tweaks J e n n i e abo u t her

that knows them. "

bloodiest batt les of the C i v i l War

"beaux." He pares his loved ones most

Gettysburg and the Battle of the W i lder

detai l

ness. And l ittle could he dream that his

provides a note of caution here and there.

d uring the Battle of the W i lderness. He

letters would appear in such an appeal ing

Writing from the Alexandria hospi tal a

d ied of his wounds. One q uarter of his

The private

himself, of course, had

l ittle idea that he was helping to make

in Sebec. From h i

about the horrors of battle but

The letter was Lamson's last. H e was hot and captured the fo l lowing day

week before Christmas 1 86 2 , Lamson

regi ment was k i l led, wounded or l isted

Through the letters the reader gets to

referred to his 1 6-year-old brother. " I

as m issing i n action after the battle, the

know Lamson almost as a friend. Senti

guess the war i s going t o end," h e said.

first between generals U l ysses S . Grant

mental ists m ight even find themselves

"Tell Edd not to k ick hard enough to hurt

and Robert E. Lee . H e didn't know i t ,

shedding a tear at the final letter. He

h is toes." Two months later, camped on

b u t "Good b y e from y o u r 'sager boy,'

writes about his buddies and h is tribula

the Rappahannock near Gen. Joseph

W i l l , " were Lamson's fin a l words to

tions w i th rain, wind, sleet, snow and the

Hooker's headquarters, Lamson asked

J en n i e .

book some 1 30 years after these events.

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Funct ion of Form

risons,

hosp i t a l s , cou rthouses,

schools-funct ional b u i ldings that

are neither expected nor requ ired to be aest hetically pleasing. Righ t ? Wrong, says a stunning n e w book,

Institutional Architecture ( P BC I n terna tional I nc . ) . This outsized vol ume, writ ten by award-winn ing architects David M i les Z iskind ' 6 1 and Paul S ilver, pre sents page after page of magnificent pho tographs, along with thoughtful prose about the place of architecture in fur thering an inst i t u t ion's goals. "We have always believed that the qua l i ty of architecture ri es out of an understanding of human needs and de s i res and is not a remote or abstract art form," Zisk ind and S i lver write in the book's in troduct ion. "Clearly," they say, "only a very small part of the publ i c holds an interest in what a prison environment is l ike or how we care for the ick and needy . . . . Over the last 30 years we have observed the

The Laurel Ridge Psychiatric Hospital represents an exception in the design of buildings of this type , Silver and Ziskind say . "This facility illustrates character and sensitivity , " they write .

changes that have come to the once

u t i l itarian and, therefore, s i mply not

sign for a children's hospital should pro

certain princ iples of contemporary archi

worthy of investing significant amounts

mote fee lings of security; a nursing home

tecture and have recognized that much of

of our limited resources or to apply our

design should inc lude spaces that draw

what has changed has done l i ttle to im

most creative efforts. We have always

residents out of their rooms and away

prove our commitment to the s i mple

regarded this as a sorry commentary on

from the sometimes crushing lonel i ness

humanist principle that architects should

our values . "

of old age and illness; a blind-school

regard every b u i ld ing built as a design

Institutional Architecture may be aimed

opportunity to produce an environment

at architects and students of architecture

v isual variety-have as much to teach

that e levates and del ights all who use it.

and design, but there is much here for the

about

'This is particularly true of those build

general reader as well. The seemingly

mortar.

ing types that we tend to regard as strictly

simple revelations offered-a good de-

bu i lding should feature textural as wel l a humani ty as about bricks and -Sally Baker

Proulx Wins Pulitzer E. Annie Proulx '57 has won the 1 994 Pulitzer Prize for fic tion. The prestigious award, for her second novel ,The Shipping News, was the latest in a remarkable string of honors for Prou lx. Her first novel, Postcards, was nominated for a Pul itzer last year and won the PEN/Faulkner award. The Shipping

News won the National Book Award, the I rish Times International Fiction Prize and the Heartland Prize from the Chicago Tribune, i n addition to the Pulitzer. " I t's too much," Proulx told the Associated Press when the prize was an nounced in April . " It's l ike frosting on a layer cake whose layer can't be counted. " Pulitzer j uries have been good to to Colbians in the n ineties: three College alumni have won the award in four years. Before Proulx's award, Gregory White Sm ith '73 and co-author Steven Naifeh were awarded a Pulitzer in biography in

1 99 1 for Jackson Pollock: An American Saga. Robert Capers '7 1 , a reporter for the Hartford Courant, received a P u litzer for explanatory journalism in 1 99 2 for his part i n a Courant series about the Hubble Space Telescope.

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Alchemist

- By Lynn Sullivan

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'89 -

hen Scott Borek took over as go and who would stay. Letterwinner pl ished a such a young tea m . '' head coach of the men' ice from the '93 team were let go to make " I t was tough to get through it all at hockey program in 1 99 2 , he room for 10 newcomer - 1 5 of the 26 the beginning of the eason ," adm t tted knew omething had to give. The team, player on the final ro ter were first- and team captain Ke i th G lea on '94, an ad down on its luck for decades, also was down second-year student . ministrative science major from A ugusta, on it elf. Recru iting was difficult. Morale "When we made cuts, we met w ith Maine. " A lot of the guys who were cut was hard to maintain. Colby' most pop each of the tudents individually," reare good friend of m ine. But look at the u lar w inter sport, men's result . You've got to be basketball, wa an ever-preblind to c la year and ent reminder that hock experience when b u i ld ey's glory day were gone. i ng a progra m . I f you Borek tarted slowly. He want to compete in this worked fir t on getting the league you've got to get team's chin up, and even the talent." though they finished 6- 1 7Borek' team po ted 1 , Borek counts his first a 1 3 - 9 - 2 record ( the best sea on as a succe . season since 1 969 ) and "Our players developed made it into the quar a 'Yes, we can' attitude," terfi n a l round of the Borek said at season's end. 1 9 9 4 E C A C t o u rn a "They showed persever ment, where they were ance i n the face of adverdefeated by the Uni,·eri ty, and a trong leadership i ty ofConnect icut, 5 -4 . core developed." What he "It wa great t o oet d idn't reveal then was that that far," Borek said of he was about to risk the the playoffs. "At fir t I team unity he'd worked so d idn't think we'd get to hard to achieve. the ECAC at all this "We r e c r u i t e d v e r y ea on. But about six heavi ly [throughou t the Scott Borek' s first priority was to instill pride in a program that had lose morale . game into the ea on, I sea on] ," he said, " more thought that we actu heavily than had happened in a long t ime called Borek. " I think we had communi ally had a chance ." but no more than what we expected of cated well w i th everyone the season be The White M u le won their fir t three fore , saying that in order for the program game eas i ly, the close t conte t a 4-0 win ourselves. We laid Colby out to high school hockey players from around the country as to i mprove we needed to make change , over N orw ich. After los ing to Bowdoin, a po sibility more than ever before. The get new players. Of course the k ids who 5 - 2 , Colby beat the Univer i ty of M a sa bigge t j ob wa e ll ing the program, not got cut were di appointed, but they were chu ett - Amherst-a team that will move very mature about i t , and that really en Colby. We needed to make the pro pects ro Divi ion I next season-5 - J . abled us to go on. Hone t ly, looking back, believe that they would be a part of an "Once w e tarted w inning games, I I don't think we could have had as uc ongoing progres ion of success." thought that we could go to the p layoff ," The effort by Borek and a si tant coach ce ful a begi nning w ithout the guy be G lea on aid. " A the sea on progre ed ing o mature. Instead of having turmoil David Berard paid off. When Borek saw my expectations grew. By m idea on, [ I the incom i ng c las l ist he knew he had or negative fee l ings, we had succe s. knew that] if we d idn't m a k e i t to the " I t was a risk cutting some of the playoff it would have been a huge di ap winning talent. But he say he a l o k new o lder p layer ," he added. "I t was a r i k to pointment. Even though we lo t, ju t that ome team veterans could not com our team chemi try. But it worked out. maki ng it to that la t game of the eason pete w i th the rookie . i n the p layoffs was a good fee l i ng . " As hi econd eason began, Borek We had to have excel lent team chem i try to accompl ish what we accomheld his breath and dec ided who wou ld M u c h a s h e lauds newcomer l ike Dan

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Lavergne ' 9 7 , an ECAC Rookie of the Year fi nali�t, Borek cred its four veterans-Gleason, assistant captain Alex Moody '94, M ike M a loney '94 and Dan Lark in ' 9 5-with he lping the squad over the rough spot . They held the team together, he says. But Borek, anx ious for more success, isn't letting up on h is campaign to a semble the best team he can regardle s of past a c c o m p l i s h m e n t s . "We h a v e spent a l o t o f t i m e recru it ing again rhi year," he aid. "l fee l some pressure because we need another great recru i t i ng c lass to get us through , but the change have helped. Three guys got accepted early dec ision, and there is no question t hat a year ago they would have been d ifficult to at tract to the program."

The 1 994 Colby men's hockey team finished at 1 3-9- 2 , its best season since 1 969 .

Borek wants the team to play more consistently- ometh ing he says will come with more ex pe rience-and he would l i ke Colby to become a perennial play off team . "But my true goal i that our hockey program becomes a v i tal part of the community," the coach said. ''I 'd l ike to run more c l inics, get involved in the Boys and G irls Club. I have goals for the program that don 't have any thing to do with wins and lo ses. I wan t the players to become a recogn izable and positive part of the community. "Obviously we are very ex c i ted about how q u i c k l y we changed the momentum of the program. Now we j us t have to keep it going. All the tools are here . There is no reason not to be + successfu l . "

ably cold temperatures and a snow squall that ripped through on the fir t day of the meet helped another competi tor, from Nova Scotia Agricultural College, escape inj ury: when he l i t himself afire in the packboard/fi re-bu i ld ing competit ion, the flames couldn't penetrate three layers of c lothing before judges and bystanders put him out. In the end, it was the Community College of the Finger Lakes, coached by Profes sor of Conservation Martin Dodge '65 , that set the standard. CCFL's men's team ran away w ith first place, and two CCFL women's squads finished second and third behind a team from S ir Sandford Fleming. A CCFL team also won the alumni d i v ision. -Stephen Coll ins '74

Chop Meet Colby wa ho t t o the 48th annual Intercollegiate Invi tat ional Spring Woodsmen's M eet on April 2 2 and 2 3 , and the home teams notched respectable fourth-place finishe in both men's and women's competition. In all, more than 200 competitors made up 3 3 teams representing 1 2 colleges and un ivers i t ies from Penn State to Sir Sandford Fleming College in Peterborough, Ont. Desp i te the hosts' rule that "everybody must have fun," one Unity College student was transported to M id-Maine Medical Center with a knee inj ury when his peavey got away from him. But unseason-

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ifteen Colby tudents squeezed i nto "I was looking for omething to do a van and drove to M i a m i for pring other than ju t going home for the week," break in M arch, join ing the annual Daly said, "and I've been interested in outhern migration of fun and un seekers Hab i tat for a long t i me." Last eptember, from college across the United States. But, al though the e tudents log ged ome beach time and took in the sight , they also were on a m ission. The Colbian , along w i th more than 4 ,000 other students nation w ide, spent their break b u i l d i ng h o u s e w i t h Habitat For Humanity's C o l l e g i a t e C h a l l e nge program . S i nce 1 9 7 , Habi tat, b a e d i n A m e r i c u , G a . , has placed tudent along ide other volunteer on bu i l d i ng site aero the country a part of the Challenge. Sonja Lewi , director of H a b i t a t ' C a m p u s Chapter d e part m e n t , At work near Homestead. ay the program i a good ource of ready labor each pring-and of Daly called Habitat and started the wheel turning-both for the M iami trip and for long-term Habi tat workers. thefounding ofa Habitat chapter at Colby. " I t i through Collegiate Challenge ext year, he ays, Habitat for H umani ty that student are often i ntroduced to the will be an official tudent c lub. Although work of Habitat," Lewi aid. "This expe Daly , a government major, plan to tudy rience provide them w i th a well-rounded i n Australia during the fall semester, he's pring break that is meaningful, and as a now working with Colby's Catholic chap result, most of them become volunteer lain, J ohn Marq u i , to ident ify projects i n on a regular ba i . " Watervi l le that c l u b member may work ophomore J ohn Daly of Welle ley, on with volunteers from the c ity . Ma ., recru i ted Colby' c o n t i ngent, Daly squ irm a bit when cast as a do which helped frame 1 5 hou es on a 30gooder. "It' a n ice balance, to be able to house i te near h u rricane -deva tared do omething l ike that, to b u i ld house , Home tead , Fla. Daly's i ter, now a e to give somethi ng back," he aid of the n ior at Carleton College i n M inne ota, M iami trip. "But I'm not sure my motiva had parti c i pated in the Challenge a a t ion was to gi e something bac k. lt wa freshman. Daly say that during pring ju t omethi ng I wanted to do. And it wa break la t year he poke to her and to a nice tradeoff, to be able to do omethi ng other friend in hi hometown about oroc i ally re pon ible during the day and ganizing a trip thi year.

till have fun in our time off. W e spent one afternoon on M iami Beach, another in the Everalades. One night we went to the Bayside M all . " I ndeed, o n e o f Daly's rec ru i t ing tech n i ques wa to play to tudent ' intere t in a Florida ''a cation. Word-of- mouth netted the fir t 10 ,·ol unteers, but after adver t is ing i n the Echo in the fall and getttng no n ibbles, Daly posted e d u c t i v e i g ns around campu : " pring Break in M iami for 50. Come Build House With Hab i tat." That gambit, he said, y ielded ' about 5 0 p h o n e c a l l f o r fi v e slot . " rudent recei\·ed tran portat ion to Flor ida, meal and lodging at a retreat center near the building i te. The re mainder of the money for the trip came from private donariom, church collection and an on-campus fund raiser held in April. J e sica Boyle '96, a neighbor of Daly i n Woodman re idence hall, s igned up early. he, too, l iked the idea of going omewhere warm for break, he says, but she also k new she wanted to do some thing per anally rewarding. A a h igh chool ophomore, Boyle partic ipated in a church- ponsored trip to the Carib bean to help clean up after a hurricane. "There is a lot of sati fact ion," Boyle aid of the Habitat work. "You work all day, and you are hot and dirty by the end of the day, but you can tum around and look at what you d id and say, 'I accomplished omething toda .' It' not l ike we laid on the beach and that' it-a oon a the t ide came in you wouldn't even have known we were there. I t' good to know that what we

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d id that week in Florida is going to be there in 20 years, that omebody i going to be liv ing there in that home." Habitat's houses, built for low- i ncome fam i l ies in exchange for 400 hours of "sweat equity" work by fa mily members and backed by no- interest, long- term loans, were among the few left standing in areas h i t hard by Hurricane Andrew.

"And we can apprec iate why," Daly said, "after the nu mber of hurricane strips we put on the houses. " And what are hurricane trips ? "They're evil," Boyles aid, laugh ing. "They're metal straps that hold wood together. Everywhere two pieces of wo d met, we put them on. It got frustrating ometime , and it seemed l ike there was

more metal than wood on ome o f the houses." Bu t Boyles and Daly say the students seemed to come away pleased. "We got to know each other better, we met students from other col leges and we bonded with the H abitat coordinators on site," Daly said. "It was a great trip. I definitely want + to do it again next year."

Kiki's In Step

t's 5: 15 p. m . in the new aerobic room at the Harold do aerobics than synchronized wimming," he said. A l fond Athletic Center, a half-hour into the organized, J uarez l iken competit ive aerobics to figure skating. Con daily step-aerobics workout . There are more than 50 steps testants begin with a six-m inute indiv idual routine and are on the floor, each occupied by a bounc ing, sweating student . then j udged on choreography, strength, flex i b i l i ty, fitness The stereo pu mps out a recent hit song. As the workout and the use of the entire body. shifts to a new rout ine When he won h is some of the students state t i tle, Juarez wa pause, look ing confused. leading 20 hour- long I t's a ruse: the steps aren't aerob ics or step-aer that compli cated, b u t obics c lasses a week in confusion is an accept M iami and working on able excuse for pau ing hi own flexi b i lity and to catch one's breath. strength with h is father, In the front row, wear Mario Juarez, a phy i ing Colby shorts and a cal educat ion teacher. Hard Roc k Cafe T- h irt, At Colby he cut back from leading nine es is Eucl ides "Kik i" J uarez s ions each week to five '96. While those around to make t ime for stud him are start ing to fade, ies and h is new pa getting up on the step sion-alpine skiing. with m i nimal effort and After attending M i l ittle spring in their steps, ami- Dade Community J u arez is s t i l l bounc ing College and the Uni on calf musc les that look versity of M iami, J uarez l ike j umbo I ndian R iver wanted to get out of grapefru its. He is c lap- Kiki Juarez '96 says step aerobics is a sport of the future . sou t hern Florida and p ing, bark i ng instruc see more the United States a s h e completed h i education. tion , grinn ing and kicking h igh. He chose Colby because of its nat ional reputation and Though he j ust transferred to Colby last fall, everybody knows "Kik i . " The step aerobics workouts he led five t i mes rigorous academics. "I knew it wa going to be cold, and I knew it wa going to be a lot of work-I was looking for the a week were well public ized, as was the fact that he comes with credentials-J uarez is a two-time Florida state cham chal lenge," he said. While he had been told about Maine p ion in the sport. J uarez also boasts a 3 .0 G PA as an winters, the winter of 1 99 3 -94 t i l l took him by surprise. " I 'd economics and administrative sc ience major and is weigh never seen now; I didn't know it was going to be so ing career choices that could inc l ude graduate school ( " I 'd overwhe lming," he said. Matthew Russ '96, of Cape Elizabeth, Maine, a friend of l ike to go to Harvard " ) , managing a fitne s fac i l i ty or going Juarez, offered an insight into j ust how shocking the transi into i nternat ional finance as a bil ingual economist. t ion was for the M iami native. When J uarez's windshield S tep aerobics became a competi t ive sport four years ago, iced up one cold n ight last fall, Russ ugge ted he tum on the J uarez explains, and aerobics competi t ions have been around perhaps twice as long. There's even a move on to bring defroster. "The what ?" J uarez a ked . -Stephen Col lins '74 aerobics compe t ition to the Olympics. "A lot more people

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i tt ing in h i s comer office o n the vidual hand-holding to the ,·ery large will ensure the standino of the College well third floor of Eustis la t fal 1 , Robert into the twenty-fir t century," said Cotter. i sues of what d i rect ion we're mO\ mg in McArthur looked back with a mea The ex ten ion of McArthur' term a a a col lege . " sure of pride on more than five years as dean of fac ulty nm\· stretches almost into McArthur ays h i s tra ining in rhi lo v ice president for academ ic affa ir and that century , but the year ahead w i l l see sophy, with a graduate pec ial i:at ion dean of faculty. He a lso looked forward recru it ing and hiring give way to in in log ic, serves him \\'ell a dean. " I n to J une 1 5-the date he wa plann ing creased attention be ing paid to promo ph i lo ophy you're trained a n d pract iced to begi n a year-long sabbatical to get t ion and tenure cases for up-and-coming in mak i ng dec i ions-in eeing issues m back on the academ ic track their part ," he -aid. after a dozen years a an S k i ng prob lem. i a adm i n is trator. Anticipat maj or component of the ing the next phase i n an al job, but some of the initia ready dist ingu ished career, ti\'eS of which McArthur i McArthur said, "Fate fa proudest were de igned to vors the well-prepared." ward off difficu l t i e - . He But fate al o has a way of tarted a new orienrntinn intervening i n unexpected program for first-year faculty ways. When the College five year- ago, for examrle, was unable to agree on who and inst i tuted a fac u l t y should ucceed McArthur, mentoring program a year a group of faculty members later. In the mentor pro and President W i lliam R. gram, new tenure-track fac Cotter arrived at the ame ulty are a signed to -enior conc l u s i on-that McAr faculty member outside of thur m ight be persuaded to their department who help tay on. H is abbat ical wa them adjust to Colby. lli.e shortened from a year to a "The condirions under which good teaching cakes place are very fragi/.e , " truc ture allows the new people to a k candid que- seme ter, and McArthur says Bob McArthur (pictured, above right , with Professor Cedric Bryant) . tion about their own de agreed to erve t hrough fac u l ty stars . That and continu ing work partments and to di cu problems with 1 997 -98. Colby's Board of T ru tee ap omeone who won't b e evaluating them. proved the plan in April . Now, McArthur on the curriculum are McArthur' ch ief "I didn't have to di cover everything ays, he's eager to follow up on init iatives priori tie in a long I i t of re pons i b i l it ies that m ight overwhelm the unprepared. the hard way, by my elf, which i usually begun in hi fir t term-espec ially by " I t's a back breaking, seven-day-a-week what happens to new fac u l ty," said Robin managing proceedings a an unprece dentedly large crew of young professors job," Cotter said of the dean of facu l ty Robert , as oc i ate profe or of A merican pos i t ion. The dean not only recru i ts new studie and ofwomen's tud ie . he cal led ascends the tenure ladder. facu l ty but also ha the del icate ta k of her mentor, economic profe or Randy I nc l ud i ng the e ight new facu l ty mem e l on, "the best," and gave both the bers h i red for tenure-track pos i t ion this retain ing e tablished profes or who are mentoring program and McArthur's at year, McArthur has over een, during h is wooed by other in t i tu t ions. Main ta in i ng and i mprov ing faculty morale is part tent ion to i t h igh mark a vve l l : " Bob ix year a dean, the hiring of half of the art and part c ience, and coord inating McArthur obviously put a lot of thought tenured and tenure-track faculty at Colby. into not ju t the program but the pair maj or and m inor changes in the curricu S i x ty-seven tenure-track profe sors have lum takes t i me , v ision and k i l l . Then ing -he did a great job matching u up." been h ired ince McArthur began his McArthur a lso backed a teaching sup term i n 1 988, and he i unre trained in there's money-the dean oversees pend ing for instruc tion and research, which is port group for young faculty member , his prai e for the newest group. "Ab o began informal lunche w i th untenured lutely stunning," he said of the five women half of the College' budget. faculty and helped to create the Center " I t i s a tremendous variety of re and three men h i red for Septe mber. for Teachi ng, which offers work hop , "Bob ha laid the building blocks that spons i b i l it ies," Cotter said, "from indi 29

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materials and support to improve teach ing techniques. "N urturing is very much part of the business of being dean of fac ulty," he said. "A lot of what 1 do i listen to people and try to help the m . " He acknowledged t h e chal lenge of trying to strike a balance between givi ng professors intellectual au to no my and stay ing abreast of their concerns. "There's a solitar iness about teaching and scholar ship that has to be re pee red," he aid. "You need an un molested but wel l -sup ported environment. The c ond it ions under which good teaching takes place are very fragile." Work ing wi th the faculty and on the c urriculum are the maj or compo nents of the dean's job, and McArthur says he looks forward to further im provement in Colby's evolving c ur r i c u l u m . The spotlight is on the conti nued development of a more multi -cultural curriculum, and he sees American stud ies as an area that can incorporate more minority viewpoints. "We have some broadening to do, and that probably would be where we'd do it," he said, explain ing the impor tance of i nc l ud i ng the experience of A mericans who are of Asian or Latino descent in course about A merican h is tory and culture. A major concern is that demands for new, diverse elements in the curriculum come at a time when Colby, like most colleges, faces budget constraints. "We're unable to offer the complete history of everything," McArthur said. "Eighteenth century European history is still impor tant; it is now taught differently." Rather than j ust covering the political and soc ial history of the privileged classes, he says, such courses must include a broader vari ety of perspectives. "I t's l ike keeping a boat afloat while replacing the boards one at a time," he said of current efforts to recast course content in various departments. Two avenues were explored th is spring to help make the changes and make them economically. An unprecedented coop erative venture was being discussed among Colby, Bates and Bowdoin to deliver Latino/a h istory at all three col leges. While the colleges' libraries have worked cooperatively for years, th is would be the fir t time that instructional services were shared to this degree, McArthur says. I n the longer term the College is i nvestigat-

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ing interac ti ve satell ite communications technology to provide instruct ion in a wider range of Asian languages. Though he was looking forward to the year-long sabbatical and a return to teach ing, it d idn't take McArthur long to shift gear . "I real ize I can have more impact on the future and direction of the College from here than as an individual member of the fac ulty," he aid. Acknowledging that fac ulty members definitely have a voice in shaping college pol icy, he added, "There are larger opportunities for dean of facu 1 ty to be principal agents ofchange."

"A lot of what I do is listen to people and try to help them . There 's a solitariness about teaching and scholarship that has to be respected . " A look back at his accomplishments is evidence. A partial l ist of curriculum initiat ives during the first instal lment of the McArthur years inc ludes: • defining the 10 precepts of the Colby Plan, adopted in 1 988 to guide tudents in creat ing a coherent four-year program. "They're a wonderful statement of what a l iberal arts education i ," he said; • the new core curriculum, which he call ed a better template for gu iding students to a broader array of courses. McArthur considers it one of h is most important achievements and "also one of the mo t time-consuming and most difficult"; • the creation of 3 0 minor fields of study to rel ieve students who prev iously took double majors at the expense of some breadth in the ir course selection; • new programs in anthropology, inter national studies, sc ience and technology studies, computer sc ience, human de velopment, environmental studies and cellular and molec u lar biology/biochem istry. A lso, ignificant increases in inter d iscipl inary programs and the number of students who study abroad; • major strides forward in the sciences, which McArthur called "an area of spe c ial pride." After the sc ience c urriculum

wa redesigned, the number o f science majors increased from 207 in 1 989-90 to 2 7 2 this year. McArthur arrived at Colby as an assis tant professor of phi losophy in 1 9 7 2 and was tenured two year later. He served as dean of ad mis ions and financial aid dur ing 1 98 2 - 8 5 , did one-year stints as acting dean of faculty and directorof the Colby in Cork program and took a sabbatical leave before accepting his current post in 1 988. He erved as acting president when Cotter was on sabbatical in London for seven months during 1 989-90. For his half-year sabbatical next spring he is considering doing research at Harvard Law School or going to Australia. Through most of hi years as an admini trator, McArthur has managed to teach a course each spring semester. In addition to serving a Colby's busi ness ethic coordinator, h e chairs the Maine State Commission on Govern mental Ethics and Election Practice , which handles cases involving legisla tive ethics, confl ict of interest, lob bying ac tivities and elections. The panel had a particularly bu y year in 1 99 3 when an aide to the speaker of Maine' house of representatives was con victed of ballot tampering. " I t's very in teresting to work in state government and to be part of the political process, " McArthur said. Asked about h i s continu ing status as chair of that commi sion, he said, "My term was up J anuary 1 , but they want me to stay on." McArthur also is chair of The Maine Collaborative, an independent non-profit organization that plans, funds and pro duces summer institutes in the arts and humanities for M aine chool teachers. He is trea urer of the Waterville Boys Club/Girls Club, which, with the assis tance of Senator George M itchell , is in the midst of a major capital campaign. The father of one daughter, McArthur is active in the Big Brothers/Big Sisters organization as big brother to an 1 1 -year old boy from Watervi l le. The discipline required to manage that range of community service obligations at the same time he's fulfilling a "seven-day a-week job" extends beyond the office. "I'm pretty good at scheduling time for myself," he said. An avid climber and hiker, McArthur is working this year on a new recreational challenge, sea kayaking. +

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TWENTIES Marion Sawyer Lockwood '26

ha moved from antee, Calif. , to lidell, La . . . . I n the opinion of Edith G rearson Money '26,

Dean Runnal wa a fair adminis trator and tactful. According to Mrs. Money, " he once asked me to come to her office, in a note that I found in my letter box: 'Edith, I want to talk with you but 1 imagine you don't wam to ralk with me.' I n her talk, she said that I was a real problem as I d id not break the rule that were on record but I wa doing omething often that was not becoming in a Colby woman, uch as - ining in my window at Fos Hall d irectly across the street from the Phi Delt House. A t the t ime, I was in love with one of the brothers, and I think Dean Runnals knew + my ecret."

THIRTIES For those who d id not ee the item, the death of F l o r e n c e Ventres S herburne ' 3 1 was re ported in the August 1 993 Colby. Myrtle Paine Barker ' 3 1 was one who inquired about Florence. . . . By post card, Katherine Groves writes: "I wanted to send the news that my mother, Virginia Haight Parker '34, passed away on Au gu t 30, 1 993. he wa alway so proud ofColby ! " . . . In herChrist ma le ta, Kathryn Herrick McCrodden ' 3 5 wrote of her three-week visit to outh Africa.

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Some e xcerpts: "a del igh tfu l evening-with a local Afrikaans family. It wa our fir t insight into the apartheid situauon from an Afrikaaner's point of view, a problem far more complex than our media would have us bel ieve. According to our host, Mandela is a puppet of the Greater Powers, not the leader of the oppresseJ. Only history will tell. You can't beat the thril l of riding an ostrich at 40 mph, cl inging for dear life to its enormous wings. Egged on by others, I actually tried it." . . . Emmart LaCrosse '35 says that in Louisv ille, Ky., where he lives, news from Maine i sorely missed. Emmart's grand on and his wife presented him with a great-granddaughter, Marissa, in January 1 993 . . . . According to Morris " Mike" Cohen ' 3 5 , a typical day in his l ife goe as fol lows: "Went to mailbox. Rested. Carried letter back to house. Rested. Went back for the rest of the mail. Rested. Read letter. R e s t e d . Took morn i n g nap. Rested. Had lunch. Re ted. Had after- lunch nap. Rested. Went out to mailbox. o mail. Mu t be afternoon. Time for mid-after noon nap but feeling perky, will read book instead. at down. Remembered I once read a book. Moby Dick. Didn't like it. Will watch TV in tead. Click, c l ick, c l ick. No football game. Click off. And o to bed." . . . In honor of my 7 7 th birthday, January 1 4 , m y brother, Jo h o Eaton ' 4 1 , sent me a feature story about Alice Bocquel Hartw e l l ' 3 6 in the Central Maine Morning Sentinel.

Clayton LaVerdiere, who for year has written e loquently abou t t h e people and places o f Water ville, explain how A lice ha no u e for a rocking chair. At 80, he would rather travel the world by fre ighter. Accord ing t o M r . LaVerdiere, Alice had "j u t re turned from a sea voyage to east Africa, a trip that spanned 24,8 1 2

tatute m i l e and rook seven week tocomplete. l n pa t years and six previous voyages- he ha been to outh America' east and west coasts, A u s t ra l i a , ew Zealand, the west coast of Africa and the Mediterranean." ( When I was young, A l ice l ived around the comer from my hou e. I re member her parents wel l . I al o remember her sister, Marguerite, with whom I had a date when we were, possibly, in eighth grade. ) . Robert Colomy ' 3 5 i al mo t 1 "and, thankfu lly, still acti\·e." He has three children and six grandchildren. He attended the wedding ofhisoldest granddaugh ter in Santa Rosa, Calif., on Oc tober 9, 1 993 . . . . Henry V. Wilcox ' 3 7 ha not traveled for about two year because of an illness. But he really take ome of u back when he recalls work ing in the College l ibrary at 40¢/ hr. under the WPA. He also re member the short-lived Theta Kappa Nu fraternity. Hi princi pal accomplishment of late has been to direct cantata for Ad vent and Lent for his church in Big Pine, Calif. . . . Ruth Yeaton McKee '3 7 wonder where ome of her c l as mates are-people who, since college, seem to have dropped out of s ight. Last Octo ber, Ruth had her annual lunch eon with Rebecca and Willard Libby ' 3 7 . Two of Ruth's on have recently remarried, each to women with children. So Ruth now has six grandchildren intead of two . . . . Louise Tracey '37 write , "A year ago, I went on two delightful trips abroad: with Farmington [Maine] people to candina ia and then to Greece and enjoyed both very much. I don't plan to go so far awayagain." Of G reece, Louise comments, "Don't mis Meteora. Scenery is pectacular." . . . Martha Wake field Falcone '38 still hear from her Foss Hall roommate, Martha Bessom Gorman '38, once or

twice a year . . . . Edward M. Hooper ' 3 8 at 3 700 evem Ave . , Charlotte, C 2 2 1 0, say "hello" ro all hi classmates and wants them to top by on their way to Florida. When weather penn it , he and his wife play tennis. In January they took a Caribbean cruise and in February spent a week in Aruba . . . . On Augu t 1 0 , 1 99 3 , E l izabeth "Libby" Bavis Decker ' 3 9 uffered nu merous grave injurie when the car in which -he wa riding wa hit broadside on the ide where she was sining. ince then she has made a miraculou recovery considering the extent and grav ity of her inj uries. In her Christ ma letter, Libby wrote: "I am j ust now getting around w i thout as sistance from a wheelchair, a walker or a cane ! " And when I called her on January 30, he said you would never know she had + been hurt.

FORTIES Bob Bruce '40 sounds under

standably d isturbed as he writes, "Each year, as class agent, i t hurts to ee the cla e of '39 and '4 1 have better participation than my cla s-and to be lo ing loyal mem bers-move over Jeremiah ! " . . . A I write, I have j u t finished an hour' telephone chat with Dr. Myron "Mike" Berry '40, who called me from Houghton, M ich., to save him elf the trouble of typ ing. M ike wa a fraternity brother and academic ball of fire who went on to a d ist inguished career in academia. Having earned a master's degree from Harvard and Ph.D. from yracuse Univer ity, he is now profe sor emeritu ( chemistry) at Michigan Tech nological U n iversity, where he taught for 29 years. M ike and hi wife have three ons and more grandchildren than I could keep track of. They also have two pound ' worth of toy poodle. Two

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pounds, you a�k 1 Yes. I r \ j ust that Mike\ previou dog, a 7 5 -pound Lahrador retriever, was leading M i ke around town at the end of h is lea h, often indirections M i ke had no desire to go in. Hence, small dog. Among many honor M i ke ha · received is the Distin g u i shed Teacher Award from M ichigan Tech. Hearing from M ike for the first time in 55 years was a thri l l . . . . Frank Jewell '40

writes that after h is first wife, Evelyn , died, he "had been li ving with a great h le in my life." Now, however, he has married the former Mrs. Lois Dubois, with whom he is very happy. They have t ies to three churches: Fa ith Baptist of Interlachen, Fla., Grace Baptist of Portland, Maine, anJ the Christian and M i s · ionary A l l ia nce Church of Laco n i a , N . H . I n Laconia, Lois was the

church organ ist; in Florida she i the church pianist . . . . Hoover Goffin '4 1 , in W. Babylon, N .Y . , says that, with elections around the comer, "the fur is really flying around here. There seems to be no limit to the infighting. It al most makes one wonder why a person goes into poli tics." . . . Major John E. Hawes '4 1 ( U .S. Army, ret . ) fi hes through the ice on North Pond in Smi thfield,

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ow could you go wrong accepting an offer of ix painting less n at a dollar apiec e ? Eleanor Barker Mc Cargar 'J 7 sent back the post card and signed up. "[ fell in love," he said recently. Tho e "brushes with oil " back in 1 9 5 7 were t h e first in her colorful career as a portrait painter. At 80, ome 750 commi sions later, McCargar'sshingle still is hanging out in Apple Valley, Calif.-<le pite the fact that she doesn't have a hingle ( her advertising i by word of mouth only) . In 10 stares, the Phil ippines and South Amer ica, she has painted portrait of ind ividuals in the fields of science, med icine, law, banking, pol itics and religion, including one Catholic and three Episcopal b i hops. McCargar says she's never been intere ted in painting land scapes. "Ir' not my kettle of fi h . I love face better," he aid. "People interest me." Her life-size portrait of Marine Col. Aaron Bank, father of the Green Beret and founder of the Special Forces, was dedicated nor long ago at the J FK Special Forces Mu eum at Fort Bragg, N .C. She say she worked from a head shot of the 92-year-old colonel in hi heyday and from a full-length photo before she traveled to his home in San Clemente, Calif., to see him in per on and get the color of hi eyes and the sk in tones. "A photo i an in tant of an expression," she said, "but a portrait i a compo ire. Moods change. I k ind of follow them around. You get a lot more character." McCargar says she loves traveling to her commi sions, and her stay with the families have turned into continu ing friendships and correspondence. Out of a six-week sojourn with one family came nine portrait of four generations. She recalls wonderful accommodations with nuns the time she painted a bishop in a cathedral in Pueblo, Colo. (and also remembers that her husband, Jack, who she says has backed her up ince the day of her first le on, told people lugubriously, " he's gone to live in a con vent ! " ) . McCargar wryly ay that people want portraits for the same reasons they want photographs: "So you can hang around after you're dead. So your great-grandchildren will remember." Her painting of the pilots and de igner of the Voyager hang in the Santa Monica M useum of Flying. Other portrait -"beauti-

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Ma ine, wh ile sitting on h is front porch. All he has to do is watch for a flag to bob, whereupon he can stroll out onto the ice and pull in h is fish. He plays golf up at Lakewood and sees Robert Pullen '4 1 , Earle Be ey, Harold Vigue '44 and Harold Joseph '44 every two weeks or so . . . . Wendell Starr '4 1 jogs 1 5 mile a week and travels to engineering soci ety meetings five times a year.

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fully executed reali m with a touch of the ethereal," wrote one critic-have been exh ib ited widely in the San Fran c isco Bay area, where the McCargars lived for 35 years before moving to Apple Val ley in 1 98 2 . McCargar says s h e keeps only the portraits that don't turn our but recalls "only a couple of bad apple . " In each ca e, he says, the painter painted what she saw, but the subjects wanted to be seen dif ferently. She tried revising, then packed her bag for home and burned b th portraits. A Presque lsle, Maine, na tive, McCargar entered Colby a a ophomore sociology major after a year at Aroo took State Normal School and work at a credit company. Her detailed letters home from India, where she served for two years during World War ll a a Red Cros oc ial worker, presage the painter's eye, although her only art in truction before 1 9 5 7 wa ix sculpture lessons at Harvard in 1 938. "I d idn't paint young. I was a horse nut until twenty-two," she said. Stranger still, when she painted Bishop Wolf in Cathedral Hall in Portland, Maine, in 1 980, two of her mother's painting of bishop hung over her, he aid, "watching me carefully." McCargar relishe talking about her mother, Lucy Hayward Barker, a succes ful portrait painter in Boston before he married Roy Barker, Colby Class of 1 897. Her mother began a second career at 56, and today her work is displayed in 1 5 museums and public places, including the Metropolitan Museum in New York and the de Young Museum in San Francisco. When 50 of her mother's early painting were discovered in 1 969 in a storeroom of the family barn in Presque Isle, McCargar took lessons in re toration and only recently completed this "labor of love." At the reque t of the Smithsonian, he currently is gathering her mother' letters and other documents in the Smithsonian archives for a biography. The portrait artist who has taught painting c la e of her own recently has taken lessons in watercolors-not a good medium for portraits, she say , becau e you can't correct mi takes as you can with oil . " l 'm still going to cl as , anywhere there's a good work hop," she aid, "j ust because you learn something new."

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wa inducted into the Maine W o m e n ' s H a l l of F a m e i n Marc h . A t the fifth annual event, which is sponsored by the Waterville Bu ines and Pro

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more than four decade . Linda Gold te in, director of corporate and foundation relation , represented Colby and spoke of Wood' admirable career and long assoc iation with the College . . . . Artist

and physicist Bern Porter ' 3 2 was the ubject of a Syracuse Herald American/Post S tandard article on his innovative "Found Art , " w h i c h incorporate p i e c e of m a i l or photo i n t o works of a n . Porter' "found " ("l ike walking along t h e beach and eeing a shiny . shell in the dull and" ) , poems and photographs were displayed at the Robert Menschel Gallery on the yracuse University campu

last March . . . . Wilson Piper '39 ha been named a life tru tee of Colby. Piper, an attorney w i th the Bo ton firm of Ropes & Gray, became a tru tee in 1 95 9 . . . . Robert DeCormier '43, former musical director for Peter, Paul and Mary, and hi wife, Louise, were recognized by the Rutland, V t . , Prime Time]oumal for their lifelong work in music . . . . World War II veteran and attorney Burton Shiro '44 wa the guest of honor at the 7 5 th Diamond J u bilee Celebration at the Bourque-Lanigan Post 5 American Legion in

H is wife, Anna, joined him in a trip to the Holy Land (February '93 ) and Egypt (October '93 ) . These activi ties d o not quare

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Bronze tar-which finally had reached him, 49 years late, as the re ult of efforts by Judge Christy Adam. Shiro wa pre enting a ca e before Adam when Adam recognized Shiro a the wounded man he had helped re cue in the Philippine on VE Day. The award were not pre ented sooner due to a fire in 1 9 7 3 that de troyed 18 mi Il ion

profe sor Esther E. Wood '26

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very well with h is being the only tenor in the church choir or w i th his job as chairman of the board of trustees of the church. But, says Wendell, a lot ofpeople help in the tru tee job. The tarrs have a daughter, Laurel, in Golden, Colo., who in addition to having three children i al o in the middle of her residency pecializing in anesthesiology . . . . D . M . O . Sid ney Brick '4 1 attended the 50th reunion of his clas at Tufts Den tal School and celebrated h is golden wedding anniversary in 1 993. He now lives in Del Ray Beach, Fla . . . . Priscilla Patter son Salgo '4 1 continues to con

and "b arg i ng" in B u rg u n d y . . . . Stetson Beal '4 1 declares i t to b e h i s firm intention t o b e a t Colby for the fes t iv i t i e t h i s J une . . . . Richard C. McDonald '4 1 writes that he had a pleasant visit when Norris Dibble ' 4 1 and his wife, Helen, stopped for an overnight last pnng. Ric hard plays tennis three time a week and golf now and then. Other time he sits on the beach at H i l ton Head, .C.-which, he say , i "not too exciting." . . . Ruth Sanderson Rudisill '42 says that "visiting our wide pread fam ily gives us rime to see sights along the way." I n August she and her husband were in Ohio and M ich igan and spent a day on Mackinac Island. In M inneapo l is tl1ey v i ired a daughter, and in Davenport, Iowa, they vi ited a on and aw evidence of flood damage . . . . Alton '42 and Anita Pooler Laliberte '42 continue to live in Waterville. They have a ski camp at Sugarloaf and still enjoy the sport. Both play golf.

Deaths: Katharine Hatch Burris on ' 1 9 in Plantat10n, Fla . , at 96 . . . . Avis Barton Bixby ' 2 2 i n We s t pringfield, M as ., at 9 5 . . . . Raymond H. Daniels '2 3 in Manche ter, N . H . , at 92 . . . . Doris Tozier Putnam '25 in Peterborough, N . H . , ar 90 . . . . Marjorie V. Smiley '2 5 in Moore town, N .J . . . . James J . Harris ' 2 7 at 9 . . . . Archer Jordan J r. ' 2 7 in Alexandria, Va . . . . J. Lewis Lovett '2 8 in Stoneham, Mass., at 89 . . . . lrene Woodford Potter '29 . . . . Thomas A. Record ' 3 0 in Falmouth Foreside, Maine, at I . . . . Marion A. Lewis '32 . . . . Virginia Haight Parker '34 in State College, Pa . . . . Margaret Raymond Small '34 in Augu ta, Maine, at 8 1 . . . . Deane L. Hodges ' 3 5 i n Newington, Conn., at 80 . . . . George T. Grace ' 3 6 in Bal Harbour, Fla., at 1 . . . . Malcolm M . Pierce ' 3 7 in Hyanni , Ma · . , at 80 . . . . Frederick C. Emery ' 3 8 in Bangor, Maine, at 7 7 . . . . William R. Littlefield '38 in Sanford, Maine, at 7 7 . . . . Ruth Crowley Weaver Brandmire '39 in Highland, Calif., at 93 . . . . Margaret J ohnson Kenoyer '40 in Boynton Beach, Fla. , at 75 . . . . Barbara Skehan McDonough '4 1 in Atlanta, Ga., at 7 3 . . . . Walter S. Sherys '4 1 in Roche ter, N . H . , at 76 . . . . A . Francis Thompson '4 1 in Weymouth, Mass., at 75 . . . . Wendell C. Brooks J r. '42 in Portland, Maine, at 73 . . . . Gilbert A. Peters '42 in Tampa, Fla. , at 74.

Of their three ch i ldren, one i a management consultant, one is a

and final crui e . But on 1 1 /5/9 3 , h e wrote that h e i ti l l hosting

denti t and one is doing post graduate studies toward a degree a a nurse practitioner. . . . Last year at the M a r i n e B a e i n Quantico, V a . , David Brodie '42 attended a reunion of the 0 communication men in hi com mand. He hadn't seen them in 50 years. For those of us who don't know, Oavidpoints out that O S means Office of trategic er v ices-now the CIA . . . . Mar jorie Cate Berke '42 reports "two marvelous trips la t year-one in May t h ro u g h the Canad i a n Rockies and another t o the Bal tics and Ru sia in September ju t at the time of the Yelt in clamp down [and] j ust before the v io

crui e ships and had ju t returned from France, where he visited a long-term pen pal dating back to pre-Colby days. He frequently ee Carl Pizzano '42, U . . N . R . , a s w e l l a Roger a n d Ruth Gould Stebbins, both '40. ) A an alter nate suggestion, Laura ask : how about a "Night at the Opera" in New York for the Colby gang? She remember her fir t and la ·t cigarette offered by roommates Alice Dondlinger Luxton '42 and G loria Goelitz McGann '4 2 .

lence erupted at the Hermi tage M us e u m in S t . P e t e rs b u r g . " . . . Laura Magistrate '42 asks what ship Bob Rice '42 is serving on and ays, "Maybe we can book a Colby cruise." (According to the November '93 Co lby maga zine, Bob announced his 1 7th

(Gloria, where are you ? We would love to know how you are and what you are doing . ) Laura al o remember the high standard et by Or. Mary Mar hall. . . . Tho mas J. Clohesy '42 i retired now from teaching language in the high school in cotia, N .Y . He ha fond memories of eating at "Ma" Frost's and of Dean N inetta R u n na l . . . . W i th adm irable brevity, William R. Conley '42 ent me a card with absolutely

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noth ing on i t . Perhaps the carJ got into the outgomg mail by mi take . . . . Les Graffam ' 4 2 , president of G raffam Busme · Forms in South Burlingto n , V t . , i widowed b u t s t i I I keeps h is cor poration going after 40 yems. Ha convertible. Could travel. Hi daughter is an ordained mini·ter in Connec t i c u t . H a v i ng been thoroughly chooled in German, Les wa sent to the Pacific to serve as a paratrooper. Returning from the war, he wore green c lothes to classes because the color went so well with h is yel low skin, which was caused by ma laria contracted in New G u i nea. The disease did not go i nt o reces sion for years. One recurrence ca used h i m to m iss his own grad uat ion . . . . H ilda N iehoff True '43 says, "i t's hard to be l ieve we '43er are now in the SO+ group. There hould be a different t itle, such as 'emeri tus.' The one very sad part of the sum mer of'93 [was that] my husband, Fred, passed away in August. " . . . Harriet R e x Feeney ' 4 3 has moved from Greenwich, Con n . , to a retirement commun i ty i n Balt i more, Md. , near h e r s o n and his fam i ly . . . . Barbara Brent Biedermann '43 and her h us band, M e l , enjoyed her SOth re u n ion very much. They enjoy travel i ng and spent four months on the island of St. Croix in the V irgi n Islands. Her memories of the old campu center on Boutelle . R e v . E d w i n W. House. Alexander '43 retired as a U ni ted Church of Christ pa tor in 1 986. H e and h is wife, Augusta-Marie J o h n so n Alexander '4 5 , cel ebrated their SOth wedding anni versary on December 1 3 , 1 99 2 . H e recalls r i d i n g i n classmate Duncan "Dunc" Cushing '43 's rumble seat on dates and making trips w i t h Edd ie Roundy's bas ketball team and M i ke Loebs's tenn i team. He and his wife have one son , three daughters and two grandchildren. He still plays ten ni , sings in the church choir and serves as a s u p p l y preac h e r . . . . M . D. P r i s c i l l a Moldenke Drake '43 once m is ed the bus to a final exam on Mayflower H ill because she was too busy cram m i ng for i t . However, she caught the next bus and was allowed to

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take the exam and st ill remem bers "What a scare ! " She had a great t i me at her SO th last J une but wa urprised to �ee her and her husband' picture in Colby magazine a· representatives of her c lass. Currently she is organizing a family reu nion in M a i ne and, by the t i me you read this, may w e l l have h e l d i t . . . . l ic a h Shapiro Mellion ' 4 3 enjoys keep ing her chem istry sk i l ls up-to date by tutoring high school and college tuJent in the vicinity of Coral Springs, Fla. She recalls sl ipping through the window of the organic lab at n ight to make up experiment he had to m is becau e of a broken right arm. ( Prof. Weeks would have had a fi t , she ays . ) . . . H o p e - j a n e Gillingham Me y e r ' 4 3 is a l i brar ian at the Moses Y. Beach School in Wallingford, Con n . , and a compulsive book-buyer who is running out ofbookcases ( wheth er at school or home she doesn't make c lear). She has two months old k i t tens to keep her in shape. A t Colby, M rs. Meyer lived right over Dean Runnals's apartment in Foss Hall. Th is posed the prob lem of trying to be quiet at all t i mes . . . . Thomas A. and Mar jorie Brown Pursley, both '43, enjoyed the ir spectacular SOth reunion last J une and, i n particu lar, see ing some friend and class mates for the first t ime i n SO years. They c e l ebrated t h e i r golden wedding anniversary in J u ly, and on November 1, Mar jor ie's mother, M a y , had her l OOth birthday. The i r boat, with 17 others from the SO+ Club, made a three-day cru ise up the Hud on River to West Point from H u n t i ngton , L . l . , N . Y . , and back around M a nhattan . . . . Also en joying her SOth was Patricia Ford Ellis '43 . l n J une, Patricia hoped to r e t u rn w i th h e r husband, Albert I. Ellis ' 4 4 , to celebrate h is 5 0th . . . . Professor Sidney Rauch '43 is still active as a lec turer, consultant and author of chi ldren's books ( the Barnaby Brown series) . H e takes part in the v i s i t i ng author programs in elementary schools and donates all speaking fees to the Rauch Endowed Scholarship Fund at Hofstra U n iversity and to the + Colby Alumni Fund.

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When the A l u m n i Office sent the ir usual reminder that this col umn was due, my first reaction wa that I had not recei\·ed any up- to-date new from any of you. What could I report? Then I gQ[ a bright idea. The 50th class re union was rapidly approaching; Vivian Maxwell Brown , ou r c la s president, had been in communi cation; Jojo Pitts McAlary had been wri t ing. When I tarted re miniscing about 5 0 years past, how could I in all hone ty say in J anuary 1 994 that I had nothing to write abou t ? In J anuary 1 944 1 Navy had enlisted in the U . and wa looking into a d ismal future, but prior to thi , I recall seeing signs hanging in front of

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. . . cheers and the introduction of members of the A l l - M a ine champion hip football team of 1 94 1 . . . . a ho t of speakers at the men' gym rally, tea dance , ga i ety, everyone happy. That wa Colby N ight on our campus a long the river near downtown Waterville in the fall of 1 94 1 . Now, more than 5 0 year later, the Class of '44 ha reunited in spirit-and physically a wel l . Harold Vigue did the planning for our J une 1 994 act iv ities. Hal, who planned the 4 5 th as well, also did a bang-up job at our 2 5 th. A t thi time 50 year ago, though, he was statio ned a t M axwell Field, Alabama, as an aviation cadet in the Army Air Preflight chool. . . . Constance Stanley Shane write from Watervliet, M ich. , that she married a soldier, George Shane, who was an Air Force p ilot trainee as igned to

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seven children and 1 2 grandch i l dren. Constance i· busy w i th church work, does hospital vol unteer work and v i- i ts her c h i l dren in Florida in December and in the East in eptember. he is thankful that all the chi ldren have happy marriages. This sum mer her youngest son will travel to China, where he will teach Engli h at a univer i ty and pre ent analyses and explanation of the Bible at the Engli h Language I nst itute . . . . J ojo Pitts McAlary i s a gre a t -g rand m o t h e r w h o pends winters i n Florida and ummers in M a i n e . he and her pouse, Fred '43, have volun teered to put together our re union class book, and they merit our sincere thank for taking on a tremendous job . . . . In the sum mer of'92 Evelyn Gates Moriarty had a super trip through Ala ka' waterways and loved i t . Her old est granddaughter i now attend ing Colby, making i t a fourth generati on . . . . J an ice Tappin Lowell informed me last August that she had her named changed to M r s . Frede r i c k N e w to n Whittemore a s o f February 1 3 , 1 99 3 . She now resides a t RR3 , Box 1 046, Bridgton, ME 04009. Her c hi ldren and grandchildren attended the celebration. J an' son Peter Lowell '70 ha a daugh ter, Adria '92. M rs . W h i t t e more--0ur J anice Tappin-wa looking forward to our 50th class reunion . . . . Several of you '44ers were not sure what class you be longed to. That can all be forgot ten as we retire into 50-and-over and the category of the 50-plus group . . . . Should any of you want to dona re money for our clas gift,

l wa a ked to inform you that all checks should be ent directly to the College . . . . This is my la t column for Colby magaz ine. I bid • you all a fond ad ieu .

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who l i v e s lI1 outh Paris, Maine. Edwin, who ret i red after 43 year of dentistry and orthodontic , attended Colby for two year- and s t i l l maintains happy memorie of the old cam pu between the railroad tracks and the Kennebec. After service in the Army, he graduated from Tufts chool of Denti try and then became ac t i ve in the Air Force. Following that t in t, he peciali:ed in orthodontic at BU. Colby granted him a degree in 1 9 9. He is the father offive and the grandfather of e igh t, who range in age from a newborn to a j u n ior in college. H is future travel plans include a trip w i th h is wife to the Island of Palau in the orthern Marianas, where the i r youngest daughter i rationed in the Peace Corps . . . . After Colby,

Helen Mary Beck Shoemaker taught in Vermont in a one-room choolhou e reached by hor eback and later on taught in Wa h ington, Florida and Venezuela. Helen wishes he could ralk again to professor Wi l k i nson, Fullam and Pop Newman. She fondly remembers the e profe orsaswell a Dean Runnals and would l ike to study wi th them again w i th the advantage of 50 year of ma turity. Helen's husband is an inalid in a nearby nur ing home, where he visits w ith him and tries to cheer him up. he main tain her home i n P i tt ford, N . Y . , a n d h e r CQ[tage i n M aine and occup ies herself with reading, needlepoint, walking, gardening and a l i ttle k iing. Helen's daugh ter and her hu band are being transferred from Norway to Bruse! , Belgium, so her two older grandchildren, who speak English

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and N orweg ian flucn r l y , w i l l be lea rn ing French and ll' i l l a ttend an En g l i > h - s p ea k i n g i n terna tional schonl in Brussels. M ary's >On is Jean of l i brary sen· ices at LaMar U n i versity in Texa> . . . Some of you w i l l remember 1 . Arthur Russakoff, who attended Colby for a -;hort whi le. He passed away in N ovemb r 1 99 3 . We are ad<lened about the news of our + c lassmate.

Corre rondenr : Nancy Jacobsen

Do you know who has been pub l ic l y declared "A D y n a mo " ? I t ' > H a n n a h Karp L a i p s o n , now c h a i rman of Common Cause/ M a sachu etts, ll'ho rated a three column srnry in the W/orcesrer Telegram & Ga::em.>. H annah ha, been s p e a r h ea d i n g Common Cause'> prngram i n reforming state go\'ernment by advocat mg the l i m i tat ion of campaign con t ributions by spec ial interests. She told the newspaper. "My ll'ork with Common Cau e, O\·er the pa, t 23 years, is rea l l y an exten > ion ofmy teac hin g caree r . " Dick Granger sent me a new paper c l ipping w i rl1 a fine phc to of Hannah. ( Please send me any new> i tems y o u see of c l a· mate -it w i l l be great news for the re t of u . ) D1ck. who has ret i red a a school admin istrator, wa> recently honored by the New England Assoc i a t ion of c hools and Colleges for h i work w i th v i s i t ing com m ittees to evaluate and accred i t ·econdary ·chnols in New England. He and his w i fe have a condo in Wells, M a i ne , a n d d r i v e up U.S. 1 frequently. "It certa inly has changed s i nce the '40' , " h e wrote, "when Jerry Lew i ' 4 5 , Harry Thomp on '49, Pau l Solomon '48 and I used to h i tc h h i k e it reg u l a r l y . " l warned you that I m ight pick up the phone and c a l l , wherever you are. I J U t tal ked with Carolyn Armitage Bouto n , who has l ived in Englewood, Colo., practically since he and Jim were married. He's a ret i red engineer and gradu ate of M I T , and they have sons in Canada and Fairbank , A laska, and two daughters in the Denver area. When I a ked i f she k ied that Colorado powder, she re-

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plied, " ! gave that up ar Colby after two runs dnwn the chapel lawn." Carolyn keeps rn touch with Sy lvia G ray N oyes ' 4 7 , a ret i red profes l)r of Engl i h, who l i ves in W. Sull ivan, Maine. She a lso hears from Jean Rhodeni:er Fontaine in Winthrop, M a ine, and from Dorie Meyer Hawke, '4 7 of Fa i rfield, M<1ine. +

TV advert ising, and �ince they are on both coasts, she gets in a gl)Od bit of trave l ing to see them a l l . La>t winrer she met lots of Colhy friend at a party given by Sh irley Martin Dudley in Tampa . . . . J une Chi pman Coal son also l i ve� in Florida and has experienced much travel adven rnre, i nc l u d i ng the Austra l i an outbac k , Turkey, New Orleans, W i l l iam burg, Mis ouri, China, a c ru i�e through the Panama Ca nal and an Outward Bound week of sa ii ing the coasro fMai ne . . . . l am going to give you a quote from Larry Kaplan, who says, "Thanks for your interest. I ret i red as uni ver-,ity profe. or of h istory and d i rec tor of the Lemni t:er Center for NA TO tudie at Kent State Univer., 1 ty in J une 1 99 3 . I am c u rrently teaching U . . m i l i tary lw,rnry a an adj unct profe sor of hi,tory at Georgetown Univer -. 1 ty and worki ng under contract on a . tudy of � ecretary of Defense

Correspondent: Beverly Benner Cassara

I have to tell you that I am rea lly env ious of the experience. I am ahout to te l l )'l)Ll. Talk about i nrerest ing1 Our reports thi> t i me con cern ancy Loveland Dennen, June Ch ipman Coalson, Donald Klein and Larry Kapl a n . N ancy Loveland Dennen a n d her hu�band are ret i red and l i \· i ng in Florida. Two of their c h ildren work tn un i l'er · 1 t ies and lme 1 · in

NEWSMAKERS At a ceremony last October, Anne Lawrence Bondy '46 re c e i ved the distingui hed serv ice award from the N ew York State chool Board A ociation. The former Colby tru ·ree wa hon ored for her 2 5 year of out tand i ng conuibution to publ i c schoo l i ng i n t h e state and lauded for her v i ion in applying trate gic p lann ing trategies to the Hannah Karp Laipson '46 management of public educa t ion . . . . Hannah Karp Laipson '46 wa s written up by the Worcescer Telegram & Gazette for her t i reless work a chair of the Ma sachu e t ts chapter of the political action group Common Cau ·e. A l ways active in politic , Laipson and her h u band, M yron, are work ing to change pol itical campaign financing, to keep public meeting open and to improve government ethic through greater accountab i l i ty , i ntegri ty, effi ciency and open ne s . . . . David Marson '48 repre ented Colby at the maugura t ion of Harry C. Payne as pre ident of W i l l iam College . . . . [n the Lock Haven, Pa., Express, teacher and basketba l l coach Laughlin B . "Lock" J en nings '48 recounted how h is ba ketball talents earned h i m a Col lege scholarsh i p and, later, h is first job as a coach at Buck port ( Maine) H igh Schoo l . Jennings contin ued h is career in teac hing and coach ing for 36 year .

MILEPOSTS Deaths: Robert F. Nardozzi '49 in Mt. K i sco, N . Y . , a t 6 7 . . . . A le x a n d e r R i c h a rd ' 4 9 i n S k o w h eg an , M a i ne , a t 7 1 . . . . Martha Roberts Schlick ' 4 9. . . . Ann Beveridge Titterington '49 at 6 5 .

McNamara's first four years in office." . . . l am almo t blown away by the wonderfu lly ful l re port from Donald Klein, who is a psych iatri t , d i rector of psych i atric re earch at N Y S Psychi atric I nstitute and profe sor at Col umbia Uni vers i ty College of Phys i c i an and Surgeon . H is wife, Rache l , is d i rector of psy chology at NYS Psych iatric lnt i tute and Pre byterian H o pita!. Of their five daughter , three are in med ic ine, one is in environ mental law and one is in bu iness. Donald is pre ident of the Na t ional Foundat ion for Depressive ! l ines and a member of the sci entific advisory commi t tee of the Manic Depre sive and Depre ive Assoc iation. He has written ex tensively on understanding de pre sion and give · papers a l l over, with mp to Monaco, Hawa i i and Paris coming up. H e also main tain an apartment in Paris. H i l'ery interesting a n wer t o the que t ion about how women's l i b h a � affected h i l i fe: " I t h a l i ber ated me in too many ways to + mention

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Ron Farkas w r i t e s from Koloa, Hawa i i , where he is t h e owner and manager of ea ide Kauai, which provides re ort vacation rentab. Ron and his wife, elma, have been married for 42 year and have rwo c h ildren and three grandch i ldren. They visited In donesia and vacationed with thei r s o n a n d his fami l y in Bali . Ron, who takes daily walk and plays a l ittle golf and say he i a com puter junkie, urvived H u rricane l n i k i and h a ju t completed b u i ld ing his ret i rement home "overlooking the Pacific at Poipu Beach on Kaua i , Hawa i i . " I n the summer they reside at their home in Duxbury, Mass., but con randy v isit with their daughter in East Hampton, Long l land . Ron re turned to Colby j ust once, after 40 years, and sa id he fe l t Io t. I n a personal note t o u he said i t's been a long, long t i me. Has i t ever, bur i t w a s great to hear from you at last. . . Paul Solomon writes from N orth Dartmouth, Mass., that he did not know what

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he wa mi sing until he read Colby magazine. Paul , you learn some thing every day. He ays he meets Colby people occasionally, par ticularly Ellie ( Farnham '4 7 ) and Stan Frolio '4 7, who are fairly close neighbors. Paul provided us with a quick reprise of the last 45 years. S ince getting a Ph . D . from Clark he has been a psychologist in the ew Bedford area. H e and his wife of 41 years have three sons, two granddaughters and one grandson-so far. They have va cationed in the western U.S., the Caribbean and Portugal. Paul says that as long as h is health keeps up he expects to work, at least part time, until the end of the cen tury. He ays that he hoped to see us and a lot of other classmate at our 50th reunion . . . . Gil Tav erner wrote u a part icularly k ind letter and was very complimen tary concerning our efforts. Of course we all aw hi handsome vi age in a recent Colby maga zine. G i l said that there was a little confusion concerning the location of the church where he preached, but he endured that error with his customary good humor. . . . As you know, these columns have to be prepared far ahead, and we are writing this one in the middle of J anuary. If all goes wel l we are off to St. Barts in another week and after re t ing there for more than a week are going to the Virgin Islands to

charter a sa ilboa r and poke around the island . We recently sold our business, although David i till working-proba bly as hard a ever-but will have the opportu nity to taper off in 1 995 . Plea e write if you have any new . When we get back from vacation we will try to send out another ques tionnaire. Please respond because your classmates really enjoy the news and your v iews on Colby and the issues that intere t you at the College. + Correspondent: Anne Hagar Eustis

The response to the e l ectric pink post cards h a s been terri fic. In fact, it was so terrific that I have more news than will fit in this column! Leonard Warshaver i retired, and he and his wife, Elaine, recently celebrated their 45th wedding anniversary. H e wa going to try to get to our reunion, but with two grand on graduat ing from high chool that same weekend, he wasn't ure he'd make it. . . . At our last reunion five years ago, I was encouraging Anne Houston Stiller to have her first h ip replacement. Now Anne writes that she had her sec ond new h ip in January 1 994 and expected to be at reunion in J une "Walking Tal l ! " I said I 'd be there

still l i mping a bit, but l expect to have my second new hip immed i ately after reunion . . . . John W. Washington write that he is "now back to bachelor living," having lost his wife, Phyllis, in September 1 990. He said he would probably be at reunion in J une, but in the meantime he was wondering "What ever happened tc Nancy Semonian?" My class roster, John, ays Nancy i a writer li ving in New York City. I f you read thi , Nancy, can you write and give us your new 1 Obviously, you are missed . . . . Martha Bennett Headley and her husband, Dick, continue to enjoy the summer month in New Hampshire and the winter months in South Carolina and Florida. Dick, though wheelchair bound with MS, continues to run the real estate business and i in excellent spirits . . . . Jean Beau champ Johnsrud and her hus band, Alfred, have just had their 1 1 th grandchild, the sixth daugh ter of their daughter, A l i on 1 . . . Ann Jennings Taussig has moved from Amherst, N . H . , and her new address is 1 07 Machrie, Ford's Colony, Williamsburg, VA 2 3 1 88 . Ann reports that her old c o l l ege room m a t e , B e v e r l y Barnett Ammann, also lives a t Ford's Colony, and when Bev "learned that we ( the Taussigs) were coming to Ford's Colony, you'd have thought we had won

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the room lottery for eniors 1 " Ann sugge·ts that it would be fun to have pictures of our days "back then" m ome form of album so we could all look back. She and Bev plan to put together somethmg, so any of you who al o ha\·e pic tures might con ider domg the same. I 'm sure we'll all be vastly amused ! . . Walter Borucki and Carleton E. Porter have similar memories of our day at Colby. Walter's daughter Eileen was born on the first day of cla se in our senior year, and--c.an you be lieve?-Walter was late for class! And Carleton's first ch ild was born 10 days before our gradua tion ! Carleton and his w ife, Dottie, had a great time at Home coming in October . . . . Martha Loughman Shepard wrote that she and her husband, Barclay, planned to be at our reumon m J une. She also wrote me of the death of Ann Beveridge Titter ington. The Alumni Office also has notified me of the death of Lionel Alphonse Goulet on December 7, 1 99 3 . . . . And Jean Chickering ardoz:i '50 writes that Robert F. Nardozzi died of a massive heart attack on October 5, 1 99 3 . Our heartfelt ympathie to you and your family, Jean, and also to the famil ies of L ionel Goulet and Ann Titterington. . . . As your cla secretary for the past five years, I feel much more m touch with you all. Thank you. +

BENBO°", BASSETT} BRYANir, KENNEY, SEWELL AND BOYLAN ALL T H E F U N A N D N O N E O F T H E A N X I E T Y ! Colby's Senior Alumni College, August 1 .. 4 , 1 994 Come back to campus this summer and learn with some of Colby's top professors Mark Benbow, Charlie Bassett, Cedric Bryant, Susan Kenney, Dick Sewell and J im Boylan. Lots of stimulating ideas, good discussion and no grades. Mornings are for classes; afternoons are for you to enjoy the Maine summer. For more information look for the Alumni College brochure in the mail or call Lynn Magovern at 207.872.3 1 90

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Bill Niehoff, a Water v i l le native liv ing in the shadow of the Colhy campus, \\'rites that he and hi

ing and t rav el. . . . Bob Stander is t i l l busy with h is chemical busi ness i n Louisiana and find l i fe fu l l and rewarJing. Bob says that when he th inks of Colby he

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rec a l ls some of the be t years of h i l ife: "good friends, Col by out i ng s and sports for the fun of it w i thout undue alumni pressure t o w i n - w i n - w i n . T h i s fe el i ng rubbed off on me, wa passed on to my four c h i ldren and then to the n ine grandkids. They enjoy life, enjoy accompl ish ing, enjoy competing and enjoy friends." He and usan get to the Belgrade Lakes every ummer and defi n i tely plan to be on hand for our 4 5 th . . . . Lillian Meyer Haning

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to promoting products and started to t h i n k about re t i r i ng. She says she may go back rn school to learn omething new. L i l l i l i ves i n Palo A lto and

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nationally. Joan h a her own re location bu i n eb·, i n c l u d i ng per onal ized tours for exec u t i ves mov ing to her area. She is c u r rently working for the Special Olympics World Games that will take place in N ew Haven, Con n . , in J u ly 1 99 5 . . . . Long-lo t class mate Philip Heywood, hrews bury, Mas . , has retired after 40 years with seven different i nsur ance companies ( and as pre i d e m of one ) . N o w involved in comm u n i ty outreach programs, he ays that he owes h is success ful upward mob i l i ty to the "solid education" Colby a l lowed him to gai n . A memory of Colby is the - 3 5° wind c h i l l factor wh ile wait ing for the bus between campuses. . . . Dick Birch , Hol l is , N . H . , h a v i ng re t i red from Edgcomb Stee l , is now a CRS with DeWolfe Real Estate New England . . . . Els

Warendorf Hulm l ives right on a lake in Wolfeboro, N . H . , and en joys skating and boa ting in ea son and cross-country ski ing . . . .

Ruth Leverett now l i ve i n B a l lston Spa, N.Y . . . . Dick

Kaplan, N e w York, N .Y . , has left h i job as d i rector of sale and marke t i ng of Baccarat, Inc. and has become the pres i d e n t of Orrefors Ko ta Boda, a Swedish crystal company. He wonders if we rea l ize how fortunate we are to have had the sma l l -col lege ex perience, w i th i ts combinat ion of inte l lec tual chal lenge and en joyment of outdoor . Both of his c h i ldren are Colby graduates . . . . Bob Cannell, now retired from Pendelton Woolen M i l ls, enjoys tenn is and golf. His fond memory of Colby is of the n ic e people he met there, including his wife, Joan ( Kelby ' 5 2 ) , and he is pleased with the large number with whom he i still in touch . . . . After work ing for Army I ntel l igence in D.C., Guy Mcintosh, Tempe, Ariz., spent 22 years with the Bureau of Indian Affair as an agent in the de ert. I t is important to h i m t h a t he helped t h e H o p i and Apache obtain decent housing and better economic develop ment. For 10 years Guy owned and operated a dude ranc h in the Colorado Rockies. He says, too, that he needs to get rid of some of the trophies he has won ru nning l OKs and half marathons. Guy' thought about h is years at Colby? "How come our c lass was so prim and proper1" One of his memo ries is the M alt-0-Meals three t ime a day w i th A l len Pease ' 5 0 a n d J oh n Ratoff ' 5 2 w h e n their money ran out a t the end of the month. And Tom Keene teasing Stretch Burnham . . . . Geof and Rennie McDonnell Lyford have formed " Lyf ound," a h e a l i ng partnership. They are in Calgary, A l t a . . . . Dan Hal l , Read i ng, Mass . , reti red from teaching, now works as a counselor a t the P ine S t re e t H o m e l e ss S h e l t e r i n Boston . . . . Duane Hurd, Port St. Lucie, Fla., ha retired from the underwri t ing busine s and finds t h a t h is golf ha i m proved. . . . Myra Hemenway Bowers,

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graduates. Myra, with a master's

or not, is only days away. But what is truly un.belie\·able i that

in. both counse l i ng and pastoral min istry, says she became a masage therapist, astrologer and art ist of sorts and is homesteading on. 50 acre in. we tern Massachu setts. She appreciates the "solid beginning" of Colby that has made her "open. to concepts and ideas that i n i t ia l ly raised eyebrow but have turned out to conta in. wisdom." . . . Phil Marc h , Mon.

come u p with some rea lly "neat" innovation. . For examp le, a book that included a short biographi

roe, Conn., once l ived for three

managing m a i l ing l ist and has also done some writing for Chris tian. publicat ions such as Guide pos t s . P h i l co l l e c ts " lo v i n g friends," is getting rid o f "old no tions." A memory of Colby is + M il ler Library.

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Barbara Easterbrooks Mailey

most remarkable Early Ameri can chapeb to be found on any cam

the C l a� of 1 9 5 4 celebrated its 40th reun ion i n. J une ! The re union. com mirtee, which in.eluded Pres i d e n t Dave W a l l i n gford,

J udy W e t h e rbee Barr, N e d S h e n t on a n d J u d y J e n k i n s Totman, worked d i l igen tly to

years on. a sai lboat in Long I land Sound. Having avoided all busi ness courses at Colby, he has be come successful in his busines of

with the beautifu l Fest ival of Carol and Lights in one of the

pus. The chapel and the Alumni House and Student Center sen·e as place \\'here wedd ing · and wedd i ng receptions have been. held hy many of our ·on� and d a u g h t e rs . O u r n e w H a ro l d Alfond Athletic Center i s out standing-from the Carl N e l on training room to the brand-new N auti l us room to the new basket ball arena to the refu rbi hed Wales tenni courr- to the best outdoor track in. the state, where every morning numerous Water v i lle c i t i:en - make thei r d a i l y constitut ionals. l r's great f u n. t o attend a basketba l l g a m e and visit with alums from your own class and from o many c l asses before and after you. New fac i l i ties are added con.stan.tly-Lun der Hou e, the new Admissions Office, i another example -but a fac i l i ty i only as good as the people in it, and we are extremely fortunate to have- continued to emp loy the best. The l i ke of

cal sketch of all of us, a parade, lobster bake and Mark Ben.bow

speaking to us at our Saturday n ight d inner. What great time together in J u ne ! Before I finish my last column for Colby, I would l ike to say that liv ing j ust down. the way from on.e's alma mater has some real advantages. Colby has a great library, where you can find j ust about anything you need for pleasure or re earch. The art center is known through out the U . S . ( and one of our classmates, Janet Fraser Mitchell, is training to be a docent ) . The Christmas season always begins

M y column. is abbrevi ated this time. l sent

out quite a few cards, hoping for rep l ies w ith lots of news, but Carolyn English Caci sent the only correspondence in. a couple of months. Carolyn keeps busy as a part - t i m e writer and office manager. Her h usband, John, has retired. Between them they have seven children, three daughter - in-law, two sons- in. lawand even grandchildren, who keep them "hopping." They do manage quite a bit of traveling, having gone to I reland last year and to Montan.a twice. They plan trips in the near future to H i l ton. Head and to Montana and plan a crui e later on in July. Is every one else out there "on the l ist" or what ? Would love to hear from you. +

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NEWSMAKERS William Greenberg '50 wa featured recently in the Allston Brighton Journal. Dubbed the "bard of Brighton," the long time resident of the Massa chusetts town discussed the inspiration for his two pub l i hed book of poem and hi view on contemporarypoetry. . . . Ted Shiro ' 5 1 wh o was inducted into the Maine ports Hall of Fame in 1 99 1 , w i .l l be inducted into the Maine Ba eball Hal l of Fame on J u ne 1 0 .

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Offered a spot with the Pittsburgh Pirates and later invited to a tryout with the Bo ton Red Sox, Shiro opted instead for a college education. He is the founder and a past president of the Maine Sports Hall of Fame.

_ . . Barnet Fain '53 repre ented Colby a t the inauguration of Roger Mandel a president of Rhode I land School of Design.

Marlene Hurd Jabar

As I write, the snow is still fal l ing; the skaters

are wh irling on John son. Pond; the cross-country tra i l i w e l l gruomed and well used. Desp i te the C o l by basketba l l team' season - e n d i n g loss t o

MILEPOSTS Deaths: Arthur A. Hauck, D.Lit. ' 5 3 i n N aple , Fla . , at 99. . _ . John H. Perey '54 in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., at 6 5 . . . . David T. Amidon ' 5 5 in Northboro, Mass., at 6 1 . . . . Mary Ellen Guiffra Falck '5 7 in Marblehead, Mas ., at 58.

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Brecky and Chappie ha\'e heen. followed hy name, l i k e Hudson and Bas ett, whose dedicar ion ro a liheral arrseducauon ts the same. Colhy i a grear chool ; we hould he prouJ to he a l u mn i '

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received thi, po'-t card from Hono l u l u : "this card is tn let you kno\\' rhat your reque t for '9 3 ne\�·s from the Class of ' 5 6 wa-; mai led to and received by a memher of the Class of ' 7 3 . " A lan M. L i nsky expre sed the hope that i t was only a small gl i tch and not a major mixup. My thanks to Mr. L insky for letting u - know about it. I t could account for the rela tive ly few respon e to the ques tionnaire . . . . The A lumni Office has reported the untimely deaths of two of our classmate . Nancy Gilligan Torborg was ki lled in an auto accident on May 1 7 , 1 99 3 . Nancy w i l l b e missed by s o many. J ohn S. Sherman., husband of Elizabeth Walker Sherman, died while playing racquetball at the YMCA on J anuary 1 2 , 1 993. Our belated sympathy to Li: and to N ancy's husband, J. Gerhardt Torborg. H is address for those who wish to write: 463 5 Sheffield Plain, Sheffield, MA 0 1 2 5 7 . . Some fa i thful correspond e n ts have written to keep us abrea t of changes in t h e i r l i v e s . D o n Dunbar has opened a n e w office in N ew Canaan, Conn., to add to the main Brookl ine, Ma s., office of Dunbar Educational Consult ants. Don's wife, Susan, a radia tion oncologist, is now in private practice i n Connect i c u t . Yvonne Noble was back i n En. gland t i l l hu band Hugh retired at the end of M ay. She wa look ing forward to re turning to the States and hopes to find about five years of meaningful work. he ays she really enjoyed her s e mester a t Wash i ngton and J efferson College , where she was guest lecturer w i th "an amusing, inflated title, decent pay, perks and l ight req u i re m e n ts . " . . From Maine, Janet Nordgren Meryweather writes that she is back on the National Cou nci l of tare Garden C l ubs, erving on the nominating commi ttee for

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three years and look i ng forward tn the travel connec ted to the pos i t ion. J anet saw Mary Ann Papalia Laccabue when Mary Ann c ame back from Cal i fornia for her 40th h igh school reunion. . . . A l Clapp has moved to Mount Vernon i n Westchester County, N .Y . . . . Richard Abedon, an es rate and pension p l anner, ha moved to Well ington, Fla. Rich ard served as probate j udge for 2 1 years and has served on the Colby Board of Tru tees . . . . Donald Buonomo, attorney - a t - l a w in Chappaqua, N .Y . , wrote that he has become interested in doing the geneal-ogy of hi, family. The i mpetus, Don ays, was the varied backgrounds and countries he and hi wife represen t : Jewi h -Cath o l i c - l t a l i an - G e r m a n - W e l > h Dutch-Pol ish man married to a n English - Irish-French wifeofProt e tam-Cathol ic and Quaker an c e s t r y . G ood l u c k , Don . F i n a l l y , get out y o u r addres books. Rev. Franklin Huntress J r. has moved to a del ightful part of England. H i s addres : M i l l C o n a g e , 2 Bac k l a n e , L o n g Bennington, N ewark Notb. N G 2 3 - 5 H F, England. Franklin prom ises more news when settled. I n t h e meant ime h e says there are three bedrooms i n the I 6th-cen tury house , and he proc l a i ms to potential visitors that " i t's the best bed-and-breakfast this ide of the Pond, and tax free, too ! " Please d o not wait for a n invita t ion to drop me a l i ne as l a lways love to hear from you and alway need news. U n t i l next time. +

Correspondent: Margaret Smith Henry

For a story abou t G len Canyon Dam, J im B i s h o p of S e d o n a , Ariz., w o n the W i l l i am A l len White Gold Medal from the U n i v e rsity of Kan as for best magazine tory in a regional/c i ty magazine. The same story also won first prize at the Ari:ona Press C l u b ' s 1 9 9 2 b a n q u e t . . . . E l l i e Fortenbaugh de l a Bandera i a federally certified Spanish court interpreter. Of the 1 3 , 6 4 3 peo p l e w h o have a t t e m p t ed fed e r a l c e r t i fi c a t i o n since t h e program started i n 1 980,

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only 5 58 h ave passed the written and ora l tests, which Ellie d id on her first try in 1 98 7 . he also has bee me an American Tra nsla tors Assoc iation-accredited trans l a t o r , from both Span ish to English and Engl ish to Spanish. . . . Janice Klem Benicek planned to v i s i t Czechoslovakia ( both of her l a t e hu bands were born there) and v isit family and friends. When she wrote, J anice abo an tic ipated v isit ing New Zealand, with stops in Tah i t i and Fij i some t ime during the first three month of the year. . . . Marty Burger has been invol ved in many fund-rais i ng a c t i v i t ies, such a Un i ted Way, and ha raised funds for Colby. He also interviews pro >pect i ve student for the Admisiom Office . . . . John Baxter had completed more than 30 years in the field of educat ion when he remed i n 1 989. He says "un equ ivoc a l ly that it was a very successful career." J ohn is now enjoy i ng his involvement with acting and ha· made commer cials for telev ision . . . . Al Dean has been the national d i rector of the Midas Dealers Assoc iation and d i rector of a crisis center and hotl ine volunteer. He is a private p i lot and three years ago pur cha ed h is own plane . . . . John Edes, who has been act ive in com munity and civic organi:a t ions, was pre · ident of the Providence, R . I . , L ions i n 1 9 7 3 and in 1 98 3 was pre ident o f the Lions i n h is hometown of m ithfield, R . l . La·t August J ohn, Bruce Blanchard and Larry Cudmore played a round of golf in Foster, R . I . Soupy Campbell wa to have been the fou rth, but business prev a i led. (John met up with oupy i n Oc tober 1 99 2 for the fir t ti me in 3 4 y e a r . W h e n J o h n s a w Larry la t A ugust, it was the first t i me in 2 5 years. ) John report , "Of course, Blanchard beat Larry and me be cause he plays all the time; he can putt well and he talk you out of your game ! H e hasn' t changed 1 " . . . I received a nice long letter from Peter and Mary Ellen Chase Bridge. Peter ret i red from h i admi n i trative and teach ing roles at Champlain College i n Bur l i ngton, V t . , i n May 1 99 2 . As professor emeritu of communi cations, he has taught part time for the college at several off-cam-

pu locat ions but has time for retirement activities, such as play ing drums and washboard in a local Dix ie land j azz band , and he's been invited to play at a trad i t ional D i xi e land j azz festival i n Essex, Con n . , in J une. Mary Ellen is ·r i l l a professor of Engl ish at Champlain and last spring re ceived her 2 0-year col lege chair at post-commencement ceremo n ies. She a lso volunteers locally a t the Flynn Theatre for the Per forming Arts and i an active member of St. Pau l 's Episcopal Cathedral in Burl i ngton. They attended a three-and-a-half week study program in Galway, I re land, on educat ion i n I reland, ponsored by the L i fe - Lo n g

Leaming I nstitute o f t h e U n i ver sity of N ew Hampshire. Their first grandch i l d , B i a n c a Rae R i zz i a , was born i n February 1 99 3 . . . . The Alumni Officehas notified me of the death of Rich ard Dana Hall on November 1 5 , 1 993 . . . . From the questionnaire that I sent in October 1 99 3 I have been able to generate a few column and a class letter, but I 've pretty well exhausted that information. Whenever you re ceive the next que t ionnaire, please take a few minutes to fil l out what y o u can-I know we a l l l i ke hearing abou t c l a smates. Take care, and let's see what we can come up with for the next issue. +

For Your Information ... Admissions Office i nterview appointml'nts, alumni interviewers

207-872-3 1 68

Alumni Office address updatl's. reunion, club <.'Vents

207-8 72-3 J 90

Annual Giving Office cla>s agents, alumni giving

207-872-3 I 86 Bookstore

mail order available wirh credit card purchase

207-872-3609

Parents Programs parents weekend, handbook

207 -8 72-3 1 86

Registrar's Office transcriprs - include

for each requested

207-872-3 J 97

Scheduling and Facilities on-campus events

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Sports Information latcsr varsity scores, upcoming games

207-UP-2-DATE

Student Activities

Orarle, Echo 207-872-3338

student progranuning,

Main switchboard: 207-872-3000 Central FAX number: 207-872-3555 Mail i ng address: Colby College, Mayflower Htll Waterville, M E 04901

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the Cape, drop into Cooke's Res taurant in Hyannis and see J i m Haidas. J i m worked in a restau rant a a kid and then after work ing m N ew York came up and

Mary Jo Calabrese Baur 13 7 Lexington Road

built the restaurant. Although he is "not a chef," he d id say the business takes a lot of ti me, but he has a nice break when the restaurant is closed three months in the winter. J i m, who also is involved in commercial real es tate , plans to come to our next reunion . . . . Henry Lapham an nounced that he was retired and sounded as if he enjoy it completely. One proj ec t involves a Tom Rush concert on J u ly 2 2

1 1 1 4 5 Glade Dr. Reston, VA 2 209 1 703-620-3 5 69 1 962 J udith Hoagland Bristol 34 1 5 Sunset Blvd. Houston, TX 7 7005 7 1 3-86 1 - 5 1 00 1 963

Barbara Haines Chase 1 1 Salisbury Road Keene, NH 0343 1 603 - 3 5 2-9330 1 964 Sara Shaw Rhoades 76 Norton Road Kittery, ME 03904 207-439-2620 1 96 5 Richard W . Bank.art 20 Valley Avenue Sui te D2 Westwood, NJ 0 7 6 7 5 2 0 1 -664-7 6 7 2 1 966 Russell N. Monbleau 3 Lovejoy Road Milford, NH 0305 5

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Westwood, M A 02090 6 1 7-32 9- 2 1 0 1 J udy Gerrie H eine 21 H illcrest Rd. Medfield, M A 0205 2

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Kay White A few telephone calls elicited the fo llowing information: Philip Shea stated t h a t he had "had a pretty unexciting l ife since 1 960"

but when he said that his passion was skiing, it became clear that he has not exactly been doing nothing in those years. H e has skied all over the world, includ ing Europe and New Zealand, but his favorite place is Sugarloaf, where he and his fami ly have a winter retreat. Phil is a lawyer and started his own firm in 1 9 7 1 , which has now grown to five at torneys and specializes in real es tate development. He's married, and one of h is daughters has a p p l ied to Colby . . . . A l d e n Wentworth, married, w i t h four children and three grandchildren, is the third generation funeral director in the family bu iness in Waltham, Mass . , where he is also active in service clubs such as Rotary. He is building a house on the Cape out of a family cottage

lieves that they have now adopted the painter. . . . A Christmas let ter from Sue Miller Anderson says that she and Ralph retired to Boulder, Colo. , and are enjoying Boulder's small-town atmosphere w i th its wide variety of c u l tural offerings, from gardening to ge nealogy to photography to me teo rolog i c a l s e m i n a r . S h e spends her t i me working with the League of Women Voters and serving on the local school board. They espec ially enjoy hiking and climbed to an 1 1 ,000-foot-high lake in the Ind ian Peaks Wilder ness, which still had ice on it in J uly . . . . Talked with Bebe Clark Mutz, who is librarian at the DAR

what. But that's part of the fun. Happy spring to each of you . +

library in D . C . , to try ro figure when we can get together, and

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Penelope Dietz Sullivan

venture into construct ion-prob ably because he visits the site only every other weekend! . . . For those of you drivi ng around

you will, of course, have rem-

Carolyn (Webster '60 ) aml re tired admiral Ted Lockhart had moved to New London, Conn., where Ted is consu l ti ng on a project I would tell you about later. He is organi:ing the cel ebration of the bicentennial of the congre s ional authorization of the first six frigates of the fed eral navy. He points out that this is of great interest to historians, because it marked the first t ime our country had to deal with randing forces. The event rook place on March 27 in Bosron as well as in several other c i t ies and serve as a lead in to the bicen

for the Manchester ( M ass. ) Com munity Center. I n h is role as a consultant for alcohol awareness, Hank has visited Colby to di cuss the alcohol and substance abuse prevention programs w i th Dr. Hume, Colby's physician. He was impressed with how far these pro grams have come since we were there. Hank is married wi th three kids and two grandchildren . . . . Richard Tyson is till a vice presi dent at Shamut Bank in Boston and ha a son who is a j unior at Colby. Dick grew up in Concord, Mas ., where he still live . He's also a kier and plans to be at reunion . . . . And I talked with J ane Wiggins Sullivan in Hous ton, Texas, who is busy writing j unior honor programs in English and thinking seriously of retiring from teaching and starting an other career-she's not sure in

As I write this column, you are reading the class letter you received in J anuary. You know, therefore, that I am out of news, a condition

that they have owned since the 1 9 50s and is enjoying h is first

edied by the time you read this! In the newsletter, mention that

tennial of the U .S.S. Constitution in October 1 99 7 . Carolyn is in N ew London getting their new home redecorated . . . and be

she filled me in on what she and Dale have been d o i ng . After Chri tma they spent three weeks in St. Mart i n and especially en joyed scuba d iv ing i n Saba. She had fun getting caught in a now storm coming home and got to spend lot o f e x tra t i m e in everyone's favorite place-air ports. h e w i ll be spending two weeks i n J amaica soon. After we

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finally have our "annual" d i nner together, I will update you on her ac t i v i t ies . . . . There are many way you can reach me with news of yourself, fam i ly and/or Colby friends: call me at home ( 703-620- 3 569) or office ( 70 3 7 5 8-6708 ) , send info to me a t home or office ( address in maga zine or on class letter ) , fax it to 703- 7 58-6709 day or night or send it via "the Information H igh way"-my I n ternet ID is penny @opnsys.com. I f you are not in this magazine thi year, shame on you. +

Corre pondent: J udith Hoagland Bristol

Ed Kyle 1s our class repre entative on the Alumni Counc il and also erves on the Admissions Committee at Colhy (and so gets a chance to v isit the campus twice a yea r ) . Ed says that the primary objective of this committee i · tn increase the number of appl ica tions of "students of color." Ed i a civil engineerand as istant tate h ighway maintenance engineer for the New Hamp h i re Depart ment of Transportation. Wife Penny teache sixth grade i n Concord. o n Ted, 24, graduated from M iddlebury in 1 992 and is in J ack on Hole, Wyo. The Kyles, who bu i l t a new house and moved in last February, enjoy occasional v i s i ts with Dick and J eannie Banks Vacco and some hiking with Bill Chase. Ed also skis oc casion a l l y w i th A l l ie Weller when he's home from a u d i Arabia. Ed s a y he h a s b ig plans for a Switzerland hike next Sep tember. For the last seven years, he has had six great week-long h i kes in the Wesr. H e also enjoys aerobics, tennis and camping in a tent . . . . Jean Koulack-Young is a technical writer for National Computer Systems in Massachu setts. Her husband, Doran, is a head tutor for Upward Bound in Lynn. J ean has three children: Cal, 2 7 , is working; Ken, 2 3 , w i l l graduate from college; and daugh ter Lara, 2 5 , who taught deaf chil dren in Mexico last year, j ust produced the first grandson N ayan i . In 1 989, J ean took a master's in information systems at N ortheastern U n i ve rs i t y ,

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changed careers after pending 20 years teaching the deaf and got married. She now commutes daily by train to Cambridge to work---d uring which t i me she reads, writes and studies Spanish so she can communicate with her new son-in- law and h i family. Jean spent two weeks traveling by bu with her daughter last year in Mex ico. (Call me, Jean, if you go via Houston next time . ) She says that she and her husband are renovating an ol l hou e and gar den in the summer. Jean talks to and writes to Pam Taylor. . . . Jane Germer Krebs' husband, Bill, left General Motors last sum mer after 23 years to join with Jane and expand their company l mlu trial Health Sciences, I nc. Jane say that the venture ha been quite ucces ful. Last sum mer Bill was appointed as an advisor to a World Health Orga nization meeting in Warsaw, o afterwards he and Jane toured through Poland and East Ger many. I n the fall, they returned to Germany to see friends in Frankfurt and attend a meeting in Dortmund. Their chi ldren are: Liz, in journalism and liv ing in Si lver Spring, Md.; David, an ur ban planner for the City of New York and also finishing graduate work at NYU; Bill, graduating from M ichigan in advertising and fi lm; and Sarah, working in the arr department forG/amourmaga zine in New York City . . . . Sam McCleery and wife Vera are sti l l in Atlanta. T h e i r on S a m mar ried last summer in Hou ton and now works i n engineering in Bryan while his new wife works on a master's at Texa A and M . Son M ike graduated with honors from Liberty University and is now i n a master's program at Georgia Tech. Daughters An drea, 1 4, and Christi , 1 2 , are in Chri t ian schools and play soc cer. Sam says that h is mom, who is 84 and lives with them, i still perky and enjoys family activi ties. till a pi lot with Delta, Sam says he saw Dave Jacobson on a flight from Boston to Palm Beach. . . . . Sandi Rollins Kilgore and husband Bob say that their family business, The Copier Gallery, in Braintree is growing. They sel l a n d service copiers a n d fax ma chines. Son Rob is back home; daughter Lisa is i n Boston. Sandi

worked on her h igh chool 3 5 th reunion-which she say "was a fun t i me bringing back many happy memories"-and has com mi tted to being part of our next re union . . . . I will be working with the Alumni Office to design a new questionnaire for you all since I ' m about out of news-so please respond. l know you want to see your news here. +

Correspondent: Barbara Haines Chase

By the time you receive this news the daffod i ls will be nodding on the hill. At this moment in J anuary, however, the temperature is -20 and the snow is banked shoulder h igh. Th is ha been quite a win ter in the northeast! . . . I have hefore me 1 4 new que tionnaires, filled w ith news of friends and classmates. Thanks muchly for b e i n g o respon s i v e . M idge Walton Holmes and hu band Chris l ive in McLean, Va., and hoth work for the CIA, she a chief of the agency library. Their jobs are demanding but produc ttve and reward ing. During 1 98990 M idge worked for Senator Bill Cohen of Maine under a congres sional fellowship sponsored by the American Political Science As sociation. M idge and Chris occa sionally ee Mary Lee Grant Mcintosh and Silvia Caillet-Bois Bonta and their fam i l i e . . . . Janet MacColl Krakauer l ives in Bahama, N.C., and teaches fifth grade at the Duke School for Children. Janet's comments are those of an in pired teacher. She has recently traveled in Europe with her fami ly and plans a trip to Williamsburg with 2 1 of her fifth grade students . . . . Congratula tions to Cindy Smith Whitaker, who, as noted i n the "News makers" section of the January Colby m agaz i n e , was c hosen Teacher of the Year by the Watertown, Conn., school board. (The correspondent for the class of 1 980 sent me the newspaper article . ) . . Dave Johnson, a retired pi lot for Delta A i r Lines, is living in Conyers, Ga. He writes that he has no notion of what a crisis at m idlife means; neither does he own a rocking chair. Conyers must be the right place i n

which t o retire early! . . . Allen Donaghy is president of a real estate agency in St. Johnsbury, Vt. H is work involves helping people find affordable housing, a stressful yet challenging mission. Al len enjoys golf and ski ing the latter of which there is plenty of in the winter! . . . Pauline "Pl " Ryder Kezer may b e one o f our more newsworthy classmates. She is presently employed, as she puts it, by the voters of Connecticut as their secretary of the state. Last J anuary, however, she an nounced her candidacy for gov ernor. P a u l i n e has recru i ted Cindy Richmond Hopper, Mor gan M c G i n l ey '64 and P r i s Gwynn Maulsby ' 6 2 a s members of her support team. We wish you the best of luck, P I . . . . I van Freed, self-employed as a retailer of women's clothing, i living in Boston, Mass . , with Shirley, his wife of nine years. I van is an avid racquetball player and maintains seven acres of lawn, gardens and woods. A the tresse of running hi own bu iness begin to over ride the enjoyment of the work, I van say he is considering a new career. Farming or forestry per haps ? . . . Byron Petrakis, a restauranteur in Kingston, N . H . , traveled i n t h e fall t o Paris and Bordeaux, where he participated in the ninth annual "le Mara thon Des Chateaux Du Medoc Et De Graves." Byron has run in four other marathons and in his additional spare time ( ! ) occa sionally writes poetry. Diversity of interest is keeping this man young! . . . That's all this time, friends. l'm thinking of spring ! +

Correspondent: Sara Shaw Rhoades

Th is is my last col umn written prior to our 30th reunion. I t really is hard t o believe that we a l l have turned 50 since we last met. I hope that you v iew your 50th as a beginning, another Commencement. Whereas there are some things that we as indi v iduals may say we will never do again ( for me it's ski ing and teach ing children in Sunday School, and I'm glad to be through with both ) , there also must be a long l ist of things we as a class haven't

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Corre pondent: Richard W. Bankart

EARTHQUAKE 1 J udy and Tom Donahue ur vived the J anuary '94 Cal ifo r n i a q u ake w i t h some cracked wal l · and broken curios a bookcase shook loose and

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national , " said David Tourangeau '6 1 from h is home in Tokyo. UNUM Corpora tion's enior vice president of Pacific Rim operation , Tourangeau has been in the c ity for 2 0 months repre enting the in urance com pany' appl ication for licensing to ell disabi l i ty and accident pro ducts in Japan. Optimi tic about U N UM's chance for worldwide leadership in the field, he also is upbeat about cu ltural and educa tional opportunitie . The company, Tourangeau ay , grounded him in all kinds of cul rural education, including intruction in J apanese-"but nor nearly a much a furnre genera tion will have." In the JO-person office he manage , all but four are Japanese national . Bu ine s i conducted in Japane e, he ay , under coring the importance of the language: he arranges all meeting around h i translator's chedule. "I can under tand them, but they don't understand me. The Maine accent really k i l l them," Tourangeau aid. He get along in day-to-day l iv i ng and soc ial talk, he say , but would not negotiate in J apane e. "For bu iness, you hould be taking Japanese in college. No," he corrected him elf, "you should be taking i t in econd grade. ' An economic major at Colby, Tourangeau earned an M . B.A. at Cornell in 1 963, then worked at DuPont for even years as assi tanr manager of the company' 3.5 m i l l ion pension fund. Offered a j ob as manager of equities for Portland, Maine' Unionmutual ( UN U M ' precur or) and drawn by the ocean sai ling and the kiing, he wa "amacted back to Maine, a great place to raise a family. We re all snowbird ," he said of h is two sons and h is daughter, Lisa Tourangeau Wojen ki '84. After working as manager of equities, v ice president of portfolio management and interim manager ofUNUM' inve t ment di vi ion, Tourangeau began doing re earch during vi it to Japan in 1 989. A signed to Tokyo two years ago, he ay he and

his wife, Marjorie, "moved ev erything, including the dog . " Tourangeau believes his com pany' private programs, ·ervices and products fill a need that isn't met in Japan. "There is no long-term d i ability in J apan. Di ability i not a recognized problem over here," he aid. In the States, a young disabled worker may be paid for 30 or 40 years, but disab i l i ty in Japan currently i paid for only one year, he explain , and the di abled are hunted away. "We pride our elves on getting people back to work," aid Tourangeau, who believe that)apane e think ing will come around in part be cause of expo ure to televi ion and the international media. De pite ome hi tche i n re cent U.S.-J apan trade negoti ation , he ay , h is own efforts have received "good coopera tion" from the mini tries of finance and of health and welfare. Wh i le he finds the Japanese extremely r.ompetitive, he say a ignature on paper isn't as meaningful as trust and under randing over the long haul. "In the U .S. you s ign an agreement, then turn it over to the lawyer . Here it' important to do i t at the lower levels. The way to screw up i to break tru t, not perform to the expectation you built up," he said. "So long-term relationships are important. We work very hard. The same a in Maine. "I think Maine foster this-and liberal arts," he added. "Colby tudent alway have been i n the forefront of curio ity. The more the College can foster interest in the international arena, the better." Tourangeau was to set off this pring to over ee tart-up operation in China, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur and a mall company office in Singapore. "We do bu ines twenty-four hours a day," he said. "The Far East i growing. If you're inquis itive and want to learn, i t' another opportunity." The fact that i t' a multimill ion-dollar enterprise, he ays, make it all "terribly exciting."

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NEWSMAKERS Caroline Walker Knowles '60 represented the College at the inaugura t ion of Peter Cressy a president f the U niver ity of Mas achu etts at Dartmouth . . . . R o x b u r y , M ass . , Chamber of Commerce pres ident Leon T. Nelson '60 has been elected an overseer of the College. N elson is pre ident of Lolech Enterpri·es. . . . C. Richard Peterson '60 ha been named ch ief executive of ficer of M inet, I n c . , the North American arm f the London-based M inet Group, the world's eighth largest insurance broker and fifth largest rei n urance broker. He also ha been appointed execu tive vice presidenr of M iner Grour and w i l l serv a, a member of i ts exec u t ive management group . . . . Painter Edwin "Ned" Gow '6 1 recently h wed hi work at the Geer Memorial Health and Rehabilitation Center in Canaan, N . Y . . . . Robert W. Drewes '64 ha� been pr mated to the grade of major general. Drewe i c u rrently in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the A i r Force for Acqu isit ion at the Pentagon . . . . William I ngham '66 exhib ited recent paint ings at the Gordon Wood ide/]ohn Braseth Gal lery i n eattle, Wash. I ngham' work· have been a yearly feature at the gallery since 1 986 . . . . President and CEO of

Moody is an assi::.tant rrofe,�or and the chaplain ar H iram Col lege in H i ram, Ohio. He a n d J ane ( Peterson '68 ) attended the par l iament of the world's re l igion i n C h i c ago la·t u m m e r . . . . Theresa and J oh n Bragg went ro J apan in November '93 on busi ne s. John report , " I called the Alumni Office ro ger informa t ion on Tosh1 Mori i , my ATO fraternity brother from Tokyo, who attended his j un ior and se n ior years at Colby from '63 ro '6 5 . W ith our w ive , we met at a local hotel lounge and quickly got caugh t up on the year of life that had passed since Colby." . . Patti Raymond Thomas is a community volunteer in Bucks County, Pa. , with the League of Women Voters, Fam i ly YMCA and Planned Parenthood Asso c iat ion . . . . Nancy Godley Wil son conti nues as a reacher of French and E L ( English a a second language) in Lexingron, Mass. Nancy and J ohn '63 report that "our French teaching job allow us to accompany students to France every two years. Our u mmer jobs as managers of the Appa l a c h i a n M o u n t a i n C l u b family camp o n Lake Winnepe saukee, N . H . , keep u think ing

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young." . . . Whit Robbins, a senior chem ist for Westveco Inc. ( R& D N estlc ) , ays he w i l l tram fer ro Col umbu·, Ohio, thi �um mer after 29 years in the yracu e, N .Y . , area: "Samecomrany, more d iversity with new po i t i on looking forward to the j ob but w i sh i t w e re c los r r o N e w E n g l a nd . " . . . S h a r o n L o rd Stackpole keeps busy a a thera pi t in a Norwich, Conn., gu id ance c l i nic and recently wa certified an "infanr-toddlerdevel ormen t as essmen t practit ioner." She sees Leah Aranovitch and Adele Hodgkins Suga when v is i t i n g M a i ne . . . . R E U N I ON ALERT: Save 1 -4 J une '95 for our 30th. Planning started in Feb ruary when I joined Rick Davis, N a n c y Godley W i l s o n , Bud Marvin, Marcia Harding Ander son, Harold Kowal and J oan Copithorne Bowen i n Ca m bridge, Mass., for t h e i n i t i a l dis cussions. I t was cold , but M arc ia did not wear her gorilla su i t . he h a - a new job a admin istrative assistant ro the CEO at UniFir t Corp. in W ilbraham, Mas . Joan is now employed as executive di recror of Brandeis University na tional woman's comm ittee, fund raising for the l i brary. Sunny

Livermore Fall ( M a ine) Banking and Trust L. Gary Knight '66 has been elected to a eat on the executive committee of the Indepen dent Banke r · A ociation of America, a national trade a sociation rcpre enting ome 6, 500 c mmunity banks from all 50 states. Kn ight will carry the t i t le of secretary and will join five other communi ty banker as officers of the organization . . . . Anthony Carnevale '68 has been elected by Pre ident Clinton to head the Nat ional Commission for Employment Pol icy. The group will advise the Pre ident and Congress on policie for addre ing em rloyment needs . . . . Carl Glickman '68 pre ented a lecture, "Re newing America's chools: The Democratic I mperative for the Twenty-First Century," at Lander Univer i ty. Chai r of a U n i versity of Georgia program for school improvement, Gl ickman i the author f a leading text on ·chool leadership and recipient of the outstanding teacher award in the U n i ver ity ofGeorgia' College of Education . . . . Clarke Keenan '68 became president and trea urer of the Waltham Chem ical Co. on J anuary l . He is the fourth pre ident of the 1 0 1 -year-old fami ly-owned pest control business. . . . Susan Davidson Lombard '68 has been elected to the board of trustee of Berkshire Health Sy tern in Pitt field, M a s.

MILEPOSTS Deaths: Joan Tinker Wood '62 in Peapack-Glad tone, N .] . , at 53 . . . . Glendon H. Newcombe Sr., M.S.T. '68 in Augu ta, M aine, at 6 3 .

Coady was reported to be a t a wedding in India and could nor make the meenng. She wa ched u led to visit George Hooker in Bangkok on her way back . R ick Davi al o reported a rare sight ing of Al " I 'm not Grzelecki" Grayson at a Co l by footba l l game. . . ee you at the 30th reunion, 1 -4 J une ' 9 5 . H a i l , + Colby, Hai l !

Correspondent: Russell N . Monbleau You can't tell which way the train went by looking at the track. . . Bob Adams ent a n ice note, picking up on my new nickname courte y of my 2-year-old grand son, and now the Alumni Office ha me l isted officially as "Buppa." Well, I uppose it's better than "Gramps." Bob incl uded a family portrai t raken during the ir son Brian' wedding thi past J uly. Brian and new bride are enior at Va. Tech, from which Bob's oldest son, M ichael, graduated last year. . . . James Drawbridge was j ust appointed vice pre ident of institutional advancement at New England College. There wa

a n ice bio kerch of J im in the January issue of the Holden, Ma s., Landmark . . . . Pa ula C h a p i n Hartford repon that after get ting rhree songs in the top 1 0 wirh rwo making i t t o number one, he ha earned the ability to relax a l ittle. Relaxation is ex pressed in her work to restore an antebellum plantation hou e, and she has opened her own office and recording stud io nearby. She also continues to write on sraff for Sony/CB /Tree M usic . . . . Jem mie Michener Riddel is the office manager and bookkeeper at Cot tage Craft Frames while hu band Matt '65 i a flight imu lation analyst ar Boeing Co. Jemmie proudly reports that their young e t j u t g r a d u a t e d P h i Beta Kappa . . . . Michael Brodinsky has h is own law office in North Haven, Conn. I could acqu ire no news other than that he has a wel l-developed voice-mail system should you foolishly decide to call h i m at 8:45 on a snowy evening. . . . Elaine Fencer Carlson has sert led back i n u rry, M a i ne , where h e is t h e executive ad min istrator for the local child developmental service. They work w i th young children from birth through age 5 , providing or out-

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sourcing physical therapy spe cially designed for preschool chil dren with di abil itie . Her on, Richard, is a senior in h igh �chool and actively engaoed in the col lege search . . . . Jo-Ann Vitale has been a long-t ime re ident of outhbury, Conn. he has been teaching French now for 2 years, the last 10 p l itting time between outhbury and M iddlebury mid dle schools. ummerti me find her at her beach house in Queens, N .Y . (1 needed a geography le son here ) , where she spends time with friend and fam i ly . When not sweeping sand out of the kitchen, she l ikes to travel and la t year got to make two trips to France. he reports that she made her fir t trip to M aine in over 20 year la t fall. he made a spec ial hike up to LL Bean, which indi cate that he must al o have some clpirvoyanr s k i l ls, anticipating what the w inter of '9 3-'94 was going to be like. J o-Ann wanted to hear from Anne Ladd Carlson, o that was my next call. Anne promised to call Jo-Ann, o I print this here to confirm clo ure. (Working for a large computer company in 1 994 has made me a trifle paranoid . ) Anne has cre ated a bu iness around a pecial service niche, preparing what she c a l l " s u r v i v a l " p a n i h and French language programs for companie engaged in interna tional business. Aiming at ex ec u t i ve who know l i t tl e to nothing about the language but who w i l l travel to French- or Spa n i s h - p e a k i n g c o u n t r i e s , Anne prepares customi:ed era h learning cour es. This has forced her to learn yet another language, PC, from which he has devel oped her new desktop publi hing kill . . . . Barry Blatz' daughter Kimberly graduated from Colby la t May, and daughter Kri ten i a j un ior at VCL . . . Dana Dan forth and h is bride of 3 2 year ( has to be a c las record) are, among other thing , the resident director for eight minority stu dents attend ing M t. Greylock Regional H i gh School. Dana and Judith are a lso active member in ABC, "A .B_etter Chance," with headquarter in Bo ton . . . . Anne Ruggles G e re report that her daughter, Cindy, received her A . F . A . from the I ns t i tu te of American Indian A rt in San te Fe

and i cominuing her �tud ies at the Uni\'er�ity of A laska. omc of her work ha been fearured in the local pre . . . . Keep tho e cards and letters coming in. + Correspondent: Robert G racia

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Royal portable has hit ten the dust, and he ha entered the computer era with a delightful hol iday letter from Greenwich, N . Y . After complet ing l 0 year a church chcol uperintendent, -he was quite rel ieved to turn O\·er the job to another capable per on. ince then, he ha · racked up those frequent flyer miles! he spent April '9 3 vacation in California and in the summer was husy with a family wedding in Nantucket and vacationing in Well , Maine, and Bo ton. Last fall she took time off from her busy schedule at school and traveled to Myrtle Beach for a week and then spent both Thank gi ing and Christ mas in Maine. But, l ike many of u , he had a fall marked by some exten ive plumbing and electri cal work on her house. . . . Betty Coffey Gross teache fifth grade in Ea t Haddam, Conn., but may switch to m iddle school ( 6- ) next year. he writes, "Teaching is amazing- o many innova tions arrive every 1 0 year in new packaging ! " Those of u in edu cat ion know exac t ly what you mean, B.C. ! Her on, M att, is going through the college ordeal, but Colby doesn't eem to be on h is list. . . . For those of you connected to Internet, the infor mat ion superhighway, it's ea y to reach F r e d H o p e n g a r t e n ( klvr%klvr.WCP@uunet.uu.net). He continues to look for a radio and TV broadcast tower to buy. In the meantime, he ha become an active member of the advisory counc il at the Lincoln, Mass., elementary chool attended by h i s c h i ld r e n , Annie, 9 , and Steven, 7 . H i wife , Dr. Betty Herr, and another psychiatri t have opened a new office at the t. Elizabeth' Ho p ita! Medical Center office complex in Bright on, M a . , and Fred ha been pro viding legal adv ice and acting a communication pec iali t for her

new ,·en tur e. . . . Kathy Denehy Lewi s anJ fam ily have returned Ea t to Rocky H i ll, Conn. She say it was quire an aJi ustment to mo\·e from a 1 0-room hou e in Missouri to a six -room condo. A l though ,he had hoped to t�ike the summer off, he found a pro gramming Job right away. " I r pay� the r u 1 t 1on bills," -.he ay . Kelly, a senior at Keene tate, will tu dent teach in pec ial ed in the fall of '94; Jen, who i at Central Conne c t i c u t tate, hope to transfer to URI for the ir nursing program. Kathy and Bob look for ward to pending weekend at their place in Vermont . . . . If you have the good fortune to drive the Maine coast this ummer, top in at Bea\-er treet Record in Belfast and a-k the proprietor for a recording of the Colby Eight doing "When onny Gets Blue." Katy A n de rs o n ( C a t h e r i n e Hennings ) might find you one i n the back room. A local newspa per art i c le reports that Katy bought the store recently after discovering quite serendipitou ly that it wa for ale. It eems that a brush with seriou i llne influ enced Kat to ei:e the day. The article quotes her a aying, "Can cer taught me you're not immor tal. You reali:e this is your only chance and you've got to take risk . " I n add it ion to running the busine s, Katy i a tudent at Ver mont College and plans to gradu ate in the near future. She lives with her daughter Chri ty, 1 3 , and step on, M ichael, 5 , while daughter Kasandra, 2 1 , l ives in Colorado. Recently Katy moYed to Rockland . . . . Dave Aronson writes that he i , with the aid of hi two chi ldren, Danielle, 1 6 , and Todd, 1 4, maturing-learn ing to accept and understand h im self, no order impl ied . When not driv ing hi truck a- an urban cow boy, Dave coaches Babe Ruth League ba eball. . . . We extend our sincere sympathy to Anne Swett Murphy and family, who e 2 6 - year-old J effrey d ied while playing basketball with friends. Jeffrey, a graduate of Cornell, was a senior engineering consultant with Boaz-Allen & Hamilton Inc. in ew York City. Anne and her hu band, Joseph, l ive in M ilton, Ma . +

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In my mad 1 finLI that member' L11 our cla, an: Jealmg \\"Ith ,-er\" d i fferent rage, ut tamdy life . Ric h a rd F o ter a n d his w 1 te , Gahriele, recenrh- aJorteJ a n in fa nt �on, Alex, \\"hilt' Geo rge Rideout anJ hi' wife, fl.tar\", art' lookmg forward to the a1Ti �·al of t h e i r fi r'r grandch i l d . T h e i r Jauohter, A m y , and son-in-law, Da,·id, are expecting 111 ertem ber. Their three sons, Drew, 20. Ian, l , and Kev in, 1 6, all eem to he enjoying succe - in their academic life and extracurricular activities. George and Mary cele brated their 2 5 th anniversary last July at a urprise party organi:ed by their children. George contm ue a pre ident of Open Church Foundation and the Gra,·ity Reearch Foundanon but till finds time for fi hing with family and friends . . . . Rick Mansfield says he uses hi "cut and pa te" skill� acquired at Colby in hi work at Commercial Interior · and Con tract Furniture Co. He and hi· wife, Marylou, are pr ud of their two son . Rick, a enior at William and Mary, i off to med -chool next year after beino -elected for membership in Phi Beta Kappa. Son J eff i a fre hman at Spring field College. A many of u are parents of simi lar age children, I know we share the wonderful fee l i ng of hav i ng ucce sfu l l y " launched" our offspring i n to adult life . . . . A I write, there' a foot of snow on the ground here in Ma achusert . . . but I know that when you read this it will be pring, so enjoy the weather wherever you are. +

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is the vice p re, i den t and d btrict manager f or Cont inental Cable v ision of Western New Enghmd. His w i fe, Esme, is a >uh, t i r u te teacherat the m iddle school level. They have three son , Nathan, Jonathan and Jeremy. Geoff has

d i rector for J u n ior Achievement of Western Massac husetts . . . A n ot h e r r e s i d e n t of M as a chu-,em i s Jeffrey Coady. He and h is w i fe, Donn a , are l i v i ng in Man,fiel<l; Jeff is the d i rector of computer fac i l i t i es for Brown University. They have two c h i l dren a n J 'everal pets . . . . Kath-

ryn Batten Oppedisano i l i v i ng in Scot ia, N . Y. he taught math ematic for several years, then decided to get i n to the adm ini tration end of education and ha been an assi>tant prin c i pa l a t c h oo l i n henandoah H ig h Cl ifton Park, N . Y . , ince 1 98 7 . Sh e � t i l l finds t ime to enjoy k i ing + and golf.

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This ha been a year of tremendous growth and opportunity for Colby Crew. Many "first " have been accomplished, uch as: + Varsity sta[Us became a reality this fall. + A greatly expanded fall and spring racing schedule, including victories in Philadelphia and New York. + Successful spring-break training in South Carolina. + Practice on the water by March. We have lost touch with many former rowers. If you would l ike to receive our newsletter, plea e write: A lumni Relations Office Attn: Crew Newsletter Colby College Waterville, ME

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We look forward to hearing from you and hope to see you at our races!

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our sons have earrings and our

'middle aged ' ? The mid-40s has put me in touch with more sides

d isl ikes about the prospects.

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about our children at the 1 0th reunion and not mention them at our 20th?" Because by our 20th,

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reply to the last ques t i o n n a i r e . U n fo r t u nately, if youdon't answer, l can't add anything about you in the columns! Since I am trying to represent all members of the Class of '7 1 , please send me your ques tionnaire soon! I got a great reply from Andrea Thompson Leeson. While completing her Colby edu cation, she spent a year in Italy, so now she's listed as a member of the Class of '7 1 . Her current full and adventurous life on a farm in Kingston, N .S . , sounds quite en viably idyllic-with six stray cats, two pups, three horses, ducks, hens and an African grey parrot as well as walks across the island and horseback riding as primary means of transportation. Andrea is a part-time public librarian, but she's devoting most of her energie to m a r k e t i n g w h a t sounds l i k e a hoc n e w game Who' s Who. It's a card game with photosoffamous peopleand facts about them that she showed re cently at the Canadian Toy and Decoration Fair. She has four children: Brendan, 2 5 , a gradu ate of Dalhousie University in Halifax and a store clerk at Whis tler (I bet he's skiing ! ) ; Timothy, 19, who is at Carleton University in Ottawa studying journalism; Zoe, 1 4, a gymnast and flutist; and Emily, a 1 2-year-old arti t and trumpeter. . . . Mary Anne Tomlinson S u llivan added great extra credit questions to her re ply, including "Why did we brag

Darrah Wagner likes having grey hair but not stiff joints. Nancy N eckes Dumart, H. Stevens Borden, Bill Johnson and Mike " Ralph" Round also contend with aching joints, but they all appreciate other benefits ofreach ing middle age and are enjoying it! Jonathan Ray appreciates hav ing the freedom to be yourself but does not appreciate the fear of sleeping with a grandmother! For Alan Levine the worst part of aging is losing hair, a sentiment shared by Leslie Anderson. John Slagle laments, "I have a 2 5 -year old mind and a 60-year-old body ! " He also says that middle age is certainly better than old age. Jon Stone looks forward to the chal lenges at work and the pro pects for his children but not to gain ing weight. I gues that I have to agree with him ! Nancy Howatt Wilson puts it this way: "weight there is so much of 'self."' She looks forward to pursuing her own interests after many years of rai ing her two sons, Craig, 20, and Alex , 1 7 . Recently she was in ducted into the Wachusett Re gional High School Hall of Fame. Congrats! Ted Weissman, who was married recently and i ac tively practicingTM in Iowa City, is philosophical: the best part of aging is that it offers maturity of thought. Many of us see our own aging in the aging of parents, friend and children and in cycles repeating themselves in larger problems of war and peace and refugees. Many of us, though, are delightfully optimistic about the future. Alice Tall Noyes finds

of myself and has made me think about what I really want in life and how I am going to get it." Go for i t ! U n t i l next t i m e , BE + BRAVE.

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The old Waterford, Con n . , home p u r chased several years ago by Bob and J ud y Moreland S p i t z has become a l ifelong project. Judy takes on major im provements herself-chi time she's digging a patio! "As usual," she writes, "it has turned into much more of a project than ex pected ! " J udy remains cheerful and optimistic, and those of you at our 20th reunion must have noticed she didn't look a day older than she did at graduation. "I am healthy, happy, still enthusiastic and somewhat idea listic," she says. " : have tried ( w i th I hope some success) to live my life in such a way that my little corner of the world is a better place for my having been here. And I hope my sons w i l l live their lives in a simi lar way-that is the lesson I most want to teach them." J udy also says, "I saw Barry Wilensky at our 2 0 th reunion. H e hasn't changed ! " . . . A tremendous saga of the past 10 years came from Sally Barker, artist and part-time professor: "Back in my 30s I sur vived a house fire, my father's death and a divorce in quick suc cession. I married Steven Ham burg, professor and department head in the environmental stud ie department at the University of Kan as. Our best news is that we' l l be able to move back East to

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New York City, where Steve w i l l b e worki ng. I hope to continue t o teach at t h e Rhode Island School of Design, as l do in the summers when we l ive at our place i n New Hampshire ( which we are bu i ld ing ourselves, stick by stick, a quarter of a mile up a mounta in from the nearest road ) . I 've been exh ibit ing in shows all over the country for 1 5 years. I now weave with nylon monofilament (fish line ) , which I dye. They are large and abstract ( 4 ft. x 1 2 ft . ) perhaps the best l ikeness I can conjure is ' large, abstract trans parent watercolor.' I'm trying to capture a sense of place through part icular l ight sensations and color that have acqu i red a lumi nous quality for a moment." Sally also tells of two wonderful ex tended trips-a sabbatical to live in the heart of a sugar maple forest in New England for a year and a trip to Ta iwan, Japan and Hawa i i , during which she says she finally was able to explore J apan and its art , which have fascinated her for years. . . . Peggy and J i m Colburn are parents of Tyler, 2. They l ive in Ft. Coll ins, Colo. , where J im is a real estate appraiser working toward higher certification within the field. He continues to grow in h is Chris tian faith and to feel the chal lenges inherent i n parenting and . Nancy Round his career. . Haley is proud of two m i letones-20-year anniversaries for both her marriage and her profes sion. She says, "[ guess I'm the type of person who st icks with i t ! " . . . Mark ' 7 3 and Tina Murphy Serdjenian say they w i l l probably never move from thei r Waterv ille home now that they've put in an in-ground pool. Mark is associate dean of students at Colby, and Tina is a teacher. . . . Ross and Kathy Mulhausen Mcintyre are parents of a 3-year-old daughter and expected their second child in February. Kathy is an associate professor at Salt Lake Commu n i ty College who, i n addition to teaching, has been busy since graduation with the Peace Corps, a Fulbright scholarship, a master's degree, parenthood and active partic ipation in professional or ganizations. . . . And Gary Petzold was inducted into h is h igh school alumni hall of fame, has restored

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G a il Howard Dent's Christmas letter from Texas makes it sound l ike all play and no work---d ia mond shopping in the Virgin Is lands, malling in M inneapolis and v isit ing both coasts in San Francisco and Camden ( M aine ) . . . I n Monmouth, Ma ine, Bon nie N ielson G impel is on the board of the local credit union, a trustee of the Monmouth Muse um and a Brownie leader . . . . Jo seph "Mick" Chapuk is back in the Ph i ladelphia area with an M . F.A. in stud io arts from Cali fornia State U n iversity at L.A. He has work in a show at the Allentown Museum of Art . . . . Meanwh i le, Jean Wahlstrom re ports that she finished a master of div inity program at Harvard in 1 992 and was ordained as a Uni tarian-Un iversa l ist min ister in Bernardston, Mass., last July. Her new address is i n Burl ington , Iowa . . . . Farther afield, Steve Hake sti l l teaches English at a Chinese university in Taiwan. "We are home-school ing our six children and are very happy," he said . . . . S pe nc e Wright sent his regrets for the reunion in J une; he's been posted to Sydney, Aus tralia, for a couple of years but hopes to connect with Robin Mycock down under and with Phil Deford in Hong Kong . . . . J udy Sidell Westerlund from Sweden w i l l be in the U.S. for her sister's med school gradua t ion i n J une . . . . Joanne Tan kard Smith of Norfolk, Mass., says she was recently appointed by Gov. W i l l iam Weld to a five year term on her town's housing authority . . . . Jill Gilpatric Ri chard i n Nashua, N . H ., reported last winter that she was recent ly remarried and expecting a baby. . . . Harriet Hults King, also re married and already mother of a new baby, moved from Ph i ladel phia to Pittsburgh and started a

NEWS MAKERS Don Bates '70 was ranked among New England' top 1 5 master's division road runners for 1 99 3 by New England Run ner magazine . . . . In a recent issue of In These Times jour nalist Robert Parry '7 1 was cited for hi ground-breaking work in uncovering the lran Contra connection. H is ar ticle, " I ran-Contra' Untold Story," co-written by Peter Kombluh, appeared in the fall Dan Alexander '75 1 988 issue of Foreign Policy. . . . Chairman of W inSta r Communication, I n c . William J . Rouhana Jr. '72 is helping to d i rect his company toward what many analysts believe is the communications trend of the future-wireless techno l ogy. An article in Crain' New York cited WinStar and two other Manhattan-based companies for developing the technology to enable communications without the use of conventional phone l ine . . . . Math profe sor Dan Alexander '75's A History of Gompf.ex Dynamics from Schroeder to Fatou and Julia was pub lished recently by Vieweg Publi hers ( a venerable mathematics publishing hou e i n Germany, but the book is in English) . Alexander teaches i n the mathematics department a t Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa . . . . In November, Michael P. Scott '78 was named deputy to the managing d i rector for pol icy, research and capital standards at the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight in Washington D.C. The agency, founded last J une, ensures the financial safety and soundness of the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation and the Federal National Mortgage Association. Prior to accepting his new po ition, Scott was the executive assistant to the director of the Office of Thrift Supervision . . . . Angela Mickalide '79 re cently received the American Public Health Association's Early Career Award.

MILEPOSTS Births: A daughter, Marjorie Russell, to Linda and Boyd Allen '75. Deaths: J a n e Thayer Hutchinson '72 in Novato, Calif., a t 43 . . . . J o h n (Szabo) Alexander '75 in Auburn, M aine, at 40.

law fi rm w i t h her hu band. . . . Karen Sawitz in New York City says that, as a second-year med school student with a daugh ter, Abiga i l , born i n May 1 99 3 , a n d son David turning 5 , "there's certainly never a dull moment ! " . . . Rebecca Littleton Corbett was named assistant managing editor of The Baltimore Sun ( and her wise-guy husband, also a journal ist, couldn't resist copy editing

the m isspel l ing on our "Class notes reponse card") . . . . Howard Lazar writes from Anchorage, A laska, that he took a Little League team to Japan and South Korea last summer and "even won a few games ! " . . . Chuck Ashton, in Hamilton Square, N .J . , said he rode a bike from Quebec to New Jersey in 1 9 9 1 to raise money for a s h e l t e r for r u n a w a y k i ds. . . . Ann Jason Kenney in Port-

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hen I was at Colby I had a very informal idea of whar l

wanred to do," aid Rebecca Lirrleton Corberr '74 , assis ranr managing editor a r The Baltimore Sun. Her experience a a reponer and eventually editor of The Colby Echo wasn't terribly u eful, he aid recently, but it wa a lot of fun. "I had a very romantic idea about what j oumali m was all about." When she graduated, the country was in the middle of a serious recession, which, he ays, turned out to be a good thing for her. "The job market wa horrible, and the new paper industry wa hard hit," recalled Corbett, an Engli h major. "[ couldn't get a job ar any of the really big paper o, by luck, I ended up working at the local

they moved to Hartford, Conn., where he wa offered a job a associate editor with the Journal Inquirer, a paper ju t breaking onto the cene. "The Inquirer was a crappy new paper with a young raff," said Corbett, who spent a year and a half in Hartford. "It wa a training ground paper where mosr people worked for a bit and then moved on to larger paper . I could never have gotten a much experience [el ewhere] a I d id with the In quirer. That' why I went there, to get the experience." A mal l - town reporter h a a chance to do "a lor of stuff you'd nev er be able to ger your hands on at a major paper," Corbett added. "There i definitely an advantage to rarting out on a small cale like rhar. You get

Waterville paper, the Sentinel." For three and a half years, Cor berr worked at the Sentinel, fir t a the a -isrant tate edi tor and then a

a lot of responsibility that might rake years to ger ar larger papers." Corbett say that smaller, com m u n i ty-ba ed new paper force writers to understand "neighbor hood journalism." Knowing, l iving with and interacting with the people

the tate editor. he remembers ir as a great experience. "I got to do a whole lot of things by defau lt," Corbett aid. "] was al o able to learn from a lot of the mi take that I made." Hired by the Sun 14 year ago as a copy editor, Corbett has been layout editor and night metropolitan editor and now upervi es six writers and works with 75 others on major front page tories. She say the atmo phere at a large metropolitan dai ly-the Sun ha a weekday circulation of more than 3 5 0,000 and a unday circulationof500,000-i verydiffer ent from a small-town paper. "At the Sentinel I had an office

you write about, she ay-, makes you under tand the consequences of what you write. When you get name-, ages or occupation wrong, he ay , people actually walk into your office to tell you. Corbett brought her background in neighborhood journalism to her

next to Gene Letourneau," aid Corbett. "l ju t remember thar all day long the e men would come through dragging dead animals in to Gene so he could gaze admiringly at them. Thing like that don't happen in Baltimore. Ir was a collection of wonderful people. The level of human interaction there was off the charts." I n 1 97 8 she married fellow Sentinel taffer Chri Corbett and

land, Ore . , ju t fini hed building a new library and installing a com puter sy tern at the middle chool

her five kids. "We plan to pur everyone in our uburban and d r i v e o u t for re u n i o n , " h e

where she's a librarian . . . . Robin Hamill, an M . D. in Charlotte ville, Va., aid she's ingle parenting three kids and doing ane thesiology (not on the kids at the Univer ity of Virginia ) .

a i d . . . . Anne Richards writes t h a t , fo l l o w i n g the b i r th of Kathleen in December 1 992, she' back working at the National Marine Fisheries Lab in Woods Hole , Mass., and singing in the

Actually it's ane the iology, criti cal care medicine and pain man agement. A McGraw-Hill book

"Greater Falmouth Mo tly A l l M a l e M e n ' Choru s " ( which

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role a the Sun's fir t and only writ ing coach. "lt was a way of addre s ing chronic writing tendencies," she explained. "It was a good one-on one with the writer , te ll ing them thar thi was good or thi needed work and then giving them way of addre ing the problem ." Corbett, who lives in the city wirh Chris and their daughter, Molly, 7, ays she never rire of the daily grind of newspaper work. "Being a part of the creative proce s and figuring out how to write about all the ruff that' happening out there, how to make en e of it, how to get it aero -it' wonderful," he said.

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with Aetna Investment Service , I nc . , re ide in Bryn Mawr, Pa., with wife Mary-Jo and two sons, David, 7, and Christo pher, 5. When Rick broke his ankle la t J une Ln the first gameof the summer ice hockey (over- 2 5 ) league, h e realized how much he'll mis the game when "the time

comes." Fort unately, R ick re bounded quickly, in time for win ter league eason, and scored a goal and two assi t by Novem ber! Colby memorie are revived when he ee old friends uch as former roommate Peter haw '76, who lives outside Philadelphia, and Mark u l livan '76, who at tended Rick' 40th urprise party. For Rick there i "never a dull moment" being a parent. H e en joy \ arching h i ons ucceed no marrer what the endeavor-ice hockey, soccer, Cub

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though the \Kcasional s i h l i ng fight ing he could Jo w i thou t ' R i c k was wonJering if anybody has heard from Bruce Young, Joe Casey or G e n e De Lorenzo ( I haven ' t ) . . . . Cnngratu latiom to J oan DeSalvo Mansour on her marriage in A ugust 1 992-anc.l on inheri ting a 2 2 -year-old tep son ! Her c o m m e n t on step parenting i� L hat it i "noth ing l i ke the Brady Bunch ! " Hushand Robert is w i th the Boston Fire Deparrmem, and Jmrn is princ i pal of Gate· I n termediate chool in Sci tuate. M as:.. The worst part of turn i ng 40 for Joan was rea l iz ing that her l i fe wa half over, but the be t i s fee l ing younger and hea lth ier than she had ever ex pected . . . . Liv ing in Wenham, Mass., i s Rod Jones with wife Joanne and their three c h i ldren. ( The uys tend not to give me names or age ! ) Rod l i t. his oc cupat ion a ocean shippr ng. The worst thing about turn i ng 40 for h i m was having "even les hair now." And the best was an opt i • Linda mi tic " n o t much 1 " Evans is a bu ine s manager and as oc iate with an arc h i tectural firm i n Cambridge, M a . I n J u ne 1 990, she fulfilled a l i felong de sire by going on a safari i n Kenya, which was "a turn ing poi n t in [her] l i fe." Then in J anuary 1 99 1 , Linda returned to school part t ime at Northeastern Univers i ty for her M . B.A., which will be com pring. Being ur p leted thi rounded by tudents d a i l y i n H arvard q u are b r i ngs back memories of Colby, a l though "col lege s tuden t seem a lot younger and less mature than we were ! " On the ubject of turning 40, L inda has d iscovered that he now cares much less about what others think and doesn't feel the need to "keep up." On the other hand, she doe n't have the sta m ina to "keep up!" . . . Dave and Mary Sue Naegele Galvin l ive in eattle, Wa h., with their two c h i ldren, N ick, 6, and Veron ica, 4 . Dave i a manager of a hazard ous waste program, and Mary Sue is a fa m i ly nurse prac t i t ioner. The best th ing for them about be i ng parents is laughi ng a I t and their curios i ty being rek i nd led; vying for the wor t are waking up at night with sick k i d and a l l the laundry. And for a l l you avid read ers, Mary ue recommends Dr.

Conve rsa tions with a n Unrepentant Libera l T h e C la s s of 1 960, as pa rt of t h e i r 35th re u n i o n , p l a n s to r e p r i n t D r . J . S e e lye B ix l e r ' s lectu re, Co nve rsati o n s w i t h a n U n re p e n t a n t Li bera l . It 1 s a c h a r m i n g d e bate ( between G re e k prota g o n i sts t r a n s p o rted to a post WWI 1 acade m i c sett i n g ) of t h e role of l i bera l i s m i n the m o d e r n worl d . Organ ized by t h e class vice president, Ralph Nelson, t h i s project i s designed to capture t h e u p l i f t i n g s p i rit of l i b e r a l e d u c a t i o n t h a t t h e B i x l e rs c h a m pi o n e d in t h e late 1 9 50s a n d to be s h a red by t h e C l a s s of 1 960 with oth e r classes a n d faculty who knew t h e B ix l e r s . The m a ny lecture s e r i e s at Colby a re perhaps t h e Col lege ' s most u n i q u e education a l cha racteristic. President B i xl e r ( a n honora ry m e m ber of t h e Class of 1 960) was a l so a v i s it i n g lecturer. The tones i n his speech, which was made d u ri n g t h e McCarthy era, r i n g just as clearly in t h e present debate betwee n l i bera l s a n d conservative s .

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Correspondent: Noel Barry Stella

I continue ro receive great letters, postcards and telephone c a l l s from c l a m a t e . P e t e r Shaw wrote a long, e loquent letter fu l l of in i g h t and news t h a t I w i l l share with y o u in t h e n e x t i s u e of Colby . . . . Toby Bobbitt ent a po t card from the Roanoke Val ley, her new home. A t the time he wrote, Toby had left her job a a chool oc ial worker in Maine and relocated to the outh, from whence she came. Toby enjoys a happy fa mily l ife that pan three generations: her 1 0 1 -year-old grandmother l ives only 1 00 m i le away. he sends the best to a l l of you . . . . We also heard from Pe ter Thompson recently. Peter and h is wife l i ve with their three c h i l dren ( Steven, 9 , Sarah, 7 , and Matthew, l ) in Mount Holly, N J Peter is a d i rector at Computer Science Corporation . . . . How ie T uttman ends an SO to Rick Davi ' 7 7 ! Howie coached his son Max's soccer team last fall and could use some advice. Th i winter, Howie is coach ing son Ben's basketball team. ( l wonder how many of us are coaching our chi ldren' teams ? ) The T u ttmans seem to be a fit bunch: they all run compet i t ively as well as par t ic ipate in organized team sports. ( How tough w i l l the compe t i t ion be i n the master's d i v i s io n , Howie ? ) They reside i n Boxford, Ma s . , and have a summer home in Bridgton, Maine. Howie would love to see anyone who' in the area or hear from classmates he hasn 't talked with i n a while. . . . Rob Gregory penned a n ice note from Damariscotta, where he is engaged i n a solo law prac t ice. Rob and Sim-Kuen ( Chan ' 7 5 ) have four c h i ldren: M e i N ing, 1 7 , w h o i entering college next fa l l , Peter, 1 3 , Mei-shen, 1 1 , and David, 8. im-K uen ha home schooled all of the chi ldren, and the youngest two are t i l l under their mother's tutelage. At the t i me Rob wrote, the entire fa m i ly was plan n i ng a trip to Malay ia to v is i t im's fa mily . . . . Nancy Hall Murray is a newlywed, hav i ng married Robert Murray in Ocro-

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ber 1 99 3 . he l ives in Portland, Maine, now after even years in Phoen ix. N ancy shared the fact that her -year-old daughter, Mariya, ha auti m . . . . Caren Starr Schwartz stole a few mo ments from a hectic schedule to drop me a note. Upon leavi ng I BM , he tarted her own busi ness a year or so ago, providing bookkeeping services to individu als and mall businesses. A many of u know, it i tough working and being a mom . Caren's on, Jonathan, i 5 and in kindergar ten and daughter Emily is 3. Bill chwartz i the controller for a company that manages corporate jet . Last summer, the Schwart:e · took their fir t real vacation in a long time to Vermont and ran into Carl Witthoft ' 7 7 and his family. We Colby folk are every where! I'm out of room. Look for more j u icy tidbits in this space in + three months. Correspondent: Leslie Ramsay

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wrote me a very n ice letter and enclo ed a clipping from the Nashville Ban ner. J eff is a theater and film pro ducer, and his wife of four year , Cherie Bennet, is a novelist, play wright and screenplay writer. They met in N ew York C i ty in 1 9 7 and an unbreakable bond wa ealed when they touched becau e of their unlikely love for country music-in M anhat tan. The couple now l ive in N ashville, and Jeff writes that they are taking the p lay Candy Store Window (based on Cherie's novel, Goodbye, Best Friend ) to North Carolina, Kentucky and maybe New York City. The p lay, a comedy about an empowered, powerful, 1 3 -year-old kid who i afflicted with cystic fibrosis, dra matizes an incident that hap pened in a hospital' adole cent unit. Jeff also asks the where about of Bill Yoder . . . . Susan M. Wadsworth, who was on my floor ophomore year in Dana, wrote of the birth of her fir t, teven Delano Bourdelais ( last October 5 ) , and recommends highly a waterbirth for ea ing both labor and delivery pain a well as for heightening the overall plea-

sure of the ch ildbirth experience. usan cho e to hone e\'en more finely her Colby art major, get ting ma ter's degrees in both painting (Cranbrook '8 1 ) and art hi tory ( Tufts '89 ) . As of la t J u ly, she and hu band Da,·e Bourdelai '78 live in Rindge, N . H . , and Sue ha a tenure-track "dream job" teaching studio art and art his tory at Fitchburg (Ma s.) rate College . . . . From the Big Woods of W i l ton, Maine, I recei\'ed a very welcome late Christmas ( but early birthday ) card from my e nior-year roommate, Amy L . S c h u e t z , and h e r 6 - year-old daughter, Letitia Loui e. The card pictured Tisha in the ummer' l ight, wearing a fetch ing purple/ orange/teal d i agona l l y triped sundre s and sporting a p i nk worker's helmet. he is holding a pen in one hand, a pad of paper in the other and ·mil ing impishly be ide M i nnie Mouse, who i dre- ed in an orange and white polkadot dres and waving hello. On the back mom write , ". gone back to chool and pur uing a P.A. degree." . . . Wa n't that a great shot of a pachyderm on the front co,·er of Colby last J anuary ? Here' wi hing for ome more let + ters from you all. Corre�pondent: N icholas Levintow

By the time you read thi 1t may be difficul t t o believe that l had to shovel out from an ice storm to get out of the hou e this morning our fifth of the season, by la t count. My cross-country skis are banished to the attic for yet an other winter! uch a problem i unl ikely to concern S t e p h e n M i l l e r , currently re iding in the Tampa, Fla., area on an i land. tephen, who is married (Terri) and ha a son ( Max ) , is currently the managing director for the Florida division of ID Tax and Bu iness ervices, American Ex press. tephen expressed general regrets about not having partied enough in his previou life as a student and invite Colbyites in the Tampa area to look him up and remedy the i tuation . . . . Another Floridian i Dian Weis man Miller, who i working as a real estate agent in Panama City.

Dian's husband, Mark, i an air traffic controller with the A i r Force. Dian and Mark house two foreign exchange students from Germany and pine for I ife more m the mainstream since moving to the "Redneck Riviera." . . . Mov ing north: Sandy Buck writes from Topsfield, Ma s., that he is the chair of the hi ·tory depart ment at the Pingree chool and coaches golf and !aero e to boot. In addition to erving on rwo non profit boards, andy "launched a successful campaign to build a learning center for teacher train ing, communit:y de\'elopment and profe-sional growth at Camp Kieve." andy is committed to education reform and period ically experiences the pleasure of eeing some of hi student matriculate at Colby. He is married to an arti t (Sissy) and has two children ( a rah and A lex ) . . . . Anothercla · · mate act ive in the education arena i Kim Attridge Sherrill, who consults part time for a gifted education program at the Wind Ri,·er Indian Reser\'ation in Wyo ming. Kim and hu band Don hm·e a toddler named Robbie, and Kim recently made the ·witch to full time mom, a change he is \'ery happy with. he is al o an active volunteer for local environmen tal organizations and a children' theater. . . . And yet another edu cator is Doug Light, as i rant pro fe or of biology at Ripon College in Wi consin. Doug, who ay he loves teaching at a small liberal arts college, recently completed a three-year postdoctoral fel low ship at Dartmou th. Doug ha three daughters aged 12 to 6 and report that he recently learned to p l ay banjo . . . . From the hal lowed halls of wonkdom, Mike Scott report that he is deputy director of policy and research for a new federal regulatory agency establi hed to over ee the two largest federal hou ing lender , FN MA and FHLMC ( I won't pell them out, j u t rake M ike' word for i t ) . M ike didn't ay ex actly what the job entails, but hey, thanks for the good work on those mortgage rates ( we j ust refinanced for the econd time in two year ) . M ike recently toured ew En gland with stop in Ogunqu it, Martha' Vineyard and ewport, R . I . . . . Final ly, Donna Long Cummens report from Vineyard

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the cla corre pondent who preceded me, still doe an incredible job of correponding at Christma ·; her letters are masterpiece of engineering and creativity. he and Dave are the happy, busy parent of Rachel, 3, and We , 6. Jane writes that he's "slowing down" and fini h ing tour- of duty a chair of her church' council of elders and co ordinator of a moms' group, but she rill fit in the PTA anJ wim ming and ki ing . . . . Jacie Cordes Hurd wrote from Minneapolis, where he and Charlie Hurd '78 are living and working, accompa nied by their children, Max and Lydia. Max is a second grader and Lydia is a kindergartner, but if you ask me, in the photo it look like someone imply hrunk their par ent ( what wonderful face ! ) . Jacie ha a new job ar a Minneapo lis TV station elling adverti ing, and Charlie is in grad chool and working part time. I think he' looking forward to being a man with only one career in the near future . . . . To continue the law yer theme from the la t column, we have word t h a t D w i g h t Darrow has opened hi own law fim1. There are four lawyer- in the practice, which specialize in liti gation. I wonder if Dwight ever share a courtroom with his wife, Cheryl, who i a court reporter. What do you uppo e they di cu at the dinner table? Probably any thing but the law. Their sons, 5 and , are dinner companions. . . . TI1at about wrap it up for the + new this month.

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Corre::.pondent: Patty Valavanis Smith Mike Childers took a new j �b last August a> national account manager for Antee , a company that's "helping build the infor mat ion h ighway of the fu ture." He and h is wife, All ison, now wed four years, live in Chicago. . Accord i ng to Bob Glaser, mov i ng from New York City to Boca Raton, Fla . , has meant "re plac i ng five hours of commu t i ng on the ubway w i th four hours of lo ing ball on the golf course" a most welcome change ! Bob's now enior v ice president of cor porate d e v e l opment a t W . R . Grace and proud father o f N icole, 3, and Reid, l. . . . Alice Domar was recently promoted to a ·,i tant prof es or of med i c i ne a t Harvard M e d i c a l School. h e ' researc hing women's h e a l t h i sue , part icularly infert i l ity and breast cancer. Redbooi< and Good 1--l o usei<eeping were among the med ia that c ited her work last year. . . . Tim Davis l ive in Ster l i ng Hei h ts, M ic h . , and work- as a spec ial educat ion/elementary educat ion teacher w h i le also run n ing h i own sma l l i n urnnce bus i ness. H e a n d his wife, J anet, are p<Jrents of K imberly, 1 1 /2 . Tim keeps busy coac h i ng j u n ior bas ketba l l , p laying basketba l l <Jnd fantasy footbal l and con t i n u i ng w i t h h is school in . . . . ince last checking in with the column, Ken Branch has gotten married and is "grea tly enjoying" being a dad to year-old Makalea Mae Branch. He rece n t l y fi n i hed u p h i s

m a ter's i n construction man agement at the Univer ity of M a ry l a n d and tra nsfe rred to J acksonv ille N aval A i r Stat ion i n Florida . . . . It wa great to see Linda Alter when she came back to N ew England for a whirlwind weekend visit in October. She's l i v i ng i n t . Paul and working a an independent publi her' rep, se l l i ng everal l i nes of health and educat ion boob to school . I t's hard to believe he sold her pic ture que hou e among the Cal i forn i a redwood , but L i nda says she's enjoyi ng 1 ife where housing i half as expensi ve and apprec i ating in value. . . Ronni Jo ( Po ner ' 7 ) and John Carpenter ran into Lisa Turner and her husband, Brad Wamer '79, while k i ing in Taos, N . M . , la t pnng. J ohn' "st i l l running fast and furi ou " keeping up w i th h is three chi ldren and work at a Portland, Maine, law firm . . . . Here's an "open note" to Jim Elmore, R . P . H iggins ' 7 7 , Steve Marti n , Sue Miller, J on and Kim Hallock Crocker and Bill Linnell: vari ou and undry classmates have a ked what you're up to, o plea e call or drop me a post card ! + Corre pondenr: Beth Pniewski Wil on Joel Harris is a munic i p a l bond salesman l i v ing i n North Yarmouth, Maine, with his wife, Natal ie, and their two ch i ldren, Morgan, 6 1 /2 , and Phoebe, 4. Joel recommends looking up Ed Rowland at Liberty Travel on Boyl-ton St. in Boston i f anyone needs travel plan made . . . . Mary C o e Connolly i l iv ing in Duxbury, Ma s . , and is working part time as a unit coor dinator on the pediatrics floor at outh hore Hospital i n South Weymouth, Mass. Mary write that with three c h i l d ren and

working part ti me she ha become quite organized, using calendars and monthly planners. Visiting Children's Hospital i n Boston when her c h i ldren were sick inpired her to have a job that in volves ped iatrics. he i hoping to get her R.N . or a master's as a pediatric nurse practitioner once her youngest child, Christi ne, is i n school. Mary says this i a far cry from her ad sci major at Colby. he wants to know if any other classmates have switched careers also . . . . Jay Votta is l iv ing in Lafayette, Cal if. , w ith h i wife, Flo. Jay is a con ult ing actuary and says they are enjoying l i fe in t h e Bay Area . . . . V a l e n t i n e Talland, the as ociate obj ects con e r v a t o r at the I sa be l l a tewart Gardner Mu eum, i s l i v i n g in Cambridge, M ass. , with her husband, Nagesh Mahanthappa. They took a trip to I ndia i n Sep tember 1 992 . . . . Jonathan Light is l iv ing in Harrison, N . H . , w i th hi wife, Mel issa, and their identi cal twin sons, Ryan and Matthew. Jon, a enior v ice president at B a n q u e P a r i b a 's N e w Y o r k branch, writes t h a t h e a n d M e l i a were plann ing a cruise w i t h Peter Cocciardi an d his wife, Les l ie. Jon also wrote that la t year he v isited Colby and China Lake for a Pi Lam reunion. W i th the children there were over 50 people there. Jon says Peter and Lesl ie had their second c h i l d , E m i ly N ic o l e , on L a b o r D a y 1 99 2 . . . . Alex Sutton ( a. k. a . C h ri s ty Gau s s ) i l i v in g i n Maynard, M a s . , and is a legal as istant at Molten Metal Tech nology i n Waltham, Ma . Alex vi ited England in the spring of 1 99 2 and stopped by her old stomping grounds i n York, wher sh spent her j u n ior year. . . . Richard Forster i l i v i ng i n Holliston, M a s . , w i t h h i wife, M a u reen B ird , and their son , Tyler. Rick hascompleted h is re i-

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en Underhill ' 9 is a team leader for the Bo ton-ba ed oraani at her de ·k, he i out in the field with her group , en uring that City zation City Year, and Lauren Patter on '89 i a division le der. Year run smoothly. Patterson is tarting her third year with the group, and Under "For a lot of the corps members, City Year i a life-altering hill, recruited and hired by Patter<on, has been w ith City Year for experience," Underhill aid. "We are making a big d i fference in ix month . They say it' l ike an urban peace corps dedicated to their lives, and they make a d ifference m the live of other ." community ervice in the Bo "The growth of e\'ery corps ton area. member i phenomenal," aid tarted in 1 9 8 8 by two Patterson. "It 1 a time of di cov Harvard Law chool graduate , ery for them. For the fir t time City Year i a corp of 2 0 young they are working with �omeone adults who come from all o er they never thought they would, the world and aero the counny and they're exploring being a to spend a year " in ervice" to po iti\'e force inthe community." Boston. plit into 27 team of Underh i l l , who worked for about 10 corp member , each three year for the Boston public with its own corporate -pon or relat ion firm Clarke & Com (including Fleet Bank, Reebok pany, ay · that community er and Timberland ), City Year fan vice was someth ing he a l ways out aero the city every Monday wanted to do, and she ees i t as through Thursday, helping with an important e lement in be a variety of ocial-service projects ing part of a community. Par -volunteering at public chools, ter on, a Cape Porpoi e, M aine, for instance, delivering meal to native and h i tory maj or at A I D patients or renovating Colby who worked at otheby' building for public hou ing. auction house in London, ay Because City Year doe n't it took her year to find her have office pace large enough, niche after dabb l i ng in d i ffer the corp- gather on the tep ent thing , but as oon a -he of City Hall or other public walked into City Year he knew place for daily announcements he had to stay. and c a l i thenics. A fter the "I get paid to work to bring morning ritual, Underhill's team the best out of people and their heads to the Black tone chool, communitie ," Patter-on aid. a public elementary cho l in "It i o incredible. I 've learned Lauren Patterson '89 (I) and]en Underhill '89 Bo ton' outh end , where they a ton about my elf." as i t teacher . City Year's popularity has soared in the pa t few years owing to its 'When we walk into Black tone, all the kid come running up visible succe on the ·rreets of Bo ton and in the per onal live of the to u ," a id Underhill, a Vienna, Va., native. "They are o excited corp members. The program recently received -everal million dollars to ee City Year. " in federal fund - to expand its operation to even different cities aero While Underhill i at chool, Parter o n pends about half her the nation, and President Clinton cited C:ty Year as a model for a time at the main office over eeing five corp groups covering the potential national ervice program. outh end and outh Boston areas. he also i in charge of "I r's a great j ob," aid Underhill. "When I first tarted the work organizing and implementing the Friday program, "Leader h ip with the Black tone chool, l could ee what a difference we were Training Day," when corp member gather to discu s issues making with some of the e tudent . I don't think you can ever overestimate the value of touching j ust one child." ranging from A I D to racism to gender role . When Patter on i n't

dency and chief residency in in ternal medicine and i now on the taff at the Uni\'er ity of Massa chu e t t s M ed i c a l C e n t e r in Worc e s t e r , Ma . . . . C a ro l Sanders-Reed i s living i n Med ford, Mass., with her husband, John Sander -Reed. Carol and John got married in August 1 992 at the water' edge in Damaricotta, Maine. Carol writes that he i attending graduate chool fora ma La's in biology at UMa Bo ton and i particularly inter e ted in population ecology and marine biology. They traveled to

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J 'ye heard from Kelda Caldwell, who heads

mvestmentcontrol m the pen ion department at the World Bank. he also wa ap pointed recently to the board of inve tment trustee for the Mont gomery County, Maryland, em ployee retirement y tern and is

now the vice chair. he say he enjoys the community work . Kelda keep in touch with Susan Reese Krevat ( who has three children now ) and would l ike to connect with Kelly N elson and Anne LaCasse. Has anyone heard from them? I recently ran into everal c las mate late at night at the movie ( it' mid-January a I write th i in the mid t of record breaking cold and now levels here in ew England, and the movies seem a favorite pa time ) . I a w S u e Meehan a n d Britt Holmen (who actually live j u t

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Correspon lent: Sally Lovegren Merchant

At work a t U n i o n Tru t Company i n E l l worth, M a i ne , I run i nto Colby people daily. Re cently, Todd Coffin came in to the bank on bu ine s. He and wife Lorena are l iv i ng in Bath and expect the i r first baby in the summer. H e aid they are busy saving for a baby runner ( that L L . Bean new age t r I ler that prac t ic a l l y walk you, i t is o l ight ! ) and being excited. Todd has kept up his running prowe s , w i n n i n g a number o f road race i n M a i ne , and a recent Maine Sunda)' Telegram featured h i m after he was named t h e M a i ne Track Cl ub's runner of the year. . . . l mu t ay that I greatly en joyed taking a banking cour e w i t h P a t r i c i a " P .J . " Dow n i ng Curtis '64, who l i ves in Blue H i l l and works a t Bar Harbor Bank i ng & Trust. Thanks, P.J . 1 . . . How do you pel l stre s? Mike Schafer sugge ts that i t was eas i ly spel led

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when he and wife Gayle had baby H annah la · t u m mer, moved house,, changed jobs and bought a van-all in five weeks! We knew Gayle and M ike could nor make it to reun ion and now we know why. Mike i, the new athletic d i rector a t M idd lc ·ex c hool in Concnrd , M a,s. . We a lso m issed Diane Therrien Lamper and her clan, a lthough he <l id get a chance to get together with Jan Mc Don n e l l T rafec a n t y , J e n n y K n o l l Bouc h a rd a n J Christine Marshall Gaudette anJ a l l their c h i ldren. Thanks for writing, Diane . . . . Sue Roger Howell sent a great letter giving us ,ome helpful h istory. usan t ransferred in our j u n ior year ro G u i lford Col lege in Green-born, N .C . , and graJuared in l9 3 w1th her B.S. i n p ychology, then went to work for N N B arion al Bank of N orth Carol ina, now N a t ions Bank. he's an assistant \'ice president in Eden , N . C . , where he manage a branch. h e married husband Terry in 1 98 7 , a n d they have a year-old daugh ter, Katherine. usan and her fam ily travel to Ma ine in the um mer to bleboro, and she ay they love it. he a lso ay· he holds won derful memories of Colby day and the friends she made there. + Enjoy the spring1

Corre pondent: Amy E . Carlson

Afrer many short ( o r e m p t y ) columns, I a m thrilled t o s a y t h a t I have so much news to report, I won't be able to fit it a l l in t h i t ime! Thank to all of y o u who have responded to the question n a i re. i nce o many of you said you wanted to know more about your cla smates' whereabouts and fam i l ies, I will be send ing a letter detai l i ng all response to you at home. (1 hope you've a l ready re ceived this. ) I also promi e to report all news i n the column for a l u mn i i n other c l asses who l ike to keep tabs on the happenings of the Clas of '84. Here's the news on a fir t come, first reported ba s is: Joe Valle wrote that he and his wife, M ic he l le, are the proud parents of two c h ildren-a on, 5, and a daughter, 2-and are expect ing their third child in J u ly.

Joe was recen ti y made a partner in the Boston law firm of R iemer and Braunstein . . . . Lynn Mac lean wrote that she finished her family prac t ice residency and cur rently is work ing par• t i me in a mall town on the north hore of Lake uperior in M i nnesota and " loving it." In her spare ti me, Lynn volun teers at the local com mun i ty health c l inic and Planned Parenthood, h i kes, bikes, enjoy cross-country sk i ing and contin ues to <lance. Last Augu t he worked on a public health survey in Bol ivia . . . . Lisa Wormwood l ives in Ea t Boothbay, Maine, and works a a writer and news reporter for hoth the Boothbay Register and The Wiscasset News pa/Jer. Before this, Lisa produced a daily i n ternational radio new program for The Christian Science Moniwr" WorlJ erv ice f or two years with "scant staff." L i a ad mit that he never expected to produce and ho t a broadca t hearJ by s i x m i l l ion Ii teners d a i l y . . . . Congra t u l a t ions to Brewster Burns, who married Cari Med<l on J u l y 1 0, 1 99 3 ! Brew ter and Cari l i ve i n Au burn, Maine, where Brew ter teache Eng l i·h and ari teache hi tory. One thing he ha · done in the past 10 year· that he never expected was to train and race harness hor e · on the M ai ne rac ing c i rc u i t for four years . . . . Russell Smith wrote that s ince we last heard from him he bought a house, became a partner in his law firm and i "very happy. " Russe l l a n d his wife, Joanne, l i v e i n Cortland M anor, N . Y . The i r "fa m i ly u n i t " c u rrently consi t s o f t w o cat , Abby a n d Hudson Smith . . . . John '83 and Dianne Grundstrom Lemoine l i ve in Old Orchard Beach, M a i ne , where Diane is a phy ical therapist and John i an attorney. Their son, Andrew, was born last A ugust. . . . Kit Williams l ives i n Boston and works a t Boston U niversi ty as the as oc iate d irector of their office of residence l i fe. A e v i d e n t by h e r career choice, K i t says t h a t J oyce M cPhetres was most influential i n her l ife at Colby. S ince graduation, Kit has completed her M . B.A. I n her spare t ime she travel , k is, bikes, plays the g u i tar and competes in triathlons. Recently, she came in third i n a duathlon i n New Hamp-

s h i re cal led "Mud, Sweat and Gears." . . . Sam Staley i a uni ver ity professor and policy ana ly t. He and h is wife, S u an, and t he i r daughter, Claire ( born Oc tober 22, 1 99 3 ), l ive in Bellbrook, Ohio. am has written two books: Drug Policy and the Decline of American Cities ( 1 992 ) and Plan ning Rules and Urban Economic Performance , the Case of Hong Kong ( 1 994 ). H is fir t book won

the 1 99 3 i r Anthony Fi her I n ternational Memorial Prize from the A t l as Economic Research Foundat ion for i ts contri bution to an understanding of the func t ioning of a free economy. Stan say� he' become a strong advo cate of drug legalization and is involved in research on Th ird World economic development. He w i l l complete his Ph.D. in public policy and managemen t a t O h i o t a t e Univer i ty i n 1 99 5 . Like many o f you, t a n wi shes h e h a d more t ime t o spend w i t h h i s fa m i ly a n d t o read . . . . That's a l l + f o r now.

Corre pondent: Mary A lice Weller-Mayan

Thanks to a l l who e n t i n their post cards. I f you haven't received your , they are being sent to a porti n of the c las each quarter. John "Gin Pup" Collins announce· the birth of his on, J ac k Martin Coll i n , on J ul y 3 1 , 1 99 3 . . . . Kelli Crump has be gun t u d i e in o c c u pa t i o n a l therapy w i t h an expected gradu a t ion date in 1 99 5 . . . . Barbara Knox Autran pent five years in Pari , France, tudying the French language and c i v i l ization a nd work ing a a consultant in En g l ish language trai n ing. She is now l i vi ng i n New York and teaching E L ( Engl ish as a sec ond language ) i n adult educa t ion. She was married to Frederic Autran of Provence, France, and they are expect ing t h e i r first child . . . . John Buffum was mar ried in October 1 99 2 . John and his wife, Loma, moved to Bristol, R . l . , i n 1 993 and recently were blessed w i th the birth of a daugh ter, Caitlin Devereux Buffum. Leslie Woron Corner married Mark Comer ( Bowdoin '82) i n 1 988. S h e worked i n quanti ta-

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elected a hareholder at the law firm of herburne, Powers & N eedham, P.C. Bradley ha been an attorney at the Bost n firm since 1 988, concen trating in corporate law, mergers and acqui i tion , international transac tion and intellectual property . . . . Massachu erts ecretaryofstate hope ful Peter Forman '80 launched h is ratewide campaign on February 2 and continue to receive a great deal Lawrence D. Bradley '80 of attention from the local pre . Forman currently is minority leader of the Massachusetts Hou e of Repre entative . . . . Bicycle racer J odi J oh nson Groesbeck '81 i gearing up for this summer's "Race Acros America," a 2 ,9 1 5 -m ile route from Irvine, Cal if., to Savannah, Ga., called "the world's toughest race" by Outsider Magazine. Groesbeck was second woman in the Furnace Creek 5 08-mile course through Death Valley, a qualifier for the RAA. She will be one of about 1 0 women among the 25 competitors in the J uly 27 event . . . . Margaret Libby '8 1 recently opened her exhibition, Regarding the Self, Drawing and Paintings, at the Colby M useum of Art . . . . Attorney Mary Rudolph Black '82, profiled in the G loucester, Mass. , Daily Times as part of its " How do I become?" eries, explained the educational proce s involved in becoming a lawyer. . . . Diana Fuss '82, profe sor of English at Princeton University, delivered the Distinguished A l u m na lecture at Colby a part of the potl ight Event tive social research before gradu ate school in 1 990. Their son, Andrew Arthur, wa born De cember 26, 1 990, and their daugh ter, Zoe Elizabeth, was born J une 2 2 , 1 99 3 . Les l i e is l iv ing in Wayland, Mas . . . . Greg Apos tol is vice president at Mass Buy ing Power in Weymouth, Mass. . . . Imogen Mintzer Church fin1 hed an M.A. in higher educa tion ad m i n i nat ion this past summer. She and her hu band, Jay '86, hiked up H alf Dome in Yosemite this pa t fall- 1 8 m iles round-trip in one day . . . . Tom Colt write from Oklahoma City that he caved into the PC move ment and joined a multicultural reading club. "Yes, the force of PC have even made it out here to rhe Sooner rate, where Rush Limbaugh i regarded as a deity ! " Tom's hockey team j ust won the city championship. He led the team in coring, using moves he'd perfected in I- Play C league back at Colby . . . . Kevin Bruen will be leaving the N avy in August 1 994 to take a position a a staff counsel for the United States Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in R ichmond, Va . . . . Carolyn

Caruso Carbone gave birth to Jon�than David on January 2 7 , 1 993 . She i s a deputy manager at Brown Brother Harriman & Co. in Boston . . . . Lauren Russo Chocholak pent three weeks in Europe in the spring of 1 99 3 , pn marily in I taly and Austria. She i expecting her fir t child in J une. Lauren is a manager at the Trav elers Insurance Co . . . . J u l ie Sands Causey' second son, Ben j amin Park, was born February 1 6, 1 99 3 , and he moved to M in ne ota the following April . J u l ie is writing a book and is in the process of starting a company called Economic trategy Group. . . . Linda Carroll received her ma ter' in May 1 99 3 from the University of Vermont in higher education and tudent affairs ad ministration. he i working thi pring eme ter as a study-abroad advi er at UVM . . . . Beverly R ice Tedeschi was married Au gu t 1 4 , 1 99 3 , ro Frank Tede chi in their hometown of H ud on, N . H . They had been friend since high school and started dating after college. Beverly is a biology teacher at Plymouth Regional H igh chool. She was selected a

serie-. . . . John Moore ' 8 7 , owner and operator of the rare Theater in Farmington, Maine, 111ce 19 7 , was featured m the Central Maine Morning Sentinel. Moore i· working to reswre the popularity and romance of the inrown theater agamst the trend towards c inema centers . . . . J am ie Arsenault '88 ha· been named assistant vice pres ident with Hancock Lu mber in Ca co, Maine. . . . Kate Roose vel t '89 appeared in the "Profile of a Quitter" ection of the J an uary/February issue of Vieu· magazine. One of several people interviewed who had given up cigarette , Roo evelt candidly d iscus ed the reasons she began making and why he quit.

MILEPOSTS Births: A daughter, Lind ey Heck!, to Donald and Faith Bramhall Roden.kirk '8 1 . . . . A on , Kyle Christopher, to Paul and Rebecca Badger Fisher '82 . . . . A daughter, Rachel Elizabeth, to Warren '82 and Lisa Kuzia Krueger '84 . . . . A daughter, Eliza cout, to Jeff and Mary Federle Porter '88. Marriages : Warren Pratt '80 to Holly MacDonald in J ack on, Wyo . . . . Cynthia Mulliken '84 to Anthony Lazzara in Evanston, ILL . . . Paige Alexander '88 to Tetsuya Sato in New York, N .Y. . . . Melissa Hallahan '89 to Scott Fairfield in Pittsburgh, Pa. Deaths : R ichard Redlon Jr. '80 in Waldoboro, Maine, at 36 . . . . David W . Santoro '83 in Dallas, Texas, at 3 4 . . . . J ack W. Kleinman ' 8 3 in Wh ite Salmon, Wa h., at 3 2 .

a microcosmos teacher trainer ( a cience education program that involves a curriculum of hands on activities about microbial life) and will be conducting workshops throughout New Hampshire this summer. Beverly report that Miriam "Mim" Redcay Corrigan

wa married in April 1 99 3 W i l l iam Corrigan . . . . Keep mind that our 1 0th reunion i a year. Can you believe i t 1.

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Correspondent: Gretchen Bean Lurie

Whoever -aid that the West Coa t d i d n ' t have fo ur season s ? We've seen the flood season, the drought season, the fire season and mo t recent! y the earthquake eason. Despite the e natural di a ter ( and l 'm fortunate to ay my family and I have been afe throughout ) , the Luries till en joy life in outhem California. My kid love hav ing M i ckey Mou e and h is Magic Kingdom practically in their backyard. We should earn bonus m i les for all our v isit there. My husband, a

journalist, ha the world of en tertainment at his fingert ip·, and I'm able to be at home with Hunter and Paige. Whi le l don't know of too many East Coast transplants from the Class of ' 6, there are a few of us . . . . LPGA teaching profes ional H e l e n e Landers has recently relea ed a golf etiquette v ideo for women titled The Women 's Golf G11ide . Created, written, directed and produced by Helene, the video i� tailored for busmess women wish ing to ease their intimidation about the game . I n add ition to working at the Los Angele Coun try Club, Helene has appeared in ome national commerc ial for N ike, K -Mart and Federal Ex press. he and her hu band, David Toomer, p u rc h ased a hou e they've finally finished remodel i ng after two years . . . . Peter Coley is vice pre ident at Kidder Peabody in Bo ton. H e's worked ex tensively w ith the New En gl and a l mon As ociat ion , a non-profit environmen ta! organ i:ation, and currently erve a t h e i r d i rec t o r/ttea u r e r . . Chapman Ma o can be found in M i nnesota, t i l l buried u nder

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Correspondent : Lucy Lennon Tucker

M e l i s s a Raffoni i s c u rrently i n the m iJ d le of h e r second year a t M I T/Sloan Bu · iness School in Boston. A l t hough she' a bu y tudent, she s t i l l finds t i me to travel and has recen t ! y made trips to Tampa, J amaica and Ecua dor. . . . Beth Healy ha sett led i n to her new job at the Boston Business Journal, where she is a banking and financ ial serv ices reporter. Before leav i ng her j ob in southern Connect ic u t at the

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Norwalk Hour, Beth won an aw<1rd from the Connec t i c u t cha p t e r ,if the Soc iety of Profe.,-,ional J our nali'>h for a story on the economy. he i-, glad w he hack in B,i,ton hut hasn't haJ much spare time tn en3oy what it ha-, w uffer! . . Chris Powe ll wrote fro m b�cx J unc t i o n , V r . , where he I ive' with h i , w i fe, Sus;1 11 , m a hou,e they had built. AftL'r meet ing Sue, who ,el l , gu\'l' i-r1ment "1ftwarc ,ys ten1', Chris moved tl1 Vermon t , q u i t h i , j t ih with J BM a n d j o i n t.:d L OX , where he ,e l l, med icah, ifr W<lre 'Y'tcm,. He , t i l l finds t i me to play plenry of b;1-,ketha l l , but u nfortunately he tore th ree l iga ments in his right knee anJ w i l l unJergn surgery soon. A s Chris ment ioned in his quest ionna i re , l , tllo, f i n d i t hard tO face t h e rea l i ty that we're gett ing older and t ha t our bodies continue to age regardless of how we feel men tal l y ! I heard from Louisa Bell Paushter, who married Rob ert Paushter i n J u ne of '92 on N antucket. Loui a is work ing a coord inator of the Hepat i t i B Preven t ion Proj ect for the Mas . Dept. of Public Health, and Roh i a software developer. They're i n rhe process of buying a hou>e i n N eedham, Mass. Louisa spend her pare t i me k n i tt i ng, rol l erblad ing, read ing, k i i ng and taking care of their two cats. . . . Jennifer Milburn Flaxman , w h o c urrently is work i ng a a n ed i tor, i l i v i ng i n Berl i n , M a s . , with h usband Pau l , a horse, a dog, two cats and their late t edition- on Trevor, born 5/2 3 / 9 3 ! J e n spend h e r spare t i me tak i ng care of her l i t t le bundle of j oy and w r i t i ng her ma ter's the sis. She and Paul also recently bought a house and built a smal l barn s o that J en c a n finally have her h o rs e r i g h t o u t s i d e h e r door ' . . . Marianne Campbell Hocken berry wrote me from Corte Madera, Cal i f. , where she ha· been l i v i ng ince graduation. he started her own busine · in 1 990 as a photographers' agent and ha an office a t the E m b a r c a d e ro i n S a n F ra n c isco. M arianne and musician husband Tim married in December of '92 and a t the t i me she wrote were expec t i ng th.e i r fi r t ch i ld. l t seems a lot of our c lassmate are doing their part to start u p familie these days! . . . That's all the news I

h a v e f o r now . I f y o u have j u ·t comple teJ read ing t h i� column and d idn't see your name i n print, why not write me a qu ick note ?+

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Sara Dick ison

T h a n k glloJ n e >s a landsiJe of tidhits p o pped u p before J was

furced to '>ketch anJ cnl or peo p le ' l i ves on my own ! ( My personal

tale wou l d have me a> ole pro prietor and performer at my own karaoke bar in the islands ! ) But back to rea l ity. Ellen Krause Teplitz report> that she love; her career move as d i rec tor of mem hersh i p for Women in Radio and T elevi ion, an organization in Wa h i ngto n , D.C.; Steven Tep litz i an attorney with Fleishman and Wal h , also in Wa hi ngton, and spec ializes in regulatory work for personal communication sys tems and wireless cable . . . . Greg Lawle s recently moved toward our nat ion's capital as a labor re lations spec i a l is t for Ph i l ip Morri U A in R ich mond, Va. Greg had been in their New York office · ince graduation and has been mov i ng up the H uman Re sources ladder at a pretty ready c l ip . . . . J o "Muffy" Guthrie is in the m idst of a job search in Bo ton and trade me "dirt" on c la · mates for i n terviews. he' kept me up to date with Pam Parker, who works for the Env i ronmental Protec t ion Agency and, accord ing to Muffy, "okays outhouses" in Maine. Pam cur rently re · ide in Chel ea, Maine , w i t h many acres of land, i x cat , two horse ·, two dogs and an eight person outdoor hot tub! . . . Katie Maloney moved back to the Bo ton area after being our west for a b i t and is now work ing as an account liaison in a start-up tele communications company cal led SmarTe l . . . . J got a n ice, newsy letter from Marc Cadieux, who is l iv ing in SanJ o e with DougTurly '87. He writes that both he and Doug are a sistant vice pre ident for c o m p e t i n g b a n k s . ( M arc c l a i ms his bank i better ! ) Other news Marc reported: Mike Paquin is l i vi ng in Oakland, Cal i f. , re b u i l d i ng homes that were de stroyed in the Oakland H i l ls fire a few years ago. John Seidl wa

l i v i ng with him and doing the same work until recently when he moved to Boise, Idaho, to b u i ld h uses there. Dave Rand is in Anchorage, A laska, work ing as a sale· representative fora machine tool company. Marc also wrote t ha t Margaret Foster is l i v i ng in the Bri t i h V i rgin Islands, where she is "ei ther giving kayak rour , .,el l ing sea kayak , or both . " ( Mar garet, plea e feel free to c larify ! ) . . . Jennifer Massengill recently sent a "correction note" that she's recei v i ng her Ph. D. in neurobiol ogy, not immunology, and that she survived the Quake of '94 ! . . . Ellen McCarthy and Rich Mueller are both l i v i ng in the an Francisco area. ( I ' l l expect an update from you guys ! ) . . . Dana Beale c l i pped h i s c lass correspondent' coupon from the l ast Colby and reports that "after graduat i ng from Colby, I i m me d iately started graduate school a t Babson in order to g e t my M.B.A. After that I moved to Dal las to help a friend tart a health club franchi e, so I 've lost touch with mo t of my Colby t ies. I've s ince moved back to Bo ton and cur rently am working as an account manager for a local ad agency. As of Christma of 1 993, I 've been engaged to Cynthia Tedesco from G loucester, Mass. No date has been set yet ." Also on the mar r iage front: congrats to Paige Alexander, who married Tet uya Sato la t March i n New York C i ty, with many Colby fr iends to witness! Paige met her husband w h i le teach i ng English. i n J apan. . . . Nancy Munro is fin i h i ng up her last semester of nursing school at New England Baptist in Bos ton and hope to pursue a pecial i ty in ped i a t r ic s . . . . D o n n a Perrine h a s been i mporting ce ram ic from Hungary and d i trib u ting them to various shop in the greater Boston area. Her new venture, c a l l ed C laymore Im ports, has been doing great. . . . l j ust received the n icest of letters from Tim Mathieu, who writes, "I hope to make 1 994 a year that I can touch base w ith many Colby friends . . . . M uch to my chagrin, when I looked up my v ital statis t ics [in the cla s d i rectory ] , I real ized how out of touch I 've bee n ! " Tim i s an account exec u tive for Add ison-We ley Publ ishing in Read ing, Mass . , and is involved

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Thanks to a l l who sent news. Diane Pearce K e w wrote: '' l 'm onto you-thi i your way of making sure you got some mail-I'm going to have to try i t ! " Diane is the finance director for A ngu K i ng, an i ndepen dent gubernatorial candidate in Maine . . . . J eremy Banks was looking forward to the reunion and aid, "maybe l can finally find out where the library is lo cated. I think there are ome re serve readings that I still need to do for my American studies class." Jeremy is teaching pecial educa tion children in Chaplin, Conn. . . . Suzi Schumann-Newton and Kimberly King found themselves in the ame master's program in Boulder, Colo., in kindergarten through sixth grade education. . . . Inside source told me that Anne Webster and Bill Stauffer are engaged--congrats! . . . Don Darby and Liz Helft '9 1 plan to wed August 6. Don is v ice presi dent of the U .S. west division of College Pro Painters and recently relocated to California . . . . After graduating from law school, Jim Klimek urvived the Ind iana bar exam and i now working for the State Securities Divi ion. He worked on hi bo 's senate cam paign in 1 99 2 . . . . Krisan Even son is applying to Ph.D. programs in poli t ical science to develop a dual M.A. in international policy tudies and French studie she earned at the Monterey I nstitute of International Studies in De cember 1 990 . . . . Kent F i krig received a master' in interna tional bu iness from Thunder bird-American Graduate School of International Management in Arizona last December. H e al o

m e n t i oned something abou t doing "X/M with Turkey and Ma laysia," which must mean some thing to all you busine s types but was lo t on me . . . . Tim Barnard is in hi second year of an Ameri can tudies Ph.D. at William and Mary but will spend next year in pain as a Rotary scholar. Thank · ro Tim, l learned that Rob Gar land is li,·ing in Ne\\'port Beach, Cal if. , with his w i fe, H i ll ary G l i c k m a n . They met at the Monterey l n titute of I nterna tional Studies, where Rob got h is M . 8 . A . , and were wed in Pasa dena la t J uly 4. Tim, Bob Rogers and Tom Cahill were all at the wedding and caught some waveo on Hunt ington Beach. Bob is liv ing in Portland, Maine, and i, i n the insurance bu ines;. Tom is in N . Y.C. and working a a writer for a travel company. H is latest adventure was a trip to Ireland to do some freelance writ ing on an annual matchmaking fest, where he took third place in the Most El igible Bachelor Contest. ( Ap parently he would ha"e placed higher had he not been a Yank . ) In Seatt le, Kelly Doyle and her beau tarted a computer sofrware company cal led Axcecis, wh ile roommate Kate Roosevelt i get tin her master's in pul: lie policy administration at UWa hington. Thanks to Tim for getting all the news! . . . J oe l Tickner was mar ried last summer to J udi th Ernst of Budapest, Hungary, whom he met on an earl ier visit in 1 99 1 . They 're i n M i ssou la, Mon t . , where J oel j ust completed h i master's in environmental stud ies at the U of Montana. He's been researching environmental issues in Hungary and Central Europe and working with Green peace on international pesticide i sues and with the Teamsters on worker health and safety . . . . From N e w York, J e n P i e rc e write , "Ed Barr ' 8 8 and I are add ing ourselves to the ever growing tati tic of Colby grads who will marry next summer." They're planning a wedding in Boston j ust a few weeks after the reunion, which has been compli cated a bit by the fact that Ed was i n J apan for the past year working in the corporate finance group of the Long Term Credit Bank of J apan in Tokyo. Jen ha been at Vogue a an as oc iate feature

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Correspondent: Laura Senier

N ews pours i n I Liza Barber and Sara Mad den have l ived in San Francisco for the pa t two years and love it. L iza works at the San Franc isco Day School and ara manages a new Leam ingsm ith store in Palo A lto. They ay that Sue Beevers took a break from her Boston job w i th AT& T for a visit last August. . . . Al o shar ing an apartment in the heart of San F r a n c i s c o are S u z a n n e Koumantzelis a n d Eileen Kin ney, who both have jobs in sales and marketing for h igh-tech com panies in the Bay Area. Beth K u b i k w i l l be j o i n i n g them

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soon . . . . Lisa Ensign and her husband, Stefan Timbre l l , also l i ve in an Francisco, where Li a is an ed itor for Wad worth Pub l ishing Company. . . . Brad Ol s on and M ichelle Horton '89 were married in J une and are l i ving in New York . M ichelle graduated from Columbia Busines chool last pring and is work ing a an a sociate in investment bank i ng and corporate finance at Smith Barney hearson. Brad i at the Wharton chool of Business for h is M . B.A. . . . Reed Bernhard received an officer' commis ion in the avy in 1 99 2 . He com pleted flight ·chool last Septem ber and relocated to Jack onv i l le, Fla . , to fly ( I hope I get this right ) the S H -60 Seahawk hel icopter ( the one that takes off from and lands on a i rcraft carriers ) . Reed h e ars fre q u e n t l y from Mark Panek, who i s t i l l teach ing En gl ish in Japan, and from Greg Lundberg, who i in N ew York City doing some "su it and tie job." . When l got Lydia Baldwin' letter m January, he had been on the road for about three month and expected to be out of the country at least until Apr i l . Her travels so far have taken her to Europe, where she has spent most of her time in Greece . . . . l also got a letter from Carrie Linn, who is l i v i ng and working i n Paris, France. he re cently got engaged to a French chef, Frederic A rnaud, and they p lan a September wedd ing in Rockport, Mass. Carrie is man ager for an international food business forum and travels all over the world on a monthly basis. She tel ls me that Cindy Tracy is l i v ing and work ing i n Wash ing ton, D.C. , and working on her master's in accoun t ing. Debby Brown works for John Hancock in Boston and took a vacation to vi it Carrie in France recently. . . . Erica Hoffmeister got mar ried in November to Dave Supple,

whom she met in high schoo l . T h e t w o got married in their hometown of N eedham, Mass. Erica's hu band , a N avy p i lot in J acksonville , Fla., was reassigned to the Brunsw ick ( Maine) N aval Air Station in J an uary, and Erica, who got her ma ter' of education from Le ley College in 1 99 2 , is hoping to find a ful l- time teach ing job in the Brun wick area. Her m a i d of h o n o r , E l a i n e Kaufman, is getting her ma ter's in ed ucation at the University of Virgin i a . Also in the wedding party was Leslie Couture, who is l i v ing in aco, Maine, working in Westbrook and fi n ishing up grad school at USM. Erica also tells me that Suzanne Quill, Gretchen Schwarze, Andrea Ciampa McEac hern, Kirsten Rossner and Valerie Bryer Pettit were at the wedding. uzanne graduated from BU Law chool la t May and is working for a large law firm in Boston. Gretchen took a year off fro m m e d i c a l c ho o l at Harvard to attend the Kennedy School of Government but plans to return to med chool in J une. Andrea was married in J une to Shawn Mc Eachern, who plays hockey for rhe Los Angele K ing , so they are now l iv ing in Cal ifor nia. Andrea graduated from Suf folk Law chool last spring and was preparing to take the bar exam la t w inter. K i rsten fin i hed her degree in physical therapy last spring. Valerie married ] i m Pettit last pring, and they now l ive in Waterville, Maine, where Valerie teaches Engl ish at the junior h igh choo l . Other Colby guests at the wedding were Laura Davi '9 1 , Curt Stevenson ' 9 2 , Stephen Davi s ' 9 5 and R ic hard Dav is '65 . . . . I am still at D.C. Heath as a developmental editor in the new technology group. Melissa Ray is a production ed itor in the college d i v ision, Stephen Loynd '9 1 is a copywriter in the adver t i ing department, J eanine Caunt

'92 works with a French editor in the el-hi text d i v ision, Cra ig Mertens '92 is an assistant in the college editorial production group and Beth Foohey '93 i in sales and marketing . . . . Thanks to all who wrote in. Keep the news com i ng ! +

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You may have thought that we were all cap t i ves i n a T u r k i sh prison, but we are bac k ' A bunch of us got together in Bo ton at the A l ley Cat, and we found out what all of you are doing. At the party were: Tris Warren ( working for Donham & Sweeney Architect ), Adolfo Vaal Neto (systems ad m i n i trator for B r i g h a m and Women' Hosp i ta l ) , Blake Lie bert ( work ing at Mass. General H o p i ta! ) , Brian Quinn ( admin istrator for Putnam Investments) , Dave Ford ( not surfing o n the north shore of Hawa i i but, he ays, dog sledding in the Arctic ) , Christine Bonner ( paralegal for Mason & Martin and tak ing I tal ian to enrich her l i fe in the North End ) , Elizabeth Morse ( working for Gov. W i l liam Weld ) , Brian Doherty ( in h is second year at N ew England School of Law ) , Matt Melander ( a research assis tant at BU ) , Jeffrey Nash (first in h is c l ass at Yodeling School and becoming quite a fondue c hef) , J eff Hartwell ( M . B. A . f r o m N o r t h e astern B u s i ness School and still hanging w ith Blake, Dave and Brian-all three l iving suspic iou ly close to a Bea con H i l l pub, hmmm ) , Twisty Gogolak ( who works for Scudder, Stevens & Clark and loves Bos ton and the many Colby grad out and abou t ) , Tom Dorion ( working for Fide l i ty ) , Monise Reed ( working on a master' in music ed. at BU and getting a

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NEWSMAKERS Law student Randall Cutler '9 1 recently won a $ 500 fir t place prize in the N athan Burkan Memorial Competition at t. J ohn's Un iversity of Law for the be ·t es ay on the subject of copyright law. Cutler' paper, which deal with popular music copyright infringement, is entered in the American Society of Compos er , Author and Publi her national competition . . . . The Holden, Mas ., Landmark reports that J ohn Brockelman ' 9 2 , who serves Governor William Weld as an advance man, per sonal aide and trouble-hooter, shuffle the details that can make or break the governor'� publ ic appearance . . . . Peace Corps volunteer Matthew Brown '92 made the new a the manager of a tree nur ery in a town of 5 ,000 in Ghana in we t Africa. . . . Romany Rehkamp '93 and Jennifer Curtis '93 have been named to the Chubb LifeAmerica' management program in Concord, .H. Rehkamp is currently a c u tomer ervice trainer with the in·urance and financial ·ervice company and Curri i an admini nation analyst.

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pleJge 1 " • • • Chri tina Thomp son 1 s c lose ro fini,hme her first hl1ok of r<)etry after ha\· i n g graJuared iwm Columhia with an M . F . A . -he and Andy Bess ( now 111 LonJ,1n after a \ ed r m Florenc e ) J U ' t fin i�heJ a wur arounJ Italy . . . . Tracy Mungeam ( Ch1cag,)) an,[ Ron Barberan ( N . Y . ) are eng,1geJ, hnth wurk tng fnr L C/1.. 1 TPA anJ wm mu ting between the twu c 1 r i e' w ·ee each other. Other engage mcn ts: Steve \\' h i t w orth to rephanie an!!er anJ l ate Car penter to Pam ew ome. The count so far: Married: 2�. En gaged: 1 4, Other: 400. Detm1tely + more to come! Corre pondenr: Katie Martin

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eedham, M a s . . . . J ames Chisholm '9 1 to A lice Bradbury in Quincy, M a s . . . . David Douglass '9 1 to Cathryn Swaffar '92 in Lenox, Mas . . . . Kendra Heywood '9 1 to Daryl Smith '92 . . . . Jennifer Lim '9 1 to David irchman in Bar Harbor, Maine. . . . Christopher McGowan '9 1 to Rachel Weinstein ' 9 1 .

ing for an insurance company; Jeff Bryant i working for L.L. Bean and a radio ration; Fred Bright 1 111 Bo·ron at Cooper & Lybrand; and Laura Henderson is in Connec ticut teaching at a private school. . . . A bunch of us are in an Fra n c i c o : Dave Mumford, an inve ·tment banker for m i th Barney hearson; Rebekah Mitchell, a PR repreenta ti ve for a high- tech PR agency and PR chair for her women' c lub ( she recently placed an article about their fund-rais ing activities in Town & Counrr)• maga:ine ) ; Keith Thomaj a n , doing Teach for America; Chris Overly, Chris Arnold '9 2 , Jared Cornell and Drew O'Brien . . . . In eartle are Charlotte Reece, an inve rment banker who is still k icking the occer ball around; Pete Carpenter, a group repre sentative for employee benefits; and Tracey Johnson, an under writer for a workman's comp inurance firm . . . . Kim Norberg is in Florida and wonders why he l ived in the northea t for 25 year . . . . Tim C h r i s t i a n s e n h a n ' t left t h e Loaf and i run n ing the c limbing wall at the

health c lub . . . . Scott Stanwood is a trader for Tucker Anthony. . . . Scott Stecher is working for a pharmac e u t i c a l c ompany in Georgetown, M as . . . . Ellen Billey is working for Elderhosrel in Boston . . . . Tom Brown i· an ill u trator for a card company ( re member those post cards with the picture of the library rower on them ?-that's what he does ) . . . . Gretchen McCarey i s a CPA for Deloit & Touche. . . Megan Finley is working for the Ameri can Wind Energy As ociation in D.C. . . . Stacy Porath is work ing for a marketing and commu nications firm . . . . Carla Swanson i working for rhe government, wirh the lational Corporation for the Advancement of mall Busine . . . . Matt Greenlaw i rumored to be a stable manager on a farm in Pennsy l v a n i a . . . . Shawn Crowley i s working at Fidelity l nve rment as a com municationsspeciali t, rovingrhe Ea t Coa t, racking up frequent flier m i le , v isiting many friend all over. He says, "I have been pe tering many cla mate about their pledges, so don't make me c a l l everyone-Tum in your

Ir's February and it's cold out·ide a I it \\'ritmg 1n Anne Bow ie' and Gina Marsico's [i,·ina room in Waren- die. ( l 'J forgot ten ho,,· cold it gets here 111 the heart of winter 1 ) Gina 1 working in Augusta with a Head tart program. Anne, who is till in the Admi ion Office ar Cnlby, has given me the grand tnur. First we checked our the ne\\' Big(ger) G' ·-much bigger and no\\' acros the road from Bonnie' . Fortu nately, the menu has ·rayed the ame. Then we headed ro the Fieldhou e, where renovations were completed recendy. New entryway, squash courts, volley ball a.n..i ba kerball court ·, Nauti lu room, aerobic room, ere. very modem, very exciting. I t made m e wish I w a till a Colby student! Fina l ly, our port fac ili ties are a top-norch a our team ! I 'm at Colby for two days to tie up some applications ( I 'm doing the grad chool thing) and to pay a long-awaited dsi r to Career er vices ( now in Eu·ti )-still no job for me 1 • N or roo much new from other '92er over the past few months. Michelle Fortier ent new of her engagement to J ohn Bi cotti , whom he met through Missy Small. I n her wed ding will be Karen Wu, Mary Beth Heiskell and Tricia Bald ridge. M ichelle continue to work for Empire Blue Cross/Blue hie Id and l ive with J im Condron and Doug Oppenheimer . . . . Steve

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Gorin works in N . Y .C. as a sys tem� ..:nginecr for a fi nanc i a l market data r1rnvider. He was married ro Cherlyn Neely '9 1 , and t hey had a baby buy , tephcn Todd , on J un..: 24, 1 99 3 . Con gra t u lat ion ! Cherlyn is in her third year of law school at N Y U . where s h e is pursuing a j o i n t de gree ( J . D. and L L . M . in t a x <l tinn) . . . . I rec e i ved my annual Alumni Fund let ter from Kendra Smith ( head c l a�s agen t ) , who i; now l i v ing in Port land, Ore . , and work i ng for a cons u l t i ng firm. Sh 's abo in grad ,chool for envi ron men t a I e n g i n e e r i n g . • he wrote that Diana Barton and J ason Gleeson l i ve and wmk in N onh Caro l ma and that Ted Bosco. Kevin Smith and Dave Dore are l i ving in Snmerv i l le, Mass. Kendra asked me to thank eve ryone for b e i ng S L l patient about the yearbook, which was held up in product ion due to prob lem with the company. Al l'; well that ends we l l ! . . . Sura DuBow wrote -hor t l y before leav ing a n Francisco ( w here she's been l i v i ng w i th Lance Cabanban) after completing applicat ions for grad school. She's on her way to Ar gen t ina for six months before com i ng to the Ea t Coast for chool in the fal l . . . . J enn Felson wrote that she i work ing as an e l emen tary chool guidance counselor at t h e Gomes c hool in New Bedford, Mass. , where she's been s i nce eptember. She l ives i n Mattapo ise t t , Mass. he a id that Nancy Putnam has re t urned from a year w i th U p with Peop l e a n d i s now home in Florida, with hopes to g 1 back to chool for deaf education, and that Jen Greenleaf is working w i th her brother doing financ i a l i n vest igat ions. he cont i n ues t o l ive with Becky Graham a n d Deb Brown '90 in Boston's Back Bay. Karen Larson work for Liberty M utual in Dover, N . H . Chris Flint plans to attend Spri ngfield this fall i n a master' program in sports management. H e i cur rently working a a teacher's aide in Dover, N . H . , and is a ski i n tructor at Gunstock i n N . H . Jenn v isited with N ancy Putnam, Katie Drowne, J . C . K l i c k , C h ris M a l c o m b , E m i l y Fisher a n d Suzanne Regnier at Ken ' 9 0 and Wendy Westman Egl i n to n ' s Christmas party. . . I 'd person-

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a l l y like to congra tu late Dave Leavy on h is network telev bion debut on N BC's "Name Your Adventur e, " when they made a trip to the office of B i l l Cl inton 's pres secretary, Dec Dee Meyer;. N eedles to say, I wm. su q1ri�ed and q u i te impressed to find Dave on TV m. l wa� fl ipping through the channcls 1 eem' like you' re mak ing a mark on Wash i ngto n , Dave ! . . . Other random news: Lyz Makely is in Bou lder, Coh , pur u ing her M .A . in anthropol <)gy, Elisabeth Miklu i' l i vi ng in Bo tnn, where she's an as i tant manager at a cll1th ing store, and Kristin Short is l i ving in San Franc isco, work ing in ad mis ions at a dentistry chnol and \'olun teeri ng with c h i ldren . . . . l hope all i� well with you all and that your 1 994 ha, been a happy one so far. Please keep in touch. +

em ploye<l by a transc ription an<l ed i t ing company in Cambridge and Sabina King i s in G uatemala work i ng on environmental proj ect' in the Peace Corps. . . . J im Kelley, Rob Isaacson and Aman da White are l i v ing it up in Lon dcm, England. J i m i fini:-,hing up work a an outside ale rep for Sai lfish Toy� and is keeping bu y writ ing. Amanda i employed in Harrod's as a sale rep for Chris tian Dior and Rob is working as a receptionist wh ile train ing to win advanced certification from the Soc iety of British Fight Directors on the side. He is currently put ting together a fight-work demo tape for profes ional use. All three give a big hello to friends an<l fel low alums in the U . . and a pec ial thank to the Brancaccio and K im Gordon forfeed i ng them and fi ll ing them i n on all the

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Hello, Class of l 99 3 . I thank t hose of you who have written to me. Sarah Burditt wrote from Burl ington , V t . , where she i· work i ng for a computer consult i ng firm. She tell me that Lael Hinman is at Northwestern law school in C h i c ag o , C l a u d ia Tejada and Laura Steinbrink are work i ng in Wash ington, D.C. , Anny Mahoney i s in Bend, Ore . , a n d J e n n Cowles is employed by a PR firm in Cambridge , Mass. She al o write that J ay Collins is a paralegal in Chicago, Mike Saad is at law school in Boston, An drea Walker is working for a law firm i n Portland, Maine, Sarah I nman is worki ng for public tele v i ion in Providence, R . l . ( con t i n u i n g Gale Force T h e a t e r . perhaps ? ) a n d Gretchen S k e a i s in Fij i teaching biology in the Peace Corps. . . . Emilie Abair tells me that she i work ing in Cambridge for a non-profit i nter n a t ional exchange program for high chool students. Through work ·he has had the opportu n i ty to travel to Paris, and she often u es the pani h she learned at Colby. E m i l i e wri tes that Ben Merowitz is also employed by this company, Dave O'Shea works i n Portland, Maine, for Mutual of N ew York, Kristin Winkler is

stateside gossip . . . . S tephanie Pu lver is l i v ing in Manhattan and employed by Bloomingdales. . . . I hear that Chris Selicious i s making his way into the New York Stock Exchange scene and that Stephanie Doyon i. also in New York working for a publish ing c o m p a n y . . . . Dave Rea wri tes that he spent last ummer work i ng i n Tokyo for the J apa nese House of Representatives as an ass istant to Rep. Takesh i l waya. At the t i me of h is letter, he wa employed as a legal assis tant in P h i l adelphia and was plan n i ng to go to law school. . . . Alison Thomas ha en tered in to a mi 1 i tary career after fin ish ing up at Colby. . . . Crawford S t r u n k w r i tes from M c Kees Rocks, Pa . , that h e is doing we l l . . . . That's it for thi i sue' + news. Keep writing!

Alumni Homecoming October 7 , 8, 9 Plenty of Colby athletic activity Annual "C" Club Colby N ight Dinner Class of '94 Mini--Reunion Hypnotist Tom Deluca

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Photos Accepted As the wedding eason approache , Colby's editor would like College alumni to be aware of the magazine's policy regard ing the printing of wedding photographs. Because we have in the past received more uch photos than we could print, we cannot guarantee that your photo will be publ i hed. Preference will be given to: photos i n which a l l person featured are current or former Colby students (except, of course, if either the bride or the groom ha no Colby affi l iation ) ; cri p, clear, black-and-white print ( S"x7" or larger); phows for which all person ap pearing are identified by location in the photo, by full name and by c la year on a separate sheet of paper. We cannot guarantee return of photos. Do not send negatives or !ides. If you have a photo you woul<l like to he consi lered for publicati n, send it to: Managing Editor, Colby, Colby College, Waterville, ME 0490 1 .

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KAT H E R I E H ATC H BURR ISO ' 1 9 Katherine Hatch Burrison ' 1 9, a Chri tian Science nur e, d ied April 1 7 , 1 99 3 , in Plan tation, Fla., at 96. She was born in Newton Center, M ass., daughter of H ugh R . Hatch, Clas of 1 890, who taugh t mathemat ics at the College. She was a 1 9 1 2 graduate of Lawrence H igh School i n Fairfield, Maine, and at tended C bum Classical Institute. She taught high school until her marriage i n 1 92 5 . After raising her fam i l y, she was a Chri t ian c i e n c e nur e i n New Jer ey until her retire ment. Survivor include her daughter, Mary Burri on Odel l '48.

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Raymond H. Dan iels ' 2 3 , former president of the Felton Brush Company, d ied November 14 i n Manchester, N . H . , at 92. H e wa a graduate of N ashua ( N . H . ) H igh School and attended Colby before earning h is degree from Yale U n i ver ity i n 1 92 4 . I n 1 966 he retired as the head of the 1 00-year-old Felton Brush Co., the large t brush maker i n the nation. H e was a YMCA president and board pre ident of the Spauld ing Youth Center in Til ton, N . H . He a lso erved as d i rector of the Manche ter U n i ted Way, as d i rector of the A mo keag N at ional Bank and Tru t Co. and a tru tee of the E l l iot Hospital. Survivor include two daughters, Deborah Lovejoy and Ann Hacker, grandch ildren and great-grandc hi ldre n .

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H i lda Worthen ' 2 4 . an interior decoraror, d ied Deceml er 23 in Bangor, Maine, at 92. A n a t i v e of Corinna, M a i n e , he attended Corinna chools, graduat i ng in 1 9 1 . At Colby she was an Engl ish major, president of the women's l i terary soc iety, caprain of the field hockey team and a member of the G lee Club. for 1 3 years she taught Engli h i n h igh chools in Rhode I sland and M assachusetts. After studying briefly at Boston U n iver i ty and Montclair rate U ni,·ersity, she attended the New York School of I nterior Design and made her living in New Jer ey as an interior decorator. She returned to Maine in 1 980. Her many survi vors inc lude her nephew , Ph i l lip Worthen.

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Jack W. K le i n man '8 3 , a geologi t, d ied fol lowing a kayak accident on the W hite almon R iver in Wash ington on February 1 2 . H e was 3 2 . He was a native of Ann Arbor, Mich. , and a graduate of Newark H ig h c hool i n New ark, Del. After earn ing his B.A. from Colby, where h e was the captain of the wood men's team, h e did graduate work in geology at Oregon State U niversity. H e was a globa l posit ioning sate l lite spe c ial ist involved in urveying and i n trument p lacement in a number of remote locales in the U . . and Antarctica and at the t i me of his death wa working for the U. . Geological urvey study ing Mount St. Helens. Survivors include his parent , Ralph and Vicky K le inman, and a ister. Con tributions in h i s memory may be sent to the Geology A l umni Fund at Colb

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J . L e w i s Lovett '28, a long-time sale,man for Fle ischmann D i t i l l ing Corp . , died Octoher 2 8 , I 99 1 , at 9 . A nati,·e of H udson , Ma ,. , he attended the local schools. At Colby he \\'a, a business admin istration major anJ en·ed a ,·ice pre-idem of his senior c lass. H e began h 1� ·ales career in 1 92 with Fir·t Nammal Old Colony Corp. in Boston. I n 1 9 3 7, after \\llrk ing briefly a, a news editor w i th the Hudson News Enterprise and as a teacher at H uJ on H igh choo l , he j oined Fle ischmann. For many years he was acti\'e m Colby alumni c lub activit ies, in A l umni Fund drive and in recru i t i ng students. urvivors inc l ude h i daughter, J ane Lovett, a n d h is brother, Wal ter B. Lovett ' 3 1 .

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Dori To:ier Putnam ' 2 5 , a homemaker, d ied January 2 4 i n Peterborough, N . H . , at 90. he wa born i n Wa hburn, Maine, and attended Lawrence H igh School in Fairfield, M a i ne . he followed several of her family to Colby, where she was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She remained at the Col l ege as a l ibrarian until her marriage to Lawrence Putnam '24 in 1 92 8 . For more than 50 years she wa a home maker i n Holyoke, Mass., where she served as pre ident of the Holyoke Hospital Auxil iary. In Orr's Island, M aine, her summer home , she wa a member of the book c lub and the yacht c lub. She moved ro Peterborough i n 1 980, where h e was a member of the Afternoon Circ l e of the Un ion Congregat ional Church and the League of Women Voters. Survivors include two daughter , Prudence Mann and Constance Putnam Barker ' S S , and e ight grandchildren.

Thomas A. Record '30, a personnel officer, d ied Marc h 28, 1 99 2 , at l . A native of L i vermore Falls, Maine, h e wa a c las officer and president of the I nternational Relation Club at Colby. He tud ied briefly at the M as sach usetts Institute of Technology and did per onnel work with M a ine Stee l , I n c . anJ with the Maine State Employment ervice before tak ing a po ition as personnel officer w i th the U n ionmutual Life I nsurance Com pany i n Portland, M aine. In 1 95 7 h e j oined Casco Bank and Trust Co. of M aine, where he became a vice pres;dent. He was a member of the National Office M anagement A s oc ia tion. urv iving are his wife, Dorothy, three daughters, incl ud ing ancy Record Howel l '62 a n d El i:abeth Record C lemons ' 7 0 , a n d a brother, Frank A. Record '3 .

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Isabel Hazel Clark ' 3 1 , a math teacher, died December 2 4 in Blue H i l l , M aine, at 4. Born in Bo ton, Mass . , she pent mo t of her l ife in Maine. he attended York H igh School in York, Maine, and went on from Colby to receive her M.A. from Columbia University. he taught mathematics at Waterv i l le H igh School for 39 years, then taught in the U n iver sity of Maine ystem for everal year before retiring i n 1 974. A member of the Delta Kappa Gamma honor society for women teacher , she al o wa active i n commu n i ty organization . he is survived by niece and nephew and by her c lose fr iend of 40 year , L i l l ian Greenlaw.

Archer Jordan J r. ' 2 7 , a government econo m ist, d ied J anuary 3, 1 99 3 , i n A lexandria, Va. , at 87. In 1 93 6 , after heading the Writer ' Project gu ide book to America, he accepted a c iv i l service position in Wa h i ngton D.C., where h e wa employed as an economist for the Department of Labor. H e is survived by hi wife, Anne, a son , Archer Anthony J or dan '68, and a brother, Charles Jordan ' 2 9.

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E LEANOR H U BBARD R OG ER S ·32 Eleanor Hubbard Rogers ' 3 2 , a French teacher, d ted December 14 i n Haverh i l l , M as . , a t 5. She graduated from H averh i l l H igh School tn 1 9 2 5 and from Oak Grove em inary in 1 92 8 . At Colby she was elec ted c l ass poet and was a member of Ph i Beta Kappa. Later, she graduated with honors from the U n i versity of Toulouse. She returned to Haverh i l l and taugh t French a t Haverh i ll H igh chool for many year before her ret i rement in 1 964. She was a member of the Daughters of the A merican Revo l u t i on . the Haverh d l H is tor ical oc iety, the H averh i l l College Club and the Haverh i l l Wh ittier Cluh. She i sur v i ved by her brother, A l lan Rogers, n iece and a nephew.

G E R A L D I N E O R M I ST O N C L I F FO R D ·35 Gera l d i ne Orm iston C l i fford ' 3 5 , a srore owner, died December 30 in Hampton, N . H . , at 7 . A native o f Methuen, Ma�s. , �he w a s a graduate of Coburn Classical I ns r i rn te and Chamberlayne J u nior College in Bosron, M ass. , and al o attended Westbrook J un ior Col lege. After her marriage she returned to Methuen, where she and her husband oper ated C l i fford' Ice Cream tand. he wa employed as a sale -person at How lands De partment tore in Merhcun for l 4 year� be fore her ret i rement in 1 990. he belonged to the Lawrence, Mass . , Garden lub and was a member of the Republ ican Town omm i ttee and the M ethuen Chapter of the Daughter of the Eastern tar. urvivors inc lude her son , J a mes C l i fford, her brother, J o h n O r m i ·ton '4 1 , a n d ·everal nephews.

D E A N E L H O D G E S ·35 Deane L Hodges ' 3 5 , a minister with the Connecticut Conference of the United Church of Christ in H artford, d ied February I in Hart ford at 80. A native of Win low, M aine, he graduated from Win·low H igh School. He went on from Colby to the Andover Newton Theological Seminary and received his B.D. in 1 9 3 9 . In 1 94 3 , after serving as m i n ister in Rumford Point, Maine, and Westmoreland, N . H . , he went to England a· chaplain with the 96th I nfantry Division, rece i v ing the Bronze tar for his ervice. He returned to Plymouth, N . H . , where he pastored for 1 3 years. As m i n ister of Christian education and d i rector of youth work for the Connec ticut Confer ence of the Un ited Church of Christ, he set up youth camps i n Jamaica, Haiti and Puerto R ico. After retiring in 1 978, he continued to m inister and coun el and was wri ter, ed i tor and publ isher of the "Saints Letter," a newslet ter for retired m in i ter and their spouse . Among his survivors are h is wife, Abbie, and hi on, Dan iel L Hodges '6 1 .

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M A L C O L M M . P I E R C E '37 Malcolm M . Pierce ' 3 7 , a supervi or w i th GTE Sylvania, d ied in Hyannis, Ma s . , on February 25 at 80. Born in Colchester, Vt., he later moved to We t Lehanon, N . H . , where he attended high .chool. He worked for Gen eral Ice Cream in Burl ington , V t . , un t i l 1 94 2 , t h e n joi ned y l v a n i a Electric C o . in Salem, Mass . , where he wa employed for 3 6 year a a mac h i nist and supervi or for GTE Sylvania. He a lso attended Wentworth I nstitute of Technology in Boston and stud ied e lectron ics at Boston University. He wa a re idem of Danver . u rv i v i ng are his wife, I zabe l , a daughter, a brother and three grandc h i ldren.

f R E D E R I C K C. E M E RY '38 Frederick . Emery ' 38 , a long-time Bangor, Main , phy ic ian, d ied at a Bangor health care center February 1 1 at 7 7 . Born in Charle ton , Ma ine, he wa a graduate of Bar Harb r H igh School. After receiv ing his degree in chemistry from Colby, he earned hi M . D. from Jeffer�on Med ica l College in Phi ladel phia, Pa . , then served in the U . . Navy from l 94 2 to 1 94 7 as a fl ight urgeon in the Pacific Theater. l n 1 949 he opened a pediatric of fice in Bangor. He al o became a c hool phy · ic ia n and a staff member of t . Joseph Hospira! and of Eastern Maine Medical Cen t e r , where h e wa ch ief of ped iatrics f o r 1 7 year�. After h i ret i rement in 1 9 7 2 , he worked a� a phys ican at rhe Un i versity of Maine for 1 0 years. He wa a member of several prl fe ilmal as·oc iar ions. ur\'i\'ing arc h i wife, M ary Herd Emery ' 38 , two daughters and three son , includ i ng Frederick Emerv Jr. '69.

WI L LI AM R. L I TT L E F I E LD '38 W i l liam R. Littlefield ' 38 , a general contrac tor, d ied March 2 in anford, Maine, at 7 7 . A native of North Berwick, M aine, he attended local chool and after graduation from Colby returned to N orth Berw ick, where he l ived unt i l he moved to Sanford in 1 966. W i t h his brother, Roger, he founded Litt lefield Broth ers General Contractors in 1 946. Over the next 3 5 years the company constructed many Sanford-area public build ings. He was a North Berw ick selectman, a member of the school board, the founder of the North Berwick Little League and founding d i rector ofWaban Projects. He i urvived by a son , three daugh ters, a s ister and 1 1 grandc h i ldren, includ ing El izabeth S t i l l ing Brook ' 4.

R U T H C R OW L E Y WE AV E R B RA N D M I R E '39 Ruth Crowley Weaver Brand mire ' 39 , a h igh school teacher, d ied J anuary 1 9 in H igh land, Calif. , at 94. She wa born in Bucks Harbor M a i ne, graduated from Jonesport H igh Schoo l and entered Colby in the Class of ' 2 3 . After

ra i ing her chi ldren, she completed her de gree in 1 9 39. She pur ued graduate work at Laval U n iversite, Boston Un ivers i ty and Colu mbia Uni versity. A faculty member of hool in Augusta, Ma ine, for 2 5 Cony H i gh year , she a lso was a member o f AAUW and pre idem of the Augu ta Women's Business and Profe ional Assoc iat ion . Fol lowing her marriage i n 1 96 1 , she moved to Lindsay, Cal if. , where she was regent of the A l ta M ira chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolut ion and first reader at the Christian Sc ience Church. Her son, Peter C. Weaver ' 5 2 , and her brother, Henry L Crowley '26, predeceased her. She is survived by her son, Edward C Weaver '5 1 , a ister, Mary Crowley Lafleur ' 3 9, and grandchildren, nieces and nephews, including Karen Lafleur '66.

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Margaret Johnson Kenoyer '40, a h igh school teacher, d ied J anuary 20 in Lantana, Fla. She wa 76. Born i n M i lo, Maine, she graduated from M i lo H igh School. A t Colby she was pre ident of the Ph i Mu orority. She taught Eng l i 11 in several Maine h igh c hool , in c l ud ing Ersk ine Academy, Hou lton H igh chool and Foxcroft Academy. After ra i ing a family, she earned a master' degree in educat ion from the Uni vers i ty of Maine at Orono and in 1 96 7 began teach i ng Engl ish and Larin at carborough H igh School i n carborough, Maine. A well as catering pri \'ate parr ies after her retirement from reach i n g in 1 98 2 , ' h e worked as a t o u r escort for a Portland travel company on student trips over eas. he was i n volved in Colby alumni ac t i v i r ie� and wa a member of Delta Kappa Gamma, an honor ociety for women teac h er . Surv i v ino a r e five c h i ldren, including J ud i th Kenoyer Stoy ' 7 1 .

B A R B A RA S K E H A M c Do O U C H 4 1 Barbara kehan McDonough '4 1 , a radio an nouncer, d ied October 8 i n At lanta, Ga., at 73. Born i n Lowe l l , Mas . , she graduated from Deering H igh School in Portland, Maine, and briefly attended St. Joseph's College in Windom, Maine, before entering Colby. A public speaking major, she won not ice as a radio announcer and commentator and be fore her marriage worked for the Columbia Broadca t ing System in Boston. She lived i n A t lanta for more t h a n 4 5 year .

WA LT E R S. S H E RYS '4 1 Walter S. herys '4 1 , a chemical engineer, d ied J anuary 25 in Rochester, N . H . , at 7 5 . A native of Lynn, Mas ., he studied briefly at Harvard before graduating from Colby as a chem istry major. He was a sergeant in the U . . Army during World War I I and received

the Bronze Star and the Purple Heart. After the war he worked as a salesman and purchas ing agent for Porter Forge and Furnace, Inc. in Lynn . I n 1957 he jo ined the General Elec tric Company in Lynn as a chemical engineer and remained with the company until his retirement. He moved to Rochester in 1 974. Surviving is h is nephew, Stanley Sherys.

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52nd General Hospital Unit. After the war he returned to Castine, where he farmed, served as a town selectman and held other town offices. He was a member of the Castine Unitarian Church, Hancock Lodge No. 4 AF &AM and the Castine Golf Club. Surviv ing are his wife, Marjorie, a daughter, a son and four grandchildren.

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A. Francis Thompson '4 1 , vice pre idem of Jannell Motors, died in Weymouth, Mass., at 7 5 . He was a native of Quincy, Mass . , and attended Quincy H igh School. After ·everal years in management and sales with various corporations around the country, he began his 30-year assoc iation with Jannell Motors, even tually becoming v ice president of the com pany. A Weymouth resident for 40 years, he was president of the Weymouth Kiwanis Club and served as Weymouth town chair. He is urvived by his wife, Pau line Foley Thompson '44, a son, a daughter, Dorcas Thompson Jepson '69, and three grandchildren.

Robert F. Nardozzi '49, an attorney, died October 5 in Mt. Ki co, N .Y . , at 67. A New York native, he made the state hi lifelong home after graduating from Colby. He earned his law degree from New York University Law chool in 1 9 59 and in his practice specialized in real estate. A member of several profesional boards, he also was the fir t director of the Narcotics Gu idance Counc il for the town of ew Castle, N .Y . , as well as a member of the town's planning and zoning boards. Sur vivors include his wife, Jean Chickering Nardozzi ' 5 0, three chi ldren and his sister, Barbara Nardo::i axon '56.

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Wendell C. Brooks J r. '42, a lifelong public safety officer, died February 20 in Portland, Maine, at 7 3 . He was a native of Lynn, Ma s., and attended Saugus H igh chool. A oc iol ogy major at Colby, he excelled in football and was president of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. In 1 942 he entered the U.S. Ma rine Corps naval pi lot training program. For hi service in the Battle of the Coral Sea, Pile lieu and Iwo J ima, he received the Dist in gui hed Flying Cros and other c itations. In 1 94 7 he earned h is M.S. from Bo ton Un iver sity in social work. For the next nine years he wa employed a a pecial agent with the Federal Bureau of lnvestigation in Maine. He also spent two years as personnel manager and security officer at Edgerton Germeshausen and Grier, Inc., an electric company con tracting to the Atomic Energy Commission. I n 1 95 6 he was appointed Foreign Service reserve officer and investigator for the State Department, and he spent the next 1 3 years as a police advisor and adm ini trator for the U.S. Agency for International Development in Japan, Hong Kong, Thailand, Korea and outh V ietnam. He returned to the United States in 1 969 a director of security and safety at Brandeis University, where he served until retiring in 1 98 5 . Survivor include his wife, Katherine Howes Brooks '44, daughters and granddaughter .

Arlene Tobey Raroff ' 5 2 , a teachers' aide, died November 2 8 in Exeter, N . H . , at 63. A native of N ewburyport, Mass., he attended the local schools and Mary Washington Col lege. She married shortly after graduating from Colby and devoted much of her rime to raising her fa mily in Hampton, N . H . , where she lived until moving to Exeter in 1 9 79. She worked for a time for Liberty Mutual Insur ance Company and later was employed for several years as a special education teachers' aide and librarian at Center School in Hamp ton. She was a member and past president of the Kiwani Women's Club. urvivors in clude her husband, John J. Ratoff ' 5 2 , a son, two daughters, eight grandchildren and her aunt, Betty Tobey Choate '4 3 .

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John D. Elderkin ' 5 5 , former owner of a car dealer h ip, d ied J une 7 , 1 99 3 , in Boothbay, Maine, at 60. Born in Philadelph ia, he was raised in Princeton, N .J . , and attended Tabor Academy in Marion, Mass. He left Colby in 1 9 5 4 to start a used car bu iness in Boothbay Harbor, Maine. While wintering in Florida in the 1 960s, he also operated several mobile home parks in the state. A licensed capta in, he cruised the !ntercoastal Waterway from Maine to Florida numerous time aboard his yacht. He retired in 1 990. He is survived by his wife, Jacqueline, a son, two daughters and four grandchildren.

Philip B. Babcock '43 , a farmer, d ied Novem ber 30 in Ca tine, Maine, at 7 5 . He was a graduate of Hebron Academy. He left Colby prior to his graduation to serve during World War I I in the U . . Army Medical Corps,

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J ane Thayer Hutchinson '72, an accountant, died J anuary 10 in Novato, Calif. , at 43. A native of Concord, Mass . , ·he attended Con cord Carl isle High School. he worked in the accounting department of the Perini Build ing Company in San Franci co. urvivors incl ude her parents. Marble ' 3 8 and Ha:el Wepfer Thayer ' 3 7 , and a sister, Barbara Thayer Barry '74.

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Margaret Koons M i l ler, retired Colby profe sor of art h istory, cl ied Fehruary 1 3 in Waterville, Maine, at 76. The daughter of a minister, she was born and educated in Se,1ul, Korea. She graduated cum /au.de from the Col lege of Wooster in Ohio and pur ued graduat1: studies at Oberlin College and Columh1a University, where she wa named a university fellow. In 1 9 39 she received a Carnegie Art Scholarship to study at the Sorbonne in Pari . During World War 1 1 , she served with the American Red Cross in Okinawa, Japan and Korea. In 1 9 50-5 1 she received a Fulbright Scholarship for study in I taly and was named a fellow of the American Academy in Rome. he taught art history at the University of Rhode I land, at Smith College and at Colby from 1 9 7 1 until her retirement in 1 98 2 . he and her husband, Profe or of Art Emeritus William B. M iller, traveled extensively. She was a past president of the League of Women Voters in Waterville, erved on the North Kennebec Regional Planning Commission and was active in the Beyond War movement. Survivors include her husband, her twin brother, Dana Professor of Geology Emeritu Donaldson Koons, two daughter , a grandson and nieces and nephews.

A RT H U R HAUC K , 0. L I T. ·53 Arthur A. Hauck, D.Lit. ' 5 3 , former presi dent of the University of Maine at Orono, d ied October 7, 1 99 2 , in Camden, Maine, at 99. I n the years following his graduation from Reed College in 1 9 1 5 , he served education in a number of capacities before becoming the University of Maine president in 1 934, a po t he held until 1 9 59. He was awarded honorary degrees by everal colleges and universities. After retiring, he was director of the Wa h ington International Center for the Ameri can Education Counc il in Washington, D.C. He wa a member of the U . . Advisory Cam mi sion on Educational Exchange, the Coun cil on Foreign Relation and the Canada Un ited State Committee on Education. He also served as president of the Nat ional Asso c iation of State Universities.

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Ode to Mark 1 re ad with great sadness of the d ea th of Mark Frisch ' 7 1 ( August

The a l w a ys welcomed Colby ( M arc h ) h ad the exce l lent " H mvest

ing the Apple Orchard" h y S te ph e n Clll l in� '74. or ' i nce I was t h e o n l y stude n t in C la�� i c a l Greek in 1 9 4 7 u nder Dr. W i l her t Carr ha, anyth ing from Colhy c h a l l e ng ed me mo re . Tl1 the c, 11npu ter- le-,, grandfather ge n e r a n on , t h b u pdat e on t h e c , 1 1l e ge\ w.er-friend l ine,, w i th computers reveal, how CL1mputer ha\'C enh,m ced contemp<irnry educatinnal methods. Ynu w i l l , perhap , under,tand how sa t i,fy ing I found it that Cl 1lby s t i l l rel ic� ,m honb, "9, 3 7 0 boo b bnrrnwed from other l ihrarie� la-,t year," and Cnl l im\ pitch for " d i rec t , p e r ,on - to - pc rs l 1 n con tac t . " W h e w 1 T h e latter perm i ts my ask ing t h a t tudent'>, h o\\' e v e r rarely, writ<.' letters to t h e i r c om p u tc r -l e s ' g rand p are nt . lt cou Id he profira hle 1 Gilbert

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e nc e ( " Peri Cllpe," J anu �ir y ) . ln A p r i l 1 99 2 , \\ ' e tnok a fam i l) \ ' arnr i nn w E u ro p e . W h i le in the Netherlands \'is1ting Merri lee Bonney ' 7 3 , a Colb y roommate nf m i ne who l ive' in P 1jnac ke r , we we n t to the Rijbmuseum in A m sterdam. Me r r i l ee spot t ed a you ng woman with a Cn l h y sweat h i rr on. We struck up a conver-,a t ion and learned that she was a o l b y student s tu d y in g abroad that sem s r e r . Th ere we all were, rand ing i n the R ijksm useum-rn·o C, 1lhy g rad s , one from C a l i f orn i a and one from t he Netherland , ;md on e Colby student who was t ud y i ng in Fr<1nce ( I think ) . I i m ag i ne you w i l l get many i n tere · t mg s to rie · .

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DeComier Lauded Thank you for runn ing the profi le of Robert DeCorm ier '43 in th e N ovember 1 99 3 issue of Colby. Bob ha· been w ide ly ac c l a i m ed i n professi onal music c ircles but until now rarely connected to Colby, where he c u l t i vated his early interest in music, and l ittle known for h is out tanding career, even among member of the Class of 1 9 4 3 . Yo u r article has remedied that, and all of us must be gratefu l .

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Thanks for the Memories The �tory t it led ''Ru ·s ia n Tales" ( Marc h ) wa of particu lar interest to me, ince I spent too hort a vacation in St. Peter burg two year ago

j ust at the poin t when the old Com m u n i t domination wa toppl ing. I'd like to go again, but as 1 am nearing 88 it is ;:i l i ttle iffy. Colby, which u · e d to be the Alumnus when Dr. Libby edited it, continue to be of s p ec i al intere t to me. I edited the Echo in 1 92 8 and

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1 99 3 ). Mark wao m y c loses t remain ing friend from Colby. Unfortu nately, after moving to England in Oc t o b er of 1 989, I lo t contact with him. I would l i k e to re la t e a few sh a red moments pent with Mark. I think of them not a memoric h u t as i l lumination . M ark and I wou ld often drive to Colby from h is parents' home in Yonker'-. He owned a sporty BMW, compac t and elegant, very much l i ke the ow n er . W h e t h er it w<1s a c r isp da y in ea r l y a u tumn or a dark, -,nowy l llle i n January, our shared space wa alway graced by h i bnll ianr presence. Hl' ex uded a relaxed b u t critical energy that made the hours pas' l i ke moments. I often regretted our ar r i v a l . After graduating frnm C o lb y, I moved to Colorado. When I returned to New Yor k , I would u � u a l l y pay a \'is i t to Mark . The de c o r of hi, apart m l' n t was a l w a y s llll the c utting edge of ·tyle. Hi French Prov i nc inl a rm c h a i r-, \\ ere i l l u m i m 1 t ed by halogen spots, nml his small k i t c h e n wm. ou t fi t t ed with tate-of-the-art fixture and appl iance . nc might h av e e xpec ted the e ffe ct to be harsh an d cold, but Mark's warmth t em pe re d the space and you could feel your elf melt in hi grac ious glo\\'. H e was alway, entertain ing and cooking for his fri end s . He wa-, one of t he mo't generou> people l have e v e r k nown. H e lea v e -, w i th me the ev er- p re ent glow of his extraordinary m md . I m iss ;md lo\'e him.

1 929. During the Great Depre sion, that experience helped me supplement my salary as a bank bookkeeper and teller-probably to the extent of $ 1 0 to $20 a week. Ernie Miller

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