Colby Magazine vol. 84, no. 3 by Colby College Libraries

Things you can't get along without

Your gift to the Alumni Fund makes a big difference to Colby. We couldn't get along without it. THE CAMPAIGN

Unrestricted annual gifts provide the College with critical flexibility to allocate funds where they're needed mo t, from faculty support to enhanced library resources. Join the thousands of alumni, parents and friends who are shaping the future of Colby

1996 Alumni Fund

with their support of the Alumni Fund.

IN S ID E

COVER STORY START l N G GATES Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. says personal succe s hinge on " inventing" oneself. 12

FEATURES A LT ERNATE ROU TES Up mountains, across oceans, through deserts: Colbians take the path of most resistance. 16

T H E IVORY TOWER RECONS l DERED Robert Weisbrot, this year' Senior Teaching Award w inner, reflects on the value and values of higher education. 8

DEPARTMENTS 4T H FLOOR EUST IS 2

G I FTS & G RANTS 30

PERISCO PE 3

PAG IN G PARENTS 32

FROM T H E HILL 4 FACULTY F I LE 22 BOOKS & AUT HORS 26 STU DENT L I FE 28

M U L ES ON THE MO VE 34 ALUM N I AT LARGE 36 O BITUA R I ES 72 READERS W R IT E 75 FINAL PERIO D 76

ALUM N l PROF ILES Ed Waller '49 42 Myron "Pinky" Thompson '50 47 Linda Pushee Mercer '69 52 Charles Terrell '70 60 Katherine Cowperthwait '9 1 69

Colby Volume 84

Number 3

Colby Staff: Sally Baker cxenaive editor J. Kcv1 11

Cool

Just Did It

manaKinK ediwr

Brian� rccr lffl direcror/de;iK1ter

The he�t part ;-1hout thi� jnh is also the wor�t: while interviewing anJ telling the tories of fo�cinating people who have h en to exotic place-, you mu;t enJure the fact that they've

Karen Oh '93 de:,igner

heen place;, and -ecn thing that you haven't anJ prohahly never will. That' why, after completing an article like thi:- i:-.suc'

R,,berr Gilksric Alt1mni ar LarKe ediwr

'tcphcn Cn ll1m '74 Lynn Sullivan '89

point, really. The pt)int is not how many place you've heen but th richne

swff 1.M·i1cn

Contributing Photographers:

Sccltr Perry (cover); con Davi:, (reunion photo,, tn>iclc frnnt o.Jver)

so many of them go heynnJ the trnJitional. These experience aren't po tgraduate fling acros Europe, cutting a ·wath through toney di cothe4ues, or elf-initiated exile on the French Riviera whsidi:cd hy an au pair placement. with a capital A. Climhing mountains in hack. Riding

t),

the e excur ion are aJventure

epal. Traver ing the lndian de ert on camel

mntorcycle through Vietnam. Thi- i the kind of tuff we read al: out in

National Geogrnphic. The alumni featureJ in rhi- tory

arc

repre entative of the be t liberal learner . They

are master::. at aJjusting to their environment, experts at i:ing up ituation and figuring out olution-. They're competent, confident anJ committed. Their challenges aren't all

Administration:

W1ll1am R. Cutter, J>rc>idenr; Peyron R. Helm, vice /Jresidem for de1do/nnenr and al11mni relarions; Earl H. mith, dean of the College; Susan Conant Cook ' 7 5 , director of alumni relarions Alumni Council Executive Committee:

Ron Lupton ' 7 1 , chair; Joanne Weddell Magyar '7 l. vice chair; Libby Corydon-Apicella '74; John Devine '78; Su an Jacobson Ne>ter '88; David Wh i te '75; Anne Hussey '80; Lou Richardson McGinity '67; Diana Herrmann '80; Thomas Dailey '80; Arthur Brennan '68; Patricia Valavanis Smith '80; Leslie Mitchell '80

that much different from those faced in everyJay life, hut the stakes are higher. Me s up and you could die. And there's another quality that set apart the people who get off the well-marked trails in the mo-t remote parts of the world. They alway strike me a calmer, more compo ed, more humble. I hope the experiences the·e alumni have enjoyed invoke in you, a they do in me, a sense of wonder and reverence for the breadth of human experience. But don't be alarmed if they also make you want to chuck what you're doing and pack your crampons.

J. Kevin Cool Managing editor,

Colby i published four times yearly for the alumni, friends, parents of students, seniors, faculty and staff of Colby College. Address correspondence to: Managing Editor, Colby 4181 Mayflower Hill Waterville, ME 04901-8841 or e-mail to: mag@colby.edu

A U G U ST

of the experi

ence;, you have had. In a way, ·wric like chi� one <lre therapeutic and vicariously enriching. What makes the story about Colhy alumni', aJvcnture particularly intere ting i that

Anc>tc' Fnnadc,' 9 Jennifer Aeng'r '95 Alicia NcmiccolP '97 Alex Howard '98 editorial assistanl.5

C O L BY

wry ahout adventurou- alumni, [go home and

complain to my wife that I'm almu�t 40 anJ �till haven't een Tanzania. Which mi es the

1 995

Colby

Periscope Still Harping

Rock Stars

Remember James "Bo" J ustus '96 ( a hville, Ten n . ) , who escaped a peeding ticket on 1 -9 5 b y showing a state trooper a harp in h is trunk1 The officer, who sarcastical ly a lleged that Colby students thought they were "a bunch of angel ,"didn't bel ieve Bo when he said he had a harp and offered to let h i m go if it was true. It was. Well, Bo was in London on the Colby program this pa t spring. He got to m issing h is harp and went to a London music tore to rent one. While he wa there he ran into the organizers of the I n terna tional Folk Harp Festival, being held in Edinburgh, Scotland. He accepted their invitation to participate and fin i hed e ighth of 1 25 in the competition.

Two geology majors, Matthew O'Connell '96 ( Brookfield, Mass. ) and John Baptiste '97 ( Mendon, Mass. ), were selected as summer research interns at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia niversity, one of the world's premier geologic research inst itution-. Only one other olby student, Heather Hall '90, ha ever been chosen. Another geo major, Ch ris Dawkins '97 ( M urfree boro, Ten n . ) , was awarded an intern h ip at the Center for H igh Pressure Research at Stony Brook, another nat iona lly competitive program.

Director Ben Ben Jorgensen '92, w ho rook

the temporary a ignment t h is year as d irector of student activities, has been given the j ob on a con t i nu i ng ba i . Credited with bringing Colby's COOT program up to snuff, Ben h a tackled the j ob thi year vigorously, bringing h igh prai e from both tude n ts and peer .

World View

Colby t h is year received 474 appl ications from international srndents representing 87 countries, of whom 1 04 were offered ad m is ion. Of that n umber, a many as 37 are expected to enro l l . They w i l l arrive under t h e flag o f Argentina, Bolivia, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Ecuador, England, France, H ungary, I nd i a , Ireland, J apan, M a lay ia, Pakistan, R ussia, Spai n , South ' . Korea, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, Ukraine and Z imbabwe.

Colby Pride Holistic Belief and Aristotelian Akrasia ( ic ) , a paper by Senior cho ar Caleb Mason ( Bethe da,

Md. ), was one of rwo sharing the first prize at the recent New England Undergraduate Ph ilo ophy Conference held at Tufts U n iversity. . . Michael Doogue '97 ( Braintree, Mass. ) , a phy ics major, has been selected a a ew England Colleges Fund ( ECF) Scholar . . . . Pre ident Bill Cotter received an honorary doctor of laws degree at We tbrook College during the commencement eason.

Patriot Names W h i le it is wel l known that Samuel Francis Smith,

professor of modem language at Colby from 18 3 4 to 1 84 1 , was the author of the anthem "America," few have known of Colby's t ie to the "Pledge of Al legiance," in pired by J ames Upham of the Class of 1 860. A 1 89 2 approached, Upham, who had become an editor of Youth's Companion, was determined to

Gleaned by Dean Earl H . Smith from h is weekly campu newsletter, FYl

rekindle national pride for the Columbian Exposition that would commemorate the 400th ann iversary of Columbus' voy age to the Americas. Upham and fe llow editor Francis Bel lamy lobbied Pre ident Benja min Harrison and the Congress for the national Columbus Day hol iday and were put in charge of Jeve loping a special program for schoolch i ldren. At Upham's behest, Bellamy wrote the "Pledge of Al legiance" for the chi ldren to read on the first Columbus Day, October 1 2, 1 9 2 .

H i H o Silver The Council for the Advance ment and upport of Education ( CA E) has notified Colby Managing Editor Kevin Cool that Colby has won a Silver Medal for periodical staff writ ing. Magazine pieces by Cool, Sally Baker and Steve Collins '74 were judged among entrie from 43 other colleges nation wide. One gold, two silvers and a bronze medal were awarded.

To Name a Few Miriam Bennett, W i ll i a m R .

K e n a n Jr. Professor of Biology e merita, wa selected by her alma mater, Carleton College, to receive the 1 99 5 Alumni Award for Distinguished Ach ievement. The award recognize her extraord i nary career as a teacher and research scholar, i nclud i ng two decades a a respected member of the Colby facu lty . . . . Amie Yasinski has been elected chair of the board of the M id - M a i ne Med ical Center.

Moosecellaneous Lest we im·ite future capers, we probably shouldn't mention that the mule tatu e was given zebra stripes one n ight during enior Week. Moose antlers would have been easier to remove . . . . Th is year's Commencement class marshal was J ames Porter of Waten·ille. J im is the n inth \·aled ictorian from the state of Maine in the past 1 1 years . . . . Stu-A Pre ident Bryan Raffetto '95 ( H ingham, Mass. ) and Devin Colman '98 ( orth Oaks, M i n n . ) won a special pri:e offered by trustee Al ida Camp by giving a new name to Colby's student non-alcoholic programs-MOOSE CAFE (More Opportunities of Superior Entertainment with Colb)' Alcohol Free Environment). ever mind

that the "of' should be "for". Alida <lid not like the non alcohol ic label; it wa too negat i ve, she said, and altogether boring . . . . Colby's d i ning service, Sodexho, has made a $ 1 75,000 contribution to the College for k i tchen improv�ments and the purchase of new d i ni ng h a l l furni h i ngs. . . Trustees ha e set a goal of having all of the residence h a l l hard wired for computers by September '96. . . H . P. Cum m ings Construction Company was the low bidder and is the contractor for the new O l i n Science B u i lding, already o n t h e rise and slated for comple t ion by the fall of '96.

AUGU

1995

CO LBY

Different Ways of Making the Grade U

sing Colhy trustees,

cnllcgc! Lio high >.chool

college �tudent�. Fifteen

overseers and rru�rccs

patterns predict lifetime

percent of the respondents'

emeriti as a sample popul;1-

succcs ! Arc there s1gn1f1cant

grandfather� ancl 9 percent

tion of all Colby alumni,

pattcrn:-i of college activity

of their grandmot her had

President William Cotter

and behavior that foretell

attended colle ge . Twenty

and Alisa M ;.i sson ' 9 5 re

post-grnduare :-ucces:-i!"

five percent of the respon

cently conducted a �tudy rn

One of rhe mo�r striking

dents' father and 24 percent

determine whether academic

finding:-. llf the survey, which

and cxtracurricul;.ir �uccc>.s

received 86 completed

�ignificrnr pattern in the

college. Ma on noted that,

in high school and at Colhy

rcsprn1:-,c:-, out of 96 mailed

h<ickgn 1und of thc:-ic . uccc��

by compari�on, 9 1 percent of

were valid predi ctors of

quc,tionn;1ircs, wa� thar the

fu I Cnlhy alumni," Cotter

the father and 90 percent

"success" later in life. Might

<1vernge GPA nf the re:-.pon

;md Mas on oncluded.

the mother� of the Cla

:-.tudy i:-i the l<ick of <111Y

of the mother had attended

their success in college he

dents (2.55) paralleled the

"Indeed, the great vari ty nf

1998 had college education

measured to disco er

avernge GPA for all �tudcnti>.

thl.'ir experience:-. reinforce

and nearly half had gone

whether fuwre Colhy stu

Considering the phenom

rhe genernl confidence in the

graduate school.

* Two-third of the

enon of grade inllatinn,

liberal arts philosophy of the

according ro Cot ter , there

College, that each tudcnt

mother· of the re pondents

satisfied that we know what

wa::. little variance between

can find anJ fulfill her or hi.

were hou ·ewives, although

characteristics in applicants

the average GPAs regardles::

unique pntentie1l in a multi

:,ignificant number were

will translate into a successful

of era. The �urvey alsu

tude of disciplines and cxtra

teacher , bu ine women and

curricul;-ir opportuni ties. "

other profe ional . Among

dents have similar prnmise!

"At Colby we arc fairly

Colby student and who will

revealed that there is no

contribute to a dynamic

particular formula for succe�.

Among the find i ng�:

campus life," Cotter said.

at Colby. "The mo t pro

"But what about success after

found conclusion of thi�

Many of the re pon

dent were fir' t-generati nn

the father , 64 perc nt were in bu ine s, 17 percent were doctor

lawyer .

No S ingular Sensation United

I t has been a n eclectic

rates in "Sole of the

West: The Art and History of

summer at the Colby Mu seum of Art. Exhibitions

Cowboy Boots." Organized

ranging from Oriental rugs

by Sheila Kollasch, curator of

to cowboy boots were fea

the Desert Caballeros West

tured at the museum be

ern Museum in Arizona, the

tween June and

exhibit showed the inlay and

eptember .

overlay, precision titching

Concurrent exhibitions in

and hand tooling produced

June included "City, Village and Encampment: Oriental

by third- and fourth-genera

Rugs in Context" and

tion boot makers. From August 9 and

"Winslow Homer: Wood

continuing until October

Engravings Portray America,

25 the museum is featuring

1857-1874." The exhibit of weaving featured 70 Oriental carpets and other utilitarian

Wi n s l ow Homer's

an exhibition of photograph

Gathering Berries.

by William Wegman, best known for photographing

items from the Near East.

Lee Fernandez '55 and

his 40th class reunion at

Rugs, saddlebags, salt bags,

Patricia Davidson Reef of

Colby. It featured 1 14 wood

Weimaraner dogs dressed,

camel trappings and tent

Falmouth, Maine, made up an

engravings from the museum's

for instance, as characters

decorations, including many

exhibition depicting Ameri

permanent collection.

one-of-a-kind masterworks,

can 19th-century life.

were shown. Winslow Homer prints donated by Colby alumnus

COLBY

A U G UST

1995

Beginning on August 2

Sleeping Beauty. The

show, titled "Mainely Weg

Fernandez, who served as

the museum showcased more

mans," also features quilts

guest curator, mounted the

than 40 pair of Western-style

produced by Wegman's

exhibition to coincide with

boots from all over the

sister, Pam Wegman. +

* More than 70 percent of the respo ndent had atte nded public h igh school; nearly three-fo u rths were very active in high schoo l ex trac u rric u l ar activit ies, includ ing nearly a third who led student g vemment off ice . More than two - th irds had wo n academic awards in high school and abo u t half too k honors c l a ses. * The a erage \·erbal SAT among the re "pondents wa 589 and the average math core wa 577. * The respondents in the survey majored in 15 areas while at Colby, altho ugh nearly 70 percent were concentrated in five major -adm in istrative sc ience, economics, Engli h, history and government. * One- third rece ived financ ial aid; more than half worked during co llege. The respondent were very invo l ved with extrac urric u lar

activ ities at college, al though not quite as exten sively as at high school. * early one-half had won some kind of academic award, 20 percent had been pre idents of fraternit ies and ororit ies and 10 percent had been ars ity team captains. * T wel e percent had t udied abroad, 24 percent had partic ipated in indepen dent tudies. "One of the mo t hearten ing f indings of the survey was that when asked to name one or more professor who had a particularly strong positive influence on them, the respondent listed 2 different ind ividuals," Cotter aid. "Thin -eight fac ulty were li ted more than once." That list included Charles Bas ett, Mark Benbow, Cliff Berschneider, K ing ley Birge, Archille B iron, Joe Bishop, eelye Bixler, Pat Brancac c io , Walter Breckenridge, David Bridgman, Alfred

Chapma'1, Webster Che ter, Edward Colgan, Alice and Ermanno Comparetti, Galen Eu t is, Paul Fullam, Hank Gemery, Jim Gillespie, J an Hogendorn, Don Koons, Mike Loebs, Tom Longstaff, Al Mavrinac, Bill Miller, Paul Perez, Bob Pullen, Hal Raymond, Peter Re, Bob Reuman, Gordon Smith, Robert trider, Gus Todrank, Le ter Weeks, Peter Wester velt, William Wilkinson, Ralph "Roney" W ill iams and Walter Zukow ki. Almost two-thirds of the re pondents obtained adYanced degrees. H igh GPAs obtained as under graduates were an important factor for those who entered Ph.D programs and, to a le ser extent, for those who went to medical choo l . However, those who attended law or busines chools had GPA that were essentially the average for the entire group.

H igh GPAs were not a predictor of f inanc ial succe among the survey group. The average G PA of those who have made capi tal gift of at least $ 100,000 to Colby was 2.52. Of that group, 56 percent either were econ omics or administrative c ience/business majors, 44 percent earned M .B .A.' or law degrees. "Given that many f the re pondents were fir t generation college students, i t seems clear that strong work ethics and leadership capab i l i ties are charac teris tics shared by many of the people in our urvey , " Co tter said. Cotter say the opportu nity to collaborate on the proj ect with a student made it particu larly meaningful. "Al isa d id a wonderful job," he said. "She was responsible for hour of data co llection and anal sis. She made the proj ect a ucces . " +

A Prized Speaker During a potlight lecture April 27, Dori Kearns Goodwin '64 delighted an overflow crowd i n the Page Commons Room w ith colorful anecdote and in ightful commentary about life inside the Roo evelt White House and the Johnson Administra t ion. Goodwin' appearance came j ust day after the announcement that she had won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Hi tory for her book No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Ameri can Home Front During World War II. Goodwin, who e earlier book Lyndon Johnson and che American Dream drew heav ily from her own experience working with Johnso n , de cribed a man consumed by ambition and driven by a de ire for immortality . She said vi i tors to Johnson's T exa ranch were rewarded w ith gift bearing L BJ ' likeness or name, and each succeeding v isit produced a larger, and in Johnson's mind, more de irable,

LBJ o uvenir. I t's a charming story, but, Goodwin said, i t r e ealed -omething about the man who "willed him elf to d ie" in the last years of h is life becau e he was no longer powerful and in control of events. Goodwin used the major portion of the lecture to de cribe the l ive of Franklin and E leano r Roose ve l t , a couple she aid most h isto r i ans now agree formed the mo t effect i ve president/f irst lady team i n U .S . h is tory. The Roosevelt White House wa i nhabited by a ca t o f interesting, e nigmatic c haracters, acco rd ing t o Good win. Because po l io inhibited h i physical activity, she said, the president su rro u nded h imself w ith people he enjoyed talk ing to , and co nversat io n prov ided o ne of h i s f e w o u t lets for re laxatio n . Despite his physical l i mtta t io n , Roosevelt energized and passed h is strength o f character t o t h e nat ion, s h e s a i d , e v e n a s his own body was deteriorating. Meanwhile, Eleanor traversed the country working with variou disenfranchised egments of society to improve working conditions and opportunities for the poor. Her efforts in promoting social ju t ice were years ahead of her time and inspired President Roosevelt to even greater heights, Goodwin said. +

A U G UST

1995

C OLBY

No Small Fete LuJy '2 1 and P;-icy Levine

'27 have �hareJ a Int of tneab at Colh y nllege, perhap�

Europe. Rut at her dinner

change� I'd he fired, hut J

�he a�ked to honor the

lasted eight year� and only

Pre�ident William Cotter got

h;1ppines� of the occa�ion hy

quit to write the book."

none leavened with ;1s much

a laugh when he said, "When

�11e<1king ahout anything

laughter and gl)t)Jwill a� the

except the Hnlocau:-.t.

dinner in Robert� Uni<m nn

Dnwn�tair!>, Gates vi�ited

"When I was appointed

Saturday, May 27. The

Introducing the Levines,

I first came to Colby, they

all the table�, where he was

were very young." Ludy, now

introduced hy John D.

96, and Pacy, 90, work daily at the clothing store their

Levine brother�. whl)Se pride

father founded on Main

in anLI gcncro�ity toward

trect in Waterville. They

Colby arc legendary, gnt hack

remain fixture in the press

from the College a healt hy

hnx and along the ideline at

portion of grntitude at the

football games and other

traditional dinner for

Colleg athletic events.

hon orary degree recipients on

Recalling when the

the eve of Commencement.

Alumni Office first wanted

While the Le \ ' ine� and

Commencement speaker

huy computer to keep

alumni record , Cotter said

Henry Louis Gates Jr.

he was keptical: "I had

addressed separate dinners

talked to Ludy and Pacy,

downstair· in Roberts, Judith

and they knew everything."

Magyar Isaac -on spoke to

On a more serious note, he

dinner guests who gat hered

told dinner guest , and the

honor. Isaacson is an author

Judith Magya r Isaacson receives an honorary degree from President William Cotter at the May commencement ceremonies

and a former mathematics

dean at Bates, Jewi�h al u mni

on the econd floor in her

lecturer and dean of students

aid they couldn't believe it,

Commencement convoca tion the following day, that

MacArthur Associate

many students could not

Profes-or of Anthropology

have attended Colby

ocinlogy Cheryl

without the Levines'

at Bates College. A native of

and they predicted I would

and

Hungary, he is a survivor of

have trouble," he ·aid. "J

Town end Gilke . After

the Auschwitz and Hessisch

never had any trouble for

dinner he read pas ages from

generosity to the College, to

Lichtenau concentration

being a Jew, but a, a wo

the introduction to hi� memoir, Colored People,

scholarship and to student

man-as a woman dean of

1990 memoir, tells of her

student in charg of men

which began a a letter to hi

good hirt on credit has

experiences under German

try to ell that to security,"

daughter explaining why his

benefited generations of

imprisonment and a a

sh said. "I thought I would

family's origin are important

Colby students.

displaced person in post-war

last a year and make o many

camps.

Seed of Sarah, her

him. There is for all

groups, he said, a private

Four--Whee l D ive Departing students have left behind many inter sting items in the past, ranging from pet lizard to old ofas, but until this year nobody had discarded an automo bile. In what Director of Security John Frechette said

Frechette said, and the car was easily removed. Frechette said that the car was deliberately driven into the water. "The keys were in it," he explained. Attempts to contact the owner of the vehicle were unsuccessful, Frechette says. Police have impounded the vehicle.

COLBY

A U GUS T

1995

andy Maisel, the

Professor of Government, said he ha long thought it

is written with an imaginary white racist on your shoulder.

right that Colby should

You are always wondering

alumni. "And we have no

'What will white raci t

better example than Ludy

think of this?' lt's a way of

and Pacy," he added.

Colored People

bucks that norm by describ

Pond by security personnel at dawn on Commence ment morning. Only the front tires were in the water,

William R. Kenan Jr.

"African-American literature

the norm."

Pulsar was discovered partially submerged in Johnson

who may have needed a

culture and a public culture.

keeping people from bucking

appeared to be a "mercy killing," an aged Nissan

upport. Their extraordinary

honor its distinguished

Pacy, speaking for himself and Ludy and the extended Levine family that includes

ing the private culture of

42 Colby alumni, called the

Gates' youth in rural West

honorary doctorates "trea

Virginia in the 1950s and

sured honors," and said,

'60 . "I wrote about my norm,

"We've reached the highe t

my culture and my elf with

plateau of the improbable

honesty. I thought we could

dream. We thank you for the

afford this, and that's what I

biggest honor that can be

did," Gates said.

bestowed upon us." +

The Rest of the Story Some reader may be aware of an article that appeared in the April 5 Wall Street Journal i n which Colby was named among several colleges and universities that al legedl y fals ify infor mation sent to col lege gu idebook-. President Will iam Cotter, who described the article as "inaccurate and unfa i r" ' responded wi th a letter to the editor. ln it, Cotter pointed out discrepancies in the Journal's story and c larif ied Colby's procedures regard ing gu idebook submissions. The Journal printed only a portion of the letter, om itt ing those sec tions critical of the Journal's reporting. The full text of the leuer is printed below . The sentences in boldface were not printed.

HILL SIDES Denney Joins Dean's Office

Martha Denney , recently the coordinator of the D rew Uni ver si ty London Semester, ha been named as istant dean of tu dents. Denney, who grew up near Hamilton College where her father was on the faculty, is a summa cum laude Ham i lto n graduate. She holds a n Ed.M . from Harvard and a n M . A . in anthropology from Brandeis. he has previously served as an "Colby College is mentioned in the April 5 Wall Street · Engl ish as a Second Language tutor at Brandeis and at the Journal art icle as one of more than 50 colleges and universities : American Institute for Foreign Study in Boston. accused of releasing false information in order to enhance their · pos itions in the various guidebooks. . The only error attributed to Colby was a sinole number o iven · Patric ia O'Brien of ashua, N . H ., will be Colby 's coach of to U.S. News & World Report three years ag� . It was a �ypo- : women's basketball. O'Brien, who will assist in other sport in graphical error ( a hand-written f igure was misinterpreted ) . The · add ition to her basketball job, has been at Rivier College · ince number was corrected the follow ing year. 1992. Last year, her team posted a 17-8 record. She holds B.S . The article also says that Colby administrators have met to : and M . Ed. degrees from Salem State where she earned All manipulate the data we report. This allegation is attributed to Mr. · American honors as a p layer.

New Hoop Coach Hired

Edward Hershey, a former director of communications at Colby,

Cornell Sun last fall decrying the U.S. News & World Report surveys. In his

who wrote a letter to the methodology of the

letter, Mr. Hershey, while not naming Colby, used the word "cheat" to describe the purpose of meetings held concerning the reporting of numbers. Subsequently, Mr. Hershey had a halfhour conversation with the

Journal r

porter and has told us:

"During the conversation, I indicated that

U.S.

News

had misread a figure I wrote in the 1992 survey report and that Colby's ranking had changed as a result. I spoke of no other statistical reporting that was at variance with the facts and, indeed, indicated that Colby had regularly protested to

U.S.

News that we suffer because of the exaggerations of

our competitors. " I did confirm that I wrote a letter to the

Cornell Sun,

without mentioning any institution, and told the reporter that, since no institution was mentioned, I felt I could take some rhetorical license in making my point. In fact, I was asked a series of questions relating to Colby's reporting and specifically confirmed that, except for the single typographical error, every survey response was accurate. I told him Colby had never cheated on the numbers."

The Journal statement that meet ings are held about the numbers is correct. Those respon ible for gathering this data at Colby do meet, but only to be certain that all of our number , sent to dozens of college guide and to others, are acc urately and cons istently reported. Our current director of communications gave the reporter a long interview and, a week ago, suggested that he call me, but he chose not to.

We have not and wou ld not m isrepresent Colby to publish ers of college guides or to anyone else. " +

Traffic Stopper

· Po t-cold war dismantling of po lice states has brought about : the rise of democracies but al o has created opportunitie for international trafficking organizations, said Robert Gelbard '64, a law enforcement adv isor to Attorney General J anet : Reno. Gelbard, who was a member of the Peace Corps in · Bo livia in the 1960s and U .S . ambassador to Bolivia from 1988 : to 1991, told an audience at the College last April that the narcotics and crime threats to our soc iety should be treated not : as internal but as foreign pol icy issues. "These are truly multinational organizations," Gelbard said. · Trafficker laundermoney in unregulated banking and f inanc ial : y tem and buy newspapers and radio stations to promote the · myth that international trafficking is benef ic ial at home. Ac : cording to Gelbard, one Latin American car theft ring-about 50 percent of the cars in Belize were stolen in the U .S.-ends up · : costing the U .S. hundreds of mi ll ion of dollars each year. Trafficking organizations must be attacked at the so urce, he said. A good law enforcement infrastructure in any co untry will . pay immediate div idends, said Gelbard, an architect of U .S . po licy i n Haiti. ·

Just d a y before s h e w a s scheduled to appear as a potlight lec turer at Colby, Dori

Kearn Goodwin '64, became the fourth

Colbian i n five years to win a Puliuer Prize. Goodwin follows 1994 fiction winner E. Annie Proulx ' 5 7, Robert Capers '71, who won in 1992 for journalism, and Gregory White Smith '73, who won the prize for biography in 1991.

AUGU

199j

COLBY

The Ivory Tower Reconsidered by Robe r t We i sb ro t

C l ir i s t i a n A . J ol1 1 1 s o n D i s t i 11 g u i sl1ed Teach i n g P ro fcs o r o f H i story

When C h r i s t i a n A . J o h nson D i st i n gui hed Tea h i n g Pro f essor of Hi tory

C o o d m o rn i n g , a n d t h a n k you .

Robert Weisbrot learned that he had

on re e i v i n g a n y t h i n g fro m an O s c a r to a

The h o n o r you have bestowed m e a n s a

won the

g o l d w a t c h f o r re t i re m e n t , to beg i n b a b

g reat deal to m e . I have l o n g been t h r i l led t h a t t here i s a j o b c a l l e d "co l l ege pro l essor" t h a t actua l l y p a y s p e o p l e to t h i n k a b o u t w h a t ever m a ke

them l ee l > t ron g l y , and t o share the i r

e n t h u i a m> w i t h o t h e r . I c a n ' t i m a g i ne w h a t

enior

Teac h i ng Award

and wou l d be expected to give a speech , he says t h a t he put h i s l i fe and career o n h o l d f o r i x weeks to prepare. Judg i n g f r m the reac t i o n

b l i ng w i t hout letup

Nor did my rather

i n d u l g e n t m a n d a t e-to s p e a k a b o u t so111e tl11 11g- p ro v 1 d e q u i t e the focus I was seek i n g . I s u p p ose this i > a time for p e rso n a l

r e f l ec t i o n , b u t i n w h a t d i re c t i o n ? S h o u l d I

e l >e I w o u l d ra t her do even w i t h o u t a a l a ry ,

den t s, f ac u l ty and adm 1 n i trators i n t h e

rega l e you w i t h h e a rt - w a rm i n g s t o r i e s o f

m o re oberi n g l y , I c a n ' t i m a g i n e w h a t e l ' e I

audie nce a t W 1sbro t's

m y r i se f ro m h u m b l e b e g i n n i ng

could do for a sa l a ry Colby h a s k e p l me occ u p i e d , i m pas i o n ed , oH t h e s t ree ts; I am al once g ra t i f ie d , a n d re l i eved. I a m a l so t h a nk f u l for this a w a rd becau,e, a l t h ough i ts h i to ry i

b r i e f- j u s t two years

o l d - i t s ros t e r of rec i p i e n t s is form i d a b l e . When I a rri ved a t C o l b y 1 11 1 9 80 I q u i c k l y l earned f r o m both f a c u l t y a n d stude n t s t h a t t h e forem ost teacher a nd m ost beloved l igure a t t h e Col lege was Charl ie B a et t . N o 'urpri>e, then, that in 1 99 3 , C h a rl i e bec a m e t h e f i rst

pot l i g h t Eve n t

lecture on May 4, it wa t i me we l l penr. Wei sbrot'

pee h , o m b i n 1 n g e l e m e n t

o f humor w i t h a c o m pe l l i n g me about why col lege

age

i n a log

c a b i n 1 n Broo k l y n , New Y o r k ? O r o f f e r w i s t f u l m u s i n gs o n t h e exc i t i ng a l t e r n a t i v e c a reers I m i g h t h a ve p u rsued h a d I b u t t h e o p po rt u n i ty-a n d t h e t a l e n t ? B u t I t h i n k

ount , moved some

t h a t i n v i e w o f y o u r i m m i ne n t gradu a t i o n , i t

" He's el oq uen t , 1 11 1ghtful and enter

b e t w e e n t h e c a m pu s t h a t h a s a n c h o red y o u r

m i g h t be b e t to e x p l o re t h e re l a t i o ns h i p

students t o tears

t a i n i n g," said Rachel Kondon '95 of

orth

K i n gstown , R. l . He a l so i t he m o t ded i

l i ves f o r t h e pa t several y e a rs a n d t h e w i de r soc i e t y y o u w i l l s o o n b e e n te r i n g . C r i t i c s o f h ig h e r educ a t i o n , a n d t h e y may

cated tea her he ha' ever met , she ays.

i nc l ude most Ameri a n , w o u l d say this i s a

rec i p i e n t o f t h e �en i o r c l ass teach i n g prize.

"He 1 s always so well prepared-he

s i m p l e m a t ter: there is 110 rel a t i o nsh i p be

A n d , a fter 2 5 years here , a n d desp i te t h e d i H i

goes pretty fast and it' hard to keep up

tween t h e c a m pu a n d t h e rest of soc i e ty-at

c u l t c i rcu mstances of t h i s year, C harl i e h as

but he knows o muc h ," aid Kondon, who

rem a i ned Col by's gold s ta ndard for teac h i ng , a n d c a ri ng . So I f e e l espec i a l l y honored to b e part o f a t rad i t i o n t h a t he h e l ped i naugurate. Last year t he sen i or cl ass speaker was Cedric

recalls having spontaneou one-hour di us ions w i t h Weisbrot when she vi ited his office to d i cu

course work. "He's

B ry a n t , whom many of you know as both a

i n tere red i n what students have to ay.

d i s t i n g u i s h e d teacher-at once rigorous a n d

He really love teaching," she aid.

h u m a ne-a nd a c a m pu leader o f u nsurpassed s t a tu re , in e l oq u e n c e , in g race, a n d , o f course, i n height How I j o i n e d s u c h good c o m p a n y I c a n n o t

m a i ns t ream v a l ues, a n d, perhaps worst o f a l l , i rrel eva n t to l i fe bey o n d t h e i vory tower. C o n s i der t hree of t h e most c o m m o n i tems i n t h i s b i l l o f i nd i c t m e n t . F i rst , t h a t you ng people c a n f i n d work

Wei brot say he wa "shocked" by the teaching award and gratified by the re sponse to hi

lea t none to boa t of. You k now the l i t a ny , w h i c h d e p i c t c o l l eges as e l i t i s t , ubvers i ve o f

speech. The speech may

w i thout f i rst s pe nd i ng four years , and an i m p ressive a m o u n t o f money, studyi n g such exo t i c a as the h ab i ts of Maori i s l a n ders they a re highly u n l i ke l y ever to mee t ; t h e n u m ber

have served another purpo e as well

o f grams in a mole o f oxyge n , a subject t h a t

Arge n t i ne wri ter, J o rge Lu i s B o rges, w h o ,

demythologizing Wei brot , considered

seldom ari es i n corpora te boardrooms; or t h e

a f t e r wonderi n g w h o a m o n g us t ru l y deserves

by some students to be an i n t i m i da t i n g

s a y . B u t I f i nd g u i dance i n t h e re f l e c t i o n o f a n

any awards, rem e m bered to add, " B u t if o n e s h o u l d come to m e , I wou l d seize i t g reed i l y , l i ke a V i k i n g . " I n t h a t s p i ri t , I accept w i t h deepest g ra t i tude.

i n tel lectual presence. Tho e who heard the speech probably now agree with Chris topher J u

r '95 of M i n netri

ta, M i n n . , who

p h i l osophy o f Soc rates, a m a n so i rr i t a t i ng h i s own n e ighbors made h i m d r i n k h e m lock. Conversely, t h e maste1y o f such subjects does n o t necessari l y guara ntee c a reer success. A second chorus of c ri ti c is m s , often l aced

I w a s , I c o n fe s s , a bit s t a r t l e d o n h e a r i n g

told Weisbrot in an end-of-the-year thank

t h a t I c o u l d n o t s i m p l y t a ke t h e p l a q u e a n d

you note that "You are not nearly as terri

l i k e Colby o n p ro m o t i n g m u l t i - c u l t u r a l

s l i p a w a y , b u t ra t h e r m u s t c o n f e r u p o n you

fying in per on a

course a n d eve n t s , w h i l e u rg i ng students t o

y e t a n o t h e r l e c t ure

I thought about t h e

seem i ng c u rse o n a w ards rec i p i e n t s t h a t l e a d s so m a n y o t h e rw i se s e n s i b l e p e o p l e ,

the rumors make you

out to be." Just added, "I hope that we have lived up to your expectations and that you enjoyed the class as much as the people

with rese n t m e n t , i s that t h e focus a t schools

"ce l ebrate d i vers i ty , " h a s l i t t l e v a l ue i n t h e w i der soc i e t y , where peo p l e t e n d t o seek t h e i r own k i n d i n rac e , e t h n i c i ty , rel i g i o n , a n d so

have talked to did."

Pl1otos

C O L B Y

A U G U S T

1 9 9 5

by M icl1elle Torrens '96

fort h , a n d where d i fferences often spark l ess rej o i c i n g t h a n rejec

it does prov ide one measure, for everyone should be able to

tion, l ess celebra t i o n t h a n con f l i c t .

convey i deas clearly and prec isely. But we can stretch t h e m e a n i n g

F i nally, critics scorn t h e e t h ic of activism on college cam puses

of a com m a just s o f a r . I a m repeatedly asto n i shed at h o w m a ny

the crusades to transform American soc iety, stop war, save the ra i n

l evels of t a l e n t exist at Colby, w henever I catch a c l ever a n d

forests, the whales, t h e dol p h i ns, other m a m mals-i n part because

m o v i n g s t u d e n t play l i ke The Heidi Chro11icles , or s e e t h e Col by

such causes appear radica l , but a lso because they a p pear obl ivious to

D ancers display such grace , or hear songs from the Broadway

rea l - world l i m itations After a l l , most Americans feel overwhelmed

Musical Rev iew, or eve n , on one lone but t horoughly enjoyab l e

by bureaucracy, bu ffeted by social and economic forces beyond

occas i o n , c a t c h a n a t h l etic eve n t . I n a l l t h ese cam pus act i v i t i es and

their control , and stymied by a pol i tical system so u n responsive that

so m a ny others, one fi nds t a l e n t wedded to d isci p l i n e , i n i t i at i ve,

our coun t ry's one great popular i n i t i ative i n recent years has been to

pers istence, a n d h a rd work-and these are t h e h a l l ma rks of

set term l i m i ts on our own represen tatives, apparently i n the belief

success both on campus and i n the wider soc i e ty.

that to know a pol i t i c i a n is to get rid of h i m .

I find i t h earteni ng, as wel l , t h a t Colby graduates i n years past

On t h e other h and, there are some defenders of cam pus values.

have consiste n tly gone on to outstanding vocational success. Th is

They are rare, but conveniently located,

may conjure i m ages of one vast profes·

nearly all f i n d i ng em ployment on coll ege

s i o n a l fu nnel bu ffet i n g graduates i n to

campuses. Typically they i nvert the rheto

C i t i bank and Met Life . Such adm i rable

ric of their cri t ics, clai m i n g that i n a soc i

pursuits h ave i ndeed proved popu lar, and

ety afflicted b y rac ism, sexism , m i l i tarism ,

some of you w i l l no doubt t h rive i n t h e m .

c lass bias, homophob i a , and other preju

But for those of you a n xiously aski ng, i s

dices, the campus m ust rem a i n a beacon of

that a l l there is for t h e n e x t forty o r fi fty or,

ideal i s m . I ' m not terri bly com fortable with

i f you are not so lucky, sixty years, you

such defenses, partly because I doubt

m ight be surprised by how many ways

whether t h e cam pus h a s produced a no

Colby graduates have defined success, and

bler stra i n of human being or been spared

how m a ny paths they've taken to reach i t .

the rac i a l and other agon ies of the larger

S o m e Colby grads teac h , a n d not o n l y

society. And I a m a b i t bew ildered t h a t

i n s m a l l t o w n s just o u t s i d e B o s t o n b u t

defenders as well as cri tics s e e t h e campus

a lso i n rural Lou i s i a na and i n n e r - c i ty B a l

as standing so sh arply apart from the rest

t i more, and i n H o nduras, Ecuador, and

of society-the city on the h i l l-or i n t h e

J a p a n . O t hers h e l p abused c h i l d re n , as 1n

d i t c h , depending on one's perspective

a project to eradicate child l abor i n B a n

I wou l d suggest to you t h a t t h i s is

galore, I nd i a . Colby's a l l - t i m e l e a d i n g

nonsense. Colby has a fforded you some

basket b a l l scorer, w h e n not ru n n i ng a

valuable experiences a n d lessons precisely

lumber com pany, dedicates t i m e to a

because, contrary to all the rum ors, t h e

team playing basketball g a m es aga i nst

ki ngdom o f M ayflower H i l l i s very m u c h

prison i n m ates a t the M a i n e Correc t i o n a l

of t h i s worl d. I ' d l i ke to expl ore t h i s w i t h

C e n t e r . Some grads l i ke to m i x a n d m a tch

regard to your career prospects, t h e p ractical v a l u e of celebra t i n g

careers, such as a you n g wom a n work i n g as a n e n v i ron m e n t a l

divers i ty , a n d t h e possi b i l i t i e s f o r act ivism-and i n fluence

sci e n t i st w h i l e p l ay i ng i n H u ron's S y m p h o n y P r o M u s i c a O rches tra a n d study i n g t ru m pet. And one resourceful graduate, i ns p i red

beyond the campus.

by the job h u n t i n g e xperi ences of his friends, wrote and i s

Of t h e t h ree areas, I fi nd jobs the l east i n teresti ng, but t h is m ight be because I h ave o n e . Some of you m ay be concerned about

d i rec t i n g a f i l m i n P h i l adel p h i a a b o u t a recen t coll ege g r a d who

employment, so I want to be clearon t h i s point: yes, you will get jobs,

con fesses to t h e murder o f a l ocal busi ness m a n because h e t h i nks

and yes, t h ey will be good ones. You m ight t h i nk t h a t my faith i n

l i fe i n jail will be better t h a t get t i ng a job. H e hopes to show the

your futures is a bit mystical-and, as St. P a u l said, f a i t h is based o n

fi l m a t film festivals.

the evidence o f t h i ngs unsee n . But my con fidence s t e m s n o t from

How long will you need to f i n d your truest, most productive

any e p i p h a ny but, rather, from tangible signs that are close a t h a n d ,

n iche? T h i s I can not predict, for, sadly, access to a pod i u m con fers

b u t s i g n s perha ps obscured b y t h e rel e n t l ess pressure of j o b searches.

no g i f t o f prophecy. But I can say t h a t however l o n g it takes, it w i l l

One reason t h a t I can say you w i l l do well a fter Colby i s t h a t

be t i m e w e l l spen t . I a m rem i nded of a fri end from t h e early 1 970�,

I 've h ad t h e pl easure of knowing m a ny o f you , and I 've been

Edward W i t te n . I l i ked Ed, but fel t sorry for h i m , too, because, for

i m p ressed by t h e great reservoir o f talent in your ra nks. For many,

all h i s potent i a l , h e l acked focus. H e had been a h i story major i n

that t a l e n t s h i nes t h rough your scholastic ach ieve m e n ts-and

col lege, a n d a l i nguistics m i nor. O n graduati ng, though , h e

sure l y the q u a l i t ies o f i ncisive thought, speec h , and wri t i n g t h a t

concluded t h a t , as reward i n g as t hese f i el ds h a d been , h e w a s not

y o u h ave shown i n v a r i e d cl asses, pa pers, and projects w i l l serve

rea l ly cut out to make a l iv i n g a t them. H e decided that w h a t he

you well i n v i rt u a l l y any f i e l d .

was rea lly m e a n t to do was study econom ics. And so, h e a p p l i ed

B u t I'm s pe ak i n g o n l y i n part a b o u t acade m ics. As s o m e o n e w h o

to graduate school , a n d was accepted at t h e U n i vers i ty of Wisco n

spends much t i m e correct i n g gra m m a r and punctuation, I h ave

s i n . And, a ft e r o n ly a semester, h e dropped out o f t h e program . N o t

foun d i t all too easy to s l i p i n to b e l i e v i n g t h at the p l aceme n t of

f o r h i m . So, h istory was o u t ; l i ngu i s t ics, out; eco nomics, o u r . W h a t

com mas and colons is the t ru e m easure o f human gre a t n ess. Wel l ,

to d o ? T h i s was a t i m e of w idespread pol i t ical a c t i v i s m , a n d Ed

A U G U

199 5

C O LBY

bec ame an a i d e to Senator George McGovern, then ru n n i ng for

groups 111 t h e cou n t ry . The num bers are ri i ng. The Bureau of the

t h e pres idency on a n a n t i -war pl a t form . He also wrote articles for

Census 1 s consi deri ng new mu l t i - racial categories to account for

pol i t ical journ a l s l i ke the Na t1011 a n d the New Republic . After some

t h e vari e t i e s o f e t h n i c i de n t i t y and t h e assert ion of ethnic pride.

month , Ed real ized that pol i t i cs was not for h i m , because, i n his

Th i rty years ago hom osexuals were st i l l closeted i n the soc iety;

words, i t dema nded q u a l i t i es he d i d not h ave, foremost among them common ense. All r i g h t , then h is tory , l i nguist ics, econom-

today, homosexua ls are not o n l y strea m i ng out of t h e closet but

career choices. What to do? Ed

assert i ng t h e i r right to enter soc iety through t h e front door. elebra t 1 ng d i vers i ty does not requ i re us to love everyone, but

sudde n l y rea l i zed t h a t he was rea l ly suited to study m a t h e m a t ics.

merely to take people seriousl y-t h e i r t hough ts and fee l i ngs, t h e i r

So he a p p l ied to gra d u a t e s c h o o l , and was acce pted a t Pri nceton . I m e t h i m m i dway through h i s f i rst year there-ju t after he had

h i story and hopes-regardless of their backgrounds This is a

ics, pol i t i c s , were a l l out a

dropped out of the m a t h e m a t ics depart m e n t H e rea l i zed, he said,

necess i t y i n a soc i e ty where m i n ori ties play a cruc ial role i n our pol i t ics a n d c u l ture, and encounter us as co- workers, employees,

that what h e was rea l l y meant to do was tudy physics, h e a p p l i e d

e v e n empl oyers S u c h respect is necessary, t o o , because i n the

to the p h ysics depart m e n t , a n d was accepted

world as a whole, Americans are a small m i nori ty, as are w h i tes, as

I was h a p py for h i m . But I lam ented all the f a l se t arts h e had

are C h ri s t i a n , as are Westerners.

made, and how his career opportu n i t i es a ppeared to be pass i ng

For those who doubt that apprec i a t ion of diversity 1s a practical

him by. Many years l a ter, 1 n 1 987, I was read i ng the New York Tm1es

im perat ive, consider a recent headl i n e - m aking event that is as far

m agaz i ne and saw a ful l - page pic ture

removed from fuzzy notions of toler-

akin to a m ug hot, o f a t h i n man w i t h

a n c e a n d cosmic one- ness a s c a n be

a large head staring out of t h ick gl asses

i magined. Last month the former Sec-

It was Ed W i t t e n ! I was stunned. What

retary of Defense Robert McNam ara,

was h e doing in the Tunes m agazi ne?

once hailed as the si ngle most able

We l l , h e was be i ng p ro f i l ed a

figure among t h e "best a n d the bright -

the

E i nste i n o f h i s age, a p i oneer o f a

est" a i des to Presidents Kennedy and

revo l u t i o n i n physics called "String

Joh nson, admi tted that the American

Theory . " Coll eagues a t H a rvard a n d

i nvolvement 111 Vietnam w a s a tragic

Pri nceton, who m a rvel l ed a t his use of

m istake , as was his role i n promoting

b i z a rre m a t h e m a t ics to solve physics

i t . I cite t h i s not because McNamara

problems, c l a i med that h i s i deas, popu-

set forth some start l i ng new wisdom .

l a rly c a l l ed a "t heory of every t h i ng,"

Certa i n l y not for that. Rather, his con-

m i g h t at l ast expl a i n t h e origins a n d

fession, a quarter-century belated, says

natu re of the cosmos. Ed s a i d mod-

someth i ng about the b l i n d spots of a

est l y of h i s t h eories t h a t i t was rea l l y m uch easier to solve probl ems when

G illespie Professor of Art and American Studies David Lubin offers congratulations following Weisbrot's speech .

bri l l i ant man-and a govern mentand a people-accustomed to brus h -

i ng aside a l l perspectives outside their i m mediate experi ence.

y o u a n a l y z e d t h e m i n a t l e a s t ten d i m ensions. Perhaps. Much clearer to me was an observation Ed m ade that a p peared near the

Accordi n g to McNam ara and others i n govern m e n t during t h e

e n d of t h i s art i c l e : every one of us has talent; the great chal l enge

1 960s, we could not lose t h i s war. We stood, a fter a l l , for American

i n l i fe is f i n d i n g a n outlet to express it. l though t , h e has truly

val ues and so wou l d natura l l y w i n t h e hearts and m i nds o f the

earned t h e right to say t h a t . And I rea l i zed t h a t , for a l l m y earl ier

V i etn amese i n our battle aga i nst god l ess com m u n i s m . I n any case,

concerns that h e had squa ndered his t i m e , i n fact his e n t i re career

we had the technology and weaponry to pulverize any nation;

path-the ven tures i n h istory , l i nguistics, econom i cs, pol i t ics,

surely no backward, pri m i tive people could poss i b l y w i thstand our

m a t h , as well as physics-had been reward i ng: a t i m e of hard work,

m i l i tary colossus-our deadly B - 5 2 raids and art i l l ery barrages

sel f- d i scovery, and new i nsight i n to h i s potential based on grow-

t h a t created four m i l l ion refugees, or twe n ty - five percent of t h e

i n g experience.

Sou t h V i et n a m ese population; our defo l i ation o f nearl y h a l f the

No two career p a t h s are exactly al ike, a n d yours will surely

South Vietnam ese forests w i t h Agent Orange a n d other poisons;

ra nge gre a t l y . Some of you may spend a l i fe t i m e honing one set of

our dro p p i ng of more explosives over V i et n a m than had been

s k i l ls; others may s h i ft course more t h a n once, tack i n g w i t h the

u n l eashed i n all previ o us wars combined.

w i n ds of d i scovery a n d c i rcumstance . I n every case: savor t h e t i me,

O n l y . . . o n l y we lost t h e war, and w i t h i t much of our national

a n d t h e work; a n d take h eart from know i n g t h a t t h e path to your

prestige and even our self-respect . What went wrong? I ' l l tel l you:

110 appreciation

own best cal l i ng may not al ways be a stra i g h t l i ne .

of diversity.

T h e parallels between Colby's focus on celebra t i ng divers i ty a n d

McNamara, l ike h is colleagues in government, knew l i ttle and

t h e rea l i ties of today's soc iety m a y n o t b e quite s o self-evident. But

cared less about the heritage and attitudes of the Vietnamese people ,

they are compel l i ng, a n d not sim ply as a m a t ter of i deal i s m . The fact

e i t h er those w e were fight i ng or those w e were professing t o save.

is t h a t most Americans are m i nori t i es: whether rac i a l , ethnic,

Otherwise our leaders might have spared themselves and their

rel i gious, in m a t ters o f sexual preference, or in some other way:

country a needless, poi n tless war.

N o n w h i tes form more than one -seven t h of our population;

In 1 988 a professor of government, Roger Bowen, and l took a

duri ng your l i fe t i m e nonwhi tes will grow to more one- fourth of

group of students from Colby to Vietnam-the first col lege-age

our popu l a t i o n .

Americans to travel to V ietnam since the war. H anoi's i mposi ng Revolutionary Museum was espec i a l l y revea l i ng. Some h istorical

By t h e m o s t conserv a t i ve ca lculations, t here a r e 1 06 e t h n i c

C O L B Y

A U G U

19 9 5

exhibits featured the conflict w i t h the U n i ted States, but our

racial barriers that mocked their a m b i tions and their sel f-esteem?

country did not receive pride of p l ace. One room contai ned a giant

As they talked on, night after night, the questioning became more

pai n ti ng of a naval battle during the tenth century i n which s m a l l ,

personal , inescapable: at what poi n t would they, the younger genera

pri m itive Vietnamese vessels l u red a vast Chi nese fleet into shal l ow

t ion of black Americans, take their stand against injustice? When their

waters and destroyed it-a triumph of determ i ned nationalist resis

deepeni ng friendship gave them , i n the words of one student, "that

tance over technologically su perior foreign i nvaders. Other rooms

l ittle bit of i ncentive and that l i ttle bit of courage," they resolved to

featured exhibits of resistance by smal l , pri m it ive Vietnamese forces

break the taboo on i n terracial d i n i ng by seeking service at the

aga i nst l ater Chi nese i nvaders; agai nst French col o n i a l i sts of the

Woolworth's l unch counter, which law and custom had long reserved

ni neteenth and early twe n tieth centuries; agai nst the J a panese

exclusively for wh i tes. They knew they lacked precedents, lacked

duri ng World War I I ; agai n agai nst the French, after World War I I ;

power, lacked a clear plan. When one offered the morale-bu il ding

a n d against t h e Americans after that. The e n t i re m useum w a s a

thought, 'We'll stay u n t i l we get served," another cautioned, 'Wel l ,

testament, vivid and striki ng, to the way the Vietnamese defined

y o u know, that m igh t b e weeks, that m ight be months, that m ight b e

their historical i de n t i ty i n terms of a si ngle, relen tless mi sion,

never." They feared, a s wel l , t h e punishment they m ight i ncur from

spa n n i ng a m i l le n n i u m and more, to resist successive powerful ,

white authorities and black college officials. But on the last night of

technologically superior foreign arm i es on their land, defying long

the semester one of the youths brought the months of earnest,

odds for ten years, twenty years, a cen tury, whatevert he cost i n t i m e and i n men, women , a n d chi ldre n , t i l l u l t i m a te victory. I f only we'd known. If only we'd cared to know. The facts were avai l able even i n the 1 960s. But instead a self-confident American elite believed i t cou l d simply assert i ts virtue, impose i ts values, and ignore---o r crush-the native Vietnamese. That disda i n for a foreign, nonwhite people, removed from us by ten thousand m iles of ocean and a universe of beliefs and values, brought a retribution as certain and unspari ng as any in a Creek tragedy. Looking back now on the deaths of fi fty-eigh t thousand Americans, the squa n dering of one h u n dred fifty b i l l ion dollars,

anguished discussion to a sudden resolution.

Co lby has afforded you some va lua ble experiences and lessons precisely beca use, con tra ry to all the rumors, the kingdom of Mayfl ower Hill is very much of this world.

the rending and demorali z i ng of American

Pounding a dresser, he dared his hesitant friends, "Are you guys chicken or not?" The next morning, February I , 1 960, the four students approached the whites-only l unch counter determ i ned to deal) i m Crow a blow that would not soon be forgotten. They got no Wool worth's coffee that day. But they returned to campus to fi nd they had become heroes. Thei r com m i t m e n t h a d elevated t h e m past t h e status o f straigh t - A students, p a s t even the venera tion reserved for the school's gri diron stars . T h e n e x t day twen ty m ore y o u n g m e n a n d women j o i ned the protest; by t h e fourth day the first wh ite students j o i ned in from a nearby wome n's college. O ne youth de

society, the shattering of our pol itical con ensus, and the l i ngering

scri bed the rush to the forbidden l u nch coun ters: "I t was l ike a

trauma of losing a war for the first time in our nation's two hundred

fever. Everyone wanted to go. We were so hap py."

year history, it becomes clear that the fact of diversity i s one of the

The protests spil led across state l i nes, targeting all racist laws and

supreme realities in our shri n k i n g world, and to accept and appreciate

drawing i n established black leaders such as Martin Luther Ki ng, Jr.,

this fact is not simply a matter of moral sensitivity but an expression

and many whites as wel l . Within a few years these civil rights

of the deepest rea l i s m . We may not be interested i n diversity; but

cam paigns ended legal segregation throughout the South, toppl i ng

diversity is i nterested i n us.

barriers that had stood for generations.

F i n a l l y , the repeated i nj unctions by Col by's adm i n i strators,

Why did these four students-no ol der than any of you here

facul ty, stude n ts, and visi t i n g speakers to overcome apathy and

this morn i n g-have such a revo l utionary i m pact on American

i nertia and become i nvolved soc i a l l y and p o l i tically is, at heart, a

society? Some h istori a n s conclude t h a t they s i m ply lit a fuse

m atter of homespun A m erican c o m m o n sense. F i rst, because

a l ready smolderi n g among African A m ericans shackled by racial

peop l e need t o m atter-to have their l ives m ake a di fference to

discri m i n a t i o n . Th i s has a kernel of t ru t h . But I would e m phasize

som e t h i n g larger t h a n the i n fa n t i l e self. Secon d, because this

one other, i ndispensable i ngredie n t i n this rec i pe for change : t hese

country, more than most, tel l s i ts c i t i zens t h a t t h e i r ideas of right

four young peopl e all s u m moned the pass i o n , the courage, and the

and wrong ought to coun t for some t h i n g . A n d because h istory,

wi l l to act-to take their stand aga i ns t i njustice. Only i n the wake

particularly A merican h i s tory, has shown that young people

of such dari n g do h istori ans sol e m n l y discourse on the "logic of

com m i tted to a cause can change their world .

events," and the "i nevi tabi l i ty" of c h a n ge; b u t as these four students

Consider the c a s e of four s h y , quiet eigh teen-year-olds w h o

showed, defy i n g danger and their own doubts, each of us can

became friends a t a segregated college i n Greensboro, North

create our own l ogic of even t s and, by acting, turn the dream s o f

Caro l i n a , in the fal l of 1 959. Like m a ny of their peers, they spent

one a g e i n to t h e "i nevi tabi l i ti es" of t h e next.

long eve n ings i n their dorms resolving the world's problems, armed

A n d so, m y colleagues and I join i n wish i n g you the ful l est

only with u n l i m i ted idealism and several cans of beer. Their banter

rewards i n the years ahead, as you seek your truest career path, f i n d

ing exchanges roamed, in the great college t radi tion, from philo

h u m a n c o n n e c t i o n s across a l l barriers, fi nd w a y s to m atter i n your

sophical quandaries to the horrors of cam pus food and the choicest

com m u n i ty and beyond, and, as you h ave done a t Col by, cont i n ue

goss i p . But their conversations persistent l y returned to a s ingle,

in every way, to stretch the m i nd-an d t h e heart. Best of luck.

gnawing quest i o n : when woul d someone do someth i n g about the

A U G U

1 995

CO L B Y

ready were on their feet app laud in g , and faculty mem n 1est honora

the morn i ng' o n l y tanJ i ng ova tion . Then, a Colby's

octor of h u m ;ine letters waveJ hi degree over his h ead i n

e lehr;it ion, wagging it l i ke ;:i f ootba l l in the end zon e , t he applause welled w i t h a c heer. It was the warmest tr i b ut e at Commencement thi

y e a r and i t

w;is re. erved f or hnnorary Jegree rec ipi ent Lew i. Lev i n e ' 2 1 , a n<l his brother Percy ' 2 7 , k nown to generation of Col b i a n , i m p l y a "LuJy and Pacy." The p l a tform a n t i c l y 96-year-old Ludy et the c e lebrarory mood on May 28 as 4 5 8 member of the Cla

of 1 99 5 prepared to march up to recei ve their own

<l i plom a from Pre ident Wil liam R. Cotter. The e n ior had a chance to leep late during Senior Week, and Sunday�

9 a . m . l i ne - u p time wa the first hint th;:it the new beginning i mp lied in the term " c o mme nc e ment " had begun. On "the street," the long corridor rhrough t h e ha em ent of M i l ler Library where graduates queue, Lee Paprocki of G re n w ich, N .Y. , said, 'When I wo ke up this rooming, I thought, 'Oooh, graduation,' and I just bolted. I am so psyched." A few yards ahead, in the L' , All-American women's hammer thrower Brooke Lorenzen of M ercer her journey to Commence

land, Wash. , was presenc and waiting too, but t morning was considerably more circuitous

th;:in Paprocki's. On Friday at 4 p.m. she left the NCAA Division III track and field meet awards ceremony in M innesota after taking fourth place and b rea k i ng her own Colby record one last time. She and coach Debra Aitken made it home from the 1 0-hour t ri p at 2 a.m. Saturday, in time for all of Saturday's activities as well as the procession Sunday morning.

Paprocki , Lorenzen and their classmates assembled alphabetically behind Class Marshal James A. Porter of Waterville, Maine. Porter, a physics and int

classics major, graduated at the top of the class with a 4.05

age, the first over 4.0 in recent memory, according to the Regiscrats

Porter's achievement continued a Maine tradition; he was marshal among the last 1 3 who came to Colby from a Maine Haroard University 's Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. acldressecl graduates.

BY HEN QLLINS '74

with their hats and academic rega l ia while Commencement speaker Henry Louis Gates Jr. and honorary degree recipients Ludy and Pacy Levine and J ud ith Isaacson prepped in the Robinson Room. Dean of Students Janice Kassman frerred over correct pronunciations of each senior's name. PHOTOS

A half hour or so later, out in the May sunshine, Matthew Metz, a chemistry-biochemistry major from Bethesda, Md., donned lab goggles to address Commencement a

class

speaker. "Mo t of the weekend is dedicated to parents," he said. "For the next five minute or o I'm going to talk about us. Our parents can talk to us about getting jobs, going to graduate school and cleaning up all of our college junk for the entire car ride horn

ally need to mention

that stuff." Indeed, Metz kept his predicted they would m graduation, he said, "Yeah, we'll make some new friends! "

t they'll come v isit

BY scorr PERRY

There isn't one way to be white or black,

of these categories, you don't have to

one way to be gay or straight, one way

worry about any of these things.

to be H ispan ic or Asian, liberal or con servative, male or female."

"You can't j ust void collective identity

Gates, whose most recent book is a

sider the resurgence of nationali m in the

memoir t i t led Colored People and who

wake of the Sov iet empire . . . . Who among us would have thought rwenry

Times on the morning of Commence

years ago that when we spoke of ethnic

ment, talked to graduates about finding

violence in Georgia in n i neteen-ninety

their own ident it ies in the context of

five, we would be peaking of a republic in the ex- oviet Un ion and not ome

"l think tho·e who complain that stu

town down the road from Atlanta ?

dents today take too much interest i n

"Forging humane commonalitie out of

collective identities should b e listened to, because, yes, dangers do lie that way.

an ongoing effort rather than a ta k

the crucible of our differences is alway

But I also th ink it's worth empha izing

that can be fini ·hed and forgotten, l i ke

that what the c r i t i c G reg Tate calls

a senior e ay. But when I think back to

'wh i te-boyism' is a collective identi ty,

my own student days in the late ixtie

too. Too often, we speak as if race is

and early eventie , as bewitching and

something black have , sexual orienta

bewildering a they were, I 'm filled with

tion is something gays and le bians have,

confidence about this cla s, your cla s,

gender i

grad u a t i n g twenty year

so m e t h i n g women h a v e ,

ethnic ity i s something so-called 'ethnics' have. And so, if you don't fall into any

the alteniative hat contest.

like a canceled stamp," he said. "Just con

had an essay in the Sun<lay New York

" ident ity pol itic ."

David Benier of Davis, West Virginia, won

l ater. A nd ,

real ly, t h e chal lenge I e t be� re you this morning i not o very onerou . I

"Who among us would have thought twenty years ago that when we spoke of ethnic violence in Georgia in 1991 we would be speaking of a republic in the ex-Soviet Union and not some town down the road from Atlanta?' don't ask that you get everything right,"

Dav i , W.Va., won the alternative hat

Gates concluded, " I j u t ask that you do

contest with a bright yellow firefighter's helmet. I t wasn't to represent hard

a l i ttle bit better than we did." Graduates got off on the right foot as their march to the platform to pick up diplomas combined pomp and ceremony, heartfe l t ge t u re parent

of appreciat ion to

and mentors and celebratory

Baske t b a l l star M a t thew Gaudet of

To say "march" is to use the formal com

a l ittle dance on her way up the steps to get h e r d ip l o m a . Reed K e l l y fro m Yarmouth, Maine, who k i pped both the cap and gown in favor of a plain dress, was joined by Will Romey, 4-year-old son of Visiting Assistant Professor of Biol

1 995 began with the

C O L B Y

A U G U S T

19 9 5

could look dorky in this."

Rumford, Maine, and record-setting foot ball quarterback Matthew Mannering of

M i l l is, Mas ., wearing a baseball cap in place of the traditional mortarboard, did

Commencement

I figured I could look dorky i n one of tho e [pointing at a mortarboard] or I

high spirits.

mencement terminology. Laura Iorio of

graduates ' march.from Miller Library.

headedness or a career choice, he said; "I j ust wanted to do omething different.

Walpole, Mass., were among a dozen or more scholar-athletes who made short detour en route to their diplomas to shake hand with the Levine brothers. K.C. Lawler of West Hartford, Conn., who will spend next year teaching in Ghana, stopped to hug Associate Profes sor of English Phyllis Mannochi.

ogy W i l l i a m R o mey. W i l l , wearing

Kassman was on a roll , pronounci ng

shorts, T-shirt and a humungous grin, walked hand-in-hand with h is pal and fa vorite babysi tter from the p latform

"Dhumal Narendra Aturaliye" perfectly as the Sri Lankan stepped up w ith an

back to her seat. And David Bemer of

u nd e r his robe . S h e m o me n t a r i l y

immaculate white and gold Nehru kit

bobbled "J i l l Tara Kooyoomj i an " of

commencement round-up on J u ne 8, was

Sou thboro, Ma s . , but breezed r ight

confiscated by Student Activities Direc

through "Agnieszka Swiontkowska" of

tor Ben Jorgensen '92 . ) Video services

L isbon, Maine. (Offic ial m inutes of the

coordinator Paul Gregoire ' 7 1 had to

emester's final facu lty meet ing read:

cover the v ideo recording equipment

" Dean Kassman stated that her mi -

when a spray of champagne threatened

p r o n u n c i a t i o n of c e r t a i n fo r e i gn

to douse h is lens as mortarboards flew

name

aloft i n the traditional celebration.

d u r i ng C o m m e n c e m e n t was

d e l i berate, conforming to the requests of the s t u d e n t s . " ) K ass m a n had to

As the convocation broke up, graduates

A Great Day

To B e Alive

It was nice that her son � graduation oc curred on a pristine Maine morning, but

think fa t when J onathan Bowden of

and their fam i l ies stopped for photo

u m m i t , N .J . , leaned into her micro

graphs i n front of blossoming fru it trees

p hone o n h is way past and added a

or with the library tower in the back

( bogus ) "cum !au.de" after h is name. " I

ground. Robert Barton '45 and his wife,

think

Erma, of Jensen Beach, Fla. , didn't know

her son, Chad Tyson

any of the graduate but said they had

Tyson-Smith was diagnosed with breast

was

summa c u m laude ,

J onathan," Kassman ch ided.

clouds and rain would not lu.ive mattered much to Elizabeth Crockett 'JYsan-Smith She was

happy to be there.

'64.

Five years ago, a few months before

'95, entered Colby,

cancer. TWo surgeries and months of che m o therapy later, s h e was well b u t changed. A n d s o was h e r son. Chad shared the pain. frustration andfears his mother erulured during her illness a nd reco-oery and in March gave

He invited about her experience at a

her a gift she 1 te0er �ted. her to s -pea k

Colby Feminist Fartn:ighl e-·vent and in

troduced her that eoonmg as "the rnost remarkable woman I know. " The next day, fyson-Smith accompanied her son to Miller

Library to "pat the lion, " und

told him about the dny she rm t out of the library to help lower theft� to ludj:, taff qfter hearing tlzat President Kennedy had been shot. "As I stood there [in the li brary]. I.felt a wm.ie of enwtion wa.sh croer , me, . Tyson-Smith said. "�f I had not had

A l ight a i rp l a ne c ircled the c a m p u

come "because i t 's s u c h a n ic e c er

t o w i n g a b a n n e r t h a t p r oc l a i m e d ,

emony." Members of the Portland Brass

"Congratulations Shake ! " reportedly for

Quintet, lips circled with red, played the

S e an M c B r i d e of We l le s l e y, M a s . ,

recess ional m arch, Die Bankelsanger

who decl ined comment. Finally, as Lisa

lieder, for about 1 5 m in u tes as familie

opportunit)•

mttke thtt presenta my son e;xpress hisfeeli�s so eloquently and so comjortabl_v. He was secure to share h i..;; pride in me with his peers. Ifelt so happy that Chad wul I had this thread of conti this

tion I might never have heard

Marie Zorn of Wolcott, Conn., carried

lowly migrated to the chapel lawn for

nuil)• wi,th Colfi:.1. " Clw.d ' father. Riclwrd

the final diploma of the day down the

the president's reception. By 2:30 p.m.

steps, a beac h b a l l appeared i n t h e

chair and l itter were cleaned up and all

'60, and h is uncle James fyson '54 are Colby graduates. Mum Girad emerged along with the classma tes from the library's east wing on Com mencement mornirt..g , fys o n Smich says she could bareb' tay com posed. "I had this enomious pride and chis sense that 'this is my son and he's doi� what I did so lo� �o, and I 'm ali<oe to see it. ' God. I just never thought I'd be here.

en ior '

ection and b o u n c e d around

among them and in and out of the faculty

that remained wa the platform-and thousands of memories.

section a couple of t i mes as Pre idem Cotter read the Latin message to new

One i mpressed staff member attending

degree re c i p i en t s . ( The beach b a l l ,

his first Colby Commencement said, "It's

which later appeared o n NBC Nightly

everything that a commencement is sup

News with Tom Brokaw's annual national

posed to be."

fyson

a lso

A he � leaomg the pla(fonn afew

Robert Barton

'45 and his wife, Erma, of Jensen Beach,

Florida, didn't know any of the graduates but said they had come " because it's such a nice ceremony."

hand. Chad and detou '(ed to her, nnd i n the midst of an embrace, said. minutes later. diplonlLI. in

spotted his moth.er 'Thanks, Mom. "

did it, 'said 'fystm-Smith. "That end qf me. " "When he Sau> me � ,. he added, "he said, 'Mona. mhen I saro you I ju.st had to gifoe you CJ lnl/l because you were there. That U)(JS i� I was there. " "Tlllll

was the

BY J . K E V I N C O O L

FORL\;li\TION . D EB GIï¿½ F E1'\fE '39 WA5 UP THEHF ONE DAY WH FN TH F CLO UDS ROLLED 11 f .

Inset,

top to bot/om: Deb Greene '89. Sue Miller

82.

Kurt

ry " Colhou n '9 1 . Charles

"Pen "

Williamson '63.

In the last five years alone, Colbians have circled the world

k i l o m eter trip t h rough t h e m o u n ta i n s of Ti b e t . On bicyc les.

in a single-engine airplane (Tom Claytor '85 ) , kayaked from a

just being in Ti bet would be exotic enough for most

Vermont stream to the Gulf of Mexico ( Charles Tenny '84 ) ,

people, but for these two the p rospect of traversi ng on two

crossed t h e Atlantic i n a sail boat (Charles " Pen" Williamson

wheels one of the world's most remote regions was too in

'63 ) , climbed remote peaks in the Arctic (Linsay Cochran '97)

triguing to pass u p . Arran ging the logistics for their trip was

and bicycled across Ti bet (Alex Calhoun '9 1 and Kurt Whited

an adventure for Calhoun and Whited, who spent a year and

'9 1 ) . Several recent Colby graduates have made lengthy cross

a half teac hing English i n Japan and li ning up corporate

country trips, ·'blue highways" j o urneys into America's re cesses. Then there are the scores of Peace Corps gigs, Watson

sponsors to subsidize their travel . Drawing upon " the writ ing skills I developed at Colby, .. Calhoun says, he and

fellowships abroad and volunteer sojourns into the Third

Whited p repared a 3 5 - page proposal o u t l i n i ng their j o u rney

World. All of which begs the question, does Colby produce ad

and presented i t to the Goldwin Corporat i o n , a m u lti na

venture seekers or merely attract them? Perhaps a bit of both.

tional sporting goods man ufac t u rer whose products i nclude

But i t seems clear that the College nurtures, if not actually en

mou ntaineering equipment. The company agreed to sponsor

courages, an explorer's desire for seeing what's Out There.

the j o u rney, including an attempt of the Imja Tse peak i n

Sue Miller led a group of women on a Himalayan climb

Nepal . T h e n , after a hoped f o r

ing expedition last fall. Their obj ective was the 2 3 , 000-foot

National Geographic

spon

sorship fell t h rough , Ca lhoun and Whited received addi

peak of Baruntse. ··we wanted to do it a a group of women

tional logistical support a n d fi l m equipment from F u j i

j ust to declare our i n dependence from our bo}friends or whomever, " Miller said. "We had something to prove; that we could climb together as a group of women independently. ..

Television 5 , a big-three network in Japan . Armed with six

LoneO• Planet

guidebooks, a tent, sleep

ing bags, one cookstove and a pot, Calhoun and Whited

After a grueling two-week h i ke to reach the m ountain ,

boarded a ferry for Vladivostok and then took a train to

Miller and her team establi hed a base camp at i - ,000 feet

China. "We gene rall) went out into the cou ntryside where

and began reconnoitering the mou ntain for possible routes to

they never see many foreigners and j ust \Yalked around with

the summit. Their original route was packed with snow that

people, .. Calhoun said. " A typical day for me i n China would

appeared u nstable so the group chose an alternate route,

begin with waking up in a tiny l i ttle hotel wi th all these Chi

moved back to base camp and started up agai n .

nese people and having tea. "

J u s t as t h e y were a b o u t to m a k e t h e i r summit attempt o n

Their route took them through Beij ing and across north

the t h i r d day of the climb M i l l e r g o t the flu . She a n d another

ern China to Xiahe where they arrived i n time to witne s a

team mem ber, who h ad fallen earlier in the climb and i n j u red

Buddhist festival in which a Mongolian monk spoke on a huge

her leg, then had to endure the greatest pain of all for a

plain to thousands of Ti betans. Calhoun says they took the

climber-to stay behind as others went for the peak. The

train "to the end of the Line" and got on a bus for a 40-hour

other three climbers reached about 2 1 ,000 feet before turning

trip into Tibet. "It was the most hateful j o u rney of my entire

back because of exhaustion and altitude sickness, Miller says.

life , " Calhoun said. On the other hand, he was collecting

··1 was very disappointed that we didn 't have a stronger sum

"traveler points" like mad. "This friend of mine from England developed a system

mit attempt," she said. "To go to all of that effort to get over there and to put your elf in a position to reach the summit

called TP's, or traveler points,·· Calhoun explai ned. The idea,

and then not make it, that's a little hard to deal with."

he says, is to quanti�1 the horrible experiences that travelers invariably describe whenever they meet. Five hours on a

However, she says, they made the right decision. "We

train , for instance, equals one point, pr0vided you 're in third

knew that at that altitude we only had so much time before we got too exhausted to climb," she said. "When you're at

class. A 40-hour bus ride on hard scrabble roads into remote

1 ,000 feet and above your body is kind of slowly deteriorat

Tibet gave Calhoun and Whited a leg up in the Travel Story

ing. I t's a hard decision to give up a summit attempt, but it

From Hell sweepstakes. And then the trip got i nteresti ng.

was the safe thing to do."

I n Lhasa, where finding commodities l i ke wool socks or

Miller says she may not go back to the Himalayas soon,

underwear i s a challenge, Calhoun and Whited located two

but she will definitely climb again. The experience is j ust too enriching to give up, she says. "Being out in the wilderness

1 8-speed mountain bikes. "It was more than a miracle,"

anywhere, and in the m o untains i n particular, just lets you r

Calhoun said. And it changed the complexion of their j o u rn ey

m i n d free up to pursue all sorts of different thoughts," she

completely. Instead of trekking and hitching across the Tibetan

said. "You think about home a l ot, of course, and what you're

mountain

going to do when you get back.

Again calling on their i ngenuity, Calhoun and Whited custom

I t 's funny but the farther away from home you are the more you appreciate it. It's really

to Katmandu-about 600 miles-they would bicycle.

ized the bicycles to fit their needs. "We went to a j u n kyard,

a cathartic sort of thought process, I find."

hacked apart old Chinese bikes and built a new seat-post

A lex "Sandy" C a l h o u n '9 1 a n d Kurt Whited '9 1 also have been t o t h e top of t h e world, with 2 0 , 0 00-foot H i m a layan peaks to t h e i r credit . Even t h e i r trip to the m o u n

extension. We had toe clips made by a leather craftsman and converted a couple of backpacks into panniers [ storage com partments that hang off the sides of the back wheel ] . " There are five 5,000-meter passes between Lhasa and

tai n s was e p i c . I t began o n a b o a t i n J apan, i n c l u ded a n overla n d j o u rn ey across C h i n a a n d c u l m inated with a 950-

Katman d u . Most of the time Calhoun and Whited were bicy cling uphill. "It would take days, it seemed like, to go up these

Sue Miller '82

leads a n

expedition up 23, 000-joot Baruntse.

A U G U

1 9 9 5

C O L B Y

passes," Colhoun said. "We called them Eveready passes-they

trans-Atlantic saiLing trips aboard a 42 -foot vessel, is convinced

j ust kept going and going and going."

that such experiences promote hoListic human development.

People they met along the route were friendly and curi

"The skills you use in the wilderness are secondary to

ous, Colhoun says. He recalls being visited at their camp one

the intangibles of personal growth and challenge and team

evening by three Tibetan men-red tassels flowing through

work and getting along with people of different backgrounds,"

their hair-one of whom pulled out a large knife and whacked

he said. "When you ' re at sea for three weeks straight with

off a piece of yak butter cheese to share with Colhoun and

five people i n a relatively small boat, your life, your existence, the pattern of that experience, is very different than your

Whited. I t was an almost surreal scene, Colhoun says, the two American bicyclists in Gortex jackets chatting i n phrasebook

regular life. When you ' re i n that situation nobody cares how

Tibetan and drinking coffee with the three men on horseback

much money you make or who your parents are or what your

direct from the 1 9th century.

job is. It's the great equalizer.,.

"Those sorts of real encounters with real people made

Williamson, whose resume of adventure travel also includes

the trip amazing,,. Colhoun said.

mountaineeri ng, rock climbing, and canoeing, says Colby en

There were poignant moments, too. "We were cycling

dowed him and others with a hunger for going places and .. The whole

along one day and saw this old man, a really old guy, whose

doing things out of the ordinary. Colhoun agrees .

face was Like a blanket of lines. We can't really communicate

attitude at Colby encourages exploration , " he said. "I went to

but I kind of waved and said, ' Hold on a minute," and I took a

France as a freshman , I was in Washington, D . C . , as a junior,

Dalai Lama card out of my jacket,"' Colhoun said . .. We were

and I went to Russia for a Jan Plan my senior year. I think

carrying these cards with us to give to people who had been

those kinds of experiences awaken a desire to explore set

particularly kind to us or to give to old people who we knew

tings away from the College and inspire people to go out and

would appreciate it. We are i n the middle of nowhere. There

try new thi ngs all over the world. There's no doubt in my

is nothing to be seen anywhere around us, j ust mountains

mind that what happened to me at Colby was already l i n ki ng

and desert. And I handed him the Dalai Lama card. He looked

me up and preparing me to go do [ my trip across Asia ] . "

at it and put it to his forehead, which is the first thing they

Miller and Greene both say their experiences at Colby

always do. Then he held the card and I sa\ this tear roll

solidified their belief i n themselves by provi ding opportun i

down his face, across this dusty old face. It was so emotional,

t i e s a n d chall enges . COOT, t h e Woodsmen's team , the Outing

it was j ust unbeLievable."

Club, off-campus Jan Plans and strong experiential components i n many classes all contributed to their personal development,

After three weeks on the bicycles, Colhoun and Whited

they say.

reached Katmandu, laid over for a few days and then twice

"You get the best of both worlds at Colby," Williamson

cLimbed lmja Tse, a 20,000-foot peak. After aborting their

said. ·'You hare a top-notch academic environment in a set

first summit attempt for safety reasons, the pair returned to uccessful a cent. Standing on a

ting that provides endless opportunities for en joying the out

narrow precipice with an unimpeded view for hundreds of

doors. One of the reasons I 've been such a strong advocate of

m iles in all directions, Colhoun recalls feeling humble, awed,

Colby all along is the spirit of the place and the people. There

the mountain and made a

blessed. "That hour or so we spent on the ridge and at the

probably wasn't any direct academic tie-i n between h i king at

summit is probably the best hour of my life,,. he said.

Katahdin and my classes, but each contributed to the other. . , Colhoun, who plans a career as a photojournaList, be

Miller says one of the most rewarding aspects of climb

lieves Colby is producing ambassadors to the world. " I think

ing is solving the problems a sociated with it. " I think J have much more self-confidence because I have to totally rely on

that somehow the Colby experience enge;iders a sense of

myself and my partners on a rope," she said. "On the cLimb in

duty or service. You get the feeling that your responsibility once you ' re educated is to do something with it. I think a lot

epal I had to trust my own j u dgment because I was more or

of Colby people feel that way."

less leading the cLimb. I couldn't j ust pawn it off on someone

That attitude may explain why adventurers l i ke Colhoun

el e. Figuring out how to tackle a particular technical section

are comfortable whether riding a camel across the Thar

of the route, that's i nteresting.

Desert of J ndia or eating dinner in the home of an impover

"It's physically and mentally drai ning. Breathing i s a re

ished Vietnamese family, both of which he did during his

ally big thing at I ,000 feet. You actually have to concentrate on breathing. It sounds kind of funny, but you have to think

1 0-month journey across Asia. " My political science back

about bow many breaths per step you take and you get into

ground allowed me to take what I had learned at Colby and

kind of a rhyt h m . But really, mentally the hard part is getting

get from the raw experience [ of being i n these places] the

through the days when all you ' re doing is carrying a load of

other half of it. If you only get half of [ the reaLity] i n America,

food or gear, logging up a glacier."

you 're lucky," he said. And there's that nebulous but u n deniable spiritual ele

The problem-solving challenges of an extended wilderness voyage also appeal to Pen Williamson '63 who, when be isn 't

ment that moves many of these Colbians, who "grew up" as

crossing the Atlantic Ocean i n a small sailboat, is vice president

travelers during their Colby years. "When you ' re i n the

for development at the Hurricane Island Outward Bound School

middle of the Atlantic Ocean you can't see where you ' re going,

off the coast of M aine. Williamson, who twice has completed

you can't see where you've been " Williamson said. "You focus on here and now . . . on wbat really counts. "

Bivouacked on a ridge on Jmja Tse, Kurt Whited

'9 1 rests

before attempting the summit.

A U G U

199 5

CO L B Y

Retiring Faculty: 1 00 Years of Service By Robert G i l lesp ie

t i t s M a y m e etin g , the

nearly a h u ndred years a t

Board of Trustees voted

the C n l l ege.

emeritus s t a t us fnr all t h ree

L�culty I'ile

Fergu-on, who completed

of t h i s year's ret i r i ng

his Ph . D . a t Ohio

fa c u l t y-Ch a r l e s Ferguson ,

U n i ve rs i ty and ta ught at

Fr ed e r i c k G i l l u m and

Oh io Stare, Ohio U n i ve rs i ty

tate

M a r i l y n M a v r i n a c . Th e i r

a nd the U n i ver� i t y of

combined serv ice �panned

Connec t i c u t , came to Colby

years, was the last remaining active faculty member to have taught on the old campus in downtown Waterville. He received his Ph.D. from the U n i versi ty of Wi consin and

taught a range of cour e in in 1 96 7 . H e taught French

European and Engli h history,

and I ta l i a n language and

i n c l ud i ng l11 e R i e of Europe

French l i tera t u re and s i nce

and the Deel ine of Europe,

1 989 served a!> secretary to

Medieval England, Tudortuarr England, Emergence of

the fac u l ty. In 1 9 7 7 h e bec ame d i re c t or of Colby'

Modem Britain and Decline

H i tchcock Bindery, the

of Britain, Constitutional and

nation 's only work i ng i n

Leoal History of Modem

hn u sc hindery a t a sma l l

England and the Fir t and

col l ege, where h e tra ined

�

and superv ised student

his tenure he erved as acting

appre n t i c es in repa i r and

department chair and

re bindmg of volume from

coordinated the Gabriel on

Cn lhy collec t i on . I n

Lecture

ret i rement h e will cont inue

publications are a number of

bindery work for the l i brary and private in d i v i d u a l

Gi llum, a memher of the

Charles Ferguson

econd World War . During

H isrory Department for 4 7

eries. Among his

article contributed to Ency clopedia of World Biography. Marilyn Mavrinac graduated from Welle ley,

Impressive Dossier Pick a subj ect . A n y subject. Paul D o

about matter i n v o l v i ng geo c ience before dec i d i ng on

w i l l tell you how

leg islation affec t i ng the e n v i ronmen t .

i t's related to geology. I t' an exerc i e the a s i tant profc sor of geology uses occas iona lly to illu trate for h i students the

" I n the past geologi t s have not been much o f a presence

ubiq u i tous role his chosen d isc ipline plays i n human affair .

on Capitol H i ll, unlike physicists, chemists and other scien tists," Do s a id. "There' tremendou public ignorance a well

"Think about i t , " Doss said, "geology is the study of the

as a lack of acknowledgment w i thin government about the

Earth. You can't get any more holistic than that."

important role geology plays in public pol icy issues." The work

I t's not su rpri s i ng that Doss doe not confine h is academic study to a narrow, esoteric subdisc ipl ine. H e

of geologi ts-whether predicting eismic act i v i ty , testing

is c o m m i t ted t o teach i ng geology i n t h e c o n t e x t of every

groundwater supplies or studying erosion-is integral to both

day l i fe and bel ieves i t is an i deal subj e c t for a l i beral

public understanding and effective decision making, Do s says. l11e trip also served to inform Doss's teaching, which offers

arts curriculum. Doss j o i ned other members of the prest igious N at io n a l

students insights into how geology affects their l ives. "Part of my j ob as a teacher is to enlighten students about the funda mentals of the d iscipline," he said. "Those fundamentals can

Comm i ttee on G eo logy and P u b l i c Pol i cy ( an arm of t h e G e o l o g i c a l Soc i e t y of A m e r i c a ) on an educational

sena tors P e t e Dom e n ic i of N e w M e x i c o , Ph i l Gramm o f

be taught, discussed and questioned w i thout an applied sense. But to get a full understanding and an appreciation of that material, i t helps to have examples that apply to real-life

T e x a s , Ben N ighthorse Campbe l l of Co lorado and T o m Daschle of South Dak o t a . T h e geologists w e r e n o t there

situations that students can relate to." H e hopes to take his i n terdisc iplinary approach a step

to advocate a p a r t i c u l a r pos i t i o n , Doss says, b u t t o

further by collaborat ing with Associate Professor of English

c o n v i n c e members of Congress to e d u c a t e themselves

J ames Boylan on a course i ntegrating environmental geology

mission to C a p i t o l H i l l l as t spring. H e and the other geologists m e t with i n flu e n t i a l l eg i s l a tors, i n c l u d i n g

C O L B Y

A U G U S T

1 9 9 5

received her M.A. at Columbia and entered a doctoral program at Harvard, which she completed in 1 99 1 . he first taught at Colby in 1 963, and in 1 9 76 she became one of the College's fir t part-time faculry to gain continuing tatus when he took a part time po ition in history and education. Two summer fellow hip from the National Endowment for the Humani t ies allowed her to do advanced research in French schools. ln the late 1 970s she was a co-founder of Colby's Women' tudie Program and for 10 years was the bedrock of the Education Department. One of the fir t Colby faculty members to u e computers for quantitative research, she pre ented paper at profe ional meetings, publ i hed article in Engli h and French and served the local community on the boards of AA UW, MaineShare, the Maine Civil

Pau l

Faculty Notes

Liberties Union, the Maine Commis ion for Women and the Martin Luther K ing J r. Day committee. At the faculty- tru tee dinner on Friday night before Commencement, Mavrinac expressed appre c iation for the many support network of Colby students and colleagues past and pre ent. he prai ed the H istory Department, the Writing Center, the Women's tudies group, the librarian and bookstore workers, the Computer Center, the Dean of Faculty, Dean of tudent and Regi trar' offices, the Audiovi ual Department, the Office of Off-Campus Study and local school teachers who take in Colby students on internships. "I never worked alone , " Mavri nac aid, commending "Colby web of upport and generosity. lt was i m po i b l e n o t to succeed i n ome way . " +

Ten professors will be taking year- long sabbatical to further their field experi ences, research and studie . Several more profe ors will take half-year leaves. Kim Besio, a sistant profe or of Chinese, is taking a one-year leave from the East Asian Studies Department to complete her manuscript "Rowdines and Rectitude in Play." . . . Clara C . Piper Profe or of Biology David Firmage will continue his research deal ing with pollination ecology during hi full-year sabbatical from the Colby Biology Depart ment . . . . Profe sor of Mu-ic Paul Machlin has been awarded a Nat ional Endow ment for the H umanit ies Fellowship for College Teachers to work on Faes Waller in Performance, a volume of transcriptions of j azz perfom1ance by Waller. It i part of the eries "Mu ic of the United State of America" partially funded by the American Musicological Soc iety . . . . Profes or of Art Michael Marlais will con t inue h is re earch involving the mural cycles of Pierre Puvis de Chavanne . . . . Julie Millard, Clare Boothe Luce Assi tant Professor of Biochemi try , will re earch the effects of DNA inter strand cross-l inking agent on cells . . . . Assistant Profes or of H isrory Julie Kay Mueller will complete her monograph on the early history of the Soviet pre . . . . Hanna Roisman, profe or of c lassics, and Joseph Roisman, profe or of c las ics and of history, will research the ideology of manhood in ancient Greece

Doss

and compo ition. " It's only in the p lanning tage at thi point, but we're excited about doing it," he aid. Do s ay his philosophy in the classroom is similar to that he u ed w ith the legislator on Capitol H ill-that is, to educate rather than to advocate. "I t's not my job to convince students about my opinion," he aid. "They're all individual who are intelligent enough to form the ir own opinions. My job i to give them the information to do that." +

at Cornell Universiry . . . . During the 1 99 5 -96 year in Dijon, France, Dace Weis , i nstructor in French, will re earch new methods of language teaching being used in France and England. . . . Assi tant Profes or of Biology W. Herbert W ils o n will continue to measure the ecologica l impac t on wintering birds by the millions of A merican who feed them and will ex tend the research ro tho e birds wintering in the northern wood of Maine . Several profe s o r w i l l b e on sabbatical fo r one semester of the 1 995- 1 996 academic year. A istant Professor of Economic Debra Barbezat will continue research on longitud inal data of new Ph. D. economist who were looking for employment during the 1 9 8-89 aca demic year. . . . A oc iate Profe sor of English James Boylan will work on two new novels as well a a collection of short s tories . . . . Assistant Profe or of Government Deborah Nord�n will continue work on a monograph, The Military and Democracy in Venezuela: Explaining the 1 992 Coup Attempts. . . . Associate Profe sor of English Patricia Onion will continue her re earch on American Ind ian literature, focu ing on the relationship between contemporary fiction and poetry and their roots in the oral tradit ion of each writer' culture . . . . As ociate Profe or of English Linda Tatelbaum will u e her sabbatical to working on a collection of

continued on page 25

A U G U ST

1 9 9 5

CO L B Y

The Ex Files hy J.

n New Jersey recen t l y , a s ta t e surreme court ruled

Kevin

system that favor women.

Cool That these m e n devalued

"What was strik ing-and

researcher. " I t was a real

the ir former wi ves i not

d i lemma, because on the one hand my obj ective was to be

that a non - custod ial father

�trikingly different-in thi�

�urprising in the context of

:,hou ld not be required

study wa� the level of rage

the "gcndeMtratified

neutra l , but on the other I

expre:,sed hy these men," Arcn

·oc i ety" in which they l i ve ,

was being pushed to

college t u i t i on . It was the

Jell sa id. "1l1ere were ome

A rendell says. "Degra d i ng

con textua l i ze the data

l atest v ictory for advoca tes

women l in my earlier :,tuJy]

the former wife �erved

because I recognize that the

of "men's righ ts" and annther

who were angry, but they were

severa l fu nc tiom," she a i J .

soc i ety is gender-stratified . "

grenade lobbed into an

mostly angry with the legal

" I t l e n t upport to assertion

e-cal a t i ng gender war.

sy:,tem. It wasn't per,onalized

ahou t

ho�ti l i ty. The men were angry

j ustice, i nclud i ng that they

men's d i vorce rights is

at their ex-wives."

had been bad ly m istreated in

driven by econom ics. She

the d ivorce ett lement and

says that, wh i le there are

helr pay for h is c h i l d ren's

Ba ed on extensive i n terv iew with 75 d i vorced fathers frnm New York tate, Arendell's stu d y might-or

i l legi t i mately tripped of

obvious exception , many

authority in the fam i ly."

d i vorced father are pushing

Wh ile most of the men in

expand the i r custod ial

right as a way of lowering

tive of d i vorced fathers in

they had been v i c t i mized by a sy tern that rob men of

the i r child-support pay ments. " I t's i ntere ting that

of her ample group ugge t

their rights, Arende l l says,

the men compla i ned about

that, if anything , their

they often broadened their

the deprivation the i r

attitude were moderate

comments about the ir ex

d i vorce h a d brought upon

compared to the general

w i ves

general ize about all

them, but the women in my

population. "Only fifteen

women and to use their own

study were preoccupied with

percent of the fathers in my

experience as an example of

economic surv ival . "

the inj ust ices d i vorced

the i r chi ldren; nationally,

many men use to describe

A rendell says t h a t much of the cu rrent debate about

her study complai ned that

tudy had no contact with

And war i the metaphor

m iscarriage of

m igh t not-be reprc enta general . The characteri t ic:>

Terry Arendell

T h e d i rection of recent court rul ings broadening

the percentage i s much

fathers must endure. "I think the host i l ity

custodial rights of d i vorced

higher," A rendell aid.

these men feel is created by

fathers and increa i ng their

"Earlier research sugge ts that fathers who are in

the lo s of power and authority that they are

leverage i n determ i n i ng ch ild support payments and

volved w i th their chi ldren

experienc i ng for the fir t

other economic settlements

have less anger toward their

t i me in the i r l i ve ," she aid.

d isturbs Arende l l . "What's e pecially unfortunate i that

former spouse, perhaps

"Men define themselves

because of the negative

according to their perceived

the debate is bei ng posed a

effect i t has on their

publ ic role as a prov ider.

a fight between men and women rather than as an

divorce, says A sociate

c h i ldren. But among this

When their authori ty as a

Professor of Sociology Terry

sample, anger was defi n i tely

pro v i der is cal led i n to

issue about caring for

Arendell in her recently

the dominant motif. "

question, they're not sure

children," she said. Arendell' next research

published book, Fathers and Divorce. Arendell, whose earlier book, Mothers and Divorce, described the attitudes and opinions of

was a parasi te , a money

women who had experienced

suc k i ng parasi te , and she t i l l

struggled to resolve her own

they would l ike to see more

d i vorce, conveys and puts into

i s . That's what t h e l a w [ in

theoretical influence ,

research done about the effects of d i vorce on young

I ndeed, t h e m e n i n

how to deal w i th it. Most of these men [ i n the tudy]

effort may be aimed at

diatribes a i med a t their

didn't antic ipate how much

college-aged children of

former w ive . Said one, "She

those issue would be raised -"

d ivorced parents. "I have a lot of students who tell me

Arende l l 's book are given t o

Arendel l says she

context the anger, hostility

awarding a custod ial mother

informed by i n terpretative

and frustration of men who

chi ld support] does, rewards

fem i n is t sociology, w i th her

adults," she said. "That might

believe they are victims of a

parasi t ic women . "

desire to be a neutral

be an interesting tudy."

C O L B Y

A UGU

1 9 95

essays, Body English, in which she explores the connection between physical labor in the material world and the life and limitations of language. . . . Jon Weiss, professor of French and director of off campus studies and academic affairs, will begin research on a critical biography of the French novelist Irene Nemirovsky . . . . Professor of Psychology Diane Winn will continue her research on "Tales Told by the Uncon scious M ind: Jung's Active Imagination as a Framework for Shamanic Journeys, Past Life Regressions and Other Trance Narratives." . . . Laurie Osborne, recently tenured assoc iate professor of English, is the editor of Twelfe Night or What you Will, one in a new series of books being published by Prentice Hall that raises questions about the authen ticity of contemporary versions of Shakespeare's texts . . . . Larissa Taylor, assistant professor of history, was awarded a fellowship for an NEH summer seminar in Paris to study Gothic

architecture in the I le-de France . . . . James Webb, associate professor of history, participated in a six-week NEH Summer I nstitute, "Rethinking Europe, Re thinking World H istory, 1 500- 1 7 5 0" at the University of California at Santa Cruz . . . . Associate Professor of Music Eva Linfield chaired a panel for the Society for 1 7 th Century Music at Centre College in Kentucky . . . . JoyLynn Wing, associate professor of performing arts and of English, chaired a panel for the Association for Theatre in Higher Education in San Francisco. She also directed a production of David Mamet's American Buffalo, which was chosen as a semi-finalist in the American College Theatre Festival competition in February . . . . Cheryl Townsend Gilkes, John D. MacArthur Associate Professor of Soc iology and of . Afr can-American Studies, has been elected v ice president-elect of the Eastern Sociological Society.

P U N D IT S & P L A U D IT S Take a Bow Intrigued by the idea that one could study sail ing in the dead of winter in inland Maine, Sailing magazine devoted a full page of its J une issue to an article about the J an Plan course Sailing Sc ience and Technology 1 29 offered by Profes sor of Administrative Science Leonard Reich. The article described how students in the class learned the science of sailboat dynamics and the history of sail ing and boat construction methods and even designed their own sai lboats. Reich, whose texts for the course included The An and Science of Sails by Colby alumnus Tom Whidden '70, and students Andy Smith '98 ( N ew Canaan, Conn. ) , Karen Goodrich '96 (Yarmouth, Maine ) and Takashi Watanabe '95 (Tokyo, J apan ) were featured in photographs accompanying the article. Reich told Sailing that the sport of sa iling and sailboat design provided rich illustrations of how applied science works, which was a goal of the course. Jan Plan itself merited a sidebar in the magazine. The article described the history of the J anuary Program-pio neered by Colby in 1 96 1 -and listed other courses offered in 1 99 5 , such as William R . Kenan Jr. Professor of Government Sandy Maisel's N at ional Pastime: Baseball in American Soc iety. The full text of the sailing article is available on Colby's World W ide Web page at http://www.colby.edu.

Second in Command A recent study shows that The Journal of Contemporary China, edited by Associate Professor of Government Su isheng Zhao, is the second most powerful influence on Americans' attitudes toward China. The study, conducted by a professor of political science at the University of Connecticut at Hartford, listed Zhao's journal behind ex-CBS newscaster Connie Chung and ahead of The P1ivate Life of Chairman Mao, a new book written by Mao Zedong's physician. The Journal of Contempo rary China, founded in 1 992, publishes articles on prominent mainland Chinese issues. Topics have included the pol itical debate about Tibet, economic reform, Communism, the sale of F- 1 6 fighter jets to Taiwan and Chinese intellectuals. I t is the only English language journal in North America that provides information about contemporary Chinese affairs.

Ghost In the Machine A survey co-authored by Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science Batya Friedman and Lynette Millett '94 revealed that some people who design computer systems feel no moral responsbility for the problems caused by system crashes. The survey, whose results were paraphrased in Washington Technology , asked 29 male undergraduate computer sc ience students whether programmers or their computers should be blamed for system crashes that wreak havoc. More than one fifth of the respondents said i t was the computers' fault. In fact, 8 3 percent maintained that computers "dec ide" how to perform and are partially responsible for their own problems. However, one respondent held that such a claim is ridiculous, saying: " . . . that would be l ike me blaming the car for running over a dog. You can't blame an inanimate object." The study m ay help shed l ight on a developing legal d i le m ma about who should be held accountable when valuable compu ter- based informa t ion is damaged by system malfunct ions.

Careful Criteria Vice President for Development Randy Helm was quoted i n a n art icle i n The Chronicle of Higher Education abo u t efforts by institut ions to rec ruit wealthy trustees . "Trusteeship is too important to put blinders on and only look at philanthropic ability," Helm told the newspaper. He explained that Colby's philosophy i n selec t ing trustees used a "three W's" rule of thumb. The College seeks trustees who can provide at least two of the three W's: wealth, work and wisdom, Helm says. "The quickest route for d isaster is to make wealth the sole criterion," he said. The Chronicle of Higher Education is a leading publication aimed at faculty and admi n istrators.

A U G U S T

1 9 9 5

C O L B Y

Farm Stand By Sally Baker

end a poet

write about

the l ast gasp of a fam i l y

granddaughter of I ta l ian and Lebane

fit my answers in with hi own

i m m igra n ts . Her

idea of work, of a steel blade

farm a n d , if you're very

paternal grandfat her settled

cutting through the thick

l u c k y , you ' l l get a book l i k e

his fam i l y on a d a i ry fa rm in

Here a n d Nowhere Else ( Beacon Press, 1 99 5 ) . J ane Brox ' 78 is the

April rye and hi wake of

the M errimack Valley of

turned-up earth. One works

Ma ·sach usetts i n 1 900;

by going back and forth a the

Rrox'� fa ther, now in hi·

un arcs aero

m i d - Os, al o made the land

yea r · , l i ke corn I 3 to the

hi l i fe's work . Under his

dozen. Brox's herb d isplay,

exhaustion at the end of the

-tewardsh i p , t h e fa rm's

pl aced pro m i nently where

day. Against which all I can

slapped - together, after

her father and brother th ink

muster is: 'You get a different

thought vegetable ·tand

the beans ought to gn,

k i nd of tired. "'

where Rrox worked a a

invite tenta t i v

c h i ld-became a · ub·tanti a l

but not many sales. I t i a

business, both

in r

c e i pts

on the farm.

rand can turn over 500

he i · of the

land , but not l i ke a farmer

Wh n Brox left the val ley for Colby she stayed away. he l i ved on

antucket for

·evera l year , then out ide Boston; though he visited

do:en ear of corn on a

·he works it with word-,

her fam i l y every few months,

s i ngle ummer day and

preserve

her sen e, she write , was

it by wri ting about

hund red of bu he ls of

i t even as �he real1:e that it

that she had left the farm for

tomatoes, apples, ·quash,

be · t days are gone. But, l i k e

good.

peaches-and much more

t h e herbs, he is a bit of a

regu larly in l i terary maga

season.

Brox describe work ing at

'78

c u riosity

metaphor for Brox's presence

and i n infrastruc ture . The

J an e B rox

the pring ky,

and there' sheer phy ical

he wa publish i ng

my tery to the keepers of the

zine , and she pent t i me at

phy- i c a l farm.

many prest igious wri t i ng

he write of

the stand now. Peopl e come

try i ng

in for the things they know,

father what her work i like:

colon i es, i nc l u d i ng Yaddo. But one Christma half a

"l can see h i m laboring ro

dozen years ago, she and her

the thing they've bought for

de c ri be to her

A Cause for Reflection One of Colby's most revered

equal i ty and wa a fierce ant i - lavery crusader, Lovejoy wrote

grad uates, Elijah Parish Lovej oy,

Paul i111 011

Freedom's Cham1>ion �Elijah L ovejoy Forew11rtl by Clarflln' {'age

v i triolic diatribe against Roman Catholics.

i the subject of a b i ography

onetheless, Lovejoy's refu al to ubmi t to mob rule after

w r i tten by l l l inois Senator Paul

pro-slavery forces twice de troyed hi printing press demon

S imon.

strated the ''courage and eren ity" of a man who knew he was

Freedom 's Champion: Elijah

right, S imon write . M uch of the book is devoted to the

Lovejoy ( Southern l l l inois

events lead ing up

U n i versity Press, 207 pages,

murder. Lovejoy and a small band of armed friends attempted

$24.9 5 ) is a revised ed i t ion of S i mon' 1 964 book Lovejoy ,

to defend the Observer from being de troyed on November 7,

Martyr

of the press wa s ilenced by a hai l of bullets as he tried to

and i m mediately following Lovejoy's

1 8 3 7 . The man considered A merica' fir t martyr to freedom

Freedom. The book

c elebrates Lovejoy's courage and

topple a ladder on which a man was preparing to torch the

commitment to freedom of the

roof where the printing press was secured. S i mon makes clear that Lovejoy's i nfl uence wa enduring.

press but points out flaws in the

One of Lovejoy's best friends, Edward Beecher-the son of a

man that may have led to his death . S i mon maintains that Lovejoy lacked both d iplomacy

prominent ant i - lavery c rusader and head o f l l l i nois College

and a pragmatist's sense of how to get things done , thereby

i n J ack onv i l le , 1 1 1 .-was galvanized by h is friend's death.

a l iena t i ng much of the readership of the Observer, the

Beecher went on to become a powerful voice agai nst slavery

newspaper he d ied protecting i n A l ton, I l l . , in 1 8 3 7. S imon

as a nat i onally prom inent preacher. Fourteen years after

also d iscusses the comple x i ty and contrad ictions of Lovejoy's

Lovejoy was m u rdered, Beecher's s ister, Harriet Beecher

moral pos i tions. For instance, while he demanded rac ial

Stowe, wrote Uncle

C O L B Y

A U G U S T

1 9 9 5

Tom's Cabin. +

two brothers and ister gathered at their parents' house . Sam, the brother who stayed to work the farm ( h is problem w ith drugs, alcohol and blasted hopes are legion ) , endured a recrim i nation session with h i s sibling . He stood, upbraided them for not understanding how difficult it had been to stay on the farm, pointed to each of them in tum and said, "You left. You left. You left . " Brox returned. She l ives i n a small hou e on the farm grounds. Sam l ives in another, her parents in another. She and Sam hardly speak anymore. It's c lear that she went home with a notion of rescuing the farm, seeing i t through for at least one more generat ion.

No one else can, she thinks. When her father is hos pitalized, he reminds Brox to remind Sam to put the Hubbard squash in the tand before Thanksgiving-no one will buy it after that, he say . Sam is careless; he starts things he'll never finish; his grandiose plans for the farm wither under his father' practical ity and his own fecklessness. Brox must choo e a few squash to put aside for seed . Her father says they must be heavy for their s ize, unbrui ed and l ight-colored. She goes home and looks at the Hubbards-literally tons of qua h stacked under a tarp : "I walked around the circumference and saw many that would be fine for seed,

but they were all mixed in with ones of lesser qual ity, and I had to l ift and shift parts of the pile. The squash were awkward and heavy and not easy for me to handle. Some I could barely manage. And there were beautiful large ones that, when I picked them up, felt lighter than they should. Heavy for it size, he had said . . . . " Her father's h igh expec tations and her anx iousness about fulfi lling them nestle in the simple scene. As the years have passed Brox has realized that she can't save the farm-it was never meant to be her role. When her father dies the farm probably will be sold and "developed" for the land hungry commuters who whiz

Fresh Prints

Gerry Boyle ' 7 8 Bloodline G . P . Putna m ' s S o n s

In Boyle' econd nove l featuring J ack Mc Morrow, a former New York Times reporter living in rural Maine, the stakes for him to identify the mur derer become much higher. This time, McMorrow himself is a primary sus pec t after M i y, a teenage mother who ha given her baby up for adop t i o n , i m u rdered one day after McMorrow interviewed her as part of his research for a freelance article. A McMorrow begins his own in vestigation, his cabin window are blown out by a shotgun and hi car is destroyed by a bomb. He begins to p iece together a motive and a pas ible olut ion related to the adoption of M i y 's baby while encountering colorful Maine character who are quickly becoming Boyle's trademark. Ann Martin Worster '59 and Bonnie Th ompson Glaser Ruby: An Ordinary Woman Faber and Faber Ruby: An Ordinary Woman is the diary of Ruby A l ice S ide Thomp un, an opinionated, passionate woman who was born in 1 884 and d ied in 1 970. Born in England, Ruby moved to the U.S. in the early 1 900s, married and ra i ed seven sons and later returned to England

by every day. I f anyone will work it, Sam will; and he probably can't. H is family worries about what will happen to him; they regret that he didn't find another career whi le he could. Her father worrie , too, about something more basic: "I wonder where people will get their corn," he says. But, while Brox won't grow that com, what she has done in this volume is preserve a picture of ti mes past while expl icat ing the clash of rural New England with a modem culture that value split-levels over barns and silos. She doesn't j udge; she observes. And in her observations l ies a beauty that evokes both sadness and wonder. +

w ith her hu band and tayed through World War I I . She was an out poken feminist, highly critical of the Roman Catholic church, in favor of birth control, abortion and financ ial inde pendence for women. Culled from more than 40 volumes of journals and exten sively annotated, Ruby Thompson's reflections are interesting history and touch on issues that still confront women: conflicts of career, marriage, chi ldren, exuality and spirituality. Ann B. Tracy '62 What Do Cowboys L ike ? Perma nent Press Tracy' second novel capture the \\llAT DO COWBOYS LIKE? ang t of teenage love as een through the eyes of 1 6-year-old Loui a "Fi h" Fisher, who pines for a more exciting life away from her small Maine hometown. Set in the late 1 9 5 0 , the novel ,. _ . . . follow Fish's dreamy teen-hood de ire . . . for adult experience as she fall in love . . . . with a boy she has known for many . years as a friend and begins a novel based on her "experiences . " Event u A.'\:N D. TRAC\' ally s h e confronts t h e r a w reality o f adulthood because of a tragedy and find that the hyperbole of her writing mocks rather than reflects life . Tracy skillfully balances her main character's fanciful longings with the intrusions of the real world in a story that evoke both the pain and w i tfulnes of adolescence.

. :. �r

A U G U

1 9 9 5

CO L B Y

------ --·---

Building Common Ground

tudent ife

By Stephen Col l ins '7 4

ate this fal l , Colby w i l l

envis ions the area as an

break ground f o r the

inc ubator for d ialogu aero,

Pugh Center, a 7 ,000-square

the c lass ificat ions and

foot add i t ion to the Student

categories that might

Union, putting $ 1 m i l l ion

otherwise keer d i fferent

outh, the b u i l d i ng' locat ion make it both l i teral ly and ymbolically cen tra l

a welcom i ng and

comfortable env i ronment for

worth of bricks and morta r

grnups apart. "We exrect i t

beh i nd its commi tment

become a hub, rad i a t i ng

d i versity. Proposed as a

the

"common ground" center i n

throughout the Col lege , "

w h i c h students o f all race · ,

Cotter said.

1 lne p i cc of t h e puzzle . I 'm

student a c t i v i t y there and

worri ed that people w i l l ay,

ongoing programming

'We've olveJ the d i ver ity

fo ter cooperation among

Woodf ork '97 , who scr\'ed

puz: l e , we've an wered the

d i ver e tudent organizat ions

on the trustee com1T1 i � i un,

comfort q ue. t ion' when

are een a key

c u l ture a nd re ligions and others commi tted

d i ver ity

w i l l have a stake, the fac i l i ry is Colby' answer

a 1 994

stu :lent plea for a multi

a l l student . The support taff and ervi ces already

tudent U n i on and

Former

�een a- a panacea. "We need

tudcn t A S\ K i a

tilm Vice Pre ident J oshua

aid, "F1)r me th is wa-, an

be rea l isti , " he said. " I t '

there's s t i l l a lot of work

c u l tu ral hou e on campus.

tudent

avai lahle i n the

Union, the cri tical mass of

the

ucces of the venture , comm i i o n members s a y . A

The b u i l d i ng is named in

new taff po i t ion w i l l be

honor of Colby board chair

c reated to support and

Lawrence Pugh ' S 6 and his

coord i nate Pugh Center

wife, J ean Van Curan Pugh

act i v i t ies begi nn i ng with the

' S S , whose leadership gift was

1 996 c hool year.

instrumental i n mak ing the

t i l l be i ng refined, plan

add i t ion possible. ( ee G i ft

for the 7 ,000- q uare-foot

& G rants. )

add i t ion call for a meeting

A spec ial Trustee Cam

space for up to 1 00 people, a

mi sion on M u l t i c u ltural and

ma l l lounge and two

Spec ial I n terest Housing

k i tc hens, one ko her. I ni t ia l

studied the student '

r e idents o f 1 1 organ i za

suggest ion for a l most a year

t ional office spaces sho u ld include the A ian-American

but dec ided that a res iden t ia l m u l t i c u ltural hou e vvas

The Pugh Center will extend west from the Student U n ion.

Student A soc iation, The Bridge, Colby Chri t ian

not right for Colby. The commission ubsequently

i nc redible year- long process,

do." He po i n ted to a

Fel low hip, the East Asian

proposed, and the Board of

vi i ting other schools and

pend i ng comprehensive

Cul tural Soc iety, H il le l , the

Trustees endorsed, the

dec i d i ng what was be t for

rev iew of re idential life by

I nternat ional Club, M u s l i m

common ground center,

Colby. " Reflecting on the

the Col lege Affai rs Com m i t

students, the N ewman C l u b ,

which should be ready for

dec ision to b u i ld a common

t e e and onaoi ng efforts t o

S O A R ( Society Organized

use by Septe mber 1 996.

ground c enter, he sa i d , " I t's

rec ru it and reta i n more

Aga i nst Racism ) , SOBHU

very exc i t i ng, and I 've heard

students and fac u l ty of color

( Student Organization for

Cotter c a l led t h e proj ect "a

mostly pos i t i ve th ing . It

unique Colby sol u t ion that

should be a sell i ng point for

a posi t ive teps in Colby's quest for greater d iversity.

the Women's Group and the

President W i l l i a m R .

The Pugh Center will be

Black and H ispanic U n i ty ) , Student Associat ion.

comes out of student

the schoo l . You can say i n

suggestions and sticks to our

the viewbook, 'We're

b u i l t onto the northwest

p h i losoph i c a l posi tion not to

com mitted to d i versity and

comer of the S tudent

center came from a group

have spe c i a l housing."

making people comfortable , '

U n ion, l i nk ing i t w i th the

c a l led Students of Color

While some c ampuses'

but this is someth i ng

e x ist ing Marson Common

U n i ted for Change that i n

m u l t i c ul t u ra l c enters seem to

tangible. A m i l l ion dollars

Ground room. W i th Love

t h e spring o f 1 994 presented

fragment their communities,

isn't peanuts."

joy, Eustis and the academ i c

to the Campus Commu n i ty

quadrangle to t h e north,

Comm ittee concerns and

Cotter says the Pugh Center

Woodfork tempered h is

The impetus for the

will be a n i n t egral part of

enthusiasm for the b u i ld ing

Lorimer Chapel to the west

suggestions a imed at making

the S t udent U n ion. He

w i th concern that i t not be

and Dana Commons to the

Colby more comfortable for

C O L B Y

A U G U S T

1 9 9 5

students of color, espec ially. Some changes were ap proved that pring, but the implicat ions of the request for a multi-c ultural house on campus were so profound that a trustee-level rev iew was initiated. The comm ission included two dozen members trustee , alumni, fac ulty, students and administra tors-who first met in May 1 994 and established three fac t-finding commi ttees . One v isited a dozen colleges to invest igate other institu t ions' experiences w ith multicultural house . A second committee gathered campus opin ion on how to improve rac ial, ethnic and cultural understanding. The third group looked at c ultural and racial issues from a broader, national perspective to provide background information that might gu ide Colby's efforts to honor diversity. When the comm ission's plan for the m i l l ion-dollar add ition went to the fu ll Board of Trustees this spring, i t got more than j ust the stamp of approval members of the board, led by Pugh, pledged to donate more than half of the construc t ion budget. Cotter praised the extraordinary effort of comm is ion members as well

as their plan for a common ground add ition. "So many people worked so hard for so long," he said. Tru tee J ames B . Craw ford ' 64, chair of the Comm ission on Multicul tural and Special Interest H ousing, concluded that " I t's one of the strengths of Colby that the Col lege always is respons ive . " That is borne out by the changes that students prec ipi tated in thi c ase , by the fact that all Col lege consti tuenc ies were repre ented in the process and by the number of individuals who partici pated in the d iscussion, he said. Crawford says he feared that "special residential housing would move us backward-would be more d i v isive." The plan adopted and the process leading up to that plan, on the other hand, already have helped to brina various groups togeth r, he says. Meetings on campu were "the first time all of the e representatives of student organizations had gotten together. It was the first time some of them knew the others existed . " I n the broadest sense, the commi ion's goal wa "to make the Colby experience good for all students ," Craw ford aid. "We now have a cornerstone to build on." +

Not Politics A s Usual Student Assoc iation elect ions this pring generated con troversy not because of what happened but because of what d i d n o t . Namely, campaigning. In an editorial lamenting the dearth of serious candidates, The Colby Echo called the April elec t ion "one of the most bizarre in recent years." " . . . most positions were left uncontested until a flurry of la t minute candidates plastered their signs all over campus in an effort to gain a few votes," the Echo said. "But what did these signs say to the Colby public other than the names of the re pective candidates? A few noted that they offered experience or claimed they could get the Beastie Boys to come to Waterville." A planned debate between candidates was scrapped becau e only one team had committed to the race, the Echo noted. J oshua Woodfork '97, former Stu-A vice president, said the entire elec tion process should be reevaluated and new ways found to interest both candidates and their constituent . " I t ' not the most effective model o fstudent government," Woodfork told the Echo. He suggested more incentives for office holders that increase the prestige associated with the pos it ions.

Lifestyle Alternatives Student demand for on-campus housing where drinking i not a I lowed has increased substantially, resulting in the designation of Pierce and East Quad as "chem-free" halls for 1 995 -96. Many factors, primarily heightened alcohol awareness on campus, have contributed to the expansion of chem-free housing, says Kerill O'Neill, assistant professor of classics and faculty representative to the Alcohol in the Campus Environ ment ( ACE) Committee. O'Neill told The Colby Echo, "We know that people are more aware of alcohol issues, and that people are talking more about them." Assoc iate Dean for Residential Life Jan Arm inio aid in t'.1e Echo that wh i le many tudents do not consume alcohol, there are others who do drink moderately but dislike dealing with hall damage due to exces ive drinking-and therefore opt to live in chem-free housing. Students now are required to sign up j ust to be included in the chem-free room draw to ensure their commitment. According to the Echo, 80 student have requested chem-free housing, with more anticipated with the incoming Class of 1 999.

U nhappy Medium An opinion article written in the Echo by Rachel Kondon '95 (North Kingstown, R . I . ) describes how Colby has incorporated another "ism" into its culture: cynicism. Kondon maintains that American society as well a Colby society complains too much, then complains about the excessive complaining. "Colby stu dents are among the growing population of malcontents," a id Kondon. "We are prone to pessimistic views and critical out looks." Kondon says that while questioning authority can pro mote positive change, "there is a middle ground-something between fixation on every minute detail and imple pas ivity."

Hannah Beech '95 and Meadow Dibble '95 have been awarded Thoma J. Watson Fellowship for international study projects next year. Beech, who this ummer is interning at U . S . News & World Report, will study Chine e print media, and Dibble will work on a recycling project in Senegal. Forty -five Colby tudent have received Watson Fellowships, including at least one each year since 1 97 1 .

A UG U S T

1 9 9 5

CO L B Y

Led by Pugh, Trustees Help Fund New Center By Stephen Col l ins ' 7 4

h e n t h e srec i a l

gro u nd brea k i ng, however,

Trustee Ct)m m i ssion

l ies the not i ns i g n i ficant rask

on M u l t i c u l t u ra l a n d Spec i a l

of ra i s i ng money-i n thi

I n terest Hous i ng reco m -

ca'e at least h a l f nf the mun: than

Gifts& rants

1-m i l l il m constru c t ion

co t . S i nce t h e c o m m i � i o n ', report was p u h l i s h c d a few

corner, ncca i o n a l l y p u l l i ng

benefi t to ·tuden ts for a

a F o lded and i n c re a i ng l y

long t i m e , " he aid.

o l hy', Board l )f

T r u st e e - , V i c e Prc�iJent f or

ta t t e red p i ece of yel low

De vel o pm e n t and A l u m n i

lega l paper from hi� p o c k e t .

The tru tee ' genera ity " is real l y very typical of

R e l a t i on s Randy H e l m

Bef ore t h e hoard m ee t i ng

what Col � y ' Board of

d id n ' t have m uc h t i m e to

adj o u rn e d , Pugh a n nounced

Tr u tees ha done over a

that he had . ec u red p l edges

rk o ut a strategy. And i t

for

5 0 5 ,000 fr1.. ) ln fe l low

numbe r of years when proj ect� came up," Pugh

t ru�tces towa rd Ct)nstru c t io n

aid, po i n t i n a to the Lunder

than a h a l f m i l l io n d o l l a rs

of t h e c e n ter. Add i t i o n a l

wou Id need to come from

g i fo and pl edg e :.- have , i nc e

m e t , in large part , by

new g i ft-, H e l m · a y s he d i d

i n c reased t h e c o l l ec t i ve

membe r of the board .

l i t t l e more than m ent inn t h e

tru · r ec� c o n t r i b u t i on to

�uhj e c t to b t )a rd c h a i r

mo re t h a n

Lawrence Pugh '56 . " La rry

Helm report

600,000,

board wou l d rut its money

( Va n Curan ' 5 5 ) , rook t h e

mended a 7 ,000-s q u are - foo t

where i t. mouth was, and he

l e a d , pledging

common ground center as

s a i d , ' Let m e see what I can

and the

the best solution to students'

do,"' He l m re c a l l e d .

re c og n i:e that gift by

At odd mome nt

house ( see Student L i fe ) ,

d u ring break over the

there was i mmedi ate broad

weekend m e e t i ng , H e l m

2 5 0 ,000,

o l lege w i l l

n a m i ng the add i t ion The

and

Pugh

aw P ugh huddled with one t ru stee after another in a

Huu e a a pec i al need

Helm said the tru tee ' support underline their en thu iasm for the unique olu

Pu gh and h i - w i fe , J e a n

bas i c a l l y . a i d he though t the

Between concept and

rad iate out thro ugh t h e

m ee t i n g of

Recogn i z i n g t h a t nH irc

support for the c oncept.

w h a t can happen in the

Pugh Cente r and what w i l l Co l l e g e w i l l b e o f great

t u rned o u t he d id n ' t need i t .

plea · for a m u l t i c u l tural

love for Colby. " I t's a measure of our be l i ef that

d ays before t h e spring

Board of Trustees C h a i r Lawrence Pugh '56.

nf t he i r devotion to and

enter. Pugh a i d the

tion propo ed by the special commission. "It' not the '

po l i t ical l y correct' solution;

it' the Colby olution to a difficult is ue," he said. Pledge , by trustees refl e c t that " they have

tru tee ' financ ial support

t remendous respect and

for the c o m mon grou nd

adm i ra t i on for Larry and

space reflects the inte n ity

J ean Pugh," Helm added. +

Catalyst for Improvement Colby'

A c he m istry lab i n the Keyes b u i l d i ng will be renovated

1 00 - m i l l io n capital c ampa ign announced la t

October. The new laboratory w i l l expand and enhance the

and equ ipped to erve the needs of non-sc ience maj ors thanks in part to a $ 1 00,000 grant from the Hannaford

hands-on laboratory courses that a t isfy the Col lege '

Charitable Foundation i n Scarborough, Maine. The founda

science req u i rement for non-sc ience maj ors and w i l l help

t ion is the c hari table arm of Hannaford Bros. Co., a Maine

ensure that all Colby graduates will be prepared for an

based food retaile r w i th 1 1 8 stores in even states i n the

i n c reasi ngly technolog ical world. Constru c t ion i s slated to

Nort heast and the Caro l i nas.

begi n this summer. "Not only will t h i s benefit all Colby students who use

"The H a nnaford Chari table Foundation is very p leased to support Colby's capital campaign and the College's

the fac i l it ies, i t w i l l also enhance o u r e x tensive collabora

c o m m i t m e n t to technological l i teracy, an incre as i ngly i mportant component of a l i beral arts educat ion , " said Paul

Waterv i l l e area , " said Colby Col lege P resident W i l l iam R.

A . Fri tzson, president of the H a nnaford Charitable Founda

Cotter. "Th is is a s t u n n i ng contribut ion toward o u r overa l l

tion, when the g i ft was announced t h is spring.

plan f o r upgrad ing s c i ence fac i l it i e s . "

tion w i th public school s c i ence programs i n the greater

Three Hannaford Bros. v ice presidents a r e Colby gradu

The grant is an i mportant component i n Colby's proposed $ 1 . 4 - m i l l ion m odernization of the Keyes c he m is

ates: A lbert Carv ille Jr. '63, Karen Johnson Mank '70 and

try b u i ld ing, one of t h e h ighest priority obj ect ives of

Kenneth C. Johnson '76. +

C O L B Y

A U G U S T

1 9 9 5

Banking on the Future Raising funds for scholarships is a principle goal of the Campaign for Colby. Fleet's pledge, to be paid over five years, was welcomed by President W il liam Cotter. "This is another example of Fleet Bank's corporate leadership in the s tate of Maine, and we are very grateful for their support of our efforts to offer more scholarship monies to m inority students," Cotter said. "Mak ing sure that students from a variety of back grounds may continue to a ttend Colby is a cornerstone of our mission . "

Fleet Bank o f Maine has pledged $ 50,000 t o the Campaign for Colby. The gift will endow a scholarship for m inority students. Colby trustee and Fleet Bank of Maine Chairman M. Anne O'Hanian Szostak '72 presented a check to College trustees at their May meeting. "lt is our sincere hope that Fleet's gift to this campaign will provide the i mpetus for other corporations and individuals to affirm the ir support for Colby's educational mission," Szostak said.

N ot Afraid to Take a Check

Laura

Iorio ' 9 5 a n d

S a ra Jagels

As captain of the wo men's ice hockey team, Laura Iorio '95 was "tough in front of the net-very aggressive--definitely gritty," said Laura Hall dorson, lorio's coach for the past four seasons. Despite a lacrosse inj ury that requ ired reconstructive knee surgery between her first and second seasons, I orio played all four years, start ing as a forward and wrapping up her career playing defense. "She wasn't afraid to get hit," Halldorson said, even though the tender knee occas ionally required crutches between games. I orio brought that same tenac i ty to a d ifferent arena this spring. She took charge

under her gown for any seniors who still are not in the pledge," Cotter quipped . Vice President for Devel opment and Alumni Rela tions Randy Helm credited the success of the drive to lorio's energy and what he called a "real over-the-top performance" at the senior dinner. She arrived at the dinner with pledge cards for more than 1 00 classmates who hadn't signed on and used the opportunity to employ the fund raiser's best tool, personal contact, to win more converts. When it was her tum to speak, she got to the platform, paused and made a great fuss applying her make-up in front of the crowd before charming and c ajoling her peers one more time. At the class party afterward she got the last dozen pledges that put her over 70 percent. "She's vibrant and outgoing. She loves Colby and isn't afraid to tell people so," said Helm. "She was definitely the right leader at the right time." By the t ime seniors p icked up diplomas on May 2 8 , 70. 5 2 percent o f them had pledged $39,4 72 (payable over five years ) , and Iorio, wearing a baseball cap instead of the trad itional mortarboard, celebrated by

'95.

of Colby's Senior Pledge drive and lifted the College's perennially successful student fund ra is ing effort to a record 70 percent partici pat ion rate, edging last year's record of 69 percent. That rate sustains an upward trend that started in 1 989, when j ust 35 percent of Colby seniors made pledges. The Senior Pledge was initiated 10 years ago. This year's record partic ipation rate earned praise for the seniors from President W i l l iam Cotter when he addressed them at Commencement, as well as praise for Iorio, whom he ingled out. "Laura probably still has some pledge forms

dancing a quick j ig up the steps to the platform. "That's j ust the type of person she is," said Assoc iate Director of Annual Giving Margaret Felton V iens ' 7 7 , who coordinated the Senior Pledge with Iorio. "She was great to work with." Proceeds from the Senior Pledge go to the Alumni Fund for general, unrestricted expenditures by the College. "It's to get Colby alumni into the habit of giving from the day they graduate," says Helm. During the five years before their first reunion, graduates tend to move around a lot and don't have a great deal of money to give. The Senior Pledge informs students about the impor tance of philanthropy to the College and to their own lives and helps mold their philanthropic habits while their Colby experience is still fresh, Helm says. Iorio, a government major and women's studies minor who led the Colby Women's Group as well as the hockey team, isn't wait ing to see whether she's found her career calling she has an internship at Cushing Academy in Ashburnham, Mass. , working in development. +

A U G U

1 9 9 5

C O L B Y

The Deepest Cut of All ? By J . Kev in Cool

hen the dust fi nall y

Colby students

settles on the fiscal

much as $2 ,000 in aJd i tional

1 996 federa l budget process,

intere:-.t at the end of the ir four-year col lege career.

JI I

S t i l l a t stake i n the

the d amage su ·rained from

budget process

c u ts in student fi n a n c i a l

Perk in� Loan progra m ,

arc

the

assistance programs, their

w h i ch prov ides fund� that

reac tion may be " i t coulJ

c a n be loaned tn students at

have been worse. "

an annual in terest rate of 5

A l though Congress may substantially pare some of

EJ ucatinnal Opport unity G rants, which prov ide fund

undergraduates pay for

for low - i ncome students.

col lege, President W i l l i a m

Last year

Cot ter is pleased t h a t at least

olhy student rece i ved nearly $ I m i l l ion

one key component origi

from those thre fun d i ng

in-school i nterest subsidy that a llows students to defer

Financial Aid since 1 970

gram�; and Suppleme n t al

the government's most

t ion has been restored. The

Comparison of Federal and Institu tional

percent ; work -study pro

popular program for helping

nally targeted for e l i m ina

Paarents .

aging

pay as

probably some time thi fa l l , a n d Colby offi c i a ls assess

ourc e combined. Nobody is sure what programs w i l l be c u t or t o

mil. --- Col by Granc Funds

what extent, Corter say , but

payi ng i nterest on their

he says that any cu ts in

---- Perkins wan

loans until after they have

federal assistance w i l l be

-D- F

grad uated has been spared,

d ifficult

or so it appears.

anomolous to me that at a

"There may be a v i c tory

absorb. "It seems

is bei ng advocated as a way

and spec ifically the M a i ne

to decrea e the burden on

lobby i ng effort, in get t i ng

the future generation, we are

the i n-school i nterest sub

tax i ng students to go to

sidy retained," Cotter sa i d .

college, " he sa i d . "They are

H e says Maine Senators

supposed to be the benefic ia

Olympia Snowe and W i l l ia m

ries of defi c i t reduction and

Cohen successfully fought for

i nstead they are being asked

the subsidy after an earlier House Budget Resolution

to shoulder more of the burden. lt fl ies i n the face of

called for i ts e l i mi nation.

all the rhetoric."

Last year, 625 Colby

t h i rd o f Colby's students

Stafford Loans. U nder the

c i a l ass istance a n d 6 0

budget resolution proposed

perc e n t get w o r k s t u d y .

these loans would begi n accru i ng w h i le students were t i l l i n col lege. Doing away

1 979-80

1 990-91

1 994-95

telsey ' 7 3 says Colby i s part icularly v u l nerable t o c uts i n federal assistance because many of i ts peers

would have required some

have larger endowments that

1 9 9 5

1 970-71

Colby's D i rector o f Financ ial A id Lucia Whi t

w i t h the subsidy-Cotter

A U G U S T

$ 2 mil.

rec e i v e need-ba ed fi n a n

c a l led it a "stealth tax"

C O L B Y

-0- Pell Granc

Curre n t l y , about one

s tudents rec e i ved a total of $ 2 . 1 m i l l ion i n " ubsidized"

in the House , i nterest on

3 mil.

t i me when defic i t reduction

here for our lobby i ng efforts,

EOG1 -D- FWSP2

1 Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant

Federal Work-Srudy Program

� al low them more of a safety

money already al located to

ne t . " I t makes i t harder for

student for the coming

us to compete when we can't

academic year would have to

offer the same financ ial

be w i thdrawn. " I t doesn ' t

ass istance packages. There is

leave us a n y time to plan,"

also the i mpact on Colby's

Whittelsey said.

p h ilosophy of maintai ning acce for tudents regardle s

act ively lobbying Congress

of need. One type of

d ivers i ty is oc io-economi c

h igher educat ion, Cotter has

d iversity, a n d w e want t o

not asked parents to join in

maintain that," he said.

that effort. "We don't

c u t in federal ai:I would be fel t most severely by fam i l ies

parents. Our posit ion is that we will keep parents in

of Maine students, many of

formed, but how they

whom receive financ ial

respond is an individual

ass istance . "Colby has a lway

dec ision and shou ld not be

been commit ted to access for

orchestrated by the Col

Maine students, but c u t l ik e

lege ," he aid. c on idered seriou enough

maintain, ' she said.

to warrant a combined p u b l ic campaign by the

under l i n e the importance

and Bowdoin and the chanc e l lor of the U n i \·ersity

endowment . "It co ts more

of M a i ne ystem, who poke a t a j o int pre s conference

grow ing fi nanc i a l ass istance

in early April. The state

need c reated by i nfl a t i o n , "

men prepared by the

he a i d . " W h e n y o u

c o l le •e leader noted that

c o m b i n e that w i t h more c u t s i n federal a i d , endow

makin h igher educat ion le - accessible is bad po l i c y

ment becomes e e n

b o t h a a hort- term remedy

m o r e i m portant . "

an :i a a long- term fisc al

A ignificant red u c t ion in

c o llege-educated people

for tudent -pre l i m i nary

from a l l walks of l i fe-pay

figure ranged from

incre a i ngly larger shares

b i l l ion to

1 0 b i l l ion

would be "a p i l l I don t

�

i1 _!J I I �

was also the founding year of Ivy Day , an annual ce lebrat ion coord inated by the women of the j un ior c la s. Ivy Day was one of the earlie t inst i t u tion Colby women could c laim a the i r O\.\'n. I t \\·a a program of

�- inging, danc ing and oratory in which a l l female .mTrt�� students part icipated. The program for 1 8 7 7 inc luded, �� among other things, "Our h·y, 'tis ofThee" ung to the �l�I tune of "America." While the program changed each �-�i �

year, Ivy Day's one con tant func t ion was the ritual transfer of authority from the senior to the j un ior

c lass women. In 1 9 1 7 this tran fer wa

ymbol i:ed by the oift

from the sen ior c la s pres ident to the j unior clas- pre ident of the trowel used to p lant the i\·y.

He Didn't Have a Prayer Colby's founders orioinal l y intended t h e College to be a n o n - s e c t a r i a n s e m i n a r y for c lergy. I ndeed, during Colby' infancy many graduate went on to serve a m in i -ter- and m issionaries. The c u rr i c u l u m a n d rou t ine of t h e College re flected thi heritage; daily morn ing c h a p e l a t t e nd a n c e was mandatory and an absent stu dent faced the possibility offines or cen ure.

mea ure. "The fact is that

federal financ i a l assi tance 6

I n 1 87 7 , fol lowing in the footsteps of Mary Low, Helen Loui e Coburn bec ame the second woman to graduate from Colby College. ot coinc iden tally, that

p re ident of Colby , Bates

of b u i ld ing the College's every year j us t to meet the

Halls of Ivy

The proposed c u ts were

harder and harder to

fu nding c u t s would aga i n

Anecdotes from the Colby Arcli.ives

avoid further c u ts in

mob i l ize lobbying efforts by

Cotter a i d federal

N OTH I NG N E W

A lthough the College is

Wh ittelsey noted that

this m a k e that commit ment

;

tudents of that era frequently schemed for some way to escape the morning prayer ervice. One of the most i ngenious ploys was c la imed by Benjamin F . Butler, Class of 1 3 , later a oeneral of Civil War fame. In hi autobiography Butler tells of

of federal and state taxes,"

submitt ing a pet i t ion

the t a tement read. "Col

had l i ttle hope of alvation ince Cak i n ist doctrine says the

Pre ident Babcock c la im ing that he

think we cou ld wallow,"

lege-educated indi' iduals

ratio of the saved to the damned is small and since the fac u l ty

Cotter said. "It would mean

now pay about two-th irds

reduc ing aid packages for

of all IR revenues, far out of proportion to their

were surely among the saved . Therefore, Butler maintained, no amount of chapel attendance would do him any good.

tudents c urrently rece iving aid. We imply cou ldn' t

nu mber . I f the red u c t ion

make that up from inst itu

of the federal defi c i t is a princ iple long - term

t ional fund . " Complicat ing the i sue further i

re ci

There is no record of the petition having been appro\'ed.

ions

package that call for a 600- m i l l ion reduction i n

Name That Major

goa l , then c learly fi nan-

Among the more intere ting affinitie between academic discipline and last name in the year ju t past were a Rock music major (Jennifer '95 , Ards ley, N .Y. ) , an Engli h English major (Sarah '95 , Madi on, Conn.) and a Fortune in economics (Christopher 95, Freeland, Md. ) .

c ia l aid that as ist h igher percentages of our oung people through col lege

education pend ing for fiscal

i one of the most effe c

year 1 99 .J . The re u l t is that

tive i nvestments . " +

A U G

1 9 9 1

C O L B Y

Life on the Road

Mul

By Lynn S u l l i van '89

be Roger '95 seem:-.

th ink it':-. i m 1�ortan t that I

not to fi t the model of

continue tu make th<1t a

e son oveth e

not a one-di mensional per son . There are many th ings

an ' ' i ro n m a n . " A t r i < 1 t h l e t e

pn:-. i t i ve part uf m . My goal

� i n c e a g e 1 5 , R 1 )ge r:-. ',

i::.

tenac i ousness h e l i es h i s

my fie l d . The chal lenge in

reserved , soft- pnken

that is that I'm n ot the be�t

hoped to compete i n a dozen

profe�s i\ lrn1l yet. I hC1vc a Int

d e meanor. " A worl d - c l a s� a t h l e t e , " ac c ord i ng to

be the he:-.t I can be in

that I 'm commi tted to and many t h i ng I'm a part of." Th i

u l hy

ummer Roger

more triathlons across the

country . " Rac i ng pro i s a lot

track coach J i m We:-.c o t t ,

d i fferent [ from rac i ng

R ogers i s one of the p re m i e r

amateur] , " aid Rogers. "The

t r i a t h lo n c o m pe t i w r and a

compet i t i n i much more

fu t u re profe

seriou and there is so much

ional i n

p e r h a p s t h e mo t phy� i c a l l y

more at take , l ike mak i ng a

d e mand i ng sport yet

Ii v i ng. There' a lot more

i nv e n t e d .

pre

A B u r l i ngton , V t . , n a t i v e ,

ure to do we l l . "

Accord i ng t o Roger , a few

Rogers has competed as an

profe si nal triath lete make

amateur i n 2S tri a th low

as much a $ 500,000 from

s i nce h i s fi rst race ·even

-pon nr , endor ements and

years ago. H e was the J u n ior

prize money, but the majority

N at i onal Champion th ree

of fu l l - t ime pro make

consec u t ive years, 1 99 1 -9 3 ,

2 0,000- 3 0,000 per year.

and repre ented the U . . i n

"He i · d o i ng all of t h is for

the w o r l d champ ion h i ps i n

the love of the sport and no

A ustra l i a , C a n a d a a n d

other reason," said Wescott,

England . H e fin i shed 2 9 t h ,

who coached Rogers in cross

n inth and e i g h t h , respec

cou ntry and tra c k . "He ju t

t i v e l y . H is 1 99 3 e igh t h - place

keep dri i ng, d r i v i ng,

fi n i h h e l ped h is team w i n

d r i v i ng. He i one of the

the go ld m e d a l . L a s t summer he entered the M azda-Orange County Triath lon in Orange

Abe R ogers

mo t ded icated athlete I 've

'95

ever coached, and hi

of room to imprnve . " Roger 's t ra i n i ng week

County, Cal i f. , as a profes

i n c l udes S S m i les of run n i ng ,

s ional . He fin i shed fourth

m o r e t h a n 300 m i les o f

Colby. He was co-pre ident

chance [as a professional ]

are great . "

OAR ( oc iety Orga

n ized Aga i n t Rac i sm ) , the t udent - run group t hat

" ometi mes it's hard, and tra i n i ng gets a l i ttle lone ly,"

among the A mericans-one

b i k i ng and 1 5 m i le o f

combats rac ism and stereo

said Rogers. "You spend a lot

spot better wou ld have

swimm i ng to prepare for t h e

typing, he \.vorked a t the

of t i me by your elf, and once

earned h i m a trip tO the

standard i n ternat ional

J oseph Spa , and he was a 1 ife

i n a wh ile you ' l l que t ion

1 994 Good w i l l Games i n St.

triath lon-a 1 . 5 - k i lometer

guard . Throughout his four

why you ' re put ting all t h i s

Petersburg, Russia. Rogers

swi m , a 40k b i ke ride and a

years, though , he m a i n t a i ned

p r e sure o n yourse lf trying t o

a com m i t ment to triath lons.

c a s h i n every weekend. W h y

h as consisten tly placed

l Ok run. Except for an

among the tOp l S , i n c l u d i ng

occasional off day before a

secon d - p lace fin i hes a t

" I feel I'm pretty well

n o t j ust g o out a n d g e t a

race, he trains dai l y . W h i le a

rounded ," said Rogers, who

steady j ob w i t h a steady

races i n N agoya, J apan, and

student at Colby he modi

says that i n his four years at

i ncom e ? But compet i ng in

Co lumbus, Ohio.

fied h i s t ra i n i ng schedu le

Colby he grew from a person

triathlon is a great chal

because of acad e m i c and

totally focused on triath lons

lenge. l ' m at the age where I

a t h l e t i c comm i t ment .

to a much more complete

want to see how far I can go

" A t h le t i cs i s a part of who

I a m , " said Rogers, who was

ind ividual. " l am using my

athletically, and it j ust so

major with a m i nor in

country , sw i m m i ng and

per onal resources as well as

happens l get to do what l

African-American studies. "I

ou tdoor t rack and field a t

my athletic resources. I am

like physically." +

an admin istra ti ve science

C O L F\ Y

A U G U S T

1 9 9 5

Rogers let tered in cross

Women Keep Pace

SPORTS SHORTS

Every Colby women's outdoor track and field team carries the burden of uphold i ng a trad i t ion of �"'erennial ucces . Past squads have won the E SCAC t i t le three t imes and the N e w England DiYision I I I t i t le twice, and more than a do:en compet i tors ha,·e earned A l l America cert ificates. The ro·ter of a\\·ard winner inc l ude- more than 50 A l i e\\' E ngland , 3 A l l - ECAC and 2 A l l - E SCAC competitors. ln 1 994 five athlete qual ified for nation al- and three earned A l l -

Lacrosse Squad Tops Middlebury The men's lacrosse team fini_hed the eason \\'ith a 9-6 uY e rn l l record. During the pre-sea on the quad wa ranked 2 1 st by Fact'off maoa: i n e . They p layed e ig h t teams t h a t were ranked among the wp 30 natitmally during the regular ea on, \\·hose h ighlighr inc luded a 1 0-9 o\·errimc \\·in over l iddlebury, the e\·entual ECAC c ha mpions . . . . Posting - i mpre si,·e \\·ins o,·er Virginia Tech and pringfield College and suffering one-point losses to Di,· ision 1 1 1 powerhouse: Randol�.. , h Macon and Wash ington and Lee, the women's lacrosse team finished the ·eason with a 6-9 record. _

This year ' · squad met the c h a l l enge as \\' e l l . The 1 u les didn't lose to a

Roundup After a ·rring trip ro Bermuda, the men's outdoor track and field team won the rate of Maine championships for the ·econd conseCLtti,·e year. Don aucier '96 received the meet'- Alan H illman trophy presented to the most ,·aluable runner-the third year in a row Colby has earned that honor. The men took fifth place at the ESCAC meet . . . . A pring break trip to H i l ton Head, .C., produced a 2 - 3 record for the men's tennis team, \vhich finished the season 5- m·erall. The team excelle:! in doubles competition, pl)Sting wins over Salem. tate College and Bates . . . . The softball team finished the sea on with a 7 - 2 0 record, including win over Bowdoin, Bate , Plymouth tare and the Univer ityofSouthern Maine . . . . The baseball team finished i ts 1 2 th season with a 1 2 - 1 6 record. The 2 -game season pro duced wins over Trinity, Bowdoin, Bates and UMa s-B ston.

eason, a second -place fini-11 at the A loha Relays. A t the E CAC c hampion h ip Colby p laced third and then repeated that performance at the ew E ngland D i v i ion I l l c hamp ionsh ir , ,,·here they were edged by econd-p lace Wesleyan by t\\'O point . The i r final performance-the ECAC meet-earned Colby econd place ( behind Bowdo i n ) and · u rpri-ed the 2 5 - team fie ld i n c l u d i ng D i v i ion I I I nat ional powerhou e U Y-Cortland. "Overal l i t wa a very ucces fu l and t rong ea on," said head coach Deb A i tken. "ln term of what we t hought we could do and what we did, we were succe fu l . " Cappi ng the e a on were i n v i t a t ion to the CAA c hamp ion hip fo r hammer thrower Brooke Loren:en, a enior from M ercer 1 land, Wash . , and m iddle-di · ranee runner Lenia A c e n o , a enior from G loucester, Mas . Becau e the meet coinc ided w i th Colby's en ior Week and gradu a tion a c t i v i t i e , A c e n o made the d iffi c u l t dec ision t o r e m a i n on M ayflower H i l l . Loren:en opted to m i most of the week fe t i v i t ie and headed for compe t i t ion at Carleton College in M innesota. U ndefeated througho u t the ea on, Loren:en, seeded fo urth a t national , • a look ing to repeat her 1 994 A l l A merican performance i n the hammer ( th e fi r t t i m e the e e n t was al lowed i n national compe t i t ion ) . Th is t i me she threw 1 63 ' 5 " , e tabl i h i ng a Colb record and capturing fo urth place fo r her econd A l l-American c ert ificate. "l am very happ w i th the athlete ' performances this year," aid A i tken. ' Everyth i ng j u t eemed to c l ick for us." + Leni a Ascenso

'95

Monday Night Football The September 23 Colby v . Trinity football game will be telev ised on cable' ew England ports etwork ( N E N ) . The rape-delayed broadcast i scheduled t o a i r o n Monday, ept. 2 5 , at 7 : 3 0 p.m. E N, the ration of the Boston Brui ns and Red ox, is seen throughout New England.

Still

J(icking

Although Molly Couch ' 6 played ice hockey with a men' league for a few year- after graduating, he sa s ·he no longer p lay serious ly . A fifth grade teacher at the Couch

mith College Campu chool in ort hamp ton , i\ !ass., i busy pur uing other acti\'ities such a oftball, tennis, a ummer

wedding and Taekwondo. In her enior year with the White M ules -he was the team' MVP and captain, a

ew England All-Star and a member of the

All-Bowdoin Tournament team. She cored 76 point from her defen ive po it ion in her four years at Colby. Couch was a four -yea r member of the occer team as well.

A U G U S T

1 99 5

C O L BY

Fifty--Plus

lumni at arge

�....IF" .

Belgrade Lake>, M a i n e . M y ,ister

Correspondent:

and her h ushtlnd have a s i m i l::ir ahode on t h e a m e body of water, and I have spent many t ie,. T h e M a rcou' have daugh

42 Perry Drive N eedha m , M A 02 1 92

6 1 7-449- 1 6 1 4

TWENTIES

r u i 'c in J a n u<iry. A wonderful

Renee a nd ·on Ph i l l i ppe. Rene

e x perience w i r h d e l i c ious f ood

Ro,run frrnn A i r

re t i red from tcach 1 11 g at

and u n u,ual >erv i e' on Hol land

ul legc in 1 970 a nd

Amt:rica . " . . . 'hnrt of a fu l l bio

force Research in 1 9 7 6 . ( T r i \ ' i a

g r <1 p h y , a n y w r i t e - u p a b o u t

note: ' rand i ng in t h e m id d l e uf

Norman Palmer ' 3 0 m u>t fa i l m i ,er,1hly t m lack o f sracc. A r 5 , t h 1 ' d i , r i ngu 1,hed whirlwmd trav el..,, read:,, teachc:, and write a i f

Reacnn

St rcer ,

Newtl ll1 Cenrt:r, M a,,., i> tlw l arg

than i rn nce d i d . " hnad l y m i>ses

her brother, Douglas Grearson

' 2 8 , on whom >he depended d a i l y f o r h e l p a nd ad v i c e , p a n i c u l arly w i th regard to sports. She won d e rs what W i l k i e w o u l d h a \ ' e t h o u gh t a bo u t Ph i l G ra m m , Bob Dole and the p re se n t speaker of the hl)Use, e w t G i n gri c h . Elsie Frost Ra pp ' 2 6 read, an average of one large-print no\'el per week and, i n add i t io n , reads t he l a rg e - p r i n t version of G u ide pos ts , Reader's Digesc and t h e n ewspaper. Jn t h e D a n b u r y , Con n . , n u r i ng home where she l i ves, ·he gc)es to phy ical t herap y five t i me> a week . Profes,ors A n to n " D u tc h y " M <l rq u a r d t ( German ) , Carl Weber ( Shake spe<lre) and j u l i fl n Taylor ( Latin ) a l l stand o u t in M rs . Rapp', m e m ory . . . . I rma Davis Mc Kechnie ' 2 6 has IO g re a t - g r a nd c h i ld re n ! -" A l l i n te l l igent and act i ve l i ttle ra·cals. " Age, says M rs. M cKechn i e , has "j ust slowed me down a b i t . " . . . In a del ight ful telephone chat with Dr. Rene Marcou '28 and his wife, El iza beth, th is past Apr i l 2 1 , I found we had much i n common . He went from Colby to M I T to earn h is Ph . D. i n ' 3 3 . I went from C o l b y to rhe same c hool and got a B . S . in '49. He worked at Raytheon. So did I. They have a sum mer place on Great Pond in

A U G U S T

Wt: n r on a 1 0-day C::i r i bhcan

t e r' M <i ry l a n d , M i c h e l e a n d

t h e i r hiwn ar 9 )0

Edith "Ducky" Grearson Money '26 find> that d r i \' i n g her Volvo to t h e Bos t ll n � y mp hn n y " rn k e � m o r e m e n ta l and physical energy

C O L B Y

m 1uhle I w i t h i t ] after �ix month�.

t i m e t here. End of common a l i

Fletcher E a w n ' 39

1 9 9 5

e't hcec h tree known rn e x i>t t:<l t

of t h e M 1 , s i > > ipp i . ) . . . R u t h McEvoy ' 2 8 w r i t e c rypt i c a l l y from R a mv i a , N . Y . , t h m � he keep' fi t by w a l k i n g and \\'ishe:, h e were tr avel i ng . . . . The Rev. Dr. Cecil H. Rose '28 and hi> w ife, H e l e n , rec e n t l y c e l ehrared t h e ir 5 0 t h wedd ing ann i ven1ry, in add i t iL lll

to w h i c h h e h a marked the occa s ion of h is 89th h i rt h d a y . He mis es hi> w e e k -by-w e e k c h u rch work , a l though h e freq uently uh sti rutes for vaca t i o n i ng m i n iste rs . . . . Rosalie Mosher Reynolds '29 h a s descendant · in prnfu�ion. he h:J, four great-grand c h i ldren who are th e gra n d c h i l d ren of her daugh ter Be t h i a Reyn,)ld. Morr is ' 5 7 , a l l l i ,· i ng i n Engl and or Scot land. A great-grnnddaughter, born

a t Chr istmast i me 1 994. i:, the grandcla ughter of M r · . Reynolds' daughter Dorothy Reynold. Gay

' 59. Mr . Reynolds is a devotee of the E l l is Peters ser ies uf Brother Cadfael whodunnit and, in 19 0, visited the town of Shrewbu ry in Engl and and the Abbey, home of C ad fa e l ' s monastery. +

THIRTIES l n a t ouc h i ng note, Helen Chase Pardey '30 writes: "Two beautiful long-hair cats; a male, Sandy, and female Samantha-same l i t ter w i l l be three years old March 1 2 [ 1 99 5 ] . They are the joy of m y life in l i ving alone." On a med ical note: "Had a right knee replace m e n t in S e p t e m b e r . H a v i ng

he were 't i l l 29, which wa:, hi age

time I ,aw h i m . In May 1 994, he anJ hb w i fe , Gurina, tr<l\'eled to orway, where he ha· m<my re l atives . Then for three wecb 1 r1 Novemher it w a on to Hawa i i , where rhe Palmer have a concln on rhe i land nf Kauai. the 1�1't

They abL tnive led extcmi vely i n

t h e Pac ific Northwest. D r . Pa l me r taught college cla>>es and wa · rhe lecturer on two Elderho t e l rro gr ms. Th i> y ea r the Palmer w i l l 1• i i t p a i n , Portugal a n d t h e ·outhwe rem United rate . In an a l l - i nc l u>1ve ·ra te m ent to which we can all :,ub c ribe, he ay:,: '"! am nm getting any younger, and I w ish I w erc 1 ' rather 'I am getting older. I do not recommend i t . "' For reading Dr. Palmer c i te No Ordi nan• Time: Franklin and Eleanor Ror�sewl t : The Home From in World \Var 11 by Doris Kearns Goodwin '64. He a ys , "An ex traordinary book on an important topic. Very well written. Ba·ed on exten ive re earch and deep re flect ion. . O h v i o u ly Colbyi tes should read i t becau-e rhe author i - a Colby alumna." (See notes on Malcolm McQu illan '44, below. ) . . Wallace Meyer '30 i "86 go ing on 1 00 ! " H is mother died at 89, h is father at 92. Two isters and a brother, all in their 80s, are going strong. Mr. Meyer firmly intends ro beat all of them. He keeps fi t by relying on h is genetic heri tage provided by rugged an cestors. Professor Colgan ("the

hest") rnught him (a) how to teach sch ool and (b) how ro u e time efficiently, but ( c ) d idn't teach h i m how w combat old age . ( Note: M r . Meyer is hereby ap pointed this year' recipient of the presrigiou Palmer Method award for hi u l tra-legible handwri t i n g . ) . . . Kenneth Mansfield '3 1 ha a wife, Margaret, and a daugh ter, usan Pogue. l 'm ure he could tell u a lot more-but he d idn't. . . The Very Reverend Harold F. Lemoine '32 mer George '34 and Vesta Alden Putnam '33 in Hon o l u l u , where they were visiting one of their daughters. Father Lemoine remembers "Prof. Her hert Newman, often called 'Pop.' He was o gracious and helpful for any who ·ought h is c o u n e l . N ever c a n forget D r . Herbert Carlyle Libby and Dr. Wilkin on, when he conducted chapel ser \'lce and he put on the Brooklyn acc e m , e pec i a l l y a he a n nounced t h e H y m n 3 3 1 a n d we got 'thurd' and 'furst."' . . . Don ald ' 3 3 and Dorothy Gould Rhoades '36 claim rhar "J r's hard ro believe that our granddaughter, Jennifer, w i l l enter the Univer i ty of Washington in the fal l and her si ter, tephanie, w i ll enter h igh school." A book you must read, say they, is Ca/>e Horn--One Man's Dream ; One Woman's Nightmare by Reanne Hemingway-Douglas, publi bed by Fine Edge Produc tions, Bishop, CA 9 3 5 1 4. Not be cau e Reanne is a per onal friend but because it i a uperbly written aga of amazing survival, it is a must for those who love rhe sea. They ( the c rew ) experienced "pitchpole" and lived to tell the tale. . . Portia Pendleton Ride out '34 has had it w i th l iv i ng alone, espec ially s i nce he has been ill enough to 1 nd in the hospital each of the past three winters. So he plans to pack up and go to l ive w ith her daughter in Oregon. "Anyone want to drive my car across the country ? Or a Hertz truck with my furniture ?

A L U M N I

Call m e at Riverside House ( 207626-0804) or at my cottage on Webber Pon<l ( 207-92 3 -3748 ) . " . . . George Mann ' 3 4 recom mends listening to taped books. From the Texas State Library in Austin, Texas, George has bor rowed a ca sette player and can borrow all the "books" he wants. " I r is easy and enjoyable," he says. . . . Frank Norvish '34, who made such a sma h hit as a speaker at the 50-plus banquet two years ago, has "completed my stint as president of the Military Intelli gence Association of New Eng land" an<l is now vice president of the N ational Counter- I n te l l i gence Corps Association. H is son, Phil, is wire editor on the Sentinel in Waterv i l le . . . . June Wight Mason ' 3 5 recommends The Death of Common Sense by Phi l ip Howard. She predicts with pride that she will be 8 1 years young on June 4, 1996. As for remembering professor , her comment is: "Too m u c h to t e l l a n d too l o n g ago." . . . Ruth Millett Maker ' 3 6 ha written to tell us of the death on March 8, 1 99 5 , of her brother, Dr. William H. Millett '34, some times known as "the other Bill M illett." Mrs. Maker fondly re member h is prom inence and popularity on campus. He was a member of Kappa Delta Rho and worked on The Colby Echo and with the Powder and Wig group, acting in a number of plays. Also, he played in the marching band. He wa a chemi try major and elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Says she: "I was proud to be his 'kid sister."' Mrs. Maker came from a Colby family: her father, uncle, two brothers, a sister, two cousins, a ister-in-law and a niece are all graduate in classes 1 893 through 1 962 . . . . Elizabeth Wilkinson Ryan '3 7 has become a year older but "rejected all efforts ofothers to 'ce lebrate' it and thereby fel t much happier." She remembers Everett Strong as a lively and de manding teacher of French and c h urch c hoir d i rec tor. (Note: Prof. Strong was the uperb organ ist at the Congregational Church in Waterville, where he directed the choir.) . . . Ethel Bradstreet Maney '38 has been traveling to England, Ireland, Scotland, Ger many and the Czech Republic but wishes she could match the travel of her son, Dr. Ardith Maney. He

NEWSMAKERS Leonette Warburton Wishard '23, a member of the Bridgeport, Conn., branch of AAUW since 1 94 5 , was featured in a recent AAUW publication for her life t i me of work a a m issionary. . . . John J . Pullen ' 3 5 offered commentary on the PBS TV pro file "Joshua Chamberlain and the 20th M aine." Pul len i the author of Th e 20th Maine. . . . Marlee Bragdon Monroe '42 entered the

Marlee

Bragdon Monroe '42

M a ter Gardener Training program of the Cornell Univer ity Cooperative Extension of Erie County, N.Y. A working jour nali t w ith membership in many botanical organizations, she w i l l provide hours of volunteer service after graduation from the eight-week program.

MILEPOSTS Deaths: William M. Chittenden ' 1 9 in Hamden, Conn., at 98 . . . . Phyllis Sturdivant Sweetser ' 1 9 in Portland, M aine, at 96 . . . . Ruth A. Blakeslee '23 in Sanford, Maine, a t 93 . . . . Lloyd J. Treworgy '23 in Dover-Foxcroft, M a ine, at 94 . . . . Madeline Miles Hall '25 in Pittsfield, M a ine, at 90 . . . . Doris Hardy Haweeli ' 2 5 in North Conway, N . H . , at 92 . . . . Ethel Childs Storer '25 in Portsmouth, N . H . , at 9 1 . . . . Frederick C. Wright '27 in Doylestown, Pa. , at 88 . . . . Ashton S . Hamilton '28 in Yarmouth, Maine, at 89 . . . . Pauline Sinclair Stinchfield '28 at 89 . . . . Osborne C. Bacon '29 in Jensen Beach, Fla., at 9 1 . . . . Doris Church Griffin '29 in Winthrop, M aine, at 87 . . . . Murray B. Miller '29 in Lake Worth, F l a . , at 87 . . . . Philip S. Bither '3 0 in Waterv i l le, M a i ne, a t 85 . . . . Evelyn Rollins Knapp ' 3 0 at 85 . . . . Ivan E. McLaughlin '3 1 in We t Gardiner, M a ine, at 85 . . . . Wayne E. Roberts ' 3 1 in South Portland, Maine, at 6 . . . . Thelma Bamford Tracy '3 1 in Harrington, Maine, at 84 . . . . William A. Lyons '32 in Seminole, Fla . . . . Frank R. Altieri '33 in Waterbury, Conn., a t 87 . . . . John C. Bendix '33 in Quincy, Mass., a t 84 . . . . J. Robert Curtis '33 in Sanibel Island, F la . , at 83 . . . . H. Paul Rancourt '33 in Waterv i l le, Maine, a t 84 . . . . Charles M. Tyson '33 in Clinton, N .C., at 84 . . . . William H. Millett '34 in W i n ton-Salem, N .C., at 82 . . . . Theophile S. Krawiec ' 3 5 in Bethlehem, P a . , at l . . . . Edward G. Perrier ' 3 5 i n Mars H i l l , Maine, at 82 . . . . Dorothy Washburn Polley '35 in Coontoocook, . H . , at 80 . . . . Grace Robinson Durfee '36 in Bridgewater, M aine, at 79 . . . . Helen Curtis Lothrop '36 in Pon land, M aine, a t 78 . . . . George N . Burt '3 7 in Providence, R . I . , a t 80 . . . . Ellis Guerrieri '37 in Elmira, N.Y. . . . Paul K. Palmer '37 in Dunedin, Fla . , a t 79 . . . . Henry V. Wilcox ' 3 7 in B i g P i n e , Calif., a t 8 1 . . . . George F . Bonner ' 3 8 i n outh W i nd or, Conn., at 78 . . . . Leverett H. DeVeber '39 in Newburypon, M a . , a t 80 . . . . Ellis Mott '39 in A h l and, Ore . , a t 7 7 . . . . Earl L. Wade ' 3 9 in Calai , Maine, a t 77 . . . . Thomas R. Braddock '43 in Well v i l le, N . Y . , at 73 . . . . Alonzo G. Norton '40 in Gro e Pointe Park, M ich., at 78 . . . . Sarah Fus ell Cobb '42 in Brookline, Mas ., a t 74 . . . . Robert R. Curtis '44 in Raleigh, N .C. , at 7 1 . . . . John R. Pomeroy '44 in Brockton, Mass .. , at 74 . . . . Mary Frances Shannon '44 in

Philadelphia, Pa., at 7 2 .

A T

L A R t� E

has been to Slovakia and Vla<l ivo tok to set up exchange pro grams with low<i Stare University, where he is profes or of political science. Her daughter, Laurel, i<; a manager at the M i l ler Brewing Company. Her other son, J ack, is an electrical engineer in Florida. Ethel keeps in shape hydoingaqua aerobic an<l walking along the shores of beautiful Lake M ichi gan . . . . C harles McLean '39 spent only one year with us, he doe n't say which, but beneath the medal on his USMC jacket beats the heart of a true Colbyite. He still flies fighter aircraft and is in command of a Marine fighter squadron. H is three chi ldren and the three children of his wife, Carolyn ("Carrie" ) , are all in their 40s and 50s and long gone from the n e s t . " K adush i , the c a t , phased out 1 2/2 8/9 2 - a deep los ." He and his wife spend 2 5-30 minute each morning doing in house exercise and, in addition, he walks, weather permitting. Due to her post-polio syndrome, walking is not an option for Mrs. Mclean . . . . Evelyn Short M e r rill '39 has been chair for the past year of the book group in her Whittier, Calif., branch of the American Association of Univer sity Women. As the reviewer of Berendt's Midnight in r1ie Land of Good & Evil, Evelyn and her hus band, Buell '40, flew to Savannah in March for a first-hand look at the city made famous in the book. . . . Wilson Piper '39 lives comfort ably with his wife, Mary ("Peg") , in Kendal at Hanover ( N . H . ) , a re tirement community. He ( like Norman Palmer '30 above) has en joyed No Ordinary Time as well as other books by Colby authors. The Pipers have three children and five grandchildren, of whom two are Colby graduates. +

FORTIES Five sons, all l i v ing in various skiing center ( . H . , U tah ) , make it ea y for Carl McGraw '40 to tay active. Carl want to, and intend to, keep in closer contact with his old college friends. ( Be fore mailing his questionnaire, he c a l led h is old DU roommate. ) Profe o r Chapman taught Carl how to write w i thout poly yllabic profund ity and tilted phrases, which had earned him A' in prep

A U G U

1995

CO L B Y

J\ L LI M N I

J\ l

I J\ H l; I

reu nion

The 5 l s t mee t i n g of the 50- PJu, Cluh of ..----...�----,,::---. Colby met at Dana Ha l l f or reu n ion on J u ne 1 0

50 plus

nes · A<l m i n i�tration and then became succe o r ro Galen Eustis ' 2 3 ;is v i c e president before re t i r i ng i n 1 9 7 2 . He was al so a member

with approx imately 200 memhers anJ g u e. rs atrenJ i ng . After a ple;isa n t rnckta i l hour and

of the Board of Trustees for I 0 year and rec e i ved an honorary degree. Pre ident and Mr . Cotter j oi ned the fest i v i t ies. A few h i gh l ight · from President Cotter's ta l k : olhy wa · the fir t formerly all -men's col lege rn admit women; 7 2 percent of the early classe were from Mai ne and Ma achusetts; Colby today has 8 5 internat ional students and more than 4 , 200 appl icants requested admission to the College i n 1 99 5 ; a total of$8 . 5 m i l l ion w i l l h e spent for student a i d i n 1 996.

wonderful d i n ner, President Kaye Monaghan Corey '43 npeneJ the meet ing w i t h <t moment uf si le n e e to honor the memury of J ep a rte <l c la � · mare , fa m i ly and friends. Marie " C h r i s " Merril l Wysor '42, �ecrerary and trea�urer, gave rhe l 994 re un ion reports. In aJd i t ion, the c l ub decided ro give the rornl donat ions of $ 3 , 2 7 5 w the A l umni Fund. Pre ident orey then a n n ounced the offi c e rs for n e x t year: E v e l yn Gate Moriarty '44, pres i d e n r ; Rnslyn E . K ra m er '45, v i ce rres i d e n t ; M a r i e "Chris" M erri l l Wysnr, secreta ry a nd treasurer; Fletcher Eaton ' 3 9 , c l as · c o rre s r o nde n t . The f o l lowin g h<tve b e e n e lec re<l to s e r v e on the A l u m n i Counc i l : Vir g i n i a K i ngsley J ones ' 3 9 , Lester T. J o l o v i t z ' 3 9, Mu r iel Mclellan DeSho n ' 43, O r en R . S hiro ' 4 2 , K aye M onaghan orey '4 3 and Le roy N . Young ' 3 8 . Ralph S. W i l l i a m ' 3 5 spoke to us w i r h accomr anyi ng fac t and figure of Colby's fi n a nc i a l development from i t mode r beg i n n ing to t h e presen t , emphasizing t h e phenomenal growth o f t h e endowm en t. W i l l i a ms , w h o ret i red from the U . N a v y ;is a l i e utenant commander after erv i n g for five year <l u r i n g World War I I , bec <i m e Wad worth Professor i n the Depa rtment of B u s i -

Franklin Norvi h ' 34, profes or emeritu of N orrhea tern U n iver i t y , a l ways a pop u l a r pcakcr, added cveral moment of h i larity with his collection o f j o k e . T h e fi nal presentation, written by Betty Ann Royal Spiegel '4 2 , who hccau e of fa m i l y i l lness could not be with u , wa an essay written ahout her experiences wh i le trying to get on the popular television program Jeopardy. ( She di dn't make i t but had a lot of adventure and fun try i ng. ) In her absence her contribut ion was read hy

hris Wy or.

After a hrief rem i nder to all about thi ummer's A l u m n i College, we sang the alma mater, accompanied by pianist and accordion player Frank Wareham, and adjourned, tak ing home many warm memorie and looking forwarJ to Reun ion 1 996.

-Chris Merrill Wysor '42

s c h o o l b u r C' i n C h a p p i e ' s c lass . . . . William Pinansky '40 ha received a SO-year certificate formembership in the Maine State

joy l ife." Hi eriou avocation c o n s i s t of "Com p l e t i n g my father's radio cripts for publica t ion. There are 1 ,3 3 8 of them

Comparetti for Engl i h , Norman Palmer for ociology and Dean N i netta Run nal -"A l l of them were o great." . . . Marlee Brag

Bar As oc iation, which he joined in 1 9 4 3 . He a n d h i s w i fe , Suzanne, have three sons, Victo r '68, David '7 5 a n d Thoma , and

on the air ( WTVL) from 1 948 to 1 98 3 . " . . . At 76, Ruth Lewis Nowlan '4 1 i the baby i n a fam

don Monroe '42 is the founder and pre ident ofthe A l<len ( N . Y . ) Garden Club a n d w a accepted i n to the Master Gardener Tra in

four grandchildren . . . . From her home in G a i nesv i l le, Fla. , Ruth Hendricks Maren '40 write that he went to an Elderhostel i n Arizona l a s t su mmer and i n the fa l l to one in Vermont . "Ver mont is beautifu l ! " In October 1 994 she had a del ightful visit from Roger '40 and Ruth Gould Stebbins '40 along w i th R u th's sister Marjorie Gould Shuman '37 and her h u band, The Rev. Ed Shuman '38. " I will long sa vor the pleasure of that visit," says M rs . M a r en . . . . W h e n Ernest Marriner ' 4 0 replied t o m y quest ionna ire , he wa enjoy i ng a brief vacat ion i n the Cook I s lands, an assemblage of specks on the map some 2 , 8 5 0 . 3 79 m i les east of Austra l i a . I n the fitnes departm �� t, Eme�t says h� does noth ing. Rather, says he, , J en-

C O L B Y

A U G U S T

199 5

ily of five sisters. At 93, 9 1 , 89 and 87, her s i b l i ngs joined Ruth i n a style show to ra i e money to support the Sen ior Cit izen's Bus i n her town of Foxboro, Mass. Ruth keeps busy babysitt ing two cats for her granddaughter while the girl visits i n V i rgi n i a with her parent . I n add i t ion, Ruth's son leaves his Rotwe i ler with her w h i le he goes off to work i n Bos ton. She intends to do a lot of walk ing, but asthma and s i n us trouble have kept her in during cold weather . . . . S ince reti r i ng in 1 989, Virginia Ryan ' 4 1 writes, her "days are ful l " to the po int that she cannot do all there is to do. Line dancing, tap danci ng, ten n is, exercise, tutoring grade school c h i ldren and eat i ng prop erly keep her fit. She particu larly remembers professors Griffith and W i lk i nson for h i story, A l i c e

i ng Program of the Cornell Uni ver ity Cooperative Extension of Erie County ( N . Y . ) for the sum mer se s ion of 1 99 5 . An article i n the Al.den Adverciser, of which she is assoc iate editor, details her horticultural act ivitie , i nc l ud ing membership i n n ine societies. ( I f the Marilyn Bragdon o f page 1 1 1 of the 1 94 1 Oracle, fourth from the left i n the back row of the Student League, isn't the Marlee Bragdon Monroe shown i n the Al.den Adverciser, I ' l l eat that 1 94 1 Oracle.) Among fa m i ly member , Mrs. Monroe l ists a 1 9-year-old M a i ne coon cat named Cath eri ne, who prefers to be called Kitty . . . . An exceptional ch i ro practor has freed J. Fra n k l i n Pineo '42 from five years of p a i n caused by a s l ipped d isc a n d a crunched vertebra. He owns a

dog named "Bi" becau e he is bi rac i a l-h i s fi r t thoroughbred mongre l . Of "Pop" N e w m a n , Fra nk l i n says, "The richer h i s laughter, t h e deeper h i p e r onal pain. We ne v e r realized at the t i me . " For e xerc i e , Fra n k l i n walks the dog, makes maple yrup and con t i nues hi l ifelong habit ofbreathing . . . . Linwood Palm er '42 is the lobbyist for a nu mber of M a i ne u t i l ities at the Mai ne State House. He and h i s wife, Bunny, have three ch i ldren and seven grandchildren, all li v ing in M a i ne. He and one of his sons in- law are in the governmental consu l t i ng business. For fitness, L inwood work on hi lawns and gardens plus swimm ing and play ing golf i n Florida, where the fam i l y spends three months each year. . . . Weston '42 and Jean C a n n e l l MacRae ' 4 2 report j o i n t ly that they have three c h i l dren: N ancy MacRae, a profes or at U N E in Biddeford, M a ine; Ruth M. Brovel l i, a nur e ; and David, a c ircu i t designer. Grand c h i ldren to the n umber of four are Jeff, J ustin, Amy and Kate.

Jl'r

'i (0.

Im \! a

�H

� J � �l \I J.1

A L U M N I

On April 1 0 J ean had a reunion w ith Frances Brewer Barker '42 and Katheryn Reny Anderson '40. The MacRaes keep fit by walking, swimm ing in sea on, bik ing and work ing a round the house . . . . A t 7 3 , H o pe - J a n e G i ll ingham Meyer '43 is "still working (as a librarian in Wal lingford, Conn. ) and enjoying it." Among family members she l ists a son, Dougla , a granddaughter, Jes ica, and two cats, N ip and Tuck. To maintain fitnes , she doe "absolutely nothing. But 1 do e a t h e a l th i l y . " Profe s s o r Wilkinson g o t h e r hooked o n h istory . . . . Carolyn N u t t i n g Martin '43 ( roommate t o Hope Jane G i l lingham Meyer) has three sons, Tim, John and Tom, mar ried respect ively to heila, L inda and Adrianne. Four grandchil dren ( three girls and a boy ) p l us a great-grandson round out a very happy family. Carolyn tudied a year of Greek wi th Prof. W ilbert Carr, "a gentle, k ind man who considered h is students his 'boys and girls.' When President B i x ler came to Colby, Dr. Carr intro duced one of h i tudents as 'one of my boys.' Accepting that at face value, Dr. B i xler said: ' How do you do, Mr. Carr,"' where upon Dr. Carr had to explain the fine d i s t i n c t i o n . M rs . M a r t i n completes h e r quotation o f Dr. Wilkinson ( see the J anuary issue of t h is c o l u m n ) : "Remem ber Thuringia! That' where most of the wars in Europe bega n ! " J ohn Thomas used to cold G lee Club members with: " ing! How can I correct you if you give me noth ing to correct ?" Adds Mrs. Mar ti n : " I worked in the library w ith Mi s Herrick, Orwin Rush and Harold Clark, all of whom helped me as I tried to work my way through college. NY A [National Youth Administration] jobs paid 3 5 cents per hour." . . . George Popper '43 heaps encomiums on profe sors W i l k i nson, Weeks, Breckenridge and Colgan and puts particular emphasis on "Pop" Newman-"one of the kindest persons I ever met." Mr. Popper has completed a cruise through the far Pacific, stopping in Aus tralia, New Zealand, New Cale donia, Fij i, A merican S a moa, Bora-Bora, Mothea, Tahiti and three Hawa iian islands . . . . It took two long months for Thomas

'43 and Marjorie Brown Pursley ' 4 3 to find a boat, but they finally euled on a 4 1 -foot motor yacht with diesel engines. They plan some summer cruises and urge all who see the boat Cap Tap on Long 1 land Sound to c o m e aboard . . . . Fra n k Mis el is '43 , M . D . , is "contcnt w ith l ife as is" as i being that he and his wife, Teddie, are the proud parents of three on·: Dr. Richard ( Ph . D. ) , neuro c ienti t and profe sor a t U Penn; Robert, an industrial en g i neer turned successful da iry farmer; and Donald, a chemical engineer and traveling bachelor. Richard and Robert have contrib uted four grandchildren to the Mi eli · family, which summers in Lake Tahoe, . Y . , and winters in Sun City West, Ari: . . . . Profes sor Emeritus Sidney Rauch '43 of Hofstra Un iversity, Hemp steaJ , N .Y . , is busy raising funds for the Rauch Endowed cholarhip for Graduate Students at Hofstra. Otherwi e, he reads any books by P.O. J ame and Gerald Seymour since he enjoys myster ie and p o l i t ic a l thril lers. He stil I retains pleasant memories of Carl Weber and "Pop" New man . . . . Nancy C u rt i s Law rence '44 , of Sequim, Wa h. ( j ust aero s the trait of J uan de Fuca from Norman Palmer 'JO in Fri day Harbor) , has a family consist ing of Bu ter, the dog; Kitty, the cat; Big Boy, Gertrude, Stephanie and friends, geese; an eagle and heron, numerou seagull , oy tercatchers and loon . She used to regard Dr. W i lk inson with awe until, one day, she saw him in the grocery store with h is wife d is cus ing which cheese to buy. She i rereading the c l assics ( Mill on the Floss, etc . ) and cataloguing books for her loc a l museum of arts and crafts . . . . The Rever end Richard Mountfort '44 has the largest family yet recorded by thi corre s ponde n t : h is w ife, Esther; eight children ( includ ing twin girls) ; 1 2 grandchildren; one great-grandchild; four stepchil dren ( ages 36- 5 1 ) ; 10 step-grand children (ages 1 0- 3 3 ) ; and two step-great-grandchildren ( age 4 months-6 years) . At his 50th re union, he relished seeing class mates whom he hadn't seen in 50 years but missed those who were absent by sickne s or death . . . . Malcolm McQuillan '44 recom-

mends Westward Watch : The United States and the Changing Pa cific by Dr. Norman Palmer ' 30. ( See notes on Dr. Palmer, above. ) "Dr. Pal mer i s fam i l iar with this geographical area," he says, "and writes with luc idity and author ity . " Mr. McQu i llan's family re union in Southampton, M ass. , surprised him. He hadn't realized he had o many relatives. Along with many others, Mr. McQu i l lan pays warm tribute to Dr. W i lkin-

A T

L A R G E

son-"one of the most unselfi h people ( a long with my father) that 1 have ever known . " . . . Robert H . Riefe '44's wife, Rae, reports that they have a son, R i chard, a n d a daughter, Al i:,un. She writes: " [ lived for e ight years in Latin America, two of rhem in Guyana. Besides learn ing pan i h, I came to reali:e that we should know more about our southern neighbors." +

FORESIGHT: THE COLBY GUIDE TO PLANNED GIVING A carefully planned charitable gift can provide you and your loved ones with immediate benefits: it can increase your income, protect your assets and reduce your tax burden, now and in the future. Such a gift can a lso create a legacy for generations of students who will benefit from a Colby education.

Building an endowment requires vision and a commit ment to help secure the future. A planned gift demon strates your understanding of the ways we shape that future through decisions we make today.

Colby has prepared a booklet to assist you in under standing the concepts and techniques used in planning charitable

gifts.

If you would like a copy o f "Foresight:

The Colby Guide to Planned Giving," please return the response card in this issue of

Colby or contact Colby's

Director of Planned Giving, Steve Greaves, a t 4373 Mayflower Hill, Waterville, ME 04901 or (207) 872-321 2.

A U G U

1 9 9 5

C O L B Y

'\ I lJ M N I

A T

I\ l; [

_ _

Corret-pon<lenr:

Correspondents : 1 94 5

Dorothy Sanford McCunn 8 Honey H i ll Road Canaan, CT 060 1 8 20 3-824-7 2 3 6 1 946

Nancy Jacobsen 3627 Northlake Drive Doraville, GA 30340 404-9 34-90 7 5 1 94 7

Mary Hall Fitch 4 Canal Park, #7 1 2 Cambridge, M A 02 1 4 1 6 1 7-494-4882 1 948

David and Dorothy Mar on 41 Woods End Road Dedham, MA 02026 6 1 7 - 3 29-3970 1 949

Robert M . Tonge Sr. 5 Greylock Road Waterville. ME 0490 1 207-8 7 3 - 3 244

COLB Y

A U G UST

Dorothy Sanford McCunn

1 9 9 5

Arnold

G ro s s m a n ,

retired dent ist , dwell in E. Falmouth, Mass . , a n <l inger lsl<m<l, Fh1. Arnie, who ha always been act ive in lorn! service c l ubs and ph ilan thropic causes, l ikes ent husiastic and motivated people and say� he has never stopped learni ng-he's rak ing le son to le;1rn to play a two keyboard full organ. Arnie made good friends at Colby ;mJ wa� inspired to become a teacher. He was assistant profc·sor at Tufrs Un iver i t y chool of Den t a l Medicine f o r l 7 years, has lec tured at dental schools and hos pitals throughout Europe an<l the Orient an<l ha ac ttvely provided encouragement to <lenri-ts an<l would-be denti ts. Arnie and his wife, Hope (an an ist ) , are the parents of rhree and the grand parent to six. One daughter is a psychologist in an Francisco, one son ( Thoma · '77 ) is an attor ney and their other on is a dentist . . . . Elvira Worthington Taylor report that he has lived in North Carolina ince 1 978 and h;:is cal led borh Tryon and Co lumbus home during those years. She is the mother of four ons and has two grandson . Elvira tates that he had Ji fficul ty getting used to the mountains after pending her youth on Long Island, where the seashore wa the prime out door environment. She recall that her youngest son wa 1 2 when she moved to North Carolina and she wa concerned that as a Northerner he wouldn't he ac cepted, but he wa immediately taken in and nicknamed "Yank." Elvira was called the "Lasagna Mother" because she would make it for the team whenever they had cau e to celebrate. She now lists many young people as her friend . Elvira's sons each live in

The Forties

a <l i fferenr >tate: North Carolina, Ten nessee, New York and Maine. he wa� in the unusual po ition of spending five years at Colby due to illne ses su·tained when in Waterville. he entered just before World War I I , was at the ollege <luring the warand gradu ated after the war. She took only two cour-cs <luring her final year and therefore had more time to enjoy her stay in Watervi lle. he still has fon<l memorie of Dean Runnals, who was always inter ested in Elvira's welfare, and he was able to visit the dean <luring her retirement in Oover-Foxcr fr. Ar Chri tma time she hear from Dixie Roundy Beebe '46; J oan Crawley Pollock '48; George '43 and Hope Mansfield Jahn '44;

Marguerite Broderson Gustaf son ; Mary Alice amphell Kozen '4 7; Helen Small Martino; Marlee

Bragdon Monroe '42; Tom ' 4 3 and Marjorie Brown Pursley '4 3 ; M i ldred Schnebb Riordan '48; and Eleanor Eisberg Wa tson '44 . . . . Connie Daviau Bol lin ger reports from C i n c i n n a t i , Ohio, that she has four grown children and l 4 grandchildren. Con n ie lo t one son l 1 years ago. he has taught school for 2 1 years and worked a director of Chri tian education in her church. She now does tephen M i n istry, church sponsored. Connie and her former husband, J im, will be v i s i t i n g Canada i n May but couldn't work the Colby reunion into their itinerary. She send her be t to a ll her c las mate and says that Colby filled her life with friendships and the opportunity to work with people and helped her ati fy her thirst for knowl edge. Connie attends a fitnes center and does mall walking in order to maintain the benefit of two open heart surgeries . . . . Floyd Harding ofLady Lake, Fla . , a n d Presque Isle, Maine, i s semi retired from the legal profession. H i son Alan '75 is with Floyd in

his law pracrice, which occupied him full rime for 46 years. He now ha rime for "fun in the sun" <luring the winter months. Floyd, who has always been active in commun ity projects and has been <leeply inrere red in state, na rional and international affair , erved three terms as srare senator and became majority lea<lerof that body. Floyd is trying to cur hack on ome of his activiries so thar he can spend more time in travel and leisure. Life has been one great adventure and he an ticipates that it will continue to he so. That last statement i a good one to c lo e my report. + Correspondent:

Nancy Jacob en

Keep those cla ques tionnaire coming, and l won't miss an issue, I promise . . . . R u t h D ra p e a u H u n t wrote from Brunswick, Maine, that she and Phil, who i U.S.N. retired, celebrated their 50th anniver ary in February. They have four sons and three grandchildren . . . . Nancy Par sons Ferguson and husband Bob are doing a lot of travel ing from their home in Holden, Ma . They have five grandchildren, the youngest in the first grade, the oldest at the U n i v e r i t y of Miami . . . . F a y O'Leary Haf fo rd, who l ives in Al i aga h, Maine, lost her husband, Lee, to a heart attack in 1 993. However, she has now completed another book, Beans and Biscuits, Tales of the Lumber Camps. Fay is tarting her next one, Wouldn' t That Frost Ya, on her computer. ''I'm l iving life to the fullest," she said. " I've taken up painting. There i o much to do and to see. I would like to hear from Lois Manning, who was my best friend at Colby." . . . Betty Anne Riker Howell and husband Wally spend summer

ALU M N I

now in Greensboro, V t . , and win ters in Englewood, Fla. Ticey have ju t been to England and Portu gal . A volunteer they drive the elderly for the I n terfaith Care givers program. . . . Pleeeze come to our 50th reunion a t Colby. We are uch fine folk. +

Corre pondent: Mary Hall Fitch

Cal Dolan and h is wife

both have retired from teaching, he from chem istry, he from English. They have five children and five grandc h i l d r e n , o n e of w h o m i a graduate of Penn tare and already mar ried. Wintering in N aple , F l a . , h a s m a d e a great difference in h is golf game, Cal says. He also does a bit of gardening and bas-re lief c u lpturing. He hope everyone in the class is planning to attend our 50th reu n ion in '97 . . . . Ray

and Tossie Campbell Kozen d i v i d e t h e i r time between M a ine and Florida, attend Colby func tion· when in Waterv i lle, and occasionally ee Colby friends in Florida. Their son, father of three, ha been named the J o eph New ton Pew J r. Profe sor of Engineer ing at Cornell. Tossie and Dorrie Meyer Hawkes will be working on our 50th reu n ion. A I think everyone w i l l agree, they d id a great j ob on the 4 5 th . . . . J ust ask Mar ilyn Hub er t , who ay · she enjoyed it so much that she went to her grade school and high school reun ion in 1 99 3 . he and G . l . m ith '49 retired from the U . . Geological urvey, Dept. of I nterior, in J anuary, but she con t i nues to volunteer in their l i brary working on t h e geologic name J ict ionary, her chief effort s i nce 1 96 7 . he participates in the Colby Club of Washington, D. C . , and local Phi Bera Kappa as ociation, recent meetings of

which looked at the U . N . , the H uman Genome Project and the Campaign for G lobal Change. . . . Larry Kaplan retired from Kent rate Un iversity in 1 99 3 a n d h a s been reaching m i l itary hi tory at Georgerown and con s u l t ing for the P e n t agon . Among our busiest is Betty Wade Drum, who belongs to ·everal women's groups, prac tices the organ two hours daily, direct two bell choirs, sing. in choir and volunteers in her local library and food pantry. She 10\·e to knit, read, go to concerts and plays and keep act ive walk ing and hik ing. In March she attended an Elder hostel in I taly, viSLt ing Rome , Pi a a nd Florence . . . . D o t t i e Cleaves Rodgers Jordan says she and her husband "have traveled extensively-l ike our days are n u mbered." In the last two year, she has been in I reland, se\·en countries on the con tinent, Au tra l i a , New Zealand , Fij i and

A T

L A R G E

Cook I slands, Ecuador, Panama Cana l , and several intere ting spot in the U n i ted rares. W h i le working for O u tward Bound, her oldest son, Scott, died in 1 990; her younger son and h is wife wurk for LL. Bean. Dottie voluntee r · a s an ad\·ocate f o r deaf gro u p · , o n t h e board of M a ine Center on Deafnes and the Deaf Advisor\ Group of Augusta. In March she and Emily Gardell Hueston cel ebrated their fifth anniversaries married the same wee k 1 • • The daughter of R u t h Jaffe Gordon is a psychiatri ·r, married w ith three chi ldren. Her son is a lso married and is the father of two children . Ruth spends t ime on the Cape anJ Florida, both of which she lo\'e-, and recently had lunch ll'ith D i c k and M a rj o r i e C o l l i n s Marcyes . . . . J o h n a n d I c e l ebrated o u r 5 0 t h a n n i \'er. ary March 10 in the Caribbean. Th i� M ay , after a party gi\·en by our children, we spent three \\'eek in

Class of 1945

reu n w n

"I never knew how much fun a reunion could be ! " attend the reunion were Bobhie Holt Sachs from earrle, Kaye Faxon - A member o f the Cla s o f '45 Anderson from Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, and Muriel Marker Gould Three elegant d inner , a p ic n ic and a lub ·ter bake kept our hunger from Firen:e, I taly. at reunion as uaged. I n the Bix ler Art M u ·eum at our final meal, We had q u i te a few in attendance at the meet i ngs, many j oined Maurice Whitten made a perfect peech, i\· i ng a brief h i ·rory of by pouses. Regret were expressed about each one who was not Colby Co l l ege , including details that many of u never were aware of, prese n t . I f you weren't there, you c an be assured that your name was and ending with everal studen t/faculty anecdotes that had u· in ment ioned by omeone along with the w i h that you had been able stitche -al l delivered in a real "Down Ea, t" accent that made you to j o i n u . remember our best day i n M a i ne. And a letter from Laura Tapia In attendance were: Mort and Rae Gale Backer, Ralph and Adele A i tken, telling of her regret at not being able to attend, mentioned Gr indrod Bates, Evelyn S terry Belanger, Dorothy C h e llman her happy day at Colby and how much i t ha alway meant to her. Bonneau, Beverly Booth , Marilyn Bryan t , Shirley ( M artin '46 ) and Many attended the full Reunion Week Chuck Dudley, Margery O w e n Fallon, end, and a few participated i n an even t Muriel Marker Gould, Hope and Arnold here or there a suited their chedule . Grossman, Betty Lohnes Grudin, Ted Ev e ryone fel t welcome and delighted to and Polly Callard G u ild, Frank and Mar g u e r i t e Br od e r son G u s t a f s o n , K a y e see each other. Fifty year melted away, Matteo Hancock, Doris Taylor Huber, and we continued our friendships from Bill and Doris Blanchard H utcheson , where we left off at graduation. Roslyn Kramer, Dori and George Lewald, We all visited the extensive wood R i ta McCabe, Michael Nawfel and hi· working shops and forges on A lan H u me's wife, Naomi Collett Paganelli, Helen and property on Messalonskee Lake, which Kenneth Quimby, M i ldred and Ronald Dr. Hume generou ly make available for Roy, Mary and Doug Smith, J oan t. u e by Colby tudents. We enjoyed meet J a mes, Helen Strauss, Rene and Sherwood ing Dr. H ume and h ea ring his explana Tarlow, Robert and Hazel Brewer War tion of the equipment. We were impressed r e n , Frances Dow W e l l s , Dori and especially b y the length and lighmes of M a u r i c e W h i t t e n , V i r g i n ia B r i g g s the fabric of the Colby sculls, which are Zulieve. Members from other c l a se who stored at the Colby-Hume Center for prac joined u were Bruce and Emily Holbrook tice and competition b y the student crew . Pel issier '46, Helen Watson Bald i '44 and W ithot... t taking actual coun t , the three Barbara W h i te Haddad '44. who I believe traveled the farrhe t to Wood y Tarlow , Helen Strauss and Collett Pag n e l l i .

-Dornthy "Dee" Sanford McCunn

A U G U

1 9 9 5

C O LBY

\ L L

�I N I

\ R

( ,

NEWSMAKERS George Lewald '45, recently

ret ired senior partner of the Boston-has J l:iw firm Rope· and Gray, won a three-year rerm as ·electman i n Hanover, M a s.

MILEPOSTS Deaths:

Jo hn A. Dodd ' 4 5 in M i l for<l , C o n n . . . . A r t h u r Maye ' 45 i n Ashev i l l e , N . . , George Lewald ' 45 at 79 . . . . Benjamin C . Bubar '46 i n Waterv i l le, Maine, at 77 . . . . Philip M. Cami niti '48 in Waltham, M ass. , a r 7 5 .

t h e A l p� ,mJ 1 m e i n Germany w i th 'on Boh and fam i l y. Lmer we flew w L . A . to �cc another ''m in h1� new home ;rnJ i n A ugu-,r rlan neJ [\) have a wed. \l't t h ;i l l o u r c h i ldren a n d grnndc h i l<lrcn un Lake George, .Y. +

Cllrre,pon<l c n t : David ; m J Dorothy Marson

s,) l t t r k new' <1rril'cd

rhat \l'l' had nnr h m g to put in r l w April i-, ' u c . Plca'c dror u ' , 1 note anJ !er\ hear ll'hat 1 ' gning on and

h1iw Y"LI feel abo u t i�>ue� ;1t the Col lege or anywhere ebe f o r rh;it 1rn11 rcr . . . . Natalie Pretat Ar nold fi I led l lUt our Oc rohe r quc� l ionna irc. 'he li 1·e; in Fmter, R . I . , where hot h .., h e a n J h e r h u-,hand, Frank l m , me ret ired. They have f nm married c h i ldren ,1ml (at the t i m e ) nmc .md a h;1 J ( gra ndch i l dren . She al ..,o ha a dog and a c ar . N a rn l ic, whn "1Y'> ,he 1, "d io;turheJ hy m;111\ 1 11 h u ma n i t y to man," ha.., hccn a 1·o l u n reer M Hmv;irJ H e . 1 1 t h anJ h<h , 1 m.: n <led t wo El<lerho,rel,, wh 1ch -,he ''1y, . i re "rea l l y gre a t . " . . . Ruth Rogers Doering wri 1 e' from _:"chenec rndy, N . Y. 'he 1, an in,tructn r 111 cump u t cr' ,ind accou n t in g <lt Chnol anJ a part - t i me r;1 x in,truc..r 1 ir anJ preparer. 'he \l' n t e' th,1t rhe JOh.., a re fun teach 1 11g ,uhi ecr� she l i ke> anJ Je,dmg w 1 r h people. Ruth :iy> her work a l,o lea\'t'' her r i me rn 'pend what ,he earn' on t ravel. _'he added t h a t her younge<it Jaughrer ( uf three ) cnmrleted her Ph . D. in math <It the U n iver> 1 t y nf Wyu m i n g 1 11 M a y and now h a

a j o h teaching at a

m a l l l i beral art. col lege, j usrn she haJ hopeJ. Ruth has traveled ext nsively in New Mexico anJ the Dakoras anJ into askatchewan, the Gaspe anJ H ud on Bay, anJ he p lanne<l to go to ra in i n j une anJ Lahrador i n Augu�r. She wri tes that l ife 'eems so fu ll w i th work ing, trav e l i n g anJ c hurch act i v 1 t ie> that she ha not a<l<lre seJ rece n t Colhy bsue bur ha conce n t rated on loc a l an<l soc ial issue at rate anJ national level . She went to her SOth high school reu n ion at Rumford, Maine, in '94, the first t i me �he haJ been back s ince he left for Col by . . . . I n December we received our a n n u a l newslet ter from Aaron Sandler, who i s n o w retired a n J l i v i n g in arasota, Fla. He wa going to have lunch w i th arl "Gumbo" Wright '47 the fol lowing Jay and a lso was hoping to v i s i t Lenny Warshaver '49 i n Palm Beach . . . . Th is w i n t e r Carol ilverstein Stoll Baker accompan ied u to W e l l e l e y Cnl lege to hear D o r i s Kearns Goodwin '64 speak to the Btnon

Waller's World M

ark Twa in wou ld've lo\'eJ Ed Wal ler '49. W a l l er's s i t t i ng i n an a i rport between rlanes read ing his Colby maoazine when recently declared presiden t i a l c a n d idate Senator Robert Dole swerves over. "What can ynu te l l me about Col by !" the senator a ked. "I k now you gave a d;imn fine com m e n c e rn e n t t a l k a t Co l b y , " Wal l er repl ied, "fol lowing B i l l Cosby a n d before George B u. h . l grew up w i th Bu h , " Waller goes on, exp l a i n i n g how Bush was the youngest commis ioned N avy p i lot during WorlJ War II and W a l ler, a p i lo t i n ·rructo r and t e s t p i lot, w a s t h e youngest c o m m i s ioned in the A i r Corps. N e x t t h i ng you know, Waller' in a a i l boat offNewport, R . I . , w i th John Chaffee, former governor anJ senator of Rhode Island, the sails are caught in the spreaders, and they're "bearing down on this damn boar . " The Coast G uard comes u p "with gun drawn" demanding they get away-that's the president over there. "He knows me," a iJ Waller. "Go back and tel l h i m i t's Ed Wal ler." There's s ignaling back and forth. "What're they say ing ?" Waller a ked. The Coast Guard tells him Bush's answer: "Ed, stick to fly ing." Wal ler's a ring-tai led roarer straight out of the hyperbol ic t a l l t a l e trad i t ion, complete w i th gargantuan enjoyment of a l l varm i n t , compl ic at ions and d igre s ion . "Pa ion makes you l ive," said W a ller, who says he flew up to Colby after the war to see about get t i ng adm itted in M arch 1 94 7. He

C O L B Y

A U G U

1 9 95

'aw a shed on campus w i th '>Ome ruff stored in i t an<l told Dean George N icker on '24. " I ' l l take these t h i ngs out, fix it up, and you can let th irty more people i n . " The dean aid, "Room, board and fifty dollar . How' 1t >ound I" W a l l er, an econom ic� major, wa pre idenr of the I n terna t ional Relat ions Cl uh anJ on the golf tea m, and he' t i l l on the olby admi sions team. A charter member of the Colby E ight and member of the G lee Cl uh, he · t i l l p l a y a mean gutbucket a t local gig in h is hometown of Col umbu , Ohio. H i father was a genet ic i st who wanreJ h i m to be a doctor, and h is mother was a concert pianist, o, ay W a l l er, he "just natura l l y grew up w i th the art and c ience . " Even when he wa out on a North ea oil rig, he rec a l l , avoring the irony, he corresponded with President eelye B i x ler, who a lways aid, "To nurture the i ntellect. That's why we're here . " L i k e h is storie , E d W a l ler has l e a p t w i th gusto from p lace t o p lace, from traffic manager w i t h Ea tern A ir l i nes to deputy a s i s tant secretary of t h e A i r Force to d i trier ale manager for Raytheon Co. i n Pen nsylvania to marine contrac t i ng to market ing for an engineeri ng company to sale exec u t ive w i th Waller McClendon Corp . , his own company. He' hard to catch up to even now, being late for a golf date. But not too late for one more story about Dole, who, Wal ler says, came over to i n t roduce h is w i fe. E l izabeth Dole, the enator let i t be k nown, went to Harvard Law choo l . " [ a lso went to Harvard. I gues I have the best of both worlds," repl ied Wa l ler, who earned an M .P.A. in 1 9 5 3 . "Experience and hard work are the mo t i m portant t h i n g . On that scale," he said, " I 'd g i ve them a twelve, Colby a n e leven and Harvard a ten 1 " W a l ler explodes w i th del ight. "You can't beat Colby w i th a s t i c k , " he a i d .

.A L U M N I

Colby Club. We were jo ined by Warren Finegan ' 5 1 and enjoyed a fa c inat ing evening . . . . We received an imeresting letter from Peg Clark Atkins. She has to be Colby's most enduring class agent, and she has done an out rand i ng job. She writes that our c la ha reached an Alumn i Fund parti c i pation r a t e of 68 percent, which is urpassed by only a few c lasses. She mentioned that she had heard from Barbara Keith Herrington and "Chick" Bailey . She recently saw Shirley Smith Chellquist, who told her that she and Carl are p lann i ng to move to N orth Carolina. She also heard from Millie Schnebbe R iordan and Bud and Bobo Brewer Fol ino. Essentially all mentioned are well, some have exc i ting plan for the future and many cont inue to stay

in touch with Peg.

Helen

Knox Elliott wrote that thanks to her tra i n i n g as an English

major she had two poems pub l ished by The N ational Library of Poetry. H e len and her hus band, Charles, are relocating to a r e t i re m e n t c o m m u n i t y n e a r Durham a n d Chapel H il l , N .C. . . . Recen tly, David vi ited Bob Lee '5 1 at Bob's business, H ot watt, toured the p lant and aw their main line of heating ele ments being produced-a very interest ing afternoon. David re t i red, at long last, on January 1 3 but s t i l l works cons u l t ing and trave l ing for the company. We expect that he w i l l reduce h i work schedule very soon s ince the boat is in the water and ready to sai l . We pend a good part of the summer in Fa lmouth on Cape

Cod and would welcome a v isit from a classmate. We keep Hero, a dark blue sloop, in slip �zo at Falmouth Marine on the west side of the harbor. I f we are not our cruising we promise you a warm reception. +

Correspondent: Robert M . Tonge Sr.

l ' m saddened to report the deaths of several c l ass m a t e s : J e a n n e Morrison Hall, Wilbur P. Bas tie n , Avard J. Holt and Thomas W. Samuelsen. . Ralph Braudy '44 wri tes from Hyannis, M as . , t o say h e saw a pic ture o f David Lynch and asked if thi was the same David Lynch originally from the Class of 1 946 whose home-

A T

L A R G E

town was Concord, M a·s., and who had a i ter, onn ie. ( I t is. ) Ralph's telephone: 508- 7 7 5 1 50 5 . G ive h i m a ca l l . . Martha Bennett Headley, RR = l , Box 1 98, A l ton, NH 0 3 809, is no\\' ret i red. Marty left N ew H amp ·hire in September for a three month trip as far we · t as N e ,·a<la in their cru ise air motor home . She says that's trave l i ng l ike a turtle, w i th your house on your back a\'ailable for food and re ·r at any t ime. She wa amazed by the breathtak i ng scenery in Ari:ona. She w inters now in South Caro lina but is in New Hampsh i re when i t's warm. She has e ight grandc h i ldren, but her old room mate, Ann Jennings Taussig, ca n beat that . . . . We continue to ask for new for our '49er . Be ure to fi ll out the quest ionna i re . +

,-----------------,

Should College Share List ? I I Colby is reevaluat i ng its pol ic ies regarding a l u m n i ma i l i ng lists and would l ike alumni i nput , says V ice President for Development and A l u m n i Relation Randy H e l m . T h e polic ies a r e being reevaluated in l ight of an " exp l o sion" of market i ng oppor t u n i t i e rang i ng from d iscount credit cards to electronic m a i l serv ices, H e l m ays. I n order to part icipate i n these programs, the Col lege would provide alumni m a i l ing l ists to vendors promoting them. H istoric a l l y , Helm s a y , Colby h a s b e e n v e r y protect tve of i nformation about a l u m n i . "We've turned down lots of opportu n i t ies because we d i d n ' t want our a l u m n i Ii t floa t i ng around out there , " he said. " However, there may be some of these oppor tunities that a l u m n i wou ld be interested in, and we don ' t want to make that decision for them ." Collaborative marke ting projects that would involve di tribut ing alumni l ists to outside vendors include travel programs organized specifically � r Colby alumni, affin ity credit cards and long-di tance telephone debit cards with the Colby insignia. Helm says he is not advoca t i ng these programs but would make them avai lable if enough alumni show i ntere t. "There are some services people m ight like; on the other hand, the e are not wi thout a cost to the Col lege," Helm sa id. " I n many cases, collabora t ive programs w i t h outside vendors would require more College staff t i m e . " Currently, alumni I i ts a r e used for reu nion planning, regional club announcements, annual fund sol icitat ions and mailing of College publications. Lists are not provided for commercial purpose except i n collaboration with publishers of alumni directories. "Essentially, t h is i an i ue of privacy versus marke ting," Helm said. "If enough alumni want us to rev is i t t h is pol ic y , we w i l l . If not, we w i ll continue to jealously guard information about our a l u m n i . "

What's Ne<UJ?

I I

news and views w i th your c l assrna tes ! Please write in the blank and send this fonn to the A l u rnn i Office for forwa rd ing to your class corre Share your

spondent.

Class Year ___________________

Address

Helm t>ncouraged alumni to return the response card i n this i sue of Colby to help the College reevaluate its policy regarding alumni mailing l ists. +

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

City/State/Zip ------

Is this

L 43

new address ? O

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

A U G U

l 9 9 ;

�

C O L B Y

U �t N

.'\ T

L A R G E

��

Correspondents :

1 958

tory an<l c u rrent affair-;; Mary Lou

Margaret _ m i th Henry

does volunteer work with the home le, . . . . Don Jacob wri te., of returning to the Colby campus ofren in the ' 5 0 and ·70, for homecoming·, lectures and ath

1 304 Lake Shl lre Drive Y 1 1 762

M a sapequ<i Park , 5 1 6- 5 4 1 -0790 1 9 50 V i rg i n i a Dav i Pearce

1 959

P.O. Bllx 984

Ann M a r i e

Grantham , M A 0 3 7 5 3

7 K i ng,land Court

195 1

2 0 1 - 7 6 ' -67 1 7

letic event and ay , "Colby i ., t i l l one of the best . " Don , who i a f ormer head ma rernf Kents H i l l

egrave L ieber

'outh Orange,

chool, i., retired in We,t Dan v i l le, Vt., with hi wife, Marj orie.

J 07079

Barhara Jeffer�on Walker

39 1 5 Cahor Place, Apt. 1 6 R i c h mond, V A 2 3 2 3 3

804 - 5 2 7 -07 2 6

Corre�pl mden r : N a n c y Ricker ears

1952 Edna M i l ler M ordec a i

94 Wnod r idge Road Wayland, MA 0 1 7 7

508- 3 58 - 5 5 74 1953 Barham Easterbrook- M a i ley

80 L i nco l n Avenue � outh H a m i l to n , M A 0 1 98 2 508-46 - 5 1 1 0 1 95 4 B i II a n d Penny Thre · h e r Edson

3 2 5 3 Erinlea Avenue Newbury Park , CA 9 1 3 2 0- 5 8 1 l

05 -498-9656 1 955 Jane M i llett Dorn ish

9 Warren Terrace W inslow, ME 0490 1 1 956 E leanor Edmunds Grout R D 3, J o nes Road Gouverneur, NY 1 3642

3 1 5-287- 3 2 7 7

Conn i e ;m d Fred Al len, who ho;i r l 0 grnnd c h i ldren, l i\T 111 Dcn

nysn lle, M a i ne, and are enjoy mg the pica. urc� l>f ret i rement. Fred was supcrinr endent of schl1ob and mamrains h i - interest 1 1 1 educa tion and read ing but finds t i me to relax at golf, h u n r i ng nr f1 ,hing in M a ine'. lakes and stream M a ry ( Bauman '49) and Bud Gates a lso have IO grandc h i l dren . T h e m i ed 'even c h i ldren and keep busy with Bud' con suk ing work anJ Mary's work run n i ng e rate a l e . The Gate e spend Augu t i n New H ampshire and February in Florida, thus es caping the wor t of ummer and w in ter in W h i te Plains, N.Y . . . Dave Armstrong, whose prowes as sled -dog racer has been re ported in this column, wri tes that he c a me in 1 0th in the 1 99 5 Race to the Sky. Dave reca l ls the joy of a firstborn son when he and A lice w e r e a t Colby . . . . Dorot h y Goodridge Donovan consider ret u rn i n g to New England a she restructures her life fo l lowing the death of her husband last year. She is c u rrently retired in V ienna,

1 95 7 Brian F. Olsen

46 Washington Drive

V a . . . . Dick and M a r y Lou Kilkenny Borah are ret ired i n N ew London, N . H . , where they

Acton, MA 0 1 7 2 0

508- 2 6 3 -9 2 3 8

keep fit w ith tenn i and golf. Dick enjoys reading and d i cussing h is-

C O L B Y

A UGU

1 99 5

The Fifties

He st1ll doe' 'ome teach ing in the loc,1 1 chool an<l enjoy golf, rheater and srorc-.. Don a n J M a r j o r i e l i v e 1 n F l o r i d a -; i x m o n t h s o u t of t h e year . . . . C h a r l i e Garland w r i te from W i l m i ngtn n , De l . , where he was ,1 re.,earch chem i>t with DuPont. N ow retired, he curre ntly is mter e\ted 111 woodworking, genealogy ;inJ trave l . Charl ie rememher trip' on the Blue Beetle m the chemistry b u i l d i ng m town and trip to Onie' . . . . Jean Chicker ing Nardozzi rec a l l the hru ta l l y '>trong wind t h a t h l c w <i c r o s a treele campu · during the early years of Mayflower H i l l and has love<l . ee ing the many change at subsequent reun ion . J ean and Bah '49 had 4 3 wonderfu l l y happy year together hefore hi death in 1 99 3 . She has three sons and three gran<lchi ldren . . . . Sybil Green Reichek has retired after 1 5 year. of teach ing Engl i h and Lat i n . Her l o v e o f learn ing a n d h e r love of theater and opera, which were strong when he wa at Colby, have cont i nued all her l i fe . I n e w J e r ey a n d in Florida he teaches courses in l i terature; her h usband, who i a retired wri ter and ed i tor of Business Week, lead d i s c u s ion g r o u p s o n w o r l d affa i rs . . . . C o n n i e Foxc roft Perrigo taugh t k i ndergarten for

2 7 years and now serve as early c h i ldhood coord i nator for the town of Es e x , Mas . , in add it ion to volunteeri ng a t a homele shelter. Somehow she al o find t ime to q u i l t, read, ride a bike, travel a n d enjoy h e r g r a n d -

c h i ldre n ! . . . Charlotte " Stub by" Crandall Grave keeps bu y volunteering at the local hospi t a l a n d at the l i brary as treasurer. She recalls the wonderful life long friend hip that ·tarted at Colby and ha been back for ev eral reun ion . Other memories: the train rides from Bo ton to Waterv i l le, afternoon tea a t the Bix lers', A rhor Days, Var i ty Show and Kenny Jacobson's p i a n o playing . . . . Dick a n d Bar bara Barrow Pullen, who met at Colby during Freshman Week , remember the rigors of the two campu l i fe and feel aware of hav ing a p lace in that unique pha e in the hi toryof the College. They are avid ·kiers, having k ied in 62 d i fferent areas i n the U n i ted tate , Canada and Europe. Dick ay i t all tarted with J ohnny k i c lasses on the Harriman' chapel la\.\11. . . Margaret Rod gers J ones write : "Whenever I am on campus now I think of Arbor Da ·s when we were there; of Ors. B i x ler and Johnson and a 11 the digging and planting-and try ro i magine which tree were our work. Good day , those." . . . Ginny Davis Pearce, who w i th Charlie '49 l ive in Grantham, . H . , w i l l be taking over thi col umn. If you haven 't seen your name here after an wering our questionnaire, it' due to lack of space. Be as ured that I w i l l rum o er a l l m y fi les roher. Please keep her mailbox full of your exc i t i ng adventures. Many thanks for your contributions over the years!

Corre pondent: Barbara Jefferson Walker

What are you go i ng to do that you have not done yet ? Do you s t i l l wear t h e ame s ize clothes that you wore on grad u a t ion day ? Th ink on these things and begin to make plans now to attend our

A L U M N I

A T

L A R G E

Class of 1950

reun

The 4 5 th reunion of the Class of 1 9 50 was l ife and quan t i t ies of snap hots of our college a wonderful event, with classmates returning days that were displayed at Grossman to the in record numbers. The campu� looked beau pleasure of us all. Sybil Green Reichek tiful, the weather was gorgeou and the hos brought memornbilia from "Bottoms U p ! " , pitality of the Colby staff was superb. We a l l and other photos were sent by J a n e Merrill looked exactly t h e s a m e , except that by some Thomas, Mary J ordan Megargee, Stubby quirk of the aging process ( probably gender Crandall Graves and Barbara M i ller Green. drive n ) the men's hair had primarily turned The traditional Boardman Memorial Ser into a d istingui hed gray while many of the vice honoring the memory of alumni who women turned into blondes. died during the previous year was conducted The reunion committee-N elson Everts, by Rabbi Raymond Krinsky and Father J ohn Charlotte " S tubby" C randall Graves, Bar Marqui , providing quiet closure to an ac bara Miller G reen, Nancy Ricker Sears and tive, nostalgic weekend. Priscilla Tracey Tanguay-planned activi We aid goodbyes during the morn ing ties such as breakfasts and evening receptions following breakfast at G ro sman, then re at c lass headquarters in Grossman to fac i l i luctantly p i led into cars, some head ing tate t h e coming-together process. We talked home, ome off to further vacat ion ing, but and talked and talked , starting Friday night G loria Gordon G o l d m a n , Sybil G re e n R e i ch k, all in agreement that this had been a super e and continu ing unt i l departure, reminiscing B a rbara Sta r r Wolf a n d Dale Avery B e n s o n . reunion, to be surpassed only by our SOth and bridging the years since graduation. Our in j ust five short years. G e t read y ! spouses were great, join ing in and mak ing friendships of their own. If you weren't able to make it, you also missed seeing: D i c k and We all looked colorful marching in the Parade of Classes wearing Ruth Armknecht, Bob and Daly Avery Benson, Dot and Fra n k sensational T-shirt designed by class artist Bob Donahue. Bob also Blondin, Dick a n d Mary L o u Kilkenny Bora h , D i c k a n d Nancy loaned some of h is artwork for display at our banquet, adding lu ter to Ardiff Boulter, Ruth and Ernie Carpenter, Allie J e n n i ngs Castelli this even t . On a Saturday afternoon bus tour of Waterv i l le we loudly and Bob Bundgaard, Arthur and Betty Jacobs Christopoulos, Carolyn cheered Foss Hall ( now an office building) and mourned the passing McLean Coburn, Pauline M ci ntyre Cohen, Mary Anne Seward of Ome' . Crafts, Barbara and Phil Dine, Oral and Bob Donahue, El inor and Banquet participants, numbering close to 80, were treated to an Bud Everts, G inny Hill Field '48 , Gerry Fra n k , Mari lyn and Charles informative update on the College by Arnold Yasinski , admin istra Garland, Mary ( Bauman '49 ) and AI Gates, Gloria Gordon Goldman, tive vice president, and then President Priscilla Tracey Tanguay J im Graves, Ray Green , Dick and Connie Leonard Hayes, N ancy introduced the new class officers: J a c k Alex, president, and Virginia Hill ( Kevin Hi l l 's wife ) , Paul Hinton, Bob Joly, Mary A l ice (Campbell Davis Pearce, secretary-treasurer. A r th u r O 'Halloran, who w i l l '47 ) and Ray Koze n , Bev Deschenes Libby, Bill and Dudie J ea n ings continue as v i c e president a n d class agent, w a s unable to b e present. Maley, Nancy Bradbury McKenzie, Betty and Hal Mercer, Bob and ongs of the '40s came next, provided by Benj amin ear J r. '52 and Nancy Weare Merriman, Jean Chickering Nardozzi, Nell Macdougall Bradford Conner, who e performances have received rave reviews in Parks '49, Charlie Pearce, Connie Foxcroft Perrigo, Dick and Boston area papers. Ben and Brad joined us later in the evening at Barbara Barrow Pulle n , Mort and Sybil Green Reichek , Bob and Grossman, where some special requests were heard, and we all joined Rona Kopans Rosenthal, Kay J oh nston R u k sznis, Ben and Priscilla in a ing-along. What we lacked in voice we made up for in volume. Tracey Tanguay , Shirley and Bill Tippens, N ancy and L u Veilleux, Pre ident Cotter also visited u at Grossman and spoke informal ly. Francis Whitehill '48, Bev Holt Wiegland, George and Harriet A highlight of the reunion was the arrival of Barbara Starr Wolf, Sargent Wiswell and Laurine Thompson York '48. who traveled the long d istance from her home in Braz i l . A succe sful businesswoman, Barbara brought w i th her interesting tidbit of her

Reunion 1 99 5 memorabilia is st ill available. Please call the Alumni Relations Office if you would l ike to purchase a Class of ' 5 0 T-shirt.

-Priscilla Tracey Tanguay 4 5 th class reunion on J une 6-9, 1 996. Who knows, you j ust m ight win one ofthe "Just for Fun" award or become part of some l ively, l ig h t - h e a r ted e x c h a nges . . . . Joyce Hutchins.Wells, Maine, was "sparked by a bright red questionnaire" and ent in a long letter reviewing her l i fe and fas cinating career path since gradu ation. Rheumatoid arthritis has been a major challenge for her. he i currently exec utive d i rec tor ofMaine Prevention of Blind ness progr ms. Colby, she says, taught her to "think indepen dently" and "to stand for that in which I believe." She remembers

Pop Newman, the Comparettis, the Gordon Smiths, Dean Mar riner, Professor Louella Norwood and Dean N inetta Runnals. Joyce started to study voice at age 62, made 300 jars of jam from last year's garden and watched the woodchucks enjoy her vegetables. . . . George and Priscilla Ford Haselton are now i n Westmore land, N . H . , and busy working on an old house. George c i tes Pro fessor Don Koons as his in p i ra tion to become a geologist. Joanna Jo h nstone l ives nearby and has g e t - togethers w i th P r is c i l l a . . . . S h i rley Raynor Ingraham, Clearwater, Fla., is on the board

of directors, secretary and author of an employee handbook for a daycare center. Shirley thinks that the add ition of so many stimuli in today's daycare pro grams may rival the benefits of home care. A memory she has of Colby is her introduction to Eng lish muffins and com fritters . . . . Maxine Rosenberg Rolland, Tampa, Fla., is a customer service rep for General Screen Printing. She rollerblades-for three m iles at a t ime ! . . . Dan Hall, Reading Mass . , retired from high school teaching, now works as a counse lor at a homeless shelter. The memory of Colby is the sulfur

smell from Boardman Hall. He thanks Profe sor Fullam for the beginning of his interest in his tory . . . . H a r l a n d E a s t m a n , Springvale, Maine, has j ust re leased his fifth volume of local history. . . Alyce Moskowitz Domenitz summers in Scarsdale, N . Y . , where she volunteer w ith the League of Women Voters, Association for the Education of Young Children and Recording for the B l i n d . She w i n ters in Florida, where she enjoys tennis and houseguests. Her memories of Colby include the smell of Foss H a l l , wonderful b l i zzards, late nights cramming for exams, writ-

A U G U S T

1 9 9 5

C O L B Y

A L lJ M N I

A T

I A I\ c; E

ing p;1pers, playing earth ;i ml Pro fessor EJJ i e J oe Colgan . . . . I re ceiveJ a surprise telephone c a l l from J ack Deering ' 5 5 ro te ll me that fricnJ ,, ofhb in Wel ls, Maine, haJ met a Colby graJ while on <in EIJerhostel to Antarc t i c a . Ir was me 1 He traced me Jnwn f or the call through the A l umni Office. The moral of this story is t hat even at rhe bot tom of the worlJ we are representat ives of Colhy College. Let's be gooJ one 1 • • • Frank Gavel, W i l ton, onn . , h.is rctireJ as a senior h igh school aJm i n i rrator. Among hi · Colby memories arc the smell of the lumber m i l ls in Winthrop, Maine, wash ing pots and pan , pee l ing a hunJreJ pounds of potatoes ev ery n ight at the Templeton Ho tel, where J i m Keefe wa h is hoss. And he remembers the strict bur compassionate supervision of Red O'H a lloran '50 a a dorm proctor in South College. Frank asks his classmates, "when you attendee..! grammar school, dtd you bring your lunch Llr ride your bicycle ?" Come to reunion an<l hear the award-winning an wcrs to t h is and other J ust for Fun quc t ion . Plans are a l ready underway, and class agent Ernie Fortin person a l ly guarantees that you w i l l have a good ti me. +

Correspondent: Barbara Easterbrooks Mailey

I t h a n k c l as s m a t e w h o a n s w e red t h e questionnaire; it cer tainly makes my job easier. And I apologize for missing a column, espec i a l l y when 1 received so many compliments for my past efforts. I was involved i n a car a c c i d e n t in l a t e N o v e m b e r , through no fau l t o f m ine, thank goodness, but I spent mo t of my spare time looking for a replace ment vehicle . . . . Marjorie Smith Fincher, in Cheyenne, Wyo., ha been secretary for the health fa c i l ities and l icensing program, Wyoming Department ofHealth, for 1 5 years. Her husband, John, has retired. She has five grand c h i ldren i n Cal ifornia, one un married son in Colorado and a 5-year-old poodle at home. She says she s i ngs in the church choir and enjoys concerts when they

C O L B Y

A U G U S T

1 9 9 5

She also talked with Mary Scott J ahn, who is l iving the good life in the Florida sun . . . . A lso in

NEWSMAKERS Caroline Wilkins McDonough '52 was featured in a Greenwich

Time article when he serveJ as a judge in the annual Gr en wich hakespear Compe t i tion. he i pre s i d e n t and art istic aJvi or of am o The atre in Old Greenwich, nn. . . . E laine Zerva Stamas ' S 3 and h e r h u b a n d , teph e n , ...-.i-.:...co ....i chairman of the board of the Elaine Zervas Scamas'53 and cephen husband New York Phi lharmon ic, w re the ubject of a New York Times article recogn izing the couple's love and tewardship of ymphony rche rra . . . . Donald E. Megathlin 'S9 was elected as executive v ice pre ident of the Brockton, Ma · . , 21 t entury orporation, a private non profit entity established by the Ma sachu en legi larure to bring together pol i tical and busine s interests and to fo ter economic de ve lop ment , job creation, bu ine retention, land development and indu trial expansion.

MILEPOSTS Deaths : Ralph H. Field 'SO in Fairfield, Maine, at 72 . . . . Albert Letalien 'SO in Portland, Maine . . . . Arthur E. Hanken ' S l in Bedford, Ma . , at 77 . . . . James E. Bernard '53 in Lynn, Mas ., at 64 . . . . Francis R. Kiernan '53 in Man l t u , N . Y . , at 64 . . . . Barbara Miller Kolade 'S 5 in Washington, D.C. , at 62 . . . . Anne Stuart Mos el ' S 6 in Chadd Ford, Pa. come to Cheyenne. What she rea lly was looking forwarJ to wa retirement in J une, so she can enjoy her home and garden and perhaps do some volunteer work. Travel is l i m i ted because John is d isabled, but they hope to fi ll up their guest quarters and enjoy t i me at their acres outside of the c ity . . . . As of March, Bob Dow retired but sti l l plans travel and consult ing ( h is title is pastoral and marriage and family theol ogist ) . He recently returned from a 5,000-mile southern trip. With his wife, Eleanor ( H i ltz ' 5 6 ) , he ha four grown c h i ldren, two married with four grandch ildren and two bachelors . . . . Martha Friedlaender sent me a "retire ment update." Recently she went to a board meeting for a social work organization in Washing ton, D.C., and spent an even ing with Mary Devan, who gave her a photo album from the "old days," mostly the Palmer House group- "wonderful memories"-which she w i l l bring to the next re-

union. Beside her oc ial work affi l iation, he find time to d l ibrary taff train ing and stay po l i tically active. Her brother l ive clo e by, o he enjoys his grand c h i ldren. She keeps regular con tact with Carolyn English Caci and Tommy Thomp on Staples. . . . Joyce Maguire Demers n w work for the town of Methuen, Mass., in the office of princ iple account and benefit adminis trat ion. She has four ch i ldren, Kevin, Melissa, Sara and J ack. Her hu band passed away in 1 969. S ince then her daughter Sara moved in for more than two years with her three young c h i ldren. ara moved out last January, and son Jack came back from Nevada to move right in. Someday. Joyce says, " I t w i l l be my turn." Her best new is that she became a great grandmother in January 1 994 to N icholas Pratley Kryzynski. Joyce i look ing forward to the next reunion and in the meantime keeps in phone contact w i th Nancy Pratley Wathen regularly.

Flori<la, Bob Carr, in Ocala, ent news of h is fam ily and informa tion about his company, Man agement Functions, I nc. Bob does risk management consu lt ing. He cal b hi wife "Grandma Supe rior . " Their family is prea<l a l l aroun<l t h e country: Robert i n M 1 souri w i t h three boys; R i c k in the Dal las, Texas, area with a boy and a girl; John in Gaine v i l l e, Fla., with three boys and a girl; and Emily near Kansas City with two boys. As for change in h is life, he ays, " I 'm older," but he likes where he is at th i point. . . . Robert Guterman also is in the in urance field, in Newton, Mas . His wife, Myrna, is a spe cial need teacher, h is son, David, is a re earch director in Con nect icut and hi <laughter, Anne, 1s in human resources for TAB Community New papers. They have a new granddaughter, Ariel. . Nelson Beveridge forwarded a letter from George Pirie with pictures of him and Colette at Volcanoes Nat ional Park. The wandering Piries have made trip to Florida, Colorado (where they shared the New Year with Chuck and J oyce Witham Spencer ) , Cal ifornia and Hawai i i n J anu ary. Ed Laverty ' 5 1 contacted George from Kona, Hawa i i ( news that Ed Fraktman sent me ) . Last ummer George and Colette took themselves to a challenge h ike, which they named "the h ike to hel l" after hours of difficult ter rain. George's son Gordon now l ives in Tennes ee; Suzy and George J r . are i n Cal ifornia, Wendy is in Georgia, Harry is in North Carolina and Jeannie is i n Arkansas. Their e ighth grand c h i ld ju t ce lebrated h is first birthday . . . . I have to report three deaths i n our class: William Riordan J r. , Bob Kiernan and a friend and neighbor of mine, J immy Bernard. +

Correspondents: Bill and Penny Thresher Edson

Many thanks for the fine response to our . can't questionnaire. We fit all the new i n to t h is column,

A L L �I :-, I

but in the next issue you' l l be hearing from Edwin Ei�en, S ue J o h n so n , Don G r o u t , D i c k Leerburger, J ud y Thompson Lowe , J ack King and Barbara Armstrong Mic kelson . . . . Ted Turchon writes from h i · home 111 Orlando, Fla . , where he l iveS \\· irh h i wife. His family mcludes a son in the U. . aYy, a daughter \\'ho i married to a master sergeant in the U . . Army and three grand chi ldren. Following graduation from Colby, he j o ined rhe Army and "wa lucky to be srationed near Tokyo-great people, super view, great time." Si nce then he has worked i n sales/sales man agement on the Easr Coast and, for the pa t 1 5 years, in central Florida . . . . Art Eddy and his wife, Anne, celebrated their first wedd ing anniversary th i s past eptember w i t h a three-week Amtrak trip to Washington and Oregon and back to Washing ton, O.C. Thi included a nine day driving tour through Oregon and northern California. Ten days

111 Maine and on Cape Cod CL'm pleted their celebrat ion. AccL1rd ing co Art, they "p lay !ors of golf,

and ha\·e, on loan, my daughter's old computer. The:e three should

\\'alk a fair amount, h a \· e become add icted to the /\ hscerv series on P B and A & E ai�d k�ve retire ment . " Art retired in 1 992 after teach mg math for 34 year· , the last 29 years at Hotchk iss : chool in Lake\· ille, Cnnn. He also plays a great deal of ten11 1s. Last J une, Arr's daughter ara \\'as appointed di rector of alumni relations for Bowdoin College. H is fir�t grand son was born in January to h i · daughter Joanna a n d h e r h u · band , \\'ho are inYoh-ed in theat rical \\'Ork in the Wash ingwn. O.C. , area. Art's son Clark i s a bar manager at a l oc a l mn in Connecticut, and son Josh, h is \\'Ile and l ittle girl l i \·e in Cal ifor11 1 a, \\'here J osh is im·olved \\' 1th ma intenance of oil refineries in the L.A. area . . . . Nancy Moyer Conover's Christmas letter \\·as mrere·ting as a k ays. he ·aid, " this 1 · the year l bought a bike, \\'ent on my first Elderhostel trip,

see me into the 2 l st centur\'. They sati · fy . perhaps, the phys i c a l ,

A T

A R G E

next day he had a rota! h i p re placement. Do hope your rt'CLH" er\' has been complete' ! AbbLHt 1s

the d i re c t o r L'f p l a c e m e n t <H

wanderlust a n d mental aspects o f

orrhern Essex Communm· c,,J

m e . Ho\\'e\·er, t h e j u ry is s t i l l out Lll1 the computer · ince it ha J U t

lege in l\l assachusctts. He and h i�

entered my life." l ancy's E lder ho. rel naturalist program 111 osra R i c a 111cluded the ight1ngs of

on ·eyeral trip' around e \\' Eng land, which included < l � w p ar our 40rh reunilm 111 J une. Their fam i l y con · isrs of fo�r chddrt'n, including Be\·erlv ' c' 5 . . . Peter Fishbin respl1nded w L1Ur ques t ionnaire from h is hLime 111 G reat eek, .Y., \\·here he l i\·es \\'Ith his wife, Terry. Bill and I \\'ere

1 5 7 spec ies of b i rds, monkeys teachmg their young, the rum blings of a \·olcanu, a \\' h i te-\\'a rer rafting trip and many new friends. Her ad\· ice "to those \\'ho

ha\·e nL)t yet cried Elderhoste l . do L)." - he has enjoyed se\·eral b ike rnps 1n the V i rg inia -Washing ton, D. . , area. I n 1arch of this year, ancy \\'as ro leave on a 1 0day trip w Prague, C:ech Repub lic. uch fa ·c inat ing rra\·ds! . Abbott Rice included us on his \\' Inter family ne\\·slener l is t . Un fortunately. 1 994 ended on a less than harpy note for Abbott. On December 4 , he \\'<IS \\'ashing his Suburban wagon when he ·l ipped and fe l l , breaking his hip. The

wife. Annie, tonk their cam rer

mterested to note that her maiden name is Ed ·on. Could be a re la t i Ye � Peter is O\\'ncr/parrner of Harris-Fi ·hbin <Hp o r a t i n n , General Contractor. H e sees Arthur Rothenberg quarter! ·. since "Art" is his ac -ountant. Peter at tended our 40th reu111,111 but was not l isted a s ha\·ing done s o . H u g e a r o l o g i e s for t h e overs i ght ' . . . K e e r t h e ne\\'s coming-i t' · great to hear from

each of you '

Charting Hawaii's Past . . . and Future S

i n c e 1 9 7 6 . a 60 - fo o t double-hull rep l ic a o f ca noes u ed 1 , 500 years ago by the original Polyne ian i mmi grant to the Haw ai i an I lands has retraced migration patterns i n the Pacific-navigating, a the Polynesians d i d , only by the un, tar , winds and cur rents. The Hokule'a's 16 voy age have to do with education a much as voyag i n g , ay Myron " Pinky" Thompson ' 5 0 , president ince 1 979 of the Polynesian Voyaging Society in Honolu l u , a private organi:ation that pon or the trips. Thomp on, whose son Nainoa has been navigarorofthe Hokule'a for 1 5 year -and is the fir t Hawai ian in more than 500 year to prac tice the ancient an of cele ri al navigat ion-says the voyages have served a rapidly rev iving Hawai ian cu lture and generated a trong sen e of pride in people rhoughour the Pacific. "One of the things I see is the u niver a l i ty of succes . Certain proces es are involved in being ucce ful thar are common to all c u l ture . The do th ei r homework, then go after it," Thomp on aid , comparing the o ri g i n al voyages to the Hawai ian Islands to today' pace travel. Voyaging i a metaphor for de eloping leader hip as well a for learning, ay Thomp on, and in 1 992 he led PY in moving voyaging into the c las room. tudents tracked Hokule 'a on nautical chart while tudying the Polynesian voyagers' achievement and the geography, oceanography and meteorology of the Pacific. The long-range goal of

PV � . ThLimpson says, i s t o train students to b e leaders who w i l l think critically about personal identity, human survival and em·ironmental issues affecting the land, sea and people of Hawaii. "My l i fe has been dominated by one or another of the ·e ideas, " s a i d Thompson, w h o l a s t December retired as a trustee if the Bishop E ·rate, the m u l t i - b i l l ion-dollar trust estab li hed in 1 84 to provide fund for the education of Hawai ian and part-Hawai ian c h i ldren. During his 20-year tenure, Thompson, who is three fourth · Hawaiian, was instrumental in making early childhood development the focus of the tru t ' 1 60 - m i l l ion-a-year income. " I look at education as a de\·elopmental proce s," · a id Thomp son, a sociology major at Colby with an M.A. in soc ial work from the U n i \·ersity of Hawa i i . He al o serves as chair of the board of Papa Ola Lokah i , a private nonprofit organi:ation founded ro improve the overall health of nat ive Hawaiian , and he is heav i ly invoked in Healthy tart, an early - i ntervention program for families at high risk of c h i ld abuse. The program promotes po· i t ive parenting s ki lls and optimal child development from the t ime a mother enters a hospital to give birth. " I 'm finding it very at isfying to do these thing ," Thompson aid. Helping his daughter an j two son· b u i ld home w i thin a half m ile of each other also is "fun work. And being around younger people keeps the m ind going." The Polynesian Voyaging ociety wa · co-founded by a Cauca s i a n anthropologi t from California w h o designed a rep l ic a o f a n ancient canoe i n t h e m id- 1 960s. Thompson ·ays P V 's strength comes from its mult iethnic makeup. "What I look for is the qual i ty ofrhe guy, not ethniciry-for the abil ity to learn and to work with other people. I look at what he can contribute," Thomp o n aid. He added, " I t ' great to be pan of the human race."

A U G U

1 995

O L B Y

A L U M N I

A l

L A l\ O E

reunion

__ ____

Class of 1955

I t was a very s p ec i<il weekend, from the the Alumni Relat ion Office if you would hoar ride in Casco Bny to t he l ast c u p of coffee l ike to purchase one. ) Thank to our dy at u nday's bru n c h . Wh<it ;i terr i fi c c l a>> we namic duo Selden and S u san Biven Staples, have, we ' 5 5ers. fund-ra ising effort paid off a they presented Ann B u rnham Deering had a plan to President Cotter with a check for $ 3 74, 3 39 make our 40th reu n ion one uf the hc s t , anJ in annual and capital gifts. As of Reunion for tho e who <1ttended une nr all of the Weekend, 93 classmate had donated to the planneJ events, we k now she s u c c ecJ cd . DiJ Alumni FunJ cla gift, giving u a 44 per we n eed name tags 1 Yes, at fi rst , as we ga t h cent part icipat ion rare. pec ial thanks to ered in Portland to board the Bay L a dy-h u t Jane Coddingron and Jean Pugh for their for t he most part , we've all m a n aged the 40 generou gifts to the College. years w i t h style and grace <rnd, most c, pc After the clas picture was taken, we c ially, humur1 The weather cleared a� we li ned up for the trad itional lob ter bake on came hack to por t , and many enjoyed t h e an absolutely Jazzl ing Maine summer day n ight l ife, browsing t he spec i a l t y hop a nd anJ again great tories and laughter, particu the comfort o f the Regency Hore I t h a t n ig h t . larly if you sat near Archie Anderson and J udy Orne Shorey commen teJ that her smile Dino Sirakides. hurt ; we laughed , relaxed and j ust enjoyed. N ancy G ree n berger Schmidt, Ar our d i nner at M i l lett A lumni House, Jean Hawes The Alumni Golf Tournamen t was grea t ; Anderson and G i n ny Coggins Margaret G rant Ludwig spoke of our c l ass Ei lertson . t h e Waterv i lle Country C l u b was t h e etting, mate who e memory we honor. Walter and the winners were Oren Shiro '42, J udy horey, Jane Whipple Zukows k i , Marj orie Bi ther, Dot and Arc h i lle Biron, Marge and Bob Coddington and Jean Van Cu ran Pugh. Dave Palmer ' 5 7 ha tried to Pullen, Betty and Don Koons, Ann and Mark Benbow and Ruth and get Larry ' 5 6 and J ean Pugh on the cour e many time and at last George N ickerson j o i ned us as 92 classmate and friends enjoyed ucceeded this year. They even playeJ an extra n i ne hole . another of Colby's fine di nner . Lou Zambello, ma ter of ceremo Lee Fernandez has donated Win low Homer engravings to t he nies ex traordi na ire, wa price less in his remarks. H is h u mor and h is tun n i ng Colby M useum of Art. Many attended the open ing recep sen i t iv i ty brought tears of laughter and respect. The c lass gave t ion for the exhibit W inslow Homer: Wood Engrnvings Portray America , recently retired id Farr a gold bag i nscribed "Mr. Colby"-a term 1 854- 1 874 . of endearment he has truly earned. Joe Perham regaled us with his Two members of our c lass were honored at the All Class AwarJs wonderful Main Storie c leverly in terwoven w i th h i larious asides Banquet. David and R u th McDonald Roberts received Colby Bricks anJ memorie of h is Colby Jay and c la smates. When you next see for their years of service and dedication to the ol lege. Sid Farr also Dick Bartlett, ask him to tell you of h is adventure when locked out received spec ial recogn i t ion on h is retirement. of hi dorm room at 2 a.m .-what a funny guy ! Dan c i ng to the music by long-ti me favorite Al Corey followed the Karl and I were so pleased to have most everyone come for brunch elegant dinner at the Fieldhou e. Many of u remin isced at the old on Sunday. The un d idn't hine, but there wa no lack of warmth and Zete H ouse, now Pierce, our c lass headquarter . Dorm l i ving wa a camaraderie as we concluded the be t reun ion o far. We missed those chal lenge, bur we survived. Dave and Ruth Robert enlarged pictures of you who were unable to join us; we encourage you to join us in five years. The enthu ia m was o h igh that Jean Hahlbohm Hampton has from our 1 9 5 1 - 1 9 5 5 years-it was fun to try to place fami l iar face . mo t of her committee l ined up for our 45th i n the year 2000. The ( S id and I cha ired chapel ushers-I'd forgotten that . ) experience of friend hip, laughter and memories of 1 95 1 - 1 95 5 w i l l Through t h e efforts o f J udy Holtz Levow's daughter- i n- law, the l ighten your heart a n d bring smi les o f contentment t o last a long t ime. c lass proudly wore blue anJ wh ite m u le T-sh irts ( ' 5 5 and fee ling al ive) Our 40th was truly spec ial. i n the parade of c lasses. ( Some '55 shirts are still available. Please call

-Jane Millett Domish

Correspondent: Ann Dillingham I ngraham

S u san Franklin Chap man wri tes from Co lumbia, Md., that she is a reference l i brarian at the Na tional Agr i c u l tural L i brary i n Beltsvi lle, a n d h e r husband, Bob, is an astronomer. They have a married daughter in Florida and a son working on the Eastern Shore of M aryland. She note no b ig changes in the last few years and continues to travel and enjoy t h e i r e m p t y nest. . . . J en n i e Davis Brown i s a project spec ial-

C O L B Y

A U G U

1 9 9 5

ist i n the office of the Es ex County prosecutor in Newark, N .j . , which involves creating ac tivitie , programs and benefits for the c h i ldren and teens in the county. She and attorney hus band Raymond have four adult chi ldren and six grandch i ldren ( 2 - 1 9 ) . Daughter Diedre is an architect with the N ew Jer ey PAC; son Cliff is a med ical doc tor; stepson Raymond i an at torney w i t h his fat h e r ; and stepdaughter Debbie is the ad m ission d i rector at Rutgers. Be s ides work ing w i th issues of criminal reduction i n i t iating pre vention act i v i t ies for k ids at high

ri k, Jennie says she "just loves b e i n g a grandmother. N ever thought it c o u ld bring such joy." . . . Marilyn Faddis Butler writes from her retirement home in Beverly H i l ls, Fla. She is retired from teaching French and Span ish in Brookfield, Conn., and her husband, Harold, has retired from social tudies teaching in Bridge port. They have a daughter study ing for a nursing degree and a son with an M . B.A. working for Pru dent ial in Verona, N .j . Marilyn says she enjoys tenn is, golf, ey e[ ing, walking, aerobics, bridge and the spec t a c u l a r weather and scenery. . . . Joanne Bailey An-

derson note that her children are all married. ince her father (for whom she had been caring) died last August, she has joined a read i ng group and has begun oil paint ing. She says that in China, Maine, the residents are fortunate to have a "fine artist offering les ons." . . . Andy Boissevain wrote that he retired i n November and in J u ly p l a n ned to move to Seq u i n , Wash., which i on the northern shore of the Olympic Pen in ula called the "banana belt" because the weather is very n ice and only get 1 2 inches of rainfall a year compared to 49 inche in Seattle. He is looking forward to retire-

A L U M N I

ment, w ith a trek into the Grand Canyon planned with his son, M ark, for April and "sk iing in March." He and J udy do all the neat things together, which he say makes "me a very lucky guy." Andy add , "maybe now 1 can come to reunions. We bought a small RV, [and] since we have traveled extensively in Europe, we need to explore America." H i present job h a taken h i m exten sively to the Far East. + Correspondent:

Eleanor Edmunds Grout

Colby sent word of the d e a t h of c l assmate Frederick

Arthur

Greig. l know you j o i n me in

expre ing the class' condolence to h is fam ily . . . . D i c k Davis wrote to say thanks for keeping in touch . Dick's family has kept the Colby trad it ion alive. H is daugh ter, A my Love Davi '9 1 , i fol lowing her parents not only a a Colby grad but into a teaching career. Dick and hi wife, Contance, both teacher , are now retired and l ive in We t Suffield, Conn . They also have a son, J oshua, who is a senior a t Gordon Coll ege . . . . It wa good to hear from Franklin Huntress, now on this side of the A tlantic. H e is now in Marblehead, Mass . , and suffering culture shock back in America's fa t lane after a period of four year in the d ioce e and

church i n L i nc o l n , England. F r a n k a l ways g ives so m u c h thought to his questionnaire anwers, I 'd l ike to share a few wi th you. Asked his definition of suc ce , he answers, "when others reap from your ideas and work. " For artistic pursuits Frank enjoys choral glee c lubs and appreciates art in general and says that the ability to pas on one' opin ions and interpretations when con fronted by a masterpiece from any generation adds pleasure, too. He rea l i:es that in the sixth (or seventh) decade of l ife one's out look demands to be new, molded on pa t experience : "Thi t i me of life could be a new awareness not known to thi point." Thanks for the thought , Franklin . . . . M ac ' 5 4 and Eleanor Edmunds Grout's third daughter, Tricia, is expect ing her first c h i l d any minute. You can gue s what I 'll be doing in the next letter. orry there i no more news. Plea e drop me a l ine and answer w ith only a few l ines when you get your questionnaires. Thanks and remember reun ion in 1 996 is j ust a few hort months from now . +

your appearance in print. I w i l l t r y to g e t as many o f y o u in a s possible . . . . Carol Heeks Brice writes from Fai rbanks, A laska, where she is the owner and trainer for Fam ily Train in a Assoc iation, a parent education/consultation business. Carol, an R.N . , has a master' in educati n and is a certified family life educator. She and her hu band, Luther, have five children, four of whom are married, and four grandchildren. he wants to know ifanyone l ive in Fairbanks or in A laska. Doe anyone want to come ? . . . Na than Adams is now retired as senior raff editor for Reader's Digest. He and wife Anne l iese, who i w ith the Au trian Infor mation Ser\'ice at the A ustrian Embas y in Wa hington, D.C., have no chi ldren but do have two i l l - behaved and noi y dachs hund . Although Nate is retired , he remains on the Digest mast head a "roving editor" and con tinues to contribute artic les on international terrori·m and orga n i:ed crime. H e poses interest ing que tion : "How doe it feel to be only fi\·e years away from reduced bus fares for seniors ? And to be told by your tailor that you need ate enjoys trout u pender 1" fishing in sol itude and is wonder ing if he hould \\Tire a book about it a ll-and whether he can find the time to do so . . . . Gail Crosby Davis is sem i-retired but rill managing property; however, she and hu band Dick now man age the managers. Gail and Dick have a daughter, a veterinarian in San Diego, and a son , a TV editor in Burbank, Calif. As class agent, Gail a id she would be "so proud of our c las if we could exceed 50 percent of the c lass contribution w ithout a l l those phone calls, cards and letters." Let's try, hall we? . . . Another retiree is Helen Payson Seager, as ociate professor emeritus at the Univer ity of Pittsburgh. Helen knows that everyone has chal lenges/troubles in life and i ask i n g how your educat ion at Colby helped you to meet the e chal l enges a nd/or w e a t h e r t he e trouble , if it helped at all . . . . Bob Saltz is absolutely not retired as senior vice president and prin c ipal for Advanced Manufactur ing Re earch in Bo ton. H e and

Correspondent:

Margaret Smith Henry

Now that the alumni magazine appears four t t mes a year, there 1s a greater lap e of time between your replie to my questionnaire and

COLBY H OM E C OM I NG 1 995 O CTO B E R 13- 15 • Varsity sports-football, men' and women's occer, field hockey • Concerts-including the Bo ton Museum Trio • 91 t Annual Colby N ight Dinner spon ored by the Colby "C" Club • Alumni Council meetings • Cla s of '95 "Zero Year Reunion" • Campus tour • Academic department reception -meet your former faculty member and fellow tudent • Po t-game BBQ and entertainment

Detail and a re ervation will be mailed to you soon. For more information, call the Alumni Office at 2 0 7 - 8 72 - 3 1 90 or e-mail to alumni@colby.edu

A T

L A R G E

his wife, Lynne, have moved into a new four- level townhouse in . Anne Kimsey alem, Mass. Brakman is a New York State d isab i l i ty analyst in Albany and l ives with her husband , H a l lett, in Chatham, where he i the owner of Brook Cove M arine. They have three married chil dren and love to tra\·el, espe cially to A ri:ona . . . . Al o not yet ret ired is Clark J ones, who is sale rep and owner of Clark S. J one Associate in eal Beach, Cal if. He spends his spare time cook ing ' . . . Dick Campbell has retired a vice president and group president of Textron, I nc . , and i now self-employed for Seacoast Con ul ting in York, M aine. H e and hi \\·ife, Carolyne, ha\·e been married for 32 year and have four children ranging in age from 1 5 to 30. His new lifestyle afford him the opportunity to spend quality time with his wife and last at-home daughter after 35 years ofcorporate travel . . . . l n Center ville, M ass. , Bob Hesse considers him elf definitely reti red-from e l l ing w ith Procter and Gam ble-into "total hedont m!" He and his wife, Gail, are active with their three son and their fami l ies . . . . Marilyn Clark and hus band Don have three children, the married two producing eight grandchildren. Marilyn is trea surer at her church i n G ray, Maine, and has done several wa tercolors that have old at art shows . . . . Dick V og t ha retired from rme full-t ime job to another more than ful l - time job. H e and hi wife, Susan( Macomber '60 ) , are the owner/hosts o f Windy ledge Bed & Breakfast in Hopkin ton, N . H . In about two year , however, the Vogt w i l l c lose the B & B, buy a motorhome and trav el full time. . . Carolyn O'Brion Cooper write from Lake Forest, Calif. , thar she i an e lementary teacher almo t ready to retire to her next passage as travel agent. he has been act ive with Earth watch and gave a pre entation at California State on her science expedition to Mammoth Cave in Kentucky . . . . I ' l l probably put together a cla s letter to include all the people who o k indly re sponded to my questionnaire and the ones sent by the A lumni Of fice. We'l l be in touch. +

A U G U , T

1 9 9 5

C O L B Y

1\ L LI �I N I

:\ T

1\ R l; I:

Correspondents : 1 960 Carolyn We bst e r Loc khart 1 70 Cou nty Road New London, NH 0 3 2 5 7 1 96 1

Pe nny Dietz u l l i v an l 1 1 4 5 G lade Dr. Reston, VA 2 209 1

1 968 M my Jo alabre>e Baur l 3 7 Lexi ngton Road Dra c u t , MA 0 1 826

lege, Waterv i l le, M E 0490 I. Hope you're having a great summer, and keep ynur new corn ing to your new cla s secretary, Carolyn Webster Lockhart. +

508-4 54-97 3 3 1 969

Corre;ponden t : Pen n y Dietz ullivan

Diane E . K i nd ler l 1 7 Alha tre e r Port land, ME 04 l 0 3 207-774-7454

703 -620- 3 569 1 962

J ud i th H oagland Brbtol 3 4 1 5 Su nset Blvd. Houston, TX 7 700 5 7 1 3-667-2 246

Corre spo nde nt :

Kay White

1 963

Barbara H a i nes hase 1 1 Sal isbury Road Keene, NH 0 3 4 3 l 60 3 - 3 5 2 - 9 3 30

Rose mar y Athearn mith W rL i r e a long <ind i n forma t i ve let ter about her busy life a; rhe pa'

1 964

tLH of the M o n r ic c l l tJ , .Y., U n ited M er h o d i r Ch u rc h , a schedule that inc l u d es part icipa t ion in c o mmun i ry affa i r; through the local Human R i g hr -. Crnn

Sara haw Rhoades 76 Nortun Road K i ttery, ME 0 3904 207 -4 3 9 - 2 6 2 0 1 96 5

Ric hard W. Bankart 20 Val ley Avenue S u i te DZ We twood, NJ 0767 5 2 0 1 -664-7672 1 966

Rus ell N. Monbleau 3 Lovejoy Road M i lford , NH 0305 5 603-67 3 - 5 5 08 1 967

Robert Gracia 2 9 5 Burgess Avenue We twood, MA 02090 6 1 7 - 3 29 - 2 1 0 1

J udy Gerrie Heine 2 1 H i l lcrest Rd. M edfiel d , MA 0205 2

C O L B Y

A U G U

1 9 9 5

m is;10n, the Federatiun for the Ho mel ess and the Clergy A ��o c 1a r ion. Ro emary graduated from Drew U n i ve r s i t y Th eo l og i c a l School a n d w a s orJamed 1 11 l 9 8 7 . h e a n d her h usl a nd really en joy the i r grandchi ldren, who, ac cord ing to Ro emary, "help u keep a youthful and opt i m i tic outl oo k on l i fe." J ust what we all need. . . This is my last column as your c lass secretary, and l want to thank you all for h e l p i ng write the column by send i ng lots of news. l look forward to represent i ng you as our c lass president for the next five years . . . . l have j ust fin ished the booklet of informa t ion that you all sent me for the reun ion, and it was a very inter esting project. For those of you who didn't get to the reu n ion and would like a copy, please send $2 to cover postage and handl ing to the Alumni Office, Colby Col-

P la n n i n g has already started for our 3 5 th re un ion (J unc 6-9, 1 996 ) . Many have expre sed interest in a few d a y; at 'amoset before the weekend--date� would be June 4 and 5. Another idea being x plored: have our room at Colby avai lable ,everal days early and �ched u l e fun thing like picnics and golf before everyone else gets the re . Let anyone on the commit tee know how you feel ahout those t w o idea , and we'll keep you pnste d a we get c lo�er. At the fir t meeting of the reu n ion commit tee in Bo ton on Apri l 9 were Dave Bergq u i s t , Bob Bu rke, D e n n y D i o n n e , N e d Gow , Claire Lyons, Scotty Macleod Folger, Bev Lapham and David Ziskind. Al o on the cummi ttee are Gordon C u m m ings, Dick Fields, Richard Gibb , Gordon Prud'Hommeaux, John Kelly, Sally Thompson S o l a r i and Penny Sullivan. We are ·till look ing for add itional members, so if

you would l i k e to volunteer, please c a l l David Zi k i nd at 2 1 2 4 77- 1 900. If you have any sugges t ions, want to serve as a class officer or be my replacement as c las correspondent between the 3 5 th and the 40th, contact one of the committee members (or me ) . . . . Ernie Trow bridge i fly i ng for North American Airlines, doing Club Med charter flights and El Al feeder flights, and promises to be at reunion if he can . . . . Carla Possinger Short, unable to be on the committee, will try to be at the reun ion . Her daughter, An drea, graduated from Davidson

College thi May and wa looking for a job ( polit ical science) in D.C. . . . Sally Thompson Solari was in the home stretch of getting her ma ter' in soc ial work from Fordham in May, carrying 1 4 aca demic cred it as well as working three <lay a week doing in-pa tient p ychiatric work in the county hospital. She ha three married sons, two grandch i ldren and a wonderful daughter at Carbolic University in D.C. . Bill Wahtola, who has been a uccessful heating and plumbing contractor in Hyannis for over 20 year , also promised to try to be at the reunion. Although he was not at ol by all four year , he wrote the greate r letter about what the College had meant to him. He c lo ed with a quote from imon and Garfunkel that we all can ub ·cribe to at rhe 3 5th: "though there have been changes upon change , we are more or less the same." He also informed me that Dawn Mitchell had d ied. Many of us will remember her fondly. Bill and h i wife, Lorraine, see Brad Steere and his wife, Dor othy, on a regular basis. They got together thank to Steve Chase, who reports that he and Frank D'Ercole have been having fun trying to find J o h n Hoop e r. . Mary Sawyer Durgin reports t h a t he h e a rd fro m J a n i c e Dukeshire Halliwell, and she as well a· Carla and al ly plan to be at the 3 5 th. Mary wa recently promoted to chief of the collec tion d i vision at the IRS office ( and I'm writing this on 4/ 1 5 ! ) in Sacramento, Cal if. She has about 2 50 people working for her there. Her on, Kevin, i in Bo ton at tending Merrimack College . . . . Steve Dellaquila checked in from Clinton, Conn. He has opened a construction company in Char lotte, N .C., and i considering mov ing there. He and h is wife, Donna, have two daughters, both recently married . . . . Janet Has-

A L U M ,

kins Mandaville tells of the expe

rience of moving from many year of marriage to solo l iv ing, inc lud ing c learing the family manor of 27 years offivepeople'sstuff. They had a unique family reunion and celebra ted one weekend w i th birthday , Christmas tock ings and Fourth ofJ uly fireworks. ( The neighbors caught on to what was happening and howed up in H al loween costumes carrying Easter basket . ) J anet has been spending lots of time in A ustralia and ha taken up home bre w i n g . Sandy Nolet Eielson is happy to be tuition free finally and having on Kris working in M a achu etts and daughter Kerry working for The New Yark Times in Paris, France. She is engaged to marry her h igh school and co liege sweet h ea rt of 34 year ago, Dean Quinlan . . . . Kent Davidson re ports from Los A lamito , Calif. , that he teaches marketing at UCLA and serves as vice pre i-

dent at Pacific Precision Metals, a suppl ier to Fleetwood Motor homes. He has two kids in college at UC R iver ide and UC San Di ego . . . . You can reach me on the Internet: penny@opnsys.com. +

ays, "with a very impres ive fac u l ty and students." . . . L i n da N icholson Goodman is a school psychologist and consul tant to the city of ew London, Conn. place where l "wuz rai ed," as they say in Texas. Linda and her husband , Dave, who is president of h is own electronics firm, live in Oakdale in a lovely home "in the country." Their sons include J ay , 3 1 , a Ph.D. from the Un iver sity of Chicago in environmenral science who is currently reaching at the American Un iversity in Armenia (and getting married in eprember); J im, 29, with a law degree from the University of an Francisco, who is working for en sor Applications in Connec ticut; and Bill '9 1 , 26, who i a product manager for K id Magic in San Francisco. Linda got together with Anne Ticknor McN eece and hus band Rob. Anne al o ha ans and i a supef\·isor of pecial needs teacher-. o both Linda and Anne

Corresponden t: J udith Hoagland Bristol

Tony Kramer i a mortgage banker [i,·_ ing in Burr Ridge, I ll. He and wife Linda have two chil dren-Stephanie and Stephen ages 7 and 6. H is company i involved w ith the Quail We-t Golfand Country Club in aple , Fla., o he had lots of trips to Florida thi w inter. He and Linda are al o active in the Coa t Guard Auxil iary and do patrol on Lake M ichigan . Tony erve a a Colby overseer and \'isited the Perform ing Arts Department last year a "marvelou departmen t," he

/\ T

L .'\ R G E

work with adolescents who have "tough l ife adju tment deci-ions" w make and who truggle to get through chool. . Brenda Phillipps Gibbons is in real e tate -ale in Marion, Mass. Brenda has remarried, and she and her hus band, Bob, ha\•e four children he rween them. Brenda' are Doug, 30, who work in rorrs TV in Berkeley, Calif. . and Susan, 2 , \\'ho works at MTV in New York Ciry. Bob's family includes Rohb1e, an attorney in N YC, and Li a, who al o works m NYC. Brenda and Bob's first grandchild, Dernn, wa born in January. Brenda mentioned a birthday celebration for Doug thi year with her s ister, Joan Phill ipp Thomp-on '64 and her hu band, teve '63 , and their two boys and one wife. Joan Thomp son has a new series of hooks for children ages through 1 2 called Luc)' R us s e l l

. C e n cers rage.

Brenda also a id that he still - ings with the choral society and 1 very

Class of 1960

. -

reu nwn Many thanks and congratulations to Russ Zych for serving a clas pre idem for the past five year , for organizing a most succes ful 3 5 th reunion, and for arranging perfect M aine weather up to the moment of departure (almost ) ; to Ralph Nelson for serving an.p.; to Bev Jackson Glocklerfor representing us on the A lumni Council; to Mike Silverberg for taking on the difficult job of cla s agent and getting u to comm i t $ 1 32 ,000 t o the A lumni Fund and the capiral campaign; and t o Kay White for wittily keeping us all up-to-date and we ll informed. You not only all came back, you have left very large hoe to fill. Reunion Weekend began at amo et Resort in Rockland, Maine. Those who arrived early enough to make the trip to the Outward Bound chool on Hurricane Island reported that it was well worth the effort. The rest of u arrived on Thur day in time for drinks, dinner and good conver ation . It wa· good to ee Bob "Bo" Haggett there. Regrettably, another commitment prevented him from attending the re t of the weekend. Jock and Pat Walker Knowles were there and even managed to make an 8 a.m. tee time at the Alumni Golf Tournament in Waterville on Friday morning-and a second-place fini h. On Friday evening before the award banquet, we held a cla s reception to which we had invited faculry and stafffrom our generation. Tho e who came included the Reumans, Peter Re, Walter Zukowski, John and Mary Joseph and the rrider , who were our special gue ts for the weekend. Pre idem Snider kindly agreed to be our gue t speaker at the c las dinner, which wa also attended by Colin MacKay. Karen Stiegler Aldrich, Connie Maheu Armstrong and Kay Woodward Blanchard all returned and were glad they had come. Sue Chamberlin Trauger, who work for the L . A . County M useum of Art and l ive in Pa adena, de erve the d istance award. Carlene Daisy Kelleher, George '58 and Wendy Mc William Denneen, Carol York Fortier, Don Freedman, A rt '59 and Louise Robb Goldschmidt, Chet Lewis, Laurie Waugh Harris, Doug '58 and J udy lngram Hatfield, Bonnie ( Brown '63 ) and Barry Potter and Jane Holden Huerta were also there. Marion Porter Potter and Joanne Price Rockett, both in real estate, compared their re pect ive low market .

Bob Littlefield, till teaching physics in Maine, and Ron Littlefield, working at the Goddard Space Center in Maryland, carried the clas banner in the parade of c lasses. Also there were Charlotte Wood MacPhetres, Ann Monro, Claudia Lawrence Rogers, Ron Weber, Janet Grout Williams, Dave Wiggin '62 and Sally Walker Simpson. Gail Harden Schade ha become an a\· id biker and left the morning after

the dinner on a 1 50-mile-plus trip sponsored by the American Lun Association. Maren Stoll Sherman-Trembly' home became an annex tO ll1e Heights for several returnee , althouoh they missed the character building aspect of dorm living. Eunie Bucholz Spooner has recently moved inro a new home-which she helped de ign to accommodate her wheelchair--complere with a computer room where she hope· to expand her computer club activities for children. Finally, our thoughts and best wishes for a complete recovery go to Judy Miller Heekin. Reunion 1 99 5 T- hirts are till available, so please call the A lumni Relation Office if you would l ike ta purcha e a Cla of '6 shirt. For those of you who d id not receive the Class of 1 960 Reunion Book, which has more information in it than there i pace to include here, a copy can be obtained from Colby. Kay did a great job in compil ing i t from her last questionnaire plus a recent one. Here are some collective though rs shared by those who came back. It was a great weekend, and we all w i hed that more of yuu had been there; the campu ha never looked better, and the trees are beautiful (and b ig ) ; i t is an experience to come rogether a adu lts, with and wi thout pouse , and realize that we are a friendly, informed, caring and intere ting group. Many of our classmate ha,·e survived turmoil, accidents, divorce, i llne , death of a spouse or a child, yet t i l l found a way to come together to laugh, renew old friend hip and make new one . We al o decided that dorm bed are for the young! I look forward to being your clas correspondent now that Ted and I have tied up at the pier and debarked. Please keep in touch, becau e your news is what will make the e column and new letter inrere ting. Our fax number i 603- 5 26- 02 1 and e-mail i Tclockharr@aol.com. --Carolyn Websrer Lockharr

A U G U

1 9 9 5

C O L BY

A L

M N I

A T

L A R G E

invnh-eJ i n the rnwn' · c u l t u ra l life . She and Bob love to s a i l anJ not only · a i led in the Op ra H ouse up i n N a n t u c k e t last sum mer but a lso spent two weeks in the Keys. They abo sa il with S t e v e a n d Mary B a l l a n t y n e Gentle i n Edgartow n ea h u m m e r . Brenda men t ioneJ id Farr' ret irement and Mr. "G" G i l les pie' pas i n g and remembers the "cocoa and F i g N ewton ?" K i nd of sad to see our c l a s's Colby c o n n ec t i o n � g e t t i n g les� a n d le ss . . . . Dave Jacobson, an an t h ropologist teach ing a t BranJe is i n Massac h usett , and w i fe Lui., a vice president i n mark e t i ng, trave led to Californ ia la�t sum mer and Florida t h is w in t e r and pla n ned trips to Cal ifornia and Europe thi· summer. The J acob sons have five c h i l d re n , t h e youngest graduat i ng from co ll ege la t y ea r . With a c o l l eague, Dave has publ ished a bo n k , S/)ying \Xlich out Spies ( P raege r ) , a proiect he says was an i n terest i n g departure from h i s usual work. He apprec i a t e "Co l by's reputat ion a s a great p l ace. " . . Sandra Keef H unter i a real e,tate a l es person in Ea ·t H a m pto n, N . Y . H e r h usban d , S t e v e n , i a c reative d i rec tor in ad vert i s i ng. andra i becom i ng

a natura l i t, has part i c i pated in b i rd and waterfowl count and says that her data is beco m i ng "accepted and tru· ted ." he re c e n t l y completed a marine shell col lect ion of Eastern Long l slanJ she l ls fur the South Fork N a t ural H i�tory Museum . . . . Ed K yle till serve on t he Alumni Coun c i l , wh ich means h e gets to visit olby twice a year. Ed is a c i v i l engineer with the N ew Hamp h i re Depart ment of T ransportat ion . H i� wife, Penny, i� an e l eme nt a ry teacher in onwrd, N . H. Their son Ted gradua ted from M 1d d l eb ury tn 1 992 and, says Dad , "b happily see k i n g hi: for t u ne on rhe sl ope� in J ackson Hole, Wyo." Ed joined Bill Chase and three other folks in a I O-Jay h ik i ng trip to w i t:e r land in September, ;md 111 March he k ied K i l l i ngton (Vt. ) w i t h Allie Weller. Ed a n d l want t o rem ind you a ll to s t a r t planning now for our 3 5 th. We do expec t ei!er)•one t o be there. +

Corre ponde n t : Barbara Haines Chase

Lady W i nr e r dea l t gen tly with ew England this year, but Bill and 1

went to Tell ur id e, Colo .. to cro s cou n t ry and downh ill ki for a week, so we had a real ta te of now. Wh i le there, Dian Emer son Sparling drove eight hour from her home in Ft. Collins ro ski the high country with u in the g l or i ou s warm sunshine. No kid ding! Dian b a m idwife prac titio ner and omehow finds time for a m a z i n g ou t d o o r adve n t u re such a k i i ng the Tenth Moun tain Tra il and cuba div ing in Belize. Often her two college-age wm accompany her. . . . Marcia Achilles McComb i., manager of accounts reccivahlc for a large ra dio lo gy group i n Maryland hut has plan forfind ing a less tre sful and more reward ing j o h in the near future. ounds like a healthy plan. he and her husband, Don, who is a chemi try teacher in horh high �chool an d college, are i n volved 111 everal a pee r · o f vol unteer support at the Holocau t Mu cum . . . . From hi farm in llrridgewuc k , Maine, Warren Balgooyen write that there are

"no changes [in my life]." Warren 1 · a freelance naturalist in the spring and ·ummer, runs a landcaping bu ine s, ra i e golden hiner m five fi h ponds, which he ell a ba it wholesale and re-

ta il. makes maple yrup, doe car pentry work (he's built three cab in ), ha a portable saw m i l l and makes his own lumber and rai es Chri tmas trees. ound l ike there is very little time to make any change ! Warren's wife, Helen, is head nur e at Colby . . . . Julie Dodge Burnham writes from Warner, N . H . , where he is a guid ance coun elor. J u l ie is gradually re toring an 1 800 cape and reno vating a summer place on Lake Winnire aukee . . . . When Ivan Freed la t wrote a year ago, he wa con idering leaving the stresses of owning his own bu ines . Today he write that he is unemployed and happily k i ing every week, col lecting ba eball cards and pe renn ial , chuck ing year of col lected debri from h is cellar and vi i t i ng hi grown children with hi wife, hirley. He can till hit a 20-foot jumpshot. How much bet ter can life be ? . . . Sue Pel on Gillum report that he is a land lubher now, having moved from her boat to the shore at Jensen Beach, Fla. She rooms with two exotic cats and i employed a team leader of an E OL depart ment of a local chool y tern. ue i the proud owner of a 1 984 cu t m Corvette, which he enters

Fishing for Answers ine · rruggle A theMauncerta inty

with

of co m merc i a l fish ing d u e to the

deplet ion of s tocks i n the G u l f o f M a in e , many are look i ng to L i nda Pu hee Mercer '69 for answers . The d i re c to r of t he B u

reau of Marine c i ences at t h e M a i n e Department of M a r i n e Resources, M e rc e r heads t h e department' re search and sc ience programs that identify problems and fi nd sol u t i ons to over-fish ing of M a ine's waters. H e r staff of 3 8 researchers and s c i ent ists ( reduced from 50 due to budget cuts) hope to keep commerc ial fish i ng v iable i n M a ine. "We are com ing c lose to reaching the limit in terms of what can be fished and what species are avai lable," said Mercer, who fi lled the d i rector's posi tion-vacant for three years-in J anuary. "It's going to be a difficult struggle for [everyone involved]. with having to tighten restrict ions on the type of fish caught and cut back on the harvests . . . and yet [the fishermen] real ize the harvest is down and action needs to be taken. "

C O L B Y

A U G U S T

1 9 9 5

Mercer ay he began to figure out what she wanted to do with her life in J anuary of her en ior year at Colby. A biology major, he interned at the m ith on ian Institution for her final Jan Plan, working with an ichthyologist-a fish pec ial ist--d i ecring tuna. A lt hough she ay t h a t after the intern hip she sti l l wa unsure about her career plan , he decided to pur ue marine c iences. A year after graduation he went to The College of Will iam & Mary' Virginia I n titute of M arine c ience, where he earned a master's and eventually a doctorate. After rak ing time off to rai e a fami ly-she and her husband, J i m Mercer, have a on, Matt, and a daughter, Emi ly-Mercer went to the North Carol ina Div ision of Marine Fisheries, where she worked for 1 2 years as a biologist and later a a re earch upervisor. Wi h ing to return to ew England, she applied for and landed the job w ith Maine's marine sc ience department. Mercer' Ma ine staff currently is analyzing the growth and health of the herring population to manage the fishing of that species wisely. Her team of workers al o are re earching sea urchin , and they hope to begin work on the sea cucumber, both of which became popular catches as other Gulf of Ma ine re ources, l ike lobster, hrimp and cod, became depleted. " I love the job. I gue it' k ind of what you'd dream about doing," said Mercer, who also recognizes the challenge and obstacles that lie ahead. "The re ource are not going to bounce back overnight. I t's going to be a long proce s."

A L U M N I

competitively in how . She is p lanning a trip to the Far Ea t: Hong Kong, hanghai and the G rear Wall of China . . . . An other classmate who has made the move to a more flexible job i Ann "Booty" Bruno Hocking.

A year ago Boory left her po it ion as a v ice pre ident at Fleet Bank and became a realtor, a job he love . She a nd her h usband , David, a stockbroker, have just bu ilt a new hou e in Durham, Conn. Booty is acquiring an in tere t in antiques anJ enjoys qui !t ing and other handcraft . Booty and David spend each summer at Lake Winn ipe aukee, enjoying the peace and quiet of the woods. . . . Peter French work at A lean Ingot in Aurora, Oh io, where he l ive with hi wife, M uriel, and is parent to four chi ldren. Peter ne glected to rum over the question naire o hi news i spar e, or maybe he's j ust a man of few word ! . . . B i l l and I have a hou e on the marker and one being built. Thi ituarion cau es us ome sleepless nights, bur what i life without a few ri k ? Our older daughter married in July in Wa h ington, D.C. I am thankful for the technology of electric air cooling! . . . Thank you for your letter and your greetings. It i uch fun get ting mail from old friends. + Correspondent:

Sara Shaw Rhodes Charles Fallon, fin

a n c i a l a d v i so r i n Roche ter, N . Y . , has completed a four-year stint as first executive director of the New York State M iddle School Asso c iation. H is wife, Barbara, is one of three U. . school administra tors to receive a Fulbright Ex change cholar hip, and Charle wa looking forward to v isiting her in England for her 50th. He ays both ons are getti ng great grade , one at Skidmore and the other in h igh choo l . . . . J ean Martin Fowler now has six grand sons. She and her hu band t i l l l o v e sail ing, t h e Bri tish V irgin I slands being their favorite spot. . . . Dick- Friary cal led in April to a y that two c la smates were in The New York Times on the ame day: Doris Kearns Goodwin won the Pulitzer Prize for history, and

NEWSMAKERS A Worcester ( M ass. ) Sunday Telegram article on the 4-bil l ion commercial printing bu i ne of produc ing company annual reports featured Ralph A. K.im ball ) r . '6 3 , vice pre i dent of ale for LaVigne Pre , one of the Worcester area's largest producers of annual report . . . . Dori Kearns Goodwin '64 was awarded the Thomas D . McBrierty '69 1 99 5 Pulitzer Prize for history for her book No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt : The Home Front During World War 11. . . . Biology professor and science fiction author Thomas A. Easton '66 conducted an interactive workshop on science fiction and fantasy on Mas Learn Pike, the educational satellite broadca t network that deliver d i ranee learning to K- 1 2 Massachusetts students . . . . I n Portland, M aine, Lee Urban '68 and a partner opened Urban & Plimpton, a company offering dispute re olution ervice . . . . Thomas D . McBrierty '69, who headed New England Telephone operations in M aine from 19 7 to 1 99 2 , w a s named commi ioner o f M aine' department o f economic and commun ity development.

MILEPOSTS Deaths: Carole Richardson Merson '60 in East Falmouth, Mas . , at 56 . . . . George Roden J r. '60 in Hartford, Conn. , at 56 . . . . J ames N . Valhouli '64 in Exeter, .H., at 53.

occupy her time tudying for her Ph.D. in ad ult c l in ical p ychol ogy a t We t Virginia Un iversity. Her first two grandbabie were due thi summer. . . . J oh n Gow is still teaching and ha his first grandch i ld. He and his wife spend summer on Moo ehead Lake . . . . J oan Thiel Hadley has a wonder fu l new d a u ghter- i n - l a w . Kitty Hartford t e l l o f a "rock party" held by her i ter, Pau la Chapin Hartford '66. All family member and friends were a ked to bring a large rock-with which they built a stone wall along her driveway ! K itty's family, all five generations, gather at her moth er' hou e in Boothbay Harbor for all trad itional hol iday and mi lestone occasions . . . . Barbie Carr Howson sent me a great picture ofher fam ily. ( Feel free ro end me any family photo for the next reunion ! ) Barb and hu band Red, with their youngest daugh ter, were on their way ro New Orlean la t Ea ter ro visit Suzy Noyes Mague, who promised to

Amba ador B o b Gelbard was cited ex ten ively with regard to the drug trade in M ex ico. Dick al o reponed char he ha created a c l in ically afe and effective drug for the treatment of p oriasis and that he is writing a book on kate sail ing . . . . Jack Friberg, a law yer in M anche ter, . H . , has two son : John graduated from Col gate and from Boston College Law School thi year, and Gre gory graduated from M idd lebury th i year and plans to attend New York M edical Coll ege . . . . Art Fulman was elected to the board of e lectmen of Concord, Mass., and l ikes deal ing with public pol icy i ue . However, he ay , "the process is often fr ustrating and very low. Clearly, pub l ic anger is not limited to our na tional leader ." He and h i wife biked in the Tam R iver Valley in France last ummer and will tour Maine and Vermont thi year. . . . Jan Stoddard Gagnon' hu band is currently on various interna tional assignment , so she will

A T

L A R G E

show chem the swamp, "her lat est pa ion." . . . Colleen Khoury, off rn Italy thi summer, ays she and Da\·id have been in a book group for ix year and have read a ho t of wonderful books . . . Nancy Saylor Kimball ha two daughters in college, one at Bares and one at Whearnn in I l li nois. Both rudied in France la ·t year, o Nancy anJ Bob mer them anJ toured southern France for two week.. vi iting place Nancy had been to in the '60s, then London, then Wale and finally Paris. Back home they had a young Pol ish woman staying with them during her intern hip at an HMO . . . . Ken Levy, president of Ea tern um ismat ics, I nc . , useJ the besr stamp on hi envelope! He re port , "returned to M a ine for the first time since graduation, vaca tioned in Bar Harbor ( yuck ! ) and K e n n e b u n kport ( h e a v e n on earth ) . Planning to go again this May." . . . As a professional work ing in the environmental field for 25 year , Bruce Lippincott has found that Free Market Envi ronmentalism by Terry L. A nder son and Donald R. Leal "offers a very different perspective about paying ro rectify env ironmental problems or avoid them in the future. Federal ub id ies, pork barrel projects and compliance fines are de-emphasized and free market economics are proposed. . . . I found thi interesting and certainly thought provoking." . J ack Lockwood, who travels a lot from home base in Hawa i i , went to Delaware for his father's 90th birthday in April and ro Papua ew Guinea, in M ay . . . . Marcia Phillips Sheldon says she enjoys teaching in an interme d i a t e schoo l , "a i m p l e , b u t meaningfu l , life." S h e sees Steve Schoeman from time to time. Ken and Ann Schmidt Nye were ex pected for a vi it, he writes, "and I talked ro CeCe Sewall Potter last ummer. Colby friends are like family." + Correspondent:

Richard W . Bankart

Retirements! Dan Dur gin retired a uperin tendent of chools in Kittery, M aine, i n J une 1 994 and, w ith wife J udy, enjoyed the winter

A U G U

1 9 9 5

C O L B Y

A L LI M N I

A T

L A R G I:

' _______

The campus never lookcJ hctrer' The h u i l J ing · were gleaming, anJ the trees gave our campus a true New England look . No longer can you see ScLHt Paper fr,)m the l ibrary steps nr the camrus from 1 - 9 5 . On Thursday night, ahout 1 6 of us gathered at t h e n o w Squ<d l restaurant in outh Por t land for a reception anJ d i n ner hosted by Tim and Adora Clark Hill. Plam changed du ring d i nner a� the planned boat excursion on Casco Bay on Friday became a p i c n ic ar rhe p i c t u resque Two L ightb State Park \ll1 the coa b t . Bill and S h irl e e Clark Neil, S u n n y Grigg Coady, Ruth and Harold Kowal, Rick and Nancy Winslow Harwood, Louise MacCubrey Robbins, Bob Rogers, Kay Parker Gordon, G loria and John Tewhey, John Cornell, Marcia Harding Anderson and others were srorted. Eliot Terborgh ;md R a nd Antik, who haJ arri ved too late f or d i n ner, joi ned u� fur t h e Friday p i c n i c . On Saturday, Marty Dodge l e d a Jmen o f u' in a morn i ng nature walk through the Colby pre·erve. Cnlhy profebwr Tom Morrione presented an update of hi; "Clllhy i n Perspec tive: 1 970 A-. a Turning Po i n t . " ince this was l 970's 2 5 th reunion, attendance wa good ;md aud ience participation l i vely. M ay - L i s an<l Jay Gronlund ret u rned with their bOn Peter. The ir daughter M e l issa, mak ing a college rour, joined us and tn<)k the opportu n i ty to talk w t t h Nancy Ryen Mnrrione i n L)l hy':-. Ad mi :<i<ms Departmen t . Yes, Caesar Seferian was there ( w i thout the Pllrschc) and so were reun ion T- ·hirt designer Chr is Brown and h b w i fe , Susa n . ( Re u n ion 1 99 5 T-sh irts a r c sti l l a v a i l a b l e , '> l l please c a l l t h e

Class of 1965

A l u m n i Relatiom Offi e i f y o u would l ike t o purchase a Clas of ' 6 5 ,h irt . ) A l so there were l a n k y Lew Krinsky a n d his wife, E l l e n , Charlie '6 3 ;md Pam Plumb Carey, Laura and M i k e Gilma n , Bob and J udy Eyges Da lton, Dnvid and Louise Melanson Belknap, Nancy and Arnie Repetto, N ick Locsin, R ich ard and Margo Beach Long, B i l l and Fran Holmes Varney, Arth ur Schwartz, Norman a n J J o s s Coyle Bierman , Linda Stearns a n d Terry a n d John Bragg. There were unconfirmed sight ings of J ohn Morri and Ned Baxter. Cla,, agen t Haro l d Kuwal pre en ted the reunion check of$ 1 44, 508 during rhe rarnde of c l asses fes r i v i t i e before the traJ i t ional lobster hake. Ou tgoing cla s presiJent Rick Davi an<l h is wife, G a i l , ha<l to ret urn f or a wedd ing and left the Sar urJay even i ng c l ass d i n ner in the ,ihle hands of v.r. Ginger Goddard Barne , who mtroduced our new pm,idenr , Bud Marv i n , anJ new v.p. Tim H il l . Tim al o become our repre c n ta t i ve ro the Alumni Cou nc i l , replac i ng Patti Raymond Thomas, who attenJed with her hubhan<l, Tom '6 3 . A our class d i nner in a banquet room off the olJ "pit" i n the l ibrary broke up, many c h1-.;mate mcide it over to the new pa, where the '90· had a l ive band. Our � unday hrunch w;;i-, i n the "new" pa. We had a W\)nderful r i me , hut we m is,e<l you ! ome t h i ng change: five gourmet coffee' are avat !Ctble at rhe new pa, Rummel i now G i fford's ( hut cone· were 25 cents on a turday1 ) , the Two Pen n y Bridge 1 , c l osed ( but y o u can n e a k through the fence ) . And some t h i ng don't: the pay phone < 111 econd floor Averi l l t i l l ha an "out of order" ign on i t ! H a i l , Colhy, H a i l !

-Richard W. Bankarr i n Bermuda. D a n does volunteer work with Rotary I n ternational and other civic organizations and restore antique cars. . . . Tim Hill has retired after 23 year as teacher/ adm i n istrator in the Yarmouth, Maine, chools and join h is wife, Adora (Clark ) , working at LL Bean. Look for Tim i n the men's department and Adora i n wo men's: "Great job---great company and wonderful pace of l ife-al lows us more t i me ro devote ro our avocations." . . . S t i l l working but looking at retirement properry in the desert is Tom Donahue. Tom and h is m ighty steed, Bubbles, can be spotted i n the Santa Monica mountains when Tom is away from his teacher/ad m i nistraror d u t ies at the Harvard-Westlake School i n N . H o l lywood, Ca l if. T o m i s spending the summer i n archaeo logical work w ith Pueblo I nd ian groups i n the R io Grande Val ley . . . . Marty Dodge continues as professor of conservation at Fin ger Lakes Com m u n i ty College in Can a n d a igua, N . Y . H i s course work has led to travel in the Costa R ican rai n forest, A laskan w ilder ness and, last J anuary, the Ever glades. He's a consu l t i ng forester who designs and constructs inter-

C O L B Y

A U G U S T

1 9 9 5

pretive nature tra i ls and i; a com pet i tor i n profes, i o n a l t i mber sports . . . . E l fie H i n t e r k o p f , Ph . D . , w a s selected to p r e ent a workshop on integrating sriri tu a l i ty i n counse l ing for the Ameri can Coun e l i n g A oc i a t i o n conference i n Denver last Arri! and for another conference in Germanyasyou read thi . . . . Kay Parker Gordon writes from her new apartment in Delaware, Ohio, where she is d i recrnr of the Dela ware County Board of E lect ions. She' in con ranr motion v i iring fam i l y in Boston, St. Lou is and Vermont. She occasionally sees Karen Jaffe Brown and her hus band i n New Concord, Ohio. . . . B o b Gordo n , a S p a n i s h teacher a r Columbus Academy i n Ohio, reports that he i "organiz ing a Columbus chapter of Gay Lesbian and Straight Teachers Network. Our main goal is to make schools safe for all students by fighting homophob ia. Exc i t i ng work ! " Bob and h is partner, Jack, report a "fantastic trip to Japan lasr summer." Bob saw Randy Holden d irecting an opera at the U of Louisv i l le . . . . Callie Kelley Gothard moved ro Cape N eddick, M aine, during the winter of 1 993

after earn ing a m a ter' from the U \)f l l l i nois and 1 now the emer gencydepartment manager at York Hospita l . Cal l ie enjoy long <li ranee bicycle trip , including one in Alaska in 1 990. he regrets mi sing our 30th a he'l l be at her daughter' college graduation . . Rod Gould, an attorney, pend h i profe ional time "cha ing the PLO for damages resul t i ng from rhe eizure of the Achille Lauro." He al o reports a ki ing vacation la r winter i n Vail-"hard l y a bone or muscle which does not ache a sure ign of old age ! " . . . Dave Hatch teache Spani h at Burling ton, Mas ., H igh. Dave volunteer his t ime for the Cy t ic Fibro i Fund and enjoys s k i i ng, boating and travel. . . . I 'm off to Crete and Rhodes as you read this . . We had fun at the 30th. Thank ro the reunion committee for an out randing job! +

Corresponden t : Robert Gracia

The mailbox i jam med every day. Spe cial thanks to those whose name begin with "B thru

)" ! . Marcella "Sally" Ray Bennett i a high chool guidance counselor i n outh K ing town, R . I . , and her husband, Charles, teache h igh school hi tory i n c i ruate, R . I . Daughter K irsti Morin teache Western Civ at the American chool of Kuwait, and twin ons Michael and Matthew Morin, both history majors, gradu ated from college in May. Sally has been very involved in staff devel opment and completed another M . Ed. from Providence i n econd ary admin istration . . . . Margaret Ann Cook i an adjunct profe sor of art at pringfield College. he ha two daughter , Alexandra, a jllllior at Smith, who i majoring i n m u ic and i principal flutist and pre identofthe m i th CollegeOr chestra, and Amy, a sophomore at W i l l i ron-Northampron school, who recently played Emily i n Our Town. A l l of us in education would agree with her comment that 'The journey is the Teacher. Pay atten tion ! " . . . After graduating from nur ing chool in 1 990, Roberta "Sookie" Stockwell Danielson i a staff nurse at the V .A. Hospital i n Togus, M a i ne. H e r son, Todd, is a grad student in c i v i l engineering at UTexa -Austin, and her <laugh-

A L U M N I

ter, Heather, i· at the Roche:ter Institute of Technology in the Early American craft man pro gram. The discovery proce s after divorcing in 1 99 1 has included buying a house, which she shares w ith her new boyfriend, Carl Weymouth, a dog and five cats, and participating in a mission trip to Puerto Rico . . . . Steve Dock has been recommended for pro motion m as ociate professor in the department of foreign lan guage and literatures at East Caro lina University. He has written a chapteron authentic costuming m Moliere' plays for a Modem Lan guage A sociation publication. Hi< wife, Carolyn Wilson, is an inter nal medicine physician who has her own practice in Greennlle, S.C. They and their Great Dane, Gillie, have recently purchased a vacation home on the coa,t L)f Maine, which they call "PieJ-a Terre sur Mer." Each summer they enjoy a \'isit with Anne and Dick Hunnewell in Plymouth, N .H Last Chri tmas Irv Faunce pro posed to Jan Collin , a chemistry and biology teacher at Biddeford High, and they rlanneJ to be mar ried on the rocks at Cape Porpoise this month! Irv's the executi\·e director and CEO of River RiJge, a brain injury rehabilitation cen ter in Kennebunk, Maine. He' also very proud of hi children: Kelly, a nurse a t Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center; Karen '90, a teacher in Fairlee, Vt.; Kasey, a freshman at UMaine-Orono; and Thoma , a eventh grader at Gardiner ( Maine) M idule School. . . . Alice Hubert Gardner is a p ychotherapist in Beverly, Mas . he has completed an advanced training with Harville Hendrix, the author of Getting the Lot•e You Wam: A Guide far Couples, and loves helping couple communi cate, deal with frustration and an ger and feel the pa ion again! Alice' husband, David, is a c ivil engineer. The ir son, Andrew, graduated from M iddlebury in June, and their daughter, Sarah, has one more year at UMass . . . . After years of s t u d y , M a r t y Glisennan, a profes o r o f English at Rutger , has completed his train mg as a rsychoanalyst. He com bined this study with hi love of literature to write The Body of the Text: Psychoanalysis, Language and the Novel, which will be publi hed

by University Press of Florida la ter this year. Marty, his 9-year-old son, icholas, and Marilyn Rye spend much of the summer in Maine . . . . Jean Ridington Gold fine is a social worker in home heaith care in Belfast, Maine. he has made Se\·eral recent trips to Europe, foc u · ing on Classical Greek and Roman ruin, , and had ju t returned from Sicily, where he enioyed seeing well-presef\"ed fifth century B.C. Greek temple by the sea . . . . After 1 0 years in the Fortune 500 corporate 1\·orld, Bud Graff, who lives in orfolk, Mass., left last year to wL1rk in a start-ur marketing efYices comrany. The PointGrourhas l l employeesand focuse on heiring cl ients find busine·5 111 new markets. He re ports that last year ll'as \·ery ·uc cessful and that he's up to his ears in Internet. H is llldesr daughter, a enior at Washington & Lee Unl\·ers1tv, 1s k1l)ki�g at federal la\\. enfor� emenr a� a career. and hi youngest daughter is working m reta i l ing and adj ust ing to the fact that the customer i al ways right. +

Eurore i n J une and v i its to San Diego, Canada and ew England. Bruce continue to do photogra phy, has won some a\\'ards and had some picture publ i�hed . . . . I n J u ly 1 994, Patricia Davis M u rphy , Ph.D., ronk a new po ition as di rector of lab operations with a start-up biotechnology company i n Ga ithersburg, M d . , Oncor Med, which peciali:es in DNA ba ed cancer testing. In her work, she LWersees rhe diagnostic lab, technology transfer, customer er \·ice and risk assessment. She finds it great fun to be in on the ground floor of such an exciting field. Son M ichael ( Colby '95 ) spent six month� in Ireland \1·ith the Colby in Cork prngram. She and hus band Donal \'tsired him in March 1 994 ( and discm·ered "Water \'ille" in County Kerry) . Pat i, greatly pleased to �ee daughter Lon following in her foot teps. She' a junior at Bmwn majoring 111 molecular biology . . . . Carol Jones O'Brien and her husband. Dennis. are both p<ychotherapists m pri\'ate practice in the Wash ingron, D.C. , suburbs. They have two children: Caitlm, 7, a second grader \\'ho's a great figure -kater and has a green belt in karate, and Andrew, 6, a kinderganener who l i kes hockey and wimm i n g . "We're managing t o keep o u r act together . . . I think1" ay Carol. . Rich ard Moriarty, M . D . , who' chairman of t h e depart ment of pediatrics at the ational Naval Medical Center in Berh e <la, Md. , was recently appointed program director for the fir t-ever joint Army-Navy pediatric resi dency training program. He also pa sed his certification exam in pediatric infectious diseases-and ·ay , "It is a real trip studying for such an exam at age 4 ! " Rick and wife Patty, a speech pathologi t, have a daughter and son: Colleen, 1 8, who just graduated from high school (and was offered admission at Colby), and R ichie, 1 5 , a fresh man and budding thespian and comedian. Rick sends his best to the rest of the class. +

Correspondent:

Marv J o Calabrese Baur

Thanks for all the news, cla smate-. I'll have to sa\'e some for the next column. Nancy Short Hall find her work a technology a ide at the M iddle School in Colchester, Vt., challenging. She continue her long involvement as a G irl Scout leader, and he and husband Wayne grearly enj oy square dancing two or three time a week-a terrific method ofstress management and exercise, say Nancy, and also a wonderful way to make friends at variou conven tions they attend. They have a on, David, who' a j unior bu iness major at U M aine-Orono and a very busy, bright daughter, Kristin, a h igh school jun ior. . . . Dr. Bruce McDonald, a ur geon in Au tin, Texas, describe his major lifestyle change since he and his partner merged with an other med i c a l - urgical group: more free t ime for relaxation, which he's putting to good use. He's enj oyed k i ing i n V a i l , windsurfing o n the coast and a dive trip to Mexico, two weeks in

Corre pondent:

Diane E. Kindler

A T

L A R G E

spon es to que tionnaire · I get a sen�e of what diverse and inter e -ring paths we've taken s ince lea\'ing Colby. The wor.t part, of course, is the deadline e\·ery few months, which precipitates flash backs to my knocking off papers on my trusty Smith-Corona at the last pos ible moment . . . . Kerry Hayes is a still photographer who has worked on films such as L?g ends of the Fall and obody 's Fool. Kerry li\'es in Toronto, Ont., with his wife, Maggie, and three chi l dren, A l i , Zoe a n d Piper. . Michael and Peggy Philson Foose li\'e in Virginia with Tara, 1 0, anJ Michael, 7. M ichael ( the elder ) , a geologist, has tra\'eled recently to Saudi Arabia, Erhioria, Mornccn and Mali among other intere·ting places . . . . Warren Hel ler , an at torney in Milford, Mass., is the first male pre ident of the board of director· of his local \'t tt ing nurse a sociation and rhe proud "father" of his n icely named dog, Colby. . Dave Demer is the father of t h ree da u g h t e r s , E m i l y , 2 0 , Jeannie, 1 9, and Katie, 1 6 . Da\·e is a teacher and writes that he lo\'ed coaching high school var ity girl-' soccer la -t year. . . . Susan ( Doten '70) and Larry Greenberg li\'e in Hastings-on-Hud on, N.Y., with their two teenage sons. Larry, an international economi t, vaca tioned in London with his family earlier this year . . . . l had the op portunity to peak with Laurie Killoch Wiggins, who describe the year following our reunion as "just as crazy" as the year before. Laurie, Ines Ruelius Altemose, their husband and Paul Wielan got together in New York City to see the Cirque du Sole il, which Laurie describe as magnificent. . . . Response to my question of what flashes to mind when you hear of Colby included the library c lock a n d fra tern i t y p a r t i e s ( M ichael Foo e ) , t h e beautiful campus and Maine winter ( Larry Greenberg), the smell of both spring (Warren Heller) and beer ( Rick Frantz) and finding (fu ture) wife Cheryl Moriarty '70's lost contact lens out ide Dana H a l l on the ir first date ( B ud Higgins ) . Our memorie are rich and wonderfully varied. Please stay in touch. +

The best part of being class correspondent is that through your re-

A U G U

1 9 9 5

CO L B Y

A I

M N

A T

A R

(; l:

The Seventies 1 9 79

Correspondents:

Rohen Ki nney 2 9 1 1 Edgehill Dmt.: Alcx.md r1a, VA 2 2 10 2 - 2 5 2 1

1 9 70

70\-8 36-4 2 2 7

Clme 6602 Loch H d \ Road Bci l t 1 mnrc , MD 2 1 2 39- 1 644 S t e \' e n

1 97 1

C, 1rre'p( 1ndc n r ·

N ancy Hammar ALNl ll 2 9 I rvmg treet •5 Wnrcc,ter, MA 0 1 609 508- 7 9 7 -4 7 1 I 1 972

J anet H olm Gerl�er 1 1 1 1 2 Broad Green Dm-c Pnromac, MD 2 08 5 4 3 0 1 - 2 99-6240

1 97 3

Margaret Mc Partland Bean I ) I Dudley Street Presque ble, ME 04 769-29 1 ) 207- 768-602 1

1 97 4

Shel ley Bieri nger Rau 1 2 3 l lotel Road Auburn, ME 042 1 0 207 - 7 8 3 -0829 1 97 5

N a n Weidman A ndcnrn 806 Partritlge Circle Golden, CO 8040 3 1 976

N oel Barry tella 2 8 Stuart Place Westfield, MA 0 1 08 5 4 1 3 - 562- 5629 1 97 7

Leslie A. Ramsay 44 Appleton Street Manchester, NH 03 1 04 603-647-87 1 2 1 97 8

N icholas Levimow 1 02 0 1 Forest Grove Drive Si lver Spring, M D 20902- 3949 3 0 1 -68 1 - 3 3 2 7

C O L B Y

A U G U S T

a nc y Hammar Austin

1 9 9 5

Frrnn the mo't rccl'nr cl . 1 " ' l l l"\'L'Y I h , 1\'e the f, ,l lnll' l llg ne1v,. teve Dane .111d h 1 , "' 1 fe , J oel " re c e n t l y tn( 11Td t'' '' 1 70 7 1·m rnge home l,>c ;H ed l ll rhe he;1 rt , , f M .ir blchead\ lw. tPrtc ,lt, t nc l . A ft e r complet ing mai nr n:nt •1«H 1 on , , , te1T llTltL''• "\\'e c\,,n't own rh1.., h,1me, H nwn' u , . " . . . N a n c y Neckes D u m art 11'<1' recently promoted t,1 the p( b l [ ton nf o"1' r ant area d 1 recrnr nf t h e M 1ddle,ex We,t Area Office, Dep;1mnent of Mental R e t a rd;mnn ( 1\ here J oan K;it: '70 1 , the area direc tor ) . Her 'Pt'LN� . Bruce ' 7 2 , i,, a 'itllckhroker with Dean Witter in Worce,ter. They ha1·e two chil tl re n , C a l e b , a fresh m a n a t Fra n k l i n Pi erce College, and Cl ark , a busy 3 year old . . . . Roc k y C lark, a landscape tie s igner nn Cape Cod, has taken the opportunity to travel more than 3 ,000 mile in earch ofgreat gardens. He write that he was inspired by seeing for the first time ome remarkable Southern gardens fi lled with palm tree , fo u n t a i n anti bouga i n v i l l e a . Rocky has four chi lclren: arolyn, 1 7 , Tim, 1 4 , Keith, 1 2 , and Anna, 9. He writes, "they are an impor tant part of my life and 1 marvel at what good, involved and inde pendent people they are." . Tom Ellis now 1 i ves in Longmont, Colo. , and is engaged to Kri Hayne . Together they own and operate a vintage race car resto ration business. They are rai ing

" 6-ycar-old hoy, Tat�uo . . Mark Chamberlain I '> a , o u t h Berwic k, M,imc, po l i ce officer. I le imd h" wi fe , l !chorn h , a nur'>e, h a 1·e two children , Mat thew, 9, and J ll">t in, 7 . Mark plan' to fur1 hcr h 1 ' ed ucation by attcndmg \,1w ,d1rn d . . . . Prufe..,.., , ir Bill imon:, 'ent a complete ;mJ 1 111 pre">'I \ c u pd ,n e on h1 I 1fc "> l llCC h1, ;i..,.,1,t;lllt prnfe..,.,l lr'>h1r cldy>. I le\ n< 111· , 1 full profc,,nr m the h1,rory dcp;1rrment . 1 1 , Y m Oneon t . 1 . . Y . H i' work, w h i c h l llcludc' '>e\'er;d p u h \ 1 hed 1r r1c lL'">, ho,)k n.:l'1c11·, and lectu re;, ,1, well . 1 , p,irt 1c 1 p;l t 1 o n at confer ence , dea\, \\' t t h American "><l c 1<1\ h 1 , r ory, e t h nic "> t ud1e and ,port'> hi,wry. A n< H ecl 'reaker , ,n t h<.: ,uhiect pf h a, e h all , Bill " t < 1 'P e ; 1 k <It the orman Rockwell Mu,cum m ,'tnckbndge, Ma-,-. . , I ll Augu'-l. In 1 992 h e received rhc Mec k l e r Award for fh,ebnl l Wrttmg a n d Rc-,earc h . T h e New York S ta t e Father\ Right, A >n c im ton <rn <Hded him Father of the Year in 1 990 . . . . Ch arl i e Co lg an , a'�oc i,ne rrofe�;,nr of puhl1c policy at the M u;,kie In ti t u te , Uni versity nf Southern Maine, reports that Howie Yate was a member of the Leatler hip M a i ne c l a· that Charlie d1rected for th M a ine Development Foundation. Howie i::. VP at Bath l n m WMks . . . . Ann Bryant i pra c ticing imm igration law in Wa·hington, D.C., and finds her po ition a adj unct law profe sor a t Georgetown the newest and most excit ing challenge in her busy life (except for rediscover ing ki ing after 20 year ! ) . She's married to Roy Wyscaver, an economi t with the U . . Trea sury Department. They have an 8-year-old on, Taylor, and a 4year-old daughter, Meredith . . . . Please return your questionnaire to me as oon a you receive it so that 1 have some interesting and new news for the next i sue. Thanks for your support and en-

couragcment a n t i , a> always, B e Brnve. + orre�pondcnt:

hel le y Bieringer Rau

Many thanks to tho e of you who respontled w the mo t recent mai l l llg. It may he a while before you read ahnut your elve -I'm '>till \\'orkmg on the volumes I received la.,t '>ummer anti fa l l ! . . Michael M c amara i s a n at torney m Prnnt Plea ant, N.J., ;.i nJ h " wi fe, J oyce, teache French and pani h. Their fam i ly mcl utle two 5om, John and Andrew , and a golJfi h, un �hme. Mike t active in St. Dom tn1c Church, the Dtoce e of Trenton and the Bar Associa tion. He wt he he were itting tn front of a Maine lake reading a gond hook, and he wi he he weren't aging. He probably has lot'> of company for that wi h ! . . . S . Ann Earon married Rob ert Jame Meli tn March. They are l iving in Kendall Park, N .j . , where Ann i group vice presi dent of l nfotech Consulting, Inc. Rohen is a chief engineer with J ohn on & John on . . . . Mary ann Sartucci Andrew write from Lakewood, Colo., where she i staff development officer for the Jefferson County Publi c Li brary ystem. Her husband, John, i a telecommunications engineer with U West Communication . They have no k ids but do have a 1 00-pound Berne e mountain dog, Hansel. Maryann is busy with work, collecting Lladro and na tivity figures, traveling to national park -and trying to get rid of 20 lb . She feel not old . . . but not young either. She w i hes she were pur uing a ma ter' degree and al o taking more time to do noth ing. ( I 'm not sure those two things go together, Maryann. ) . . . Spen cer Wright currently is living in

A L U M N I

. reu nio

_____ __

Twenty-five years and still kickin' ! That w a the theme for the Class of 1 9 70's 2 5 th reunion and the absolutely fantastic T-shirt Chip and J udy Kelly Lord had designed for us. (Adult Reunion 1 995 Clas of '70 hirrs are till available, so please call the Alumni Relations Office if you would like to purcha e one . ) And j ust like the Colby mule, we kicked up our heels all weekend. The weather wa- perfect, and there were no permanent inj uries of which we are aware. TI1e campus is the same yet different. There are more buildings, the trees are taller, and the "new dorms," which served a our reunion headquarter , are now known a H i l l ide and have tairs thar have grown much reeper over the years and bathroom fac i litie for only one gender per floor. The weekend tarted off on Thursday evening with some 2 0 - 3 0 c la smates attend ing a reception a n d barbecue di nner ar t h e Wood land Country Club in Fa lmouth ( Maine, that i ). Th is was just a warm-up for the next day. On Friday morning, Phil Wysor, Peter Gilfoy, Ben Kravitz and Ste\·e Anderson '69 ( c la president Debbie Williams Anderson' h usband ) played the champion hip Woodlands golf course. At the turn they received a spec ial telegram from Phil Norfleet from an Diego. Thank - to Barbara Skeats MacLeod and Molly Carroll Ray for mak ing the event ar the Woodlands happen. On Friday afrernoon a large contingent took a leisurely cruise on Ca co Bay. Actually, it was two c ru ises-the fir t lasted about two minute as Ray and Cheryl Dineen Soon were potted running dL1wn the dock too far away to make the leap. W ith the oons afely on board, the second c ru ise lasted quite a bit longer. We thank Lee Doggett for the informative narration about the Ca co Bay e tuary projects. ome eal were potted, a were Bob Fa! ani and J ohn Fochs '7 1-in the parking lot ! Rumor has it that Gary Hobbs i sriU looking for them. The festivities moved to campu on Friday n ight. randing around drinking beer and exchanging Storie about our live and kids brought back memorie . What, Colby u ed to h.we fraterni ties ? Can anyone define parietal ru les ? Our reu n ion activities on aturday began with the parade ofclas e and the pre enration of a c heck for over 6 1 ,000 to the College from the Class of 1 970. Th is represents more than twice a much as our c lass gave the College last year. Congratulations to Buz Brown and h i crew for a j ob well done. After the cla s cookout by J ohn on Pond, our afternoon revolved around athletic and academ ics-just l ike when we were in c hool ! The oftball game wa fun. W i l l we have enough able bodies to do it again in five year ? The sem inar "Colby in Perspect ive: 1 970 A a Turning Point" was informative and exciting. Profe or Tom Morrione '65 opened a d ialogue with all in attendance and reinforced what we all know: that tho e trying times we all l i ved through and partic ipated in were i mportant then and have had an impact that keep them important srill today. Starting with the "vegetable invocation" provided by The Rev. Peter Foss, the highl ight of the weekend was the class dinner on aturday n ight. The sl ide show and accompanying narration was a lot offun and proved to one and all that Debbie Hawks Kelley is, without a doubt, the brave t member of our class. The trivia contest rested aging memories, and then there were the awards. Anne Peterson and Phil Wysor, looking l ike they j ust stepped our of"Faces and Places," were the cla mate who changed the least, with Todd Smith a c lose runner-up. Nonna Rivero d e Bienneyer, who traveled to and from Venezuela, was edged out by Cheryl Dineen oon, who never had to leave the country

A T

L A R G E

Class of 1970

(even though h e came from Hawa i i ) a the c lassmate who traveled farthest to attend the reunion. Debbie Williams Anderson won the award for mo t children attending Colby ( two ) , and Paul Roud had the younge t child, a 2 year old. The most appropriate award, the Bened ict Arnold award-for deserting the Clas of 1 970-went to Colby Brick recipient ari Abu l-J ubein '69 . Andy Starkis did a great job as emcee. We laughed loud and long at Doug Smith's stories of "Doggie" Dore and Debbie ( not Anderson) W i l l iams' account of the Benj amin Burler spoon . Other c lassmate attend ing the reunion inc luded: Bruce Abrams, B ill Aldrich, Debbie Anderso n , Debbie W i lliams Anderson, Greg Andrews, Chicki Barnes, Mike Bask i n , Chris Beerits, Wayne Blanchard, Peter Bogle, Liz Belding Borchers, Waneta Adams Browne, Jeff Carty and Sandra Haimila, Susan Maxfield Christo pher, Lee Clarke, Steve and Laura Struckhoff Cline, Nancy Costello, Sue Costello, Robin Armitage Cote , Ron Di Orio, Walter Effron, Martha Alden Ellis, J ohn Fochs '7 1 , Linda Marsh Foss , Sharon Eschenbeck Friedler, Lynne Stone Gallagher, Peter G ilfoy, Andy Gilson, Sue Doten Greenberg, Marlene Goldman, Linda Gulbrandsen Goldsmith, Pat Gerroir, Alison Harvey, Andy and Sandy Holler Hayashi, Barry Hurwitz, Carol Lewis J e n n i ngs, Debbie Sugarman J odziewicz, Ken and Brenda Hess Jordan, Joanie Katz, Paula Crowley Kaveney, Gail Cuatto Kilgour, Martha Belden Kleinerman, Chip and J udy Kelly Lord, Peter Lowell, J udith Sm ith Lucarel l i , Karen Knapp Lyons, Sarah Vose Mac kenzie, Barbara Skeats Macleod ,

reve '7 1 and Debbie Fitton Mansfield, Jacky D ingwall McClean, Ann McEwen, Cynthia Wallace McKee, El inor Bartel Miller, Kathe Cahn Morse, N ick i Pach, J eff Parness, J im and Eileen Boerner Patc h , Lorraine Gill-Pazaris, Kit Wells Polan d , J eanne Tarrant Polese, Anne Pomroy, Molly Carroll Ray, Kathy Hill Revett, Paul Roud, Alice Ryen, Sherry Anderson Scherer, Hazel Parker Smith, J ohn Sobel, Peter Spindler and N ancy Costello, Bev Foster Stevens, Lynne Stinchfield, Beth Ryerson Stinson, Libby Brown Strough, Sarah Owen Tabor, Dan Timmons, Maureen Vaughn Ulevich, Buzzy Files Vigue, Donna Sundeen Wheeler, Jane Stinchfield Willett, Donna Mason W i l l iams, Chip Wood, Mark Zaccaria.

A pec ial thanks ro o utgoing c la pre ident Debbie W i l l iam Ander on and her commi ttee for a job well done, and an exrrapec ial thanks to M arlene Goldman and Donna M ason W i l l iams for putt i ng together our 2 5 th reun ion yearbook. Cla s officers for the next five years are Joan ie Karz, president, Ph i l Wy or, vice president and A l umni Counc i l representative, and Steve Cline, secretary/ trea urer. Among tho e unable ro attend was aspiring screenwriter Cathy Pagano. Did you ever wonder if she' thought of c asting c las mate for upcoming roles? How about a remake of the Wizard of Oz but updated to the 1 990 ? I magine Elaine Treworgy J acques as a modern day Dorothy, Ed Bogh a the carecrow, Ben Bradlee a the l ion and Chris Woessner a the tin man. Can't you j ust p ic t u re Frank Danieli as the wizard and Cheryl Moriarty Higgins a the good wirc h 1 I could make my screen debut a a bearded cross dres er in the dual role of El ira Gulch and the wicked witch ( eat your heart our R u Paul ! ) . It cou ld happen, you know. If you don't want to ee more "d id you ever wonder" reporting, plea e end me information o that we can have a c l as column in every i sue of the magazine. -Steve Cline

A U G U

1 9 9 5

C O L B Y

'\ I

l l �I

1\ T

L A

R l, I

S yd ney , A u , r r,d i a . t in a t wo-ye:i r

;i,,ignment w 1 d1 l n t c rl eaf, <l f i r m

'e l l i nt.: h1gh-eml e l ec m 1 n i c ruh l 1 , h 1 11 g a n d document ma nage ment , , , ft w a rc

act ive in

He',

mu, 1 c , ofc1 1ur,e , ' l llgmg w i r h t he

Ph i l h a rnw n i a Ch o i r . He 11c rfn rm ed rhe Bri r ten \Var

Syd n c \

R c: q in c m ,

cund uueJ

d c W a a r r . ;111d rnurcJ

Edo

V erd i \ Re

quiem ll' i t h Luci;mo P.warut t i a' su l u 1 <; t . He\ en;11\ m g t h e he e r '

,rnJ 11· m e'

of A u s t ra l i a a nd 11•,i,

J , 1o k i n g forward tu 'c uha di1 i n g

t h e G r e a r B n r r i e r R L· e f. . . Diana W a r e rou s Centorino 1s a l u a -,inger, h u ,y w i t h N m·:1

S in ge r'> , I n . , I ll S, 1 u 1 h F l , > r id , i .

She l i 1· es 1 11 F r . La u d e rd a l e 11 i r h her h u , h a n d , Jo,qih . Rl1th , i re attorney,. They ha1·e three c h i l d re n, M ichael , 1 3 , V1L tnn.1, 1 1 , :mJ Sc1 1 t t , ) , and a J, 1g, c i t ,rnd

parn k eer.

The 11er-, r e 11 re'L' n t

the

"fund c h a i n . " . . . Robin Hamill I> n11w l i 1· i ng i n

Ch,1rlotrewdle ,

She i' c on t 1 n u mt.: tti 11·,,rk <1' an M . D. srec ial 1:i ng in a n e , t h e Va.

' i a and c r i t ic a l rn re . Her h1m d y

mc l udes J ohn, 1 3 , Laura, l l , <rnd Jamie, 6. Thl'y h;i1·e t11·,1 h l a c k l a h -. , a c a t ; i n d sume rn n c h e , , , 1 n t ' and hou,efl ic.. he sruke a t the American A ssnc i a 1 inn for Respi ratory Care in Cancun la,t Ocro ber. She wi ·he� ,he were la: mg on her 80-foot yacht a n d that she were nor c o o k i n g , c l e a n i n g , plumbing, ere. arrer '7 3 and Rachel Hyman Zervas are living in Lan downe, Pa. R a c h e l is a speech therapist and Caner an arri t. They have a d a ug h t er, Claudia, 6, and rwo cats and a dog. Rachel finds working ar a school for deaf children ro be chal lenging and exc i t ing. They a t tended Carter's 2 5 th h i gh chool reu n ion last summer and came away fee l i ng defi n i t e l y middle- aged after dancing a l l n ight . . . . An o l d friend, Larry Kominz, sent a long, newsy letter from Portland, Ore., where he is a professor of Japanese language and l i terature. H is fam i ly includes his wife, Tosh imi Tanaka, Leo, 6, and Maya, 3. He keeps busy with Kabuki theater and classical Japa nese dance . Larry has not been back to M aine since graduation day 1 974 ( Larry, how can you stand i t ? ) but has traveled fre quently to Japan for work and to visit fam i ly. He writes that both

C O L B Y

A U G U S T

1 9 9 5

NEWSMAKERS In this pring's America' up ra c e , Tom Whidden '70 once again c a l led race tact i cs in the cockpit o( Denni Conner' Stars & Stri/)es . . . . Peo/)le m ag az ine featured Charle "Chip" Alt holz ' 7 1 , co- i nventor ll( The Timi i� Life lock, a digital c lock that count� down the amount of t l !ne l ft on mortgage and t u i t ion p a ym e n t s-a wel l a� how long a n ind l \·idual ha left on E a r t h . . . . Michael Roy ' 7 4 , town man ager of Vassalhoro, M a in e , for the la>t l 1 year�. has created a new let ter for rhe Va <1lhoro community to provide update on local event and future plans . . . . Bo t o n pamter A n n Bicknell Chri ·tenscn '74 serveJ a' th e ; uwr f or the N orth R i ver A m, Soc iety show in Marshfield H i l l Vil lage, Ma-.� . . . . Karen H e ck ' 7 4 . co -c ha ir of Maine Choice CtM lit 1on, e lected the pro - choice member� uf an e i g h r -per,on panel that w i l l repre ,en r both ides of the abortinn 1s,uc and create a phm for decrea,mg the temi1>n> hetween pmte>tors and c l ients at abortion c l inic• . . . . Michael Cantara ' 7 5 , f o r me r mayor of Biddeford, Mame, .md now York 'ounty d i,tric t attorne) , ha been e lected to the H igh Court nf A,,oc i a t 1on C a naJ o Americame, t he Franco-American tratemal benefit soc iety. He i oins 18 tither men and wumen fnim cw England and Eastern C; mada on the board of d i rector, . . . . Drawing' and c u l pt u re. by Chri. Duncan ' 7 5 were nn d Lplay ar the Canajohar i e Library and Art Gal ler) 111 A m terJ;1m, .Y . . . . J oyce Smith ' 7 5 Joined FP Prod uction, a new theatrica l company in Waten·il le, Maine, that w i l l expand the \':mety of .hows pre cnred loca lly . . . . David Ar enault '76, he11d coach of the men's ba kethall team at Grinne l l ti l iege, was featured in Iowa newspaper for the run-and-gun tyle of play that moved hb team near the tor among the nat wn's coring lea<ler . . . . A ttorney Jane Linge McDonough ' 7 ioi ned the di trict a ttorney' _ taff in uffolk Count\, M a _ . . . . Brian Hoffman '79 jl1ined the in ternational law firm of McDe rmitt, Will & E me r y a· partner in it corporate department i n N ew York.

MILEPOSTS Births: A daughter, Genevieve Moore, to Lou i and Cynthia

Piggott Bacon '7 9 .

I'>

-,r i l l playing hockey in the

o ve r- 30s

. . A daughter, Courtney Ro e, to Carol

and Bob Keefe ' 7 7 .

chi ldren a r e b i l i ngua l . . . . I 'm about out of pace. Hope this summer has found each of you hea lthy and happy! + Correspondent:

Susan Gearhart Wuest

As this is my 2 3rd ( ! ) and final column, I am inc l ud i n g everyone whom I heard from recently. Hope I haven't forgotten anybody . . . . I n her home in Auburn, Maine, Patricia Clark Estes has opened a polarity therapy practice, Wood-

bury H i l l Polarity. Patti d e cribe polarity therapy a "a very ooth ing form of gentle body work, as well a a natural health care ys tem." he and husband kip have one daughter and three ons be tween the ages of 1 1 and 19 and are home chooling their 14 year old . . . . Barbara Miller Deutschle continues to home chool their 9year-old on, Chris. This year Barb hopes to be able to adopt their foster child, Sky, who has been in the ir c a re for two years . . . . Herrick "Rick" Drake writes that h is career move to College Sav ings Bank has gone wel l and that

league (which inc ludes Paul E1chelroth ' 8 3 ), though Rick think' that he might need to move ur lo " o ve r - 4 0. " hefore long. . . . Out i n cnm<lale, Ariz. , Jef frey Frankel I '> the vice president of legal and mtemanonal Jepart menh of MicroAge, Inc. He feel that he 1-; having I 0 year ' worth of ac ompli'>hment in one year: marrymg la>t Apri l. mheriting an 8-year-old un and planning to fr n i sh hi, M . B . A . in J anuary 1 99 6 1 • • • Pamela Simpkins Gothner a n d fa m i l y moved to R 1dt.:ef1eld, Conn., last February. Pam and hu,hand Van arc parents to K<He, 5, an<l Emma, l , whom t hey adopted when sh e was �ix week- o lJ . When Pam wrote me, t he y had JU'>t moved and ,he wa l oo k mg forward to emptying all thtN' hoxes ! . . . In H igh land, Y., Robin Urner Whitebay was verv happ i l y remarned in March and b now part-time tepmom of Cortne� . 9, and Mathew, 5. he and hu,band Ph i lip honeymooned in Costa Rica, where "the beaches, iun g lt: , an<l acti\'e volcanoe a l l c o mhm eJ f or a wonderful adven nm:." Rnhin feel' fortunate to be one of the lucky few 111 the mid Hu<l)1lll Valley 'rill employed by I BM , where she is bu ine rela t1om.h1p manager. . . . Sim-Kuen Chan Gregory is kept bu y and challengt:d a a full-time home schoolino mom and wife. Their olde t daughter, V. Mei-N ing, just fi111shed her fir t year at Wheaton College ( I l l inois) Conservatory, majoring in piano performance as well as in wind ensemble. The other three children, Peter, 1 4, S. Mei- hen, 1 2 , and David, 9, play musical instruments. im ha re di covered the love of learning through tutoring Peter and home schooling the two younger ones. . . Mary Bastron Harper gave up practicing law to become "chief chauffeur and domestic engineer" in August 1 994, when they bui l t a new hou e that took almost a year to complete. Husband M ike '76 is a neurologist at the Mayo Clinic. Mary enjoyed playing USTA ten ni and competing last year for a local athletic c lub, and then took up golf last summer because it is M i ke's favorite summer act iv ity. She only wishes that the bal l were a l ittle bigger! TI1eir three chil-

A L U M N I

dren, N ick, 1 2, Sarah, 1 0 , and Caitlin, 4, are very involved in arhleric and m u ic . . . . Your rruly and family vi ired Washing ton, D.C., over Easter break. A beautiful c ity to visit, though a ve ry crowded week wirh busloads of school groups. We met up wirh Major Peter B. Coz in Alexan dria, Va., where he is now living and where we even managed to fit in a trip to the local ice rink. Pere had j usr closed on a house, which he i now busy renovating in hi spare r i me . . . . I have really en joyed being your c las correspon dent for the pa t five years. Hearing from all of you nic e people who k ept me suppl ied w i t h n e ws brought back o many memories of Colby and helped me relive my youth! I t's been fun. Thanks! + Correspo ndent : Noel Barry Stella

One of rhe best storie I 've heard in a long while came from Jen-

reun

ny Frutchy Ford last ummer. It seems thar, on the very day of her 40th birthday, she was carded. Even afrer looking c losely, the checkout person at Star Market didn't believe Jenny. What's the addres ofthatstore aga i n ? Jenny's children are 5 and 7 and have j oined Jenny in her love of kiing and swimming. Jenny rows a single cull on the Charles River and is an active volunteer in the public schools. Ed Ford has cen back and forth to Jakarta with Harvard's Center for I n ternational Devel opment this year. Jenny reported that Pam Came i in Bueno Aires . . . . Scott Butchart was married last A ugust to Christine Frit: in Ches t n u t H i l l , M ass. Among the guests was L y n n Thommen. c o t t h a s b e e n in the trenc hes teach ing French and Spanish for the lasr 10 years at Broo k l i n e H i gh S c h o o l . Among the respondents t o the fal l questionna i re was Nancy Anderson, who wrote that he and Graham Kisl ingbury are the parents of two girls, Anna, 4, and

Li a, 8 . Nancy is a graphic artist by profession but currently is par enting full time-joining lots of our classmate a a volumeer in our children ' schools and our communities . . . . CandaceCamp bell, of Great Falls, Va., i the executive director of the Ameri can Preventive Medical As ocia tion. She wrote that the APMA is the advocacy organization for doc tor and others who use alrerna tive/n utritional therapies. Her organization recently helped pass the dietary supplement bill, which dramatically affects the way the FDA regulate vitamin , herbs, etc. Her oldest son graduated from college in May and plan to be come a chiropractor. Son Graham is entering college in September. . l also received a note from Ann Beadle, who l ives in New H a mpsh ire with her h usband, Gary M illen '74, and 1 3 -year-old daughter, Meredith. Ann' l ife ha become even more challenging with her promotion to chief infor marion officer at U N U M in Port land, M aine. Ann wrote that her

_____

A T

L A R G E

family joined Julie Cassidy and her daughter, Cara M ia, for a h ik e up M t . Chocorua last summer. . Karen Smith Clark went back to school full time to become a nurse midwife. She is j uggling school with parenting Sarah, 9, Molly, 4, and ( canine ) Abby, l. Karen and her husband, Fred, reside in North Reading, Mass. . . Speaking of o b s tetric s , Peter Labombarde shared the joyful announcement that he and I rene are the proud parent oft:wins. Evan and Jocelyn were born in October 1 994 anJ join the ir ister, Karherine, at home in Nashua. Peter's final com ment is poignant: "We look for ward to our next trip to Colby, which will probably be for our 20th-to rhink we came to rhe 1 5th with a dog, and a few years later we have three kid . . . 1 Life is odd, and so wonderfu l . " . Becca Guild wrote that she and her family recently returned from visiring fam ily and friends in Swit zerland and Germany. Becca and her husband, Kevin Jenness, have two children, Charles and Loui a.

Class of 1975

With the wonderful weather arranged by kept reunion headquarters staffed and provi Colby's director ofalumni relation and fellow ioned wh ile also providing before-and-afrer cla smare Susan Conant Cook as well as the pictures using Polaroid c and ids mounted again t vintage "Faces and Places" photos. ha rd work by the reunion committee, the Class of '75 was treated to a spectacular Maine The c la s d inner featured talk from fac ulty guesrs M iriam Bennett, J im M eehan weekend for their 20th reunion. More than 70 and Charle Basseu. Becau e outgoing pre i members ofthe class plus spouse , children and guests renewed old friend hips. After parad i ng d en t Gene CeLorenzo wa unable to ar tend, incoming c lass president Boyd "Byrd " to the football field in the T - shi r ts d esi gned by Allen e mceed the d inner. He a lso revi ited Janet Hans e n- the College has a supply of last reunion' award w i n ners. The Cal ifor adult and youth Reunion 1 99 5 T-shirt still n i a contingent of Libby Piper Deschenes available, so please call the Alumni Relations and Kevin "Onions" Manion tied fo r d is Office if you would l i ke to purchase one tance traveled, since M a j. P e t e r Coz is classmates applauded class agent (and chief p u ll ing a staff assignment i n the Was h in g arm twister) Susan Staples-Smith as she helped ton, D.C., area. Otherwise, the former win kick off the College's new capital campaign by ners maintained their standing : John Al l a n presenting President Cotter with the third still has his old truck running, Doug Schwarz largest check from all of the reunion classes. Don B uckl e y , Dave White and his wife, is rumored to s t i l l have h is pet snake, and Lunch on the Foss-Woodman lawn (com- S ha ron, and C ind y Hadden Rother. Binky Cammack C losmore broke her own plete with make-your-own-sundaes) also fearecord by having another child, raising the total to six. Danci ng and tured faculty emeriti Peter Re, Archille Biron, Bob Kany, Ed Turner hanging out w i th classmates rounded out the even ing. and M iriam Bennett and former President and Mrs. Strider. The Eleanor "Woofie" Fleming Amidon takes over as class v ice afternoon included guided tours of the new Winslow Homer and president and A lumni Council representative from John Orefice, and Oriental carpet exhibits at Bixler, a congregation of beer coolers and Nan Weidmann Anderson w i l l fo l low up on the excellent work of cocktails on the front lawn of Foss, sports activities ( i nc luding the Susan Gearhart Wuest as class correspondent. The new class officers, famed J im Cousins- Don Buckley tenn i match ) and general catching along with the promised help of Rick Drake, w i l l form the nucleus of up on memories. the next reunion planning committee. So be there for the 2 5 th and be Paul Hatton orchestrated an impressive turnout by the DKE part of the reunion thar closes our the century. I n the meantime, keep contingent, who together managed a qu iet reminiscence from a the news coming in to N an . familiar vantage point. L i kewi e, the old Ba ement Woodman crowd reconvened atop the water tower. Diane Billington Stronach ably

-Boyd Allen

A U G U

1 9 9 5

C O L B Y

\ l l

�I !'< I

\ T

I J; l ; l

. . . Wl' lwarcl fmm Da v id Kavan

p la nn i ng nur 20t h re u n i on , to he

augh rece n t l y . I l e and lw, w i f e ,

h e l d i n J un e

N1 lrccn, h a 1 · c r h ree you n g M Hl'

e r ;., ll' i l l b e contac t in g m<my o f yuu

, i nd rc,idc L il N eedham, M ass .

tn a > k for help. Ple<hC wri t e m call

1 ), 1 \' i J I ' d

r . 1 x L 1wy er . Th,mb f, , r

1 996. O ur c la

s uffic

if you h a 1 · c id eas f m t h e re u n i on . +

w r i t lllg, Da\' 1d 1 . . . Andy Glee

man abn rnnk t i m e tu w r i te . I le m fo r rn c d u' t ha t he ;md h i, wi fe, Re t h , ha\'e <1 " 'n cmJ ::i dau ght e r n ow a nd >t i ll rc ,1de L i l Fa i rfie ld ,

Cnn n . . . . K i m Koza Harris f ig ures t h;H ,he h a > n ' t wr i t t e n w u'

for at lea > t 10 ye a r>. Kim and her h usha nd , M ichael, are hot h t each er> a t Ce ntral College i n Pe l l a , Iowa. T he i r f a m i l y i n c l ude, t11·0

hoy,: Le c h , 1 0, a nd Will, 4. ln r h e years > i nce we l a > t >aw K i m . 'he c om p l e t ed hc'r Ph . D. m E ng l 1 ,h m I nd i a n a U n i 1· e r ;.. 1 t y a n d t h e n

t a u gh t at Rol l i n ' C 1 ll e ge he fL1re re l1ica t mg to a ",;mer l ife " i n l oll'a . The H arri > f a m i l y ha, t aken ad l'anrage llfCenrral c,1J le gc \ ,rud y a h ro acl p rngra m i n M e x ic o a n J ho pe > to tral'el to Ch ma soon . . . . I n the 'P<Ke in t he que>t innna1rc where one mdica te> the occ u pa uon ofone', spou,e, Mark Helmus wrnte "optometrt>t/w1fe e x t rnnr d inaire . " We a l l k n ew that M a rk , , <1 p e rc e pt i l' e g uy! . . . The nll ege inform me th<H i t ,, t i m e tn begin

Corrc>p n ndcn t :

Les l i e A . Ramsay Mered ith Bean E l e y l e t me k now of the h i n h of h e r 'e c o nd

ha h y ho y , Bcniw11m Rean E l e y, horn A ug u >t 2 1 , 1 994. H 1 , o l de r b ni t h e r, Samue l , whom I rc me m hern t nu r 1 5 th , i � nnw Z 1 /2 . Th e i r forhcr, Don a l d , 1s <111 <h,L>tant pro fe," 1r al M ; 1 1 ne /v1 , 1 ri t 1 mc Ac,1-

de m y . . . . Debora h J . Cohen , n\ 1w a Sp.m 1,h pmfe"or, 11T 1 tc': "I fi n ; 1 1 i y landed a tenure - t rack Jo h . I 'm L il my 'econd yl'ar <Lt S l i p pery Rock U . , Pa., and I rea l ly enjoy i t here . . . . I ha1·c r11·u aruc lcs he mg puh l i, h ed . . . bot h Me t h e rc'> u l t of my < ll1 gn 1 ng rc,earch on po pu lar rhe a tc r in Hondura,." Dch L> brea k i ng away tll Au,tra l ta <1ncl New Z ca l , m J next 'ummer. . . . A nd Chas Co wi ng , I am 'orry we 1 11 1 , > p c l l c cl y o u r '> n n \ n a m e , Grny,on M u l lerCowmg. Ynu p ri nt

very we l l . I r was my error. . . Priscilla Bo ndy Dube w r i t e ;., that Cary wa;., 4 in A p r i l ;md S i meon 2 in :!c t oh cr. Tempu., fugl l 1 The hu,y <Hl nmcy w r i t e;.,: '\eem' like al I we d o 1;., wor k , cook/c lean, ere., pla y w i t h t he k i d > anJ go h;1 ck to work - i t \ loo h ec r i c hut mmrly fun. I w1 >u ld n ' t trade Lt f or any thmg." . . . Nancy E. Epstein live> in Au>Un, Texa:., where he is a st;nc lcg1, lar ivc advocate-hea l t h

c a re , ;1gricul rurc, fond a n d n u t r i 1 1 on. A r t h 1 , " m 1 J - l i fe" j u nc t u re , ,hl' is J ec 1 d mg whether to go or nor r o go tu n a t urop ath i c medical ,c h on l m t he Nort hwest-Port l a n d or Sea t t l e . h e 'll let LL> know. . . . Mark E. Fishbon, an othl'r h u , y a t t o rn e y, h a , t w o da ug h te r, , Ta l i , 1 , 5, a nd Ann, 3 . He wri t e' c om i c a l l y nf h 1 > ll'ife a' a "hudgct analy,t" and of t h e younger Colhy g ra d u a t e s 1 11 h i ne 1gh burh ond , w i t h c m p h a' i' on t h e ne w law c le r k ("yl)Unger than m e , a g a i n " ) w o rk i n g fur h i fi rm . . . . Terry C . Fjeldheim , , dni ng " iml'th mg I had never he a rd of up u nt i l now. He w r i t e>: "I went back ro chool and recei1·ed a de gree from Ohio Swrc U. in rerfu 'wn. N\lW wh at h a perfu,ilmt>t ?

I t 1:. a per�on that run a he a rt lung mach ine during open heart and heart t ransp l an t operat ions. Dur mg t h e operation l become the person\ heart lung>." Now that i p re t ty good medical writing. H i wife, Nancy, manages t h e geology d e pa rtment at Brown Untver 1 t y, and Nicole, 1 1 , and Zachary, 9, <He in e l e m e nt a ry school. . . . Stephen A. Ford and h i wife, Bet h , live 111 tate College, Pa. , where h e i s professor of farm man a ge m ent a t Penn rate and whe re she h fmi'>hing h er Ph .D . 111 agri cu ltural economic . Their first daughter, Emily Blythe Ford, i· 1 5 months old. They write: "Al l we do L'> work and ra1 e ur child. We hope to move back to the ou t h >o m cd ay." . . . Peter L. G arram bone works for the U . . Pharma ceuttcal Group of Pfi:er, Inc. in N e w Y rk i ty. H i wife, Jane, a c h i rnpracrnr, mother> their two hoy'>, Pe te r I l l , 4, anJ Tommy, 2-" K id keep us very bu y" and over the pa t two year the cou p le ha' built a new home in nnr t he m New Jer ey . . . . H . J ef frey Gottesfeld has been very good keeping me in touch with how one can sound like a good lawyer,

Dean of Choice C

h a r le s Terre l l '70 has rwn pa simr: h i . i o h and h 1

other j o b . A n a ;..o c i ::i t e dean for student affa i rs for t he Bn> wn University Med ical en ter, Te r re l l is also a n a t i o n ally k nown c o n s u l t a n t and lec turer

on student fi n a n c i a l manage me n t , m i nority rec ruitment

and adm is�ions issues. Whether he' consu l t ing for the Department of H e a l t h and Human S erv ic e or l ec t u r i ng at rhe N ational Assoc iat ion of Med i c a l M inority Educator , Terrell passionately p read s h is message that college al lows people to reach their fu l l potent i a l . "[ th ink I'm a great role model for what's pos ible in h ighe r educat ion, and I'm able to communicate that to group and p ople who need to know that [acce s] is poss i ble. W hen I go our and ralk to different groups I tell my story, aying, 'If I can do i t so can you.'' said Terre l l , who was raised in modest means in Wash ington, D.C. A doctoral candidate at N ova Southea tern U n iversity, Terrell says he remains at BU because i t give h i m the flexibility to continue consulting. "[ love what I do," a id Terrell, who graduated from Colby with a degree in h istory and received a master's from BU in African American stud ies. "I'm free t o [help other ] in accessing h igher

C O L B Y

A U G U

1 9 9 5

education. l know that I make a difference with the tudent I help here at BU, ;111J I know I m a k e a d i ffe rence with [student and p a re nt > ] when p re entmg the po 1 h i l i t 1e of h i gher education ." I n h i mul t i fac e t ed BU po i r i o n , Terre l l i� respon 1ble for the adm i n t ·rrat 1on of the Office of tuJent Financ ial Management, and h e · it on the ad m i ion commi ttee of the medical c hool read ing thro ugh many of the 1 1 ,000 a p p l i c a t ton and interview mg �ome of the l , 2 00 ca n d tdates for 90 available space . He i the spokesper on fnr the Office of r ud e n t Financ ial Planni ng and Deve lopment, and he work with t h e Office of M i nority Affa i r d e v e l o p i n g w a y s to h e l p u n d e r - r e p r e en ted groups get opp ortunit e s to attend medical · choo l . H e i col laborating with BU's undergraduate African-American studie program to rein vigorate the departme n t . Recently Terre l l developed the office of re idency planning and practice management ervice for the Primary Care I n i t i ative to get more medical tudents to enter the pri mary care field ( a d iffi c u l t task · ince these physic ian don't make a much money a pec i a l ists ) . A s a Colby alumnus Terrell i perhaps b e t known for h is orche t ra t ion of the Lorimer Chapel takeover in 1 970, though he says he wants to move forward and use the experience for po itive purpo es. "[ worked o hard to change things at Colby because I loved i t," he aid. "There's a photograph [of the takeover] that I have hanging i n my office to remind my e lf of how angry I used to get at figures of authority. When people come into my office and get upset, I can glance over at it. I have a better sense of understand ing . . . . When things don't go well for student I can understand."

creati\'ely. Jeff writes: "Lesl ie FYl , we got the film deal-it i� with the same folks who made Circle offriends 1--out now. Cherie and I are w r i t i n g screen play together." . . . Emily C . Graham writes about her new daughter, Marisa, born September 1 99 3 , the baby girl he adopted from Guate mala. . . . Christ i n e McKeown Burry writes of her graduation from the Naval War College in Newport, R . l . , earn ing a hard wrought master's degree in na tional securiry -tudies, and ofBill's and her celebration ail to ova cotia . . . . Amy Schenck Frankel is going through a career change and has moved from cosmetic� marketing to being a partner in produc ing c o rporate fi l m and video for broadca t advertising. he love to rollerblade, ice kate and do yoga with her on, Drew Frankel, 8 . . . . La t but not least ( and out of my elf-devised a lpha betical order), Nancy P. Garnett Thomas is an assistant professor of culinary arts at John on and Wale University, R . l . Her hu band, Donald, i a heavy tee! fabricator, and he writes that he is "enjoying a second childhood raising my two kid-," liken ing the challenge tO playing Power Rang e r w i th a 40-year-old bod y ! . . . Thank you all for jotting m e a Q on your pring break, have a very relaxing, eemingly endles ummer vacation, and we'll see you in the fall. + Correspondent: Nicholas L e vintow

Help! It took a while, but I finally realized that the "Contract with America" i really a contract out on my j ob and on thousand of other feds doing regulatory en forcement. There are everal leg islative initiative floating around Capitol H i ll right now that would abolish enforcement of OSHA, the j ob safety and health law, as we know it. M aybe somebody thinks this is a good idea, but they probably never had a refinery blow up in their hometown or lo t a relativ in an indu trial incident. I f you have any thoughts on this, please write me, or better yet, your c o ngre i o n a l represe n ta t ive.

. . J im Bull writes from Menlo Park, Calif., that he know he's getting old now that hi 1 1 -year old daughter, Katie, swipes his Green Day and Pearl Jam CDs. l have to admit my kid are not at that stage yet, al thouoh every time we get a baby itter, I end up ha\' ing to rewind my copy of Era.ser head. J im and wife Erin are college textbook editors and also have an 8-year-old son, Sam . . . . Hanna McCrum Henderson moved out to the Phoenix area two years ago. Although she enjoys the outh we t, she returns to the Blue Hill area of Ma ine every summer wi th husband Kris and daughters Mor gan, Whitney and Emma-Claire. Hanna reports that �he caught up w i th Chris Bradley and Leigh Morse last summer. . . . New Jerey is a "nice place to live," writes Betsey Judd Butler, who lives in West Windsor. Betsey and Rich are kept bu-y by Claire and Brett as well a- by t )0 many activities and volunteeringcommitments tu count. 1 hare Betsey's views on the state, espec ially the South Jer sey area, where we get away every summer . . . . My predecessor as class correspondent, Susan Ger nert Adams, is till producing tele vis111n news in New York for NBC's Dateline. u an broke the record for most interesting travel la t yearwith a trip to M unich, Vienna, Budape t and Prague. She ran into J ohn and Pam Cleaves Devine, Jack and Lisa Mathey Landry, Dean of Faculty Bob McArthur and Profe or Charlie Bas ett at a recent Colby fund raiser at the U n i ted N a t i o n s . . . . L u c i n d a Keams Hepp recently made the career change to full-time mom from the " uper mom, c a reer woman rat race" and report he is very happy. Lucinda and R ick are planning to celebrate their 1 0th anniversary with a little hiking in the White Mountains. Lucinda, R ick, and 4-year-old Elizabeth live in Shrewsbury, Mass., and would love to hear from Colby alums. . . . TI1e nex t time you are sitting in the ballpark munching a hot dog, look down-you may be sit ting on a product of the Hussey Seating Co. Tim Hussey is the chief operating officer of the com pany and reports that demand is up, e pecially in the Far East. Tim also notes that he heard from old

roomie Les Morgan, who i still in BanglaJe h doing medical mi_ sionary wmk . . . . Finally, 1 \\'ant to thank everyone, including the Alumni Office, for the new ar rangement on c lass sur\'eys, which i keeping me \\'ell ·rocked. One small qu ibble, though: now that the sun·ey/questionnaire ha� been reduced to one page, that's all anyone writes. Please flip it over and keep writing, e\'en if it's only malic ious rumors and gossip. Af ter all, that's \\'hat keeps me going in thi · job I + Correspondent:

Robert Kinney Ca l Cooper, w ife Ca

rol, k ids DaviJ, 5 , and Meghan, 3, along w ith assorted dogs and cars, are living the good l ife in Frankfort, Maine. Cal teaches grade four and is a pumpk i n and Chri-rmas t ree farmer ro boot. . . . Laurie Bor den Ahem, husband Daniel, -on Colin, , and daughter Haley, 4, reside in M iddlebury, Vt., where "Bordeaux" workin admini tra t i on for the Porter M e d i c a l Center . . . . Mark Dalto n , wife Cami and children Anna, 5 , Wil l iam, 2, and Kathryn, 1, Ji,·e in America's la-t frontier, Alaska, where Mark is director of envi ronmental servicesfor H OR Engi neering in Anchorage. He notes that ch ildren dom inate their live ( along with the occa ional moo e?) . . . . The Reverend Eric Duff was married in J une 1 994 to Betry, and-in add ition to his duties as pastor of St. A lbans Epis copal Church in Arcola, Calif. inherited three children, Joe, 20 and Apri l and Mac, both 1 8. Eric also has another "flock" to deal with-two dogs, three cats, four cockatiel and one parro t ! . . Leslie Chanler Brooks ent me a beautiful picture ofher 1 5-month old on, William Tucker Stuy vesant Brooks. Leslie, hu band Doug and on reside in Locu t, N .J . . . . Barry Horwitz and w ife Liz ( Yanagihara '80) live in ew t o n , M a s s . , w i th the i r k i d s , M ichael, 10, a n d Alison, 7 . The family recently took a fantastic ki vacation to Utah. Barry is v ice president for marketing for Brad lee , I nc. . . . Felicia Johnson ha

L \I I\ I

.'\ T

L .". R

G E

a new addre , Tnlland, Cnnn., right outsiJe of Hartford. he and hu-band J uJe Rouch er have a 2 0month-old on, olomon. Felicia is curren tly on lea\ e fwm her teachingjob in the Harrford ·chonl system . . . . Mary Zukowski Hurd and husband re ·ide in Freeport. M a i ne, w i th the i r youngsters, M atthew, 4 , and Rebecca, �ix months. Mary i> an nffice man ager and Da\'id is in computer sa Jes and -upport. . . . Elizabeth Bailey Hodgdon i an aJaptive sk i i n g coord i n a to r for M a i n e Handicapped Ski ing ( M H S ) at Sunday River in Bethel. She write that Sunday R i,·erand M HS ha\'e de,·eloped a program in cros<; country skiing for people w ith d is abiliries-using kick led>, pulka� and it ski -1 Husband Matthew is a park ranger. . . . Betsy Bucklin Gray, husbanJ Peter, Emily, 6, and Maggie, 4 1/2, j usr mo\'eJ into thei r first house ( c . 1 8 59) on a qu iet country road in Mendon, Vr. Betsy invites the entire c la'' to come visit ( and ay thanks for y o u r .upport of the A l u m n i Fund 1 ) • • • • Geoff Emanuel i a newlywed (July 1 994, to Laurie) and now l ives in S i msbury, Conn. He ay he is ver)' happy and that he still sails frequently with Bob Kellogg in Maine . . . . Kyle Har row i a Ph.D. candidate at the U of Toronto, pursuing a degree in exerci e and behavioral c ience. Kyle says husband R ich Kantor i very tolerant of this late t excurion into academia, and she notes tha: Angela Mickalide has pro vided her useful counsel on the quest for "Dr. Harrow." . . . Cindy Flandreau Helfrich completed her first marathon in March ( hu band J im's fourth) , but it wasn't enough to a l low them to outrun the ter rible rains in northern California. Cindy reported that they were getting a bit moldy. Cindy and J im have three wonderful c h i ldren, J ac k , 6 , C a r l y , 4, and T e d , 3 . . . . The m y s t e r i o u s K a t h y Bleakney Pawley and family l ive in Troutville, Va. ( near Roanoke) . Kathy is an attorney with the So cial ecuriry Administration down in them parts and had lots of news about other cla mate that she promised to end me, o tay tuned ! Please write! +

A U G U

1 9 9 5

C O L B Y

;\ L U M N I

A T

L A R G F

_The Eightie s 1 989

Correspondents :

Deborah A. Greene 3 8 Sorrel Road Concord, MA 0 1 742 508- 369-6978

1 980

John Ve illeux 84 1 3 Park Crest Drive Silver Spring, MD 209 1 0- 5 404 1 98 1

Patric ia Valavanis Smith

Beth Pniew ·ki Wilson P.O. Box 602 Harvard, MA 0 1 4 5 1 508-456- 80 1

1 982

Mimi Ra,mu. sen 63 Reservoir Street C::imbridge, MA 02 1 38 6 1 7-492 - 1 002 1 983

Sally Lovegren Merch::int HCR 62, Box 244B Mt. Desert, ME 04660 207-244- 3678 1 984

Maura Cassidy 1 8 1 Winthrop Road :t9 Brookline, MA 02 1 46-4442 6 1 7- 566-00 1 2 1 985

Barbara Knox Autran 1 74 Degraw Street Brook lyn, NY 1 1 2 3 1 - 3008 1 986

Gretchen Bean Lurie 2606 San Marcos Drive Pa adena, CA 9 1 1 07 8 1 8 - 3 56-7538 1 98 7

Lucy Lennon Tucker 9 Well tone Drive Portland, ME 04 1 0 1 207 -7 7 2 - 7 1 2 7 1 988

Sara Dick ison 25 Fayette Street # 1 Boston, MA 02 1 1 6 6 1 7 - 292-00 1 5

C O L B Y

orrespondent:

A U G U S T

1 9 9 5

cvcrnl item of in tere't from omc of the attorneys in our m1d,r. Sonia Turcotte Foi wa named partner in the firm of A rnold and Porter in Wa�hingron, D.C. 'he is a member of the fi rm\ legi. la t l \'C practice. Promm1nns m ust run tn the Frns fam1 ly; around the same tmie, hcr hushand, Andrew, wa� a ppoi n t ed hy President Clinton to he one of the wp aide'> ro Attorney General J::iner Reno. Ar this writ ing, the Foises were looking forward t ) welcoming a t h i rd m e mber of the fa m i l y . . . . Leslie Mitchell became a part ner in the New York City firm of Fitzpatrick, C e l l a , H a rper & Scinto. Leslie' spec ialty i pat ents and trademarks . . . . Med field, Mass., resident Tom Dailey is accumulating lots of travel miles to Vermont in his job as NYNEX's general coun el for the NYNEX Vermont busines unit. Despite the rigorou work chedule, he's happy to report that he's found time to play tennis consistently again. Tom and hi wife, Maria ( Macedo '79 ) , are the parents of Andrew, 4, and were expecting another child as of this writing. . . . Liz Nelb Gearan, mom to B i l ly, 6, and Kelly, 3 , is still on the job at Genesys Software ys tems in Methuen, Ma s., where she works in software develop men t. . . . Alice Damar, a Bo ton psychologist, s igned w i th Henry Holt Publ ishing to pub l ish her first book, Healing Mind, Healthy Woman, a m i nd/body

book for women's health issues. Alice and her hu hand, David, have been honing their parenting . kills with a ha et hound puppy named Lucy, aka the "wild one." " leeping late in rhe morning i a thing of the pasL ," A l ice note mournfully . . . . D i a n e Farre ll Gu th m a nn' c rypt ic com ment , "new h;1hy, new jllb, new hou e," '>UITI up what'> heen happening with her over the pa t year. Diane and her hu,hand, Grey, live in San Jo e, Cal if. , and Diane work m m;.irkettng cnmm unicat 10ns. . . . Lori Azzarito Dubreuil 1s an edicor ;ind li ving m pringfield, Vt., with hushand Craig, Alex, , and Hanna, 5. They're hoping to get started on wme hllU e remod el ing th1 year. . . Jane Dibden c h wab 1, :, r i l l serv i ng ::is a clergywoman in the Waterv ille are;1 and is in her second year of teach mg EngI t h <ls a ecnnd Lan guage thruugh the Waterville Adult Ed ucat ion Depart ment. Thi year he starred a statewide networking organization for E L teachers of adult and has been driving all over Maine to attend conferences and present workhops. Jane and her hu band , David, welcomed their daughter, Jasmine, in January. Jasm ine join Amy, 2 , Lisa, 5, and Jane'- tep children , Wendy, 1 3 , and Matt, 1 5 . She and David are home schooling the children in their log cabin in Oakland . . . . Penny Janzen Winn, hu band Kevin and Conner, 5, Sarah, 3, and Mat t h e w , 1 , have moved fro m Dorchester, Mass . , t o the greener pa t ures of Pembroke. Penny love their new abode although it means coping with an extended commute into Boston, where he and I team up to edit the em ployee new letter for I n terna tional Data Group . . . . Thanks so much to all of you who have made my job as c las correspon dent o ea y-and enjoyable! over the past five years. I t's been

wonderful hearing from every one, and l hop you'll continue w keep rho e card , letter and que ti onna ires com ing to the mailbox of my ucces or, John Veilleux. + Correspondent: Beth Pniew k i Wilson

Adam and Lynn Bruen Winter have a new ad dition to their family. M e aghan E i l e e n j o ined b i g brother Ethan, 3, l a t February . They live in Northboro, Mas . . . Jodie Hewey Murphy and her hu band, Richard, live in North Chelm ford, Ma s. They have two wns, e::in and Chri topher. Jodie and Richard are both software engineer . . . . Patrick Devivo is l i v i n g in M e l ro e, M a s . . . . Saranna Robin on Thornton is an as istant profe or of econom ic at Colby. She and her hus band, Michael, and on Paul l ive in Mary Low, where she i a fac ulty re ident. Saranna say it is ironic that she ended up back at Colby and back in the dorms, but they eat in Dana becau e they like the food better there. She says the commute to the office i great, and there is no grocery shopping, cooking or di he to do. She has also coached women' rugby . . . . R i c k F o r s t e r and h is w i fe , Maureen Bird, l ive in Holli ton, Mas . Rick and Maureen have two son , Tyler and Daniel. Rick is an assistant professor of medicine at U n i v e r ity of Ma sachusetts Medical Center in Worcester. He is al o the a sociatedirectorofthe Medic ine Housestaff Program. . . . Daphne Kaplan Hardcastle is an education evaluation spe cialist at the U.S. Department of Education. She and her husband, Tom, and their three daughters, Melanie , J u l ia and Naralie, l ive in Alexandria, Va. Daphne ay he get together with Lynn Quincy

A L U M N I

A T

L A R G E

Class of 1980

reun The Class of 1 980 was reunited, at least partially, in a weekend bacchanal of eating, drinking and oratory remini cent of many past celebrations on M a yflower H il l (well, sort of) . A lthough we sorely missed those who d id not make it, we had a pretty good turnou t, particularly if you inc lude the many attendees i n urero. Aside from the many opportunities given to parents to chase the ir children across the campus's vast green expanse , highlights of the weekend included a boating party on Henry Kennedy's boat, a cookout at the Gould M usic Shell field and a d inner in the Student Union's new pub. I understand that only a small group made it to the boat, but they had enough fun for everyone e lse. The cookout was pretty l a id back, w ith the be t entrance being made by an impressive cont ingent of KDRs, whose unplanned meeting at the road's edge resulted in their ambling across the field in a loose formation, shoulder-to-shoulder, l ike something out of an old Western. The class dinner on Saturday night was the formal climax of the weekend. Bev Nalbandian Madden presided over the evening with her usual unassuming grace. Drinks before dinner were followed by a new drinking game at dinner in which all of the expecting mothers ordered double shots of milk for those who also were drinking for two. Thus fortified, we were addressed in tum by President Bill Cotter, whose remarks noted the 5 0th anniversary of the end of World War I I ; dean and coach Mark Serdjenian ' 7 3 , who recalled some of the events of our years at Colby (despite the absence of his inspiration, Elliott Pratt ) ; and Professor Sandy M aisel , who took some tough questions from a politically astute crowd. W e l l -deserved praise and gratitude were heaped upon the follow-

ing members of the class who have performed years of excellent and selfless work on behalf of the ir classmates: Bev M adden, president; Joanne Shannon O'Donnell, v ice president; Patty Valavanis Smith , class correspondent; and members of the reunion planning commit tee: Cynthia Auman ( who produced the reunion tape with Bev ) , James Coull, Linda Davis, Lynn Collins Francis, Andrew Goode, Lisa Paskalides Grimmig, Anne Hussey, Elizabeth Martin Hutch inson, William Jackson, Steven Kirstein, Mimi Brodsky Kress ,

Joanne Shannon O'Donne l l , E lliott Pratt, Nancy Reed, Carol Sl y ( A lumni Counc il representative and designer of the reunion T-sh irt ) , Patty Valavanis S mith, Joanne Lynch Thorndike ( who p u t together the reunion handbook ), Diana Herrmann and Leslie Mitchell ( clas agent ) . As a result of the generosity of these and many other class members, our class gift to the College totaled $84,509. And because nature (and some things unnatural) abhors a vacuum, new class officers were announced, as follows: president, Elliott Pratt; Alumni Council representative and vice president, Anne Hussey; class correspondent, John Veilleux. These people are now your representa tives, for better or for worse, so let them ( us) know what you think. Notable awards also went to Sara Crisp ( most changed) and to Anne Hussey ( best knee scars ) . Finally, B i l l Jackson was the w inner of the coveted P ink Flamingo. Road trips to the Jackson residence are encouraged to ensure that the noble bird is properly displayed ( a nd to confirm that, as Bill reported, it matches the rest of the decor). A supply of Reunion 1 99 5 memorabilia is still available. Please call the Alumni Relat ions Office if you would l ike to purchase a Class of '80 T-shirt. -John Veilleux

Albert at lunchtime since they

work a few m i l es from each other. . . . Tony '80 and Mickey Mullen Cunningham are busy r a i s i n g the i r two d aughters, Flannery and Maddie, in M inne sota, where Tony teaches at St. John's. M ickey found time to teach an after-schooL arts program last fal l with a course on self portraits for fourth and fifth grad ers. She is planning on teaching more courses, and they plan to be in Spiddal, I reland, on the west coast near Galway, heading up the St. John's program there in the fall of 1 995 . . . . As for your class ecretary, my husband, Phil, and I are up to it again! We j ust bought our fourth house ( aka fixer-upper) in 10 years. I t's an other antique that j ust cried out to us. It has 1 1 fireplaces, an in door well and Lots of unspoiled charm, so we're spending week ends peeling, painting, raking and pruning! We're still in the lovely town of Harvard about 35 mile northwest of Boston and hoping this is the end of the l ine in our history of house renovations. Af ter e ight years I am still working for West Publishing as an aca demic representative training Law

students how to use our on-line database called WESTLAW. Our 1 5th reunion is now less than a year away. If anyone has any suggestions about what events and activities we hould have at our 1 5th, please drop m e a l ine, c a l l m e or e - m a i l m e ( beth w ilson@mci mai l ) . Also, the mail has gone dry lately, so please keep writing! + Corre pondent: Mimi Rasmussen

Thad Burr has moved

to Buenos A ires to open a n i ns u rance company for his e mp loyer, Met Life . . . . Terr y Smith Brobst writes from Freeport, Maine, that she is a "severed" banker from the Fleet Financial Group, i.e., a vic tim of corporate downsizing, and after 1 0 years in banking is look ing to explore new careers. Terry would a lso l ike to know how "Face" and "Tedious" are doing, as well as Ann and Peter. . . . N an c y B rown and Gregory Davis are l iv in g in Oakham , M ass., where Nanc y i s a senior research engineer for N orton

Company and Gregory is a car penter and cabinetmaker. N ancy finished her Ph.D. in 1 990 and lived in Bayreuth, Germany, for two and a half years before set t l ing i n Massachusetts i n 1 99 3 . . . . Andrea Brantner's company is sending her back to the head office in New York after two and a half years in Japan. She was ad to leave J apan but happy to re turn-and now feels she must decide what to be when she grows up! . . . Duncan Alexander and his wife, Carolyn Salafia A lex ander, moved a year ago to Bethesda, Md., where Carolyn took a new j ob. Duncan quit h is job of 1 0 years to stay at home for a year w ith their adopted Korean t w i n s , C l a ire and M a rk . . Sandy Montt Carter thinks of her Colby friend and experiences often and says, "Hello to every one ! " A fter grad u a t i n g from W e l l e s l e y , Sandy went from working for a software company to running the Cornell U n i ver sity Regional Office for New En gland, a public relations position involving fund raising. Sandy and husband Steve have three chil dren, Brant, 7 , Tucker, 5 , and daughter Dionis, 1 . Steve is an

antiques dealer speci a l izing in antique clocks, and Sandy is now a mom and artist doing o i l on canvas commission house por traits . . . . Stephen "Bub" Brown l ives in Canton, M ass., with wife Sue and daughter Casey Marie, born 3 / 1 /9 3 . . . . Cathy Fracasse is m o v i n g e v en t u a l ly to S . Egremont, M ass. , t o a house de signed by her sculptor husband, Allan Papscun. For now they are still in Roslindale, Mass. Cathy is a sy terns manager/investment compliance systems for Fidelity I nvestments. She hopes to use her master's in education ( educa t ion media and technology) re ceived from Boston U niversity in 1 99 3 . . . . Diane Zavotsky an nounces the birth of her second daughter, Tess Diane McClena han, 1 1 /2 2/94. S ister H ayley i 3 ; dad i s Daniel McClenahan . . . . Raymond George J r. is in an exciting and growing orthodon tia practice with his wife, Debra, and his father. Raymond and Debra have three c h i ldren Kelsey Ann, 5, J enna-Rae, 3 , N icholas W i l l iams, 2 . Georgehas recently been named to the board of d i rectors of the Pawtucket Com munity Counseli ng Center.

A U G U

1 9 9 5

C O L B Y

A L U M N I

A T

L A R G lc

. . . J e nn i fer Maire Hagemann

Fredette cl i covered five years ago

and hu ·band Henry are self-em ployed with their own marketing company. They have two gi rls Kate, 8, and Leita, 4 . . . . Susan Robertson Kuzia sends new from Evans, Ga. Her husband, Stan '85, is a stockbroker w i th Robin son - Humphrey. Susan is a stay at-home mom with a part - t i me business-K uzia Creations. The biggest event in their l i ves was the add i t ion of W i l l iam Stanley, born 9/1 8/94. Big sister V i rginia, 4 , adores her l i ttle brother and is a big help. L i fe is definitely twice as exc i t i ng with two ch ildren. . . Le sl e y Deyulio Defio is a med ical i nformation spec i a l i st and also a figure kat ing instruc tor. Her husband ,Joe, i vice presi dent of Jenk ins Music Co. They have two Pek inese dogs, Truffles and S p i ke . . . . Laura Higgins sends news from an organic farm in Petrolia, Calif. Laura and her hu band, Gair, l i ve in a remote and u nique comm un i ty where their l i fe tyle i an occupation in i tself! They have two ons Ri ver, 5, and Arrow, 2-a dog, and numerous cats and ch ickens. Laura is very bu y with w idely v a r ied com m u n i ty act i v i t i e They lack a computer and TV but get many earthquake . Laura and her fam i ly spent six weeks travel ing lower Pacific Mexico by bus, which caused her some ph i lo oph ical change and con v i nced her that she i on a long road to fl u e n c y in S pa n i s h . . . Andrew Holtz ha moved to Brook l i ne, Mass., where he is i n r e taurant management . . . . I n January, James Haddow became a partner a t the Portland law firm where he works, Petruce l l i & Mart i n . In M arch he was e lected to a t h ree- year term on the L i m i ng to n , M a i n e , p l a n n i n g board. +

that he lov es computer pro gramm ing, and he now develops software for Bel lSouth in Bir m i ngham, A la . He does stay grounded in his Renaissance cla sical roots with a steady diet of Homer and Shakespeare as well as German and Lat in texts. Will and wife Martha live in Hoover, Ala., with daughters Mary, 5 , and Grace, 2. Will can be reached on the Internet at: freder re@Scott.net. ( Colby does have a World-W ide Web Home P:ige, W i l l , which can be accessed by the following address: htrp: \ \ www.colby.edu. ) . . . Barbara Leonard and Dan Marra, who have been living in Waterv i l le for years, were mar ried in October 1 99 3 and were able to get away for two week to travel to Tuscany la t fa ll. I know Barb and Dan are enjoying their gardening right now ! . . . Phineas Gay i · president of Direct Resu lt Group in Bosto n . He started the agency in November 1 994, hav i ng left the d i rect marketing agency with which he had worked for 10 years. HL agency spec ial izes in d i rect marketing commu n icat ion aero all med i a to he appl ied to all forms of adverr is i ng. One of Ph in' mtn exc i t i ng service : h is I n ternet dcvelop ment team helps c l icnts e tabl i h their own "web ite " on the I n ternet. Ph inn's add re is: htp;/ /www . d i rect re ult .com/group. Ph in ays he' · bumped into John

Correspondent:

Sally Lovegren Merchant Sue Desrochers Pat terson wrote that she

and husband Kelv i n ( married i n May 1 994-"s t i l l newlywed ! " ) bought a condo in San Francisco in November 1 994. I have the i r address i n San Fran c isco so perhaps you San Franc is cans can get together. . . . Will

C O L B Y

A U G U S T

1 9 9 5

Northrop, Ken Emery , Jamie Town, Jim Hart '84, Dave Glass, Mark Tolette and others . . . Rob Highland and h is wife, Kelly,

l ive with their daughter, Emma Katherine, 2, in H ickory, N .C. Roh is the newe t member of a private pract ice OB-Gyn group. H e and Kelly expect a new baby in September. . . . In Rhode Is land, Sandy Demmler is the owner of a commerc ial interior design firm that spec ial izes in the design of health care env iron ment . Her daughters <1re M i a Dan i e l l e , 1 1 , a n d C a r l e i g h , 7 . . . . Donald Kennedy '58 is the superintendent for the M aynard Public Schools, where Lisa Murry Donohue works as h igh school gu idance counselor and health education coord inator. L isa 1 ives w i th hubby Kevin and thei r chil dren, Andrew, 5 1 /z. and A manda, 4 , in Shrewsbury, Mass. Lisa

earned her CAGS in counse l i ng psychology from Anna Maria College in May and is glad that her AGS will val idate her c l i n i c a l abi l i ty a n d match h e r experi en e as an educator. . . . Kevin and Karen Nickerson Purcell welcomed the i r ne west baby, N ick Arnold, in April 1 994. H is si ter Kate is 4 . . . . In Wai tsfield, Vt., lives Karla Hostetler and her fam i ly of four cockat iels and two parakeet . She works as an international development con . ultant for the nonprofit organi zat ion Aid to Art isans. She j u t returned from Russia, where she met with ov r SO artisan and sma ll bu iness owners to evaluate the impact of an Aid to Art isans project there. Karla ha pent coniderahle time helping art isans aro u n d the world ( rece n t l y , Ghana, Guatemala and Peru ) to earn income by developing ex port bu ine e . . . Plea e take a minute tn send me a note. I love to read y ur letters and answer que tion about add res e when I have the info. Plea e end photo of your elf and any sign ificant others so we can keep these for those "later," gol<len year when we want to look back lovingly. And if anyone ha phoros of our year at Colby that you'd like to end me for u e in a scrapbook, it's none too oon to be thinking about our I 5th reunion. A crap bnnk fi l lcJ with memora b i l i a would make a wonderful addi t ion to being together. . . . I n Feb ruary 1 994, when I learned of the untimely death ofJack Kleinman, I sent h i fam i ly a card of sympa thy from all of us. Recen tly, J ack' sister Jan wrote to me tO thank us for our note. Her fam ily -hared my entiment that our friend J ack had d ied being chal lenged by something out<loors that he loved. We remember him with s m i les and pray that we can l i ve our l ives today so that we have no regrets when our t i me comes. My be t to you all. + Correspondent:

Maura Cassidy

Lots of news to report, especially in the baby department! Mia Ros ner Roop i worki ng and living i n Los Angeles o n S . Bundy S t . ( in -

famous o f l a t e a s N icole Brown Si mpson's address). She and her husband, Larry '8 1 , have a son, John Lawrence ( born 1 2/2/94 ) , and two dog . M i a i s a d istribu t ion sales manager for Symantec Corp., a software company. Larry is an actor and has appeared in several fi lms, including JFK, and on such television shows as Un solved Mysteries and Dangerous Curves . . . . Sonia Kaloosdian Hale writes that she and her hus band had the ir first child, daugh ter A lexandra Marie ( born 9/94 ) , and that she w i l l continue her graphic design firm on a part time basis whi le renovating their new house in Wel lesley, Mass. She would love to hear from any one in the area-and especially misses those Phi Delt partie . . . . Deb Reinke recently moved to Richmond, Va., after spending five year in M ichigan complet ing her M . S. in natural resource and obta i ning a teaching certifi cate in c ience. She is a sc ience teacher in a middle school for gifted children. She and partner Rose Deane made a comm itment of life and love to each other on the autumnal equinox 1 994. Deb wonders how many other alum n i ( a ) feel afraid to hare thei r lives in th is magazine . . . . J o n and Sue Palmer Stone recently had the i r second c h i ld , A b i ga i l John on ( born 1 2/ 1 7/94 ). Thei r f i r t , Roger, i 3 . u e a n d fam i ly are now l i v i ng in Newport Beach, Calif. , though they t i l l own thei r house i n N e w Canaan, Conn., and hope to return eventual ly. Sue ha taken t ime offfrom teach ing French and Span ish to be a full-time mom . . . . J ul i e Stebbins Disa i the director of financial aid ervices at Johns Hopkins U n iversity chool of Medicine. Joseph, her husband, i a plastic urgeon at Johns Hopkins H o pi ta! . She write that her son, Jo seph M ichael ( born 2/l 5/94 ) , i a joy, and they are enjoyi ng chas ing after h i m. J u l ie finished her ma t e r ' s of s c i e n c e in J u n e 1 990 . . . . Shelly Lent Gillwald forgets what her title is-since he doesn't write i t often-but thinks it i d i rector of commun i c a t i o n s and d e v e l o p m e n t at Loudown Hospi tal Center i n V ir g i n ia. She and husband Pete, a landscape architect, have a full house with son Karsten Rainer

A L U M N I

( born 3/20/9 3 ) a n d daughter Anika N icole ( born 7/1 3/94 ) , along with a dog, Beam'r, and a teenage au pair. As far as free time, Shelly spends it chasing af ter k ids, dogs or the au pair. Life sure has changed since her days at Sugarloaf, after the move to V irginia and a mortgage. She keeps i n touch w i th Wendy Glenn '85 and Shannon Flynn. So what is Shannon up to ? . . . Leslie and Nathan Emerson are in Jackson, Wyo. He works as a ski instructor and in marketing for Jackson Hole Ski Corpora tion-and skis 1 50 days a year. Le lie is the executive director at Jackson Hole Land Trust. They are very proud of Tomba, Prince of the Tetons, a yellow lab/retriev er. And "Waldo" has changed to "Nato" ( since Karo was taken ? ) . Naro also coaches Little League and will travel ro Finland to help train a Lapland Ski School. He sees other J acksoni tes-Jamie Mackintosh '82 and Jonathan Selkowitz '88. . . Wayne '85 and Sandra Winship Eddy are l iv ing in Cheshire, Conn., with two kids, Katharine, 2 1 /2 , and Jesse, l. Sandy is working part time as a con ulting manager at Digital Equipment and also volunteers as the vice president of Cheshire Newcomers Club . . . . Bernd and Kai ya Vittands Hefele and their three kids, Karl (born 5/3/90 ) , Katrina ( 8/20/9 1 ) and Celeen ( 3/ 7/94 ) , are living in Hopatcong, N .J . Bernd is an attorney and j ust completed his M.B.A. at Colum bia. Kaiya is a management con sultant. They have j ust finished renovating thei r 1 00-year-old home on a lake. Kaiya writes that k i i ng with two kid in tow and one in a backpack is not what she imagined for herself while schus sing down the slopes at Sugarloaf as an undergrad-though she w o u l d n ' t c h a n ge it for t h e world! . . . John Gagne i s now a doctor of dentistry, which he thinks may surprise ome of you. He finally owns an Alfa Romeo, too. Some things take a while but are worth it. J ohn and wife Susan l ive in Watertown, Con n . , and he would love to hear from Dibs, Critter and Maddog and any other Johnson/Averillites from 1 98082 . . . . The next missing alum nus we want to know about is Eric Van Gestel. +

NEWSMAKERS Peter Forman '80, sheriff of Plymouth, Mass., was a promi

nent player in a New York Times story about construction of a controve r s i a l p r i on in the area . . . . Tom Marlitt '80 cycled from San Francisco ro Lo Angeles i n the California A I D S R id e 1 1 , a 5 2 5 -m i le , seven-day trip to raise money for the Jeffrey Goodman Spe cial Care Clinic in Lo Angeles, the Largest H N test site in Tom Marlitt '80 the nation . . . . Charles Gordy '8 1 joined Tufts University as associate director of planned giving . . . . John Clevenger '8 1 joined Meridian Consulting Group in Westport, Conn., as senior consultant working with clients Valvoline and SmithKline Beecham . . . . James B. Haddow '82 has become a parmer in the firm of PetrucceUi & Martin in Portland, Maine . . . . James O'Sullivan '82 has been appointed vice president and commercial broker at The N iles Co. i n Boston, Mass. . . . Dr. Robert Highland '83 received obstetrics and gynecology staff privileges at Catawba Memorial Hops ital in H ickory, N .C. . . . Carol McQuilling McMorris '83 j oined Tilgham & Frost Real Estate Inc. i n Wilton, Conn . . . . Maine state senator Dana Hanley '84, billed as "the senate's most conservative partisan" by the Maine Sunday Telegram, ha been named chair of the appropriations committee and will be the architect of the tate budget . . . . Renovations and re tora tions by Will Cheever '85 ' company, Yankee Restoration, are making news in Yarmouth, Maine . . . . Crain's Chicago Business announced the appointment of Beth Healy '87 as a ociate editor for the newspaper's banking beat . . . . Arthur Morrow '88 j o ined the law offices of Alfred J. Landeggar in Camarillo, Calif. . . . Dr. Kevin Webb '88 is a new member of the staff of K ittery Optometric A ociates i n Kittery, Maine . . . . Anestes G. Fotiades '89 recently publi hed Colby College: A Venture of Faith, a picrorial history of Colby from 1 8 1 3 to the College's sesquicentennial in 1 963 . The book includes 200 black-and white image dating back to the earliest day of the College.

MILEPOSTS Marriages: Charles Rousseau ' 8 3 to Barbara Henry in Mystic, Conn . . . . Karen Lawes '87 to Timothy Webb in Seattle,

Wash . . . . Matthew Gove '87 to Bevin Dockray '88 in Charlestown, Mass . . . . Toby Emerson '88 to Dana Kathleen Grogan i n Andover, Mass . . . . Gregory Chronis '88 to Jean Carpenter in Phoenix, Ariz . . . . Suzanne Milauskus '89 to Paul Goldwin i n Winchester, Mass. Births: A son, Scott Austin, to Amy and James Coull '80 . . . . A daughter, Kelsey W i nslow, to James ' 8 1 and Laura Littlefield Bourne '8 1 . . . . A daughter, Eleanor, to Scott Dow '83 and Ashley Lasbury '83 . . . . A son, Colin Harrison, to Dawne and Michael Page '84 . . . . A daughter, Tarrah Skye Tibbetts, to Brian Tibbetts and Lisa Wormwood '84 . . . . A daughter, Margaret Home E l l iott, to G len and Carrie Rymer Elliott '85 . . . . A daughter, Tyler El ise, to Eric and Jill Myerow Blinderman '86 . . . . A on, Connor, to Jay '86 and Imogen Mintzer Church '85.

A T

L A R G E

Correspondent: Mary Alice Wel l e r- M aya n

My last column . . . . A n na San dstrom i s currently working o n h e r Ph. D . i n Medieval/Renais sance French li terature . . . . Carol Simon is the head women's bas ketball coach at Brandeis U n i versity in Boston . . . . Nancy and Gregory Shefrin were new par ents as of J une 26, 1 994, when Zachary Lee was born . Greg is an assistant v ice president at the Bank of New York . . . . Matthew Steven Smith is working as a teacher at Headlands Institute, a nonprofit field science school. School groups attend the insti tute for one-day t o five-day pro grams and do outdoor projects. These include marine science, group c h a l lenges and a l l -day hikes. Headlands Institute is one of three campuses doing environ mental education and is run by Yosemite N a t ional I nstitutes. M a t r h e w l iv e s i n S a u s a l i to , Calif. . . . Faith Delaney gradu ated from Northeastern U niver siry School of Law in May 1 994. She is a staff attorney at G.W. & Wade, a financial planning com pany in Wellesley, Mas . , where she works in estate and invest m e n t p l a n n ing . . . . Kathryn Clarke and Rick And e rs on have had another chi ld, Brady Chris topher Anderson, on J u ly 2 7 , 1 994. His b ig ister, Emily, 3 , i s adjt.:sting well now that she knows she is still the boss1 • • • Sarah Kellogg has suffered through her fir t year in law school at Boston U n i versity. After five years in New Haven, she threw caution to the wind and left her job as risk manager for an HMO to attend law school. "I plan to pursue a career in health care law in some form or another, assuming I sur v ive law school, " says Sarah. Hang in there! . . . Debbie Neu mann is a cardiology fel low at Lahey Clinic in Burlington, Mass. She has been working with Paul Bums for three years; one w h i le doing residency at Bo ton City Hospital and now in a commu n i ty hospital emergency room. . . . Christine Rona Alban had twin girls, J e nn ifer and N icole, on September 8 , 1 994. L ife has been crazy, she report , but lots of

A U G U

1 9 9 5

C O L B Y

A T

A L U M N I

L A R G E

fun ever since. Suzanne Krumm Yerdon is rhe goJmorher to both

girls. At the ti me hris wrote, she was considering returning to work as a part-time consu ltant at ScuJder, Stevens & Clark . . . . I recently heard from J anet Lam oreau Cyr, who is l i v ing in 0 hkosh, Wis., with her husband, Tom . She i as vivacious and posi tive as ever. . . . T o m Valinote' address has been found ! H e is liv ing in Los Angeles and has been on the TV shows NYPD Blue and Babylon 5. Last Decem ber he did a comedy show in Santa Monica, Calif., at the Upfront Theatre. Tom write th<it he anJ hi dog welcome vi itors. . . I sti ll have lots of letters and question naires but no room to print it <il l . Don't worry, I will forward all the valuable news to our new c lass secretary, Barbara Knox Autran. She and her hu band , Frederic, had a son, Dylan Alexandre, on February 27, 1 994, and he w i l l tell y o u a l l about him in h e r next

column. I have enjoyeJ keeping you updated about our class. May your li ves be filled with m uch happi ness. +

even if they had an off year! . . . Nancy Norris Gould left her work in the defen e industry ;:i year ago and is now a senior fi nanc ial <inalyst for T.J . Maxx. The on- ite day care provided at her office is a huge help with 2year-old Sam and his new little sibling ( who had not yet arrived at the ti me of this art ic le ) . . . . Joan-Beth Witkes Gow com pleted her Ph.D. in biology at Clark Uni versity in May 1 994 <ind is currendy a po tdoctoral fe llow at the Worcester Founda tion for Experimental Biology. he cred it her background in sc ience at Colby, particularly her experiences in Professor Champ lin' genetics cla , with helping to get her through grad chool. Joan-Beth <ind her hu band, Neil, are anx iou ly awaiting the arrival of their fin chilJ . . . . Nancy Goldberg is an Engl ish instructor at outhern Maine Technical College in Portland. he and Vito Courtney were engaged in No-

orrespondent: Gretchen Bean Lurie

Many ch anges con t i n u e to shape our Ii ves ·ince tho e care free Jays of burgers ar rhe pa, fri bee games by Johnson Pond or road trips to Three Dollar Dewey's in Portl<ind. Mol ly Couch is a superv ising teacher in tbe fifth grade at the mith College am pus chool. he is currently work ing towards a purple be lt in tae kwon Jo and preparing for a July wedd ing to her fi ance, ean Ward . . . . Karen Jodoin i teach ing biology and cmch ing girls' vars i t y basketba l l a t Thayer Academy in Braintree, Mass. he loves living in the Boston area and carching the Celtic game ,

vember 1 994 and are planning for a M a y 1 996 wedd i n g in Gloucester, Mass . . . . Joe and Su san Maxwell Reisert are living as resident tutors at Harvard. Sue is in volved with students studying women's issues, public service and re ligion. She a lso holds three other jobs, includ ing director of the first-year community service program , a sistant to the assis tant dean of the college for co education and assistant m i n ister at North Prospect Church in Cambridge, which she loves. She was hoping to be ordained this spring. . . . After working w i th foreigners for two years in Paris and fi ve years in Seattle a t M icrosoft, James Lebaron decided to get a ma ter' in teach ing from Seattle Un iversity. He is now a very happy h igh chool French teacher. He is still in contact with Jennie (Webster '89) and Matt Hartley ( who had their first baby, James Gibson ) and w ith everal Colby friends from the Class of

Class of 1985

reun Our 1 0th reun ion was a tremendous suc cess, with a huge turnout and lots of fun thanks to the hard work of a number of classmates, notably Kelli Crump, who worked long and hard for a year and a half plann ing the logistics of the infamou get together. Spec ial activities for our c lass included a golf outi ng at the Waterv i l le Country Club orga n ized by Stephen Reed. We also enjoyed more spontaneous gatherings such as remi n isci ng on Friday n ight at You K now Whose Pub ( remember those great p izzas ?! ) in down town Waterville. Clas mates came from a l l comers of the country: Tom Colt made the journey (he decided at the last minute ) from Oklahoma City. Mark Hodin came from W iscon in, J ulie S a n d s Causey hopped a p lane from Roy H i rsh land. M inneapolis, and J i m Gill traveled across the pond-from England, that is ! But the spec ial guest star was Tom Valinote, who flew a l l the way from California at his expen e (John " G in Pup" Collins is very sorry about the m isunder randing). The Class of'85 won't forget the scrumptious lobster bake and class d inner with the d istinguished presence of President Cotter and Professor Jan Hogendorn. Professor Hogendom spoke of change at Colby-the new Harold Alfond A thletic Center, the trend among other l iberal arts institutions to expand in size ( Colby's incomi ng freshman class is expected to have 540 students ! ) and h is desire to keep Colby's student population at i ts current level. President Cotter wa presented w ith a memento key chain and a check forover $ 7 5,000 contributed by members of our c lass. The h ighl ight of Saturday evening was a t Strider Theater, where

the G i n P u p hosted h is legendary " Late N ight" sho" ( move over Letterman ! ) . We were able to look back on Gin Pup's fir t hows, w ith v ideo footage of interviews w ith e i ler's Food ervice employees-and who could forget Angela Drennen Hansen s i nging " I t 's Raining Men." he graced us with her talent agai n , s i nging "Cucuna Mata ta" (I apologize for spe l l i ng ) . We were a l l i m pre sed by the foo t age of Tom Val i note' ucces ful act ing career i n Lo Angeles, which inc luded excerpts from, among others, the h it eries NYPD Blue. A spec ial request was made and granted in the form of Roy Hirshland modeling Speedo bik ing shorts, toples ! The audience was amazed when Cici Bevin Gordon was able to contact Tom Claytor on the phone, and we were able to hear about h is latest adven tures flying around southern Africa during h is round- the-world trip. Linc Peirce wa Gin Pup's last guest, and we were given the pri v i lege of v iewing a previously censored cartoon featuring the duel of the Colby M u le and Moose. Linc has moved on to greater t h i ngs than The Colby Echo, and after a decade of hard work his cartoon strip is now bei ng syndicated. Some Reun ion 1 99 5 T- h ires are still available, so please call the Alumni Relations Office if you would like to purcha e one. To all who could not make our reu n ion, do try to come to our next one. We missed lots of faces. A special thanks to Kate Lucier O'Neil, Cory Humphrey Serrano, Beth Towle, J ul i e Briggs, Steve Langlois, Shireen Shahawy Stinneford, Ann-Meg White and Rob Boone.

-Mary Alice Weller-Mayan

C O L B Y

A U G U S T

1 9 9 5

A L U

19 4. James i always eager to read thi · column upon the arrival of the maga:ine but wishes more people would share their news! . . . Brent and J ill Stasz Harris, as well a Brad, 10, and J ake, 3 , are excited about their mo\·e we t ward thi summer. The Harris family will leave our nation ' · capi tal to become the tanford U fa mily. Brent fini hed his last year of an M . D./Ph . D . program at Georgetown and will be start ing a re idency in pathology, and af ter four years at an economic con sulting firm in D.C., J il l w i l l be in the M . B.A. program at Stanford. . . . Mark and Lori Moody Holmes welcomed daughter arah Beth last ovember. t i l l func tioning on very l ittle sleep with a wee one at home, Lori returned to part time work as a ystems manager for Liberty M utual near her home in omersworth, N.H . . . . Mich ael Hipson may l ive and work in the Lone Star State, but he c laims he's still a Yankee at heart! The add i t ion of Connor, now 1 6 months old, has gh·en a new meani ng to M ichael and Gina' lives, and they c laim the ir second child may not be far behind. On ew hi bu ine s travels from York, Mark Needham is a fre quen t vi i tor tO the H ipsons . . . Meena and Daniel Hewett are both architect prac ticing and teaching in Bosron. Despite busy chedules, they were able to make a wonderful vi it to I ndia recent ly . . . . Larry and Kelly McPhail Mendez proudly announce the birth of daughter Kristin Layne, who arrived in J anuary. The happy fa mily lives outside of Dal las and welcomes any Colby class mates to stop for a visit. . . . l 've been back in my private chool admissions role for over a year now and continue tO keep busy as ever. l erve on the board of the nursery school my kids attend, chair a mother ' group a t my church and teach Sunday chool to 3- and 4-year-olds. H u n ter will b e 5 this fall and loves school, computers, sports and movies. Paige, our l ittle Picas o, turned 3 in J u l y and i exci ted about start ing preschool and ballet lessons in September. +

Correspondent : Sara Dickison

I've bumped into Hil ary Seward a few times

on the streets of Bos ton-she's working a. the mar keting communications manager for Hunneman Real Estate . . Ayme Allison ha moved to a sma ll town in Connecticut to work at the Gunner) School . ( D rum P o t t e r went tO h igh sch )OI here, according to Ayme . ) h e 1 the assistant dean o f tu dent and director of tuden t ac tivities. The hours are c ra:y, but she k)ve· her job and doe n't mts the rat race of Boston at all. . . . Zach Abrams took a leave from GE Capital and started busines school at the Wharton School. He told me that P a u l Carmillo i working at Biogen of Bo ton, Brad 01 ·on ' 9 0 is a lso a t t e n d i n g Wharton, Dave Caspar i s mar ried and working in New York City and Eric Zieff got married in J u ly and is getting a Ph. D. in p ychology . . . . Steven and Ellen Krau e Teplitz bought a hou e in Washington, D.C., and ha\·e en1oyed the joys of fi xing i t u p ! . . . Mel Brown is t i l l the dean of girls and modern lan guage department chair at the t. Andrew's School in M iddle town, Del . Mel took 12 tudent to Mexico to do a 1 0-day com m i t m e n t e r v i c e proj e c t l ast summer. They helped build a bas ketball/ occer court in a small community out ide T ij uana . . . . Laura and Randy Catlin have been enjoying living in Yarmouth after a year in Damariscotta, Maine. He writes, 'Tm still work ing at 'the Yard' and will be going back tO school to do an 1 8 month--one day a week-M . B.A. program at Northea tern. I 've been working on a new de troyer de ign, and Laura i designing and ell ing ad for Portland Maga vne." Randy i excited to ee that the rowing program started by ' 87 , ' 8 and '89 c lass members i still growing . . . . Monika Chas has been l iv ing i n Montclair, .J ., where she works in regulatory affairs in pharmaceuticals. She has had the thrill of 20 pieces of her artwork being displayed at a local gal lery. Monika has been thinking of moving to Bo ton

and continue· to work on her thesis for a ma ter' in French literature . . . . Carol Ann Beach is currently the head women' basketball coacb at Connec ticut Col lege . . . . Jane Clark writes that she is a soc ial worker and sub ranee abuse counselor for grades 4- 1 2 in a school system near where she l ive . Her hu band is a lso a soc ial worker for a p ychi atric hospi ta l . They've been enjoying married life and remode ling their house. . Keep the news coming. + Corre·pondent:

Deborah A . Greene

Rosie Ahkami, M.D.,

is living in ew York City and finishing her first year of re idency in psychia try at ew York Hospital/Cornell Un iver ity . . . . Maria Bonneville Berry and husband J ames have their hand full up in Nashua, N . H . , w irh their two boy , J acob, 3, and Thomas, born la t Octo ber. J ame i a chef, and Maria is working on a course in wriring for c h i l d r e n . . . . A nd y ' 7 a n d Debbie Man n J ohnson recently moved to Ohio afrer Andy com pleted hi Ph .D. in molecular and cellular biology. He's now doing cancer re earch at Ohio rate, and Debbie is a medical secre tary . . . . S u z a n n e M i l a u s k a s Goldwin married a Briri h char tered accountanr last October and honeymooned in Hawai i . The wedding party included Susan K e l i h e r , T r a c y G i o n fr i d d o ,

K a r e n O ' S h e a '90 a n d J e ff Schaefer '90. uzanne is now l iv ing in London and working for an . I n NYC, Bren art publisher. dan Cahill i the director of cli ent sen-ices for the William Doyle Galleries, which deals in rare books, maps, autographs and rare and fine wines. He hang out w ith Tom C a h i l l , Tucker Offut t ,

Kevin Oates '88 and J a n Gisholt . . . . Brian Connors reports: "Lyle 'The Wanderer' Muir decided to make a pit stop in Quantico, Va., and ju t completed boot camp at the U .S. Marine Corps Officer Candidates School. The former certified phy ical firnes con ultant said, 'The boot camp ounded l ike a good exerci e pro gram.' And Steve 'Valedictorian'

�I :-.J I

... T

L A R G E

Rand i currently chal lenging hi

m ind ar Dartmouth's Tuck Busi ness School. He li\'es off camru with dual grade school teacher and wife Karen Faunce '90. When asked hi rationale for gening an M . B . A . , Ste\·e rates, 'l ha\·e mastered the arr of rrorer gro cery bagging and now it' on tu rhe next level."' Brian also write> rhat he and h igh school sweet heart M ichelle LaRocco ( Bow doin '89, Yale '92 ) are getting married in March and will liYe in Bow, N . H . , where they recently boughr a house. . . . Rick Cahaly is a project manager for an em·i ronmenral con u l t i ng firm i n Boston c a lled TechLaw, I n c . , which frequently .ends him back to Maine to O\'er ee work being done on ha:ardous wasre sites. He is also doing ome grad work in the en\'ironmental field at Tufts and reporr- that Kerry and Greg lgo had a son, Timothy, la·t October. They both work for Clean Harbor , Inc., and Greg has finished an M . B.A. from Babon . . . . Ingrid Kasaks-Moyer ha· been working in the marketing department of L&F Products and i project manager for Diaparene Baby Wipes, Wet Ones and Ly ol. Husband Quinn i the sale man ager at Seely & Amill, an aggre gate company, which sells sand and gravel to construction com panies. Mike D'Agostino man age to see the Moyer twice a year for kiing and golfing. On the way back from visiting relatives in Es tonia and Latvia, Ingrid aw Sa rah Maddox-Rogers during a topover in London, where arah and husband Peter are having fun painting and furnishing a gorgeous hou e they bought. Sarah help run the Saatchi gallery and is ex c i ted about being in the art world. . . . Sue Braton and N ick Childs '90 were married on New Year's Eve, 1 993. Sue i in Columbia Busine chool, and the couple l ive in the NYC area . . . . Stacey Mitchell i also in YC, working a s a l a w y e r for the d is t r i c t attorney' office after graduating from Tulane law school la t year. . . . J ulie Margolis is back in New York after a transfer from her advertising agency. he had been in South America for a year. . . . Carolyn Harper i living on the East Side of NYC and working in an art gallery. +

A U G U

1 9 9 5

C O L B Y

\ I l

'I N I

l 1\ I(

l o

The N ineties >pl n t t ng lw, t 1 1ne he t ween h 1,

Correspondents : 1 990 Laura � en ier 4 Menntnmy RuaJ, Apt. A r l i ngton, MA 0 2 1 7 4

6 1 7 - 64 1 - 3467

at t h L· U n 1 ver,i ty ,,f V 1 rg 1 11 i '1 and chm Margaret chwarze i' dul· r , 1 grad uate frum 1-farvard Med ical

1 99 1 Port ia Walker 1 7 o�sippee RoaJ =2 omervi lle. MA 02 1 44 6 1 7 -666- 2 1 02

1 992 Katie Mart in 1 8 1 Larchmont Avenue Larchmont, NY 1 05 3 9 1 4- 8 3 4- 5 5 3 7

1 993 Kri tin L . Owen, 1 3 2 Northgate RoaJ Northborough, MA 0 1 5 3 2 508- 3 9 3 - 2 4 1 7

1 994 A l i c i a . H idalgo 2 8 Mar hall treet North Read i ng, MA 0 1 864- 30 1 8 508-664- 5 1 28

1 995 Alyssa Falwe l l 2 5 Fa lmouth Road Arl ington, MA 02 1 74-2 206

Corre pondent:

Laura Senier

One of the things I 've enjoyed most is getting m a i l from p e o p l e I <lidn't happen to know personally whi le we were at Colby. For ex ample, K irsten Rossner, who wrote that he graduated from Bo ton University with a master' degree in physical therapy and is now working in Charlottesville, Va., at a sport med ic i ne center. She tel ls me that John Woods is al o in the Charlottesv ille area

C O L B Y

A U G U , T

law 'c hlil1l and teach ing ,k i ing ac ,1 ne,1 rh) re,nrr. Af ter grnd u a r i , m . j , 1 h n plan' t 1 1 llll l\T hb L1w prnc t i L L' ru NL'll' I l,1111p ,hirc, II'here the ,k 1 cund 1 r H H1 ' ,1 re l'\'en het t n . K 1 r,cen .11,o ''1)'' t h a r E r i b S.1yew1ch '92 1-, 1 11 J ; 1 w c hool t h ird year nf

1 9 9 5

,'chnol t h " prtng <md w i l l he 'pend mg t h e n1l lnth, uf Apri l and M<ty 1 1 1 Panatn<1 il'a m 1 11g 'p;m 1sh-anJ, a' K 1 r-;rcn .,;1y,, "do111g medical th mg,. " K t r'> tc n �aw ile, '9 1 anJ Sonja Wiberg Parkeru\'er the Christ mas hnl iday�. 'onj a graduated from Duke Un iver,1ty with a ma tcr's 111 physical therapy and b n( iw workin g <H a ho,p i ta l i n Cooper-,rown, N .Y . , where Ni le, i� working un a master's in mu seum tud1es. S u z a n n e Q u i l l graduated from Bo�ton Univer ity law school in 1 99 3 and i' now practic ing law in Boston. Andrea Ciampa gradu::ited fwm uffulk University law chool in 1 99 3 and is l iving in Pitr-burgh, where her hu band plays for the Penguins. Kir ·ren also know that Valerie Bryer Pettit and her hu ban<l moved to At lanta, Ga., in the fall of 1 994 and that Malcolm Hill i. liv ing in Houston and fin ish ing a Ph.D. in marine biology. Malcolm i married with one son. Thank for all the new , Kir ten! . . An drew Eaton sent word that he and Paige Brennan were married in May ( their 6-year-old son, J ustin, wa the ring bearer). Andrew is working in Ill inois as a personal fitness consultant at Mul tiplex Fitness Club . . . . Robyn Glaser wrote from haron, Mass., where she wa spend i ng the summer studying for the bar exam before mov ing to New York. Robyn graduated with a dua l ] .D./M.B.A. degree and will be working in the corporate law department of the

law ftrtn Pau l, Wei ., , Rifk111d, Whartlln, and G a rr i ,on 1n Man hat tdn r im fo ll. . . . Chip Gavin ..,ent a (111'( Lard from W<l\h ington, D.C., where he V l '> l ted a hunch of Colhy grnd-, la..,l w111 ter. He wri t e r h a t J a n e t Boud re a u ,

cott

were mamcJ in August 1 99 3 after living in Seattle for two year and arc now li ving in P mland, Maine, where Jon is in law school an<l Nori i'> working a a graphic Je igner.+ C(lrre pondent:

Perley, B i l l Aguiar and Kathy McKiernan a l l ..,eem wel l . I had

Portia Walker

J tnncr wnh Janet a whik ago when 'ihe wa-, in the Rw.ron , rea fm cl \'t>it->he had )Lt't hcen ac cepted t n t l l the M.R.A. program at Harvard ,ind w i l l he moving hack to rhe nrthe<l\t th1 fall. . . . J en M d-.op '9 3 and Jon Mil lard houghr a hou;.e chi spring. Jen 1<; .,ti l l W(lrk tng fm ear-, hut on a new a-. 1gnment d a rore man ::iger. which make., for a much Je.,, hcc r tc travel ;.chedulc. J on i · till work ing a> a credit a n a J y.,t i n M ichigan orporate Bank ing and wa lo.1king forward to graduating from their relationship manager training program this ummer . . . . John Guerreiro ha pent much of the pa�t five ycarsJ0111g molecular genetic re..,earch at the Wayne rate U111versiry _ chool of MeJ1c ine in Detroit anJ received hi master's der.,rree in May. Thi, fall. John w i l l be ;.tarting work on an M . D. at M 1ch 1gan rate Umver ;.ity and is trying for a po ition in their rural physician's program. He regret that he won't be able to attend reunion-he'll spen<l half the ummer in Ala ka and half in Portugal . John' been in touch with Ly Furrow '9 1 , who has ju t finishe<l her master's degree 111 fisheries and wildlife at M ich igan State Univer i ty and will be j in ing John in h is travels thi um mer. Bruce Fougere '92, who is enrolle<l in a computer program in Nova coria, stopped by to ee John in M ichigan . . . . J on and Nori Sterling Gale wrote an up <late on them elve and their son, Tarum Monagan Gale, who wa born in December 1 994. The rwo

Daniel Bowman 1 a planner at husine o n y Corp., ha a new cone.lo and will marry Rebecca u m mer or ' poerri '88 t h i fall . . . . Mindy Rohrrnan Burgess received her ma ter' in experi mental psychology from Hol lins College in 1 992 and, along with hu band teve, is pur u ing her Ph . D. at Florida State. . . . Tre maine Cooper is an eque trian crtN-country and jump builder an<l designer and ole proprietor for "Cros -Country Designs." He and hi <log, Campagnolo, l ive mostly on the East Coast but pend part of the year in Seattle and over in Englan<l . . . . Beth Ackroyd, currently l iving in Paterson, N .j . , say teaching fir t grade is "quite an experi nee." he hopes to go back to choo l , po s ibly t h i fal l . . . . Eric Adams has q u i t h is paralegal job in New York and is now pursuing h i law degree at the Univer iry of M ich igan . . . . Jen nifer Wood Jencks ha- taught at various private schools, run a mara t h o n , graduated from S m i th College's chool for Soc ial Work M . . W. program in August 1 994 and now is a social worker in a Rhode Island ho pita! while com pleting her thesis. And she mar ried the person she had a crush on since the sixth grade! . . . Chris tina Thompson and Andy Bess are living in H igh Wycombe outide of London; she's looking for work i n London, and he is a chem ist and sales/publ icity manager for an environmental testing agency.

A L U M N I

Jessica Butler, Cathy Breen, J ulie Daniele, Ashley Cornell, Carol ine O'Malley, Patty Masters and Tree Sullivan. The Darbys spent

their honeymoon in Bora Bora and are living in Menlo Park. Calif.; he teaches high school English in Palo Alto . . . . Twisty Gogolak, after being a bridesmaid in Cathy Breen's wedding la t December along with Liz and Je sica, will be celebrating her mar riage to Tom Dorion in the near fu t ure . . . . Lesley Eydenberg and

L A R G E

Lacrosse Boss

ft e r grad u a t i n g from Colby, Katherine "Kay" Cowpert h w a i t '9 1 went to California to experience some thing new. Four years later, he is head coach of the new tanford U niversity women' lacrosse program-a job she says he " tu mbled into." At 2 5 , Cowperthwait ha p layed lacrosse for 1 5 years first at Greenwich Country Day School in Connecticut and then on M ayflower H i l l . h e was Colby's starting goalie for four years but says she d idn't think he'd play lacrosse in C a l i forn i a u n t i l she heard abou t a women' club league. Cowperthwait started p lay ing met the coach of Stanford's women's c lub program and before long was helping to coach. She appl ied for the head coaching po it ion in the pring of 1 99 3 when the univer i ty granted women's lacros e vars i ty sratus and was h i red in J uly 1 994. "It was rea lly a big ri k, but I thought that I ought ro at lea t try," said Cowperthwait, who lives in Menlo Park, Calif. , with her partner Ann Vaughn. "I knew I had the experience, but it also was a relative ri k for Stanford to hire me." I n their first varsity season, the Cowperthwait-led Cardinal compiled a 20- 5 overall record ( 7 -0 in the league) playing again t Cal ifornia club teams. ext season she hopes to get more NCAA

They hike, rock c limb and travel whenever po sible and-follow ing their wedding this fall-will embark on a sailing honeymoon in Honduras. They told me that Lisa Twomey i teaching French and Spani h at S r . A ndrew School in Delaware; J u l i ette Varga and Mike Rooney are pur suing married l ife and their Ph.D.'s at U.N . H . ; and Dave Moore, M e r i d e t h M a s t e r a nd J a red Cornell are all l iv ing i n San Francisco . . . . Liz Helft married Don Darby '89 in August 1 994; '9 l er attending the weddingwere

A T

sanctione<l game on the schedule by playing D i v ision l tea1m. There are 36 Divi ion l women'· lacrosse teams in the U . . mostly in the Ea t. " I t's hard because only e ight h igh school in California have women's lacrosse teams so we don't have that feeder base," a1J Cowperthwait. "[The University of Cal ifornia] Berkeley women·� club lacros e may go varsiry in the next two years bur aside from that there are only c lub reams." Cowperthwair's ream will have to play more Divi ion l teams to be considered for po·t ea on tournament play next spring, competing against colleges in Colorado and Tennes ee and other ·chool outside California. he adm its that the e c i rcumstance may impede the success of her program, but she poin ts to some advantages, too. "Recru it ing is going to be ea y because Stanford i uch an excellent educational opportunity," she a id, ''and I'm so lucky to be in a place where excellence and hard work are valued so much. There is a lot to aspire to around here. You get this belief that i t's only a matter of time before you win a national t it le becau e you are con tantly urrounded by i t . " tanford has won 66 national championships in several sport . 'This seems lik e the place to be if you want to win a nat ional ti tle. That rea l ly moti,·ates me to succeed," said Cowperthwait, who'd l ike to see her team ranked somewhere in the m iddle of the Div ision 1 pack within the next five year . " I 've definitely learned a lot over the year ," he said. "[ take ·enously my posi tion a a role model and coach. l know it's not all about lacrosse, but it's also about teamwork. Athletic is sort of a microco m of the real world. l understand the value of that."

Dan Bouvier are al o offic ially engaged . . . . Cherlyn Neely and teve Gorin '92 are the proud parents of M indy Amanda. Cher lyn is having fun being a mom but definitely plan to put her two tax l a w d egree to work in the future. . . Rob '90 and Tricia O'Sullivan Hyland have j usr pur chased and moved into their own hou e in Franklin, M a . She's a h u m a n reso urce m a n ager a t Filene's, and he's a consultant for Ander on Consulting. . . . Sue Gouws is still in New York Ciry working for Paine Webber as an equity research associate. She per formed Mozart' Mass in C last spring ( hey, ue, me, too! ) w ith one of the two choral groups she belong to . . . . Heidi Meehan Grant is teaching eighth grade English at the John Jay M iddle School in Katonah, N.Y., after receiving her ma ter'sdegreefrom Teacher's Col lege, Columbia U n iversity. She and h usband M ichael '90, who' working for the Katz Corp. in New York City, married in August 1 992 and are

liv ing in Mt. Kisco, N . Y. . . . Lisa Gould, a practicing attorney after passing the bar in '94, was married last] une . . . . Annie De Maria fin ished her eventh year of sailing schooners la t fall and is now work ing with the Great Lake Merchant Marine . . . . Megan Finley is a member services manager for the ational Council of State Hou ing Agencie , a trade as ociation in D.C. lobbying for hou ing for low- to moderate-income people. She was to be a bride maid in Stacy King's J une wedding to J us tin Verge '90 . . . . Catherine Giles is getting her master's and a C.A.G.S. in chool p ychology and will graduate in '96. She is doing research at Boston City Ho pital and i keeping her kiing habit a live through teaching. ( Her only major change is that now she likes cats! ) . . . Corinne Hau er was married r h i J u n e , w i th Caroline O'Malley as the maid of honor . . . . Rem1ion is less than a year away. Volunteers w i l l be needed for various stages of this proce . Your opinionsdo count! •

Correspondent:

Katie Martin

Thi is mostly an en gagemen t/wed d i n g/ baby column. Mi-Sun Cho i engaged to her long-time high school bo)friend, with plans to marry this summer. . . . Laura Armstrong i busy making plans for her September wedding in Boulder. . . . Krista Lundborg is engaged and planning a Septem ber '96 wedd ing in N ewport, R . l . . . . Cathy Ryan recently was engaged to M ike Kolakowski and planning a ummer of '96 wed ding . . . . Margaret Russell was proposed to in, of all places, Paris. Roma n t ic ! ( he a id yes. ) . . . Curt Beckwith i l iving in an Francisco with h is fiancee, Susan na Rhodes. . . . Jen Kosek i mar ry i n g M a t t h e w W a l k e r r h i September. . . . In August, Sarah H a m i l t o n w i l l marry S c o t t Barringer . . . . Chris Ward an<l Whitney Adams planned their J u ly wedding for Cape Cod. . . .

A U G U

1 9 9 5

C O L B Y

,\ I l I �I N I

1\ I\

l o I·

Kelly Evans ; m d Gmin An:via n arc hw.y planning r hc i r we d ·

'9 1

pl;mned r o re t u rn rn M a i n e w i f' h hope' to w m k on M a i n e.: fo,, il::. and 1•; 1 lc o n t o l ogy . . . . L 1,t (;1 1 1 I h eaded north to Rn,ton for the w c e k rn d o ( r h e l -le;1d of t h e

d i ng for Ct i lum h u , llny wee k e nd in Chatham . . . . O t h c r 1VL'ddi ng::.: Cathy Swaffar m;1rril'd l > ; i v i d Dou g l a � '9 1 la�t ye<H'. . . . Sarah Bramhall m ; i r r i cd Jmh Re y nul d ' in September '94. In attendance ( i n ad d i t i n n to m y s e l f) were

Charle,. Ch ris Froth ingham and

J eann ette Riddle, Liz Cimino,

B e n Bea tie, K r i s Boynton . Curt

Dave Moore, C h ris a n d Angela

Stevenson, Mark Longsjo and Pnppyann Maq mv i rn '9 ) ( whl' Wl.'re get t i ng ready for t he i r No

Forman Tom s , Pete Hoc k n e l l , Joe Savoie, Scott A l p r i n ( bc. l ma n ) , Theo Von Wallmenic h , Laura Kuske, Michele Rowe l l , Andrew F i n n a n d J o ' h Ruhar '9 3 . . . . Tricia Bald ridge, a t h i rd

grade reacher 1n Ca mpt o n , N . H . , w a s a bri d e ::. m a i d in Mic h e l l e Fortier's wedd i n g la::. t Oc r, iber alung with Karen Wu a nd Mary Beth

Hei k e l l . Melissa Small

( who is rc ·pnn s i b le f or intmduc· ing M ichelle t<J her husband, John Bi::.com ) did a re;Kl ing ar thL' "·'r vicc. A lsn in attendance were

Farah Paradise, Yong Kwon, JC K l i c k and M i k e Downes . . . . Lisa Miller m a rrie d T, idd O'Cnn nor ' 9 1 in J une . . . . Karen Larson wed Chris Flint t h 1 ::. pa t April.

. . . And the birth: teve Gorin a n J Cherlyn Ne e l y '9 1 welcomed the i r seconJ child, M i ndy Aman Older da, in December '94. news: Suzanne Bober "'"' be tween jobs, h a ,· i ng e xpe ri m ente d w i t h a rc h i te-: r u rc a n J W a l l Street, a n d thinks grad school w i l l he in the picture m m . . . . Lisa Churc h i l l fi n i hed her M. in geology la::.t December at the U n i v e r s i t y of M i c h igan a n d

Meredith Johnson h ad one nf

the Good Rcer Pmt ll''· an d in attendance were Po lly Sherida n ,

vember wedLl i n g ) , Suzanne Reg n i e r , the c l a n from M i chelle Fort ier\ wedding who ,rnppcd hy afterward' and Amy Da \'l' '9 1 . M y <lpolngie> rn thuse I left our. At the Head of the ' h a r lc,, l found Bryan Chase a n d Shan rnin J oh mo n '9 1 rak ing c.ire of the Cnlby hoor h. A bo there were Be cky Graham , Jen Greenleaf, Andy Rhein, Matt Brow n, rhc c rew fn im Chri' and Mered n h \ party an d m;my mnrc . . . . K ud n, to Donna Burbank for 'l'nd ing the f1r't u1xlaLL' via c-m; 1 1 l . My add re '' " k m;irtsmh@aol .cnm .+ Cl i rre.,ronde n t:

A l icia S. Hi dalgo J osh Eckel, a'>,i:-.t;mt

d i rector of student ac t1v i ties ar Colby la t year, l ived in Waten· i l le wnh Ali Meyer and spent time with Jon Blau, who orcrates his nwn ad verti i n g and market ing bu,iness. Jo h aw Greg Christopher 1 11 Jackson, Wyo. , last Chrbrma' va-

union. Erin Crossland joined Greg, who hope<. ro attend archi lecture schnol in Lhc fo l l . Josh also h 'een J en Morrow, who live> in Bclmunt, Ma. s . , and worb as a lah tech nician at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Bosron . . . . Daniella Araujo is a psychiatric tcchni ian in the chi ldren'& unit of t he Jnckson Rrook P ·ychiatric 1-iospirnl in Portland, Ma ine, and plans to tudy c l i n ical psychology in grad school thb fa ll. . . . Steve Doherty i::. in grad school <H UN I-I, working on a Ph.D. in chemistry. . . . J u l ie Cy r t rn vc lcd cros coun try with Laura Keally last sum mer. �he l i ve<. in Brighton and worb <1"1 teacher of pcc ia l needs ch ildrcn. . . Kate Diana abo trav eled aruund rhc country-with her si,tcr-and now live' 111 Bo� ton, where she works a a Ofj'll rate rara leg,i l for S u l l ivcin & Worce,rer. . . . Carolyn Hart, sta ff a"i'rant wuh B;iy Bank\ Pnvarc Ran k in g G ro u p 111 C<im hmlge , lives in � umerv i l le with Rebekah Freeman, who work at MIT <ls an <l!»tstearch ,rnd de v e l opment for the deodora n t department . . . . Marile Haylon i s a graphic designer wi t h Brad ford Ad vernsing in Cnnnec ticut and had an ad published in the April . . C h ris Yankee M aga z i n e . Rogers a n d Andrea Bowman are engaged and pbnn ing a summer '97 wedding . . . . New York news:

Sara Ferry, a management associ are wiLh Cit ihank, recen tly did -,ome recru it ing/interviewing. She wrore th<1t .,he and Kamin Mc Clel land attended a Colby party thrown hy Candace Killmer '93 and arrie m i rh '93. Sara ha heard from Gretchen Stone, who is working for a headhunter in Connecticut and studying phy i cal therapy, and Milly Noyes, who is �ubsti tute teaching while wa it ing to hear from grad school . . . . Sean Hayes is a capital markets equity analy t for Merrill Lynch and say h is brother, Jim '92, is s t i l l in t h e Peace Corp i n Ukraine . . . . Laura Eanes teaches math and coaches lacros e and occer at Blair Academy, a hoard ing chool in New Jersey. Laura and Chri Abbott made a trip to Bo,ton to -.ee Ethan Spencer and Ham Thompson . . . . Tara Esera 1s a n as oc i a t e prod ucer for

Ncw-,Talk. a new cable network in New York. he also play soccer with the Metropolitan Women' Soccer League and i prod uc ing a fi lm vcr inn of hakespeare' A Midsummer's Night Dream. In May, Tara hiked from an Francisco to LA tn the California AID Bike a-Thon . . . . Katherine Bordwell l ive m Portland, Ore., and hopes to go abroad to teach Eng l i h. . . . Matthew Gaines is an infor mation consultant for U ICEF in eattle. Having ju t returned from Croatia, he writes that he has a new per ·pective on how great A m e r i c a i s ! . . . K e r r y Enright received an M . A . from

Class of 1990

reunion The Class of 1 990 wa out in full force for Reun ion Weekend. Friday night was a mellow night-after check ing in, a group of people hung out in the pa, playing pool and catching up on the news. Saturday morn ing we led the parade to the fc otba 11 fie ld, where Said Eastman and Janet Boudreau presented a check for $26,000 to President Cotter on behalf of our clas . After the lobster bake lunch, most of us took some t i me to wander around campus and check out the new b u i ld i ngs or tour the athletic complex or art museum. A bunch of people played volleyba l l and frisbee in from of East and West Quads. About 1 00 peop le showed up in t ime for our c las d inner on Saturday night, where we were welcomed by Said Eastman and Dan Spurgin . Dan continued h is trad i t ion of capturing another Kodak moment by photographing us from the pod ium. After John Robbins

was called upon to share a m i ldly ob cene joke with u a l l , Profes or Pete Moss ( history ) spoke about some of the current i ue on campu , mnst notably the grade-inflat ion phenomenon. Professor J ane Mos ( French ) also shared some new with our clas -in several language . After d i nner, the c lasse of'SO and '85 joined us in the Page Commons Room for a tudent U n ion parry with The Blue F lames, a blues band. It also seems that an impromptu game of beer d i e may have formed in the East Quad lounge on Saturday n ight after the party in the Student U n ion ended , although the deta i ls are unknown ( who was God ?). On Sunday morn i ng we had coffeecake de l i vered to the dorm from Bonn ie's, and most people got on the road for the return trip home fairly early. Please call the Alumni Relat i on Office if you would like to purcha e a Reun ion 1 99 5 Class of '90 cap. Some are s t i l l available. -Laura Senier

C O L B Y

A U G U

1 99 5

:\ L L �I '..: I

t h e c ho o l of E d u c a t i o n a t tanford a n d hope� t n find a iob i n t h e b i l i ngual education fi e l d . . . . After a few months l iv ing in a co-operative house m Boulder, Colo . , David Holtzman planned a ix-week h ike i n the Rockie and hoped ro w ork on a farm . . C l a s s m a t e s a b ro a d : H e a t h e r Eskey ha taught at the Wa�h ing

ton I ns t i t u te of Language, in Kumamoto, J apan , . ince J uly '94 and will ray through December. . . Tori Esser works in Paris, France, as meeting coordinator for an international association of busine ·es in the food industry ( in Madrid, Munich, At lanta and Geneva ) . Tori has seen Ingrid Kristan, who was teaching in a

French school on a Fulbright cholarship. . . Terry Meehan 1s back from I r e l a n d , l i v i ng in Somerv i l l e and doing medical re search at Children' Ho p i ta ! . . . . Heather Vincola, C h rist y Ly n c h and Kerry Sh eeh y share an arartment in Brookline, Mas . , where a brunch � t. Patrick' Day weekend brought together Missy Fraser, Marika S c hwart: man , Colleen Bren nan, Megan Harris, Tracy Larsen, Tracy Karsc h , Ashley Short, Kristen Zier, Krista Nordgren ( working for a publ ish

ing company in New York) and Babs Coulon, a research coordi

nator in the youth marketing de partment of H ouston Effler, a Bo ton ad ,· en i ing fim1. +

..\ T

L ..\ R G E

NEWS MAKERS David Carney '90 wo n a eat on the c hool com m i t tee in North Andover, Mass . . . . The M ai ne Associated Press Broadcaster A · o c i at io n awarded Dan Harris '93 an honorable mention in t h e enterpri e category for a erie of i nterv i ew abou t the election of Governor Angu K i ng. Vanessa Lloyd '93 received a ma ter's of education degree and elementary teacher' cerrification from Bo ton U n iver ity . . . . U nder the au p ice s of WorldTeach , Amy Alder on '94 is teach ing Engl ish ro elemen tary school c h ildren in Co ta Rica . . . . Marile Haylon '94 h a been named associate a r t d i rector a t Bradford Adverti i n g i n N e w Haven, Conn . . . . In Wa h ington, D.C . , Laurie S i l erman '94 i the n ew d epu ty press secretary for Senator J udd G re g o of New Hampshi re . . . . Rob Underwood '94, con tac te d by M a i ne new p ape r , repor ted on the de asrating earthquake last Janu ary in J apan, where he is teaching English at a h igh c hool .

MILEPOSTS Marriages : Mya-Lisa K i ng ' 9 0 t o Mark Condon in Northea t Harbor, Maine . . . . Carrie Lucas Linn '90 to Frederic Andre Robert A rnaud in Magnolia, Mas . . . . Margot Wood '90 to

Marrhew Owen in Greenwich, Conn.

New Members Join Executive Committee D i rector of A l u m n i Relat ion Susan Conant Cook ' 7 5 has announced the new member of the 1 99 5 -96 executive

been a class agent. H e i a n attorney i n a mall pract ice in Welle l ey , Mas . A n ne Hu ey '80 is the new chair of the A l u m n i on Campus

committee of the A l u m n i Cou n c i l . Tne com m i t tee, which i

Committee. She works in marketing at H u

appointed by the Counc il chair, reflec ts attempts this year to achieve a greater gender balance, Cook ay . Execut ive comm ittee members erve two year term . Ron Lupton ' 7 1 was elected chair of the Counc i l . An

on the Counc il a a clas repre entative. Diana Herrmann ' 0, vice pre-ident of Aqu ila Management and new chair of the Clubs Committee, has served as pre ident

attorney in a small practice in Bath, Maine, he ha served a v ice chair and Alumni Fund chair.

of the New York Colby Club, a a cla s agent and a a reun ion

J oanne "J an" Weddell Magyar ' 7 1 is the new v ice chair of the Coun c i l . he has erved a c lass representative to the

commi ttee member. Thomas Dailey '80, whose term is completed as co-chair of

Coun c i l and wa an active member of the Admis ions Comm it tee.

ey Manufacturing.

Lou R ichardson McGinity '67 i the new chair of the Adm ission Committee. A control ler at Xerox, he has erved

the Clubs Committee, will chair the Alumni Council Ta k Force on Clubs. He i an attorney w ith N YN EX in Bo ton .

he i an optician with Huntington Eye Care Associates in

Hunt ington, N .Y. t ion Committee, has served as v i ce chair and chair of the

Arthur Brennan '68, new chair of the Athletic Comm ittee, has served as president of the Colby "C" Club, as cla repre en

Task Force on Communicat ion . She is president of the New

tative to the Counc i l , as c las president and a 2 5 th reu n ion

York Colby Club. John Dev ine ' 7 8 is Alumni Fund chair. He has erved as chair of the Coun c i l N o m i nating Committee, has been a c las agent and wa a member of the A l u m n i Fund Committee. A busine department manager w i th Procter & Gamble, he i the

chair. H e is a

Libby Corydon-Apicella ' 7 4 , new chair of the Communica

cla

career and had her number retired. Le lie Mitchell '80 i the ne\\' chair of the Career ef\'ice Committee. She has served as pre ident of the New York Colby Club, as a class agent and a a reunion committee member. he i an

pre ident.

u an Jacobson N ester '88 i the new chair of the Nom inat ing Com m i t tee. She has erved on the Cou n c i l as a class repre entative. N e ter is a producer for bu iness and financ ial

attorney with Fiq>atrick, Cella, Harper &

cinto in New York City.

Departing Council member include Al Carv i l le '63 , olomon Hartman '67 , Carol

new at CNN . New chair o f the Award Comm ittee i s David White ' 7 5 . He ha

uperior Court j ustice in Maine.

Patric ia Valavanis mith '80 i pre ident of "C" Club. he scored more than 1 ,000 points in ba ketball during her Colby

ly '80, Cynthia "Cynn ie"

Auman '80, J ud i th Orne Shorey ' 5 5 , W i l l i a m Marvin '65 and Thoma La V igne ' 5 8 .

erved o n the Coun c i l a a c l a - representative and has

/\ U G U S T

I 9 9 i

C l) L B Y

O B

WI L LI AM M . C H I TT E N D E N ' 1 9 W i l l iam M . hi ttenJen ' 1 9, founder of the ChittenJen I nsurance Agency, J ied Decem ber 1 4 , 1 994, in Hamden, Conn., ;i r 98. He wa born in Clinton, Con n . , where he at tended Morgan H igh School . Afrer ,erv ing in the Army in World War I , he joi neJ the R isdon M an ufacturing Co. in N;iuga r uck, Conn . I n 1 92 8 he founded the Ch i ttenden In urance Agency in Naugatuc k, where he remained active until he moved ro H;imden. He wa · a hank d i rector and act ive in everal local c ivic orga nizat ions. He leaves a wn, three (hiughters, 1 5 grandch i ldren and I great-grandchi ldren.

M I RA LOU I S E D O L L EY ' 1 9 M ira Louise Dol ley ' 1 9, a French teacher, d i ed December 8, 1 994, in Port land, Maine, at 9 7 . he w;:i born in Raymond, Maine, and attended Deering H igh Sc hool. She received a master's degree from Midd lebury College and took add itional courses at the Sorbonne, Harvard and the U n iver ity of Southern Cali forn ia. After teach i ng for two year at M a i ne Central I nstitute, she moved to Deering H igh School, where her enthusia m for young people and strong belief in the importance of the education of girls led to a 4 7-year career as a French teacher and dean of girls. I n 1 9 56 she was c ited as an outstanding teacher of modern languages by the Modern L<inguage A ociat ion. She served the College as presi dent of the A lumnae Coun c i l , as pre ident of the Southwestern Maine A lumnae Assoc ia t ion and as a member of the Alumni Council. I n 1 9 3 7 she was elected a tru tee of the College and i n 1 9 59 recei ved a Colby Brick. She is surv ived by two nephews and a n iece.

P HY L LI S STU R D IVA N T SWE ETS E R ' 1 9 Phyl lis Sturd ivant Sweet er ' 1 9, a homemaker and librarian, d ied J anuary 16 in Portland, Maine, at 96. She wa born in West Roxbury, M as ., and graduated from G reely H i gh School . At Colby she was president of Stu dent Government and a member of Ch i Omega sorority. With her husband she planted and ran commerc ial orchards and a lso was a l i brarian at Greely I nstitute and at Prince Memorial Library i n Cumberland Center,

C O L B Y

A U G U

1 9 9 5

Ma ine. he .,ervcd on many community orga n izar iom and ervcd the ollcge asc lassagent, c lass corre�rond e n r and mcmhcr of the Alumni Counc i l , for which he receiveJ a Colhy Brick in 1 9 7 2 . She i, -,urvived hy a son, a Jaughter, Eliza beth � wccr::.cr Baxter '4 1 , a sister, eight grnndchi ldren , includtng Ledyard S. Baxter '67 and David S. Raxter '70, and 1 9 grear-grandc h i Id ren.

R UT H A UST ! B LA K E S L E E ·23 Ruth Austin Blake Ice '2 3 , a teacher and school princ iral. d ied February 5 tn Sanf ord, Maine, ;.it 9 3 . he wm. btirn in 'pringfield, Mass., and a ttended loc al .,choob. he al o ;mended Columbia Un iver., i ry and ,rring field Cn l lege. She h<ld <1 long career a· a reacher and prtnc 1pal in the pnngf1eld pub1 ic school "Y'tem hefore reti ring in 1 96 3. Two n iece surv ive her.

TH E LMA R Y D E R BU H ·23 Thelma Ryd r Bush '23, a reacher and home· maker, died October 29, 1 994, in pringfield, Vt., at 92. he was born in Leed , Maine, and attended Maine schools. A Latin major and member of Alpha Delta Pi �orority at the Col lege, shetaught Latin at pringfield H igh cho l before her m<IITiage in 1 928. he was an active member of several pringfield organization . She i urvived by a on and granddaughter.

LO U I S E M . T I L LE Y '23 Louise M. Tilley '23, a teacher, died Decem ber 3, 1 994, in Woodman, N .J . . at 94. She wa born in Garfield Plantation, Maine. After teaching English at Presque Isle ( Maine) H igh choo l , she moved to West Long Branch, N.J., where she continued teaching until her retirement i n 1 960. She erved the College a a c las agent.

MA RGA R E T TU R N E R H OW E ·24 Margaret Turner Howe '24 d ied September 26, 1 994, in Auburn, Maine, at 9 1 . Born i n Palermo, Maine, s h e attended Hebron Acad emy. At Colby she joined Phi Mu. Upon completing her Colby degree, she married M alcolm S. Howe in Stonington, M a ine, and together they raised four c h i ldren.

•

DOR I S H A R DY H AWE E LI '25 Dori Hardy Haweeli ' 2 5 , a teacher and dean, d ied April 8 in North Conway, N .H., at 92. he wa� horn in North Ya salboro, Maine, the daughter of Theodore E. Hardy, Cla s of 1 89 5 . At Colhy s h e w a a member o f Chi Omega orority tlnd a Ph i Beta Kappa graduate. After graJuate work in education at Harvard Uni versity, she taught Latin and French at Coburn Classical ln titute, her alma mater, for 27 years ;ind 111 the 1 960 wa <lean of women at Worce ter Jun ior College. he was active in Colby c lub , erved on the A lumni Counc il and the Board of Tru tees and was an alumni inter viewer. In 1 9 9 1 she received a Colby Brick. She is survived by her n iece , El izabeth Hardy George ' 5 7 and Ellen B. Haweeli '69, two nephews, mc luding John D. Hardy '63 , and many grandnieces and grandnephews.

F R E D R I C K C . W R I G H T '2 7 Fredrick C. Wright ' 2 7 d ied January 2 1 in Doyle town, Pa., at 8. A native of Leverett, Mtl ., he wa the national a les manager for Dictaphone Corp. in Bridgeport, Conn., for five year before becom ing regional a les man ager of Telaurogrnph Corp. in Lo Angeles. He retired in 1 9 7 3 after 2 0 year with the company. He i survived by h is wife, Kathleen, a s n and daughter and ix grandchi ldren.

H E L E H l G HT B ROW '28 Helen H ight Brown '28, a retired teacher, d ied September 1 4 . 1 994, in Skowhegan, Maine, at 87. She wa a native of Dexter, Maine, and graduated from Skowhegan H igh chool. At Colby she was a member of Delta Delta Delta sorority. For 35 year he taught Engl ish and Lat in at the Skowhegan J un ior H igh School. he is survi ved by her hu band of 62 years, W i lliam S. Brown, one son, two grandchildren and two great grandc h ildren.

PAU L I E SI C LA I R ST I C H F I E LD '28 Pauline Sinclair Stinchfield '28 died January 23 at 89. She was the wife of Roger A. Stinchfield '26. Survivors include her son, Carleton P. Stinchfield '49, and a granddaughter.

M U R RAY B. M I L LE R · 2 9 M u rray B. M i ller ' 2 9 , an ora l surgeon, d ieJ December 27, 1 994, i n Lake Worth, Fla., at 87. He attended Tufts U n iversity Dental chool after lea\' ing Colby and went on to a pract ice in dental urgery in White Plain , .Y. He a lso erved a a major in the A rmy during World War I I on the max i l lo-facial plastic urgery team. H e i · u rv ived by h is wife and a son , R ichard 0. M il ler '6 1 .

P H I L I P S. B l T H E R ·30 Ph i lip S. B ither ' 30, Colby professor of Ger man, d ied May 10 i n Waterv i lle, M aine, at 85. He wa born i n Linneus, M aine, and graduated from R i c ker Classical I nstitute. He taugh t for a year at Mount H ermon in onhfield, Mass., and a lso stud ied at the U n iversity of G iessen in Germany before joining the Colby faculty. He rece i ,·ed h is master's in modem languages from Harvard U niversi ty i n 1 9 39. H e served as execut ive ecretary of Ph i Beta Kappa for many yea r · a n d w a s invo lved with the summer language chool at Colby for 20 years. In 1 970 he was awarded a Colby Bric k . H e retired in 1 974. urvivor inc lude h i wife of 5 5 years, Colby profes or emerita Marjorie B ither, two ons, two brothers, includ ing H an ley A . B ither '4 1 , three isters, two grandchildren and n iece and nephew , including Paul B i ther '76.

WAYN E E. ROB E RTS ·3 1 Wayne E. Roberts 'J I , a teacher and CO<lch, d ied April 18 i n South Portland, M a ine, at 86. Born i n N orth Berwick, M a ine, he at tended local schools and lettered in baseball, footbal l and track i n h igh school and at Colby. A ucce ful m i nor league p itcher for se\'eral years, he wa elec ted to the M a i ne Basebal l Hal l of F a m e i n 1 97 7 . For 3 5 years he held posi t ion i n the South Portland school sy tern as h igh school Engl ish and science teacher and coach, as principal and a d i recror of elementary curric u l u m . He earned a master's of education from Boston U n i ver i ty in 1 9 5 2 and served 1 1 years a s uperintendent of chools before he retired in 1 966. Prede ceased by hi w ife, A l i c e Linscott Robert '3 1 , h e i survived b y two sons, David Roberts ' 5 5 a n d John M . Roberts '60, a brother, five gra n d c h i ldre n , i nc l u d i ng Susan Robert Dangel '86 and L inda Robert Pagnano ' and evera l cousins, n ieces and nephews.

JOH

H . J . WI S OS K I ·3 1

John H .J . W isnos k i '3 1 , a retired c iv i l ser vant, d ied October 27, 1 994, in Ware, Ma ., at 86. He wa born in Ware and educated at Ware H igh School . At Colby he earned h i degree in French. I n 1 94 3 he enlisted i n the U.S. A rm y and erved with an armored d i v i s ion in the Rome-Amo, N o r t h Ape n n i nes

anJ Po Val ley campa igns and i n Darm taJt, Germany, for which he received the A meri can and European -M iddle Eastern Theater ribbons. U n t i l h is retirement i n 1 967 he was a revenue officer for the I n ternal Revenue Service. He is surv ived by hi· \\'ife of 53 years , Agne , a daugh ter, four brothers, two i ters anJ three grandchildren.

R T H A D R E \\ S YEO MA s ·32 Ruth Andrew< Yeomans '32 d ied October 1 9, 1 994, in L incoln, Maine, at 84. She \\'as born in Drew Plantation, M a i ne. After graduating from H igg ins Clas, ical I nstitute, he attended both Colby and the U n iversity of M a ine. She wa for many years a member of the Drew Plantation school commit tee and also served a- the town treasurer. For most of her l ife he worked the farm on which he \\'as born. She is sun· i,·ed by a daughter, three granJch i l dren and three great-grandc h i ldren.

M A R G A R ET F E RNA L D SM I T H ·33 Margaret Fernald Smith '33 died ovember 1 9, 1 994. i n W i lton, Maine, at 3. She wa born in Freeport, Ma ine, and graduated from Brunswick H igh School. After Colby, where he majored i n French, he \\'orked as a pay rol l c lerk at the H . E . Da,·is hoe Co. until her marriage in 1 9 39. he wa a member of sev eral local and national grange organ ization . She is urvived by her hu band, Chester, a son and a brother.

WI L L I AM H . M I L LETT ·34 W i l l i a m H. M il lett '34, a chemist, d ied Janu ary 9 i n W inston- alem, N .C., at 8 2 . The on of Robert N. M i l lett, Class of 1 89 3 , he was born in pringfield, Vt., and attended local schools. At Colby he wa ed itor of the Echo, pre ident of Powder and Wig and a member of Ph i Beta Kappa. He earned an M . A . in chem istry at Princeton U n iver i ty and a Ph.D. at the U niversity of Penn ylvania. From 1 94 1 to 1 969 he wa · a s i rant direcror ofresearch and development at U n ion Carbide Corp. and from 1 969 to 1 97 7 was department manager at Houghton I nternational. He a lso served in the N aval Reserve d uring World War 11. He publ ished many artic les in the chemical met alworkmg field and wa a member of everal technical soc ietie . Predecea ed by h is brother, Donald H. M i l lett '2 , he is urvived by h i wife, Georgia, three daughters, a s ister, R uth M i l lett M aker '36, three grandch i ldren, n ieces and nephews.

TH E O P H I L E S. K RAW I E C ·35 Theophile . Krawiec '3 5 , educator and au thor, d ied February 9 in Bethlehem, Pa. , at 8 1 .

A nat i,·e of Central Falls, R . I . , he received h is M. . in r�ychology from Brown U n i vcr 1ry i n 1 93 7 a n d his P h . D . from ew York U niver�ity in 1 94 5 . He taught p ychl1 logy at Oregon State College anJ tben ar Skid more Col lege, where he wa� department chair from 1 94 7 to 1 970. A Fulbright Lecturer at I brah im U n i \'er sity in Cairo, Egypt, in 1 9 5 3 - 54, he al o taught at Lehigh Univer 1ty and Meredith College after retiring from kidmore. H is se,·eral puh lications included Beginning Psychulugy, The Psychologists and S)·scems and Theories of Psy cholog)' (co-author ) . In 1 9 7 1 the American Psychological Foundation awarded him its D1s tingui ·hed Teaching Award for in pi ring gen erations of col lege students. He was a generous supporter of College scholarship funds and erved on the Alumni Council. He is survived by h is w ife of 5 7 years, Stephan ie, rwo sons, a brother, a s i�ter and four grandc h ildren.

H E L E C U RT I S LOT H R O P ·35 Helen Curti Lothrop '36, a homemaker, d ied December 6, 1 99 3 , in Winthrop, Maine, at 78. Ra 1seJ in Portland, Maine, she attended Deering H igh School and, after Colby, Northea rem Business College. She worked as a clerk at Maine General Hospital, Maine Casket Co. and The Employer's Group before becoming a homemaker and mother of two daughter-.

PAU L K. PA L M E R ·3 7 Paul K. Palmer ' 3 7 died January 1 9 in Duned in, Fla., at 79. He was born in Nobleboro, Maine . After Colby, where he wa a member o f Kappa Delta Rho fraternity, he worked for five years for Fire tone Tire and Rubber Co. a a sales man, then was employed by New England Telephone Company. H e was general man ager of Massach'..lsett Traffic when he retired in 1 9 76. He served both Colby and h is frater n ity as co-chair of the building committee. He issur\'ived by his wife, Elizabeth Walden Palmer '40, two daughters, three sons, i nc lud i ng P. Kendall Pal mer J r. '64, h is brother, L i n wood E. Palmer J r. '42, and 1 5 grandchildren.

H E RY

W I LCOX ·3 7

Henry V. W i lcox ' 3 7 , a teacher, d ied J an u a r y 1 6 i n Big Pine, Cal if. , a t 8 1 . H e was born in Belfa t, M a ine, where he graduated from Crosby H igh School. He received h is master's of education from the U ni ve rs i ty of M a i ne and taught in M a i ne h igh school for 1 1 years before mov ing to N e w H a m p h i re i n 1 948. H e taught a t Beth lehem H igh School for e ight years, then moved to Cal ifornia, where he taught mmh and science for 2 2 year a t B i g Pine H igh School before h is ret irement in 1 97 8 . He is surv ived by h i s w i fe, Adelane, two daughters, t w o grandon and four great-gra n d c h ildre n .

A U G U

1 9 9 5

C O L B Y

W H I T N E Y W R I G H T ·3 7 Wh i rn c y Wright ' 1 7 , a ret i reJ Navy c a rt < 1 i n , d ied December 2 2 , l 994, i n Dammisco l t a , M n ine, at 79. Born in Roston, Ma � . . h e attendeJ H yde Park H igh chm>I i n HyJc Par k , M a,,. At olby, where he wa a mem ber nf Phi Del ta Theta fratern i ty anJ pre, i dent of the fraternity i n h is M::n inr year, he excel led i n footba l l , tra c k anJ hockey. He jo ined the N a v y in 1 9 38. At the out,ct of 32 year of service, he was a fighter pi lot in WorlJ War II anJ flew n u me rn u , nmhat m is,i on· i n the outh Pac ific, for which he was awarded the Navy Cross, the Di>t in gu isheJ Flying Cmso, A i r Medals w i th three stars and a Purple Hean. H e wa, captatn of the U . . . /n tre/Jid. In 1 964 he commanJeJ Midway and in the a i rcraft c arrier U . S .

1 969 received the N a t io n a l OrJer of Viet nam for h i s ervice w i t h a U . . rn,k f orce. He was a fac u l t y member of the U .S. Naval War Co l lege i n N ewport, R . l . , hef ore retiring in 1 970 to Boothbay H arbor, M a i ne. I n the 1 970s he served Coll y a, a member of the A l umn i ounc i l . H is first wife, Lou i e Weeb Wright ' 3 8 , d ied i n 1 98 3 . H e is surv ived by hi, wife, A . aro l , a daugh ter, three · tepdaugh ters, a s ister and 1 1 grandc h i ldren.

E A R L L. WA D E ·39 Earl L. Wade ' 39, a d e n t ist, died N ovember 29, 1 994, i n Calai , M a i n e , at 77. Born in Pen iac, N . B. , he attended the U n iver ity of Mi souri after graduat ion from Colby and diJ h is res idency i n oral surgery at Kansa City General Hospi ta l . H e returned to M a ine to prac t ice i n Bath and served a pre ident of the M a i ne Dental Soc iety. H e is survived by h i wife, Phyllis Ham l in Wade ' 3 2 , and two daugh ters, i n c l ud ing Teri- Lee Wade '68.

F R E D E R I C K W. H OWA R D '44

Frederick W. Howard '44, a public relations execu t ive, d ied December 30, 1 994, i n Green w ic h , Con n . , a t 74. A member of Phi Del ta Theta fraternity at Col by, he i nterrupted h is education to serve in the U .S. Marine Corp during World War I I . For h is serv ice on O k inawa he wa awarded two Purple Hearts and a Bronze S tar. H e returned to Colby, grad uating i n 1 946. I n 1 949 he received an advanced degree from Col u m b i a U n iver i ty, then was employed as a n executive i n public relations i n four major corporations i n New York City. H e ret i red i n 1 98 5 . H e is survived by a n iece.

JOH

POM E ROY '44

J oh n R. Pomeroy '44, a salesman, d ied Febru ary 1 3 i n Brock ton, Mass., a t 74. Born in West

C O L B Y

A U G U S T

1 9 9 5

Bridgewater, M a,� . . he attended Pawling Pre paratory Sc hoo l . He wa' c a r rn i n of the C()lhy ha,ebal l team a nd later r layed ( ) n a e m i profes>ion a l t e a m i n M ao,ach usett a n d in the Det ro i t Tigers organ i zation . H e wa� em rloyed by Nurtheaot Clark Li fr Corpmation in RhoJe I s l a n J , where he wa' national 'ale 1r n111 of the year on nu merou' ( )Ccm.ion� and saleo ma nager at the time he re t i red . He i' 'urvi ved hy h i s w i fe , Patri c i a , two son , two Jnugh ters, a hruther and n i ne grandc h i ldren.

AVA R D

J. H O LT '49

Avard J. H o l t '49, a b:rnker and real e rate ;ige n t . d ied Decemher l 9, I 994, 1 11 'kow hega n , M a i ne, at 66. Rmn in Canaa n, Maine, he gra d u a ted from Porrland H 1gh 'chon l . He was employed f or 28 year' hy the Li nco l n kowheg;in . La ter he l nd u s m a l Bank i n worked a a reuns, tWl> daughters, h is father and stepmnthcr and e ight grandch i ldre n .

T H O M A S W. 49 AM U E L E Thomas W. amuel,en '49, a reti red p yc h i a tri t and L utheran p;i�tor, d ieLl 1 11 December 1 994 i n Cape E l i zabeth , M a i n e , at 67. Born in Brook l y n , N . Y .. he graJuated from Pol y Prep 111 Broo k l y n . At Colhy he obtained h is Jegree i n Germ<in, was the German C l u b ecretary and president anJ was act ive in t he G lee Club, the Outing Club anJ Kappa Del t a Rho fratern ity. H e a l o h e ld an M .A . from olum bia U n i ver· i ty, a B . O. from the Theo logical eminary i n Getty burg, Pa., and an M . O. from the U n iver i ty of M u n ic h , Germany. H e completed h is med ical i n tern h i p at East ern M a i n e Medical Center i n Bangor, Maine, and was a re ident a t Maine Medical Center i n Portland, Maine. H e prac t iced psychiatry at Maine Medical Center, York Cou n ty Coun sel ing Serv ices, Augusta Mental Health I n stitu te a n d t h e M a i n e Y o u t h Center before ret iring in 1 99 2 . H is wife, A n i ta , two daugh ters and a grandson urvive h i m .

R A L P H H.

F I E LD ·so

R a l ph H . F i e l d ' 5 0 died February 2 5 i n Fairfield, Maine, a t 7 2 . Born i n B a r Harbor, M a i ne, he was a graduate of Ken ts H il l c hool and served i n the U .S. Marine Corps i n the South Pacific during World War I I . H e wa employed by Keye Fibre Co. i n Fairfield for 3 7 years before retiring as sen ior v ice pre i dent o f manufac t u r i ng services. H e w a s active i n com m u n i ty affa irs. Survivors i n c l ude h i wife, V irgi n i a H i l l F i e ld '48, a son , Ralph F. Field '74, a daughter and two grand c h i ldren.

FRA

R. KIER

A N ·53

Fra nces R . K i ernan ' 5 3 , a n execu t i v e i n the i n J u � t r i a l gas business, J ied J an u a ry 30 in Man l i u. , N. Y . , at 64. A foot b a l l p l ayer and 1m·mher of A l pha Tau Omega fra tern i t y a t o l h y , h e ent ered t h e M a r i n es after grad u at ion and e rved f o r two years, leav i n g ac t i ve servi e a s a first l i e u te n a n t . After rec e i v i ng h i s M . B. A . from Co l u m b i a U n i ver,i ty, h e worked i n t h e i n d u t r i a l gas hll'• tne�s for 30 year . H e is urvi ved by hi w i fe , Ba rbara E l l e n , t wo on , two daugh ter and five gra n J c h i ldren .

C H I PMAN f OA P H I L LI P ·57 h ipman P h i l l ip' ' 5 7 d ied November avannah, Ga., at 59. he wa horn i n Fort Worth, Texa�, and attended Beaufort H igh choo l . At Colby she majored i n h i l>logy and wa a member of the Camera Club and the Outing Club. he worked a a med ical tec h n ic ian at locat ions in Texas, Virg 1 11 1 a and North Caro l i na. he i surv ived by her hu banJ, R ichard, three daughter , two brothers and two granJ c h ildren.

Joan

2 5 , 1 994, 111

J A M E S N.

VA L H O U L I ·54

Jame N. Valhou l i '64, a teacher, died Feb ruary 3 i n Exeter, N . H . , a t 5 3 . Born in Greece, h e i m m i grated to the U n i ted rates w ith h i fam i l y i n 1 9 5 1 and grew up in Haverh i l l , M a ., where h e a t tended h igh school . H e earned his Col by B.A. i n Engli h and hi master' and do torate in Engl ish a t the U niversity of W iscon s i n . He wa an Engl i h profe sor a t Bradford Col lege for 1 1 years, then worked briefly a perso n n e l coor d in a tor of Davco before ret u rn i n g to the c la ·room i n 19 3 as an i n tructor i n English at Phi l l ips A c ademy i n Exeter. A n avid a t h l ete w h o ran maratho n , p l ayed and coach ed soccer and c l i mbed M t . M c K i n ley, he drowned after fal l ing t h rough the ice while ska t i ng on the Exeter R iver. He is urv i ved by h i s w i fe, Dorothy, two sons, hi mother and t h ree brother .

PETE R M . JOS E PH Peter M. Jo eph, a partner in Col by Vend ing and the J oseph Fam i ly Spa, d ied Apr i l 27 in Waterv i l le, M a in e , a t 70. In 1 985 the Col lege dedicated t h e Joseph Fam i l y S p a a s a tribute to the J oseph fam i l y for t h e i r opera t ion of Col by's Spa from 1 94 7 to 1 98 5 . A greatly re pected friend, counseler and sup porter to Colby student , staff and facu lty, h e wa awarded a Colby Brick i n 1 98 1 . Surv i vors i n c l ude h i w ife, Barbara, two daughter , a son, t h ree brothers and many n ieces a nd nephews.

eaders rite What's the Price of Freedom? I n response to President Cotter's article in support of tenure, I have everal remarks. One, President Cotter left out the price tag for his keep ers of values. I would llke to ee a cost-analysis of tenure and it impact on the rising price tag of a Colby degree, a price that is prohibiting grads like me, the untenured, yet dedi c ated, hardwork ing profe sional, from sending children to their alma mater. ext, he neglected to point out why college professors (or lawyers or bankers ) should have the outrageous privilege of lifetime j ob ecurity, for doing what they should be doing in the fir t place-per forming to the best of the ir ability. P haw ! on the lofty rhetoric that they are keepers of a college' value . A college has no more values than the ociety in which it sits. Ours are in short supply. When I attended Colby, tudents were elling and u ing drugs on cam pu , and the administration chose not to do anything about it or even admit they had a drug problem. The local head line I read after graduating aid "Colby Has No Drug Prob lem." Not true. The elimina tion of fraternities involved questionable tactics on the part of the admini tration. I recall at least one older, outraged fraternity alumnu using the word "lied." It certainly ap peared that way to me, de pite the good intentions.

Tenure represents the ba nal p u rs u i t of guaranteed money in a society in need of healing its materialism, not per petuating it. Keeping up with the Joneses-the Bateses, the Bowdoins-is not ethical or value-based reasoning. Moral courage doesn't come in packs, as a rule. "Good busi ness" should mean moral and value ba ed busines . Often, it im plies the opposite. Tenure involves politics because it involves personali t ies. Lumping college teachers' rites of pas age with lawyers and banker is two-edged . Banker and lawyers are no more immune from the cor rupting influences ofbig money than any other group of people, pr fes ional or otherwise. Finally, gran t i n g costly lifetime guarantees of job se curity to only select groups of dedic ated professionals isn't free market thinking. It couldn't be defended on moral or ethical grounds, and it is dangerously elitist for a plu ral istic ( and v iolent) soc iety with fringe elements begin n ing to strike out v ic iously again t a government whose leaders themselves are in a questionable moral place. Lisa Wormwood '8 1 Yarmouth, Maine

Two More Deserve the Spotlight We were very pleased to see that the Performing Ans Department at Colby was ac-

knowledged in the latest issue of your magazine. The Peri scope section had a paragraph titled "Only The Best" [that described theater awards re cently won by three Colby stu dents]. It is nice that these students were given recogni tion for their achievements. Unfortunately, a mistake was made. The American Col lege Theater Fe ti val has many areas of competition, only one of which involved [the Colby production of] American Buf falo. Mike Daisey '9 5 , Brent Felker '96 and Scott Cole '95 all were involved in the perfor mance ofAmerican Buffalo, but they were also nominated as Irene Ryan candidates. For the third year in a row Colby stu dentscompeted with many oth ers to move on to the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Not only the cast of American Buffalo but also Colby stu dents Ja on Spooner '95 and Katie Thompson ' 9 5 were nominated as Irene Ryan can didates. These last two had nothing to do with the produc tion of American Buffalo, al though many other students were involved in the various technical aspects. (The show was also entered for design and for lighting. ) Colby magazine is seen by many people, those who have gone to Colby as wel l as those who are merely considering attending the College. We feel that it is important to make a

good impression on all of these people. It is for this reason that we decided to alert you to the fact that an error was made. It is also important to give recog nition where it is due. Thank you so much for mentioning American Buffalo. I t i your ac knowledgment that helps en courage rudent like us. Kathleen Wood '96 Betsy Clark '98

Squash That Rumor I wa read ing, as always with great intere t, the late t edition of Colby when I came aero s page 3 7 and the ti tie " Best Season Ever . " I was pleased and happy that the team had done well. ( I was on the 1 989 team. ) However, while it may be the case that the team had the best record ever ( I don't re member our record ) , I do know that we won the very same Barnaby Trophy in 1 989 while at Yale-it was the first time Colby had ever accomplished this feat in squash. Shaun Dakin '89 Glendale, Ariz.

Correction An i tem in the Class of '7 1 news of the April Colby incor rec t l y stated Dr. W i l l iam Anthony's place of work. An thony is on the fac u l ty of Northwestern U niversity in Evanston, I l l .

A U G U S T

1 9 9 5

C O L B Y

A Heart Bigger Than Texas by J . Christ ian Davenport '96

n t i l now, all that most

ha� taken i n and c a red for

members of the Cul by

t h ree other c h i ld re n , ages l

a ra mr i n to the house.

" I t \ a fu ll - t ime undertak

commun i ty knew ahnut "ReJ"

1 4 and 1 7 , a l l n f whom

i that h e worked in the Spa

c o n fi n ed to w h ee l c h a i rs. The

and smi led a lot . A nd wh i l e

c o u ple ha� r wn grown

t h e y m a y h a v e surmised t h a t

c h i l d ren nf t h e i r nwn who

Jiate care fac i l ity for mentally

h i n i c k n a me refer to h i

l i v e cl -cwhere.

retarded c h i ldre n .

bright red h a i r , most o f them d id n ' t even know his real

ing," 'a id Kevin Brown , a

a rc

�oc i<1l worker (I[ the Levin on enter in Bangor, an interm -

Paradis wake::. at 5: 3 0 a . m . ,

I f people

dee idc to dL) th i , they have to

t h ree hours hcf ure c n m i n g ro

devote their l i ves to the

name-Ernest Parad is. A nd

wnrk at Colby, w get the

c h i ld ' care . "

they cert a i nly d id n ' t k now

c h i ldren ready

that when " Red" is not at

f ou r of t h e f o · ter c h i ldren are

t h i ng Parnd i s (Ind hi

Colby, he runs a foster home

i n "mainstreaming" programs

f o r t h e i r frner c h i ldren i

f or . c hool . A l l

But the most im portan t w i fe d o

for fou r menta l l y retarded a nd

with h i s w i fe , Barbara. But anony m i ty is okay with Paradis. " I don't do this for attent ion," h

sai d .

" ! do

t h is because I 've always liked to help people . " He h a s helped Joe ( not h i real name ) , at 1 7 t h e eldest o f t h e four c h i ldren in t h e Paradis home, for 10 years. Aban doned by h is parents as a c h i ld ,

At a time in h is life when many of his peers are thinking about retirement,

in t h e Waterv ille public chool

love them. "They do as much for me a

N i ne months later, after

took their first vacat ion away from the chi ldren in 1 0 years. And yet with all he ha effort he ha invested in them, and a l l the love he has given, Paradi feel gu i l ty that he has not done enough. H is dream, he ays, i to b u i ld a park for pec ial-needs c h ildren on his land w i th ride that would be wheelchai r accessible.

ince

yet, " ! have a gu i lt trip about i t , " he aid. But V ik k i Choate, a state with the Paradis foster home

system, where they are placed

don't we take h im in ?'"

about ret i rement, Paradi , 6 1 , i · work i ng a hard as ever. La t ·pring he and hi wife

social worker who has worked

newspaper article that said thought, 'We

At a ti me in h i l i fe when many of h is peer are think ing

land with rides that would be wheelchair accessible.

"they needed a home for t h is

l ike regular k id , l ike all of u ."

he hasn't raken the i n i t iative

Paradis recalls reading a

little fella. So

to be love<l and played with

Parad is, 6 1 , is working a hard as ever. H is dream, he ays, is to build a park for special,needs children on h is

J o e became a ward o f t h e state.

have a nice big home, why

and rocked. They ju t want

done, after a l l the work and

physically l i m i ted c h i ldren out of h i s Waterv i l l e home

your own after a hart wh i le . They a l l love to b e hugged

1 do for

for more than five years, feels Paradi and his wife are incredible providers. "Red's

in normal classroom settings.

them," said Parad is. " I t 's a

heart is bigger than Texas,"

Paradis and h is wife care for

real joy to work w i th them.

she said. "These children

the children's basic needs,

And you can see i t i n their

require almost total care. It's a

washing and feeding them,

faces. When you show your

phenomenal responsibility,

b e i ng evaluated by the state,

brushing their teeth and

love you can see them

and they've met it every step

Frank became the newest

putting them to bed. Paradi

bubb l ing over . . . . They grow

of the way. Those c h ildren are

member of the Parad is fam i ly.

has made his home wheel

on you, and you fall i n love

l i terally members of the family.

S ince then the Paradis couple

chair accessible by building

w i th them as if they were

They are not 'foster kids.'"

C O L B Y

A U G U S T

1 9 9 5