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COVER STORY SHOW I N G THEIR

T U FF

Four years of tudio work get their due when senior artist' share their nsion and ·kill.

FEATURES H E L P E R� Financial donations aren't the only ones

WHILE YOU W E R E SL E E P I N G

that count, or that Colby counts L)n.

!TY HEAL=

Water\'ille's response to the slaving of

A S P E C I A L COLLECTION

community'::.- ability wheal itself.

Cnlby's best-kept secret is no longer

prepare the campus-and the cookies that keep Colby humming.

A cm.1�1u

L ong before daylight. these folk

two local nuns demonstrated a

a hidden treasure. 20

DEPARTMENTS 4TH FLOOR EU T I S

STUDE

T L I FE

R E A DE R S W R I T E

G I FTS & G RANTS

PERISCOPE

PAG I N G P A R ENTS

ALUM

I PROFILE

N . Douglas Macleod '44

40 Beverly Benner Cassara '47

42 Madelyn Wechsler Pressman '53

FROM THE H ILL

M ULES 0

THE M O V E

FACU LTY F I L E

A L U M N I AT L A R G E

BOOKS & A UTHOR S

O B I TU A R I ES

Susan Comeau '63

51 R. Chri topher Noonan '78

56 Tom

F I N AL P E R I O D 72

elson '85

Colby Volume 85

Number 2

Colby Staff: Sally

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Rnhert (!11lc•,p1e Alwnnt al Large eJuor Stephen c,,!11n> ·74 MMcGl;1,,

swff u•rirer�

Anc,tc> F,>t1ade' 'b9 Patnck McBncle '97 Kristel le Aherne '98 conmhwing H'fHcr,:.;

Administration:

Willi.1m R. Corter, /irc."denr; Peyron R. Helm, t•1ce /n.:"Jenr f"r detdo/llll<.'11! and al11111n1 rdauum; Ea rl H., m1th, dean of the CoU.:ge; St1><ll1 C,>nant Couk '75, J1rccwr of al1mrn1 rckuions Alumni Council Executive Committee:

Ron Lupton '7 I,

chair; Joanne

W.:ddell Magyar '7 I, ·1•1ce chair; Lihhy Cnrydon-Ap1cella ' 74: Arthur Brennan '68; John De,·1ne '78; Diana H.:rrmann '80; Anne Hu>0cy ' ' O ; Lou Richarcbon lvlcGinity '67; Lc,lic Mitchell '80; usan Jacohwn Ne,,tcr' 8; Da"id White '75

C olll\'

is publ1,,hed four times yearly

for the alumni, friend,,, parents of student>. ;enior', faculty and staff of Colby College. Address cllrrespondence to:

Managing Editor, Colby 4181 Mayflower Hill Waterville,ME04901-8 41 or e-mail to:

The Choices We Make Last sprin,l;, memher� of the Coll?)' staff met for an entire day in my li\·ing room to talk ahnut thi::- maga:ine. Much of what we shared that day concerned our reader . We ex

c h anged \'iew:, ahout \\' hat we should he trying

acc omr l i:,h hy puh l ish i ng this maga:ine

and the factors that drive uur deci:,inn m a k i ng. In short, we ta l ked a bou t s t or ie s. Ultimately, any ma g a : inc must return to the fundamenrnl truth that r eadershi p is the

main thing. While people may disagree ab,1ut the relative "\\'orth" uf a part icula r story, we t h i nk most would agree thar an unread public ation :,erves no purpose. We do not assume for one moment that our readers will enjny Col/1,, simply hecrnse they attended school here, ha\·e children here or are tied to the College in s o m e other way. If Co/b,, is to he worth read i ng, it must be intere�ting, affinities a�ide. Which hrings me hack tu our meeting last spring, smaller versiom of which occur dur i ng the p l a nn in g stages for each issue we prod uce. We ask ourselves, "Will people read it7" The article ah..1ut alumni volunteer� that begin� on page 12 was the result of a l u m n i suggesriuns . We were told that a l t h oug h w e occasionally feature f i n ancia l contributor , less attention is given to dedicated Co l hy surporters whose gifts are mea ured in tim e and energy. But our rationa le for pre pa ri ng the article wen t b e y on d simr ly recogni:ing hard workers; the story had intrinsic interest. Had it fal l e n short of thi second standard, w e rrobab ly woul d have sugge� ted an alternative way of h o nor i ng volunt e e rs . We a l so must try to interpret the tastes and attitudes of our re a ders when confronted by rotentially contrnversial stories. This issue contains two art i cles t hat req uire d serious reflec tion before we p ri nt ed them. The fir t was Sally Baker' depiction of the commun i ty reaction

and response

the l ay i n g in late January of two nuns at a local convent. We susp ected that

most of ou r readers already knew most of the ge n e ra l facts involved because the crime was widely puhlic i :ed in natio na l media. What our readers probably didn't know, and what we thought they would like to k now , was h o w the murders affected Waterville, and more specifi ca lly, Colby. After agoni zing over whether our coverage would rev i ve the pain caused by this

t e rrible event, we decided that the story of the community' respon se was worth te l l ing. M a rc Glass's profi les of Co l b y ' s pre-dawn empl oye es created a s i m i la r di lemma when one of the s u b j ec t s of the a rt i c l e , Eustis c ustod ian Pete J ohnson, d ied s u dde nl y a few weeks before we went to press. Should we omit the segment devoted to Pete, scrap the entire or run the article as orig i na l l y conceived? We decided that, if fo r no other r e ason ,

p i ece,

Pete's endearing personality and dedication to Colby compel led us to print the segment

about h i m . And, on a more p e rsona l level, we hoped that the a r t i c le m ight erve to honor the memory of a friend we miss . We hope we made the r i g h t cal l s in b oth i nstances. If you fee l we d idn't , we wou ld l i k e to k n o w. The more you t e l l u abou t what you want in Colby, the better j ob we can do in

d e l i vering a publ ication that engages readers and advances Colby's m ission. Write. Call. Send e - m a il. Drop us a postcard. We want to hear from you.

mag@colhy.edu on the internet: http://www.colby.edu/colby.mag/

On the cover:

M anaging E d i tor, Colby

T11e whimsical art ofMichael Branca '96.

C 0 l B Y

�I A Y

I 9 9 6

eadersrite They're Good,

nearly 60 years to better

delighted tn hear from you,

We Must Admit

what he did in that short

and my friend will be

Thanks for a first-rate article, "The Sowing Road," written in a very readable style. Mr. [Parker] Beverage sounds like the perfect admi sions director for Colhy, promoting the terrific Maine tudents who enrich campus life so much. [He is] in the mold of Bill Bryan '4 [former dean of admissions at Colby] and dare I say, Bill Shaw and my husband, Bob Glover, at Bowdoin, men who valued diversity in the student body and who understood the bond between their colleges and the tate. Colby and its tudent body are in very good hand . Beryl Scott Glover '58 Birmingham, Ala.

time. That, in itself, is a pretty good record. As almost e\'ery Colhy person knows, his gifts to the college didn't stop there. For another 15 years, until July 1954, his basehall and basketball teams brought

grateful as \\'ell. message "·hich Colb:• sends is that it is fine to drink. After all, some of the alumni actually have gone into the business of producing beer. Colby College rrides itself on being a community

glory to the athletic depart

of cholars. Pictures of beer

ment, and his gentlemanly

bottles and an article about

manner and conduct

making a li\'ing making beer

for the Record

from student life, to the faculty': creati,·e efforts, to alumni \\'ho\·e gone on to apply their Colby education tu

equally fascinating

careers-makes for absorb ing reading. Ir makes me

are not in keering with

the entire college commu

Colby's educational image

nity. I only wish his 30 years

or mi sion.

Colby exrerience ::-ome 40-

credit in the recent Colby

Sterhen Schoeman '64

insrires me ro sa,·e each

College: A VentLtre of Fairh.

White Plains,

.J.

Plea e pardon my ob\'ious prejudice, but I am till ,·ery pro d to be Eddie Roundy's daughter. Dixie Roundy Beebe '46 terling, Va.

Didn't Go Down Easy The picture of "Blueberry

grateful, once again, for my rlus years ag(). And it also

of ervice had recei\'ed more

Searching for Memories I'm helping a friend research early women pilots, and he' especially inter ested in rersonal stories about Bernetta Miller, Coburn Hall in the 1940 and '50s. I recall se,·eral

Ale" on the cQ\·er of the

interesting con\'er·ations

broken omeday, and while

February l 996 issue uf Colb\1

\\'ith Miss Miller and

I'm not glad that one of

and the accompanying

All record are made to be

Reading about all the different aspects of Colb,·

brought respect to him and

housemother at Louise

Just

Congratulation� un the (not-so) new format!

nsidered her an especially

issue to hare with my 15year-old granddaughter. Wouldn't I 10\·e to see her on Mayflower Hilll Carolyn English Caci '5) nrth Chelmsford, Mass.

Readers u•ith access can respond

e-mail

Ms. Caci at

cacica@AOL.com.

Corrections The caption beneath the

them was my father Eddie

article bring back distasteful

kind and understanding

rhoto of April B. Arm trong

Roundy's football victories, I am happy f or Coach [Tom]

(no pun intended) memories

woman with an extraordi

in the February issue of

of the sea of beer and nth.er

nary rast. Her accounts of

Colby incorrectly listed her

Au tin and very proud of

alcohol product which

driving an ambulance during

class year. She i a memher

our Mules.

washed over the college

World War I and becoming

of the Class of '97.

when I was a student there

one of the first women in

There i one fact to thi accompli hment, however,

in the early 1960s. It was a

the U.S. to receive a pilot'

that till brings great pride to

di graceful ituation.

license are \'i\'idly etched in

ers. We rese1w the right

my brain. I'm horing this

for bret it)' and clarity . Pleas

me for my father's ake: He

We encourage or should

Colby wel.comes leaers from r ad w

edit

be encouraging student· a

message will prod a few mor

send correspondence

Colby in 1924 and topped

well a the general popula

memories from other who

ing Editor, Colby, Offic e {Com

in the l;ire 1930 -about 15

tion to refrain from drinking

will come forward with

munications, Colb)' Colleae,

years. That means it took

alcoholic beverages. The

tarted coaching football at

tories of their own. I'll be

Manag

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Periscope Gleaned by Dean Earl H . Smith from his weekly campus newsletter, FYI

camrus, rhey called on Geology

Carnegie Fellow

Professor Paul Doss who, together wirh Andrew Flint '96

Nicole Dannenberg '96 11f Sunny\·ale, Calif., has been

(Cawn,\'ille, Md.), provided the d<Jra. Flint had heen using

,elected as an International Peace Juni11r Fellow by the Carnegie Endowment. She was

one 0(1 1 chooen from S()me 150 aprlicant: representing the nation's top colleges. She will b a research assistant for a senior fellow ar Carnegie and will wnrk on rhe journal Forei!(ll Po/icy.

the wells for hi> ,enior indepen dent research rr11ject.

and Lisa Tinanoff of Union \'ille, Conn., b11th juniors, were chosen from a field of l ,200 candidates from more than 500 11f rhe nation' colleges ro receive Goldwater Scholarships. Among si rer schools, only Wesleyan also can boa r rwo such scholars.Amher·r, Middlebury, Swarthmore, Tuft, and Williams had one each.

Colby Chemists Invade A huge Colby contingenr invaded rhe national meetings of rhe American Chemical Society in New Orleans in

a whopping 27 rresentations. Students included majors in both chemistry and biology. college has ever been this

ha> heen elected to rhe

have accentuated the need for landscare imrrovemenrs along the central mall in fronr of Miller

Modem Language A sociation\

School of Landscape Design, has been engaged ro design a new

of the American Review of Canadian

mall plan rhar will include new terracing on the lower mall, new

Well, Well

Studies.. . . See Tony Corrado (government) quoted and heard everywhere on presidential

lighting, and the replacement of trees with several differenr species. The work will be

campaign financing. Michael Donihue '79 (econom ics) has been invited by rhe Australian govemmenr to

completed by this fall.

rresent his work on economic forecasts and macroeconomic policy in the U. S. at the Treasury Department in

Colby Pride Perhaps you caught the wonder ful piece on Acadia, written by Michael Burke (English), in

Canberra, the Federal Reserve Bank in Sidney, the Queensland Treasury and the economics departments of Australia National University, Flanders

February's Yankee Magazine. supporting the tenure system, one of four pieces he has written on topics suggested by alumni,

University in Adelaide and Griffith University in Brisbane. .. .Jim Fleming (science and technology) has been asked by the Smithsonian Institution to help commemorate its 150th

was reprinred in the January/ bulletin of the American Association of University

anniversary. He has organized a session ar the American Geophysical Union meeting in

Ease

magazine, reviewing a fascinat

Test wells in the basement of the new Olin Science Center are providing learning opportu nities even before the facility opens-and some practical scientific application, too.

c1.uiies and is manag

ing editor of the jl)Umal Quebec

granite steps, a new stone searing wall in fronr of the library,

wrote a piece for Down

division on Francophone literatures and cultures and to also serves on the edirorial hoard

(communications director)

national cience meeting.

executive committee of the

the MLA delegare assembly. She

burgh, chair of the Harvard

Professors... . Sally Baker

broadly represented ar a

prnvide resources for several

The dying sugar marles and rhe comrlerion of rhe Olin huilding

February issue of Academe, the

We're pretty sure that no small

election. The grant will

(women's studies and French)

President Bill Cotter's essay

March when 15 student and eight faculty combined ro make

I 99

research .... Jane Moss

Library. Michael Van Valken

Two Goldwaters Heide Girardin of Jay, Maine,

grant from rhe National Science

Colhy students rn assist in the

Our Best Face

ing new chronicle, Maine: The

Baltimore this month on Geophysic and the mith sonian Institution, 18461996. ..Cate Talbot Ashton

Pine Tree State from Prehistory to the Present, published by the Univ.ersity of Maine Pres . The National Science Founda

'80 (associate director of career service ) has been elected the

tion has awarded Prof. Sandy

When engineering consultants

Maisel (government) and Prof.

needed information on the water table to develop plans

do an in-depth study of the U.S.

velopment. ... Fernando

congre ional candidates in the

Gouvea (math and computer

for the local sewerage district

for

a new sewer line in front of the

C OLBY

MAY

1996

Walter Stone of the University

next chair of the American College Personnel Association's

of Colorado a $175,000 grant to

commission for career de

science) and Colby have received a $24,000 supplemental Foundation in support of Fernando's project on the arithmetic of modular fom1s and of diagonal hypersurface-.The latest award brings the grant total for this project to $78,000.

Town

& Gown

Paul Doss (geology) has re ceived a grant from the Maine Camrus Compact to fund a course that incorporates service leaming into an advanced environmenral geology curricu lum.The course will focus on geological assessmenr of the greater Waterville area, which can then be used m develop ment, zoning and planning issues facing th city.... The Roosevelt Campobello Interna tional Park Commission ha hailed Don Allen (geology) for his volunteer work in providing interpretive materials on the park' geological history. Rowland Frazee and rhe late Edmund Muskie, chair and vice chair of the commission, credited Allen for expanding the under randing of the park's geology for the benefir of both the commission and future visitors. . Colby and Dex Whittinghill (math and computer -cience) have received a $23,600 grant from the Exxon Educational Foundation in support of a project titled Planning Regional Isolated Statisticians Meetings.

Moosecellaneous There will be 14 candidates for tenure next year, 10 more in 1998, only five in 1999 and four in the year 2000 . ... The Colby crew team has a new shell, thanks to the Holiday Inn Corporation and Kevin Mahaney of Bangor.The new, eight-oar machine will be named, appropriately, The Holiday Inn.

N ew D igs On Campus By Stephen Collins '74

et another ambi tious

i m�•roveme nt prnjech ha,·e

b u i l d ing project has

i n c l uded the expansion nf

been k icked off on M ay

Mayflower Hil l 50 years ago,

flower H i l l . In February,

and i t comes on the hee ls of

Ii bra ries; new s c i e n c e

Colby announced p lans to

a$ I 0-rni l l ion construction

fac i l it i es i n add i t i o n

undertake a $ 1 6-m i l l ion,

program that incl uded che

O l i n bu i l drng; n e w office

fi ve-year program to b u i ld a

F.W. Olin Sc ience Center

new residence h a l l and

($ 6 . 4 m i l l io n ) and related

summer i n the H i l lside

LO\·ejoy annex; e x p<msion

upgrade e x ist i ng dorm i tories

constru c t ion ($900,000 ) , the

Comp lex, w i th a l l l i v i ng

and renovat ion of rhe A l fond A th l e tic Center;

M i l l e r L i hrary zind satel l ite to

the

and c l assrol)ms in the

and d i ning h a l ls. G round

Paul Schupf G a l l e ry for the

spaces except the H e igh ts

breaking for the new b u i l ding is p lanned fo r

Works of A le x Katz ($ 1 . 5

schedu led to be upgraded

and construction of the

m i l l ion) be ing added to the

between now and the

L u nd e r Hou e .

September on a site between

Colby M useum of Art and

year 2000.

the H i l lside complex and

the Pugh Center ($ 1

Johnson Pond.

m i l l ion ) add i t ion to the

Cotter told trustees at t h e i r

Yas i nsk i explained that

Student Union.

J a n u ary 2 0 meet i ng that

components of bu i ld ings

The overa l l proj e c t earmarks $ 7 . 2 m i l l i o n for

V i c e President for

Presi d e n t W i l l i am R .

The new residence hall

Admin istra tion W. A rnold

Colby sho u l d have first

wear out after 40 or 50 years.

c l ass re i d e n t ia l accommo

The College has kept up

dorm renovat ions, $6.5 m i l l ion fo r new construction

mately 1 40 students and w i l l

dat ions, a nd he rev iewed

w e l l as academic b u i l d ings

and $ 2 .5 m i l l io n f o r upgrad

replace beds lost when

efforts to bring its ac ademi c

on Mayflower H i ll reached

will accommodate appro x i

i ng the three e x isting d ining

Colby renovates and

a n d support fac i l i t ies i n to

that age; now it' t ime

halls. It is the most exten

upgrades l iv i ng spac e in

top cond it i o n . Besides the

address the residence h a l l

sive fac i l i t ies proj ect

e x isting b u i l d i ngs. The

Oli n, Schupf and Pugh

s i t ua t ion, he says.

undertaken by Colby since

improvements will begin this

proj ec ts, Cotter sa id rec e n t

"More and more, s t u -

Life After Hoops W

i l l iam Gates, the soft-spoken baske tbal l p layer whose

than a year at the prep school because of academ i c and

j o u rney from i nner- c i ty Ch i c ago to suburban prep

fin an c i a l problems. " M y fee l i ng is that i f you take a k id out

school was chron i c l ed i n the award - winn i ng fi lm Hoop

of h i s env i ronment and bring him to a new place, don't

Dreams, told a Colby aud ience that urban black youth often see sports as thei r only option for success. "They don ' t th i n k abou t being doc tors or lawyers because i t seems too fa r away," said G ates, whose appearance

send h im bac k ,"

J oseph' ] affected

attracted a n overflow a u d ience to the Page Commons

A rth u r's self

Room. " Basketbal l i s someth ing they can imag ine them

esteem. He felt

G a tes said. " [ Be i ng forced to leave S t .

selves doing, even though i t's v e ry intense and not many

l i k e he wasn't

make i t t o the N BA ."

worth a n y t h i n g . "

G ates's p u r u i t of a c areer in profe sional baeketba l l was

G ates n o w l ives

derailed by a k n e e inj ury h e suffered prior t o his sophomore eason a t St. Jo eph'

in Oak Park, I l l .,

H igh School, a mos t l y w h i t e private

with his wife and

i nst i t u t i o n i n s u bu rban Chicago that l ured h im away from

two c h i ldren and

the Cabrini Green proj ect where he grew u p . Hoop Dreams

trave ls throughout

fol lowed G ates from his e nrol lment at Sr. J oseph's as a 1 4 -

the country shar i ng

year-o ld freshman to h i rec ru i tment b y M arqu e t te Un iver

his Hoop Dreams

s i t y . G a tes says the edu c a t ion he rec e iveJ at S t . J oseph's made his dec is i o n to a t te n d worthwh i l e , but he c r i t i c i z e d

story. Agee p lays fo r a professional

Hoop Dreams star William

the s c h o o l f o r i ts tre a tment of Arthur A ge e , h is c o - s t a r i n

bask e t b a l l team in

stud ents after h i s presen tation.

the fi lm. A g e e , who, l i ke G a t es, l e f t i nner-c i ty Chicago t o

Winn ipeg, Canada,

a t t e n d S t . J oseph 's, re t u rned t o h is publ i c s c h o o l after l ess

and s t i l l dreams of making i t to the N BA , G ates sa i d . +

MAY

Gates meets

1996

CO L BY

Sobering Discussion

Drawing

of new residence

hall to be built near Johnson Pond.

dents are look ing for privacy , " he said. "They want singles or single rooms within a suite, and they want more privacy in bathrooms." In add ition, he says, students bring a lot more possessions, furniture and appl iances to college than did previous genera t ions and need more space. Yasinski asked for opinions about where to locate the new residence hall via a questionnaire on Colby's World W ide Web site. The 5 00 respondents, mostly students, split evenly between those who liked the

site near Johnson Pond and those who wanted to see the new building up the hill between the Height and the H i l lside buildings. Further site studies were underway this spring to design a building that would sit somewhere near where the pres@nt roadway runs between the Hillside complex and the pond. "It's important to make it look like the building doesn't own the pond ," Ya inski said. The Boston architec tural firm of CBT I nc. was selected from five finalists to draw up the design . +

Very Attractive Colby' admissions figures have begun to resemble the Dow Jones industrials. Every time it appears to have peaked, the total number of applications to the College breaks through another ceiling. The latest new record is 4,600, an increase of 300 applications from last year's all-time high and a 60 percent gain since 1 993. "It's been a team effort. The entire Colby community has been involved, from admissions folks and alumni volunteers on the road, to physical plant and dining service workers, faculty, students and others on campus," said Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Parker Beverage. "We've all been enthusiastic representatives of a college that is truly on the move."

C O L B Y

M A Y

1 996

Spotlight Event devoted to di cussion about alcohol abuse on campus, conducted as part of a 1 0-month study by the Trustee Commission on Alcohol, elicited comments both for and against stricter regulation. of drinking among students. Beverly Nalbandian Madden '80, chair of the commission, said the forum was "one more important piece in what has been a very thorough process. " Madden said s h e and other members of the commis sion---composed of trustees, • • •

"I would like to see some focus on changing the sociological norm so that the cool thing to do is to drink responsibly." • • •

students, faculty and administrators-were impressed by the level of dialogue at the forum. "Students were very respect ful of each other's opinions, and their comments were thoughtful and construc tive," she said. Students who favored tighter enforcement of alcohol policies offered compelling testimony about health risks, antisocial behaviors and property damage they say stem from drunkenness. Josh Fishkin '96 ( Redding, Conn. ) , a member of hall staff, described incidents in which

students-often freshmen were hospitalized for alcohol poi oning and nearly died. "You have to deal with the problem of underage drinking," he aid. "Until you do that, the other policies are a waste of time." Saranna Rob inson Thornton '8 1 , assistant profes or of economics and a faculty resident in Mary Low, attributes many of Colby's cu rrent alcohol related problems to "a change in the soc iological norm . " According to Thornton, attitudes about drinking to excess are different from when she was a tudent. "If you got so drunk that you had to vom it, you were very uncool , " she aid. " People learned very qu ickly what their l i mit was and they d idn't go beyond that. When I returned to Colby as a faculty member in 1 989 , I noticed a change in the norm. It appears to me that the new norm is that if you get drunk and vomit and then continue to drink that shows tough ness. That's a very danger ous change." Thornton says alcohol abuse degrades the quality of residential life on campus. She related personal experiences in which different groups of drunken students verbally assaulted female students in a dining hall and were found urinat ing in a garbage can outside her room. "I want to say that I think we have a real problem here; it's not minor, it's not insignificant. And it imposes a real cost on students and on faculty who live here. I would like to see some focus on changing the

sociological norm so that the cool thing to do is to drink responsibly." Several students agreed that harsh measures were needed for irresponsible and inappropriate behavior related to drinking, but they said campus-wide rules about parties should be liberal enough to allow alcohol consumption without fear of sanc t ion. Colby should encourage drinking in a social environment and not push students either off campu or into their rooms, where drinking tends to be more destruct ive and dangerous, they said.

Student Association President Tom Ryan '96 talks with trustee commission member Ron Lupton '71.

Brian Golden, a j unior from H i llsdale, N .J . , said that the vitality of social life at Colby could be damaged by a radical move to curb alcohol abuse. "Students need to feel that they have a comfortable academic and ocial atmo phere, and too much of a change one way or the other is going to skew that balance," he said. Eric Adams, a sophomore from

Lexington, Mass . , said Colby needs to work toward "reducing the demand rather than removing the supply." He said educational pro grams, particularly for first year student , would promote more awareness about alcohol abuse. Add i t ional re ources should be placed in establishing chem-free events, he said. "I think there is a great deal of dissatisfact ion, espec ially among those students who cons ider themselves chem free, with the fun and interest of chem-free events," he said. Madden noted that wh ile student differed in their opinions about how Colby should respond to alcohol abuse, there was no dispute that irresponsible drinking poses a problem for the College. "[ didn't hear anybody say that there wasn't an issue w i th alcohol on campus. There seem to be a collective agreement that there is an overabun dance of alcohol," he said. Student fear that the commission would ban alcohol or take other radical reps to dimini h consump t ion are unfounded, accord ing to Madden. "We do not want to make Colby a dry campus; that has never been our intention," she aid. "The desire of the commis s ion is to create an environ ment where people can drink responsibly, and equally important, where there is respect for other members of the community. People houldn't have to tolerate someone urinating i n a pail or vomiting all over the place." The comm is ion w i ll present i ts recommendations at the May meeting of the Board of Trustee . +

HILL SIDES Just Like a Fairy Tale

When Performing Ans at Colby staged Stephen ondheim' synthesized and updated fairy tale, lnw the Woods, in February, it wa a fitting celebration of the 20th anniversary of the open ing of the Strider Theater and of the dedication of Colby's performing arts team. Bothlnw the Woods and the theater's inaugural production in 1976, Dido and Aeneus, featured the collaborative artistic vision of director Richard Sewell, cho reographer Tina Wentzel and mu ical director Paul Machlin. It was the ninth time Sewell and Machlin have teamed up to stage a major musical , and with more than 50 students involved, it may have been the ir most ambitious undertaking to date. The work paid off, though, and for two weeks in February, Into the Woods had the hottest t ickets in town, w ith ix performance sold out week in advance. Wentzel' choreography included a backdrop of dancers who brought the woods to life. Machlin's pit orchestra accompanied a polished choral performance on stage, and Sewell's overall direction earned the show high marks. "An exceptional experi ence not to be missed," reported Catherine B. Page for the Echo.

Spanish Symposium

Twenty scholars from around the country assembled at Colby April 1 2- 1 4 to d iscu s issues of Hispanic culture and identity through literature, art, history and politics. The ymposium, t itled "The Written Body of Hispanic Culture," featured keynote speaker Professor J ulio Ramos of the Univer ity of California at Berkeley, whopre ented his short documentary film "La Promesa. " All members o f Colby' Spani h faculty moderated d iscu sion group during the two-day symposium. Part icipants in c luded scholars from the u n i ver� ities of Massachusetts ( A mherst ) and W isconsin ( Madison); from Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Boston and New York universitie ; and from Bates, Carleton, Barnard, Bentley, R ussell Sage, V a sar, Reed, Hamilton and Dartmouth colleges.

Museum Collection Grows

Installation of a Sol LeW itt wall drawing, purchased re cently by the Colby College Museum of Art for i ts permanent collection, began April 23. The installation coinc ided with an exhib i t ion that opened May 1 of 56 LeWitt drawings and a lecture by New York art critic Phyllis Tuchman, "Sol LeW i tt and Mini malism." Tuchman de cribes Le W i tt's career as "rich and varied," and i t is one marked by continued innovation. W hile his three d i mensional structures gained him his first widespread public recognition, he i perhaps best known for his wall drawings, a concept he pioneered in 1 968.

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While You Were Sleeping

Text and Photos by Marc Glass Long before sunrise, work is being done at Colby. Bread is baked , floors are scrubbed and trash is collected . The legions of pre-dawn workers at Colby see only a handful of students in the wee hours of the morning and might never meet a parent, but they hardly consider their j obs thankÂ less. Despite working hours that defy circadian rhythms, they derive satisfaction from seeing a j ob well done and knowing Colby is improved by their effort.

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I t's hard to imagine uch hospitality in the middle of the night, but LeClairsay that she enjoys working with her "friendly and helpful" colleagues and preparing recipes that regularly win tudent praise. "When I'm trying something new w ith brownies or waffles, I wonder, 'Will they l ike it? W i l l they let me know ?"' she said. "Sometimes students will come out to the kitchen after eating something I baked to ask for the recipe. It's nice-that' when I know it was good." Jason K idwell '96, who says he' a " ucker" for LeClair's M&M cookies, takes a pragmatic approach to enjoying de sert. " I conclude every meal with cookies, a slice of chocolate creme pie or an eclair so I'm completely full. I t's done in an attempt to avoid reaching for third help ings of the main cour e," he said.

f you attended Colby after 1 97 3 , you probably tasted Sandy

When her shift at Colby is done, LeClair joins her husband,

LeClair's cookies. What you probably didn't know wa that

M ike, at their home-based oil delivery business in Benton to

she was baking them while you slept off your past-m idnight

work as bookkeeper and receptionist. She work until 5 p.m.

exam cram. LeClair, one of three baker in Dana Commons,

Then, many evenings during the week, she attends Order of the

arrives every day at 3 a.m. to begin preparing Colby's daily supply

Eastern Star meetings as the recently e lected d istrict deputy.

of 82 bread loaves, 2 8 1 dinner roll , 1 2 cake and 1 , 1 06 cookies.

"People in the k i tchen ay, 'I don't know how you can do it,"' she

There aren't many folks up at that hour around Colby except

aid. " I j ust l ike to bake, that's all."

cooks, bakers and maintenance personnel. But often during exam weeks, book-weary students eeking a snack will drop by LeClair's kitchen, and-after having been treated-will stay for her company. "They're very pleasant about it so I find them muffins or bagels and we v isit a bit," said LeClair.

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"Folks i n this building appreciate what you can d o for them," he sa id . "[ appreciate doing the work because there's a family a pect in thi building that everyone from the top down has. It catches on . " Once the stairs and floors were grit-free, Johnson made the rounds to collect rubbi h and recyclables. Al len LaPan, the supervisor in the student post office, pa sed by and couldn't resist the opportunity to razz his early morning comrade. "Qu ick ! Take a picture. Catch him while he's actuallydoing some work ! " Johnson, shaking out a fresh plastic trash bag, didn't miss a beat. "Watch it there, mister. This bag's j ust about big enough for your head . " Like the du ting and vacuuming, t h e playful banter was an important part of Johnson's pre-dawn routine. Encouraged by LaPan's ribbing, a few others joined in. "Hey Pete, how come ustis, Colby's main administration building, is nearly empty

your partner's not doing your work for you today?" one asked.

at 4:30 a.m. Computers, phone , fax machines and their

Johnson j ust shook his head and grinned. "Alan i such a

operators doze while the building custodian wields h is or her

prankster. He puts everybody in a good mood by jazzing 'em up.

dustpan, mop and vacuum. Until early March, G. Peter Johnson

They're all good people around here."

ruled thi domain. H is death from a heart attack delivered Eustis denizens a d ifficult loss. When Colby followed Pete on his round in February, hi daily battle to keep the building's tile and carpet free of alt and sand inverted a law of physics: what goes down mu t come up. Though it seems like a task for Sisyphus, Johnson found reward in a job well done.

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t 7 a.m. the l ights aren't on and the doors remain locked in the main foyer of the Harold Alfond Athletic Center,

but several students are gathered outside the front doors waving to custodian Donna Dionne. Dionne, who begins work at 4:30 a.m., has been keeping the field house in pristine condition for the pa t 1 2 year . When he opens the doors she greets each student by name. 'This is the most wonderful place. The students are so appreciative of the work we do in thi building," Dionne said. "I j ust turned forty-two, but being surrounded by their energy and spirit makes me feel like twenty." Dionne, who e dai ly c leaning responsibilities include the facility's floors, sinks, toilets, locker rooms and foyer doors and windows has only one complaint about the students: "What would possess anyone to put their lips all over the windows in the doors?" he asked. I t's clear that Dionne, a self-described "psychotic cleaner," takes pride in her work and derives atisfaction from the steady tream of appreciative comments, e pec ially those from Athletics Director Dick Whitmore and Dean of the College Earl Smith. "They alway say that no matter how much and and salt i put down on the roads and sidewalks during the winter, this place look good," he aid a she topped to pick up a crap of paper that missed the recycling b in. "They're sympathetic to what we do." Dionne repre ents the third generation of family members to work at Colby. Her mother, Lorraine Chipman, was a custodian in Treworgy and Lovejoy, and her grandfather, Arthur Drouin, was a custodian in the Hillside Complex. Dionne, who e sister, Pam Dudley, now works in the stockroom, says she grew up around Colby and fondly remember the v i its to work with her mother. "Wh i le she worked, my sister and I would get sodas and v i it with Mr . Guilford, the hou e mother, who alway liked having kid around," she said. "The College has been good to all of us."

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Alumni

find many ways to

give back

here a m I going t o find a j o b ?' [Miranda] thought . ' I 've left m y resume everywhere-advertising agenc ies, banks, investmen t firms, temp agenc i es. Why am I being blown off l ike this7 After a l l , I have a degree from Colby in soc i ology and women's studies. Maybe i t isn't death less l iterature. Maybe i t can't even rival the latest from Danielle Steel. B u t " M iranda's Adven tures in N e w York" has fervent fa ns. I nstallmen ts of M i randa's s tory , complete w ith c l iffhangers, began appearing in the N ew York Colby C l u b newsle t ter last year, w ith each installment written by a d ifferent club member. At a meeting of the A lumni Council Communicat ions Committee i n New Yark last J anuary , the first order of business f o r Valerie M i l l e r '84 was a non-agenda i tem: d i d anyone have a copy of the le.test M iranda chapter? " I 'm add i c ted," M i l ler said . That's the idea. If c lub members are c l amoring for more about M iranda they w i l l probably read t h e ent ire news letter. And if t h e y read t h e newsletter t h e y a r e more l ikely to participate in c l ub events and to feel c lose r to the College. Miranda is the bra i nc h i ld of newsletter editor Art Klein '5 3, one of more than

2 ,000 Colby a lumni volunteers who give t ime and service to the Col lege. Many say staying involved with the Colby "fam i ly" is an important motivation. Colby, they say, deserves their support-financ ial and otherwise-and they are happy to serve

as ambassadors for the College. A lumn i , along with some parents and other College friends, provide essential

Sa l ly

support to myriad departments, inc l u d ing A l umni Relations, M aj or G ifts, Annual

Baker

G iving, Career Serv ices, Off-Campus Studies, Admissions and Communication .

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"They arc a \'ery i mrortant u 1g 111 o u r mac h ine," said

they knoll' which restaurant� in their area people wouldn't be

A��L 1 c 1 a te Dean of A d m i �� i un� J udy Le,· ine Brody '58. With

caught dead in and \\' h i c h are hot. They can call people-who

i 1w i ta t i m1� tu c u l lege fa i r� and req u ests for one-on-one, off

are often t h e i r friends-to i n v i te them to the e\'ent and can

campus inten·iews arr1,·ing "in dn l\'es," Brndy says, the re is nu

folio\\' up in way� we c o u l d n ' t . "

1\·ay the paid p rn fe� � ional �taff can he e\·e rywhere and do

Conk �a y:, many a l u m n i e n j oy se rv i ng o n their class reu n ion

e\·erything. "And," she added, "it i�n't financially wise tn send

CLl m m i t tees beca u ·e they find it easy to call classmates. "And

a staff member t\1 a tll 'n - ho u r C l 1 l lege fa i r in, say, Danh u ry ,

we never turn all'ay a reu n ion v o l u nteer," he said. "There's lots

Connecticut, if we knnw we ha,·e r'l e n ty u f alumni in the area

of roum f or irwo ] , · emen r ; this Wllrk can be dLme from anywhere

ll' h L l c an re��re�en t u�."

in the c o u nt ry . "

Brody mainta i ns a darahase of a l u m n i willing tn inten·iew

The Office of Off-Campu Study, u nder Associate D i rector

pruspecti ,·e student' and ru attend cul lege fa i r� tl l hand uut

L inda Cotter, rec ru i t� a l u m n i ro o ffer s u mmer and Jan Plan

I i terat u re and ans,1·er qu c stinn� abu u t CL 1 lhy. She S<l)'S new \'Olun

i nternships to stud nts and to provi de ho us i n g for students

teer� are alll 'ay� needed . ''We ne,·er knnll' from 1\·herc reque,ts ll'ill

d u ring tho:,e time�. Alumni - �rnnsored internJ1ip� ha\'e given

come fL 1r inten·i ew�," �he �a il!. "Ju'r this ll'eek I had a request from

student:, the upport u n i ty to sample a full gamut of professions,

Jae bun Huie, WyL1ming, anll I cL1uldn'tfill it. Colby i� gettingmore

including med i c i ne , law, tele\'ision ne11· s productiL.m, cienrific

nationally kmill'n, �ll we're getting mnre request�." Brody say�

research, sports prnmntion and many other�.

adm i�sions 1·ol unteer� may llllt he ar from rro�pe c ti\ 'C students f nr

Cynthia Y a�i 1r ki, d i re c tor of career ervic es, also relies on

�e, ·ernl year� o r might get three c alb in L1ne -car. "They hm·e t o he

alumni to e x tend the reach of her small professional staff. The

l i ke the fire de rar r me nt: on c 1 l l ," she said.

department\ Career Connec t ion dataha�e l ists abo u t 1 ,000

S u �an Conant CL1uk ' 7 5 , Colhy'� d i rectm uf cilumni rela

people, 1mnly alumni, who a re ll' i l l ing to t a l k to students and

tion�. and Demetra G i a ras '88, the assistant d i rec tor, comcl i

recent grad u ates about c a reer choices. Yasi nski s ay s the list i�

na tc the acti,·ities L l f hundreds of \'ol u nreers. I n add i t i on t u the

grnll'ing and exrec t:, i t w double in the next fell' years.

dL1:en L l r �n hnard m emher� of each maj nr Cnlby c l u h , Cnok and

A �mall grou r of alumni work within t h e i r companies to

G ia ta' 1\'\1rk ll'ith n 1 l u n teer� frnm eclCh of the 1 0 annual re u n ion

rec ru i t employee · from among Colby sen i or::., and <1 larg e r grou r

cla� se s , 11·ith th

reg u larly ::. e n d � joh p u ting. to the Col lege for the "Career

c Ja,s officers, \\'ith the 1 00-memher i<\lumni

CL1 U n c i [ and \\'I th the ) [ CL llTe�pondent� 11·ho Cl 1ll trihute c o J

er\' i ce� Nc11·slett c r . " In recent years e\'eral alumni paneb

u mtb tn Cul/J\' nrn ga:ine. I n allditinn, they help alumni repre

have heen held on campus and in conj unctiLm "·ith Cul hy clubs

�enrari,·es p lan e,·ent� for a l u m n i , parents and rrnspe c t i ,·e

in lar.�e cirie�. Tupic� hc11·e i nc l uded career' in teaching and tn

-,rudent� a c n iss the country ;md inrematiLmally and they '>LIJ'J' L lrt

the sc i ence � and 11·hat to ' d u ' with certain majors, such as

ad hoc ,., 1 l u nr ee r� ll'h o , fm instance, �p,1mm the Colby Bouk

�·htln, L 1phy and religion. A l umni lll\'ited tn Colby Today ll'Cekend hm·c n 1 l u nteered tu meet \\'ith ind i ,·id ua l s tudents to

Pri:e in t h e i r tull'm. "There are thing' [ ,·nlu nteer�J can do that \\'e c a n ' t d\1 a� \\' e l l

d i!:>c u �� careers. Others take call- frl)ITI st udent s and recent

frnm h e r e , " Conk -,aid. " [ ( ll'e'd l i k e tu ha ,·e a n e1·enr organ1:ed,

�rad u a tes ! nuking for i oh \\·here the a l u m n u'> ur alumna Ji,·e·.

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And many a lumn i o ffe r

put students up \\· h e n they are

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v is i t ing for a job i n te r\'iew. Ste\'e Langlois ' 8 5 , of the Bain and Cn. strntegic consul ting fim1 in Boston, came

Cl)lhy in Janumy 1 99 5

i n ter\'iew potential

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" ry year Colby honors those people whose

e mp loyees. Companies l i ke Ba i n , h e sa y s , con d u c t i nte n · ie ws

by ask ing students

contributions of t ime and effon have signifi

wnrk on c ase stud i e s . "l m igh t say,

cantly enricl"ied the College. The Ernest c. Marriner Distinguisl1ed SeNice

'Assume you\·e been h i red hy a Colby alum who wants to start

ward is gi\·en

to a member of the Colby family for excep-

a restaurant i n Water\' i l l e a nd warns co know \\'hether i t \\'Ould

tional commitment to Colby. demonstrated by

he rrofi table. HO\\' wou l d )'OU t h i n k about tha t ?"' Lang lois s a i d .

lifelong deciication to !11e support of the Colleg . Colby

" I t was c lear that t hese students d id n ' t ha\'e muc h exreri

Brick A ward recipierns are members of the Colby fam

ence w i t h this k ind of i n t e rY i e\1' , " Langl,)is said. "But there i� an

i l y \ ho !1ave demonstrated outstanding loyalty to the

increasing interest in consu l t i ng, and most consu lting firms

College through consistent and dedicated seNice in

i n terview this 11·a y . "

its bel1alf. This year's winneL are listed below.

L a s t fal l Langlois returned

c ampus

pani c i rate in a

1 l 'arren Finegan ·5 J

•

a former tru tee described by a

panel d iscuss ion about j obs in cons u l t i n g along w i t h Kathryn

colleague on the Alumni council as a "trail blazer," is

O'N e i l '87, a management consu l tant, and Matt K e a rns '9 3 ,

this year's recipient of the Marriner Distinguished Ser vice Award. Finegan seNed as a trustee from I 980 to

who works i n ern·ironmental consul t i ng i n Maine. Follm1·ing

1 989 and was chair of the Alumni Council from 1 976

the pane l, Langlois and O'N e i l acted out a typ i c a l consult i ng

to 1 980. He also \·Vas president of the Boston Alumni

firm interview for an aud i e nce of about 2 5 students.

Association and Boston Colby Club from J 97 I to

W h e n Langlois c a m e back to recru i t studen ts t h i s w in t e r ,

1 976 and is a former class secretary/treasurer. He

they w e r e better prepare d . "We intervi ewed t e n , brought three i n fo r a second i nterv iew and offered one a j o b , " he said.

won a Colby Brick Award in 1 973. David Marson '48. a fellow trustee and Alumni Council member who nominated Finegan for the Marriner Award. said

N o w , he says, Colby i s on the way to j oi n i ng the core gro u p

Finegan was ·a pioneer in the relationship between

of c o l leges a n d un i v e rs i t ies- i nc lud i n g the I vy L e a g u e ,

the Alumni Council and the administration . "

S tanford , A mh e rst and W i l l iams-to wh i c h B a i n sends re

Colby Brick Award winners are :

c ru iters. "Colby s tudents are tra ined in the l iberal arts, they

Regina Foley Hauiland '6 1 seNed as an Alumni Fund

are smart and they k now how to t h i n k a na l y t i c a l l y . They have

agent and class agent from 1 98 1 to I 99 1 . She also

everything we want , " he s a i d .

has served as the director and presJdent of the Hart

Many a l u m n i volunteers report s i m i lar-though less d ra

ford (Conn.) Alumni Club. was class vice president

m a t ic-mutual benefits from sen·i ng the Col lege. Not all of

from 1 98 1 to 1 986 and has volunteered for both the

them can offer j obs to students or c a n spend the t i me that

Admissions and Career Services offices.

Langlois, who also is a member of the Alumni Fund Comm ittee,

Jean OBrien Perkins '46 has seNed on various alumni

a former c lass agent and an admission i nt erviewer, can g i Y e to

committees over the past 20 years. Sl1e has been a member of the Alumni Council. a class agent and a member of the SOth reunion planning comminee. Paula and Peter Lunder '56 both are members of the

Colby Museum of i\rt Board of Governors. Peter has been a College overseer since 1 982 and seNed as class vice president from 1 99 1 to 1 996. In addition. he has been hea ily in olved as an alumni volunteer in Colby's fund raising campaigns. Lawrence Pugh '56 has been a member of rhe Board

of Trustees since I 982 and chair since 1 99 1 . He is a member of the Colby Museum of Art Board of Governors and seNed as co-chair of the Colby 2CXXl Campaign. Pugh recei\ ed a Distinguished Alumnus Award in 1 986 and an Alumni Council Special Recognition Award in 1 987. Jean van Curan Pugh '55 is a long-time Colby sup

porter

110 has

served as an admissions interviewer

and is a member of Friends of Art . Margaret "l v leg· Fallon l·'v'heeler '66 has been in olved in a variety of College activities. She was a member of

the Alumni Council Task Force on Council Structure, a member of the Reunion Gift Committee and a former class secretary/treasurer and was instrumental in or ganizing the 25th reunion for her class.

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Co lhy. But they say that alml)St anyone who wants to get

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involved can secure a comfortahle niche and will find the expe

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rience rewarding. Lewis Kri nsky '65 and his fam i l y have played host to three

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Colby students during J an Plan in recent years, he is an

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adm issions recru i ter, he has organized a eries of soc ial event

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for Houston-area Colby, Bates and Bowdoin alumn i , and he is a lways on ca l l to gather Colbians when President Cotter or nth er College officials

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fac ulty visit Texas. Kri nsky also has

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volunteered for the Alumni Fund and served as a c l ass officer

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and on the A l umni Counc i l , among other th ings. But, says

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Kri nsky, a stockbroker, "all of the ac tivitie I'm doing for Colby

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can be managed around a business schedule. I'm strapped for

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time right now; my chedule is fu l l . But I c an work recru i ting in the evenings. It's not hard; there's no great personal sacrifice. The reward is the satisfaction of knowing that you 've helped

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continue to build an institution that's worthy of the support

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you're giv ing it. There's no doubt Colby is worthy of i t . "

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Fund raising is a task many people s h y away from, b u t Annual

alumn i@colby.edu h 1 1 p : //www .colby.edu/alumni/

Giving Director N ina Tilander can reel off a long-as-your-arm l ist of Colby alumni who have excel led as c lass agents. "Colby does a terrific job in support of i ts volunteers," said

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Office

class agent Ernie Fortin ' 5 1 , whose c l ass notched a 74 percent

o f Off-Ca mpus Study

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part ic ipation rate in last year's annual fund drive. The Annual

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Giving Office sends the agents regular newsletters with updates

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on the fund's progress and types, prints and applies postage to the

sltaglia@colby.edu

sol i c i tat ion l etters written by agents. "Thank goodness," Fortin, a former New England Telephone executive, j oked, "because the one thing I m iss in retirement is having a secretary. "

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Fortin says t h e Colby work "goes in spasms" and i s n o t a fu ll

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time com m i tment. "There are months when I don't make a

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s ingle c a l l , " he aid. "As we approach May and J une I ' l l shut

annual mcolby.edu

myself up i n my bedroom-I don't have an office-and call classmates,

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ometimes for hour . Once the momentum gets

going you 're j ust detenTtined to get everyone . I k now there are

" I t's so easy," M itchell said. "The Alumni Office sends out the

some c lassmates who are i l l or who don't have any money to

invi tations. I make a few calls, find a hotel , sign the contract. I try

give. I call them j ust to see how they're doing."

to keep the prices reasonable so everyone can attend."

Diana Herrmann '80, Cathy Woodward G i l l '86 and Rebekah

A l l of the alumni volunteers i nterviewed for this article say

M it c h e l l '9 1 fi t Colby c lub events i nto the i r busy l ives.

that not only is Colby deserv i ng of their efforts but that there

H errmann, senior vice president of Aqu i la Management Group,

are distinct benefits to serv i ng the College. For M i tchell, who

is p resident of the N e w York c lub, which offers a packed

confesses to missing Mayflower H il l deeply, it's a chance to make

c a lendar of soc i a l and serv ice a c t i v i t ies to members. The c lub

connections with people she might not have known w ithout

sponsors two admissions-related events each year, one for

the Colby tie. "At a [capital] campaign event in San Francisco this

students who have been accepted to Colby but who have not

week I sat next to c lassmate Elin Baird, who works a t Stanford.

yet dec ided to matriculate and one for i ncomi ng Colby students

We talked the whole t ime, " M i tchell sai d . "We hadn't known

i n the summer before they arrive on Mayflower H i l l. Each

each other we l l a t Colby; now we're exchanging e - ma i l . "

event also a ttracts many parents who are eager to speak to

G il l, Krinsky, Langlois a n d Fort in s a y Colby i nfluenced

Colby alumni about the College. Add i t ionally, the c lub spon

their l ives powerfu l ly and for the better, and, though each

sors c areer-development programs for Colby students and p lays host to symposia by Colby fac u l ty members and adm inistrators.

cringed to repeat what they c a lled a "c l i che, " each said volun

"The Colby p lanning report was d isc ussed a t one forum with

teering was a concrete opportu n i ty to g i ve bac k to the College. " I came from a poor family i n Madison, Maine, and was the

trustees and admi n istrators so alumni could partic ipate i n the

first one in my family to go to college, " Fortin said. "I hope

process and g ive their rea c t ions to the p lan," Herrmann sai d .

nobody t h inks this is Joe College or mundane or someth ing, b u t

G i l l , the president of the C o l b y C lub of Boston, is a lawyer

earning a l iv ing i n l ife is t h e b iggest c ha llenge, a n d i n m y

and the mother of two young c h i ldren. L ike H e rrmann, she is

opinion, Colby allowed me to do t h a t . I t g a v e somebody

dedicated to various forms of volunteerism, desp ite her seeming

without any money a chance in l ife . "

lack of free t ime. " I 'v e made a c ommi tment not to let work

Krinsky, veteran of more than three decades of sen·ice to

dominate my whole l i fe, " G i ll said. "] need t ime for my fam i l y ,

Colby-and counting-says that when h e t a l ks to prospec t i\·e

but it's i mportant to m e to do th ings o u t s i d e of work t h a t make

s tudents or c u rrent ones, h is imperative is "to impart the

a contribution . " G i l l also serves on the board ofa local pre chool's

knowledge I 've gained in business over rhe years as a resul t of my Colby education. I want to help them get a fa ter start in life and

PT A and does pro bono legal work.

get ahead . "

M i tchell is an account pec i a l ist at Phase Two Strategies i n S a n Francisco, t h e president of the S a n Francisco Sp insters-a

" ] m a y n o t be able to g i v e Colby as m u c h money as I would

group of 2 2 - to 3 5 -year-old female college grnduates who get

l ike to," K r i nsky sa id. "That's frustra t i ng. B u t there are t hings

together soc i a l ly and for commun ity service-and an unabashed

people can do w ithout burd e n i ng themselves. ll1ere are many

Colby lover. She has organized two Colby events in the Bay Area

ways they can support the College i f they are financ i a l ly unable

in the past two years-a cocktail party at the Park 5 5 Hotel and

to. They can make a pos i t ive difference i n the l ives of young

an even i ng with much-beloved Professor Charlie Bassett.

people and the long-term health of Colby. " + 17

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Accu ed murderer John du Pont , who had holed up in h is Pennsylvania home for much of the week and kept police at bay, turned himself in on J anuary 28, a unday. If he'd held out longer, a story datelined Waterv i lle, Maine, would have led every national television and radio new cast that day. It got second place. Colby alumni in every part of the country and most of the world found Watervi lle on the front page of their newspapers the next morning-not be cause of anything that happened at the College but because one of the worst crimes in Maine history had been com mitted in the Elm City. On J a nuary 2 7 , a windy, s tormy evening, Waterv i l l e res i d e n t M a rk Bechard, 3 7 , broke into the Servants of the Bies ed Sacrament convent on Silver Street and beat and tabbed four nuns whom he had interrupted in prayer. Bechard's weapons were a knife, a rel i gious statue and a cane owned by one of the nuns. Neighbors, inc luding Colby's Catho l ic chaplain, John M arqu is, who lives across the street in the Notre Dame parish re idence and wa entertaining the Colby Eight for d inner that evening, didn't know anything wa wrong. The torm kept most people inside and wa loud enough to drown out any noise from nearby buildings. The attack took less than l O minute , and the Waterv i l le Pol ice Department, alerted by a 9 1 1 call from the convent, responded almost immediately. But two of the women, Mother Superior Edna Mary Cardozo and S ister M ary J u l ien Fortin, both in their late 60s, died. Two other , Sister Patric ia Keane, 68, and Si ter M ary Anna DiG iacomo, 7 2 , were inj ured, DiG iacomo o severe ly that she was hosp ital ized until mid- M arch and now is l i v ing in a Wa terv ille nur ing home. Bechard has been in and out of the Augusta Mental Health In titute for much of hi life, but on the n ight of the murders hewas without upervi ion, offhis medica tion and probably using alcohol or drugs. His mother knew he was in trouble and twite tried to call a mental health emer-

gency line for help. A power surge caused by the storm knocked out a machine that should have routed those calls to a case worker on duty. Mark Bechard was lost in Maine's understaffed, under-funded men tal health care system. As members of the national and inter nat ional med ia flocked to Waterville, c i ty people tried to come to grips with the crime. I t was a blow to the innocence that al lows Elm City residents to leave their cars unlocked, walk home after a late mov ie and open their doors when a stranger knock . Marquis says many Colby students and staff members approached him to discuss their feel ings after the women were killed . "They talked about the situation and how it affected them in terms of per onal safety, ' Marqui said. "If two nuns aren't safe in the ir convent, none of u is safe." Those sentiments, along w ith the pure shock the kill ing fostered, were echoed aero s the c ity in the day following the attack. Letters to and articles in the Morn ing Sentinel revealed the depth of the murde red women's influence and of Watervi lle's pain and confusion. Members of a small , poor, contempla tive order that relies on donations and rummage sales to urvive, the Blessed Sacrament nuns numbered only nine be fore the slayings. But extraordinary num bers of Waterv ille residents-from State Rep. Pau l Jacque to Mayor Ruth Joseph to convent neighbor -came forward with story upon story of the sisters' kindness and compassion. "They spend their time praying for people and for the world," Marquis said . "f\nd of course the thing that was so ironic, so tragic, was that those who pray for others should end up in thi violence." The people of Waterville were angry and ad, but their respon e was anything but ho tile to Bechard. He was forgiven immediately by the surviving Blessed Sacrament nun and other Catho l ic c lergy, and h is ca e sparked tare-wide debate about mental health care reform. Bechard was een as almo t as much of a victim a the women he attacked. "Enough people in any community have

been touched by mental il lnes t o under stand that he didn't know what he was doing," Marqui said. "And this i n't like a big city. This is a small, c lo e-kni t commu nity where people know the Bechard fam i ly. There is a lot of sympathy for the family, as well as for the sister . " Bottles and j ars appeared on store counter across Waterville to take up a collection for the convent. At the hop 'n Save in Elm Plaza, the tall, deep Com munity Fundrai er bin near the door was ruffed with dol lar bill , fives and tens a day or two after a placard that read "For the Servants of the Bies ed Sacrament" was attached to the top. Local churches and civic groups pitched in with money. Individuals donated food and helped in any other way that seemed appropriate. The nuns' funeral was attended by many members of the Colby community, as was an interfaith service at Notre Dame church the night before. Marquis says both were time of "grief and healing" for the c ity. "lr was a tragedy that began with a truly sen eless act bur ended with a ritual in the packed church on Si lver Street that made ense of the l ives before they were lost," wrote Sentinel columnist Gerry Boyle '78. " I t began in a ere cendo of rage and ended on a note of the most plaintive and gentle forgiveness. The week that began with horror ended with hope. " ln March, nuns from one o f two other Blessed Sacrament convents in the United States came to live in Waterville, which is now the order's provincial headquarters. Mark Bechard, who is represented by M ichaela Murphy '78, has pleaded not gui lty by reason of insanity and will be tried in the Maine Superior Court. He is being held in the Augu ta Mental Health ln titute' forensic unit. The legacy of his action continue . "I've heard from various people of things that have come about as a result of this," Marquis said. "People are paying more attention to caring for their fami l ies; they are attending church; they are taking a look at their piritual l ives. Some fam i l ies are healing becau e of thi . I t w a n ' t j ust a media tory that went away the next day." •

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ancy Re inhardt was looking for the Henry J ames letters hand � w r i t t e n l e tt ers from the novelist to fri e nds and asso c i a tes-in a wooden fi le drawer in the Rob inson Room. She crouched to reach the floor� level file and rifled through the manila folders ins ide . Every few seconds she extracted a folder, examined its contents , put i t back. Finally, she located two folders contain ing the letters she sought and was preparing to close the file when she noticed a folder with a book inside . She removed it, set it on a table -------

nearby and sat down to have a closer look. The book was a 1 909 literary anthology, The English Review. J ames's The Velvet Glove was among the stories in the anthology, according to a digest on the cover. Re inhardt paused . A signature below the digest had caught her eye . "Conrad ? J oseph Conrad ?'' she asked out loud . "It is . That's J oseph Conrad's s ignature . This is signed by all of the authors . " In addition to those by J ames and Conrad, the anthology included s tories by H . G . Wells and G . K. Chesterton, both of whom had also scrawled their names on the cover.

"I find this k ind of stuff all the t ime , " said Re inhardt , who is complet ing her second year as Spec ial Col lect ions l ibrarian . "I am cont inually amazed at the materials we have here . " The Spec ial Col lec t ions may be underappre c i ated , even

works by George Bernard Shaw, Oscar W i lde, W i ll ia m Butler

unrecognized by many s tudents who pass through Colby, but its

Yeats and J ames J oyc e . A prt:ed holding is the 1 2 th copy of the

rare books, personal papers and one-of-a-k ind man uscripts pro

l i m ited first prin t i ng of J oyce's Ulysses , one of only 1 00 signed

v id e valuable i nterdisc i p l i nary research materials. A nd its repu

by the au thor.

tation is growing.

The Edw in Arl ington Robinson M emori a l Room-named the Houghton L ibrary at

for the Maine nat i\'e who won the P u l i t:er Pri:e for poetry three

H arvard, says " the c o l l e c tion"-housed in the west w ing of M i l ler L i brary-is extraordinary for a college Colby's size . " I t's

pertaining to A merican and British poetry and prose. In add i

R e inhard t , who came

to Colby from

t i mes-preserYes a collection of books, manu c ripts and letters

a very rich c o l l e c t ion, part i c u l arly the Healy Coll e c t ion and the

tion t o t h e archives o f Robinson's work , t h e room houses o n e of

H ardy materials," she said. "There is rea l depth here that covers

the largest Thomas Hardy collections in the U n ited States.

many areas. "

Among the artifacts is a chair from H ardy's hom e .

Spe c i a l Collect io n runs t h e g a m u t from h istoric a l c uriosi

T h e Alfred K ing Chapman R o o m serve as t h e depository for

t ies to important scholarly documents . U sers c a n s e e a flower

the Colby archives, includ ing h istoric a l records and complete

vase from the sloop Hero, the ship that J erem iah Chapl in s a i led

runs of The Colby Echo and The Oracle.

up the Kennebec R iver to found Col by, or read from the original,

R e i nhardt says scho lars are part icu larly attracted to the

seria l ized version of a Charles Dickens nov e l . Part archive, part

Irish l i terature c o l l e c t io n and the H ardy materials. "We get

museum, Spec ial Collec t ions is composed of three distinct b u t

inquiries a l l the t im e , " she said. "Scholars are ver

interre lated sect ions.

in our H a rdy c o l l e c t ion, which inc ludes annota ted books from

in terested

h is personal l ibrary . "

The J ames Augustine H ealy Col lec t ion incl udes p u b l ished

Other materials i n c l ude an early K e l mscott printing of work

works and correspondence from late 1 9th- and early 20th century I rish l i terature and fea t ures several rare first e d i t ions of

by Geoffrey Chaucer, a book from the personal l ibrary of P uritan

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k<lcl e r J 11nathan Ed11",H1.l' ;md

hm1· J i d i t co m e to Co l hy . "'

�1

1 1 c h C l > l l e c t i l i n 1 >f C 1 1 · i l \X'ar let

And R;:ichel We�tgate '98

t e r ' an.._I dl K U rnent'. lJ i , p l a n' J t h e H ea l y A l c l 1 1 · e

( Tiverton, R . l . ) sa id hand l i ng

the

the old hoob helped h r de

c1 > l l ec r H m\ mcwwhl lki-l itera l h·

velop a new perspect 11·e . "] kept

I ll

"hnnb 1 11 the c r,1J l e "-a , e c t i 11 n

t h i n k i ng of hm1· p eop le who

<.if h, ll1b p u h l 1 •J1 e J hefl1re 1 5 00.

have heen dead f or hundred of

T h e l 1 kJe , t c, i m ple t e hl 11 1k l > 11 · n e d

year�, wh<.1 are now nothing but

h'" the Cl 1 l l e g e 11·a, r1nnre1.I 111

dust, touched and fel t these same

1 4 7 6, J u-.,r 2 2 Y e a r-.. after the m

t h i ng� when t h e y were al i ve. l

t n >1..l u c t 1 nn u f the p11 n t 1 11.� tn

11n:' "

think ofhowditterent the i r l1 l'e

Eur<. >J"L"

must h a 1· e been and wonder who

R c mharclt ha, 'pent m u c h of 1 > K h

t h e y we re a n d wh a t t h ey d id , "

her f1 r't r11·l 1 yem"1fr tng rh mugh

s h e said. " M s . Reinhard t 11·a

the ten� u( thou,anJ, nf paper

r igh t when she s ai d that each

items ll icc1teJ 111 the .::- pec i a l Col lec t i l l n , , t rY mg tll get a han1..l le

hL1 ok ha� a h 1swry l lf it - Oll'n. 1

It makes you 1n1nder what

un ll'hat j, t h e re . " l k ec>p c 1 1 m i n�

p eo p le 11·ill thmk nf our lan

ae ro�:' th mgs that nllhudy knell'

guage and our literary work when t h e y read it five hundred

11·e had," 'he -.. a 1 J . S pec i a l Cullec t i<.m' i-., pri mci

year from no11-. S ee i ng all of

r e , L1 u r c e ,

t he changes m ll'ritten work

ri I y

teachtng

Reinhard t �ay�. "The goci l L 1f the coll ect 1on i,

m·er time from scro l l s

� u p p ort the c u r

and now to computer

book makes

r i c u l u m , " she -aid. " I t should be Special Collecrions Librarian Nann Reinlwrd1 wanes " used" boob . you wonder how peo pl e will read ci

lil'ing l a h or a t m y where stu-

our work i n t h e future."

dent� can actual l y hand le these materials and make co n n e c t i on s

R e i nh ardt says she was exc i ted about S ag a er'

upcom ing

M i l ton course h e c a u s e "we hal'e early ed i t ion · of Paradise Lost

11·ith ll'hat they're stu d y ing."

ll' ith e ngrav in g� . "

R e i nhardt works c l ose l y w i th fac u l t y to pro v i de arc h i v a l m a t e r i a l s t h a t � u p p l e m e n t c las-roorn s t u d y . A ·s istan t Profes o r

The col lect ions h o l d m a te r i a l s u eful in many d isc ipline ,

of English E l i : a b e th Sagaser takes t u d e n ts in se 1·eral of her

Reinhardt says. G i \'en the c urrent debate about fam ily values,

l i terature cou rse, to Spec i a l Col le c t ions to v i ew earl y puhl ica

sociologists m ight be intere ted i n a k i ng's proclamation from the 1 7 th century d i scouraging a lc ohol abuse and profan i ty i n

t iom of Shak espeare, E d m u nd Spenser and other ll'ri ter . "N ancy has been a b l e to g il'e stud e n ts in my early modern

puhlic p laces. T heo l og ia ns , h istorians a n d anthropologists would

l i te r a t u re c lasses a sense of how the book rea l ly came to be,

find useful a 1 5 3 5 pamphl e t , probably hawked on street corners

what the first papers were made of, a sense of the economy in

i n Germany, that describes Lutheran doctrine. "When you

w h i c h book were fi rst made , and has been able to show them

cons ider the impact of the Reformation and how the develop

some early edit i ons of the texts," Sagaser said. "She j ust has

ment of print ing i n teracts with that t i me, i t's quite exciting

great stories, too, l ike how the earl ies t papers were made from

have an i tem l i k e t h is," Reinhardt said . "This is a good example

unborn l a m b s k i n . "

of how these materials can help students make connec tions . "

Sagaser says some of h e r tudents conveyed i n t h e i r journals

Re inhardt w a n t used books-beat-up, dog-eared, scri bbled

their amazement about the richness and depth of the Spec ial

in books that show the marks of h uman habi tation. "The role of

Colle c t ions. "Some senior said they had never been in the Robinson Room and that they were so rel ieved to have fo und

antiquarian book dealer whose obj ective is to keep all of the

o u t about i t before they left," she said. "Younger students are

books pristine," she said. 'Tm not worried about marks in book .

a l ways e x c i ted to learn that Colby has these mu eu m-qual i ty books, and, in fac t , several of them have written paper using

I 'm interested in di rty old books as w e l l . "

these texts as sources."

i n which i t appears, s h e a y s . The annotat ions that show u p , say,

a head of special collect ions at a college should not be that of an

Marginal i a is often m o r e interesti ng to scholars t h a n the t e x t

Katie Quackenbush '99 of Shelton, Conn . , wrote, " I was

in a 1 9th-century copy of Aesop 's Fables m ight reveal something

astounded to see and touch these books that were so old . It was

about how l iterature was taught, she says. "At an educat ional

incred ible. The concept of omething surviv ing for such a long

i nst i tu t ion you are interested in the book as an artifact, how it

t i m e and then me be i ng able to hold i t was diffi c u l t to accept."

was used. You are interested in the c u l tural context and the oc iology of it. There are c lues about the time-how people

Jim Fiebelkorn '98 ( M innetonka, M inn. ) was equally charmed. "It is really fun to hold a manuscript in your hands that was

When identifying and acqu iring materials, Reinhardt is

pri nted i n 14 7 3 [sic] and wonder, 'where has t h is paper been and

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thought, what their interests were , " she said.

cunsc il)LI' llt the j:' l l t e n t i a l

J, ,n,1 tecl . n , 1 r 1• u rc h.i,ecl.

u s e \ )f e\·en t h e m , 1 , t ar

'he ,,1 1· , , .mcl ,he' h , 'l'L'' I t'

cane informat ion . ln 'l l ITH:'

11 · 1clc>rn n g rc> 1• u t ,I t 1 < Hl \1 i l l

\\'ays these obsc ure 1 tems-

c> nc , , ur , 1ge fu t u re· ce i fr,

1\· h i c h often hm-.::' affi l i a

'( earh c \'l.'r\ t h l l1 '2

t ions \\' i t h sign ifi c an t l i r

,1cc1u u«:·Ll h S r t:c i a l C d

erary nr h isru n c a l fi g u res

l ec u , , n , ,, ,rn nluc , 1 t l l 1n,il

are as \·al u a b le as the more

re,, 1 u r c e . R e 1 n h ,ncl r , , 1 1 , .

g la mo ro us ho ld ings , says

"Ll 't' e ' f r h 1 ng' 1•erh,1r'

Re inhard t , who enj oys e x

C l l li l ,1

c m·a t i n g the m from the

e r h e mer ,1 1 l'l l l\\' l • u r Ill,\\'

c ' i n � 1 d c> r e d

\· o l u m i n o u s c o l l e c t i o n

rake l1n ne11· ::- 1gn1t1 c1ncc:

files. For e x amrle . when

Lue r , " ,he '<ltcl. " Fa,h tl ll'l'

she located a pam r1 h l e t at

c hange; r h i n !2::- !2l1 rn ,mcl

a s m a l l N e\\' H a mpsh i re

llllt llf \·ogue. Th a t ' s 11·lw

bookstore written in t he late 1 0 s by a g yne colo

S rndencs enrich

their srnd)·

uf literamre h,· examining ancient manuscripts .

g i s t n amed Thomas J ewe tt , Re inhardt remembered that \Hiter

ll'e c an ' t j us t thru\\' th in'!:: a11·ay . .-\ h und re d year::

frnm no\1· n e 11· assLK iar ions may Je\·elor rhat ma ke rhe":> mate

Sarah Orne J e\\' e t t often used phys i c i a ns as c e ntra l c harac ters i n

rials i mplirtanr . .Au thors 1\·h\1 are l) h s c ure no1\· 11· i l l bec,1 111e 1•,1 rt

her stories. Perh a ps t h e n m were related : Sure enough . Thomas

(lt an establ ished c a n o n . "

J ew e t t \\·as Sarah's father. "We ha\·e this paper, \\' r i tten for the

R e i nhardt a l ready has seen t h i s r• henomenon . \len1L)l1 Lee.

Maine Medical Assoc iation. that tells us a l it t le about Sarah

\\· hose \\·ork is be c L•m i n g increas i n gh· rec n g n i : e d a� scholars and

Orne J ewett's father and \\· h a t some of her influences may ha\·e

c r i t i c s ree 1·al uare early female a u thors. i s \1- e l l repre�ented in

been," Reinhardt said.

C olby ' s C L• l l e c r ions. "We're 1\· e l l knO\\·n for nur V erne1 n Lee

The acq u is i t io n s hudget is modest, so R e i n h ardt concen

materials , " Reinhardt said. " She is atrrac r i n g more auenr i on

trates on mate r ials that build on the c o l le c t ion's st r en g ths . "We

and as a resu l t L•ur c ol le c t i ons are gru11·ing in s ra rure . "

c an' t co mpete for some of the rarer books you 'd find i n a d e a l er

W h a t ' s the \ · a l ue of Sp e c i a l C ollec r i ons 1 I n mon e rary term � .

c a talogue-thing s that cost thousands of do l lars-b u t if you

nL) bo dy kno\1·s. A . n ap r r a i s a l \\·e1uld Ce)St tl1L1usands of dollars,

kno\\' \\'hat you ' re look i n g for. you c an fi n d lesse r - k no1\·n ll'orks

Rei nhardt says. The do lla r \·alue is secondary to its a e sthe t ic anJ

that fit n ice ly into L)ur c o l le c t i on , " she sa id . One of Reinhardt's

educational \\'Orth any1\·ay, she sa\' s . " H e1\1- do you ['U t a \·alue lm

goals is to b u i l d upon the c o l l e c t io n to enhance i ts \·alue for

the Henry J a mes l e r rers or the Thomas Hard\· marenals 1 The,· ' re

scho lars. V i rtually all of the col lection's best materials \\·ere

price less, i rrep laceable resourc e s . "

A n O l ym p i c Ac h i eve m e n t I f you \v anr to e e a l i t t l e O ly m p ic h istory t h i s s u mm e r , you need go n o further than the Spec ia l C o l l ec t ions a t Co l b y . Housed there, in its original three - i nch by four - i n c h leather- en.cased h o l d e r . L rhe first m e d a l awarded i n the m o d e m O l y m p i c Games a r A t h e ns i n 1 9 6 . T h e i h-er medal ( gold medal were n o t awarded to first place \\·inners u n t i l later) \\·as \\·on by James R. Connolly, whose career as a \Hiter of sea rales e\·entually made h is Olympic \·ictory a mere biographical footnote . The pre c ise dare of the medal's acqu isition by Coll:: y is not known, but it was gi\'en to the College as part of a collec t ion of Connolly books and personal items by h i daughter, Brenda, in the late 1 94 s or early 1 9 5

. An earlier oift ro the

College by James Augustine H ealy included many Connol l y fir t edi t ion-, and h is best k nown work, G loucestermen , h elped establish Colby' h ighly regarded collection of I rish l iterature. Connol ly , who received an honorary degree from Col b y in 1 9 5 , was a student at Harvard \\'hen he dropped out of school to compete in the fir t modem Olympic in Arhen . H i performance in the hop, k ip and j u rnp-- t he precursor of today' triple j ump-earned h i m the first medal awarded in the Garnes and established a record that stood for 1 3 years. H e ne\·er return2d to Harvard, didn't receive a college degree and •vent on to become what Joseph Conrad-himself a pretty fair teller of sailing adventure -once descr ibed as "America' be-t writer of ea srorie . " In addition to the h istoric i l v e r medal , Spec ial Collect ions own a i h-er cup and a medall ion pre ented to Connolly

for his Olympic achievement .

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China--Taiwan Furor N o Surprise to Zhao

L�culty rile

By Stephen Col l ins '74

n the wake of Tai wan's

C h i n a . His v iew was at odds

fi r�t d i rect pres i de n t i a l

w i th the Srnte Depa rtment's

clectiuns,

o l by\ East

b e l i ef that Chi na's top

Asian pol i t i c <ll sc i ence

rol i c y n1akers had no such

e x pert, A!>Si!>ta n t Profes:,or

inten tions , Zhao say�.

Su i �heng Z h <lo, heard the

tains re�earch con tact in ac adem i a and the govern men t there. In the Wes t ,

won't allow it. The U . S. ha

W i th Cldvanced degrees

where he earned two

he very, very cautiou!> in

master's degrees before

frl1m un i ve rs i t i es in both

th is matter. The whole East

getting h is Ph . D . in govern

C h i n a and the U n i ted

Asian economic m i racle

ment ( a l l at the U n i ver · i ty

S t a te�. a� the ed i tm of The

could he destroyed, at least for

Journal of Concem/)oran

of Cal i f o rn i a at San D i ego ) , h e founded The Journal of

China and a�

S u i s h e n g Zhao

freely in China and main

period nf time." 'Tm k i nd of torn apart,"

n l hy's teacher

Contemporary China in

of Ch inese pol i tic:,, Chinese

Zhao said . " I try to u e my

1 99 2 . But, he s a i d , " I ' m

f orei gn rol icy and i n terna

k n 1 rndedge and my back

suspec t on both s ides. I n C h i n a , I 'm a natura l i zed

t i on<ll relations i n East Asia,

gro und to erve both s ides,

Zhao is among the hest

h u t ometi mes I feel that

American; in America, it's

i n formed and must cun

nei ther will l i sten to me . "

hard for me to be seen a

cerned people in the world

W i th bachelor'� and

Ameri can. In both places I 'm

when i t come!>

master's degrees in econom

seen a a foreign scholar."

Taipei

Be ij ing rel a t i ons. Last

summer he p re d i c ted that

i•ol i t ics than eclmomic , he

( wh i c h was more about

C h i na would threaten T aivmn w i th f o rce if ta l k of

says ) from Pek ing U n i \'er

Waterv i l le and Colby are

si ty, where h e abo taught

good p laces to reach his twin

independence got too bold.

f o r fi ve years, Zhao tra\'els

goals-being an excel lent

I n a foreword to

recent

Journal, Zhao wrote that

Th is spring he' warn i ng that the worl d should

swee test wor d s a po l i t i c a l

prepare for more Ch inese

a n a l yst can hear: "You

sword - rattling and that there

pred i c ted everyth i ng . "

i sti l l a gulf of m isunder-

That's what a Ch i n<l

Eight Earn Tenure The Board of Trustee has approved the recommendations of the Promotion and Tenure Committee and granted tenure

tand ing between the

spec ialist at the U . . State

pol itical rea l i ty in East Asia

to eight fac u lty members. A l l w i l l be promoted to assoc iate

Department told h i m after

and Westerner ' interpreta

professor a of September 1 , 1 996.

Taiwanese independence

tion of events there.

rhetoric warmed up and the

Robert Bluhm ( physics) earned

Zhao fears U . S . officials

People's Rep u b l ic of China

sti ll don't believe that

surprised the West by

Taiwan's new president, Lee

lobbing m i ssi les nea r the

Teng-h u i , is committed to

i s l a n d , prompting the U . S .

independence for the island,

t o d ispatch a i rcraft carrier

which Ch ina considers a

to the neighborhood. Zhao

renegade province. Because

briefed the S ta te Depart

the idea of an independent

ment last s u m mer after he

Taiwan is anathema to China,

returned from a research trip

Lee ha had to be circumspect

to Beij ing. His c l a i m that

about h is intentions, Zhao

p lans were in place to

maintains. Regarding the

launch war games around

prospect of an independent

T a i wan was based on

democracy in Taiwan, he said,

his bachelor's degree in physic at N ew York Uni versity and h is Ph . D . in theoretical physics from Rockefeller Univers i ty . He j oined the Colby Physics Department in 1 990. Bluhm a lso has obtained a

ma ter's degree in phys ics from Princeton Uni versity and a master' degree in Engl ish l i tera ture from Columbia U n i versity. H is research interests are theoretical physics, atomic and h igh energy physics, and the string theory, and cosmology.

conversations w i th m i d - level

"No matter how morally

Guilain Denoeux (governmen t ) spec ial izes in comparative

but wel l - c onnected m i l i tary

j u tifiable t o the United

pol i tics and M iddle Eastern and North African pol itics. His

and pol i t ic a l leaders in

States' way of think ing, China

current research centers on the politics of democ ra tization in

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teacher and an excellent scholar. "You can only rea l ize both at a school l ike Colby," he said this spring, praising the College's balance between scholarship and teach ing as well as the academic and technological support h e receives. Even before the East Asia imbro glio made the cover of Newsweek in March, Zhao's courses were popular, and publicity surrounding the confrontation only height ened interest among h is students, he says. Because h e has e-mail and can v iew international television news in h is office, Zhao feels he is better informed in Watervi l le than h is counterparts are in either Taiwan or China. And travels to China, Taiwan and Singapore during the year helped him keep his finger on developments that don't make the news. W h i le h is published books, Decision-Making in Deng's China: Perspectives

from Insiders ( M .E. S harpe,

1 99 5 ) and Power by Design :

Faculty N o tes

Constitution-Making in Nationalist China ( Univer

Larissa Taylor, assistant professor o f history, wa chosen as one of two recipients of the John N ichola Brown Prize for 1 996 for her book Soldiers ofChrist: Preaching in Late Medieval and Reformation France . . . . Ira Sadoff, Dana Profes or of Po etry, received the George Bogin Memorial A ward from the Po etry Society of America. The prize, which "recognizes fresh ness and originality" and "a rand aga i nst oppression in a l l i ts forms," was given to Sadoff for poems from h is forthcoming col lection, Delirious, to be publi hed by David Godine in May 1 997. Ira Sadoff . . . Herbert Wilson, associate professor of biology, presented a paper and chaired a session for the Cooper Ornithological Society in San Diego . . . . Deborah Norden, assistant professor of government, chaired a panel for the Midwest Political Science Association in Chicago. . . . Adrianna Paliyenko, assistant professor of French, chaired a session for the Northeast Modem Lan guage Association in Montreal. . . . Batya Friedman, Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Com puter Science, was a workshop leader for a conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems in Vancouver. . . . Harriett Matthews, professor of art, exhibited her recent sculpture and drawings in the Colby Museum of Art.

s ity of Hawaii Press , 1 99 6 ) , h a v e focused on C h i n a and Taiwan, Zhao's c urrent and future interests take a broader view of East Asia and p u t him at the forefront of an emerging specialty. Next year St. Martin's Press w i l l publish h is third book, Dynamics of Power Competi tion in East Asia: From the Old Chinese World Order to the Post-Cold War Regional Multipolarity . " I t's a huge

and d iversified area," he said. "The U.S. has the best China-watchers and East Asia scholars, b u t most study single countries. " W it h the region e merging as the world's third center of economi c , cultural and m i l i tary power, i t needs to be treated as one sphere, h e says. " Be ing a compre hensive Pac ific scholar requires broader know l edge ," he s a i d . +

Clare Boothe Luce As istant Professor of Computer Sc ience Batya Friedman ( mathematics and computer science) ha been at Colby since 1 99 1 . She received both her B.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. Her areas of specialization are human-computer interaction, the human relationship to technology and computers in education. Currently she is working on a book, Designing Computers for People : Human

the A rab world and the pol it ical economy of Morocco. H e earned undergraduate degrees in economics and political sc ience from the University of Grenoble, a master's from Georgetown University and a Ph.D. in politics from Princeton. He is the author of Urban Unrest in the Middle East: A Comparative S tudy of Informal Networks in Egypt, Iran and Lebanon .

Values and the Design of Computer Technology .

Michael Donihue '79 ( econom

ics) joined the faculty i n 1 989. He pent the 1 994- 1 99 5 academic year as the senior economist for the President's Counc i l of Economic Advisors in Washing ton, D.C. Donihue earned both his master's and Ph.D. from the Universit ' of M ic h igan. H is teaching areas are macroeconomic model ing and economic forecast ing, macroeconomic theory and mathematical economic .

Benjamin Mathes ( math

ematics and computer scienc e ) came to Colby in 1 990 from a postdoctoral position at Dalhousie University i n H a l ifax, N ova Scotia. He received h is bachelor's degree from M iddlebury College and h is M.S. and Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of New continued o n p . 27

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Making Cents of the Deficit By Sally Baker

hroughout the budget battle of 1 99 5 -96, a President Clinton wrangled with a tubborn Congres sional freshman class and federal workers were repeat edly sent on furlough, Assistant Professor of Econ omic Saranna Robinson Thornton '8 1 maintained that almost no one was

he said. "I t's est imated that in twenty years or less, spending on entitlement program will be one hundred percent of all revenues. At that point, every dol lar of discretionary spending-on things like federal prisons, education, A I DS research, cancer research, national parks will add to the defic it." Thornton's conc lusions are contained in Bucking the Deficit : Economic Policymak ing in America ( Westview

Saranna Robinson Thornton

getting the point. Dismayed by med ia coverage that focused heavi ly on political winners and losers, on who was compromi ing and who was not, Thornton urged policymaker -and journal ists-to look to the future. "In about fifteen years, when the baby boomers begin re tiring and becoming e l igible for Social Security and Med icare, we're going to tart having deficits that are going to make today's deficits look in ignificant, "

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Press, 1 996 ) , which she wrote with Dist inguished Presidential Professor of American Government G . Calvin Mackenzie. Written with wit and style in c lear, jargon-free prose, the book is for anyone who want to understand what the country's current budget problems are , where they came from and what could be done about them. Pol i tical expedience is at the root of today's deficit, Thornton and Mackenzie say . Programs created during, espec ial ly, the Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson administrations evolved from social safety nets for those in need into entitlements for huge numbers of Americans, regardless of need. And politicians who want to be reelected don't threaten those programs. "What's happened in our country i that politics has so dominated the process that instead of having little deficits when we're in recessions and

either balanced budgets or small surpluses when we're in an expansion, we've gotten to a point where people want their programs and they want tax cuts," Thornton aid in an interview the week the book was published. Thornton ays the current budget debate is an attempt to "treat the ymptoms" of overspending rather than the major, underlying causes. Mostly, she says, the discu sions have revolved around changes in d i cretionary pending, "and when they address entitlement pend ing it's for the most part the entitlement programs that aren't co ting us that much, things l ike AFDC and food stamps. We're not going to face an enormou budget crisis in fifteen years because of food stamps." What need to be on the operating table, she says, are ma sive revenue-eaters l ike Soc ial Security and Medi care. Gi ven time to prepare, baby boomers could make changes in retirement and health in urance plans to cover themselve in old age, and the entitlement pro grams could be used olely for those in need. "You pay auto insurance from age sixteen on, and if you don't have an accident you don't say, ' I want my premiums back.' I 'd l ike to see Soc ial Security and Medicare turned into true insurance program , " Thornton said. A government and economics major at Colby,

Thornton once planned to go into elective polit ics, with the U.S. Senate as her ultimate destination. A summer as a Senate Budget Com mittee staffer adj usted her ambit ions, and short ly after graduation she went to work for the Federal Reserve and became interested in monetary pol icy. "I thought I would go to graduate school for my Ph.D. in economics, then return to the Fed or to another government agency," she said. But, Thornton says, once she began teaching as a grad uate student at Carnegie Mel lon Uni ver ity, "th.at was it. I fe l l in love with teach ing." She returned to Colby in 1 989, and Mackenzie, her former academic adviser and a favorite professor, sug gested that they be on the lookout for a research topic they could tackle together for publication. Two years ago they began work on Bucking the Deficit, which is part of We tview's "Dilem mas in American Pol itics" eries, edited by Colby Professor Sandy Maisel. "She did the economic and I did the policy," Mackenzie said. "It was great fun because she' so good. She's exceptionally mart, she always had her parts of the work done on time, and any differences we had over the text we worked out easi ly. I'd love to do another project l ike this-if I could find another collaborator a good as Saranna." +

Hamp h ire. He teaches funct ional analysis, operator theory and linear algebra. Hi numerous publications deal with operator range and ideal .

P U N D IT S & P L A U D IT S

David Nugen t ( sociology and

King for a Day

anthropology) received h is Ph.D. in anthropology from Columbia U niversity in 1 988. The bulk of h is fieldwork has been conducted in northern Peru, a lthough he also has experience in Kenya and in the eastern Canadian Arctic. N ugen t is the author of two books. The first, Modernity at the Edge of Empire: State , Individual and Nation in the Northern Peruvian Andes , 1 8851 935 , is be i ng publ ished by Stanford U niversity Press thi year. The second, Locating Capitalism in Time and Space: Essays on the Influence ofJoan Vincent , is slated for publica t ion i n 1 99 7 . N ugent's areas of i nterest include political and economic anthropology, race, ethnic i ty and nationalism, Latin America, East Africa, agrarian soc iety, and state, and nation build ing. He is fluent in Spanish and Ru sian.

Cheryl Townsend Gilkes, J ohn 0. MacArthur A soc i a t e Professor o f Sociology a n d African-American Studie , was quoted in a Baltimore S un art ic le about Afrocentric dress worn by black clergy. She told the new paper that the use of African robe and vestment is not a new phenom enon but grew out of the black theology movement of the 1 960s. That movement receded but returned in the 1 990s, prompted by growing pol i t ical and economic concern among blacks, G i lke said. "One of the critici ms of the black church that emerged in the ixt ies was the white centered imagery," she said. G ilkes received a standing ovation for her addres in Arlington, Mass., at a celebration of Martin Luther K ing Jr.'s birthday, according to the Arlington Advocate. She said all Americans "must participate i n the healing" of racial ani mosity and ethnic d ivisions. "I wouldn't want to answer to Dr. King for the state of the world today," G i lkes said. According to the Advocate , as G i lkes took her eat following the speech Arlington resident Claire Mayton leaned over to her and said, "Or. K ing could not have done any better."

Adrianna Paliyenko ( French) has been a member of the Colby faculty since 1 989. She earned her B.A. and her Ph. D . from the U niversity of North Carolina at Chapel H il l and her M . A . from Bo ton n i versity. Her teach ing interests are 1 9th- and 20th century French poetry and prose, surreal ism, 20th-century French theater, feminis t/psychoanalytic approaches to women in poetry and literary criticism. Pal iyenko has publi hed articles on 1 9th- and 20th-century French poets and on 1 9 th century French psyc hiatry. She has a book- length tudy on French poets R imbaud and Claude! forthcoming and is now preparing a h istoriography that will reconstruct the women's poetic movement in 1 9th-century France.

Attention Deficit Poli t ical debate abou t the budget deficit i n the U nited States has gathered momentum as public concern over the problem i ntensified, and President Bill C linton wa among the most strident , said G . Calvin Mackenzie, Distinguished Presidential Professor of American Government, in an article i n the Boston Sunday Globe. Clinton, who, the new paper said, originally campaigned on the notion of increasing American competitivenes , gradually embraced the v iews of 1 99 2 independent presi dent ia l cand idate Ross Perot, who stressed the deficit over all other issues. "Nobody in the election, ofcourse, was for the deficit, but once the election was over, Clinton sure spoke the way Perot did,' Mackenzie aid. "He moved in the Perot d irection."

Steven Saunders ( music)

China Stumbles

received h is B.F.A. and h is M . F. A . from Carnegie Mellon U nivers i ty and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the U niversity of Pitt burgh. H is publications include Cross,

l n an opinion article i n the Chicago Tribune , Profe sor of H istory and East Asian Studies Lee Feigon analyzed the recent decision by the Chinese government to e lect the next Panchen Lama, the most powerful figure in Tibet after the Dalai Lama. "If the Chine e government had let well enough alone and s imply allowed the Tibetans to pick their own Panchen Lama, i t would have showed that China' Communi t rulers were not defensive about their own leadership," Feigon wrote. "But now the Chinese have overreached themselves, revealing their adm i nistrations to be on shaky ground not only in Tibet but in China."

Sword, and Lyre: Sacred Music at the Imperial Court of Ferdinand II of Hapsburg

( 1 6 1 9- 1 63 7) , Fourteen Sacred Concertos from the Court of Ferdinand I I of Hapsburg and The Complete Works of S tephen Collins Foster. H is areas of specialization are 1 7th-century

music, American popular songs and the l ife and works of S tephen Collins Fo ter. He is president of the New England Chapter of the A merican Musicological Society. +

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Hoops with the Devil, Other Dangerous Men B y Robert G illespie

treet musician stand i ng on h i s hands

in front of Mozart's grave

sma l l - t ime grifter, one of

abandon h i m ?

Becker's many "dangerous

Several o f these storie

men , " she feels that they are

portray music ians or people

play "I'm an Old Cowh and"

in "one of tho e adventure

o n his harmon i c a . A young

mov i e , holding hands and

old wizard with a basketba l l ,

hushand, replaced i n h i s

and blues m u s i c , a world

leap ing off a cl iff together."

be l ieves t h a t t h e mysterious

w i fe ' s affe c t i ons b y a ferre t ,

that Becker knows well from

The s u rprise is that "She had

stranger who chal lenges him

d rives the c re a t u re n u t

his years p laying guitar in

no doubt that they'd land

to play Death is the dev i l .

b l ues and country bands d uring the early 1 9 Os.

on the fringes of roc k , rap

w i t h a c ranked - u p stereo.

right in the m id d le of a b i g

An exquisite confrontat ion

A 1 2 -year-old k id hoots

p i le of feathers,

of innocence with danger on

hoops in a game of Death

equally astoni h i ng . "

w i th the d e v i l .

someth ing

a dry, windswept baske tba l l

Becker's charac ters, most of them young, usually land

"The Handstand Man"

way they can l i ve-"to

shoo t i ng battle dramatizes

"though nobody actually

confront the darkne·s head

the stake� in Becker's

standing on his hand playing

on," as Christine decides,

univer

"and not blink." N ot u n t i l

loses h i s soul

the Ev il

hi mself, he must "Th ink no

the local quarry on a spur-of

bad though ts . . . . Keep your

the-moment swim with the

heart pure . " Becker's c ustomarily

of them, l ike Duney, may even end up s t i l l innocently swimm ing c i rc les around the danger, b u t mostly they go on repeating or re l i v i ng their

everywhere in the 1 1 s tories

m istakes and look i ng heart

in Geoffrey Becker 'SO's

rend ingly dopey. The down

Dangerous Men. Christ i ne , a mechanic in "Daddy D. and Short Time," l i ves the sort of a i m less, half-desperate l i fe led by the maj ority of the c harac ters in t h is col lection

and-out s treet music ian t h i nks h is l i fe peaked the summer he stood on his h ands and p layed the harmonica-back when h e w a s "a se lf-supporting

of stories, which won the

music ian p laying in a l l the

1 5 t h Annual Drue H e i n z

great c i t ies of E u rop e . "

1 9 9 6

One. I f he is to win, he tel ls

"destructive element." Some

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I f V i c tor loses, he

1 7 - year-old Duney i n

fa l l i n to the Conrad ian

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" M agister Ludi" l eaps into

despera tion of people who

L i terature Prize i n 1 99 5 .

situat ions similar to those in

through the evening from

murdered . Dangerous Men

H ooked up with a drifter and

a lot of musical acts and

d i stant tra i le rs, the ba ket

dramatizes the goofiness and

I nstab i l ity and peril are

summer," Becker said. He saw

the ·ounds of radios drift

in trouble i nstead . Tak ing

band docs it occ u r to her that she m ight be raped and

'80

court in N e w M e x i c o , where

ri ks seems to be the only

mena c i ng leader of a rock

G eoffrey Becker

"I toured through Europe as a street musician one

I n " E l D i a b l o de l a Cienega," V i c tor, a 1 2 -year-

the hannonica," he said. " I did p l a y bluegrass in front of Mozart's birthplace, though. " T h e c raft i ng o f a tory in some ways is l ike p laying mu i c , Becker say . " I t takes place over time. You start

menac ing world can tum

w i th an idea, explore i t ,

c ru e l , and l ife c an be "a lot

t h e n g e t out o f i t . I t's h o w I

l i ke that movie" The Good , The Bad and The Ugly, accord i ng to a c haracter in " Big Grey. " Even though the bad and the ugly dominate and unfairness rules, however, Becker' c entral moral perception is that out of the badness and even out of one's own ugliness can come a bit of the good, too. I n "Bluestown," a 1 5 -year old boy and h i s d i vorced father, a 3 5 -year-old aging boy and i t i nerant g u i tarist, take off for a gig in Montreal w i thout the boy's mother's permission. What begi n as buddies on the road starts to look l ike a k idnapping. What gift can the father g i ve to hi son other than to

th i nk about structure." Ep isod ic , with fl ashbacks and j u mbled chronology, the tories are marked by dramatic iron ie and surpris ing ant i c l i maxe . ( The story "Taxes" looks run of the m i l l compared to the majority of these stories because the unexpected

doesn ' t happen . ) The speaking voice are unique and conv i nc ing. Becker h a received several awards and prizes, and h i s stories were included in the Best American Short Stories volumes in 1 986 and 1 990. W inning the presti gious Drue H e inz prize has been "a great boost," h e says, and Dangerous Men has

ootten po itive review in The Washington Post and the ew York Times Book Review. The $ 1 0,000 prize

inc luded a flight to Pitt burgh, home of the He inz fam i ly, for a lunch at the Duque ne Club with art patron Drue Heim. Becker began writing during a J an Plan at Colby with novel i t and Engli h Professor u an Kenney. A a Senior c ho lar he wrote five or ix storie but ays he d idn't try fiction eriou ly again until the mid-' 0 . He began attending evening writing cla e in New York and-while riding the subway on the way to his stint as an income tax pre parer---devoured the tories of Salinger, Roth, Malamud, Flannery O'Connor, Carver, Hemingway. In 1 98 he completed an M.F.A. at the Univer ity of lowa Writer ' Workshop, where for four years he also worked as an academic adviser for fresh men and ophomore . It wa

a job he l iked, he said, "and it' not a bad idea at a big ·chool for those who won't ever see a profe sor." t . Martin Pre i s lated to publ ish Becker's fir t novel, Bluestown, which he ay open with the same tory that end Dangerous Men. ( " l t 's about ninety-five percent the ame. I wa p laying both ide ," he aid, and sent the novel out before the tory collection wa accepted . ) After everal ummer in England teach ing exceptional high c hool ·tudents at Oxford, he held a creative writ ing fe l low hip and visiting profe sorship for three years at Emory Univer ity. He has been back in Iowa City this year on an EA grant, working on a econd novel. "I 've got about 0 page Jone ," Becker aid. "It was hard writing a novel, but 1 want to keep going. l ' m learning to write, I ' m getting better. I have the faith I can do it." +

Fresh Prin ts Ray Perk i n s J r . '64 Logic and Mr. L imbaugh Open Cou rt P u b l i s h i n g Co.

Ray Perkin J r. '64 ha a bit of fun but al o a eriou undertone in h t book Logic and Mr. Limbaugh, an exami nation of fal l ac iou rea on ing and how to identify it. P e r k i n . y t e m a t ic a l ly deconstructs the argument of con ervative radio and talk show host Rush L i m b a u g h to d i c u s the e l e ment of l o g i c a n d l o g i c a l Ray Perkins, Jr. technique . A lthough Limb a u g h has p r o n o u n c e d h i m e l f an a u t hority o n a w ide ranoe o f ubject , h i s reason ing is seriously flawed, accord ing to Perkins. H e points o u t t h e leaps of logic t h a t L i mbaugh e mp loys t o b u i l d persua i v e argu ments t h a t don't h o l d u p under thought fu l crut iny. For example, L i mbaugh often attacks the pos i t ion of env i ro nmentali ts, fem i n is t a n d o t h e r " l i bera ls" by attacking their character or per ona l it ies, neither of which a re re levant to their b e l iefs, Perk ins says. L i mbaugh often c rosse a l i ne from fac t to fa l lacy in hi a t t e mp t to e n t e r t a i n , P e r k i n ays. W h e n L i m baugh c r i t i c ize the env ironmental p o l i c i e advo cated by Vice Pre ident A l G ore he doe o by point ing o u t that this "nature lo er" onc e got 1 t > hi le h i k ing in a park w i th Secret Ser ice agent . A l though the econd point h a no relevance to the fir t, L i m baugh i m p lies that G ore' idea about the envi ronment can be dismi ed becau e he i an inept h iker, Perkins ay . Perkins notes in the book' introduction that he i not i mpugning the political opinion of Limbaugh, j u t the methods he uses to expres those opinions. " . . . h i opinions and bel iefs are often poorly argued fo r [and] are often supported by rea on that are e ither weak or irrelevant to the tru th of those opinions and bel ief: about which he's try ing to per uade us. "We are, all of u , in our di course with our fel lows, obl iged to avoid-or at least try to avoid-fa l lac ious rea oning," Perkin writes. "Fallac ious rea oning i a k i nd of counterfeit, and l ike bad money, it hou l d be ident ified and rejected whenever encountered." •

A Prized Accomplishment

or the fifth t ime in six year , a Colby al umnu ha won the Pul itzer Prize. J ust before pre rime, Colby learned that Alan Taylor ' 7 7 ha received the Pu litzer for h i tory for hi book William Cooper's Town: Power and Persua sion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic ( see Book and

Authors in Colby , February 1 996 ) . Currently a professor o f history at the University of California at Davis, Taylor previously taught at Bo ton Univer ity, the College of William and Mary and at Colby. He i al o the author of Liberty Men and Great Proprietors : The Revolutionary Settlement on the Maine Frontier, 1 760- 1 820 (Univer ity of orth Carolina, 1 990 ) . Earlier thi pring he won Columbia Univer iry's Bancroft Prize in American history. Taylor fo l lows prev ious Pulitzer-winning Colbians Doris Keams Goodwin '64 ( 1 99 5 , history ) , E. Annie Proulx '5 7 ( 1 994, fiction ) , Robert Caper ' 7 1 ( 1 992, journal ism ) and Gregory White Smith '73 ( 1 99 1 , biography) .

M A Y

1 996

C O L B Y

Senior Artists Show The ir S tuff

tudent ife

By Kevin Cool

�k M ic ha e l Bra nc a '96

i n to r h i � dec a p i ta t ion

( M t l ro n , Ma:-.s . ) tl)

t h i n g , " he <lid with a wry

desc r i he h i� work and his

g r i n , w h i c h expl a i ns the

eyes h r i g h t e n .

ncarhy s c u l p t u re nf a h ead

H e hlllds up a �c u l p t u re

pa i n t i ng . " I rea l l y l i ke the layering effe c t you find i n she l l . I t al lows y o u to bring out the tex t u re and l ines,"

with a noll:-.e a ro u n d it i n s i d e

u n t i l now, rh e�e p iece:,

f ormed from a d i sc a rded

a makesh ift c age and the

re:-.i d ed un:,ee n .

rel ephnne rec e i ver and a

l a rge pa i n t i ng of a man

" I t's very exc i t i ng to have

she sa i d . Branca re l ie� heav i l y o n "found objec ts"-j unk-as

hrush i ng h i � teeth wh i l e

a chance to show my work ,"

po i n t of i ns p i r a t i o n . A

huld i ng h i � h e a d 1 n h i s left

Bra n c a �aid. " I want people

�ec t i o n of pegboard he

han d . " Some people t h i n k

to he confron ted hy i t . "

t h e s e are k i nd

f ,g rnss,

S tepha n i e S a c k '96

located i n a refu e pile near the Phys i c a l Plant b u i l d i ng

Branca s a i d in a way that

( 8 l i -b u ry , V t . ) a l so 1

pu)\" ided the c a n vas for one

suggested nnr h 1 ng could

nf hi:, p a i n t i ngs , w h i c h

r l ca�c him m nre. " I t ry to

gratefu l fnr th opport u n i ty w d isplay her art. " I ' m

��ut h u mor in what I d u . "

e x c i ted w hear w h a t peopl e

headl es� man d r i v i n g a car

t h i n k , " s h e sa i d . " I r'

abnut to run over his head , w h i c h is l y i n g in the road.

Branca's c h e e k y pa i n t i ngs

dep i c ts-w h a t e l se 1-a

and sc u l p t u re a re part nf the

i n teres t i n g to have some

�en ior art exh i b i t ion that

feedback tn k now whether

While i n Rome d ur i n g h i s

opened at th

my work affects peor l e

j u n ior year, Branca fa h

Colhy

d i ffe ren t l y . "

M useum of A rt i n earl y May.

S a c k prod uced a col lec

H is work , and that of the

i oned a p u b l ic s c u l p t ure from old te l ev i s i ons and

other srudenb in the ·how,

t ion of p a i n t i ng:, u s i ng a

M i c h a e l B ra n ca '96

represents the c u l m i na t i on

c ommon subjec t-sea

r e t r i e ved from a trash heap.

wine j ug covered with a

of four years of study and

shell �-to em.phasize l ine

"The j u nk p ro v ides a

t h i c k layer of wax. I t ! ,1oks

tech n i c a l m a t u ra t ion. l r 's

and color. She says that

spri ngboard , " he s a i d . " I t ' s

l i ke the head of a c reature

a lso a payoff for the sol i tary

shapes found i n nature

h a rd to come u p w i th

from S ta r Trei<. 'Tm sort of

h u u rs in the s r u d i n where,

a l wa ys h ave i nspired her

idea , and some t i me

mangled motor scooters he

Getting Personal

Em i ly Re i t h , a sophomore from Morgan H i l l , C a l i f. , h a s

hen Colby a nnou nced severa l months a g o t h a t i ts

one of the m o r e d i verse s t u d e n t s i tes, fea t u r i ng everyth i ng

I nternet server wou ld be m8de a v a i lable for students

t o cre8te t he i r own personal pages on the World W ide Web,

from a l in k to This Old House to the home page for N AS A ,

some were skep t i c a l about what i t wou ld spaw n . Would i t be

the l a t t e r i nspi red, s h e says, by her experience at space camp

drivel or someth i ng usefu l ? W el l , while there is plenty of what

i n sixth grade. "The page i s a way for m y fri ends who don't

a c u rm udgeon m ight desc ribe as nonsense , many student pages

know me all that w e l l to fi nd o u t what i n terests me and

are i n t e l l ige n t l y crafted and i nteres t i ng to read .

maybe k now m e better," R e i th a i d .

M ic h a e l S a b i n '96 of Seat t l e , Wash . , i n troduces h i s

U n l i k e some students w h o a r e dabbl ing w i th W e b p u b l i h

poetry-a n a n th o logy t i t led Purple Shadows-with a myste r i

ing for c l ass ass ignments, Rei ch's foray into cyberspace was

ous entryway surrounded by a mage n ta h a z e . H a v i ng " e n

self- i n i t iated . She concedes that her i nterest in information

tered , " readers may f l i p t h rough the pages of the an thology,

technology may be espec i a l l y keen because her mother,

sampl i ng Sab i n 's poems.

J ac q u i e , i a Webmaster at I BM . I n fac t , E m i l y's page i n c l ude

M u l t i l i ng u a l Kori Heavner '96 ( Lu bboc k , Texas ) has

a link to her mother' I nternet i te . N evertheless, E m i l y's Web

c reated a home page with a strong i n ternational flavor. In

s i te is decidedly personal . Her own artwork i ntroduces the

add i t ion to learning s n i ppets of G rman, Swedish and

page, which i n c l udes several observation- about l i vi ng in

T u rk i s h , readers c a n travel to an I n ternet s i te for the

M aine and abo u t issues i mportant to her. " I t's exc i t i n g to see m y page u p there and to k now that I

Turkish Daily News and get the c u rrent excha nge rate of the

d i d i t , " R e i th s a i d . +

T u r k i sh l ira.

C 0 L H

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Keeping Each Other Honest Are Culh\'. i; t ud e n t� more h une�t than their peer� a t uther col l ege� ? Mayh c , 111;1yhe n o t , says W h i tney G l nckner ' 9 6 o f l\ l enlo Park , Cal i f. But a c n m h i n a t i o n o f f acu lt y acccs � 1 h i l1 ty

anLl " t he �ha me fa c t \ lr" lk·c\lurages cheating, :he wrntc in The

Colb'I Echo .

dlockner c i ted �tat1srics from a recent Ru tgers U n i ve r� i ty

study that re\·ea led that Colby stu de n ts feel s t rongly about

Ste p ha n i e Sack '96

t h i s stuff gets me started . " Sack a lso spent a semester

acade m i c honesty. Of the 3 0 ca mpuses pol le d , G lockner said,

abroad, in Botswana, and

geometr i c a l shapes. "Th is was produced by a sc ienc e

i nfl ue nced her art in ways

s t u d e n t who is part ic ipat i ng

studio prac tice could not. " I

in the show , " she said. " l

gained s o much knowledge

h a v e h a d students w h o went

about how other people l i ve

on to graduate s c hool in art

that it can't help but c hange

who were honor students in

how l view the world , " she

a d i fferem maj or at Colby . "

in my p a i n t i n g . " Professor of Art H arriett Matthews says s tu d ents who qual ify for the sen ior art

co llege or u n i vers i ty , " G lockner said. "Though the mall si ze of c lasses and the natu re of tes t i ng at Colby make i t harder

our professors motivate Colby students to act w i th m ore academic i n tegri t y . " G lockner s a i d students w o u l d fee l shame if they c heated on a test and were not caught. " I magine explain ing

show they have developed

Branca i s the only student

their own v is ion," she said.

theory exam w h e n y o u knew y o u owed it a l l t o your uncanny

Swine Dining L ight e a t i ng Colby s tudents make some local p igs very happy. Four days a week, said the Echo , leftover f o od from Dana

"The best t h i ng about showi ng my paint ings is

every student who partic i

that somebody besides me

pates i n the show is a n art

w i l l see them," Sack said.

major," she said. "The beauty

"My morn a l ways wants

of a small program like this is

them on her wal l , but I

that students who work i n

can't l i ve w i th them there.

other fields can also be quite

I want to c hange them. I t's

serious about their art . "

hard to figure out when

your

a b i l i ty to read what was written on your c hest."

m i gh not have explored

sc u lpture, she says. "Not

friends how you got the only ' A ' on [your) m i c roeconom i c

express t he mselves that they

which they are e x h i b iting.

cheat on tests, I be l ieve that the relat ionsh ips we form w i t h

i t gi ves students a way to

are putt ing together a sen ior

S h e pointed o u t a human

and who lesome bunch of k ids at Colby than at any other

col lege is reward ing because

otherwise. " By the t i me they

e x h i b i t i ng both p a i nting and

" l find i t hard to be l ieve, give n t h e b e h a v i o r o f students out of the c l assro o m , that t here is j ust an a l l -around more honest

s t u d i o a r t at a l iberal arts

work in the med i u m in

have fewer inc idents of c heating than

students were i n herent ly more h ones t .

Matthews says teac h i n g

show have completed at least fo u r semesters of course

many other co l leges. But she stopped short of saying Colby

wood p ieces in a \'ariety of

she says t he experience

said. ' ' I ' m s u re that shows up

Colby appeared

figure scu lpture made from

d i n i ng hall is given to a p i g farmer from nearby P i t tsfield. The p igs' feast usually cons ists of extra soup, stale cook ies and un used portions of prepared food. Assistant manager Dan Roy told the Echo that dona t i ng leftover food to area soup k i tc hens would c reate l i ab i l i ty i f somebody got s ic k from eating it. " W i th the p igs we don't get in troubl e , " he said. Perishable, unprepared food ( l i ke fruits and vegetab les ) is donated to the loc a l homeless shelter.

The Mule Rules

they' re done . " +

Accord i ng to students, a pale pack animal beats Bullwinkle any day. The Student Assoc iation asked students whether they preferred the Col lege's c urrent mascot, the W h i te M ul e , or

Con t i n ui n g a string of 26 years in w h ic h at least one Colby

would rather have a newer a l ternative like the moose . The

student has been awarded a Thomas ] . Watson Fel lows h i p ,

]ill

m u le won in a l andslide, 3 4 8 to 1 9 2 .

Picard '96 of Peterborough , N . H . , carries on the tradi

T h e S t u - A newsletter The Colby Gripe said t h e s u rvey was

t ion. P icard's one-year fe llowsh ip w i l l pro v ide fun d i ng her

prompted by the derision a imed at the c u rrent mascot, w h i ch

resear h on women i n agricu ltural areas of J amaica. "The

it said is "often referred to as a j ac kass . "

u l t i mate goal of the year [abroad] is to understand the

T h e W h i te M u le h a s symbolized Colby's athletic teams

u n recorded roles that women play, as we l l as their needs and

s ince 1 92 3 .

demands," Picard said.

M A Y

1 996

C O L B Y

Cultivating a Corps of ' Informed Advocates' By

Ke\' i n Cool

h L· hc�t th t n .L; ahuut

Culhy has g l \ ·en to t h e m . " I

C n l h y \ reg i P n a l

l n \'e Cu l h y , a n d I lm·e to

c a mp<1 i gn� m a y h<l \'l'

t a l k Clhnut Col b y , " ::.;-1 i d K i n1

n ot h i n g tu dn with ra i � 1 n g

A l l e n ' 9 6 , whu part i c i pated

ll1 l 1 1lC)' .

Tlw he�t th ing may

he fi nLl i n.� pe1 1 p l e l i k e C h a d H iggi m ' 9 6 .

Grants ifts &

i n c c 1 m 1l a i gn event� in

an i n t i ma te perspec tive of l i fe on campu::., Rolfson say::..

"We are very candid about what i t 's l i ke ro he a student a t Co lby today," H iggins said.

H a r t ford and G reenll' i c h ,

"President Cotter want::. us to

he rnrnpletely honest. We

H igg i m , a g1 ff e rn m e n t

aren't giv ing a party l i ne . "

m a j or from Sabbatu�. M a rn e ,

Ed G n l d herg ' 5 9 , Ma3or

ha::. part i c i p atL'J i n �evua l

G i fts Com m i t tee co-ch a i r

campa ign C\'ents ( 1,·er the

for the do\\'n town

1:i;-1�t fe"· mnn t h � . H e i�

Boston area, ay::. h i

rcprescn ta t i \'l' nf the cadre

mvolvement sterns from h i s

11f \'1 1 l u ntccr� \\' ho a��i�t

strong he l ief i n a n d loya l ty

C o l b y '� effort::. to gener<:l t c

to Colhy. "I h ave two

s u pp1 H't-<1 l i nk in the c h a i n

c h i l d ren who ll'ent to C1 ) l by

m cb

n f peop l e "·h1 1se work t h e

and I went as we l l , and i t 's

CL1 l l cge c

t i m e tO g i ve hack , " he sa i d .

, say - D1rectm

of De,· e l op m e n t E r i c Rolf::.un

'7 3. "J u�t a� the emhlwment rro \ ' i de� a f ou n d a t i un f or t h e fu ture of the Col lege, g e t t i ng peop l e i n ,·oh · ed i n some m e a n i ngful way lay- the ground work fur t h e fu t u r

we l l , " R n l f o n s a i d . "The

" T h e manrnwer n e c e sary t o ra i se o n e h u nd red m i l l ion A l u m n i volu nteers Cynthia Pigott Bacon ' 7 9 a nd Pa u l S p i l la ne · 7 9 1 01 n President Bill Cot t er and L i n d a Cot t e r a t a regional campaign event 1 n G reenwich. C o n n .

[doll ars] c annot be a c h i eved t h rough a rrnfe sional staff a l o n e . The fr i endsh i ps and re l a t i onsh i ps a l u m n i have

Cnn n . , and in Bosto n . A

away a lot o f good k id s . I ' m

w i th each other c reate a

g\ lvernm c n t and i n te rn a

a fi n a n c i a l a i d - t u d e n t , so I

w e l l -estab l i shed network

t ional stud ies m a j o r from

k now t h e r e ' s a need for

that corn��lements what the

A ugusta, M a i ne , A l len says

fu n d ra i ::. i n g . " H i g g i n s , wh l 1

Col lege is doing.

hase, which i s o n e of \ lu r

t h e g i fts nf Col by a l u m n i

p l ans to a t tend l a w s c h oo l ,

m a j o r goa l s . "

m ade h e r ed u c a t i on poss i h l e .

says h e w i l l re m a i n a c t i ve

moment i n Colby's h istory. The succe sful outcome of

reg ional campa igns a l l11w us tn

broaden our ,·o l unteer

"Th i s i a defi n i n g

"One of m y goals after

i n fu n d ra i s i ng a - an

range of sen· ices for t h e

c o l lege is to g i ve money

a l u m n us bec a use " th e re are

this campaign w i l l determ i n e

Col lege , acCLlrd i ng to

back to Colby to benefi t

plenty of k i ds o u t t h e re

Colby's stand i n g i n t h e

R o l fson . Students attend

other students who need

w h o w a n t to go to s c h o o l s

fu ture. C o l b y ex ists because

c a m pa ign events, where they

fi nan c i a l a i d , " she s a i d .

l i ke C o l b y , and w i t h o u t

of t h e genero s i ty of t h ose

Volun teers p rovide a

m i ng l e with a l u m n i and

H ig g i n s , w h o a d m i ts h e

t h ese a l u m n i g i ft s t h a t

who preceded us. There

wou l d n ' t b e poss i b l e . "

comes a t i me when we must

fri e nds of the Col lege ,

k ne w v i r t u a l l y n o t h i n g

offe r i ng t h e i r perspec t i ve on

about C o l by's fu nd ra i s i ng

c a m p u s l i fe ; fac u l t y often

w h e n he began a t t e n d i n g

now c h a t s c o m fo r ta b l y w i th

part i c i pate as program

c a m r a ign e v e n t s several

a l u m n i w h o a t te nd c a m

presen te r ; and a l u m n i are

m o n t h s ago, says t h e

p a i g n e v e n t s a nd j ok e s t h a t

U n e asy a t fi r s t , H ig g i n s

p rovide for the n e x t genera t i o n , " G o l d berg s a i d . A l um n i volun teers "are o u r best ambassadors,"

h e l pfu l in perso n a l meet i ngs

e x p e r i e n c e has s t r e n g t he ned

h e o n c e tol d a g r o u p of

D i rector of Regional

w i t h prospe c t i ve donors.

his c om m i t me n t to the

t r u s t e e s w h o asked h i m

Campa i gns A l l yson G ood

Regardl ess of t h e i r ro l e ,

C o l l ege. "Co l b y h a s e nough

h o w they could better do

win '87 said. "They are very

t h e e vol u n teers c o m pose

a pp l i c a n ts , t h e y c o u l d say

t h e i r j obs t h a t "you s h o u l d

e n th u s i a t i c , and that

w h a t R o l f on c a l ls "a c o rps

that only the k i ds w h o c a n

v i s i t c a m p u s m o re ofte n . I

e n th u s i asm i s contagious.

of i n f ormed advoca tes , "

afford i t c a n c o m e h e re , " h e

h a v e t h ree h i de - a -beds i n

We need alumni volun teer

w i th o u t w h i c h C o l b y c o u l d

s a i d . " l t wou l J be e asy for

m y r o o m i f you need a

to help because o u r s taff i

not succeed .

t h e m to t u rn away a l o t of

p l a c e to s t ay . "

sma l l , and we s i m p l y cannot

T h e vol u nt eers say t h e y are m e re l y g i v i ng back w h a t

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fi n a n c i a l aid s t u d e n t s , b u t

Students are parti c u larly

t h e y w o u l d a lso be t u rn in g

h elpfu l because they provide

do i t all w i t ho u t them . " V o l u nteers often accom-

A Product of Possibility

ina Garand ' t r , like many that emerge in the cour e of a fund-rai ing campaign, \ a- not conrri ed to set pe ple' · emotions whirl in , but it d id . The en ior from Augusta, ! aine wanted to hare her - tor w ith contributor at a l uncheon for cholarsh ip rec ip ients held at Colby a few month ago. When he had fini hed, according to lly on Goodwin ' 7, director of regional campaigns, "there wa not a dry eye in the room." Garand, the dauahter of French-Canadian imm igran t and the first member f her fa m i l ta attend col lege, de c ribed the day he rece i ed her financ ial aid award from Colby. "My father wa convinced that I would not be able to attend because of our financ ial itua t ion," he -aid. A few day after learning that she had been accepted to Colby-and therefore \ ould not ha e to pay add i tiona l application fees to o t h e r col lege -she w a s ummoned f r m her hi tory c la and greeted by her mother, who held "the mag ic enve lope , " Garand ay . I n ide wa Colb s offer of financ i a l aid. Now preparing to graduate, Garand has extracted ever bit of opportunity from her college experience. She majored in French while also completing course work that w i l l a l low her to pursue a career in medic ine. She pent her j unior year in Caen, France, was captain of the indoor and ou tdoor women's t rack teams and for four years was a voluntary emergency medical technic ian. She ha applied for a Peace pany College representati es to personal meeting with prospect ive donors because they offer a unique v iew point. Rolfson ays the testimonials of fel low a l umni are often persuasive. "When a lu ms hear from one of their peers, 'This is why l gave [to the College] ,' that reso nates," he said. Goodwin says alumni who are asked to volunteer usually are receptive and anx ious to help. "They're flattered to be a ked," she said. Facu lty partic ipation a lso is crucial because, Rolfson says, " to a lot of alumni, the faculty is the College." When Distinguished Presidential Profe sor of American Government G . Calvin Mackenzie addressed audiences at recent cam paign events he talked about the need to maintain

Corp fe llow h ip and hope to pend the next two ear work ino on nu tri t ion prooram in Africa. lt wa all made po ible, he ay , by financ ial aid. "l wou ld not be here v i thout the financial aid, and more pec ifically, without the grant aid," Garand aid at the lunc heon. "On behalf of all f the tudent who ha\'e rece ived financ ial aid t attend Colby, I would l ike to thank you. You Tina Garand '96 have changed the l ives of o many of u , and it will never be forgotten." torie l ike Garand' often are lo t in the mechanic of fund rai ing, ays Goodwin. But they are reminders that efforts to build endowment affect the futures of i ndividual tudents. "Thi i not ab ut numbers, it' about rudent l ike Tina Garand, she said. "There is a ery human tor behind every gift . " +

Colby' heritage of generos ity and progre . "We're ju t a small college in Maine, yet we tand among the oiants of American h igher educat ion. How d id that come about ? How did the little school by the river with a handful of buildings and a t iny endow ment become one of the great colleges of the world ?" Mackenzie aid. "Government d idn't do it. A couple of big gifts from a few very wealthy friends didn't do it. The discovery of oil under Coombs Field didn't do it. lt was instead the extraordinary collective effort of thousands of friends and alumni of this College, doing what they could together to raise the money to pay for Colby's progress. Theirs have been sustained acts of the most remarkable generosity and of uncommon love.

"They're a splendid omen for thi campaign-and for Colby' future. My col leagues and I under rand that we and our tudents are the great beneficiaries of your com mitment and your sacrifice. We want you tO know that we see you as full partners in the noble work that's the m ission of our college. We're

grateful for the opportLmity to pro e urselve \ orthy of your genera ity. I promise y u that we will." That k ind of speech, if it doe n't have people reaching for K leenex, certainly ets heart beat ing a bit fa ter, Rolf on says. ' There i pride in assoc iat ion w i th a winning team, and that's what we have ," he aid. +

Very Scientific Tru tees app rm ed a erie of renovations in the science complex, scheduledfor the ummer of l 996, totaling 1 ,454,00 . These projects, together with others lated for the summer of 1 997, constitute the third and final pha e of cience fac i l i ty impro ements and are being funded by gifts and grant , including those from trustee Paul chupf and the Kre ge, Sherman Fairchild and Keck foundations. These projects include construction of a general chemistry laboratory, $350,000; the Schupf Scientific Computing Center,

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molecular and cellular b io logy research lab,

250,00 ; a clean room,

75,000; in tr ductory biology laboratories,

350 000· Arey tudent

research laboratory and offices, 20,000; an advanced AV prep room, $ 1 0,000; a Keyes tudent/ faculty re each laboratory and faculty office, $ 1 90,0 O; and an astro-physics laboratory,

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Parents Wistful About 'Leaving' Colby B y Kevin Cool

h e j u u rn ey is al most

degree rec i p i e n t th is spring.

over for some Col by

"We will m iss com ing over

parents. Fou r years after

to Colby and being a part of

saying goodbye to t h e i r son

the a c t i v i t ies there . "

and daughter on the first

aging arents

Pa .

Likewise, says Dehorah

i n troduc ing themsel ves d u r i ng the couple's many c ampus v i s i ts and made them feel l i ke members of the c o m m u n i t y . The same

day of c o l l ege, paren t!> of

Desautel of Barri ngton, R . I . ,

g ra d u a t i ng Colby sen iors w i l l

whose daughter Dori

be b a c k o n M a y 2 6 t o

grad u a t i n g . " I w i l l be a l i t tle

and the people there helped

they bent over bac kwards to

refl e c t , ce lebrate a n d ponder

sad because I won't be going

her sort th i ngs out, pointed

�ee that not only your kid

their c h i ld ren's fu t u res.

back ro Colby anymore , " she

her toward careers that wou ld

were hav i ng a pos i ti v e

said. "When we v i s i ted to

use her talents. She is

experience but t h a t w e d i d ,

see Dor i ' s soccer games we

entering law school th is fa l l . "

too," She i l a Montgomery

come home."

a i d . "There i s a strong ense

daughter Beth gradu ated i n

of c om m u n i ty on the

1 989 from Col by , ay they

c ampus and also i n the town

poi n t to Colby's uppor t i ve

were glad that fac u l ty reached out

of Waterv i l l e . I t ' one of

people as a d i s t i nguish i ng feature of the Co l l ege. Kri!>

well as student�. Several

town rea lly is happy to have

ten Shinneman, mother of

fac u l ty made a point of

the c o l l ege there . "

Over and over, paren t.

N i k i '96 of Bellevue, Wash . ,

parents as

those rare cases where th e

Speaking of Commencement

says her daughter rec e i ved "wonderful attent ion and

-upport" from fac u l ty, e pec i a l l y those i n her major department , m u s i c . "The

harles Osgood , a longt i m e news broadcaster and journa l ist, will d e l i ver the keynote address at Com

mencement on May 26.

personal i nterest of her pro

Osgood, a CBS corr e pnndent s i nee 1 9 7 1 , i the anchor

fessors has been a b i g heir tu

of CBS News Sunday Morning and anchor and writer of The

her," S h inneman �a i d . "She

Osgood File, a fou r - t i mes- d a i ly CBS Radio N etwork program.

has grown a lot and gai ned

Com mencement, the G reat

they say. " I t see med l ike

T h e Montgome ry�, whose

,iten felt l ike we d i dn't want rn

was true of College staff,

At CBS he hcis served a a commentator f or UJJ To The

so much confidence i n her

M inute, as co- anchor of the CBS Morning News , a a

ah i l i t ies through that. She

contributo r to the CBS Evening News With Dan Rather and

could not have chosen a

as anchor of the CBS Sunda} Nighr News . A grad uate of

better c hool-it fi t her l i ke

Fordham U n i ve rs i ty , where he serves as a trustee, he i the

a glov e . "

a u thor of four books. H is daughter Kathleen Wood w i l l be

Desau te l says Dori a lway

Begi n n ing, i s a lso The End .

fe lt comfortabl e approach i ng

There wi II he no more

her professors about a

facu l ty to meet, no more

conce rn , which Deborah says

game to cheer at, no more

ea ed the pressures col leg

among the Colby grad uates at Commencement . Rece i v ing honorary degrees a long w i th Osgood, who w i l l be awarded a doc torate o f hu mane l e t ters, a re: Thomas H . Kean ( d octor of laws ) , president of Drew U n i vers i ty and former governor nf N ew J e rsey. A- governor

late - n i gh t phone c a l ls about

students often fee l . "After she

he was noted for h is programs

tomorrow's test. Pare n ts of

spoke with her dad and me

and reform the state welfare system and for h is en v i ronmental and education pol i c i e . The keynote speaker at the 1 988

cut taxes, create new j ob.

lass of '96 say that

she went i m mediately to her

w h i l e they w i l l be fi l led w i th

professor and talked i t over,

Republ ican N at ional Convention , he ha served on the Pre i

pride on May 2 6 , there w i l l

and ometimes she d i d n 't

dent's Ed ucation Pol ic y Advisory Comm i ttee a n d a c h a i r of

b e t w i nges of sadness, too .

even call us. She j ust worked

the Education Com m i sion of the States and the National

it out," Deborah said.

Governors' Assoc i a tion' Task Force on Teac h i ng. Hi daughter, Alexandra, is a member of Colby's graduating cla s.

the

" I t's w i t h m ixed fee l i ngs that we end t h i s part of u r

"Professor [Charles] Bassett

l i ve , " said She i la Montgom

was a wonderful i nfl uence on

ery of herself and her

her, as was Dean [Mark]

husband, Floyd, of Roc k

Serdjenian [ 7 3 ] .

l a n d , M a i n e , whose son

Colby not knowing what she

M ike w i l l be among the

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Robert Treat Pa i n e ( doc tor of science) i s a zoologist and ecologist who has taugh t at the U n i versity of Washi ngton

Dori entered

s ince 1 96 2 . H e i s the rec ipient of numerou professional honors, i n c l u d ing the Lerner Marine Fel lowsh i p from the

wanted to do afte r col lege,

American

M useum of Natural H istory; the

Sverdrup

� The e parents also recognized the need for their children to exerci e their independence. Letting go wa one of the mo t difficult a pects of college parenting, they say. "Both of our kids were d ifferent," said Montgo mery, an avowed "hand -on" parent. "We were at alma t every basketball game Beth had, and we've been to everal of M ike' events, too, but I think he would have liked us to tep back a little. I t's been hard for me to learn to shut up and stay out of the way." If parent are w i tful about ending one a pect of their relat ionship with Colby, they al o are pleased that they have become part of an extended fam i ly. Desautel, a nurse, says her local community inc ludes everal Colby graduates, one

of whom he treated a a patient. "When he found out I had a daughter at Colby, she thought I wa okay ," she said. " [Colby alumni] eem o comm itted to their experience; it really doe see m l ike a b ig family." "The re lation h ips iki deve loped and the influ ence people at Colby had on her will be with her for the re t of her life," Kristen Sh inneman said. "Those thing are very important." Montgomery, a fam i ly and consumer erv ice teacher in Thoma ron, te ll student he know to check out Colby. 'Tm j ust so impres ed by what a student can achieve and by the leadership opportunit ies avai lable to them," he said. " I tell them they couldn't do better than Colby." +

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ln his History of Colby ColleRe Erne t Marriner ' 1 3 note · that of all the name · ment ioned in The Colby Echo from it founding in I 74 through the end of the century, none appeared more frequen th· than amuel 0 borne . '' President came and went, but Sam tayed on," Marriner wrote. "Profe--or could dominate the ii1 , but Sam ruled the campus." I I classroom A former slave who grew up on a Virginia planta "'f.l!i t ion, 0 borne came to Maine in 1 65 with Col . tephen Fletcher, Cla · of l 59. Colby Pre ·ident ·��IF2!11 J ame Champlin helped Osborne ecure a iob wi th �-�i the Mame Central Rai lroad, and m 1 86 7 Colby � h i red 0 borne a its 1 a01tor. Osborne and h i wife, Maria, a l o a freed s lave, rai ed seven ch ildren i n Watervi l le. One, Marion, was the first African-American woman to earn a Colby deoree. She was a member of the Class of 1 900 and had a notable career a a t e a c h e r in B roo k l y n , N . Y . Osborne' only son, Edward another son died in infancy attended Colby for a year before going on to a long career at the Maine Central Rai lroad. A c c o rd i n g t o M a r r i ne r , 0 borne was paid barely enough to upport h is fam i ly ( afte r nearly 3 0 year of ervice h e earned $4 0 p e r year ) , b u t he was renowned at Colby for his generosity. He and Maria in v i ted student to their home for Sa muel Osborne Thanksgivino dinner each year and, more casua lly, tudents knew they were free to drop in for meal and nac k provided by Maria. 0 borne wa a confidant to students and was known for interced ing for them with the facu l ty and administrators. Osborne al o was active in the community and in a loca l B a p t i t congregation a n d w a a dis tingui h e d member o f the local Lodge of Good Templars. l n 1 902 he was a delegate to the Templars' international com·ention in tockholm, Sweden, and was tandard bearer for the American cont i ngent. Many of the storie urrounding Osborne indicate that s tudents often took advantage of his inability to read and write well in order to p la tricks on him. But Osborne wa c learly a man of tremendou personal warmth and d ignity, and no tudent prank overcame his affection for the Col lege. He knew he wa dealing with a kind ofadolescent c leverne s that is easily hrugged a ide. He also eemed to know who wa p layino whom for a fool. A ked, once, what he'd d o when h e got t o heaven, 0 borne aid, ''I'll take care of my Colby boy ." And what if he went to hel l ? ''I ' l l take care of more Colby boy ," he said. Osborne retired in 1 903 and d ied the following year. H i funeral w a held i n the Colby chapel , and h e w a eulogized by e> England . + leading newspaper aero

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Po tdoctoral Fellow hip from the Scripp Inst i tu t ion of Oceanography; the John Simon G uggenheim Memorial cholarship; the Ecological Soc iety of America's MacArthur Award; and the Ecology In t itute Prize. He has been a fel low of the 1 ational Academy of Sc ience. ; an AAAS fel low; and a Tansley Lecturer for the Briti h Ecological Society. He ha led or served as a member of the boards of the Ecological ociety of America and the Palau Marine Research In t itute and ha partic ipated in everal N at ional Regulatory Commi s ion and National c ience Foundat ion pane ls. Charles Osgood P'96 Rya W. Zobel ( doctor of law ) was appointed as a U.S. di trict j udge for the District of Mas achu etts in 1 979. From 1 990 to 1 994 he erved as chair of the J ud icial Conference Committee on Automation and Technology. Before that he wa a member of the Conference Committee on the Opera tion of the J ury Sy tern and the Committee on J ud ic ial Improvements. She al o wa chair of the American Bar A ociation' National Conference of Federal Trial Judges in 1 99 1 -92. he i a graduate of Radcliffe College and Harvard Law School and wa in private practice prior to j oining the bench. She has been a member of Harvard U niver ity's Board of Over eer , a governor of the Handel and Hayden Society in Bo ton, a tru tee of the New England Deacone s Ho p ita! and a director of the United Way of Ma sachusetts Bay. +

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a bo u r h e r i n i t -; M ; 1 rc h 1 3 issue. " P l a y i ng w i t h M eaghan h ci,

rhe a t t e n t 1 <. rn of S/>ons lll11scrated, which ran a fea t u re a r t i c l e

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a.., they <1�' 1 . teLl ea c h

�,1me<me uf her a h i l i t y . I ' m h a \' 1ng a Im of fun w i t h h e r . " T h l 1 u g h t h e i r l i .... r tif a c c o l cide i s l engthy . Gordon ' and

other\ sc, 1nng

S i t t l e r \ g re a r e . t h o nors may � r i l l be ahead of them-both

rhe l 1 m d 1 1..! h t <l' ec1si h

" P l ; 1 y 1 ng with B;1 rb 1 1

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c o m pe t e a n d t ra i n w i th t h e Finnish Women'

o t he r r e a l ly we l l . I t vva ·

Ba rbara Gordon ' 9 7 , coach La u ra H a l ldorson and M ea g h a n S i t t l e r ' 98 .

1 998

l nve i t " s a id S i t t ler. "We

N ci tiona l

m u c h h a rder f o r me to

the A m e r i c a ns w o n , S i r t l er n e t t e d t wo of t h e U . S . 's ix

score when she wa · h u r r _ "

goa l s a n d w a s named the game'

Most V a l u ab l e P l a y e r .

I n March S i t tler w a s selected to represent the U .S . aga i n

D esp i te Gordon's

t h i s r i m e for the Pacific Women's Hockey Championships i n

t h ree-game absence d ue

Vancouver, B.C. Thou g h the Americans chosen t o compete i 1

inj u ry , she and S i t tl e r hoth were among the top

t h ree in t h e nation in scoring for most of the eason. During

the April tournan1ent won't be the fina l Olympic team, they

t h e.> week of J anuary I 5 - 2 2 , the Eastern Co l l e ge A th le t i c

wil l be compe t i ng against t h e women's national reams from

Confe rence ( ECAC ) named Gordon P l a y e r of t h e Wee k a n d

Canada, China and J apan. Participation on the U . S . Select Tearn that competed in Finland and playing in the Pacific

itt ler to the Honor Rol L They graciously swapped ECAC

Women's Hockey Champion hips are considered prel iminarie:

h o n o rs t h e fol l owing wee k .

for se l ection to the Nagano-bound O l ympic team. +

Gordon w a s featured i n the M a rch 5 issue of Spores

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kid ' pre ence also force ur pla •er w be con cientiolli about being role model The men 's basketball team fi n i hed the ea on with a 1 6- 1 1 reg rdle of whether we win record and earned 1xth eccl m the ECAC tournam ent. Led r lo e. I t's about trying to u e by enior David tephen '96 ( Bo ran . Ma .. ), the Wh i te hockey a a vehicle to Mule up et third- ceded Ea tern azarene and econd- ceded enhance character." Tri-captain tu Wale also UMa. - Dartmouth before fal l i ng in the fi nal to top-.eeded Amherst College, 64-62 . tephen wa n med L CAC Co believes that bui lding a Player of the Year anJ fm1 hed the ea n ranked m th top l ucces ful team begm with recru iting g od people a well nation lly m scoring and reboundmg. John Hebert '97 ( Van · Buren . Maine) hot ver 5 percent from three-pom r range anJ a go d hockey players. : broke Colby' record for three-pomters in a ca. n p rev1ou h "After a recrun ha stayed / · held bv All-Amencan J hn D:i i leane '92 . . . The women ' with one f us f r a vi it, ba ketball team impr ved under fir -year c ach T ncia O'Bnen , Coach will ask us about hL fin hm with a 7 - 1 1 record, includmg a three-game winnm am rude and approach to Todd Guilfoyle '96 ndo\'er, Ma ,. ) w ,treak rn early January. Grace Perr · '97 school,'' said Wale . 'If we named t rhe All-. E CAC � ec nd Team. the hope that the r will be rep rt thmg that Coach Pern· and c -captam Emilv Lar en '9 e lected to a .1 t the team doe. n't l i ke to hear about a ( � 1 ou · Fa lls. .D. ) will lead a tr mg quad w i th water and towel recrui t , then the recruit'. r ne · t vear' te;1m . . o ·rerum ing plaverdu ring t h game . Tortorella out f the p1cture-rn i · The men' and women ' sq uash team_ th mks b th the k i :. and the maner h w g d a player he earned nan nal rankings. With d record of p layer benefi t from the m1 ht be." 1 6- 1 1 , the women's team fi ni hed m 1 0th program-a l el ief upp rted Wale , who ay he know. pl ace m the U WJ RA and 1 1 ch place at by the cene m the 1 cker h w un u ce fu) mformal, the H we Cup l nvnationab. onia Tot, room foll wing the Bawoff- ea n train mg can be te n '98 (Tokyo, Japan ) . Ellen Derrick '96 d in ame at Colby. After with unmotivated players, (We t Falls, .Y. and arah Molly '97 the p layer got their u ua belie"e that Tortorella'. (J akarta. l ndone 1a all qual ified � r na e\'en-handed dose of ph i lo ophy f r a embl ing a ti onal compet ition. The men' team fmcon truct i\'e critici m and team made hi job a tri 1 hed its ea on ranked o. 1 7 an d won the David Stephens '96 prai e, the game' K i d on captam much ea 1er. "After C flight ummer Troph for the econd the Bench wa t reated to ome of the early captain' consecutive year David Dodwell '98 ( Warwick, Bermuda) the game puck, good practice , l d look ar und ar ad\'anced to individual national c mpet i uon . . . . In women ' natured hair tousl i ng and a the player and realize what indoor track and field, Danielle LeGrande '96 (M de to, choru of thank . great people they were m Calif. ) earned All-A merican honor in the 20-pound we ight "The players do a great job add ition to being great play event by fin ishing f urth in the nation with a to of 5 1 feet, 7 of engagina the kid , o they ers," he aid. ''I 've never been inche . Cynthia Pomerleau '97 ( Bowdomham, Maine ) won leave the game \\ ith a lot of on a team o twenty- ix gu) . the pentathlon event at the EC:'\C champion hip . Pomerleau excitement about Colby that was uch a do e group cored 3 , 1 49 point.- l 0 hy of the chool record . . . . I n me n ' hockey," Tortorella aid. ''The with one goal m mind. " + indoor track and field, Conrad Saam '96 ( kiilman, .] ) pole \'aulted 1 4 feet, mche to rake third place in the ECAC championship and break the Colby record pre\" iously held by J ohn Dow l i n g ' 7 0 . Matt O'Connell '96 ( Brookfield, Ma . ) On April 27, friend , colleague and former player gathered at M ilieu e rabl i hed a new pentath lon record when h e scored 3 1 20 Alumni Hou e to celebrate Mark erdjenian' 20th year a men' soccer point- tO fin ish fourth at the lew Enaland Divi-ion I I I coach at Colb . erdjenian '73, who was Maine Men' occer Coach of Championship . . . . The men's swimming tea m fin i hed 1 2 th the Year and New England Coach of the Year in 1990, say he love. out of 26 team at the e\\ England wimming and Diving coaching Colby tudents. "They're intelligent, dedicated and able to pu Championsh ip at We le an Univer t ty. Geoff Herrick '98 athletic into per pective," aid erdjenian, who i a ociate dean of ( Top field, Ma .) et chool rec rd in the 1 00- and 200-yard tudents for academic affair . butterfly and 200-yard free ·tyle. H i · t imes qualified him for the erdjenian, who never played occer before coming to Colby as a NCAA Oivi ion l i l National Championships . . . . The women's tudent in 1970, ay he owe a great deal to hi coach, Jack cholz, who alpine and nordic ski team fini hed eventh overal l at the died recently of cancer. "He gave me a chance when l 'd never played the Ea tern Champion h ips held at M iddlebury College. Annie game before-I doubt that could happen now," he said. Flanagan '99 ( Ketchum, Idaho) finished 1 1 th overa ll and wa A 1de from hi duties at Colby, Serdjenian coaches a girl ' team, named first alternate to the N CAA N at ional Champ ionship . coordinate a junior high indoor league for girls and direct a two-week The men's alpine and nordic ski teams finished e ighth overa l l . ummer camp at Colby, and he j u t completed hi 1 5 th year of working K e n Raiche ' 9 8 (We t Newbury, Ma . ) paced t h e White with the Waterville Youth Soccer A sociation. Mule with a 21 t-place fi nish.

: SPORTS SHORTS

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eye, i g h t ha::. lcLI her

rn take u p learn i n g t < l type. When

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on the H o l l a nd A me n c a Cru ise

m a n y re l < 1 t i ves; nrnv, ::.he <;;1y:,, F l e t c her Eat, m

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r i m e cnnstruc t i ve l y i n ret i rement.

m � i n y , m m i y fr iends.

. I f you

Re<1Ll i ng M r» Bern ier':, h t of fo

when s h e :.ays, " orry

and

\'o r i te prnfe>oOI'> re i n f orces m y

anyth i ng rea l l y spec rn c u l a r tn re

it come> u p t<l )'l 1 U and :O.tl lps,

he l i e f t h a t s t uLl c n ts i n o u r ,1; e n

rort . My h u shanLI is in prec arious

c h a rl C l' :> a re

ernt ion a t Co l hy re a l l y lm·ed o u r

h e a l t h ( heart ) . so we l i ve from

that

ynu

Geo rge H.

Hawes '28 o f Ca r>, ln C i t y , N e v . ,

professors .

w i l l :o.tep forth, dre,,cd to t h e n me s

TWENTIES Stanley L . Painter J r .

'59 droppeJ

u s a note to ,ay t h a t Dr.

Merrill

S. F. G reene '20 wa� 'i t i 1 1 ac t i ve a>

L i n e . . . . Charlotte Blomfield Auger ' 3 3 s p e a k s for many of u ·

:,.he h<is v e ry few rc l m 1 \-es h u t 'iee a c y c l o n e cnm i ng <.H

eeLl h a m . M A 02 1 9 2

a c e r t i ficc1te and p l a t i n u m medal

for h a \' 1 11g traveled 2 50,000 m i les

'32

. Maxwe l l Ward

day tn d a y . At

haven't

5, r h e re a re

has a re v , i l u r i on a ry approac h

m a n y t h i ngs t h a t h a v e to be

a n d ln, ) k i ng f o r < lll n t h e r m a i m

rn p n l i t ic:,: thrnw t h e ra>c<lb o u t

done-w h i c h make you t i red !

pro j e c t w i t h w h i c h rn i m rrnve

d n L I p u t i n new ra:>cab. M a x ll'e l l

Bend i ng O\'er e\·en to t i e shoe

h is

t <1 u g h t scl-H1ol f o r 3 8 years i n

l ace-; rnn he and often 1s a major

n ldesr N e \'aLlan e\'er tu hllkl e l e c

Ma ine.

ach i e ,·ement w he n i r i s fi n ished.

adnpred

>rnte. G e , 1 rge is the

H e "·as p r i n c i p a l o f

t i v e nffi c e , serv i n g i n h i , t h i rd

Cl i n ron H igh

chool f o r 1 3 years

We p l ug a long. I cook n u t r i t ious

a med i c a l e x a m i n e r and that h e ,

term <1' a memher of r h e Carson

and spent 1 4 years as p r i n c i p a l l lf

m e a b , a n d m y gra ndc h i l d re n

Dr. P;1 i n t er, h a d J U't >een Dr.

Tahoe H osp t t a l BnMd . George

t h e h ig h school in Oa k la n d .

G reene a t t h e Fore n ::. i c Sc ience

has heen a re<1cher,

Se m i n a r held < I t Colby i n early

c i r a l , perst )[l n e l nffi c e r a t W r i g h t

Ph ylli s Hamlin Wade '32 lost her h u :.hand, Earl '39, in N o

A ugu:,t 1 99 5 . A l so. a t t h e ; m n u ; 1 I

A e ron;1 u t 1 c a l , l ) \.\' n e r of <1 Dudge

\'e m bc r 1 99 4 . Ph y l l i s is m a rk i ng

m ee t i ng of the M a i n e M ed i c a l

d c a l e 1-, h i p in E l y , N e ,· . , a k1bby

t i m e w a i t i n g t0 h m·e c <l t a racts

E x 8 m me rs Assnc 1 a t i o n , t h e c h i e f

i , t anLI a d i rec tnr llf t h e sen inr

remn\'ed ·o sh e c a n re t u rn to read

m e d i c ci l e x ;1 m i n e r o f M a i n e

com m u n i t y ser\' i c e e m p k 1 y m e n t

i n g , d r i , · i n.g and s e w i ng, b u t her

fort Fairfi e l d , M a i ne, Mary Smith Strout ' 3 3 has Jn easy answer.

She re nts a n apartme n t for s i x

>C hn,1J

['r i n

t h i n k I a m a fan t a s t i c c oo k i e maker. I rea d , l 1 s ren to t h e news o n T V , and watch bas ketba l l games. A l l i n a l l , I ' m g l ad tn be . a l i ve . " . . . When 1t ge ts cold i n

t h a n keJ Dr. G reene for h i s 6 5

pn lgra m f o r A A R P . Successful i n

hea l t h is good. H e r daughterTeri

y e a r s < l f :,erv i c e a > a m e d i c a I

e le c t i \'e srnte pol i t i c ::. , h e a l so h a s

Lee

i s d i rector of pa t i e n t ac

ml� n t h s i n a se n i t 1 r complex i n

examiner.

h e e n ac t i \'e i n Rotary ( 5 9 years ) ,

c o u n t s a t Eastern Maine M ed i c: d

W i nt e r P a r k , Fla. Perhap> t h i s

h o m e a d d ress i s W r i g h twood ,

E l k s ( 5 0 + years ) , M a s l 1 11>

center i n Bangor. Another daugh

reason mg is beh i nd a l l the Florida

C a l i f. ,

M a rj o r i e E v e r i n g h a m

year-; ) and m a n y po:> i t ions 1 11 the

ter, Don n a , manages a s c u ha J i ,·

re t u rn add re ses I fi nd on my m a i l

Democ ra t i c Pa r ty . . . . A lberta Van Horn Shute ' 2 8 dnes hou-;e

i n g eq u i r men t ; h o p i n C a l a i s a n d

h i rt h Llay i n N e w H ci m p::.h i re w i t h

a l sn teaches t h e :,ubj e c t .

i n t h e w i n t e r. . Rebecca Chester Wyman ' 3 3 h a two

. A !though

her

Edgerly '25 c e l ebrated h e r 9 0 t h

( 66

'68

Ber

11 l e n ty of c o m p a n y : t h ree sons,

kcep i ng ro keep i n ,hape but

nard H. Porter ' 3 2 has w i l led

one daughter, :,e,·en grand c h i l

wou ld r a t h e r he wri t i ng. She h a,

every t h i ng , " i n c l ud i n g h is toot h

are now m i d d l e-aged-and Re

d re n a n d f o u r grea t - g ra ml c h i l d

t h ree c h i l d r e n , e i g h t granLlc h i l

brush , " to

becca c a n ' t bel ieve it.

ren.

. Edith Grearson "Ducky" Money '26, w ho d r i ,·es her Volvo

Llren a n d e ig h t gre<H-gra nd c h i l

\' i o i t h i s srec i a l rn l lect iun o f more

in a fi \'e - rnnm u n i t a m o ng 2 1 .000

d re n . S h e rec a l l s t h a t J u d y T<1ylL1r,

than 4 , 000 contempnrary l e t ters

re t i ree:, in Lagu n a H i l l s , Ca l if. ,

to symr hony e v e ry '( ) o ft e n , nat

profeswr of L at i n , had a l i r t l e

m M i l ler L i brary.

tered m e with a l i t t l e note: "Good

finger r h a t s t u c k o u r permane n t l y .

he ,pent 4 5 years as a M e t h o d i s t

w h i te cat named A ugusru:,.

l u c k to you . I w i, h I m ig h t ,ee you

Anynnc el se re m e m her t h a t 1

p r e a c h e r i n M a i ne and T exa ,

A l though

I i m i ted most l y to watc h i ng sports

M a s- .. ,he i gra teful t h a t he c a n

:>ome t 1 m e . " ( Ed i t h proba b l y gets a ruunJ better than

I do r i g h t nuw,

but her' i s a h a rd i n \ ' i t a t inn to t u rn d o w n . ) . .

I rma Davi s

Mc Kec hnie '26 l i ve> i n < l re t i re

o l by . H e i n , · i tes a l l r u

. A l t hough

Leo Fletcher Ross ' 3 2 i.s now

THIRTIES I na Hu ssey Weymouth ' 3 1 vol

c h i ldren, David and M a ry , w ho h e l i ves

keep i n g track of a l a rge gray and

Gladys Averill Heu bac h ' 3 3 l i \'e i n We t ewton,

on T V . o w i ng to the loss of a leg

s t i l l d r i ve t h e

in 19

I n t h e 1 9 3 0- 3 1 a n n u a l

s u m m e r home on the rockhound coa:,t of M i l br idge, M a i ne , where

0 0 m i le

to her

u n teers a t the M a i ne Veteran's

d e b a t e sponsmed by Dr. Li bby,

m e n t h o m e i n H u n ts v i l l e , A l a . ,

Home m A u gu:,ta and 11 l ay:, t h e

Mr. Ross's team packed the chapel

she love<; to enterta i n her o l d

a n Ll \\' l l u l d n ' t c h .inge a t h i n g

p i ano f or t h e i r c h o r u s once a

pews with ruffians p a i d to c la r .

Co l by fr iends. T h e s e have i n

about h e r l ife. S h e h a s r w o son'i,

wee k . � he a bo h e l p, decor a t e t he

die r u l e be i ng t h a t t h e w i n n i n g

c l uded

t h re e g r a n d c h i l d re n ; i n d n i n e

p l <1ce f or rartie' and p l ays c r i b

team was r he one th'1 t g o t t h e

' 3 3 . On her ret u rn h

great gr;incl c h i l d re n . "J udy T a y

bage w i t h t h e res i d e n t s . Say I n a ,

loudest applause. The Ros' c l aq u e

mer, she spe n t a weekend w i t h

lor, 1 n L a t 1 11 , " s h e w r i t e s , "wa; an

" J am

made a fearful d i n a t t h e appro

h e r o l d C o l b y room m a t e ,

i n t e r e , t i n g o l d c od g e r . " . . .

m y fa m i l y . "

Esther E. Wood '26 had i t

rn do

m·er , >he wo u l d h <we ( l ) gone to

5 a n d t h e o n l y one left i n

priate t i me:,, and Lee', c rew won

h e is co- c h a i rm a n

7 5 . H e spent h is w i n n i ngs on ice

of t h e Vo l u n t e e r A :>soc i a t i o n w h e re ' h e l i v e , .

c re a m .

. M a rj orie

S wiendam c r u ise

E n g l a n d a n d ( 2 ) ' J1 e n t m o re

Van Horn Bernier '32 m a i n

money. W i r h t h e

of h e r dog,

t a i n :> an e igh t - mom h o u >e w i t h

1 3 , 1 996 ,

she u\\·n; and m a 1 n rn i n::. h e r own

l a rge y a rJ by way of u s i n g her

presen ted

L I> 1

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I <I •! 1,

. On board t h e M.

· h i p on J an u a ry

8 p t a i n Frans

omen

Dorris Moore Cox ' 3 3

Barbara and Mal Wilson me last sum

Leighton Thomas ' 3 3 .

Ruth . Afte r

65 years of m a r r i age to La u rence Dysa rt, Mabel Clough Dy

art ' 3 4

w o u l d n ' t c h a nge a t h i ng about her l i fe. M a he ! ' C i rc l e of i m m e d i ate relative n u m h e rs 66-most

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of them professionals. She re members a Latin professor whose name she can't remember but whose shoes often didn't match . Can anybody help Mabel on this? . . . W i th a bow in the direction of George Hawes '28, I must add the name of Louise Wil liams Brown ' 3 4 to members of rhe Blurred Cyclone Club. Last J uly she attended the wedding of a grandson in Norway, then in Sep tember saw another grandson married in France. While in N or way, she rook t ime off ro v isit I celand. Louise walks two-plus mi les three time a week and i active in women's c ircles in her Presbyterian church. She carrie on extensive corre pondence with her eight grandchildren, age 2 2 to 3 5 . During w i n ters in Florida, he attend symphony concerts, goes to travel lectures and keeps in touch with the many friend he has made there in the past 20 years. Summer are spent with children, grandchildren and other r e l a t i v e - ome 40 of whom have ettled in or near Loui e in Portland, Maine. La t J uly, she was hostess to a handful of Class of l 934 women who gath ered for lunch in Portland. In c l uded were Adelaide J ordan C l e a v e s and h u s b a n d K e n , Eleanor Wheelwright Ness and husband Norm and Harriet Pease Patric k . Regrets were ent by Annie Tuck Russell, Barbara White Morse, Josephine Cunning ham Porter, Madelyn Higgins Stanley, Greta Murray Connors

and Elizabeth Weeks . . . . Ann Duoba Lawrence '34 writes, " I t

is with great adne that I report that my husband, J ames, passed away on December 26, 1 99 5 . He was my fr iend, lover and great communicator for 56 years. We attended many Colby reunions together as well as tho e for my i ter Marcia ' 3 7 . I w i ll miss him terribly." . . . J ay Leno ( the To night Show ho t) invited his uncle John J. Leno '34 and two aunts, Fay and Edith, to spend a few days with him i n Las Vega . While there, they took a ride over the Grand Canyon i.n a l ight plane. . . . RobertColomy '3 5 , l ike mo t of you, enjoys the offerings of the Publ ic Broadcasting ystem and also, l ike most of you, deplore the general run of trash and v io lence on TV. He keeps fit by

walking two m iles every morning { well, almo t every morning ) . On February 2 2 , 1 996, D r . Beth Pendleton Clark '35 donated a k idney to her daughter, Beverly. Ar last report, Beth was recuper ating wel l , and Beverly was doing well also . . . . Harold Brown ' 3 5 , sat down in Bradenton, Fla . , last February to write that the be t decision he ever made was to earn a Ph.D. at the age of 54 . Harold has three sons: one is presi dent of the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh; a second is a cell ist with the Chicago Symphony; and the third is a piano technician in Santa Cruz, Calif. All are happil married. Like his sister- i n - law Louise Williams Brown '34 above, Harold is another member of the Blurred Cyclone Club. He play golf twice a week, attend many concerts, directs the church choir, teaches a music apprec iation course, a sist with Meal on Wheels and i on the board of directors of the ew England M usic Camp in Sidney, Maine, on the church wor hip commit tee and on the Sarasota Concert ays Avis Association Board. . Merritt Churchill '35, "It is hard to believe that my son, Col . Ralph Churchill, has retired from the U . . Army; that a granddaughter is a fre hman at I ndiana Univer sity and that a grandson is a high school j un i or in R i chmond, Va." . . . The November 6, 1 99 5 , is ue of Newsweek had a cover story on melatonin, the new foun tain of youth according to ome and a damn scam according to others. Two letters to the editor i n the N ovember 2 7 i ue up ported the scam point of view. andwiched i n between the two cam letters was thi by Morris "Mike" Cohen ' 3 5 : "I am 3 years old. I read your cover tory on melatonin and rook three bottles. My bald spot grew back in. My hair turned brown. The AARP said I no longer met their age requirement and kicked me out . . . . A beautiful young chick is chasing me all over the house. I di covered he is my wife. She rook four bottles." On fitnes , Mih ay , "Fit, hell . I'm barely keeping alive." Regard ing his work, M ike reports that he faked h is way in Burli.ngton Industries for 2 years and was promoted to vice pre ident. At 6 5 , they gave

him a party and fired him, where upon the company fell apart. . Thanks to her master's degree in p ychiatric soc ial work , Mary Small Copithorne '35 wa able to work until she was 8 1 -get ting that degree was the best de cision heever made, hedeclare;. She has four children, one of whom has recovered from can cer. Among seven grandchildren, there is no evidence as yet of the imminent arrival of any great grandch ildren, although M rs. Copithome has hopes . . . . Sidney Schiffman '35 is pretty much under house arrest since his mo t recent heart attack, but he is still alive, he say , aware of what is going on and looking forward to a return to Colby one of these fine reunions. He has a granddaugh ter who work in New· York on children's programming for PB

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and for the British Broadcasting Corporation . . . . Anne Martel Eastman '35 ha two sons and four grandchildren. Both sons are teacher , a wa she (foreign lan guage ). I n her retirement, she often vtsit Tue on, Ari: . , and Florida. She has a warm recollec tion of N inetta Runnal a a car ing per on . . . . Anita Thibault Bourque '36 obtained a hip re placement in 1 988 and con iders it a great a set . Since that time, however, the device has become dislocated three times, prompt ing her children to accuse her of attempting to monopol i:e the l imelight. . . . Charles Caddoo '36 ha been married to his high school weerhean for 6 1 years thus ensuring that he i a happy and healthy man. One on is in sales; the other is a dentist in Ell worth, Maine. Charle keep

NEWSMAKERS Marjorie Rowell Shane '27 and her sister, Esther McNamara,

were the ubject of a long feature in Rockland, Mai.ne's, Capitol . . . Ludy '2 1 and Pacy Levine '27 and Howard Miller '40 were paid loving tribute in the Central Maine Morning Sentinel by employee of the Levi.ne' clothing store and by member of the Waterville community after announci.ng that the store founded by their father and grandfather would clo e . Weekly .

MILEPOSTS Deaths: Harriet Lawler Davis ' 1 2 i n Eastport, M aine, at

1 04 . . . . Helen Dresser McDonald '23 in Waterville, Maine, at 93 . . . . Percy G. Beatty '24 i n Penney Farms, Fla., at 9 2 . . . . Barbara Whitney Beatty ' 2 7 i.n Penney Farm , Fla. , at 90 . . . . Leola M. Clement ' 2 7 in Waterv ille, Maine, at 90 . . . . Edward N e w h a l l '28 i n Glen R idge, .] . , at 9 2 . . . . Helen Leighton Austin Niesley '29 in Falmouth, Mai.ne, at 7 . . . . Donald H. Frase r '29 inTexas a t 90. . . . Ruth Daggett Fuller '29 in Fairfield, Conn., at 7 . . . . G. Cecil Goddard '29 i n Waterville, M a ine, at 9 . . . . Philip R . Higgins '29 i n Springfield, Mas ., ar 7 . . . . Sterling C. "Jack" Ryder '29 in Oak Ridge, Tenn., at . . . . William Hardy '32 in Derry, .H., at 6 . . . . Charles N . Pinkham ' 3 2 i n Unity, M a ine, at 7 . . . . John P. Davan ' 3 3 in Portland, Maine, at 9 . . . . Elizabeth C. Dyson '34 i n orth Adam , Ma ., at 82 . . . . Portia Pendleton Rideout '34 in Clackama , Ore., at 83 . . . . Norman R . Rogerson '36 i n Portland, Mai.ne, at 85 . . . . Thomas E . Adw i n ' 3 7 in K ingman, A r i z . , at 82 . . . . Helen J evons Luther 'J 7 i.n Aclanta, Ga., at 80 . . . . William Carter '38 in Bath, Maine, at 79 . . . . J ulia Wheeler Morton '40 i.n West Orange, .J ., at 80 . . . . Jean Pearson Burr '41 in Rochester, .Y . . . . Raymond Flynn '42 in Kennebunk, Maine, at 77 . . . . Alton Laliberte '42 in Watervi lle, M a ine, at 76 . . . . Malcolm D. McQuillan '44 in Wayne, M ich., at 79 . . . . Paul V . Witham Jr. '44 in Bangor, M a ine, at 7 3 .

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husy w i t h c h u rch work , vnlun

. . . Refe m n g to his upCL)m i ng

ous offspring, who mu�t indeed

reer work , tenn1-. and w a l k i n g .

J u ne reu nton,

make them proud.

. . . John Dolan ' 3 6 t n tends

Hal Hickey ' 3 6

on Wade 1s

Eleanor " B i l l y " MacCarey Whitmore ' 3 6 , reflect m g t h e sen t i me n t expres5ed u n iver a l l y hy

exc l a i m,, "Ha-; It been 60 years

an attorney i n N . Y . C . Daughter

get hack w h l'i 60th re u n ion, a�

th1, J u ne ? I mu'it he an uld man

Ann a t tends graduate :,chool i n

50-plus Club members, says the

do a II h i � c l a:.:.rnatc:,. He say, that

and h"dn't nor iced . " A l though

T e xas. One ' o n i an A rmy c a p

he. t deci ion she ever made wa to marry the person she married.

rn1 deta i l:. , Hal says the

t a t n , a n o t h e r i :. a �c huol teac her

k c e r s h i m fi t . He a lso s e n t d hnef

worst dec 1 � 1 < ll1 h e ever made wa>

and coach i n Texas. One daugh

hut fasc i n at i ng art i c le haY i ng to

to 1•ore for R i c hard N i xon. H a l i

ter i s

do 111 1 t h the d i o t i ng u i :,hed career

a re t i red coll ege ad m i n istrator

( graduate ofWest

,1f'Or. S, l lomon Cc1rter Fu I ler, who

with a wife. son and grandson.

i s a compute r operator i n D.C.

and Jonathan, a TV engineer i n

ll'a:. a n early \\'Orker in p>yc h 1a

J eanne Peyrot Hoffman ' 3 6, who

and another worb in the M a

A uburn, M a i ne .

try, d u mg ,ignificant work e-.pe

c a me to

ch uoetr-

c ia l ly under

A lo i s

exc hange student from France,

t h e d>>i · rant manager of Eastern

from Rochester, M i n n . , to inquire

A l : h e i rner, t h e m a n w h o 1dent1-

was fol lowed back to France in

Mounta i n

ports i n Conn ec t i

about my health after the rather rigorous ix months I have pent

members h i p in the

fi e d

ierra C l u b

P ro fe ssor

h e give

' 3 8-' 39

o l by i n

' 3 5 - ' 36

as an

Catherine Laughton

cut.

l i e u tenant i n the A rmy

Point), another a

tate House. A ·on i

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h e ha

two

on : J eff, a p y

c hologist m Tucsnn, Ariz., who, in turn, ha two on

, 10

and

1 2;

. Elizabeth "Libby" Bavis Decker '39 c a l led

A l:hei mer's d i :,ea�e. D r . F u l ler

Briggs ' 3 6 . Before com mg home

Emma Mary Smal l Sch losberg ' 3 6 is heav i l y i n

wa� the fa ther of uur uwn

i n J u ly

volved i n vol unteer work with

JU t come from Phoe n i x , A r iz . ,

fo l lowing a month's v i s i t with

and

gave

h i � name to

Sol . Ray Farnham

1 9 39,

M rs. Briggs was the

in and out of ho p i tals. Libby had

gue,t o f the afore m e n t i o n ed J eanne Hoffman. It was in

1 9 38,

the West End House Boy & G i rls

'36 rad iate · energy all m · er. H e

Club i n A l lston - Brighton, Mass.

her daughter Margaret, a gradu

t a k e s c a r e of t h e house, d o e a l l

w h i l e Cathe r i ne h e lped t h e En

Having been pres ident of the

ate of the J u i l l iard School of Music

needed ch ores i n s i d e a n d o u t ,

gl ish teacher at a g i rls' h igh school

women's aux i I iary for many years,

i n New York and a c e l l ist w i th

in Trequier, Brittany, that N e v i l l e

he is now on the board of d i rec

the Phoenix symphony orches

Chamberlain returned to England

tors and co-c hair of scholar hip.

tra. I n February, she p lanned to v i s i t her s i s t e r ,

Fuller J r. '36.

golfs i n M a i n e a n d F lorida, LI rives all the way from M a i ne to Florida and shovels snow for h i m elf and

with a prom ise of "peace i n our

Emma's c l u b is "one of the o ldest

neighbors. H e repeat

t i me . " . . .

and largest of the

th i s last

feat by mow i n g same i n summer.

Wade ' 3 9 and Eleanor Tolan Hooker '36 have n u mer-

G i rl

1 , 500

Boys &

Cl ubs of A me r i c a . " .

.. .

Ellie Bavis Broughton ' 3 9 , down i n W i n te r + P a r k , Fla.

Seasoned Seaman Saves Sailor

man dragged behind his 2 5 -foot sailboat in 45 -degree ocean water for half an hour la t Ea ter be fore N. Douglas Macleod '44 and his family spotted the sailboat's empty cockpit from Macleod's daughter's home near Providence, R.I. A gust blowing north ea t from land out to sea hit the sai lboat, lay it over and tossed the man over the side, the j ib sheet wrapped around his wrist. Macleod family members on shore ran to the water to throw him a rope, but the ail caught the wind and the boat blew farther from shore. "Boy, we gotta do omething for this guy," said Macleod. With relatives he hurried a 1 2 -foot skiff from the barn, and with two grand ons, J . D., 1 3 , and M atthew, 1 5 , he rowed into the turbulent water after the sailboat drifting out to sea. If he weren't o famil iar w ith boats, he probably wouldn't have attempted the re cue, Macleod said later. He handled a rowboat almost every day during 1 1 boyhood summers in CuttyHunk, M ass. , and he rowed four-man shell in prep school . He has sai led the Newport to Bermuda race seven or eight time , twice as hi own skipper on a 4 5 -foot yawl, and has sai led five times to the Caribbean, as far north as Nova Scotia and across the Mediterranean. He wondered later whether he might never have made it

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or might have suffered a heart attack. "Of course I wasn't th ink ing about that," said M acleod, 74, founder of Tubodyne, a commercial tubing equipment company in Riverside, R.I. "I 've been act ive in physical work all my life. I'm in reasonably good hape." A he rowed through the rough eas with no cold weather gear and no life preservers, Macleod ays, he and h is grandsons were at risk of capsizing in the rough eas with nothing to hang on to. "But you don't think about those things in a rescue," he said. "I didn't want to find a dead man. I'd feel it was my re ponsibility." Macleod outl ined the rescue procedure whereby he and Matthew would haul the man into the sailboat and sail back to shore. "Whatever you do," he told J .D. "don't capsize the dinghy ! " J ust a s they caught the sai lboat, the man i n the water passed out. They got him by the armpits and belt, but in his winter clothes and heavy boots he was dead weight a they struggled to haul him over the side into the cockpit and then get him out of the wet clothe and wrapped in blankets. A they sailed back to land, the dinghy in tow, the Bristol fire department rescue boat met them and took the man to Bristol. Macleod say he never woke up until he was halfway to the hospital. Macleod received a citat ion from the town counc il and another from the Bristol Yacht Club, but the most exciting thing wa having h i grandsons hare the rescue with him, he says. He also thinks hi grand ons look at him with more respect now, "maybe even as a guiding l ight. There's a lot more thinking, 'Maybe gramps ain't no old man after all."'

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Nancy J acob en 3 6 2 7 Northlake Drive A tlanta, GA 30340-4 1 3 7 7 70-9 34-907 5 1 947

Mary Hall Fitch 4 Canal Park, =7 1 2 Cambridge, M A 02 1 4 1 6 1 7 -494-4 2 1 948

David and Dorothy Marson 4 1 Wood End Road Dedham, MA 02026 6 1 7 - 3 2 9-3970 1 949

Robert M . Tonge r. 5 Greylock Road Waterv ille, ME 0490 1 207- 7 3 - 3 244

Locky

definiti\'ely retired and i · doing tutoring and Elderho tel course;,. Her two daughters li\'e in Maine now, and she see a lot nf them. . . . Marge Dodge Radomski ;ay;,, 'Tm coming to reunion from t uth Florida, you-all come, too, + you hear."

MacKinnon

writes that h e and his w i fe , A r d a t h , h a v e taken their A i r tream trailer e\' erywhere, from Cape Breton !; land to Mexico, collecting new friend . Locky's n i ec e , hea 1 atlock, 1 in A tlanta preparing for a career in med ic ine at Geor gia Tech and is on the pri:e-win ning Tech women's basketball team, the Lady Jacket . (Tex and l follow women' · ba ketball and have been to the women's Final Four here in Atlanta. Women athlete are awesome, and l am so proud of them . ) Locky is all pumped up to come to our SOth reunion in J une. You know it i free, you j ust have to get your body t h e re . . . . B e t t y A n n e Riker Howell and h u band Roe will also be at reunion. They spend summer at their lakeside hou e in Greensboro, Yr., and go to the r. Pete area of Florida for the month of February to check on Colby friend uch a Pat

Correspondent: Mary Hall Fitch

Dorothy Weber Trog don is a retired interior

de. igner married rn an architect. Her three on- are all married , and he de cribe the three grandchildren a all beaut i ful and brighr. H e r home is on Orea 1 land, off the coa t of Wa hington rare and acce ible only by ferry. There he ser\'es on the board of the national accred it ing agency for interior de ign and on the board of the Orcas theater and community center. . . . till intere ted in port i Carl "Gumbo" Wright, who at tend porting event at the Col lege a n d p l a y golf with Colby friend . He i a semi-retired trial attorney and spend lots of time with hi grandsons. Through cholarship , gym , and L i ttle League baseball projects, he keeps up i n t e re t in the y o u th of M a i ne . . . . Dana and Harriet Nourse Robinson came all the way from Beijing at Thank giv ing to celebrate her mother's 9 th birthday. Twenty-five people at tended, including Harriet' i -

Wotherspoon Imhoff . . . . Jeanne Sellar Yusaitis l ives in Mech anic v i l le, N.Y. he wrote, "l'm a retired banker. This w i l l make my Colby friend smile since any type of math wa my downfall in college. " he i act i ve i n t. Peter's Catholic Church, i a member of the choir and of the Ro ary Club and helps in a m i l l ion projects. (I don't find that churche let you r e t i re . ) . . . Thelma Giberson Moore ha l ived in Denver ince 1 94 . he got her ma ter' there in l ibrary c ience and was with the Denver public school sy tern for 2 7 "great year . " l wonder if Thelma and Carolyn Armitage Bouton down in Englewood, Colo., ever get tog e t h e r ? . . . J ea n O ' B r i e n

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Perkin say- he ha finally and

Corre pondent: Nancy J acob s e n

ter, Fran our;,e J ohn ton '49. i nce then, Dana ha, been in Malay 1a, Hlmg Kong and :ing apore . . . . Dorothy Briggs Aron son conrmues w reach G erman and e\'ery ::.ummer hi ke with the Appalachian Mt. Club. La r vear' wa in the Adirondack·; tlw; \'ear's will be an exped1 t 1on to the Ca nadian Rockies to a tent camr between Banff and Lake Lou ise . he worb at the H istorical �oc1ety in M edfield, Mas . , and heirs to put together rrogram for ,ec ond and eighth grader; a' well a' ·en1or member;,. . . ylvia Gray oyes has retired after teaching for 20 year> at Hu on College. he and her hu band haYe four daughter , three of whom are marned, one to a man on the Colby raff. he had a \·ery inter esting trip to Halifax la t year when he re earched the build ing of the ocean pier 111 1 9 1 7 . Her grandfather wa foreman of a crew of gran ite cutter from Franklin, Maine, who were there when a Belgian ship blew up in the harbor, de troying mo t of the c i ty . . . . Arline Kiessling Wills and her hu band play ten ni , cros -country k i and bike, re ting up with lot of readino. Their third 2 50-mile biking trip in Europe i- coming up thi year. Last year's group in Germany and Austria included ancy Moyer Conover '54. Arnie and her hu band have a doctor on and three daughters, one in Ghana as an educational advi or with U . . l .S . , o n e a writer a n d o n e a lawyer. . . . Again thi year, J ane Rollins

MILEPOSTS . . Nancy Of\valk, Conn. , at 69 . . . . Janet Bowmar Reynolds '48 in Worce ter, Ma s., at 6 . . . . Georgiana Hooker Firth '49 in Trappe, Md., at 6 7 .

Deaths: Lendall W. Haye '48 in California at 72 . .

Gager Howard '48 in

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hen Beverly Benner Ca ara '4 7 was asked why she chose to pursue po t graduate studies in adult edu cation at an age when most people are midway through their careers, she said it was becau e he was concerned about women. "At forty years old, I was home with my ba bies," said Cassara. "Raising families is important, but I was bothered that beyond that, the women around me did o little that mattered with their time." Once the k ids were grown, Cassara returned to chool to study adult education at Boston Universi ty, where she earned a doctorate in 1 970. She became professor of adult education at Federal City College ( now Un iversity of the Di trict of Columbia) that same year. Cassara, who has wri tten three books, American Women: The Changing Image ( Beacon Press, 1 96 2 ) , Adult Education in a Multicultural Society ( Routledge, 1 990) and Adult Education through World Collaboration ( Krieger, 1 99 5 ) , also was dean of graduate stud ies at the university from 1 9 7 3 to 1 990. During the early ' 70s, alarmed by the school dropout and poverty rates among women in the nation's capital, Cassara started a program to assist and educate low- income African A merican women from a housing proj ect near the univer i ty. With student volunteers from her graduate courses in adult education, Cassara helped 14 women earn their general

plans to be in Britain for a month and is also hoping to go to Swit zerland, Alsace and Lake Con stance in the fall. . . Richard Sampson and hi wife, Allie, are both retired librarians, w i th two adopted daughters of Nat ive American heri tage and three grandchildren. He keeps in touch with Al '44 and Pat Ford Elli '43 in Florida. Activi ties include gar d e n i n g , concerts and Elder hostels; in a photography course, he and Allie won a joint third prize. Both are active in church, she as an Episcopalian and he in the Orthodox Church of Amer ica, which he recently joined and which comes out of a Russian tradition . . . . David Weber has presented me with a different kind of new , a story about a Clara Caner, a 1 9 2 1 Phi Beta Kappa

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graduate of Colby. he wa the only child of Quincy and lzah Carter, who lived on S ilver St. in Waterv i l le while she attended the College. In 1 983, David received 1 43 letters found in the attic of their old home, which prompted him to start a historical search that ended with an April 1 0, 1 893 , issue of the Boston Evening Tran script. It told of Qu incy being severely injured at the Electric Works in Lynn that day, result ing in the loss of hi right eye. Quincy, a direct descendant of John and Prisc i l la Alden, was born in Portland, the son of a mariner and lobster dealer. H is 3 2 - page story was publ ished in 1 995 with copie going to the Maine and Massachusetts hi tori cal ocieties and to the Colby l ibrary . . . . John and I are j ust

educational development diploma . All of them later at tended Federal City College. "It' not j ust a matter of whether people can read or write ," Cassara said of adult education. "It's a matter of whether or not they have a vis ion for the ir own lives and for the lives of the ir k ids. People have to be in charge of their own dest inies. Once these mothers began to enjoy learning, a wonderful thing happened-they began to compete with their kids for grades, and the kids stopped dropping out of school . " C a ara i s ret ired, b u t she remains active in adult educa tion. She serve a an adj unct professor of adult education at the Univer ity of outhern Maine, and he repre ents North America as an executive committee member of the Interna t ional Counc il for Adult Education. Her latest adult educa tion proj ect has been to organize a senior citizens' advocacy group in Cambridge, Mass., cal led Eldercorps. The group's initial goals are to hold a conference on intell igent aging and to deve lop a directory of Cambridge-area volunteer activit ies that are pract ical for seniors. Cas ara, whose own mid-l ife academic career challenged convention, says that many older people face discrimination when they seek jobs or volunteer opportunities. "So many of us are not accept able to people in the workplace because we're threatening we have too much educat ion and experience," she said. Ca ara, who served as class correspondent from 1 990 to 1 994, cred i ts Colby with "opening me up to the world of the m ind" and fondly remembers President ] . Seelye Bixler. "As he handed me my diploma at graduation, he said to me, 'Beverly, I 'm proud of you. ' I have remembered those words every time I k new I wasn't doing my be t."

back from a t r i p t o the Carib bean, extended 36 hours by the closing of Logan Airport in the blizzard. Thanks for all the won derful responses to my request for + news. Correspondents: David and Dorothy Marson

It' January 28 a we prepare these notes for the M ay i s s u e of Colby-we don't know whether to wish you Happy New Year or Happy Fourth of J uly . . . . We re ceived a gratifying response to our most recent request for infor mation. Back in November we heard from "Bobo" Brewer Folino, who wrote that she and Buddy are looking forward to all

the work ahead in planning our 50th reun i o n . They l i ve in Stonington, Maine, which-for those of you who are not familiar with the coast-is on an island in Penob cot Bay. Bobo runs a small gallery in the summer with other artists. Bud is delving into a new venture in fish farm ing and plans to raise arctic char, which is in the salmon/trout family. She re ports that they love l iv ing in their picturesque fishing village, where Sam and Marion Sturtevant Atwater stopped by la t um mer. Bobo says he sees Ruthie Barron Lunder only now and then but that they talk quite often. Ginnie Hill Field came for lunch one day. We al o received a great holiday card from Bud, who prom ised to find us a mooring if we sail Down East to their harbor. . . .

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J oan Crawley Pollock wrore (ha(

she mo ed from Dedham (our home rown ) to Califom ia 3 9 years ago. In l 995 J oan and her hus band , J oe, rraveled from Pasa dena to Colby for the Alumni College and in A ugu t went to J apan. J oan writes that she had a great meeti ng in Mal ibu with Colby alumni and with Engl ish Professor Charlie Bassen . Both Joan and J oe are rerired . . . . Phil Shulman wrote from an Fran c isco to say thar two years ago he wa suuck by an automobile and almost k illed. Since rhen he is living l ike rhere is no tomorrow, experiencing one adventure af ter another, traveling to Turkey, Syria ( twice ) , Cuba, Egypt, V iet nam, Oman and Yemen. He hopes to v isit N orth Korea and Iran in 1 996. Ph il found an old photo graph of the Tau Delt officers taken back on Mayflower Hill circa 1 94 7 . We till have tha( picture. Who are all those young people ? . . . J anet Gay Hawkins wrote lasr fall to ay that they live on Shelter Island about 1 00 miles from New York City, and they love it! She had ju t accompa nied her oldest granddaughter for an interview at Colby . . . . We were sorry to learn from Frank Reynolds that his w ife, J an et Bowmar Reynolds, passed away on December 7, 1 99 5 . ( We have an unofficial policy that we re port bad news only when some one re la red to the per on contact us on the Class of 1 948 inqu iry form; then we can make the re port in this column . ) . . . G i l Taverner wrote that he has re tired, for the third time, from t. George's School in Newport, R. l . Thanks, Gil, fo r continuing to provide us w ith news, and we look forward to talking with you a t the 5 0 t h . . . . Fran H y d e Stephan wrote that Carol Stoll Baker pent the holidays with her in Florida and that they are in good health in the la t of their 60s. N ext year, Fran aid, rhey tum 70, and they wanted to know how they would look to David then. (Terrific as alway !) They play ten n i and have a lotoflaugh and are trying to plan an exciting trip together this year. They al o keep in touch with Gloria Shine Seidenberg. Then, w i thin j ust a few days, we received a wonder-

ful letter from Carol. She wrote of her 1 994 uip, a safari in Kenya, where they spent two weeks on the plains and could have en joyed another week. ( U nfortu nare ly, we don't have the space to do j ustice to her eloquent de scription of the animals . ) I n j u ly 1 99 5 she went hiking in rhe Ca nadian Rockies near Banff. Twice a day a helicorter dropped her in a different locarion so thar she could hike along the peaks, which he describe as quie( and med i ta tive. . . . Bertha Graves Nollman wrote from G lastonbury, Conn . , that she has the b e t occupation: re(ired. A for changes i n her l i fe she says, "More gra hair . " She enjoys hearing from classmate·. . . . We heard from M ary and Gerald Roy, who are now Florida re ·idents bu( still own a condo in Warerville. They enjoy travel in rhe1r mowr home and all rhe thing and activities that retiree find ( ime ro do. They have four d a u gh r e rs and seven grand ch ildren . . . . Elaine Bro ...vning Townsley is a partner in Rails & Crafts in Laconia, N . H . They pec ial ize in electric train but al o sell art supplie , doll houses and hobby and craft supplies. he also own a small farm and rai ed pygmy goats. he has two daugh ters, and her son, Dudley ' 7 2 , i retired from the Air Force and teaching math in Laconia. • Correspondent: Robert M. Tonge Sr.

Nellie Macdougall

w r i t e from P.O. Box 1 4 1 , B ing ham, Maine 04920. he retired from the Gould Academy faculty in 1 970, and her husband, War ren, a civil engineer, retired in 1 984. Nellie writes that she and Warren spend volunteer hours at their church, where Warren is trea urer, and that he i trustee of an 1 83 2 h istorical meetinghouse run by the town . A my Park j ust graduated from Lewi and Clark Law School; the other Park chil dren Live i n N evada but vi ited M a i ne for three weeks in 1 995. Nellie ays they run a free B&B for fam i ly, and have played host to a bridal shower, a wedding and baby howerand a welcome-home Parks

for a m i l i tary-career nephew and his family. ummer bring- friends from 1 5 years 1 11 (he Ph i ladelphia are a . During rhe w 1 nrer, (he Park e. cro · -country ki and shovel rhe grear winter nowfall. Helping neighbors wirh chores and errands b al o fa·h1onable for rypical small-rown volunteer>. "We're tough up here on rhe 4 5 th Parallel," Nellie say·. he wrote a long lerrer, and your corre pon dent appreciates reviewing new and sugge r1ons rhat we're anx ious to rass along. . . . Karekin Sahagian writes from Englewood, Fla. Retired and d ivorced-he ays his \.\·ife ran off w ith a m in is ter in 19 9-he cla ims w have dated 40 different ladies and cor resronded w 1 rh well O\'er 1 50 in the past six years, but he thinks bachelorhood i!:i better. Hi son Kay 1 1 1 live i n Tamra, and Erik is in Bosron. . . . Charlie Pearce is at P.O. Box 9 4, Grantham,

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. H . 03 7 Su. He retired in 1 989 a CEO at Quincy a\·ing Bank. Charl ie till enjoy� golf, ki ing and traveling after two h1r re placement , and G i nny ( Davis '50) is happily in\'l1h-ed w nh golf. tenni and gardening. They ex recr to pend ri me duri ng '96 1 11 Ari:ona, orth Carol ina and Colorado a· well a m Austria and Germany. Their three chil dren pro\'ided Charlie and G 1 11ny w i t h four grandch i l d ren . . . Lorenzo Rastelli write from 636 Heather Lane, Orange City, Fla. 3 2 7 6 3 . He srays busy do111g vol unteer work a( his local library and a r rhe counc il for the aged d m ing center. He say he sees all the play at the cultu ral arts cen ter and enjoys rra\·e ling and at (ending Elderho tel programs at S(etson U n iversity. He pen r ri me in V ic toria, B . C . , last sum mer and plans a rrir to l raly during '96. •

Colby '46 A Very Good Year Cloyd Aarseth '46 has created a video in celebration of the 50th reunion of the Class of 1946. A compilation of places and events that show campus life at Colby from

1942- 1946.

To order your copy contact the Alumni Relations Office

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graduation, have >old their prop man a gement and re a l t y company in Tuc on, Ariz. , and bought a po r ts car convertible, which they plan to tow behmd their new "Dolphin" RV motor home on their fiN major trip back to Ma in e-fo r their 45th ert 1eo

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Sorry to �ay l haven ' t received any new from c lass members lately. Perh<ips it's du e to r he fact that my addre s was incorrect in the magazine. We l ive in Grantham, New HClmp h ire, not Massachu oert". After l i v ing in Ma sach u setts s i nce graduation , we moved to New Hampshire when Charl ie retired. I n caoe you've never heard of the place , Gran tham i s in the Dartmouth-Lake unapee area. adly, we have received ome notice that you can read on the nh1 tuary page. I had a nice note from Bob Stander's wife, Susan, in whic h she ,a id , "Colby Col lege meant o much to Bo b , a nd he rea l ly enjoyed the notes and newsletters from t he Class of 1 9 50. He wa so proud to be a member of your c lass." . . . I hope to hear from you soon. • Cor respondent : Barbara Jefferson Walker

J une and reunion are j ust around the comer, so d ig out your suitca es and plan now ro drop up, down , over, aero s or in to Colby for the weekend . . . . Jean ( Lyons ' 5 3 ) and Arthur " Art" Shulkin, who were married three days after

Pn . , hns ret i red a manu fa cturing mannger and technical director of Scott Pape r Company , for whose international div ision he traveled the world. Having seen enough of overseas areas, Don nnd h is w i fe now plan to v isi t their chi ldren, who nre scattered from Georgia to A rkansa�. and to partake of E lde r ho tel stud i es , particularly of I nd i an cult ure in the New Mexic region . As a highl ight since his Colby grad uation, Don notes that he "broke 90 on the link . ( Once ! ) " . . . Nadeen Finb erg Liebes k i n d ,

Tucso n, Ariz. , after 18 year liv ing in Israel is now a child care director. he look forward to ret i ri n g, rel a x i ng , eeing old friends and r ravel in g . . . . Ted Parker, Naple , Fla., retired la r yenr and is still playing renn is with two ( 2 ) replacement hips . . Oscar Rosen, al e m , Mas . , contmues his ac tivitie with the Nationa l As ociation of Atomic Veterans. He is rhe ed i tor of their new ·letter and graciou ly has senr me cop ies of i t . . . . Bob and Helen Palen Roth, West Hart ford, Conn. , write that they "had a big celebration la t year-called it our bicentenn i a l-we both turned 65 ( 1 30 ) , i t was our 40th weddi ng anniver ary ( 1 70) and we made the la t payment on our 30-year mortgage. H ence 200 years. We took a Dix ieland cruise down the Connecticut R iver with fam i ly and friends ( several Colby ones ) . " . . . Ben Pearson, Byfie ld , Mass., has retired , old the 1 80year-old fam i ly bu i nes , The Byfield nuff Co., old h is home

of4 l years and i mov ing to Bray's l land Plant a t ion, .C. , where [here w i l l be " hunt ing , fishing , golf-all t hat good stuff. " . . . Loretta Thompson Staple ' 5 3 , wife o f Bob Staples, w ro te t o tell me of Bob' death on Thanks giv ing night. Not ice has also been received of the J u l y death of Annalee Nelson Bohjalian . . . . Ju t think of me a the Colby M u le try i ng to kick you into gear for the 45th reunion of this i llus triou c lass. I can ' t remember. Did the mule have a name 1 + Corre spondent: Barbara Easterbrooks Mailey

I was pleasantly sur prised that o many classmates took rime to send me news during the holi day weeks. Dor ( Forster '54) and Roger Olson sai I that they were out of Kansa C i ty and dividing their l i ving time between Mon son, Mai ne , and Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. S ince they are now n ar Wate rv i l le again, they enj y at tend ing Colby footba l l game . . . . Leslie Stewart, still in the inve·rment field, is a broker in New York City. The tewarts have two daughters , one l iv i ng in New York City and one married and living in London. Their fir t grandchild wa born last Augu t. Le lie saw Lou Ferraguzzi play rhe part of Luther Billi in a pro duction of South Pacific . . . . Max Singer is a public policy analyst and wri t er , and hi wife, also in rhe publi hing world, i an edi tor. Max wrote Real World Order: Zones of Peace/Zones of Turbu lence with Aaron W i lansky, and

rhe revised edition i about to be publ ished by Chatham Hou e, N .] . His three ons all are married and liv ing in I rae l . The Si ngers have three g randchildre n and probably two more by now. Sybil Walker Turin is a finan-

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c ial consultant and realtor. She is a w idow but has a large family her three children are married and among them have six ch ild ren between the age of 1 and 1 6 . Sybil says she skis, sails in races and participates in triath lon . During the '96 winter she planned to ski Snowmass, Colo., then head east to ski w ith her grandchil dren in the Portland, M a ine, area. I did this, too, a season ago w ith my grandchildren in Maine, but they were forever wait ing for G ram to catch up . . . . I had a very my terious unsigned Christ ma card from Austral ia. I de cided it had to be from George Pirie after Nelson Beveridge sent me the Pirie Chri tma newslet ter, which mentioned a trip to Australia in January. The Piries spent the holiday in Colorado, then were off to Hawa i i to rest up in Febru ary and M a rch . . . .

new grandmother in J uly-her daughter Su an '80' twins. Whi le I'm in the grandmother mode, I would like to mention that Elaine Zervas Stamas sent news of a new grandson added to her family and says of grand parenthood, "It's the best." . . . I n N ovember I learned that

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about the award I reported last is ue: he recently was given the Tufts U niversity l nspirational Teacher Award . . . . Joyce With am Spencer ' 5 4 wrote a long note about her husband, C h a r l e s "Chuck" Spencer, w h o retired from the U .S . Geological urvey in August 1 99 5 . J u t after the 1 993 reunion I reported a couple of the award that she mentioned he'd received. S ince then he re ceived the Outstanding Scientist Award for 1 994 by the Rocky Mountain Association of Geolo gists. He was a petroleum geolo gist known for h is research in unconventional gas resources and overpressured hydrocarbon-pro ducing reservoirs. He worked on cooperative oil and gas studies w ith national oil companies in H u ngary, B ra z i l and Ru i a . Po t-retirement activities now include camping, fishing and skiing. . . . Sylvia Caron Sullivan sent me another friendly note from Nashvi lle. She and her hu band spent their 40th wedding ann iversary i n Quebec C i ty , where S y l tried o u t h e r "Prof. Gordon Smith" French. She spent her Christmas holiday in Wolfe boro, N .H., havingdriven up from Na hville for a family reunion with 13 in attendance. Back in N ashville they had a visit by George '52 and Betty Winkler Laffey. Sylv's b ig news is being a

Loretta "Tommi" Thompson Staples lo t her husband, Bob

' 5 1 , on Thanksg i ving n i g h t . Tommi sent me h e r o w n note recently, aying that life wa great for him and that Colby always was a special memory for them both. My thought go out to you, Tommi , as do the thoughts of a l l who k no w you b o t h . Colby also informed me o f the death of Harold Arthur Leathe in November. + Correspondents: Bill and Penny Thresher Edson Each year, J ean Cressy Parker include a poem

she has written in her Christmas card. Thank , Jean . . . . Vic Scalise and h i wife, Mary, of Brookline, Mass., have three adult children and three grand ons and have enjoyed a winter trip to Maui for each of the past 1 3 years. V ic has been serving The American Bapti t Churches of Mas achuetts as an interim minister. He also is a consultant to the Water-

man/Waring Funeral Home and a sists legal imm igrant and refu gee through The International In titute of Boston. In May he w i l l erve as cha irman of the annual convention of the Ameri can Baptist Churches of Mass ac hu ett . V ic founded The N a t i o n a l C e n t e r fo r D e a t h Education and has lectured ex tensively in the field of bereave m e n t -so m e t h i n g he n e v e r anticipated doing when h e left Colby. Kappa Delta Rho, Dr. Seelye Bixler and the faculty are what he remembers mo t about Colby. . . Jim Rapaport writes from Boca Raton, F la . , where he live with Wendy, his wife of six years. They pend their ·ummers in Rockland, Maine. J im, father of two sons, is enjoying an active retirement. Hi re pon e to what keeps him out of the rocking chair-"a young wife." J im re member "the fun and beautiful spar" when he thinks of Colby. . . . J oa n S o m e r v il l e W a l s h , mother of two ons, is a retired second grade teacher l i\·ing in Mars Hill, Maine. She stays active as a pianist for the Methodi t Church and chairman of the craft fair as well a by gardening and hoveling now. As Joan adju ts to the change of widowhood, her advice is, "don't put thing off. I'm so glad we drove our trailer to Alaska, took cruises and enjoyed every day." She mo t remembers

NEWSMAKERS Richard Clough ' 5 5 was praised

as "the con ummate ale per son who brought profe ional ism and integrity to the j ob" in the Griffin Report of Rockland, Mass. Clough is retired from Campbell Sales Co. in Franklin, M as . . . . J a ne Millett Dornish '55 was named State of Maine Volunteer Board MemberNolunteer of the Year. . . . Tony Tony Ruvo '59 Ruvo '59 was named corporate vice president of the Union Camp Corporation in N ew Jersey.

MILEPOSTS Deaths: Gordon D. Daugharty ' 5 7 in St. Clair, M ich., at

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the good friend at Colby. . . . I t wa good to hear from Diane Chamberlin Starcher, who lives with her hu band, George, m Chambery, France. They eagerly awaited the arrival of their first grandchild in February '96. Diane, who is working for a non-profit as ociation, European Baha'i Busi ness Forum, writes, "I'm cha mg to keep up with ac tivitie . Doing research on women entrepreneurs and now on micro-credit lending to poor women in rural and urban areas of the world. Have written an article on the subject." Retire ment doesn't mean topping ac tivities, she says. Diane received a master's degree in adult education in June 1 994 and keeps young by working with youth and young adults-lots of reading and dis cus ion. She never anticipated spending her adult l ife in Europe. mostly in France. "Had I known," she ays, "l'd have taken my French clas es more seriou ly." The small academic community, the peronal contact with profe sors and the friends are what she remem bers most about Colby . . . . Janice Stevenson Squier and her hus band, Charles, are living in Boul der, Colo., where he is a profe sor of Engl ish at the Univer-ity of Colorado. Jan is a piano teacher, composer and potter. They have a married daughter and a son. When Jan left Colby, she never antic ipated that she would have the opportunity to live in for e ign countries, Ea t and We t. She didn't know she would love teaching mu ic so much or be able to compo e. J an most re members Mark Benbow at Colby, the introduct ion to a tougher mental d iscipline and the elf respect that come w i t h i t . . . . Good t o hear from those who re ponded. More comi ng in the next column. + Correspondent: J a ne Millett Domish

These areexciting years a we ' 5 5 ers � Ian for re . tliement, enioy grand c h i l d r e n , s e a r c h fo r t r a v e l opportunities. S u e ( Biven ' 5 5 ) and Selden Staples posed a ques t ion for classmates a they leave thei r home of 3 2 years to move to North Carolina. How many de-

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c1de at retirement to stay where they have lived for a long or even a hon time1 Sue and SelJen de cided to leave New Jersey, and by the t i me you read this, they w i l l have given away o r to sed the accumulated stuff or taken it to Supply, N . C . , a golf community on the l ntracoa tal Waterway, five m i les from the ocean. The ir five ons are scattered through out the State and England. They wi h all good health and happi ne s in the choices made for the rest ofour lives . . . . Tavie Smith Cobb and husband Field have ret i red from California to Sagle, Idaho. They love hav ing a home on the lake . . . . It was wonderful to hear from a former Mary Low neighbor, Joan Sandberg, who also has retired. J oan worked with the Arizona state government's birth defects monitoring program. he find her elf very busy w i th much le s stress, and she enjoys her three cats . . . . Sylvia Jenni son Spike is exci ted to be i n volved with t h e membership a t t h e Portland, M aine, Museum o f A r t . F o r five years s h e h a s been a docent at the museum. If anyone wants to buy a house in Bath, Maine, call ylvia; he wants to move to Portland. As w ith mo t of u , ylvia appreciates thac "life i preciou , as are our re lation sh ips and grandc h i ldre n . " . . . Dave and Ruth McDonald Rob erts are willing to take advice from others as they thrill to the birth of their first grandchild, Brian David Pagnano . . . . I ee Carol Plavin Shapiro around town. Her husband, Sam, is trea surer of the state of Maine, and she contin ues her work as a li brary as istant in the Waterville ·chool sy tern. Having five grand children i her special treat. Carol t a l k s w i t h E s t e l l e J ac o b s o n Ostrove often and reports that E s t e l l e and Paul ' S 4 t r a v e l extensively . . . . I f y l v i a Spike's home in Bath doesn't interest you, Nancy G reenberger Schmidt

write that ·he will sel l her lovely Cape Cod home; she ays it is a nature lover's paradi e. Nancy's three k id and five grandchildren are close by, and she manages to work at the Cape Cod Museum of N atural H istory as exhibit co ord inator in her spare t i m e . . . . Dave and Nancy Robinson Rollins have officially retired but

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contin ue to consu lt part time while thinking about leav i ng St. Loui ·. Both Dave and Nancy have a love for the ocean so perhaps they will return to New England . Two of their sons are in Arizona and one is in Ottawa, and grand children play a special part in their l ives . . . . A call from Judy Orne Shorey let me know that she is beginn ing a new venture as a bed-and-breakfast or inn relief sitter. To give respite to owners, she will take over duties in that home. Her first assignment is in the Camden, Maine, area, and she is enthusia t ic and optimistic about this new phase i n her life . . . . At the Boston trustee and Alumni Council January meet ings our class was well repre sented. 1 wa able to chat with Jane Whipple Coddington, Jean Van Curan Pugh and George Haskell. . . . Ju t before finishing thi piece I talked with Ann Burnham Deering, whose daugh

ter was married la t um mer. Ann had a note from Barbara Restall Horne, who l i ves in California w ith her husband and enjoys trav els in their motor home. Marga ret Grant Ludwig wrote Ann that she now has time to travel from Maine to warmer Florida with her legislative dutie over. . . It is good to get your letters; + keep me posted. Correspondent: Eleanor Edmunds Grout

Next month we in the Class of 1 9 S6 will be celebrating our 40th year as Colby alumni. I hope to see many of you at reunion at the Samo et and/or Colby. It prom ises to be grrreat. Many have writ ten to say they plan to attend. David and Rosemary Croutha mel Sortor will be there de pite the ir bu y lives. Dave's practice as an oral urgeon, The Sherborn Inn and sailing the Maine coast keep h i m out ofany rocking chair, and Rosemary is an occupational therapist and manager of the eld erly hou ing in Sherborn, Mass. She also finds t i me for e ight grandchildren, gardening, knit ting, quil ting and church. And I thought I was busy! . . . Lois Latimer Pan is planning on re un ion, too. Lois's husband, Ed, is

a retired engineer; Lois retired a public library director to a new creative career, which she de scribes as going from books to bibs: she has developed a great busine s mak ing original bib de signs. They really have to be een to be appreciated. Loi has had an adventurous life, including travel and marriage to a man born in China. She is now part of a biracial, bicultura l family, which includes four generations. The travel has included a ballroom dance trip to Hungary and an Elderhostel on top of a volcano in Hawa ii . . . . Fran (Wren ' S 8 ) a n d Bob Raymond will b e a t Samoset a n d hope to see many there . . . . Lois Weaver Neil lost her husband, Bill, to cancer in January 1 99 S . The cla ex tends it sympathy to the fam ily. Lois i going to reunion with Warren and Barbara Faltings Kinsman and is hoping to see the old gang: Sue Veghte Wilson, Charlotte Wood Scully, Charlene Roberts Riordan and Eleanor Cawley Hickey. Lois earned her doctor ate in '94, and after retiring in J une she will move on to college teac h i ng . . . . Vashti Ophelia Boddie Roberts wrote to say that she would not miss our 40th. Va h misses California but is excited by her new career opportunity as director of the I ndiana Academy at Ball S tate University. he heads one of the few remain i ng K- 1 2 lab schools in the country for gifted students. Wilbert and Vashti pent their ummer at a t i me-share in Aruba and in J u ly will travel to the Dom inican Re public. he says he has such wonderful memorie ofColby and says he became centered there pulling off her own ident ity at a t i me when it was cool j ust to blend in. Vash says she "learned to think, to problem solve, to prioritize and to love myself" and he also made many friends. They will alway remember the '56 Condon medalist. Vash wants to know if anyone has word of M ugg y tetson ' S S . . . . Ann Holden Neville ays she prob ably won't be able to make re union but plans could change. Ann ha gone from substance abu e coun eling and probation work to landlady and property owner. She i lookLng to the t i me when he can put her feet up after

elling the propert ie she owns. R i c h a rd and D o m e n i c a Tranq uillo Rainer would like more information but would l ike t go to reunion. Domenica took her French major and became an investment professional. She and R ichard are look ing for good places for retirement and want classmates' suggestions . . . . See you at the Samoset if the good + Lord's will ing. Correspondent: Brian F. Olsen

I know, you're wonder ing if I'm still al ive . . . sorry about the lapse in column news-but we're back, and all you ' S 7 folks can look forward to quite a bit of news in the coming issues. All those neat questionna ires and letters you received over the la t couple of years with my name on them re a l l y came stra ight from the Alumni Office. (Thanks to ev eryone there for all their hard work ! ) Your responses have been terrific, thoughtfu l , revealing, mov ing and j u t plain enjoyable to read. Thanks to Ellie Shorey Harris for checking up on me to see ifl could till type! Ellie is t i l l at tratus Computer, managing the personnel department and racking up employee of the year awards in impressive fashion . . . . Mel Dunn writes from Bing hamton that he's enjoying h is new tatu a a grandfather ( as are many of u ) and is traveling to Europe quite a bit to visit hi daughter Beth and family . . . . Sad to s a y , as we approach the "Golden Year ," we tart hearing the new ofclassmate and spouses who have pa sed away ince we la t wrote . J anet KimballClymer, whose hu band died in 1 994, has moved back to New England from Denver and i active as a family and small claims court mediator. Jan also works a a buyer for a Nashua book tore and met E. Annie Prou l x , author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Shipping News, in her bookstore last year. Annie attended Colby as a member of our cla s before transferring elsewhere. (Wonder ful book, by the way ! ) . . . Tom Brac k i n write t h a t he and Marilyn are still running the in-

surance agency in New Jersey and that they now have two grand son . I spent ome quality time over dinner with Tom and h is wonderful family a couple of um mers ago, and we did a lot of catching up . . . . D o n Dinwoodie writes of his j oy at being married in December of 1 994. Don i building an "Eanhship House" in southern Colorado and run con ferences for bu ines people in the "open space" near Pike' Peak. Don lived in we tern M as achu setts for a while a few years ago but ha returned to Colorado per manenrly . . . . Long-lo t class mate Marilyn "Pere " Perkins C a n t o n i s al ive and w e l l in N ap les, Fla. H usband Dick is se-

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nior V P for Paine Webber and working in the N aple office. Mari lyn and Dick still have a lake home in Maine, so her New England tie are trong . . . Mac Blanchard and his w ife, Dot, spent part of last year in Van couver, B.C., while Dot was fin i hing her studies, and they fell in love with the place. Mac is till doing ome "custom buildi ng" on the coa t of Maine, but only if it doesn't interfere with fly fishing, hunting, traveling , etc. You can find Mac ( sometime ) in the of fice of Profe sional Real Estate Services in downtown Damaris cotta . . . . I t was good to hear aga i n from Roberta S a n tora Hindert, although she al o re-

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can crafr and art and ·upport the arts in the an Francisco area. . . Out of space for now-mnre new t0 come in the next 1s,ue. It's not roo soon to think atour the 40th, j ust a ltttle over a year from now . Till next time . +

ported that her hu band of 3 6 years died a couple o f year ago. Roberta is work ing hard at build ing a new l ife, and after all those years in academia now volun teers at a veterinary c l i r nc in ad di tion to keeping up her intere t in ice danc i ng and playing the recorder. . . . Tony Glockler is still in N ew ]er ey and sti ll w ith ETS. I know we can count on Tony to drum up upport for the 40th reunion, com ing in J une 1 99 7 . . . G reat to hear from Glenn and Gaby Krebs Isaacson, who till reside in California. Not a lot of development going on right now, Gaby writes, so Glenn i busy with his consulting bu i nes . Both are collectors ofAmeri-

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Margaret Smith Henry

Quite a wrnter we're having' When you read thi , it will be pring1 . Sally Sobol Fritz is service coordinator for the Falmouth and Barnstable Public Hou ing Au thorities on Cape Cod. he has come back to Bu;:zard's Bay, where

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t's taken fire all over the state , " s a i d M ad e l y n "Mike" Wechsler Pressman '53 . The team-taught, interdisc i ' ti" . plinary humanities program j r she started at Oceanside H igh \ : School in Oceanside, N . Y . , where s h e h a s taught English ..· ince 1 968, presents h istory, soc i a l tudies and Eng l ish combined on a t i me l ine. In the la t decade, Pre man say , he has given "tons of workhop " and acted a a consultant to get i m i lar team going at schools all aero s New York. " l t's an idea whose time has come," she said. The time mu t have come at least by 1 99 2 , when the program was a joint w inner of the New York tate English Counc i l Award for Best H igh chool Program. I n 1 99 5 Pressman received the Teacher o f Excellence Award from the New York State Counc i l of English. An Engli h major at Colby, Pressman raised four daughters before completing an M.A. in econdary education at Adelph i in 1 970. For her humanities program, she says she refined and expanded the time-line concept he'd u ed when he taught art hi tory exten ion course for Brandei University in 1 966-67. She believes she covers a period of art or a piece of literature best by taking account of concurrent style or influences in other arts, politic , economic and even morals. Student in the team- taught course d i vide i nto groups, each with a h istorical researcher, an analyzer-critic and a writer-integrator who together re earch one artist. They study the early music of Beethoven, neoclassical art and

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propaganda of the time while reading A Tale of Two Cities. Th is year, an offshoot of the curriculum is a partnership P ress man arranged between a local m u s e u m and a Guggenheim M useum exhibit while her charges research abstract art and the creative proces . After a museum lecturer poke to her cla , Pre sman report , "One tudent aid, ' I thought it wa n ice of him to talk down to our level.' 'No, he d idn't talk down to you ,' I aid. 'You've become o ophi t icated . ' It' not j u t a course that helps with Jeopardy ! . lt' l ifetime learning. " Off the succes of the program, Pressman received an NEH fel lowship in 1 990 to study Mozart in V ienna. She was researching the G M i nor ymphony, she said, "and 1 ended up writing a poem on it, which produced th i - idea of a connection between the e say and the sonata, which is very i m i lar to the e ay form-introduction, development, reca pitulation. I developed the essay format based on the sonata when 1 was in Prague." Today, he says, Ocean ide opho mores rank higher than senior in many schools-e peciall y in essay writing. Pressman is quick to praise her own teachers. "The best decision I ever made wa to go to Colby," she aid. "I loved Shakespeare, I loved the poet 1 loved the history. Every teacher I had was inspiring and made me curious." he e pecially credits Alfred Chapman and Mark Benbow of the Engli h Department, who, he i sure, put her into the "subconsciou mode" that resulted in her award -w inning humanitie program. As for retiring, she m ight think about it, he said-if he won the lottery-but for now, no. 'Tm havi ng too good a time. I always think of my eighty-five-year-old roofer, who said, 'I can't retire. My friend retired, and he died right after."' She laugh . "He wa ninety-two."

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"the air smell right (salty) and nobody has a funny accent." Sally has four adult c h i ldre n , two sons-in-law and one granddaugh ter. When she thinks back to Colby days, Professor Benbow's Elizabethan Ii terature c lasses come to mind . . . . Caroline Hall Hui, Sunnyvale, Calif., and hus band David have a 1 6-year-old daughter, Kim, who plans to pur sue a ballet career. Carol is in volved in Kim's activities through erving as the board secretary and grant writer for the San J ose Dance Theater. Except for not traveling as much as she would like, Carol is pretty well atisfied with her present lifestyle, which include skiing, hiking and being an adult ed instructor. . . . John and Jane Daib Reisman both have retired and are free to travel (Costa Rica in January 1 996) and to be available to visit their two children and three grandchildren. J ane, too, remembers Professor Benbow and "bananas with but terscotch sauce" and, of course, meeting J ohn and being ser enaded by the Colby E ight. . . . J im Bishop is in Sedona, Ariz., working as author/teacher/ professional conservationist. He is currently teaching English lit to people of all ages, "learning the true value of the imagina tion." J im's daughter is in Hanoi doing public health, and h is son is in China. Like many of us at th is stage of 1 ife, Jim ays the "long-term memory kicks in memories of Colby in the '50s are harper than those of my 20 years in Washington, D.C. , at Carter's White House and the Depart ment of E n e rgy . " S i m o n & Schuster published a trade paper version of his book, Epitaph for a Desert Anarchist, in the fall of '95 . . . . Virginia True Masterson has been a special education pro fessional for the past 10 years, and her husband has his own home-based word -proces s i ng business in an Jose, Calif. Ginny remembers the English depart ment, too, and that infamous flu epidemic in 1 9 56. Like others who have returned to the cam pus, Ginny i impressed with the beauty of Colby and the new buildings a well as the wide range of c l a s es offered . . Dick Campbell is living in York Vil lage, Maine, and is semi-retired,

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doing consulting work and serv ing as a board director. He and wife Jeanne have four succes ful chi ldren, ranging in age from 1 6 to 3 2 . When he remembers Col by, Dick recalls the mell of Onie's ! He also feels Colby has become a great l i beral art college and has gained a well-de erved interna tional reputation! . . Lois Mun son Morrill resigned from Fleet Bank , has taken a year off and for a few months was working for LL. Bean during their "busy"sea son. Daughter Laurie had a sec ond son in October 1 99 5 , almost exactly two years after her first son. When she wrote, Loi had just returned, along with Char lotte and Norm Lee, from a visit with Lynne D'Amico McKee in Hampden, Maine. Lois also wants to make sure the clas knows about the new location of the campus tree that was dedicated to Gayle Schaeff Fox. The tree and the plaque are now on the east side of the Student Union in front of the Page Commons Room by the side of the road . . . . Douglas Miller is the Distinguished Professor of American Intellectual Hi tory at Mich igan State University. Doug and his wife, Susanne, have two children, a son who is a lawyer in New York and a daughter who works for a homeless shelter in Bo ton. Since we last heard from Doug, he had published h is ninth book, On Our Own : Americans in the Sixties. Like many others, Doug remembers the smell of stale beer in Onie's. Doug plans to retire in June l 997 and mo t likely will return to New England and an old farmhouse in New Hampshire sound wonderful. One of Doug's Ph.D. student is Profes sor Richard Moss, who teaches American hi tory at Colby . . . . There have been quite a few re plies to my October 1 995 ques tionnaire and letter, and I am still in the process of send ing them out. Eventually you all should hear from me. (I hope this i reciprocal. How e lse can we fi ll up our al lotted space?) Thanks to all who have already responded-you will see your selves here in future columns. . . . By the way, Gail Crosby Davis, who is our c lass agent, is determined to see that over 50 percent of our class contributes to the Alumni Fund . Last year

we had 4 7 percent response, and not only that, our class had the most in match ing funds. Even before those matching funds, we had reached our goa l ! + Correspondent: Ann Marie Segrave Lieber

M o b i l i t y and travel seem to be the watch words for our c l ass. TWA Captain Russ Longley says that he's "still searching for a rich widow who skis." . . . Nancy Little Ready owns and manages Exec Aviation in Cincinnati. She and husband Bob keep busy hawing the quarter horses they breed. . . . Frank Seebode is principal of a large, top-ranked high school in California but still manages to spend um mer vacations on Cape Cod. Thanks for the wonderful family pies, Frank! . . . John and Pat Richmond Stull had a won derful trip to Turkey; they loved the people and enjoyed exploring ancient ruins along the Aegean coast . . . . Elaine ( Healey '62 ) and Paul Reichert are retired and liv ing in Florida. 1l1ey've toured Aus tralia and New Zealand but especially like watching Kennedy Space Center launches from their very own deck . . . . Joan (Crowell '60) and Skip Tolette traveled to England, Vail, Florida and the Thou and Islands. They had to admit, when their son turned 3 5 , that they have a middle-aged offspring. . . . Congrats to Cath erine and J im Stockwell on their recent marriage. J im saw the world while doing 20 in the Navy, and now, as a big-rig driver, seeing the States from the cab of an 1 8-

wheeler . . . . Dr. Bob Younes was named to the board of governors of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. As a consultant, Bob helped evaluate Poland's health care quality improvement pro grams. His annual letter held won derful tales of his chi ldren, N ick and Nora. l 'm enjoying getting to know the Younes family. How about some family data from other clas mates1 If you haven't writ ten to me in four or five years, please bring me up to date on your activities . . . . On a personal note . . . years ago, a commercial on television showed a line of 1 0 average- looking women. The camera zeroed in on one of them, and a man's voice said, "One out of ten women wi 11 get breast can cer." This doleful prediction al ways left me with an internal shudder and the unspoken prayer, "Please, God, let me not be the one." Well, l am the one. Rou tine mammography turned up three questionable spots; a surgi cal biop y proved them to be malignant. During fear-fi lied days preceding my mastectomy I be came increasingly aware of my extraordinary good luck, that the discovery was made before I had passed the point of no return. The bottom line is: I am alive. With regular checkups, careful attention to diet and lifestyle and a whole lot of good luck, I'll be around for many more years. Hear me, all you wonderful women: do not deprive the world of your existence; do not let your own special light be extinguished for ever. Instead of lining up next to me as one of the other nine, please, please line up at the mam mography office.+

Conversations with an Unrepentant Liberal Though the excitement of the weekend is long over, the Class of 1 960 is srill celebrating their 3 5 th reunion with the reprint of one of Pre ident J . Seelye Bixler's published e say .

Conversations with an Unrepentant Liberal is a charming debate (between Greek protagonists transported to a post-WWII academic setting) on the role of liberali m in the modem world. The tones of the "conver ation," held during the McCarthy era, ring j ust as clearly in the present debate between liberals and con ervatives. For more information contact the Alumni Office, 43 1 0 Mayflower Hill, Waterville, M E 0490 1 , 207-8 7 2 - 3 1 90, o r fax 207-872-3073.

Order your copy today and step bac k with this timele s book.

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Correspondents: 1 960 Carolyn Webster Lockhart 1 70 County Road New London, NH 0 3 2 5 7 fax: 60 3- 526-9632 e-mail: tclockhart@aol .com 1 96 1 Penny Dietz Sullivan 1 1 1 45 G lade Drive Reston, VA 2 209 1 703-620- 3 5 69 e-mail: penny@opnsys.com 1 962 J ud ith Hoagland Bristol 3 4 1 5 Sun et Blvd. Hou ton, TX 7 700 5 7 13 -667 - 2 2 46 1 963 Barbara H a i nes Chase 1 73 Spofford Road Westmoreland, N H 03467 603 - 399-49 5 7 1 964 Sara Shaw Rhoades 7 6 N orton Road K ittery, ME 03904- 54 1 3 207-439-2620 1 965 R ichard W. Bank.arr 20 Valley Avenue S u ite D2 Westwood, NJ 0 7 6 7 5 2 0 1 -664- 7 6 7 2 1 966 R ussell N. Monbleau 3 Lovejoy Road M ilford, NH 0 3 0 5 5 603 - 6 7 3 - 5 5 08 e-mail: monbleau.ru sell@a l . mkot l .mko.mts.dec.com 1 967 Robert G racia 2 9 5 Burg s Avenue Westwood, MA 02090 6 1 7-3 2 9-2 1 0 1 e-mail: Bob_Grac ia@ brookline.mec.edu

J udy Gerrie Heine 21 H i l lcre t Rd. Medfield, M A 02052 1 968 Mary J o Calabrese Baur 1 3 7 Lex i ngton Road Dracut, MA 0 1 826 508-454-9 7 3 3 1 969 Diane E. K indler 1 1 7 Alba Street Portland, M E 04 1 03 207-774-7454

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Here is the news t at came to me a replies to the questionnaire ent out by Kay White. Kay re ports that the replies have been informative and helpful, and she would till like to hear from any one who would like to send one in . . . . Several of our classmates, including Henry "Corky" Fitz patrick, replied that they have visited Colby at times other than for a reu n ion, so they feel very connected to the College . . . . Mary Otis Lynn Watt and Becky Hamaker Loose wondered if c l as s m a t e w o u l d r e m e m b e r them-and w e d o . . . . ( P a t ) Anna J ohnson has l ived in Se attle for a while, but she lived in A ustralia for 1 7 years. She now publ ishe m u l t i c u ltural books. Coincidentally, I met Anna sev eral years ago while on a huttle at Dulle A i rport and recognized her i m mediately . . . . Pete Hen derson is very happy to have moved back to A uburn, Ala. He is serving as v ice president of de velopment a t Faulkner U niver sity i n Montgomery, but he is seriously thinking of retiring to do more sail i ng. He could join Courtney Davis in Orange Park, Fla. , who m issed our reu nion in

order to get hi boat in the water! . . . J udy Dignam has had a j ob transfer to Charlotte, N. C., and is enjoying the v ibrant com m unity there. She will be return ing to M ichigan for herdauahter' · wedding in the spring . . . . I talked recently with Sally Case Savage, who has her ma ter' degree in soc ial work, is a counselor in two elementary chool and is living in Dorset, Vr. ( near Manches ter ) . She says that, regrettably, rural life al o has it share of vio lence and family problems. On a personal note, Sally says that her per onal goal for 1 996 i peace and tranq u i l ity. l think we would all agree to the same . . . . Please stay in touch-this is your col umn. In addition to the publ ished address and phone number, our fax number is 60 3 - 5 26-96 3 2 and e-mail i tclockhart@ao l . com. + Correspondent: Penny Dietz Sull ivan

Well, the reunion is fast approaching and, by the time you read this, you should be pack.log your bags to go to Colby. Stop ! . . . go to the attic and find some old memora bilia or pictures to bring with you. We'll have a place in our "gather ing room" for you to display them. This suggestion comes from Bill Hood, who called from Florida to say he was looking forward to be ing there and wanted everyone to bring pictures, etc., w ith them. . . . B i l l C l ough w r i tes from Bethel, Maine, to tel l u he has been headmaster at Gould Acad emy ince 1 983. He enjoyed a reunion of a "bunch of the foot ball player from the '50s and '60s" w i th J o h n S i mpson and Bob Clifford last September. Saw Bob Reuman and Dr. "Doggie" Dore there, too. He and his wife, Ki, have three children, all married, and three grandsons. He said he

will try to make the reunion, de pending on his schedule . . . . Liv ing in Oxford, Ma ine, i � I ris Mahoney Burnell and her hus band, Davis. I ris is a m in ister in The United Church of Chn ·t, serv i ng two churches in Me chanic Falls and Oxford. She and her husband, who i� retired, are working on a "handyman's spe c ial" for the ir retirement home. Between them, they have seven children and five grandchildren. She will be at the reunion, at lea t parr of the t ime, and looks for ward to see i ng Sue Fourcade Erskine (as l do ! ) . She also re cently enjoyed seeing J ane Bow man and howing her through the ir n e w home. . . W i l s o n Doyle i in Wa hington, N . Y . , where h e serves a s a s u b titute teacher and soccer coach. He has two grown ons. He ha advice for us: watch your eating habits espec ially the fat in your d iet . . . he had cancer of the colon and is now back to normal and happy to be alive and kicking. Unfortu nately, he won't be able to make the reunion because of his soccer schedule, but he would love to h a v e n e w s of h i s P h i D e l t friends . . . . Debby Berry Den niston's husband, Roy, retired in April 1 995 from the New York State Education Dept., but she i still a columnist for the Chatham Courier. She reports, "while he's not quite as bad as having a grand piano in the kitchen, there are t i mes." The i r daughter Robin graduated from Cornell and is now married, so they have their dog and horse at home. Several of her fondest memories of Colby i n c l u de w a i t ing, in v a i n , for Benbow to pick up hi cigarette from the chalk tray and try to write on the blackboard with it and watching M acKay in the Fac u lty Follies. She would l ike more news from those not able to at tend o u r re u n i o n . . . F r o m Lunenburg, Mass., we hear from

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Sandy Nolet Eielson that �he re met and is now engageJ to her high school/college �weerhcarr, Dean Quinlan. We look forward to meeting h i m <it the reunion. he ha� seen Janice Dukeshire Halliwell, who is teaching Sran ish in Conn. ( and I, for one, want to encourage J anice to make it to the reunion 1 ) . She also has seen Mary J ane Rutherford Carroll,

who i sel l i ng rea l estate in Holden, Mass., and Carol Stearns Clement, who live near Water v i l le. She would love to hear news of Bonnie MacGregor (a would the class corresponden t ) . Coinci dentally, Carol Steams Clement wrote to say that she and her hus band, Dav id, recently moved to Norridgewock ( 1 2 mile from Waterv i l l e ) , where they are en joying the farm l i fe, with two horses and gardening. She looks forward to seeing everyone at the reunion and espec ially wants, af ter reading New Passages, to di c u · o u r n e x t 30 y e a rs . H e r daughter w a s plann ing to get mar ried in November and move to Alaska, so he is looking forward to v is i t ing her . . . . Bill Bain bridge is a doctor in family prac tice in Pao l i , Pa. He enjoys sai l i.ng and when he wrote was looking forward to visit ing Fred J oslin '62 in Virginia Beach and sailing on his boat. N ow that h i k id are grown and his prac tice can be covered by partners, he is enjoy ing more time for fun and w i l l proba b l y be a t t h e reun ion. orry to end the column on a ad note, bur I received a note from Phyllis Campobasso Flan nery Senn' daughter-in- law stat ing that Phy l l is was killed by a student in the school where she was teaching in South Carolina. She will be greatly missed by her family and friend . orry that we ee Jon't have more deta i ls. . + you at our 3 5 th reunion. Correspondent: J udith Hoagland Bristol

Mike McCabe, current ly living in Norwalk, Conn., wrote me a de l ightful letter last fall. M ike said that prior to marriage, hi idea of an exc i t ing vacation was p laying golf on the East End of Long I land. When he and Ro emary got

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marrieJ, he tolJ her that it didn't matter where they went as long as It wasn't more than two hours of flying r i me away. Well , r h mgs change when you " have an adven rure�ome partner," he wrote. " l n t h e last few year , w e have been to Hawaii twice, several trips to the Cari bbea n , Port uga l , London, Austra l ia and, last year, Thai land and Hong Kong with a week in Dom inica. Those who remember McCabe as being the sole survivor of the Calvin Coolidge Fan lub will have a l i tt le trouble envision ing me on rop of an elephant trek king through the Hi hlands of Thai land." He said they'd been to Belize and were plann ing on Costa Rica. "I can't begin to tell you how much fun and excitement we have had," he said. "We have seen the sun set and the moon rise on some incred ibly beautiful and romantic place in the world. I n the midst of all th is, we have survived the rounds of corporate down sizing, right siz ing and all the eu phemisms they call it the e days. I know that some of us in the c lass have gone through some painful experiences in the last severa l years . . . . I have seen it happen to some of my own colleagues." M ike feels fortunate to have received an offer to move with Knight Engi neering, a subsidiary of Courtalds, a global producer of packaging. He adds that he and Rosemary have long range plans to retire in Hamp read, N .C . , where they have purchased a lot in a golf course commun i ty. They ee J oan ( D ignam '6 3 ) and Dick Schmaltz on occasion and talk to Ed Cragin frequently. M ike said he was very sorry to hear the ad news about Pete Joseph since he has trong and positive memorie of the Joeph fam ily. I agree completely with hi tatement that "The col lege commun i ty was dam lucky to have the Jo eph family involved with Colby . " . . . J oe Wright, cur rently living in York, M aine, re t i red from the New Hampshire Air National Guard after 3 3 years offlying airplanes-eight years for the U. . Air force and 25 with the A ir National Guard. J oe, a travel agent in his retirement job, and wife Cassandra (Cou ins '65 ) , a librarian at T raip Academy in K i t tery, M aine, celebrated their 30th anniversary last ummer in southern France. I n the last year

anJ a half, the Wrights also have tra\'eled to Germany, Guaremala, I taly, Austria, England, Iceland and, most recen tly, I reland. on Jne I l l , 30, currently director of sports bands and a doctoral candi date at Boston Un iversity, and his wife, J udy, pro v ided the firsr Wright grandchild last summer. Other Wright chi ldren are J u l ie, 27, a kidmore grad and bal let teacher; Betsy, 2 5 , graduate of UN H and a soc ial worker in Ports m uth; and Ethan, 1 7 , a h igh school junior. . . . Allie Weller i another New Hampshirite and flying pi Im-currently flying 74 7 with cargo for At las Air. A l l ie says that after three years in Saud i Arabia, "it' good ro be back in the U .S.A." and he's not "going to do any traveling." He and wife Ton i, a librarian, have a son, Al, 3 0 , and a daughter, K r i s t i n , 2 7 . . . . P a t Farnham R u s s e l l wrote from M i l l inocket, on the edge of the Maine Woods, that she traveled with her ister J ane ( Farnham Rabeni '66) through Spain and Portugal, ending with a week re l a x i ng and h i k ing i n Wengen, Switzerland. Pat's hus band, Roll ie, is retired and now a "house hu band" who, Pat says, "does most of her work around the house." on Jeff '87 and his wife Beth '88 made Pat and Roll ie grandparent with the birth of Thomas in eptember '94. Daugh ter Margaret '92 spent last year at the University of Salamanca in Spain as a Rotary Scholar and is currently at the University of Vir ginia in a Ph . D. program. Mar garet's wedding i cheduled at Colby on J u ly L 3 , 1 996 . . . . Chris Wood, an attorney in Peapack, N .] . , plans to travel in Mex ico and Europe but has been catching up at work and with friends, par t icularly Colby people, ince J oan died. Chris said that the lesson in l ife for him i "Do today if at all possible, don't postpone th ings." . . . Gerry Tays wrote from Elec tric City, Wa h., where he is a park superintendent w i t h the Nat ional Park ervice and wife Nancy is an estate executive. Gerry has two stepchildren and two grandchildren, two cats and a golden retriever named Bert ( as in Bert and I ) . Gerry said they finally escaped the zoo of Wash ington, D.C., but unfortunately relocated to the ultra-conserva-

r i ve I n land Northwest, where government is a dirty word. Al though he love the Park Service, Gerry says he resents being de clared "non-essential" in the bud get for the Department of l nterior. The Tays diJ get to Ireland rhi past summer and fel l in love with the I r ish people. . . . The College reports the death of Steve Gar ment. Apparently he fel l to his death in a hik ing accident in the French Alp last August after separating from friends on a diffi cult section of trai l. He had been missing until his body was identi + fied in January. Correspondent: Barbara Haines Chase

I 'm so glad to have lots of news for the column this t ime. Thanks to all of y o u w h o have responded to the December ques t ionnaire. . . George Swasey wri tes that he is already working on plans for our 3 5 th reunion in J une of '98 and hopes rhat we all plan to attend . . . . Mac Smith, owner of an in urance agency in North Easton, M ass., reports that he and his wife, Jeannine, enjoy ski ing ( they have a p lace in Deer Park, N . H . ) , golfing and travel. They plan to visit Spain and Por tugal in '96 . . . . Barbara ( Howard '6 5 ) and Dan Traister are col lege professors. Dan can be found in the l ibrary, the department of Engli h, or, summers, in the Rare Book choo l , all at the Univer sity of Pennsylvania. He defines fun as publication of " c holarly essays, calcu lated to bore th pant off normal human beings ' " . . . Tom Thomas, president o f a travel service in Doylestown, Pa., find that "l ife is till fun," though hi business is very busy. He found t ime in J une to have a wonderful paddle down the Kennebec with Warren Balgooyen . . . . Marsha Pa l m er Reynolds make

her home in Stamford, Conn . , with husband J ohn and Chri sie ( from the New Rochelle animal hel ter ) . When they are in residence a t t h e i r house in B id defo rd , M aine, their fam i ly grow to in c lude two nieces. M arsha and J ohn, both teachers, pend their su mmer traveling and this year will be ail i ng in the Mediterra-

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c ian exec u tive d i rector of a med 1cal multi- pec ialty group in which he al o works as a ped iamc 1an. H i wife, Cyd, graduated from law chool in May, and with two k 1d in col lege, too, n's a good t h i ng Marv worb long hour�. . . . Beth Brown Turner t s a pro fes or i n the drama department at ew York U n i ver 1 ry and 1s al o publi her of the maga: ine Black Masks, wh 1ch focuse on the black performi ng art and i · now in 1 r 1 0th y e a r of p u b l i c a t ion . . . J eannette Fannin Regetz i a reading pec ial ist in Arlington, Va. Her favorite form of exerc ise i beach walking on Topsail Is land, .C., where he and her husband, Frederick, have a beach house . . . . Dave J ohnson, a re t i red p i lot, and his wife, J ane, sub t i r u t e t e a c h e r , reside in Conyers, Ga. Dave i o relaxed he forgot to fill in all of the ques-

t tonna1rc, ·o I have l t rrle ro re rorr except that he ts Yerv proud of h 1s k tJ�' aca lem1c achieve ments . . . . Thi past week l wa, delighted to receive a letter from Nan McCune Wagner, sharing new. of the la t 30 years ! an work. a' a raralegal in the corro rate law department of PPG in Pittsburgh. he ·ing· profession ally w i th the Mendels.ohn Choir and \\"t th them traveled to cen tral Europe la t July. Two year. ago he bought her own home and i. grad u a l l y refurb1 b i n g i t . . . . Last evening ar a Ho p ice volunteer meet ing I saw Nat Gates Lawton for the first time i n several decades. he and Sue Senkler McMullan and the i r hu band were about to lea,·e for a long weekend in an Franci co. ar and I vowed to meet oon and reac q u a i n t . . . . B i l l and 1 moved into a new home at the end of October, one which we designed ourselves. Ir i south-

fac i ng and \\'ell i nsulated and ha, kept U> wondcrfulh co:y durmg th1 cold \\'t nter. We lonf:! for earl; ret irement ·o rhar \\'e cnuld <ipend all nf our r i me nestt ng. For n,>\\', good-bye and good h�alrh ! +

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l i m p 1 c k i n 's r h 1 monrh. l r appear-, rhar que t 1onna 1 re::. that arnve in the middle of December someho\\' don 't get answered. Bur ble s Dottie Thompson Herrin. who found a m in u te to retum her. desp i te rhe Chrisrma· rush. And she bnng the good new� that he was remarried la·t um mer and rhat her fir r grandchild wa· born two weeks later. Her children are both li,·mg in Texa-. a long way from Randolph, Vr. Her book recommendation is Kings Oak b y A n n e R i v e rs

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entering a career," said Suan Comeau '63 in her of fice at State Street Bank and T ru t Company in Bo ton. But what a career it's been since he began work ing as a re earch correspon dent in State Street's mutual fund d ivi ion. Over the years m utual funds experienced "growth and opportunitie ," he aid, "and a ri ing tide lift all boat . " Today Comeau is executive v i c e president, G lobal H u m a n Resources, a top-level p o ition at State Street Boston Corporation, the world's largest custodian of mutual fund assets with offices and services worldwide. When he tarted in 1 963 , the business involved only stocks and bonds and no foreign inve tments. "Now we have a variety of instruments that people invest in," he aid, "and you have to know how it makes money." Partway up the corporate ladder from researcher to execu tive vice president, Comeau was asked out of the blue to head up the marketing division. Not knowing "the language" and having to rely on other people, she says, she felt she didn't have control. "In the end, it was best thing that ever happened to me," she said. "l found I can do anything now. lt was important also for my management ability. It forced me to delegate, to

learn whom to tru t, to ask the right que tions. I learned how to learn from the top down in tead of from the bottom up." Women execut ives contribute at the ame rate a the men, Comeau ays. l t' not that women previously were toil ing unrecognized, he ays-they simply d idn't see them elves in execut ive po it ion . "l think women have changed the perception of them elve . There's a new recognition of their value in the busines world," she aid. Comeau attribute 'a fair amount" of her career ucces to her time at Colby-to learning how to deal with people a much a with the academics of her economics major. Coming from Orono, Maine, he aid, "My idea ofdiversity was meeting omebody from New ] er ey. 1 felt as if 1 grew up at Colby." She's helping Colby grow in tum. She establi hed the Susan Comeau Scholarship Fund and the Susan Comeau Endowed Book Fund for the Social Sciences and contrib uted to the con truction of Lunder Hou e. Her work a chair of the Awards Committee of the Alumni Council from 1 980 to 1 982 and of the Alumni Fund from 19 2 to 1 98 5 wa recognized with a Colby Brick in 1 986. From 1 98 7 to 1 993 she served on the Board of T ru tees. After the mandated year off, she returned for a third term in 1 994 and currently is vice chair of the board. "The mote involved I was, the more I was impressed," he said of the College' strong presidential leadership and faculty. "It's valuable to me that Colby has become re spected. I t used to be, 'Where's Colby ?' Now it' a top-tier school. You want to give where you can make an impact."

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receive her Colby degree in a few week . Bucky is a commercial real estate appraiser in Stockbridge, Mass. Anna works as an in truc tor in horticulture at the Austen Riggs Psychiatric Center. . . . Or. Gordon W. Bowie ( '9 3 Ph.D. in music ) wa chosen to compose the official music for SSBN 7 4 1 U . S . S . M a i n e-"The U . . S . Maine March"-and conducted it at the christening in Groton, Conn . Later he brought The Bangor Band to the July '95 com mi · ioning in Kittery and con ducted h i s new piece aga in. Copies are available from the composer/publisher at the Bowie Music HQ in Veazie, Maine. . . Denis Carter reports from Winona, Mi nn. , where he fi lls his days as "therapist, con ultant, teacher." He has the unusual hobby of collecting anJ refur bishing bamboo bait casting rod . Denis awaits grandchild number five . . . . Karen Jaffe Brown is completing her 1 8th year on the faculty of the Zanesville branch of Ohio University, where she was named teacher of the year for '9 1 - '92 . She is also in her 1 9th season as manager of the South eastern Ohio Symphony and has completed two terms on the mu sic panel of the Ohio Art Coun cil. Karen and her husband, Russ, visited with retired Prof. Frank Cauz ( and M icaela ) in Sala manca, Spain, in July '94. They also report eeing retired Prof. Henry Holland, Sid Farr and Fran Holmes Varney while on a '93 trip through the metro Colby area. . . . Gordon Corey has now added "wine ta ting" to his list of hobbies. He continues in Pine hurst, N.C., with his horse train ing busine s-Gordon Corey's Institute of Equine Erudition. He also raced harness ho rses at Scarborough Downs, Bangor and various fairs thi past summer. . . . Leah Aranovitch celebrated her sixth year as owner and opera tor of The Body Firm, a personal training bu ines in Saco, Maine. She and her son Gator are certi fied by the American Council on Exercise for all level . Leah also continue as a competitive body builder. She holds the N PC Grand Master's title as well as the Maine AAU Master's title. Her daughter Jennie is Colby '99 . . . . Sunny

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Coady now has a pied-a-terre in N .Y.C. She spl it her time with NYN EX-three day N .Y.C. and two days Boston-in her role as human re ource director for the I n form a t i on Serv ices gro u p . Sunny a n d R i c k a n d Nancy Winslow Harwood ailed in the British Virgins in February '95. Sunny spent a further 1 0 days sail ing with seven other women and a hi red crew in a 5 1 -footer off the

coa t of Greece in September. Though l was in Crete and Rhodes at the time, l did not spot her. I repeated a Christmastime lun cheon reunion with Susan Brown Musche and her husband, Frank '66 (my old roomie), aml Jay Fell '66. Susan remains very active with golf in Providence. They were making plans for a winter vi it to their condo in St. Martin. She will join Frank at his 30th in

NEWSMAKERS Robert D. Haggett '60 i the new director of institutional development at Mohawk Val ley Com m u n i ty C o l l ege in U t ica, N . Y . . . . The Washington Post caught up with "Hong Kong toy tycoon" Dennis H.S. Ting '60 for an article about the trade in toys from China to rhe United States . . . . Dennis Kinne '62 did a Q & A with the Hartford John McClain '69 Courant about h is three decades a girls basketball coach at Suffield Academy . . . . Plymouth, Ma s., private eye Barry Wallace '63 wa profiled in the Brockton Enterprise . "The role of the private investigator is changing from a lot of running around to a lot of sitting in front of a computer," Wallace told the paper . . . . Ellen Tower Mulvaney '63 is the new librarian at the Free Library in Argyle, N.Y . . . . Richard W. Davis '65 was appointed to the board of directors of the Gaudette Insurance Agency in Massachusetts. . . . William Loveday '67, president and CEO of Methodist Hospital of I ndiana Inc., was profiled in the Indianapolis Business Journal. . . . Joseph Jabar '68 was inducted into the Maine Baseball Hall of Fame . . . . William McKinney '68 was elected president of the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, Calif. . . . Reflecting on the anniversary of the Challenger accident for the Sunday Cape Cod Times, Michael Morris '68, one of the finali ·ts in the quest to be the first teacher in space, said, "[The] continuance of di covery is the finest memorial we can leave-not only to the astronauts who d ied but to all scient ists and explorers." . . . The classroom edition of The WalL Street]oumal l ifted an article from it parent publication in which Fidelity Investments stock-fund manager George Vanderheiden '68 is quoted. The article's t itle ? "Re venge of the N erds. " . . . Barry M. Arkin '69 was appointed med ical director of the Kalman I npatient Cardiac Rehabilita tion Pr gram at New England S inai Ho pital and Rehab i lita t ion Center. . . . George "Bud" Higgins '69, who head the emergency department at Maine Medical Center in Portland, wa the subject of a feature article i n the Maine Sunday Telegram. . . . J oh n McClain '69 was named associate v ice chancellor for academic affairs and chief student affairs officer at the Un iversity of Nebraska Medical Center.

MILEPOSTS Deaths : Stephen S. Garment '62 in Septmoncel, France, at

54 . . . . Phyllis Campobasso Flannery Senn '61 in Blackville, S.C., at 56.

June. . . . Hail, Colby, Hail!

Correspondent: Russell N. Monbleau

Classmates, as you get older, try to avoid comm i t t i n g l a c t o mangulation, the a c t o f manhan dling the "open here" spout on a wax milk carton so badly that you must resort to using the "illegal" side . . . . It' not too late to plan to attend our 30th reunion this June 7-9. Better yet, plan to join u at the Samo et on Wedne day or Thursday for an extended visit. Plans include golf, tennis, shop ping tours and a trip to the i lands. Think of this as a mini-vacation where you bump into a larger than expected group of friend you haven't seen for some time. Call the Alumni Office if you haven't made plans already. I t'll be a memorable weekend . . . . Bob Davis will beclo ingout his medi cal practice within the next two years and moving to his home on a river in Colorado. There he will immerse ( yes, the pun i in t nded-you know me) himself in his two main hobbie , fishing and wood carving. Concerning the latter, he has taken up an interest in Carunka we t coa t Indian ceremonial masks. As for fishing, he pitie tho e of us who are East Coast fi hermen because we do not know what big trout are (yes we do-we call them north ern pike-and we don't need to ride around for 1 1 hours staring at our downriggers to catch one, ei ther). Last year he and his daugh ter completed a running of the Columbus, O h i o , marathon. And, while ome cla smates are sending me their e-mail addresses ("Russ, you may reach me at http:/ /this.obnoxious.address.com" ) , Bob a y that "computer" i s not allowed to be spoken in his home or office. . . Philip Proulx is one more of the long-term absent I was able to catch up with. After finishing a stint in the Air Force as a navigator aboard B- 52's, he returned to his hometown of Waterville, where he still lives. Phil is currently the chief of port folio management for the SBAtate of Maine and i laying plan to w ind down his 30-year career

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in the financial indu try. Phil like wise looks forward to enjoying h is favorite pa time of fishing--out of a couple of camps he has on lake in the region. Phil goes for trout and salmon. ( I d idn't hear him complaining about the sizes, Bob, and in M aine lake trout are c a l led togue, not northerns. ) . . . David Reeves wa another long-lost that I tracked down in h is home i n A lpine, northern New Jersey. After more than 1 5 year in the advertising field, he has started a few businesses and is now a freelance market researcher specializing in the area of high tech companies. H is two sons, 1 7 and 1 9 , are preparing to enter college, and Dave i finally w ind ing down a long career as soccer dad, program organizer, coach and fan. Now that he can see some open weekends in his life, he plans to resume a long-term interest in s m a l l s a i l boat rac i ng on the Hudson R iver. H is favorite class is the 1 9-foot Lightning, which is becoming a very popular week end racer. . . . Lea Kouba is l iving on W h idbey Island i n Puget Sound, Washington. Her ful l time position is chief administra tor for the county H IV - A id project. In her spare time she is raising and shearing sheep and then spinning, knitting and mak ing felt from the wool. Another project involves developing a 20acre self-su raining community. She is al o the primary caregiver for her 1 6-month-old niece from China. It sounds like retirement i n't on her radar creen yet. . . . D iane Mason Donigian is hoping to make it back east early this summer and will try to join us for reunion. he wa able to come back last fall and catch the Army/ Navy game-her son is attending We t Point. She was al o able to visit her daughter in New Jersey and ee a M itch M i l ler concert held in conjunction with the N .J . ymphony ( not t o b e confu ed w i th 1 00 local coordinating the fir i ng of their handguns ) . . . . Donna ( K ievit ' 6 8 ) a nd Bob Thompson have sons in seventh and ninth grade in Brunswick, M aine. Bob has been reaching Problems of Democracy for 2 2 years at Wisca set H igh School. This pring they are looking for ward to vi iring England and hope

they will be able to arrange a side visit through the chunnel to Paris. Bob says he is looking forward to seeing everyone at the reunion. . After SO-plus years, my greatest contribution to humaniry so far is the following observation: Mon bleau' Law: The volume of liquid in any container triples before it hits the floor. . . . Hope to see as many of you a possible in J une.+

Correspondents: Robert Gracia and J udy Gerrie Heine

From E l io t , M a ine, came a holiday card from Pam Wheeler Atwood, who says that she and her husband, J im, have sent their daughter Becky off to George Wash i ngton U n ivers i t y . Pam teaches seventh grade, coaches junior h igh cheerleading and is vice president of the local teach ers a soc i a t ion . . . . M ike and Betty Coffey G ross a lso are empty ne terssince their son Matt is at Hofstra. Betty finds teaching still rewarding, except for the usual bureaucratic overload. They enjoy their summer place i n U nity, M aine, a n d l a s t winter spent time in Venice, Fla . . . . From the "Heart of Dix ie" came a note from Richard and Leanne Davidson Kaslow. Richard has retired from the Public Health Service and is now at the Uni verity of Alabama Medical Center in Birmingham, where he is doing infectious disease epidemiology. Their daughter, Jessica, is a senior at Haverford College, and their on, Daniel, is a sophomore at Colorado College. After selling their hou e in Chevy Cha e, they bought a 1 920s co-op on Con n e c t i c u t A v e . in D . C . , and Leanne i busy commuting be tween her two renovation pro jects. She al o spend a lot of time in Walpole, Ma s., where she is caring for her mother, who, after a fall, mu t make major life ryle changes. She also is contemplat ing non-social work job options. She'd be delighted to hear ofother Colby classmates in the South. . . . Charlotte Killam, a teacher in Greenwich, N .Y., writes that la t year he taught a grade l 0 English class in addition to her five grade

classes. She enjoyed the class bur found the paper load cru h ing. "This year is better but the academic caliber of the students declines each year," she write . "We seem to see more and more needy children from every sort of background and are expected to 'fix' them all." To get away from it all, he and her fr iend Terry went to t. Martin for a week last April. I t seem that every vacation spot w here they've been ( Ha w a i i , Antigua, Sr. Martin) ha been hit with a major hurricane soon after they've visired 1 • • • Ann Russell Starr checked i n from Oakton, Va. Her husband, Michael, is the general counsel for the Assoc ia tion ofT rial Lawyers of America. Ann i immersed in all the activi ties of their children, Jessica, 1 2 1/2, and Victoria, 8, particularly working in their school and act ing as chauffeur. Owing to knee problems, Ann ha had to give up distance running but has taken up rollerblading, and both she and her husband have become avid golfers. They also have a place in Vail and say it won't be long be fore the girls will outski them both . . . . Sue Barden Johnson will finish her pediatric residency this spring, and she and her hus band, Mark, are looking through out the Southwest for positions starting this summer. Son Chri plans to graduate this spring with a major in biology and a minor in fine arts ( culpture ) ; son Nolan is also in school. For two weeks, Sue and Mark cruised around New Guinea, the i lands and up the Sipek River. . . . Eric Rosen has

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To give you some idea of the time delay in see ing this column in print, I a m writing this column in early January on the heels of the Bl izzard of '96. o, don't be dis couraged if y u don't see your name in print right away. The response I 've received to date is a clear demon tration that threats work ! To ensure news-fi l ied fu ture columns, plea ·e keep the in formation flow i n g . . . C l a r k S m i t h wins the award for being the first clas mate to respond via e-mail. Clark lives in Reno, Nev . , where h e is a geochemical con sultant to the mining and envi ronmental industries. He helps large min ing compan ies chase gold depo it (sounds like what the re t of us do, but we're not so free to adm it it ! ) . Clark and h is wife, J ean, have a on, Shea, 1 1 , who is about to test for his black belt in tae kwon do, and a daugh ter, Mariah, 9, who i working on her brown bel t. Clark writes that Barry Hurwitz was married on the 4th of J u ly. end the detai ls, Barry, o we can let everyone know how brave you are to get married for the first time at the ripe old age of 40-something. . . Sarah Owen Tabor, al o an e-mail respondent ( can you tell that I like e-ma i l ? ) , write rhat since our last reunion he and her parrner, JerryCunningham, spenr a month in England and Scot land and particu larly enj oyed tonehenge. arah l i v e s in

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Corinth, Maine, where he is an art teacher. Over Chri tmas, a rah visited with her son, Philip '90, in Ari:ona. Her daughter, Jennifer, is l iving with her and taking courses ar UMaine in preparation for a ma rer's pro gram in physical therapy . . . . You know we mu t be getting older when . Jay Dworkin writes that he' "semi-retired" from bas ketball. ( In J ay's own words, "a j ump hooter needs to be able to j ump.") Jay ays that he aw Ken Stead at an alumni basketball game in Waterville. Ken , drop a line and let us know what you've been doing for rhe pa t 25 year ! Jay is vice president of Worksite Marketing at MetLife, where he's worked for 22 year . Wow 1 Jay and his wife, Mona, a speech pa thologist, live the suburban life with their three kids, Joey , 1 6, Eve, 1 3 , and J essie, 1 1 . . . . Kit Wells Poland writes that he ran into Harry Faust in Waterv i lle. Harry owns and operates the Framemakers in downtown Wa tervi lle and is the guiding spirit behind the Waterv ille Art Fe t. K i t 's Colby roommate, Leslie Seaman Zema , her h usband , Gary, and daughter Lauren pent two weeks i n Maine v is i t ing. Leslie and her family l ive in the Big Apple. Kit and Leslie went back ro the campus to explore, and they report that the Strider Theater is "awe ome" and the dance studio is a big improve ment over what was avai lable when we were i n school. Kit, who e older son starred high school thi year, i ubst irute teaching and helping her hus band start a kiln dried hardwood l u m ber busine s in Madi o n , Maine. A n d yes, K i t , a s y o u can see, your letter certainly d id help ro fil l my pace. Thank ! . . . Well, I d idn't think J 'd ever have to write thi , but . . . I'm our of pace. Send me a note or re pond by e-mail, bur please respond. How

can you pass up the opportunity to be embarra sed by me in print! P h i l Norfleet-phone home ! + Correspondent: Shelley Bieringer Rau

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I could fit into the last column, so some of this is dared by now . . . . Steve Hake is associate professor of English literature at Sun Yat- en University in Taiwan. reve and his wife, Faye, have seven chil dren spanning infancy to college freshman and are thinking about returning to the States to home stead in Pennsylvania! . . . Ben jamin and Harriet Hults King are already in Pennsylvania Pittsburgh, to be exact. They are both attorneys and have three children (9, 2 and 1 ) and one cat. Harriet maintains a "Maine con nec tion" through her parents, who live on Peak Island . . . . Jeff Hancock and partner Virginia Felton are in eattle, Wash. They enjoy hik ing with Jeff ons, Matthew, 1 1 , and David, 5 . Jeff, who hope to complete Wa h i ngron's 1 00 highe t peaks in 1 996, has been a CPA for 1 2 years, working i n many capaci t i es d u r i ng the past everal years . . . . Louise and George Fleury Ill write from Cairo, N. Y., where George is with the New York State Department of ocial Services. They have eight chil dren, ranging in age from 9 to 2 3 , a n d t w o grandchildren, ages 3 and 1 - 1 / 2 . A re they the fir t grandparents in the Clas of '74? . . . From Portland, Maine, Stephen Etzel write that he and wife Bethany have three ch il dren, 1 5 , 1 3 and 2. teve was "restructured" after 10 year in commercial real estate banking and ha started hi wn real e tare con u l t i ng business, The Nau ti lu Group. Bethany reaches

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elementary school in Portland. . . . In my own fami ly, we geared up for anotherOdy eyofthe M ind season. I've been coaching a team of seven fifth grader in a project involving lmpres·ionist art and classical poetry. Lucas, 1 0, will be on the t e a m . My d a u g h t e r , Adrienne, 1 3 , is a d j u ting t o m iddle school this year. She is involved in a technology devel opmentcompetition sponsored by Toshiba and will be taking the SAT thi year, as a seventhgrader, as part of Johns Hopkin Uni versity's Talented Youth Program. Life is never dull here-Lucas is involved in the Southern Maine Children's Chorus, wh ich is based in Freeport, and Adrienne is in the Lewiston-Auburn Youth Or chestra. My husband, Rick, is bass man in an a cappella quartet, Top 40, and I ing with the Oratorio Chorale in Brunswick. Rick and l attended our annual week at the Berkshire Choral Fe t i v a l in Sheffield, Mass., where we sang with a chorus of 2 1 0 voices, one of whom was former Colby Music Profe or J im Arm trong. Jim and I recognized each other immedi ately and enjoyed getting reac quainted after 2 1 years. . . Please re pond to the next questionnaire + you receive! Correspondent: Noel Barry Stella

When you read this, we will be busy mak ing travel plans for Re union Weekend, J une 7 -9 ! . . . Sharon Walsh McNally writes that after several years offull-time mothering of three children and volunteering, she has gone back to work-a a realtor. Sharon love the job--"lfonly the hours weren't so demanding . " Her husband, Brian, ha recently entered into a joint marketing effort with Scott Houser, who is a principal at an employee benefits firm . . . . lrl "Bucky" MarshaLI ha climbed all 54 peak in Colorado over 1 4,000 feet. In hi pare t i me , Bucky is the p r e ident of a atel l i te transmission ervice bu iness. . . . Peter Labombarde's kids are wicked cute ! That from Rebecca Hushing McCole, who is teach ing an adverti ing and promotion

certificate program, which she de veloped, at ew Hamp hire Tech nical College in Stratham. She also is president of Seacoast Com munication Network, a financial planner, and the chief cook and bottle washer for hu band John and daughter Shaylagh. Rebecca wonders what John Mulcahy is up to and ees Jack Maull and hi wife occasionally . . . . Gary Jones and hi · wife, Barbara, re�1de in Illinois with their two children, Josh, 1 3 , and Lauren, 1 6. Gary is looking forward to the reunion. . . . "Life is betterthan ever." That according to Jim Morgan, the head of a private middle school and seventh grade teacher. H is wife, Robin Anne Barron, is a phy i cian, and they have two children, Mary, 1 3 , and J ames, 2 . . . . Mar ian Lishman Lord is addicted to golf. She and her husband and 9year-old son, Austin, travel outh everal times a year to play. They hope to move to Kiawah Island in a few years. . . . Our president, Mark Janos, had time to write. He is busy planning the reunion and says, "Let's make the 20th the best yet. Got some great ideas Ca co Bay cru i e, live band Satur day night." Mary Ann Janos is busy at home with their threesons, Emmanue l , 9 , Loui , 7 , and J immy, 5 . . . . Jan Barber Ferguson wrote from Laconia, N . H . , where she and her husband are both teach ers. They spent two years teaching in Bolivia in a school made up of both missionary and Bolivian stu dent and would love to return ome day. For lover of old hou e : the Ferguson are living in an 1 820s Greek Revival cape olid wall plank house into which they moved several years ago to ave it from demol ition for a parking lot. . . . Joanne DeFilipp Alexand her husband, Joe ' 7 5 , have been teaching and running The Still water Montessori chool for 1 3 years. Joanne has achieved sev eral professional honor , includ ing selection for the National Geographic Society Summer Ge ography Institute and selection as one of the 10 outstanding Project Leaming Tree educators in the country. PLT i an environmental education program de igned to help student in grades K- 1 2 be come aware of their pre ence in the environment, their impact

upon i t and their respon ·ibi lity for it. Congrat ulations, Joanne. The eldest Alex child is J e ica, 1 5 , followed by Joel , 9, and Julianna, 5 . . . . Roland and Adele D' Amico Martel moved to Connecticut a year and a half ago. Roland is general manager of I TW Anchor Stamp ing in Waterbury, and Adele is fini hing her fellowship in child and adolescent psychia try. Their three boy range in age from 9 to 1 3 . The Martel enjoy traveling, and the boys keep their ocial calendar full. . . My dear friend Lydia McAnerney wrote that she is now working part time at a folk dance center in M inne apolis. She and John have two children, Andrew, 5, and Rebec ca, 3. They have traveled to both coasts recently and hold out ome hope to make it to Maine in J une . . . . Dan Mallove al o hopes to make it to Maine in June. He lives in Bainbridge, Wash. , and has three sons: Zach, Nate and J ake. Dan is senior partner in a national law firm based in Phila delphia. . . . Maury Maniff is the founding partner of Manhattan Marketing En emble in Manhat tan, an advertising and communi cation business. ( He shared an impressive client l ist with us. ) Maury and h is wife, u an, have two children, J essica, 9, and J . D., 7 . . . . After five years in Asia, Doug Werme and his wife, both consul t i ng geologist in Bend , Ore . , want to stay in Oregon for a w h i le. La t year the Wermes worked for a J apanese company and traveled tu Hanoi, Malaysia, Indonesia and J apan. Doug noted that work included morning of fice exercises and eating raw flap ping fish for dinner. H is travelogue included a great ovember trek king in Nepal. "A storm hit in the middle of the trip and mud slides w i ped out the town in which we had spent the night two days ear l ier," he wrote. "We waited for a trail to be beaten through the now and were able to continue over a 1 7 ,800-foot pass. All this was done with Carol J ohn on, who wa Colby' land cape architect dur ing the Strider year ." . . I don't think any anecdotes of l ife a a first grade teacher can beat that, + so I'll sign off.

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Elizabeth "Liz" Law

re nc e , potter, and her husband, Vinnie Mar t u c c i , p i a n 1 s r/comroser, now work in Wood tock. They and 2year-old daughter Katie Martucci soon will be liv ing in a new, larger home in We t Hurley, N .Y . , with a bigger room for Vi nnie's re cord i n g �tu d 1 0 . . . S c o t t M . Krasner, a d i rector at 0 prey ysrems, I nc . , a 200-person man agement consulting ourfi tter ( for financial ervices firm and manu fac turing companies ) , and h i wife, Donna, enior v i c e presi dent of First Un ion Bank, parent Zachary , 5, and Tare, 3. They live in Charlotte, N .C . , "where the k ids ju t got their firsr taste of outhern now during the 'Bli: :ard of '96."' . . . Jay Hotchkiss, president and founder of]ohn J ay & Co. (a human resources con sult ing company and executive search firm in Portland, Maine ) , and his wife, Sandy, a personal computer con ultant, are parent to son Sean , 1 2 , and Alex, 1 1 , in add ition to thei r year-old golden retriever, Casey. "My wife and I both survived our 40th birthday very well-took family trip to Maui to celebrate," he writes. Helene Morneau, landscape ar chitect, and her husband, Bob Landman, an emergency physi cian, have uni ted with a dog, a cat and horses and l ive in Santa Rosa, Calif., where, they say, "Life is good . " . . . A n d re a J e n s e n works for Cabot Corporation o f Boston as a manager o f rax a c counting a n d on strategic pro jects. She travel a lot on bu iness, e pecially to Latin America, "an incredible, fascinating place. " . . . Martin Lobkowics, vice presi dent-general merchandi e man ager for the computer division of Office Depot, hi wife, Diane, E lizabeth , 7 , and Richard, 5 , l ive in Del Ray Beach , Fla. He misses the k i ing but nor the shoveling and say , "The hurricane down here are nothing, compared to a good old-fashioned Nor'Easter ! " . Carol Samaras Makrides,

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work ethic" were learned at his parents' knee, says R . Christopher Noonan ' 7 8 . H e put h i mself through Colby and picked up valu able trade skills working con struction j obs during the summers. A Colby degree in history and a master's in pres ervation studies from the University of Vermont filled out his resume for a career that is focused and varied at the same time, j ust as it is both financ ially successful and personally fulfilling. Noonan's career is based on his 1 2 -year-old firm, Preservation Services, I nc., a closely held family corporation that does historic preservation, architectural design work, buildi ng and general contracting, land use planning, interior and landscape design and heritage education. When Custom Building magazine profiled Noonan as i ts Custom Bui lder of the Month a few years ago, it highlighted his success at establ ishing a n iche-historic preservation-in his local market instead of chasing quick profits. By staying focused and eschewing speculation in land or buildings, Noonan ach ieved stable and steady growth during a "boom bust cycle that left many New England builders in bankruptcy court, " the magazine said. "Too many speculators are mill ionaires the first year and paupers the second," Noonan said. This spring Noonan's firm was bu y with four projects that represent a cross section of his construction work, he says. One was a design-and-build package for a $ 5 00,000, 5 , 5 00square-foot, Federal-style reproduction farmhouse with a Greek Revival wing. Another was a 6,500-square-foot, pas sive -solar contemporary home set on ix acres. The third was Mass., with her husband, John, an anesthesiologist. " I went from a very career-oriented life to a happily married, full-time mother who loves taking care of Chri to pher," she writes . . . . J a ne C. Hoffman and her carpentry con tractor hu band, Keven Crowe, have two children, Rachel, 8, and Dan iel, 4. They live in Larch mont, N .Y . , where, she writes, "not much ha changed save my kids growing and changing." . Mona Pinette, graduate busines woman, and her husband, Bren dan, a writer, live in Exeter, N . H . N o w that they are in one home, Mona hope to spend more time

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Alexandra "Alix" Levintow Howell, associate professor of

microbiology and medicine and research biologist at Dartmouth Medical School and the VA, repecti vely, and her h usband, S c o t t , have th ree c h i l dren, Cameron, 1 2 , Nathan, 1 0 , and baby Caroline Marie, six months. They are in Lyme, N.H .-"proud 40-year-old parents experiencing the joys of parenthood all over again." . . . From Boston, Janet Eve Josselyn, a sistant corpora tion counsel for the city of Bo ton , and her husband, J ohn Douglas, management con ult-

an "interpretive restoration" in an 1 898 Flemish Revival single-family home, replacing its anachronistic 1 960s kitchen. Another project was d isassembling a mid- 1 9th-century barn and reassembl ing it as a custom home on a bluff overlooking the Blackstone R iver. The key to historic preservation work, he says, is balanc i ng modem effic iency with old-fashioned construction tech n iques within the constraints of avai lable capital and still "hav i ng it read right." Noonan's education, and his application of it, is a model for putting the liberal arts to use. He stud ied A merican history at Colby and honed his communications kills work ing on the Echo and the Oracle and serving on the Student As ociation. Experience as a laborer in the build ing trades wa more than j ust a job to pay tuition bills; it was part of his career education. And his dedication to learning holds a valuable lesson a well. He recalls that he made an effort to attend every class. On the Wednesday before Thanksgiving one year, he was one of two students who showed up for an 8 a.m. American intellectual history class taught by Fraser Cocks, the Special Collections librarian and a lecturer in history at the time. The intimacy of that three-person group led Cocks to ask both students what they planned to do after Colby. After Noonan discussed his disparate interests, Cocks suggested that he might look into a graduate program in historic preservation and went on to name the top 1 0 such programs in the country. "I had never even heard of the discipline until that time," Noonan recalls. A year after graduating from Colby he enrolled at UVM. Noonan said his undergraduate experience at Colby was "excellent . " Even now, when he deals regularly with couples who are making big decisions about building or remodel ing, he harkens back to his days as a head resident and resident advisor. "A healthy part of my time is negotiating and mediating among lots of parties and, as a head resident, we got good training for that," he said. ant, report "Many changes, all exciting." . . . Michael T. Mar tin, vice president of the credit offices of First National Bank of Damarisc otta, and his w i fe , Denise Martell Martin, self-em ployed busine s owner as well as an employee in the Portland, Maine, public school sy tern, have four children, three pets, two car and one mortgage. They write, "We ju t celebrated our 20th wedding anniversary (are we that old ?) with a cru i e and are head ing for a family trip to England on one of our 'Seven Wonders of the World' trip ( Stonehenge. )" . . . Marion Mauran Mariner, at-

home mom and part-time tennis i nstructor, and her husband, M ichael, enior v ice president of Fleet Bank, have two children, Teddy, 1 5 , and Madeleine, 1 2 , two dogs and one horse. They still live in Providence, R . l . , and weekend in York Harbor, Maine. . . . Last May, l i terary agent Timothy Knowlton, hi textile designer wife, Christine, Heather, 7, and Perry, 3 - 1/2, moved to a house they love ( and loathe for it impos ible driveway in ice and snow) . . . . Kim Ayer McVeigh, bond manager ( Fideli ty & Sur ety ) , and her husband, Roy, an attorney, l ive in North v i l le ,

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M ich., with an 1 1 -year-old cat, Max. They have een mule deer, antelope, white tail deer, rabbits and squirrels, a gri::ly bear, elk, moo e, coyotes, bison, eagle , prairie dogs and sage hens and have danced the walu, fox trot, tango, rhumba, meringue, cha cha, wing, mambo, hustle and samba. " I took up hunting for my husband (otherwi e I would have become a hunter's widow ) ," she write , "and he took up ballroom dancing for me." . . . Thank you • all for writing!

Corre pondent: N icholas Levintow

Hello, again . . . I hope everyone' 1 99 5 wa exciting and fulfilling, a it was for me. Th i · past year featured all three of our kid fi nally in school, running a mara thon and ome triathlon , being declared non-essen tial by the Newt for everal weeks and vari ous and sundry familial catastro phes. 1 need a re t . . . . B rad Germain, who's a pediatrician in Attleboro, Mass . , sent a nice note extolling the joys of bicycle tour ing in Vermont and New Hamp hire in the fall. On one uch outing, andy Lord ' 0 turned up as the tour leader for Vermont Country Cycling. Brad also swim with a ma ter's team but com plain his times are getting lower. What I want to know is, what doe he do with his four kids when he' on the bike or in the pool? . . . Karen Keithline Diop i back in Brownsville, Vt., from her extended stint in Haiti. Karen pent the pa t three year work ing to build democratic institu tion but i ready to retire along with 1 0-year-old John and leave the international work to other for a while . . . . Doug G i ron ha relocated to a small law firm in Cran ton, R.l. A befit a former occer star, Doug reports that he and Carol now pend all their weekend driving the older kid to occerpractice. Doug till play occer and oftball a well as serving as class agent . . . . Marc Fisher also hail from Rhode I land, where he is the director of engi neering for Liberty Broadcasting in Providence. Marc spend hi

NEWSMAKERS Martha Smith Mickles ' 7 1 exhibited her photograph at the Area Gallery of the Univer ity of Southern Maine . . . . William S i mo n ' 7 1 , an ethnic historian at SUNY-Oneonta, poke at a Temple I rael Men's Club breakfast in Ve ta!, N .Y., about the first Jew to play profes ional baseball in America . . . . The work of Catherine J oslyn ' 7 2 , a professor of art at Clarion University of Pennsylvania, wa part of an exhibit ion at the andford Gallery at the university . . . . Poet Gary Lawless ' 7 3 poke on "Poetry and the Community Voice" at the Belfast ( Maine) Free Library . . . . Karen Heck '74 i a memberofWaterville's"Dream Tearn," a group of c ivic leader who have received national press attention, including an article in U . S . News & World Report, for their effort to e tablish criteria for Waterville's growth into the next century . . . . Shelley Bieringer Rau ' 7 4 was named an "item writer" by the Hand Therapy Certification Cammi ion and will help the national organization devi e examinations for certification in the field . . . . Richard Anzelc J r. ' 7 6 was elected to the board of director of Skowhegan avings Bank in Maine . . . . J ere Bryant '76 i the new general manager of the Maine Mall in South Portland . . . . Christine Foster '76 was nominated to Maine' Di trict Court bench . . . . Marcel Dionne '77 is vice pre ident for commercial loan at Pas umpsic aving Bank in t. Johnsbury, Vt . . . . Ruston Lodi '78 is managing editor of the Middlesex News in Framingham, M a s.

MILEPOSTS Births: A on, Mark Albert Thomp on, to Peter Thompson '76. Marriages: Barrett Hurwitz '7 0 to Mary

icolo in Dartmouth, Ma s . . . . Stephen C hurch '77 to Jo-Ann Reny in Hampton, N.H . . . . Robert Roy Meny '78 to Elizabeth Ann G ilchri t in Ridgefield, Conn.

vacation t ime h i king in New England and is hopina to move back to Maine permanently . . . . Charlene Foster i a social worker in Vancouver, Wash. She i in private practice, which, she say , "gives me the freedom to travel and offer free counseling to misionarie ." Charlene traveled re cently to the former Soviet Union but admits she is most proud of herself "when I get my dishe done ! " . . . Thi i a little late, but ally and Bob Lefeber celebrated the arrival of son amuel in ep tember 1 994. Bob, you gotta use larger tationery if you expect to make it in my mail pile . . . . J eanne Greiter Fine is working a a health care con ultant in Dallas and had three girl , with another on the way, when she la t wrote . . . . Larry Hill recently made the move over to Amdahl Corp., where he is working a an account execu t i v e marketing

mainframe renewal software. ( I suspect that by the time of our 20th reunion there will be a whole bunch of u who wouldn't mind having our mainframes renewed. ) By the time you read this, Larry and Cathy will have a new addi tion to the household. . . . 1 got a nice letter from Liz Dugan, who used to work at the U . . Labor Department with me year ago. Liz is moving to Russia to promote democracy under the au pices of the International Republican In stitute and the ational Endow ment for Democracy. he expects to be in t. Petersburg through the summer of '96, o plea e drop by iJ you happen to be pas ing through. Liz figure that the "long, cold winter of Waterville have prepared me reasonably well." . . . Stuart Alex recently moved to Chatham, .] ., where he is a rein urance manager for Hartford Boiler Insurance Co. tuart and

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and A l ix Land a well a other former Colbyite . . . . Hope to be hearing from you all oon ! •

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and wife Vicki hould have had t h e i r second c h i ld-j o i n i n g Blake, 2 . . . . S u e Viger Randall and h usband Stephen live in Scarborough, Maine, where Sue is director ofL TD Markets/Prod uct for UNUM Life Insurance. Twins Timothy and Thomas, 3 , keep them both busy, and Sue is slowly but surely cracking the twin "code." . . . Angela Micka lide is program director for the Nat ional Safe K ids Campaign (you may have seen her on the Today Show ) . he and husband Alexander Alikhani have two children, Anna, 4, and Andrew, 2, and traveled to Greece last year for the ir fifth anniversary. . . . J a ne Ven man Ledebuhr, husband Dave and children We , 8- 1/2, and Rachel, 6, live in Lan sing, M ich., where Jane is a "Jill of-all-trades." Dave was recently elected president of the Greater Lansing Association of Realtors, and J ane indicated that much travel (perhap Russia) is in their future as a result. . . . Parents in need of large quantities of grape juice, jams and jellies should con tact Randy Papadelis, VP of mar keting for Welch's in Concord, Mass. Randy and wife Cathy go through a steady supply of such staples with Anne Elizabeth, 4, and Christian, I . . . . Ross Mold off is planning director for the town of Salem, N . H . , where wife Amy is a music teacher. Em ily, 5 , and Alli on , 1 - 1/2, along with Phyllis the greyhound, keep them busy. Ross writes that he saw Dana Russian playing trumpet with the Boston Pops in June 1 99 5 ! Dana, who writes that he saw Ross in the audience (well, not really ! ) , i s a freelance trumpeter i n the Boston area, where wife Chris tine Ahlstrom '8 1 practices op tometry. They have two children, Katherine, 7 , and Gregory, 4. Dana keeps up with Teruni and Eric Rosengren and their brood, Marina, 6, and M ichael, 4, and with Barry Horwitz, wife Liz ( Y a n a g i h ara ' 8 0 ) and t h e i r kids . . . . J une 1 995 found Cheri Bailey Powers and family on the move from Andrews AFB to Colorado Springs, where Tom was reas igned by the U AF. The kids-Kayleigh, 8, and Meredith,

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3-made the trip in fine fettle, and all moved into a new hou e in September. Kathy Bleakney Pawley, h u band Keenan and son Sean visited in October. Cheri write that Carol Mordecai Myers '80 is also in the Colorado Springs area . . . . Amy Burdan Schissler finished her R.N. this past sum mer, and she and husband Phi 11 ip, Phill ip I I , 7 , Hope, 6, one dog and six cats are all involved in reno vating an old farm house in Le Claire, Iowa, where they moved in 1 99 1 from N .J . . . . Lisa Pacun, sen ior marketing manager for Nortel, moved to Singapore in October 1 995 after three years outside of Paris with hu band W i m D i j k . S h e wri tes t h a t Patricia Garrambone, Karen Gickas and Katie Cofsky Le maire all stopped by to visit while

in France (and Katie made a big pitch for the Alumni Fund) . . George Powers writes that he "got fatter, and bought bigger pants." Among his activitie are wife Annette and sons Derek, 4, Sean, 3 , and a September '95 boy whose name they hadn't picked out when George wrote. George, a risk-taker who is also director of engineering, Business I nternet Services Division, Novell, Inc . , recently upgraded t o first class, where the seats are bigger. . . . Sarah Russell MacColl i owner of Heal thworks and Fit-Trips of Maine, which provides group traveling to Maine with opportu nit ies to see the sights and get fit at the same time. (George Pow er is on the next tour ! ) he and hu band Ed have two children, Katie, 4, and Tike, 6 . . . . Nick Mencher is director of in titu tional marketing for LGT Asset Management in Burlingame, Ca lif. , quite a long way from "M ick and the Mal ignants" ( but then again, aren't we all ) . He and wife Joan have two children, Cath erine, 8, and Peter, 6- 1/2. They thought dad's yearb ok picture at Spring Carnival was "cool." . . . Last but not least, Rebecca Alex is a professor f art at the College of San Mateo ( Cal if. ) , where h e and husband Eric are happily raising Leia, who i ap proaching 2. More "cool" stuff + next time.

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ning into people who graduated from Colby after us; it' · no -,urpri;,e considering how much he';, heen running-enough to place ;,econd O\'erall in a triath lon last Augu t , edging o u r his fiancee, Y inka Bogdan, who took fir t among the women. Dan is a newly minted surg i c al a s1 tant at Newto n Wellesley Hospital and living in Waltham . . . . Carol Sly and Steve Mad1all announce the recent ar ri,·al ofJohn Paxton Mar hall. who will occury mo·t of Carol', t ime for a while before she returns to work as a graphic designer in Bos ron. He' - clearly an 1n pirat ion, based on their smart birth an nouncement . . . . Anne Veazie Sonner is busy holding down three jobs-a a part-time director of publ ications, at-home book ed i tor and 24-hour mom to Paul, 1 1/2. h e and attorney husband Da,·id onner l ive in Walnut, Calif. . . . Paul and Kathy Mc Culloch Wade recently moved to the eattle area, where Kathy is ,·ice pre ident for in-tiwuonal ales and rrading at Memll Lynch and Pau l is a marine biologist for the federal go\'ern men t . The proud, ex asperated parents of three mall person -Carol ine, 4 , Betsy, 3, and Alec, seven weeks as of thi writing-and one fe l ine, they have ju t moved into a new house and are hoping not to have any other news for a l ittle while . . . . Please send your news, greeting , comment and other data to me at 7 2 0 7 2 , 1 1 1 4@ Compuser e . com or 4 1 3 Park Cre t Dri\•e, i lver Spring, Md. • 209 1 0- 5 404.

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Correspondent: John Veilleux

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playing the dual role of tudent and mother, fimohing her master's in architecture at RPI while caring for Byron, 1 - 1 /2 , and two cats. Meanwhile, hu band Clay continues to dive for unken trea ure-more particularly, the wreck of K ing Charle l 's corona tion ferryboat in the Firth uffnrth, cotland-a tory we will haYe to feature sometime soon for every one who didn't make the reunion. When at home, th1;, globe-trot t ing family can be found in Old Chatham, N .Y . Li: also report that Rod Marshall is till lawyer ing in Slovakia and has hecome ;,omething of a land baron ( loosely translated) of hi torical proper ue in Prague and Brati lava. He reported ly i work i ng on h1 Slovakian and enjoying the expa triate l ife . . . . J im Nelson and wife Heidi have recently moved mto a new home in Pittsford, .Y., where he i the a i tant principal of the H o n eoye F a l l s - L i m a M i d d l e School and Heidi is a high chool guidance coun -elor. With chil dren Greg, 4, and Rachel, 2 - 1/2, at home, I'm sure their profe ional skill come in handy . . . Accord ing to the grapevine War ren Pratt can be found in J ackson Hole, Wyo., where he and newly wed Holly own a ranch . . . . Dan

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month . John is a major erving m the U. . Marine Corp;, and 1s cur rently as,1gned a-, a battalion ex e c u t i ,·e offi cer with the 3 rd Marine Div i;ion on Okinawa, Ja pan. He ays they are :,cheduled to be back in the U. 1n J une L1f 1 997 and 111 the meantime are having a great time exrloring the many cultural opportunitie on Okinawa and throughout the Far East. John was on the island of lwo J i ma exactly 50 year ro the day that the Manne rat ed "Old G lory" on the summit of M t . uribach 1. He report;, that he n; ited 1\· 1rh J oe Daley in l\laine last u m m er prior to lea\· i n g for Okinawa . . . . Bill Maley i · a manager at a manufacturer of light ing and sign. for Mas Tran sit veh icles. He and h1; wife, J anet, have three c h i ldren David, arah and Matthew. Bill write that the family 1s busy do ing volunteer work for the local theater, church and our kitchen and that they are trymg to blend the kids' srort chedule with the rest of their daily 11\·es. Bill is in touch with R ich ecor ' 2, who 1� the Ml director at a Massachuen- company . . . . Eugene Jason Pelletier is l i v ing with h is wife, Carol, in Rowley, Mass. They were married in eptember 1 994 in B o x fo r d . M a Ja on, a 1tework con-truction foreman, and Carol, a ign painter and art ist, collect and re tore cla sic M ustang and other early Ford collectible cars. They aiso ha,·e two hor e- . . . . Maureen ( Hag erty ' 4 ) and Jay Polimeno own and operate the Alpine Club and Pub and Alpine Village in North Woodstock, .H. They have two dauohters, Kary and A i mee. J ay writes that they purcha ed the busines la t year and are learning to l ive without sleer. He has run into Peter Gent on golf course throuohout N ew England. H i caddie i hawn Kennedy ' 2 . . . . Cathy Pelletier 1 living in

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Cape Elizabeth, Maine, and i a computer map technician super v isor at Po i n t Data- Delorme Mapping i n Freeport, Maine. Cathy writes that she left LL. Bean after I 0 years and now is exploring the world of cyber map and on-line applications. She re cently moved from Yarmouth to Cape Elizabeth and has been ac cepted into a master's program in computer sciences at the Univer s i t y of Southern M a ine . . . . Writer and editor Ben Merrill and h is wife, Mardee, an environ mental engineer, and their three daughters, Kelsey, Sammi and Rachel, are living in Randolf, Vt. Ben writes that they recently moved to Vermont and started a consulting company called White River Communication , doing editorial writing and des ign . . . . Ed Rowland and h is wife, Margaret, l ive in Boston. Ed is a corporate travel manager, and Margaret is an event planner. Colby alumni in their August 1 99 5 wedding party were Bill O'Donnell '80, Bo Preston '80 and Joel Harris . . . . Marty MacMil lin and her husband are living in

Sharon, Mass. Marty i a genetics counselor at Harvard Community H e a l th Plan in Boston, and George is an economics professor at Northeastern University in Boston. They have two children, Stephen and Corinne. Marty writes that he sees Doug and Amy Parker Cook at an annual gathering in Mattapoisett, Mass. She also gets together with Chris R u s s i a n A h l s t ro m and L i z Yanagihara Horwitz '80 t o play chamber music . . . . Brick Moltz and his wife, Laura Rus ell, are living in Bryn Mawr, Pa. Brick is the acting chair of the history d e p a r t m e n t at the Bald w i n School i n Bryn Mawr. Laura is also a teacher, and they have two son , Cannon and John. Brick writes that last year he had a din ner party with J im Cook '78 and Bill Mi lls '79 . . . . Mike Martin i a dentist in Farmington, Maine. He and his wife, Maureen, have five sons, William, John, Joseph, James and Thomas. M ike writes that his dental practice ha done very well and that he has another denti t working with him and hope to have another join him + this year.

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Hi everyone ! I have so many letters from people that a lengthier letter is being sent out to everyone. Thanks to all for writing in!+ Correspondent: Sally Lovegren Merchant

A reminder to every one to write and keep wri ting. Don't wait too long but help keep us abreast of your status, especially if you have moved . . . . Anne and Mark Lingafelter sent their news from a new addre s in Singapore. Along with children Thomas, 4, and Megan, 3 , the Lingafelters moved last year from Ph iladelphia ro ingapore, where Mark was trans ferred ro act as property and ma rine underwriting manager with his company, Chubb Group of I n s u rance Companies. M a rk works in the Asia Pacific ( Korea, China, Thailand, Japan, Taiwan and Australia). Anne was teach ing Engli h for the time being. This may have changed. Mark said they have really begun to enjoy traveling experiences in the region . . . . Also in property ca sualty in urance ( here in the States) is E l a i n e M c C l e l l a n Niemann. Elaine and Scott '84, an accountant, l i ve i n Law renceville, N .] . , with children Tom, 3, and Alexander, 1 - 1 /2 . They keep in c l o e contact with Joyce ( Hartwig '84) and Jamie O'Neil and their three kids. Life is generally hectic but fun, say E l a i n e . . . . M a n y t h a n k s to Jacquie Poisson, who sent in her first questionnaire' She gave us a quick but action-packed 1 2 -year update as follows. J acquie has spent the last 12 year between Big Sky, Mont . , and Alaska ( in summers ) . She opened a retail clothing srore in 1 984 specializ ing in hand-knit items and has quadrupled her operations ince. J acqu ie had also been a park ranger for five years in Denali and spent three years working for the National Outdoor Leadership chool. Now she run her store, J . P. Woolies, in Big Sky in the summers and teache one or two

National Outdoor Leader hip School courses a year, this year in Wyoming. Jacquie built her own log cabin two years ago and lives with her partner, Brantley Per sons, and her two spoiled Alas kan huskies. She sounds great. . . . Kevin and Karen Nickerson Purcell usually send me the first Christmas greeting of each year. Kevin has been transferred from Scottsdale, Ariz . , to Seattle, Wash. He' the controller for the Madison Hotel in downtown Se attle. Karen is busy getting their family settled in. Katie, 5, and N ick, 2, are handling the change well. Any Seattle area alums should contact the Purc e l l s ASAP. They l i v e i n Edmonds, Wash . . . . Scott Russell has been in touch with Craig Bystrynski, who is editing Brew Your Own magazine ( in Davis, Calif. ) , a hands-on monthly for home b rewers. Scott and w i fe Eve (Ermer '86 ) are still in Tunbridge, V t . , where Eve is an educational administrator and Scott juggle French teaching, writing/trans lating, writing a monthly column for Craig's magazine and manag ing a "smallish" brewing supply store, The Seven Barrel Brewery, in West Lebanon, N.H. Scott says that his students call h im "Doc," which makes him feel old. (No one call me Doc, but I often feel old ! ) . . . Skiing with J im Russell in Portland in January 1 996 was one of Steve Shields's New Year's resolutions. Steve, wife Amy and children J ennifer, 8, Tommy, 5 , and William, 3 , now l i v e in a new home in Medfield, Mass. Steve is a physician and chief of ga trointestinal endo copy at Brockton/West. . . . JenniferJean Clark Uhl wrote from Marble head, Mass . , where he is taking a year family leave from her posi tion as associate professor. She and husband Stephen (a consult ant) celebrated son Thornton's bi rth in September 1 995 . . . . "Very hectic ! " are the words of Dr. Karen Wexler, who lives in Manhattan, N . Y . , with spouse Douglas Waite and kid Ben jamin, 5, and Joshua, l. Karen recently completed her Ph. D. in clinical psychology and ha a pri vate practice in psychotherapy as well as acting as adjunct profes sor at NYU School of Social Work. Hu band Dougla is a pe-

diatrician. . . . Scott Stein wrote from his busy desk in Annapolis, Md. Scott has taken on the new position as a producer of America On line. He spent the summer of '95 working and teaching at the International Film and TV Work shops in Rockport, Maine. Please note my fax number for those wanting a more direct link: 207-244-9445 . My phone num ber is 207-244-044 1 . Best to all ! + Correspondent: Maura Cassidy

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married in June '94 to Eric Ming. They are now fixing up a junky house in Lander, Wyo. Sharon has taken time offfrom teaching math and science to plan a climbing trip to South America. On a b i rd watching trip in New Mexico she ran into Cathy Walsh. . . . An other Wyomingite is Suzanne Olson Matthews, who along with husband Tom owns and operate a retail/importing business called Global Exchange. She loves life in Wyoming-great friend , great skiing, hiking and biking. ( Ifany one need a fishing guide in Wyo ming, Tom is your man . ) Her only complaint is the long hours of the reta il world . . . . Lynn Maclean and Dave Updegraff were married last J uly 22 and are now living in Duluth, M inn. , where Lynn is a family practice physician. Heidi Schwartz and Karen Wall Cook '83 were at the wedding . . . . Dana Hanley and Debra Tierney '83 are married and l iving in Paris, Maine. He is a partner at Kurtz and Hanley Law Office and ha been a state senator for 10 years but is not seeking re-election. Dana won ders why Greg Kenyon didn't make it to the 1 0th reunion. . . . Randy Wilmot write that he and his wife, Carrie Leggett, a cl incal social worker, had a son, BenjaminStrongWilmot, on J uly 1 3 , 1 994. They are living in Con cord, Mass. Randy i with Wil liam Rawn A ociates, where he is project architect and recently completed a new music building for Ph il lips Exeter Academy in Exeter, N . H . Big event are Ben, the house purchase and turning 3 5 . Randy would like to know if

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reer that he only dreamed about a an undergraduate. A vice pre ident of Scud der, teven and Clark, I nc . , a global i nvestment man agement company, Nelson cultivates new and emerg ing market from his base in antiago, Chile. A l though N e lson has l ived abroad only since J u ly 1 99 5 , he i a ea oned i nternational traveler. Hi interest in and de ire for international experience began at Colby, Nelson say . "The junior year abroad I spent in Madrid changed my l ife completely," he said. "Without that year I never would have gotten the j ob I 've had ." N e ! on ays that h i abi l i ty to peak Spani h c l inched hi first job at Citibank, where he worked with Latin American bu ine c l ient in ew York and M iami. "My Spanish got me that j ob and a lot of j obs since " he said. During h i ix year w ith Cit ibank and two years with American Expre s Bank, also in M iami, e lson traveled exten ively throughout Central America. The experience strengthened h is language fac ili ty and cultural l i teracy, which Nel on ay are critical to succe in an international bu ine career. "If you want to do b u ine abroad you will have more succe if you speak the language of the people in the country where you're worki ng," he aid. Again pointing to his Colby tudy-abroad experience as an important training ground, el on ays l iv i ng i n a country i fundamental to understanding it. " If you haven't l ived there you can't relate to how the people live," he aid. " I mu t anyone else has finally paid off the rudenr loans, omething he thought would never happen . . Karen and David Rosenberg are the proud parents of two daugh ters: Shelby, 4 , and Amanda, 3 . He works a a n auto dealer and erves a treasurer for a non-profit nur ing home. He al o volunteer on the advi ory board for the Anti -defamation League and AIDS-re lated charitie . David al o received hi M.B.A. from Col u mbia in 1 989 . . . . P e t e r Necheles write from Washing ton D.C. , that he i looking for squa h partners. Any takers? Last May he and hi wife, Marlissa Briggett, traveled to Ireland to

celebrate their first anniver ary. He i having a great time doing the marriage thing-it has been a lot of fun! . . . J oh n Tawa is liv ing in Redondo Beach, Calif., where he is an attorney. He re cently moved hi law practice from downtown L.A. to Orange County. He and fiancee Li a are training to run the L.A. Mara thon-a fir t for John and the fifth for Li a . J ohn wonder where Pete Mendes i and what he i up to . . . . Karen Malkus and Peter Herrmann are living in Belmont, Mas . , with their on, Michael, 3 . Karen h a been the head cience teacher at the Leaming Project Elementary School. She i al o

always remember that I 'm a vi-itor in Chile, and I haYe to work by the ir ru le and re peer their cu toms." Ne! on was hired by Scudder in 1 99 3 to develop the company's Lati n American di ·rribution network for all off-hore fund . Hi job i to e tabli h a network of interme d iarie -u ually large national banks-through which the e fund are sold. M uch of the growing market in outh America originates with pen ion fund , Nel on ay . "The Chilean Pen ion Fund ha· as ·et of about twenty-five bil l ion dol lars and ha run out of places to inve t i nside the country. Scudder is one of the compan ie that would l ike to manage tho e a sets a· investors look to d iver ify their portfol ios in other countrie ," he aid. He moved to Santiago full time last year and has enjoyed l iving there, lei on ay . "Chile is a wonderful country. It' a great combination of beautiful citie , mountains and coa t line. After some tumultuou time in the eventie , it ha proceeded on a cour e of reform and it i now one of the mo t pro perous and progres ive countrie in South America." elson ay his current a signment probably will keep him in Chile for another two or three year , but he wou ld stay longer if given the opportunity. He plans to return to the U.S. eventually, however, he say . "You give up some things when you l ive abroad-it' hard to keep up with friend and family. I will come back ome day." el on had a chance to do a bit of mentoring la t summer when Colby fir r-year tudent Allison Bird ona ( G reen wich, Conn . ) vi ired antiago with herfather, Lynn Bird ong, managing director of Scudder in ew York. Alli on was encouraged to explore many of the po ibilitie that Colby offers, Ne! on says. "We talked about everything from COOT trips to where to l ive to what kind of cour es to take," he aid. "It wa intere t i ng to talk to omebody who was doing the ame things I d id 10 year ago." a n advocate for children with learning difficultie and help them to build their confidence, which she finds very rewarding. Poor health in 1 995 motivated Karen to pur ue some thing that she had been putting off until she had more time, so he pent this pa t August enjoying l ife and wind urfing off Cape Cod . . . . Peter ' 5 and Valerie Lewis McHugh are living in Green wich, Conn. They have three children, Kel ey, 5, Gibby, 2, and Eamon, even month . After 1 0 year with the Traveler I n ur ance as director ofcorporate qual ity, Val has left corporate life -and the relative peace and quiet

that it bring -to be a full-time mom. he write that she and Peter feel outnumbered now with the arrival of child numbed . . . . Craig Alie and Diane Perlowski were married la t J uly. Colby al um pre ent were: John Perlow ki ' 3, Cindy (Gilli ' 6 ) and War ren B o ghs , Janet (Kelley ' 6) and N il s Gjesteb , J o h n and Deborah Pazary A ye r , Mary Beth Boland Haut ' 5, Paula Donahue Kerwin ' 3, Kam Marquardt Mclellan, Pam Kovaly O'Brien ' 3, Wayne ' 5 and S a n dr a

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The y e a r of 1 9 9 5 brnught joy to everal f1rst- t 1 m e p a r e n t s .

Marge and Christopher Horner have a daughter, Lily Christine, born August 3. Christopher is pert: rming professionally with or chestras and a jazz ensemble in the Phi ladelphia area whi le act ing as director of instrumental music at Germantown Academy. . . . Mary Beth Boland Haut gave b irth to Catherine Emily on No vember 15 and had a wonderful time spending her maternity leave in Newport, R.1. he enjoys sail ing on her boat when weather permits and often goes ski ing in the winter. . . . Deborah England Gray welcomed Madelaine N i cole G ray into t h e world o n May 1 9 . I believe she was one of the youngest m e m be rs of the aud ience at Gin Pup's Late how at the reun ion. Deborah also has a new job-general counsel of Sapient Corporat ion, a software cons u l t i ng firm in Kenda l l Squ are , Cambridge. " Bo th have b e e n wonderfu l change in my life," she says . . Suzy Seymour Gaeddert j ust re turned from a M iddle Eastern adventure through Saudi Arabia, Oman and the United Arab Emir ates. Suzy's parent , who have lived in Saud i Arabia for 25 years, were their tour gu ides. She writes, "Oman was magical1 We explored old forts, castles and covered ba zaars for a week there." . . . After working for seven years as a coun selor, then as a marketing assoc i a t e a t P l a n n e d Pare n t hood , Melinda Underwood Griggs left her job and moved to Vermont. She is now associate director of promotion and p u b l i c i ty for Stillpoint Publi hing. Mel inda pends her spare time educating women on money management and socially re pon ible invest ing. he also likes baking bread and fantasizing about the straw bale house he hope to build next year. She invite friends to drop by. "Tea is at three, as al way ," -he writes, "and Pepperidge Farm cookies are till the trad ition." . . . Mick Ferrucci and his wife, Kay, planned to take their boys hockey team ( ranked 8th in

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New England) to Fi nland and weden over the winter vaca t i on . . . . C a r o l E i s e n b e r g ' s daughter, Maxine, loves t o read, swing and take baths. ( Sounds l ike my son, Dylan . ) He also loves to sing and fingerpaint. Carol's husband, David S impson '86, is enjoying his econd year teach ing in the Portland public schools. I hope to get together with David, Carol and Maxine on Peaks Is land, where they live and where my husband, Frederic, Dylan and I often spend time with my par ents . . . . Please keep those let ters flowing in. I was hit with a del uge last summer but now they're down to a trickle. +

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The reunion comm it tee has been working long and hard to pre pare for the big weekend-J une 7-9, if you haven't already marked your calendars and notified the Alumni Office of your plans to attend. Before we gather for a couple of days of grand festiv ities, I do have some class news, thanks to all of you who have responded to my quest ion n a i res. B e t s y Burrell Fearnley is completing a master's degree in clinical psy chology while working part time as a substance abuse counselor and p laying mom to daughter Tess, 6 . . . . Katrinka and Tom McCallum trave led for seven weeks Down Under last summer after graduating from Duke's Fuqua School of Business. They enjoyed bungee jump ing, sail ing and scuba diving on the ir Austra l i an adventure . . . . S t e p h e n Potts received a great Christmas present in 1 994-his Ph. D. in geological sciences from the Uni versity of M ichigan. He is now working a a senior staff geologist forCTl & Associates . . . . Thom as Outerbridge owns and runs a mall environmental consulting firm in New York City, known as City Green . . . . David Quillen, M.D., finished h is re idency last summer and now teaches fam i ly medicine at Duke. He i also proud of another accompli h ment-hi first triathlon . . . . Jes sica Flood Leitz i a bu y full-time mom to Keegan, 5, and N i ls, al-

mo t 3. She st ill doe a bit of prior to the big day-caused by a polit ical campaigning and vol softball tak i ng a bad hop while unteer work to help keep insanity Molly was play i ng shortstop . at bay . . . . Laura Lane is com Molly and Sean have been work p leting her doctoral degree while ing toward their first degree black enjoying a salaried job teaching belts . . . . We ' l l have to share writing at the University ofNorth the rest of the news in J une Florida . . . . L e s l i e Greenslet hope to ee you there! Best wishes Perry spends her days hifting to everyone for continued hap from play groups to Gymboree to piness and uccess ! + Temple Tots with l i ttle Graham, age 20 month . She also contin ues to do some graphic design Correspondent: work and to train and how her Lucy Lennon Tucker dog in competition, but she runs short on time for peedskating . David Bullock is l iv . . . Mark Leondires , M . D . , ing in N . Y.C. with his moved t o Pittsburgh, where h e is wife, Christine, who a clinical fellow in reproductive is in advertising sales. David is endocrinology at Magee Wo working for Merrill Lynch as a men's H spital. He ran his fourth vice president in their Emerging marathon this spring in Boston. Markets D i v i ion . . . S ta c y . . . Robin Clisby Pelczar and her Mathews Bushey l ives in Brook husband, Ted, celebrated their line, Mas ., with husband M ich fifth anniversary la t fall. Robin ael, a wine salesman. Stacy i an works at Meredith ( N . H . ) Vil executive assistant at the Ritz lage Savings Bank and enjoy the Carlton in Boston . . . . J a s o n c o u rses offe red thro u gh her Cleary has been working for the job. . . . Since graduation, Fran Portsmouth, N . H . , fire depart Gradstein Karo received a Ph . D. ment for the past three years as a in c l i n i c a l psycho logy from firefighter and EMT. During his Wayne State U n i versity, got off hours, Jason is involved in the m a r r i e d , c o m p l e t e d a post Singles Chri tian Mini try with doctoral fellowsh ip in pediatric the G ranite rate Church of neuropsychology, bought a house Chri t and singing and playing and had her fir t ch i ld. She now bass guitar and sax for a rock and works on the brain injury unit at roll band in the Seacoast area. Rehabilitation Hospital in Penn. . . J im Canfield is l i v i ng in sylvania. A busy 10 years1 • • • Scituate, Ma s., w ith wife Karen Heather Reay regrets that she and son John Patrick, 2. J i m is a will be unable to attend the re real estate consultant . . . . Jenni union-but with good excuse. fer Rubin Britton wrote from She and Paul Rocheford will be Dallas, Texas, where he and hu tying the knot in May and then band Charlie have settled in. Jen honeymooning in Hawaii before moved to Texas in the um mer of returning home to Minnesota. '94 to work at the St. Mark' . . . Mary Lou "ML" Waterman School as assistant director of Tolette is a busy mom at home in c o l l e ge counse l i ng . J e n and Cos Cob, Conn., with 1 5-month Charlie, an Eng l i h teacher, have old Robert. She has heard from a son, Trevor, 2 . . . . Herrick Sheila Duffy Davis, who l ives Wales is working in Boston in in Santa Fe, Rick Bernard, who new med ia. He had little else to li ves in London and travels ex say except that he had stubbed tensively on h is job, and Amy h is toe on the day that he wrote Barnes Hurley, who, with her and "it hurt a lot." (There you go, husband and 4-year-old son, Herrick. I i n c l uded i t ! ) . K e v i n , we lcomed new baby Charles Herrera is living in the Brenna la t spring . . . . Molly Silicon Valley in California with Couch and ean Ward were mar hi wife, Tammy ( Parker '89 ) , ried on J uly 1 , 1 99 5 . Colby alums a n d their two cats, Angie and present were: Blair and Mary Smudge. Charle i a sy tern man N eedham Shelbou rne , Hans ager, and Tammy is a product Hagen, Patrice Galvin Hagen, marketing manager. . . . You'll Jeff Beaney and Anne Boatright find W i l l Holmes teaching at the Beaney '85. Molly was all smiles Cheshire Academy in Chesire, desp ite a broken nose I 0 days Conn. Will has been there for

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Peter fe lt compelled to write to announce Greg' first hole-in-one. Congratulation , Duey! Peter fin ished up his master' at Purdue in '94 and moved with wife Jen to the Washington, D . C . , area. Pe ter is working in Baltimore at USF&G, and although he and J en are enjoying being back on the Ea t Coa t, they still long to return to M aine . . . . Marianne Campbell Hockenberry and hu band Tim will have celebrated son Maxx's second birthday by the time you read this. Marianne and Tim are st ill liv ing in San Francisco, where Marianne is an artist's representative and Tim is a music ian . . . . Geoff J ohnson, who works for Fidelity a a man ager in trade support, and hi wife, Ann, are l iv ing on a nice piece of land in Ame bury, M a ., which includes the ir own pond. They were expecting their first child when he wrote . . . . A l l y s o n Goodwin Short is director of re gional campaigns and a major

NEWSMAKERS Michael Carter '80 has founded Fresh amantha, a Maine-based company that ell all-natural j u i ces . . . . Bill Linnell '80, a town councilor in Cape E lizabeth, M a ine, ha received attention in the M aine pre for hi public contention that the aging M aine Yankee nuclear plant poses a erious afety threat . . . . Mark Smith '80 was named proj ect manager for the Hade Bu i ld ing Company's Lockheed ander project in Na hua, N . H . . . . J a ne Eklund '81 i co-editorof the Monadnock Ledger in Peterborough, N . H . . . . Kathy Marciarille '8 1 is l ibrarian in the health sciences library at St. Mary' Regional Health Center in Lewi ton, M aine . . . . Robert Ruzzo '8 1 was named general counsel to the Executive Office of Transportation and Con truction in Ma achusetts . . . . Robert Wallace '8 1 is chief financial officer for Murphy McGinni Media, c re a ted by t h e m e rg e r of two newspaper c o m p a n i e in M innesota . . . . Lee Zalinger '82 wa awarded a $4,000 grant to develop interdisciplinary course units in medical ethics at the Ethel Walker School in Sim bury, Conn. . . . Greg Cronin '86 took charge of the University of M aine men's ice hockey team this season in the absence of head coach Shawn Walsh, who was su pended for one year . . . . N icholas Ferrala '87 i supervi or of the microbiology unit at Northea t Laboratory Services in Winslow, Maine . . . . Timothy Poutre ' 87 wa named to the medical taff of the Central Maine Medical Center. . . . Nancy Knapp '88 i the fir t ful l- time reporter a t the Lincol.n Journal i n Lex ington, Ma . . . . Bill Reed '88 i s a teacher at Clement M iddle School in South Berwick, Maine . . . . Steven Schwartz '88 is a sales associate at Sheldon Good & Co. real estate in Chicago, I l l . . . . J oel Tickner '89 i "l. re earch fellow at M a achu ett Toxics U e I nstitute.

MILEPOSTS Marriages : Katherine J a n e Dornish '8 1 to Robert Stephen

gifts officer at Colby and will be traveling around the country set ting up campaigns, so don't be surpri ed if you hear from her. Allyson and her husband, M ark Short, and 20-month-old son live a mile from campus and are en joying life in Waterville. Ally on recently spoke with Tim Hen nessey, who's living in an Fran cisco and working in real e rate development for Union Bank. Edith McGill Glasgow i liv ing in Jersey City and is working a a l ine cook and pastry apprentice at La Caravelle in New York City. Her husband, Robert, is a pho tographer. Edie graduated first in her class at the French Cul inary In titute in February of 1 994 and received an award for the best final project. Congratulation , Edie-and to all others on their recent personal and professional accomplishments. That is all I have room for now. Stay tuned and start thinking about what you'd like to see/do for our 1 0th

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Thanks so much for all the news-<: areer change , new family unions, additions, moves! Chris Dixon is still working at Boston Un iversity as a grant writer for the School of Education. he j ust recently received her master's in marketing communications, also from BU . . . . Greg Lawless has been enjoying his long career stint at Phil ip Morri , where he is cur rently the manager of industrial relations in Loui ville, Ky. He is a proud homeowner and has loved g e t t i n g e t t led i n a ft e r h i move . . . . Todd N icholson and h is wife, G loria, built a home in N orth Yarmouth, Maine, a year ago and are both employed in Freeport, Maine. Todd is work-

DuGrenier in West Town hend, Vt . . . . Kurt Werner Saraceno '8 1 to Su an Margaret McTaggart in Greenwich, Conn . . . . David R. K e r r i g a n ' 8 3 to M a ry B e t h M a r t i n in A r l i n g t o n , M a s . . . . Catherine Brown ' 8 6 t o Gordon Stanton in New York City . . . . Scott Baxter '86 to Elizabeth Griffin in Saddle R iver, N .J . . . . Priscilla J an e Phinney '87 to W i l l iam Joseph Squire J r. in Needham, Mas . . . . Steve Runge '87 to W hitney Kelting '88 in Woods Hole, Mass . . . . Vickie Ann Caron '88 to Thomas Stoughton Bell J r. '88 in Portland, M aine . . . . Lisa A. Collett '88 to J effrey C. Hook in Portland, M aine . . . . Cynthia H. Kontulis '88 to Daniel GacettaJ r. in Manha et, N .Y . . . . Rosemary Czuchra '89 to Gregory Teegarden in Brewster, Mass . . . . Scott Wentzell '89 to L i a Kci.korian in Cambridge, M a s. Births: A

on, Robert Perry Tolette, to Mark '83 and Mary . A daughter, Maxine Si.mp on Eisenberg, to David Simpson '86 and Carol Eisenberg '85 . . . . A son, William Lull, to Peter ' 8 6 and Linda Flight L u l l ' 8 5 . . . . A daughter, Lily Chri tine Homer, to Margaret and Christopher Horner '85 . . . . A son, Graham Hayden Perry, to Lawrence and Leslie Greenslet Perry '86 . . . . A on, Casey Kris, to T imothy and Caroline Nelson Kris '86 . . . . A daughter, Cassandra Monahan, to J ames and Lila Hopson Monahan '86 . . . . A daughter, Lauren Elizabeth Kenney, to Robert Kenney '86 and Beth Schwartz Kenney '86 . . . . Twin , Meghan and Kieran Poirier, to Brenda and Stephen Poirier '86 . . . . A on, H ugh A rm trong Mayo, to Chapman Mayo '86 . . . . A daughter, Catherine Emily Haut, to Thomas and Mary Beth Boland Haut '86 . . . . Tw i_n daughters, Molly Margaret and Meghan Marcia Stoll, to Brian and Robin Venditti Stoll '86 . . . . A son, Matthew Marra, to M aria and Michael Marra '86 . . . . A daughter, Katherine Grace Lapp, to M ichele and Philip Lapp '86 . . . . A daughter, Grace Ann Baines, to Robert and Ann Armstrong Baines '88 . . . . A daughter, Teresa Diane Farley, to David '88 and Mary LaPointe Farley '89. Waterman Tolette'86 . . .

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ing a a marketing analy t at L L Bean. They have a dog named Archie and a cat called Edith affectionately known as the Bun kers! Their biggest news is the birth of their daughter, Emma, la t December. . . . Mary Federle Porter is another proud parent baby Samuel arrived last October. Mary has enjoyed being an "at home mom" with her two other daughters, Molly, 4, and Eliza, 2 . . . . Scott and Kristen Foss Smith announced their recent bundle of joy, Gabri l, born last October. Big brother is Sam, 4. cott is currently the associate controller at Colby, and Kristen work· a a developmental thera pi t for children in the Waterville area . . . . Hope Worden is near the end of her Ph.D. in program development and research on do mestic violence. he has been working at Brigham and Women's Hospital and living in the Boston area with her husband, Chris Kochenbich . . . . Melissa Ruff is also in Bean town and is the direc tor of tudent life, activities and health services at New England Conservatory of Music. She says she feel in awe all the time at the level of talent displayed in the students she works with . . . . Pam Winch Wilson own a mail-order business called Pastas with Pizzazz and features a pasta-of-the-month package. Husband David Wilson is managerofTruk-Away in Rhode Island, a waste removal and recy cling company. They have no children but enjoy two dogs and a cat. After commuting to Cahners Publi hing, where she wa a mar keting communications manager, Pam enjoys the pleasures of run ning her own business . . . . Eric Zieff received his Ph.D. in clini cal psychology in January from Massachusetts chool of Profes sional P ychology. He has been sharing his time between a nurs i ng home and a chi ld/fa m i l y agency . . . . Todd Wallingford has been teaching hi tory, civics and psychology to high school students in Hud on, Mass. It's his first full time public school teaching job after he received h is master's and cert ification at Harvard Uni ver ity's graduate school ofeduca tion in 1 994. Before that, he taught in the private sector for four years . . . . Karen Vlaskamp re ceived her master's in compara-

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tive education from Teacher' College at Columbia University last May and has been working a a foreign student adviser at Indi ana University . . . . Jeff and Karen Linde Packman are also in the Boston area. Karen fini hed an M.S. program in appl ie<l anatomy and exercise physiology at BU during the ummer of l 995 and tarted her own fitness consulting and personal training bu iness, ·pecializing in people with chronic Jiseases.Jeffhas been with Parexel International Corp. for four years after completing his M.B.A. from Babson College. The company helps the pharmaceutical indus try develop new drugs by conduct ing c I inical trials and working with the FDA. . . . Susan Zimmermann will be defending her Ph. D. thesis in sociology thi spring, after be ing in graduate chool at Brown ince 1 990. Although he loves teaching, she isn'tcertain if that i the path she will pur ue . . . . Peter Weltchek has been working as an associate in real estate banking at Lehman Brothers in New York City since 1 99 3 , after finishing hi M. B.A. from Wharton. He writes, "I occasionally consider dropping out of the rat race to become a 'roadie' for the Allman Brothers Band." Sounds like the dream of many! l often think of leaving the wonderful world of personnel consulting in Boston to do the night club gig scene ! . . . Meg Galloway Pearce is a few month short of obtaining her M.B.A. She has been a branch manager at MCI Communication Corpo ration in Washington, D.C. , for the "friends and fam i ly" pro gram-and ran the Marine Corps Marathon for the second year in a row, taking 45 minutes off of her personal record . . . . Keep on the lookout for an expanded class letter with lots of other new news! . . . Colbians attend ing the J une 1 995 wedding of Whitney Ke I ting and Steve Runge '87 were Matt Burke '89, Lori Berger '86, Bill Hami lton '90, Wendy Beller mann '89, Heather Payson, Brian Axel '89, J u l i e D'Am ico ' 8 7 , Curtis Carl o n '89, Adam Oppen heim '90, Dave Rosen, Kerry Griffi n , Hilary Seward, Lisa Kerney, Chris Brown, Carolyn Lockwood '89, Nancy Knapp, Hank Whittenberg and Chris + Halvorson '89.

Craig Alie '84 and Diane Perlowski '84 were married in Kennebunkport, Maine, last July. (See '84 class notes . )

Molly Couch ' 8 6 and Sean Ward were married o n July 1 , 1 995 , a t the Williston Chapel in Easthampton, Mass. (See '86 class notes . )

Steve Runge '87 and Whitney Kelting '88 were married on June 1 7 , 1 995 , in Woods Hole, Mass. (See '88 class notes . )

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The flow of new has slowed to a trickle, but here's what I 've heard about our friends in the pa t few month -. I got a grear letter from David Coleman, who is the man ager of pec ial proiect · for The Advi ory Board Committee, a re earch firm m Washington, D.C. He's been work i ng on technology projects for them, in cluding their Web ite. T o m M c Clintoc k , Scott Sch irmeier and Li a Prenaveau Andrzejew ki '93 al o are working for The Ad\·i sory Board Committee. Dave ees C inda J ones and Peter Readmith '92 on a fairly regular ba i , as w e l l as J e nn i fer L i m itchman '9 1 and her h u band, David. Dave -pent ome time la t ummer hik ing i.n the henen doah ational Park with Scott Perley and al o drove aero the country with ancy pellman ' 9, who wa relocating to D.C. from an Franci-co for the um mer. The rwo of rhem trekked through Tahoe, the Grand Can yon, Bryce Canyon, Z ion a t ional Park and Arche ational Park. From there it was on to Denver, Colo., where they vi ited with Rebecca Pease Henning '9 1 and her husband, Matt. Becky and Matt were married in M aine early la t ummer. Dave al o pa es along the ad new that his b e l o v e d b u m p e r - s t i c k e r - fes tooned 1 97 7 Chevy wagon fa iled to pa in pection la t pring. We all send our condolences, I 'm ure. I 've heard from other sources that David ha been potted at the wheel of a BMW; none of them, however, mentioned the presence of an I Eat My Roadki l l bumper ticker. Thanks for all the new , Dave . . . . J a n Berry wrote to me a few weeks ago to let me know that he ha begun a new job a

Laura enier 4 Men tomy Road, Apt. 9 Arl ington, MA 02 1 7 4 6 1 7 -64 1 -3467 e-mail: laura_senier@hmco.com 1991

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the publtc and professional rela tions coordinator at the Maine rate Bar As ociarion in Augusta, M a i ne . he's now l i \' i n g m Damariscotta and is planning a June wedding. Her hu band-ro be, Craig Zenter, i a graduate of 1aine Maritime Academy. Good luck in the new job. and congratulation , J an 1 • • • I recently attended a production of am hepard' play Buried Child at rhe American Rererrory Theater in Cambridge. After taking my sear, 1 reali:ed rhar I wa · imng right near Beth Reutlinger '9 1 , who told me she had seen M a rk Co -Jon ' 9 in the audience. Mark directed a production of Bi11ied Child ar rrider Theater in 1 9 with Beth playing the role of belly. (I wasn't the mo:t unb1a ed critic in rhe audience, bur I much preferred Mark's interpre tation of the play to the one I saw ar the ART that night. ) Mark is working on a Ph.D. in theater hi tory at Tufts Univer ity and working a a research a- i tant at Harvard U niversity; hi wife, Hanna, is working on a degree in -ocial work. Beth i now married, living in Arlington, M a s., and workin for an oroanization that make arrangement for foreign exchange tudents. . . . That' all the new I have for now. Plea e plea e plea-e plea-e write to me1 need you guy to make thi col + umn a success! Corre pondent: Portia Walker

Yes, reunion is ju t around the corner, and here are more interest ing fact about our c lassmate that you can quiz them on, come J u ne 7, and 9! . . . Gary Soquet and M ichele argent are the proud parents of J ul ian M oore and Braden Lily. In their spare time he' a writer and she i an aspiring

m 1Jw1fe . . . . Annie DeMaria i · a 5teward on an Amon fuel tanker and 1 studying for ad ie<el engine endorsement. I n her >pare rime he i doing relief work on ore camers . . . . Deb Mac Walter and Fred Bright were mamed last J u ly at Lorimer Chapel, with J ulie C a m p b e l l M u rray and P a m Pomerleau in attendance. They ·pent their honeymoon in r . J ohn-b e fore the h u r r i c a n e hit ' . . . Linda Ro signal Rams den' wedding included maid of honor B r y n n e M c C o r m i c k , Elizabeth

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mce Linda met her husband-to-be during her jumor year in England, he is a strong upporrer of the JYA program 1 he' - a practicing attorney and he' a doctoral can didate at Brandeis. Brynne is l iv in in A ·pen, Colo., working for the Aspen Board of Realtor and daring Christianmichael Kristan (also l iving in A pen ) . Eli:abeth began the nursing program at Northea tern last fall. . . . Sam Shamik found hi true call ing in Florida-phy ician of traditional Chine e medicine, the holimc healing arr that u e acupuncture and herb . He' al o pur u ino hi captain' license and hi dive master cuba certification for a future chartering bu iness in the Keys and other warm water . . . . Dave Unruh began in the Colby Admis ions Office, then earned hi ma ter' in education admin i tration and i now the a i tant director of admi sion at Carne gie-Mellon. H e and his wife, Marnie, the coordinator of tu dent development at CM U, both participate in the Big Brother/ Big i ter program and are "en j o y i n g t h e i r econd year of marriage ! " . . . Barbara S h a w , after rec e i v i n g her M . A . i n American tudie , i now a Ph.D. candidate. he ha two publica tions and travels the country both on bu ines and for plea ure. he's

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also a volunteer tutor. . . . Kary Wilkins New is the director of

the Elan School. a type of reform school for emotionally, physically and/or sex ually abused j uvenile delinquents ages 1 2 - 1 9. I t's a "tough love" program that teaches certain life sk ills and values. On the home front, she has purchased a 1 9 1 8 house, with lots of charm and c haracter . . . . Tom Lewis and Kim Swon Lewis, married in A u g u s t 1 9 9 5 , are l i v i n g in Dunwoody, Ga. Tom is a market ing spec iali t for Lanier World wide in Atlanta, and K i m , after finishing her M . Ed. at UVA, is a speech patholog:st for chi ldren ages 0-5 years . . . . Glenn Thur low is a pharmaceutical ale spe cialist for The Upjohn Co. , and his wi fe, Patt i , is a teacher. . . . Aaron Mosher and his new wife, Stacy, are enjoying life on the N o rth Shore. . S teve Chernoff is in his first year of law school at BC. . . . Cam Field, who graduated from Dartmouth last J une with hi master's in engi neering, has been student teach ing at Providence Country Day S c h ool . . . T r i c i a S h e p a rd earned her degree from Marquette

Law chool and most recently became a licensed nursing home admin istrator in G l astonbury, Conn . . . . Besides completing a documentary video on a local character who was the first to ski The Grand Teton, Matt Testa is the editor/writer of the entertain ment section of the Jackson Hole Daily in Wyoming . . . . Jennifer Scott is currently the manager of public relations for the Kohler Co. in M i lwau kee . . . . Andy Williams is in h is second year of med ical chool in Rochester, N .Y . , and ays he looks forward to practicing med icine in a rural area . . . . Margaret Mauran and Andy Zuccotti '92 , and Stacey King and J ustin Verge '90, cel ebrated their marriages this past sum mer. Twenty-seven cla s mates attended the two blissful event ; 1 2 witnessed both. Garrison Smith prev iously worked in the biotech field at A m i c o n , Inc. and G enzyme Corp., and now he is a first-year law student at BU, hu band of Lisa, a special education consult ant, and father of Charle Lewis mith, born 7/ 1 8/95 . Congratu+ lation , Garri on !

NEWSMAKERS Cinda Hartman Jones '90 has pro

duced the National Wood Recycling Directory . . . . Robert Scott '90 has recorded a second compact disc, "Or All Away . " . . . B e nj a m i n Ames '9 1 is a reporter at the Pottsville, Pa., Republican . . . . Hil ary Greene '91 i program man ager for t he newly establ ished National Young Composers Com p e t i t i on in W i l l i am s t o w n , Cinda Hartman Jones '90 M a s . . . . David McClintock '93 i pres representative for Late Night With David Letterman in New York City . . . . Tasha Worster '93 is the first recipient of the Or. R o b e r t Roy M e d i c a l S c h o l a r h i p for M a i ne students . . . . Danielle Radford '95 is director of the Commu nity Service Project in Rockland, Maine.

MILEPOSTS Marriages; Anna Brookes '90 to Glenn Barker in Ea t Green

wich, R. I. . . . Aaron Mosher '91 to tacy K arp in Rhinebeck, N.Y . . . . Peter Bailey '91 to Margaret Curran in chenectady, N.Y . . . . Heidi Meyers '91 to Ted Waugh in Washington, D.C. . . . Daniel Connolly '92 to K imberly Fandel in Hingham, Ma . . . . J e n n ifer Zwick '94 to J ason Somer in Avon, Conn. . . . Arthur P. Fairbrother J r. '95 to Jennifer Joy Moore in Belfast, Maine.

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ried Peter Ginolfi ' 9 1 in J u ly '95 . Jocelyn Childs, Jess ica D'Ercole, Jon Bartlett '9 1 , Brian Kelleher '9 1 and PJ Peroni ' 9 1 were in the wedd ing party, and countless other Colbyites attended. Heath er received her M.S.W. from BC in May '95 and is working as a ocial worker, and Pete i a teacher and � otball/lacrosse coach after receiv ing his master's in educa tion in May '94 . . . . Sura DuBow is back at Colby as the head men's and women's swim coach after working in Argentina . . . . Sarah Hamilton Barringer was married in August '9 5 ; Becky Graham, J e n Kosek W a l k e r and J e n Greenleaf were bridesmaids. Sa rah is currently teaching second grade at the Chapin School in Manhattan . . . . La u r a A r m strong Stone was married in Sep tember '95 at the University of Colorado-Boulder chapel, with J eannette Riddle as maid of honor. . . . Alice J ohnson re cently began a job in the alumni/ development office at George Washington University in D.C. after a i x - and-a- half- month journey through Central and Southeast Asia. On her return, she sropped off in an Francisco and caught up w i th Christy O'Rourke and Kyle Lissack, who are both living there. Christy works m ports marketing and event planning-she run tour nament and throws parties! . . . Lisa McMahon lives in Tacoma, Wash . , and is in her second year at the Seattle University School of Law . . . . Chantal Begin Sulli van is in David, Fla . , with her h u band. Married in June 1 994, she is in her second year of a five year doctoral degree program in psychology at Nova Southeastern University . . . . Megan Mayer, who spent two years with us and graduated from Franklin Pierce, wrote that she is teaching econd grade in a small town in rural New York near Will iamstown, Mass. She is engaged and plan ning a J uly 4th weekend wedding in Portland, Ore . . . . Emily Fish er Medvic is in West Lafayette, Ind., and working in the educa-

tion department at Planned Par enthood in Lafayette. She is tak ing graduate classes at Purdue and will begin her master's in elemen tary education at Indiana Uni versity in the fall. She married Stephen Medvic in J u ly 1 994. . . . Zach Shapiro i still in rab binical school pursuing his mas ter of Hebrew letters degree. He will become a rabbi in a year and a half and is currently serving a J ewi h community in Michigan while living in Cincinnati. ( P.S. Ethan Gettman: Sherrie Gett man Stahl is doing research on her extended family; e-mail or write me and I'll get you her address. ) . . . Kathy Lyford is working as an analytical chemist at an aquatic tox icology lab in Marblehead, Ma . he spent two months last summer backpack ing through Europe and planned a hike thi pring on the North Carolina Appalachian Trail with Donna B u rbank . . . . S a ndra Scarano lives in Arlington, Ma s.,

and is the a si rant to the director of investment operations in the office of the trea urer at M IT. . . . Jennifer McLeod is living in Orono, Maine, and working as a l i br a r i a n and webmaster a t UMaine . . . . Cathy Ryan teaches sixth grade in Hamden, Conn., and is planning a J uly 1 996 wed ding to Mike Ki lakowski. She'll move to Ma sachusetts after the wedd ing . . . . Pol l y Sheridan moved to Chicago from Boston for a master's in the social ci ences with a concentration in urban sociology at the University of Chicago. Her program con clude thi pring, and she'll ei ther be job hunting or beginning a Ph .D. in sociology . . . . Mark Lombard is living in Twentynine Palms, Calif., having a great time as a lieutenant in the Marine Corps . . . . Colin MacArthur has been working as an instructor with Outward Bound in Florida, leading 2 7 -day canoecour es with adjudicated and at-ri k youth. He i spending 1 996 a a course di rectorfor Outward Bound' Fami l ies in Need Service Program. While on vacation in New Hamp shire, he saw Bob Gramling, who is still working hard at Dartmouth M ed i c a l Schoo l . . . . C l o v e r Burns Seifer lives in Graft n, Vt., and is a legal assistant clerking for the bar under a se-

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N o r m Lee ' 5 8 , P a m Woods Mosdale '8 1 , Dav id Tourangeau ' 6 1 , J ohn W i l son ' 6 0 , G e n e Rainv i l le '6 1 , Ryan Friel '93, Phil V i lar '93, Steve Donohue '90, Mark Lombard '92, Erica Gregg, C h r i s M a s t r a n g e l o , J oc e l y n Childs, Pete tevenson ' 6 1 and

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la t ummer writing speeches for Treasury S e c retary Robert R u b i n and found it incredibly challenging. . . . Stephanie Cain, a staff writer for the Sun-Journal in Lewiston, Maine, is assigned to the c ity beat in Auburn and has done some investigative reporting. . . . Greg L y n c h , a c h e m i s try/b i o logy teacher in Connecticut, p lans a 1 0- week/ even-country trip to Asia this ummer and w i l l v isit D u e Trac, who moved to J apan in April '95 and enjoys reaching English in 0 aka. Greg wrote that Siri Oswald is back in Russia, working on a grant with d isabled c h i ld re n a n d t h a t M i c h a e l McCabe i s at Yale Law School. . . . Braydon McCormick moved to Boston last fall a nd is studying music composit ion at BU . . . .

Elizabeth Bancroft, alpine race secretary for T earn Breckenridge in Colorado, is responsible for all ad mini trative work for the races held there . . . . Stacey Warner left Breckenridge in November and is teaching Engl ish w i th World Teach in Nam ibia, Af rica . . . . Skye Stewart likes work ing at Orchard Books, a children's book division of G rolier, and wrote that Jen Davis, Rebecca Shaw, Lees Patriacca andJocelyn Hiller also live on the Upper East

S ide of N ew York City. Jocelyn is a development coordinator for AFS I n ternational Programs/ USA, and Lee is going to Lon don for two years w i th a law firm . . . . K a t r i n a G re e n f i e l d share an apartment with Kath erine Bordwell in Portland, Ore . , an<l is interni ng in the mayor's off i c e , d e p a r t m e n t of i n t e r n a t i o n a l re lat ion . . . . S h a n e Wrigh t , a bookkeeper/accoun tant in Pittsfield, Maine, pent a month traveling in Europe last pring and plans to study history in graduate school this fall . . . Brian Seidman, a financial con sult ing associate at CLK Finan c ial in Bo ton, wrote that Oman ( Patrick Smith ) married Jenni fer Thom, a fel low law student at New England College, last Sep tember. They l ive in Springfield, Mas . , w ith their dog, J asper. . . . James Reichert , expecting hi M .B.A. from Notre Dame this May, completed a banking in ternship i n Panama last summer, spent the fall semester in Santia go, Chile, and traveled i n Argen t ina, Uruguay and Paraguay . . . . Larry Rulison is the ed itor of the Baldwinsville Messenger, a weekly newspaper in up tate New York. He often v isits Sigmund Schutz, who is completing his second year at Cornell Law School and has accepted a summer associate po sition w ith a large law firm in Portland, Maine. Larry had a bla t at the Hotchkiss fifth reunion with Ben Strong, w h o is studying geological oceanography at the Marine Sciences Research Cen ter at the State U niversity ofNew York-Stony Brook, considering going into environmental con sulting and hoping to travel aero s the country after graduation in August. Ben wrote that Brian O ' S u l l iv a n works for I BM in Burlington, V t . . . . After work-

ing at uffolk Downs racetrack, office manager J e n nifer Sullivan purchased a racehorse, a thor oughbred tall ion named Danse eul, and turned it into a success ful show horse . . . . E l izabeth Tabor enjoys her job as an acqui sitions a sistant at the Roger Will iams Un iversity School of Law library and is taking gradu ate clas e in library c ience at immons College. She is in fre quent contact with Wallie Leung, who is liv i ng in New York City and working for Chase Manhat tan, and he has heard from Dawn Kalloch, who is in graduate school in Boston . . . . Matt Spitzer, a family spec iali t in a New York treatment program, has run a vio lence prevention program, vol unteered in a local E.R. and i looking into graduate school for a doctorate. He wrote that Kristin Scheible i at the Harvard Divin ity School. . . . Congratulation to J on Scammon and K risten Schuler '93, and to Kerry Sheehy and Bobby W a rd ' 9 3 ! Both couples are engaged and plan spring wedding next year. + Corre pondent:

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Kuala Lumrur, Malay 1a. He also write that Amy Pompeo i- work ing in Cambridge, Mas . . . . Caleb Mason is a graduate �tudent of phi losophy at Columbia, rlaying in and managing a new blue. and soul band called Blue Collectl\'e a well a doing a l mle bartending on the ide . . . . From Ghana, K.C. Law le r writes that she i having an ama:ing exrerience teaching Engh h. he say one of the mo t interesting thing- ahout her exre rience i being a minority for the firsr time . . . . Maureen Finn 1s working for Head tart in the Boston area . . . . Mark Griffin and Doug Macauley traveled in Eu rope for the ummer before begm ningjobsat Cambridge A sociate , where they also work with Drew Snow. Mark has been perform mg with former members of the Colby Eight in the Boston area . . . . T.J. Maines, Mike McElaney, J ustin Van Ti! and John Carolan are

working at The Boston Company. . . . J im Zadrozny i working for Fidelity . . . . Greg Walsh is work ing for a c re d i t company i n Waltham, Ma s . . . . C h ristia n Citarella is a Ph.D. candidate in math at J ohns Hopkins . . . .

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Congratulations are in order for Art Fa i r brother for hi mar ri age in December. . . . Karen Andreas is an admissions assis tant at The School for Field tud ies and is living in Danvers, Mass. She writes that Karen Rose is the a sistant director of the Writer ' Center at Colby, Linda Dyndiuk is a manager at Osco Drug, Tracy Patton is in grad school at UMO and Vicki Ferrini i in grad chool at SUNY-Stonybrook . . . . Peter Murphy is working in the circula tion department at a community newspaper i n Needham, Mass. . . . Jaye Gennaco went to L.A. last fall and was planning to go to Scotland and London i n Febru ary. She is working at a medical publishing company in Massachu setts and writes that Kim Beck is doing cancer research in D.C. . . . Wang Shang Lee is at the U niver ity of M ichigan working toward a Ph.D. in economics. I n Singapore last summer h e visited Mizuho Tsuboi, who is now work ing for the Japanese embassy in

together in Hou ton over the um mer for training before being sent to teach underprivileged children in the U.S. Heather i teaching eventh grade math in Weldon, N .C., and is also volunteering at the local public radio station , where she has her own how. . . . Kim MacDonald is living in Ma sachu ett while working at the N ew England Center for Aut ism . . . . Noah Haverkamp write that he is l iving at home and developing credit and ha decided to go to music school. . . . After competing at the U.S. N a tional Championship Track Meet, Brooke Lorenzen returned to the Seattle area, where she is working a a receptioni t . . . . After driv ing out to Colorado with Kathy Christy after graduation, Alisa Masson and Kelly Spooner ran in a marathon in November. A lisa is a publicist for Adams Media Cor poration in the Boston area; Kelly i doing research at Harvard and living w ith J e n Benwood, who i doing research at Brigham and Women's Hosp i t a l , M i c h e l l e Grdina, who is working a t Express

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restaurant. Jed worked last um mer at Glacier National Park, where he performed in a cabaret show at night. Brad Keller i work ing a contracting job in Denver. Jeff Turton is also in Denver, hoping to open a theater next summer. Tip Meckel is in Ouray.

nia as an economist as wel l as coaching the JV hockey team at

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and Randy Schmitz are all in the ki industry . . . . Brendan Cavan augh and Mike Murphy are play ing in a band in Bo ton . . . . Liz Graupner is a middle chool sci ence teacher in Houston. . . . Scott

Jessica Elsa D'Ercole '92 and Michael John Stanron '92 were married on September 9, 1 995 . (See class notes . )

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G . Ceci l Goddard ' 2 9 , long-time comm unity leader and Colby' fir t alumni secretary, died January 14 in China, Maine, at age 89. He wa born in Hermon, Maine, and graduated from Brooks H igh School . In 1 929-30 he attended Harvard Law School. The following year he wa appointed the first full-time alumni sec retary by the College, where he remained until he purchased a general insurance agency in Waterv ille in 1 948. He was president of the Independent I n urance Agent As oc ia tion of Maine and was state national director of the Independent In urance Agents of America Inc. He served in several Waterville c ity government po itions and since 1 942 wa a member of the Waterville Rotary Club. He was pre ident and chair of the board at Waterville Osteopathic Hospital, pre ident of the Waterville Council of Hospitals and vice chair of the Maine Health Finance Manage ment Commission. A trustee of the Maine Health ystem Agency, he also was a tr tee of the Maine Hospital A ociation and re ceived its Distinguished Service Award in 1 979. He was a trustee, moderator and life deacon of the F i r t Bapti t C h u rc h of Waterville, treasurer of the Christian Civic League of Maine and on the board of the American Bapti t Churches of Maine. He was a 3 2nd degree Mason. As president of the Pine Tree Counci 1 of the Boy Scouts of America, he received its ilver Beaver Award for service to boyhood. When he retired in 1 9 7 2 , he re ceived the Distingu ished Community ervice Award from the Waterville Area Chamber of Commerce. Colby, who e Mayflower Hill cam pu , Alumni As ociation, Alwnni Council and 50-plus Club owe much to h is wisdom and fore ight, awarded him a Colby Brick in 1 9 5 2 and further honored h is service t o the College by naming the former Alpha Tau Omega fra ternity house Goddard-Hodgkins. Predecea ed by h is brother, Ralph '30, he is urvived by two daughter , Jacquelyn Black and Mel is a Ayer, a son, Samuel Goddard, five granddaughters and two great-grandsons.

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nizations, including football and the GleeClub, and majored in mathematics. After graduating a a member of Phi Beta Kappa, he wa a Rhodes Scholar at Balliol College in Oxford, England. He served [n the Navy during World War II as a meteorologist in the outh Pacific. In 1 94 7 he received a doctorate in math from Harvard University and was employed as an engineer at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland. He helped design and develop com puters and programming systems for Raytheon, Datamaticand Honeywell before joining IBM, where he led initiatives in advanced y tem automation for 30 years before hi retirement in 1 986. He was the author of cores of articles and scientific paper and held more than 20 patents. During h is career he received many honor and wa made a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. In 1 986, he and h is brother, the late Clark H. Carter '40, establi hed the Carter Professorhip in Mathematic , and in 1 987 he received the Distingui hed Alumnus Award from the College. He is survived by h is wife, V irginia, two ons, a daughter, a granddaughter and h is cousin, Kathryn Ca well MacDonald '36.

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Al ice LaRocque Brown '2 1 , a teacher, d ied August 8, 1 99 5 , in Northampton, Mass., at 96. A native of Lincoln, Vt., she taught English and h istory at schools in the Boston area from 1 920 to 1 929. She al o wa secre tary to the head of admis ion at Willi ton Academy in Easthampton, Mass., before be coming a teacher in the Westfield, Mass., public chool . S u rvivor include her son, Malcolm, and many niece and nephews.

H E LE N D RESS E R M c D O N A L D ·23 Helen Dresser McDonald ' 2 3 , a teacher, d ied January 28 in Waterville, Maine, at 93. he was born in South Portland, Maine, and at tended local school . At the College she was active in sports and drama. he taught French, biology, commercial math and English at South Portland H igh chool from 1 924 to 1 929 and later wa a ubstitute teacher. From 1 94 5 until her retirement in 1 969 she was a full-time English teacher and theatrical coach at Deering H igh School in Portland. She wa active with several organizations, incl uding the DAR, Delta Delta Delta orority, the Retired Teachers A sociationand the YMCA

She received a Colby Brick for her serYice to the College as cla s agent, captain of the Ford Foundation Challenge Campaign, member of the Alumni Council andpre identofthe Alum nae Association of Southwestern Maine. ur vivors include her daughter and on-in-law, R uth McDonald Roberts ' 5 5 and David Rob erts ' 5 5 , two grandchildren, Susan Robert '86 and Linda Robert· '88, and a great-grandson.

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Percy G . Beatty '24 d ied March 28, 1 99 3 , in Penney Farm , Fla. , at age 92. He was born in St. John, .B., and graduated from Water\' ii le, Ma ine, H igh School. H e received a bachelor of divinity degree from Andover-Newton Theological Seminary in 1 9 2 7 and was a Baptist pastor in churches in Lowell, Marlboro, Beverly and Boston, Mas ., and Pater·on, N .] . H is wife, Barbara Whitney Beatty ' 2 7 , d ied on December 29, 1 99 5 . He is survived by h i three grand ons and six great-grandchi ldren.

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Carl R. MacPherson '26, a prominent school offic ial , d ied September l 2 , 1995, in Abington, Ma . He wa 9 1 . He was born in Abington and graduated from Abington H igh chool in 1 92 1 . After Colby, where he was a member of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity and won letter in football and hockey, he tudied at Harvard University, and in 1 949 he earned a ma ter' degree from Bo ton Univer ity. He taught mathematic in Bridgewater, M a s., and at Brockton, Mas . , H igh School, where he was department head of mathematics and ma ter and hou emaster. He also wa a istant prin c ipal at Concord H igh School for two years. During hi 45 years in education he coached hockey, football and track and wa a ba ket ball and football offic ial for college and h igh schools for more than 25 year before hi retirement in 1 97 1 . He was president of the New England Football Official Association and held member h ips in a variety of organi zation , including the Ma sachusen Teach er A ociation and the Ma ons. He erved the College as chair of the Alumni Council and president of the Bo ton Colby Club. The Colby "C" Club' Man of the Year in 1 9 5 6 , he al o received a Colby Brick and a Colby Gavel award. Survivors include h is daughter, Ann S u l l ivan, four grandchildren, two great grandchildren and a nephew.

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BA R B A RA WH I T N EY B EATTY ·27 Barbara Whitney Beatty '27, a Baprisr church woman, died December 29, 1 99 5 , in Penney Farms, Fla . , ar 90. She wa born in Worcesrer, Mass. An English major ac Colby, she gradu ated from Gordon College with the degree of bachelor of religious education in 1927, the same year she married Percy G. Beatty '24. She erved as an assistant to her husband during his career as an American Baptist pastor. Follow ing their retirement in 1 977, the couple were active in anistic, l iterary and religious activi ties. Predeceased by her husband and daughter, she is survived by her son- in-law, Gary Cooper, three grandsons and six great-grandch i ldren.

E D WA R D R. N E W H A L L '28 Edward R . Newhall '28, a public relations director, d ied February 4 in G len R idge, N . J . He w a s 9 2 . He w a s b o rn in Lynn, Mass., and graduated from Kents H i l l eminary Prep School. At Colby he was a memberofLambda Chi Alpha fratern i ty. He worked at Benefi cial Management Corp. i n N ewark, Mor ristown and Peapack, N .J . , ret iring as director of public relation in 1 98 1 . Surv iving are h is three daughters, includ ing Barbara Newhall Stevens ' 5 8, a n iece and nephew, Eleanor horey Harris '57 and Roy Shorey '54, a great - nephew, J oel Harris '8 1 , e ight grand chi ldren and e ight great-grandchildren.

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Donald H . Fraser '29, a government adminis trator, died December 1 2 , 1 99 5 , in Texas at 90. After Colby, where he was a member of Phi Delta Theta fratern i ty, he received an M . A . i n education from Boston Univer i ty and taught in the Phil ippines. In 1 9 36 he became a social cience researcher, writer and editor with the U . . Children's Bureau and Social Security Administrat ion. Later he worked with the Civil Service Commi sion in Wa h ington and Hono l u l u and with the Atomic Energy Commission. After retiring in 1 962, he moved to Texas, where he wrote a humor column for the Denton, Texas, news paper and wa frequently quoted in national publicarion such as Reader's Digest and Ladies Home Journal. The father of three children, he wa a c i ty councilman of Lake Dal la , Texas, and an elder in the Presbyterian Church. ur vivors include his wife, Marguerite.

R U T H DA G G E TT F U L L E R '29 Ruth Daggett Fuller '29, a teacher, died N o vember 6, 1 99 5 , in Fairfield, Conn., at 8 7 . Born in Waterville, Maine, he wa a h igh school Engli h teacher in Hartland, Maine. A long-time member of the DAR, she a lso was a member and choir member of the Old South Congregat ional Church in Hallowe l l , Maine, a n d a member oft h e Gardiner, M aine,

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Choral ociety. Numerou Colby alumni in her family include her aunt, A l ice Purinton 1 899, the first alumnae secretary, both of her parents, and her late brothers Horace P. Daggett ' 3 3 and J ohn W. Daggett '4 1 . Survivors in clude two sons, James and Chri topher, two brothers, Cec il M . Daggett '38 and Robert B. Daggett ' 5 1 , seven grandchildren, 14 great grandchildren and several nieces and neph ews, including Susan Daggett Dean '67.

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Ph i l ip R. H iggins '29, an accountant, d ied November 2 1 , 1 9 9 5 , in Springfield, M ass., at age 87. Born and schooled in Presque Isle, Maine, he graduated from Penland H igh School and was an accounting major at the College. For many years he was an accounting supervisor for New England Telephone Co. and was a life member of the Telephone Pio neers of America. He erved the Springfield Masonic Temple in several h igh-level capaci ties and was trea urer and Sunday school su perintendentof the Bethe da Lutheran Church and an officer of the Red Cro . He leaves h i wife, Vivian, a son, a daughter, three grand children and five great-grandchildren.

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Charles N . Pinkham ' 3 2 , a biology teacher, died on J anuary 23 in Unity, M aine, at 8 7 . He wa born in Winthrop, Maine, where he at tended chools. During World War II he was employed by Western Electric Communica t ion in Lindhurst, N .] . For 30 years he taught in public schools in Searsmont, Rock land, Newcastle, Sabattus and Penobscot and in 1 962 earned a master's in educat ion at rhe University of Maine. From 1 967 until hi retirement h.e taught biology at Unity Col lege. He and h is wife, Ann, a lso owned and operated rh.e Picnic Whip Drive-In in West Rockport for 10 year . Survivors inc l ude h is wife, a son, a granddaughter, two great-grand children and a n iece.

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El izabeth C. Dyson '34, a teach.er, d ied De cember 3, 1 99 5 , in North Adams, Mass . , at 82. A North Adams native educated in local chools, she received a master's degree from North Adams Stare College in 1 956. She taught mathematics and science at her alma mater, Drury H igh School in North Adams, and at Mt. Greylock Regional H igh School, Pine Cobble chool, Buxton School and W i l liams College. urvivors include a n iece, Mara Sue Veazie Bass, and a nephew, W i l l i a m Dyson Jr.

PORT I A PE D L E TO R l D E O U T '34 Portia Pendleton Rideout ' 34, a teacher, died

January 23 in Clackamas, Ore., at age 83. he wa born in North Abington, Mass., and raised in Maine. At Colby she was a member of Phi Mu sorority and in later years served as class agent. She taught in several chools in the Boston area before moving to Augusta, M aine, where he volunteered in schools. I n 1 995 he moved to Oregon. She is survived by a daugh ter, Marilyn Lam merman, two sons, Ralph C. Rideout '59 and Lawrence B. Rideout, her sister, Beth Pendleton Clark ' 3 5 , 1 4 grandchil dren and nine great-grandchildren.

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Norman Rogerson '36, a teacher and tate legislator, died J anuary 1 2 in Portland, M aine, at 85. He was born in Island Fall , M aine, and educated at Ricker Classical I nstitute. After Colby, where he wa a member of Del ta Kappa Epsilon fraterni ty, he was employed by various federal agencies in Washington, D.C., Atlanta, New York and Boston. He left the U.S. Civil Service Commission to enter mili tary service as an agent in the Criminal l nves rigation Division of the U.S. Army in I ndia and Burma. After the war he taught at R icker J unior College and ubsequently engaged in busines and in agriculture. He wa active in community affairs and was e lected to two terms in the Maine House ofRepre entative and to two terms in the Maine Senate. After retirement he taught foreign language at Houlton, Maine, H igh chool. He is urvived by h is wife, Anna Stobie Rogerson '38, a daughter and two grandchildren.

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Thomas E. Adwin '37, a real estate broker, died December 1 5 , 1 99 5 , in Kingman, Ariz., at 8 2 . A t Colby he wa a member of Phi Delta Theta fraterni ty. A World War II veteran, he worked in sales and marketing for Hollock and Howard Lumber Co. and Davidson Ply wood of Los Angeles. He was active in Colo rado real estate and wa a real estate broker ince moving to Kingman in the early 1 980s. He is survived by a daughter, Cathy Coffey, a tepson and two grandsons.

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Helen Jevons Luther '37, a homemaker, died December 26, 1 99 5 , in Atlanta, Ga., at age 80. She was born in New York City. At Colby he wa a Chi Omega sorority member and class officer. After College she attended New York School of Secretaries and was employed a a ecretary. Her husband, Royal Luther ' 3 5 , predeceased her. She i urvived b y a daugh ter, El izabeth Engler.

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J ul i a Wheeler Morton '40, a fo ter care worker, d ied December 30, 1 99 5 , in We t

Orange, N .J . he wa 80. Born in M ontreal, Que., to Professor N athaniel Wheeler '09 and Annie Harthom Wheeler '08, she gradu ated from the Col l ege with a degree in rel i gion a n d worked i n c h i ldren ' s foster home care for Baptist M issionary Church 111 New York and M as achusett . From 1 9 7 3 to 1 980 she was employed by the College food ·er vice department. Her extended family in cluded n umerou Colby alumni. Surviving arc her daughter, J u l ie Mai llet, her i ter Grace W h e e l e r M a r h ' 3 5 and M a rtha Wheeler Ze ltsman '44, a brother, N athaniel H . Wheeler '42 , and two grandch ildren.

G E O R G E G . C A R OT H E R S 42 George G . Carothers '42, a decorator, died November l , 1 99 5 , in Zephyrh i l ls, Fla. , at 7 . Bom in Savannah, Ga., he graduated from Walpole, Mas ., H igh School and from Bridgton Academy. After sen· ice in the Navy during World War II he pursued a career as a painter and decorator. He i urvived by hi wife, J u l ia, a daughter , two step ons, two stepdaughters, 1 5 grandchildren and n i ne great-grandchi ldren.

A LTON G. "TE E " LAL I B E RT E 42 A l ton G. "Tee" Laliberte '42, an execut ive, died J anuary l in Waterv i l le, Maine, at 76. He wa born 111 Watervi lle and attended local schools. After Colby, where he wa a member of A lpha Tau Omega fraterni ty and won letters in hockey and baseball, he was a nav l aviator in the Afr ican and European theaters during World War I I . After the war he man aged Liberty Clean e rs before joining the C.F. Hathaway Co.; he retired in 1990 after 41 years a executive vice pre ident of Warnaco Inc. Men' Wear. He served the Waterville commu nity on the board of the YMCA, as chair of the United Fund Drive and later as pre ident of United Way, and he �erved the College on the Alumni Council. He is urvived by his wife, Anita Pooler Laliberte '42, a daughter, two on , three brothers, including Robert Laliberte ' 5 1 and Bernard Laliberte ' 52, six grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.

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Jeanice Grant Kee e '43 , a chemi t, died October 30, 1 99 5 , in York, M aine, at 74. he wa born in Merrill, M aine, and graduated from high school in Caribou and from Limetone College in South Carolina. She worked as a chemist for the Standard Oil Company and then for E . I . du Pont. From 1 94 5 to 1 949 he was an industrial engineer for Western Electric in New Jersey. Later she was manager of the accounting department for a real estate company in New Jersey. She moved to York in 1 984, where she was active in many clubs and ocietie . She is urvived by her hu band,

David, a son, a daughter, three granddaugh ters and several cous1m.

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Lendall W. Hayes '4 died January 8 m Califor nia at 7 2 . Born in Dover-Foxcroft, Maine, he artended Foxcroft and Fryehurg academic . H 1;, life-long intere r m band and cla>s1cal music began at Colby, where he mai ored m psychol ogy-sociology. He recei\·ed an M.A. in coun el ing and vocational guidance from an Diego tate University in 1 966 and for 30 year was an employment coun elor in the department of human resources development for the state of California. He is urvived by a daughter, Adrianne Beck, and a son, John Hayes.

A N C Y GAG E R H O\\'A R D 48 N ancy Gager Howard '4 , a homemaker, died January 6 in Norwalk, Conn., at 69. A life long resident of Norwalk, she graduated from Berkeley ecrerarial chool in N ew York and was a secretary at the Nat ional Bank of N orwalk from 1 94 7 to 1 9 50. She was member and volunteer for the Women's Board at Norwalk Ho pita! and was an avid sports woman. She is survived by her hu band , George, three ans, a sister, five grandchil dren, a niece and a nephew .

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J anet Bowmar Reynold '48, a psychothera p ist, d ied December 7, 1 995, in Worcester, Mass . , at age 68. She wa l om in Needham, M ass. , and raised in Abingdon, Ma s., where she attended school . he received her master's degree in soc ial work from Boston University in 1 9 50 and was chief ·ocial worker and director of treatment services at the North Central Massachusetts Mental Health Cen ter in Fitchburg, Ma s. She leave her hus band of 44 year , Frank B. Reynolds , three ans, a brother and ix grandchildren.

B A R B A RA F O L E Y F E LT 49 Barbara Foley Felt '49, a secrerary, d ied No vember 6 , 1 99 5 , in Woburn, Mass., at 6 7 . Born in Winchester, M ass . , where she made her home for many years, she attended Win chester H igh School. After Colby she at tended Hickox Secretarial School and wa employed as a secretary with General Electric of W i l mington for l O year . Surviving are two si ter and three nephews.

G E O R G I A A H OO K E R F I R T H '49 Georgiana Hooker Firth '49, a homemaker, died October 24, 1 995, in Trappe, Md., at 67. She was born in Oakland, Calif., and gradu ated from Scarsdale, N .Y., High School. After Colby she completed tudie at the Katherine

G ibb' chool in Brn,rnn, Ma". ' mce her mar riage m .I 950, she was a rc,1dent o( Trarpe. where she wa a supporter nf ,c \·eral l11Cal C l \'IC organ 1:at1on>. She b >un·i\·eJ by her hu band, Roger , two sons, two daughter , a hn 1rl1er, her stepmother and two grandchildren.

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Robert F. tarle, ' 5 1 . an in urance cxecuu\·e, died November 24, 1 99 5 , in Manche>ter, N . H . , at 69. He wa · born in Brockton, M a'' · · and was a graduate of Whitman ( M a>>. ) H igh chool and Coburn Classical lmrirure. He en·ed m the av\ during World War II before attending d1e College, where he wa' a member of Lambda Ch i Alpha fra tern ity and a cla s and student counc il officer. He wa-. vice president of Home I nsurance Comrany, sen·ing the company m evera l locatl' n m New England. Following his remement he owned and orerated Dana Assoc iate · Pen.on nel Agency in ashua, N . H . u n·i\·or in clude h is wife, Loretta Thompson taple ' 5 3 , a daughter, J an Ellen taples Wunderlich ' 7 7 , a on, three grandchildren, a brother, a 1 ter i n - law, Anna Thompson Bragg '69, and many nieces and nephews.

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Ol iver J. Sproul ' 5 2 , a stat istician, died J anu ary 15 in Augusta, Maine, at 77. He was bom in A ugusta and attended Cony H igh School and Coburn Clas ical I nstitute. An Army veteran of World War I I , he was a statistician for the rare for many years. He is survived by h is son , Jame · 0. proul , two daughter , Dori Dixon and Marie proul, two brothers, ev eral sisters, five grandchildren and everal niece and nephews.

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tephen . Garment '62 , a USA Toda)· em ployee , d ied in August 1 99 5 in France at age 54. He was born in Brooklyn, N .Y., and at tended t. Paul' School in Garden City, N .Y. At Colby he tudied philosophy and l i nguistics and was a member of the Interna tional Relations Club. After Colby he wa a tran la tor in various Army office in Europe. He served with the I n ternational Trade Ad ministration and then a an anti -dumping inve tigator for the Department of the T rea sury of the U . . Customs ervice from 1 97 to 1 9 0 and in the Far East Di vi ion with the Department of Commerce until 1 9 2 . He was a member of the Hunger Project since 1 97 7 . I n 1 9 3 he joined U S A Today, where he was a coordinator in the graphics and photogra phy department and headed the newspaper's staff at the 1 99 2 W i nter O l y m p i c in Albertvi Ile, France. He d ied near Septmoncel in the J ura Mountains in eastern France in a hiking accident. urvivors include h is wife, Genevieve.

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A Storehouse of Memories B y Earl Sm ith

ot so long ago ,

pretty

fair football player

and- wagon enterprise,

student of ' l i m means, q u i e t ly

red d l i ng d ry gl)l lds thwugh

o utfitted at no charge .

th ink so. ) W i l l whatever team beat Bowdoin ? ( Oh

flunked ow of Colby and , after

o u t the Kennebec Val ley.

a year away , returned for a

The first �tore was \)pened in

c ustomers to Levine's was

session with me to prepare j(ir

1 89 1 on the main floor of the

not so much the price

( A re there big ones for foot

the requisite readmission

Lev ine home ( where the sons

( wh ic h were fi ne, thank

bal l ? Ta l l ones for basketbal l ? Fast ones for trac k ? )

The magnet that drew

inten1iew •with the Committee

s t i l l l i ve ) on Ticon i c Stree t .

on Academic Standing. I

you ) as i t was the persona l i

W i th i n a ha lf-dozen years i t

t i es of t h e propri etors,

tu tored him on questions he

had moved to M a i n Street,

prec ious Colby j ewels who,

might be asked and gently

near City Hall, and t hen to

f or sn many student and

added that a sport coat and tie

i ts final location at the south

a l u m n i , were nearly as

might improve his chances .

end of Main Street . Through

much a part of the Colby

The student afJ/Jeared the

those yems ownership pas

experience as the fac u l ty

following morning, resplendent

frnm the father to the sons ,

who ta ught them. I ndeed ,

Ludy Levine '2 1 anll Pacy

for many a l u ms ut a l l age ,

new blue bla �er . I

interce/)ted him as he was

Le\· ine '27, and, fi nal ly, to

no return to Col by wa

about to encer the meeting.

the nephew, Howard M i l ler

complete w i thout a

"You fool< great , but let me

'40, where the remarbhle

re u n i on at the store where

hel/) yoi; cut this thing off, " I

�tring ha run out.

said , /Jointing tn

bright yellow

m i rac le that the store l asted

hanging below the l'ent .

so long- 1 0 5 years. For the

There was n o such

la't decade L1r so i t was

Lev ine's, never a mere

strugg l ing agai nst the tide li

�hopp ing trip. Some t i mes,

nat ion a l c h a i n and d iscount c loth ing giants.

if you wanted to, you could even wa i t wh i le the tai lor

t i l l , the

c los i ng of Lev i ne's was a

made a l tera t ions ( no

terrib l e loss f or Waterv i l le.

charge ) . You wou ldn't be

shopping m a l l s it wan t , but

On Mayflower H i I l we

bored. The ever- inquisit ive

none w i l l prod u c e a store

consoled ourselves by te l l ing

Ludy ( now 9 7 ) , inc hes

that w i l l make loans to

and rete l l i ng Lev i ne's stories.

from your face; Pacy ( 9 1 ) ,

America can b u i ld a l l the

treet is c hanged forever-

th ing a a quick top at

" Better not . " the student swd,

loan . So's the tie . "

Today, t h e rhythm o f l i fe and enterprise on M a i n

tour of the Colby Corner

tucl<ing the tag into the baci< of his troi;sers . " The jaci<et 's on

look of the fresh man c lass ?

muse u m wa obl igatory .

It was some t h i ng of a

LEVINE'S I SALE tag

please , Lord . ) What's the

s t udents tempora r i l y i n need

Teachers who brought u p

i n terpret ing, repeating

of d ressi ng up. These k i nds

y o u n g sons n i c e l y dressed

answers. And Howard, a

The Lev i n e broth ers, L u d y ' 2 1 a n d Pacy ' 2 7 , a n d t h e i r n e p h e w Howard M i l l e r '40 f i n a l ly c a l l ed 1t q u its

and Colby has lo t someth ing

of p laces- i f there ever were

w i th c l othes that were freely

wan smi l e and a measuring

other pl aces l ike th is-are

charged-w i thout in terest

tape around h is shoulders,

as wel l . No doubt we shou l d

gone. Gone for sure w i t h the

year after year. Pacy abso

pat ient ly wa i ting to make a

be grateful t h a t we've known

spr i ng c losing of Levi ne's on

l u tely refusing to sel l a

sale. Is not the campus the

the store and the men who

Main Street i n W a te rv i l l e .

part icu lar coat on sale

most beau tifu l place on

ran it-and we are-but we

because i t was "not good

eart h ? ( H av i ng een the

are sad , too, that future

W i l l ia m Lev ine, the store

enough" to be worn at the

m i racle of Mayflower H i l l

Colby s tudents w i l l not share

had its begin n i ngs a a horse-

Col lege . And the occasional

from i t s beginn ing, they

the experience. +

Founded by Russian-born

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Before First Light By the t ime Jawn breaks over M ayflower H i l l , evera l hours of work already have been compl e ted by the legion of c us to d ians, cooks and m a i n tenance personnel across c ampus. Meet some of them, beg i nn ing on page 8.