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War is not a suitable image for Colby aspirations; is Colby an academic institution or a resort ? 3

periscope

Gleaned from Earl Smith's weekly newsletter, F.Y.I. 4

from the hill

Lunder Wing dedicated; Raspberry wants good news; Didier Kamundu Batundi works for peace in Congo.

fe.

Digging for clues from J esus's time; G u i lain Denoeux shapes Lebanon; Richard Sewell returns to Macbeth's Birnam Wood.

fund-raising success. 14

30 A face for the homeless

books & authors

J eff Wuorio ' 79 takes worry out of managing money; poet Ronald Moran '58 hooks fish out of water; Mary Beth M i l ls explores Thai migration.

Macy Delong '71 helps others help themselves. 20

faculty file

Meet Bro Adams

Colby's next president and h is family share thoughts on the College and a new l ife in Waterville.

mules on the move

Rugby team bound for nationals, again; runner Sarah Toland '00, an All-Ameri..an. 34

student life

J ake Conklin '00 works for public health; Colby bookstore girds for on- line competition; Maria Gonzalez '0 1 bolsters foreign trade. 37

gifts & grants

Internship fund, professorship honor Cotters; gifts establish two more faculty chairs. 64

final period

For Earl Smith (and others) the issue was tissue.

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rofiles.

classnotes

obituaries

42 Ruth Winterbo

Peacock '58

SO J ohn Bunker ' 7 2 5 4 Valerie Jean M i l ler '84 58 Susan N ackoney '95

readers write

Colby co l lege, I ugges t the curren t leader hip o f

No Arms in College Race Co lby i abour educa tion and nor a bou t winning war . The ar tic le "Vying for cho l ar " (Jeff Wuorio '79, f al l 1999 Colby) is fi l led wirh war re ferences ."Co lby and o ther e li te co l lege and uni\·er i tie are engaged in a type o f war wi th one ano ther-vying to lure the be t and brigh tes t tha t they can, to recrui t gi f ted f acu lry, to con tinue to win g ran

for new buildings and for new aca

demic and ex tracurricu la r programs. Tha t require an expensi ve arsena l o f uper la ti\•e p rog ram , f acili ties and sen·ice . . . . The battle

no t mere ly fue led by o ther in ti tu

tton . . . . But i f the arm race ana logy is valid, how do you mea ure i f Co lby is win n1 11g1 . . . Then there a re the 'win ra tes' how o f ten Co l by won the tug-of-wa r when app lican t al o were accep ted a t o ther co l lege . . . . I f the ana logy o f a war among e lire co l lege 1s accura te, and i f one o f the cost o f rhe war 1 s rhe p ricerag on a

o lby educa tion,

rhe vic tor 111 the con f lic t isn't necessari ly an) one choo l whose win ra te is be tter or who e dorms park le the mos t. . . . " The ana logy to wa r is offen i ve and inap p rop na te 111 a wor ld tormen ted by war, which ha; cm t mi l lion o f li\•es and injurie and yer ni l th rearem ro des troy humani ty .

ure ly

rhere are be ner ana logie to use to descri be olby ' effor t ro be an exce llen t co l lege.

Co lby has gone as tray. I'm chi ld o f the

th ropic institution. Take

1L .1Jem ic

peop le and organi:a tions wo rking to imp ro ve Wommack ' 7 7's

a ture Conservancy ) .

S o are s tuden ts a t leas t ge tting good aca demics? lo t judging by the qua li ty o f the economics in the ar tic le by S tephen Co l lins ' 74,"The E rs twhi le E lm Ci ty." Co l lins ou t lines, and I app laud, Pre idem Co tter 's in Wa te rvi lle, a n effor t near to the hear ts o f those o f us who ha te spraw l . Bu t the ar tic le i t e lf lacks da ta, con tain ing in tead a Ii t o f companie which ha ve lef t, companies which remain, and compa nies which have arrived . How abom a mea the down town busines e have more re venue o r less? Do they emp loy more o r fewer work ers? Is the ef for t accomp lishing any thing? Looks to me as though Co lby's ef for t to a ttrac t qua li ty s tuden ts by bui lding beau ti fu l

Cha lmers Harden bergh '6 7 Yarmou th, Maine

Missed Spellings

Me llon Founda tion, are te timony to the fac t rhat

o lby 1s an ou t randing ins ti tu tion

o f h igher learn1 11g . Wha t wou ld the founda

quote one tuJen t who came Im rhe dorm>,

t1on ;ay (not to ment1on Bare;and Bowdoin ) ,

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howe ver, 1 f 1 t were to read your ar ticle and

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emiccolo MacLeay '97 staff writer Joanne Lafreniere staff assistant Karen Oh '93 on-line coordinator

Brian Speer, Jeff Earickson, Karen Oh '93 contributing photographers Front cover photo: Gordon Wenzel Matt Apu::o '00, Jon King, Earl Smith conrribucing writers

sure o f how wel l the ef for ts have worked? Do

rhe mo' t quali f1eJ ;ruden t ,

11, \\\en:r, the .i rt1 de remark thar n\ the

Alicia

vo lving Co lby in a down town re vi va l o f

The new CBB in terna tiona l cen te rs,

co pay ."

Leo Pando illustrator

li fe fo ro ther humans and species (such as Ken t

opened wi th an award from the Andrew W.

rel.!.1rJJc,, nf rhe1r ahd1t\

rephen Collins '74 executive editor

1 4 mi llion , and give i t to

uper la t1ve

o l h\ : "pronde w

ta te

Robert Gillespie Alumni at Large ediwr

tuden ts [curren t enro llmen t is l, 764] to an anriua l to ta l of

Bo), the la r 1 ue rea l ly go tmy dander up .

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10,000 o f each

ab le to wri te on ly gene ra lis t ar tic les .

,1r," .1rucle. I agree \n th rhe mi;, ion

Brian Speer an direcwr

s tuden ts ro work, and set up a gian t philan

a tmosphere has le f t rhem fu::y in the head,

Ler\ r.ir t" 1 th the top: the" y1 11g for cho l

Gerry Boyle '78 managing ediwr

Wha t would I do? Cm a ll f ri lls , put the

s tuden t's year ly cos t,which works out for 1 ,400

umber 1

Colby Staff:

ix ties to suppor t the no tion:

"Live simp ly, rha t o thers may simp ly live ."

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rephen choeman '64 or h P la1 m, .J.

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Administration: William R. Cotter, president; Peyton R. Helm, vice president for developmem and alumni relations; Earl H. Smith, dean of the College; Margaret Viens '77, director of alumni relations Alumni Council Executive Committee:

John Devine '7 , Chair; Lou Richardson '67, Vice Chair; Eleanor Amidon '75; David Bergquist '61; James Bourne '81; Bruce Drouin '74; Ernest Fortin '51; Lisa Hallee '81; Diana Herrmann '80; Barbara Bone Leavitt '52; Joanne Weddell Magyar '7 l, WenJy Kennedy Ralph '90, hri!.topher Tompkins ' 9; Johnston Whitman '59; Alex Wilson '73; Philip Wysor '70 Colby 1s published four times yearly for the alumni, frienJs, parents of stuJcnt>, seniors, faculty anJ staff of Colby College. Addrcs corresponJence to: Managmg Editor, Colby 41 I Mayflower Hill Waterville, ME 04901-8841 or e-mail ro: mag@colby.eJu

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periscope Set in Pompano James Boylan (English) has

signed a four-book contract with HarperCollins and 1 7th treet Productions for a new series of novels aimed at the college market. Television rights go to Fox. The series, set in Pompano Beach, Fla., begins appearing in late fall 2000. Cosby & Colby Carol Fuller, erstwhile lieutenant in the development army, and entertainer Bill Cosby LLD. '92 share the same dentist-the father of Allyson Goodwin 87 another escapee from the fund-rai ing shop. Carol and Cosby were both getting teeth fixed on a recent morning, and Bill was wearing the Colby sweatshirt given to him at commencement in 1 99 2 . Carol prai ed h i s choice of apparel, and Cosby allowed that he was wearing the shirt at the taping of h is TV show later that day. '

A Raft of Joy In September more than 2 0 students took t o Johnson Pond in homemade rafts to compete in an SGA-sponsored regatta. Teams had one hour to build rafts (no dorm furniture or boating materials allowed) before racing them across the pond and back to the cheers and jeer of a substantial gallery of spectators. "Love Boat," captained by Jon Allen '00 and made from two inflatable women and two inflatable Darth Maul chairs, was the quickest to capsize, j ust 1 5 feet from shore. The fastest entry was a Huck Finn style raft skippered by SGA president Ben Humphreys '00. Humphrey 's team spent $2 5 0 on air mattresses and other materials to capture the $200 first prize.

Maine. The president of the University of South Dakota recognized a South Dakotan and an alumnus when he saw the piece, and he invited Bassett to give the 2000 graduation speech in Vermil lion, S.D. Bas ett, who earned a B.A. there 45 years ago and stayed on to get an M.A. in 1 956, says he'll be back here in time for Colby's l 79th commencement on May 21 .

Moosecellaneous Forty new faculty include three Colby gr ads Tina Beachy '93, Jim Cook '78 and Bernadette Graham '96 . . . . We've seen a photo of a North Carolina car carrying the license plate 1 COLBY . . . that's Shannon Baker '96, former SGA president and now a med student at UNC-Chapel Hill. ... Peter Harris (English) had a poem in the October Atlantic Monthly . . . . Jonathan Kaplan '94 is policy advisor to Tipper Gore, wife of the U.S . VP and Democratic candidate for president . . . . The seismograph in Colby's geo department got what Bob Nelson calls "an absolutely spectacular" record of the October 1 6 earthquake in southern California . . . . Susan MacKenzie '80, who teaches the Jan Plan course The Greening of Faith and is director of the World Council of Churches' spirituality and stewardship program, was named Conservat ionist of the Year by the Maine Chapter of the Sierra Club. She's married to Michael Donihue '79 (economics). -

Tony a Brookings Fellow Tony Corrado (government) has been named a Senior Fellow of the Brookings I nstitution in Washington, D.C., where he will work on campaign finance issues and assist in the development of a Web site tracking new legal developments in campaign finance law.

association board in Decem ber. Students began measuring phosphoru concentrations and taking lake sediment samples last winter and continued their studies through the spring. During the summer, Carrie Brooke '00 (Summit, N.J.) and Jon Brooks '99 (Chester, Vt.) lived and worked at the pond.

Service Learning with Impact The Ea t Pond Association ha made a partnership with the Colby Environmental Studies program to deal with the pond's elevated phospho rus content. For the past two years, East Pond, the headwa ter of the Belgrade Lakes chain, has experienced unpleasant algae blooms. Colby students, working with Dave Firmage (biology), developed prevention and remediation recommendations for presen ta ti on to the

No Hunting If you think it goes without saying that there is no hunting allowed on the Colby campus, it ain't so. Because of a new law that permits bow and arrow hunting within municipal limits, there are some hunters who think it is open season on the Colby deer

Robed in Vermillion When Charlie Bassett (American studies) was on the cover of The hronicle of Higher Education in July, one might have concluded that only a S uth Dakotan could say "there's no place warmer" than

herd. Not so. Colby is private land. The campus is also an official State Game Preserve. Our land is posted. More signs are going up. Meanwhile, if you bring an apple for lunch, don't put it on your head. Our Own Hilary Hilary Gehman '93 was

named to the U.S. National Rowing Team after finishing fourth in the women's quadruple sculls at the World Rowing Championships at St. Catherine's, Ontario, in Augu t. H i lary is the rowing coach at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Ore. Scholar Athletes Women's volleyball and men's nordic ski ing top the list of teams with the highe t average GPA over the last academic year. Cro s country was second among women's teams, and alpine ski ing wa third. Cross country also took second among the men's teams, with tennis third. Twenty-three of the 3 2 Colby varsity teams (1 6 men, 1 5 women, l coed) had average G P As of 3 .0 or better. Last year Colby had 708 athletes in 32 vars ity sport , 9 3 of them dual- or tri-sport athletes. To these add 467 students in 10 club sports and near! y 1 , 500 compet i tors in 1 4 intramural sports. (Yes, there's some overlap or we had 2 ,67 5 tudents in 1 , 7 3 9 beds . ) W I N T E R

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CO L B Y

A from the hill Sti l l Life with Broun Director of National Museum of American Art helps dedicate Lunder Wing B)· Gerry Bo)·le

hen E li:abeth Broun

cure in saying that 1 wou ld not

tepped to the lectern

be here at all, nor wou ld 1 have

la t fall to help dedicate the

a lifetime of enjoyment, but for

Lunder Wmg of the Co lby Mu

the impact of my experience

eum of Art, he surveyed a ha l l

wirh a univer ity art mu eum.

fil led with luminarie i n the fie ld The a >emb led,Broun noted,

m ton,

ne \\· lan uage. It is a language of

anta Fe and

art. Like music, it is a language

ew York and Wash

that i non-verba l, but it is sti ll

had come from Or lando,

"Being in a p lace like thi affords a student to acquire a

of American art.

earr le and Lo

Ange

tota l ly capab le of expre sing

le . When Broun, director of

every nuance of rhe human ex

ationa l Museum of Ameri

perience. 1t is a fu l l and rich

the

mirhsonian ln-

language wirh a vocabu lary that

mution,exp lained thar he a lso

i unique and one that, once you

can Art at the

had come a long way to the

learn it and come to know other

event, he wa referring nor to

peop le who know it, it creates a

her flight from Wa hington bur

lifetime of enjoyment."

ro her

own per ona l hi tory.

Broun, who ha

" l wa rai ed m a very ma l l

President William R. Cotter. left, applauds at dedication of the Lunder Wing of the Colby Museum of Art. Shown with Cotter are Paula and Peter Lunder '56.

said her

own mu eum' mandate i "to

Feather" by Georgia O'Keeffe;

her election of representative

"Barn, Brooksvil le, Maine" by

works from rhe co llection, espe

town m outhea tern Kan a -

encompa s cu lture a

ahout ten thou and [peop le],"

art," cited six of her personal

Maurice

P r e n d e r ga s t; a n d

cia lly Braun's interpretation of

favorite

"Church at Head Tide, Maine"

"Sti ll Life with Oranges," in

by Marsden Hart ley.

which she compared the oranges

Broun

aid. "l didn't even

w e l l as

from the Co lby col

know, nor had e\· e r met, a col

lection: "Portrait of Mrs.

lector of any rype unn l 1 fi

Metcalf B o w ler " b y Joh n

nal ly went to choo l."

Hugh Gour ley, director of

to dancers on stage. " l don't

ing leton Cop ley; anonymou

rhe Co lby Museum of Art, later

think that anyone who heard

portrait of the Rev. ilas l ls ley;

said Braun's lecture set the per

her talk will ever look at the

" ti l l Life with Orange " by

fect tone for the dedication of

McC losky sti l l life without re

Ll\ \rence, which h e >ay ha>

W1l l1am McC losky;" hel l and

the Lunder Wing. He praised

membering," Gour ley aid.

But then he arrived at the n1\ c r >It\' of

Kan a

one of the namm\ fine>t

Broun, a c lose friend of

uni\· e r 1ty art mu eum .

museum benefactor Paula

Broun

and Peter Lunder '56, first

oon

4u.11n ted

hcLame ac-

\\1th curator

anJ t.1c.u lt\ member .

came to rhe Co lby museum

in May 1 997 for the open

\\.Itched ,1 the\ a' emh lcd

ing of the exhibit "White

ml u,cd the mu,cum' ,1rt

House Collection of

\< rk . Fwm tlur

pnnc-

1 Jrd, Broun \ .1ultcd to n n1011

American

ot �m1111: n,c, di

opening of a new

re 1mco11< ul dw oun r\ \ tine t mu cum ot l 111

xhibit,

"Modernism and Abstrac

rner1-

tion: Treasure

"l l.jlll< 1

rafts."She will

return in August for the

from the

mith onian Mu eum of lo11nJ till·

American Art." That exhibit wi ll be >hown at the mu>eum from Augu>t l to October 1 5 . "There'> never been any thmg like 1t in Maine," S

L 'e

•

Oranges o o can as 18 /a'124 /a'

Gour ley promised.

Raspberry Advocates Less Negativism in News Washington Post columnist Wil

journalists are, and i t seems to me

liam Raspberry, the 1 999 Lovejoy

that that extraord i nary grant of

journalism award recipient, used

privilege must mean something

h is address in November to take

beyond the right to hector Pete

his profession to task for favoring

Rose," he said, using Jim Gray's

conflict over substance and for re

controversial interview during

porting "what's gone wrong" to

baseball's recent World Series as

the virtual exclusion of "what's

an example.

gone right."

Calling for more good news is

Raspberry, whose commentary

tricky, though. " I f our pages were

appears in more than ZOO papers

devoted to s tories on S unday

and who is renowned for h is analy

School picnics and smoothly func

sis of race relations, politics and

tioning agencies and B students,

social issues, received the 4 7th

we argue, with such sweet reason,

Elijah Parish Lovejoy award on

nobody would buy our papers,"

November 1 2 . Addressing a nearcapacity crowd in Lorimer Chapel,

Washington Post columnist William Raspberry and Michelle-Nicolle Rahmings '01 in Lorimer Chapel, where Raspberry received the Lovejoy Award.

he preached what he practices: constructive journalism.

Raspberry said. He presented as a possi ble

model the sports section, where "the sterling play and all the up-side

"Our training, the news values we inculcate, the feedback we get

good stuff' is reported right along with "the bad plays and off-the

from our editors-all these things encourage us to look for trouble, for

field misbehavior, the lackadaisical effort and idiotic recruiting

failure, for scandal and, above all, for conflict," he said. Whether it's

decisions." A critical d ifference between news and sports sections is

about the local school board or the U.S. Congress, the coverage is

that readers and editors expect sportswriters not to be indifferent to

destructive if it causes readers to lose respect for the institutions of

their teams' success. "But if my colleagues on the sports pages of the

society. "The needs of a democracy-civil d iscourse-and the needs

Washington Post make clear that they'd like to see the Redskins and

of a working journalist are at odds. One wants comity, the other loves

the Wizards succeed, those on the news side often seem not to care

conflict. I t's a serious problem."

whether our city or our nation succeeds."

I t has become a lazy habit of reporters to seek bad news, Raspberry

Before the speech President Bill Cotter presented Raspberry with

said: "We'll walk past a dozen successful families in search of the

an honorary doctor of laws degree and praised the combination of

d isaster that illuminates the pathology of the ghetto."

insightful analysis and common sense that has marked Raspberry's

Reviewing the importance of a free press and the privileges

lifelong crusade for personal responsibi lity and social j ustice.

granted to reporters by the framers of the Const i tu tion, Raspberry

The Lovejoy award is given each year to honor the memory of

said, " Hell, we've got our own amendment-or at least part of an

Elijah Parish Lovejoy, valedictorian of Colby's Class of 1 826, who

amendment. Doctors are granted no explicit right to practice their

became the first American martyr to freedom of the press when he was

craft untrammeled. Lawyers aren't, nor are engineers or teachers. But

killed defending his newspaper against a pro-slavery mob in Illinois.

A Collaboration Not Without Precedent Admirers of William Rasp

into a semi-public forum.

be a column in that."

are worthless human beings; Z)

berry traveled from Massachusetts

If so, it would be the second

Four-fifths of a follow-up

and New Hampshire to meet the

Raspberry column that Berger

column consisted of quotes from

man behind the pen and to hear

inspired. In 1 989, when Berger

a letter Berger wrote in reply. In

"We need to lead kids to

his address at the 47th Lovejoy

was working for the National

it Berger complained that gradu

think, lead them to question

Convocation. One fan who didn't

Science Foundation to reform

ates of American schools and

results and answers, lead them

have to travel far, though, was

m a t h e d u c a t i o n and when

colleges ordinarily have seen

to solve interesting problems

Thomas Berger, the Carter Pro

George Bush was promising that

little or no "real" math: "they

and stop lecturing at them and testing them with rote tests,"

they will never be able to do math, and 3 ) they hate math.

U.S. students would be "first in

have j ust learned to compute."

After Raspberry's speech

the world" in math achievement

" I n the beginning we make

Berger a ked a question about

by 2000, Raspberry published a

great progress. But as we ap

After Raspberry's "I'll-have

the role that bylines play in the

series of columns questioning the

proach our human limitations

to-get-back-to-you-on-that" re ply to Berger's question about

fessor of Mathematics.

Berger said.

tenor of stories. I ntrigued by a

content and direction of Ameri

of skill, each little bit of im

possible cause-and-effect rela

can math instruction. As is his

provement takes much more

bylines in November, at least a

tionship he had never pondered,

custom, he invited discussion and

drill and practice. By fifth grade

few people are watching the op

Ra pberry replied, 'There may

turned his syndicated soap box

[a lot of people] know: 1 ) they

ed pages, hoping for a sequel.

WINTER

2000

CO L B Y

The Deeds of Didier For Oak Human Rig hts Fellow, a glimmer of hope warrants total commitment By Gerry Bo)· le

ne day la t fa l l, Didier Kamundu Batundi ac

companied departing vi itor from his Watervi l le apart

the peop le,

defend tho e right .

to be

strong."

Kamundu found his trength

In the Congo of recent years,

in law books rather than guns.

this was a dangerous lesson.

The son of a fa rmer, he fi led

The Goma-area popu lation

ment. Out ide it was windy,

of 3 mi l lion swe l led in 1994

lega l actions on beha lf of peop le

co ld and damp, but Kamundu

when ome 2 mi llion refugees

who were i l lega l ly imprisoned

nac-

arrived from neighboring Rwan

and tortured. He found that he

customed to having to bundle

da, escapees from the horrific

not on ly had to challenge the

up, he aid, he wa a lway leav

ethnic genocide there. In re

government but a lso

ing h1 jacket behind.

cent year Congo a lso has een

war-weary Congolese that they

the ou ter of long-time presi

had any right at a l l.

et o ff in shirt Jeeves.

W a s 1t commentary on

toconvinee

laine, where Ka

dent Mobutu Sese Seko. That

He said the human rights

mundu, a former human rights

ouster has been accompanied

organization he formed had

advocate in the Democratic Re

by a mu lti-layered war that has

many peop le working for it,

public of Congo,was m re idence

pitted native

many vo lunteer . And activi ts

a the second Oak Human Right

the Tut i refugees from Rwanda,

like him, working from the be

Fel low' Or wa 1t a symptom of

rebe l force against the Kabi la

ginning? "Between three and

the tate of exi le Kamundu has

government, Rwandan Hutus

five peop le," he said.

been m mce f leemg Congo with

against the

weather m

ongo lese against

Didier Kamundu Batundi

That group is now growing.

ongolese rebe l . c o untrymen

And a the nuc leu , Kamundu

have been mired in this quag

has attracted the attention of

Kamundu said, and now eco

KamunJu, 29, a oft-spoken

mire, and his fami ly, too. Asked

internationa l human rights

nomic disaster exacerbates his

man who;,e ;,e lf-effacing man

how many fami ly member died

groups. He won the Reebok Hu

country's p light.

ner be lie h1 courage, f led hi

in the fighting, Kamundu said

man Rights Award in

1998,

But wars do end, he said.

countrv after h1; life was threat

matter-of-fact ly, "Qua ran te

Co lby's Oak Human Rights Fe l

Between 1975 and 1993, there were no ethnic wars in Congo.

on ly the c lothe -if not the iacket-<m h1 back'

Kamundu'

ened by both the Kab1la gov

trois." Forty-three brother ,

lowship in l999. In

ernment and forces from

aunts, unc le , grandparent . He

Kamundureceived the 1999 G lo

eighboring countries like

ne1ghbormg Rwanda. R e ett leJ

quick ly pointed out that the 14

bal Youth Peace and To lerance

Benin and Tanzania have

m Lyon , France, wtth h1 wife

brothers he has lost were from

Young Adu lt Award, accepting

avoided ethnic strife. And other

anJ three youn� chi ldren,

his father'

the award at the United Na

long-standing divi ion on the

K 1, munJu pent the fa l l ;,eme -

marriages, cu ternary in Congo.

tions. That event was fo llowed

continent, inc luding apartheid,

rer

olh workmg to educate

four po lygamou

Kamun<lu <lid not want hi

ovember,

from wars that do not end,

by another at the P laza Hote l in

have been erased, Kamundu

AmenLam a1'out the p light of

per ona l losses exaggerated,

ew York, where other honor

noted. It is up to the Congolese

h1, country anJ conrmenr.

though the ki lling of 43 fami ly

ees inc luded Mikhail Gorbachev,

to he lp themse lves and

member wou ld appear

Arno ld

trie

T eaLhmg " not new

K.1munJu. Rur m �lame 1t \\<ha

Amencam

mo t

be beyond exag

chwarzenegger and

Zubin Mehta.

geration. He al o g los ed over

After being feted in

He pent e.ir l1er year ven-

he., reported heroic>, mc luJmg

York, Kamundu returned

re cumg a bu - load of refugees

Watervi lle,

fr<>m rhe

Cit\' ofGom, 1

rur.d \i l l.lgl'' 111 rernwne . \ , 1 1,1 .m I he mJ

ew to

his apartment

A difficu lt question, Ka mundu said.

urroundeJ hy a vio lent mob,

the

"One cannot ay I have no

Watervi lle Pub lic Library, and

hope," he said, with M Devitt

extraorJmary."

to h1

interpreting. "But one cannot

lo llt• 1gul r 1Ughr \m

on E lm

treet, next

that !ace' h1 country 1 "It 1 al

du' mmd not

m<ht

exi le, he wi ll continue

t lllJH Pl'·'' mt

th.H rhn h.1J

too much

for one nanon

m1:, ion.

I hlttcrlr< P'· K.ununJu,d <>

It 1s Jaunung but m Kamun

1:.yphcan. A; an to

work

ll\11 .mJ I >1111 .d nghr,, um

l''L.lpl' from,"hl,,uJ, 'peaking m

ll( t .1 hl'n

French rhruugh interpreter �lor

peop le out of their "m1.,ery," he

have hope for his country?

"1\mg he J1Jn't Jo "anything Bur rhe lahynnthme ha llcnge

llll

tn gnm more

I< 1

tate

'orrh K1, u There

g k'e r e.1 mt .111

for coun

help as we ll, he aid. So does he

n1:\\ .1uJ11.:nLe .mJ a ne \\ me"age. 1unnc

like the United

10 ''

tl1l·111, .mJ colJ the u1

rhcm to

g.m, kl

.,.Ill '

l "Ir 1 up ro u ,

rry

a1J. It

lift the

ongo le>e

I'> very difficu lt ro rebui

ay I have a lot of hope." And then Kamun< lu turned and summed it up. "Ouiet non,"he aid,hi mi le both >oft and ad." Pa trop." ot a lor.

Committee on Race Prompts Debate

wit & wisdom

In a process worthy of Capitol Hill, a proposal to establish a multicultural affairs committee at Colby got bogged down in com mittee this fall, endured a veto and was being resusc itated in an

"Astronauts [returning from weightless conditions] who tilt their

altered form in December.

heads feel like they're moving sideways, which is why there's

After a call by tudents last spring for a standing College committee on racial concerns, a debate ensued over whether that committee

this big debate over whether they [or a computerized autopilot]

should be limited to matters of race or should include other aspects of

should be allowed to land the Space Shuttle."

diversity-sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity and gender, for ex

-Jan Elise Holly (mathematics), in a lecture titled "Why,

ample. In September the 3 5-member President's Council, the legisla

Really, Do Pilots Become Disoriented Enough to Crash," about her research for NASA on mathematical models for predicting the types of disorientation that occur when humans are subjected to unusual motion conditions.

tive branch of the Student Government Association (SGA), approved the formation of a committee with the broader mandate. Then, when the matter went to the College's Academic Affairs Committee in October, that body voted to include an "interlocking" or interacting

"Dispositional optimism is a good thing. There is tons and tons of

committee on race and racism.

evidence that being an optimistic person, generally, is related to

The interlocking committee had to go back to the Presidents'

less heart disease, less cancer, all sorts of things."

Council for approval. Some members felt the additional committee could only help focus attention on race-related problems. Others,

-Bill Klein (psychology), in a talk, "Positive and

including SGA President Ben H umphreys '00, felt a separate commit

Negative Health Implications of Optimism."

tee on race minimized the other issues that a multicultural committee might address. After much debate, the single interlocking committee

"A case can be made that local capital is better than trans

was passed 1 7-9 by the Presidents' Council. But Humphreys vetoed it.

national capital."

The debate crackled across campus and some students accused

-John Milton Talbot

(sociology), in a talk on how tea-, coffee- and cocoa-producing nations are affected when they build commodity chains from the bottom up as opposed to having foreign-based corporations control processing and distributron.

Humphreys of i nfringing on the democratic process. Humphreys proposed a system of six interlocking committees to deal with areas where bias and discrimination are potential problems. Interviewed in the Echo and on WMHB, Humphreys defended his veto, saying, "it would be morally reprehensible to not pay equal attention to all acts

"On the other hand, I've had a lot of support from some of the

of d iscrimination and issues of multiculturalism."

goodest, oldest boys in Civil War history."

The Presidents' Council bought Humpheys's six-committee plan in November, 1 7 -8. Dissenters included Kenya Sanders '00, the Pugh

-Elizabeth Leonard (history), at a round-table

Center Alliance representative, who was quoted in the Echo: "I t's not

discussion titled "Bias, Discrimination and the Historian's Craft," after describing hostility she has experienced for daring to suggest that women's history from the Civil War era is important.

fair for one person, especially a white heterosexual male, to decide that these committees are going to be created," she said. Some students doubted the s ix-committee plan would pass. A compromise plan was in the works, and President Bill Cotter predicted i t would prevail. Dean of Faculty Edward Yeterian re

"Scandal has a thousand stringers; good news doesn't know the

minded students that "it takes time to work through policy."

editor's phone number." -William Raspberry,

1999 Lovejoy Award recipient, on the relative ease of finding and writing negative news stories.

Uping the Ante to 128 Since 1 9 7 5 , Colby's graduation requirement has stood at 1 20 credit hours, but if approved by trustees, the Class of 2004 will need

"A key to Hitler's power over the Germans was his ability as a

1 28 credits for graduation.

speaker, which he and others discovered in revolutionary

In 1 997 the Academic Affairs Committee set up a task force to

Munich in 1919. Here, historical empathy loses me. I find it

study Colby's graduation requirements in comparison to peer

impossible to feel the appeal of his speeches, which to me are

colleges and Ivy League universities.

a mass of angry, bellicose and petty moralistic barking. But in

The task force discovered that over the past 1 2 years the number

the context of the brutalization of politics through the First

ofColby courses offered at four credits versus the traditional three has

World War and the revolutionary period in its wake, I can

increased. This means a student can attain 1 20 credits by taking fewer

understand that his rhetoric appealed to something larger

than four courses per semester envisioned in the 1 986 Educational

although it never captured the loyalty of the majority in an open

Policy

society (until 1933)."

ommittee Report. The anticipated increase "is designed to

bring our graduation requirements more in line with peer institutions and

-Raffael Scheck (history), in a talk,

return to the normal four courses per semester (plus January

"Who Was Hitler?"

credits) that we had in earlier years," Cotter said.

WINTER

2000

COLBY

How the College Surpassed All Predictions in The Campaign for Colby

Even after all the publicity, the parties, the glossy publication detailing the success of Colby's unprecedented $145-million capital campaign, Peyton R. "Randy" Helm, Colby's vice president for development and alumni relations, knows there still are people who don't understand what he does. But they think they do. "There's a feeling that we somehow trick people into giving money they wouldn't otherwise give freely and willingly," Helm said, as the campaign came to a close last fall. There's a lurking suspicion that development officers like Helm possess unnatural, even bewitching, powers of persuasion. "That when we're done, their wallet will be gone and we will have disappeared with it," he said. Of course it doesn't work that way. But if not, how does it work? How do you really raise $145 million?

By Gerry Boyle '78 Illustrations by Leo Pando

toward thebottom ofit peer

I n a t i me when headlines trumpet

group in New England.

1 00-million dona

"We're not el i t ist and

tion , col lege fund rai ing may be een a the bu ine

we're not el ite," Helm said.

itting in an office pro

"Thi

ing check from

Horatio A lger in t i tu t ion."

i l icon

something o f a

a lley exec . The fact i that

Colby ha long prided it

fund rai ing i one part sc i

self on helping needy but

ence and two part meticu

qual ified tudents get a lib

lou

eral art

planning.

thi

education. But a

pamcular campaign, there

decade ago, Colby had to

were a couple of more ingre

face ome hard facts. Col

d ient : a da h of chut:pah

lege building were 50 years

and an acc umulated tore of

old and needed work. Rapid

good will toward the Col

advanc ement

le e that lay untapped l ik e a

and technology threatened

re erve of philanthropic oil. Thi

in sc ience

to leave Colby behind. The

c a m p a i gn r a i ed

pool of potential students

Colby to new level , gener

was about to shrink, albeit

at ing almo t five t i me

temporarily, because ofa dip

much money as the la t ef

in the applicant population

fort in the 1 9 0 . It nearly quadrupled the College' endow

in the early 1 990 . More alarming, with government funding for

ment, mcrea ed the number of endowed fac ulty chairs from

education drying up, the College had lap ed into a growing

n ine to 3 3 and changed the land cape of M ayflower H i l l with

reliance on tuition revenues. The College's endowment stood at

new hou mg, academic fac i l i t ie and mu eum pace. The cam

a mode t

paign rai ed the

it needed money-for the short term and long.

tandard for major Colby gifts to unprec

edented height , won landmark foundation grant , en ured

77 million.

olby was facing major investment and

olby were to pull it elf up by its boot traps once again in

fund for financial aid and boo ted the College to financial

this capital campaign, it would have

parity with many of it long-time academic peer .

supporters could help lift. The College commi sioned Mart &

know j ust how much its

"We ra1 ed more money than Amher t did in a couple of

Lundy, one of the bigge t consu l t ing firms in the area of college

[tho e) year ," aid Colby Pre ident W i l liam R. Cotter. "That

fu nd raising, to do a campaign fea ibility cudy. For The Cam

wa incredible."

paign for

olby, this was the c ience part, but the re u l ts f the

firm's research were not entirely encouraging.

Recal l i ng the Past B ue

The

fu lly under rand what th1 campaign accompli hed

for the future of the

ollege, one ha to recall the

'olhy, unl ike man · of It peer

ollege' pa t.

the outh, wa a mall-town

Cl>l lege for tudent who enrolled from place that were even mailer. In the early year,,

tudent., came from

tudy wa

attitude toward Colby, their willingness to give to the Coll ge, and how much they felt

mall Maine

Fir t the go d: aid. Th y fe lt the

u an

onant

ook

' 7 5 , a 'nc 1ace d irector of planned giving. olh ,1JmmeJ women in 1 7 1 , a century heforc omc of 1t

upporter

rea l l y li ked Colby, the report

ol lege wa well run financ ially and noted

that it operated i n the black. In term their money,

And Colhy t uJcnt \\ Crc hoth men and women.

olby upporter would give. The

result included good new and bad new .

ommun1t1t.•.,, re e 1 \'eJ the ir education and retu rned home. "\X1e wt:re tea her anJ preacher ," aid

exhau tive. Over two years, hundreds of

people were interviewed. They were quest ioned about their

olby was at th

f place li kely to get

top or near the top of the list.

Bue how much had they given ? And how much would they give in the future ?

do,t: t pcl'r . In thl' 1 9th century, and for much of the 20th, \1 <linen h.1J ltm1tt.>J opportun1n to t:arn money . A-, a re ult, RowJ, in .mJ Amht.>r t ,ind other cnl lege cdu aced more men \1 ho t\ p1 .1 l h m.idc mort: mont:\ than women and were more ltkch t

h,l \ e .Kee

to the .tl l -male ha uon of hu me'' and

111 lu en . Th.It <lt.>mogr,1ph1 , coupled \1 1th the co t of hutldmg . 1 L.Hnpu tr m

T E

racch in

the 1 94

, lefr

olhy \ endowment

Sobering N ews rouped \1' 1 t h 1 1 peer

c hool , i n c l u d i n g A m h e r t,

Bowdoin, We leyan and M iddlebury,

olby ranked ninth in

wea l g i v in g from 1 9 0 to 1 99 1 . le wa� trai led only hy

nec m.ur and Bare college . The report aid that Bowdoin and 1 1ddlehury

om1 tcn r l y outperform d

olhy i n fund ra ising .

One of the key factors for Colby's success was Wal l Street. " I f [the economy] had been i n a bear mode, we would have struggled t o h i t I 0 0 [m i l l ion dollars] ," Cotter said. "That the u nusual bull market al most perfectly coincided with the dates of the cam paign was j ust pure d u m b l u ck." While i t ranked itself with Bowdoin and M i dd lebury, Colby

Nobody knew better than Cotter himself that this was a

was more likely to match the more modest fund-raising

good question. He recalled his first years at Colby when devel

achievements of Bates or Frankl i n and Marshall, the report

opment records were kept on three-by-five cards and computer

said. " I f Colby decides to k ic k off the campaign i n the fall of

models and egmented fund-raising mailings were unheard of. "We were j ust tiny," Cotter said. "We had a very small

1 994 . . . we fee l a more modest goal i n the range of$80 m i l l ion

development staff. I'm not sure we had a major gifts office."

would be appropriate." According to Nelson C. Lees, a Marts & Lundy senior

In fact, much of the fund-raising effort consisted of Cotter and

consultant who worked on the Colby study, the firm's recom

then-trustee chair H. Ridgely Bullock ' 5 5 dispatching them

mendations tend to be conservative and to come in under

selves to make cold calls on alumni. "If we came home with five

eventual campaign totals. "The question is, how far under?"

thousand dollars at the end of the day, we thought that was

Lees said. "That is a matter of j udgment . "

terrific," Cotter said. "We thought that was a great triumph."

B u t even if the firm chose to understate a col lege's fund

In a sense it was, and development officers interviewed for

rai ing potential, the numbers were sobering for Colby. Helm

this article were quick to point out that all gifts, whether $ 50 or

wa particu larly concerned about the College's modest "ph i lan

$ 5 ,000, are cruc ial to Colby's future and apprec iated. But in

thropic capac ity," as the study indicated. "We have a lot of

order to achieve the goals of this campaign, gifts of a much

people who love this place passionately," he said, "but that

greater magnitude were needed.

doesn't mean they have money they don't have." Did the study show the full extent of Colby's

Cam paign Strategy

upport ?

In the rough science that is fund raising, there is a formula

U lt imately not. There were other factors that came into play a

that says 90 percent of the money raised must come from 1 0

the campaign evolved. The most tangible was an Olin Foundation grant for a new

percent of the donors and that the top 1 0 donors should

science building. Before the Olin award, the largest science

contribute a third of the goal. Ten percent of the money should

grant the College had won was $ 500,000 for equipment in the

come from a single donor. "If you're planning a one-hundred

1 980s. In 1 989 Colby applied for the Olin grant, a prestigious

million-dollar campaign, you should have a ten-million-dol lar

award matched by the rigor of the application process. Three

donor somewhere," Helm said.

times, Colby was turned down. But with The Campaign for

Colby didn't. But those involved in the campaign soon

Colby kickoff then a year away, the Ol in Foundation was told

found that Colby had something e lse. It had a number of

it could lead the way.

supporter who were ready to donate $ 1 million or more. It had

If Olin funded the building, the $6. 5 -million grant would be

an enthusiastic network of volunteers who made donation

announced at the k ickoff as the largest in Colby history. I f

themselves and then asked others to do the same. It had an

awarded, it would add $ 1 0-million worth o f momentum t o the

intensive and intricate fund-raising training program that

campaign, Marts & Lundy and others projected, making $90

enlisted dozens of new faces. It had a kickoff road how that

million a realistic goal. "Bill Cotter said, 'I like the sound of a

toured more than the Roll ing Stones, taking the Colby mes age

hundred' [million dollars]," recalled Linda Goldstein, assistant

across the country and beyond. "We got in the groove and j ust

v ice president for development and director of corporate and

hit the ground running, from Los Angeles to London," said

foundation relations. "He said, ' Let's go for a hundred and get

Karin Weston, development events coordinator. The cautionary predictions of the consultants were taken in

the building, too."' Hence the chutzpah.

stride. Said Helm: "There's really a pride in this place that says,

After several whirlwind weeks, the grant was awarded and

'So wha t ? We can do thi anyway. We are j ust as good a they are. We'll j ust have to work harder and work smarter."'

there was "a lot of whooping and hollering up and down the

Hosted by campaign co-chair Edson M itchell ' 7 5 , the Lon

hallway" in the development office, Goldstein recalled.

don kickoff was the first Colby campaign event in Europe, with

But the second half of the goal ? "We'd been rais ing five m i l l ion a year, six m i l l ion a year," Helm said. He remem

alumni and parents traveling from the Continent to attend.

bered thinking, "How the hell are we going to raise a

That geographic broadening was paralleled by an equally am

hundred m i l lion ?"

bitious stretch in fund-raising goals.

W I N T E R

Z O O O

C O L B Y

There wa

Cotter aid. "You were the

another key Wall

guest of the College there.

treet. "If[ the economy] had

The s i tes-zoos and muse

factor, and that wa

been in a bear mode, we

ums and the Uni ted N a

would have struggled to hit

t i o n -al l o f them h a d a

1 00 [ m i l l ion dollar ] , " Cot

special touch. The e were

ter aid. "That the unu ual

special events, and people

bull market a l most perfectly

responded that way . " Wh i l e

coincided with the date of

the

regional

1 2 m i l l ion,

the campaign wa j u t pure

events raised

dumb luck."

less than 10 percent of the

o wa

total money raised, they

i t a matter of

watching the Dow and wait

came to repre em the pirit

ing for donor to come call

of t h e c a mp a i g n i t s e l f. Gold tein spoke of "a tre

ing? Hardly.

mendous energy" i nfused in

I f you haven't been in

her department.

ide a fund-rai ing operation

Robert E. Diamond J r . '73 a i d t h e campaign of

l i ke Colby' , picture it a omething l ik e thi : eparate

fered the opportunity to

fi r lunch with hun

work w i t h a w o n d e rfu l

You're making date dred

group of people. "People really worked toward this goal," he said

f people. Tho e people are cattered across the country.

Mo t of them are very, very bu y. Once you manage to find a

from London, where he is chief executive of Barclays

convenient place and time, you're going to a k them to donate

"It wa a pa ion. It was fun." Diamond gave one of the 24 endowed chair establi hed

some money. And you're going to do your be t to make ure they fee l important, that they feel appreciated, that they are thor

during the campaign. He

oughly comfortable with the proce .

substantial

"Anybody who i rai ing money for

olby, their job i very

aid he had intended to give a

ix-figure donation but hadn't con idered a chair

until he met with Helm and M i tche l l in Boston.

imple," Helm aid. "Our job i to help people to find time in

Helm described the conversation: "He [ Diamond] aid, ' I 've got good new for you. I 've thought this over and l 'm prepared to

their bu y lives to reflect on what they think is important . " I n thi campaign, often i t w a s Colby. Over

apital.

give you a hundred thousand dollars."

i x year , The Campaign for Colby underwent a

There was a pause, after which M itchell

carefu l ly planned metamorpho i . It began in what i referred

p k e of the

importance of endowed chairs for Colby. " Bob aid, ' Randy,

to in fund-rai ing jargon a "the quiet campaign." T ru tee ,

what do you a l l need ?"' Helm aid. " ! said, 'We want to do a

O\'er eer and other key

chair for a m i l l ion.' Bob aid, ' I ' m going to have to think about

upporter were contacted, often by

each other. They conmbuted to what i

called the "nucleu

that . ' And he d i d . And he did i t . "

fund," the ba e-opumally 35 percent of che goal-from which

Diamond e tablished t h e chair in t h e name o f h i s father,

the re t of the campaign 1 launched. The quiet campaign wa

Robert E. Diamond

fol lowed by the publ ic campaign, with brochure and k ickoff en�nt' not only in Waterv i l le , Bo t n an<l

ew York but al o

gift wa that

h 1c ago H 1 toncal octer) , the Penn ylvan1a Academy of Fine Hote l .

mllLh r i me for

too

M. Mo , who reache French and women'

tudies-neither of

which were Diamond' concentration at

lby. Ha he gone t

lo 's cla e ? "

The regional e\'ent>, e chewed b y mo t college a requiring wo

olby i an excellent academic institut ion. The

Robert E. Diamond Profcs or hip in Humanit ies i held by J ane

in farther-flung venue , including the M i lwaukee Zoo, the A m in Philadelrh1a and rhe Beverly Hill

r., and his son, who i Robert E. Diamond

r.' name ake. Diamond said another rea on for making the

l i ttle return, were an enormou� <,ucce .

<;eminar .

o," Diamond

aid, "but I 've attended her

he' a great reacher."

ottLr mJ Di c i ngu1 hcd Pre 1dcnt1al Profc or of American G11\·Lrnmcnr G.

Helm refer to Ma ken:1c a ch·� l.1unchcJ tO rrC\"Cnt what t J IJrum,, chc

t)lh rnaJ

I t' t)f new of rhe

L 8 )

T E R

Victory Phase

alvtn , 1ackcn:1c maJe every e\'ent, often

am\ tng home \ ta red-c ·c flight to re ume their

Thar

al R1pken of chc campaign. known a a

o many donor

quarcly in a

the ro t-ktckoff

olby cla

wanted their contribution t o land r om wa

a reflection of what the

ol lege ha alway <lone be t. Anne Jone -Wein tock, director

,how earurcd banner,, a ndco and

ol lege. "The) haJ

olby <lur1e .

o ma1or gift at

JO) ul acmo pherc,"

olby <luring the early years of the campaign

and nt)\\ a development officer at M iddlebury College, aid the

That so many donors wanted their contri butions to go to the classroom is a reflection of what the College has always done best. They are "able to quantify the i m pact of the kind of teaching Colby has done," said Anne Jones-We instock. Colby now has " irrefutable evidence that this model of ed ucation d ramatically changes lives." campaign marked the first time

The need for more financial aid. The need to keep up with

olby had enough staff to tap

the reserve of gratitude among Colby alumni. "Colby has now

technology. The need to maintain a strong facu l ty. The need to

been able to quantify the impact of the kind of teaching Colby

build an endowment that will provide a buffer for the College

has done," J ones-Weinstock said. With the success of the

in the event of an economic downturn.

campaign, Colby now has " irrefutable evidence that this model

Cotter, who has always paid careful attention to the details, noted that with William D. Adams set to take over as president

of education dramatically changes l ive ."

later this year, care has been taken to make ure that donors

This dramatic success wa accomplished by offering stu dents the chance to work c losely with top-notch teacher

have relationships with others at the College so there will be

and to offer that chance to qualified students regardl e s of

continuity during the tran ition. "There are very few who are

the i r a b i l i ty to pay, regardless of how much government

attached to me alone," Cotter said. " [The transition] should be

money was available.

quite seamless."

Last fal l , the "victory pha e" of the campaign kicked in.

And the work goes on.

Trustees and overseers were a ked if they would give again.

Colby recent! y added a new staff member for development,

Some gave more than in the "quiet phase," some gave less.

J aime Porter, d i rector of donor rel ations . Her job is to work

When the fund-raising dust settled, the College had been

w ith prior donors to ensure they fee l their contributions are

given a $ 1 4 5 -m i l l ion vote of confidence. Fund raisers were

apprec iated. Major gifts officers continue to meet with alumni

p leased , though they expressed the ir pleasure with varying

around the country. Helm said he has been meeting with one

degrees of exuberance:

interested alumnus in Cal ifornia for four years. The a lumnus

Cotter: "It raised our sense of our own ability to do major

is waiting to sell a company. The modus operandi is conver

fund raising, which we really weren't always confident about . "

sation, not coercion, Helm said. Mostly they talk about

Goldstein: "We've gained tremendous confidence in our

Colby, the a lum's classmates, hi son. "My role is never to

ability to compete at every level."

pressure," Helm said. "My rol e is to provide information and

Helm: "Eighty million dollars they thought was a good

inspiration, if possible, and to j ust keep us on the radar screen

number. H a ! We've c lobbered everysingle category, I think . . . .

until i t is the right time."

Colby is playing with the big guys."

I f not in this campaign, maybe in the next. "We can't afford

But fund raising is l ike soccer, in that there are no time-outs.

to go to sleep," Helm said. "That would be a formula for d isaster

The pressures that prompted this campaign will resurface.

for Colby."

WH ERE'S TH E M O N EY? Where's the

$ 1 45

•About $28 million is on campus. People use it every day when they enter

million raised by The Campaign for Colby? Ask Randy

Helm that question and he'll start by telling you where it isn't.

the F.W. Olin Science Center, the renovated Arey Life Sciences and Keyes

Misconceptions, said Helm, vice president for development and alumni

Science buildings, the Pugh Center, The Harold and Bibby Residence Complex,

relations, include the notion "that Bill Cotter has a big oak chest in his office with

the Anthony-Mitchell-Schupf Residence Halls, the Lunder and Paul J. Schupf

$ 1 45 million in gold doubloons. We can do anything in the world now that we have $ 1 45 million. Bill can just reach with a big scoop into his treasure chest."

wings of the Museum of Art. "People are enjoying these facilities," Helm said. 'They are getting a better education because of these facilities."

So where is it/ According to Helm, whose experience on the job has helped

• A substantial portion of the money was given for restricted purposes,

relax his Kentucky-bred reticence for discussing money, it breaks down like this:

including financial aid and endowed faculty chairs. Among other things, it means

• About $ 1 4 million came in through the Annual Fund and was spent in the

that students who otherwise could not receive a Colby education will be able

same years in which it was received. It paid for the heat, insurance, this magazine.

to attend and will benefit from a stronger faculty.

• As much as $40 million is in deferred gifts, which means Colby will get the

The treasure chest? Sorry, but there isn't one.

money eventually but doesn't have it yet. Donors have decided they don't need

"The College is much stronger as a result of the campaign, but it is not

the principal value of their asset-a block of stock, for example-but they want

wealthy as a result of the campaign," Helm said. "People gave us the money

to continue to receive the interest for a period of time.

because we're prudent."

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D o n 't Ca l l M e H o m e l ess My Name ďż˝

M a cy D e lo ng's own h o m e l essness leads oth e rs to l ife after the streets By Gerry Boyle '78

I t was a balmy afternoon in late October, and Macy

t ion to science, she studied languages, especi a l ly Russian.

Delong ' 7 1 had left her office in Old Cambridge Baptist

"She was very outgoing, very positive, very sure of herself,

Church and j oined the throngs in Harvard Square: students,

very intell igent," said Pat Montgomery '7 1 , a long-time friend.

tourists, office workers.

" he seemed to have everything going for her." And she did. Delong was married to another Cambridge

And panhandlers and other homeless people, who cried out,

scientist, was a senior research assoc iate supervising laboratories

"Macy! Hey, Macy!" as Delong approached. On this particular afternoon, at the corner of Massachusetts

at Harvard, had been tapped by Harvard to speak at public

Avenue and Holyoke Street, Delong was hailed by Nancy, a

forums on the university's research projects, including work on

rosy-cheeked professional beggar who spends her days j ingling

recombinant DNA . Delong seemed like the last person to

coins in a cup and chanting, "Spare change, spare change."

stumble. But mental i llness is an indiscriminate disease.

With Nancy was Terry Craite, a woman with a Camp

For Delong, i t was depression exacerbated, she said, by stress

Lejeune-style buzz cut and staples binding a three-inch gash in

related to her job and marriage and by hormonal treatments for

the back of her head. Craite said she had hurt herself in a fall, but

infertility. She was plagued by depression followed by bouts of

her account was sketchy.

manic behavior triggered by medication.

"These are all the detoxes I been in," Craite said, pulling a

"It was a major, major change from the Macy I knew, who was

wad of papers from her Arizo1rn J eans jacket and presenting it for

highly intell igent, incredibly energetic," said Barbara Waters

DeLong's inspection. "I'm trying to do everything right. But

'7 1 , a friend and roommate at Colby who continued to talk to

they tell me about my pancreatiti and all this stuff . . . "

Delong during her i llness. During one hospitalization, Delong concluded she would

Delong, a former Harvard researcher, listened with more

get out only if she said he was okay. She lied and was released.

than academic interest. Aftergraduating from Colby with a degree in biology, Delong

As a result, she traded the hospital for the streets of Cambridge.

spent 1 7 years doing developmental biology work as a senior

On the streets, Delong learned very quickly that for someone

research associate at Harvard. Then, a decade ago, she left her

who is without a home, help can be a double-edged sword.

career as a scientist and took to the streets. Literally.

[ was talked into going into a shelter where they tole my

Delong, 5 1 , is the founder of Solutions at Work, a self-help

shoes and my l .D.'s the first night," she said. " [ was held up with

group for the homeless. But 1 0 years ago she could have been one

a knife in the bathroom. They were convinced I was delusional

of her own c lients, someone who has stumbled, become home足

when I told them I was a biologist at Harvard." Delong left the shelter and never went back.

less and needs help getting back on track.

Her days were spent wandering, he said. Food pantries, upermarkets and diners were top on her rounds. An inveterate

For those who knew Delong at Colby, i t might seem an impossible scenario. Raised in Europe , where her father was York, Delong excel led at Colby. She was a Charles A. Dana

reader, he also was drawn to bookstore , where she would spend hours tucked in a chair. "As long as you didn't dog-ear the

Scholar and was awarded the c lass prize in biology. In add i-

paperbacks, you could curl up and nobody cared," she said.

an auto industry executive, sent to board ing school in New

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M acy D e long ' 7 1 speaks with Terry Cra i te on M assa c h u setts Ave n u e i n Cambr i dge . Craite was h o m e l ess last fa l l a n d asked Delong, an advocate for the h o m e l ess, for hel p retriev i ng belongi ngs Cra i te had left at a loca l d rop- i n center.

Delong said. ''They said, 'Who the hell are you ? ls that really

But it wa winter and darkne s fell early. In the city at night,

your car ?"' But soon they began checking up on this homeless

J U t as in the woods, there were predators.

"If you're a woman on the treets, there's always an element of

woman in the supermarket lot. And then police began bringing

k," Delong aid. "The way you protect yourself is [to be

homeless women to Delong.

certain] no one ever know where you are. In the beginning, no

While till homeless, she began working on behalf of other

one knew where l wa . No one knew where I slept."

people on the street. Eventually DeLong's illness was stabilized

he kept movmg until nme or ten o'clock at night and then made her way to her spot in the Old Burying Ground. home le that

too

through medication. She was divorced and moved back into her

ome

three-bedroom home in Lexington, seven miles from Harvard

people lept unJer tree along a fence, but she thought v1-,1hle.

Square. Delong began u ing her house as a temporary shelter for

o Delong cont inued on to a bank of shrubs

people in need ofa home, and to this day has housemates who were

Jlong the '' all of a re;taurant that back up to the cemetery.

homeless.

'ear a -,rone marking the grave of WenJell Maynard Davis

he founded

olutions at Work using her divorce

( J 1eJ I 2 7 ) , heh111J a clump ofarbor v1tae, Delong would spend

ettlement, her Harvard retirement funds and her credit cards. Last fall, Delong spent most of an afternoon showing what

the n il.(ht. "I wa' well e4u1ppeJ," >he sa1J, a> though it were an

the group does from its warren of office in the basement of Old

uutmg cluh mp. "I haJ a leepmg bag anJ a tarp."

ambridge Bapti t Church.

En:ntu.1lly Fehruary uild Jrove Delong to ]Om a group of

olution at Work run the Cambridge Furniture Bank, which stockpile donated furniture, appliances and household goods and

people ,leepmg on ,uh\\ ay grate . everal men 111 the group got Jrunk one night ,mJ one h mele

111 .

,1tt,1d , e J

give them to people who are moving from homelessness into apartment or hou es. The program, like other run by Solutions at Work, 1s '>taffed and run by people who are or have been

her, Delong '>aid. Another

m "I e.H the J,1ylight, om of him," .,he -,a1J.

l el< ng \\<:nt h.Kk t<l her hnme m Lex111gron, nor ro live hut ,1 ,t,ltl<m \\ .1g1m Juhh�J � anJ,1 the HonJa.

homele.,., them elves. They organize the furniture, deliver it in Furniture Bank trucks and set it up in the client's home.

t o get her L.tr,

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tt m thL re.1r 1\f rhe p.irk111g lot nf the r.tr /\ 1.1rker 1m Mr. Auhurn "cru!t. Tlk· 'tore <:mpl11\<:e' J 1Jn 't m111J, l ut ,he ' ><.m .mracreJ thL lttl ntll n llf n1t!ht•rL',lt "ll1e

I ' h,1uled me

Another program offers low-cost or free moving services to d1 ahleJ people, rhe elJerly or people with AID . A third program, the Ch i !Jren\ lorhing Exchange, offers good quality cloth mg ,111J .,hoes ro the public.

liiLl'.

ut ' t rhe

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111\

undern ear,"

Sol utions at Work runs the Ca m b r i d ge

F u r n i t u re

B a n k , w h i c h stockpi les donated furn iture , a p p l i a nces

and

household

goods and gives them to people who a re mov i ng from home lessness i nto a pa rtments or houses . The program , l i ke others run by Sol utions at Work, is staffed and run by people who a re or have been homeless themse lves . They organ ize the furn iture , del iver it and set it up in the c l ient's home. "J u t because you can't afford c lothes doesn't mean you need icky c lothe ," said Sonya Darcy, 26, a manage

Fowlkes said he first met Delong when she came to St. Francis

ingle mother who

House to as ist with a registration drive for homeless voters. He

the c lothing exchange in the basement of Grace

said he has seen her peak to groups of homeless advocates and

Uni ted Methodist Church. "For some people, this is it. This is

that she is adamant in her call for homeless people to be treated

their everything."

with respect. "She's a big believer in consumers having a voice

But the intent of the program is not to make recipients of its

about their own destiny, their own lives," Fowlkes aid.

services feel beholdened. Darcy, who has a 3 -year-old daughter and

Delong traces her activism back to her years at Colby. She was

lives with relatives in a small apartment, said she has been made to

on campus when parietal hours gave way to co-ed dorms, when the

feel small when she asked for help in the past. She wants the

college community and the country were divided by the Vietnam

clothing exchange to be "a place where you don't have to do that."

War. She joined Students for a Democratic Society and cam

That is the philosophy that drives Solutions at Work, that

paigned against the war and the draft. Delong was steeped in "the

nobody should be homeless, but that dehumanizing the home

idea that you had to question how things were done."

less, forcing them to give up their identity and dignity in order

She said Colby engendered in her a skill for creative problem

to survive, really is no help at all.

solving. In testimony to a liberal art education, Delong said

Standing in the graveyard, Delong asked about the home

that skill was honed not as much by courses in her science major

less situation in Waterville. Told the local shelter was very busy,

as by her Russian-language professor, the late John Kempers. " I t

she bluntly said she did not consider that alone to be evidence

i s a question o f trying t o redefine the problem in a way that it's

of success. Programs for the homeles should aim to help people

possible to solve it," Delong aid.

become autonomous, not dependent, he aid. Much of her work

ot that the solutions always come easily.

has been aimed at instilling that pride in homeless people

he acknowledges that she entered into an abusive relation

themselves. "Most of us, as people become activists, you end up

ship after her divorce. And she knows mental i llness cannot be

chal lenging the providers," Delong said.

willed to disappear. Delong was hospitali:ed again last year and

That philosophy is growing among the homeless and their

still is being warned by her housemate that she should slow her

advocates in Boston, said Harrison Fowlkes, who has come to

frenetic pace.

know Delong in his work as upervisor/coordinator of the day

But as her younger sister, former Massachusetts I nstitute of

center at St. Francis House on Boylston Street.

Technology geneticist Leslie Delong, said, Macy Delong has

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For R o l a n d Wal ker, it was a good l i fe. W a l ker came to Boston from P h i l a d e l p h i a to attend Boston State Co l l ege . After co l l ege, h e m a rried a n d , with his wife, Gwe n d o l y n , had t h ree c h i l d re n : Ange l i c a , Tyesha a n d , as Wa l ker sti l l refers to h i m , " l i tt l e R o l a n d . " Wal ker h a d a good j o b , wor k i ng i n Boston hospital opera t i n g rooms as a n a n est h e s i a tech n i c i a n . H i s w i fe a n d c h i l d re n were h a p py a n d h e a l t h y . A n d t h e n the l i fe that t o o k decades to b u i l d cru m b l ed i n a s i n g l e year. In 1 9 9 5 , Gwen dolyn Wal ker d i ed of ca ncer. As the fa m i ly struggled with t h e i r l oss, the th ree c h i l d re n we n t to visit relat ives in N o rth Caro l i n a . F i re broke out at t h e ho use and took the l i ves of Tyesha, who was 9, a n d l ittle R o l a n d . H e was 7 . " The o n l y t h i ng I wanted to d o fol l ow i ng my loss was j u st to d i e , " Wal ker sa i d , i n a n i n terview l ast fa l l . "The loss was a l most u n beara b l e . . . . I rea l l y fe l l a p a rt . " I n the months a n d years t h at fol lowe d , Wal ker struggled with grief a n d psyc h o l ogi c a l pro b l e ms com pou n ded b y a l co h o l . He eventua l l y su rfaced i n a tra n s i t i o n a l program-a n d i nto the sphere of M acy D e l o n g ' 7 1 . " M acy was there, h e l p i ng me pretty m u ch a l l the way , " Wal ker sa i d . I n t h e process, h e came t o rea l i ze t h at it's okay t o b e sorrowfu I , b u t t h e n th ere i s a t i me to move on with l i fe, he sa i d . He made a consc i ou s decision to foc u s on h i s s u rv i v i n g c h i l d , whom h e c a l l s Ange l . Delong d i d , too. " M acy sa i d , ' S h e ' l l come stay with m e , "' Wa l ker sa i d . Acknowledg i ng t h at h i s da ughter was not easy to get a l o n g w i t h , Wal ker sa i d De lo n g ga i n ed her confide nce a n d respect. F o u r years after l os i ng t h ree fa m i l y m e m bers to traged ies a n d the fourth to h i s despa i r , Angel " a s p i res to be l i ke M acy, " Wal ker sa i d . " B e someth i ng . Go to sc hoo l . I be l i eve she m a kes an excel lent ro l e mode l . " Last fal l , Ange l Wa l ker was worki n g part t i m e for the Cambri dge Furn i t u re B a n k . R o l a n d Wal ker, 4 4 , was worki n g as a pa i d project m a n ager, coord i n a t i n g d e l ivery o f f u r n i t u re a n d mov i n g jobs. H i s d a y was spent a n swer i n g phon es, ta l k i n g t o wa re ho use workers a n d t r u c k d r i vers via cel l phone a n d rad i o . H i s fel low workers i nc l u d ed J a c k , who i s 60 a n d has spent the last 10 years 1n she lters, a n d K i m berly, who left her h u s b a n d and made her way to S o l u t i o n s at Work. A former housemate of Delong's, K i m berly works with the age ncy as a n off ice m a nager but hopes to go back to work as a med i c a l assista n t . Between the r i ng i ng o f the phones, Wal ker sa i d Delong d i spe n ses " a l i ttle sym pathy and a lot of em pathy. I say, she's not Mother Teresa , but she comes a lot before Pri n cess D i a n a . She fa l l s somewhere between the m . "

"J ust beca use you c a n 't a fford c l ot h e s d oe s n 't mean

you

c l ot h e s , "

n eed sa i d

i c ky

S o n ya

Darcy, 2 6 , a s i ngle mother who ma nages the C h i ld足 ren 's C l oth i ng Exc ha nge . " For some peo p l e , t h i s is i t . T h i s i s the i r everyt h i ng . " T h e a i m of t h e exc h a nge i s t o h e l p w i thout m a k i ng rec i p i e nts fee l bel itt l ed o r be h o l dened i n t h e p rocess . Da rcy sa i d t h e Ca m b r i dge exc h a nge i s "a p l ace w h e re you don 't have to do t h at . " always been " a leap-before-you- look kind of person. She had no

handler.

fear of anything."

Nancy was on the street, Delong said, "Mental i llness. We were

ancy declined to be interviewed. Asked later why

in McLean together," referring to the renowned hospital in

Said Montgomery, DeLong's Colby friend, "As far as j umping

Belmont, Ma s.

right in, she wa always l ike that. "

Terry, the alcoholic, had been talking about going home to

Leslie Delong said h e r sister immersed herself in the world of the homeless, j ust as she once immersed herself in the world of

her family in the M idwest, Delong aid. But that day, Terry was

Cambridge scientists. If the two worlds now are separate, they

more concerned about whether she would be admitted to a local

have merged on occasion. One night Macy Delong hosted a

drop-in center where another homeles woman had checked

dinner party for Harvard facu!ty and people who were homeless.

Terry's duffel bag. "You know Bobby G irl ?" she said. " She's in j a i l . She'

The women in the group had trouble finding common ground,

Framingham but i t 's my stuff and I really need my stuff."

Leslie Delong said. The men got on quite well , talking mostly about the Red Sox.

Delong moved c lose to Terry and told her they'd let her in at the center, but not if she were drunk, not if she were angry.

That Macy Delong would gather together uch eemingly disparate groups may be more telling about her view of people

Terry, who earlier had acknowledged she can get "an attitude,"

who are homeless than about her view of c ientists. In Delong'

promi ed she would try to show up sober. And then it was back to the cramped office in the basement

world view, the acquaintances and friend she has met on the

of the church, where phones were ringing. The raff, all formerly

streets of Cambridge are people first and homeless second. As she walked back along Massachusetts A venue, Delong

homeless, was still on the job--dispatching movers, fielding donations, scheduling appointments.

aid she was facing the perennial chal lenge of raising most of her organ ization's 4 50,000 annual budget through donations. But

Delong went back to work.

the jangling of coins in a cup distracted her from administrat ion

"She helps out the best she can," said Darrel Lifred, 3 7, who

ancy and Terry still were on

works with Delong and has a oc iated with her since they met

the sidewalk, Nancy shaking her cup and Terry j ust hanging out.

at an outdoor church service on Boston Common several years

and fi nance. At Holyoke Street,

ago. "I'm proud of what she's doing 'cause she's trying to make

Delong-the executive director of a nonprofit, a former

a difference. We need more like her."

Harvard biologist-paused to chat again with N ancy, the pan-

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Mee t Bro A dams Colby and Its Next President " R eady t o Go Even Further" W i lliam D . "Bro" Adams was o n academic probation when

and challenge and on the threshold of a new level of excellence."

he left Colorado College to join the Army in 1 966. He spent a

The evidence is c lear that Colby has gained stature and

year in Vietnam and returned "a completely d ifferent person,"

prestige under Cotter's leadership and particularly during the

ready to soak up every drop of what a college education can

successful capital campaign j ust concluding, Adams said. Fol足

provide to an intellectually curious person thirsty for knowledge

lowing inten ive interviews, long conversations, personal re足

and understanding. "There were a lot of things l wanted to sort

search and a day on campus when he talked to more than 1 00

out," he said, exhibiting a propensity for understatement.

members of the community, Adams said he got a strong sense

Back at Colorado College he combined a philosophy major

that "now we're ready to go even further."

with courses in pol itical theory "to investigate 'what is the

"What's furthe r ? That's the question," he said, talking

meaning of things,' as well as how to think about things," he said.

about Colby while sitting in the parlor of Bucknell U n i versity's

H e graduated magna cum laude in 1 97 2 and went on to earn a

Victorian president's house in November. Adams says he's not

doctorate in pol itical philosophy.

ready to commit before he's more saturated in Colby's h istory

When it was suggested that this course seems like excellent

and personality.

preparation for a college presidency, he chuckled and asked,

"One risk is that it becomes only a comparative matter," he

"Wha t ? The combat ?"

warned, recommending against defining Colby only in relation

Adams relented and agreed that philosophy-"how to think

to other colleges-Bowdoin and M iddlebury among the usual

analytically and critically about complicated organizational

suspects. "Doing that, you risk losing sight of the very thing

issues"-has served him well as he has sorted out the challenges

that's distinguishing about Colby."

of life, both per anal and professional.

U ltimately, the proof is in the graduates. "All of this is about our capacity to empower young people," Adams told the Board

Th e Next Le vel

of Trustees in October. "lt is through that that we make the

Adams will bring that analytical bent to Maine when he

world a better place."

becomes the 1 9th president of Colby next J uly at what he

A voracious reader, Adams planned to delve into Ernest

History ofColby College, College literature and books

perceives as a critical point in the College's history. While it's

Marriner'

challenging to follow a president as strong, popular and success足

by Colby faculty members to get a sense of the traditions and the

ful as B i l l Cotter, Adams said, what really attracted him was the

culture of the institution before he arrives next summer. When

sense he gleaned from faculty, students and staff that Colby sees

it comes to the details, "l have a lot to learn about the place,"

itself poised to ascend even further. "ln the midst of a very trong

Adams said, telling the trustees he was ready to "begin a process

moment, they are wanting to take another step," he said.

of listening."

After he was elected, he told the Board ofT rustees that Colby

Adam , a youthful 5 2 , is a study i n contrasts. H e is thoughtful,

is "a rising star that has been noticed" among the nation's liberal

serious and deliberate in conversation, but intellectual energy

arts colleges and that it "stands at a moment of great opportunity

crackles in his eyes and hi animated hands. He laughs often and

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heartily. Of medium height, he stay in shape running, cycling

A s a fr e hman, Adams participated i n soccer, skiing and lacrosse. "! didn't flunk out," he said, "but it was perilous!y close."

and playing golf. to get ettled in at Colby, clearly shared with

At the end of his freshman year he enl isted in the Army, "not

hi wife, Catherine Bruce, i palpable. "We're very drawn to

really understanding the implications." He went from teenage

Colby and to Maine," Bruce aid.

college student to commissioned Army officer in a year and

H i eagerne

he recalled how, during the

long interval of Adam 's candidacy, they tried to contain their

pent 1 2 months in Vietnam. "l grew up fast," he said. He was a

enthusiasm and not raise their hope too high. When they

military advisor to regional infantry troop in Chau Doc prov

\'i ited Waterville in October and met with numerou faculty,

ince, near the area where the Mekong River enter Vietnam

taff and tudent , though, they were sold on the idea.

from Cambodia. As a first lieutenant, his role wa to advi e local

"Our reaction wa one of immediate and powerful connec tion to the campus," Adam

force on combat operation and to coordinate American air and

aid. "We immediately felt at home

artillery support during those operations. He has published

and at ea e." But they had to spend another anxious week and

articles in popular media on the meaning and symboli m of

a half in limbo, knowing there were three finalists.

Vietnam in addition to scholarly articles in academic journals on

"[ kept aying, 'Where's the glitch?'" Bruce said, describing

the history and phi lo ophy ofpolitics and meaning. ( See page 24. )

howshe earched for ome flaw o he could say "it wouldn't have

The day he returned from Vietnam to U.S. soil he agreed to help

been perfect" if they didn't get the call .

move a friend ofa friend into the Universiry ofCalifornia, Berkeley.

The call came, though, and details were worked out the week

It turned out to be the day that James Rector was killed at People's

before trustees voted unanimously to elect Adams. "[ take that as a

Park, and Adams was tear-gassed by the

good ign," Adams quipped, when he and Bruce were met with a

and his friends got tangled up in a huge campus demonstration.

randing ovation when they finally entered the trustees' meeting.

ational Guard when he

Adams had left Colorado College as a bewildered kid. In 1 969 he returned from the crucible in

Se ll' Engla nd Root. For Adam and Bruce the move north will be a return to England and the ence (

E CA

ew England

nity that a college education presented him and eager to make

mall College Athletic Confer

the most of it. "[ was full of curiosity about thing I didn't know

). They were married seven year ago, when

the answers to," he said.

Adam wa vice pre ident and secretary of We leyan University in

outheast Asia an

intellectually and politically curious man, aware of the opportu

He desperately wanted to probe fundamental moral positions

onnecticut. For Adam , coming to Maine also will be a

and attitudes, and college provided the time and guidance to do

return to an ancestral homeland, since he traces his family to

o. He studied with J. Glen Gray, an authority on Heidegger.

ew Hamp hire he would

ray's book The Warriors, a reflection on his own service in WWI I , was a popular text in the 1 970s. Adams lists other professor -Harvey Rabbin, Jane Cauvel and John Riker in

v1 i t h 1 grandparents in Bol ters Mill , near ebago Lake, and he

philosophy and Tim Fuller in political science-as influential

remember watching hi grandfatherdrink hot clam broth every

undergraduate mentors.

I th-century eafarer from ear port. Hi grandfather wa born tn Portland and hi father in Augu ta. When Adams wa a tudent at The Holderne

chool in

morning m tead of coffee.

After graduation Adams enrolled in a doctoral program at the

With a father m the automotive upply busine , Adam grew

University of California at Santa

ruz and studied with politi al

up out 1de Detroit. He wa dubbed " Bro" a a youngster by hi

theorist ] . Peter Euben (his advi or) and philosophers Maurice

father, who had left college for World War I I with a buddy

atanson and Albert Hofstadter. He won a Fulbright Fellowship to pend a year doing research in Pari at the Ecole de Hautes Erude and Ecole Normale uperieur. His dissertation was titled "Digging in the ame Place: An Es ay on the Political and Social

nameJ Bro who J 1ed m rhe conflict. AJam came ea t to prep chool at age 1 4. He played football .mJ lac.ro'

and he kted compettt1vely at Holderne , includ

mg one year under William

lough '6 1 , now headma ter at

Phil ophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty." Even in hi doctoral program Adams leaned toward interdi ciplinary study, and he names clas ici t Norman 0. Brown, hi toriographer and literary

GoulJ A aJemy m Bethel, Mame, and m rhe early 1 960 a f,Kulry memher ar Holderne> . Later AJam> considered \1 hen

\1 a

olby

look mg ar college .

critic Hayden White and political theorists John Schaar and h !don Wolin am ng influential teacher scholars.

1 1 ir1l1 1 , Erl //t1 1 t io11

After earning hi

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pol 1r 1cal

niver iry of orth Carolina, hapcl Hill, and one at the niversiry of anra Iara in al tforn1a. In 1 9 5 he arrived at tanford University a an

<1lor,1Jo \1llegc-,111J ,irm·eJ there tn rhe mid '60 , rhe ame H'M

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Ph.D. Adams spent two years teaching

1ence, one ar rhc

m rrucror m rhe

rear Work in We r rn

ulture program, and

Aft er h e was el e cte d , Adams t o l d th e B oa rd of Trustees t h at Colby is "a r i s i ng sta r t h at has been n ot i ced"a m o n g the n at i o n 's l i bera l a rt s c o lleges and t h at i t "sta n d s at a m o m e nt of great opportunity a n d c h a l l e nge a n d

o n th e th resh old of a ne w level of excellence.'' U lt i m a t e ly, th e p roof of a College is in th e g ra dua t es. "Al l of this is about o u r capacity to empower you n g people.

It is th ro ugh tha t th a t we make t h e wo rld a be tte r place." a year later he became the program's coordinator. He describes

its educational experience, increa e diversity and enhance its

the course, later renamed Culture, Ideas and Values, as an

strength and reputation. H e fol lowed a popular president but

academic core curriculum for undergraduates.

was purposeful in establishing his own presence. " H e will be

In 1 988 Adams was hired as executive assistant to the

himself," said Catherine Sweeney, Bucknell's personnel direc足

pre ident at Wesleyan U niversity and five years later was named

tor. She said Adams made the transition a team effort, and she concluded, as d id other sources at the university, that Colby has

vice pre ident and ecretary of the univer ity.

done well by itself.

rPh e Bi1ck n e ll Yea rs

In the five years that Adams led Bucknell, the university's

When he wa hired as president of Bucknell University in

endowment more than doubled as the beneficiary of unprec足

1 99 5 , Adams moved to an institution that has a lot in common

edented fund-raising success and investment results. The

with the N ESCAC schools, including his once ( Wesleyan) and

university's faculty was expanded to lower the faculty-to-stu足

future ( Colby) employers. Like N ESCAC schools, Bucknell is

dent ratio, and over the last two years Bucknell received record

counted among the top t i e r ofnat ional I iberal arts colleges. It ha

numbers of applicants and admitted the strongest and most

olby- 3 , 3 50 undergraduates and

diver e classes in the school's history. Two years ago Adams

200 graduate students in ma ter's degree programs-and almost

completed a strategic financ ial plan for Bucknell, which led to

all of them live on campus.

a continuous planning and assessment process for the university.

twice as many tudents as

In J une 1 999, Adam

The challenges he inherited upon his arrival in Lewisburg,

announced his intention to leave

Pa., are similar to those he'll face in Waterville. Bucknell

Bucknell to pursue new professional opportunities and chal足

wanted to keep itself affordable for future students, strengthen

lenges. At that point he expressed a desire to re-engage his

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Politics and th e A rch eology of Meaning f r o m T h e Western Po l i t i c a l Q u a rt e r l y , S e pte m be r

1 986

S i nce P l ato b a n ished the poets from t h e c i ty of the j u st, soc i a l

c a n not shake. No matter how far soc i a l sc i e nce has trave l ed i n

p h i l osophers a n d s c i e n t ists have worr ied a n d argued over t h e

the d i rect i o n o f n at u ra l i s m , t h e notion that " m a n i s a n a n i m a l , "

p l ace a n d force o f i deas i n soc i a l l i fe. S u c h m u s i ngs a n d battles

i n C l i fford Geertz's e l ega n t form u l a t i o n , "suspended i n webs of

h ave yet to prod uce sett led c o n c l u s i o n s , and t h ey pro b a b l y

s i g n i f ica nce he has h i mself s p u n " . . . has trave led a l o n g with

never w i l l . I n deed, t h e very word " i dea" i s enough to start t h e

it. A n d to t h e despa i r , perhaps, of t h e n a t u ra l i sts, t h e com p l ex

a r g u m e n t going aga i n . Y e t i n s p i te of a l l the q u arre l s , the

a n d i n exact busi ness of u n str i n g i n g s u c h webs con t i n ues to

conviction that col l ective I ife i s in some f u n d a m e nta l way a bout

attract its pract i t i o n ers, a n d to prod uce a more-or- less steady

t h ose t h i ngs its m e m bers ( e l ites a n d masses, peasants a n d

d i n of d i sco u rse and d i sagree ment over the best way to ta l k

k i ngs) col lectively t h i n k , i m ag i n e , or bel ieve i s somet h i n g we

about t h e sign i f ica nce o f s i g n i f i c a n ce . . . .

St ill

Sh ooting After A ll Th ese Years from M o t h e r J o n e s , J a n u a ry

1 988

. . . When Platoon was f i rst release d , a n u m ber of peop l e asked

robbed us of o u r old, and a l ways f a l se , sel f-co n c eption as a

me, "Was the war rea l l y l i ke that?" I never fou n d a n a n swer, i n

n a t i o n of ge ntle m i ssionar ies. B u t t h at u n nerv i n g message, a n d

part because, n o matter how gra p h i c a n d rea l i st i c , a mov i e is

a l l t h e bewi tc h i n g a n d part i c u l a r excesses l oc ked w i t h i n i t , i s

after a l l a movie, a n d war i s o n ly l i ke itse l f . B u t I a l so f a i led to

hardly ever d e l i vered stra ight u p . I t comes t o u s , perhaps n o t so

find a n a n swer because what " real ly" h a p pe n ed i s now so

surprisingly after a l l , in more fa m i l i a r c u l t u ra l ga r b : t h rough

thorough ly m i xed u p i n my m i n d with what has been sa i d a bout

a n t i heroes and ro m a n c e , s p i ri t u a l jou rneys and re b i rt h s .

what h a ppened t h at t h e p u re exper ience i s no longer there. T h i s

T h i ngs cou l d be worse. I f one of t h e u n consc ious desi res o f

i s od d , even pa i n f u l , i n some ways. B u t it i s a l so test i mony to

t h e f i l m s o f Vietnam i s t o domesticate the wa r, t o del iver u p its

the way o u r memories wor k . T h e Vietnam War is no l o nger a

horror in palata b l e and d i gest i b l e form , we can now be sure t h at

def i n ite event so m u c h as it is a col lective a n d mo b i l e scri pt i n

the matter wi l l not go down easi ly. There is j u st too m u c h worry

w h i c h we cont i n u e to scraw l , erase, rewrite o u r conf l i ct i n g a n d

in these stories for that, too many i n d igest i b l e l u m ps . W h atever

c h a n g i n g v i ews o f o u rselves.

its future transformat ions, the legacy of the Vietnam War-at least the war i nscri bed in our movies-wi 11 probably a I ways be a I a r m i ng,

For t h e moment, at least, t h e view i s com plex and s l ightly paradox i ca l . T h e Vietnam War of o u r movies i s the event that

and our compensations a lways nervous, partia l , i ncomp lete.

Is Th e Res ide n t ia l College De a d ? from B u c k n e l l Wor l d , M a rc h

1 998

. . . What i s modeled, conveyed and i nterna l i zed in that i nterac

residential c o l l eges a n d u n iversities in the U n ited States. We

tion [residential l i beral arts education] i s not s i m p l y " i nforma

have fo u n d no better p l ace or means through w h i c h to teach a n d

tion" or its mastery, but comp lex h u ma n capacit ies-c a pacities

learn the i ntel lect u a l a n d mora l capac i t ies t h at a r e s o v i t a l t o our

of reaso n i ng, criticizing, va l u i ng, judgi ng. And that is why the

i n d iv i d u a l a n d co l l ective l i ves.

origi n a l conception and practice of the co//eg�the gathered

In short, t h e new prophecy of d i sta n ce learn i ng u n d e rest i

presence a n d 1 nteract1on of teachers and students in a common

mates both t h e va l u e a n d t h e power o f t h e res i d e nt i a l col l ege

physical sett i ng-is st i l l so powerfu l ly e m bodied i n the private

experience, as we l l as its res i l i e n c e and a d a pta b i l ity . . . .

Th R vol u t io n

Fi n a n c ia l A id

from B u c k n e l l Worl d , J a n u a ry

1 999

a i d a r e l i kely to grow, those resources a r e l i m i ted. The new competitive uses of aid cou l d d i m i n i sh over t i me the dol lars

. . . One o f the most extreme a n d powerf u l express ions o f t h e emerging f 1 n a n c 1 a l a i d system 1s the r a p i d expansion o f " merit

ava i l a b l e to sup port more tra d i t i o n a l goa l s . As a nation , t h e n , we face the real possi b i l ity that in 1 0 or 20 years we wi l l be s pend i ng

a id . " This 1 s any form of f i n a n c i a l assistance awarded strictly on h e basis of person a l attri butes or q u a l lf1cat1ons regardless of f 1 n a n c 1 a l need . In the last decade, merit aid programs have made h i g h l y selective pri ate colleges and u n i vers1t1es . . . . A l though

more on f 1 n a n c 1 a l a i d a n d servi ng fewer a n d less needy st udents. I f that were to happen, the fi n a n c i a l aid revo l ution wi l l have reversed decades of progress of equal opport u n ity at America's

i nst1tut1onal and govern mental resources com m i tted to f i n a n c i a l

best private col leges a n d u n i versities . . . .

s1gn 1f1cant gains in the a d m 1ss1ons practices of all but a few

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cholarly intere t , and in Colby he found an institution where top administrators, including Cotter, all recent presidents and several vice presidents, traditionally have taught courses. While many of Bucknell's strengths al ign with Colby's, two marked differences are Bucknell's Division I athletics program and

Top

1 0 reasons Bro A dams

and Ca t h y Bruce w ill feel a t h ome w h e n t h ey a rrive • B uc k ne l l 's neo-c lass i c a l bri c k-a n d -wh ite b u i l d i ngs were arra nged aro u n d a c e n t r a l l i brary i n a p l a n by c a m p u s arch itect Fre d r i c k Larso n , who designed Co l by ' s new c a m p u s .

it a more dignified title l ike 'an open

fo r u m

with

P re s i d e n t

Adams,"' s a i d J es s i c a J ac k ley, Bucknell's senior class pre ident and former student government president. " But everybody called i t 'Yo, Bro.' They'd say, ' H ey, are you going to the Yo, Bro tonight ?"'

To Be a Preside n t

its trong system of fraternities and

• B uc k ne l l has a n O l i n sc ience b u i l d i ng a n d

sororities. Adams says that h is own

R o berts, D a n a a n d Taylor h a l l s .

i n g d i re c t l y w i t h s t u d e n t s at

experience as an athlete taught

• Origi n a l ly a B a pt i st i nst itut i o n , B u c k n e l l , l i ke

Bucknel l , and he considers that to

him the value of sports, particu

Co l by, was ren amed for a benefactor who b a i led

be part of the first charge of the

larly in the liberal arts setting. "As

it out d u ri ng the post-Civi l War depress i o n .

col lege president: "providing day

a general matter, though," he said, " I 'm very concerned about the di rection of college athletics, par ticularly in Division I . " Bucknell i

a member of the

• B u c k ne l l started t o a d m i t women between t h e e n d o f the C i vi I W a r a n d t h e t u r n o f the century (Co l by i n 1 87 1 ; B uc k ne l l i n 1 883). • N e ither Lew i s b u rg, Pa . , nor Waterv i l l e , M a i n e ,

Adams said h e enjoyed deal

to-day leadership in institutional life . " That's where the president i the chief executive officer of the college-collaborating with fac ulty about the curriculum, mak

Patriot League, which is the only

h a s sc hed u l ed a i r serv i c e .

ing

Division I league besides the Ivy to

• T o get t o either c a m p u s from the i nterstate

organizing the planning and stra

prohibit merit aid for athletes, and

h ighway, motorists pass Wa l - M a rt , P i zza H ut ,

tegic thinking required to keep a

A d a m s s a i d he

M c Don a l d 's a n d B u rger K i ng.

good school on top and guiding

is " p r o u d o f

Bucknell's role in restraining the competitive impulse and keeping it [athletics] an enhancement of the general program." "But my long-term view of this

• C lose student-facu lty rel at i o nsh i ps, emphasis on u ndergra d u ate research a n d i nterd i sc i p l i nary pro grams are i nstitutional strengths at both sc hools. • N o n - a l cohol i c soc i a l events can be page-one

dec isions

fac i l i t i e s ,

the interrelated constituencies of the institution to make sure they work together efficiently. The president's role as team leader is also a priority. While

is not very optimistic. I n the end l

news in The Bucknellian or The Echo.

avoiding micro-management, a

think the N ESCAC answer is the

• A statue of an a n a c h ro n i st i c l a rge m a m m a l (a

president needs to spend "the right

best answer," said Adams, refer

b i so n ) sta nds in front of the Bucknel I field house.

amount of time" working with se

ring to Colby's conference, which is committed first and foremost to academics and forbids athletic

• B u c k ne l l , l i ke Col by , recently a d m i tted the strongest a n d most d i verse c l asses in its h i story.

nior staffand hiring the best people to fill key vacancies. The other key element of the president's job is relating to the

merit scholarships. "That structure seems a c lose, in my mind, to an ideal configuration as you can

off-campus community-getting to know the school's alumni,

get in college athletics."

helping with fund raising and getting involved in important

Another problem that faces colleges and universities is

community relations. While the fund-rai ing part has gotten

alcohol, and Adams, like all college administrators, is con

bigger in recent decades, and while Adams proved very good at

cerned. "The abuse of alcohol is everywhere in the culture-and

it at Bucknell ( he spent 6 1 days traveling during the last

not j ust American culture," he said, recalling his Fulbright year

academic year ) , he maintains that it's a team effort. "If you don't

in France. "As educators, we ought to worry what bad habits get

have a good organization and a good in titution, the president

reinforced. Something incremental happens here and we have

is not going to raise any money," he said.

to worry about that."

Th e Sea rch

One of his early acts at Bucknell was to end a tradition of alcohol at a pre-commencement event-a move not popular

Even before Bill Cotter announced last winter that he would

among students. That led to the first of what became regular

retire at the end of this academic year, there was anxiety on

campus event where Adams would explain his decisions and

Mayflower H i l l over Colby's future, and as the reality of Cotter's

take any que tions.

impending departure set in, uncertainty grew. A search committee was formed, and by February it had 1 9

The sessions, like the man, got a nickname. "We tried to give

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Ca tch i n g - Cp w i th Ca th y B r u c e I f B ro A d a m s ' s u n derstate

winning

c h a m pionsh i ps

m e n t , d ry wit a n d measu red ,

t h ree of t h ose years. O n e

penetrating conversat ional style

b rot h e r , D o u g B r u c e , was

is t h e y i n of t h e f u t u re pres i

an N CAA s k i i ng c h a m p i o n

dential

h o u se h o l d at Col by,

a t t h e U n ivers i ty of Vermont.

then t h e e n ergy, sponta n e i ty

T h e ot h e r , G eoff, s k i ed for

a n d rol l i c k i ng good h u mor of

the U . S . Ski Team at t h e

Cathy B r u c e is t h e yang.

I n nsbruck Olympics.

A recent afternoon in t h e

Cathy B r u c e ' s m e m ories

pres i d e n t ' s house at B u c k n e l l

of M a i n e c o n s i st l a rge l y of

U n iversity te l l s t h e ta l e . Two

free z i n g in a speed s u i t at

year-old C a r m e n was u p fro m

t h e top of S u garloaf's N a r

h e r n a p a n d c l i m b i n g a ladd er

row G a u ge, a n d (yet) s h e ' s

back c h a i r to sa m p l e c h ocol ate

t h r i l i ed at t h e prospect o f

truffles that were put out of h e r

h e r f u t u re i n M a i n e , w i nters

reac h ; 1 0-year-o l d Sean had a

in pa rt i c u l a r .

friend over after sc hool to watch

Bruce sees Waterv i l l e , l i ke

Pokemon o n telev i s i o n ; a pho

Lew i s b u rg , Pa . , as a sma l l ,

togra p h e r was sett i n g up I ights

safe town that w i 1 1 prov i d e

i n t h e h a l lway; a v i s itor from

t h e c h i l d re n with o p po rt u n i

M a i n e was gett i n g t h e tour a n d

t i es for i n depende nce a n d

a s k i ng a l o t of q u est i o n s .

prox i m ity t o n e w f r i e n d s . S h e

I n t h e m i dst of t h e com mot i o n Adams w a s u n f l a p pa b l e ,

h a s d o n e some vo l u ntee r i ng i n Lew i s b u rg sc h oo l s a nd

com p l et i n g a t h o u ght beg u n 1 0 m i n utes earl ier, c h ec k i ng to

h e l ped p u b l ish a cookbook for the l oc a l Red Cross c h a pter,

m a k e s u re h i s a n swer was satisfactory. Bruce seemed to be

and she's eager to find o p port u n i t i es to part i c i pate in the

everywhere-lay1 ng out a wholesome snac k-fest (carrot st icks,

com m u n ity a ro u n d C o l by as we l l .

a p p les and crackers) for t h e boys; a d m i ri n g Carmen's

She w i l l b r i n g proven experience t o a l l o f her roles. She

dexterity wh i l e gently l i m i t i ng the l ittle girl's truffle i n take;

a n d Adams had been m a rried two a n d a half years when

sta n d i ng off-ca mera to tease h e r h u sband as form a l portra its

they arrived at B u c k n e l l . "Among tryi ng to be a m o m , a w i fe

were take n ; occ a s i o n a l ly l i ghting in a c h a i r to a n swer

a n d a pres i d e n t ' s wife, I was a l ittle overwh e l m ed , " she

q uest i o n s ; t h e n s n a p p i ng o n her i n - l i ne skates to push

a d m itted . " T h ere's a lot of enterta i n i ng , but you get used

Carmen's t h ree-wheeled stro l ler to the park for a visit with

to it and learn there's a pattern to i t . " " I came here [to B u c k n e l l ] say i ng, ' I ' m a mom; that's

n e i g h borh ood m o m s a n d k i d s .

where my heart is. ' " A l I the evidence ( not to mention sterl i n g

B r u c e ' s p e rso n a l h i story h e l ps to e x p l a i n h e r seem i n g l y b o u n d less e n ergy. S h e g r e w u p 1 n Co r n i n g , N . Y . , 1 n a

references from the u n iversity's CEO) i n d i cates t h a t h e r

f a m i l y of s k i e r s . After att e n d i n g B u rke M o u n t a i n A c a d e m y

success 1 n t h a t e n deavor i s u n q ua l i f i ed . But the f u l l res u m e

1 n n o r h e r n Ve r m o n t , s h e i o 1 n e d t h e U . S . S k i Tea m a n d

1s m u c h longer, a n d the warmth a n d energy o f the A d a m s a n d

raced 1 n a l p i n e eve nts f o r f i ve years. After t h a t s h e s p e n t

Bruce household a r e testament t o h e r success i n j u gg l i n g her

n i n e years o n

va ried roles 1 n the academ i c com m u n ity.

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h e wom e n ' s profess i o n a l s k i rac i n g t o u r ,

members representing a l l of the important constituent groups

in Boston. There, with Cotter and former president Robert E . L .

in the Colby community. The committee h ired A.T. Kearney

Strider I I present, t h e board unanimously elected Adams t o

of A lexandria, V a . , a specialized search consulting firm, to

become Colby's 1 9th president, starting J uly l . Colby's process was unusual, possibly unique, in its openness.

assist, and the committee pledged an inclusive and relatively

Trustees, alumni, faculty, administrators and students were

open process.

represented on the search committee. The committee reviewed

When it came to specific prospects, though, secrecy necessar ily reigned. Months passed. Curiosity and anxiety grew. In

about 1 00 dossiers. All members of the faculty, administration

August, J im Crawford '64, chair of the Board of Trustees,

and support staff who expressed interest were included in ques

reported that the search was "proceeding very well." Two more

tion-and-answer sessions with the three finalists.

months passed. Option papers for the new president were drafted

Associate Professor of Physics Shelby N e lson, a member of

as part of a strategic planning process, but there was no indica

the search committee, reported to trustees that comments from

tion who would end up reading them. Crawford reported that

those sessions were extremely helpful. Participants' impressions

the College was still on schedule for naming the new president

of Adams described "a genuine intellectual leader," a man who is "quick, energetic, impressive and inspiring" and someone who

at the J anuary 2000 board meeting.

seemed "a lot like Bill Cotter."

Then in October the pace quickened. Faculty, staff and some student leaders were invited to meet the three finalists, each

Crawford said that the process succeeded in demonstrating

brought to campus for a day- long series of interviews and

how Colby does business and how components of the institution

meetings. Much of the anxiety lifted as participants in those

work together. "We were trying to sell Colby, and that mission

ses ions reported back to colleagues and shared their observa

was accompli hed," he said. Crawford described exhaustive

tions with the selection committee. "An impressive majority

research that included visits to the current institutions of five

l'd say it was almost a chorus-said they thought all three

semi-finalists and conversations with 1 2 to 1 5 references for

candidates were terrific ," said Earl Smith, dean of the College

each of them.

and secretary of the earch committee. But the big question

In the end Colby signed "the best candidate from a very strong pool," Crawford said . "Adams will arrive with proven

remained: who would lead Colby starting in 2000 ?

experience from running a respected university, where he estab

Once the on-campus interviews were concluded the process assumed new momentum, and it was a surprise when Crawford

lished a record of strong leadership in areas that reflect Colby's

announced that a special meeting would be held on October 3 1

current priorities."

Pedro, the Presidential Pig, and His Pals In the Adams and Bruce household, Louie and Sadie, a pair of cockapoo dogs, serve as the welcoming committee, whose crusade is to convince anyone who will listen that they aren't getting their full share of attention. Cats stroll the periphery, all feline aloofness. In the sun room Adams and Bruce each pluck a big tawny ferret from the ferret cage. And in the kitchen, underneath the birdcage, sleeps Pedro, half Vietnamese pot-bellied pig and half white boar. "The white boar is, of course, a distant relative of the white mule," Bruce said. Adams bends to scratch the pig's back, and Pedro awakes from h is slumbers with a snort to careen around the kitchen with a pillow balanced on his head. Within two weeks from the time Adams was named Colby's next president, the M ayflower H i ll rumor-mill managed to exaggerate the family's pet count to include more than 1 00 birds. In truth, the total number of animals depends on "how many frogs are living," Bruce said. " ! think it's 27 total, counting the newt." Only seven of them are birds-tropical finches, all in a single cage. "When kids come to visit, I want it to be like a pet store, only where the pets aren't for sale," Bruce said. "It's a good conversation starter." Cathy Bruce with Ped ro

"Yeah," Adams volunteered. "When the pig walks into a reception . . . "

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I facu lty file What a Long Great Dig It's Been Professor Tom Longstaff sheds new lig ht on Jesus's world By Gerry Boyle

ar tway through a re cen t dis

19 7 7 and, wi th the excep tion of

cussion of his ar chaeo logi

one or two years , has returned to

ear Ea t, Tom

the digs every summer sin ce then,

ca l \\·ork in the

Longs taff , profe or of re ligiou tudie , dropped a bombshe l l. The

ea of Ga li lee , Longs taff

taking a many as three Co lby tuden ts to work wi th him . Longs ta ffs sabba tica ls have been pen t

hina

tudying archaeology a t Harvard

Lake, eas t of Wa tervi l le -a wa

and Oxford and a t the Massa chu

ter body eigh t mi les long and

se tt In ti tu te of Te chno logy.

ays, is abou t the i :e of

five mi le

wide . Known a l o a

Lake Kinnare t, the

ea of Ga li

Long raff' year in the fie ld have been spen t tro we ling

lee is a favori te re crea tion spot

through ruins ri ch in his tory : his

f or many lo ca l residen t , who

ar chaeo logica l dig si te have in

wa ter ski on i t hi tori c wa ters .

cluded Jewi h buria l caves, a By z

" For the e p la ce ," Longs taff aid,

an tine -period synagogue , the

" the image in our minds don't

remains of f or t bui lt by Crusad

compare very we ll wi th rea li ty ."

ers . inee 19 3, he has been as -

Tha t peop le u e Je t- kis on

o cia te dire ctor of a dig tha t has

ea of Ga li lee , tha t the

expo ed mu ch of the Roman pro

the

m igh ty River Jordan of the Bib le

vin cia l capi ta l of

1 · no \\'Ider than Me sa lon kee tream, whi ch bounds the Co lby

Crawford Family Professor of Religious Studies Tom Longstaff.

Joseph and Je u , i jus t four mi les

and p la ce -of Jesus's li fe.

epphoris , in

"We see ho w peop le lived

a way . Mary is said to have been

Ga li lee , where 20,000 people

together in the area ," Longs ta f f

from Sepphoris , the big ci ty .

lived in the time of Herod the

said. "Je ws, Chris tian and o th-

"We're ta lking abou t Je su gro w-

campu -none of thi

Grea t-and of Jesu . The work

er living in close proximi ty

ing up four mi les,as the cro w f lies,

mm1 he<l Long taf f'

from a major pro vincia l Roman

en e of

ha unear thed a 4,000- eat am

one ano ther, in tera cting wi th

wonder a he ha he lped un cover

phithea ter , side wa lks inlaid wi th

ea ch o ther and eviden tly ge tting

ci ty," Longs taf fsaid. "Je su did no t

an t1qu1 t1es. In f act, mu ch of his

mo ai c , an e legan t vi lla . And

a long pre tty we ll."

gro wupin Aroo took Coun ty . He

hed

they have revealed some surpri -

Nazare th, which tradi tion has

ne w ligh t--qu1 te li tera lly --on

ing a peers of life a t the time-

identified as the home of Mar y,

ar chaeo log1ca l work ha the B1 hli ca l wor ld .

gre w up near Times Square." In the ci ty were Roman ba th , a comp lex sys tem of roads and a

Long raff , the Cra \\ford Fami i) Profe or of Relig1ou

bus tling marke tp la ce two-third

tud-

the size of a f oo tba ll fie ld , much

1c:,, f 1r:,t wen t to I rael m I 9 74,

of which has been exposed.

fi \e vear af ter a m nng a t

o lby.

Longsraff, who arrived at the si te

He a t tenJeJ a po ·t-Jo c tora l

when i t was jus t grazing land ,

emmar a t Hehre w

said he wi ll re turn

nion Col -

Sepphoris

lege , \\here he me t ome of the

thi

mo ;,t mfluenna l figure> \\ Orkmg

there i winding down .

in ar chaeology m the 'car Ea t .

ummer, though the work T wenty-five years af ter hi

Long t,itt a bo workeJ on Jig >

firs t dig, Longs ta ff is no t p lan

then <'ngnmg m Meiron m n,ir th

ning on winding do wn at a l l.

crn [ ,r ,1el . For rhe then -39-vear

"We are pro je cting

to open a

si te

<llJ pr <lk"or of rel ig1ou 'ruJie

wi thin the wa ll o f the o ld ci ty o f

1t rurneJ ou t to be

Jeru alem ," h e sai <l, asking tha t

C \ Cn t. "Th .H J1J

It,

Jcfmmg he 'a1J

" Th .1 r g <ll the Jir r unJcr nw fm ccr anJ I nc n:r C<lC It ' u c " u nc r,1tfrc ru rncJ ro I r.1cl m

the specifi c lo ca tion not be di Fred Corso 96 on an archaelog1cal dig 1n Sepphoris Israel, four miles north of azare on a s1 e believed o da e back o 200 s.c Sepphoris was a Roman pro 1rc1a1 cap1 at a he 1me of Herod he Grea

c lo ed. "These [oppor tuni ties ] are rare . In

ome ways, i t's an

ar chaeo logis t' dream." +

Recognizing Lebanese Baloney

pundits & plaudits

In October 1 998 in an academic journal ca\ led Middle East Policy , As o ciate Professor of Government Gui lain Denoeux published a critique of then

"Colby Art Museum has long presented art fans with one of the

Prime M in i s t e r of Lebanon Rafiq

best deals to be found i n the world of Maine art-and it just got better. I t ' s hard to come by a greater bargain-aesthetically

Hariri' nat ional reconstruction plans.

speaking-anywhere north of Washington, D . C . "

The effects of Denoeux's article, co written with Robert Springborg, now

Down East magazine (October 1 999), reporting o n t h e official

working for the U.S. State Department,

dedication of the museum's Lunder W i n g .

were far-reaching and stirred consider able controversy. Before the brouhaha

Guilain Denoeux

" [The K a m a Sutra] w a s written by an ascetic who probably never

was over, the Lebanese Embassy in Washington had accused the journal

had sex. It's kind of hard to imag i n e . "

of spoiling Lebanon's bond rating, and widespread support for Hariri

N i kky S i n g h (religious studies), o n T h e Learning Channel's

among the international aid donor community had largely evaporated.

series The History of Sex (August 1999), in an episode on "The Eastern World."

Prime M inister Hariri, one of the wealthie t men in the Middle East, had h is finance minister, Fuad Siniora, write an article to rebut Denoeux and pringborg's arguments, but Middle East Policy declined

"Logically, they had to do this. For the Communist Party, the

to publish it. Instead the journal published a lengthy letter to the

greatest threat i s a nationally organized force."

editor that tried to refute the original article, but, according to

Suisheng Zhao (East Asian politics}, on page one of the

Denoeux, it contained "no evidence" to counter criticism of the

New York Times (Nov. 4), talking about the Chinese government's

crackdown on the Falun Gong spiritual movement.

pol i t ical and economic costs and shortcomings of the Hariri model. Subsequently Hariri was forced to resign what had been consid

" U nder Mr. Cotter's leadershi p , Colby has retained its family sense of

ered a secure position, and, said Denoeux, Lebanese politics have

intimacy while vastly expanding its scholarship and diversity.

been swept by a sea change, "which, to spare you the derails, provides

Today, reflecting our more mobile society, the college's 1 , 800 stu

ample vindication for our arguments." And, he added, "Siniora is now

dents consist of kids from 4 7 states and as many foreign countries."

in trouble with the Lebanese justice system."

"People and Politics" columnist Albert R. Hunt (H'99}, in The Wall Street Journal (May 27), writing about Colby's 1999 commence ment, where he received an honorary doctor of laws degree.

Finally, to add approbation to advocacy, Denoeux and Springborg learned in

ovember that their article had won the Second Annual

Lebanese Paper Award for "the most original, scholarly and fruitful" paper about Lebanon published last year. +

"King Hassan very early on tried to pressure other Arab heads of

Lay On-Again-Richard Sewell

when the mood in the Arab world was towards no negotiations

state to come to terms with the reality of Israel's existence. At a time

Richard Sewell (performing arts) has wended his way through

no recognition of I srael-King Hassan understood, I t h i n k , that

Great Birnam Wood before.

Israel was there to stay."

The production of Macbeth staged at Strider Theater in November

G u i l a i n Denoeux (government}, on NPR's

and December was the ninth Macbeth in which Sewell has taken pan,

All

Things Considered (July 23), talking about the death of

King Hassan I I , who ruled Morocco for 34 years.

either as director or actor or both. Sewell first memorized the play in high school, where he directed and performed the lead role. Subsequently he directed the play at

"I felt obl igated to follow my London broil with a slice of pizza. It had

Maine's Theater at Monmouth and at Colby, some 2 5 years ago.

a chewy, fresh-dough crust and was topped with fresh bright white mozzarella cheese, roasted red peppers and deliciously salty

Th is fall's production, with Stacy Eri ckson '01 and Todd M iner

black olives. Beats Pizza Hut anytime."

'O l in the lead roles, was entered in the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival. While the judges' decision was pending as

8), in a review of Colby's dining hall food, after it was ranked sixth best in the nation by The Princeton Review.

Portland Press Herald reporter Ray Routhier (Nov.

Colby went to press, Sewell expressed h igh hopes for this cast, which

had performed demanding plays before. "This is the harvest of the plowing and harrowing of those works," ewell said.

"He rarely misbehaves. Only once did he get in any kind of

The production featured a macabre set by James Thurston (per

exchange with opposing players, and he red-carded himself. "

forming arts) and eerie costumes by visiting artist Pamela cofield. And

Mark Serdjeni a n '73 (associate dean and soccer coach}, i n The Chronicle of Higher Education (July 16}, on uber-soccer-fan Charlie Bassett {American studies).

this one played to sold-out houses each night, unlike an early Sewell production that also boasted an eerie setting. In the early 1 9 70s, Sewell directed Macbeth at an open amphitheater in

amden. "We opened to

sixteen uninterrupted days of rain and fog," he said. '"In thunder, lightning and in rain' became a real joke in that pe1formance." +

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I books & authors Jeff Wuorio Could Save You a Lot of M oney Financial pri mer takes some of the worry out of personal finance By Gerry Boyle ' 7 readers w il l emerge en l ightened.

earned elsewher e , " W u or i o

" N ot on ly d oes that kn owledge

Th is is a b ook a imed at read

wr ites. "So d on't be b l inded by

head off s ome pre t ty nas ty f inan c ia l pitfa lls -m ounta ins of cred it

in the ir 2 0s and 3 0s, pe ople

the lure of ta x free- omet imes

wh o are s o busy w ith new ca

a l ittle wha p fr om the ta x padd le

ca rd deb t, an inab i l i ty t o get a

reers, new a partments, new c it

may actua lly be a g ood th ing."

l oan or buy a h ouse-but it can

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also open up s ome pretty attrac

t ime n or the inc linat ion t o pon

ham, Ma ine, e ventua l ly tu rned

t ive poss ib il it ies-vaca tions that

der the long-term im p l icat ions

h is f inanc ia l less ons in to a ca

y ou can actua l ly pay for rather

of the ir f inanc ia l dec is ions. Read

ree r. F or m ore than 1 5 years he

than s lough ing them off on a

ing th i book-and kee p ing it

has wr itten on in vest ing and

cred it card, a n ice h ome in wh ich

on the she lf-c ou ld sa ve them,

pers onal f inance for a var ie ty of

to l ive, c ollege for y ou r k ids, and,

wel l, a lot of m oney.

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Wu or io knows of what he Got Money?

pub l ica t ions, inc lud ing Money

perha ps m os t a ppea l ing of all,

maga z ine, The New York Times ,

f inanc ia l s ol vency tha t lasts . . . "

s pea ks. An Eng l ish maj or at

Good Housekeeping, Worth and

The adv ice is pithy. Wu or io

C olby, he became a news pa per

Men's Fitness . He a ls o has c on

e xpla ins the d ifference between b onds and st oc ks, cer t if ica tes of

Jeff Wuorio '79

re porte r, n ot a f inanc ier, and

tr ibuted to several on- l ine pub l i

AMA Publications

learned ab ou t m oney manage

cat ions, inc lud ing Qu ic ken.c om,

de pos it (n o, not al l C Ds c on ta in

267 pages

ment the hard way. A fte r he re

and has gea red th is b ook t o read

mus ic ). He e xpla ins the benef its

ce ived an inher itance,a f inanc ia l

ers wh o a re just as l i kely t o go to

of rente r's insur ance, te lls h ow to

f when y ou hear the w ord

planner c on v inced h im to pu t

the Interne t for f inanc ia l in for

eva luate a f inanc ia l planner's cre

" R oth," y ou think David Lee,

s ome of the m oney int o a mu

mat ion as they a re to c ons ult a

dent ials and h ow to bette r under

n ot I R A, th is is the b ook fo r

n ic ipa l b ond fund. The e a rn ings

b ook or maga z ine. In add it ion t o

stand y our em ploye r's 40 1 K plan.

y ou-or maybe for y our k ids.

were ta x free, but years later an

bree zy prose, the b ook inc ludes

Pretty dry s tu ff? N ot in Wuorio's

other f inanc ial planne r pointed

l ists of Web s ites offe ring infor

hands, accord ing to g low ing re

'79 is a s or t of M ichel in Gu ide to

out that Wuor io wasn't earn ing

ma t ion on f inanc ia l t opics, f rom

v iews in USA Today and The

m oney management,a c ollect ion

en ough m oney t o need the ta x

buy ing a f irs t h ouse or ca r, t o

NewYork Times , am ong othe rs.

of f inanc ia l ad v ice g iven in such

she ltered fund. "ln h ort,my lit tle

insurance options and the haz

A fter al l, th is is a b ook tha t opens

d own-to-earth term that even

foray in mun is pr obab ly c ost me

ards of cred it card debt.

the Eng li h maj ors am ong h is

th ousands of d ol lar I c ou ld ha ve

Got Money? by Je ff Wuorio

The point is s im ple en ough :

with a quote from tha t Bu ffet fel low . J immy, n ot Warren.

Everyt h i ng but the Poetry I s Out of Its E l ement Here Fish O u t o f Water

mal l c o l lect ion of 1 7 na rrat ive

he knew where he was headed,

a lways inc lude

Ronald Moran 58

poems offers c lass ic stu ff in m in

and e ve ryth ing he ld pr om ise.

letd own or defeat? Fish Out of

Juniper Press

iature :character in c on fl ict w ith

23 pages

the ir environment, the ir time

The s peake r in "R id ing It Out" buy

or themse lve . E' e ryt hmg' nut of

true

e le ment m R ona lJ Mo ran ' 5 '

a new m otorcycle every

the prom ise of

Wa ter, wh ich a l o m ightbe ta ken as an im perat ive,says there's m ore

pr ing . "When it thr obs/benea th

than one way t o be a f ish out of

Moran' poems are crafted out

me, prom i ing, I put on my/gloves,

wate r, s o a im h igh and dee p. In

of g l1 1 n p e of the Amer ican cene

drop the visor of my he lmet/into

"For Y ou," M oran wr ite , "You

o r reca lleJ fr om the past w ith

place," he say , like a kn ight g ird

can only wa it the best way y ou

\\''ac.:r--ner\ 1-xxh' m the wrong

re rfect c la nry. Dera il anJ mera

mg for batt le, then del iver dead

kn ow/for the right t ime, when a ll

"ar, the " rong rnne, the " rong

ph on, " ryly unJer rate emot ion.

pan an a <lm iss ion of per petua l

s igns say G o:/the ra inb ow's br il liant lea p into a ir,/the beaver's

charhxik of roem , F1�h Our

li fe. In rhe m le roem, a carr J1e

One >rea ker, rememhermg crrn, -

un rea<liness and res ignat ion:

m a rool ,if " ater rec vdeJ from

mg a Grange H al l Janee fl oor a

"With my han<l an <l foot/I fee l for

,llr i.: on J mnnc r . In "Rencg ,1Je,"

1f 1t were

the clu tch an <l gear ./Where is

a !,me w ,ilt "hn' <mh tr\mg

h1m ,e lf anJ a gir l, a l o remem

ma ke a ' " m g

rrarrcJ hr a

ran cher anJ e urha ni :eJ. Th i

L B '

T E R

mme f ie lJ ber neen

the c lutch? H ow Joe it w or k?"

l ic k and ca lcu lated plunge." M oran recen tly ret ired as pro fessor of Engl ish and assoc ia te

her tha t he "w ou lJ f o,nn her li ke

H ow t o han <lle th1 life that is

dean a t Clems on Un ive rs ity. Th is

tar." ca ry a 1t "a"

a lway '> s o fu ll of prom i e -an<l

is h is f ifth c o llec tion of poems. +

the . 'onh

Familial Thais in a Global Economy Bangkok. The work, predictably,

they work in, and she conducts

is boring and tressful, but it pays

an ethnographic analysis of gen

ranging structural and ideologi

well and offer

der and gender relations in con

cal tensions within Thai society

temporary Thai society.

as a whole."

available

freedoms not

Thai women only a

couple of decades ago. Compared

Thai Women in the Global Labor Force: Consuming Desires, Contested Selves Mary Beth M i l l s

Returning to their rural homes

rural T h a i

and

marriage and family still

"but also the effects of more wide

An associate professor of an t h ropology at Colby, M i l l s

com m u n i t ies a n d the i r eco

seems desirable

many modern

p e n t six years researchi ng t h i s

nomic practices, gender role

Thai women, however, if not ex

thoroughgoing academic study

and fam i lial tensions ( wh ich

pected and inevitable. Mills ex

of Thai women i n the labor

often are catalysts for labor

plores the conflicting desires and

force, but it's in no way book

m igration), the v i brant city of

"contested selves" that result

ish. The beg i n n i ng reads like

Bangkok grants the women of

when the women must choose

the start of a novel, and her use

the workforce the l i berry to do

between the rural and the urban,

of the fi rst-person pronoun in

and see and buy w i thout famil

the traditional and the new, the

v i tes u to j oin M i lls on a per

ial superv ision.

family-oriented village life and

sonal j ourney of discovery. The

Mary Beth M ills inspects the

the chancier life of the thriving

general reader as well as schol

long-term importance of these

city. "These struggles reveal not

ars in women's studies, South

Thou ands of young Thai

migration of rural laborers for

only the individual circum ranee

East Asian studies or anthro

women migrate each year from

the workers themselves and for

and needs of particular migrants

pology should find the book

rural areas to the factories of

the less visible urban industries

and their families," M ills writes,

accessible and informative. +

Rutgers University Press 2 1 8 pages

fresh pri nts

McMorrow mysteries, is faced dead-on in this book about the murder of the mayor of New York. Fans who thought they knew McMorrow may be in

Family Honor

for more surprises than just learning who murdered the mayor.

Robert B. Parker

'54

Putnam, 1 999

Across the Taiwan Strait: Mainland China, Taiwan and

1995- 1996 Crisis

Robert B. Parker launched a new mystery series with the publication

the

of Family Honor, his first novel to feature a woman in the lead role.

Suisheng Zhao (government), editor

Actress Helen Hunt asked Parker to create a woman detective that

Routledge, 1 999

she could play. Family Honor introduces Sunny Randall, a wise

Is the burgeoning economic i nteraction between China and Taiwan a

cracking divorced P . 1 . , hired by a wealthy Boston family to find their

sign of a political thaw, or is it just a d istraction that keeps the world

runaway teenage daughter.

from seeing a growing political estrangement? Suisheng Zhao

From East Germans to Germans ?: The New Postcommunist Elites

China and Taiwan and their chances of reconciliation.

(government) edited this collection of essays on the conflict between

Jennifer Yoder (government, international studies)

50 Best Places to Have Brunch

Duke University Press, 1 999

New York's

I n 1 990, Germany's transplantation of democracy into the former East

Ann Volkwein

Germany was u n i q ue even within the tide of democratization that was

City

sweeping Eastern Europe. Yoder fills what one political scientist called

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" a serious gap in the transition literature" by focusing on the adjustments of the political beliefs and behaviors of the East Germans

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and on the shifts required in their culture and identity. Based on her

field research in East Germany, Yoder rejects the notion that the

country had an easy, ready-made route to democratic capitalism.

BRVt.JCl-f -

This assignment-go off with a notebook and an appetite and return with an annotated list of the best places to brunch i n New York C ity-might seem daunti n g . But Nixon was well suited to the task. A former producer at the TV Food Network, N ixon i s editor-in-chief of both Hamptons and Ocean Drive 's Palm Beach magazines. Moreover, he and h i s co

Cover Story Gerry Boyle

& Jason Oliver N i xon '92

& Company, 1 999

'78

author have lived i n nearly every neighbor

Berkley, January 2000

hood i n Manhattan. The result is a g u i debook

Jack McMorrow, former New York Times reporter turned Maine freelance

for visitors as well as for any New Yorker,

knockabout, returns to Manhattan in Cover Story. McMorrow's fall from

"from an Alphabet City hipster to an Upper East Side family and

grace, perhaps not unexpected to readers of Boyle's five previous

everyth i n g i n between , " accord i n g to the introduction.

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� I m ules on the move Rug gers Earn Way t o N ation a ls Mules show last year's success was no fluke By Man

Apu��o

'00

f opp onen ts ha\·e undere sti

tion last yea r. T o c ome back and

ma ted the C o lby men's rugby

d o even better say s a lot."

team, tha t h ou ld change . The

A lot indeed .

Whi te Mules c linched thei r sec

The Whi te Mule s were p lay ing wi th ou t cap tain

ond c on ecu ti ve trip to na tional

'00,

D av i d

c ompe ti ti on recen t ly, and ri va ls

N ormoy le

are learning tha t last year's su r

and C orbin B race

R u s s Mink '02

pri e appearance in the na ti ona l

b oth game s. Injurie s kep t the

'00 f or m os t of

three key c on tribu tor s sidelined,

potligh t wa s n o f luke. Last sea son , the Mu le w on

bu t nei the r in j uries n or opp o

one of tw o games in the regiona l

nen ts c ou ld keep C olby c on

tourney, but Ya le Uni versi ty swep t

tained. "We have such grea t

the p layoff and c linched the na

dep th righ t n ow tha t there rea l ly

tiona l tou rnamen t ber th. When

wa sn't too much tow orry ab ou t,"

the Yale Bulld og s unexpec ted ly

Brace said. The Mu le s have a ll win ter to

withd rew fr om the na tiona l tour namen t, dep le ted by injurie a f ter

Colby, in white, goes head to head with Le Mayne in the New England playoffs.

re st, rec ove r and train f or na

win over Le Moyne. "It's very

talen ted in the region-to see if

circum s tance s e a si ly side line

imp or tan t to u thi s yea r to g o ou t

the Mu le s we re f or rea l. The re

any Mule s in the sp ring. Last

and win i t ou trigh t."

su lt wa s a 20- 1 0 vic tory tha t gave

year, when

C olby m ore than just an other

C o lby made the na ti ona ls, he pu t hi s studi e s in Spain on h old

ti ona l c ompe ti ti on.

a sprin -break trip to Eur ope, Colby was given the n od. Thi year, wi th a strong core of senior re tu rning, the Mu le s wanted to pr ove tha t they be

When the Mu le s g o t to

longed with the be tin the c oun

Amher st, Mass., fo r the regional

tournamen t be rth. I t ga ve the

try. A f ter a 7-0 regu lar season,

p lay off s, they didn't wa ste any

Mules vindica ti on.

they tramp led Le Moyne

time, jumping on SU

ollege

ew Eng land

lege a t Oneon ta ear ly and run

during the fir st game," said

p layoff. The \\'In sen t a message

ning to a 3 4- 1 7 vic tory tha t pu t

Ward

(N.Y.) 7 - 3 in the

'00, who scored

orm oy le f ound ou t

to f ly h ome to c ompe te. Chance s

"We hea rd othe r team s ta I king

Y C ol

or sh ou ld

teve

th ree times

are, since he wi ll be in the c oun try, he'll be on the fie ld for the Mu le s thi s sp ring.

to opp onen t> wai ting a t the

them one win away fr om nation

du ring the tou rnamen t weekend.

The tournamen t falls a t the

reg1ona b. "Yeah, we wen t to na

a ls. Fans and p layer s came to ee

"Everyone th ough t we were g oing

end of the spring sea son. C oach

ti ona l la t ;ea son but It wa basi

C olby face Cen tra l

onnec ti

to get ki lled by Centra l. It feels

R ober t Weggler rep orted May

cally JU t b lm J luck," a 1J\'eteran

cu t-a squad many be lie ved to

rea lly g ood to show e veryb ody.

f lower Hi l l w ou ld be the si te fo r

con '00 af ter the

be one of the tr onge st and most

We lost a lot of p layer s to gradua-

the Mu le s' opening game.

"pr op"

ean

Tournament W i n a Field Hockey Fi rst F or the fir st time i n the hi s

minu te lef t to tie it up, bu t an

h ockey team a dvanced to the

una s si ted g oal by Melanie

ec ond r ound of the EC AC Di

'00

wi th five minu te

remaining gave the win to Colby.

by he;ting N o. 3 We lle sley, 3- 2 .

" I t was defini tely a strong

1 -0

un ti l the

game for u s, since we had never

;1x th-;eeJeJ Mu le; tied i t be fore

made i t past the first r ound of the

ha l f t ime on a ;h ot by Jaime

p lay of f bef ore.

<l'>>tdy

'00.

fcJ a ba ll

o tha t wa s a

In the ;ec on J ha lf,

real ly p osi tive experience for a l l

'00

of u . I t wa s very exci tin g," said

Lapram R obynne DeCapno ro

Be ca B ru e '02,

"ho pu t the Mu le; ahead, 2- 1.

E s trel la

v 1;1 on I I I Tournamen t la st fall, We l le ley le J

We l le s ley came back wi th 20

tory of the pr ogram, the fie ld

ap tain Je sse Davi

'00.

The victory arned the Whi te

Toland Wins All-America Honors

sports shorts

A love of running fast and the d iscipl ine of training-but not too hard-came together brilliantly for Sarah Toland '00 in November

Women's soccer, 7-5-2 i n the regular season, made its fifth consecutive post-season appearance, bowing to Amherst i n the first round of the ECAC tournament. C h ristine O'Donnell '03 led

when she placed 1 1 th among 2 1 3

NESCAC in regular-season

runners at the National NCAA Division I J l cross-country cham

scoring with 1 3 goa l s , a new

p ionship race. With a 1 7 : 1 8. 5 time

Colby record. Just three players will graduate. .

0 hkosh's five-kilometer course,

f i n i shed 6-7- 1 , and Jamie Lue

she earned All America honors

'03 led scorers with five goals

and set a new Colby record, lop

and an assist.

ping 9 .5 seconds off M ichelle Sev

finished with a 20-0 romp over

erance Isham '94's Colby best. Sarah Toland '00

. Men's soccer

on the University of Wi consin-

. Footbal l (3-5)

Bowdoin. The defense tied the

Before transferring to Colby as

school record for interceptions i n

a sophomore, Toland ran simply

a season with 1 8 . D a n Noyes '02

for pleasure. " [ was never very serious about it," she said. That changed

broke David Lane '73's school

after the native Cape Codder raced in a lifeguard competition and

Reagan Carey '0 1 , left, and

learned she was darned fast .

Jennifer Johnson '00.

Learning not t o b e too serious was her hardest lesson, according t o women' running coach Debra Aitken. Toland at o u t her sophomore

record for receiving yards when he got 1 64 against Tufts. But for

missing an overtime field goal attempt against Bates and a two point conversion in a comeback bid versus Tufts, the M u les might

year, inj ured. "It's definitely a challenge-getting her to realize that

have been 5-3 . . . . Volleyball ( 1 6- 1 4 ) i m proved all year and took

she needs to be healthy first," Ai tken said.

second at the State of Maine Tournament. Reagan Carey

When Toland says she rakes running more seriously than academ

'01 ,

Melissa Fiebelkorn '00 , and Amanda Cuiffo '02 were First Team

ics, it's simply evidence of how much she loves to run; with a 3 .9-plus

All -State . Fiebelkorn's 22 assists in a game and Cuiffo's 21 k i l l s i n

GPA she is, along with other e l ite students in her c lass, a Julius Seelye

a three-game match both set Colby records . . . . A t t h e Head of

Bixler Scholar.

the Charles Regatta, the men's crew was the second D i v i s ion I l l

As a enior Toland has her winter ( i ndoor) and spring track seasons

team across the finish i n the champio n s h i p eights. Six seniors

ahead and, though she claims not to be competitive, he said she would

Dave Sherwood, Andy M i l ler, Colin Truex, Sean Nev i lle, Tyler

"like to break some records," perhaps in the three- and five-kilometer

Peterson and Chris LaPointe-are staying i n shape for their final

d istances. " It's j ust a really great feeling to be running fast," she said.

spring season . . . . Women's crew fi nished fifth at the Textile

Maria Mensching '02 , who has a perfect 4.0 GPA and like Toland is a member of the N ESCAC All-Academic team, was Colby's other

River Regatta i n Lowel l , Mass , beating every NESCAC entry

qualifier for the national cross-country champion hip. With a per

except W i l l i ams. I n their first trip to the Head of Charles champi

sonal best ( 1 7 : 5 8 ) on the 3 . 1 -mile Oshkosh course, she finished 60th,

onship level they f i n i shed second among Division I l l crews. Men's cross country placed 1 2th among 32 teams at the

sol idly in the top third of the nation's best Div ision I J l runners. +

ECACs. Top finisher for the Mules on the 8 , 000-meter course was Brendan Gavin '01 (27:43 . 1 3) . . .

Women's cross country ,

ranked fifth in New England in Division I l l all season, made its

Mules the chance to play No. 2

Mules defeated the Panthers, 3-

debut i n the national team rankings at 24th and won the State

Wesleyan. Shots on goal in that

2 , in penalty strokes after two

Championship for the second year. Talk about depth-top

hard-fought semi-final were even

scoreless overtimes.

runners rested while the second seven raced in the ECACs and

up at 1 4 , but Wesleyan scored late

"We accomplished more than

in the first half and again near the

any

start of the second, and the Mules

date, and we're really proud ofthat,"

ultimately fell, 2 - 1 . Lizzy Brandt

said Davis, adding that every player

'02 knocked in Colby's only goal

on the squad got in the final game

late in the game off a penalty shot.

against Wesleyan. The Mules'

Colby recorded another first

trong bench, she said, bodes well

thi

season-its first win ever

placed fourth out of 35 teams. Rachel Meiklejohn '02 finished in

olby field hockey ream to

20:25 . 3 1 to pace that group .

The White Mules finished

Division I l l champ ions. The

the eason with a 9-7 record. +

. Women's rugby , 2-6 i n the fall

( 3 - 7 ) placed 1 2th among 2 4 teams a t t h e N e w E n g l a n d Women's Intercollegiate Tournament ( N EWIIT). At number-one singles, Brittain Palmedo '03 had a 1 0-3 record.

Men's tennis

competed for the first time in the Middlebury Invitational, where

for the future of the team.

over M iddlebury, the defending

season, finished with a 7-0 win over Bates . . . . Women's ten n i s

Owen Patrick '01 and John McManigal '03 reached the finals of the number-one doubles flight but fell to Bates.

W I

T E R

2 0 0 0

COL B Y

student life

J a ke Con k l in : A Vision Without Borders Col by senior seeks cure for public health i lls by Alicia

em1ccolo MacLea)' '97 origi na l ly e n

m ore tha n a n a vocation, but he

v1s10ned it as a n "i n noce nt

is headed f or medi ca l s ch ool af

ake C onk li n '

pr o1e ct "-t o bui ld a h o pi ta ! i n

te r g raduati on. He reas ons that

the A nca h m ou ntai n regi on of

the " ooner I'm d o ne, the s ooner

Peru. Tha t might s ou nd like

I ca n fo cus on the e thi ngs."

wel l-me a ni ng

Las e fa l l, he a lready had bee n

nai vete, but

a c cepted i nto the

C onk lm a lready has sig ned cor

avy's medi

p orat ion paper t o create The

ca l s ch ool but wa

O ne Orga ni :ation, named the

hear fr om other s ch ools.

waiti ng to

C onk li n is a ls o busy w ork ing

fi ve trustees a nd obtai ned ad our ce that i nc lude

onhis chem istry h onors re earch

the deputy dire ctor of the Pa n

with Ass ociate Professor Ju lie

\'1 ce f rom

Mi l lard, with wh om he ha

Ame nca n Hea lth O rga ni :at ion.

w orked si nce his fre hma n year.

C onk lm, a chemi try major

Their resear ch i nvol ves is olat

from Ma rron, Ohio, pe nt the sum

1 99

as a , ·o lu nteer m the

i ng a drug fr om a n edib le mush

A nca h m ou ntai n . He , i· sited

r oom a nd cr oss-li nki ng fo r ca ncer

mer of h ome

tudy the potentia lly fa

tudies . "Jake i loaded with e n

barwnellosis as

thusiasm, i nitiati ve a nd h umor,"

ta l ba cte num

part

of a pub lrc hea lth re earch pr o gram ru n by the Pan America n

said Mi l lard. " He wi ll be a fa n Jake Conklin '00

tastic tr opi ca l hea lth pra cti t ion er, is

Hea lth Orga ni :ation, the U. .

ure t o discover loads of

, a \'\'a nd the Uniformed ernce

C onk li n ti l l i i n debt fr om his

Per ll\·ia n cu lture a nd ide ntity

na ty new diseases a nd wi l l have

Uni \'er rry of Hea lth

a great time d oi ng it."

cre nce .

w ork 1 11 Peru, but he say the

i importa nt, he ays." It \ hard

ummer C onk

e xpe ne nce was w orth the co:,t.

t o dra \\' the li ne i n he lpi ng but

O ne might thi nk Conk li n

li n '' a :, a night- h1ft emer ge ncy

He rea li :ed "m ore peop le w ou ld

not cha ngi ng a commu nity,"

w ou ld have lit tle time for other

ro om mte rn at the Chicago

volu nteer if fi na ncia l obstacles

C onk li n said.

The p re nou

h ddre n'

:-.. 1em o na l Ho prta l

purs uits, but he re ce nt ly com

A le x Chi n '96, assista nt di

a nd a ' olu nteer m the h o,prta l'

de nt G o,· e mme nt As ,ociati on

rector of student a cti vities, is

sidered a nove l,"ab out a s tude nt

lHttreach pr ogram t o h ou m g

cu ltura l chair, he has created

one of rhe orga nization's five

wh o fi ni hes medica l s ch ool a nd w orks i n a rh ird-world cou ntry

rroie ct .

\\'ere le e ned," s o, as the

p le ted what he said" ca n be con

onk lm :,a rd that "a

"C olby Abroad " t o fu nd lear n-

t rustees. Chi n aid he g ot i n

need to 'hed the comf ort :one

1 11g e xpene nces for stude nts dur

,·o h·ed i n C onk li n's m i >sion

to pay off his debts." It's a very

.IT<>unJ me " Jr ,rn ' him to w ork-

i ng the >Limmer or Ja n P la n.

"be cau e Jake 1s a \'I Si onary, a nd

p o liti ca l a nd a ve ry h orefu l

1 11 !! m d1t f rcu lt cond l [ l llm.

C onk li n a rd he wa nt:, to of fer

u n l ike m ost v1;,ro na nes he com

nove l," said C onk li n. He has n'r

other '>tude nt,, cha nce > to "make

b1 11es that wirh pas ion a nd a

conta cted a pub lishe r yet. " I'm

J CLt 1 11 Peru h ,e ,1 rchmg on- lme

,1 la:,tmg 1mpre :,ron a nd form

>tr ong

pre rared t o w ork on it for rhree

tm puh lr<: hc.1 lrh oppnrtu n l [ le '

their mi n a n:,wer ."

Pe op le l rke that are rare."

C1mk lm Jr,Lll\ ereJ the p ro

1 11 unJerJe,elnpe J cou nme . He 111qu 1 nc' co re,e ,1r d1er' he

'"'ll

t ou nJ 1 11r crc unl(.

'.1pr. L .Hr\'

cc1 11g the l1m 1red medica l cMc 1 11 Pe ru deepe ned

e n:,e of m ot1vari on.

Ul rnnate ly C onk li n wa nt '> to

onk-

w ork on nat1 onw1de a rrr oa ches

Th ou gh he loves t o write,

11 11 \ u1mm1tmc nt to puh l 1L '>CT·

t o hea lth care , 1 1wolv 111g ,,e c

Conk li n says he has no desire t o h e a wr irer."My r rue passion is

L.tu l.!h lm, .1 11 ep1 Jcn111>l<ll!I c 1 11

' i ce. He uca tcd The O ne

ondary edu cation as we l l a '>

clw

Or l.!, l l1 l :a r10n, \\h1 ch 1

med ica l

•

1,1 \ \ a nJ h e.1 J ot Pr<'JCU

to fi ve yea r , u nti l l'm sati fied," he sa id.

dcd 1-

CT\'ICe " He I S s re nd-

rer form visib le cha nge a nd he lp re op le live i n hea lrh ier cond i

, r e pc nJeJ hut ,,1 1J

L.1tc J

el1mmar1 11g d 1 n,1on'

1 11g '>pr1 11g break 111 Paraguay to

1 ,11Hl'J

Ill

he t 11 c l' n th1r J- ,1 11J hr r-11 or l J

c v,1 lu.1 te p m,1b dtt1e for '> Li ch a

uom," he said. "I l ike ju r ab our

l'c ni 11 nh lum , h e' I h I\ e tn ul\ e r

n,1t1 on,, . 1 11 J rh rnu l!h rhe org ,1 -

'rr. Hegy there.

everythi ng a nd I rh ink that's my

II.in 11 ell, 1t hr

11k lm 011

11nrl.:

n e I <"ll "' \ ,. I T

rnJ .i h 1lt

111 :.1t1<> n he 111tc nJ t o h11 ld th l' I.ire r

I 11 .i l

E, c nru .i l h

Rcr .11 11 1 ng th l' l,ic,d

onk l r n wa nt '>

b rg gc ,,t pr ob lem. I ger pu lled i n

Th l' O ne Orga n1 :at1 on to he

;o ma ny differe nt dire r ions." +

Colby Bookstore Girds for On- Line Challenges Ads tell textbook-buying students to

to deliver the book , he said. I nstead,

"Get on-line, not in l ine." Varsity

shopping on line, Stewart had the books

books.com bill itselfas "your on line col

in days. He compared prices at Barnes

lege bookstore." l s the traditional campu

and Noble with his Colby Bookstore

bookstore on its way to extinction? Last summer the

olby Book tore

te ted the on-l ine competition. A stu dent p icked six Colby c l asses and

Colby Bookstore

purchases and found them the same. "I

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popular college textbook Web sites. She got so frustrated that she asked to be let

Occa ional out-of-stock titles not

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shopped for book at eight of the most

should have checked them all at Ama zon, though," he said.

Hof.dey lOotOU•d•

withstanding, Barnard is working hard to keep students shopping on campus. The Bookstore offers used book and custom

out of the project, says Barbara Shutt,

publ ishing ofprofessor requests. The store

book division manager, who oversaw

al o make immediate exchanges when

the project. Only one company was able

tudents add or drop classe and buys

to ship all the books requested. Others

back new and u ed books.

had waits of up to ix weeks for out-of-stock books. Still other didn't

Though bookstore sales were up this fall, Barnard ays the tore isn't

have the books needed or the correct edition, according to the

about to dismiss the competition. While few Colby students have turned to the Web for textbooks, the on-line companies are "in it for the long

bookstore's research. " o one else will sell all the books you need at Colby," said Bruce

haul," said Barnard. "Web stores like varsitybooks.com expect to lose

Barnard, manager of the Colby Bookstore. He admits on-line sellers

money for some time." Eventually, though, they intend to make a profit.

can offer books cheaper, even with shipping costs, but says students

So far, on-l ine textbook sellers are best at targeting public institu

should consider the toral experience. "The typical student at a private

tions, where bookli ts mu t b e made available if requested in writ

l iberal arts college in New England is demanding of convenience," he

ing-a rule that doesn't apply to Colby. Some on-l ine sellers have

said. "We tend to cater here."

begun partnering with schools and, in some cases, have completely

However, Randy

taken over student textbook sales.

tewart '00 had to log onto Amazon.com and

Looking ahead, Barnard said, "We know there's a battle, a long

barnesandnoble.com when the Colby Bookstore was out of three

drawn-out war. " +

required English books this fall. "It would have taken weeks" for Colby

Maria Gonzalez Is Helping Build the Global Economy for the Venezuelan-American

She then spent two months

Chamber of Commerce in her

compil ing the brochure perta in

to encourage trade between their

hometown. As an intern, she was

ing to business in Florida. Her

state and Latin America.

assigned to redo a brochure that

superiors liked it so much, they

attempted to explain how Ven

asked her to expand it to

do similar brochures to be used

She plans to return to Caracas

to do an independent study in

ezuelan companies can do busi

York, Texas and California. " I 'm

J an Plan with the Chamber of

ness in Florida. "It was four pages

glad that I managed to know

Commerce, and after graduation

long and all the information was

everything I needed to know

she may go back to Vene:uela to

before I g l l t [ to t h e j ob ] , "

begin her business career. "[

Gon:alez said.

would l ike to do some kind of

messed up," Gonzale: said. So she rolled up her sleeve

She said much of her training

and went to work.

finance," Gonzalez said. "Finan

Gonzalez, who already had

for the task came from A sociate

three internships in human re

Professor of Economics Debra

If economic ties between

ources and corporate financ ial

Barbe:at's course on labor mar

zale: said her b usine

Florida and Latin America are

consulting under her belt, says

kets, which acquainted students

and in p i rat ion is her grandfa

strengthened in coming years, it

she spent a month finding infor

with ways to find the kind of

ther, a self-made Caraca busi

could be partly because of Maria

mation on business regulation ,

information the brochure needed

ne sman who was successful in

Maria Gonzalez '01

cial consu lting would be nice." peaking in the Spa, Gon model

the application process, what

to convey. That training appar

banking and other areas. "If it

products could be exported or

ently paid off; Gon:ale: learned

weren't for h i m , we wou ldn't

aracas, Ven

i mported, "what each tax is

Florida offic ials may award a

be standing here right now,"

ezuela, spent last summer working

about, what you should know."

grant that would pay for her to

she said.

Gonzalez '0 1 . Gonzalez, an economics-math ematic major from

W I N T E R

2 0 0 0

C O L B Y

From Aroostook County to the Final ( I ri s h ) Four auc ier 'O

E ven wh en Er ic

" You 'r e in th e f in al f our if you

wa in h is b ask e tb al l pr im e, p lay

w in three g am es,"

auc ier a id.

ing in th e E a t ern M ain e tourn a

Cork b eat th e Un iv ers ity of

m ent for Pr e qu e I le H igh choo l,

L im er ick in th e firs t round and

h e n ever dr eam ed h e 'd go to th e

topped th e Un iv ers ity of Ul t er

F in al Four. A a pl ay er.

Jordanstown in th e s econd. In the

But th at 's exact ly what

aucier

s em i-f in al 's Cork knock ed o ff th e

d id last spr ing, lead ing h is t eam to

Un iver ity of Ul t er Monmouth,

th e f in als of then at ional ch amp ion

in p art b ec au e of S auci er 's lat e

h ip by ink ing two three-po int ers

g am e h ero ics.

and m ak ing a k ey t eal in th e la t

W ith about

thr eeminut esofthe em i-f in alg am e.

1 00 f ans in

at ten

d anc e, Cork f in ally succumb ed to

"[ h ad th e gr een l ight to shoot

Dubl in Co l l eg e Un iv ersity

wh en ever I w ant ed to, fr om wh er

p art ly b ec aus e th at team h ad two

e\•er I w ant ed to,"

sk i l l ed Am er ic an p lay ers from

auc ier aid.

auc ier h ad g iven up b a k et b al l aft er hi

f in al h igh

D etro it . S auc ier scor ed 2 3 po int .

choo l

Any h ard f eelings?

g am e . Wh en h e arr ived at Un i

Eric Saucier '00, lower left, with teammates from University College Cork. The team played for the national championship but lost in the finals.

,·er i ty Co llege Cork, Ireland, f or econd s em e t er la t y ear,

auci er,

ot in Ir ish hoops, S auc ier s aid . Oppo ing p lay ers soc ial ized in pubs , got togeth er for a d inn er

a tar t ing h alfb ack on th e Co lby socc er t eam, d ec id ed to jo in th e

d anc e aft er th e f in a ls. " E verybody's hugg ing , arms around each

un iver ity b ask etb all c lub as a w ay to m eet mor e lr i h stud ents.

oth er ,"

Tryouts w er e in a m idd le schoo l gym, a d im ly l it h a l l w ith a dirty

auc ier r ec alled . " And sing ing. S ing ing is a b ig p art of it ."

The b asketb all t eam returned to

ork by tr ain. Th e tr ip w as

floor and r ipp ed n ets . But if the f ac i l ity w a lack ing, th e r ec ept ion

high l ight ed by g ir ls sing ing lr i h fo lk ongs . The sing ing spr ead, no t

from h i n ew teammate w a not."They w er e l ik e, 'Wow, an Am er i

on ly through th e c ar but up and do wn th e train .

c an,"'

auc ier r ec a l led .

I t w as ath let ics w ithout hype, comp et it ion w ithout th e comm er

o m att er th at h e is on ly f ive-eleven anJ h adn 't p lay ed in three y ear .

auc1 er w a

embr ac ed-lit er ally-by h is t eamm at es and

c ialism th at i

th e tr ad em ark of Am er ic an co l leg e sport

n at ion al level.

ot th at Irish co lleg e sports all lack c e lebr ity app eal.

at the

g l\ · en a k ey shoo t ing guard r o l e by h i co ach, who w a G erman -born

auc ier s aid th epr est ig e sport is hur ling, an Ir ish g am e th at is s im i lar

but f e lt a p ec1al af fin ity for Am er ic an b ec au e h e h ad l ived in

to lacross e but p lay ed w ith sticks with b lad es in t ead of n ets. The UC

C an ad a.

Cork hur ling team w as spon or ed by G uinness; b ask etball p lay er wor e

"We h ad th1 bond,"

auc ier a1J.

th e logo of a pr ing -w at er comp any. The Irish hoopst ers m ay h av e gon e

lnJeeJ, c am ar ad er ie w a wh at th e club w as all about."W e'd h ave

to th e fin a ls , bu t th e hur lers w er e th e top jocks on c ampus.

pr ac nc e, th en w e 'J go to a pub, JU t to c elebr at e th e pr act ic e," auc ier

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gifts & grants

Supporters Recognize Cotters' Commitment Cotter i nternship fund and d isti ngu ished professorsh i p annou nced B y S tephen Collins

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s The Campaign for Colby

gift in 1 99 was the nucleus of the

and William R. Cotter'

Linda Cotter fund. It provided

presidency both headed down

enough money last year for a pilot

the home stretch la t year, Larry

program that funded tipends for

Pugh ' 56 and others dec ided that

1 7 student . The pilot program

Linda and Bill Cotter's contri

proved so popular that discretion

butions to the College needed to

ary funds had to be added to cover

be recognized with something

the initial demand.

enduring.

o, backed by a lead

Another $ 1 .2 5 million from

gift from the Oak Foundation,

the funds raised endowed the Cot

Pugh c irculated at a trustees'

ter chair, Colby's 3 l st fully en

meeting with his yellow legal

dowed faculty position. " It's just

pad, buttonholing trustees and

very moving," Bill Cotter said.

scribbling figures. Such was the genesis of an extraordinary outpouring of good

Larry Pugh '56 (right) announces the Cotter Internship Fund and a teaching professorship, as Bill and Linda Cotter look on.

" It's the highest honor because it's at the center of our mission to have first-rate faculty who will

will for the Cotters. With finan

Pugh and Vice President for De

The fund recognizes Mrs. Cotter's

cial commitments from trustees

velopment and Alumni Relations

work building a network of busi

"Endowed chairs al low you

and conrributions from almost

Randy Helm had anticipated.

nesses and organization that of

to recruit and keep the very be t

fer internships and a sy tem for

faculty," Helm said. l nve tment

attract first-rate students."

1 ,000 alumni and friends of the

Three-quarters of a million

College, the initiative created the

dollars was used to endow the

William R. Cotter Distinguished

Linda Cotter internship fund.

"That [having an endowed

endowment provides compen

Teaching Professorship and the

Each year in perpetuity, the in

fund in her name] is hard to get

sation for the chair holder as

placing students in them.

Linda K. Cotter Fund for Intern

vestment income from the fund

ships, both announced at the

will permit up

for me," she said. Mrs.

campaign's October celebration. The effort to honor both Cot

income from the $ 1 . 2 5 -million

ed to--it's an enormous honor

well as a research fun d . A

otter

named professorship provides

dents to receive stipends so that

called it gratifying that the en

the highest prest ige available

they can afford to perform unpaid

dowment recognizes the impor

ters produced $2.3 million in con

internships at nonprofit organi

tance of the area on which she

who have already ach ieved the

tributions, considerably more than

zations or government agencies.

worked so hard. An anonymous

rank of full profes or.

50 Colby stu

teach ing fac ulty members

Gifts Establish New Faculty Chairs Two new gifts to the College of 1 .2 5 million each to create Colby's

that "With a chair you can put your money into something you're

3 2 nd and 33rd endowed faculty chairs were announced in December. The Harriet S. and George . Wiswell Jr. Chair was endowed with

interested in," said Mrs. Wiswell, a history major. "Something you believe in," said Mr. Wiswell, who studied social

a gift from Mrs. ( '48) and Mr. ( ' 5 0 ) Wiswell, of Southport, Conn. , and

sciences but went on

the Oak Chair in East Asian Language and Literature was funded by the Oak Foundation.

He retired with his name on 1 3 patents and world-wide renown as an

a di tinguished career as a marine engineer.

underwater-problem solver.

After the College identified Ea t Asian tudies as a program

Various family members, including grandson Timothy Wiswell

needing the stability of more tenure-track positions, President Bill

'0 1 , have attended Colby. The couple attributes Colby' rise in

Cotter endeavored to find the necessary funding. "The status of

prestige to a pirit of striving and cooperation that they saw in the

Colby's pioneering East Asian studies program is terribly important

Colby community of the late 1 940s, when Colby was reinventing

as Asia continues to grow in importance in the world economy," he

it elf on Mayflower Hill and the Blue Beetle shuttled student

said. Jette Parker P '94, who chairs the Oak Foundation and serves

between old and new campuses. ''The roads were j ust dirt then," Mr.

Colby a a trustee, agreed. The international philanthropic founda

Wi well said. "If the bus stopped in the wrong place to let a student

tion, which commit its resources to is ues of global concern, made

off and got stuck, everybody got out to push."

the gift for the named chair, which will be held by Tamae Prindle (Japanese ) beginning next year.

institution where the Wiswell Chair will serve students in perpetuity.

"Something has been done right here," said Mrs. Wi well of the "I t's nice

The Wiswells considered other needs at Colby before deciding

be a part of it."

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Lewis ' 2 4 , August 9, I 999, in Augusta, Ed Boulos, Bennie B u rban k , Vio Maine, at 98 . . . . John D. Swartz '29, October 2, 1 999, in Fishk i l l , Following up on my first let Hamilton C h ristensen, Doggie N . Y . , at 9 2 . . . . Carol H i l l Craven ' 3 0 , July 1 9 , 1 999, in West mention in the fal l i sue of Colb)' Dore, E l l iot Drisko, Helen Carter Roxbury, Mass . , at 88 . . . . Harold L. Grant ' 3 0 , August 1 0, 1 999, concerning our 5 5 th reunion com G u p t i l , Lester J o l o v i t z , G i n n y in Bangor, Maine, at 92 . . . . Pauline Morin Miller '30, August 2 7 , ing J une 2 -4 , 2000, I want to repeat: Kingsley J ones, A n n e Simpson 1 999, i n Palm Harbor, Fla., at 9 l . . . . Henry G. Bonsall ' 3 1 , July Do try to make it. Several of us hope K o c h , Mary C r o w l e y L a f l e u r 2 8 , 1 999, in Waterv i l le, Maine, at 90 . . . . Muriel MacDougall to be there, with a little luck . . . . ( w ith her daughter, Karen La Fleur Lobdell ' 3 1 , September 6, I 999, in Florida, at 9 3 . . . . Douglas B. Now for some c lassmates' news. '66 ) , Estelle Rogers Mac Donald, Allan ' 3 2 , J uly 2 2 , 1 999, in Waterv i l le, Maine, at 89 . . . . Annie Connie Stanley Shane, who lives Kay Coffin Mills, Dwight Sargent, Tuck Russell '34, March 2 5 , 1 999, in Orlando, Fla., at 87 . . . . w i t h her h usband, G e orge , in J udith Quint Schreider, Marge Kathryn Herrick McCrodden ' 3 5 , J uly 2 7 , 1 999, in Oakland, Watervliet, M ich., proudly reports T o w l e S t i n c h f ield and L u c i l e Calif., at 86 . . . . John P. Dolan '36, August 2 2 , 1 999, in Des that there have been no d ivorces Naples Weston . . . . Members of Moines, Iowa, at 87 . . . . Willard H. Dunn '36, J uly 1 5 , 1 999, in among their seven children. Connie the Class of 1 93 4 , the 6 5 th reunion Augusta, Maine, at 84 . . . . Ruth Michalek McAlary ' 3 6 , August visits them yearly in New York, class, seen on Mayflower H i l l in 26, 1 999, in Hyannis, Mass., at 84 . . . . Hayden B. Wright ' 3 7 , Rhode Island and California, tim c luded Louise W i l l iams Brown, August 1 5 , 1 999, i n Seattle, Wash., a t 8 5 . . . . Philip P . Charbonneau ing those trips to occur in October, Paul "Red" Feldman, Pete Mills, ' 3 9 , August 28, 1 999, in Northboro, Mass., at 8 5 . December and February, respec Frank Norvish, Fred Schreiber and tively. Connie's activit ies have in Francis Smith . . . . J oseph Camp'40s N EWSMAKERS cluded teaching, church work and bell, Fred Howard and Rosalie hospital volunteering. She writes Mosher Reynolds represented the Lawyers, judges and former court employees packed courtroom B at that these days she espec ially enjoys Class of l 9 2 9 as they enjoyed their Superior Court in Derby, Conn., to witness the unveiling of a nature walks and water exercises . . . . 70th reunion . . . . The highl ight of portrait of the late j udge Joseph. J. Chernauskas '40. Affec tion Grace Keefer Parker's endeavors the parade of c lasses was the arrival ately known as "Judge Joe," he served 27 years in the state's Circuit have also included teaching and of Merrill S.F. Greene '20. Fol Court, Court of Common Pleas and Superior Court and was church work. Currently she's a l it lowing the 5 0- Plus Club reunion remembered as a man of "canny wit and wisdom." eracy volunteer. Grace t e l l s us she's d i nner, alumni danced to the tunes a strong activist, keeping in fre of A l Corey and h is band . . . . The quent contact with her representaC i v i l W a r , the theme for l a s t '40s M I L ESTO N ES tive and senators . . . . I 'm really summer's Alumni College, at Deaths : Helen Tracey Lykins '40 , J anuary 6, 1 999, in West, Texas, impressed with ( make that envious tracted t h e largest attendance i n at 8 1 . . . . Louise Holt McGee '40, J u ly 2 1 , 1 999, in Yarmouth, of) Woody Tarlow's many automo t h e h istory o f t h e program. Sigrid Maine, at S L . . . . Charles A. Lord '42, September 2 7 , 1 999, in bile trips- 1 6 in the last e ight Tompk ins ' 3 8 , Peg Higgins Wil Philadelphia, Pa., at 7 9 . . . . Albert I. Ellis '44, September 9, 1 999, years-across the U.S., covering liams ' 3 8 , Barbara and Lester in Lakeland, Fla., at 77 . . . . Paul N . Prince '44, July 1 7 , 1 999, in every state and, he adds, most routes. J olovitz '39, A l l een Thompson '40 Peabody, Mass., at 77 . . . . Joseph T. Page '46, J u ly 3 0 , 1 999, in He and Helen, who live in Palm and Florence and Leonard Cohen Waterville, Maine, at 74 . . . . Arthur A. Parsons ' 48 , September Desert, Calif., have three children. ' 4 3 headed back to c lass to enjoy a 24, 1 999, in Burnt H i lls, N . Y . , at 75 . . . . Robert L. Cook '49, Wood y , fo rmerly a j ud g e , and l ively and informative week. Other August 2 3 , 1 999, in Framingham, Mass., at 74. R o n a l d Roy are both lawyers. "c lassmates" included a 1 999 gradu Ronald and his wife, M ildred, live ate of the College . . . . George ' 3 4 in W inslow, Maine . . . . Among his and Vesta Alden Putnam '33 were hosts for lion d o l l ars ( worth probably over $20 mil many faraway travels, Bill Whittemore tells us the Colby Club of Waterv i l le's annual lobster lions today) into the Mayflower Hill project, about his '98 trip to Saudi Arabia with the first buildi ng roads and sewerage foundat ions. I t is bake at Alden Camps. Local alumn i enjoyed American tour group ever al lowed into the the Putnams' warm hosp itality and delic ious unknown when Colby could have moved if i t kingdom. Bill asks, "Did you know audi Arabia h a d n o t been g i v e n th is boost. Benefactors do food. Barbara and Mal Wilson ' 3 3 helped k ic k has 1 0,000-foot mountains and a five-star hotel off t h e local club season a t the fal l pot luck. not normally make donations for roads and at 8,000 feet, owned by a Texan, Ro e Hunt ?" Spec ial guests were the editors of Colby's stu sewers! Mayflower H i l l is located on a rocky No, I urely didn't know that. Fasc inating. He ledge, which thousands of years ago was al dent newspaper, the Echo . . . . In a letter to also writes that it was President Bixler who most covered by ocean waters. They left their former 5 0 - Plus edi tor Fletcher Eaton ' 3 9 , "smoothed the way to H arvard G raduate res idue of sea shells, and the retreating gla Leonard C . Cabana ' 3 3 o f Waterv ille, M a ine, School, where I was a fellow student with the c iers, in their tu rn, left mass ive boulders scat recounted the story of the compe t i t ion be founder of the company I 've worked for these tered across the H i l l . As part of a work crew, tween Waterv i l le and Augusta to become the past 4 2 years." . Helen Strauss's and my home of Colby's new campus. H e went on "to it was my job t0 roll these two-ton boulders latest tour for "mature" Colby graduates in the assure the younger generation ( a nd lest we into the prepared road beds that are the foun N.Y.C. metropolitan area took place in Octo d a t ion of the road network surrounding the forget ) that Colby is bu i l t on sol id ground." ber-lunch and a visit to the Museum of Jewish C o l lege b u i l d i ngs today. In my treasured Cabana writes that by the time the Great

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Cloyd Aarseth and Joan are enjoying lots of global adventure-the Benelux coun tries, World Figure kating Championships in Hel inki and t. Petersburg most recently. Cloyd sounds somewhat bemused to see the educa tional films he wrote and produced a quarter century ago on Classroom televi ion today on the A&E channel. He wa honored to give the commencement address for the class of '99 at his alma mater, Montauk School, way out on the tip of Long Island. "Follow your dreams . . . Never stop dreaming . . . ever ever give up. Good advice for all of u . . . . And in the travel department . . . Shirley Martin Dudley and Chuck '45 stay busy-Hawai i , ew Zealand and Australia, where they sheared sheep, and Alaska, where hirley recommends taking the free school bus at Mt. McKinley in order to see more animals. The Dudleys live in Windsor, Conn., in the summer and Safety Harbor, Fla., in winter and keep in touch with Colby people from all over: ancy Loveland Dennen '47, Bonny ( Howard '44 ) and Bill Atherton, Marge Maynard Englert '4 7, ally and J ack Lowell '4 7 , Paul Murray '48, Andy and Dot Allen Goettman and Wally and Shirley Armstrong Howe. They al o travel at least twice a year to visit children and grandchildren in Minne sota, Californ ia, Florida and Connecticut. The whole family gets together every J u ly. -Anne Lawrence Bondy

Arline Kiesling Wills writes that she and Charlie are resisting the urge to slow down and are anticipating what the 2 l st century will bring. They continue to travel, spending part of their winters in Florida and summers at their camp at Great East Lake, Maine, and are still biking, hikmg and playing tennis. She ays, "We love to have the seven grandkids around and send them back when it's nap time (ours ! ) . " . Richard Sampson attended the 50-Plus reunton m June and was pleased to see a num ber of friends from our cla s as well as Fred ahagian '49, Kay Sahagian '49 and Fred '4 3 andJoJo Pttts McAlary '44. According to Dick, Dorie Meyer Hawkes and Tossie Campbell Kozen were to be lauded for putting together the '4 7 part of the reunion. I n J u ly, Dick at tended the American ounc1 l of the Orthodox hurch, " h 1ch meet every three year . He felt char "the >peaker' were wonderful and that the D1nne Lit urgy that began the ;es t0ns wa 'plenJ1J and hcaut1ful." . . . One of our bus1e t 1, hi rley Lloyd Thorne, to \\ hom I recently 'poke on the phone. he live' m Bmton and " on the 1-oarJ of d 1 rcc.tor' of the ommmee to EnJ Elder Homclc"nc". At pre,ent there are three rc,1dcncc' ( one exclu"vcl1 for women) \\ 1th ,JCcommoJ.irwm for a ror a l of 61 people. :\norher 1 1-c mg huilt 1n Brooklme to hou'>C

nine more. She is tutoring one of the residents, a woman in her 60s who i working hard to earn her GED, and also teaching English to Cambo dian and Thai refugees. One day a week she works for Ci tydance, a scholarship program for third grade children from Lynn and Boston who want to learn ballet. Of 300 who are cho en, 1 2 receive full scholarships. She i also on the board ofoverseers of Adult Education in Boston, following a 40-year career i n teaching and counsel i ng. I n summer she vacations on her 36 acres of land in East Andover, N . H . , and enjoys gardening and pickl ing . . . . I hope you all noticed the new questionnaire that appears in each issue of Colb)'. Please use it now and frequently to keep your classmates up-to-date. I hate to have to beg for news. -Mary "Liz" Hall Fitch

111e summer has featured a long drought in the information that we receive. However, we did receive a lot of e-mail from Aaron Sandler, a letter from Howell Clement with a printout of an unsuccessful effort he made to e-mail us ( we e-mailed a corrected address and our communi cations are now successfully established) and a long letter from Kay Wiseman Jaffe that we will detail further on in these notes. And we met Marvin Joslow twice this summer. Once he drove to Vineyard Haven with his grandson, and we took them out to the boat. The other time we met in Menemsha on Martha's Vine yard. Marvin lives near the harbor, and we always try to see him there at least once a sailing season . . . . Kay Wi eman Jaffee served as class correspondent so she appreciates how d ifficult it is to function when there i a dearth of news. Her lengthy letter included the following high lights. She has been described in Who's Who of American Women 1 999-2000 and in Who's Who in America. All that, even though her profes sional work ended in 1 9 7 3 . During her career she set up two synagogue libraries and the Brandeis ational Women's Assoc iation Used Bookstore. She has "branched out" recently to historical societies and The League of Women Voters. Kay writes that she spends time travel ing to North Carol ina, New York and Pennsyl vania to spend time with her children. She and her husband, 1 ike, are about to celebrate their 50th anniver ary. Tentative plans are for all 1 6 family members t o meet i n Orlando, Fla., at Walt Disney World. Following that meeting, he and M ike plan to travel the Panama Canal JUSt before it is turned over to Panama . . . . We have been busy this summer sailing and flying back and forth to Florida to complete negotia ttons to purchase a house in Jupiter, Fla. That is where we will be located in the winter, but in the '>pnng, summer and fall we will be back in Dedham and sailing our boat, Hero, in an tucket and Vmeyard sounds . . . . We have been quite ;kepttcal about the results from the new format for cla.,, mformation in the Colby maga z111e. With that 111 m111d, and since many of you have the abil ity to e-ma i l , please note that our

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Time again to share with all of you what l ittle news l have of our c la smates. Did you d iscover the c lass news questionnaire bound into the summer issue of Colby at the beginning of the Alumni at Large section, which begin on page 3 3 ? None of you used it, but perhaps you w i l l in the future. Also note the request for any update of your personal information for the new on-line alumni d i rectory to be launched this fall. . . . Thanks to our roving Maine reporter, Nellie MacDougal Parks, we have news of Carlton "Red" ' 5 0 and Anne Whitehouse Miller. After nine chi ldren and teaching career for both of them in South Portland, they retired to Tenants Harbor. Red became a commercial fisherman and Anne the full-t ime proprietor of Cod End restaurant. Seven of their chi ldren live in the Tenants Harbor area, and some of them work in the restaurant as do some of the grand children! Although Anne has kept in touch with several of our c lassmates, she would par ticu larly like to be in touch again with Joan Barnard Brady. ( Are you out there, Joan ? ) N e l l highly recommends t h e Cod End t o any '49ers in the vicinity of Tenants Harbor for delicious fresh seafood and a chance to say hello to the M i llers . . . . Don Nicoll , another roving Maine reporter, sent me a page from the Maine Hu manit ies Counc i l summer 1 999 newsletter, which featured their Maine Center for the Book program and A. Raymond Rogers. Ray was pictured reading to a group of children at a Born to Read program in a W i nslow c h i ld-care site . . . . After eight years in Honduras, our son is back in Colorado for most of the time now, so Lon and l drove our camper out to visit h im in August. The only excitement was a brush with a couple of tornadoes in Nebraska on our way home. We had to evacuate our campsite for several hours, which was a new experience for a couple of campers from New England. The next morning the campground was l i t tered with good-sized downed li mbs-evidence of the high winds that had rocked our vehicle . . . . Keep in touch. I 'm just waiting for the l i ttle man who lives in my computer to be kept busy cell ing me, "You have mail." -Anne Hagar Eustis

Plans are now well underway for the big 50th reunion! The Class of '49 had the largest turnout of any c lass yet, so let's try to break their record with a large attendance. J ud0ing from my correspondence, I think most class mates plan to attend. The program chat has been arranged looks great. I haven't a lot of news since you will be reading the biographies in our c lass book, and chat will keep you up to date with everyone. l recently heard from Newton Bates of Vine land , N .J . , and he plans to be there . . . . Richard Bowers, a retired lawyer from Delancey, N .Y . , writes chat he and his wife,

Berty, travel e x tensively in their RV and spend winters in the deep South. They have, between them, 1 8 grandc h i ldren w i t h another e x pected . . . . Last fall, Constance Leonard Hayes and l hosted another of our mini-reunions here in New Hampshire. Among those attending were Priscilla Tracey Tanguay and husband Pete, Jean Chickering Nardozzi, Richard and Mary Lou Kilkenny Borah, Elizabeth Jennings Maley and husband Bill, Alice Jennings Castelli, Beverly Deschenes Libby and husband J im, Charlotte Crandall Graves and husband J im

and Nancy Ardiff Boulter and husband Dick. Unable to attend was Barbara Starr Wolf, who wrote from her home in Sao Paulo, Brazi l-she does plan to be at Colby in J une. She has had a fasc inating career in the international classical music world, working with the Brazilian govern ment. Barbara has received an honorary fellow ship from Hebrew University in Jerusalem and is currently on the Board of Governors of the museum at Colby. We are looking forward to seeing her-and all of you-in J une! -Virginia Davis Pearce

Guy Mcintosh, Tempe, Ariz., is a pro grams officer with the Bureau of Indian Affairs. On his first day at Colby, he reports, he was "ready to go home when [he] saw the cramped dorm room in old Chaplin." On his last day he was "sad-had to go out in the real world to work." . . . M. Cass Lightner, Toms River, N .J . , i s retired from the hardware business. On his first day at Colby he discovered chat he would head the marching band and on his last day, much to his "surprise," he graduated. H is most risky harmless prank was "era hing the girls' dorm when they were still downtown." . . . News from Ernie Fortin, Maine and Florida, is that Peter Valli, Long Beach, Calif., the past presi dent of Borg Warner Internacional, is now cruis ing the world in his 62 -foot boat, has crossed the ocean twice and journeyed from California to ew England via the Panama Canal. Class mates hope he will sec sail for our 50th reunion. And Ernie hopes char any alumni who are in the Sarasota, Fla., area in February 2000 will come to the luncheon at which President Cotter will speak. For derails contact Ernie ( 94 1 - 3 7 1 - 5 5 9 5 ) o r the Alumni Office . . . . Bill Burgess, Tuc son, Ariz. , wrote that he had traveled by freighter to A u s t r a l i a v i a the Panama Canal, the Ga lapagos Islands and New Zealand. He was glad he was a "good sailor" because crossing the Tasman Sea was really tough. After 40 years of waiting for the right opportunity he finally got to see the Ayers Rock . . . . The wife of Robert Brigham, North Port, Fla., wrote to report his death in December. He worked many years for Life in its Moscow and Paris bureaus, then be came an owner of the York County Coast S tar ( Maine) and finally returned to commercial fishing and lobster c<ttching out of Kennebunk, Maine . . . . Bob Lee continues to be an active board member for the North Shore Music The atre in Beverly, Mass., where, among other

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responsibilities, he assists executive producer Jon Kimball in each year's play selections . . . Dave Miller spent the summer as chase-boat operator for his two youngest kids at 1 5 different East Coast sailing regattas, using his newest 2 1 -foot, 1 50HP rubber boat "toy" for this hazardous duty . . . . Danny Hall has a "slightly used" classic sail boat for sale as he has now surrendered to the power-boat appeal. Amazing that the "thrill" of five-knot sailing seems to be less appealing as some of us grow older. Call Dan if you have any interest in a well-maintained sailor. (The boat, not the classmate . ) . . . Bob and Nancy Nilson Archibald spent time in a fall Elderhostel retreat in Center Harbor, N . H . , and are now preparing themselves for their seventh visit to The Reefs in Bermuda during March 2000 . . . . Bump Bean and wife Dorrie had a wonderful spring '99 vaca tion cruise around the British Isles on a small ! 00passenger explorer cru ise ship, hitting ports in England, Wales, Ireland, Isle of Man and Scot land-even pa sing through a small village on the Isle ofMan--on a steam train no less--called Colby. Bump also was presented a 70th birthday present, a Maine windjammer cru ise out of Camden, Maine, with daughter Meredith '77; he also had the p leasure of soc ializing with Maine's Gov. Angus King ( honorary degree recipient '99) . . . . Priscilla Ford Haselton is considering writing an essay on why you should not be con fined to a Spanish hospital even under emer gency conditions unless you are prepared to undergo 24-hour party conditions. Somehow, Prisc illa survived and thrived from her treatment there and looks terrific. Maybe we should all seek the kind of treatment Prisc illa received. Watch for her essay when it is published. . . . 50th Re union plans are already being formu lated. Put the dates June 7 - 1 0, 200 1 , on your calendars. That's the weekend' For all on-campus activities that weekend we will be guests of the College. We are also planning a pre-reunion "social retreat" at the Sebasco H arbor Resort on Casco Bay i n Phippsburg, Maine ( 1 0 miles from Bath) on Tues day-Wednesday, June 5 -6, 200 1 . Put those dates on your calendars as well and stay tuned for more details . . . . On January 1 6, 1 999, The Colby College Board of Trustees recorded a memorial tribute to Warren Finegan, recognizing his many years of service to the College . . . . We mourn the loss of Jacky Dillingham Schlier, who died in Concord, Mass., last summer following a long illness. -Barbara Jefferson Walker .

Now that the Alumni Office has stopped sending out the personally addressed questionnaires that had provided u correspon dents with new items for these pages, my usu ally productive mail bag came up absolutely empty this time around. As a substitute, a ques tionnaire is bound into each edition of Colby magazine. While it may be hard for you to believe, many of our 2 2 0 classmates would be interested in what you have been, are, and will be doing. So, please, use the questionnaire and

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From Language, a Special G i ft

Having spent most of her adult life in Mexico, teaching and

president of the Mexican Audubon Soci ety and a ful l-time vol un

doing humanitarian work, Ruth Winterbottom Peacock '58 might

teer working on river restoration and riparian hab itats with a

be forgiven if she were to lament how few resources the country

coalition of environmental groups, commun ity officials and the

and most Mexicans have. I n stead, she sai d , " I 've been fortun ate

National Water Commission.

in that I 've always been in places where things need to be done."

"Mexico woke u p to environmental degradation only about

Not only has she consistently risen to meet challenges that

seven years ago , " she said. I n 1 994, when 40,000 waterfowl were

presented themselves around her, i n fact she set out four de

found dead at the Silva reservoir near Leon, Guanajuato, north of

cades ago to look for them , inspired by the late Robert Reuman

Peacock's home in Celaya, she wrote newspaper articles and

(philosophy} to go and make a ditterence in the world.

worked with the Audubon Society and two other environmental

After teaching English and biology for two years in the United

groups to bring attention to the d i saster. I t became the first case

States, she set ott for Mexico, "for an adventure, " and landed at

brought before the tri lateral Council of Environmental Coopera

a Quaker house where she met her husband to be. They spent

tion established under the North American Free Trade Agree

two years in Venezuela on a Farmers for World Peace project

ment (NAFTA} , and a $3-m i l lion World Bank loan to clean u p the

before returning to Mexico City, where her husband, an Earlham

reservoir resulted.

College graduate, was d i rector of the American Friends Service

As co-president of the Sociedad Audubon de Mexico she

Committee's rural community development programs.

recently spoke to a symposium on water quality and found listeners

When their son was old enough for nursery school, Peacock

surprised to hear that her degrees were in literature and ling uistics.

earned a translator's certificate and a master's degree in H i s

"The biggest shortcoming in Mexican educatio n , " she told Colby,

panic literature. She began teaching Mexican students at the

"is that once you decide what career you'll study, you never study

American high school in Mexico City.

subjects in other fiel ds." Too often, she says, people can't commu

She also taught English as a second language to business

nicate well with those outside their own field and can't see the

executives "Back then . " she said, for Mexicans who taught in such

broader perspective. "The gifts of a liberal arts education are a

programs

"having spent one year 1n the United States was

blessi n g , " she sai d . -Stephen Collins '74

considered credentials to teach English " Tha 's no longer true n part because of Peacock's work. In the

980s a the University of Guadala1ara she and her

colleagues se up hat school's first BA degree program 1n English as a Second Language (ESL) and recently she became he firs director of he English program at the Uni ers1 y of Celaya n the town where she now es A :11s1 1ng Fulbright professor recogn1z1ng her mas ery o 01d her

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in due course you'll show up in print. Better yet, send me an e-mail note. You can even resort to the U nited States Postal Service. Although our post office here in Bristol, Maine, is a small one ( j ust one employee, and that's Carl, the post master ) , we get very effic ient and personalized service. Why, j ust t h is morning as I waited to buy stamps, Carl was on the phone reading the mail to a lady who recently had a hip operation and couldn't get down to her P.O. box. Carl particularly enjoys post cards, whether or not you have a h ip problem. So give Carl and me a break; let us know what's happening . . . . Don Hailer has done j ust that. A n e-mail letter from him reports that this summer he and Sheila spent an evening with Bob ' 5 1 and Joan Kelby Cannell, Jean and Bob Lee ' 5 1 , Dave Clark '49 and Ned ' 5 1 and Barbara H i l ls Stuart '54 at the Stuarts' cottage on Drake's Island. I asked Don where Drake's Island is. "Maine" was h is reply. So much for my knowledge of Maine geography. And me a sailor. The H a i lers are planning to move to Cape Cod for retirement. Thei r first grandc h i ld arrived in J u ly, which, he surmises, makes him the oldest first-time grandfather in the northern hemisphere. Apparently to keep mentally trim, Don has taken to working out mathematical puzzles. For example, he informs me that 1 ,000 days will elapse between Septem ber 6, 1 999, and J une 7, 200 2 , when we will be celebrating our 50th reunion at Colby. ( I haven't checked Don's arithmetic, but I ' l l bet someone out there w i l l ! ) . . . And speaking of our 50th, for those of you who do not read President Norma Bergquist Garnett's Class of 1 9 5 2 Web page, plans are afoot for a pre-reunion reunion at a neat resort in the mid-coast area of Maine. I t w i l l not b e on t h e now-famous Drake's Island. I t w i l l , however, b e an easy drive up to Waterville for the official festivities. Plan on it! . . . I n the meantime, Art White, our c lass agent, has as sembled an energetic crew whose job i t is to enl ist all of us to contribute with historic gener osity to our 50th reunion class gift. You'll be hearing from Art's assistants. May I please hear from you ! -Paul M . Aldrich

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recently inviting me to go to the campus at the end of September, but I had other plans; and I w i l l have missed Homecoming as well after three straight years of attendance with Priscilla. Ray and Priscilla are in the throes of planning a brand-new home in Somerset and will have to go through 40 years of memorabi l i a and try not to move it all. . . . I had a few letters during the summer, the first two in J une. Carolyn Doe Woznick announced the arrival of a new grand daughter and her husband's A.L.N. degree earned from Harvard. They had time to take a trip to Lyme Regis, backdrop for a Meryl Streep movie, then went on to Waterville in J uly. And John Lee said he was j ust writing to thank me for a snapshot I had of our 4 5 th and a c l ipping about Gen. Patton that I had saved for him. However,

John had some other news as usual ( and I really enjoy h is letters ) . H e had been very busy as a tour guide in Washington, D.C. , w i th only five days off s i nce March 1 4 ; but he still seems to find some time for h is travels abroad. After reunion he went to the lakes region of northern I taly, plus Rome, Capri, Sorrento, Venice, Florence and more. H e always includes a l ittle of the mil itary h istory of these places, which makes for very interesting reading. Last summer he de c ided to take in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland and is already planning for a Greek T urkish cruise next summer. ( Who does the tour guide job when he's gone ? ) John has been in this country for 50 years and a U . S . c i t izen for 45-but he wishes that we, on the East Coast, could have a mini-reunion as four years seems too long to wait. His letters are full of news, and I would be glad to share them . . . j ust ask for a copy . . . . I had one other note-from David Rudd, who sent a c l ipping about an award he received during the Lucent Technologies 1 999 Patent Recognition Ceremony held at the Bel l Laboratories in Murray H i l l , N .J . , on May 1 2 . H is was one of seven patents selected for their commercial benefit to Lucent and the Bell Sys tem. The patent described the process whereby alpha quartz of high quality could be produced in large quantities. Single crystal alpha quartz was used in the days of analog technology for telephony frequency control in crystal filters, osc illators and timing devices. Quartz is still widely used today, although not as much as in the past because the telephone system is prima rily a digital system. However, some familiar examples still remain. Time pieces, for instance, are almost always quartz-control led. David com mented on the award: "How fortunate I am to have been a part of something of long-lasting significance-it does not fall to many." . . . Joan Rooney sent me a l ittle note about reunion remembrances and l i ke John Lee would l ike to see mini-reunions i n the "off years." . . . Nelson Beveridge called to tell me that Roger Huebsch passed away after a long illness. Roger, who served in the U.S. Navy and retired with the rank of commander, was the former president and CEO of Katahdin lndustries. He certainly will be missed by all of us who knew him. -Barbara Easterbrooks Mailey

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Bill and Penny Thresher Edson have

written about our 4 5 th reunion. It was great to see so many old friends and catch up on their news. Now we can look forward to our 50th! Penny and Bill have done a great job with this column for five years, and now l will do my best to follow i n their footsteps. My thanks to Penny for sending along some of your class news forms that she hadn't used. Please note that from now on these forms will appear at the beginning of the alumni notes in each issue of Colby. And please, Class of ' 5 4 , send me any noteworthy ( or simply interesting) news about yourselves' . Robert Parker, arguably the most famous mem ber of our class, has a new book due out this fal l

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were living on the Cape during our OtlS A i r Eugenie Hahlbohm Hampton will list the com ( 1 99 9 ) called Famil)· Honor. I t feature a fe Force Base s t i n t . mittees for our 45th-and as always, we wel male detect i,·e instead of penser, quite an -Kathy McConaughy Zambello come any sugge tions that will add to the special intere ting witch. . . . ancy Eustis Huprich, time we will spend tooether. who wa unable to come to the reunion be After graduating, Bruce Blancard had -Jane Milieu Domish cau e of a severe illness, reports that she is a brief stint in the Army and then entered the recovered and back to her u ual activities but was very d i appointed not to be at the reunion. corporate world, where he remained for 30 year . ews i s slim. Remember that Colby After early retirement in 1 9 7, Bruce decided to he enjoy gardening, bridge and e pecially magazine now has an insert quest ionna i re for her grandchi ldren . . . . Colby Lowe, who follow a completely d ifferent path. He ha now your use . . . . Babs Faltings Kinsman v i si ted evolved from the J u d y Thompson we knew at written a book titled Please Listen While I Think, overnight w i th Lois Weaver eil on a Cali Colby ( he explains thi metamorpho i in I'm a Vermonter, a collection of jokes and storie fornia trip last winter. . . . Had an e-mail from "Reunion Update" ) , was in ew Mexico thi with a Yankee twist. Bruce originally intended Sarah Dunbar LaMonica enclosing a lovely ummer at the Peace Act ion Conto give the book to family and friends gre . Colby h a been very active in as a gift but instead found himself N EWS MAKE RS Peace Action, the largest gras roots publishing his collection, and it has peace orga11 1 :ation in the country, old well. Copies of the book are Norma Bergquist Garnett ' 5 2 , an edu for m a n y y e a r s . . . A n t h o n y available by call ing 203- 762 - 3 8 3 5 cation consultant in foreign languages, Arthur, known t o u a t Colby as or writing to Four Corners Press, and Barbara Nelson '6 , assistant pro Tony Yanuchi, write that he has Box 7682, Wilton, CT 06 97 with fessor of Spanish at Colby, recently had a second operation to implant a check for 1 0.97. In April 1 999, completed photographing the rem a nmulator in his brain to help Bruce spoke at an author's luncheon nant ofSpain' historic past along part conuol Parkin on's disease, a pro at the Windsor Library in Wi ndsor, of the Roman Road while recording cedure that was recorded for TV Vt . . . . C y n t h i a Fox D a n c e r evidence of the succes ful "bridging" of and radio. He caution , however: (sfstiir@aol.com) lives i n J upiter, the pa t with the vigorous panish "Don't get ick; it really change Fla., and is a chemical dependency Barnet Fain '53 pre ent. They plan to develop a Web your renrement plans." We hope therapist. Recent travel has included based language program available via the Internet for people inter the operanon helped h i m . . . . Re family reunions with her husband's e ted in improving their understanding of and skill in the pani h member to send me your new i terns, fam i ly in Missouri and her own fam language and culture . . . . Barnet Fain ' 5 3 is the new chairman of espec ially those of you we haven't ily in Pennsylvania. They are con the board of directors of Lifespan, a Providence, R.1. -based health heard from for a while. sidering a trip to Moscow in the care partnership comprising several hospitals in Rhode Island and -Helen Cross Stabler ummer to visit Cindy's younger the New England Medical Center in Boston. Fain has been vice on, who is living there for two chairman ofthe board since 1 994 . . . . Former Colby trustee William The one response I received years. When Cindy graduated from E. Haggett ' 5 6 wa elected chairman of the board of trustees at from the Colh)· in ert was from Allan Colby, she never anticipated that Maine Maritime Academy, a public college in Castine that special Landau, who wnte that he is one he would spend 2 0 years helping i:es in ocean- and marine-oriented programs. Haggett, who has cla' mate who 1 not retired: a re others do what she has been able to erved on the board ince 1 9 9, is the former chairman and CEO of cent merger make him a partner in do, conquer an a lcohol depen Bath Iron Work in Bath, Maine . . . . Carol Barton eubauer ' 5 6 Holland and K111ght, the fifth larg dency. . . . Daniel Yett has retired w a awarded a silver medallion for 2 5 years o f service t o the e t law firm 111 the country. Allan as a consultant for the State De Bndgewater tate College community. She i the assoc iate librarian wa able to go to Tel Aviv for the partment and is currently a full-time 111 circulation at the college's Maxwell Library. open111g of an office there in J uly of student learning Turkish ( 44 weeks this year, and he ay that he and of cla ses) at the National Foreign M I LESTO N E S Paula continue to travel. Allan parAffa irs Training Centerof the State ticularly enioy:, his boat, fi h111g and Department in Virginia in prepara Deachs: Helen Kelleher Breen 'SO, July 3, 1 999, in ewburyport, tcnn1, . . . . Jack and Ann Burnham tion for a eptember 2000 as ign Ma s., at 70 . . . . Robert J. Keyes ' 5 2 , October 2 1 , 1 999, in Indian Deering are well-and Jack cont111ment to Istanbul. Hi wife, Beverly, River hores, Fla., at 7 1 . . . . Roger Huebsch ' 5 3 , August 1 2 , uc' h1, work with Paine Webber. At i still a foreign service officer with 1 999, i n ew Bedford, Mass., a t 6 7 . . . . Ruth McDonald Brown ,1 recent 4 5 ch reu111on planning the Department ofState. They have ' 5 5 , eptember 2 , 1 999, in North Falmouth , Mass. , at 6 5 . . . . David mccc111g at the Deenng,,' home, I two children, a son with the U. . in Dunn ' 5 6, eptember 1 2 , 1 999, 111 Lee, Ma s., at 64 . . . . Laurence gleaneJ a little more informanon Burundi and a daughter who is a J. Hoogeveen ' 5 7 , Augu;c 1 1 , 1 999, 111 Bowdoinham, Maine, at 6 3 . ibout c l a"mate,. Kath Flynn psychiatric c l inician in a Washingarrigan pamc1pated 111 Bow<lom ton, D.C., hospital. When Daniel me age regarding the late J ean Pratt Moody. reunion' chi year, mging wlth a group who leJ graduated, he never anticipated pending 20 or I plan to read n at our next reunion, which, by .1 college-w1Je ,mging of Bow<lom cla"1c» he o years living abroad in Africa, Europe and the way, will he here hefore you know i t . I am ,,11J it \\ ,l gre.lt fun and chat 1t woulJ be mce co outh America . . . . After working tireles ly for looking for \'Olunteer to help wtth the plan mcnrpor.ue 'ome olb1ana 'ong' at our re nearly I 0 year , Helen Payson Seager ucce nmg-or at lea t to senJ 1Jeas to m chat I can Ul1l<>n,. Kath\ ha, been honoreJ for her work ,1, fully opened the door of the newly renovated forwarJ co the com mi ttee. Plea e wnte 1 m eJuL.ltor nf m1granc-, anJ ,he h.1 , \\ ntten African chool and hurch in Nantucket. Tho e Joyce Fra:icr Fra er anJ �r.mc ch.H bnng e l igib le chi lJrcn of m1gr.mt huck ' 5 7 have of you who remember Helen from our under 'em1-ret1reJ from the family nur ing home '" rker w the :-.. h me on,en .1t1on ch<Kll .H gra<luate <lays will not be urprised to hear that hu 111e' no\\ chat one of their twm on 1 Bn .me r,mJ for .l \\'Ct:k. K . H h \ al'n cell' mt: th.It he was the lead r of a mall group of loyal cak ing <wcr. The ocher twin " Falmouth, Ma s., \'anda �likol " ka- olomon ""'n \\ ill mm e supporters who put in at lea t 4 , 5 00 volunteer harhnrma,ter. Joyce rccncJ two year ago a w unJt:n, . h 111c tn•m \\'a,h1111:ton '1.1ce \\'o.: hour of fund raising, awarene s rai ing and .m OB'.' n ur ' e .lt C.1pe '' ill \\ ek,ime her t<> chi, .m:.1 ! . . Th.mk co uJ Hmpt tal. It wa> a research to get the church opened. For her cre.lt w hc.u from her .1fter all che>e years as eorge Ha.,kell f<>r c.iking un the ,1"1�nment nf effort;, Helen wa rewarded with the Nantucket w e u,eJ to get together \\ hen Lou ' 5 5 and I 1't:1ng reunwn da" agent. A letter tnim �h.ur Pre;ervat1on Trust' annual h i toric pre erva-

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Greetings, classmates. Here are some interesting responses to our final questionnaire ( remember, there will be no more individual que tionnaire mailings; reply forms are included in each is ue of Colby magazin e ) . Joan ( Crowell '60) and Skip Tolette purchased property on one of the Thousand Islands, near Ian Tatloc k . They s t i l l love to ski, garden a n d golf a n d say they expre s themselves by singing loud in church. An important part of Colby life for Skip was working with the late Bill Bryan in admissions . . . . Mainer Tom Skolfield paints watercolors and fools around with ragtime pi ano. Contact him if you'd l ike a watercolor of a scene or ubj ect with special meaning for you . Tom credits Colby with his "second career" in the Air Force and with an enduring interest in Spain . . . . Dave Tamaccio has retired after 38 years in a i rport operations w i th U n i ted A ir l ines. A 3 6-foot sport-fishing boat provides much entertainment and has transported Dave and Barbara to the Bahamas and the south Florida coast on fishing excursions. Dave wi he us all survival into Y2K . . . . Jay and Chris Rand Whitman appeared in the Blue H i l l Troupe's 7 5 th anniversary performance o f HMS Pinafore last spring; Marty and I attended the performance in New York City, and it was indeed spectacular-professional in every way. The ir interest in and apprec iat ion of music grew and flourished at Colby, thanks in large part to Peter Re. Jay, who teaches financ ial analysis and financing techniques in the insur ance indu try, suggests that Colby would be a good start ing point for c l assmates to venture into volunteerism . . . . Mary J ane and Tony R u vo have a home in H i lton Head. Tony still l ikes gardening, and he asks c lassmates to reply more frequently to my inquiries. Thanks, Tony! I'm with you . . . . Or. Bob Younes treats vari cose vein d isease, making women even more beaut iful than they already are. Bob feels that his confidence and elf-reliance were nurtured a t Colby, and he asks cla smates: do you live every day to the fu l lest ? . . . Received a charm ing article written by Dennis Karkos's son Terry for the "Original I rregular" of K i ngfield, Maine. Dennis wa an athlete, as were Terry's siblings. Terry made many attempts in that d irection but fe lt more comfortable as a tour nament chess p layer. I nterestingly, he ended up as a sports journalist. H is article deals with

the importance of a strong family support system and concludes with this wonderful compliment to good parenting: "It wasn't until after college that I learned that whether I earned a trophy or not, my parents still thought of me as their living trophy and were proud of my accomplish ments, regardless." N ice going, papa Dennis. -Ann Segrave Lieber

Hope you all had a good summer. By the t i me you read this, Hurricane Floyd will be a d im, dark memory and we'll be more con cerned with "white" rain-and that much closer to our 40th reunion. Mark the weekend of J une 2 - 4 , 2000, on your calendars now, and please do not schedule any graduations, weddings or births of grandchildren for those dates. You have made my j ob very easy these past four years by sending along lots of letters and news, and this time you made it really easy! Not a ingle questionnaire from the Colby magazine ( the new system men tioned in the last column ) wa returned. I could make up j u icy tidbits, which Kay always threat ened to do, but I think I will spare you the details and plug our reunion instead. And since you all know how fa t ti me flies as we get older, you had better start thinking about making your reserva tions soon. We should all give serious consider ation to making the effort to get to this one. We are not getting any younger, and most of us are not yet plagued with health problems that might prevent us from attending future reunions-two powerful reasons to get together! What a great opportunity to share experiences and celebrate our lives as we have lived them to this point. Through our travels with the Navy, and our life since, we have discovered that olby ha turned out some wonderfully interesting and diverse graduates with a common bond. This could be a really spec ial occasion for all of us. We know the "regular " w ill be there, but for those of you who haven't made it in a long time, and those who have never been back, please consider it. You will find that no one is a stranger, old friendships will be revived, and new ones will emerge among people who never had much to do with each other during our "conformat ive" ( new word) years. And the more people who attend, the more fun it will be! Please look for the question naire in this issue and take a few minutes to send along your news-or I really might fo l low through on Kay's threat! -Carolyn Webster Lockhart

My column-writing task this issue was very simple because I have not heard from any of you ' This is not a good state of affairs. Please ei ther locate the questionnaire in t h is issue of Colb)' and fill i t out and mail i t to me at 2 5 harles S t . , Orono, M E 044 7 3 , or e-mail me your news ( j udith.hakola@um it.maine.ed u ) . I'll even give you another chance to respond to the topic I posed in the last issue: if you were going to choose a major again, would you choose the same one ? I f so, why ? I f not, what would you choose and why ? I f that doesn't inspire you,

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1 960s Correspondents 1 960 Carolyn Webster Lockhart 1 70 County Road New London, NH 03257 603-526-9632 fax: 603-526-802 1 lockhart@tds. net

1 96 1 J udy Hoffman Hakola 25 Charles Place Orono, ME 04473 207-866-4091 j u d i t h . hakola@ u m i t . m a i n e . e d u

1 962 Patricia Farnham R u ssell 1 6 S u n set Avenue H a m pden, ME 04444 207-942-6953 prussell@ka i . net

1 963 Karen Fors l u n d F a l b 245 Brattle Street Cambridge, M A 02 1 38 6 1 7-864-4291 K F F245@aol.com

1 964 Sara Shaw R hoades 76 Norton Road Kittery, ME 03904-54 1 3 207-439-2620 fairwindsc@aol.com

1 965 R i chard W . B a n kart 20 Valley Avenue Apt. D2 Westwood, NJ 07675-3607 2 0 1 -664-7672

1 966 Nata l i e Bowerman Zaremba 1 1 Linder Terrace Newton, MA 02458 6 1 7-969-6925 6 1 7-266-92 1 9 x 1 07 nzaremba@har.org

1 967 Robert Gracia 295 B u rgess Avenue Westwood, MA 02090 781 -329-2 1 0 1 Bob_Gracia@brook l i n e . mec.edu J udy Gerrie Heine 21 H i l lcrest R d . Medfield, MA 02052 508-359-2886 hei nejg@aol .com

1 968 Nancy Dodge Bryan 7 Weir Street Extension H i n g h a m , MA 02043 7 8 1 -740-4530 nbryan95@aol.com

1 969 c/o Meg Bernier Alumni Office Colby College Waterville, ME 049 0 1 207-872-3 1 85 m_bernie@colby.edu

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forward to a trip to Costa Rica. She is sti l l teaching Spanish and enjoys N EWSMAKE RS visi t i ng a Spanish-speaking coun try every year or so. Her cousin R e t i red teacher Barbara H a i n e s Chase '63 is a full-time volunteer in Carolyn Doe Woznik ' 5 3 is a Brattle Street neighbor of mine, and she her New Hampshire community-at and I would love to have a visit a hospice, at a fire department, as an ews i s a bit scarce as the emergency medical technician, as a from Elizabeth . . . . Connie Miller summer winds down. Yesterday l Manter wonders, "Who has photos builder for Habitat for Humanity. "You biked the carriage trails at Acadia cannot think globally or generally," of the 3 5 th ?" She hopes the 40th with my daughter-in-law. ! must say, she told the Keene, N . H . , Sentinel. reunion is at least as much fun as l felt my age1 . . . Had a surprise visit "You have to think that you're help the 3 5 th and wishes we could have from Jo Ann Sexton Hardy the Barbara N e l so n '68 ing the person in front of you . " . another lovely d inner in the Bix ler other day. he has relocated to "Handwriting expert melds science, art," proclaimed the Detroit art center. Connie is an education Rangeley, Maine, and is liv ing on a ews headline over its August profi le of Ruth Elliott Holmes ' 6 7 , consultant and soc ial stud ies spe small pond within a nature conser t h e state's leading handwriting analyst. A person's handwriting, cial ist for the Maine Department vancy. Jo continues to work a couple said Holmes, can reveal anything, from family background to of Education . . . . Susan Ferries day of week, which leaves her plenty preferred work style . . . . Barbara Nelson '68, assistant professor of Moore is vice president of envi of time for her birding, fishing and Spanish at olby, and Norma Bergquist Garnett ' 5 2 , an education ronmental affairs at Georgia-Pa garden111g . . . . Jan Cole Courant consultant in foreign languages, recently completed photograph c i f i c . A l t h o u g h s h e and h e r wrote from Greene, Maine. he ing the remnants of Spain's historic past along part of the Roman husband, J ack, l ive in Wicomico tarted a new job last spring as a Road while recording evidence of the successful "bridging" of the preschool teacher and j ust loves it. Church, Va., she works three to past with the v igorous Spanish present. They plan to develop a Jan and John are fir t time grand four days a week at the corporate Web-based language program available via the Internet for people parents as of June, and Jan flew to h e a d q u a r t e rs i n A t l a n t a . S h e interested in improving their understanding of and skill in the Vail, olo., to visit with the new gre a t l y enj oys h e r four " n e a t " Spanish language and culture . . . . Governor Angus King, LLD. born-a first flight in many years for grandkids, ages 3 a n d under. O f a '99 has appointed Lynn Fontaine Duby '69 to head the Maine her. Congratulations1 . . . Hats off to freshman course at Colby called Department of Mental Health, Mental Retardation and Substance Mike McCabe, our venerable class Creative Thinking, she says, " l t Abuse ervices. The governor said that Duby, who served as agent. Our class not only increased changed what I thought the bound di rector of the Office of Substance Abuse since 1 996 and is our dollar goal but also the percent aries of education were." She won committed to community-based services, would bring beneficial age of classmate giving. You're doders i f any other people who took experience from within and without state government. 1 11g a great i ob , M ike. Keep it that course remember i t as making up . . . . On the Ru sel l home front an important d ifference in their several changes have taken place. M I LESTO N ES thinking. She would love to have My 9 1 -year-old mother passed away old friends v isit them at their week Births: Trip lets, David Lewis, Peter John and Charles Donald unexpectedly in Apnl soon after end house on Cheasapeake Bay . . . . to Lydia and James Coriell '67. Coriell, our return from a won<lerful trip to Sally Proctor l ives in Wilmington, Monterey. he died as she lived, N .C. Having retired from her work Deaths: David M. Copithorne '60, J u ly 27, 1 999, in Gilford, N . H . , alert, energetic and mdependent! as a professor of c l assics, Sally a t 6 1 . . . . Melvin H. Veeder '6 1 , May 1 3 , 1 999, i n Lafayette, Calif., he ha<l covere<l more ground 111 teaches part time at UNC-Wil at 60 . . . . Gaylord P. Simonds '67, September 10, 1 999, in York, the \\'eeks 1mmed1ately prece<ling m i ngton, directs library seminars 54. at Maine, her Jeath than a per on half her age in c lassics and enjoys vol unteering \\'OulJ normally want to do. I 'm so at Habitat for Humanity and Hos glaJ I wa' able m help her celebrate her 70th a hemiplegic from a stroke, and I was her pice Care. She wou Id love to hear from friends. olh reunion 1n '9 . Rollie and I have move<l advocare . . . . We are saddened to hear that I hope that her recovery from the Hurricane 111m her Hampden home, which 1 J U>t down the lonte an<l Cynthia R i c h mond Hopper's Floyd flood ing went well. . . . James McCon 'treet from our two granJchildren, whom we daughter Jill <l ied March l 7 of a pulmonary c h ie wrote that his daughter Lindsay graduated c.1re for. They have aJdeJ 'o much JO\' to our and teach i n g at he was 2 e m b o l i m. from Colby last J u ne "with an excellent l i beral Plca'e 'end new' to me ' ll\ e,. . Georgetown University while finishing a Ph.D. arts education . " H is bu iness, the Recreation -Pamcia Farnham Russell 111 pol 1 t 1cal science . . . . Paul ine Ryder Kezer Group, i less time consuming now, and he is wrote that he underwent surgery and chemo looking forward to renovating the Susan B. Brian McAlary\ re pome to the que therapy for breast cancer. he is looking for Anthony birthplace and converting i t to a non "Arc there ,111\ Li l"m�te' you wllulJ like warJ to the enJ of treatment by hristmas and center for women's studies in the Berk hires. rn he .t r Imm "' " "The more, the merrier!" How a fu ll reco\'ery. Paul me concl u<les with: "An<l He acids that he hasn't had a good $ I complete " e ll pokcn ' "'" e,·cn·one, m.1 k e a re,olut10n make a rem111Jer of the importance of yearly <l inner since the Majestic Restaurant c losed 1 for t he nc r m i l k n n 1u m to 'hare your nc"·'· mammogram and monthly >elf-exams." Thank Nei ther have wel . . . Karen Beganny Bryan Fill .-iut rhc torm 111 r h 1, Colb) m.1g ,1 :111 e ' You \'<lll , Paul ine . . . . Beth imonds Branson was sent me the won<lerful 1 999 New Year's greet \\ lluld m ke m.1111 pe.>plc h.ipp\ to reaJ of promoted to nee pres1<lent of Bonney T ra111ings she sent out to fr iend and relatives. In it �h 011 n 'ummer h.i- heen one of tL111\ <>u 111g anJ r ,1 ff1 11g. he heaJ, up their new Pro she thanks all for their phone calls, cards, tt 1<1n ,,, mi lll(lther, (_,J.1d\ ' H,111 for,JunJ , enter, ba,eJ 111 PortlanJ, Ma ine, wit h offices leners, visit and prayers that su rained her p.t-,<d , r n 1 1 I l l J u l\ .u t h e .i c e ot 9 2 . :::Oo me o t 111 Augu,t.1, Brum11 1ck and Lewiston. The com through Bill's long ill ness. As he ays, Bill was \ <>ll m.11 rem<ml er h e r trom L.H·pool 1 11g J.11 , p.111\ 'pec1ali:e' 111 match111gcompa11 1e; 1n need truly a wonderful man of boundless love, en ' 1'1t 111c � lm111 r H< rmo n Lhool \1 h cre ,he 1• .1 of per,onncl w profe >10na J, loo k 1 11g for new ergy and enthusiasm. I vividly remember my 1 m.uh te.1Lher, or lr1 111 our gr 1du.mon, 11 hen P<"mon,. Reth anJ her hu.,band, Rohe rt, I 1 ve adm1ss1om 111terview with him, and I 'm sure 1lh\ 111 ,he reL <: l \ eJ l m.1 ra', Je�ree trom orwat Eli:abeth Doe 111 :L,lrhorough h is enthusiasm was an important factor in my 1H ne that ,he .111d her fa m 1 h 11erc looking choos111g Colby. Karen' special eel teaching at

make u p and a ns\\'er your own question. J ust let me hear from you. ( C'mon, guys-it's so de meaning to beg. ) -Judy Hoffman Hakala

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a middle school in Orono is going well. . . . Class president A n n Bruno Hock ing is ex c i ted that her son Benjamin i s engaged to a Colby graduate, Sherry Sangster '96. Both her sons are i n graduate school in the Boston area and work for apient, a computer company in Cambridge. She and her husband, David, were looking forward to a trip to H ilton Head in November. Ann i s now gathering a committee for planning the 40th and says Karen Beganny Bryan has agreed to be v ice president . . . . Re member to send in your news! -Karen Forslund Falb

o news? . . . The only response card arrived from Marty Dodge, professor of conser vation at Finger Lakes Community College in Canandaigua, N .Y., who reports, "[Took] a dream trip with wife Kari in ummer '99 by bush plane ( actually six in all) to the heart of the Wrangell St. Elias National Park and then on to Gates of the Arctic ational Park-both in Alaska; the latter way north of the Arctic Circle. Trip =8 to A l aska with students will include some of this over summer 2000." He says he'll use his fa ll '99 sabbatical leave "to develop a course directed toward sustaining society. My all iance with the 'deep ecology' movement remains strong. In deed, much of the new course will focus on Earth as a beaut iful delicate life-support system in dire need of keeping all of its pieces rather than as a source of personal gratification from mega con sumption and disposal of nearly all resource . I'm still competing in the professional lumber jack c ircuit-now often in the masters d i v ision. Finger Lakes ommunity College timber sports teams ( men's and women's combined) have now the most wins of any school in the North east c irc uit." . . . Ned and Lynn Urner Baxter sent a follow-up letter w i th an article about the book mobile Ned drives for Adams aunty, Pa. The article from the July '98 issue of Central PA magazine explains why Ned gets such a big k ick out of driving it when he's not attend mg to their Hope Springs Ant iques shop i n Gettysburg. The book mobile has a regular circuit at day-care centers, retirement communities and even pris ons. ed is also a "story teller" and has a flock of c h i ldren waiting at each stop. The author of the article, Annette Spahr, recounts how she "could read the lips of the children running alongside, pointing excitedly saying, 'there's the bookmo bile ! ' I felt like an honored guest on board." The approximately 2 ,000 titles, which rotate daily, are not mere hand-me-downs. The Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew and anything about di nosaurs are high on the list for the younger set. The New York Times best ellers and "the trip bag," a loaded-down tote bag that is also known as the "Have anything good for me today?" bag, serve the older crowd . . . . Your correspondent spent a fu n-filled 1 7 days driving through Morocco last August. The 700-year-old medinahs with their colorful souks are a delight as are the friendly Moroccans . . . . Your class reunion com mittee is hard at work. We met on the Saturday

morning after Hurricane Floyd went through to make the final decisions. Bud Marvin, Jan Wood Parsons, Sunny Coady ( no column is complete w i thout a Sunny Coady mention ) , Marcia Harding Anderson, Chris Brown , G i nger Goddard Barnes, Rick and Nancy Winslow Harwood, Pam Plumb Carey and I hope you

will join us J une 2 - 4 , 2000, on Mayflower H i l l . . . . H a i l , Colby, Hai l ! -R ichard \XI . Bankart

Ed "Woody" Berube has completed his 30th year at Xerox Corp. and continues to reside in Webster, N . Y . Woody and his wife, Connie, are proud to attend many of their daughter's softbal l games at Ed inboro State in Pennsylvania. Some of you may recall that Woody participated in a few athletic contests himself, and he reports that those years may have contributed to the need for four recent orthopaedic procedures, two each on knees and wrists. Aside from an aging body, Woody reports that he is well and sends his best to his classmates . . . . S a l l y R a y Bennett has returned from a three-week tourofT urkey, where she and Charlie were awed by the many historic and religious sites they visited. Sally reports that her daughter, Kirsti, was married last year, and she and her husband will be teaching at the British School in Athens, Greece. On the domestic scene, Sally's son Matthew and his wife of two years are educators in Rhode Island. Her son M ichael taught sixth grade in Scituate , R . l . , last year and is exploring employment options at this time . . . . Tom Saliba has some interest in exploring env irons well beyond South Freeport, Maine, his home port of the last 26 years. Tom is thinking about moving up to a larger boat than the 40-foot sloop that ha served him to date, a boat that would take him and his wife, Rita, to exotic and interesting ports of cal l. This is not to say that Tom is not sti I I rooted in the Portland area, where he serves on the Maine College of Art board of trustees. Tom and Rita are proud to report on their children. Nadia graduated from Brown this past year and is working for Goldman Sachs, Leila is attending Elon College, and Serene and Jake are at St. George's School. . . . Eric Meinel! and h is wife, Vicki, recently traveled with their singing group ro Verona, Italy, where they won a bronze medal in the 1 0th I nternational Choir Festival. This past year Eric was reassigned to chief of program management at the National Data Buoy Cen ter. The new post will mean more travel to South Africa and ew Zealand. Eric's son Patrick is a senior in prep school in Missouri . . . . Please note that the College's long-standing practice of sending out our yearly questionnaires, which has provided us with virtually all of our class column informatwn, has ceased. The tear-off found in the maga:ine has replaced the mail ings. This means that we need you to take the initiative to jot something down and mail i t off to us if we are to have items to report. Please help us to keep the news coming . . . . Timothy "Tiff"

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news about Gaylord "Jeep" Simonds. The happy news was that i n J u ly, Jeep married Nancy Pittman at a ceremony at h is mother's home in York, Maine. Family and friends, including many classmates, attended the ceremony. Fel low Maine builder Brad Coady and his wife, Sue ( Grigg '68 ) , were there. Mike and Pam Cooper Picher arrived from Canada. Tiff and h is wife came from Vermont. Jomo Zimbabwe ( Al Haughton ) brought his wife and h is four chil dren from Boston. Also from Boston was Cathy Meader. "Chip" Bailey arrived for the cer emony, but he prefers to remain incognito and didn't wish to pass on h is current address. I t was a wonderful day, when everyone shared Jeep and Nancy's happiness, lots of good food and the opportunity for good friends to reminisce. The couple's happiness was cut short when Jeep passed away of colon cancer in early September. H is adopted son from his first marriage survives him. Tiff, who was deeply moved by the loss of such a good friend, spoke fondly about h is years of friendship with Jeep and the six -month trip they took through the Mediterranean after Jeep got out of the Navy. (They even spent time on an Israeli kibbutz, where Jeep kept chickens and Tiff was in charge of the beehives. ) Tiff reports that he is retired and that his wife still practices law in Burlington, Vt. They were leaving on a trip to Greece, where they plan to do a lot of biking and to visit his wife's brother, who live in Greece. Surely Tiff will be thinking about hi previous trip with Jeep. -Robert Gracia and Judy Gerrie Heine

Jeanne Amnotte McCarthy is a read ing spec ialist, elementary education, and mar ried to Jeremiah, who is about to retire after 30-plus years of a teaching career. They l ive in Belmont, Mass. Their son Jeremiah, 2 3 , gradu ated from Harvard in '98 and is now a profes siona I hockey player with the Worcester ( Mass . ) l e e Cats. Their other son, Liam, 2 0 , is a jun ior a t Harvard and i s also a hockey player. Jeanne ays they couldn't have orchestrated a more ideal scenario because they can follow both of their games. . . . Richard Lewis l ives in .Y.C. and is the president of Richard Lewis Communica tions Inc., which offers integrated marketing communications services. He sent along an at tractive brochure; e-mail him at rlc@rlcinc.com if you would like a copy. In the past year he's visited affi liated companie in Tokyo and Paris and established another affi l iate relationship in agasaki. And he says he's accumulating pic tures of the fish he's caught, from .Y.'s East River to Florida's Keys . . . . Received e-mail from Sandy High Walters, who lives w i th her hus band, Ken, in Gros e Pointe Park, Mich. They j ust celebrated their 3 1 st anniversary in Augu t. Ken is a professor of classics at Wayne rate Un iversity, and Sandy is a project manager of quantitative analysis at ANR Pipeline Com pany, which is a natural gas pipeline gathering, transportation and d i tribution company. he

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in t h e investment world. Another says she's recently been in contact DU, Marty Kolonel, sent me a note with J udith Freedman '70 via e N EWS MAKE RS from his home in Colorado Springs. m a i l but hasn't seen any Colby Marry and his w ife, J o Ann, are now A recent article in the Boston Sunday people i n years. Sandy and Ken have empty nesters. To keep busy, Marty G lobe Magazine chronicled the career four children. ytasha, 3 0 , l ives in owns a cabinet manufacturer in of Don J. Snyder ' 7 2 and the tale Seattle and works as an environ Grand Junction, Colo., is a business behind his new book, Of Time and mental planner for the state of broker and flies a Cessna 206 . . . . MemOT)'. Snyder said rhe book is his Washington and was to be married Yes, l have heard from another class parents' love story, his tribute to his in J uly on Orcas Island. Matthew, mate who a) is not male and b) is nor mother, who died a r 19, and an at 1 , made Eagle Scout and is attend a DU. Norma Rivero Biermeyer tempt "to return my mother to this ing Michigan tate University as a sent me a nice note and a picture world while my farher is still here." . . . freshman studying zoology. Rachel, Don Snyder '72 taken at her 50th birthday party. l Gary Lawless '73 was rhe subject of a 1 5 , a sophomore in high school, is sure didn't look that good when I story in the Brunswick, Maine, Times Record last September. varsity cros country and a 4.0 stu orma l ives in Caracas, hit 5 - 0 ! Lawless spoke of his six-month stay in 1 97 3 with the poet Gary dent. Christopher, 1 1 , is in sixth Venezuela, where she is a professor Snyder and rhe effect rhat Snyder's life and poetry has had on his grade and loves roller-blade hockey of English at University Metro own l ife and work as poet, reacher, publisher and bookstore owner. and lacrosse. They live in an En pol i tana. She's still waiting for Anne . . . Carolyn Dusty Leef ' 7 4 was recently promoted to captain in glish Tudor that they have played the U.S. Naval Reserve. She has served three years on active duty Peterson to make a bird watching "this old house" with: additions, res trip to Caracas. . . . Clark Sm ith and 1 6 years as a reservist. . . The Financial Times of London torations, repairs, upkeep. Working writes from Reno, Nev., where for spotlighted the University of Virginia's Darden Graduate School for a natural gas pipeline, Sandy's rhe past 1 5 years he's been a con of Business Administration. Dean Edward A. Snyder ' 7 5 , who is gone offshore several times and has committed to expanding the school, said, "our intention is to have sultant in exploration geochemis een a great deal of Americana. She the best business school facilities in rhe world, both physically and try. I can hardly write it; haven't got collects antiques by going to auc technologically." . . . Elizabeth Knight Warn '76 has been pro a clue to how he does i r ! Clark, his tions, estate sales and flea markets. moted to executive vice president in the retail mortgage lending wife, Jean, and their children, Shea, They have a menagerie comprising department of Peoples Heritage Financial Group, a $ 1 2-bil lion 1 4, and Mariah, 1 2 , do a lot ofhigh a three-foot iguana, a desert gecko, bank holding company in Portland, Maine . . . . With a background elevation back-country skiing . . . . rwo ferrets, a dog, a cat and Koi fish as intern for Senator Edmund Muskie and Senate Majority Leader in their pond outside. he sounds Mike Self sent me an e-mail from George Mitchell, first-year Maine state legislator David Lemoine North Carolina. H is "underachiev very philosophical when she writes, ' 7 9 earned kudos from his colleagues and from the Biddeford-Saco "This always happens when you ing" kids include son David, a j un Courier as "thoughtful," "hardworking" and "dedicated." . . . Jeff have kids; kids and pets go together." ior at Cornel l , where he's majoring Wuorio ' 7 9's Got Money! offers tips as well as a comprehensive list Even though she's in Michigan she in civil engineering and playing of Internet sites and other resources "that help readers understand still does the skiing she began on baseball, and daughter Allyson, a rhe often arcane world of money and investing . . . . Ir can't be bear," Colby hill, but not with the old recent NC Stare grad, who will have declared a review in USA Toda)'· wooden ski . he remembers slid her master's in textile chemistry in ing down rhe hill on trays "stolen" another year. Mike also notes that from the din ing hall. She tells her M I LESTO N ES his nephew Brad (son of Mike's kid how Colby would winteri:e the brother Steve ' 7 2 ) was drafted in Marriages: Marguerite Y. Zientara ' 7 2 to Paul D. Lessard. campu by building rhe storm shel rhe seventh round by rhe Buffalo ters outside the dorms, put wooden Sabres of the Nat ional Hockey Births: A daughter, Ruby Schiller, to Susan Jensen and Rob plank on the steps from the library, League. A Self playing hockeySchiller ' 7 3 . and con rruct walkways with hand what a novel concep t ! . . Well, rails so thar the rudent could make that's it guys-I'm totally out of 1t acros rhe campus on a cold, \\'indy day. She days-a fate worse than t h e Chinese water tor information for future columns, and I've got ar ended her mes age by asking, "Remember how ture rest! The day of our visit to Mayflower Hill least rwo more to write. Unless you're prepared we would go to rhe place outside Louise Coburn was absolutely gorgeous, and the campus to read the ravings of a middle-aged mid-Atlan and h1tchh1ke for nde down to the town1 Re sparkled. The view from rhe library steps was tic citizen, let me know what's going on with memberOme' and the R1ghteou Brothers play especially impressive. Colby was a big hir. Who you. Thanks1 Ann Arbor, phone home! ing 'You've Lo:.t That Lonng Feeling' and of knows, she may even apply . . . . While in -Steven line cour'e frarern1ry row and all the pames. o Waterville, we had lunch with Rob Saglio. Rob many memone>." . . . A> you can ee I d idn't hear 1 the president of Avian Farms, a Waterv ille Deborah Wentworth Lansing writes trom too man1 las mate;, rh1 nme. I 'm hoping base<l international business involved in breed from hicago that in turning 50 she has become 1t " J U't a reflection of the changeover from ing poultry, and we aw lot of pictures of Rob in self-employed and had j ust returned from a trek m ai l ing out ..:iue;,r1onna1re' to incorpora t ing different parts of rhe world. Quire impressive. in the Cordillera Blanca in Peru . . . . Rick them in olb) maga:ine. Take a moment to Rob brought u up to dare on everal other Abramson writes that he will become the new cla;,mares, all members of Delta Ups don (you pull 1r out no\\ anJ make a conmbunon to the superintendent of schools for the Wells-Ogunquit guy remember fraternmes, don't you 1): R1ch ne:-.t column. :-. t a d 1t w me or e-mail me Community chool District in Maine. He just arJ "Ken" Kenworthy ' 7 1 1s head chef an<l owner ( nbn an9 5 @a,1l.mm ) . spent eight days on a yacht with his wife and of a re;raurant in Connec ncur; Frank Fetter is -J\anc) Dod(!e Bryan daughter in the Galapagos Islands and was a guest a corporate comulrant; Dave Durkin 1 111 the of honor ar the Arundel Festival in West Sussex, h 1cago area, " here he i> a meteorologist (head Ir\ hnalh happened. One of rhe l111c England. . . . Pat Montgomery writes of a recent mereorologi>t, perhap ?) for U111red A1rl1ne . k1J, ac rualh '' inrere,te<l in olh·! In June, get-together with Linda Ruggles Hiler, Barbara . . . In more DU new , Chris Woes s ner\ <laugh Laura and I took nur J.1ughter, \\/h1r111:1 . a high Waters ( who came our from California ) , Jeanne tcr re ently gm marne<l in Den\'er. Chn ! 1 \'e ,c.hool ,emor, on a . " �" EnglanJ 'wing to lrn.ik andra Hutcheson Buck, Mil ler Ouellette, in the an Franc1>co Bay area, where he 1s active ar col lege , . \X'e ,., m:J e1ghr campu'e' in fl\·e Dorian Platt Hardwick and Nancy Hammar

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The mail from Colby classmates was l ight this quarter. I hope that indicates that all of you were busy enjoying summer. . . . Betty Robinson found t i me to send news about herself and several Colby friends. As dean at Lewiston Auburn College, University of Southern Maine, for the past three years, Betty has overseen a dramatic growth at the college. Student enroll ment increased by more than 40 percent and the faculty by 1 00 percent. Her college plans in creases in its number of graduate degree pro grams a well as in college fac i l it ies. She writes that as a former participant in Colby sit-ins, she never expected that she would pursue an admin istrative position in higher education. Good friend Gail hase ' 7 4 is the first woman to be elected Maine state audito r and owns a 3 4-acre farm. Another good friend, Bob Mayer, is Maine's chief information officer managing Maine's Y2K transition. He also is building a gorgeous second house on t h e w a t e r i n Ph ippsburg . . . . Jonathan Fink also has estab l ished a successful career in academia. Last spring, Arizona State Un iversity named him vice pro vost for research. As provost, he is re ponsible for overseeing all of the university's research functions, including administering grants ( l ast year ASU received $84 million in research funds ) , and the university seeks to double re search funding over the next five years. Jonathan began his career at ASU in 1 980 as a geology profe or with research focus on volcanoe . H e went on to c h a i r t h e department o f geology and to serve as a program director at the Nat ional Science Foundation. Congratulat ions, Jonathan. . . . l, too, have recently taken on new responsi bil ities, al though mine involve leaving academia. Having spent the last nine years as a professor in the b u s i n e s s t e c h n o l og i e s d e p a r t m e n t at Dutchess ommunity College in Poughkeepsie, N .Y . , this summer l accepted a position as gen eral manager at Mohonk Mountain House in New Paltz, .Y. Mohonk is a spectacular 2 6 1 room Victorian hotel established in 1 870 by twin brothers from Maine. I f you find yourself in New York's lower Hudson River Valley, make sure you include a visit to Mohonk, and be sure to look me up . . . . That's all the news so far. I look forward to news from more of you this fa ll. -Jackie Nienaber Appledom

Greetings from Colorado! 1 am looking forward to serving as cla s correspondent. Many thanks to Shelley Bieringer Rau for the past five years of columns and all her help getting me operational! Please remember that you will no longer be mailed a questionnaire but will find a card in Colby to mail to me. The best way, though, is simply to e-mail me ! The next column is due mid-March. Shelley advises me that if I don't receive enough news, 1 have to fabricate it! . . .

helley also reports that the 2 5th reunion had 70 cla mates in attendance and was fun filled. Our class was housed in the "East Quad," known to us as Butler, Champlin and Small. Although the dorm has been renovated, Shelley still found that the stay reminded her of her j unior year in Small, and she was impressed that there are still class mates at our age able to party most of the night! And, to respond to Greg Smith's inquiry, no, there does not seem to have been a midnight swim in Johnson Pond! Greg lives outside Seattle, working in "medium" tech, selling industrial food process ing machinery. His wife, Jo-Ellen ( Bois '79), is an independent marketing research consultant along with super-mother to daughters Fiona, 1 1 , and Adrien, 1 0. Greg writes, "It was great reading the updates in the reunion book from those who did write in, though many interesting friends were absent from the accounting . . . ( stage fright or time pressures ?) We seemed so disparate in personali ties and interests when we were together in school. Remember the big gaps between those who carried the identities of jocks and brains, mainstream and counter culture? Now, it's amazing to see the similar paths so many of us have ended up on. What I did sense was an apprec iation that small pleasures and active families are truly rewarding." . . . Mary and J im Signorile are still in Teaneck, N .J . , where J i m is a senior software engineer. He is busy composing music, something he has wanted to do since Colby, and has an independently produced CD of his music, ''Twilight Dreams." To learn more, visit h is Web site ( j s ignorile@ pixdream.com) . . . . 1 know there is lots ofreunion news out there. Why not hop on line and send me your reunion news or drop me a line ? In a column like this, even old news is new news! -Robin Sweeney Peabody

Michelle Kominz e-mails that she is still seeking tenure at Western M ic h igan but has moved up the ladder to associate professor from assistant. She is not encumbered by so much as a plant, mind you, which frees her up to ski, swim, windsurf, jog, bike and do a host of other health activities. (Care for a Cheeto, M ichelle ? ) Teaching science is still her passion: "I love sharing knowledge with those bright young minds." . . . Bright young minds are what surround Flo Gutowski Harlor. Ranging in age from 9 to 1 4 , Flo and Dave's four children keep them moving from soccer to baseball to basket ball to choir to Boy Scouts, ad infinitum. We noticed Odyssey of the Mind was on the list, Flo. Everyone with a child from 6 to 1 6 should try that ac tivity! Flo should be awarded the red badge of courage for outlasting three min ivans ( j ust when we're all thinking how great we'd look in a Masserati) . . . . Judith Farrin Janoo sends greetings from Strafford, Vt., where she prepares income taxes and write fiction and poetry on the side. She and her husband, Vincent, have three kids, 12 to 20. Since her matriculation on Mayflower H i l l , J udith has traveled to Malaysia, Holland, Paris and Lon don-no doubt finding grist for her poetic mill-

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few years and slowly dying . Since nobody can identify

To the uninitiated. it might be just a table covered with

them, they're essentially gone . "

apples-and motley apples at that. But to John Bunker '72,

B u t not if Bunker a n d h i s apple "moles" around

the assorted fruit in his sunny home in the woods of Palermo,

Maine get to them first.

Maine, is a treasure trove, the artifacts of an orchardist's

When Bunker and his apple quest

archaeological quest.

are publicized in print or on television,

"Most of these, I don't even know what

he gets a rush of letters, phone

they are , " Bunker said, picking up a small

calls and even a p p l e s t h e m

ish apple with burnished green skin. "These I think are incred ible. They look

selves. O n e article prompted a

like Jade to me."

phone call from a man in Orland, near E l lsworth, who thought he

A former Californian who moved t o a

had the apple variety c a l l e d

1 00-acre Palermo enclave one day after

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graduation. Bunker has spent the last 1 6 years working i n Maine food cooperatives. H e now

Pumpkin Sweet. " I t's pouring rain and I pull into his house at 9 o'clock at night, stay until 1 0 :30. We get

s a driving force with Fed co Trees. a co-op nursery that sells hardy

into his four-wheel drive and drive around his fields looking at

shrubs and trees. But no just any trees.

apples in his head lights," Bunker said. That visit uncovered an

In his search for fruit trees that would withstand northern

obscure apple called Garden Sweet. But Bunker's apple d i scoveries are made even sweeter by

winters Bunker discovered that Maine was home to hundreds of local varieties of apples

h i s encounters with other apple fans, kindred s p i rits who share

all with a history, most bound for

extinction C h ronicled 1n 1 9th-century iourna1s and books, or just

his admiration for d istinctive apples like Black Oxford and Cana

1n local lore the apple varieties that once were staples for Maine

dian Strawberry, Dud ley Winter and Northern Spy, said to be

arm families had disappeared

named for a m i litant abolitionist.

Bunker a s11ght and quietly persistent man, ma1ored 1n English

As a result, the apples keep p i l i ng u p .

a Colby reading as much as he could because he knew he'd be

O n e autumn afternoon. Bunker had 1 50 different a p p l e s to try

busy a ter college . · He began to track apple varieties down one

to identify. They were laid out on the table, stuffed in apple crates

by one taking shoots rom old trees, propagating some variet1es-

1n storerooms and outside the back door. Four apples had just

1nclud1ng many gra ed to rootstock trees at his homestead-and

arrived in the mail from York, Maine: an old Pennsylvania variety,

selling

Bunker surmised

em hrough the Fedco Trees catalogue Of the 200 or so

a1ne arie 1es hat existed two centuries ago he estimates he has cap ured 30 or 40 A leas

Those apples went on the table with the rest. An appie shaped

ha many o her varieties still are out

like a star fruit. A hollow apple that yields sl ices shaped liked

ere Bunker says b u t e•r numbers are dw1ndl1ng

T e re

he back o some arm 1n some old field

re• en do \n ore ard be

e woods

he said

doughnuts Don t look for these apples in your supe rmarket. 1n a

" I m not trying to find the next Braeburn or Red Deliciou s , "

Maybe even

Bunker said

I ' m iust paying homage t o all these people who

made this contribution to our history "- Gerry Boyle '78

nd a s opp .-.g cen er Jus s1 1ng here ru1 1ng away every

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I just haven't received much from my c lassmates t h is t ime. Folks must be busy-or d idn't pay attent ion to the new format for sending news items to c l ass correspondents ! . . . What a wonderful summer in southern M a ine. Great for outdoor a c t i v i t ies galore ! But with the days growing shorter, can the snow be far awa y ? . . . Ran into Mike Boyson at a charity golf tournament a few weeks ago. M i ke is doing very well and playing a lot of golf. . . . It has been a very long t i me since we heard from Karen Page Chapma n . In a recent e-mail, Karen reported that she has rewmed to school, a t the new Florida G u lf Coast U n iversity, to get a degree in computer information systems management. This exciting change occurred as she and husband B i l l sold their salvage business after 1 8 years to become "retired . " Prior to sell ing t h e company, she served a s the first fem a le president of an auto recycling trade assoc iat ion, an organ ization she was active in for 1 5 years. For several weeks t h is past sum mer, Karen "hung out" with John A llan ' 7 5 and Watt Bradshaw '74 in V i rginia . . . I keep hear ing from more and more of you who are sending c h i ldren off to college or contemplat ing doing so. Can all c lassmates please report in as to the whereabouts of any col lege-age offspring ? Any at Colby ? So far, I have a very short list-Sam and Karen Smith Gowan's son Josh is at Bates. Harriet Buxbaum Pinansky's son Sam is at Carnegie Me llon. Steve and I sent our older son, Dan, off to Hobart. I undersrand that Ann Beadle's daughter and Melissa Day Vokey's d a ughter were in the throes of col lege app lica tions last year but do not know their final decis ions. J oe and Noel Barry Stella are assist ing their oldest daughter, Abbey, with the college search. I ' m sure the list goes on and on. Good luck to you a l l . . . . Rebecca Hushing McCole wrote from Portsmouth, N . H . , sound .

ing typical of a parent of the '90s-she owns a business; maintains two houses, four ( ! ) check books and two cats; reaches aerobics; volunteers at the school her ch ild, Shaylagh, 7, attends; walks/swims/works out regularly; and still finds t i m e to be a wife and mother and enjoy

her elf. . . . That is abom it for now. Please drop me a l ine or e-mail ( sroy l @maine.rr.com) to let me know what you're up to! -Valerie }ones Roy

Jeff Gottesfeld and h is wife, Cherie Bennett, are living in Nashville, Tenn. They are both writers. In addition to his teen books, Jeff has done some soap opera writing for A BC. Cherie's novel Zink was to be published in November by Delacorte Press. They were an t ic ipating a move to Los Angeles . . . . Janet Josselyn wrote that her active occupation is mother of Ian Wadsworth Koon, 3, who is one big active boy, while her inactive occupat ions are architect and lawyer. Her husband, John Koon, is a management consultant. A year ago, when they moved from Back Bay to Dover, Mass. ( where she grew up ) , J anet left her posi t ion as attorney for the c i ty of Boston because their new address didn't comply with the resi dency requirement. She has written a novel, a mystery, that still sits in a box in a c loset. Let's petition to publish! Who doesn't love a great . Peggo mystery, especially by one of us! . Horstman Hodes, or "Peggy" as we all know her, is singing her heart out, performing jazz, c lassical and folk music in Concord, N . H . , and recording a holiday album, Peggo and Paul. I think the "Paul" is husband and lawyer Paul. Peggy teaches a workshop that combines writ ing and singing "to free our souls" and writes that "singing teaches me something new about myself all the time." Peggy and Paul have two children, Max, 1 5 , and Ariana, 1 3 , a dog and three cars and have j ust celebrated their 20th wedding anniversary. I n't life grand! -Ellen D. O ' Brien

Hi, all. I hope everyone had a great summer. As I type, Hurricane Floyd is bearing down on the Carolinas . . . . Earlier this year, Steve "Plumbo" Plomaritis j oined St. John Macomb Hospital ( Warren, Mich. ) in estab l ishing a new orthopaedic sports medicine surgi cal practice. Plumbo's academic and professional accomplishments and affiliations are extremely impressive and too long to l ist. However, a small sampling includes consulting with the Detroit Red Wings and Pistons, serving on the staff of the U.S. Figure Skating Championship ( he treated N an c y Kerrigan after her ru n - i n with Tony a Harding's friends) and membership i n the American Osteopathic Assoc iation, American Osteopathic Academy of Orthope d ic Surgeons and many, many others . . . . Jeff Dalrymple joined the First ational Bank of Bar Harbor last year as senior vice president for lending and credit administration. He has re sponsibility for all commerc ial, residential and consumer lending. Previously, "Rimps" worked for Key Bank in Bangor. He lives in Surry, Maine . . . Nancy Hulm Jones was named fi nancial coordinator at the Wolfeboro ( . H . ) Area Children's Center, which she joined i n April 1 996. After Colby, ancy received a .

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Hello, classmates, from the beautiful, majestic state ofColorado1 I am happy to be your new cla s correspondent, and I look forward to hearing from everyone. The column will be short this time, however, because the only piece of news that I can share is that Kathy Bleakney Pawley and her husband, Keenan, are finally moving north of the Mason-Dixon Line. Kathy accepted a tran fer to Manchester, N . H . , in Oc tober. he has found housing, daycare and school for her children, Sean, 6, and Melissa, 2. Both Kathy and Keenan were looking forward to the move and being closer to family and friends, including Robin Towle Glynn, her freshman year roommate . . . . As for me, I am happy to be we t of the Mi sissippi again, where the new is on at l O p.m. I work for Ent Federal Credit nion as an accountant. My husband, Tom, retired from the Air Force in 1 997, and we ettled in Colorado prings. We are very busy huttlingour two girls, Kayleigh, 1 2 , and Meredith, 6, to soccer (from Grand Junction, Colo., to Cheyenne, Wyo. ) and basketball ( Kansas and olorado) . As they ay, there 1 no re t for the wicked. . . . o now I need to hear from all of you1 I put out a special reque t to all of the Taylor- turtevant girls to wnte m and tell me what' new in your lives. You can contact me by e-mail ( repowers@j uno.com or cpowers@efcu.org). -Cheri Bailey Powers

I saw John Yates at the 4th of July parade in Harvard, Mas . , John' hometown and where I now 11\·e. John 1 It,·ing in Mountainview, Calif., and working in the h igh-tech industry there . . . . David Ryley, Seph Huber and Seph's wife, 1kkt. k1eJ aero the French - I talian Alp l:iorder to celebrate their 40th birthdays la t January. Dav1J reported that they haJ an unbe Ite,·al:ile week of >k1ing anJ were temporarily al:ile to forget about age . . . . Diane Young 1s working a' <l real e'rate lenJer at TIAA-CREF ,r nJ ll\·e, in 'ramforJ, onn. he 1 engaged to T1 1noth\ Bovie anJ will lie mo,·in� ro aratoga ' rring" . . Y , 1n 2L00afrerthe wedding. Diane, \\ho 'penJ, weekend, in rhe winter k11ng, " ,11-o .1 cemfteJ 'cuha J1,·er anJ ha traYeleJ to rhe ,J\ m,m J ,l ,mJ , to Jl\·e-a' well a to Pr,n encc w , mc l l rhe Ia,·enJcr .mJ ba,k in the , u ntl'' " er f t el J " he ll,n n ired " 1 th Karen Orloff anJ her cht !Jren lin1cal P'\'Cholo gN Karen Baum tark Porter ll\·e in Omaha, . 'ch , " 1th her hu,h mJ, R.mJ\ , .mJ nm chtl Jre n , :--. tm Elt:.1heth. 4 . .mJ Anna C1rhcnnc. I K. ue n '-l\ , l t k 1 , hu,\ r un n i ng .1 l:iu,tnt:' .mJ h,1nng ti\ o l.. 1J, "-he Jnc n 't rcmcml'cr ha\ int.! Daphne Kaplan Hardca;de ,my ",p,1rc t 1 1nc " i- ltnng in \'1cnn.i, \' 1 , mJ 1 m cJuL.ltlon CY.1lu.Jt 1<ln 'peu.1 I N ,1[ t he c._. De p.1 mnt: n t of EJ u .ltll\Il, rhc -.1 mc Jllh -he•" rn:n Ill fllr nlllrC

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than 1 0 years. She and her husband, Tom, have three children-Melanie, J ulia and Naralie and a dog, Curly. I n 1 99 7 , they moved to a newly constructed house and love being in a place where everything works. . . Jonathan Light li,·es in Mt. Kisco, N . Y . , and is the trea surer of Paribas's ew York branch. He and his wife, Melissa Waters, have identical twin boys, now 1 2 . The whole family takes karate. Jon received his black belt in January of 1 999, and Mel issa and Ryan and Matt, the two boys, are currently brown belts with one stripe. They do a traditional style called Shotokan. The family planned on going to Alaska last summer. . . . Herb Perry is living in Berwick, Maine. His wife, Kathryn, is an assistant professor of occu pational therapy at the University of New En gland in Biddeford, Maine, and they have two daughters, Jennifer, 1 0, and Hannah, 7. Herb, a newspaper edi tor, wrote that he has gotten two graduate degrees since he left Colby, something he never anticipated doing . . . . Susan Mann is a fourth grade teacher living in Jefferson, Maine. She enjoys swing dancing and built a cedar canoe last summer. . . . Susan Perry lives in Upton, Mass., and has been a large-animal x-ray technician at the Tufts Veterinary School in Grafton, Mass., for 1 5 years. ue says she loves her job and learns more about veterinary medi cine every day. She also shows her horses, Magic and Sugar, in many dressage shows throughout New England and has won many events. Every summer ue rides on the beautiful carriage roads in Acadia at ional Park . . . . Because the Alumni Office is no longer sending out the surveys you have been getting over the years, I am running low on news and really need updates directly from you. Please feel free to e-mail me ( beth.wilson@westgroup.com) with news about yourselves and any classmates. Looking forward to hearing from you. -Beth Pniewski Wilson

Hello to everyone. Before reading any further, please go to the middle of this magazine and pull our the enclosed questionnaire. Put it in your stack of mail or on your desk where you will come across 1t again sometime. Whether it is a week from now or seven months from now doesn't matter1 You can send in your new any time ' But the questionnaire included with the magazine will he the only ones you see-they are no longer hemg >ent by mad. . . . ews from Patricia A. O'Loughlin 1 that ;he 1 ll\·mg m Warervtlle, Mame, anJ working as an 1murance rater. -Mimi H. Rasmussen

Tammy anJ Ke v in Riley l a ve 1 11 Port land, Maine , " here Kevin ha; workeJ for John H e wi t t & A "JC. 1 a te> for the la t couple of \ C'H" 'o-prc,1Jent Marty D r i s c o l l Kel le) .111J hip were training for mathlom J u n n g the 'um mer anJ hoping to qualify for a mar.uhon hter a> well a' for the Bci>ton Mara thon next Apnl Chip anJ ' !arty ran 1n the Be ,ic h w Be . K on I OK helJ 111 their home-

town , Cape El izabeth, M a i ne . . . . Todd Cof fin, who responded to m y good luck e - m a i l in

August for his run i n the same race, said h is family enjoyed a week's vacation on Great Pond ( one of M a ine's Belgrade Lakes) with flawless weather. N e x t year he plans to check out Colby's new cabin on Great Pond. Todd and his wife were expecting their second c h i ld this fal l ; their first, A l e x , is 5 . Todd is in e n v i ro n m e n t a l engineering w i th J a c q u e Whitford i n Port land, where h e ' s been since 1 99 2 . . . . J a n W y p e r and Ed Twilley '84 l ive in Gorham, M a ine, with their two kids, 1 and 2 - 1 / 2 . J a n works for L.L. Bean as senior com m u n i t y r e l a t i o n s represe n t a t i v e . . . My Falmouth, M a i ne, high school c lass of 1 9 7 9 h a d a fun 20th reunion, but we m issed see ing Mel inda Boehm. How many of you had re un ions t h is yea r 1 . . J ess and Becky Crook Rogers had a wonderful two-week vacation in A laska visit ing, camping and touring with her husband's mom, who l ives in Homer. Becky and Jess's two sons had fun spending t i me w i th their Aka ( es k i mo name for grand mothe r ) . But the family has moved again, t h is t i me to Columbus, Ohio, where Spec ial ized Bikes (Jess's business) is opening an East Coast warehouse for which J ess is respons ible. Becky says they have to sell the house, but her big brother l ives i n Columbus so she w i l l be closer to fam i l y . . . . J en i fe r Ambler wrote to say that in February she went on her fourth med i c a l mission t o El Salvador. She's also involved in a Rotary committee, working on instal l i ng solar water pasteurizat ion units to provide s a fe d r i n k i n g w a t e r t h e r e ( c h e c k o u t www.purewa terfortheworld.org ) . J enny has completed a second term as president of her local branch of American Assoc iat ion of University Women ( A A U W ) as well as being state treasurer. ow she i s state chair of V i s i o n , U . S . A . , a national charity prov iding free eye exams to low-income people. Jennifer's daughter, Kate, is now 5 and started pre kindergarten t h is past fa l l . J enny does stay in touch w i th Christi Smith Farinelli and vis ited w i th Ann Lacasse Theriault ' 2 on her way to her 20th h igh school reunion at F o x c r o ft A c a d e m y in Do v e r - Fo x c roft , M a i n e . . . . Arthur ' 8 6 and V a l S p e n c e r Po u lo s 's fam i l y made o m e changes thi past year. Arthur is now consu l t i ng ( "translation: traveling," says Val ) for hospital computer sy tern . Val started to work part time i n 1 998 and i now in emergency medicine instead of fa mily prac t ice, working with M a ine Medical Center in Portland. She works about six shifts a mon th, leaving her some time for other th ings like driving the kid to school, to play practice, to swi m m i ng, etc. Val performed in KISS Me Kate this pa t summer with her daugh ter, El izabeth. I n the fa l l , their oldest, Ben, who 1 an Eagle cout, went happily to board ing school at t . Paul's in oncord, N . H . , where h e i s a third former ( fresh m an ) . Last I knew, Val was headed to New Jersey for the

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wedding of J oa n n e I yo and Scott Lewis . . . . l read t h i fall that our own Dana M a isel i teac h ing school in Yarmouth, M a ine. We surely enjoyed t h e years she l ived with her dad, Sandy, and her brother i n the basement of Mary Low. L i z M u rphy Kloak and I roomed toge ther d irectly above their apartment and gave andy and his fam i ly good reason to find a l ternative, off- c a mpus l i v ing. Good l u c k , Dana ! ( L i:, s e n d news ! ) . . . I ' m work ing in the Mount Desert town office. I ' m on the execu t ive board of my PTO, o n m y c hurch vestry, on the board of d i rectors of People , Places and Planes maga:ine and part of the coll abora tion on Mount Desert Island c a l le d I s land Voices, a group of not-for-profits connec t i ng to serve a l l adjacent commun i t ies. Our boys, J ord an, 1 2 , and J ak e , 1 0, are i n school, playing soccer and trad ing Pokemon cards. M y husband, Wayne, is busy with h i s property management and l o b s t e r i n g c o m m e rc i a l l y , w h i c h he loves . . . . You all should send me news now, since I only heard from a small number of our cla smates this summer. Please contact me v i a letter, fax , phone call or e - m a i l . I f y o u h a v e a n e - m a i l address but fee l like y o u do n o t have enough t i me to talk, please send me a br ief, one- l i ne o n - l i ne h e l lo w i t h that e - m a i l ad dress for my address book. Then I'll contact you. As always, many thanks. -Sally Lovegren Merchant

A big thank-you t o a l l who heard my cry for help and ent replies over the Internet ( remember that you can always find me at c o l b y 1 9 8 4 @ e u d o ra m a i l . c o m ) . . . . L i b b y Wheatley, who's been squirreled away a t UC Santa Cruz, received her Ph.D. in sociology in J une I 998 and is currently a tenure-track assis tant professor of soc iology at Smith ol lege. She reports doing a lot of "j uggling" to keep up with the demands of work and welcomes any advice from those who may have gone through the tenure maze. She l ives on a 20-acre horse property in Southampton, where she keeps a beautiful Morgan named AJ . She is also the "guardian" of three cats ( here i n Marin County you are not al lowed to be the "owner" of an animal, you are the "guardian"-just trying to be pol i t ically correct ) . Maureen Pine lives in Northampton on the same street as Libby's office. As I 'm sure many of you were, Libby was exci ted to read about the cholarsh ip for cross country runners . . . Mary Kate Whalen left Choate, Hall and Stewart and is c h ief of the d i ver ion/regulatory section, office of c h ief counsel, DEA, U.S. Department of J ustice ( sound like a long way from a biology major ) . I n M a y she became president-elect o f the Women's Bar Assoc iat ion of D.C.; he'll be president for 2000-0 I . For the next three years she'll spend her spare t i me getting a master' in public health from George Washington Uni versity. She asks i f anyone has heard from Kitty Wilbur . . Another classmate working for the government is Leon Buck, an attorney .

for the subcommitte e on imm igration and c l a i ms for the House J udic iary Comm ittee of the U . S . Congress; he is currently Democratic chief counsel and last year helped defend Presi dent Cl inton on behalf of the House Demo crats. I n December 1 996 he married Muriel Buck, and Patricia Shelton and Veda Robinson were present, as was Todd Robinson '85 . . . . Two years ago, John Tawa gave up the prac tice of law for a position as news and sports editor of a local newspaper. H e and wife Lisa Dunne l ive in Redondo Beach, Cal if., and on April 7 thi year they welcomed Timothy John into the fam i ly . . . . I n Plaistow, .H., V ito and Bar bara Duncan Marchetti were exc ited about their new addit ion-N icholas-in J u l y 1 998. Barbara is another c lassmate who is learning to "j uggle." As well as being a new mom, she has two businesses: Princ ipal of Preferred Partner ship Consu lting, a training and development firm in Waltham, Mass., and president/CEO of Preferred Resource Group, Inc . , a strategic performance consulting company in Andover, Mass., that places exec ut ives on a per-project basis (as consultants) . . . . Bill Sheehan re ports that Caitlin El izabeth, born J u ly 28, 1 999, joins brother W i lliam Pat rick, 4 . Bill is cur rently a partner at M F Private Cap ital, I nc . , a venture capital concern in Boston he helped form in 1 998. I t's majority-owned by the larg est insurance company in anada, Manufac turers L ife Insurance. The Sheehans live in S u d b u r y , M a ss . , n e a r C r a i g a n d D i a n e Perlowski Alie and John and Debbie Pazary Ayer. Bill reports that Cindy (Gillis '86) and Warren Burroughs relocated to Tokyo for J P Morgan . . . Kenny Epstein's daughter Sophie Rose was born August 1 2 . He and wife Wendy ( Howard '8 5 ) live in Westport, Conn . , and have two other chi ldren, Lila, 8 , and J acob, 5 . Kenny has been working for Credit Suisse First Boston since J u ly 1 998 in the equity sales area, focusing on technology stocks. The Epstein family invites any old friends in the N . Y.C. area to look them up . . . . Gretchen Gehrke and husband John Baker announced the birth of t h e i r son on A p r i l 20 . . . . M a ry Lou McCulloch Jones is liv ing in "beautiful" J ack sonville, Fla., where her Navy pilot husband is stationed. She volunteers in the readmg pro gram at the elementary school, coordinating the "book swaps" and helping with a "dinner theater" for the younger students as well as working as fu l l - t ime mom to Duncan, 1 0 , Cameron, 6 , and Nora, 4 . . . Lisa Wormwood is l iv i ng in Medford and loves being back in the Boston area. She's mom to Tarrah kye, 4 - 1 /2 , and writing corporate communications as an officer in the State Street orporation's Year 2000 Program Management Office . . . . Sharon Kehoe wrote from Lander, Wyo. he' working for the N a tional Outdoor Leadership chool in their development office. he is "loving" Wyoming and i s taking fu l l advantage of the rock c l imbing and skate ski ing ( is t h is the latest ski ing cra:e ?) available in the area. .

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1 980s Correspondents 1 980 J o h n Veilleux 7 1 04 Sonnett Court Derwood, MD 20855 johnveil leux@Compuserve .com

1 98 1 Beth P n i ewski Wilson P.O. Box 602 Harvard, MA 0 1 45 1 978-456-8801 beth .wilson@westg roup. com

1 982 Mimi H. Rasm ussen 63 Reservoir Street Cambridge, MA 02 1 38 6 1 7-492-1 002 mhra s@ M I T . E D U

1 983 Sally Lovegren Merchant 24 Easy Street Mt. Desert, ME 04660 207-244-0441 fax 2 07-244-9445 salm ercha nt@acadia. net

1 984 Cynthia M . M u l l i ken-Lazzara 1 8 Sunshine Aven u e Sausalito, CA 94965 4 1 5-332-3542 colby l 984@eudoramail .com

1 985 Barbara Knox Autran 2 0 1 1 Rosedale Avenue Oakland, CA 96401 5 1 0-437-9462

1 986 Wendy Lapham Russ 206 Cheltenham Road Newark, D E 1 97 1 1 302-738-6261 wlruss@dca . net

1 987 Jane N icol M a n u e l 8 Wentworth Drive Beverly, MA 0 1 9 1 5 978-927-6084 jmanuel 1 @aol . com

1 988 Lauren Frazza 200 East 78th Street, Apt. 1 9A New York, NY 1 00 2 1 2 1 2-7 1 7-7020 lfrazza@solutionson line.com

1 989 Anita L. Terry 501 Warwick Street St. Pa u l , MN 5 5 1 1 6 6 5 1 -698-9382 fax: 651 -848- 1 1 82 a n ita_terry@mnd. uscourts.gov

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Valerie Jean Miller '84 has been pinned down by sniper fire, had knives pulled on her and witnessed the aftermath of train wrecks and airplane crashes. As a paramedic lieutenant in the Emergency Medical Services of the Fire Department, Miller spent more than a decade working the night shift in New York City's impoverished areas. Much of that time was during the crime-ridden 1 980s. " I t was l i ke being in Vietnam , " M i l ler said. Shootings were reg u lar. She has been bitten and nearly pushed out a window. She has supervised rescue ettorts for train wrecks and worked two airplane crashes. As a testament to her capab i l ities, M i l ler was a member of the D i g nitary Protection Unit, which escorts the president and other otticials during visits to New York City. M i ller's first experience with emergency medicine was in the Emergency Medical Training ( E MT) course she completed dur

hopes to attract more mi norities to the College, which "is going in the

ing a Jan Plan at Colby. In 1 986 she became a licensed para

right directio n . " As a student she was one of 1 0 inaugural Bunche

medic 1 n New York.

Scholars, a member of the Chorale and of the Early Music Group and participated in various musical productions.

The Bronx native and one-time hospital candy-striper soon found herself at multiple shootings and drug overdoses, lugging

Mi ller continues to si ng-as soprano in two successful gospel

patients down dark apartment house stairways and even up

groups, one based at a radio station and the other at the church she

sheer concrete wal l s . M i l ler's territory included Harlem and

attends. Both groups have performed at Carnegie Hall, the Mead

Washington Heights. a notorious drug haven, and the arduous

owlands and Nassau Coliseum, and both recently released CDs. On the job front, Miller left the streets i n 1 998 to become an

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Equal Employment Opportunity investigator for the Fire Depart

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ment's Bureau of Intergovernmental Attairs. She was the only

work-related Her dominant hand is partially paralyze d . In 1 996

African-American i n her EEO class, which prepared investigators

doc ors said she might never use 1t again

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to probe allegations of racial discrimination and other EEO viola

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ever s i t s next to me w i l l automatically be nom ina ted ! Anyway, writing t h is column ha been gre a t fun and much easier than writing a term paper, a l though I ' l l have to admit I have s u ffe r e d from m i n o r b o u t s o f w r i t e r ' block . . . . U nfort unately, I have l i t t l e news

me. I nstead, they are inserted in Colby maga zine, o do look for them . . . . Jim K i n g will be anchoring the 5 p.m. news on Channel 1 2 after being weekend anchor a t WCCO-TV in M i nneapolis. I hope we can get a tape to show Can you believe we graduated almost a t the reunion . . . . Steve Reed and his wife , 1 5 years ago ! Shall I get nosta lgic ? Marcy, j ust bought a house in Con By the t i me our next reun ion rol l s cord, Mass., and w i l l be moving in aroun d , s o m e of us may b e grand N EWS MAKERS as soon as they sell their pre ent parents. o , i t c an't be, you say . . . house in Stow, Mass. They trav Linda Davis '80 was quoted in Expe t h e d e ad l i ne for this column was eled to London over Labor Day rience magazine and led off a New York two weeks ago, and I'm getting a weekend and spent t i me with Steve Times article on workplace attempts b i t punchy- I ' m starting to feel Langlois and his wife, Sally, who to avert office stress and burnout by l i k e I ' m back in col lege and l have live there, and with Sean Padgett balancing work and personal lives: a term paper due tomorrow. And I and Ann-Meg White, who had j ust "expectations have been lowered," the know I ' m not the only one who moved over that week. Both famiGreat Lakes-area sales manager for enj oyed writing papers, so those 1 ies are li ving in the same apartment Hewlett- Packard said, but productiv writers or mathematic ians, econobuilding in Belgravia. teve writes, ity has not suffered . . . . Alice Domar rn is ts or h i tori ans, politic ians or "We miss them and wish them luck Susan MacKenzie '80 '80, director of Harvard's Mi nd/Body lawyers ( and I know there are a in their international adventures. Center for Women's Health and an expert on stress, wa featured ton of you ) , at home moms or . . . I am off now to cheer on the in the magazine Biography last fall. . . . The Sierra Club's Maine dads: somebody m u s t heed t h e A m e r i c a n s at the R y d e r up chapter named Susan MacKenzie '80 Conservationist of the Year c a l l ing t o become t h e correspon matches, a s they t r y t o retake the for leader hip in promoting con ervat ion at the grassroots dent of the m i l lennium and pick cup from the Europeans. I hope to level. . . . Swordfish-boat captain Linda Greenlaw '83 continues up where I top writing , which see everybody at the reunion. to be written up in papers and magazines across New England. The will be around the time of our -Barbara Knox Atman H ungry Ocean spent weeks on The New York Times best-seller list re un ion. And spea k i ng of the re in the fall, and Hol lywood is considering making a movie based on union, Steve Reed has been workTick tock everyone, it's the book . . . . Melissa Hruby Bach '87 headed a Boston Globe story ing d i l igently to organize the best a l most The Year 2 000-1 hope about three Gloucester, Mass . , artists whose work grows out of their party of the decade, and so has you're compliant ' Please note that love of hands-on gardening. The article compared Bach's mosaics Meg Bernier '8 1 . Stephen writes, my e-mail address has changed ( to of flora and fauna to the fanciful, fluid designs of the Catalan "Reunion Weekend is going to be wlruss@dca.net ) , and while you're archnect Antoni Gaudi. noting this I want you to e-mail me J u ne 2 - 4 , 2 000. We need volun immediately and tell me your news. teers to greet people as they arri ,.e M I LESTO N ES And no lame excuses about the Y2K to c heck i n . It would be ideal to bug crashing your hardware. Do it have two or three c l assmates per Marriages : Jeffrey R. Johansen '82 to Jody Bruce . . . . Sonya now before it's too late! . . . Paul one-hour s h ift to greet people Fri Thompsen '83 to J effrey Halsey . . . . J u l ie Abele '89 to Kurt Duca e-mailed me in J uly, and it day night." On Friday n ight there Wetzell in Shelburne, Vt. . . . Karen Reilly '88 to Kevin Quirk. sounds l i ke he's gearing up pretty will be an open bar at the c lass Birrhs: Twins, Camille and Jack Kerwin, to Joe and Paula Donahue well 2K -wise. Paul is an accountant headquarters ( locat ion to be de Kerwin '83 . . . . A daughter, Sophie Rose Epstein, to Ken '84 and for a construction firm in the Bos term i ned ) , poss ibly followed by a Wendy Howard Epstein '85 . . . . A son, Timothy John Tawa, to Lisa ton area and recently moved to trip to You Know Whose Pub. Dunne and John Tawa '84 . . . . A daughter, Caitlin Elizabeth Sheehan, Whitman, Mass., where he was busy Saturday will be fa m i l y oriented to Lisa and William Sheehan '84 . . . . A on, Andrew Groves Castle, buying fu rniture, a new car and with a parade at 1 1 a.m fol lowed to Andrew '85 and Rachel England astle '90 . . . . A son, Timothy mutual funds . . Robin Chalmers by a lobster bake. Lots of kids' Nicholas Karoff, to Fran and John Karoff '85 . . . A daughter, Emma still has Clyde, a houseplant she a c t i v i t i e s i n c l u d e pony r i d e s , Courtney, to Vito Courtney and Nancy Goldberg-Courtney '86 . . . . A received from her Secret Santa dur storybook c haracters , games, e t c . son, Quin Peters, to Brian and Linda Michaud Peters '86 . . . . A son, ing her sophomore year at Colby. Parents c an part icipa t e w i t h k ids Ryan Christopher Gove, to Matthew '87 and Bevin Dockray Gove Robin is the marketing director for or drop them off. Lic ensed day '88 . . . . A son, Maxwell Ashton Baines, to Robert and Ann Armstrong ew Age Publishing, which pub c are for k ids 5 and under is avail Baines '88 . . . . A son, Leo Cyker, to Frederick and ancy Donahue Ii hes holistic lifestyle magazine , able as well as day care for older Cyker '88 . . . . A daughter, Jessica Marie Cameron, to William and and is also a freelance writer. . . . kids. The c lass d i nnner Saturday Diane Malek Cameron '89 . . . . A daughter, Katherine Ralph, to Diane Smith ( dcsmi th l O@ night will be followed by several William '88 and Wendy Kennedy Ralph '90. hotmail .com ) moved to Washing d i fferent evening entertainment ton, D.C., last summer and would Deaths: Peter B. Murphy '87, J u ly 1 0, 1 999, in Rangeley Plantachoices. Day c are will go u n t i l love to hear from anyone in the tion, Maine, at 3 4 . midnight. Corne o n e a n d a l l . Per area who has tips on fun stuff to do, ona l l y , I was a l i t t l e apprehensive good place to eat and real estate. about the last reunion, espec ially he work for the to report. W e j ust recently moved to Oak ational Assoc iat ion of s i nce we arrived right in the middle of Satur land, Cal if., and I'm afraid some of you may Protection and Advocacy Services, a national day e v e n i ng ' s for m a l d i nner. C l as s m a t e s have written to my former address i n San network of d isability right attorneys and c o u l d n ' t h a v e b e e n n i c e r , letting my husband Francisco. I f anybody's e-mail did get lost i n advocates . . . . Nancy Goldberg-Courtney and and me queeze into a table, fort unately next the sh uffle, I sincerely apologi:e and ask y o u her husband, V i to Courtney, welcomed daugh to our former c lass correspondent, Mary Alice to w r i t e a g a i n if y o u don't s e e y o u r n e w s i n ter Emma in March. They l i ve in Portland, Wel ler-Maya n . I f I ' m able to make it to our this column. A n d take note, you will n o longer Maine, where Nancy teaches English at Port next reunion, I'll save a spot next to me for be receiv ing questionnaire in the mail from land H igh chool. . . . By the t i me you read the incom i ng c l ass correspondent-or who-

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rhis, Meg Frymoyer Stebbins and her family

they h a v e two c h i ldren, D a n i e l , 3 , a n d

class participation rate. O u r solution: every

w i l l be settled in Scotland, rheir home for rhe

Rebecca, 1 . . . . A n d my o w n congrats ro Karen

body give! . . . Keep the cards and letters coming, please.

nexr rwo years. Meg writes rhat she and her

Reilly '8

husband, Peter, and their daughters, Emily, 6,

was in last J une. Great time had by a l l ! . . . And

and Sarah, 3, plan to travel extensively while

way to go, Joy Pratt, on her first sky diving

and Kevin Quirk, whose wedding I

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Some new folks ro welcome into the

rhey are rhere. Comacr me, Meg, and I'll send

excursion! . . . To send a donation for the Pam

you a lisr of expatriate c l assmates to impose on!

Hoyt Sanborn c h i ldren, write ro Guardian

fold. Bill '88 and Wendy Kennedy Ralph had

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Angel T rusr Fund (for A l lana and Kristin

a baby girl, Katherine Brooks Ralph, on August

( a l l 90 z i l l ion of you ) : Robin Scheuer Reynolds

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hopes to be showing her artwork in Boston

Legion, Posr 1 1 4 , P.O. Box 5 3 5 , Barrington,

ased, Wendy c laims thar Katherine is the "most

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from Savannah College of Art and Design in May and recently had a show in North Caro l ina. She and her husband, Peter, live in

mer and early fall on maternity leave before returning ro her job at Fidelity I nvestments.

I didn't get many class news rhingies

orthboro, Mass . . . . J oyce Seymour Rains

since the lasr issue of Colby came out. Don'r

Bill works for N umber

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forget to tear out the handy card and send i t to

Dan Johnston also had a girl, N a ta l ie Hyun Ah

and her daughter, Molly, wirh Beth Harrington,

me so I can keep everyone updated on your

Johnston, on J u ly 1 9 . They live in Idaho, where

Jennifer Estes Vath and her son, Benjamin,

comings and goings. I did hear from Peter

Dan is a postdoctoral fellow at Washingron

Liz Walzer and J ulie Archer Tunney and her

Arsenault who is living in Edinburgh, Scot

State University doing research in reproduc

son, Graham. Thanks, Joyce, it was fun to see

land. H e is a chiropractor, is married and has a

tive biology . . . . Karen Cuiffo Booker e-mailed

everyone . . . . It is with great sadness that I

son . . . . I gor an e-mail from Maria Douglass,

that she is doing well with Lindsay Taylor

report that our c la smate Scott Croll was k i l led

who is living in Moscow and working for a

Booker, born in April 1 998; she keeps Karen

in a May plane crash near J uneau, Alaska.

foundation rhat assists former weapons scien

and her husband, Nare, on their toes. Karen

corr lived in Alaska and was returning to

risrs and engineers in transferring their skills to

also tells me that Steve '89 and Karen Faunce

ational Park and Preserve for his

the private secror. Maria and her husband have

Rand had a girl, Madison Paige Rand, in J u ly.

third season as a member of a coastal mapping

one child and another on the way . . . . Diane

She has an older brother, M itchell. . . . Stefan

team. Afrer Colby, Scott concentrated his en

Malek Cameron and her husband are rhe proud

and Lisa Ensign Timbrell had a boy, Connor

ergies on working for rhe N ational Park Ser

parents of] essica Marie, born in March . . . . And

Cooke Timbrell, in J u ne. Lisa says, "he is a very

G lacier Bay

vice, where his duries included climbing ranger,

J ulie Abele was married to Kurt Wetzell in

relaxed, calm baby and, of course, beautifu l ! " .

boat ranger and biology technician for na

August in Vermont. Congratulations ro a l l ! . . .

. . David Coleman moved to the West Coast

tional parks throughout the U . S . H is interest

I ran into Jeff '82 and Jody Brace Johansson

last year and is now a manager for a S i l icon

in photography had grown into a true passion,

and their little girl at a concert in Richfield,

Valley start-up, working hard and being con

according to h i s parents, and some of his

M inn.-it is indeed a small world . . . . Now for

fused by the new economy. In between flying

phoros were recently published in the Alaska

more reunion reports. I heard rhat Kerri Hicks

all over the place to consulting gigs, David

Geographic Quarterly. A memorial service and

was in attendance from Rhode Island, bur I

hangs out with Nancy Spellman '89, who lives

celebration of

didn't see her or her adorable little boy, who

in the Bay area wirh her husband, one of

t u d e n t Conserva t ion As

has his own Web sire. Cathy Taylor Hanscom

David's closest friends from childhood. Dave

soc i a t io n has establ ished a memori a l fund

and husband Gregg lefr rhe kids at home in

also saw Candace Bye Correa and Jen Riley in

for

c o t t , and donat ions w i l l be used ro

Bangor for the weekend to hang out with

Los Angeles in January 1 998 . . . . Bill Labrecque

upport fu t u re youth volu nteers. Contribu

cott's life was held in May at

G l a c i e r Bay. The

t ions may be made to the

Brenda O'Su llivan and the rest of rhe gang.

is head of product development of Exotrope.

tudem Conser

Tina Cl ifford Comparato looked as happy as a

Prior to joining Exotrope, he worked with Casco Development, Inc., in Portland, Maine . . . . Pete

o c i a t i o n , M e m o r i a l for S c o t t

new bride should. I saw Sru '88 and Tanya Goff

Cro l l , a t t n . Mari lyn M c C o y , P . O . B o x 5 5 0 ,

Richmond but didn't get to ralk to rhem.

Sekulow lives in Washington, D.C., where he

H 0 3 60 3 . Plea e c o n t a c t m e

Melinda Pittis and Jenny Underhill rhoughr

worked with the National Republican Senaro

1 f y o u w o u l d l 1ke to e x tend y o u r sympathy ro

about an impromptu 'Ettes concert, but with

rial Committee before becoming a self-employed

the Cro l l fa m i ly .

out Kirsten Sherman and Meg Christie i t j ust

political consultant . . . . Tina and James Reduto

wouldn't have been the same. Joan Langer

got married in September 1 998; both are atror

didn't look as sandy as she did when I ran into

neys and live in Harrsdale, N . Y. , happy to be

v a t i on A

h a r l e town,

-Wendy Lapham Russ

Geoff

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and

Lind say Carroll

her on the beach a couple of years ago. Jeremy

living and working outside New York City. J im

Alexander fini hed renovating their home m

Banks is l iving in Connecticut and hasn't

is an ice hockey offic ial in his spare time . . . . Tom

Cape E l t:aheth, Mame-they're thnlled to be

changed a bit.

either has Paul Stanislaw,

Powers married Heather Hope Davis in Octo

hack m anJ "· ill never move aga m 1 Geoff 1s an

now a physician and liv ing in up tate New

ber 1 998 in Newport, R . I . When we last heard,

mve,tmem aJv 1sor, anJ Lindsay, an at-home

York. Mary LaPointe Farley left Jeff '88 and

they were living in West Roxbury, Mas . Tom is

mom to W 1 I I , 5, and

kid for the weekend while Dave and Kristen

president of Group and Pension Services Com

2, 1:. on the fnend

commmee at the ChilJren' M u:.eum of Mame and Im c' nilunteenng.

Dale Randall brought their little ones along. peak mg of Colby couples, I saw Bob and Sue

pany in Waltham, and Heather works at Massa chusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company.

orrigan 1 n Boston la:,t

Banta Gallagher, Dave and Cindy Cohen

. . Beth Harri on Cutl iffe and hu band

Fernande:, John and Sharon Bejian Cassidy

intrepid sports reporter, Larry Rocca, who

and Laune ( Meehan '

) and Peter Reed. The

caught up over the summer and claims to be

other will have ro watt for future columns ' I t

"much less spastic"-although he confesses that

w a great t o run mro

haun Dakin and wife

even he gets dizzy when he con iders the list of

haun now keeps me updated on the

states he has lived in since graduation ( includ

mto fall.

he was happy to bump

arah Dooley

Larr, I n e m BeJford, , . H . , " t th J e,;1ca, 6, anJ harle' anJ Jennifer Rubin Jennif1er, 4. . Britton mlwed to Pm,burgh, where harle 1;

aleena;

And we finally heard from our peripatetic and

head of the enwr chool at hady 1Je AcaJ em1. The1 ha,·e two c h i ldren, Trevor, 5 , and A n n i e , 2 . • • . �l ark and L a u r i e Fra n k l i n

worlJ of the I nternet ' 1a e-mail . . . . Christian

ing Massachusetts, Maryland, New Jer ey, Texas,

Antalics and Gaynelle Peebles '93 helped Chris

Oregon, and Californ i a ) . He is now in New

wrme fmm Framingham, �fa , . . that

Tierney anJ me olve the low Alumni Fund

York City covering the New York Yankees for

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ewsday. A l though he always expected that he'd work in sports journalism, he ha had expe riences and accomplishments he never dreamed of, such as getting sprayed w i th champagne during one of the Yankee ' World Series cham pionship seasons and writing a book. H e says he keeps in touch with most of h is friends from Colby and looks forward to reading this column for news of the "various women who rejected me throughout my four years of blue- l ight anxiety." . . . I enjoyed a mini -reunion in September at the home of TJ and Melissa Organek Dupree. After a year and a half in Amsterdam they now live i n Somerv ille, Mass. TJ works for GE in Fairfield, Conn., and Mel issa for the art museum at Wellesley College . . . . Bill and Dover Norris York passed through the Boston area after vis it ing h is fam i ly on amucket, and we got everyone together. Dover and Bill live near Portland, Ore., where Dover i an attorney with a commercial law firm and Bill manages a group of technical writers at Intel. Mike and Deb Wood O'Loughlin came up from Connecticut for the evening and brought along the new kiddo, Connor. Deb is staying at home with him for the remainder of the academic year while M ike finishes his residency at Hartford Hospi tal; next spring they will move to Rochester, M inn., where M ike has a fellowship at the Mayo linic . . . . Carol Lockwood and 1 got together for lunch in my hometown of a t ick one day in August. She i working for a Washington law firm, specializing in international import/ex port law, but has been accepted into the Peace Corps. She's very excited and looking forward to thi new adventure . . . . Write me a note and tell me what your New Year's resolutions are for the year 2000. I hope that one of them is that you will attend our 1 0th-year reunion this summer! -Laura Senier

Charlotte Reece Moore is currently

working as a senior business analyst at Mi tretek ystems and living in Arlington, Va. Her hus band , David Moore, is an environmental con sultant. At their wedding last year were Beth Perry, Heather McLeman, Ellen Billey, Charlie Donaldson a n d D e b Ives. The Moores

are looking forward to returning to New En gland to escape the D.C. weather. . . . Timothy Palmer i s an English teacher in J apan , married to Mika Kawai Palmer. Tim has been practic ing karate for eight years and holds the second dan of black belt. H e hopes to open his own language school, and they were expecting a c h ild last March ( I haven't heard any news since the birth ! ) . . . . Rebecca Streett is the d i rector of program coord ination at EF Educa t ional Tours in Cambridge, Mass . , and i s l iv ing in Boston w i t h her husband, Matt Melander. They were married la t August 7, and Rebecca Winokur was the maid of honor. . . . Keith Thomajan is assoc iate program director at Hur ricane Island Outward Bound. H is wife, Edie, is a n E n g l i sh t e a c h e r and Outward Bound

in tructor. . . . Randy and L a u r a Friedewald

John Rimas and his w ife, Beth, had a

baby boy last ovember. Sean Michael was born only three days after John's sister, Karen Rimas Patry '9 3 , gave birth to a daughter, Layne Jenn ifer. John teaches eighth grade in the Haverh i l l , Mass., public schools, and Beth is an EMT with the City of Boston. John also coached basketball with John Daileanes for three sea sons at Dracut H igh School ( also my home town ) . The program made i t to the state tournament for the first time in almost 1 0 years . . . Deborah Fuller Berger married Ed ward Berger in Edgartown on Martha's Vine yard this past J u ly. Elizabeth Welch Gustafson read at the wedding, and guests included Katie Martin and Sue Feinberg Adams '7 3 . The couple honeymooned in Bermuda and are now living on Beacon Hill in Boston. Deb is an assistant interior designer and grad student, and her hus band is a oftware engineer at Parametric Tech nology Corp. . . . Mark Flaherty married Angela Doyle in Florida la t November. After graduat ing from the law school ofFlorida State Univer sity at Tallahassee, Mark is now an assistant district attorney in Sarasota. Hi wife is a gradu ate student at Florida State and working for a private law firm in Sarasota. The wedding party inc luded Brian Mulvey and J im Burke . . . . Jason Nixon left his job as the producer of Robin Leach's Gourmet Getaways at the T elev iion Food etwork and now splits his time between Manhattan, Palm Beach and South ampton as the editor of two maga:ines. I n Palm Beach, Jason founded and edits Ocean Drive's .

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Notes gave birth to J ackson R ichard Note on

August 3 , 1 998. She reports that she stopped working as assistant d istrict attorney to raise her son ful l time. They live in New York City and sound extremely happy! . . Heidi Meyers Waugh and her husband, Ted, gave birth last May to Sara Stewart Waugh. Heidi work a c i ty planner for Fairfax , Va., and her husband is an environmental attorney . . . . I have been gett ing lots of wedding news. Heather Hart shorn married W i lliam Sweeney in October of 1 998. She was working on a Ph.D. at Brandeis niversity, and he was employed as a systems engineer at Hanscom Air Force Base. Brian Quinn married Lisa Fox in M i l ton, Mass . , and both work for Putnam Investments. Shelly MacConnell married David Kunath in Octo ber of last year. he works for Hewitt Assoc i ates, and he works for Citicorp. Kathleen Kali ff married Thomas Reeve in J une of '99. They are currently both teaching at Lincoln H igh School, and they live in Cumberland, R . l . Patricia Shepard wed Robert Quinn last July in South Glastonbury, Conn. She is an attorney, and he is a chemical engineer at the Ensign Bickford Com pany in Simsbury. . . . Thank you for the news, everyone. I have lots more letters for the next column, but keep your current news coming' -Jennifer Wood Jencks

1 990 Laura Senier 1 Pa rkman Street Natick, MA 0 1 760 508-653-7927 lsenier@ b u.edu

1 99 1 J e n n ifer Wood J e ncks 80 Wa l n u t Street Seekonk, MA 0277 1 508-336-7049 U e ncks@hotm a i l . com

1 992 M ichelle Fortier B i scotti 8232 Arbor Drive Shrewsbury, MA 0 1 545 508-845-6507 fax: 508-845-6843 biscottm@fra n k l i n health . com

1 993 Beth Curran 64 Dane Street #1 Somerville, MA 02 1 43 ecurran@sig.bsh .com

1 994 Tracy K . Larsen 529 Columbus Ave nue # 1 2 Boston, M A 0 2 1 1 8 6 1 7-247-9650 fax: 6 1 7-346-3 1 85 tracy_k_larsen@fleet.com

1 995 Alyssa Falwell 279 Fellsway West #2 Medford, MA 02 1 55 6 1 7-520-7239 alfalwell@aol.com

1 996 Amie Sicchitano 25 H u ndreds Circle Wellesley H ills, MA 02 1 8 1 6 1 7-235-0666

1 997 Kimberly N. Parker 1 6 O l ive Street Easthampton, MA 0 1 027 4 1 3-527-3682 knparker@mtholyoke.edu

1 998 Allison L. Brown 2 1 2 East 47th St Apart 30G New York, NY 1 00 1 7 2 1 2-462-3589 all ison_brown@primediamags. com

1 999 Lindsay Hayes 292 West 92nd St Apt 5C New York, NY 1 0025 l i ndsay_hayes@hotm a i l . com

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i n d ustry. Critics argue that the risk of brucellosis transmission is

I t was 4:30 a.m. on a weekday last January, a few h u n d red

almost non-existent and that wild bison should roam freely.

yards from the western border of Yellowstone National Park. The temperature had d ipped to 20 below, and everything for miles

"What Montana doesn't understand is that the park bound

seemed asleep beneath a thick blanket of Montana high country

aries are not the boundaries of a complete ecosystem, and

snow. I t was at his unl ikely hour, at this unpleasant temperature,

buffalo can't be confined to certain areas just because that's what

that Sue Nackoney '95 found herself dangling 30 feet i n the air.

feels safe to people," Nackoney said. "I t h i n k this is about a real

She hung there, i n climbing harness and swi nging chair, from a

fear of wilderness. It's an institutionalized fear, a cultural fear, and

tripod constructed of lodgepole pine tree trunks.

it's endemic to the West."

Nackoney, along with companions from the Montana environ

Nackoney has long been fascinated by such intersections of

mental group Buffalo Field Campai g n , had erected the tripod in

people and nature. As a biology major, Nackoney focused her

the middle of a road to block the transport of Yel lowstone Park

studies on the relationship between humans and the environment.

bison to a nearby slaug hterhouse. By mid-morn i n g , Nackoney

The last few months have seen a shift from Nackoney's d i rect

would be arrested for her act of civil d i sobedience, the tripod

action work to a less controversial form of environmental activ

d i smantled and six buffalo hauled away by Montana's State

ism-membership in Arbor Eden, a 22-acre cooperative farm

Department of Livestock.

outside Portland, Ore. People in a nearby community buy shares

While she was at Colby, this may not have been how Nackoney

of the farm, where Nackoney and her partners grow organic

planned to use her biology degree. But for her, science, passion

produce. The farmers provide shareholders with a box of food a

and environmental act1v1sm go hand i n hand. "It can sometimes

week and donate vegetables to soup kitchens and the needy. I n

be hard to say what civil disobedience accomplishes , " Nackoney

addition, Nackoney is working o n a n environmental education

said "You may not immediately stop what you're trying to stop.

program, i n which ch ildren visit the farm and surrou n d i n g forest.

But instead what you're saying 1s bigger-that your freedom, the

"I feel like I ' m u s i n g my b i o logy degree q u ite a lot i n try i n g

most valuable thing people have 1 n this country, is something

t o do s u stainable agriculture , " Nackoney s a i d . " A n d I f e e l l i k e

you're w 1ng to sacrifice for the sake of someth ing else."

a l l t h e work I 've d o n e i s pretty integrate d . Whether i t ' s h e l p i n g

ackoney spent the last two years volunteering for the Buffalo Field Cam-

the buffalo or working on forest protection o r raising healthy food, those things

pa1gn, serving as spokesperson. I n

are al I connected for me."

h i s role she employed her biology

-Matthew Testa '9 1

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ears the bison will

ransm1 a d i sease called bru cellosis o bee ca gering 1 s

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Palm Beach magazine and in the Hamptons he edit Hamptons magazine. By now, his book, ew York's 5 Best Places to Brunch, should have hit the shelves at Barnes & Noble . . . . Dave Edelstein e-mailed to say that he's been l iving in Brazil for nearly three year , working with M c K i nsey & Company, the management conulting firm. H e lived in Sao Paulo for the first two years and recently moved to Rio de Janeiro. In t h is t i me he's enjoyed traveling throughout Brazil and other South American countries, including Argentina, hile and Bolivia. He's having a great time overa l l . -Michelle Forcier Biscotti

Angela Tennett Butler is an assistant V P at Merrill Merchants Bank in Bangor, Maine, where she l i ves with her husband, Paul, and their two daughters, Mary and Katie. Paul is a fifth grade English teacher and a basketball coach in Bangor . . . . Poppyann Mastrovita Longsjo, a l ibrarian in Duxbury, Mass . , found a strange book mark in a return book recently a wad of 1 00 dollar bills! Twelve to be exact and she returned i t to a very relieved library patron . . . . Karyn Rimas Patry gave birth to a d a u g h t e r , L a y n e J e n n i fe r , i n ovember ' 9 8. . . . Jeff Zlot started h i s own stock brokering firm in San Francisco . . . . Brandy Chapman writes that Laura Steinbrink got married in October in Cleveland, Ohio. Brandy was the maid of honor, and Crissie Coleman Simchock was a bridesmaid. Also in attendance were Steve S i m c h o c k a n d C l a u d ia T e j a d a . . . . Rod Gerdsen married Casandra Taylor in June in A i ken, S.C. Jon Eddinger wa a groom man, and in attendance were Ellie orth and David O'Shea. Rod and assi live in Melbourne, Fla., where Rod is a biology teacher and Cassi is a per onal trainer. . . G in n y Fowles lives in Washington, D.C., and is a psychotherapist. Laura Schuler, an attorney, lives up the block from her, and they see each other often. . . . Steph Doyon lives in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, with her husband, Whitney Gross. Steph is a published author. . . . Kristin Ostrom A l len lives in Beverly, Mass., and is a nurse . . . . Niki Anderson-Kelly is in a nurse prac tit ioner's pro gram at USM and had a baby in March . . . . l had the pleasure of attending three Colby wed d i ngs this past summer: Betsy Arden and Bart Rickards in Harwichport, Mass., in J uly, Tim Von Jess and Jodi Goldstein in Amherst, Mass . , in August, and Sharon Rosen a n d J a y Dipietro '94J in Manhattan in September. All three weddings were truly wonderful and were at tended by many Colby folks. It was great to catch up with everyone. l wonder who's next! Take care, everyone! -Bech Curran .

Christy Lynch and Elliot Barry started Babson' M . B . A . program in September, while Jeff Cotter is in h is second year at Bab on's M . B. A . program . . . . Brian Seidman is working at Excelergy in Cambridge, a start-up Internet

software company for the deregulated energy industry. Brian wrote that Patrick "Oman" Smith is an attorney at Arthur Anderson in Boston working in state and local taxes . . . . Karen and Ted G u l ley bought a house in Mansfield, Mass., and have a chocolate Lab puppy named Colby . . . . Rachel Herf and Max Lam on '95 got engaged . . . . Bonnie Johnson planned to ride in her second Boston to New York A ID S Ride (a 300 miler) . She is still working in urban special education research and just moved to Jamaica Plain . . . . Last spring, Julie Ackerman started at Columbia University's School of Journalism. She will continue to work as an assoc iate producer with Court TV's docu mentary division while she earns a ma ter's in broadcast journalism . . . . Alyssa Schwenk is an attorney in Fort Bragg, N .C., where she was recently promoted to captain in the Army's J AG program . . . Michelle Satterlee graduated in May from Pepperdine Graduate School of Education and Psychology . . . . Janet Powers moved to A t lanta, Ga., in August to get an M.B.A. and a master's in public health at Emory University . . . . Michelle Mathai is a foreign service officer and will serve as vice consul in Auckland, New Zealand, for the next two year . . . . Carolyn Hart started a Ph.D. pro gram this fall in 20th-century U . S. women's history at the U n iversity of M ichigan . . . . An drea Stairs is teaching English at Cherry Creek H igh School in Englewood, Colo . . . . Marika S c h wartzman worked last summer in the treasurer's office at Florida Power & Light. She plans to move back to Boston after getting her M . B. A . from Duke U nivers i ty . . . . Barbara Coulon was featured in an article in the August 1 999 issue of G lamour magazine . . . . Greg Chris topher and Erin Crossland got married on Labor Day weekend in Rhode Island. In atten dance were Josh Eckel, John Grady, Jen Zwick .

Somer, Erinne Clark , Rebeka Freeman, Stacey W a r n e r , Braydon M c C o r m i c k , H e a t h e r Johnson, Ross Nussbam, C h r i s Austin and

Jon Frothingham '95. Josh wrote that Stacey Warner is mov i ng to California to attend Stanford University, Braydon McCormick fin ished his Ph . D. in music from Boston University and Ross Nussbaum got an M . B.A. from Wharton this past May. Josh was training for an lronman triathlon in Orlando, Fla., in October. . . . Jeff Cohen married Joan Blatcher in August, and Paul Matthews attended the wedding ceremony. . . . Kathy "Toddy" Pierce got married in J u ly to Erik Hobbs. She is teaching biology and A P biology a t Providence Country Day School i n Rhode Island . . . . Andrea Bowman Rogers wrote that her husband, Chris Rogers, is enjoy ing his job at UUnet, an MCI Company. An drea and Chris christened their son, Tyler, i n June and named Kara Gilligan and E d Ramirez as Tyler's godparent . Kara is raking an inten sive one-year teaching certification program through Lesley College; Ed works for Fidelity. . . . Amy Wrentmore finished her second year of med school in Pennsylvania, and Jan Dutton

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Kristen Drake completed Peace Corps Service in N iger in December '98 and then traveled in West Africa before returning to the U.S.A. in February '99. I n J une, Kristen re turned to the Eastern Sierra Mountains in Cali fornia to work for the Mono Lake Committee . . . . Laurie Catino Durkin had her first child in April, a girl, J i ll South Durkin, named after Laurie's mother. Laurie is getting her master's i n early childhood education at Lesley College and hopes to work with first or second graders. . . . Nicole Dannenberg, who works in D.C. as an international development consultant, went to Benin, West Africa, on a USA I D-funded trip to conduct a case study on political development. She applied to Ph.D. programs i n political sci ence and could be anywhere next year! . . . Tina Garand planned to be married in August in San Francisco . . Marc Small attends Harvard Graduate School for his master's i n education. . . . Abby Smith works at WR Grace and lives in Brookline, Mass., with Tammy Smith and Alex Kean. Tammy planned to attend Indiana Uni versity to attain her M . B . A . ; Alex is studying for her secondary education certificate at S i mmons College . . . Patty Benson recently worked for six months in Washington state before return ing to Boston to c o n t i n u e w o r k i n g for Bain . . . . Keith Albert, a graduate student and research assistant at Tufts Un iversity, i work ing on a fiber-optically-based artific ial no e that is geared towards land mine detect ion by detect ing explosives vapor. He had the opportunity to test his equipment at a Defense Department land mine test field in Missouri. Keith sees Mark Johnson, who lives in San Francisco and is working for an Internet company . . . . Jennifer Pope works for Pathfinder International, a non profit organization that specializes in family planning and reproductive health. She planned to move to ewton, Mass., with me and my brother, Brad Sicchitano '99. She a ! o is a trained k ickboxer. . . . I finished up my first year teach ing kindergarten at Tenacre Country Day School and loved every minute of it. I'm teaching there again this year and coach lacrosse in the sum mer. Take care! .

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South Freeport, Maine . . . . Kathleen A. Kaliff '9 1 to Thoma Reeve in East Providence, R . I . . . . Sh e l l y A. MacConnell '91 to David Kunath i n Sanford, Maine . . . . Rebecca R. Streett ' 9 1 to Matthew P. Melander '9 1 in Harbor Spring , M ich . . . . Patricia A. Shepard ' 9 1 to Robert Quinn in South Glastonbury, Conn . . . . Deborah E. Fuller '92 to Edward G . Berger in Edgartown, Ma s . . . . Elizabeth P. Arden '93 to Barton Reese Rickards ' 9 3 in Harw ichport, Ma s . . . . Timothy J . Von Jess '93 to Jodi Goldstein in Amherst, Mass. . . . Sharon R. Rosen '93 to Jay Dipietro '94J in ew York, N . Y . . . . Laura E. Steinbrink '93 to Brett ovak in Cleveland, Ohio . . . . J e ffrey E. Cohen '94 to J oan Blatcher. . . . Erin T. Cro sland ' 9 4 t o Gregory T. C h ri st o p h e r ' 9 4 i n Rhode Island . . . . Katrina L. Greenfield '94 to Ja on Hanevelt in Victoria, B.C. . . . Alison J. Meye r '94 to M ichael L. Hong in Waltham, Mass. . . . Kathryn Toddy Pierce '94 to Erik Hobbs. . . . Elizabeth A. Dunn '96 to Michael Allen . . . . Margaret R. Harris '96 to Scott Sanel '94 in Greenwich, Conn . . . . Sophia B. Trevor '96 to Louis Girard in Newport, R . l . . . . Stephanie L. Brochu '98 t o Jake Voter . . . . Kate E. Dunlop '98 to Michael eamens.

The Boston Sunda)' Globe featured the Byrne & Carlson Chocolatier

and Confectioner shop, operated in Portsmouth, N . H . , by Christo pher Carlson '90 and his wife, Ellen Byrne. They create handmade

chocolates and confections with the highe t-quality ingredients from around the world . . . . Albert J. Evans '90 i a new partner in the Potts\'ille, Pa., law firm of Riley and Fanelli, P.C. . . . Hilary Greene '9 1 , who co-founded Rus ia's fir t Western- tyle personnel agency while she li,·ed in t. Petersburg from 1 992 to l 995, ha been appointed program coordinator of the Jewish Federation of the Berkshires' So,·iet Resettlement Program and the New American Cin:enship Coalition . . . . The Providence Journal reported recently on a new "craft beer," Newport torm Hurricane Amber Ale. The new brew, which reached local pubs last J uly, comes from the Coastal Extreme Brewing Co., a venture started in Middletown, R . l . , by Derek Luke '98, Will Rafferty '97, Brent Ryan '97 and Mark Sinclair '97 . . . . Mary Ellen Shuttleworth '98 is mission coordina tor for Operation mile, a nonprofit organi:ation that sends teams of 40 medical personnel around the world on two-week m i sions to operate on as many as 1 5 0 chi ldren with cleft lips and cleft palate . . . . In informati\'e and often riveting weekly reports to the Cenrral Maine Morning Sentinel, A.J . Wall '99 wrote up his adventures a h e and a friend biked across the country from an Francisco to Belgrade, Maine.

Births: A son, Andrew Groves Castle, to Andrew ' 5 and Rachel England Castle '90 . . . . A daughter, Katherine Brooks Ralph, to

William '88 and Wendy Kennedy Ralph '90 . . . . A daughter, atalie Hyun Ah Johnston, to Grace and Daniel Johnston '90 . . . . A daugh ter, Madison Paige Rand, to teve ' 9 and Karen Faunce Rand '90 . . . . A son, Co1mor Cooke Timbrell, to Stefan and Lisa Ensign Timbrell '90 . . . . A daughter, Sara tewart Waugh, to Ted and Heidi Meyers Waugh '9 1 . . . . A daughter, J i ll outh Durkin, to Roberr and

M I LESTO N ES Marriages: Erin M. Coyle '90 to John L. Giesser in Boston,

Laurie Catino Durkin '96.

1ass. . . . tephen J. ahley '90 to usan J. Dubin in Middlebury, Conn. . . . Christopher M. White '90 to Angela Fennel in Biddeford, Mame . . . . McCurrah K. Hamlin ' 9 1 to Michael R. Keller '92 in children and their families m the inner cities of Bo ton and lew York. . . . Tony Rosenfeld fin1 hed two year of teaching in Rhode I land and pent the ummer m Co ta Rica leading educanonal tour . . . . Melanie Macbeth 1 nil work111g a; a proi ect manager with a company 'Pe 1al 1:111g m biotechnology and chem 1cals and re ently made bu me mp to w1tzerland and France . . . . Brent Ryan orga111:ed t. atty's Day '99 in ewport, R . l . . . . tacy Joslin orga111:ed a Front treet 4th of J u ly reun10n, with Linda Jenkins,

ary Charlebois, Barb Gordon

.md Becky Briber ;,howmg up . . . . Andrea Dehaan completed her M.A. 111 crean\'e wrmng .It BLJ and 1' 111 Dortmund, Germany, teach mg Engli'h Morgan F i ll er l'> the fourth-ranked wonun 111 the world for the Profes 10nal Open \V,ner , 1arathon w1 mm111g World up enes. :>.!organ, 11 ho ha, relocated w eattle, ha com peted 111 Bra: ii, Argennna, ;.nada,Japan (where 'he won f1N place ) , Eg, pt and Italy. Marathon -11 1mm1111.( 1, ber n ee n 25 ki lometer, ( 1 5 - 1 '2 ki lometer' 1nd take, manr hour m i ll:,) ,mJ to (111 1 , h ' al en arr 1' .m ad\ .mcc 'cout tor the B.. "wn Red "ox, a 101' that he ,,l\' he "ne\·er "' en re.1 lh dre.1meJ of gemng" .mJ 1' n:ry Ru. h h .i pp \ t<> hcout <>! the t 111 a nc 1 .1 l world. Hamblernn 11111 ht!d t\\ O 1 ea r nt ,,u lm.( on \ In••U pn' H c \ .JL h t ,, mduJmg .1 1 6 -mo n th urlumn,I\ lt!.ltll>n .1hoarJ a 3-toot kctc.. h .i- co-

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captain/proj ect manager. He' visited Panama, Samoa, Tonga, Galapagos, Au tralia, outh Africa and Mauntius among other fascinating spots but has settled down at a de k job as the assistant director of admissions with the Wil liams-My tic Maritime Studies Program . . . . Alicia emiccolo MacLeay is back on May flower Hill as the as istant director of communi cations (event publicity, media relations and wnt ing for Colby magazine ) . he and Dave live 111 Oakland, and he telecommutes back to a Web design company in towe, Vt., that he's worked with for more than two year . . . . Yawa Duse-Anthony 1 a transportation plannet/en gmeer at a firm 111 Andover, Mass., after earning an M . . 111 mdu mal engineering from UMas Amherst. . . . Andrew Weber live in Manhat tan and work 111 tructured finance at J . P. Morgan. He wntes that Peter heren is al o in Manhattan and took a po 1 t 1on at J & W eligman & o. lnc . . . . Kate Charbonnier and Jo h Oeltjen are en1oy111g married life together 111 ew York 1ty. Jmh is pursumg his Ph.D. at Pri nc e ton 111 molecular biology, and Kate 1 a l;rn >tuJent at Fordham . . . . Jen Mason is al mo t Jone \\Ith her M.A. 111 mternanonal ;,tud1e' .lt the lJn1,·er it\· of Den \'er. he recently ,,rn Kerri Duffel, who 1 a f1r,t-\ ear la11 tudent "lt . 'orthea,tern LJ111\'cr,1ty, and Kate White, who l'> ,nil workmg at the Ju t1 e Department.

. . . Kate evin is a first-year medical student at Tulane in New Orleans. She received her M . P.H. from Tulane last pring . . . . JJ Eklund is finish ing her last year as a law student at the Univer sity ofColorado in Boulder and is contemplating a career in the Attorney General's or D.A.'s office . . . . Kara Marchant is engaged to be mar ried nex t J une to a fe llow teacher from the Texas Mil itary I nstitute. Jen Atwood is her maid of honor. . . . Wendy Ridder is still with the Carson Group in New York . . . . Dave Wright contin ues work ing for De u t c h e Bank i n N e w Y rk . . . . Matt Burgener remains with Ander son Consulting and i currently working in Calgary . . . . Mike Payne got out of corporate life in Wa hington, D. ., and spent the um mer fishing, biking and working hockey camp . He now teaches and coaches at the Northwood chool in Lake Placid, N.Y., and fee ls "much better ab ut life." . . . Kate Gluck is living in Davi quare with Steph Healy. Kate is in volved wnh marketing and hareholder com mu111cat1on at Putnam Investment in Boston, and teph does economic consulting at NERA 111 amhndge . . . . Kathy Kohatsu is hack in Mame teach111g after a summer spent volunteer mg 111 Guatemala . . . . Steph Blackman fini hed two year; of research in Oregon a part of Amencorp' and now re ide permantly in Port land, Ore. . . . imone Kaplan is work ing at

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Greetings! 1 hope you all enjoyed a fantastic summer. Thank you for all the e - mails and letters . . . . Congratulations to all the new lyweds. Stephanie Brochu was married to Jake Voter i n May. Also in May, Kate Dunlop mar ried M ichael eamens. Erik Dreisbach and Kristina Denzel '97 are getting married in Ph ila delphia in August of 2 000, and Tina Goudreau is planning a 2000 wedding to Chri topher Collison at Colby1 Laurel Hart, now in Seattle working at a c lothing boutique, enjoyed watching Shelley Wollert make her national debut on Love Connection in April 1 Abby •

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and Mary Holahan are all living and working out i n San Francisco. . . . Amy Forrer is a med i c a l s t u d e n t a t Loyola U n i versity i n hi cago . . . . T h i past March, Jon Bolton made headline for his efforts as an Americorps-V I STA volunteer in Lewiston, Maine. H is dedication already has proven results and has gained recog n i t i on for h i s Temporary A i d to N e e d y Families." . . . Andrea Doucette is also li ving in Maine and working for none other than Bates College! . . . Cheers to Farrell Burns for running in the Boston Marathon-and crossing the finish line1 Betsy Metcalfe, who is working at the H i l l chool i n Pottstown, Pa., was training to run a marathon in Cozumel, Mex ico, in November to benefit leukemia research . . . . If you are in the market to buy a boat, Andrew Porter is working at Alden Yachts in Ports mouth, R . I . . . . KC McClelland and Geoff Bennett are both working in Boston for Cam bridge Associates . . . . Graham Nelson, Andy Young, Dave Hall '97 and Eugene Buono '97 also are li v i ng in Boston. The former soccer players are spending much of their t i me on the golf course . . . . Kevin Soja is working in admis sions at the M i llbrook School in M i l lbrook, . Y . . . . Dave Shivas i a t Emory Law School, and former football pal John Barry has left Washington, D.C., and headed off to Oxford for an advanced law degree . . . . Amidst hectic ew York schedules, I often run into Jeff Urban, •

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.Y., is work ing on d i recting his first movie w i th none other than Sylvester Stal lone's dad ! hould you pass through ew York you may also find him doing s t a n d - u p c o m e d y a t one of N e w Y o r k ' s finest. . . . Corley Hughes ha enjoyed h e r much anticipated move to N . Y.C. from Princeton, N .J . . . . Jeff Brown, in Brook lyn, N . Y . , is work ing as a research assoc iate at the New York Fed. He actually spent last summer backpacking through Southeast Asia . . . . And Derek Luke, Brent Ryan '97, Mark Sinclair '97 and Will Rafferty '97 are living the Colby dream . . . they have opened their own microbrewery in Rhode Island, The Costa! Extreme Brewing Co., and welcome any thirsty alumni . . . . I have much more to say i n the next column-keep the letters and e-mails com ing1 -Allison L . Brown

This task of c lass correspondent has given me an excuse to do what I love most: gossip! The day after I was nai led by the Alumni Office to take on this position, I ran into Erika Blauch, who provided a plethora of information for me. Erika worked as a publicist assistant for Oxford University Press last summer and was contemplating moving to . Y.C. . . . Appar ently, Brad Hoar is moving to the Czech Re public to teach English . . . . Abby Manock, Doug Connelly and Eric "Goat" Cook are working on the Appalachian Trail as members of the trail crew . . . . Both Donn Downey and Kristen North moved to Lebanon, . H . , and are looking for jobs there . . . . Meg Rourke and J ason Flesh are in rhe ame alternative medi c i ne school in San Diego; Jason is getting a degree so he will be l icenced to practice acu puncture . . . . Chris E instein was in Kenya through August, interning for the School of Field Studies ( SFS ) . . . . Carrie Peterson worked at Long Acre Expeditions for the summer and now leads an outdoorsy l ife work ing for BU's Sergeant Camp . . . . Kate Lowe, Dave Matson and Geoff Herrick '98 live together, and so do Andy Brown, Eliza Hoover and Ben Sigman, all in Somerville, Mass . . . . I also heard from Erika that Becca Mets and Steve Kajdasz had been traveling around the west. While I was in Queenstown, New Zealand, visit ing roommates Scott Whitlow ( who is working at an upscale resort as a bartender/waiter and skiing on the side ) and Dave Wilkens ( who recently quit his job at Kentucky Fried Chicken and is skiing and traveling ) , a post card arrived from Becca in which she explained that a bear broke into their car in Yel lowstone and ate the driver's seat ! While in ew Zealand, Dave W i lkens ran into Alexis Azar and also bumped into Ben Sigman and Anne Hutchinson on a ski slope . . . . Molly Pindell, who spent two months visiting Dave and Scott, worked at a camp for gifted music ians prior to her trip down under. . . . Amy Erdmann, who is working as a pension analyst at Fidelity,

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also paid a visit to the N e w Zealand folks; she also told me that Leanna Hush works as an adm issions counselor at SFS . . . . John "Rocki" Kurucz spent the summer running a recyc l i ng program at Colby while l iving at the Out ing Club Cabin . . . . Doug Nilson was in Colorado after traveling to South America j ust after gradu ation. Doug will be working for the National Institutes of Health in D.C. . . . Martha Rogers and Laura Neale were accepted to participate in SALT in Portland. . . . Living in Portland are John Bishop, Michelle Machalani and Brendan Bloom, though Brendan might be heading off to N . Y.C. . . . Emmett Beliveau was in Copen hagen, involved in election monitoring of East ern Europe, but in the fa ll was to begin work ing on the Gore campaign . . . . Mark Renkawitz spent the summer c l a m m ing in hatham, Mass . . . . Crans Baldwin taught creative writ ing for Putney Student Travel this summer and then went to Oxford, Tuscany and Paris. Crans now lives i n Brook lyn, N . Y . , with Will Guthrie and Reid Farrington, who has been working on set construction in N . Y . . . . Delphine Burke has been waitressing but will leave to travel around the world next summer. . . . Jessica Banos is getting her master's in school psych at Tufts . . . . J u l i e S i m p s o n i s a v e t e r i n a ry assistant . . . . Shannon Landauer is temping at the moment . . . . Laura D' Affliti is work ing at Planned Parenthood . . . . Lisa Berry is an envi ronmental consultant with Project Performance in D. . . . . Greg Pope is also in D.C., working for Charles River Assoc iates . . Su nil Thakor is also work i ng for Charle R i v e r but in Boston . . . . Raj Khunkhun does research at Beth Israel Hospital. . . . Kari Pearson is in pharmac eutical sales i n northern .J . . . Heather Hunter does psychology research at U N H . . . . Courtney Smith works in the alumni office at Buck i ngham, Brown and N ichols . . . . Christina Barnett is work ing rowards her master's in communications at BU . . . . Melanie Puza is getting her master's in school psych at Col umbia . . . Andy King i s at SCORE in an Franci co . . . . Adam Davis is into mortgage banking in an Fran . . . Sarah Nadeau is teac h i ng math to seventh and eighth graders at a private school i n Connecticut and coac hing track . . . . Josh Young is getting h is Ph.D. in biophysics at Yale . . . . Will Barndt is also get t i ng his Ph.D. but at Princeton ( c heck out the s u m m e r Colby m a g a z i n e t o read a b o u t that 1 ) Keep t h e gossip coming. I hope all is well for everyone 1 -Lindsay Hayes .

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Mary Jordan Alden ' 1 8, April 1 , 1 999, in

Fairport, .Y., at 1 0 2 . She was a teacher and homemaker and for many year an active com munity volunteer. Survivors include her three daughters, Patricia hrewsbury, Mary Van Alstine and Alice Robinson, 1 2 grandchildren and 1 9 great-grandchildren. . Lewis '24 , August 9, 1 999, in Au gusta, Maine, at 98. For 3 5 years he taught ci ence at Wentworth Institute and in the Boston public chools. During World War II he taught nav1gat1on at Greenville Air Ba e in Mississippi. He leaves hi daughters, Ellen Lewi Huff ' 5 2 and Betry Graves, his son, Raymond Lewis, I 0 grand children and 1 2 great-grandch ildren.

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as a "roving ambassador" in the dining halls. I n 1 9 59 he w a awarded a Colby Gavel. urvivors include his wife of 6 5 year , Dorothy Bonsall. eptember 6, 1 999, in Florida, at 93. urvivors include her sons, Kenneth and David Lobdel l, and a niece, Mary Lobdell mith '50.

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wart: '29 , 0ctober 2 , 1 999, in Fi hkill,

Waterv ille, Maine, at 89. From 1 9 3 2 until 1 96 5 , with three years away for Army service in World War I I , he was employed by several paper com panies, including ashua River Paper Co. and Haverhill Paperboard Mill. He retired in June 19 0 as personnel director of the Lawrence ( Mass . ) General Hosp ital. He was predeceased by hi wife, El izabeth Swanton Allan ' 3 3 . Survi vors include his daughter, Margaret Allan Ewell '69, a grandson, a granddaughter and a niece. Annie Tuck Russell ' 34, March 25, 1 999, in Orlando, Fla., at 87. he was a ninth grade English reacher at Memorial Junior High School in Or lando. urvivors include her daughter, ancy A. Northrup, her son, Walter Russell, and two sisters.

Carol Hill Craven ' 30, July 1 9, 1 999, in West

Kathryn Herrick McCrodden ' 3 5 , J u ly 2 7 ,

Roxbury, Mas ., at . he was a regi tered nurse 111 Bo ton, Mass., at Framingham rnon Hospital and at orwood Ho p1tal unnl he retired in 1 9 7 5 . he 1 su1"\'1ved by her on , Mark and tephen raven, and rwo grandchildren.

1 999, i n Oakland, Calif., a t 6 . After escaping from occupied France during World War 1 1 , she and her hu band taught in Turkey. Later she was a reference librarian for the University of Cali fornia-bur still cl imbed mountains and went paragliding in her 70s and 80s. Survivors in clude her son, Brian McCrodden, a sister, Bar bara Brown, and three granddaughters.

Pau l i ne Morin Miller ' 30, Augu't 2 7 , 1 999, 111 P.1lm Harbor, Fla., at 9 1 . he earneJ a ma,ter'> Jegree 1n French anJ Englt,h from olumb1a Uni\ er,tt\ anJ taught 1n ,chool 1n arihou, :\ ul urn .md Old Orchard, Ma111e. he al,o " a' ,1 w1irld tr.n eler , un·1nir' 111clude her hu,hanJ, Alberr E. �filler, a '"n and a daughter H e nq· . B nsall ' 3 1 , J u li 2 • 1 999, 111 \\ 1ten tlk. � f .i111e, .It 9L . He worked .h .1 dt tribuwr t1ir Kr.1 ft Fnod' <l , ,,1le, m.111.1ger tor C.m.td.i [ n md ,,1lc,m.m tor Cott Ben:r,1ge .o. After rc[lr111g, he 'en cd the College tor I \ c.ir,

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1 999, in Hyannis, Mass . , at 4 . he taught mathematics in Westfi e l d , Mas . , p u b l i c schools for 1 0 years a n d i n orrh Olmsted, Ohio, for two. he also wa active in comm u nity organi:ations. he is survived by h e r husband of 64 years, Alan D. McA lary, two sons, a daughter, a brother, six grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

Douglas B . Allan ' 3 2 , J u ly 22, 1 999, in

.Y., at 9 2 . A lifelong anti -trust lawyer, he worked wnh the U . . Department ofJustice and wa a spec ial a sistant to the U . . Attorney General before entering private practice as a repre entarive of everal major international corpora t i ons. urvivors i n c l u d e hi son, Theodore wan: '6 , his daughter, Barbara D'Andrea, a brother and four grandchildren.

Harold L. Grant ' 30, August I 0, 1 999, in Bangor, Ma111e, at 92. He wa a school reacher, then a principal at Wa h 1 11gton AcaJemy 111 Ea't Machia,, Ma111e, anJ remeJ after erv111g a' >uperintenJenr of 5chools 111 Danforth and Caribou. [ uring WorlJ War II he wa> an officer 111 the Ro\ al Canadian Air Force. He t> >un•1ved h, a on , J o,eph Grant, a Jaughter, Jarnce Grant, ,mJ f1,·e granJchtlJren.

Ruth Michalek McAlary ' 3 6 , August 2 6 ,

John P. Dolan ' 3 6, August 2 2 , 1 999, in Des

Moines, Iowa, at 87. He taught English and foreign languages in public and private schools 111 rhe Midwest, 111cluding several colleges and urnvers1nes. For his loyalty and service to the College he was awardeJ a Colby Brick in 1 99 7 . urv1v111g are a daughter, Jeanne Cox, two sons, Thomas P. Dolan and John P. Dolan Jr., a sister, and five grandchtlJren. Willard H. Dunn ' 3 6 , July 1 5 , 1 999, in Au gusra, Ma111e, at 4. A teacher and principal at herr1fielJ AcaJemy, he serveJ 1n the Air Force during WorlJ War II. He also taught in the Arm\ . Later he wa' , field repre entat1ve for oual ecurit\ 111 Augu,ta. He t'> >urv1ved by his d.1ughter,, Glom1 Burm and arherine Rogers, h1, -on, W1ll 1am H. Dunn J r. , two hrorhers, 1x grandch ildren, n111e grcat-grandcht lJren and ntcce and nephew .

Hayden B. Wright ' 3 7 , Augu t 1 5 , 1 999, in

Seattle, Wash., at 85. After serving in the Army Air Force during World War I I , he worked as a pharmacisr. Survivors include his daughter, J anette chueller. Philip P. Charbonneau ' 3 9 , August 28, 1 999,

in orthboro, Mass., at 5. H e was a re earch engineer in chemistry for 20 years at Bay Stare Abrasives Co. in Westboro, Mass. H is wife of 59 years, Stasia, five sons, two daughters, a brother, six grandchildren and nephews and nieces survive him. Helen Trace y Lykins '40, January 6 , 1 999, in

West, Texas, at l . After service in the Army urse Corps in the 1 940s, she was a homemaker who raised five children. urvivors include her sister, Louise G. Tracey ' 3 7 . Louise Holt McGee '40, J u ly 2 1 , 1 999, in Yarmouth, Maine, at 8 1 . She served on the board of the Aroostook Medical Center and was active in the Republican Party in Maine. Prede ceased by her husband, Robert V. McGee ' 3 8 , she i s survived b y two daughters, Mary McGee and Katherine Christie-Wilson '66, two sons, Robert McGee and Charles T. McGee '69, her sister and four grandchi ldren. atalie Mooers Daggett ' 4 2 , J une 1 6 , 1 999, in cottsdale, Ariz., at 7 . A homemaker, she was predeceased by her father, Wi I mer Mooers ' 1 4 , and by her husband, John Daggett '4 1 . he i surv i ved by her daught r , Susan Daggett Dean '67 and Leigh Bowman, and her son, Peter Daggett, 2 3 grandchildren and five grear-grandch i ldren.

eprember 2 7 , 1 999, in Philadelphia, Pa ., at 79. After ervice in the avy during World War II he served on the Philadelphia ommon Pleas Court before h is app01ntment as senior j udge of the ommon wealth ourt. He is urvived by his wife, hirley Ell1ce LorJ '44, two daughters and three ons,

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eptember 9, 1 999, in Lake land, Fla., at 7 7 . He served in Europe in World War l l , then worked for General Electric orp. before establi hing an accounting practice in Bangor, Maine. He is survived by his wife, Patricia Ford Ellis '43, a son, two daughters, a brother, seven grandchildren and fournieces and nephews.

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Paul N. Prince '44, J u ly 1 7 , 1 999, in Peabody, Mass., at 7 7 . During a lifetime career in the lumber business, he worked with Lester Cronin Lumber of Maine, Prince LumberCo., Georgia Pacific, where he was top sale man in New England in 1 9 54, and Somerville Lumber. He is survived by his wife, Lucille Prince, three sons and a daughter, a brother and seven grandchildren.

1 986. Besides h is wife of 46 years, Mary Keyes, h e leave three sons, three brothers, including Raymond Keyes ' 5 2 , 10 grandchildren and sev eral nieces and nephews. Roger Huebsch ' 5 3 , August 1 2 , 1 999, in New

Bedford, Mass . , at 67. For more than 30 years he headed Karahdin l ndustrie and its operating companies. He also served active duty in the U . . Naval Reserves and retired with the rank of commander. In 1 9 7 9 both he and h is wife, Susan Smith Huebsch '54, were awarded Colby Bricks. He leaves h is wife, three daughters, Karen Huebsch O'Brien ' 7 7 , Gretchen Huebsch Daly '80 and Ellen H uebsch Anderson '82, a sister, J acquelyn H uebsch Scandalios '56, and six grandchildren.

Joseph T. Page '46, J uly 3 0 , 1 999, in Waterv ille,

Maine, at 74. H e left the College to serve three years in the infantry during World War l I. After the war he earned M . S . and Ph . D. degrees and worked for 27 years at Seattle University, where he was head of the department of health and physical education. He is survived by h is wife of 5 2 years, Peggy Page, h is daughter, h is son, two granddaughters and nieces and a nephew. Arthur A . Parsons '48, September 24, 1 999, in

Burnt H i lls, N . Y . , at 7 5 . H e served in the Navy during World War 1 1 , then worked for 3 6 years as a cost accountant with the General Electric Co. H e also served as a pastor to several United Methodist Churches in the Albany, .Y., area. Predeceased by his brother Donald A. Parsons '42, he is survived by h is wife of 54 years, Phyllis Blanchard Parsons, a son, a daughter, his brother, Richard A. Parsons '45, and two grandch i ldren. Robert L . Cook '49, August 2 3 , 1 999, in

Fram ingham, Mass . , at 74. During World War 11 h e received the Purple Heart as a paratrooper in Holland. From 1 9 5 1 to 1 989 h e owned and operated Cooks Motors in Needham, Mass. He is survived by h i s wife of 49 years, J une Stairs Cook, a son , a daughter, two sisters and a brother, three srepgrandc h i ldren and several nieces and nephews. Helen Kelleher Breen ' S O, J uly 3, 1 999, in

Newburyport, Mass . , at 70. She worked in radio and was a newspaper reporter before raising her family. Later he was v ice president of a skating rink and senior c lerk at Bellevue Cemetery in Lawrence, Mass. She leaves her husband of 49 years, Louis J. Breen, two daughters, three sons, a sister and several grandch i ldren.

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Simonds, in York. Survivors include h is wife, ancy Pitman Simonds, a son, his mother, two stepdaughters, a brother, two grandchi ldren, an aunt and nieces and nephews. Peter B . M u rphy ' 8 7 , J u l y 1 0 , 1 99 9 , in Rangeley Plantation, Maine, a t 34 i n a boat ing accident. H e worked for People's Her i tage Bank in Portland, M a i n e , before attending Purdue Uni versity and was a fi nanc ial analy t w i t h U S F&G I nsurance in Balt imore, M d . Surv ivors i nc l ude h i s wife, J e n n i fer M u rph y , a n d a daughter. G. Stefan Durand ' 9 5 , J une 2 3 , 1 999, in Mam

moth Lake , Calif., at 26. Survivors include his father and mother, Pierre Durand and Stephanie Durand, a sister and a brother.

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in orth Falmouth, Mass., at 65. She attended Dartmouth's Amos Tuck business school before raising a family. She is survived by her husband, W i l liam J. Brown Jr., three sons, a daughter and six grandch i ldren. David Dunn ' 5 6 , September 1 2 , 1 999, in Lee,

Mass., at 64. After Navy service and work as a ales engineer, he established and became president of Dunlee Engineering in 1 9 7 1 . He retired in 1 99 3 . Two sons, James D. Dunn and John D. Dunn, a daughter, Susan C. Haughey, a brother and six grandch i ldren survive him. Laurence J . Hoogeveen ' 5 7 , August 1 1 , 1 999,

in Bowdoinham, Maine, at 6 3 . A self-employed carpenter, he worked previously as an insurance and real estate broker. He is survived by h is wife, Dorothy, a son, a daughter, a brother, a grand son and a srepgrandson. David M. Copithorne '60, Ju ly 2 7 , 1 999, in G i l ford, N . H . , ar 6 1 . He received h i s J .D. degree from Columbia Law School and was an attorney in Laconia, . H . , for 30 years before his retire ment in 1 994. Survivors include his wife of 3 7 years, Martha Copirhorne, rwo sons, his mother, Mary Smal l Copirhorne ' 3 5 , two sisters, includ ing Joan Copirhorne Bowen '6 5 , five nephews and three nieces. Melvin Hans Veeder '6 1 , May 1 3 , 1 999, in

Lafaye tte, Calif., at 60. After service in the Navy he was general manager of a design com pany, K/P Graphics, in San Leandro, Calif., for 3 0 years. I n later years he ran several marathons. Survivors include h is wife, Pauline Veeder, and three daughters.

Robert J. Keyes ' 5 2 , October 2 1 , 1 999, in

I ndian River Shore , Fla., at 7 1 . After receiving h is M . B. A . from Boston College, he co-founded and was a partner with orrhern Dara Systems ( later Conte! Bu ine s ystems ) . He retired in

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Gaylord P. Simonds ' 6 7 ,

eprember 1 0 , 1 999, in York, Maine, at 54. After service i n the avy and work i n Boston with an insurance company, he started h is own carpentry business, G . P .

Paul E . Machemer, Merri ll Professor of Chem

istry, Emeritus, d ied October 2 4 , 1 99 9 , in Camden, Maine. A member of the Chemistry Department at Colby for 2 8 years, h e was known to generations ofstudents for h is inorganic chem istry course, "Machemistry," which he took par ticularly seriously because medical schools made i t a requirement for admission. As dedicated to sailing as he was to chemistry-he owned a 3 5 foor teak sloop , Osprey-he also taught naviga tion during Jan Plan. ( Students who took the course include former fishing-boar captain Linda Greenlaw '8 3 . ) He became chair of the depart ment in 1 9 7 . An accomplished mountain c l imber, woods man and woodworker, Machemer was born in West Virginia and grew up in Paoli, Pa. He earned his undergraduate degree from Princeton in 1 940 and his master's and Ph.D. degrees in chemistry at rhe University of Pennsylvania. Before coming to Colby i n 1 9 5 5 he worked on the Manhat tan Proj ect and also taught at Villanova University for six years . Both Machemer and h is wife retired in 1 984 to Port Clyde, Maine. He is survived by h is wife, Grace Skinner Page Machemer, three children, five stepchildren and 14 grandchildren. David Ogilvy, J u ly 2 1 , 1 999, ar Chareau Touffou, near Bonnes, France, at 88. A Colby trustee for six years during the 1 960s, he was an advertising execut ive who was called the "father of soft-sell advertising" by the New York Times and was credited with creating the Hathaway Shirt ads featuring the man with an eye parch . President Emeritus Robert E.L. Strider 11 credited Ogilvy with winning other trustees over to approve rhe architectural design of the H i llside dormitories, the first departure from Colby's traditional neo Georgian tyle. He al o c ited Ogilvy as a cham pion of c ivil rights. Ogilvy was the author of Confessions of an Advertising Man and Ogilvy on Adverrising, among other books.

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n the interest of comin g c lean with a lumni and other c lose fo l lowers of the Co lby scene, it must be reported that there was a bit

o f a to -do about toile t paper on the campus this f al l. I t was a true resur gence of the "back to basics" mo vement, flushed wi th great emotion in a land o f

j j 2 toi lets.

The is ue first arose last year when someone whose sense o f fisca l responsi bi li ty e xceeded a concern f or genera l welfare had the former two -p ly tissue rep laced with one -p ly (and, it seemed to most, a very thin one -p ly at that ). A lmo t immediately, there was great

dea lin g wi th a long - un used ro l l of ce l lo颅 phane tape.

econd, because the ro l lers

on these giant dispensers are set at a maddeningly high tens ion, one m us t t ug e ver o gen tly to a void a b reak. There are other pro b lem as we l l. There is no need to go in to it .

uffice it to ay that the

di cu ion was intense and the humor general ly quite earth y. Dean o f tudent Janice Kassman knew 1t was a p rob lem the minute she be gan to hear the comp laints. There was no response to her mid -summer p lea for two -p ly, and , ear ly m

the fa l l, word circu lated that students with

reH)lt on their minds were goin g

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pe r 1 r10n. Ka man, a \'eteran re vo lution quasher, qu ick ly a>>emb led the h1ghe t powers. Armed with >e Yen ro l b o f a l rerna re t issue options she demanded a re ne \\. B y the proce>s of e l 1mina rion there was soon a hreakrhrou gh, an J

one c lean w ipe a o lu rion was

,1g rccJ upon. The two -p ly ti ue (ma Je o f recyc led paper, thank you \ er 1 much ) \\'Ou ld be brou ght back.

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Your class correspondent is looking for news for the next issue of Colby magazine, Please take a moment to respond to the question below and on the back to let your clas mates in on what you've been doing recently or hope to be doing eventually. Have you moved ? Changed careers ? Traveled ? Read a great book ? This new questionnaire will be in each issue of the magazine, allowing alumni to contact their class correspondent four times a year. The past system for collecting news, sending separate letters once a year, was unwieldy and time consuming for the small staff in the Alumni Relations Office and the postage was expensive. Now we look forward to hearing from you more than once a year! Please mail or e-mail your news

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eunion 1000 Don't m\ss out! See you \n Ju ne! Come home to Mayflower H i l l J u ne 2-4, 2000, as Col by celebrates its fi rst reu n ion of the 2000s ! Recon nect with old friends and d iscover new ones as the weekend u nfolds. SUNDAY, JUNE 4

FRIDAY, J U N E 2

The Annual Awards banquet honoring Colby volunteers spon sored by the Alumni Association. Afterwards, in your class headquarters, classmates and their fam ilies will gather to reminisce, to catch up on each other's lives, and to simply enjoy being back on campus. Housing is avail able in dorms; most have been renovated and many are new. SATURDAY, JUNE 3

Start with breakfast in the beautifully renovated dining halls, then go on to the annual fun run or maybe a tennis match with friends. President William R. Cotter will deliver his last address to alumni later in the morning, followed by the Parade of Classes. A true Maine lobster bake and a chicken barbecue await you. If you prefer vegetarian, we have alternatives at every meal. The afternoon activities round out a busy day. From lectures and panels by alumni and faculty to swing-dance lessons to alumni author book-signings and campus tours, it's difficult to choose! Chatting with friends by the pond, impromptu games of softball, and a dip in the pool-it's all here. In the evening, your class will gather for a private reception and dinner, but the events don't end there. The night air will be filled with mu ic and dancing. You may choose from the big-band sound, a j azz quartet, and two other venues with DJ 's providing music you'll remember from your days on campus.

It will be time for a hearty brunch and farewells. We'll also spend a quiet moment at the Boardman Memorial Service in Lorimer Chapel remembering those who are no longer with us. CHILDCARE PROGRAM

Bring the kids! Childcare is provided but it's not your usual babysitting! Pony rides, puppet shows, cookie decorating, visits from favorite storybook charac ters, face painting, games and other activities are highlights. Look for the children's tent. Children 4 and younger are cared for by a professional childcare service, while youngsters 5 - 1 2 are supervised by a crew of Colby students and local babysitters. Parents are welcome to join chil dren for afternoon activities in the tent or to sign them up for the childcare. WHAT THEY SAID

Candy '64: " I honestly don't know when I 've ever had more fun for an entire weekend . . . . Colby looked breathtakingly beauti ful, and all the activities were fantastic, the food delicious and the Class of '64 better than ever ! Josh '94: "I think I can speak for most all of the Class of '94 when I say that we all had absolutely a great time ! I wish we could do this every year! "

A l l reunion class brochures a nd reservation forms for the classes of ' 50, ' 5 5 , '60, '65, '70, '75, '80, '85, '90 and '95 wi l l be mai led in March of 2000. If you are not a member of a reunion year class but would l i ke to join us, please contact the Alumni Relations Office for a brochure. 43 1 0 Mayflower H i l l ,Waterv i l l e, ME 04901 or 207-872-3 1 90 or a l u m n i @colby.ed u

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