Summer Scene 2010

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101 Things To Do Before You Graduate Living In History Diary From Haiti

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Graduate 30 Living In History

The Washington Study Group has witnessed politics and history in the making for 75 years

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UN photographer Sophie Paris ’97 shares her work documenting the first three months after the devastating Haiti earthquake

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Message from Marilyn Thie, Core Revision Committee Chair

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Letters

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Work & Play

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Colgate history, tradition, and spirit

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Life of the Mind

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Arts & Culture

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Go ’gate

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New, Noted & Quoted

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The Big Picture

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Stay Connected Call for nominations: Alumni Council candidates and awards

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Class News 58 2010 Reunion awards 76 Marriages & Unions 77 Births & Adoptions 77 In Memoriam

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Salmagundi: Puzzle, 13 Words (or Less) caption contest, and more

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On the cover: What makes a good story? The spring Children’s Theater Worskhop explored that question in A Dozen Characters in Search of a Story — written, produced, and performed entirely by students. Photo by Janna Minehart ’13. Left: A stroll around Taylor Lake in August proves that the Chenango Valley is still the “land of the bullthistle.” Photo by Andrew Daddio News and views for the Colgate community

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Contributors

Volume XXXIX Number 4 The Scene is published by Colgate University four times a year — in autumn, winter, spring, and summer. The Scene is circulated without charge to alumni, parents, friends, and students.

English major Matt Muskin ’10 (“101 Things To Do Before You Graduate”) has about 101 things on his résumé, from Student Government Association VP and Student Governance Affairs Board, to admission communications and athletics marketing internships, to Theta Chi brother. He’s been hired as an honors paralegal specialist with the U.S. Department of Justice.

The portfolio of Norm Bendell (“101 Things To Do Before You Graduate”) includes two of the most successful illustration campaigns in the history of advertising, Perrier and Budget Gourmet, as well as the launch of Prodigy and the bestselling American Girl Library books The Care and Keeping of You and The Feelings Book.

Jim Leach (“Living In History”) retired in 2005 as vice president for public relations and communications after 25 years at Colgate. He redirected his energies to a second career as a higher education communications consultant, freelance writer, and nature photographer.

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Traditions: www.colgate.edu/video Check out our fun look at some of the most enduring Colgate traditions — our love affair with the number 13 and the Torchlight Ceremony — on the CU@Channel 13 video console.

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Colgate Conversations: www.colgate.edu/podcasts Gary Eichhorn ’75 discusses his nonprofit, Music & Youth Initiative, which brings music education to underserved young people in urban areas.

Get connected

The Hill at Home: www.colgatealumni.org/hillathome The Hill at Home puts Colgate at your fingertips with webcasts, Reunion College classes, presentations, event information, and more. Visit today!

When Sophie Paris ’97 (“Diary From Haiti”) last left Haiti, little did she know she’d soon be back shooting the worst disaster in the country’s history. A United Nations photographer, she has covered UN affairs worldwide, from peacekeeping efforts, to Security Council meetings, to the secretarygeneral’s missions. She also freelanced as a photographer for Hillary Clinton’s presidential primary campaign.

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Senior Map: www.colgate.edu/2010 See what Class of 2010 graduates are doing now on this interactive Google map that Mashable, one of the largest social media blogs, heralded as Yearbook 2.0.

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Message from Marilyn Thie, Core Revision Committee Chair

When asked about their most

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experiences, many Colgate alumni are quick to bring up the core curriculum. Core courses, they say, gave them new ways of looking at the world, fuller perspectives on problems and issues, reasoning abilities they use every day, and, sometimes, an unexpected interest in a new subject of study.

And they often report that things they learned in the core show up in their personal and professional lives in intriguing ways. Some identify a particular text, such as Plato’s Apology or a new interpretation of Genesis; another says their career in an Asian city was inspired by a Core Japan course and study group; yet another credits a Scientific Perspectives course with helping them sort through priorities in health care.

When they arrive on campus, the Class of 2014 will be the first to take Colgate’s newly revised core curriculum. Many of the core’s goals remain the same — virtually unique among undergraduate general education programs, the core remains interdisciplinary and still represents what we believe all students should study. In this revision, our committee of faculty members from across the university considered the question, what should be the heart of a liberal arts education today? We asked ourselves, what is different about the world now, compared to when we designed the current core program in the mid-1990s? How have students, and teaching, changed? What will our students need to know, to have thought about, and to be conscious of, so that they can live responsibly and well in today’s complex, interdependent, and diverse world?

Under the theme “Crossing boundaries,” we built on the known strengths of the four existing core components and continued expectations of critical reading, thinking, and writing. In addition, we encouraged greater commonality among courses in each component.

Shining a spotlight on the reality of our globalizing world — for good and ill — is the major change. Two important implications follow from this new emphasis. The first is to break down the bifurcation between “the West and the rest of the world” inherent in the core’s structure. The second is the introduction of a fifth component called Global Engagements. The revised core embodies these two points in the following ways:

The original Western Traditions (Core 151) course has become “Legacies of the Ancient World.” This new focus recognizes that those who helped to shape Western culture, tradition, and thinking were not solely from the West. Acknowledging this allows for examination of the interactions among these groups; for example, the peoples who generated the Hebrew Bible were from the Middle East, and so, different from the ancient Greeks and Romans.

Challenges of Modernity (Core 152) now features six common texts and will include non-Western materials. The modernity course has always centered around the ideas, problems, and phenomena surrounding the intellectual, social, and material forces that have transformed life in the modern world. The increased commonality of readings and broadening of subject and time period will more effectively ensure that students learn to examine their own habits of mind, presuppositions, and prejudices within a global and historical perspective, as they practice real-world problem-solving skills.

The component Cultures of Africa, Asia, and the Americas, which offers a variety of courses about geographically defined areas, has become Communities and Identities. This broader framework, which is still largely internationally focused, can now also include courses that emphasize multi-ethnic complexities and tensions within diverse communities in Western Europe and North America. In effect, this more inclusive framework ends the outdated approach of framing “nonWestern” cultures in the context of “others.”

Changes to the Scientific Perspectives on the World (SP) component were essentially in instructional planning and organization. Each interdisciplinary SP course focuses on a specific, compelling area of scientific research to deepen students’ understanding both of how we use the scientific method to acquire knowledge about the world and how to apply it to a broad range of issues inside and outside of science.

Global Engagements, the new fifth component, will consist of departmental and interdisciplinary program courses, as well as new courses. Most students will complete this requirement after the first four components through a course in their major or minor.

Thanks to this refined version of our longstanding model of liberal arts education, our future graduates will have an even sounder foundation for the global reality they will live within.

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Letters Expressing thanks

The Scene welcomes letters. We reserve the right to decide whether a letter is acceptable for publication and to edit for accuracy, clarity, and length. Letters deemed potentially libelous or that malign a person or group will not be published.

Letters should not exceed 250 words. You can reach us by mail, or e-mail sceneletters@ colgate.edu. Please include your full name, class year if applicable, address, phone number, and/or e-mail address. If we receive many letters on a given topic, we will print a representative sample of the opinions expressed. On occasion, we may run additional letters online.

Owing to an acute health issue, it was necessary for me to have 45 consecutive radiation sessions at University Hospital in Syracuse.

After Dave Hale ’84 [vice president for finance and administration] learned of this development, he organized a great group of students, faculty, administrators, and area residents to pick me up every day at 7:10 a.m., then drive to Syracuse, wait in front of the hospital, and then return to 27 Payne St. I am deeply grateful to Hilary McConnaughey ’11, Evan Lorey ’10, Jim Leach, Janet Hayduke, Bob Tyburski ’74, Ben Eberhardt, Sue McVaugh, Bob McVaugh, Reg Wilson, Mike Woltman, and, of course, Dave, who not only drove often but also managed the entire process.

Paul Schupf ’58 Hamilton, N.Y.

The two Bobs

A Rooney connection

Funny story [re: the “two Bobs” Slices photo contest, Salmagundi page, Spring 2010 Scene; see also p. 80 in this issue]: I was in the student group that assisted with Bob Hope’s visit.

Among other things, we provided local insight for some of his material.

Mr. Hope traveled to his performances with about 200 pounds of large cue cards of general one-liners prepared in advance. We were alarmed to discover they had not arrived with him. (They had mistakenly been loaded onto a plane bound for the Middle East!)

With just a few short hours before the show, the cards were located and rerouted. Since I was a “townie” and knew the back roads to the Oneida County Airport, I was elected to retrieve them.

My grandniece Alexandra Augsbury ’10, who just graduated from Colgate, sent me your spring edition of the

Doug Culp ’80 Verdi, Nev.

I quite enjoyed the Spring 2010 edition of the Colgate Scene, especially the article by my adviser, Jerry Balmuth.

Fabulous scholar and human being, and I wish I had availed myself of his wisdom more often.

Jim Dorsey ’83 Hanover, N.H.

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Andy got his start in journalism with the Stars and Stripes as did I, but somewhat later than Andy. I was the photo chief with them for 35 years, and during that time and subsequently met Andy several times. I am very fond of him and liked the story very much.

Francis “Red” Grandy Herman, N.Y.

The retiring Prof. Balmuth

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Scene. I was very interested in the story on Andy Rooney by his son (“A Few Minutes with the Rooneys,” Spring 2010).

As a member of the Colgate Thirteen, I performed with the group during Bob Hope’s show in the fall of ’79, one of his stops on a tour of colleges for a TV show that was broadcast later that year. It was one of the great, weird events of the school year, with Hope singing and joking with a “disco queen” of the day, Canadian singer France Jolie. Colgate even made up T-shirts with Hope’s famous pen-andink profile on them. I still have mine.

Most folks who were there that night will recall that Hope came out from backstage to open the show to much applause. But Hope laughed and said the applause wasn’t loud enough.

So he went back behind the curtain and came out again to a much louder ovation, doing a sort of “retake” for the TV videotape.

The show was a great experience for everyone at Colgate that year. For the Thirteen, it was a chance to sing on the same stage as a real entertainment pro. We visited Hope briefly in his “dressing room” backstage before the show, and later that night, we headed downtown to serenade him at the Colgate Inn, where he was staying.

We did two or three songs as the snow fell, and Hope looked down on us from his window. A sublime moment, and a great memory for all the Thirteeners who were there.

Tony Farrell ’80 Richmond, Va. Bob Marley played a Halloween concert and Bob Hope filmed one segment of a four-segment “Homecoming” television special that November.

I don’t remember the exact date of the Bob Hope special off the top of my head, but it was on the T-shirt that I got for working the stage crew.

Teen Canadian “disco queen” France Jolie was his guest act for our segment. I was the only freshman invited to work on the crew because of my production experience in high school theater and my “current” (at that time)

involvement with the University Theater program at Colgate. Hope’s production company hosted a wonderful banquet for both the professional and student volunteer crews.

Marley’s production company didn’t share what they brought with them, but there was a cooler of beer on hand for the student crew after the concert was over and all of the equipment was “struck,” packed away, and reloaded onto the trucks. Marley’s crew also had a little motorcycle they kept on one of their equipment trucks, and they took turns riding it around inside Cotterell Court while we were setting up for the concert.

Working “stage crew” was always a lot of fun (I also worked on Dave Mason, Pat Metheny, John Sebastian, and several others). Back in the days of “festival seating,” the best part was that we always got in first for the actual show. During the Marley concert, after the crew reset the stage once the warm-up band was done, the crowd pushed right up to the stage, and we had nowhere to go. The head roadie signaled us all simply to sit on the edge of the stage. I sat down where I was and then realized that I was right between Bob Marley’s monitors. I got to stay there for the entire concert — no more than two feet from him for the whole thing — and much less whenever he felt inclined (literally) to lean out over the audience!

Dave Marion ’84 Chapel Hill, N.C. I remember seeing Bob Hope perform in Huntington Gym. I’m pretty sure it was in the early winter months of February 1943. If not then, it was a year later. At any rate, I had hardly heard of Bob Hope when I saw him perform at Colgate. He put on a great show.

Albert A. Bartlett ’44 Boulder, Colo.

Farnsworth ahead of his time I was so saddened to read of the passing of Professor Farnsworth (In Memoriam, Spring 2010). He was truly a legend on campus for all of us who were there while he was a professor.

Indeed, he was clearly way ahead of his time in teaching economics through practical training at his Poolville Country Store. I never had the opportunity to take that course from him, but I did have a memorable “Jan Plan” with him down on Wall Street, which I still remember vividly (and I have my course paper close at hand to prove it!).

My condolences to the entire family, and of course to my classmate, Frank Jr. Howard M. Liebman ’74, MA’75 Brussels, Belgium

Remembering Bill Skelton For many years, Bill Skelton (In Memoriam, Winter 2010) spent every fourth semester guiding unsuspecting and unworthy young travelers through the meandering paths of his own love affair with India. For the toll of one skyward-arched eyebrow and the willingness to return a changed person, a lucky few of us were led into temples overcrowded or forgotten; palaces, train stations, puja ceremonies, and the dwellings of monkeys, monkey gods, elephants, and elephant gods; onto Kerela beaches, motor rickshaws, and the living-room floors

of mrdungum masters, philosophers, and yogis; through drum circles, the buzz of nagaswarams, and the scent of sandalwood smoke; over sacred rivers, sacred cow-trodden jasmine petals, and the footsteps of Purandara Dasa, Krishnamacharya, Rama, and perhaps even Shiva.

We were drawn infinitely closer to the heart of a culture both ancient and thriving more than our own merits would have afforded. Bill’s only request was that we approach his beloved with respect and a bit of humility.

You will be missed, Bill — by us, and even moreso by present and future wayward-looking students who will have no idea that they are missing you so deeply. Nandri, romba nandri; farewell in this world, vanakam in another.

Greg Lasky ’01 Riverside, R.I.

What they’re saying online Posted to www.colgate.edu: In response to “Filmmakers back alumnus in First Amendment flap” about the legal battle between filmmaker Joe Berlinger ’83 and Chevron over the release of raw footage from his critically acclaimed documentary Crude: “Joe, if you are reading these comments… GO, GO, GO! I am inspired by your pursuit of your rights. To be embroiled with Big Oil at this horrific time (6-16-10) is a powerful thing.

How can I help?” — Your KED Buddy, Christie Brooks King ’83 “…Crude was shown at Albany’s Spectrum movie theater a few months ago. It was one of the most powerful films I’ve seen… Let’s support a fellow Colgate alum who is doing good in this world of ours, where oil continues to spew out of a well drilled a mile under the ocean’s

surface. We owe it to our planet and our children’s children that a filmmaker like Joe Berlinger should not be intimidated.” — Frank Barrie ’72

On Colgate’s Facebook page: June 24/Colgate University: Residents of upstate New York, including some people here at Colgate, are all a-twitter about some minor shaking that rattled desk chairs and computer monitors. Early reports suggest a minor earthquake that was centered near Cornwall, Ontario. Did you feel it around 1:40 p.m. today?

May 6/Markus Batchelor: “Hello! Just checked out the website from here in Washington, D.C., and looked it up on college board and was instantly infatuated. I am now dedicated to becoming a member of the Colgate Class of 2015! (I am now listening to WRCU). If anyone has any suggestions, recommendations, etc., please do reply to this message.”

Martin Dudziak ’71: “Markus, I am glad I went to Colgate instead of a few other big-name schools where I was also accepted — Colgate gave me a breadth and depth I don’t think I could have found elsewhere.”

Laurie Cermak ’99: “Write a real offbeat, creative essay, i.e., not about your inspirational senior trip to Italy where you learned about different cultures… (you and 500 others). I wrote about my fear of my basement, wth live dialogue and all, and they let me in!”

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Say cheese! Class of 2010 graduates stop for a quick photo outside Memorial Chapel after the baccalaureate service in May. Photo by Andrew Daddio They’ve got the beat. Taiko drum performance by students from Tamagawa University, Tokyo. Photo by Janna Minehart ’13 A tug-of-war in the war on rare diseases. Members of the football team competed against one another at the Lift for Life charity event. Photo by Janna Minehart ’13 The Fabulous Class of ’50 celebrates 60 as part of the All- Class Parade at Reunion 2010. Photo by Andrew Daddio Putting some back into it, Interim President Lyle Roelofs wasn’t afraid to roll up his sleeves and get dirty at the groundbreaking of Colgate’s community garden. Photo

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Students sway to the beat of rapper Shwayze during Spring Party Weekend. Photo by Janna Minehart ’13 How to tell when spring has sprung: the Hindu Student Association led students on Whitnall Field in the celebration of the colorful holiday Holi. Photo by Janna Minehart ’13

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Started on life’s educational journey

In May, speakers at Colgate’s 189th commencement exercises praised the Class of 2010 for their contributions to campus and implored them to maintain a commitment to their ongoing education in the liberal arts.

Interim president Lyle Roelofs recognized the graduates for speaking out against bigotry and in appreciation of diversity, and also for their contributions to the region through the Center for Outreach, Volunteerism, and Education and the Upstate Institute. He also thanked the graduates for their class gift of $26,000 to the Class of 2010 Sustainability Fund, as well as for their efforts to start a community garden — a project realized this summer.

The keynote speaker, philosopher Martha Nussbaum, the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of law and ethics at the University of Chicago, offered a spirited defense of a liberal arts education provided by schools such as Colgate and warned against succumbing to pressure to adopt narrow, profit-focused educational models.

She commented that Colgate’s core, which has been at the heart of the curriculum since 1928, is among the most ambitious interdisciplinary general education programs in the country. This kind of liberal arts focus is critical for producing citizens who can keep democracy alive and realize its promise, she said.

Nussbaum urged graduates to promote and defend the concept of a liberal arts education. “Above all, just talk a lot about what matters to you.

Spread the word that what happens

Colgate minimizes tuition increase, allocates more for financial aid

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Philosopher Martha Nussbaum addresses the Class of 2010 regarding the value of the liberal arts at commencement in May.

on this campus is not useless, but crucially relevant to the future of democracy in the nation and the world.”

Nussbaum received one of four honorary degrees conferred at the ceremony. The other recipients included Rev. Roger A. Ferlo ’73; trustee Daniel Benton ’80, chairman and CEO of Andor Capital Management; and Ronald Crutcher, president of Wheaton College in Massachusetts.

Ferlo addressed the graduates the previous day at the baccalaureate service in Memorial Chapel, asking them to maintain a balanced perspective in life. “There are dangers in what we are up to here,” he said. “One is the danger of spiritual pride, of intellectual hubris, the conviction that our educational achievements somehow make us more entitled.

“But the converse is also true,” he noted. “There are times and places in America where a deep resistance to learning will make itself felt. My hope and prayer for you is that you will steadily resist such know-nothing religion, and that you will wear the yoke of your continuing learning with passion and determination.”

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The university has set the smallest rise in tuition in at least 35 years, 2.2 percent, for the coming year. The increase appears to be the smallest at any school amongst Colgate’s peer institutions, which are averaging tuition hikes of more than 4 percent.

Total student costs at Colgate during the 2010-2011 year will be $52,060.

Simultaneously, the university will increase spending on financial aid by 4.4 percent, bringing the financial aid budget to $38.9 million for the year.

Colgate continues to meet 100 percent of the demonstrated financial need of all enrolled students and is therefore able to provide full assistance to students whose family financial situations may have deteriorated as a result of the recession.

In the wake of this challenging economic climate, said David Hale ’84, vice president for finance and administration, Colgate has been successful in its efforts to maintain academic excellence through a universitywide economic review. That process led to a decrease in the overall 2010–2011 operating budget, achieved through a combination of salary and hiring

Views from the hill What are your summer plans?

“I have two part-time internships in Philadelphia. One is for the Franklin Institute, doing research and evaluation, and the other is with the Philadelphia Zoo doing public programming.”

— Dorien Langezaal ’12, psychology major from New Providence, N.J. “I’m doing a summer research project on Japanese language and religion based on my study abroad last semester in Kyoto.”

— Naveed Ghannad ’11, religion major from Atlanta, Ga. “I’m doing a few things.

I’m working in Boston at Vineyard Vines.

Then I’m going to the World Cup in South Africa with my family, which will be great.

Then I’m working on the vineyard for Vineyard Vines.”

— Alex Grieve ’13, classics major from Topsfield, Mass.

freezes, an early retirement incentive program, streamlined programming, and a reworking of the employee health insurance plan, he said.

Back on campus

At a campus address in April, former world chess champion Garry Kasparov, who turned to politics after retiring from chess in 2005, lambasted Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Kasparov then spelled out his own opposition coalition’s efforts to create a “true democracy” in Russia. His visit was supported by the The Kerschner Family Series Global Leaders at Colgate program and the Institute for Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE).

“The number one export of Russia is corruption,” said Kasparov. He added that a nation such as Russia can call itself a democracy, but turns that into a misleading and empty label if the government doesn’t adhere to the

Go figure

The mighty oaks — and other campus trees*

2,292 Trees on the main campus 59 Oak trees along Oak Drive 100+ Age of several Oak Drive trees, the oldest on campus

> 7 Oaks at Seven Oaks Golf Course 73 Willows on the Willow Path 1991 Year the ailing Willow Path trees were replaced with German white willows

7 Grounds crew members certified in logger safety

1,406 Trees over 35' tall 560 Yards of mulch used per year to protect campus trees

1 Each of several specimen trees:

Russian olive, black walnut, bald cypress

2 Kentucky coffee trees 263 Sugar maples, the most populous species on campus

*according to a 2009 inventory

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Kasparov scolds Putin government in campus talk

Politician Garry Kasparov spoke candidly on campus about the state of Russian politics.

rule of law, protect individual liberties, and provide accountability.

Now the chairman of the United Civil Front and political leader of The Other Russia, a coalition of opposition parties, Kasparov likened Putin to Lord Voldemort, the villain in the Harry Potter books.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev can fire Putin under the country’s constitution, said Kasparov, but the president doesn’t have the physical constitution to do it.

Kasparov noted that his coalition pursues nonviolent forms of opposition, and that by employing “tactics of survival” and utilizing the Internet to help spread the message, it has made some progress.

Jason Finder ’12, who took the course Liberal Democracy and its Limits with political science professor and PPE director Stanley Brubaker, was among those who continued the discussion with Kasparov at a dinner in the Hall of Presidents. “I think in some ways we need to take what we hear from a government with a grain of salt,” he said. “We need to consider everything we can learn and evaluate it as a whole.”

Alumni reflect on founding of campus cultural center

For Gregory Threatte ’69 and Todd Brown ’71, the watershed events of the late 1960s that gave birth to Colgate’s first cultural center remain indelible moments in their lives. “This valley was transformative,” Threatte, a Col-

Reunion College 2010 More than 30 alumni returned to lead Reunion College sessions June 3–6. Highlights included showings of four documentaries by Jon Alpert ’70 as well as a Q&A session on his experiences; a look at Colgate in 1909 leading up to World War I by George Tamblyn ’60; and a discussion about the future of Afghanistan and Iraq by Larry Cooley ’70, who has worked in Iraq with the United States National Capacity Development Program, and R. Michael Smith ’70, who is executive assistant to the president and general counsel at the American University of Afghanistan.

There were also plenty of opportunities for the more than 2,000 alumni, family, and friends to relax during Reunion 2010. On Friday afternoon, chef and author Lauren Braun Costello ’98 led a High Tea Tasting Event at the Colgate Bookstore, where she offered samples of herb-flavored iced drinks like thyme lemonade and ginger peach black tea. She paired these thirst-quenching beverages with unique treats such as the biscuits for which she provides the recipe below.

Lavender Vanilla Bean Tea Biscuits with Rosewater Icing

Fragrant and mildly floral, these shortbread cookies are an unexpected treat for a summertime garden party. It is important to use the seeds of a vanilla bean instead of the more typical extract so that the natural, rich flavor shines. The dried lavender gets a little boost from the optional rosewater icing.

Cookies: 1 cup sugar 3/4 cup (1 1/2 sticks) butter at room temperature 2 eggs seeds of one vanilla bean 1 teaspoon dried lavender, crushed 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon fine sea salt Optional icing: 2 cups powdered sugar 3 to 4 tablespoons milk or water 1/2 teaspoon rosewater (if you can’t find this at your grocery store, visit kitchenkrafts.com)

To make the cookie dough, beat the sugar, butter, eggs, vanilla bean seeds, and lavender in a large mixing bowl until fluffy and well combined. In a separate bowl, combine the flour, baking powder, and salt, and then stir it into the butter/sugar mixture. Divide the dough into two equal parts and roll into logs in plastic wrap.

Store in the refrigerator for at least one hour, or until chilled enough to slice.

Preheat the oven to 350°F. Once the dough is chilled, cut the logs crosswise into 1/8 inch–thick circles and space an inch apart on a lined or greased cookie sheet. Bake for 7 to 9 minutes.

Remove the cookies from the oven to a cooling rack.

Meanwhile, prepare the icing. Whisk the powdered sugar, milk, and rosewater together in a mixing bowl and drizzle over the tea biscuits once they are completely cool.

Makes about four dozen cookies. Store in an airtight container for up to one week.

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gate trustee emeritus, told members of the campus community in March during an impassioned discussion about the founding of the ALANA Cultural Center.

Days after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in April 1968, the discomfort level on campus reached a tipping point, they ex-

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Gregory Threatte ’69 and Todd Brown ’71 (background) returned to campus to share memories about the Civil Rights Era at Colgate.

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plained, when a member of the Sigma Nu fraternity pointed a starter pistol at African American students. “It was a scary time,” noted Brown, a university trustee, “but we showed that nonviolent direct action could promote change.”

Threatte — one of three dozen African American students on campus — gathered the courage to stage an impromptu rally outside the student union. “None of us had any idea where that day would lead us,” he said.

After the rally ended, Threatte recalled, nearly half the student body and faculty marched into the administration building, with hundreds refusing to leave until campus leaders took action. “I turned my head around and there was a sea of people following me. I couldn’t believe how many people would support us.” Newspaper clippings that hang on the walls of the center today highlight the event’s importance.

The landmark Colgate Inn is undergoing a long-overdue renovation.

Improvements include a new outdoor seating area, an upgrade and relocation of the kitchen facilities to create more space for banquets and meetings, and expanded parking. Work began in June and will continue through the summer of 2011. To read more and see an architect’s rendering, visit www. colgate.edu/about/capitalprojects/ colgateinn.

In June, the fourth-annual Skyway Festival of music, food, and arts and crafts was held at the Eaton Street ballpark to benefit Hamilton Central School’s music programs. Hostess Meredith Leland Getchonis teamed up with the Earlville Opera House, the Oddfellows, and other Hamilton groups to bring “bluegrass, baseball, BBQ, and belly dancers.” The festival was created in memory of Getchonis’s late husband, Craig, a well-known Hamilton musician, former Colgate Bookstore employee, and son of former mayor Charlie Getchonis.

Hamilton-based band Same Blood Folk (with Brendan O’Connor ’09 on drums and band manager Sean Nevison ’03), has been hitting the road lately. In June, the group

After a series of failed talks with administrators, additional sit-ins throughout the following year ended with a 70-hour occupation of Merrill House in spring 1969. Thanks to activists’ persistence, the former buildings and grounds office site was designated as home to Colgate’s first cultural center, which moved to its current building in 1989.

“I remember sitting on the floor of the center for hours as some of the key figures in the civil rights movement visited,” said Brown, describing how he helped organize talks with Adam Clayton Powell ’30, Ralph Abernathy, and Muhammed Ali, among others. “We were able to attract folks of this caliber because we got noticeable attention for what we had done.

People were interested in the actions of this small group of students in upstate New York.”

After graduating, Brown was hired as the center’s second director, helping

brought their eclectic mix of Americana, soul, and bluegrass to the Saratoga ArtsFest (Saratoga Springs, N.Y.), a four-day celebration featuring music, dance, visual art, film, theater, and literary art.

The group also shared the stage with The Felice Brothers (whose track “Whiskey In My Whiskey” was featured on the first season of True Blood on HBO) at Brewery Ommegang in Cooperstown, N.Y., on July 24.

A new local hook was added this year to Slater Brothers Entertainment’s Hamilton Film Festival in August: a special competition and screening of short films made in upstate New York. The festival was founded by Grant Slater ’91 and his brothers Wade and Todd (sons of the late Colgate men’s hockey coach Terry Slater), to support their hometown and enhance the careers of filmmakers. Events included short, student-made, feature-length, and documentary film showings as well as panel discussions, an Awareness Walk to benefit the Hamilton Food Cupboard, and a special screening at the Palace Theater to benefit the Hamilton Central School Athletic Department.

— Avi Israel ’10

Fellowships support students’ passions

Nine seniors and a recent alumna have been awarded prestigious fellowships that will take them around the world to explore their interests.

Shae Frydenlund ’10 and Jennifer Rusciano ’10 received the Thomas J. Watson Fellowship. Frydenlund plans to create a documentary exploring the complex ecologies and sustainability of medicinal plant markets.

Rusciano will explore the relationship between chocolate, communities, and culture in Europe, Africa, and Latin America.

Conor Tucker ’10 received the Paul J. Schupf ’58 Fellowship, allowing him to read for his master’s in modern

British and European history at Oxford University.

Eight recent graduates will share daily life and professional and creative insights with people of a host country as part of the U.S. Student Fulbright Program. Victor Chiapaikeo ’10 will teach language and culture lessons to students in Indonesia; Max Counter ’10 will work with students in Colombia; Matt Geduldig ’10 will teach students in South Korea; and Tara Woods ’10 will emphasize crosscultural understanding with students in Germany. Julia Quintanilla ’10, who will assist teaching students in Mexico, also plans to volunteer in a local gallery, museum, or community center. In a project titled “Voices from the War of Resistance,” Jessica Chow ’09 will interview Chinese survivors of World War II to create documentary films highlighting the lifelong impact of war. Alison Wohlers ’10 will travel throughout Morocco to study the effects of globalization on Moroccan identity through the manifestations of colonialism and the creation and legacy of dualistic cities.

In recognition of her outstanding potential and intention to pursue a career in science, Meghan Healey ’11 was awarded honorable mention by the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship program.

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to transform the venue from “a safe haven for African-American students” into a “thriving community venue for all people of diverse backgrounds.”

Threatte and Brown’s fight for racial equality not only left a mark on the campus community, but also gave them the conviction to achieve their own dreams. “Here’s a guy who is the head of pathology at SUNY Upstate Medical University,” said Brown, a former Kraft Foods executive and recently retired bank president, pointing at Threatte. “In 1969, we never thought this could be possible.”

Associate Director of Facilities and Manager of Lands and Grounds Student experience: political science and education major; linebacker, football team captain, 1991; Richard Mangano Award for team scholar-athlete; Delta Upsilon Responsibilities: A lot of people think we’re just catching a suntan on a lawnmower, but there’s a little bit more to it than that! We take care of the grounds, snowplowing, athletic facilities, event setups like commencement, reunion, and bands who’ve come here over the years, like Run DMC (I’m dating myself now!).

Path back to Colgate: For three years, I had a sales job in the family products division of Playtex Corp. Then I did some teaching and coaching in the area, and worked on campus while going for my master’s. I became the athletic facilities coordinator in 1995. I got to know everything about the grounds and golf course (I was the superintendent for a year), and earned various certificates and licenses. I’ve been in my current job since 2002.

An independent study by Steffan Pierre ’10 (center) and Meg Cronin ’10 (second from right) inspired students, faculty, and staff to create a “Relectronics” station for recycling small electronics on campus. A Green Summit committee brought the new station, located in the Coop, to fruition, in May. It provides a venue for the responsible recycling of waste such as spent batteries, charger cords, old cell phones, and more.

On tending one of the nation’s prettiest campuses: We want the campus to blend into the surroundings; we don’t want to get gaudy. We take a lot of ownership and pride in that.

On being the swan handler: The swans garner a lot of attention. We constantly get phone calls with concerns for the swans, but as long as they have open water, they are happy.

Most challenging task: Dealing with Mother Nature and trying to make Colgate life work around her. It makes me and the guys I work with feel good when staff members tell us on a snowy day, “Jeez, I drove here today and the best roads were on campus.”

Odd jobs: Digging for burials in the cemetery is one of the more unusual things we do.

How being a former football player caring for the stadium plays out: Our proudest moment was having the playoff games here in 2003. We didn’t have artificial turf then, so we were under a lot of pressure. Just before the Western Illinois game, 10 inches of snow fell. Guys brought in their personal four-wheelers, and we were plowing the lines during timeouts. I asked the ref if we could paint lines in red at the goal and sidelines. When Colgate drove for the winning score, the ref said, “Thank God you guys painted those lines red, or I’m not sure I could have seen if it was a touchdown!”

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Pastimes: I’m the varsity football coach at Sherburne-Earlville. I do a lot of hunting and fishing. If you live in this area, you kind of have to get into it. I train my dogs to do bird hunting.

Must-haves if stranded on a desert island: A knife, for sure. I never go without. With two kids (daughter Courtney starts at St. John Fisher College this fall, and son Austin will be in 9th grade), I’ve gotten to be a cell phone/texting junkie. And I’d just as soon have something comfortable to drink that’s going to take the edge off. Plus, you could use it to start a fire.

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My Boogie Stop Shuffle

By Michael Coyle, Professor of English “Writing about music is like dancing about architecture” — Google this quotation and you’ll find it attributed to any of a dozen people ranging from Thelonious Monk to Lou Reed, from Martin Mull to Elvis Costello to Frank Zappa. Doubtless there’s a story to be told about how this quip turned into the stuff of urban legend. But most everyone who has ever thrilled to a favorite song knows the force of it. I sure do. I’ve been writing about — or trying to write about — music since I was in college, driven by the sheer futility of it, but also by that deeply human need to communicate what is beyond words.

Hegel believed that music is the art of arts precisely because it is beyond language, and any number of philosophers and aestheticians after him have tried to explain its power with arguments about how music bypasses the rational mind and works directly on the soul. I don’t know. I can only say that anytime I’m moved by music, I feel in the presence of something much bigger than me. There are analogous moments in the other arts, including the one I’m trained to teach,

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but nowhere else do attempts to express what I’m feeling more seem only inadequate translations.

In high school, I did what musicbesotted teenagers usually do — played in garage bands. Needless to say, those efforts also felt like translations (though they were better than the poems I was writing). Eventually I made my way into college radio, and discovered in its mix of discussion and transmission new possibilities of community. To “translate” means to convey; radio affords one opportunity to do that. It’s not just the occasional call from a listener who likes something I’m spinning — it has also been the company of other DJs. Every semester I meet new WRCU DJs whose passion for music rivals my own. I’m lucky. But getting involved at first took a little pressure from Professor of English Emeritus Bob Blackmore, who, with the glittering eye of some Ancient Mariner, called me to task. It was Bob who negotiated my first being asked by the WRCU board to serve as station adviser, and I’ll always be grateful for that. For about 15 years, about once a week, I was a regular visitor in Bob’s den, enjoying late-into-the-night conversations over growing stacks of LPs. He himself was still doing shows back then, and in retrospect, I realize that the ongoing contests we’d get into (I’d play something on my show, to which he’d respond the next night on his, challenging me to “top that”) amounted to a sustained graduate seminar, conducted with the deftest of touches. Bob, too, was always looking for connections with the music.

I called my first WRCU show R&Be-bop. I was then, as now, seeking music that busted genres as well as expectations. My theme song was Big Joe Turner’s 1959 “Switchin’ in the Kitchen,” and I’d play things like Jimmy’s Liggins’s 1947 jump blues cover of Charlie Parker’s be-bop masterpiece, “Now’s the Time.” But after Bob’s passing, it was time to pick up the torch. I couldn’t replace Bob, but I could carry on in my own way. So I conceived a new show, calling it after (and choosing as my new theme song) the Mills Blue Rhythm Band’s 1933 swingfest, “A Jazz Martini.” As a good cocktail mixes and balances ingredients and spirits, so this show drew on everything from 1920s Hot Jazz to the contemporary avant-garde.

Two years ago, however, my life changed completely: the legendary (at least to jazz record geeks like me) “Slim,” of Cadence Records, left her job to start a new life with me here in Hamilton. Let me make it fast with one more thing and say that she is still working with Cadence; I wouldn’t sabotage my favorite record label!

With Slim in town, I quickly found myself in new weekly radio contests — with her throwing down challenges every bit as hard as Blackmore’s. This situation lasted three semesters before it dawned on us that we’d have more fun doing one show together.

And so, the name of my show changed once again, becoming Slim and Him, with a new theme song: Mingus’s 1959 recording, “Boogie Stop Shuffle.” Now there’s a dance!

Radio remains my regular, but not sole, means of trying to share the joy: music is important to my course, “The Jazz Age”; I write academic articles about jazz and pop history; I’m developing a book about cover songs; I offer jazz lectures for Core 152; and I continue to review jazz books and records for Cadence magazine. Sometimes I think I come close to producing language that’s just about adequate, but most of the time, I finish a piece simply resolving to do better next time. I’ve learned that that’s the whole Faustian point. As F. Scott wrote: it eluded me then, but that’s no matter — tomorrow I’ll run faster, stretch out my arms farther… And one fine morning —

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A JAZZ LEGACY

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On December 12, 1940, the wildly popular jazz musician Duke Ellington and his band performed on the stage of Colgate Memorial Chapel to a standing-roomonly crowd — the 13th event in that year’s Concert and Lecture Series.

Colgate student and future English professor Bob Blackmore ’41, a jazz musician himself, was in the audience that day. He was one of the top three student trombonists in the country, once invited to play as a guest performer with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra.

He also helped to form the student band “The Maroon Raiders.” After graduating, while stationed in Florida during WWII, he haunted jazz dives and nightclubs exploring the roots of jazz, and in the 1950s, he started amassing a collection of record albums.

Returning to Colgate to teach English in 1960, Blackmore spent the rest of his career on the faculty.

From 1961 to 2001, he also shared his passion for jazz through his weekly Monday-night WRCU jazz show, “Your Monday Date With Jazz.” Most of the records he spun came from the thousands and thousands of albums in his personal collection, which eventually became one of the largest and most complete jazz collections in the country.

Before he passed away in 2002, Blackmore donated his massive collection to Colgate. It has taken nine years to catalog it — donations from his family and former students helped to finance the herculean task.

Today, the Blackmore Jazz Archive of about 17,000 LPs is housed in Case-Geyer Library and is accessible to the public for listening by appointment. The library’s Robert Blackmore Alcove houses display cases telling Blackmore’s story and features a listening station and space for exhibitions out of the collection. The first exhibition, up through December 2010, highlights that momentous Ellington concert and some of the artist’s colorful album covers.

New exhibitions will be mounted each year, according to English professor Michael Coyle, curator of the collection, with plans for them to occasionally tie into the curriculum, such as his course The Jazz Age.

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Students in Biology 211: Evolution, Ecology, and Diversity gather soil and detritus samples in the woods above campus. By quantifying invertebrate species diversity in samples from several different forest settings, they set out to determine whether there was a correlation with aboveground plant species diversity.

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From thought into action

Take an idea and make it a reality.

That’s the challenge Andy Greenfield ’74 issued to students in his “practical entrepreneurship” course, Thought Into Action. Although students were not awarded university credit, they received mentorship from a marketing professional and the chance to see their ideas come to fruition.

The students: those possessing an entrepreneurial spirit, the maturity to test their real-world skills, and the commitment not only to the monthly, 5-hour Saturday class, but also to the projects. The teacher: Greenfield, entrepreneur and founder of Greenfield Consulting Group, a qualitative marketing research firm in Westport, Conn.

Each class began with a lecture, followed by group discussion. Students would leave with a plan for their next steps. Between classes, Greenfield offered individual phone and e-mail consultations in which he would assess students’ progress and help them troubleshoot.

From campus-based change to aiding people in Ghana, all of the projects this past semester trended toward a socially oriented theme.

Some students, like Stephani Nummelin ’12, came in with largerthan-life intentions. “I wanted to get everyone into college,” Nummelin recalled. Greenfield helped her hone her idea, develop a plan, and set into motion a program through which Colgate students will help local high schoolers with the college application process. He also coached her in working with high school administrators.

As with any idea, obstacles arise when turning theory into practice, so projects evolved. Christov Churchward ’10, co-president of the composting club, set out to make composting a part of campus culture. In achieving

this goal, he also became a leading force in getting approval for the new campus community garden, in which composting will play a role.

Matt Shafman ’10 will continue to develop his business plan to create a social network–based fundraising website after graduation. Through Giveglobe.com (which hasn’t yet gone live), people who are trying to attain a goal, like quitting smoking, can place bets on themselves. If participants accomplish their goals, they will keep the money they pledged; if not, the money will go to their charity of choice.

Shafman said Greenfield helped him structure what he called his “jumble of ideas” and stressed the importance of clarity in his marketing strategy.

In addition to Greenfield’s advice, students benefited from the class dynamic. “The brainstorming sessions helped me think, not just about my own project, but I also got to listen to others and get different perspectives,” Shafman said.

The class also created a sense of personal accountability. “It was a lot of help, if for no other reason than to give external motivation,” Churchward said.

“There is no way I could have achieved this on my own.”

Greenfield will continue to mentor students from the class as he prepares for the 2010–2011 seminar. He is motivated by the belief that “a key role of the university is to prepare people to change the world.” He also hopes that more alumni will follow his lead by returning to Colgate to share their knowledge. “It is about giving students the skills and experience of making something happen, and that is one of the most empowering feelings someone can get.” For more information about this program, contact Tennille Haynes at thaynes@colgate.edu.

Class and county partnership

Madison County mental health officials said they are thrilled with a website built for them by students taking a computer course taught by Professor Alexander Nakhimovsky. The website will be a valuable resource for county residents seeking information about programs and services for individuals with disabilities, said James Yonai, director of the county’s Mental Health Department.

Yonai and other county representatives attended a rollout of the website at an April meeting at the Colgate Inn. Also attending were four first-year

students — Jake Caldwell, Alex Bahr, Sarah Bassett, and Laura Johannet — who helped finalize the design and site architecture. The students had worked with their classmates on design approaches as part of the course Computers in Arts and Sciences.

“We worked as groups and narrowed it down to this version,” said Caldwell. “We hope it is something that everyone will be able to use and to navigate easily.”

Yonai singled out Caldwell during the presentation for his leadership and interpersonal skills in seeing the project to such a positive conclusion.

Nancy Joerger, special education parent advocate with Community Action Partnership (CAP), met with the class back in February to outline the project and coordinate the county’s role. “Jake and the other students were so easy to work with and so incredibly helpful,” she said.

Nakhimovsky said he thought the students learned the course materials better because they had a greater degree of involvement. “Some had a very useful experience in interacting with real-life ‘customers,’ responding to their needs, and understanding their background,” he said.

Bahr and the other students said that they also learned more about the county in which they now live, and about the services it makes available.

Debate Society hosts first international tournament

In March, the university’s Debate Society hosted its first-ever worlds-style tournament, which drew participants from around the world and from around the country. The International Intervarsity Debate Tournament received high grades from both participants and judges.

The 24 teams that competed during the March 27–28 competition were from the University of Sydney (Australia), Rhodes University (South Africa), University of La Verne, Cornell University, Williams College, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, University of Vermont, King’s College, and Ohio Wesleyan University. The 22 judges came from as far away as Malaysia and Ireland for the inaugural invitational.

“We would love to thank Colgate for all the work they have done,” said Bronwyn Cowell, of the University of Sydney. “The tournament has been excellent fun.”

Faith and Fact

Gazing at the constellations in the springtime sky, you might pick out Orion and his faithful dog on the trail of a vicious bear. But the lights blinking down on you are more than what — or when — they seem.

After spending the day with students in Core 106A: Galileo, Church, and Scientific Endeavor, Father George Coyne spoke to a crowd in Love Auditorium in April. In a lecture titled “The Dance of the Fertile Universe: Chance and Destiny Embrace,” the Jesuit astrophysicist, University of Arizona professor, and former Vatican Observatory director pointed out that nearly 1,300 light years separate us from the Orion nebula. So the light we saw during Coyne’s campus visit was produced on a spring evening when Chinese chemists were inventing gunpowder (ca. 710 A.D.).

Coyne mentioned how atoms swirl around one another, combining, splitting, spawning new and heavier elements, and interacting through both necessity and chance while he hinted at the ways in which galaxies and humans came to be.

When two hydrogen molecules meet an oxygen molecule, they must form water. But must they meet?

Destiny and chance have produced three generations of stars since the beginning of time. Coyne argued that the ferment generated enough carbon and other elements to build our own

toenails, hair, arms, legs, and evermore complicated brains. But there is a giant leap from the building blocks of life to life itself, and that is where the scientific becomes philosophical.

Did God do it? “I don’t know,” Coyne admitted. But if so, “God is a nurturing parent with respect to the universe.” He has created something dynamic, then allowed it to assert its own personality, for better or worse, Coyne explained.

“I thought he made a lot of concrete arguments using science, and he made a distinction between what he believes versus what he can prove,” said astronomy major Michael Lam ’11 of Coyne’s lecture.

The lack of a single concrete answer does not disturb Coyne. When scholarship falls short, he has his faith.

Two retire from faculty

Two members of the faculty were recognized at the awards convocation during Commencement Weekend for achieving emeritus status upon their retirements.

Jerome Balmuth, Harry Emerson Fosdick Professor of philosophy and religion, joined the department in 1954 after graduate work in philosophy at Cornell University. His research focused on the philosophy of language and on the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein. As his citation read, “His efforts in hiring and mentoring have had a formative influence on his depart-

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Jesuit astrophysicist George Coyne (left) speaks to students and visiting faculty in the Galileo, Church, and Scientific Endeavor course. With him is Professor Jeffrey Bary.

ment, and his work and wisdom have helped make the university what it is today. He has taught more than 9,000 students — nearly a third of Colgate’s living alumni.

In his 56 years at Colgate, Jerry invited all of us, colleagues and students alike, into a vigorous and continuing conversation in which age, gender, race, sexual orientation — features that all too often separate us — mattered not at all. Doing so, he has shown us that the life of the mind is not a solitary one, but a communal search for truth.

His retirement leaves a lacuna that Colgate cannot hope to fill, but attending to his contributions will continue to remind us of the best that we have to offer our students and each other.”

Carl Peterson, associate professor and head of special collections and university archivist, began work in the University Libraries’ acquisitions department in 1980. He moved to special collections and archives in 1988 and was promoted to head that unit in early 1994. He holds bachelor’s degrees in English and biology from the University of Alabama, an MFA from Cornell, and an MLS from the University at Albany. His citation recognized his many accomplishments, which included “cataloging and conserving rare books and manuscripts, implementing archival best practices, widening the scope of library exhibits, and acquiring the Weiner collection of George Bernard Shaw material.

He pioneered Special Collections as a research and teaching tool for classes, increasing the number of classes taught, and establishing close departmental ties with other Colgate units.

Carl was also instrumental in moving our precious collections during and after the construction of Case Library and Geyer Center for Information Technology. He has been an invaluable member of the library staff and is well known and respected as an expert on Colgate history and traditions.”

Live and learn

In May, students on the spring 2010 Geneva Study Group got a rare peek behind the scenes of an international media organization when they visited Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) headquarters in Prague, Czech Republic.

The 17 students spent a day devoted to “hands-on” journalism, including a master class on the challenges of covering democracy and human rights issues with Russia Services Senior Correspondent Irina Lagunina, and a discussion with Akbar Ayazi, who oversees programming in Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, and Iraq.

“I learned a lot about Russia, and it was nice to learn about current events there and new developments that you wouldn’t see in a textbook,” wrote one student in his visit evaluation.

The visit was part of an extensive set of field trips in western and Central Europe, including to the Auschwitz extermination camp, meant to complete the coursework for International Institutions, the class taught by group leader Barry Shain, associate professor of political science.

The course explores the nature of international institutions, the underlying assumptions of those working in and supportive of them, and their role in shaping relations between states and other international entities. Students also examine the continuing repercussions of the Holocaust and communism in Central Europe.

Shain said he chose the day at RFE/RL because “it gives students a sense of how news not only is a reflection of world events, but is, in a way, created.”

Kathryn Esteves ’11 said she especially enjoyed sitting in on an editorial meeting because “it illustrated the steps taken to develop story ideas.” Mary Beth Spencer ’11 found the meeting “very informative and cool — it was nice to see the organization at work.”

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German photographer Christina Zück explores the possibilities for understanding and makes her presence felt by the viewer of her photographs. Her exhibition Defence Phase II Karachi appeared at the Picker Art Gallery from April through July.

Curator Joachim Homann explained that the images “are an investigation of public life in a city in Pakistan that is so often in the news because of the difficult political situation, with an officially proAmerican government that is getting all these different demands from the people there.”

Homann has known Zück and admired her work since they were in graduate school in Germany together. “She really wants to allow visitors to zoom in on individual images, and in those images, you will find details that might teach you something about the reality,” he said.

One such photograph depicts two women on a street corner wearing hijabs. One woman is turning away, the other, staring into the camera.

Homann pointed out that on closer examination, the woman who is staring is carrying a notebook with diagrams of DNA on the outside, suggesting she is in a medical profession of some kind.

“The camera is a way for Christina to communicate with people,” said Homann. “She is always very interested in how the subjects react to her presence. She’s also bringing her own cultural values into this context, and that’s reflected in the images as well. This precludes her from giving an objective narrative. It is more an open-ended conversation that she hopes to provoke.”

— Kate Preziosi ’10

Two dramatically different spring exhibitions in the Picker Art Gallery each dealt with the common theme of challenging conventional stereotypes.

In Of Someone and Something, associate art and art history professor Linn Underhill displayed selections from seven major photographic series that she has created since the early 1990s. The images were taken in a studio, with several different props and the artist as her own model. The retrospective included images from Cosmic Dominatrix, 2000-2001, in which Underhill said the idea was “to think about how it would look if women were in charge of the world, and if they behaved in a way comparable to the way men behave in power.” This alternative world includes an image of Underhill as a leather-clad goddess hovering on a black cloud in a scene reminiscent of Michelangelo’s fresco. “[This exhibition was] informed by feminist theory and gender theory, and much of it has to do with trying to come up with new ways of representing women and thinking about gender as a masquerade,” explained Underhill. Her hope, she said, was that Colgate students would walk away “think[ing] about gender roles as being malleable.”

Just opposite Underhill’s exhibition was German photographer Christina Zück’s Defence Phase II Karachi, a series of photographs taken with an analog medium-format camera, in Karachi, Pakistan, in 2008.

Shapes for Hamilton

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Just as each person in Hamilton is unique, so, too, are the almost 2,000 printed shapes that artist-in-residence Allan McCollum distributed to town residents in April. The New York City–based artist chose Hamilton as the location of his newest project, meant to both represent individualism and unite the community.

In 2005, McCollum designed a system through Adobe Illustrator to produce enough two-dimensional shapes that a different shape could be created for each person on the planet. The system also keeps track of the hand-drawn computer images to ensure that no two will ever be alike and that no two people will ever share the same shape.

At the opening reception on March 10, members of the Hamilton and Colgate communities saw their shapes for the first time on a

Open mic Finn McCool,* by Arianne Templeton ’10 When I choose to trench a river, I drag my little toe through dirt, rocks, squiggling worms — grime under my smallest toe would bury lesser men (Girth! Wealth! Patriotism!) in glorious progress.

I’ve been molding Earth since before Ireland was serpentless.

Forests snap their trunks above the roots (count the rings long past 1776) to make way for squares of cement — limestone, shale, iron ore, sand — I’ve mixed them all with whiskey after the longest days of burying cities.

Tara, being razed to the ground every year by that hideous monster for the passing of 23 seasons, was free when I tamed the destruction — he was my lapdog until he limped out of decrepitude to nothing.

Some white-beard highwayman shouted when I de-clawed the dragon: “new life springs from under piles of ash, and fire cleans the dead leaves from the grass.

We gloried in the green.”

I ground his soft skull to make my stew heartier.

Many are the Giant’s Causeways you should thank me for.

From the first causeway, with rounded pillars and friendliness that invites tourists to clamber on it that I drummed up while skipping rocks from Antrim beach, to my latest sky stairway in Dubai.

You’ve heard it was built by men?

Time was, you’d have known it was Finn and your human knees would’ve quaked.

But even though you’ve forgotten I can twist California off like the end of a ripe bean, I’ll keep bulldozing mushroom clouds into myself.

According to Irish folklore, Finn McCool was a giant who created the landscape of Ireland by walking on it. First published in the 2010 Colgate Portfolio. *

through the Institute for the Creative and Performing Arts.

A team of students and Colgate staff members contributed to the Shapes for Hamilton project with community research, distribution planning, and setting up the exhibition. “Each of his creations is unique, yet they remain remarkably similar to one another, like us humans,” explained Shapes staff member Gabe Rosen ’12, a studio art major.

Although McCollum has used the shapes system in other projects, this was the first time he distributed individual shapes to each member of a community. Shapes can now be seen

around town, hanging in the windows of homes, in professors’ offices, and even in school lockers at Hamilton Elementary.

Two receive Schupf/Lorey Senior Art Prize

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Can I have my shape, please? A Hamilton resident picks up her own individual “shape,” created by artist Allan McCollum, from art professor DeWitt Godfrey, who invited McCollum to bring his Shapes Project to town. McCollum can produce more than enough unique twodimensional shapes for every person on the planet. Before the shapes were given out, they were displayed in Little Hall’s Clifford Gallery.

Seniors Kelly Boyle and Emily Rawdon received the 2010 Schupf/Lorey Senior Art Prize, which, since 2007, has been awarded for outstanding work as identified by Paul Schupf ’58 and Robert McVaugh, professor of art and art history.

Boyle, a native of New Hampshire, was an art and art history major and an Islamic studies minor. Her ensemble of four strikingly inventive video pieces, Story of Some Kind, explores personal and media imagery in the context of American discomfort with ambiguity.

Rawdon, daughter of Dick Rawdon ’65, was a double major in art and art history and theater from Kentucky.

Her photographic installation Usual Flow-voids of the Circle of Willis are Preserved explores the psychic mingling of euphoria and fear associated with epileptic seizures. In August, she will enter the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

“Professor McVaugh and I worked long and hard to choose these two first-class art works. Owing to the overall high quality of this year’s senior art exhibition, several other entries might have been chosen,” said Schupf, who expressed special thanks to Evan C. Lorey ’10 for his gift that allowed Colgate to award an additional prize this year.

The awards were given at the senior awards convocation in Memorial Chapel on Saturday, May 15. See a full list of award recipients at www.colgate.edu.

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Poetry that matters

Her voice was characteristically scratchy and barely louder than a whisper. Yet, true to form, Louise Glück, the Pulitzer Prize–winning lyric poet, held her audience spellbound for 45 minutes as she read nine poems from her latest collection, A Village Life, at the end of March.

Glück received the Pulitzer in 1993 for The Wild Iris, her sixth of 11 books of poems. Early in her career, she also authored Proofs & Theories, a collection of essays on poetry that received the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Non-Fiction. Presently, she teaches at Yale University.

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computer in the gallery, recorded the section of the gallery in which it was located, and then found their 5" by 7" printed shapes. The shapes were later distributed to community members at various locations including Hamilton Central School, the Palace Theater, the Poolville Community Center, and Colgate’s quad. Each shape was signed

by McCollum and provided free of charge.

Art and art history professor DeWitt Godfrey coordinated the project with McCollum, the 2010 Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation Distinguished Artist in Residence in the Department of Art and Art History,

Pulitzer Prize-winning lyric poet Louise Glück reads from her latest collection, A Village Life.

After decades of writing with a minimalist’s precision, Glück changed course for the poems in her latest collection, using language that she characterized as “more relaxed, even gawky.” Nonetheless, the poems she read included the “punches to the gut” described in her introduction by English professor Peter Balakian. Earlier in the day, she spoke to his Post-WWII American Poetry class.

Scott Reu ’13, who reads his poetry at open mics and is a member of the student group Poetically Minded, came to the reading eager to ask a question that, he said, led his father to burn reams of his own early works. Reu wanted to know: “How can writers, especially younger ones, distance themselves enough from personal experience to create poetry that really matters?” The question was especially apropos, not only for the only American poet who has twice served as judge for the prestigious Yale Series of Younger Poets, but for one whose work addresses such universal issues of the human condition as being young, coming of age, and love affairs beginning or ending.

“There’s a difference between the circumstantial and the intensely personal,” Glück said. “A dramatic breakup with a lover can make a great poem, but experience has to undergo a transformation. It can’t simply be decanted onto the page.”

Reu was encouraged. “Her response set my mind to work,” he said. “I am astonished that a single answer to a single question could have such an impact on the way I think about poetry.”

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Author Augusten Burroughs meets with students at Merrill House before delivering his public lecture.

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Augusten Burroughs, who chronicled his unusual childhood in his 2002 memoir Running with Scissors, delivered a candid keynote address at Colgate’s fifth annual Big Gay Weekend in April. His messages ranged from developing inner strength (“What you need is not more confidence. You need to subtract whatever it is that prevents confidence, and that is caring too much about what other people think”), to the inevitability of legalized gay marriage (“There will be a day when you will hold today’s discrimination in the palm of your hand, like a charming memento”).

While Burroughs considered himself to be an unlikely special guest — because, he said, he “never had a moment where he ‘came out’ to anything” — he gave members and supporters of Colgate’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning (LGBTQ) community a lot to talk about.

Burroughs’s now-famous childhood provided fodder for his first memoir, which became a film of the same name. When his mother was no longer able to care for him, he was sent to live with her psychiatrist and an extended family of long-term patients, many who were psychotic or schizophrenic. “In that environment, my sexuality was not an issue,” he said. “I didn’t ever think about being gay. It was like being right-handed.

Why? I don’t know. I just am.”

The theme of the weekend was “Be Yourself.” About that, Burroughs said: “I wish I could take forensic evidence out of my brain and stick it in yours

Entropy Barn 1-29, Entropy House 1-4, and Entropy Shed 1-3, digital prints by Bryan Kretschmer ’10. “These works are an exploration of the built space that surrounds us in daily life but often goes unnoticed,” Kretschmer explained in his artist’s statement. “Each of the structures was built for a specific purpose or function. The silhouettes serve to show that, although they are purpose-built, they have an underlying aesthetic beauty that is often overlooked. In addition, the silhouettes serve to record a specific point in each of the buildings’ ongoing process of entropy.” To see more of this year’s senior art projects, visit Arts & Culture at www.colgatealumni.org/scene.

so you would know that that’s all you have to be. That’s everything you have to be.”

But things aren’t always that simple, said Aleksander Sklyar ’10.

“It makes me happy to know that there are individuals out there, like Augusten, who did not have to go through the pain and difficulty of ‘coming out.’ However, for many in the LGTBQ community, me included, being ourselves is anything but simple; the process to self-acceptance and self-assertion was anything but an easy one for me.”

New music champion

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The Society for New Music (SNM), co-founded by Neva Pilgrim, Colgate’s voice teacher and artist-in-residence, was a 2010 recipient of the American Music Center’s Letter of Distinction.

Pilgrim and several SNM board members attended the awards ceremony in New York City in May. “It was a who’s who of American music — people from BMI [Broadcast Music, Inc.], people from ASCAP [American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers], famous composers, other performers — and to be recognized in that company was a thrill,” she said.

Pilgrim founded the SNM with musicians Ralph D’Mello and Greg Levin in 1971 when all three moved to the Syracuse region from big cities and believed the area needed a

stronger new music presence. The society’s board of volunteers now presents about 25 concerts a year, including a winter series in Syracuse and a month-long summer arts festival called Cazenovia Counterpoint. In addition, the group funds composers’ involvement in inner-city schools, and Pilgrim tapes a weekly music program on WCNY-FM. The American Music Center, which is dedicated to building a national community of artists, organizations, and audiences creating, performing, and enjoying new American music, described the SNM as “a driving cultural force for contemporary music in the United States.” SNM was one of four recipients this year, joining the ranks of past honorees including Leonard Bernstein and Dizzy Gillespie.

Courage, heart, and brains: Oz Project helps children break down barriers

In April, friends, family members, and supporters of The Oz Project filled the Palace Theater to watch an inspiring production of The Wizard of Oz. On stage, children with and without special needs performed their hearts out in the culmination of an eight-week theater program created by Colgate students and faculty members.

The program’s goal is to foster an inclusive social learning and growing environment for children with a wide

celled individually, but also grew as a group who supported each other and celebrated one another’s accomplishments,” she added.

Children also learned to use sign language during the song “Over the Rainbow,” thanks to community volunteer Bethany Sackel, who also worked with volunteer Delaine Dacko to choreograph and facilitate creative movement within the energetic group.

All the children, be they energetic or quiet, were encouraged to express and recognize their differences.

“The beauty of The Oz Project was most apparent in the day-to-day interactions among the kids. They could look beyond the obvious differences between them and focus on what they shared,” said Kaplan.

This sense of teamwork was evident in the final production, in which close to 30 children, comfortable with each other and their differences, sang and danced like stars. The production was a big hit with the audience, but the true success was found within each and every participant on stage, who overcame the challenges of social situations and grew to embrace new friendships.

Although its cardinal leaders all graduated in May, it is hoped that the project that Snell said touched all aspects of the Hamilton community will be reprised for years to come.

— Eileen O’Brien ’10

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range of needs, including autismspectrum and related disorders.

Alexandra Snell ’10 said the idea for the project emerged from conversations she had with fellow seniors Lindsey Simpson, Lauren Kaplan, Samantha Horn, and Hannah Sandler, and with psychology professor Regina Conti and educational studies professor Sheila Clonan. Throughout the semester, this core group of students and faculty met regularly to develop and critique curricula and activities that were used with the children, as well as to monitor the engagement and growth of the children involved.

As the project grew — attracting elementary students from Hamilton and other communities — so, too, did the team supporting it. More than a dozen Colgate students, along with community volunteers, took part.

Workshops, set to the themes of The Wizard of Oz, facilitated development of social skills such as making new friends in uncomfortable situations, like Dorothy did with the Tin Man, Scarecrow, and Lion in the unfamiliar land of Oz. Participants learned new ways to deal with many challenges, from feeling left out to responding to a bully. “By using drama games, music, and performance to teach different social skills, we were able to concentrate both on personal growth and commitment to a larger group of people,” said Simpson. “It was really inspiring to see how the kids ex-

Visual Resources Curator How she got here: Before joining the Art and Art History department, I did my master’s in library and information studies at McGill University in Montreal. I directed my assignments toward image collections, so I really focused on hoping to land this exact job, even though I didn’t know it was available.

The mission: The main charge of the visual resources library is making analog and digital images available for faculty. We’re transitioning this analog collection to digital based on what the professors are using. They basically curate the collection; they come in, bring books, and say, “I want these images for my lectures; I need them so I can project them, show them, and talk about them.” We’re up to almost 12,000 in the four years that I’ve been here, but we’re dealing with a 90,000-image slide collection.

Favorite medium and color: I’m a painter at heart — I love oil painting. Any opportunity I have to discover new painters while handling the collection is great for me. And my favorite color is red. Definitely red.

Crowd shocker: I always surprise people when I tell them that I was the homecoming queen of my high school, because it’s such a stereotype. I try to tell them to shock them, and then they’re like, “No!” Other than that, I’m pretty much an open book.

The Oz Project, an eight-week theater program created by Colgate students and faculty members, brought together children with and without special needs for a performance of The Wizard of Oz.

Working on the Shapes for Hamilton Project: I built a fairly simple database in Filemaker Pro and ended up cataloguing all of the shapes into the database. Once we got the lists of people, I integrated them and randomly matched them up with a shape. In the gallery, once you made contact through the database and found yourself, you saw your shape and started thinking about what it looked like compared to all the others. It brought a new perspective to the project that none of us were expecting. I just made the tool, and then it turned into something wonderful that helped streamline all this information.

World traveler: The second year I lived in Montreal was heavenly. I lived in a very artsy neighborhood called “the Plateau,” and that was really the first serious metropolitan living experience I’d had. With access to the cafés and all the art, the pace of life was really fun.

Guilty pleasure: Frozen pizza. A good, cheap, frozen pizza.

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She’s crafty: I made a quilt by hand. Some great local Hamilton ladies taught me how. My most recent crafty endeavor was with Emily Oren (assistant curator) and her husband. We made these handmade, painted little dice that say “you” on two sides, “us” on two sides, and “me” on two sides. They’re marriage dice, so people can use them to settle their disputes.

She plays banjo, too – is she the next Béla Fleck? No way. In four years, I’m still playing the same 12 small ditties, so I doubt it. But it’s fun, and I’m hoping to expand my knowledge more over the summer. My husband plays guitar really well, so at some point, I have to learn a little bit from him.

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Equestrians jump to new heights

Anna Hackney coaches the 30-member team at Saddleback Farm in Hamilton, where they train twice a week with hour-long lessons in addition to more extensive training sessions before the eight horse shows that run from October to March.

Team captains Emily Messing ’12 and Eri Sato ’12 provided invaluable assistance to the team as it reached and successfully competed in the regional finals.

Out of five riders on the Western team, Yvett Sosa ’12 qualified for regional championships in March.

Coached by Valerie Logsdon, they finished in fourth place overall, with 72 team points for the year end.

Colgate English riders finished their season by qualifying four riders — Alexis Apostol ’12, Elizabeth Brodsky ’11, Jessica Morlando ’11, and Sara Reisler ’12 — for the Regional Equestrian Finals at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., on April 3. Apostol set a Colgate record by finishing fifth in the region in the Open Rider Division, jumping at the height of 3'6", the maximum for college competition. This was the highest finish for a Colgate rider in any division in the 13 years since the equestrian program began.

Despite its status as a club sport, Colgate’s team competes against some of the top varsity programs in the country, including Skidmore, Cornell, Hartwick, and Morrisville. Colgate finished sixth out of 15 schools this season.

Rivalry renewed One of Colgate’s most storied rivalries will be renewed this fall when the Raiders football team travels to Syracuse for a Sept. 25 contest with the Orange at the Carrier Dome.

It will be the first time the teams have met since 1987, and the first time since 2003 that Colgate, which is in the Division I Football Championship Subdivision (formerly Division I-AA), will play against a team in the Football Bowl Subdivision.

The Raiders and Orange have met 65 times, with Colgate holding a slight edge in the all-time series 31-29-5.

Syracuse won the 1987 game, 52-6, and owns a 3-0 record against Colgate in the Carrier Dome. Colgate’s last victory in the series came in 1950, a 19-14 win at Archbold Stadium.

Colgate dominated the series early, going 13-5-2 over the first 20 games the teams played from 1891 to 1917.

The Raiders also ruled the series from the mid-1920s to mid-1930s, winning 11 games and tying another two. Syracuse began to dominate in the 1950s, and the regular games ended after the 1961 contest.

Student, athlete, humanitarian

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Colgate student-athlete Ethan Cox ’10 was named the 15th recipient of the BNY Mellon Wealth Management Hockey Humanitarian Award at the 2010 NCAA Men’s Frozen Four. The award — open to any male or female

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Saddleback Farm in Hamilton, with its sweeping countryside vistas, serves as the home barn for Colgate’s equestrian team — a club sport at Colgate that regularly competes with varsity squads at other universities.

Ask Raider When did the Colgate-Syracuse football rivalry begin? — Raider 4 Life Way back in 1891. It was only Colgate’s second season fielding a football team, and our first season with a coach, Samuel Colgate Jr. We won the game 22-16, and went on to win all five scheduled games that season!

Why is the field above Andrews and Stillman called the “old golf course?” — Gate fan In 1917, some faculty and townspeople took the initiative to make that area into a golf course. It was redone and expanded in 1928. They called it Seven Oaks after the ancestral village of the Colgate family in Kent, England. The course was relocated to the valley east of campus in 1958, leaving the open space behind the dormitories to be remembered as “the old golf course.”

How many Colgate alumni have been drafted into the NBA? I think most people would say one – Adonal Foyle ’98 – but I can think of three. — Doug Chiarello ’98 Actually, 11 Colgate alumni have been chosen in the NBA draft. They are Neil Dooley ’48 (Boston Celtics), Carl Braun ’49 and Ernie Vandeweghe ’49 (N.Y. Knicks), Bill Dodd ’53 (Philadelphia Warriors), Milt Graham ’56 and Jack Nichols ’57 (Syracuse Nationals), Robert Duffy ’62 (St. Louis Hawks), George Dalzell ’67 (Detroit Pistons), Don Ward ’71 (Buffalo Braves), Mike Ferrara ’81 (Washington Bullets), and Adonal Foyle ’98 (Golden State Warriors). (The team name is the drafting organization.)

Do you have a Colgate sports trivia topic suggestion or question for Raider? Send an e-mail to scene@colgate.edu and put Ask Raider in the subject line.

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Raider hockey forward Ethan Cox ’10 (left) accepts the Hockey Humanitarian Award recognizing college hockey’s finest citizen at the 2010 NCAA Men’s Frozen Four.

collegiate hockey player from any NCAA Division — is given out annually to college hockey’s finest citizen.

The recipient is a player who embraces humanitarian efforts that help out a community, a certain philanthropy, or a cause.

“This recognition speaks volumes to the following and dedication that the Colgate men’s ice hockey team and fans have to the betterment of their community. To be recognized for such an award is truly an honor and I hope that it will inspire other people to get involved within their local communities,” said Cox.

Cox has been involved in local and national philanthropic events since arriving on campus in 2006. In his first year, he organized a weekendlong fundraising benefit through the Make a Wish Foundation for eightyear-old Miranda Hadlock, who was battling cancer. The girl’s mother, Holli Hadlock, works in the university’s mailroom.

During the last three holiday seasons, Cox arranged canned food and toy drives to help local families in Hamilton and Madison County.

Proceeds went directly to the Hamilton Food Cupboard and the Interfaith Holiday Council. Overall, Cox and his teammates have raised more than $14,000 in cash and donated items for various local and national charities.

Cox was also active in helping the campus raise $25,000 for the American Cancer Society, worked with the football team to encourage students to be tested for potential bone marrow matches, assisted the women’s soccer team in raising funds to help with the costs of a student-athlete’s cancer treatment, and was involved in several “Facing off against Cancer” and “Drink4Pink” events promoting cancer awareness.

In the summer of 2009, Cox was honored with the Hamilton Business Alliance Community Service Award for his efforts.

Olympian on board

Colgate head women’s ice hockey coach Scott Wiley announced the hiring of 2010 Winter Olympian Karen

Thatcher as an assistant coach.

“The addition of Karen Thatcher is a great step forward for our program,” stated Wiley. “She is a dynamic and energetic person who has a true passion for the sport. She has excelled at every level, been a great ambassador, and understands what it takes to be a successful student-athlete. Karen adds

After four decades, Colgate track record broken at IC4As

A 41-year-old Colgate men’s track and field team record was broken at the IC4A Championship at Boston University on Sunday, March 7. Ed Boulat ’11, Tim Metivier ’12, Jon Knowlton ’11, and Andy Smith ’11 ran a 7:33.25 in the 4 x 800-meter relay, finishing seventh overall and earning all-East honors.

Greg Lavin ’70 had recently penned this reminiscence about the day his team set the previous record (7:35.10) at Madison Square Garden. We couldn’t resist sharing his account of how it went down in 1969:

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Raider catcher Nicole Siedhof ’11 makes a play at the plate in a match-up against the Binghamton Bearcats in April. Although the Raiders did not win that game, they finished the season 27-23 and upset the top-seeded Army Black Knights in the opening round of the Patriot League Tournament.

At that time, we lacked indoor track facilities and home meets, but made up for it with charcoal heat in a tiny trackside hut next to the tennis courts.

Of the four of us (Jim Andrews ’69, holder of the Colgate 2-mile indoor record; Hank Skewis ’69, 1000-yard record holder; and Lionel “Skip” Meno ’69, mile record holder), I was the neophyte, a soccer player with one season of indoor track experience. Coach Bob Milner, an ex-Marine officer, tailored our workouts; mine was the shortest, befitting one who didn’t know that a 5-mile warmup was to be done on the roads around Hamilton, not on the wooden, banked 160-yard track.

Before we won the Boston Athletic Games’s Two-Mile Relay, the highlight of my athletic experience at Colgate had been a soccer win over 8th-ranked Hartwick. But the Boston relay win landed our track squad on a national stage at the U.S. Olympic Invitational, against invitees to the Olympic Trials. We showed our passes at the gate and entered the infield of Madison Square Garden in maroon warm-ups. Tuxedoed officials were everywhere. Wide World of Sports TV cameras were located at each corner.

We watched Olympians compete: decathlon hero Bill Toomey, long jumper Ralph Boston, pole vaulter Bob Seagren, hurdler Willie Davenport, 400-meter runners Larry James and Vince Mathews, and miler Marty Liquori. Finally, our turn came.

Andrews ran a blazing opening leg, handing me a lead. I took off on what felt like my fastest start ever, but one-third of the way into my half-mile leg, Ron Stonitsch of CW Post passed me as if I were standing still. I had never experienced such speed in close quarters. Stonitsch had a near-sub-4-minute mile to his credit. So did Manhattan’s Brian Kivlan, who ran the third leg against Skewis.

By the end of the straightaway, I had picked up the pace faster than I had ever run. Would I last until the hand-off to Hank?

I remember handing off, but not much else until Skip was nearing the finish.

Skewis had brought us back against Kivlan, and now Skip drew even with Manhattan’s anchor, Tom Donahue, passing him briefly in the last lap. Donahue held on for the win. We finished in second place, 8/10 of a second behind.

Coach Milner collected our silver Olympic trophies at trackside, smiling brightly. It was a school-record performance.

The capstone was being greeted by the entire track team the next night in Albany, where Colgate was entered in an open meet at the Armory. We went jogging downtown, where we noticed a television playing in the window of an appliance store. Wide World of Sports was broadcasting the prior night’s Olympic Invitational. We could see ourselves in our sweat suits on the infield, awaiting our race. It was a magic, pre-video-recording-era moment, a reminder of having met our challenge.

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go ’gate Students, faculty, and staff all enjoyed the 2010 intramural softball season, with games played on Whitnall Field.

Here, the Norbs, at bat against Phi Tau A, went on to win the game 17-16.

instant credibility to our program and will help us achieve our goals. We are thrilled that she has joined our staff.”

Thatcher made her Olympic debut in 2010, winning silver in Vancouver, after representing the U.S. team at two world championships. Thatcher won gold with the team in 2008 and 2009, and was named to the 2007 Worlds Team.

She was also a three-time member of the U.S. Women’s Select Team for the Four Nations Cup and the U.S. Women’s Under-22 Select Team for the Under-22 Series with Canada.

A 2006 graduate of Providence College, Thatcher was a three-year letterwinner on the Friars women’s ice hockey team, after transferring from Brown after the 2002-2003 season. After Providence, Thatcher played for the BC Breakers of the Western Women’s Hockey League (WWHL) in 2006–2007, where she led the team and ranked 10th in the league with 36 points (19-17) in 26 games.

During the 2007–2008 season, Thatcher played for the Vaughan Flames of the Canadian Women’s Hockey League and helped the team to the inaugural CWHL championship. In 20082009, she returned to the WWHL and helped lead the Minnesota Whitecaps to their league championship.

Midfielder Chris Zielinski ’12 (#7) scored a career-high six points off three goals and three assists as Colgate upset No. 16 Lafayette 14-9 in the last men’s lacrosse home game of the season.

giate Women Athletics Administrators (NACWAA).

The award, sponsored by Jostens, is bestowed upon NACWAA members who have made significant contributions as administrators of intercollegiate athletics.

Chun’s primary responsibilities include overseeing corporate sponsorship, marketing and promotions, and personnel management for athletics.

She also serves as the administrative liaison for Daktronics Sports Marketing, ECAC Hockey, and the Student Athlete Advisory Committee. In addition, Chun supervises and performs the administrative duties of men’s lacrosse, women’s ice hockey, and volleyball.

In 1994, Chun was hired as the head coach of the volleyball team, a position she held for three years. She posted a 67-27 record as head coach, guided her squad to two conference championships and Colgate’s first-ever NCAA Tournament berth, and was named the 1996 Patriot League Coach of the Year.

Chun was promoted to associate athletics director in July 2007, having served as the assistant athletic director since February 2006, and on an interim basis since the summer of 2005.

Chun wins national honor

Senior Associate Athletics Director and Senior Woman Administrator Vicky Chun ’91, MA’94, has been named the Division I FCS Administrator of the Year by the National Association of Colle-

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Outstanding student-athletes in the Class of 2010 were recognized during commencement weekend. Jillian Arnault (soccer) and David McIntyre (ice hockey) were each awarded the Director of Athletics award; Ian Aguilar (football) and Susan Fortkiewicz (indoor and outdoor track, cross country) were

honored by the Joseph Huther Prize Fund; and Sarah Pedersen (field hockey) and Sarah Sciarrino (swimming) were each awarded the John T. (Jack) Mitchell Memorial Award, and the Gottesman Award for Excellence in the Sciences and Athletics. The awards were presented at the senior awards convocation in Memorial Chapel on May 15.

Onto the world stage

The Toronto Nationals selected Ryan McClelland ’10 in the 7th round – 42nd overall – of the Major League Lacrosse (MLL) draft in June. He is the fourth Raider selected in the MLL draft over the last three years, and the first by Toronto.

McClelland, who is from Brampton, Ontario, was also selected for the Team Canada roster at the Federation of International Lacrosse World Championships in Manchester, England, in July.

Perfect scores

Eighteen Raider athletic teams achieved a perfect score of 1,000 in the NCAA’s academic performance standard, the Academic Progress Rate (APR), for the 2008-2009 academic year. Nine of those teams posted perfect multi-year APR scores based on data from the 2005– 2006 through 2008–2009 school years.

The APR uses a series of formulas related to student-athlete retention and eligibility to measure the academic performance of all participants on teams at every Division I college and university.

The 18 teams to post a perfect score last year were men’s and women’s cross country, men’s and women’s ice hockey, men’s and women’s lacrosse, men’s and

women’s tennis, men’s and women’s indoor track and field, men’s and women’s outdoor track and field, men’s soccer, field hockey, softball, women’s rowing, women’s swimming and diving, and volleyball.

The Colgate teams to post perfect multi-year APR scores were golf, men’s lacrosse, men’s soccer, men’s indoor track and field, men’s outdoor track and field, softball, women’s cross country, women’s swimming and diving, and volleyball.

When mentoring is mutual

Carlton Walker ’10 and Ron Ransom ’93 have more in common than four years at Colgate. They both graduated

from Columbus Academy in Ohio, both played football for the Raiders, and both are African American.

But without the Maroon Council’s mentoring program, created to assist football-playing student-athletes with virtually any life issue that may arise, their paths might never have crossed.

“Ron and I had a bond right off the bat,” said Walker, who is one of about 100 current or former players who actively engages with his mentor. “He explained to me ways to cope with being so far from home, and we talked about how I could succeed in an environment that, at least on the surface, appeared to be less diverse than our high school.”

Over the past four years, Walker and Ransom e-mailed frequently and caught up in person when Ransom came to campus for the annual T-Bone Weekends he created to commemorate the late J. Tyler Whaling ’93.

“I found it very difficult to approach alumni for the first time, and Ron was there for me in order to act as that liaison. His guidance helped me when I branched out beyond Colgate in my job search,” observed Walker.

Although he is modest about the role he played, Ransom, too, felt the bond. “I’m not sure how I’ve helped Carlton, but he has helped me stay grounded,” Ransom said. “It’s easy to forget one’s path to their current loca-

tion; but by spending time with Carlton I could reflect on how our hometown, high school, and Colgate all helped me become who I am. When I see Carlton, I see a fresh world waiting for him to take it by storm.”

At least for the moment, Ransom’s job is done, and it is Walker’s turn to lead. Beginning in the fall, Walker will teach history and coach four sports as a faculty fellow at the Wesleyan School in Norcross, Ga. Football experience is not required to become a Maroon Council mentor.

Learn more and connect with Colgate’s football alumni at www.maroon mentors.org.

How to

Putt with confidence at Seven Oaks According to Seven Oaks golf pro Marian Blain, the greens on Colgate’s golf course are not only the best in central New York, but they’re also the fastest. This comes as no surprise to those who have watched their birdie tap-ins quickly turn into saves for a bogey. Blain has provided five simple tips to help golfers at any level tame the greens.

1. Less is more. Choke down on your putter to reduce the energy that is transferred to the ball.

3. Lighten up. Loosen your grip for better control and pacing. Take a shorter backstroke and increase your acceleration through the putt. Blain shows the position you should be in at the end of the swing.

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2. Overdo it a bit. Play more break than you normally would. The line of golf balls shows the path the putt should take.

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4. Be the ball. Putt with your shoulders, not your wrists. When putting with your shoulders, you create a more delicate stroke, which is necessary for fast greens. Remember to stroke through the putt, though.

The club under Blain’s arms shows the correct positioning of the golfer’s shoulders for this technique.

5. Let it roll. When putting downhill, place the ball just off the toe of your putter. This will deaden the hit.

As you consider how to incorporate these tips into your putting, don’t overthink it. Putting is about feel, so start by looking at the hole, checking your line, and thinking about the speed you need to roll it in. Then, practice with your eyes closed. This type of drill helps to get you focused on feel and pace. Using these tips and practice drills will make you an expert on fast greens in no time.

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AIMbitious: A Life of Enlightened Self-Leadership Scott A. Annan ’05 (iUniverse)

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Books & film

Bloody Mohawk: The French and Indian War & American Revolution on New York’s Frontier Richard J. Berleth ’63 (Black Dome Press)

In his most recent book, Richard J. Berleth reviews the often forgotten, but vitally important, history of New York’s Mohawk Valley during the 18th century. Bloody Mohawk charts the passage of the valley from a fast-growing agrarian region streaming with colonial traffic to a war-ravaged wasteland. The valley’s diverse cultural mix of Iroquois Indians, Palatine Germans, Scots-Irish, Dutch, English, and Highland Scots played as much of a role as its unique geography in the cataclysmic events of the French and Indian War, and in the battles of the American Revolu-

tion. Berleth examines how Patriots eventually won the region from the British and Iroquois, as well as the fearsome human cost of those efforts.

Castorland Journal

The Slammin’ Salmon

Castorland Journal: An Account of the Exploration and Settlement of Northern New Castorland Journal York State by French Émigrés in the Years 1793 to 1797 is the first modern scholarly translation of the account of one of the most promising French speculations for American land following the American Revolution. In 1792, Parisian businessmen and speculators established the New York Company to purchase and settle land in northwestern New York and resell it to European investors. The journal was kept by two company representatives who began that settlement. In the process, they encountered Native Americans, conferred with Thomas Jefferson, engaged the legal services of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, planted crops, and suffered the frustrations of disease and natural obstacles.

John Gallucci, associate professor of Romance languages and literatures, has brought to light this historically significant text, with its rich account of frontier affairs in early American history. The Cornell edition features Gallucci’s introduction and explanatory footnotes, as well as several appendices, maps, and illustrations.

Edited and translated by John A. Gallucci (Cornell University Press)

Jay Chandrasekhar ’90, Kevin Heffernan ’90, Steve Lemme ’91, Erik Stolhanske ’91, Paul Soter ’91 (Broken Lizard Industries) In Broken Lizard’s latest film comedy, “Slammin’” Cleon Salmon (Michael Clarke Duncan) is a former Heavyweight Champion of the World–turned– owner of a high-end Miami seafood restaurant, The Slammin’ Salmon. To pay off a gambling debt, Salmon uses fear to rule over his misfit wait staff and sets up a contest to ‘inspire’ them to sell more food than ever before. The top-selling server of the night wins $10,000 while the waiter in last place gets a “broken rib sandwich” — courtesy of Salmon himself. Backstabbing, bribery, and indecent proposals ensue as staff members up-sell their patrons while sabotaging their co-workers. In addition to the members of Broken Lizard, 13 other Colgate alumni were involved in the making of the film.

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The Wall Street Professional’s Survival Guide Roy Cohen MA’81 (FT Press)

Roy Cohen has put together a complete, up-todate, practical guide for financial industry professionals seeking new or better jobs in today’s brutally competitive environment. Drawing on more than 10 years of experience providing outplacement services for a large Wall Street firm, Cohen tells you what to do when and if you are fired or changing companies, how to develop a “game plan” and search targets, how to build your “story,” how to move from the sell side to the buy side, and much more. Cohen’s guidance is industry-specific, and draws on real examples from his own practice.

An Account of the Exploration and Settlement of Northern New York State by French Émigrés in the Years 1793 to 1797

S im o n De s jardins & P ie r re P haro u x Edited and translated by John A. Gallucci

Slammin’ Cleon Salmon (Michael Clarke Duncan), the former Heavyweight Champion of the World and current owner of a high-scale Miami restaurant, has racked up a sizable gambling debt to a band of Japanese thugs.

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Broker, Trader, Lawyer, Spy: The Secret World of Corporate Espionage Eamon Javers ’94 (HarperBusiness)

In Broker, Trader, Lawyer, Spy, Eamon Javers exposes a hidden global network of private spies working for Wall Street traders, corporate giants, and white-shoe law firms. Readers are introduced to the longstanding globalized espionage industry: Soviet military intelligence officers now working for American law firms, veteran American Secret Service officers who steal secrets for

In the media candy companies, and many others.

Built on unprecedented access and sourcing, the book’s examination of this secretive world begins with a look at the nation’s first true “private eye,” and extends through to the connections today between global intelligence services and the top investigative agency on Wall Street.

Peripheral Visions: Politics, Society, and the Challenges of Modernity in Yucatan

Co-edited by Gilbert M. Joseph ’69 (with Edward D. Terry, Ben W. Fallaw, and Edward H. Moseley) (University of Alabama Press) Yucatan has been called “a world apart” — cut off from the rest of Mexico by geography and culture. The essays in Peripheral Visions show that, despite its peripheral location, the region experienced substantial change after Mexico achieved independence.

Essays focus on at least three challenges for study of the peninsula

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Marketplace of the Gods: How Economics Explains Religion Larry Whitham Acting White: The Ironic Legacy of Desegregation Stuart Buck Britten and Brülightly: A Graphic Novel Hannah Berry Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?

James Shapiro The Enemy in Our Hands: America’s Treatment of Prisoners of War from the Revolution to the War on Terror Robert C. Doyle Anthill: A Novel E.O. Wilson Fashion of the 20th Century: 100 Years of Apparel Ads Edited by Jim Heimann, Written by Alison A. Nieder Mom: The Transformation of Motherhood in Modern America Rebecca Jo Plant Dreaming in Christianity and Islam: Culture, Conflict, and Creativity Edited by Kelly Bulkeley, Kate Adams, and Patricia M. Davis 1934: A New Deal for Artists Ann Prentice Wagner

today: politics after the fall of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), scholarly demystification of the Maya, and the transition to a post-henequen economy featuring tourism, migration, and assembly plants known as maquiladoras. Disciplines represented in the collection include history, anthropology, sociology, and economics, painting a strikingly rich picture of the region as it has developed.

Deadliest Sea: The Untold Story Behind the Greatest Rescue in Coast Guard History Kalee Thompson ’96 (William Morrow)

Deadliest Sea is a daring adventure tale that chronicles the power of nature against man, and explores the essence of the fear people must face when confronted with catastrophe.

Kalee Thompson explores the harrowing tale of the fishing trawler Alaska Ranger as it sank into the Bering Sea in 2008, and the incredible rescue effort launched by the Coast Guard that followed.

In exploring the largest cold-water Coast Guard rescue in history, Thompson raises questions about the negligence that leads to the preventable sinking of dozens of ships each year.

She also pays tribute to the courage, tenacity, and skill of dedicated service people who risk their own lives for the lives of others.

Anticorruption in the Health Sector: Strategies for Transparency and Accountability

Edited by Taryn Vian ’80 (co-edited with William Savedoff and Harald Mathisen) (Kumarian Press)

Corruption is a serious problem under any circumstances, but in the health sector, it is literally a matter of life and death: facilities crumble when repair funds are embezzled; fake drugs flood the market with corrupt regulators managing supply; and doctors extort-

“Some lakes look like they might be ready to come back, and if we cut the emissions more they would.”

— Rich April, professor of geology, offers his expert insight for a Smithsonian.com story about the impact of acid rain on the ecosystem

“This is a way to get some exercise, meet other people, and emphasize that nature is right outside our office windows.”

— John Pumilio, sustainability coordinator, describes Colgate’s bird watching expedition in a U.S. News & World Report article about Earth Day activities

“In a city [Utica] that’s been economically struggling for a long period of time, just a little change in the economy can lead to pretty significant reductions in the properties they own.”

— Nicole Simpson, associate professor of economics, talks to The Observer Dispatch (Utica) about the impact of the lagging economy on Utica’s shrinking tax base

“It’s our responsibility as people of relative privilege to help people in need.”

— Rebecca Blake ’10 describes to The Jewish Week (New York) her experience volunteering in Harlem as part of a Hillel service-learning project

“All of our budget restructuring is absolutely in response to the economy.”

— Dave Hale, vice president for finance and administration, in a Central New York Business Journal report about the 2010–2011 budget, which includes the lowest tuition increase in at least 35 years

“Of all the enterprises I’ve been involved with, this is by far the most gratifying.”

— Al Chagan ’64 featured in a Philadelphia Inquirer story about his role as CFO of Impact Thrift Stores, a community venture in which proceeds from the sale of “gently used” items are donated to charities

ing under-thetable payments from patients fail to provide needed care. Until now, those preparing to fight corruption in the health sector have had few resources to guide them. Anticorruption in the Health Sector brings practical experience to bear on anticorruption approaches tailored specifically to health, in a manner that is both practitioner- and classroom-friendly.

Also of note:

As the western frontier began to close after the Civil War, some families sought rural locations for summer living in which to maintain the frontier ethos. In Campsteading: Family, Place, and Experience at Squam Lake, New Hampshire (Routledge), one of the first works published on the American institution of campsteading, Derek Brereton ’68 approaches one such community from an anthropological perspective.

News and views for the Colgate community

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Things to do

By Matt Muskin ’10 Illustrations by Norm Bendell

before you graduate

As my sophomore year came to a close, I suddenly

realized that my experience here so far had been just a

glimpse of the amazing opportunities Colgate provides

on a daily basis — and I knew there were many more

that I had not yet discovered.

nce I began to see all that Colgate would do for me in four years, I knew I had to find a way to help other students see the same for themselves. So much of what happens here is a shared experience, and each person’s perspective shapes his neighbor’s. The trouble is, time slips by faster than one would expect, so a “cheat sheet” with some ideas about how to take advantage of everything that Colgate offers seemed like a great idea. I decided I wanted to make a list that would capture a moment, but could, and would, change over time: 101 things, as uniquely Colgate as possible, that students should consider doing before they walk the stage at commencement.

Working with Beverly Low, dean of first-year students, I was able to develop my idea further and make it a reality. The process of making the list come alive was both fun and creative. It required that I actually delineate all of the ways I spent my time on campus. I e-mailed a large group of friends and other students and began to collect “data” — all of the unique and special experiences people told me they had at Colgate. What they shared ranged from the pedestrian (a weekly Sunday dinner with friends) to the sublime (a first kiss on the Willow Path). I also found myself wanting to try everything I received for the list.

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In true Colgate fashion, this list is inexhaustible; every student has at least one moment that has helped define his or her time here.

The most exciting part of the project was when I hand-delivered a copy of the list to each member of the Class of 2012 on their move-in day. Amidst all of the chaos and excitement that comes with meeting roommates, choosing beds, and saying goodbye to parents for the first time, the incoming class had a living document — created by their peers — that gave them an idea of how unpredictable and exciting their four years could be.

We updated the list for the Class of 2013 (for one, sadly, Big Norm, the world’s largest pig, had died, so that field trip to Hubbardsville was off the table) and again in anticipation of the arrival of the Class of 2014.

Ultimately, we created a guide that truly embraces a Colgate value: being well-versed in not only one’s studies but also in one’s surroundings. I have always admired that quality, and the list is a great way for students to get to know Colgate inside and out, and to make the most of their time here.

Alumni and students from across the generations: What’s on your must-do list?

Visit www.colgatealumni.org/scene101 and post your comment.

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1 Make your lucky number 2 3 Throw down a blanket and have a picnic on the Village Green 4 5 6 7 8 Shake it on stage or in your seat at Dancefest 9 10 Hang out with Adam and Eve while reading by Taylor Lake 11 12 Get adventurous and sign up Organize a campuswide event relating to a personal interest

Explore the trails and the Darwin Path at the top of the Ski Hill

Find the best hill for sledding…by trial and error, of course!

Play or sing your heart out at the Barge’s Open Mic Nights

Have a “beach day” at Lineberry Natatorium’s Open Swim hours

Go to the Hamilton Theater’s

Midnight Movie and pay $3 for a ticket and a slice of pizza

Take a gym class in a sport you’ve never tried before

for an Outdoor Ed. trip

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13 Learn the definition of triskaidekaphobia Learn more about a professor while having dinner at his or her house

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Try a little romance and go out on a date!

Take a chance on a class in a department that is out of your comfort zone

Have a weekly Sunday dinner with a group of friends

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Slip (only once!) on the Persson steps

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Say “hello” and start a conversation with a stranger (this one

21 Be a Rowdy Raider and

support Colgate athletics! 22 23 24 25 26

27 Attend 24 Hour Burn, the annual play that is you can do many times!)

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Volunteer through one of the many programs at the COVE

Go for a dip in Lebanon Reservoir

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office hours just to introduce yourself like Poker Night

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Get out your telescope and look at the stars from the Old Golf Course

Try a problem of a different kind at the Angert Family Climbing Wall

Play on an intramural sport team; whether it’s trapshooting or ping-pong, you can compete against the campus’s best

Catch a great view and study in the Persson skybridge

written, cast, and performed in a single day Check out the constellations from the Foggy Bottom Observatory

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Stop into President Herbst’s office hours, even if just to meet him

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Put yourself out there: go to a professor’s

Take advantage of the great weekly events at Donovan’s Pub,

Create a Relay for Life team and stay up all night to fight cancer

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34 Be the founding member of your own club 35 Throw Big Red gum onto the ice at the Colgate-Cornell hockey game 36 37 38 Experience new cuisines at Frank’s cultural food nights 39 40 41 42 Get out on the links at Seven Oaks, one of the best college golf courses in the country 43 44 45 46 47 Have a first kiss on the Willow Path bridge — but choose wisely! Legend has it that a first kiss here leads to marriage. 48 49 Find the Colgate Rock Visit Chapel House and peruse the books and art in its amazing library

from the pros at an English department lecture or poetry reading

Hear it

Keep yourself up to

date on what’s happening in the world — it’s easy to get lost in the Colgate bubble

Jump into Taylor Lake (and then wonder why you did)

Challenge some of

the most knowledgeable people in Hamilton at the Colgate Inn’s Trivia Night

Get a great milkshake at Gilligan’s Island in Sherburne

Try to stand an egg up on the Autumnal Equinox (9/22/10 at 23:09)

Make yourself heard (or read): write an article for the Maroon-News

Satiate that sweet tooth with some goodies at Maxwell’s Chocolates

Steal a tray from Frank to

use as a sled when the snow calls

Quarry above the Old Golf Course

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Go to an Off-Off-Off-Off-Broadway show at Brehmer Theater

stressed? Treat yourself to a massage at Mezza Luna

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more limber: take a student-taught yoga class

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Go to the dollar store, and try to find something that actually costs a dollar

show on WRCU 90.1 FM

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Embrace your inner foodie: try all of the great restaurants in the towns

surrounding Hamilton

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Share your musical inclinations: host a radio

Picking up a new tongue? Visit the tables of Babel in the back of Frank to perfect that accent

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58 60 Have a great conversation and a free lunch at a Brown Bag discussion 61 62 Support Colgate’s finest men in the Mr. Colgate competition 63 64 65 Become a human canvas for beautiful colors at Holi, the Hindu spring festival 66 67 68 Remember to make a connection on every Friday the 13th by wearing Colgate clothing! aware of what’s happening in Student Government

See your books move at the LASR Observation Deck on the 4th floor of Case Library

Wander

the library’s archives and get a little lost in a sea of books

See the stars and much more in the Ho Tung Visualization Lab

Realize your dream of being a cowboy or cowgirl: ride the mechanical bull during Spring Party Weekend

Enjoy the company of your

roommates over the weekend: watch a movie and just relax!

Broaden your view: attend a religious ceremony of a faith that is not your own

at CAB’s Take Two

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See two great movies in one sitting

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Impress yourself by building the biggest snowman you’ve ever seen

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Support local businesses at the Saturday morning Farmers Market on the Village Green

71 Rent a kayak from the boathouse and get out on beautiful Lake Moraine 72 73

Dessert Sampler at the Colgate Inn Tap Room

Feed your craving for sweets with the

Taste some local beers like Saranac and Ommegang, and see where they are made on a brewery tour (when you’re old enough!)

74 Study for your next quiz on a comfy couch with a hot chocolate at the Barge Canal

Coffee Co. 75 76 77 78 79 Order a “slice” to your room from Slices 80 81 82 83 84 Discuss timely topics with professors and other first-years at Think Tank in Frank Dining Hall 85 86 87

88 Find out where Adam and Eve spend their winters 89 90 91 92 Revel in a cappella, one of Colgate’s finest traditions,

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95 Be a part of Colgate history: ring the Shop your heart out at the legendary Wegmans supermarket in Syracuse

Learn to throw a Frisbee (and maybe even play a game of Ultimate)

of public speaking by joining the Colgate Speaking Union

Master the elusive art

Become a master on your feet: take

one of Colgate’s many dance classes

Get a “Slices Come Plain Only” T-shirt and wear a Colgate tradition

on your back!

Have a prank war with friends

During finals, take a breather with

one of the many study breaks offered throughout the week

Set up a picnic with friends

on the top of the Ski Hill

Find your inner Nostradamus and predict Colgate’s first snowfall

Looking for a study space off the beaten path? Take refuge at Conant House

Got some extra energy? Run a half-marathon in the Colgate area (visit www.cnyrunning.com) Have a BBQ at the grills located between Curtis and Drake or Andrews

and Stillman, by Birch 5, or in front of Commons

Find out all of Colgate’s “13” connections

Explore the various ski slopes in Colgate’s neighborhood

Go green: sign up for the GreenBikes program

See the tallest building in central New York at the Turning Stone Casino

Chapel bell and sign your name on the wall

in the bell tower

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Get to know every person (and his or her name) in your residence hall Be an Olympian — a Colgate Winter Olympian

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Introduce yourself to Dean Low as soon as

Follow the “Powers of 10” Glass Panels in the Ho Science Center

Ask Gary Ross if he remembers your application essay; you’ll likely be pleasantly surprised!

101 Spread the Colgate love:

host a prospective student through the admission office

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Living In For 75 years and counting, students on the Washington Study Group have witnessed politics and history in the making

By James Leach As an intern in the Washington office of Florida Senator George LeMieux, Matt Scheer ’11 had an insider’s view of the legislative process as health care reform made its way through Congress this year.

Scheer — a self-described political junkie — was one of 13 students on the 2010 Washington Study Group, the latest edition of a program conceived in 1935 by Professor Paul Jacobsen as “a laboratory in political science.” This year’s group, led by Professor Stanley Brubaker, continued a 75-year tradition of Colgate students being at the source as history unfolds. “Living it day to day was incredible,” said Scheer.

Since Jacobsen described the inaugural study group in the 1937 Journal of Higher Education, the goal has remained remarkably consistent: “The fundamental purpose of this off-campus study was to give the student an opportunity to see the government at work — to learn how it operates by watching ‘the wheels go round’ from vantage points of intimate contact and association with the officials.”

“I feel enormous continuity when I read Paul Jacobsen’s article,” said Brubaker, who has led 19 of the groups since 1986. “Reading what he said, you realize the importance of choosing your parents wisely.”

Widely regarded as the first study group offered in Washington by any college or university, Jacobsen’s experiment was also Colgate’s first semesterlong off-campus experience. It became the model for a distinguishing feature of the modern academic program; today, nearly two in every three Colgate students participate in one or more of the university’s 20-plus faculty-led study groups in the United States and abroad.

More than 60 Washington Study Group alumni responded to an e-mail inviting reminiscences for

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this story. Their comments illustrate the program’s impact on participants’ lives across seven decades.

Capacity for judgment Throughout its history, the study group has melded rigorous study with practical experience. Working from “basic textbooks and supplementary readings,” wrote Jacobsen, students in that first study group “secured a balanced viewpoint representing both the theoretical and the practical, the close-up and the long-range perspective.”

With that same balance as a constant goal, the syllabus has evolved to include two courses and

from government, interest groups, think tanks, and the media, students hone their understanding of the substance and politics of a chosen issue. Then, operating like a congressional committee and following parliamentary procedure, the students mark up a bill that is central to the issue at hand.

This year’s group researched President Obama’s health care plan. Earlier groups have studied such topics as reinventing government, impeachment, and campaign finance. Joel Omansky ’00 said his group’s examination of Social Security “was the first time something I was studying had direct real-world implications. It was a fascinating insight into how Washington works, in a way that a policy textbook could never quite describe.”

“The students get to be impressive experts on these subjects,” said Brubaker, “and when they interview someone, they knock their socks off.” While studying constitutional aspects of the War on Terror, the 2006 study group interviewed Georgetown’s David Cole, the principal author of a statement by major law professors who opposed wiretapping by the National Security Agency. “Cole commented that in all of the interviews he had had on the subject — with congressional staff, members of Congress, and the media — he had never been asked such astute and informed questions,” wrote Brubaker in that year’s annual report.

“When they interview someone, they knock their socks off.”

— Prof. Stanley Brubaker a detailed case study in addition to the required 12-week internship. During their first two weeks in Washington, today’s students are immersed in a daily seminar titled “Our Changing Constitutional Order,” which Brubaker describes as covering “a week’s worth of material in each class meeting.”

Texts on the five-page-long reading list include the U.S. Constitution, The Federalist Papers, works on historical realignments of the political parties, a couple dozen of the Supreme Court’s “greatest hits,” Antonin Scalia’s A Matter of Interpretation, and the daily Washington Post, among many others.

That course and an eight-week seminar on political organization (Readings and Research on American Government) sharpen students’ understanding of their experience. “We want our courses to help students understand that some of what they see is ephemeral,” said Brubaker. “We want students to develop a capacity for judgment as citizens — to make the distinction between what’s new and what’s important.”

In the final seven weeks of the semester, overlapping their internships, students examine a contemporary policy issue in depth. Through extensive reading and a series of interviews with key players

Hands on Just as academic work enlightens students’ internships, the real-world internships enrich their understanding of the political science literature, said Brubaker. The Readings and Research on American Government seminar contributes to that exchange by providing background on organizational theory and decision-making, at the same time bringing students together to discuss and compare their internships.

Bert Levine ’63, a former Washington lobbyist who now teaches political science at Rutgers, has led the group three times. “Lots of schools see

History internships as a kind of vocational preparation,” said Levine. “Colgate makes the internships a part of the academic experience, bringing that discussion into the seminar room to amplify and add nuance.”

Today, Washington-based Robert Samuels, a PhD with extensive government agency experience, assists the study group directors in overseeing the details of the internship program and teaching in the readings and research seminar.

Professor Joseph Wagner, who led a group in the late 1980s, describes the approach to internships as having “a liberal arts emphasis. We engage students in seeing the world not just as practical problems that need solutions, but as intellectual puzzles about what makes government work. We develop their understanding of how difficult it is to run a democracy.”

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students have a wealth of practical experiences to draw on. Tricia Keith Baione ’99 had been interning in the White House press office for just ten days when the Monica Lewinsky scandal broke. As an intern in the foreign affairs division of the Library of Congress, Bill Schmeh ’59 drafted speeches for members of the House and Senate. Chas Schmitz ’01 was interning in Sen. Joseph Lieberman’s press office when Al Gore picked Lieberman as his running mate

Do n a l d Fo l ey ’ 3 8 g r ew u p i n H a m i l t o n , the s on o f a fa c u l t y m em b er. H e w ro t e of th e 1 9 3 6 g r o u p , “ I t w a s a p a r t icu l arl y won d e rf u l ex p er i en c e f o r m e t o g e t t h i s im m e r si o n i n t h e o u t -t h er e wo r l d o f Wa s hin g t o n .”

Frank G o dson ’48 wrote of Wa shington St u dy G ro u p crea tor Pa ul Ja cobsen: “‘Ja ke’ k n ew t h at by seed ing a young m ind with u n f o rg e t t able ex p eriences, understa nding wo u l d be re aped yea rs la ter.”

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(Schmitz also interned in the clerk’s office at the Supreme Court). After being fired from a summer job for unionizing the dish room at Jackson Lake Lodge in Grand Teton National Park, Ted Vaill ’62 interned at the concessions management division of the National Park Service (payback ensued).

Between internships and the academic workload, “It’s an enormously complicated, taxing thing these students do,” said Professor Tim Byrnes, who led the groups in 2008 and 2009. He selected student participants on the basis of academic performance, personal flexibility, and interest. “Especially in Washington, you need a group who are going to take their responsibility seriously,” he said. “They are going to represent Colgate in the highest rungs of professional institutions.”

Kelly McKallagat ’05 acknowledged the workload: “I’m not going to lie. At times we were all miserable.

It wasn’t a ‘fun’ study group, but it was an amazing experience. Sitting around a conference table with 12 other students who were driven, committed, passionate, and bright made me want to do more and do better.” Today McKallagat is a lawyer in the Office of General Counsel for the Department of the Navy.

“I would not be a lawyer if I had not gone on the study group,” she wrote.

Witness to history For more than seven decades, students on the Washington Study Group have taken a front-row seat for historical events that ranged from the declaration of war to the inauguration, resignation, and impeachment of presidents.

“I was an eyewitness to history,” wrote Jim Milmoe ’69 of his experience on the study group led

by Professor David Stern in 1968, a year that would see the Poor People’s March on Washington, the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., Robert Kennedy’s presidential candidacy and assassination, and

Robert McCallum ’43 was on the Washington Study Group in December 1941 when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. “I was standing within 25 yards of the West Wing when I heard from a bystander’s portable radio that the bombing was in progress,” he wrote in his class’s World War II Memoirs. A short while later, classmates Noel Rubinton, Bill Barber, and Ed Jones were at the steps of the State Department when Japanese Ambassador Kichisaburo Nomura and Special Envoy Saburo Kurusu arrived for a fateful meeting with Secretary of State Cordell Hull — Barber and Jones appeared in the background of Life magazine’s photo of Nomura and Kurusu from that day. The following day, Bob Beitz ’43 was in the visitors’ gallery to hear President Franklin Roosevelt deliver his famous “A Day Which Will Live in Infamy” speech to Congress, seeking a declaration of war.

A year later, in December 1942, the Class of ’43 would graduate six months early so the men could join the armed services. The Washington Study Group was suspended during the war years, resum-

“It wasn’t a ‘fun’ study group, but it was an amazing experience.”

— Kelly McKallagat ’05 a country divided over the war in Vietnam. “My New Frontier optimism was about to end, and an education in the realities of politics was about to begin,” wrote Milmoe. “I went back to Colgate that fall with a lifetime of experiences and a conviction that a life in politics was not for me.”

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Fo r so me , the group ha d the opposite effect: “ I t h i n k most of us went to Wa shington i n h o pe s of getting sta rted in a ca reer in po l i t i cs,” wrote B ruce C lark ’62. “As fa r a s I k n ow, be ing on the study group cured us a ll o f t h at ambition.”

ing in fall 1947, again under Jacobsen’s leadership.

A 1947 press release reported that 55 of the 80 students who had participated in the eight pre-war study groups had gone off to war.

Less than 30 years later, the United States was at war again, this time in Vietnam, and the mood in the nation was decidedly different. Mark Nozette ’71 was in Washington in spring 1970 on the study group led by Professor Edgar Shor. As the war escalated with the invasion of Cambodia, campuses across the country were in turmoil. After six students died in clashes with police and the National Guard during war protests at Kent State and Jackson State, an ad hoc committee of the House of Representatives convened to hear student views on the policy in Southeast Asia. Nozette, who was the newly elected vice president of the student body, testified. “Many of my peers do not wish to see lives taken — be they Vietnamese, Laotian, Cambodian, or their very own — for what they consider to be a worthless cause,” Nozette told the committee during his extended remarks.

As an intern, Nozette often represented Congressman Ben Rosenthal when students came to the office. “I don’t think you could say where the job stopped and the academic work began. It all became part of one,” recalled Nozette, whose study

group experience influenced his decision to study law.

Don Foley ’38 saw Franklin Roosevelt’s second inauguration (“We stood on a roof of the Capitol in a drizzle looking down at the ceremony”). Jim Adams ’70 witnessed Richard Nixon’s first inauguration (“probably 20,000 people, 10 percent of the Obama

Lewis ’94). And Byrnes said he organized his 2009 study group to attend Barack Obama’s inauguration together as their first event of the year (“the biggest crowd I’ve been in in my life, and a wonderful way to be introduced to Washington for the semester”).

Anne MacDonald ’00 attended the Clinton impeachment hearing; “An interesting time to be an ‘intern,’” she wrote.

Frank Godson ’48 was in the gallery when President Truman addressed a special session of Congress; “Since we were the only group of its kind in Washington at the time, we had access to most of the leaders of Congress, one cabinet member, and one Supreme Court justice.”

Larry Kenna ’68 saw smoke billowing over downtown Washington as he hitchhiked down Connecticut Avenue with classmates Tom Blatner ’69 and Ray Elliott ’69. “A black man pulled over and told us to get in,” Kenna recalled. “He told us that Dr. Martin Luther King had been shot and that the smoke we saw was the result of rioting and the burning of businesses in the predominantly black section of the

“Every morning brought a new headline about the Watergate scandal.”

— Peter Coniglio ’74 crowd”). Peter Coniglio ’74 had standing room for Nixon’s second inauguration (“every morning brought a new headline in the Washington Post about the Watergate scandal”). Margie Palladino ’82 recalled Ronald Reagan’s inauguration (“and his attempted assassination, and the release of the American hostages in Iran after 444 days”). Through a contact with future Clinton press secretary Mike McCurry, Prof. Levine secured tickets for the ’93 group to attend President Clinton’s MTV inauguration ball (“the toughest ticket in the city,” said Brian

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“A 21- ye a r - old c o u l d n o t h a ve a s ked f o r mo re ,” w ro t e Ch r i s F a ge r ’ 70. “ To d a y , I ’ m s t i l l o n a t ra j ect o ry ins p ir e d by tha t s em es t er.” N ow a T V execu t i ve i n L os Ange le s , F a g er wo r ked i n Wa s h i n g t o n as a pu bl i c inte r e s t la w ye r w i t h t h e R ep o r t er s C o m m i t t e e f o r Fre e d om of th e P r es s f o l l ow i n g l a w s c h o o l .

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A t t o rn ey Susan Eckert ’85 met Senators Lloyd Bentsen and Ted Kennedy while interni n g f o r stud y group a lum na La urie Sed lm a yr ’7 8 i n A ri z o n a Se n at o r De n nis D eConcini’s office, a nd volunteered f o r G ary Hart ’s pre si de n t i al ca mpa ign: “The 1984 group provid ed a n e sse n t i al f o u n dat i o n f o r my ca reer representing la b or unions a nd e mpl oye e s an d sh ape d my i nterest in politics a nd pub lic service.”

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Finding John Dean

In the spring of 1971, our group had an interview in the Executive Office Building with the Nixon Administration’s official in charge of Indian affairs. I don’t remember anything he said, but I do remember that after the interview, Jim Capalino ’72 and I went off on our own in search of another administration official whom we heard had attended Colgate, at least for two years. He had a job we didn’t know much about: counselor to the president. His name was John Dean. Watergate was still just a fancy apartment complex near the Potomac.

Security was different back then. No one bothered us — two college kids wandering the halls of the Executive Office Building. We found Dean’s office, told his secretary we were from Colgate, and asked if he was free to talk to us.

He was. I think he talked about his job and his two years in Hamilton. What I remember most was that in the midst of our impromptu interview, Dean got a phone call, whispered something, then asked if he could have a moment alone. After a few minutes, we were invited back into his office. Dean didn’t explain the mysterious call. It was more than a year before the break-in at Democratic Party headquarters at the Watergate, and before Dean warned Nixon about the “cancer on the presidency,” but I’d like to imagine that was the phone call that started it all.

city. He was on his way to his own business to see if he could save it.”

Blatner worked on Robert Kennedy’s primary run, and recalled walking through Washington’s burning streets with him. Lyndon Johnson withdrew from his race for reelection that spring; Steven Naclerio ’68 stayed “Clean for Gene,” working on the presidential campaign of Eugene McCarthy.

The people they met From tea at the White House with Eleanor Roosevelt, to in-depth interviews with policy makers, to chance encounters with national figures, members of the Washington Study Group have contact with the people who make and interpret history.

Jim Milmoe’s “heart still races” when he recalls standing next to Robert Kennedy at the St. Stephen’s altar on Ash Wednesday. Entering the Senate elevator, Jack Schramm ’53 “crashed into Nixon. He was quite gracious,” he said. The “nice older man” who led Amy Mason ’99 and her disoriented tour group back to their starting point turned out to be Wisconsin Senator Herb Kohl.

Professor Robert Elder introduced Jesse Etelson ’55 and the members of his study group by name to Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn. “When we left,”

wrote Etelson, “Rayburn acknowledged each of us by name.” Bruce Clark ’62 and the members of his study group had a different experience meeting J. Edgar Hoover: “We each shook his hand and then were waved to a door at the other side of the room, which we presumed was his conference room. We found ourselves in a hallway.”

Kirk Raab ’59 and members of his group interviewed Senator Lyndon Johnson and Congressman Jerry Ford: “We all felt they were going to do big and important things some day,” Raab remembered. Tom Blatner described a “ghost-like encounter with Congressmen Cheney and Rumsfeld” in 1968. Nearly two decades later, Ted Price ’87 would intern in Cheney’s office.

Marvin Morse and Alvin Goldstein and their 1949 classmates, who had witnessed the drama in Washington when Harry Truman defeated Thomas Dewey, were invited to join the president in the Oval Office for a group photo that ran in the New York Times.

In-depth interviews with Washington figures have long been a feature of the Washington Study Group. “People are almost always happy to see us because they know Colgate students will do a good job,” said Brubaker. While many prominent names

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surface in alumni recollections of those interviews, no one is mentioned more than Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who first met with the group in 1988 and has been back almost every year since.

“Justice Scalia does it with such great humor,” said Brubaker. “There may be a moment where

and collaborated on a related PBS documentary, which has subsequently been viewed in more than 80 countries. Today they head the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict, where Ackerman is the founding chair and DuVall is the president and founding director. They met with study groups in 2008 and 2009.

When Peter Coniglio ’74 talks to the group about the ethical obligations of executive branch employees, he speaks from the perspective of someone with experience in the Department of Justice, the Treasury Department, and the General Services Administration, but also with a memory of Washington in 1973, when the Watergate scandal was in full bloom. Of that spring, he remembered, “it appeared the wheels were coming off our government, and perhaps the country.”

Senate Parliamentarian Alan Frumin ’68 played a central role in this year’s health care decision. “He is unparalleled in what he tells students about the history of the Senate,” said Prof. Byrnes, “and he gives the greatest tour of the Capitol imaginable.”

The names and events change across the years, but the quality of the experience remains constant.

As both a constitutional scholar with an appreciation for the enduring legacy of James Madison — and a study group director building on the lessons and performances of people like Ed Shor, David Stern, and, above all, Paul Jacobsen — a reflective Stanley Brubaker said, “I am struck by how fortunate we are to live in the heritage that they’ve given us.”

“It’s an enormously complicated, taxing thing these students do.”

— Prof. Tim Byrnes students are intimidated — he’s such a presence and he’s also pugnacious — but then they realize his playful manner and become engaged. He comes back because our students are prepared. They’re ready with the argument and he’s willing to take them on.”

Students also frequently interview Colgate alumni, some of whom are study group alumni themselves. Peter Ackerman ’68 and Jack DuVall ’68 were friends at Colgate and on the 1967 study group. Thirty years later, they co-wrote the book A Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Conflict

8 More than 60 alumni responded to the Scene’s e-mail inviting reminiscences for this story.

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Diary From Haiti

By Sophie Paris ’97

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was standing on 50th and First when the faint ring of my cell phone reached my ears through the din of Manhattan traffic. It was a corner I know well, from my years of coming and going into the photo unit on the ninth floor of the United Nations.

I was heading to the UN offices to meet and shoot the secretary general, one of the many kinds of assignments on my docket. I was running late, but juggled my heavy bag of camera bodies and lenses as I considered whether to answer my phone. It was my father — an odd time for him to call.

“Where are you?” he asked.

“On my way to a shoot; why, what’s wrong?”

“It’s all over the news. Haiti’s had a terrible earthquake. I don’t want to alarm you, but it sounds bad.”

He didn’t have to say more for me to realize the harsh implications. During my eight years of working my way up from darkroom assistant to staff photographer, I’d spent two-and-a-half of them documenting MINUSTAH, the UN’s mission to bring security, reduce political turmoil, and facilitate elections in Haiti. I had lived on the island, crisscrossing its mountains, learning Creole and French, and falling in love with its kind, spirited people. That assignment had ended three years ago, but of the 300 UN civilian staff still in Port au Prince [PAP], I knew half of them well. A dozen remained close friends. I heard myself exhale as my head became crowded with questions. But of one thing I was certain: I had to get to Haiti.

The following entries are excerpted from my notes and e-mails about the journey that ensued.

Clockwise, from top: A young boy tries to break through the rubble of his home in the Haitian slum of Nerette.

Workers in the U.N. Development Programme’s Cash for Work program line up to receive payment at the Sant Triyaj Fatra in the Kafoufey neighborhood of Port-auPrince. Every 15 days, a new batch of 1,500 people is hired; with a 6,000-person wait list for street cleaner jobs, they cannot work for the program again. Each is paid a little over minimum wage, 180 Haitian Gourdes per day.

Mourning the loss of more than 230,000 people, a commemoration of the one-month anniversary of the earthquake began with prayer services throughout Port-au-Prince. On Champs de Mars, thousands of people crowded around the square, dancing and singing their prayers, led by a preacher over a loudspeaker.

Nearby, a boy prayed in front of the collapsed National Palace.

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New York City A confounding, dark blur of updates arrives hour by hour: A 7.0 earthquake has ripped across the capital city of Haiti. Seventy percent of the buildings are in rubble. Scarce gasoline and food supplies are now gone. The airport is damaged and shut down.

Churches, schools, hospitals — even the maximum security prison — are badly damaged. Looting is getting out of control. A million people are homeless; up to 200,000 are trapped inside buildings or have been crushed to death. Late into the night, I hover over a small television with my coworkers. No one asks the cutting question out loud, but it gnaws at our silence. What about the UN headquarters, housed in the relatively modern and sturdy Christopher Hotel?

Did our colleagues survive? Then, at close to midnight, CNN breaks the news. The UN headquarters had collapsed at 4:56 p.m., while the building was humming with staff. It is simply too hard to accept, too hard to comprehend. Before I go to bed, I write an e-mail: Dearest Family – As you all have heard, there has been a massive earthquake in Haiti. Thank God most of my friends have been accounted for (Gille’s fam, Gaelle, Cyril, Logan, and many others); however, many of my colleagues are unaccounted for … Just spoke to Logan, the UN photog who replaced me, and it is really bad … a lot of people evacuated the UNHQ building before it crumbled, but a lot were still in it. … I am literally begging my boss to send me down there to cover the situation …

Trying to get in with OCHA, the UN’s emergency management arm … I have two friends from the graduate program I attended last year at the International Center of Photography who are going, so we decided that we would go together … Most journalists I know left tonight for Santo Domingo to get into PAP by dawn. Amazingly, Getty called me and asked me for contacts/fixers etc. in PAP. Just makes me want to get there that much more… xoxooxoxox

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I have 12 hours to rearrange my life — convince the UN that they have to send me. I argue that I know the city and country well, speak the languages, and, as a photographer and photo editor, know the demands of working in dangerous situations among people in crisis. I’ve survived muggings, gun fights, robberies, and a few bouts of malaria. In the process, I’ve taken my emotional hits and have seen my share of death and decimation, but it’s also taught me my limits — how to get through it and keep going.

For the next 36 hours, when not lobbying for my

departure, I establish a relay from a computer on a military desk in Haiti. Logan Abassi and our second UN photographer, Marco Dormino, will send me their images via satellite in New York. Logan tells me that he’d been inside the entrance of the UN headquarters when the terrible cracking and shaking began. With only a camera bag on his shoulder, he leapt outside and was among the last to escape. He tells me about trying to pull others out of the towering stacks of concrete before his instincts to just go shoot take over…He tells me that he traveled by foot and whatever means he could along the decimated streets of the city to his apartment at the Montana Hotel, but found nothing but wreckage. Marco and Logan are on an adrenaline-fueled odyssey of shooting without food or sleep. I stay up with them, editing and feeding their images of the first hours of the tragedy to the best publications in the world.

1/15/10 It is clear to me that Logan and Marco will soon collapse from exhaustion and the psychic toll of living through so much tragedy. David Wimhurst, the chief of the public information office in Haiti, has sent an urgent request to UNHQ for me to be sent as soon as possible. Together, we’ve been lobbying every bigwig involved. Unsure if it will be approved, I pack my duffel bag anyway with the essentials to survive what could be an indefinite ordeal: mosquito repellent, lighters, batteries, medicines (especially to avoid malaria, dysentery, and dehydration), knife, soap, precious toilet paper, sleeping bag, and my well-used but dependable hiking boots that will let me walk through blood, excrement, and mud. I add to that my requisite iPod, two novels, a few candles, my Powerbook, and as much photo equipment as I can carry. Last but not least, I throw in a corkscrew. I haven’t forgotten my Colgate roots. But I wonder if I’ll ever taste another bottle of wine.

1/16/10 At last, it’s happening. I’m leaving for Haiti tomorrow. I show up at UN headquarters at 5:00 a.m. and join Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s carpool to JFK. How did this happen? I wouldn’t hear “no.” Maybe everyone got tired of fighting me. I hope I wasn’t obnoxious. But it worked, and I am keyed up and frightened beyond belief to reach Haitian soil.

1/17/10 Sent from temporary UN headquarters, end of the runway, PAP airport Dearest Fam– It’s a total hellhole here and we might as well be at war in terms of sleeping arrangements.

Nowhere to even pitch a tent! … I’m fine though, just hot, mosquitoes everywhere, lots of dirt and dust and people who are miserable. My UN colleagues are NOT ok, I repeat they should all be evacuated and new staff flown in. They pulled two guys out of the UN building today, one of them while the SG was here so shot that. So exhausted I will sleep fine on a floor, have my mat and sleeping bag. Nighty night and will give you much more of an update tomorrow. LOVE YOU ALL! xoxoxoox

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Hi Dad – I’m absolutely exhausted … Too busy to not sleep at logbase. Also roads are not very clear, so hard to get anywhere unless you are on a motorcycle. Most of the dead have been picked up from the streets, though you see an occasional body and you can certainly smell bodies that are still stuck in the buildings … lots of UN people died, people who I still can’t believe are gone … going to the Christopher Hotel is just too painful. I went when Ban Ki-moon was here, but was able to put it out of my head and just shoot but it smelled of rotting corpses and to think that some of my friends died because they were walking down the stairs at the wrong time is just unfathomable. Anyway, I’m dealing with it because everyone around me is … We watched (and I photographed) 17 Brazilian military who died put on a plane today after a ceremony. There will be many, many more memorial services to go to. Tomorrow, I will tell you about the people of Haiti, who are faring much worse than the UN people. xoxoxooxo

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Hi All – We had a 6.1 earthquake this a.m., but I am fine. I was sleeping in my tent with a colleague and she and I panicked fumbling with the zipper on the door but by the time we got out of the tent it was over … This is exactly why we are all sleeping outside. xoxoxoxo

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Dear Friends and Family – Unfortunately my Blackberry was taken from a pocket in my cargo pants yesterday when Pres. Preval decided to appear on the lawn of the collapsed presidential palace.

There is a camp full of thousands of people who Left to right, top to bottom: Bodies of unidentified earthquake victims were brought from the morgue in Port-auPrince to be buried in eight mass graves in an area called Ti Tanyen. A Catholic priest oversaw the burials.

Marie Jose, one of several citizen supervisors of the U.N. Development Programme’s Cash for Work program in the Kafoufey neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, stands in the rubble that was once her house. The author tells her story on page 41.

About 50,000 internally displaced people made a makeshift tent camp on the golf course of the Petionville Club, a private golf and tennis club in Port-au-Prince.

Teetering in the remains of the Christopher Hotel, formerly the headquarters of MINUSTAH (the United Nations stabilization mission in Haiti), an engineer removes photographs of officials that were still hanging on their hooks, including the mission’s leaders, who were among the 96 staff members who perished in the earthquake.

Protection for recipients of food aid like this woman and her 20-kilogram bag of rice became an essential part of relief efforts. The U.S. Army and Peruvian peacekeepers working for MINUSTAH provided security for a World Food Programme distribution, coordinated by the international humanitarian aid organization GOAL, at the makeshift camp in Place St. Pierre in Petionville.

A MINUSTAH memorial service for the military peacekeepers who lost their lives in the earthquake.

are homeless directly in front of the palace where I happened to be, so I ran over to try to get a shot of everyone screaming through the fence at him. They were chanting that Preval should leave, that he is “kaka” and a thief and that they want Aristide back … anyway, I got in the middle of a lot of people and someone clipped it … xxxxoooo

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Excerpt of message sent from Boston by Sophie’s father, Jay, to friends and relatives Recently, Sophie asked me to share her news. We were very pleased to hear her voice. Her voice was raspy from bronchial inflammation, a chronic health issue for most in PAP, where the irritants from dust and molecular debris continue to suffuse the air.

She is living in a tent at the entrance to the UN compound located 60 yards from the runway of the international airport, where planes and helicopters rumble in and out around the clock. Even though she arrived a few hours too late to get a cot or a pillow, she spoke of how quickly you accept these shortcomings when you spend your days among people who are still starving, dehydrated, and homeless … most of the original staff who survived are being relieved because the various and frightening symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder are increasingly evident — depression, spontaneous crying jags, inability to concentrate, mania at work, and hostility — hard to witness but especially difficult among depleted colleagues and dear friends. … she has hired a local Haitian with a motorcycle to provide her daily transportation (US$35 a day, cash). She said he is an expert if audacious driver who has been instrumental in helping her file two photo stories a day. They roam the city and occasionally the countryside for developments, returning at night to a workstation where she edits her shots for a few hours and files them to the wire services before the 10:00 p.m. deadline. Then up at dawn to start the process over, seven days a week …

Last Thursday she and her driver left the city to do a story on the mass graves and gravediggers 30 miles from PAP. The burial ground they discovered had hundreds of corpses arriving by the hour as the bulldozers cleared loam from a pit almost as large as a football field. Only a short distance away was a pristine beach, empty, with Caribbean water as clear and blue as the opulent and manicured 5-star shores of Campo Rojo in the Dominican Republic, not even 100 miles away. Far off, she could see a grey dust cloud hovering over the damaged hills of PAP. She said she swam, finally bathing for the first time…

2/2/10

Hi Dad – I’m losing it; Gaelle, my best friend here, is on her way to pick me up now, we are going to go up into the mountains to breathe some fresh air. Can’t pick up my camera today. Tomorrow I will shoot the WHO vaccination campaign and amputees who have to be re-amputated as well as looters. Saw a guy get shot on Saturday night, was shooting the looters downtown and a US private security dude killed him … I need a break. So I’m taking today off

and will be totally refreshed tomorrow. The UN photog from Lebanon is arriving next Tuesday, when he gets acclimated I will leave for 2 days to the DR for a bed, food and hot shower. I think I’ve lost 20lbs?!

My pants are falling off of me. I’m working so much and really only eat one meal a day, plus I have no appetite. Please don’t be worried, I’m fine just in a bad bad mood today and fed up …

Met Sean Penn last night! He just walked into logbase and I ran right into him as I was chowing down on a piece of chicken! I shared it with him. He’s been here for 11 days living in an IDP [internally displaced persons] camp. He’s a nice guy, totally normal! Oh, and I had a respiratory infection, not sure if I mentioned that, so am on cipro and vitamin C. Within two days I started feeling MUCH better. LOVE YOU! xoxoxo

2/5/10

CARMI!!!! … I really appreciate your sending all of these emails and it makes me feel so good to read all of them! … Angelina Jolie is coming next week and only an Italian photographer and I are allowed to shoot her, which will be interesting!

XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXXO

2/8/10

Hi Sus – I’m still in desperate need of a break. I think you are absolutely right that we need to put ourselves on a schedule of regular break days. Problem is that all UN MINUSTAH staff have been evacuated and they are being replaced by people from peacekeeping missions all over the world. I have now been here longer than any of the people who came from NY or other missions … Everyone else who has come are coming for 2 weeks only, it makes me feel very much alone (except for the head of the mission, Edmond Mulet, who I absolutely adore, he and I are comrades, when we see each other we almost burst into tears, including in front of Preval!).

Today my old roommates sent me a video they made with the song “3 is the magic number” as the music, and just seeing my house and them made me cry. I’m happy to be here and realize that I’m resilient (not as much as the Haitians of course); however, it is so hard to hear the same stories over and over again about people who lost all their children and a leg or arm. And people are not happy about having their photos taken lately. …One of my colleagues who was evacuated is returning next week with cash and a blackberry from Alejandro. Alejandro has been amazing, I transferred money into his account and he took it out in cash, bought me a new blackberry etc and went to my apartment and collected a bunch of things that will make me happy to have here. So funny what makes you happy, I want a specific tee shirt, a voice recorder, a specific necklace and ring. I want mascara and more socks and the book I was reading.

I’ve been giving my laundry to a woman who cleans the bathrooms here at logbase, but it takes 4 days to get the laundry back, so I go 4 days in the same clothes every 10 days. And the clothes smell worse than they did when I gave them to her! I think

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she cleans them in some dirty river in PAP and I half expect to see my clothes drying in one of the IDP camps I’m shooting! … A school director I met took me to his school that collapsed; he wants to build a new one (there are no schools anymore) so I took his picture and got a list of everything he needs. He has found a place to rebuild. I’m going to raise money for him to do this.

There are no prisons and all 4000 prisoners escaped, so the police are shooting people, or at least shooting them in the hand to punish them for looting and robbing, etc. … The best is that the police steal from the looters! I’ve witnessed it. Already escaped prisoners are starting to run certain neighborhoods. Everywhere I go people tell me how NGOs drop off food and as soon as they leave the Zenglendo (Creole for bad guys) come out with guns and steal all of it and give it to their own families … there are people shooting and robbing people downtown.

The smell of dead bodies is dissipating, but you still get a good strong whiff every now and then.

The mass graves that I shot a couple weeks ago were horrendous, but then at the same time they weren’t even humans to me. I don’t mean to be dramatic, but that’s how I felt. I was actually listening to U2 with headphones as I shot it. A surreal moment for sure, but it is all surreal.

My friend, photographer Marco Di Lauro, who I have been spending a lot of time with, has introduced me to a bunch of photographers … They have all been very sweet to me and actually realize that they need me. I should start a business “fixing” for photogs in Haiti. I give so much information out about everything because I know this place so well …

Bill Clinton was here last Friday with our beloved Paul Farmer, which I shot …

I’ve seen more dying, starving children … The American doctors don’t know what to do. They are giving them Pedialite, but that’s all they can do. And of course when they find out I work for the UN they Left to right, top to bottom: At the Handicap International prosthetic clinic in downtown Port-au-Prince, amputees are fitted with new legs and taught how to walk again.

A new campsite, Santos 17, with tents provided by the disaster relief charity Shelter Box, was set up by the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the Dominican Civil Defense, and the Civil Defense Directorate to provide shelter for about 1,400 people.

School in a Box opened on Monday, February 15, with 306 students in attendance at the IDP (Internally Displaced Persons) camp at La Centre Sportif in the sprawling slum of Carrefour. UNICEF partnered with the Danish Red Cross to provide two large tents along with desks to be used as temporary elementary schools. Teachers trained by the Red Cross work with traumatized children.

People in the slum of Cite Soleil line up for a food and water distribution from the World Food Programme.

Two young girls help with the removal of rubble at what used to be the Petionville market in Port-au-Prince.

A couple pose outside of their new home; 194 families (about 4,000 people) resettled into a site in Croix-desBouquets that IOM, Shelter Box, and the Dominican Civil Defense built and maintain.

ask me to help save these children and what the hell can I do? Nothing. I’m sure this sounds bleak, and it is, but food distributions have picked up in the last 3 or 4 days, and UNICEF along with ACTED has been installing water bladders in the camps … xxooo

2/10/10

Dear Fam – The tremors are weaker and weaker, I’ve actually gotten so used to them that I don’t even feel them … Confirmed with Michelle, my new boss, today that I’m going to Santo Domingo for three nights next week/weekend … plan on lying in bed for three days and ordering room service (with an emphasis on veggies, I have had the equivalent of one tomato and a handful of lettuce since I’ve been here, and for those of you who have eaten with me, you know that that’s not acceptable!), swimming in the pool, and of course taking many hot, clean showers.

I might move into Gaelle’s place because she has an extra bedroom; by MINUSTAH rules I must not live anywhere in PAP because they are sure that there will be another devastating quake. I need to be sane in order to work and therefore need a bed, a hot shower, and real food. It has been cleared by Canadian engineers as being safe to live in. It’s in Paco near the Palais. But little by little, it gets better.

2/11/10

Hi dad – I have my new BB and I’m in heaven. On my way to Jacmel to shoot two stories. … Lots of armed gangs again, and huge demonstrations. Ran into a gang checkpoint yesterday (if you can call it that; more like they want to stop you and rob you), my moto driver was scared but I’m calm in these situations, so I started joking around with them, and one of them recognized me from 2004! He was thrilled to see me and told me how he escaped from the prison during the earthquake then gave me his phone# and told me to call him if I have any problems. Love it!

This means I can work freely in Bel Mir anyway. All makes me chuckle. Xxxooo

3/6/10

Dear Fam – Haiti is transitioning again into partial cleanup mode; rains have started and camps are turning into mini-slum cities. And suddenly the UN has reorganized itself. Peacekeepers are patrolling again and doing a lot of work to clean debris, provide medical aid, feed people, etc. So there are all sorts of things to shoot. We also resumed regular helicopter service to all the regions so now I can travel and shoot stories outside of PAP. I just completed two assignments, one from UNDP [United Nations Development Programme] and one from the International Postal Union in Geneva. Feedback from both editors was very positive and they want to “hire” me in the future to shoot assignments for them — FINALLY! Which brings me to: I resigned from my post in NY yesterday and I am officially a MINUSTAH staff member. I have an FS5 post, which is better than what I had when I left here in 2007. I have a temporary post for 3 months. They may want to keep me…

I am supporting a lovely family whom I met through a UNDP assignment. Marie Jose lost her

husband and daughter, but has her grandchildren and three other kids to look after. They live on the street, and she works for the Cash for Work program, which gives 180 Gourdes per day to men and women to clean the street. It’s a nice project.

Marie Jose has been supporting her whole block on her salary. I spent four days with her family and just fell for them all. I am having “dinner” with them under their tarp tomorrow. Her daughter is giving me Creole lessons in exchange for English and MJ is cooking dinner for us … She insists on feeding me whenever I’m around and won’t take money. But I’ve given them money for tents, clothes, and food (after I was done with my assignment, of course!).

MJ is a very talented singer and dancer and has a beautiful presence; I’m just blown away by this woman and her resilience and determination to not give up and to do anything she can for her family. xoxoxooxox

M

Postscript, May 6, 2010

y first 33 days in Haiti after the earthquake is a blur to me now. I have never felt exhaustion, both physical and emotional, so intensely in my life. I am still in shock that my beloved little Haiti experienced something so devastating. This is the first time that I have seen both the elite and the poor suffering simultaneously, with the loss of homes and loved ones across the socio-economic plane, and this is very significant. In a country where two percent of the population holds 90 percent of the wealth, and there is virtually no middle class and no public education system, everything is disproportionate.

I have always been amazed by the ability of the Haitian people to create homes, musical instruments, transportation, artwork, or children’s toys out of nothing. Now, they have maintained their dignity in the face of utter chaos. Watching people scavenge for metal rods in collapsed buildings to ingeniously build homemade wheelchairs for the thousands of amputees, I am simply blown away. Instead of waiting for a solution to fall from the sky, people are proactively finding a way to move on with life.

Sometimes it brings me to tears, but more often than not, it forces me to engage in a reality that, as extreme and intense as it is, I’m in love with.

The debris is slowly being removed and new “settlement camps” are being built for the homeless to move into before the heavy rainy season begins.

Schools have re-opened in the IDP camps, some in makeshift tents made of a stick with a bedsheet over it, the lucky ones in large tents and with school materials from UNICEF and Oxfam — and they are all tuition free. The Haitian people are emerging with a greater hope for their country — so culturally rich, with so much potential — than ever before. My work here is sustained by these people who are tougher than hell.

Editor’s note: See more of Paris’s photos from Haiti and read about her photographic roots at www. colgatealumni.org/scene.

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Get to to know: Know:Heidi NameBulow HereParsont ’90

– Alumni Council member since 2009; Scene class editor, class secretary, 12 years; class gift committee, 20 years; reunion chair, 1995 – VP, Business Development, McKinley Marketing Partners – MBA, International Business, Georgetown University What is it about your job that gets you up in the morning?

I really like helping people, and my job allows me to do that — I place individuals looking for a job with people looking for talent. We work with some smaller companies, but our clients are mostly Fortune 1000, such as Verizon, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and Discovery. I also really like building relationships with them.

Do you have a favorite question you ask candidates?

What past job gave you a runner’s high? There’s no right or wrong answer; what it tells me is the type of environment they work best in and why. It gets at the crux of who we are.

How would the people who know you best describe you?

I think they would say I’m a good listener. That I’m very much a type A. Headstrong (which sometimes gets me into trouble!). I’m also a very family oriented person. As hard as it is to be a working mom, I spend as much time with my family as I can.

So tell us about your family. Do you have a favorite pastime?

My husband Marc stays home with our kids. Brandon turned 3 in April and Lindsay just turned 2. Every Saturday morning that we’re home, we go to the local farmer’s market. It’s fun to spend time having them look at the different fruits and vegetables. They get chocolate milk, and mommy and daddy get a hot drink with plenty of caffeine.

What would people be surprised to learn about you?

I sang “Never Knew Love Like This Before” in my eighth-grade talent show — to the laughter of every parent in the audience, I’m sure!

Name a Colgate person who made an impact on you.

It was actually a group — my friends in Alpha Chi Omega. The spirit and the friendships that developed, the fun that we had, has given me good memories of school.

Tell us about your Alumni Council experience.

I’m excited about the career services side of it because it is such a good match with what I do for a living. I’ve made the commitment to do Maroon Advantage events a couple times a year, in different places; so far, in D.C. and at Reunion College. Trying to help people find jobs, especially in this economy, is near and dear to my heart.

From your class editor years, do names run through your head in boldface? Yes! Last night in the Reunion tents, I could still say to people, “This is what you were doing; what are you doing now?” and they were like, “Good memory!”

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Questions? Contact the alumni office at 315-228-7433 or alumni@colgate. edu

Call for nominations The nominations committee of the Alumni Council seeks recommendations for candidates for this 55-member volunteer board. From unique perspectives and diverse backgrounds, the council advises the university; opens lines of communication between Colgate and its alumni; mentors the next generation of graduates; and proudly tells Colgate’s story to the world.

Each year, 11 to 13 new members are selected to represent specific eras and geographic areas as well as at-large positions. Candidates, initially identified through the nominations committee, are ultimately ratified by the full council. Ideal candidates exhibit several of the following qualities: • Varied Colgate volunteer service • A demonstrated commitment to Colgate over time • Meaningful personal or profes- sional accomplishments or contri- butions to the greater community • Readiness and willingness to become more involved on behalf of the university • A consistent history of giving financial support to Colgate The awards committee of the Alumni Council seeks nominations from the classes ending in 6 and 1 for awards to be presented at Reunion 2011.

Categories include: • Ann Yao Young Alumni Award (Class of 2006) • Maroon Citations • Humanitarian Award • Wm. Brian Little ’64 Alumni Award for Distinguished Service* *All candidates having previously received the Maroon Citation will be considered.

Send nominations for alumni awards and Alumni Council candidates by Sept. 1, 2010, to: RuthAnn Loveless

MA’72, Executive Secretary, Colgate University, 13 Oak Dr., Hamilton, NY 13346. Please include a supporting statement for each person you nominate. For more information, visit www. colgatealumni.org.

Alumni Club Awards Colgate’s district alumni clubs had another banner year hosting more than 320 events, thanks to terrific volunteer leadership. We are pleased to recognize this year’s club award winners, as well as our volunteer of the year. Congratulations to all!

Gateway Clubs: Most Outstanding: Saratoga. Most Improved: Lehigh Valley. Sustained Excellence: New Mexico.

Small Clubs: Most Outstanding: San Diego. Most Improved: Rhode Island.

Sustained Excellence: Chenango Valley. Revitalization Efforts: St. Louis and Twin Cities.

Medium Clubs: Most Outstanding: Rockies. Most Improved: Rochester (N.Y.). Sustained Excellence: Atlanta and New Haven. Revitalization Efforts: Puget Sound Large Clubs: Most Outstanding: Philadelphia. Most Improved: Northern New Jersey. Sustained Excellence: Chicago. Excellence in New Social Media: Northern California.

Metro Clubs: Most Outstanding: New York City. Most Improved: Boston.

Innovative Programming: Washington, D.C. Alumni Club Volunteer of the Year: Christopher Schweighart ’97, San Diego

13 Ways to Volunteer John Gillick ’67 offered his law firm’s conference space for a Colgate Club of Washington, D.C., event in April where geography professor and climatology expert Adam Burnett gave a fascinating talk on “Global Warming and Storm Patterns.” How can you engage with Colgate? Go to www. colgatealumni.org, select Volunteer for Colgate, and click 13 Ways to Get Involved.

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Making Connections puzzle By carrying letters down from one set of blanks to the next, you can get the names of eight familiar Colgate student organizations. The paths show you which letters move down, but you’ll have to figure out other missing letters yourself. Colors are used for different letters in different sections of the puzzle. For example, a blue path may connect Rs in one section, while a separate blue path may connect Os elsewhere.

Three letters have been placed to get you started. Answer key on pg. 69.

Slices Mick Castellanos ’83 won a Slices T-shirt for his correct entry for the Spring 2010 “two Bobs” photo ID contest. (Answer: Bob Marley and Bob Hope both performed during the 1979–80 academic year.)

Several folks shared fun anecdotes about those shows.

Puzzle by Puzzability

“Bob Marley performed at Colgate on Halloween 1979. That awesome show, following the Russian Study Group in the Soviet Union, made 1979 the most memorable year of my time at ’gate!”

— Carolyn Kemp ’82 “My then-girlfriend and now-wife (Cindy Hart ’83) braided my hair into dreadlocks for the Bob Marley show!

Ya, mon, a great night!”

— Bill Montgomery ’81 “I was there for the Hope show, but was too young to appreciate the import of Bob Marley’s presence at the time!”

— Holly Nye ’82 Read more reminiscences about the “two Bobs” in Letters (pg. 4).

Rewind 13 Words (or Less) Submit your creative, clever, or humorous caption of 13 words or less for this vintage Colgate photo to scene@colgate.edu or attn: Colgate Scene, 13 Oak Dr., Hamilton, NY 13346. The winner will receive a Colgate Scene T-shirt, and their caption will be announced next issue — along with the story behind what’s really going on there! Deadline: September 3, 2010.

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Rewind is our column for Colgate reminiscences. Send your submission of short prose, poetry, or a photograph with a description to scene@ colgate.edu.

Above: “And do I have fifty?” Auctioneer Sam Solovey ’98 keeps the bidding going at the 13th Konosioni Charity Auction in the Palace Theater. Back cover: Flags placed alongside the paths on the Quad helped to mark Big Gay Weekend, which promotes awareness of the LGBTQ community on campus, in April. Both photos by Andrew Daddio

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