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Volume 84 Issue 3 August 1995 Article 1
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COLBY AUGUST 1995 2 Periscope Gleaned by Dean Earl H. Smith from his weekly Still Harping Rock Stars campu newsletter, FYl Moosecellaneous Remember James "Bo" Justus Two geology majors, Matthew Lest we im·ite future capers, we '96 ( a hville, Tenn.), who O'Connell '96 (Brookfield, probably shouldn't mention escaped a peeding ticket on 1-95 Mass.) and John Baptiste '97 that the mule tatue was given by showing a state trooper a harp (Mendon, Mass.), were selected rekindle national pride for the zebra stripes one night during in his trunk1 The officer, who as summer research interns at Columbian Exposition that enior Week. Moose antlers sarcastically alleged that Colby the Lamont-Doherty Earth would commemorate the 400th would have been easier to students thought they were "a Observatory at Columbia anniversary of Columbus' voy remove ....Th is year's bunch of angel ,"didn't believe niversity, one of the world's age to the Americas. Upham Commencement class marshal Bo when he said he had a harp premier geologic research and fe llow editor Francis Bel was James Porter of Waten·ille. and offeredto let him go if it was institution-. Only one other lamy lobbied Pre ident Benja Jim is the ninth \·aledictorian true. It was. Well, Bo was in olby student, Heather Hall min Harrison and the Congress from the state of Maine in the London on the Colby program '90, ha ever been chosen. for the national Columbus Day past 11 years ....Stu-A this pa t spring. He got to Another geo major, Chris holiday and were put in charge Pre ident Bryan Raffetto '95 missing his harp and went to a Dawkins '97 (Murfree boro, of Jeveloping a special program (Hingham, Mass.) and Devin London music tore to rent one. Tenn.), was awarded an for schoolchildren. At Upham's Colman '98 ( orth Oaks, While he wa there he ran into intern hip at the Center for behest, Bellamy wrote the Minn.) won a special pri:e the organizers of the Interna High Pressure Research at "Pledge of Allegiance" for offered by trustee Alida Camp tional Folk Harp Festival, being Stony Brook, another nationally the children to read on the by giving a new name to held in Edinburgh, Scotland. He competitive program. first Columbus Day, October Colby's student non-alcoholic accepted their invitation to 12, 1 92. programs-MOOSE CAFE participate and fini hed eighth of Colby Pride (More Opportunities of Superior 125 in the competition. Holistic Belief and Aristotelian Hi Ho Silver Entertainment with Colb)' Alcohol Akrasia ( ic), a paper by Senior The Council for the Advance Free Environment). ever mind Director Ben cho ar Caleb Mason (Bethe da, ment and upport of Education that the "of' should be "for". Ben Jorgensen '92, who rook Md.), was one of rwo sharing the (CA E) has notified Colby Alida 3 AUGU T 1995 CO LBY Different Ways of Making the Grade sing Colhy trustees, cnllcgc! Lio high >.chool college �tudent�. Fifteen U overseers and rru�rccs patterns predict lifetime percent of the respondents' emeriti as a sample popul;1- succcs ! Arc there s1gn1f1cant grandfather� ancl 9 percent tion of all Colby alumni, pattcrn:-i of college activity of their grandmother had President William Cotter and behavior that foretell attended college . Twenty and Alisa M;.isson '95 re post-grnduare :-ucces:-i!" five percent of the respon cently conducted a �tudy rn One of rhe mo�r striking dents' father and 24 percent determine whether academic finding:-. llf the survey, which :-.tudy i:-i the l No Singular Sensation It has been an eclectic United rates in "Sole of the summer at the Colby Mu West: The Art and History of seum of Art. Exhibitions Cowboy Boots." Organized ranging from Oriental rugs by Sheila Kollasch, curator of to cowboy boots were fea the Desert Caballeros West tured at the museum be ern Museum in Arizona, the tween June and eptember . exhibit showed the inlay and Concurrent exhibitions in overlay, precision titching June included "City, Village and hand tooling produced and Encampment: Oriental by third- and fourth-genera Rugs in Context" and tion boot makers. "Winslow Homer: Wood From August 9 and Engravings Portray America, continuing until October 1857-1874." The exhibit of 25 the museum is featuring weaving featured 70 Oriental an exhibition of photograph Winslow Homer's Gathering Berries. carpets and other utilitarian by William Wegman, best items from the Near East. Lee Fernandez '55 and his 40th class reunion at known for photographing Rugs, saddlebags, salt bags, Patricia Davidson Reef of Colby. It featured 114 wood Weimaraner dogs dressed, camel trappings and tent Falmouth, Maine, made up an engravings from the museum's for instance, as characters decorations, including many exhibition depicting Ameri permanent collection. in Sleeping Beauty. The one-of-a-kind masterworks, can 19th-century life. Beginning on August 2 show, titled "Mainely Weg were shown. Fernandez, who served as the museum showcased more mans," also features quilts Winslow Homer prints guest curator, mounted the than 40 pair of Western-style produced by Wegman's donated by Colby alumnus exhibition to coincide with boots from all over the sister, Pam Wegman. + COLBY AUGUST 1995 4 * More than 70 percent activities at college, al Chapma'1, Webster Che ter, High GPAs were not a of the respondent had though not quite as exten Edward Colgan, Alice and predictor of financial succe attended public high sively as at high school. Ermanno Comparetti, Galen among the survey group. school; nearly three-fourths * early one-half had Eu tis, Paul Fullam, Hank The average GPA of those were very active in high won some kind of academic Gemery, Jim Gillespie, Jan who have made capital gift schoo l extracurricular award, 20 percent had been Hogendorn, Don Koons, of at least $100,000 to Colby activities, including nearly pre idents of fraternities and Mike Loebs, Tom Longstaff, was 2.52. Of that group, 56 a third who led student ororities and 10 percent had Al Mavrinac, Bill Miller, percent either were econ g vemment office . More been arsity team captains. Paul Perez, Bob Pullen, Hal omics or administrative than two-thirds had won * T wel e percent had Raymond, Peter Re, Bob cience/business majors, 44 academic awards in high tudied abroad, 24 percent Reuman, Gordon Smith, percent earnedM. B.A.' or school and about half took had participated in indepen Robert trider, Gus Todrank, law degrees. honors cla ses. dent tudies. Le ter Weeks, Peter Wester "Given that many f the * The a erage \·erbal "One of the mo t hearten velt, William Wilkinson, re pondents were fir t SAT among the re "pondents ing findings of the survey was Ralph "Roney" Williams and generation college students, wa 589 and the average that when asked to name one Walter Zukow ki. it seems clear that strong math core wa 577. or more professor who had a Almost two-thirds of the work ethics and leadership * The respondents in the particularly strong positive re pondents obtained capabilities are characteris survey majored in 15 areas influence on them, the adYanced degrees. High tics shared by many of the while at Colby, although respondent listed 2 GPAs obtained as under people in our urvey," nearly 70 percent were different individuals," Cotter graduates were an important Co tter said. concentrated in five ma- aid. "Thin -eight faculty factor for those who entered Cotter say the opportu jor -adm inistrative science, were li ted more than once." Ph.D programs and, to a nity to collaborate on the economics, Engli h, history That list included Charles le ser extent, for those who project with a student made and government. Bas ett, Mark Benbow, Cliff went to medical chool. it particu larly meaningful. * One-third received Berschneider, King ley Birge, However, those who "Alisa did a wonderful job," financial aid; more than half Archille Biron, Joe Bishop, attended law or busines he said. "She was responsible worked during college. The eelye Bixler, Pat Brancac chools had GPA that were for hour of data collection respondent were very invol cio, Walter Breckenridge, essentially the average for and anal sis. She made the ved with extracurricular David Bridgman, Alfred the entire group. project a ucces ." + A Prized Speaker During a potlight lecture LBJ ouvenir. It's a charming story, but, Goodwin said, it April 27, Dori Kearns re ealed -omething about the man who "willed him elf to Goodwin '64 delighted an die" in the last years of his life becau e he was no longer overflowcrowd in the Page powerful and in control of events. Commons Room with colorful Goodwin used the major portion of the lecture to anecdote and in ightful de cribe the live of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, a commentary about life inside couple she aid most historians now agree formed the the Roo evelt White House mo t effective president/first lady team in U.S. history. and the Johnson Administra The Roosevelt White House wa inhabited by a ca t of tion. Goodwin' appearance interesting, enigmatic characters, according to Good came just day after the win. Because polio inhibited hi physical activity, she announcement that she had said, the president surrounded himself with people he won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize enjoyed talking to , and conversation provided one of his for Hi tory for her book No few outlets for relaxation. Despite his physical limtta Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Ameri tion , Roosevelt energized and passed his strength of can Home Front During World War I I. character to the nation, she said, even as his own body Goodwin, who e earlier book Lyndon Johnson and che was deteriorating. American Dream drew heavily fro m her own experience Meanwhile, Eleanor traversed the country working with working with Johnson, de cribed a man consumed by variou disenfranchised egments of society to improve ambition and driven by a de ire for immortality. She said working conditions and opportunities forthe poor. Her vi itors to Johnson's T exa ranch were rewarded with gift efforts in promoting social ju tice were years ahead of her bearing LBJ' likeness or name, and each succeeding visit time and inspired President Roosevelt to even greater produced a larger, and in Johnson's mind, more de irable, heights, Goodwin said. + 5 AUGUST 1995 COLBY No Small Fete LuJy '2 1 and P;-icy Levine Europe. Rut at her dinner change� I'd he fired, hut J Introducing the Levines, '27 have �hareJ a Int of tneab �he a�ked to honor the lasted eight year� and only Pre�ident William Cotter got at Colhy nllege, perhap� h;1ppines� of the occa�ion hy quit to write the book." a laugh when he said, "When none leavened with ;1s much �11e<1king ahout anything Dnwn�tair!>, Gates vi�ited I first came to Colby, they laughter and gl)t)Jwill a� the except the Hnlocau:-.t. all the table�, where he was were very young." Ludy, now dinner in Robert� Uni COLBY AUGUS T 1995 6 The Rest of the Story Some reader may be aware of an article that appeared in the April 5 Wall Street Journal in which Colby was named among several colleges and universities that allegedly falsify infor mation sent to college guidebook-. President William HILL SIDES Cotter, who described the article as "inaccurate and unfair"' responded with a letter to the editor. ln it, Cotter pointed Denney Joins Dean's Office out discrepancies in the Journal's story and clarified Colby's Martha Denney, recently the coordinator of the Drew Uni ver procedures regarding guidebook submissions. The Journal si ty London Semester, ha been named as istant dean of tu printed only a portion of the letter, om itting those sections dents. Denney, who grew up near Hamilton College where her critical of the Journal's reporting. The full text of the leuer is father was on the faculty, is a summa cum laude Hamilton printed below. The sentences in boldface were not printed. graduate. She holds an Ed.M. from Harvard and an M.A. in anthropology from Brandeis. he has previously served as an "Colby College is mentioned in the April 5 Wall Street · English as a Second Language tutor at Brandeis and at the Journal article as one of more than 50 colleges and universities : American Institute for Fo reign Study in Boston. accused of releasing false information in order to enhance their · pos itions in the various guidebooks. . New Hoop Coach Hired · The only error attributed to Colby was a sinole number oiven Patricia O'Brien of ashua, N.H., will be Colby 's coach of to U.S. News & World Report three years ag�. It was a �ypo- : women's basketball. O'Brien, who will assist in other sport in graphical error (a hand-written figure was misinterpreted). The · addition to her basketball job, has been at Rivier College ·ince number was corrected the following year. : 1992. Last year, her team posted a 17-8 record. She holds B.S. The article also says that Colby administrators have met to and M.Ed. degrees from Salem State where she earned All manipulate the data we report. This allegation is attributed to Mr. · American honors as a player. Edward Hershey, a former director of communications at Colby, who wrote a letter to the Cornell Sun last fall decrying the · methodology of the U.S. News & World Report surveys. In his : Traffic Stopper Po t-cold war dismantling of po lice states has brought about letter, Mr. Hershey, while not naming Colby, used the word · "cheat" to describe the purpose of meetings held concerningthe : the rise of democracies but al o has created opportunitie for international trafficking organizations, said Robert Gelbard reporting of numbers. Subsequently, Mr. Hershey had a half- · a law enforcement advisor to Attorney General Janet hour conversation with the Journal r porter and has told us: '64, Reno. Gelbard, who was a member of the Peace Corps in "During the conversation, I indicated that U.S. News : had misread a figure I wrote in the 1992 survey report and · Bo livia in the 1960s and U.S. ambassador to Bolivia from 1988 to told an audience at the College last April that the that Colby's ranking had changed as a result. I spoke of no : 1991, narcotics and crime threats to our society should be treated not other statistical reporting that was at variance with the facts · as internal but as foreign policy issues. and, indeed, indicated that Colby had regularly protested : "These are truly multinational organizations," Gelbard said. to U.S. News that we suffer because of the exaggerations of · Trafficker laundermoney in unregulated banking and financial our competitors. y tem and buy newspapers and radio stations to promote the "I did confirm that I wrote a letter to the Cornell Sun, : myth that international trafficking is beneficial at home. Ac without mentioning any institution, and told the reporter · cording to Gelbard, one Latin American car theft ring-about that, since no institution was mentioned, I felt I could take : 50 percent of the cars in Belize were stolen in the U.S.-ends up some rhetorical license in making my point. In fact, I was · costing the U.S. hundreds of mill ion of dollars each year. asked a series of questions relating to Colby's reporting and : Traffickingorganizations must be attacked at the so urce, he specifically confirmed that, except for the single typographi- · said. A good law enforcement infrastructure in any country will cal error, every survey response was accurate. I told him .· pay immediate dividends, said Gelbard, an architect of U.S. Colby had never cheated on the numbers." po licy in Haiti. The Journal statement that meetings are held about the numbers is correct. Those respon ible for gathering this data at Colby do meet, but only to be certain that all of our number , sent to dozens of college guide and to others, are accurately and consistently reported. Just day before she was scheduled to appear as a potlight lec Our current director of communications gave the reporter turer at Colby, Dori Kearn Goodwin '64, became the fourth a long interview and, a week ago, suggested that he call me, but he chose not to. Colbian in five years to win a Puliuer Prize. We have not and would not misrepresent Colby to publish Goodwin follows 1994 fiction winner E. Annie Proulx '57, Robert Capers '71, who won in 1992 for journalism, and Gregory ers of college guides or to anyone else. " + White Smith '73, who won the prize for biography in 1991. AUGU T 199j COLBY TheIv ory To wer Reconsidered by Robert We isbrot Cliristian A. Jol111son Disti11guisl1ed Te aching Pro fcs or of History When Christian A. Johnson Distin gui hed Tea hing Prof essor of Hi tory Cood morning, and thank you. Robert Weisbrot learned that he had on re eiving anything from an Oscar to a The honor you have bestowed means a won the enior la Teaching Award gold watch for retirement, to begin bab great deal to me. I have long been thrilled that and would be expected to give a speech, bling without letup Nor did my rather there is a job called "college prolessor" that indulgent manda te-to speak about so111e he says that he put his life and career on actually pays people to think about whatever tl1111g-prov1de quite the focus I was seek hold for ix weeks to prepare. make them leel >trongly , and to share their ing. I suppose this i> a time for personal enthu ia m> with other . I can't imagine what Judging fr m the reaction of tu reflec tion, but in what direction? Should I el>e I would ra ther do even without a alary, dents, faculty and adm1ni trators in the regale you with heart -warm ing stories of more oberingly, I can't imagine what el'e I audience at W 1sbrot's potlight Event my rise from humble beginning in a log could do for a salary Colby has kepl me occu cabin 1n Brookly n , New York? Or offer lecture on May 4, it wa time well penr. pied, impas io ned, oH the st reets; I am al once wistful musings on the exciting alternative Weisbrot' pee h, ombin1ngelement gratified, and relieved. careers I might have pursued had I but the of humor with a compelling me age I am also thankful for this award becau,e, opportunity-and the talent? But I think although its h i tory i brief-just two years about why college ount , moved some that in view of your imminent graduation, it old-its roster of recipients is formidable. students to tears might be be t to explore the relationship When I arrived at Colby 111 1980 I quickly "He's eloquent, 111 1ghtful and enter between thecamp us that hasanch ored your learnedfrom both faculty and students that the lives for the pa t several years and the wider taining," said Rachel Kondon '95 of orth foremost teacher and most beloved ligure at society you will soon be entering. Kingstown, R. l. He also i the mo t dedi the College was Charl ie Ba ett . No 'urpri>e, Critics of higher education, and they may cated tea her he ha' ever met , she ays. then, that in 1 99 3 , Charl ie became the first include most Ameri an , would say this is a recipient of the �enior class teaching prize. "He 1s always so well prepared-he simple matter: there is 110 relationship be And, after 25 years here, and despite the diHi goes pretty fast and it' hard to keep up tween the campu and the rest of society-at cult circumstances of this year, Charlie has but he knows o much," aid Kondon, who lea t none to boa t of. You know the l i tany, remained Colby's gold standard for teaching, which depict colleges as elitist, ubversive of recalls having spontaneou one-hour di - and caring. So I feel especially honored to be mainstream values, and, perhaps worst of all, us ions with Weisbrot when she vi ited part of a tradition that he helped inaugurate. irrelevant to life beyond the ivory tower. Last year the senior class speaker was Cedric his office to di cu course work. "He's Consider three of the most common items in Bryant, whom many of you know as both a intere red in what students have to ay. this bill of indictment. distinguished teacher-at once rigorous and He really love teaching," she aid. First , that young people can find work humane-and a cam pu leader of unsurpassed Wei brot say he wa "shocked" by the without first spending four years, and an stature, in eloquence, in grace, and, of course, impressive amount of money, studying such teaching award and gratified by the re in height exotica as the habits of Maori islanders they sponse to hi speech. The speech may How I joined such good company I cannot are highly unlikely ever to meet; the number say. But I find guidance in the reflection of an have served another purpo e as well of grams in a mole of oxygen, a subject that Argentine writer, Jorge Luis Borges, who, demythologizing Wei brot, considered seldom ari es in corpora te boardrooms; or the after wondering who among us truly deserves by some students to be an intimidating philosophy of Socrates, a man so irritating his any awards, remembered to add, "But if one own neighbors made him drink hemlock. intellectual presence. Tho e who heard should come to me, I would seize it greedily, Conversely, the maste1y of such subjects does the speech probably now agree with Chris like a Viking." In that spiri t, I accept with not necessarily guara ntee career success. topher Ju of Minnetri ta, Minn., who deepest gratitude. r'95 A second chorus of criticisms, often laced I was, I confess, a bit startled on hearing told Weisbrot in an end-of-the-yearthank with resentment, is that the focus at schools that I could not simply take the plaque and you note that "You are not nearly as terri like Colby on promoting multi-cultural slip away, but rather must confer upon you fying in per on a the rumors make you course and events, while urging students to yet another lecture I thought about the "celebrate diversity," has little value in the out to be." Just added, "I hope that we have seeming curse on awards recipients that wider society, where people tend to seek their lived up to your expectations and that you leads so many otherwise sensible people, own kind in race, ethnicity, religion, and so enjoyed the class as much as the people I have talked to did." Pl1otos by Micl1elle Torrens '96 COLBY AUGUST 1995 8 forth, and where differences often spark less rejoicing than rejec it does provide one measure, for everyone should be able to tion, less celebration than conflict. convey ideas clearly and precisely. But we can stretch the meaning Finally, critics scorn the ethic of activism on college campuses of a comma just so far. I am repeatedly astonished at how many the crusades to transform American society, stop war, save the ra in levels of talent exist at Colby, whenever I catch a clever and forests, the whales, the dolphins, other mammals-i n part because moving student play like The Heidi Chro11icles , or see the Colby such causes appear radical, but also because they appearoblivious to Dancers display such grace, or hear songs from the Broadway real-world limitations After all, most Americans feel overwhelmed Musical Review, or even, on one lone but thoroughly enjoyable by bureaucracy, buffeted by social and economic forces beyond occasion, catch an athletic event. In all these campus activities and their control, and stymied by a political system so unresponsive that so many others, one finds talent wedded to discipline, initiative, our country's one great popular initiative in recent years has been to persistence, and hard work-and these are the hallmarks of set term limits on our own representatives, apparently in the belief success both on campus and in the wider society. that to know a politician is to get rid of him. I find it heartening, as well, that Colby graduates in years past On the other hand, there are some defenders of campus values. have consistently gone on to outstanding vocational success. This They are rare, but conveniently located, may conjure images of one vast profes· nearly all finding employment on college sional funnel buffeting graduates into campuses. Typically they invert the rheto Citibank and Met Life. Such admirable ric of their critics, claiming that in a soci pursuits have indeed proved popular, and ety afflicted by racism, sexism, militarism, some of you will no doubt thrive in them. class bias, homophobia, and other preju But for those of you anxiously asking, is dices, the campus must remain a beacon of that all there is for the next forty or fi fty or, idealism. I'm not terribly comfortable with if you are not so lucky, sixty years, you such defenses, partly because I doubt might be surprised by how many ways whether the campus has produced a no Colby graduates have defined success, and bler strain of human being or been spared how many paths they've taken to reach it. the racial and other agonies of the larger Some Colby grads teach, and not only society. And I am a bit bewildered that in small towns just outside Boston but defenders as well as critics see the campus also in rural Louisiana and inner-city Bal as standing so sharply apart from the rest timore, and in Honduras, Ecuador, and of society-the city on the hill-or in the Japan. Others help abused children, as 1n ditch, depending on one's perspective a project to eradicate child labor in Ban I would suggest to you that this is galore, India. Colby's all-time leading nonsense. Colby has afforded you some basketball scorer, when not ru nning a valuable experiences and lessons precisely lumber company, dedicates time to a because, contrary to all the rumors, the team playing basketball games against kingdom of Mayflower Hill is very much prison inmates at the Maine Correctional of this world. I'd like to explore this with Center. Some grads like to mix and match regard to your career prospects, the practical value of celebrating careers, such as a young woman working as an environmental diversity, and the possibilities for activism-and influence scientist while playing in Huron's Symphony Pro Musica Orches beyond the campus. tra and studying trumpet. And one resourceful graduate, inspired Of the three areas, I find jobs the least interesting, but this might by the job hunting experiences of his friends, wrote and is be because I have one. Some of you may be concerned about directing a film in Philadelphia about a recent college grad who employment, so I want to be clearon this point: yes, you will get jobs, confesses to the murder of a local businessman because he thinks and yes, they will be good ones. You might think that my faith in life in jail will be better that getting a job. He hopes to show the your futures is a bit mystical-and, as St. Paul said, faith is based on film at film festivals. the evidence of things unseen. But my confidence stems not from How long will you need to find your truest, most productive any epiphany but, rather, from tangible signs that are close at hand, niche? This I cannot predict, for, sadly, access to a podium confers butsigns perhaps obscured by the relentless pressure ofjob searches. no gift of prophecy. But I can say that however long it takes, it will One reason that I can say you will do well after Colby is that be time well spent. I am reminded of a friend from the early 1970�, I've had the pleasure of knowing many of you, and I've been Edward Witten. I liked Ed, but felt sorry for him, too, because, for impressed by the great reservoir of talent in your ranks. For many, all his potential, he lacked focus. He had been a history major in that talent shines through your scholastic achievements-and college, and a linguistics minor. On graduating, though, he surely the qualities of incisive thought, speech, and writing that concluded that, as rewarding as these fields had been, he was not you have shown in varied classes, papers, and projects will serve really cut out to make a living at them. He decided that what he you well in virtually any field. was really meant to do was study economics. And so, he applied But I'm speaking only in part about academics. As someone who to graduate school, and was accepted at the University of Wiscon spends much time correcting grammar and punctuation, I have sin. And, afteronly a semester, he dropped out of the program. Not found it all too easy to slip into believing that the placement of for him. So, history was out; linguistics, out; economics, our. What commas and colons is the true measure of human greatness. Well, to do? This was a time of widespread political activism, and Ed 9 AUGU T 199 5 COLBY became an aide to Senator George McGovern, then ru nning for groups 111 the country. The numbers are ri ing. The Bureau of the the presidency on an anti-war platform . He also wrote articles for Census 1s considering new multi-racial categories to account for political journals like the Nat1011 and the New Republic. After some the varieties of ethnic identity and the assertion of ethnic pride. month , Ed real ized that politics was not for him, because, in his Thirty years ago homosexuals were still closeted in the society; words, it demanded qualities he did not have, foremost among today, homosexuals are not only streaming out of the closet but them common ense. All right, then history, linguistics, econom- asserting their right to enter society through the front door. ics, politics, were all out a career choices. What to do? Ed elebrat1ng diversity does not require us to love everyone, but suddenly realized that he was really suited to study mathematics. merely to take people seriously-their thoughts and feelings, their So he applied to graduate school, and was accepted at Princeton. history and hopes-regardless of their backgrounds This is a I met him midway through his first year there-ju t after he had necessity in a soc iety where minorities play a crucial role in our dropped out of the mathematics department He realized, he said, politics and culture, and encounter us as co-workers, employees, that what he was really meant to do was tudy physics, he applied even employers Such respect is necessary, too, because in the to the physics department, and was accepted world as a whole, Americans are a small minority, as are whites, as I was happy for him. But I lamented all the false tarts he had are Christian , as are Westerners. made, and how his career opportunities appeared to be passing For those who doubt that appreciation of diversity 1s a practical him by. Many years later, 1 n 1987, I was reading the New York Tm1es imperative, consider a recent headline-making event that is as far magazine and saw a full-page picture removed from fuzzy notions of toler- akin to a mug hot, of a thin man with ance and cosmic one-ness as can be a large head staring out of thick glasses imagined. Last month the former Sec- It was Ed Witten! I was stunned. What retary of Defense Robert McNamara, was he doing in the Tunes magazine? once hailed as the single most able Well, he was being profiled a the figure among the "best and the bright- Einstein of his age, a pioneer of a est" aides to Presidents Kennedy and revolution in physics called "String Johnson, admitted that the American Theory." Colleagues at Harvard and involvement 111 Vietnam was a tragic Pri nceton, who marvelled at his use of mistake, as was his role in promoting bizarre mathematics to solve physics it. I cite this not because McNamara problems, claimed that his ideas, popu- set forth some startling new wisdom. larly called a "theory of everything," Certainly not for that. Rather, his con- might at last explain the origins and fession, a quarter-century belated,says nature of the cosmos. Ed said mod- something about the blind spots of a estly of his theories that it was really Gillespie Professor of Art and American Studies David brilliant man-and a government- much easier to solve problems when Lubin offers congratulations fo llowing Weisbrot's speech . and a people-accustomed to brush- you analyzed them in at least ten dimensions. Perhaps. Much ing aside all perspectives outside their immediate experience. clearer to me was an observation Ed made that appeared near the According to McNamara and others in government during the end of this article: every one of us has talent; the great challenge 1 960s, we could not lose this war. We stood, after all, for American in life is finding an outlet to express it. l thought, he has truly values and so would naturally win the hearts and minds of the earned the right to say that. And I realized that, for all my earlier Vietnamese in our battle against godless communism. In any case, concerns that he had squandered his time, in fact his entire career we had the technology and weaponry to pulverize any nation; path-the ventures in history, linguistics, economics, politics, surely no backward, primitive people could possibly withstand our math, as well as physics-had been rewarding: a time of hard work, military colossus-our deadly B-52 raids and artillery barrages self-discovery, and new insight into his potential based on grow- that created four million refugees, or twenty-five percent of the ing experience. South Vietnamese population; our defoliation of nearly half the No two career paths are exactly alike, and yours will surely South Vietnamese forests with Agent Orange and other poisons; range greatly. Some of you may spend a lifetime honing one set of our dropping of more explosives over Vietnam than had been skills; others may shift course more than once, tacking with the unleashed in all previous wars combined. winds of discovery and circumstance. In every case: savor the time, Only ...only we lost the war, and with it much of our national and the work; and take heart from knowing that the path to your prestige and even our self-respect. What went wrong? I'll tell you: own best calling may not always be a straight line. 110 appreciation of diversity. The parallels between Colby's focus on celebrating diversity and McNamara, like his colleagues in government, knew little and the realities of today's society may not be quite so self-evident. But cared less about the heritage and attitudes of the Vietnamese people, they are compelling, and not simply as a matter of idealism. The fact either those we were fighting or those we were professing to save. is that most Americans are minorities: whether racial, ethnic, Otherwise our leaders might have spared themselves and their religious, in matters of sexual preference, or in some other way: country a needless, pointless war. Nonwhites form more than one-seventh of our population; In 1988 a professor of government, Roger Bowen, and l took a during your lifetime nonwhites will grow to more one-fourth of group of students from Colby to Vietnam-the first college-age our population. Americans to travel to Vietnam since the war. Hanoi's imposing By the most conservative calculations, there are 106 ethnic Revolutionary Museum was especially revealing. Some historical COLBY AUGU T 19 95 10 exhibits featured the conflict with the United States, but our racial barriers that mocked their ambitions and their self-esteem? country did not receive pride of place. One room contained a giant As they talked on, night after night, the questioning became more painting of a naval battle during the tenth century in which small, personal, inescapable: at what point would they, the younger genera primitive Vietnamese vessels lured a vast Chinese fleet into shallow tion of black Americans, take their stand against injustice? When their waters and destroyed it-a triumph of determined nationalist resis deepening friendship gave them, in the words of one student, "that tance over technologically superior foreign invaders. Other rooms little bit of incentive and that little bit of courage," they resolved to featured exhibits of resistance by small, primitive Vietnamese forces break the taboo on interracial dining by seeking service at the against later Chinese invaders; against French colonialists of the Woolworth's lunch counter, which law and custom had long reserved nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; against the Japanese exclusively for whites. They knew they lacked precedents, lacked during World War II; again against the French, after World War II; power, lacked a clear plan. When one offered the morale-building and against the Americans after that. The entire museum was a thought, 'We'll stay until we get served," another cautioned, 'Well, testament, vivid and striking, to the way the Vietnamese defined you know, that migh t be weeks, that might be months, that might be their historical identity in terms of a single, relentless mi sion, never." They feared, as well, the punishment they might incur from spanning a millennium and more, to resist successive powerful, white authorities and black college officials. But on the last night of technologically superior foreign armies on their land, defying long the semester one of the youths brought the months of earnest, odds for ten years, twenty years, a century, anguished discussion to a sudden resolution. whateverthe cost in timeandin men, women, Pounding a dresser, he dared his hesitant and children, till ultimate victory. Colby has aff orded you friends, "Are you guys chicken or not?" The If only we'd known. If only we'd cared to next morning, February I, 1960, the four know. The facts were available even in the some valuable experiences students approached the whites-only lunch 1960s. But instead a self-confident American counter determined to deal)im Crow a blow elite believed it could simply assert its virtue, and lessons precisely that would not soon be forgotten. impose its values, and ignore---orcrush-the They got no Woolworth's coffee that native Vietnamese. That disdain for a foreign, because, contraryto all the day. But they returned to campus to fi nd nonwhite people, removed from us by ten they had become heroes. Their commit thousand miles of ocean and a universe of rumors, the kingdom of ment had elevated them past the status of beliefs and values, brought a retribution as straight-A students, past even the venera certain and unsparing as any in a Creek Mayflower Hill is very tion reserved forthe school's gridiron stars. tragedy. Looking back now on the deaths of The next day twenty more young men and fifty-eight thousand Americans, the squan much of this world. women joined the protest; by the fourth dering of one hundred fifty billion dollars, day the first white students joined in from the rending and demoralizing of American a nearby women's college. One youth de society, the shattering of our political con ensus, and the lingering scribed the rush to the forbidden lunch counters: "It was like a trauma of losing a war for the first time in our nation's two hundred fever. Everyone wanted to go. We were so happy." year history, it becomes clear that the fact of diversity is one of the The protests spilled across state lines, targeting all racist laws and supreme realities in our shrinking world, and to accept and appreciate drawing in established black leaders such as Martin Luther Ki ng, Jr., this fact is not simply a matter of moral sensitivity but an expression and many whites as well. Within a few years these civil rights of the deepest realism. We may not be interested in diversity; but campaigns ended legal segregation throughout the South, toppling diversity is interested in us. barriers that had stood for generations. Finally, the repeated injunctions by Colby's administrators, Why did these four students-no older than any of you here faculty, students, and visiting speakers to overcome apathy and this morning-have such a revolutionary impact on American inertia and become involved socially and politically is, at heart, a society? Some historians conclude that they simply lit a fuse matter of homespun American common sense. First, because already smoldering among African Americans shackled by racial people need to matter-to have their lives make a difference to discrimination. Th is has a kernel of truth. But I would emphasize something larger than the infantile self. Second, because this one other, indispensable ingredient in this recipe for change: these country, more than most, tells its citizens that their ideas of right four young people all summoned the passion, the courage, and the and wrong ought to count for something. And because history, will to act-to take their stand against injustice. Only in the wake particularly American history, has shown that young people of such daring do historians solemnly discourse on the "logic of committed to a cause can change their world. events," and the "inevitability" of change; but as these four students Consider the case of four shy, quiet eighteen-year-olds who showed, defying danger and their own doubts, each of us can became friends at a segregated college in Greensboro, North create our own logic of events and, by acting, turn the dreams of Carolina, in the fall of 1959. Like many of their peers, they spent one age into the "inevitabilities" of the next. long evenings in their dorms resolving the world's problems, armed And so, my colleagues and I join in wishing you the fullest only with unlimited idealism and several cans of beer. Their banter rewards in the years ahead, as you seek your truestcareer path, find ing exchanges roamed, in the great college tradition, from philo human connections across all barriers, find ways to matter in your sophical quandaries to the horrors of campus food and the choicest community and beyond, and, as you have done at Colby, continue gossip. But their conversations persistently returned to a single, in every way, to stretch the mind-and the heart. gnawing question: when would someone do something about the Best of luck. 11 AUGU T 1995 CO LBY ready were on their feet applauding, and faculty mem n the morning' only tanJing ovation. Then, a Colby's 1est honora octor of hum;ine letters waveJ hi degree over his head in elehr;ition, wagging it like ;:i football in the end zone, the applause welled with a cheer. It was the warmest tribute at Commencement thi · year and it w;is re. erved for hnnorary Jegree recipient Lewi. Levine '21, an The enior had a chance to leep late during Senior Week, and Sunday� 9 a . m . line-up time wa the first hint th;:it the new beginning implied in the term "commencement" had begun. On "the street," the long corridor rhrough the ha ement of Miller Library where graduates queue, Lee Paprocki of Gre nwich, N.Y., said, 'When I woke up this rooming, I thought, 'Oooh, graduation,' and I just bolted. I am so psyched." A few yards ahead, in the L' , A ll-American women's hammer thrower Brooke Lorenzen of Mercer land, Wash., was presenc and waiting too, but her journey to Commence t morning was considerably more circuitous th;:in Paprocki's. On Friday at 4 p.m. she left the NCAA Division III track and field meet awards ceremony in Minnesota after taking fourth place and breaking her own Colby record one last time. She and coach Debra Aitken made it home from the 10-hour trip at 2 a.m. Saturday, in time for all of Saturday's activities as well as the procession Sunday morning. Paprocki , Lorenzen and their classmates assembled alphabetically behind Class Marshal James A. Porter of Waterville, Maine. Porter, a physics and classics major, graduated at the top of the class with a 4.05 int age, the first over 4.0 in recent memory, according to the Regiscrats Porter's achievement continued a Maine tradition; he was 1 marshal among the last 13 who came to Colby from a Maine Haroard University'sDr . Henry Louis Gates Jr. acldressecl graduates. rJ BY HEN QLLINS '74 with their hats and academic regalia while Commencement speaker Henry Louis Gates Jr. and honorary degree recipients Ludy and Pacy Levine and Judith Isaacson prepped in the Robinson Room. Dean of Students Janice Kassman frerredover correct pronunciations of each senior's name. PHOTOS BY scorr PERRY A half hour or so later, out in the May sunshine, Matthew Metz, a chemistry-biochemistry major from Bethesda, Md., donned lab goggles to address Commencement a class speaker. "Mo t of the weekend is dedicated to parents," he said. "For the next five minute or o I'm going to talk about us. Our parents can talk to us about getting jobs, going to graduate school and cleaning up all of our co llege junk for the entire car ride horn ally need to mention that stuff." Indeed, Metz kept his predicted they would m graduation, he said, "Yeah, t they'll come visit we'll make some new friends!" There isn't one way to be white or black, of these categories, you don't have to David Benier of Davis, We st Virginia, won one way to be gay or straight, one way worry about any of these things. the alteniative hat contest. to be Hispanic or Asian, liberal or con servative, male or female." "You can't just void collective identity like a canceled stamp," he said. "Just con Gates, whose most recent book is a sider the resurgence of nationali m in the memoir titled Colored People and who wake of the Soviet empire .... Who had an essay in the Sun "Who among us would have thought twenty years ago that when we spoke of ethnic violence in Georgia in 1991 we would be speaking of a republic in the ex-Soviet Union and not some town down the road from Atlanta?' don't ask that you get everything right," Davi , W.Va., won the alternative hat Gates concluded, "I ju t ask that you do contest with a bright yellow firefighter's a little bit better than we did." helmet. It wasn't to represent hard headedness or a career choice, he said; Graduates got off on the right foot as "I just wanted to do omething different. their march to the platform to pick up I figured I could look dorky in one of diplomas combined pomp and ceremony, tho e [pointing at a mortarboard] or I heartfelt ge ture of appreciation to could look dorky in this." parent and mentors and celebratory high spirits. Basketball star Matthew Gaudet of Rumford, Maine, and record-setting foo t To say "march" is to use the formal com ball quarterback Matthew Mannering of mencement terminology. Laura Iorio of Walpole, Mass., were among a dozen or Millis, Mas ., wearing a baseball cap in more scholar-athletes who made short place of the traditional mortarboard, did detour en route to their diplomas to a little dance on her way up the steps to shake hand with the Levine brothers. get her diploma. Reed Kelly from K.C. Lawler of West Hartford, Conn., Yarmouth, Maine, who kipped both the who will spend next year teaching in a cap and gown in f vor of a plain dress, Ghana, stopped to hug Associate Profes was joined by Will Romey, 4-year-old son sor of English Phyllis Mannochi. of Visiting Assistant Professor of Biol ogy William Romey. Will, wearing Kassman was on a roll, pronouncing shorts, T-shirt and a humungous grin, "Dhumal Narendra Aturaliye" perfectly Commencement 1995 began with the walked hand-in-hand with his pal and as the Sri Lankan stepped up with an graduates ' march.from Miller Library. favorite babysitter from the platform immaculate white and gold Nehru kit back to her seat. And David Bemer of under his robe. She momentarily COLBY AUGUST 19 95 14 bobbled "J ill Tara Kooyoomjian" of commencement round-up on June 8, was Southboro, Ma s., but breezed right confiscated by Student Activities Direc through "Agnieszka Swiontkowska" of tor Ben Jorgensen '92.) Video services Lisbon, Maine. (Official minutes of the coordinator Paul Gregoire '71 had to emester's final faculty meeting read: cover the video recording equipment "Dean Kassman stated that her mi - when a spray of champagne threatened pronunciation of certain foreign to douse his lens as mortarboards flew A GreatDay To Be Alive name during Commencement was aloft in the traditional celebration. deliberate, conforming to the requests It was nice that her son� graduation oc As the convocation broke up, graduates of the students.") Kassman had to curred on a pristine Maine morning, but think fa t when Jonathan Bowden of and their fa milies stopped for photo clouds and rain wouldnot lu.ive mattered ummit, N.J., leaned into her micro graphs in front of blossoming fru it trees much toElizabeth Crockett 'JYsan-Smith '64. phone on his way past and added a or with the library tower in the back She was happyto bethere. (bogus) "cum !au.de" after his name. "I ground. Robert Barton '45 and his wife, Five years ago, a few months befo re think it was summa cum laude, Erma, of Jensen Beach, Fla., didn't know her son, Chad Tyson '95, entered Colby, Jonathan," Kassman chided. any of the graduate but said they had Tyson-Smith was diagnosed with breast cancer. TWo surgeries and months of che motherapy later, she was well but changed. And sowas her son. Chad shared the pain. frustration andfears his mother erulured during her illness and reco-oery and in March gave her a gift she 1te0er�ted. He invited her to s-peak about her experience at a Colby Feminist Fartn:ighl e-·vent and in troduced her that eoonmg as "the rnost remarkable woman I know. " The next day, fyson-Smith accompanied her son to Miller Library to "pat the lion, " und told him about the dny she rm t out of the library to help lowertheft� to ludj:, taff qfterhearing tlzat PresidentKennedy had been shot. "A s I stood there [in the li brary]. I.felt a wm.ie of enwtion wa.shcroer , me, . Tyson-Smith said. "�f I had not had this opportunit)• to mttke thtt presenta A light airplane circled the campu come "because it's such a nice ce r tion I might never have heard my son towing a banner that proclaimed, emony." Members of the Portland Brass e;xpress hisfeeli�s so eloquently and so "Congratulations Shake!" reportedly for Quintet, lips circled with red, played the comjortabl_v. He was secure to share hi..;; Sean McBride of Wellesley, Ma s., recessional march, Die Bankels anger pride in me with his peers. Ifelt so happy who declined comment. Finally, as Lisa lieder, for about 15 minutes as familie that Chad wul I had this thread of conti Marie Zorn of Wolcott, Conn., carried lowly migrated to the chapel lawn for nuil)• wi,th Colfi:.1. " Clw.d ' father. Riclwrd the final diploma of the day down the the president's reception. By 2:30 p.m. fyson '60, and his uncle James fyson '54 steps, a beach ball appeared in the chair and litter were cleaned up and all also are Colby graduates. enior ' ection and bounced around that remained wa the platform-and Mum Girad emerged along with the among them and in and out of the faculty thousands of memories. classmates from the library's east wing section a couple of times as Pre idem on Commencement mornirt..g, fyson Cotter read the Latin message to new One impressed staff member attending Smich says she could bareb' tay com degree recipients. (The beach ball, his first Colby Commencementsaid, "It's posed. "I had this enomious pride and chis sense that 'this is my son and he's which later appeared on NBC Nightly everything that a commencement is sup doi� what I did so lo� �o, and I'm News with To m Brokaw's annual national posed to be." ali Inset, top to bot/om: Deb Greene '89. Sue Miller 82. Kurt ry " Colhoun '91. Charles "Pen " Wi lliamson '63 . In the last five years alone, Colbians have circled the world kilometer trip through the mountains of Tibet. On bicycles. in a single-engine airplane (Tom Claytor '85), kayaked from a just being in Tibet would be exotic enough for most Vermont stream to the Gulf of Mexico (Charles Tenny '84), people, but for these two the prospect of traversing on two crossed the Atlantic in a sailboat (Charles "Pen" Williamson wheels one of the world's most remote regions was too in '63), climbed remote peaks in the Arctic (Linsay Cochran '97) triguing to pass up. Arranging the logistics for their trip was and bicycled across Ti bet (Alex Calhoun '91 and Kurt Whited an adventure for Calhoun and Whited, who spent a year and '9 1). Several recent Colby graduates have made lengthy cross a half teaching English in Japan and lining up corporate country trips, ·'blue highways" journeys into America's re sponsors to subsidize their travel. Drawing upon "the writ cesses. Then there are the scores of Peace Corps gigs, Watson ing skills I developed at Colby, .. Calhoun says, he and fellowships abroad and volunteer sojourns into the Third Whited prepared a 35-page proposal outlining their journey World. All of which begs the question, does Colby produce ad and presented it to the Goldwin Corporation, a multina venture seekers or merely attract them? Perhaps a bit of both. tional sporting goods manufacturer whose products include But it seems clear that the College nurtures, if not actually en mountaineering equipment. The company agreed to sponsor courages, an explorer's desire for seeing what's Out There. the journey, including an attempt of the Imja Tse peak in Sue Miller led a group of women on a Himalayan climb Nepal. Then, after a hoped for National Geographic spon ing expedition last fall. Their objective was the 23,000-foot sorship fell through, Calhoun and Whited received addi peak of Baruntse. ··we wanted to do it a a group of women tional logistical support and fi lm equipment from Fuji just to declare our independence from our bo}friends or Te levision 5, a big-three network in Japan. whomever," Miller said. "We had something to prove; that we Armed with six LoneO• Planet guidebooks, a tent, sleep could climb together as a group of women independently. .. ing bags, one cookstove and a pot, Calhoun and Whited After a grueling two-week hike to reach the mountain, boarded a ferry for Vladivostok and then took a train to Miller and her team establi hed a base camp at i - ,000 feet China. "We generall) went out into the countryside where and began reconnoitering the mountain for possible routes to they never see many foreigners and just \Y alked around with the summit. Their original route was packed with snow that people, .. Calhoun said. "A typical day for me in China would appeared unstable so the group chose an alternate route, begin with waking up in a tiny little hotel with all these Chi moved back to base camp and started up again. nese people and having tea." Just as they were about to make their summit attempt on Their route took them through Beijing and across north the third day of the climb Miller got the fl u. She and another ern China to Xiahe where they arrived in time to witne s a team member, who had fallen earlier in the climb and injured Buddhist festival in which a Mongolian monk spoke on a huge her leg, then had to endure the greatest pain of all for a plain to thousands of Ti betans. Calhoun says they took the climber-to stay behind as others went for the peak. The train "to the end of the Line" and got on a bus for a 40-hour other three climbers reached about 21,000 feet before turning trip into Tibet. "It was the most hateful journey of my entire back because of exhaustion and altitude sickness, Miller says. life," Calhoun said. On the other hand, he was collecting ··1 was very disappointed that we didn't have a stronger sum "traveler points" like mad. mit attempt," she said. "To go to all of that effort to get over "This friend of mine from England developed a system there and to put your elf in a position to reach the summit called TP's, or traveler points,·· Calhoun explained. The idea, and then not make it, that's a little hard to deal with." he says, is to quanti�1 the horrible experiences that travelers However, she says, they made the right decision. "We invariably describe whenever they meet. Five hours on a knew that at that altitude we only had so much time before train, for instance, equals one point, pr0vided you 're in third we got too exhausted to climb," she said. "When you're at class. A 40-hour bus ride on hard scrabble roads into remote 1 ,000 feet and above your body is kind of slowly deteriorat Tibet gave Calhoun and Whited a leg up in the Travel Story ing. It's a hard decision to give up a summit attempt, but it From Hell sweepstakes. was the safe thing to do." And then the trip got interesting. Miller says she may not go back to the Himalayas soon, In Lhasa, where finding commodities like wool socks or but she will definitely climb again. The experience is just too underwear is a challenge, Calhoun and Whited located two enriching to give up, she says. "Being out in the wilderness 18-speed mountain bikes. "It was more than a miracle," anywhere, and in the mountains in particular, just lets your Calhoun said. And it changed the complexion of their journey mind free up to pursue all sorts of different thoughts," she completely. Instead of trekking and hitching across the Tibetan said. "You think about home a lot, of course, and what you're mountain to Katmandu-about 600 miles-they would bicycle. going to do when you get back. It's funny but the farther Again calling on their ingenuity, Calhoun and Whited custom away from home you are the more you appreciate it. It's really ized the bicycles to fit their needs. "We went to a junkyard, a cathartic sort of thought process, I find." hacked apart old Chinese bikes and built a new seat-post Alex "San dy" Calhoun '91 and Kurt Whited '9 1 also extension. We had toe clips made by a leather craftsman and have been to the top of the world, with 20,000-foot Hima converted a couple of backpacks into panniers [storage com layan peaks to their credit. Even their trip to the moun partments that hang off the sides of the back wheel]." tains was epic. It began on a boat in Japan, included an There are five 5,000-meter passes between Lhasa and overland journey across China and culminated with a 950- Katmandu. Most of the time Calhoun and Whited were bicy cling uphill. "It would take days, it seemed like, to go up these Sue Miller '82 leads an expedition up 23, 000-joot Baruntse. 19 AUGU T 1995 COLBY passes," Colhoun said. "We called them Eveready passes-they trans-Atlantic saiLing trips aboard a 42-foot vessel, is convinced just kept going and going and going." that such experiences promote hoListic human development. People they met along the route were friendly and curi "The skills you use in the wilderness are secondary to ous, Colhoun says. He recalls being visited at their camp one the intangibles of personal growth and challenge and team evening by three Tibetan men-red tassels flowing through work and getting along with people of different backgrounds," their hair-one of whom pulled out a large knife and whacked he said. "When you're at sea for three weeks straight with off a piece of yak butter cheese to share with Colhoun and five people in a relatively small boat, your life, your existence, Whited. It was an almost surreal scene, Colhoun says, the two the pattern of that experience, is very different than your American bicyclists in Gortex jackets chatting in phrasebook regular life. When you're in that situation nobody cares how Tibetan and drinking coffee with the three men on horseback much money you make or who your parents are or what your direct from the 19th century. job is. It's the great equalizer.,. "Those sorts of real encounters with real people made Williamson, whose resume of adventure travel also includes the trip amazing,,. Colhoun said. mountaineering, rock climbing, and canoeing, says Colby en There were poignant moments, too. "We were cycling dowed him and others with a hunger for going places and .. along one day and saw this old man, a really old guy, whose doing things out of the ordinary. Colhoun agrees . The whole face was Like a blanket of lines. We can't really communicate attitude at Colby encourages exploration," he said. "I went to but I kind of waved and said, 'Hold on a minute," and I took a France as a freshman, I was in Washington, D.C., as a junior, Dalai Lama card out of my jacket,"' Colhoun said ... We were and I went to Russia for a Jan Plan my senior year. I think carrying these cards with us to give to people who had been those kinds of experiences awaken a desire to explore set particularly kind to us or to give to old people who we knew tings away from the College and inspire people to go out and would appreciate it. We are in the middle of nowhere. There try new things all over the world. There's no doubt in my is nothing to be seen anywhere around us, just mountains mind that what happened to me at Colby was already linking and desert. And I handed him the Dalai Lama card. He looked me up and preparing me to go do [my trip across Asia]." at it and put it to his forehead, which is the first thing they Miller and Greene both say their experiences at Colby always do. Then he held the card and I sa\ this tear roll solidified their belief in themselves by providing opportuni down his face, across this dusty old face. It was so emotional, ties and challenges. COOT, the Woodsmen's team, the Outing it was just unbeLievable." Club, off-campus Jan Plans and strong experiential components After three weeks on the bicycles, Colhoun and Whited in many classes all contributed to their personal development, reached Katmandu, laid over for a few days and then twice they say. cLimbed lmja Tse, a 20,000-foot peak. After aborting their "You get the best of both worlds at Colby," Williamson first summit attempt for safety reasons, the pair returned to said. ·'You hare a top-notch academic environment in a set the mountain and made a uccessful a cent. Standing on a ting that provides endless opportunities for enjoying the out narrow precipice with an unimpeded view for hundreds of doors. One of the reasons I've been such a strong advocate of miles in all directions, Colhoun recalls feeling humble, awed, Colby all along is the spirit of the place and the people. There blessed. "That hour or so we spent on the ridge and at the probably wasn't any direct academic tie-in between hiking at summit is probably the best hour of my life,,. he said. Katahdin and my classes, but each contributed to the other. ., Miller says one of the most rewarding aspects of climb Colhoun, who plans a career as a photojournaList, be ing is solving the problems a sociated with it. "I think J have lieves Colby is producing ambassadors to the world. "I think much more self-confidence because I have to totally rely on that somehow the Colby experience enge;iders a sense of myself and my partners on a rope," she said. "On the cLimb in duty or service. You get the feeling that your responsibility epal I had to trust my own judgment because I was more or once you're educated is to do something with it. I think a lot less leading the cLimb. I couldn't just pawn it off on someone of Colby people feel that way." el e. Figuring out how to tackle a particular technical section That attitude may explain why adventurers like Colhoun of the route, that's interesting. are comfortable whether riding a camel across the Thar "It's physically and mentally draining. Breathing is a re Desert of Jndia or eating dinner in the home of an impover ally big thing at I ,000 feet. You actually have to concentrate ished Vietnamese family, both of which he did during his on breathing. It sounds kind of funny, but you have to think 10-month journey across Asia. "My political science back about bow many breaths per step you take and you get into ground allowed me to take what I had learned at Colby and kind of a rhythm. But really, mentally the hard part is getting get from the raw experience [of being in these places] the through the days when all you're doing is carrying a load of other half of it. If you only get half of [the reaLity] in America, food or gear, logging up a glacier." you 're lucky," he said. The problem-solving challenges of an extended wilderness And there's that nebulous but undeniable spiritual ele voyage also appeal to Pen Williamson '63 who, when be isn't ment that moves many of these Colbians, who "grew up" as crossing the Atlantic Ocean in a small sailboat, is vice president travelers during their Colby years. "When you're in the for development at the Hurricane Island Outward Bound School middle of the Atlantic Ocean you can't see where you're going, off the coast of Maine. Williamson, who twice has completed you can't see where you've been " Williamson said. "You focus on here and now ...on wbat really counts." Bivouacked on a ridge on Jmja Ts e, Kurt Whited '9 1 rests befo re attempting the summit. 21 AUGU T 199 5 CO LBY Retiring Faculty: 100 Years of Service By Robert Gillespie t its May meeting, the nearly a hundred years at L�culty years, was the last remaining ABoard of Trustees voted the Cnl lege. active faculty member to have emeritus status fnr all three Fergu-on, who completed taught on the old campus in of this year's retiring his Ph .D. at Ohio tate I'ile downtown Waterville. He faculty-Charles Ferguson, University and taught at received his Ph.D. from the Frederick Gillum and Oh io Stare, Ohio University University of Wi consin and Marilyn Mavrinac. Th eir and the Univer�ity of taught a range of cour e in combined service �panned Connecticut, came to Colby in 1967. He taught French European and Engli h history, and Italian language and including l11e Ri e of Europe French literature and since and the Deel ine of Europe, 1989 served a!>secretary to Medieval England, Tudor- the faculty. In 1977 he tuarr England, Emergence of became director of Colby' Modem Britain and Decline Hitchcock Bindery, the of Britain, Constitutional and nation's only working in Leoal History of Modem hnusc hindery at a small England and the Fir t and col lege, where he trained � econd World War . During and supervised student his tenure he erved as acting apprentices in repair and department chair and rebindmg of volume from coordinated the Gabriel on Cn lhy collection . In Lecture eries. Among his retirement he will continue publications are a number of bindery work for the library article contributed to Ency and private ind ividual . clopedia of World Biography. Charles Ferguson Gillum, a memher of the Marilyn Mavrinac H isrory Department for 4 7 graduated from Welle ley, Impressive Dossier Pick a subject. Any subject. Paul Do will tell you how about matter involving geo cience before deciding on it's related to geology. It' an exerc i e the a si tant profc sor legislation affec ting the environment. of geology uses occasionally to illu trate for hi students the "In the past geologi ts have not been much of a presence ubiquitous role his chosen discipline plays in human affair . on Capitol Hill, unlike physicists, chemists and other scien "Think about it," Doss said, "geology is the study of the tists," Do s aid. "There' tremendou public ignorance a well Earth. You can't get any more holistic than that." as a lack of acknowledgment within governmentabout the It's not surprising that Doss doe not confine his important role geology plays in public policy issues." The work academic study to a narrow, esoteric subdisc ipline. He of geologi ts-whether predicting eismic activity, testing is committed to teaching geology in the context of every groundwater supplies or studying erosion-is integral to both day life and believes it is an ideal subject for a liberal public understanding and effective decision making, Do s says. arts curriculum. l11etrip also served to inform Doss's teaching, which offers Doss joined other members of the prestigious National students insights into how geology affects their lives. "Part of Committee on Geology and Public Policy (an arm of the my job as a teacher is to enlighten students about the funda Geological Society of America) on an educational mentals of the discipline," he said. "Those fundamentals can mission to Capitol Hill last spring. He and the other be taught, discussed and questioned without an applied sense. geologists met with influential legislators, including But to get a full understanding and an appreciation of that senators Pete Domenic i of New Mexico, Phil Gramm of material, it helps to have examples that apply to real-life Texas, Ben N ighthorse Campbell of Colorado and Tom situations that students can relate to." Daschle of South Dakota. The geologists were not there He hopes to take his interdisciplinary approach a step to advocate a particular position, Doss says, but to further by collaborating with Associate Professor of English convince members of Congress to educate themselves James Boylan on a course integrating environmental geology COLBY AUGUST 1995 22 received her M.A. at Liberties Union, the Maine Faculty Notes Columbia and entered a Commis ion for Women and Ten professors will be at Cornell Universiry .... doctoral program at Harvard, the Martin Luther King Jr. taking year-long sabbatical During the 1995-96 year in which she completed in Day committee. to further their field experi Dijon, France, Dace Weis , 1991. he first taught at At the faculty-tru tee ences, research and studie . instructor in French, will Colby in 1963, and in 1976 dinner on Friday night Several more profe ors will re earch new methods of she became one of the before Commencement, take half-year leaves. Kim language teaching being College's fir t part-time Mavrinac expressed appre Besio, a sistant profe or of used in France and England. faculry to gain continuing ciation for the many support Chinese, is taking a one-year ...Assi tant Profes or of tatus when he took a part network of Colby students leave from the East Asian Biology W. Herbert Wilson time po ition in history and and colleagues past and Studies Department to will continue to measure the education. Two summer pre ent. he prai ed the complete her manuscript ecological impact on fe llow hip fromthe National History Department, the "Rowdines and Rectitude in wintering birds by the Endowment for the Humani Writing Center, the Play." ...Clara C. Piper millions of American who ties allowed her to do Women's tudies group, the Profe or of Biology David feed them and will extend advanced research in French librarian and bookstore Firmage will continue his the research ro tho e birds schools. ln the late 1970s she workers, the Computer research dealing with wintering in the northern was a co-founder of Colby's Center, the Dean of Faculty, pollination ecology during wood of Maine. Women' tudie Program Dean of tudent and hi full-year sabbatical from Several profe sor will be and for 10 years was the Regi trar' offices, the the Colby Biology Depart on sabbatical forone bedrock of the Education Audiovi ual Department, ment ....Profe sor of Mu-ic semester of the 1995- 1996 Department. One of the fir t the Office of Off-Campus Paul Machlin has been academic year. A istant Colby facultymembers to u e Study and local school awarded a National Endow Professor of Economic computers forquantitative teachers who take in Colby ment for the Humanities Debra Barbezat will research, she pre ented students on internships. Fellowship for College continue research on paper at profe ional "I never worked alone," Teachers to work on Faes longitudinal data of new meetings, publi hed article Mavrinac aid, commending Waller in Performance, a Ph.D. economist who were in Engli h and French and "Colby web of upport volume of transcriptions of looking for employment served the local community and generosity. lt was im jazz perfom1ance by Waller. during the 19 8-89 aca on the boards of AAUW, po ible not to succeed in It i part of the eries "Mu ic demic year. ...A ociate MaineShare, the Maine Civil ome way ." + of the United State of Profe sor of English James America" partially funded by Boylan will work on two the American Musicological new novels as well a a Society.... Profes or of Art collection of short stories. Michael Marlais will con ...Ass istant Profe or of tinue his re earch involving GovernmentDeborah the mural cycles of Pierre Nord�n will continue work Puvis de Chavanne ... . on a monograph, The Julie Millard, Clare Boothe Military and Democracy in Luce Assi tant Professor of Venezuela: Explaining the Biochemi try,will re earch 1992 Coup Attempts. the effects of DNA inter ... Associate Profe sor of strand cross-linking agent English Patricia Onion will on cells ....Assistant continue her re earch on Profes or of Hisrory Julie American Indian literature, Kay Mueller will complete focu ing on the relationship her monograph on the early between contemporary Paul Doss history of the Soviet fiction and poetry and their and compo ition. "It's only in the planning tage at thi pre ... . Hanna Roisman, roots in the oral tradition of point, but we're excited about doing it," he aid. profe or of classics, and each writer' culture .... Do s ay his philosophy in the classroom is similar to that Joseph Roisman, profe or As ociate Profe or of he u ed with the legislator on Capitol Hill-that is, to of clas ics and of history, will English Linda Tatelbaum educate rather than to advocate. "It's not my job to convince research the ideology of will u e her sabbatical to students about my opinion," he aid. "They're all individual manhood in ancient Greece working on a collection of who are intelligent enough to form the ir own opinions. My continued on page 25 job i to give them the informationto do that." + 23 AUGUST 1995 CO LBY The Ex Files hy J. Kevin Cool n New Jersey recently, a system that favor women. That these men devalued researcher. "It was a real I state surreme court ruled "What was striking-and their former wives i not dilemma, because on the one that a non-custod ial father �trikingly different-in thi� �urprising in the context of hand my objective was to be :,hould not be required to study wa� the level of rage the "gcndeMtratified neutral, but on the other I helr pay for his children's expre:,sed hy these men," Arcn ·ociety" in which they live, was being pushed to college tuition. It was the Jell sa id. "1l1ere were ome Arendell says. "Degrading contextualize the data latest victory for advocates women lin my earlier :,tuJy] the former wife �erved because I recognize that the of "men's rights" and annther who were angry, but they were several fu nctiom," she aiJ. society is gender-stratified." grenade lobbed into an mostly angry with the legal "It lent upport to assertion Arendell says that much e-calating gender war. sy:,tem. It wasn't per,onalized ahout a miscarriage of of the current debate about ho�tility. The men were angry justice, including that they men's divorce rights is at their ex-wives." had been badly mistreated in driven by economics. She Ba ed on extensive the divorce ettlement and says that, while there are interview with 75 divorced illegitimately tripped of obvious exception , many fathers frnm New York tate, authority in the family." divorced father are pushing Arendell's study might-or While most of the men in to expand their custodial migh t not-be reprc enta her study complained that right as a way of lowering tive of divorced fathersin they had been victimized by their child-support pay general. The characteri tic:> a sy tern that rob men of ments. "It's intere ting that of her ample group ugge t their rights, Arendell says, the men complained about that, if anything, their they often broadened their the deprivation their attitude were moderate comments about their ex divorce had brought upon compared to the general wives to generalize about all them, but the women in my population. "Only fifteen women and to use their own study were preoccupied with percent of the fa thers in my experience as an example of economic survival." tudy had no contact with the injustices divorced The direction of recent their children; nationally, fathers must endure. court rulings broadening the percentage is much "I think the hostility custodial rights of divorced higher," Arendell aid. these men feel is created by fathers and increa ing their "Earlier research sugge ts the lo s of power and leverage in determining that fa thers who are in authority that they are child support payments and volved with their children experiencing for the fir t other economic settlements have less anger toward their time in their live ," she aid. disturbs Arendell. "What's Terry Arendell former spouse, perhaps "Men define themselves e pecially unfortunate i that And war i the metaphor because of the negative according to their perceived the debate is being posed a many men use to describe effect it has on their public role as a provider. a fight between men and divorce, says A sociate children. But among this When their authority as a women rather than as an Professor of Sociology Terry sample, anger was definitely provider is called into issue about caring for Arendell in her recently the dominant motif." question, they're not sure children," she said. published book, Fathers and Indeed, the men in how to deal with it. Most of Arendell' next research Divorce. Arendell, whose Arendell's book are given to these men [in the tudy] effort may be aimed at earlier book, Mothers and diatribes aimed at their didn't anticipate how much college-aged children of Divorce, described the formerwi ve . Said one, "She those issue would be raised -" divorced parents. "I have a attitudes and opinions of was a parasite, a money Arendell says she lot of students who tell me women who had experienced sucking parasite, and she till struggled to resolve her own they would like to see more divorce, conveys and puts into is. That's what the law [in theoretical influence , research done about the context the anger, hostility awarding a custodial mother informed by interpretative effects of divorce on young and frustrationof men who child support] does, rewards feminist sociology, with her adults," she said. "That might believe they are victims of a parasitic women." desire to be a neutral be an interesting tudy." COLBY AUGU T 199 5 24 essays, Body English, in which architecture in the Ile-de she explores the connection France.... James Webb, PUNDITS & PLAUDITS between physical labor in the associate professor of history, material world and the life participated in a six-week Take a Bow and limitations of language. NEH Summer Institute, Intrigued by the idea that one could study sailing in the ...Jon Weiss, professor of "Rethinking Europe, Re dead of winter in inland Maine, Sailing magazine devoted a French and director of off thinking World History, full page of its June issue to an article about the Jan Plan campus studies and academic 1500-1750" at the University course Sailing Science and Technology 129 offered by Profes affairs, will begin research on of California at Santa sor of Administrative Science Leonard Reich. a critical biography of the Cruz ....Associate Professor The article described how students in the class learned the French novelist Irene of Music Eva Linfield science of sailboat dynamics and the history of sailing and Nemirovsky ....Professor of chaired a panel for the boat construction methods and even designed their own Psychology Diane Winn will Society for 17th Century sailboats. Reich, whose texts for the course included The An continue her research on Music at Centre College in and Science of Sails by Colby alumnus Tom Whidden '70, and "Tales Told by the Uncon Kentucky ... . JoyLynn students Andy Smith '98 (New Canaan, Conn.), Karen scious Mind: Jung's Active Wing, associate professor of Goodrich '96 (Yarmouth, Maine) and Takashi Watanabe '95 Imagination as a Framework performing arts and of (Tokyo, Japan) were featured in photographs accompanying for Shamanic Journeys, Past English, chaired a panel for the article. Reich told Sailing that the sport of sailing and Life Regressions and Other the Association for Theatre sailboat design provided rich illustrations of how applied Trance Narratives." ... in Higher Education in San science works, which was a goal of the course. Laurie Osborne, recently Francisco. She also directed a Jan Plan itself merited a sidebar in the magazine. The tenured associate professor of production of David Mamet's article described the history of the January Program-pio English, is the editor of American Buffalo, which was neered by Colby in 1961-and listed other courses offered in Twelfe Night or What you chosen as a semi-finalist in 1995, such as William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Government Will, one in a new series of the American College Sandy Maisel's National Pastime: Baseball in American books being published by Theatre Festival competition Society. The full text of the sailing article is available on Prentice Hall that raises in February ....Cheryl Colby's World Wide Web page at http://www.colby.edu. questions about the authen Townsend Gilkes, John D. ticity of contemporary MacArthur Associate Second in Command versions of Shakespeare's Professor of Sociology and of A recent study shows that The Journal ofCon temporary . texts ... . Larissa Taylor, Afr can-American Studies, China, edited by Associate Professor of GovernmentSu isheng assistant professor of history, has been elected vice Zhao, is the second most powerful influence on Americans' was awarded a fe llowship for president-elect of the Eastern attitudes toward China. The study, conducted by a professor of an NEH summer seminar in Sociological Society. political science at the University of Connecticut at Hartford, Paris to study Gothic listed Zhao's journalbehind ex-CBS newscaster Connie Chung and ahead of The P1ivate Life of Chairman Mao, a new book written by Mao Zedong's physician. The Journal ofContempo rary China, founded in 1992, publishes articles on prominent Ghost In the Machine mainland Chinese issues. Topics have included the political A survey co-authored by Clare Boothe Luce Assistant debate about Tibet, economic reform, Communism, the sale of Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science Batya F- 16 fighter jets to Taiwan and Chinese intellectuals. It is the Friedman and Lynette Millett '94 revealed that some people only English language journal in North America that provides who design computer systems feel no moral responsbility for information about contemporary Chinese affairs. the problems caused by system crashes. The survey, whose results were paraphrased in Washington Careful Criteria Technology , asked 29 male undergraduate computer science Vice President for Development Randy Helm was quoted students whether programmers or their computers should be in an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education about blamed for system crashes that wreak havoc. More than one efforts by institutions to recruit wealthy trustees. fifth of the respondents said it was the computers' fault. In "Trusteeship is too important to put blinders on and only fact, 83 percent maintained that computers "decide" how to look at philanthropic ability," Helm told the newspaper. He perform and are partially responsible fortheir own problems. explained that Colby's philosophy in selecting trustees used However, one respondent held that such a claim is a "three W's" rule of thumb. The College seeks trustees who ridiculous, saying: " ...that would be like me blaming the car can provide at least two of the three W's: wealth, work and for running over a dog. You can't blame an inanimate object." wisdom, Helm says. The study may help shed light on a developing legal "The quickest route for disaster is to make wealth the sole dilemma about who should be held accountable when criterion," he said. valuable computer-based information is damaged by The Chronicle of Higher Education is a leading publication system malfunctions. aimed at faculty and administrators. 25 AUGUST 1995 COLBY Farm Stand By Sally Baker end a poet to write about granddaughter of Italian and fit my answers in with hi own S the last gasp of a family Lebane e immigrants. Her idea of work, of a steel blade farm and, if you're very paternal grandfather settled cutting through the thick lucky, you'll get a book like his family on a dairy farm in April rye and hi wake of Here and Nowhere Else the Merrimack Valley of turned-up earth. One works (Beacon Press, 1995 ). Ma ·sachusetts in 1900; by going back and forth a the Jane Brox '78 is the Rrox'� father, now in hi· un arcs aero the pring ky, mid- Os, al o made the land year ·, like corn I 3 to the and there' sheer phy ical hi life's work. Under his dozen. Brox's herb display, exhaustion at the end of the -tewardsh ip, the farm's placed prominently where day. Against which all I can slapped-together, after her father and brother think muster is: 'You get a different thought vegetable ·tand the beans ought to gn, kind of tired."' where Rrox worked a a invite tentativ curiosity Wh n Brox left the valley child-became a ·ub·tantial but not many sales. It i a for Colby she stayed away. business, both in r ceipts metaphor for Brox's presence he lived on antucket for and in infrastructure. The on the farm. he i · of the ·everal year , then out ide rand can turnover 500 land, but not like a farmer Boston; though he visited do:en ear of corn on a ·he works it with word-, her fa mily every few months, single ummer day and preserve it by writing about her sen e, she write , was hundred of bu he ls of it even as �he real1:e that it that she had left the farm for tomatoes, apples, ·quash, be ·t days are gone. But, like good. he wa publishing peaches-and much more the herbs, he is a bit of a regularly in literary maga in a season. my tery to the keepers of the zine , and she pent time at Brox describe working at phy-ical farm. he write of many prestigious writing the stand now. People come trying to de cribe to her colonies, including Yaddo. father what her work i like: Jane Brox '78 in for the things they know, But one Christma half a the thing they've bought for "l can see him laboring ro dozen years ago, she and her A Cause for Reflection One of Colby's most revered equality and wa a fierce anti- lavery crusader, Lovejoy wrote graduates, Elijah Parish Lovejoy, Paul i111011 vitriolic diatribe against Roman Catholics. Freedom's Cham1>ion i the subject of a biography onetheless, Lovejoy's refu al to ubmit to mob rule after �ElijahLo vejoy written by lllinois Senator Paul pro-slavery forces twice de troyed hi printing press demon Forew11rtl by Clarflln' {'age Simon. strated the ''courage and erenity" of a man who knew he was Freedom 's Champion: Elijah right, Simon write . Much of the book is devoted to the Lovejoy (Southern lllinois events leading up to and immediately following Lovejoy's University Press, 207 pages, murder. Lovejoy and a small band of armed friends attempted $24.95) is a revised edition of to defend the Observer from being de troyed on November 7, Simon' 1964 book Lovejoy , 183 7. The man considered America' fir t martyr to freedom Martyr w Freedom. The book of the press wa silenced by a hail of bullets as he tried to celebrates Lovejoy's courage and topple a ladder on which a man was preparing to torch the commitment to freedom of the roof where the printing press was secured. press but points out flaws in the Simon makes clear that Lovejoy's infl uence wa enduring. man that may have led to his One of Lovejoy's best friends, Edward Beecher-the son of a death. Simon maintains that Lovejoy lacked both diplomacy prominent anti- lavery crusader and head of lllinois College and a pragmatist's sense of how to get things done, thereby in Jack onville, 111.-was galvanized by his friend's death. alienating much of the readership of the Observer, the Beecher went on to become a powerful voice against slavery newspaper he died protecting in Alton, Ill., in 183 7. Simon as a nationally prominent preacher. Fourteen years after also discusses the complexity and contradictions of Lovejoy's Lovejoy was murdered, Beecher's sister, Harriet Beecher moral positions. For instance, while he demanded racial Stowe, wrote UncleTom's Cabin. + COLBY AUGUST 1995 26 two brothers and ister No one else can, she thinks. but they were all mixed in by every day. If anyone will gathered at their parents' When her father is hos with ones of lesser quality, work it, Sam will; and he house. Sam, the brother who pitalized, he reminds Brox to and I had to lift and shift probably can't. His family stayed to work the farm (his remind Sam to put the parts of the pile. The squash worries about what will problem with drugs, alcohol Hubbard squash in the tand were awkward and heavy and happen to him; they regret and blasted hopes are before Thanksgiving-no not easy for me to handle. that he didn't find another legion), endured a recrimi one will buy it after that, he Some I could barely manage. career while he could. Her nation session with his say . Sam is careless; he And there were beautiful father worrie , too, about sibling . He stood, upbraided starts things he'll never large ones that, when I something more basic: "I them for not understanding finish; his grandiose plans picked them up, felt lighter wonder where people will how difficult it had been to for the farm wither under his than they should. Heavy for get their corn," he says. stay on the farm, pointed to father' practicality and his it size, he had said ...." But, while Brox won't each of them in tum and own fecklessness. Brox must Her father's high expec grow that com, what she has said, "You left. You left. You choo e a few squash to put tations and her anxiousness done in this volume is left." Brox returned. aside for seed. Her father about fulfilling them nestle preserve a picture of times She lives in a small hou e says they must be heavy for in the simple scene. As the past while explicating the on the farm grounds. Sam their size, unbrui ed and years have passed Brox has clash of rural New England lives in another, her parents light-colored. She goes realized that she can't save with a modem culture that in another. She and Sam home and looks at the the farm-it was never value split-levels over barns hardly speak anymore. It's Hubbards-literally tons of meant to be her role. When and silos. She doesn't judge; clear that she went home qua h stacked under a tarp: her father dies the farm she observes. And in her with a notion of rescuing the "I walked around the probably will be sold and observations lies a beauty farm, seeing it through for at circumference and saw many "developed" for the land that evokes both sadness least one more generation. that would be fine for seed, hungry commuters who whiz and wonder. + GerrFry Boyleesh '78 Prints with her hu band and tayed through World War II. She was an Bloodline out poken fe minist, highly critical of the Roman Catholic G.P. Putnam's Sons church, in favor of birth control, abortion and financial inde In Boyle' econd novel fe aturing pendence for women. Jack McMorrow, a former New York Culled from more than 40 volumes of journals and exten Times reporter living in rural Maine, sively annotated, Ruby Thompson's reflections are interesting the stakes for him to identifythe mur history and touch on issues that still confront women: conflicts derer become much higher. This time, of career, marriage, children, exuality and spirituality. McMorrow himself is a primary sus pect after Mi y, a teenage mother Ann B. Tracy '62 who ha given her baby up for adop What Do Cowboys Like ? tion, i murdered one day after Permanent Press McMorrow interviewed her as part of \\llATDO COWBOYS LIKE? Tracy' second novel capture the his research fora freelance article. ang t of teenage love as een through the A McMorrow begins his own in eyes of 16-year-old Loui a "Fi h" Fisher, vestigation, his cabin window are who pines for a more exciting life away . from her small Maine hometown. blown out by a shotgun and hi car is destroyed by a bomb. He :.�r begins to piece together a motive and a pas ible olution related Set in the late 1950 , the novel .. ,. _ . to the adoption of Mi y's baby while encountering colorful follow Fish's dreamy teen-hood de ire Maine character who are quickly becoming Boyle's trademark. . . . for adult experience as she fall in love . . . . . with a boy she has known for many Ann Martin Worster '59 years as a friend and begins a novel and Bonnie Thompson Glaser based on her "experiences." Eventu Ruby: An Ordinary Woman A.'\:N D.TRAC\' ally she confronts the raw reality of Faber and Faber adulthood because of a tragedy and Ruby: An Ordinary Woman is the diary of Ruby Alice Side find that the hyperbole of her writing mocks rather than Thomp un, an opinionated, passionate woman who was born reflects life. in 1884 and died in 1970. Tracy skillfully balances her main character's fanciful longings Born in England, Ruby moved to the U.S. in the early 1900s, with the intrusions of the real world in a story that evoke both married and rai ed seven sons and later returned to England the pain and wi tfulnes of adolescence. 27 AUGU T 1995 CO LBY ------·--- Building Common Ground By Stephen Collins '7 4 tud nt ate this fall, Colby will e envisions the area as an outh, the building' Lbreak ground for the incubator for dialogu aero, location make it both Pugh Center, a 7 ,000-square the classifications and e literally and ymbolically foot addition to the Student categories that might if central to a welcoming and Union, putting $1 million otherwise keer different comfortable environment for worth of bricks and mortar grnups apart. "We exrect it all student . The support behind its commitment to to become a hub, radiating taff and ervices already diversity. Proposed as a to the tudent Union and �een a- a panacea. "We need availahle in the tudent "common ground" center in throughout the Col lege," rn be realisti ," he said. "It' Union, the critical mass of which students of all race ·, Cotter said. 1lne pi cc of the puzzle. I'm student activity there and 'I culture and re ligions and Former tudcnt A S\Kia worried that people will ay, ongoing programming to others committed to diver ity tilm Vice Pre ident Joshua 'We've olveJ the diver ity fo ter cooperation among will have a stake, the fac iliry Woodfork '97, who scr\'ed puz:le, we've an wered the diver e tudent organizations is Colby' answer to a 1994 on the trustee com1T1i �iun, comfort que. tion' when are een a key to the stu :lent plea for a multi aid, "F1)r me th is wa-,an there's still a lot of work to ucces of the venture, cultural hou e on campus. commi ion members say. A The building is named in new taff po ition will be honor of Colby board chair created to support and Lawrence Pugh 'S6 and his coordinate Pugh Center wife, Jean Van Curan Pugh activities beginning with the 'SS, whose leadership gift was 1996 chool year. instrumental in making the till being refined, plan addition possible. ( ee Gift for the 7 ,000- quare-foot & Grants.) addition call for a meeting A special Trustee Cam space for up to 100 people, a mi sion on Multicultural and mall lounge and two Special Interest Housing kitchens, one ko her. Initial studied the student ' re idents of 11 organiza suggestion for almost a year tional office spaces should but decided that a residen include the A ian-American tial multicultural hou e vvas The Pugh Center will extend west from the Student Union. Student A sociation, The not right for Colby. The Bridge, Colby Chri tian commission ubsequently incredible year-long process, do." He pointed to a Fellow hip, the East Asian proposed, and the Board of vi iting other schools and pending comprehensive Cultural Society, Hillel, the Trustees endorsed, the deciding what was be t for review of re idential life by International Club, Muslim common ground center, Colby." Reflecting on the the College Affairs Commit students, the Newman Club, which should be ready for decision to build a common tee and onaoing efforts to SOAR (Society Organized use by September 1996. ground center, he said, "It's recruit and retain more Against Racism), SOBHU President William R. very exciting, and I've heard students and faculty of color (Student Organization for Cotter called the project "a mostly positive thing . It a positive teps in Colby's Black and Hispanic Unity), unique Colby solution that should be a selling point for quest for greater diversity. the Women's Group and the comes out of student the school. You can say in The Pugh Center will be Student Association. suggestions and sticks to our the viewbook, 'We're built onto the northwest The impetus for the philosophical position not to committed to diversity and comer of the Student center came from a group have special housing." making people comfortable,' Union, linking it with the called Students of Color While some campuses' but this is something existing Marson Common United for Change that in multicultural centers seem to tangible. A million dollars Ground room. With Love the spring of 1994 presented fragment their communities, isn't peanuts." joy, Eustis and the academic to the Campus Community Cotter says the Pugh Center Woodfork tempered his quadrangle to the north, Committee concerns and will be an integral part of enthusiasm for the build ing Lorimer Chapel to the west suggestions aimed at making the Student Union. He with concern that it not be and Dana Commons to the Colby more comfortable for COLBY AUGUST 1995 28 students of color, especially. as their plan for a common Some changes were ap ground addition. "So many proved that pring, but the people worked so hard for so implications of the request long," he said. Not Politics As Usual for a multi-cultural house on Tru tee James B. Craw Student Association elections this pring generated con campus were so profound ford '64, chair of the troversy not because of what happened but because of what did that a trustee-level review Commission on Multicul not. Namely, campaigning. was initiated. tural and Special Interest In an editorial lamenting the dearth of serious candidates, The commission included Housing, concluded that The Colby Echo called the April election "one of the most two dozen members "It's one of the strengths of bizarre in recent years." trustee , alumni, faculty, Colby that the College " ...most positions were left uncontested until a flurry ofla t students and administra always is responsive." That minute candidates plastered their signs all over campus in an tors-who first met in May is borne out by the changes effort to gain a few votes," the Echo said. "But what did these 1994 and established three that students precipitated in signs say to the Colby public other than the names of the fact-finding committees. thi case, by the fact that all re pective candidates? A few noted that they offered experience One visited a dozen colleges College constituencies were or claimed they could get the Beastie Boys to come to Waterville." to investigate other institu repre ented in the process A planned debate between candidates was scrapped becau e tions' experiences with and by the number of only one team had committed to the race, the Echo noted. multicultural house . A individuals who partici Joshua Woodfork '97, former Stu-A vice president, said the second committee gathered pated in the discussion, entire election process should be reevaluated and new ways campus opinion on how to he said. found to interest both candidates and their constituent . "It' improve racial, ethnic and Crawford says he feared not the most effective model ofstudent government,"Woodfork cultural understanding. The that "special residential told the Echo. He suggested more incentives for office holders third group looked at housing would move us that increase the prestige associated with the positions. cultural and racial issues backward-would be more from a broader, national divisive." The plan adopted Lifestyle Alternatives perspective to provide and the process leading up to Student demand foron-campus housing where drinking i not background information that that plan, on the other a I lowed has increased substantially, resulting in the designation of might guide Colby's efforts hand, already have helped to Pierce and East Quad as "chem-free" halls for 1995-96. to honor diversity. brina various groups to- Many factors, primarily heightened alcohol awareness on When the commission's geth r, he says. Meetings on campus, have contributed to the expansion of chem-free plan for the million-dollar campu were "the first time housing, says Kerill O'Neill, assistant professor of classics and addition went to the fu ll all of the e representatives of faculty representative to the Alcohol in the Campus Environ Board of Trustees this student organizations had ment (ACE) Committee. O'Neill told The Colby Echo, "We spring, it got more than just gotten together. It was the know that people are more aware of alcohol issues, and that the stamp of approval first time some of them knew people are talking more about them." Associate Dean for members of the board, led the others existed." Residential Life Jan Arminio aid in t'.1eEcho that while many by Pugh, pledged to donate In the broadest sense, the tudents do not consume alcohol, there are others who do drink more than half of the commi ion's goal wa "to moderately but dislike dealing with hall damage due to exces ive construction budget. make the Colby experience drinking-and therefore opt to live in chem-free housing. Cotter praised the good forall students," Craw Students now are required to sign up just to be included in the extraordinary effortof ford aid. "We now have a chem-free room draw to ensure their commitment. According commis ion members as well cornerstone to build on." + to the Echo, 80 student have requested chem-freehousing, with more anticipated with the incoming Class of 1999. Unhappy Medium An opinion article written in the Echo by Rachel Kondon '95 Hannah Beech '95 and Meadow Dibble '95 have been awarded (North Kingstown, R.I.) describes how Colby has incorporated Thoma J. Watson Fellowship for international study projects another "ism" into its culture: cynicism. Kondon maintains that next year. Beech, who this ummer is interning at U.S. News & American society as well a Colby society complains too much, WorldReport, will study Chine e print media, and Dibble will work then complains about the excessive complaining. "Colby stu on a recycling project in Senegal. dents are among the growing population of malcontents," aid Kondon. "We are prone to pessimistic views and critical out Forty-five Colby tudent have received Watson Fellowships, including at least one each year since 1971. looks." Kondon says that while questioning authority can pro mote positive change, "there is a middle ground-something between fixation on every minute detail and imple pas ivity." 29 AUGU ST 1995 CO LBY Led by Pugh, Trustees Help Fund New Center By Stephen Collins '74 hen the srecial groundbrea king, however, nf thei r devotion to and W Trustee Ct)mmission lies the not insignificant rask love for Colby. "It's a on Multicultural and Special of ra ising money-in thi · measure of our belief that Interest Housing recom- ca'e at least half nf the mun: rants what can happen in the than 1-millilm construction Gifts& Pugh Center and what will co t. Since the commi �ion', rad iate out through the report was puhlishcd a few College will be ofgreat days before the spring corner, ncca ionally pulling benefit to ·tudents for a meeting of olhy', Board l)f a Folded and increa ingly long time," he aid. Trustee-, Vice Prc�iJent for tattered piece of yellow The tru tee 'genera ity Development and Alumni legal paper from hi� poc ket . "is really very typical of Relations Randy Helm Before the hoard meeting what Col�y' Board of didn't have much time to adjourned , Pugh announced T ru tees ha done over a Wl rk out a strategy. And it that he had . ecured pledges number of years when turned out he didn't need it . for 505,000 fr 1..)ln fe llow project� came up," Pugh Recognizing that nH irc tru�tces toward Ct)nstruction aid, pointina to the Lunder than a half million dollars of the center. Additional Huu e a a pecial need wou Id need to come from gifo and pledge:.- have ,ince met, in large part, by new gift-, Helm ·ays he did increased the collective member of the board. ' little more than mentinn the tru · rec� contri bu t ion to Helm said the tru tee ' �uhject to bt )ard chair more than 600,000, support underline their en Lawrence Pugh '56. "Larry Helm report . thu iasm for the unique olu Board of Trustees Chair basically .aid he thought the Pugh and hi- wife, Jean tion propo ed by the special Lawrence Pugh '56. board wou ld rut its money (Van Curan '55), rook the commission. "It' not the mended a 7 ,000-square-foot where it. mouth was, and he lead, pledging 250,000, 'politically correct' solution; common ground center as said, 'Let me see what I can and the ollege will it' the Colby olution to a the best solution to students' do,"' Helm recal led . recogni:e that gift by difficult is ue," he said. plea · for a multicultural At odd moment and naming the ad dition The Pledge , by trustees house (see Student Life), during break over the Pugh enter. Pugh aid the reflect that "they have there was immediate broad weekend meeting, Helm tru tee 'financial support tremendous respect and support for the concept. aw Pugh huddled with one for the common ground admiration for Larry and Between concept and trustee after another in a space reflects the inten ity Jean Pugh," Helm added. + Catalyst for Improvement A chemistry lab in the Keyes building will be renovated Colby' 100-million capital campaign announced la t and equipped to erve the needs of non-sc ience majors October. The new laboratory will expand and enhance the thanks in part to a $100,000 grant from the Hannaford hands-on laboratory courses that atisfy the College' Charitable Foundation in Scarborough, Maine. The founda science requirement for non-science majors and will help tion is the charitable arm of Hannaford Bros. Co., a Maine ensure that all Colby graduates will be prepared for an based food retailer with 118 stores in even states in the increasingly technological world. Construction is slated to Northeast and the Carolinas. begin this summer. "The Hannaford Charitable Foundation is very pleased "Not only will this benefit all Colby students who use to support Colby's capital campaign and the College's the facilities, it will also enhance our extensive collabora commitment to technological literacy, an increasingly tion with public school science programs in the greater important component of a liberal arts education," said Paul Waterville area," said Colby College President William R. A. Fritzson, president of the Hannaford Charitable Founda Cotter. "This is a stunning contribution toward our overall tion, when the gift was announced this spring. plan for upgrading science fac ilities." The grant is an important component in Colby's Three Hannaford Bros. vice presidents are Colby gradu proposed $1.4-million modernization of the Keyes chemis ates: Albert Carville Jr. '63, Karen Johnson Mank '70 and try build ing, one of the highest priority objectives of Kenneth C. Johnson '76. + COLBY AUGUST 1995 30 Banking on the Future Fleet Bank of Maine has pledged $50,000 to the Raising funds for scholarships is a principle goal of Campaign for Colby. The gift will endow a scholarship for the Campaign for Colby. Fleet's pledge, to be paid over minority students. five years, was welcomed by President William Cotter. Colby trustee and Fleet Bank of Maine Chairman M. "This is another example of Fleet Bank's corporate Anne O'Hanian Szostak '72 presented a check to College leadership in the state of Maine, and we are very trustees at their May meeting. grateful for their support of our efforts to offer more "lt is our sincere hope that Fleet's gift to this campaign scholarship monies to minority students," Cotter said. will provide the impetus for other corporations and "Making sure that students from a variety of back individuals to affirmthe ir support for Colby's educational grounds may continue to attend Colby is a cornerstone mission," Szostak said. of our mission." Not Afraid to Take a Check under her gown for any dancing a quick jig up the seniors who still are not in steps to the platform. "That's the pledge," Cotter quipped. just the type of person she Vice President for Devel is," said Associate Director opment and Alumni Rela of Annual Giving Margaret tions Randy Helm credited Felton Viens '77, who the success of the drive to coordinated the Senior lorio's energy and what he Pledge with Iorio. "She was called a "real over-the-top great to work with." performance" at the senior Proceeds fromthe Senior dinner. She arrived at the Pledge go to the Alumni dinner with pledge cards for Fund for general, unrestricted more than 100 classmates expenditures by the College. who hadn't signed on and "It's to get Colby alumni into used the opportunity to the habit of giving from the employ the fund raiser's best day they graduate," says Laura Iorio '95 and Sara Jagels '95. tool, personal contact, to win Helm. During the five years more converts. When it was before their first reunion, As captain of the wo of Colby's Senior Pledge her tum to speak, she got to graduates tend to move men's ice hockey team, drive and lifted the College's the platform, paused and around a lot and don't have a Laura Iorio '95 was "tough in perennially successful made a great fuss applying her great deal of money to give. front of the net-very student fund raising effort to make-up in front of the crowd The Senior Pledge informs aggressive--definitely a record 70 percent partici before charming and cajoling students about the impor gritty," said Laura Hall pation rate, edging last year's her peers one more time. At tance of philanthropy to the dorson, lorio's coach for the record of 69 percent. the class party afterward she College and to their own past four seasons. Despite a That rate sustains an got the last dozen pledges lives and helps mold their lacrosse injury that required upward trend that started in that put her over 70 percent. philanthropic habits while reconstructive knee surgery 1989, when just 35 percent "She's vibrant and outgoing. their Colby experience is still between her first and second of Colby seniors made She loves Colby and isn't fresh, Helm says. seasons, Iorio played all four pledges. The Senior Pledge afraidto tell people so," said Iorio, a government years, starting as a forward was initiated 10 years ago. Helm. "She was definitely the major and women's studies and wrapping up her career This year's record right leader at the right time." minor who led the Colby playing defense. "She wasn't participation rate earned By the time seniors picked Women's Group as well as afraid to get hit," Halldorson praise for the seniors from up diplomas on May 28, the hockey team, isn't said, even though the tender President William Cotter 70.52 percent of them had waiting to see whether she's knee occasionally required when he addressed them at pledged $39,4 72 (payable found her career calling crutches between games. Commencement, as well as over five years), and Iorio, she has an internship at Iorio brought that same praise for Iorio, whom he wearing a baseball cap Cushing Academy in tenacity to a different arena ingled out. "Laura probably instead of the traditional Ashburnham, Mass., this spring. She took charge still has some pledge forms mortarboard, celebrated by working in development. + 31 AUGU T 1995 COLBY The Deepest Cut of All? By J. Kevin Cool j_ hen the dust fi nally Colby students to pay as W settles on the fiscal much as $2,000 in aJditional aging 1996 federal budget process, intere:-.t at the end of their probably some time thi fa ll, four-year college career. arents and Colby officials assess Still at stake in the Pa . the damage su ·rained from budget process arc the cuts in student fi nancial Perk in� Loan program, assistance programs, their which provides fund� that reaction may be "it coulJ can be loaned tn students at Comparison of Federal and Institutional have been worse." an annual interest rate of 5 Although Congress may percent; work -study pro Financial Aid since 1970 I substantially pare some of gram�; and Supplemental the government's most EJ ucatinnal Opportunity JI popular program for helping Grants, which provide fund undergraduates pay for for low-income students. college, President William Last year olhy student Cotter is pleased that at least received nearly $ I million one key component origi from those thre fu nding I nally targeted for elimina ource combined. I tion has been restored. The Nobody is sure what SS mil. in-school interest subsidy programs will be cut or to --- Colby Granc Funds that allows students to defer what extent, Corter say , but paying interest on their he says that any cuts in ---- Perkins wan loans until after they have fe deral assistance will be -D- F EOG1 graduated has been spared, difficult to absorb. "It seems 3 mil. -D-FWSP2 or so it appears. anomolous to me that at a -0- Pell Granc "There may be a victory time when deficit reduction $2 mil. here for our lobbying efforts, is being advocated as a way and specifically the Maine to decrea e the burden on lobbying effort, in getting the future generation, we are the in-school interest sub taxing students to go to sidy retained," Cotter said. college," he said. "They are He says Maine Senators supposed to be the beneficia Olympia Snowe and William ries of deficit reduction and Cohen successfully fought for instead they are being asked the subsidy after an earlier to shoulder more of the House Budget Resolution burden. lt flies in the face of called for its elimination. all the rhetoric." Last year, 625 Colby Currently, about one students received a total of third of Colby's students $2.1 million in " ubsidized" receive need-ba ed finan Stafford Loans. Under the cial assistance and 60 budget resolution proposed percent get work study. in the House, interest on Colby's Director of 1970-71 1979-80 1990-91 1994-95 these loans would begin Financial Aid Lucia Whit accruing while students were telsey '73 says Colby is till in college. Doing away particularly vulnerable to 1 with the subsidy-Cotter cuts in federal assistance Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant 2 called it a "stealth tax" because many of its peers Federal Work-Srudy Program would have required some have larger endowments that COLBY AUGUST 1995 32 � allow them more of a safety money already allocated to ; net. "It makes it harder for student for the coming NOTHING NEW us to compete when we can't academic year would have to Anecdotes from the Colby Arcli.ives offer the same financial be withdrawn. "It doesn't assistance packages. There is leave us any time to plan," Halls of Ivy also the impact on Colby's Whittelsey said. In 1877, following in the footsteps of Mary Low, philosophy of maintaining Although the College is Helen Loui e Coburn became the second woman to acce for tudents regardle s actively lobbying Congress graduate from Colby College. ot coincidentally, that of need. One type of to avoid further cuts in 11 was also the founding year of Ivy Day, an annual diversity is ocio-economic higher education, Cotter has � celebration coordinated by the women of the junior diversity, and we want to not asked parents to join in � i1 cla s. Ivy Day was one of the earlie t institution Colby maintain that," he said. that effort. "We don't _!J I I women could claim a their O\.\'n. It \\·a a program of Whittelsey noted that mobilize lobbying efforts by �- inging, dancing and oratory in which all fe male cut in fe deral ai:I would be parents. Our position is that .mTrt�� students participated. The program for 1877 included, fe lt most severely by families we will keep parents in �� among other things, "Our h·y, 'tisofThee" ung to the of Maine students, many of formed, but how they �l�I tune of "America." While the program changed each whom receive financial respond is an individual �-�i year, Ivy Day's one con tant function was the ritual assistance. "Colby has alway decision and should not be � transfer of authority from the senior to the junior been committed to access for orchestrated by the Col class women. In 1917 this tran fer wa ymboli:ed by the oift Maine students, but cut like lege," he aid. from the senior cla s president to the junior clas- pre ident of this make that commitment The proposed cuts were the trowel used to plant the i\·y. harder and harder to con idered seriou enough maintain, ' she said. to warrant a combined He Didn't Have a Prayer Cotter aid federal public campaign by the Colby's founders orioinally fu nding cuts would again pre ident of Colby , Bates intended the College to be a underline the importance and Bowdoin and the non-sectarian seminary for of building the College's chancellor of the Uni\·ersity clergy. Indeed, during Colby' endowment. "It co ts more of Maine ystem, who poke infancy many graduate went every year just to meet the at a joint pre s conference on to serve a mini-ter - and growing financial assistance in early April. The state missionaries. The curriculum need created by inflation," men prepared by the and routine of the College re he aid. "When you colle •e leader noted that flected thi heritage; daily morn combine that with more makin higher education ing chapel attendance was cuts in fe deral aid, endow le - accessible is bad policy mandatory and an absent stu ment becomes e en both a a hort-term remedy dent faced the possibility offines more important." an :i a a long-term fiscal or cen ure. A ignificant reduction in mea ure. "The fact is that tudents of that era frequently schemed for some way to fe deral fi nancial assi tance college-educated people escape the morning prayer ervice. One of the most ingenious for tudent -preliminary from all walks of life-pay ploys was claimed by Benjamin F. Butler, Class of 1 3 , later a figure ranged from 6 increa ingly larger shares oeneral of Civil War fame. In hi autobiography Butler tells of billion to 10 billion of fe deral and state taxes," submitting a petition to Pre ident Babcock claiming that he would be "a pill I don t the tatement read. "Col had little hope of alvation ince Cakinist doctrine says the think we could wallow," lege-educated indi' iduals ratio of the saved to the damned is small and since the faculty Cotter said. "It would mean now pay about two-thirds were surely among the saved. Therefore, Butler maintained, no reduc ing aid packages for of all IR revenues, far out amount of chapel attendance would do him any good. tudents currently receiving of proportion to their There is no record of the petition having been appro\'ed. aid. We imply couldn't number . If the reduction make that up from institu of the federal deficit is tional fund . " a principle long-term Name That Major Complicating the i sue goal, then clearly fi nan- Among the more intere ting affinitie between academic discipline further i a re ci ions cial aid that as ist higher and last name in the year ju t past were a Rock music major (Jennifer package that call fora percentages of our oung '95, Ardsley, N.Y.), an Engli h English major (Sarah '95, Madi on, 600-million reduction in people through college Conn.) and a Fortune in economics (Christopher 95, Freeland, Md.). education pending for fiscal i one of the most effec year 199.J.The re ult is that tive investments." + 33 AUG T 1991 COLBY Life on the Road By Lynn Sullivan '89 be Roger '95 seem:-. think it':-.im1 �ortant that I not a one-dimensional per Anot to fi t the model of continue tu make th<1t a ule son son. There are many things an ''ironman." A tri<1thlete pn:-.itive part uf m . My goal Move the that I'm committed to and �ince age 15, R1)ger:-.', i::.to be the he:-.t I can be in many thing I'm a part of." tenaciousness helies his my field. The challenge in Th i ummer Roger reserved, soft- pnken that is that I'm not the be�t hoped to compete in a dozen demeanor. "A world-clas� profe�si\ lrn1l yet. I hC1vc a Int or more triathlons across the athlete," accord ing to ulhy country. "Racing pro is a lot track coach Jim We:-.cott, diffe rent [from racing Rogers is one of the premier amateur]," aid Rogers. "The triathlon competiwr and a competiti n i much more fu ture profe ional in seriou and there is so much perhaps the mo t phy�ically more at take, like making a demanding sport yet Ii ving. There' a lot more invented. pre ure to do well." A Burlington, Vt., native, According to Roger , a few Rogers has competed as an profe si nal triathlete make amateur in 2S triathlow as much a $500,000 from since his fi rst race ·even -pon nr , endor ements and years ago. He was the Jun ior prize money, but the majority National Champion three of fu ll-time pro make consecutive years, 1991-93, 20,000-30,000 per year. and repre ented the U ..in "He i · doing all of this for the world champion hips in the love of the sport and no Australia, Canada and other reason," said Wescott, England . He finished 29th, who coached Rogers in cross ninth and eighth, respec country and track. "He ju t tively. His 1993 eighth-place keep dri ing, driving, fini h helped his team win driving. He i one of the the gold medal. mo t dedicated athlete I've Abe Rogers '95 Last summer he entered ever coached, and hi the Mazda-Orange County of room to imprnve." Colby. He was co-pre ident chance [as a professional] Triathlon in Orange Roger 's training week of OAR ( oc iety Orga are great." County, Calif. , as a profes includes SS miles of running, nized Again t Racism), the " ometimes it's hard, and sional. He finished fourth more than 300 miles of tudent-run group that training gets a little lonely," among the Americans-one biking and 15 mi le of combats racism and stereo said Rogers. "You spend a lot spot better would have swimming to prepare for the typing, he \.vorked at the of time by your elf, and once earned him a trip tO the standard international Joseph Spa, and he was a 1 ife in a while you'll que tion 1994 Goodwill Games in St. triathlon-a 1.5-kilometer guard. Throughout his four why you're putting all this Petersburg, Russia. Rogers swim, a 40k bike ride and a years, though, he maintained pre sure on yourself trying to has consistently placed lOk run. Except for an a commitment to triathlons. cash in every weekend. Why among the tOp lS, including occasional off day before a "I feel I'm pretty well not just go out and get a second-place fini hes at race, he trains daily. While a rounded," said Rogers, who steady job with a steady races in Nagoya, Japan, and student at Colby he modi says that in his four years at income? But competing in Columbus, Ohio. fied his training schedule Colby he grew from a person triathlon is a great chal "Athletics is a part of who because of academic and totally focused on triathlons lenge. l'm at the age where I I am," said Rogers, who was athletic commitment . to a much more complete want to see how far I can go an administrative science Rogers lettered in cross individual. "l am using my athletically, and it just so major with a minor in country, swimming and per onal resources as well as happens l get to do what l African-American studies. "I outdoor track and field at my athletic resources. I am like physically." + COLF\Y AUGUST 1995 34 Women Keep Pace SPORTS SHORTS Every Colby women's outdoor track and field team Lacrosse Squad To ps Middlebury carries the burden of upholding a tradition of �"' erennial The men's lacrosse team fini_hed ucces . Past squads have won the ESCAC title three the eason \\'ith a 9-6 uYern ll times and the New England record. During the pre-sea on the DiYision III title twice, and quad wa ranked 21st by Fact'off more than a do:en competi maoa:ine. They played eight tors ha,·e earnedAll teams that were ranked among America certificates. The the wp 30 natitmally during the ro·ter of a\\·ard winner regular ea on, \\·hose highlighr include- more than 50 Ali included a 10-9 o\·errimc \\·in e\\' England, 3 All-ECAC _ over liddlebury, the e\·entual and 2 All- ESCAC ECAC champions ....Po sting competitors. ln 1994 five - impre si,·e \\·ins o,·er Virginia athlete qualified for nation Tech and pringfield College and al- and three earned All- suffering one-point losses to Di,·ision 111 powerhouse: Randol�..,h Macon and Washington and Lee, the women's lacrosse team This year'· squad met finished the ·eason with a 6-9 record. the challenge as \\'ell. The 1ules didn't lose to a Roundup After a ·rring trip ro Bermuda, the men's outdoor track and field team won the rate of Maine championships for the ·econd eason, a second-place fini-11 conseCLtti,·e year. Don aucier '96 received the meet'- Alan Lenia Ascenso '95 at the Aloha Relays. At the Hillman trophy presented to the most ,·aluable runner-the third E CAC champion hip year in a row Colby has earned that honor. The men took fifth Colby placed third and then repeated that performance at place at the ESCAC meet ....A pring break trip to Hilton the ew England Divi ion Ill championshir , ,,·here they Head, .C., produced a 2-3 record for the men's tennis team, were edged by econd-place Wesleyan by t\\'O point . \vhich finished the season 5- m·erall. The team excelle:! in Their final performance-the ECAC meet-earned doubles competition, pl)Sting wins over Salem. tate College and Colby econd place (behind Bowdoin) and ·urpri-ed the Bates ....The softball team finished the sea on with a 7-20 25-team field including Divi ion III national powerhou e record, including win over Bowdoin, Bate , Plymouth tare and U Y-Cortland. the Univer ityofSouthernMaine ....The baseball team finished "Overall it wa a very ucces fu l and trong ea on," said its 12 th season with a 12-16 record. The 2 -game season pro head coach Deb Aitken. "ln term of what we thought we duced wins over Trinity, Bowdoin, Bates and UMa s-B ston. could do and what we did, we were succe fu l." Capping the ea on were invitation to the CAA Monday Night Football champion hip forhammer thrower Brooke Loren:en, a enior from Mercer 1 land, Wash., and middle-di ·ranee The September 23 Colby v . Trinity football game will be runner Lenia A cen o, a enior from Gloucester, Mas . televised on cable' ew England ports etwork (NE N ). Becau e the meet coincided with Colby's enior Week The rape-delayed broadcast i scheduled to air on Monday, and graduation activitie , A cen o made the difficult ept. 25, at 7:30 p.m. E N, the ration of the Boston Bruins decision to remain on Mayflower Hill. Loren:en opted to and Red ox, is seen throughout New England. mi most of the week fe tivitie and headed for competi tion at Carleton College in Minnesota. Undefeated throughout the ea on, Loren:en, seeded fourth at national , • a looking to repeat her 1994 All American performance in the hammer (the fir t time the Still J(icking e ent was allowed in national competition). This time she Although Molly Couch ' 6 played ice hockey with a men' league for a few threw 163' 5", e tabli hing a Colb record and capturing year- after graduating, he sa s ·he no longer play seriously. A fifth grade fourth place for her econd All-American certificate. teacher at the mith College Campu chool in orthampton, i\!ass., "l am very happ with the athlete ' performances this Couch i busy pur uing other acti\'ities such a oftball, tennis, a ummer year," aid Aitken. 'Everything ju t eemed to click for us." + wedding and T aekwondo. In her enior year with the White Mules -he was the team' MVP and captain, a ew England All-Star and a member of the All-Bowdoin Tournament team. She cored 76 point from her defen ive po ition in her four yearsat Colby. Couch was a four-year member of the occer team as well. 3 5 AUGUST 1995 COLBY Fifty--Plus �..... lumniIF" at arge Belgrade Lake>, Maine. My ,ister hest") rnught him (a) how to teach Correspondent: and her hushtlnd have a simil::ir school and (b) how ro u e time ahode on the ame body of water, efficiently, but (c) didn't teach and I have spent many him how w combat old age. Fletcher Eawn '39 time there. End of commonali m1uhle I with it] after �ix month�. (Note: Mr. Meyer is hereby ap 42 Perry Drive tie,. The Marcou' have daugh Wt:nr on a 10-day C::iribhcan pointed this year' recipient of the Needham, MA 02 192 ter' M COL BY AUGUST 1995 36 ALUMNI AT LARt�E Call me at Riverside House (207- has been to Slovakia and Vla 37 AUGU T 1995 CO LBY J\ L LI M N I J\ l I J\ H l; I . reunion __ 50 plus Jl'r 'i The 5lst meet ing of the 50-PJu, Cluh of ..----...�----,,::---. nes · A -Chris Merrill Wysor '42 school bur C' in Chappie's joy life." Hi eriou avocation Comparetti for Engli h, Norman dog named "Bi" becau e he is bi class .... William Pinansky '40 consist of "Completing my Palmer for ociology and Dean racial-his fi r t thoroughbred ha received a SO-year certificate father's radio cripts for publica Ninetta Runnal -"All of them mongrel. Of "Pop" Newman, formembership in the Maine State tion. There are 1,3 38 of them were o great." ... Marlee Brag Franklin says, "The richer his Bar As oc iation, which he joined on the air (WTVL) from 1948 to don Monroe '42 is the founder laughter, the deeper hi per onal in 1943. He and his wife, 1983." ... At 76, Ruth Lewis and pre ident ofthe Al COLBY AUGUST 199 5 38 ,, ALUMNI AT LARGE On April 10 Jean had a reunion '43 and Marjorie Brown Pursley mends Westward Watch: The son-"one of the most unselfi h with Frances Brewer Barker '42 '43 to find a boat, but they finally United States and the ChangingPa people (along with my father) and Katheryn Reny Anderson euled on a 41-foot motor yacht cific by Dr. Norman Palmer '30. that 1 have ever known." ... '40. The MacRaes keep fit by with diesel engines. They plan (See notes onDr. Palmer, above.) Robert H. Riefe '44's wife, Rae, walking, swimming in sea on, bik some summer cruises and urge all "Dr. Palmer is fa miliar with this reports that they have a son, Ri ing and work ing around the who see the boat Cap Tap on geographical area," he says, "and chard, and a daughter, Ali:,un. house ....At 73, Hope-Jane Long 1 land Sound to come writes with lucidity and author She writes: "[ lived forei ght years Gillingham Meyer '43 is "still aboard ... . Frank Miselis '43, ity." Mr. McQuillan's family re in Latin America, two of rhem in working (as a librarian in Wal M.D., is "contcnt w ith lifeas is" union in Southampton, Mass., Guyana. Besides learning pan lingford, Conn.) and enjoying it." as i being that he and his wife, surprised him. He hadn't realized i h, I came to reali:e that we Among familymembers she lists Teddie, are the proud parents of he had o many relatives. Along should know more about our a son, Dougla , a granddaughter, three on·: Dr. Richard (Ph.D.), with many others, Mr. McQuillan southern neighbors." + Jes ica, and two cats, Nip and neuro cienti t and profe sor at U pays warm tribute to Dr. Wilkin- Tuck. To maintain fitnes , she Penn; Robert, an industrial en doe "absolutely nothing. But 1 gineer turned successful dairy do eat healt hily." Professor farmer; and Donald, a chemical Wilkinson got her hooked on engineer and traveling bachelor. history .... Carolyn Nutting Richard and Robert have contrib Martin '43 (roommate to Hope uted four grandchildren to the JaneGillingham Meyer) has three Mi eli ·family, which summers in sons, Tim, John and Tom , mar Lake Tahoe, .Y., and winters in ried respectively to heila, Linda Sun City West, Ari: .... Profes and Adrianne. Four grandchil sor Emeritus Sidney Rauch '43 dren (three girls and a boy) plus a of Hofstra University, Hemp great-grandson round out a very steaJ, N.Y., is busy raising funds happy family. Carolyn tudied a for the Rauch Endowed cholar- year of Greek with Prof. Wilbert hip for Graduate Students at Carr, "a gentle, kind man who Hofstra. Otherwi e, he reads any considered his students his 'boys books by P.O. Jame and Gerald and girls.' When President Bixler Seymour since he enjoys myster came to Colby, Dr. Carr intro ie and political thrillers. He FORESIGHT: duced one of hi tudents as 'one stil I retains pleasant memories THE COLBY of my boys.' Accepting that at of Carl Weber and "Pop" New GUIDE TO face value, Dr. Bixler said: 'How man ....Nancy Curtis Law do you do, Mr. Carr,"' where rence '44, of Sequim, Wa h. (just PLANNED upon Dr. Carr had to explain the aero s the trait of Juan de Fuca GIVING fine distinction. Mrs. Martin from Norman Palmer 'JO in Fri completes her quotation of Dr. day Harbor), has a family consist Wilkinson (see the January issue ing of Bu ter, the dog; Kitty, the A carefully planned charitable gift can provide you and of this column): "Remember cat; Big Boy, Gertrude, Stephanie your loved ones with immediate benefits: it can increase Thuringia! That' where most of and friends, geese; an eagle and your income, protect your assets and reduce your tax the wars in Europe began!" John heron, numerou seagull , oy - Thomas used to cold Glee Club tercatchers and loon . She used burden, now and in the future. Such a gift can also create members with: " ing! How can I to regard Dr. Wilkinson with awe a legacy for generations of students who will benefit correct you if you give me noth until, one day, she saw him in the from a Colby education. ing to correct?" Adds Mrs. Mar grocery store with his wife dis tin: "I worked in the library with cus ing whichcheese to buy. She Mi s Herrick, Orwin Rush and i rereading the classics (Mill on Building an endowment requires vision and a commit Harold Clark, all of whom helped the Floss, etc.) and cataloguing ment to help secure the future. A planned gift demon me as I tried to work my way books for her local museum of through college. NY A [National arts and crafts ....The Rever strates your understanding of the ways we shape that Youth Administration] jobs paid end Richard Mountfort '44 has future through decisions we make today. 35 cents per hour." . . . George the largest family yet recorded by Popper '43 heaps encomiums on thi correspondent: his wife, profe sors Wilkinson, Weeks, Esther; eight children (including Colby has prepared a booklet to assist you in under Breckenridge and Colgan and twin girls); 12 grandchildren; one standing the concepts and techniques used in planning puts particular emphasis on "Pop" great-grandchild; four stepchil charitable gifts. If you would like a copy of "Foresight: Newman-"one of the kindest dren (ages 36-51 ); 10 step-grand persons I ever met." Mr. Popper children (ages 10-33); and two The Colby Guide to Planned Giving," please return the has completed a cruise through step-great-grandchildren (age 4 response card in this issue of Colby or contact Colby's the far Pacific, stopping in Aus months-6 years). At his 50th re Director of Planned Giving, Steve Greaves, at 4373 tralia, New Zealand, New Cale union, he relished seeing class donia, Fij i, American Samoa, mates whom he hadn't seen in 50 Mayflower Hill, Waterville, ME 04901 or (207) 872-3212. Bora-Bora, Mothea, Tahiti and years but missed those who were three Hawaiian islands .... It absent by sickne s or death ... . tooktwo long months for Thomas Malcolm McQuillan '44 recom- 39 AUGU T 1995 COLBY '\ I lJ M N I A TL A I\ l; [ __ _ The Forties a COLB Y AUGUST 1995 40 ALUMNI AT LARGE now in Greensboro, Vt., and win and Tossie Campbell Kozen di which looked at the U.N., the Cook Islands, Ecuador, Panama ters in Englewood, Fla. Ticeyhave vide their time between Maine Human Genome Project and the Canal, and several intere ting ju t been to England and Portu and Florida, attend Colby func Campaign for Global Change. spot in the United rares. While gal. A volunteer they drive the tion· when in Waterville, and . ..Larry Kaplan retired from working for Outward Bound, her elderly for the Interfaith Care occasionally ee Colby friends in Kent rate University in 1993 oldest son, Scott, died in 1990; givers program.... Pleeeze come Florida. Their son, father of three, and has been reaching military her younger son and his wife wurk to our 50th reunion at Colby. We ha been named the Jo eph New hi tory at Georgerown and con for LL. Bean. Dottie volunteer· are uch fine folk. + ton Pew Jr. Profe sor ofEngineer sulting for the Pentagon. as an ad\·ocate for deaf group·, on ing at Cornell. Tossie and Dorrie Among our busiest is Betty Wade the board of Maine Center on Meyer Hawkes will be working Drum, who belongs to ·everal Deafnes and the Deaf Advisor\ Corre pondent: on our 50th reunion. A I think women's groups, practices the Group of Augusta. In March she Mary Hall Fitch everyone will agree, they did a organ two hours daily, direct two and Emily Gardell Hueston cel great job on the 45th ....Ju st bell choirs, sing. in choir and ebrated their fifth anniversaries Cal Dolan and his wife ask Marilyn Hubert, who ay · volunteers in her local library and married the same week1 • • The 4 7 both have retired from she enjoyed it so much that she food pantry. She 10\·e to knit, daughter ofRuth Jaffe Gordon is teaching, he from chem went to her grade school and high read, go to concerts and plays and a psychiatri ·r, married with three istry, he from English. They have school reunion in 1993. he and keep active walking and hiking. children. Her son is also married five children and five grandchil G.l. mith '49 retired from the In March she attended an Elder and is the father of two children. dren, one of whom i a graduate U ..Geolo gical urvey, Dept. of hostel in Italy, viSLting Rome, Ruth spends time on the Cape of Penn tare and already mar Interior, in January, but she con Pi a and Florence . . ..Dottie anJ Florida, both of which she ried. Wintering in Naple , Fla., tinues to volunteer in their li Cleaves Rodgers Jordan says she lo\'e-, and recently had lunch ll'ith has made a great difference in his brary working on the geologic and her husband "have traveled Dick and Marjorie Collins golf game, Cal says. He also does name J ictionary, her chief effort extensively-like our days are Marcyes ....John and I cel a bit of gardening and bas-relief since 1967. he participates in numbered." In the last two year, ebrated our 50th anni\'er. ary culpturing. He hope everyone the Colby Club of Washington, she has been in Ireland, se\·en March 10 in the Caribbean. Th i� in the class is planning to attend D.C., and local Phi Bera Kappa countries on the continent, Au - May, after a party gi\·en by our our 50th reunion in '97 ....Ray as ociation, recent meetings of tralia, New Zealand , Fij i and children, we spent three \\'eek in . reu nwn Class of 1945 "I never knew how much fun a reunion could be !" attend the reunion were Bobhie Holt Sachs from earrle, Kaye Faxon -A member of the Cla s of '45 Anderson from Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, and Muriel Marker Gould Three elegant dinner , a picnic and a lub ·ter bake kept our hunger from Firen:e, Italy. at reunion as uaged. In the Bixler Art Mu·eum at our final meal, We had quite a few in attendance at the meetings, many joined Maurice Whitten made a perfect peech, i\·ing a brief hi·rory of by pouses. Regret were expressed about each one who was not Colby College, including details that many of u never were aware of, present. If you weren't there, you can be assured that your name was and ending with everal student/faculty anecdotes that had u· in mentioned by omeone along with the wi h that you had been able stitche -all delivered in a real "Down Ea, t" accent that made you to join u . remember our best day in Maine. And a letter from Laura Tapia In attendance were: Mort and Rae Gale Backer, Ralph and Adele Aitken, telling of her regret at not being able to attend, mentioned Grindrod Bates, Evelyn Sterry Belanger, Dorothy Chellman her happy day at Colby and how much it ha alway meant to her. Bonneau, Beverly Booth, Marilyn Bryant, Shirley (Martin '46) and Many attended the full ReunionWeek Chuck Dudley, Margery Owen Fallon, end, and a few participated in an event Muriel Marker Gould, Hope and Arnold here or there a suited their chedule . Grossman, Betty Lohnes Grudin, Ted Everyone fe lt welcome and delighted to and Polly Callard Guild, Frank and Mar see each other. Fifty year melted away, guerite Broderson Gustafson, Kaye and we continued our friendships from Matteo Hancock, Doris Taylor Huber, where we left off at graduation. Bill and Doris Blanchard Hutcheson, We all visited the extensive wood Roslyn Kramer, Dori and George Lewald, working shops and forgeson Alan Hume's Rita McCabe, Michael Nawfel and hi· property on Messalonskee Lake, which wife, Naomi Collett Paganelli, Helen and Dr. Hume generou ly make available for Kenneth Quimby, Mildred and Ronald u e by Colby tudents. We enjoyed meet Roy, Mary and Doug Smith, Joan t. ing Dr. Hume and hearing his explana James, Helen Strauss, Rene and Sherwood tion of the equipment. We were impressed Tarlow, Robert and Hazel Brewer War especially by the length and lighmes of ren, Frances Dow Wells, Dori and the fabric of the Colby sculls, which are Maurice Whitten, Virginia Briggs stored at the Colby-Hume Center forprac Zulieve. Members from other cla se who tice and competition by the student crew . joined u were Bruce and Emily Holbrook Withot...ttaking actual count, the three Pelissier '46, Helen Watson Baldi '44 and who I believe traveled the farrhe t to Barbara White Haddad '44. Woody Tarlow, Helen Strauss and Collett Pagnelli. -Dornthy "Dee" Sanford McCunn 41 AUGU T 1995 COLBY \ L L �I N I \ I I \ R (, I h1iw Y"LI feel about i�>ue� ;1t the a joh teaching at a mall liberal College or anywhere ebe for rh;it art. col lege, jusrn she haJ hopeJ. NEWSMAKERS 1rn11rcr .... Natalie Pretat Ar Ruth has traveled ext nsively in nold fi Iled llUt our Ocroher quc� New MexicoanJ the Dakoras anJ George Lewald '45, recently l ionna irc. 'he li1·e; in Fmter, R.I., into askatchewan, the Gaspe anJ retired senior partner of the where hot h ..,he anJ herhu -,hand, Hud on Bay, anJ he planne Waller's World ark Twain would've lo\'eJ 'aw a shed on campus with '>Ome ruff stored in it an COLBY AUGU T 199 5 42 .A LUMNI AT LARGE Colby Club. We were joined by in touch with Peg. Helen Cod and would welcome a visit town was Concord, Ma·s., and Warren Finegan '5 1 and enjoyed Knox Elliott wrote that thanks from a classmate. We keep Hero, who had a i ter, onnie. (It is. ) a fa cinating evening .... We to her training as an English a dark blue sloop, in slip �zo at Ralph's telephone: 508-775- received an imeresting letter from major she had two poems pub Falmouth Marine on the west 1505.Givehimacall. . Martha Peg Clark Atkins. She has to be lished by The National Library side of the harbor. If we are not Bennett Headley, RR =l , Box Colby's most enduring class agent, of Poetry. Helen and her hus our cruising we promise you a 198, Alton, NH 03809, is no\\' and she has done an out randing band, Charles, are relocating to a warm reception. + re tired. Marty left New Hamp job. She writes that our cla ha retirement community near ·hire in September for a three reached an Alumn i Fund partici Durham and Chapel Hill, N.C. month trip as far we·t as Ne,·a commercial purpose except in collaboration with publishers of Class Year______alumni directories. "Essentially, this i an i ue of privacy versus marketing," Helm said. "If enough alumni want us to revisit this Address ______policy, we will. If not, we will continue to jealously guard information about our alumni." Helm t>ncouraged alumni to return the response card in this City/State/Zip ------i sue of Colby to help the College reevaluate its policy regarding alumni mailing lists. + Is this a new address ? O L ______� 43 AUGU T l99; COLBY ,\ L U �t N I .'\ T L A R G E The Fifties 1958 tory an COLBY AUGU T 1995 44 ALUMNI AT LARGE reun Class of 1950 The 45th reunion of the Class of 1950 was life and quantities of snap hots of our college a wonderful event, with classmates returning days that were displayed at Grossman to the in record numbers. The campu� looked beau pleasure of us all. Sybil Green Reichek tiful, the weather was gorgeou and the hos brought memornbilia from "Bottoms Up!", pitality of the Colby staffwas superb. We all and other photos were sent by Jane Merrill looked exactly the same, except that by some Thomas, Mary Jordan Megargee, Stubby quirk of the aging process (probably gender Crandall Graves and Barbara Miller Green. driven) the men's hair had primarily turned The traditional Boardman Memorial Ser into a distingui hed gray while many of the vice honoring the memory of alumni who women turned into blondes. died during the previous year was conducted The reunion committee-Nelson Everts, by Rabbi Raymond Krinsky and Father John Charlotte "Stubby" Crandall Graves, Bar Marqui , providing quiet closure to an ac bara Miller Green, Nancy Ricker Sears and tive, nostalgic weekend. Priscilla Tracey Tanguay-planned activi We aid goodbyes during the morning ties such as breakfasts and evening receptions fo llowing breakfast at Gro sman, then re at class headquarters in Grossman to fac ili luctantly piled into cars, some heading tate the coming-together process. We talked home, ome off to further vacation ing, but and talked and talked, starting Friday night Gloria Gordon Goldman, Sybil Green Reichek, all in agreement that this had been a super and continuing until departure, reminiscing Barbara Starr Wolf and Dale Avery Benson. reunion, to be surpassed only by our SOth and bridging the years since graduation. Our in just five short years. Get ready! spouses were great, joining in and making friendships of their own. If you weren't able to make it, you also missed seeing: Dick and We all looked colorful marching in the Parade of Classes wearing Ruth Armknecht, Bob and Daly Avery Benson, Dot and Frank sensational T-shirt designed by class artist Bob Donahue. Bob also Blondin, Dick and Mary Lou Kilkenny Borah, Dick and Nancy loaned some of his artwork for display at our banquet, adding lu ter to Ardiff Boulter, Ruth and Ernie Carpenter, Allie Jennings Castelli this event. On a Saturday afternoon bus tour of Waterville we loudly and Bob Bundgaard, Arthurand Betty Jacobs Christopoulos, Carolyn cheered Foss Hall (now an office building) and mourned the passing McLean Coburn, Pauline Mcintyre Cohen, Mary Anne Seward of Ome' . Crafts, Barbara and Phil Dine, Oral and Bob Donahue, Elinor and Banquet participants, numbering close to 80, were treated to an Bud Everts, Ginny Hill Field '48, Gerry Frank, Marilyn and Charles informative update on the College by Arnold Yasinski, administra Garland, Mary (Bauman '49) and AI Gates, Gloria Gordon Goldman, tive vice president, and then President Priscilla Tracey Tanguay Jim Graves, Ray Green, Dick and Connie Leonard Hayes, Nancy introduced the new class officers:Jack Alex, president, and Virginia Hill (Kevin Hill's wife), Paul Hinton, Bob Joly, Mary Alice (Campbell Davis Pearce, secretary-treasurer. Arthur O'Halloran, who will '47 ) and Ray Kozen, Bev Deschenes Libby, Bill and Dudie Jeanings continue as vice president and class agent, was unable to be present. Maley, Nancy Bradbury McKenzie, Betty and Hal Mercer, Bob and ongs of the '40s came next, provided by Benjamin ear Jr. '52 and Nancy Weare Merriman, Jean Chickering Nardozzi, Nell Macdougall Bradford Conner, who e performances have received rave reviews in Parks '49, Charlie Pearce, Connie Foxcroft Perrigo, Dick and Boston area papers. Ben and Brad joined us later in the evening at Barbara Barrow Pullen, Mort and Sybil Green Reichek, Bob and Grossman, where some special requests were heard, and we all joined Rona Kopans Rosenthal, Kay Johnston Ruksznis, Ben and Priscilla in a ing-along. What we lacked in voice we made up for in volume. Tracey Tanguay, Shirley and Bill Tippens, Nancy and Lu Veilleux, Pre ident Cotter also visited u at Grossman and spoke informally. Francis Whitehill '48, Bev Holt Wiegland, George and Harriet A highlight of the reunion was the arrival of Barbara Starr Wolf, Sargent Wiswell and Laurine Thompson York '48. who traveled the long distance from her home in Brazil. A succe sful Reunion 1995 memorabilia is still available. Please call the Alumni businesswoman, Barbara brought with her interesting tidbit of her Relations Office if you would like to purchase a Class of '50 T-shirt. -Priscilla Tracey Tanguay 45th class reunion on June 6-9, Pop Newman, the Comparettis, of directors, secretaryand author smell from Boardman Hall. He 1996. Who knows, you just might the Gordon Smiths, Dean Mar of an employee handbook for a thanks Profe sor Fullam for the win one ofthe "Just for Fun" award riner, Professor Louella Norwood daycare center. Shirley thinks beginning of his interest in his or become part of some lively, and Dean Ninetta Runnals. Joyce that the addition of so many tory ....Harland Eastman, light-hearted exchanges .... started to study voice at age 62, stimuli in today's daycare pro Springvale, Maine, has just re Joyce Hutchins.Wells, Maine, made 300 jars of jam from last grams may rival the benefits of leased his fifth volume of local was "sparked by a bright red year's garden and watched the home care. A memory she has of history. . . Alyce Moskowitz questionnaire" and ent in a long woodchucks enjoy her vegetables. Colby is her introduction to Eng Domenitz summers in Scarsdale, letter reviewing her life and fas . . . George and Priscilla Ford lish muffins and com fritters . N.Y., where she volunteer with cinating career path since gradu Haselton are now in Westmore ...Maxine Rosenberg Rolland, the League of Women Voters, ation. Rheumatoid arthritis has land, N.H., and busy working on Tampa, Fla., is a customer service Association for the Education of been a major challenge for her. an old house. George cites Pro rep for General Screen Printing. Young Children and Recording he i currently executive direc fessor Don Koons as his in pira She rollerblades-for three miles for the Blind. She winters in torofMaine Prevention of Blind tion to become a geologist. Joanna at a time! ...Dan Hall, Reading Florida, where she enjoys tennis ness progr ms. Colby, she says, Johnstone lives nearby and has Mass., retired from high school and houseguests. Her memories taught her to "think indepen get-togethers with Priscilla. teaching, now works as a counse of Colby include the smell of Foss dently" and "to stand for that in . . . Shirley Raynor Ingraham, lor at a homeless shelter. The Hall, wonderful blizzards, late which I believe." She remembers Clearwater, Fla., is on the board memory of Colby is the sulfur nights cramming for exams, writ- 45 AUGUST 1995 COLBY A L lJ M N I A T I A I\ c; E ing p;1pers, playing earth ;i ml Pro She also talked with Mary Scott fessor EJJie Joe Colgan .... I re Jahn, who is living the good life ceiveJ a surprise telephone call NEWSMAKERS in the Florida sun ....Al so in from Jack Deering '55 ro tell me Flori COLBY AUGUST 1995 46 A L L �I :-, I A T l A R G E but in the next issue you'll be 111 Maine and on Cape Cod CL'm and ha\·e, on loan, my daughter's next day he had a rota! hip re hearing from Edwin Ei�en, Sue pleted their celebration. AccL1rd old computer. The:e three should placement. Do hope your rt'CLH" Johnson, Don Grout, Dick ing co Art, they "play !ors of golf, see me into the 2 lst centur\'. They er\' has been complete'! AbbLHt 1s Leerburger, Judy Thompson \\'alk a fair amount, ha\·e become sati ·fy. perhaps, the physical, the director L'f placement Charting Hawaii's Past ...and Future ince 1976. a 60-foot PV �. ThLimpson says, is to train students tobe leaders who will think S double-hull replica of ca critically about personal identity, human survival and em·ironmental noes u ed 1,500 years ago by issues affecting the land, sea and people of Hawaii. the original Polyne ian immi "My life has been dominated by one or another of the·e ideas," grant to the Hawaiian I lands said Thompson, who last December retired as a trustee if the has retraced migration patterns Bishop E ·rate, the multi-billion-dollar trust establi hed in 1 84 to in the Pacific-navigating, a provide fund for the education of Hawaiian and part-Hawaiian the Polynesians did, only by children. During his 20-year tenure, Thompson, who is three the un, tar , winds and cur fourth · Hawaiian, was instrumental in making early childhood rents. The Hokule'a's 16 voy development the focus of the tru t' 160-million-a-year income. age have to do with education "I look at education as a de\·elopmental proce s," ·aid Thomp a much as voyaging, ay son, a sociology major at Colby with an M.A. in social work from Myron " Pinky" Thompson '50, the Uni\·ersity of Hawaii. He al o serves as chair of the board of president ince 1979 of the Papa Ola Lokahi, a private nonprofit organi:ation founded ro Polynesian Voyaging Society improve the overall health of native Hawaiian , and he is heavily in Honolulu, a private organi:ation that pon or the trips. invoked in Healthy tart, an early-intervention program for Thomp on, whose son Nainoa has been navigarorofthe Hokule'a families at high risk of child abuse. The program promotes po·itive for 15 year -and is the fir t Hawaiian in more than 500 year to parenting skills and optimal child development from the time a practice the ancient an of cele rial navigation-says the voyages mother enters a hospital to give birth. have served a rapidly reviving Hawaiian culture and generated a "I'm finding it very atisfying to do these thing ," Thompson trong sen e of pride in people rhoughour the Pacific. aid. Helping his daughter an j two son· build home within a half "One of the things I see is the univer ality of succes . Certain mile of each other also is "fun work. And being around younger proces es are involved in being ucce ful thar are common to all people keeps the mind going." culture . The do their homework, then go after it,"Thomp on aid, The Polynesian Voyaging ociety wa · co-foundedby a Cauca comparing the original voyages to the Hawaiian Islands to today' sian anthropologi t from California who designed a replica of an pace travel. ancient canoe in the m id- 1 960s. Thompson ·ays PV 's strength Voyaging i a metaphor for de eloping leader hip as well a for comes from its multiethnic makeup. learning, ay Thomp on, and in 1992 he led PY in moving voyaging "What I look foris the quality ofrhe guy, not ethniciry-for the into theclas room. tudents tracked Hokule'aon nautical chart while ability to learn and to work with other people. I look at what he tudying the Polynesian voyagers' achievement and the geography, can contribute," Thomp on aid. He added, "It' great to be pan oceanography and meteorology of the Pacific. The long-range goal of of the human race." 47 AUGU T 1995 OLBY ALUMNI Al LAl\OE . reunion ______Class of 1955 It was a very speci ist in the office of the Es ex ri k, Jennie says she "just loves derson note that her children are Correspondent: County prosecutor in Newark, being a grandmother. Never all married. ince her father (for Ann Dillingham Ingraham N.j., which involves creating ac thought it could bring such whom she had been caring) died tivitie , programs and benefits for joy." ...Marilyn Faddis Butler last August, she has joined a read Susan Franklin Chap the children and teens in the writes from her retirement home ing group and has begun oil paint man writes from Co county. She and attorney hus in Beverly Hills, Fla. She is retired ing. She says that in China, Maine, 5 5 lumbia, Md., that she band Raymond have four adult from teaching French and Span the residents are fortunateto have is a reference librarian at the Na children and six grandchildren ish in Brookfield, Conn., and her a "fine artist offering les ons." ... tional Agricultural Library in (2-19). Daughter Diedre is an husband, Harold, has retired from Andy Boissevain wrote that he Beltsville, and her husband, Bob, architect with the New Jer ey social tudies teaching in Bridge retired in November and in July is an astronomer. They have a PAC; son Cliffis a medical doc port. They have a daughter study planned to move to Sequin, married daughter in Florida and a tor; stepson Raymond i an at ing for a nursing degree and a son Wash., which i on the northern son working on the Eastern Shore torney with his father; and with an M.B.A. working for Pru shore of the Olympic Pen in ula of Maryland. She note no big stepdaughter Debbie is the ad dential in Verona, N.j. Marilyn called the "banana belt" because changes in the last few years and mission director at Rutgers. Be says she enjoys tennis, golf, ey the weather is very nice and only continues to travel and enjoy sides working with issues of e[ ing, walking, aerobics, bridge and get 12 inches of rainfall a year their empty nest. ...Je nnie criminal reduction initiating pre the spectacular weather and compared to 49 inche in Seattle. Davis Brown is a project special- vention activities for kids at high scenery.... Joanne Bailey An- He is looking forward to retire- COLBY AUGU T 1995 48 ALUMNI AT LARGE ment, with a trek into the Grand church in Lincoln, England. your appearance in print. I will his wife, Lynne, have moved into Canyon planned with his son, Frank always gives so much try to get as many of you in as a new four-level townhouse in Mark, for April and "skiing in thought to his questionnaire an- possible ....Carol Heeks Brice alem, Mass. . Anne Kimsey March." He and Judy do all the wers, I'd like to share a few with writes from Fairbanks, Alaska, Brakman is a New York State neat things together, which he you. Asked his definition of suc where she is the owner and trainer disability analyst in Albany and say makes "me a very lucky guy." ce , he answers, "when others for Family Train in a Association, lives with her husband, Hallett, Andy add , "maybe now 1 can reap from your ideas and work." a parent education/consultation in Chatham, where he i the come to reunions. We bought a For artistic pursuits Frank enjoys business. Carol, an R.N., has a owner of Brook Cove Marine. small RV, [and] since we have choral glee clubs and appreciates master' in educati n and is a They have three married chil traveled extensively in Europe, we art in general and says that the certified familylif e educator. She dren and love to tra\·el, espe need to explore America." Hi ability to pas on one' opinions and her hu band, Luther, have cially to Ari:ona .... Al o not present job ha taken him exten and interpretations when con five children, four of whom are yet retired is Clark Jones, who is sively to the Far East. + fronted by a masterpiece from married, and four grandchildren. sale rep and owner of Clark S. any generation adds pleasure, too. he wants to know ifanyone live Jone Associate in eal Beach, He reali:es that in the sixth (or in Fairbanks or in Alaska. Doe Calif. He spends his spare time Correspondent: seventh) decade of life one's out anyone want to come? ...Na cooking' . ..Dick Campbell has Eleanor Edmunds Grout look demands to be new, molded than Adams is now retired as retired a vice president and group on pa t experience : "Thi time senior raff editor for Reader's president of Textron, Inc., and i Colbysent word ofthe of life could be a new awareness Digest. He and wife Anneliese, now self-employed for Seacoast 5 6 death of classmate not known to thi point." Thanks who i with the Au trian Infor Con ulting in York, Maine. He Frederick Arthur for the thought , Franklin .... mation Ser\'ice at the Austrian and hi \\·ife, Carolyne, ha\·e been Greig. l know you join me in Mac '54 and Eleanor Edmunds Embas y in Wa hington, D.C., married for 32 year and have expre ing the class' condolence Grout's third daughter, Tricia, is have no children but do have two four children ranging in age from to his family ....Dick Davis expecting her first child any ill-behaved and noi y dachs 15 to 30. His new lifestyle afford wrote to say thanks for keeping in minute. You can gue s what I'll hund . Although Nate is retired, him the opportunity to spend touch. Dick's family has kept the be doing in the next letter. orry he remains on the Digest mast quality time with his wife and last Colby tradition alive. His daugh there i no more news. Plea e head a "roving editor" and con at-home daughter after 35 years ter, Amy Love Davi '91, i fol drop me a line and answer with tinues to contribute articles on ofcorporate travel. ... lnCenter lowing her parents not only a a only a few lines when you get internationalterrori ·m and orga ville, Mass., Bob Hesse considers Colby grad but into a teaching your questionnaires. Thanks and ni:ed crime. He poses interesting him elf definitely retired-from career. Dick and hi wife, Con- remember reunion in 1996 is just que tion : "How doe it feel to be elling with Procter and Gam tance, both teacher , are now a few hort months from now.+ only fi\·e years away from reduced ble-into "total hedont m!" He retired and live in We t Suffield, bus fares for seniors? And to be and his wife, Gail, are active with Conn. They also have a son, told by your tailor that you need their three son and their fami Joshua, who is a senioratGordon Correspondent: u pender 1" ate enjoys trout lies ... . Marilyn Clark and hus College .... It wa good to hear Margaret Smith Henry fishing in solitude and is wonder band Don have three children, from Franklin Huntress, now on ing if he hould \\Tire a book the married two producing eight this side of the Atlantic. He is Now that the alumni about it all-and whether he can grandchildren. Marilyn is trea now in Marblehead, Mass., and 58 magazine appears four find the time to do so .... Gail surer at her church in Gray, suffering culture shock back in ttmes a year, there 1s a Crosby Davis is semi-retired but Maine, and has done several wa America's fa t lane after a period greater lap e of time between your rill managing property; however, tercolors that have old at art of four year in the dioce e and replie to my questionnaire and she and hu band Dick now man shows ... . Dick Vogt ha retired age the managers. Gail and Dick from rme full-time job to another have a daughter, a veterinarian more than full-time job. He and in San Diego, and a son, a TV hi wife, Susan(Macomber '60), COLBY HOMECOMING 1995 editor in Burbank, Calif. As class are the owner/hosts of Windy agent, Gail aid she would be "so ledge Bed & Breakfast in Hopkin OCTOBER 13-15 proud of our clas if we could ton, N.H. In about two year , exceed 50 percent of the class however, the Vogt will close the • Varsity sports-football, men' and women's occer, contribution without all those B& B, buya motorhome and trav field hockey phone calls, cards and letters." el full time. . . Carolyn O'Brion • Concerts-including the Bo ton Museum Trio Let's try, hall we? ...Another Cooper write from Lake Forest, • 91 t Annual Colby Night Dinner spon ored by the Colby retiree is Helen Payson Seager, Calif., thar she i an elementary "C" Club as ociate professor emeritus at the teacher almo t ready to retire to • Alumni Council meetings Univer ity of Pittsburgh. Helen her next passage as travel agent. • Clasof '95 "Zero Year Reunion" knows that everyone has chal he has been active with Earth • Campus tour lenges/troubles in life and i ask watch and gave a pre entation at • Academic department reception -meet your former ing how your education at Colby California State on her science faculty member and fellow tudent helped you to meet the e chal expedition to Mammoth Cave in lenges and/or weather the e • Po t-game BBQ and entertainment Kentucky.... I'll probably put trouble , if it helped at all ... . together a cla s letter to include Detail and a re ervation will be mailed to you soon. Bob Saltz is absolutely not retired all the people who o kindly re For more information, call the Alumni Office at as senior vice president and prin sponded to my questionnaire and 207-872-3190 or e-mail to [email protected] cipal for Advanced Manufactur the ones sent by the Alumni Of ing Re earch in Bo ton. He and fice. We'll be in touch. + 49 AUGU,T 1995 COLBY 1\ L LI �I N I :\ T I 1\ R l; I: 1968 lege, Waterville, ME0490 I. Hope College thi May and wa looking Correspondents: Mmy Jo alabre>e Baur you're having a great summer, for a job (political science) in l 3 7 Lexington Road and keep ynur new corning to D.C. ... Sally Thompson Solari Dracut, MA 01826 your new cla ssecretary, Carolyn was in the home stretch of getting 1960 508-454-97 33 Webster Lockhart. + her ma ter' in soc ial work from Carolyn Webster Lockhart Fordham in May, carrying 14 aca 170 County Road 1969 demic credit as well as working New London, NH 03257 Diane E. Kindler Corre;pondent: three COLBY AUGU T 1995 50 ALUM, I /\TL. '\RGE kins Mandaville tells of the expe dent at Pacific Precision Metals, a ays, "with a very impres ive fac work with adolescents who have rience of moving from manyyear supplier to Fleetwood Motor ulty and students." ...Lind a "tough life adju tment deci-ions" of marriage to solo living, includ homes. He has two kids in college Nicholson Goodman is a school w make and who truggle to get ing clearing the family manor of at UC River ide and UC San Di psychologist and consultant to through chool. . Brenda 27 years offivepeople'sstuff. They ego ....You can reach me on the the city of ew London, Conn. Phillipps Gibbons is in real e tate had a unique family reunion and Internet: [email protected]. + place where l "wuz rai ed," as -ale in Marion, Mass. Brenda has celebrated one weekend with they say in Texas. Linda and her remarried, and she and her hus birthday , Christmas tockings husband, Dave, who is president band, Bob, ha\•e four children he and Fourth ofJu ly fireworks. (The Correspondent: of his own electronics firm, live rween them. Brenda' are Doug, neighbors caught on to what was Judith Hoagland Bristol in Oakdale in a lovely home "in 30, who work in rorrs TV in happening and howed up in Hal the country." Their sons include Berkeley, Calif.. and Susan, 2 , loween costumes carrying Easter Tony Kramer i a Jay, 31, a Ph.D. from the Univer \\'ho works at MTV in New York basket .) Janet has been spending mortgage banker [i,·_ sity of Chicago in environmenral Ciry. Bob's family includes Rohb1e, lots of time in Australia and ha ing in Burr Ridge, Ill. science who is currently reaching an attorneyin NYC, and Li a, who taken up home brewing. He6 and 2 wif e Lindahave two chil at the American University in al o works m NYC. Brenda and Sandy Nolet Eielson is happy to dren-Stephanie and Stephen Armenia (and getting married in Bob's first grandchild, Dernn, wa be tuition free finally and having ages 7 and 6. His company i eprember); Jim, 29, with a law bornin January. Brenda mentioned on Kris working in Ma achu involved with the Quail We-t degree from the University of an a birthday celebration for Doug etts and daughter Kerry working GolfandCountry Club in aple , Francisco, who is working for en thi year with her sister, Joan for The New Yark Times in Paris, Fla., o he had lots of trips to sor Applications in Connecticut; Phillipp Thomp-on '64 and her France. She is engaged to marry Florida thi winter. He and Linda and Bill '9 1, 26, who i a product hu band, teve '63, and their two her high school and co liege sweet are al o active in the Coa t Guard manager for Kid Magic in San boys and one wife. Joan Thomp h ea rt of 34 year ago, Dean Auxiliary and do patrol on Lake Francisco. Linda got together with son has a new series of hooks for Quinlan ....Kent Davidson re Michigan. Tony erve a a Colby Anne Ticknor McN eece and hus children ages through 12 called ports from Los Alamito , Calif., overseer and \'isited the Perform band Rob. Anne al o ha ans and Luc)' Russell . . Cencersrage. that he teaches marketing at ing Arts Department last year i a supef\·isor of pecial needs Brenda also aid that hestill -ings UCLA and serves as vice pre i- a "marvelou department," he teacher-. oboth Lindaand Anne with the choral society and 1 very . - reunwn Class of 1960 Many thanks and congratulations to Russ Zych for serving a clas Bob Littlefield, till teaching physics in Maine, and Ron Littlefield, pre idem forthe past five year , for organizing a most succes ful 35th working at the Goddard Space Center in Maryland, carried the clas reunion, andfor arranging perfect Maine weather up to the moment of banner in the parade of classes. Also there were Charlotte Wood departure (almost); to Ralph Nelson for serving an.p.; to Bev Jackson MacPhetres, Ann Monro, Claudia Lawrence Rogers, Ron Weber, Glocklerforrepres enting us on the Alumni Council; to Mike Silverberg Janet Grout Williams, Dave Wiggin '62 and Sally Walker Simpson. for taking on the difficultjob of cla s agent and getting u to commit Gail Harden Schade ha become an a\· id biker and left the morningafter $132,000 to the Alumni Fund and the capiral campaign; and to Kay the dinner on a 150-mile-plus trip sponsored by the American Lun White forwittil y keeping us all up-to-date and well informed. You not Association. Maren Stoll Sherman-Trembly' home became an annex only all came back, you have left very large hoe to fill. tO ll1e Heights for several returnee , althouoh they missed the character Reunion Weekend began at amo et Resort in Rockland, Maine. building aspect of dorm living. Eunie Bucholz Spooner has recently Those who arrived early enough to make the trip to the Outward Bound moved inro a new home-which she helped de ign to accommodate her chool on Hurricane Island reported that it was well worth the effort. wheelchair--complere with a computer room where she hope· to expand The rest of u arrived on Thur day in time for drinks, dinner and good her computer club activities for children. Finally, our thoughts and best conver ation. It wa· good to ee Bob "Bo" Haggett there. Regrettably, wishes for a complete recovery go to Judy Miller Heekin. another commitment prevented him from attending the re t of the Reunion 1995 T- hirts are till available, so please call the Alumni weekend. Jock and Pat Walker Knowles were there and even managed Relation Office if you would like ta purcha eaCla of '6 shirt. For to make an 8 a.m. tee time at the Alumni Golf Tournament in those of you who did not receive the Class of 1960 Reunion Book, Waterville on Friday morning-and a second-place fini h. which has more information in it than there i pace to include here, On Friday evening before the award banquet, we held a cla s a copy can be obtained from Colby. Kay did a great job in compiling reception to which we had invited faculry and staff from our generation. it from her last questionnaire plus a recent one. Tho e who came included the Reumans, Peter Re, Walter Zukowski, Here are some collective thoughrs shared by those who came back. John and Mary Joseph and the rrider , who were our special gue ts for It was a great weekend, and we all wi hed that more of yuu had been the weekend. Pre idem Snider kindly agreed to be our gue t speaker at there; the campu ha never looked better, and the trees are beautiful the clas dinner, which wa also attended by Colin MacKay. (and big); it is an experience to come rogether a adults, with and Karen Stiegler Aldrich, Connie Maheu Armstrong and Kay without pouse , and realize that we are a friendly, informed, caring Woodward Blanchard all returned and were glad they had come. Sue and intere ting group. Many of our classmate ha,·e survived turmoil, Chamberlin Trauger, who work for the L.A. County Museum of Art accidents, divorce, illne , death of a spouse or a child, yet till found and live in Pa adena, de erve the distance award. Carlene Daisy a way to come together to laugh, renew old friend hip and make new Kelleher, George '58 and Wendy Mc William Denneen, Carol York one . We al o decided that dorm bed are for the young! Fortier, Don Freedman, Art '59 and Louise Robb Goldschmidt, I look forward to being your clas correspondent now that Ted and Chet Lewis, Laurie Waugh Harris, Doug '58 and Judy lngram I have tied up at the pier and debarked. Please keep in touch, becau e Hatfield, Bonnie (Brown '63) and Barry Potter and Jane Holden your news is what will make the e column and new letter inrere ting. Huerta were also there. Marion Porter Potter and Joanne Price Our faxnumber i 603-526- 021 and e-mail i [email protected]. Rockett, both in real estate, compared their re pective low market . --Carolyn Websrer Lockharr 51 AUGU T 1995 COLBY AL MNI AT LARGE invnh-eJ in the rnwn' · cultura l a naturali t, has part icipated in went to Telluride, Colo .. to cro s ta il. makes maple yrup, doe car life. She and Bob love to sail anJ bird and waterfowl count and country and downhill ki for a pentry work (he's built three cab not only ·ailed in the Op ra says that her data is becoming week, so we had a real ta te of in ), ha a portable saw mill and House up in Nantucket last "accepted and tru·ted." he re now. While there, Dian Emer makes his own lumber and rai es summer but also spent two weeks cently completed a marine shell son Sparling drove eight hour Chri tmas trees. ound like there in the Keys. They abo sail with collection of Eastern Long lslanJ from her home in Ft. Collins roski is very little time to make any Steve and Mary Ballantyne shells fur the South Fork Natural the high country with u in the change ! Warren's wife, Helen, is Gentle in Edgartown ea h um Hi�tory Museum ....Ed Kyle till glorious warm sunshine. No kid head nur e at Colby ....Juli e mer. Brenda mentioneJ id Farr' serve on the Alumni Council, ding! Dian b a midwife practitio Dodge Burnham writes from ret irement and Mr. "G" Gilles which means he gets to visit olby ner and omehow finds time for Warner, N.H., where he is a guid pie' pas ing and remembers the twice a year. Ed is a civil engineer amazing outdoor adventure ance coun elor. Julie is gradually "cocoa and Fig Newton ?" Kind with the New Hamp hire Depart such a kiing the Tenth Moun re toring an 1800 cape and reno of sad to see our cla s's Colby ment of T ransportation. Hi� wife, tain Trail and cuba diving in vating a summer place on Lake connection� getting les� and Penny, i� an elementary teacher Belize. Often her two college-age Winnire aukee ....When Ivan less ....Dave Jacobson, an an in onwrd, N.H. Their son Ted wm accompany her. . .. Marcia Freed la t wrote a year ago, he wa thropologist teaching at BranJeis graduated from M 1ddlebury tn Achilles McComb i., manager of con idering leaving the stresses of in Massachusett , and wife Lui., 1992 and, says Dad, "b happily accounts reccivahlc for a large ra owning his own bu ines . Today a vice president in marketing, seeking hi: fortune on rhe slope� diology group in Maryland hut he write that he is unemployed traveled to California la�t sum in Jackson Hole, Wyo." Ed joined has plan forfindinga less tre sful and happily kiing every week, mer and Florida this winter and Bill Chase and three other folks and more reward ing joh in the collecting ba eball cards and pe planned trips to California and in a IO-Jay hiking trip to wit:er near future. ounds like a healthy rennial , chucking year of col Europe thi· summer. The Jacob land in September, ;md 111 March plan. he and her husband, Don, lected debri from his cellar and sons have five children, the he kied Killington (Vt. ) with who is a chemi try teacher in horh vi iting hi grown children with youngest graduating from college Allie Weller. Ed and l want to high �chool and college, are in hi wife, hirley. He can till hit a la t year. With a colleague, Dave remind you all to start planning volved 111 everal a peer· of vol 20-foot jumpshot. How much bet has published a bonk, S/)ying\Xlich now for our 35th. We do expect unteer support at the Holocau t ter can life be ? . .. Sue Pel on out Spies (Praeger), a proiect he ei!er)•one to be there. + Mu cum .... From hi farm in Gillum report that he is a land says was an interesting departure llrridgewuck, Maine, Warren lubher now, having moved from from his usual work. He appreci Balgooyen write that there are her boat to the shore at Jensen ate "Colby's reputation as a great Corre pondent: "no changes [in my life]." Warren Beach, Fla. She rooms with two place." . . Sandra Keef Hunter Barbara Haines Chase 1 · a freelance naturalist in the exotic cats and i employed a i areal e,tate ales person in Ea ·t spring and ·ummer, runs a land- team leader of an E OL depart Hampton, N.Y. Her husband, Lady Winrerdealt gen caping bu ine s, rai e golden ment of a local chool y tern. ue Steven, i a creative director in tly with ew England hiner m five fi h ponds, which i the proud owner of a 1984 cu - advert ising. andra i becoming 63 this year, but Bill and 1 he ell a bait wholesale and re- t m Corvette, which he enters Fishing for Answers Maine ·rruggle with Mercer ay he began to figure out what she wanted to do with A the uncertainty of com her life in January of her enior year at Colby. A biology major, he merc ial fishing due to the interned at the mith on ian Institution for her final Jan Plan, depletion of stocks in the working with an ichthyologist-a fish pecialist--di ecring tuna. Gulf of Maine, many are look Although she ay that after the intern hip she still wa unsure ing to Linda Pu hee Mercer about her career plan , he decided to pur ue marine ciences. A '69 for answers. year after graduation he went to The College of William & Mary' The director of the Bu Virginia In titute of Marine cience, where he earneda master's reau of Marine ciences at and eventually a doctorate. the Maine Department of After raking time off to rai e a family-she and her husband, Marine Resources, Mercer Jim Mercer, have a on, Matt, and a daughter, Emily-Mercer heads the department' re went to the North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries, where search and science programs she worked for 12 years as a biologist and later a a re earch that identify problems and upervisor. Wi hing to return to ew England, she applied for and find solutions to over-fishing landed the job with Maine's marine science department. of Maine's waters. Her staff of 38 researchers and scientists Mercer' Maine staff currently is analyzing the growth and (reduced from 50 due to budget cuts) hope to keep commercial health of the herring population to manage the fishing of that fishing viable in Maine. species wisely. Her team of workers al o are re earching sea "We are coming close to reaching the limit in terms of what can urchin , and they hope to begin work on the sea cucumber, both be fished and what species are available," said Mercer, who filled the of which became popular catches as other Gulf of Maine re ources, director's position-vacant for three years-in January. "It's going like lobster, hrimp and cod, became depleted. to be a difficult struggle for [everyone involved]. with having to "I love the job. I gue it' kind of what you'd dream about tighten restrictions on the type of fish caught and cut back on the doing," said Mercer, who also recognizes the challenge and harvests ...and yet [the fishermen] realize the harvest is down and obstacles that lie ahead. "The re ource are not going to bounce action needs to be taken." back overnight. It's going to be a long proce s." COLBY AUGUST 1995 52 ALUMNI AT LARGE competitively in how . She is show chem the swamp, "her lat planning a trip to the Far Ea t: est pa ion." ... Colleen Khoury, Hong Kong, hanghai and the NEWSMAKERS off rn Italy thi summer, ays she Grear Wall of China ....An and Da\·id have been in a book other classmate who has made the A Worcester (Mass.) Sunday group for ix year and have read move to a more flexible job i Telegram articleonthe 4-bil a ho t of wonderful books ... Ann "Booty" Bruno Hocking. lion commercial printing bu i Nancy Saylor Kimball ha two A year ago Boory left her po ition ne of producing company daughters in college, one at Bares as a vice pre ident at Fleet Bank annual reports featured Ralph and one at Whearnn in Illinois. and became a realtor, a job he Both rudied in France la ·t year, A. K.imball ) r. '63, vice pre i love . She and her husband, dent of ale for LaVigne Pre , o Nancy anJ Bob mer them anJ David, a stockbroker, have just one of the Worcester area's toured southern France for two built a new hou e in Durham, largest producers of annual week.. vi iting place Nancy had Conn. Booty is acquiring an in report . . . . Dori Kearns been to in the '60s, then London, tere tin antiques anJ enjoys qui !t Goodwin '64 was awarded the then Wale and finally Paris. Back Thomas D. McBrierty '69 ing and other handcraft . Booty 1995 Pulitzer Prize forhistory home they had a young Polish and David spend each summer at for her book No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: woman staying with them during Lake Winnipe aukee, enjoying . The Home Front During World War11. ...Biology professor and her intern hip at an HMO . .. the peace and quiet of the woods. science fiction author Thomas A. Easton '66 conducted an Ken Levy, president of Ea tern ...Peter French work at A lean interactive workshop on science fiction and fantasy on Mas umismatics, Inc., useJ the besr Ingot in Aurora, Ohio, where he Learn Pike, the educational satellite broadca t network that stamp on hi envelope! He re live with hi wife, Muriel, and is deliver di ranee learningto K-12 Massachusetts students .... port , "returnedto Maine for the parent to four children. Peter ne In Portland, Maine, Lee Urban '68 and a partner opened first time since graduation, vaca glected to rum over the question Urban & Plimpton, a company offering dispute re olution tioned in Bar Harbor (yuck!) and naire o hi news i spar e, or Kennebunkport (heaven on ervice . . . . Thomas D. McBrierty '69, who headed New maybe he's just a man of few England Telephone operations in Maine from 19 7 to 1992, earth). Planning to go again this word ! ...Bill and I have a hou e was named commi ioner ofMa ine' department of economic May." ...As a professional work on the marker and one being built. and community development. ing in the environmental field Thi ituarion cau es us ome for 25 year , Bruce Lippincott sleepless nights, bur what i life has foundthat Free Market Envi without a few ri k ? Our older MILEPOSTS ronmentalism by Terry L. Ander daughter married in July in Wa h son and Donald R. Leal "offers a ington, D.C. I am thankful for the Deaths: Carole Richardson Merson '60 in East Falmouth, very different perspective about technology of electric air cooling! Mas . , at 56 ....George Roden Jr. '60 in Hartford, Conn., at paying ro rectify environmental ...Thank you for your letter and 56 ....Ja mes N. Valhouli '64 in Exeter, .H., at 53. problems or avoid them in the your greetings. It i uch fun get future. Federal ub idies, pork ting mail from old friends. + barrel projects and compliance Amba ador Bob Gelbard was occupy her time tudying for her fines are de-emphasized and free cited exten ively with regard to Ph.D. in adult clinical p ychol market economics are proposed. Correspondent: the drug trade in Mexico. Dick ogy at We t Virginia University. ...I found thi interesting and Sara Shaw Rhodes al o reponed char he ha created Her first two grandbabie were certainly thought provoking." . aclinically afe and effective drug due thi summer. ... John Gow Jack Lockwood, who travels a Charles Fallon, fin for the treatment of p oriasis and is still teaching and ha his first lot from home base in Hawaii, 6 ancial advisor in that he is writing a book on kate grandchild. He and his wife spend went to Delaware for his father's 4 Roche ter, N.Y., has summer on Moo ehead Lake .... 90th birthday in April and ro sailing.. ..Jack Friberg, a law completed a four-year stint as first yer in Manche ter, .H., has two Joan Thiel Hadley has a wonder Papua ew Guinea, in May .... executive director of the New son : John graduated from Col ful new daughter-in-law. Marcia Phillips Sheldon says she York State Middle School Asso gate and from Boston College Kitty Hartford tell of a "rock enjoys teaching in an interme ciation. His wife, Barbara, is one Law School thi year, and Gre party" held by her i ter, Paula diate school, "a imple, but of three U. . school administra gory graduated from Middlebury Chapin Hartford '66. All family meaningful,life." She sees Steve tors to receive a Fulbright Ex thi year and plans to attend New member and friends were a ked Schoeman from time to time. Ken change cholar hip, and Charle York Medical College ....Art to bring a large rock-with which and Ann Schmidt Nye were ex wa looking forward to visiting Fulman was elected to the board they built a stone wall along her pected fora vi it, he writes, "and her in England for her 50th. He of electmen of Concord, Mass., driveway! Kitty's family, all five I talked ro CeCe Sewall Potter ays both ons are getting great and likes dealing with public generations, gather at her moth last ummer. Colby friends are grade , one at Skidmore and the policy i ue . However, he ay , er' hou e in Boothbay Harbor like family." + other in high chool. ...Je an "the process is often frustrating for all traditional holiday and Martin Fowler now has six grand and very low. Clearly, public milestone occasions ....Barbie sons. She and her hu band till anger is not limited to our na Carr Howson sent me a great Correspondent: love sailing, the British Virgin tional leader ." He and hi wife picture ofherfamily. (Feel free ro Richard W. Bankart Islands being their favorite spot. biked in the Tam River Valley in end me any family photo for the ...Dick- Friary called in April France last ummer and will tour next reunion! ) Barb and hu band Retirements! Dan Dur to ay that two cla smates were in Maine and Vermont thi year. ... Red, with their youngest daugh 65 gin retired a uperin The New York Times on the ame Jan Stoddard Gagnon' hu band ter, were on their way ro New tendent of chools in day: Doris Kearns Goodwin won is currently on various interna Orlean la t Ea ter ro visit Suzy Kittery, Maine, in June 1994 and, the Pulitzer Prize forhistory, and tional assignment , so she will Noyes Mague, who promised to with wife Judy, enjoyed the winter 53 AUGU T 1995 COLBY ALLIMNI AT LARGI: ' ______Class of 1965 The campus never lookcJ hctrer' The huilJing· were gleaming, Alumni Relatiom Offi e if you would like to purchase a Clas of '65 anJ the trees gave our campus a true New England look . No longer can ,h irt.) Also there were lanky Lew Krinsky and his wife, Ellen, Charlie you see ScLHt Paper fr,)m the library steps nr the camrus from 1-95. '6 3 ;md Pam Plumb Carey, Laura and Mike Gilman, Bob and Judy On Thursday night, ahout 16 of us gathered at the now Squ -Richard W. Bankarr in Bermuda. Dan does volunteer pretive naturetr ails and i; a com after earning a ma ter' from the )"! . Marcella "Sally" Ray work with Rotary International petitor in profes, ional timber U \)f lllinois and 1 now the emer Bennett i a high chool guidance and other civic organizations and sports ....El fie Hinterkopf, gencydepartment manager at York counselor in outh King town, restore antique cars.... Tim Hill Ph.D., was selected to pre ent a Hospital. Callie enjoy long COLBY AUGUST 1995 54 ALUMNI AT LARGE ter, Heather, i · at the Roche:ter by University Press of Florida la Eurore in June and vi its to San spon es to que tionnaire· I get a Institute of Technology in the ter this year. Marty, his 9-year-old Diego, Canada and ew England. sen�e of what diverse and inter Early American craft man pro son, icholas, and Marilyn Rye Bruce continue to do photogra e-ring paths we've taken since gram. The discovery proce s after spend much of the summer in phy, has won some a\\'ards and had lea\'ing Colby. The wor.t part, of divorcing in 1991 has included Maine.... Jean Ridington Gold some picture publi�hed .... In course, is the deadline e\·ery few buying a house, which she shares fine is a social worker in home July 1994, Patricia Davis Mu rphy, months, which precipitates flash with her new boyfriend, Carl heaith care in Belfast, Maine. he Ph.D., ronk a new po ition as di backs to my knocking off papers Weymouth, a dog and five cats, has made Se\·eral recent trips to rector of lab operations with a on my trusty Smith-Corona at the and participating in a mission trip Europe, foc u·ing on Classical start-up biotechnology company last pos ible moment . . ..Kerry to Puerto Rico .... Steve Dock Greek and Roman ruin,, and had in Gaithersburg, Md., Oncor Hayes is a still photographer who has been recommended for pro ju t returned from Sicily, where Med, which peciali:es in DNA has worked on films such as L?g motion m as ociate professor in he enioyed seeing well-presef\"ed ba ed cancer testing. In her work, ends of the Fall and obody 's Fool. the department of foreign lan fifth century B.C. Greek temple she LWersees rhe diagnostic lab, Kerry li\'es in Toronto, Ont., with guage and literatures at East Caro by the sea .... After 10 years in the technology transfer, customer er his wife, Maggie, and three chil lina University. He has written a Fortune 500 corporate 1\·orld, Bud \·ice and risk assessment. She finds dren, Ali, Zoe and Piper. . chapteron authentic costuming m Graff, who lives in orfolk, Mass., it great fun to be in on the ground Michael and Peggy Philson Foose Moliere' plays for a Modem Lan left last year to wL1rk in a start-ur floor of such an exciting field. Son li\'e in Virginia with Tara, 10, anJ guage A sociation publication. Hi< marketing efYices comrany. The Michael (Colby '95 ) spent six Michael, 7. Michael (the elder), a wife, Carolyn Wilson, is an inter PointGrourhas ll employeesand month� in Ireland \1·ith the Colby geologist, has tra\'eled recently to nal medicine physician who has focuse on heiring clients find in Cork prngram. She and hus Saudi Arabia, Erhioria, Mornccn her own practice in Greennlle, busine·5 111 new markets. He re band Donal \'tsired him in March and Mali among other intere·tin g S.C. They and their Great Dane, ports that last year ll'as \·ery ·uc 1994 (and discm·ered "Water places ....Warren Heller, an at Gillie, have recently purchased a cessful and that he's up to his ears \'ille" in County Kerry). Pat i, torney in Milford, Mass., is the vacation home on the coa,t L)f in Internet. His llldesr daughter, greatly pleased to �ee daughter first male pre ident of the board of Maine, which they call "PieJ-a a enior at Washington & Lee Lon fo llowing in her foot teps. director· of his local \'t tting nurse Terre sur Mer." Each summer they Unl\·ers1tv, 1s k1l)ki�g at federal She' a junior at Bmwn majoring a sociation and rhe proud "father" . enjoy a \'isit with Anne and Dick la\\ enfor�emenr a� a career. and 111 molecular biology . . . . Carol of his nicely named dog, Colby. Hunnewell in Plymouth, N .H hi youngest daughter is working Jones O'Brien and her husband. . Dave Demer is the father of Last Chri tmas Irv Faunce pro m retailing and adjusting to Dennis. are both p 55 AUGU T 1995 CO LBY A I lI M N I A T I A R (; l: The Seventies 1979 " 6-ycar-old hoy, Tat�uo .. couragcment anti, a> always, Be Correspondents: Rohen Kinney Mark Chamberlain I'> a , outh Brnve. + 291 1 Edgehill Dmt.: Berwick, M,imc, police officer. Alcx.mdr1a, VA 22102-2521 I le imd h" wife, l!chornh, a nur'>e, orre�pondcnt: 1970 70\-836-4227 ha1·e two children, Matthew, 9, helley Bieringer Rau Ste\'en Clme and J ll">tin, 7. Mark plan' to fur- 6602 Loch Hd\ Road 1 hcr h1' education by attcndmg Bcilt1mnrc, MD 21239- 1644 \,1w ,d1rnd .... Prufe..,..,,ir Bill Many thanks to tho e imon:, 'ent a complete ;mJ 1111 - of you who respontled 1971 c 7 4 pre">'I\ u pd,ne on h1 I 1fc ">lllCC w the mo t recent Nancy Hammar ALNlll C, 1rre'p( 1ndcnr· h1, ;i..,.,1,t;lllt prnfe..,.,llr'>h1r cldy>. maillllg. It may he a while before ancy Hammar Austin 29 I rvmg treet •5 I le\ n<111· ,1 full profc,,nr m the you read ahnut your elve -I'm Wnrcc,ter, MA 01609 h1,rory dcp;1rrment .11 , Y m '>till \\'orkmg on the volumes I 508-797 -4 71 I Frrnn the mo't rccl'nr Oneont.1. .Y. Hi' work, which received la.,t '>ummer anti fa ll! cl. 1 " 'lll"\'L'Y I h,1\'e the lllcludc' '>e\'er;d puh\1 hed 1r 1972 71 ..Michael Mc amara is an at f, ,llnll'lllg ne1v,. teve Janet Holm Gerl�er r1clL'">, ho,)k n.:l'1c11·,and lectu re;, torney m Prnnt Plea ant, N.J., Dane .111d h1, "' 1 fe, Joel " recently ,1, well .1, p,irt 1c 1 ;lt on at confer 11112 Broad Green Dm-c p 1 ;.inJ h" wife, Joyce, teache tn(11Td t'' '' 1707 1·mrnge home Pnromac, MD 20854 ence , dea\, \\'tth American "> COLBY AUGUST 1995 56 ALUMNI AT LARGE ' . reu nio ______Class of 1970 Twenty-five years and still kickin'! That wa the theme for the Class (even though he came from Hawaii) a the classmate who traveled of 1970's 25th reunion and the absolutely fantastic T-shirt Chip and farthest to attend the reunion. Debbie Williams Anderson won the Judy Kelly Lord had designed for us.(Adult Reunion 1995 Clas of'70 award formo t children attending Colby (two), and Paul Roud had the hirrs are till available, so please call the Alumni Relations Officeif you younge t child, a 2 year old. The most appropriate award, the Benedict would like to purcha e one.) And just like the Colby mule, we kicked Arnold award-for deserting the Clas of 1970-went to Colby Brick up our heels all weekend. The weather wa- perfect, and there were no recipient ari Abul-Jubein '69. Andy Starkis did a great job as emcee. permanent injuries of which we are aware. TI1e campus is the same yet We laughed loud and long at Doug Smith's stories of "Doggie" Dore different. There are more buildings, the trees are taller, and the "new and Debbie (not Anderson) Williams' account of the Benjamin dorms," which served a our reunion headquarter , are now known a Burler spoon . Hill ide and have tairs thar have grown much reeper over the years Other classmate attending the reunion included: Bruce Abrams, and bathroom fac ilitie foronly one gender per floor. Bill Aldrich, Debbie Anderson, Debbie Williams Anderson, Greg The weekend tarted off on Thursday evening with some 20-30 Andrews, Chicki Barnes, Mike Baskin, Chris Beerits, Wayne cla smates attending a reception and barbecue dinner ar the Wood Blanchard, Peter Bogle, Liz Belding Borchers, Waneta Adams land Country Club in Falmouth (Maine, that i ). This was just a Browne, Jeff Carty and Sandra Haimila, Susan Maxfield Christo warm-up for the next day. On Friday morning, Phil Wysor, Peter pher, Lee Clarke, Steve and Laura Struckhoff Cline, Nancy Costello, Gilfoy, Ben Kravitz and Ste\·e Anderson '69 (cla president Debbie Sue Costello, Robin Armitage Cote, Ron Di Orio, Walter Effron, Williams Anderson' husband) played the champion hip Woodlands Martha Alden Ellis, John Fochs '71, Linda Marsh Foss, Sharon golf course. At the turn they received a special telegram from Phil Eschenbeck Friedler, Lynne Stone Gallagher, Peter Gilfoy, Andy Norfleet from an Diego. Thank- to Barbara Skeats MacLeod and Gilson, Sue Doten Greenberg, Marlene Goldman, Linda Gulbrandsen Molly Carroll Ray for making the event ar the Woodlands happen. Goldsmith, Pat Gerroir, Alison Harvey, Andy and Sandy Holler On Friday afrernoon a large contingent took a leisurely cruise on Hayashi, Barry Hurwitz, Carol Lewis Jennings, Debbie Sugarman Ca co Bay. Actually, it was two cruises-the fir t lasted about two J odziewicz, Ken and Brenda Hess Jordan, Joanie Katz, Paula Crowley minute as Ray and Cheryl Dineen Soon were potted running dL1wn Kaveney, Gail Cuatto Kilgour, Martha Belden Kleinerman, Chip the dock too far away to make the leap. With the oons afely on board, and Judy Kelly Lord, Peter Lowell, Judith Smith Lucarelli, Karen the second cruise lasted quite a bit longer. We thank Lee Doggett for Knapp Lyons, Sarah Vose Mackenzie, Barbara Skeats Macleod, the informative narration about the Ca co Bay e tuary projects. ome reve '7 1 and Debbie Fitton Mansfield, Jacky Dingwall McClean, eal were potted, a were Bob Fa! ani and John Fochs '7 1-in the Ann McEwen, Cynthia Wallace McKee, Elinor Bartel Miller, Kathe parking lot! Rumor has it that Gary Hobbs i sriUlooking for them. Cahn Morse, Nicki Pach, Jeff Parness, Jim and Eileen Boerner The festivities moved to campu on Friday night. randing around Patch, Lorraine Gill-Pazaris, Kit Wells Poland, Jeanne Tarrant drinking beer and exchanging Storie about our live and kids brought Polese, Anne Pomroy, Molly Carroll Ray, Kathy Hill Revett, Paul back memorie . What, Colby u ed to h.we fraternities? Can anyone Roud, Alice Ryen, Sherry Anderson Scherer, Hazel Parker Smith, define parietal rules? John Sobel, Peter Spindler and Nancy Costello, Bev Foster Stevens, Our reunion activities on aturday began with the paradeofclas e Lynne Stinchfield, Beth Ryerson Stinson, Libby Brown Strough, and the pre enration of a check for over 61,000 to the College from Sarah Owen Tabor, Dan Timmons, Maureen Vaughn Ulevich, the Class of 1970. This represents more than twice a much as our class Buzzy Files Vigue, Donna Sundeen Wheeler, Jane Stinchfield Willett, gave the College last year. Congratulations to Buz Brown and hi Donna Mason Williams, Chip Wood, Mark Zaccaria. crew for a job well done. A pecial thanks ro outgoing cla pre ident Debbie William After the cla s cookout by John on Pond, our afternoonrevolved Ander on and her committee for a job well done, and an exrra- around athletic and academics-just like when we were in chool! pecial thanks to Marlene Goldman and Donna Mason Williams for The oftball game wa fun. Will we have enough able bodies to do it putting together our 25th reunion yearbook. Cla s officers for the again in five year ? The seminar "Colby in Perspective: 1970 A a next five years are Joanie Karz, president, Phil Wy or, vice president Turning Point" was informativeand exciting. Profe or Tom Morrione and Alumni Council representative, and Steve Cline, secretary/ '65 opened a dialogue with all in attendance and reinforced what we trea urer. all know: that tho e trying times we all lived through and participated Among tho e unable ro attend was aspiring screenwriter Cathy in were important then and have had an impact that keep them Pagano. Did you ever wonder if she' thought of casting clas mate for important srill today. upcoming roles? How about a remake of the Wizard of Oz but updated Starting with the "vegetable invocation" provided by The Rev. to the 1990 ? Imagine Elaine Treworgy Jacques as a modern day Peter Foss, the highlight of the weekend was the class dinner on Dorothy, Ed Bogh a the carecrow, Ben Bradlee a the lion and Chris aturday night. The slide show and accompanying narration was a lot Woessner a the tin man. Can't you just picture Frank Danieli as the offun and proved to one and all that Debbie Hawks Kelley is, without wizard and Cheryl Moriarty Higgins a the good wirch1 I could make a doubt, the brave t member of our class. The trivia contest rested aging my screen debut a a bearded cross dres er in the dual role of El ira memories, and then there were the awards. Anne Peterson and Phil Gulch and the wicked witch (eat your heart our Ru Paul!). It could Wysor, looking like they just stepped ourof"Faces and Places," were the happen, you know. cla mate who changed the least, with Todd Smith a close runner-up. If you don't want to ee more "did you ever wonder" reporting, Nonna Riverode Bienneyer, who traveled to and from Venezuela, was plea e end me information o that we can have a clas column in every edged out by Cheryl Dineen oon, who never had to leave the country i sue of the magazine. -Steve Cline 57 AUGU T 1995 COLBY '\ I l l �I I 1\ T L A R l, I Syd ney, Au,rr,dia. tin a two-ye:ir he I'> -,r il l playing hockey in the ;i,,ignment w1d1 l n tcrleaf, COLBY AUGUST 1995 58 ALUMNI AT LARGE dren, Nick, 12, Sarah, 10, and ny Frutchy Ford last ummer. It Li a, 8. Nancy is a graphic artist by family joined Julie Cassidy and Caitlin, 4, are very involved in seems thar, on the very day of her profession but currently is par her daughter, Cara Mia, for a hike arhleric and mu ic ....Your 40th birthday, she was carded. enting full time-joining lots of up Mt. Chocorua last summer. . rruly and familyvi ired Washing Even afrer looking closely, the our classmate a a volumeer in Karen Smith Clark went back to ton, D.C., over Easter break. A checkout person at Star Market our children' schools and our school full timeto become a nurse beautiful city to visit, though a didn't believe Jenny. What's the communities ... . CandaceCamp midwife. She is juggling school very crowded week wirh busloads addres ofthatstoreagain?Jenny's bell, of Great Falls, Va., i the with parenting Sarah, 9, Molly, 4, of school groups. We met up wirh children are 5 and 7 and have executive director of the Ameri and (canine) Abby, l. Karen and Major Peter B. Coz in Alexan joined Jenny in her love of kiing can Preventive Medical As ocia her husband, Fred, reside in North dria, Va., where he is now living and swimming.Jenny rows a single tion. She wrote that the APMA is Reading, Mass. . . Speaking of and where we even managed to fit cull on the Charles River and is the advocacy organization for doc obstetrics , Peter Labombarde in a trip to the local ice rink. Pere an active volunteer in the public tor and others who use alrerna shared the joyful announcement had jusr closed on a house, which schools. Ed Ford has cen back tive/nutritional therapies. Her that he and Irene are the proud he i now busy renovating in hi and forth to Jakarta with Harvard's organization recently helped pass parent oft:wins.Evan and Jocelyn spare rime ....I have really en Center for International Devel thedietary supplement bill, which were born in October 1994 anJ joyed being your clas correspon opment this year. Jenny reported dramatically affects the way the join their ister, Karherine, at dent for the pa t five years. Hearing that Pam Came i in Bueno FDA regulate vitamin , herbs, etc. home in Nashua. Peter's final com from all of you nice people who Aires ....Scott Butchart was Her oldest son graduated from ment is poignant: "We look for kept me supplied with news married last August to Christine college in May and plan to be ward to our next trip to Colby, brought back o many memories Frit: in Chestnut Hill, Mass. come a chiropractor. Son Graham which will probably be for our of Colby and helped me relive my Among the guests was Lynn is entering college in September. 20th-to rhink we came to rhe youth! It's been fun. Thanks! + Thommen. cott has been in the . l also received a note from 15th with a dog, and a few years trenches teaching French and Ann Beadle, who lives in New later we have three kid . . . 1 Life Spanish for the lasr 10 years at Hampshire with her husband, is odd, and so wonderful." . Correspondent: Brookline High School. Gary Millen '74, and 13-year-old Becca Guild wrote that she and Noel Barry Stella Among the respondents to the daughter, Meredith. Ann' life ha her family recently returned from fa ll questionnaire was Nancy become even more challenging visiring family and friends in Swit One of rhe best storie Anderson, who wrote that he with her promotion to chief infor zerland and Germany. Becca and I've heard in a long and Graham Kislingbury are the marion officer at UNUM in Port her husband, Kevin Jenness, have 76 while came from Jen- parents of two girls, Anna, 4, and land, Maine. Ann wrote that her two children, Charles and Loui a. reun ______Class of 1975 With the wonderful weather arranged by kept reunion headquarters staffed and provi Colby'sdirector ofalumni relation and fellow ioned while also providing before-and-afrer cla smare Susan Conant Cook as well as the pictures using Polaroid candids mounted hard work by the reunion committee, the again t vintage "Faces and Places" photos. Class of '75 was treated to a spectacular Maine The cla s dinner featured talk from fac weekend fortheir 20th reunion. More than 70 ulty guesrs Miriam Bennett, Jim Meehan members ofthe class plus spouse , children and and Charle Basseu. Becau e outgoing pre i guests renewed old friend hips. After parading dent Gene CeLorenzo wa unable to ar to the football field in the T-shirts designed by tend, incoming class president Boyd "Byrd" Janet Hansen-the College has a supply of Allen emceed the dinner. He also revi ited adult and youth Reunion 1995 T-shirt still last reunion' award winners. The Califor available, so please call the Alumni Relations nia contingent of Libby Piper Deschenes Office if you would like to purchase one and Kevin "Onions" Manion tied for dis classmates applauded class agent (and chief tance traveled, since Maj. Peter Coz is armtwister) Susan Staples-Smith as she helped pulling a staff assignment in the Washing kickoffthe College's new capital campaign by ton, D.C., area. Otherwise, the formerwin presenting President Cotter with the third ners maintained their standing : John Allan still has his old truck running, Doug Schwarz largest check from all of the reunion classes. Don Buckley, Dave White and his wife, Lunch on the Foss-Woodman lawn (com- Sharon, and Cindy Hadden Rother. is rumored to still have his pet snake, and plete with make-your-own-sundaes) also fea- Binky Cammack Closmore broke her own tured faculty emeriti Peter Re, Archille Biron, Bob Kany, Ed Turner record by having another child, raising the total to six. Dancing and and Miriam Bennett and former President and Mrs. Strider. The hanging out with classmates rounded out the evening. afternoon included guided tours of the new Winslow Homer and Eleanor "Woofie" Fleming Amidon takes over as class vice Oriental carpet exhibits at Bixler, a congregation of beer coolers and president and Alumni Council representative from John Orefice, and cocktails on the front lawn of Foss, sports activities (including the Nan Weidmann Anderson will follow up on the excellent work of famedJi m Cousins-Don Buckley tenn i match) and general catching Susan Gearhart Wuest as class correspondent. The new class officers, up on memories. along with the promised help of Rick Drake, will form the nucleus of Paul Hatton orchestrated an impressive turnout by the DKE the next reunion planning committee. So be there for the 25th and be contingent, who together managed a quiet reminiscence from a part of the reunion thar closes our the century. In the meantime, keep familiar vantage point. Likewi e, the old Ba ement Woodman crowd the news coming in to Nan. reconvened atop the water tower. Diane Billington Stronach ably -Boyd Allen 59 AUGU T 1995 COLBY \ l l �I !'< I \ T I I J; l; l ...Wl' lwarcl fmm David Kavan planning nur 20t h reunion, to he very well. Ir was my error. .. It 1:.a per�on that run a heart lung augh recent ly. I le and lw, wife, held in J une 1996. Our c la suffic Priscilla Bondy Dube write;., that machine during open heart and N1lrccn, ha1·c rhree young MHl' er;.,ll 'ill be contacting m harles Terrell '70 has rwn education. l know that I make a difference with the tudent I help Cpa simr: h i. ioh and h1 here at BU, ;111J I know I make a d ifference with [student and other job. An a ;..oc i::ite dean parent>] when pre entmg the po 1hilit1e of h igher education." for student affa irs for the Bn> In hi mult ifaceted BU po irion, Terrell i� respon 1ble for the wn University Medical en admint·r rat1on of the Office of tuJent Financial Management, ter, Terrell is also a nat ionally and he ·it on the adm i ion committee of the medical chool known consultant and lecturer reading through many of the 1 1,000 appl icat ton and interview on student financial manage mg �ome of the l ,200 candtdates for90 available space . He i the ment, minority recruitment spokesper on fnr the Office of rudent Financial Planning and and admis�ions issues. Development, and he work with the Office of Minority Affair Whether he' consulting for developing ways to help under-repre ented groups get the Department of Health and opportunites to attend medical ·chool. He i collaborating with Human Service or lecturing BU's undergraduate African-American studie program to rein at rhe National Assoc iation of vigorate the department. Recently Terrell developed the office Medical Minority Educator , of re idency planning and practice management ervice for the Terrell passionately preads his message that college allows people Primary Care Initiative to get more medical tudents to enter the to reach their fu ll potential . primary care field (a difficult task ·ince these physician don't "[ think I'm a great role model for what's pos ible in h igher make a much money a pecialists). education, and I'm able to communicate that to group and p ople As a Colby alumnus Terrell i perhaps be t known for his who need to know that [acce s] is possible. When I go our and ralk orche tration of the Lorimer Chapel takeover in 1970, though he to diffe rent groups I tell my story, aying, 'If I can do it so can you.'' says he wants to move forward and use the experience forpo itive said Terrell, who was raised in modest means in Washington, D.C. purpo es. A doctoral candidate at Nova Southea tern University, Terrell "[ worked o hard to change things at Colby because I loved it," says he remains at BU because it give him the flexibility to he aid. "There's a photograph [of the takeover] that I have continue consulting. hanging in my officeto remind my elf of how angry I used to get "[ love what I do," aid Terrell, who graduated from Colby with at figures of authority. When people come into my office and get a degree in history and received a master's from BU in African upset, I can glance over at it. I have a better sense of understand American studies. "I'm free to [help other ] in accessing higher ing ....When things don't go well forstudent I can understand." COLBY AUGU T 1995 60 :\ L L \I I\ I .'\ TL .". R G E creati\'ely. Jeff writes: "Leslie ..Ji m Bull writes from Menlo roomie Les Morgan, who i still in a new addre , Tnlland, Cnnn., FYl, we got the film deal-it i� Park, Calif., that he know he's BanglaJe h doing medical mi_ right outsiJe of Hartford. he and with the same folks who made getting old now that hi 11-year sionary wmk .... Finally, 1 \\'ant hu-band J uJe Roucher have a 20- Circle offriends 1--outnow. Cherie old daughter, Katie, swipes his to thank everyone, including the month-old on, olomon. Felicia and I are writing screenplay Green Day and Pearl Jam CDs. l Alumni Office, for the new ar is currently on lea\ e fwm her together." ...Emily C. Graham have to admit my kid are not at rangementon classsur\'eys, which teachingjob in the Harrford ·chonl writes about her new daughter, that stage yet, al thouoh every time i keeping me \\'ell ·rocked. One system ....Mary Zukowski Hurd Marisa, bornSeptember 1993, the we get a baby itter, I end up ha\' small quibble, though: now that and husband re ·ide in Freeport. baby girl he adopted from Guate ing to rewind my copy of Era.ser the sun·ey/questionnaire ha� been Maine, with their youngsters, mala. . . . Christine McKeown head.Ji m and wife Erin are college reduced to one page, that's all Matthew, 4, and Rebecca, �ix Burry writes of her graduation textbook editors and also have an anyone writes. Please flip it over months. Mary i> an nffice man from the Naval War College in 8-year-old son, Sam ....Hanna and keep writing, e\'en if it's only ager and Da\'id is in computer Newport, R.l., earning a hard McCrum Henderson moved out malicious rumors and gossip. Af sa Jes and -upport. . ..Elizabeth wrought master's degree in na to the Phoenix area two years ago. ter all, that's \\'hat keeps me going Bailey Hodgdon i an aJaptive tional securiry -tudies, and ofBill's Although she enjoys the outh in thi · job I + skiing coordinator for Maine and her celebration ail to ova we t, she returns to the Blue Hill Handicapped Skiing (MHS) at cotia .. ..Amy Schenck Frankel area of Maine every summer with Sunday River in Bethel. She write is going through a career change husband Kris and daughters Mor Correspondent: that Sunday Ri,·erand MHS ha\'e and has moved from cosmetic� gan, Whitney and Emma-Claire. Robert Kinney de,·eloped a program in cros<; marketing to being a partner in Hanna reports that �he caught up countryskiing forpeople with dis producing corporate film and with Chris Bradley and Leigh Cal Cooper, wife Ca abiliries-using kick led>, pulka� video for broadca t advertising. Morse last summer. ...New Jer- 7 9 rol, kids DaviJ, 5, and and it ski -1 Husband Matthew is he love to rollerblade, ice kate ey is a "nice place to live," writes Meghan, 3, along with a park ranger. ...Betsy Bucklin and do yoga with her on, Drew Betsey Judd Butler, who lives in assorted dogs and cars, are living Gray, husbanJ Peter, Emily, 6, Frankel, 8 ....La t but not least West Windsor. Betsey and Rich the good life in Frankfort, Maine. and Maggie, 4 1/2, jusr mo\'eJ (and out of my elf-devised alpha are kept bu-y by Claire and Brett Cal teaches grade four and is a into their first house (c. 1859) on betical order), Nancy P. Garnett as well a- by t )0 many activities pumpkin and Chri-rmas tree a quiet country road in Mendon, Thomas is an assistant professor and volunteeringcommitments tu farmer ro boot. . ..Laurie Bor Vr. Betsy invites the entire cla'' of culinary arts at John on and count. 1 hare Betsey's views on den Ahem, husband Daniel, -on to come visit (and ay thanks for Wale University, R.l. Her hu - the state, especially the South Jer Colin, , and daughter Haley, 4, your .upport of the Alumni band, Donald, i a heavy tee! sey area, where we get away every reside in Middlebury, Vt., where Fund1)•••• Geoff Emanuel i a fabricator, and he writes that he summer.... My predecessor as "Bordeaux" work- in admini tra newlywed (July 1994, to Laurie) is "enjoying a second childhood class correspondent, Susan Ger tion for the Porter Medical and now lives in Simsbury, Conn. raising my two kid-," likening the nert Adams, is till producing tele Center ....Mark Dalton, wife He ay he is ver)' happyand that challenge tO playing Power Rang vis111n news in New York for NBC's Cami and children Anna, 5, Wil he still sails frequently with Bob er with a 40-year-old body! Dateline. u an broke the record liam, 2, and Kathryn, 1, Ji,·e in Kellogg in Maine ....Kyle Har ...Thank you all for jotting me a for most interesting travel la t America's la-t frontier, Alaska, row i a Ph.D. candidate at the U Q on your pring break, have a yearwithatripto Munich, Vienna, where Mark is director of envi of Toronto, pursuing a degree in very relaxing, eemingly endles Budape t and Prague. She ran into ronmentalservicesfor HOR Engi exerci e and behavioral cience. ummer vacation, and we'll see John and Pam Cleaves Devine, neering in Anchorage. He notes Kyle says husband Rich Kantor i you in the fall. + Jack and Lisa Mathey Landry, that children dominate their very tolerant of this late t excur- Dean of Faculty Bob McArthur live (along with the occa ional ion into academia, and she notes and Profe or Charlie Bas ett at a moo e?) ....The Reverend Eric tha: Angela Mickalide has pro Correspondent: recent Colby fund raiser at the Duff was married in June 1994 to vided her useful counsel on the Nicholas Levintow United Nations.... Lucinda Betry, and-in addition to his questfor "Dr. Harrow." . ..Cindy Keams Hepp recently made the duties as pastor of St. Albans Epis Flandreau Helfrich completed her Help! It took a while, career change to full-time mom copal Church in Arcola, Calif. first marathon in March (hu band but I finally realized from the " uper mom, career inherited three children, Joe, 20 Jim's fourth), but it wasn'tenough 7 8 that the "Contract woman rat race" and report he is and April and Mac, both 18. Eric to allow them to outrun the ter with America" i really a contract very happy. Lucinda and Rick are also has another "flock" to deal rible rains in northernCalifornia. out on my job and on thousand of planning to celebrate their 10th with-two dogs, three cats, four Cindy reported that they were other feds doing regulatory en anniversary with a little hiking in cockatiel and one parrot! .. getting a bit moldy. Cindy and Jim forcement.There are everal leg the White Mountains. Lucinda, Leslie Chanler Brooks ent me a have three wonderful children, islative initiative floating around Rick, and 4-year-old Elizabeth live beautifulpicture ofher 1 5-month Jack, 6, Carly, 4, and Ted, Capitol Hill right now that would in Shrewsbury, Mass., and would old on, William Tucker Stuy 3 ....The mysterious Kathy abolish enforcement of OSHA, love to hear from Colby alums. vesant Brooks. Leslie, hu band Bleakney Pawley and family live the job safety and health law, as ...TI1e next time you are sitting Doug and on reside in Locu t, in Troutville, Va. (near Roanoke). we know it. Maybe somebody in the ballpark munching a hot N.J. ... Barry Horwitz and wife Kathy is an attorney with the So thinks this is a good idea, but they dog, look down-you may be sit Liz (Yanagihara '80) live in ew cial ecuriry Administration down probably never had a refinery blow ting on a product of the Hussey ton, Mass., with their kids, in them parts and had lots of news up in their hometown or lo t a Seating Co. Tim Hussey is the Michael, 10, and Alison, 7. The about other cla mate that she relativ in an indu trial incident. chief operating officerof the com familyrecentlytook a fantastic ki promised to end me, o tay tuned! If you have any thoughts on this, pany and reports that demand is vacation to Utah. Barry is vice Please write! + please write me, or better yet, your up, e pecially in the Far East. Tim president for marketing forBrad congre ional representative. also notes that he heard from old lee , Inc ....Felicia Johnson ha 61 AUGU T 1995 COLBY ;\ LUMNI AT LARGF _The Eighties 1989 book for women's health issues. wonderful hearing from every Correspondents: Deborah A. Greene Alice and her hu hand, David, one, and l hop you'll continue 38 Sorrel Road have been honing their parenting w keep rho e card , letter and Concord, MA 01742 . kills with a ha et hound puppy que tionnaires coming to the 508-369-6978 named Lucy, aka the "wild one." mailbox of my ucces or, John 1980 " leeping late in rhe morningi a Veilleux. + John Veilleux thing of the pasL," Alice note 84 13 Park Crest Drive mournfully ... . Diane Farrell Silver Spring, MD 209 10-5404 Guthmann' cryptic comment , Correspondent: orrespondent: "new h;1hy, new jllb, new hou e," Beth Pniew ki Wilson 1981 Patricia Valavanis Smith '>UITI up what'> heen happening Beth Pniew·ki Wilson with her over the pa t year. Diane Adam and Lynn Bruen P.O. Box 602 cvcrnl item of in and her hu,hand, Grey, live in Winter have a new ad Harvard, MA 01451 tere't from omc of the San Jo e, Calif., and Diane work dition to their family. 508-456- 80 1 attorneysin our m1d,r. m m;.irkettng cnmmunicat10ns. Me81aghan Eileen joined big Sonia Turcotte Foi wa named . . . Lori Azzarito Dubreuil 1s an 1982 brother Ethan, 3, la t February . par8tner 0 in the firm of Arnold and Mimi Ra,mu.sen edicor ;ind living m pringfield, They live in Northboro, Mas . Porter in Wa�hingron, D.C. 'he 63 Reservoir Street Vt., with hushand Craig, Alex, , ..Jodie Hewey Murphy and her is a member of the firm\ legi. la C::imbridge, MA 02 138 and Hanna, 5. They're hoping to hu band, Richard, live in North tl\'C practice. Promm1nns must 617-492-1002 get started on wme hllU e remod Chelm ford, Ma s. They have two run tn the Frns fam1 ly; around the eling th1 year. ..Jane Dibden wns, e::inand Chri topher. Jodie 1983 same tmie, hcr hushand, Andrew, chwab 1, :,rill serving ::is a and Richard are both software Sally Lovegren Merch::int wa� appointed hy President clergywoman in the Waterville engineer .... Patrick Devivo is HCR 62, Box 244B Clinton to he one ofthe wp aide'> are;1 and is in her second year of living in Melro e, Ma s .... Mt. Desert, ME 04660 ro Attorney GeneralJ::in er Reno. teach mg EngIt h COLBY AUGUST 1995 62 ALUMNI AT LARGE reun Class of198 0 The Class of 1980 was reunited, at least partially, in a weekend ing members of the class who have performed years of excellent and bacchanal of eating, drinking and oratory remini cent of many past selfless work on behalf of their classmates: Bev Madden, president; celebrations on Mayflower Hill (well, sort of). Although we sorely Joanne Shannon O'Donnell, vice president; Patty Valavanis Smith, missed those who did not make it, we had a pretty good turnout, class correspondent; and members of the reunion planning commit particularly if you include the many attendees in urero. tee: Cynthia Auman (who produced the reunion tape with Bev), Aside from the many opportunities given to parents to chase their James Coull, Linda Davis, Lynn Collins Francis, Andrew Goode, children across the campus's vast green expanse , highlights of the Lisa Paskalides Grimmig, Anne Hussey, Elizabeth Martin Hutch weekend included a boating party on Henry Kennedy's boat, a inson, William Jackson, Steven Kirstein, Mimi Brodsky Kress, cookout at the Gould Music Shell field and a dinner in the Student Joanne Shannon O'Donnell, Elliott Pratt, Nancy Reed, Carol Sly Union's new pub. I understand that only a small group made it to the (Alumni Council representative and designer of the reunion T-shirt), boat, but they had enough fun for everyone else. The cookout was Patty Valavanis Smith, Joanne Lynch Thorndike (who put together pretty laid back, with the be t entrance being made by an impressive the reunion handbook), Diana Herrmann and Leslie Mitchell (clas contingent of KDRs, whose unplanned meeting at the road's edge agent). As a result of the generosity of these and many other class resulted in their ambling across the field in a loose formation, members, our class gift to the College totaled $84,509. shoulder-to-shoulder, like something out of an old Western. And because nature (and some things unnatural) abhors a vacuum, The class dinner on Saturday night was the formal climax of the new class officers were announced, as follows: president, Elliott Pratt; weekend. Bev Nalbandian Madden presided over the evening with her Alumni Council representative and vice president, Anne Hussey; class usual unassuming grace. Drinks before dinner were followed by a new correspondent, John Veilleux. These people are now your representa drinking game at dinner in which all of the expecting mothers ordered tives, for better or for worse, so let them (us) know what you think. double shots of milk for those who also were drinkingfor two. Notable awards also went to Sara Crisp (most changed) and to Thus fortified,we were addressed in tum by President Bill Cotter, Anne Hussey (best knee scars). Finally, Bill Jackson was the winner whose remarks noted the 50th anniversary of the end of World War of the coveted Pink Flamingo. Road trips to the Jackson residence are II; dean and coach Mark Serdjenian '73, who recalled some of the encouraged to ensure that the noble bird is properly displayed (and to events of our years at Colby (despite the absence of his inspiration, confirm that, as Bill reported, it matches the rest of the decor). Elliott Pratt); and Professor Sandy Maisel, who took some tough A supply ofReunion 1995 memorabilia is still available. Please call questions from a politically astute crowd. the Alumni Relations Office if you would like to purchase a Class of Well-deserved praise and gratitude were heaped upon the follow- '80 T-shirt. -J ohn Veilleux Albert at lunchtime since they students how to use our on-line Company and Gregory is a car antiques dealer specializing in work a few miles from each database called WESTLAW. penter and cabinetmaker. Nancy antique clocks, and Sandy is now other. ...Tony '80 and Mickey Our 15th reunion is now less than finished her Ph.D. in 1990 and a mom and artist doing oil on Mullen Cunningham are busy a year away. If anyone has any lived in Bayreuth, Germany, for canvas commission house por raising their two daughters, suggestions about what events two and a half years before set traits ....Stephen "Bub" Brown Flannery and Maddie, in Minne and activities we hould have at tling in Massachusetts in 1993. lives in Canton, Mass., with wife sota, where Tony teaches at St. our 15th, please drop me a line, . ..Andrea Brantner's company Sue and daughter Casey Marie, John's. Mickey found time to call me or e-mail me (beth is sending her back to the head born 3/1/93.. . . Cathy Fracasse teach an after-schoo L arts program wilson@mcimail). Also, the mail officein New York after two and is moving eventually to S. last fall with a course on self hasgone dry lately, so please keep a half years in Japan. She was ad Egremont, Mass., to a house de portraits for fourthand fifth grad writing! + to leave Japan but happy to re signed by her sculptor husband, ers. She is planning on teaching turn-and now feels she must Allan Papscun. For now they are more courses, and they plan to be decide what to be when she grows still in Roslindale, Mass. Cathy is in Spiddal, Ireland, on the west Corre pondent: up! ...Duncan Alexander and a sy terns manager/investment coast near Galway, heading up Mimi Rasmussen his wife, Carolyn Salafia Alex compliance systems for Fidelity the St. John's program there in ander, moved a year ago to Investments. She hopes to use the fall of 1995 ....As for your Thad Burr has moved Bethesda, Md., where Carolyn her master's in education (educa class ecretary, my husband, Phil, to Buenos Aires to took a new job. Duncan quit his tion media and technology) re and I are up to it again! We just open an insurance job of 10 years to stay at home for ceived from Boston University in bought our fourth house (aka company for his employer, Met a year with their adopted Korean 1993 . ...Diane Zavotsky an 8. 2 .. fi xer-upper) in 10 years. It's an Life ...Terry Smith Brobst twins, Claire and Mark nounces the birth of her second other antique that just cried out writes from Freeport, Maine, that Sandy Montt Carter thinks of daughter, Tess Diane McClena to us. It has 11 fireplaces, an in she is a "severed" banker from the her Colby friend and experiences han, 1 1/22/94. Sister Hayley i 3; door well and Lots of unspoiled Fleet Financial Group, i.e., a vic often and says, "Hello to every dad is Daniel McClenahan.... charm, so we're spending week tim of corporate downsizing, and one!" After graduating from Raymond George Jr. is in an ends peeling, painting, raking and after 10 years in banking is look Wellesley, Sandy went from exciting and growing orthodon pruning! We're still in the lovely ing to explore new careers. Terry working for a software company tia practice with his wife, Debra, town of Harvard about 35 mile would also like to know how to running the Cornell Univer and his father. Raymond and northwest of Boston and hoping "Face" and "Tedious" are doing, sity Regional Office forNew En Debra have three children this is the end of the line in our as well as Ann and Peter. ... gland, a public relations position Kelsey Ann, 5, Jenna-Rae, 3, history of house renovations. Af Nancy Brown and Gregory involving fund raising. Sandy and Nicholas Williams, 2.Georgehas ter eight years I am still working Davis are living in Oakham, husband Steve have three chil recently been named to the board for West Publishing as an aca Mass., where Nancy is a senior dren, Brant, 7, Tucker, 5, and of directors of the Pawtucket demic representative training Law research engineer for Norton daughter Dionis, 1. Steve is an Community Counseling Center. 63 AUGU T 1995 COLBY ALUMNI AT LARGlc ...Jen nifer Maire Hagemann Fredette cl i covered five years ago earned her CAGS in counseling famous of late as Nicole Brown and hu ·band Henry are self-em that he loves computer pro psychology from Anna Maria Simpson's address). She and her ployed with their own marketing gramming, and he now develops College in May and is glad that husband, Larry '8 1, have a son, company. They have two girls software for BellSouth in Bir her AGS will validate her clini John Lawrence (born 12/2/94 ), Kate, 8, and Leita, 4 ... . Susan mingham, Ala. He does stay cal ability and match her experi and two dog . Mia is a distribu Robertson Kuzia sends new from grounded in his Renaissance cla - en e as an educator. . ..Kevin tion sales manager for Symantec Evans, Ga. Her husband, Stan sical roots with a steady diet of and Karen Nickerson Purcell Corp., a software company. Larry '85, is a stockbroker with Robin Homer and Shakespeare as well welcomed their newest baby, is an actor and has appeared in son-Humphrey. Susan is a stay as German and Latin texts. Will Nick Arnold, in April 1994. His several fi lms, includingJFK, and at-home mom with a part-time and wife Martha live in Hoover, si ter Kate is 4 .... In Waitsfield, on such television shows as Un business-Kuzia Creations. The Ala., with daughters Mary, 5, and Vt., lives Karla Hostetler and solved Mysteries and Dangerous biggest event in their lives was Grace, 2. Will canbe reached on the her family of four cockatiels and Curves . . .. Sonia Kaloosdian the addition of William Stanley, Internet at: [email protected]. two parakeet . She works as an Hale writes that she and her hus born 9/18/94. Big sister Virginia, (Colby does have a World-Wide international development con band had their first child, daugh 4, adores her little brother and is Web Home P:ige, Will, which . ultant for the nonprofit organi ter Alexandra Marie (born 9/94 ), a big help. Life is definitely twice can be accessed by the following zation Aid to Artisans. She ju t and that she will continue her as exciting with two children. address: htrp: \ \ www.colby.edu.) returned from Russia, where she graphic design firm on a part .. Lesley Deyulio Defio is a ... Barbara Leonard and Dan met with ov r SO artisan and time basis while renovating their medical information specialist Marra, who have been living in small bu iness owners to evaluate new house in Wellesley, Mass. and also a figure kating instruc Waterville for years, were mar the impact of an Aid to Artisans She would love to hear from any tor. Her husband,Joe, i vice presi ried in October 1993 and were project there. Karla ha pent con- one in the area-and especially dent of Jenkins Music Co. They able to get away for two week to iderahle time helping artisans misses those Phi Delt partie . . .. have two Pekinese dogs, Truffles travel to Tuscany la t fa ll. I know around the world (recently, Deb Reinke recently moved to and Spike ....Laur a Higgins Barb and Dan are enjoying their Ghana, Guatemala and Peru) to Richmond, Va., after spending sends news from an organic farm gardening right now! . .. Phineas earn income by developing ex five year in Michigan complet in Petrolia, Calif. Laura and her Gay i · president of Direct Result port bu ine e . . . Plea e take a ing her M.S. in natural resource hu band, Gair, live in a remote Group in Boston. He started the minute tn send me a note. I love and obtaining a teaching certifi and unique community where agency in November 1994, hav to read y ur letters and answer cate in cience. She is a science their life tyle i an occupation in ing left the direct marketing que tion about add res e when I teacher in a middle school for itself! They have two ons agency with which he had worked have the info. Plea e end photo gifted children. She and partner River, 5, and Arrow, 2-a dog, for 10 years. HL agency special of your elf and any significant Rose Deane made a commitment and numerous cats and chickens. izes in direct marketing commu others so we can keep these for of life and love to each other on Laura is very bu y with widely nication aero all media to he those "later," gol COL BY AUGUST 1995 64 ALUMNI AT LARGE (born 3/20/93) and daughter Correspondent: NEWSMAKERS Anika Nicole (born 7/1 3/94 ), along with a dog, Beam'r, and a Mary Alice Weller-Mayan teenage au pair. As far as free Peter Forman '80, sheriff of time, Shelly spends it chasing af My last column .... Plymouth, Mass., was a promi ter kids, dogs or the au pair. Life Anna Sandstrom is nent player in a New York Times sure has changed since her days 8 5 currently working on story about construction of a at Sugarloaf, after the move to her Ph.D. in Medieval/Renais controversial pri on in the Virginia and a mortgage. She sance French literature . . ..Carol area.... Tom Marlitt '80 keeps in touch with Wendy Simon is the head women's bas cycled from San Francisco ro Glenn '85 and Shannon Flynn. ketball coach at Brandeis Uni Lo Angeles in the California So what is Shannon up to ? ... versity in Boston ....Nancy and AIDS Ride 11, a 525-mile, Leslie and Nathan Emerson are Gregory Shefrin were new par seven-day trip to raise money in Jackson, Wyo. He works as a ents as of June 26, 1994, when for the Jeffrey Goodman Spe ski instructor and in marketing Zachary Lee was born.Greg is an cial Care Clinic in Lo Ange- for Jackson Hole Ski Corpora assistant vice president at the les, the Largest HN test site in Tom Marlitt '80 tion-and skis 150 days a year. Bank of New York ....Matthew the nation ....Charles Gordy Le lie is the executive director at Steven Smith is working as a '81 joined Tufts University as associate director of planned Jackson Hole Land Trust. They teacher at Headlands Institute, a giving.. . . John Clevenger '8 1 joined Meridian Consulting are very proud of T omba, Prince nonprofit field science school. Group in Westport, Conn., as senior consultant working with of the Tetons, a yellow lab/retriev School groups attend the insti clients Valvoline and SmithKline Beecham... . James B. er. And "Waldo" has changed to tute for one-day to five-day pro Haddow '82 has become a parmer in the firm of PetrucceUi & "Nato" (since Karo was taken ?). grams and do outdoor projects. Martin in Portland, Maine. . . . James O'Sullivan '82 has been Naro also coaches Little League These include marine science, appointed vice president and commercial broker at The Niles and will travel ro Finland to help group challenges and all-day Co. in Boston, Mass.... Dr. Robert Highland '83 received train a Lapland Ski School. He hikes. Headlands Institute is one obstetrics and gynecology staffprivil eges at Catawba Memorial sees other Jacksonites-Jamie of three campuses doing environ Hopsital in Hickory, N .C. ...Carol McQuilling McMorris '83 Mackintosh '82 and Jonathan mental education and is run by joined Tilgham & Frost Real Estate Inc. in Wilton, Conn .... Selkowitz '88. . . Wayne '85 and Yosemite National Institutes. Maine state senator Dana Hanley '84, billed as "the senate's Sandra Winship Eddy are living Matrhew lives in Sausalito, most conservative partisan" by the Maine Sunday Telegram, ha in Cheshire, Conn., with two Calif. . . . Faith Delaney gradu been named chair of the appropriations committee and will be kids, Katharine, 2 1/2, and Jesse, ated from Northeastern Univer the architect of the tate budget ....Renovations and re tora l. Sandy is working part time as a siry School of Law in May 1994. tions by Will Cheever '85' company, Yankee Restoration, are con ulting manager at Digital She is a staff attorneyat G.W. & making news in Yarmouth, Maine.... Crain's Chicago Business Equipment and also volunteers Wade, a financial planning com announced the appointment of Beth Healy '87 as a ociate as the vice president of Cheshire pany in Wellesley, Mas ., where editor for the newspaper's banking beat.. . . Arthur Morrow Newcomers Club ... . Berndand she works in estate and invest '88 joined the law offices of Alfred J. Landeggar in Camarillo, Kaiya Vittands Hefele and their ment planning ....Kathryn Calif. ...Dr. Kevin Webb '88 is a new member of the staffof three kids, Karl (born 5/3/90), Clarke and Rick Anderson have Kittery Optometric A ociates in Kittery, Maine . ...Anestes Katrina (8/20/9 1 ) and Celeen (3/ had another child, Brady Chris G. Fotiades '89 recently publi hed Colby College: A Venture of 7/94), are living in Hopatcong, topher Anderson, on July 27, Faith, a picrorial history of Colby from 1813 to the College's N .J . Berndis an attorneyand just 1994. His big ister, Emily, 3, is sesquicentennial in 1963. The book includes 200 black-and completed his M.B.A. at Colum adjt.:sting well now that she knows white image dating back to the earliest day of the College. bia. Kaiya is a management con she is still the boss1 ••• Sarah sultant. They have just finished Kellogg has suffered through her MILEPOSTS renovating their 100-year-old fir t year in law school at Boston home on a lake. Kaiya writes that University. After five years in Marriages: Charles Rousseau '83 to Barbara Henry in Mystic, kiing with two kid in tow and New Haven, she threw caution one in a backpack is not what she Conn ... . Karen Lawes '87 to Timothy Webb in Seattle, to the wind and left her job as risk imagined for herself while schus Wash . . . . Matthew Gove '87 to Bevin Dockray '88 in manager for an HMO to attend sing down the slopes at Sugarloaf Charlestown, Mass .... Toby Emerson '88 to Dana Kathleen law school. "I plan to pursue a as an undergrad-though she Grogan in Andover, Mass . ... Gregory Chronis '88 to Jean career in health care law in some wouldn't change it for the Carpenter in Phoenix, Ariz.... Suzanne Milauskus '89 to Paul form or another, assuming I sur world! ...John Gagne is now a Goldwin in Winchester, Mass. vive law school, " says Sarah. doctor of dentistry, which he Hang in there! . . . Debbie Neu thinks may surprise ome of you. Births:A son, Scott Austin, to Amy and James Coull '80 . ... A mann is a cardiology fellow at He finally owns an Alfa Romeo, daughter, Kelsey Winslow, to James '81 and Laura Littlefield Lahey Clinic in Burlington, Mass. too. Some things take a while but Bourne '8 1 . ... A daughter, Eleanor, to Scott Dow '83 and She has been working with Paul are worth it. John and wife Susan Bums for three years; one while Ashley Lasbury '83 ... . A son, Colin Harrison, to Dawne and live in Watertown, Conn., and Michael Page '84 . . ..A daughter, Tarrah Skye Tibbetts, to doing residency at Bo ton City he would love to hear from Dibs, Brian Tibbetts and Lisa Wormwood '84 .... A daughter, Hospital and now in a commu Critter and Maddog and any other Margaret Home Elliott, to Glen and Carrie Rymer Elliott nity hospital emergency room. Johnson/Averillites from 1980- ... Christine Rona Alban had '85 . ...A daughter, Tyler Elise, to Eric and Jill Myerow 82 ....The next missing alum Blinderman '86 ... . A on, Connor, to Jay '86 and Imogen twin girls, Jenn ifer and Nicole, nus we want to know about is Mintzer Church '85. on September 8, 1994. Life has Eric Van Gestel. + been crazy, she report , but lots of 65 AUGU T 1995 COLBY ALUMNI AT LARGE fun ever since. Suzanne Krumm column. I have enjoyeJ keeping even if they had an off year! ... vember 1994 and are planning Yerdon is rhe goJmorher to both you updated about our class. May Nancy Norris Gould left her for a May 1996 wedding in girls. At the time hris wrote, your lives be filled with much work in the defen e industry ;:i Gloucester, Mass ....Joe andSu she was considering returningto happiness. + year ago and is now a senior fi san Maxwell Reisert are living as work as a part-time consultant at nancial Our 10th reunion was a tremendous suc the Gin Pup hosted his legendary "Late cess, with a huge turnout and lots of fun Night" sho" (move over Letterman!). We thanks to the hard work of a number of were able to look back on Gin Pup's fir t classmates, notably Kelli Crump, who worked hows, with video footage of interviews long and hard for a year and a half planning with eiler's Food ervice employees-and the logistics of the infamou get together. who could forget Angela Drennen Hansen Special activities for our class included a golf singing "It's Raining Men." he graced us outing at the Waterville Country Club orga with her talent again, singing "Cucuna nized by Stephen Reed. We also enjoyed Mata ta" (I apologize for spelling). We were more spontaneous gatherings such as remi all impre sed by the footage of Tom niscing on Friday night at You Know Whose Valinote' ucces ful acting career in Lo Pub (remember those great pizzas?!) in down Angeles, which included excerpts from, town Waterville. among others, the hit eries NYPD Blue. A Clas mates came from all comers of the special request was made and granted in the country: Tom Colt made the journey (he form of Roy Hirshland modeling Speedo decided at the last minute) from Oklahoma biking shorts, toples ! The audience was City. Mark Hodin came from Wiscon in, amazed when Cici Bevin Gordon was able hopped to contact Tom Claytor on the phone, and Julie Sands Causey a plane from Roy Hirshland. Minneapolis, and Jim Gill traveled across we were able to hear about his latest adven the pond-from England, that is! But the special guest star was Tom tures flying around southernAfrica during his round-the-world trip. Valinote, who flew all the way from California at his expen e (John Linc Peirce wa Gin Pup's last guest, and we were given the privilege "Gin Pup" Collins is very sorry about the misunder randing). of viewing a previously censored cartoon featuring the duel of the The Class of'85 won't forget the scrumptious lobster bake andcla ss Colby Mule and Moose. Linc has moved on to greater things than dinner with the distinguished presence of President Cotter and The Colby Echo, and after a decade of hard work his cartoon strip is Professor Jan Hogendorn. Professor Hogendom spoke of change at now being syndicated. Colby-the new Harold Alfond Athletic Center, the trend among Some Reunion 1995 T- hires are still available, so please call the other liberal arts institutions to expand in size (Colby's incoming Alumni Relations Office if you would like to purcha e one. To all who freshman class is expected to have 540 students!) and his desire to could not make our reunion, do try to come to our next one. We keep Colby's student population at its current level. President Cotter missed lots of faces. wa presented with a memento keychain and a check forover$75,000 A special thanks to Kate Lucier O'Neil, Cory Humphrey Serrano, contributed by members of our class. Beth Towle, Julie Briggs, Steve Langlois, Shireen Shahawy The highlight of Saturday evening was at Strider Theater, where Stinneford, Ann-Meg White and Rob Boone. -Mary Alice Weller-Mayan COLBY AUGUST 1995 66 A L U �I :-.J I ... T L A R G E 19 4. James i always eager to and continue· to work on her Rand i currently challenging hi read thi ·column upon the arrival Correspondent: thesis for a ma ter' in French mind ar Dartmouth's Tuck Busi of the maga:ine but wishes more Sara Dickison literature . ...Carol Ann Beach ness School. He li\'es off camru people would share their news! is currently the head women' with dual grade school teacher ...Brent and Jill Stasz Harris, I've bumped into Hil basketball coacb at Connecticut and wife Karen Faunce '90. When as well a Brad, 10, and Jake, 3, ary Seward a few times College .... Jane Clark writes asked hi rationale for gening an are excited about their mo\·e we t on the streets of Bos that she is a social worker and M.B.A., Ste\·e rates, 'l ha\·e ward thi summer. The Harris ton-she's working a. the mar sub ranee abuse counselor for mastered the arr of rrorer gro family will leaveournation'·capi 8 8 keting communications manager grades 4-12 in a school system cery bagging and now it' on tu tal to become the tanford U for Hunneman Real Estate .. near where she live . Her hu - rhe next level."' Brian also write> family. Brent fini hed his last year Ayme Allison ha moved to a band is also a social worker for a rhat he and high school sweet of an M.D./Ph.D. program at small town in Connecticut to p ychiatric hospital. They've heart Michelle LaRocco (Bow Georgetown and will be starting work at the Gunner) School. been enjoying married life and doin '89, Yale '92) are getting a re idency in pathology, and af (Drum Potter went tO high remodeling their house. . Keep married in March and will liYe in ter fouryears at an economic con sch)OI here, according to Ayme.) the news coming. + Bow, N.H., where they recently sulting firm in D.C., Jill will be in he 1 the assistant dean of tu boughr a house.... Rick Cahaly the M.B.A. program at Stanford. dent and director of tudent ac is a project manager foran em·i ...Mark and LoriMoody Holmes tivities. The hours are cra:y, but Corre·pondent: ronmenral con ulting firm in welcomed daughter arah Beth she k) ve· her job and doe n't mts Deborah A. Greene Boston called TechLaw, Inc., last ovember. till functioning the rat race of Boston at all. ... which frequently .ends him back on very little sleep with a wee one Zach Abrams took a leave from Rosie Ahkami, M.D., to Maine to O\'er ee work being at home, Lori returned to part GE Capital and started busines 9 is living in ew York done on ha:ardous wasre sites. time work as a ystems manager school at the Wharton School. City and finishing her He is also doing ome grad work for Liberty Mutual near her home He told me that Paul Carmillo i first8 year of re idency in psychia in the en\'ironmental field at in omersworth, N.H .... Mich working at Biogen of Bo ton, Brad try at ewYork Hospital/Cornell Tufts and reporr- that Kerry and ael Hipson may live and work in 01 ·on '90 is also attending Univer ity . . ..Maria Bonneville Greg lgo had a son, Timothy, la·t the Lone Star State, but he claims Wharton, Dave Caspar is mar Berry and husband James have October. They both work for he's still a Yankee at heart! The ried and working in New York their hand full up in Nashua, Clean Harbor , Inc., and Greg has addition of Connor, now 16 City and Eric Zieff got married N.H., wirh their two boy , Jacob, finished an M.B.A. from Bab- months old, has gh·en a new in July and is getting a Ph.D. in 3, and Thomas, born la t Octo on . ...Ingrid Kasaks-Moyer ha· meaning to Michael and Gina' p ychology ....Steven and Ellen ber. Jame i a chef, and Maria is been working in the marketing lives, and they claim their second Krau e Teplitz bought a hou e working on a course in wriring for department of L&F Products and child may not be far behind. On in Washington, D.C., and ha\·e children ....An dy ' 7 and i project manager for Diaparene hi bu ine s travels from ew en1oyed the joys of fixing it Debbie Mann Johnson recently Baby Wipes, Wet Ones and Ly ol. York, Mark Needham is a fre up! . . . Mel Brown is till the moved to Ohio afrer Andy com Husband Quinn i the sale man quent vi itor tO the Hipsons dean of girls and modern lan pleted hi Ph.D. in molecular and ager at Seely & Amill, an aggre ...Meena and Daniel Hewett guage department chair at the cellular biology. He's now doing gate company, which sells sand are both architect practicing and t. Andrew's School in Middle cancer re earch at Ohio rate, and gravel to construction com teaching in Bosron. Despite busy town, Del. Mel took 12 tudent and Debbie is a medical secre panies. Mike D'Agostino man chedules, they were able to make to Mexico to do a 10-day com tary .... Suzanne Milauskas age to see the Moyer twice a year a wonderful vi it to India recent mitment ervice project last Goldwin married a Briri h char for kiing and golfing. On the way ly.... Larry and Kelly McPhail summer. They helped build a bas tered accountanr last October and back from visiting relatives in Es Mendez proudly announce the ketball/ occer court in a small honeymooned in Hawaii. The tonia and Latvia, Ingrid aw Sa birth of daughter Kristin Layne, community out ide Tijuana.... wedding party included Susan rah Maddox-Rogers during a who arrived in January. The Laura and Randy Catlin have Keliher, Tracy Gionfriddo, topover in London, where arah happy family lives outside of Dal been enjoying living in Yarmouth Karen O'Shea '90 and Jeff and husband Peter are having fun las and welcomes any Colby class after a year in Damariscotta, Schaefer '90. uzanne is now liv painting and furnishinga gorgeous mates to stop for a visit. ...l' ve Maine. He writes, 'Tm still work ing in London and working foran hou e they bought. Sarah help been back in my private chool ing at 'the Yard' and will be going art publisher. . In NYC, Bren run the Saatchi gallery and is ex admissions role for over a year back tO school to do an 18- dan Cahill i the director of cli cited about being in the art world. now and continue tO keep busy as month--one daya week-M.B.A. ent sen-icesfor the William Doyle ... Sue Braton and Nick Childs ever. l erve on the board of the program at Northea tern. I've Galleries, which deals in rare '90 were married on New Year's nursery school my kids attend, been working on a new de troyer books, maps, autographs and rare Eve, 1993. Sue i in Columbia chair a mother ' group at my de ign, and Laura i designing and fine wines. He hang out with Busine chool, and the couple church and teach Sunday chool and elling ad forPortland Maga Tom Cahill, Tucker Offutt, live in the NYC area ....Stacey to 3-and 4-year-olds. Hunter will vne." Randy i excited to ee that Kevin Oates '88and Jan Gisholt. Mitchell i also in YC, working be 5 this fall and loves school, the rowing program started by ...Brian Connors reports: "Lyle as a lawyer for the district computers, sports and movies. '87 , '8 and '89 class members i 'The Wanderer' Muir decided attorney' office after graduating Paige, our little Picas o, turned 3 still growing . . . . Monika Chas to make a pit stop in Quantico, from Tulane law school la t in July and i excited about start has been living in Montclair, .J ., Va., and ju t completed boot year. ... Julie Margolis is back in ing preschool and ballet lessons where she works in regulatory camp at the U.S. Marine Corps New York aftera transfer from her in September. + affairs in pharmaceuticals. She Officer Candidates School. The advertising agency. he had been has had the thrill of 20 pieces of former certified phy ical firnes in South America for a year. ... her artwork being displayed at a con ultant said, 'The boot camp Carolyn Harper i living on the local gallery. Monika has been ounded like a good exerci e pro East Side of NYC and working in thinking of moving to Bo ton gram.' And Steve 'Valedictorian' an art gallery. + 67 AUGU T 1995 COLBY \I l 'I N I A I l 1\ I( lo I The Nineties >plnttng lw, t11ne het ween h1, law ftrtn Paul, Wei .,, Rifk111d, were mamcJ in August 199 3 after Correspondents: third year nf law 'c hlil1l and teach Whartlln, and Garri,on 1n Man living in Seattle for two year and ing ,k iing ac ,1 ne,1rh) re,nrr. After hattdn rim fo ll. ...Chip Gavin arc now living in P mland, Maine, grnduari,m. j ,1h n plan' t11 lllll\T ..,enta (111'( Lard from W COLBY AUGU,T 1995 68 ALUMNI AT LARGE Lacrosse Boss fter graduating from sanctione They hike, rock climb and travel Dan Bouvier are al o officially living in Mt. Kisco, N.Y. ...Lisa whenever po sible and-follow engaged ....Cherlyn Neely and Gould, a practicing attorneyafter Correspondent: ing their wedding this fall-will teve Gorin '92 are the proud passing the bar in '94, was married Katie Martin embark on a sailing honeymoon parents of Mindy Amanda. Cher last] une . ...Annie De Maria fin in Honduras. They told me that lyn is having fun being a mom but ished her eventh year of sailing Thi is mostly an en Lisa Twomey i teaching French definitely plan to put her two tax schooners la t fall and is now work gagement/wedding/ and Spani h at Sr. Andrew law degree to work in the ing with the Great Lake Merchant 9 2 baby column. Mi-Sun School in Delaware; Juliette future. . . Rob '90 and Tricia Marine. ... Megan Finley is a Cho i engaged to her long-time Varga and Mike Rooney are pur O'Sullivan Hyland have j usr pur member services manager for the high school bo)friend, with plans suing married life and their Ph.D.'s chased and moved into their own ational Council of State Hou - to marry this summer. ...Laura at U.N.H.; and Dave Moore, hou e in Franklin, Ma . She's a ing Agencie , a trade as ociation Armstrong i busy making plans Merideth Master and Jared human resource manager at in D.C. lobbying for hou ing for for her September wedding in Cornell are all living in San Filene's, and he's a consultant for low- to moderate-income people. Boulder. ...Krista Lundborg is Francisco ....Liz Helft married Ander on Consulting. . .. Sue She was to be a bride maid in engaged and planning a Septem Don Darby '89 in August 1994; Gouws is still in New York Ciry Stacy King's June wedding to J us ber '96 wedding in Newport, '9ler attendingtheweddingwere working for Paine Webber as an tin Verge '90 ... . Catherine Giles R.l. ...Cathy Ryan recently was Jessica Butler, Cathy Breen, Julie equity research associate. She per is getting her master's and a engaged to Mike Kolakowski and Daniele, Ashley Cornell, Carol formed Mozart' Mass in C last C.A.G.S. in chool p ychology planning a ummer of '96 wed ine O'Malley, Patty Masters and spring (hey, ue, me, too!) with and will graduate in '96. She is ding . ...Margaret Russell was Tree Sullivan. The Darbys spent one of the two choral groups she doing research at Boston City proposed to in, of all places, Paris. their honeymoon in Bora Bora belong to.... Heidi Meehan Ho pital and i keeping her kiing Romantic ! ( he aid yes.) ... and are living in Menlo Park. Grant is teaching eighth grade habit alive through teaching. (Her Curt Beckwith i living in an Calif.; he teaches high school English at the John Jay Middle only major change is that now she Francisco with his fiancee, Susan English in Palo Alto ....Twisty School in Katonah, N.Y., after likes cats!) ... Corinne Hau er na Rhodes... . Jen Kosek i mar Gogolak, after being a bridesmaid receivingherma ter'sdegreefrom was married rhi June, with rying Matthew Walker rhi in Cathy Breen's wedding la t Teacher's College, Columbia Caroline O'Malley as the maid of September. ...In August, Sarah December along with Liz and Je - University. She and husband honor .... Rem1ion is less than a Hamilton will marry Scott sica, will be celebrating her mar Michael '90, who' working for year away. Volunteers will be Barringer ....Chris Ward an 69 AUGU T 1995 COLBY ,\ I l I �I N I ,\ I I 1\ I\ lo I· Kelly Evans ;md Gmin An:via n pl;mned ro re t urn rn Maine wif'h union. Erin Crossland joined Sara Ferry, a management associ '9 1 arc hw.y planning rhcir wed · hope' to wmk on Maine.: fo,,il::. Greg, who hope<. ro attend archi are wiLh Citihank, recently did ding for Ct ilumhu, llny weekend and 1•;1lcontology .... L1,t (; 111 I lecture schnol in Lhc foll.Josh also -,omerecru iting/interviewing. She in Chatham ... . Othcr1VL'dding::.: headed north to Rn,ton for the h 'een Jen Morrow, who live> wrore th<1t .,he and Kamin Mc Cathy Swaffar m;1rril'd l>;ivid wcekrnd o( r he l-le;1d of the in Bclmunt, Ma. s., and worb as a Clelland attended a Colby party Dougla� '9 1 la�t ye . reunion Class of 1990 The Class of 1990 wa out in full force for Reunion Weekend. was called upon to share a mildly ob cene joke with u all, Profes or Friday night was a mellow night-after checking in, a group of people Pete Moss (history) spoke about someof the current i ue on campu , hung out in the pa, playing pool and catching up on the news. mnst notably the grade-inflation phenomenon. Professor Jane Mos Saturday morning we led the parade to the fc otba 11 field, where (French) also shared some new with our clas -in several language . Said Eastman and Janet Boudreau presented a check for $26,000 to After dinner, the classe of'SO and '85 joined us in the Page Commons President Cotter on behalf of our clas . After the lobster bake lunch, Room for a tudent Union parry with The Blue Flames, a blues band. most of us took sometim e to wander aroundcampus and check out the It also seems that an impromptu game of beer die may have formed new buildings or tour the athletic complex or art museum. A bunch in the East Quad lounge on Saturday night after the party in the of people played volleyball and frisbee in from of East and West Student Union ended, although the details are unknown (who was Quads. God ?). On Sunday morning we had coffeecake delivered to the dorm About 100 people showed up in time for our clas dinner on from Bonnie's, and most people got on the road for the return trip Saturday night, where we were welcomed by Said Eastman and Dan home fairly early. Spurgin. Dan continued his tradition of capturing another Kodak Please call the Alumni Relation Office if you would like to moment by photographing us from the podium. After John Robbins purcha eaReun ion 1995 Class of '90 cap. Some are still available. -Laura Senier COLBY AUGU T 1995 70 :\ L L �I '..: I ..\ T L ..\ R G E the chool of Education at French school on a Fulbright tanford and hope� tnfind a iob in cholarship. . . Terry Meehan 1s NEWS MAKERS the bilingual education field. back from Ireland, living in ... After a few months living in a Somerville and doing medical re David Carney '90 won a eat on the chool committee in North co-operative house m Boulder, search at Children' Ho pita!. Andover, Mass ....The Maine Associated Press Broadcaster Colo. , David Holtzman planned . . . Heather Vincola, Christy A ·ociation awarded Dan Harris '93 an honorable mention in a ix-week hike in the Rockie Lynch and Kerry Sheehy share the enterpri e category for a erie of interview about the and hoped ro work on a farm . . anarartment in Brookline, Mas . , election of Governor Angu King. Vanessa Lloyd '93 Classmates abroad: Heather where a brunch � t. Patrick' Day received a ma ter's of education degree and elementary teacher' Eskey ha taught at the Wa�hing weekend brought together Missy cerrification from Bo ton Univer ity ....Un der the au p ices of ton Institute of Language, in Fraser, Marika Schwart:man, WorldTeach, Amy Alder on '94 is teaching English ro elemen Kumamoto, Japan, . ince July '94 Colleen Brennan, Megan Harris, tary school children in Co ta Rica.... Marile Haylon '94 ha and will ray through December. . Tracy Larsen, Tracy Karsch, been named associate art director at Bradford Adverti ing in . Tori Esser works in Paris, Ashley Short, Kristen Zier, Krista New Haven, Conn ....In Wa hington, D.C., Laurie Sil erman France, as meeting coordinator Nordgren (working for a publish '94 i the new deputy press secretary for Senator Judd Grego of for an internationalassoc iation of ing company in New York) and New Hampshire ....Rob Underwood '94, contacted by Ma ine busine ·es in the food industry (in Babs Coulon, a research coordi new paper , reported on the de asrating earthquake last Janu Madrid, Munich, Atlanta and nator in the youth marketing de ary in Japan, where he is teaching English at a high chool. Geneva). Tori has seen Ingrid partment of Houston Effler, a Kristan, who was teaching in a Bo ton ad,·eni ing fim1. + MILEPOSTS Marriages : Mya-Lisa King '90 to Mark Condon in Northea t Harbor, Maine ... . Carrie Lucas Linn '90 to Frederic Andre Robert Arnaud in Magnolia, Mas . . . . Margot Wood '90 to Marrhew Owen in Greenwich, Conn. New Members Join Executive Committee Director of Alumni Relation Susan Conant Cook '75 has been a class agent. He i an attorney in a mall practice in announced the new member of the 1995-96 executive Welle ley, Mas . committee of the Alumni Council. Tne committee, which i Anne Hu ey '80 is the new chair of the Alumni on Campus appointed by the Council chair, reflects attempts this year to Committee. She works in marketing at Hu ey Manufacturing. achieve a greater gender balance, Cook ay . Executive Lou Richardson McGinity '67 i the new chair of the committee members erve two year term . Admission Committee. A controller at Xerox, he has erved Ron Lupton '71 was elected chair of the Council. An on the Council a a clas repre entative. attorney in a small practice in Bath, Maine, he ha served a Diana Herrmann ' 0, vice pre-ident of Aquila Management vice chair and Alumni Fund chair. and new chair of the Clubs Committee, has served as pre ident Joanne "J an" Weddell Magyar '71 is the new vice chair of of the New York Colby Club, a a cla s agent and a a reunion the Council. he has erved a class representative to the committee member. Council and wa an active member of the Admis ions Commit Thomas Dailey '80, whose term is completed as co-chair of tee. he i an optician with Huntington Eye Care Associates in the Clubs Committee, will chair the Alumni Council Ta k Huntington, N.Y. Force on Clubs. He i an attorney with NYNEX in Bo ton. Libby Corydon-Apicella '74, new chair of the Communica Arthur Brennan '68, new chair of the Athletic Committee, tion Committee, has served as vice chair and chair of the has served as president of the Colby "C" Club, as cla repre en Task Force on Communication . She is president of the New tative to the Council, as clas president and a 25th reunion York Colby Club. chair. He is a uperior Court justice in Maine. John Devine '78 is Alumni Fund chair. He has erved as Patricia Valavanis mith '80 i pre ident of "C" Club. he chair of the Council Nominating Committee, has been a clas scored more than 1,000 points in ba ketball during her Colby agent and wa a member of the Alumni Fund Committee. A career and had her number retired. busine department manager with Procter & Gamble, he i the Le lie Mitchell '80 i the ne\\' chair of the Career ef\'ice '7 cla pre ident. Committee. She has served as pre ident of the New York Colby u an Jacobson Nester '88 i the new chair of the Nominat Club, as a class agent and a a reunion committee member. he i an ing Committee. She has erved on the Council as a class attorney with Fiq>atrick, Cella, Harper & cinto in New York City. repre entative. Ne ter is a producer forbu iness and financial Departing Council member include Al Carville '63, new at CNN. olomon Hartman '67, Carol ly '80, Cynthia "Cynnie" New chair of the Award Committee is David White '75. Auman '80, Judith Orne Shorey '55, William Marvin '65 and He ha erved on the Council a a cla - representative and has Thoma La Vigne '58. 71 /\ U G U S T I 9 9 i C l) L B Y OB ITUARIES • WILLI AM M. Maine. he .,ervcdon many community orga DORIS HARDY CHITTENDEN '19 nizariomand ervcd the ollcge asclassagent, HAWEELI '25 class corre�rondenr and mcmhcr of the William M. hittenJen '19, founder of the Alumni Council, for which he receiveJ a Dori Hardy Haweeli '25, a teacher and dean, ChittenJen Insurance Agency, Jied Decem Colhy Brick in 1972 . She i, -,urvivedhy a son, died April 8 in North Conway, N.H., at 92. ber 14, 1994, in Hamden, Conn., ;ir 98. He a Jaughter, Elizabeth � wccr::.cr Baxter '4 1, a he wa� horn in North Ya salboro, Maine, the wa born in Clinton, Conn., where he at sister, eight grnndchildren, includtng Ledyard daughter of Theodore E. Hardy, Cla s of 1895. tended Morgan High School. Afrer,erving in S. Baxter '67 and David S. Raxter '70, and 19 At Colhy she wa a member of Chi Omega the Army in World War I, he joineJ the grear-grandc hiId ren. orority tlnd a Phi Beta Kappa graduate. After Risdon Manufacturing Co. in N;iugaruck, graJuate work in education at Harvard Uni Conn. In 1928 he founded the Ch ittenden RUTH AUST! versity, she taught Latin and French at Coburn In urance Agency in Naugatuck, where he Classical ln titute, her alma mater, for 27 years remained active until he moved ro H;imden. BLAKESLEE ·23 ;ind 111 the 1960 wa I! COL BY AUGU T 1995 72 MURRAY B. MILLER ·29 anJ Po Valley campaigns and in Darm taJt, A nati,·e of Central Falls, R.I., he received his Germany, forwhich he received the Ameri M. . in r�ychology from Brown Univcr 1ry in Murray B. Miller '29, an oral surgeon, dieJ can and European-Middle Eastern Theater 1937 and his Ph.D. from ew York Univer�ity December 27, 1994, in Lake Worth, Fla., at ribbons. Until his retirement in 1967 he was in 1945. He taught p ychl1logy at Oregon 87. He attended Tufts University Dental a revenue officer for the Internal Revenue State College anJ tben ar Skidmore College, chool after lea\'ing Colby and went on to a Service. He is survived by hi· \\'ife of 53 years, where he wa� department chair from 194 7 to practice in dental urgery in White Plain , Agne , a daughter, four brothers, two i ters 1970. A Fulbright Lecturer at Ibrahim Uni\'er .Y. He also erved a a major in the Army anJ three grandchildren. sity in Cairo, Egypt, in 1953-54, he al o taught during World War II on the maxillo-facial at Lehigh Univer 1ty and Meredith College plastic urgery team. He i · urvived by his wife after retiring from kidmore. His se,·eral puh and a son, Richard 0. Miller '61. R TH A DRE\\ S YEOMA s ·32 lications included Beginning Psychulugy, The PHILIP BlTHER Psychologists and S)·scems and Theories of Psy S. ·30 Ruth Andrew< Yeomans '32 died October 19, cholog)' (co-author). In 1971 the American Philip S. Bither '30, Colby professor of Ger 1994, in Lincoln, Maine, at 84. She \\'as born Psychological Foundation awarded him its D1s man, died May 10 in Waterville, Maine, at in Drew Plantation, Maine. After graduating tingui ·hed Teaching Award for in pi ring gen 85. He wa born in Linneus, Maine, and from Higgins Clas, ical Institute, he attended erations ofcol lege students. He was a generous graduated from Ricker Classical Institute. He both Colby and the University of Maine. She supporter of College scholarship funds and taught for a year at Mount Hermon in wa for many years a member of the Drew erved on the Alumni Council. He is survived onhfield, Mass., and also studied at the Plantation school committee and also served by his wife of 57 years, Stephanie, rwo sons, a University of Giessen in Germany before a- the town treasurer. For most of her life he brother, a si�ter and four grandchildren. joining the Colby faculty. He recei,·ed his worked the farm on which he \\'as born. She master's in modem languages from Harvard is sun·i,·ed by a daughter, three granJchil HELE CURTIS University in 1939. He served as executive dren and three great-grandchildren. ecretary of Phi Beta Kappa for many year· LOTHROP ·35 and was involved with the summer language MARGARET FERNALD Helen Curti Lothrop '36, a homemaker, died chool at Colby for 20 years. In 1970 he was SMITH ·33 December 6, 1993, in Winthrop, Maine, at 78. awarded a Colby Brick. He retired in 1974. Margaret Fernald Smith '33 died ovember Ra 1seJ in Portland, Maine, she attended Deering urvivor include hi wife of 55 years, Colby 19, 1994. in Wilton, Maine, at 3. She wa High School and, after Colby, Northea rem profes or emerita Marjorie Bither, two ons, born in Freeport, Maine, and graduated from Business College. She worked as a clerk at two brothers, including Hanley A. Bither Brunswick High School. After Colby, where Maine General Hospital, Maine Casket Co. '41,three isters, two grandchildren and niece he majored in French, he \\'orked as a pay and The Employer's Group before becoming a and nephew , including Paul Bither '76. roll clerk at the H.E. Da,·is hoe Co. until her homemaker and mother of two daughter-. marriage in 1939. he wa a member of sev WAYNE E. ROBE RTS ·3 1 eral local and national grange organization . PAUL K. PALMER ·3 7 She is urvived by her hu band, Chester, a Wayne E. Roberts 'JI, a teacher and CO 73 AUGU T 1995 COLBY WHITN E Y WRIGHT ·37 Bridgewater, Ma,� .. he attended Pawling Pre FRA CL R. KIER AN ·53 paratory School. He wa' carrninof the C()lhy WhirncyWright '17, a retireJ Navy cart<1in, ernan an executive in the ha,eball team a nd later rlayed ()n a emi Frances R. Ki '53, died December 22, l 994, in Dammiscolta, profes>ional team in Mao,achusett and in inJu�trial gas business, Jied January 30 in Mnine, at 79. Born in Roston, Ma � .. he the Detroit Tigers organ ization. He wa� em Man l iu. , N. Y., at 64. A football player and attendeJ Hyde Park High chm>I in HyJc rloyed by Nurtheaot Clark LifrCorpm ation 1m·mher of Alpha Tau Omega fra ternity at Park, Ma,,. At olby, where he wa a mem in RhoJe IslanJ, where he wa' national 'ale - olhy, he entered the Marines after gradu ber nf Phi Delta Theta fraternity anJ pre,i ation and erved for two years, leaving ac 1r n111 of the year on numerou' ()Ccm.ion� and tive servi e as a first lieutenant. After dent of the fraternity in his M:: ninr year, he saleo manager at the time he re tired . He i' excelled in fo otball, track anJ hockey. He 'urvived hy his wife, Patricia, two son , two receiving his M.B.A. from Columbia Uni ver,ity, he worked in the indu trial gas joined the Navy in 1938. At the out,ct of 32 Jnughters, a hruther and nine grandchildren. year of service, he was a fi ghter pi lot in hll'•tne�sfor 30 year . He is urvived by hi WorlJ War II anJ flew numernu , nmhat wife, Barbara Ellen, two on , two daugh AVARD J. HOLT '49 mis,ion· in the outh Pacific, for which he ter and five granJchildren. was awarded the Navy Cross, the Di>t in Avard J. Holt '49, a b:rnker and real e rate guisheJ Flying Cmso, Air Medals with three ;igent. died Decemher l 9, I 994, 111 'kow f OA CHIPMAN stars and a Purple Hean. He wa, captatn of hegan, Maine, at 66. Rmn in Canaan, Maine, PHI LLI P ·57 the U .../n tre/Jid. In 1964 he commanJeJ he graduated from Porrland H 1gh 'chonl. He Joan hipman Phillip' '57 died November the aircraft carrier U.S. Midway and in was employed for 28 year' hy the Lincoln 25, 1994, 111 avannah, Ga., at 59. he wa 1969 received the National OrJer of Viet lndusmal Bank in kowheg;in. Later he horn in Fort Wo rth, Texa�, and attended nam for his ervice with a U ..rn,k fo rce. He worked a a re COLBY AUGUST 1995 74 eaders rite What's the Price Tenure represents the ba good impression on all of these of Freedom? nal pursuit of guaranteed people. It is for this reason that money in a society in need of decided to alert you to the In response to President we healing its materialism, not per fact that an error was made. It Cotter's article in support of knowledged in the latest issue petuating it. Keeping up with is also important to give recog tenure, I have everal remarks. of your magazine. The Peri the Joneses-the Bateses, the nition where it is due. Thank One, President Cotter left scope section had a paragraph Bowdoins-is not ethical or you so much for mentioning out the price tag for his keep titled "Only The Best" [that value-based reasoning. Moral American Buffalo. It i your ac ers of values. I would llke to ee described theater awards re courage doesn't come in packs, knowledgment that helps en a cost-analysis of tenure and cently won by three Colby stu as a rule. "Good business" courage rudent like us. it impact on the rising price dents]. It is nice that these should mean moral and value tag of a Colby degree, a price students were given recogni ba ed busines . Often, it im Kathleen Wood '96 that is prohibiting grads like tion for their achievements. plies the opposite. Betsy Clark '98 me, the untenured, yet dedi Unfortunately, a mistake Tenure involves politics cated, hardworking profe - was made. The American Col because it involves personali sional, from sending children lege Theater Fe ti val has many Squash That Rumor ties. Lumping college teachers' to their alma mater. areas of competition, only one I wa reading, as always rites of pas age with lawyers ext, he neglected to point of which involved [the Colby with great intere t, the late t and banker is two-edged. out why college professors (or production of] American Buf edition of Colby when I came Banker and lawyers are no lawyers or bankers) should fa lo. Mike Daisey '95, Brent aero s page 3 7 and the ti tie more immune from the cor have the outrageous privilege Felker '96 and Scott Cole '95 "Best Season Ever." I was rupting influencesofbigmoney of lifetime job ecurity, for all were involved in the perfor pleased and happy that the than any other group of people, doing what they should be mance ofAmerican Buffalo, but team had done well. (I was on pr fes ional or otherwise. doing in the fir t place-per they were also nominated as the 1989 team.) Finally, granting costly forming to the best of their Irene Ryan candidates. For the However, while it may be lifetime guarantees of job se ability. P haw! on the lofty third year in a row Colby stu the case that the team had the curity to only select groups rhetoric that they are keepers dentscompeted with many oth best record ever (I don't re of dedicated professionals of a college' value . A college ers to move on to the Kennedy member our record), I do know isn't free market thinking. It has no more values than the Center in Washington, D.C. that we won the very same couldn't be defended on moral ociety in which it sits. Ours Not only the cast of American BarnabyTrophy in 1989 while or ethical grounds, and it is are in short supply. When I Buffalo but also Colby stu at Yale-it was the first time dangerously elitist for a plu attended Colby, tudents were dents Ja on Spooner '95 and Colby had ever accomplished ralistic (and violent) society ellingand u ingdrugsoncam Katie Thompson '95 were this feat in squash. with fringe elements begin pu , and the administration nominated as Irene Ryan can ning to strike out viciously chose not to do anything about didates. These last two had Shaun Dakin '89 again t a government whose it or even admit they had a nothing to do with the produc Glendale, Ariz. leaders themselves are in a drug problem. The local head tion of American Buffalo, al questionable moral place. line I read after graduating aid though many other students "Colby Has No Drug Prob were involved in the various Correction Lisa Wormwood '8 1 lem." Not true. The elimina technical aspects. (The show An item in the Class of '71 Yarmouth, Maine tion of fraternities involved was also entered for design and news of the April Colby incor questionable tactics on the part for lighting.) rectly stated Dr. William Colby magazine is seen by Anthony's place ofwork. An of the admini tration. I recall Two More Deserve at least one older, outraged many people, those who have thony is on the faculty of fraternity alumnu using the the Spotlight gone to Colby as well as those Northwestern University in word "lied." It certainly ap We were very pleased to who are merely considering Evanston, Ill. peared that way to me, de pite see that the Performing Ans attending the College. We feel the good intentions. Department at Colby was ac- that it is important to make a 75 AUGUST 1995 COLBY A Heart Bigger Than Texas by J. Christian Davenport '96 ntil now, all that most ha� taken in and cared for a ra mr intothe house. your own after a hart while. U members of the Cul by three other children, ages l 3, "It\ a fu ll-time undertak They all love to be hugged community knew ahnut "ReJ" 14 and 17, all nf whom arc ing," 'a id Kevin Brown, a and rocked. They ju t want i that he worked in the Spa confined to wheelchairs. The �oc i<1l worker (I[ the Levin on to be love I! COLBY AUGUST 1995 76 llplease call the of order" ign on it! Hail, Colhy, Hail!