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1 Sierra Summer

The leader of the pack train threading its way down a preop1- tous California trail (opposite page) is Dean Willard Wyman '56, who organizes 10-day treks through this rugged country each Professors Comparetti and Scott. summer. Last year Peter Pennypacker '69 took his camera and provided some breathtaking illustrations for the dean's journal.

9 New Dimensions in Music

The music department's thriving new program in Applied Music, outlined by Professor James Armstrong, underscores the contention in the department that performance is a discipline of the mind as well as of the fingers.

12 Where Do We Go From Here?

The Committee to Study the Future of Colby invites you to sub­ mit views on the state of the college, and on the problems and opportunities that lie ahead.

14 Retirements

Colleagues pay tribute to devoted professors, Alice Comparetti and Allan Scott, whose total of 59 years at Colby span the downtown and Mayflower Hill eras.

17 Merriam's Blacks The Colby Alumnus/Volume 62, No. 3/Spring 1973 When the first all-black Union regiment braved withering fire at Mobile, its commander was Henry Clay Merriam (Colby, Published quarterly/fall, winter, spring, summer/ by Colby College 1864), who eagerly accepted a command of which others were disdainful. This profile of a l\1edal of Honor winner was writ­ Editor/David C. Langzettel ten by Dean Ernest C. Marriner '13, college historian. (The Layout/Donald E. Sanborn Jr., Gloria drawing accompanying the article is from an 1863 issue of i\facKay and David Langzettel Harper's Weekly.) Photography/Irving Faunce '69, Peter Pennypacker '69 and John Zacamy '71 (front cover, Pennypacker; back cover, 20 The Faculty Faunce) The selection process: new chairmen are appointed in biology Letters and inquiries should be sent to and English. the editor; Change of address notifica­ tion to the alumni office 22 Athletics Entered as second-class mail at Water­ ville, Maine 24 Class News Postmaster, send form 3579 to The Colby Alumnus, Colby College, \iVaterville, i\Iaine 04901 37 Milestones

In King Country: A Journal

First day: Sugarloaf Meadow Sierra Summer Like a Chinese puule trying to pack all the. gear on seven burros. Too many people and probably too much food - packs riding too high . Crossed into the Kings Canyon over Silliman Crest (9,000 feet) then down into the meadows along the same route Brewer's by Willard Wyman '56 party used. vVonSierra Nevada. ways po:.ed after the fir t day. How far tomorrow? Last year's party of seventeen included his wife What kind of climb? vVhen do we start? Jane, also a member of the English faculty, and Peter Pennypacker '69, San Francisco free-lance photogra­ Second day: Colby Lake pher and designer\ Bill "\i\lyman started making the trips while work­ Now that we're ahead of schedule, we'll either have ing toward a Ph. D. at Stanford. As a boy he had to go just a few miles and camp or make up about a worked on Montana ranches, and after graduation day and a half today.... All are saying they'd from Colby, packed horses in the Rockies. At first the rather go farther. They always say that in the morn­ Sierra treks, often four a ummer, were for boys and ing. Sent out mo t of the ad ults early, then got the combined recreation with financial aid for graduate burros packed. Got string on the trail by 8:30. Nice school. As time went on coeds and older friends morning' walk through open timber until 11 :oo joined in. Today the dean shares ownership of seven when we crossed the river and started the hard climb . burros. And the list of those eager to join future par­ to Colby Lake (named for a Sierra Club secretary). ties is growing. Party got all strung out. ... Sun hot, trail steeper The last outing was a little large by Wyman's stand­ ards, causing tric ky packing problems and some sag­ ging burros. But the trip was a good one, covering much of the highest Sierra first mapped by the famous California Geological Survey of 1864 headed by Wil­ liam Brewer.•

•on this trip young Clarence King, who later became the first director of the U.S. Geological Survey, made a rough Sierra crqssing and discovered Mt. Whitney, America's highest peak south of Alaska. Subsequently King received national acclaim after writing a description of his climb to its summit, only to discover a year later that he had missed Whitney and climj:Jed a lesser mountain. For all King's promise Uohn Hay, a secretary of state under William McKinley, called him the .. best and brightest" man of his generation) there were many such "missed summits" in his life. Dean Wyman views the Mt. Whitney incident as a telling metaphor - not only for King's life but for many of the impulses underlying American life itself. Wyman "Little Bill [Wyman] is determined to learn the diamond is working on a book which includes additional research on King. hitch this year."

2 The author and Sleeper and very faint. ... Got last slragglers into camp al lake (10,600) about 2:30. Cars are now almosl lhiny miles behind us. \Ve have done wonder­ iully in lwo days. Bul lrom lhe looks of some of us il may not be wonh it. ... Everybody peers across lhe lake at lhe wall of the Kings-Kern Divide, looking for the pass. Doesn't look like it can be there, the crest seems too high and sudden and sharp .... Trail is barely maintained here and very steep; they lost a mule in snow there in '68 - just before 1 lOok an­ other party across il with these same burros. Tomor­ row it's over the pass and down into Upper Kern­ Kawea Canyon for a layover day. It will be a short but tiring day, almost all above timberline.

Third day: Colby Pass

The pass had everybody worried, so I senl out most ahead of the burro string, keeping some lo help the burros scramble up through the rough spots below the pass. It is one of lhe steepesl lraib in lhe Sierra, but at least no snow this time. Spectacular: the pass is a sheer, brealhlaking 1,500 feet above our camp. Caughl mosl of the others as they reached the crest. All up by 10:00, and lots of jokes followed about Colby "pass" and Colby "degree." Pretty bad. Peter took a picture of us on top. We looked like a pack of claim-jumpers. Made camp by 12: 30. The downhill here is LOO steep to be easy - a tricky drop through big talus from lhe crest, then a lovely hanging meadow for about a mile. From there we practically had to slide down a sandy bluff into the Kern-Kawea with no trail to speak of - everything just goes down. (Burros sort of sat and slid - did very well.) Camped under Triple Divide Peak in scrub tamarack about on the A "tricky drop down through big talus," above; at right, timberline. Everybody had baths, saving their laundry "a band of claim-jumpers," and below, "one of the steepest trails in the Sierra." for tomorrow.

Fourth day: Layover On page 6: top, "approachin_g the final wall ... to the Couldn't find the burros so I went on a two-hour pass"; below," ... snow, blowing pretty hard." meander after breakfast. Beautiful country, barely traveled. Visited some big, high lakes - desolate and wild with snow slides running into them. Wonderful views of Whitney ....Fo und burros sleeping high above camp near a good rolling place just in the timber. After lunch a few of us climbed 1,000 feet - up a cut made by a waterfall in a cliff- looking for a route to Triple Divide Peak. From a little lake just over the lip of the canyon, the rest of route up Triple Divide seems clear - and difficult. Camp looks tiny down below us, the country enormous - tough and indifferent - out beyond.

4 5 Wen t wiLh Peter after supper Lo gel shoLs of '"'hitney. Had a nice walk and La lk. He's good to have along - loves the country. Came back and sat by the stream wiLh Jane. Lovely e ening. At the fire Larry entertaim. Everybody happy and warm there, · even though it looks as though it'll freeze tonight.

Fifth day: Kern River

Ice in the water bucket this morning. Everybody heads straigh t tor the fire and allows how shorter hik­ ing days are be tter Lhan more layovers. T11" next Lhree moves will now be short hops. Everybody happy moving gradually clown through six miles of easy, lovely forest and meadow until the waterfalls artd the long drop to the Kern . Lunch on the Kern. (No trouble fording it this .- year.) Then up the well graded High Sierra Trail to ..... camp a few mile higher on the river. Crossed the river there and Julep bogged down in a grassy mud flat . The grass looked firm but her small hooves went right through. Had to unpack her to get her out. She's all right, but I think her feelings were hurt. Had a long afternoon for bath and laundry, but for the fir�t Lime clouds till there at sunset.... Tom - who has been weL up here often enough to know better - says it never rains at night in the Sierra. Everybody wanL to belie\'e him.

Sixth day: J\JileJtone Basin

No rain. After a little search, Peter Van Slyke found burros aero s creek and up the trail. Got to teach him more about tracking. Easy walk into Milestone Basin (one o{ ierra's most beautiful) to camp.... E\'erybody happy, everybody lunche by the stream, naps. Some cloud buildup so we put up shelters, took baths, squared camp away .... Burros di appeared so we had that tracking !es on. Found them over a ridge about two miles away. Will picket Julep to­ night to keep them around. Everyone taken by the sunset on Whitney. Rob and I were playing a cliffhanger in chess, then he got me to look at the sun et and made a lucky move.. ..

Seventh day: Timberline Lakes, Kern Basin

Lovely, ea y walk in crisp weather, spoiled only by Julep goi ng down on a little cliff. ... Hope she doesn't turn up lame. Weather closing in, but I went out after lunch anyway - walked all the way up to Harrison Pass ... about nine miles round trip. Think we could cross Harrison this year. Snow is almost gone from the little shoot at the top. We'd have to unpack burros and pass gear down .... Clouds gathered and rain finally hit just after dark.

6 7 Had to set up extra shelters but kept everyone dry. Lots of rnncern about Fore�ter. lt i�n't really that bad... though it does look dangerous . .Jane worries more than most. .. and the dill� 011 thi� �iJe oi the pa�s scared her pretty badly la�t time we \vent over.

Eighth da)1: Forester Pass

Rain left everything soggy, and now burros pack water along with all our gear .... No trail here, so Tom goes out with early group. ... (\\'e are back on what l believe to be the route King used in that first cross­ ing of the Sierra.) By about 1 1 :oo we are all to­ gether and approaching the final wall. ... lt looks impassable. But the Park Service has outdone itself in building the trail and keeping it up. Aside from Trail Crest on i\It.\\'hitney, this pass (13,200) i� the highest in the Sierra .... Jane and Sophia got pretty shaky on the way up, but everybody else

Tom walking on the out�ide ol the trail with .Jane. Got cloudier as vve neared the top, then started to snow, blowing pretty hard.... \\'e didn't stay on the pass long, walking down the le�� �teep north slope in the snow storm .... Down another 1,000 feet, the snow turned to rain, which we made camp in that night. But got shelters up an

Ninth day: junction Meadow

Yesterday we were above 13,000; tomorrow night we'll be in Bay Area at ea level... . Today we started out above 10,000 in good weather. Rain soon started and we walked in a steady downpour all the way down Bubbs Creek. (This canyon was the main Indian route across Sierra.) \Ve camped at about 8,ooo.... Spent most of the afternoon setting up shelters and getting people comfortable. Took a bath in cold, cold rain with Jane. Nothing bothers her but places like Forester Pass. Saw more people today. \\ill see lots more to­ morrow - makes me sad.

Tenth day: A Road

Last day. Lots of talk about fresh fruit, ice cream, candy, etc. I follow the re t with burro string as trail winds down and down and down.... We hit the road's end a little early, but soon cars and trucks and trailer all arrive as planned. It always amazes me that everyone meets everyone - on time - with the right vehicles after one of these things. But they do. It always amazes me too that no matter how dirty I am, how in need of good food and drink and sleep, I always resist stepping into that truck and pulling out of these mountains .... But I always do.

8 HERE WAS A TIME, not o very long ago, when the formance in the past; but it was never possible to take Tformal study of mu ic occupied only a minimal a formal course in performance until this year. More­ position in the Colby curriculum. over, in recent years the only credits were for mem­ Professor Ermanno Comparetti, who founded the ber hip in the orchestra, band and glee club - not for Colby department thirty years ago, likes to tell about individual lessons. By raising music-making to the the time when the college added a econd music status of a formal course of study, the music depart­ cour e. "Remember, eelye!" an irate tru tee ment wishes to emphasize that performance is a dis­ admonished President Bixler, "Colby i not a cipline of the mind as well as the fingers. Whitehead's conser atory of music." well-known definition of intellectual culture applies Happily, the situation has changed: about 300 preeminently to music-making: "Activity of thought, students each semester choo e from among nearly 20 receptive_ne to beauty, and humane feeling." These courses in theory, history and composition. And are the qualities we hope to foster. concerts and recitals featuring student have been an Applied music is the department's answer to an important part of campus life for some time. important development in the curriculum referred to " This year the music program has gained additional around Mayflower Hill as "the Flexible 15. Begin­ vitality. And while Colby won't become a conserva­ ning with this year's freshman class, the basic gradua­ tory, the concept of applied music can only add vigor tion requirement of 105 credit hours in traditional to the department as it take firmer root. courses was increased by i5 hours. These additional Basically, applied music supplements academic credits can be earned in a variety of ways: tradition­ study with the practical experience of music-making. ally graded and pass-fail courses, field work and inde­ Students have been able to earn a few credits for per- pendent study.

9 Mrs. Hallman is assistant concertmaster of the Bangor Symphony and maintains a sizable studio of private pupils. Mrs. Reuman has been a member of the Colby faculty since 1961, teaching music theory. Her exten­ sive background as a cellist includes study with Alfred Zighera at Tanglewood. She is principal cellist of the Colby orchestra, a member of the Bangor Symphony and a frequent participant in musical events of all sorts in the area. Mrs. Garwood, who joined our staffin September, also teaches piano at the University of Maine in Orono. Her experience includes a stint as accom­ panist for Jerome Hines of the Metropolitan Opera. As a trio, these artists are available for chamber music concerts on campus and elsewhere, and for demonstration workshops in the public schools. At Colby the members offer private instruction and coach The author as narrator: an orchestra concert for elementary schoolers bene(illed the Maine Children's Home for Lillie student chamber music groups. Wanderers. Our chapel organist, Professor Adel Heinrich, who is president of the National Council of College and University Chapel Musicians, offersorgan instruction U nder the "Flexible 15" a student can study piano, on the newly-enlarged Mellon Organ in Lorimer organ, voice, violin, cello, flute, oboe, clarinet, bas­ Chapel. In addition to her own recital activities, soon, trumpet, and classical guitar for credi t. The Miss Heinrich has been responsible for bringing ambitious student can al o enroll in a new ensem­ other distinguished organists to the campus. This ble course designed Lo encourage students to make year' Mellon Organ Series included recitals by music together eriously, according to their interests. Myrtle Regier (Mount Holyoke College), William We are pleased to see that nearly all applied music Tortolano (St. Michael's College), a program of music students also participate enthusiastically in the col­ for organ and brass, and solo recitals by Adel Hein- lege's musical organizations, the Colby Community Symphony Orchestra, the Glee Club, the Band, the Lorimer Chapel Choir and others. For the applied music program to work properly, it was essential to gather a teaching staffof high pro­ fessional quality. The job was easier than it might have been, for two reasons. First, several excellent teachers were already offering non-credit lessons to students, mostly in connection with the work of the glee club and orchestra. In addition, we could draw teachers from a rather wide area in Maine, thanks to In terstate 95. Our aim was to bring together a staff of active professional musicians who could set a high standard through their own performances as well as through their teaching. The instrumental staff is led by the members of the newly-formed Colby College Trio: Mary Hallman, violinist, Dorothy Reuman, cellist, and Lillian Gar­ wood, pianist. Mrs. Hallman, who holds the Artist Diploma from the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria, has been concertmaster of the Salzburg Baroque En­ semble and principal second violinist of the Camerata

Academica of the Mozarteum. She has recorded for Bassoonist Susan Staples '75 (Haverhill, Mass.) Philips and Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft. with teacher Elizabeth MacDonald.

10 Mary Hallman explains bowing technique to Thomas Iacono '76 of Cranston, R.l., with Nancy Noreen '16 of Laconia, N. H. pianist Lillian Garwood. rich. These reci tals greatly enrich the musical life of Wa terville High School, in addition to maintaining a the campus. busy schedule as a performer. The woodwind stafl: includes Jean Rosenblum The most recent addi tion to our stafl: is William (.flute), Elizabeth Mal Donald (oboe and bassoon) and Swenson, who teaches cla�sical guitar. Mr. Swenson, Richard Jacobs (clarinet). Irs. Rosenblum, who is a who was a pupil of Sandy de Vito, also teaches music member of the Bangor Symphony, i a graduate of in the Fairfield public schools. We fully expect to add Oberlin College and has been teaching at Colby since other instruments to the program as the need makes 1969. Mrs. MacDonald, who is new at Colby this itself felt. year, is principal bas oonist of the Portland Sym­ The applied music staff is augmented by another phony and a former member of the Roche ter Phil­ group of excellent teachers who are responsible for harmonic. Mr. Jacobs, another Colby newcomer, is beginning and other non-credit instruction. Colby associate professor of mu ic at the Univer ity of 1aine owes each one a debt for many hours of skillful and in Orono, where he teaches applied woodwinds and patient teaching. music history. All these artists have impre sive cre­ During the first year, So students in the first dentials as recitalist and as oloist with orchestras. semester and 89 in the second have taken advantage of the new opportunity to study privately. A service­ The voice department is headed by Freda Gray­ playing and conducting course for organists has been Masse, dramatic oprano, who has performed widely established. The ensemble course has been slower to with the Boston Symphony and other leading orches­ develop, but there is talk now of a student in tru­ tras in this country and in Europe. Irs. lasse, who mental trio, and possibly a class in piano accompani­ has instructed voice tudent at Colby for twelve years, ment. The only requirements are that the ensembles is assisted by Margot Bridge Emery, who also coaches hould serve a serious musical purpose and that each diction. Mrs. Emery is a graduate (B. Mus.) of Laval member should be capable of performing at the col­ University and hold a teaching certificate in Orff lege level. Beginners are certainly encouraged, but Schulwerk from the fozaneum in Salzburg, Austria, credit is given only to advanced students in this where she spent the academic year 1968-69. program. The new director of the band, John Rynne, is a It is exciting (and a bit frightening) to see the trumpeter who teaches conducting a well as brass in­ crowded conditions of the practice rooms in the struments. Mr. Rynne, who holds degrees from the Bixler Art and Music Center, and to listen to the hum Boston Conser atory of fu ic and the University of of activity. The music department will breathe a col­ Colorado, came to Maine in 1966 as a member of the lecti e sigh of relief when the renovated Bixler Cen­ Music in Maine bra s quintet and chamber orchestra. ter, with its handsome new wing, opens in Septem­ At the present time he also serves a band director at ber. We invite you to come and see!

11 HE CHARGE GIVEN THE COMMIT­ An Open Letter: T tee to Study the Future of Colby is forthright: "To develop a succinct statement Where Do We Go From Here? of the academic mission of Colby incl udi ng therein a specific unify­ ing concept. Further, the commit­ tee should develop objectives for the college in support of this mis­ sion." The broad outlines of this com­ mittee and its purpose were drawn by President Strider when, in his two year report to the board of trustees, he crystalized his concern for the future by posing a series of several "important questions." "We are into a new decade now," the president wrote, "and educa­ tional institutions are in the midst of notable and rapid change. Col­ leges and universi t ies that do not find their way in this complex world will not prosper and may not even survive. "In our staff meetings and facul­ ty conversations and committee meetings, therefore, all of us who From left, Professors Benbow, A11nstro11g and Morrione. are concerned about the future of this college are asking ourselves important questions. THE COMMITTEE "Where should Colby be going

CHAIRMAN in the next decade? What is our special mission? We have a reason­ Francis H. Parker, chairman, ably good idea as to where we now philosophy department stand, but how do we define the FACULTY special characteristics that we want James Armstrong, music to build upon for the future? R. Mark Benbow, English "How can we continue to offer Ar thur K. Champlin, biology a first-class education? What do we Dorothy Koonce, classics do best? What are we doing that Donaldson Koons, geology we should not do? And when we Thomas]. Morrione '65, have determined what it is we want sociology the college to be and the direction Lucille Pinette Zukowski '37, it must take to get there, what are mathematics the implications with regard to our human and financial resources?" TRUSTEES In recommending the establish­ Robert A. Marden '50 ment of the committee, President Albert C. Palmer '30 Strider expressed the expectation Wilson C. Piper '39 that it would "draw upon the tal­ STUDENT ents and seek out the views of Robin J. Hamill '74 faculty, students, alumni, parents,

Professor Koonce and Robin Hamill members of the administration,

12 and members of the board of trustees. " Consequently, an initial step by the committee is "An Open Letter to the Colby Community" in which the following que Lions are asked: "IT'lwt i yot1r view of the present state of the college?" ond "H'lwl are Colb)"s problems and oppor­ tunities as we look ahead?" The letter has been sent to all tu

13 A Total of 59 Years at Colby Alice Comparetti and

ITH THE RETIREMENT OF ALICE PATTEE COMPAR­ W etti, the senior member of the Colby English faculty, the last member of that department who ta ught on the old campus closes her teaching career. Graduated from Rockford College, Mrs. Compar­ etti received an A.M. from Cornell in 1934 and a Ph.D. in 1936. That same year she came to Colby as an a��istant professor. In 1953 she was promoted to a�sociate professor, and in 1961 co professor. Mrs. Comparetti was one of three women, all fine scholars and teachers, who added unusual distinction to the department at the old college. Luella Norwood, who also taught for some years on Mayflower Hill, retired many years ago and lives in Boston. Mary Marshall left Colby for Syracuse; and after her retire­ ment there returned to Colby last year for one semester as a visiting professor. Now Alice Compar­ etti, the youngest of these three remarkable teachers, concludes her long and excellent service. Her retire­ ment breaks one more of the few remaining links between the facully of the old Colby and today's. Early in her career Professor Comparetti demon­ strated the quality of her scholarship by the publica­ tion in 1940 of her book on Wordsworth's The White Doe of Rylstone. Based on her Ph.D. thesis, her book remains the standard, authoritative critical evaluation of this long poem. A few years later her scholarship was recognized by the college when she was chosen to BY ALFRED K. CHAPMAN '25 deliver the annual Phi Beta Kappa address. During her long service co the department she has she relates the adventure story of the three boys she been called upon to teach courses in many areas of remains historically accurate but brings the times English literature. At one time or another she has alive for young people in the mid-teens. As Pro- given specialized courses on many of the major fessor Colin MacKay remarked, "The scholarship is figures and also taught the more generalized courses never intrusive: it vitalizes language and creates in literature and composition. Always carefully pre­ mood. " President Strider wrote, "The author has pared for her classes, she brought to her teaching embellished the narrative in the spirit and tone of great knowledge and skill. England in the turbulent period in which she has set the story." The novelist Elizabeth Savage '40, a O nly last year Mrs. Comparetti revealed her creative former student of Mrs. Comparetti's, comments, ability as well as her broad and thorough scholarship "Gregory's Angels not only presents facts with charm by the publication of the novel Gregory's Angels. Here and interest, but with considerable magic. " It is not she uses in imaginative form her knowledge of the his­ uncharacteristic that Mrs. Comparetti should have tory and literature of Anglo-Saxon England and of designated that any royalties should be given to Colby. the Continent as she tells the story of the three blond During the many years Professor Comparetti has lads from England put up for sale in the Roman contributed sound judgment and clear thinking to the Forum and Gregory the Great's reaction to them. As (Continued on poge 16)

14 Allan Scott Retire

ltem: an even-tempered ability to remain unruffled despite adversity. The adversity al Pittsburgh was a well-meaning but highly irascible professor to whom Allan was assigned as a laboratory assistant. A suc­ cession of predecessors had fallen under the caustic and often unreasonable criticism. Eilher oblivious to this dismal record, or more likely profiting from it, Allan so soothed and cajoled his superior, all the time making his point, that for years "Scott," who by then had moved on to Columbia University, was held up to us as the model graduate assistant. ltem: honesty, scientificand otherwise. Allan has said in admiration of Professor Franz Schrader, under whom he received his Columbia doctorate, "He didn't say very much, but when he did you knew for certain that he was right." Some ofthis honesty and cautious regard for accuracy may have solidified under the influence of that great cytologist, but most of it was there before the Columbia experience. ltem: strong feeling regarding the equality of man. This we all saw early at Pittsburgh and later at Col­ umbia and Woods Hole, long before it became fashionable or imperative to come to our collective senses concerning this problem of society.

Item: good teaching. Some people can teach best in small groups; others perform more proficiently in BY BENJAML R. SPEICHER large classes. Allan has done outstandingly well in both situations. While at Colby Professor Scott has LLA c. SCOTT RETIRES THI JU E as profe sor of bi­ taught courses in biology at all le els, and has of A ology and head of Lhe depanmenl, posi lions course instructed a great many students over the which he has held for over lwenty years. l have years. A man we both know and respect once said known Allan too long to write easily or comfortably with much truth, "People do not change as they grow of his retirement. More incidents by far crowd into older, they just get more like they were." Colby my memory than can be put down here, for since the alumni of the 1950s, 1960s and i97os could write very early i93os our paths have oflen been parallel. much the same profile as I have here. When I first knew him both of us were graduate ltem: scientific curiosity. Allan Scott's research, students at the University of Pittsburgh, where he which lies within the broad areas of genetics and came after receiving an A.B. degree from Clark Uni- chromosome behavior, has followed his curiosity ersiLy. He remained there two years, and received along several lines of investigation including insect his M.S. before preceding me to Columbia University spermatogenesis, the mechanics of cell division and for completion of his graduate training. During those speciation in nematodes. lt has carried him at various two years, and many subsequent ones, I became aware times to the Bermuda Biological Slation, on a post­ of those characteristics which his subsequent students doctoral National Research Fellowship, and to the as well as his colleagues may recognize. l wish to California Institute of Technology, the Zoological itemize some of them. Station, Naples, ltaly, and the University of Edin-

15 Third-Generation Trustee

Charles P. Barnes II '54 of Cape EliLabeLh has been named by Lhe Alumni Council execuLive commitLee to the board of tru�tees. He will complete the Lerm of Lhe laLe Professor-emeritus Le�ter C. Weeks ' 15. His grandfather, Charle� Barnes '93, and faLher, John '24, were Lrustees beiore him. A graduate ol Harvard Law School, Mr. Barne� pracLices in Port­ land. He has been an Alumni Council member since 1963 and served as chairman from 1968 to 1970. The Council also has confirmed reelectiun of three trustees nominated in the fall: Sigrid E. Tompkim '38, Arthur T.Thompson '40 and Clifford A. Bean '51.

(From page J.I) (From page 15) deliberations of the English department. During the burgh, Scotland. His studies continue at the Marine thirteen years that I was privileged to be chairman I Biological Laboratory, \.Voods Hole, Mass., where he found no member of the department more cooperati\'e and his wife, Peggy, have maintained a summer cot­ and more responsible in carrying out her duties. tage for many years. One of his earlier papers, his Countless hours she made herself available to stu­ doctoral di�senation, describes the chromo ome be­ dents who needed and had the interest to seek indi­ havior of an unusual beetle with the improbable vidual help. Once in a while when I had occa�ion to name of Micromallhus debilis. consult her about a student with outside problems, l Allan Scott came to Colby in 1951 after fifteen years always found her understanding. She maintained on Lhe faculty at Union. He took up hi position as high standards in her classroom. Hers were not classes chairman of the department in a new building, with sought out by the student interested only in "getting much to be done in organizing the equipment by." Hundreds learned from her in many ways and brought up from the old campus. 1t was a unique way will remember gratefully how much she gave to them. to meet his faculty, but he had come into a good de­ When a strong personality retires from a college partment and together they sorted out the equipment. faculty there is always a loss of something valuable to Over the years he reorganized and selected new staff the college. As Mrs. Comparetti retires, the college is with care in order to build a broad spectrum of spe­ losing a fine scholarly mind and a conscientious, cialties. He leaves with much personal satisfaction devoted teacher. from a long but stimulating job well done.

The author, Roberts Pro­ Professor Speicher, a spe­ fessor-emeritus of English cialist in genetics and cy­ Literature, served the de- tology, has headed the Uni­ partment for 41 years prior versity of Maine zoology to his retirement in 1969. department since 1942. A Phi Beta Kappa gradu­ Born in Swatow, China, he ate, Professor Chapman re­ is a graduate of Denison ceived an honorary L.H.D. University. Colby recog­ degree at commencement nized him in 1969 with an in 1968. Professor Chap­ Sc.D. degree and these man, president of Beta words: "One who believes Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, continues to serve the in the integrity of scientific research pure and untram­ college in a number of capacities. With his home and meled, he is an example to his colleagues of the teacher thriving garden nearby off Mayfiower Hill Drive, he and scholar, fair and patient, exacting and judicious, remains a familiar and beloved figure on the campus. and a worthy friend whom Colby is proud to honor."

16 Merriam's Blacks

by Ernest C. Marriner '1 3 Col lege Historian

CE. TURY BEFORE MAJOR CONFRONTATIONS OVER CIVIL A rights a Colby man led egro soldiers into vic­ torious battle. Henry Clay i\Ierriam, 1864. spent the greater part of the Civil \\'ar in command of a Colored Regiment (the official \Var Department designation) which fought so Yaliandy that it receiYed several citations for meri t and won for its commander the Congressional ;'\Iedal of Honor. He was born in Houlton on No\'ember 13, 1837, and the fact that he wa named Henry Clay, for the national leader of the \Vhigs, atte�ted to the family's political affiliation. The boy was only three when "�Jaine went hell bent for Go,·ernor Kent," but he may ha\'e een the torchlight parade of the \'ictorious Whigs in Houlton. In 1860, when i\Ierriam entered \\'aterville College (now Colb ), Houlton already had 2,000 inhabitants and was growing rapidly. The )Oung man had reason to expect to return there for a bu ine career after his graduation, but a national emergency made his life take a different turn. A few weeks before the end of hi sophomore year in 1862, Merriam left college to enli tin a company being rJised for the Twentieth Maine Infantry, the regiment that later won fame at Gettysburg under Jo!.hua Chamberlain. This unit was celebrated still later in a book by another Colby man, John Pullen, 1935. Merriam was elected captain of Company H and was mustered into federal ervice on August 29, 1862. The regiment arrived at the fron t in time to partici­ pate in the Battle of Antietam on September 17. After many minor skirmishe , it fought another major engagement at Fredericksburg on December 13. That was Merriam's last service with the Twentieth Maine. He left Chamberlain's command six months before Gettysburg.

The reason for Merriam's transfer was the Negro. Early in the war there had been some strong senti­ ment in favor of enli ting blacks in the Union armies, but Pre iclent Lincoln and the War Department firm­ ly resisted. They did consent to the use as laborers the Negro refugees who floc;ked into Union camps, but to both Generals Freemont and Hunter the gov-

17 ernment refused the use of black men as troops. whom themselves owned slaves. With the consent of After the announcement of the Emancipation Proc­ the state government, those free men organized and lamation in September, 1862, to become effective on financed the Native Guards. As tounding as it may January 1, 1863, the admini�tration became convinced seem, the government of that slave tate had per­ that it was now inconsi�tent to deny enlistment to mitted the commissioning of Negro officers in the Negroes. Jn fact some had been used without author­ Guard. ization in 1862. Therefore, before organizing more regimen ts of In January, 1863, General Daniel Ullmann went to black troops, Ullmann recognized the Native Guards, Lincoln urging the use of black troops. The President but he faced a problem with them. General Banks, asked Ullmann if he would be willing to lead such who had succeeded Bu t ler in command at New Or­ troops. When Ullmann consented, Lincoln sen t him leans, had little sympathy with the black man, and he to Secretary of War Edwin Stanton to make detailed withdrew all commissions from Negro officers. It was arrangements. Taking no chances, Ullmann took with the kind of si tuation that only the understanding of him for the Stanton interview Vice President Hanni­ men like Henry Merriam could overcome. bal Hamlin of Maine. The result was not only an In March, 1863, Merriam was placed in command order authorizing Ullmann to organize black regi­ of the Third Colored Infamry and promoted to lieu­ men ts in Louisiana, but also officering those regi­ tenant colonel. After being designated the 8oth In­ ments chiefly with Maine men. In that plan Colby fantry, the unit received its final name of the 73rd men were by no means overlooked; for Hamlin, a Infantry Corps d'Afrique. The 73rd Louisiana be­ Colby trustee, asked fellow trustee Governor Abner came one of the most celebrated black units in the Coburn to solicit existing Maine regiments for nomi­ Civil War. Although it participated gallantly in nation of men willing to lead Negro troops. One man other engagements, it won its greatest fame at Fort recommended by the .Maine governor was Captain Blakely during the attack on Mobile., ju t before Lee's Merriam of the Twen tieth Maine. surrender in 1865. There, in advance of orders, Mer­ Merriam eagerly accepted the assignment and im­ riam req ue ted and was granted permission to lead mediately joined Ullmann in New Orleans, where his regiment into the first assault on the fort. Under they found their way had been paved by earlier action terrific fire he led his men across an open field and of another Colby ma n. In 1862 Benjamin Butler, over the enemy's works, making possible the early 1838, had taken command of the Army of the Gulf surrender of the fort and the subsequent easy entry and soon had triumphantly entered New Orleans as into Mobile. For that action Merriam was promoted its military governor. Finding in the city two black to full colonel and awarded the Congressional Medal regiments of state militia eager to fight on the Union of Honor. side, he obtained reluctant permission from Washing­ ton to use them under their state designations of the D uring the war, Henry Merriam had several oppor­ First and Second Native Guards. ttmities to be transferred and command white troops, but he preferred to remain with his black regiment, \I\!hy should black men be militia troops in a slave to which he had become devotedly attached. General state? The answer is a bit complica ted and involves W. A. Pyle, under whom the regiment was once long history of colonial Louisiana. As early as 1728 placed, said: "Col. Merriam's regiment was one of the a French corporation in control of the colony, known best in the service. They proved that the Negro as the Company of the Indies, organized Negroes into soldier won the right to fight, not by virtue of de­ semimilitary groups for police purposes, and placed cisions made in Washington but by his own per­ them in charge of certain particularly dependable formance in battle." blacks. The colony was under Spanish control during Merriam was one of very few Colby men who con­ the American Revolution and the governor organized tinued in military service after the Civil War. Dis­ Negro companies to fight against the British. Andrew charged in October, 1865, he returned to Maine for Jackson first used such organiza tions under the United less than a year. On July 28, 1866, he accepted a States Rag when black troops fought in the Battle of commission in the regular army and was assigned to New Orleans. the U. S. 38th Infantry as major. That began a new The Native Guards that Butler brought into federal career of 35 years in the American West, where he led service in the Civil War were not slaves, but free his troops in many Indian engagements. During the Negroes. Not only did Louisiana have more free Mexican revolution of 1876, he crossed the Rio blacks than any other state; it also had the largest Grande to rescue a U. S. commercial agent and se­ number of affluent Negroes of property, some of cured pledges for the safety of American residents in

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Mexico. Among his western po ts were Forts Bliss with no time to harness horses, ordered a number of and Mcintosh, Tex.; Fort Laramie, \\'y.; Fort Sher­ men to pu ll it to high ground. They had nearly man, Idaho; and Fort Spokane, 'Va h. Against the reached the height when a sudden migh ty rush of Sioux in 1890, he wa pre ent at the

1 9 The Faculty also a general orientation to the college for the candidate." Archibald, with the rank of pro­ fessor, comes to Colby from Cornell 'To Find the Best Qualified' University, where he has taught undergraduates and graduate stu­ dents since 1964 . As assistant dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Cornell, he was intimately in­ Chairmen Appointed volved in the administration and development of academic pro­ grams. His book on John Butler Yeats will be published this summer by THOROUGH, SYSTEMATIC SEARCH as well as representatives of other the Bucknell Universi ty Press and A which included evaluation of disciplines. Following the estab­ he is at work on two other vol­ candidates by faculty, administra­ lishment of criteria and procedures, umes: a st udy of W. B. Yeats' tion and swdents has produced Dean Jenson explains, the college imaginative encounter with other new chairmen of the departments adveni ·ed the positions "in order Anglo-Irish writers and a critical of biology and English. The ap­ to insure the broadest possible biography of Edmund Burke. pointments were announced at the base for recrui tment. A graduate of Dartmouth (1955), spring meet ing of the board of "To further insure knowledge Profes or Archibald earned M.A. trustees. of the vacancies among women and Ph.D. degrees at the Univer­ Miriam France Bennett, a re­ and minority groups," he contin­ sity of Michigan. At Colby he will search and teaching biologist whose ues, "let ters were sent to women's teach courses in modern poetry academic specialty is comparative professional groups and to persons and participate in the fre hman invertebrate physiology , has been with contacts in the black com­ program. named professor of biology to suc­ munity. v\!e received 92 applica­ The author and co-author of ceed Allan C. Scott, who is retir­ tions in English and 2 30 in bi­ more than 50 published articles, ing after 22 years with the faculty. ology. In each case, six were from Miss Bennett has focused her re­ In English, Douglas Nelson women." search on two general problems: Archibald, a specialist in the prob­ After preliminary evaluation of biochronometry in planaria and lems of literary influence and in­ applicants, the respective commit­ earthworm ; and the effects of hor- tellectual history , has been selected. tees decided upon those candidates R. Mark Benbow, a faculty mem­ to be invited to Colby for a two­ ber since 1950 and department day visit, which would include chairman for the past seven years, meetings -with members of the de­ will returnto full-time teaching. partments, the committees and Paul G. Jenson, dean of the students. faculty, served as chairman of sep­ The visit also included the pre­ arate search committees, each of sentation of a paper before faculty, which conducted its work with two students and administrators, after objectives : find the best qualified which those present were invited individual for each position, and to submit evaluations of the can­ bring that person into the Colby didates to the appropriate com­ community under the most favor­ mittee. able circumstances. "Because of the process fol­ "For both of these reasons," the lowed," Dean Jenson concludes, dean points out, "it was important "the new appointees are well that members of the faculty, ad­ known to the departments and to ministration and student body be the administration. In turn, they involved in the selection process." know the college well. The selec­ The commit tees consisted of tion process actually became some­ faculty from biology and English thing more than just that; it was Archibald

20 A Tentative Economic Model. In March, Professor Hogendom served as the leader of a workshop Promotions discussing "Understanding Eco­ Promotion of 11 members of the nomic Indicators" during the 26th faculty has been announced. New annual Institute For Maine Indus­ ranks will become effective next try at Colby.

September. � Guenter vVeissberg, professor Associate professors named pro­ of government, has been named a fessors are Philip S. Bither '30 in fel low of the Institu te for Studies modern languages; Eileen M. Cur­ in Justice and Social Behavior of ran, Irving D. Suss and Colin E. the American Universi ty School of MacKay in English; Jack D. Foner Law in Washington, D.C. The in­ in history and Paul P. Perez in stitute fosters programs of study in psychology. international and comparative law, Promoted from assistants to as­ and develops and conducts research sociate professors were Howard L. in those fields. Koonce and John R. Sweney in Bennett Engli h, and Harold R. Pestana in � One of the most successtul geology. lecture programs of the spring se­ manes, stress and time on the Thomas R. W. Longstaff in phil­ mester was offered by Abbott blood of amphibians. osophy and religion and Richard Meader, associate professor of art. Recently she has turned her at­ L. "Whitmore Jr. in physical edu­ He howed and commen ted on tention to influences of very weak cation, instructors, have been pro­ �even of his films. Angel of the electromagnetic field , an area of moted co assistant professors. Hour�, a film constructed of photo­ investigation which i growing graphs of 24 serial pai ntings by rapidly in the numbers of labora­ Briefs Professor Meader, one for each tories involved and in general rec­ hour of the day, drew a particularly ognition of its potential import­ Albert A. Mavrinac, chairman of favorable response from his audi­ ance for environmental physiology the department of government, is ence. and organismic beha ior. the author of an article on France -:¥- Adel Heinrich, assistant pro­ She is a 1950 graduate of Carle­ which appeared in the April 13 fessor of music and college organ­ ton College with an M.A. degree issue of National Review magazine. ist, drew critical praise for her from Mount Holyoke College and \Vriting in the "Letter From musicianship during an organ re­ a Ph.D. degree from Northwestern Paris" section of the magazine, ci tal at St. Michael's College. Writ­ University. Mi s Ben nett has been Professor Mavrinac evaluates ing in the Burlington (Vt.) Free on the faculty of Sweet Briar Col­ French politics in light of the re­ Press, John D. Donoghue com­ lege since 1954 where, in addition cent French National Assembly mented on Professor Heinrich's to her teaching, she has accepted elections. He recently returned "clari ty of texture and balancing numerous administrative as ign­ from a sabbatical leave in Paris of voices" during an all-Bach pro­ ments including the chairmansh.ip during which he studied and did gram. of the committees on faculty re­ research. * Charles W. Bassett, assistant search and on nominations. * A paper written by Jan S. Under a National Science Foun­ Hogendorn, chairman of the de­ professor of English and director da tion grant to Sweet Briar, she partment of economics, and Henry of the American Studies Program, had the responsibility of designing A. Gemery, associate professor of represented the college at a policy introductory courses and under­ economics, was presented recently forum in New York sponsored by the Committee for Economic De­ graduate curricula in biology. by Professor Hogendom at McGill velopment. The meeting was Professor Bennett is a member University. The paper focused on called to discuss the management of the corporation of the Marine The Trans-A tlantic Slave Trade: Biological Laboratory at Woods and financingof colleges. The Hole, Mass., and has studied and CED is a private, nonprofitorgan­ done research there for several ization of business executives and summers. educators.

21 Athletics

TATE SERIES VICTORIES OVER THE S Universily of Maine and Bow­ doin helped to atone for an earlier loss to Bates, and a veteran Mule squad owned a 2- 1 record in the MIAA at presstime. The overall mark was 12-3 on May 6. Coach John Winkin, in his 19th year, was able to rely on the steady pitching of freshman Rick Oparowski (South Hadley, Mass.), junior Gary Millen (Lynnfield, Mass.) and senior Steve Jasinski (Chicopee, Mass.) as Colby got off to a running start. The Mules swept doubleheaders from Nichols, Coast Guard, Williams and Trin­ ity, and picked up single-game vic­ Senior Gary Fitts (Pittsfield) defends the lacrosse goal against the tories over Wesleyan and the Uni­ University of New Hampshire. versity of New Hampshire. A 6-o skein came to an end at Amherst when the Lord Jeffs number one for Coach Marjorie T he lacrosse squad opened its throttled Colby 6-o. In addition Bi th er. The women took two from season on a successful note defeat­ to the Bates loss, the Mules Maine (Portland-Gorham) and one ing Maine 15-8. But since it has dropped a 5-3 decision to the each from Westbrook College and lost to the University of New Uni versi ty of Maine's Portland­ Maine (Orono). Hampshire, Bowdoin, Boston State Gorham team. and (in overtime) to Babson. Solid offensiveco ntributions T he speed of sophomore Manny came from senior centerfielder Myers (Newton, Mass.) and the Golfers are without a victory and Dave Lane (Saco), .360; his class­ balanced performances of his have lost in matches with Clark­ mate Brian Cone (Littleton, Mass.) classmate Ted Snyder have been Assumption and Lowell-Tufts. The at third base, .341; and junior the bright spots for the varsity Mules finished last in the first state second baseman Mike LaPenna track team. Snyder (Norwood, series match held at Orono. (Beverly, Mass.), .326. Mass.) took three first places and gathered a total of 16 points in the M en's and women's varsi ty tennis opening loss to Amherst. He won 1973 FOOTBALL teams have continued their win­ the high jump, triple jump and ning ways. The women had a 3-0 the high hurdles. Myers had two Sept. 22 at Middlebury record and the men, 5-2. The two firstsin a 115-39 loss at Maine 29 Coast Guard defeats for Coach Guy Filosof and (Orono) and he and Snyder had (Homecoming) the men were by identical 5-4 scores three wins each in the lone victory Oct. 6 at Tufts at the hands of M.I.T. and of over Boston State. W.P.I. also has 13 Maine Mari time Maine (Orono). Victories were defeated Colby 88-66. (Parents Weekend) over Maine (Portland-Gorham), In the State Meet, Maine (63), 20 at Trinity Bowdoin, Bates, Babson and which took the title, was followed 27 at Bowdoin Tufts. by Bates (54), Bowdoin (45) and Nov. 3 Hobart Janet McManama (Belmont, Colby (37). Snyder was chosen the (Freshman Parents Mass.), a freshman member of last outstanding athlete in the field Weekend) winter's hockey team, is playing events. 10 Bates

22 T WAS, IN MANY WAYS, A NOSTALGIC I throwback to a simpler, cleaner, machineless time when man Woodsmen's Meet jousted with nature for his survival rather than dominated her - a time when the measure of a person could be taken in the simplest of terms. But the 26th Annual Inter­ collegiate Woodsmen's Weekend held at Colby under leaden, late April skies was also a demonstra­ tion that for at least some of today's college generation the values and activities of the past are worth preserving. They came from divergent points (the universities of New Hampshire, Maine, Vermont and New Brunswick; Colby, Nichols, Dartmouth and Paul Smith's Axe throwing colleges; and Penn State). But they were united in their dedica­ tion to fellowship and competition. The time had been precisely organized by the host Outing Club and provided for flyand spin casting, dot splitting, chain throw­ ing, pulp tossing, log rolling, scoot loading, speed chopping, bow sawing, firemakjng (yes, in the rain) and a Saturday night sq uare dance with an authentic "caller." Johnson Pond provided the arena

for one and two-person canoe races Two-man canoe obstacle course and a packboard relay race. "It just feels good," said one forester. "You use goodequ ipment on good wood. You meet a lot of people who are just as insane as you are and it's really a lot of fun." A Baltimore native stated frankly that if he were to chop down a tree where he came from, "the neighbors would raise hell." The 18 teams (three of them composed of women) competed tirelessly for a three-foot trophy which finallywou nd up in the muddied, calloused hands of the team from the University of �aine at Orono. Colby finished seventh.

JJlVING FAUNCE '69 Dot splitting

23 1923 share them with us at reunion • Fred­ in braille. Sumner serves as a deacon erick Fassett, retired. lives in Damari - in Christ Presbyterian Church. From Melva Mann Farnum (Mrs. Marlin) cotta Milb at Newcastle. He is active last July through September they travel­ Buckfield, Maine 04220 with the local library and in Maine hi - ed . In Union Spring, N.Y., they visited torical projects. We extend our sym­ Ida Jones Smith, the Deans in Marion, Our president. Basil Ames, unlike most pathy to Fred, who lost his wife, Julie • N. Y . . relatives in Bu xton and Steuben of us, remains active - as a lawyer and John Gow and Mildred enjoy their (Maine). and the homes of Louise Tilley, insurance agent. His wife, Frances, re­ small new house in Caanan, Conn., built Arlene Ringrose Brown and Lorena tired last June from teaching. Three last spring. Their two son have given Scott ·22 in Long Branch, N .J. Arlene married daughters all live in Maine. them (respectively) three grandson and had a serious accident in December. Some of us with widely-scattered families two granddaughters. Last September the While doing an act of neighborly kind­ envy the Ameses • Frederick Blan­ Gows traveled by Canadian Pacific from ness. she fell down a flight of stairs and chard, recovered from cataract opera­ Montreal to Vancouver and back with broke an arm and a leg. Her friends tions, claims neither "progeny, projects, stops. John hopes mo t of us will join write us of her wonderful disposition and prizes, nor peregrinations." • Ethel him in giving $50 to the Alumni Fund cheery spirit in spite of months with for our reunion L. Armand Guite, heavy casts on her broken limbs. Her Alley Baxter and husband, Edward '25, • are retired teachers. For two years they a retired surgeon, lives with his wife, husband, Duvale, helps greatly and she have been "campused" (in Ethel's words) Gabrielle, in Waterville. They have is able to get out of the house quite a because of cardiac seizures. We hope three sons: L. Armand Jr., a Fellow of bit • We must ask Leonette Warbur­ rest and treatment will permit the travel the American College of Surgeons; Paul, ton Wishard to tell us about her travels. they both enjoy • Tom and Muriel on the staff of the National Archives Last year at Christmas time I received Callaghan's daughter, Claire Kelly, is on Library in Washington; and John of a very interesting account of her trip to the Portland (Ore.) State University Kingston, Mass., whose wife is the form­ Europe. I hear she has some .excellent faculty. Their son, Tom Jr., is an at­ er Nancy Heilman '68 • Another slides • Marion Drisko Powers and torney in Washington, D.C. • Avis classmate in Waterville is Lillian Cyr husband, William, are very happy in Cox Colby and Alvah sold their Ray­ LaVerdiere. She and her husband, their Sun City (Ariz.) home. They en­ mond cottage and are full-time residents Evariste, are widely known because of joyed a trip to Spain and Greece plus a of Jensen Beach, Fla. They were de­ the family chain of drug stores. They Mediterranean cruise last September. The lighted when Gertrude Weller Harrington have five children, 22 grandchildren and Powers have a son and two small grand­ and her husband, James, visited, liked three great-grandchildren. children • Mary Warren makes her the area and rented for the winter. The We salute Dorothy Chaplin Nichols home in Waterville with her sister, Ann, Harrington home is in Alexandria, Va. • - and her husband, Sumner - for and is active with the library committee I wish you could see the excellent courage in overcoming what would be a and the D.A.R. • S. Alton Ward and picture I received of Lucy Osgood Dean handicap to some people, Dot's total Marion are retired in Woburn, Mass. with Arthur and their progeny at the blindness. They lead useful, active lives But Al maintains his state registration as 1972 family reunion. Perhaps Lucy will in Largo, Fla. Dot tutors blind adults a professional safety engineer. The

24 Shuffleboard Can Wait honor • Mildred Briggs is interested in sewing and crafts. She gives time to senior citizens, church, women's club and the Salvation Army crafts workers' Bob Fransen published (as was "A utumn Tilt" in the guild • does a lot of walk­ Richmond (Ind.) Graphic and fall Earl­ ing, plays chess and is interested in Earl Lyon, hamite), Claude is determined that his sports • in Milford, Conn., writing remain a hobby. swims, dives, fishes and enjoys boating Harold Clark Ear/ham's professor-emeritus of eco­ and sports • lost his wife nomics spends what he considers his in January. A member of the last two serious worki11g time 011 the boards of Maine legislatures, he is on the Gover­ three organizatio11s: Multiple Sclerosis nors Council. He and his son raise (former presidem), the Interfaith Housing purebred and grade sheep at Clark Council (West Richmond Friends Meet­ Farms - a far cry from the Colby library staff! Ellen Smith Weiblen ing representative) and the Mary Hill • says she was uncertain of her ability Home, .,...hich he serves as treasurer. and didn't dare take Latin with Judy He still sits in on classes at Earlham, Taylor. She always did like to joke where he headed th e economics depart­ • Clayton Johnson did a lot for Colby ment for so many years, as sp£cial guest during two terms on the board. Now and "resource perso11," as he puts it. on the board's budget and finance com­ His tra1·els take him south as far as mittee, he has been named a Fellow of When a man travels 20,000 miles a year Baltimore, west to Michigan and north the College. He has been doing slide to serve others, he has more time than to his nath·e Maine, where he manages . shows at convalescent homes in the Hart­ most of us to think deeply about .... hat 1·isits to Colby. This spring he had time ford area following trips to Jamaica and he sees and feels. For Claude Stinneford for a busman's holiday - travel with Hawaii • Emily Barrows BeUows '26 the vistas and thoughts become poet­ f el/ow economists to the Scandinavian wrote a fine letter. She enjoys painting, ry. Even though his verse has been countries. sewing, handcrafts and genealogical re­ search. Her mother, Mrs. Fred Barrows, celebrated her lOlst birthday in Janu­ Wards' son, Paul, has four boys, and in Maine, then left for Florida, where ary • Florence Smith Hutchins lives at their daughter, Lois, has two girls and a they planned to stay until May • Mulberry Hill Farm in Comish-a pretty boy. The grandchildren are making ex­ Mary Watson Flanders traveled to Seattle, name. She likes to collect odd plants cellent scholastic records, three in college Wash., to spend the holidays with mem­ and flowers, and visit shut-ins and lonely and the others "working their way up," bers of her family • Percy Beatty, people. She hopes someday to see the grandpa writes • Chilton Kemp of who underwent surgery, has made a fine beautiful Colby campus • Alice Mc· Yarmouth is retired and looks forward recovery. He is serving again as asso­ Donald Mills sent a cute picture of her­ to hunting and fishing expeditions. He ciate pastor (semi-retired) at the Broad­ self playing Santa. Glad she told me it and his wife, Harriet, spent last summer way Baptist Church in Patterson, N.J. was she with the white beard and a at their Wilson Pond camp in Greenville. Percy is the first member of our class to young grandson in her arms. She is in­ Their daughter, Marjorie Roxbrough '6 1, mention our 50th reunion, which, he terested in a garden club. One of their has two children, Bobby and Laura. writes, is not too far away. He adds, projects is planting trees on a county Spike and I look forward to meeting ··1 hope to make it." parkway near Jacksonville. She sees her you at Colby on June 9. We truly ap­ I am sure that you are all mindful of sister, Grace; and another sister and a preciate the responses from so many of the fact that our reunion will be the last brother are moving to Florida. Alice you. Even when, like us. some of you one which we shall hold as a class. After visited an old plantation on Fort George have no "real" news, you have written that, we shall be part of 50-Plus. A 50th Island, settled in 1783. The azaleas and heartwarming letters. anniversary of any kind is surely a great camellias were blooming in spite of event in anyone's life, and I am hopeful snow! • Charles Shoemaker thinks that all who can will make a special retirement is great. He's squaredancing, 1924 effort to be present when we celebrate swimming, playing shuffleboard and ours on Mayflower Hill. traveling. He was expecting his 15th Anne Brownstone Prilutsky grandchild this spring Flora Harri· (Mrs. Nathan) • man SmaU is moving to Winslow after 419 Cumberland Avenue, Apt. 32 1925 all these years. New address: 3 Clifford Portland, Maine 04 101 Avenue (0490 1). Doris Tozier Putnam (Mrs. Lawrence) Those who haven't written to me John L. Berry has been named senior 51 Meadowview Road please do and we'll have something for urologist at the Albany (N .Y.) Medical Holyoke, Mass. 01040 Center Ho pita!. He has been promoted the next issue. to professor-emeritu of surgery in urol­ Thank you, classmates, for your inter­ ogy at the Albany Medical Center. Jack e ting notes - for publication and for 1926 writes that he is still improving the Berry private edification. The first was from Procedure in the field and that it is the Eva AIJey. Always good in physical ed­ Hilda M. Fife best thus far. He and his wife, Kathleen, ucation, she i biking every day, usually 6 Sherwood Drive visited Sweden, Denmark., Finland and about four miles. (Good work, Eva.) She Eliot, Maine 03903 Rus ia • Ervena (Goodale) and Joe is al o bles ed with her aged mother • Smith spent Christma with their nephew Eleatha Beane Littlefield is still teaching. When I woke this morning (a day late and family in New Jersey. From Ervena She has I 0 grandchildren and three in February) the snow was falling, but and Joe come news items that follow great-grandchildren • Keith Wey­ now the sun is out and melting it. Again about member of our class. mouth's wife retired after 46 years of the snowmobilers are disappointed. We Ethel Reed Day and her husband, teaching elementary schools. A new have not had much snow since Christ­ who Jive in Vermont, spent Christmas school in Morrill has been named in her mas. By the time you all read this, it'll

25 be spring. Hope I'll be seeing some of Runnals! She enjoyed the incident!" • (Yelton) '63, was married last sum­ you at Alumni Weekend June 9- 1 1. Even Don Freeman: "Colby to me means mer • Evan Johnson, retired, is a though it"s not our big reunion year, three men - 'Bugs' Chester, Herbert recreation commissioner in Newtonville, �ume of u� will no doubt be there. Carlyle Libby, and friend Carl Weber. Mass. • Bill Pierce, also retired, is in Mo�t of you probably saw the an­ I loved the first. Dr. Libby razzed me Sarasota, Fla., where he does youth nouncement of the death of Ellis Par­ for four years but wanted me to return work, gardens, golfs and "parties." He menter last year. Our sympathy goes to as an assistant. I took every course Dr. planned to visit England in May. A "Sam" in her great loss. Sam and Parmy Weber gave, and as a science major, grandfather, he has two sons and two - I alway� remember them together at fought daily with him." • George daughters • Ardelle Chase does vol­ Colby, don't you? • I must correct a Barnes tells of one time when Prexy unteer work in hospitals and nursing statement that appeared in the fall Roberts asked Professor Perkins how homes. Retired, she travels and hoped A /11m1111s. I suppose it's the English much he was getting paid and "Perky to visit Washington, D.C., during the teacher showing in me, but I can't Jet (bless his heart) did not remember." spring • Marjorie Dunstan, in Hono­ you wonder what Percival Pierpont More memories of Colby next time. lulu, is interested in the Academy of meant by writing, "I have worked so How about sending along some more Arts and Botanical Gardens there. She hard in my life doing nothing." What to me for future columns? And keep has been all over the South Pacific in he wrote was, "I have never worked so me posted on what you are doing these her retirement as well as the Orient. hard in my life - doing nothing." Now days. Sounds intriguing • Norton Rhoades that makes sense, as many a retired of Stanford, Conn., devises crossword person knows. [This will teach us to puzzles for the New York Times and proofread more carefully! - Editor) • 1927 keeps times for Fairfield County track Didn't you enjoy Esther Wood's article Lura Norcross Turner (Mrs. Fred) meets. His geologist son, David '58, in the same issue, "Reflections on a R.F.D. 2 has returned from a two-year stay in Source of Values"? The pictures were Augusta, Maine 04330 Australia. Norton hopes to visit him great, too. Esther was one of my room­ in Denver in June • Clem Taylor mates in our freshmen year, and I lived Thanks to you folks who sent news. It's of Needles, Calif., has built a summer that year over again as I read her surprising how interesting it is to us - retirement cottage on Lake Cobbossee­ reminiscenses. I remember one spring no item is too small. contee in Maine. Welcome home • when she wanted some of my sulphur I know I express the sentiments of Dent Nickerson, also retired in Sarasota, and molasses mixture, and for some all of us in sharing the happiness of does volunteer hospital work and is on a unremembered reason I wouldn't share Jimmie Brudoo and his wife on the re­ chamber of commerce sports committee. it. Why, I don't know, for I hated the lease of their son, a P.O.W. since 1965. For relaxation he plays golf. Tom and stuff. But my mother had made me His fate was uncertain during all that Helen Pollard Hodgkim spent some time bring some back after vacation. Excel­ time • Prissie Russell Richards, re­ in Florida, according to Dent. (We saw lent spring tonic, y'know, in those days tired and busy with civic groups, hoped them at the funeral this winter of before vitamins! to go to Greece April 28 - May 6 on the Winnie Pollard Cadwallader.) The Nick­ I welcomed the return of three more Colby charter flight. She often sees ersons still summer in Maine • Ruth questionnaires this winter. Mildred Janet Chase Melanson '28 • Phyllis Dow, retired, lives in Nobleboro. (Last Bickmore Woodworth retired from teach­ Ham Riley helps the Red Cross, plays fall in a Maine newspaper we saw a ing in June and writes of the blessing of golf and bridge and has traveled to picture of her helping her brother hand "freedom from the time clock." Hus­ Florida from New York • Dot Gid­ press apples for cider!) She is interested band, Phil '22, is also retired and son, dings, though retired, stays busy with a in church work, Bible translation and Phil, works in a Boston bank • Agnes hospital coffee shop, Heart drives, as co­ genealogy. On a recent trip south she Osgood Blake and her husband are in editor of the state newspaper of Delta took in historic sites in Virginia, Georgia Phoenix. Ariz., during the winter. They Kappa Gamma and our alumni repre­ and Florida. She missed the tornado in live in Waterford the rest of the year • sentative. She went to Florida in No­ Orlando by just one day, and spent a Carl MacPherson keeps busy in re­ vember with Peg Macomber and visited week with college roommate Ardelle tirement with Masonic work and is active for a while. They called on Louise Chase White. in Rotary. He also keeps an eye on Chapman Dibble • Caroline Heald For Father and me spring means gar­ Brockton (Mass.) High School, with Wallace, who took her oldest daughter's dening and fishing. This winter for exer­ which he was associated for 45 years. family to Europe last summer, is a great­ cise we walked around the woodlot lines As a member of the Alumni Council, he grandmother. I wonder how many of on good days, since we own several gets a special kick out of working with those we have in the class! • Olive hundred acres. This is all for now. Keep Alumni Secretary Ed Burke, one of his Lee is still in harness as reference li­ the news coming. former Brockton boys • I know you brarian at Bridgewater (Mass.) State will enjoy, as I did, some of the mem­ College • Dorothy Gould Conant ories of Colby that classmates mentioned still teaches in Brunswick. Last year she 1929 on the questionnaire. Margaret Smith went to Nassau and Greece, and is an Jean M. Watson Shearman recalls how Miss Runnals used ardent snowmobiler! Stout girl' She has 67 Hawthorne Drive North to say: "Always make some change from two successful children and five grand­ New London, Conn. 06320 clothes you are wearing to come to din­ children • Marjorie Powell Shane ner. Even if you have to wear the same (so glad to hear from her), still in Win­ When James H. Woods retires in June, skirt - change your blouse." and Duckie throp, "helps her neighbors," and visits he should adjust more quickly than most wrote, "Remember how Dean R. used to children and grandchildren in Massa­ of us - he's an expert on the subject. tell us if we had only two dresses we chusetts and Washington, D.C. • A lawyer and Unitarian minister, he should put the other one on for dinner • Evelyn Estey is another who is still has worked with the aged in Cleveland From Tilly Gordon: "One year when teaching. She's active in Delta Kappa for 25 years and opened the first golden Esther Wood and I lived in Foss Hall Gamma and Eastern Star • Bob age center in public housing there in 'Pie Alley,' Esther - for fun - often Waugh is retired, lives in Berlin, N.H. 1955. In February the mayor pro­ knocked before my 'Come in.' We had and still hikes on White Mountain trails. claimed "James Woods Day." A bronze a good laugh. But one day - for fun He is busy with church and community plaque was unveiled during a celebration - I called, 'Stay out.' In walked Dean work. The Waughs' daughter, Lillian in his honor, and the announcement was

26 made that one of 13 Cleveland centers church. She is also a Literacy Volunteer. called 'The Mechanics of Political Op­ for the aged will be named in his honor. She and her husband take a trip every pression in America.' The student re­ The governor singled out the Rev. Mr. winter - last year California and this porter referred to me as 'the elderly Woods for a community action award. year Jamaica • Charles Jordan, edu­ activist.' " • Barbara Gurney Cassidy He and his wife, Betty, plan to retire to cational consultant and Title I projecf had a grand reunion with Marnie Mc­ New England. They travel to Europe coordinator for Auburn, is on the exec­ Gann Merrill. "After all these years, it frequently and vi ited the Caribbean last utive committee for the Lewiston­ seemed as though we had been together d winter. Scotland is their favorite. H Auburn Children's Home. He plans to yesterday." • Gertrude Sykes Elwell wants to continue volunteer work with retire next year at Chase's Mills (Turner) divides her time between Maine and the elderly. in a 125-year-old house which is being Florida • Rod Farnham, a Maine Alice (Paul) and Dick Allen, still help­ restored • The Rev. Lemuel K. Lord, legislator, is serving on the State Gov­ ing with "meals on wheels," are looking district superintendent of the Worcester ernment and Liquor Control commit­ forward to a trip to Mexico City and West District for the United Methodist tees • Helen Ramsey Felt is retiring Los Angeles, Calif., to see their son • Church, has had many important church­ this June. Her travels seem to have Charlie Cowing does volunteer work wide appointments. He is a gifted speak­ covered the globe • On February 3, with the Salvation Army and the Coast er and has conducted and preached on a Howard Ferguson was inducted into the Guard Rescue Squad. He spent Christ­ number of radio stations. He was a Massachusetts Baseball Hall of Fame • mas in Massachu etts, cruised the Carib­ member of the church's Maine Confer­ Golf, fishing and travel are staples of bean in March and will fish frequently ence and is now located in the New Eng­ Arthur Flewelliog's retirement • Thayer for weakfish in the Mississippi River • land Conference. He is also a past French hopes to return to Jefferson near Vinal Good, an attorney with interests in president of the Melrose Rotary Club • the old family farm • Norman Glover insurance and real estate in East Sebago, Edwin Merry does free-lance writing for intends to study for a real estate license traveled to England and France last Down East and Maine Life and conser­ exam • Charles Hicks has no inten­ winter. His son is at Duke University vation work in Newcastle. For the past tion of retiring. He and Betsy like to Law School and his daughter is a senior three years he has served the Lincoln travel and enjoy their second home at at the University of Maine • Annie County Camera Club as secretary-treas­ Pigeon Hill in Maine's Washington Merrick Gordon is co-chairman of her urer. He is eagerly awaiting publication County • Anne and John ('34) Holden church gift shop in Bethel. All kinds of in September of his book The Reach have retired to "Holridge" in Southport, hand made articles are sold there to a Road and Other Lightly Traveled "where every season is beautiful." • wide variety of patrons. She also leads Trails • Harold Moskovit, industrial Eunice Foye Hutchins has been renewing the Women's Society in Bible study. She relations consultant, received a plaque her friendship with a former roommate, . ha a on, a veteran of Vietnam, in from Young Democrats for helping the Flora Trussell Larrivee • Francis orth Carolina and a daughter and five youth of New York State, and one from Juggios is vice president in charge of grandchildren in Bethel. Annie taught a home for the aged. He bas been ap­ claims in his insurance firm. primary grades for nine years and has pointed by Governor Rockefeller to the Andy Karkos is looking forward to been tutoring for many years. She New York State Bingo Control Commis­ gardening this summer • Muriel (Mac­ helped a neighbor get her high school sion. He has one granddaughter in high Dougall) and Luke Lobdell divide their diploma and became an LP. . so that school • Lillian Morse Henry and time between Florida and Orleans, Vt. he could support her family and ill Gilbert spend their winters at Pompano Muriel is doing volunteer work teaching husband • Nella Bucknam Hamilton Beach, Fla., and enjoy golfing and adults to read. She is also taking organ has completed a course with the Literacy squaredancing • The Earle Mc.Keens lessons. Luke sings in the church choir, Volunteer of America and hopes to toured the U.S. and Canada by motor golfs and gardens • Rupert Loring is teach nonreader . She plans t meet home last year after his retirement. di trict manager for Public Service Co. Muriel Sanborn Armstrong in Wilton • They have just purchased a home in of New Hampshire. Rupe enjoys travel­ Beatrice Palmer Frederick is involved Port Charlotte, Fla. He says, "Come ing. fishing, gardening, and belongs to in program work at Medic-Home Health and see us." They plan to spend their many service clubs • Richard Noyes Center and with library torytelling. She summers in their cottage on Verona gives private music lessons. One of his i chairman of the international affairs Island in Maine. pupils pas ed the audition for the Maine department of the St. Cloud (Fla.) All-State Band. Dick and his son, a stu­ Women's Club and recording secretary dent at Bangor Theological Seminary, of D.A.R. She enjoys trips to Disney 1931 are interested in trying summer theater • Roland Poulin is a Maine District Court World. She quite often sees Nella Alice Linscott Roberts (Mrs. Wayne) judge Pearle King St. Peter and Hamilton, who spends the winters in St. Box 188-R.R. 2 • Cloud • Cecil Goddard still dabbles Port.land, Maine 04 147 family planned to see Scotland, England in real estate. Active for many years in and Wales in April • Florence Ventres hospital work, he has been elected to the Ethel MacDougall Alemian and Al divide Sherburne and husband, Bob, have a Health Planning Council of Kennebec their time between Cape Cod and Wey­ writer in the family. Their son, Jim, Valley and is a trustee of the Maine mouth, Mass. They have traveled to has had a book published by Harvard Hospital Association. While in Texas Denmark and planned to visit Russia in University Press. The title is John attending a meeting of the National May • Myrtle Paine Barker and hus­ Ruskin, or the Ambiguities of Abun­ Association of Insurance Agents as state band are investigating possibilities of dance: a Study in Economic and Social national director, he visited with Don getting into an archeological tour in Italy Criticism • Frances Page Taylor sent Frasier. He sees Bob Scott and wife, or the Greek Islands • Betty Walker a true story from a Florida neighbor Marguerite, in Unity. He says Bob is Edmunds spent last July in Yugoslavia, whose granddaughter had returned to her still teaching. then went to Cornwall for a holiday. northern home saying, "Those old re­ Philip Higgins retired in March. He In September she visited Hungary. This tarded people are having an awfully good does volunteer work in his church and summer she will venture to Greece and time." Frances said, "I would like to at the Shrioers Hospital in Springfield, Scotland • Henry Bubar is having an think it is safe to assume that the child Mass. He planned to travel to Florida interesting retirement. He bas panel might have been confused by some of in April • Eleanor Butler Hutchins discussions with various organizations the southern accents she heard and bad volunteers her services to the hospital in using students from Smith and Amherst. only one way to interpret 'retahed'!" • Waterville, the Girl Scouts and her He writes: "Recently I spoke to a class Marion White Thurlow is finishing the

27 History of the Town of China, Maine Left will be translated into Spanish • fully accredited, internationally recog­ for its bicentennial celebration in 1974. Genevieve Garran Waterhouse thinks thi nized college with a campus valued in Clinton had started it before his death • is a great time of life. as she enjoys her exce!>S of $15 million and an endowment Richard Williamson retired as principal two grandchildren, keeps busy with church close to $4 million. The annual operat­ of Torrington (Conn.) High School after guild, women's club, gardening, bird ing budget is about $3.5 million. This 41 years in ed ucation. Red said, "Per­ watching, rug hooking, crocheting - and - from zero property equity and zero haps the event I shall always cherish and still find time to help her retired husband. endowment when Bert took over - is remember most will be when George He has found a new interest - building a really an achievement. During the col­ Sprague, recently retired as vice president smal l housing development! • Another lege observance of Black History Week, of Reader's Digest, kind ly accepted my contented couple retired from teaching Bert received an award from black stu­ invitation to speak at my last graduation. are Hildred Nelson Wentworth and her dents for his help with their program. His talk to the class was the be!>t one husband, George. They have been in After an international textile meeting I've been privileged to hear." Florida this winter, traveled to Hawaii; chaired by Bert in Luzern, Switzerland, but with active hobbies such as hiking. last fall, he and Manha visited Liechten­ camping and golfing, they are perfectly stein and Great Britain. In March Bert 1932 happy at their camp in Maine. Hildred, addressed a national meeting of The TinaThompson Poulin (Mrs. James) how do you find time to knit afghans Conference Board in New York City. 158 Silver Street with three sons (the youngest a senior at In February he i.poke to the American Acadia University)? • Listed in Who's Philatelic Society in Philadelphia. Late Waterville, Maine 0490 I Who /11 America is Thompson Grant, in March, Bert and Martha went to On our return to Maine from a month headmaster for 17 years at Morristown Phoenix and San Franci!>co • Also in in Florida where Jim attended a mid­ Beard School in New Jer�ey. Tom and March Louise Coburn Smith Velten winter seminar in ophthalmology and his wife have three children and three headed for Puerto Rico. on what has otolaryngology, an avalanche of replies grandchildren. He enjoy calligraphy, become an annual trip. to the questionnaires awaited us. What tennis. bowling. reading and refinishing At the end of March, Put and I were fun! I settled right down with my trusty furniture. He plans to retire to Damaris­ off to London for a week and then to 1932 Oracle by my side and had a cotta next year • Look on page 80 the Channel Islands to visit friends • thoroughly delightful time reminiscing. of the Oracle and you'll see Harvey Eleanor Rowell Dorsett and her husband It was the first time I had heard from Evans with the first of his hunting dogs, are going on a Sea Venture crui e to many of you. Here are a few excerpts. Roger Draper's cocker spaniel, Barney. Bermuda. Unfortunately. it's scheduled James Blok, a retired Army chaplain, He has had seven bird dogs since, and for the same date a our 40th reunion. whose wife still teaches at Calvin College like o many classmates, lists fishing and (Grand Rapids, Mich.), has one daughter hunting as his favorite hobbies. Harvey, and is a grandpa to three. He keeps busy president of L. B. Evans and Son, shoe 1934 with a myriad of hobbies, among them manufacturers. is married to Arlene Margaret Salmond Matheson studying French (shades of Wallace, Woodman '3 1. ''Woody," he says, "take (Mrs. Donald) Halie and Strong), gardening and work­ care of me.'' The Evans have three Lakeview Drive ing around his camp. Of his frequent children and eight grandchildren. Is the China, Maine 04926 trips to the Netherlands, Italy and latter number a record for the class? • France, he says, "I often thi.nk of the The Very Rev. Harold Lemoine, has Adelaide Jordan Cleaves writes that her most moving and touching lines - been dean of the Cathedral of the In­ hu band. Ken, i a regional vice presi­ 'Although life's tide may part us wide carnation in New York, for 16 years dent of Warren Brother Co.. a division our thoughts will meet in Thee.' " • and has served on world-wide Episcopal of A�hland Oil, with offices in Portland. From Julian, Calif., an old gold mining conventions too numerou to list. "Tub­ Two of their children live in the Port­ town 5,000 feet in the clouds, Dor"Sa by" took a trip around the world last land area. and they enjoy having four Rattenbury O'Dell sends "cheers!" Once summer. It included a safari in Africa, grandchildren nearby to spoil. Another married to Scott O'Dell, author of Western Samoa, Fiji, Australia and so daughter and two grandchildren Jive in Island of the Blue Dolphins, etc., she has many other exciting places. Jn March New York City. Last spring Adelaide been a daily columnist on the Los he combined church work with a trip and Ken spent two weeks in St. Thomas, Angeles Times writing on emotional to Haiti, where he speaks at the Church a favorite vacation spot with them. Last problems as "Jane Palmer." She has College of St. Pierre. He has no retire­ winter they vacationed in Florida. lived abroad and lists as hobbies "read­ ment plans at yet! Sounds like a great life! • George ing, writing, ecology, women's lib, in­ Mann recalled vividly in his letter the dividualists!" Under occupation, Jane Maine winter of 1934 when the big writes, "Being human.'" What a thought­ 1933 thermometer on the College Avenue provoking statement. Wish you were Vesta Alden Putnam (Mrs. G. C.) railroad crossing read 34 degrees below here to discuss it with all of us • Alden Camps zero. Remember? George has lived in Dolores Dignam Morgan is personnel Oakland, Maine 04963 Houston, Tex., now for 23 years, and officer for the Treasury Department's has seen it snow exactly twice until this Bureau of Accounts in Washington. In You should have seen pirate Mal Wilson year when it snowed three times. It was and out of her capacity, she has traveled in a local production of The Pirates of good to read about George's present life. the world over. "Do" has a two-year­ Penzance. He was great! • This winter His wife is a Baylor graduate. They old grandson; and her son, Charles, Ruth (Leighton) and Tillson Thomas en­ have teen-agers, a son and a daughter. graduates from Tufts Medical School in joyed an extended stay in Florida (Jan­ This summer they are planning a vaca­ May. Wouldn't you know, she lists as uary to mid-March) • Harold Cb�e, tion trip to Canada. We hope they will hobbies bridge and coin collecting! • M.D., is devoting most of his time to stop to see Colby and those of us who When you read this, Bernard Harden teaching at Thomas Jefferson University, live nearby • I have been anticipating Porter will be in Yugoslavia and Albania. and to anesthesia patients • Another He is a consulting physicist and his new busy Philadelphian is Bertrand Hayward, a visit any day from Eleanor Wheel­ work, Found Poems, chosen as outstand­ for 26 years president of the Philadel­ wright Ness, who writes that she some­ ing by The Nation, will be published, in phia College of Textiles and Science. times passes through China on her way English, in Spain. He says his book I've Under his leadership it has become a from home in Orono to Augusta. I have

28 sent her exact directions for finding us, • Gladys Wein Hirsbon is still in touch and it will be fun to review with her the with Portland schools even though her old Colby days It was so good to • children have graduated. Her husband, hear from Ruth White. Her letter just Dr. Selvin Hirshon, was elected to the missed our last news deadline. Ruth is Portland School Committee in December still teaching at Winchester (Mass.) High • John Dolan '36, a fellow Latin School, but is hoping to retire in a year. teacher and Junior Classical League ad­ Since her mother passed away in 1967 viser in Des Moines, Iowa, reports get­ at the age of 93, she has taken advan­ ting together with Jerry Ryan occasion­ tage of any opportunity to travel. She ally in Omaha. wrote a fascinating account of Christ­ My semi-drawf, old-time varieties of mases and New Years spent in England. apple trees are doing well. Hopefully She has been to Italy twice and, I think, by '77 I can share russets, red astrikhans is of my opinion that one of the most and summer sweetings with you. By then unforgettable cities in the world must be I should have a good crop of blueberries Florence. For the past six years she has and some grapes, too, so keep that date taken up golf, playing in Bermuda and in mind! the Bahamas, and once while at Rock More than 300 personJ gathered March Gardens Inn in Sebasco, Maine, she 29 to honor Dr. Edmund N. Ervin '36, made a hole-in-one! Ruth still corres­ recipient of the Waterville Area Chamber 1939 ponds with Mary Buss Krueger and Do of Commerce's Outstanding Community Judith Quint Schreider (Mrs. Stanley) Donnell Vickery at Christmas. Your life Service A ward. (Dr. Kevin Hill '50, 24 Ballard Street does sound full and happy, "Babe." And right, was master of ceremonies.) A Newton Centre, Mass. 02 159 however much you insist that you have founder of the area association for re­ lived down that nickname, I for one still tarded children, Dr. Ervin was instru­ A decade-long project came of age in think of you affectionately that way. mental in establishing a school for ex­ January with dedication of the Gregory ceptional children near Thayer Hospital, Museum, a nonprofit earth science center where the pediatrician directs a clinic for in Hicksville, Long Island, N.Y., founded 1936 retarded pre-schoolers. by Gardiner Gregory. The grand open­ Kathryn Caswell Abbott (Mrs. Carroll) ing in the old Town Hall, completely 21 Averill Terrace refurbished as a community effort, was Waterville, Maine 04901 covered by the New York Times, Long College Entrance Examination Board!) Island dailies and weekly newspapers, Howard Brown has retired after 26 years • Roland Irvine Gammon has received rock and mineral magazines and cable of teaching social studie at Red Bank a 1973 "Community Leader of America" television. Started in the Gregory home, (N.J.) Regional High School • Floyd award and will be listed in the new and developed in a former town jail, the Haskell is a new member of the board edition of the Community Leaders museum's collection of more than 10,000 of directors of the First National Bank Annual in recognition of "past achieve­ specimens is perhaps the largest assem­ of Aroostook • Bob William lives in ments, outstanding ability and distin­ bled in this part of the country. They Los Angeles and keeps busy running two guished service to community and state." represent nearly every country of the macaroni plants of Western Globe Pro­ Since we saw Irv in June he has not world and all 50 states. In addition, ducts, Inc. He has six children, includ­ only covered the 1972 Olympics but also there are 40,000 butterflies and moths ing two in college in Hawaii. Bob bad a the meeting of the World Council of and a subsidiary collection of historical great trip to Ireland and Scotland last Churches of Christ in Utrecht • Percy artifacts from the town and surrounding summer and was a spectator at the Willette has come home to Maine after area. Mr. Gregory's teaching, display and British Open. practicing law in New York City for 26 research materials serve 65 school dis­ years. For four years he has been com­ tricts. And 30 slide programs on earth muting between Maine and New York science, butterflies and wildflowers have 1937 but finally decided to become a country been shown in 43 states and three for­ lawyer and has opened an office in Unity. eign countries. More than 50,000 per­ Sara J.Cowan ln the big city he was a corporate sons have seen the collection in the 10 300 Allen Avenue lawyer and became placement director years of its growth and the museum now Portland, Maine 04 103 at the Association of Bar of the City of serves 800 children and adults each Kenneth A. Johnson of Upper Newton New York. week. Falls, Mass., elected to a six-year term Imagine my surprise at hearing the Dwight Sargent, curator of the Nieman as a Colby trustee, is chairman of the name Alfred Wheeler read as a door Foundation at Harvard University for history department at Boston Latin. He prize at a natural foods lecture here in eight years, has been appointed president received bis M.A. from Harvard and Portland last December! I turned around of the Freedom of Information Founda­ studied at the University of Minnesota. and there he was, and Barbara, too! tion at the University of Missouri at He was a John Hay Fellow in Humani­ (Barbara Towle Wheeler '40) It was good Columbia. The appointment coincides to see them both Dorothy Goodwin with major expansion of the research ties at the University of Oregon in 1962 • is the new secretary at Waterville's First programs made possible by grants from and studied as a Fulbright Scholar at Baptist Church • Muriel Scribner the American Newspaper Publishers the University of Nigeria in 1964. Ken Gould and husband, Lewis, bad planned Association, the National Association served as lecturer in Afro-American his­ to come to Maine for reunion last spring. of Broadcasters and the major networks tory at Boston State College in 1969-70. But Muriel bad a trip to the hospital in - ABC, CBS and NBC. Dwight, a A member of the board of the John April and the doctor frowned upon a trustee of the college, holds the rank Hay Alumni Association, be bas served trip to Maine. She is fine now, feels like of associate professor of journalism a three-year term on the advanced place­ herself again and is enjoying Heather and is responsible for courses in ment examination committee in Euro­ Anne, their newest granddaughter. Both editorial writing and editorial page pean history for the CEEB. (For those Muriel and Lewis are retired, but may management. Prior to bis Nieman pro­ of you who have forgotten, that's the be looking for part-time work eventually gram work, he served as editorial page

29 director for the Guy Gannett newspapers George A. Parker hama sunshine in February. Travel is of Maine and of the New York Herald Jr. '42 has been ap­ nothing new to Dana. He was among Tribune. pointed a career the econd group of businessmen ad­ representative of mitted to Red China and attended the the Allen Plotkin Canton Trade Fair in November. Other 1946 Philadelphia area planned destinations include Peking and Shirley Martin Dudley (Mrs. Charles) general agency of Tient in. He speaks some Chinese, which 1003 Windsor Avenue National Life In­ helps • Margaret (Scott) and Win Windsor, Conn. 06095 surance Co. of Ver­ Carter enjoyed a stay in Paris this win­ mont. Mr. Parker ter. I never knew anyone who didn't Dot Dunham Hobbs and husband, Dick, had been a distrib­ love Paris in any season. Colby has live in Lynnfield, Mass., with Steve (25), utor of cleaning some travel yummies coming up for Lee (23) and Jane (20). Dot, please chemicals and com­ those who like to think big. Watch for write soon with details - love to hear pounds in his native city, and also vice news of it in your mail • Marjorie from you • "B.Z." (Lancaster) and president of warehouse sales for a steel Maynard is an associate consultant in Art Simoneau live at 156 Moringside sen•ice center there. He and his wife, early childhood education with the Con­ Drive, Laconia, N.H. ("Larry," please Geraldine, have two grown sons and an necticut Department of Education and note the address.) "Larry" Tetlow Pettee 18-year-old daughter. chairman of the National Committee for and husband, Jim, live in Winchester, Children's Health. After Colby she took Mass., with Jane (24), David (15) and advanced courses at the University of Jonathan (I4). Larry is a supervisor at London. the Boston University School of Social church, Rotary president and colonel I'm saving the best news for last: Work and does volunteer hospital work (retired after 21 years) in the National word from Tossie (Campbell) Kozen that • Priscilla Tibbetts Durgin and hus­ Guard. "Would be interested in hearing after a year of disappointments and band, Owen, a professor at the Univer­ from Arthur Katz, who went to Harvard frustrations she has started walking sity of New Hampshire, live in Durham. just after the war," he writes. The Ilsleys again! An automobile accident last Feb­ Their children are Sue (married in June, have three sons, including Paul '73, and ruary cau ed us grave concern, and 1971), Lynn and Bern • Harriet two daughters • Gerry Fliege Edwards we're happy to know of her progress. Gia.show Singer and husband, Bob, live and Bob left Seattle last May for Hun­ Have a good summer, all, and let me in Barrington, R.I. Two daughters, tington Beach, Calif. "This area is built have some news of your doings. Karen and Amy, are college graduates on a series of canals and channels, and and David is in high school. Harriet each homesite has some waterfront. So is doing graduate work in social psy­ the Edwards can continue with their 1951 chology and working in population con­ Cloyd favorite pastime - boating." • Charles S. Mcintyre trol. She also is Americans Abroad Aarseth spent the summer directing 27 Elm Street chairman for the American Field Service coverage of two motion picture docu­ Marblehead, Mass. 01945 • Hilda Robertson Lyons and husband, mentaries for the Screen News Digest, Gilbert, are in Needham, Mass., with the monthly educational series he pro­ Charles "Pete" Whitelaw, in Birming­ their two daughters, 17 and 16 • duces for Hearst Metrotone News. Cloyd ham, Mich., has three children • Mary Young lives in Gorham, where attended the national political conven­ Horace Franklin is a financial consultant she is a high school teacher. She earned tions in Miami Beach and was a proud living in West Redding, Conn. • Robert her M.Ed. degree from the University father when his Carol (13) met the Brotherlin, a resident of Litchfield, Ill., of Maine. She is active in church work President and Mrs. Nixon, Tricia Cox, represents several companies in indus­ and musical organizations. In the spring and Vice President and Mrs. Agnew. trial equipment engineering in the Mid­ of 1971 she chaperoned a group of stu­ Cloyd also spent three weeks on location west Benjamin Pearson is president dents on a trip to Rome • Rowen in Arizona, New Mexico and Utah doing of the Red Top Snuff Co., Byfield, Mass. Kusnitt Kessler lives in Castro Valley, an exclusive film study of the Navajos A sign of the times: people are chewing Calif. , with her husband, Bill, and Ar­ entitled A Nation Within a Nation • or sniffing instead of smoking • lene (16), Corby (14), Marla (12) and Court Simpson, a dentist in Manchester, Richard Reny of Welle ley, Mass., has Tracy ( 10). "Ro" is busy with local serv­ Conn., has been taking extra cour es at been named director of marketing for ice work, P.T.A. and traveling • Adel· New York University. His son, Brad, Hollingsworth & Vose Co. • Priscilla aide Jack McGorrill writes, "My first is a sophomore at Colby. Pomerleau MacMillan has been named manuscript was accepted by Maine Life associate chief of nur ing service for and published last fall." She and her hus­ education at the V.A. Hospital in West band, Walcefield, live in Norfolk, Mass., 1947 Haven, Conn. • Ian Robertson has with sons Brien (23) and Dean (20). She been appointed to the faculty of the Arline Kiessling Wills (Mrs. Charles) is involved in club and church work, and of Art Institute in Chicago 24 Robin Road School • travels a great deal • Hope Emerson Lynnfield, Mass. 01940 Louis Woisard Jr. was elected president Hatch lives in a 160-year-old Cape Cod of the board of Day Kimball Hospital farm in Casco with husband, Larry, and Although by the time you read this the in Putnam, Conn. • John Gilhooly Elaine (I 7) and Gary (13). Hope loves snow will have disappeared, the annual has joined the U.S. Embassy diplomatic the farm and acres of land. She was the Family Winter Weekend will be remem­ staff in Brussels • Harland Eastman first president of the Maine Society of bered by many as a Jot of fun. Hat and family are in Liverpool, England, Medical Technologists • Austin Ryder, (Nourse) and Dana Robinson went, and where he is the American consul • manager of a lumber company, lives in Liz Hall Fitch, John and their children; Arlene McCurda Cole's daughter is a North Attleboro, Mass., with wife, Betty also Georgie and Deke Tozer and Dot freshman at Bowdoin • Sherwin Wel­ and their daughter, Elizabeth (18) • (Cleaves) and Clif Rodgers, who have a son, a real estate developer, lives in Martha Blackington Caminiti of Port­ new little granddaughter. Winter Week­ We t Hartford, Conn. • David Miller, land is a second grade teacher and end is usually the last one in January. in Huntington, N.Y., is a consulting board member of the A.A.U.W. • Dr. How about planning ahead for next ground water geologist • Ed Martin John Ilsley wrote from Claremont, Calif., year? • The Robinsons must have is a physician in Mexico (Maine) and where he is warden of an Episcopal taken a chill that called for some Ba- has eight "wonderful children." •

30 Ruth Smart Thurston of Machias expects drilling platform in Gulf of Mexico off seling psychologist and vice president of to receive her master's in library science Louisiana coast via helicopter - rig is the Institute for Reality Therapy • this year. Her oldest daughter is a junior nearly at the end of continental shelf." Pete Lowrey has been cited with a col­ at the University of Maine • Cass • Harry Wiley has been transferred by league as a domestic sales leader for Lightner of Boonton, N.J., is sales man­ New England Telephone to A.T.&T. in A. W. Chesterton Co. of Everett, Mass., ager and a partner in Blindstitch Ma­ New York. He lives in Chatham, N.J. the oldest manufacturer of mechanical chines. He and his family went to packing in North America. Pete serves Europe last summer on the Queen Eliz­ southern Ohio and West Virginia from abeth II for the International Textile 1952 headquarters in Cincinnati. Machine Exhibition. Cass says his oldest Joan Martin Lamont (Mrs. Alton) son got married last June. Shows how 7 Clubhouse Lane old we're getting Alan Halsey is a 1954 • Wayland, Mass. 01778 civil service training instructor for mis­ Marlene Hurd Jabar (Mrs. Anthony) sile control communications systems at Lt. Col. Walter P. Hayes Jr. has been as­ 11 Pleasantdale Avenue Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas • signed to the Army's Office for Force Waterville, Maine 0490 1 Shirley Raynor Ingraham, a teacher at Development at the Pentagon. He had Agawam, Mass., has a son, Robert, in relinquished command of a battalion in This quote from the Portland Press the freshman class at Colby. Joan and I Vietnam • Dr. Alton W. Lamont has Hera Id describes better than I ever could have a daughter, Carol, a sophomore. been elected to the board of the Massa­ the one person from our class who has Dick and Nancy Webber Thompson chusetts College of Optometry and will been hitting the newspapers lately: " 'Un­ have a daughter, Laurice, a junior, and serve as treasurer for the year • The der water men shall walk, shall ride, a freshman son, Peter. Rev. Norman B. Crook was honored at shall sleep, shall talk.' Those are the John Linscott (Walpole, Mass.) plays a farewell tea at the First Church of prophetic words of Mother Shipton, a his sax professionally. His hobbies are Christ in Bradford, Mass. The Rev. Mr. 16th-century seer, who, if she were mountain climbing and running • Ted Crook. who resigned in the fall, assumed alive today, would cringe at her accu­ Parker lives in Brookline, Mass., and new duties as executive director of Mis­ racy. Mother Shipton's prophecy has Arthur Shulkin, in West Newton • sion Towers-Bethany Homes, Inc., on evolved into a swelling reality during Gertrude Cleveland Miller of G louces­ January l • Nancy Copeland is an the four centuries since she spoke these ter Mass., is an English teacher at administrative assistant at the Harvard words. No man has been more in tune . Rockport High. She writes, . We adopt­ University Library • Mary Sargent with that tumorous evolution than one ed a son, Carl, aged nine, last June." • Swift has gone into the antique business, of the sea-riders himself - Edward H. Ralph Bens is the master of Billerica doing flea markets and antique shows (Ned) Shenton." (Mass.) Jail and House of Correction, in Connecticut. She also paints with oils Ned, his artist wife, Karyl, and their and lives in Reading. ·•About to open reproducing antique works • Dr. little daughter have settled in Southport a new Jail and House of Corrections in David Saltzman, associate professor of after living in California. He is con­ Cambridge. I will manage both the physical science at the University of sulting oceanographer with special focus Billerica facility (400 inmates) and the Miami, received the university's Out­ on environmental concerns. Welcome new Cambridge jail (300 inmates), mak­ standing Teacher Award for 1969-70 • back to Maine, Shentons! • Richard ing it [system] the largest of its kind in Bill Taylor received the Coast Guard A. Jones has been advanced to the posi­ the U.S." • Homer Achorn of Warren Achievement Medal for 1970. He is in tion of vice president and mortgage is principal of the Appleton Village the insurance business in Portsmouth, officer at the Newton (Mass.) Savings School • Charles Tobin and Phyllis N.H. • Barbara Cheeseman Hooper Bank • Mary Mastin Campbell has are in Whitman, Mass. In the summer was elected chairman of the Wilmington been living in Australia for more than they run the Old Wharf Inn at Dennis (Mas .) School Committee last March. a year with her husband, Dr. William Port on Cape Cod. Charlie says, "vi i­ Barbara is also past president of the Campbell, and their three children - tors welcome and I promise I won't hand League of Women Voters there. Jennifer (9), Peter (6) and Betsey (six you a paint brush." • Helen Ruth months). They returned for a vacation Nickerson Martin lives in Littleton, last December and expect to be trans­ Colo. Her husband, Charles, is chief 1953 ferred back to New Jersey this summer Ruth Brindley Cheney writes of a geologist for Amax Petroleum. Last Loretta Thompson Staples (Mrs.) • year they went to Singapore, Madrid, new husband, new house and new life J 38 Glenside Road in Tortola (B.W.l.), New York, Dallas, Los Murray Hill, N.J. 07974 Pena cook, N .H. • Philip Reiner· Angeles, Fiji and returned to Adelaide, Deutsch is still a weather forecaster at Australia, where they had lived for Bob Carr has been Castle Air Force Base in California • seven years • "Bump" Bean was re­ elected to the board Dick Noonan has left Castle for a tour elected to another term on the Colby of directors with of Southeast Asia • Robert Hawkins board • Lucille Tarr Twaddel, Port­ R. B. Jones, Inc., is a training manager for the W. T. land, is a registered nurse teaching nurs­ an insurance brok­ Grant Co. in New York City. He vaca­ ing arts and sciences to student practical erage with home tions in Maine and tries to visit Colby nurses. Her husband is head of the offices in Kansas each summer • Tony and I recently social studies department and teaches City • Ted Lallier were reunited with Larry LaPointe. economics at Westbrook College, which is a candidate for Larry is teaching at Gardiner Area is going co-ed next year • Bart Pan· a post on the Gov­ High School. zenhagen still lives at Fort Lee, N.J. • ernors Council for George Haselton is in the chemistry and the Fifth District geology department at Clemson (S.C.) of Massachusetts. 1956 University • Thomas A. Simpson lives Ted lives and has a law office in Rowley Janet Stebbins Walsh in Northport, AJa. He is assistant state • Bernie Laliberte has been elected 29 Bayberry Circle geologist with the Geological Survey of king lion of the Waterville Lions Club Millis, Mass. 02054 Alabama and lecturer in geology at the • Dr. Richard Hawes addressed the University of Alabama. Here is an un­ members of the Maine Reading Asso­ What a great response to our newsletter! usual trip: "Visited Tenneco's offshore ciation. He is an educational and coun- We've been able to catch up on the

31 activities of many classmates, some of thrill of introducing Lillian Gish at one wires," plus a menagerie, live in Way­ whom haven't been heard from since of its meetings • Ruthann Simmonds land, Mass. They are busy expanding graduation. MacKinnon is lecturing in educational their "one-room cabin" in Waterville Joan Wyckoff Olson teaches second psychology at Makerere University in Valley. N. H., in the heart of the ski grade at Lake Garda Elementary School Kampala, Uganda, where her husband, country • "Pete" Mailey is regional in Simsbury, Conn. • Pete Bogren was Victor. is dean of the law faculty. In director of the Massachusetts Audubon named manage r of advertising and sales previous years she has been at York Society, north of Boston. He and his promotion of Peoples Life Insurance University, Toronto; Zaria, Northern Ni­ family are in Topsfield, Mass., but make Co., Washington, D.C. • Congratula­ geria; and Edinburgh, Scotland, where their way up the Maine Turnpike to ski tions to Arline Berry Julia, who has been she held a position as psychologist for at Squaw Mountain • John Koehler elected vice chairman of the Alumni the Edinburgh Child Guidance Clinic • is a psychiatric social worker in Santa Council • Carl Siegel is director of Brian Stompe lives with his wife and Clara, Calif. • Dick Phillips writes employee relations for Continental Screw three sons in Novato, Calif. Brian is from Newton, Mass., that he is working Co. and Hy-Pro Tool Co., New Bedford, account supervisor for Fibreboard in in the securities field as manager of Ed­ Mass., and Midland Screw Co., Chicago. San Francisco. wards and Hanley·s Boston office • All three concerns are divisions of Am­ Another questionnaire went out re­ Pat Martin Maloney has been very active tel. Inc., Providence • Charlotte Wood cently with our class newsletter. Here's in the Camp Fire Girls organization in Scully is in her 13th year as an English hoping more classmates will respond. the greater Hartford area. In 1970, Pat teacher at Naugatuck (Conn.) High received the V.F.W. Woman of the Year School • Dave and Rosie Crouthamel and Citizen of the Year awards for sus­ Sortor are hosts for an American Field 1957 taining Camp Fire Girl activities in her Service student from South Africa this area Will Laverdiere and his family Eleanor Ewing Vigue (Mrs. Guy) • year Kathy Vogt is an associate are living on a former Skowhegan dairy • Sisquistic Trail professor of English at Wheaton Col­ farm. Bill teaches biology at the high Yarmouth, Maine 04096 lege, Norton, Mass. She has been teach­ school, but each summer he can't wait ing at Wheaton since 1965. Kathy is on The response to our newsletter was won­ to get out and hay his 60 acres! In 1970, sabbatical and working on a book on derful! I shall have to forego any fancy he received another Colby degree, his modern Irish literature • Don Voll­ preliminaries and get on with the news. master of science in teaching • Carol mer and family have been living in Lon­ Allan Van Gestel writes that since Cobb Christ writes from Norwell, Mass., don for the past three years. Don is in 1970, he has been a partner specializing that she is busy chasing a three-year-old charge of Bank America's multi-national in civil litigation in the Boston law firm and working part time for Liberty Mu­ unit • Joan Kyritz O'Rourke is teach­ of Goodwin, Proctor and Hoar. His two tual Insurance Co. It's a good change ing elementary school in Ossining, N.Y. young sons (ages 8 and 11) are avid of pace to run up to Mt. Abram to ski, She and her two teen-age sons spent last skiers on the Mt. Cranmore Junior rac­ right, Cobbie? Watch out for six Vigues summer in Hawaii, where Joan was ing team • Danny '56 and Toni Jaftee coming down the "Dudley Do-Right!" • working on her master's. Yarchin and their three children are Bob Pettegrew and his family have come Bob and Dot Aikman Adel and their living in Boxford, Mass. Danny is in the home to New England to roost in Jaffrey teen-age son and daughter live in Guad­ shoe importing bu iness and Toni holds Center, N.H. (where Dr. Bixler is living). alajara, Mexico, where Bob is manager the fort on the homefront • U.S. Air Bob is director of advertising for Yan­ of the Sensitizing Division and director Force Lt. Col. Philip Deering has re­ kee, Inc. of Kodak Industrial. He serves as troop ceived his third award of the Air Medal I have a terrible problem! Our class committee chairman of the American at Nakhon Phanom Royal Thai Air allottment for this issue is used up, and Boy Scout Troop • Another classmate Force Base in Thailand • Diane Jen­ your replies are still pouring in. I'll con­ living south of the border is Sheila sen Snow, married to an airline captain, tinue in the summer issue. After all, McLaughlin Freckmann. Her husband, has literally "seen the world." This 15 years of news is bound to take up Jim, is on a two-year assignment in spring, she and her family are vacation­ quite a bit of space. Mexico City for the Department of Ag­ ing in Hawaii • Doug and Esther riculture • Yvonne Noble Davies is Bigelow Gates have returned East to an associate professor in the English settle in Chappaqua, N.Y. Doug is di­ 1959 department at the University of Illinois rector of personnel development for Barbara Hunter Pallotta (Mrs. John) (Urbana) and held a Guggenheim Fel­ S.M.C. Corp. in New York • Jean 4828 We tfield Drive lowship in 1970-71. Last year in Kent, Haurand Furman and her husband and Manl ius, N.Y. 03 104 England, she married Hugh Davies, an two children live in Somerville, N .J., but English research chemist • Bill Hag­ that was close enough to Maine for a I have some news of our class thanks gett has been elected to serve a three­ vacation last summer and a visit to to annual correspondence with folks at year term as a director of Associated Colby • Mac Blanchard and his fam­ Christma time. Industries of Maine • Joan Arcese ily are in Newcastle, where Mac is in­ Tom Connors and family are still in lives in Boston and is enjoying her job volved in real estate development. Do Winston-Salem, N.C. Tom is president as vice president of Coordinated Finan­ any of you fit into this category? He is of Clarklift of Virginia Corp., and an cial Planning, Inc., general agents for planning a year-round condominium in avid golfer and tennis player • Nancy coastal Damariscotta for retired people (Thompson) and Al Fearing are delighted Manhattan Life Insurance Co. • Mary • Perhaps William Winslow's travels to be back in New England • Dick Ann Papalia Laccabue has been teaching to Africa as public relations representa­ Russell and Sue (Moulton) are in Hyde math for the past three years at Christo­ tive in the United Church of Christ Park, N.Y. Dick is in business for pher Columbus Junior High in Canoga have carried him the farthest from himself - real estate and insurance • Park, Calif. • Liz Walker Sherman home. Nine years after "completing their fam­ is a member of the Dallas School Board Ron Rasmussen and his wife, who ily," Ron and Mabelle McKevett Groll­ • Nancy McLeod Stephenson is en­ were expecting their first child in May, jahn had a baby son last June! Ron is joying life in Great Falls, Mont., where live near San Diego, Calif. Ron is the sales manager of Royal Paper Co. and has husband, John, has a law practice. vice president of a firm specializing in they are both active in church work • Mickey is president of the Junior League surety bonds • Ellie Shorey Harris, Al and Jane Wiggins ('60) Wilbur live of Great Falls and reported the special her husband, Joe, and their three "live in West Lafayette, Ind. Al is in the bis-

32 tory department of Purdue University, month-long cruise in June • Aon personality and is a pure joy to behold." although he is on a year's leave of ab­ (Dudley) and Charlie ('61) DeWitt have El len and John are still in Framingham, sence. He was selected to edit the John returned from a vacation in St. Croix. Mass. He is a consultant to Newton ' Marshall Papers at William and Mary She is busy with her job as claims super­ College. Ellen is counseling with a di­ College. Jane teaches high school Eng­ visor in the Social Security disability vision of the Y.W.C.A. called the Wo­ lish and is working on her second mas­ division, carting three kids to Cub Scouts men's Resource Center. She works pri­ ter's degree - this time in theater • and the like, as well as keeping up with marily with women who, for a variety Sally (Phelan) Mcintosh and Jim are Charlie, who is employed by Keyes of reasons, wish to return to college • in Bethlehem, Pa. Jim is on the Lehigh Fibre Co. in Waterville. Betsy Harper Hopler is redecorating their .. facuHy • Dave Tamaccio and family In New Providence, N.J., Charlotte "new house in Maple Glen, Pa. (A reside in Ip wich, Mass. Dave is a ramp Wood McPhetres is very busy with her bright royal blue front hall and living service manager for United Airlines at four kids, den-mothering and helping at room as well as an emerald green (also Logan Airport. He goes fishing, lobster­ Brownies. The family loves hiking and bright) dining room and upstairs hall ing and clamming in bis spare time • canoeing and they're so pleased that New have already been ''subdued·'; the purple Dave and Saucy Bu�ton_.Sclieele still Jersey and Pennsylvania have so many and hot pink bedrooms "will be two of live in Arlington, Va. They have four pretty places to explore • In Spring­ our forthcoming projects.") Young Dave lovely daughters. They all enjoy their field. Mass., Todd Marchant has been attends nursery school three mornings annual summer vacation in Ma ine • elected treasurer of the Y.M.C.A. and a week; Betsy has hopes that the three­ John Johnson is doing an excellent job has been studying railroad history. He year-old twins, Doug and Derek, can go as executive director of the Brockton ran into Bob Jordan, who seems to be next year. Only daughter, Arny (alias (Mass.) Housing Authority. The agency doing fine • Judy Sessler in Brimfield, '"Charlie"), is a "little demon with a provide housing for the needy and elder­ Mass., planned to run for the planning temper frightening like mine." • John ly. board against a man who held the office Kelly has become a member of a Port­ Jack and I are looking forward to a for 23 years. Good luck. Judy! She also land Jaw firm, Bennett and Schwarz. He spring trip to the West Coast as I write is taking courses to qualify as an Eng­ was with the office of the Attorney Gen­ this column. Hoping to see a few Colby Ii h teacher in a new regional technical eral in Augusta. The Kellys have two friends along the way. high school, working for better enforce­ daughters, Gretchen, two, and Reed, ment of town laws and planning to seven months • "As I sit looking out build a house • Katherine Linscott over the Ala Wai watching the sun set 1960 Barrett was made business manager of orange and the trades turning the palm Katherine White Keffer (Mrs. John) the local Lincoln News and is secretary leaves - I wish you could see it all." 237 Wykoff Street of the Rockland Businessman's Associa­ Who else but Diane Scrafton Cohen, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11217 tion • Bev Jackson Glockler and Tony still in Hawaii. She teaches, lectures and '57 went to Vail, Colo., last summer models (!) for Weight Watchers, and has We have lots of news from all parts of while Tony attended a conference. She now started scuba diving. Her divorce the country. Quite a few clas mates are and her two girls met Peggy Jack Johns· became final in November. Son Billy, enjoying California. Sherry Gardner too and her two younger boys in Denver. now 5, is in kindergarten and "excited Beaulieu reports Leo is stationed in Thai­ Later in the trip they hiked in Bryce about everything." • Pete Teel, mort­ land for a year as wing staff electronic and Zion national parks and the Grand gage investment director for Mutual of warfare officer, and Sherry is busy sub­ Canyon. New York, has been promoted to region­ stituting and taking care of their active al vice president and will be in charge sons. Leo had been gone about a month of the Dallas real estate investment when already one had a cast on and 1961 office. The Teels (wife, Margaret, and the other was wearing a splint Peter three children) have been living in West­ • Deborah Berry Denniston (Mrs. Roy) and Peggy Van Alyea have bought a field, NJ. R.F.D. l As I sit here looking out over our ranch style redwood house overlooking Nassau, N.Y. 12123 the 'bay in Fairfax. Peter started the three inches of new snow, watching the Redwood Oil Co. and has 16 employees Most of this gleaned from Christmas sun set somewhere in the smog over and a terrific sales record. A son, Chris­ cards. Pretty soon no one will send me the Hudson ... Well, I do have a part­ topher Scott, was born December 31 • any. I won't have to send any, and I'll time job working on the Greenbush Gail Carter Ferguson and family made have more time for this column and Area News. Some writing (snowmobile it to River ide after tracking all around even Jes to put in it. race results and Heart Fund drive pub­ Europe. They've re urned desert camping Tom and Dotty Boynton Kirkendall licity, lest any of you get too enthused). and skiing. Each member of the family saw Sue Miller Anderson at the Wash­ But mainly it's graphic design (formerly bas a different degree of expertise • ington, D.C., area Colby picnic. Sue called ad makeup), proofreading and And in Berkeley, June Cbacran Chatter­ and her family are enjoying camping and composition (page makeup). Robin, now jee reports that they have bought a hiking. Son Doug is now in kindergar­ 4, attends a combination nursery school "new" old house and are remodeling. ten, while Craig is the "family clown." and day care center. She loves the They went to India with their three-year­ • Gordon Cummings is still head of morning "school" and hates the required old daughter to visit her husband's fam­ the physiotherapy department at a hos­ afternoon nap-quiet time. . . . Oh, to ily in Calcutta. They topped in London pital in Vellore, India. His term ends be four again! and Boston • JoAone Jolicoeur Schil· in August. Highlights of his year were ler reports she has celebrated a I 0th much travel to e tablish physiotherapy anniversary with SRA (a sub idiary of departments, teaching and a month in 1964 Bangladesh. His wife enjoyed staying IBM). She bas been promoted to senior Karen M. Knudsen planning analyst. She is working with home with Eric (31h) and Laura (11h) 13900 Panay Way, SR 310 two groups, one dealing with probation • Ginny Wriggins HocheUa's Chri tmas Marina Del Ray, Calif. 90291 and parole activities in Illinois, and the card showed a pink-bootied beauty, Mary other working to prevent child abuse and Virginia, born June 16. Ginny's remark: Richard Zipster, a teacher since 1969 at helping children who have suffered from "We finally decided to join the rat race Oberlin (Ohio) College, has received a it. She and her husband, Steve, have - she' a doll." Ellen McCue Taylor Ph.D. degree in German from the Johns bought a 30-foot sailboat and plan a commented, "She has Ginny's sunny Hopkins University. As assistant profes-

33 sor, he served during the spring semester mer, the highest peak in Colorado • provided his wife, Janna Vaughan, and as director of a German Studie Abroad Pete Fellows took a new position as himself a trip to Spa in and Morocco. program in southern Germany and Aus­ community services manager with the The Ka arjians now reside in Rochester, tria. Dick and family will tour East Gannett New paper in Rochester, N .Y. N. Y. • Bayard Kennett has been pro­ Germany during June on an H. H. Last fall Pete. Lainie and the two boys moted to assistant vice president at the Powers travel grant before returning moved into their newly-built home in Manchester (N.H.) Bank • Tom home. Fairport • John Field is a banker Kiesow is assistant manager of the Sears A Bosro11 Globe interview with Doris with the Morgan Guaranty Trust Co., Roebuck store in Rome, N.Y. Tom and Kearns after the January death of Lyn­ New York City • Claudia Fugere Donna have three children ages 7, 6, don Johnson revealed an ambivalent atti­ Finkelstein, Marty and Beth (2!/2) have and a year • Annie MacMichael Kim· tude toward the persuasive, complex man moved back to Maine. Marty is a psy­ ball runs a mail order tie business from whose memoirs she helped write. The chologist with Tri-County Mental Health her residence in Portland (93 Caron assistant director of the John F. Kennedy Services in Lewiston • J. J. Flint is Stre.et). Bob is assistant manager for School of Government at Harvard said assistant professor of geology at Brock Mutual of New York in Falmouth • she felt "badly now" about de clining a University in St. Catharines, Ont. • Barry Kligerman and his wife traveled December invitation to the opening in Lou Friedler finished his Ph.D. at the around the world from Bali to Katman­ Texas of the LBJ Library's civil rights University of Alberta and is an instructor du. They are in Cleveland. Barry is in section. of mathematics at the University of a postdoctoral program at Case Western Doris is writing her own book about Texas in Austin. His wife, Sharon Reserve University leading to a specialty President Johnson and said it's giving her (Eschenbeck '69). is a graduate student certificate in periodontics (dealing with trouble. "What you must do is be clear in modern dance at Southern Methodist diseases of the tissue around the teeth) about what your own point of view is University in Dallas • Tim Gaillard and an M.S. degree • Bill Koster, a about him. He is such a complicated is general manager of The Mayflower research chemist for Squibb, is working man, both politically and privately. Inn in Washington, Conn. Tim and Janet on central nervous system drugs • You've got to sort it all out so that ... would love to have classmates visit the Jim Lambert, an assistant vice pres­ you are not judging, just looking. You've inn • Anne Ruggles Gere is finishing ident with the Casco Bank, is a develop­ got to get an attitude and a feeling, and her Ph.D. at the University of Michigan ment officer for Casco in York County that's the thing taking a long time to at Ann Arbor. Brewster is minister at • Terry Saunders Lane is a social serv­ work out." the First Presbyterian Church there. The ice planner with the deparlment of plan­ Her association with LBJ goes back to Geres spent Christmas of 1971 in Europe ning and development in Cambridge, I 967 when, as a White Hou e Fellow, and the following summer, they led a Mass. Husband, Jonathan, is an archi­ she danced with the President at a recep­ group of 18 young people in West tect and urban designer. The Lanes re­ tion just as the New Republic was about Africa • Carol Rodgers Good is a side in Watertown • Diane (Fioto) to publish her "How to Dump LBJ." social worker with the Bureau of Public and Pete Lardieri live in Atlantic High­ Doris joined the White House staff all A sistance in Richmond, Ky. Max is a lands, N .J. Pete is chairman of the the same. Even after Mr. Johnson left teacher-coach at Richmond Madison mathematics department at Henry Hud­ Washington and work on the memoirs High School • Last I knew Pete son Regional High School • Bill was completed, he continued to invite Grabosky of the department of political LalYis is an accountant in Portland. Miss Kearns to Texas. Her refusal to go science at Northwestern University was Bill, Cathy (Cyr '69) and Peter reside to the library opening wasn't the first. in Australia on a research project • in Cumberland Center • Linda Hall Slowly there developed a conscious John and Barry Clark Harrington reside Lord teaches social studies in Thorndike decision to pull back from the Johnson in Moody (Maine). John is an attorney, at Mt. View High School • Chuck world. "My life here [Harvard) mattered serves as counsel for the town and is McDowell '65 commutes to his New a lot to me, and the relationships I have president of the Lions Club. Barry, busy York City job at the Chemical Bank here were too important to let that world with Elizabeth (2) and John (I), finds from Scotch Plains, N.J., where he, become the world - which is what hap­ time to work for the library and the Louise (Reburn) and Chip (3) reside • pens if you stay in those places too Democratic Town Committee. Between duties at her job as conference long." Bonnie Zimmermann Hendrickson officer at the United Nations, Margie During the interview, she tended to keeps busy with Kurt (5), Kristi (I Vi) Malcolm found time to vacation in Flor­ lapse into present tense in referring to the and Kari (3Vi) . Her husband, Cliff, is a ida and Spain. magnetic former President: "The thing musician and acoustic designer. His By the time this issue reaches you, about him, the most striking thing - he Silver Sound Systems makes custom am­ Randy and I will have moved into our is one of the most alive men I have ever plifiers and loudspeakers for musicians. first home. We certainly learned much known." He also plays in clu bs four nights a about the techniques of building a week - organ, piano, harmonica and house! Note the new address. 1966 singing while accompanied by a drum­ mer • Ted Houghton is news director 1967 Pamela Harris Holden (Mrs. R. L.) of WUTR-TV in Utica, N.Y. The twins, Katie and Geof (3), keep Liz (Drinkwine 1121 East Watson Drive Natalie Furlong Graceffa (Mrs. Alfio) Tempe, Ariz. 85283 '68) busy • Gayle Jobson Hughes is 18 Deer Run a potter. She and Mike and the two Augusta, Maine 04330 Craig Little is an instructor in the boys live in Sharon, Vt. • Sue Footer sociology-anthropology department at Hummer moved from Nigeria to Ro­ Paul Cronin is an art teacher at the State University of New York College chester, N.Y., where husband Jim is a Abraham Lincoln School in Revere, (Cortland) • Larry Eckel is a coun­ teacher. Their favorite pastime is sail­ Mass. • Ruth Elliott Holmes in 1970 selor at Swarthmore (Pa.) High School ing their 22-foot sloop • Birdie Tracy was program coordinator of American and a consultant to the Temple Univer­ Hye and family have moved to Baus­ Forum for African Studies. From 1969- sity drug education workshop • Lynne man, Pa., where Allen is on the faculty 72 she served in Africa as administrative Egbert Eggart and family are ranchers at Fr anklin and Marshall College • assistant at the African-American Insti­ in Big Horn, Mont. • Jay Fell, pre­ Judy Jones is a mathematician for the tute in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. Ruth and paring for his Ph.D. at the University of Department of Defense, Ft. Meade, Md. her husband, Sidney, have traveled ex­ Colorado, climbed Mt. Elbert last sum- • Ken Kasarjian's success at Xerox tensively from Timbuktu south and from

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Conakry, Guinea, to the Nigerian bor­ All of you who send cards during Pittsburgh firm of Reed, Smith, Shaw der. They live in Brussels now and will December. please put my name on your & McClay. He plans a trip cross-country continue traveling in Europe • Sgt. list right now so that !"II get news from before be ginning law practice in the fall Thomas Hopgood and his unit at Ells­ you at least once a year. Remember - • Claudia Bourcier Fregosi has had worth Air Force Base, S.D., have been anytime you have news or some inter­ her first book Sun Grumble, accepted honored for rescue and recovery work esting personal experience, just write a for publication by the children's book during and after the flash floods that postcard. department of Macmillan in New York devastated nearly 30 percent of nearby City. Claudia, who wrote and illustrated Rapid City last June • Jim Ritter re­ the book, expects a release date early ceived his silver wings at Vance AFB, 1968 next year or perhaps this fall. The Okla., upon graduation from pilot train­ Jeanne M. Amootle publishing house has requested first op­ ing. He ha been assigned to Wright­ 6 University Road tion on her future work. Husband, Bill, Patterson AFB. Ohio, where he will fly Cambridge, Mass. 02 138 is designing sets for the Hasty Pudding the T-29 Flying Classroom navigation Show, Harvard; the U.S. premiere of trainer aircraft • James Eisenberg Jerry Schneider is enthusiastic about fly­ Mo111ewma, Associated Artists Opera; has earned a Ph.D. degree in anatomy ing the Navy's A-7E jet in the Mediter­ and three plays for the National Jewish at Case Western Reserve University in ranean region where his squadron (out Theater, which will tour the country Cleveland and received a post-doctoral of Cecil Field. Fla.) has been deployed. after a Boston season. He was asked to appointment in anatomy and biology. His wife, D.iwn, took advantage of the design Casi Fan Tu11i for Associated While attending graduate school. he held situation by travel ing all through Europe Artists Opera's spring season, and will a National Institute of Health trainee­ and joining Jerry when possible in be designing two shows in Baltimore, ship • John Foster is a partner in the Athens. He has been accepted for post Md., this summer. law firm of Ward, Washburn and Foster graduate work at Monterey, Calif. • Thanks to all of you who wrote. in Eastport. He rece ived his J .D. degree Capt. Vic Pinansky is stationed at Cha­ from John Marshall Law School in nute Air Force Base in Illinois and Chicago. He practiced for two years in misses the Boston area. He graduated 1969 from Tufts School of Dental Medicine Illinois and in Maine for 18 months be­ Cherrie Dubois last June On the ski scene, Jeff fore joining the Eastport firm. He and • 9 Tennyson Road Lathrop, junior racing coach at Sugar­ his wife have bought a home in North Reading, Mass. 01867 Perry, and John looks forward to both loaf. qualified for a one handicap, lowest fresh and salt water sailing, and pho­ in the East, at NASTAR time trials held George and Mary Weller Rideout have tography • Frank Carney is in Dublin. at Waterville Valley, N.H. Handicaps been teaching at a Christian high school Ireland. He mentioned Dave Watter· were computed against a base time set in Nigeria since last June • John son's chance to view the birth of his by national pacesetter Pepi Stiegler, Estabrook is looking forward to his child, and noted that hi wife is an in­ Olympic medalist from Austria. Jeff, military discharge in July and hopes to structor of the Lamaze childbirth tech­ who's NAST AR pacesetter at Sugarloaf, do graduate work. His wife, Vivian nique. He assisted her in the birth of took a first, two seconds and a third in (Foss), is finishing work on her M.A. in their two sons and says he can "per­ the trials. That calls for congratulations! English at the University of Wisconsin sonally recommend it from a paternal Our best wishes also go to Ted Fucillo • After spending a while in Colorado, point of view." And I can recommend for passing the Massachusetts Bar exam. Judy Lee Richter is living in West Hart­ it from a maternal point of view, having Ted. who lives in Medford, works for ford. She is working with blind and just had our second "Lamaze baby" - the Bo ton law firm of Balliro and deaf children as a research assistant in Charles Matthew ("Chuckie"), born Feb­ Woodrow • John Morgan is living in a child development laboratory at the ruary 7. Green Mountain Falls, Colo., where he University of Hartford. Husband Fred There were only 32 replies to the is photographer for the Colorado Springs is a lawyer. Colby folks are welcome • questionnaire regarding the nature of Sun and serves as a volunteer fireman Mary Walker Wheeler has been appoint· our class news. The reactions were in Green Mountain Falls (population ed dean of admissions at the Oak Grove­ mixed with two exceptions. A great 300) • Ken Hoadley called me re­ Coburn School. In addition, she is also majority would like to see opinions ex­ cently when his mail finally caught up registrar and director of the music de­ pressed on different topics. And a ma­ with him after two years in Colombia partment • Steve Goodwin is working jority feels that the column is interesting in the Peace Corps. Ken lives in Cam­ on a Ph.D. in business administration and relevant bridge and attends Harvard Business at the University of Iowa • Jane With such a poor response it doesn't School - for any old friends who may Petitmermet is the librarian of a branch seem sensible to make up frequent ques­ have wondered what became of him • of the Greenwich (Conn.) library. Jane tionnaires with topics in order to get Peter Jost would like to hear from any received her M.L.S. from the University opinions. I therefore request that those Colby people in his neck of the New of Michigan and has been in Greenwich of you who wish to include items other Jersey woods. He is practicing law in since last summer • In a literary field than marriages, births and promotions, Long Branch and living in Ocean Coun­ of his own, Ted Williams is the editor please do so. For those who wish to ty (West Point Island) • After grad­ of Wildlife, the magazine of the Massa­ express opinions on issues, do so. I en­ uation Ric Rawson served in the Army chusetts Department of Fisheries and courage you especially to include per­ as a draftee for two years, went to com­ Game. Ted is helping to change the magazine's format to reflect the ways in sonal experiences. Several people com­ puter school, and is a programmer for which sportsmen can aid wildl ife • mented that Dave Watterson's exper­ the Department of the Interior in Wash­ ience with the birth of his child told far Rosemary Shu Cleaves and Tom '72 are ington • My vote for most enterpris­ more about him than the degrees he had enjoying Connecticut. Ro is at Connec­ ing and ingenious venture of the year received. ticut General Insurance Co. and Tom is goes to Bill Palombo, co-owner of the Note that after the next questionnaire working for the Hartford Group • Palombo Lobster Co., Inc., in North I will stagger throughout the year the Dick Upton is in Elizabeth, N.J., work­ material to be submitted to the column. Andover, Mass. Bill and a cousin are ing as a management trainee at the In that way everyone will be mentioned having great fun running their own off­ National State Bank. in the magazine instead of only in a shore lobstering business • Thom I continue to remain busy at school class letter. Rippon has accepted a position with the and in church activities.

35 Moveable Feast Aboard 'Faithful Fifteen' gusta; Steve Kanovitz, teaching Puerto Ricans (in Spanish, I hear!) in Chelsea, Mass.; and Maryanna Buck found sub­ Item: hire 50-year­ With cooperation of a railroad museum stitute work at her home town schools old steam e11gine, i11 Vermo11t, the Sherborn (Mass.) couple in Middleboro, Mass. • Thanks to quite a long letter from Danny Smith, four cars, I 50 miles was able to obtain 11se of / 50 miles of I am able to let you in on what the of track. Item: b11y Boston & Maine right-of-way. And the to11 or two of coal. engineer running "Faithful Fifteen" was third floor Mary Low and Coburn crowd item: . . . . the same man who operated the vener­ is doing. Danny has not found work, What may sou11d able e11gine for the old Rah way Railroad but is writing a book. Quite an under­ like a movie pro­ in New Jersey during the 30s. taking if you ask me • Joyce Remak d11cer's 11otes was "My grandfather (a noted hydraulic is living in Boston and working for her part of the Joseph engineer) would have been proud," said uncle in the antique business. In their Tiberios' pla11s for a Faith's mother as the rrai11 pulled into pursuit of stock, Joyce and her uncle reception 011 wheels Boston's North Station. For many years have made trips to England • Larry following the her family operated the Hughes and Bigelow is home in Berlin, Conn. He March wedding of da11ghter Faith '70, Phillips Iron Works in Newark, where works for a bank in the area and has 11ow Mrs. Robert Todisco. Jr seemed steam engi11es of all types were made. moved up from management trainee to just the right to11ch for a family promi­ Honoring another tradition, Faith wore credit analyst • Dashiell Crigler is nent for generations i11 the ma11uf act11re the weddi11g gown bought for her great­ going to the School of Communication of steam e11gines, said the Boston Globe. grandmother in 1862. at Boston University and is specializing in television work • Former Mary Low head resident, Rhee Griswold, is at Dartmouth Medical School • Bob Juliano couldn't escape Uncle Sam. He 1970 live in Foxboro, Mass. • Peter Daigle manages the Holiday Inn in Waterville. enlisted in the National Guard and Laura Schmidt Irvine (Mrs. Richard) started basic training December 1 at 195 Queen Street Fort Ord in California. If all has gone Coburg, Ont., Canada 1972 well, he should be enrolled in the finance school at Fort Benjamin Harrison in Robertine Gervais Pike (Mrs. Paul) Donna Sundeen had a 40-day leave at Indiana Beth Morton was last seen Rockledge Road • Christmas time (her first in over two sharing an apartment with Joyce Bemak Rye, N.Y. 10580 years!) from Malay ia, where she has in Boston. Any news Beth? • John signed up for another year in the Peace I received a long letter from Shay Wit­ Si Nabra lives in Waterville and works Corps. Donna will produce primary ham Colgan full of news. She and for the Maine Department of Health science shows for educational television Charles '7 1 are living on the University and Welfare • When last heard from, • Peter Foss, a third-year theology of Pennsylvania campus while he works Johna Sencabaugh took a position as man­ student, has been appointed youth direc­ on a doctorate in international relations. ager of a clothing store while waiting to tor of the Millinocket Baptist Church. The newlyweds spent a month in the apply for a teaching job. He and his wife, Linda (Marsh), live in Soviet Union last summer and in Janu­ John C. Chandler graduated Decem­ Bangor • Many members of the ary returned from a trip to Maui, Ha­ ber 15 from the Air Training Com­ class have teaching posts: Dave Dougan waii. La vie, n'est-ce pas! • Ellen mand's course for electronic specialists in science (Ashland, Mass.); Judy Wood, Jones also has been seen on the Univer­ at Kee ler Air Force Base in Mississippi. fifth grade (Gardner, Mass.); and in sity of Pennsylvania campus working on He is there taking advanced training as Maine are Kit Wells, remedial reading her master"s in Slavic languages • After a radio relay repairman • William in Anson, and Shipp Webb, fifth grade taking an eight-week "entree" course at Johnson and his wife, the former Rosa­ at Orono • Earle Shettleworth, now Katherine Gibbs in Boston, Ellen Muzzy mond Teto, live in Fairfield, Calif. Will widely known as an architectural his­ found work in the alumni development completed basic training at Lackland torian, has lectured extensively for the office of Rivers Country Day School in AFB, Tex., where he studied Air Force Wellspring humanities project conducted We ton, Mass. • Stephanie Kuehn mission, organization and customs, and by the University of Maine at Presque took the Katie Gibbs course along with human relations. He stayed at the base Isle • Steve and Laura Struckhoff Ellen and works as a secretary at Har­ for specialized training in security police Cline have visited their friends "up vard Medical School • Three other work • Our Dudley Townsley is at Co­ north" and sent news: first of all, classmates have graced the secretarial lumbus AFB in New Hampshire for pilot Laura is working toward her master's classroom: Becky Talcott, Anne Emer­ training. The one-year course includes in social work at the University of son and Sue Griffin. Sue and Anne are academic as well as military training • North Carolina, while Steve finishes his in the Boston area and Becky is taking Timothy Williams quickly lettered on a last year; Chris Woessner, Mev (Verengia the course in New York City • Work­ post card that he is employed as a jan­ '72) and Amy (born last July) are living ing on a master's in library science are itor at Northrop Corp. in Norwood, in Ramsey, N.J., and Chris works for Dee Fitz-Gerald and Ann Bonner. Dee Mass. Tim was a member of the class Bankers Trust in New York City; Marty attends Simmons College and lives in for three years • All I am allowed to and Jean Miller ('69) Kolonel are in Boston. Ann is at Emory University In say of Peggy Zientara is that she is alive Toronto; Steve Kitchen and Roger Gould Atlanta • Patri Godfrey is working and well and living in Boston. both study at the Boston University in a photography store in Salt Lake My special thanks to Shay Witham Graduate School of Business; Steve City • Joyce Hall lives in Weymouth, Colgan, Danny Smith, John Danila, Schmickrath sells insurance in New York Mass., and has been working as secretary Ellen Muzzy and Timothy Williams for City; Ron Di Orio and wife, Allison, to a clothing manufacturer. taking time to contribute to our column. live in Grafton, Mass.; Bob Saglio breeds The following were fortunate enough Shay has volunteered her help in writing lobsters; and Bill Andersen works in to have found teaching positions: John the news. If it is more convenient to Concord, Mass. • Ben Kravitz has Danila, Brunswick Junior High School; let her in on your "doings," contact her opened his second gas station and Jackie Jane Ford, ninth grade in Belfast; Louise at 3600 Chestnut Street, Apt. 514, Phil­ (Dyer '69) is working in a bank. They Nurdin, Montessori schocl around Au- adelphia, Pa. (19104).

36 A son, Michael Eric Edward, to Mr. and Mrs. John Vollmer (Janice E. Turner '62), December 20.

1964

A son, Charles, to Mr. and Mrs. Alfio Graceffa (Natalie Furlong '67), Febru­ Milestones ary 7. 1967 A son, David Scott, to Mr. and Mrs. Ronald D. Seidel (Judith Ann Macln· tosh), December 14.

1968 A daughter, Amy Elizabeth, to Mr. and Mrs. George Rideout (Mary Weller '69), April 22, 197 1.

1969 A daughter, Virginia Lynne, to Mr. and Mrs. William Lyons (Karon Knapp '70), December 8.

McCarthy Jr., October 15, Sudbury, Marriages Mass. Deaths Edward S. Rogerson to Elizabeth Gibson Dobie Owen, December 30 New Haven, . Rochel Foster Whitman, 1899 1946 Conn. December 18 in Upper Montclair, N.J. Deborah R. Van Hoek to K. M. Elizabeth Scalise Kilham to David L. Mrs. Whitman, 95, was the widow of Abraham. March Winchester. Mass. Ten Broeck, March 10, Lowell. Mass. 3. Charles Whitman '99, chairman of the Lowell L. Wilkes to Marjorie Ellen Ill department of English at Rutgers Uni­ Goodell. December. Braintree, Mass. 1954 versity until his death 30 years ago. Marcia Jane Begum to Dante 1970 Born in Portland, a daughter of Charles DiGregorio, January 20, Cran ton, R.I. W. Foster '7 1, she was a graduate of Robrt M. Kaufman to Christa Sue Ruth E. Reinke to Harry T. Westbrook Seminary (now college), McCarter '7 1, January 20, Melrose, Montgomery, ovember 22, Elkton, Md. where she taught briefly before she was Mass. married. Mrs. Whitman lived in High­ 1959 land Park, N.J., and spent the summers 1971 Mary L. Martin to Stanley R. Hargraves, in Falmouth Foreside. A member of Grace Rose Cappannari to Paul John February 17, Harpswell Center. Sigma Kappa, she played Y.W.C.A. Elliott. 0 tober 14. Plymouth, Mass. basketball the year it was introduced at 1961 Daniel L. Ouellette to Jeanne E. Miller, Colby ( 1896), just five years after the December 16. Worcester, Ma s. game was first played. Survivors include Barry E. Long to Carole Ann Kru e, Robert E. Parry to JuUe Elizabeth Tufts two sons and two daughters. November 18, ew York City. '74. March I. Waterville. 1966 Charles H. Ritch to Pamela M. Ohnysty, Edna Owen Douglass, 1902 June 25, 1972, Glen Cove, N.Y. in Monroe, Conn., January 11 at age 92. Edward F. Mowry to Maureen Candice Mrs. Douglass, who represented the sec­ Carr, December 26. 1971. ewport 1972 ond of four generations at Colby, was a Beach, Calif. Frank A. Bisognano to Mary Marjorie generous supporter of college develop­ 1967 Chamberlain, February 17, Marblehead, ment over the years. Her father, Charles Mass. E. Owen '79, was a trustee from 1900 Edward B. Stratton Ill to Mary E. until his death in 1941. Collin , February 24, Wakefield, Mass. 1973 Born in Monmouth, Mrs. Douglass 1968 Robert H. Noyes to Deborah Jo Rose, was a graduate of Ricker Classical In­ March I 0, Kennebunk. stitute, Houlton. Since the death of her Richard G. Baird to Linda K. Hart, husband, Herbert, she had made her February 17, Scarborough. 1974 home with her daughter, Miriam Rice Robert Grossman to Arlyn Rei er, Theresa D. Riley to Michael John Schultz '27, in Newtown, Conn. Her first August 27. Horan, December 22, Manchester, N.H. husband, Edward Rice '01, is deceased. Lorraine E. Maccarter to Bruce Gordon Mrs. Douglass was a member of Chi Lessey, November 5, New Milford, N.J. Omega. Besides her daughter, she leaves 1969 a brother, Robert '14, and a grandson, Births the Rev. Lawrence Schulze '64. Howard L. Camp to Lynne Oakes '68, September 30, Gloucester, Mass. 1960 Judith Ellen Holden to John Harrison Eva Clement Ames, 1904 Wray, March 3, Washington, D.C. A son, William MacKenzie, to Mr. and in Milford, N.H., December 29 at age Judith Ellen LaJeunesse to Leonard J. Mrs. Donald Graham, December 5. 94. A former class agent, she was the

37 widow of classmate Vernon Ames, a Wilmer Allen Mooers, 1914 former Maine school superintendent. in West Bend, Wisc., November 18. Mr. Born in Seal Harbor, she attended Mooers, 82, had been a resident of his Bucksport Seminary and was a graduate native Ashland until J 97 1 when be of Coburn Classical Institute. She taught moved to Wisconsin to live with his briefly in secondary schools prior to her daughter and son-in-law, Natalie '42 and marriage. Mrs. Ames, a member of Beta John Daggett '4 1. His wife, the former Phi (now Chi Omega) was a past presi­ Clara Dunn, is deceased. Mr. Mooers dent of the State of New Hampshire attended Ashland High School and was Rebekah Assembly. She leaves two a graduate of Knoxville (Tenn.) High daughters and a son. School. He attended the University of Tennessee prior to enrolling at Colby, Sarah BeUe Ymmg, 1909 (Hon. L.H.D., where he was a member of Delta Kappa 1931) Epsilon. Mr. Mooers served as an Army February 12 in Skowhegan, aged 92. sergeant during the first world war. Born in Embden, she moved in early Besides the Daggetts, he leaves a daugh­ childhood to Solon. She maintained her ter; a sister; and a granddaughter and legal residence at the family homestead her husband, Susan (Daggett) and Walter in that town until 1967, when she en­ Cullen, both '6 7. tered a nursing home in Skowhegan. Entering Colby from Coburn Classical Mary Esther Tobey, 1915 Institute, where she formed a lifetime February 4 in Waterville, where she had attachment with Miss Adelle Gilpatrick been head public librarian for 30 years. which he lost his wife, Katharine, '92, Miss Young was president of fresh­ Miss Tobey, 78, began working at the daughter of Randall J. Condon '86. men women and a prominent member library directly after her graduation, In 1962 Mr. Foster moved to Cincin­ of Delta Delta Delta. leaving briefly to earn her B.S. in library nati, where hi father-in-law had dis­ Immediately after graduation, Miss science at Simmons College in Bo ton. tinguished himself in public education, Young joined the staff of Wheaton Sem­ A native of Fairfield, she was a graduate and the following year married Mary inary in Norton, Mass. As registrar and of Coburn Classical Institute and a Corre, also a prominent educator. To­ faculty secretary for 3 7 years, she saw member of Alpha Delta Pi. Mi Tobey gether they became deeply involved in that school grow into the pre tigious leave a sister, Marion '19; a brother, public affairs, principally racial recon­ Wheaton College of today. In J 957 she John '2 1; and two nephews, including ciliation and helping natives of Appa­ was awarded an honorary Litt.D. by William Tobey '44. lachia adjust to urban life. He also Wheaton and saw a dormitory named taught at the University of Kentucky and for her. A quarter of a century earlier Frank Clifton Foster, 1916 Xavier University. His interest in wel­ her own alma mater had recognized her January JO in Cincinnati at age 78. A fare project took him just last summer accomplishments with an honorary de­ lengthy, personal memorial profile in the to the Scandinavian countrie to visit gree. Ci11ci1111ati Post suggests the unusual Children's International Summer Vil­ After her retirement in 1946, Miss qualities of thi ubiquitou third-genera­ lages. For many years he spent much of Young kept up a prodigious correspond­ tion Colby son, missionary, educator, hi time, including summers, at Friend­ ence, especially with Wheaton alumni. outspoken cham pion of human rights ship (the Randall Condon birthplace), Yet her devotion to Wheaton never and loyal alumnus. The author observed: where he had served as selectman. lessened her affection for Colby. From "Those of us who knew him - and who Friends gathered there March 25 for a 1936 to 1940 she was a member of the were continually amazed at his vitality - memorial service. board of trustees, and she was long think the most accurate job description Mr. Foster wrote numerous magazine active in alumni affairs. Miss Young's for Frank would be 'friend of man.' " articles, many dealing with the problems sole survivor is a niece. The son of missionary John M. Foster of desegregation, and a memorial booklet '77, he was born in Clifton Springs, N.Y., for the college in 1970 on the 50th anni­ Eva LaCasce Walker, 1911 and spent part of his boyhood in China. versary of the awarding of the first February 23 in Waterville. Mrs. Walker, He prepared for Colby at Vashon Mili­ Condon Medal. On that occasion, the 83, was a lifelong resident of Skowhegan tary Academy and McMinnville (now medal was redesigned by Carl Zahn of and graduate of its high school. She Linfield ) College, Oregon. (His grand­ the Boston Museum of Art, thanks to the attended Colby in 1907-08. She was father, John B. '43, was a professor of genero ity of the Foster family. married in 1908 to Charles Walker, who Greek at Colby for 35 years.) In 1916, Besides his wife, he leaves two sons, died in J 959. Surviving are two daugh­ Mr. Foster returned to China to teach including Walter '56; a brother, John H. ters, including Mrs. Muriel Dubec '34; at Swatow Academy, then served the '13; one sister, Grace '21; a nephew, a son, and two brothers. Y.M.C.A. and American Expeditionary John T. Foster '40; a niece, Anne Foster Forces in Siberia and Manchuria. He Murphy '44; a grand-nephew, John P. Luther Morris, 1912 studied at Union Theological Seminary Foster '67; and a grand-niece, Sandra in Greenfield, Mass., January 11, aged (B.D., '24) and education at Columbia King '76. 88. The Rev. Mr. Morris was a retired (Ph.D., '32). His teaching career, always John Norris Harriman, 1916 Universalist-Unitarian mmtster who accompanied by participation in public on December 25 in Phoenix, Ariz., aged served congregations in Maine and in and private humanitarian endeavors, was 81. A career Naval officer, he had re­ Palmer, Stoughton, Foxboro and Mil­ long and varied: Hampton (Va.) Institute; tired due to physical disability in 1947 Tusculum College, Tennessee (dean); ford, Mass. He was born and educated with the rank of captain. Mr. Harriman in Wales, and came to the United States Asheville (N .C.) Teachers College (presi­ enlisted in 1917 after a year at Boston in 1905. His wife, the former Edith dent); postwar training of U.N. rehabili­ University Law School. A former com­ Pugh, was born in the same small Welch tation workers in Germany; and teaching manding officer of the Marine Corps village and came to this country in 1907. education and intercultural relations at Aviation Supply Depot, Cherry Point, Besides his wife, the Rev. Mr. Morris the University of Maine until his "retire­ N.C., he served in combat zones during leaves a daughter and one son. ment" in 1960. That was the year in both wars and received several medals

38 and commendations. He was buried in the Boston City Missionary Society from aged 75. Retired since 1963, Mr. Haines Arl ington National Cemetery. 1952 until her retirement in 1963. She had been an executive with Sylvania Born in D<.inbury, N.H., he was a was a member of Alpha Delta Pi. She Electric for 41 years. He was a veteran graduate of it� high school and the leaves six cousins. of World War I and attended Colby Tilton School. Capt. Harriman entered from 1919 to 1921. He was born in Dartmouth in 191 1 and tran�ferred in C. Stanton Carville, 1920 Waterbury, Vt., and was a graduate of I 913 to Colby. where he w<.1� a member on May 23, 1972. in Stratton at the age Nashau (N.H.) High School. Mr. Haines of Alpha Tau Omega. Surviving are his of 76. Mr. C<.irville attended Colby in also :ittended Norwich Univer�ity in Ver­ wife, Edith (Sherburne); and a nephew, 1916. Born in Moscow (Maine), he had mont. For many years he was manager John '50. Two brnthers, William '17 �erved three terms in the Maine Legisla­ of Sylvania's proximity tube departments and Fred ·I8, are decea�ed. ture. He leave� a sister, Lou H. Carville in plant� across the country. Prior to re­ '2 I; one son and a daughter. tirement. he served as vice president of Eleanor Welch Joy, 1916 the corporation's electronics tube and on December 30 in Saco. Mr�. Joy, 79, Llewellyn Smith Dunnack, 1921 facilities planning plants in Williamsport, w<.is born in Revere, Mas� .. and was a in Augu�ta April 12. The former assis­ Pa .. and Waltham, Mass. Surviving are graduate of Waterville High School. She tant <.ittorney general and Augusta Mu­ his wife, Grace; and two brothers. attended Colby from 1912 until 1914 and nicipal Court judge. 7 5. had been retired w<.is a member of Sigma Kappa. Mrs. \ince 1965. Born in Dixmont. Mr. Dun­ Wenonah Pollard Cadwallader, 1927 Joy had been a resident of Westbrook nack wa� a graduate of Cony High in Farmingdale January 3, aged 69. for 55 years. Her husband. Frederick School in Augusta and of the Boston Until she retired in 1964 due to ill health, 'J3. died in 194 7. Surviving are three Univer�ity School of Law. During Mrs. Cadwallader served as probation sons and a sister, Gladys '18. A brother, World War l he served in the Army and parole officer at a state training Harold '13, is deceased. Medical Corps and attended the U.S. center for women. Previously she had Naval Academy as a cadet. Prior to his taught in public schools. Born in Rock­ Gerald Earle Leeds, 1917 admi>\ion to the Maine bar in 1926. Mr. land. Mrs. Cadwallader was raised in in White River Junction. Vt.. on March Dunnack was principal of Somer�et Fairfield and graduated from Lawrence 4, aged 78. A resident of Washington, Academy at Athens and played profes­ High School. She was a member of N.H .. he was born in Brooklyn. N.Y .. �ional ba>l--etball with the old Boston Sigma Kappa. Among survivors is a sis­ and was a graduate of Boston English Celtics. As an assistant attorney general ter. Mrs. Helen Hodgkins '27. Her High School. After graduation he served for 17 years. he had been assigned to brother, John '34, died in 1966. in the aval Flying Corps a an ensign . work with the Maine State Highway Mr. Leeds. a member of Delta Kappa Commi�sion. Surviving are his wife, the Leonard Melvin Rushton, 1933 Ep�ilon. had been in the oil busine��. former Loui e Hewett; a son, Llewellyn in Boston December 17. Mr. Rushton, Three son survive. Jr. '66; and hi� daughter-in-law. Carol 62, was a life-long resident of Methuen, Kramer Dunnack '66. Mass., where he had taught high school Lillian Tuttle Morse, 1917 science from 193 3 until his retirement March 16 in Glouce ter, Ma s. A native Arthur Alphonse Hebert, 1921 in 1968. Mr. Rushton also served the of Par�onsfield, Mrs. Mor e was 76. She in Augusta December 11 at age 71. The community in the late 30s as director of was a graduate of Limerick Academy, former Augusta Municipal Court judge federal recreation programs. He received and prior to her marriage to Carlyle was born in Van Buren and prepared for his master's degree in education from the Morse in 1923, had taught high school Colby at St. Mary's College there. He former Calvin Coolidge College in Bos­ English. Mrs. Morse was a member of attended Colby in 1917-18 and was a ton. Surviving is a sister, Evelyn '26, Alpha Delta Pi. Besides her husband, member of Delta Upsilon. Prior to his with whom he made his home. she leaves a daughter; two sons; a admission to the Maine Bar in 1935, Mr. sister, Mrs. Catherine Tuttle '2 1; and one Hebert served Van Buren as a selectman. Arthur Coulthard, 1934 brother. He was a trustee of the Augusta Savings April 4 in New Bedford, Mass., at age Bank and had been its president since 70. The Rev. Mr. Coulthard, a Con­ John Harold Johnson, 1919 1961. Besides his wife, the former gregational minister, was born in Lan­ July 13, 197 1, in Concord, N.H. Mr. Alfreda Cyr, he leaves three brothers, caster, England, and first migrated to Johnson, 74, attended Colby from 1915 including Lionel '25; one sister; a half­ Canada to serve as a student pastor in until 1918, when he enlisted in the Army. brother and two half-sisters. Newfoundland. After attending college He was employed by the New Hamp­ in New Brunswick, he completed bis shire State Highway Department for 40 Nathan Nelson Lowell, 1921 A.B. at Colby and his divinity degree at years and retired as assistant commis­ December 28 at age 79 in Hartford, Andover-Newton. The Rev. Mr. Coul­ sioner in 1961. Born in Concord, Mr. Conn. A former resident of Waterville thard returned to Great Britain to study Johnson was a graduate of its high and Onset, Mass., Mr. Lowell was born for a doctorate at the University of Edin­ school and a member of Delta Upsilon. in Poland and received an assistant burgh and was ordained in 1937. He He leaves his wife, Winifred (Phillips); registered pharmacist degree at the Im­ erved as a chaplain in the R.A.F. during two sons, and two sisters. perial University of Warsaw before com­ the second world war. His pastorates ing to the United States. A graduate of included Durban, South Africa, George­ Beatrice Bowler Nelson, 1919 Waterville High School, he did post town, Mass., Berwick, Maine, and New January J in Ottawa, Ont., at age 76. graduate work in chemistry and law dur­ Bedford, where he also was police de­ A retired social worker, Mrs. Nelson was ing his career in business. Mr. Lowell partment chaplain. Survivors include his born in Palermo and was a graduate of was a member of Tau Delta Phi. A wife, the former Florence Hargreaves; Oak Grove Seminary. She taught in bachelor, he leaves a brother and several two brothers and two sisters. secondary schools until she received a cousins, among them Lewis Lester Levine degree at the Simmons College School of '16, Arthur Levine '28, Arthur Rosenthal Everett Paddock Perkins, 1934 Social Work in 1929. Mrs. Nelson was '25, Florence Wolf Siegel '27 and Sybil in Jefferson Township, N.J., August 25. employed by the town of Skowhegan and Wolman Smith '34. Mr. Perkins, 61, apparently was stricken the Veterans Administration at Togus with a heart seizure while driving. A before her marriage. Her husband, Earl, Curtis Arms Haines, 1922 resident of Boonton, N.J., be owned and died in 1950. Mrs. Nelson worked with in Clearwater Beach, Fla., March 27, operated a restaurant and motor inn in

39 Parsippany, N.J. Born in Enosburg, Vt., he was a graduate of Cony High School in Augusta. Mr. Perkins attended Colby A Matterof Will Power from 1930 to 1932 and was a member A new named scholarship symbolizes the lifelong devotion of the late Ethel of Delta Kappa Ep ilon. He was a trus­ Hayward Weston '08 to her college. Her husband, Benjamin Thomas Weston, tee of his community hospital and . e tabltshed the endowment through a bequest. Y.M.C.A. Survivor include his wife A former trustee (1932-35) and class agent. Mrs. Hayward died in 1959. the former Irene Hefele; three sons; fou; Pre ident of Alpha Chapter of Sigma Kappa as an undergraduate, she later daughters; three sisters and one brother. erved the orority in national office as pre ident and as executive chairman. With her hu band, a di tinguished civil engineer, she "made a home (on Robert Eveleth Burt, 1943 each job) ...in whatever was available, from a tar-paper shack on location January 17 in Boston. A Congregational to a modern apartment in the nearest city," all over the U. S. and Canada, minister, the Rev. Mr. Burt had been said the Sigma Kappa Triangle at her death. While visiting many colleges as Protestant chaplain at the Massachusetts a representative of the sorority, ''she was a most valuable consultant with State Pri on at Walpole. where he was college authorities on housing, scholarship and social activities." instrumental in establishing new pro­ Mrs. Weston's commitment to young people will be renewed each year as grams. One of them al lo\lied volunteers .income from the $10,000 endowment assists students through their under­ to enter the prison to help inmates with graduate years at Colby. various projects. He also helped estab­ lish Brooks How.e in Boston for rehabil­ itation of parolees. Born in Swampscott, Mass., he was a graduate of its high school. He attended the Bangor Theo­ logical Seminary and received his degree Ci1 i/i;:,ation Series on world history and of hi responsibility to have detailed in divinity at Boston University. where culture. knowledge of his own newspaper, and he The \liido"' of William Dean, she he later earned a master·s degree in conscientiously gave every issue a leaves a daughter, one son and a sister. clinical psychology. The Rev. Mr. Bun thorough reading and critical approval. served several congregations in Maine A native of Memphis and graduate of and Massachusetts, and began his work John :"'lietberland Heiskell, Hon. LL.D., the niversity of Tennessee, he began Knox­ as a chaplain part time at the Concord 1958 his career as a reporter with the Reformatory in 1948. Three years later December 28 at age 100 in Little Rock, rille (Tenn.) Tribune. He worked with he began ser ing at the reformator} full Ark. Editor ince 1902 of the Arkansas other major Southern papers and with time, and was appointed at Walpole in Gazeue, the oldest new�paper west of the Asrnciated Press as bureau chief in 1957. The Rev. Mr. Burt \li as a member the Mis issippi, Mr. Heiskell received his Louisville, Ky., before joining in a fam­ of Alpha Tau Omega. His wife, Ellen Colby degree as an Elijah Parish Lovejoy ily enterprise which built the Gazelle . (Smith), is deceased. Surviving are hi!> Fellow. The craggy-faced . conscience of almost from the ground up. mother, Mrs. Alice Burt; one daughter the Gazerre" had tood virtually alone in Mr. Heiskell leaves his wife, the and two brothers. 1957 for integration and law and order former Wilhelmina Mann; two daughters during the Little Rock Central High and a sister. Vera Mtcheles Dean, Hon. LL.D., 1953 School racial crisis. His was the first October 10 in New York City. The 69- newspaper to receive two Pulitzer Prizes Frederick W. Glover, faculty year-old author and foreign policy lec­ - for its ed itorial position on desegre­ in Lynn, .C., January 30 at age 96. turer delivered the 195 3 commencement gation and for public service. Mr. Heis­ The chairman of the physics department address. Born in St. Petersburg (Lenin­ kell later ob erved: "'For abuse and for from ! 911 to 1920 was professor­ grad), Russia, Mrs. Dean fled the revo­ misrepresentation and material losses emeritus of engineering at Union College lution with her family and came to this there is recompense for a newspaper if (Schenectady, N.Y.), where be taught country in 1919. She earned her B.A. it is known of all men that duty and until his retirement in 1946. Born in summa cum laude and her Ph.D. in obligation were rested in its keeping Lynn, Mass., he was a graduate of international law and relations from and were not betrayed." The Gazette M.I.T. and received his master's degree Radcliffe, where she received the first and its editor-publisher received nearly from Wesleyan. Professor Grover earned medal of the Graduate Society in 1942. e ery prestigious journalistic accolade doctorates in electrical engineering from Mrs. Dean served for 30 years as re­ along with the Lovejoy award. George Washington University and Lud­ search director-editor for the Foreign Through his newspaper, he sought wig-Maximilian University in Munich, Policy Association, and at the time of over the years to achieve an elegance of Germany. He was a specialist in elec­ her death was senior fe llow at the ew style in writing, a courage of purpose, trical measurements and circuits, and de­ York University Center for International and a relentle s concern with accuracy voted much of his time to astronomy. Studies. She had taught at Smith, Bar­ and truth. Moreover, he acquired a nard, Lake Erie and Mills college , and fearsome reputation for his defenses of Claude D. Hubert, staff was director of the on-western Civili­ the language against the ungrammatical March 15 in Togus at age 43. Mr. zations Program at the University of and trite. While serving a very brief Hubert, a native of Winslow and grad­ Rochester from 1954 until 1964 when term in the U. S. Senate filling an un­ uate of its high school, had served as she accepted the position at .Y.U. A­ expired term, he displayed bis noted assistant to the registrar for I 0 years. long with a number of honorary degrees. sense of humor by telling his colleagues, A graduate of Thomas College, Water­ Mrs. Dean had been awarded the Jane "I am probably the only U. S. senator ville, he was employed formerly at a Addams Medal, and the French Legion who has ever telescoped his maiden local bank. Well known in the area as a of Honor for her contribution to inter­ oration and farewell address into one mus1c1an, he was organist for two national understanding. She was the speech. Maybe we should have more churches and the Waterville Elks Lodge. author of many art;cles and books, in­ of that in the Senate." Mr. Hubert was an honorary member cluding The ature of 1he Non-western Mr. Heiskell was the nation's oldest of Pi Lambda Phi. He leaves two sons, World, The Uni1ed Stales and RuHia active editor when, after his 99th birth­ three daughters, two sister and one and The U. . Today. She also was day he stopped going to the newsroom. brother. His funeral was held in Lori­ general editor of the Contemporary Throughout his career he believed it part mer Chapel.

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