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Volume 102 Issue 3 Fall 2013 Article 9

October 2013

Alumni at Large

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Life during Wartime | Theodora Wright Weston ’42

During her time at Colby, Theodora “It was stored on the top floor of one of Wright Weston ’42 came to know legend- those buildings,” Weston said. “We went ary Dean Ninetta Runnals, chatted with to see it. It was as long as this whole house visiting First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, and full of purple lights.” traipsed around the pastures of Mayflower By June 1945 Weston was home at her Hill (a favorite destination for Colby ro- family’s farm in Vermont. Her husband mance; she got poison ivy), and, in January had been in the Philippines preparing for of her senior year, got married. the invasion of Japan when the atomic It was a long engagement (three years), bomb was dropped. (Later he would say and a very brief middle-of-the-night that he wouldn’t have survived the inva- ceremony in Connecticut, attended by sion, as he would have been on the beach “the guy who drove us and the wife of the early to set up artillery.) minister.” Three days later her husband, Theodora Weston has vivid memo- University of Maine graduate and U.S. at her longtime home in Winterport, ries of his return that November. “I just Army 2nd Lt. Don Weston, went to war. Maine. “There was no phone connec- couldn’t believe it,” she said, smiling at the This was a few weeks after Pearl Harbor tion. You didn’t have any TV. None of the thought. “I saw him get off that train and I was attacked, a day that lives in infamy— things they have now to work with. I don’t thought, ‘My God. He’s here.’” and in Weston’s vivid memory of the news begrudge them, but it was different. All we The couple would soon move to Cari- reaching Colby. “It was a shocker,” she said. had was what we could write to each other. bou, Maine, where Don Weston worked “We knew it had changed our world. It just We numbered our letters because they as an engineer, first at a pea-packing plant had to. All this ‘peace at any price.’ You didn’t arrive in just the order you wrote and later at Loring Air Force Base. They never heard any more about that.” them. We got up to nine-hundred ninety had four children and then moved to Win- Instead it was a mass exodus, from something or other.” terport so he could take a job at Dow Air Colby and the country, as men (and some The letters are gone now, she said. Force Base. They bought an antique Cape women) joined the war effort. “The men They were mostly love letters, nothing she Cod house, where Weston still lives, not were leaving,” Weston said. “They weren’t wanted to share, and besides, her husband far from the Penobscot River. She taught finishing. Many in my class didn’t graduate wasn’t allowed to say anything about where mathematics at Hampden Academy, up the in forty-two. They left. They were called he was or what he was doing. “I didn’t river. They both retired in 1979, and Don up before June.” know where he was at all,” Weston said. Weston died four years ago. Lieutenant Weston, who ran artillery “Just South Pacific. It was hot.” “It was tough, sitting home and units and was eventually promoted to ma- A mathematics major, she spent the worrying,” Weston said, recalling that jor, didn’t return for nearly four years, and war years in Schenectady, N.Y., working time seven decades ago. “It really was. But their relationship was conducted through at General Electric’s Jet Propulsion Lab. how fortunate we were. How fortunate letters during that long separation. Weston did thousands of calculations by we were.” “He never had any leave,” Weston said hand, though there was an early calculator. —Gerry Boyle ’78

1920s-30s Gerry Boyle ’78 Johnson & Johnson Retirees Club. Y As I lobster bake at reunion last June for the Colby College [email protected] write in late August, I am very sad. I have second year in a row. Paul asks, “Where Office of Alumni Relations just lost my 68-year-old daughter—my are the rest of you guys and gals? We had Waterville, ME 04901 golden girl—to cancer ... as I turned 90. a great time visiting with each other and 1944 are in relatively good health for a couple Josephine Pitts McAlary 1945 of ‘oldies’!” [email protected] Frank Strup 1940-43 Gerry Boyle ’78 replied to the questionnaire I sent out. He [email protected] Gerry Boyle ’78 and his wife live in Lawrenceville, N.J., in 1947 [email protected] the house they have owned for 55 years. Gerry Boyle ’78 Their son and his wife live in Sanibel, Fla., 1946 [email protected] Gerry Boyle ’78 Gerry Boyle ’78 [email protected] and their daughter and husband live in Fair- David Weber and his wife relish the cool- field, Conn. They have three grandchildren: [email protected] ing breezes from the Pacific at their home Gerry Boyle ’78 one in New York City, one in Chicago, and Audrey Dyer Houghton and Paul Adams in Newport Beach, Calif. To be near their [email protected] one in Indianapolis. Frank belongs to the were the only ones who showed up for the children, they moved there in 2011 after

40 COLBY / FALL 2013 Trailing Truffles | Alana McGee ’05

“I’ve always been fascinated by the natural world, particularly animals and their cognitive ability,” said McGee, who was born and raised in Edmonds, Wash. Her path toward dogs and the fruit of underground fungi began at Colby after she followed her two older brothers to Mayflower Hill and majored in classical civilization– anthropology. “Colby lets you pursue your passions. It was Peter Ditmanson, a professor of East Asian studies, who told me, ‘Do what you like to do and things will fall into place.’” In her junior year McGee studied in Italy and happened upon the strong earthy flavor of her first truffles. She was fascinated and set out to learn more about the prized fruit of subterranean fungi, a single specimen of which can sell for thousands of dollars. Their scent never faded for McGee, even after she graduated and went on to a variety of jobs, including writing flight-magazine articles in Seattle, reading Disney film scripts in Los Angeles, crushing grapes in California, and—returning to Seattle, managing a shoe boutique. The The cold morning air carried the scent of pine and damp storytelling, wine science, and business basics all led her to her earth as Alana McGee ’05 and her dog, Lolo, headed into the true calling, she says. forest in the foothills of Washington’s Cascade Mountains. For the past few years, McGee has been collecting data about Lolo—a brown and white Lagotto Romagnolo, an Italian truffles—from finding more and more of them up and down breed—caught the scent and bolted through the ferns. When the West Coast and from others’ discoveries elsewhere in the Lolo stopped at a Douglas fir and barked, gently pawing at the country. “We’re expanding the knowledge base in an industry ground, that was McGee’s cue. She caught up, dug briefly with that’s only growing,” she said. her garden trowel, and lifted out a ripe black truffle. McGee is working to spread that knowledge around. She teaches “I love the adrenaline rush I get when the dogs find seminars for people (and their dogs) who want to become recreational something and watching them use their natural instincts to truffle hunters (Recreational Truffle Dog Training 101) and also do what we’ve professionally trained them to do,” said McGee, trains dogs for professional hunting on truffle plantations. owner of Toil & Truffle in Seattle. One of just a few such While McGee keeps learning about truffles, the dogs who companies in the country, its eight dogs hunt down truffles track them down are teaching her a few things, too. “Patience throughout the United States and Europe. McGee and the dogs and the ability to adapt,” she said. “They’ve made me more specialize in the native Oregon black truffles and also white aware of my surroundings and how I move in the world. They’ve varieties for the region’s home cooks and restaurants. McGee made me a better person.” also offers canine truffle-scent training. —Claire Sykes

David retired from Stanford University. business and economics for 35 years and “No one got sick or hurt—so for a week we retirement community in Memphis, and will It’s a life of reading, writing, volunteering, retired in 1983. He is associate professor just had fun.” Bob doesn’t see many Colby return to Naples, Fla., in December. Y Dave hiking, leading nature walks, computers, emeritus from the University of Southern grads except for Marjorie McDougal Davis Choate celebrated his 90th birthday in a photography, and occasional travels. Last Maine. For the next 28 years he owned ’43, his son’s mother-in-law. big way. A party in his honor included 75 October they spent several days in Death Penobscot Compass Service in Northport, guests (“I didn’t know I had so many friends Valley, followed by a cruise up the historic Maine, selling, repairing, and adjusting and family,” Dave said), and on the same Columbia River to Idaho on an authentic marine compasses. One of his two sons 1948 day he conducted his grandson’s wedding. paddlewheel ship. David writes, “The past now runs the business. Bob and his wife David Marson He called it a red-letter day. Dave fondly 65 years since graduation have certainly of more than 62 years, Jean, have four [email protected] remembers Colby and the railroad station. been a festival of events and sights. I grandchildren, two of whom are Colby Betty Dyer Brewster spends her sum- Y Janet Gay Hawkins doesn’t have much still hear from my best chum of 80 years, legacies: Colin graduated in 2004 and mers in Memphis and reports that it was going at Peconic Landing in Greenport, N.Y. Robert Witherill, also retired and now Kara is a current junior. Bob and his entire relatively cool this year. She visited her As the summer wound down, she got back to living with his wife in lovely Belfast, Maine.” family—11 in all—enjoyed a weeklong cruise sister, Nancy Dyer Bacon, on Martha’s “work!” She chairs the Landing’s community Y How nice that Bob Witherill wrote in to Bermuda to celebrate Bob and Jean’s Vineyard this summer. She’s busy with new fund, which funds the Metropolitan Opera himself after all these years. Bob taught 62nd anniversary two years ago. Bob said, friends she’s made at Trezevant Manor, a series live in HDTV and other programs

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The Write Stuff | David Barr Kirtley ’00

It seems David Barr Kirtley ’00 was discussion are conducted via Skype. After destined to become a science fiction writer. sessions are recorded, the editing process Before he could even read, Kirtley begins. Then it’s time to upload. was writing stories, dictating them to According to Kirtley, one of the best his mother. His father was a sci-fi-loving parts of the podcast is having the chance physics professor. An avid reader growing to explore so many different fields. “I have up, Kirtley published his first story at 16. a broad range of interests,” he said. “It Kirtley went on to find a place in the gives me a reason to learn something new genre as a short story writer. He has every week. It’s an intellectual challenge. published stories exploring time travel, When we interviewed Neil deGrasse shapeshifting, and cloning, among Tyson, I got to read up on black holes.” other things. His work has appeared in The list of people who have appeared magazines including Realms of Fantasy and on their show includes luminaries of Weird Tales. science and science fiction. George R.R. In 2010 Kirtley added another title to Kirtley was a contributor. Adams “did a Martin has discussed his Game of Thrones his resumé: podcast host. radio interview but realized that he still had series. Another episode featured Chuck Kirtley is cohost of the popular Geek’s a lot more to say,” Kirtley recalled. “With a Palahniuk, the author of Fight Club. Guide to the Galaxy podcast. According podcast, you can talk as long as you want to.” Kirtley finds it fascinating to peer inside to the show’s website, it receives 25,000 Creating the podcast is a two-week the minds of writers. In fact, before there downloads per month. In April it was process for the pair. Adams schedules was an Internet, he would read writers’ ranked as the top podcast in iTunes’ the guest, and then the research begins. introductions over and over to glean clues literature category. Kirtley reads the guest’s book and to their craft. Now he—and thousands of The epiphany to do a podcast came after listens to interviews the guest has done listeners—go right to the source. Kirtley and his friend, John Joseph Adams, elsewhere to prepare for the interview. “I’m fascinated,” Kirtley said, “to know finished a short interview about a zombies They also arrange a panel discussion how they do what they do.” anthology book Adams edited, for which on a topic. Both the interview and the —Andrew Clark

that enhance life there. She says, “There for her support and volunteer efforts on Washington, D.C. At 97 Ruth still volunteers a retirement community in Scarborough, are so many people here who have had behalf of the College. every Wednesday at the Congregational Maine, for 10 years and loves it. She sum- incredible careers, and it’s an honor to church free dinner, and her trips consist of mers in Jonesport, Maine. She’s a fanatic know them.” Y Ev Helfant Malkin visited 1949 driving herself down the hill to her dentist’s duplicate bridge player. No trips anymore, Nantucket, Martha’s Vineyard, and Vermont office. Y Carol Carpenter Bisbee has but in the past she and her husband trav- Anne Hagar Eustis this summer, and in late August she spent four children, 14 grandchildren, and nine eled all of Europe and Asia and a good [email protected] time with three great-grandchildren. Ev great-grandchildren. Carol keeps busy deal of Africa. Y Marjorie Plaisted has was also at Colby in August with a group Hallelujah! I have news to share thanks to volunteering, traveling, reading, and riding been plagued with health problems since from Harvard taking a tour of museums in all who responded to my letter. Y When around in her yellow Saab convertible. the early 1980s when she was diagnosed Maine. The campus Ev remembers from our you come back to our 65th reunion, a She volunteers in Belfast, Maine, for the with neuropathy of her left hand and foot. time at Colby has changed: “I need a map must-see is the new Alfond-Lunder Family Waldo County Hospital Aid gift shop, the In December 2012 she fell, breaking four to find my way around now.” She loved the Pavilion at the Colby Museum of Art. I’m Chamber of Commerce, and Friends of ribs and puncturing her left lung. This expanded museum of art and the generous not a connoisseur of art, but I found the Library, and she is a church deacon. spring was spent in and out of the hospital gift of art from the Lunders. She writes, the opening exhibition marvelous—from Her travels have taken her to Egypt, where with low oxygen and low heart rate, but “We didn’t have nearly enough time to see Claes Oldenburg’s whimsical sculpture she hot air ballooned over the Valley of she’s been home since May 4. Now she everything. I’m sure this will put Colby on of a typewriter eraser, which only those Kings and Queens, and more locally on can enjoy reading and watching sports on the map for art lovers.” Y Editor’s note: of our generation would recognize, to the a wine-tasting cruise on Penobscot Bay. TV—all the Boston teams as well as tennis, Dorothy Marson, David Marson’s wife of more serious paintings of Winslow Homer She’s a member of a coed bridge group golf, and college and local sports. Good 62 years, passed away Sept. 29. Dorothy and Whistler, to name only two of many. who preface their bridge playing with luck, Marge! Y Mary Ellen Bonsall Guptill was the mother of Deborah Marson ’75 The exhibition is open through Reunion cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, and pizza. On and her husband run a sanctuary for 50 and Marsha Moller and the grandmother Weekend 2014. Don’t miss it! Y Ruth a more serious note, she’s taken lots to 100 cats on their property in Westport, of Jessica McNulty ’07 and Mark McNulty Endicott Freeman and her husband, Miles, of Senior College courses through the Mass. Since the 1970s Mary Ellen, as a ’11. Dorothy was a loyal Colby booster and have two daughters, three grandchildren, University of Maine. Y Anne Bither Shire volunteer, has arranged exhibitions of arts was recognized with a Colby Brick in 1984 and two great-grandchildren who live in writes that she has lived at Piper Shores, and crafts and historical memorabilia at

42 COLBY / FALL 2013 the Westport Free Public Library. With two to my home state of Rhode Island, where Pioneers. He’s active in York County (Maine) fondest memories.” Well, Pat, it is thanks friends she has traveled yearly to Italy and I have served as interim minister. I also Senior College as a teacher and coordinator. to all of you who contribute your news that France and studied the arts and history. serve as chaplain of the WWII National KSM We congratulate Fred for his success and this column remains interesting. Y Russ With her husband she has traveled by car Navy Association. Locally I am chaplain wish him well in his future endeavors. Y Wallace wrote about a trip to France that across the United States several times of the Society of Colonial Wars and the and visited state houses and museums. Sons of the American Revolution. I do a Y Jean Sheppard Silva lives in a retire- lot of praying!” Y Connie Leonard Hayes, Jean Sheppard Silva ’49 sings with her church ment community in Camden, Maine, in her Connie Foxcroft Perrigo, Stubby Crandall own cottage where she has a very small Graves, Ellen Kenerson Gelotte, Pat Root choir in Camden, Maine, and with the Down garden. In October her three children and Wheeler, and I had lunch during our annual East Singers. In 2009 she performed with the five grandchildren had a family reunion for gathering in Jaffrey, N.H. My sister, Allie group in Serbia, Bulgaria, and Greece. her “big” birthday. Her hobbies are reading Jennings Castelli, couldn‘t make it this and singing, which she does with the Down year because she is in the process of selling East Singers and in her church choir. In her home. She and Bob plan to move into 2009 she traveled to Serbia, Bulgaria, and a retirement community once the house is Lucy and Richard Bowen celebrated their he and his wife, Anne, took. They visited Greece with the Down East Singers. She sold. Y The alumni office sends out e-mails 62nd wedding anniversary Sept. 3. Lucy Toulouse (where they ate well and enjoyed also volunteers at her church thrift shop, four times a year asking for news. We have has shown great staying power—congrats Le Corsaire by a local ballet company), Heavenly Threads, and at their weekly soup about 120 classmates but only 40 who have to you both! Richard attended the last Pau, St. Jean De Luz, Biscarosse (to visit lunch November through March, and she e-mail addresses registered with Colby. If Colby reunion with four classmates pres- friends), Dune de Pilat (the biggest dune ushers for Bay Chamber Concerts. Y Lucile you don’t use e-mail, please send a note to ent. Thanks for representing our famous they’d ever seen), Arcachon, Bordeaux, Farnham Sturtevant and her husband still me via the alumni office (4310 Mayflower class. Y George Wales called me on my St. Émilion, and then «boarded our hotel live in their home (with the laundry moved Hill, Waterville, ME 04901) anytime during 86th birthday, and I was pleased to hear barge, the St. Louis, in the city of Agen to the main level) after 58 years. She does the year about what you have been doing he has become an artist/painter. He’s on the Garonne River. A week of bliss some gardening and plays golf a few times since our 50th reunion. They’ll forward your always creative in everything he does in followed.” Then back to Paris for a week. a year. She also volunteers at her church note to me so I can include it in our next life. Just ask Lorrie (Arcese) ’54, his wife Russ also reports, “We received a great with the flower guild and as a lay reader. column. We look forward to hearing from of more than 50 years. Y Ted Shiro and letter from Sheila and Don Hailer. I’m so In April they took a five-day golf trip to St. and about you. I met, as we always do, in Naples, Fla., in glad that we’re still in touch!” Y Barbara the winter. Ted is always just surviving an Scott wrote, “Next spring there will open operation but continues to chase the girls in Calgary’s inner city a new park; to my Fred Boyle ’51 has written eight books on on the tennis court and anywhere else. He astonishment and absolute delight, it will spends a lot of the fall chasing his wonderful be called Barb Scott Park. I am ecstatic genealogy, which he took up after retiring grandson Aaron Murray, an All-American and wanted to let you know!” (Barbara, from a 30-year teaching career. He has many quarterback for the University of Georgia. let us know what precipitated this honor. genealogy clients nationwide. Y We returned from our annual vacation It certainly is a special one.) Y Mel Lyon in Orleans on Cape Cod, where we’ve gone said, “I’m now really retired, after a long for more than 50 years and still have a period of hesitating about when to do it. lot of fun with the beaches and great golf I’m working on a quasi-historical novel, and courses. I was very active in the U.S. Open, after a bout of ill health I am now back in Simon’s Island, Ga. Y I’m out of space, so held this year at my club, Merion Golf Club, good times again. Hope this finds all of you I will have lots more to report in the next where I’ve played for 53 years. No pro even classmates living a happy life.” Y Art White issues of Colby! 1951 broke par, so Merion won again. Jane and I wrote, “I was saddened to hear of Nels Corey Chet Harrington have been married for 57 years, with four passing. Many of us knew him briefly during [email protected] sons and eight grandchildren to keep us our early years at Colby, as Nels was on the 1950 Cass Lightner writes that he has a unique busy. Here’s wishing the greatest class in coaching staff, but I had the great pleasure Elisabeth Jennings Maley form of arthritis in his left big toe. Has Colby’s 200-year history more good health of working with him at Hotchkiss. Bill Bryan [email protected] anyone ever heard of the malady? Oth- and good luck. All the best to the best. convinced Nels that he would be a good Allie Jennings Castelli and her family erwise, he’s in good health. Stay in the fit at Hotchkiss, so from 1965 to 1980 we recently attended the annual Castelli family race, Cass—you were a great band leader. worked closely together. Nels was extremely reunion at Bill Castelli’s home on Cape Y Dan Hall from Duxbury, Mass., laments 1952 popular and very successful at Hotchkiss. Cod. They had a great time together on a the loss of Nels Corey, a great former Colby Jan “Sandy” Pearson Anderson He had a very positive influence on those beautiful weekend—good food and good football and hockey coach in the late ’40s [email protected] he taught and coached. Nels was one of company! Y Bev Holt Wiegand sold her and early ’50s. Nels moved on to several Hello, Class of ’52! Can you believe summer the great ones in the history of Hotchkiss, home of 55 years and moved to Cristwood small colleges and ended up at Hotchkiss. is over? Time flies, doesn’t it? Must have Bowdoin, and anywhere else he worked. Park, a Christian community. Her address He was always liked and respected. He was something to do with our age. Before getting Nels was 98!” Y And that does it for this is 350 North 190th St., #B403, Shoreline, 98 and living in Gardiner, Maine, when he to the news, let me say how much I enjoyed time around, my friends. Stay well, and we’ll WA 98133. Sadly, her husband died of a passed away. He was a close friend to the summer 2013 bicentennial issue of catch up with you next time. heart attack 20 years ago. They have two Dan for 67 years. Y Fred Boyle, after a Colby, which we received in August. To me, sons: Rick, a special education teacher 30-year teaching career, ended up in Lex- it was the most interesting and enjoyable in Fairfield, Calif., and Randy, who lives in ington, Mass. He took up genealogy and issue in recent memory. Congratulations to 1953 Guam. Randy and Mizpah have two children, has many clients nationwide. He’s written Gerry Boyle ’78 and the magazine staff! Y Barbara Easterbrooks Mailey 14 and 16, so Bev “made it to Grandma.” Y eight books on the subject and received Right after our request for news, Pat Ers- [email protected] Charles Smith writes, “Since retiring as a many acclamations. Fred is past president kine Howlett wrote, “Thank you, Sandy, for It has been about five months since reunion, Connecticut pastor in June 1991, I moved of his local rotary club and of the Piscataqua keeping us all together. Colby is among my but I still have a few notes from over the

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summer. John Lee said he regretted not drafted into the U.S. Army, ending up at Fort France, apartment and will spend several by another lunch in Watervillle with Willie seeing Rocky Applebaum and Ken Cas- Devens, Fort Monmouth radar school, and months each year there. They were in the (Robertson) ’54 and Nate Miller, Sue tonguay. The last time he saw Rocky was Aberdeen basic training. All these moves States from May to July visiting with family Biven Staples, Dave Roberts, and Bob at Camp Kilmer, N.J., in 1953. Ken and proved lucky for him in the future. Next he and exploring the Maine coast from Acadia ‘Whitie’ Thurston ’54. And who was at the John were in the same group from Maine. went to Redstone, Ala., for the ICBM bal- National Park to the Portland area, where restaurant but Anne Burbank Palmer and John had also run into Rick Tyler, Paul listic missile training and then on to White they had a reunion with Diane’s sister, Susan Carol MacIver Murphy and her husband. All Ostrove, Frank Piacentini, and Dick Cole Sands, N.M., for missile repair training. In Chamberlin Trauger ’60. Y Many thanks to were on their way to the Lunder exhibition, ’55. John said, “We could have been an 1953 he received his military discharge those of you who have informed me of the but I headed back to Damariscotta Lake, all-Colby fighting squad.” In July John was and went on to Yale to major in physics. passing of classmates. I have chosen to let where I try to spend most of the summer. that news appear in the obituary section Dick Bartlett and Harriet Sears Fraser of this magazine. visited me at the lake, and I had lunch Alan Whittaker ’53 writes that he attended with Jo Bailey Campbell. At the end of June, Harriet Sears Fraser and I traveled Colby from 1949 to 1951, then left for four years 1955 to New Hampshire to visit Don Moore and to serve in the Air Force in the Korean War. He Kathie Flynn Carrigan his wife, Addie. Nine years ago Lou and I [email protected] came back to Colby and lived with his wife in moved to Maine. Lou’s ashes are buried Greetings, ’55ers! I hope everybody in our local cemetery very near the lake the veterans’ apartments. received their summer issue of Colby cottage. I can walk there whenever I wish. magazine, in which John Reisman’s photo I’m in good health and stay active so am appeared in the ’50s newsmakers box for thankful for my blessings. My very best to back in Maine for two great weeks on North He worked on and tested accelerators and having been elected to the Central Ohio all.” Y Berry Wellersdieck Piper was so Pond, Belgrade Lakes, and also took a side was promoted to head technician. Next Senior Citizens Hall of Fame as a 19-year happy to hear news of Dianne Reynolds trip to see the magnificent art museum on in view was the University of Bridgeport, volunteer as a counselor for seniors and a Wright, who was her freshman roommate. campus. In October he sailed through the where Bob earned an engineering degree cook for the homeless. Congratulations, Berry wrote, “All is well in Corona Del Mar. Panama Canal. Y Loretta “Tommi” Thomp- summa cum laude. Now he and his brother John! We’re all very proud of you. John and We hike a lot along the beach and on the son Staples regretted missing reunion as manage a die casting company that was Jane (Daib) ’58 made their annual trip to trails and see our four grandchildren who she thinks of classmates frequently, most started by their father. Maine. Their whole family came to celebrate live nearby. Our daughter teaches fourth of them in her memory at age 21. Y Ginnie his 80th birthday and their 55th wedding grade in Carlsbad. One son is in Hawaii Falkenbury Aronson spent the summer anniversary. John reported that during their and one is nearby. We are happy to say staying in the United States, visiting friends 1954 time in Maine, “we had lunch with Kathy that in December, it will be five years and relatives. Y Alan Whittaker wrote that Art Eddy McConaughy Zambello ’56, visited with since Eric’s heart transplant. We have many classmates would not remember him [email protected] Mark ’54 and Larry Walker Powley ’54, and all been blessed. I talk to Sistie Restall since he attended Colby from 1949 to The days are indeed growing shorter, so I’m had a reunion with Bob Raymond ’56, Bill Horne weekly. She is coming along very 1951, then left for four years to join the Air sending another reminder to each of you to ’58 and Cindy Allerton Rocknak ’58, and well and lives with one of her daughters Force during the Korean War. Following his save the weekend of June 5-8, 2014, for Olin and Willie Mc Donald Sawyer ’58. We in Aliso Viejo, not far from us.” Y Marilyn discharge he returned, married, and lived at our 60th reunion. Hope to see you there. Y even managed a visit to the new Alfond- Faddis Butler ordered the Colby Eight CD, the vets’ apartments from 1955 to 1957, Merrillyn Healey Decker reports that hus- Lunder Family Pavilion, which was nothing “which is terrific. It does take you back! the same years I was there with “Pete.” band Karl has turned from photojournalism short of amazing.” Y Jane Millett Dornish Otherwise, all is still good in sunny (hot!) After graduation Alan received an M.B.A. to writing short stories. She is recovering wrote that Anne Burbank Palmer hosted a Florida.” Y Babs Burg King’s daughter and became a hospital administrator, a from total knee replacement and hopes lunch at her camp on Great Pond. Attend- wrote that Babs moved to Roanoke, Va., career from which he has now retired. He to return soon to the contemporary global has four daughters and five grandchildren, issues group that she chairs. Y Bill and all living on the East Coast. He’s done some Penny Thresher Edson took an 11-day Bill and Penny Thresher Edson ’54 took a traveling in the past but now feels content land tour and cruise in Alaska and highly cruise and land tour in Alaska, seeing glaciers, to mind the home and his pet Maine coon recommend it to everyone. Excursions from cats. Y Ted Lallier sent a long note about the ship to visit glaciers, rainforests, and rainforests, and a training center for dogs fishing memories in Maine and highlights a training center that prepares huskies for running in the Iditarod race. of trips to the Virgin Islands. During the the annual Iditarod race were some of the spring, summer, and fall months he and highlights. Y Peter Fishbin attended the his wife, Erna, go to their house at Swift “spectacular” opening of the new Alfond- River, N.H., with views of the Wild Ammo- Lunder Family Pavilion at the Colby Museum ing were Germaine Michaud Orloff, Jean to be closer to her daughter due to health noosuc and the White Mountains. They of Art. He caught up with old frat buddies Van Curan Pugh, Ann “Dilly” Dillingham issues. Her new address is: Barbara B. enjoy seeing the wildlife and birds there. Bob Fischer, Allan Landau ’55, Peter Lunder Ingraham, Marlene Hurd Jabar ’54, Arline King, 4428 Pheasant Ridge Rd., Unit #5, Their lucky guests often enjoy the river, ’56, Sonny Slater ’56, Dick Abedon ’56, Rosenthal Sachs ’54, and Janet Fraser Roanoke, VA 24014. Y Sadly, word has swimming through or over the falls; some and Donny Kupersmith ’56. He hopes that Mitchell ’54. “What fun we had with lots of come of the death of Joe Perham Aug. pan for gold. What nice relaxation from our reunion will be as much fun. Y For her reminiscing and not too ‘way back when’! 28. Y I (Kathie Flynn Carrigan) had a suburban business and stresses. Y I had 81st birthday, Judy Thompson Lowe rented There are many 80-year celebrations going great lunch with Jo Bailey Campbell and an interesting phone call from Bob Manger a condo in St. Augustine, Fla., for a month on.” Y Kathy McConaughy Zambello ’56 Sue Biven Staples in August when Sue from Connecticut. He said he remembered to “spend some time with myself—and I said, “It has been great to be included in was vacationing in Penobscot, Maine. My Nelson Beveridge across the hall from him threw out the scale.” Y Diane Chamberlin so many ’55 summer get-togethers. Had whole family came from Wyoming and on the old campus. Bob was a Zete from Starcher has a new address: 750 North lunch in Augusta with Jane Millett Dornish, northern New York and spent a glorious, 1950 to 1951 and then left Colby after a Tamiami Trail, Unit 1611, Sarasota, FL Ann Burnham Deering, Jean Van Curan sun-drenched week with me. What a joy! bout with mono. He went on to RPI but was 34236. They’re keeping their Chambery, Pugh, and Ellie Small Hudson, followed Y Happy fall to all ’55ers! Please stay in

44 COLBY / FALL 2013 touch. Families and Colby classmates are Arnold M.D. drove to Salt Lake City (well, the glue that holds us together! Peter drove while Jeanne kept her knitting 50s and 60s newsmakers needles clicking) to research genealogy at the Family History Library. They stopped 1956 Peter C. Doran ’58 received the Community Health along the way at Fort Wayne for a meeting Charlene Roberts Riordan Leadership Award from the Franklin Community Health of the Sheldon Family Association, of which [email protected] Network, based in Farmington, Maine, in September. A Jeanne is president. Jeanne and Peter teach In July Frank Huntress was a duty chaplain University of Maine at Farmington professor emeritus, genealogy in workshops and attended N.E. in Westminster Abbey. “What a privilege Doran was honored for his commitment to improv- Regional Genealogical Society’s biannual it was to rejoice in the celebration of the ing the health of community members and for his meeting in New Hampshire as exhibitors. pioneering work in health education. F In its July issue queen’s anniversary of her coronation.” As delegates to the Massachusetts Medi- Maine magazine recognized Bruce Brown ’62 as one Y I was saddened by the news of Danny cal Society, they both attend semi-annual of 50 people who have made a difference in the state. meetings. Y As you are about to see, Arlette Yarchin’s death. George Rudolph and Bruce Brown ’62 During his 20-year career with the Center for Maine and Mac Harring’s bucket list gets longer Danny were roommates, and when George Contemporary Art, Brown curated more than 200 phoned with the news, we recalled how and longer—and that’s great! They traveled exhibitions and headed the Maine Print Project, which to Costa Rica last November, to Antarctica Danny had given us many moments of joie resulted in 25 exhibitions statewide celebrating the in January, and to Utah for two weeks of de vivre. George and I reminisced about history of Maine printmaking. Colby and our class family. George, now skiing in February. May found them hiking living in Palm City, Fla., will be in touch in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. when he comes to Wenham to visit family. is good, and Bob plays tennis three times hectic schedules we heard from quite a At the end of August they toured Iceland, George hopes to get to Waterville to visit a week as well as pickleball, a great new few classmates. Bev (Jackson) ’60 and then were off to Colorado for 10 days of the old haunts and especially to see the game for our age group. Bob says, “Hello to Tony Glockler attended Reunion 2013 hiking in the beautiful Rockies. Where in the world can we buy their 365-day energy art collection that Paula and Peter Lunder any old Zeta Psi friends as I have not really partly to help celebrate Colby’s 200th drink, produced by the Energizer bunny? so generously bestowed upon the College. kept in touch.” Y Charlie Morrissey joined anniversary and partly to accompany their Y On a beautiful day in mid-August, Guy Y David “Sonny” Slater is a trustee of the board of visitors at the Drucker Gradu- daughter, Margo ’88, to her 25th reunion. and I once again enjoyed lunch at the Royal the DeCordova Sculpture Park (about 30 ate School of Management at Claremont Tony reported that Peter Merrill led the River Grillhouse here in Yarmouth with Ellie acres) in Lincoln, Mass. Paula and Peter Graduate University Y Kathy McConaughy Colby Eight and “they sounded young as Shorey Harris and her friend Harry. Ellie Lunder have been David’s closest of Zambello lunched with Ruthann Sim- ever!” That one compliment alone would be and Harry were driving down to the Virginia friends since Colby (Peter, Dick Abedon, monds MacKinnon as she also summers music to Peter and company’s ears (pardon Beach Museum of Contemporary Art to Alan Landau ’55, and David were room- at Damariscotta Lake. In September Kathy the pun). The Glocklers returned to Maine attend the wedding of Ellie’s grandson mates at TDPhi). David and wife Barbara joined her brother on a 19-day trip to Italy to go camping in Acadia in July, and then Morgan. In closing, a very sincere thank share the Lunders’ love of art, although with five days in Venice and five days in they were off to Scandinavia in August. Y you to our many friends who have been in their collection is modest and mostly pop Rome. Y Louise Allen Freedman (who Toni Ciunci Hudson reported from Pasa- close touch this past difficult year: Kathy art. They have immensely enjoyed their attended Colby for only one year but has dena that she has been fully retired for six Sferes Eraklis, Ellie Gray Gatenby, Janice experiences in the art world. David said, husband Howard ’49 and daughter Ellen years but Patrick is still hard at work. Toni “But whether it is the Getty or the Louvre, ’81) attended the opening of the Alfond- no other feels better to me than the Colby Lunder Family Pavilion in June at Colby. Y museum.” Y Tom ’54 and Sue Miller Hunt David and Rosemary Crouthamel Sortor, Frank Huntress ’56 was a duty chaplain in moved back to Sherborn into a remodeled Tess and Jube Jubinsky, Peter and Hope Westminster Abbey in July and was there to house that is next door to where they lived Palmer Bramhall, Kathy McConaughy for 10 years, until 2004. Their only grand- Zambello, and Chris Layer Larson also join in the celebration of the anniversary of the daughter, Eva Hunt, was married in June at wrote about the wonderful events at the queen’s coronation. the Kent School, where their son, Tom Jr., Alfond-Lunder Family Pavilion celebration: teaches and coaches. They see the Dave a champagne reception, tours of the new and Rosemary Crouthamel Sortor, Sheila galleries, a fabulous lobster/clam bake, Freckmann Dillon, who lives in Australia, and the singing of happy birthday to Peter Thomson Christensen, Perk Perkins and Ruthann Simmonds MacKinnon, who Lunder, who was presented with a huge is a member of the Compulsive Gardeners Canton, Diane Schnauffer Zullinger, and lives in Jefferson, Maine. Y Janet Nordgren whoopie pie shared by all attendees. All of class at the L.A. County Arboretum and the many wonderful Colby friends we have Meryweather and Mary Ann Papalia Lac- this was followed by fireworks and a gift copy enjoys her two book clubs. She’s trying here in the Portland area. cabue and her daughter came ashore from of the catalogue of the collection. They all hard to stop scouting the thrift shops, but Holland America’s Maasdam Aug. 16. They spoke of the graciousness of the Lunders the thrill of the chase gets in one’s blood; toured Bar Harbor shops, drove to the top during the weekend. Other classmates I know that she and I would be dangerous 1958 of Cadillac Mountain, and then went home in attendance included the Weys, Haggetts, if let loose together. Toni and Patrick like Mary Ellen Chase Bridge for lunch with Janet’s husband, Steen (Mary Pughs, Barbara Nardozzi Saxon, and to travel back East to visit family, and she [email protected] Ann’s husband stayed aboard). “What a Bill Wyman. says her favorite trip (so far) was to Peru delightful day we had!” Y In June Lucy and a five-day excursion along the Amazon For three-quarters of the year Patrick and Blainey Groening and Katie Coon Dunlop with a guide just for the two of them. Y Jane Gibbons Wood are in Claremont, Calif., joined Bob and Dodi Aikman Adel for an 1957 Janet Mittlesdorf Lumsden’s family keeps living at Pilgrim Place, a retirement center Guy and Eleanor Ewing Vigue Alaska Inside Passage cruise. The small getting bigger—the latest addition is a for professional faith-related progressives. [email protected] ship allowed them to visit rivers, glaciers, great-grandson born last April, and a great- They still return to Maine in the summer, and smaller ports inaccessible to larger As I write, our fields here in Maine are granddaughter is due in December. She and “until our money runs out,” and are still ships. Y Sue and Bob Adams still live in lined with goldenrod, a sure sign fall is her husband will downsize their home one biking and hiking, “but more moderately.” Daytona Beach but spend most summers in on the way. Most of you, I’m sure, had a of these days but don’t quite know where Y Barry Ginsburg has been troubled by a cottage in Owls Head, Maine. Their health busy summer, but in spite of visitors and to begin. Y In March Peter and Jeanne F. the decline in middle-class and middle-

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management jobs available in America Dublin for three days and then headed to other detritus of life of historical interest two in Seattle, and three in New Hampshire. so has decided to create the for-profit Belfast and west and south again, returning to future Youneses and Mathews. Y Tom His first job after graduating from Colby was Northwest Connecticut Opportunity Fund. to the east coast. Our Belfast visit came Connors writes that on Dec. 31, 2013, he teaching at the Hawaii Preparatory School The fund would invest between $250,000 three days before the Protestants celebrate will retire for the third time, this time as on the Big Island. The shocking thing is that and $1,500,000 in small and medium-sized a battle fought and won in 1690, and they vice president of development of Old Salem the kids he taught are now in their retirement businesses in northwest Connecticut with had bonfires ready to light. Unfortunately Museums and Gardens in Winston-Salem, years. This fall Dave will have completed the goal of creating jobs, spurring economic violence ensued again, though we were N.C. It has been a great experience. He his second mystery novel. The first, Cloud activity, creating wealth, and making a profit assured that in general the situation has previously retired from the University of Swallower, takes place in New Mexico and for the investors. He would be pleased to greatly improved. Y Hope you are all well Virginia and from Massanutten Military has a protagonist who is a local Pueblo hear from alumni in the region. Please send and enjoying life, and please keep the news Academy. Tom and Jocelyn plan to stay in Indian and a graduate of Dartmouth. The me an e-mail ([email protected]) coming! Thanks. beautiful Winston-Salem, home of Wake second novel, Descent, features the same if you’d like his mobile number. Best of luck Forest University, which brags that they location and hero. As a true history major with this venture! Y Burt Angrist has been copied Colby’s new campus on Mayflower he has had fun researching the stories. Y doing a little local hiking and canoeing and 1959 Hill when they moved from Eastern North Ann Kimball Chase writes that her life has plans some more in the Adirondacks “after Joanne K. Woods in 1959. They used the same architect, been rather dull compared to 20 years ago the bugs decrease.” Y John ’55 and Jane [email protected] design, and building materials. Tom and when she was constantly on the go. She has Daib Reisman spent three weeks in Maine I was saddened to learn of the passing of Jocelyn live less than a mile from the her beautiful island home on the market; it this summer, one with their entire family Dick Morrison. He was one of my most university, and Jocelyn walks the campus needs a family with kids to really enjoy the to celebrate John’s 80th birthday and their faithful contributors to class news. He will almost every day. Y After serving in the rather large home and huge yard. She has 55th wedding anniversary and the other two be missed. Y Elaine (Healey) ’62 and Paul Navy and in positions at State Street Bank given up volleyball since it is dangerous for at their Linekin Bay rental, which they share Reichert enjoy life in Westmoreland, N.H. and Trust, Greg MacArthur moved to White 76-year-old bones, and she will become with Jack and Susan Bower Hendrickson. Paul has found that in small towns you’re Weld and Co., where he was a stockbroker one of those seniors in Florida swimming As usual they had visits with Olin and recognized as a newcomer and people are for more than 35 years. He then moved to and walking, as she has been told they Willie Mc Donald Sawyer, Bill and Cindy willing to offer their assistance. However, Paine Webber and became a VP of invest- are safer. And no biking—the last time out Allerton Rocknak, Bob Raymond ’56, no one offered to repair the old barn roof, ments for more than 23 years. During that she fell and broke her shoulder. Anyone Mark ’54 and Larry Walker Powley ’54, so he can cross roof repair off his bucket time Greg and his wife had three children, want to buy a nice, relatively new bike? and Kathy McConaughy Zambello ’56. Jane list. He can also take off his list digging and Greg became involved in Little League Y Dick Peterson works with a start-up planned to return to Maine in September a hole for a 1,000-gallon propane tank. baseball as a coach for 10 years and with company writing cyber-theft insurance. for a Tri-Delt reunion. Y Marcia Griggs Elaine said if he made another one twice Mite as a coach for 15 years through Now he’s learning convoluted new things Atsaves continues to spend weekends at as long (40 feet) and filled it with water, bantam travel teams. Greg is still active with the computer and Internet, distributing the beach in Delaware and enjoys stopping she would have a lap pool. Paul’s oldest in business with his own firm, Viewpoint products online, marketing with Google on the way at the fresh produce stands granddaughter is now out of the Army 2000, with emphasis on the telecom sector ad words, and measuring with analytics for corn, tomatoes, squash, peaches, and (two tours to a war zone) and in college. and videoconferencing. In addition, he at and algorithms. He wonders if he missed blueberries and at her favorite fish place for these subjects at Colby all those years freshly caught seafood. She plays tennis, ago. Y Karen Kennedy Yearsley lives on swims, bikes, and lies on the beach with Bainbridge Island near the ferry to Seattle. a good book and friends—an idyllic life! In Bob Younes ’59 provides medical care for She loves renting her condo, which is close the fall she plans a cruise from Athens to inmates in five county jails in Maryland. In the to everything so she can walk to many Rhodes and Cyprus, then through the Suez past he has served as a Peace Corps doctor in places. She enjoys line dancing, pingpong, Canal and on to Oman and Dubai. She is tennis, Shakespeare classes, bridge, and “excited about it, albeit worried about the Tunisia and head of a pediatrics department. volunteer work. Now that life has become current Middle Eastern situation. We’ll see much more stress-free, Karen is think- how it all works out.” Y Daniel Yett is a ing about doing some traveling. Y Mike volunteer at the new education center at the Silverberg attended Colby Day at the Red Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural Number-four grandchild graduated in June times contributes articles on stocks in Auerbach basketball camp, which Steve History: Q?RIUS. It’s a learning environ- and will go to college this fall. The latest Forbes and, in the past, Business Week. Curley has run for more than 50 years. Ed ment featuring hands-on, computer-linked wildlife count includes four fawns, five baby Y Condolences to Jack Pallotta and family Marchetti, Phil Shea, Ray Berberian, and access to 6,000 items selected from the Canada geese, and 30 baby turkeys, and so on the death of his wife and our classmate Peter Cavari were also there to watch the collections, an approach considered unique far the garden has survived. Y Bob Younes Barbara Hunter Pallotta, who passed kids practice and enjoy lunch with much among major museums. Dan has two more provides medical care for inmates detained away October 5. Look for more about her conversation. It’s a wonderful program trips on his calendar: Argentina/Patagonia in five county jails in Maryland. In the past in the obituaries. Y Next June is our 55th that Steve has kept in existence to help and a specialized tour of Burma, Laos, he has served as a Peace Corps doctor in reunion. Planning has already begun. Let’s a substantial number of young men find and Cambodia. Y Bruce Blanchard and Tunisia, a pediatrician, head of the pediat- make the news column leading up to it a their way in life through sports. Mike also wife Coleen spent the month of February rics department at a community hospital in good one, and I look forward to seeing you is in touch Ron Weber, Dick Fields ’61, and traveling to Australia, New Zealand, and Dorchester, Mass., an HMO medical director at Colby June 5-8, 2014. Hank Silverman. Y Judy Allen Ferretti Tasmania. “New Zealand had been on my in Washington, D.C., and a community col- and her husband had a wonderful trip to bucket list for a long time.” He recently lege medical director in Springfield, Va. Bob Croatia in May. They lived on a beautiful, played golf with John Edes for a nonprofit and his wife, Anne, are in the process of 1960 spacious yacht with 24 others, visiting charity and, last year, was honored to speak launching their two children into the world Jane Holden Huerta different scenic islands every day. They at Norman Lee’s memorial service. Y In July of work and independence. Bob is also [email protected] traveled with Road Scholar, where Judy I spent eight days in Ireland with a small busy organizing all the items that he failed David Fowler spends his time between New serves on the board of directors. Y Pat group connected with Champlain College, to organize during his lifetime—pictures, Mexico and Montana. He has 12 grandchil- Sturges Aufdenberg had a fantastic trip where I taught for many years. We were in family history, genealogy, documents, and dren—four in New Mexico, three in China, to England, enjoying history, architecture,

46 COLBY / FALL 2013 scenery, etc. She took a three-day tour in Durham, where she studied the Anglo- Saxon manuscripts written by the Venerable Bede and others, and she visited places where the monks lived in the 700s. In York she saw Yorkminister and the shambles, learning that Richard was not a hunchback but had one shoulder higher than the other. Pat spent another two weeks in London going on in-depth two-person tours. She also saw Swan Lake by the Bolshoi Ballet at the Royal Opera House. Y Eunice Bucholz Spooner has a German exchange student, “Colby Joscha, who is registered as a senior at the local high school. She never dreamed she would be the mother of a high school helped senior again. Y We will miss Ted Lockhart ’61, our dear friend and honorary member shape of the Class of ’60. the 1961 Diane Scrafton Cohen Ferreira person [email protected] Here is a continuation of our last column’s Colby summer memories: Tom Kirkendall I am.” asked, “Would you like to hear about the summer I spent designing manhole covers for the state of Ohio? I told this story to the conversational French class and they all bought it hook, line, and sinker, includ- “At Colby I found strong ing Professor Byron. Got an A.” Send us faculty, excellent resources, the story, Tom! Y Summers during her and a close community of Colby years, Wendy Ihlstrom Nielsen worked for West Hartford (Connecticut) students who became lifelong Parks and Recreation and at A.C. Peterson friends. My wish is to help Dairy scooping ice cream. Y Dave and other young people from Judy Neumann Seddon wrote, “David rural Maine access a life- lived his dream with the Yankee Rookies, the Halifax Red Sox, and the Mitchell changing Colby experience. South Dakota Kernels. ‘Bring on the bus So I recently established a trips!’ Judy worked at the Madison Beach donor advised fund through Hotel in Connecticut and the New Ocean which I direct my charitable House in Massachusetts.” Y Margaret commitments, designating “Margie” Chamberlain Davis reported, “Colby summer memories: summer ’60 in Colby as both an ongoing East Chop, Martha’s Vineyard—my sister, and ultimate beneficiary.” Liz Chamberlain ’60, married Bob Huss ’60 in the Edgartown Episcopal Church. I — John C. Chapman ’62 was maid of honor, and Courtney Davis ’60 was best man.” Margie added recent news: “Earlier this year, drove to Wild Dunes/Isle of Palms, S.C., with friends and a young boy. Nine hours a day in a car with a 6-year-old was an adventure in itself, followed by a wonderful 10 days in a beach condo. Charleston is a beautiful city, especially when toured in a horse-drawn carriage.” Call Colby’s Gift Planning Office You, too, Y Carole Ann Pope claimed recent Colby today at 1-800-809-0103 for a personal can leave a sightings: “Ann Burnham Deering ’55 and consultation and proposal, or e-mail Karl ’54 and Jane Millett Dornish ’55 at the lasting legacy. [email protected]. Royal River Grillhouse in Yarmouth—they looked great! Also ran into John Kelly

COLBY / FALL 2013 47 ALUMNI AT LARGE at the KinderKonzert, performed by the we were not there nearly long enough to Bryant and his wife and Mary and Peter 1963 Y Portland Symphony Orchestra. I’ve been take it all in!” Duggan stopped by for a visit. Brenda Paule French ushering for the PSO and often see Sandy Lewison and Bill Blunden celebrated their [email protected] Nolet Quinlan, Jill Williams Hooper, and 20th anniversary and great happiness by Sandy Goodwin Nelson there. Around 1962 spending three weeks in Florence, Italy. We’re still hearing from classmates thanking Brunswick I see Debbie Price ’62, Nancy Pat Farnham Russell Brenda is retired from her editorial work, us and Colby for a great reunion. We thank MacKenzie Keating ’62, and Mike McCabe Nancy Keating McKenzie but Bill still works as the architect for the you for having made it such a wonderful Y ’62. Betsy Perry Burke and I plan to see [email protected] Cleveland Clinic. Their combined seven experience. In addition to visiting with the Michelangelo exhibit at the MFA in Mary “Muff” Symonds Leavitt sent a grandchildren, Al Carville enjoyed his Boston. Really looking forward to the copy of a poster displayed in Salzburg Alfond-Lunder Pavilion grand opening. advertising an Alex Katz exhibition from From all reports it’s not to be believed. Go, the Colby Museum of Art. Muff was Bob Burke ’61 and his wife, Donna, enjoyed a Colby!” Y Peter Denman is “in Bishop, pleased that Colby was sharing part of May “flying safari” to Africa. They flew a Cessna Calif., where we and other family members this wonderful collection with the people are renovating an old shopping center of Austria. Y Bruce Brown opened an art 182 to six safari sites in South Africa, Botswana, in the eastern Sierras.” Y Bob Burke gallery in Portland and was recognized and Zimbabwe, flying 1,800 miles in two weeks. and Donna, along with another couple in the July edition of Maine magazine from Naples, Fla., enjoyed a May “flying as one of “50 people who have made safari” to Africa. They flew Cessna 182s a difference in Maine” (along with the (four-seat, single-engine planes) to six Lunders). Congrats, Bruce! Bruce also grandchildren are a great joy, and both annual week’s sail along the Maine coast safari sites in South Africa, Botswana, and enjoys traveling: He spent three weeks in Brenda and Bill are in excellent health. Y from Boothbay Harbor to Frenchboro with Zimbabwe, where they saw many animals Turkey in May and is planning on Vienna Peter and Brenda Wrobleski Gottschalk Rod Pierce. They had a couple of beauti- close to their safari vehicle in the bush. and Budapest in November. Y Graham spent Labor Day weekend taking a train ful days but mostly rain and fog, which They flew about 1,800 miles over two Barkham, with tongue in cheek, says he ride in the underground salt museum in improved their navigation and cribbage weeks on safari and also spent five days in leads an especially boring life, but he did Hutchinson, Kan., and, of course, enjoy- skills. Al served as emcee at his mother-in- Cape Town, South Africa, touring the wine buy a new car. Y Richard Mittleman finds ing KC BBQ. They planned to hike Big Sur law’s 68th high school reunion. He enjoyed region. Y Bill Wooldredge at the Hudson, it hard to believe it was 55 years ago that and Yosemite in October. Y Sandra Keef it, but he isn’t going on the reunion circuit. Y Ohio, Chautauqua Institution said, “Heard we started our college career on Mayflower Hunter spent June in Nashville, where she Bill ’62 and Barb Haines Chase spent great speakers who are quite optimistic Hill. Richard still practices business law learned the costume of the day is cowboy two weeks in a cottage in Friendship, Maine. or pessimistic about healthcare’s future. and goes to his office at least three days boots and very short skirts; July in Maine, They’ll have news for the next issue after Everyone agrees we’re in for a very inter- a week. A mobile phone and iPad have where she hired a guide and finally saw a their hike with the Sierra Club in Tuscany esting ride! Jo and I still live on College made a significant impact on how he spruce grouse; and August in Monterey, in September. We look forward to hear- Y Street in Hudson, where I serve on the communicates with clients—face-to-face where she saw California condors and blue ing all about it. Sue (Sawyer) ’64 and city council and spend a lot of time with meetings are becoming a thing of the past. whales. Y Pete Thompson responded for Brian McAlary spent a wonderful week local charities. Really enjoyed our 50th He enjoys golf and rides his bicycle eight the first time. Wish I could reproduce his in the Galapagos with family. “A biology response in its totality—he is so funny. His major’s paradise”—finches, marine iguanas biggest achievement was laying off party- who sneeze out the salt from the water, ing long enough to earn his law degree; sea lions, and even penguins! They’re Mary “Muff” Symonds Leavitt ’62 sent a copy he’s spent the past 48 years practicing law currently planning their retirement home Y of a poster displayed in Salzburg advertising in Lewiston. His ex-wife, Noemi Sanchez, in Virginia. While enjoying adventures died about a year ago. Pete and Noemi with family and friends in Maine, Connie an Alex Katz exhibition there from the Colby had a daughter, Ilse, and a grandson, Arlo, Miller Manter has been “collaborating College Museum of Art. who live in Portland, Ore. Pete reports: with the Goethe Institute, Washington, “I’m joyfully single; live on a lake in the D.C., Transatlantic Outreach Program for woods; work out at the Y every morning K-University Educators.” Recently, Connie and get to the office by seven; arrive at the and I had a lovely lunch in Yarmouth. She’s and hope to return for our 55th.” Y Bebe to 12 miles several times a week. Winters watering hole with friends at five; pound looking forward to reconnecting with many Y Clark Mutz wrote, “Drove cross-country are spent in Ft. Lauderdale. Y Brenda ’em ’til eight; then come home and ply of us in various places! An automatic this summer with an 85-year-old friend. Phillipps Gibbons spent her summer visit- my passion for cooking great-tasting but reply from Dan Politica’s e-mail was a We explored Maryland to Washington and ing and/or hosting family. Granddaughter awful-for-you food.” He has contact with thank you for supporting the United Way. California, and on the return we saw where Lily attended sailing school nearby, and Hope Hutchins Benton, Bruce Marshall, I guess we can assume Dan’s busy doing Y Lewis and Clark camped in South Dakota, granddaughter Devon is off to Syracuse. and Jimmy Johnson. Y As for yours truly, good work for the United Way! David the Donner Pass, Custer’s Montana, Utah’s The Gibbonses were en route to Pennsyl- Pat Farnham Russell, I spent my summer Hunt’s interest in the lakes and rivers of salt flats, the Truman Library in St. Louis, vania to celebrate Mother Gibbons’s 98th at our cottage on the lake near Millinocket Aroostook County took him to Portage and more! If anyone else wants to do it, birthday. Brenda hopes to make it back for with loads of family and friends in and out. Lake, a pristine, remote, beautiful area. He I’d go.” Y Mary Sawyer Bartlett went to our 55th. Y Richard Simkins enjoys a busy This was my 46th summer in this beautiful spent hours going against the current on the Bar Harbor Inn Terrace to meet Jock ’62 retirement managing the Grog restaurant spot. In September I took a wonderful river the Fish River and saw six moose in three and Debbie Lucas Williams ’62 and Bob in Newburyport, Mass. After 44 years cruise/tour of Russia. Next on the agenda: sightings—five cow moose and a bull with Di Napoli. “Caught up with him at last. It he’s turned the reins over to his daughter a month in Germany, Prague, and Spain, a large rack as well as otters frolicking in a was a most delightful visit. Everyone looks and son-in-law. Rich opened a new store where my daughter is conducting Wake quiet part of the river. “A wonderful break!” Y good and feels good. It was Bob’s birthday next to the Grog, Traders’, that features Forest’s abroad program in Salamanca. This summer Ed Buyniski completed a the next day. Earlier, I drove to Colby with rocks, fossils, minerals, Southwest and Except for Prague, this will be a visiting 440-mile pilgrimage across northern Spain, two friends and toured the art museum. Native American folk art, and jewelry. family/friends-paced trek. No cathedrals el Camino de Santiago de Compostela. He Colby has a very impressive collection; Winters are now spent in Tucson. Sonny or churches! says the five-week walk “does wonders for

48 COLBY / FALL 2013 one’s mental and physical health.” Y Herb the Mount Everest Base Camp. She and lot.” More recently she traveled to Portugal and go on birthday and vacation/holiday Gottfried and wife Jan Jennings moved from her husband, Tom, spent five weeks in Italy and Spain. In Madrid Gloria celebrated adventures with them almost every week. Ithaca, N.Y., to Tulsa, Okla., for retirement. last year. Y Barbara Kreps DeLisio has a 50-year reunion with friends she had Neil’s big project is a new model railroad In 2012 Herb published Landscape in made her home in Italy for many years. made during her junior year in Spain at layout in the design stage. They are also avid American Guides and View Books: Visual After earning a Ph.D. at the University of the University of Madrid. Y Off in another vegetable gardeners. Neil had eye surgery History of Touring and Travel. Y After three Wisconsin, she taught at the University of direction, PJ Downing Curtis and her fiancé last summer, which curtailed activities for weeks at her beach house with family and Pisa, a position from which she recently spent most of this past July in Alaska. They six weeks or so, but he is on the mend. friends, Jeannette Fannin Regetz planned retired. Remaining in Italy after the death cruised up the Inland Passage and then Y Your correspondent checked another to go to Asheville in September and do her of her husband, in 1984, Barbara also camped around the state for 10 days in destination off the travel bucket list by first Road Scholar trip in October to Sedona. sang opera for 15 years in Florence in a motor home. visiting Peru in August. Machu Picchu is Y Marsha Palmer Reynolds revisited the addition to her work at the university. She truly a wonder of the world built by people Colby Museum of Art. “What a fabulous remembers Peter Ré and the wonderful without a written language or knowledge of experience ... lots of visitors ... everyone musical opportunities he provided her at 1965 the wheel. I also flew over the Nazca lines, just raved and raved. We have to return Colby. Y Dick Zipser retires this fall after 27 Dick Bankart the purpose of which is not known—per- again, as it’s difficult to see everything years as chair of the department of foreign [email protected] haps communication with the gods—and in one visit. I encourage everyone to see languages and literatures at the University HAVING FUN NOW … Boy, have we slowed visited the birds and sea lions on Islas this terrific museum.” Y Chris and Midge of Delaware. He has overseen more than down! We’re all 70ish now and, for the Ballesteras. Y Class prez Harold Kowal Walton Holmes celebrated their 50th wed- 40 foreign-language-based study-abroad most part, retired from paid employment. and Ruth visited Turks and Caicos last April ding anniversary. Y Nancy (Judd) ’61 and programs during that time. In a recent Hobbies and travel are taking a lead in to celebrate his 70th. It was a family affair Peter Coughlan celebrated their 50th wed- article in Global Magazine, published by our lives. Y Jane Patterson Paxton has with “both Colby daughters, a son-in-law, ding anniversary at the Homestead Resort the University of Delaware’s Institute for been busy weeding and feeding her garden and granddaughter.” Ruth continues doing in Hot Springs, Va. Their three sons and Global Studies, Dick remembers his own this summer. She had some help in the library management consulting. They spend their families enjoyed the myriad activities, life-changing study-abroad experience in “advice and supervision” area from visi- as much time as possible in their Maine including falconry, horseback riding, golf, Germany as a Colby student. Y Marty tors Bryan Harrison Curd and Pam Harris getaway cabin in the woods on a lake. and spa treatments. Y Both avid sailors, Schatt Abbott-Shim went on two hiking Holden, who visited her for a few days in Harold would like to thank all classmates Steve Eittreim and wife Carole have been trips last summer: to the Sbrinz Trail in Hallowell, Maine. Y Newlyweds Dave and who contributed to the Colby Fund drive. following the AC competition on SF Bay. He the Swiss Alps and to the Inka Trail and Dale Rottner Perkins Haas Hatch ride There were many class volunteers working invites anyone in the area to give them a Mollepata Trail in Peru. Marty also traveled their bikes up to 10 miles every day in under his direction, and we “achieved all call. Y Whit Bond and wife Faith spent two to Boston and Rochester, N.Y., recently to Venice, Fla. Both have retired, and they of our goals and then some,” he reports. weeks in Scotland playing golf, including at see her daughter, who plays for the Portland “eat healthily and socialize” often. They will HAIL, COLBY, HAIL! Muirfield just two weeks before the British Thorns NWSL professional women’s soccer fill us all in at our 50th reunion in 2015. Open. Y Apologies to Rosemary Blanken- team. Y Jerry Shapiro is retiring from his Yes, 50th! Fogeyland, here we come. The ship Hubbard and to Anita Nourse Largent position as department chair at Santa dinosaurs we fed down by Johnson Pond 1966 for errors in the summer column. Please Clara University but will keep teaching full have left for quieter retirement areas near Meg Fallon Wheeler substitute Rosemary’s name for Anita’s. time. He was recently named “one of the Onie’s. Y Jim Foritano has been reviewing [email protected] top 99 professors in counseling psychology art exhibitions and interviewing artists for Vasco and Susan Mahoney Michael will in North America.” Y Al Graceffa and his the Boston-based magazine Artscope. You split their time between a new home in 1964 wife, Natalie, enjoy living in South Carolina, can read his latest piece in the Sept/Oct Portugal and one in Brunswick, Maine, Marcia Phillips Shelton where he plays a great deal of golf and ’13 issue (artscopemagazine.com) under when they work through the details of [email protected] enjoys their eight grandchildren. Al recently Harbor Arts. He has also been leading tours immigration, taxes, etc. This was a long- Many classmates are writing in to say they had a knee replaced, the result of a football of Beacon Hill as a newly trained member term goal, and Sue is excited about living are looking forward to our 50th reunion injury during sophomore year at Colby. Y of Boston by Foot. He invites classmates in Maine again. Y Realtor Gary McKinstry next June. Y Barney Hallowell writes from Marg Mattraw Dodge has returned to to contact him at [email protected] to had time to visit friends in the Netherlands North Haven Island, Maine, where he and Maine to live near her two daughters. She set up a group tour. Jim reads poetry now and take a cruise from Istanbul to Rome his wife, Christie, have raised six children. is now at home, with extra bedrooms for After 40 years as a teacher and principal visitors, in Yarmouth. Y Jim Harris and his of North Haven Community School, Barney wife, Madie, who live in Washington State, Barney Hallowell ’64 is executive director of is now executive director of the Hurricane represented Colby at the installation of the Island Foundation and its Center for Science new president of Seattle Pacific University. the Hurricane Island Foundation and its Center and Leadership, providing “experiential They also recently traveled to Montana to for Science and Leadership. He retired after a education with leadership training for visit family and friends. Jim reports that high school students, particularly from Dick York is recovering from his recent career as an educator on North Haven Island. Maine’s public schools.” Barney is also medical problems and is back at home. Y busy with five grandchildren, 20 chickens, Brian ’63 and Sue Sawyer McAlary enjoyed two cats, a dog, bicycles, boats, lobster attending Brian’s 50th Colby reunion last traps, and a motorcycle—a 70th birthday June. They then traveled to the Galapagos and then at Out of the Blue Gallery just off this summer because he didn’t have enough present! Y Peggy Chandler Davey raised Islands on a National Geographic cruise. Central Square. Y Neil Clipsham is perhaps inventory to provide hungry clients with her family and worked and is now retired Sue recommends this trip as “well worth one of our last “employed” folks. He works dream houses in the Sarasota, Fla., area. Y in Madison, Wis. She spent her career in the time.” Y Also cruising was Gloria two hours per week, by phone, on activities After his Colby graduation, John Cromwell state government and then as a student Shepherd, who went to Crete, Cyprus, and not disclosed. BUSY, BUSY, BUSY! Neil and spent a few years on an oceanographic services administrator at the University of the coast of Turkey, with a separate visit his wife, Jean (Hoffmann) ’66, are planning vessel operated by Lamont Observatory Wisconsin-Madison. In retirement Peggy to Istanbul. The focus of the cruise was a 50th wedding anniversary family cruise of Columbia University. Since then he visits with her family and has trekked to antiquities, and Gloria says she “learned a to Hawaii. They enjoy their grandchildren has been building houses in New York,

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Connecticut, and Massachusetts. His three and her new husband in June, had lunch splits his time between Massachusetts and Mueller Sinton enjoyed seeing Elaine and daughters—43, 39, and 23—have produced with Gayle Pollard Talbot, Jane Hunter Florida. Y Brian Kopke retired five years Kurt Swenson last March in Boca Grande five granddaughters. Youngest daughter Bates, Kay Tower Carter, and Linda Hall ago after 35 years as a Unitarian minister for golf. They enjoy trips to Bermuda and Nora graduated from Colby in 2011. His Lord in July, and she and Karl traveled to in Southold, Long Island (5), Philadelphia entertaining grandchildren. Y Fred Beyer 27-year-old son has joined John in the Wisconsin for daughter Alissa’s wedding (7), and Ottawa, Ontario (23). He can get moved from Wisconsin to Ellsworth, Maine, construction business. John has no plans in August. Y Frank Neal, Jim Bither, and back to first loves: family, drawing, painting, to be near twin grandsons, Joey and Billy, for retirement—just yearnings. Y Karen Pete Redmond enjoyed the 46th annual and woodworking (mostly wooden toys). 4. Y Nick Hadgis continues as dean of Riendeau Pacheco and Fran Finizio stud- golf tournament in North Haven, Maine, in Triple bypass surgery this spring set tight the School of Hospitality Management ied the Spanish Civil War at Colby’s Alumni June. The golfing buddies send out love to parameters for him during the healing pro- at Widener University. Nick and his wife, College this summer and encourage others their pal Ed Stratton ’67, who is dealing cess, but he planned to hike in Washington Anna, enjoyed vacation time in Maine and to sign up next year. Y Janice Holt Arsan with some serious health issues. Frank State with his daughter in September. Y New Hampshire. In November they plan was touched by support she received from and Stacey’s daughter AnFei is at the U.S. There’s another empty pulpit as Led Baxter to travel to Hong Kong for the wedding of old friends, husband Noyan’s family, and Coast Guard Academy. Daughter MeiRose retired in June 2012 from 40-plus years of one of Nick’s graduates. Y Sadly, I report some of his former M.B.A. students when is a sophomore in high school and keeps ministry in the United Church of Christ in the death of Fred Hopengarten’s mother, she returned to Istanbul this summer with- them on their toes. Stacey does medical Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and New Doris Rose Hopengarten, Class of 1940. out him due to his early-onset Alzheimer’s. policy research at the Lahey Clinic, and York. Led went back to the house where he We send our condolences and best wishes Jan continues to count her blessings; her Frank is involved in property management grew up, in Newington, Conn. In addition to to Fred and his family. children and grandchildren, live near her in part time. working on home fix-up projects and catch- the Atlanta area. Y Lynn (Longfellow) ’65 ing up with family and friends, he planned and Gary Knight visited their son Eric in to teach adult Bible study. In the spirit of 1968 Dubai last April. Eric is the senior U.S. Air 1967 our liberal arts education, he would love Lynne Oakes Camp Force official training the UAE on the C-17 Bob Gracia to be in touch with anyone about “faith [email protected] that he pilots. Thanks, Gary, for agreeing Judy Gerrie Heine and science.” Y As part of a trip to Cape Arthur Brennan reports that he and his to serve again as class agent leading up to [email protected] Breton, N.S., and to the East Coast, Larry wife are grandparents for the second time. our 2016 50th reunion. Y Despite full-time Robert Hauck settled on Martha’s Vineyard Sears caught up with Dick Hunnewell, his Samuel Brennan Rogers was born to their employment as the Maine state librarian, after retiring as deputy director of the wife, and their two sons. He was pleased daughter, Mary Kathryn Brennan ’02, and Linda Hall Lord travels extensively. She’s American Political Science Association. to leave the heat of El Paso in June and Smilie Rogers. Art still does some judging visited many European countries, Morocco, Though retired, he is not without direction, to spend time in the lake country of New on an as-needed basis and teaches some Egypt, Turkey, Ecuador, China, and, most law-related subjects at the local commu- recently, Russia via a river cruise, Jordan, nity college. Y Mary Lee (Merrill) ’70 and and Jerusalem. Linda recently testified Mike Metcalf climbed Mount Katahdin before the U.S Senate Commerce Commit- Bud Graff ’67 and Jim Wilson ’67 volunteered this summer—twice. In July they camped at tee about the federal E-rate program, which to work with archaeologists to excavate a Chimney Pond, went up Cathedral Trail, and offers affordable telecommunications came down the Saddle Trail after it started and Internet to schools and libraries. Y colonial-era farm. The team located a building to rain (preventing them from crossing Knife Brian Shacter tells of his return to Colby and artifacts from the period. Edge). In August they went up Abol Slide and this summer as a soccer camp coach: down the Hunt Trail. They have just 70 miles “It’s always a wonderful experience on its in Maine left to finish the Appalachian Trail own, and it also coincided with the official in New England. Y Glenna White Crawforth opening of the new art museum. I, along dividing his time between painting and Hampshire with the Hunnewells. Y Bud says, “Life is good; retirement is awesome. with everyone else, was very impressed. I writing mystery novels that involve art. Graff is working on a third act. He and Jim I have the best of everything—good health; also roamed around the old Bixler music He’s kept his ties to Maine, returning every Wilson volunteered to work with archae- great husband; successful, happy kids; a building and had a flashback to the listening summer to paint. Settling into the Martha’s ologists to excavate a colonial-era farm. new grandson; terrific friends; and three rooms where I learned everything I needed Vineyard local food movement, he now has After several weeks of careful excavation, different residences so I can follow the to know about Gregorian Chant.” Y Janna a flock of chickens. Grandchildren who live the team located a building and artifacts weather.” Her latest passion is Zumba. Y Vaughan Kasarjian still teaches ESL and on the island made the move from Wash- from the period. Bud enjoyed the work so Don and Pat Davis Murphy moved back thrives on it, while in her free time doting on ington, D.C., complete. Y Future reunions much that he’s considering giving up golf to to Maine in 2011. After living elsewhere young grandchildren Ava and Ryan. Janna may ensue, as Rob has joined Annette dig in the dirt. Or he might just call divots (Michigan, California, Connecticut, and writes of Ed Mowry’s book, So Close to Sandrock as Martha’s Vineyard resident. his latest archaeological excavations. upstate New York) for 40 years, they knew Dying, “I thought it an amazing account of Annette copes with tourists that increase Y Leanne Davidson Kaslow has been their hearts were in Maine. They visited with those times, in particular as they related every time President Obama visits. She back in D.C. for a year after 18 years in Charlie and Penny Post Crockett ’69, who to him, but also in a broader sense as they works for Pathways Projects Institute, a Birmingham. Her husband, Richard, was are retired teachers living in Hope, Maine. related to us, his classmates. In some nonprofit based on Martha’s Vineyard and in contemplating retirement when he went to They hosted the Crocketts in their Bar ways, it was our story, too.” Y Vermont- NYC that encourages collaboration among work for the VA in D.C., where he finds his Harbor, Maine, home and later traveled to ers Gayle Jobson Poinsette and Garfield artists from all disciplines. Her daughter is work on behalf of returning soldiers very visit them. Y John Morgan is retired and Barnes plan a winter trip to Thailand and taking over her dad’s law practice, one son positive. Leanne’s daughter, Jessica, and thoroughly enjoying it. He visited his daugh- Australia. They visited Chris (Austin) ’68 is an aviation electronics technician study- husband Sean live in the New Haven area. ter, Sara Morgan ’07, in San Jose, Calif., and Wes Barbour in Maine in June. Y Ted ing to be an engineer, and her other son is Leanne and Richard traveled to Vietnam in and did some fatherly handyman stuff. Sara Houghton’s RV travel will be an eight-month executive director of the Sandrock Founda- October. Y Joanna Snyder Richardson was works full time and attends San Jose State trip out West along old U.S. Route 66 tion in New Hampshire. Annette has one appointed library strategy advisor within University in pursuit of an M.S.W. degree. and will include the Albuquerque Balloon granddaughter and another on the way. Y the Division of Information Services. The John planned to drive home to Colorado Fiesta. Y Sue Turner had a healthy, busy Paul Cronin is seeking an advanced degree position supplies planning and advice to accompanied by Lily, his black Labrador summer. She visited Anne Ladd Carlson in relaxation and leisure—his own. Paul the university librarian. Y Chris and JJ retriever, and said, “We will meander up the

50 COLBY / FALL 2013 coast and head back to Colorado by way of Wis., this summer, and her youngest, John, enjoy a variety of volunteer activities. Y ing at age 64, Lori decided to give back the Grand Tetons and Yellowstone, getting is is a mountaineer and guide in Anchor- Chris Christensen and wife Lynn attended to the community and is now working as home sometime.” Y Bill McKinney retired age. This summer John worked for National a Tau Delta Phi reunion for the classes of a geriatric care support coordinator. This three years ago after 14 years as president Geographic’s Alaska Survivor production 1965-70 last June at the Samoset Resort has been rewarding and eye-opening as of Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, team. He hopes to go to the Olympics to in Maine and reconnected with friends they she helps seniors receive services and Calif. He and his wife, Linda, moved into cheer for his girlfriend, who is training with don’t see at reunions held by class year. medical care they otherwise would not their summer home on Cape Cod for a year the U.S. Nordic ski team. Donna says her They spend time on Lake Winnipesaukee, receive. She remains close friends with as an experiment and decided to stay. They children’s activities suggest she should do joined by grandchildren Clara and Caden (5 Colby roommates Susan Doten Green- travel a lot and he has a small consulting something more adventuresome herself, and 3), and they recently made an offer on berg and Carol Lewis Jennings. Y Earle practice with churches and theological so she’s looking into a UU Service Com- a new boat, an Apreamare. Their son, Jeff Shettleworth spoke in June at Reunion schools. He also does some online teaching mittee work trip this winter in Guatemala. at Hartford Seminary and gets to preach Y Sandra Reed Clougher says things about once a month at various churches. are going well in Vermont. Sandy retired Sandra Reed Clougher ’69 retired after Y In July David and Nancy Dodge Bryan in 2009 after 40 years with the state’s 40 years with the Vermont Department for hosted a weekend mini-reunion for Class Department for Children and Families as of ’68 friends at their home in Hingham, a district director for child protection and Children and Families as a district director for Mass. In attendance were Greg and Nancy juvenile justice. She and her husband pro- child protection and juvenile justice. Thomas Fritz, Mary Jo Calabrese Baur, vided eldercare for her mother and uncle, Steve Campbell, Don and Betsy Clark and now they enjoy traveling, volunteering Gemmecke, Judy Freedman ’70, and Phil for their church, working on the house and and Hethie Shores Parmesano. They were yard, and being grandparents. Y Donald ’10, graduated from Boston College Law 2013 about the architecture of the old and joined one evening by Brad Merritt and Caouette and his wife, Teri, celebrated their School this May, took the New Hampshire new Colby campuses, as covered in his new his wife, Deirdre. Activities included taking 40th anniversary with a vacation to Italy, bar exam, and works for the New Hampshire book, Waterville. The book, which he wrote turns making wonderful meals, a whale- visiting Rome, Florence, Siena, a Chianti Bureau of Securities Regulation. Daughter to help celebrate the 200th anniversary watching expedition, listening to vintage vineyard, San Gimignano, and Pisa. They Kari ’98 was recently promoted to director of the College, is a pictorial history of the music, and, of course, lots of storytelling. had a wonderful time even though Teri’s of e-commerce for Sperry Top-Sider. Y city presented through old postcards. It Y Frank Dunton loves retirement. He is credit card number was stolen in Rome Ines Ruelius Altemose and her husband was published by Arcadia Publishing as still playing and traveling, and he is an on- and $30,000 was charged. Fortunately, took daughter Kristen Leary and grandson part of their series of books on American call fireman. He recently got together with the credit card company deleted the large Jake, now at Seton Hall University, to Rome cities illustrated by historical postcards. Liz (O’Gorman) ’69 and John DeSimone, charges. Now they are back visiting their and on a cruise of Italy, the Greek Islands, Earle also attended the July festivities for Ted Swartz and his wife, Vickie, and Sari grandson in Southborough, Mass. Y Bill and Ephesus as a high school graduation the opening of the Alfond-Lunder Family Abul-Jubein ’69 in Boston’s North End. He Antonucci notes that we have “a big one gift. Ines says, “It was a great experience Pavilion at the Colby Museum of Art. He says hadn’t seen his old roomie in 35 years, but coming up next year; time goes by way to see a young person experience ‘the it’s a truly impressive building with a great he said luckily they didn’t need “Hello, my too fast.” Y Doug Joseph is hoping to old country’ for the first time.” Y Craig collection of American art, and that it was name is” tags! form a barbershop quartet with talent Stevens spent another summer at the moving to see what extraordinary progress from our class to perform during Reunion Maine Media Workshops and plans on has been made in the arts at Colby since Weekend. He’s aware that Bill Merritt returning again next year. He still teaches we attended in the 1960s. 1969 sings for a chapter and hopes others at the Savannah College of Art and Design. Ray Gerbi will join him to sing primarily “polecats,” Y Carol Partridge continues her work in [email protected] barbershop songs that most everyone Macedonia as a missionary with the United 1971 Hi everyone! Another summer is history, knows. Anyone interested should contact Methodist Church. Y Please send news for Ann E. Miller and we’re looking at our 45th reunion in a Doug at [email protected]. our next class column to bring everyone [email protected] few months. Cherrie Dubois and Rae Jean Y On June 22 Miriam Wohlgemuth Davis up to date before we gather on Mayflower Aside from a ridiculously wet month of Goodman are heading up reunion planning Bowen, who lost her first husband, Shawn, Hill next June. June here in the Northeast, and aside from a hot and humid spell in late July, this has been a spectacular summer, now 1970 drawing to a close. Fingers crossed that Doug Joseph ’69 is hoping to form a Libby Brown Strough no natural disasters hit any of you across barbershop quartet with talent from his class to [email protected] the country as we head into winter. Y Nick perform during Reunion Weekend. The quartet Greetings! I hope everyone had a great fall. Nash reports that Jay Reiter dragged him Y I heard from Christine Celata. She has to a reunion of Tau Delts this summer in will sing “polecats,” familiar barbershop songs. been retired since 2011, after a couple of Rockport, Mass. Attendees included Bob years of doing physics for Cornell University Aisner ’68, Alan Crosby ’68, Bill Goldfarb part time. She has been pursuing watercolor ’68, Bernie Davidson ’68, and Artie White painting—her first venture into art since her ’70. Nick’s son flew in to climb Mount and fundraising, so watch for news, and in 2007, married a man she knew through second grade teacher told her she had no Katahdin with him for the first time. He mark your calendar for June 5-8, 2014. Y business 35 years ago. “We’re living in talent for it. She has also been tutoring pre- also had an extended family outing on Donna Massey is doing well and working the Cedar City, Utah, area for the warm calculus at the local high school, knitting Martha’s Vineyard with his daughter. Y full time. She hopes to transition to three months and plan to stay in Glendale, Ariz., for charity, taking strength-training classes, Fondly remembering his days at Colby days a week this fall and to have summers in the winter.” Her husband is active in the reading, and having fun. She now lives in and his escapades at Alpha Tau Omega, off “henceforth and forevermore!” She gar- purebred dog scene, and she works part Pasadena, Calif. Y After a great career in Rich Beaty writes that he and his wife stay dens, hikes, and plays tennis in her limited time in a freelance graphic arts business. the private service sector, Lori Gill Pazaris very busy with their duties at the Church of spare time. Son Chris moved to Madison, They help each other with their work and decided to make a change. Instead of retir- Scientology in New York City. They live on

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she taught English, including Irish literature, from a few classmates who were unable to Shakespeare, and many courses on techni- make it to reunion. I want to thank each of 70s newsmakers cal writing. Most of the years were glorious, you for sharing so much about your lives; I except for a just few moments (ha!) during really enjoyed getting to know you all better. Maine State Historian Earle Shettleworth Jr. ’70 her six years as chair of the department. That is the best thing about this role—the presented a pictorial history of the Waterville area She thought more interesting news for the connections I make with classmates. Y based on his book, Waterville, which features historic column was her May trip to Maine to visit Bruce Smith was heading back to school postcards of the city and environs from 1900 to 1960, at the Waterville Opera House Aug. 28. F Summer former roommates Betsey Ann Rogers as a teacher in Texas. He has three more Stories, a book of paintings by Maine artist Leslie McComiskey and Barbara “BJ” Weldon- years until retirement, which will mark 40 Anderson ’71, along with short stories inspired by Morin. They stayed at BJ and Ed Morin’s years in the profession. He is currently at the the paintings, will be published in November 2013 by summer cabin at Indian Point, a gorgeous University of Texas doing adjunct work that Shanti Arts Publishing in Brunswick, Maine. F In Sep- spot off the coast of Bath. They had a ball may develop into more over time. Bruce’s life tember the East Bay Women in Business Roundtable for two days and nights just catching up. is full with his six beautiful grandchildren, presented Dale Marie Crooks Golden MacDonald ’76 See photos of the trio at alumni.colby.edu who range in age from 4 to 17. He sends Leslie Anderson ’71 with its inaugural Trailblazer Award, designed to honor on the Alumni Photos page under the Stay his best wishes to all Colby classmates. Y Oakland, Calif.-area women in business. MacDonald Connected tab. Y Ed Morin and Barbara Betty Robinson wrote from her summer/fall is vice president of Torrey Pines Bank. F Rebecca Alex ’79 was featured in the San Weldon-Morin have lived in Wells, Maine, home on Little Sebago Lake in Windham, Mateo Daily Journal (Calif.) in August. An assistant professor of art at the College of for 25 years. Ed earned his civil engineering Maine (brings back memories of Colby’s San Mateo, she developed partnerships between the college and four arts organiza- degree after Colby and joined Exxon’s “for- Outing Club on the Belgrade Lakes); she tions, allowing students opportunities to take part in professional art practices such eign legion” working on large construction and her partner, Victoria Larson, live in as exhibitions and portfolio creation. projects in Venezuela and Saudi Arabia as Auburn in the wintertime. Betty is nearing well as in Houston. He’s now employed at retirement from Lewiston-Auburn College at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, where he the University of Southern Maine, where she the Upper East Side of Manhattan with their August, she will have married her partner does submarine maintenance. He enjoys has taught for the past 25 years and served son and golden retriever. Rich hasn’t seen of 22 years, Calien Lewis, due to the recent his work and has no immediate plans to as dean for seven. She expressed gratitude anyone from Colby in many years except DOMA ruling and the state of Maine’s mar- retire. Barbara retired at the end of 2012 and pride when describing her work in the for Chris Palmer ’72. Rich looks forward to riage equality law. She will be keeping her after 40 years in the banking industry as a bachelor’s and master’s leadership and being a meddling grandparent of his first name. Martha is still gainfully employed, direct employee and also as a consultant organizational studies degree programs grandchild. Y Now living in Portland, Maine, healthy, and looking forward to a trip to managing large projects and programs and the opportunity she had to found and Y Val Thibeau Yates works at the United Ireland next April. Congratulations are in for a variety of banks and bank holding develop a new interdisciplinary college Way of Greater Portland and loves it. One serving nontraditional students in central son lives in Boston and another in Virginia Maine. Betty has traveled extensively over Beach; she tries to see them every few Ed Morin ’72 joined Exxon’s “foreign legion,” the years—in South Africa, Botswana, and months. Val recently attended a wedding working on construction projects in Venezuela Kenya—and she has an “adopted adult shower for the son of Jack ’76 and Susan daughter,” Carmen, a woman from Kenya Reed Parker ’76 in Hanover, N.H., where she and Saudi Arabia, as well as Houston. He’s now who lived with her and Victoria for three enjoyed visiting with a lot of Colby friends. working at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. years. Y Susan Schink was sorry to miss Kathy Stoddard Pope and Val get together reunion but did enjoy her hiking trip in frequently, too. Y Chip Altholz just had his northern Spain. She described walking 50th eighth grade reunion with 25 percent part of El Camino and reported that a order for Leslie Anderson, whose book of of his class attending, and he was reminded companies. Their two German shepherds, highlight of her trip was visiting the Gug- of the power of friendship. So many indel- paintings from her Summer Stories series Midnight and Oasis, keep them on their toes genheim in Bilbao. Equally exciting (from ible memories of his time at Colby are as will be published in November 2013 by and love to body surf at the family cottage my perspective) is the work her therapy fresh as ever in his mind. He and his wife, Shanti Arts Publishing of Brunswick, Maine. at Indian Point whenever they can get there. dog, Rosie, is doing. They go together to Linda, just bought a beach house, and Chip The painting on the cover of the book is Y Erl and Janet Veasey McLetchie have the local library, where children sign up for is still working on his Internet project to of her Colby “gang” on Debbie Messer some retirement news. Erl finally retired 15-minute segments to read to Rosie. The empower teens. He enjoys the trip updates Zlatin’s dock. Y Fred Copithorn has just from his law practice in Ossipee, N.H. Jan children love reading to her and showing from Dave Nelson. Y From western Mas- returned from a road trip across the country retired a few years ago from teaching. her the pictures as they read. Sue had a sachusetts, Rob Wilson writes that he is to deposit his niece’s car in Denver. Y Bill They’ve sold their home and his law office chance to visit with Christi Pope in Vermont enjoying his so-called retirement from the Hladky continues to be proud of his son’s and bought a home in Venice, Fla. This is recently. Y Dave DeLong was delighted to executive director position at the nonprofit accomplishments. Y Having been to the a dramatic retirement move from the cold be at reunion this June and really enjoyed Veterans Education Project. He loves that Baltic region this summer, and then to New Hampshire winters to sunny Florida. My talking to classmates as well as other alums he can now continue to do what he loved New Brunswick, Canada, I am happy to husband and I hope to visit them in Florida about his new book, Graduate to a Great about his job without all the administrative be more or less back to my native land this winter. Y To everyone in the Class of Job: Make Your College Degree Pay Off in responsibilities and headaches. With less in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. (I 1972: Enjoy life, and I hope to see or hear Today’s Market. Y Stay tuned for the next pressure and new flexibility, he is now cured did not run into Jon Stone in the Baltics.) from you soon! magazine as our new class president, Norm of work-related insomnia. He and his wife Olsen, is heading off soon for an unguided plan to do more traveling. Y Jon Stone is rafting and fly-fishing trip to Alaska. I did about to welcome his fifth grandchild!Y 1972 1973 question him about the order of succession Roger Osborn writes with the sad news Nancy Round Haley Carol Chalker for president and suggested he be careful! that our classmate Cheryl Thomas passed [email protected] [email protected] Y Thank you to Anne Badmington Cass for away unexpectedly in July. Y Martha Smith Sandy Manoogian Pearce recently retired As I slowly transitioned back to work after being the first to send me a recent picture Mickles is happy to report that as of this after 25 years at Minnesota State, where my long summer break, I enjoyed hearing of herself and her forever friends (Roberta

52 COLBY / FALL 2013 Rollins and Sue Colucci Neumyer); she Colby geology professor living in Waterville. Frances. Mike works long hours at the Mayo 1976 met them both for a very long luncheon Mark began his 24th year of teaching in Clinic in his dean of practice position. He Robert Weinstein recently and had not seen them together for the philosophy department at Grand Valley still sees some patients, but mostly has [email protected] 25 years. Please, everyone, send pictures State University in Allendale, just outside administrative duties and travels now. of yourselves with Colby friends; I have a Grand Rapids. Y In July Mike McNamara Youngest daughter Caitlin is a second- No time to waste, so let’s jump right in. Doug McMurrey is in his seventh year at special folder reserved for a project for our and his wife, Joyce, attended Colby’s Alumni year medical student at the nearby Mayo Kinder Morgan, a large energy company next reunion. College, a program that was put together Medical School. Son Nick is living in Chi- based in Houston. “The oil patch has a number of years ago by Charlie Bassett. cago, working in a commercial real estate been a great place to be.” He noted that This summer’s topic was the Spanish Civil investment firm and taking night classes Houston had its coolest spring in memory. 1974 War, with four days of lectures, discussions, at the University of Chicago for his M.B.A. Doug considers himself lucky in so many Vicki Parker Kozak and films. Approximately 40 alumni and Daughter Sarah is in Austin, Texas, teach- ways, including going to Colby. He hopes Jill Gilpatric Richard guests attended. Mike said, “Colby did ing Spanish at a private prep school and we all see our years in Maine as one of our [email protected] a great job! It was still great wandering coaching the women’s golf team. Y For great life experiences. Doug is in Maine Happy fall! This column is the next to last those paths on Mayflower Hill. The Colby John Orefice it seems like only yesterday at least every other year for a couple of one before our 40th reunion, so we want to I knew in 1974 is a fond, distant memory, that he was listening to President Strider weeks—best sailing in the world! Y Betsy get everyone psyched up for coming back to but this summer’s experience helped to talk about serendipity. While driving his Bowen continues to teach English at Fair- campus next June. Mark your calendars for refresh my recollection. It was great to go daughter to Elon, N.C., for her senior year, field University in Connecticut, where she is the memories kept flooding back: Johnson happy to have been joined by another Colby Hall, Pizza by Norm, and Sandy Maisel’s grad, Michelle Farrell ’01. This summer bow ties! John retired two years ago from Joy Sawyer-Mulligan ’76 was honored with Betsy traveled to Kyrgyzstan to work with teaching and directing high school students the Excellence in Teaching Chair at the Thacher Central Asian business faculty on writing in Pelham, N.Y. He and his wife sold their in the business curriculum. Y Jay Sarson School, where she has taught for 29 years. Pelham home of many years and moved to is enjoying his new role in life: “Five grand- Atlantic Highlands, N.J., where they enjoy a children all under three. Three boys, two majestic view of Sandy Hook Bay and, on girls. More fun than your own children.” Y a clear day, Manhattan. While moving he Joy Sawyer-Mulligan was honored with the June 5-8, 2014, and “be there or be square.” back.” Y Howie Lazar wrote from Alaska discovered how much Colby memorabilia Excellence in Teaching Chair at the Thacher Y Mark O’Connell reported from Houston that his daughter, Jessica, started medi- he had saved, including boxes of Powder School, where she has taught for 29 years. that his son, Luke, joined the Colby Class of cal school at the University of Washington and Wig photos and posters. After post- She was recognized the day after writing 2017 as a Presidential Scholar. They trav- this fall. In March Howie was awarded the ing pictures on Facebook from Man of La a piece honoring Colby music professor eled to Maine last April to check out some 2013 Dung Beetle of the Year Award by one Mancha (fall of 1974), he reconnected Paul Machlin. (What goes around comes old haunts: the facilities on Messalonskee of his largest clients, Medical Insurance with fellow Powder and Wig alums Larry around!) Joy and her husband, Michael, Lake (since Luke is a rower), Camden, Exchange of California. He encouraged us Cappiello ’74, Claudia Schneider ’77, who is head of the school, celebrated their Belgrade Lakes, and the Chez (“Good to to use our imaginations as to what it was and John Mulcahy ’76. Y Katy Seabrook 32nd anniversary in June. Their daughter, see that the iconic dive is still standing!”). for. In October he plans to get together with Brunault finds it hard to believe that she Annie, graduated last year with honors from Mark introduced his family to fried and Bob Tommasino, Artie Bell, Remi Browne, has run her own dance studio, Hamilton- the University of Colorado, Denver, and steamed clams. Mark’s oldest daughter, Fred Traversi, and John Robbins for some Wenham School of Dance, for 20 years. was headed to law school after complet- Lillian, is a junior at LSU and enjoys the golf and R and R when he’s in Boston for It is such a joy for her to spend each day ing an advanced paralegal degree. Joy is Cajun lifestyle. Youngest daughter Elise several depositions. Y Robin Hamill-Ruth doing what she loves. Daughter Fiona has convinced Annie’s pursuit stems from all is also a rower and a pretty good artist, finally sold her house and downsized. Her her master’s in teaching and teaches the times she admonished Annie as a child and she is a sophomore at the Woodlands youngest (number six) graduated from high English at Pioneer Valley School for the with “So sue me!” Y This September the High School. Mark and wife Cyndi get to school a year early and is attending UCal Performing Arts. Fiona and her husband, East Bay Women in Business Roundtable their cabin on Lake Limestone in Texas for Berkeley. Robin looks forward to visiting a Ph.D. student, live in Easthampton, held its 15th annual reception and honored R and R whenever they get the chance. Y her and having an excuse to hang out Mass. Katy’s husband, Charlie, works our very own Dale Marie Crooks Golden Ed Hatch’s older son, Kevin, graduated in Napa Valley and sip wine on a regular for Sylvania. One highlight in her life MacDonald with its Trailblazer Award. From from Rosemary Choate Hall School with a basis. Sounds good to us! Y Your reunion was when Charlie bought her a cello my Facebook friendship with Dale Marie, 3.87 GPA and entered Duke University this committee has met through the fall to set for her birthday a few years ago. Katy I can see the energy and pride she has fall. Kevin created his own company called plans in motion. Please let us know if you played in high school and has found it from her work helping women and nonprofit Inspire Green and sells accessories for cell have any ideas for activities, music, or so rewarding to start playing again. Last organizations get the financing they need phones, tablets, etc. Ed’s younger son, special events. July Katy enjoyed seeing Andy and Susan to follow their dreams. Congratulations! Y Connor, is in his junior year and excels at Story Galt and Jim Peale ’77 and Carol Lydia McAnerney’s son, Andrew, graduated Salisbury School in Connecticut, where he McIntyre-Peale at their annual gathering from Augsburg College in Minneapolis while also plays varsity hockey. Ed lives quietly 1975 at the Galts’ 100-year-old camp on New daughter Rebecca is studying environmen- Susie Gearhart Wuest in Westchester, N.Y., doing some angel Hampshire’s Lake Lovell. Y Deborah Seel tal science at the University of Minneapolis. [email protected] investing and charity work. Y We were Palman, a retired game warden in Maine, Lydia notes, “Both are close enough that pleased to hear from Mark Pestana, who Mike ’76 and Mary Bastron Harper cel- is president of the Maine Association for we see them often, which is lovely.” Her is still alive in Grand Rapids, Mich., and still ebrated Mary’s 60th birthday with a won- Search and Rescue. In September she and husband, John, is starting to subcontract married to wife Mary Beth. His daughter, derful weeklong trip to Paris. Two months her dog, Quinn, put their skills to work out some of the heavy-lifting portion of his Stephanie, just started music school at the later Mary was recuperating at home in and found an 86-year-old Maine man landscape business, and Lydia continues as University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Minnesota from arthroscopic surgery on who had been missing from his Benton enrollment director at GRS in St. Paul. This and Mary Beth continues to homeschool her right knee to repair a meniscus tear, home for two nights. “Anytime anybody summer she drove to both the West and their son, Simon, a high school junior. This which was the result of falling on ice last is found, it’s a success,” Deborah told East Coast to celebrate her 60th year. (Yes, summer Mark visited his dad, a retired winter while walking their golden retriever, the Waterville Morning Sentinel. our class is approaching THAT milestone!)

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Y Jan Gorman retired from the insurance McLeod Rosenfield, Ina-Lee Toll Block, Tennessee. Their daughter is a sophomore others would join him and Mary Rolerson business this summer. She noted that it and Joanne Karlin Giudicelli. Y Colby can at Smith. Their son, a high school junior, Hebert, John Geismar, Mike Slavin, and was an interesting career but she needs probably look forward to applications from is starting to look at colleges. In August Ian Ogilvie for the fundraising ride. “It time for her bucket list. She planned to Alan MacEwan’s children. His sophomore Steve attended a small Phi Delta Theta would be cool to have a big ’78 group to start a small business providing “long-arm daughter, Louisa, who attended her third reunion hosted by Mike Harris ’76 in Bid- ride in memory of our classmates and raise quilting services” to quilters at quiltify.com, Maine Rowing Camp at Colby, insists that deford, Maine. Also in attendance were Al money,” Jim said. Y Speaking of Ian Ogil- essentially to fund her fabric addiction! Her Colby will be her first choice. His senior Shapiro ’76, Dan Sexton ’75, Marty Womer vie, his summer biking adventures started daughter and son-in-law are returning to son, Graham, is also a fan and likely to ’75, Diane McCoy (honorary Phi), Dean when he connected with Fritz Martin at the United States, so Jan can now travel to apply this fall. Alan notes, “The campus, places other than France and England. Her including the new Alfond-Lunder Family coda: “Most important, we are all healthy Pavilion at the art museum, is utterly Jane Hoffman ’77 continues to find rewards in and happy.” Y John Lumbard writes that spectacular.” Y Jane Hoffman continues helping college applicants make sense of the his daughters “are successfully launched.” to find rewards in helping college applicants Youngest daughter Laura is in a manage- make sense of the process via her business, process via her business, College Advice 101. ment training program at PepsiCo; eldest College Advice 101. Jane’s son, Daniel, daughter KC decided, on completion of a graduated from Oberlin and is seeking master’s program in counseling, to become a career in art in northern California; her Eaton ’73, Bob Walsh ’75, Howie Tuttman our 35th reunion in June. Ian and Fritz a rowing coach. John recently sang in a daughter, Rachel, works in Brooklyn, N.Y., ’76, Mike Sherrill ’74, and Charlie LeRoyer rode some of the Central Maine NEMBA Nashua Symphony chorus with our class- dispersing reparations to Austrian victims ’75. The plan is to hold this event again in trails through Colby and around Waterville. mate Peter Labombarde. He sees Peter Coz of the Holocaust. Jane and her husband the future. Y Ken Colton wonders, “What Fritz was having so much fun he bought ’75 on business trips to California, which are now trying to “raise” three Siamese lawyer can resist the Blarney Stone?” He a new (to him) bike before heading back always include soccer with a Mission Bay cats—or the cats are trying to raise them! and his wife had a “grand time” in Cork, to Vermont. Since then Ian has been four pickup group and surfing lessons in Encini- Y Denise Martell Martin is very pleased Dublin, and points in between before set- times to the Kingdom Trails in East Burke, tas. For years John has longed for a client to have a granddaughter. She didn’t think ting out for a friend’s wedding in Norway in Vt., where more than 100 miles of single in Utah and now has two in Park City. The it would take this long given that she and the Nor Fjord region. After seeing awesome track weave through the town, offering what result? He skied there just before Easter. her husband started the next generation scenery, they had a short stay in Oslo, then Ian describes as an amazing experience. Y That wraps up this column. Look forward fairly early and they had more children flew back to the U.S.Y My wife, Dale, and Ian also took part in the Carrabassett next time to updates from Diane Lockwood (four) than most in our generation. When I were also at Blarney Castle this summer Backcountry Cycle Challenge and rode 100 Wendorf and Paul Kueffner—and maybe not doting on her granddaughter (and but decided that kissing a spot on a rock kilometers in Carrabassett Valley, Maine. you! Please remember to send your Colby impatiently awaiting a cousin for her to play that thousands of others had kissed in the Ian recently visited with Bill Middleton at Fund donation. Look for us on Facebook with), Denise helps businesses gain sales preceding hours (“or possibly licked,” Dale his place on Diamond Cove just off Portland, under Colby College Class of 1976. through her proprietary training program noted) was unappealing. Call us prudes, Maine. Bill and his wife, Gloria, are between that applies sales psychology based on I guess! moving from Almaty, Kazakhstan, to New understanding people. Y Susan Ferrari Delhi for a warm-weather experience. Y 1977 Dwyer is married to John Dwyer ’78. They 1978 Greg Jordan lives in Carlsbad, Calif., and his Kevin Farnham live in Los Angeles, but Susan loves spend- family took an Alaskan cruise this summer. Nancy Piccin [email protected] ing time in her hometown, Plymouth, Mass. During the trip they visited the Tracy Arm [email protected] Alan Taylor will continue to teach at the Susan is a performing songwriter. Her band Fjord and picked up a book about it, which University of California at Davis this year. is the Strands, and she invites Colbyites to Greetings, classmates! My plea for fabulous happened to be written by Nick Jans ’77. Beginning in August 2014, he’ll hold the check out her gigs, which happen mostly in vacation news was answered in spades. I Y Steve Jacobs pronounced his summer Thomas Jefferson Chair in American His- Venice and Santa Monica, Calif. Y Richard am pleased to say I connected with many “superb” as he took his daughter Emily tory at the University of Virginia. Alan’s Conant spent a month in Paris visiting his Colby friends this summer, starting at the camping in Wyoming and Montana for new book, The Internal Enemy: Slavery wife’s family, and their son stayed on to wonderful reunion in June. I encourage all two weeks. Steve summited two 10,000+ and War in Virginia, 1772-1832, is now hike 500 miles on El Camino de Santiago of you to go to the Class of ’78 Facebook footers on that trip and reported that he page to see photos of about a dozen of us also achieved personal records in 5K, 10K, owning the dance floor into the wee hours. and half marathons over the summer. He Y Outgoing class president Jim Cook and also doffed a hat to the Bar Harbor Blue- Steve Ford ’77 and his wife are still farming his wife, Sue Conant Cook ’75, toured the berry Ale produced by Doug Maffucci’s in Alabama, and Steve teaches economics at French wine country this summer, but Jim Atlantic Brewing Company—Steve tried the Sewanee—the University of the South in says the French he learned at Colby was the ale during a camping trip to Mount sadly rusty. When he returned, he con- Desert Island. Y In August I had a great Tennessee. nected in Marshfield, Mass., with Laura weekend with Anne Marie Hobson Pesarik Hyer and Eddie Smith, who was visiting at her family’s beach accommodations in from Denver. Laura was sorry to have Rye, N.H. Anne Marie and I reminisced missed the official reunion in June but was about our senior-year adventures with the available. Y Amy Schenck Frankel has de Compostela (the Way). While skiing happy to connect with Jim and Eddie. “We late Steve Sparkes, and she entertained lived in New York City for 35 years. She over the winter, he happened to ride up a had an absolutely wonderful time catching my daughter with stories about how I was runs a graphic design and branding agency, chairlift at Sugarbush with a stranger who up, laughing, hanging out on the beach, always losing my shoes back in 1978. IF Studio, focusing mainly on residential turned out to be Jenny Frutchy Ford ’76. and taking a swim in the cold Atlantic,” Thanks a lot, Hobson. After that I spent a real estate. Family life revolves around Dick says, “You never know where you’ll she said. Jim planned to participate in the great weekend in Gloucester, Mass., with a her husband, Martin, her son, Drew, and run into a Colbyite!” Y Steve Ford and Patrick Dempsey Center for Cancer Hope crew that included Lindy Williams ’79, Bill her stepchildren, Laura and Andrew (all of his wife are still farming in Alabama, and and Healing’s Dempsey Challenge ride, Oct. Muller ’79, Howie Ingraham ’79, Jim Coull the children are now adults). Amy’s been Steve teaches economics part time at the 12-13 in Lewiston. Noting that we have lost ’80, John Longley ’80, Jack McBride ’80, in contact with Claudia Schneider, Janet Sewanee—the University of the South in several classmates to cancer, Jim hoped and Kevin ’80 and Robin Gathany Shea

54 COLBY / FALL 2013 ’80. I missed seeing Kristin White and Jim at Colby after graduation, she designed at the Wellesley College Child Study Center Y Our classmate on the Hill, Cate Talbot Shaw ’79, but maybe next year. Y Thanks to a couple of brochures for the Admissions under the direction of her Colby roommate Ashton, reported that graduation was more everyone who has been so accommodating, Office. While raising her kids, she earned a Sue Horwitz Kerr Miller. Liz’s husband, fun than ever with six of our classmates and I hope you’ll all keep the news coming. degree in commercial art and did freelance Barry ’79, keeps busy with his consulting watching their kids graduate: Paul and And join that class Facebook page! graphic work. Now an empty nester, she work and teaching part time at the school Kathy McCullough Wade (Callie), Glenn has found her way back to art as a glass of management at BU. The Horwitzes Davis (Caitlin), Joanne Shannon O’Donnell artist assisting Craig Mitchell Smith, a rising recently met up with Lisa Pacun ’79, who (Colleen), Joel Solomon (Rose), and Sue 1979 kiln-formed glass artist. Jane enjoys going was visiting from England. Liz’s daughter, Horwitz Kerr Miller (Malcolm). Congratula- Cheri Bailey Powers to work. Both kids are in North Carolina Ali, is back after 14 months studying Chi- tions to all! [email protected] working after college. Wes, 25, is pursu- nese in Taiwan and is working as an office Before I start with news, remember that ing a master’s in statistical analytics, and manager at an accounting firm. Her son, our 35th reunion is June 5-8, 2014. Please Rachel, 23, runs a restaurant in Burlington Michael, manages a Legal Seafood and is 1981 mark your calendar. Y Peter Greenberg’s and teaches high school math. Y As for engaged to be married next fall. Y Friends Steph Vrattos son, Michael, graduated from Skidmore in me, Cheri Bailey Powers, Tom and I are since freshman year on first-floor Dana, Amy [email protected] the spring with a degree in molecular biol- no longer empty nesters. Our youngest, Wight Chapman, Elizabeth Stuart Bailey, Two-year breast cancer survivor Eleanor ogy and is now employed at Regeneron, an Meredith, moved home to attend UCCS Elisabeth Eustis Paine, and Cate Talbot Campbell and her fiancé are moving up-and-coming pharmaceutical company. (University of Colorado at Colorado Springs) Ashton all got together for a weekend at to Ambler, Pa., and will wed in April. Y Daughter Sara is spending her first semester here in town. We’re happy to have her home, Amy’s family’s camp in Woodstock, Maine. Saranna Robinson Thornton ran into Pro- of her junior year abroad at Reutlingen Uni- and she’s very happy with her decision to Thirty-seven years and they never run out fessor Tom Morrione ’65 at a philanthropy versity in Germany studying international transfer since the teaching program is more of things to talk and laugh about! Y Mimi educators conference in Palo Alto, where business. Peter and his wife enjoy being hands-on and provides the opportunity to Brodsky Kress’s company has been build- she and Katy Young dined on Maine lobster. empty nesters and look forward to vising tutor in local schools. My oldest, Kayleigh, ing 20-plus custom homes a year in the Y After being diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Sarah this fall. Y Bruce Brown is very proud is also attending UCCS as a graduate strong D.C. luxury housing market. Mimi’s lymphoma last year, Tom Schofield’s of his son, Ryan, for earning his Eagle rank student, earning her master’s in special learning to be an empty nester, as her daughter Colby organized a team for the in Boy Scouts. He attended the national education. I’m happy to start singing after youngest just started at the University of Pan-Mass Challenge charity bike ride. Boy Scout Jamboree in West Virginia last the summer off, singing with Soli Deo Gloria Georgia’s School of Social Work. Mimi had The team, including David Ryley and Jeff summer. Ryan is a high school sophomore. and acting as treasurer. Y Betsy Bucklin an AWESOME time with Mike and Gretchen McLaughlin, and raised over $100,000. Y Sharing news for the first time is Laurel Reddy planned a late-September trip to Huebsch Daly at the Sun Valley wedding Joel Cutler provided dinner and lodging for Johnson Black. Laurel’s daughter, Willa, California and Utah to tour several national of Debbie Pugh Kelton’s son Tucker ’07 to David and Jeff. “The experience of riding attends Seton Hill University, where her parks and visit her daughter Maggie, who Elizabeth Morbeck ’07. Y Sonia Turcotte across the finish line with my daughter father, Bill, is the archivist and teaches a lives in Salt Lake City and works at American Fois’s oldest, Andrew, started this fall as a is one of our greatest moments ever.” Y course on spirituality and religion. Laurel’s Apparel. Daughter Emily recently moved music composition major at NYU. Y Greg Now in her 20th year at Kennebec Valley family was recently the focus of a segment from Colorado Springs to the Boston area Mills’s oldest son, Sam, planned to start at Community Action Program in Waterville, of The Ghost Inside My Child, a show on Program Director Michele Adams Prince the Biography Channel that explores claims attended Poverty Institute 2013 in Machias, of reincarnation. Laurel teaches writing at Maine, and hosted a summer visit with Indiana University of Pennsylvania and also Michele Adams Prince ’81 , now in her 20th Karen Baumstark Porter, Karen Pfeiffer advises the paranormal society there. After year at Kennebec Valley Community Action Jones, and Susan Robertson Kuzia ’82. Y 17 years of being cancer-free, she was Program in Waterville, attended Poverty In addition to celebrating their 26th anni- recently diagnosed with breast cancer—not versary, Connecticut attorney and western a recurrence, a new cancer. It was caught Institute 2013 in Machias. Massachusetts resident Linda Clifford early, though, and she has finished a Hadley and her husband have a son starting summer of chemotherapy. Y Just back from college in Chicago, another son already in a tremendous family cruise through Alaska, college, and a daughter who graduated Sam Koch is ready for another season of and teaches middle school art. Betsy Clemson University. Sam was captain of his and is a nurse at Hartford Hospital. Linda coaching soccer at UMass. Oldest son sends greetings to classmates and reminds high school robotics team that placed 21st frequently sees Jay Krusell, Chris Morrill, Christopher is at Washington College for everyone to SAVE THE DATE for our 35th, out of 2,600 teams at the world champion- Brian Picard, and Peter Greenberg ’79, his sophomore year. Sam’s second son, June 5-8, 2014. Betsy and Emily Grout ships in St. Louis. Greg was a victim of the and she stays in touch with Bob Ruzzo and Jeff, the family actor/dancer, is attending Sprague are reunion co-chairs, and they massive layoffs in the financial industry, but Alison Jones Webb. Y Mark Bloom posts NMH for his junior and senior years. Ben, a welcome your participation on the reunion he has kept busy riding his bike (just did a monthly travel stories as a guest blogger sophomore in high school, plays soccer and committee. Please call either of them if 50-mile and is training for a century) and for The Gypsy Girl Travel Blog (rileybanks. is the family Xbox champion. Katie, the prin- you’d like to help out, and please plan to adding to his arsenal of professional skills net/gypsy-girl-travel-blog.html). Check out cess, does everything the boys do and then attend our 35th. in the hope of working for a progressive his bio! Y Jodie Hewey Murphy’s younger some—soccer, basketball, softball, dance company in the NYC metro area, Georgia, or son is at the University of New England, classes, student council, Girl Scouts, etc. the Carolinas. Y Maureen Flint DiStasio’s and her oldest graduated from Clarkson Wife Suzanne works for the DA’s office as a 1980 oldest son, Mick, just graduated from Trinity University. Y Dani Nemec Micsan’s son is forensic interviewer for child abuse cases. Tom Marlitt and is heading to Northumbria University in a Wake Forest freshman. Y Pam Heleen’s This Dec. 12 they’ll be married 21 years. [email protected] Newcastle, England, for his master’s and to son, Alex, performed in upstate New York’s Y While at Colby Jane Venman Ledebuhr Liz Yanagihara Horwitz had a busy summer. continue playing basketball. Her son Lou Skaneateles Summer Theatre production majored in human development, mostly In addition to playing in a flute, violin, and attends URI on a basketball scholarship and of Les Miserables, which Pam costumed. because she felt she needed an education guitar group called Trio di Canto, she showed will be a sophomore this year. When Mo’s She then drove daughter Kaitlin back to in a more acceptable field than what she her art at the Aquatro Gallery in Gloucester, not watching her kids’ sporting events, she Nashville for her sophomore year at Vander- really wanted to study—art. While working Mass. This fall she’s working one day a week works part time at North Face in Freeport. bilt. Y Christian Melby enjoyed a family

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trip to Rome and Capri with a drive down family have moved aboard and launched. nington, Vt., is employed as the executive payola for the alumni fund!). Y Great to hear the coast to Naples, Pompeii, Amalfi, and They plan to live on the boat and cruise for director of the Bennington County Regional from Billy Lloyd, who lives in a beautiful Positano. Y Take a listen to Joel Harris’s a year or so, and Jen would love to connect Commission, and occasionally dabbles in farming community, Geneseo, N.Y., where daughter Phoebe playing lead guitar for the with any Colby classmates along the East politics. He fully expects to submit another he moved right out of college. Because all-female punk band Potty Mouth, out of Coast and ICW. Y Ann Renner Stillwater update 31 years from now. Y That’s all for his mother’s family had settled the area Northampton, Mass., featured recently on graduated from Cambridge College with her now, folks! in days of yore, there’s a lot of extended NPR: npr.org/2013/09/01/216461958/ M.Ed. in school nursing this summer. She family, which sews up the social life nicely. first-listen-potty-mouth-hell-bent.Y Faith reconnected with Ron Shapiro in Boston In addition to his work for Merrill Lynch Bramhall Rodenkirk’s children swim for while in college in July 2012, and Ron and 1983 Rochester, Billy rents out land to a mix of the University of Pittsburgh. Daughter his spouse visited Ann in Harrisburg in July Jennifer Thayer Naylor dairy, crop, and sheep operations as well Lindsey is a sophomore, and son Alex, a 2013. Y For the past nine months Lesley [email protected] as some timbering. He has all the benefits senior and team captain, competed in last DeYulio DeFio has been a clinical enroll- Hey, gang, here’s my first column without of living on a farm without the need for a summer’s U.S. Open swim championships ment manager with Parexel International, training wheels. I just dropped my son off at new wardrobe—or, as Billy says, “Life in in California. Y Beth Pniewski Wilson, and her job allows her to travel. She recently Kimball Union Academy, now in its 11th year small-town western New York is balanced Lynne Bruen Winter, Janet Blau Cobb, visited with Mimi Brodsky Kress ‘80 in under Mike Schafer’s capable leadership. between office and farm work, family, and Ellen Owens Dion, Nancy Welsh Isbell, friends.” Bill and wife Meg have two sons and Lynn McLaren all met at Darlene out of college (including Coyne ’11) and two Howland and Steve Pfaff’s house in daughters in college. This is their second Wellesley, Mass., for an old-fashioned Rich Schwermer ’83 is the chair of the Utah year of an empty nest with a chance to summer barbecue. Earlier that day, Beth State Drug Court programs, a system designed travel. Maybe ColbyBnB can send Bill and ran into Bob Ruzzo, who had just joined Meg some invites, hmm? Y Sue Sheehan the Boston law firm of Holland & Knight. to achieve recovery in place of incarceration. and Rich Schwermer had dinner with Chip Y After living in Florida for 28 years, Robin He finds the work very fulfilling. Rooney and his lovely wife, Jan, when they Bickford Brisebois returned to Oakland, were in the Salt Lake City area. “We hadn’t Maine, in October 2011. Y Judi Greene seen Chip in 20 years. He is still brilliant, Stewart’s daughter, Ramsay, graduated acerbic, and warm-hearted. It was great from Hamilton College in May and now Baltimore and Beth Garrido Graham ’81 It was great to see him and hear about his to catch up and swap stories about the works for a consulting firm in Boston.Y in Boston. Y This summer Walter Judge globetrotting in service to KUA’s message of kids.” Rich is the chair of the Utah State Bob “Clarkie” Clark played in the Junior caught up with Adam Weiss ’83 and Becca curriculum, community, and commitment. Drug Court programs, a system designed Achievement charity golf tournament at Cunningham-Weiss ’84, who also live in Mike lives on campus with his wife, Gayle, to achieve recovery in place of incarcera- Turner Hill in Ipswich, Mass., with Steve the Burlington, Vt., area, and with Jamie and two school-age daughters. My son is tion. He finds the work very rewarding and Pfaff, Joel Harris, and Scott Vandersall. Engert, who came through Burlington for a thrilled to leave reform school behind for loves to see lives transformed. Sue is the Y Marisa D’Andrea Barber and Pam Ellis visit. Adam and Becca have two daughters a more upbeat and nurturing environment executive director of the Huntsman Cancer had a great time in Portland, Maine, shop- currently at Colby. Walter traveled to the with chocolate-chip cookies on Wednes- Foundation. Their son, Josh, completed his ping in the Old Port and having dinner at wilds of western Maine and visited Geoff ’81 days. Y In Irvine, Calif., Mike Collins’s degree in biomedical/computer engineer- the Sebago Brewery. Y Living in Monterey, and Barbie Fallows Ives at their beautiful four sons and his small businesses keep ing and has his own IT company; their Calif., with husband Ken and son Gabe, 13, spot in Cornish. While there they went to him and his wife, Lyann, very busy. Despite daughter is a communications major at Paulette Lynch was honored as one of the Ebenezer’s Pub in Lovell, Maine, which has Mike’s fervent hope that one of his sons the University of Utah, where she hosts Outstanding Women of Monterey County. been rated the best beer bar in America and will land on Mayflower Hill, Mike’s second a radio show called The Giggs on WBAR. I found Paulette speaking on her work at where they ran into Laurellie Jacobs Mar- son, Paul, headed to Tufts this fall. Mike’s Y Nishit Mehta has my fantasy gig: He youtube.com/watch?v=cqZL0qW6DLg. tinez ’84 and her lovely family. Y Duncan businesses include selling water-filtration has retired from his teaching, writing, and Y Beginning her 17th year at Lawrence McGillivray (Pomona exchange student, equipment to the leisure water industry and psychotherapy practice and now divides Academy in Groton, Mass., Leslie Breton fall ’81) has many fond memories of his time electric motors to commercial end users his leisure time between New Mexico and is in her 33rd year of teaching math. She at Colby, especially of Kim Konieczny ’83, through electricmotor.com. The economic Paris, France. Y Keep the e-mail coming. reported some old news: “I got a phone whom we lost too soon, and the Class of downturn hit the businesses pretty hard. I LOVED hearing from all of you who wrote, call from Colby in 2008 saying they had ’82. He wishes everyone well. Duncan cur- Lyann writes that their response has been and I thank spouses who took on the task found my Colby class ring. I had lost it while rently serves as the chief operating officer to work harder and smarter. As a coach in with such flair. coaching softball in 1983!” for Healthcare Community Development the community leagues, Mike has kept up Group, LLC, a hospital- and medical clinic- with his love of baseball, bringing kids to focused financial advisory and investment the game that has given so much joy to 1984 1982 company. Y Nancy Briggs Marshall’s son him and his boys. Please, old friends, get Mary Kate Whalen Sarah LickDyke Morissette Craig ’15 is spending a junior semester back in touch: [email protected]. [email protected] [email protected] abroad from Colby in New Zealand, where Y Tyger Nicholas has one son on Mayflower Tammy Jones Howe lives in Ipswich, Mass., Roger Valliere’s son, Jeff, started dental he is taking classes and ski racing. He’s had Hill; Harry ’16 completed his freshman year with her husband, Scott, and daughters school at Indiana University in July. Jeff some great race finishes while there. He will making dean’s list and playing football Phoebe and Charlotte. She and Phoebe plans to join Roger, Roger’s wife, Brenda, be back in time to compete with the Colby and lacrosse for the Mules. Tyger lives in recently visited Colby for a tour and inter- and his father-in-law, Ralph, in their Fort ski team this winter. Nancy planned to head Stonington with his wife and his daughter, view, and Tammy took the opportunity to Wayne, Ind., dental practice when he gradu- down under to spend two weeks with him Sarah, 19. After 20 years in corporate catch up with Professor Ed Yeterian over ates in four years. Roger notes that his in October. Y Jim Sullivan has been hard America, he went the startup route and lunch. Phoebe looked forward to applying father was a dentist too, so Jeff will be the at work for the past 31 years not sending seems to have had a successful exit. I also to Colby later this fall. Tammy is a forensic third generation on both sides! Y After 18 any information about himself to Colby. He learned that he’s hung up the trademark psychologist in Massachusetts. Y David months in Maine restoring their 1937 ketch, has two daughters and two grandsons, lives red All-Stars for Stan Smith Adidas (Hello, “Rosie” Rosenberg, John Ayer, Bill Shee- Arabella, Jen Maire Hagemann and her with his wife, Leslie Addison, in North Ben- Adidas, we’ll take the product placement han, and Warren Burroughs played in the

56 COLBY / FALL 2013 Agassiz Village Annual Golf Tournament where they toured, kayaked, and enjoyed a in August. Thanks to Warren’s stellar play, fabulous salmon barbecue on Eliot Bay. Y they pulled off a first-place finish. Agassiz 80s newsmakers Barbara Knox lives in Oakland, Calif. After is a nonprofit camp for underprivileged kids 11 years teaching ESL to adult immigrants, Artist Liz Yanagihara Horwitz ’80 exhibited her in Maine. Rosie also reports that Bill has she’s teaching academic English in an micro-origami earrings and three-dimensional paper embraced PX90 training, and Bill says, “I English-intensive setting for City College sculptures in traditional Japanese fan shapes at feel like I’m 21 again!” Y Nils Gjesteby still in San Francisco. She picked up an extra Aquatro Gallery in Gloucester, Mass., this summer has his Ships Chandlery business, but he through Oct. 14. F The Monterey County Commission class for San Francisco State training the has ventured into liquor distribution and is on the Status of Women and the Monterey County IT department in ESL. Barbara’s son is a importing a proprietary vodka blend from Board of Supervisors honored Paulette Lynch ’81 as sophomore at Santa Clara University, where Norway under the name Simple Vodka. one of the Outstanding Women of Monterey County for he was recruited to play Division I soccer. Y Earlier this summer, David Rosenberg her efforts to increase opportunities in the arts and Barb’s daughter, a high school sophomore, attended the first-ever Colby rugby reunion education. Lynch is the executive director of the Arts took a trip to Costa Rica and participated with Warren Burroughs, Kate Shaw, Joy Council for Monterey County. F Maine Superior Court in a service learning project. Barbara Valvano, Lori Sturgeon Davis, and Ann Liz Yanagihara Horwitz ’80 Justice John Nivison ’82 was named a U.S. magistrate had a mini-reunion with Barbara Wilkes Poolos Bailey. Bob Ruzzo ’81 and Bob judge beginning in 2014. As a federal judge, Nivison Sheehan, Valerie Madden ’86, and Valerie’s Benjamin ’82 were also in attendance. will primarily preside in Bangor. He was appointed to the Maine District Court in husband, Rob O’Hara. Valerie and Rob own Y Kimberley Fitch and Bob Zogg were 1999 and to the Superior Court in 2007. F In September Nicholas Papapetros a coffeehouse, Natterjacks, in England. Y married in May at the Old North Bridge ’87 was featured in the Boston Globe for 20-plus years of family dentistry at Village Dave and Cory Humphreys Serrano live in Dental Group in Shrewsbury, Mass. in Concord, Mass. Kimberley works for Needham with daughters Marisa ’15 , who’s a sustainable-food-systems nonprofit, in Barcelona for her semester abroad, and and Bob works for an energy efficiency Erica, who’s at Berklee College of Music in from anyone visiting the Northwest. Y Rob consulting firm. Kimberley enjoys yoga, 1985 Boston. Cory has mixed feelings about this Hazard attended a 50th birthday party and both Bob and Kimberley enjoy cross- Katie Hollander Adams empty-nest phase “but won’t miss waiting for Andy Sheehan on Lake Winnisquam in [email protected] up for kids to blow through their curfew!” country skiing, canoeing, and yard work Meredith, N.H. The party was planned by Y Thanks for the news, everyone. at their Carlisle, Mass., home. Kimberley Thanks to all who caught the despera- Andy’s wife, Barbara Wilkes Sheehan. Bill would love to connect with any alumni tion in my e-mail request for news—I was Donahue ’86 was there. “As Andy is a grad in the area. E-mail her at peerprint@ inundated! Y Dave Heller graduated school alum of the University of Texas, the 1986 yahoo.com. Y Marian Leerburger wrote from the Graduate School of Retail Bank party had a distinctly Longhorn theme with Henrietta “Hank” Yelle as she was sending her son, Alec, off to Management held at Furman University this great barbecue and Texas microbrews.” [email protected] his sophomore year at Elmira College in summer. He’s not sure he wants to run a Y Buster Clegg got married Aug. 25 and western New York, where he is majoring in bank, but it was an interesting experience, moved across town to a new home in Hi, friends. Lots of updates on the work psychology and is a goalie for the hockey especially dorm life and college food. Dave Newburyport, Mass. Buster’s two kids join people do. The diversity of employment team. Her daughter, Katie, is a junior in has a 7-year-old in third grade. Y Sean his wife’s kids, and they range from 8 to choices is fascinating, yet many touch 21. Buster’s son, the oldest, is a senior at on common threads: living in or making Y Washington College in Maryland. Y Mike regular visits to Maine—and family. Ann Ann Sanborn Ciulla ’86 is a private Muir begins his term as president of the Sanborn Ciulla writes from Orange County, Calif., that she is a private investigator with investigator with her own business, ARC Association for Middle Level Education, which advances the education of students her own business, ARC Investigations. She Investigations, in Orange County, Calif. She ages 10 to 15, helping them succeed as primarily works on criminal defense cases primarily works on criminal defense cases. learners and supporting educators who around serious felonies. She loves her job work with them. Y Mickie Linder Simpson despite typically crazy hours of 60 hours juggles working as an associate broker with per week. Her life is not all work. She also Sotheby’s International Realty and life with keeps busy with her three kids: Maddy, in two teenagers. She resettled in the D.C. area her first year at Cal State San Luis Obispo; high school and is starting the dreaded Padgett and wife Ann-Meg White dropped and would love to get together with anyone Nicky, a high school sophomore; and Noah, interview process at colleges. Katie is a daughter Cat off at Colby for freshman year. there for “drinks and adult conversation.” Y an eighth grader. Recently they traveled to Junior Olympic acrobatic gymnast who They stopped in York to visit Catherine Julie Sands Causey still runs a community Boston and Cape Cod as well as London. placed seventh in the country at nation- Stehman-Breen and meet her daughter, bank in Minnesota and is finishing a term She’d love to hear from classmates at arc- als in July. She has been invited to join Erin, also a freshman. Catherine has a on the board of directors of the Federal [email protected]. Y As the director famed Olympic gymnastics coach Bela son at Bowdoin; she’s looking forward to Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. She and of compensation at MaineGeneral Health, Karolyi’s Age Group Development Team the Colby/Bowdoin rivalry! Y Kevin Bruen her husband are empty nesters—all three Laurie Clark works at the beautifully and will go to Karolyi’s Camp in Texas in also has a freshman at Colby this year. He boys in college—and enjoyed two weeks at renovated Hathaway building in Waterville November for a week of training. Katie recently took a family trip to Tokyo. Y Terry their solar-powered cabin on an island on and frequently goes out of her way to drive plans to interview at Colby during reunion Martin was elected to the Maine Education Rainy Lake in Canada. She had dinner in through campus on her way to meetings at next June. Y Which leads me to this clos- Association board of directors. Y John Boston last winter with Kate Lucier O’Neil, Thayer Hospital. She loves seeing all the ing note. Please save the date—June 5-8, Schleck lives in the Seattle area with his Gretchen Bean Bergill, and John O’Connor changes on campus. Y Bill Kules was 2014—for the 30th reunion of the Class wife, Beth, and two boys, Erich and Brody. in honor of the 25th anniversary of their recently appointed chair of the Department of 1984. The highlight of the weekend will John and family visited the U.K., where his year abroad in France. Y Gretchen Bean of Library and Information Science at Catho- be my turning over the pen for this column father lived for many years. Brody discov- Bergill and husband Stefan were on the lic University in Washington, D.C. He tries to to a worthy, eager successor (or to David ered the Big Nate series by Linc Peirce college circuit with son Nik. They toured get back to Maine at least every summer. Rosenberg). In the meantime, keep those and carried one of the books everywhere the Pacific Northwest and visited Lynn Y Andy Burns’s heart soars and breaks as e-mails coming. he went in London. John would love to hear Brunelle and family on Bainbridge Island, his second child leaves for college. Having

COLBY / FALL 2013 57 ALUMNI AT LARGE two kids out of the house but still on the 1987 into the surf. Soon they became friends Colhoun Wilson, who responded so gra- payroll, and two more waiting in the middle Scott Lainer and were getting into deep philosophical ciously to my request for some words about and elementary school wings, keeps him [email protected] conversations about the nature of humanity their close friend and a friend of so many focused. Having put down roots in Kentucky, and the best time to catch a seal. As they from our class. Their incredible tribute: We Andy appreciates summertime, fog-cooled, I didn’t get a lot of news for this issue, which became better acquainted, Tim would ride are profoundly saddened to report that is a classic hallmark of summertime. Most bluegrass mornings, fine bourbon, and that whale each morning, waving to his pals our dear friend and classmate Margaret people were out having fun in the sun while proximity to an international airport to the seagulls and the ospreys. Eventually MacGillivray Schafer Gallin, 46, passed I sat in a dark room and wondered where maintain a sometimes hectic schedule of Tim developed gills and was able to swim away peacefully in her home July 3 after the time went. But two people did submit running, lecturing, or proselytizing about with the many fishes he now calls family. a long illness. Margaret is survived by her their updates, which means I get to offer project management. Y Heather Freeman Except for the ones he occasionally eats. loving husband, Joe, two beautiful children, more details into the exciting lives of some Black has reflects on what she appreci- But don’t take my word for it. You can read all Alexandra “Lexie,” 8, and Matthew “Mattie,” rather extraordinary people. Please note ates most—her daughter, her husband of about Tim’s unlikely childhood adventures 5; her parents, Bob and Dee Schafer of that there may be some embellishment. 20 years, wonderful pets, and a life that in his new book: The Killer Whale I Rode Mentor, Ohio, and Kiawah Island, S.C.; Y Let’s start with Jeff Russell. Common lets her enjoy her photography, volunteer When I Was Growing Up on the Beaches of and her sister, Elizabeth, of Chevy Chase, nicknames include “J.R.,” “The Big J,” work, involvement with performing arts Chatham until I Developed Gills, After Which Md. After graduating from Colby, Margaret and “Lord Jeffington.” Aside from being and sports, and traveling. It was brought I Became Kindred with the Fishes Except began her professional career as an intern a licensed pilot and the former president into focus when she and her family were for the Ones I Ate. He should probably at ABC Sports. Over the next 20 years, she of Spain, J.R. got married! Is that exciting evacuated from their Sun Valley, Idaho, work on that title. Tim had a beer recently rose through the ranks until she became a or what? Plenty of famous people keep home this summer, running from one of with Brian Low in Frisco (which is short for director. She traveled the globe covering stringing us along with their endless biggest and most intense wildfires in recent such events as the Tour de France, downhill “engagements”—like that Jennifer Aniston San Francisco if you’re really cool). He has history. Fortunately their home was spared. skiing, speed skating, world gymnastics character, who seems like someone who been toiling away diligently for Prudential Y Lee A. Kubishta shared that her family championships, men’s and women’s golf would fall hopelessly in love with me so I Real Estate Investors over the past nine spends every weekend at their camp on tours, Monday Night Football, and two try to avoid her. And good gravy, will Brad years. On a side note, although Tim is not Great East Lake in Maine. She and Tom Super Bowls. She also spent a large part ever marry Angelina? Ha! Fat chance. But allowed to dispense investment advice, entertained their two teenagers and four of her career covering college football, Lord Jeffington took the plunge. Now he I will take the liberty of offering this one friends for a three-day end-of-summer can appear on The Newlywed Game and little nugget: Buy Hawaii. If you can afford including several Rose Bowls and BCS weekend. The refrigerator was empty, the maybe win a beautiful new bedroom set it, Hawaii has a lot of upside, including national championship games. She went boat gas tank was empty (three times), from Broyhill. He can file a joint tax return. the trade winds, fresh pineapple, and the on to work with the Golf Channel covering but the kids were full of enough energy He can check “married” on job applica- ukulele, and very little downside, except the Champions Tour for many years. Those to harness and run Colby. Lee suggests a tions. Oh, the perks of marriage! Y And for poi, which tastes even worse than it of you who knew Margaret may recall that Y new teen-powered green initiative. Chris then there’s Tim Hennessey. Here is a man sounds. Y Finally, tempting as it is, please she was a sports fanatic with a lifelong love Engstrom and I enjoyed some mini-Colby so refined they named a brand of cognac remember that befriending a killer whale of all things Cleveland. She rarely missed reunions this summer. David Quillen made a Colby football or hockey game. She was a hop to Boston after dropping his oldest able to transition her passion into a career child, Michael, in Connecticut for a week- that was both fun and exciting. Despite her long “camp” at the Coast Guard Academy. This column will celebrate the life of a fellow fulfilling career, Margaret’s real passion was David is the perfect houseguest, arriving classmate, television sports producer Margaret her family and friends. Her family recently with Scotch, taking us on a late-night run relocated back to the Cleveland area, where to our local Asian grocery store, and cook- MacGillivray Schafer Gallin ’88, who passed she was able to reconnect with former high ing an Asian dinner for us the next night. away July 3 after a long illness. school classmates and friends. She and her The next weekend we hosted David’s wife, family spent time enjoying the community Amy, and son Michael after “camp” while she loved—going to dance recitals, school David held down the fort in Gainesville, Fla., plays, metroparks, the arboretum, KCC, with younger kids Josh and Emma. The next after him before he was even born. Tim is is a rare feat, so do not go someplace like parades, and local high school football week Christian Barner and wife Jen hosted also listed in the Guinness Book of World Sea World and think you can “pull a Tim,” games. We had the pleasure of spending us and Eric Pendleton for a weekend of Records for completing the highest pole as the saying goes. Riding whales is only a few days with Margaret, Joe, Lexie, and eating, laughing, and general goofiness at vault without the use of a pole. Currently meant for trained professionals who have Mattie in May. Lexie showed us her school, their home in Kennebunkport—plus water- Tim lives and works in the spectacular spent years studying oceanography. And and Mattie pointed out where he would skiing on a nearby lake. We saw Eric again San Francisco Bay area, where he enjoys Tim. Stay well. be going to kindergarten. We visited their along with Colette Cote for a wild midweek fly-fishing (which, in case you wondered, beautiful home and walked around their birthday celebration for our dear friend is not fishing for flies), playing hockey, and 1988 village center, enjoying ice cream and Fred Elias, whom many French majors will Lake Tahoe. He has two 11-year-old twins conversation. Our Class of 1988 reunion Nancy Donahue Cyker remember from our junior year in Caen. Y (because three would make them triplets), book had just been published, and it was [email protected] As I send this off, it is September. Our Henri and he just got back from a week on Cape fun to read about our classmates’ lives. We has started fourth grade and wants to take Cod, where he grew up. On that note, as if I would like to thank all of you who continue also spent hours with Margaret reminisc- viola and guitar along with his piano and his life wasn’t already fascinating enough, to write and help keep the class connected ing about Colby and deemed our visit our French lessons. I am two weeks out from my it might interest you to know that Tim over- as we navigate our quarter-century-plus “mini 25th.” Our most favorite memories biggest work event of the year, a fundraising came a great deal of adversity to get where post-Colby lives. It is typical in this of Margaret include M&Ms, 24/7 sports dinner auction for Mass Audubon’s Drumlin he is today. Our former classmate grew up column that we share our good news and on television, perfectly matched and Farm, and Chris is trying to find something in a mud hut on the shores of Chatham, triumphs both big and small. This column accessorized outfits, Talbots (“the mother to eat in the fridge that I never seem to get where he most notably aided a lost killer will celebrate the life well lived of a fellow ship”), ski trips to Sugarloaf, shopping filled. We count our blessings. Write and whale that had washed ashore. Tim used classmate and is dedicated to her memory. sprees, baked potatoes, chocolate, and tell me about yours. all his might to roll the poor creature back I thank Laurie Meehan Reed and Nina sports “discussions.” She had an infectious

58 COLBY / FALL 2013 smile and an easy-going nature. Margaret’s paid for the airfare). Marc is full of Colby ships with consumer products companies. School of Business’s M.B.A. program. He positive attitude toward life will live on in news, having caught up with Jon Nash and Y Melissa Ray Nelson and family live in says it’s fun being a student again, espe- her children. She was a wonderful friend, his daughters, Matt Sotir, Dave Fernandez, Stoughton, Mass., where she is the custom cially in Washington. Y After eight years in and we miss her dearly. ~ Laurie Meehan Rob Hoopes, Eric Stram, and Bret Dixon account management director for health- Georgetown, Mass., Paige Brown Waters Reed and Nina Colhoun Wilson this summer. This doesn’t mean you don’t care marketing firm Krames StayWell. When and her family moved back to Newburyport, have to come to reunion, Marc! Y Bill and not sailing with her husband or working, Mass., where daughters Gabrielle and Anne Webster Stauffer had dinner with she is raising two future hockey stars. Y Alexandra entered sixth and fifth grade 1989 Kelly Doyle, who was on her way to Colby Holly Peirce and Sean Pratt have landed respectively and are heavily involved in Anita Terry for reunion planning. The highlight of Bill’s in Mexico City for her new State Department soccer and dance. The family enjoys the [email protected] summer was teaching his two daughters to posting. This summer she enjoyed catching wonderful parks, restaurants, school/ By the time you read this there will be water ski on Casco Bay. The Stauffers keep up via Skype with Roman Azanza, who lives town events, and nearby Plum Island. only a few months until our 25th reunion, busy raising funds for the Sold Project, an in the Philippines. Y Anne Pollock Waldron Paige’s husband, Charles, is a partner at or what I’m calling our “silver” reunion. NGO that keeps at-risk children in school in and her husband and three kids moved to Sheehan Phinney Bass & Green in Boston. (Silver as in anniversary, not as in a polite northern Thailand. Y Mark Cosdon claims New Canaan, Conn. She loves coaching her Paige works part time for monster.ca in term for the color of my hair.) I hope you that he is going to reunion, but he might be fifth grade daughter’s lacrosse team and addition to her school PTO/NEF volunteer will be there, because I don’t want to be too busy with his biannual course in Italy manages to get up to Colby a few times a work. Water’s Edge Seaglass is a hobby. eating lobster all by myself. Y Carolyn (that I follow jealously on Facebook). Mark year to see her niece’s lacrosse games. They cherish time in Maine for skiing at Lockwood can’t believe we have been is a happily tenured associate professor at She’s pretty sure her kids are future White Saddleback, Fourth of July fireworks and gone from Mayflower Hill for 25 years. Her Allegheny College, and in his spare time he Mules, as they love going up to visit. Y lobster in Portland, and fall excursions in response to my e-mail: “Ugh! Ugh is all I is president of the American Theatre and Last spring Steve Nahley may have been Acadia. Y Del Lloyd and her husband quit can say!” I agree wholeheartedly. Other Drama Society. Y Jim Connolly is enjoying having a midlife crisis when he decided to corporate America jobs in technology and folks who plan to be there include Greg a career switch from running a nonprofit to participate in the GORUCK Challenge, a will travel around the world for the next year Gatlin, who works at Suffolk University in being a realtor. Jim and his family had a special ops leadership training event. For or so. They started in Portugal Sept. 1 and Boston and lives in Canton, Mass., with his good summer traveling to California and 13 hours in the pouring rain, he and his have a blog at popgoestheworldblog.com. wife, Erica, stepdaughters Emilee and Kaia, Puerto Rico. Jim saw Kim Murphy Brewer teammates carried backpacks filled with Y Audrey Wittemann Wennink has lived and baby daughter Elli. Y Shaun Dakin and Stacey Mitchell at Courtney Ingraf- 50 pounds of bricks, empty kegs, American in Chicago for 16 years and has worked created Dakin Associates, a digital market- as a transportation planner at Cambridge ing firm “working on changing the world.” Systematics for eight years. Current proj- Shaun writes that he keeps in touch with ects include transportation safety plans in Camilla Oberg in Dubai via Facebook. Y Tracy Roy Hankin ’90 runs the national Montana, freight rail operations improve- Congratulations to Robin Trend Baughan, strategic sales team at WebMD that focuses on ments in Chicago, and transit prioritization who married Jonathan Mayhew in August. in Chicago suburbs. This summer, after Their combined six children participated, forming partnerships with consumer products picking up her daughter, Claire, 9, at summer and judging from the picture she sent, it companies. camp in Wisconsin, her family drove to was a beautiful event. Y Jon Nash paid a the East Coast via Canada. After visiting pre-reunion visit to Colby’s new art museum Quebec they drove through Waterville and and “found the entire campus to be practi- stopped at Colby (first time since the 10th cally unrecognizable.” Maybe one of our fia Barton’s Mardi Gras party. Jim reports flags, logs, and other heavy items while reunion) on the way to their annual summer reunion activities should be figuring out that Jan Gisholt and his wife, Hara, had marching and doing pushups, squats, and vacation in Rockport, Mass. Y Dan “Jazzy our way around campus? Y Andrew Ian a baby boy this summer. The baby has sit-ups for 21 miles throughout Manhattan. D” Raymont lives in Nyack with his wife Dodge continues to write as the U.S. editor left Jan sleep-deprived but very happy. Y Before finishing downtown near the 9/11 and his daughter, Lulu, 5. He says it’s a for a new website called Trending Central. Christina and Brendan Cahill love living in memorial, Steve enjoyed a nice swim in refreshing relief from the frenetic concrete Y Kristen Palmer McAnaney and her hus- Pelham, N.Y., with their four kids. They send the East River around 5 a.m. His midlife jungle of Manhattan (and even Brooklyn at band, Killian, bought a house in Merrimac, their congratulations to Jan and Hara and crisis has abated, but three months later this point). Dan had a busy year in films. He Mass., last year and are happy to be near to Sandy Thayer and Greg Tinder on their he’s still quite sore from the event. Y Bob headed to L.A. for the premiere of Instruc- both the coast and southern Maine. Kristen marriage. Y See you in June! Lian’s oldest son, Graham, has committed tions Not Included, filmed in Mexico last is in her 20th year teaching history at West- to Colby, Class of 2018, to play lacrosse. Y summer. It was his first bilingual role. Other ford Academy. Y Jim Klimek is in Indiana, On the other end of the spectrum, Richard projects include Angriest Man in Brooklyn trying to get members of Colby’s Board of 1990 Marcus and wife Cristina Avila were married with Robin Williams (“experience of a Trustees to pay attention to the cost of Kristin Hock Davie in November 2011 and welcomed their first lifetime”) and The Amazing Spiderman 2. higher education and the implications of [email protected] baby, Caleb Sawyer Marcus, July 8, 2013. He’s also been shooting a series of spots Colby’s lockstep tuition increases. So far, After six years at home with her four kids They live in Los Angeles, where Richard for Tidy Cats. Y Kay Cowperthwait and her no luck, but maybe you can buttonhole (ages 6 to 17), Merrie Post Gramlich works as a cinematographer. Unlike Bob, partner, Ann, were married Aug. 12 after them at reunion, Jim. Y Chris Tompkins started a new position in her local school they worry more about getting sleep than 19 years together. They had a wedding 17 was elected to the board of trustees of system in Bethesda, Md. She works in the about college tuition. years ago, but it was nice to make it official the Montgomery School in Chester, Pa., secondary alternative programs as a career in Massachusetts after the Supreme Court and is the president of the Association of and community liaison promoting work- ruling in June. Their daughter, Sophie, 12, Delaware Valley Independent Schools. Y In based learning and community connections 1991 and son Tate, 6, were thrilled to participate this column’s episode of “Anita Never Gets for struggling teens. Y Tracy Roy Hankin Dave Shumway in the small family ceremony on the beach Invited,” Marc Rando and Andy Schmidt lives in Atlanta with her husband, three [email protected] in Nantucket. Kay hopes to catch a women’s had breakfast in Madrid (yes, the one in kids, and two rescue dogs. In addition to Greetings! Quite a bit to report, so here hockey game this winter. Go Mules! Y Brian Spain) while Marc was leading a Thayer stu- keeping up with all her kids’ activities, she we go. Dave Vincent left active-duty Army Quinn is a financial advisor in Needham, dent trip and Andy was there on business. I runs the national strategic sales team at service last December and began full- Mass., and lives in Foxboro with children would have come, too, if you’d asked (and WebMD that focuses on forming partner- time studies at Georgetown’s McDonough Lexi, 12, Dylan, 10, and Macy, 7, who keep

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him busy with soccer, baseball, basketball, I had a mini-reunion in Boston with Jen her own company in the NYC metro area. of July 2014. Y Meredith Bradt lives in lacrosse, and gymnastics. He writes, “I still Greenleaf, Jen Pelson Hopkins, and Jen And Joy is finishing her Ph.D. at Columbia Maastricht, the Netherlands, and works as find time to play golf and hockey, though Kosek Walker. All are doing great.” Y Norm in education. She and her husband, John, head of marketing and communications at I haven’t found the need to revisit the Stillman is a small-animal veterinarian and live in New Jersey and have an absolutely the Maastricht University School of Busi- Mohawk. Matt Gibbons lives up the street owner of the Court Street Animal Hospital adorable daughter named Elizabeth. ness and Economics. Meredith says, “It is from me, and we revisit the iPlay days by in his hometown of Plymouth, Mass. “My We are all hoping to make it to the 25th great to see how internationalization has playing in an over-35 softball league. I also wife, Diane Osgood ’91, and I have two reunion—even though we are still trying grown at Colby! I would (probably) never see or talk frequently to Jeff Hartwell, who lovely daughters. The eldest started high lives in Cohasset and has two young boys, school this fall. I feel as though I was in high and Blake Liebert, who has two kids and school not that long ago! I’ve been back to Meredith Bradt ’93 lives in Maastricht, the is up in Salisbury, Mass., and is also a Colby once since graduation. Things had Netherlands, and works as head of marketing vet. Jeff and Blake recently bought their changed quite a bit (not to mention Big G’s first boats. Dave Ford has a young son relocation!), but the campus looked great.” and communications for the Maastricht and works in development at Harvard and Y Meredith Johnson wrote from her home University School of Business and Economics. lives in Newton, Mass. Mike Freret is a in Beverly, Mass. “Our hands are full with a real estate mogul living in Phoenix with four 10-month-old puppy named Freckles who is boys who can be as charming and surly as a sweet rescue dog from North Carolina. Her figure out exactly where the last 20 years have ended up in Europe for the last 20 Mike, and Matt Greenlaw is in Portland, name was ‘Lady,’ but could you imagine my have gone!” Y Aren’t we all? Have fun, years if I hadn’t been able to go to Germany Ore., and runs hockey camps and programs. husband, Al, yelling down the street, ‘Hey, everyone. See you next time. for my junior year abroad.” Meredith enjoys Toby Cox is a pediatrician near Salt Lake Lady, come back!’? It would have been catching up with former dean Parker Bever- and has ample time to abuse himself on a little too much like a Seinfeld episode. age and some of Colby’s current admissions the mountain bike and the ski slopes, and I’m still working in sports medicine as a 1993 staff (Steve Thomas and Hung Bui ’94) at Dave Mumford, another financial advisor, physician’s assistant at Lahey Clinic, and Jill Moran Baxter the OACAC conference each summer. Y lives on the West Coast but makes bian- Al works for MetLife securities compliance. [email protected] Suzie Girard and husband Dave welcomed Y We love being by the water—and just wish nual trips to the East Coast.” Keep the Greetings, Colby folk! If your summer Zachary Jacob Klein, who weighed in at 9 news coming! we had more time to be on it! My cousin involved some vacation time, you were pounds, 6 ounces, on May 16. Suzie writes, Kate Connolly is a senior at Colby. She runs in good company—Katy Donovan O’Neil, “He is, I believe, the cutest baby ever. ;) And cross country for coach Deb Aitken, who has 1992 Christopher Iannini, Ginny Fowles Ward, he is keeping me and Dave on our toes.” Y been at Colby for 27 years(!). I’m planning and Karyn Patry all caught some time away Tobin Slavin also welcomed a baby in May. Molly Beale Constable a road trip to Colby with several friends [email protected] from work, if their out-of-office emails are Daughter Divya Ellis makes child number five who have watched Kate grow up to see her any indication. Y Crawford Strunk and in Tobin and wife Martina’s blended family. Elaine Bueschen O’Grady broke 20 years compete at a meet in October. It should family traveled to Maine for a vacation Martina and Tobin recently launched a of class notes silence with this report: “In be beautiful.” Y Kim Ereminas Reeve and were lucky to see Maylene Cummings startup called MustTryIt.com, a platform to July my husband, Michael, our kids, Nora, heads up the New York office and nonprofit Mitchell ’96. Crawford and wife Shelly promote local businesses that are a “must- and their three kids, Asa, Everett, and try.” Y “I currently have the pleasure of having Emma, hail from Toledo, Ohio. Crawford my writing on nearly every street corner of Elaine Bueschen 0’Grady ’92 is director of the still works at Toledo Children’s Hospital New York City,” writes Mark Radcliffe, who as the director of the sickle cell disease is the author of the ad campaign for Citi Air Quality and Climate Division of Vermont’s and hemoglobinopathy clinic. The Strunks Bike, NYC’s bike-share program sponsored Department of Environmental Conservation. recently added a new member to the family, by Citibank. Mark recently met up with a sweet Havanese puppy named Colby. Y Chris Bither and George Moore ’91 in the Anna Marie Wrin Yombo works in HR at the city. Y Lael Hinman Stanczack, who lives Latin American Montessori Bilingual Public in Singapore, spent 10 weeks in the U.S. 7, and Aidan, 5, and I spent a fun-filled day practice of Cathedral Consulting Group. Charter School in D.C., where her son, Leo, is this summer. She supervised construc- with Bill ’93 and Anne Maddocks Michels “I am finally putting my French degree to in third grade; daughter Rachelle graduated tion on her new apartment and attended and their kids, Lindsay, 10, Will, 9, and Alex, use by expanding the firm’s international last year. Anna Marie’s husband, Ernest, a wedding. Lael loved seeing everyone at 6, on Lake George in New York. Everyone presence, including traveling to Sierra also works at the school as an assistant our 20th reunion, especially Sarah Burditt had a great time swimming, kayaking, and Leone and Guinea last spring to present principal. Anna Marie says, “I haven’t been McDougall, Stephanie Doyon Gross, Dave fishing. On a professional front, I recently three conferences on entrepreneurship. I back to Maine since graduating from Colby, O’Shea, and the After 8 guys. She is already started a new job as the director of the Air am also finishing up coursework for a Ph.D. but I keep promising my family a road trip looking forward to our 25th reunion. Y Write Quality and Climate Division of Vermont’s and am busily writing my dissertation, which so we’ll make it there someday—can’t wait!” in and share your news. Hope to see you in Department of Environmental Conserva- focuses on effective evaluation methods Y Mike Murphy imagines our 20th reunion the next column! tion. I’m excited about the opportunity to of social enterprises. In June I had a mini- was a treat in many ways. He is “glad to know work on air pollution and climate change reunion with Stephanie Clement, Jeanine ‘the friends I made on Mayflower Hill remain issues for the state of Vermont.” Y Rebecca Caunt, and Joy Marean Hickey in NYC. (We loyal’ goes a long way.” Murph spends half 1994 Graham Forde gave a shout from Los missed seeing Tara McDonough!) We had the year in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park Kimberly Valentine Walsh Angeles, where she has lived for eight a wonderful time laughing and sharing our and winters in Taos, N.M. His family includes [email protected] years. “I work in television and currently favorite Colby memories. Stephanie is the a 2-year-old boy, a wife of nine years, and I just received my save-the-date postcard produce the series Fast N’ Loud for the conservation director at Friends of Acadia two dogs; he writes that he feels young for our 20th reunion—so put June 6-8, Discovery Channel. I am proud to say that and is enjoying life in Maine. Jeanine works and thankful. Murph is advocating for a 2014, on your calendar so we can catch fellow alum Mark Boles might be our big- in editing, communications, marketing, and 21st Colby reunion (B.O.O.T.) at his place up in person! Y Cole Conlin has moved gest fan! Over the Fourth of July weekend design and is in the process of launching in McCarthy, Alaska, during the last week to Minneapolis with his family. I’m looking

60 COLBY / FALL 2013 1995 1996 Yuhgo Yamaguchi Brad Smith 90s newsmakers [email protected] [email protected] Alliant Insurance Services appointed Peter Carpenter Kate Bolick lives alone in Brooklyn and Good news, sad news, red news, blue ’91 its chief operating officer Sept. 1. Previously Alli- is working on her first book, due out from news. Let’s get to it. Jen Pope writes that ant’s managing director of employee benefits—North- Crown/Random House in 2015. Michael in June Abby Smith Derrig, Tammy Smith east, Carpenter joined the company in 2008 when Cobb, now an English professor at the Uni- Wilkerson, Alex Kean Strong, Amie Sicchi- it acquired ClearPoint, the Seattle-based benefits versity of Toronto, author of several books, tano Taylor, and Courtney Sullivan Homer consulting firm of which he was cofounder and CEO. and maddeningly fit, visits her often. She met in Florida for Jen’s bachelorette party F Jennifer Ancker Whelen ’95 was named one of 50 sees Mike Daisey ’96 in her neighborhood (personal aside: I think that two thirds of Leading Women in Hedge Funds 2013 by the Hedge when his insanely demanding performance these people were in my freshman English Fund Journal. Since 2007 Whelen has been managing schedule allows. She also keeps in close class with Charlie Bassett). Jen’s fiancé, director of Graham Capital Management, a Connecti- touch with Marcos ’93 and Erika Troseth Bill, proposed to her on a glacier on Denali cut-based alternative investment firm. She cofounded Martinez. Erika teaches at St. John’s Col- in Alaska, and they’re getting married in Jennifer Ancker Whelen ’95 the East Coast Committee of Hope for the nonprofit Help for Children/Hedge Funds Care, which works to lege in Santa Fe, N.M., “and has perhaps New Hampshire Oct. 5, where henceforth prevent and treat child abuse. F Laura Olsen ’97 was named assistant principal of the world’s most adorable and sanguine they plan to live free or die. Jen is based Reading (Mass.) Memorial High School. She previously taught at several Massachu- 2-year-old daughter.” Erika spent a day at in Washington, D.C., doing international setts schools and served as an assistant principal in Pawtucket, R.I. F In addition to the beach in her Massachusetts hometown public health work and reports that Patty being featured in the September issue of People StyleWatch, Lauren Rothman ’99 with Steph White McKenna, her amazing Benson Bechard just moved to Germany had a book, Style Bible: What to Wear to Work, published by Bibliomotion in October. wife, and their two sweet, hilarious children. with her husband and two boys. Das macht Rothman is the founder of fashion consulting firm Styleauteur (styleauteur.com) and Finally, last spring, she got together with mir brech specht schreiber! Y Our friend writes about political style in her Huffington Post column, Fashion Whip. her Colby roommate, Hannah Swenson Gretchen Rice King has been ably coping Vaughan. Hannah lives in Austin, Texas, with the sudden loss of her husband two and is married with two children. Y Abe years ago. She’s raising her two kids with forward to seeing him and hope it will be at “Greetings, Class of ’94! Preparations are Rogers is earning his master’s in elemen- lots of help and support from family and a book signing for his new book, Zachary underway for our 20th reunion, June 6-8, tary education at Boston College. He is friends and enjoying her golf league and the Zamboni, a perfect gift for your little hockey 2014. It’s a wonderful weekend—nostalgic, also training with a special forces unit in beach She was looking forward to some time and skating fans, available on Amazon. celebratory, inspiring, and entertaining, for the National Guard and still coaching the off for good behavior when the kids went Y When he’s not entertaining children with sure. From planning to logistics to giving Cambridge Masters Swim Club at Harvard back to school in the fall. And sad news: Y his stories, Cole teaches Spanish at Nova and beyond, we need YOU to make it all University. Jon Huerta has been living RIP to classmate Michael Vosburg-Casey, in NYC since graduation. He is a manag- who passed away in July of colon cancer. Classical Academy in St. Paul. Y Matthew happen successfully. Please e-mail me at ing director in investment banking at He is survived by his wife, Amy, and their Gaines and his wife have a daughter and [email protected] if you would RBC Capital Markets. He got married two daughter, Elena, 3. I learned that Michael are expecting a second daughter in October. like to join the reunion committee or for more years ago; no kids yet. He keeps in touch spent several years working for the San He’s currently working as a senior physical information. Speaking of giving, we have set with Robin Ottaway, Foster Klug, and Mateo County Park System before moving therapist at New York Presbyterian Hospi- a big goal for ourselves this year: at least Mike Keller. Y Darrell Sofield has been to Atlanta as part of the Jesuit Volunteer tal/Cornell in Manhattan. Matthew also got 50 percent of the class participating in the living in Bellingham, Wash., since 2003. Corps. After his service in JVC, Michael to catch up with Eric Johnson ’93 at Shake Colby Fund. The money we give back goes Emma Spenner Norman visited Darrell dedicated his life to the pursuit of peace Shack while he was visiting from California. directly toward financial aid, faculty and this summer with her two sons. Darrell and justice and to helping the poor and Y Carie King reports that after a year and academic programs, athletics, and student recently left a career as a geomorphology the marginalized. My heart goes out to a half on Maui and two months in Brooklyn, life—all the things that make Colby a leader consultant to work for a local native tribe his wife and family, especially Elena, who she returned to Santa Fe last summer and among colleges and the place we’re proud that restores degraded salmon habitat lost her daddy way too early in her life. then moved to Denver, where she is grow- to call our own. Please consider an early near Bellingham. “It is pretty satisfying Y Maylene Cummings Mitchell wrote ing her private practice as a life coach. Y gift to the Colby Fund this year at colby. to work where I live, after so many years on Aug. 20, “Lydia Mae Mitchell arrived Erik Belenky wrote a quick note to say that edu/give. Finally, we’ve started a reunion on the road.” Darrell and his wife, Ruth, at 8:22 a.m. in Brunswick, Maine. She’s he and his wife, Sally, live in Atlanta with Facebook group, where we’ve seen lots of recently celebrated their fifth wedding 20 inches long and weighs 8 pounds, 12 anniversary. Y Rick Catino started a sales ounces.” Maylene’s husband, Erik ’97, is intelligence company called LeadBridge in reportedly a diaper-changing champion. Y Darrell Sofield ’95 recently left his job as a 2006, and Inc. magazine named it one of Whitney Glockner welcomed her second geomorphology consultant to work for a local the fastest growing companies in the U.S. son, Jasper Parry Glockner Black, May 13 Rick is also coaching high school football in and enjoyed the summer spending time native tribe that restores degraded salmon North Andover, Mass., and really enjoying with the new baby. Y In lighter news, Alex habitat near Bellingham, Wash. it. This summer he got to see classmates Chin and a bunch of other Mules were part Mike Manning, Chris Fossella, Matt of a fantasy football draft at Champions Morrissey, Mark Jackson, and Kevin Pirani (Waterville? No, in the Marriot Copley). ’96. “Everyone is really bad at golf, but In attendance were Brett Nardini (who doing well overall.” Y Tachou Dubuisson was arrested for eating too many wings), daughters Maggie, 10, and Miller, 7. Erik is great pictures and posts already. Find us Brown and her husband welcomed their Brian Cronin (who had his 8-year-old son a partner at Jones Day. Y Sigmund Schutz by searching for ‘Colby College Class of second son, Logan, in August. He joins on speed dial to make picks), Ben Lester says he’s become reacquainted with Phil 1994 20th Reunion’ on Facebook. Come big brother Parker. Tachou and her family ’99, Glenn Forger ’97, Jamie Harris ’97, Polsky, who is now pack leader of his son join the fun online, mark your calendar for live in Beverly Hills, Calif. She cofounded Doug Ellinger ’97, Todd Guilfoyle, Dennis Ethan’s Cub Scout pack in Falmouth, Maine. June 2014, consider giving to the Colby a company called WearOnWheels, which Collum ’98, and Dave Stephens (who Y Class co-president Carolyn Hart writes, Fund, and go Mules!” is launching next spring. used to work with my brother at Gillette).

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Jason Jabar joined online (and I’m hoping Cary Gibson regularly. Cary works on 1998 visit Rachel Gitelson ’00 and her family that afterward he hit dollar drafts at the health-care issues for a lobbying firm and Brian M. Gill and to ski at Sunday River. Cindy said, “It Waterville Champions). Y As for me, Kevin recently completed a certification program [email protected] was great to be in Maine and introduce our Thurston ’98, Tom Beedy ’97, and I were to become a holistic health coach. Y Liz son to skiing.” Y Chris and Kristina Smith Our thoughts and prayers are with the family three fourths of a hellacious foursome at Baker Meehan’s niece, Caitlyn Nolan, Gates were part of a small Colby gathering and friends of David Brenneman after his the annual Gaudet Invitational in August. joined the Colby Class of 2017 and will this summer at Hammonasset State Park in passing in September 2013. Y Congratula- The rain did not deter us; in fact, we played play women’s basketball. Liz is excited to Connecticut. They had a fun, short family tions to David Spiro, Nathan Curtis, and 18 times more golf holes than Chad Higgins head up to Mayflower Hill a few times this camping trip with Taylor Smith, Geoff Dawn Seckler, who all welcomed babies Y Kelsey, and Harris Eisenstadt. ’97. In August we sold our Portland home, year to visit and watch Caitlyn play. Kara this year. David and wife Ri Alam celebrated and at press time we were contemplating a Marchant Hooper had a busy summer. the arrival of Madeleine Adele on March 15. Y move to the Portland ’burbs. Send more During her travels she managed to visit with On June 6 two little babies named Charlie 1999 notes, bitte Sie verrückte Leute. Ellie Peters Bergquist and Ashley Malcom were born: Nathan and his wife, Kimberly, Lindsay Hayes Hurty Laakso ’98 and their families, with Austen had a little girl, Charlotte “Charlie,” and [email protected] Briggs Crossley and family in Austin, Texas, 1997 Dawn and husband Greg Baltus had a Laura Neale returned to Maine from Cali- and with Shannon Tracy Bergquist and Y little boy, Charles Buzz. Congratula- fornia six years ago. She owns Black Kettle Leah Tortola Walton family at Winding Trails in Connecticut. tions to Eben Peck as well. In June he Farm, an organic vegetable farm in Lyman, [email protected] Kara was very happy to see news of Erin and his wife, Colette, welcomed Stuart south of Portland, and runs a CSA there. After nine years at Los Alamos National Lab Duggan’s nuptials in the New York Times Alexander Peck, who joins sister Lucy and Abby Manock created the farm’s logo. Black in New Mexico, Rico DelSesto started in this summer. Y Grace Perry shared that dog Landry. Stuart has already spent time Kettle has seen visits by Chasey Hewes a faculty position at Dixie State University she’s now working as director of sales at with members of the growing Washington- Allen, Ben Armiger, Cate Tynan O’Dwyer, in southern Utah, teaching chemistry and Gizmox in Cambridge, Mass. She would area Colby ’98 baby boom, including the Anne Hutchinson Parent, Brendan Bloom, doing research with undergrads. He shared, love to hear from any Boston-area alums kids of Chris Coakley, Todd Poling, and and Christina Holmes. Many of them, as “There are lots of places nearby for us to involved with startups/venture capital. Y enjoy the outdoors, and Zion National Park Amalie Gosine Howard has exciting book is just down the road. When we moved here, news. Look for Waterfell, the first installment Eben Peck ’98 is vice president of government we left our snow shovels behind, and now of teen series The Aquarathi, Oct. 29; The we enjoy the mild, sunny, snow-free winters. Almost Girl Jan. 7; and Alpha Goddess in affairs for the American Society of Travel Apparently the cold finally got to me, and March. She is also working on the second Agents, responsible for ASTA’s federal and state the dry desert heat is a welcome change.” book of The Aquarathi, Oceanborn, which lobbying efforts. Y Yawa Duse-Anthony has been working will be out next August. She wrote, “It’s at American Tower since the fall. She keeps going to be a whirlwind next few months in touch with Vanessa Newell Coutu and career-wise, but I’m very excited! On the Jesse Carlson. Eben recently started a Anne Miller Crumlish ’98. She also has a home front, my kids, Connor, 9, Noah, 7, and well as Dominic Giaudrone, were at the new job as vice president of government Colby mentee named Gift Ntuli ’14, who Olivia, 4, keep me busy when I’m not writ- October 2012 wedding of Ben Armiger and affairs for the American Society of Travel was just featured in the Out of the Blue ing.” Y In baby news we heard from Jason Shelley Lippincott on the Maryland shore. Agents (ASTA), where he’s responsible for newsletter for doing some great nonprofit Klein. He and his wife, Judy, welcomed a Y In February Courtney Smith Eisenberg all of ASTA’s federal and state lobbying work in Zimbabwe. Y After seven years second child, son Elliot James, July 22. had her third baby, John Paul, adored by efforts as well as its political action com- Y Melissa Kim left her position as principal Y Wendy Ridder Bergh, who lives in the sisters Ada, 3, and Charlotte, 2. On Dec. mittee, ASTAPAC. Y Brian and Kristelle 6, 2012, Melissa Knight DuBois and hus- Aherne Gill, Peter and Sarah Eno Felmly, band welcomed their first, daughter Ember and Raja and Liz Hooper Bala met up for Jean. Y Karena Bullock Bailey reports all Former middle school principal Melissa Kim ’97 a family camping weekend in Freeport, is well in Riverside, Conn., with sons Silas, has joined NewSchools Venture Fund in Maine. Raja impressed all with his ability 1, and Noah, 3. Karena works part time to catch fish freehand in the local rivers. on special events for Glamour in NYC. In Washington, D.C., where she continues to work Y Samantha Spielman and her husband June she spent a weekend in Rhode Island to close the achievement gap. recently celebrated their six-year anniver- with Lynn Powers Harder, Caitlin Skulley sary and the first birthday of their amazing Van Til, Katharine Lawrence Sawatzky, daughter, Livia. They live in Wilton, Conn., Caroline Kasparian Myler, Rebecca only about a mile from Betsy Kies Raftery. Thornton Leach, Heidi Tyng Piche, and Samantha works as an elementary school Lindsay Hayes Hurty. Y Shane and Emily of Alice Deal Middle School in Washington, San Francisco Bay area, gave birth July 18. teacher. Y Emily Larsen’s daughter turned Hinckley Ellis had their fourth baby May D.C. She now works with the NewSchools Daughter Violet was happy to welcome her 1 in September. Emily and her husband 12, Mother’s Day. Angel May joins brother Venture Fund in the D.C. office, where she new little sister, Scarlett, to the family. Y are expecting another child in April 2014! Cedar and sisters Lolietta and RosieAnn. continues working to close the achieve- Katy and Andrew Weber announced the Emily continues to teach high school biol- They moved from Dover-Foxcroft, Maine, to ment gap. She would love to connect with birth of their second daughter, Lucinda ogy in Phoenix and is preparing to apply for Mount Desert Island, Shane’s hometown, others in education reform. Melissa lives Mirabel, born in London on the Fourth a physician assistant program next year. last July. An at-home mom, Emily plans to in D.C. with husband Clint and son Axel, 3. of July. Andrew and Katy planned to host Y Congratulations to Kevin Zimmerman get her part-time photography business Y Also from D.C., Susanna Montezemolo Colby’s London bicentennial celebration in Thurston, who married Brooke McNally going in addition to farming, gardening, and is working at the Center of Responsible September. Y Denise Mailloux Bowden ’03 June 29 on Mayflower Hill. Forty-five volunteering. Y Kerry Olson Hawkins, who Lending, where she focuses on research. e-mailed that “on his due date, Cary Fields Colby grads were in attendance. Y Cindy works in commercial real estate in Boston, She, husband Mark, and their 2-year-old, Bowden, our second son, was born at our Lohmann Million welcomed a daughter, welcomed a son, Andrew Latham, in June. Regina, took a spring trip to Florence and home like his big brother had been just Hazel, to her family June 24. Last March Brother Teddy adores him. Y Adam ’98 Rome, Italy, to visit family. Sus also sees over four years before.” Cindy and her family traveled to Maine to and Christie Browning Rana welcomed

62 COLBY / FALL 2013 Charlotte, May 1. Brothers William, 5, and 2000 White Mules. She finished her doctorate expected their third child while the news Harrison, 3, are protective. They love their Ben Mackay in public health and accepted a faculty was being collected, and their beautiful new life in Falmouth, Maine, and enjoyed [email protected] position at the Boston University School daughter, Linley Fowler Charette, was born connecting with Caitlin Skulley Van Til and of Public Health. Y Brenda Yun lives in Sept. 5. Congratulations! Y That was just Lynn Powers Harder. The oldest children all Thank you all for writing. On to the news. Honolulu with her two dogs, Iris and Roo. the start of our class’s baby news. Dave Y Dave Famiglietti accepted a job as a attend Falmouth Elementary kindergarten She works part time as a college writing and Lindsay Scott McGeehan welcomed treasury solutions analyst with Bank of together. Y In Santa Monica, Calif., Kristy teacher but plans to dedicate most of her their second child, Nolan, July 31. He joins America in Toronto and looks forward to the Gould Duncan and her husband welcomed time to completing her last year of a low- big sister Clare, 3. Y Brooke (Congdon) ’02 move north of the border. Y Greg ’98 and a baby girl this summer, Ever Cassidy. She residency creative writing Ph.D. program at and Mike Wilmot welcomed a daughter, Vanessa Wade Wehmeyer and daughter joins brother Arlo, 2. Y Kristian and Martha Bath Spa University in the U.K. Brenda is Roosevelt “Rosie,” April 26. Mike still loves Ella camped with friends at Ferry Beach Healy Fried welcomed Erik Albert Feb. 18. writing a book of travel fiction that takes life as a teacher and coach at Pingree in Saco, Maine, visited Sesame Place in Emil, 3, loves being a big brother. Y On place in the Honolulu airport. She also School in South Hamilton, Mass. Y Erik Philadelphia (Elmo says hi), and spent April 13, 2012, Sarah Hewins eloped with surfs when/if she has time. Y Tim ’99 and Balsbaugh and his wife, Carolyn, welcomed nine days on Pequawket Pond in Brown- Darren Bischoff and became a stepmother Amanda Carucci Boggs live in Hoboken, their first child, Sawyer Michael, April 2. field, Maine, with some of Greg’s family. to Darren’s three kids. On June 25, 2012, They were gearing up for Ella’s first day they welcomed a baby girl, Mia Grace. This of kindergarten. Y Stephanie D. Baron summer they got (re)married surrounded and her husband, Naren Vasudevan ’99, Todd Minor ’01 is director of Friends of by family and friends including Bob ’97 have two sons, Isaac, 8, and Kenji, 6, and and Alison Rainey Doak, Rachel Reider Rockaway, which helps low-income residents live in Southern California. Stephanie has Harper, Kelly Williams Ramot, and Crystal been the director of clinical education and of Rockaway, N.Y., rebuild their homes after the Brakke Sieber, who officiated. Michelle an instructor for the physician assistant Foster Costa and Katie Kinsella Baade destruction of Hurricane Sandy. program at Western University of Health were unable to attend due to pregnancies Sciences in Pomona for three years. Naren Y and new babies. Mark Melander lives is a physician assistant in occupational in Wayland, Mass., with wife Amanda medicine. They took their first real family N.J., and have three lovely and energetic Eric reports that he is finding Ally Giard (Colgate) ’98, three little ones, John, 2, vacation in Oahu and are already planning girls: Sophie, 6, Sadie, 4, and Eloise, 1. Downey’s website, weeSpring, incredibly Annie, 5, Maggie, 7, and their German the next big thing. Y This summer Caroline They live a mere hour away from Amanda’s helpful in wading through the morass that shorthair pointer, Poppy. Mark is an Calhoun relocated to Monroe, Conn., where former Colby roomie Tacy Conard Quinn is baby toys, seats, Jumperoos, and Exer- account executive for MarketOne Interna- she and her fiancé, Declan Curtin (Fairfield and her husband, Brian ’99. They also see Saucers. Y Liz Hubbard Weinfurter still tional in Waltham. Mark, Ross McEwen, University ’00 and also a teacher) bought Alexis Fine Greiner and Amie Mallett Bui enjoys life as a Minnesotan and recently Matt Williams, Pete Kugeler and others and renovated a house. After eight years celebrated 12 years in the biomedical attended the sixth annual Mayflower she left her original school district and got (who have migrated north) and their ador- Y Open golf tournament, organized by Andy a new job teaching fifth grade humanities able families. Ben Stickney planned to library at the University of Minnesota. Liz is Young ’98. Y Ryan Aldrich and his wife in Easton, very close to her new home. Y marry Catherine Kast in October. They live a liaison librarian working extensively with welcomed their second child Aug. 8: son Jared and Megan Davis Poor spent the in Brooklyn, where Ben has been the senior the school of nursing, and she is president of Colden Lee Aldrich. Sister Avery is excited. summer with their fabulous kids, 2, 4, and producer of Red Eye with Greg Gutfeld on Fox the midwest chapter of the Medical Library Y Y Lauren Rothman published Style Bible: 6. A highlight was Storyland with Rachel News Channel for five years. Kate Davies Association. She and her husband, Mark, Y What to Wear to Work. Featured in the Gitelson, Doug Nilson, and their three Grugan enjoyed spending the summer with expected a baby girl Sept. 4. Hannah September People StyleWatch magazine, kids. Megan started a new job as clinical her teacher husband, Kevin, twins Hope Smith Harrison’s first picture book, Extraor- Lauren also dished style and politics on coordinator for the high school alternative and Jack, 3, and new daughter Erin, born in dinary Jane, which she both wrote and ET, CNN Español, AP news, and Reuters. program in Colchester, Vt. Jared just started late June. In September she returned from illustrated, will be released in March 2014. She regularly writes about political style in his own business, JW Poor Carpentry, doing maternity leave to Janssen R&D, where she It looks super cute and can be preordered her Huffington Post column, Fashion Whip. carpentry and finish work. Y Phoebe (Lehm- works as a research scientist developing now on Amazon. Also available on Amazon Lauren, Jason Gerbsman, and their son, ann) ’01 and Jay Zarnetske finished their large-molecule therapeutics mainly for is The Little Rippers (Volume 1: Here Come Judah, recently moved to McLean, Va. Y positions at Yale and started faculty posi- oncology and immunology disease targets. the Little Rippers) by Becky Munsterer. Get Dave Fasteson is running for state senate tions at Michigan State. They’re still getting Y Charlotte Tiffany Stephenson lives in shopping, people; all the babies mentioned in Rhode Island. Y Steve Murphy lives in used to being called faculty after all those Concord, Mass., with husband Jon and their above should own these books. Y Follow- D.C., and is a policy advisor in the State years preparing for it. Mike Siegel, Morgan smiley, active son, Graham, 18 months. ing Hurricane Sandy, Todd Minor became Department’s new Office of Global Health McDevitt, and Jay were groomsmen in Ross Last July Charlotte met Debbie Sabath the director of Friends of Rockaway, which Diplomacy. Y Braxton Williams and his Frankenfield’s wedding in September and Powers, Melinda Stockmann, and Julia helps low-income residents of Rockaway, wife, Shannon Woods, had a son, Harrison saw many Colby alumni there. Y Lindsay Humes Taylor-Brown for a girls’ weekend NYC, rebuild their homes. He is very busy Patrick, June 29. Y Aaron Whitmore lives Stewart Pinchbeck opened an art center, in northern California wine country. Y Ben but enjoys his work immensely. Y Todd in San Francisco with his wife, Carrie, and Sweet Tree Arts in Hope, Maine, celebrating Mackay continues to work in mergers and should look up Michelle Farrell, as she son Rex, 1. Y In August Kelly Bregou, art and community. She works with schools acquisitions, splitting his time between just moved to the city. Michelle continues Larry Spollen, Christina Schleicher, Peter to bring local and international artists Dallas and Jackson Hole. to work as an assistant professor of Spanish Bowden ’98, Michelle Cook ’01, and eight to her rural community. They’re always and Portuguese at Fairfield University. Y others ran the 200-mile Hood to Coast eager to collaborate and connect with Liz Richards Rivenbark had a very busy Relay in Oregon in 24 hours. They finished other schools and organizations globally. 2001 summer, earning tenure and promotion to in the top 12.6 percent. Y Will Barndt and Y Trish Akins Elliott and her husband, Emily Mahlman associate professor of art history at the his wife, Susan McWilliams (Amherst ‘98 Michael, welcomed Frances Charlotte Wirtz [email protected] University of South Alabama in June and and a professor at Pomona), had a second on May 22. She joins big brother Charlie, Hi, all! I’m taking over class correspondent marrying John Robert Rivenbark in July. To child, Carey McWilliams, in June. He and 2. Trish works in advancement at Concord duties for Dana Fowler Charette this top it all off they celebrated with Jen Jost sister Marjorie, 3, get along fine. Academy alongside a number of fellow time around. Dana and her husband, Jon, and Colleen Dugan in Maine in August.

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Y Julie Drew Williams has been named Grace ’03, Alison Thacker, Danielle Fornes in Houston. She is communications and Y Anne Rudolph married Matthew Flores the executive director of the American ’01, Micki Young Armour, Terry Packard special projects director for the Cynthia in May on the beach in San Diego, Calif. Independence Museum in Exeter, N.H. The Baker, and Mikhaila Noble Pace attended. Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts at the Suzanne Skinner Forster was a brides- museum closed last fall due to financial Jordan and Devon honeymooned in Costa University of Houston. Y Mike and Kara maid, and Brie Drummond and William difficulty, so there is quite a lot of work Rica. After the Supreme Court struck down Hubbard Norman welcomed their first son, Thompson attended. They had absolutely to be done, but I know she will do a great Prop 8, they had a legal ceremony in West Ian Michael, in July. Kara works at the U.S. perfect weather, and everyone danced all job. She’s currently working on a strategic Hollywood in July. Y Sr. Madeleine (Sarah Department of Housing and Urban Develop- night. Y Tim Clark married Helen Anderson plan and hopes to announce some excit- Miller) works in campus ministry at Norfolk ment, and they live in Hyde Park with their (University of Portland ’04) in April at the ing changes in the coming months. Y Rob Catholic High School in Norfolk, Neb. She’ll pup, Chesty. Y Erin Clark will split time Free Library of Philadelphia, the perfect Henzi just celebrated his second wedding receive an endorsement from Wayne State between Montana and Belize for a year, venue for two book nerds! Jon Allen and running environmental ed programs for Mike Choate ’97 were groomsmen. Kim Ecology Project International. Erin would Langone, Michelle Keady Hadley, and Erin Clark ’02 will split time between Montana love to connect with ’02 alums passing Amanda Surette Smith all attended. Tim through either place. Y Chris and Sally started a pulmonary/critical care medicine and Belize for a year, running environmental Hall Bell relocated to Eugene, Ore., to work fellowship in South Jersey last July. Y Peter education programs for Ecology Project and instruct at the college of business at Brush and his wife, Jacqui, moved out the University of Oregon (go Ducks!). She of NYC when they found a foreclosure in International. attended Katie Harris’s wedding to John Greenwich, Conn. There are extra bedrooms Solms in August in the San Juan Islands, and a hot tub for any friends interested Wash. Attending were JJ ’01 and Piper in visiting! Elliott Abodeely, Jessica Bennett Shah, anniversary with his wife, Pamela. They live College to teach political science in high Anna L’Hommedieu Boyer, Lydia Terry, on Vinegar Hill in Brooklyn. Rob started a school as well as theology. Y This spring Molly Heaney, Leila Porteous, Jen Smyth 2004 new job as strategy director at VICE Media. Peter Kraft was part of a tri-lateral city Curti, Mariah Hamel, Ashley Landbloom, Kate Weiler He looks forward to heading to New Orleans exchange that focused on leadership Katie Rauch Bailey, Megan Thomas, and [email protected] in October for the wedding of Dana Dupre and sanitation in Nairobi, Kenya. It was a Vanessa Wilson. Christina Dotchin was named interim and Justin Ehrenwerth (congratulations!). meaningful trip for Peter. Y Bill Simpson director of admissions and director of finan- While there he also plans to see Rob Tarlock is one of the Worcester Business Journal’s cial aid for this year at Proctor Academy. Y and Tim Grayson. Y Pam Foxley Arifian 40 Under Forty for his work at his lightning 2003 Pete and Katie Sweeney Lepak welcomed lives in Sharon, Conn., with her husband rod company, Smokestack Lightning, and Lauren Tiberio Puglisi a baby boy, Tyler Patrick, to their family July and daughter Lena, 3. She is the sustain- community involvement, including starting [email protected] 25. He was born five weeks early, weighed ability director at Silver Lake Conference a nonprofit to renovate town hall. Bill and News is light this quarter—hopefully the 5 pounds 6 ounces, and measured 18 Center, a summer camp and retreat center his wife, Kate St. Germaine Simpson, live fall/winter weather will remind everyone inches. He did great and was able to come operated by the Connecticut Conference in Brookfield, Mass, with daughter Edith, 4, of our times at Colby and I’ll have more to home after just four days despite being of the United Church of Christ. Y That’s and son Stewart, 1. Y Chris Cogbill and report next column. Y Brock and Stacy premature. Y Kristan Jiggetts married all for now! his wife, Elizabeth, welcomed a baby girl, Thurston Barton welcomed their second Benjamin Kenney in Chicago June 29. Colby Evelyn, in August. Chris finished his resi- dency at the Medical College of Wisconsin 2002 in anatomic and clinical pathology after Sally Hall Bell completing medical school there. He’s a Sr. Madeleine (Sarah Miller ’02) works in [email protected] clinical instructor in hematopathology at campus ministry at Norfolk Catholic High Matt Albaugh defended his dissertation University of Pittsburgh Medical Center but and received a doctorate in clinical psychol- hopes to return closer to home (Wisconsin) School in Norfolk, Neb. She’ll soon be endorsed ogy from UVM. In August he started as a for a job next summer. Chris keeps in touch to teach political science and theology. postdoctoral associate and clinician in the with Paul Lee, who is completing his resi- department of psychiatry at UVM College dency in anatomic and clinical pathology. of Medicine. Y Tadeusz and Stephanie Y Monty Hobson and his wife, Bridgette, Looney Smykal welcomed their first child, attended the wedding of Michael Distefano son, Clark Langford Barton, in March. Clark alums attending included Kristin Carlson, Jan “Jack,” in January. Stephanie is in the ’03 and his wife, Maria. Monty, a pastor, joins brother Benjamin in the new house Alexis Caselle Bancroft, Kirsten Helmcke, pediatric nurse practitioner program at music director, and songwriter in St. Louis, that Stacy and Brock built in Vermont. Brock Desiree Davis, and bridesmaids Shannon Boston College. Y Ellie Berlin Stover had a CD release concert for his newest works at King Arthur Flour and Stacy teaches Hopkins and Holly Brown. Y Morgan Pratt lives in NYC and works at Tory Burch. She music project, now up on iTunes. Y Katie at her alma mater, Thetford Academy. Life married Walter “Cooper” Arvisais June 15 in married Jamie Stover in June. Rob Wykoff, Egan Wertheimer welcomed her third son, is good in Vermont. Y Justin Stempeck Millbrook, N.Y. Colby alums attending were Jack Phillips, Jane Phillips, Eliza Gairard, Wesley James, in June. He joins Mason and and his wife, Maureen Villadelgado, had Michael Schnurr, Stephen Migausky, Ben Camilla Hall, Eliza Browning, and her new Graham. She and her husband both teach their first baby, Fiona Rebecca Stempeck, Ricciardi, Allison Turner Osgood, Christian brother-in-law, Evan Reece ’00, attended. at Westfield High School, although Katie will April 13. Ten days later Lesley Loss and Allen ’05, and Julia Benedict ’05. Rick and Y James and Jamie Hinson Scribner take time off to be with her boys. Y Paul Josh Weitz welcomed a baby boy, William Cindy McWilliams, parents of Trevor McWil- welcomed a boy, Reid Truman, in August. Lilley teaches at Fountain Valley School in Robert Weitz. He weighed in at 8 pounds liams, were also there. Y Nick Markham They look forward to his first football Colorado Springs after earning a master’s 9 ounces and was 22 inches long. Y Clay and his wife, Laura, welcomed Owen David game—Colby/Bowdoin—this fall. Y Jordan in math education from Montana State. His Smith married Samantha Collins Aug. 3 in Markham to the family. Y Andrew and Finley married Devon MacIver in May in Los band, Burn the Maps, just released their northern California. Colby alums attending Cassie Cote Grantham welcomed Michael Angeles. Evan McGee ’03 officiated, and sophomore album, Take Stars. Y Nicole were Albert Goodman, Meade Barlow, and Walker Grantham to the family May 29. Big Pete Chapin ’03, Liz Neumann ’04, Jenny Laurent Romano married John Romano Shannon Corliss. Everyone had a blast. sister Charlotte was less than impressed,

64 COLBY / FALL 2013 her leadership in the nonprofit field. Y Pawel which provides affordable, sport-specific Brodalka and his wife, Archana Prasad ’07, strength-training programs to high school 00s newsmakers spent two weeks in August touring Poland, and college athletes around the world. Y visiting Kolobrzeg, Gdansk, Warsaw, and Katie Roberts married Brian Dinneen July Jessica Porter Stauth ’00 was hired as vice president Krakow. Next up in their travels: London, 6. The wedding took place in Beaver Creek, of quant strategy at Quantopian, the first browser- Montreal, Madrid, Barcelona, and Lisbon. Y Colo., and Colby grads Kit Hickey and Jackie based algorithmic trading platform. She joined Kristi Eck accepted the position of interim Dao ’05 were in the wedding party. Katie Quantopian from Thomson Reuters, where she served as director of quant product strategy. F In May Erin chief of staff at the State University of New York and Brian met while attending business Parry ’06 earned two degrees from Johns Hopkins (SUNY) at Oswego, where she began work in school at the University of Virginia, and they University School of Medicine: a Ph.D. in human genet- late August. Y John and Wendy Sicard Cole now live in Connecticut. Y Meghan Race ics and molecular biology and an M.D. Parry received officially relocated to Butte, Mont., where John and her husband, Jeff Petrello, moved to the Warfield T. Longscope Prize in Clinical Medicine is a pediatrician at Rocky Mountain Clinic. Denver last September and bought their first and was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor They enjoyed their 20-day hiking adventure house in the West Wash Park neighborhood. Medical Society. She is in her first year of the Osler out west and look forward to more exploring They’ve been working for the past year at Meaghan Fitzgerald ’08 Medical Residency Training Program at the Johns in their new neck of the woods. Y Paul and Exclusive Resorts in member services. Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. F Meaghan Fitzgerald Jillian Parker Blakeslee welcomed their Lambie Bickford ’01 also works at the ’08 was named one of Britain’s 30 Under 30 Women in Digital 2013 by The Drum, first child, Parker Edward Blakeslee, Aug. 7. resort, and Meghan credits her for helping the country’s top trade publication for the industry. A founding member of 23snaps, Jillian and Paul live in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. a fellow Mule get her foot in the door. Y Fitzgerald is head of marketing for the company, which lets parents save and pri- They’ve enjoyed some Colby visitors since Colleen McGee got married this summer in F vately share photos and videos of their children. Byron Meinerth ’09 received a Parker’s arrival, including Rachel Damon, Teton Valley, Idaho, to Mathew Thompson. Boren Fellowship to study Mandarin Chinese at Nanjing University in China during the Jeanne Dibella, and Amy Squires. Y Melisse Taylor ’08 and Rebeccah Amendola Kilian 2013-14 academic year. Meinerth is a graduate student in international economics Hinkle still works as the content manager for and Dana Eisenberg were in attendance. at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. the U.S. and Canada at Cheapflights. She’s Y Sarah Lindeke-Wolff and her husband, learned a lot since starting in January and Ryan Williams, welcomed son Chester June has even been quoted as a travel expert in 9. Colby friends Jess Stathis, Carrie Ngo, but she is warming up to the idea of having 2005 some well-known travel publications, includ- Kirsten Lawson, Emily Greene Kahn, and Y ing Condé Nast Traveler and the National Miruna Sasu ’05 made the trip to Greenwich, a baby brother. Nick Gambino and his Katie Gagne Post in Canada. Melisse has enjoyed some Conn., for Sarah’s shower a month before wife, Meghan, bought a house in Hopkinton, [email protected] Mass., and last June they welcomed their of her own travel adventures including trips the baby was born. Y Sarah Lim recently second daughter, Mary Sophia Gambino. Dan Saganey married Heidi Nicklaus at to London and Hong Kong, where she and moved to Denver with her husband and Y Will Sander started a one-year AAAS the Wychmere Beach Club on Cape Cod. Jenny Abramson visited Gillian Nadel. She started a new job as a critical care nurse. Y science and technology policy fellowship Many Colby friends were in attendance, also adopted a rescue pup, Coco, in May and She can’t wait for ski season. Nate Y with the EPA in Washington, D.C. Y Kerry including groomsmen Mark Azevedo, really enjoys being a dog owner. Kat Perez Stone, Stephen Planas, Drew Moreland Whittaker married Gabriel Rodriguez last Brandon Binder, and Matt Clason. Dan and Justin Fahey were married this summer ’07, and Bennett Barnwell got together just outside Rocky Mountain National Park in for their seventh annual summer reunion in June. Gabriel is a physician in the U.S. Navy. is still enjoying his work, entering his fifth Colorado. Their wedding party included Colby August. This year they met in Washington, They moved to San Diego, Calif., after Kerry year as a scout with the Cleveland Browns, friends Nick Larsen, Eliza Huleatt, and Laura D.C. One of the evenings included a Family finished her Ph.D. in medical psychology and he is also enjoying settling into the Normand, and there were 13 other Class of Feud game night. Y In June 2013 a crew at the Uniformed Services University of the new home that he and Heidi just bought. 2005 attendees. Justin is getting his master’s of Colby friends—Melissa McNulty, Aine Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md. She’s a Y Christina Pluta relocated to Hanover, and teaching high school social studies as part McCarthy, Cait Miller, Nate Stone, and of Teach for America while Kat is a museum Tom Gildersleeve ’07—began a seven-day Neha Sud ’05 lives in Nairobi, Kenya, where exhibition designer in Denver. Y Mallory trek up the Machame route of Mount Young is engaged to Jonathan Michaeles, Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. Hiking along the she works for the World Bank. Prior to Kenya, who is the head football coach at Colby and way, another group of American trekkers she worked in Mali. a graduate of Bates. Mallory was appointed stopped them, recognizing Nate’s Colby interim head coach of women’s hockey at hat. It turns out that Johnny “Baseball” Colby. Y Ken and Meghan Barringer Pitter Schroeder ’13 was also on his way to the welcomed their first child in May, a baby boy summit with his family, hiking the exact named Logan Charles. Y Neha Sud currently same route. After a discussion about the research psychologist and currently works N.H., where she is pursuing her M.B.A. at lives in Nairobi, Kenya, where she works for small world of Colby travelers, cheese as a consultant in medical and health the Tuck School of Business. I look forward the World Bank. Prior to Kenya, she worked in selection at Bob’s dining hall, and the psychology. Y Kirsten Helmcke married to some Tuck alumni trips to Hanover to Mali, where she reconnected with Bill Ford, improvement of Colby’s baseball team, Joe Dudeck in Chicago July 12. Y Chris visit while she’s there carrying the Colby who was passing through on an assignment they snapped an excellent photo of the Blomberg recently completed his internal torch. Y Jamie Falk, who lives in Denver, abroad during his M.B.A. program. Y Best Colby grads with Mount Kilimanjaro in the medicine residency and has accepted a recently got engaged to Gretchen Hultman. wishes for the holidays, and please continue background. The blue light shines on, even one-year position as chief medical resident He proposed just a day after finishing his to share these great updates with us! on Africa’s highest peak. See the photo at at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center in Boston. first ultramarathon (50K).Y Michelle Cole alumni.colby.edu under the Stay Connected He and Erica Joseffy Blomberg continue works in communications for the Multiple tab. Y Dave and Jenna Morrison Civitello to live in the Boston area with their newly Myeloma Research Foundation. She was 2006 decided to donate their snow shovels and Y adopted dog, Bailey. I hope you’re making recently given the 2013 American Cancer Jen Coliflores move to Tampa, Fla. Dave graduated with plans to attend our 10th reunion. Mark June Society New England Volunteer Values [email protected] a Ph.D. in biology from Indiana University 5-8 on your calendar and join us back at Award and was selected for the Fairfield Dan Giuliani runs a company in Seattle and is now a postdoctoral scholar at the Colby for a great weekend together. County Business Journal 40 Under 40 for called Volt Athletics (voltathletics.com), University of South Florida. Jenna started a

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new job as the development director for the in attendance were Tony Abakisi ’06, Mikey practicing law with the Children and Family Sur. Y Darcy Taylor started a part-time Sustany Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated Nguyen ’06, and Mark Chapman ’05. Y Law Division of the Committee for Public M.B.A. program through Indiana University. to promoting sustainable community devel- Jayadev Vadakkanmarveettil and his Counsel Services (public defender’s office). Y In May Sarah E. Clark finished her Ph.D. opment in Tampa Bay. They are the proud wife, Gitanjali, recently moved to Seattle in microbiology from UPenn and moved with new owners of a large beach umbrella. from Chicago. He works at Amazon and Kit Clark to Denver, where Sarah started Y Noah Balazs is teaching first grade at enjoyed the Seattle summer. Y Michelle 2008 a postdoc and Kit works as a geologist the Cooper School, a small progressive Starr and Matt Aschaffenburg ‘06 are Palmer McAuliff for an oil and gas company. The two were elementary school in Charleston, S.C. Y engaged! They also live in Seattle but [email protected] married in June in upstate New York, with Dana Maglaris married Brian Barnett on are planning a spring 2014 wedding in Lots of updates, especially weddings, after 23 members of the Class of 2008 present Labor Day at a beautiful outdoor ceremony Maine. Michelle is a pediatric resident at a very busy summer! Kathleen Nicholson including Laura Perille, Ling U, Tom Treat, on Great Diamond Island in Portland, Maine. the University of Washington after finish- married Emily Hamlin in Wolfeboro, N.H., and Luke LaViolet, who were in the wed- Dana and Brian met while attending medical ing medical school at Tufts in 2012. Matt Aug. 3. Attending were Regina Wohl Clem- ding party, and Mason Dutton, who played school at the University of New England. finished his Ph.D. in marine biology from ent, Tanya Rosbash, Alex Halls ’09, Jackie violin. Y Megan Smith started medical Many Colby friends and family helped Delaware in 2012. Y Jingjing Zhou has Grady Smith, Greg Smith, Lacey Brown ’09, school at the University of Connecticut. celebrate Dana and Brian on their big day. been living in Hong Kong for five years Stacey Dubois, Caroline Voyles, Courtney Y Jackie Grady married Greg Smith July and reports that life has been very good. Williams Lawrie ’09, Kate Emery McCarthy 13. Kathleen Nicholson and Regina Wohl She started a charity called Sea Star Chil- ’06, Charlie Hamlin ’10, Patrick Briody ’10, Clement were bridesmaids, and Tanya 2007 dren’s Foundation, dedicated to helping Katie Briody ’11, and Sam Poland ’04. Y Rosbash was Jackie’s maid of honor. Jimmy Annie Mears children with congenital heart disease who Patrick Collins shared that three years McDonough was a groomsman. Courtney [email protected] come from underprivileged communities into purchasing a regional hospitality and Williams Lawrie ’09, Mollie Kimmel ’09, Katie Maland and Dan Schupack were in China. Please support the Facebook janitorial supply company in West Florida— Chris Bashaw, Billy Ryan, Greg Enos, Mike married June 29 in Stillwater, Minn., page facebook.com/seastarchildren. Y Coast Brothers—they’ve completed one McKeon ’09, Kevin Bird ’09, Lauren Duval surrounded by family, friends, and Colby Amanda Vickerson traveled to Chicago, acquisition of a regional competitor and ’09, Annie Feutz, Justin Smith ’07, and partygoers. Y Karli Gasteazoro married ran a teen summer camp, surprised Claire are looking to acquire a second. Y Just Alex Halls ’09 were there. Y Rachel Daly Mark McGill (Lehigh ’07) on Cape Cod Conger for her bachelorette weekend, and before arriving at the fantastic time travel (now Hobbs) married Kevin Hobbs June 15 Aug. 17, and it was freaking awesome! then returned to Cali to be a bridesmaid trip that was Reunion Weekend (according in Albuquerque, N.M., where they live and She loved having such wonderful Colby in Claire’s gorgeous wedding in Palo Alto, to Skylar Sutton), Skylar was inducted into where Rachel works as a geologist. Hillary guests there including Katie Maland, Dan Calif. KT Weber and Alicia (Thibeault) ’08 the Directors Guild of America. If you’re Smith, Danielle Nielsen, Kim Graves, Schupack, Liz Stovall, Natalie Ginsburg, and Greg Engel were also in attendance. in Los Angeles, be part of a live studio Emily Lyczkowski, Elizabeth Rattey, and Tammy Lewin, Mary Warlaumont, Annie Greg and Alicia brought their adorable audience! In her few non-working hours, Abby Hall attended and had a fabulous Mears, Alisa Perry, Elisa Chiniara, Ali 2-year-old son, Sebastian, and were Skylar sees Ronnie Wise, Jamie Poster, time. Y Kristen Barnico and Robert Fulreader, Meg Davis, Brandon Smallwood expecting baby Gwyneth in early Sep- Lijah Barasz ’06, Hannah Coleman, and D’Angelo are engaged! Kristen just started ’06, and Dave Havlicek ’11. Karli now lives tember. Y Riley Doyle is CEO of Desktop Erica Block ’10. She’s trying to liven up the her M.B.A. at Yale School of Management. Y in Maine with her husband and their golden Genetics, a U.K. bioinformatics company LA Colby network, so if you’re in the city, Brent and Sharon Fuller Aigler welcomed retriever puppy, Tangawizi, a gift from the that recently received an equity invest- let her know. Y Sarah Goldstein and Evan Virginia Elizabeth Aug. 23. Y Shaelyn Colby wedding partygoers. Y Tucker Kelton ment and a Technology Strategy Board Eshelman got engaged in July and plan a Germain works as the programming and and Liz Morbeck were married July 20 in grant for a total of $582,000 in funds wedding next summer in Whistler, B.C. Y marketing director for Wimpy Kid, Inc., a Sun Valley, Idaho. Tucker reports, “It was raised. Y Robert Rosenbaum graduated Steve Frechette spent the summer intern- position that has allowed her to travel, an incredible weekend that included a in June with an M.P.A. from the Woodrow ing at eBay in San Jose. He’s also working including a business trip to Brazil, where Western-themed barn party Friday night Wilson School, then spent the summer on his mobile start-up, Glyph (smartphone she had a mini-reunion with Juan Colon. and plenty of Sun Valley activities: hiking, traveling around, notably to Guatemala app that transforms words into visual art), Shaelyn completed her M.B.A. in hospitality fishing, golf, etc.” They had a strong showing for three weeks with his girlfriend. They and hopes to launch soon. Steve’s in his and event management and is organizing a of 44 Colby alumni at the wedding. Wedding just moved into a place in Cambridge, second year at MIT Sloan. Y As a Penguin large fundraiser in Oklahoma for the school photos can be seen on the Stay Connected where he started a new job as a program Random House audiobook producer, Julie libraries that were hit by tornados last May. tab under the alumni photos at alumni. manager at the Center for International Wilson won a 2013 Audie Award for the Y Eric Hansen met Brad Woodworth in colby.edu. Y Jen McAleer married Toni Development at Harvard. Y Megan Deeley audiobook production of The Great Cake Durham, N.C., on a road trip and then drove Vadala Oct. 5 in Waterville Valley, N.H. Y to Columbus, Ohio, to see Jenn Malpass Ian London had a blast at the wedding of and her husband. Marcy Shrader-Lauinger his sister, Ellen London ’09, to Ben Crane flew in from D.C. Highlights included making ’06. Ian reports he’s converted his Colby Ian London ’07 is riding for the Primal Wear/ Brad eat as many grits as possible for his track and field successes into road cycling. Audi road cycling team in Colorado and first trip to the South and seeing a life-size “I’ve been riding and winning amateur Wyoming. He expects to leave the amateur recreation of Seurat’s painting A Sunday races in Colorado and Wyoming for the Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte Primal Wear/Audi race team. I’m about categories next year to compete with the pros. in topiary. to upgrade out of the amateur categories, and I look forward to racing with the pros next season. And yes, I still enjoy my day 2009 job working for David Jones ’99.” Y Andra married Elliott Flah, who went to Brandeis, Mystery by Alexander McCall Smith, read Olivia Sterling Ofosu and Codjo Ahouandjinou got mar- in July. Her sister, Claire Deeley, her wife by Adjoa Andoh. Y Michael Collins and [email protected] ried at St. Edmund’s Church, London, in Jamie Singelais, and friends Alex Shafer, Hayley Adamski, both of Truckee, Calif., Adam Goldfarb works as a financial advi- July. Colby classmates included Ajima Caroline Donohue, and Jen McAleer all married in Tahoe City, Calif. Daniel ’07 sor for Jeffrey M. Goldfarb & Associates Olaghere, Margaret Martei, Kip Kiprop, attended. She was also sworn into the and Katrina Gravel Vassallo ’10 attended. and is engaged. He received his master Tunde Bamigboye, and Jui Shrestha. Also Massachusetts bar in the fall and began Michael and Hayley honeymooned in Big of science degree in higher education

66 COLBY / FALL 2013 and student affairs administration from Liz Mortati ‘08, and Lewis Seton. Y Do the L.A. area. Y Over the summer Katie some quality R and R that brought the CWIH the SUNY Buffalo. Y Alea Thompson and you have our fifth reunion marked on your Lebling interned at the Treasury Depart- (Colby women’s ice hockey team) Class of Jason Stigliano were married in July at calendar? Join us for a rocking time back ment and started her last semester of her 2011 together for the first time since gradu- the Codman Estate in Lincoln, Mass., and at Colby June 5-8, 2014. master’s at Johns Hopkins SAIS, where she’s ation two Junes ago. Kurtz and Scarpato celebrated with friends Elyse Apantaku, focusing on energy and the environment. then traveled to Prague to play in the Czech Benjamin Hauptman, Ashlee Holm, Maria Y Beth Ponsot started a new job as the National Challenge Cup, where they helped Ryden, Clifford Vickrey ’10, and Lindsay 2010 multimedia editor for the PBS NewsHour, the North American Stars to a silver medal Tolle ’08. Alea then moved to join Jason Sameera Anwar still working out of WNET: New York Public in a tournament that featured teams from in Chicago, where she began her Ph.D. in [email protected] Media in Manhattan. Will Price interned North America, Czech Republic, and Russia. policy studies in urban education at the Congratulations to Laure-Hélène Oakes- at Advocates for Children of New York over Y Nate Bangura moved to Cambridge University of Illinois. Jason is in his third Caseau and Andy Oakes-Caseau on their the summer and started his third year at with Jack Vernamonti and Craig Bunker. year of a doctoral program in philosophy at beautiful wedding in France. Darshini New York University Law School. They saw He has been working at EMC in Hopkinton Loyola. Y Scott Zeller visited New York and Mahadevia, Sarena Maron-Kolitch, Hanna Pickwell this summer before Hanna since shortly after graduation. Jack just played Spikeball in Central Park with Dan Sameera Anwar, Nick Friedman, Ross headed back to China. Y Jenn Corriveau began his first year of medical school at Heinrich, Alex Richards, and Josh Sad- Connor, Karthik Sonty, Dan Reeves, Adam defended her thesis in June and received Tufts, and Craig recently wrapped up the ownik. Ishan Bir Singh ’08, Alex Pietroforte Lowenstein ’09, Delia Langan, Lokesh Todi her master’s of arts in psychology at UConn. major league lacrosse season with the ’08, and Sarah Switchenko ’08 joined in ’09, Scott Zeller ’09, and Leah Turino ’11 all Y Victoria Gonzalez spent the summer in Boston Cannons. Y Barbara Santos has the games. They met up with Lissa Martin came together to celebrate the wonderful NYC for a research fellowship at Memorial begun her third year of teaching in Hartford, later that night. Y Jeff Ruhle graduated occasion. Y Kat Cosgrove moved to D.C. Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Now back Conn., right down the street from Trinity. this spring from the CU-Boulder M.B.A. with her boyfriend and is looking for a job in in Chicago, she started her second year She teaches high school history, and her program and started a distilling equipment human rights advocacy and policy. Y Jess of medical school at Rush University. Y classroom is Colby themed! Y Adan Hus- and supply company, moonshinedistiller. Levasseur started graduate school at the Rob Knipp balances his time working as sain has begun his higher education and com. Y Kat Brzozowski and Wes Miller University of Washington for Environmental a consultant for IBM in D.C., volunteering student affairs master’s program at Ohio ’08 are getting married next May. Y Tom Public Health Sciences. Y Still in Boston, for the FLOC Scholars Program, and serv- State. He’s settled into his assistantship Milaschewski and his wife had a baby Leigh Bullion started a stationery company ing on the board of directors for the D.C. at the vibrant multicultural center, where daughter, Makenna, July 20. He’s earning called From Leigh to You—check it out on chapter of the Institute for Operations he works to train students, faculty, and his high school principal license through Facebook and Instagram! Y Emily Barlow Research and the Management Sciences. staff on methods to intervene in bias on the Harvard University School Leadership started her fourth year teaching in New He sees Roberto Delhy, who now works campus. Though his cohort is small, the Program. Plenty of stuff to keep him busy! Orleans. This is her second year at KIPP for the FDA. Y Ryan Conlon works in NYC school itself is one of the largest in the Y Harry Goldstein moved from Hong Kong McDonogh 15 Middle School. Y Doug Sibor, at a tech company and lives with Connor nation (approximately 60,000 students)—a to Singapore, where he has a new role with James Westhafer, Matt Vivero ’11, and new McKenna and Mike Cuqua. They’ve trans- big change from Colby. Y Rebecca Falen- the same organization (Amcor, a large father Tom Milaschewski ’09 all gathered formed their apartment into a mostly Colby der has started her second year at Tufts packaging company). He’ll be there for at the beautiful oceanfront estate of Bobby residence and are looking for one more Veterinary School, in a class with Michael at least two years and would love to see Rudolph ’09 for a sun-splashed afternoon Mule to complete the quad-Colby theme. Verschoor-Kirss ’12. She spent the summer any and all Colby alumni in the area. Y of kayaking, adult beverages, cornhole, and, Y Savina Balasubramaniam spent part of doing research on the incidence of reflux Suzanne Merkelson, Brooke Barron, and most importantly, meeting Tom’s new baby Jessica Palffy ate, drank, and hiked their girl. Y Brittany Thomas and John B. Goods way across Peru this summer. Y In August had a wonderful engagement party in Guilford, Devon Anderson proposed to Abigail Suss- Conn. In attendance were Coyne Lloyd ’10, Victoria Gonzalez ’10 was a research fellow man on the Na Pali Coast in Kauai. They are Taylor Tully, Will Price, Sarajane Blair, Leigh at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in happily engaged and living in Portland, Ore. Bullion, Ross Nehrt, and Jack D’Isidoro. Abigail is an assistant dean of admission at Y Delia Langan was on the East Coast all New York. She is a second-year medical student Reed College along with John Perkins ’11. summer with 11 shows highlighting her beauti- at Rush University in Chicago. Devon is trudging through his M.D./Ph.D. in ful jewelry. Y Katie Todd and Matt Reilly were biomedical engineering and trying to grow married Labor Day weekend in Connecticut. cartilage at OHSU. They enjoy representing They were joined by John Abbett, Brock Colby in Portlandia with Lucas Bennett. Bosacker, Kyle Brewer, Tommy Gianakos, the summer conducting research and visit- with methadone versus hydromorphone in Y Ellen London and Ben Crane ’06 were Tim Jeon, Charlie Klassen, Devon Neary, ing family in India. She also went to NYC to dogs undergoing anesthesia for cruciate married by the ocean in Camden, Maine, Toffer Noering, Meghan Saccone, Ashley present her master’s thesis at the American repair surgery. Michael spent the summer June 29. Nor’easter conditions only added Wagner, and Mike Reilly ’12. Congratulations, Sociological Association 2013 Conference working as a veterinary technician and in to the fun! Bridesmaids Sarah Gordon, Katie and Matt! Y Nicholas Ruocco ran his and stayed with Sarena Maron-Kolitch the intensive care unit at the hospital on Lane Mahoney, and Naomi Smith rocked first Tough Mudder at Mount Snow, Vt., with and Nick Bohlen ’11, and she met up with campus. Y Morganne Kraines moved to the dance floor with groomsmen/ushers his brother, Alex, and his rugby team. He will Jenny Katzman. Y Chelsea Alsofrom hiked Oklahoma and began her Ph.D. in clinical Bobby Abendroth ’06, Jon Bodansky ’06, begin vet school at Ross University in St. Kitts 700 miles of the PCT this summer! She still psychology at Oklahoma State. Y In June Monty Hankin ’06, Ian London ’07, Adrian in January. Y Jess Balukas started graduate works at SEGL in D.C. Kyla Jacobs, Katie Quinn, Emma Har- Walther ’06, and John Wheelock ’06 as school at UMaine Orono, where she is study- rington, and Ali Schmidt-Fellner traveled well as 30 other Colby alums. Y Lauren ing ecology and environmental sciences with west to go hiking and “moose hunting” in Pongan moved back in with Henry Powell a concentration in resource economics. Y 2011 Jackson Hole, Wyo., and fishing in Montana. for the summer—just a few blocks away from Lamont Henry became one of the youngest Nick Cunkelman Along the way they went to Yellowstone Reva Eiferman in Portland, Maine. Summer certified financial planners in the country. [email protected] and saw a blond brown bear. Y Sonia visitors to the Brackett Street apartment Y Nick Tucker and Erika Block went to the Elissa Kurtz, Stephanie Scarpato, Meryl Mahabir started a new position at Texas included Eric Fitz, Emily Jenkins, Brian Colby accepted students event in L.A. and Poulin, Alex Essman, and Liz Osgood all A&M as an assistant coordinator with the Lessels ’08, Ena Lupine, Andy McEvoy, met eight of the incoming freshmen from rendezvoused on the Cape this summer for women’s resource center. Y In July Drew

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Clark started a new job as an underwriter Fanning ’09 in Cambridge and working at at UnitedHealthcare in Trumbull, Conn. the Appalachian Mountain Club in Boston Y Solomon Gisemba is about halfway in volunteer relations and membership. 10s newsmakers through graduate school at the School Y Robyn Wardell moved to Portland, of Pharmacy in Lawrence, Kan.—and if Ore., to work for FoodCorps, a national Sonia Mahabir ’11 was hired as assistant coordinator you think Kansas is all flat, you haven’t service nonprofit that connects kids to for the Women’s Resource Center at Texas A&M in July. been to Lawrence! He also participated real, healthy food. She’s had a great She previously served as an intern for the Program on in a 5K and surprised himself by winning time catching up with Cali Livingstone, Intergroup Relations and for the Center for Campus F a medal. He would guess it’s a Kenyan Sophie Sarkar, and John Perkins on the Involvement, both at the University of Michigan. thing but thinks practice has more to do West Coast. In August the New York Times published a photo by Edwin Torres ’12, along with a Q and A, on its Lens with winning than being Kenyan! Y Austin blog. Torres, who volunteers at the nonprofit Bronx Sutherland continues to live in London Documentary Center, received a full scholarship to and will work there for the remainder of 2012 Edwin Torres ’12 participate in the Missouri Photo Workshop in Septem- the year. He works for Unum—primarily a Sarah Janes [email protected] ber. While Torres’s work consists largely of urban street disability insurance company—and is in photography and portraiture, he is currently focusing its professional development program, Happy fall 2012ers! I’m excited to on families, including his own. He has a website at which means he does a series of 12- to report that I recently started at Con- edwintorrespf.virb.com. 18-month rotations in different business cierge Services for Students, where I areas. At the start of 2014, he’ll return work with international students in the to Portland to start his third and final Boston area. Y Arya Moallem spent the rotation in finance. He’s had a great year summer in Shanghai interning at SOHO Frisbee player. Julia recently moved and Randall have settled in Santa Monica in the UK—from his time in London he’s China, China’s largest prime-office real is living with fellow Mule Jen Beatty. Y for the moment. Chelsea enjoys spend- become a Tottenham Hotspurs fan—but estate developer. He’s since returned Living in Brooklyn, Andrea Birnbaum is ing time with Jenna Gundersen, who is will be excited to return to Maine for the to rural Yunnan province to complete a member of Avodah, the Jewish Service living her own L.A. story. Y Rebecca foreseeable future. This summer he also the second year of his Teach for China Corps, a one-year program combining Gonzalez-Kreisberg lives in New York came home and spent time with Raleigh fellowship. Y Julia Kafka is in Boston social justice work, leadership develop- City and works as a marketing assistant Werner and Logan Hunter on Cape Cod, and has just started a new position at the ment, Jewish learning, and community at an architecture project management which was the perfect summer break. Education Development Center working building. Y After three cross-country firm. Y Thanks to those who took the Y Sus Hatch spent the past year and a with the Center for the Application of road trips since graduation, spending time to write—please continue to do so! half teaching English in Paris, but she’s Prevention Technologies. She completed summers on the East Coast and winters It’s great to see our classmates starting back in the States, living with Catherine her first triathlon and is still an avid in L.A., Chelsea Sonksen and Petey to set down roots in new places.

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Marion Daye O’Donnell Mc- returned to teaching in the mid- Doris Rose Hopengarten ’40, Aug. reading and singing and was de- Kinney ’28, Aug. 15, 2013, in 1960s, retiring in 1973. She enjoyed 19, 2013, in Newton, Mass., at 94. A scribed as a “higher authority” on Simsbury, Conn., at 106. She cooking and playing cards, and longtime resident of Newton, she grammar. Predeceased by her hus- earned a master’s in education at her favorite place was East Grand served as a psychologist in the Need- band, Otis, and a daughter, she is Columbia and taught English and Lake, where she and her husband ham school system for 11 years. Pre- survived by two daughters and four physical education in Simsbury built a cottage. Predeceased by her deceased by her husband, Sol, and grandchildren. from 1929 to 1972. Predeceased by husband, Woody, she is survived by her sister, Phyllis Rose Baskin ’39, she her first and second husbands, she three sons, five grandchildren, and is survived by son Fred Hopengarten Carl W. McGraw ’40, Sept. 24, is survived by a daughter, a son, a nine great-grandchildren. ’67, daughter Emerita Diamond Pro- 2013, in Webster, N.Y., at 95. He stepdaughter, five grandchildren, fessor of Women’s Studies and Pro- taught in Maine, then worked at four step-grandchildren, and eight Evelyn M. Kelley ’34, July 8, fessor of French Jane Hopengarten Eastman Kodak before serving in step-great-grandchildren. 2013, in Haverhill, Mass., at 101. Moss, and three grandchildren in- the U.S. Navy in the South Pacif- She worked in accounting for cluding Anne Hopengarten ’06. ic in World War II. He was fired Ruth Brown Peabody ’32, Aug. H.P. Hood in Lawrence and Ray- upon while dropping surrender 19, 2013, in Houlton, Maine, at theon in Andover. A member of Lydia Abbott Mailhot ’40, Aug. instructions a week after Hiro- 101. While working as a teacher at the Glee Club at Colby, she loved 26, 2013, in Boxford, Mass., at 95. hito’s surrender. He returned to Lawrence High School in Fairfield, music throughout her life and was She resided in Sudbury, Mass., Rochester, N.Y., and retired from Maine, she met her husband, who a member of her church choir. She for 50 years and taught Latin and Kodak in 1980 to enjoy skiing, was the Colby football coach. After is survived by her niece and English at Lincoln-Sudbury High golf, family, and friends. Prede- raising her family in Houlton, she nephew-in-law. School for 20 years. She enjoyed ceased by his wife, Ruth, in 1981,

68 COLBY / FALL 2013 he is survived by five children and Predeceased by his wife of 55 years, She worked in a bank in Califor- a barbershop chorus and searching four grandchildren. Shirley Smith Chellquist ’48, and a nia and married Vestel McGill in for artifacts with his metal detec- daughter, he is survived by daugh- Georgia in 1951. She was prede- tor. He is survived by his wife of 41 John E. Stevens ’42, Aug. 3, 2013, ter Karen Chellquist ’72, two sons, ceased by her husband. years, Julianne. in San Diego, Calif., at 93. During and three grandsons. World War II he was a pilot in the A. Raymond Rogers ’49, Aug. William A. Gelotte ’51, Sept. 11, U.S. Army Air Forces. Flying 51 Sherwood L. Jones ’48, Sept. 27, 2013, in Trenton, Maine, at 87. 2013, in Gilford, N.H., at 86. He combat missions, he won the Dis- 29, 2013, in Hartford, Conn., at Prior to Colby he served as a naval served in the Navy during World tinguished Flying Cross, an Air 88. Know as “Woody,” he served airman in the Pacific at the end of War II and was president and CEO Medal with three oak clusters, and in the U.S. Army in Europe in World War II. His career in edu- of Claus Gelotte Camera Stores. battle and campaign medals. He World War II, was a prisoner of cation included teaching, coach- He also was a founding partner earned an M.B.A. from National war in 1945, and won the Combat ing, and working in administra- for the Bank of New Hampshire University in San Diego, where Infantry badge. He was an under- tion in New England, including 14 Pavilion at Meadowbrook Farm. he settled and worked for Convair writer for Travelers Insurance Co. years as superintendent at Region- He was a fly-fisherman and a and other aerospace and engineer- in Hartford for 37 years and also al School No. 7 in Winsted, Conn. sports enthusiast. Predeceased by ing companies. Predeceased by worked at Johnson & Higgins and He retired in 1984 and spent win- a son, he is survived by his wife of his wife of 63 years, Lucile, he is part time at Pension Consultants. ters in Waterville and summers in 61 years, Ellen Kenerson Gelotte survived by four daughters and a He was a ski racer into his 80s. Pre- Trenton. He enjoyed antiques and ’50, one son, two daughters, and granddaughter. deceased by a son, he is survived reading, and he was active in the seven grandchildren. by his wife of 59 years, Martha, Universalist Unitarian Church in Leonard Caust ’43, July 27, 2013, two sons, two daughters, and seven Waterville and in the Maine Reads John “Jack” Keough ’51, July 28, in Goldens Bridge, N.Y., at 91. He grandchildren. program. Predeceased by his par- 2013, in Bothell, Wash., at 85. He served in the U.S. Army, 102nd Di- ents, A. Raymond ’17 and Harriet graduated from Columbia Law vision, in World War II and earned Hazel Huckins Merrill ’48, July Eaton Rogers ’19, and grandfather School in 1953, moved to Wash- an M.B.A. at Harvard. He worked 8, 2004, in Franklin, N.H., at 78. Harvey D. Eaton 1887, he is sur- ington State, and worked with for many years at Lever Brothers. She owned and managed Merrill’s vived by his wife of 65 years, Joan several law firms in Seattle and Predeceased by a brother, Arthur Cottages on Newfound Lake in “Jay” Smith Rogers ’49, sisters Es- Kirkland, Wash., before found- W. Feldman ’35, he is survived by Hebron and was a member of the telle Rogers MacDonald ’39 and ing Keough and Mallett in the late his wife, Ruth, and five daughters Laconia chapter of Altrusa Inter- Martha Rogers Beach ’42, two 1970s. In his retirement he enjoyed and their families. national. She had a son, a daughter, sons, three daughters, and eight cruises, the theater, and writing and three grandsons and was pre- grandchildren. science fiction. Predeceased by Rita A. McCabe ’45, July 28, 2013, deceased by her husband, John. his wife of 30 years, Bess, and his in West Hartford, Conn., at 90. Edward C. Schlick ’49, Sept. 10, former spouse, Joy Delong ’51, She worked for IBM for 33 years, Donna Barter Billings ’49, Aug. 2013, in Dresden, Maine, at 85. He he is survived by a daughter, many of them in leadership posi- 15, 2013, in Deer Isle, Maine, at enlisted in the Army and served in two sons, six grandchildren, and tions, and was cited as a leader in 86. She and her husband, Jack, occupied Japan before earning his a great-grandson. coordinating IBM’s commitment took over from her father the M.D. bachelor’s degree at San Francisco to equal opportunity and the ad- Joyce Company and Barter Lum- State. He was executive secretary James W. Reynolds ’51, M.D., vancement of women. In 1979 she ber Company in Deer Isle and of the Maine Democratic Party July 25, 2013, in Long Beach, Ca- went into real estate. She was a managed both. She is survived by a from 1961 to 1966, founded a con- lif., at 84. He earned his M.D. at Colby trustee for 16 years, begin- daughter, two sons, four grandchil- sulting firm, and was an assistant to Tufts Medical School and served ning in 1966. She was also a trustee dren, and one great-grandson. Maine governors Curtis and Long- six years in the Air Force Medical at Iona College in New Rochelle, ley. An environmental activist, Corps before accepting a position N.Y. She is survived by a brother, Jean Hillsen Grout ’49, Sept. 24, he helped run the campaign that in the pathology group at Memo- nieces, and nephews. 2013, in Bradenton, Fla., at 85. She closed Maine Yankee nuclear pow- rial Hospital of Long Beach, where worked in alumni affairs at Boston er plant, and he remained active in he spent 25 years as a surgical pa- Carl E. Chellquist ’48, July 3, University before her marriage in causes into his 80s. Predeceased by thologist. He is survived by his wife 2013, in Reading, Pa., at 93. Raised 1972. She and her husband spent 15 two wives, he is survived by a son, of nearly 60 years, Mildred Thorn- in Boston by Swedish immigrant years in Morristown, N.J., where three daughters, eight grandchil- hill Reynolds ’53, four daughters, a parents, he went to work following she worked at the Seeing Eye, a dren, and 11 great-grandchildren. son, and 10 grandchildren. high school and attended Colby school for guide dogs. An active with his savings and scholarships. alumna, she served as chair of the Richard H. King ’50, July 5, 2013, Nancy Jane Webber Thompson He taught in rural Maine, earned Colby Alumni Council, 1974- in Albuquerque, N.M., at 84. He ’51, Jan. 25, 2013, in Orlando, Fla., a master’s degree from Columbia, 76. Predeceased by her husband, played basketball and football and at 83. She taught elementary school and then taught in Massachusetts Stuart, she is survived by a son and was a member of Delta Upsilon. in Massachusetts. Predeceased by public schools. In retirement he a granddaughter. Upon graduating, he served in the her husband, L. Richard Thomp- volunteered, traveled, and took up U.S. Army in Korea from 1950 to son ’51, she is survived by daughter amateur radio. A lifelong Republi- Ruth Clements McGill ’49, Sept. 1953 and then worked for the CIA Laurice Thompson Lee ’74 and son can, he enjoyed discussing politics. 8, 2013, in Chatsworth, Ga., at 90. for 25 years. He enjoyed singing in Peter L. Thompson ’76.

COLBY / FALL 2013 69 Sherwin “Sonny” Welson ’51, than 50 years, Pieter, she is sur- and bond manager at Standard & by his wife of 57 years, Nancy, five Aug. 5, 2013, in West Hartford, vived by a son and two daughters. Poor’s and at Boston Safe and Trust children, and nine grandchildren. Conn., at 84. An Army veteran of Co. He later retired from the EPA, the Korean War, he was president Paul A. Wescott ’53, Aug. 13, where he had worked in hazardous Barbara Hunter Pallotta ’59, Oct. of B. Welson and Co., a button and 2013, in Scarborough, Maine, waste services. He was physically 5, 2013, in Fort Myers, Fla., at 75. belt manufacturer started by his at 81. A graduate of NYU Law active and an avid fan of Boston She earned a master of arts degree father. In the 1960s the company School, where he was an editor of teams. He is survived by three sons in liberal studies at Ramapo Col- made liquid-cooled suits for astro- the law review, he practiced law in and five grandchildren. lege at 64, a source of great pride nauts. He is survived by his wife New York, Pittsburgh, and Port- for her and her family. She enjoyed of 59 years, Elinor, two daugh- land, Maine. In a second career he Joseph A. Perham ’55, Aug. 28, golf and tennis, but reading was her ters, seven grandchildren, and one was CEO of Howell Laboratories 2013, in West Paris, Maine, at 80. real pleasure. She is survived by great-grandchild. in Bridgton, Maine, from 1977 to He earned advanced degrees in her husband of 53 years, Jack Pal- 2011. He was a trustee at the Uni- English and education from the lotta ’59, two sons, a daughter, and Edith Carpenter Sweeney ’52, versity of New England, which University of Maine and never six grandchildren. Aug. 26, 2013, in Freeport, Maine, awarded him an honorary doc- missed a day of teaching in his 26 at 83. She married six months after tor of laws degree. Predeceased years at Paris High School, Leavitt Katherine Niles Roy ’59, Oct. 3, graduation and moved to Freeport, by former spouse Eloise Larned Institute, and Oxford Hills High 2013, in West Bath, Maine, at 75. Maine, where she lived for the Petrik ’55 and a granddaughter, School, where he served as head She worked in hospital laboratories next 61 years. She sang in choirs he is survived by his wife of 34 of the English department. A hu- in Washington, D.C., and Port- throughout her life and was a mem- years, Peggy, three sons, a daugh- morist and storyteller, he wrote, land, Maine. She enjoyed garden- ber of Freeport Community Ser- ter, three stepdaughters, a stepson, produced, and performed 17 al- ing, rock hounding, skiing, and vices, the Freeport Women’s Club, and 14 grandchildren. bums of Maine humor and folklore sailing with her family. She is sur- and the Maine Ostomy Society. and received the Broderson Award vived by her husband of 56 years, She is survived by her husband of Dabney T. Martin III ’54, Dec. for his radio commercials for the Laurent “Larry” Roy ’57, three 61 years, Arthur, three daughters, 19, 2012, in Jeannette, Pa., at 81. He Maine Office of Tourism. He was daughters, a son, and 11 grandchil- four grandchildren, and her sister, served in the Navy in the Korean also a Universalist lay preacher and dren. Carol Carpenter Bisbee ’49. War before attending college, and 50-year member of the Masonic he earned his degree at Merrimack Granite Lodge of West Paris. Pre- Theodore C. Lockhart ’61, July Mary Corrigan Laudy ’53, Sept. College. He led human resources deceased by his brother Sidney D. 24, 2013, in New London, N.H., 6, 2013, in New York at 82. She departments at a hospital and a re- Perham ’56, he is survived by his at 75. He earned a master’s in in- earned a nursing degree at Cor- habilitation center in Pennsylva- wife of 59 years, Peg, a daughter, ternational relations and was com- nell and lived in San Francisco in nia and maintained an interest in three sons, seven grandchildren, missioned as a U.S. Navy officer in the 1950s before joining the visit- theater, antique automobiles, and and nine great-grandchildren. 1962. He retired as a rear admiral ing nurse service in New York. She antiques. Predeceased by a daugh- in 1993 after 32 years of service lived for many years in Westchester ter, he is survived by three daugh- John B. Philbrook ’55, Aug. 20, aboard ships and in Washington, County and was a volunteer librar- ters, a son, four grandsons, and a 2013, in Marblehead, Mass., at D.C., Guantanamo Bay, Annapo- ian and a member of the Whip- great-grandson. 80. He had an aviation career that lis, Rhode Island, Italy, and Puerto poorwill Club. She is survived by spanned more than 40 years, in- Rico. He is survived by his wife of her son and two grandchildren. Albert J. Languet Jr. ’55, Oct. 5, cluding 10 years with the U.S. Air 51 years, Carolyn Webster Lock- 2013, in Belgrade, Maine, at 86. He Force and 30 years with American hart ’60, a son, a daughter, and four Roland E. Nagle ’53, Aug. 7, 2013, enlisted in the merchant marine in Airlines. In retirement he served grandchildren. He died after two in Monterey, Calif., at 82. At Colby 1945 and later the Marine Corps. as director of operations at Bev- years of living with the challenges he played baseball and basketball and He returned to Maine, graduated erly Airport and flew charters. He of ALS. was a member of the Outing Club from Coburn Classical Institute, is survived by his wife of 40 years, and Lambda Chi Alpha. He earned a attended Colby, and established Sylvia, three daughters includ- Craig B. Malsch ’62, Aug. 8, 2012, master of science degree at NYU. A a successful masonry contracting ing Patricia Philbrook Levine ’82, in Culver City, Calif., at 71. He 40-year resident of Monterey Coun- firm in Belgrade. He was a member three sons, 13 grandchildren, and worked in sales and the textile in- ty, he served in the U.S. Air Force of the school board and was a Bel- three great-grandchildren. dustry. He was predeceased by his and had a career in meteorology. grade selectman. He is survived by father, Irving Malsch ’33. his wife of 66 years, Joyce, six chil- Robert S. Leavitt ’56, Sept. 16, Beryl Baldwin Punt ’53, Aug. 2, dren including Albert Languet III 2012, in Massachusetts at 78. A 46- Robert R. Spencer ’63, Aug. 3, 2013, in East Rochester, N.Y., at 81. ’88, and many grandchildren and year resident of Reading, Mass., 2013, in Jackson, Wyo., at 73. He She earned an M.A. in art educa- great-grandchildren. he started in a three-year business attended Colby and graduated tion at Columbia and taught art for training program at General Elec- from the University of Hartford. more than 50 years in elementary David Bruce McComb ’55, Aug. tric after graduation and retired He was a special agent for Lloyds schools, at a museum, and in her 23, 2013, in Salem, Mass., at 79. He from GE in 1990. He was a model of London in Liberia before set- own pre-kindergarten school. Pre- earned an M.A. from Columbia and railroader and an accomplished pia- tling in the West. He earned his deceased by her husband of more had a long career as a bond analyst nist, preferring jazz. He is survived pilot’s license at 19 and remained

70 COLBY / FALL 2013 a lifelong aviator. An entrepreneur, Cheshire, Conn. He was a member ner character’s nephew. He is He worked with the Jesuit Volun- he founded and/or owned a half of the Farms Country Club and the survived by his wife, Mihal, and teer Corps, Central Presbyterian’s dozen companies, several related to Cheshire Jaycees, and he coached in a daughter. Central Outreach and Advocacy water resources. He is survived by the Cheshire Youth Baseball League. Center, and the Georgia Justice his wife, Margy, two stepsons, and He is survived by his wife, Rose, two Glenn T. Connell ’79, July 18, Project. He died of complications four grandsons. sons, and two grandchildren. 2013, in Sabattus, Maine, at 63. He from colon cancer. He is survived built radios and telescopes in his by his wife, Amy, a daughter, and Arthur W. Beveridge ’65, Aug. Cheryl A. Thomas ’71, July 23, teens and won a National Science his parents. 7, 2013, in Falls Church, Va., at 2013, in Canton, Mass., at 63. She Foundation grant at 16 to study 70. A popular musician in Spring- worked for many years as a tele- space science. He earned a master’s David C. Brenneman ’98, Aug. field, Va., he led bands, sang, per- phone service representative at at Brandeis and worked as a profes- 31, 2013, in Chappaqua, N.Y., at formed on trumpet, bass guitar, Computershare. She is survived sor, a research scientist, a physicist, 37. After graduating from Colby and keyboards, and taught music in by her longtime companion Roger and an engineer, most recently in summa cum laude, he earned his schools. He was a senior master and Osborn. She was aunt to 14 nieces nuclear engineering at Portsmouth master’s from Yale and J.D. from instructor at the U.S. Tae Kwon and nephews and to 15 great-nieces Naval Shipyard. He enjoyed play- Harvard. He worked at Morgan Do College. He is survived by his and great-nephews. ing the guitar, gardening, reading, Stanley for six years, most recently wife of 29 years, Vundee Vunlikul, and woodworking, and he was a as an executive director in equity and a son. William F. Kelleher ’72, Sept. master in the Masons. He is sur- risk management. He helped raise 18, 2013, in Syracuse, N.Y., at 63. vived by his parents, a son, a daugh- hundreds of thousands of dol- Rhoda Goldstein Freeman ’65, After attending Colby he earned ter, and a granddaughter. lars for the Sarcoma Foundation Sept. 12, 2013, in Scarborough, his bachelor’s degree at UMass- of America, and in April 2013 the Maine, at 70. She earned a master’s Amherst. He earned a Ph.D. in Maureen Young Kissack ’83, organization honored him with its cultural anthropology at Michi- degree at NYU and taught in New Aug. 14, 2013, in Dover, N.H., at Courage Award. He battled a rare York City before marrying and liv- gan and taught at the University of 52. She taught French in Massa- and aggressive form of the disease ing around the country. She and Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and chusetts, Maine, and New Hamp- for 16 months. He is survived by her husband operated a packing at Syracuse. He studied Northern shire and worked as a real estate his wife of 11 years, Mina, and and shipping store in Brunswick for Ireland, and in 2003 the Univer- agent. She enjoyed old movies and three children. 15 years before moving to Florida, sity of Michigan Press published spending summers at the beach. where she was area director for the his book The Troubles in Ballybo- She is survived by her husband of Anthony J. Marin, Sept. 11, 2013, American Foundation for Suicide goin: Memory and Identity in North- 30 years, Bruno, a daughter, a son, in Winslow, at 50. A plumber for Prevention. She transferred her ern Ireland. He is survived by his and her father. Colby’s Physical Plant Department directorship to Maine when they wife of 27 years, Jo Thomas, two since 1991, he said he sought the returned to the state seven years daughters, and his stepmother. Suzanna Seymour Gaeddert ’85, position so he could marry Patricia ago. Predeceased by a son, she is Sept. 17, 2013, in Surrey, England, O’Keefe in Lorimer Chapel, which survived by her husband, Bob, a Kenneth Woodard Gorman ’73, at 50. She grew up in Saudi Arabia he did in 1992. He developed friend- son, and a granddaughter. July 3, 2013, in Chelmsford, Mass., and earned a master of divinity de- at 62. He graduated from MIT’s gree from Fuller Theological Sem- ships across a wide range of offices David G. Erdmann ’66, Oct. Sloan School of Management and inary in California. She and her and departments on campus as well 7, 2013, in Winter Park, Fla., at worked as a CPA and a consultant husband, Barry, were pastors at the as with students and student athletes 69. He earned master’s degrees for most of his career. He is sur- Bonhomme Presbyterian Church in particular. He is survived by his from Brown and SUNY-Albany vived by his son, Nicholas, his sister, in St. Louis, Mo., for 16 years and wife of 21 years, his mother, four and was dean of admissions and Janet Gorman ’76, and his brother lived in London for the past six brothers, four sisters, stepchildren, enrollment management at Rol- and sister-in-law, Douglas ’73 and years. She died after a three-and-a- and grandchildren. lins College in Florida, a position Cheryl Booker Gorman ’74. half-year battle with brain cancer. he had held for 29 years. Before She is survived by her husband, her Dorothy L. Marson, Sept. 29, that he served at Trinity Pawl- Norman C. Skaggs ’77, Aug. parents, and two sons. 2013, in Dedham, Mass., at 82. ing School, Albany Academy, and 9, 2013, in Venice, Calif., at 58. Longtime co-correspondent for Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. After an injury ended his foot- Michael E. Vosburg-Casey ’96, the Class of ’48, she served Col- He died while fly-fishing. He is ball career at Colby, he studied July 31, 2013, in Atlanta, Ga., at by as an overseer, volunteer, and survived by his wife of 48 years, in Besançon, France, as a junior 39. He was an activist and volun- booster and received the Colby Sue, and a daughter. and returned “fluent in French teer who never worked for a salary Brick Award in 1984. She is sur- and hopelessly in love with the and who protested the death pen- vived by her husband of 62 years, D. Wayne Winters ’66, Aug. 29, theatre,” his formal obituary said. alty and the U.S. Army’s former Trustee Emeritus David Marson 2013, in New Haven, Conn., at He worked in film and televi- School of the Americas at Fort ’48, by two daughters includ- 69. At Colby he was a member of sion through the 1980s and ’90s Benning. After being arrested ing Deborah Marson ’75, and by Zeta Phi. He earned his J.D. at and appeared in several movies, there and sentenced to 100 days in three grandchildren including Boston College and owned Win- including Decoration Day (1990), federal prison, he said he was proud Jessica McNulty ’07 and Mark ters and Winters Law Firm in where he played the James Gar- to be “a prisoner of conscience.” McNulty ’11.

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